It’s September 1st and it’s the 6th episode of our 5th season, welcome dear listener. I’m Paul joined by Daz. We are here to talk about the Newcastle game - review our predictions and spend a short amount of time on the game against Villa - 2 days away. Thanks for joining us.

Part One - comfortable 2-1 win over Newcastle:():

• I watched this one back and I think there are a few narratives that are imagined:
• Gordon terrorized TAA (3 successful take ons out of 5).
• To be fair, TAA did gift the ball to him for the goal, he misplaced some passes

• And, he hadn’t been very effective in the second half - 2 runs early but not much else. Talking off someone with pace theoretically hurt.

• VVD was over the top in his reaction to the Brooks red card - the officiating:

• TAA early yellow brought back the PTSD of recent officiating. New directives only seem to be directed at us. Jason F’in Tindall
• VVD - ‘he got the ball’ said Robbo. Anger was a bigger picture issue.
• Joelinton - how many fouls?

• 2 minutes before Gomez was allowed on

• Liverpool were awful till the red card

• Not much going on apart from the few moments that are referenced again and again

• Newcastle’s tactical errors led to the comeback

• The Reds had a lot of positives:

• Starting at 55, Jota and Elliott made it look like 11 on 11. Forced NUFC to make changes at 71. Not giving Howe a pass but they needed to shore it up - the crowd had gone quiet. They got better control for a few minutes.
• At 75 we became more dangerous than them when Darwin and Jarrell Quansah show up.
• We’ve said before how much Klopp doesn’t particularly love midfielders - there were not many left at the end of this game were there?

• Jota, Szobo, Salah and Darwin all combine to make the Reds look in control. Salah, Jota, Trent passes, and Dom’s presence.

• Other thoughts - Endo on Tonali? Ali is awesome - and yes that allows some of the risk taking. Formation looked solid when TAA created the extra man

• Is it long before Eddie Howe becomes the Admiral Motti connection in Star Wars - "I find your lack of faith disturbing", says Darth Vader?

Part Two - This weekend and looking forward:

• Signings - if we could get a center back for the weekend
• Europa League - Toulouse, LASK, and Union SG
• Villa - team selection and score predictions

We will be back with a review of the Villa game. Thanks to Daz for joining me. And thank you for listening.

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