This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello and welcome along to this week's Liverpool. com podcast.

I'm your host for this week, Matt.

Anderson, Andrew Beasley is alongside me once again.

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For the rest of the show though, we're going to have a little bit of a chat around

Arnold's first game.

It was a good 2-0 victory for the Reds, Andrew at Ipswich.

It looked a little bit tricky in the first half,

but I think we saw Liverpool's quality shine through in the second.

What were your initial thoughts on what was

our first competitive match, not the first time that we've seen them of

course, but the first time that we've seen them in the Premier League.

Yeah, without wanting to reach for a cliche immediately, it was a bit of a game of two halves, wasn't it?

Because Ipswich did very well in the first half, Liverpool, not so much, didn't really create anything.

I don't think Ipswich did either. To be fair, they had shots you know it wasn't too bad but there was clearly room for improvement but yeah after the break

Liverpool were phenomenal really Bipswich barely had a look in Liverpool should really have scored more than the two goals. They had six big chances which in

one half of football is is very very rare indeed. So yeah you have to be pleased with

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