Bielsa back in the good books while Spurs squad enter breaking point
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Natalie Sawyer and Gab Marcotti are joined by James Gheerbrant and Paul Hirst after a weekend of unique talking points in the world of football.
Manchester City clear another hurdle in the title race. With Pep Guardiola’s men now having taken 192 points in almost 2 seasons in the Premier League, can we expect this trend to continue. And is Burnley’s style of play inhibiting Sean Dyche’s chances of employment at a bigger club?
Natalie was at Leeds to witness extraordinary scenes at Elland Road in the Championship. Leeds score with Villa having stopped playing, then allow Villa to score an equaliser. What happened? Why did it happen? Did Marcelo Bielsa do the right thing? And would he have done it if it wasn’t for Spygate?
Plus we look ahead to the Champions League semi-finals? Can Tottenham patch together a team capable of beating Ajax? And are we underestimating the chances of Barcelona’s defence up against Liverpool’s attack?
Elsewhere there are meltdowns for PSG and Dortmund, as we try to get Wilder.
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| 1:06.8 | Gabriel Marcotti and we thank you for joining us on this fine Monday morning |
| 1:11.1 | now with us in the studio and I have to say he was a little bit |
| 1:13.1 | late today so I will ask him what excuse he has it's James Gerebrank. James why were you |
| 1:17.8 | late? Doing my preparation for the podcast obviously. That's a very valid reason. And down the line from somewhere |
| 1:26.0 | up north it's Paul Hurst. Later on we'll be looking ahead to the Champions |
| 1:29.5 | ig semi-finals and we'll be asking what on God's green earth happened at Ellen Road on Sunday. |
| 1:35.5 | But we start at the top of the Premier League where another significant hurdle was cleared |
| 1:40.8 | by Manchester City. A hard-f 1-nill win at Turf |
| 1:43.9 | more against Burnley maintaining City's one-point lead at the top of the table. |
| 1:47.8 | Paul considering Burnley's style of play was this the last big question City |
| 1:52.3 | had to answer? |
| 1:54.0 | I think it was there, you know, if you look at the sort of last four or five matches of the season or last fixture that City |
| 2:00.8 | and I think this was, you the potential banana skin as they say |
| 2:05.4 | just because of the height that Burnley have got the team the kind of the threat that they pose |
| 2:10.8 | you know from crosses into the box with, you know, Chris Wood in particular, a danger. |
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