PL Review: Can City win the title after EFL Cup win?
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Former Premier League goalkeeper Tim Krul joins Aaron Paul and Luke Edwards to debate and analyse the weekend’s key talking points.
Will Wembley victory really be enough to power Manchester City to title success, with a nine-point gap to leaders and defeated finalists Arsenal?
Who’s becoming the stand-out candidate for the Manager of the Season award? Which veteran striker is ‘aging like a fine wine’? And is Virgil van Dijk at the start of a decline?
Those questions and plenty more answered, as well as detailed discussion of Tottenham Hotspur’s relegation battle, Newcastle’s struggles under Eddie Howe and increasing fan pressure and plenty more.
TIMECODES 01:30 What does City’s League Cup final mean for the title race? 03:00 Kepa’s horror relationship with Wembley 04:30 How impressive was this from City? 09:00 Spurs fans back the team, but the team don’t show up! 10:00 Are there similarities between Spurs now and Krul’s Newcastle in 2010? 11:10 What is Igor Tudor doing? What do Spurs do next? 19:24 Sunderland do the double over Newcastle — is Howe under pressure? How big will their rebuild be? 29:00 Should Danny Welbeck have been in the England squad? 36:20 What’s wrong with Liverpool? 41:00 Everton set for European football? 44:19 Is Chelsea’s model failing their own managers?
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| 0:07.0 | An early start here. It's time to kick off. |
| 0:10.0 | Your day. Morning! |
| 0:11.9 | What a line-up. |
| 0:13.3 | Oh, thanks very much. We do get some great guests on the show. |
| 0:16.1 | The crowd is loving this. |
| 0:18.3 | Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind. |
| 0:20.2 | From morning chaos to match day commentary. |
| 0:23.6 | And everything in between. |
| 0:25.0 | BBC sounds packed with personality. |
| 0:29.3 | On the Football Daily podcast, Premier League Review with Aaron Paul. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to the Premier League Review. |
| 0:37.5 | What a weekend of football we have had. |
| 0:40.6 | Derby's Cup Finals, games that feel like Cup Finals, |
| 0:43.5 | surprises some excellent goals and naturally that Tottenham implosion. |
| 0:48.4 | We will talk Manchester City's victory in the League Cup final |
| 0:51.1 | and what that means for the title race. |
| 0:53.4 | Everton's bid for European Football, the relegation battle and what Spurs have to do in the |
| 0:58.6 | international break. |
| 0:59.6 | Sunderlander in the double over Newcastle, Danny well bet for England, Chelsea's failure and much more. |
| 1:05.3 | Loads to get into and we do it in the company of the former Premier League goalkeeper Tim Crawley, |
| 1:11.3 | who retired last year, is starting a new career as a sporting director. |
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