Tue Nov 04 2025

<p>A quarter of the way through this Premier League season, people are starting to ask: is the football we are watching this year any good? Or has the rise of set pieces turned it into a different game? For almost a decade, Pep Guardiola’s brand of possession football felt like the dominant form but even Manchester City are now playing in a different way. Is there no future in the positional game? Or does Andoni Iraola carry the torch for attacking football?</p><br><p>On today’s episode Jack Pitt-Brooke, John Brewin and Jonathan Wilson try to explain why the game has changed so much, and why even the best teams have decided to take a more direct approach.</p><br><p>P1: (11:08)</p><p>P2: (29:03)</p><br><p>Produced by: Tom Bassam</p><br><p>Email in via <a href="mailto:liberopodcast0@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">liberopodcast0@gmail.com</a></p><p>Subscribe to our YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@liberopod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_bla...