Weekend Preview: Potter makes Brighton return, Man City eye top spot & Liverpool look for home comforts
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Dan Bardell is joined by The Athletic's Tim Spiers, George Elek and bet365's Steve Freeth as Man City look to leapfrog Arsenal at the top of the Premier League and Graham Potter returns to Brighton with his in-form Chelsea side.
Following Unai Emery's return to the Premier League the panel give their take on the Spaniard taking over at Aston Villa, as well as Villa's visit to Newcastle United.
The panel also discuss Liverpool v Leeds at Anfield with the Reds in need of kickstarting their campaign while pressure being to mount on Jesse Marsch.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Results |
| 0:09.9 | results-wise |
| 0:10.2 | it may not have been a great start |
| 0:11.2 | I'm calling it now |
| 0:12.1 | that this is going to turn very quickly |
| 0:13.4 | for Brighton it |
| 0:14.0 | and it won't be long until we're seeing |
| 0:15.3 | Sasuolo levels of goals |
| 0:17.1 | from Deserbina's team. |
| 0:19.5 | I don't trust left-golly penalty penalty. |
| 0:23.1 | The Newcastle project is developing at probably a place that is quicker than anticipated |
| 0:28.9 | because they are right now a very good Premier League side and the only way the trajectory |
| 0:33.7 | that club is going to go on is only one way and that's up. |
| 0:37.0 | At certain clubs, fans hold a massive influence over the way the club goes, and I think |
| 0:41.6 | you'd say Leeds is one of those and the fans of turns now. |
| 0:44.9 | In my mind, in my opinion, he has been Arsenal's best player this season consistently |
| 0:48.8 | over the course of the whole campaign. |
| 0:51.2 | Hello and welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. I'm Dan Bardell and this is the weekend preview. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm joined by George Ellick, Bet365 Steve Free and the athletics Tim Spears. |
| 1:02.9 | Coming up, we'll look ahead to Graham Potter's return to Brighton. League leaders Arsenal take on Nottingham Forest |
| 1:09.0 | whilst trying to claim top spot on Manchester City who travelled to Leicester City at Saturday lunchtime. |
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