Is Liverpool’s luck running out?
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Natalie Sawyer and Gab Marcotti are joined by Henry Winter, Martyn Ziegler and Bill Edgar as the title race takes another twist.
7 days ago Liverpool missed the chance to go 7 points clear of Manchester City. Now the teams are separated by goal difference. Has Liverpool’s hiccup been coming? Will City’s experience prove telling? Or will Liverpool’s lack of games in comparison to City prove crucial? Plus can Maurizio Sarri inflict defeat on the champions for the second time this season?
The Times report that Arsene Wenger could be back in football within a month. Will we see him return to club management or taking on an international role? And does the director of football role suit him at all?
Charlie Scott and Paddy von Behr provide their advice ahead of the fantasy football weekend. For free Fantasy Premier League tips from The Sweeper, visit thetimes.co.uk/fantasyfootball
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome to the game podcast from The Times, I'm Natalie Sawyer. And I'm Geba Marcochi and we thank you for joining us on this fine Thursday morning. |
| 0:17.9 | Now, in the studio with us, I'm excited because the Times Chief Staff Officer Mr. Bill Edgar is back and down the line |
| 0:26.7 | we'll be hearing from the Chief Football Writer at the Times Mr Henry Winter. |
| 0:31.1 | Later on we'll also be hearing from Martin Ziegler about Arson Fenger. |
| 0:36.6 | But we start with the title race and Manchester City are top of the Premier League for the first time |
| 0:40.8 | in two months after a two-mill victory over Everton at Goodison Park. |
| 0:45.3 | It is five wins out of six for the Champions in 2019 as they go top on goal difference. |
| 0:51.2 | Henry you were there. |
| 0:52.2 | Seven days ago, Liverpool missed the chance to go |
| 0:54.1 | seven points clear of city. Psychologically then how big a week has this been for |
| 0:58.5 | Guadiola and City? Well it's been a huge week but it won't surprise them because there is a |
| 1:03.7 | resilience that comes from being champions. There's a determination that comes from |
| 1:08.8 | as they've been saying looking around the dressing room and just seeing winners in there and you just saw last |
| 1:14.4 | night at Goodison the goals end of each half they scored they keep going every second |
| 1:20.4 | counts injury time or other time they they seem to be doing forget time. |
| 1:24.1 | When we think back to the Liverpool game as well, Henry, City has shown they can grind |
| 1:28.0 | out a result of late. |
| 1:29.5 | How important is Fernandineo for that task? Well, he's really important. |
| 1:33.0 | I mean, you can see a Goodison, the way that he was disrupting Everton moves. |
| 1:39.0 | He eventually got booked to the delight of the Goodson crowd who've been calling for about 60, 70 minutes |
| 1:44.3 | at Fernandine was doing these little slide tackles disrupting and then he's got this |
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