Liverpool Beat Crystal Palace & Face Rio Ngumoha Transfer Battle | Redmen Bitesize

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Hello everybody, welcome to The Redmen TV and your latest edition of Redmen Bike Size. It is Monday the 9th of November. My name is Dan Club and I'm here to talk you through some of the latest happenings in the world of Liverpool. And we begin with the win yesterday, really, really important one. Just for my and your mood, I would imagine, over the course of the next fortnight, at the International Break, once again, takes hold. I could have sworn this International Break wasn't supposed to exist anymore, but here we are.

Yeah, big win yesterday, free run away at Crystal Palace.

Listen, was it perfect? No. But was it quite well orchestrated and executed in the end? I would say yes, because we were good value for it in terms of the efficiency with which we were able to take our chances. Definitely, we were simply more ruthless than them when it came to the bigger moments, and that's in attack and in defense. And Alison Becker, we owe you an apology for some of the stuff that people might have said in midweek about him, but we owe him our gratitude and thanks for yesterday because he was outstanding, one of his best performance. When we look back at the pantheon of Alison Becker performances, which there are many, this will be right up there amongst them. It wasn't quite PSG away from a couple of years ago, but it was in a million miles away as well. Two or three big, big saves when Palace were very much in the ascendancy. They also had a goal disallowed from offside, but yeah, as I mentioned, in terms of balance of play, in terms of maybe deserving the moment and even deserving the points, that could be brought into question. But when they arose and when we had opportunities to strike, we did so with more conviction than Crystal Palace, really. Alexis McAlester, with yet another near post header, to get us off the mark and get us into the lead, come from a doms of Boslei free kick, excellent delivery from him. And I think many people are questioning his inclusion, particularly given how Traneoni has been performing and the balance that he's offered in the midfield. We do relinquish a little bit of that control without him in there, but we do get the added quality of doms of Boslei. So, yeah, it's a difficult one, and it's something we have to work out over the course of time. But I think we could all see later on when Trey did enter the fray, just what he brings and that poise that he offers in the middle of the park. He doesn't vacate the position anywhere near as much as doms of Boslei does. And that's not being critical of dom. He just wants to make things happen in different areas of the pitch. Whereas Trey just allows you that discipline to sit and keep you ticking over and actually run the game in many ways. His reading of the game, his understanding of where to be and when to be there is absolutely phenomenal. And he was brilliant in helping us get over the line yesterday because the goals came from Florian Wirtz and another one for Alexander Isak to add to his tally. Yeah, good for both of them. Obviously Bradley Barker assisting Wirtz and Wirtz then went on to assist Alexander Isak for his. Took his goal really, really well as well. Isak, and nice to see Barker getting another goal involvement because overall you could pick holes in many of the performances I think from yesterday. But again, job well done. Three points to move on to the next one, which of course will be Manchester United post international break. And I come back to what I said right at the start. It absolutely wasn't the performance of a finished team, of a finished article, but it was a foot performance of a team that still has quality and has the desire and the willingness to fight for points. And thankfully once again, has Alisson Becker. So all's well that ends well. And yeah, we'll move on to some other stories now. We begin with a reported left-back search, which is underway for Liverpool, which I must admit doesn't come as a huge prize. And there's a couple of reasons as to why that's the case. I'll start with the report itself. It comes from Football Insider. They've claimed that Liverpool have set their sights on a left-back signing after Costas Timokas' twist. It says Liverpool are planning to sign a new left-back as they brace for Costas Timokas to leave the club. The 30-year-old has had a contract at the end of the season and no talk is said to have taken place over an extension with the Reds now assessing their options. Goes on to say that he called upon the Greece International on a number of occasions this season, but has not been impressed by what he's seen sparking concerns.