Hair Tug and ten Hag
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The Times
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🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Tom Clarke and Ian Hawkey.
Chelsea started well but came up short against Real in their Champions League second leg. What changed to swing things back into Real’s favour? (00:00)
Villarreal will take on Liverpool after they knocked Bayern Munich out. Why is Unai Emery so good in Europe and Constantin Eckner joins us to discuss where next for Bayern (14:02)
Manchester City are Real’s opponents in the semi-finals after they ground out a result against a fiery Atletico side. Did Pep’s team finally show they know how to finish the job in Europe? (27:08)
Dutch football expert Arthur Renard has written about Erik ten Hag in The Times and joins us to discuss the Ajax manager who’ll soon take over at Manchester United (40:20)
European semis are put aside this weekend when the FA Cup semi-finals take place. But who will go through and will Liverpool make a raft of changes? (49:02)
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| 1:00.2 | This is the Game Football Podcast from the Times. Today, we look back on a brilliant week |
| 1:05.2 | in the Champions League. Chelsea go out valiantly. City fight their way past that letico Madrid. |
| 1:12.4 | We'll take a closer look at Julian Nagelsmann's buy-in Munich and what Eric Tenhard can bring |
| 1:17.8 | to Manchester United. And then, of course, Easter weekend means FA Cup semi-finals. All that |
| 1:23.2 | and more on this episode of the game. |
| 1:31.2 | Hello again. Hugh wasn't cropped here alongside Tom Clark and Ian Hawkey on this episode of the |
| 1:36.4 | game. And I think every Thursday, at the moment, we're reacting to what has been a treat. I think |
| 1:42.4 | the Champions League living up to billing this week with some remarkable results and performances |
| 1:48.6 | as well. We have to begin though. I'm going to do it chronologically, I think, with the first |
| 1:53.2 | English-Spanish tie of the week, the sensational second leg at the Bernabelle Real Madrid losing |
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