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REDS WIN MERSEYSIDE DERBY!
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Immediate post-match reaction as Liverpool take all three points against locals rivals Everton with a 2-1 home win.
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00:00:00
Karl
Bye.
Merseyside Derby Recap
00:00:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Liverpool podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:00:51
Karl
Thank you.
00:00:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
The Merced Star derby has just ended and it's the red half of the city that's celebrating because Liverpool have just beaten Everton 2-1. Goals from Ryan Gravenberg and Hugo Eketike put the Reds 2-1 up before a second half Idriss Aguei goal pulled one back for the visitors.
00:01:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Made for a bit of an uncomfortable 10-15 minutes at the end of that game. Joined by Karl Kopach. Karl, another win, another Derby win.
00:01:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
David Moyes' Anfield misery continues.
00:01:30
Karl
Yeah, is ah ah is it 21 now he's done? Which is quite impressive.
00:01:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:35
Karl
And it it he doesn't look like getting any closer. I mean, the the best, i mean, for much of the... the frankly, weird commentary I've just had to sit through here.
00:01:47
Karl
As good as Everton were in the second half, there's no way they were going to win the game.
00:01:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:01:51
Karl
know, a draw would have been a win for them. and And so Moyes can't really say like he was any closer than he than he actually was. Because, you know, two nail quite comfortable.
00:02:04
Karl
I think their goal's a good goal. I think Everton played very well in
Anfield and Media Narratives
00:02:06
Karl
the second half. I think we're a bit off it, if I'm honest. But... you know you You know what you're going to get from them. And we got it.
00:02:14
Karl
So i think and I think that's just one of those things, really. There's lots of like, you oh, Liverpool are panicking again. I don't think we were panicking as such. think a 2-2 would have been a bit flattering, to be honest. But they ever of they're very good at what they did. Well, they're very, very huff and puff.
00:02:29
Karl
you know, you never really know what you're going to get. But it's it's it's a hard game, that, the derby, regardless of forms. Everyone always famously says, ah You know, form goes out the window.
00:02:39
Karl
And it's it's just another thing Liverpool have got through. And it's another test. It's another different different type of game. You know, we we had the low block last week and and this one was a blood and thunder game, was the Newcastle game, buter but, you know,
00:02:54
Karl
No disrespect to everyone, but Newcastle had a a very different proposition in terms of skill. And we just we just got through it. We won the game and then we held on. And, you know, that's not for everyone. But in derbies, you have to do that sometimes. It's one of those things.
00:03:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I do think I agree with you in the sense that I think the media is kind of building this narrative because they've got to have something to talk about, right? Liverpool played five, won five.
00:03:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's got to be some narrative. And to to to an extent, it's it's yeah kind of inevitable in the sense that most of our games, you know, we've we've got kind last minute winners.
00:03:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
But this idea that we keep kind of almost throwing games away, i i saw that game and I thought,
00:03:36
Karl
Yeah.
00:03:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah, this is a comfortable 2-0 lead. And then you do have that inevitable... You know, any team is going to have a 10-minute spell, 10, 15-minute spell.
00:03:48
Karl
yeah
00:03:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're going to have that.
00:03:49
Karl
And it's a good goal. you That's no one's fault.
00:03:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's a very good goal.
00:03:51
Karl
that's that's That's just a very, very good goal.
00:03:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's a good goal.
00:03:53
Karl
It's a lovely pass to Guy. Yeah. guy
00:03:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I mean, Grealish... You know, I thought Grealish played... but I don't think he played as well as some of the commentators were saying.
Jack Grealish Under Guardiola
00:04:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just i do think that...
00:04:05
Karl
Well, nobody could.
00:04:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I just think it's almost a case of like Greenish touched the ball. So let's kind of wax lyrical about that. I mean, yet look, he had a ah decent game. he had a few good touches. He dived around a lot, which is he's taught he's you know he's been taught well at Man City.
00:04:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, you know, I just thought he had a good game. He wasn't i anything special. But
00:04:27
Karl
But also, and this hasn't been mentioned, so did Connor.
00:04:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
so did Conor.
00:04:30
Karl
I thought he him
00:04:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly. Yeah, I thought he had ah he had ah ah an excellent game. And on Grealish, to be fair, that you you know I said this last week in the podcast as well. I think Pep Guardiola ruined Jack Grealish. I thought he was a a ah really good player at Aston Villa.
00:04:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you saw some of that now now yeah at Everton, where he's you know he's he's trying to go go past players. He's trying to drive into the box as part opposed to all these kind of sideways passes that he was kind of drilled into doing at Man City. But as you said, I thought Connor Bradley was absolutely fantastic.
Liverpool's Internal Competition
00:05:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it had such an interesting... but For me, that's an interesting narrative, the fact that we've got it we've got real competition,
00:05:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
in so many parts of the of the team now. Whereas, you know, we've been used to, you know, Trent being, right, he's the number one. And then Connor Bradley comes in when Trent's injured or, you know, but now it's a real it's a real shootout between Connor Bradley, Frimpong, and now even Sir Bozlai.
00:05:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, you know, that there is this element where you've got a lot of players on the pitch
00:05:37
Karl
Yeah.
00:05:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think this is elevating this team and I think it will elevate the team further in the sense that we've got genuine competition now in a lot of areas of the pitch.
00:05:51
Karl
Yeah, and and it makes a difference because obviously we've got a free hit on Tuesday with St. Antoin. Is it Tuesday? think it is.
00:05:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, Tuesday.
00:05:58
Karl
And so, you know, he can throw in whoever he wants on that game as well. so they again and they get another rest before Palace. and and And Conor Bradley will know he's been in a game, you know, tonight. So, you know, he's going to be feeling that.
00:06:12
Karl
I know we're only five games and a European Cup game into the season, but he is going to have to start thinking about resting people soon, and which is what he did today, I thought, when he did you know he didn't start with Virts.
00:06:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Game Management and Tactics
00:06:24
Karl
But... the It's a squad now, and it's a squad game. and you know and you And you saw that today with Curtis coming on for McAllister, just as McAllister started to tire, and now we've got somewhere else. they' never done it I don't think Alexey did this any particularly good because we kept losing the midfield.
00:06:39
Karl
The midfield was very, very haphazard in a second half. but But we've we've got squat now to sort of deal with that. But I thought Everton tied a bit, and that's where they all got very crotchety at the end. so Did you see what the what their problem was it was at the end?
00:06:52
Karl
Because not everybody knew why Grealish got booked after the final whistle and Moyes was going mad at the referee.
00:06:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Why did he get wrong?
00:06:59
Karl
He got booked because he was complaining about Dewsbury Hall being booked for taken out taking a free kick, which, to be honest, he's got a point.
00:07:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Quick free kick.
00:07:07
Karl
You can't get booked for that. But I think you can, though. This isn't to say that that yeah I'm...
00:07:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
The thing was, I think that he'd done it a few times. That was the issue. I don't think it was.
00:07:15
Karl
Yeah, I'm not saying I'm for that rule, but I think, yeah, sometimes you just think, you know, I'm going to try a quick one here, and the referee says, no, no, come on, I keep telling you, stop doing that.
00:07:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was the first time. Yeah.
00:07:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:24
Karl
And also because they only got three minutes injury time, which I thought i thought was going to be five.
00:07:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:28
Karl
But I also thought that... um There's going to be a narrative about, you know, it's it's all, you know, Liverpool were hanging on there at the end. And yes, we did call a flag at the end because that's what you do. But I thought we were all right, to be honest. I thought because, and and this is the most important thing, because we've got the minerals to play those sort of games when we want to now. We can hang people off.
00:07:49
Karl
And you what you were saying before about, know, the narrative is also about Liverpool scoring last-minute goals and things like that.
00:07:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:07:57
Karl
I'm not having that for Atletico Madrid. I'm just not. Honestly, the goal was offside, the first one. And they get in because of that. And again, it's a good goal, but it's a deflection.
00:08:09
Karl
We didn't throw that away. The first goal wasn't a goal, but we had to react to it because he gave it.
00:08:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
how How that goal is not disallowed, i I will never know.
00:08:16
Karl
it's true ridiculous.
00:08:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's literally right in front of Alisson.
00:08:18
Karl
So there's lots of, oh yeah, they they're going to throw away another two goal lead. Yeah, we did against Bournemouth because we got things wrong against Bournemouth.
00:08:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:25
Karl
did against Newcastle because the goalkeeper ended up being a third centre-back, which is what Slott said. you know The goalkeeper's taken a free kick, so therefore it's still ten there's still 10 outfield players.
00:08:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's still, yeah, yeah.
00:08:34
Karl
But we didn't do that today. We got it over the line. and yes, they scored, but it's a derby. and you know They could be in the third division and we'd still have to fight games like that.
Star Performances: Eketike & Gravenberg
00:08:47
Karl
and But we were brilliant. sort what the first half but we We won the game in the first half and we were brilliant in the first half. I'd rather have that way. that's the most i mean i'd rather i'd rather have it that way yeah I'd rather win the game and then hang on to it rather than
00:08:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:09:00
Karl
go all the way to niil ni for the ninety seventh minute or something
00:09:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we've seen that too often. You mentioned the squad part of it. I saw an interview with Arnie Slott that he had with Ali McQuist on TNT. I don't know if you saw it before the game.
00:09:12
Karl
yeah
00:09:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, he said pretty much the same thing, didn't he? He spoke about having to play pretty much the same team for you know that kind of early part of the season. And whilst it helped in that period to kind of Bed the team in you know, they got rhythm, there was a consistency in team selection.
00:09:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, he did say that that kind of strength then became a weakness in the second half the season because you see that kind of dip in terms of the physical fitness of the team. But... I suppose his challenge now is to get the team to perform consistently whilst changing the personnel a lot more.
00:09:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that personnel, many of them are players or a few of them are players that you know they've they've come in from new leagues like Hugo Eketike and Florian Wirtz.
00:10:02
Karl
Yeah.
00:10:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
got to say, Eketike is just... I just think that he's a real player.
00:10:08
Karl
I think he's perfect.
00:10:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's absolutely fantastic. and And he's finishing. He's just... I don't like this... I don't like to kind of keep dragging... Because I keep seeing people drag Nunes into this. I don't feel comfortable doing that.
00:10:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I'd just like to just say on his own terms, Eketike, he's so composed, not just in front of goal, but I remember when we were away at Newcastle and he's getting shoved around by Joe Linton and, you know, all of them.
00:10:30
Karl
Yeah.
00:10:38
Karl
Yeah.
00:10:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
But he's just not reacting. He just scores. He just scores the goals.
00:10:44
Karl
Yeah. And it's it's it's not just the goal. that It's how he comes deep so often as well.
00:10:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:52
Karl
And I've just said on Blue Sky, the i said that there should be a documentary about his first touch for that goal. which is just you know kit kills its scores. Because he could just sweep that if he wants to, or he could take a big clumsy touch and pull his foot back, but no, it's just one-two, that's it.
00:11:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:08
Karl
that's what that That's all I need to do this. I think he's a complete centre forward, I really do. And I think you know everyone's been saying that. we are We are less when he goes off.
00:11:20
Karl
he's got to go off because we've got to get the other lad fit for obvious reasons.
00:11:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:24
Karl
And I thought it was quiet today. Understandably, because you know he's he's done an hour in the week and now, do you want to come on play a derby? I did wonder, actually, if you might put Eketike on for Gakpo.
00:11:36
Karl
I thought it' was quite quiet in the first half. But I think Hugo Eketike is... I get the the the Nunez thing, because he's said but he's just a different player and he's he's the player I'm there to have because he just does everything.
00:11:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:11:52
Karl
He's absolutely fearless as well.
00:11:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:56
Karl
He's happy to run in with three lads in the middle of it and someone come out with the ball. and he got He loves a 40-60 challenge when he's got Mo running outside. i' like oh If I win that, you're in and I'll win it for you. and I think he's a wonderful player.
00:12:08
Karl
and If he didn't get these, I'd be still happy because that's
00:12:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, i think we I think all of us would have been happy with just having Ekitike because I genuinely think he's more than good enough to lead that line for Liverpool.
00:12:16
Karl
Yeah.
00:12:21
Karl
Yeah.
00:12:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
But can we...
00:12:22
Karl
He doesn't snatch at things. As you say, his composure is incredible.
00:12:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, his his composure is great, but we've got to talk about it.
00:12:25
Karl
It's beautiful goal.
00:12:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
We're talking about beautiful goals. Ryan Gravenberg. Ryan Gravenberg.
00:12:33
Karl
It's obscene.
00:12:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh It's just absolutely... Because as as it as they quite rightly mentioned on the commentary, he's made it a look a lot easier than that is because he's got to go along with them.
00:12:44
Karl
Yeah.
00:12:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll tell you who... I tell you that goal, it reminds me of not exactly the same.
00:12:54
Karl
I wonder if you're going to say the same thing. um I was going to say something too. wonder if we're going to talk about the same goal.
00:12:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Danny Murphy Old Trafford, Steven Gerrard.
00:13:00
Karl
Old Trafford, Gerrard over the top.
00:13:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I mean, he pinged it into Murphy. And I would say, I'm going to say it. I'm going to that goal is actually technically a better goal. And I tell you why, but because see he was a lot closer to the goal.
00:13:12
Karl
Yeah.
00:13:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
And for him to kind of, use the momentum of the ball and to almost kind of kill it as well, Murphy, you know, and and just loop it over the keeper.
00:13:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
thought it was fantastic goal. But this was a similar kind of goal, but it was it was higher. You know, the but the ball had bounced higher. But again, the way Gravenberg just kind of caresses it.
00:13:39
Karl
because Because what he's got to do there is he can't overhit it.
00:13:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:46
Karl
Because everyone's actually there with just batter it as hard as you can.
00:13:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Which is easy to do. Yeah. yeah
00:13:50
Karl
He's got to keep the pace exactly how it is, almost. you can't You can't take a bit off it. You can't put too much on it. He's just got to keep the pace of the through ball from Mo. And to say he's supposedly a number six who's who's finishing like that, that that's that's an astonishing finish in a Merseyside derby at home.
00:14:11
Karl
It's just just incredible. And...
00:14:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he comes up with the assist for the case.
00:14:15
Karl
that that should be yeah yeah i did yeah yeah he's he's an astonishing player he's he's just been you remember when in the early years of Mo Salah when you talk about who's man of the match and you've got to take Mo out of it it's him every week and then just so you can maim someone else i could hear that I was just thinking that McCoy's just said you know tried all he could to give it to Jack Grealish and he said no but I've got to give it to Gravenberg for the goal and the performance like that I thought well
00:14:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
guys as well
00:14:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:14:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:42
Karl
i I totally agree with that. I mean, you've you've got to give him the man a match. and then and then But i've straight to i was thinking, who who's been good? Who's the second best Liverpool player here today?
00:14:53
Karl
Connor Bradley. I thought Canati did well today, actually, as well.
00:14:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Canate was good.
00:14:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Canate was very...
00:14:57
Karl
to say he was up against...
00:14:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:14:57
Karl
two that They replaced Yarddog with Yarddog, as they always do.
00:15:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:15:01
Karl
We're going to bring in a brand new Grok for you to fight. Okay. I know he did really well as well, and the keeper did well. But yeah, right Ryan Graverbertsch, I think he's just been... I think he's honoured lot bigger success. I really do.
00:15:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, absolute masterstroke.
00:15:13
Karl
ah
00:15:14
Karl
i think I think nothing comes close to...
00:15:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, absolute masterstroke. Apart from signing up saving us kind of 70 or 80 million pounds. It's not just that I've hit. I hear that lot that, you know, that move saved us 70 or 80 million pounds.
00:15:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
And really, I mean, I don't care about 70 or 80 million pounds.
00:15:32
Karl
Because it's not our money.
00:15:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's It's just no, it's it's just the fact that slot as as a as a manager, as a coach, saw something in this central attacking midfield player and thought, yeah, I can I can use you in a, you know, in ah ah in a double pivot.
00:15:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I can use you in a in a holding midfield alongside someone else. So just thought, yeah, an absolute masterstroke from from slot. But
Tactical Challenges in Derbies
00:16:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, the way the way that so the way that teams are lining up against us, is is this going to be the way... is is this goingnna Is this going to be our season, particularly in the Premier League?
00:16:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because you see how the the the the games have panned out against Newcastle, against Burnley, even against Arsenal. You think, OK, these are going to be the title rivals.
00:16:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
But they've all played a... to varying degrees are a pretty similar style. okay we've got We've got Palace up next in in the Premier League.
00:16:34
Karl
yeah
00:16:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
As you said, we've got Southampton midweek or Tuesday night in the League Cup. Then we've got ah ah we're away to Palace, which is never easy. Then it's Champions League in a way to Galatasaray. And then in the Premier League again, we've got Chelsea and then Manchester United.
00:16:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think Chelsea could be the only one out of those games where they may actually try and play football. whereas ah poet Whereas I think Manchester United... will again just come to Anfield and pretty much maybe do what Everton did.
00:17:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
But do you see that?
00:17:11
Karl
Yeah.
00:17:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
you see that a pattern of, and maybe that's why it's become quite difficult for us to kind of negotiate a 2-0 lead?
00:17:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. does ah ah does Does that kind of make sense? Yeah.
00:17:25
Karl
Yeah, because that's what I'd do. If I had to go to Liverpool, I'd do that. I'd yard-dog it out as much as I could and maybe try try and get the goal and hold on.
00:17:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:17:32
Karl
that Because I think that's the only way people going to beat us this season. Unless you're City, who cannot play if you want if they want to.
00:17:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:40
Karl
I think that's what that's always going to happen. But...
00:17:44
Karl
it's an interesting interesting league this year because there there isn't one game and you think, well, that'll be, that'll be a three nil win. That's fine. You know, Ipswich at home last season, everyone knew that that game was nothing. Just give us the points and we'll get on with our days. That's fine.
00:17:56
Karl
And there's less of that this season. It's interesting to see how people are setting up against us. Everton sort of, you know, they just went through the wide players tonight where normally they go big grok, heavy down the middle.
00:18:07
Karl
And they started off with a lot of long ball stuff and then they realised that Grealish stuff actually quite works. I thought O'Brien was good as well. They were hardly anyone mentioned on the side.
00:18:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:15
Karl
I thought Garner had a good game. But, I mean, I don't know what to do with Beto. mean, wow. Wow.
00:18:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know what better with himself, to be fair.
00:18:27
Karl
it It looks like he's won a competition to play. i mean, I was absolutely made up when he went, oh, they're going with him. That's great. Well, Virgil van Dijk's just, you know, just like he's just unfolding a deck chair just before kickoff. You know, it's lovely.
00:18:39
Karl
I'll just head these away all day, shall I? But I think Palace is going to be tricky because it's an awful ground to go to as well. as we've We've been there, haven't
00:18:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:49
Karl
It's a tricky ground to go to.
00:18:52
Karl
I think Chelsea will be the next big test.
00:18:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:55
Karl
because you never know what you're going to get with them.
Upcoming Fixtures and Squad Fitness
00:18:57
Karl
And today was was different because, literally because of the fixture it is. It is the derby. It is a sort of right.
00:19:07
Karl
Or even if, you know, it was the same with us with United and in in the 80s. Like, it doesn't matter that United were languishing in 12th place and we were 17 points good at the top of the league, which they still beat us.
00:19:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:19
Karl
because it's a different sort of thing.
00:19:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:20
Karl
It's a different mentality. And i was really pleased with the way we we handle that today because there were times when we didn't. you remember that bit in in the second half when he was saying, you know, it's gone a bit Keystone Cops in the middle and we just no one would win the ball?
00:19:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah
00:19:33
Karl
I thought, he's got a good wind on. Oh, no, you've just rolled it straight to there, lads. And that was going on. all the way through it, they're the hardest games to win when nothing's going right. You're not going to get you're not goingnna get everything you in your own way there. was thinking, would it be nice now at 2-0 if we won 6-0?
00:19:49
Karl
And then we just said to the rest of the league, that's us, by the way, that's what we can do. But we're not at that stage because... some of our lads aren't fit. Florian Verts isn't fit.
00:19:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:59
Karl
I'm not having Florian Verts as 100% fit. No chance.
00:20:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:02
Karl
He was slow to everything today. And obviously, Isak was... um I watched Isak try and close down a centre-back at one point, and he just...
00:20:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:08
Karl
leave It's like he was using someone else's legs.
00:20:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
and and
00:20:11
Karl
No, I can't get over there, cause I ran an hour in the week full pelt against Atletico Madrid, who were quite defensive. And I think... it's gonna be The fact that we've won five out of five with a side that isn't completely fit and he still doesn't know what his foot is opening lineup as well.
00:20:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:28
Karl
you know it It does gag post your first 11 here. I think it does because Slott likes him, but you know is it goingnna be how can you drop Eketike? You've got to because there's Alexander Isaks on the bench and he's like, you know, he's him.
00:20:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Gakpo does such an important job.
00:20:41
Karl
He's the second best striker in the league.
00:20:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Gakpo, I think, does such an important job but down that level, supporting Kerkis, who I've got to say, I thought Kerkis had a, he probably had his best game for us so far.
00:20:45
Karl
He does, yeah.
00:20:50
Karl
Outstanding today. Outstanding.
00:20:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, even I think at 90 minutes, there was a header. was a kind of looping cross that was going back post.
00:20:58
Karl
Back post.
00:21:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. And all kind of four feet seven of it.
00:21:01
Karl
You've got to be honoured to do what you did there.
00:21:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
and got got on the end of that and yeah thought I thought he had a good game and like i said i think I think that was his best game for us
00:21:13
Karl
But I think that's his sort of game, isn't it? He wants someone to fight.
00:21:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
it is yeah a bit more blood and thunder I think even in the first five minutes he he kind of flew into a tackle yeah so so yeah I think you're right I actually called I thought that Andy Robertson might start just because of his obviously his his experience and the fact that
00:21:22
Karl
Yeah.
00:21:29
Karl
Yeah.
00:21:32
Karl
Or he might come on just to get it over get it done.
00:21:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:21:34
Karl
I think it's going to be his role.
00:21:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
And just because Kerkest has been getting these kind of, you know, these kind of yellow cards and maybe that's not, this isn't the game to to get an early booking, know, in in this kind of game. But I thought, look, overall,
00:21:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
You've got to say, you know as you said, Liverpool, five games, five wins. We've got the City game and Arsenal game tomorrow. It's like, look, we've done our job now. Okay, over to you lot to see whether you could just stay on coattails.
00:22:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
And there's an interesting one. I was listening to some some guys on the radio. can't remember whether was TalkSport or Five Live, but they were all saying, which I completely disagree with, they were saying, oh, surely Liverpool...
00:22:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
we want City to win so that both, so that City are then on 10 points, which is five points behind us. And then Arsenal are six points behind us.
00:22:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I'm like, no, I would much rather a draw so that Arsenal are five points behind us.
00:22:34
Karl
course, the draw's the best, yeah.
00:22:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And we are...
00:22:36
Karl
We can't lose tomorrow. Yeah.
00:22:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, and we are what, seven seven points ahead of City? You know, so yeah, and for for me, I'd much rather have that bigger gap to City and have a five-point gap in Arsenal.
00:22:49
Karl
Yes, I would.
00:22:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think most Liverpool...
00:22:52
Karl
you You know my views on Arsenal.
00:22:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, same here. i think we...
00:22:56
Karl
Arsenal aren't going to come from 20-foot behind to win the league.
00:22:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
City
00:22:59
Karl
City can do that.
00:23:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
can, yeah.
00:23:01
Karl
So I'd rather get City out of the way.
00:23:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:23:02
Karl
It's ah it's a tricky one. because but It's not tricky. it's It's actually glorious because at the end of the day, Arsenal would either have lost two of the first five games or City would have lost three.
00:23:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:13
Karl
and and you know Or if it's a draw, then Liverpool have won. Liverpool have won already. stuff feel Well, it is a six-point weekend, isn't it? that That's exactly what this is. We're going to be major points ahead of so one of those two tomorrow.
00:23:28
Karl
And that's a nice thing. I'm actually looking forward to the game because I'm going to be watching that game as a game of football rather than me, you know, with with skin in the game. Whatever. Fine. Arsenal win 7-0.
00:23:39
Karl
Fine. City are out. Excellent.
00:23:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:41
Karl
so to you City win it.
00:23:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:23:42
Karl
Excellent.
00:23:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
what what what what What do you think about that game, though?
00:23:43
Karl
Arsenal have lost two games.
00:23:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
what In terms of... Do do you see City going there and getting result? Is this a...
00:23:50
Karl
Yeah, I do.
00:23:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Beating them?
00:23:54
Karl
Yeah, I do. I do because i think I think City are clever. And I think the longest but the longer that stays nil, nil, the better it is for City, I think.
00:24:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
They know how to win these games, don't they?
00:24:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, no, I agree.
00:24:07
Karl
But I don't know if Saliba's back for them, um because I know there was talk of him being rushed back last week because he was injured against us, wasn't he? I think that's going to make a difference.
00:24:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:15
Karl
But... I'm looking forward to it because it's a free hit. I'm just going to actually, for the first of the time in the world, just enjoy your game of football knowing Liverpool won no matter what happens.
Anticipation for City vs Arsenal
00:24:26
Karl
like That's going to feel nice because we've done our job and that's and and you know we and we've done our job in a shaky second half and we got through it.
00:24:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Absolutely. But I'm i'm hoping that it's a draw because I don't want, you know, if if City go to Arsenal and they win that game, I think off the back of the Manchester derby, which obviously they're expected to win anyway, but it's a derby.
00:24:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that would give them a real kind of lift. And then I think all the kind of, you know, all the the sites will be on November the 9th, which is when we travelled Man City.
00:24:56
Karl
Yeah.
00:25:05
Karl
Yeah.
00:25:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's three or four days after we've played Real Madrid in the Champions League,
00:25:11
Karl
Yeah. yeah
00:25:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
which which which happened last season as well. And so that that would you know that would that would give City, you know, it's that kind of carrot for them to kind of, you know, go on a run to maybe close the gap on on us if we if we have the odd draw.
00:25:16
Karl
yeah
00:25:27
Karl
And I think that's the difference.
00:25:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're capable of doing that.
00:25:29
Karl
I think City can do that. I don't think Arsenal can.
00:25:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're capable of doing that.
00:25:33
Karl
Yeah.
00:25:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I don't think Arsenal are.
00:25:34
Karl
Because they get in their own heads too much.
00:25:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, 100%. Yeah. And and an Arteta, you know, I just, I don't see him as someone who's got what it takes to, you know, to to pull that team over the line.
00:25:40
Karl
Yeah.
00:25:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, it should be a good game. you said, but enjoyable for us that we can just sit back and have a nice cup of tea and watch that game without any kind of stress.
00:26:01
Karl
Because Liverpool have already won it.
00:26:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. we've already won our game. What do you think now in terms of the next few games we've got, now it's, you know, we're we're into that kind of three, you know, every two or three days there's a game.
00:26:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so that squad is going to come into play. But if you look at the next Few fixtures now. We've got, as you've said, we've got Southampton on Tuesday, Palace in the Premier League on Saturday, Galatasaray on the Tuesday, that's away.
00:26:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then Chelsea away and then Manchester United at home.
00:26:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Galatasaray away is not it's not easy. Chelsea and even Manchester United at home, you just never know what what kind of team shows up. But I do think that we've now got, we've got the the the bases now in terms of we've got the guys who've got the experience. We've still got Van Dijk and Alisson and Robertson and and Mo in the team.
00:27:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
And now you've got these newer players who've come in. And I just think that the next few games, the next four or five games, we can really hit our straps because these are big games.
00:27:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think if we get over those big games, I think it it lays such a good foundation for the rest of the season.
00:27:20
Karl
the The problem with that is you would have said the same thing three weeks ago and you'll say the same thing in about in about six weeks' time. It's always like this. There's never a... We've got quite a quiet week this week. We're fine. No, it's always a run of games, always.
00:27:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Don't score my podcast arguments, Carl. That's my podcast arguments finished now for the next six weeks.
00:27:36
Karl
It's always like this. I think the Southampton game being in there is is is a a nice one because um because he's going to go with me and you as centre-half. Livvy right midfield.
00:27:49
Karl
you know Tom's up front on his own.
00:27:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
i No, no, no. Tom's going be in midfield with Curtis Jones.
00:27:56
Karl
Yeah.
00:27:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. so But yeah.
00:27:58
Karl
He's going to go Gomez-Leone.
00:28:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:28:00
Karl
Marv's in goal.
00:28:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Keza will still be on the bench though, won't Keza will still be on the bench.
00:28:04
Karl
But i butt I was thinking this, though. If that was me, I'm giving Isaac 90 minutes against Southampton.
00:28:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Really?
00:28:12
Karl
Or at least 70. Because this is perfect.
00:28:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:28:15
Karl
It doesn't matter.
00:28:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I suppose so.
00:28:16
Karl
Go and enjoy yourself, Slum.
00:28:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because it is a Tuesday game, right? So it's a Tuesday game.
00:28:20
Karl
Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you've got that extra day to recover. And then the game on the next game. it's a Saturday game, right? The Palace game. Yeah, Saturday three o'clock.
00:28:30
Karl
yeah
00:28:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so it's a good shout. I think he could actually get minutes Maybe, if if not the whole game, but like it so but like you said, maybe 60, 70 minutes.
00:28:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's at home. It's at home. So, yeah, I think that's a good shout.
00:28:48
Karl
I think you say to him, go and play the game. If you've got to stretch off during a corner, you just run over to the side and a stretch, mate. No one cares. No one gives a damn about this.
00:29:00
Karl
But yeah, Rio will do the run in any way.
00:29:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Real to the running, exactly.
00:29:04
Karl
Or you're playing 4-4-2 with Dans. It's up to you. Whatever you want to do, mate. Just run around a bit and get a bit better. And also maybe put Wurzen in.
00:29:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you think so?
00:29:15
Karl
Because he's not up he's not up to speed. I thought he was poor today. like I really did.
00:29:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:29:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can see he's still garden, isn't he?
00:29:19
Karl
and but he bought But he was also in the same the right places all the time.
00:29:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:25
Karl
Always. So, you know, if the brain's there. He's just like, you know...
00:29:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:29
Karl
Did you see the bit? There was a little a lovely little sort of still on the telly where he's... think he's at Michael Keane. He's marking Michael Keane at a corner. Bloody hell.
00:29:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
what is all that about? It's like, I know.
00:29:40
Karl
Eight foot taller than him.
00:29:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:41
Karl
is your
00:29:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:42
Karl
Flo, he's yours.
00:29:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:29:43
Karl
Yours, Flo. Right, okay. like I played last night, and there's lad that I play against called Trafford.
00:29:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:29:48
Karl
That was me and him last night, and he'd just and he just kept shout he kept shouting over to his teammates, it's okay, everyone, I've got Carl. I'm like, look literally literally, from under his elbow, I'm looking at him. and think I've got the head in here, lads. And that was what that was like.
00:30:01
Karl
plot I play Verts because i think I think Verts needs to get fitter or get up to this this this league.
00:30:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:30:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think there was a moment where I think he's kind of threw on goal and he kind of cuts in onto his left foot.
00:30:14
Karl
Yeah.
00:30:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you know, someone who's really match fit, they just snap that shot. Whereas, you know, he just takes a an extra half second and in the Premier League, you just don't get that.
00:30:22
Karl
Yeah, too so I said out loud too slow when he did that.
00:30:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, you just get you you just don't get that extra half second in the Premier League.
00:30:28
Karl
No.
00:30:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, we'll see what happens.
00:30:30
Karl
But Gakpo started like that too. Gakpo was like that when he started.
00:30:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, 100%. Yeah, a hundred percent yeah he he was like that for, that I think, the first half of the season when he joined us. And you're right. I mean, i remember now everyone was saying, God, this guy is so slow.
00:30:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
What what did Klopp say?
00:30:44
Karl
Didn't close. Gatpo didn't close down either.
00:30:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:30:47
Karl
I thought, you're not going to be popular there, mate.
00:30:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:30:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. So you're right. I think it's going to take games and maybe that Southampton game, I was thinking that it's going to be wholesale changes in terms of getting some of the kids in. But you know what?
00:31:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
You could be right. I think the likes of Isaac, Wirtz, the guys that really need minutes to get themselves you know up and running, maybe that is... you know, the, the ideal game, but so yeah, we'll see what happens on Tuesday. but That's, that's all for today. You've been listening to the daily Liverpool podcast brought to you but by the global sports podcast cast network. We'll be back on Monday.
00:31:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Louis Easton will be having a more of an in-depth and probably more of an intelligent look at this game than, than, than we've, we've offered up.
00:31:31
Karl
How dare
00:31:35
Karl
you?
00:31:36
Karl
I've advocated him to play against Southampton, so maybe you've got a point.
00:31:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but you've advocated me and you've sent it back, so it's not really saying much, is it?
00:31:44
Karl
It'd be like it being Virgil, wouldn't
00:31:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah but but but from the so yeah exactly But for myself and Carl, thank you for so for listening and we'll see you soon.