On The Continent: What next for Germany, Norway’s improvised squad come to the rescue, and Sassuolo’s impressive start in Serie A
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
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4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Today, Dotun and Andy are joined by Nicky Bandini to bring you the biggest stories from across Europe!
After Germany’s rude awakening on Tuesday night, we ask why the national team are flagging when their domestic clubs are enjoying such success and wonder whether or not Joachim Löw should return to the old guard to get things back on track. Spain look formidable, meanwhile, and Nicky explains why Alvaro Morata is showing his best again.
Elsewhere, we look at Norway’s remarkable improvised squad - after they were forced to call up practically an entirely new group of players based outside of the country due to coronavirus restrictions. Plus, we explain why Sassuolo are rapidly becoming the new Atalanta in Serie A, as Roberto De Zerbi works his magic, and one of the lost talents of Italian football makes his mark.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this episode of Upfront is brought to you by Transport for London. |
| 0:06.2 | TFL are taking a zero tolerance approach towards hate crime and abusive |
| 0:10.0 | behavior on public transport and making sure the network is as safe as possible for passengers |
| 0:14.6 | and TFL staff. If you find yourself witnessing an incident you might wonder what you can do to help. |
| 0:19.7 | More on that later in the episode. on the one stop shop for all your European football conversations I'm Dot on I'm Andy Brassal European Football Conversations. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Dotten Ali Bia. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Andy Brassal. |
| 0:35.5 | And I'm Nicki Bandini. |
| 0:37.2 | As always a lot to talk about today. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, we're going to talk about Spain versus Germany. |
| 0:42.3 | You've got to do that. Also going to talk about Spain versus Germany. You've got to do that. |
| 0:43.6 | Also going to talk about COVID restrictions, the latest twist in that respect. |
| 0:48.0 | It's a Norway kind of thing. And I think the Prime Minister will be delighted. |
| 0:52.8 | We're going to talk about the Green Revolution Italian staff as well. |
| 0:57.4 | Should we start, though, with the most incredible result in international football I think for a while |
| 1:08.0 | Spain six Germany nil that wasn't Germany, was it? |
| 1:15.0 | I think it's a Germany that's been coming for a while. |
| 1:19.0 | But I wonder if we should have flagged that this was going to be a gala performance because it was a great |
| 1:24.2 | tweet on the day from Sid Lowe, Spanish football journalist of course, and his hotel |
| 1:30.0 | room was overlooking the pitch at La Khartucca in Seville where they were playing the game. |
| 1:37.3 | And I think as the game went on, it was such a gala performance from Spain. |
| 1:42.2 | I think Sid would have been justified in staying in his room, |
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