The Agenda: Should Takumi Minamino or Diogo Jota get a chance ahead of Roberto Firmino?

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

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🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Roberto Firmino is perhaps the defining player of Jurgen Klopp’s five years in charge of Liverpool. But, following the 7-2 defeat at Aston Villa, the Reds’ brilliant number nine was not spared criticism. Was that fair? Maybe, maybe not. But what is clear is that Firmino – and the other members of the club’s feared front three – has real competition for his place given the impressive strides made by Takumi Minamino since the start of the new season and by the big-money arrival of Diogo Jota. The good news is that Firmino will go into the Merseyside derby next weekend on the back of a couple of morale-boosting goals for Brazil. But, having netted just once in the Premier League since January (albeit three of those months were lost to lockdown), some have suggested his place is not as secure as it once was. So Matt Addison and Theo Squires tackle the subject in the latest episode of The Agenda.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Agenda Podcast on the Blood Red channel, taking a bite-size look at some of the big
0:08.3	Liverpool FC talking points.
0:12.3	Hello and welcome to the latest Agenda Podcast. points. Liverpool have made what was looking like the perfect start to their
0:23.1	Premier League title defence before they were demolished, 7-2 by Aston Villa last
0:27.0	weekend. The performances of one man though have begun to come under scrutiny and
0:31.6	that's before even the Villa Park game took place.
0:34.0	No I'm not talking about Adrian, I'm talking about a regular feature of
0:38.4	Yogan-glopside over the last few seasons, maybe even the player who defines the clock era so far, Roberto F Amino.
0:46.0	The Reds number nine has been a crucial part of the squad that won both the Champions League
0:50.0	and the Premier League, and he netted twice for Brazil against Bolivia last night.
0:54.1	This performances haven't quite as been at the same level they were over the last few months.
0:59.1	We should probably start Theo by sort of saying that this is only a conversation.
1:03.7	We're not calling for the end of Roberto Fimino or anything like that, but it sort of
1:08.1	feels like the right time to have a little bit of a chat about him and about certain worries that
1:13.5	Liverpool fans possibly might have.
1:15.8	Yeah, with Liverpool's front three for so long it has been
1:20.5	untouchable hasn't it?
1:21.8	It has been Mohammed Salas Adi O'Marni Roberto for me. been
1:23.0	Mohammed Salas Adi O'Marnay, Roberto Fimino, and no matter what Divocaregi or Daniel Starridge did,
1:29.0	they were never going to be starting in that front three ahead of any of those players
1:32.0	because they were so good. starting in that front three ahead of any of those players.
1:33.0	Because they were so good,
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