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Liverpool continued their perfect start in the PL after a late win against Burnley at Turf Moore. Karl and Adarsh join Jesse as they go through all the main talking points.
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Liverpool's Last-Minute Victory and Current Standing
00:00:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Liverpool podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. I'm your host, Jesse Sawa. Liverpool left it late again in the Premier League, snatching all three points at Turf Moor against Burnley, courtesy of a Mohamed Salah goal in stoppage time. It means Liverpool remain top of the league after four games with maximum points.
Analysis of Liverpool's Performance against Burnley
00:01:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've got Adarsh Ramchurn with us today and a sun-kissed Karl Kopach. Is that correct?
00:01:26
Karl
Yeah, man.
00:01:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
No. I don't know.
00:01:27
Karl
Muy caliente. Muy caliente.
00:01:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
So clearly, uh, Carl went to France, uh, for the rest of the week.
00:01:34
Adarsh
you.
00:01:35
Karl
I love Poland. It's glorious.
00:01:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
but, You know, ah look, look, it was ah it was another late show from Liverpool. 1-0, you know, not not the not the greatest performance, Carl.
00:01:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, you know, this keep just this team just keeps getting over the line, just keeps getting the job done. 1-0, late winner from Mo.
00:02:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Your thoughts on the game?
00:02:06
Karl
I've just written my column for tomorrow about this, or today, as it will be. What strikes me more than anything else is, not not you, Adash, but Jesse and I sat through the Gerard Houllier period, where if that was a Gerard Houllier side, who were a decent side, we won everything apart from the league.
00:02:29
Karl
that would have been nil-nil. And Gerard Houllier would have said, it's great to get a point away from home. You win your home games, you draw your away games, and that's how you get into Champions League football, which is the level of our ambition at the time.
00:02:42
Karl
And I never... for I was thinking, even when it got to 94 minutes, I was thinking... We are going to win this, but I don't know how. i mean, I genuinely enjoyed the game.
00:02:50
Adarsh
Mm-hmm.
00:02:53
Karl
I love games like that, but it's just sort of, okay, you're just going to do that, and we're just going to do this, and that's all that's going to happen, and you're going tonna have to have hold out and hold out and hold out like some sort of Spartan siege and see if you get over the line or we do, and which one's it going to be.
Critique of Mo Salah's Performance and Penalty Skills
00:03:09
Karl
Yeah. And it's a bit tricky for us because two of our three forwards are awful today. Really bad. i thought Gakpo was terrible. I thought Mo Salah may have had the worst game of football I've ever seen him have, ever. He did one good thing. He nodded one ball across the box.
00:03:25
Karl
Everything else was just awful. Yeah.
00:03:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
I thought he'd already gone to AFCon.
00:03:30
Karl
Yeah. Yeah, it's
00:03:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
But um ah to be fair, I thought Gakpo wasn't that bad. I thought out of the...
00:03:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
help please Yeah, I know.
00:03:36
Karl
He just did his Gakpo thing though, didn't he?
00:03:37
Adarsh
Yeah, we did the catch.
00:03:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cutting me in and either...
00:03:38
Karl
Pulling it onto the right foot.
00:03:40
Karl
Try for the top corner.
00:03:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and either shooting or or trying to cross to the the far post.
00:03:40
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:03:41
Karl
Throw in.
00:03:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
But...
00:03:44
Adarsh
Hmm.
00:03:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Adash, your kind of overall thoughts about, you know, Liverpool's performance. Obviously, it wasn't the great, great one that we were hoping for. you know, I predicted a 3-0 win, stupidly, you know, last week.
00:03:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, you know, we just got a 1-0, which is, I suppose, good enough in the end.
00:03:59
Adarsh
Hmm.
00:04:03
Adarsh
Yeah, no. Similar to Karl, actually. I just thought we were going to get that goal, but I didn't know how, when, if, but you just had that feeling. And obviously the penalty, you're kind of having mixed emotions about Salah taking it, of which is weird to say because he's he's usually excellent, but his last two penalties have haven't been great.
00:04:22
Adarsh
But overall, in terms of the game, I think I kind of expected it to be that sort of game, if that makes sense, just because ah a lot of people say we we're going to blow Burnley away. But I just think these games, these are the ones that you need to win.
00:04:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:35
Adarsh
Like you need to win. If you're going to go win a Premier League title, so people expect you to turn up, win 3-4-0. But the game plans, the game's never really like that.
00:04:41
Karl
And that's what Gerard Houllier didn't do.
00:04:43
Adarsh
Hmm.
00:04:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:04:44
Karl
That's what he didn't do.
00:04:45
Karl
That's the level.
00:04:46
Adarsh
Yeah. and And, yeah.
00:04:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
But football, i think, has changed as well, hasn't it?
00:04:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think football has changed as well. I think i think Guardiola, the Klopp era, you know, these kind of games where you thought, you know what, I'll take a point. You know, a point is good. It's a good result away from home.
00:04:51
Adarsh
Hmm.
00:05:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think those days are gone now in terms of...
00:05:04
Karl
The only good draw is City and Arsenal. That's all there is.
00:05:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. But the rest of them, you've got to you've got to win. And this Burnley team was almost like a you know, it was almost like the Sean Dyche kind of days, you know, two banks of five, really didn't have much ambition. And I,
Strategic Approaches in Premier League Matches
00:05:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
we're on our group chat, the Daily Liverpool group chat.
00:05:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
but who Who are we calling out? who who was Who was calling for Mo to be subbed? think it was Tom Gowd, wasn't it?
00:05:34
Adarsh
Oh, yeah, it must have been here.
00:05:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Conor Norcott. When the subs came on, why is Salah not, you know, why is he still on the pitch? And then about two minutes later, he scores. And then me and Carl said, that's why.
00:05:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
But so you're right about the penalty. I'm never 100% comfortable. i don't I don't know why. i It's just, again, we've we've had this conversation.
00:06:00
Karl
Because he's got to miss one. He's got to miss an important one at some point.
00:06:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's going to be Swanee, I know. But, you know, but to be fair, he tends to score the big ones.
00:06:02
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:06:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
He does tend to score the big ones. but so But, Carl, in terms of look the way that Liverpool are playing at the moment, look, you know, we can all look at the positives, which is we're not really playing that well.
00:06:08
Adarsh
yeah
00:06:08
Karl
Yeah.
00:06:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
but we haven't lost a game. We've won every single game.
00:06:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that really the the the main positive that you take out of this? Because you you just think sooner or later, this tap this team is going to click into gear.
00:06:25
Karl
like
00:06:33
Karl
I don't know if agree that we're not playing well. I thought we played pretty well today, but you've got to take into consideration what we were up against.
00:06:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Your position, yeah.
00:06:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:41
Karl
Yeah, I mean, normally, I thought, I mean, people said, our flo um read the Echo review in initial and I said, Florian thats you know it didn't really do much today.
00:06:41
Adarsh
Mm-hmm.
00:06:47
Karl
today He's literally got three lads standing in front of him. He's got to find a way around there. And if it was a free, expansive game, Liverpool play a lot better because we get space, we get pockets, we get you know runs, we get overlaps, underlaps, we get to do all that.
00:07:01
Karl
Against... Burnley, which is fine. They got a brick wall. We're not getting anyone through. We're going to play two groups of five, as you say, in the middle, and we can hold hands with that close. We're not going wide.
00:07:12
Karl
Everything is here, like ah ah almost like a sort of Roman phalanx you know strategy thing. we're all going we We can touch each other. We're so close. You're not getting through. We're not having any of that. And therefore, it looks bad because all Liverpool can do is take long shots.
00:07:26
Karl
And that looks really bad because it looks like you lack imagination. And to our credit, we did try and get down the sides all the time. It's just two of the worst players were there. But what was really nice for me is I'm with you on the penalty thing. I was thinking, i again, I've just written this. that Don't miss this one.
00:07:43
Karl
Miss the next one. Don't miss this one. I really, really want you to miss this one. pull And no one has mentioned this on Sky or anything like that at all. What a penalty.
00:07:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, it's a penalty.
00:07:52
Karl
He's not placed that.
00:07:53
Karl
He's not thought, well, just make sure it goes in.
00:07:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:54
Adarsh
Smushed it.
00:07:55
Karl
Nothing at all. I'm just going to whack that as hard as I can. Because that says to me,
00:07:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:00
Karl
that when he blows, he reluctantly blows for the penalty, everyone in the team said, we've won. there's like there's There's no other outcome. And i look that that's the difference.
00:08:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:13
Karl
That's how leagues get won.
00:08:15
Karl
Is this a penalty? Well, we've won. Okay, there's no way we missed that. It's not it's not even an option. We're not doing that.
00:08:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
The penalty was, the the way that he took it was very similar to the one that he did in Champions League final against Spurs, where it's not quite down quite down the middle, but it's a little bit to the side of the keeper.
00:08:28
Karl
Yeah, I'm not. ah
00:08:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
But he it's his connection.
00:08:33
Karl
Yeah.
00:08:35
Karl
Yeah.
00:08:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's
00:08:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's it's This one's going in.
00:08:37
Adarsh
kind clear now
00:08:37
Karl
I'm not messing around here. I'm not messing around with this one.
00:08:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, they exactly.
00:08:39
Karl
That's going in.
00:08:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
this This one's going in. Mo's performance, not that great, Adash.
Discussion on Lineup Decisions and Refereeing
00:08:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
But if we look at the starting lineup for this game, Alisson, Kanate, Van Dijk, obviously, you know, we were expecting that. Kirk is at left back. So Bosley kept his...
00:08:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
place at right back, which might have been a little bit of so of a surprise, bearing in mind that Frimpong is back.
00:09:02
Karl
I loved it.
00:09:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, but, you know, Connor Bradley has got a few more minutes under his belt now on international duty.
00:09:09
Karl
And it was great. Yes.
00:09:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he was brilliant. But Sir Boz Light, is is he's not going to stay at right back, is he, Adash?
00:09:11
Adarsh
Mm-hmm.
00:09:17
Adarsh
No, I don't think so. And actually, i was discussing this with my brother when watching the game. Actually, I know he's been brilliant at right back, but with McAllister not 100% to his level, you need to have Sabozla in midfield. And I think he when he moved to midfield, i actually thought he was brilliant as well. i mean, he's been brilliant the last few games.
00:09:36
Adarsh
But I think he does. he is now His natural position as a midfielder, he offers so much going forward. Even like his ability to take long shots from sent the centre of the pitch, I mean, it makes a massive difference. hopefully we have Bradley being fit, even Fring Pong coming on as well.
00:09:49
Adarsh
I think Saboza will continue to play in midfield. I mean, i think the big talking point from the game is Kerkes.
00:09:58
Adarsh
Very underwhelming performance, let's say. Probably more than underwhelming. I i don't know what you guys thought, but I just thought Slott made the absolute right decision to take him off. It was just rash a bit all over the place. And I think i was so I'm genuinely surprised that he not going to say he wasn't sent off, but it was quite a bad tackle on... I've forgotten the player from Burnley.
00:10:21
Adarsh
But I think it could have been one of those situations where on another day, the ref could easily have sent him off.
00:10:25
Karl
Was it Foster?
00:10:26
Adarsh
I don't think Foster, yeah.
00:10:26
Karl
can't remember if it Foster or the other lad, but I thought...
00:10:28
Adarsh
yeah And he's just all over him.
00:10:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it was, you're right, no it was it was decisive.
00:10:31
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:10:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was decisive management, I thought, from Arne Slott.
00:10:34
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:10:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
No messing around. Look, you're on a yellow. And then I think you he committed another foul. It wasn't, you know, that foul was, the that the second foul was, there was no chance that was going to be a booking. But you know what it's like. The home crowd gets up and every time the guy touches the ball, they're going be baying for a yellow card. So I thought it was...
00:10:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know he's We all know now that he's not afraid to make those decisions, big decisions in game and say, right, I'm sorry you're coming off. And you know what? When you've got someone like Andy Robertson coming on and you know playing the way that did, I thought he was going to score his greatest ever goal as well and when he kind of nut-baked one of the defenders.
00:11:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he went for some kind of something like a... It wasn't quite...
00:11:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Was it outside of the foot shot?
00:11:16
Adarsh
Like a robert but Roberto Carlos style shot, yeah.
00:11:17
Karl
yeah yeah yeah
00:11:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, exactly. but But I thought, Kirk is, I think that this is one thing that he's going to have to... he's he's going to have to adapt in his game, which is, you know, this kind of his temperament, basically, you know, this giving away yellow cards, because then you're, you know, you're on automatically you're on the back foot.
00:11:32
Adarsh
Hmm.
00:11:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
And as we then progress into the Champions League as well, you get, you know, you get kind of, wouldn't say inconsistent refereeing, but sometimes it can be, you know different styles of refereeing. And so he's got to be, I think he's got to be really, really careful.
00:11:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
But talking to refereeing, Carl, McAllister, what is going on with McAllister in the sense that people can just go in for kind of leg-breaking tackles and no one gets sent off.
00:12:06
Karl
Yeah, it's fine.
00:12:10
Karl
It's fine. To be honest, I didn't think this was a red card. And I know I've seen the image of his ankle banging stuff like that because ah I really don't think he meant to go and harm the player where James Tarkovsky wanted to.
00:12:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Clearly did, yeah. Yeah.
00:12:24
Karl
You'll never persuade me otherwise.
00:12:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:26
Karl
That was, I'm taking you out here.
00:12:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah um'm I'm not saying that he he he he went in to hurt him, but I think that the the action, the way that he did it, I thought it was reckless and his feet are off the ground and that still image, I know that you can't, yeah, yeah, yeah, that still image has got the studs up and his his feet are off the ground, he's reckless.
00:12:28
Karl
I'm doing you.
00:12:29
Karl
Yeah.
00:12:39
Karl
It's satisfied. It satisfies all the credentials for it to be record.
00:12:42
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:12:46
Karl
Yeah. not in ca control.
00:12:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just thought, you know, at the very least an orange.
00:12:50
Karl
Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
For what good that does us.
00:12:52
Karl
I think I would have been, no if that would have been against us, I would have been a bit annoyed. I thought straight away, I think that's a yellow. To be honest, it's one of those things where you slow it down and looks worse than it actually is.
00:12:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah,
00:12:59
Adarsh
yeah
00:13:01
Karl
But I did i did actually think that. But it is amazing how... and and That if what wasn't even the worst one of the the of the half. what What about when the lad basically jumps on Mo's back and you the lad backs into him at the same time and decide Michael Oliver decides that's a Burnley throw-in?
00:13:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah but that's Mo, you know. Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:16
Karl
And Mo just stood of and just laughed in his face.
00:13:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Yeah, that's what Mo goes throughout every week.
00:13:19
Karl
what How?
00:13:20
Karl
How?
00:13:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think McAllister, the thing is, I think McAllister would have that same attitude as well, were not for the fact that the ones that he has to go through are kind of potential leg breakers.
00:13:33
Karl
yeah it's getting shin breakers yeah
00:13:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
the The poor guy, he just really is. He goes through the wars. you know, on on a regular. Mo, Adash, you know, he hasn't had yeah't had the greatest start to the season.
00:13:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you know, whenever that happens, You know, people always say, oh, he's 32, 33, 34, whatever it is. And, you know, he's he's on his way down now.
00:14:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
But i I think that this season, I think there's been certain games where, as Carl mentioned, the opposition comes into play as well, right? So today he had that really kind of low block.
00:14:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, he's got two defenders on him constantly. And it was just a really difficult game for him.
00:14:23
Adarsh
Yeah, no, definitely. I think
00:14:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Atosh.
Salah's Season Struggles and Team Chemistry
00:14:25
Adarsh
there's a couple of things, actually.
00:14:27
Adarsh
Yeah, there's a couple of things with Salah that i've I've noticed. I think actually in when when you when Liverpool go to attack, we actually tend to more often than not go down Gakpo side for sort of if he's going to cross it, play one-twos with the fullback.
00:14:41
Adarsh
You don't necessarily see Salah doing that as much in-game. And I feel like maybe that's sort the attributes in terms of what Slott wants to do this season in terms of keeping Salah less active in the game and whether it's a chance or snapshot or something like that. But I do think as well, he's just probably, you know, there's a lot of new players.
00:14:58
Karl
Thank you.
00:15:02
Adarsh
There's a complete new attack that he's essentially working with since ah the of season with Ekotike coming in, Verts. you can One positive that did want to take from today's game was there was a lot more combination between Wurtz and Salah, which you know they're starting to build that chemistry up, which I think could be ruthless for us later in the season because both are amazing players.
00:15:21
Adarsh
But I think there is ah ah there's a number of different things. And I think him getting used to the attacking players that we've got now and obviously Isak to come into that, I think it would just take him a bit of time, like anyone would when you've got new players coming coming in in sort of the attacking areas. So I would say that's maybe a reason. I don't want to use that as an excuse, but I think with rhythm and more games, I'm hoping we can get the Salah that we had last season back scoring goals, basically.
00:15:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think, Tom, but more more more than the attack, in my opinion, I think the right side of that team has changed for Mo.
00:15:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's had Trent behind him for the last you know five, six years. And you know that that was such a an influential partnership on the pitch. Yeah.
00:15:54
Karl
Yeah.
00:16:05
Karl
He's also not got Henderson behind him, who for all the abuse he got when he was here, was the reason that Trent, that, yeah.
00:16:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:16:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
who had a very good game at the weekend for Brentford, incidentally.
00:16:16
Karl
But the the reason that Trent was so good was because Henderson was always standing behind him, always.
00:16:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Exactly, yeah.
00:16:21
Karl
And, you know, and we we don't have that now. It's it's a bit of a... um He He plays well on Curtis' place on the right-hand side. You know, he's not all the time, but, you know, think I think that helps too. I think Mo is getting used to the system.
00:16:35
Karl
And it's one of the funny things, isn't it, when you say, you know, Mo's not having a great season. And he's not. He's not setting the world fire. Just the two goals and assists so far this season.
00:16:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
In four games.
00:16:45
Karl
Yeah, in four games.
00:16:45
Adarsh
yeah
00:16:46
Karl
Yeah, we've won all four of those games. and And he was shocking today. I thought he really really was. He was just second-guessing himself. and
00:16:55
Karl
and ah ah But you look at... I've got to ask you who your man of the match is. I'm only if I might differ from mine.
00:17:01
Adarsh
Oh, months mine was quite obvious. Like, Gravenberg.
00:17:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mine was Ravenberg.
00:17:05
Adarsh
Yeah, Gravenberg was outstanding.
00:17:07
Karl
By an absolute mile.
00:17:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:08
Adarsh
Yeah, yeah.
00:17:09
Karl
That thing he did in the first half where he just basically just let the ball go past him and took two lads out.
00:17:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh. Yeah, he does that better than anyone in the Premier League.
00:17:15
Karl
i
00:17:15
Adarsh
It's sort of.
00:17:16
Adarsh
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:17:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's just... Yeah, yeah.
00:17:17
Karl
Wijnaldum used to be good at that as well, but also more more side side to side rather than pushing forward.
00:17:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:17:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, but he was absolutely spectacular.
00:17:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I was brilliant.
00:17:26
Karl
I thought he was astonishing today.
00:17:30
Karl
He really was. and and I think he did we he made one mistake which made me shout at him, but it
00:17:31
Adarsh
Mm-hmm.
00:17:36
Adarsh
give
00:17:37
Karl
it um it makes such a difference. and you know And you look at that midfield and think, he puts Dom in there because because he decides at some point he is going to play the other two right-backs.
00:17:49
Karl
Curtis Jones didn't play to today. And, you know, we're we're looking at Verts and people like that and Eketike and thinking, like you know, this is the side they're working at.
00:17:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:56
Karl
And I'm thinking, I thought today, I thought, Alexis McAllister plays for Liverpool and no one talks about him anymore. And, like, he's one of the best midfielders in the world.
00:18:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:18:05
Karl
And Graven Birch might be the best number six in the country at the moment. it might It might well be. like I do like Supermandy. I really do. And all these people play for Liverpool, and it's fantastic.
00:18:15
Karl
and And I think that makes, when you're playing against a low-ball like that, I think that makes such a difference where you sort of give it to our worst player. but That might literally be Mo Salah. What a situation to that is.
00:18:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's not bad, is it? It's not bad. Right, we're going to go into a quick break, and then when we come back, we'll go through some player ratings.
00:18:28
Adarsh
Mm-hmm.
00:18:43
Karl
Thank you.
00:19:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, let's go through some player ratings now. We'll start with Alisson Adash. Didn't really have much to do, really, did he? Just safe pair of hands for crosses and know sweeping up, but so he didn't really have much to do.
00:19:26
Adarsh
Yeah, I mean, I don't remember him making a save in the game. Pretty standard performance.
00:19:30
Karl
You didn't.
00:19:30
Adarsh
i pretty Yeah, I mean, he must have been freezing out there all the wind.
00:19:34
Karl
yes
00:19:35
Adarsh
But he looks so good in that Adidas black goalkeeper kit. I'm massive fan that. So, yeah, that boosts his rating.
00:19:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he gets a nine just for the black Cadiz.
00:19:44
Adarsh
like that that boosts rating
00:19:47
Karl
tell you my mate's out of his man of the match, just to annoy me.
00:19:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hey, listen, Matt, for for me, Alisson is man of the match every every single game.
00:19:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah,
00:19:57
Karl
He pretty much played the centre of three centre-backs in the second half because there was no-one near him.
00:20:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah. yeah
00:20:02
Adarsh
Hmm.
00:20:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
There was no one near him. what What did you think of of the centre-backs, Karl Van Dijk, Canate? Canate seems to have kind of you know played himself back into a bit of form now.
00:20:14
Karl
but i I think if you said to Ibu Canate, which game do you want to play tomorrow, it would be Burnley.
00:20:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:20
Karl
justica i just I just get ahead of everything all day. and
00:20:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:24
Karl
there's this he did what He did one really good recovery run in the first half, I can remember, where I thought they might be in here and he just thought, no, and you know the big legs got moving. he was fine. I thought he good today.
00:20:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:35
Karl
I thought he said i thought it was brilliant against Arsenal, really did, and I think he might be back.
00:20:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Adarsh Van Dijk.
00:20:43
Adarsh
Yeah, I mean, do you know what? and you know Towards the end of the game when we're throwing the kitchen sink and he takes off Canate and you're you're left with only Van Dijk at centre-back, I'm not worried at all. I genuinely think he can play centre-back by himself.
00:20:54
Karl
it's enough yeah yeah
00:20:56
Adarsh
It's completely
Player Highlights: Connor Bradley and Subozlai's Midfield Role
00:20:57
Adarsh
fine. And yeah, I mean, that just shows. He's put in another performance. He didn't have to do anything glamorous, but won his headers, led by example. So I'm giving him a nine.
00:21:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
A nine for Van Dyke. what What was that? Sorry. What was the, ah was your rating for, for Alison? Adash?
00:21:15
Adarsh
Oh, nine as well.
00:21:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nine.
00:21:18
Karl
why
00:21:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:21:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
And for Kanate?
00:21:19
Adarsh
Yeah, yeah.
00:21:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, nine because of the Adidas Originals black, black kit.
00:21:21
Adarsh
Kanate is probably...
00:21:23
Adarsh
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then Kanate, what did you give Kanate?
00:21:28
Adarsh
i mean I'm going to have to give everyone a nine now. like It's just the standard, but like no, Kanate was excellent as well.
00:21:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
You kind of backed yourself into a corner now.
00:21:34
Adarsh
Yeah, yeah. I've set the play at 34 high, so...
00:21:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
What did you give Alison Carl?
00:21:41
Karl
Five? He didn't touch the ball.
00:21:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:44
Karl
bearing mind, I'm giving myself four.
00:21:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can't penalise him for like not doing and not not having anything to do.
00:21:48
Karl
Yeah, I mean, you've got to prove yourself, haven't
00:21:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
You've got to mark him on what he had to do.
00:21:53
Karl
you? He took some lovely goal kicks. and
00:21:56
Adarsh
Hmm.
00:21:56
Karl
Great. If he gets five, I'm getting four, though. It's one of those sort games.
00:22:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, what about the fullbacks then? Carl, you've got Sabozlai and Bradley. I thought Sabozlai, I thought he was solid. I thought he was a ah ah solid seven, but I thought Bradley was eight. I thought Bradley was brilliant.
00:22:17
Karl
He does this thing, Bradley, which which i he loves a reverse ball. and that that And that's such a nice thing.
00:22:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:22:24
Karl
To say he's a fullback and he's coming in field, he loves a reverse ball. And I love everything about him. I love his lantern jaw, his weird haircut, his frown. I love everything about him.
00:22:35
Adarsh
time.
00:22:35
Karl
I love his kit. love Brillington that case because obviously he looks good in green anyway, as you'd imagine. i thought you I thought he was excellent today and because I think there's times when he hasn't been excellent in this season.
00:22:45
Karl
I thought that was a really rate that does really good performance today.
00:22:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:47
Karl
And if he's not knocking on the manager's door now, then...
00:22:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but it's it's an interesting one, Adash, that right back position, because... yeah On the surface, it looks like it's a straight fight between Connor Bradley and obviously Frimpong, right?
00:23:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
now that Sir Bozlai has come into that mix as well, and because we've got, you know, we have got some quality options in midfield. You've got McAllister, you've got Gravenberg, you've got Vietz.
00:23:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Carl mentioned that, you know, Jones hasn't even had a look-in in this game. But i'm I'm thinking ahead in terms of AFCON and also in terms of just squad rotation.
00:23:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Come AFCON and Mo's gone, you could quite feasibly have Frimpong playing right kind of wing and it might be Conor Bradley or it might be Subozlai at right back.
00:23:33
Adarsh
but
00:23:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
It doesn't have have to be a straight fight between Bradley and fi Frimpong for the for the right back position.
00:23:48
Adarsh
Yeah, no, I think it's an interesting one, but I think, I do think sports like wall continue to be a midfield player. I don't think, I think the right back spot for him was a short term fix. obviously because of Frim Bong's injury, Bradley being out.
00:24:02
Adarsh
What would say is I find it very hard for... I think Slott will find it very hard to drop Subozla from the team. So whether that's him playing right back or in midfield, I think he starts...
00:24:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:11
Adarsh
I mean, he's played a full 90 minutes for every game this season. I mean, I think he's crucial to how we play in terms of on the ball, off the ball.
00:24:19
Karl
It's tempo, it's just tempo more than anything else, I think.
00:24:20
Adarsh
So I... Yeah. Yeah, he's he's just crucial.
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:24:24
Adarsh
And I think Slott has to find a way. If he's going to get Wurtz, Gravenberg, McAllister and Sabozlai in the same team, the only way you put Sabozlai in team is that right back. Because just how do you take McAllister out if he's in form?
00:24:34
Adarsh
How do you take Gravenberg out? You could argue you take Verts out, but I mean, that's a debate for another time. But I think you need to keep giving Verts the opportunity to keep playing, to get used to the league, to get used to those combinations up front.
00:24:41
Karl
Not yet.
00:24:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:24:48
Adarsh
But I think it's a hard one. I think Sabozla will still continue to play. But I think if he is going to play in midfield, it'll be McAllister probably for a game or two. But it's a very difficult one for the manager, to be honest.
00:25:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Carl, ah we just touched on Vietz there. he I think some of the criticism of it of him has been over the top, but do you still do you see signs that that he's still got to find the pace of the Premier League? like I noticed in in in the games that he's played so far, there are times where he's just about to pull the trigger and he maybe just takes an extra touch, which he might have got away with the Bundesliga, but even against teams like Burnley, they're just snapping on your heels immediately.
00:25:33
Karl
Well, Carragher made the same point. Yeah. Carragher said the same thing.
00:25:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:37
Karl
He said, the best thing about him is his first time passes, which is just beautiful.
00:25:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:25:42
Adarsh
Mm-hmm.
00:25:42
Karl
And I think that's going go to make the difference for him.
00:25:44
Karl
I thought you're great today. i really did. mean, I know people say, no, yeah, he was ineffective. But again, you're playing against a brick wall. What do you do? You know, they're not they're not going to come out. They're not going to give you space behind.
00:25:55
Karl
They're not going to do that. I've got no worries about him at all. I think once he once he gets his first goal, i think I think it's different.
00:26:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:02
Karl
But i've I see no problem with him at all. I really don't. He's beautiful to watch. He's a fantastic player. But I think you know it's it's very, very difficult. the teams The teams he's played against are very, very creative or well-drilled, I'd say.
00:26:18
Karl
Arsenal, you know. They know exactly what they're doing.
00:26:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:21
Karl
And their number six is very, very good. So, you know, they're...
00:26:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Arsenal are just a more expensive Burnley, aren't they?
00:26:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Really, in terms of the way they've been playing this season.
00:26:27
Karl
Pretty much.
00:26:27
Karl
Yeah. yeah
00:26:29
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:26:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
and But Eketike, Adash, I thought he had a really good game, Eketike. Again, he's i think he's he's got quite a few elements to his game.
00:26:37
Adarsh
and
00:26:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you can see him playing, you can see him leading the line, you can see him... dropping deep, almost like that kind of Bobby Firmino style of attacker. And then he's popping up on the left as well.
00:26:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he created a really, really good good opportunity. But there was and there was, you know, maybe if Isak was on the field, he might have sniffed out that chance that he kind of trickled across the six-yard box.
00:27:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
I thought he had a good game.
00:27:03
Adarsh
yeah Yeah, no, I think he's i mean he's started his Liverpool career unbelievably. i think it's still very early in terms of like what he can offer what he has been offering.
00:27:13
Adarsh
But I thought he was excellent. I think he is yeah still like a bit like Wurtz, getting used to the league and he's had obviously scored some goals, but I think in terms of like positioning, like there was one where Verts puts it across the the box and I think he could get the on on the end of it if he's just a second or two sharper.
00:27:29
Adarsh
But yeah, no I can definitely see him playing on that left-hand side, especially because we've been discussing Gakpo and his inconsistency at times. If Eketike can play on that left, you've got that space for Isak up front.
00:27:40
Adarsh
He's definitely got all the attributes too to play basically across any any of those positions in the front three. But yeah, I find it a bit strange that He's the first one to come off all the time when it comes to like the attacking substitutions and he puts on Chiesa up front.
00:27:53
Karl
i I think that's management of time though isn't it as much as anything else I thought I thought he's going to get the full game today
00:27:55
Adarsh
Yeah, probably.
00:27:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
I
00:27:57
Adarsh
True, true. good But I do want to see... it yeah I want to see him get a full name in it just to see like how he does. But no, I thought he's had...
00:28:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
think that will come.
00:28:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that will come. But I think, yeah, I think in these early stages the season, you can see, particularly with these kind of newer signings, I think he's kind of, you know, building that kind of resilience, match resilience
00:28:07
Adarsh
Yeah, he played really well.
Liverpool's Upcoming Challenges and League Implications
00:28:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
every game.
00:28:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
And and also knowing that, This is now the start of a game every two or three days now.
00:28:23
Adarsh
Hmm.
00:28:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
And they're quite intense games. You've got Atletico Madrid in the Champions League. You've got the Merseyside derby, early kickoff on a Saturday. you know So there's going to be plenty of game time. Chiesa.
00:28:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Carl, Chiesa came on. And i thought I really thought he was going to score with the the header.
00:28:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it was an Andy Robertson cross.
00:28:46
Karl
I love that.
00:28:47
Karl
Yeah, I love how angry he was. That's really nice cause because he's basically saying, that's a goal.
00:28:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, was...
00:28:51
Adarsh
sure
00:28:52
Karl
That's a goal. I scored that.
00:28:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:28:54
Karl
That's a goal. I didn't have to do any anything about it.
00:28:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
So annoying.
00:28:56
Karl
He just got it all wrong it first touch.
00:28:59
Karl
and love I love it. I think he must be really hard to play against because you never know what his feet are doing. and And again, some of the set the commentators today on Sky said something slightly disparaging. about you know they've They've got E-Sec to come in. At the moment, they have to make do with Chiesa. I thought...
00:29:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:15
Karl
He's an Italian international, lads.
00:29:16
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:29:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:29:18
Karl
He's all right, you know. He can play a bit. yeah I always felt that there's a slight disrespect about Kei. He's a phenomenal footballer.
00:29:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think it i think it is as disrespectful. And I think it's, you know, there's is there's a lot made of the fact that, you know, we only spent £12 million pounds last summer.
00:29:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, it's it's almost like that transfer didn't happen.
00:29:39
Karl
Yeah.
00:29:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's like, oh, Liverpool didn't spend anything last summer. And and again, yeah I think it's quite dismissive of a player who's got pedigree. know, he played for Juventus. Like you said, he's an Italian international.
00:29:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I thought he was you know he was effective when he came on. thought Frimpong showed flashes. And Rio, even Rio Adash, he came on. And again, even in the few minutes that you that he came on, you could he had an impact.
00:30:04
Karl
He did more than cat. Yeah.
00:30:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he the way that he found Frimpong, I was thinking if that was Salah, that comes onto his left foot and that's probably in the back of the net.
00:30:15
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:30:17
Karl
yeah
00:30:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
But again, encouraging signs.
00:30:19
Adarsh
Yeah, I mean, he's showing so many signs of just potential.
00:30:22
Adarsh
Oh.
00:30:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, I thought i thought he was really, really impressive when he came on. But so it's, look, it's as I mentioned, it's the start of, you know, the the real kind of campaign is almost starting now.
00:30:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Kyle, Liverpool, 12 points, top of the league. Manchester derby, you know, Man City kind of swatted United as aside. United were absolutely awful. You know, but we're six points.
00:30:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I we're six points ahead of City, are we?
00:30:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think.
00:30:52
Karl
Yeah, they've lost twice.
00:30:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Six points ahead City, three ahead of Arsenal.
00:30:53
Karl
yeah
00:30:54
Adarsh
Yep.
00:30:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got the Merseyside derby on Monday. And then Sunday...
00:31:02
Karl
Saturday.
00:31:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
no, no weve we've got...
00:31:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
we Yeah, Liverpool got Merseyside derby on Sunday. And then Sunday is Arsenal versus City.
00:31:04
Adarsh
i
00:31:08
Karl
Arsenal City, yeah.
00:31:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, you know, as long as we can do the business on Saturday and really put pressure on those other two, I mean, we could have a fairly decent, healthy lead after five games.
00:31:14
Karl
Doesn't matter.
00:31:24
Karl
And I think what happens there is I think if City win that game, City are... I've been saying, oh, City are the rivals here. I'm not having Arsenal at all.
00:31:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, 100%. 100%. Yeah. Arsenal can't.
00:31:32
Karl
Because City can come back from 10 points behind. I don't think Arsenal could.
00:31:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I agree. agree. Yeah. i agree
00:31:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
i agree
00:31:38
Karl
And much is made of, you know, the a big win.
00:31:38
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:31:40
Karl
Again, I like Zubimendi and it's Forrest, isn't it?
00:31:46
Adarsh
Yeah, new manager as well.
00:31:46
Karl
forest It's Forrest. And it's plus the Coglu, who's basically going to play seven lads up front and not bother with a midfield. You know, it's... hate hate to say this, but Forrest could go.
00:31:56
Karl
Yeah.
00:31:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
What, relegated?
00:32:01
Karl
He's awful.
00:32:01
Adarsh
I you didn't like Forrest.
00:32:01
Karl
He's an awful manager. He's an absolutely terrible manager. And everything that they've been drilled to do will be disruptted but will be completely wiped away.
Speculation on Managerial Changes and Upcoming Matches
00:32:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Adash, I was really hoping that they got Mourinho.
00:32:13
Karl
but
00:32:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
just just for the Just for the pure entertainment of it.
00:32:16
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:32:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Mourinho and the forest owner. Can can you just imagine it? It would just be absolute carnage.
00:32:19
Karl
Mourinho, Forrest, DMA.
00:32:27
Adarsh
Oh my gosh. Yeah. It would be carnage.
00:32:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:32:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
But you know what?
00:32:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's... yeah but
00:32:32
Adarsh
Absolute carnage.
00:32:33
Adarsh
I still think he could...
00:32:35
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:32:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, look, you never know.
00:32:36
Adarsh
I still think he could be...
00:32:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, mean, ha the season is young.
00:32:38
Adarsh
Yeah.
00:32:38
Adarsh
um yeah
00:32:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
The season is young. I'm sure there's going to be more sackings before before long. But so we're we're going to leave you on that note. You've been listening to the Daily Liverpool podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:32:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a big week coming up as we build up to the Champions League game on Wednesday against Atletico Madrid. And then, as we've mentioned, there's the first Merseyside derby of the season on Saturday.
00:33:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
From myself, from Karl and from Adash, thank you for listening. We'll see you next time.