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

Hello and welcome back to the debrief on the Blood Red channel.

I'm your host, Edward Kay, and I'm joined today

by the Echo's very own Theo Squires,

as we're gonna review Liverpool's three and a loss to Leaguer inside,

Arce St Strasbourg tonight.

And we're also going to talk a bit about how the pre-season's gone as a whole.

Thea, I'm going to bring you straight in.

How do you think that a fairly inexperienced side that was named by Clop after the obviously the Community Shield victory yesterday over Manchester City,

not many first team stars to be seen. How do you think that sort of fairly an experienced side managed to cope with

conceiving three relatively early goals?

It's a difficult night for the young side and I suppose it's one where they

arranged this friendly they would never

have thought they'd have to name such an experienced team like you think you'd

have had Simicass in there Ramsey in there upside Chamberlain in there maybe

Jots are in there got one of the goalkeepers as well, but they've had the injuries in pre-season and it's presented

these opportunities to the youngsters.

Really, it's the inexperience that has cost them to concede three goals.

It's like defensive errors, but aside from that, they've done a pretty decent job like Strasbourg.

They're not like an elite French side like a PSG or anything, but they're still a side that will be taking points off

some of the top teams that will be challenging

for Europe if they have a really good season.

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