Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hello and welcome into the latest edition of ESPN FC. Kay Murray, Alejandro Moreno and Csaka Hyslop here in the studio kicking things off tonight in the Premier League where we saw a lot of action including Manchester City against Brighton. We also saw a makeshift back line from City including
20-year-old Max Delane, who's been thrown straight in after being recalled from loan at Watford due to all the absences in defence. But it was in the 39th minute that Doku went down under a challenge from Diego Gomez. That would result in a penalty for Man City, which Erling Haaland scored.
However, in the 60th minute, Kaoru Mitoma, his goal would prove decisive for Brighton in earning his team a point. For Manchester City, it's more drop points for them because this was a third successive draw. Let's welcome in Stuart Robson to talk more about what we saw, but just a look at how the standings are.
City remaining second, but now they are five points off Arsenal and they're going to have the chance to go eight points clear if they can beat Liverpool tomorrow. It feels like a big shift in the Premier League title race, Stuart.
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Chapter 2: What happened in the Premier League title race this week?
So it wasn't a great performance. Rodri came on in the last 20 minutes, but didn't have an influence on the game. But overall, I think it was a fair result. Brighton had some big chances. Man City had some chances, but didn't control the game.
And if you don't control games when you're playing at home against the likes of Brighton, I don't think you can expect to win the Premier League at the moment.
How bad is it for the title race for Man City, Shaq?
I can give them some of their feelings. That was clearly on display against Brighton, a good footballing team in Brighton.
You just feel, especially when you draw the comparisons between Manchester City and Arsenal, who generally don't drop points, given the gap that they're on, you just wonder where, not where, City now have to be perfect from here to the end of the season, and even so, where do Arsenal drop those points?
For me, and we're in January, the January transfer window is open, you expect Pep Guardiola and Manchester City to do an awful lot of business, but there are just so many holes in this Manchester City team, particularly defensively. How do you fix that defence in one transfer window? I'm not sure.
Again, and as far as attacking-wise goes, Doku on the pitch today, I find they look so much better when he's on the park, have two natural wingers, a lot of talk about Semenyo, whether he comes in. As it happens, he played on that left-hand side for Bournemouth today. Maybe having two orthodox wingers gets the best out of Erling Haaland yet again.
But there's just so much for Pep Guardiola to fix in a very short space of time and no wiggle room between now and the end of the season.
It's gone from feeling, Stuart, as though Manchester City might be putting something together to now these three successive draws and it may be falling off a little bit.
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Chapter 3: What impact will Semenyo's departure have on Bournemouth?
No, it's not. And we've spoken about the job that Maresca did in Sydney in trying to get some kind of control around Chelsea's dressing room and the numbers that they have in there. I, Sydney, have been fairly critical of some of these signings. I will say I thought Liam De Lappe was as good as I've seen him in the blue of Chelsea today. So at least there's that as far as a positive goes.
But to Robbo's point...
um you dominated the game and somehow chelsea have this way of shooting themselves in the foot the the red card came as simply and as well from a chelsea perspective as stupidly as you as you can expect and from there you're always up against it i will also say i'll double down what robo would rob was saying what a footballer harry wilson is and and he showed it okay again chelsea had 10 men harry wilson was allowed to boss that midfield was running in behind getting things short
What a player. And certainly Chelsea, or the ten men of Chelsea, didn't have an answer for that. Fulham, and again, to Robbo's point, control the game. Harry Wilson had a goal disallowed for offside. Rightly so, Raul Jimenez. And then just kind of... They just then dropped off and allowed Chelsea to play, particularly early in the second half.
And then Chelsea score, and again, they go to sleep again. So it's just this weird kind of dynamic about the Chelsea team. You can show yourself as being so good, but then at the same time, sit back, defend... don't look yourself, and make some really sloppy mistakes. Now, how you fix that is we'll have to figure out.
That's a big ask in getting this team who are as inconsistent, even during the course of 90 minutes, as you will see. So they lack consistency and continuity. Yeah. You know what resolves that? Coaching change. When you don't have continuity, it's great to make changes.
If you're a player with that chaos behind you that Chelsea have had, what do you want this new manager coming in and doing, Ale?
Right. Well, I just mentioned consistency and continuity. That would be a place to start, but you don't develop that overnight. And so... If I'm a player in that locker room, and I'm a little confused as to why the guy that was here is no longer here, right? And I'm trying to figure out what my role is within this team.
I think this is now, as it is the case when any manager, new manager comes in, an opportunity for those that weren't playing to say, hey, maybe I'm the guy. I wasn't being taken into consideration. Maybe I'm the guy. For those that are playing, They have to be at their best and make an initial impression that actually is worthwhile. This is true for any manager and for any player.
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Chapter 4: How did Barcelona perform against Athletic Club?
I'm not as light as I used to be. Let's just leave it at that and get to the questions.
And of course, if you would like to see more of Shaq's acting, there is a lovely Trinidad's commercial.
And I mean, now. Which Kay said today, whenever she's a little down, she watches that to get her laughs in. I'm not exaggerating. Go ahead, Stewie. Go ahead.
I was going to say, you know what I'm going to say, Kay? I saw a lot of acting when he got out of his Maserati in those days at West Ham. Let me tell you.
He was waiting for it.
When he was picking his kids up from school. Oh, my goodness.
What a bunch of acting that was. Oh, boy. Oh, goodness. If I may say, and this is no exaggeration, today when Xhaka was asked to do this, he said and described himself, Kay can back me up on this, as a method actor. That he needed to get into the role and live that role. I needed to think of people who walk. Yes. And channel that walking energy.
Yes.
I didn't get enough notice. We'll see.
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