2021/22 Premier League season preview: City still the team to beat? Challengers assessed, surprise package & how will promoted trio fare?
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4.0 • 760 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
PART 1: (02:24) Are City still the side to beat? And who will challenge them? Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool assessed
PART 2: (12:00) Will the north London gloom lift? Leicester in focus and surprise package: Leeds, Aston Villa and Everton tipped
PART 3: (28:14) How will promoted trio Brentford, Watford and Norwich fare? Plus: New managers assessed, and can West Ham deal with European distraction?
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| 0:23.6 | When you play, play safe with Bet365, it means you can enjoy the moments with them. When you play, play safe with Bet 365. Hello and welcome to the Essential Football Podcast on the eve of the new Premier League season. |
| 0:41.3 | It's barely five weeks since England's Euro 2020 final defeat at Wembley, but disappointment has faded into the distance. |
| 0:49.5 | Fans are back around the country and we cannot wait for a new top flight term. New signings, new teams, |
| 0:56.6 | old rivalries resumed and most importantly fresh hope. I'm skysports.com's deputy football |
| 1:02.9 | editor Kate Bulaga joined by feature writer Nick Wright and senior football journalist Gerard Brand |
| 1:08.9 | to look ahead to another nine months of drama to the |
| 1:12.9 | sweet sound we're all hoping of full expectant grounds. Gerard, how are you? Those greelish tears |
| 1:19.8 | finally dried up? Yeah, it's great to be back and as you say it's great to have fans back to |
| 1:25.6 | and greelish yeah, it's rather odd seeing him in another shirt |
| 1:29.6 | given he's been at villa since six and i think it'll be even more difficult for villa fans |
| 1:34.1 | once you start scoring goals for man's city but listen if villa want to see themselves as a big club |
| 1:39.9 | they can't be feeling sorry for themselves about losing one player otherwise you know |
| 1:43.7 | the one-man team tags sort of come true. |
| 1:46.9 | You know, Liverpool have lost Suarez and they rebuilt. |
| 1:49.3 | Lester have lost big players and fought back well. |
| 1:52.1 | So it's not all doom and gloom, but very excited for fans for a turn. |
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