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The Athletic FC Podcast

Weekend Preview: Toney's Penalties, Van Dijk's Return & Grealish for POTY?

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Dan Bardell and George Elek are joined by bet365's Steve Freeth for the first weekend preview of the new Premier League season... Can newcomers Brentford upset the odds against Arsenal on opening night, who will outscore who as Leeds face Manchester United, will Harry Kane start for Spurs against Man City and just how good is Liverpool's Harvey Elliott? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Athletic. Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football

0:21.0

podcast sponsored by Bet 365.

0:24.0

Each and every Friday will be here to preview the best of the Weekends Premier League action

0:28.0

and joining me to do just that is my co-host George Ellick and Bet 365's Steve Freeth. George I come to you first how are you?

0:37.1

I'm good I feel excited I feel like we're being rewarded for

0:42.2

persevering with a football season without any fans having to watch

0:45.6

countless games on the Super I've already been to a couple of EFL games I was at

0:50.1

Bournemouth against West Brom on last Friday night. I was at the valley for

0:54.6

Chelten against EFC Wimbledon, the glamour tie, the Karabal Cup and having fans back in

0:58.6

stadiums is incredible. So I can't wait for the Premier League to get started and for all those fans to get back into their

1:04.0

grounds and watch their teams.

1:05.0

Yeah, I'll tell you what, I cannot wait for an away day on Saturday.

1:09.0

It's been absolutely way too long doing normal things like that in my life and Steve I'm a lot more relaxed

1:16.6

now Jack Grealish's left villa I can start to enjoy him a bit more Dan I start to

1:20.8

appreciate the qualities that that super midfielder has.

1:23.6

I'll tell you what one day I will do a podcast without Jack Grelish coming up but now unfortunately

1:28.4

for me it's coming up in a wind-up sense rather than just having a nice little chat

1:31.9

about him but but never mind.

1:33.7

That has been another small move in the transfer market as well, Steve, with Messy's gone to

1:38.5

PSG, which a few weeks ago would have been completely mad.

1:42.4

Champions League, I mean I presume their favourites now.

1:45.0

Yeah, well you know what?

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