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Excessive Press Episode 26:

Episode 26 of the Excessive Press podcast discusses the 2023-24 Premier League title race, and whether or not that is the most effective in Premier League historical past.
Host Vai Bhardwaj is joined by Dean Jones, Liam Twomey & Dom Smith to recollect among the most iconic title races and sit up for the remaining fixtures as Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis battle for the Premier League trophy.

Weekend overview

Instantly specializing in Liverpool’s failure to beat Manchester United, Twomey says, “If Liverpool don’t go on to win the league, these two Manchester United targets are going to be replayed so much. They had been nice targets, however they had been additionally narrative heavy.”

Jones believes ‘a whole lot of this season will come right down to emotion’. He states that emotion acquired the higher of Liverpool at Outdated Trafford, whereas Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis calmly dealt with enterprise in opposition to Brighton and Crystal Palace respectively.

Whereas Smith wasn’t too impressed with Metropolis’s efficiency at Selhurst Park, the very fact they scored 4 targets once they didn’t play that properly appears important.
He says, “They’ve acquired so many match winners, and I believe that may be a deciding issue.”

Bhardwaj and Jones speak about how expertise might work in Metropolis’s favour down the stretch. Bhardwaj mentions Arsenal’s slip ups in direction of the top of the final two seasons.
Twomey replies, “In a vacuum, Arsenal look able to me. I believe they’ve acquired all of the components.”

He additionally compares the advantages of getting been there and carried out it with the extra ‘starvation’ that Arsenal can have for glory.
Jones responds by saying, “If I used to be beamed right down to earth for this season, I used to be pressured to look at each sport and I’d by no means watched soccer earlier than, I might expect Arsenal to win the league. I’d be watching considering ‘that is the most effective staff on this league’.”

Health and squad depth

Whereas the panel are in settlement that Arsenal have had essentially the most luck with accidents, Smith is eager to level out how properly Metropolis and Liverpool have carried out to remain within the title race with Kevin De Bruyne, Erling Haaland, Mohamed Salah, Alisson and others all lacking chunks of time.

Twomey says he’s keeping track of Bukayo Saka, who has ‘been on the sting of an damage that might rule him out for a few video games for about six weeks’. He provides that he’s ‘their Salah’, and thinks it’s very important the England worldwide stays match.

After Smith reminisces about Metropolis’s phenomenal final-day triumph in 2012, Jones even means that we might see one thing comparable this yr.
Twomey remembers Chelsea pipping Manchester United to the title in 2009-10. The Blues scored 103 targets that season and received by a single level after successful at Outdated Trafford within the closing weeks – they sealed the title by hammering Wigan 8-0 at Stamford Bridge.

Guardiola vs Klopp

Wanting on the ‘rivalry’ between Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp, Twomey describes it as respectful, whereas Jones says it’s ‘new-age’, and that Alex Ferguson would’ve by no means behaved like this with a supervisor he was going toe-to-toe with.

Will it go right down to the ultimate day?

With Bhardwaj asking for predictions, Jones says it ‘feels prefer it’s Metropolis’s title to lose’, and he believes it’ll go right down to the ultimate day. Smtih additionally fancies our possibilities of getting a last day decider, however doesn’t count on all three groups to nonetheless be within the race.

Are we witnessing best title race in PL historical past?

The panel are in settlement that that is the most effective title race within the Premier League period. Do you agree? Who’re you backing to raise the trophy?


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