Man City Without Haaland & The “Boring Arsenal” Debate
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What dilemma does Pep Guardiola face with Manchester City?
Coming up on today's show, a hell of a dilemma for you, Micah, two of your favourite teams.
Everyone's going to be saying, oh, the quad now, oh, they'll do the league, they're at the top of the table in the Champions League, a league cup, whatever.
One cup at a time. Haaland's never scored at Anfield against Liverpool. Does he try the same way or does Erling come back? I quite like Jeremy Jacket.
60 million quid. The Oracle would normally have something to say with him. I've only seen clips of him, so I can't go big on him. I'm sorry.
Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Football with, well, just Micah Richardson, me, Gary Lineker. This morning, Alan is on the golf course in Portugal. What a life he leads, Micah.
Guys, is this acceptable? Come on. When we started this pod, it was supposed to be give everything, make sure you're available. I've not missed one day through the niceties of life, let's say. It's only because of work. If I'm working sometimes, I can't make it. And even if I work, I try to do it after work. He's been to Portugal. He's been to Barbados. Where next?
I don't know. I mean, to be honest, though, Micah, this is true. When I obviously got my dream team together, my dream team together, I thought to myself, if there are three of us, because all our other podcasts on Goldhanger, are two people, right? And if someone's missing, you can't do it. But I thought to myself, because I want to do lots of episodes and we have this motto always on. So I thought if there's three, then you can have the odd one off. I didn't see at that point that Alan would be constantly playing golf. Yeah. constantly on holiday and constantly whining about newcastle's performances wherever he may be in the world and we'll come to that a little bit later but there's only one person on this podcast that i don't think has missed a single episode albeit one when you you shafted me for timings or a technical problem and that is yours truly micah
We're going to cover the Carabao Cup games. And, well, they weren't very exciting. Let's put it that way. Arsenal-Chelsea was a damp squib of a game. And last night's game, we're doing this on Thursday morning, last night's game between Manchester City and Newcastle was all over in, what, 10, 15 minutes. It was done. And you were working on that, Micah. Obviously, I've worked on lots of games like that over the years. And it's very difficult with a live broadcast to try and instill a little bit of excitement, particularly at halftime at the end, because it was all over so early. I mean, I carried on and watched. I actually quite enjoyed the game. It was end to end. Both teams played trying to score goals.
Newcastle should have scored a few more because Man City played quite well. let's say, precarious high line at times. But as a broadcaster, Micah, it's difficult, isn't it? When there's nothing, no longer at stake, there's no jeopardy anymore. Yes, Gus.
I'm normally the energizer.
I bring the energy. That's what I like to do.
Micah, the energizer, is it? I quite like that. It's got a real trick. The energizer. What was on there? What did you call me? The gospel? What did you call me last week? The oracle. The oracle. A load of my friends sent me that. But you know when the energizer is not energized, you know there's a problem. So after seven minutes where my moves scored, I'm thinking, it's 3-0 on aggregate. And you can't lie to the audience. The audience are not stupid. They want it as real as possible. Give it to them. And I'm just like, there's no way Newcastle get back into this game. So... You look for things tactically. At half-time, there were some good moves within the goals of Mahmoud and big players needed to perform and all that sort of thing.
But in terms of the game itself, it was over after seven minutes. If Newcastle was to get, or would have got the first goal, it could have been exciting. But after that, as a broadcaster, you're floundering of things to keep it going, really.
I know, there's a lack of energy, which isn't always the case on this podcast.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What dilemma does Pep Guardiola face with Manchester City?
0:00–9:59
2
Why is Arsenal's style of play being labeled as boring?
9:59–12:01
3
What tactical changes did Liam Rosenior make at Chelsea?
12:01–12:33
4
How did Manchester City dominate Newcastle in their recent match?
12:33–22:02
5
What impact does Erling Haaland's absence have on Manchester City?
22:02–30:41