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It is the Anfield Rap, Neil Atkinson, Melissa Reddy,

Garth Robert and Ben Johnson to talk about Liverpool Nill, Southampton NIL, which is going to be exactly what it sounds like.

And I think one of my first issues with this game, Gareth, you know, looking back on it,

haven't done post my shows on the

I'm field rap dot com all that sorts of stuff one of the first things that sort of

is difficult to talking about the game is that you feel like you've talked

about it before

and it's hard to actually address this game

in a standalone sense.

I mean I feel like I've watched this now about six times in

I'm field this season, probably started West Ham in December.

It's one of a piece, isn't it?

It's one of a series of games where these problems are emerging.

Liverpool is doing a lot of similar things.

And I think first and foremost, one of the things that's come out of all the discussion is there's a slowness to Liverpool starts in general in these games

Yeah, does it seem to be that way and I mean I mentioned on one of the shows last week that there's quite a worrying sort of a couple of comments

from a couple of the players I think it was Lovren and Vanaldom that we referenced.

You sort of admitted themselves that they hadn't really been added in some of these games and it's hard to pinpoint the reason when, you know, one of the things that serve Liverpool so well this season was, was tempo, was moving it fast, was moving it quickly between players and, you know, it was the

complete opposite of that again yesterday and it was just also predictable.

And very early there was like a pattern of play you know

so time some were just sitting there in a big mess in the middle and just go and go

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