Weekend Preview: More Anfield pain for Man United?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levethal returns to preview Matchweek 17 of the Premier League!
The weekend is headlined by table-topping Liverpool taking on Manchester United. Will Jurge Klopp’s side dish out another 7-0 thumping to The Red Devils at a slightly larger Anfield?
Then we switch our minds to the Dyche derby as Everton’s manager returns to Turf Moor. Will the in-form Toffees come unstuck at Vincent Kompany’s Clarets?
And finally a whistle stop of other interesting storylines - will Chris Wilder’s Sheffield United win back to back games? Why are Chelsea the worst team not to be relegated in the Premier League in the past 12 months? How do Newcastle Utd refocus after their draining European exit against a re-energised Fulham?
Host: Adam Leventhal
Guests: Jacob Whitehead, Tim Spiers, Jon Mackenzie.
Producers: Adam Jones & Steve Hankey
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hi there, this is the Athletic Football Podcast |
| 0:06.1 | aligned with Manchester United and Newcastle |
| 0:09.0 | because it's time to concentrate on the Premier League. |
| 0:12.4 | It's match day 17. |
| 0:13.5 | Thank you. I'm Adam Leventhal and alongside me at the Athletic HQ is TIFO's John McKenzie. How are you, John? Hello, I always feel like I'm in the football media when I do podcasts with you. I feel a lot more important than when someone else is hosting a podcast or something that I'm on. Oh, that's nice of you to say. You really get the juices going when it's... That intro just fires me up and now I'm ready to go. Check out my juices, okay, but I'll raise you some more juices because Tim Spears is on the show. |
| 1:01.4 | How are you, Tim? |
| 1:02.6 | What's up? |
| 1:04.1 | Brilliant. |
| 1:05.0 | You delivered. |
| 1:06.1 | Jacob Whitehead is here as well. |
| 1:08.0 | How are you? |
| 1:09.0 | I'm good. |
| 1:09.5 | I always like being in this room. |
| 1:10.5 | A fake sort of grass makes it feel like I'm good. I always like being in this room. A fake sort of |
| 1:11.0 | grass makes it feel like I'm on the podcast equivalent of FIFA Street, which, you know, feel |
| 1:16.5 | like I've got to bring out a bit of flare a few moves rather than the more kind of steady 11-aside |
| 1:20.7 | version. Excellent. I like it. Good. Thank you everyone for being here. Thank you to everyone who is listening and also for watching as well, because all of our episodes are now available via the Athletic Football Podcast YouTube channel. That's a domain that you're used to, of course. John, you're used to being envisioned. You're very much an envision man, aren't you? |
| 1:43.0 | A face for TV, |
| 1:45.5 | yeah, that's what I say. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:48.6 | Let's run through the fixture formation for this weekend. |
| 1:50.9 | It is a 154 set up. |
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