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

Hello everybody and welcome to the latest Blood Red podcast with me, Ian Doyle, joining me today.

A special audio-only podcast. We are currently awaiting Liverpool's press conference on Monday afternoon,

head of the Champions League Clash against Ray Embbride tomorrow. I'm joined by a full-time Liverpool correspondent, both home and away. Paul Gost, Hi Paul.

Hello Ian. How you doing? I'm good. Yeah, I'm just thinking that as we sit here on the edges of Kirby, that this is what the job is all about, isn't there, sitting in your car. I was trying not to give away where we were. I think sometimes we have to pull the curtain back and say that we are, like you say, awaiting the press conference. And while we do that, we are in the cost there car park, ready to have a little matter about other coffee shops. Yeah, other coffee shops are available. You can probably tell from our two-footed friend who's currently sat in the back seats.

Nobody with him, mercifully.

It's Theodore Squires. Hello, Theo. Hello, Dolly. There's more room in the pool car. I'd have had a bit more space if we'd have done it in this one. Yeah, well, you know, I can't afford a pool car. I've got reach wages. So, we'll get into a bit, but there was a game on Saturday, and unbelievably, Liverpool won a game of football.

Paul, didn't they? So, we'll Gant to roam it in a bit, but there was a game on Saturday, and unbelievably, Liverpool won a game of football.

Paul, didn't they? They defeated Aston Miller by two goals to nil.

And it was merited, even if the first ten minutes was a little bit wayward.

It was, yeah, yeah. I mean, I think it might have said that on one of the pods recently.

He was just hoping for

Liverpool just don't even have to start spectacularly well just start okay you know grow into

the game make sure you don't do anything silly in the first five 10 15 minutes and that just

hasn't been happening often enough as it you know before Saturday that I think that you can

see that four goals inside the first 15 minutes of the last four games.

So they just needed to, you know, basically get rid of that statistic and then go from there.

And they did, didn't he?

First half, they grew into it, Sang to half thought doing much better.

But you could still see you know sort of

remnant to the team whose confidence was quite low they grew like I said

they grew into this second half they were a bit more emboldened they had the cop

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