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Hello and welcome to this week's Liverpool.com podcast. I'm Matt Addison. Michael Plant is with me and we're going to talk a few topics surrounding Liverpool after an important Merseyside Derby win for the Reds, the first at the Hill Bickinson Stadium.

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a big moment as well from Mohamed Sala too. It just felt like a big moment, really, in the season.

There's not been too many of those this year for Liverpool in most seasons. There's, you know,

three or four or five. That's not the case for lots of clubs, but it certainly felt important, I thought,

for on a slot as much as anybody else really, just to get that big win, the big moment,

the big celebrations at the end, if nothing else this season will be remembered for the time

that Liverpool went to the Hill Dickinson Stadium and won.

Yeah, and I think the celebrations at the end were very telling that they were, you know, big celebrations, several players getting kind of individual receptions from the away fans and on a slot obviously kind of lap them up a certain level of applause as well.

And it was a very, very significant weekend, I think, in the race for the top five in general, with Chelsea losing

and the other three sides pushing for it, all winning. And Liverpool, look, it wasn't a fantastic

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