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It's the weekender and it's Lizzie Dore.

I'm in the hot seat today.

Coming up later in the show, we've got Nathan Powell, Paul, who's talking about his new play The Spine. We've got Tyhues from the athletic. He's going to talk to

us about his last few pieces, particularly a really, really good one on Liverpool players and religion, obviously off the back of that video with

F Amino and Allison getting baptized in for me no swimming pool but it's really

really interesting so that's still to come and we've got Raudy Smith

he's going to be speaking to Neil on whether the fact the league is

weaker than ever because Liverpool are absolutely flying.

But before we've got all that we are going to touch on last night's game and in the room I've

got Mike Kearney I've got Claire Brookfield and I've got Ian Salmon.

Mike I'm going to start with you.

It was a really tough game last night.

I know as Liverpool fans we sort of anticipated it beforehand, but did you think it was actually

harder than you thought in the first place?

I thought we'd just be better and that's probably because of what's gone before,

not against wolves or nothing like that. It was definitely a tougher game than I expected.

Although if it makes any sense I knew it would be one of our toughest remaining games.

I just didn't think it would be as tough as it was.

Some of our players had off nights but managed to turn it round.

They're weird.

Like, they're good, but they're really weird in terms of the way they set up and attack.

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