Poch reaches new heights as De Gea reaches crossroads
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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It was a momentous midweek of Champions League football. Natalie Sawyer and Gab Marcotti are joined by Paul Hirst and Alan Smith to pore through it all.
Tottenham reach their first ever Champions League semi-final, after progressing past Manchester City on away goals in one of the craziest games in the history of football.
How will this affect the Premier League title race? Did VAR make the right decisions? And now that Mauricio Pochettino has scaled new heights, can he outcoach Ajax’s Erik ten Hag?
No such drama in Barcelona where Messi and co make light work of Manchester United. With Solskjaer speaking of a summer overhaul, we discuss the future of David De Gea and their trip to Goodison Park on Sunday.
Cardiff breathed new life with into their Premier League survival hopes with victory at Brighton. What is going wrong at the Amex?
Charlie Scott provides advice ahead of the fantasy football weekend. For free Fantasy Premier League tips from The Sweeper, visit thetimes.co.uk/fantasyfootball
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
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| 0:20.8 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your |
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| 0:45.0 | Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 1:06.0 | And I'm Gebo Marcotti and we thank you for joining us on this fine |
| 1:11.0 | Thursday morning. |
| 1:13.2 | With us in the studio, it's Alan Smith, who's got a very long journey apparently on Easter |
| 1:18.9 | Sunday. |
| 1:19.9 | It was telling us all about to go and, uh, to go and cover Everton. |
| 1:22.8 | Yeah, I might not make it home. |
| 1:24.8 | We'll see. |
| 1:26.2 | In which case? |
| 1:27.2 | Yeah. Enjoy this podcast. |
| 1:28.2 | It might be the very last time you hear Alan Smith. |
| 1:31.2 | It's been nice. |
| 1:32.2 | And down the line from Manchester, where there's been nice. And down the line from Manchester where there's always news in the world of football it's Paul Hurst. |
| 1:37.0 | Later on we'll be looking ahead to United Strip to Goodison and the battle to stay in the Premier League. |
| 1:44.0 | But we start with the Champions League. |
| 1:46.4 | Quarterfinal second leg at the Eti had one of the most incredible matches in the |
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