EPL Predictions Matchweek 17 - Liverpool Goal Fest + City Downfall | Football Today

December 18, 2024·28 min

Liam McKayne kicks off the episode by welcoming Alex Donnelly back into the chair, with Marcus Barzano absent and Arsenal immediately in the mix. The tone stays light from the start, with Alex teasing Liam about being drafted in off the bench before Christmas. From there, the show jumps into the absurd density of the December football calendar. There is Premier League football everywhere, plus Champions League, the A-League, League Cup quarterfinals, and the FA Cup rolling in right after. The hosts treat that schedule like the central fact of the season, because it is. That pressure shapes the rest of the conversation. They settle into quick-fire Premier League banter and predictions. A VAR call from a Liverpool-Tottenham match gets dragged back out as proof that the league can still look ridiculous at the top level. The memory of the offside confusion clearly still irritates them. Liverpool's frustration in that game is framed as the kind of moment that can swing momentum far beyond one result. Tottenham come up as one of the league's strangest teams. The hosts note that Spurs sit 10th but have the second-best goal difference in the competition. That contradiction becomes the whole joke and the whole warning. They are the kind of side that can turn a match into chaos in either direction. Southampton also get folded into the Spurs conversation as a likely target. The prediction logic is simple and blunt. There should be goals. They lean toward over 2.5 because the fixture feels like a mess waiting to happen. Then the show turns to scorer picks. Liam and Alex settle on Cody Gakpo as a likely name to pop up because Diogo Jota is ruled out again. That injury update lands as another reminder that the season is already grinding bodies down. The episode closes with a broader look at the show's social presence and the final sign-off from the Football Today team. The energy stays conversational right to the end. No one tries to polish the chaos into something cleaner than it is. It sounds like two people who know the league well enough to trust a quick take, then move on to the next one.

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A lively Premier League conversation that moves quickly through a crowded December schedule.

This Football Today episode stays in motion, moving from Arsenal and Chelsea to Liverpool and Tottenham without pretending the Premier League has settled into any neat pattern.

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You want a quick Premier League preview before the December fixture pile-up kicks off.

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