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Episode 95 - Liverpool Preview
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Join Rob & Richard as they look ahead to Ipswich's visit to Anfield on Saturday afternoon. The lads discuss the tweaks to the setup we may see compared to the Man City game, predict lineup changes including a potential debut for Julio Enciso and share their predictions for the game.
The Daily Ipswich Podcast, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network, is the home of all your ITFC. Join us every weekday for the latest news, build-up and reaction in the club's first season back in the Premier League.
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Guests: Richard Popple
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Introduction and Guest Welcome
00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Ipswich, brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. It is Friday. we've We've had our crossover yesterday, and it's time for our own podcast preview. Looking ahead to the fixture at Anfield against Liverpool this weekend. Joining me, Rob Bins, to look ahead to that game is Richard Popple. How are you doing, mate?
00:00:35
Richard
I'm good, mate. I'm on my hat trick here. This is my third in a row.
00:00:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
it So the seller you're rushing them all back in. Now you have withdrawal symptoms with no internet for a week.
00:00:44
Richard
no
00:00:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now you jump on every single episode you get a chance for.
00:00:46
Richard
and Yeah, I know, everyone's gonna be absolutely sick of me. Sorry about that, everyone.
Focus on Ipswich's Strategy
00:00:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, so today's episode, as mentioned, so Richard's done a fantastic crossover yesterday with one of the guys from daily Liverpool here on the on GSBN network. So we will avoid covering as many of the same points we can. So go and listen to that one. If you want to if you want a bit more chat about sort of the fans around the game, I think you said you discussed and Richard said a good round episode that we're going to go a bit more Ipswich focused to start with here. So I'm going to ask you about the set up where um'm I'm assuming I'm sure I imagine you're of the same assumption that it will be the five back again. So but then where do we go from there? Is it is it an anti football sort of performance against an Arsenal where we just keep the score down and
00:01:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll see if we can do anything on the counter or will it be more like some of the other games where we actually look to spring the ball and spring counters and we actually get the ball.
00:01:43
Richard
Well, well how how how long have we had this five for now? is this Have we had it for four games in a row? in the Premier League, five games maybe? be
00:01:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't know. it's It's been a month in terms of actual time has passed because the Arsenal was our Boxing Day equivalent
Challenges Against Top Teams
00:01:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
fixture, wasn't it? So it would have been a month by the time we get to this weekend.
00:01:59
Richard
Yeah, it was, yeah. I mean, we've had a ripe old run of for games in that time. Let's be honest with Chelsea, Arsenal, City have been that bright and now Liverpool. So it's been a hell of a run. It's probably the most difficult set of fixtures we've got all season, to be honest.
00:02:15
Richard
So that's a good thing. At least it gets a bit easier from here on out on paper anyway. Yeah, I mean, I think that what we were talking about on the on the crossover yesterday was the fact that, you know, Louis was very, he was very magnanimous about it and didn't think we were going to get a slapping or anything like that. But obviously, they've just looked at the city game that we've, we've been hammered six nil and thinking, you know, going to Anfield wasn't going to be like that sort of thing. But I expect us to be a bit tighter, I would think, than last week. Like you said, it's just you know just then, do we literally play to shut up shop and and try and make ourselves really, really difficult to beat, or do we try and offer a little bit more? I mean, we're only signing attacking players, so it feels to me as if we're going to be trying to go for it potentially a bit more. But whether that's this weekend or not, I don't know. I think it's quite important for our season that we don't get another
00:03:09
Richard
big defeat, to be honest. I think that would start to really hurt the players a little bit if that happened again.
Importance of Goal Difference
00:03:15
Richard
So I think pragmatism has to ah win out, I'm afraid, this weekend.
00:03:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, i'm I'm on the same page as you, I think. We spoke about the the game at the Emirates, didn't we? That felt like a game that was, let's keep the score down, but rather than can we go and have a result here?
00:03:31
Richard
Yeah.
00:03:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sort of, like I said, we compared it to the Ever, who went there a couple weeks before at the time, and I said they got the nil-nil in the end, but they turned up, they didn't try and attack until the last 10 minutes of the game, pretty much.
00:03:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
They were just there to make sure they didn't leak loads of goals in and harm the goal difference. and You'd have to imagine, like you said, this is going to be the same mindset given the context of the result last week.
00:03:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
and so we've been We spent a whole week building up, saying before that, saying how tight it is at the bottom, that goal difference means everything.
00:03:59
Richard
Yeah.
00:04:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now yeah you could say, if you let goal difference get too big, it's almost like being a point an extra point away than you are. So how important it was, it kept close. So with one goal in it before going in. And then we took a six nil paste in, which has drastically increased that gap with the goal difference. Luckily, Wolves got beat the following day to cut the gap a little bit, but we can't afford another game like that. Because like I say, if you have another one like that, then unless Wolves also get bad, which is a possibility because they've got Arsenal at home this week. So two fixtures are very much aligned.
00:04:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
at both ends of the table, really, that they'll be both say both teams in each game are going to be interested of the result in the other game that is in that situation. But so there's a chance that so that we might and we could say we could both put in a good shift.
00:04:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
We could both get a drum and you never know with with these games, but you can't let the goal difference grow week on week because, like I could say, at that point you might as well put an extra
Ipswich's Defensive Focus
00:05:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
point on there. If you let the goal difference get to a point you can't catch.
00:05:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it has to be
00:05:07
Richard
Yeah.
00:05:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
so you never want to go in you never want to So you never want to go into a game thinking, like you say, that you you don' you don't want to go in with the sort of damage control mindset from the offing games. But sometimes it is just a pragmatic option you have to take. It was at the Emirates and effectively done the job, didn't it? So didn't get a result, and' like the way Everton did, but a 1-0 defeat. I think if you'd offered enough people that before the game, there'd have been a lot more nerves and probably would have taken it. And same as, imagine if you'd offered a 1-0 defeat,
00:05:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
this weekend, there'd be a lot of people who would take it now at the moment, especially after the City results.
00:05:42
Richard
I know, but that's a depressing place to be, isn't it?
00:05:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
You'd see how it's going to play that way.
00:05:44
Richard
That you just, yeah, I agree.
00:05:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:05:47
Richard
I mean, i do I completely agree with you, but I think I'm not sure if we're going to go in with it with that attitude. I don't think you can go into a football match with the attitude of let's not get hammered. and I think that's just about the side being going back to being as solid as they were against Arsenal and against Chelsea at home.
00:06:04
Richard
You know, I know it's a slightly different formation and stuff, but I don't think this can just be about sort of formation. I think this is about the mentality of the players, you know, there's got to be a bit of desperation about the way that we, you know, defend and stuff. And, and I think that has to come from not, not, you know, chucking yourself around from, from the first minute or anything, but a desperation to kind of like get in the way and make sure that, you know, players aren't running past you and running off you and all the rest of it. Like if you can make yourself difficult to beat for the, certainly the first half of the first 60 minutes, then you give Liverpool something to think about, like we did in the, you know, the first game of the season at Portman road.
00:06:39
Richard
ah ah we We talked about it with Louis yesterday. You know, Liverpool very occasionally at Anfield find it difficult to break teams down that they should do. That obviously happened against Forest earlier in the season. Fulham got a point there as well. Palace beat them at the end of last season in a similar kind of game to the Forest game. You kind of hope from our point of view that obviously they have a bit of an off day up front and you know things aren't clicking or whatever. and He was already giving some excuses about we've, we've had midweek off and they had a midweek game and stuff, which, you know, when you're comparing the squads, I don't think makes a difference whatsoever.
00:07:13
Richard
But, you know, maybe there is something in that.
00:07:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it was at home as well.
00:07:15
Richard
but yeah Yeah, yeah, it was a home exactly. Um, they've obviously got another game on Wednesday and you know, bigger games to come. So you hope that they take their eye off the ball a little bit and that gives us enough.
00:07:26
Richard
Enough to get through the game. But from my point of view, you can't go into it with like, uh, let's not get hammered. That has to be a byproduct of the right mentality of let's not let these runners offers. Let's be nice and solid. Let's kind of keep our shape and let's try and use the ball when we've got it. Because I think when we have got smashed this season, it's because we haven't been able to get hold of the ball and try and like, you know, take some sting out of the game for a period of time. Teams have started to overwhelm us, like the bigger teams, Newcastle City, when Liverpool turned it on that day, when City turned it on in the first game. It's because we can't get the ball back.
00:08:01
Richard
And then you just got wave upon wave upon wave of of attack and the players that are against us are better. And, you know, like we say, we've, we've chucked a squad together pretty quickly. So let's hope that, you know, we have a better day defensively and Liverpool have a bit of a bit of an off one.
00:08:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, only we've got set up to to make them work, don't you? You can't. So that's the other thing in those games, partly because like you say, we haven't had the ball, but the games that have been heavier scorelines and you'd like it's because that it's almost you just sort of let the teams play their football.
00:08:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
You haven't made it difficult for them at times like.
00:08:36
Richard
Yeah.
00:08:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
So been it's a bit it's a city play some of the best football they've played in months. But there was also there are some of the goals where it was it is far too easy. Like the docu goals comes to mind.
00:08:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
like it as much credit as he deserves for the footwork involved in it. When he's three when it's three on one in our favour, and he gets past all three, they so you've almost made it, you've not made him work for it in a way. He's just sort of, he shouldn't be getting past three players and getting a shot away. And yeah, then it takes a deflection as well, which is
Impact of Lineup Changes
00:09:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
that I'm there. But that's what we've been, that's been the difference, what I've found in the games where the score lines have maybe got a bit out of hand is that,
00:09:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
once we sort of start off all right and then once a ah goal or two goes in does that sort of it all sort of falls apart and like I say i almost make it easier for your opposition like we said we mentioned after the city again we the defensive changes seem to leave a slight lack of organization compared to previous games and these these teams will pounce on stuff like that and I say you look at the arsenal game that
00:09:35
Richard
Mm hmm.
00:09:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
what was all around a very solid defensive performance. We offered nothing up the other end, but defensively we were really good. So I think it was a grieve. So you switched off for half a second at the back post and how that has appeared, whoever's whoever scored in the end, it appeared and got her and turned in from close range.
00:09:53
Richard
Yeah.
00:09:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was half a second. So in a 95 minute game with stoppage time, that was there was half a second. ah ah a lapse of concentration came in and and that lost the game. So you can't afford to switch off at any point and don't let the let these sort of teams do the work for you. You have to make them, so if you lose, if you can see the goal to a bit of individual brilliance or something like that, at least you've made it you see made them work hard and pull that pull that out. It can't just be what some of the city guys were. They knock a few passes about and the shape gets pulled and pulled to pieces and they make chances that way. so
00:10:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
A pragmatic approach, certainly.
00:10:36
Richard
what why were yeah why Why were there so many changes in the defense, do you think, last week?
00:10:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
No,
00:10:43
Richard
what did we Did we get to the bottom of that?
00:10:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
no I don't know. I think it was just, because we obviously, we played Thursday night, hadn't we? Whereas when we talk about squad differences lots of having the intensity, Brighton played that second half, must've been quite tiring, to be fair.
00:10:54
Richard
Yeah, but defenders, I mean.
00:11:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
They did switch it on.
00:11:03
Richard
Yeah, no, fair enough. and
00:11:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think so.
00:11:05
Richard
it It did seem like a lot of changes though.
00:11:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like you say about squads.
00:11:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I thought that was like you said when Louis point about squads that you can't even though you can't compare them that we haven't got a squad that can do that. Liverpool have got a squad that can do Wednesday, Saturday.
00:11:08
Richard
Yeah, yeah.
00:11:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
We don't have a squad that can do Thursday, Sunday. So where there was always going to be changes in that city game and that did disrupt us ultimately.
00:11:22
Richard
No.
00:11:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so speaking of the midweek games, like you say that that Rafinha 96 minute winner might have done us a favor because
00:11:26
Richard
Hmm.
00:11:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
had Liverpool had a dead rubber Champions League game in the mid-week, then there might have been a bit more emphasis on this game, but so there's there's almost there might always and might be that element of no, and they have to go get a result on Wednesday against PSV that maybe will win the back of their minds if we can frustrate them long enough that give them decisions to make. If you probably wanted to take the key men off ready for the big Champions League game at that point, but if they're still in a positive position at that point, then you might they might think twice, and We'll see where it goes from there, but ultimately, these sort of games, it's about staying in it as long as you can, isn't it?
00:12:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
like Where we fell against Newcastle going 1-0 down so early on, and so City away, we poked the bear by scoring early, the and then so quick turnaround there.
00:12:10
Richard
Yeah.
00:12:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's all about keeping it tight, like we've been saying, and so and staying in, ultimately staying in the game as long as you can, which will have to be the approach we go for. And so we mentioned some of the lineup changes for City. We're going to have a quick break to hear from one of our sponsors now. We're going to be chatting about potential lineup changes we might see from both teams once we return from this message.
00:13:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back for the second part of today's Liverpool match preview.
Player Performances and Strategy
00:13:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, Rich, we spoke about setups from the Ipswich side of things. So, and I'm going to talk about personnel that obviously, like I said, there was plenty of changes going into that city game. So, we're assuming because of the tight turnaround from Brighton, we've also had Gileo and CSO through the door, say officially, you know, say announcement official announcement came yesterday, which coincidentally was his 21st birthday as well. So we're assuming that means he's available for selection. Obviously, Phila Jean's had a full week in there now. Twansay, we returned last week. So are you expecting a fair few changes again, or would you go with the point of that disrupting organization and everything again that we just made about the city again?
00:14:02
Richard
I mean, if it feels like he's made a fair few changes all season, to be honest. He's been tinkering around with the the front three quite a bit, obviously trying to find the right combinations and stuff. We felt, you know, we had those two positive results against, you know, Chelsea and then Fulham and it was Broadhead, Hutchinson and Schmodix, I think.
00:14:24
Richard
Might have been.
00:14:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was your sos broad head in both, and Smodix in one, Amari in one because they both got injured for the other game.
00:14:24
Richard
And then Schmodix got injured, obviously.
00:14:32
Richard
Oh, that's right. Yeah. so I think, you know, he's w we've obviously been trying to play around with that bit. Jack Clark came into the team, obviously against city that didn't particularly work. don't think Clark will keep his place for sure.
00:14:46
Richard
Hutchinson probably will keep his place, I would think. Or do I think? I don't know. maybe maybe Maybe it's time to give him a bit of a breather and take him out of it. I think NCSO will come into the team. I think he sort of has to, because I think he's got that spark the and the confidence to really yeah back himself and kind of like go for it. He's got that kind of dilap thing, that slightly fearless thing. the Brighton fans that kind of like,
00:15:10
Richard
I'm aware of or have been talking about it and stuff, think that we've got a really, really good player on our hands there. So I think he should come into the team, because I think it might give a bit of a lift. Where the Philogene comes in as well, that might be you know too two player two new players, too many. And at the back, it's anyone's guess, to be perfectly honest. I think Jacob Greaves started the season really well, but he's he's struggled to get a flow, I think, because he's just been in and out of the team so much through injury. And then obviously,
00:15:38
Richard
you know, being picked and they're not being picked. Does he come back in for Burgess? Probably. O'Shea seems to be sort of, you know, the one that he keeps in the whole time. So he'll probably keep his place. And then maybe Axel Tuente becomes back into the side and and Ben Johnson keeps his place on the right. So Tuente becomes in and ahead of Godfrey potentially.
00:16:02
Richard
might be the way they go because those two were together obviously for the Spurs game as well with two hands AB and Johnson on the right hand side. So that might work. But yeah, I do expect some changes because it it happens kind of every game. What about you?
00:16:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think the interesting one for me is Transavian, as you were just saying there, because he's been one of the players of the season when he's been fit this year, and so probably has been the most consistent performer apart from maybe Jalab.
00:16:28
Richard
Yep.
00:16:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's missed so many games of injury, but also I don't think Audrey had a bad game at all. I mean, it was weird to say when he's part of a defense that let six goals in, but I thought, particularly while while the game was more even, he was sort of almost becoming an overlapping centre back.
00:16:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
the way they He got the ball all the way up in a crossing position at one point early on in the game. I thought he he had some it certainly had some life in him that maybe we don't have in some of the other options.
00:16:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I don't know if he had a performance that Warren had been dropped, but then someone has to expect Van Zewy to come back in if he is fully fit and ready to go from the start.
00:17:01
Richard
Thank you.
00:17:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
He'd expect him to be in that 11 and someone has to take the place.
00:17:10
Richard
Mm.
00:17:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's the That's the interesting one, I think, because neither of them will be a wing back in this set-up. They're both going to be playing that right set-in-the-heart role. so That's the one I'm not sure I'm really, but so I'd expect and see so to come in. The only question mark would be, is it too soon? and Does he need it does you need the first game on the bench? I don't know. but I expect to see him in there from the start. and then I don't know because I want to see Broadhead again because he's played really every game he started he's played really well and obviously we did get a lot of positive results in that time as well and he particularly so Fulham especially I thought he was the best player he didn't go on the score sheet but nearly did with that strike that had Leonard at full stretch but when he plays he often looks like the most the brightest spark but then does it say if I'm saying the CSO is going to play does that mean I'm dropping Amari which seems
00:17:47
Richard
Yep, I agree. Yep.
00:17:57
Richard
Yeah.
00:18:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've given him a fair bit of critique over there for some of the games and these performances, because of the role he plays and how important it is. But I don't know if I'd be dropping him unless he was an injury doubt. And I haven't even mentioned Philogene yet as well. So they've got so many options there in what I imagine will be a very defensive setup. We seem to have a lot of attackers that compete in for two spots, really.
00:18:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
and so but I'm not sure how attacking we will be this game in comparison to, well, in other games, and most especially next week against Southampton. I don't know where to go with it because I've almost got i got four or five players I want to see an attack, but I'm also expecting us to be very defensive and say almost play for a clean sheet over we're trying to go and nick a goal.
00:18:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
That can always be a secondary for as long as we turn up defensively. so thats what I don't know because I'm suck for it really.
00:18:58
Richard
Hmm. Well, I mean, yeah. As you say, like this this this system, you know, there are only three attacking players on the pitch, aren't there? You've got Dilap will be one of them, slash Hurst, when he comes on and and replaces him. And then you've got the two wingers, but then what is the squad full of? It's full of wingers. So, yeah, it doesn't quite make sense really at the moment with the filigene and in CSO signings over the week.
00:19:27
Richard
that we're bringing in those players and we're playing this system. and I don't think the system is necessarily the first choice but needs must I think has been the kind of like order of the day. Now like we said earlier like if once we get out of this fixture list we obviously change a little bit back to on paper more winnable games and I think ultimately is which if we're going to stay in the league we have to start trying to score some more goals so you're going to have to start going for the games a little bit more
00:19:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:19:53
Richard
So it's whether we just have to, you know, be patient this weekend and think, okay, we've got to be pragmatic one more time. try and nick something on the break or whatever, uh, and then get out of it. But yeah, it'd be nice to say if we are going to play this five at the back, it would be nice to see him find, I'm sure he's looking for it, but nice to see him find a bit more of a settled back five. Cause there's a lot of chopping and changing and that that can't be helping.
00:20:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so the only the only sort of nailed on one, well, two nailed on is obviously Davis at the left wing back roll, and then O'Shea in the center of the three, that seems to be, they're the two that nailed on it, and it seems to be a 50-50 between Burns and Johnson, so almost switching near enough every game at the moment, and until one of them really sort of nails it down, although to be fair, they're not.
00:20:25
Richard
to you
00:20:30
Richard
yeah
00:20:46
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I thought of Chelsea and Fulham again to go back to those results, but they were a week, they were five days apart. They played one each and they both played really well. They're sort of, no one gets it.
00:20:56
Richard
can Can't Godfrey play there as well?
00:20:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
He probably could, but I don't know. He was a lot more tacky than I thought he'd be in the centre half role. So maybe he could do a job in that wing back role versus, I know he's a centre half so that in my head put a centre half in a wing back role.
00:21:04
Richard
Yeah.
00:21:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Doesn't sit right with me, but he probably could do a job there from the way you played.
00:21:17
Richard
No, well wait but maybe with a new man's city, you know, Guadaville plays, you know, left back and he's ah ah he's a centre half and just marauds up the left.
00:21:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:26
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know well So maybe in a game like this, you almost want an extra set and a half on the pitch as well. So maybe that's how we get to Anzabi and maybe maybe Godfrey jumps up there and Johnson comes out the team because we're not going to imagine too much attacking to go with really.
00:21:27
Richard
Yeah.
00:21:39
Richard
Yeah.
00:21:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Although to be fair, I do think the wing backs will play a big role in any attacks we do build because you want them to be there to sort of draw the liverpool fallbacks up because that's where the space is in behind the fallbacks isn't it so you need them to so i'm assuming it will be robertson and alexander ar or considering robertson got completely rested wednesday night and alexander arnold played about ten minutes
00:22:02
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sure that' be the and intention of them to come back in but so you're going to want the the wingbacks role will be to sort of draw them up the pitch to get them involved and then there's a break on spring so you want
00:22:02
Richard
Yeah.
00:22:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
and almost maybe Burns in that role or Johnson as well I suppose was springing the trap almost by getting them caught up the pitch and then that's where your broad head or someone who plays further wide would probably be more benefit than someone like Amari who plays a bit more central in that winger 10 role whatever they are behind the lap that
00:22:36
Richard
If I'm honest, it maybe it's a big shout and maybe it's a little a bit unfair, but I wouldn't play Hutchinson. I'd i'd play broad head and, and see so slash village in ahead of Hutchinson. I think, I think he needs to come out the team. ah ah If only just to give him a little bit of a break, you know, it's been an intense kind of season for him. And you know, I think it, I think there's been a few games recently where the ball's been bouncing off him a little bit too much. And I think if you're going to play this few attacking players, they have to hold onto the ball.
00:23:05
Richard
And I think Broadhead at the moment is better at doing that than Hutchinson is. And I would think Philogene and NCSO, their pace, I mean, ah ah Hutchinson's obviously very quick, but they are equally quick. And I think that I would personally take him out of the team, maybe to come on in the second half, but like I would, I would give him a bit of a rest.
00:23:25
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Yeah, well, I mean, I can't say I disagree with that really. It just feels like his role is so important that you can't imagine him coming out, but maybe that is the solution. Maybe that's saying CSO is probably a bit more of a full-on match for that role he has been playing more than, more than say like a Philogene or a Broadhead is.
00:23:43
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So maybe that's what thinking is. We're bringing him in on a position that
Liverpool's Tactical Strength
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not many of us would have picked out as a priority area.
00:23:48
Richard
Maybe.
00:23:49
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So we'll see how it plays out.
00:23:50
Richard
Yeah.
00:23:51
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We'll just quickly touch on the Liverpool lineup before we have another break. that by the by the gist of sort of Wednesday night, it seems like they'll be taking, they'll be, or what Tuesday night, even when they're, from their game against Leal, it seems like they'll be going strong in this game. We've mentioned there's extra emphasis on their Champions League game next week, but I don't think that's in the mind because they, Cody Gackpo rested completely, Canate rested completely, Alexander Arnold, 10 minutes, Robertson rested completely.
00:24:20
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I think McAllister only played 45 minutes, Graven Birch only played 45 minutes, so there was there was an eye on our game when they were playing in the Champions League, which is almost a sign of respect, really.
00:24:32
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They're expecting a difficult game, and then they don't want to, they want trying to try and arrest as many key players as possible. So it makes it difficult for us, I suppose, but I don't think there's enough quality in that squad.
00:24:38
Richard
Yeah.
00:24:43
Richard
Roddy Salah played 90 minutes again, though.
00:24:46
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Yeah, true, but I suppose he always does.
00:24:50
Richard
He always does. Yeah, it's amazing.
00:24:52
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Yeah, so I don't know how he never gets injured, really. they but He plays pretty much 90 minutes every week and he's had like one long-term injury in his career.
00:25:00
Richard
I know it's incredible.
00:25:01
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Incredible, really.
00:25:02
Richard
Yeah.
00:25:03
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Yeah, it was regardless of what 11 goes on the pitch, it's always going to be a tough game at Anfield, isn't it? But say it does seem like there's no complacency, which is almost what something that could have benefited.
00:25:14
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Because I thought there was a lot of that when you flash all the way back to when they went to St Mary's. and 3-2, I think the final score was, but they were 2-1 down at one point, in definitely. And that was ah ah that was certainly an element of complacency there when I watched the highlights of that game, that it just almost turned up expectant to win, which we sort of would, when you say about maybe having an off day, that maybe that's what we need in our favour, but say certainly in the build up, it doesn't seem to be the that mindset with a lot a lot of usual starters having managed minutes on Tuesday night, but
00:25:49
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We'll we will see what the two sides line up.
00:25:49
Richard
Yeah, I mean, that there are Yeah, they're funny. Louis was saying this on the cross over yesterday. He was like, because I asked him, you know, you've got to be surprised that not only Liverpool started like that. Okay, fine. They started like it. They had a favorable fixture list and all the rest of it. And they did brilliantly. But the fact that they're maintaining it is, I do think it's quite surprising because I don't think they are a million times better than Man City or Arsenal, to be perfectly honest, but I think obviously both of those sides have had a drop off this season, but Liverpool seem to have incredibly taken advantage of it and find themselves where they are. But i I don't think they are like necessarily the standout team particularly. I just think they've done really well with keeping a consistent side, lack of injuries, et cetera. And they've got a good squad. He inherited a very good squad from Klopp.
00:26:40
Richard
Yeah. And they've just managed to keep, you know, the two pillars Van Dijk and Salah fit and Salah's having like a Renaissance season. I mean, I know he's always consistently good, but like he's having and a phenomenal season. that just seems to be propelling them. It's kind of amazing, really.
00:26:56
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You know what they say about players who are playing for a contract. they have to You always have the best form of your life right before you're about to.
00:27:01
Richard
That's true.
00:27:03
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You're trying to push for a pay rise at the same time.
00:27:06
Richard
Yeah.
00:27:06
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Always have that little run.
00:27:07
Richard
Yeah.
00:27:07
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Then they normally drop off once they sign it. Maybe that's why the club aren't offering it. They're dragging it out because they know if he signs it, he might do an a bammy hang at Arsenal and just completely drop off a cliff once he gets paid the bit and he gets that pay rise.
00:27:18
Richard
Yeah.
00:27:19
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You never know. but We'll have a quick break now. We're going to hear from another one of our sponsors, and then we'll be diving into general thoughts going into the game and our all-important predictions.
00:27:55
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Welcome back to the Daily Ips, which is the final part of today's show. So weve we've picked a couple of things to focus on, sort of in depth going into the game, but it's like we'll add the game itself, Rich. I mean, we're expecting a sort of pragmatic performance, but how do you sort of see it playing out roughly and how high your hopes for any sort of positive result?
00:28:17
Richard
Hopes aren't high. gave a prediction yesterday, which I think I'll stick to, to be honest. I said 2-1 Liverpool. I think we will score and I think we'll take the lead. It will be a breakaway goal, similar, you know, Man City earlier in the season and stuff. And I don't... Yeah, look, I may get this very wrong. I've not been unbelievably convinced by Liverpool. They've obviously been extremely consistent. they have They do have brilliant players. I'm not going to say they haven't. They really, really do.
00:28:45
Richard
But they do occasionally chuck in a bit of a dud performance, particularly at home when there's a ah lower you know ranked team or whatever in the in the division there. So I'm kind of hoping that that's going to happen this weekend, to be honest, the fact that it's shoved between two Champions League games. So I'll go for 2-1. I think they will come back. Because I think that Anfield crowd, it's incredibly difficult to hold on to a lead there. But I think we will take ah a lead and give them a little bit of a shock for a period of time. And then they'll turn it on. and bring on their subs, which are you know they've got a fantastic squad, haven't they? And and a lot of strength and depth.
00:29:20
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Oh yeah, definitely. You look at sort of the names who get left on the bench every week. You see the five subs in May and then there's like like one week Harvey Elliott doesn't get any minutes.
00:29:26
Richard
Yeah.
00:29:29
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He's got Kiezer who played three of them. I know he's not the same player he was at the Euros three years ago, similar to Calvin Phillips with many, many injuries since and struggles with form. He barely gets minutes a lot of the time, but you see names like that.
00:29:43
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Can't even get a five minute cameo off the bench, so he's had the squads there. but my My, any potential sort of confidence I had has been massively changed by last weekend's results,
Anticipation for Liverpool vs Ipswich
00:29:53
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if I'm honest.
00:29:54
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Obviously, morale has taken quite a fairly big hit, a result like that for City. But also, Liverpool seem to be showing signs of struggle at the perfect time for us. But I think that we're at Brentford last week is massive for him.
00:30:09
Richard
Hmm.
00:30:09
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Because like I say, that it was a draw against United.
00:30:10
Richard
Hmm. I agree.
00:30:13
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ah ah to the defeat to Spurs in the first leg of the Cup. Another draw in there against Forrest where they had the chances to win it and they sort of had that then been another draw against Brenford.
00:30:21
Richard
Yep.
00:30:24
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Was it 37 shots I think it was in the end? Had that finished 0-0 and you think that back the confidence say and they've only lost, they're the only one they've lost they have a chance to avenge in the second leg but three games I probably feel they should have won on the balance of play.
00:30:28
Richard
Wow.
00:30:40
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That would have been really big, I thought, but the fact they've gone and one and and not even end up getting two as well, I think, combined with us taking a much heavier beat in a city, and I would thought going into it has sort of lowered my confidence down a bit now.
00:30:41
Richard
Hmm. Yeah.
00:30:54
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But I think you i think if we're going to score, we need to score first, really, because they are very much a first, second half team, sorry, that they quite often, games are very dull in the first half, so.
00:31:05
Richard
a yeah.
00:31:09
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if you can sort of take advantage of that and nab it in, go get in the break, one nil up. So we sort of, how we sort of Portland Road, had we, we didn't really make any clear opportunities because they had that Amari breakaway actually turned into a chance and that doing almost the perfect half. It needs to be like that again. So the same as the first half of Portland Road, but trying to nab a goal this time and you put yourself in a and a good enough position to have something to hold on to. So I think,
00:31:37
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So it's about, it's also for me, it's the key of if slash when, obviously, ideally, they i don't they don't get one at all. But when Liverpool, if they get first their first goal on the board, it's them if what happens to immediately the next 10 minutes after that.
00:31:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because you look at the games where we struggled again, it's been 10, 15 minutes between the first and the second. And then so Newcastle ended up 4, City ended up 6. That would be the concern that
00:32:04
Richard
Mm hmm.
00:32:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
should it go from, say, if it's one nil, even if it's in the second half, if it's then two nil within 10 minutes, then that's when my worry gets away. Because like I say, goal difference is really important. As we play the rest of the season, you've got to keep it tight as possible, as I always say. So that's, shouldn't be the primary thought, but let's say that sort of, it's always got to be in the back of your minds, but I quite like your two-one shout. So I might, I might have to join you on that one. I think, I think that's what I said.
00:32:34
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right all the way back on the opening game and I wasn't far off. So just, we hadn't found our touch in front of goal yet at that point. But it's no it's a game to celebrate, isn't it?
00:32:42
Richard
We still haven't.
00:32:45
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Put it that way that, like I say, so like it's a game that
00:32:46
Richard
Here's a game to celebrate. Yeah.
00:32:50
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and say, go, we've had a couple in a row not now, we said it about last week, we went into city that obviously we're, it's gonna be, if you come away with without picking a result up, it's gonna be an element of disappointment there.
00:33:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
But then when you put it into context of the idea of this fixture being a possibility two years ago, that it's a day for every all the fans traveling to Anfield, I'm sure it'll be a fantastic day as long as the result isn't completely humiliating, which I don't think it will be.
00:33:17
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So, like I said,
00:33:18
Richard
Well, look, we've won we've won two out of the last three times that we've gone there. I know that's over a 30 year period, so it's completely irrelevant, but we have won two of the last three times that we've gone there.
00:33:28
Richard
So um let's make it a hat trick, please.
00:33:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I say say some sometimes those records do carry over, though. They do carry over sometimes, though, because I was watching the Liverpool Forest game, when they played, and that was, they brought up that they played, they'd won twice in 15 attempts at the city ground.
00:33:33
Richard
Yeah, they do.
00:33:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that was ah ah that was a 20 year gap until Forest came out a couple of years ago, and then they've come up and struggled to get results there. So maybe do carry on sometimes, and maybe it will come, so maybe it will be three out of the last four and over a 30 year period, you never know.
00:33:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll see how it plays out. And of course, so you can keep up to date with us on our socials over the weekend at GSB and Ipswich and all platforms.
Podcast Conclusion
00:34:05
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And we will be back on Monday to review the events at Anfield where hopefully there'll be some there'll be some positive news to report on. But like I say, we'll see how it plays out. And we and we were like and we will see you then. Goodbye.