Sarri raises the stakes as Rashford rediscovers his confidence
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The Times
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🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Natalie Sawyer and Gab Marcotti are joined by Matt Dickinson and Alan Smith after an impactful weekend in the Premier League.
Arsenal beat Chelsea emphatically at the Emirates, causing Blues boss Maurizio Sarri to publicly question his players’ motivation ahead of their Carabao Cup semi-final with Spurs.
Is it a gamble worth taking? Has Sarri neglected other members of his squad for too long? Or is the system failing and are Kante and Hazard being misused?
Speaking of Spurs, they come from behind to win at Fulham, despite Dele Alli adding to a growing injury list. Is the lack of summer signings about to come back to haunt them? And are the Cottagers doomed to the drop?
And it’s another win for Manchester United and another goal for Marcus Rashford. Is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer right to predict he could become the best striker in the Premier League?
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply game podcast from The Times I'm Natalie Sawyer and I'm |
| 0:36.6 | Gabriel Marcokie and we thank you for joining us on this Monday morning alongside |
| 0:40.6 | in the studio we welcome former Arsenal striker Alan Smith. |
| 0:45.0 | And down the line, the Times Chief Sports writer, the original, Matt Dickinson. |
| 0:50.0 | Later on, we'll be talking some spurs and how they're down to their bare bones and the resurgence |
| 0:54.8 | of one Marcus Rashford. |
| 0:56.1 | Though did he ever really go away? |
| 0:58.7 | Can we speak of resurgence when you're still that young? |
| 1:01.3 | We will find out a bit later then, but we start with what was |
| 1:03.8 | billed as a make or break game for Arsenal in the Champions League chase. The gunners |
| 1:08.7 | halved the gap on fourth place Chelsea to three points with a two-nill win over the blues on Saturday night. |
| 1:14.0 | Now Maritzio Sari was absolutely scathing in his assessment of Chelsea. |
| 1:19.0 | He said he wanted to speak in Italian via an interpreter so that his message would be absolutely clear. |
| 1:25.6 | And this was his message. |
| 1:27.2 | He said, I'm extremely angry. |
| 1:29.7 | This defeat was due to our mentality. |
| 1:31.6 | I can't accept it. We had a similar issue against |
| 1:34.2 | Tottenham in the league. It appears this group of players are extremely difficult to |
| 1:39.3 | motivate. Quite alarming, then what he had to say, Is there a chance this could backfire on him, Gap? |
| 1:45.0 | Well, I mean, there's a couple things to say. First of all, like, I heard the translation, and so then I went back to look at the original because while the guy |
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