On The Continent: Miserly defending in Madrid, teenage kicks at Dortmund, and the fall of José Mourinho
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It’s nice to have the Champions League back, isn’t it? Like a nice mug of warm cocoa on a cold midweek night. We give this week’s round of fixtures a thorough going over on today’s episode of On The Continent, which features Andy Brassell, Lars Sivertsen and David Cartlidge!
We begin with Atlético Madrid’s hugely impressive win over Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano. We discuss the unwavering influence of Saúl Ñíguez on this Atléti side and their unrelenting commitment to miserly defending that infuriates their opposition. Afterwards, we check in with Lars for another episode of Håland Watch™, as the teenage sensation scored both goals in Dortmund’s win over PSG. David also talks us through Thomas Tuchel’s bizarre changes to PSG’s line up, Marco Verrati’s incessant stupidity and Neymar throwing the PSG medical staff under the bus.
We also decide whether José Mourinho is finished as an elite European coach and assess Barcelona’s enforced signing of Leganes striker Martin Braithwaite!
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| 0:00.0 | It's fun. |
| 0:01.3 | I saw Thread on Twitter the other day from an Arsenal fan scene. |
| 0:05.3 | We're probably the club with the best knee slides and I was thinking, you know, Liverpool |
| 0:12.6 | high-stuped their European success. |
| 0:14.3 | Manchester United obviously they're dominance. |
| 0:15.4 | Chelsea, you of course won the Champions League, Arsenal fans. |
| 0:18.8 | We've got the best knee slides in the business. |
| 0:20.3 | I don't get to do that many of them. |
| 0:22.7 | He has, but it's fair. |
| 0:24.5 | In fairness, a Bamyon probably would never bar of it either. |
| 0:27.2 | So, you know, pointless really. |
| 0:30.8 | Mustafa does the best knee slides. |
| 0:34.5 | Liverpool not that happy about what happened in Madrid and it's been such a long time since |
| 0:39.2 | their loss that we've almost forgotten that Yerkin Klopp, the Yerkin Klopp of the touch |
| 0:44.3 | line at Napoli when he was with Dortmund is not a happy loser. |
| 0:48.7 | Of course there's that classic phrase about, you know, show me a good loser and I'll show |
| 0:53.0 | you a loser. |
| 0:54.0 | But nevertheless, Liverpool's nose is way better. |
| 0:57.2 | Out of joint by what happened in Madrid. |
| 1:00.2 | But for those of us who watch Adleto Colon a regular basis, David, I don't know. |
| 1:06.2 | I didn't see this coming. |
| 1:07.2 | I didn't really think they had this sort of performance, not just the grinter but the |
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