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It's Matchday and Dave takes a quick look at who Liverpool should be worried about from LASK before running through a potential line-up for tonight. Could Jurgen Klopp follow Arsenal's plan from last season and play a completely rotated 11 tonight in Austria, thus saving his star names for the Premier League clash with West Ham at the weekend?
In a bumper media matters special, Dave Davis is joined by Neil Jones to discuss:
- Liverpool’s Start To The Season
- The Stars So Far and Unsung Hero’s
- The Week Ahead (LASK, West Ham and Leicester)
- His new podcast series and life as a freelance writer
All this and more on Media Matters.
On today's Daily Red the nostalgia merchant himself takes a walk down memory lane, recapping Liverpool's history in the InterCity Fairs Cup/UEFA Cup/Europa League ahead of the Reds return to the competition for the first time since the 2015/16 season. The highs, lows and the almosts.
On the latest Molby On The Spot, Trev Downey and Jan Molby look back at the win over Wolves and Jan gives his take on Szoboszlai, Jones and the very calm and composed Quansah. This inspires the lads discuss how to spot a talent capable of playing at the highest level and Jan has a tale of his own managerial experience. There's a chat about Liverpool's need for a sporting director and whether or not Xabi Alonso is even a candidate to replace Klopp when his era comes to an end. Of course, the lads look ahead to the Europa League clash with LASK and the massive Anfield Premier League game against West Ham. Jan gives his take on what sort of personnel we should be seeing in the Europa League group stages and then runs the rule over the threat posed by West Ham. All this, plus some talk about the PGMOL and a bit of craic looking at the disarray at Manchester United. As ever, a packed show with the Liverpool legend on top form.
On this episode Guy is stepping in for Dave and is joined by Karl to discuss the upcoming game against LASK in the Europa League. They chat about LASK as the Austrian side sit currently 3rd in the Austrian Bundesliga, they then move onto Liverpool and how the reds should approach the game, will Jurgen Klopp rotate as much as we think? Or will he try to keep rhythm in with the first XI. They also discuss:
 LASK formation, players, league standing etc
How Liverpool approach the game
Liverpool starting XI
Players that need to use the Europa to propel their current season
Excited to see Gravenberch
Any youngsters that could start or get good minutes from the bench
Let Salah chase records in the Europa?
Union vs Toulouse
Darth hosts Rhodesy, Barts and Si to analyse the comeback win at Wolves. The pod starts with a look at LFC's 16 game unbeaten run as this is Klopp's 5th such run during his time in charge. Before discussing the match itself, the lads have a 20 minute angry nerd section discussing:
The impact of so much injury time on p90 metrics and why all the stats websites need to urgently change
How can you tell the story of a match with data viz if the data doesn't capture key events?
XG and the law of large numbers
For the Wolves match the lads go through:
Selection, particularly the South American players. Impact of playing at altitude
Match summary of key stats
First half, system stays the same but with different players. Did it work?
Build-up and negative transition problems
Wolves aggressive dribbling: Neto and Semedo praise
Tactical changes. Gomez no longer inverting, Nunez shows actual link-up
Reds take control, Curtis Jones tribute
Dom Szoboszlai!!! is he actually a cyborg made in a lab? Record breaking top speed, distance covered
LFC goals, too much luck used?
Andy Robbo goalscoring analysis
In a bumper media matters special, Dave Davis is joined by Athletic Writer James Pearce to discuss:
- The Wolves Game
- Liverpool’s Start To The Season
- Press Conference Questions
- The Europa League
- Predictions For The Season
All this and more on Media Matters.
On today's episode of the Daily Red Dave recapped Liverpool's 3-1 win over Wolves and focused on the tactical changes made by Jurgen Klopp that turned things around after a poor first half.
With the Reds trailing 1-0 at half time, having been completely outplayed by the home side, Klopp made changes to not just the personnel but also the shape and tactical approach.
By switching from a faltering 4-3-3 to a 4-2-3-1, and then to a 4-4-2 after the Reds had drawn level and Klopp had made two more substitutions, Liverpool were able to nullify the Wolves threat and dominate the game. Crucial to this was the move to get Joe Gomez and Andy Robertson tight to their men having allowed the Wolves wingers too much space in the first half.
Dave also ponders the potential starting 11 for LASK on Thursday, as well as taking a look at what's new on the main Liverpool fansites.
Dave and Karl are back to look at all the European competitions ahead of the start of the midweek madness this week with the return of the Champions League and the Europas. They go through all the groups and discuss who they thing will progress. They also answer some questions from Discord with a look at a non big 6 XI get those Brighton and Newcastle lads in! They also answer other questions surrounding replacing Klopp & Mo, and whether it'd be worth waiting to find the right replacements.Â
Join co-hosts Gae and her team as the ladies give their valuable opinions and share their insight on Liverpool FC! Watch out - the rants are legendary!
