Libero 067 | Is The Premier League Boring?

4 Nov 2025 · 58 min · Episode 67

Episode Libero 067 | Is The Premier League Boring?

0:00 58:16

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?

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.

P1: (11:08)

P2: (29:03)

Produced by: Tom Bassam

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