Weekend Preview: Arsenal out to prove credentials, Conte v Klopp & Ten Hag shows who's boss
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🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Dan Bardell is joined by George Elek, The Athletic's Tim Spiers and bet365's Steve Freeth as Arsenal head to Chelsea in the weekend's standout Premier League game.
The panel also look ahead to Liverpool's visit to Tottenham following Antonio Conte's first anniversary in charge of Spurs.
Plus there's a look ahead to Unai Emery starting his reign at Villa Park against Manchester United, including some trivia, as well as Man City v Fulham & Everton v Leicester.
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:45.9 | away at clubs the size of Brighton. |
| 0:48.9 | There's only Newcastle at this stage you haven't won the league from being, |
| 0:52.1 | having this amount of points, being top of the the Premier League I think it was the latest sign of Van Dyke just not being |
| 0:59.8 | the player that he was you don't get a bigger ego than Ronaldo and you know he's |
| 1:05.1 | winning that particular battle because it is a battle you know between the two of them |
| 1:10.9 | hello and welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm Dan Bardell and it's time for the weekend preview. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm joined by George Ellick, Bet365 Steve Freeth and the Athletics Tim Spears. |
| 1:23.4 | Coming up, we'll look at Arsenal. |
| 1:24.9 | Will they pass their latest test as league leaders away to Chelsea. |
| 1:29.1 | Topman, fresh from their midweek Champions League high, take on Liverpool. |
| 1:33.3 | Uni Emorye makes his Premier League return, City Welcome, Fulham and Frank Lampard's Everton take on Brendan Rogers is Lester. |
| 1:40.6 | All that's here to come on the weekend preview. |
| 1:46.3 | So, guys, the first game that we're going to talk about today is Chelsea v Arsenal, which |
| 1:50.4 | is the Sunday 12 o'clock lunchtime offering. |
| 1:53.8 | Graham Potter's first defeat last weekend on his return to Brighton, not really the defeat |
| 1:58.7 | he would have wanted. |
| 1:59.4 | I mean, you never want to have a defeat, but going to his old club will not have sat well with Potter at all. George, did we see that coming? I mean, Deserby's Brighton. They had been perhaps a little bit unlucky and were maybe due a win, but did we see the velocity of that defeat coming? I think if you go back and listen to this podcast last week, maybe saw it coming more than most. You know, it did feel like a game between two sides where one and Chelsea were getting results whilst playing badly and one in Brighton who were playing really well and not getting anything. So, you know, it might surprise that those listeners who might not be into kind of the gambling side of things, that |
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