Weekend Roundup, Champions League Final Build up & The England Squad Announcement

In this podcast we are joined by a special guest, Matthew Tacey to discuss, 

Weekend Roundup
Champions League Final Build Up
The England Provisional squad for the Euro's

First we welcomed Matthew to the pod and we discussed the weekend results. The results were, 

Arsenal 2-0 Brighton  Emirates Stadium, London
Aston Villa 2-1 Chelsea  Villa Park, Birmingham
Fulham 0-2 Newcastle  Craven Cottage, London
Leeds 3-1 West Brom  Elland Road, Leeds
Leicester 2-4  Spurs  King Power Stadium, Leicester
Liverpool 2-0 Crystal Palace  Anfield, Liverpool
Man City 5-0 Everton  Etihad Stadium, Manchester
Sheffield Utd 1-0 Burnley  Bramall Lane, Sheffield
West Ham 3-0 Southampton  London Stadium, London
Wolves 1-2 Man Utd  Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton

We discussed in more details the Chelsea, Tottenham and West Ham games. Henry being very excited to finish above Spurs for the first time in many, many years. Which lead West Ham to to qualify for the Europa League next season. At least this time that cant draw Asta Gugu. Matthew also reflected on Chelsea season and thanked Spurs for doing Chelsea a favour in beating Leicester so they could secure another season of champions league football. 

Up next we spoke about the upcoming Champions League final with Chelsea and Man City.  Matt felt that if Kante and Mendy were both fit that they stood a good chance of winning against Man City and reminded us that they had turned City over the past two times they played each other. Henry felt the game was a 60/40 split in the favour of Man City but conceded anything could happen in the game. Billy still felt it was City's to lose and even went as far as saying it could be the most boring final yet with City just strangling the game. 

We then went on to discuss the England provisional squad announced by Gareth Southgate. See the full team below, 

Goalkeepers: Dean Henderson (Manchester United), Sam Johnstone (West Brom), Jordan Pickford (Everton), Aaron Ramsdale (Sheffield United)

Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Ben Chilwell (Chelsea), Conor Coady (Wolves), Ben Godfrey (Everton), Reece James (Chelsea), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Atletico Madrid), Kyle Walker (Manchester City), Ben White (Brighton).

Midfielders: Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Jack Grealish (Aston Villa), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Jesse Lingard (Manchester United), Mason Mount (Chelsea), Kalvin Phillips (Leeds), Declan Rice (West Ham), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).

Forwards: Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton), Mason Greenwood (Manchester United), Harry Kane (Tottenham), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa).

Tune in to find out our thoughts and more on this squad.

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