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S4 Ep24: Off The Bench: Saka shines on return · FPL Pod

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this week's Off the Bench podcast from
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Speaker 1: the Premier League. I'm Lee from FPR Family and I'm
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Speaker 1: Asabeth pild Black Box.
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Speaker 2: Well as good morning.
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Speaker 1: Game week thirty five saw a lot of rotation, didn't we,
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Speaker 1: especially from the club still in European competitions. It's about
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Speaker 1: to be another big footballing week on the continent as well, Arsenal,
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Speaker 1: Forest Villa, Palace all in action in midweek. Plus we've
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Speaker 1: got another double gameweeky coming with Palace and Manchester City
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Speaker 1: in action twice in Game Week thirty six. But before
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Speaker 1: we get into all of that, how was Game week
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Speaker 1: thirty five for you?
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Speaker 2: Disappointingly, very disappointing. Last time we were on, I think
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Speaker 2: we both had a good game week. We said we're
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Speaker 2: going to bring the positivity from now on as I
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Speaker 2: thought you played at World Card. Now, yeah, that's the disappointment.
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Speaker 2: That's that's why eight green arrows in a row going
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Speaker 2: into the wild cards and then a red arrow run
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Speaker 2: and then a red arrow on the wild card and
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Speaker 2: I think the big dude, the big one was no Bournemouth, right, No, no, no,
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Speaker 2: real A lot of people doubling up with with those
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Speaker 2: after World Card in a few weeks ago. Didn't have
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Speaker 2: either of them, and then you're playing catch up, aren't you?
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Speaker 2: When you know you got Seessie getting fourteen points, your
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Speaker 2: players to deliver and some did, some didn't. Yeah it
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Speaker 2: was It wasn't a massive red, but you know at
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Speaker 2: this stage of the season you want to be hitting
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Speaker 2: to big green, don'ty, especially when when you play the
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Speaker 2: World Card chip. How was yours? Mine was about par?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was about par fifty six points, So I
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Speaker 1: went down from about one hundred and eleven K to
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Speaker 1: about one hundred and sixteen K, so about a five
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Speaker 1: a red arrow, which in the end was one kick
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Speaker 1: of the ball. It was col Palmer's penalty. The penalty
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Speaker 1: miss cost me a couple of points rather than swinging
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Speaker 1: me a few points the other way. So yeah, I
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Speaker 1: did have the Bournemouth defense. At least I had Hill.
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Speaker 1: Those that had either Hill or SEESSI, as you say,
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Speaker 1: did pretty well. If you had both, then congrats. Yeah
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Speaker 1: Bruno in midfield just the assists. So apart from that,
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Speaker 1: it's some Meno, Tavanir and Palmer, so really not a
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Speaker 1: lot to write home about from a midfield perspective, but
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Speaker 1: it was the forwards, wasn't it? Forward Harland grabbing the goal,
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Speaker 1: so I got fourteen for him with the Captaincy Welbeck's assist,
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Speaker 1: give me a five pointer and then Joel Pedro with
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Speaker 1: you know, talk about break the Chelsea duck. That's a
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Speaker 1: few hours without a goal for Chelsea. And then for
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Speaker 1: him to rock up with a technically I mean technically
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Speaker 1: a bicycle.
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Speaker 2: It superb bicycle.
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Speaker 1: It very very good deed. So fifty six points. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: can we say, Gray Arrow, if you've not green or
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Speaker 1: you're not read, you're about par let's call.
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Speaker 2: It maybe a move on thirty six. On the one point,
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Speaker 2: it was a good week for forwards though, wasn't it. Yeah?
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Speaker 2: You mentioned forwards. We've we've been talking about them, you
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Speaker 2: know all seasoners. You know this is all about the
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Speaker 2: center backs. But look at the look at the forwards
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Speaker 2: that scored this week. You've got Calvin Lewin, You've got Tiago,
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Speaker 2: Jel Pedro, Barry Harland's you know, Awa Na, You've got
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Speaker 2: a couple, rich Arlison, got some Nobe, maybe Yokurez as well.
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Speaker 2: Who were going to talk about are the forwards back
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Speaker 2: for the final few weeks? You absolutely I think you
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Speaker 2: should probably start with him. You shouldn't.
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Speaker 1: We shoud probably start with Victor Jacarets because you know,
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a roller coaster first season. I
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Speaker 1: would suggest a little bit a lot of people being
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Speaker 1: hard on him as he being an fpl asset for
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Speaker 1: us over the course of the season. In pockets, maybe
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Speaker 1: in pockets. But listen now, after the weekend's performance, that's
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Speaker 1: just the third time in the Premier League ear that
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Speaker 1: an Arsenal player has scored twenty plus goals on their
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Speaker 1: debut season. Here's a nice test for you, as Tierryanrie
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Speaker 1: was the first one in nineteen ninety nine, two thousand.
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Speaker 1: Do you know the other player?
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Speaker 2: Do you know what they haven't had exactly? Well? Van
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Speaker 2: Percy who've got his debut he was quite the right
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Speaker 2: sort of era.
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Speaker 1: Alexis Sanchez in fourteen fifteen also got twenty goals on.
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Speaker 2: Famously in midfield and FFL. So my immediately go doesn't
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Speaker 2: mean when you go that way, yes, I'll let you off.
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Speaker 1: I'll let you off for twenty plus goals in a
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Speaker 1: debut season in all competitions. Now for Victor jacares So,
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Speaker 1: he's an elite company, is what I'm going to say
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Speaker 1: he's an elite company and I don't know, talk to
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Speaker 1: me about the game. I thought that Arsenal's mentality going
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Speaker 1: into this game was absolutely right right, And I've often
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Speaker 1: thought this season that the mad Weeke and Jacares link up,
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Speaker 1: if you like, on that right hand side. I don't,
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I wasn't feeling it. I don't think they
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Speaker 1: kind of fit each other stylistically. But with Sakka back
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Speaker 1: in the team, and I know we only saw forty
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Speaker 1: five minutes worth of Arsenal's wide man there and obviously
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Speaker 1: resting him, aren't they for their huge European time midweek?
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Speaker 2: But he was electric, wasn't he?
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Speaker 1: Soaka right back on it, and Victor Jacares was the
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Speaker 1: benefactor of a lot of his hard work on that
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Speaker 1: right hand side the mentality though, taking Arsenal take into
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Speaker 1: this game, we saw a lot more attacking from Arsenal
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Speaker 1: rather than we saw the set piece threat as we
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Speaker 1: usually have over the course of this season. But I
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Speaker 1: wonder whether there was a little bit of a we've
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Speaker 1: got to go for goals in this game because they
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Speaker 1: went into it and it's you know, nip and tuck
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Speaker 1: with Manchester City could the league be decided on goal
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Speaker 1: difference maybe, And they've got the fixtures, including this one
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Speaker 1: Fulham at home in game week thirty five. Got a
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Speaker 1: lot of fixtures where they could rack up a few goals.
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Speaker 1: So I wonder whether they went into it with this
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Speaker 1: kind of attacking mentality. What do you think now that?
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Speaker 1: And we'll get to City in a bit right with
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Speaker 1: their draw last night? What do you think now that
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Speaker 1: City have you know, slipped up in the title race.
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Speaker 1: They've got the drawer just to Everton, didn't they last night?
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Speaker 1: Will Arsenal kind of go back to that conservative set
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Speaker 1: piece predominant threat that we saw or do you think
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Speaker 1: that Socca and Joccarets is just the key to unlocking
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Speaker 1: Arsenal from an attacking creativity perspective?
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Speaker 2: What do you think there's a funny one of it,
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Speaker 2: because we haven't really seen that from Arsenal a lot
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Speaker 2: of this season. It's the best performance I think i've
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Speaker 2: seen them them have in ages and you know that
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Speaker 2: they're playing a Fulham team that I mean that they're
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Speaker 2: up there, aren't they? I mean if they won all
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Speaker 2: their games, they could potentially, like you know, get into
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Speaker 2: a decent European spot, but I think realistically their season
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Speaker 2: is petering out, so I think it was a good
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Speaker 2: game for them in that match in west Ham next
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Speaker 2: is very different because west Ham got everything to play
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Speaker 2: for and will be desperate to we need to get
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Speaker 2: a point in that game, so they I don't think
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Speaker 2: they're going to allow themselves to be quite as open
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Speaker 2: in that match, and west Ham are maybe better exploiting
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Speaker 2: that as well under Nuno, you know, sit back, counter,
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Speaker 2: So I do wonder if the more pragmatic approach in
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Speaker 2: that west Ham game, more familiar approach will be will
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Speaker 2: be a bit better. I mean, then it's Burnley and
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Speaker 2: then it's Palace, and I don't think Arsenal need to
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Speaker 2: be you know, handbrake on in either of those two
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Speaker 2: games because you're not going to know. So you know,
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Speaker 2: looking at Arsenal players to buy, looking at Arsenal tackers
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Speaker 2: to buy, you know, soccer soccer and yokaz I went
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Speaker 2: for which the only one he didn't didn't deliver in
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Speaker 2: that match, But I'm still optimistic that he can get
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Speaker 2: something over over the next few over the next few weeks. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, Yoka has fourteen goals in the league this season.
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Speaker 2: You say, he's sort of been in pockets, but he
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Speaker 2: hasn't really he's been in out of the team so much,
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Speaker 2: hasn't he. I mean, to get fourteen goals start the
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Speaker 2: season playing every minute, you know, dropped out the team
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Speaker 2: a bit, has been sort of in an of the
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Speaker 2: team with different players coming in, so it hasn't really
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Speaker 2: been an option for us. But I think if Arsenal
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Speaker 2: goal wi and win the league, you've got to say
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Speaker 2: those fourteen goals have been have been key to that.
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Speaker 2: So I'd say he's had a pretty good season. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're right. Yeah, I think this next game of the
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Speaker 2: three games arsen I've got. I think this West Ham
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Speaker 2: game is the trickiest one. I still expect him to
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Speaker 2: win it. And yeah, I think with city dropping points,
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Speaker 2: you've got to think they're gonna they're gonna go and
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Speaker 2: lift the trophy this year. Mmm.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they have the bit between their teeth, won't they.
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Speaker 1: And I think of those fourteen goals that Chakares has scored,
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Speaker 1: only one has come against an opponent in the top ten,
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Speaker 1: which was born with just recently. I think I think
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Speaker 1: it was to see wasn't it maybe a penalty and
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Speaker 1: they were eighth at the time born Withouth right, So
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Speaker 1: we've got a bit of a you know, I'm here
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Speaker 1: to peddle a bit of a Jacare's flat track bully
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Speaker 1: narrative if you like. He likes playing against the so
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Speaker 1: called kind of lesser teams in the league. And actually
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Speaker 1: you're right when you look at what's remaining west Ham,
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Speaker 1: Burnley and Palace. Yeah, west Ham of course fighting for
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Speaker 1: their lives, but you know Burnley at home great fiction,
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Speaker 1: no need to put the handbrake on, you're right. And
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Speaker 1: then Pallas or obviously for you know, we think probably
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Speaker 1: going to have their eyes on other prizes out in
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Speaker 1: epeut in Europe. Right, So the last three I think
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Speaker 1: look absolutely great for Arsenal and they're going to be
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Speaker 1: so encouraged by that result at Everton last night for
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Speaker 1: Manchester City that I have to.
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Speaker 2: Say, I'm looking at my team with just Gabrielle.
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Speaker 1: So I've got a couple of Arsenal slots that are
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Speaker 1: vacant that I'd like to fill. We'll talk about Cole
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Speaker 1: Palmer in just a bit, but Palmer Tsaka looks it
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Speaker 1: looks kind of obvious for me this week. I'm definitely
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Speaker 1: lying that up and then to kind of add Victor
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Speaker 1: Jacharees to that would not mind it. I would not
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Speaker 1: mind it. We should give a shout out to David
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Speaker 1: Ryat as well. That's the third successive Golden Glove award
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Speaker 1: for him this season. After Donna Rummer conceded last night.
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Speaker 1: So City can only now get a maximum of seventeen
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Speaker 1: clean sheets. Rya is currently on seventeen clean sheets, so
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Speaker 1: they could at worst share it. But so Riya, we
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Speaker 1: have to say, third consecutive Golden Glove award very very
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Speaker 1: good and fully deserved.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: You know we've seen week after week after week Arsenal
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Speaker 1: be defensively sound, so very very good. Indeed, anything else
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Speaker 1: to say about this game has anything you want to
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Speaker 1: say about Fulham because I don't think that we're necessarily
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Speaker 1: looking at Fulham assets for the run in Bournemouth Wolves
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Speaker 1: away and then Newcastle at home.
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Speaker 2: I think it's better options, know, yeah, I mean Wilson
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Speaker 2: is one you probably hold. I guess for those fixtures.
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Speaker 2: You know, some people have still got their bench boost
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Speaker 2: to play. I think he's he's all right to have
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Speaker 2: on the bench boost. I think he's he's the one
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Speaker 2: player in that team that i'd want. I mean Anderson
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Speaker 2: as well, Kim Anderson gets deph cone. The thing is,
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Speaker 2: you're looking at three weeks of the season and you're like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: these players are like you sort of want to fill
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Speaker 2: your team with, you know, players that you really believe
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Speaker 2: are going to go one and something a bit more
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Speaker 2: exciting now. And I think Wilson. If I had Wilson,
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Speaker 2: I'd probably hold him now until the end of the season.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think anyone else is probably a sell
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Speaker 2: and look look elsewhere. Yeah, not not. I mean a
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Speaker 2: shout out to lewis Kelly as well, because I thought
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Speaker 2: he was He was absolutely brilliant, and Ben played all season,
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Speaker 2: came into midfield. I think the men he's been quite
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Speaker 2: poor for quite a number of weeks now, and I
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Speaker 2: want if lewis Kelly's maybe saved his arsenal career with
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Speaker 2: that performance, a couple more starts and you know, might
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Speaker 2: be in the seam of it more next year. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, very mature, wasn't it? Very mature performance from Marles
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Speaker 1: lewis Kelly. And I noticed s Declan Rice getting playing
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Speaker 1: what a bit a little bit deeper to accommodate that
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Speaker 1: for Marles Lewis Kelly got death gone for the first
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Speaker 1: time in seven matches Rice, which is kind of that's
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Speaker 1: why he was playing in that position to do.
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Speaker 2: Exactly that work.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, good win for Arsenal and now you know,
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Speaker 1: in the driving seat for the for the Premier League title.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about why they're in the driving seat. Then
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Speaker 1: Everton versus Manchester City, which we saw on Monday Night
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Speaker 1: DOCU with a last minute keeping City in the title race. Strike,
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Speaker 1: wasn't it very very good? Indeed, I do want to
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Speaker 1: talk about him, but I do want to also talk
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Speaker 1: about a kind of a fifty to fifty in the
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Speaker 1: FPL community. We've all been talking about Sameno versus Churkey
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Speaker 1: over the last few weeks. And given that you played
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Speaker 1: the wild card in game week thirty five, I'm kind
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Speaker 1: of interested as to which one you went for. I
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Speaker 1: played the wildcard back in third two and I kind
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Speaker 1: of made my bed with Semeno. And given that they've
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Speaker 1: got the double game week coming up in game week
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Speaker 1: thirty six, as we know it's home to Palace, home
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Speaker 1: to Brentford, it looks great. If you've got the triple captain,
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Speaker 1: I think it's probably triple captain and city player, probably
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Speaker 1: Harland if you've still got that chip left. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: about captaincy a bit later on, but I feel kind
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Speaker 1: of locked into Semeno now. However, that's his fifth game
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Speaker 1: week without a return, and in that time he's only
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Speaker 1: clocked up one point three XG compared to Churkey. If
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Speaker 1: we're going to compare him to Churkey's Churkey's three x G.
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Speaker 1: Churkey with an assist as well last night, So very
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Speaker 1: much ticking over the points. I don't feel like I'm
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Speaker 1: going to make a sideways move from Semeno to Churkey
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Speaker 1: and burn A, you know, a precious transfer for game
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Speaker 1: week thirty six. But if you've got if you happen
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Speaker 1: to have a spare city slot and you are wondering
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Speaker 1: which of those two to go to, I think Churkey
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Speaker 1: is just an obvious pick now, isn't over Samenia.
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Speaker 2: What do you think? I think if you've got a
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Speaker 2: couple of transfers, you should be looking to make that
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Speaker 2: move or maybe even I want to do maybe even
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Speaker 2: go over to Doku, maybe even go over to I mean,
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Speaker 2: if we've spending you've got like one of the highest
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Speaker 2: owned players in the game playing quite poorly really, you
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Speaker 2: know for a while now getting subbed early. This isn't
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Speaker 2: the ninety minute I mean that was the thing when
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Speaker 2: anyone selected Sameno over Churkey back in Game of thirty two.
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Speaker 2: It's because of minutes. Every hasn't played ninety minutes. He
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Speaker 2: hasn't played them at all. Spend against them every week.
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Speaker 2: You can look, you know, look at the last few games.
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Speaker 2: It's it's Jerkey playing more more minutes than Semeno. His
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Speaker 2: role has changed since when he was he came into
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Speaker 2: the city, was so effective, you know, playing you know,
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Speaker 2: right near the goal. He's now out wide. I just
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Speaker 2: don't like I just don't like him. I don't like
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Speaker 2: him as an option. I think there is there are
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Speaker 2: far better options than him at the moment, and giving
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Speaker 2: his ownership if you are, you know, if you're looking
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Speaker 2: to chase a mini league rival down, if you're looking
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Speaker 2: to improve your rank, you need to be taking a
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Speaker 2: bit of a risk on high owned players. And to me,
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Speaker 2: he's the one that I'll be looking sack out. I
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Speaker 2: mean Semeno to Doku, I mean Docu on the other side,
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Speaker 2: just looks far more. He looks the last few weeks,
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Speaker 2: five in five for him compared to nought in five
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Speaker 2: for Smeno. In difference, which one did you go for
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Speaker 2: on wild card? Do you go for Churkey?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Much if I said after all that, yeah I went, I
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Speaker 2: went for Cherkey. I did debate the triple up in
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Speaker 2: attack because you know, we talked about them needing goals
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Speaker 2: and things like that. But the thing is, O'Reilly is
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Speaker 2: just so he's so dangerous still. You know, even even
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Speaker 2: in that game, you know he racked up a really
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Speaker 2: high XG an x GI. He's averaging zero point five
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Speaker 2: nine XG over the last four matches, even at left back,
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Speaker 2: midfield wherever he plays, you know, you still feel he's
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Speaker 2: gate crashing that at that box. So I still think
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Speaker 2: he is the number one asset actually in the team.
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Speaker 2: You know, it was a poor defensive performance. He didn't register,
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Speaker 2: you know, any defensive contributions or anything like that, so
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Speaker 2: it is one point looks really bad, But still I
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Speaker 2: think he is. You just need him in your side
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Speaker 2: for the last three. So then it's unless you're selling Harland,
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Speaker 2: you're choosing one of Cherkey, Docu and Semeno. I've gone
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Speaker 2: for Jerky. I'm happy with that. I do think if
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Speaker 2: you're if you're buying now, you could take a little
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Speaker 2: punt on Doku. M. That's the template, I think, isn't it.
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Speaker 1: If we're going to call it that, it's it's Harland,
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's Nico O'Reilly, and then it's one of
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Speaker 1: those midfielders. But I feel like that is a real
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Speaker 1: coin toss at the minute. And yeah, I'm with you.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I would be picking some meno now. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's in and out, in and out the team, not
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Speaker 1: getting the minutes. It is between Cherkey and I hadn't
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Speaker 1: really considered Docu quite as much. You've put that thought
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Speaker 1: in my head, to be honest with you, I've got
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Speaker 1: three free transfers going into next week and I'll see
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Speaker 1: his goldly and to I know, well, yeah, absolutely, yeah,
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Speaker 1: absolutely and certainly the I mean the first one last
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Speaker 1: night was a banger, wasn't it.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely love to say, love to see it.
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Speaker 1: And actually for him to even take on that shot
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Speaker 1: there in that position says a lot about his mentality
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Speaker 1: right now, says a lot that his confidence and popping
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Speaker 1: up in central areas as well. I mean in my head,
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Speaker 1: I've got this image of Docu flying down the wing,
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Speaker 1: getting to the byline and trying to find Harland. Right,
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Speaker 1: it's about getting as close to the byline as possible
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Speaker 1: cross and taking on a man on the outside.
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Speaker 2: But you're right, and the last few.
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Speaker 1: Weeks is sort of cutting inside a little bit, finding
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Speaker 1: himself in central areas. And of course as soon as
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Speaker 1: you find yourself in central areas you're open to the shot.
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Speaker 1: Then the shot is on, isn't it. And he's got
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Speaker 1: the confidence to take it. So yeah, and with you
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Speaker 1: on that, I'll probably be between the two of them,
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Speaker 1: either Churkey or Jeremy Docu.
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Speaker 2: I think it would be one of those two.
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Speaker 1: Shout out to Everton though they made a great game
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Speaker 1: of this, right, I mean for them to be three
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Speaker 1: to one up on eighty one minutes, you could see
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Speaker 1: Pep Guardiola really moving uncomfortably in his seat, and City
15:30
Speaker 1: did well to get a point out of it. Don't
15:31
Speaker 1: get me wrong, but they put a massive dent in
15:34
Speaker 1: Cities title hopes here. Haven't they anybody from Everton that's
15:37
Speaker 1: catching you out? They've got Crystal Palace away next, so
15:40
Speaker 1: we know that Crystal Palace As we mentioned before, we're
15:41
Speaker 1: going to be thinking about other competitions. Potentially the final
15:45
Speaker 1: game at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in game week thirty
15:47
Speaker 1: seven is Sunderland at home who are conceding a lot
15:49
Speaker 1: of goals at the minute, and then Everton have got
15:52
Speaker 1: Spurs away in game week thirty eight, so obviously we're
15:55
Speaker 1: gonna have to talk about Spurs a bit later on.
15:57
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to be really positive about them for
15:58
Speaker 1: a change, which is nice. But Everton assets anybody catching
16:02
Speaker 1: your eye?
16:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know again, it's what can we
16:06
Speaker 2: really expect from over the next few few weeks. I
16:08
Speaker 2: mean some of the home looks good. In thirty seven,
16:11
Speaker 2: Pallace is totalugh, Like you just don't know what team Palace.
16:14
Speaker 2: If Pallace put out a decent side, I would expect
16:16
Speaker 2: them to win that. That game Spurs in the final
16:19
Speaker 2: day is a really difficult one, I think, given everything
16:22
Speaker 2: that Spurs are going through and they're going to have
16:24
Speaker 2: their lives, so it's really some at home. I still
16:27
Speaker 2: think I'd only consider Dewsbury Hall. I think he's the
16:29
Speaker 2: only one I'd be I'd be looking at. If you've
16:32
Speaker 2: got like Takovski Garner something like that, you hold them.
16:36
Speaker 2: I think I don't think you need to be, you know,
16:38
Speaker 2: worrying about by about selling them, but to actually buy
16:41
Speaker 2: one of their players now, I think there's probably better
16:43
Speaker 2: assets you. You've got a double game week coming up.
16:46
Speaker 2: You want to make sure you've got all the right
16:47
Speaker 2: ones for that, and then I think you want to
16:48
Speaker 2: be targeting teams with with something a bit more to
16:50
Speaker 2: play for. So yeah, but yeah, I mean they've been,
16:54
Speaker 2: they've been. They've been quite a fun team this this
16:57
Speaker 2: year Everton. You know, there's you've got Garner and Takovski
17:00
Speaker 2: in the deaf cons, Keen's been getting all those goals,
17:02
Speaker 2: Doe ye so and Barry up top. Yeah, it's been.
17:06
Speaker 1: It's been a fun one and Di has been on
17:08
Speaker 1: radar as well as I would say.
17:11
Speaker 2: I'm open to it.
17:12
Speaker 1: With Palace and Sunderland up next, and particularly when you consider,
17:16
Speaker 1: you know, Crystal Palace and how they rolled out against Bournemouth,
17:18
Speaker 1: let's do that game next Borne with three Palace still.
17:21
Speaker 1: I mean Glasena made five alterations to his lineup, didn't he.
17:24
Speaker 1: I think Chris Richards, Mitchell Wharton, Sar Matteta all dropped
17:28
Speaker 1: to the bench. Clearly they've got one eye on the
17:31
Speaker 1: Conference League game on Thursday. Of course, I mean it's
17:33
Speaker 1: going to be historic for them if they were to win.
17:35
Speaker 1: I think their first European trophy.
17:37
Speaker 2: Am I right in saying that? I think it probably
17:39
Speaker 2: is their first European trophy? I thought so.
17:41
Speaker 1: And because of those changes they failed to register an
17:43
Speaker 1: attempt on goal in that first half.
17:44
Speaker 2: They really were poor. Indeed, we've got to give Bournemouth
17:47
Speaker 2: some flowers. We've got to say that.
17:48
Speaker 1: Another fun player for us this year, Junior Croopie four
17:51
Speaker 1: point six in FPL. Still still pretty cheap and has
17:54
Speaker 1: been cheap all season. We talked about how many fun
17:56
Speaker 1: picks there has been from Everton. Here's another one from Bournemouth.
17:59
Speaker 1: He's been super fun for us, isn't he Bornemo's top
18:01
Speaker 1: scorer in the Premier League this season? Twelve goals and
18:04
Speaker 1: apparently on penalties. I bought Marcus Taviner on my wild
18:07
Speaker 1: card a few weeks ago with potentially penalty kicks and
18:10
Speaker 1: some free kicks, and it turns out that Croopy Junior
18:12
Speaker 1: actually is the one that I probably should have gone for.
18:15
Speaker 1: Four goals in his last five games for Croopy Junior listen.
18:18
Speaker 1: I think there's plenty of pick still from that Bournemouth
18:20
Speaker 1: team and if you look at their fixtures over the
18:23
Speaker 1: remaining game weeks, it is that Fulham game. Next it's
18:25
Speaker 1: Manchester City at home again that could that be the
18:28
Speaker 1: final nail in the man City coughin difficult game for
18:30
Speaker 1: man City down at the vitality and then Forrest Away
18:33
Speaker 1: on the final day.
18:34
Speaker 2: Who you'd think we're probably.
18:35
Speaker 1: Going to be safe by then, but we'll see. Let's
18:37
Speaker 1: do palace first though. What did you make of all
18:39
Speaker 1: of the changes that they made and are they a
18:41
Speaker 1: team to target given that they're going to have their
18:43
Speaker 1: own other things?
18:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't blame teams for making changes.
18:47
Speaker 2: You know, there's there are other prophecies, aren't there? They
18:49
Speaker 2: are safe in the league there, I mean, what's the
18:51
Speaker 2: highest they could finish, Probably about ninth or tenth. Like
18:54
Speaker 2: they're not in the position to be in the European
18:57
Speaker 2: spots and really they're going to be looking at the
18:59
Speaker 2: qualified view through winning this the conference league, So you like,
19:02
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't have any problem with with really
19:05
Speaker 2: what they're doing. I think what you're expecting though, is
19:07
Speaker 2: is a bit more fight from some of the fringe
19:09
Speaker 2: players like we saw with Forest, So you know you
19:12
Speaker 2: had players coming in who played so well, and then
19:14
Speaker 2: you look at the Palace players and they just looked
19:17
Speaker 2: it looked like a pre season friendly or a training
19:19
Speaker 2: that's doing it. Yeah, there was just no energy, no desire.
19:22
Speaker 2: There was only ever one team that was going to win,
19:25
Speaker 2: you know, win that game, and that'll be disappointing, I
19:27
Speaker 2: think for Glasner. But I mean talking about pre planned
19:29
Speaker 2: subs as well. I've never heard of that in the
19:31
Speaker 2: in the in the interview is like, yeah, we're going
19:33
Speaker 2: to bring off a couple of players at forty five.
19:35
Speaker 2: It's going to be Moonas and blah blah blah. It's like, wow,
19:37
Speaker 2: it's that's a red flag.
19:39
Speaker 1: For us, isn't it, NPL Because it's just like we're
19:41
Speaker 1: going into game week thirty six Crystal Palace obviously with
19:44
Speaker 1: the double all Manchester City away and Everton at home.
19:47
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I don't know if I'm going
19:49
Speaker 1: to be using any of my precious transfers to I
19:52
Speaker 1: was thinking about not going sideways to Doku. Maybe I
19:55
Speaker 1: will if I can save one on not getting a
19:57
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace asset because I just wouldn't know where to go.
19:59
Speaker 1: Maybe you can go defense, but because I'm three, sure,
20:03
Speaker 1: have you right talk us through that?
20:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I've got I've got to triple up in
20:08
Speaker 2: defense because I look at the attack and I just think,
20:11
Speaker 2: I don't know who's going to start these games. You know,
20:12
Speaker 2: Mateta and Strand Larsener finding out up top. You know
20:15
Speaker 2: Sara has missed quite a few games. Now, who you
20:18
Speaker 2: know who is going to pick Brenan Johnson? No, you know,
20:21
Speaker 2: he's somebody going to happen. So gone three. In defense,
20:23
Speaker 2: I've gone Henderson and Laquis, who I would expect. They
20:26
Speaker 2: both played, they play both, they both think yeah. And
20:29
Speaker 2: then I've gone for Munoz who who knows, like, who knows?
20:34
Speaker 2: You know, he's he seems he's a player who can
20:37
Speaker 2: play every minute of every match. But if they qualify,
20:40
Speaker 2: they they're just not going to want to pick up
20:41
Speaker 2: any any stupid injuries, you know, ahead of that final,
20:45
Speaker 2: even though it's it's the final is ages away. That's
20:47
Speaker 2: the thing. If they do qualify, it is a while away,
20:49
Speaker 2: but it will be a lot of games very quickly.
20:53
Speaker 2: And I do wonder if if Moons could have another
20:56
Speaker 2: forty five minutes in that game against Everton and then
20:59
Speaker 2: maybe starts against City, but against City where you've got
21:02
Speaker 2: to think they're gonna they're going to struggle in that game.
21:05
Speaker 2: So it's not ideal. It's not I've waited all this
21:08
Speaker 2: time to play the world card and play the bench
21:10
Speaker 2: poost and it feels like I've done that to lock
21:12
Speaker 2: in on this Crystal Palace double and I don't even
21:15
Speaker 2: know he's after that performance as well, It's like this
21:22
Speaker 2: team could concede buckets of goals and I wouldn't be
21:25
Speaker 2: too surprised.
21:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to say I'm probably not going to
21:28
Speaker 1: look at any palace assets for next week.
21:31
Speaker 2: I mean I don't.
21:32
Speaker 1: I might, you know, defense, Yes, I guess I could
21:35
Speaker 1: get on board. And again, for me, if I was
21:37
Speaker 1: going to go with anyone, I think I probably would
21:39
Speaker 1: go with Minov's because of what he can do. Right,
21:42
Speaker 1: of course, he can get in those positions. He can
21:44
Speaker 1: get goals as well as as well as clean sheets,
21:46
Speaker 1: and he can be a brilliant asset for us. We've
21:47
Speaker 1: seen it in weeks gone by, in the last couple
21:50
Speaker 1: of seasons in FPL, haven't we.
21:51
Speaker 2: But I don't know you know, I don't know.
21:54
Speaker 1: That was just when Glasner came out pre match and
21:56
Speaker 1: talked about you know, planned substitutions. I almost fell off
21:59
Speaker 1: my chair the same as you as I was like, what, yeah,
22:01
Speaker 1: we never see this in FPR. We love to see
22:05
Speaker 1: we love to see managers come out and give us,
22:07
Speaker 1: you know, some certainty about.
22:08
Speaker 2: What's going to happen, but it never happens. So for
22:10
Speaker 2: it to happen pretty good would have been a lot
22:13
Speaker 2: more help.
22:14
Speaker 1: Yes, true, yeah, sure enough, sure enough. But for me,
22:17
Speaker 1: just him saying it was enough of a red flag.
22:19
Speaker 1: And look, you know he's already said that he's not
22:20
Speaker 1: going to be there next season, big big game for
22:23
Speaker 1: them in Europe, two big games coming up. I don't yeah,
22:26
Speaker 1: I'm just not sure that I'm going to be bringing
22:28
Speaker 1: in any palace assets.
22:29
Speaker 2: I think in a week where.
22:30
Speaker 1: You know, Arsenal absolutely particularly from an attack perspective, put
22:33
Speaker 1: themselves back on the radar.
22:36
Speaker 2: You know, Spurs as.
22:37
Speaker 1: Well, We've got to talk about them. I might want
22:38
Speaker 1: some Spurs going into run in. I just don't know
22:41
Speaker 1: if I'm going to go palaced. And which feels weird
22:43
Speaker 1: right because an FPL So did you see a double
22:45
Speaker 1: game week you're like, yeah, all in and you've gone
22:47
Speaker 1: all in on you are card with the triple defense
22:50
Speaker 1: could pay off for you. But after that performance against Bournemouth, thumb,
22:53
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling so not feeling it. Yeah, defensively though
22:57
Speaker 1: Bournemouth very very good. Sonessi grabbing the def con and
23:00
Speaker 1: an assist to get fourteen points for his owners and
23:03
Speaker 1: James Hill chipping in as well with a ten pointer
23:06
Speaker 1: for Sinesse. That was his third double digit Hall since
23:09
Speaker 1: game week twenty nine, which is the joint most of
23:11
Speaker 1: any player in that time. What a world we live
23:14
Speaker 1: in as right, Who'd have thought it at the beginning.
23:16
Speaker 2: Of the season.
23:16
Speaker 1: These defensive contributions really have opened up the player pool
23:21
Speaker 1: and have put players like Senessei well and truly on
23:24
Speaker 1: the FPR radar the joint most of any player double
23:27
Speaker 1: digit hall since game week twenty nine. Of those two
23:30
Speaker 1: really really doing the business. So we've talked about Crystal
23:32
Speaker 1: Palace being a little bit eyes on Europe. Let's talk
23:35
Speaker 1: about another team that heavily rotated with eyes on Europe.
23:37
Speaker 1: Aston Villa one, Spurs two. I mean, we are going
23:41
Speaker 1: to give Spurs some flowers in a minute, because they
23:43
Speaker 1: were well, let's just say it was different from them.
23:46
Speaker 1: It was different from what we've seen in recent weeks.
23:48
Speaker 1: But let's talk about Villa first. A heavily rotated Aston
23:52
Speaker 1: Villa that was their third straight defeating all competitions. Not
23:55
Speaker 1: a single effort on the Spurs goal until the hour
23:58
Speaker 1: mark and not a show on target until the ninety
24:01
Speaker 1: sixth minute. So this are not going to say they
24:04
Speaker 1: rolled over here for Spurs, but that you know, the
24:06
Speaker 1: fact that they heavily rotated, they've obviously got their eyes
24:09
Speaker 1: and other things.
24:09
Speaker 2: It really did give Spurs the advantage and it Yeah,
24:12
Speaker 2: I think you know, Emory would be really disappointed. I
24:14
Speaker 2: mean similar to you say with Gladsner. You know, but
24:18
Speaker 2: there's there's a difference between Crystal Palace and everything. You know,
24:22
Speaker 2: Emory has been building at Villa and I think he'll
24:24
Speaker 2: look at He'll look at some of those fringe players
24:26
Speaker 2: and think, do you want to be here? Like, you know,
24:29
Speaker 2: the performance wasn't amazing, but like you shouldn't. You just
24:32
Speaker 2: shouldn't be. You should they shouldn't be losing at home
24:34
Speaker 2: to Spurs at this stage and you know that the
24:37
Speaker 2: one thing Spurs are going to bring is like energy,
24:40
Speaker 2: and you've got to find a way to counter that,
24:42
Speaker 2: and then you didn't seem to have like any answers
24:43
Speaker 2: to it at all. They were going mad, weren't they that?
24:47
Speaker 2: The Spurs, the Spurs players, you know, the celebrations on
24:50
Speaker 2: the pitch and grabbing each other like they look like
24:52
Speaker 2: a unit and a team. It looks like Deserbes work
24:55
Speaker 2: that magic that so many people thought that he would have.
24:58
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, it's never easy when you make
25:00
Speaker 2: so many changes. But I was, I was really disappointed
25:03
Speaker 2: with it. I thought Villa would win that game. I
25:05
Speaker 2: bought in Rogers on the world card. There were Spurs
25:08
Speaker 2: at home that it's Burning next, and I thought, that's
25:10
Speaker 2: two really really good fixtures. But yeah, it just it
25:13
Speaker 2: just didn't happen for them. And you know, if you
25:15
Speaker 2: bought in what kids and and other players, you'll surely
25:18
Speaker 2: be looking after that Burnie game and thinking you're done right.
25:22
Speaker 2: It's it's one more week for your Villa and then
25:24
Speaker 2: you want to be moving them on. It's two difficult
25:25
Speaker 2: games to win the season. Yeah, I think with Burning
25:28
Speaker 2: up next, Yeah, if you've got your hole, don't you?
25:29
Speaker 2: But then what is it after that? Liverpool Manchester City
25:32
Speaker 2: going to be difficult. Going to be difficult, isn't it.
25:34
Speaker 1: I think something I want to pick up on something
25:36
Speaker 1: you said there though about the Spurs players in particular,
25:38
Speaker 1: you know, celebrating absolutely everything on the pit. I mean,
25:42
Speaker 1: they were different class, I thought, compared to what we've
25:46
Speaker 1: seen in recent weeks. You're right, Deserbi is definitely getting
25:49
Speaker 1: a tune out of these boys, Paulina and Benton Court
25:51
Speaker 1: in the midfield. Talk about a powerful midfield. I mean
25:54
Speaker 1: they were they were winning, like they were winning tackles
25:57
Speaker 1: and getting up and like you know, clenching their fists
25:59
Speaker 1: and give the fifth punth from winning tackles like you
26:02
Speaker 1: love to see it. This is exactly what Spurs fans
26:04
Speaker 1: have wanted for weeks and weeks and weeks. And I
26:07
Speaker 1: do want to give a shout out to a few
26:08
Speaker 1: different players, right. Mattis tell as well, he's only six
26:10
Speaker 1: point two in FPL. Seven crosses in this game took
26:14
Speaker 1: the corners away from Pedro Poro. A lot of a
26:17
Speaker 1: lot of us that played the free hit a couple
26:18
Speaker 1: of weeks ago got Pedro Poro. I think he got
26:21
Speaker 1: nine or ten points. Indently, that's that week a couple
26:23
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and I was very happy with that, right,
26:25
Speaker 1: And a lot of the chance creation statistics for Poro
26:28
Speaker 1: in that game came from the fact he was on corners.
26:30
Speaker 1: Deserbie putting back on corners, but actually it was Tell
26:32
Speaker 1: that was taking a lot of them in this game.
26:34
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know Tell. I don't know about
26:37
Speaker 1: Tell as an fpl asset. I think it's probably better
26:39
Speaker 1: in the midfield. He feels a little bit unpredictable Tell,
26:43
Speaker 1: So if you want a real differential between now and
26:45
Speaker 1: the end of the season, maybe he's one to have
26:48
Speaker 1: a look at. But the key goal threat for Spurs
26:50
Speaker 1: it has to be with Charlson.
26:52
Speaker 2: With Slanky not there.
26:54
Speaker 1: I just felt that a lot of the creativity, a
26:57
Speaker 1: lot of the output from Spurs midfield would fall to
27:00
Speaker 1: rich Arlison. That's his tenth goal of the season. Second attack.
27:03
Speaker 1: In returning two matches from away perspective, Spurs are good, right,
27:07
Speaker 1: I mean spursa if you look at the away Premier
27:09
Speaker 1: League table they're third. Yeah, But if you look at
27:12
Speaker 1: the home one, they're nineteenth. That is so it's the
27:14
Speaker 1: home form that's the real problem, isn't it. It's crazy,
27:16
Speaker 1: isn't it. You think about the stadium. They've got unbelievably
27:19
Speaker 1: good stadium that they can't seem to get a performance.
27:21
Speaker 1: There is that a concern for us though, as because
27:23
Speaker 1: in the last three games they've got Leeds and Everton
27:25
Speaker 1: both at home and then Chelsea away. It's stand for
27:27
Speaker 1: bridging thirty seven. Is this home form enough of a
27:32
Speaker 1: concern for us to not invest in them over the
27:34
Speaker 1: final three weeks or did you see enough in this
27:36
Speaker 1: Villa game to suggest it's high intensity? The press was there,
27:41
Speaker 1: they were winning the ball back in high up areas.
27:44
Speaker 1: You've got players like rich Charlson carrying a lot of
27:46
Speaker 1: goal threat.
27:47
Speaker 2: I don't know.
27:48
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going over the top with Spurs. You can
27:49
Speaker 1: tell you can you can rain me in a little bit.
27:51
Speaker 2: Maybe, Well, I don't think you I think they deserve
27:54
Speaker 2: the credit and I think, you know, we talk about
27:56
Speaker 2: Villa putting out a B team, but really Spurs have
27:59
Speaker 2: been playing there D team for promised the whole season
28:02
Speaker 2: of all the injuries, so you can't say Villa. You know,
28:05
Speaker 2: Villa put out a weekend team and Spurs, you know,
28:06
Speaker 2: put their full strength eleven because they've got so many
28:09
Speaker 2: players missing. I think the thing is, I think Spurs
28:11
Speaker 2: have been so predictable to play against, have been su pedestrian,
28:14
Speaker 2: so you know, any team will just rock up, know
28:17
Speaker 2: how their shape and know how they're going to play,
28:18
Speaker 2: whereas Deserbe brings chaos. You know, he brings high press
28:23
Speaker 2: in terends, all the things you mentioned, but players into
28:25
Speaker 2: change positions all the time. You never know where a
28:26
Speaker 2: player is going to crop up. He did it when
28:28
Speaker 2: when I watched him at Brighton as well. You know
28:30
Speaker 2: players shifting wings, and you know players playing as tens
28:32
Speaker 2: and sudden playing as eight. You never you never know
28:34
Speaker 2: what's going to happen. And you've got to think that
28:37
Speaker 2: you can't really look at them with the same lens
28:39
Speaker 2: as we've looked at them under under Frank and Tudor.
28:42
Speaker 2: They are a completely different side. And the big question
28:45
Speaker 2: was can Deservebe get a tune out of them quickly
28:47
Speaker 2: and get them playing his style. I don't think there's
28:49
Speaker 2: been a bad performance from them since you've taken over, Yes,
28:53
Speaker 2: so I think you have to say he has. And
28:54
Speaker 2: I think you're looking at teams with something to play for.
28:57
Speaker 2: You're looking at you know, you're looking at teams with
28:59
Speaker 2: like I think one key player, right, you've got If
29:01
Speaker 2: you're looking at Spurs, I don't think you're looking at
29:03
Speaker 2: tell you know, Berg, vow In anyone like that. You're
29:06
Speaker 2: looking at roch Arlison. He is the one player. So
29:10
Speaker 2: he's a player I'm looking at this week. I think
29:11
Speaker 2: I think he's I think he's you have to look
29:13
Speaker 2: at him. Yeah, yeah, And I think ignore that that
29:15
Speaker 2: home form. I think the fact they've got two home
29:17
Speaker 2: games when the season I'm still going to say, is
29:20
Speaker 2: a good thing. So I think he's a He's definitely
29:22
Speaker 2: on the watch list, if not, if not by if not.
29:25
Speaker 1: And you're right that that home form is under you know,
29:27
Speaker 1: it was under Frank, it was under Tutor. They they did,
29:29
Speaker 1: they do, they did at the weekend and they do
29:31
Speaker 1: in general just look different.
29:33
Speaker 2: Under Deserve.
29:34
Speaker 1: He absolutely is getting a tune out of them. And
29:36
Speaker 1: it's that midfield. I think Benson, Corby and back in particular.
29:38
Speaker 1: Not that we're going to pick him an FPL, I
29:40
Speaker 1: don't think, but him being back in midfield and twinning
29:43
Speaker 1: him with Paolini I.
29:44
Speaker 2: Think just works.
29:45
Speaker 1: It just worked very very good. Indeed, from Spurs, let's
29:48
Speaker 1: talk about Liverpool versus Manchester United then so my team
29:52
Speaker 1: so man United three Liverpool two. That's the Champions League
29:55
Speaker 1: locked now, I think for Manchester United, so you have
29:57
Speaker 1: to give carricks and praise for that, right. They've been
29:59
Speaker 1: fantastic since he's come in and Berne Fernandez only five
30:02
Speaker 1: points in this game, so a bit unlucky for those
30:04
Speaker 1: that captains him. I think created six chances here, including
30:08
Speaker 1: two big chances. Finished the match with just over one
30:12
Speaker 1: one point zero two expected goal involvement, so probably could have,
30:17
Speaker 1: maybe should have had something a bit more than just
30:19
Speaker 1: an assist in this game. And again Casamiro popping up
30:22
Speaker 1: with the defensive contributions for the third successive game week.
30:26
Speaker 1: That's he's had sixty six defensive contribution actions over the
30:31
Speaker 1: last three weeks, by the way, which is.
30:32
Speaker 2: Fourteen more than any player.
30:34
Speaker 1: So if you want to kind of you want to
30:35
Speaker 1: signal for why Manchester unit had been really good over
30:38
Speaker 1: the last three weeks and they've got three wins now
30:40
Speaker 1: in the Premier League back to back. I think you
30:42
Speaker 1: have to point to him. You have to say Casimiro
30:44
Speaker 1: and the way that he's playing, sixty six defensive contributions
30:47
Speaker 1: across three games is absolutely crazy. By the way, we'll
30:52
Speaker 1: do Liverpol a bit, but Manchester United first, Do you
30:54
Speaker 1: agree that Brene Fernandez, owners and maybe captains were a
30:57
Speaker 1: little bit unlucky not to get more?
30:58
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, And I think really he's had such a
31:02
Speaker 2: good season. I think everyone's lucky not to get more
31:05
Speaker 2: points from this year because I mean you look at
31:06
Speaker 2: the sheer number of chances he has created, which is absolutely,
31:11
Speaker 2: like astronomically high, and you think, well, you should probably
31:13
Speaker 2: have more than the I think it's twenty fantasy assists
31:15
Speaker 2: now he's got, so yeah, yeah, maybe like seventeen or
31:19
Speaker 2: eighteen like Regulus, he's still chasing that that record. But
31:21
Speaker 2: I think I'm lucky not to have smashed that smashed
31:24
Speaker 2: that record already. Yeah, particularly in this game. You you
31:27
Speaker 2: you could have had, you could have had more. I
31:28
Speaker 2: mean he's just, for me, player of the season, you know,
31:31
Speaker 2: without a doubt in the league, and I think just
31:34
Speaker 2: still the best fpl asset that you can you can have.
31:38
Speaker 2: So yeah, amazing, amazing for him. Casimira as well. I mean,
31:41
Speaker 2: what you know, what a couple of weeks he's he's had. Again,
31:45
Speaker 2: I think you're maybe a bit unlucky not to get
31:47
Speaker 2: something more from him in that game as well, if
31:48
Speaker 2: you if you brought him in. But I think he's
31:50
Speaker 2: a perfectly acceptable player to to buy for the next
31:54
Speaker 2: few weeks as well, because he's getting death gone. He's
31:56
Speaker 2: got a goal threat and man, you are playing well,
31:59
Speaker 2: just want a little bit if they're going to take
32:01
Speaker 2: the foot off the gas now they've got that that
32:03
Speaker 2: Champions League. I mean, you see there rumors about Cunya.
32:06
Speaker 2: He was apparently he's been being told he's not going
32:09
Speaker 2: to play again, he's gonna be rested for Brazil. I
32:11
Speaker 2: think he's now come out and said he has no
32:14
Speaker 2: idea what people are talking about. And right, that's that's
32:17
Speaker 2: not going to happen. So something to keep your eye
32:19
Speaker 2: on if you're a Cuna acun your owner, I think,
32:21
Speaker 2: just to see what what happens with that. There's maybe
32:23
Speaker 2: some concerns that he might you might miss a few
32:26
Speaker 2: games for that. But and Door who's back now too.
32:29
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think you know, Casamiro and Fernandez are
32:33
Speaker 2: the ones i'd be looking at.
32:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if you're going to double up it
32:35
Speaker 1: probably as Casimiro, isn't it. Yeah, I mean Kunya gets
32:38
Speaker 1: the goal here, but and and Bumo as well. Yeah,
32:41
Speaker 1: such a good asset for us last season, wasn't he?
32:43
Speaker 1: And under Thomas Frank at Brentford? But yeah, not so good?
32:47
Speaker 2: Did he score? I can't even remember him scoring in
32:49
Speaker 2: the last is called this year? I don't know.
32:52
Speaker 1: He had a good had a good start to his
32:54
Speaker 1: Manchester United creer didn't he playing largely through the middle.
32:56
Speaker 1: But since Cesco's come in and found form, I don't
32:59
Speaker 1: if I would pick Brian and Bremo in FPL. Now
33:02
Speaker 1: obviously Bruno's there, right, But I think if you're going
33:04
Speaker 1: to double up, if you do want to double up,
33:06
Speaker 1: because it's Sundered up next and then Forrest at home
33:08
Speaker 1: and they finish up with burnt with sorry Brighton away
33:11
Speaker 1: in game week thirty eight, So a tricky little picture
33:13
Speaker 1: on the final day. But Sunderland Forest and looks pretty good,
33:17
Speaker 1: doesn't it. It looks pretty good. And if you're going
33:18
Speaker 1: to double up on Manchester United, it probably is Casamiro
33:21
Speaker 1: and Brunos as potentially, you know, and I need to.
33:24
Speaker 2: Use this word. It's a little bit.
33:25
Speaker 1: It's a little bit boring, isn't a Casmiro Because you're
33:27
Speaker 1: kind of looking at defensive contributions as your route to points,
33:30
Speaker 1: whereas you know you might want to look at Anbumo
33:32
Speaker 1: or Akun or a Cessco. But I don't know if
33:34
Speaker 1: you can pick any of those three. I think Casksoimiro
33:36
Speaker 1: is probably the one to go for.
33:37
Speaker 2: If I told you at the start of the season
33:39
Speaker 2: that Casimiro would be on one hundred and sixty four points,
33:41
Speaker 2: I know it's potentially pushing what one hundred and eighty
33:45
Speaker 2: points for this season. That is, I would never have
33:49
Speaker 2: thought he would get anywhere anywhere near that. I do
33:52
Speaker 2: think with all the like all the hype around his exit,
33:55
Speaker 2: and you know what, he what he's brought to see.
33:57
Speaker 2: The fans love him, he loves the club for everything
34:01
Speaker 2: he seems to show. He's come through such a rough
34:03
Speaker 2: patch where everyone had written him off. Yeah, I just
34:05
Speaker 2: think he's got that. If you're looking for like a
34:07
Speaker 2: narrative to you know, to end the season, you know
34:09
Speaker 2: you can got Forrest in thirty seven, that last home
34:12
Speaker 2: game at Old Trafford. He's definitely scored in that game.
34:14
Speaker 2: You can see it. I'll be amazed if he didn't.
34:17
Speaker 2: You can see it.
34:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think from a Liverpool perspective, I've not
34:21
Speaker 1: got too much to say about this game. That's to
34:22
Speaker 1: be honest with you. I think, yeah, I'll give you
34:25
Speaker 1: United some praise. Right first twenty minutes they absolutely flew
34:28
Speaker 1: out the traps and I think, you know, suppressed us.
34:31
Speaker 1: I mean, they just got on top of us and
34:32
Speaker 1: shell shocked us. In the first few minutes of this game.
34:35
Speaker 1: They went to and up very quickly. We looked at,
34:38
Speaker 1: you know, shadow of a side. Really, second off was
34:41
Speaker 1: a little bit better, although I'd say that the Liverpool
34:44
Speaker 1: goals largely came from United mistakes, particularly the second one
34:48
Speaker 1: from Cody Gakpo. Gakpo did rack up five shots in total.
34:51
Speaker 1: We got thirteen points in this game. So for his owners,
34:54
Speaker 1: if there's any any Cody Gakpo owners out there, congrats.
34:57
Speaker 2: That's a nice hole.
34:58
Speaker 1: But Chelsea Villa Brentford up next, I don't know, you know,
35:03
Speaker 1: I mean, could you go? Could you could you have
35:06
Speaker 1: Mosala potentially for the last couple of games at anfield maybe,
35:10
Speaker 1: but it depends on whether it is hamstring is going
35:12
Speaker 1: to hold up. I mean that we've heard that it's
35:14
Speaker 1: potentially not as bad as first feared, So even that
35:18
Speaker 1: feels a bit punting and a bit romantic at this stage.
35:21
Speaker 2: I don't know.
35:21
Speaker 1: I came away from that game not feeling like I
35:23
Speaker 1: want to invest in Liverpool for the rest of the season,
35:25
Speaker 1: which is a Liverpool fan is a tough thing to say.
35:28
Speaker 1: But I think we're going to I think we're just
35:29
Speaker 1: going to pass on them though.
35:31
Speaker 2: Yeah. The the only player I'd be looking that would
35:33
Speaker 2: be Suboslai, I think, And that's okay, fair point, Yeah,
35:37
Speaker 2: that wouldn't be for the I mean Chelsea at home,
35:39
Speaker 2: to be fair, it looks like a tough fixtion on paper,
35:42
Speaker 2: but I mean look at their performance, you know, yesterday,
35:44
Speaker 2: So I don't think I don't think that is too bad. Again,
35:47
Speaker 2: if you've got like a Van Dyke, if you've got Slai,
35:50
Speaker 2: if you've got Florinverts, I don't think they're a priority
35:52
Speaker 2: self in these In these games, I think you can
35:56
Speaker 2: just hold them. Would I be buying them, I don't know.
35:59
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think I think Suppozzi for
36:01
Speaker 2: that Brentford got home game might be one I'd look at,
36:04
Speaker 2: But other than that, I won't be going anywhere anywhere
36:08
Speaker 2: in the fixtures. Aren't as bad as you think, though,
36:10
Speaker 2: especially Brentford, have eve secured you or rep or or
36:13
Speaker 2: have dropped out the race?
36:14
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, well, as you rightly say, it's Chelsea next,
36:16
Speaker 1: so let's do Chelsea versus Forest.
36:18
Speaker 2: Then I noticed that.
36:19
Speaker 1: It was eight point one point one XG that Chelsea
36:22
Speaker 1: had wrapped up before the Jo Pedro strike, and as
36:25
Speaker 1: we said at the top of the podcast, what a strike.
36:27
Speaker 1: By the way, as a Jao Pedro owner, he was
36:30
Speaker 1: largely on the periphery of this game. I thought Forrest
36:32
Speaker 1: were by far the better side.
36:34
Speaker 2: But the goal, the.
36:35
Speaker 1: Jear Pedro goal, technically I thought to pick it off
36:39
Speaker 1: his chest like that bicycle kick.
36:40
Speaker 2: It was so so good. But yeah, eight point one xg.
36:43
Speaker 1: They'd wrapped up and several hours of football before that
36:46
Speaker 1: goal went in. But listen, you know, the fact that
36:48
Speaker 1: the fact that he scored a wonder goal like that should,
36:51
Speaker 1: you know, papers over some pretty big cracks I think
36:54
Speaker 1: at Chelsea, and with the remaining fixtures looking tricky for them,
36:57
Speaker 1: as we said, it's anfield and then it's a Spurs
36:59
Speaker 1: team that look a lot better this weekend, fighting for
37:01
Speaker 1: their lives, and then Sunderland away on the final day,
37:04
Speaker 1: our guess doesn't look too bad. But I'm sitting here
37:07
Speaker 1: with Jacques Pedro and with Palmer in my team, so
37:10
Speaker 1: I had to take that penalty miss on the chin,
37:12
Speaker 1: having got him on the wildcard back in game week
37:14
Speaker 1: thirty two. I mean, he's been a massive disappointment. Jau
37:17
Speaker 1: Pedro has been kind of okay. I mean, certainly the
37:19
Speaker 1: bicycle kick will help because I think you've got two
37:21
Speaker 1: bonus points on the back of that goal as well
37:22
Speaker 1: at the weekend, so maybe he can stay. But I
37:26
Speaker 1: am absolutely thinking about moving on Carl Palmer, particularly with
37:30
Speaker 1: you know Saker as we mentioned before right there, you know,
37:32
Speaker 1: in the similar sort of price bracket Chelsea versus Forest
37:35
Speaker 1: and was this Chelsea being bad, was it Forest being
37:37
Speaker 1: good or a bit of.
37:37
Speaker 2: Both, better both bit of both. I think I've you know,
37:40
Speaker 2: I don't think it doesn't really seem to matter what's
37:44
Speaker 2: happening with Chelsea at the moment. I think the there
37:47
Speaker 2: just seems to be a lack of game plan, of energy,
37:50
Speaker 2: of like care for what's going on. I mean, you know,
37:53
Speaker 2: they bring in the eighteen year old Derry, you know, Okay,
37:57
Speaker 2: they've had some injuries to players and netto wasn't fitting
37:59
Speaker 2: and so, but I don't know, it's getting a bit desperate,
38:03
Speaker 2: isn't it, when you're you're rulying on an eighteen year
38:05
Speaker 2: old to turning forces. I thought he was pretty good
38:06
Speaker 2: actually until that horrible head injury. Wishing well, don't we
38:09
Speaker 2: That was a nasty injury. Yeah, it was, and you
38:11
Speaker 2: know he looks he looked good before before that happens.
38:14
Speaker 2: But you know, it's always a bit of a worry
38:16
Speaker 2: when you're relying on an eighteen year old to sort of,
38:18
Speaker 2: you know, turn your fortunes around, and they're you know,
38:20
Speaker 2: talk about teams of someone to play for. They're desperate
38:22
Speaker 2: to get into those Champions League spots still maybe even
38:25
Speaker 2: Europe at that this stage, given they keep losing every
38:28
Speaker 2: every match. I think this one's easy though, from an
38:30
Speaker 2: FPL perspective, I think if you've got any Chelsea players
38:33
Speaker 2: other than jib Pedro.
38:34
Speaker 1: Yourself, Yeah, that's that's absolutely what I'm thinking. Yeah, that's
38:38
Speaker 1: my I agree with me and my Palmer to sack
38:40
Speaker 1: a move that's I think.
38:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's I think it's a really really
38:43
Speaker 2: easy I think it's a really easy move that and
38:46
Speaker 2: you know, he's if you haven't got Palmo, it's quite
38:49
Speaker 2: difficult to get to Socca potentially because you know you're
38:52
Speaker 2: looking at players in the round in the say price bracket,
38:55
Speaker 2: you might have to move players around. If you can
38:56
Speaker 2: do that move for free, I think it's it's one
38:59
Speaker 2: of the easiest. I just think there's this nothing that
39:02
Speaker 2: Palmer is showing to make me think he's worth the money.
39:05
Speaker 2: There's nothing for me to think Chelsea are going to
39:07
Speaker 2: suddenly turn it around and start picking up wins. And
39:11
Speaker 2: Arsenal were the complete obursit of that. So yeah, I
39:13
Speaker 2: think for you and for anyone listening, it's an easy move.
39:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Forrest from that perspective again, a player we
39:19
Speaker 1: wish well where Morgan Gibbs White. I did see something
39:22
Speaker 1: on his instagram after the game. He took it. He's
39:24
Speaker 1: got some real stitching on his head. He took a whack,
39:26
Speaker 1: didn't he? From Sanchez to Chelsea goalkeeper. You know didn't
39:30
Speaker 1: play in the first half, did he? Because obviously, again
39:32
Speaker 1: Forest's going to have their eyes on other things. He've
39:34
Speaker 1: got a big tie against aston Villa, haven't they coming
39:35
Speaker 1: up in the semi final in Europe?
39:37
Speaker 2: In midweek?
39:38
Speaker 1: So rested for the first half, comes on, gets an
39:40
Speaker 1: assist and has to go off because I mean, concussion
39:43
Speaker 1: protocols and everything else.
39:44
Speaker 2: It is absolutely the right thing for him to go off.
39:45
Speaker 1: And then postgame we saw him stitched up with it,
39:48
Speaker 1: you know, a bit of tissue stuck up his nose.
39:50
Speaker 1: It looked a really nasty one for Morgan Gibbs White,
39:52
Speaker 1: so we wish him well too. Any Forest assets catching
39:55
Speaker 1: your eye from this. He's got a couple of home
39:56
Speaker 1: games coming up, Newcastle and then Bournemouth on the final
39:59
Speaker 1: day with Manchester a trip to our traveling game Week
40:01
Speaker 1: thirty seven stuck between those two.
40:04
Speaker 2: They look pretty safe now, though, don't they.
40:06
Speaker 1: I mean, if they get through against Aston Villa, surely
40:09
Speaker 1: the same narrative that we've been peddling around Palace and
40:11
Speaker 1: other teams is going to is going to be. It's
40:13
Speaker 1: going to be the same, isn't It's going to be
40:15
Speaker 1: Forests are going to be resting players and making sure
40:18
Speaker 1: they don't get injured ahead of a you know, potentially
40:20
Speaker 1: one of the biggest games of a lot of these
40:21
Speaker 1: players' careers. So I don't know if I'm investing in
40:25
Speaker 1: any forest Net New for game week thirty six.
40:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and you've seen with Peer. I mean
40:30
Speaker 2: that was the most change. It was gonna bean eight
40:32
Speaker 2: changes to the to the to the lineup, and I
40:35
Speaker 2: mean even selves. For example, he's in I don't think
40:37
Speaker 2: he's playing in Europe busy. So arguably it's it's more
40:42
Speaker 2: he doesn't even count. Uh yeah, and their reserves did well,
40:46
Speaker 2: That's that's the main thing. So it's not like he's
40:48
Speaker 2: going to look at and think, well, I can't try
40:49
Speaker 2: that again. He's going to think, well, every player I
40:51
Speaker 2: put in played out of their skin, you know, for
40:54
Speaker 2: that match. So if we if we get through against Villa,
40:56
Speaker 2: I'll just do that again in the next game. I
40:58
Speaker 2: think they're too if they get through gett I think
41:00
Speaker 2: they're too risky. They're too risky to invest in. He's
41:04
Speaker 2: not afraid to be you know, someone like Ellie Anderson,
41:06
Speaker 2: for example, you would think would just play every match,
41:09
Speaker 2: and you need him to play ninety minutes to get
41:12
Speaker 2: the deaf compoints. That's what you've got him. So if
41:14
Speaker 2: suddenly he's a rotation risk, you can't you can't have
41:18
Speaker 2: him in the team. So and now with Gibs, White's injury.
41:21
Speaker 2: They're a complete no go for me. Forest, I wouldn't
41:23
Speaker 2: have any players in the team, and if you've got them,
41:25
Speaker 2: I'd be looking to sell. Even gives White, I think,
41:29
Speaker 2: is I mean, is he going if they beat Villa,
41:32
Speaker 2: is he really going to put gives White in a
41:34
Speaker 2: position to you know, for that injury to get worse
41:39
Speaker 2: or to set He's got to protect him. He's got
41:42
Speaker 2: he's got to protect him now, so they're all sell
41:46
Speaker 2: the lot.
41:47
Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha, gotcha? All right, that's fairly conclusive. Let's go
41:50
Speaker 1: through rattle through the rest of these games. Brentford three
41:53
Speaker 1: west Ham neil a scoreline actually I thought flattered Brentford.
41:56
Speaker 1: Brentford fans won't like me for that one. I thought
41:58
Speaker 1: it flattered them a little bit. Could have on either
41:59
Speaker 1: way this game. I thought the penalty effectively kind of
42:02
Speaker 1: killed the game. The x G up until that point
42:04
Speaker 1: was zero point eight six versus zero point eight for
42:08
Speaker 1: west Ham's a fairly even game. And then eager Tiago
42:11
Speaker 1: steps up and does what eager Torgo does best, right,
42:14
Speaker 1: scores from the spot. That's his twenty second league goal
42:17
Speaker 1: of the season, so his owners will be very happy
42:19
Speaker 1: with that one. Quick comment on Brentford versus west Ham
42:23
Speaker 1: as what did you make of the game?
42:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, an interesting game. Like you said, I think you
42:26
Speaker 2: know you're looking at games like that and you're thinking,
42:28
Speaker 2: oh west Ham, webingthon to play for. You know, let's
42:30
Speaker 2: get your bones in your Summerville's yeah, you know, get
42:33
Speaker 2: a defender. But I think he just shows they're not
42:35
Speaker 2: quite all there and the fixtures are tough, so no
42:39
Speaker 2: big chances for Bowen by the way, since game week
42:41
Speaker 2: twenty four, he's not had a big chance. Well, he's
42:44
Speaker 2: all good golfread not non existent, so re Lan on
42:48
Speaker 2: the assists, and he's got players around him who missed
42:50
Speaker 2: lots of opportunities. I think I think boenes a hold.
42:53
Speaker 2: If I still had him, i'd hold him. I think
42:54
Speaker 2: particular Newcastle in Leeds thirty seventy eight is fine. Everyone else,
42:59
Speaker 2: you know, I would't. I wouldn't investing. I don't think
43:00
Speaker 2: too many people have got many other west Ham players,
43:04
Speaker 2: maybe mavrin Apos. Would I want him for the next
43:08
Speaker 2: three Probably not. I could see him conceding in all
43:10
Speaker 2: those games, so he might be a cell. But yeah,
43:13
Speaker 2: and with Brentford, Chiago's a sell for me now as well.
43:17
Speaker 2: You know, goodness Man City, I mean Palace in thirty
43:21
Speaker 2: seven is a right city away and Liverpool a way
43:24
Speaker 2: in thirty eight. This is where I think you take
43:27
Speaker 2: your punt on someone a bit lower owned. This is
43:28
Speaker 2: what I mean. You know, it depends what you're what
43:32
Speaker 2: you're what you're looking to do this season. If it's
43:33
Speaker 2: just hold out and hold rank, yeah obviously you keep him.
43:36
Speaker 2: But if you're looking to push up the ranks, this
43:38
Speaker 2: is a chance to take out a player highly owning
43:40
Speaker 2: and try and trying to improve it, improve it what
43:43
Speaker 2: I'm doing, all.
43:44
Speaker 1: Right, Newcastle's three Brighton one then, so back for Newcastle
43:51
Speaker 1: and totally made the difference, right, Fourteen of his sixteen
43:55
Speaker 1: FPO returns have come at home and he got an
43:57
Speaker 1: assist from a corner and one bonus in this game,
43:59
Speaker 1: so definitely definitely made the difference. But I noticed on
44:03
Speaker 1: the other side of the coin, you know, JACKI and Strewood.
44:05
Speaker 1: I think even in his own words in the postmatch interview,
44:07
Speaker 1: was talking about I think you said he could have
44:09
Speaker 1: had a hat trick today, right, So a good performance
44:11
Speaker 1: from him as a Brighton owner. Go on, I'll hand
44:14
Speaker 1: it over to you what did you make of this game?
44:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, frustrating. I think a draw would have been fair.
44:20
Speaker 2: Annoying to lose three to one, but yeah, credits Newcastle.
44:23
Speaker 2: They needed to result and they and they got it.
44:26
Speaker 2: Bruno g looks great. I think he's someone that you
44:28
Speaker 2: could potentially buy. I think he's you know we've seen
44:31
Speaker 2: all season. He's got so many roots to points, goals, assist,
44:33
Speaker 2: def connon, a real just leader on the pitch. So
44:36
Speaker 2: he's the one from Newcastle that I like. I still
44:38
Speaker 2: think Hintchwood is the best player to own from Brighton's great?
44:42
Speaker 2: Doesn't he last few weeks? Yeah? I mean he's frustrating.
44:45
Speaker 2: He can't finish. He's not not a natural finisher, but
44:49
Speaker 2: he is. His football brain is so high that he'll
44:52
Speaker 2: get into such good positions that he'll always have the
44:54
Speaker 2: chance to do it. And if you get into chances,
44:56
Speaker 2: you've got the opportunity to score. So I really like
45:00
Speaker 2: him gross as well. I thought played really well, had
45:03
Speaker 2: a really good shop, could have had some points in that.
45:06
Speaker 2: The one question mark I've got is really around Wellbeck
45:08
Speaker 2: Because you look at Wolves at Home, you think that's
45:10
Speaker 2: absolute perfect game for Brighton players. I do worry a
45:14
Speaker 2: little bit that Ruter's been coming off the bench. He's started,
45:17
Speaker 2: you know, in the last game. He's playing really well,
45:19
Speaker 2: so he's definitely going to eat into Welbeck's minutes. I
45:22
Speaker 2: wonder if he's going to take a start of him
45:24
Speaker 2: over the next few weeks. Whether it's wolves, I don't know.
45:27
Speaker 2: But I'm debating well Beckham and charliston this week and
45:30
Speaker 2: I think I'm leaning towards with Charlison.
45:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a concern for me, I have to say,
45:34
Speaker 1: because I did go for well Beck a few weeks
45:37
Speaker 1: back on the wild card, and I think defensively I've
45:39
Speaker 1: got for Broger and I've got Van Heck as well,
45:41
Speaker 1: and a couple of individual eras in this game, but
45:44
Speaker 1: that's rare. We've not seen that much, if at all,
45:47
Speaker 1: this season. But yeah, they both had an off day
45:49
Speaker 1: in this game, no doubt about it. I think you
45:51
Speaker 1: could point the finger at both of them for the
45:53
Speaker 1: goals that were conceded here, or at least a couple
45:55
Speaker 1: of the goals that were conceded. But yeah, of the
45:57
Speaker 1: three Brighton players that I've got, I'm very happy to
46:00
Speaker 1: have them, given that the fixture coming up is Wolves
46:02
Speaker 1: at home and then leads away, leads probably safe, right,
46:04
Speaker 1: and then of course it's Man United at home in
46:06
Speaker 1: the final game of the season. I'm pretty happy to
46:07
Speaker 1: have them for that as well for brigand van Heck.
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Speaker 1: Ok but yeah, well Beck, he got the assist, didn't
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Speaker 1: he here? Again, I'm probably not It's not going to
46:16
Speaker 1: be a transfer. I've only got three transfers going to
46:19
Speaker 1: this week. Say only three seems quite luxurious, I assume
46:21
Speaker 1: compared to some FPR managers.
46:23
Speaker 2: I get that.
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Speaker 1: But lots of things I know, right, I know we're
46:26
Speaker 1: getting to that side of the season as we.
46:27
Speaker 2: Want to have fun, don't we.
46:28
Speaker 1: And I've got at least three in my head that
46:31
Speaker 1: I've got kind of locked in around Arsenal and some
46:33
Speaker 1: other assets that I desperately want.
46:35
Speaker 2: And I don't think that well Beck to anybody else
46:38
Speaker 2: and well be out there, I wouldn't be selling it
46:40
Speaker 2: feels wrong. Yeah, okay, all right, leads three, Burnley one.
46:45
Speaker 2: Let's finished up on this game. Then Anton Stack, we
46:46
Speaker 2: talked about Bruno Gimmerich being back. Anton Stack back after
46:50
Speaker 2: a three match absence. Stootter of injury, got five shots,
46:53
Speaker 2: three chances created. He's now I get there. So this
46:56
Speaker 2: is an interesting stat that I did a bit of
46:58
Speaker 2: research for. Come onto the Pod.
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Speaker 1: He's now joint second for chances created this season, only
47:03
Speaker 1: behind guess who, Bruno Fernandez. He's only made twenty six
47:06
Speaker 1: starts Anton Stack, but the second most creative midfielder in
47:10
Speaker 1: the game. I was an unbelievable stat. So had he
47:13
Speaker 1: got more minutes for Leeds, you'd like to think that
47:16
Speaker 1: you know, probably that chance creation stat and some and
47:19
Speaker 1: therefore the you know, the appoints he's getting from assists
47:21
Speaker 1: and bonus points, etc. He could have been a really
47:24
Speaker 1: amazing asset for us in FPL this season had he
47:26
Speaker 1: got a bit more consistency with his starts. But Burnley
47:29
Speaker 1: just continue to be a team to target. I think,
47:32
Speaker 1: right they didn't create a single big chance here. They
47:34
Speaker 1: had nine shots that generated only zero point five to
47:37
Speaker 1: three x G. So listen, it was kind of hit
47:40
Speaker 1: and hope. I think a little bit from a Burnley perspective,
47:43
Speaker 1: very much planning and preparing for next season, I think,
47:46
Speaker 1: so we can continue to target those guys. Any words
47:49
Speaker 1: for Leeds versus Burnley.
47:52
Speaker 2: Just that I agree with you on Stack. I think
47:53
Speaker 2: if you're looking for differential between the at the end
47:55
Speaker 2: of the season. He's almost a perfect perfect player, isn't
47:57
Speaker 2: he takes free kicks, he's on corners, gets involved in
48:01
Speaker 2: the attack, creates those of chances, isn't he. Yeah, he's
48:05
Speaker 2: a fantastic player. And you know, Leeds are pretty much
48:08
Speaker 2: safe now, but I don't think Fark is going to
48:10
Speaker 2: allow them to rest, and he's going to want to
48:12
Speaker 2: push up as height at the table as possible, so
48:15
Speaker 2: they got you know, I think I think he's a
48:17
Speaker 2: good player to potentially buy field a bench boost, for example,
48:20
Speaker 2: and you're looking for a for a cheap midfielder, I
48:22
Speaker 2: think he's a good pick. Yeah, I totally agree.
48:25
Speaker 1: And no, no Leeds defender got more than eight defensive
48:27
Speaker 1: contributions in this game, So that tells you about how
48:30
Speaker 1: much defending they had to do.
48:31
Speaker 2: Not a lot in reality.
48:32
Speaker 1: And Pascal Strouk, who I had in my team at
48:34
Speaker 1: four point three, got zero defensive contributions, right, Not that
48:38
Speaker 1: I sit there counting the defensive contributions, but you know,
48:41
Speaker 1: a few would have been nice, Pascal, A few would
48:43
Speaker 1: have been nice. I've never I mean that must be
48:45
Speaker 1: pretty rare, right for a center back in a Premier
48:46
Speaker 1: League game this season to come away with zero zero
48:49
Speaker 1: deaf cons.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure someone knows never happen. I'm sure someone has
48:53
Speaker 2: the stats, but I would guess it's you know, only
48:56
Speaker 2: a handful.
48:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we'll get Jules and Sam and Kelly to
49:00
Speaker 1: dig out the stats from midweight. How many defenders have
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Speaker 1: wrapped up zero deaf cons in a game this season? Stroke,
49:06
Speaker 1: I don't think he's on his own, but it's rare,
49:08
Speaker 1: no doubt about it.
49:09
Speaker 2: Look at you Li giving me quizzes during the stream,
49:12
Speaker 2: giving Juels, Sam and Killy the homework. Well, we are
49:18
Speaker 2: back to double game meek territory again with thirty six.
49:20
Speaker 2: We've got Man City and Palace in action twice. Cherkey,
49:23
Speaker 2: Harland and O'Reilly we mentioned earlier, all make ups through
49:27
Speaker 2: the top four most transmitting players. So far, Sart and
49:30
Speaker 2: Mateta are or sixth most transferred in so people are
49:34
Speaker 2: worried about rotation there. Jocharez and Sokka also proving popular.
49:38
Speaker 2: If you are thinking about investing in Ours and Palace,
49:41
Speaker 2: I would probably suggest waiting until they've played their midweek fixtures.
49:45
Speaker 2: Then that could be could be pretty wise. Yeah, stop
49:47
Speaker 2: those needs from jerking people. Yeah, we've got some European
49:49
Speaker 2: football that these guys have got to get through. And
49:51
Speaker 2: as I said before, Kelly Jewels and Sam Well, I'll
49:54
Speaker 2: be back on Thursday. They'll be talking through their best
49:56
Speaker 2: players to buy from the Doublin teams, as well as
49:59
Speaker 2: whether we should folks on picking single game weekers that
50:02
Speaker 2: might actually be a bit more sensible as we often see. Yep,
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Speaker 2: absolutely great speaking to him again, Lee as always, good
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Speaker 2: luck this week and I'll see you on the next one.
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Speaker 2: You two as good to chat. See you soon.