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Week 18 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome into another episode of the Premier
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  League Playground. I am the dad, Bjorn, with me as
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  our star, the lad. Luca Miller.
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  And how are you doing today, Luca?
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  I'm doing good. How are you?
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  Doing good. So we're in the Christmas
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  fixture of games here and Christmas was just a couple days
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  ago. Did you have a good Christmas?
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  Yeah. Tell me about your Christmas.
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  Well, I got lots of cards which I asked for, so that was pretty
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  nice. I got some new jerseys, new
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  ball. Yeah, it was.
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  It was a lot of fun. So you you're you're a big card
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  collector. What are your favorite sports to
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  collect with cards? Soccer, football and basketball.
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  And so for for kids out there listening, Luca, if you had a
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  recommendation first, since we're a soccer podcast, we'll
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  stick with soccer cards. What's What's the What's your
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  favorite brand of soccer cards to get?
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  Match attacks. Match attacks.
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  OK, so who makes match attacks? Tops, tops.
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  All right, what what what is it about those that you like the
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  most? The match attacks top soccer
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  cards which have been, they've been in your favorite for a
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  couple years. What, what makes them a little
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  bit better than let's say Panini or some of the other even tops
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  ones that they make? Well, I like their special cards
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  or insert cards look really cool and there's a lot of rare cards
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  to collect. And also I like how they have
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  like attack and defense ratings on on every card.
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  And I think that's really cool because some of the other types
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  of cards don't do that, like the Premier League, like the Premier
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  League themed cards that Panini used to do with tops now does
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  it? They don't have that.
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  Don Rus Prism, they don't have that either.
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  But I like that for match attacks that they have that.
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  And match attacks is kind of cool because they have, they
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  usually have like different themes on the tins, right?
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  You can get a tin and a lot of different themes and then kind
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  of it feels like what, midway through the season you start
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  getting them match attacks. Extra.
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  It's like a whole new tins and packs to get where they kind of
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  update player signings or like you said, they always seem to
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  have kind of cool special different cards.
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  You always get like some base cards, but feels like maybe
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  there's they do a good job with like the 100 club cards or like
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  an unbeatable they do like well, maybe what 1 unbeatable guy
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  because they put the radiance on them right.
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  Yeah, they do 1 unbeatable for the regular collection that
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  matches extra. They they do like one or two
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  because it matches the extra you can get women's players.
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  So I think they do an unbeatable for women's and a beautiful
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  men's. OK.
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  Yeah, yeah. So I think they need 2 in the
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  extra. Yeah, so you get women's and
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  men's players mostly, mostly men's players, but they sprinkle
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  some women's players in there, which is good.
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  Keeps us up on the women's game. A lot.
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  I got a Jersey card of Bonauti and it was game one.
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  That's really good. Maybe the best female player on
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  the. Ball on door multiple times.
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  Plays for Barcelona and Spain, so we're big fans.
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  Barcelona, we're fans of Barcelona.
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  Not as much as Arsenal, but. And Arsenal's got a great
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  women's team too. The Yeah shout out.
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  Champions League defending champions.
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  That's right. That's right.
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  So as much as we love the Arsenal men's team, we pull for
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  the Arsenal women's team too. Lots of good players there.
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  So yeah, you're like I said, it's it's fun kind of opening up
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  the packs. You get a real thrill at us kind
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  of opening them up. You keep binders of them.
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  You used to trade all the time. Not not too many of your friends
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  still collect. None of my friends still
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  collect. They all quit.
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  But I'm still, I'm still standing.
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  Yeah. And and you've also done a good
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  job of you've got a bunch of tins and packs, but you haven't
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  ripped through them all. You've been real patient, kind
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  of opening up a little bit as you go.
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  And I, it sounds crazy but I trade my Halloween candy with my
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  friend Charlie for cards He used to collect and we used to trade
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  but he doesn't do that anymore so he wants candy for cards.
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  So I'm like OK I'll do that easily.
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  I don't even care. I would rather have cards than
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  candy. So I would just trade anything
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  for cards. Yeah, and, and he's a big candy
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  guy. You're a big card guy, it seems.
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  Seems like a win. Win, I guess.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  There you go. What's the best so so far?
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  So far you've opened up football, basketball and soccer
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  cards, right? Yeah, since Christmas.
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  What's the best card you've gotten so far?
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  Well I got today I pulled an unbeatable Bellingham card that
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  was that was like 20-30 dollars and I pulled I had a Donner's
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  pack and I pulled an optic like shiny card of messy and that was
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  like 25 to $35.00. So that was pretty cool.
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  I think those are my 2 best cards that I've pulled.
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  Most expensive maybe, but I still have multiple things more
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  to open. So you never know, and it's the
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  mystery. Maybe on our next podcast
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  there'll be an even better card that you got you've opened.
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  Yeah, we could. We can regroup that next week
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  and we'll see. We'll see what my best card, but
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  by the next time we do our next podcast, 100% I've opened
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  everything. All right, well, Luca, we have
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  Week 18 in the books. In fact, you and I just finished
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  watching Crystal Palace Spurs the last game of the week.
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  So again, lots of games through December and into January.
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  In fact, we've got midweek games that we'll get into and get your
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  picks on, and that'll be almost the halfway point of the season.
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  So. But Week 18 is in the books,
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  Luca, you know, I don't know there was anything like earth
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  shattering this week, but we've got lots of interesting games to
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  get through. You ready to roll through them?
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Well, why don't we start off, Luca?
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  We talked about Boxing Day last week.
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  You told us the history of why it's called Boxing Day, although
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  there's only one game on Boxing Day this year.
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  I was a little disappointed in that.
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  It's good, but man, you hosted Newcastle on Boxing Day.
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  This game ends one nil. I predict to be two one
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  Newcastle door grew really nice volley in the 24th minute man
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  you only had 33% possession in this game and Newcastle have now
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  one win in the last 12 away lead game.
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  So they're just not very good away.
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  But yeah nothing much in this game Man United had four at the
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  back. They don't usually have that,
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  but since they're so short on players, they had the switch
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  their tactics and formations to just.
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  It seemed to work out, but yeah. Yeah, they kept the clean
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  sheets. So Ruben Ambro and Luca famously
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  sort of plays five at the back, which is essentially like 3
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  central defenders. And then you have a left back
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  and a right back or you call them wing backs and and they can
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  get up field more because there's three guys back.
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  So they've got a little bit of defensive responsibility they
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  can get, you know, forward to. And that's sort of famously been
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  his system. He's like, I'm not going to
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  change my system, but he was sort of forced to.
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  They still are without the lick. They're still without.
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  McGuire. McGuire slab head McGuire Slab.
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  He's got a. Big call, yeah.
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  He's got a big head, he's got a big slab of the head.
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  Oh, is that? I mean, he's good at heading the
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  ball, but you look at the size of his head.
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  OK, I didn't know that was his nickname though.
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  So it's interesting look, so they go to four at the back and
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  you know, they keep a clean sheet, you know.
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  So what I'll be interested in Luca then is moving forward
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  again. The amerem is sort of famously
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  said he does not want to deviate from his system.
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  This is my system. I'm going to play this way.
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  So you know, you get a result where you shut out a relatively
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  pretty good team in Newcastle. They have some, they have a lot
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  of attacks and talent on that team, so yeah.
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  They do now. What's interesting, Luke, is
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  that Newcastle, Newcastle famously have always been really
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  tough to play at Saint James Park, at their Home Park, but
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  usually they're a little better on the road.
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  They've been terrible on the road, Luke in seven in, in, I'm
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  sorry, in nine games, one win, 3 draws, 5 losses and they've only
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  scored seven goals in those nine games on the road.
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  And you just said it, Luca, they have too many games. 12 games on
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  the road. No, they've only played nine on
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  the road so far. So you know, they, they, you
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  know, they've only scored seven goals and like you said, there's
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  just way better attacking talent then then they've got, you know,
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  what is the problem Luca, for them?
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  I mean, it, it could be injuries.
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  They are missing Dan Byrne, but like they still have a lot of
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  depth. I I don't I don't even know.
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  They're very, very unpredictable.
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  So you just never know when you when it's, I mean, both of these
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  teams are super unpredictable. So I don't even know.
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  I don't. Know and you know man you I'm
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  gonna sort of credit them with this one because I would have
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  thought again I've been sort of saying the Newcastle is probably
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  better than they are but I'm sort of gonna give it up on that
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  I mean Newcastle are in 14th place on 23 points I think I've
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  sort of given up on them through.
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  Everton, they're big or no, No, no, yeah.
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  I mean, Sunderland is above them.
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  Yeah, they're newly promoted. Yep, Yep, I know and and and you
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  know, I think the you know, at some point you got to look at
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  Manchester United and say this team has players that have gone
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  off the plate at AFCON, you know, good players, Ahmad
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  Emboymo, Mizrawi, they're missing a bunch of guys to
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  injuries and and here they go sort of grinding out a win.
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  The goal was a real nice finish from Burgu.
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  He said no Bruno Fernandez, their last five where they
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  didn't have Bruno, they lost all five of their those games.
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  I mean, we know what an important player is.
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  He's the captain. He's a great, great player for
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  them. And you know, he's, you know, I
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  think tied for the league lead and assists.
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  So to remove a player like that is hard, let alone everything
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  else that they're having to deal with.
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  So I got to really sort of credit them with sort of finding
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  a way to grind out a win against again, theoretically, I will say
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  this. What is a talented team?
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  I don't know that I'm going to start saying Newcastle's a good
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  team anymore. They're a talented team.
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  They're not like I said, that good on the road again, man, you
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  I think, you know, people think there are are still tough to go
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  and beat at Old Trafford. You know, even being an
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  inconsistent team, they are still very difficult to go beat
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  at Old Trafford. And, you know, look at this
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  like, look at we're almost halfway through and here's
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  Manchester United sitting there in 6th place, tied with Chelsea,
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  actually tied for fifth with Chelsea on 29 points.
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  I mean you, you would have to say that this is probably better
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  than we thought from Man United A. 100%, I mean, they finished
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  15th last year, I think. I mean, this is definitely
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  better than people would have expected.
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  So you, I mean, are you would you say like as we now are going
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  to kind of transition into the second-half of the season, do
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  Man United have a realistic shot at top 4IN Champions League?
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  Well, they might. They might have a chance.
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  It's going to be it's going to be tight because there are a lot
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  of other really good teams fighting for the top 4 bit and
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  if if they're the F Con players come back, then that would be a
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  big help. Bruno Fernandez and the other
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  injuries come back. There will be a lot stronger as
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  a team and I think they have a shot once all the players from
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  injury slash F Con come back. Well, let me ask you this.
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  So what's tricky about this is the top three have sort of
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  separated themselves in the table, right?
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  We have this Arsenal, City, Villa top three that are now 7
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  points above Liverpool and 4th. So we sort of have this top
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  three that it's hard to imagine them not finishing 1-2 and three
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  in some order. So that means 4th gets you
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  Champions League, possibly fifth.
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  OK, so possibly 5th. We don't know that for sure
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  because there could be there's two extra spots awarded to the
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  to the European leagues. Probably one will go to England.
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  So, so you know, United is they're going to be battling out
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  with essentially probably Liverpool, Chelsea, you know, I
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  don't know that Sunderland, Brentford, Palace, Fulham,
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  Tottenham, Everton, the next teams in the table.
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  I, I don't see them qualifying for Champions League.
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  So that means to be United have a very good shot.
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  If they can sort of just leapfrog Chelsea into fifth,
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  they've got a good shot of getting back in a Champions
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  League, which would be I think a huge success for them after what
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  happened last year. However, I myself, I don't know,
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  I do not think they're better than Liverpool.
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  So I, you know, and I've said to you, I think Liverpool will
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  finish third. They're not.
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  Well, we made a bet. We made a bet.
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  We made a bet on this. We'll get.
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  Into. Dollars, yeah, we'll get into
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  that. I still think Liverpool will
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  finish in 3rd and we'll get on to that when we talk about
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  Liverpool in a second. But I so I think what it maybe
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  comes down to is Chelsea versus Man United for that fifth spot.
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  Who would? Who would you say right now if
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  you were to guess who gets 5th between those two teams?
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  Chelsea and United, yes. If you gets 5th, Chelsea or
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  United if you had to just say it right now.
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  I think, I think united. OK.
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  All right. So you think United over Chelsea
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  if it comes down? Yeah, OK, Interesting.
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  Well, we'll see. Like I said, I can.
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  Hot take. Hot take, but I think United are
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  in a great, great spot to sort of make a run here.
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  Like you said, they can. I mean, they can expect to get
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  guys back from injury a couple weeks.
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  We'll get, like I said, some key players back from AFCON.
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  So if they can get that back, I don't see any reason why they
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  can't at least be hanging around here.
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  You know, I'm expecting, like I said, some decent results from
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  them to at least be hanging around.
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  They should not all of a sudden lose 2-3 in a row and you know,
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  drop down to 10th or 11. I mean, the expectation for this
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  team should be battling it out here.
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  We're we're at a minimum you're getting Europa League or or you
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  wait for Conference League. Yeah.
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  All right, Luca, let's move over to Nottingham Forest hosted
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  city. Oh, this game ends two win city
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  I predict to be 3 nail city. There's really nothing in the
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  first half in until once, Just nothing in the first half.
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  Pretty, just a dull first. Half went in 00, really.
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  Nothing really much happened. Both teams just felt like a
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  sleep. Yeah.
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  And that's like an early morning kickoff.
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  So you sometimes wonder if, like, if they literally were
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  kind of awake yet. You know, even though it is like
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  they kick off around noon over in England, that's sort of early
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  for them. Usually game around like 3 or
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  so. Wait, they just need like a wake
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  up call? Well, Rinder scores in the 48
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  minute, Hutchinson in the 54th minute and Cherokee, he's been
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  on well, he's been in very good form and he scores the winner in
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  the 83rd minute off of like a deep corner.
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  Guevardio heads back and Cherokee one time finish into
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  the bottom corner is nice. He also had the assists for
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  Rynders that goal. Cherokee now eight Premier
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  League goal involvement since the start of November.
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  City's six wins in a row, two points behind Arsenal.
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  So they're kind of they're catching up to Arsenal on our
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  tail. Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't
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  know if they're catching up. It's just been like, it's been
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  right now. Yeah, it's been 2 points for a
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  couple games now, but they're just cranky.
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  They're just rolling through wins here.
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  Yeah. Luca, you know, only Holland and
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  Bruno Fernandez have more goal involvement since November.
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  You know he's right now Shirky, you know, came over from Lyon
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  cost $42 million, which I know sounds like a crazy amount, but
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  like when you're buying top players at top teams
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  consistently, we see guys you know 607080 million.
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  You know, you see Liverpool spends 170 million on ESAC.
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  They spent almost 100 on verts on Eka TK.
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  But how important is this guy then for City?
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  Because, you know, he is just that sort of, you know, classic
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  #10 you know, we've talked about it the kind of like from David
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  Silva to Bernardo Silva, just that sort of little bit of a
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  smaller guy, but real silky dribbly.
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  Just can kind of do a little bit of both creates with some
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  passing, but also can finish. You know, he's not going to
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  like, you know, be your big defensive stalwart.
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  But you don't need him to do that.
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  You're not asking him to do. That you have Rhodri back you.
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  Yeah, Well, exactly. You know, they're going to be.
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  He was on the bench, you know, so he's on his way back for that
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  team to kind of even fortify the defense a little bit.
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  But I mean, Luca, can you think, I mean, when you think of like
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  important summer signings, you know, is he maybe City's biggest
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  signing this summer? You know I.
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  Mean they signed. Grinders.
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  Grinders. Yes, ignori.
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  Ignori, you know, now last winter, the you know, they
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  signed a bunch of guys in January, you know, they signed
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  Nico Gonzalez, they signed they. Who else?
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  Did they sign? They signed like 3 guys in
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  January. Did they sign Savino?
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  No, Savino was on the same last year.
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  Yeah, I'm kind of drawing a blank on like who else they
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  signed, but they signed a couple guys, you know, they were
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  struggling last year and then came through and signed a bunch
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  of guys in January, then the summer signed a couple guys.
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  But it almost feels like Shirky. Look at that value.
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  I mean, that is just, you know. Great deal for city.
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  Great deal for City. I mean, you know, we talked
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  about he's got 7 assists on the year.
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  That's tied with Bruno Fernandez for most assists in the Premier
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  League. Now, it helps when you're
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  feeding the ball to Holland and stuff.
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  Holland didn't score this game. They still get two goals and
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  they win. And you know, again, we've
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  talked about it. It's not the toughest
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  competition right now for City. They're not playing the best
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  teams, but they're getting wins. They're keeping the pressure on
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  Arsenal. We're just seeing this top
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  three. Luca just sort of, you know, one
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  wins and the other two come back and win.
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  There's really been no separation.
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  We got a big one this week, obviously with Villa and Arsenal
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  playing, but City just feel like sort of this sleeping giant
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  that, you know, I just don't know, like where the losses are
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  going to come from from them. Like, you know, every game that
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  they play, they just seem to create so many different
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  chances, lots of different opportunities.
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  You almost feel like Holland's good for a goal or two every
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  game, although he didn't score this week.
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  But I don't know, you know, it's just to me, if there's no
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  injuries to this team, it's hard to imagine them not winning.
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  Yeah. Forrest Luca, you know, they're
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  they're not a great team. I think they're playing better
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  under Shawn Deitch. You know, I think they're
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  obviously in the relegation battle.
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  They're in the bottom 5, but you.
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  Know, I think, I think they're good enough to stay up.
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  I think so too. They showed some fight in this
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  game. You know that Hutchinson goal.
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  They responded real well after giving up that first goal.
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  You've kind of kind of mentioned Luca there.
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  There's like some talent on the field for not.
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  Even. Like when you look at some of
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  the players, Hudson and Doy Elliott, Anderson.
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  Sells is a good keeper. Yeah, Sells is a good team.
• 18:35
  Milenkovich. Yeah, he's a good defender.
• 18:38
  Yeah, I think so, Mario. Niko Williams is pretty good.
• 18:42
  Yeah, like this doesn't feel like a relegated team.
• 18:45
  Yeah, when you like talk about like those kind of players when
• 18:47
  you're thinking of other teams like, you know, West Ham.
• 18:49
  Bernie, obviously. Wolves like I, I think Forest
• 18:53
  will be OK and I think I think they're going to finish 1415.
• 18:55
  I'm not saying they're, you know, good, but I think they're
• 18:58
  going to give some teams trouble again.
• 19:00
  I think Sean Dyke, just come in there.
• 19:01
  He's got him organized, you know, you know, losing the city.
• 19:04
  There's no shame in that. They're, like I said, you know,
• 19:07
  the best team, if not one of the top two teams in the Premier
• 19:09
  League. So you know, they'll, they'll,
• 19:13
  they'll find some points in other games.
• 19:14
  Yeah. All right, Luca, well, we just
• 19:16
  sort of touched on Liverpool. Liverpool hosted Wolves.
• 19:20
  Take me through this game. Liverpool won this game 21I
• 19:23
  predicted one nil. Liverpool Grabenberg in the 41st
• 19:28
  minute scores Verts a minute later in the 42nd, his first
• 19:33
  Premier League goal and then Bueno a bit of a consolation
• 19:37
  goal in the 51st minute. Liverpool are now up to 4th on
• 19:42
  32 points and Wolves with two points after 18 matches.
• 19:47
  Officially the worst start to any Premier League to any
• 19:51
  Premier League season. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's
• 19:55
  not much to say about Wolves. I mean, so Rob Edwards, Lucas,
• 19:57
  the new coach, he's now Owen, seven since taking over.
• 20:01
  I mean, it's just been a miserable, miserable year.
• 20:04
  They're setting all sorts of records for futility and you
• 20:06
  know. To records they do not want to
• 20:08
  send. The records they do not want to
• 20:09
  send, that's for sure. You know, kind of the underlying
• 20:11
  storyline to this game. Luca was Diogo Jota.
• 20:14
  The Liverpool forward who died in a car crash this summer, was
• 20:18
  purchased from Wolves. So his two teams in the Premier
• 20:21
  League were Wolves and Liverpool.
• 20:23
  This was the first game that they played each other since his
• 20:26
  death. It was kind of nice moments at
• 20:28
  the beginning of the game. His kids came out as mascots,
• 20:31
  his wife was there. There was like some real nice
• 20:33
  tributes to him. Were they mascots for Liverpool
• 20:36
  or Wolves? They were, I think for
• 20:37
  Liverpool, I think they were, they were, they wore his dad's
• 20:39
  jersey and stuff. So, you know, that's sort of the
• 20:42
  underlying theme to this game. So it's kind of a probably an
• 20:46
  emotional game probably for both sides, more so for Liverpool.
• 20:49
  But you know, look, Liverpool look up, you know, maybe it's
• 20:52
  not as pretty as last year. You know, I'm sure they would
• 20:55
  have liked to have beaten Wolves a little worse than this.
• 20:57
  But you know, look, ultimately they get the win.
• 21:00
  Verts maybe coming on Luca a little bit.
• 21:03
  He gets his first Premier League goal.
• 21:04
  Had an assist last week on a big goal.
• 21:07
  What do you think? Are we starting to maybe see a
• 21:09
  little something from him? Maybe maybe All right, You're
• 21:13
  not so committed. He was like you're he was.
• 21:15
  Remember I remember the preseason episode you said he
• 21:17
  was going to be the signing of the year.
• 21:19
  So are you still hold? Player to watch, not signing.
• 21:23
  Player to watch. So are you still saying like
• 21:27
  he's a player to watch or you like this is kind of what he is?
• 21:30
  I, I think he's just, I mean, we, he's got, he's had plenty of
• 21:36
  time to settle in. I, I think, I think this is just
• 21:40
  give me how he is, OK. I don't think he's like Premier
• 21:43
  League ready. He was unbelievable in the
• 21:45
  Bundesliga but I just don't. I don't know if he's going to be
• 21:48
  Premier League ready. I think Luca, I think we're
• 21:51
  starting to see some flashes from him.
• 21:53
  I think they're starting to Liverpool are starting to mesh a
• 21:57
  little bit better as a team. The results are kind of showing
• 22:00
  it here. I didn't look for him in the
• 22:02
  second-half of the season. I'm going back to Luca from
• 22:05
  preseason and saying this, he is 1 to watch because I just, I
• 22:09
  just think he's such a skilled player, but I do think you have
• 22:12
  to know how to kind of use him. I don't think he's a guy like,
• 22:15
  like, you know, we talk about Declan Rice all the time.
• 22:17
  I don't. But like you can drop Declan
• 22:19
  Rice in anywhere on the field and he's just going to be great.
• 22:21
  I think words has to be used properly.
• 22:24
  You have to sort of find him in like good spots.
• 22:26
  You have to make sure that you kind of, you know, get him in
• 22:29
  positions where he can succeed. I think he's great with the ball
• 22:31
  at his feet. He's not going to be a super
• 22:33
  physical player, but I think he can kind of finish on these late
• 22:36
  runs. I think he can create a little
• 22:38
  bit and I think they're sort of figuring that out with that team
• 22:41
  a little bit. So we'll see.
• 22:43
  I think there's a ton of drama around that team.
• 22:45
  You know, we've started off with like whether they're going to
• 22:48
  buy or sell E SAC. Then it turned into the most
• 22:50
  solid drama, and I think it's almost them the most.
• 22:52
  Salah's gone off to Africa to play with Egypt.
• 22:55
  You know, Esac is now hurting out for two or three months.
• 22:58
  I don't want to say that helps them, but I think it just locks
• 23:01
  it in. We're like Ekatigas are starting
• 23:03
  forward. You know, there's no most solid
• 23:05
  drama. Is he going to start?
• 23:06
  Is he going to play? You know, now we'll see
• 23:10
  eventually. You just can't have good players
• 23:12
  not be there. But for right now, they're
• 23:14
  getting results. Luca, I keep saying it.
• 23:16
  They're going to finish in 3rd. You keep saying no, there's
• 23:20
  seven points behind Villa. Six points is a good bit.
• 23:23
  It is a good bit. I will say that however, Luke, I
• 23:27
  just think that Liverpool and again when we talk about the
• 23:29
  talent on the field, the injuries concern me a little
• 23:32
  bit. Like I said, losing Isaac, you
• 23:34
  know you've got Salah gone. You know they've had some
• 23:37
  injuries to defense, but Frimpong came back.
• 23:39
  He looked pretty good in this game, created the assist for
• 23:42
  Grabenberg's first goal. So he's kind of a useful guy
• 23:45
  that they haven't really had because he's been injured.
• 23:47
  So we'll see. I think it's going to be
• 23:50
  interesting watching this team in the second-half.
• 23:53
  I think Art and now would you say they're so you don't think
• 23:56
  they're finishing top three? Yeah.
• 23:58
  Would you say they're going to finish 4th?
• 24:02
  Or do you say? Chelsea, you finish fourth, OK,
• 24:04
  you think they're finishing fourth so you think they're
• 24:06
  definitely be ahead of Chelsea, Man United, Sunderland,
• 24:08
  Brentford, but they're not catching the top.
• 24:10
  Three. No, Yeah.
• 24:11
  OK, well we'll see. What was our bet again?
• 24:14
  My bet or bet was if if Liverpool finishes top three or
• 24:20
  third then I give you 5 bucks but if Eston Villa finishes
• 24:26
  third you give me 5 bucks all. Right there you have it.
• 24:29
  Little Premier playground wager. We'll see how it comes through.
• 24:34
  All right, Luca, well, let's move on to our team.
• 24:36
  Arsenal at home versus Brighton. Take me through this one with
• 24:40
  our boys. I got this one perfect.
• 24:43
  A-21 Arsenal. I predicted 21 Arsenal Odegard
• 24:46
  nice finish from outside the box in the 14th minute.
• 24:50
  Then Georgina Reuter own goal in the 52nd minute.
• 24:53
  Gomez nice volley. It kind of falls right to him
• 24:56
  off of a shot off the post and got a little lucky that it fell
• 25:01
  right to him. But a pretty nice finish in the
• 25:02
  64th minute. Arsenal had an XG of 2.8 and 24
• 25:08
  shots in the game. That just proved they they're
• 25:10
  not they weren't very clinical with their chances in this game.
• 25:14
  Arsenal's still top of the table on 42 points, so yeah.
• 25:18
  Yeah, You know, we, I sound like a broken record, though when I
• 25:21
  talk about Arsenal. But it's like you just can't
• 25:22
  help but get away from injuries with this team, you know, going
• 25:25
  into this game, they're, you know, really, really talented
• 25:29
  right back. Yuri and Timber popped up,
• 25:31
  couldn't play, couldn't even make the bench and Cala Fiore
• 25:34
  Luca in warmups gets hurt. I mean literally we get guys
• 25:37
  injured in warmups now that can't play.
• 25:40
  So Lewis Kelly had to come in on at the left side on defense to
• 25:45
  play for him. I thought he did a good job, but
• 25:48
  it's just like, you know, you know.
• 25:49
  Havarts still slowly couldn't even make the bench for this one
• 25:52
  yet, so. He's in training though, so I I
• 25:54
  think he might make the bench for this next game against
• 25:57
  Villa. We hope so.
• 25:58
  I mean, that's the thing where we hope that like guys are
• 26:01
  coming back because it's. Just Gabrielle.
• 26:02
  Came back, I was going to say, you know, one of the big things
• 26:05
  is Gabrielle was able to be on the bench, came in for the last
• 26:08
  20 minutes of the game. You would think then that he's
• 26:10
  going to be fit to start moving forward.
• 26:12
  So he's a massive, massive person to get back.
• 26:15
  One is just because we keep losing guys on the back line,
• 26:18
  but two, he's such an important player for.
• 26:19
  Ours, Yeah. He's like the heart of our team.
• 26:22
  I said this multiple times, but he's like the horror of our
• 26:24
  team. Exactly.
• 26:25
  He's, you know, he's not the captain Luca, but he sort of
• 26:27
  acts like it. He's sort of the captain of the
• 26:29
  defense. You know, some people may say
• 26:31
  Saleb is a more talented defender, but there's no
• 26:34
  question that Gabrielle was like the heart.
• 26:36
  The fire back there just seems like love defending.
• 26:39
  He loves getting the headers. He loves getting the blocks.
• 26:42
  He wants the ball more than everyone else on that field.
• 26:44
  Yeah, exactly. And so having him back, I think
• 26:47
  just one, he's great at playing soccer and football.
• 26:51
  I think it's just the sparks of fire in our team.
• 26:54
  Yeah, I think he's one of those guys that people can look to and
• 26:56
  be like, yes, he's back there, we got this.
• 26:58
  And then not to mention he's obviously great kind of at
• 27:00
  headers. He's scoring goals at times so.
• 27:03
  I think he's very good at defending too.
• 27:05
  Oh, for sure. No, no, I'm just saying it's an
• 27:07
  added bonus that he can get up there on corner kicks and set
• 27:10
  pieces and provide a little bit of offense and score some goals
• 27:12
  too. But no, he's a fantastic
• 27:14
  defender. And in fact, I, I, and sometimes
• 27:16
  in some ways think he's a little bit of a better vendor than
• 27:18
  Saliba. The two of them together are
• 27:20
  great as a pairing. But, you know, if you had to
• 27:23
  sort of pull one out, like if I had to sell one tomorrow, I
• 27:27
  would probably sell Saliba, not Gabrielle, you know?
• 27:30
  I have a really nice card with Gabrielle and Saliba on the same
• 27:34
  card. It's called like a pro
• 27:36
  partnership card and it's Gabrielle and Saliba on the same
• 27:41
  card. It's really cool.
• 27:42
  I pull it myself. Yeah, I think and I think it's
• 27:45
  hard not to think of the two of them together.
• 27:47
  You know, they've been together playing so long and I just think
• 27:50
  they work in such partnership together.
• 27:53
  To me, there's no better center back partnership in the world.
• 27:56
  On some of these teams, you. Know you can talk about Oh well,
• 27:58
  maybe there's a better center back on another team but I think
• 28:02
  if you took like the two of them together, there's just no better
• 28:04
  pairing in the world. So yeah, it's great to have him
• 28:07
  back Look, Arsenal Luca it it's not pretty.
• 28:10
  You know, we we we should also give a huge shout out to Raya
• 28:13
  that he has a save on Minta where the ball kind of comes
• 28:16
  across the Minta's left foot. He hits a beautifully curling.
• 28:19
  I don't want to say top corner. The ball's headed to an upper
• 28:23
  corner. Wyatt just sort of dives out of
• 28:25
  nowhere flicks it up over the bar.
• 28:27
  I mean it. Would have gone in if he.
• 28:28
  Didn't do that easily. Would have gone in and.
• 28:30
  It would have been an awesome goal.
• 28:32
  Yeah, for sure. You would have tipped your cap
• 28:34
  and then like great goal. Like I mean, I honestly, look, I
• 28:36
  think that 90% of the time goes in against most goalies.
• 28:40
  I mean that that's one of the that's probably Raya's best save
• 28:42
  of the season. And I mean, I haven't watched
• 28:45
  all goalie saves, but that's one of the top three saves I've.
• 28:48
  Seen I have a hot take. OK, I think Rye is the best
• 28:51
  goalie in the world right now. In the world, yes.
• 28:54
  Oh, wow. Wow.
• 28:55
  OK. Very hot, very hot, steamy.
• 28:57
  Not take. OK, well, what makes you say
• 29:00
  that? I don't know.
• 29:01
  I think he's like ability to save the ball from like any
• 29:06
  distance during the goal. Like it's I think he's just
• 29:10
  really good at saving the ball pretty much.
• 29:12
  It's pretty much. Well, and I mean, that's the
• 29:14
  point of being a goalie, right? Save the ball.
• 29:16
  He's not that big and tall, but he's still like can save shots
• 29:22
  that are going to like the upper corner.
• 29:25
  Like he proved that in the Brighton game.
• 29:28
  Yeah, I think it's it's it's not a bad call, Luke.
• 29:30
  And I'll say this because I feel like he, you know, when called
• 29:34
  upon, like we have a great defense, you know, we we have a
• 29:37
  ton of injuries. But you think of like when
• 29:39
  Arsenal line up with their number one defense, Timber,
• 29:42
  Saliba, Gabrielle and Cala Fury, like that's about as good as
• 29:46
  like anybody in the world, you put Zubamendi in front of them
• 29:48
  as a defensive. Midfielder Rice in.
• 29:51
  Front of them. So that's like a great setup in
• 29:52
  front of any goalie in the world.
• 29:54
  However, like when called upon, Riot does make saves and
• 29:57
  literally save the game for them yesterday.
• 29:59
  Oh, yeah, I think if that ball goes in, I don't know that
• 30:02
  Arsenal are going to go. I mean, there would have been, I
• 30:04
  think about maybe about 8 to 10 minutes left in the game.
• 30:06
  You can't say that, well, Arsenal would have gone down and
• 30:08
  somehow find their way to get a goal.
• 30:10
  No, you maybe tie that game and then of course ties like a loss
• 30:13
  to the. Top, Yeah.
• 30:15
  So I mean, that's huge. Like if, if you, if we look
• 30:17
  back, Luca and Arsenal somehow miraculously win the Premier
• 30:20
  League by a point or two, you can literally look at that save
• 30:23
  and be like, Rya's save almost wins you the Premier League.
• 30:25
  I mean, it's these fine margins. It's like it's, it's things like
• 30:29
  that to take a time. What we talked about, you've got
• 30:31
  to be able to turn like a loss into a tie or really ties in the
• 30:34
  wins at the top of the league. That's what lost Arsenal last
• 30:37
  year. Luca was all the ties that they
• 30:39
  had. Liverpool did not have all those
• 30:40
  ties. So they've got to figure out a
• 30:41
  way to turn ties in the wins. That almost felt like that's
• 30:44
  what you did yesterday. Yeah.
• 30:46
  And then the other thing with Raya Luca, he's great at
• 30:49
  crosses, highballs into the box. He is great at coming out
• 30:53
  highball in it and getting the ball.
• 30:55
  And of course, he's also very good with his feet.
• 30:57
  I mean, I don't want to say he's like, you know, amazing with his
• 31:00
  feet, but he's very, very good with the ball at his feet and
• 31:03
  distributing the ball. Anderson's also very good with
• 31:05
  his feet. Yeah, I mean, Anderson's great
• 31:07
  with it. You know, Courtois is really
• 31:09
  good. You know, I do think Raya gets
• 31:12
  knocked. I I do think, you know, you
• 31:13
  naturally think of the best goalies in the world.
• 31:15
  You want to think of these big tall guys, right?
• 31:17
  You think of like a block and Courtois and they're 6566 Donna
• 31:20
  Ruma. Because they just, they look
• 31:22
  like what a goalie should look like.
• 31:24
  Raya's like 6 feet 61. You're like, oh, he's too small
• 31:27
  to be the best goalie in the world.
• 31:29
  But it's not a bad call, Luca, you know, I mean, we talked
• 31:32
  about it a little bit. You know, Spain has some good
• 31:35
  goalies. The World Cup's coming up, you
• 31:37
  know. I think RYA should start over.
• 31:39
  Una Simone. OK, so you think yet he's sort
• 31:42
  of done enough that he should be Spain's number one in the world?
• 31:45
  'S cup more than enough. OK, fair enough.
• 31:47
  Well, I think that's something to kind of look for is, you
• 31:49
  know, this is what everybody wants is like good informed
• 31:52
  players as you head to the World Cup.
• 31:53
  Well, RYA, like I said, just an amazing save that he had there.
• 31:56
  So yeah, Luca, Arsenal again, we're 18 weeks in.
• 32:00
  They lead City by two, they lead Villa by three.
• 32:02
  Of course, massive game against Villa coming up this week, so.
• 32:05
  Yeah, if you beat the person or the team that's clinging on your
• 32:10
  like you, who's trying to catch you in the title race, it's big.
• 32:15
  It is you know, I I still Luca ice will still say it's a two
• 32:19
  team title race. I think this it's it's Arsenal
• 32:22
  and City going back and forth. I think Villa, Luca, this is,
• 32:25
  they've won 11 games in a row. This is something they haven't
• 32:28
  done in like 115, sixteen years or something like that.
• 32:33
  I mean, it's just this crazy run and they're still 3 points
• 32:36
  behind. Yeah.
• 32:37
  Like there's no way they can keep this up.
• 32:39
  And in fact, you know, if you look at Villa's XG, you know,
• 32:42
  their expected goals, they far outperform their expected goals,
• 32:46
  which essentially tells you that right now they're getting a
• 32:49
  little bit lucky, they're converting every chance they
• 32:52
  get. You know, it's just
• 32:54
  unsustainable to keep that up though.
• 32:56
  You know, if you're not really, if you're have like an, if
• 32:58
  you're creating an XD of like 1.2, you're not going to score
• 33:02
  three or four goals every game. It just doesn't work that way.
• 33:03
  At some point it kind of comes back and then that you know,
• 33:06
  turns into a 0 game or something like that.
• 33:08
  So I don't always go too crazy about XG, but I, you know, the
• 33:12
  sort of expected goals from chances you create, that's the
• 33:15
  stat. It essentially just gives you a
• 33:16
  marker of like how much offense A-Team created.
• 33:19
  So they, like I said, are far exceeding it.
• 33:22
  You know, a lot of these wins look have been one goal wins.
• 33:25
  It's hard. And this is listen, this is my
• 33:27
  knock against Arsenal too. It's hard to sustain these one
• 33:30
  goal wins, these fine margins where you just expect like
• 33:33
  nothing to go wrong. You know, we'll see again, this
• 33:38
  makes me very nervous about Arsenal as well.
• 33:40
  Just these sort of fine margin one goal wins where you just you
• 33:42
  know, we've seen it. Look at we've given up extra
• 33:44
  time goals to Sunderland and Villa, you know, 1 ended in a
• 33:47
  tie, 1 ended in a loss. So, you know, both of these
• 33:52
  teams, I think if they don't want to see City sort of blow by
• 33:55
  them, they've got to figure out ways to get a little bit more
• 33:57
  comfortable wins. So, yeah, All right, Luca.
• 34:00
  Not exactly a glamorous game, but a London Derby.
• 34:02
  We had West Ham hosting Fulham. I got this one spot on too.
• 34:06
  I predicted one new and it was one earth, one nil Fulham and I
• 34:10
  predicted the one with no Fulham.
• 34:12
  Jimenez in the 85th minute from Hutchinson.
• 34:15
  I mean what Hutchinson? I mean Wilson.
• 34:17
  Jeez, what? He has now five goals and four
• 34:22
  assists on the season. He's probably been their star
• 34:26
  player. Fulham now have three or have
• 34:31
  now won three Premier League games in a row, moving them up
• 34:35
  to 10. Yeah, you know, Fulham, Lucas at
• 34:39
  you know, look, they haven't played the best competition over
• 34:42
  these three wins, wins over Burnley, Forest and West Ham.
• 34:45
  But listen, you play the teams that are in front of you.
• 34:47
  Yeah, next three games for Fulham, Crystal Palace,
• 34:50
  Liverpool and Chelsea, so. That's going to be a.
• 34:53
  Test. It's going to be a test, you
• 34:54
  know, now I think they get Liverpool and Chelsea at home on
• 34:58
  the road to Palace, who did not look good against Spurs today.
• 35:01
  So maybe you try to, like, steal a win at Palace, try to draw
• 35:05
  Liverpool or Chelsea. You know, we'll see.
• 35:09
  Like I said, again, three wins in a row is nice.
• 35:12
  Maybe they carry that momentum. Maybe they can, like I said,
• 35:15
  make they're probably not gonna be favored in any of those
• 35:18
  games. Yeah, but look at Harry Wilson.
• 35:20
  I mean, how good has this guy been?
• 35:22
  I kind of wanted to do a little bit of a deeper dive on him.
• 35:26
  So he look, Harry Wells, he's a he's a right winger for them.
• 35:29
  He's got a great left foot, maybe not so good a right foot,
• 35:32
  but he's got a great left foot. So he's 28 Luca, he's from
• 35:35
  Wales. Interesting.
• 35:36
  He was born in Wrexham, of course, Wrexham fame, fame team
• 35:40
  that has ATV show and are in the championship right now.
• 35:43
  But look, he he was at Liverpool.
• 35:45
  You know, he got signed by Liverpool as like a kid and was
• 35:47
  at Liverpool for like almost 10 years.
• 35:50
  So obviously this is a talented guy to make Liverpool's Academy
• 35:54
  and to stick with Liverpool for 10 years now.
• 35:55
  He never played for the senior team he got loan to like Crew,
• 35:59
  Alexandra, Hull City, Derby County, Bournemouth, Cardiff
• 36:03
  City, eventually gets a loan to Fulham who buy him in 2022.
• 36:07
  And he's sort of been there for, you know, obviously since 2022.
• 36:11
  But this clearly to me his best year so far, like you said, five
• 36:15
  goals, 4 assists already, you know, seems dangerous when he
• 36:19
  gets the ball, you know, just creates chances.
• 36:22
  You know, even in this game today, I think he sailed one
• 36:24
  over the bar on a good shot, but.
• 36:27
  Yeah, he had. He had a really nice shot that
• 36:29
  Ariel saves and not get over the bar.
• 36:32
  Yeah, I mean, he's just such a good player for them.
• 36:34
  You know, when they need attacking talent on that team,
• 36:37
  you know, they they've got Jimenez who had the PK last
• 36:40
  week, scores a game winner this week.
• 36:42
  There's some rumors, Luca, that that Fulham may be going in for
• 36:45
  Ricardo Pepe, the American striker who plays at PSV
• 36:48
  Eindhoven. So the January transfer window
• 36:50
  could be a spot where they're looking to add a forward in, add
• 36:53
  a little bit more attacking talent.
• 36:54
  You know, they're still trying to get Kevin kind of worked in.
• 36:57
  He was a one big signing. So you know, Fulham have always
• 37:00
  been that team that feels like they just like where are they
• 37:02
  going to get the goals and attacking, you know, from well,
• 37:05
  Harry Wilson, like I said, is answering that a big way for
• 37:07
  them this year? And so, like I said, interesting
• 37:10
  guy, fun guy to watch. Like I said, I like watching him
• 37:12
  play great with his left foot when he cuts in off that right
• 37:16
  side. But yeah, I've been a real
• 37:17
  useful player for them. Yeah.
• 37:20
  All right, Luke, kind of a boring snoozer here.
• 37:22
  Burnley hosted Everton. This was 00 I predict to be 11.
• 37:26
  Burnley had sixteen shots but none of them were on goal.
• 37:29
  And Everton have the most 00 ties in Premier League history
• 37:34
  after this, so yeah. Yeah, maybe we shouldn't have
• 37:37
  been surprised, right? Like you said, Everton, you
• 37:39
  know, most 00 ties ever, Both of these teams, teams to struggle
• 37:43
  to score. I mean, Burnley only have 19
• 37:44
  goals on the year, Everton only have 18 goals on the year.
• 37:47
  Holland has as many goals as Burnley since our team.
• 37:51
  Yeah, yeah, and more than Everton by 1, so you know, 00
• 37:56
  tie. We shouldn't be hugely
• 37:57
  surprised. Like I said, not not much to
• 37:59
  talk about in this game. Yeah.
• 38:01
  All right, let's move over a bunch of goals in this one.
• 38:03
  Luca Brentford hosted Bournemouth.
• 38:05
  This game 41 Brentford I predicted to be 11 tie shot.
• 38:09
  I has a hat trick in this game. So he scores in the 7th minute,
• 38:15
  the 51st minute and in added time in the 90th minute.
• 38:22
  Added time Simeno in the 75th minute, scores Petrovich own
• 38:29
  goal in the 39th minute. Kind of order here and then shot
• 38:34
  a first German player to to get 2 or more hat tricks in the
• 38:41
  Premier League. Six goals on the year, 2 for
• 38:44
  him. We'll wait on Sade.
• 38:46
  Yeah, yeah, good player for them.
• 38:48
  Like you said, 6 total goals this year.
• 38:50
  Gosh, Bournemouth, Luca, just really struggling.
• 38:52
  They're now winless in their last nine Premier League
• 38:55
  matches. Remember this team at one point
• 38:57
  was in second. Oh yeah, they're in second.
• 38:59
  It feels like three seasons ago for them.
• 39:01
  I mean, they are really, really struggling.
• 39:03
  I mean, it's, it's kind of hard to put your finger on like, what
• 39:05
  is going on with them? You know, they've got this drama
• 39:08
  around Simenyo. He's probably going to Man City
• 39:10
  in January. Man City.
• 39:12
  Yeah, it looks like it's pretty much going to be a done deal
• 39:15
  that he'll go there. You know, they're now in 15th
• 39:18
  place, Luke. I mean, just, you know, I think
• 39:20
  they're, I don't think they're really going to be a relegation
• 39:23
  battle for them. I mean, there's still 9 points
• 39:25
  above West Ham, but I mean, it's just crazy how bad this team is
• 39:28
  falling off Luca Brentford at home.
• 39:31
  They're really tough to beat at home.
• 39:33
  Six wins, 2 draws and one loss at home so far for that.
• 39:37
  Was it to us? So I think it.
• 39:39
  Was yeah, then we beat them there.
• 39:41
  And so that I mean, that's looking like a great win for us
• 39:43
  there because like I said, they are really, really playing well
• 39:45
  at home. Luca Brentford, sneaky up into
• 39:48
  eighth place. They're pretty amazing, they
• 39:50
  find. The Radar, but they're a good
• 39:53
  team even without Imbuemo and WESA.
• 39:56
  Well, and that's the thing they just sort of keep finding guys,
• 39:59
  right? It's like they lose, they lose
• 40:00
  Ivan Tony two years ago, they lose Imbuemo and Wesa and now
• 40:03
  there's Igor Tiago on 11 goals. She talked about Sade, who's
• 40:07
  been there. He's really good.
• 40:08
  Like credit to them, man. Like they they just like they
• 40:11
  have to be 1 of like biggest surprises.
• 40:12
  They have a new manager this year that had never managed
• 40:15
  A-Team before. I think it was their set piece
• 40:17
  coach, I mean. I just like, you know, I just
• 40:20
  have to like, tip my hat to a team like that that just, you
• 40:22
  know, shows up every week, really plays tough, like I said,
• 40:26
  and, you know, great for their fans and they're so good to play
• 40:28
  at home. So, yeah, really good story.
• 40:31
  Brentford. Like I said, one of the best
• 40:32
  stories so far to start this year.
• 40:34
  All right, Luca, me and you were disagreeing on this in our
• 40:37
  preseason predictions. Not preseason predictions, our
• 40:40
  pre week predictions. Chelsea hosted Villa.
• 40:43
  You thought Villa we're going to roll 3 to 1.
• 40:46
  I said Chelsea, we're going to smash Villa.
• 40:48
  What happened? Villa 1-2 to 1.
• 40:52
  You were right, I was wrong. I can.
• 40:54
  Admit it. Yeah.
• 40:54
  Yeah, I. Can admit it.
• 40:56
  Yeah, I, I think I just, I'm just better at predicting.
• 40:59
  OK. I, I you, you, you.
• 41:02
  It's OK. It's OK.
• 41:03
  You're the prediction master. Well, well, Chelsea dominated
• 41:09
  this entire first half Ciao Pedro scoring in the 37th minute
• 41:14
  off of Ruiz James corner. Then in the 63rd minute or in
• 41:20
  the was, I think it was the 58th minute, Watkins came in as a sub
• 41:26
  and then scores two goals in in the 63rd minute and the 84th
• 41:30
  minute and just completely puts that team on his back.
• 41:36
  And Morgan Rogers didn't do very much in this game, but Watkins,
• 41:42
  wow, coming off the bench. 11 consecutive wins for Villa, best
• 41:48
  run since 1914. Yeah, I mean, Villa, it's pretty
• 41:52
  amazing. Like I said, we sort of just
• 41:53
  touched on it a little bit before, but this is just like
• 41:56
  unprecedented. This is unprecedented territory
• 41:59
  for a team that has had a lot of success.
• 42:01
  When we did our Aston Villa kind of deep dive, did you know, you
• 42:04
  know, this team was really one of the biggest teams, especially
• 42:07
  it went like, you know, early 1900s when the Football League
• 42:10
  was formed. You know, I think they won two
• 42:12
  European Championships. Again, a lot of this happened a
• 42:14
  long time ago, but they say they've had major success and
• 42:17
  here they are breaking records at over 100 years old.
• 42:20
  It's amazing. You know, Luca, this game
• 42:22
  literally turned on its head. I mean, I, I felt great about my
• 42:26
  prediction for the first, you know, 55 minutes of this game,
• 42:28
  Chelsea were all over them. They're up 1.
• 42:30
  Nothing. I'm like, they're at home.
• 42:32
  Chelsea, you're going to cruise to this, Victor.
• 42:34
  I felt great about my prediction.
• 42:35
  Then I don't know if it was, you know, I think it was a triple
• 42:38
  substitution. Watkins came.
• 42:39
  In Jayden Sancho and like, Oh no.
• 42:42
  I think Onan all came in and I think.
• 42:45
  Sancho played really well when he came in.
• 42:47
  He did well. He's done well for them and you
• 42:50
  know, but it was sort of from that moment on.
• 42:53
  And now granted, it's amazing how momentum can flip when you
• 42:55
  get a goal. So they they get that goal,
• 42:57
  which, you know, I love the ball into Watkins, the way he turns
• 43:02
  with the ball, shielding a guy. It's a fantastic turn.
• 43:05
  I mean, it's just like a pure strikers turn to be able to
• 43:08
  shield the ball. You're just sort of rolling off
• 43:10
  with it follows it up now he gets a little lucky that the
• 43:12
  ball sort of bounces off the goal.
• 43:14
  He bounces off of him and goes in second goal, beautifully done
• 43:17
  header right into the corner. Look at he only came in with
• 43:21
  three Premier League goals. So it's not as if all he Watkins
• 43:24
  has been banging him in all season long, but gets two big,
• 43:27
  big goals for them because this now really pushes Villa up above
• 43:32
  Chelsea in sort of this battle for whatever we want to call it,
• 43:35
  3rd, 4th, 5th, you know, so this was massive.
• 43:38
  I mean, you know, if you're a Villa fan and you want to dream
• 43:41
  about winning the Premier League, you kind of have to find
• 43:43
  ways to win games like this. And to their credit, they did
• 43:46
  Chelsea Lugo only one win in their last six Premier League
• 43:49
  games. I mean, this team talk about
• 43:51
  inconsistent, you know, like a week or so ago, everybody was
• 43:55
  crowning them. You know, they they went and
• 43:57
  they tied Arsenal with only ten men and they played great and
• 43:59
  they were going to win that game until guys they don't get, you
• 44:01
  know, everybody's saying how amazing they were.
• 44:03
  And now they're just, it's like they've just completely fallen
• 44:06
  off. Yeah.
• 44:08
  I mean you, do you have any explanation for Chelsea Luca?
• 44:10
  Like why are they so inconsistent?
• 44:12
  It might be their lack of discipline.
• 44:14
  I mean they they have like I don't know the exact number.
• 44:18
  I think like 7 or 8 red cards this season.
• 44:21
  I think they just don't know how to, they have like a bit of a
• 44:25
  temper issue. That could be a reason why they
• 44:29
  are showing consistent, but that's my only reason.
• 44:32
  Yeah, no, I mean, you could be right.
• 44:34
  I mean, I think part of, you know, look, you need to play
• 44:36
  with like passion and emotion, but you can't let it bubble
• 44:39
  over. You can't sort of let it either
• 44:41
  take you out of a game or let you do, you know, get red cards
• 44:44
  or make dumbbells. So, you know, yeah, I think
• 44:47
  their their their youth are a very young side.
• 44:49
  You know, I think they're super talented, but I think they're
• 44:51
  like a young side. And I think it's figuring a lot
• 44:53
  of this kind of stuff out. I still think like in two years,
• 44:57
  if Chelsea can keep this sort of core together, I think they can
• 45:00
  be really, really good. But I think they're just not
• 45:02
  quite ready to challenge for a title and maybe next year maybe
• 45:05
  even feels a little early. But I think if they could add
• 45:08
  like a veteran or two, you know, you look at what like Jacques
• 45:11
  has done for Sunderland, you get a guy that can come in that's.
• 45:14
  Sort of like Steady the Ship. Exactly a guy that can go over
• 45:17
  and talk to some of these guys and be like hey just cool it man
• 45:20
  we love your passion, we love your physicality, but just.
• 45:22
  Like Jacques, sometimes he needs some cooling.
• 45:26
  Well, but he's the perfect example of a guy.
• 45:28
  Look at the you're exactly, you're right.
• 45:29
  Was a was a total hot head for a period of time, got dumb red
• 45:32
  cards. But now it's funny that I was
• 45:34
  watching them and I'm like, I can't think of the last time
• 45:36
  I've seen Jacques get a red card, you know, and he was in
• 45:39
  Germany for a couple years. So of course I didn't watch
• 45:41
  every game from over there. But I think he's totally a guy
• 45:44
  that has sort of gone the right way in terms.
• 45:46
  So like he's still, he's still fiery out there and he's still
• 45:49
  like I think is a guy that people look to, but man, what an
• 45:52
  important guy to bring into that Sunderland team.
• 45:54
  And I think he's a big, big part of why they're doing so well.
• 45:58
  So yeah, you know, like I said, Chelsea, look, I think just a
• 46:02
  little inexperience, I think they're going to be hanging
• 46:04
  around that 4th, 5th, 6th area. I think they're good enough for
• 46:07
  that. But yeah, they've got to try to
• 46:09
  find a way to get some more consistent results.
• 46:11
  But. Yeah.
• 46:12
  All right, Luke. Well, we just were talking about
• 46:13
  Sunderland. They hosted Leeds this morning.
• 46:15
  Take me through it. This game and 11 tie I predict
• 46:21
  to be 1 new Leeds a dingra Jacquer.
• 46:24
  You're just talking about him. He gets the assist nice ball
• 46:27
  from him, a Dingra nice like curler into the top corner in
• 46:32
  the 28th minute. And then Calvert Luminance
• 46:34
  scores in the 47th minute after every single player, every
• 46:39
  single eleven players on that leads touch the ball.
• 46:43
  And then Calvert Women scores Sunderland in 7th on 28 points.
• 46:49
  So yeah, pretty much it. For that game, not as much.
• 46:51
  Yeah, I love that team goal. Like I said, I think that's the
• 46:54
  second time in the Premier League anybody's done it.
• 46:57
  Liverpool did it against Newcastle.
• 46:58
  That last goal where the the young kids scored, I think all
• 47:01
  11 players touched the ball before he scored.
• 47:03
  So pretty cool to see that to get every single player a touch
• 47:06
  on the ball before it goes in. Yeah, leads.
• 47:08
  Look at 7 points clear of the relegation right zone right now.
• 47:11
  I think they're going to probably be thrilled to be
• 47:13
  almost halfway through the season and they're seven points
• 47:15
  clear of relegation. I think they're thorough, just
• 47:18
  all about trying to stay up and look, Sunderland, I think, you
• 47:20
  know, they're going to start to dream about European football.
• 47:23
  You know, they're going to say, all right, listen, we're sitting
• 47:25
  here in 7th. You know, you look around, all
• 47:27
  right, Chelsea, a little inconsistent, man, You, you
• 47:29
  know, inconsistent Brentford, Palace, Fulham, Spurs below
• 47:33
  them. They're not going to be like
• 47:33
  terribly scared of those. So like they should, I think
• 47:37
  dream about, you know, like they've got to sort of weather
• 47:39
  this storm. They've got a lot of guys going
• 47:41
  to AFCON. And so they got to kind of like
• 47:44
  weather the storm here for a couple weeks.
• 47:45
  They'll get guys back. And then I think Luca, they.
• 47:48
  What do you think? I mean, do you think that they
• 47:50
  could finish, let's say, 7th, which would possibly get you?
• 47:53
  Yeah. OK.
• 47:54
  So you think it's if you're a Sunderland fan you should dream
• 47:57
  of? European football.
• 47:59
  And which would be kind of UEFA Conference League?
• 48:01
  You UEFA Earth. I don't think they're getting
• 48:05
  Europa. League they could.
• 48:06
  They could. I mean, they could, but.
• 48:08
  Is there Europa League or Europa Conference league for?
• 48:11
  Me. Yeah, Yeah, fair enough.
• 48:13
  All right, Luke. In the last game of the week,
• 48:15
  which just finished up, we had Crystal Palace hosting Spurs.
• 48:18
  Another London Derby here. Yeah, not really much in this
• 48:21
  game. One nil Spurs Archie Gray, his
• 48:24
  first Premier League goal off of the header in the 42nd minute.
• 48:29
  I predicted it to be two on Crystal Palace and for
• 48:33
  Charleston had two goals called off in this game.
• 48:39
  He also had the assist on Archie Gray header.
• 48:41
  So he's been a really good player for them.
• 48:44
  As much as we don't like talking about him, he has been like a
• 48:47
  good striker for them over Solanke.
• 48:51
  Big three points for Spurs, taking them tied for eleven.
• 48:55
  That sounds, that doesn't sound that crazy, but it is pretty big
• 48:59
  for Spurs and Crystal Palace now.
• 49:01
  Three straight great Premier League losses.
• 49:04
  Yeah, So, yeah, it's just feels like Crystal Palace are having
• 49:08
  some tired legs. This is their fifth game in two
• 49:11
  weeks. I just don't think they've got
• 49:13
  the depth of squad really kind of manage that and it just, I
• 49:17
  don't know, it just felt sluggish out there for them.
• 49:20
  Spurs were way better in this game.
• 49:21
  Spurs, like you said, I think they hit the post ODA Bear hit
• 49:25
  the post like Zipper Charles and two goals called back for very
• 49:29
  close offsides. Not obvious.
• 49:31
  So kind of unlucky for him there.
• 49:34
  But yes, Spurs easily deserve this win.
• 49:35
  And Spurs look, I mean, look at they have not been in great
• 49:38
  form, but they clearly outplayed Palace.
• 49:40
  And I just feel like Palace are just sort of like on tired legs
• 49:43
  here a little bit. 3 losses in a row in the Premier League.
• 49:47
  They're sort of falling back down.
• 49:49
  You know, they were another good story that kind of been hanging
• 49:51
  around the top, but they're sort of struggling right now.
• 49:55
  You know, Spurs, Luca. We'll see what this kind of does
• 49:57
  for them. You know, they had lost two in a
• 49:59
  row, so they desperately needed a win.
• 50:02
  And going on the road, going to a London rival, you know,
• 50:05
  they're going to take these three points.
• 50:07
  Yeah, it pains me to say it too, Luca, but I got to give her
• 50:09
  Charleston, you know, some, some flowers here.
• 50:12
  He has been really good for that.
• 50:14
  You know, like I said, two goals in this game that were actually
• 50:17
  disallowed. He created another really good
• 50:19
  chance. You know what had the assist on
• 50:22
  the goal? You said that.
• 50:23
  Yeah, I think, I think he's, I think he did have.
• 50:25
  The assist on this goal, he's got 7 goals on the year like he
• 50:28
  said it, you know, could have had 9 after today.
• 50:30
  So he's been good. I don't like him Luke as a
• 50:33
  player, I really dislike him. But I have to say when I watch
• 50:37
  him play like he looks like a dangerous player for them, which
• 50:40
  is what you want from your like your striker and you know it's
• 50:44
  up and down as that team has been.
• 50:45
  He's been like a big bright spot for them.
• 50:47
  Yeah, so. All right, look.
• 50:49
  Well, there it is. That's Week 18 in the books.
• 50:53
  So as we look at you've got to give me your player goal and
• 50:58
  team of the week. So where do you want to start?
• 51:00
  Player, goal or team of the week?
• 51:02
  Also player of the week, and I'm gonna give that to Shade for
• 51:05
  these hat tricks. Hat trick's pretty impressive.
• 51:08
  Team of the week, I'm gonna go Aston Villa for coming back
• 51:11
  against Chelsea. Yeah, that's a good call.
• 51:13
  That's that's a big win on the road for them, OK.
• 51:15
  And then? Goal of the week, Luca.
• 51:17
  Goal of the week you got, I don't know, like door goose
• 51:20
  volley. I'm gonna go door goose volley.
• 51:22
  I was gonna, yeah. That's a pretty big volley and
• 51:24
  look, that ends up being the game winner.
• 51:26
  Yeah. Like that's a pretty big, you
• 51:28
  know, three points with a real nice finish that he had there on
• 51:32
  that, you know, coming onto his left foot.
• 51:34
  So all right. I like it.
• 51:35
  Luca. Yeah, Luca, your your picks have
• 51:37
  been really spot on here. So six games you predicted the
• 51:41
  correct outcome. So tie or win, you know, which
• 51:45
  is pretty, which is real good. You had two perfect picks in
• 51:47
  terms of the score. So 6 out of 10 is pretty good.
• 51:50
  Luca. I mean, that's very good.
• 51:52
  I mean, because it could be a tie loss or a win, so.
• 51:55
  Exactly 3 different outcomes, but you got six of the outcomes.
• 51:59
  Like I said, spot on, so well done, so well Luca, there is no
• 52:03
  time to rest. Week 19, the midpoint of the
• 52:06
  season, it's right around the corner.
• 52:07
  So we have I think six games coming up on Tuesday, 4 games on
• 52:12
  Thursday. So you ready for some
• 52:13
  predictions for look ahead for this week?
• 52:16
  Yep. All right, Luca, Chelsea hosting
• 52:18
  Bournemouth. I think Chelsea win 3 nil.
• 52:23
  Oh boy. So you're you're thinking here
• 52:26
  what Chelsea, we're going to see good Chelsea or just at
• 52:28
  Bournemouth's been so bad. Good Chelsea.
• 52:31
  OK, so you're expecting Chelsea to rebound?
• 52:34
  Tough loss at home. They're at home.
• 52:35
  They get a real struggling team coming in.
• 52:37
  But you think we're going to see good effort from Chelsea?
• 52:40
  Yeah. OK.
• 52:41
  West Ham hosting Brighton. 11 Draw. 11 draw.
• 52:46
  Yeah, not exactly that much excitement in this one.
• 52:49
  So Forest hosting Everton? 00. 00 another 00 for Everton,
• 52:59
  they're going to add to that league leading tally of 00
• 53:02
  goals. Yeah, I know I I don't know
• 53:05
  where the goals are going to come from from Everton, but I
• 53:07
  think I like Forrest at home here to get a goal or two.
• 53:09
  I think they may win that one, but Burnley hosting Newcastle?
• 53:16
  I mean I wanna say Newcastle win 1 nothing.
• 53:20
  Newcastle win one Yeah, okay, so Newcastle we talked about they
• 53:23
  struggle on the. Road win this game.
• 53:25
  You would think, I mean Burnley are really, really bad if
• 53:29
  Newcastle don't win this one. Man just give up on them.
• 53:31
  Just jeez. I mean, they could be one of the
• 53:34
  biggest disappointments. You know, we're going to.
• 53:36
  We'll do a little like mid after week 19.
• 53:39
  We'll do a kind of a little like mid season recap, you know, like
• 53:43
  best team. But Newcastle have to be in the
• 53:45
  running for biggest disappointment.
• 53:47
  I mean, they're in 14th. Yeah, goodness gracious.
• 53:50
  All right, like a man, you host Wolves.
• 53:54
  Man, you win 2 nothing. 2 Nothing.
• 53:57
  All right, all right, Luke. Probably the the biggest game of
• 54:00
  the week here. Arsenal at home verse Villa so
• 54:03
  as is obviously first verse third separated by three points.
• 54:08
  So if Villa win they would be tied on points.
• 54:10
  Now I don't expect Villa to win by more than 13 so Arsenal would
• 54:13
  still technically be ahead on goal differential.
• 54:16
  However City wins, then they go top of the table.
• 54:18
  So an Arsenal loss just could put this all these teams within
• 54:22
  one point of each other, but an Arsenal win puts them six above
• 54:29
  Villa. Now city will probably win and
• 54:31
  they'll still only be two two behind.
• 54:33
  But this is this is clearly the biggest game of the week.
• 54:36
  I think this is really interesting.
• 54:38
  I think we talked about it thing to keep an eye on.
• 54:41
  Obviously Arsenal injuries. Who's going to be back for this
• 54:44
  game? You've got timber injured,
• 54:46
  Caliphori injured haverts possibly not.
• 54:49
  You know, we'll see if he can make the bench just to be kind
• 54:52
  of help. Obviously we know mascara, Ben
• 54:56
  White are out so you know Arsenal injury problems at the
• 55:01
  back, but Villa are going to be without Maddie Cash and I think
• 55:05
  camera so they picked up accumulation of yellow cards.
• 55:09
  I don't know too much about their other like injury.
• 55:12
  I think that guy we sawn is off to afcon.
• 55:15
  So I think like the key players should be there for this game.
• 55:19
  You know, Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins.
• 55:23
  Daniel Malin. Danielle Mullins So what what
• 55:26
  are what are you thinking for this game?
• 55:28
  Luca, This seems I'm I'm fascinated near your pick on
• 55:30
  this. This is tough.
• 55:33
  I'm going to go 21 Arsenal. 21 Arsenal All right, well, take me
• 55:35
  through. Well, why 21 Arsenal?
• 55:37
  I want to hear a little more on this.
• 55:39
  Well, I was getting, I was thinking of a Tutu tie, but I
• 55:43
  think having Gabrielle back is just going to have like some
• 55:47
  spirit in this team. And I think we're gonna like,
• 55:50
  it's at home. The crowds gonna be pumped for
• 55:53
  this game. Gabrielle is gonna be pumped for
• 55:55
  this day. He's gonna like light a fire in
• 55:57
  this team and we're gonna roll to a victory.
• 55:59
  OK, Yeah, I, you know, you would think, gosh, I mean, they have
• 56:03
  all the motivation in the world. We just went to Villa Park lost
• 56:07
  on the last kick of the game. I mean, just brutal.
• 56:10
  Don't they get the kickoff? I know, I know.
• 56:12
  I mean, it just just brutal loss.
• 56:15
  I mean, if you can't get motivated to want to prove a
• 56:17
  point, to want to end their win streak, you know, like 11 wins
• 56:21
  in a row, all this kind of stuff, like, wouldn't you want
• 56:23
  to be the team to be like, yeah, we'll put an end to that.
• 56:26
  I think you know it like it. I gotta think that Arsenal are
• 56:31
  kind of come out like very, very fired up for this again, you
• 56:35
  know, it sound like a broken record, but it's just like who's
• 56:37
  available for Arsenal? Like I mean if I'm hopeful I I
• 56:40
  doubt the Cala Fury is going to be able to play.
• 56:42
  If he literally couldn't play 2 days ago, it's hard to imagine
• 56:45
  him being healthy enough to play.
• 56:48
  I mean, do you know what happened?
• 56:50
  They they said he they said the day before he might have taken a
• 56:53
  knock or strain something. And then he kind of quote, I
• 56:55
  think Arteta said he just didn't feel right in warmups.
• 56:58
  So I don't, I actually don't know if it was truly an injury
• 57:01
  during warmups, but it sounds like maybe the day before in
• 57:04
  training he kind of picked something up.
• 57:06
  Maybe he can be on the bench. Maybe, and I mean, look, I would
• 57:09
  say this, I feel like, and I think I said this to you, is
• 57:11
  that Timber to me is more important because we don't
• 57:14
  really have a right back. I mean, Declan Rice played right
• 57:17
  back in the game. He.
• 57:18
  Honestly did very good. Well, he's just, you know, an
• 57:20
  amazing player. But I mean, it's one thing like
• 57:23
  he can, he can fill in at right back, but then you lose him in
• 57:26
  the midfield, you know, so. To me Moreno back up though.
• 57:32
  You do we, we have guys in the midfield.
• 57:33
  But I mean, to me, I'm like against these good teams, Luke,
• 57:36
  I want, I want, you know, as much I want as much as our
• 57:39
  normal lineup as we can. And to me, hopefully with
• 57:43
  Timber, it was a little more precautionary because he played
• 57:45
  the League Cup game against Palace, played like the whole
• 57:48
  game and they played ten extra minutes of extra time.
• 57:51
  Then they went to the PKS for that game.
• 57:53
  So he put like 100 minutes in his legs.
• 57:55
  So I'm hopeful that it was maybe just like a lot of soreness.
• 57:58
  Kind of what happened to Hand Cappy.
• 57:59
  Yeah, Hand Cappy, they held out of that League Cup game and he
• 58:02
  was good enough to start. So I'm sort of fingers crossed
• 58:06
  on Timber being able to start it right back.
• 58:08
  You got Seliva, Gabrielle, you know, Gabrielle gets like 2025
• 58:11
  minutes into his legs against Brighton, so he should be able
• 58:14
  to start now. And then we've got guys at left
• 58:17
  back. You have options with Lewis
• 58:19
  Kelly and him. Kathy can slide out there.
• 58:21
  So at least we have options at left back, but we don't really
• 58:23
  have options at right back because Ben White's hurt.
• 58:26
  And if Timber can't go, those are our two sort of dedicated
• 58:28
  right backs. So to me, it's more important to
• 58:31
  have Timber than Cala Fury, but that'll be a big thing.
• 58:35
  But yeah, I I got to think, Luca, this we're at home.
• 58:38
  We got to try to prove a point. Got to got to find a way to get
• 58:40
  three points out of this game. A tie just doesn't do it, you
• 58:44
  know? And you've got City breathing
• 58:47
  down our neck and we'll get to that.
• 58:48
  But they're going to Sunderland. I don't see them losing there,
• 58:51
  but we'll see. So, yeah, big game, Luca.
• 58:54
  I'm excited to watch that. Arsenal and Villa.
• 58:55
  All right, the other one, Luca, moving on.
• 58:58
  We have Liverpool hosting leads. I'm going Liverpool win 2,
• 59:06
  nothing. 2 Nothing. OK Crystal Palace hosting
• 59:10
  Fulham. We got a little London Derby
• 59:11
  here. 11 Draw. One draw.
• 59:14
  OK, that'll be an interesting game because we talked about how
• 59:17
  Palace has been struggling Fulham in good form.
• 59:19
  I'm curious to kind of watch this one to see if if Palace can
• 59:22
  kind of bounce back a little bit or like I said, I wonder if
• 59:26
  Fulham can maybe sneak out a win in this one and that that would
• 59:29
  be that'd be four wins in a row, especially heading into two
• 59:32
  really tough games. So I can keep an eye on Fulham
• 59:35
  maybe sneaking a win there. All right, look away of
• 59:38
  Sunderland hosting City. 22 Draw. 22 draw.
• 59:46
  Wow. It would be very big if that was
• 59:49
  the actual if we, if the Arsenal score is correct for me and the
• 59:54
  City score is correct for me, like if I get their spot on,
• 59:57
  that is huge for Arsenal. Of course, yeah.
• 1:00:01
  I mean, you know, essentially, again, you know, I've said it
• 1:00:03
  before, it's a two team race. So you're basically looking at
• 1:00:06
  your results against City, you know, so.
• 1:00:08
  And only four points ahead. Exactly.
• 1:00:10
  And ties are like losses to the top teams, you know, other
• 1:00:13
  teams, you know, you take the tie, you take take the point.
• 1:00:15
  But like when you're trying to win the Premier League, when you
• 1:00:18
  lose a game, it's a disaster. If you tie a game, it's really,
• 1:00:22
  really bad. You know it's not a disaster but
• 1:00:24
  it's really, really bad because you just expect these other
• 1:00:27
  teams to win and so yes, this would be a huge result.
• 1:00:32
  Now look yes, Stadium of Light, Sunderland at home have been
• 1:00:35
  really good. In fact, I don't think
• 1:00:36
  Sunderland have lost at home this year.
• 1:00:39
  You know now they did not look great today against Leeds and I
• 1:00:42
  just wonder if, you know again they lost I think 5 players to
• 1:00:46
  half con. There's all these games.
• 1:00:48
  Are they getting some tired legs through here?
• 1:00:51
  City roll in with a super deep squad.
• 1:00:53
  You know, I don't know Luke I this feels like a kind of a 2
• 1:00:58
  nothing thrashing or three one win for city.
• 1:01:01
  I hope I'm wrong, like I said, I mean, obviously it'd be great if
• 1:01:03
  Sunderland could even just get a tie I.
• 1:01:05
  Mean it is at the Stadium of White.
• 1:01:07
  It is and they've been great there.
• 1:01:09
  Like I said, I'm, I'm almost positive that they have not lost
• 1:01:12
  their. So you know, we'll see.
• 1:01:14
  Like I said, it's a tough place. I, I just was a little
• 1:01:17
  disappointed, you know, at, at kind of their results, how they
• 1:01:24
  played against Leeds today. I, I really thought Sunderland
• 1:01:26
  would kind of, you know, do a little bit more against them,
• 1:01:29
  but they really, like I said, they looked a little lackluster
• 1:01:32
  in that game. And I, I just again, I wonder if
• 1:01:34
  it's just the sluggishness of all these games, but we'll see.
• 1:01:37
  All right Luca, last game of the week we have Brentford hosting
• 1:01:41
  Spurs. Another London Derby here. 02
• 1:01:45
  now Brentford. Oh, wow.
• 1:01:46
  OK. So Brentford, you're liking that
• 1:01:49
  home form? Yeah, and birds are just
• 1:01:51
  terrible. Not very good right now.
• 1:01:53
  No, they're not. You know, like I said, they got
• 1:01:54
  the win on the road today. Now they got to go on the road
• 1:01:57
  again. But yeah, Brentford been good at
• 1:01:58
  home. That'll be kind of an
• 1:01:59
  interesting game to kind of watch.
• 1:02:00
  Spurs have been obviously better on the road.
• 1:02:02
  You know, they're one of those weird teams that somehow seem to
• 1:02:04
  play better on the road, but we'll kind of see how that one
• 1:02:07
  goes. So all right, Lucas, so there it
• 1:02:10
  is. That is, like I said, keep an
• 1:02:11
  eye on the games are coming fast and furious here.
• 1:02:14
  So we got midweek games for everybody to keep an eye on.
• 1:02:18
  All right, Luca, let's move over.
• 1:02:20
  Like I said, our viewer mailbag tied in a little bit with what I
• 1:02:23
  was kind of talking to you this morning about, and that is
• 1:02:26
  soccer cards. And I'm curious, Luke, about
• 1:02:29
  soccer cards is like, what is it about soccer cards that you love
• 1:02:33
  so much? You you literally come down,
• 1:02:35
  Luca has this box and it's got like tins and packs that are
• 1:02:38
  unopened. And he's cherishing it like it's
• 1:02:40
  like a baby. And he like he like looks at it
• 1:02:42
  and he's talking about how much he loves cards.
• 1:02:44
  And he's been real good about like almost rationing it out
• 1:02:47
  every day. He opens up like a pack here and
• 1:02:49
  a tin there. He doesn't want to kind of blow
• 1:02:51
  through everything. Yeah, I'm being very patient.
• 1:02:53
  Yeah. So obviously I understand you
• 1:02:55
  love soccer, so I understand why you like, you know, soccer
• 1:02:58
  cards. But what is it about like cards
• 1:03:01
  that like interests you so? Much I think it's the excitement
• 1:03:04
  of opening packs and you never know what you're going to get
• 1:03:06
  and you could get like in $100 card you could get trash.
• 1:03:10
  It's you never know. And I I love trying to get like
• 1:03:13
  Arsenal players, mainly Kai Havarts and I love like like
• 1:03:18
  when you do you on Christmas. I call, I call it a card quiz,
• 1:03:23
  but and you have a like little a bunch of thing of cards that you
• 1:03:28
  bought like on eBay or something.
• 1:03:30
  And then you give me like hints and I try and guess who the
• 1:03:33
  player is. And if I get it right, I get the
• 1:03:34
  card and lots of time it's Kai Havarts.
• 1:03:38
  But I really like that. Yeah, it I like to get Kai
• 1:03:41
  Havarts cards and you do a really good job of getting ones
• 1:03:44
  that I don't have. All right.
• 1:03:45
  And that that sounds crazy because I have so many Kai
• 1:03:48
  Haverts cards. But even like I mean, it used to
• 1:03:53
  be fun trading cards with my friends but now they don't do it
• 1:03:56
  anymore. Mainly it's just the fun of
• 1:04:00
  opening packs. I I'd.
• 1:04:02
  Rather unknown of what's in there.
• 1:04:04
  Yeah, I I'd rather open packs and just buy cards individually.
• 1:04:08
  Like that's no fun. Yeah, it's tricky because like
• 1:04:11
  you go to like we've been to card shows.
• 1:04:13
  Those are really fun because also same thing, you never know
• 1:04:17
  what's going to be in store. You never know what's going to
• 1:04:20
  be like available. It could be like some soccer
• 1:04:23
  cards you'd sell that there's like 1 stand that had like a lot
• 1:04:27
  of like all soccer cards and we had to spend like 15 minutes
• 1:04:31
  there because like that doesn't really happen very much often.
• 1:04:34
  Most, most tables have like football, basketball, hockey,
• 1:04:38
  baseball, the American sports, which is I still collect
• 1:04:42
  football and some basketball. So it's still good, but it's
• 1:04:47
  just, I just love it. I just all of it's just so much
• 1:04:50
  fun. Yeah, I was going to say it's
• 1:04:52
  you. You.
• 1:04:54
  It's harder to find. Like when I was a kid, it was
• 1:04:56
  all just like a lot of times you'd find packs.
• 1:04:58
  And of course, I know that what you're saying, like the unknown,
• 1:05:01
  if you get a pack, you open it up, like who knows what's going
• 1:05:03
  to be in there. You're looking for your favorite
• 1:05:05
  player, You're looking for your favorite team.
• 1:05:07
  But nowadays you go to a card show and it's a lot more like
• 1:05:09
  the cards are laid out there. People are saying like
• 1:05:11
  individual cards, it's harder to find packs even, and in fact
• 1:05:15
  most of them now, things come in boxes or tins, you know, which
• 1:05:19
  tend to be even more expensive than packs.
• 1:05:21
  Like I said, back in my day, you could go in and that was a long,
• 1:05:23
  long time ago. You buy like, you know, a pack
• 1:05:25
  of baseball cards for 25. Cents.
• 1:05:27
  And it's. So nice, I wouldn't fucking get
• 1:05:29
  like a patch pack of match attacks for $0.25.
• 1:05:33
  Yeah, now, like I said, it was a long time ago.
• 1:05:35
  I'm an old guy, so it was. That one like not too old.
• 1:05:40
  But yeah, now is it's just harder to find these.
• 1:05:43
  And, and you know, the cool thing is some of the card shops
• 1:05:46
  you go into, like you said, they've got just sort of rows of
• 1:05:51
  like soccer cards or football cards that you can kind of sift
• 1:05:54
  through that maybe aren't, aren't like the most expensive
• 1:05:56
  cards, but you can still find good players that you like and
• 1:05:58
  that aren't that expensive. So it's almost like looking
• 1:06:00
  through a pack. I don't know what you're going
• 1:06:02
  to see as you sift through them. I just love trying to get good
• 1:06:06
  players. I don't.
• 1:06:08
  I know I care a little bit about the price, but I'm never going
• 1:06:11
  to sell them unless I don't care about them.
• 1:06:14
  So I just try and get like my favorite players.
• 1:06:17
  Even if it's a base card and it's like a Laminia mall card.
• 1:06:21
  I got that like yesterday or something.
• 1:06:23
  I love menu mall card. It was a base, but it was super
• 1:06:25
  cool because he's a really good player.
• 1:06:28
  I'm just looking for good players and like Arsenal cards,
• 1:06:31
  but like if I happen to stumble across in $100 card, yeah, I
• 1:06:36
  pulled like a really nice St. Bellingham card and it was like
• 1:06:40
  a hundred $200 and I was like, whoa, that was super cool.
• 1:06:44
  But I I I like the expense of it and just getting good players.
• 1:06:50
  Yeah, I was gonna say you've never sold a card.
• 1:06:52
  So, you know, you talk about the price on these cards, but it's
• 1:06:54
  not as if you've actually never sold one.
• 1:06:55
  Of your No, I just like to see how it should work, right?
• 1:06:58
  If I did try to sell curiosity, yeah.
• 1:07:01
  Alright, Luca, what they I thought it'd be interesting to
• 1:07:03
  touch on on soccer cards because that's sort of a big thing.
• 1:07:07
  It's just fun talking about soccer cards.
• 1:07:10
  I just love. Everything about soccer cards is
• 1:07:12
  awesome. All right, Luca, well, we've
• 1:07:15
  been, like I said, let's turn it over to our Digeno section and
• 1:07:18
  we're up to Everton FC. So Everton are the Blues or the
• 1:07:22
  Toffees. Some of these people call
• 1:07:24
  Chelsea the Blues. So more often I probably hear.
• 1:07:27
  The. Toffees for for Everton Football
• 1:07:30
  Club, they're one of the founding members of the Football
• 1:07:33
  League. Like I said, Everton, of course,
• 1:07:35
  located in Liverpool. So we talked about the big
• 1:07:38
  rivalry that the, you know, the, the Merseyside Darby, of course,
• 1:07:42
  Liverpool and Everton, it's because they're in the same
• 1:07:44
  town. So if you want to go to Everton
• 1:07:45
  Football Club, you're going to the city of the Liverpool.
• 1:07:47
  But yeah, Everton, look, they were founded in 1878.
• 1:07:52
  Look, in the 1890s, they played at Anfield.
• 1:07:54
  That is Liverpool's home stadium.
• 1:07:56
  They actually played at an. Interesting.
• 1:07:59
  Yeah, I know. It's kind of interesting how it
• 1:08:00
  all sort of like came about for them.
• 1:08:03
  Yeah, actually playing there, they won Luca, their first
• 1:08:08
  league title in 1890. In the 18901891 season they won
• 1:08:14
  their. So like just two years.
• 1:08:15
  Of course the Football League was founded in 1888.
• 1:08:18
  Like I said, they were one of the founding members and like 2
• 1:08:20
  years later they won their league title.
• 1:08:21
  But in 1892, there was a dispute over the rent and at Anfield
• 1:08:28
  there was a dispute about how much they were going to pay for
• 1:08:30
  this. And they said we're getting out
• 1:08:31
  of here, like we're leaving Anfield and we're going to go to
• 1:08:34
  Goodison. And the owner formed a non.
• 1:08:38
  Like I said, the owner formed a men's club.
• 1:08:41
  But that's how kind of Liverpool then sort of slid into Anfield
• 1:08:45
  was. Once Everton left Anfield,
• 1:08:47
  Liverpool kind of slid in there. And of course, Luca, they've
• 1:08:50
  been in the Premier League the whole time.
• 1:08:53
  So Everton, like I said, one of the founding members of the
• 1:08:56
  Football League, they've also like said, when the Premier
• 1:08:58
  League started, we're one of the founding members of the Premier
• 1:09:00
  League and they were one of the six clubs to have never been
• 1:09:02
  relegated from the Premier League.
• 1:09:04
  So Everton have like a really pretty good history.
• 1:09:07
  The highest finish they've ever had was fourth in the O 4 O five
• 1:09:11
  seasons they actually did finish in.
• 1:09:12
  They got Champions League then. So they got Champions League, so
• 1:09:16
  they're stadiums. Luca.
• 1:09:17
  Like I said, they played at Goodison Park.
• 1:09:20
  We talked about them in 1892 moving out and they played at
• 1:09:23
  Goodison up until this past year.
• 1:09:25
  Goodison. Still, they can send stadium.
• 1:09:27
  Yeah, so Goodison, Luca was called the grand old lady.
• 1:09:30
  It held about 39,414 actually hosted a World Cup game in 1966
• 1:09:35
  when England hosted the cup it it staged more top flight games
• 1:09:41
  than any other football stadium in England.
• 1:09:44
  So Goodison is like ton of history at that old stadium.
• 1:09:48
  It was the first purpose built football stadium ever.
• 1:09:52
  They built 1. So like I said, when they left
• 1:09:55
  Anfield and went to, like I said, built Goodison in 1892,
• 1:09:58
  that was the first time someone built a stadium just for
• 1:10:01
  football or soccer. But like you said, they this
• 1:10:05
  year have opened up their brand new stadium called Hill
• 1:10:07
  Dickinson Stadium. Hill Dickinson Luke is just some
• 1:10:10
  law firm in Liverpool that sponsored it.
• 1:10:12
  So it's like, I don't know. I was like, oh, these two like
• 1:10:14
  founding members of Everton way back.
• 1:10:15
  No, a law firm that that. Sponsored the stadium.
• 1:10:19
  Interesting. And it holds about 52,769.
• 1:10:23
  So you kind of see why they they move into this new stadium, they
• 1:10:26
  get about 13,000 more people in there.
• 1:10:29
  That's a lot of match day revenue that comes through.
• 1:10:31
  And so, you know, again, they left one of the, like I said,
• 1:10:35
  the one of the most famous old stadiums ever.
• 1:10:38
  But now being used by the womans now, right?
• 1:10:40
  Yep. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:10:41
  Still being used. Still being used, which is cool.
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  The owners is is the Friedkin Group.
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  Luca Dan Friedkin owns the team. He's owned it since September of
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  2024. So he came in and sort of bought
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  this team. They were having some like rocky
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  financial problems for a while and he sort of steadied the ship
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  a little bit there. He also owns Roma.
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  So you see, we're starting to see a lot of these owners that
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  right own multiple teams, some even on these American guys,
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  football owners, you know, the Glaziers on the Tampa Bay
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  Buccaneers and Man United. Josh Harris we talked about last
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  week owning Crystal Palace. He owns the Commanders and the
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  Sixers. You know, he's, you know, Stan
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  Kroenke, Arsenal and the LA Rams.
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  You see a lot of this crossover, but a lot of these guys also on
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  multiple different soccer teams too.
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  Luca Everton have a ton of trophies, 9 league titles, 5FA
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  cups, 1 Cup Winners Cup and they got multiple charity and
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  community Shields of course their biggest rival Liverpool,
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  Merseyside Darby and the the Anfield and Goodison just about
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  a mile apart. I mean think about that.
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  It's like almost a distance from like us to your school having
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  these two big stadiums, you know the River Mersey.
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  Luca runs through the town so that's the Merseyside Darby is
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  named after the River Mercy and like I said, that's how they get
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  the name Merseyside Darby, which is like I said, one of the best
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  rivalries to me in the Premier League.
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  Everton, Liverpool are great, great games.
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  Famous managers. Luca Howard Kendall managed the
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  team on three different occasions from 81 to 8790 to
• 1:12:13
  9397 to 98. David Moyes, who's their current
• 1:12:17
  manager, also managed them back in 2002 to 2013.
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  But they've had Luca, Carlo Ancelotti, Roberto Martinez, Joe
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  Royal, Marco Silva. They felt like a lot of pretty
• 1:12:29
  good famous managers come through there.
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  Yeah, famous players from them. Luca Dixie Dean, one of the most
• 1:12:36
  famous players of all time, scored 380, three goals.
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  Now back in 1925 to 1937, he scored sixty goals in a season.
• 1:12:45
  What? 60 goals for Dixie Dean.
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  Was it a 38 game season? I don't know how many game
• 1:12:52
  season it was, but yeah. And like I said, that is still a
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  record for, you know, just a season, not a Premier League
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  record. Well.
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  Before who? I mean, maybe Holland eventually
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  will break that. In maybe this year, but Luca,
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  they of course, they've had a lot of other famous players.
• 1:13:10
  They're sort of, you know, Dixie Dean has a statue outside the
• 1:13:13
  stadium. So there's a statue for Alan
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  Ball, Colin Harvey, Howard Kendall, which is sort of like
• 1:13:18
  the Holy Trinity of Everton football.
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  Is that outside Goodison or? Yeah, I think it's outside
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  Goodison. I don't know if they move.
• 1:13:25
  They might have moved the statues to the new stadium.
• 1:13:27
  I don't I don't know, but these were outside of of Goodison, of
• 1:13:30
  course, Wayne Rooney, Luca really famous played there in O2
• 1:13:34
  to O4 came back and played a year with them in in 2017, 2018
• 1:13:39
  Alan Ball Luca was a real good midfielder.
• 1:13:42
  Neville South Hall at 751 appearances, the most ever.
• 1:13:46
  He played from like 81 to 98. Seamus Coleman has been there
• 1:13:49
  since O 9. He's still there right back for
• 1:13:52
  them. Google other players have come
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  through there. Romola Lukaku, Onana John
• 1:13:58
  Stones, Anthony Gordon Course Wayne Rooney Guye Deanie Iwobi
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  Lookman, Michael Arteta Arsenal's coach Royce is keen
• 1:14:09
  Fulani, Dominic Calvert Lewin. We talked about how well he's
• 1:14:13
  been doing. Gareth Berry, Ross Barkley, like
• 1:14:17
  they've been a lot of good players, like, you know, come
• 1:14:19
  through Everton. Yeah, Their biggest sale, Luca,
• 1:14:24
  the most, the most they got for a player.
• 1:14:26
  It was in 2017, 2018, $99 million.
• 1:14:29
  They sold a striker to Man U, You know who it was?
• 1:14:32
  Lukaku. Lukaku Yeah.
• 1:14:34
  So a long time ago. They got a bunch of money.
• 1:14:36
  They got almost, they got 99 million for him.
• 1:14:38
  Yeah. Wow, that's a lie.
• 1:14:40
  And especially because it was, you know, seven years or so ago,
• 1:14:44
  their biggest buy, Luka, the most expensive player they ever
• 1:14:47
  bought, was 2018 from Watford, a striker.
• 1:14:52
  Troy Deeney A. Good guess for Charleston.
• 1:14:56
  Oh, for Charleston. 67,000,000 They paid Watford about 7 years
• 1:15:00
  ago for Rich Charleston. That's a lot.
• 1:15:02
  That is a lot, I know, but you know, and here he is now finally
• 1:15:06
  kind of coming to fruition and doing well.
• 1:15:07
  So there's a little bit, like I said, on the history of Everton
• 1:15:10
  Football Club. So all right, Luca.
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  Well, quickly we want to plug our Instagram page, Premier
• 1:15:16
  League Playground. Come find us for updates on the
• 1:15:18
  show. We kind of do, you know, you can
• 1:15:20
  find out when new shows drop and we put some pictures up there.
• 1:15:23
  Or you can e-mail us at premierleagueplayground@gmail.com.
• 1:15:28
  And we have a new YouTube channel.
• 1:15:29
  We do have a YouTube channel which we're kind of kind of
• 1:15:32
  maybe maybe throw a video or two up there.
• 1:15:34
  Of course, Premier League playground on YouTube.
• 1:15:36
  So I. Want to see how many subscribers
• 1:15:38
  we get? I don't know if we have a lot.
• 1:15:40
  We'll see. Well, we'll see.
• 1:15:42
  We never know. Yeah, but all right, Luca, we
• 1:15:45
  end every show, our penalty kick, trivia shootout.
• 1:15:47
  We'll go back and forth asking each other trivia questions.
• 1:15:50
  Of course, if we get it right, it's like making a goal.
• 1:15:52
  If you get it wrong, it's like missing.
• 1:15:54
  So do you want to go first or do you want to go?
• 1:15:56
  2nd, I'm going to ask first you're.
• 1:15:58
  Going to ask first. OK, ask away.
• 1:15:59
  This is probably going to be pretty easy for you.
• 1:16:03
  Who is the Premier League all time top scorer?
• 1:16:07
  I'm gonna give it a second and say Alan Shearer.
• 1:16:10
  Yeah, do you know how many goals?
• 1:16:12
  Is it 268 or 58? Or you're very close 260. 260
• 1:16:19
  OK. All right, so that's the goal
• 1:16:21
  for you all. Right goal for me one all right
• 1:16:23
  Luca. What 2 goalies tied for the most
• 1:16:25
  clean sheets last year in the Premier?
• 1:16:28
  Olympics, riot and sales. That is correct.
• 1:16:32
  They had 13 clean sheets each, so they tied.
• 1:16:34
  So who got it? I think they each get it then.
• 1:16:38
  So I think they both get the put it in half, put it in half.
• 1:16:41
  Yeah. They each should get one glove.
• 1:16:43
  You know, they got the Golden Gloves each.
• 1:16:44
  Yeah. But yeah, I think, I think then
• 1:16:45
  you get each get a trove. OK.
• 1:16:48
  All right, look at 11. Which club has the most yellow
• 1:16:51
  cards in a season? It's Chelsea I.
• 1:16:55
  Believe yeah. Do you do?
• 1:16:56
  You can take a guess out how many. 100 and 204.
• 1:16:59
  Oh, you're so close. 100 and 500.
• 1:17:01
  And five, OK, I've seen that before and I knew it was over
• 1:17:03
  100. Yeah.
• 1:17:07
  All right, look, let's see how much you were paying attention.
• 1:17:10
  Everton moved into a new stadium this year.
• 1:17:12
  What was the old stadium's name? Good as important.
• 1:17:15
  OK, you were paying attention. Just talked about it.
• 1:17:17
  That's pretty easy. All right, 22.
• 1:17:20
  Name the 6th ever present Premier League clubs that have
• 1:17:23
  never been relegated. OK, well we just talked about
• 1:17:26
  Everton being one of. Them.
• 1:17:27
  That's one. Arsenal, Man United, Tottenham,
• 1:17:33
  Liverpool. Yes.
• 1:17:35
  And Chelsea. Yeah, correct.
• 1:17:38
  Yeah, it's I always think it's like it's the big clubs in
• 1:17:41
  really Everton really kind of. Like some of the bigger ones,
• 1:17:43
  it's the big like, oh wait, wait.
• 1:17:47
  Man City is the only one of the Big Six to not this is to be
• 1:17:50
  relegated. Right, right.
• 1:17:52
  Yeah, Yeah, You forget that. Like Man City, really.
• 1:17:54
  Wants that was not was not good. Yeah, for a long time, it was
• 1:17:57
  once they got the new owner of, you know, basically owns at the
• 1:18:02
  Emirates, United Arab Emirates, that they pumped a lot of money
• 1:18:05
  into that team and got really good.
• 1:18:06
  But all right, Luca, who led Crystal Palace in scoring last
• 1:18:10
  year. Mateta.
• 1:18:13
  Yep, you had fourteen goals, which was 11th in the Premier
• 1:18:16
  League. All right, 33.
• 1:18:17
  Gosh, we are wrong. This is like the Arsenal Crystal
• 1:18:20
  Palace League Cup penalty kicks you at the end when they when
• 1:18:24
  they go to 8th or ninth goal. Arsenal it was 9 to 8.
• 1:18:27
  Yeah. So yeah, we're rolling here.
• 1:18:29
  With only one win in the 2007 2008 season, which club had the
• 1:18:34
  fewest Premier League wins in the season?
• 1:18:39
  Darby County. Yeah.
• 1:18:40
  OK. And my next question is gonna
• 1:18:42
  kind kind of tie into that. All right, Luka.
• 1:18:45
  Well, here we go. We talked about Romel El Lukaku
• 1:18:49
  who played at Chelsea, Man U, Everton.
• 1:18:52
  He's a 32 year old striker currently playing at Napoli.
• 1:18:56
  What country is he from? Belgium.
• 1:18:59
  Elzium is right. Elzium is right.
• 1:19:02
  With only one victory out of the 38 games this club had diffused
• 1:19:06
  Premier League points in the season.
• 1:19:08
  I know you already know like the answer, so I'm going to ask you.
• 1:19:11
  Do you know how many points they had?
• 1:19:14
  At the end of the season, they had 11 points.
• 1:19:16
  Oh yeah, OK, correct. You got that?
• 1:19:18
  Yeah, and all right, Luca, what Premier League team are
• 1:19:23
  nicknamed the Black Cats? The Black Cats, they're still,
• 1:19:30
  they're in the Premier League right now.
• 1:19:33
  I'm trying to think what who is like a black logo.
• 1:19:37
  Oh boy, it might have stumped him here on the last kick.
• 1:19:39
  Luca, he's getting nervous, he's standing over the ball.
• 1:19:42
  The. Black Cats.
• 1:19:45
  They're currently in the Premier League.
• 1:19:49
  It's not. I can tell he's nervous over
• 1:19:53
  this. Kick it.
• 1:19:53
  Doesn't look. Confident that someone's going
• 1:19:55
  to go in. It's not like, is it?
• 1:19:58
  3. Newcastle.
• 1:20:00
  No, it is the it's Sunderland. Dang it, that was my other
• 1:20:04
  choice. Oh no all.
• 1:20:07
  Right, so I think I win the penalty kick.
• 1:20:09
  Trivia Shield. It's my first time in weeks.
• 1:20:11
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:20:14
  My other bonus question to ELO is talk.
• 1:20:15
  We talk about Granite Jacques. Can you name the teams that he's
• 1:20:18
  played for? So he's a 33 year old?
• 1:20:21
  How many has he played for? He's.
• 1:20:22
  Played for five teams, Any. Probably.
• 1:20:26
  Wait, wait, wait, wait. OK, Never mind.
• 1:20:29
  So lubricusing. Yeah.
• 1:20:32
  Arsenal. Yeah.
• 1:20:33
  Sunderland. Yeah, now it gets a little
• 1:20:35
  harder. He's from Switzerland.
• 1:20:38
  That's, I mean, yeah, I'm trying to think of Switzerland teams.
• 1:20:41
  I know you don't know a ton of Switzerland teams, whether.
• 1:20:44
  It's. And it's Basel and then Borussia
• 1:20:49
  Monchen got back, played for them, then Arsenal bought them
• 1:20:53
  from Borussia Monchen got back. So all right, Luca.
• 1:20:57
  Well, I guess that's it, Luca. Like I said, midweek games
• 1:21:01
  coming up, but you got anything else for me?
• 1:21:04
  There's the final whistle and that's full time for us.
• 1:21:07
  Thank you for listening. Bye.