Will The Top Two Drop Points?
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Tom Clarke, Paul Hirst and Alyson Rudd.
The battle of the top two teams in the Premier League really was a battle - did Liverpool play it right by being more aggressive and who does the 2-2 draw favour most? (00:30)
Aston Villa are struggling for form with four losses in their last 5 matches. What’s up with Steven Gerrard’s side? (26:14)
Arsenal came unstuck at home to Brighton making it back-to-back defeats. Why aren’t they putting up a fight for fourth? (38:16)
Are Manchester United a former great team? Should they even be featured on Super Sunday? (46:40)
Burnley missed an opportunity to put the pressure on Everton even more as they lost to Norwich. Does that result mean Everton are now safe? (59:29)
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| 1:00.2 | This is the game football podcast from the Times. Today, who is favourite for the |
| 1:04.6 | Premier League title after the great game between Manchester City and Liverpool? We'll talk about |
| 1:10.4 | tactical fouling at the Etihad as well. Elsewhere, spurs be asked and villa by four goals to |
| 1:16.6 | Liverpool. What does that mean for Stephen Gerard's side? We'll talk about Arsenal as well and that |
| 1:21.2 | rate for the top four Manchester United totally out of it. Why do we still even talk about them |
| 1:26.5 | and what's going on at the bottom after defeat for Burnley at Norwich? All that and more on the game. |
| 1:35.8 | Hello again. Welcome back to the game podcast. I'm Hugh. I mean, what a weekend it is. I'm not |
| 1:40.2 | even going to finish my own name. It was so bloody brilliant. Alison Ruddy's here. Tom Clark is here |
| 1:44.7 | and Paul Hurst joins us to the first part of the podcast where we have to discuss. Of course, |
| 1:49.3 | we have to begin with events at the Etihad City to Liverpool to it means Manchester City stay one |
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