The Preview: Man City vs Liverpool
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Preview on The Athletic FC, where this week our main focus is Manchester City vs Liverpool.
Where do you play Wirtz? How do you stop Haaland? And will either of them reel in Arsenal?
Andy Jones and Jordan Campbell join Matt Davies-Adams to look ahead to Sunday's clash before turning their attention to the fixtures elsewhere including Sunderland vs Arsenal, Spurs vs Manchester United and Crystal Palace vs Brighton.
Host: Matt Davies-Adams
With: Andy Jones & Jordan Campbell
Executive Producer: Abi Paterson
Producer: Jay Beale
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the preview from the Athletic FC. |
| 0:09.2 | It's the show where we get you set to the weekend's Premier League action. |
| 0:12.7 | This week we're focusing on a Premier League modern classic Manchester City versus Liverpool. |
| 0:23.3 | And joining me today, we've got two preview debutantes. |
| 0:26.6 | Hello, Andy Jones. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello. |
| 0:28.6 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:29.6 | No, no, absolutely our pleasure. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm not sure how trepidacious you're feeling about Sunday, but we shall find out. |
| 0:35.9 | Very. |
| 0:36.9 | Jordan Cabbles with us as well to give us a city perspective. How are you doing, Jordan? Yeah, I'm good, Matt. How are you? All right, yeah, can't complain. I mean, yeah, I'm a forest fan, so we'll talk about that later, maybe. But we are here to talk as well as Sunday's showdown about some of the other key games taking place on Match Day 11 in the Premier League. But first, |
| 0:54.5 | let's get to our feature presentation. And it has been the marquee matchup Premier League-wise |
| 1:00.6 | since Pep Guardiola took charge of Manchester City, Arna Slot, compared the contest to El |
| 1:05.3 | Classico in his Friday press conference. Andy, I wonder if there's a slightly different feel to this fixture than there has been in |
| 1:13.4 | recent years, because these two aren't the front runners in the Premier League this time. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, I think there is for a number of different reasons. |
| 1:19.0 | I think that's one of them, because ultimately both are chasing down Arsenal, |
| 1:22.9 | and this has frequently been, you know, a title, were felt like a title deciding fixture between the two sides |
| 1:29.7 | because it's been those two at the top. |
| 1:31.9 | And obviously, that's changed in the last couple of years. |
| 1:34.8 | Difference in this case, I mean, last season, for example, |
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