Are Wirtz, Barcola & Isak Starting To Click? | Redmen Originals Liverpool Podcast

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Paul Maitch (0:30)

Hello, everyone. Welcome along to the Redmen Originals Podcast. I am Paul Maitch, and Chloe Bloxham and Dan Klob join me for this one. If you want to know where Chris is, then keep your eyes peeled to James Wolcott's podcast in the coming days. He's down there making a guest appearance on that, which I'm certain will be absolutely stunning, stunning content from two wonderful human beings. We are going to talk about Liverpool winning and winning well, sort of, against Crystal Palace in due course. We're going to have a little chat about Alison Becker and his future at the Football Club later on as well. But, because I totally and utterly forgot to do this on the podcast last week, let me just show you, our brand new knitted Christmas jumper is out now and available to pre-order exclusively on redmemmerch.com.

Anyone who's ordered one of our jumpers in the past will know that these do go very, very quickly indeed. So, yeah, if you want one, get one while you can, because, yeah, eventually will happen is our inboxes will be filled with people saying, Oh, can I just know there is a production cycle on these? It's a one and done type thing. So get in on the pre-order to guarantee one and don't miss out. But yeah, I love it very much inspired by one of my and technically therefore now two of my favourite goalkeeper tops of all time. Back to 1990 and this season's one as well.

Chloe Bloxham (1:49)

But how old was she then in 1990?

Paul Maitch (1:53)

Seven. How old have you?

Chloe Bloxham (1:58)

I don't know.

Paul Maitch (1:58)

Yeah. So yeah, there you go. Very, very good. Redmen merch.com. Fill your boots on that. Right.

Crystal Palace won the Liverpool three. We will do. We're going to do it. Broadly, chronological, this dance. So we'll come to the penalty stuff later on in the referee and all that, because it was the last thing that happened in the match, although one of the most significant things. But let's just start more broadly speaking, that it was just a needed win after the sloppiness of midweek, just to get back to winning football matches without too much drama.

Dan Klob (2:38)

Yeah. Well, we were flying close to the wind and running the risk of having a really bad week or so here, weren't we, whilst we have to stew on a grim week. And the results would have been had we not have got the three points yesterday, because obviously there was Arsenal preceded Fenerbahce, and both of them didn't go the way we would have wanted, albeit shrouded in controversy, particularly the Arsenal game. Disappointing performance in midweek out in Istanbul. So, yeah, it was really important that we went home and got the three points here by hook or by crook, just in terms of our mood and morale, I guess, over the course of the coming days. Whilst international football takes over again. So, yeah, really important, really significant.

We showed more resilience and we showed more fights, I think. We can talk about what we didn't show, maybe, over the course of the next half an hour, 45 minutes or whatever. But yeah, in terms of where we're at, in terms of looking at the league table, in terms of all that sort of stuff, it was a massive, massive three points yesterday.

Paul Maitch (3:31)

Yeah, and that is sometimes, Chloe, is that I wouldn't suggest that how Liverpool achieved the victory or the balance of the game and so many of the instances of the game, I wouldn't say this is now the template for how every Liverpool game should go. I wouldn't like that.

But yeah, as Dan kind of says, I think it was a way to win that we needed to do. And also, again, in terms of a mood lifter, we were playing for more than three points, psychologically speaking, because it's the international break now, and you just don't need to ever go into a two week spell feeling miserable, because you're just there, your mood is on the line, your temperament, and your fuse is shorter than it should be. And you end up as like, banter fodder basically. So actually, if nothing else, just getting the win kind of takes Liverpool off the table for that.