Champions League final preview
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Gab Marcotti and Natalie Sawyer bring you a special bumper look ahead to the Champions League final and Europa League final, in the company of Oli Kay, Paul Joyce, Gregor Robertson and James Gheerbrant.
Liverpool and Tottenham get ready to do battle in the biggest club game in European football on Saturday night. Will Firmino and Kane make it for Madrid? How can Tottenham stop the Reds’ rampaging full-backs? And would Mauricio Pochettino leave Spurs on the highest of highs if he was victorious on Saturday?
The first final featuring all-English clubs is on Wednesday night. Oli is among those boarding several flights to Baku, as controversy continues to reign around the Europa League final venue. We discuss the absence of Arsenal’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan and the future of Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri.
Plus we debate whether Petr Cech’s reported summer move to a directorial role at Chelsea represents such a conflict of interests that he should not be picked in goal for the Gunners. And what will be Mesut Ozil’s legacy?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Gabriel Marcotte and we thank you for being with us in this bumper week of European finals. |
| 0:20.0 | Now, with us in the studio, it's a former Nottingham Forest Fullback, Nottingham Forest of |
| 0:24.8 | of course winners of two European cups, although Gregor I don't think you made the |
| 0:29.1 | team that day. |
| 0:30.1 | No, not in my time of me. And of course he's also a columnist for the Times, Gregor |
| 0:34.9 | Robertson. We also have one of the true connoisseurs of the European game, |
| 0:40.7 | Mr. James Gerebrandt and best of all the star of the show joining us as he |
| 0:47.3 | prepares to embark on his 12-hour odyssey to Baku it's Ollie K. |
| 0:54.0 | Let's start then with the biggest game in European club football. |
| 0:57.6 | The Champions League final taking place on Saturday night between |
| 1:01.0 | Liverpool and Tottenham in Madrid. |
| 1:03.1 | We're joined now on the phone by Paul Joyce. |
| 1:05.2 | And by the time the Champions League final comes around, |
| 1:08.0 | it will have been three weeks since Liverpool and Spurs took part in a competitive match. Is it fair to say that's not ideal? |
| 1:14.4 | Yes, not ideal I don't think. I think |
| 1:17.2 | Yeogan Clops found the sort of delay in the between the last game the season and this final a bit |
| 1:26.3 | of a bit irritating and I think Liverpool tried to organize a game on Saturday in the Marbaia training camp, but because a lot of the other leagues |
| 1:38.2 | had already finished the quality and range of opposition was the severely limited so I think |
| 1:45.7 | he ended up playing a Benfica B side stroke on the 23 side and it was just |
| 1:52.1 | sort of wasn't really even 45 minutes each half it was a |
| 1:57.1 | trimmed down there as a so no I don't think it's ideal length of time but at the |
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