Weekend Preview: Liverpool look to scupper City's Treble chances, Newcastle look to settle a score & Tottenham's turmoil deepens
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The Athletic
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🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As Manchester City prepare to take on Liverpool at the Etihad, join Dan Bardell, George Elek, Steve Freeth and Tim Spiers ahead of the weekend's Premier League action.
The panel analyse Bukayo Saka's sensational form and ask whether he can rival Erling Haaland for the PFA Player of the Year award, Newcastle are out for revenge for Carabao Cup Final defeat to Manchester United as well as the latest at Tottenham in a week full of incident and drama.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | It's probably the best attack in the league if they're all fit and firing |
| 0:19.0 | and maybe even the best in Europe to to be honest, it's that good. |
| 0:23.1 | People talk about Jude Bellingham being a future Ballin-Dor winner, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he was, but there's no reason at all why Saka can't be in that company. |
| 0:32.9 | For me, Newcastle finish in the top four. They finish fourth season. |
| 0:37.9 | The stadium, the training ground, the infrastructure, you know, record revenues this season |
| 0:41.9 | it'll be. |
| 0:42.4 | Everything else is perfect. |
| 0:43.3 | So why the condition's not in place for a head coach and a director of football, you |
| 0:47.9 | know, to put it all together. |
| 0:52.3 | Hello and welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. I'm Dan Bardell and this is the weekend preview. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm joined by the usual team of George Ellick, Bet365 Steve Freeth and Tim Spears, |
| 1:03.5 | and the Premier League is back with everything still on the line. |
| 1:07.3 | Arsenal and Mancity are battling it out at the top in a title race that looks set to go the distance. |
| 1:12.7 | Newcastle are well set in their bid to upset the Big Six establishment and take a place in the top four, |
| 1:18.3 | and down at the bottom, we'll keep an eye across the Premier League's craziest scrap for survival ever. |
| 1:23.7 | With all that to come, here on the weekend preview. |
| 1:35.8 | Thank you. With all that to come here on the weekend preview. Manchester City versus Liverpool for me means tension and excitement. |
| 1:42.0 | Blair has got in front there. |
| 1:43.6 | He's found a goal to keep this extraordinary one going. |
| 1:49.9 | For me, it's the best game in the Premier League, |
| 1:52.7 | and I think that's still the case this season. |
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