Premier League or Champions League? Will Pep and Klopp prioritise?
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Gab Marcotti and Natalie Sawyer look ahead to another week of Champions League action in the company of Alan Smith and James Gheerbrant.
With the top two in the Premier League both in action, will Liverpool prioritise the Premier League in favour of the Champions League? And will Manchester City do the opposite?
Does this season represent a changing of the guard in Europe? Plus what happened when James met Joshua Kimmich?
The holders Real Madrid continue to be something of a circus. Sergio Ramos is sent off again, they lose at home to Girona and Gareth Bale is accused of snubbing his team-mates in favour of golf.
Elsewhere we show some love to Pukki & Piatek, marvel at Swansea speedster Daniel James and delve deep into the Declan Rice nationality debate.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply game podcast from The Times I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:36.2 | And I'm Gabriel Marcotte and we thank you for joining us on this overcast Monday morning. |
| 0:42.2 | In the studio with us brightening everything up, it's James |
| 0:45.9 | Gerebrandt. And down the line from a faraway island they call Ireland. It's Alan Smith. |
| 0:55.4 | Later on, we'll be discussing what's going on at the biggest club in the world. But we start with another big week in the |
| 0:59.6 | Champions League. Last season's runners-up host the Champions of Germany at Anfield on Tuesday. |
| 1:06.3 | It's Liverpool. |
| 1:07.3 | It's the biggest. |
| 1:08.3 | I was going to say, but we might be upsetting Liverpool fans and Biomeonic fans. |
| 1:11.4 | They both won loads of Champions League titles in European |
| 1:13.4 | Cubs. Indeed, Bion have won the last six Bundesliga titles but it's been six |
| 1:17.7 | years since they won the Champions League. It is at Anfield, who do you make |
| 1:22.1 | favorites, Gab? |
| 1:23.0 | I make Byron favorites for several reasons. |
| 1:28.0 | One first and foremost very basic Virgil Van Dyke is suspended. |
| 1:32.0 | Joe Gomez is injured. |
| 1:34.5 | Dejan Lovren has some sort of hamster issue. |
| 1:37.3 | He hasn't played since January 7th. |
| 1:40.3 | He didn't go on the warm weather training. |
| 1:42.2 | I can't imagine you would necessarily risk him unless he's had some miraculous recovery. |
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