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 to the View from the Cott Podcast, and unlike Jurgen Cloth who has so far resisted the temptation to rotate his squad we have freshened our lineup

today alongside regulars Paul Philbin. Hello Neil McDonald we are delighted to welcome fellow Liverpool fan Kiva O'Neill who you may well have heard

on the Blood Red podcast in the past.

Hello. Good to see you here.

Right, so the Reds are heading into the International Blake, third in the Premier League,

and level on points at the top with Chelsea and Manchester City, and despite the defeat to Napoli,

they're still in a good position in the Champions League as well.

But on the flip side, the Liberal have failed to win any of their

last four matches going into the break. So what are your thoughts, you know, going into this next two weeks?

Well, I think it's been, obviously they're coming off the back of a really tough spell and it

taken in the in the hole I think we've done really well with the start we've had

which has been really difficult you know know, much more difficult than our

than our rivals and our main rivals has been. So given that, this not one in

four, I mean one of those is Chelsea in the League Cup so I don't think that counts.

We were really unlucky despite not playing well not to get a point in Napoli and then Chelsea

away city at home you probably take points from them or certainly won't be disappointed.

I'm not disappointed by the result.

So I think looking at the season in the whole it's great.

You know I'm a big believing that the adage it's not how you start

how you finish and considering that we are still this season at least going

through the gears and and yet to you know go flat out whether that's

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