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#80: FPL GW28: Liverpool Bit Shaky, Crystal Palace and Brighton in Form, Waiver Wire Adds and Look Ahead · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Yeah, and I'm telling you, this Arsenal game versus Chelsea, I
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think Arsenal's going to whoop Chelsea's ass.
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Chelsea's like, so bad. Are you using reverse psychology
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right now? Is that what?
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You're doing. I wish I was, but I'm being dead
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serious. I'm not even trying to reverse
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Jinx's. Is it dead serious?
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Are you sure it's not because Sergei just popped on?
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There's nothing to do with Sergei being here and I
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genuinely think the Arsenal's going to whoop Chelsea in this
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game. All right, let's get into the
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week. So Enzo, there's we have no game
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notes, correct? No game notes.
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OK, well, that's fine. We're going to fuck it.
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We'll do a live as I say. OK, let's just kind of go
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through then were there. OK, let's look at this.
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So game started on Saturday. Non enforce one nil against Man
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City. Non enforce one nil against Man
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City. Callum hops the door with a
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banger. Yeah, Gibbs White looked really
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good. I think he got the assistant
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there, Chris Wood. I mean, even though he didn't
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score this game, he just, he just had a few moments where you
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go. God, this guy's actually the
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real deal. He's a good player, man.
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He's MVP, you know, Keep saying. It's a probably he's 33 because
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he just no wonder how much longer he has.
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He peaked man, he's peaking at 33, but at least he's, at least
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he's a player in the premiership that can say I had a season like
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this. Yeah, very few.
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Very few. Very few.
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Yeah, Anthony Lingo looked good at moments, but you know.
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Defenders scored well obviously because of clean sheet points.
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Maria. Yeah.
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But that's funny. I mean, I almost I felt I've
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started him like a bitch because I have him in this in a league.
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But I didn't start Williams. But the idea was like, like I I
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still don't believe in the City team.
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And like we're seeing it over and over.
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Like they have a moment where they look good, but then they
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still struggle. And like it was interesting.
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They had that kind of double tricky winger thing that we've
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been talking about for a long time.
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Les Savino and Duke Doku both in and neither did anything
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exceptional. No.
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And then Holland. Holland was a passage point.
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Well, Savio got four points, I think he got.
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Six and then. Doku got 11.
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Yeah, he got eleven. It wasn't bad.
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But Holland was kind of a passenger.
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I didn't really see much of him. Foda continues to not be there,
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really. And then Silva's just kind of
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not there. And then De Bruyne, when he
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comes in, it's just nothing, just looks.
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Great. I'm going to say this right now.
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And next season, this Man City team's going to look very
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fucking different every. There's half that team's on the
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chopping block. Yeah, fully.
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Yeah. And then from a defensive
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standpoint for them, it's like Vardy all and there's not really
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anyone else. You're really excited about that
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defence, no? No.
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So like, you know, it's like other than like there's like
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maybe there's literally like four players that I think I'm
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starting. It's Vardiol.
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You're obviously going to start Holland, probably going to start
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like Savino Ardoku and then like are you really like feeling
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great about starting Fodin? Fodin.
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Fodin had a yeah, he had a great spell.
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Like he can. Have to.
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He's the only one that. From the midfielders didn't do
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anything so. But it's funny because in years
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past there was city as every single player you start.
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Except for the goalkeeper and defenders.
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Next game, Brighton 2 full of one.
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This was interesting because, and I think Brighton's won how
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many in a row now? I think it's like 5 in a row,
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four in a row. Something crazy like that,
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right? Yeah, yeah.
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And it's like young bloody magic.
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He's doing good things over there.
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How's. Life.
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How's 6IN AL? There you go. 6IN AL, you know,
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it was, it was a pretty even game, I felt like.
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And then, you know, they scored, they got it.
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John Pedro got a penalty in extra time.
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That header, That header from Van Heck, man.
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That was that was one of those headers where it looks like it's
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going off target, right? Uh huh, and he just right in
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there view of it. Yeah, great header.
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Still wouldn't have on my team. What?
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What is that bad Hick? But Raul Jimenez, one of the
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guys I traded, continued and he's having a great season.
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Time ago season and the fear of the guy like that is that you
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where he's going to kind of fade as the season goes on but he's
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like that that goalie scored was like like all time.
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Oh yeah, he's got his very, very athletic, very just like so
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still got it. Smith Rose.
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So interesting to me. Just so.
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Don't know man. She seems like he's just a
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passenger for most of the game and occasional pop up and do
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something for the most part not talking.
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I'm interested in all the Brighton attackers.
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I think you can. I think every single Brighton
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defender is worth like looking at, especially if you're low.
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I mean obviously it will be. Had a pretty good assist this
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game as well. Yes he did for the minute score.
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The player I'm worried about Fulham is going to be Anthony
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Robinson. You're worried about him as he
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kind of dipped a. Little bit he's dipped a lot the
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last like 4-5 games. Like he hasn't had a goal
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contribution and not really any ghost points there.
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So he's been scoring like 2.5 three if I remember correctly.
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That's interesting. I mean, it was always going to,
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he was always going to come back down to Earth a little bit,
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right? Because he was on a, he was on a
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run that was unsustainable for a while there.
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And it's not like Fulham's actually been having too many
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bad results. He's had some good results, he
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just hasn't contributed to it. So yeah.
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I'm a little bit, yeah. It's what, four single digit
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games in a row? Yeah, it's just tough, tough
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one, especially when you start to depend on him a little bit in
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your teams. But he's also still
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significantly better than 99% of the defenders out there.
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Oh yeah. So you're just going to you're
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going to just got to roll out the punches with that one.
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OK, next game, Crystal Palace won Ipswich 0.
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Do you know that I saw a crazy stat that Crystal Palace in the
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in the new year in in 2025 has scored just below as as the
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second most points in the Premier League, just below
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Liverpool. 2025. And 2025 S just in the, you
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know, January, February, halfway through March.
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Oh wow, And they just said this was an easy game for him.
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So that's actually a crazy step. Mattel and Mattel was a big part
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and he's out for a little bit so.
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Yeah, yeah, he's going to be out.
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Sorry. Got a goal, which is good.
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And Katya looked better. I know he got a goal the last
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game because he came off from a tower, but it was a bad transfer
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from Arsenal and also there's some good business.
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They cover some Deadwood and he's not.
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He hasn't. He scored one goal for Crystal
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Palace in the league, Yeah. Not good.
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I still he's on way. It's just because the, the form
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of the team. But yeah, I, I don't, he's kind
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of reminds me of Smith Row where I just, I, when I, the name gets
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me excited, but then I watch him play and I'm like, I, I'd rather
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pick up like a random freaking Ipswich player or something.
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Yeah, first or seven. Upside, you know, I thought, you
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know, I like a sneaky one who's not on waivers, but I think it's
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been kind of decent as Adam Wharton since he's come back.
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Yeah, he's looked pretty. He's looked pretty good.
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That position's obviously tough that we always talk about, like
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the center mid, like the 6th is a hard position to score from,
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but he seems like the type of guy that is capable of like
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putting in like Rodri numbers. No, yeah, he puts in creative
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numbers. He definitely puts some balls in
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the box in good areas because he's a six.
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But he does push up like into the final third, might be around
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the edge, but he does create. He's a good player.
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I like, I like when he's exciting player.
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I also think that the note I think Will Hughes is either, I
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think he's serving A2 game suspension.
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He plays for Palace. Yeah, he's serving A2 game
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suspension, I think for yellow card accumulation.
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Yep. So while he does that too, I
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think Wharton's going to push up a little more into that like
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true eight position like Hughes was kind of occupied.
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OK, next is the other one I want to call it is that Cecil played
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and looked decent for a big switch.
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He looks decent, but he ain't gonna be.
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I think it's too late now. It's too late for who?
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For like for the team, I think like for the.
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Team it's way too late for me as a as a fantasy manager desperate
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for midfielders. Oh, you think and see so could
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pull up some numbers. Yeah, I mean, that's what we
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thought. We thought he was going to and
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then he got remember he got that injury and then we just everyone
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just dropped him. Yep.
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Yeah, I, I, I think putting up numbers is like getting the
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broad templates a game, if that would be like people like big
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numbers. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, be fucking beautiful. But I think that just he just
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makes that him and the lap now are both in play.
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I think from the switch that's about it.
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I can't wait to see to lap in another premiership team.
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That will be interesting for sure.
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OK, Next up, Southampton won Liverpool's 3.
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This got shaky first. Liverpool been fucking.
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Don't get wrong they're still winning, but they are being
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shaky like they be. What, PhD one nil Champions
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League early in the week? Yeah, there was a crab.
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I mean, they buy. There was a smash and grab.
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Yeah, it was a fucking smash and grab.
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So they came to the Southampton game and then when they went one
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nil down I was like oh shit what's going on?
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And then Arne Slob made one of those 3 Subs.
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I think he took off Slobber Sly. Took off, Jones took.
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Off Jones and Samicas and put on Robertson, Diaz, McAllister and
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McAllister and just that was it. Turn tight.
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Yeah, it's, I mean, the, the the thing with Liverpool is they're
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beating the teams that are in front of them, but they are they
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aren't seeming as convincing as they were early in the year.
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I feel like this is like they're this is their wobble.
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It's an amazing wobble because they're like still winning and
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doing great, but they just had to look great.
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I think that the game against PSV midweek is going to be a lot
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harder than people think. Like it's not a given they're
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going to win that game. No, wait, wait, wait.
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It's a Anfield mate. It's a completely different game
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at Anfield. It's a different game at
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Anfield, but I don't think it's this like shoe in.
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But I think the biggest thing for me here was that Nunez got
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that really big assists against PSG and then he scored a goal
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this here. And like he seems like such a
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form guy, such like a confidence, such a mental state
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guy that there's, I think there's something to that,
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especially because he might be people might be looking to get
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rid of him now after he gets a goal.
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I I tried to. Could that remember that trade?
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Yeah. I went back as soon as I saw his
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own. Let me take it.
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Let me see if they're still there if I cancelled it.
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Cancelled that? Yeah, he cancelled Nunez.
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Got a goal, small man. Really.
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You would have accepted it? What was that again?
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It was. It was Nunez.
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It was Nunez. No Tavernier.
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Tavernier, who also had a good game this this week, if he got a
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goal or a cyst or something and it was one more play, I forget
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who it was. Savannah, that was a defender,
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wasn't it? Yeah, I think so it.
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Was there's those different Ollie Watkins?
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Yeah, it was three players, so it's Tavernier, Ganacho, Nunez
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for Watkins. I still think I'd rather that
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Watkins. Yeah, he and he scored again.
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Fucking bastard on my bench. But yeah, but it was AI went
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back because I see Darwin with the amount of games they go, he
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he could get some game time. So that's the only thing I was
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thinking. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, there's the there's the shoe in here.
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This is pretty straightforward. You're not really starting
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anyone on Southampton. Nope.
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Even though Bedrick was back, looks like got injured again.
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Yep. And then I mean, Liverpool's
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Liverpool. I mean, Allison's might be the
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best keeper in the world right now.
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Slow to slide. There's a little bit of this
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like rotation headache, you know, with like Diaz, slow to
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slide, Jones, McAllister. But it's just like if they
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start, you play them, you don't really think about it.
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Nope. So no brainer.
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OK, after that we have Bradford 0 awesome Villa one a little.
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This actually really bothered me because Austin Villas kept 3
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clean sheets all season and this is the fourth.
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Yeah. So I kind of, I didn't load up
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on Bradford players, but I definitely had like Sade and oh
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shit and Wemo and players in and they just didn't do much for me.
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Yeah. Was it somebody with, I mean,
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Martinez, is he injured? Yeah, I mean, Martinez is
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injured. Yeah, exactly.
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So like, in your mind is thinking like, oh, this like
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breakfast is sure gonna score. But then there's another set
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where Brentford is like hasn't won a game at home for the last
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8. And that's crazy because it'll
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begin the season. They were like of freaking brick
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wall. They're ensemble at home, Yeah,
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but then I think they're they're away from Scott and amazing now.
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And it was really shitty then. I don't know.
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I don't know how you like. I don't know how that's I don't
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know that's. On that set up, yeah, it's
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crazy. But yeah, Watkins got the goal.
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Rams with the assist Bailey started, came off at halftime,
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didn't look great. No.
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He just continues to be the false dawn that keeps on.
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It did be so good last season, but this season not back.
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Yeah, Dance guard must be one of the biggest surprises of the
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season. He's been great.
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I think surprising for fancy point, but surprising that he's
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a good player. We knew he's a good player.
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He's a good player, you're right.
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He's a good player. He just got injured and this is
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the first time where he's actually, and I think he was so
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injured beginning the season and when he got back.
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OK, thoughts on Tyrell Mings? Tyrone Mings come back in the
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starting lineup. Is he going to be viable?
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He was viable last season. I think he's a good player.
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He wins a lot of aerials he can score a goal on, like on a set
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piece so. I think he might be the thing
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that makes Villa's defense like Lock in.
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Yeah, I agree. But it's interesting with the
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exempt that these I see wait all all the way on the right and
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then denier on the left. So denier is getting really
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advanced, but he's as he's almost like tucking in and
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playing as like a third centre back.
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Yeah, it's very, very asymmetrical.
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Yeah, you know, Emery's a genius.
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I'm going to lie. The guy's the guy knows how to
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play ball. Special man.
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Oh yeah, definitely. It'll be interesting.
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Like Ascencio Rashford there. They keep like it seems like
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they can't quite. I think it's probably soon.
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They're getting the fitness back and whatnot, but just them not
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starting four games. Yeah, but they, but when they
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play together, they've, I think they've got more goal
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contributions combined than the whole team.
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They lost like five games or so. It's kind.
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Of crazy, Yeah. I mean, it's, yeah, it's a
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little crazy. The next game, Wolves won,
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Everton won. Wolves actually look pretty good
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in this game. Like, I thought they almost
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looked better than Everton. And that's surprising because
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ever since I've been on a good run of form.
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This was the first game without Cunha Belgard got the got the
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assists. He's been, he's been looking
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really good to me. He's maybe you were a little bit
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shown him at the beginning of the season.
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It was one of those wee words and shorts.
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They had so many midfielders. But yeah, he said.
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I mean with. Cunha out and I, I don't know
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when Cunha is coming back. Like dude, it's not.
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It's like, I think it's going to be more than the three games.
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What is he doing? We always see.
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We already spoke about that, right?
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I don't know. I know we didn't actually
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because I think we because we missed an episode last week.
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Yeah, and what an idiot. Like literally, I don't know, he
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lost the plot and he went back for seconds and thirds.
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Yeah, it was not his best. That was this moment and it's
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also not the first time he's had a violent conduct this year.
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And then he also the fact he was refusing to leave the pitch
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after like they were he haven't hold it back.
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I think all those things amount to him getting a lengthy ban,
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like I think 5, five games, seven games maybe.
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It would be shocking. Definitely a hefty fine.
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However, on a silver lining for Konya, he finally got called up
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to the Brazilian screams. Yeah, you'll be able to focus
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on. That yeah, he's going to be
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fully fit. I I'm excited to see him.
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I think they should build their team around him.
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Like don't, don't, don't put Piquetta in that position.
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Put Cunha there and just let let her freaking ride.
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I think he's the best player. He's the best, he's the most
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creative Brazilian player out there right now.
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I mean, other than like, not counting Neymar.
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Yeah, but is Neymar even still play for Brazil?
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I mean, he wants to. That's the whole idea is that
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he's trying to get fit with with Santos so he can play for
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Brazil. Yeah, fucking idiot.
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Waste of talent. Waste.
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Waste. Yeah, Everton, kinda.
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Kind of a strange one. Harrison finally got a goal.
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Strand, Larson, Lindstrom with the assists.
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That's the Corey didn't really do much.
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He was pretty good with the leads.
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But I think with this Everton team has just been so so yeah,
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someone I want to call it is Semando on Wolves.
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I thought he looked good. He was getting pretty advanced
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positions. Oh, you know, all of a sudden,
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yeah. All of a sudden you told, you
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told me no. And when I picked him up.
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O'Brien, you know, I, the more I watch him, I'm like thinking
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that I, I, that's, he's not someone that's like, I don't
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know if I'm going to hang on over the rest of the season.
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I got him, I like him. You like him?
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I like him. I just think that there's just,
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unless everybody's getting clean sheets, he's kind of useless.
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He doesn't really do much. I'll try.
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I like, I think Moyes has got them playing bare and they've
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got more opportunities to create.
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I think he'll be fine. Yeah.
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But the other, I mean, if you have brain thought, you're
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obviously starting. If you have Tchaikowski, you're
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obviously starting him. So it's a matter of.
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If Young was playing I'd be obviously starting him too, of
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course. Q Moyes.
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OK next game Chelsea won Leicester 0.
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This was just a boring ass game. Dude, the shit housery with the
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goalkeeper during that penalty. Pretty bad.
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I mean, pretty tragic for Cole Palmer.
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Like, finally got his chance. He's been on such a slump.
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Finally. Got his chance to score and then
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to miss like that. His first miss ever too.
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So I think he went 1212 straight which is the longest active run
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and then to Miss man. Yeah, but the good thing is he
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picked up the ball and went straight to the corner like he
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he the confidence is still there.
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Yeah, yeah, he's more of those players.
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He doesn't matter. He missed it.
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He'll get the next one. And that's the thing too is like
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he's still creating thousand chances.
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He they just haven't been converting them.
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And there's like a level of, but there's also clearly it's
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getting to him a little bit for him to miss a penalty and stuff
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like that. It just feels like to me, it
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feels like it is getting there's some level, but he's pretty like
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he's trying to he's. Yeah, but let's be honest, him
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and you're not going to make every single penalty.
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I don't think any and I don't think anyone's ever been 100% on
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penalties so. But that being said, Sancho
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actually came and looked decent and Cuckoo looked OK, not the
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best. That's how actually does kind of
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well in that top position when he's like.
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That's all and I'll pick it. I wish he played more for
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Chelsea. Puff, you know something, He
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could be a big a big player to unlock defenses, you know what I
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mean? He's such a nuisance.
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Yeah, I think, I think Chelsea fans are getting very upset with
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the system that Musk is imposing.
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It doesn't seem like it's taking advantage of the types of
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players that Chelsea has. I don't think so.
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Yeah, but that being said, another shout out Cucarella with
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a goal goal from outside the box, which is pretty amazing.
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I never thought I'd see the day. He's a fucking he.
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You know he has the second most goals behind a deferred defender
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behind Vardiol in the league. How?
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Many has he got 3? 4.
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Oh shit, yeah, not bad. Yeah, so kind of interesting.
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Next game, Tottenham 2, Bournemouth 2.
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Bournemouth 1820 and then talk up Tottenham somehow came back.
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I feel like. I think that was more
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circumstance of Bournemouth letting it slip than Tottenham
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like charging back. That's and that and yeah, yeah,
17:48
but that and we, we had some on the bench, we had Madison the
17:51
bench. Obviously he's trying to save
17:53
them for the for the European game because we're one nil down
17:59
against Ike. So that I think that was part of
18:02
it because I was really upset because Son came on, scored and
18:05
I put took him off my freaking starting lineup.
18:07
So I wasn't sure if he's going to start.
18:09
But that passed by Kurkas. Did you see?
18:12
That first score, yeah, it's pretty sensational.
18:15
You know, he's who he's linked to Liverpool.
18:18
Makes sense. Yeah, very much makes sense.
18:20
He looks like a little player powerful.
18:22
Honest, I'm seeing Semenyo has an injury.
18:25
Is that all? I mean I haven't.
18:26
I haven't done any more research on it though.
18:28
No, I didn't see the injury. I didn't even notice he I
18:31
noticed he went off. I just didn't.
18:33
I didn't play mine too. I thought he just came one off.
18:35
I did not like that. Wait, is there anything else
18:37
about it I know? You should look into.
18:38
I want to see the excruciating look on your face when you find
18:41
out he's out for two months because of a groin issue.
18:44
It's not nothing showing up on the fan tracks app, but on foot
18:48
Lob, it's showing a little red Medical Cross by his name.
18:52
So I don't love that. Evan Nielsen's back in the
18:55
starting lineup got a goal. He also had a.
18:57
Did you see the goal? I was disallowed that Portmouth
19:00
scored. Yeah.
19:01
That that that was like 5 seconds from one side to the
19:04
other and they scored. He was involved in that, too.
19:06
That could. Yeah.
19:07
Clever continues to just be pretty solid.
19:10
Like, you know, he's like one of the top scoring players.
19:13
Yeah, we talked. About this, yeah, we talked.
19:15
About this got the two hat. Tricks.
19:16
He's got the two that's gonna, He's got other assists.
19:18
I mean, it's not just that. No, no, it's not just that, but
19:21
that's a big honestly, that's a. Huge jump.
19:22
That was what we said. That was like a third of his.
19:24
It was like a third of his total points here on the Tottenham
19:27
side. What are we doing here?
19:29
Like Matthew saw, he's gonna, he's not gonna.
19:30
He's not one of those ones getting golden figures.
19:32
He's gonna be like 4 fucking goals.
19:34
No, he doesn't really get that many goals.
19:36
Son. Son doing some things like
19:38
Scooter penalty came on but Son hasn't even been the same
19:41
player. This Tom seems I feel like the
19:43
best player you can actually grab on there.
19:45
The two best players for the Kulacewski and Spence.
19:48
Yeah. They're the only ones in my
19:49
opinion. I mean, son, you're obviously
19:51
going to have it. You start.
19:52
You're going to start. Yeah, you're going to start him.
19:54
What about the two defenders coming back?
19:55
So Romero came back and then Van de Van is supposed to be back
19:59
like pretty soon, right? It's like bittersweet because
20:02
that Danso, he's been good. Like do you, but do you from
20:06
like a fantasy standpoint, do you have any interest in Romero
20:08
around event? Romero's kind of been decent in
20:10
the past. Now you want.
20:11
Well, yeah, Well, yeah, because he scores goals, but he's coming
20:14
late into a season, he's coming off an injury and we're letting
20:17
goals left, right and center. So unless we can plug that, I
20:21
don't know, Like even Poro didn't start this game because
20:23
we're just rest because he's putting all his eggs into one
20:26
basket and. He did.
20:27
He did start, but he got subbed off.
20:28
Oh, he started. Yeah, OK, He got subbed.
20:31
Yeah, yeah, I know. You're saying like there's just,
20:33
it's a little crazy. Solanki is back starting, but
20:37
still kind of impotent, right? Thing he got injured again, did
20:42
he? I thought he got injured again.
20:44
I was sick there. Just I think they just pulled
20:45
him off. It looks like he played the
20:46
whole game. He didn't get subbed off.
20:48
Oh, that's right. Tell them.
20:49
Come on. OK.
20:50
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He got injured.
20:51
I thought he got injured the last game and lost my mind.
20:53
That's what it was, God. But yeah, I just, yeah, I mean,
20:57
other than, I mean, you're going to obviously probably have to
21:00
start Salon K if you have one. You're probably starting Johnson
21:02
just because he had that good round and you're hoping that he
21:04
can recapture that. You got Christian Bournemouth
21:06
who still puts up numbers. Yeah.
21:08
I mean, I mean you could make an argument for starts starting
21:11
with every single player on Bournemouth and I think, I think
21:13
I would listen, I would like at least hear the argument and
21:15
listen to that. Yeah, they they put up numbers.
21:17
They put up numbers. Except for maybe Keppa.
21:21
Dude, what is he doing? Did you see where do you see the
21:24
penalty he gave away? Yeah, the penalty was bad and
21:27
even the even the that cross from sorry probably probably is
21:30
not in the best position, no. He was.
21:32
He was left there wide open. He gifted it.
21:34
That was his fault. Yeah, yeah, OK.
21:39
Next game Arsenal one Man United 1 Bruno Fernandez continues to
21:43
just carry that team on his back with a penalty over the free
21:47
kick from outside the box. Arsenal Claude went back with a
21:51
Declan Rice skull that. No it not.
21:53
Seems like that convincing. No, no, I think, I think
21:59
Arsenal's already like they've already given in, especially off
22:01
this show. It's definitely fucking done
22:02
now. Dropping it's done.
22:04
It's it's more about what they can do the Champions League, but
22:07
then how does that affect for fantasy like you still, you're
22:09
not going to not start Odegard, you're not going to not start.
22:12
But he's been horrible. Too powerful.
22:14
Yes, he's been horrible. He's been horrible.
22:16
Like honestly, we've they surprised us all in Champions
22:21
League by scoring seven goals. Didn't see that fucking coming.
22:24
And then they came back to the Premiership and look what
22:28
happens. Like they, they need a fucking
22:30
striker. They need a striker.
22:32
I think it's, but it's like, I think it's more than that.
22:35
I think there's some issues, like some deeper issues with
22:37
them. Yeah, because like, it's not
22:39
like Odegard's creating all these chances and like Marino's
22:42
not able to put him away. It's like there's like it's
22:44
almost like there's not even the chance of being created.
22:46
No. What was that?
22:47
When Martin only went down the line and he banged the ball
22:49
across the fucking box and fucking nobody did, Sir, nobody.
22:53
There, yeah. And when Yary is obviously has
22:56
moments where he looks so good, but he's still only 17.
22:58
So like, he's going to have games where he's just not going
23:00
to, he's going to disappear, he's not going to do the right
23:02
thing. And so as much as everyone wants
23:05
and expects him to like, play his like his best self every
23:07
game, it's just not going to happen at that age.
23:09
Yeah, no one there. He's going to be a talent
23:11
though, if he keeps going the way he's going, like I think.
23:13
Yeah, he's a great player. Of him and Skelly, I think he's
23:15
going to be the best one out too.
23:17
Oh yeah, I think so too. I I'm curious to see next year,
23:20
like, because I think it's the idea is going to be how you're
23:22
going to fit him in soccer on the same team.
23:24
Yeah. And who and who gets who loses
23:27
out? Well, they said they did.
23:28
I've had a lot of people and a lot of Arsenal fans say they'll
23:31
leave soccer on the right. Obviously can't take away
23:33
soccer, but you try to fit one area up front maybe?
23:36
Like on the left or? Yeah, on the left or up front,
23:39
you know what I mean? Like as a as a.
23:41
False side. Interesting.
23:43
Interesting. The other than that, pretty
23:45
standard stuff. I think that was Rice's only
23:47
second goal of the season. So, you know, last year you had
23:49
such a strong like goal scoring year and this year it's kind of
23:52
returned to Earth. Seems like seems like Arsenal's
23:54
slowly just like a lot of those players were just in the
23:57
constant state of returning to Earth, like Odeguard and
24:00
everyone. How many of these players are
24:01
going to stick around like the Saliba?
24:05
Yeah, I mean before. They're going to start thinking
24:07
I want to win trophies. For us, well, that and they've
24:10
all got everyone. All these players are big
24:12
players, especially the French ones and the Spanish ones.
24:14
Their dreams are always a play for Real Madrid or Barcelona or
24:19
for again, you know, Juventus or one of those teams, you know
24:23
what I mean? Or PSG even.
24:26
So you'll see. I think that the other factor is
24:31
that Arteta is such an intense manager that after a while of
24:35
like putting up with that that guy's bullshit, if you still
24:37
haven't won anything, you're probably just going to be like,
24:38
fuck this guy, I just want to move on.
24:40
And like these, you can't keep saying that he needs more time.
24:43
He said five years, Yeah, don't get wrong.
24:45
And he said five years. And he spent money and he's
24:47
bought more fucking defensive players than he has anything
24:50
else. I also think once the dam breaks
24:52
like once like Solibo goes, I think everyone else can be like
24:55
I'm out here too. Yeah, the only one that's going
24:57
to stick around is soccer and maybe.
25:00
They'll have a good, they'll always have a good squad, but I
25:02
just think that this is there, they have a window where they
25:04
can win and I just, it's just a matter of how much longer it is
25:07
that window going to be there for.
25:09
Next they're not going to win the Champions League.
25:11
I'll be surprised I'll even see that so.
25:13
They have a good team for it, I think, and the fact that they're
25:15
out of the league actually might benefit them because they can
25:17
rest, you know what I mean? They can rest these players.
25:19
I think that the toughest thing is going to be getting past if
25:21
they Real Madrid, you know, they won't, and then potentially
25:25
having to get past Liverpool after that, and it's going to be
25:27
they won't. It's going to be pretty rough.
25:30
Yeah, we'll see it too rough. OK, Last game of the week was
25:34
the game today for us, which will have been yesterday for you
25:38
guys probably, which is West Ham 0, Newcastle United, One man
25:42
going to this game in our in our Bros league.
25:44
I was up by 26 points on Ryan with he had two players playing.
25:51
I had one player to play and like, you know, like the little
25:53
bar, like the, like the 10 percentage.
25:55
Of the percentage. And said I had a 99% chance to
25:58
win. I lost let.
26:01
Me look, I hadn't even noticed he had shit.
26:04
He had Harvey Barnes and Bruno Guy Marias.
26:07
And it was a. Barnes assist on a good rash
26:09
goal. I had Jacob Murphy.
26:11
Jacob Murphy literally first half didn't score any points.
26:14
Yep. So I just got absolutely
26:17
screwed. Dude, Nate Nate's killing it in
26:19
that league. I can't fuck it and it's pissing
26:20
me off. Yeah, it's pissed me off too.
26:22
Can't do nothing about it. Can't do nothing about it except
26:24
for just take drawing the fact that he has Cunha and then
26:29
hopefully that'll slow down a little bit, but we'll see.
26:32
And then he also the fact that he traded me, Bruno Fernandez
26:35
for Kevin de Bruyner, which is. Interesting.
26:38
I'm very happy about that too. He's definitely weakened himself
26:40
in the last few weeks, so he's. But you know what?
26:42
I kind of doubt him yet. I kind of doubt him yet because
26:45
he seems to have a fucking crystal ball.
26:46
Yeah, You know, he's good. He does a lot of research.
26:49
OK, That is the games. I have a couple waivers you want
26:51
to talk to. Oh shit you lost in the other
26:53
league too were matching. Yeah, I'm it was a bad week for
26:56
me. But we're still three games
26:59
behind Fucking motherfucking Tiko, all right?
27:01
Yeah. I mean, that's the other reason
27:03
why I kind of want to keep Luis, yes.
27:05
Yeah. But do you think like if I
27:08
misclicked that badly? I don't know, I'm very torn by
27:12
the situation. I'm not.
27:15
I'm not, mate. And you're you're you're, you're
27:17
ahead of me. You think I want like, come on.
27:20
Yeah, true. It's his mistake if it was if,
27:23
if it was a mistake, it's his mistake.
27:25
He. Didn't even realize that either.
27:27
And he also set the trade at 3:40 in the morning.
27:30
No, actually, he's in Europe, isn't he?
27:31
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so fun.
27:33
But you shouldn't be, dude, he's fine.
27:35
Don't worry about it. He's got Salah, he's fine.
27:39
OK, OK. Moving on waivers first thing on
27:43
here. It's an oldie, but it's a
27:44
goodie. It's a carrying ship here.
27:46
Shit. OK 46% of leagues defender Paul
27:50
injured rest of the season. Oh that's right.
27:53
He's back in the weekly starting spot.
27:55
Yeah, I don't you obviously don't expect like previous tier
27:58
trip here numbers, you know, but I think he's going to be a solid
28:00
and like new Newcastle's a solid top what, top eight team?
28:04
Yeah, like they're going to have they're going to have clean
28:06
sheets. They're going to have good
28:07
defensive performances. He's going to have attacking
28:11
opportunities. I saw him take a few corners
28:12
today. Yeah, I think it's a good one.
28:15
Yeah, I. Agree, next one on here is one
28:18
of the best offenders of the new year and he's being slept on his
28:21
Chris Richards order 43% of leaks.
28:24
Crystal Palace putting on a clinic since the start of the
28:27
year. Only Liverpool have picked up
28:29
more points in Palace. I think I mentioned that I think
28:31
from since the start of the year, Chris Richards is like a
28:34
top 10 defender too. And he's like only in like it's
28:37
crazy that he has crazy stats in the last two months and he's
28:40
still only only 43% of leaks. Dude, it was like the Bed and
28:44
Rag. No one was thinking of Bed and
28:45
Rag because he's not a name, that's what it is.
28:48
I got to go get my charger. I'll be right back.
28:49
Sorry. The difference between Bedrak
28:50
and Chris Richards is that like, like Bedrak plays for the worst
28:53
team potentially that's ever been in the Premier League.
28:56
Like they're they're in the running for the worst team ever.
28:59
Yeah, where Chris was like that policy was like good.
29:01
Like they're like what I said earlier, they've been one of the
29:04
best teams in the league since the start of the year.
29:05
So. Yeah, I hear you.
29:08
I still think like sometimes you just got to take the name out of
29:11
it. Yeah, yeah.
29:12
And you think that the American bias is playing a factor in
29:15
that? Maybe because everyone doesn't
29:17
think Americans can play football, which, you know, is
29:19
isn't true, but isn't, you know, a lie.
29:23
All right, next I'm on here, Jean Ricca Belgard from gold.
29:28
We talked about him only 24% of leagues.
29:30
He's been a top 30 players since the start of February.
29:33
Oh, OK. Total points scored since the
29:36
start of February. I think he's only had one game
29:39
that's not double digits since that time frame.
29:41
And he has a really good, he just says like looked really
29:43
good, like past the eye test. Like when you when I've watched
29:45
a few of the Wolves games, I'm always like, oh, like who's
29:47
that? And I'm always like looking and
29:49
I'm like, oh, it's, it's Belgard.
29:50
Yeah, Belgard. So I, I like him.
29:53
And I think with Cunya out, that gives him a little more.
29:56
Opportunity to be more. Creativity to be more creative
29:58
and whatnot, and I'm anticipating creative being out
30:00
for more than just two games. Yeah, he's a fucking idiot.
30:04
All right, go on, move on. Next one, Eddie and Ketia, 42%
30:08
of leagues forward. He it's been OK.
30:12
You know you're shaking Eddie. Hate it?
30:14
Now how do you but? I think the key is that he's
30:17
gonna, he's definitely gonna be starting with a few more games
30:19
until Matata's back, right? Like Matata's not coming back
30:21
next week? No.
30:23
So he got kicked in the face, took his ear off.
30:25
Maybe after maybe after the international break from Maketa,
30:28
but at least you're going to at least one more game with Ketia.
30:31
And Palace is just so good right now.
30:33
Yeah, that I just think that it's he's worth throwing on a
30:36
throwing on your team. And if you need him in a spot, I
30:38
think he might be might be there for you.
30:40
Just for a couple of the players that you said in national
30:43
Braves, a few players coming back off the international break
30:45
no matter what key. One last thing I want to mention
30:47
with about in Katya is that next game they play South Hampton.
30:51
So if there is a time Frank Katya, it would be, it would be
30:55
now, would you? Bother in K or Saul I probably
30:57
saw. SAR from Chris Paulus.
31:01
Yeah, Ishmael SAR. By the choose, probably SAR,
31:05
Yeah, but I mean SAR, they're both for I guess they're both
31:08
classified as forwards. They're both classified
31:11
forwards, Yeah, but I think I'm going to.
31:12
I might be looking at Chris Paulus players for this.
31:15
Go for it, go for it, go for it. I hope you have a back-to-back
31:19
losses so I can just overtake. Had that I've been I've been in
31:22
a rough patch in. Fairness, I didn't need Heco to
31:24
go on a rough patch, man. Yeah, well, he just straight
31:27
away one of his best players that mistake, so there's always
31:30
a chance. Are you telling me there's a
31:32
chance? I hope so.
31:34
Yeah, I what you were bringing up before the international
31:37
break returns I think is a huge thing.
31:38
So you mentioned out of wacky, out of wacky, Nicholas Jackson.
31:42
Nicholas Jackson. There's a couple other players
31:47
that are. Soccer, potentially.
31:49
Soccer, potentially. Martinelli's, I saw that he
31:52
played a little bit again in the Arsenal game.
31:54
I don't know. I mean, I don't know.
31:56
He's probably not on waivers or anything.
31:57
But yeah, most people probably held on to him.
31:59
But he's going to be back. Dwight McNeil is still question
32:03
question marks on him with the the most recent.
32:06
I actually ended up dropping him finally in our league.
32:08
I know, I saw. The most, the most recent thing
32:11
was there's still no like timetable for him.
32:13
Yeah. So there's only 10 games left.
32:14
There's international break. I don't know.
32:16
I'm not loving it, but there's definitely something there.
32:19
Yeah, there's something not there.
32:21
That's sad. Yeah.
32:23
Who else is kind of in that zone?
32:26
I think a dharmatory forget NDI from from freaking ever earn
32:32
also. And die.
32:34
Oh, really? He's maybe coming back that he
32:38
had a knee injury. Then those knees though.
32:42
He's running, so he's back to running his heart.
32:45
His timeline to return remains on CERN.
32:48
Jack Harrison will continue to replace him in the frontline to
32:50
Undies Fit 0. There was a couple come here.
32:54
There was like a couple players I saw coming back off the
32:57
international break, like let me see.
33:01
Here, Yeah, I mean, so there's one, there's one where the round
33:04
30 happens and then it is international break and then
33:08
we're just this is a home stretch, right?
33:10
Yep. So I'm kind of looking at the
33:13
round 30 right now. Oh, Chelsea, Tottenham on
33:16
Thursday April 3rd. You know.
33:20
Oh, I'm on the wrong way around 29 around 29, sorry.
33:25
And it's you know, I I totally I totally messed up.
33:28
S Crystal Palace is not playing Southampton.
33:31
Oh. Crystal Palace is playing
33:36
Newcastle, so that's very much less interested.
33:40
Very. Much less interested.
33:42
Do you play Tico again? So I know I play Tico again at
33:46
some at some point during the season.
33:48
I definitely play, man, yeah. Yeah.
33:51
Could I play next week? OK, right.
33:56
I mean, I need a win. I just, I can't even think about
33:58
that. Me and you play each other at
34:00
least one more time. I play you and then I play take
34:02
a right afterwards. Big week, big two weeks there.
34:06
Yeah, I mean, I still get some wins on the board.
34:08
It's been a very rough, rough few weeks for me.
34:11
But let's let's talk about round 29 games real quick.
34:15
So we have Everton, West Ham, kind of whatever if switched
34:19
Forest, yeah, not much there. No.
34:22
I'm interested in city Brighton. Yeah, because Brian corrupts
34:26
them. They've won 66 on the bounce,
34:29
like a city struggle. South Hampton Wolves bottom of
34:32
Battle of the Bottom, If that's actually makes me want to start
34:35
some of those Wolves players we're talking about.
34:38
I agree. Belg Belgard actually might be a
34:40
pretty interesting one. The next game after that is even
34:42
more interesting. Why?
34:44
Who's that? Bournemouth.
34:45
Brentford. Oh boy, Miss Bedford.
34:47
Yes, both teams can pull up a lot of points.
34:50
What is it, though? Because Bedford is such a
34:52
Holloway split? Bradford's away.
34:55
Bradford away. Yeah, that's scary, you know.
34:58
Oh, Arsenal. Chelsea, 6:30 AM on Sunday.
35:01
Oh shit, I don't know what time that is where I'm going to be.
35:04
I don't know what time that what time is that in Europe?
35:07
6:30 That's 2230. They haven't had their spring
35:10
forward. Yet do they have a spring
35:12
forward? Yeah.
35:13
Yeah, oh God yeah. They also have Hot War and TV's
35:16
mate. Straightforward.
35:18
The the daylight savings is such a weird thing.
35:21
That's like a very, I think that's a very reasonable
35:23
question that's incredibly reasonable to ask.
35:25
If we have that, but OK. I mean, Arizona doesn't have
35:28
this daylight savings, really. Yeah, I didn't know that.
35:32
Not for everyone at it. OK, so now I'm.
35:35
Sure they are. You sure they have it?
35:36
Yeah. Yes, I remember it as a kid, all
35:38
right. I remember as a kid and as a
35:40
teenager. I don't know if I believe.
35:42
Ours is, ours is just different because of the way the fucking
35:44
sun hits. We do it now.
35:45
Like be dark fucking. Instead of going on the right
35:49
side on the left side like like the cars.
35:51
Stupid. Tottenham Fuller, The Little
35:56
London Derby. Yeah, a fully tough game.
35:59
We're not rich, so they should just let us win.
36:02
So if if Tottenham lose in the Europa League and then they lose
36:06
this game is you think and just still going to be the coach?
36:08
You know, I think he's being given the benefit of doubt
36:10
because he had so many fucking injuries this season, but I
36:13
don't think it's going to help him anyway if he fucking doesn't
36:16
at least get to the final of the Europe European Cup.
36:20
Yeah, no, I see that there was, we were maybe favourites for
36:24
this fucking Cup. Yeah, I think if he's, I think,
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I honestly think that he might. They probably won't sack him,
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but I think if they don't make it much deeper into the cup,
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this is his last season. Yeah, yeah, Levy looks like
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Levy's already ready. He's got his finger on the
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trigger. Yeah, and I'm telling you this
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Arsenal game versus Chelsea, I think Arsenal's gonna whoop
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Chelsea's ass. Chelsea's like so bad.
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They've won two in a row, but they've won against Southampton
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and Leicester and neither get, neither are you.
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Seems like a. Are you using reverse psychology
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right now? Is that what?
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You're doing. I wish I was, but I'm being dead
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serious. I'm not even trying to reverse
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Jinx's. I'm dead.
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Serious. Are you sure it's not because
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Sergey just popped on? There's nothing to do with
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Sergei being here or not. I genuinely think that Arsenal's
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going to whoop Chelsea in this game.
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Oh, damn. You know, so you say that I, I
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really do think Lester's going to Whoop Bang United.
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Yeah, I'm being serious. Like.
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I actually thought that too. I mean Leicester City hasn't
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scored a goal in like 6 matches. Nope, we can't.
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See, this is their time. This is their time body brace.
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Barney Brace, what's like a what?
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How do you celebrate? Because you know, Barney really
37:31
likes a kid in his celebration. So he's who's he who he's
37:33
playing against? Oh he fucking always does some
37:35
sort of shit Houser. He's my favorite shit Houser
37:37
player even when he does it to tell them so.
37:39
What does it? What would he do that gets Man
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United? Oh, he's just, he'll just go to
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the fence and tell the. Show yeah OK, I think he'll be
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more creative in you unfortunately and.
37:49
Oh, OK. Should we, Sergey?
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We haven't made bets in a while but this FYI one of my bets is
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going really well. Which?
37:56
What was that? The Hoyla bit, Oh, you bet the
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under. I bet the under that was there's
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like 50 players in the league that have scored more goals than
38:04
him this season. Oh yeah, who was Atiko?
38:06
Atiko was thinking. Thinking highly.
38:08
Yeah, again. Man, on how the table trend, I
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was like, because I, I was actually looking at Xerxi the
38:14
other day because I was like, oh, like there's moments where
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he looks kind of good on the ball.
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I was like, oh, maybe he's like secretly having a good fantasy
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like season or a good last few games.
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Atrocious, atrocious fantasy. Horrid.
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Yeah. Like no points.
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My place, my and I is in a fucking.
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I don't know, man. They're in a fucking.
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I don't know what's going to happen.
38:34
Like it's like it's all time bad.
38:36
I also, I, I like, listen to something that Jim Ratcliff said
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or like read something and he was talking about he, he was
38:42
pretty much like, yeah, like half the team is not good enough
38:45
and the other half's overpaid. Pretty much, yeah, pretty much.
38:50
They're they're they're not going to be able to buy players
38:53
because of the FFP and they're going to sell players and who's
38:58
going to want to buy any of their and the young players you
39:01
want to try keep. So you got to try sell McGuire
39:04
like you got to keep Bruno. But if you do, you can sell
39:06
Bruno and try to rebuild because honestly, they need to fucking
39:09
rebuild. And I don't think building
39:10
around Bruno is is going to work.
39:12
He doesn't even look fucking happy.
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Fucking this all the fucking time to some upset.
39:17
So I don't know, man, I's got again.
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I think both Manchester United teams are going to look quite a
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bit different next season. Just buy all the Chelsea
39:25
players. Honestly, just take all the ones
39:27
that you guys don't want. Madrid, please, please take
39:31
away. Madrid and Kung Ku.
39:34
I still I still said what? The fact I think in cuckoo would
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actually look good in this team. Yeah, but in this United team.
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But that's just me. You'll see.
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All right. Do you have anything else?
39:44
I don't think so. Episode we'll be back but
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there's some different time zones so.
39:51
You know what, because of the international break though, we
39:53
can make it work whenever we need to though, because it's not
39:55
like we're pressing of a time to.
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Yeah. This has been episode 8180.
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This has been episode 80 of Draft Off Sides.
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