How Do You Stop Erling Haaland?
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Tom Clarke is joined by Gregor Robertson, Ian Hawkey and Ed Smith.
Erling Haaland scored (again) as Manchester City came from behind to beat his former side Borussia Dortmund. How can he be stopped? (00:00)
Graham Potter took charge of Chelsea for the first time - what did we learn from their draw in the Champions League? (13:22)
Liverpool left it late to beat Ajax - why aren’t they the team of previous years this season? (32:55)
Tottenham let it slip late on in their match against Sporting. How does Antonio Conte improve their mentality? (45:49)
Ian Hawkey gives us his opinions on the other results in the Champions League - including mixed fortunes for Real and Barcelona (51:52)
News of a special episode of The Game out on Friday (60:18)
Gregor and Tom discuss how Rangers and Celtic got on in the Champions League and we touch upon the EFL results from the week (62:50)
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| 0:54.6 | This is the Game Football Podcast from The Times. Today we're talking Champions League and |
| 1:00.8 | there's some serious highs to debate. Not just for the British teams of course, but for a certain |
| 1:06.0 | athletic Norwegian striker too. That's right, Erling Holland was at it again, another stunning |
| 1:11.3 | goal to beat his former team, whilst Liverpool snatched a late winner at Anfield too. But it's not |
| 1:16.3 | all euphoria and comebacks as Graham Potter started his Chelsea career with a draw and Tottenham |
| 1:21.2 | would be in late by sporting Lisbon. We'll also be talking Rangers and Celtic and the views from |
| 1:25.7 | Europe with Ian Hawke, as well as a little mention for the Football League. And we've got news of |
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| 1:41.2 | Hello and welcome to the Game Podcast. I'm Tom Clark standing in today for Hugh |
| 1:45.2 | wasn't craft who is away for the day at a wedding. Thankfully though, I'm joined by the perfect |
| 1:50.6 | happy couple, Gregor Robertson and Ian Hawkey to discuss the latest action from the Champions League. |
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