Salah in the Spotlight, Thrillingly Tight Title Race Heats Up
The 2 Robbies
NBC Sports Soccer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Robbie Earle and Robbie Mustoe analyze an action-packed Matchweek 16 in the Premier League
01:17 - Hugo Ekitike’s brace seals a 2-0 win for Liverpool over Brighton, with Mo Salah providing an assist off the bench ahead of his departure to AFCON with Egypt
17:05 - Despair to ecstasy for Arsenal in stoppage-time as the Gunners reply to Wolves’ 90th minute equalizer with seconds left to play
26:40 - Manchester City secure a 3-0 victory over Brighton, with Erling Haaland and Phil Foden on the scoresheet, keeping their Premier League title hopes alive
34:22 - Aston Villa edge West Ham 3-2, with Morgan Rogers scoring the decisive goal as they quietly stay in the Premier League title race
39:27 - Chelsea defeat Everton 2-0 with goals from Cole Palmer and Malo Gusto, but Enzo Maresca’s cryptic post-match comments about a lack of support for him and his players steal the spotlight
46:24 - A roundup of other results: Sunderland 1-0 Newcastle, Nottingham Forest 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur, Brentford 1-1 Leeds United, Burnley 2-3 Fulham
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the two Robbie's podcast, your destination for in-depth discussion and analysis of the Premier League. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Robbie Mosto. He's Robbie Earle and here are today's |
| 0:22.6 | topics. Hugo Kitake's brace seals a 2-0 win for Liverpool over Brighton, with Mo Salah providing |
| 0:28.6 | an assist off the bench, head of his departure to Afcon with Egypt. Despair to ecstasy for Arsenal |
| 0:34.6 | in stoppage time as the gunners reply towards 90th minute equaliser |
| 0:38.1 | with seconds left to play, keeping them top of the Premier League table. |
| 0:42.1 | Manchester City cruise past Crystal Palace 3-0 and Aston Villa top West Ham 3-2, |
| 0:47.2 | keeping the Premier League title race thrillingly tight, |
| 0:50.0 | and Chelsea defeat Everton 2-0 with goals from Carl Palmer and Malagusto, |
| 0:54.0 | but Enzo Moreska's cryptic post-match comments |
| 0:56.1 | about a lack of support for him and his players steal the spotlight. |
| 1:00.3 | That's what we have coming up in today's episode. |
| 1:04.0 | Okay, my friend, I hope you had a good weekend, restful weekend, |
| 1:07.8 | sitting on your sofa watching plenty of football. |
| 1:10.8 | I mean, as ever, in most games, there's a storyline, there's a headline, there's drama. |
| 1:17.3 | Let's start at Amfield where the spotlight was very much, not just on, on a slot in Liverpool, but Mo Salah. |
| 1:24.2 | We'd had the toxic rant after the Leeds game. |
| 1:27.6 | We'd seen the fallout. |
| 1:28.5 | We saw him not being part of the squad against Inter Milan in the Champions League. |
| 1:33.9 | There was debate, Rob, whether he would be involved this weekend. |
| 1:38.3 | It was announced on Friday that he was in the match day squad. |
| 1:41.1 | The big question was, and we're waiting in the studio to see if he's in the start in 11. He wasn't. He was on the bench, but he gone on after 26 minutes when Joe Gomez came |
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