Struggling to assess Silva as Liverpool fall back on full-backs
The Game
The Times
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🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
After a full midweek fixture list, Gab Marcotti, Natalie Sawyer and Gary Jacob look ahead to a weekend packed full of derbies.
Chelsea sweep aside Spurs despite the controversy surrounding the many statements of Kepa. Is Harry Kane’s frustration at Stamford Bridge, coupled with Mauricio Pochettino’s frustration at Turf Moor, indicative of a larger frustration? Arsenal are next in the North London derby. The Gunners are in form but is Unai Emery in emergency mode?
Then follows the Merseyside derby on Sunday as we make the case for Alexander-Arnold and Robertson being the best pair of full-backs in the league. And how long do we give Marco Silva before we judge the job he’s doing at Everton?
Brendan Rodgers leaves Celtic for Leicester but should he have been allowed to? Plus in a move we saw coming, Fulham part company with Claudio Ranieri, after he fails to make a good defence.
Charlie Scott and Paddy von Behr provide advice ahead of the fantasy football weekend. For free Fantasy Premier League tips from The Sweeper, visit thetimes.co.uk/fantasyfootball
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer. And as you can probably tell from |
| 0:16.1 | hear by voice, yes, I'm here, I made it back. I know everybody's waiting with baited breaths, but we were able to |
| 0:22.3 | rearrange a few things thanks to the superhuman efforts of our producer Charlie and also our kind guess. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm about to introduce with me in the studio, the man with two first names no not Bill Edgar Gary Jacob |
| 0:37.5 | Later on we'll be discussing Merseys Brendan Brendan Rogers, and maybe even Cloud Your Ragnari if he |
| 0:46.9 | gets sacked during the show. |
| 0:48.5 | But we start with what is turning into a very poor week for Tottenham. |
| 0:52.0 | Defeat at Burnley on Saturday was followed by a tuna loss at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night. |
| 0:57.0 | We'll come on to Spurs in a moment, but let's focus on Chelsea, shall we? |
| 1:01.5 | Positive for Chelsea. |
| 1:03.2 | Gett, what did that result tell us about a Chelsea team whose spirit we've questioned |
| 1:07.5 | recently? |
| 1:08.1 | Well, it tells us that spurs weren't particularly good, which some people maybe could have seen coming after Burnley or whatever. |
| 1:17.0 | But I also think that we love going and coming up with narratives, right? so when a team starts doing badly |
| 1:23.9 | it's because so-and-so's lost the dressing room or the one expression which I |
| 1:27.7 | hate and I know you've never written this Gary but it just because I just |
| 1:30.9 | think it's stupid as an expression is |
| 1:33.8 | downing tools right? You've never used that right? I never quite bought |
| 1:39.1 | into it with sadi not because sadi is this wonderful charismatic figure who all the players adore. Not because so many times and I think it's really really important you have hazard |
| 1:53.9 | Pedro and willian all of whom are out of contract in 2020 hazard will go to |
| 1:59.5 | realm Madrid if they want him and I don't think Chelsea are in a position where they can stand on his way. |
| 2:04.8 | The other two, their future pretty much depends on how they perform, correct me if I'm wrong, |
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