Weekend Preview: Liverpool head to Man City as top two clash
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Manchester City host title rivals Liverpool in the first game of the weekend, as the Premier League returns from the final international break of the year, with the visitors looking to lay down a marker.
Sunday sees Everton welcome Manchester United to Goodison Park fresh from their 10-point deduction while Tottenham take on Aston Villa in a battle of fourth versus fifth.
Newcastle welcome Chelsea to Tyneside to round off the heavyweight clashes, while Sheffield United and Bournemouth play out a relegation 6-pointer.
All that and more, as Adam Leventhal hosts Colin Millar, Thom Harris, and Reuben Pinder.
Produced by John Rogers
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.2 | Hi there, this is the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | The Premier League back, |
| 0:34.1 | and it is back with a bang because we have some really big games and a very exciting |
| 0:39.1 | slate of fixtures for you. Let's introduce our panel and for me we have we have two two players |
| 0:48.5 | in here that I have not been in the studio with for a weekend preview. I will start with Ruben Pinder. How are you? I'm very well, |
| 0:56.3 | thanks. It's good to see you. Yeah, it's good to be back. All set, raring to go? Yeah, I mean, |
| 1:01.9 | I can't get that excited for Premier League football when you support Crystal Palace. Yeah, |
| 1:06.7 | some big games elsewhere to look forward to. Our Palace, the Bayesian team in the Premier League. Yeah, we lose every week and finish 12th every year. Yeah, to big games elsewhere to look forward to. Our Palace, the Bejus team in the Premier League. |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah, we lose every week and finish 12th every year. Yeah, to be fair, that's quite good, though. Coming from a Watford fan, that is Manor from heaven. Colin Miller is here in the studio for the first time. How are you? I'm very well, thanks. It's lovely to be here. It's my first athletic football podcast. and what a weekend to have it. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:10.2 | And Tom Harris is here. It's my first athletic football podcast. And what a weekend to have it? Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:29.5 | And Tom Harris is here as well. How are you? Yeah, good, thank you. The experienced head, |
| 1:35.7 | which I'm not used to being. So we'll see how that goes. Yeah, it's good to have you on board |
| 1:39.7 | for our data drops later on. It is a fixture formation of 7-21 from Saturday through until Monday. |
| 1:49.9 | I will go through those fixtures in two seconds time. But just before we started recording, |
| 1:54.7 | Tom, who loves his data, as I have just said, made a really interesting remark because it |
| 2:00.1 | concerns fixture formations. Tell me. |
| 2:02.9 | Yeah, so last Premier League match day, two weeks ago, we had five games on Saturday and five |
| 2:09.6 | games on Sunday. And that's only the third time that that's happened in the last seven years. |
| 2:13.8 | So that was a real kind of rarity. And yeah, we, I don't know if it was mentioned in the, |
| 2:18.6 | in the fixture formation slot at the start of the show, but there's a golden opportunity. |
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