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Soccer, Sports

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to Liverpool's 4-2 victory over Bournemouth and question if Mohamed Salah will find his superstar form this season after slow start today. Plus, the crew from Mallorca join the show to preview Barcelona's opener tomorrow and look ahead to Real Madrid's clash with Osasuna on Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.6

I'm Dan Thomas joined by Casey, Nadim and Stevie.

0:31.6

We've actually got some real important football to talk about as the Premier League kicked off today,

0:36.6

defending champions Liverpool taking on Bournemouth, the host wanted a handball important football to talk about as the Premier League kicked off today defending

0:37.7

champions Liverpool taking on Bournemouth the host wanted a handborn a red card

0:42.3

early on and replay showing that maybe Bournemouth were lucky to still have 11 men

0:46.7

on the pitch in the end though Liverpool would take a 2-0 lead

0:50.1

Hicka TK of course who scored against Crystal Palace would add another goal to

0:54.0

his tally his first match at Anfield to make it 1-0. Soon into the second half, Gakpo make it 2-0, but then Semenya would get a brace to make Liverpool fans sweat. In the end, slot made a couple of big substitutions, including the introduction of Keiza. He would score in the 89th minute. No Salah, who'd had a pretty average game, up to the 94th minute would get the fourth

1:15.3

goal to give guarantee the victory for Liverpool as they start the defence of their title

1:21.1

with a win.

1:22.3

Louis Garcia is in New York ahead of our big game against Barcelona tomorrow.

1:26.3

He was watching this for us. We'll

1:27.9

Hill from Lewis in a moment. But first let's start in studio. Nadim, this is the first time

1:32.7

you've ever watched a Liverpool game with Stevie. How would you describe that experience?

1:38.0

I think it was a remarkable experience. I think for all those that think that maybe he's not

1:42.7

really pro-Liverpool, trust me. He lives and breathes it. Yeah, if there was a ratio of swear words. Yeah, it was, it was, I think to sum up, Stevie wasn't really that calm, which says a lot about the game itself. At 2-0, you thought, well, maybe he can be calmer now. Yeah. But that finished, it was a bit of stressful side, and I think rightly so. rightly so. It's, because at 2-0, we thought, right, this is going to be easy. We'll just say this is exactly what you expect, obviously. Still some teething problems, we expect Liverpool to move on and build from this. But they were so vulnerable in that second half, and it turned out to be a Keizza, as we mentioned of all people, who comes off the bench

2:17.5

be a hero. But boy, Liverpool made a sweat. Yeah, and I think it's important to point out that,

2:23.7

you know, in the first half, Bournemouth had some breaks similar to the ones they took

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