Are Real Madrid Early LALIGA Favorites?

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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The FC crew reacts to Real Madrid's 4-1 thrashing of Levante and discusses if Real Madrid are now LALIGA favorites. Then, the guys break down Liverpool's 2-1 win over Southampton as Hugo Ekitike is sent off after scoring the game-winning goal. Plus, a look at Mikel Arteta's comments about Arsenal's "handbrake tactics." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.6	Hello everyone and welcome on into our ESPNFC studios.
0:38.3	I'm Alexis Yunus, alongside Gab Marcotti, who is joining us as well as Craig Burley.
0:43.3	And the only place to start today is in La Liga with the game of the day, Real Madrid,
0:49.3	traveling to Valencia to face Levanti and they got a big 4-1 win away. Vinnie Jr. managed to put aside
0:56.4	any negative headlines and open the scoring for Real Madrid in the 28th minute. Franco Massantuan
1:02.0	or the young Argentine Wonder Kid finally got his first goal for Real Madrid and then Killian M.
1:08.6	Bappe decided that he was going to get in on the action as well with two goals in the second half.
1:13.8	So Real Madrid now perfect.
1:15.6	Six wins from six.
1:17.2	And they sit at the top of the table, five points ahead of Barcelona who'll play on Thursday.
1:23.5	All right, let's welcome in some more of this team.
1:26.7	We are absolutely worldwide today. What a party. Luis Garcia, who is joining us as well as Frank Lebovup, who wanted to get in on the La Liga action. But Luis, or actually, Craig, let me start with you. No, I was happy for you to go to Louise. You were happy. You're tired of talking? I tell you one of my favorite bits of this game tonight, which was an excellent result for Real Madrid, was when those sort of around 70 minutes when Chabby Alonzo was making those substitutions again, this is the sort of devil inside me, and the director, because the camera panned to Vincius Jr.
1:56.7	And he had this sort of big, laughable, sort of false grin at his face thinking...
2:03.5	You knew the storylines.
2:05.0	Is it me? If it wasn't him, but I think he was in his head.
2:08.6	You know what I mean? So that was quite interesting
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