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This week on the pod, Richard takes over hosting duties and he is joined by Football Radar's Anna Konovalova. Anna is a Moscow-native Spartak fan and an expert in Russian, German and Austrian football.

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@FRFussballAnna
@HexenkesselPod - Anna's pod on German football in Russian

Thus, the pair discuss the swathes of German specialists taking over at RPL clubs, discuss parallels between Austrian & Russian football and evaluate the Hypercube reforms suggesting following that of the Austrian Bundesliga, and finish off with evaluating all the big events of the past week including; Rui Vitoria's sacking, Paolo Vanoli's arrival at Spartak and all the action from the Dynamo - Zenit match at the top of the table.

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This week on the pod, it's a red & white takeover as James is joined by Hanu & Alexey to discuss Spartak's second-ever European Group Table-Topping campaign before checking out the rest of the midweek European results.

Hanu - @H4nuu & @PodcastWTI
Alexey - @loonyspectre

Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
04:15 - Spartak's Table-Topping European Campaign
32:34 - Zenit's draw against Chelsea
50:40 - Lokomotiv's Disappointing Campaign
1:06:35 - Outro

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On David's last pod before his Christmas vacation, we take a look at what to expect from Tomas Zorn in his "new" role at Lokomotiv and ask whether or not Ralf Rangnick still exerts his influence at the club from afar. We also review all the latest in the RPL and take a look back at the FNL Winter part of the season as a whole with their break already underway.

Timestamps:
01:24 - Zorn's "New" Role
20:48 - FNL Winter Review
37:02 - RPL Action
37:10 - Khimki 3-3 Krasnodar
40:13 - Arsenal 3-1 Lokomotiv
45:08 - Rubin 2-3 Dynamo
52:13 - News in Brief
57:03 - Outro

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This week, Rich returns as we all dissect the midweek European games involving Russian sides as Spartak defeat Napoli again. Then, we quickly look at Russia's opponents in the WC 2022 Playoffs draw before delving deep into Ralf Rangnick's time at Lokomotiv & impending move to Manchester United.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
03:05 - Malmo 1-1 Zenit
14:11 - Spartak 2-1 Napoli
33:06 - Lokomotiv 0-3 Lazio
37:00 - 2022 World Cup Playoff Draw
40:18 - Rangnick to Manchester United
58:51 - Outro

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James & David focus on the Sbornaya Senior, U21 & U19 squads in an International Football special. We do dive into the RPL right at the end but as the last game week was almost 2 weeks ago now that is old hat, as David stans Karpin & Gladyshev for 20 minutes instead.

Timestamps:
Intro - 00:00
Sbornaya - 01:10
U21s - 18:17
U19s - 37:18
RPL Catch-Up - 43:49
Outro - 55:51

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It was a mixed week in Europe this time out, as Zenit lost to Juve while Lokomotiv and Spartak drew with Galatasary and Leicester respectively away from home.

We also take another look at the upcoming Russia squad and recap all of the RPL Round 13 Action from the last week.

Also, apologies for James' sore throat this week, blame him for going to two away games and shouting at Sunderland for losing 5-1 & 3-0 in them...

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - European Matches Roundup
02:10 - Juve 4-2 Zenit
09:01 - Galatasary 1-1 Lokomotiv
15:33 - Leicester 1-1 Spartak
25:40 - League Coefficients
30:24 - Karpin's Russia Squad Reduced to 30
37:48 - RPL Round 13
38:36 - Rubin 1-0 CSKA
41:30 - Arsenal 1-2 Sochi
45:16 - Krasnodar 0-1 Krylia
49:02 - Zenit 4-1 Dynamo
52:34 - News in Brief
54:51 - Outro

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