Weekend Preview: Could defeat for Man United be a tipping point? Do Liverpool injuries give United hope?
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🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Dan Bardell, Tim Spiers and George Elek preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action starting with the huge game at Old Trafford on Monday night as Manchester United take on Liverpool - will another humiliating defeat prove a tipping point for the disgruntled United fans? Does Liverpool's lengthy injury list give Utd a glimmer of hope? Can Jurgen Klopp's side afford to drop more points this early on?
Plus there's a look at Spurs v Wolves, Bournemouth v Arsenal, Leeds v Chelsea, and Newcastle v Manchester City
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The Ronaldo situation is a total and utter nightmare |
| 0:07.8 | and it's no surprise that we're now seeing noises |
| 0:09.8 | that Tenorgh effectively wants him gone as soon as possible. |
| 0:15.0 | And Bowman is four! |
| 0:18.6 | It's brilliant through Brentford. |
| 0:23.9 | They are demolishing Manchester United. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello, Dan Badal here with you |
| 0:30.5 | alongside George Ellick and Tim Spears. |
| 0:33.0 | Last week we got George to deliver us his hot take |
| 0:35.6 | straight out of the gate. |
| 0:36.9 | And this week Tim |
| 0:37.8 | which is your turn to go first. I was going to talk about how amazing Arsenal looked just to |
| 0:42.3 | go on the back of what George is saying last week but I'll spare him that. I think Manchester |
| 0:48.1 | United have officially now taken on Arsenal's mantle as the big club to laugh at in English football. |
| 0:55.5 | It's been Arsenal for a few years, and last season there was a bit of Arsenal, a bit of United. |
| 1:00.4 | But even my mum and my sister were talking about Man United after the Brentford defeat, |
| 1:04.9 | and they know absolutely nothing about football, and they couldn't care less. |
| 1:08.3 | But it's still of interest to everybody so yeah just |
| 1:11.9 | incredible scenes across the country when those goals were going in i mean if they're |
| 1:16.5 | nothing about football they could probably run Manchester night because that's how bad it is |
| 1:19.5 | there at the moment george i noticed that edouard didn't score again by the way he didn't didn't |
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