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Gab & Juls Show: Where Does Isak Fit at Liverpool?

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Arsenal and ask where Alexander Isak will fit into this Liverpool team with his transfer set to be completed on transfer deadline day. The guys also discuss Erik ten Hag’s shock exit at Bayer Leverkusen, Real Madrid’s perfect start under Xabi Alonso and ask if Xavi Simons is the player Tottenham have been missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Gab, he's Jules.

0:37.4

Blue skies over West London. I didn't really check because it's deadline day, Jules. Now, we'll put the disclaimer at the top. We're only going to talk about moves that we think are done and that we know are done. But we'll have plenty to talk about on Thursday. So please don't be disappointed if we don't to talk about your club's late dealings,

0:54.6

because by the time you listen to this, who knows? But we've got to start at the top, though,

0:58.3

because Liverpool and Arsenal, most people have them down as kind of the two co-favorites.

1:04.1

Big clash. These points matter later in the season because they're head-to-head.

1:10.7

Dominic Salbisly, some magic at the end.

1:12.9

I thought, looking at this game, I said, all right, this is turned into the kind of game

1:17.0

that will be decided either by a moment of magic or skill or by a mistake, whether by the

1:24.2

referee or players.

1:25.4

I was right, wasn't I?

1:26.4

Yeah, that's what Altita said after the game, too.

1:28.4

I mean, it was pretty obvious. They canceled each other out for most of that game, looking for that control, especially in midfield, big battle, won by Arsenal in the first half, probably won a bit more by Liverpool in the second half. I thought the changes from slot, especially Curtis Jones for McAllister, to be fair, and the

1:44.6

free kick is obtained by Curtis Jones on that rare piece of verticality from Liverpool and that

1:52.8

ball from Van Dyck to Curtis Jones between the lines. So that worked, but yeah, there was just

1:57.9

not much at all between the two teams. And yeah, we could say they should have attacked more and they could have done more in the final third, which is true.

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