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Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

FTP Ep. # 596: 2025 Premier League Week 1 Roundup

Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

Dwayne Callender

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.9440 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

I give my thoughts on the opening weekend of the Premier League and what stood out to me thus far.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Fantasy Throwdown Podcast.

0:04.9

Bringing you the latest from the world of sports, DFS, and gambling.

0:10.5

With over five years of hot takes and millions of downloads later,

0:16.2

I guess he's been doing something right.

0:18.6

Now, sit back and listen to one of the sharpest minds in the game.

0:23.4

Here's your host, Dwayne Calendar.

0:29.8

All right, people.

0:31.0

Let's talk some primarily because we had week one winding down quickly.

0:37.6

We just saw Arsenal and United play through.

0:43.5

I'll be honest, man United somehow might actually be worse than they were last year,

0:51.2

when frankly they were barely outside of a relegation battle.

0:57.3

Arsenal, meanwhile, should have been able to stomp harder on United.

1:03.4

It's weird because Arsenal looks to be in control, yet still lacks finishing polish.

1:13.6

And I don't know.

1:15.6

It's like, they're going to be able to beat really bad teams, and I think United is a bad team.

1:23.6

But I think there's a long-term issue that's going to crop up once you start actually playing

1:30.2

higher-level competition.

1:31.7

And they go to Anfield, week three.

1:35.8

And that Anfield game, I'm telling you, it's like, this is, they're setting themselves up

1:40.7

for a very bad look where they're going to go to Anfield, they'll play cautious,

1:48.0

they'll still look like, because I still think that they're midfield and defensively,

1:52.6

they can neutralize a lot of teams. They will look inert while still technically by statistical

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