On today's episode Dave looks at Liverpool's win over Burnley from the weekend. He then looks at the title run, as he quickly goes through the fixtures for Liverpool, City & Arsenal.
On this week's "Media Matters" Eddie Gibbs, in for Dave Davis; teams up with esteemed Liverpool reporter David Lynch for post-match analysis of Liverpool's 3-1 victory over Burnley. The duo cover the key points from the game, including the individual performances that made the difference and the tactical acumen on display.
As the conversation unfolds, David Lynch offers his expert insight into the implications of Trent Alexander-Arnold's new contract situation, discussing how his development and contributions to the team could shape negotiations. The dialogue then shifts to the defensive linchpin, Virgil van Dijk, and the Egyptian maestro, Mohamed Salah, considering the impact their contracts could have on the squad's stability and morale.
Eddie and David also tackle the pressing injury and absentee updates, dissecting how recent press conference revelations could affect team strategy moving forward. They debate the potential of Xabi Alonso to ascend to the manager position at the club.
The episode culminates with an Q&A segment, where David responds to questions from viewers, offering his seasoned perspective on Thiago's journey with Liverpool, the lack of mentions for Bajcetic, and the anticipated timeline for the club's off-field leadership announcements.
For the dedicated Liverpool fan, this episode of "Media Matters" with David Lynch is a treasure trove of insight, blending tactical analysis with the broader implications of contract talks and transfers that are sure to shape the future of the club.
Dave Davis is joined by Dave Hendrick to discuss the merits of Xabi Alonso replacing Jurgen Klopp covering:
- Style of play (what’s different to Klopp)
- Their cv and we have to explore pros and cons
- Personality and whether they’ll be bought into
- Who could be winners and losers in squad
- What they’d need to do to work well with sporting director and get players on side
On the latest RAW, Trev Downey, Dave Hendrick and Jim Boardman look back on the win over Burnley that sent The Reds back to the top of the Premier League. The wide-ranging 90 minutes+ conversation covered many topics, including: the reasons Darwin Nunez is so beloved and which previous Reds, if any, held similar levels of adoration; the return of Endo; the versatility of Curtis Jones; the impact off the bench of Harvey Elliott; the future for Kompany and Burnley; Kloppo's iconic status and its possible role in success this season; VAR implementation continues to be an issue; traffic wardens refs; City's challenge; the many reasons to be cheerful and much, much more...
Jim Boardman and Jay Reid return to discuss the latest on all things LFC from Liverpool, hoping that the Reds are going to what was an unexpected title bid back on track, as well as starting to think about the League Cup final.
Losing against Arsenal was bad enough, but the manner of it caused more frustration, the Reds side unrecognisable from the one we’ve seen getting better by the week until then. Was it a blip, a bad day at the office, or should we be giving Arsenal more praise for their part in it? Jay and Jim have their views on that.
Looking further ahead to another London trip, the League Cup final is at the end of the month and the Reds have just finished the ballot to divvy out their share of the tickets. As exciting as it is to be in a final, yet again those running the game seem intent on reminding fans of how little they matter, whether it’s those missing out or those who got tickets. They have many ways of doing this.
Before all that it’s the visit of Burnley, a chance for the Reds to get things back to where they should be - as long as they play the way we expect them to play, with the help of the twelfth man.
Also this week, as always, a chance to more observations on the phenomenon otherwise known as that lot from across the park, and their aspirations for this season and beyond.
On this week’s show:
- Just a blip?
- Is the title race over now?
- Has anyone told Arsenal the answer to that?
- League Cup final tickets
- The lucky thousands well outnumbered by those who missed out or couldn’t even get into the ballot
- LFC sell 60,000 tickets to every home game, always going to be disappointment for a final in a stadium holding around 90,000, but…
- The two clubs don’t get anything like half the allocation each anyway
- Even worse for the FA Cup
- Not hard to keep sponsors happy without giving tickets to people who don’t care about the fixture
- Same conversation every time we’re involved in either final
- Shouldn’t the tickets be going to the fans of the two clubs involved?
- That’s where most of them end up - at a huge premium
- Fans always suffer the most
- Why the move of the Wembley kick-off time?
- Makes it more of a struggle to get down or puts fans even more out of pocket
- Why the difference in how tickets are being distributed to each club’s fans?
- Why paper tickets for one club, digital for the other?
- FA and EFL asking for trouble
- Sin bins and blue cards
- Why blue? We have an idea
- Injury news - not all bad for once. Not all good either, but not all bad.
- We saw Thiago! But then we blinked.
- LFC v Burnley
On today's episode Dave looks ahead at Liverpool's next game as they welcome Burnley to Anfield on Saturday. He then goes onto discuss some of the linked names to the Liverpool job.
Dave Davis reviews Jurgen Klopp’s unique pre Burnley presser and covers:
- Q&A’s plus injury update
- Blue Card Idea and IFAB
- Train of Thoughts Around Line-up
- Score and Scorer Prediction
Rival Recon returns as the Reds look to bounce back from first legitimate loss of the season against Arsenal last weekend.
Next up are relegation battling Burnley as Vincent Kompany’s side arrives at Anfield this Saturday looking destined for the drop.
Joining Hari to discuss the Claret’s poor season & expectations for the future, we welcome back Natalie Bromley from the No Nay Never podcast.
Dave Davis is joined by Ben Bocksak to discuss:
- The Arsenal Game and Thoughts
- SZOBOSZLAI FULL AND EXCLUSIVE UPDATE
- Burnley at home stats
- Runs after defeats
