Did key Kane call cost Pochettino and Spurs?
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🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
It’s the last ever Game podcast for one Gabriele Marcotti. And there are plenty lining up to pay tribute to the man who has made this podcast his own.
On the agenda this week, the Champions League final as Liverpool lift their 6th European Cup after a 2-0 victory over Tottenham. They showed nous and it may have been Alisson’s 27th clean sheet of the season but did the Reds even defend that well?
From the Spurs side of things, it was a case of what might have been. Was Mauricio Pochettino right to start Harry Kane? Did Poch have enough up his sleeve tactically? And where next for Tottenham’s in-demand manager?
The Europa League trophy was lifted by Chelsea in Baku last week. But will it prove to be Maurizio Sarri’s last act as manager at Stamford Bridge?
And with the Nations League finals just around the corner, we ask just how seriously should Gareth Southgate and England be taking this trophy?
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| 0:24.0 | Avantee west coast, feel good travel. Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. I'm Gabriel Marcofty and we thank you |
| 0:46.2 | for joining us for our final regular podcast of the season. Now you may have noticed that Natalie Sawyer isn't with us today. Do not be |
| 0:55.6 | alarmed. She will be back. She's just simply taking a little holiday she's |
| 0:59.5 | entitled to do after a long season. Now with us in the studio back from his travels in |
| 1:05.6 | deepest darkest Azerbaijan, Mr James Gerebrandt, and down the line the one and |
| 1:11.4 | only the franchise Henry Winter. |
| 1:14.1 | Later on we'll be looking ahead to the nation's league |
| 1:16.8 | which is gearbrandt's favorite tournament. |
| 1:18.9 | But let's start with, I don't know if it's my favorite tournament, |
| 1:22.3 | but surely a tournament I like a whole heck of a lot more than the Europa League, the Champions League. |
| 1:27.0 | Liverpool secured their sixth European Cup with a two-no win in the all- Premier League final against Tottenham Hot |
| 1:34.8 | Spirit in Madrid on Saturday night. Obviously games get affected by events on the |
| 1:41.2 | pitch and that penalty within a minute. |
| 1:43.7 | I mean, you know, you've just settled down, you're watching, but it was weird because, |
| 1:48.0 | Penny, I don't know if you picked up on this when you were there, but I felt like there was |
| 1:51.6 | almost no reaction in the ground. It was almost like people were kind of like |
| 1:54.0 | kind of like stunned and incredulous that it would have happened so early. |
| 1:57.6 | You know normally when we have a handball incident you get the |
| 2:00.1 | you know the reaction from the crowd or whatever and there was almost like silence it almost felt a little a little surreal and |
| 2:06.0 | and I think a big part of the reason why it wasn't a great final was that that early goal kind of really affected both teams. I mean it was a kick in the nuts |
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