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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

The Agenda: The make-up of Liverpool's midfield - and how Adam Lallana and Naby Keita fit into it

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The focus of the latest episode of The Agenda is Liverpool's midfield. Jurgen Klopp has rotated his options in the centre of the park for three of the first four games of the season - and looks set to do so again for Saturday's visit of Arsenal to Anfield. So Kristian Walsh and Joel Rabinowitz sat down to deconstruct and analyse the players in the Reds' engine room. They ask whether there is enough creativity in there, whether Adam Lallana has a role to play, and what impact Naby Keita could have once he's fully fit. Enjoy - and don't forget you can now watch and like the LFC videos we are producing on our Blood Red YouTube channel. Click HERE for more. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:08.0

Hello, it's the agenda. I'm Christine Walsh with me as Joel Rebinovitz and today we are talking

0:14.4

about Liverpool's midfield it feels like we've spoken already what is it

0:19.1

three games already into the season two into the Premier League season, about the goalkeeper,

0:23.6

about Allison Behe, Adrian and Andy Lonergan.

0:27.1

It feels like we've spoken about the front three of Mosselar,

0:30.3

Celia O'Marnay and Roberto Fimino.

0:32.1

And of course, it feels like we've spoken about the defense

0:34.0

and the fact that it's not as granite and as firm

0:38.0

as it was last season so far.

0:40.0

So let's talk about the midfield, the one thing that we haven't really touched upon, Joel, and how are you seeing it in terms of the makeup of it so far this season?

0:50.0

Yeagen has pretty much used almost all of us options, but he's pretty much used everybody,

0:57.0

Barad and Alana. So how are you seeing this shaping up so far? I think if you look at kind of the

1:04.8

starting 11 as it is now I think the back five really if you've got the keeper

1:10.0

in the back four there's always a massive Gomez conversation but you know that Van Dyck

1:14.4

Robertson and Trent are going to play most of the games and the keeper if Allison's

1:17.5

fit is going to start and if not it's going to be Adrian the front three is

1:20.8

mostly going to be the front three unless there's injury or one of them really needs a rest.

1:25.0

I think the midfield is that one area in the team which is the most interchangeable.

1:29.0

You obviously saw that against Southampton, started three players who didn't play or didn't start against

1:34.2

Chelsea in midweek which I guess is one of the positives from that performance is

1:38.0

that he was able to take three players out and change them all up and obviously

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