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Gab & Juls Show: Going, going, Guardiola?

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ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Manchester City’s 1-0 win over Chelsea in the FA Cup final and ask if this is the last season of Pep Guardiola’s reign at the club. The guys also discuss Robert Lewandowski’s impact at Barcelona, ask if Jose Mourinho will return Real Madrid rank BTS, Madonna & Shakira after they were confirmed as the musical guests for the halftime show of the World Cup final.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.8

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0:29.3

I'm Gab, he's Jules.

0:30.9

Blue skies over West London.

0:33.6

Jules, what a show.

0:34.4

Because there's a lot going on.

0:35.7

Leagues are wrapping up.

0:36.7

We're getting Champions League verdict. Big shout out to Ashton Villa. Well done. Big shout to Paris FC, the Kings of Paris. Absolutely. We're going to get to that. We're going to get to that later. Tough times at Juventus. But we're going to start with the FAA Cup final atembley. You were there. Chelsea losing 1-0 to

0:56.9

Manchester City. But for me, if you were a Chelsea fan, you got better news the next day. You don't care.

1:04.0

If you were to trade it off, I mean, if you were to do a trade-off, yeah, you can win the F-A Cup and not get Chabby Alonso or, yeah.

1:13.0

Yeah, you're on board.

1:14.0

Ideally, you get both Chabby and an FFAC Cup trophy, which proved a little bit too high

1:21.6

that step, although I thought in the second half, Chelsea did okay, I would not have played

1:25.9

the back five.

1:26.9

I know Calam McFallan did that when he also in the league. I just, I didn't think that Chelsea may be played, I know it's a Chelsea team in crisis and that they don't have much going for them right now, all of that. They still haven't won for a very long time in the primary. I get all of this. I would know I've gone for the back five that I don't think worked at all in the first half. Second half was a little bit better. But still they lost that game. The big news is Chabia Lanzo, sure. And I think it was almost made as, okay, we disappointed we lost. But look, Chelsea fans, we've got great news to announce the next day on the Sunday. But what's on to Pep Guardiola? Maybe we should rename the FA Cup, the Pep Guardiola Club. Four years in a row in the final, what is it, like 20 trophies in 10 years, something stupid like that. They won the double. You know, we sit here. He could win the treble this year.

2:18.1

Yeah, domestic trouble.

2:19.2

Domestic trouble.

2:21.0

A treble nonetheless.

2:23.1

Obviously, City playing Bournemouth on Tuesday night,

2:26.0

and as we record this on a Monday,

2:27.9

Arsenal have their game this evening at the Emirates.

2:33.1

I want to give city credit because all right they say

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