Weekend Preview: Bruce Wars, Doucoure Flourishing & Sorry Spurs
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Hosts Dan Bardell and George Elek are joined by bet365's Steve Freeth to preview another big weekend of Premier League football... Who needs the points more on Friday night as Newcastle face Leeds - and how can Bielsa get record signing Rodrigo, to start firing? Can Manchester United bounce back from their Champions League humbling away at an Antonio-less West Ham? Plus, Brentford's work-rate, Spurs' dismay and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.0 | Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football podcast, sponsored by Bet365. |
| 0:25.0 | On Fridays, we're here to preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action, |
| 0:29.1 | and as ever, I've got George Ellick and Bet365 Steve Freeth alongside me to help. |
| 0:34.2 | How are you both? |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah, all good. |
| 0:36.2 | All good. |
| 0:36.7 | Nice to have the Champions League back. Nice to have the relentless Saturday, well, weekend, midweek, weekend, midweek back when you're working in football. No time to rest. But I guess we can't complain, can we? Because, you know, it's not a bad job being able to talk about football and watch lots of football in the week. No, the more football the better. Steve, I mean, you've been |
| 0:55.1 | watching some championship, but he's great to have the Champions League back. It's such a good tournament, so good to watch. It is, yeah, yeah, fantastic. Obviously, been an Albion fan. We don't really talk about European football, unlike some of our, unlike some of our Midlands neighbours. have you ever added? |
| 0:51.0 | Yes. |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah, we did once, yeah, or twice. |
| 0:53.9 | Yeah, I remember a game against Valencia. |
| 0:55.8 | Anglo-Italia Cup was that, I think. Don't you start? You're an Oxford fan. Come on. But no, no, it is right. It's fantastic to have it back and some fair results as well. Plenty of thrills and spills. And, you know, Barcelona. |
| 1:31.9 | Difficult watch. Difficult watch Barcelona. I thought they started okay, actually, |
| 1:35.5 | but then they just descended into this team has got nothing now. |
| 1:40.4 | That felt like, I mean, Steve, I think they're about even money buying water to win that game. And it felt like the equivalent of Floyd Mayweather against Cona McGregor |
| 1:45.4 | where anybody I spoke to who was in any way sharp was saying if you're about buying on |
| 1:50.0 | Tuesday night it seemed like the world's favorite bet and it was you know and it was proven to |
| 1:54.0 | be value anybody who says there's no such thing as value in top level football I think that is |
| 1:58.3 | case and point that there being without not necessarily being the case, because Byne completely blitzed them. |
| 2:03.1 | Yeah, very much so. |
| 2:04.7 | I mean, they were even a bit shorter than even money. |
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