A 'Hammer' blow as Spurs say see-ya to silverware again, and how to stop Stoke's sorry slide

The Game Football Podcast

The Times

Sports, Soccer

3.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Natalie Sawyer and Gregor Robertson are joined by the Times very own, Tom Roddy and Henry Winter to look back at an interesting week in the EFL Cup which saw a number of top tier teams dumped out to lower league opposition.

Natalie and Gregor also looked ahead to Monday's massive clash in the Premier League as Arsenal head to Old Trafford.

And, what's happening at Stoke City? Gregor previews this weekend's EFL action as time looks like it's running out for Nathan Jones.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer.
0:06.5	And I'm Gregor Robertson. We are here with you twice a week throughout the season for all the best
0:10.1	reaction and analysis from some of the best football raters in the business.
0:14.0	Yes and joining us today are The Times' very own Henry Winter and making his debut, I believe.
0:19.4	Tom Roddy, hello Tom.
0:21.1	Hello, getting some minutes on the pitch.
0:23.0	Indeed you are.
0:24.0	Coming up, we're going to look back on some big shocks in the EFL cup for West Ham and Bormuth, but we're
0:29.7	going to start with Tottenham hot spur.
0:32.3	A difficult week from Maritzio Potatino at Spurs
0:35.0	completed on Tuesday when his side were dumped out of the EFL cup
0:38.2	by League 2 Cultustra United.
0:40.5	Potatino made 10 changes from their defeats at Leicester with only keeper Palo
0:44.5	Gazagniga keeping his place but he still fielded experienced players in
0:49.1	Eric Daya Delhi, Victor One Yama and Lucas Morer, as well as substitutes Christian Erikson,
0:54.4	Eric Lamella and Somchung Min. But after a frustrating and goless 90 minutes last year's
0:59.3	semi-finalists saw Erikson and Moa miss from the spot to send Colchester the lowest rank side in the competition through
1:06.3	four three on penalties. So not a good night for Tottenham and now Henry some are questioning the management of Pocetino.
1:15.0	I think there have been questions for a while if you talk to Tottenham Hotspur fans
1:20.8	they will say or many of them will say that this dip is has actually been going since the
1:26.8	start of the year to be away from home some of the results I'm getting slightly
1:31.0	masked by that fantastic run to the Champions League final.
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