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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Post-Game: Liverpool thrash West Ham to make perfect Premier League start

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Well, as starts go, that was just about perfect.The 4-0 win over West Ham was Liverpool’s biggest opening day victory at Anfield since 1932 – so little wonder then that the mood is buoyant on our first Post-Game podcast of the new Premier League season.The podcast kicks off with the thoughts of five Reds supporters who phoned into the ECHO after the match.Then you’ll hear from our Liverpool FC correspondent – both home and away – James Pearce.And the pod ends with audio from Jurgen Klopp’s press conference, in which the Reds boss delivers his verdict on the performance, Naby Keita’s eye-catching debut, the expectations surrounding his side, Dejan Lovren’s injury, and the players who had to settle for a place on what must go down as one of the strongest Liverpool benches in years.Enjoy – and if you are a Reds fan who would like to contribute to future Post-Game podcasts, then email paul.wheelock@reachplc.com for further details. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a Liverpool Echo podcast on Anfield Plus, the home of your daily

0:05.3

podcasts bringing you the inside track from Liverpool FC. Well as starts go

0:10.0

that was just about perfect. My name is Paul Weelock and welcome to the first post-game

0:14.7

podcast of the Premier League season in which we will be reflecting on Liverpool's 4-0 home win over

0:20.0

West Town. It was the Red's biggest opening day victory at Anfield since

0:23.7

1932 and we will be hearing from five match-going supporters who called in

0:28.3

after the game to deliver their verdicts. Then we'll hear from our

0:31.6

Liverpool FC correspondence both home and away James Pierce

0:35.0

before getting the force of Red Sposs Yergen Clop who gave his opinion on the performance,

0:40.0

Nabby Kater's eye-catching debut, the expectations surrounding his side,

0:44.3

Daysen-Lovrid's injury, and the players who had to settle for a place on what must be one of the

0:48.6

strongest Liverpool benches in the years.

0:51.0

Enjoy, and we'll be back after the Crystal Palace match a week on Monday. in the bag.

1:05.0

Magnificent performance. A couple of new signings started. The keeper didn't have much to do.

1:12.0

Didn't really get tested.

1:15.0

So, I can't really judge him off that performance, but obviously I think just makes a difference that we've got someone in there like that.

1:21.0

Kater, I mean for first through his debut I thought that was a brilliant

1:25.8

debut. Such an engine on the kiddies forward, back running everywhere, so creative going forward. and I like the fact that when he did take for

1:36.5

me and he off that he was able to slot in a bit further up the field to have that

1:40.1

ability in the side to interchange players like that will that will make a big

1:45.8

difference after the season goes on with injuries and the amount of games we're going to play.

1:51.6

James Millen was made captain here today without Henderson the side and to be honest I think he was banned of the match.

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