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Italy get the necessary wins in World Cup Qualifying - Ep. 282 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: If Italy got a job review, they would get satisfy,
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  Speaker 1: satisfactory or just got the job done, and at least.
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  Speaker 2: For such me and so I get my satisfactory as
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  Speaker 2: Nicholas will like to say.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, that's that's how you can describe it.
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  Speaker 1: These passive matches are worth Cup qualifying six points, so six.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're happy with the wins, but they didn't
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  Speaker 1: score enough. Guys here on the couch of guys, Johnny Drano,
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  Speaker 1: how you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Doing I'm doing good, doing good.
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  Speaker 5: I mean six from six is good, but like you said,
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  Speaker 5: and probably we're going to dive into it's not enough.
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  Speaker 4: So but the satisfied, I guess is the way to say.
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  Speaker 2: Undefeated under Gattuso is always a great feeling. Let's hope
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  Speaker 2: that he keeps on instilling some confidence in this team
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  Speaker 2: and he gets them back to like being a dominant
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  Speaker 2: force in Europe, you know, not just well actually you
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  Speaker 2: know dominant forcing feed but not even just a.
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  Speaker 3: Year of just dominant force of people. But anyways, still
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  Speaker 3: a long way to go for that.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like it's the inevitable at this point with
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  Speaker 1: Italy and playoffs, and it seems like that's the path
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  Speaker 1: they're going on heading into Saturday's game, we knew they
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  Speaker 1: needed to get a lot of goals versus Estonia. This
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  Speaker 1: was they played after Norway one five nothing I believe
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  Speaker 1: against It was Moldova and we knew heading in Italy
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  Speaker 1: needed to score a lot to make up the gold
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  Speaker 1: inferential And it started off well, was it the fourth
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  Speaker 1: minute they had already scored, but then it kind of
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  Speaker 1: it kind of died down, and you know, we were
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  Speaker 1: watching it together guys at Pinino Patso with Bellebrini and
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  Speaker 1: it was a b Saturday, you know, nice little watch
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  Speaker 1: party there with the Bellobrini special amazing sandwiches by the way,
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  Speaker 1: at the Panino and Pazzo and little Italy.
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  Speaker 3: This is not an act, by the way, this is legit.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was delicious.
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  Speaker 3: It was very very good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Sorry, it was in the fourth minute. Everything seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be going well and then I forget what happened
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  Speaker 1: for us if Ritzigi scored his second goal or if
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  Speaker 1: there was miss Penn first, that it was miss Penn first.
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  Speaker 1: And Jenny, I know you weren't there in the first half,
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  Speaker 1: but when.
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  Speaker 3: We got the pen right away, I said, like I.
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  Speaker 1: Forget who said if it was Bellebrini or Biadro said
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  Speaker 1: it all.
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  Speaker 3: You know, now we're getting geting another goal.
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  Speaker 4: This and that.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wait, we need to score first, and
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  Speaker 1: we saw a pretty weak penalty for Matigi, pretty disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: It did make it up with a harder goal to
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  Speaker 1: score in the thirty eighth minute, as I suppose, I
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  Speaker 1: spose you scored seventy fourth first goal for him with
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  Speaker 1: the national team, and then terrible mistake from Dona ruma
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  Speaker 1: seventy six minute right after to cut down the goal
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  Speaker 1: differential back to plus three. So Italy didn't get to
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  Speaker 1: ten nothing when they were probably hoping for, hey, three
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  Speaker 1: points to three points.
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  Speaker 3: That was the first job that they needed to do.
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  Speaker 1: But I think afterwards maybe I felt a bit say disappointed,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like, okay, well on to the next one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not like you could criticize him that much,
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  Speaker 1: but again you want in the more goals. They definitely
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  Speaker 1: missed a few chances. Binzola missed a chance, the miss penalty,
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  Speaker 1: so right there, two goals they could have made up.
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  Speaker 1: Even with this mistake. That's an extra plus three that
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  Speaker 1: they could have had, so it's it's like maybe a
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  Speaker 1: moments like that that kind of left the sour teaths
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  Speaker 1: in the taste in the mouth. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you guys felt the same watching the game on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: but there was.
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  Speaker 3: A there was a bit to be desired.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I feel like it was the one thing that
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  Speaker 2: stuck out to me and the most was that the
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  Speaker 2: Don room a mistake was it's a little bit uncharacteristical
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  Speaker 2: of him, you know what I mean, Like in my head,
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  Speaker 2: it's a bit worrisome too, because it's a couple of
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  Speaker 2: games now where he just has like a slip up
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  Speaker 2: or like a like what is he doing type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's I just hope that it's not a habit that's
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  Speaker 2: that's developing in him. You know, we need him to
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  Speaker 2: be our best player. Don Aruma, out of all these players,
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  Speaker 2: is the most important player on this squad, and if
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  Speaker 2: he's the one who's playing poorly, then it's gonna fallow
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  Speaker 2: suit with the rest of the team. Now, we're starting
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  Speaker 2: to find our legs a bit, you know, like we're
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  Speaker 2: starting to you know, find like something that clicks. We
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  Speaker 2: have an we have an idea of like Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: for example, like Tegie and Keen are most likely gonna
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  Speaker 2: be the one two punch going in the future, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like like we know what our midfield is probably gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: Come come World Cup if you qualify and whatnot. But
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  Speaker 2: donal Aruma is absolutely the key piece because we still
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  Speaker 2: lack behind a lot of the top teams in the
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  Speaker 2: world in terms of talent organic talent, Like we're talented, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but like I mean more of a sense where it's
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  Speaker 2: like like these guys like you can put them on
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  Speaker 2: and you know that a goal is gonna come, you know,
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  Speaker 2: So the best way we're gonna win is by preventing them.
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  Speaker 2: And who's the best player to prevent them donal Uma.
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  Speaker 2: So we need Donalaruma to be our best player. And
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  Speaker 2: these past few games, I've seen him do these like
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  Speaker 2: little errors, like they're not the worst things, but against
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  Speaker 2: a stronger team we could get easily punished for it.
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  Speaker 2: So I personally take away the one thing I take
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  Speaker 2: away from these games is that I just hope it's
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  Speaker 2: just something like that's just temporary for him, that it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't lead to anything further, and that come like the
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  Speaker 2: playoff game that we're gonna eventually play that he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make those type of mistakes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, listen, I think first off, again I
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  Speaker 5: want to shout out Biad, Joe and and Bell BRINGI
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  Speaker 5: a great event, a small little event, but it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was really cool to participate in.
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  Speaker 5: And and you know, I'll get together at Panino Pazzo,
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  Speaker 5: So again another shout out to them. It was great,
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  Speaker 5: It was a great time. It was a great afternoon,
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  Speaker 5: despite the sour taste in our mouth. And I guess
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  Speaker 5: it's always better to suffering numbers than by yourself. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, I would argue that, you know, besides don
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  Speaker 5: a room, I think Tonal he is probably our our
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  Speaker 5: best player. Uh focal point. I've said it. We have
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  Speaker 5: to say it on the show a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 5: the you know, games are won and lost in the midfield,
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  Speaker 5: and I think if that's rolling, you can you can
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  Speaker 5: get by. I think the the mistakes, the few mistakes
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  Speaker 5: that Donanoma does make, I think he makes up with
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  Speaker 5: it with the time we saves that he's so known
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  Speaker 5: for the penalty stops and all that, So I'm not
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  Speaker 5: too too worried. Again, like you said, Johnny, if he
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  Speaker 5: makes it a habit and maybe there's something to look into.
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  Speaker 5: But he saved us more than he's cost us in
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  Speaker 5: my opinion. Uh, since since taking over between the sticks,
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  Speaker 5: so I would I would put my faith into a
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  Speaker 5: Rouma going forward. But yeah, and then in the first match,
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  Speaker 5: you know, against Estonia, it was it started off well
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  Speaker 5: and we were kind of joking at at Pino pat
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  Speaker 5: so you know, a.
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  Speaker 4: Goal every four minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Johnny wasn't there in the first half, but we were saying, okay,
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  Speaker 5: we're scoring in the fourth minute. Now we got to
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  Speaker 5: score every four minutes to kind of make up try
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  Speaker 5: to make up this this this goal differential that we're
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  Speaker 5: so far behind, because it seems like Norway just can't
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  Speaker 5: stop scoring. It wasn't to be after the fourth minute,
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  Speaker 5: it was. It took a little bit of time. It's
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  Speaker 5: unfortunate with the injury too.
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  Speaker 4: Keen.
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  Speaker 5: I think I would have liked to have seen how
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  Speaker 5: this game would have progressed with him playing at least
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  Speaker 5: a half, if not a good sixty sixty five minutes
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  Speaker 5: maybe more against Estonia, So.
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  Speaker 4: That I think put a bit of a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of a damper on things.
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  Speaker 5: But again, I think one thing with Gattuso he's been
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  Speaker 5: able to adjust. Sometimes I feel like that the starting
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  Speaker 5: lineups again maybe sometimes are a bit suspect, But for
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  Speaker 5: the most part, I think he's been able to adjust.
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  Speaker 5: And if there's one thing with Katuso, at least with
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  Speaker 5: the experience that I saw at at Milan, and I
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  Speaker 5: don't know if you can say the same for when
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  Speaker 5: he was a Knapoa Johnny, but he's really able to
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  Speaker 5: work with the card he's dealt and and make something
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  Speaker 5: out of it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he has he you know, he.
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  Speaker 5: Has garbage hands, garbage cards in his hands, if you will,
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  Speaker 5: or not the best hand, and he still manages to
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  Speaker 5: get a school but you know, like he he manages
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  Speaker 5: to do something with with the cards that he has.
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  Speaker 5: You know, is it always the best looking?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe not. But if there's one thing that we've seen
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  Speaker 4: in this short.
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  Speaker 5: Gatuso era for the for the auris they're not going
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  Speaker 5: to stop fighting.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to go till the end.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously that that famous greent Toal word is get tossed
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  Speaker 5: around a lot with with Gatuso.
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  Speaker 4: But you see this team fighting.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's just a matter of being able to
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  Speaker 5: to score more. But hey, I think Gatuso has unlocked
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  Speaker 5: something that's been missing with his national team for a while,
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  Speaker 5: and its been able to score goals like we have
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  Speaker 5: not been seeing. We haven't seen the the goal scoring
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  Speaker 5: that we've seen currently under Guatuso in in in years
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  Speaker 5: past with former managers, they were coming in spurts. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: But like you said to open the show, Johnny, perfect
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  Speaker 5: record under Gutuso twelve out of possible twelve points. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: albeit it's against the points that we should be getting
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  Speaker 5: these results from.
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  Speaker 4: But still we've seen Italy slip up before.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, sometimes I look back and think and
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if it was brought up at at
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  Speaker 5: a Panino Patso on Saturday, but I could have sworn
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  Speaker 5: I had heard somebody mention it. But you know, if
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  Speaker 5: we would have started off this this qualifying campaign with Gutuso,
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  Speaker 5: like I wonder what the result would have been. And obviously,
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  Speaker 5: hindsight is twenty twenty and you know we can't go
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  Speaker 5: back and play Monday morning quarterback and say the what ifs.
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  Speaker 5: But you know that that that loss at the beginning
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  Speaker 5: to Norway, if if that's you know, a different result,
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  Speaker 5: even if it's a draw like there's something more to
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  Speaker 5: play for, you know, coming down this stretch. So it's
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  Speaker 5: it's it's one of these things where you know, it's
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  Speaker 5: it's a lot of what ifs.
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  Speaker 4: But listen, I'm confident.
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  Speaker 5: I know obviously the path to automatic qualification is seems
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  Speaker 5: very slim, and that's it seems inevitable, like you said, Nick,
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  Speaker 5: that we're gonna have to go through the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a sad world we live.
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  Speaker 5: In that, you know, Italy has to go to playoffs
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  Speaker 5: to being able to get into World Cups. But if
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  Speaker 5: that's if that's the if that's what it's gonna be,
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  Speaker 5: and that's what it's gonna take, then from what we've seen,
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  Speaker 5: the sample side that we've seen, I put my confidence
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  Speaker 5: in Gatuzzo to get the job done. It's no secret
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  Speaker 5: in the room. They're all saying it, you know, they
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  Speaker 5: we will be at the World Cup.
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  Speaker 4: We want to be at the World Cup. Everybody believes it.
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  Speaker 5: We were striving for that after missing the last two.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, spirits are high.
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  Speaker 5: But in terms of the first match, I, like you said, Nick,
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  Speaker 5: good to get to win, but I think and even
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  Speaker 5: in the match today, we should be smashing these teams, guys.
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  Speaker 4: And we're just eking out wins.
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  Speaker 5: At a at a lesser rate than the team we're
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  Speaker 5: chasing in Norway that is just obliterating every every everybody
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  Speaker 5: in our group. So I don't know what what it
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  Speaker 5: needs to be, but I guess I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: it's luck or what. But I'm hopeful that going forward
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  Speaker 5: in the November window, we have to take care of
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  Speaker 5: our our business, our laundry, our our circumstances.
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  Speaker 4: We can't start really looking further than that.
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  Speaker 5: The big game, like we said, is going to be
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  Speaker 5: on uh mid November against against Norway at San Siro.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's been circled on the calendar since we pretty
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  Speaker 5: much saw what the schedule is going to look.
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  Speaker 4: Like for this qualifying campaign for Italy.
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  Speaker 5: So it's still the case we need a miracle for
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  Speaker 5: Norway to to maybe slip up.
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  Speaker 4: But again we can't really look at that.
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  Speaker 5: And I saw all the percentages who we might face
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  Speaker 5: if in this in the in the playoffs and stuff
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  Speaker 5: like that. Again, we get there when we get there,
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  Speaker 5: We cross that bridge when we cross it, and if
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  Speaker 5: there's one guy I want to cross that bridge with,
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  Speaker 5: it's definitely Generotuzo.
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  Speaker 2: Just a couple of things to like just finish up
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  Speaker 2: with your Yeah, with the point that you made. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: what I want to say is that, like he is
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  Speaker 2: the type of coach to get them on their their track.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw him with both Milan and with Napoli.
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  Speaker 2: Like he's not a long term coach, but he's definitely
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  Speaker 2: gonna make you want to go to work for him,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Sure, that's that's what That's what I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: about Gatuzzo. And also another thing I want to say,
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  Speaker 2: why do we say Monday morning quarterback?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Like games are played on Monday nights. Now, can we
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  Speaker 2: say Tuesday morning quarterback? What if your team plays Monday night?
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  Speaker 4: Take it up with take it up with Jesse Palmer.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, take it up for.
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  Speaker 4: Me, but no, you're you're you're right, Uh, Johnny. I
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  Speaker 4: think short term or long term?
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  Speaker 5: I think if given the opportunity, I think Gatuso can
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  Speaker 5: do well, maybe not super long term, but long enough,
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  Speaker 5: longer than he has in the in the past. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, listen, he got put into into the fire.
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  Speaker 5: I know he took the job obviously willingly, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: you get put in to a situation.
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  Speaker 4: Where morale is low.
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  Speaker 5: You had a shocking euro uh in last summer or
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  Speaker 5: whatever was it last summer?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, uh, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Being the reigning champions, you had a shocking summer in
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  Speaker 5: the euro uh Spalettis, I would say maybe kind of
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  Speaker 5: lost the room, had you know, some on field things,
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  Speaker 5: off field things, you kind of get put into the fire,
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  Speaker 5: even though you willingly took the job. And again, we
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  Speaker 5: couldn't have asked for really any more because if we
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  Speaker 5: were to have started losing games or drawing matches, that
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  Speaker 5: would have been a different story. But he's been a
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  Speaker 5: winner since he walked into the door at COVID channels.
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  Speaker 4: So I know there needs to be more.
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  Speaker 5: I know we should be more like upset and like
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  Speaker 5: saying that, like listen, we need to score more.
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  Speaker 4: But we're coming from a national team that was like
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  Speaker 4: barely scoring. Now we're scoring in somewhat of numbers.
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  Speaker 5: It's just the fact, in my opinion, always just on
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  Speaker 5: another level in terms of scoring goals.
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  Speaker 4: It's unfortunate, but it just seems to be the reality.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't depend on another nation to mess up
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  Speaker 2: for us to succeed, you know, So that's that's the
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  Speaker 2: only thing that we have to keep in mind. You
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  Speaker 2: know that it's unfortunate that it's come to this, but
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  Speaker 2: like you know, like it's it is what the reality is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to start I'm saying that
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  Speaker 2: I think the team is mentally preparing themselves for playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they I don't think they should think
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  Speaker 2: that they could still get first in the group because
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  Speaker 2: you said it. You said it right there. The way
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  Speaker 2: Norway has been playing has been unbelievable. They've been playing phenomenally.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean, I think at this point it'll
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  Speaker 1: LEAs best chance of finish finishing first is Norway just
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  Speaker 1: dropping points.
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  Speaker 5: Well they need they need to drop against Estonia, right right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not.
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna it, at least not going to catch
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  Speaker 1: up go goal differential. They need to score like ten
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  Speaker 1: to twelve goals versus Moltov and then beat Norway or more.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Italy's best hope right now is is Norway getting
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  Speaker 1: in their heads and them losing themselves like or drawing
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  Speaker 1: against Essnia, which we know is not happening. So look,
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  Speaker 1: it's another It still has to beat Norway. That's like,
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  Speaker 1: it's not even then, it right, it's not. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: need to slip up, but then we need to go
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  Speaker 1: and beat them. So that's a whole other, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whole other ballgames.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, as soon as Italy lost three nothing in
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  Speaker 1: June to Norway and it was playoffs, it's the exact same,
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  Speaker 1: exact same thing happened versus Spain in the twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 1: qualifying and versus Switzerland in twenty twenty two. When you
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  Speaker 1: play that top team that you need to win against
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  Speaker 1: any drop points, you know it's over. It's it's so
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  Speaker 1: hard to catch up, especially when it's on gold differential
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  Speaker 1: and not head to head. But you know, you're talking
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: about the what ifs. For me, the what if is
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  Speaker 1: what if they had beat Germany in the Nations League
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  Speaker 1: and then they would have been put in Group A
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  Speaker 1: with Slovakia, Northern Ireland and Luxembourg. And you know what,
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  Speaker 1: that wouldn't have been much easier because Slovakia is a
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: decent team, Northern Ireland is a team that's played in
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: the Euros recently, and Germany's right now they're actually tied
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: in points with Slovakia after four match days, so maybe
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: we can droll on that too much. But yeah, you
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: know what, call me crazy.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: But hi crazy, Hi, Hi, Jenny.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Looking in the playoffs the way the format is, it's
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: obviously not as difficult as past times because sixteen or sorry.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Twelve year olds say that please, no, no.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: No, don't worry, Johnny, I have you here.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I'm speaking logically because logically, in the past there was
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: less European teams making the making the World Cup, right,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: so the teams in the playoffs were stronger. This time,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: twelve teams are already qualified for the World Cup, leaving
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: sixteen teams in the playoffs. The way it's gonna be,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: it's uh, there's gonna be PO one, Pot two, Pot three,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Pot four, Pots one through three based on the FIFA rankings,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: and POP four based on teams that finished out outside
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: the top two of their qualifying but are there.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Because of Nations League rankings.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Okay, So.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: What I'm saying is Italy will avoid teams in Pot
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: one and hopefully Italy I think they should be in
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Pot one come these playoffs. So they're not gonna be
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: like in twenty twenty two, there was a chance that
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: they would have played Portugal in that final, right in
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: that qualification playoff finale. There's gonna be no Italy Portugal
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: this time. It's realistically speaking, weaker teams. That means, that
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: means nothing. That means nothing, right, guys.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, it's.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Like even Sweden, even Sweden in twenty seventeen, there's still
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: a strong team, you know, looking at the teams right now.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: If it ended right now, the twelve teams that it
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: would be in the playoffs would be Slovakia, Kosovo, Scotland, Ukraine, Turkey, Hungary.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Poland Boston.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously Italy, North Macedonia, Albania, Czech Republic, Wales, Romania,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Sweden and Northern Ireland. You take, you know, you take
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the top four in the FIFA rankings, and already through
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: those teams, Italy.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Won't be playing.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying. It's not it's not as
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: nerve wracking. And look, hopefully three times to charm right,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: hopefully cut March and what five and a half months
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: from now we'll be talking.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: About third times to charm.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: But it is nerve racking and in my head, like
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: there's no such thing as automatic qualifications in my head,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: like Italy is not even in the World Cup right now.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: The only team I have in the World Cup right
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: now is Canada, right yeah, But I you know, look,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: even today's game, I Jenny were saying, it seems like
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: they're playing for the playoffs already. They are sure now
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: at least of a playoff spot, but it felt like
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: in today's game they were almost playing two ahead of
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: themselves because they didn't have the best first half. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: was pretty boring first half. They didn't have a a
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: lot of chances. Obviously, obviously they scored on the penalty
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: late in the half in uh an extra amount of time.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: But I was a bit frustrated with the way they're
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: playing because I felt like they did play better on
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Saturday against Estonia. Sure, Israel is a better is a
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: better team.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: But what I do like.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: About today's game, it was the second half actually that
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the fact that they came out scored two more goals
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and didn't allow a single goal. You know, compare this
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: to the last game against Israel five to four, where
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: that that could have absolutely derailed our World Cup qualifying.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: So I think the mentality today's game was better, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: another positive from these two games overall, you guys talked
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: about it, right, Tigg.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I think this is the number nine, at least for now.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I think in every qualifying campaign, whether World Cup or
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: when Italy has that number nine, they have success. You
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: think about when they qualified for the euros Ziero, he
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: scored a lot. They that was last time they really
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: scored a lot of goals under Manchini when they first
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: uh started that that.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Air under mantioneing, when they went on that that long run.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: So red to Gie has that has to be that
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: guy moving forward, and it's nice to see him continue
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: his success despite being outside of Italy. I think we
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: all had those concerns right, the fact that he was
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: living leaving Italy for Saudi. Uh So, I think we
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: have to we can put those to bed. And he
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: looks like a typical number nine, strong striker, good movement
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: like today's goal was absolutely beautiful, the curler and everything.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: And I appreciate how he's able to score on p K.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: You know, he didn't get in his head. He blasted
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: it home perfect p k H. So that's the right
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: thing we really need moving forward.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: I agree, and he even said it right, he said,
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: I think, uh, we didn't catch all the the postgame
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: uh press uh press conference with Techy. We we're kind
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: of leaving Panino Paso on Saturday. But I had heard
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: a quote I had seen, Sorry, I had seen a
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: quote of his that said, you know what I missed,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: but I know the next one that comes, I'm gonna
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: take it willingly, and I'm gonna and I'm gonna score.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: And he did exactly that. So you you love to
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: see that type of confidence in your players, especially your
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: number nine because like we know, guys, you know the
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: number nine position, it's it's very it's very like already
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: sports are very uh you know, mentally focused, like driven,
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: but like the number nine, like when you're hot, you're hot,
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: you're cold, you're cold.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of like a goalie hockey. It's
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: exactly right. It's it's kind of like these other these
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: other positions and other sports, and you know, when you're confident,
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: things go your way. And he's been confident.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: I think that's what eleven goals and twenty four appearances
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: fairly it's incredible.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: You know, he's he's what fourteen fifteen away from breaking
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: GIBUS record. What is he at now? It's like an absurd,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: absurd number, it seems like.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I was just I was just about to
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: look that up.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say I was gonna almost say it, like, oh,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: he's probably close to breaking the all time record.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: What did you what thirty thirty five?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: He's at eleven, right, eleven, so twenty four left, so
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: still twenty four. Sorry, it's one of those records, you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: guys off topics. Sorry to interrupt your atri And no, no, no.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: In sports, you.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Always talk about records that can be broken. This is
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: a record that will be broken in our lifetime. Yeah,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: we just need a consistent goal scorer to see it happen.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. If it doesn't, you know, we're we're we're
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: still missing the striker, I guess.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: But but like, but, like I said many times before
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: and shows in the past, we've never been a nation
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: of having that one star striker that.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Just like dominates and destroy.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Like I'm not saying like like like like how do
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I like a MESSI Ronaldo where it's like we depend
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: on them to carry the team. Probably the only time
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: like we've ever had that was Bad Joe in ninety four, and.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I think he has like twenty seven on the list.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: So it's like, imagine like our goat of Italian culture,
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: you know, twenty seven goals, but he's not he wasn't
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: a goal scorer, a pure goal scorer, right, he was
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: number never.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: We never really had like a guy where it's like
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: what out him? We don't have anything type.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Exactly exactly we're not because I saw somewhere as like Austria,
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: like who what's what's the striker's name? He played for
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: intere he played for Bologna, number nine? Oh my god,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: uh the name escapes me. He played for he played
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: for Bologna.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Who's boy?
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: He almost eliminated us in the yeah.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: One, Oh my god, I have.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Name?
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Y are not? Thank you guys, thank you for helping
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: uh Arnautovich.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: I think I saw something like some posts like yeah
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: he or not Vich already has like thirty seven goals.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: He's like lead or whatever the number is. It's like
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: leading Austrian goald charts. I'm like and beating give at
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: thirty five.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: I'm like yeah, but like you're comparing like apples and
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: oranges anyways, like it's just a side tangent. But like
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: to Jinny's points, we never had that true We've had
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: number nine in the past and great ones, don't get
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: me wrong, But I feel like with Italy it's always
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: been especially back then, it was more defensive to Nacho
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: we all know, and I feel it was always more
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: group oriented, like oriented, like it was more group effort
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: then individual uh, you know, performances. So but yeah, no,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: it's it's for the techi, I think going back, it's
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: it's it's amazing. It's like eleven goals, like you know,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: in twenty four appearances, like he's getting he's getting some
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: he's getting his moments, and he's been able to take
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: them so far. Like again, it's still a small sample size.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: I know he obviously didn't have an excellent euro you know,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: but Italy as a whole didn't really have one. So
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: it's hard to really single single him out and all that.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: But I think if he gets continues against his opportunity,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: and we've seen it with under Gutuoso, you know, Gato's
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: kind of found that that partnership with Keen for Tegi,
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: we've seen it. They can play off each other. We
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: don't have to own and go and play one striker.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: And I saw today again, I didn't really notice that
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: as much in the game on Saturday, but the game today,
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: you know, the tech he's able to, his build up play,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: I think is is better than maybe people think, because
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: I saw him really tracked back and really get involved
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: with the play so far into the midfield it was crazy,
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: and then working his way up up the pitch. So
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: I think he's more than just a target man. He's
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: able to I don't, I can't. I'm not gonna say
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: he's be able to really create entirely on his own,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: but I think his link up play, his head's up play.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: You know, his i Q football iq is is pretty high.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: So and you know, if it takes a guy like
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: him and even Keen for that matter, and whoever else
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: that is able to maybe take you know, pure osposess
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: under under under their wing.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: I think that's a positive because him too.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: Again, I know he's an inter player, but uh, you know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: joking aside and biases aside, he looked pretty impressive.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: He should have finished his chance today, uh off, there
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: was a there was a turnover in the box.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Uh the tech he's passed the cross crease and uh
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: po shot and pretty much right out of the keeper
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: and he in my opinion, a true number nine and
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: a real number nine, and the experienced number nine is
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: going to score that. Unfortunately it wasn't to be for him,
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: but he already got his first goal. He's getting some moments.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: So if he can fall in maybe their footsteps and
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: kind of go under their wing, I think it's it's
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: another positive, fairly, you know, strike striker wise, because Peo supposed.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I love his build. He's he's the Scamacha.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Lorenzo Luca that we that we want but haven't seen
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: from them so far exactly so far, right and they
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: have Patana two point zero, but right, so, you know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: because I love his you love his measurables, like he's
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: he's that guy, like he's he's tall, he's physical, he's strong.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: His touch seems his touch seems to be pretty good.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: You know, he's he's he's still young, twenty years old.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: I think you got to give him time. But I
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: like that he's been able to be incorporated in this
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: in this group. And and yeah, but uh yeah, like
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: you said, Nick, I think the main man right now
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: is is definitely Riteggy And I'm happy because I'm I'm
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: I'm a fan of his I like that Goatuso still
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: called him even though he moved to Saudi, because that
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: could have easily went south right away, like he could
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: have easily okay, went to Saudi and probably never been
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: looked at again by another.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Manager we don't know.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Gatuso says he has his eyes on everybody from what
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: we hear in in in the in the pressers. So
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: you know, I think it's it's good that he's been
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: able to find some continuity with uh, with with Reteggy.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: And I'm gonna throw Keen's name in there because for Italy,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: these guys have been laid out, whites out. I know
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Keen has been struggling a bit for fiudent Tina to
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: get going. I think you he has like one goal
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: if I'm not mistaken, after being up there in the scoring
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: charts last year. But I think it'll come uh and
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: again when their confidence is high.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: This guy's the limit.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: One thing I want to say, Adrian, to make you
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: feel better. Don't think of his supposedly too as an
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: inter player, think of his spos.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: But he's he's an inter fin too. I understand, man.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: That's crazy to me.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, let's look at what's the name, uh,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Fabrizio Romanos Aldan. But he's an Inter fan, let's be.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Is he Yeah? Okay I thought, yeah, I thought, I
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: thought you support an.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Not No, don't forget like Monopoly like prior to like
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the mid two thousands. You know, they were a team
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: that was like long forgotten.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: You know, I supposely told didn't grow up with that team.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: He grew up with like the very mid it's like
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: years old.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: He's twenty years old.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you saw when was he born?
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Looking that up?
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Who doesn't find Okay, June twenty, two.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Thousand and five.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: By the time he was five years old, already Napole,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: he was already coming back into it.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, but if you think about it, he saw Inter
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: when the plant. That's why it makes sense that he's
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: an interista Napoli two thousand and five and SETI I.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: B yeah, But yeah, he was born to five point
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: is it? I say, like, you gotta start counting at
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: like five years old.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, they saw Inter twenty ten.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, fair, you went, you win.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: But he's but he's not boy done. Yeah that should
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: be the that should be the b o end all
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: he's not boy done. So it's not good or nothing.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I I don't disagree, but okay, all right, all right,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: cow win them all? Uh you guys, I want to die.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I know it's early with Gatuso four games and six
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and goals four or five against?
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: It, Okay, I'm gonna be honest. It feels longer that Gatuzo.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Has been coached. It's only two international windows. It's crazy.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was hired in June. Yeah, it's we were.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Talking about it. I forgot that Spilett. He has a
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: part in this world. The qualifying is how isn't why
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: we might why we're going to another playoffs?
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: That's my point.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: There you go, because of those two games in June,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: play four games in sixteen goals four or five against.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: If you have to give a rating out of ten,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: what would you give it? Or is it still too early?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: It's still too early?
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Johnny? Okay, yeah, uh, still too early? I think it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: I think it is still early.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: But if if I would have to give a rating
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: regardless like of it being of being early, I would
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: say seven seven and a half.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Room to grow, for sure. But we're we're at a
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: passing grade.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: It's it's it's a it's a respect. Like me, when
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: I got the seventy seventy five on a test like,
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: I was happy. I know some others weren't happy, you know,
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: they wanted that ninety ninety five or one hundred.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, seventy seventy five. I was content. So right now
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: we're content at seven seven and a half. For Gatuzzo.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Room to grow always, so there's always them to grow.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: Maybe we can you know, achieve the nine or the ninety,
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: the ninety five to nine point five in the future,
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: but I think right now still too early to really
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: say it's only it's only four matches. Albeit they were
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: important matches and they were must wins all of them,
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: and Gatuzo has done that and shown that and like
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: the points we made earlier, you know, the scoal scoring
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: and all that. But for me personally, if I had
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: to really say, it would be seven seven and a
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: half range.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, I think satisfactory.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Seven Yeah, maybe it is tr really like I think
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: for me the biggest downside is that first game against Israel,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the five to four. That's a game that you almost
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: feel like Italy should have had back. You know, they
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: scored the five goals, even if they allowed one or two.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: That's that's big on the goal differential. Thank god we
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: came away, came away with winning that one, but could
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: have could have helped in years.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Past that that would have been a loss. In years past,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: that would have been a loss. Yeah, maybe or tie
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: at the very at the very least.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: So I can't really fault the two goals onto him.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: No, it was the one the goals and then this
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: past time the.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: Ruma yeah, but those are not those those are those
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: are things that happen on the page, right, these are
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: unfortunate things that happen. So, uh, you know, you can't
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: really fault Gato that all that much for that. Like
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure like in the locker room, you know,
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: told Uma to to show up those hands or else
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: he's gonna chop them off, So like you know what
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: I mean, Like it's he I think Dona will be
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: good to go after that. Like, but again it's these
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: are these are these are things that happen. The penalty
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: miss for the techy again, the best ones miss. You
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: have to take them to be able to to to
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: to to miss right, So so again these are these
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: are these are minor things. But in my opinion, like
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: if we fix these these minor details, I think, again, guys,
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: I think we're I think we're a good team.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: We're dangerous team. Like I think there are the pieces there.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: I don't like certain things. Don't get me wrong, but
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: I think there's there's there's there's pieces to to to
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: work with. And again, I think we said it again
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: on Saturday. We're always being up Saturday because you know,
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: we had a we had a great watch party at
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Panino Pazzo. But we just need to get into the tournament.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: We just need to get into the World Cup. Because
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: once we're in the World Cup, it's it's a different Italy,
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: it's a different story. It's anything can happen. And usually
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: when we're in a tournament.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm not.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Always gonna say always good things happen, because we've seen
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: disappointment while we're in tournaments, for sure.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: But give us a chance.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Let's get into the tournament. Doubt us, let us be
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: the underdogs. We saw what happened in twenty twenty one.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, moving forward with the qualification.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: November thirteen versus Moldova, November sixteenth versus Norway. Obviously Italy,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: no what they need to do to still qualify directly
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: obviously unlikely at this point. Well, what do you guys
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: want to see from the team in the last two games?
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: For me, no matter what, I want to see two wins,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: especially against Norway. It feels like a big game, even
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: if they go in down fifteen in the goal differential,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: just just for pride, right, just for momentum going to
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: the playoffs to get that win versus Norway, almost to
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: get the monkey off the back with a game of.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: The Saint Zierroo.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: We've talked about how many times have they you know,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: they have had a couple of wins at the Sant
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: zero in recent years, but a couple of bad games too,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: And so no matter what, I do want to see
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: the wins versus no Way and continue improvement. Obviously, we
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen in between a month between
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: now and a month from now, if there's any injuries
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: or whatnot.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: But it's also a short time. A month is not
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: a long time. You know.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: There's go be what four or five today, a match
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: days and then it's gonna be international break again.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's what I want to see. I don't
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: know about you guys, Jenny wins Wins, I agree with Nick.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I think I think wins is the best way to
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: describe it. Pride for sure, Uh, to build up like
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I said before, build up that confidence, build up the
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: fact that like look like like we're we're we're Italy,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Like we we're we're a team that's dominant. And we
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: need to get back to the mentality about like, no
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: matter who we face, we always have chances of winning.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: And and I know the players obviously still believe that
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: and think that, But do we honestly have that feeling?
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: You know, Like, do we do we honestly have that
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: feeling or we're just trying to like have false confidence
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: for it. Now I'm not saying you could, like, like
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I think Adri you like to say the best fake
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: it till you make it right.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, maybe you have to do that.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: But but like, but I want to see that happen
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: again where it's like they face a team that's like, Okay,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: they don't have to play down to their level. They
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: can just easily pocket five six goals on against them
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: and move on from there. Like I I want to
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: see that kind of Italy. That's what I want so
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: obviously wins, and I feel like you get that from
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: from the wins itself.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: So yeah, sorry, Nick, you're gonna say something No, no, okay, sorry,
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: uh no. I like again, guys, it's it's very simple.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: We need to win. Forget that what we want to see.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: We we need to win. There's there's no ifs or butts.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: It's a must wind.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Ever since we watched the first match against Norway, right,
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: it's been it's been must wins every single time.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: So again to to to continue on these guys points,
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: it's it's it's obviously must wins. And you know what,
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: I like to see the Queen sheet.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: In both matches, fucking enough of this fucking Holland scoring
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: five goals, getting three penalties, retrying them. Enough of that,
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Like I, let's get let's go back to our roots.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: If we want to we want to be Italy, we
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: want to go back to our roots. Let's fucking shore
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: up that defense. Let's get these clean sheets like today
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: I felt. I mean, listen, it was okay three nothing
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: against it is really okay whatever, but.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: Score. You know we're not going to score fifteen goals
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: because I don't think that. But let's score, get those
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: clean sheets, let's get out of their you know, unscathed,
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: and you know, so be it.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Whatever it's going to be for the playoffs. I think
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: you know that defense it's been. We've seen different renditions
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: of it, We've seen different formations. Again, I'm not not
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: to knock your boy, Johnny, but I don't want to
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: see deal Orengzon in a three man backfield, in a
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: back line. In my opinion, I don't want to see it.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: But if it is to be him, I just want
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: the whole unit to be you know, uh, coherent and
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: together and and be able to to stop allowing these
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: these goals because, like you said, Nick earlier, that five
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: to four. Like again, I know there was those two
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: one goals and all that other shenanigan, but like.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: It should have never have been to that degree.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: So I want us to to sharp the sharp the defense,
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: get the clean sheets, get out of there, and whatever
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: it's going to be, whoever we're going to face in
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: the playoffs, you know, so be it. If Jesu Bombin
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: is looking down on us and he happens to bless
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: us with you know, a Norway loss or draw against Estonia,
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: we'll take that with open arms too.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: But I agree with what you said John earlier. You know,
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: we can't we can't depend on other.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: People's or other team's results, and we can't kind of
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: scoreboard watch and all that type of stuff.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: We need to really take care of our our the
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: business in our hands.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: And yeah, I just want to see, uh And I'm
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: curious to see what Gutuso, who Gutuso calls up for
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: that time as well, Like you said, Nick, potential injuries,
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: potential maybe call ups that people have been maybe kind
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: of thinking about, Oh is this guy going to get
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: called up? Like you know, the biggest name obviously is Kieza.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: Like I'm curious to see if Kieza gets introduced for
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: this Like I don't know, but there's lots of Again,
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: what if from now until mid November. I know it's
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: only a month away, but there's there's still some time
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: to make some decisions. And again, like I said earlier,
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna put my faith in Gatuso. We did that,
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: you know with Mancini, we did that for a short
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: period of time with Spiletti.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: We have to put our faith in in Gatuzo.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Because that's the only way we're gonna We're gonna go forward,
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: uh in a positive direction. So yeah, it's it's it's
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: it's it's must wins like it's it's not more than that.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: We just need to. We just need to be like
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: you said, Johnny, sorry, we need to be Italy. We
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: need to.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: We need to, we need to be us and we
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: need to uh to pay out our strengths and uh
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: and and make make teams afraid to play us again,
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: because I feel like now, like again, I'm gonna go
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: back to that Israel game, the first one. I don't
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: think Israel was afraid to pay Italy like even today.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: I don't think they weren't afraid to pay Italy like
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: back in the days, like teams used to fear Italy
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: to play them because they knew what type of match
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: they were getting themselves into. Now, you know, I don't
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: see that as much like teams don't really fear Italy
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: as maybe they once they once did.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: So I would like to see that again.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: I know that's not gonna happen in a month's time,
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: and you know against Moldovan and and and Norway.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: But let's build that.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: Let's build that making teams afraid to play Italy again
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: because when that is, you know, I think, you know,
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: we can play to our strengths and you know we
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: can we can dominate games. And I hope it starts
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: in a month's time.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Guys.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Last thing I wanted to talk about is, you know,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: right now, I think we have twenty eight of the
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: forty eight teams qualified for the World Cup. A lot
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: of new countries, uh small countries. I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: list off all the teams qualified so far, Australia, I Ran, Japan,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Jordan not Michael Jordan's Qatar obviously they qualifying after posting,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: so you know what, good for them that they're be
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: able to actually qualify.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia. Who's going to host World Cup.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: In twenty thirty four? I want to say South South
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Korea and our favorite country is Pakistan.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Cup debut. Were enough Africa? Nine spots for Africa? It
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: seems a bit excessive, but whatever.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: Algeria in Africa there's a lot, Yeah, there's a lot
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: of some good competition there too.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's better Thankistan.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: No offense or Jordan.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, like you can give Africa to fucking twelve spots.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: I don't give it fair enough, fair enough because it
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: because with the African qualification, there's actually some teams that
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: haven't qualified that could go through the intercontinental playoffs.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: I think Nigeria, Nigeria is actually, yeah.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: One of those good competitions in Africa that didn't automatically qualify. Yeah,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Nigeria and Cameroon are. Yeah, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo and Cabon
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: are actually they're gonna fight, uh their playoffs them for
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: just to go through the intercontinental playoffs in March. But yeah,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: So in Africa, Algeria k Verji World Cup debut island
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: of five hundred over five hundred thousand people. Just it's
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: about one hundred thousand people more than the island of Lava.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Put that into perspective.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: Montreal listeners or our Laval listeners, just to put it
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: in perspective.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Egypt, Ghana Ivory Coast returning for the first time since
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Good to see them back there.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Definitely one of the feeld good teams in the two thousands,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: right with drug Bah you know Gervino.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: And yeah yeah, Torey No, yeah, yeah, Torey as well.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Gana Ghana as well they're they're back. I
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: mean they qualified in twenty twenty two as well. But
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: one of those field good teams Moroccos and Nengal South
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Africa and Tunisia South Africa, South Africa, right.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: I'm yeah, I'm guess I don't remember them.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: I've seen that today.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah I don't. I don't remember them. I haven't qualified since.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Let me just trying to find that. Yeah, yeah, twenty ten.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Obviously the CONKAF it's not done yet. We know the
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: three hosts obviously in it. Cornonball no surprise here, Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Acquador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Oceania,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: New Zealand and then so for the only team from
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: you IFA qualified right now is England with the International
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Internental Intercontinental Playoffs. I saw one of the teams that's
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be in it is New Caledonia.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Where New Caledonia is. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: See North Caledonia.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, new New New Caledonia North No, sorry, okay, yeah, yeah,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know where the old Caledonia.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: Is, man or just what about regular Caledonia does it exist?
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: No clue.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I think this is a team that that plays in
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the Oceania. Oh, okay Confederation, so I guess it's an
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: island in that in that region. And Bolivia is another
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: team that's gonna be in the international internal playoffs. So guys,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: what I wanted to ask, are you guys a fan
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: of this forty eighteen World Cup with some of these
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: smaller teams. You know, on one hand, it's cool, it's
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: good for them, especially for a team like Kate Vergie,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: like feel good story.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: But you know, on the other hand, it's like, I'm
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: worried how the soccer is going to be. I'm legitimately
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: like curious. Is this gonna be a good turn? Is
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the group stage gonna be a wash? Where're you gonna
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: have really strong teams just killing a team like care
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Vergie and those disrespect to them.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: But you know, guys, think back.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember the twenty thirteen Confederations
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Cup where Tahiti made it and they were happy to
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: just score one goal in the tournament. They were killed
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: like ten nothing every game. So ip I hope it
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: doesn't turn into that. I'm sure we'll have some interesting
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: games between some of these smaller teams, but I don't know, guys,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect to come to June.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: I'm okay with it in a sense. It's just like
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: it's a lot more games that have to be played.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: But I mean, we all know why they're doing it, right,
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: It's just more of a cash grab, right. You have
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: more people watching the games, you have more people a
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: reason to like it. Just at the end of the day,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: it's just like, if you're a team that's a serious
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: contender for the trophy, it's just one more game you
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: have to win, if you think about it, if you're
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: a contending team, it's just one more game you have
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: to win. And at that point, it's like, you know what,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: if you have to beat Cape is it cape Verde
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: or is it Cape Verge?
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: On Portuguese you would say Cape Vergie like Brazilian Portuguese.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: So I don't know if how they say it there,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: it's Cape VeryE.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: All of a sudden, he's Portuguese.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: Is the official name cabove Ergy.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: It gets engaged to Brazilian woman and now, yeah, we've
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: all brazil Three years ago you would just say three
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: years ago you would have said that Cape.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Verd exactly exactly. You end up comes and how that's
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: a hard time saying because says you did you but.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: No you Yeah, the pronunciation, guys, now, all of a
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: sudden pronunciation.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna google how to pronounce cape Verde
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: cape verd?
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: Uh cape verde? Apparently curve verd.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: Okay, so there we go. Yeah.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: Interesting, But listen, I think it's only gonna be uh,
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: I'm only gonna enjoy it being forty eight teams if
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: it was there, Like that's the bottom line for me.
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: Joking aside and like all that aside. I think again,
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: it's totally throughly tell it's it's astonishing to me that
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: you know, you you scroll on social media and you see.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Cape ver qualify. You know, uh fucking use Bekistan.
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: No again, no disrespect, but what the Gatuzo say to
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: because is another coach. You put some gel in your hair,
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: you put some colon on, and you're into the World Cup.
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: Meanwhile me, I'm in the trenches trying to trying to qualify.
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: So he's not wrong, right, It's it's one of those things.
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: But it's Johnny said it perfectly. It's it's it's it's
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: all for the dollar. It's it's more money in the
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: in FIFA's pockets. And uh maybe we should have asked
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: Rocco to ask Johnny and Fantino when he was here
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: in Montreal, to to see what the deal is with
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: this forty eight club, forty eight team World Cup. But
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: again I think it's still too early to tell. I
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: think we have to go through the tournament and kind
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: of obviously gauge it more, uh at a better you know,
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: better understanding.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: But already these players and these and these and these.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: Teams and and whatnot are are are worn out to
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: the core. It's a lot of it's a lot of
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: it's a lot of football, it's a lot of cultural guys.
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: It's at the at the end of it. Like again,
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: I think we said it on Saturday. These guys get
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: what two three three weeks off in the year, especially
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: in uh In in a international tournament year, it's like
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: they get barely any any any rest. Then we wonder
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: why they're injured or they're not performing well or this
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: or that. So is like, yeah, Johnny, I think you
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: brought up or somebody brought.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: Up I remember who it was, but it was me.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you brought up And I think the guys, you know,
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: even by bad and and Renie they agreed and you
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: know six like Barrella's playing like what sixty five plus
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: games a year and then you go to pay for
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: Italy and it's like and a perfect example. And again
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: I was listening to me and Weekly podcast yesterday and
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: they brought us you brought it up.
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: I think it was, you know, like Uma, you know, goes.
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: To the whole French League Champions League final, wins it
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: club World Cup in the summer, goes to a city
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: that's NonStop at city, plays every match international qualifiers for
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: the World Cup for Italy, he plays every match, and
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: then we wonder why he has a blunder. It's you know,
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: it's one of these things that's a give and take, right,
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: So these guys they don't stop, so, you know, adding
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: more teams and more more things on the schedule. You know,
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: it's it kind of is what it is. But I
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: don't know, I don't If Italy doesn't make the World
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: Cup at forty eight teams, there's there's a problem. That's
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: I guess my whole point, Like it's it would be crazy,
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: like we need to see Italy in the World Cup again.
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: It's enough of this. You know, maybe I'll turn on
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: the World Cup game.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: Because it's you know, Argentina versus use Beckistan, but I
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: probably won't enjoy it because I know our teena is
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: gonna whoop use Pakistan, and I know I'm picking on
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: Uzbekistan because that's.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: The one that comes to mind the most. But I
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: would be proud, right, you know exactly. God bless them.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Too when they when they qualify. Do you think they
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: said we go to America.
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like maybe probably he's probably like the spokesperson maybe,
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: or maybe he's like the team manage I don't know,
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: but like just to say, like it really needs to
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: be there.
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: I need I want to watch, I want to be invested.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: I want the emotion. I want, uh, you know, a
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: bit of the suffering. It's it's it's good pain.
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: Sometimes we we've seen what it does not only for
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: us in terms of the show and the content and
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: and all that, but us personally where it does for
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: the city.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: And these these heavily populated Italian cities.
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: Across North America or wherever they may be, Australia, wherever
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: else in the world outside of Europe as well, or
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: in Europe too. It brings so much joy to be
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: able to watch games together, these watch parties, going to
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: the bar, going to the cafe. Like if there's forty
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: eight teams, Italy needs to be one of those forty
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: eight teams to for me to to enjoy. So that's
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: what I'm hoping for. And let's see come come March,
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: because again, guys, boys, mark the calendars from March.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: Because I think the playoffs is where we're headed.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, you know, with this bigger format, it's
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: it's gonna come to a point where we expect or
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: at least one, both Italy and Canada to qualify every year.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: No more of one team to cheer for the World
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Cup or twenty zero teams to cheer for.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: That was that was a bit rough. So hopefully moving
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: forward we'll at.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Least have one team to cheer for in the World
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Cup for I mean guaranteed this time around too, sou
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: But yeah, guys, Sidia coming up this weekend, enjoy it
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: some big matches I think I haven't I know. Up,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: you know, we had to take your cuss screen. Roma Roman,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: You've traveled to Como early morning on Sunday, Florentina, Milan
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: and Fiorentina, I Tolat too, and then I know there's
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: games on Monday as well.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: That's gonna come across the ticker soon.
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: And that's it.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Monday night, Monday night football in the city. But Adri,
• 52:17
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