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The Athletic FC Podcast

How Brighton sold best players & got better & Diego Costa set for Wolves medical

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Andy Naylor to explain how Graham Potter’s Brighton sold their best players and improved. Alongside him, our Leicester writer Rob Tanner tells us why Brendan Rodgers is safe for now but is on thin ice. Elsewhere, with Diego Costa set for a medical at Wolves, we hear what if anything he has left in the tank from The Athletic's Dermot Corrigan, Jack Land & Wolves writer Steve Madeley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Athletic.

0:03.0

A little later in the pod will be asking what Diego Costa has left in the tank that he can offer

0:08.9

Walls, but first Brighton's 5-2 win against Leicester at the weekend was a tale of two clubs

0:15.0

experiencing perhaps their best of times and their worst of times in the Premier League.

0:20.4

Let's delve into both of them shall we? I'm Mark Chapman.

0:23.7

Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. Callister. Oh, what a goal! What a goal! What a goal! What a way to finish the match.

0:45.0

Deep in added time.

0:48.0

It's a five-star show from Graham Potter's side.

0:57.0

And it's another disastrous day for Leicester City in this worrying start to the Premier League season.

1:01.0

Right and Hob Albion Five, Leicester City 2.

1:07.0

Right then let's get into it and joined from the athletic by our Leicester writer Rob Tana

1:12.4

and our Brighton writer Andy Naylor.

1:14.8

This is a bit awkward, isn't it?

1:16.8

They were both there for the game on Sunday. I'll come to you in a second Rob, but Andy, they are such good fun to watch, aren't they?

1:30.6

They're a joy, aren't they, Mark? I think what was really impressive about them against Leicester

1:36.2

was the response they'd lost for the first time in it week at Fulham,

1:41.4

concede inside a minute.

1:44.5

They come back from that, get themselves two, one up fairly quickly.

1:49.0

Concede again a really poor goal by their standards because defensively they're usually so good.

1:54.5

Going at halftime Alexis McAllister scored an absolute fundable which as we know then gets

2:01.1

ruled out by dear old bar. So these setbacks and yet each time they respond end up winning 5-2. Really, really impressive.

2:10.0

It's interesting you mentioned how they responded because I think several people would have probably thought after their defeat at Fulham or I wonder I wonder if this is a sign of what it's like when there's an expectation on them.

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