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Hello and welcome to the Anfield rap after Liverpool Beach Southampton

Four Nill looking ahead to the Merseys Derby.

I am Neil Atkinson also known as a poor man's Harriet Pryor. I am joined by

Ian's Ryan and Salmon and I've got Rob Gutman with me to go through Liverpool

for Southampton Nill and get to the Derby as I said a minute ago. Andy Heaton is producing but he may well step in for a bit of

goalkeeper action as this one wears on. But first and foremost drop, Liverpool for Southampton

Nill and Liverpool will not stop creating chances.

And I think that got into Southampton's heads.

They do some weird stuff, frankly, pre-match in selection.

It's not the way they normally play, but they know that the Reds are so dangerous.

And that's what he's trying to mitigate for the

Southampton manager it backfires massively Liverpool tear them apart in the first three minutes.

Yeah I mean I hate a scoring early I really genuinely hate a scoring early because it just because it feels to me my

lifelong of watching Liverpool that if we score early we then have a significantly bad

anxious patch until we either then concede or take it away from the team.

But it always gets me nervy and I know that's a bit stupid because I should have a lot more faith in this

Liverpool team and it proved to me that I should have more faith in them quite quickly.

But it did look to me from early on that Hasen-Hootle had gone with the approach of,

we can take the game to these. I think you'd watch the Brighton game, thought,

we're the nearest approximation to a Brighton, aren of if you squint at us and I think

you could take the game to Liverpool you know what they created they got chinks a

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