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Hello and welcome to a podcast preview of Liverpool's trip to Crystal Palace for the first Monday night football of the season.

My name is Paul Wielock and we've got a packed show for you featuring views from the press box

and from the dugout. We'll kick off by hearing from our Liverpool FC

correspondent James Pierce who talks a trip to a place that brings back bad

memories for Red supporters but is nowhere near the bogey ground that some would

have you believe why the match would be the first proper

test of Liverpool's impressive new signings, Yuggenkop's possible midfield conundrum, and of course,

Mamadou Sacco, Christian Bentake, Martin Kelly and Roy Hodgson.

It's safe to say that Crystal Palace fans hold Hodgin in higher regard than

Liverpool's do.

And that much is made clear by our second guest on this podcast, Matt Woosden,

a Palace fan who covers the club for the South London press, and who runs the

at Palace Youth Twitter accounts. As well as Hodgson, Sacco and Ben Tache, we got Matt talking about

Palis's main man, Wilford Zaha, the young right back hoping to following Trent Alexander

Arnold's footsteps, one time reported Liverpool target Max Meyer and much more.

To round off this podcast we'll have audio highlights from the manager press conference on Friday.

Jurgen Klop talks the need to recite to stay angry, Podstrand Zaha and Joe Gomez,

whose importance in the Liverpool squad has only strengthened now that Roger

Clavon has left the club and then you'll hear from Hodgin on the game itself and

his main striker who seems to have lost his goal touch but first we'll hear

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