Man City Go Top of the Table

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4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The FC crew react to Manchester City taking over the top slot in the Premier League and argue who they think will win the title this season. Plus, James Olley joins the show to explain why Chelsea decided to axe Liam Rosenior after 106 days as manager of the club. Gemma Soler also provides an update on Lamine Yamal's health after the winger left Barcelona's win with an injury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.3	Hello and welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC, K. Murray, Alejandro Moreno and Stevie Nicol here in the studio.
0:40.3	A little later on we'll be talking about Liam Resini's departure at Chelsea, but we will start with the game between Burnley and Manchester City, where a fifth minute goal from Erling Harland proved to be the difference in giving City all three points and moving
0:56.0	them to the top of the Premier League table for the first time since August. Fine margins,
1:02.2	level on points level on goal difference as well but when you think about how things looked just
1:08.0	in the space of a few weeks between these two teams on April
1:11.7	the 10th Arsenal were top on 70 points Manchester City were nine points behind
1:17.4	them it's April 22nd and now the two teams are level on points as it stands right now
1:24.3	and then we take a look at everything that's going on with this and the final
1:28.8	running and we're going to do that. Yan Agafi Yadaviottoft and James Oli joining us now. What a turnaround
1:33.8	it's been, Jan. Yeah, from one good Norwegian strike into another, I thought, what will you be
1:39.3	your bridge? But now it's, no, it's amazing. I know that we all know that there will be still twists and turns in this league.
1:52.0	Just a fact now,
1:54.0	Arsenal will play Newcastle at home and Fulham at home before City plays everything away.
2:00.0	So there will be twists and turns.
2:02.3	We will see after this game if the big thing was that they got three points or all the
2:07.9	missed chances, because I was watching this game, they could have scored four, five.
2:13.6	If they made quicker crosses, they could have scored six, seven.
2:17.8	Then again, Pep will be happy after that Sunday game against Arsenal
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