Weekend Preview: Will Solanke haunt Liverpool?
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🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Adam Leventhal returns to preview the five remaining fixtures of matchday 21.
Liverpool head to Bournemouth on Sunday, and will have to cope with the red-hot Dominik Solanke. Can he make the difference against his former club, and could he be in line for a big move in the near future?
Arsenal host Crystal Palace hoping to get back to winning ways after three straight defeats. Will their winter break have done their misfiring strikers some good?
Elsewhere, Ivan Toney finally returns to the pitch as Brentford host Nottingham Forest; Sheffield United take on West Ham hoping to ignite their dismal season; and Brighton host Wolves to round out the games.
Host: Adam Leventhal
Guests: Luke Bosher, Jon Mackenzie, Jay Harris
Producer: John Rogers
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. Hi there, this is the Athletic Football Podcast weekend preview the show and welcome John McKenzie. How are you? |
| 0:34.4 | Good, thank you. How are you? |
| 0:35.4 | I'm very good. I'm very good. I'm ready for another one. It's good to have you back. We'll be going through the predictions and see how you fared in a few moments time. Luke Bosha is back in the studio. How are you? Delighted to be here, Adam, as always. That's good. And Jay Harris is back as well. How are you? Yeah, well, good, thanks, you. I'm good. You're looking forward to seeing Ivan Tony back? |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah, of course. |
| 0:38.6 | Yeah, it's been a long time and I think you'll hit the ground running. Well, we co-authored a piece this week. We did, yeah, we teamed up. The return of Ivan Tony, if you want to check that out. So this is the second half of the winter break. So we do have five games once again. |
| 1:12.7 | The fixture formation is 2-21 from Saturday through until Monday. Let's run you through the fixtures. |
| 1:20.4 | Saturday 1230, Arsenal in fourth, five points off the top, up against Crystal Palace in 14th, |
| 1:27.0 | who are five points above the drop zone. |
| 1:30.1 | Saturday, 5.30 kickoff. It is Brentford in 16th. Three points above the relegation zone. But as we |
| 1:37.4 | mentioned, Ivan Tony is back. They're up against Forrest, who are just a point and a place above them |
| 1:42.7 | in 15th. On Sunday at 2 o'clock, it is the bottom club, Sheffield United, |
| 1:47.8 | eight points from safety now against West Ham, |
| 1:51.2 | who quite remarkably are sixth in the table. |
| 1:54.1 | Sunday 4.30, it is one of the form sides of the Premier League, |
| 1:57.6 | Bournemouth, up against the leaders, Liverpool, |
| 1:59.7 | who are two points clear |
| 2:00.9 | of Manchester City. And then the Monday night football is Brighton in eighth against Wolves |
| 2:07.0 | in 11th. Now, we did our predictions last week, and I just wanted to run you through how everyone |
| 2:13.3 | fared. You'll remember it was Nick, Jacob and John were in the studio. Jacob did very well indeed. |
| 2:19.8 | Manchester United against Tottenham. He got correct as far as a score draw is concerned. |
| 2:26.2 | He got the Chelsea home win against Fulham and he predicted that it was going to be Burnley won, |
| 2:31.7 | Luton one. I've got a bit lucky with that one, though, didn't we? |
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