Weekend Preview: De Bruyne's Reminder, Martinelli's Horse Power & Will Kane Ever Score Again?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Hosts Dan Bardell and George Elek are joined by bet365's Steve Freeth to preview (what's left of) the weekend's Premier League action, as Covid outbreaks continue to disrupt the festive fixture calendar... Has 'Auba-gate' actually galvanised the Arsenal squad and can they take their impressive home form to Elland Road on Saturday? How much Kane would be worth if he tried to engineer another move away from Spurs in January and more on KdB's frighteningly good return to action. Plus, why Gareth Southgate MUST find a way to get Trent Alexander-Arnold into his England team for the World Cup next year.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.0 | Hello and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football podcast sponsored by Bet365. |
| 0:25.6 | Thank you. on the Athletic Football podcast, sponsored by Bet365. I'm Dan Bardell and each and every Friday, myself and co-host George Ellick will preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action, well, what's left of it, alongside Bet365, Steve. |
| 0:36.3 | On this week's show, we're going to talk Trent and his powers of creation. |
| 0:40.8 | Kevin DeBreiner is back with a bang and how Martin Ellis switch from automatic to a manual. |
| 0:49.8 | Hello, guys, good to speak to you both, Good to see you both healthy fits and well. |
| 0:56.3 | Premier League, I mean, there is a danger that we do this show and then it never airs, |
| 1:01.2 | or that the games that we talk about don't happen. They happen in future, and it looks like |
| 1:06.0 | everything we've said is a load of rubbish. So who knows what is going to go on. |
| 1:10.0 | George, do we need some kind of |
| 1:11.6 | circuit breaker in the Premier League? Only five games as we record are taking place. It's all |
| 1:17.2 | a bit carnage like, isn't it? Yeah, it is. I think, you know, I'm no expert here on public |
| 1:23.0 | health matters, so I'm not going to pretend to be. But it was interesting to hear Emma Hayes |
| 1:26.7 | talking last |
| 1:27.8 | night about the Chelsea women's team who lost 4-0 against Wolfsburg and what was a pretty |
| 1:32.5 | surprising result in the women's champions league and got knocked out and she came out afterwards |
| 1:36.8 | and said, you know, it was that the players are feeling an unbelievable amount of anxiety, |
| 1:41.6 | basically around the situation, around the health issues |
| 1:45.0 | surrounding COVID at the moment. And I think that's probably the key to all of this is player |
| 1:50.3 | welfare and welfare of just everyone involved in the sport. If you don't want these young men and young |
| 1:57.6 | women, because this isn't just about the Premier League, this is about the whole pyramid and both men's and women's sport. You don't want these people to be in |
| 2:04.3 | positions where they're having to play games of football when they feel unsafe or if they're |
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