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

Hello it's Paul We Lock and welcome to your latest podcast on the Blood Red channel and over the next 10 minutes

or so we will be reacting to the release of Liverpool's 2021 Premier League fixtures.

And I say we because I'm very pleased to be joined on the line by the Liverpool echoes Connor Dunn who's on

LFC writing duty for what is one of the most anticipated days on the football calendar.

Connor no doubt many people listening to this podcast will

kick off the season at home to Leeds United,

newly promoted Leeds United, but you've been looking at the fixtures in

more depth.

But before we get into some of those key games,

what's your initial opinion on the fixes that the new Premier League champions have been handed?

Yeah, well, there's nothing quite like the fixture day of a new season is there. You know, you find out who you're going to be facing

primarily a blank canvas, you can start to make plans, think where your team might win,

the stories that might be written and things like that. But it's my initial reaction to the to the least of

it's obviously a very tough start and first five games leads Chelsea Arsenal

Villa Everton. I mean Everton at Goodison, Leeds at home, Chelsea, A.R.

It's not easy by any stretch of the imagination.

But then favourable over Christmas, I would say, and a relatively decent running with Southampton, West Brom,

Burnley and Palace will come in. So initial reaction is okay because you know before the defending

champions they're probably still the best team in the

league, only city that really competing at the moment, and so they should be okay in all of those games.

So yeah, I've been obviously been taking a look bit closer look at the at the fixture list

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