Champions League Final Preview: Mo Salah's Real Madrid Revenge
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Dan Bardell and George Elek are joined by bet365's Steve Freeth to preview the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid... Do Madrid dare lose this following Mbappe's public rejection? And if Liverpool were to fail, does a season which at one point looked truly historic, become forgettable?
Is Mo Salah is really out for some 2018 revenge, why Liverpool's left flank will decide this match and we'll hear from Michael Owen - who sat down with The Athletic's Liverpool correspondent James Pearce earlier this week - to talk about the number 9s: Sadio Mane & Karim Benzema.
Later, our trio cast their minds ahead to the start of the next Premier League season and make some early (bold) predictions!
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.1 | Hello and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football podcast, sponsored by Bet365. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Dan Bardell with George Ellick and Bet365 Steve Freeth alongside me for one last time this season to preview the Champions League final between Liverpool and Royal Madrid. |
| 0:30.7 | We'll also reflect a little on the final day of the Premier League season two and cast our minds forward to next season, |
| 0:36.3 | but Garra Southgate announced his latest England squad for the upcoming Nations League games against Hungary, Germany and Italy next month. Steve, come to you first. Thoughts on the squad? I've got no opinion, don't bother coming to me. I don't care. I'm welcome to you. George, thoughts on the squad? Just delighted to see Jared Bowen being rewarded. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, he deserves it. |
| 0:55.3 | For, yeah, I mean, it's not just good form over the past few months. |
| 1:00.7 | You know, he is clearly a very, very good English footballer |
| 1:04.0 | who offers something different that we don't necessarily have. |
| 1:06.1 | He's that kind of attacking direct goal threat from Wides. |
| 1:10.3 | He fits in very well to the system. |
| 1:13.3 | You know, the 433 that we normally see Gareth Southgate playing. |
| 1:17.0 | Even when it's a three at the back, it's generally a three up top as well. |
| 1:19.5 | So I'm delighted to see him get some recognition. |
| 1:21.8 | Really happy to see Tammory being recalled back to the squad as well. |
| 1:25.2 | It was a bit of a joke that he wasn't. |
| 1:27.6 | Sometimes, you know, I will defendrette Southgate as much as I possibly can. |
| 1:32.1 | But it is interesting how sometimes arbitrary things like winning a league can suddenly |
| 1:36.0 | see you kind of cement yourself back into, into the picture when, when actually |
| 1:42.3 | performances have been good throughout. |
| 1:43.5 | And interesting as well to see James Madison left out. |
| 1:45.9 | I know it's upset a lot of people. |
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