Weekend Preview: Odegaard & Lukaku Return, Guilty Pleasure Brighton & Benrahma Rising
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Hosts Dan Bardell and George Elek are joined by bet365's Steve Freeth to preview the second weekend of Premier League action... Will the permanent signing of Martin Odegaard lift the mood at the Emirates or will Romelu Lukaku strike on his own return to Chelsea? As Man United travel to Southampton which of last weekend's sharp-shooters will come out on top - Greenwood or Armstrong? Are Brighton everyone's favourite 'second team', does David Moyes have something over Brendan Rodgers and more...
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football Podcast, sponsored by Bet365. |
| 0:22.7 | On Fridays, we'll be here to preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action, |
| 0:26.6 | and I've got my co-host, George Ellick, and Bet365, Steve Freeth, alongside me to help out. |
| 0:32.1 | How are you both? |
| 0:33.4 | I'm okay. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm still awaiting more messages from Manchester United fans after the performance |
| 0:41.0 | on the result on the weekend because I think a fair few of them didn't really like my fifth |
| 0:46.4 | place prediction and fair to say that the performance made me look a little bit foolish at this |
| 0:51.8 | early stage. I was just happy that I managed to get the BTTS and over two and a half up. So at least that helped me safe face a little bit thanks to Luke Hailing 30-odd wonder strike. Yeah, I mean, we all said a lot of things on last week. But Manchester United were listening to you, George. They certainly gave you a response. Steve, what did you make at the weekend? And what were the big moves at 365 |
| 1:12.1 | after the first round of matches? |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah, great weekend, Dan, for me. |
| 1:16.0 | I listened to a bit of Elton John on Saturday. |
| 1:19.2 | Saturday night's all right, I thought. |
| 1:21.5 | So did I, unfortunately. |
| 1:23.1 | And Rocket Man, of course, with Sard down the right-hand side. |
| 1:26.9 | But yesterday it was a great weekend. |
| 1:30.0 | Loads of changes, as you'd expect. |
| 1:32.0 | Manchester City, after that slow start, like Pep told us, that would happen, |
| 1:35.2 | have gone from 4 to 6 to 11 to 10. |
| 1:37.7 | So they're now odds are against. |
| 1:39.7 | And Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United have all shortened. |
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