Weekend Preview: big tests for England & Southgate

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The Athletic

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Dan Bardell and George Elek are joined by the Athletic's Tim Spiers and Bet 365's Steve Freeth for a look ahead to a big weekend of international football which will feature significant tests for Gareth Southgate's England and Rob Page's Wales just two months out from the world cup. Will Southgate put his faith in Bellingham? Will out of form Maguire and Shaw retain their starting spots? Who takes the no.1 shirt in Pickford's absence? The international break also gives us the opportunity to reflect on the Premier League, so the panel cast their eye on how the title race and relegation battles are shaping up after seven games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:05.0	For Gala Southgate's job, I would argue that the performance of the World Cup will be massively swayed by what happens this week.
0:15.2	Hello and welcome to the athletic football podcast. I'm Dan Bardell. This is the weekend preview.
0:21.6	I'm joined as ever by George Ella and back with us after he ditched us last
0:25.3	work for the Spurs podcast is Tim Spears Tim you well? Yeah I was just getting in
0:30.4	some practice for the main event done yeah good times you back
0:33.4	don't it just again that team not very happy with that at all and it's also a warm
0:37.7	welcome back to bet three six five Steve free technology guru how are you Steve
0:42.4	frustrated technology wise but a pleasure Steve Freeth, Technology Guru, how are you Steve?
0:42.8	Frustrated technology wise, but a pleasure to be back with you guys and Tim as well of course
0:47.0	with the Wolves Connection from last season I'm delighted to be working with him.
0:50.0	Good to have you all with us so it is the international break and we're going to be looking
0:54.0	ahead to some important games for England, Wales and other nations with just seven weeks to go
0:59.4	until the World Cup begins it feels absolutely ludicrous to be saying that but that is
1:03.2	where we are in the world. We'll also take this moment to have a look at where
1:06.8	things stand in the Premier League. We'll look at the Premier League picture.
1:11.3	So England have two big games this weekend with the Nations League fixtures against Italy on Friday night and Germany on Monday.
1:19.8	George let's talk about the Italy game first. What sort of task does this pose for Southgate?
1:24.8	Is it a chance to experiment or does he need to put his full strength to him out?
1:28.6	Yeah, I mean I definitely don't think he can experiment for so many reasons. I mean England come into this. It's easy to forget just how bad England's form is coming into this game.
1:37.1	Four Nations League games so far. Two defeats against Hungary, the 1-0 in Budapest and then the 4-0 defeat at Wembley and then
1:45.4	two draws at a decent point in Germany and then a nil-nilled draw against an Italy side who are also in
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