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Sep 2022
1h 15m

How Do You Stop Erling Haaland?

THE TIMES
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Tom Clarke is joined by Gregor Robertson, Ian Hawkey and Ed Smith.


Erling Haaland scored (again) as Manchester City came from behind to beat his former side Borussia Dortmund. How can he be stopped? (00:00)


Graham Potter took charge of Chelsea for the first time - what did we learn from their draw in the Champions League? (13:22)


Liverpool left it late to beat Ajax - why aren’t they the team of previous years this season? (32:55)


Tottenham let it slip late on in their match against Sporting. How does Antonio Conte improve their mentality? (45:49)


Ian Hawkey gives us his opinions on the other results in the Champions League - including mixed fortunes for Real and Barcelona (51:52)


News of a special episode of The Game out on Friday (60:18)


Gregor and Tom discuss how Rangers and Celtic got on in the Champions League and we touch upon the EFL results from the week (62:50)


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