The football is back! (And it’s good again)
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Tifo team remain undaunted in their pursuit of talking about football and work their way through a remarkable number of topics, including: a new-look Liverpool under Arne Slot, what Ipswich are up to, Chelsea’s many, many players, Manchester City looking ominous again, Brighton as the adults in the room, Spurs… more like Spursy…, and what our resident fans make of Crystal Palace and Aberdeen respectively.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Ruben Pinder and today I'm joined by |
| 0:08.3 | JJ Bull. Hello. And John McKenzie. Hello! We're going to speak about the Premier League |
| 0:14.4 | Poltergeist and new book that's out a lot about Chelsea, way too much about Chelsea, really, but, you know, they are interesting. |
| 0:22.7 | Should Tottenham be worried? |
| 0:24.2 | Our Palace bad. |
| 0:26.9 | Our Aberdeen good. |
| 0:28.4 | Points are bad and the guest a player game. |
| 0:31.0 | Enjoy. |
| 0:34.8 | Well, should we start with Liverpool then? |
| 0:36.7 | Because they kicked off their season with a 2-0 win over Ipswich, newly promoted Ipswich, |
| 0:41.8 | with goals from Djok Jota and Mohamed Sala. |
| 0:44.6 | What did we make of their performance? |
| 0:46.1 | Because to me, watching on TV it seemed like, as many analysts have predicted, |
| 0:50.4 | that it would be a continuation of similar principles to Juergen Klut, |
| 0:54.1 | but with slight stylistic differences, especially in the build-up phase. that it would be a continuation of similar principles to Yergen Klopp, |
| 0:56.1 | but with slight stylistic differences, |
| 0:58.2 | especially in the build-up phase. |
| 1:01.1 | So they've tweaked their formation and their style slightly. |
| 1:03.9 | What did you make of their first Premier League game under Arnest Slot, John? |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah, it's always tough, I think, to assess a coach he's coming in after, |
| 1:27.5 | I mean, especially after a sort of dynasty like Yergen Klotz. We'd had a bit of a sense of what we were going to expect in preseason. And to me, it looked actually very similar to some of the ideas that we've seen with Roberto Deserby. So, yeah, I was a little bit disappointed to not get the chance to see Deserby at an elite team in the Premier League because I was kind of interested to see how it scaled up. So hopefully we'll get to see a little bit of that with Arniss slot. But yeah, the big idea, I guess, is to, it's about creating space that you can then exploit similar to Deserby. There'll be different ideas behind it in the of the nitty gritty. But yeah, it's about |
| 1:44.9 | doing patient buildup, pulling teams forward, creating the space and then having the ability to |
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