This is the post game podcast on the Blood Red channel, bringing you all the big match

reaction with views from the press box, the dugout and the stands.

It's the Post Game Podcast here on Blood Red, I'm Guy Clark. the going out in Austria. One one draws with both Varka Innsbruck and Stuttgart in the two half-hour matches.

And here to pick through some of the key talking points we have our bloodred writer Matt Addison.

Matt, what did you make of it?

It sort of seemed a bit odd to half hour games just as they were getting going.

They were over.

Yeah, it's a weird one isn't it?

I can sort of understand it really from the

open clops perspective you don't want to throw the players straight in they've

obviously been training hard doing double sessions and stuff like that so it's kind

of it's a sensible way of doing it really I suppose the difficulty is that you can't always

convince other teams to do that same thing. I think the certainly Innsbruk season has already started. They've played a couple of games already

for the new campaign. so for them it was maybe a

slightly strange one but of course I suppose equal to that is the fact that they get to play against

Liverpool so yeah it was it was a good run out for the players I think

there's certain things that we can learn there's certain things that it's

probably a bit too soon to think about I think you know obviously physically it was

it was very very hot over there they've been training twice a day as I say there's there's not a great deal I don't think that you can kind of

Learn in terms of where they're at fitness wise apart from the obvious Van Dyke and Gomez that we don't expect to see this week.

But I think in terms of sort of tactics, the fact, for example, that Harvey Elliott was in

midfield I thought was interesting, there is a lot that I think we can sort of gain from

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