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

Hello, it's the Liverpool Echo's Blood Podcast. I'm Matt Addison with Paul Gorsden,

Theo Squires, both with me with plenty of things to get through on the agenda.

We'll be talking in the Champions League draw, the win over Arsenal, and also previewing

Nottingham Forest in the FA

quarter finals it's a busy period and that's exactly how we like it. We'll start

with reacting to the Champions League draw though Gourstey with

Liverpool probably I think it's fair to say,

favourably paired with Benfica of Portugal, what was your initial reaction

when those two came out of the hat together?

A ideal draw, to be honest, I think possibly only Villarreal was the other one that you were looking at and thinking that's the team that you want to play

couldn't have fallen better for Liverpool really managed to Manne's to avoid Manchester City,

so they're not playing them three times in a row between

April 5th and April 13th.

So that will be a massive boost for both clubs and imagine and they've also managed to avoid Chelsea

because you know we've seen Liverpool play Chelsea three times this season

He played 180 minutes, 120 minutes. So 300 minutes of football, neither of them have been able to nudge ahead of the other. And it took an almighty penalty shoot out for for the ability to win the kind of a cup.

So that will be one that will be cheered as well

when Chelsea were drawn out with the realm of Madrid.

So I think all things considered it's

gone massively in Liverpool's favour you'd expect them to beat

in Fique. I was looking at the Portuguese table before and the 12 points behind

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