Episode 1400: City Not Ready For the Champions League, Man Utd Hot – Liverpool Cold, Damien Delaney On Managers Losing The Dressing-Room
Man City won away from home in a Champions League knock-out match last night, but it seemed like their performance gave us more questions than answers about their chances of winning the Champions League this year.
Guardiola on the old “fraud” accusations, namely that he only won the Champions League because of Messi and the lads. I’ve kept the question in because fair play to the lad, it was delivered excellently. NB I don’t think Guardiola believes this pic.twitter.com/A685Uwqvw6
— Sam Lee (@Sammy_Goal) February 19, 2019
Jonathan Wilson tells us whether he agrees with Pep Guardiola’s post-match assessment that City aren’t yet ready to challenge in the latter stages of the tournament, despite having the best squad in Europe.
What defeat to PSG means for Solskjaer’s future. https://t.co/ExNC1JgtD2
— Jonathan Wilson (@jonawils) February 13, 2019
Former Ireland international Damien Delaney joins us to talk about Maurizio Sarri’s troubled tenure at Chelsea, what it means when a manager is said to have “lost the dressing-room”, and how likely it is for a team of professionals to simply down tools and stop trying.
Maurizio Sarri knows there is only one way to end his Chelsea woes. pic.twitter.com/iGIMYQp3uw
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) February 20, 2019
Plus there’s Pep getting the “where did you get it ALL wrong?” treatment, the DJ Ken 3000 debuts, more Nesbitt, hot Man Utd V cold Liverpool, and Sunday may well be the day City win not 1 but 2 titles.
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Liverpool Bayern was supposed to be a goal-fest – so how did it end scoreless? @RorySmith of the New York Times was there, and he joins us to discuss the science behind a 0-0 at home and if Liverpool’s focus might already have drifted to Old Traffordhttps://t.co/xzgVeFlJMK pic.twitter.com/0lZ2SOA4ao
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We welcome the arrival of Barry The Bodhrán into our lives ????
More Nesbitt-watch/stalking ????
Trevor Ringland’s defensive disgrace ??????
“The Underwoods: A Retrospective” ????????????????????????????????https://t.co/xzgVeFlJMK pic.twitter.com/OhDgqrrPJN
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Go to PatreonEoin Reddan and Gerry Thornley help us look ahead to the weekend.
What options does Joe have, how should we approach the rest of 6N, how much of a revamp does our kicking game need, and have Ireland been sneakily holding back some plays for the WC?https://t.co/xzgVeFlJMK pic.twitter.com/Q77tWmeAHP
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