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It is the Anfield rap, Neil Atkinson with Adamelia, Rob Gutman and Carl Koppack,

the first match of20, 2021 season.

It was Liverpool FC 4 Leeds United 3

and Rob Gutman.

It was a classic and I know you will have done when you watch it back. You go oh it wasn't quite as

fraught as it felt at the time is that fair? Absolutely.

I'm a good.

Yeah, there's a phase at 3-2.

I'm losing track of where the span between the goals, but there's quite a span between our third and their equalizer isn't there.

We're brilliant from 45 to 65.

That's right. So it got very pre-seasoning. I was watching with Steve Graves and I said this could end up being like the Blackpool game a week ago.

You know it felt like we'd had the silly bit and now we can just pull away from them.

But some of our football in that phase you just reference was very exhibitioning and there was a sense that it was a bit complacent within that.

So are you citing the where we go through with Saladin and Manay for instance on their counterattack and they're two against one and somehow they conspire to not even get a meaningful shot off?

Yeah, like they play three one twos between them. It's joyous. There's also one where Bobby Fomeno gets a shot away, but he takes it on his right, on the outside of his right. He's been beautifully put in by a move. And you think it's a very simple finish on his left really and it just felt like he wanted to score the right goal rather than the goal.

And I think there was a bit of a vibe of that. There's something very funny simplistic about it, so I don't think it's something very something very I want to be simplistic about it, something very FIFA about the kind of goals they wanted to

score. I think they wanted to let cut loose. I mean the most

impressible I've seen the front three

for a long time was actually the last game of last season when they were all in the second half. Remember for that half hour?

It gives you Newcastle. They were just sensational for a phase

and they were again, they really were again, despite all having

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