Weekend Preview: City look to take top spot after shooting down the Gunners, Villa march onto Old Trafford & are Everton doomed?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dan Bardell is joined by George Elek, Tim Spiers and bet365's Steve Freeth following a decisive week at the top and bottom of the Premier League.
With Arsenal not in action until Tuesday, Man City will look to take top spot when they head to Fulham. In the battle for European qualification Aston Villa head to Old Trafford and Liverpool take on Tottenham while Newcastle play Southampton.
Plus, at the bottom, have Nottingham Forest begun their great escape and is there any hope left for Everton after they were smashed at home by Newcastle.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | It shows to me how exceptionally well Arsenal had done to take it this deep into the season to be honest because City just looked like a team |
| 0:22.3 | with no flaws. |
| 0:25.9 | There cannot be a more exciting |
| 0:28.3 | group of young players that a head coach |
| 0:30.7 | should come in and work with |
| 0:32.1 | in world football right now. |
| 0:36.3 | Second half is just |
| 0:37.4 | yeah, capitulation really, wasn't it? |
| 0:39.7 | Quite clearly, Dan, this Leicester City game away on Monday is absolutely huge. |
| 0:47.6 | Hello and welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm Dan Bardell and this is the weekend preview. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm Dan Bardell and this is the weekend preview. I'm joined by George Ellick, Bet365, Steve Freeth and Tim Spears. |
| 1:03.1 | As Man City shoot down the gunner's title chances, can City complete the job on their way to a possible treble? |
| 1:09.5 | Across Manchester, United welcome Aston Villa as Unai Emoryside looked to open up the race |
| 1:14.4 | for Champions League qualification, and down at the bottom, Everton head to Leicester and leads |
| 1:19.3 | head to Bournemouth as the Battle for Survival intensifies. |
| 1:22.9 | That's all to come here on the weekend preview. |
| 1:38.1 | What a touch from, floating, Paul! to come here on the weekend preview. Of course, there was a massive game midweek as the title race really, really intensified. |
| 1:46.0 | This weekend, Fullam are playing Manchester City Sunday at 2 o'clock. |
| 1:50.1 | And weirdly, Arsenal are playing Chelsea Tuesday at 8 o'clock. |
| 1:54.4 | George, we waited and waited for the title showdown at the Etiad. |
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