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#78 Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Most Injured of them All??!? · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Yeah, let's do something. Let's do something.
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Let's fix. Let's fix, fix Enzo.
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Let's fix Enzo. Hello and welcome to episode
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1078 of Draft Off Sides. I'm with Jess Tico.
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My name is Keith. Enzo is having a family
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emergency and we're thinking about you, Enzo.
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Hope everything's good. With that being said, there
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should be a quicker episode without him yapping away.
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So we're in the middle of the game week.
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I I'm playing you this week, Tico in our in our other league,
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not in our main league. And I had the brilliant idea at
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1:30 in the morning when I was coming home from birthday party
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to to swap oh, Nana with Vicario.
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Oh no, I talked to Nana with Kinski and.
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Then and then you made the switch.
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I was like, what? Then I.
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Woke up in the morning and I woke up in the morning and saw
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that Vicario was actually starting.
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And I had this, I had this panicked moment that I thought
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that you were going to wake up, that you woke up before me and
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just picked up Vicario just to screw me over.
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Because they're like, you know, sometimes you keep an extra like
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bench spot. Yeah.
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Yeah, but then I realized that it was a Sunday and you probably
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were still sleeping. Yeah.
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And then I had to pick up a goalkeeper too, because I had
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Pope. It was between Ederson and
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Ramsdale, which I went to Ramsdale but Ederson like.
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Had an assist like 18. Yeah.
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So, so it was like one of those. It was literally like, we were
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like the same pass and you chose wrong, I chose right.
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The game's still really tight, so I think it could go either
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way. No, I think it's more players,
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so I think it's done. No, I have one more player.
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You have two more players that's trying to help by 10.
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Yeah, I'm up by 10. But you have you have walk in
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that Odegard who's been not been good or to go to walk in.
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Sounds fair, but like it's not, you know, and then you have
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someone else playing as well. I think you have a defender
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awesome Robertson. So yeah, I think it's actually a
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pretty I think it's going to be really tight down to the wire.
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But yeah, that's that's enough of our stuff getting into the
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matchup. Should we just dive straight in?
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Let's do it. First game of the week we could
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talk about is the worst game of the week.
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First game, worst game. Brighton 3, Chelsea 0 reportedly
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turned out 66 million from Matoma, from Saudi I think.
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There's somewhere that's yeah, it has to be.
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Saudi. Yeah, I heard that too.
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I also heard that all of a sudden now that now that he's
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scored that goal, Chelsea's interested in him just like
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every other Breton player. That's how it is.
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You do well against Chelsea, Chelsea is interested in you.
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I thought that was a beautiful goal from Matoma.
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Amazing takedown, amazing touch. Everything about it was just
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like pretty iconic. But other than that, I, you
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know, I think Chelsea had like more than 60% possession, but
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they just, they're just, they just don't do anything with it.
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And then I'm sure we'll talk about it later on today.
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But you know, with Nicole Jackson now playing that affect
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the the because EKUCO is a different kind of forward now,
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Yes. Model.
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Traditional line, yeah. Did we come to forward and it
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just doesn't stretch. And I think when Brighton you,
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you need a player that's going to stretch the line because they
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play such a highline. It just it didn't work.
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Well, it didn't work. So we Chelsea played them in the
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FA Cup on the weekend and lost and it didn't look good and they
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pretty much started the exact same team and lost again.
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It was just like it's starting to feel crazy over in in
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Chelsea's own. But what are you going to do?
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Matomo was 17.25 points. He looked really good.
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His goal look good. I feel like he's one for like
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the future. I think if he like it starts
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schedule up one of the season now we're going to see some guys
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really locking in positions that were previously not.
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And like he's one of those guys that I was in and out of my team
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all year and just, you know, I didn't have it in my team
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recently. And now he's doing well and I'm
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kind of kicking myself very much like Palmer last year just to
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start the year. But and then, sorry, I'm talking
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about Minto right now. Sorry, Minto's who I'm thinking
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about. I just meant, I said Matilda,
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but I meant Minto. Minto looked so good.
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Matilda obviously had that amazing goal.
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Welbeck with two assists, 15.5 points.
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Welbeck's just so goal, assist dependent.
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Yeah. It's like the question, is he
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back? It's just he's just certain
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striking like that where there's so goal, goal or assist
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dependent. And I don't think he's at a
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level where you start him regardless, because I don't
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think he's going to score as often as I know Enzo's really
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high on him, but I've never been surprised on that guy.
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Yeah, I think, I mean, it's he had such an incredible start to
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the year. So I think that like that
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recent, that bias be that beginning of the year bias
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really rubs off. But I think we, if you look at
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the whole body work and a lot the latter half of it, I would
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need to see him do a little bit more before moving forward with
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that. OK, next game Leicester 0
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Arsenal 2 my God my my big call made it and worry 29 points.
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He's keeping me single headed to keep me alive in my match up
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with Sergei this week. It's going to be interesting to
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see what they do when Saka comes back if he continues to play at
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this high level because he was the best player on the field I
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felt like for Arsenal. I mean, the only other option is
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moving him to the left, but I think with his age and then
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experience is kind of hard for him to learn a new position.
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So it will be a little interesting.
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He's a player I picked up when soccer went down because I
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thought, you know, he would, he would get playing time and he
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would do well. But once I picked him up, he
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didn't perform in his first start and then he had a little
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bad game, so I dropped him. I couldn't hold out, hold on to
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him. But now Arsenal is desperate, so
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whoever's healthy is going to play.
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So I think this he is going to produce.
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Yeah, I mean, I think when he when he think of fantasy, it's
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like opportunity that meets talent, you know, and this is a
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perfect example. Like he just, there's just no
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one else there to play and it doesn't matter how young you
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are. Like he's and he's also looked
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great. Like he's he's super talented,
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but he's also like shown it. He showed that he can do it.
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I think the other super interesting note here is Marino
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scoring twice coming off the bench.
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You son of a bitch. You did not wake up for that
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game and you thought Marino was going to start.
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So you started them and they just didn't play.
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And then he came on the bench and scored two goals.
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What happened? Tell me what happened.
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I was awake. You were awake at 4:30 in the
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morning. I wake up, I took the line up
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and I go back to sleep for the 430 games, unless it's like a
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huge game. So you checked it and then you
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were like, oh, Marino's not starting, but he's going to
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score two goals. He's going to come out and score
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two goals. What I will admit to is I
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completely forgot I have him in the other league.
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I just checked our main league and I kept in the starting
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lineup because it was either him, Doku or Carla Fiori.
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None of them are starters. So I was like oh let me roll
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with Marino. So I did check but I forgot to
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check the other league. So that's the that one out, I
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will admit so. Funny, but you know.
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This is an interesting one for me because I heard he might get
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minutes as he might start as a striker and he's the player I
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was looking to drop because I wanted to.
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I picked up a couple of defenders we could talk about
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later on, so he's the player I was looking to drop, but if he's
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going to get the opportunity to play as a nine that then he
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becomes a key player. I agree with you.
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I think that's a really good point.
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And he is on waivers for that reason.
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I think they're just, it worked. I mean, they didn't look good
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before he came on, you know, So I think it really showed that
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they need that kind of big presence up there.
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And he's like, they're part of the reason why they bought him
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is because he can score goals. Like he was like a goal scoring
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like a late arriving midfielder in a box that can win headers
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and score goals and stuff. And he's a big physical
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presence. And yeah, I think it kind of
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makes sense. I mean, it's obviously not.
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He's not a striker but I think he can do the job.
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Yeah, especially. When he has good wiggers around
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him, you know, like Mwari looks great if Mwari is going to knock
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balls in like that, if you know. I mean, Spain has produced a lot
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of false 9. So he comes along with those
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with that history and also he he is, he's a classified as a
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midfielder which he gets that won't clean sheet point.
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So that's an added plus. One clean sheet point, I think
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he also gets an extra point for goals.
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There's something he I think, yeah, I think there's something
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else too. So yeah, like now that's huge.
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But yeah, those those are all factors.
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Absolutely. Next game, Villa won Ipswich.
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One some interesting things here.
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Obviously surprising that Villa would draw Ipswich, obviously,
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but I think that's coming off what FA Cup.
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I don't know. I mean, I just feels weird.
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It felt like a weird time because I I feel like they did
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have some time off. They had a whole week to prepare
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for this game. But it was a really kind of
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yeah, they looked the stuff slow.
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But I think the biggest thing for me was that Rashford and
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Assessio didn't start again. But then Rashford came on and
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looked pretty darn good, scored 21 points.
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Doctor Freak kick off the post that that was a great score by
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Ollie Watkins. Yeah, so he got the assist
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points for that. But he scored 21 points and 1/2.
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He was actually running like he was he was sprinting.
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I haven't seen him Sprint in like 6 months do.
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You think it's sustainable? Not the sprinting, the points.
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Obviously not. I mean 21 1/2, it's not to say
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that's like solid numbers so no one else can do that, but I
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think that he's playing for his career.
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You know, if this is what what happens after this, if he has a
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really lackluster or forgettable the rest of the season with
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Villa, like what happens? Like he just kind of goes
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somewhere random, like goes to Inter next year, goes to like
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Athletico Bilbao. I don't know, like I just I feel
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like he's kind of looking at like this was my last chance to
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prove that I can play at the at the highest level.
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Yeah. That, that level of desperation,
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I think can, can do wonders for a, for a man, you know?
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Yeah, but also as Sensio, he came on for, I think he played
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like the last 25 minutes. He had six points, which isn't
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bad. And the other thing I would say
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is kind of worrisome as someone, I think you'll have Denia as
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well. He got subbed off at halftime as
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well. Yeah, about that.
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Yeah, obviously a little alarming, especially because
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it's really difficult this part time of the year to be holding
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both like Matson and Dinghi. And you know, I've said it
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earlier in the season that I thought Matson would eventually
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take the starting job, but then I kind of looked like it wasn't
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going to happen. But it would be really ironic to
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happen now. Yeah.
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Like when we've we've all moved on from that, like that take.
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I feel like that I just took an L on that take.
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But if it happens now, I'll just take a double L because what are
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you gonna do? It's not the first time Dina has
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been slipped off at half time so.
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No, you're right. And I think the other thing too,
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is that Matson's a much more attacking player.
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So it might have been the fact that they were down one.
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O yeah. Or they were, you know, if
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there's 00, I forget exactly what the score was at half, but
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just this idea that they needed a little more attacking.
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Oof. And I think Matson can offer
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that. So I think if anything, but I'm
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not worried yet. And I also looked at it, I don't
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think there's any sort of injury issue, you know?
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I haven't seen injury. Yeah.
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So I think that's also a good thing.
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The other big thing was Rory the lap with 15.25 points.
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He got 1. He got a great goal.
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He's looked good all season. I think he's just his biggest
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issue is his place, right switch.
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And so I think, you know, obviously if you have them,
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you're going to be starting them, you're going to be happy.
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I think he has ten goals this season for a team that's in that
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bottom 3. Sounds great, you know.
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Along with two assists. Along with two assists.
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But I think the biggest thing is just looking out for him in the
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future. A for the future for fantasy and
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also the future for England. Like I think he's kind of going
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to be someone that's going to be in the conversation.
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Like, there's just not a lot of like strikers like him, you
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know, in the England set up so. He's also probably players that
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will be bought out from Ipswich next year when Ipswich gets
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relegated. Yeah, when they got relegated
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and even if they somehow play a Miracle Escape, I think he'll
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still get bought by someone. Yeah, I think it's right.
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I think he's gone, as it's going to be.
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It's going to be really interesting to see where he
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goes, you know, because I, I can't imagine him leaving
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England. And then that only leaves a
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handful of teams that are really looking for that.
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I mean, do you know? I think he'll stay in the EPL.
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Yeah, I think so too. But there's so few teams that I
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think would really, really resonate with.
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But like moving on next game full of 2 Forest one.
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Was it a shocker for you? I'm not really right.
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We were kind of talking about we felt like it could go this way.
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Not really. At this point, Fulham, I'm not
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surprised that anything they do. They're pretty good.
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Yeah, it's very fun to watch. Very fun to watch.
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I agree. Marco Silva, the coach has been
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just really consistent there for a few years now.
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He's just really kind of getting the most out of these guys and a
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lot of them are like, you know, like Ferrari kind of the busted
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wolves went to Barcelona, didn't do much.
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Jimenez had that head head injury at wolves.
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A Wol be like an arsenal reject, Emil Smith row like another
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Arsenal reject. Like, so it's a bunch of guys
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like that, you know, didn't really make it somewhere else or
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kind of issues and then are all coming there and working out,
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which is kind of a cool story, you know?
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It is. And then I don't know if you saw
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Enzo had bashed Iwobi. Not sure if he forgot to move
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him in the lineup or what, but he only hit 8.75 points and he's
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been out of four games of less scoring less than 10.
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But that was surprising for me because he loves Iwobi.
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I mean team Team is named after that.
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I think the only thing I can think of is Enzo was a little
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Fred Forest. Yeah.
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But I, you know, my thing with that is I'm actually shocked
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because when you watch Forest play, they've let the other team
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have the ball. They let the other team do
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things. So you take a player like Iwobi,
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that's such a a dribble machine. Like I don't, I feel like that's
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a bad move. You know, I mean, eight, eight
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points, whatever. I'm sure he it wasn't a big
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deal, but I just feel like that to me is not, I would have, I
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don't know I would have done that personally.
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I I don't think there's a match if I would bench you will be at
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this. Yeah.
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This year, yeah. Yeah, Sasha Lukic for Fulham,
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he's like they're six, but he got like 20.75 points, 12.1 last
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four games subbed off injured risk with Harvey Wood.
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Yeah, I'm not I think this the sixes, I think they're going to
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occasionally have a good game, but as a whole I'm not super
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keen on them. You know, obviously he had a
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great game this time, but I'm not not the biggest.
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The other, the other big thing on the Forest side was that
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Chris Wood obviously scored another goal.
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Amazing. But other than that, Forest is
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pretty pretty lit. Yeah, at this point, Wood is
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kind of super consistent. Like I know as I could say he's
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MVP put in the notes, but what's the only one who's kind of like
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A at this point you're surprised when he doesn't play well?
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Yeah, I mean, it's not even that.
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I mean, he barely had any shots or anything, but just like he
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just managed to get it done. Yeah, You know, Elaine goes but
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have been having a great second-half of the season, but
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this was a red dot from him. I think it's more to do with
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Fulham just kind of dominating the game.
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That's going to be interesting to see the trajectory of these
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two teams because to me, Fulham is on such an ascension and
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Forest is finally starting to look a little wobbly.
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They just had a few little issues here and there and we'll
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see if that continues, if people kind of like find them out for
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like a better kind of term, you know, I.
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Mean Fulham might be competing for Europa.
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Yeah, I mean, there's still an FA Cup.
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I mean, they could, I mean, don't.
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I think they're like a dark horse for that competition.
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They're only four, four points behind 5th place.
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Yeah, I mean, yeah, anything's possible with that team.
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I think that team's good enough to to sneak in there.
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OK, Next game, City 4, Newcastle zero.
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I think this was the surprise of the weekend for us.
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I went back and listened to us talk about this and we were
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like, oh, Newcastle is going to win.
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But then we were like, but if like Nico Gonzalez is really
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good, then maybe City could win. And then I think you mentioned
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you wanted to see how they did midweek and midweek they weren't
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so hot that. They the the lineup they put out
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was much better than the lineup they put out against Real
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Madrid. I guess Madrid, they put out
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John Stones in the midfield that was so defensive, who would have
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thought? Marmosch first half hat trick.
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He was 14. Minute hat trick.
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Force, yeah, that was kind of, that was amazing and no one
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could have seen this happen. And Newcastle looked steps, law,
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they looked terrible. They didn't create a lot of
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chances. I thought city dominated and
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then I actually after the game Ederson had the assist.
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He has the most assist in Premier League history for
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goalscopers with six for his. That's crazy.
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Guardio had a great game. Fordham wasn't bad.
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How long? You know I I thought this was a
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typical city aswell. Bank from before the the hard
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times. Yeah, I totally agree.
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And I think the the one big difference is Nico Gonzalez
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being in the team and the way he played.
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I think he had the most passes in the game with 102, which is
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kind of impressive for his very first start in the Premier
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League because he'd only he'd only played that one game prior
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and kind of tweaked himself, right.
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Yeah. And so I think if he like we
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talked about Roger and it's like, oh, like it's not all
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Roger, you're going away, but like maybe it kind of is because
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maybe it's just like they need that type of player in order for
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everything else to work. And without that, everything
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else kind of falls apart, you know what I mean?
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So. Yeah, every great team has a
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player like that who you don't think does a lot, but it's kind
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of like the metronome. Makes everything go on, keeps,
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keeps the rhythm on. The other thing I would say is
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Kusanov had a great game as well.
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He's a player I picked up. Don't go obviously benched and I
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think especially with the way Marmos played, I don't think
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Doku's going to get in these starting there's.
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Savio playing well there too. You know, he got started on
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score. Like how many other score?
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Good scoring week. Yeah.
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I think it's gonna be tough. And I mean, like, shoot, like,
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who's all there now? I mean, it's so hard for.
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I don't really see a path for Doku really.
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The only thing is like an injury I I haven't both of our leagues.
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The only reason I'm keeping him is because I drafted him pretty
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high and. It is sunk.
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Foul. Sunk.
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Pretty much, yeah, You know. I mean, if I get an injury, he
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would probably be one of the first players I drop.
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And then on the Newcastle side, it's kind of alarming for me
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that Pope has been on the bench the last couple of games, but
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Dubrov guys still the starter. Yeah.
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It's just if you're going to be going back and forth between
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that, you don't love it because you're going to have to really
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be catch that, keep an eye on that.
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I've been adding Pope every every game you.
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Don't want to get screwed over? You don't want something to
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snipe you or something. Yeah, and to be honest, I was
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kind of upset I didn't pick up flicking and I should have just
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hit him, got him. Man, Oh my God, did you see
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that? I got him back.
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I'm sorry. I acted like I didn't care.
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I was. I was seething inside of the
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last two weeks about that whole situation.
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Seething. When I said I was available, I'm
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like, man, should I just pick him up?
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But then I was so sure Pope was going to play and I would take
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Popo reflecting. But I like flaking over the
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broadcast, so kind of the injury thing kind of screwed me over.
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Oh. Man, love that.
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Love to hear that. Love to hear that.
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The last question is Nico Gonzalez.
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You know, we talked about him being so important, but he
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didn't. It's like he had this huge plate
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total. He's something that you picked
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up. Do you feel like you're going to
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hold on to him just for a few more weeks to see how it goes?
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Because he does have the capability to score.
17:52
If you look at his like profile and what he's done, what he's
17:55
done in his previous clubs or like, you know, he does have the
17:58
capability to contribute. I'm not sure what's going to
18:00
happen in this team. Like what do you, how you
18:02
feeling? So he, he had two points, 1
18:05
interception in the clean sheet. That's all he he had.
18:08
Obviously with all those passes he he had, you would hope some
18:11
of them would lead shots on target shots.
18:13
Yeah, he passes. As of right now, I'm going to
18:16
hold on, hold on to him just because I did spend 75 on him
18:18
and I'm not just I'm not going to drop him.
18:21
So that's what's keep making me hold out to him.
18:24
And I like, I'm hoping, like Rodri scored a couple of goals
18:27
last year and he was able to produce.
18:29
So give him a couple of games for sure, because this was the
18:31
first, you know, full game he played.
18:33
It's too early to make a judgement call on this.
18:35
Sounds good. OK, Southampton one, Bournemouth
18:38
three. Big score here was Chrissy with
18:42
28.25 points. Yeah, I mean, that's doesn't
18:46
happen all the time, but he's had a quietly really strong
18:49
season. I think anyone who anyone who's
18:51
had him for a while has probably been starting and been feeling
18:53
pretty good about it. And it's like kind of falls
18:55
under the radar type guy. Am I wrong when saying that?
18:57
No, no, you're right. His Schluk kind of guy. 8.8
19:01
points. He has two goals, 3 assists on
19:03
the air, so he's not going to have those like 20 something
19:07
point games often obviously, but he seems pretty consistent and
19:10
what he does and what he does for the team.
19:15
Yeah, it's like, yeah, like we call him a Schlep player.
19:17
Did you see that Schlep was playing for Celtic today as a
19:20
left back? I did not.
19:23
I had to. I'm like, is this the schlep
19:24
that we know? Yeah.
19:25
So I thought, yeah, that's really funny.
19:28
For anyone who doesn't know, we refer to, like guys who just,
19:30
like, consistently score like high single digits.
19:33
We call him like a Schlep player, like a Jeffrey Schlep
19:34
who played for Crystal Palace on ship.
19:37
But yeah, but Christie's scores the last last like six weeks or
19:41
nine points, 10 points, 12.25 points, 10.25 points, 7 points,
19:45
28.25 points. That's that's like great.
19:48
Like that's more than a shot player just with the with the
19:51
big score and they're thrown in, you know, but but yeah, I mean,
19:55
great, great. And.
19:56
Bournemouth's been good this year so.
19:58
Or this been good us and then who else kind of scored for
20:02
Bournemouth? I know Simenio did well.
20:05
I think he had a goal or had an assist.
20:08
Kluvert 15.75. Yeah, so just like it kind of
20:11
they kind of spread the love between the that frontline
20:14
there, which is good On the South Hampton side, Solimano
20:18
19.25 points. He's kind of been in the
20:21
discussion recently, but I'm just having a hard I'm having
20:23
such a hard time with these South Hampton players.
20:25
I just. You say that, but Enzo's
20:27
favorite, John Bethern, like against 16 points and five
20:31
points, but now, yeah. 16.25 and if you look at his like games
20:35
for the last two months, it's like elite.
20:38
The yeah, the only game where they sucked ass was when they
20:42
lost five 0.75 yeah. I think Bendreck needs to be
20:46
picked up and it's the fact that he's on 26 percent.
20:48
Oh, it's just people just being ignorant like me.
20:53
They know people like me that just refuse to do it.
20:55
We're Southamptonist. I picked him up in the other
20:58
league but then I had to drop them.
21:00
Yeah, yeah. Next game West Ham 0 Brentford 1
21:06
Sade with 15.75 points and then I actually picked up shot Kevin
21:13
shod in our that's what I'm talking about Shade I that's I
21:16
picked him up in our main league.
21:18
I was shocked to see that no one picked him up with the waiver
21:20
clear and I was able to get him for free.
21:22
I didn't have to spend one of my 4 remaining $5 on a. 25% of your
21:26
balance, you know, I've been kind of keeping an eye on him
21:29
and he's been ever since that one huge game.
21:32
We're getting like, what was it, 50 points, something like that.
21:35
He's been pretty consistent, especially he doesn't start
21:38
every game, but what he does start, he's pretty consistent
21:40
and he's a player that I was monitoring, but I just didn't
21:43
pull the trigger on it. You know what though is he had,
21:47
he was kind of not starting, but the last three or four he's been
21:50
in quite a bit. So I think like, I don't know, I
21:53
think what we talked to, I think we were talking about earlier,
21:55
but like the idea of like this time of the year is when people
21:58
start to really walk in, you know, it's like you're not
22:00
trying something out anymore. Like coaches are kind of found
22:02
what they're looking for. Yeah.
22:04
So I'm kind of feeling like I'm feeling really good about that,
22:06
especially because I was pretty late in the midfield.
22:08
So I'm very excited. The other big things, Kilman 12
22:12
points, I don't I really care that much about that.
22:14
But no West Ham players are the top 60 kind of alarming.
22:18
West Ham did not look that great.
22:21
But I will say in the second-half, Evan Ferguson came
22:24
on and I thought they looked a lot better when they had Evan
22:26
Ferguson. They had like a real striker and
22:28
as like a focal point for them. So but I'm also I'm a Evan
22:33
Ferguson fan. I I think it's funny how you
22:36
said Kilman was, you know, you said you don't care about him,
22:38
but when the year started he was like the half pick up of the
22:40
year. He was, you see what he got, he
22:43
got transferred there from wolves and he was really good
22:45
for wolves. And then I think he like 20
22:46
something points to like his second game of the year, so
22:49
yeah. Yeah, that's how it goes.
22:53
But Brantford's solid. I mean, I actually kind of like
22:55
Brantford the rest of the season.
22:56
I think that that team is looking really settled.
22:58
Everyone's healthy, you know, and Bueno and Bueno's looked
23:01
great all season and he's stayed healthy all season, which is
23:04
really huge for him, which has just been legit.
23:06
It's just been a good team. Damn, Sky looks so good in that
23:08
10 role for them. It's a good.
23:11
It's a good team. Yeah, it's fun.
23:15
Next game, Palace one, Everton 2.
23:17
I think this Everton's like what, 4th win in or out of six
23:22
or something like that. Fourth win in the last six
23:24
games, something crazy. Like I think they only had three
23:27
wins the whole season prior to that.
23:29
The last five games they've won four and they have one tie.
23:32
That's crazy. They were around 17 now, I mean,
23:36
it's not a huge climb there on the 14th, but they're like well
23:38
above their allegations on and they're not in danger and
23:41
they're actually tied for 12th place.
23:42
So that's they had a turn around.
23:45
They hadn't been yet, I believe. We don't need to talk about
23:48
that. The big thing is others the play
23:53
Alcaraz 27.25 points. This is his first like full
23:56
game. You know where he started and
23:58
had a full game. I think he's only he's only been
24:00
subbed on twice before this once was in like August because I was
24:03
looking at him and I was like I don't know who this guy is.
24:05
So I was trying to do some research.
24:06
He's played like 2 times before, Once it was in August and once
24:09
it was in like what February? Like earlier in February?
24:12
Yeah. So I'm kind of something to
24:14
monitor. I'm not.
24:15
It's not something I'm not like trying to pick him up.
24:16
I think there's better players out there right now, personally.
24:21
The other big thing is Beto, 26.75 points, four goals in his
24:25
last three games. He's actually looking like
24:28
pretty good. I think, you know, it's just
24:29
kind of got a ride that ride the hot hand, both as a striker and
24:32
as a hot team. Yeah, Beto's been on a tear the
24:36
last four. I think if let's look at sort of
24:39
26.7518 and a half, 23.25. I obviously he's secured as
24:45
their nine moving forward. Yeah, I totally agree.
24:50
So the other questions are the other players that are kind of
24:52
interesting where Matata's managed to get a goal and score
24:55
about 18 point 1/2 points. So that's that's all.
24:58
I mean, that's just more Matata points.
24:59
That's more just like what you kind of expect with him.
25:03
Kind of like he's definitely, I feel like he's having a better
25:05
season than everyone thought he was.
25:07
I think just because Palace spent some money in the summer,
25:10
I think there was some concerns of Encetia coming in and taking
25:14
his spot and then just he's just the big dog, big dog in that
25:17
team. You know, remember he he was so
25:19
hot the end of last year and then he went and played in what
25:22
was it was the year the Olympics.
25:24
He was like the best day playing in the Olympics.
25:26
And then he came back late. And so I think people are a
25:28
little weary on him, but he's really proven that he's just
25:31
it's not just like I run it for him.
25:32
Well, I think. He also came out, got off to a
25:35
rocky start. But when you look at his game,
25:37
like in the last six games, he has seven goals.
25:40
That's the same. Yeah, yeah.
25:42
No, it's this just goals. Way he got 19 points, continues
25:46
to score. Kind of surprised because he
25:49
last year was when he kind of rose to fame.
25:52
Last year he wasn't scoring a lot of fantasy points, but this
25:54
year he's managing to do it so. I think the EUR did a lot for
25:57
him. But yeah, the EUR just built him
26:00
up. Another no really thing is that
26:03
as they didn't start but then came out of the second-half and
26:07
managed to score a really healthy amount of points, I
26:08
think like 10 plus. And so you expect him to can now
26:12
that he's kind of he's been nursing an injury.
26:13
But the fact that he played the second-half again, that this
26:16
game makes me think that he's probably going to be started
26:17
sooner rather than later. It's been a frustrating,
26:20
frustrating player told him this year.
26:21
Just injury wise not. Always available, Yeah.
26:25
And this is even when he has been available, it hasn't been.
26:27
It's been good, but not like sensational.
26:31
They miss Elisa. Yeah, they did.
26:33
Absolutely. Yeah.
26:35
But I go out and then kind of, I can't believe I'm saying this,
26:38
but they're kind of fun to watch.
26:41
Yeah, Ashley Young played in other games.
26:44
Did you see? So this is my first time, so
26:46
obviously I picked up a Brian. I've caught little bits of him,
26:49
but this is my first time where I really sat and watched the
26:50
whole game. Since he's been playing, he's
26:53
huge. He's like a centre back.
26:56
He's like a big, big boy. So I don't know, is this an
26:59
interesting? He's an interesting pick up.
27:01
It's interesting to go from Ashley Young who's like this
27:03
like fleeting little speed guy on the on the side that you
27:05
obviously actually Young was like a prolific forward in his
27:08
earlier years. And then to go to O'Brien, who's
27:10
like clearly like a meat and potatoes, you know, right
27:13
Thought type guy. He's 6/6.
27:15
Yeah, he's 6/6 and he's like, she's like big old head.
27:19
He's like, he's like a whiter version of Harry Maguire.
27:22
I don't know how you could be whiter than Harry Maguire.
27:23
He someone manages to be that. You know, I'm not a fan of
27:26
footballers but don't look like footballers.
27:28
I don't know what it is about that, like the bias or whatever
27:30
it is, but if you don't look like they're all I, I'm just not
27:33
a fan of you as a player. So does he look like he looks
27:35
like an American? Footballer.
27:37
Yeah, that's, I mean, he also looks like he could have played
27:41
basketball, but like back in the 80s when it was just white
27:43
people. So what do you think?
27:46
What is your opinion of the Dominatile?
27:48
Because he doesn't look like a footballer to be.
27:50
Do you like him, Adama Chari? No, no, no, I don't even even
27:53
like someone like Shakiri who's, you know, super like white
27:56
built. Like I like, I like the freaks,
27:59
I like all the freaky looking guys.
28:01
I kind of root for him. So you're a huge Peter Crouch
28:03
man. Oh love Peter Crouch.
28:05
You're kidding. Absolutely.
28:07
Peter Crouch on Red Phillips. That was my favorite.
28:09
When they play together, it's like the Super tall guy and the
28:12
Super short guy, I think. There was a one of the World
28:15
Cups where Philip Long was playing, I don't remember where
28:17
he was going against. It was like 6 foot something and
28:19
Philip Long was like next to him by his waist.
28:21
Yeah, yeah, it's so funny. Next game, Spurs one, United 0.
28:27
I don't know what to say about this one, other than that Spurs
28:31
was better, but not by much. Neither team was that great,
28:34
right? Was it a great game?
28:36
I mean, when you looked, when you looked at Manchester United
28:40
formation, the players they put out there, it's it's sad,
28:43
actually. Kasimuru got the start, Dora
28:45
Gudalo, and then you have Xerxi playing 9 1/2, I guess with
28:50
Hoyland. And I also saw a side that Hogan
28:53
has the most shots that are off target in the EPL this year.
28:55
Yeah, which is kind of crazy. I was happy because Madison got
28:59
the start and then I picked up. Did you have Spence?
29:04
Who are you there? Yeah, we'll probably talk about
29:07
him later on, but it was between him and Ben Davis.
29:10
And when I looked at him, Ben Davis has also been producing
29:12
well as well. But if I have a choice between a
29:14
center back or a winger, I'll go with the winger.
29:16
Especially in the impossible COG routine where those those
29:19
wingers can invert and get pretty advanced, you know?
29:22
Yeah. So yeah, I think that was a good
29:23
call. I think I've been the other
29:24
shot. We talked about it in the in the
29:26
very beginning, but the Cario first start since his injury
29:29
came back and put up 19.5 points.
29:31
Huge. He just made some big saves too.
29:34
Like it wasn't just they weren't they weren't just some like
29:37
cheapo little saves that where he just jumped on a ball that
29:40
was loosely knocking towards. I'm like, he saved some
29:43
game-winning shots from from, especially from Garnacho.
29:47
Garnacho should have had a goal, fucking sealed it over the over
29:50
the bar. But a lot of United players
29:52
produced as well. The elite 16.75 Bruno 16 1/2,
29:56
Garnacho 12 1/2 or not not 12. So even Casa Miro, he level .75
30:01
points, that's for him. That's amazing.
30:04
Yeah, totally. Yeah, I mean, and obviously the
30:06
Spurs defenders are going to score when they're, you know,
30:09
when they keep sheep. But Pedro Poron 18 or 19 points,
30:14
Judd Spence 18.25 points. I really like him.
30:17
After watching him again quickly on Madison, do you feel like
30:21
there's this change anything for you or is this just like a step
30:23
there attraction? I'm very optimistic about this
30:27
because that's the only option I have, him being in both of my
30:31
teams. But I I guess there was
30:33
something with Roy Keane. Roy Keane criticized him just
30:36
like he does everyone else after the game.
30:37
He he did this gesture like everyone's talking to, you know,
30:41
stretch your mouth and then. I.
30:42
Saw that, spoke positively about him as well.
30:44
I'm hoping he gets some playing time because the what was it the
30:47
last few games he was benched had maybe five games or so and
30:51
Tottenham has been pretty shitty.
30:53
So at this point you tried not playing him.
30:56
I would think the next option is putting him back in the lineup.
30:59
Yeah, yeah, and with it, OK, next game, Liverpool 2, Wolves
31:03
won. Diaz find that a good game
31:06
finally. Yeah.
31:08
So 19 points there. Kunia got a goal, 17.25 points.
31:12
Sala hopefully 13 points even though he had a goal.
31:15
Downhill slope. You think Saul is fading?
31:17
This is the end of the road. It's kind of crazy.
31:20
He had 30 points and nine of them came from a goal.
31:22
Like, no ghost points. It's kind of alarming from you.
31:24
But yeah, Saul's didn't be fine. We're not worried about that
31:27
like. Is that like he's like low for
31:28
the last two months? Yeah, he maybe had.
31:32
We had one game. We know.
31:34
So against Forest, he had 12 points.
31:40
Yeah, no goals, all goals points on that one.
31:42
But yeah, it's it's been pretty the last time yet last time we
31:49
had a single scoring game was October 5.
31:52
Jesus, talk about like a like a downhill slope from here.
31:55
Are we? Are you worried about Liverpool
31:57
in general because they lost to Plymouth or whatever?
32:00
They tied Everton, they they usually could have tied the
32:03
skin. They squeaked by against Wolves.
32:06
I felt like they kind of really let the ball drop in the
32:08
second-half. No, I actually want them to lose
32:11
a game or two in the Premiership just so they don't rest the
32:13
players and they pick up the intensity.
32:15
So I rather them kind of lose a game or two, make it a little
32:21
more competitive. One for obviously for the
32:24
purposes. And also I think and also I
32:26
don't think like for example, they play one day as well.
32:29
They can't match their players because you know Arsenal is
32:31
right behind them. Yeah, interesting, Interesting.
32:36
Trent was pretty lackluster and he came off pretty early in the
32:39
game in the 60th minute. I'm chocolate that he's still
32:42
coming back from the injury. Yeah, he what?
32:45
But look how lucky you got. He came off at the 64th and
32:48
Cunha scored at the 67th so. You got the clean sheet points.
32:51
I got the clean sheet points by three minutes.
32:53
I, I definitely was clocking that.
32:55
I was very happy about it and that's literally like those
32:58
points are keeping me in my matchup with Sergei this week
33:01
and I. Needed those, yeah.
33:02
I really needed those bad, so that felt good.
33:06
Anything else here? I mean, I think the biggest, the
33:09
taking take away from this game honestly, was Cunha.
33:11
This was like it's like sixth goal from outside the box this
33:14
season or something crazy like that.
33:15
He's just so good. He's been amazing.
33:21
He scores and he does it in different ways as well, like you
33:23
said, outside the box, inside the box, dribbling, left foot,
33:26
right foot. I I think he's a complete player
33:29
and I hope he gets called out for Brazil.
33:33
If he doesn't get called in for a position I'm in a riot.
33:36
Like as someone who doesn't even really like Brazil it.
33:39
Would be crazy, yeah. It would be absolutely insane.
33:43
So Microsoft, Cudi is the age, so he's 25, but so yeah.
33:48
So here's the wolves you care about at Fantasy Wiser, no.
33:52
I mean, I always like annoy. I think there's always value
33:54
there. I mean, as A to be a defender
33:57
with five assists and three bulls is pretty darn good.
34:02
That's really kind of it. I think those are the two guys
34:04
on that team that I really care about.
34:06
What do you think? So yeah, I think that's CUNY and
34:09
annoyed on that team. For me, that's it.
34:11
That's it, right? Yeah.
34:12
Yeah, I think that's all you can really just be be intrigued by
34:15
there. But yeah, so that's those are
34:19
the games I think kind of what we're talking about.
34:21
There's been a lot of injuries. So we just wanted to talk about
34:23
them. I think some of them we've kind
34:25
of talked through already, but some of them we can also talk
34:28
about. First one, obviously the big one
34:29
is Kyle Haberts torn ACL, torn hamstring.
34:35
That's the season. Do you hear that how he did it?
34:38
No, it was. Wasn't it practice or?
34:41
Practice blocking a shot, huh? So the ball hit his hamstring.
34:46
No, I think he probably lunged and then ripped it or something,
34:50
planted or something. Martinelli hamstring TDBI think
34:54
it's going to be at least six weeks.
34:56
Yeah, so I think so. I think between the two of those
35:00
injuries, when we talked about Marino, we talked about Hawaii,
35:03
I think Sterling had such a bad game that like, I don't know if
35:06
he plays again first. Yeah.
35:10
It's bad. I mean holy shit, what happened?
35:13
I wonder if they'll try playing MLS, smiles Lewis Kelly up top
35:18
as well and putting one of their other defenders when they get
35:20
healthy as left back. Yeah, I think that's a very
35:23
viable. We have to remember that Charles
35:25
Tart is still there as well. Yeah, so there's some options,
35:28
but I think Huawei is pretty locked.
35:30
I think, I think trash is pretty locked.
35:33
I think Marino, Marino could be the striker, but I also like,
35:37
you never know, But I think that's, I think that's like a
35:39
very viable situation there. Yeah.
35:42
Next one, Nico Jackson toward hamstring out six to eight
35:45
weeks. Pretty devastating for Chelsea.
35:47
I think, you know, people, there's some people like Sergei
35:50
who think that Nico Jackson is trash and don't understand how
35:53
important he is for the team. But I think you'll see how bad
35:58
it is when he's not there. And I think we kind of saw that
36:00
already with the cuckoo thing. Chico, you were you were really
36:03
quick to pick up a cuckoo with both our leagues when this
36:06
injury news drops. How are you feeling about that
36:10
now? I think I dropped him in one of
36:12
the leagues, if not 2, but the only reason I I would have held
36:16
out to him and cuckoo because he has proved that he scored during
36:21
like the FA Cup and whatnot. It's just I needed defenders.
36:24
So I picked up on defenders and I had to drop off and Kuko.
36:26
But I do I think that Kuko will be productive.
36:29
Keith, I know you're low on him, but I think he's going to be
36:31
productive for Chelsea and I feel.
36:33
Like you're. Trying to add him right now.
36:37
I'm not, but I I was like kind of being low around him and I'm
36:41
just excited what should have him.
36:43
But I also don't know if I would pick him up because I just
36:45
don't. I just haven't seen it.
36:46
I haven't seen it in the Premier League.
36:47
I haven't seen it with Moresca. I just don't think that's his
36:51
position. You know, I feel like it's just
36:53
there's a lot of factors that just bubbled me out.
36:55
And I think it's maybe partially because I've seen too much
36:57
Chelsea. Yeah, you know, I'm like too
36:59
close to the project, but. I had the two goalkeepers, so I
37:02
was like, yeah, why not? Totally.
37:04
No, It makes sense for you. Hollins looked like he came off
37:08
the field. A little bit of a pain.
37:10
Nothing's really been announced otherwise, but I think it's
37:13
something to keep an eye on, you know?
37:15
He's playing. I think he's even playing
37:16
tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think he's
37:20
gonna play it wrong. I think even if he has got like
37:23
an injection, I think he'd play tomorrow.
37:24
It's such a big game. You know, I think I'd be more
37:27
worried about. Yeah, exactly.
37:29
Just kind of mean. I think I'd be more worried
37:31
about him in the Premier League, maybe because I could see if he
37:35
has some sort of like injury or discomfort.
37:37
I could see him playing tomorrow and then having to rest.
37:40
Yeah, throughout the weekend. So that's kind of the concern.
37:43
Greelish hamstring, not that relevant.
37:45
I mean, it was interesting that he started that first game and
37:47
actually he looked decent before he got injured against Madrid.
37:50
I was so happy he was starting. He got so upset when he got
37:53
hurt. Yeah, I don't know, I think it's
37:55
fine. Ekanji, a doctor, abductor,
37:57
injury TBD, not that relevant in my opinion and die for
38:01
everything was actually a kind of blow.
38:03
So. Yeah, he was so.
38:05
He's been, he was having a pretty good year and I think
38:07
especially with McNeil out, I don't know where the creativity
38:10
comes to that team, but like they've kind of managed to
38:12
figure it out without him. So let's see what happens there.
38:17
I think that's maybe where all Corrals maybe is interested
38:20
because he's kind of that he with McGill out and with Ducori
38:25
out and with what's the name out, we were just talking about
38:29
like it was able to lift away and die out.
38:31
That's maybe where Al Krauss comes in.
38:33
So maybe I'm talking myself into that big little bit more
38:36
interesting of a player than I initially thought.
38:39
But I also think it like Ducori will be back next week.
38:42
You know, he was just at served at suspension for the fight.
38:44
They got like that tussle at Liverpool.
38:48
So yeah, that's the one we think.
38:50
Yeah, so we'll see what happens there, but I just let me keep an
38:54
eye on and see. So question mark on his injury.
38:58
I think that he was already like borderline, like he was pretty
39:00
speculative. He had one game for Ipswich.
39:02
That's OK. I don't, I don't really foresee
39:05
much happening there, you know. Yeah, it's like I think you just
39:08
assume he's gonna be out for a while.
39:09
Huang he chain. I don't even think it's we're
39:11
talking about. I don't even know he's on this
39:12
list. He just likes the Wong.
39:15
Wong. Yeah, that's a big Wong fan.
39:18
OK, moving on to waivers. First name on here is I was
39:22
shocked to see that Beto's still only 50% owned.
39:25
He's a forward. He needs to be owned in every
39:28
league right now. I think Moyes has just turned
39:30
the whole team around and Beto is scoring goals well.
39:32
And I think the only reason that I don't think he's owed Morris
39:35
cause of the January transfer window and like the Rashfords
39:38
and the Ascencios and all these guys kind of moving around.
39:41
And so I think he's kind of flown on the radar.
39:43
But he has been looking really good and and on and Everton team
39:46
has been looking really good. And neither neither his name nor
39:49
Everton have been really associated with high scoring
39:50
attackers recently. But that that could be changing
39:53
with Moyes there. And not that Moyes has ever been
39:55
associated with high scoring time, but you know what I mean?
39:57
Like the teams look so much better.
39:59
And it's also not a coincidence that the team looks better when
40:01
Beto became a starter. He plays a huge factor for that.
40:04
Totally, fully agreed. So I think that's my number one.
40:07
I think my number 2 is Mccombarino, 33% owned.
40:11
He's a mid, but he's came on as a makeshift striker we talked
40:14
about for Arsenal, scored two goals, rescued the win for them.
40:18
You know, I don't expect him to like be a godsend, you know?
40:21
But I also think that in a good Arsenal team with the type of
40:25
player he is and what his skill sets are, I think he can knock a
40:28
few in. So I think it's just like a no
40:32
brainer. It's like a it's kind of like,
40:35
yeah, kind of a weird one, but hey, why not?
40:39
You always want to on players on good teams, especially
40:42
midfielders and attacking defense all across.
40:45
So yeah, hopefully he plays, he plays the false line.
40:48
Then he'll he'll have, I think he'll have a monster year.
40:51
Rest of the year, yeah. I don't know if it's going to be
40:52
that much of A false night. I think he'll literally be
40:55
playing like a. Striker like striker.
40:56
Yeah, I legitimately think that's what's how it's going to
40:59
allow, but we'll see. It could be interesting.
41:00
I'll definitely be tuning in next.
41:02
Like what the lineup looks like. Very curious next Vicario 37%
41:07
owned. I mean, you know, keeper's a
41:09
weird one, but he just looks so good on his return and you know
41:12
with with Tottenham, you're not really guaranteed clean sheets
41:15
by any means. If anything, you're guaranteed
41:17
like to not have clean sheets. And it was a bit of a freak,
41:19
freak anomaly that that they got one that's United, although
41:22
United's been struggling. But I think with him, it's just
41:25
there's gonna be a he's gonna, there's gonna be a lot of shots
41:27
target and he's a proven shot stopper A.
41:30
Lot of shots. Yeah.
41:31
So that's the value there next to him on here, Tottenham an
41:36
honor Benzo Jed spent 28%. He just keeps looking better and
41:41
better for Tottenham. I think every week.
41:43
I think his last two games are 18.25 and 20.75 points.
41:46
The only concern is your doggy was on the bench.
41:49
So like, I don't know, but I just can't see him not starting.
41:53
He's looked so good. He's just been such a complete
41:56
player for them. I think your doggy by the end of
41:58
the season before his injury was really like making some mistakes
42:01
and not looking the best so I really think shed might have
42:03
locked down that position. I think it's as honestly you
42:06
don't get playing in yet. Yeah, so that's good.
42:10
The next thing I'm on here is Joakim Anderson.
42:11
He's been kind of in and out of teams and but his last four
42:14
games have all been really solid.
42:16
Not quite every single 1 double digits, but like I think maybe
42:18
three out of four double digits and the other two like high
42:20
single, single point games full of his hot.
42:25
So just ride the Lightning without him.
42:27
I think that's just an easy one. The next name is Patrick Dogu
42:32
Dorgu. How do you pronounce it, Dorgu?
42:34
You're asking what the wrong person for pronunciation.
42:37
Patrick Dorgu, you Man United, the left wing back.
42:40
He actually played in on the left, which I liked because I
42:43
was really weirded out by the fact that he played on the right
42:45
side in his debut and he's only 40% of leagues.
42:49
I didn't think United looked particularly good, but they
42:51
still managed. He still managed to get like
42:52
9.25 points. Or something like that.
42:55
United defenders give produce points, yeah.
42:59
Yeah, so I I think too that with the chance that he could
43:02
potentially have some attacking threat, we've talked about win
43:04
backs being a cheat code. I think he's interesting 40% Oh,
43:06
and he should be entire that reason last name on here, Evan
43:10
Ferguson, who's kind of I'm trying to champion.
43:13
I'm like trying to make him a thing.
43:14
What's the lie? What's the thing from Mean
43:17
Girls? Stop making fetch a thing.
43:19
Stop saying fetch. Evan Ferguson's my fetch only
43:23
43% of leagues in the forward. He came on to look good in the
43:25
second-half against. Was it Brentford that they
43:28
played? Yeah, against Brentford.
43:30
I think the biggest thing for me is like, he looked so good at
43:33
Brighton for a while. He was like the guy, like he was
43:35
like Liam the lap, like last year, you know what I mean?
43:39
And Potter was the guy who gave him his debut.
43:42
And I think he's going to be starting in that team soon
43:44
because West Ham does not look good from an attacking
43:48
standpoint. And I think he kind of brings a
43:49
little bit of focus to the the front line in that team.
43:53
He has one start for the two starts for the year, that's the
43:55
alarm meeting. So once he gets moves into the
43:57
starting position, if he gets moved in there, then we'll have
44:00
a better idea of what he'll be capable of.
44:02
Totally, totally. Yeah, it's very speculative.
44:04
I said it's like I kind of wrote worth a flyer if you have like a
44:07
flimsy bench spot that like you just have some that's not really
44:09
contributing. You kind of know who he is like
44:11
a maybe like a like Danny Welbeck type.
44:14
I don't know, maybe not even well back to be honest, because
44:16
he's been kind of consistent. But like somebody you're just
44:19
like, I don't know if I really want to start this guy.
44:21
I don't know. I don't really have a lot of
44:22
faith in him, but I just have need numbers.
44:24
I think I figured it might be worth picking up and just for
44:26
that hot, that chance that he could become the starting
44:28
striker for a West Ham team or grandpa team that could be could
44:32
improve, could get better. All right, that's waivers and
44:36
that is it. Anything else you want to talk
44:38
about Tika? Uh, Keith, can I go through like
44:40
the top 1015 players that had the points for this past game
44:44
week? Why?
44:45
They're all your players. No, no, they're just all players
44:48
that you. It's none of the like the top
44:50
players that we used to. OK, Yeah, yeah.
44:52
OK. Let's see it.
44:52
Let's see. It I'll just so Marmos, Minten,
44:55
Nawari, Ryan, Christie Alcaraz, Beto, Mikael Marino, Rashford,
45:00
Sasa Lukic, Mateta Trowry, Visario fucking Suleiman.
45:07
It's just like though Holland obviously sack has injured.
45:10
No Palmer, no Salah. It's just kind of when I looked
45:13
at it, I was like, oh, that's crazy.
45:15
Yeah, not like this. No first round picks.
45:18
No first round picks. Or maybe not even any second
45:20
round picks in any rational league.
45:23
I don't know if rash people might have picked Rashford up.
45:26
But Rashford probably won a second but.
45:28
Yeah, not really. Like he shouldn't have gone 2nd
45:30
right? No at all.
45:32
The the the highest player is Luis Diaz 15 that he should have
45:36
been picked maybe in the first 3 rounds.
45:38
That's it. Yeah, yeah.
45:39
So I mean, that's good. It's good for the it's good for
45:41
the game. When that's happening, looking
45:43
at the next week, trying to see that Manchester City, Liverpool,
45:47
8:30 AM game on Sunday, it's pretty fun.
45:53
That's the big one. That what that that always kills
45:55
me though, because as a Savio on there, like, what do you do?
46:01
It it sucks man, it sucks. I wish there was a way where
46:04
after the games you were able to make like 1 substitution.
46:07
Yeah. But then, you know, with the
46:09
points and everything, but you know, now I have two City
46:12
players, both of them midfield, not sure if they're going to
46:14
start or not. So it does suck.
46:18
But you know, yeah. Do we have Liverpool in that
46:20
game? I no.
46:24
No, I'm saying, do we think Liverpool wins?
46:26
I don't know. I mean, the way that let's,
46:28
let's, let's wait until how Man City play against Real Madrid on
46:34
the weekend. Liver play the game.
46:36
Liver play the game tomorrow as well.
46:38
Yeah, true. They both play.
46:40
So that's really interesting. Yeah, I don't, I don't know, I
46:42
think that game could be a little tighter than we thought.
46:44
Another one that's interesting is Newcastle United is not in
46:47
Forest. They're both coming up losses
46:49
that are kind of disappointing. So see how they both bounce
46:51
back. You know, they're, I don't
46:53
think, you know, I could see that being a draw as really
46:55
gritty draw. The the one that sends out for
46:58
me is obviously united everything that's going to be.
47:01
Good. I was just going to say that.
47:02
Yeah, Tottenham, Ipswich. It's that one.
47:05
Might be interesting too because Tottenham I have two clean
47:07
sheets in a row. Not sure what was the last time
47:09
that happened. For that, I don't know if I
47:10
don't know if that Tottenham defense can be be able to stop.
47:13
The lap. The lap, I don't know, I'm just
47:16
joking, but I'd like to see Tottenham kind of not go on a
47:18
tear but kind of turn a little bit around at least, just for
47:22
Andrew's sake. Even like last year, even when
47:26
they went on their like cold Street when they weren't doing
47:29
as well, there were exciting team to watch.
47:30
This year I feel like they haven't been that kind of a
47:32
great. Team, they haven't been a
47:33
setting. Chelsea, Villa, two teams that
47:36
have really bad performances recently, a few different kinds.
47:40
So that'll be interesting to see if one of them can kind of turn
47:42
this around. If I had to put money on it, I
47:44
had to put money on Villa. Chelsea's just been so bad so
47:48
you can watch. The game is the Villa Park as
47:51
well. Yeah, another interesting couple
47:54
derbies too. Arsenal, West Ham, London Derby.
47:58
Yep. Where is that Arsenal right?
48:02
So at the Emirates, yeah. Emirates, yeah.
48:04
So at the Emirates. Yeah, I mean, you expect, you
48:07
expect an Arsenal win, but with this whole striker situation
48:09
like you never know. I mean, they didn't score goals.
48:13
So I mean, even when they had the strikers sound like they
48:15
were, you know, scoring a lot of goals.
48:17
So it's going to be an interesting one and palace to
48:24
score gold, especially if as it starts I.
48:27
Have Palace full numbers. I'm sorry, I was looking at
48:29
that. Yeah.
48:30
So I. Don't know you're disappearing
48:34
when you lean back in your chair.
48:35
It's fine. Is it just a floating hit?
48:38
Not either, just a floating mountain I mean.
48:40
Would you would think Arsenal wins against West Ham,
48:43
especially with the form they've been in?
48:46
But it's a Derby. You never know as you.
48:49
Never know and I think without the striker it gets even more
48:52
You never know and then the other Derby thing could plays
48:55
into it full. Chris Palace is interesting too.
48:58
I think that's another Derby isn't it?
48:59
Cost is in London as well. That's what I was shaking.
49:02
That's why I was like, oh, as that was in my head, yeah.
49:06
But full out, you expect full to win that game, right?
49:08
Because I'm on full in that game, yeah.
49:10
Yeah, yeah, that was a Batman, which I am a reformed Batman
49:14
because we haven't bat in a few weeks because we just, it's not
49:16
going well. But I I'd like Everton and then
49:19
I'd like, I think I like Everton full of, I don't know, I think
49:26
I've done on those two. Everton full of Bournemouth
49:29
should make a bet. Without Enzo.
49:32
Let's let's put $10.00 of our own money in for Enzo as they
49:36
hope you feel better. Maybe we'll cheer him up.
49:40
Cheer him up. Yeah, yeah, Let's do something.
49:45
Let's do something. Let's fix.
49:46
Let's fix that up. Let's fix that up.
49:51
I love that if we win this, we could hold her over his head
49:53
that we wanted that without him for like.
49:55
Do you like that, Beta? Are you interested in that?
49:57
So we're talking about everything Bournemouth and you
50:01
said Fulham. Fulham, I think, yeah.
50:03
What do you think? I.
50:04
Like that bet? It's kind of really everything
50:06
plus 155, not as much as I thought, OK, that way I'm a
50:11
little less on that. Bournemouth -165 Fulham +105.
50:16
No, that's where the money's at full one.
50:19
It is weird. I mean the the do we want to
50:22
pivot on the aversion one or do we just keep it cuz I.
50:25
Just keep it. It's about 7:40.
50:28
Let's keep it. So 30 to win two 10221.
50:36
Siri, do you want to know the Siri's not here?
50:37
OK, let's just yeah. Put them in down the.
50:41
Put them in. You think he'll be OK with this?
50:43
Yeah, he'll be OK. So 40 to win like 295?
50:47
Sounds good. All right, this has been episode
50:50
777878 of Draft Off Sites. My name is Keith.
50:54
I'm with Tico. We'll be back next week with a
50:58
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51:11
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51:12
Right. Nice.
51:14
OK, cool. I think I'm going to screenshot
51:17
this time. All right, cool.
51:19
Should we tell him or should we let him find out when he listens
51:21
to the podcast? I kind of like that.
51:25
That was kind of funny. It's really.
51:29
And so we made a bet, he said. What is it?
51:32
Well, I'll tell you. You have to listen to find out.
51:34
That's kind of funny. I like that I'll.
51:36
Tell Sergey to send you $10. All right, have a good golf.
51:43
Have a good. All right, see you.
51:44
I'll leave your window open now. It's for the waivers.
51:47
I tried to upload one that's like our logo on the back but
51:52
for that one I have to be premium so it's not letting me.
51:55
That's right, yeah. Only concern is what's going on
52:04
with. You bless you, nothing much.
52:08
How was your chip was it seemed like it was good to raw?
52:11
The my what? Your chip was really good
52:13
though, right? I mean, yeah, it's like going
52:15
back home. I have all my family.
52:16
It's the house we grew up in. So it's like, it's not really
52:18
like vacation. It's not, Yeah.
52:21
Yeah, it's like literally like I wake up like it's food, my
52:24
automated, all that stuff. It's like going back home.
52:26
Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah.
52:27
My, I'm so nervous about tomorrow's Champions League game
52:31
if I can. Seriously.
52:32
I mean, the way like the in La Liga, our form has been shit,
52:36
but you know, in Champions League it's a little different.
52:39
But I also didn't like the fact that the City put in four goals
52:46
against Newcastle. Yeah, true.
52:48
And that there was like controversy with the Real
52:51
Madrid, right? Yeah, it's apparently the
52:54
referee that was referring officiating the last game.
52:58
He works for like some company that is affiliated with a
53:01
political Madrid and it's such a bad Spain only.
53:07
Have you seen the image of him giving the red card?
53:10
Like his face? There's so much hate in against
53:12
Julie Bellingham. It's such a like a bad picture
53:15
for there are for you as well. Like you kind of feel for him.
53:17
It's like so much hatred behind it.
53:19
You sound like that kid for that video that that Enzo sent.
53:22
Yes. What was that?
53:24
What was I could say? These rigged.
53:26
Rigged. Yeah.
53:27
He rigged it. Messy.
53:28
Rigged it. Messy.
53:29
Rigged it. Oh, yeah.
53:30
It's funny.