Liverpool Win & Reds Preparing Man City Hijack | Redmen Bitesize

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Hello everybody, welcome to The Redmen TV and the latest edition of Redmen Bikes. Hi, this is Monday, the 22nd of October. My name is Dan Club. I'm here to bring you through all the latest goings on in the world of Liverpool. And you may notice a particular spring in my voice, an upbeat tone, if you will.

Yeah, and it's hard not to be relatively upbeat about life as a Liverpool fan right now.

Calls for optimism, I think. Moving, stepping, striding in the right direction. Another three points picked up yesterday. And I think perhaps more importantly and significantly, it felt like a big win. It felt like a somewhat crucial win. I'm not going to go as far as a statement victory and putting a marker down. And suddenly we are, you know, in the amongst the title favourites and all contenders. But I think when you beat a team as inform and as at it, as brightened, then you have to sit up and take notice of that achievement and that accomplishment. And I think when you do it in the manner and the style of which we did it as well, then that in of itself sort of gives me cause for positivity and sort of adding belief to the fire. If you will, because was it absolutely touch perfect, every single step of the way? No. But it was full of quality and also full of desire, carried a real sort of like all in mentality, all in attitude and approach to the match.

And that in of itself, again, is really something I can buy into and get hold of, if you will, and allow it to make me think that we are capable of doing something special this season. I didn't really felt like that prior to yesterday. So, yeah, really, really good. Flory and Wirtz makes the first goal happen. Well, actually, Ronald Aujo, who we'll speak about in more detail in a minute, makes the first goal happen. But it's Wirtz with the eventual shot, which is deflected and it's him. And then not too long after that, Bradley Barkley capitalises on a bit of a mistake at the back from Brighton, runs away and perfectly assists Alexander Isak, who's finished his top class as well. And that's obviously now another big goal for Alexander Isak whose tallies moved to six in the Premier League, which is good, keeping pace with, you know, where we'd want him to be, I guess, in terms of his output in front of the goal. That's what he was brought to do, essentially.

But yeah, really, really nice to see him doing it, I guess, with the regularity with which he's able to right now. Nice for Barker to have another moment, nice for Florent Wurz to have a tangible major impact on a game as well. And again, I come back to my sort of earlier statement in terms of it not being absolutely, you know, polished, the performance. Brighton were very good, Brighton could have took the lead. They had the biggest chance at the game before we made it 1-0. And they had spells in the game too, in terms of definite spells of possession, spells of territory, spells of potential moments of danger. But I think a combination of them just falling a little bit flat, and a lot of ideas when it got to the final third, combined with our solidity, our rigidness, and our determination at the back, meant that it was, you know, good and they didn't have too many chances after that big one I already mentioned. Again, they got within shooting distance a few times, they had some moments inside the area. But because of Ronald Araujo, Jemi Giacche, Virgil van Dijk, et cetera, all being willing to put their body on the line, and successfully as well, meant the Brighton were limited in terms of big clear-cut chances anyway. Just a slight downbeat note on the game, Florian Wirtz did, was forced off injured, seemed to be an ankle problem. He carried on for a few minutes after he was down for treatment for some duration, actually, it was a decent chunk of time, whilst the physios were working on him.