Premier League Preview: Will Conte last the season? Should we be praising Rangnick? Plus Carabao Cup and Everton vs Man City preview

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🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the latest Football Essential Podcast, host Ron Walker is joined by Sky Sports features writer Adam Bate and digital football journalist Declan Olley ahead of the first domestic cup final of the season - and plenty going on in the Premier League too.

PART ONE | What did Antonio Conte mean with his comments about his future, and where's it all gone wrong? Was Ralf Rangnick right to criticise Man Utd's players when praising Anthony Elanga, and is he doing a better job than he's given credit for?

PART TWO | Is there any hope for Everton against Manchester City on Saturday, after the Premier League leaders' defeat at Spurs last week? Plus we discuss why criticism of City's absence of a number nine may be missing the mark, and just how worried Frank Lampard should be about the Toffees' relegation fight.

PART THREE | The Carabao Cup final - who is this game bigger for? Has Liverpool's squad depth leapfrogged Chelsea's, and not just thanks to Lucas Diaz? What do we do with Romelu Lukaku - and can Kai Havertz steal his place?

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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
0:22.5	never ordinary at Bet 365.
0:35.1	Welcome one and all to the essential football podcast brought to you by Sky Sports.
0:39.9	You know the season's getting towards the business end when we start talking about cup finals
0:42.8	as Chelsea and Liverpool go head to head live on Sky Sports at Wembley this Sunday in the Carabelle
0:48.1	Cup showpiece. To preview that and the other big talking points from the top of the game,
0:52.0	I'm joined by Sky Sports Features writer Adam Bait,
0:54.4	who I'm told can barely keep in his cup fever.
0:56.9	And there's also a debut for digital football journalist Declan Olly,
1:00.0	who's picking himself off the floor after Spurs' defeat at Turf Mall last night.
1:04.0	Jens, thank you for joining,
1:05.1	and we'll get talking energy drinks later in the show.
1:07.1	But for now, after Antonio Conte's comments to the media last night, it seems only
1:11.4	right to start with Topman's defeat to Burnley. Adam, Conte, to the media, at least, took the
1:18.2	blame on himself as Spurs lost a fourth game in five and said he wasn't helping the club.
1:23.8	What do you think he actually means with his public comments?
1:27.1	It's alarming, isn't it?
1:28.6	It's nothing new for Spurs supporters, I don't think, to have these ups and downs and beating Man City and losing to Burnley.
1:34.8	So there's nothing particularly weird about that, but I think what's extraordinary is the reaction of Conte, like you say.
1:41.3	And I think he was saying that these were the best players he'd ever work with at the weekend, wasn't he?
1:47.1	And now he sounds like a man who wants to chuck it all in.
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