Latest / The Calcio Guys / The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly From Serie A Matchday 11 - Ep. 205
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- 0:24Some of us. It was a good weekend for one of us. At
- 0:28least it was not a good weekend here on the Couch of Guys, Episode
- 0:30two of five each, Johnny and Nicholas, how you guys doing pretty well,
- 0:36pretty well, much better than last week from when I was sick.
- 0:38I'm feeling much better today. But you guys, Yeah, guys, I'm
- 0:42supposed to start to show and starts just smashing everything. As that word happy
- 0:51Johnny back in English, spirits and happy to be back obviously two five,
- 0:55like you said, Nick, episode and uh yeah, let's kind of do
- 0:58it. No, no tables will be smashing the recording this episode, So
- 1:03for people for the ethical treatment of tables, pet, don't worry. We'll
- 1:10be safe. Lots of Colcho, lots of interesting stories this week City on
- 1:17matchday eleven, we'll talk about some Champions League coming up also Tuesday, Wednesday
- 1:21this week, some Europa League and Conference League on Thursday. But guys,
- 1:25normally we talk to you, Normally, we talk into normally we talk Melan
- 1:30Romolazzio. But guys, there's another team that's quietly, not so quietly,
- 1:36in sixth place actually that's lost one game, first game of the season,
- 1:42they've lost and they've gone ten straight games without without losing. Now probably the
- 1:48hottest team in Italy Bologna four wins, six draws in that span, but
- 1:53big win Friday against Latio. A sixth place right now, just ahead of
- 1:59Romo. I know we've spoken about Bologna in the past, but this team
- 2:04is they're they're they're this season's Cinderella story. You know, they're not gonna
- 2:07make They're probably not gonna make top four, They're probably not even gonna make
- 2:12top five. Even sixth places might be a challenge for them to sustain throughout
- 2:15the season, but they're gonna they want to play in Europe at least next
- 2:19season, you know, fish finish round six or seventh, get even in
- 2:22the conference league. As I mentioned Friday, I was Lewis Ferguson with the
- 2:25goal in the forty six minutes against Alazzio. Uh, Like, I know
- 2:31you guys probably don't watch too much Bologne, but you know, seeing highlights
- 2:37or whatever. Just wanted to talk about the league, Like how long do
- 2:39you guys think this team could even sustain this? Because that personally, personally,
- 2:44I do think this is somewhat sustainable because we knew they were a decent
- 2:49team, you know, we knew they were always a mid table team and
- 2:52to make that jump up, we knew that they needed a bit of talent
- 2:54and coaching, and that's what they have this season. I think Thiago Motta
- 2:58is a fantastic coach. We saw that in his past endeavors with with Spetsi
- 3:02and even with Genoa. Maybe not so much with Genua, but what he's
- 3:07done this season is fantastic. We know that Bologna even has a good project
- 3:13led by Joy Suputo and Mark with Devao. They've they've made a vestments into
- 3:20this team and you've seen it, and you've seen a player like Orselini,
- 3:23who you know, came into this team a couple of years ago, young
- 3:25player, but he's he's grown, he's he's hitting his prime. Now he's
- 3:29the star of the team. Uh you know, he's no, he's no
- 3:31superstar in the league by all means, but for a team like Bologna,
- 3:35he's exactly what they need. But the same time you got you got,
- 3:38you got players like him, and you know that. You know, this
- 3:42Bologna team once they'll probably have a good season this year. They'll probably they'll
- 3:46probably finish seven to six, but you know, those guys are gonna be
- 3:47sold to bigger clubs next year, so they'll enjoy while they can with these
- 3:52guys. But how how long can they sustain it for this season for Bologna,
- 3:59I mean, how long they can sustain it is how long they're how
- 4:04long their bench is willing to go. Definitely, they have a good core
- 4:09going and they they're they're finding identity and they're they're they're establishing a nice little
- 4:15gel between them as a unit. But it really depends on how much they're
- 4:19their bench can sustain it. Now. Obviously they don't have the extra burden
- 4:26of playing in different international competitions. It's just a Gobetalia to worry about.
- 4:30Uh, actually, are they still in it? Yeah? I think they're
- 4:32still in it. Don't think they got eliminate it? Yeah? Yeah.
- 4:35Besides that, you know, there's not much extra competition for them, So
- 4:40will they be exhausted? Not necessarily, but there's games where it's like,
- 4:44especially when you play against the Giants towards the end of the season, you
- 4:46know, like they still have talent coming off their benches to keep them fighting.
- 4:48Whereas blog yea you know, they don't have too much coming out for
- 4:53them, so man, I'm much trying to be a hater. It's good
- 4:57for them, and you know, it's exciting to see and so hard work
- 5:00is paid off. But we're only eleven games into the season and we've seen
- 5:02times where like teams started off hot and they had a dip, like just
- 5:06this season, you know, like Frosy, know they had that amazing start
- 5:09and then look what happened. You know, it's, uh, it's it's
- 5:13streaks come and go. So well, it's I don't think that, like,
- 5:17I don't think they're like they're gonna go to the bottom half of the
- 5:20table, but to maintain that European competition spot, I think they lose it
- 5:26towards the end by bare minimum, but not not in a terrible way.
- 5:30Yeah, no, I mean we've spoken about this before and obviously, like
- 5:33you said, Nick, the hot topic is Bologna right now. They've and
- 5:38you know rightfully, so you know, they deserve their flowers. They've been
- 5:41playing some great culture and you know, the record speaks for itself. They're
- 5:46now in sixth place, like you said, and we had spoken about this
- 5:48earlier in other episodes. You know seen like can crack Intel, You're Europe
- 5:53next season, what have you? And I think I'm still sticking on my
- 5:58point that it's still think there's just too much competition in those spots for them
- 6:02to realistically stay there. Is it possible, Sure, anything is possible,
- 6:08but you know, especially with some form of some of the teams that you
- 6:12kind of expect to be there. But at the end, I think those
- 6:16teams will prevail, uh, you know, and I just think it becomes
- 6:20a numbers game. There's only so many spots, uh for Europe, right,
- 6:26So do they have the quality, Yes, they have some quality players.
- 6:30I mean they're therefore where Joshua Zerki this year has been another player that's
- 6:34kind of gone under the radar, scoring a lot of goals, providing uh
- 6:39you said Ferguson obviously as well, you know Orcelnia is the big man,
- 6:44uh you know, on on that ship there. But I think it also
- 6:49how long they can stay healthy is another is another thing for for them,
- 6:54like you said, like Johnny said, the bench, you know, the
- 6:57depth that they do have is obviously no one new comparable to other of the
- 7:00top teams. But for me, I'm still sticking on my point, like
- 7:03I said, of it being a numbers game, and there's just been so
- 7:05many limited spots in so much competition in that you know, five to seven
- 7:11range. So because you know, like we see you know, the Romans
- 7:15of the world, the Lattos of the world, you know, the Atalantas
- 7:19of the world, the feud and Tina's of the world. Like where are
- 7:23we gonna lie with these teams trying to crack Europe and whoever falls from top
- 7:27four, I don't know, we'll see. So just purely on that,
- 7:30I'm going to stick to that point. But have they been exciting this season?
- 7:34Absolutely? Does Tego Malta deserve you know, credit for what he's been
- 7:40able to do. Absolutely, does the team deserve their flowers. Absolutely.
- 7:45You know, there's a lot of positives that's gone on. You know,
- 7:47they took that loss to me on first game of the season and they really
- 7:50haven't looked you know, that same Bologna from then. So uh, and
- 7:57they've done it the results that they've had, you know, besides the lost
- 8:00to Milan in the opening match day, you know, they picked up points
- 8:03against some of these big teams already. If I'm not mistaken, they picked
- 8:09up points against Inante, they picked up points against u of A, they
- 8:13picked up points against Latto. So that's what's been most impressive. Again,
- 8:18the sustainability of it is for me, it's gonna be tough come the end
- 8:22of the season because guys, the calendar is thirty eight game that's not only
- 8:24eleven. So we'll see how it goes near the end. But I'm glad
- 8:30we brought this top up again because, like I said, Bologna and and
- 8:35you know, Tela Mota, the players, you know, Supputo de Vaio,
- 8:39the management definitely deserves their praise for for what they're doing, uh,
- 8:43in such a competitive, competitive league. Uh, I think you know,
- 8:50saying whether or not they'll do well, it depends also your point of view
- 8:54of defense with the championships, because they have eight goals against two of them
- 8:58game in the first game against Milan, six in the ten games. Since
- 9:01that's good enough for a third in the league, third best defense in the
- 9:05league. Only teams better, are you van inter They went on a four
- 9:07game stretch without without conceding on the flip side, only twelve goals for which
- 9:13is also not one of the lower ones in the league. But uh,
- 9:16Uh, there are other teams blow them the standings that have scored more.
- 9:20So I think for a team in their position, as long as they could
- 9:26continue defending well that I will carry them forward. And then a Johnny didn't
- 9:33make You didn't make a mention of their results. They ti napolisa resero,
- 9:35they tied you a one to one, they tied Inter two two, and
- 9:39they beat Blato. So Johnny, you did mention. You know, they
- 9:41played the big teams. They played some of the big teams. They haven't
- 9:43played Rome yet, but that no, I know, I understand. Yeah,
- 9:52it's interesting, it's interesting. It's it's a team to watch me and
- 9:54will have to have Nick Deanion later on bowling a super fan to talk about
- 10:00of them. But on the flip side, Latio not so good this season.
- 10:07Uh, just we I know we've talked about it. I know we're
- 10:09we're you know, we're beating a dead horse. But tenth place right now,
- 10:13five five wins, five losses and draw sixteen sixteen points, five points
- 10:20off a fourth place. You know, I don't know if a coaching change
- 10:24is the right call because I think this is a squad issue. I think
- 10:26this is a talent issue. You know, letting Malnikovich Savage go alone is
- 10:30such a big loss for Latsio. It shows do you guys think a coaching
- 10:35coaching change with Sati what solve the problem? Right now? Not right now?
- 10:39And that's my opinion. Right now, I know fans are some fans
- 10:43are obviously calling for him, calling for his head currently. You know,
- 10:48for me, again, I don't have the fox in front of me.
- 10:52But when it was the last time, you know, a team changed coaches
- 10:56this, you know, at this point of the season maybe January and things
- 11:01and things just went from from back too amazing, just with that foot of
- 11:05a switch. So I don't know, I don't see it happening. I
- 11:09don't think it will. Will it happen maybe in the summer, very possible.
- 11:13But for me, and I'm gonna stick to my point. Even if
- 11:16even if i'm I'm I'm in a disadvantage, I'm in I'm in the minority,
- 11:20I still think this this squad has something. They do have players of
- 11:26quality. You know, this is a team that maybe maybe they did over
- 11:30to you last year, maybe they did, but again they still besides the
- 11:35SMS loss, which again I put my hands up and say that's an absolutely
- 11:37huge loss because I've always said it that we've always said on this show that
- 11:41he's one of the better midfielders in our in this league or wash through all
- 11:46these years. But I still do think they have quality. You know,
- 11:50they've added some pieces these past couple of seasons that have helped with the depth
- 11:54issue. They fixed up their defense last season at least this season. I
- 11:58don't know what it is. I don't I don't think you. I'm personally
- 12:01not on this on the on the on the on the train of a it's
- 12:05a talent thing because I think mainly for me, it's more it's more the
- 12:09mentality. Uh they this team goes into games they look not even interested in
- 12:13playing, and then they go into games where they should be winning these games.
- 12:18And again we always say no easy games and said, yeah take every
- 12:20team, uh for for their strongest, but there's games where they you know,
- 12:24they should have won, and they didn't. They didn't capitalize on their
- 12:28on their uh you know, on their momentum there. So for me,
- 12:31that's the biggest thing. And I don't know if that's the Saudi effect on
- 12:35this team, if there's a breakup in the locker room. I don't know
- 12:39what goes on behind the scenes, but what I do know is that this
- 12:43team, in my opinion, still has some quality. It's it's it's for
- 12:46me. It's all up here. It's all mental for right now, because
- 12:52already going into this season they look sluggish. But this team didn't even come
- 12:56in with like you know, Pep in their staff. They already came with,
- 13:00like you know, Cement boots on the pitch, So I don't know
- 13:03what that's about. But at the same time, like I said, there's
- 13:07games they don't look interested. There's games they don't show any type of fight
- 13:11and inta. And it has fans pissed off because I think they expect a
- 13:16lot more obviously, and they're not. They're not really seeing it. You
- 13:20know, did we expect Watch will be second place last year? Absolutely?
- 13:22Not always. I didn't. You know, they're in Champions League. Uh,
- 13:28you know, they're they're trying to play good football. You know,
- 13:30we know how sad he is. It's year what two or three going on
- 13:33Saudi. Maybe the product is over with him. Maybe I just don't know
- 13:39who they would bring in right off the top of my head. But to
- 13:45overall, answer the question. I don't think right now is the time because
- 13:48they could have been they I mean, there could be a lot worse states
- 13:52they can be in. Obviously, you know, as a fan, you
- 13:54don't want your team to be where they're at when you know they could be
- 13:56better. But there's been worse situations, and I think, you know,
- 14:03if they really wanted to, they should have done this in the summer,
- 14:07not have to drag on to the winter Metcato and then maybe sockam you know,
- 14:11around the holidays and uh. And that's kind of how I see it.
- 14:16But if it doesn't, if it didn't happen last summer, I don't
- 14:18personally see it happening in the winter. All all all things point to maybe
- 14:22the breakup happening, uh in the summer and maybe watch as you know,
- 14:26start fresh h come that come that summer market, Jenny. I think for
- 14:33Lattio derby coming up, it couldn't be a better time to have a derby
- 14:37because they've beat Roma in the past two games, including three of the past
- 14:43five. Roma's only won two in the past eight meetings. I think,
- 14:46uh, do you draws though, Yeah, it's two draws, two wins
- 14:54and five wins for Lato in the past nine But but do you think this
- 15:03is a type of game for Roma where they kind of need to be careful
- 15:07because they just had a big win against Lee. We could talk about that
- 15:11if you want, and then you know, uh Latio okay, I know
- 15:13it's only one loss. They won their past three games, but there seems
- 15:16to be a mentality problem. Is Adiano said, do you think for Roma
- 15:20the derby coming up this weekend it's kind of like a I wouldn't say trapping,
- 15:24It's a derby. It's a derby, Johnny, like, anything could
- 15:28happen. But they need to be careful, right Roma always. It's especially
- 15:33when a team like Latsio's trying to, you know, like get some footing
- 15:37and they also have some frustrations. What better way to rebuild your momentum than
- 15:41a derby win? You know? Roma last game against Lecha, the score
- 15:46line should not like does not reflect how the game was. They totally dominated
- 15:52their Leche. Uh. I think it was something hold on, I have
- 15:54the stats are here, pulled it up. Uh So, first of all,
- 15:58the expected both scales was like two point one two, So they eventually
- 16:02got what they what they deserved, but like sixty one percent, sixty one
- 16:06percent possession. Fifteen shots total, but only five were on target. Some
- 16:11beautiful opportunities by Dibala, some just some curlers that were a bit too short
- 16:15a post hit like no, was there a post? Yeah, I think
- 16:18there was one. Overall, the score line is it should have been higher
- 16:22for Roma. They they really tried their best. Lukaku. Uh it was
- 16:26I thought. I felt it was a bit of a week of a PK
- 16:29but still well placed one. It just so happened that right in the middle.
- 16:33No, it it works the left. Its just Falcone just guessed it
- 16:37perfectly. Well. It was like it was slightly to the left, like
- 16:41it was. It had a bit of like a little dip to it,
- 16:45so it was kind of tricky. So Falcone managed to squeeze his legs on
- 16:48it to stop it from like squeeze from squeezing through. So but yeah,
- 16:55great win. Obviously they're happy with that. But uh, they just got
- 16:59to be care going into it. I know they're not gonna take the derby
- 17:00lately, no team does, but for Latio specifically, you know, like
- 17:07just when you think they're having a consistencies, next thing you know they beat
- 17:11Napoli for example, you know, like and they're on like a two game
- 17:14losy streak at that point to start the season. It's it's it's a team
- 17:18that when you think that, okay, count him out, they don't count
- 17:22him out. Could be wonderful game for Remobilate to find some stride. I
- 17:26don't know, but uh, it's know what it is for me. Mostly,
- 17:33it's just the back line for for Aroma that I have little doubt in
- 17:36Offensively, I feel like as if they could be fine. It's just just
- 17:38the back line. This year for Roma has been their achilles heel, which
- 17:42is weird because last year was one of their one of their stronger points.
- 17:47Now it's one of their weaker points. And rup Patricio is starting to show
- 17:51why teams kind of let him go after a few seasons, because he starts
- 17:56to have a bit of a dip or a decline after staying in the same
- 17:59spot, especially when he I feel like as if he's comfortable in that role,
- 18:02and it says that he doesn't feel pressure that he's losing his bot anyone.
- 18:06You could see like the complacency started to settle, So uh, what
- 18:11else they could it could be a it could be a good win. It
- 18:14also could be a very embarrassing loss for my personal feelings and perspective. It's
- 18:22it's probably gonna be like another draw. It's probably something like a like a
- 18:26like a like a one one draw where it's just opportunities just started going in
- 18:29and he just both teams have to scrap for their one goals. So I'm
- 18:33I'm, I mean, I'm leaning towards a one one draw for that game.
- 18:38That's fair. That's fair. Were you were you disappointed at all with
- 18:42the performance against and two goals? I know you talked about goals ninetieth plusment
- 18:49not distress, I mean, yes, but like, I mean yes I
- 18:56did have to stress, but uh like disappointed. No, you come out
- 19:02with the win. Why would I like, why would you be disappointed?
- 19:03You know what I'm saying. It's uh, it's uh, it's what I
- 19:10expected. I wouldn't expected anything less against that Chase, but you know that
- 19:14Cha has been a bit of a surprise this year. It's just I was
- 19:19just more like, thank god they went in, because I was like,
- 19:21don't tell he's gonna end in a draw. Mungo was very nice as let's
- 19:26skiing, great assist and then Lukaku just finally burying it, you know,
- 19:30to make up for that miss penalty show all that miss. Like I'm not
- 19:33saying in a bad way, you know what I mean, Like he he
- 19:36had redemption, it was redeemed for him, So I'm happy. I just
- 19:45don't anything to say that. I mean, obviously we would sing a different
- 19:48tone if it's a different result, but that game ends in a one to
- 19:51one draw. As you're feeling like, you know, obviously how it would
- 19:59have been, like what the ups and downs this season? Like I'm just
- 20:02like whatever, it's I wouldn't wouldn't to have even been pissed or bothered,
- 20:06especially with Roma, Like I'm like, okay, well it's just Roma being
- 20:10Rama. It's Uh. This year hasn't been the season where it's like expectations
- 20:14are high. Uh for me, mostly my attention is mostly Europa. For
- 20:18them, it's that's the competition that I that I'm really trying to to see
- 20:23if the if they can actually finally go the distance and win the trophy because
- 20:29you know, like last year it's like, oh yeah, let's game for
- 20:30top four, and they had that big dip towards the end and and that
- 20:34that it consistent form kind of continue this year. So that's why it's like
- 20:37my, my, my, like my intentions, expectations, thank you,
- 20:44We're aren't faltered, like they're still they're still the same, like they're like,
- 20:48eh, whatever, if it's it's wouldn't be surprising if they get a
- 20:52poor resolve versus is Mourinho, Is Morigno gone, like we're speaking about Saudi,
- 20:56Is Modenno another one in I wouldn't say that's be gone this summer like
- 21:02like like in the summer, probably like his contract's gonna expire and unless unless
- 21:07they win Europa League and Mordino delivers the trophy, I think like both managing
- 21:15and him are probably just gonna go their separate ways. I like Modinho,
- 21:19I'm not gonna I'm gonna be one of those people that are going to defend
- 21:22a guy. A lot of people hate his style and they hate with like
- 21:25you know what's been happening with Roma and I feel like he's over extending his
- 21:29stay. Well, guys, he's signed a three year contract. He's writing
- 21:30out for three years, and I think it's another situation where Mordino out and
- 21:34like it's foolish to have a guy like him out at this point in the
- 21:38season, like you know, like you keep him til the end you write
- 21:41out this contract, especially the contracts expiring. I know he has his hot
- 21:45headedness, and I know he has his moments with with the media and his
- 21:48comments and stuff, and he likes and he butt's head sometimes with management.
- 21:52But the guy's have proven winner. You know, he gets results out of
- 21:56his players. Lukaku has been looking fantastic under him. Everyone you know,
- 22:02thought Lukaku was over and done with with this failed attempt at ter last year
- 22:07or whereas you know, like with with the guy like Maurinho, he's flourishing.
- 22:11You know, he's doing very well so far this season. And I
- 22:14feel like as if it's showcasing how Lukaku is a type of player that needs
- 22:19to have those hard ass coaches to really push him. Like he succeeded very
- 22:25well with with with Conte, you know, getting double digits in both the
- 22:27goals and assist category that in that year again under in Zaggy. You know,
- 22:33it wasn't the same Lukaku. It was more of the Lakaka that we
- 22:36that we love to see. The memes about you know, especially in European
- 22:41finals, were just messing up his teams or either the head or just like
- 22:45blocking the shot that's going in. Hopefully that doesn't happen to to Romo if
- 22:49they make their Europa League finals where he has another I hope so, I
- 22:55mean I hope not like in a way, I hope so that they get
- 22:57there, and I hope not that it happens, but I feel like like
- 23:00he like lucak Wu came to Roma and Devalla came to Roma. For Morino,
- 23:07you get players like that to come to Roma or the or the Carbonera
- 23:11that you could eat in Roma or one or the other. But yeah,
- 23:15that's so. It all remains to be seen towards the end of the season.
- 23:18If I feel like, if they win Europa League trophy, I think
- 23:21they might might discuss an extension for a year or two. And if they
- 23:23don't win the trophy, I think they're gonna respectfully part ways not like not
- 23:26have not have Burnt Bridges fired. Yeah no, no it's not. He's
- 23:30not gonna get fired. And at the end of the day, the guy's
- 23:33gonna be like, well, look I got them a conference League trophy.
- 23:36It brought them to Europa League final. You know, he did have a
- 23:38good run with Roma. You know, he brought them hardware that they haven't
- 23:41seen them a long time. It's like, I think it was the last
- 23:44coupe utality for them was like two thousand and eight. I think that was
- 23:45the last trophy that they won prior to the Conference League. So, you
- 23:49know, he's really the fans have really you know, him and the fans
- 23:55relationship has been really strong. And he said it again in Putt and in
- 23:59put press conferences. He's just still surprised how how devoted these fans are,
- 24:03especially to his him and his his his club and his squad. Sorry,
- 24:07if it wasn't for his pedigree and his history, the fans would have turned
- 24:11on him at this point. Because I watching the game at the Olympico,
- 24:15I feel like the fans are brutal. They will be savage no matter what.
- 24:18They don't give a fuck who you are, what you've done. Like,
- 24:22if they don't like you, they will let you know that they don't
- 24:25like you and tear into you. But the fact that Mourinho has like a
- 24:30whole list of accomplishments and it's not just like maybe a trophy here or there,
- 24:34like a list, you know, and he has success with the club
- 24:38that she that he's currently coaching, and it's your team. It's more like,
- 24:41okay, look, we understand at times he can be difficult, Adrian.
- 24:45We're kind of experiencing right now with Bill Belichick, you know, like
- 24:48pre Tom post Tom Brady era. It's been not it's it's been tough.
- 24:52But at the end of the day, Bill, it's Bill Belichick, it's
- 24:53Jose Mourinho. Like you still like he's a proven winner. Maybe my having
- 25:00a bit of like a rough time, but you know, this guy is
- 25:04who he is, Yeah, the special one. He's not a long term
- 25:10coach, Like is what is there already his third season in Rome? Yeah,
- 25:14this protract this is his third year. Yeah yeah, Like I wouldn't
- 25:19be surprised. Timeline right like him of the world, but these are usually
- 25:23their timelines like two or three years and then you know they kind of Yeah.
- 25:27The only thing reason why like Roma would have been different, not because
- 25:30like I'm trying to be biased, because he loves the city like he loves
- 25:34Roma. Yeah, like the city of Rome. He loves the city of
- 25:37Rome, like, uh so for him that that's the only reason why he
- 25:41would states, because like, oh, you can retire there, like you
- 25:45know, it's stay in that city a little bit longer. That's I think
- 25:47that's one of the only reasons why you would consider saying did did Did you
- 25:51guys see uh the balla proposters go friend at Yeah, I saw that.
- 25:56I felt that that's a bit lackluster. Still, I don't know, but
- 26:08did you see who was there with him? Who is there? What do
- 26:11you proposed who? He didn't seen the video? No, I saw I
- 26:17saw the Mato was there? Yeah, oh no, wonder you've been ten
- 26:22were going crazy on Twitter. I mean, I mean the ball is the
- 26:26next you maybe just him alone, like more like the event Tina as well,
- 26:30or or even ten if you want to be correct, We're going crazy.
- 26:34But uh, yeah, I watched the video, was like wait,
- 26:37wait, that's Marato, Like what's he doing that? Did you just make
- 26:41the trip to Rome just to just for that? I don't know, but
- 26:45I love Maratta like he's a player. I wish you had kept longer,
- 26:48but whatever, It's just funny to see. But like you said, Johnny,
- 26:52very very unorriginal, very original. From Times Today you can name other
- 26:59play is proposing Italy. Yeah, you have you have the finances, you
- 27:07know. I don't know. I just feel like a zip. You just
- 27:10phoned it in with that kind of mailed mailed it in Fridays. Yeah,
- 27:17Adrian, been sitting there too long. You seem like you have something to
- 27:19get off your chest. Oh no, it's it's boiling. It's boiling.
- 27:23It's been boiling. It's boiling, it's boiling. Maybe they all have to
- 27:29talk about you first, though, Yeah, get your blood about, talk
- 27:33about you. We'll talk, will continue. Yeah, one nothing yesterday,
- 27:41Uh yeah, one nothing. Uh. I didn't realize it was Maranti's first
- 27:45goal. I didn't really how much for sure, first city. Yeah,
- 27:52better than bellinghim. Apparently, I didn't realize it was his first uh cidi
- 28:03I goal. I don't know if it's his first ever professional goal. It's
- 28:06possibly go one in like the Kope Tyler or something. I don't know.
- 28:10But an interesting game because he scores. He scores fairly early. Yeah,
- 28:15he scores fairly early. I forget the exact minute, well, ten minute,
- 28:21No, that was pretty yeah, tenth minute. I thought it was
- 28:23around like the twentieth. It was ten minutes, so he scores very early
- 28:26than Classic V, sit back and let the other team. Let the other
- 28:30team control sixty nine thirty possession in front of in favor of Serentina, percentage
- 28:40twenty five to four shots on temp only four to three shots on target.
- 28:44So that means if Fiorentina didn't exactly have good quality shots, which you know
- 28:48what, that probably has a thing to say about Juve's defense because they weren't
- 28:51giving them scoring chances. Uh, this is classic this is Classic V.
- 28:55As soon as Juve scores early, you know this is happening. We saw
- 28:59this many times in the past few years where it failed, and this time
- 29:02it worked. You know what. Three points is three points. The win
- 29:06is a win, just like Romo winning to win against Lea. I'll be
- 29:10the first to admit this was not an exciting game. I did not have
- 29:12it on my main screen. I had football on the TV. You've a
- 29:15game on the laptop because I knew you wasn't going to be an exciting game
- 29:19and I'd rather watch NFL rather rather watch red Zone on the big TV.
- 29:27Three points is three points, guys, you have a Twitter was acting as
- 29:30if they they wanted more points. At the end of the day, at
- 29:34the end of the day. Yeah, you know, at the end of
- 29:38the day. Afore nothing wins the same as a one nothing win. You're
- 29:41getting the same amount of points. You know, we're not. You is
- 29:45not in a in a position where they need goal differential right now. You
- 29:49know they played Inter if there, if they're in a direct battle with Inter.
- 29:53It's the games against Inter that count. You don't need to blow your
- 29:56opponents tad nothing. They play in turn two three weeks in two match days
- 30:03after the international break, and you know what, guys, this this is
- 30:07what we're gonna expect with the Lagree and as long as it works, it's
- 30:10gonna get We're gonna continue seeing this, and we have to understand that it's
- 30:14when it doesn't work that it gets frustrating. You know, one game that
- 30:17I could think off the top of my head was twenty twenty two Champions League
- 30:21against Villarreal where Valovich scores in the second minute and they do this and then
- 30:25they they they at the end of finished one one and they ended up getting
- 30:29knocked out against Villa Reale. That game is frustrating, but it win,
- 30:33it works, and you win one nothing, you take it. Yeah,
- 30:37I think I think for you A, like some of the star players do
- 30:41have to be better. Lallovich in particular, Keysa was playing deep yesterday.
- 30:47I'm not gonna really blame him for that. Uh, he had to play
- 30:49more of a defensive role. That's fine. But Valovich was subbed off at
- 30:53one point or or uh, I have to confirm that. I forget he
- 30:57was Oh yeah he was some don Sorry yeah, subdwn and didn't do much.
- 31:02He had a nice he had a chance at the end to make it
- 31:04to nothing, to put the game away. Not a good shot. Yeah,
- 31:10he's got to be better. I don't know when the last time we
- 31:12scored. I think it was it's a lot, so I think that was
- 31:15before the October international break, So I think it's almost a month since he
- 31:18scored. You know, a lot of people on Twitter saying they only have
- 31:23to worry about said, yeah this season, No, you know Champions League,
- 31:29know Europa League. Yeah, we know that. We know that.
- 31:32That's why our team is assempled this way and we're allowed winning games like this,
- 31:34and and we'll continue to taking it. We'll continue fighting for the scredit
- 31:38to as long as we can. In this way, while while Inter beats
- 31:41himself up in Champions League. I hope Inter goes as far as possible in
- 31:45Champions League, just don't win it, but go to the final, tire
- 31:48yourselves up. But the game against Enter is the big one. That's a
- 31:55big one, because I've said it from the beginning of the season. It's
- 31:59the erect matchup against those top four opponents that you've has to win. They
- 32:02did already win against me one. I was very happy about that, those
- 32:06big six point game. Now, if you want to win the scudet,
- 32:08though, you need, you need to beat an Enter in two weeks,
- 32:12not even to draw, you need to beat them because you know you've is
- 32:15gonna find a way to at least draw points at some point in the season
- 32:20against the random team like Manza or Leche, and Inter is at least more
- 32:23consistent against those seams. Of course they're gonna draw pot too. They've already
- 32:27dropped, they've already lost one and tied one. But the game of the
- 32:34season for me is against Inter November twenty sixth eight, I think it is.
- 32:39And then again I don't know when this then when the second game is
- 32:43for me, the Schos already decided. It's already. If you've made loses
- 32:45against Inter, it's done. If they win, it's not done though,
- 32:47because then they're only one point up on Inter. If that makes sense.
- 32:52Yeah, but you and you has never been in the in the market of
- 32:55style points, like they've never been never been here to impress playing beautiful culture.
- 33:02It's never been no thing that the famous saying Corto muso. That's that's
- 33:07allegory to a t. As long as you get yourself over the line,
- 33:10no matter if it's uh, you know, your whole foot or just a
- 33:14toenail, it doesn't matter. A is gonna play that boring cultural and nobody
- 33:19wants to wake up and watch. Nobody wants to to tune into. It's
- 33:22like crazy, like they're like, there, hold on, let me pull
- 33:28it was something really bad. Hold on, like in terms of like the
- 33:31if you pull it up. But guys, you only get style points in
- 33:36uh in. But that's what I'm saying. No, that's what I'm saying
- 33:39on your point, like like like you're saying like and like people are like,
- 33:43oh, well, we want more, we want this, we want
- 33:45that. Like I mean, like I clear, you guys haven't been fans
- 33:47for too long, because I don't remember the last time you've just played for
- 33:52for for for wowing. Uh. You know, the the neutral in uh
- 33:57in Nebraska like nobody they don't care about that one fan in uh, you
- 34:01know in Nevada, like they don't care. Uh. As long as they
- 34:06get their points the way they get them, Uh, they'll, you know,
- 34:09they'll, they'll, they'll be fine. That's how they That's how they've
- 34:13always looked at it. It's been a long time they've been looking at at
- 34:15at the game that way, especially under allegory. What bothers me more is
- 34:21when you know, you know, well it's not even them, just in
- 34:23in general, when teams don't deserve a win but they still get to win
- 34:25because they play away that you know, they're able to to to equipse a
- 34:30goal and and get that you know, tooth and nail victory. But it's
- 34:36no surprise, guys, it's it's it's been a long time that you've been
- 34:37playing like this. And I don't think I mean, listen, Nick doesn't
- 34:40seem like he's expecting much more than that. Obviously, you want to play
- 34:45better, Like you said, I think vog does need to be better to
- 34:49elaborate on your point, Dick. I do agree on that because him too
- 34:52is we've spoken a lot about him in the past, and him too,
- 34:54he becomes a player where he's when he's up, he's up, and when
- 34:58he's down, he's wayed and we don't see him, we don't hear about
- 35:01him until he has that one game when all of you know, you have
- 35:05a Twitter goes bananas and like, oh he's backed. But where was he,
- 35:08you know, for the past four or five match days. So I
- 35:14don't know what there's one record has been but amazing, that's yeah, it's
- 35:17been another thing that's been strong for them. So it's going back. I
- 35:21think the roots. I think it's I think it's five games in a row,
- 35:25uh, six games, bro Ever since they lost four to against the
- 35:30Solo, they haven't considered a goal. Ever since that got your own goal,
- 35:36they haven't considered a goal back on September twenty third, So well,
- 35:40let's put it that way. Valvic. One thing I'll say about him,
- 35:45so so he hasn't scored since September sixteenth. I didn't realize it was that
- 35:49long, which is crazy. He scored two goals against Latso Uh, he
- 35:52missed two games with injuries, so he hasn't scored in five straight. So
- 35:55one thing I don't like about you, a Twitter. When Varvis doesn't score,
- 36:00it's a Legrai's Faultvolvi scores is because Evolvic. So if he's not scoring
- 36:06five straight, he needs to be better. He's your striker. We paid
- 36:08seventy million for him. He needs to score more. He needs to be
- 36:10better. Even if he gets two chances a game, he needs to score
- 36:15at least one of those. You know, a top striker that fifty.
- 36:19That's right, Come on, you need to be better one goal every five
- 36:22games. Okay, No, it doesn't help that. You know, maybe
- 36:25you could pay the stats with a couple of champions and games against the against
- 36:30the Sparta prag. But you know, nice, he needs to score more.
- 36:37And once he scores more, you Twitter look at that. Look how
- 36:38good he is. He's not a llegur. He's not using him right.
- 36:42Meanwhile, he's still the coach when he scores. But whatever, second place,
- 36:46second place, I'll think second place. Like I said, the game
- 36:52against Interer is huge. If they win it, it doesn't steal scoo that
- 36:55if they lose it it. I think it's Inter School that's lose. At
- 37:00the end of the day, I just want them to be playing Champions League
- 37:01fotball next season until another scandal happens. Yeah, the scandal will be because
- 37:10they they did ninety on the on the highway and that's speed limit eighty or
- 37:15something. I don't know. These scandals are getting more rageous by the day.
- 37:22Speaking of the speaking of Inter they you know again, I think they
- 37:27unfortunately, Being a Mew fan, they unfortunately showed uh their resilience in the
- 37:32in the game against Atalanta. I don't know if you guys caught the game,
- 37:36but the two one result I think was another huge one for them,
- 37:38staying staying on a good momentum, you know. Uh, Lataro scored if
- 37:46I'm not mistaken, in the match, a beautiful goal. Uh. You
- 37:50know, Scamacha gets on the board as well. Obviously the p K.
- 37:53I try to remember what the p K was. I think it was more
- 37:57so that came out. If I'm not mistaken, Uh, Musso came out
- 38:01and took out took out Darmian if I'm not mistaken, guys, and uh,
- 38:07that's what caused that caused the penalty. I didn't see many of the
- 38:09replays after that. I did see it in lifetime, but then I was
- 38:13busy doing something else and maybe I don't think I caught the replay, but
- 38:15from what I heard it seemed to be legit. I didn't see too much
- 38:20controversy over it, so we take it for that, and again I think
- 38:24that just it continues to prove the point that we've you know, not only
- 38:29asked that you know everywhere you turn, you know, into the best team
- 38:31in Italy into the best team in Italy. The depth, like we've said
- 38:37in Timeless podcasts this season is is kind of I think what's really pushing them
- 38:42over the edge. And obviously they're big players, definitely stepping up. Adding
- 38:45some pieces the two arms of the world obviously helps. I still don't think
- 38:51there are obviously a perfect squad. I'm not a huge fan of vin Zagi,
- 38:53but they're able to make it work. So for how long we'll see
- 39:00because I you know, like Neix said, I think eventually, you know,
- 39:02these teams are going to have to slip up. Eventually, it's really
- 39:07hard to go you know, perfect or close to perfect in this league.
- 39:10So we'll be waiting for it to see when that happens, if that happens,
- 39:15and I think we have to take it from there. But you know,
- 39:17still I think it's still a good game from from Atalanta. I know,
- 39:20a boy with not but without that game from mistaken right guys, Yeah,
- 39:24he was at that match in Veritable in the rain. So yeah,
- 39:31I was gays, is he going to be at the derby on the weekend.
- 39:36I think he is going to be at the derby. I think I
- 39:38remember if let's ask we have to people have to have a chat with him
- 39:43on the show. Yeah no, no, like at the derby tal huge.
- 39:49I could just imagine how you like. I mean, it's huge.
- 39:51We already know how big it is. But I'm being there's probably another probably
- 39:54another beast. So but yeah, no, there was another game obviously,
- 39:59uh you know two top teams, you know, not the one I think
- 40:02slip down to so down to fifth I think with the loss, but still
- 40:08in the mix, like we said, and uh again still another team not
- 40:13to uh not to take out of the race because I still think they're in
- 40:15the mix of all of all that europe talk. So but yeah, I
- 40:21again, unfortunately as much as we don't want or always I don't want.
- 40:25Uh, they're there and uh, you know, take off your bias cap
- 40:29and you put on another realistic one and uh you have to call a space
- 40:32a spade when it's time. And uh, they definitely merit. You know
- 40:37where they are pointing the culture that they're playing. Yeah, I mean that
- 40:42that attack is just incredible. Uh. Let Taro just Uh he's fantastic to
- 40:46where I'm amazing. He's on pace. He's on pace to maybe even tie
- 40:51the record. I was hearing the couple into the goalscoring record thirty six of
- 41:00Mobile and we'll see him he's out eleven or coming He now ten eleven,
- 41:04he's already twelve eleven I think maybe I think it's eleven now after eleven games.
- 41:10Yeah, he's hard to keep up that piece for thirty eight games.
- 41:14But you know it's crazy. You get a couple, you got a couple
- 41:16of yetas here and there. You know, man, he's gonna score.
- 41:22He's gonna go score four against So yeah, it's it's it's twelve goals,
- 41:28by the way, twelve goals eleven games. That's insane. That's insane.
- 41:32I think in the prime of his career. He's a no, yeah,
- 41:36I agree problem of his career, but he's a player that I think really
- 41:38turned his narrative around. Because I know I definitely criticized him in the past.
- 41:44I didn't think he was going to be that guy right now, Guys,
- 41:49he's him right as they say, he's that guy. So it's uh,
- 41:55you know, it's cool to see a bit of a turn turn of
- 41:58you know, passing to the torch of obviously we saw last year with with
- 42:02all Men. But you know, I think he's been in this leap for
- 42:07a bit now, and I think he's finally getting his I guess his his
- 42:10followers, if you will. But again, the supporting casts around and puts
- 42:15in good areas too, so it obviously helps, like you said, Nick,
- 42:19to where I'm signing, very very top. Yeah. Anyways, his
- 42:23girlfriend's last name is Gondolfo. Must be a big Lord of the Rings fan.
- 42:31Uh uh yeah, I mean he scores on and off the pitch.
- 42:40Yeah, God blessed. Let's go to the other side of the line.
- 42:45Not so good one. Nothing lost against Crazy. We just have Vine on
- 42:52last week talk about Melan and he said, you know, you gotta watch
- 42:55out for this game. Who had They haven't won up in till this weekend
- 43:00against Melan. Zero wins in ten games and the first win of the season
- 43:06is at the Santiero against Melan. It just we go back five years on
- 43:12the show. That's the theme any Melan guess we have on they always talk
- 43:15about these trap games and it always bites them. Adrian, what happened?
- 43:20What what went wrong? Well? Went wrong? Guys, We're we're in
- 43:24We're we're in a bit of a moment right now. Obviously has been struggling
- 43:30on all fronts. You always try to stay as positive as possible, as
- 43:34optimistic as possible as I always try to say, I'm gonna stick to that
- 43:37till the end, and I don't care. But yeah, it's frustrating.
- 43:40It's for sure frustrating obviously the child Vinnie, you have a different perspective obviously
- 43:45last week of you know, there's maybe you know, certain people a bit
- 43:47of a different perspective of of how to how to continue taking this season.
- 43:52But you know what we all, like we said, you know, open
- 43:55the show, blow, how long are they gonna last in the positions that
- 43:59they're in. It's a long season, you know, again for me,
- 44:01and it's still a long season for all these teams. It's still a long
- 44:05season. So I'm sticking to that. But you know, as much as
- 44:09uh as much as you want to stick to these things just to kind of
- 44:14get a good positive vibe around yourself. I mean, things that need to
- 44:17change. I mean, obviously, I think need to be better. I
- 44:21mean, our top player is not playing the way they should select A few
- 44:25of them are really really you know, playing for the shirt. It's it's
- 44:29it's a bit of a it's a bit of a bit of a shame,
- 44:32you know, not being clinical enough, not capitalizing our chances, just playing
- 44:39I don't know, from the behind the eight ball, almost from the get
- 44:43go. You know, these track games have caught us so many different times,
- 44:47so many different seasons. Like you said, Nick, you know,
- 44:52two teams that have no business taking points from us, we go give it
- 44:55to them, you know, we uh, we're famous for doing that,
- 45:00like you said, haven't won this season. It only took them point at
- 45:04the Sancio against me. You want to do so penalty on top of it.
- 45:09Pereira puts it away and there was just no response because it happened in
- 45:14around the sixty something minute. I remember the exact time, It was like
- 45:16sixty fifth minute, so there still was time. You know, Poi going
- 45:22with a bit of a different a bit of a different way of going about
- 45:28the game in terms of you know, uh, in terms of setup.
- 45:32He put Jiu and the Jovich up on top. And again, guys,
- 45:37we brought an absolutely zero from Yovich this season. I don't know why he
- 45:43goes from with him from the start. Maybe try to give him somebody to
- 45:45playoff of with, you do. It looked good at moments. I think
- 45:49maybe that could be a formation to to go back on. I just don't
- 45:53think with those pieces. You know, games are one and less in the
- 45:59midfield. I've always said this, and our midfield hasn't looked the way it
- 46:04should have, by the way it should. Sorry, you know, lofty
- 46:07Hik not being there not being an excuse, but his loss has been being
- 46:12obviously been a Sera's loss to open this season has has been a bit of
- 46:15a thing. So when you play Reindeers every game, Kruonich coming, you
- 46:21know, obviously going to be in the lineup because Poi loves them, and
- 46:24a guy like Mussa was still very very young. It's twenty years old coming
- 46:28into a new week. He's had his moments, but at the same time,
- 46:30it's you know, we need we need a bit of a more of
- 46:34a rotation. Haven't been able to stay super healthy, so that's obviously something
- 46:37that's hindered us a bit. But again every team goes through it, so
- 46:40I'm not going to go crazy on that, but I think just overall needs
- 46:45to be better. You know, they're saying they're trying to bring Ibra back
- 46:47to to kind of kick these guys into shape. Guys, he only left
- 46:51what a couple of months ago? How much? How much? How much?
- 46:54You know, shit could have gone on from then to now that you
- 46:58guys are not motivated. These players know what to do, they haven't been
- 47:00able to do it. Uh, people are gonna say Poe out like we're
- 47:05talking about you know, obviously the Saudi's of the world, maybe the Morinis
- 47:07of the world. Out has been a big thing, but guys, out
- 47:14was a thing before he even signed for the fucking club. Now we've had
- 47:16him, we've had some success with him. He's rost the Champions League,
- 47:20we've gotten Feig Champions League, we won to Scudetto. Has he been perfect?
- 47:23No, I don't think changing him now, like I said with Sadi,
- 47:28is gonna be the be, the be, the answer, be the
- 47:32key of this whole solution, so or this whole problem. Sorry, it's
- 47:37gonna be one of these things where we're gonna write him out. And it
- 47:39seems by reading you know the news, he's he's gonna stick. The management
- 47:45still thinks he's he's in charge of the situation. So we'll see. I
- 47:50think, you know, I think it's just you know, a rough pack
- 47:53for sure. The Champions League results haven't helped because the area there's some of
- 47:59these games where you know, you want have deserved the points and they weren't
- 48:01able to capitalize. So they've shot themselves in the foot. So it's not
- 48:05all bad, but it hasn't been great. The game against I don't think
- 48:10you know, you deserve the win. I don't think you will deserve the
- 48:13win, but a draw maybe there, you know, you pick up a
- 48:15point. The PhD game, it is where it is we spoke about that.
- 48:20You know, the taught this already the newcast. So dormund games,
- 48:23those are games they should have picked up points in the Champions League. You
- 48:29know, the debet was what it was in the derby. You you got
- 48:31out classed by a better, better team on the day that happens. It's
- 48:36the derby, so I can, I can swallow some of these pills,
- 48:38but it's the ones where we shoot ourselves in the foot. We're not consistent,
- 48:44we're not clinical there. You know, our big players don't show up.
- 48:47Uh gets it wrong tactically. It's these things that are could be avoidable
- 48:54uh and aren't. And you know we're seeing it from across the pond,
- 48:58but they don't see it there. It's those little things that kind of bothered
- 49:00me, uh to be to be very honest. But again, we have
- 49:06no choice but to go forward. So uh it starts tomorrow again another another
- 49:10test. I don't know how that's gonna go. We'll see, not super
- 49:15you know, confident because we saw what happened last time. But it's gonna
- 49:20be a different environment. It's gonna be at home. We have to make
- 49:22San Seito a fortress again, which you know there's been instances where we haven't
- 49:28done that. Very interested to see how the whole uh Donauma coming back to
- 49:35Milano at San Siro that's gonna be already a movie. I could already see
- 49:37it. So I'm excited to see how that pans out. But just in
- 49:43terms of ourselves, I mean, they all not where he needs to be,
- 49:49you know, tail missing games or missing the games. Sorry, you
- 49:52know we got some depth, but again we're going down with with quite a
- 49:57few injuries, like we spoke about last week. I don't know what it
- 50:00is. I don't see. I'm like, it's nothing in the water,
- 50:05it's nothing in the air, because even there have been perfect on their end,
- 50:07so I don't I don't know what perfect. They've had minor, minor,
- 50:12minor pieces missing, but nowhere near you know, nowhere near Meland,
- 50:16So I know it's nothing in the water. I know it's nothing in the
- 50:19air. So I don't know what's going on in Meal and ll but something's
- 50:22up. But that's frustrating because again I think they could have I don't want
- 50:29to say easily because there was a bit of a frustrating game to watch,
- 50:31but definitely should have taken points from from from Modin. Again, guys,
- 50:36this is the team, wasn't one. They just changed the coach again,
- 50:39back to Trophy. Johnny's relative so you know what I mean, Like they're
- 50:45going through their moment. But what do we do? We roll out the
- 50:47red carpet, or sorry, the red and black carpet. We roll it
- 50:51out, We roll it out Loong Loong, Loonga, Lunga, and what
- 50:54happens? You know, these teams they come into to San Zeero and they
- 50:59take points. Sancito has to be a fucking fortress. We're wedding these teams
- 51:01like whatever one take points from us. So there's no more rolling out the
- 51:07red fucking carpets. I don't want to see that no more. Uh,
- 51:09you know, we have to be serious because I do still think this is
- 51:13a team that can fight at the top. Again, it's not all over,
- 51:16for sure, But when you set yourself back like this, now there
- 51:22what uh there's six points back from you? Or is it for me?
- 51:28And I forget now that in yeah, I know, but what's the I
- 51:32forget? What the I forget? If it's I think it's six points behind
- 51:37Entered, I think you're at twenty two. Let me chat, Yeah,
- 51:40yeah, funny, yeah, six six points four points behind you Van.
- 51:45And that's what's big is that they've already lost to both teams yeah, to
- 51:49catch up that they need to win in the return games and expect those teams
- 51:54to drop points exactly. So you know what, that's that's my point,
- 51:58right, So you put yourself in these positions where you know, destiny is
- 52:01not in your own hands like you put it in in you know, in
- 52:05other results. So that's not Melan. But again I'm still I still think
- 52:08they can fight because I don't think, you know, the use of the
- 52:13world, the inters of the world are going to continue to go perfect on
- 52:15this on on on on this stretch. These teams are going to bound to
- 52:19lose points somewhere somehow. We'll see when that happens. But again, like
- 52:24you said, Nick, for Juve in terms of you know, the inter
- 52:27game being huge, you know, for for for Melan, the reverse legs
- 52:30of all these matchups against Napoli where we drop points, against u of A
- 52:36where we drop points, and against the inter Roald we drop points. These
- 52:38are all massive return leg games. I think they should have done obviously a
- 52:45lot better in those matchups besides the DEDB because we were out classed on the
- 52:49day. But you know, you don't lose, you don't go lose.
- 52:53Uh, sorry, you don't drop points. Do not up to all because
- 52:59you had the game, uh and they had more chances to make it more
- 53:01than that. And then in the game against you, like I said,
- 53:05guys, know, I think he should have been a draw. I think
- 53:07that was the maybe the fair result. The team won. It's fine,
- 53:10it happens, but the return legs are going to be huge for me Onan.
- 53:15And again, I don't know, guys, if it's a mentality thing
- 53:17or it's just because I don't. It can't be only on PO. I
- 53:23mean, I I know so many fans put so much into that. It's
- 53:27always fall get him out and change. But guys who were going for after
- 53:31like then he said last week, and I'm gonna stick with what he said
- 53:34because I also feel that way where you're gonna go, what's the solution right
- 53:38away? Everybody wants the be because he grew up And no, he's in
- 53:44Marseille, right he's in France. He's he's in France, cursing in Italian,
- 53:50barely speaking French and Spanish. So he's out of the picture. Guys,
- 53:52we don't he's done. The dead beat that's in Brighton doing well,
- 54:00getting paid a hell of a boat would of a salary better than me.
- 54:02Lan he ain't coming Conte, guys, He's not coming for his salary.
- 54:08He's a free agent. He'sn't asked for too much. He's not coming now,
- 54:10and I don't think he was gonna come at all. So all these
- 54:14all these hypotheses and these these fake solutions are finding don the on paper.
- 54:20But me too. I want to see this. That'd be behind the bench,
- 54:22that'd be great. But guys, I don't think it's realistic right now,
- 54:27especially in this moment. So we'll see. But yeah, they're gonna
- 54:32ride out this Poe wave for for for this season, for sure. That's
- 54:36how I see it. And uh, but I think it's on us.
- 54:39It's not anything that. I don't think it's anything that other teams are doing
- 54:44to me. And it's mainly it's it's internal. It's Melan doing it to
- 54:46Milan. So just playing simple. Have to be better going forward, and
- 54:52that's what I hope I hope to see. I like the red carpet analogy,
- 54:57Drannoe. Is that what you do when guests come over two or the
- 55:00red carpet black depends it's the red and black carpet. But it depends what
- 55:07is depends what is We have to every now and then you roll up the
- 55:09red red carpet, red a black carpet. But you know me, you
- 55:14guys always an analogy always says something to to to uh, to spice up
- 55:17the venting and the ranting, because every now and then it's I think I'll
- 55:22have to add it to the collection of Greek clips. You're on the you're
- 55:28on the podcast, maybe episode three hundred. We'll play it back in two
- 55:30years from now, okay, uh and then uh Johnny opposite Fernapoly opposur Fornapoly,
- 55:43uh three way away. First, first, I wanted to ask,
- 55:45do you remember when the last time Meland won? When last they won?
- 55:52They won? Yeah? Any game? Uh, well, they haven't won
- 55:58in what it's been five games, haven't won no more. They beat oh
- 56:04my god, match day one day one. I know what do we have
- 56:08matually? At ten eleven eleven? Let's just finished my eleven just eleven.
- 56:15Yeah, they beat Uh, it was a lot too. You know who
- 56:20they beat? I don't even remember. They beat General one nothing on October
- 56:23seventh. Oh that's it. Yeah, General a month ago going on,
- 56:28Yeah, a month ago there you go. So that's that's not that's how
- 56:31much they haven't they've been struggling that I haven't even been able to remember.
- 56:35But there you go. So it's since October seventh, it's a fucking month
- 56:38they haven't won. Is it possible, I don't know, you know what
- 56:43I mean, like it can be so that but that's but again, the
- 56:50championship games I've already spoken about that, that's I mean, as long as
- 56:53there's still the competition, that will probably come up again. But these ones
- 56:57in the leagues where it's give, they should have picked up points and they
- 57:00and they didn't. That that that that bothered me. Kind of reminds me
- 57:05of the game last year against Roma, you know, the two O the
- 57:07same thing happened with not we Now you know recently you're up to oh you
- 57:12guys to uh waiter goals in and you go home with the tie and that
- 57:15that you know, to fuck them up psychologically. So I hope that doesn't
- 57:20happen again because this team has to be fucking more stronger than that mentally.
- 57:24Well, see Viebra comes well, will Ibra Willebra be the one uh to
- 57:29to whip up our our players back into shape. It would be a fucking
- 57:32shame of that if it has to come down to that being the dual end
- 57:37all for the be all end all. But yeah, guys, we can't.
- 57:40If we want to be serious about competing for schoodet tea and and for
- 57:45top four and stuff of that nature, we have to we have to be
- 57:49better on our own. We can't. We don't need to be a have
- 57:52you know, we don't need to be babysat to to get results. I
- 57:57don't think I would hope not so. But yeah, but again, it's
- 58:02you know, it's four points, it's six points, like it's not.
- 58:06It's not like it's fucking way over like, there's still I think there's still
- 58:09time to recoup. It's if they do, and if they can execute down
- 58:13the stretches, it's gonna be huge. Uh, not really, Johnny.
- 58:17It's been a whole two days since his last one. Unbelievable. Unbelievable fire
- 58:23fire Garcia two days unacceptable. But they they, they they've slowly been turning
- 58:30things around. It's four straight uh without without losing. Now they lost,
- 58:35Uh, the last lost a month ago against Garantina. So the opposite of
- 58:38me line it's been a month since they've lost. They beat Union Berlin and
- 58:45Champions League in that stretch, beating Verona three to one, beat not Ply
- 58:49uh sorry, beat clearn and Town to nothing, and then tight to two
- 58:52with with Melan just a classic Monopoly game to nothing against the learning kind of
- 58:59off it's coming out kind of oposo you there. You kind of expect them
- 59:04to score goals in these type of games. Yeah, it's really uh comforting
- 59:13to know that some players are picking up the slack with oc men being out.
- 59:16Uh you know, like Aspadote has been having been in great form,
- 59:21poly Tittle has been in great form. Uh you know, the offense is
- 59:24really trying their best to do what they can without without without us getting assists.
- 59:31He's still being an effective force on the field. You might not be
- 59:34scoring directly, but he's still being a threat that allows uh, you know,
- 59:38the other players to get the room that they need or have opportunity to
- 59:43succeed. Because if you're double marking Kava at Skellia and then all of a
- 59:46sudden, poly Title's open, He's got one less player covering him, so
- 59:50he's got more space to work with and it's showing in his results. He's
- 59:52got like five balls, three assists. It's something, uh, it's something
- 59:55tremendous right now for especially for a right winger like him. So U really
- 1:00:01uh reassuring because you know what also might mean. Now You're like, okay,
- 1:00:06great, now they're gonna have to play a false nine on Aspaditi or
- 1:00:07even Simione off the bench. You know, Simoni is better as a super
- 1:00:12sub rather than the actual starter. But you know, when push ups to
- 1:00:14shove, I guess we have no choice. But no, it's it's been
- 1:00:19good. It's begetting it's begetting, like besides the Milan game where you know
- 1:00:23what they fought for it and I'm like that that that blew me away.
- 1:00:29It's been results that I expected. It's been results that, like you,
- 1:00:34you expect them to get. The w union Berlin have was it. It's
- 1:00:38been thirteen games or twelve games. It was a funny stat that I saw
- 1:00:42on Twitter. Twelve or thirteen games since they got Bonucci and they have zero
- 1:00:45wins in those twelve or thirteen games. I know it's not directly Bonucci's fault,
- 1:00:51but it's just funny to say, you know, like the racist least
- 1:00:54at least turned to go to the Nazzi team. I'm just kidding. I'm
- 1:00:58kidding, I'm kidding. I don't want to podcast to get canceled, but
- 1:01:01all seriously, it shows no. But this goes to show that, you
- 1:01:07know, a lot of people are putting this heavy emphasis though the reason why
- 1:01:10he won the Euros the connection is great and like, but Bucci did nothing
- 1:01:15and Melan no, but he did nothing with with Klini, with al Killini
- 1:01:20and me Land. He's doing nothing at Union Berlin. Bonucci was wasn't even
- 1:01:23playing for you guys last year, Like he's not good, like he was
- 1:01:28very met like the BBC line. I'm pretty sure he got carried in that
- 1:01:31BBC or the BBBBC, you know, the bui Kelli back line, like
- 1:01:38you know, like I mean, I was. You can say a player
- 1:01:43was good in the past when he's not good in the present, like when
- 1:01:45Gretzky probably won't score fifty goals in the NHL now you know, but he
- 1:01:51didn't. I'll also take the goal Thatci scored in the final zero just just
- 1:01:57yea was was they helped that make that happen because he's good. He's a
- 1:02:05good player, He's a role player. He's a good role player. He
- 1:02:09was a good player on that squad. Coaches love the guy because he because
- 1:02:14he does whatever the coach asks him to do. And you'll and you'll always
- 1:02:16do it without fighting back. He knows. You knows like you'll do anything
- 1:02:21to his role to pitch. But I digress. One point I make about
- 1:02:24the Euros is I think there was a couple of group games and even the
- 1:02:28Round of sixteen game, if I'm not mistaken, where Killeen He didn't play,
- 1:02:30and it was a cherby Bucci, which in twenty twenty three would be
- 1:02:34the worst pairing ever. No, they didn't. Everyone did did well,
- 1:02:39and they didn't concede until until so you told me there was it was a
- 1:02:45team effort to win the trophy. Yes, okay, well I'm just gonna
- 1:02:53keep that in mind that it was a team that everyone want the eros a
- 1:03:00cloud the communication right now. Yeah, we're having a mid off here,
- 1:03:08I mean for real, maya. So those are but like back to the
- 1:03:15main point about Napoli, those are the games that you expect to win,
- 1:03:17whether Oscioman's in there or not in there. So they're getting the results cemics
- 1:03:22because like I'm really not, Like I'm not convinced on Rudy Garcia. I'm
- 1:03:30not, but I'm not gonna be one of those guys are gonna be like,
- 1:03:31fuck this guy. He's horrible, he's a terrorist, you know,
- 1:03:35and stuff like that. Obviously they do it for jokes and for memes on
- 1:03:37social media, but I really, I really do believe that he's a temporary
- 1:03:44fix because it's just more just the lonent Is cann't get anybody. But if
- 1:03:50you're de Lorentis, you have to start right now in looking for his replacement.
- 1:03:54Like he he came out saying that Rudy Garcia is going to stay here
- 1:03:57till the end of the season. So you can't look like an idiot.
- 1:04:00Mind you, he's already looking like an idiot because last year in his speech
- 1:04:04after when he was so he says, oh, we're gonna our goal is
- 1:04:06to continue winning and weeding and winning and eventually Champions League. And then this
- 1:04:11year he comes out a statement saying that like, oh, yeah, you
- 1:04:14know, our goal this year is the top four finish. I think time
- 1:04:16out, time out. In his defense, he made those that initial statement
- 1:04:20thinking that everyone was staying and then you know, this statement that comes out,
- 1:04:25it's like you have all these big changes, like okay, well my
- 1:04:28initial goal is no longer realistic. But actually, personally speaking, I don't
- 1:04:32even think a repeat was realistic, to be honest with you, I'm like,
- 1:04:35okay, very hard, very like all the pieces just fell into place.
- 1:04:40It wasn't as if Anopoly, even though Napoli did have a good,
- 1:04:43big lead and for the win, it was it was just a off season
- 1:04:46for your competition. All every team had something going on. But that's that's
- 1:04:49not that's neither here nor there. But it just goes to show that Arcie
- 1:04:56is here to stay to land of the season while this is probably gonna try
- 1:04:59to see if you can find it next possible candidate that kind of shoots the
- 1:05:01system for an Apoli. Garcia says he might change into a four two three
- 1:05:05one, which is what Spiletti was doing at one point in the season,
- 1:05:11which I mean, like, hey, it worked last time, do it
- 1:05:13again to try to fit Raspadoti in. Also when ocimen Go was back.
- 1:05:16Since the Aspadot's been having a terrific form, he wants to reward his play.
- 1:05:20I mean, hey, if you can have your up like it's it's
- 1:05:24crazy, how if you're doing a four to two three one you're up for
- 1:05:28can look something along the lines of Kabaatscalia cimen in the on the top,
- 1:05:32polyton on the right, and you could put the Raspadoni behind him. But
- 1:05:35I also like you could just use an Aspadoni once again on the right and
- 1:05:40have Zelinski back there, because then I don't think, why would you put
- 1:05:43Zelinsky in the defensive pivot. You don't do that, you know, it
- 1:05:45just feels a bit weird. It rains to be seen. I do believe
- 1:05:51that they're very very bountiful upfront. I still think maybe the win the best.
- 1:06:00Nothing's gonna happen in the winter transfer. I don't think they're going to
- 1:06:00pick up anybody. I still really don't like the back line. I really
- 1:06:03think that needs to be it's something to have work. But you know,
- 1:06:06Olivia is being that workhorse that or not workhorse, but like that reliable,
- 1:06:13all reliable basically for for Rude Garcia, especially with Rui, you know,
- 1:06:17not having the best of like condition right now. I guess because he starts,
- 1:06:21he doesn't start, he plays, he doesn't play. He's our best,
- 1:06:25he's he's our most offensive left wing you know, activates comb out at
- 1:06:29Scalia. But sure, whatever, But because it's it's because here's here's proof
- 1:06:33of it. One of the goals, by the way, which I thought,
- 1:06:36I thought it was offside, but I saw two different reasons why it
- 1:06:39was not considered offside. One of the one of the situations. One of
- 1:06:44the reasons why it's like look if you like, because the right side wasn't
- 1:06:47being double marked. Olivia was able to get that ball to the Lorenzo which
- 1:06:50was able to get that ball after they want for it. The sperity managed
- 1:06:54to get the ball squeeze through and score a goal. So a lot of
- 1:06:57the people on Twitter like that should be offside, and I don't. I
- 1:06:59don't agree the initial pass Olivia received should have been offside. Now the reason
- 1:07:02why it wasn't looked at is because because the lines. Even though the line's
- 1:07:06been missed, the call apparently there's two reasons why it wasn't looked at into
- 1:07:10var So this is all just hearsay. I don't know if it's truth or
- 1:07:14or one hundred percent fact. But because Sara any Tanda want possession immediately after
- 1:07:19that pass, any chance of an offside is nullified or review for an off
- 1:07:24side is nullified because it's not the same play anymore because not poly re earned
- 1:07:29possession and the goal came from that specific possession. And then there was another
- 1:07:32rule where it was too many passes behind to go check. I don't know
- 1:07:38what's like we all have discussed with this before. That city is very weird
- 1:07:43with its with its rulings and decisions and stuff. So I personally believe they
- 1:07:49should have just went even went back to the initial point where I've ever received
- 1:07:53the ball, whether there was other passes or the place, and you say,
- 1:07:55well, look that that was like you're supposed to go to the last
- 1:07:58correct game state that should have been an off side that initial pass and the
- 1:08:01din they't get called. But you know, hey, I'm not going to
- 1:08:03complain. I'll take like anybody would be foolish to not take that when it
- 1:08:08goes in your direction. But I will say that that that should have been
- 1:08:11an off cycle. But you know, you win. You win the derby
- 1:08:14of CAMPAIGNA at this point, so aguess guess whether you play against Benevento Avelino
- 1:08:18or you're you're the Juventus of the region. You're the evil team of the
- 1:08:25region. I'm just kidding, but you're the big team of the region.
- 1:08:28That's why. So obviously you know, they all want to try to test
- 1:08:30their metal against you, so you win that derby. Everyone needs to pretty
- 1:08:36much like because like if you go through these towns, you go through these
- 1:08:41towns like for them, like the region supports Napoli, but you go to
- 1:08:46like you go to you go to Avellino, you go to Benevento. Yes,
- 1:08:53they do have their local fans, but there people in the in the
- 1:08:57homes have the Napoly flags or pennants up. They they watched Napoli because it's
- 1:09:01it's the team of the region that's gonna lead them the most to the most
- 1:09:04success. They still have that little spot for their local team, but it's
- 1:09:09it's it's just that's they're you know, like for us, like you know,
- 1:09:12like I think you can compare it to Canada and Italy, Like we
- 1:09:14still like will support Canada and love Canada, but you know, the team
- 1:09:17that has is gonna have the chance to the most success that we love more
- 1:09:20is Italy. Maybe it's because of our roots, but I'm just trying to
- 1:09:24find it comparable. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, Anyways,
- 1:09:30it's like if Dollar Desermal played against the city of Montreal and in soccer.
- 1:09:35You know, of course you're ch here for Dollar Desermal, but there's
- 1:09:39a small there's small kids. Me and me and age would probably make the
- 1:09:42bench of that team. Mm hmm, we're talking about Dido would be Montreal.
- 1:09:46What are you talking about? It's like that equip but it's like it's
- 1:09:51like that equip of that city. The coach there after got from the h
- 1:09:57from from the world cluck and like, uh, leg a protein compete,
- 1:10:02that's fat leg a protein and you're saying it all. It was fucking I
- 1:10:11love that clip, even though it brought us a bad moment in our history.
- 1:10:15That clipped was always was always legendary. But a lot of Champions League,
- 1:10:20Europa League. This week, I didn't check who's playing who, but
- 1:10:25Melan PSG, I tweeted, it feels like the twentieth time that the room
- 1:10:28was back of the sense. So I know, his first time against Melan
- 1:10:30as a team, but he's always he's been back a few times now for
- 1:10:33the national team. So if he gets yeah, if he gets booed as
- 1:10:38the home player. He's gonna get booed even more as the way player.
- 1:10:41That will be interesting. Let's see if it gets in his head. I
- 1:10:45still think PSG wins that one, and you check who the other games are.
- 1:10:49I think that Plea plays Union Berlin again. Yeah, they play Union
- 1:10:53Berlin again on Wednesday. Fair nor it's the flip, yeah, exactly,
- 1:10:57it's the games that we just then we just saw and then uh Inter interplays
- 1:11:02Salzburg on Wednesday, so it should be interesting. Not too many sexy games
- 1:11:10overall in the Champions In the Champions League US, it's making or break up
- 1:11:14for some teams. Yeah, I was gonna say, I think can some
- 1:11:16can some teams qualify already? Uh? Or probably? Or is it still
- 1:11:20they're still too early for to say that. I mean like Byron Byron,
- 1:11:25if they win qualify in terms of the oh Italian teams, No, I
- 1:11:29don't think so, unless I've thought already, uh, we're not. If
- 1:11:38they beat Salsburg, yes, If they beat Salsburg, well, if they
- 1:11:45yeah, I need to do math. They beat Salisburg, they to be
- 1:11:47a ten. Yeah. If they beat Salisburg that should qualify. Then too
- 1:11:54much math. It's it's nine thirty and it's too late for math. We
- 1:11:57need to the teacher, we need to they put off to do the math
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