Premier League Preview: Yet more Man Utd & Spurs issues, Arsenal on the up, pressure on Rodgers, Everton struggles and Newcastle resurgence
The Sky Sports Football Podcast
Sky Sports
4 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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PART ONE | With more rumours circulating around Old Trafford and two points dropped at Burnley, what's the state of affairs looking like in Manchester United's top-four chase? What's been behind the upturn in form for Southampton, their opponents on Saturday? We discuss Spurs' disappointing evening against the Saints in midweek, ask whether Wolves will stop them bouncing back, and decide who's best-placed in the race for the Champions League spots...
PART TWO | How serious - and warranted - is the pressure on Brendan Rodgers at Leicester? How much can we read into West Ham, their next opponents, beating Watford on Tuesday night? What's changed the mood at Newcastle so quickly, and will Aston Villa - and perhaps Jacob Ramsey - bring it crashing back to earth this weekend?
PART THREE | Frank Lampard takes charge of his first home Premier League game in charge of Everton this weekend, but is the pressure already on as Leeds visit Goodison Park? Are Manchester City really not the best in the world, as Pep Guardiola has said, and where do Norwich even begin to hope of taking any points off them at Carrow Road live on Saturday Night Football?
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| 0:43.0 | Hello and welcome to the Essential Football Podcast. |
| 0:46.9 | We are back after a few weeks away and we have plenty to get through, |
| 0:50.1 | looking back at a jam-packed week of Premier League action and also looking ahead to a busy weekend of football coming up as the Premier League |
| 0:54.5 | returns to Sky Sports. I'm Charlotte Marsh and joining me today is Sky Sports Features writer Adam |
| 1:00.4 | Bate and Sky Sports Digital Football Journalist Ron Walker. How we doing guys? Excite to be back on |
| 1:05.2 | the podcast. Always. Yes. Hi Charlotte. Hi Ron. It's like something we've been missing from my life |
| 1:10.2 | to be honest. I thought so. I thought so. Right, let. It's like something I've been missing for my life, to be honest. |
| 1:27.9 | I thought so. I thought so. Right, let's get right down to it then, because we have loads to get through, as I said. Let's start with Man United versus Southampton, which is the first game this weekend on Saturday afternoon. It was another draw in midweek against Burnley for United after losing to Middlesbrough on penalties in the FA Cup. |
| 1:30.7 | Adam, you wrote after the game on Tuesday that Man United just aren't able to put it all |
| 1:35.7 | together yet. |
| 1:36.4 | Is the pressure on them for this weekend? |
| 1:39.2 | Yeah, it looks tight, doesn't it, with Arsenal looking better in that top four race. |
| 1:43.0 | I thought they're a little bit unlucky in midweek. you know, 12 shots to nil, wasn't it? First half and it just looked all one way. |
| 1:51.5 | And I think Ragnick said they should have been three-nill up because of the disallowed goals. |
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