United need to be working on Mourinho’s replacement now
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🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Natalie Sawyer and Gab Marcotti are in the company of Oliver Kay and Matt Hughes, the morning after Liverpool sweep aside Manchester United at Anfield.
Even if United persist with Jose Mourinho until the end of the season, the panel agree that United need to be putting the groundwork in right now to secure his summer replacement.
As for Liverpool, they remain unbeaten and top of the league. Does Klopp get enough credit for the work he’s done with the squad?
Southampton feel the Hasenhüttl effect to win at St Mary’s for the first time this season and end the Gunners 22-game unbeaten run. Find out why Arsenal’s Bernd Leno is indicative of German goalkeepers.
Plus we have live Champions League draw reaction in the studio as the last 16 match-ups are revealed. Klopp renews an old rivalry, it gets worse for United and Tottenham’s tie is an architect’s dream.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times I'm Natalie Sawyer. |
| 0:35.6 | And I'm Gable McCarthy and we thank you for joining us on this lovely December Monday. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm especially excited because joining us in the studio today it's Matt Hughes and |
| 0:46.8 | down the line from his little hamlet in Rippenden it's Holly Kaye later on we'll be looking at the end of Arsenal's |
| 0:55.2 | Unbeaten run and analyzing the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League. |
| 0:59.6 | But we start at Ann Field where Liverpool's Unbeaten start to the season and the Premier League continued. |
| 1:04.8 | A late double from Substitute Jordan Shaquiri steered Liverpool to a three-one win ever Manchester |
| 1:09.8 | United and took them back to the top of the table. Now, Ollie, you were there. |
| 1:14.0 | Liverpool are now 19 points clear of United. |
| 1:18.0 | Was that gap reflected in what you saw? |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, I suppose it was really because it |
| 1:25.0 | Liverpool looked like a top team and United looked like a sort of bland mediocre |
| 1:32.0 | middle of the mid table team and I mean what sort of bland mediocre mid-table team. |
| 1:34.4 | I mean, what can you made the point afterwards on sky |
| 1:37.4 | saying, you know, if you came down to the moon, |
| 1:40.8 | I'm never sure how that works, but if you didn't know better you would think |
| 1:46.4 | that this is just an average Premier League team and that is exactly what United have looked |
| 1:51.8 | like this season in terms of the way they play in terms of the results. |
| 1:57.0 | It's I mean are they somehow in six positions by default, but they look way off. They look really a really |
| 2:07.4 | average team playing sort of really average sort of clinging on hope for best football and it's it's it's you know I |
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