Super League? More Like Europa League..
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The Times
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Jonathan Northcroft and Ian Hawkey.
Antonio Conte was sent off as Spurs had a winner ruled out against Sporting on Wednesday night - but was it the right decision? (00:00)
Liverpool cruised into the knockout stages with a 3-0 win at Ajax - are we starting to see them find their form again? (10:24)
Chelsea are already looking like a Graham Potter side, but how far can they go in the tournament? (16:22)
Three of the original Super League clubs are already out of the Champions League. Ian Hawkey joins us from Barcelona to discuss the fate of Xavi’s side as well as Juventus and Atletico Madrid (30:09)
Unai Emery is back to have another crack at the Premier League. Why is he a good fit for Aston Villa? (40:17)
It’s the end of the month, so we pick our alternative players of the month for October (49:08)
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| 0:54.6 | This is the game football podcast from the Times. Today we react to big results in the Champions |
| 1:01.6 | League as Antonio Conte is left fuming by a late VAR call, which means Tottenham's chances of |
| 1:07.3 | progression go right down to their final game. Liverpool already threw as our Manchester City Chelsea |
| 1:14.7 | looked very, very solid as they go through as group winners, but how far can their boss Gray and Potter |
| 1:20.5 | take them? We'll talk about some of the big clubs that never made it across the continent as well, |
| 1:25.2 | Juventus, Yuvei in Hell according to the Italian newspapers. We'll talk about what's next for them |
| 1:31.2 | and Barcelona as well after they were knocked out alongside their fellow LaLiga compatriots at |
| 1:36.8 | Letico Madrid. We'll react to Unai Emery's appointment at Aston Villa and do our alternative |
| 1:42.1 | player of the month nominations, all that are more coming on this episode of the game. |
| 1:52.4 | Hello and welcome back to the game podcast. I'm Hugh Wiesencroft alongside Ian Hawke, |
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