Chelsea look refreshed while Newcastle look relentless

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

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Soccer, Soccer,, Sports, Football

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Jimbo, Jay Harris, Sasha Goryunov and Matt Davies-Adams gather in the studio to cast an eye over the opening weekend of the Premier League season. Chelsea and Liverpool contest yet another draw but it’s a more encouraging afternoon for Mauricio Pochettino in his first game as Blues boss. It’s a point for Tottenham too in their first game of the post-Kane era with Bissouma in particular like a new signing at Brentford. Newcastle are the big winners of the weekend, hammering and exposing Villa. What could they achieve with a full season of Isak at their disposal? Plus Roy gets rough and Brighton take the Pervis. Produced by Charlie Jones. RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool (04.00) • PART 2a: Burnley 0-3 Man City (13.00) • PART 2b: Newcastle 5-1 Aston Villa (17.00) • PART 2c: Arsenal 2-1 Nottingham Forest (23.00) • PART 3a: Aussie shoot-out rules (30.00) • PART 3b: Spurs begin life after Kane with a draw at Brentford (33.00) • PART 3c: The rest of the Premier League weekend (41.00) SIGN UP TO THE ATHLETIC TODAY FOR £1.99 A MONTH FOR 12 MONTHS • theathletic.com/totally Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Toby Fobble's show. Today, Premier League gets underway. There's impressive shutouts
0:14.0	from last year's top two, City with Burnley, Arsenal with their fans, and another draw
0:19.1	for Chelsea and Liverpool. We'll be asking, is the feisty midfield scrapper they both need,
0:24.0	Roy Hodgson, is Newcastle's now the best midfield in the league, or is that Enzo Fernandez
0:28.9	on his own, and talking by and large, a good start for Spurs Without Cain and a bad one for Bayern.
0:34.2	All that and much more in this totally probable show.
0:43.0	Listen, I'm excited to tell you that it's Sunday night still in this podcast. Sunday evening,
0:48.4	anyway, 13th of August, we've just seen all but one of Matchday, one of this Premier League season,
0:55.0	and fresh back from action. We have Jay Harris, who's with the Brentford and Spurs at their
1:02.5	Sunday early kickoff. Hey, James. How are you doing? Very good, thanks. Excellent. And such a
1:07.6	guru in other Matchday v. Adams, who's laced back from Stamper Bridge after a thrilling,
1:13.3	one-one draw. Thrilling first half. Yeah. Not such a thrilling second half. Right. What about
1:19.4	you, Matt? You were at the top of the east stand. I was at the top of the shed in a second half.
1:22.5	How did it look like to you? I'd call it an absorbing contest, which means yeah, the second half
1:28.9	is a pretty good fun to watch on TV. I think Grace Robinson was saying, let's just abandon having
1:33.0	DMs all together from now on, because this is a lot of fun. But yeah, that's not a plan that either
1:40.0	club, I guess, are looking to follow up on, because attempts to sign, Lavior, or Casado, etc.
1:47.2	Rumble on. Beyond that and other more peripheral considerations, what was your moment of the
1:52.8	weekend, then, with one match till to go, Jay? This is a bit of a random pick, but Emerson Royals
1:58.6	and Nutmeg on Shandon Baptiste, because it's just one of those moments where the entire crowd
2:02.3	is like, ooh, they just remind you, though, why we love the Premier League, because
2:06.4	a random Brazilian right back just nutmegs someone out of the complete blue. Very nice indeed.
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