Are Liverpool Champions League Favourites?
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The Times
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🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Tom Clarke, Ian Hawkey and Rick Broadbent.
Chelsea are still in a rut - but there were positives in their Champions League match at Zenit this week, namely Timo Werner looking sharp. How do they get back to their best? (00:00)
The Champions League draw takes place on Monday - but what would be a good draw for Manchester City? Could they come unstuck in the next round? (08:20)
Ralf Rangnick has taken charge of his first two Manchester United matches - what can we tell from his first week at the club? (14:00)
Barcelona are out of the Champions League - failing to qualify for the knockout stages for the first time in 17 years. How long will it take for the club to bounce back? (23:56)
Rick Broadbent joins us to discuss the state Leeds United find themselves in. With a worrying league position and a scary fixture list - what do they need to do? (29:30)
Tottenham and Leicester have both suffered with Covid outbreaks in the last few days - with the new variant of Covid-19, could we see the return of games with no fans? (39:15)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the game is sponsored by the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, |
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| 1:00.2 | Hello and welcome back to this episode of the Game Football Podcast from the Times. Today, |
| 1:05.6 | we reflect on the end of the Champions League group stage. We'll ask who are the favourites |
| 1:10.4 | for the title outright? What's happened to Chelsea over the past few matches as they finish as |
| 1:15.6 | runners up in their group? We'll also ask, is this the lowest point for Barcelona? |
| 1:20.3 | A league united for team to buy Bielsa Ball and how will new COVID restrictions affect football? |
| 1:26.2 | All that and more on this episode of the Game. |
| 1:34.8 | Hello and welcome back to the Game Podcast. I am Hugh Wussencraft alongside Tom Clark |
| 1:39.7 | and Ian Hawkew. We'll also be joined by Rick Broadbank talking leads a little bit later on, |
| 1:44.5 | but we've got to start by looking back. On this week in the Champions League, |
| 1:48.7 | the final group games and there were a couple of surprises. Let's begin with Chelsea's trip to |
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