Welcome to the latest  edition of First State Kopites. It’s episode 34 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube).  

It’s Paul joined by Enrique, Sean and Daz this week to reflect on our last cup week of the season, and the upcoming Premier League matches.  

FA Cup - City get outplayed by the boys in Red:

Is ESPN’s coverage getting worse?

Planned to start with Benfica - it’s a weird one:     

Coming up:     

For sure we’re so glad that Jurgen is a Red. and We’ll be back next week after the Everton game. Thanks to Enrique, Daz and Sean - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible.

Welcome to the latest  edition of First State Kopites. It’s episode 33 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube).  

Joined by Daz and Haitham this week to reflect on a big week for our Champions League and Premier League ambitions.  

Let’s start with City:     

    Let’s get past their dodgy ethics (NIssan, never buying one of those cars) 2-2.      

    Being honest we could have lost this one.     

    xG looked quite close, and there were City offsides that didn’t seem to be called     

    City were 22-0-0 when leading. Not any more     

    We all know how much of let down dropping points at home can be.     

    NBC commentary - do they want a job in Abu Dhabi?  

Recap on Benfica:      

    Another terrible away performance      

    Luis Diaz      

    Everton in Europe  

Looking ahead - Benfica and City one more time…  

Other stuff:     

    Chelsea xG against Real Madrid, and Tuchel seems to have admitted defeat     

    Worst Man Utd player - Wan Bissaka or McTominay  

We’ll be back next week after the City FA Cup game. Thanks to Haitham and Daz - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible.

Welcome to the latest  edition of First State Kopites. It’s episode 32 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube).

Joined by Daz and Sean this week to muse on the first game in April, and look ahead to a big week for our Champions League and Premier League ambitions.

Watford - key themes:

Looking ahead - few words on Benfica:

The big one - City away:

Other stuff:

If you are nervous about what lies ahead, you might want to take a look at Virgil’s perspective - ‘Enjoy the Ride’

We’ll be back next week after the City league game. Thanks to Daz and Sean - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible.

Welcome to the latest  edition of First State Kopites. It’s episode 31 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube).

Joined by Daz and Sean this week to muse on the International Break and look ahead at 9 potential games in April.

After Liverpool labored at times in the FA Cup quarter final at Nottingham Forest. A Diogo Jota put us through to a semi-final against Manchester City on Easter weekend - which I mentioned only to highlight the FA’s ability to disregard the outside world when it comes to generating revenue.

In between we’ve had the international break:

Let’s take a look at the upcoming games:

Risk factors:

We’ll be back next week after the Watford game. Thanks to Daz and Sean - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible.

Welcome to the First State Kopites podcast. It’s episode 29 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube).

Hi Sean, Hi Daz, it’s been a lower excitement week after the EFL Cup win - progress in the FA Cup to the last 8 and quite a challenging League game against West Ham:

The games:

Norwich - 2-1; felt too easy until Rashica scored, Luis Diaz and Sadio Mane arriving at the end had to tell Norwich that it was over.

West Ham - close in terms of xG. Watching it back, feels like we should have been comfortable in this game. Lot more reflection on:

Games coming up.. Inter and Brighton….

Other narratives:

We’ll be back next week after the Brighton game. Thanks to Daz and Sean  - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible

Welcome to the First State Kopites podcast. It’s episode 28 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube).

I’m Paul and I am joined by Sean and Daz. It’s February 27th, the Mighty Reds have just collected their 9th League Cup  against Chelsea at Wembley. 11-10 on penalties.

The Reds beat Leeds 6-0 on Wednesday to draw within 3 points of City having played the same number of games (obviously Tierney and Kavanaugh made sure it’s now 6):

Looking ahead:

Other topics:

We’ll be back next week after the West Ham game. Thanks to Daz and Sean  - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible

Welcome to the First State Kopites podcast. It’s episode 27 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube).

It’s Monday February 21st, Daz, Sean, Haitham and me will unpick the week that just happened and look ahead to Leeds and Chelsea in the next 6 days. 8 wins in a row now:

A word on City - what do we know, what do we hope?

The week ahead:

#penaltywatch - City 7 penalties in 11 games - handall in the Arsenal - Brentford game seemed very similar. Not a mention of the fouls on Sadio.

#onlysalah - this time Jarrod Bowen has the most EPL goal contributions apart from..

We’ll be back in next week after the League Cup Final. Thanks to Sean and Daz - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible

Welcome to the First State Kopites podcast. It’s episode 26 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and on YouTube).

It’s February 13th, Reds have just gone to Burnley and avoided a banana skin. Joined by Enrique, Daz and Sean. So how do we categorize this one:

On Thursday, they battered an increasingly annoying Leicester 2-0 and it could and probably should have been 5. xG 3.27 vs. 0.45 - however the eye test tells me we could easily have had 3 more - Salah of the frame of the goal, the one that hit Schmeichel’s inside leg and just failed to cross the line, and the 1 on 1.

Week ahead - Internationale and Norwich at home:

Back to penalties after Salah is cleaned out against Leicester, tripped against Burnley and still no penalty:

Others 1) Net Spend story from CIES Observatory. 2) #onlysalah corner - Phil Foden away goals…

We’ll be back in next week after the Norwich game.. Thanks to everyone - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible

Welcome to the First State Kopites podcast. It’s episode 25 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of Liverpool supporters in Delaware. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and you can find us on YouTube).

It’s February 6th, and the Reds beat Cardiff City 3 goals to 1 earlier today on their way to the 5th round of the FA Cup. AFCON final also happened today - Egypt and Senegal played out a tight game in Cameroon - penalty drama, Sadio is the hero:

To start with:

AFCON:

Looking ahead:

Reds related round up:

We’ll be back in next week after the Burnley game.. Thanks to everyone - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible.

Welcome to the First State Kopites podcast. It’s episode 24 of season 3 - a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of Liverpool supporters in Delaware. Thanks for listening on your preferred platform, we are available on ALL of them (and you can find us on YouTube).

It's Daz, Sean and Paul on January 23rd, the Reds have been to London twice in a week to reach the League Cup final and cut City’s lead in the Premier League to 9 points. Reds have a game in hand and the chance to play at the Etihad to further cut the lead.

Let's start with today - 3-1 over Crystal Palace :

Review of the Semi Final at the Emirates:

2 weeks off till Cardiff in the FA Cup. Early kick off on Sunday February 6th.

February will have a cup final, Champions League tie and a few league games. Oh and the FA Cup

Other business:

We’ll be back in 2 weeks after the Cardiff game.. Thanks to everyone - if you enjoyed the podcast, share it with a friend. Follow us on Twitter  - we only tweet and re-tweet from sources we think are credible.