 We're kicking off this edition of the Sportsmax Zone with Football Match Day 3 of the UEFA Europa League concluded earlier Thursday with 15 matches across Europe in one of the day's early kick-offs. Last season's Conference League champions, West Ham United, tasked with Olympiacos. The Hammers enter the fixture looking to further cement their hold at top Group A but things did not go quite according to plan. Let's watch the highlights. Yes, so the win there for Olympiacos former TNT International. Brent Sancho joins us via Zoom to talk about this fixture and others. Brent, West Ham are group leaders, still are following the result. Olympiacos undefeated in the Greek Super League at the moment and they've won 85% of their matches but I don't think they were expected to beat West Ham today were they? No, not one of the 11-game winless streaky Olympiacos in European competition and not one West Ham has had the streak that they've had breaking records as well. It was a result against the form guide as expected but I think a lot of it came down to the players on the pitch particularly from a West Ham perspective. They were nonchalant, non-existent, uninspiring. We talk a lot about games being played on a Thursday for Premiership Clubs and how difficult it is for players to get up for these games. Normally games of course played with heavily rotated squad players that are normally on the peripherals and probably don't have enough playing time under their belt but this was really poor for my Sam today and uncharacteristically poor because if you look at what they've done, their body of work in Europe has been excellent so far. This has certainly been a block on their people. Yeah, any credit though to Olympiacos who fought hard and cracked in a couple of good goals? Yeah, you're right and credit should be given and in a balanced perspective as much as I can say about West Ham, you have to give credit to Olympiacos. They played front foot football from the wood goal. They were certainly a danger all the way through all, as I said, they wanted this win. They could have easily crumbled plans because of the record that they have coming up against West Ham who's had quite a good string of result but they were everything opposite of that today and a lot of credit has to be given to them. They earned their fee today but again, you couple that with the poor West Ham result and that's of course the reason why Olympiacos went over with all three points. Yeah, and the loss they had earlier in the group to Freiburg was a high scoring game. They lost 3-2 which means offensively they got some goals. It's just that they didn't win. Yeah, they've always showed the capability of scoring goals at Olympiacos but it's keeping goals out on the other end but they were solid today. They were very solid today. West Ham didn't really have anything of note. Of course, the Paqueta goal at the end was one of class but outside of that, they defended quite stoutly and quite well. I think going back to West Ham lands, obviously that heavy defeat against Aston Villa in the weekend four goals to one. This defeat, they have Everton coming up on the weekend. I don't want to suggest necessarily it's a critical jump for Moise. Not necessarily is. But at the same point in time, there are some bad habits that are stepping into the squad. The way that they play, the way that they're going about their business that he may need to keep a little eye on and may need to obviously try to weed that out. Yeah, still for West Ham they'll be satisfied that they're still top of the group but the group beginning to get tense now because Freiburg are joined top with them on points with six and Olympiacos are now within two points of the leader. So today's result tightens up the group. Yeah, in tights of the group, I would want to give West Ham the benefit of the doubt here last because look, we have to agree they've been exceptional in Europa from last season and into this season as well. And of course, you do have these sorts of performances stepping into a team timing. Sometimes it does happen. So I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and I want to suggest that it's probably a block on their paper. I think they will get the better results and I do think they will come out of the group generally. But I think one thing they have learned today is in this format and on the Thursday night games in the Europa League, you cannot underestimate your opponent at any point in time. I do want to place a little bit of blame on David Moyes. I thought the team was a bit unbalanced. He put a lot of players in there that didn't have a lot of minutes throughout the season. So you could have seen the lack of fluidity in it and I thought he may have mixed it a bit. In his post-game interview, he talked about the games that they have coming up as I mentioned Everton and the League Cup game next week. But I still felt that he could have put a little bit more balance in the team with players that have been playing more regularly mixed with some of the players that haven't been playing as often as they may have liked. Yeah, well Brent, another English Premier League club was in action earlier on today. Liverpool hosting the French side to lose at Anfield. Let's see how that late fixtures shaped up. Jota, seven appearances. And it came from a Joe Gomez tackle inside his own half. Jota then with a quick take and turn. Now there's something on. Look at this wide open. It's Dalinga in on goal for Toulouse. Still ever scored. Where was Chambers going? It's Alexander-Arnold on the top of the picture there that played Dalinga on the side. They couldn't catch him. All he had to do then, I say all he had to do. Jones. Elliot leaves it for Alexander-Arnold. And it's in. Watano Endo has headed in his first ever goal for Liverpool. Short corner. They weren't ready for that. Jones able to wander across unchallenged. And then the best possible idea. Give it to the man who delivers a ball into the box better than most. Alexander-Arnold. Gravenbeck going through. Here's Jones. Jones shot blocked. How about it? And Nunez. Gravenbeck. Decided to go on a driving run. One or two in Liverpool Red, but he in particular have been doing that this evening. Jones effort blocked. A little bit of good luck too soon. And there will have to be an element of taking a bit more of a gamble. Keller has gambled there and lost. What a chance for Toulouse. Should have taken it blocked by Alexander-Arnold. A save on the goal line. Oh, the flick from Dunham hasn't worked. And Darwin Nunez might be away. Nicolaisen's been beaten. Oh, this is beautiful. Oh, he's missed. Can you believe it? Gravenbeck. He doesn't miss. A beautiful ugly goal. It was a Toulouse trick that started it all. Dunham didn't look. The flick didn't go to the right place. Look at the footwork. To set Nicolaisen down in the first place. The round rest is in the second. Diogo Jota. Gatto. Salah. He didn't need long. That's 16 goals in his last 16 home appearances. Brilliantly done. Effortlessly done. Liverpool five to lose one. Yeah, so Liverpool getting lots of goals there. Eleven goals in their last four matches in all competitions. Liverpool and a satisfying result. They're Brent for Jürgen Klopp's men. Yes, it was a very good result for Jürgen Klopp's men. You know, Lance, I think back to last season where a lot of stick was thrown towards Liverpool, particularly in the middle of the park where they really struggled. They talked about Thiago Alcantara. Of course, Jordan Henderson moved on. Milner who deputized at times in the middle of the park. And now look at the type of midfield that they have. Young and energetic. Of course, expansive in the way that they want to play. Imagerative, great at breaking lines. They've really been able to turn a squad around in one season with some of the signings that they've brought in. And you're seeing that now with the level of play from Liverpool, the level of the energy levels, of course, the enthusiasm to get forward and get back as well. And they prove it to be a very, very good team to watch. And obviously, one of the teams, Lance, that you will feel that could go on to do good things later on in the future. And I mean by that, challenging for the EPL. And of course, I think they are, they should be odds on favourite to take in the Europa League. Yeah, there are only three points off the top of the English Premier League, Brent. And speaking about a squad, eight changes made by Jürgen Klopp from the side that beat Everton in the English Premier League at the weekend. And still they put in this impressive performance. Quite an entertaining performance from my standpoint. Talk to me though about Endo and Gravenberg because I thought those two especially were quite impressive for Liverpool today. I'll start with Gravenberg because I tell you what, Ricardo, when he came in, I looked at a lot of Liverpool TV and the Flandre fans and the blogs and all that stuff. I know I shouldn't be watching that, but I did. And there was a lot of criticism of whether or not he could make the standard of Liverpool. Of course, left from Bayern Munich, him across to Liverpool was on the outside of the Bayern Munich starting team. And he's coming now, although he's not necessarily commanding a starting place in the EPL team. What I've seen from in the Europa League, there is so much to look at. There's so much to be very much impressed with. His driving at the defences, his ability to slip a pass, his eye for a goal, his ability to break lines. Those are the sorts of things that I normally, of course, mention when I talk about my favourite player now, Richard Bellingham. But that's what you get. That's the kind of feel you feel when you watch Gravenberg play. And he's shown that today. And again, I go back to the fact that I mentioned about Western. Normally teams that play on a Thursday don't have that enthusiasm and drive. But look at his Liverpool performance today. Players that are normally struggling for minutes on the first team, playing with a lot of pride and gusto. And you're right, Endo is another player that a lot of eyeballs will raise when Jürgen Klopp beat that signing. But again, he showed up today with his energetic performance and complimented the rest of the midfield. So I think Jürgen Klopp will be a very, very happy man going into this weekend's fixtures. Yeah, for sure. When you speak about Liverpool potentially challenging for the English Premier League title, and you say that they are odds and favourites to win the Europa League. And if they are going to go deep in the various competitions or when they go deep in the various competitions, they will need the depth if they are to go over the line. And from that standpoint at least, Jürgen Klopp would have been happy to have Gagpo back in his team after a month out with injury. Yeah, imagine a Liverpool squad that scores five goals and most salad doesn't start. Of course, he came on and then he scored at the end. But that just shows you the depth that they have from an offensive standpoint. And they really dominated this football game from an offensive standpoint. The movement, the interplay, the imagination, as I mentioned, of course, Elliott Jones, Noma Callister, it was really an impressive and you're right. When you're talking about going deep in competitions, when you're talking about doing well in the EPL, doing well in Europa, you need a big squad. It is no if ands or what's about it simply because when you get to that stage, what I call the business and the competition, you need all your players fine and all cylinders. And from a perspective of what we know transpired for Liverpool last season when they really struggled, this season a little bit is a lot different because of the depth. And I would imagine as well, Ricardo, when you have depth in a squad, there's a side of the pitch that a lot of people don't recognize. The competition and training is intense. And it means that players have to be on their peas and queues and always wonder whether or not they're going to be in that start in 11. When you have that in your squad, in your dressing room, in your locker room, it makes things a lot brighter for you in your football team. And I guess you can imagine what that Liverpool training ground is like. Every day, everyone is fighting for a spot on that team, and that would only bode well for Klopp and what he wants to do. Yeah, quick one, Brenton, about 25 or 30 seconds. I know that you said that this was an impressive performance on the attacking end from Liverpool. And I know that because they were left open at the back quite often in this game. In fact, Toulouse should have had at least one more goal, I mean the gaping goal. And I think it was Alexander Arnalou cleared off the line. So Liverpool defensively might still have a few things to work out. Yeah, they do, and they still, because the way Klopp wants to play, he wants to play high up the park, he wants his wing back to, of course, explore the spaces ahead of them, and they will always be in situations where they end up in 1v1 situations at the back, and Klopp believes that his centre halves should have the ability to defend in those sorts of situations. And you're right, I think for them to be successful, yes we talk about having a huge squad and doing well from that department, scoring goals is great, but if those centre halves are not capable of doing their duty in their 1v1 situations, that they will have, all that we talk about here would come to normal. Okay, Brent, we're going to leave the UEFA Europa League there for today. Stay with us, you'll talk some schoolboy football from TNT with us after that, but here are the remaining results from matchday three of the UEFA Europa League. Thursday football, Topola beaten at home by Freiburg, who go joint top of the table at the moment, falling Westam Slip today, Real Betis won over Aris Limassol, Marseille winning 3-1 over AEK Athens, who are still without their Trinidadian striker Levi Garcia, who is injured, 1-1 between Rakau and Sporting, Sparta Pragnilov with the Rangers, Atalanta 2-2 at Sturmgraz, Molde 5-1 over Hakan Karabagh, beaten 5-1 by Barre Leberkusen, who are also group leaders, Shtad Rehn, group leaders as well, defeating Panathanaikos 2-1, Sherith Tirisfal 1-1 with Serbet, Ajax beaten by Brighton 2-0, A.S. Roma 2-0 over Slavia Pragn, what go there from Lukaku and Royal Union, who were 2-1 winners over at last, we go to break. Back with more after this, Brent talks some schoolboy football with us from TNT on the other side of the break.