Welcome dear listener to the latest episode. Look out for the bonus episode coming soon previewing our upcoming games.

I’m Paul and I am joined by Sean and Daz. The Reds drew 2-2 with Fulham last weekend, beat Southampton 2-1 last Wednesday in the Carabao Cup and played a tough one against Spurs today - well OK, a game we dominated. We are at the top of the Premier League with a game in hand - 12 points clear of City, 6 from Arsenal and 4 from Chelsea. We’ll review those games and then talk about the upcoming Premier League games against Leicester, West Ham and Man United.

Part One - Reds drew at home Fulham - xG 2.13 versus 1.22

Losing Andy Robertson after 17 minutes was tough

The team looked like an 11 for the most part

The challenge on Gomez was huge. 2-1 up with 20 to go would have been great.

Szobo and Ryan were magnificent.

And Oh his name is Diogo!!

Part Two - a word on Southampton (xG 0.7 to 1.7) and then the Spurs game:

Southampton:

Actually a good performance by a much pared down squad - Nyoni, Morton, Endo, Elliott. Some decent performances in there.

Good goals by Darwin and Harvey.

Lots of CSI shit about the challenge by Quansah on Fernandes (cf with national reporting of the foul on Gomez in the Fulham game).

Spurs (xG 4.60 vs 1.25)

Lots of bad memories at this stadium. Even when we won, Bobby got poked in the eye

Apart from the vertigo suffering Madison’s goal, that first half was just about perfect

Diaz, Gakpo, Salah combination

That midfield - probably helped by the break that we had and they didn’t

Salah - 2 behind Henry, 5 behind Lampard in EPL goals. Just passed Billy Liddell, now 4th on the all time Liverpool list. Joint 10th on the EPL list of assists, about to pass David Beckham.

Concern about conceding 2 late goals?

We will be back in 2 weeks with a review of those four or five games, and maybe some previews. Thanks to Daz and Sean for joining me, Paul. And most of all, thank you dear listener for joining us.

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