Karim's Time To Shine
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Jonathan Northcroft and Ian Hawkey.
Chelsea came unstuck against Real Madrid as Karim Benzema scored back-to-back Champions League hat tricks. Is there any way back for Thomas Tuchel’s side? (00:00)
Villerreal stunned Bayern Munich in the other game on Wednesday night. Is Unai Emery a tactical genius? (15:10)
Atletico didn’t impress in their loss at Manchester City. Should Diego Simeone be considered a world class manager given his tactics? (19:55)
If Manchester City fail to win the Champions League this year, should their season be seen as a failure? (28:30)
In the run-in for the Premier League title - who are the favourites and who are most likely to slip up? (36:24)
Burnley are now just a point from safety after their victory over Everton on Wednesday. Can they rely on their experience to drag themselves out of danger? (45:50)
Hugh is excited to attend West Ham’s Europa League quarter final against Lyon this evening. Could they realistically lift the trophy? (55:35)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the game is sponsored by the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, |
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| 1:00.2 | This is the Game Football Podcast from the Times. Today, there's another hat trick in the |
| 1:04.4 | Champions League for Real Madrid's Karim Benzema at the expense of Chelsea. What's going wrong |
| 1:10.3 | for them? Meanwhile, there are wins for both Manchester City against a stubborn at Letico Madrid |
| 1:15.4 | and Liverpool who went to Benfica and won. We'll also talk about the bottom of the Premier League |
| 1:21.1 | after a huge win for Burnley. But what does that mean for evidence chances of staying up? |
| 1:26.3 | This is the Game. |
| 1:34.8 | Hello again. Welcome to the Game Podcast. I'm Hugh Wilson-Croft joined by Jonathan Northcroft |
| 1:39.7 | and Ian Hawkey in this episode to reflect on what has been so far a fantastic week of football |
| 1:45.8 | with more to come as well. But we'll start at Stanford Bridge where Karim Benzema became the |
| 1:50.7 | fourth player to score back-to-back Champions League hat tricks as Real Madrid beat holders Chelsea |
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