This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello and welcome to the latest Academy show here on the Bloodbread channel.

I'm Matt Addison. No most due at this time, but we do have a very special guest for you instead.

Liverpool's under 21s and under 19s manager Barry Lucas

join me for around 15 minutes or so to preview firstly the game

against Rangers in the U.A for Youth League and then talk a little bit

about a few more players as well.

So without any further ado, here is that

interview with Liverpool's youth coach Barry Lutus. And I'm now joined by Liverpool on the 21s and

under 19s manager Barry Lutus to preview the UEFA Youth League clash with Rangers which takes place on Tuesday.

We'll talk about a few other little bits as well, but it was the obvious place to start Barry is it's been a really

strong start to the Youth League campaign so far.

Two wins, really good performances so far.

Yeah, definitely.

Obviously, away at Napoli was always going to be difficult.

Good team, Ash the TAF, which does, you know, it does change the dynamic slightly and obviously

the heat as well.

So then our excuses, it's just something a little bit different.

So it's always been a tough place to go.

We've not managed to win there in the

past so to get a win there that was certainly one of the games we looked at which

you know could be potentially a you know a tough one and you know we navigated that

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