As we wait for football to return, we continue our series of remembering the 2019/20 season before everything was put on hold.
Part 1
Well, the wait is now over and the Premier League is now back. With a rake of new rule changes, plus the long-awaited introduction of VAR there were a lot of ‘firsts’ this weekend.
Hello and welcome to the Total Football podcast. I am your host Declan Harte, and joining me, as ever, is Andrew Conway.
Andrew, did you notice anything particularly noteworthy this weekend that we can look out for more of this season?
Part 2
“Every time we tried to arrive in their box they committed fouls. We were innocent in that regard,” Manuel Pellegrini said.
“If you review the game that is why we didn’t create too many chances in the first half. All our offensive moments of attacking ended in a foul. You can look at the statistics. They committed 13 fouls, we committed five. But that wasn’t the reason why we lost.” - The Guardian
There was a lot of admiration for the way Norwich played on Friday night, the attacking vigour and ambition they showed was credible. But, ultimately, Liverpool swatted them aside within 30 minutes in what was a comfortable start to their title
Arsenal and Tottenham got off to winning starts, Arsenal pretty comfortable but Tottenham left it late
Man United comfortable victors over Chelsea, in the end, winning 4-0. United ruthless in the second half, but clear issues still apparent in the side
Part 3
Frank Lampard took charge of his first competitive match as manager of Frank Lampard’s Chelsea and frankly it couldn’t have gone very much worse than it did. Is this a sign of a poor season ahead or will we look back on this 4-0 defeat at Old Trafford as a weird anomaly that can happen on the opening weekend of the season?
Part 4
Tottenham visit Manchester City, the home of their great Champions League escape last season. Surely VAR won't save them this time, will it?
Closing
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