Weekend Preview: Man City hitting their groove, are Aston Villa heading for Europe & Roy's revival at Palace continues
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Dan Bardell is joined by George Elek, Tim Spiers and bet365's Steve Freeth as Dean Smith prepares to take charge of Leicester City for the first time away at a red-hot Man City.
Elsewhere two of the Premier League's form sides meet at Villa Park as Aston Villa take on Newcastle United, plus Matt Woosnam gives us the lowdown on Crystal Palace's resurgence under a returning Roy Hodgson.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Man City way |
| 0:15.8 | I mean it should be rated 18 this game |
| 0:17.6 | it might have to move kickoff to 9 o'clock |
| 0:20.0 | because yeah it could be an |
| 0:21.2 | absolute massacre. |
| 0:24.7 | Their Smith's shown that he can get a set plan together in a short space of time and he can |
| 0:28.5 | work with players and improve them in the short term and keep a team. So I think it's actually |
| 0:32.7 | at this point for where Lester were at, I think it's as good a appointment as they could hope for. |
| 0:40.5 | Now it feels like the manager who they sacked in order to go down a different route |
| 0:44.3 | is the person who's getting the results and the performances and the style of play that they wanted to get out of sacking it. |
| 0:51.5 | I've been pretty sure all along that I think Dubinning just goes to Manchester City. |
| 0:58.2 | Hello and welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. I'm Dan Bardell and it's time for the weekend preview. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm joined by George Ellick, Bet365, Steve, and the award-winning Tim Spears. |
| 1:11.5 | As Arsenal slip, Man City look ready to bounce in the title race, |
| 1:15.6 | but could Guadiola's side be in for a treble? |
| 1:18.7 | We'll look at the race for European qualification too as Aston Villa meet Newcastle, |
| 1:23.6 | plus how will Manchester United respond to late disappointment in Europe |
| 1:27.0 | against struggling Nottingham Forest? |
| 1:29.1 | That's all to come here on the weekend preview. |
| 1:35.1 | So I'll start this week again with the title race. |
| 1:38.2 | Manchester City taking on Dean Smith's Lester Saturday at 5.30 and we've also got West Hamvee Arsenal which is Sunday at |
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