Welcome dear listener to First State Kopites. The podcast of the Premier League Champions and current league leaders. We are back from the first international break, 2 more before the end of November (woo hoo).  We now start the 2 games each week grind - first up away at Burnley on Sunday and then home to Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid. I’m Paul and today I am joined by Daz and Justin. 

We’ve just learned that according to millionpodcasts.com we are ranked 17th on the list of Liverpool FC podcasts. We’ve got all five star reviews so far, which is great. However we only have 5 reviews, so if you are listening, we’d love a positive review, a rating and tell a friend to help us move up that list. End of the PSA, on with the show. 

Start - weeks of meaningless football - Reds’ watch:

• VVD, Grav and Gakpo.

• Ekitike and Ibou

• Isak watch

• Mc Allister played a full 90

Upcoming - Burnley away. This is not Sean Dyche’s Burnley….. 

• Kind of game we need to win. Did win the games against the promoted sides last season (not always easily), dropped points at Luton the year before.

• Team selection - (Bradley, Szobozlai, Mac Allister, Isak), expectations, and possible scorelines

Atletico Madrid at home: 

• Ideally, need to win our home games to settle into the Champions League.

• Team selection, expectations, and possible scorelines

Other fixtures and sub plots

• Nuno and Ange - away at Arsenal this weekend.

• Bournemouth - Brighton

• Manchester derby

• Ajax - Inter - European royalty tie

• Bayern Munich - Chelsea - some European royalty here

We’ll be back with a review of the Burnley game. Thanks to Justin and Daz for joining me, Paul. And most of all, thank you dear listener for joining us.

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