Weekend Preview - Liverpool selection issues, Spurs' tactical switch and are Arsenal slipping back?
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What are the key highlights of the weekend's Premier League matches?
Hello and welcome to the Sky Sports Football Weekend Preview. There's no winter break for us. We're back again and we're here ready to look ahead to the Premier League action taking place this weekend. I'm Peter Smith, the Sky Sports Football Features Editor. This week I'm joined by football journalist Lewis Jones. Hello Pete. And Ron Walker. Hello. How are we doing guys? Ron, you're making your debut. How are you feeling? Yeah, very good. Good to get the first game under the belt. Well, you've got a safe pair of hands in Lewis Jones sat beside you there.
Well, yeah, back-to-back weeks for me. Thanks for inviting me again, Pete. And I'm feeling very much like Jadon Sancho, actually, in demand. Oh, interesting. You were feeling like Odi Nogalu last week. Yeah, I was just happy to be here last week, but very much in demand this week. It's amazing. Seven days can be a long time in football, Pete. We all know that.
Yeah, you've come a long way, son. You've come a long way. Well, as you know, we spent a lot of last week's podcast previewing Man City v West Ham. How did that go?
Not so well.
No, not the podcast.
The podcast was great, I thought. The game, yeah, but pretty non-existent.
Very non-existent. Well, fingers crossed the weather is kinder to us this weekend because we have Norwich versus Liverpool on Saturday Night Football, Aston Villa versus Tottenham and Aston versus Newcastle as the two Super Sunday games. And by the way, if you're looking for an in-depth preview to Monday Night Football... That's Chelsea versus Manchester United. We've done a special podcast with Jamie Carragher, reporters from both clubs. There's loads of insight and analysis of that game, which you can find on the Sky Sports website or wherever you download your podcast from. But today we're going to kick off this show talking about Norwich versus Liverpool. Now, Lewis, it's an obvious statement. Tough game for Norwich.
Oh, absolutely, Pete. It doesn't really get much tougher than this for Norwich. But it would sum up this weird Premier League season if Liverpool, who have taken 100 points from the last 102 on offer in the top flight, lose to, officially, who are the worst team in the league. And then we could have a situation where the team that finishes bottom will have beaten both Manchester City and Liverpool. Although this really won't be a free hit for Liverpool because Norwich... will ask questions of them and you've got to give a huge amount of credit to Daniel Farker for sticking by his principles this season. Norwich are very easy on the eye but they just tend to concede when under pressure and they fail to take those big chances that come their way and it's their inability to be ruthless at the big moments in games that has seen them drop 14 points from winning positions this season and they remain the only team not to have won any points this season from a losing position so
In other words, every time they've fallen behind, they've lost the game, which is a shame for Daniel Farker. He seems such a great character as well. I mean, I think he's a great man to have in a crisis just from my own perception of him. I could imagine me flapping around in an important exam. And if he came over to tell me everything was going to be OK in his soft German accent, I'd sort of believe him. You'd feel it. instantly relax and probably go on to get an A star so it's that calmness and complete faith in his philosophy that makes me think that Norwich might not just be done yet but I'm probably not best place to speak about Daniel Farke because I'm sitting next to a man here Ron Walker actually interviewed him this season spent some good time with Daniel Farke earlier this season Ron didn't you he's a very well smelling man and
But also, very charismatic, really, really charismatic, like you say. And I mean, I think sometimes it's a little bit underappreciated, the job that he's done. I mean, they sold £50 million worth of players in the two seasons before they came up. They spent about £1 million net in the summer.
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