Lukaku's 'Perfect' Second Debut
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Alyson Rudd and Henry Winter.
Chelsea beat Arsenal in one of the most predicted results of the season so far. Did Romalu Lukaku have the perfect second debut and how does Mikel Arteta win back the fans after a disastrous start to the season? (00:00)
Manchester United dropped their first points at the weekend against Southampton. What’s Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s biggest problem area in the squad and despite many outgoings - can Ralf Hasenhuttl do a good job at the Saints this season? (17:21)
The Times’ Chief Football Writer Henry Winter joins us to give his take on the weekend’s games - including the view from the fans at Arsenal (26:35)
Jurgen Klopp has encouraged us to watch wrestling - but is he actually angry or have the mind-games already begun? (38:43)
We round up the rest of the weekend’s games as Danny Ings wows for Villa, Crystal Palace fail to score again and City pummel Norwich (44:40)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the game is sponsored by the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, |
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| 1:00.1 | Hello and welcome back to the Game Podcast from the Times. Today, Ramella Lakaku, |
| 1:05.2 | already showing his worth every penny for Chelsea, is Yogan Klopp right? We'll let in the game |
| 1:10.8 | flow, end up making it like wrestling, and is Oli Gunasol Shah's safety first approach right for |
| 1:17.0 | Manchester United. This is the game. |
| 1:22.3 | Thank you for joining us. I'm Hugh. Wasn't Kroth with me today. The Times, Alison Rudd and Greg |
| 1:30.8 | O'Robinson. Guys, how are you? Absolutely. Thank you. Good. Good. And Alison, it is great to have |
| 1:37.6 | you back because of the listeners. By the way, I get told this all the time. Anyone that I mention |
| 1:41.2 | that I do the game to, everyone loves you, Alison. So I have missed you and I'm happy to have you |
| 1:46.1 | back and I'm looking forward to some of your insights a little bit later on as well. We'll be joined |
| 1:50.5 | by Henry Winter a little bit later too. He'll be talking about pretty much all the games across the |
| 1:54.8 | weekend as will we, but let's start with the match at the Emirates because I think it was the big |
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