Chelsea has been eliminated from UEFA Champions League, having lost 1-0 to José Mourinho and Internazionale at Stamford Bridge, leaving the tournament on Tuesday after a 3-1 aggregate defeat. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Kartik Krishnaiyer and myself review the Special One’s return to the Bridge and ask how the surviving English Premier League sides would fair against Mourinho’s Inter. Also, we look forward to Thursday’s Europa League matches and Sunday’s match-up between Manchester United and Liverpool.

At the end of this broadcast, I take time to address some of the feedback provided this weekend, to The Gaffer’s post. Going forward, we would like to be able to interact with your comments through the show. Feel free to provide feedback and ask questions about each show, and we will try to incorporate them into future distributions.

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The three contenders for the Premier League title got through the weekend unscathed while Spurs find themselves two points clear in the race for fourth after Manchester City got (only) a miraculous draw at Sunderland. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Kartik Krishnaiyer, Laurence McKenna and myself review the weekend’s matches as well as look forward to this week’s Champions League action as well as ponder the future of David Beckham, who suffered an achilles injury this weekend in Italy.

This early week edition of The Third Half starts with Johnathan Starling speaking with Shakira Graham of Championship Talk discussing the weekend that was the Championship, news on the Derby County/Norwich City alleged match fixing, and attempt to predict the future as the midweek fixtures hadn’t been played, but we tried to predict.

Kartik from Major League Soccer Talk discusses the drug suspensions, potential playoff scenarios and expansion.

I come back at the end to discuss the weekend that was in the Premier League and talk about some news.

All feedback is welcomed at thethirdhalf@epltalk.com

The early week edition of The Third Half will be released tomorrow night no later than 10 pm. On the show will be Kevin from Serie A Talk and Shakira Graham from Championship Talk as well as my thoughts on the weekend in the Premier League.

The late week edition will be released on Friday. Joining me there will be Christopher Murphy aka Double Pivot from Bundesliga Talk, Juan Arango from La Liga Talk, and Lonnie from Champions League talk.

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