Weekend Preview: Man City's Heartbreak, Misunderstood Mata & What if Diaz had signed for Spurs?

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The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Hosts Dan Bardell and George Elek are joined by bet365's Steve Freeth to preview another exciting Premier League weekend... The panel assess the wreckage from Man City's late-late Champions League exit, explore how Luis Diaz would have fit in at Spurs and why all Bielsa's good work at Leeds is under threat if they're relegated this season. Plus, Arsenal's various goal threats, which strikers Newcastle could look to bring in this summer and George admits Don Carlo Ancelotti has proven him wrong again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic. Hello and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football
0:18.7	podcast sponsored by Bet 365. I'm Dan Bardell, George Ellick and Bet 365's very own Steve Freeth
0:25.9	are alongside me as ever to preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action
0:30.2	which includes Liverpool v spurs and Arsenal against Leeds.
0:34.0	Only one place to start though,
0:40.0	absolute classic Champions League encounter on Wednesday night.
0:43.9	I mean, I'm pretty sure you weren't on Carlo and Chilotti's Christmas card list anyway,
0:48.5	George.
0:49.5	He's really taken some offense to your comments in recent podcasts him and the Champions League and the Champions
0:55.1	League this season.
0:56.1	It's just been amazing.
0:57.6	I should be the first one's list.
0:59.0	I think he's put my my quotes up on the changing
1:01.8	rule at the burnerne Bow and said,
1:03.1	prove this absolutely nobody wrong.
1:07.2	I mean, I still just can't really believe what we've seen
1:09.8	from Real Madrid over the course of these three games
1:12.3	against PSG, Chelsea and City.
1:14.6	I mean, Lazarus only did it once and they've done it three times.
1:17.8	It is beyond comprehension.
1:20.7	I think there's been a lot of talk about Benzema. There's been a lot of talk about
1:24.7	Vinicius. I think Rodrigo deserves massive credit for the impact that he's had both in terms of
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