Win Or Bust For Lampard & Derby Day Beckons In The Premier League!
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Tom Clarke and Jonathan Northcroft to look back at the Carabao Cup action, and preview the weekend's Premier League fixtures.
Newcastle reach the Carabao Cup semi-finals as they move one step closer to ending their long run without winning a trophy - how important would it be for the club to win silverware this season? (00:00)
Nathan Jones eases the pressure on his job as Southampton beat Manchester City in their quarter-final last night, how crucial is their trip to Everton at the weekend - has he changed the opinions of the Saints supporters? (06:15)
Will Everton manager Frank Lampard lose his job if he loses against Southampton on Saturday? How much pressure is on him to get a result (13:45)
How important was it for Nottingham Forest to reach the Carabao Cup semi-finals? Praising the job Steve Cooper is doing at the football club (20:00)
Previewing the Manchester Derby - is this the time where Erik ten Hag's side can finally compete against their local rivals? Are City showing signs of decline under Pep Guardiola? What is this crazy idea he has spoken about? (21:15)
Will Arsenal show their continued title credentials and beat Spurs in the North London Derby? How will the game pan out, do Spurs have to be the more physical side? (35:55)
Discussing the legacy of Gareth Bale - how will he be remembered following his retirement from the game last week? (45:55)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to the game podcast. I am Hugh was in Croft alongside a Jonathan North |
| 0:07.0 | Croft Gregor Robinson and Tom Clark today looking back at the week that was in the EFL |
| 0:11.8 | Cup and ahead to some massive games in the Premier League. But let's start with the |
| 0:15.5 | Carabell Cup and Newcastle United who reached the League Cup semis with a 2-0 win over |
| 0:20.5 | Leicester in front of a delighted St James's Park. Now the last time Newcastle reached |
| 0:26.2 | any final was the FA Cup back in 1999. Their last trophy was the 1969 Inter City's |
| 0:33.9 | Fairs Cup. I don't even know what that might correlate to today. And you've got to go |
| 0:38.1 | back to 1955 for their last domestic success. That was the FA Cup. They've only reached |
| 0:44.0 | the League Cup final once and they lost that. That was in 1976. So a quick reminder to |
| 0:49.6 | everyone that keeps describing them as a sleeping giant. Not quite. This is actually |
| 0:55.3 | quite an achievement for Newcastle United and something very rare. So something to |
| 0:59.4 | savor for the vast majority of Newcastle fans. They are already being taken on that |
| 1:05.1 | intended journey of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. So congratulations to |
| 1:10.2 | them. Great for Eddie Howe as well Jonathan Northcroft. |
| 1:13.9 | Oh yeah. I mean Eddie Howe's surpassing I think expectations. Yes, they've got the |
| 1:19.3 | backing. Yeah, they've got they've got incredible might. But they're still feeling they haven't |
| 1:23.4 | really flexed that financially yet. And that a lot of this is down to really good coaching, |
| 1:28.8 | really good team building. What you see with the Newcastle, whatever the competition, whatever |
| 1:33.0 | the game is the same intensity, the same patterns. And they've just very, very difficult to |
| 1:39.5 | play against. They remind me of the Blackburn team I think of in the mid-90s, which wasn't |
| 1:44.6 | the most attractive side, but it wasn't an ugly side either. It was just incredibly |
| 1:48.9 | efficient and functional. And they've got that they've got that feel to them. And yeah, |
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