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Hey everyone, welcome to the Redmen TV and your latest daily news update. My name is Dan Club, I'm here for the next half an hour to bask in the glory of Joe Gomez's world that we all now live in. Hope you're good, hope you're well. I mean, you enjoy that. I would normally say hope you enjoyed last night. Of course you enjoyed last night. You're Liverpool fans, that's why you're watching and listening to me. And last night was unbelievable. A night to remember, how much fun was that? And it was fun. Listen, there was a moment where it wasn't fun. There was a couple of moments where maybe it wasn't fun. I'm thinking about when Ryan Gravenberg gave away the penalty, Morgan Rodgers scored said penalty, and then Kostas Simikas when he missed, that was less fun. But I think overall, I was really pleased with how Liverpool went about our business last night. Yeah, let's talk about that. But I do hope you're good. As ever, these shows are for you guys to interact with us. I will go through some newsy stuff momentarily. But for now, I do want to speak about Liverpool making it through to the quarterfinals of the Cardback or where we will face Bournemouth. Importantly at home, I want to state at that juncture. Because in a away trip to Bournemouth, obviously it's more difficult away than it is at home anyway. But particularly given the distance Bournemouth is away from Liverpool, it will be a midweek game, of course, as well. That in the schedule that is already quite congested, is just something we didn't really need as a team nor fans. But we don't, we're at home, which is nice. Could have been easier looking at You Man City. But yeah, still, we'll take that all day long. But I want to get a bit of a temperature check on Liverpool, generally, but especially last night. Because listen, overall, it's more momentum, it's more positivity, it's more feel good, it's more buying, I think, in terms of where we're at and what we're working towards or what's possible, I think. But just on last night in isolation, like, the changes that we made, and when I think, I know a lot of the reaction, the response to the team news from both us and Chelsea was somewhat negative, actually, because I obviously run our socials and I manned this show as well for a brief period before kickoff. And just a general sort of sense of the mood was, oh, we've gone a little bit under strength and Chelsea have gone really strong. This could be a difficult night's work. And seven changes for us is a lot, but I still liked the team. I still liked the quality and the strength of the lineup that we had. And I liked the bench a hell of a lot as well, by comparison to Chelsea's. Chelsea's 11 might have been a little bit more experienced, maybe a little bit stronger, you could argue. But yeah, I was never in the camp of feeling really sort of negative or concerned or worried about what we'd named. And I think the set up was interesting as well. Maybe it flipped it up from what I expected. It might be what I envisaged when I saw the personnel. But yeah, when the game got underway, I was even more pleased. Like we were never under massive pressure. It didn't feel like, and again, we're gonna come back to it around Gravenburke a moment. It's stupidity is on the wrong side. Caicedo's going, no, it doesn't need to make the tackle. Could allow Caicedo to take a touch and what's the worst that's gonna happen? But yeah, there was no fear factor going into it. And again, as the game started to play out, I never got overly concerned. I felt like we were more than handling it and sort of competing and winning first and second balls. And yeah, the game was in our sort of reach throughout the entirety of it. And then like I say, go on, they'll down, but respond immediately. Just a daft moment from Fafana, thankfully, gets us back on level turns. And then second half, I felt again, was pretty competitive. So yeah, I was really pleased with what I saw. But the penalty shootout, let's be honest, was just glorious. Like it was absolutely glorious. And I said right at the top, the cost of our CIMACAST moments that should have been a repeater of his FA Cup final heroics was obviously disappointing. And at the time, a bit worrying because you felt like that could have been it. And Chelsea are now gonna, this penalty shootout is gonna manufacture itself in a way that means Chelsea prevail. But yeah, the ending was just so, so sweet. It really was. Joe Gomez, like nonchalantly, cool as you like, like a season striker, just hammering it into top bins. Like he does it every single day and even doing it all his life was just sublime. And then the aforementioned Vefana blasting one into road, but he's 68 at the cop or whatever it might have been was yeah, the best. Loved it. Absolutely loved it. And the celebrations, the scenes afterwards, Iraloa's buzzing, the team obviously buzzing, Mamedes really is buzzing because he's had a really sort of pivotal moment now in Liverpool shirt, which is great for his confidence and his mood. So yeah, just brilliant. Just a brilliant night. It was a great night. We controlled the game. Yeah, I think, yeah, I agree. And obviously when we made changes, we got stronger because you brought on three 100 million pound plus footballers and you took off two inexperienced, still relatively wet behind the ears, James McConnell, Lewis Kumas and others.