How Liverpool's biggest strength became their weakness
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Irving is joined by The Athletic's Jay Harris and Tony Evans following Liverpool's 3-1 defeat to Brentford on Monday evening...
The panel reflect on Liverpool's complicated season so far, whether Van Dijk is suffering from a World Cup hangover, how Cody Gakpo can help ease the burden on Darwin Nunez, as well as, why Klopp will need to find some more of that 'Monopoly money' to spend in the January transfer window & the secrets behind Brentford's record against the 'Big 6'.
Plus, how uncertainty over the club's future off-the-pitch is affecting the team's confidence and if Klopp is starting to resemble Arsene Wenger towards the end of his time in charge of Arsenal?
Hear more from Tony Evans on The Athletic's new Liverpool podcast 'Walk On' available wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Liverpool's top four hopes suffered a big blow on another mad night at the G-Tech Community Stadium. |
| 0:10.1 | So today we'll take a closer look at the uncertainty surrounding Juergen Klopp's team both on and off the field, |
| 0:16.4 | how Cody Gagpo might help and where Klop still needs to spend some of that so-called monopoly money |
| 0:22.3 | this month. We might have a word for Brentford |
| 0:24.5 | too. I'm Ian Irving and this |
| 0:26.4 | is the Athletic Football Podcast. The Ben-Man, Mattes gone down, |
| 0:39.3 | and Burma Fluteau! |
| 0:43.5 | Injury, I'm not entirely sure that the Abida |
| 0:49.1 | devoid of peace, confidence, |
| 0:51.9 | and also, as positional sense seems off. |
| 0:54.9 | The third goal |
| 0:55.6 | has nothing to do |
| 0:56.4 | with anything else. |
| 0:57.2 | It's just a foul, come on. |
| 0:58.5 | I just still can't quite get my head |
| 1:00.2 | around the fact that |
| 1:01.0 | just before the World Cup, |
| 1:02.5 | before that Man City game, |
| 1:04.0 | Brentford were knocked out |
| 1:04.7 | at the Carabar Cup by Gillian. right welcome along j harris is with us he was there last night for the athletic and i guess |
| 1:20.8 | you've been part in like it was 1938 ever since jay aren't you um the build-up to the game |
| 1:26.9 | was obviously dominated about ivan Ivan Tony and whether he was going |
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