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It was painting the obvious for anyone watching last Sunday that this Liverpool side under

Yergan Klopp is still capable of being one of if not the best team in the country.

I don't think there's ever been a Premier League side to have three, go three games on the

track without having a shot on target. That has to be a concern for them.

What relegation would do to West Ham is, it doesn't bear thinking about it for West Ham fans, to be honest, you know, with the financial stakes that they've got invested in staying in the Premier League.

Hello and welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. I'm Dan Bardell and it's time for the weekend preview.

I'm joined by George Ellick, Bet365, Steve

Freeth and Tim Spears as well to look ahead to what's to come this weekend. Man City go first

in the race for the title once more. We'll ask none of it so late to reply this week. Having

stuck seven past Manchester United, Liverpool head to Bournemouth, having already put

nine past the cherries at Anfield this season, and what response to Eric Tenhaug's men have as

Southampton head to Old Trafford? That's all to come here on the weekend preview.

Right then, let's get into it. It's Bournemouth v Liverpool, which is the Saturday lunchtime offering Liverpool, of course, scoring seven against Manchester United.

George, was this a fluke-freak result or a Liverpool turning things round? That's four wins in five, and they've not conceded since the 3-0 defeat at Wolves. I think it's just a sign that, you know, form isn't always linear. And when you have a group of players as talented as Liverpool's, sometimes things can just click and that was the case. The forward three of Darwin Nunez, Mo Salah and Cody Gacpo has been okay so far. You know, obviously coming into this game, the Premier League form for Liverpool had been very strong if you took out the Real Madrid game and the Champions League, both in an attacking sense and not conceding any goals as well. But Mo Salah was the Mo Salah that we haven't seen enough of this season, the one who, you know, a year or so ago we probably said was the best player in world football at the time. Darwin Nunez finally getting his breaks in front of goal, managing to put two away. And GACPO, as you'd expect, is kind of improving with every game. So, you know, for Manchester United, how they look at this will be interesting. After all the progress that they've made, do you write it off as just a bad day at the office,

or do you really try and tackle what the issues were on the day?

They bounced back.

They showed some resilience with the resounding win over Railbetis on Thursday night.

But for Liverpool now, it's got to be a case of this is what we are capable of.

And those of us, myself included, who started, you know, doing the career obits of Fabino and

Jordan Henderson and other players.

It was painstantly obvious for anyone watching last Sunday that this Liverpool side under

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