Will Man City beat Liverpool & what do stats predict 10 games in?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Who will come out on top when Manchester City play Liverpool in the Premier League?
What are the key tactical themes that have emerged 10 games into the season?
And how much of the final table can we predict with this number of games played were all discussed in the latest Tifo Football podcast…
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Jon Mackenzie, features Mark Carey, Thom Harris & Conor O’Neill and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - A direct intro
03:32 - Who will win in Man City versus Liverpool?
17:30 - Mark Carey’s super computer & chickens
22:37 - A direct season so far
27:10 - Jon gets to talk about Bournemouth again
31:25 - Why Manchester United are now a more direct side
38:20 - A break away from the numbers
38:22 - A shout out for second balls
43:40 - Event data i.e. stuff that happens
47:30 - Tracking skeletons
49:45 - Should we pay less attention to possession now?
53:48 - What is the point of all of this? And bunching.
58:20 - Did last season’s table 10 games in predict the future?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC Podcast Network. |
| 0:08.1 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm not Joe Devine. |
| 0:12.4 | And today I am joined by the Data Boys. |
| 0:15.6 | The Data Boys are coming and everybody's dancing. |
| 0:18.6 | Oh, look who it is. |
| 0:19.7 | Connor O'Neill. |
| 0:20.2 | How are you? |
| 0:21.2 | I'm good. |
| 0:21.8 | How are you? |
| 0:22.3 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:23.4 | Yeah, relaxed. |
| 0:24.2 | Good. Thomas Harris, another man who is very relaxed. Yeah, full name as well. Thank you, John. Sorry, full name, too. I didn't even ask you permission or anything. It's good to have you here. we had you here earlier in the week, so straight back on. |
| 0:36.2 | So you must be doing something, right? |
| 0:37.4 | That's statistically significant, I would say. |
| 0:39.7 | That's a joke about data. |
| 0:41.3 | Um, here. We had you here earlier in the week, so straight back on. So he must be doing something right. That's statistically significant, I would say. That's a joke about data. A man who definitely |
| 0:42.8 | isn't calm. Am I not calm? Well, not with that look in your eyes. Omnis. No, very calm man. |
| 0:49.9 | Very calm man. Jonathan McKenzie. How are you? You full-named me. You did it, so. It's true. |
| 0:56.3 | Thank you so much for being up with us today, guys. And we're going to start by looking ahead |
| 1:00.7 | to the Manchester City game versus Liverpool, a tantalizing title tie coming up this weekend. |
| 1:07.3 | Steve is very much in love with alliteration this week. The first topic we cover, important one, how many chickens would you need to eat for a sufficient sample size to predict a perfect picnic? We then get direct because that's what the Premier League is doing. Have you ever shouted second ball when playing five aside? Well, you should do. I don't know if that's true. Is that true? I know someone. I'm not going to name them who shouted second balls. At Sighterside. I think Sunday League. Sunday League is the classic second ball thing because you just, you're not like gold in the air in most five sides. I'm telling you. I'm not going to name him because we're on record, but I know someone did. |
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