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Gab & Juls Show: The decline of Pep Guardiola?

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Sports, Soccer

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens look back at Real Madrid's late comeback win over Manchester City and ask whether Pep Guardiola's managerial powers are starting to decline. The guys also discuss the Anfield derby in the Premier League, Atalanta's anger following a 94th minute penalty and if Ousmane Dembele is the best player in the world, right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gab, he's Jules Grace Guys over West London, but it doesn't matter because the

0:11.5

Champions League is back, the playoff rounds, and of course, the big one, Manchester City

0:16.5

and Real Madrid, we'll be talking about that.

0:18.1

Obviously, it's not the only thing that happened, of course.

0:21.9

We had Bayern winning away. We had Paris Sanger Man winning away. We had none of the Italian

0:27.0

clubs winning away. How about that? Oh, and of course, more importantly, Benfica winning away.

0:32.6

But we were going to start with Matcheting in Ram Madrid. And of course, we also had the final Merseyside Derby at Goodison Park.

0:40.7

Pretty special.

0:41.7

And what an ending.

0:43.4

Just go watch the highlights when you're down with us, just because you might get a little flavor of what the derby's all about.

0:50.8

Boy, star, sitting around Madrid.

0:53.2

Obviously, two clubs that do not like each other that are not aligned.

0:57.5

Pep had set this up saying it was kind of like a European classical.

1:01.5

Real Madrid kind of entering in a very sticky situation with injuries and whatnot,

1:07.2

even as Manchester City get a lot of their injured guys back.

1:10.7

Yeah.

1:15.4

Did this game unfold the way you expected?

1:20.6

Because the start of that game, the way Real Madrid went at them, I thought, okay,

1:24.3

Carlo put a rocket up their backside after the Derby.

1:29.3

Yeah, they started really well and they should have scored early, way before the Holland goal as well.

1:30.3

For Carlo to put the front four, we were not sure on Monday where if he was going to play

1:35.3

all of Rodrigo, Vinissius, Bellingham and Bapy together, he did with that makeshift defense.

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