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

Hello and welcome to the postgame podcast to do something we have not done so far this season

and that's React to a Premier League defeat for Liverpool. Yes, the Reds is

superb 20 match when beaten starts at a campaign came to an end on Thursday night

when they lost a genuinely high quality game

at defending champions matches the city 2-1. The loss means Liverpool's lead at the top of the league

and over city has been cut to four points, but I don't think you'd find a single

red who wouldn't have taken that scenario at the start of December let alone at

the start of the season. I'm Paul Wielock your host and we've got a bumper

show for you starting with the verdict to our

Liverpool FC correspondent James Pierce. You will then hear every single word

that Reds manager Yurkin Club had to say in this post-match press conference.

And then we hand the podcast over to the 8 Liverpool fans who called into this show.

Alex Warts, Sam Planche, Matt Addison, Ross Strachan, Matt Witti, Simon Donnelly,

Owen Thomas and Mark Baker.

Thanks for joining me and we'll be back on Friday with our main Blood Red

podcast and like the show I doubt it'll be downbeat.

The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

Well Liverpool's lead at the top of the Premier League table has been trimmed to four points after a two-one defeat at the hands of Manchester City here at the Etiad. A real tough one for Liverpool to take.

It was a high quality contest between two absolutely elite level teams and in the end it came down to in incredibly fine margins

Liverpool left to Ru two big moments in that first half the first one when you know they were less than half an inch away from

from taking the lead it was a great move Sala and and Fimino linking up Salas

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