Henderson Saves The Day At Anfield
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Tom Clarke and Paul Joyce.
Liverpool nearly started their European campaign off poorly, but Jordan Henderson saved the day at Anfield. How important is he to Jurgen Klopp’s side? (00:00)
Manchester City looked impressive going forward but also let in three goals last night. Have they shifted tactics or was it just a sloppy night for their defenders against RB Leipzig? (11:23)
Manchester United were somewhat embarrassed on Cristiano Ronaldo’s European return, losing 2-1 to Young Boys. Was the artificial pitch party to blame and did Ole Gunnar Solskjær get his tactics all wrong? (20:30)
Romalu Lukaku scored again at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea got started with a win - how can he look so settled into their side so quickly? (30:15)
There were some other incredible matches in this week’s Champions League. Jude Bellingham looked the real deal, Lionel Messi had a quiet European debut for PSG and a former West Ham striker had quite the night (36:57)
The Times’ North East Reporter Martin Hardy joins us following his article in The Times about the current situation at Newcastle (42:18)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the game is sponsored by the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, |
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| 0:56.5 | Search every story matters. |
| 1:00.2 | Hello again, this is the Game Football Podcast from the Times. Today, |
| 1:04.1 | Anfield hosts a Champions League classic. Whilst Manchester City show they don't need a big name |
| 1:09.6 | striker. Oli Guna-Solshar, Publix's Man United fans, Rowan Miller-Lakaku gets more comfortable |
| 1:16.2 | at Stanford Bridge. Will also ask, is there really no hope for Newcastle United fans? |
| 1:22.0 | This is the Game. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm Hugh. Wasn't Croft. Thank you for joining us once again with me today. Tom Clark |
| 1:31.2 | and Gregor Robertson. Gregor joins us from pretty average hotel room in Rennes. How's the |
| 1:37.6 | House of Conference League adventure going so far? It's an adventure, all right. It's an adventure |
| 1:41.5 | getting here in the first place, actually. It's not most straightforward journey. I had to go to |
| 1:45.4 | Amsterdam, which seems very bad environmentally from a start point. And then we're here. |
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