The Preview - Tottenham vs Liverpool
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
After beating Manchester United midweek in classically chaotic fashion, Tottenham host league leaders Liverpool.
With just one clean sheet in their last 23 Premier League home games, the panel analyse why Spurs are making things so difficult for themselves.
Meanwhile Liverpool have shown a more adaptable side to their game this week, could Ange Postecoglou take a leaf out of Arne Slot’s book?
Plus, we look at the fixtures elsewhere and talk sacking season after Gary O’Neil and Russell Martin were relieved of their duties this week.
Host: Michael Bailey
With: Tim Spiers, Mark Carey
Executive Producer: Abi Paterson
Producer: Jay Beale
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| 1:22.2 | Today we'll be focusing on Tottenham versus Liverpool before turning our attention to the fixtures elsewhere. |
| 1:35.6 | With me today are the Athletics football writer Tim Spears and data analyst Mark Carey. |
| 1:41.4 | Let's start with Tottenham then, who were in action on Thursday night, |
| 1:45.0 | beating Manchester United 4-3 in the Carrabah Cup quarter finals. Let's hear from Spurs |
| 1:50.3 | writer Jay Harris, who is at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. That was a crazy game of football. Spurs |
| 1:57.4 | looked like they were cruising at 3-0- up and Fraser Forster made a couple of mistakes |
| 2:01.6 | which allowed Manchester to come back into the game. |
| 2:04.6 | There's going to be a lot of focus around Forster in the next 24-48 hours. |
| 2:08.6 | But we shouldn't catastrophize what Forster did. |
| 2:11.6 | He has actually performed quite well playing out from the back while Giglielmo Vicario has been injured. |
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