How Liverpool's biggest strength became their weakness

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 45 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. Produced by Adonis Pratsides Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:04.0	Liverpool's top four hopes suffered a big blow on another
0:07.6	mad night at the GTEC community stadium.
0:10.0	So today we'll take a closer look at the uncertainty surrounding Jurg and Clops team both on and off the field
0:16.4	how Cody Gagpo might help and where Clops still needs to spend some of that so-called monopoly money this month.
0:23.4	We might have a word for Brentford too.
0:25.2	I'm Ian Irving, and Bömer Mark cash in.
0:37.0	Camarte's gone down and Bobo put in the way.
0:40.0	Negro what to find! The injury, I'm not entirely sure that the abide, devoid of confidence, and also, as a result.
0:46.0	Mm, I'm not entirely sure that the abide, devoid of peace, confidence, and also, as positional sense seems off.
0:55.0	The third goal has nothing to do with anything else, it's just a foul, come on.
0:58.5	I just still can't quite get my head around the fact that just before the World Cup,
1:02.4	before that Man City game,
1:03.7	Brevelyn knocked out the Karabar Cup by Gilliam. Right, welcome along. Jay Harris is with us. He was there last night for the
1:19.4	athletic and I guess you've been parting like it was 1938 ever since Jay, aren't you?
1:26.0	The build-up to the game was obviously dominated about Ivan Tony and whether he was going to play
1:30.0	or not.
1:31.0	When he was stretched off against West Ham, I think the initial fear was that he might be
1:34.9	out for a few months. Then all of a sudden Thomas Frank teases that there was a chance he could play
1:39.0	against Liverpool. Turns out he wasn't fit enough. So I think from a Brentford perspective,
1:44.0	you're missing your star player
1:46.0	who caused Liverpool quite a few problems in the free all draw at the
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