Newcastle Favorites for Top 5?

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Sports, Soccer

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The FC crew react to Newcastle dominating Leicester City and argue if Eddie Howe's side are now favorites to finish in a Champions League position for next season. Plus, the guys continue to react to yesterday's abysmal Manchester derby and argue if Liam Delap would help solve Man United's goalscoring issues. Alex Kirkland also joins the show to break down Raphinha's outburst after Barcelona's draw vs Real Betis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.1	Welcome into the latest edition of ESPNSC. I'm Dan Thomas joined by Shaka Hissloff and Stevie
0:38.5	Nicol. We'll kick things off in the Premier League, Newcastle taking on Leicester. This game
0:44.1	was pretty much over before it even started with Murphy opening the scoring after two minutes.
0:48.7	He then will make it two, 11 minutes into the tie. Barnes against his old side, make it three. Newcastle with a very easy win.
0:57.0	Let's welcome in, shall we? Yeah, I've got a Fjordoff is with us, Keering Gibbs.
1:00.0	Steve, there's one place to start. Can you just tactically break down how Newcastle did this against such a strong Lester's?
1:07.0	Well, they turned up and Lester didn't. Game over.
1:10.0	This was not good.
1:12.5	It was shockingly bad.
1:14.7	I mean, Lester, as they've done all season, going forward,
1:19.4	don't look as though they have any sort of clue how to break anybody down.
1:23.1	They can't even create a good opportunity.
1:25.7	And then defensively, well, I mean, you talk about
1:30.9	embarrassing amateur type defending. And I guess the cherry on the top and the worst thing
1:37.0	of all, it looks as though there's no fight. This was a training game for Newcastle.
1:48.6	Nobody running around, angry, trying to get their teammates going.
1:52.7	The fans, in fact, after the first goal went in... Yeah, the white flags went up pretty much.
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