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

Hello, my name is Paul Wielock and welcome to the preview podcast to look ahead to

Liverpool's Champions League match with Red Star in Serbia this evening.

It is Liverpool's first trip to Belgrade since October 1973

when they suffered the first of two defeats the Red Star to exit the European

Cup. The defeats proved to be a watershed moment for legendary Liverpool manager

Bill Shankly who changed the club's approach to European football after those

nights. Now it's unlikely the events of this evening will have such a profound effects on the course of

local football in history, but it is a big game for Yergen clop's side.

They top group C after sweeping aside Red Star 4-0 at Anfield two weeks ago,

and with Patasanthemian taking on Napoli later on tonight,

victory for Liverpool could see them move a big step closer to qualifying for the knockout stages.

But will it be another procession

against Red Star? Maybe not. The report that the intimidating Manicana is

superb. They have not lost the home since going down to Arsenal in the Europa League

more than a year ago and Liverpool will be

without Gerden Shaquiri after Klock decided to leave the inform wingillers home following his

celebration for Switzerland against Serbia in the World Cup in the summer.

So to get the lowdown on Red Star, the atmosphere their home fans generate,

and the chances the 1991 European champions have of causing a huge upset tonight,

I spoke to Belgrade-based sports journalist and a boycha

Markovich. We also talked Liverpool's two Serbian players, Marco Gruewich and Lazar Markovich,

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