Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

It has been a brilliant week for Liverpool so far after they went to Atalanta and won 5-0 thanks to a Diogo Jota hat-trick – but Jurgen Klopp would like it to get even better with a victory against Manchester City in the Premier League tomorrow. To talk about everything LFC, Neil Fitzmaurice is joined by Dan Kay and Matt Addison for the latest Poetry in Motion podcast – starting with the proof that the Reds' squad depth has come a long way since last season in the form of Jota, Rhys Williams, the rejuvenated Xherdan Shaqiri and rising star Curtis Jones. Then there is a discussion about the perfection of the Atalanta win, why it was the ideal Man City preparation, and what it means for the team-sheet at the Etihad Stadium. Finally, there is a chat about Erling Haaland and the rumours linking him with a transfer move to Anfield, plus the reversal on the PPV decision, with those matches not selected for Sky Sports or BT Sport in the UK now set to be shown free of charge until the New Year. Enjoy!The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ahead of Liverpool’s visit to Manchester City on Sunday, the Blood Red podcast discuss Thiago Alcantara, the title race and Jurgen Klopp’s selection dilemma for the big game. Following on from Diogo Jota’s hat-trick against Atalanta in the Champions League, the panel look at whether or not he will start ahead of Roberto Firmino at the Etihad. With Thiago set to miss the match and Joel Matip ready to return there are other issues Klopp has to solve, too. Join Guy Clarke, Ian Doyle and Paul Gorst for all that and more, including our team selections and match predictions. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jurgen Klopp confirmed Thiago will not be back for Sunday’s massive Premier League match at Manchester City at his final pre-match press conference at Melwood. Klopp, who will soon move his first-team squad and coaching staff to the club’s new training ground in Kirkby, did not put a timescale on the Spanish midfielder’s return. But he did reveal Thiago will not be ready for the trip to City, which the Liverpool boss called the ‘most difficult game in world football’. In a wide-ranging press conference, Klopp also spoke about the impact of Diogo Jota, the form of Joe Gomez since Virgil van Dijk’s injury, how many teams will battle for the title Liverpool are defending, why Roberto Firmino remains such a crucial player, and his thoughts on leaving Melwood. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Diogo Jota has handed Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp a significant team selection dilemma heading into Sunday’s huge Premier League clash at Manchester City.Jota scored a hat-trick in the Champions League in midweek and there are calls for the Portuguese to start at the Etihad in place of Roberto Firmino.So this week’s Liverpool.com podcast, guest-hosted by Matt Addison and featuring regulars Joel Rabinowitz and Ollie Connelly, answers that question.Jota’s wasn’t the only brilliant performance in the 5-0 win at Atalanta with the panel also assessing superb showings from Rhys Williams, Joe Gomez, Curtis Jones, as well as Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah, who partnered the man-of-the-moment in attack.Should Joel Matip and Thiago Alcantara (if fit) return against Manchester City? Joel and Ollie have their say while also paying tribute to Gini Wijnaldum and how he’s going about his business at a time when his future at Anfield appears uncertain.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today’s Morning Bulletin podcast, Matt Addison joins Paul Wheelock to talk about a thinly-veiled dig by Jose Mourinho to Liverpool, among others; a big day, for contrasting reasons, for former Reds centre-backs Mamadou Sakho and Martin Skrtel; the latest Schalke defender to being linked to a move to Anfield; and an update on the futures of David Alaba and Erling Haaland, two more players who have been speculated as potential Jurgen Klopp transfer targets. The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Man-of-the-moment Diogo Jota is one of the big talking points of the Analysing Anfield podcast after his superb hat-trick for Liverpool in their 5-0 Champions League win at Atalanta. But before Josh Williams and David Hughes get stuck into that, they start by examining the 2-1 victory over West Ham United in the Premier League at Anfield, which proved to be another game when Liverpool conceded first. Why is that? And why could the defending champions count themselves ‘unlucky’? Talk then turns to the outstanding win over Atalanta with particular focus on Jota’s performance as the Reds’ central striker in place of Roberto Firmino. A number of fans wanted to sign Timo Werner in the summer but our hosts wonder whether Liverpool have got the better deal by buying the Wolves man instead. And the final section of the podcast focuses on Sunday’s huge match at Manchester City, whose underlying statistics suggest they aren’t quite the same attacking threat they once were.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool ran out 5-0 winners, with Diogo Jota grabbing his first hat-trick for the club, in a rout against Atalanta. The win makes it three from three in the Champions League for the Reds so far this season with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane also on the scoresheet. Join Guy Clarke as we hear from Jurgen Klopp's press conference out in Bergamo; the ECHO's Liverpool FC correspondent Paul Gorst shares his thoughts, plus we get reaction from Liverpool supporters Mark Baker, Lauren Black, Alex Watt, Matt Whitty and Steve Dawson on the five-star showing from Klopp's side ahead of Sunday's Premier League crunch clash at the Etihad with Manchester City. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool travel to Atalanta this evening to take on one of European football's most offensive sides. Atalanta hit 98 goals in Serie A last season, as well as reaching a Champions League quarter-final only to be knocked out in heartbreaking fashion. A side who have been taken to the heart of many neutrals, against the Premier League champions... join Guy Clarke as he catches up with Joe Donnohue from Scouted Football to get an insight into how Atalanta function, what makes them dangerous and whether or not Jurgen Klopp may have met his match in Gian Piero Gasperini. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Premier League leaders Liverpool take on Atalanta in the Champions League on Tuesday night, with much to discuss - including Mohamed Salah's 'dive' - before then. Host Matt Addison is joined by Ian Doyle, Dan Kay and Connor Dunn as the ECHO writers have their say on the spot-kick won and converted by Salah against West Ham United on Saturday night, and the way in which the coverage of that incident has been different to other players like England captain Harry Kane. The panel then get into the rest of the talking points from the weekend, including Nat Phillips' performance, Trent Alexander-Arnold hitting 100 appearances for Liverpool in the Premier League, and the latest injury news on Naby Keita and Joel Matip. Xherdan Shaqiri and Diogo Jota both impressed off the bench against West Ham, while Roberto Firmino has been criticised of late. Is time to bring one of the substitutes in from the start against Atalanta? Our panel have their say, before full Champions League line-up estimates and score predictions are made. Enjoy!The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jurgen Klopp has been back in front of the media ahead of Tuesday night's Champions League tie with Atalanta. The manager confirmed both Naby Keita and Joel Matip have returned to full training, whilst Thiago Alcanatara remains a doubt. Klopp also spoke about Diogo Jota's impact since arriving and Anfield and Xherdan Shaqiri's influence in recent games. Following on from Klopp was Trent Alexander-Arnold, who made his 100th Premier League appearance on Saturday. Trent spoke about his pride at reaching the landmark and being part of the successes he has enjoyed at Liverpool before getting onto his memories of Melwood prior to the move to the AXA Training Centre in Kirkby plus how the squad have bounced back from the humbling 7-2 defeat at Aston Villa. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices