Klopp still a winner as City fight for their title
The Game
The Times
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🗓️ 4 January 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Natalie Sawyer brings you The Game podcast slightly later than usual – to take in the biggest game of the season so far with Henry Winter, Alyson Rudd and Alan Smith.
Champions Manchester City inflict a first Premier League defeat of the season on league leaders Liverpool at the Etihad, closing the gap at the top to 4 points. Does Jurgen Klopp take encouragement from the level of performance it took from City to beat them?
Pep Guardiola’s men show their guts and intensity, a performance typified by the ‘dog of war’ Bernardo Silva. Will City’s experience prove crucial in this title race?
Speaking of Silva, Marco is struggling across Merseyside right now as Everton have won just 1 of their last 8. Does the Portuguese coach remain a mystery to us in English football?
And Maurizio Sarri has suggested he would like a new striker at Chelsea in January. Meanwhile Christian Pulisic has been signed from Borussia Dortmund, apparently without too much input from the Chelsea manager. Are there cynical reasons behind the signing?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply game podcast from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer and we are |
| 0:36.5 | recording at the later time of Thursday night so that we can bring your reaction |
| 0:40.0 | to the biggest game of the season so far in the Premier League, the Champions |
| 0:43.8 | versus the League leaders. Alongside me in this studio we welcome Alan Smith. |
| 0:48.2 | Plus down the line we're joined by Allison Rod and from the Eti Had it is Henry Winter. |
| 0:53.8 | Later on we'll talk about the lack of silver lining at Everton. |
| 0:57.2 | Plus we discuss what's been a busy January for Chelsea. |
| 1:01.1 | We begin of course with another significant swing in the title race. |
| 1:04.6 | Liverpool would have gone 10 points clear of Manchester City with a victory at the |
| 1:08.2 | Ettie had, but the champions inflicted the first league defeat of the |
| 1:12.0 | season on Yergen-clop's men to reduce the gap at the top of the table to four points. |
| 1:16.5 | Leroy Sarnay scoring the winner with 18 minutes to play. |
| 1:20.0 | Henry was so used to seeing City dominate games with their wonderful football but |
| 1:23.9 | Vincent companies said this performance came from the gut |
| 1:27.2 | Well, it did I think it was totally invited by Bernardo Silver who ran my is terrible, but he ran about 8 and a half miles, which is a phenomenal |
| 1:36.7 | achievement. And your point about the fact that the city usually played with the land and we associate that |
| 1:40.7 | with Bernardo Silver, but he was almost like a sort of a |
| 1:43.8 | cruf-style dog of war the you know the way he was hunting the ball the way he was |
| 1:48.8 | knocking players over he was just you know as convinced and, you know, it was a performance that came from deep |
| 1:54.6 | within, from within the gut, from their desire not to give up their title easily. |
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