free trial for NUMBER_TOKEN days free completely and then at the end of that free trial you can continue reading it as i would because there's some excellent stuff in there like today michael cox has done an excellent breakdown of the man city liverpool game uh and i'm just reading some stuff that phil haye's been writing about leads he's very informed and very nice and so that's what you can do what else have you been reading alex um what did i read recently oh um meg linehan's piece on uh abuse of female players in the nwsl was an amazing piece of reporting um and it's been picked up really widely obviously and also it looks like it's forcing some change in the nwsl over in the states so that's really important stuff um that uh it does sound important yeah it was yeah it's just a horrible piece but it's it's worth reading because it's so powerful well uh those are some things you can read on the athletic do that and then for now instead what we're going to do is talk about all the games that happened this weekend that we want to talk about and that's what we're going to do and i'm probably going to get better at this as we go along because right now i don't feel great let's get better and we're going to leave you in the warm hands and cool embrace of joe divine's illness liverpool NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN man city that was the game of the weekend my word it was fun i absolutely love this game it was so good sometimes i i mean obviously we're we're paid to analyze football matches and explain complex tactical nuances and can occasionally do this but every so often you watch a game where you just sit back and go these are two really really good teams coached by really really good coaches arguably the two best or two of the three best coaches in the world at the moment um just tearing into each other and it was it was exciting uh and yeah i think fun to just like sit back and enjoy it rather than massively overthink it i yeah and on that note one of the things that i mean they've teared into each other to make it exciting and interesting but i think in the past what's happened with these big games is that the most sensible thing to do is one at least one of the managers tries to be defensive and take advantage of mistakes of the other whereas both these teams or both those managers are just going for it so i was thinking of like mourinho teams that were really good they would have just ground this out and made it awful to watch well that's that's like too cool how tucker got that result uh the other weekend whereas this seemed to be very much two teams trying to stick to their game plan i mean obviously liverpool were slightly hampered by the absence of of trent alexander arnold and and milner coming in at right back but in the first half city were playing with this wonderfully controlled possession rotations fantastic running off the ball particularly by foden who i know will talk about in a bit and then in the second half liverpool seem to alter their defensive structure slightly start pressing more assertively get themselves back on the front foot and then you know kind of really move themselves back into the game although they were ahead at that point it felt like a sl
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN free trial for NUMBER_TOKEN days free completely and then at the end of that free trial you can continue reading it as i would because there's some excellent stuff in there like today michael cox has done an excellent breakdown of the man city liverpool game uh and i'm just reading some stuff that phil haye's been writing about leads he's very informed and very nice and so that's what you can do what else have you been reading alex um what did i read recently oh um meg linehan's piece on uh abuse of female players in the nwsl was an amazing piece of reporting um and it's been picked up really widely obviously and also it looks like it's forcing some change in the nwsl over in the states so that's really important stuff um that uh it does sound important yeah it was yeah it's just a horrible piece but it's it's worth reading because it's so powerful well uh those are some things you can read on the athletic do that and then for now instead what we're going to do is talk about all the games that happened this weekend that we want to talk about and that's what we're going to do and i'm probably going to get better at this as we go along because right now i don't feel great let's get better and we're going to leave you in the warm hands and cool embrace of joe divine's illness liverpool NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN END_SPONSOR_TOKEN