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

Welcome back to the Blood Red Channel, where I, Tom Greave, and joined by a Ben Boschak to take a look of international

matches that are currently taking place just to see how the Liverpool players have been representing

their nations.

Well, starting off then, Ben, Trent Alexander Arnold has been the topic of conversation recently to put it lightly.

What have you made, what have you made what's been going on with the England come?

It is a stranger I think with Alexander Arnold like he I think he is one of England's best

players but I'm not into the sort of system that Garof Southgate is trying to create.

If I was Southgate I would build my team around but obviously I'm not and Southgate has other plans so I think unfortunately

It's just a difficult one for Trent.

Yeah, it's the competition right back is something that I just wanted to touch on

because obviously they've got Kyle Walker, Reese James and Kirich and Trippia.

And there's a lot of emphasis on Trent's defending,

whereas I personally don't really think that's the issue.

I just think because it's so congested and he's got so many

options he must just struggle to think how he's going to work it on that side.

Yeah I don't think he's necessarily a bad defender. I think he's proven that at Liverpool, even when people were

criticizing him after the Iax game, if she locate his defensive numbers who won almost 90% of his defensive jewels in that game.

So I don't think that's ever been the issue.

I think at Liverpool at times he's certainly being exposed,

which has left him vulnerable, for me I think it's just he doesn't really suit the

system that Southgate is trying to create and that's the issue there there's better

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