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Daily Liverpool - Liverpool 3-1 Southampton
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Louie Easton joins Jesse Sarwar to go over all the main talking points as Liverpool beat Southampton at Anfield to go 16 points clear at the top of the PL.
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Liverpool's Victory and Upcoming Challenges
00:00:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Liverpool podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. It's the Monday Review Show and it's Liverpool 3, Southampton 1.
00:00:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
one The Reds moving 16 points clear at the top of the Premier League table. I'm joined by Louis Easton today. How are you doing, Louis?
00:01:09
Louie Easton
Yes, not too bad. Thank you for having me. Long overdue that the two of us joined forces again for Daily Liverpool.
00:01:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely.
00:01:16
Louie Easton
And mostly a feeling of relief after that weekend, especially after that first but first half performance. Relief with the second half. Let's hope we can keep that going for the next two much tougher games this week.
00:01:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely. Arnie Slott, who was serving the last of his two match ban after that Merseyside derby and his words of advice to Michael Oliver.
00:01:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was in the stands and he pretty much described this as the first of three cup finals. with PSG on Tuesday and then the League Cup final against Newcastle on Sunday, both on the horizon.
Arnie Slott's Strategy and Management Style
00:02:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
A starting line-up of Alisson, Trent, Canate, Van Dijk, Simicas, Gravenberg, Jones, Sabozlay, Salah, Nunes and Diaz. Louis, only three changes Heading into next week's, you know, tough fixture against PSG. Were you surprised that it wasn't, you know, more changes that Slott made?
00:02:23
Louie Easton
Well, it's you have to take into account the fact that this is Arna Slott. This is someone who doesn't really like rotating the team much.
Player Burnout Concerns and Injury Challenges
00:02:33
Louie Easton
You know, we've already seen the proof of that in that crazy stat that we saw after the last match where he's check he's kept the same starting eleven more times in this season, in his first season, bearing in mind we're only March,
00:02:47
Louie Easton
than Jurgen Klopp did over his entire tenure when he was at Liverpool. And, you know, that perfectly encapsulates the sort of manager that Arnaz Slott is. He loves familiarity and he loves momentum with the players.
00:03:04
Louie Easton
And he loves experience. And, you know, after this season, these players will have a lot more experience because they'll just be playing in and out all season.
00:03:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:03:16
Louie Easton
And, you know, clearly it's worked for him. Like you mentioned, 16 points clear at the top of the table after the match. And, you know, Well, maybe there is a little bit of burnout. We may have seen a little bit of that in the first half.
00:03:32
Louie Easton
But he loves he's a manager who loves players who run. And he's very demanding of that. and he must have said something at halftime as well to really get that message across to them. So maybe a little bit of surprise ahead of...
00:03:48
Louie Easton
You know, two absolutely crucial games this week, one of them being a cup final on his first chance at Silverware with Liverpool ever. Hopefully the first of many, but not too much of a surprise.
00:04:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. and I don't know if you saw pre-match, Slott was asked about the number of injuries some of our rivals have suffered.
Liverpool's First-Half Struggles and Defensive Errors
00:04:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, obviously the likes of Arsenal. Almost kind of almost forgetting or dismissing the fact that we have had injuries this season. Alison was out for almost two months. Jota was out for two months.
00:04:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Kanate was out for six weeks. Trent was out for a three or four weeks. and And then Connor Bradley was out as the backup. Joe Gomez has been out long-term.
00:04:35
Louie Easton
Cody Gakpo as well.
00:04:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. And i just think that what Slott said was really important. And he said that, that they have a particular way of training.
00:04:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
that is designed to limit the kind of hamstring injuries, the calf pulls that are normally the result of overtraining.
00:04:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I just think that one of the real features of Arnie Slott and his team, because he's brought that team from Feyenoord, is the way that they manage the players.
00:05:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you won't get wholesale changes in but you'll get one or two players dipping in and out, getting a rest. And I think that's, and think we're seeing the benefits of that, you know, towards the tail end of this season.
00:05:22
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:05:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, as you said, the first half was quite tight and it was was a performance that was quite forgettable for Liverpool. And Louis, I want to ask you this.
00:05:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you think that one of the weaknesses of our of this Liverpool team... is that they don't tend to really put away the lower league opposition, you know, very easily, like, you know, three or four nil and, you know, the game is over by the you know first half.
00:05:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
I wonder if that is, you know, the quality of the team or is that by design, the fact that we are less front foot than maybe a Jurgen Klopp team?
00:06:05
Louie Easton
Well, look, it's definitely nothing to do with the quality because we've showcased quality for years under Klopp and
Halftime Turning Point and Second-Half Revival
00:06:12
Louie Easton
now under Arna Slott. But I think it's almost a sort of for preserve what you have, even though it can be a very risky approach. But you can't knock it. It's worked this season, but there have been a couple of matches that Most notably, the one that comes to my mind is the Wolves match that wasn't that long ago, where we just held on
00:06:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:06:36
Louie Easton
for half an hour towards the end. But when you have someone like Wataru Endo, who you can bring on into our midfield, who can just lock up the game, frustrate their attackers, and you have the quality of Virgil van Dijk organising the defence, it's something that can work.
00:06:56
Louie Easton
And especially with someone like Alisson Engel. I know we haven't had him all season, but we've had the... privilege of probably the best number two in the world, Quavine Kelleher, in goal when he was missing.
00:07:11
Louie Easton
So it's very risky. I wouldn't say that it's too much of a weakness just because it's been showing, other than the Everton match, it's been showing its effectiveness this season and it's been working. So can't criticise it too much, really.
00:07:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, it was a fairly lacklustre first half. that They did start to pick it up towards the end of the first half. Nunes has a chance from a corner.
00:07:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
The ball drops a hit to him, and he's six yards out. And he's albeit back to goal, but he rushes it. He actually has a lot more time than he realises and, you know, just kind of balloons the chance.
00:07:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then a few minutes later, 46 minutes, stoppage time of first time first half, Smallbone puts Southampton One nil up, which is, you know, it's looking like it could be one of those days where it could be a shock result.
00:08:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've heard a lot of comment on social media pundits saying that Van Dijk and Alison get into a mix up. I don't agree. I just think it's Van Dijk's fault.
00:08:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that the ball drops to him and he's just got to clear his lines. And the fact that he delays then brings Alisson into the equation. But I don't think it's a 50-50 where they're both coming for the same ball and they both leave it for each other.
00:08:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think Van Dijk's clearly in control of that situation. But he just, he's waiting for Alison in a situation where I don't think he should be doing that or he needs to do that. What what are your thoughts?
00:08:54
Louie Easton
Well, you can't really you can't really criticize Van Dijk too much in that situation because he is expecting Alison to come out. And in my opinion, Alison could have got there.
00:09:07
Louie Easton
But it's Alison that hesitates and he does eventually come out for it. But it's just a sort of freak accident. And it's a calamitous mix-up that gives Smallbone the chance, albeit a weird chance. I honestly think Timikas could have done more on the goal line because he's looking at the offside.
00:09:29
Louie Easton
But in that situation where there's an open goal and there's a clear angle for Smallbone, as we saw, to thread it into the back of the net through the eye of a needle... It's... I think he could have done a bit more there. He was the victim of the halftime substitution where there were three.
00:09:46
Louie Easton
He did pick up the yellow card as well, so it wasn't a great showing from his perspective. But I think that goal, it's nothing to do with tactics.
00:09:57
Louie Easton
It's just a freak accident that shouldn't have happened. In the end, it didn't matter, but... It's a very rare mistake from the Liverpool defence.
00:10:08
Louie Easton
There haven't been too many of this season, especially as we saw in the PSG match where we should have gone but maybe even two or three goals down.
00:10:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
And
00:10:17
Louie Easton
And then suddenly there's a mix up a few days later against Southampton of all teams. so that really just sums up football. But i I don't think you can criticise Van Dijk too much, especially with what he's given us.
00:10:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, look, overall, of course, he he's been absolutely outstanding. But look, we go 1-0 down, and it could have got worse.
00:10:38
Louie Easton
Yeah.
Salah's Penalty Technique and Liverpool's Dominance
00:10:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
It could have got worse just before halftime where...
00:10:43
Louie Easton
ye
00:10:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Darwin Nunes just has one of his Darwin Nunes moments. And, you know, I honestly thought, I thought there's a danger he's going to get sent off here.
00:10:56
Louie Easton
yeah
00:10:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm not thinking that it's an automatic red card, but I'm thinking that if the referee...
00:11:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
does give a red card, that's not getting overturned because he's played no attempt. There's no attempt to play the ball. He's just gone to swipe the player.
00:11:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's not as, it's not a vicious, you know, it's it's just one of those where you you almost like, you know, trip the the player over, but maybe with a bit more force.
00:11:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I just thought that it was such a reckless thing to do where just before halftime, we're one nil down. If we had gone down to 10 men, it could have been a really different outcome.
00:11:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
What were your thoughts on that incident, Louis? Do you think he's lucky to get away with a red card or do you think it was an easy mille?
00:11:44
Louie Easton
Yeah, I think he's extremely lucky. I think, you know, if I'm looking at that and it's against us, I'm furious that it's not a red.
00:11:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:56
Louie Easton
i I think it's Stonewall, honestly, because he doesn't get anywhere near the ball.
00:12:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:12:02
Louie Easton
And there's a real, it's quite a high swing as well. If you look at it, it goes right across his almost to his knees.
00:12:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:12:08
Louie Easton
So it's, I'd be very, I'd be very aggrieved if I'm a Southampton fan. And he was a very, very lucky player. And thank goodness he stayed on the pitch because he was part of the reason we ended up winning the match. I thought he was terrific in the second half. But yeah, I think it is a red. And I think we've really gotten away with one there.
00:12:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think for me, what made it a red card or a real possibility of red card was the fact that he had no intention to play the ball. It was he wanted to get the man and he might have caught him harder than he intended.
00:12:40
Louie Easton
Exactly.
00:12:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it was the intent that, look, I've got no interest in the ball and I'm i'm just going to take the man out. And that's for me was why I was so worried that was going to be a red card. So I 100% right. I think we were very, very fortunate.
00:13:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
But luckily for us, he doesn't go off. And the second half, again, one of the features, I think, of Arnie Slott this season is his in-game management, the changes that he makes.
00:13:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he made a few changes for that second half, Louis, and and we almost saw an immediate improvement in the team's performance.
00:13:24
Louie Easton
Yes, absolutely. I mean, listen, Saboslai didn't really get much of the ball. Curtis Jones as well. And I think the midfield change is what was a very necessary one because I'm looking at the game in the first half and they're just nowhere near the ball. They're not running at all.
00:13:43
Louie Easton
It's almost like a sense of arrogance that they just need to turn up and then they'll win. And I'm very disappointed in way that in the energy levels of the first half, because Liverpool pride themselves on intensity, on going for every ball, on pressing and giving the opponents no space.
00:14:02
Louie Easton
And we were very passive with our play. And it wasn't good enough for the standards that we've set this season. We know that the players have had a difficult sir trip to Paris midweek, but you know majority of that game they were jockeying.
00:14:17
Louie Easton
So...
00:14:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:14:18
Louie Easton
It wasn't anything to do with them tiring themselves out. It's just they thought, oh, well, it's Southampton, they're 20th. All we need to do is turn up and, you know, one ball and then they're
Liverpool vs. Arsenal: Title Race Dynamics
00:14:29
Louie Easton
through. But it wasn't that way.
00:14:31
Louie Easton
Southampton switched their tactics. They went to a back four. Usually they play with a back five and they do man marking, leave one player back. And then one of our players, you know, any of our players really could have had their way with their defense because their defense were very thinned.
00:14:46
Louie Easton
Bednarek returning from an injury had to go off after 20 minutes. Teewala Harwood-Bellis coming back from one. And it was unfamiliar territory for them to be playing with four in the back.
00:14:57
Louie Easton
And... you know, Liverpool just weren't up for the challenge. They weren't up for a team who are playing probably their last match against us.
00:15:07
Louie Easton
In fact, it will be their last match against us before they go down. They want to turn up against us because, you know, we're the best team in the land, maybe even the best team in the world.
00:15:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
you
00:15:16
Louie Easton
So I'm very disappointed with the attitudes of the players and the substitutions really made the difference in the second half, especially Harvey Elliott. Oh my word.
00:15:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, that the the substitutions that Slott made, Andy Robertson coming off for Simicastle, thought was really, really poor. I was really disappointed with Simicastle. I thought defensively he looked very lightweight. I thought his distribution was not great. His crosses were really not of the standard that we'd we'd come to expect.
00:15:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
McAllister, I think, coming on for Jones, I thought was a really huge one as well. I thought Jones, again, was fairly lacklustre in that first half. But again, as you mentioned, Harvey Elliott, I thought, coming on for Zboslai made a real impact. And it just took six minutes for Liverpool to feel that impact with Diaz getting an assist. And Nunes, you know, getting a a good number nine goal in the penalty area, you know, on his toes and, you know, puts Liverpool level, you know, one one
00:16:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good movement in the box from Nunes.
00:16:24
Louie Easton
Yeah, it's very instinctive, that finish, actually. Something that we love about Nunez because he can be very extinc instinctive.
00:16:34
Louie Easton
It's when he has to think about what he wants to do, where he often has one of his calamitous misses, but
00:16:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
and don't like you know don't Don't think Darwin. Just just do it
00:16:43
Louie Easton
Yeah, exactly.
00:16:43
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and
00:16:44
Louie Easton
So, yeah, it was good because he angled his foot perfectly.
00:16:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:16:48
Louie Easton
It was coming to him quite quickly as well. So it was it was pure striker's goal and clinical when he needed to be.
00:16:59
Louie Easton
Perhaps very lucky to have gotten the opportunity when he was on the pitch in the first place.
00:17:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly. and And he's involved again. Just three minutes later, we get a penalty. And when Nunes is brought down in the in the penalty area and so up steps Mohamed Salah. And, you know, is there any is there any doubt in terms of where that ball is going?
00:17:22
Louie Easton
Yeah, we were talking earlier this season, I remember, it was quite early at my tenure here at GSPN, that Mo Salah, you didn't back him every single time he stepped up to the penalty spot.
00:17:34
Louie Easton
But I look at those two penalties, both of them, and the first word that comes to my mind is emphatic.
00:17:41
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I
00:17:41
Louie Easton
He lashes it into the back of the net. And I think he's really improved with his penalties.
00:17:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
i think he's improved. I think he's improved his penalties.
00:17:47
Louie Easton
Yes. Yes.
00:17:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
100%. I agree with you. but Before, I did say that. I did say that at the start of the season. It's not that I didn't rate him as a penalty taker. I just was always a bit nervous.
00:18:00
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:18:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because even when he scored... the penalties that he scored were not always in the corner. They weren't in, you know, if you remember Steven Gerrard or even like James Milner, when they took a penalty, it went into the side netting.
00:18:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
So even if the keeper went the right way, there's no way they say they're saving that penalty.
00:18:15
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:18:19
Louie Easton
Yeah. With pace as well and height.
00:18:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. And Salah had this habit of,
00:18:22
Louie Easton
So, yeah.
00:18:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Scoring a good percentage of his penalties, but they were saveable. If the keeper goes the right way, he's going to save those.
00:18:32
Louie Easton
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that has happened a few times. But I've noticed recently in the last, I think maybe since his last miss, he has gone more for placing the ball as opposed to just getting his head down and just hammering it.
00:18:50
Louie Easton
yeah
00:18:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the penalties that he, well, certainly the first one that he scored that we're talking about, as you said, was absolutely emphatic. And he had a quiet game up until then.
00:19:00
Louie Easton
yeah
00:19:03
Louie Easton
Yes, and he has been kept quiet recently, I've i thought, because PSG, he barely got the ball. And the game before that, he got an assist, but he didn't get anywhere near scoring.
00:19:16
Louie Easton
But I think the fact that he's he's obviously trained his penalties since that Real Madrid miss, that's what I'm seeing, and we're seeing the results of that now.
00:19:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:25
Louie Easton
And I think that's a real testament to his attitude and his hunger and just him demanding more of himself. and But listen, Ramsdale is not a goalkeeper who saves a lot of penalties. Let's just get that out of the way. That was something that Arsenal fans complained a lot about because there was that penalty shootout last season, if you remember, where they played against Sporting in the Europa League when they got knocked out.
00:19:50
Louie Easton
Aaron Ramsdale went the right way every single time and didn't save one in that shootout. So, you know... Let's let's but, you know, credit to Salah, because I don't think it matters what goalkeeper is in the back of the net for those two penalties.
00:20:01
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But
00:20:08
Louie Easton
I don't think anyone gets near them. And yeah, he's clearly worked on it. And I'm very pleased with with the attitude that he's showing and, you know, just everything about him at the moment.
00:20:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, you know that
Managerial Contrasts and Future Prospects
00:20:21
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second half was very, very different for Liverpool. And, you know, we finished things off with another penalty from Mohamed Salah.
00:20:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was a handball. And I think it was the right decision. You can see the the movement of the yeah Southampton players' defender defender's arm into the ball.
00:20:35
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:20:40
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:20:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I think it was it was a correct decision. And again, another really good penalty.
00:20:44
Louie Easton
Yes, I will just say, who was the player challenging Tugawa? Was it Diaz, I think? I think it was Diaz.
00:20:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
come up yeah
00:20:52
Louie Easton
Yes, what I will say in defence of the Southampton defender, I think he gets a little nudge on the back from Diaz and it's a natural movement into the ball, but it's also taking the chance away from Liverpool. So I think it's a bit 50-50. I think he's unlucky, but ultimately it's like 51% the right decision, I'd say.
00:21:19
Louie Easton
It's...
00:21:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
is it Is it the kind of nudge in the back that Canate would have been proud of?
00:21:24
Louie Easton
No, that wasn't a penalty.
00:21:29
Louie Easton
I know he was on the other way around.
00:21:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Apparently that was offside
Podcast Wrap-Up and PSG Match Preview
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anyway.
00:21:32
Louie Easton
Yeah, it was. It was. So, you know, let's not kick up too much of a fuss of it.
00:21:34
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So we got away with it as well.
00:21:36
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:21:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
But... so
00:21:37
Louie Easton
Anyway, but it was, yeah, emphatic. Well, as I, uh, mentioned before and very high into the back of the net very very confident from Salah and he just oozes that sort of aura now doesn't he in his celebrations he doesn't get over excited he just casually jogs towards the fans smiling it's it's it's a regular occurrence he's probably got bored of celebrating at this point
00:22:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
But i think it's good I think it's a good point that you make, Louis, when you reference the last penalty that he missed against Real Madrid. And I do think that Mo is one of those players where he thinks, okay, where is my chink?
00:22:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
What can I improve? And there isn't much where you look at Salah's game, you think, okay, you can improve on this or you can improve on that. But penalties is probably one of them where he thought, I can do better.
00:22:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I can do better. And I've got no doubts that the penalties that we've seen since then are as a result of him on that training pitch thinking, right, that's not happening again.
00:22:42
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That's not happening again.
00:22:42
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:22:44
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So that was 3-1. That was the game. Liverpool getting their three points. 16 points ahead now, Louis. I know Arsenal have got two games in hand.
00:22:56
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One of those will be a game that's being played soon after this podcast has been recorded against Manchester United. But you just think, even though even though they've got two games in hand, at this stage of the season, it's points on the board that matters.
00:23:12
Louie Easton
Yeah, i and it's completely and utterly ours to lose now. And I think we're at the point where we can't be caught. ah it's If you just look at the fixtures that we have to play, you look at all of those games and you just think, there's not a game there that we shouldn't be winning.
00:23:34
Louie Easton
Because I think Arsenal is the only one where... Maybe we'll have the Guard of Honor by that point, and that would be absolutely amazing to get it from them. That would just be rubbing salt in the wounds.
00:23:47
Louie Easton
But, you know, oh, yes, I cannot wait for that.
00:23:47
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watch I'd have to tune in to Arsenal Fan TV for that one.
00:23:53
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Maybe we can get guys onto the podcast, who knows?
00:23:55
Louie Easton
yeah Oh, yes, that would be brilliant. I think... then I mean, our next Premier League match, I believe, is against Everton at Anfield at home, so that will be a huge one.
00:24:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:05
Louie Easton
And that will be, I believe, in April.
00:24:08
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and I think it's the 2nd of April, I think.
00:24:10
Louie Easton
Yeah, 2nd of April, midweek at Anfield.
00:24:11
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and yeah
00:24:13
Louie Easton
Just...
00:24:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
But honey he just just just as important as the points gap now is the fact that the number of games are running out now.
00:24:14
Louie Easton
That would...
00:24:21
Louie Easton
Yeah. And...
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just not enough games now for Arsenal to think that Liverpool are going to lose four games and that they are going to win every single game now and not drop any points.
00:24:35
Louie Easton
Yeah, and there are a couple of games coming up where we really can get momentum for the rest of the season, especially if we win the Carabao Cup.
00:24:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:45
Louie Easton
That will be just marvellous motivation.
00:24:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:49
Louie Easton
for the Reds going into the rest of the season. And I'm looking at Arsenal. I mean, they've got they've got some tough fixtures. I mean, they have Chelsea at home still to happen. They've got Fulham after that, which is another tough game.
00:25:03
Louie Easton
I think we still have to play Fulham as well.
00:25:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. It's a tough game, yeah.
00:25:05
Louie Easton
Yes, and you know it's it just it just seems like the points difference compared to the games that we have to play left. It seems like our lead is too strong and too great for Arsenal.
00:25:21
Louie Easton
And... you know i was on a po I was on the Friday episode of Daily Liverpool as well with the Southampton boys, and one of them made a very interesting point to me that Arsenal are just too naive of a team with too little experience winning trophies for them to really go for it.
00:25:39
Louie Easton
They haven't been winners in this situation before, so they lack the motivation, whereas Liverpool...
00:25:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep. Apps.
00:25:46
Louie Easton
You know, we've still got title winners in that team, including Van Dijk, including Salah, who were paramount in that success.
00:25:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Apps.
00:25:48
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perhaps app
00:25:55
Louie Easton
Even Joe Gomez as well. So I think I think we've won it, honest. And o I'm just looking at the Carabao Cup final now and I'm looking at the Champions League. And I just think we've got we've probably got the Premier League in the bag.
00:26:09
Louie Easton
Let's see what else we can win.
00:26:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely. And look, you know regular listeners of this podcast will know that both myself and Karl Kopach at the very start of the season, in fact, in in our preseason episode, said that Arsenal are not going to win it.
00:26:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's going to be the thing that we did get wrong was Manchester City. Is that I thought that we would be going toe to toe with Manchester City for the title. Karl Kopach outright said we're going to win the title.
00:26:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
So this idea that nobody thought we're going to win it is is just not it's just not true.
00:26:41
Louie Easton
I didn't think that.
00:26:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
And the reason why is not just because of this kind of blind, well, we're Liverpool supporters, so yeah, we we think Liverpool are going to win it. It's because of what you just said.
00:26:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't look at Arsenal personally. as a team of winners. And I think that they have they have ended up runners-up once too often.
00:27:08
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There comes a point with a team that you have to get over the line.
00:27:09
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:27:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
You have to win. Otherwise, you psychologically, that barrier just becomes bigger and bigger and bigger. And I'm just thinking of that Arsenal dressing room.
00:27:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I'm just thinking of Mikel Arteta. Thinking at the start of the season, that we have to finish above Manchester City to win this league.
00:27:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And for Manchester City to drop off as they have and for Arsenal still not to win the league, I think, psychologically, I think it's going to be devastating for them.
00:27:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I think it's also good in the sense that it puts them in their place. It puts them in their place that look, yeah, you know what? You might have finished above Manchester City, but he forgot about the team that has regularly competed with Manchester City.
00:28:03
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:28:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Regularly gotten 90 plus points when we've won the league and when we've not won the league. You know, for Arsenal, Arsenal would be in dreamland if they ever got to 97 points.
00:28:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we got to 97 points and not win the league.
00:28:18
Louie Easton
Yeah, absolutely.
00:28:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
And just think that, you know, they've they've they've got a good win in the Champions League, albeit against PSV. I cannot see them getting beyond PSV because once they get past them, they have got two Madrid teams that they're going to have to get through, either Atletico and Real. I think Real will blow them away.
00:28:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Atletico, you just will not score against them, but but especially with Arsenal's blunted attack. They are not going to score against Atletico Madrid.
00:28:47
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:28:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I think it's a devastating blow for Arsenal,
00:28:53
Louie Easton
yeah
00:28:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
not to mention hilarious.
00:28:57
Louie Easton
Yeah.
00:28:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I will put out there.
00:28:58
Louie Easton
Yeah, I agree.
00:28:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I will put out there.
00:29:00
Louie Easton
the The thing is, I'll say this.
00:29:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
And... Oh,
00:29:02
Louie Easton
I actually thought... asked I actually predicted Arsenal to win the league this year. I know it sounds crazy after that after that tangent you just went on.
00:29:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
really?
00:29:10
Louie Easton
But look at it this way. Arsenal have a young squad. And they are getting better each season. I think what's hurt Arsenal is they rely and over-rely on Martin Erdegaard and Bakayo Saka.
00:29:26
Louie Easton
If you take one of those players out of the team, they fall flat. And that's what's happened. They had Erdegaard out earlier this season and they struggled.
00:29:37
Louie Easton
They put Leandro Trossard in the number 10 position. And it was completely ineffective because Odegaard conducted the attack. He's almost like the Firmino of that team.
00:29:48
Louie Easton
If you have not got that conductor who can create chances, who's on set pieces, then that team collapses. He came back.
00:29:58
Louie Easton
They were good for a bit. And then Bakayo Saka got injured.
00:30:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:30:02
Louie Easton
And we've all seen the result from that. They have completely crumbled. And I think that's what's been completely detrimental to their season. And also what I think as well is they not only haven't challenged until the very last day of the title race, maybe last season was the closest they got,
00:30:25
Louie Easton
But they also haven't won anything else. They won the FA Cup years ago. That was with a pretty changed team now. But they haven't won anything since then.
00:30:36
Louie Easton
And I think when you don't have the experience of winning a final or winning any trophy, then you won't know what it's like to desire that, to go on and want more.
00:30:51
Louie Easton
Liverpool... as far as the other teams were concerned, were a failure last season. However, we still won the League Cup.
00:30:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
exactly
00:31:00
Louie Easton
So that gives the hunger to want more, to demand more. And this is why Liverpool have been so dominant this season, because they have the mo that they have the motivation, they have the mentality, and we see that personified in Mo Salah.
00:31:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:31:20
Louie Easton
Not to mention the fact that Arna Slott's tactical prowess has also been so effective that if you take some of these players out...
00:31:32
Louie Easton
Each player going back in knows their role because Slott can familiarise that player with that role.
00:31:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:31:38
Louie Easton
I don't think Arteta possesses that genius mind. And he's a great manager. You know, he's turned Arsenal's failure when he came in around, you know, Covid. They were dreadful.
00:31:51
Louie Easton
And he's got them to a position where they can challenge for trophies. But challenging is not enough. And as you mentioned, this is going to be a heavy blow for Arsenal fans.
00:32:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Long may it continue. that is That is all for today. give Give us a follow on your preferred podcast platform so that you get the very latest content when it drops.
00:32:12
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Follow us on social media at GSPN Liverpool. You can email us at gspndailyliverpool at gmail.com. com Thanks to Louis today. Join us again tomorrow when we'll bring you the preview of that huge round of 16 Champions League tie against PSG with the tie in the balance.
00:32:34
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Liverpool 1-0 up after that dramatic win at the Parc de France last week. From myself and Louis, thank you for listening.
00:33:07
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