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The Sky Sports Football Podcast

Premier League Preview: Tottenham vs Man Utd and a decisive month for Spurs; Inconsistent Liverpool, and West Ham vs Leicester's key clash

The Sky Sports Football Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports, Sports News, Soccer, News

4718 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Pitch to Post Preview Podcast Peter Smith is joined by Sky Sports News reporter Paul Gilmour who explains why April could be a decisive month for Tottenham’s next steps as a club, while Sky Sports football writer Jack Wilkinson reacts to Man Utd’s Europa League win and assesses their chances of getting some revenge for their big defeat to Spurs earlier this season.

Sky Sports features writer Nick Wright is also on the show, looking back at two contrasting performances from Liverpool and the reasons behind their inconsistency, as well as previewing a big top-four race clash between surprise package West Ham and Leicester. He also makes his Pitch for the weekend about an important game at the other end of the table between Burnley and Newcastle.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sky Sports Football Podcast brought to you by Bet365, where every now biting nil-nil, every bizarre VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap-in, full-start, dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing.

0:17.3

From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsport. Whatever the moment, it's never

0:22.8

ordinary at Bet 365. Pitch to Post podcast, The Preview.

0:34.4

Hello and welcome to this week's pitch to to Post preview podcast, where we're looking ahead

0:39.2

to a key game for Jose Marino against his former side, Manchester United.

0:44.9

We'll also be trying to assess where Liverpool are at at the moment after they swept aside

0:49.0

Arsenal but then lost to Real Madrid. Plus, we'll examine a crucial game in the top four race when

0:55.8

West Ham hosts Lester. I'm Peter Smith, and we're going to get underway with Tottenham

1:00.1

versus Man United at a 4.30 kickoff on Sunday. I'll be hearing from Sky Sports News

1:05.0

reported Paul Gilmore about the Spurs side of things very shortly. First up, I'm joined

1:09.9

by Sky Sports football writer Jack Wilkinson, who's

1:13.3

been covering Man United's Europa League quarter-final first-leg win over Granada.

1:19.2

Jack, that Bruno Fernandez, late penalty, turned a good night into a very good one for

1:23.4

Man United with their two-neill win, didn't it?

1:26.0

Absolutely, Pete, yes.

1:28.0

At 1-0, it was looking like a fairly, not comprehensive, but a decent enough job done.

1:34.3

Like, the old adage is when you go away in Europe, keeping a clean sheet and perhaps

1:38.6

getting away goal represents a good result.

1:40.7

And, yeah, if you're going to judge that performance by that barometer,

1:44.7

then yeah, Man United definitely tick that. And the second goal, yeah, added further glass,

1:48.9

which leaves them in a great position, really, to get through to another semi-final where

1:54.5

they'll hopefully try and get over the line this time. It was a big night for Granada. And it was

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