{"id":550700,"date":"2025-11-05T12:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/550700\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:54:19","slug":"liverpool-are-back-and-van-de-ven-scores-a-goal-of-the-season-contender-football-weekly-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/550700\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool are back and Van de Ven scores a goal of the season contender \u2013 Football Weekly | Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Rate, review, share on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/football-weekly-the-guardian\/id188674007?mt=2\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/guardianfootballweekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/channel\/football-weekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audioboom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/guardianfootballweekly\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mixcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acast.com\/footballweekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acast<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/guardianuk\/football-weekly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stitcher<\/a>, and join the conversation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GuardianPodcasts\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardianaudio\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/audio\/2025\/nov\/05\/mailto:footballweekly@theguardian.com\" data-link-name=\"in body link \" https:=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On the podcast today: Liverpool beat Real Madrid 1-0 in the Champions League. But for Thibaut Courtois it would have been much, much more \u2013 this was Arne Slot\u2019s side\u2019s best performance of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Elsewhere, Micky Van de Ven turns into a combination of Son Heung-min and Gareth Bale to score a goal of the season contender as Spurs beat Copenhagen 4-0 at home and Arsenal keep yet another clean sheet away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Plus, the rest of the Champions League football from Tuesday night, Sunderland\u2019s draw with Everton and your questions answered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Support the Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/euro-support\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">You can also find Football Weekly on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/guardian_footballweekly\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@guardian_footballweekly?lang=en\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FootballWeeklyPodcast\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liverpool FC v Real Madrid C.F. - UEFA Champions League 2025\/26 League Phase MD4, United Kingdom - 04 Nov 2025RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE&#10;Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jose Breton\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock (15685841k)&#10;Alexis Mac Allister central midfield of Liverpool and Argentina celebrates after scoring his sides first goal during the UEFA Champions League 2025\/26 League Phase MD4 match between Liverpool FC and Real Madrid C.F. at Anfield on November 4, 2025 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.&#10;Liverpool FC v Real Madrid C.F. - UEFA Champions League 2025\/26 League Phase MD4, United Kingdom - 04 Nov 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5833.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"355.9694839705126\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"\/> Photograph: Jose Breton\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-550700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115497197017571407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}