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

We'll take questions to James, knownona who's our player first please,

because he can do other media duties

and then get back to preparing them,

we'll take questions to co-fiate.

It's quite difficult to see from this vantage point.

I think if you can get the microphone to

Julius in the front from the BBC. Two questions for James to kick us off with I think.

And James after several, I was saying it was a little bit a wake-up call.

You fancy this picture as being more straightforward than you are to Champions League actually.

I don't think any Champions League games are straightforward. We know it'll be a tough game.

You know, they're strong at home, they're strong side anyway.

And I think they had a good European campaign last year.

And obviously after a good result

against an accolade they are going to be full of confidence and

and wanting to be a part of a good performance and be a big test for us.

It's pretty much though to think that you know in the last couple of seasons you haven't worked away in the group stages

is it because it's like such a key period domestically as well as on a European basis

the way it's to these two competitions run?

Yeah, I think I might come into it.

There's a lot of games around this period.

It's tough.

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