The race for Europe and survival: Will Arsenal get fourth? Can Man Utd wrestle it back? Are Newcastle safe - and who's going down?
The Sky Sports Football Podcast
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4 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In Part One, the team dissect Arsenal's narrow win at Watford, which moved them into the top four with three games in hand on Man Utd and Tottenham. Will they stay there, or can Man Utd bounce back from Sunday's defeat at the Etihad? Is it going to be close but no cigar again for West Ham, can Spurs still do it... And what's happened to Wolves?
In Part Two we turn our attention to the other end of the table, and the job Eddie Howe is doing at Newcastle - who are now eight games undefeated in the division. What are the early signs from the Jesse Marsch era at Leeds - and is there cause for optimism? Has Brentford's win at Norwich just nudged them to safety, and who will end up being the bottom three?
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| 0:43.3 | weekend's Premier League action. With that in mind, we've got a bumper line up joining me for today's |
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| 0:55.1 | Joe Shred. Now, there's been some twists and turns at the top and the bottom of the table, |
| 1:00.2 | so let's start with the race for Europe. We're Arsenal up to fourth after a three-two win at |
| 1:04.3 | Watford with three games in hand on the two teams below them, Manchester United and West Ham. |
| 1:09.4 | Nick, you were at Watford yesterday with |
| 1:11.2 | 13 points from their last five games. Are Arsenal heading back to the Champions League? |
| 1:16.6 | Well, they've got to have a strong shout now, don't they? I think they have to be considered |
| 1:20.0 | big favourites. I mean, a lot of people have said during this top four race, you know, it's |
| 1:24.2 | better to have the points on the board than games in hand. But Arsenal now have both, really, don't they? |
| 1:29.3 | They're above Man United, above West Ham, three games in hand still on both of those sides. |
| 1:33.3 | No games in hand on spurs, but six points clear of them, and just in really excellent form. |
| 1:38.3 | I mean, it's eight wins from 10 Premier League games, and only one defeat in that time, and even that against Man City was a game they really should have taken something from. |
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