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 Gors, and Theo Squires both with me for today's show.

After drawing 3-3 with Ben Fika midweek the big games keep on coming for

Liverpool and we'll be previewing the trip to Emily to take on Manchester City very shortly.

Let's start with the Champions League though, Gorsley.

Plenty of changes Yogan clock made for that game, but even though the scoreline maybe looks

like it could have caused

Liverpool a bit of trouble it never really felt to me that Liverpool were ever really in

any Japanese. Now Benfica would never closer than two goals away from four us and extra time.

So although three-three draw looks like Liverpool had been taken to the limit by Benfikin,

it was never really quite that way, was it?

Lebool, been in 3-1 on the night

and obviously the 3-1 results in Lisbon last week

as what's kind of kept them in good stead.

It was a strange game, wasn't it?

You can go up using a, well, you mentioned the changes there, he made seven in total.

Probably the strongest Liverpool bench

that I've ever seen, I guess.

Major Van Dyke, Alexander Arnold, Sala Manet, Fabinio, Andy Robertson.

It was incredible, but when Kallot mentioned on Tuesday that the previous game affects us to team selection with regards to injuries

and whatever else but the following game doesn't I think when the team is

named I think that was a bit of a giveaway wasn't it he very much had one eye on on tomorrow's

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