Weekend Preview: Can Arsenal end Villa's streak?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Adam Leventhal returns to preview Matchweek 16 of the Premier League!
The weekend is headlined by a clash between table-topping Arsenal and surprise-package Aston Villa. Can Villa extend their winning run at home to 15 games?
Then we ask what's going wrong at Manchester City? The Champions are without a win in four matches and have only managed three in their last nine.
And finally it's a tour of some other interesting storylines - will Manchester United continue their mini-renaissance vs Bournemouth? Will Steve Cooper still have a job by Monday? And how high can Everton climb even with their points penalty?
Host: Adam Leventhal
Guests: Joey D'Urso, Oli Kay
Producer: John Rogers
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:02.8 | Hi there, this is the Athletic Football podcast as the December football comes thick and fast. |
| 0:09.3 | It's match day 16. Hi there, everyone. I'm Adam Leventhal. |
| 0:30.7 | Welcomeing in our third match day out of seven this month. |
| 0:35.4 | We have barely got our breath back after that midweek set of Premier League games which saw 30 goals. And now we go again. Let's introduce our cast for today. It is a two-man team. First of all, hello to Olli Kay. You have had a busy week, have you not? |
| 0:52.5 | I'm busy every week. But yes, I guess you're referring to the video marathon or TV marathon on Wednesday night |
| 1:01.0 | where I was under orders to watch all the games at once, which meant having six screens |
| 1:07.1 | open and it did my head in, basically. |
| 1:12.3 | The only way to watch a match properly is to just immerse yourself in that one match. So I found it a profoundly unsatisfactory viewing |
| 1:18.9 | experience but it allowed me to get some things off my chest about football on TV. So that piece is |
| 1:24.0 | on the athletic. Excellent. So you've you've sort of recovered a little bit. |
| 1:29.2 | That's good to hear. |
| 1:30.4 | Alongside Olly is Joey Derso, who is not only fantastic at investigations, but perhaps |
| 1:38.5 | more importantly, he's an Aston Villa fan. |
| 1:40.1 | So he's literally walking on Cloud 9 at the moment. |
| 1:42.9 | How are you, Joey? |
| 1:43.9 | Very well, yeah. Still slightly coming down from the high of that battering of Pepe Guadiola's Man City. |
| 1:49.8 | And I'll be there on Saturday at Villa Park to see if they can do the same against Arsenal. |
| 1:53.4 | Yeah. Oh, it's going to be a great game. We'll get stuck into that and the weekend's action. |
| 1:59.5 | Just a quick mention before we kick on with our fixture formation, |
| 2:02.9 | a new addition to your weekend preview enjoyment. You can now watch every episode in full |
| 2:09.0 | on the Athletic Football Podcast YouTube channel. We're normally in the studio, just in case you |
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