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GW12 FAAB or Flop? Diego Gomez’s Fantasy Gamble I Ep: 112 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Hello and welcome to episode 112 of Draft Offsides.
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I'm with Enzo and Sergey. My name is Keith.
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No, we're we're no Chico today. We're in a Chico free zone.
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Hell yeah, didn't want to see him this week.
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Why? Because he beat you up.
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Yeah, he fucking he. Smashed me this week and.
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It wasn't even that I put out the wrong players, just no
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performance, no whatsoever. You guys just didn't have it in
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them. No, it's not looking good,
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Keith. I'm not gonna lie to you, mate.
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I think both of us are struggling.
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Huh? I I mean I was on AI was 5 and 1
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and I'm in league and then I'm I've been on A5 game losing
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streak so I'm 5:00 and 6:00. That's pretty rough.
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Yeah, I'm, I'm 4, I'm four and seven, I think.
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It's it hasn't been pretty, but we're here.
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We persevere, we push through long.
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Season. A lot of very long season.
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Very, very long season. Yeah, and they're still tight.
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Yeah, it is. It's I mean what I mean, I'm 6
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and wait, so sorry. I'm five and six and the best
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records 8 and three in our league.
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So three games. Three games.
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Yeah, that's very doable, I think.
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I think even if you're like four or five games back, I think it's
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still very doable to win. Yeah, I just, I'm just worried
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about Galactico's and his Holland and then Rafael on the
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the 12 man league. Well, yeah, he's yeah.
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He's on us. I think the one thing that you
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we see over and over again is that like it's everything's so
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like form and flow based, you know, and like there's, there's
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teams that like invincible and the same thing in the Premier
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League. There's players that look
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unplayable for a while and then all of a sudden they just kind
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of find a different form. And I think it's very, you know,
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I think that that same thing can be reversed.
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Like, and wasn't it last year that you were not doing well
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then? Didn't you go on like a 10
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game-winning streak? 13. 13 So I'm, I'm just saying
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like if, if like you, that can happen.
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And it wasn't like, you know, it wasn't like your team was that
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great. You just like you.
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You just hit form, you know, and like you figured out, you
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figured out the right things at the right time.
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I don't think if it was even formed.
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I'm not going to lie man, I was going like 90 points or less.
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Yeah, luck and everyone else or a little bit of, I think, I
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think any sort of winning team as a combination of like good
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management, a little bit of luck.
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Yeah, but we'll see long season. Long season.
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OK, let's get into some news and notes.
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Kudos. Kudos, Muhammad.
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Kudos. Missed the game due to, you
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know, a little injury. It sounds like he's going to be
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back though after the international break.
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So. I, I don't think that's that
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much of A concern. I think I'm more concerned that
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his his numbers just haven't been that great the last few
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weeks. Yeah, the last two games, so
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I'm. I'm hoping this break and him
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not going on international duty will help him just kind of get
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back, kind of rest a little bit, get back and before.
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It's not exactly the best game to come back to.
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Sure, I'll get those points back, but we'll see.
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What it's? What is the match up?
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Arsenal. Yeah.
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I mean yeah, but so Arsenal before last week I conceded only
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like 5 goals right for the whole.
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Because he had three. It only conceded 3.
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Yeah, now the goal. Now you have. $5 conceded 5
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, that's tough.
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But I think Kudos does enough like ghosts and dribble and
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stuff that I'm not like she doesn't like Tottenham don't
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even need to score for Kudos 7 again.
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No, they don't, but it'd be nice.
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Nick Poke goes out injured, Ramsdale stepped in.
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It was very weird that he he sit on the field after whatever
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happened to him for a while before the Newcastle game.
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Yeah, but it seems always seems like that with blue cars,
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doesn't it? Don't they switch out their Golf
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moves like every year when he like doesn't poke get injured?
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I don't know, the whole thing was weird to me.
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I I almost feel like they switched him out for the
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penalty, like partially. Oh.
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It was weird. I I I wouldn't put too much
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weight into the injury though either.
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I think by that, I think he'll be fine coming to national
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break. The one I'm worried about is is
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Guai. Yeah, so we want to talk about
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that. So he like the the word on true
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is that he couldn't even walk like he was literally.
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Yeah, without crutches, which is very alarming.
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Obviously he's missing England duty.
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I think the big winner is that new that new player that that
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stepped in had played like one minute of Premier League ball
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and he came in and he played great.
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I think it seems like Cordova or something or.
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Yeah, Teacup picked him up against me.
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Kevat, JD. Kevat So I think we'll talk
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about him a little bit later in the recap, some waivers, but I
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think he's he suddenly is very interesting.
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Anthony Robinson I mean, it's so tough.
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I mean, well, he played a few minutes and never came back.
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And I talked about this a few weeks ago where I said that that
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was the most alarming thing. He's I was more alarmed by him
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than anyone else. And it's kind of proving true
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that, you know that those like it's like those injuries where
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you're not getting a lot of info are the worst, like and then
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things that keep getting pushed back.
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It's just really bad and. There's no real information
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about it. Yeah.
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So it says right here, return date pushed back to December
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13th, which to me is like, I mean, let let at that point
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you're just hoping that maybe after the new year, like I, I
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don't even know if you can really believe that.
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I feel like that's so speculative to even give that
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date. It's Dwight McNeil all over
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again. Oh man.
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And then Salaki and Palmer reassess after the break.
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I think if Salaki keeps get, if his date keeps getting pushed
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further and further like like what's happening with Robinson,
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I think you can start to talk talk about dropping it if you
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haven't already. Yeah, because you're going to
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need that. Attackers are.
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So unless there's nothing out there to pick up, I'll be honest
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attacking wise, unless you're picking up a defender or
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midfielder. Yeah, I think it would just be
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like if you need the roster space because it, it can, we're
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getting to that point where there there's two things
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happening. 1 is like waivers is getting pretty cleared out these
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days. So it's not like there's tons
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and tons of guys that are just great on the, you know, on the
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waivers, like it was the first, you know, 5-6 weeks of the
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season, you can actually pick up gems.
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And that's just it's getting harder and harder.
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But I think that, you know, in a pinch, I wouldn't, I wouldn't
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feel horrible about jobbing Solanke if we get back from the
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international break and don't have any more info and he's
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still not training on grass. He's still not, you know, doing
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all these things. Yeah.
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That's just one of those ones where you just can't keep, you
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can't just keep getting let on, you know, no.
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No, it's it's it's only going to hurt your line up every week.
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Yeah. And then Palmer, I think it's a
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different story. You're obviously going to hold
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there. Yeah.
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You're going to hold on, Palmer. And hopefully, I think he's,
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he's coming back, especially after he just trademarked, you
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know, his name, his celebration and his face.
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Well, OK, Are you guys are actually like you guys were so
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disgusted by that, Like that's so.
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I'm not disgusted. I just said he just trademarked
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everything. Does that mean now that EA
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Sports or FC where it is where it is called now that they have
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to pay him a little bit extra to put his face on there?
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I don't know all the inner workings of those things, but I
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would assume that I think it's more yeah, I don't know.
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I don't know what the, it depends on what the trademark
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covers. Like.
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It could just, it maybe just covers like, like hard goods,
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like who knows what the, you know what the scope of the
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trademark covers. His dumb face, the one he makes
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after he dumped, the one where where where What did Tigo say
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that he does? He looks like he he celebrates
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that he does that that celebration like he's never
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actually been cold in his whole life before.
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Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I wouldn't be worried
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about him. He wouldn't be worried.
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He's yeah, I think it's fine. I mean, it's just the muscle
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injuries is what it is. And like, they can take time,
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but they're pretty like, you know, they're a little tricky.
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But at the end of the day, like there's timetables.
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I think with knee injuries, like with what, like freaking Tolanki
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and what Robinson have, I think it's a it's a lot harder to
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really know. And it's, you know, sometimes
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they, they think they're ready. They get out there, they play 45
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minutes and they play, yeah. Or just like it starts swelling
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or something happens? Yeah, Lucky said.
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It's a muscle injury and he's actually been given time to
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recover so. Yeah, and it's been, I mean
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Chelsea have been doing well without him too.
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Like they've, they've looked pretty OK.
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So yeah, like there's, there's not, there's like extreme
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pressure to get him back. No.
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So, yeah, all right, let's get into the recaps for game week
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11. Oh man, we're more than 1/4 of
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the way through this, isn't it? Yeah.
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Crazy top. I can't believe.
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Yeah, and it's, and it's the top 10 and the bottom 10.
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Just look. Not what I expected, though.
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You know what's interesting? Like Arsenal was doing so well,
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but Man City's right there. Yeah, Nancy's right there.
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I actually wanted to bring that up.
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I mean, we can talk about it now, but do you remember earlier
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this season when we were talking and Tico was trying to say like,
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oh, like you like kind of trying to dismiss Fan City this year?
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And you and I were both like, no, like they're still like, I
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would still believe that Pep could turn the team around and
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win it. I think we were kind of proven
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right. Think so Where are you?
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Where you at Tico? Yeah, sucks.
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Suck Tico. Hey fucking Tico.
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I mean the second place. Good for them.
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Yeah, they're second place. Good for them, I think.
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But I think it's more just that they're starting to look pretty
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good. Like and they're getting
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results. Yeah, and they made they made an
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Arsenal team or they sorry, they made a Liverpool team that
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spanked Madrid in the midweek. They made them look very
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average. Yeah.
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So if you know, if Peps figured out like a new way to do things,
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which it seems like like the way they're where they're playing is
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very different than how they played in the past.
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Speed. Hogged.
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Feud Holland like Doki all of a sudden seems like he's
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activated, you know, you know, I guess we can talk.
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We can just talk through this game through the rest of it too.
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Like, you know, he's Holland scored again, but it wasn't like
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a crazy high point score for him because he missed that penalty.
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So you got some minus points, but it's still 14 goals in 11
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games. Absolutely insane.
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I think this might have been, yeah, I think this might have
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been Jamie Doki's best game for Man City, just like, visually.
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Yeah, then you score like 27 points or something or more.
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30.5. 30.5. But just, like, just the way he
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was just, he was just war. He just seems so dominant.
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I know he had see that game before we scored more points,
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but I just felt like from a performance standpoint, this was
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up there with one of his best, yeah.
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He was taking on players. His end result was good too.
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Yeah, exactly. And I think that's the biggest
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difference is it feels like his final product.
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What sees that? So I saw, I saw someone say
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this, I forget where, but it was like Jerry Doku's the Lionel
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Messi of Adam Charis. Adam Charis.
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So funny. A little bit better, a little
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bit better than at a dumb material.
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Yeah, exactly. On the Liverpool side there's a
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kind of strangle city where it's just what, 0.5 points, 8-2
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minutes? It's just getting worse and
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worse. I mean, I just do.
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I I at this point I don't even know what.
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To do with him, I think at this point you're benching.
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Yeah, Oh yeah, you're benching him, but it's like you're doing
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the same thing with with so many other players that you might
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spend a lot of either fab on drop or free and you know wave a
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priority any of that you just. I mean, Salah didn't have a
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great game either. I think Salah finished with like
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7 or eight points. I mean, did anyone in Liverpool
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have a good game? I don't really think that there
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was much there. I mean, obviously a zero, like
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not scoring. But you know, I think like in
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the past slow besides kind of been there the player that like
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so much have solid weeks. But yeah, and then I think like
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the key, like I'm looking at it now, the keeper at the high.
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What's the highest point? So total 10 with 10.
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And that was just the amount of saves that he had, you know, or
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the amount of, you know. Go packet.
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Yeah, so that was that. They dominated.
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They just got worked. Next game, Tottenham to Man
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United too. Go heartbreak for me.
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Great game for as a neutral. Yeah, yeah.
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First off all, Man United, they looked good attacking wise.
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They were tearing up fucking Poro on their left hand side,
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couldn't get anything in the middle, nothing up to the top.
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And then the second-half, Tomlin played a lot better, especially
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in that last 1520 minutes, but just couldn't hold on.
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Got those two goals. And then as long as you know, I
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said this earlier and I was like, I was glad it wasn't
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McGuire, but I was delayed instead because it's just, oh,
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hello, mate. My dog just walked in the room.
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Wonder what the Hell's going on in here?
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But yeah, that was, it was a good game for neutrals, you
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know, but two teams that can't seem to hold a win, hold a lead.
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Two teams that are both very Spursy.
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Very fucking spursy, both of them.
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Is it? Is it?
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Is it Manchi? Is it Manchi?
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Manchi, I don't know, it sounds a little too bad, like some bad
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words. Cunya, 71 minutes played, zero
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points. He kind of, he lost on the Man
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United roulette. We we talked about there's
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always like one or two attackers that miss out from the starting,
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the starting four that don't score.
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Bruno got an assist with only nine points scored.
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Not the best. He's like, I think we, I mean, I
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think I talked about he's having, he's having a fine
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season, but he's having, he's not having one of an elite
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season like we. No, he's having an elite season.
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I think that's, I think that's what all the things that I
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talked about at the beginning of the year where I just felt like
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his positioning being further back and stuff was a big factor
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in that. So.
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Best player on this team is in Bwimbo.
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Yeah, I think, I think by by a mile.
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Well, he's still, he's just getting goals.
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But even in this game, like he got a goal, but he only managed
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11 points. It wasn't like there was anyone
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that was really like generating 10 to 10 of points in this game.
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I. Heard they're going for a
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striker in January too because. Well, I think this, so Cesco got
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injured. We didn't talk about that at the
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top of the show. We should mention that.
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And they're worried that it might be pretty bad, like a
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knees thing. So that's alarming.
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I think Cesco's someone that like depending on after the
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break, you can potentially draw if, you know.
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Yeah. If it's.
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A yeah. So keep an eye on because.
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Even if it's like only a month. Honestly, he hasn't really been
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putting up. Numbers.
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It's probably not worth, yeah, probably not worth holding on
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to. Spurs erratic upfront like Tel
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came on, scored Rick Carlson scored a a beautiful flick.
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But again, I I think so. Like I said in the notes,
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they're not fantasy value worthy to even start week in week out.
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I'll be honest. No, it's really tough.
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I mean, it, it was made especially tougher, Tougher
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without kudos, you know, I think, yeah, not having that,
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not having kudos, like just like that's just one way that
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they're, they get a lot of balls in.
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I saw something about Pedro Poro where he was his like he had
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like 11 crosses into the box and like only one of them was
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accurate or something. Yeah.
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And I think the his the fans were pretty pissed with him.
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Like night game performance. Did you did you get out or feel
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out it? No, I didn't feel that.
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I didn't. Maybe offensively he could have
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been better, but defensively he could have been a lot better.
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I think they were more upset with his defense.
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Do you think there's any chance that your doggy Destiny gets the
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gets gets the nod ahead of him for a little?
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Bit and then Spence goes on the right maybe.
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Or, or just he just takes that right, Your doggy takes that
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role because he's right. He's right back too, is he?
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No, your doggy's left back. He came out for Parlor.
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Didn't. He he came home from Poro and
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then Spence went on the right Gotcha.
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But that's the thing. Spence looks good defensively,
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but attacking wise he's he can't do what your doggy does on the
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left because he's not left foot. So he's always coming back and
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it's predictive. Yeah, so.
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I just feel like a Pedro part, like he's he's good because he's
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an attacking player, but if his his crosses aren't accurate and
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like I was, he was, he just wasn't great and it was like
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very clear. And so if he's not delivering on
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that offensive end, I think it's only a matter of time.
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So I would keep an eye on that. I think maybe not, yeah, maybe
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not after break, but I think there's something there if he
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keeps playing bad and Tottenham might just need to make make a
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change there, yeah. Yeah.
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If Solanke comes back, maybe who more will be accurate.
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I mean, it's going to help a lot too.
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Yeah. I mean, how just like as far as
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just be having a presence up there, like Rich Charleston's
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never been this like great big physical presence.
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I was going to say. You got a thing too?
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I know they're not. Their class is not accurate, but
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they can on heads. They're just not getting on
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target. Yeah, well, what do you mean?
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They're getting on heads they're just not getting.
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On target, like the Charleston had a couple headers but they're
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off. They won't on time so you don't
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get points if it's not on goal. Yeah, yeah, for points.
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But I'm just saying, even in general, I don't think he had
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many aggregate costs at all. And of course, like, we, we, we
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don't really need to talk about it, but it's another bad game
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for Zabi Simmons from a fantasy standpoint.
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I thought he had some really nice moments though, like like
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in between. But like, to me, he's like, he
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also played quite well in midweek.
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Yeah, I was gonna say Chairman's league, he played well.
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But it's it's if you notice, it's like him and Vert to look
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quite good in Champions League. And then when it comes to the
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Premier League, they're just like the pace of it, the
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physicality of it. They're both struggling.
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So I don't know, I think I think it might be that he needs to
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play out on the left or both of them, to be honest, playing out
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on the left where they're just like they're not as like in the
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middle just getting bodied by people.
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I don't think he looks good on the left eye, or I'll be honest,
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Yeah. How many times did you see him
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get to the byline across the wall?
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Yeah, I mean, I, I, I'm not saying I know the answer is
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maybe he's playing like this point.
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He played in Germany. He played as like a inside 10,
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you know what I mean? Like he did.
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Yeah. So it's like like a left side of
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10. So it's like playing on the
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left, tucking in, then maybe having a left accident overlap.
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And so maybe having a good destiny doggy that can, if he
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comes in and plays on the left, it's not Jed Spence over there
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all of a sudden that's it's a little more interesting, but.
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Hard to say. Yeah.
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It's also funny because he played on Champions League.
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Where you going? His assist from was from the
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right, so he was flowing as a 10.
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Yeah. So.
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Yeah. So.
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Anyway, all right, next game Everton 2 full of 0.
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Really good point here that Sergey put in the notes is
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Greelish showed only one assist in the last 10 games under 10
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points. The last three games has his
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kind of like, has the vibe shifted on him a little bit?
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Maybe is ever since all for that man C game where he didn't get
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the. Play huh?
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Before that, yeah, it's been underwhelming.
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I mean, I think it's one of those things where when a player
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starts the season so hot and then people just think that
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that's how they've been. But when you look at the
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numbers, he's still been good. He's still been ghosting pretty
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decently, but not nowhere near where where he was at the start
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of the year. Is the buy window like open for
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him? Like would you think it's a good
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time to send offers for him or do you do you think it's this?
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Is but what can you get for him now?
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Could you trade as a Javi Simmons for him?
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No. Maybe a floyer roots?
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Maybe a Florian Vertz, maybe. But would you do that if you're
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a Florian Vertz? I don't know.
18:00
You know who would do that, Derek?
18:04
I mean, who else would you, who else could we talk about that
18:07
might be interesting for like to offer?
18:10
I would obviously rather relish. I think relish was like leaped
18:13
head and shoulders above better Maybe like Morgan gives white or
18:17
something. Or Yuri Tilleman's who just came
18:19
back. Yeah.
18:22
Yeah, I think those are two good shots.
18:25
Anything else in this game, Everton?
18:28
You know anything, I think. Fulham's.
18:31
Fulham's. Are they still annoying him?
18:33
Are they still the Robin Hood of the league?
18:36
I don't know anymore. No, that's, that's kind of lost
18:38
the status right, of stealing from rich, giving to the poor
18:40
because I haven't been stealing from the rich and they're and
18:42
they're still giving to the poor though they're.
18:47
Getting robbed though every day. Yeah, What was I going to say
18:51
about this game? I mean, I just, I look at it,
18:53
it's like Kevin got another start.
18:55
He didn't do much. I think that I think that that's
18:57
been disappointing. And it's especially
18:58
disappointing because there's been the hype around it.
19:00
So you've been like, it's not like when you're a Pino or
19:02
someone where you you saw him and you're like, oh, like
19:04
there's something here, but it just never came to fruition with
19:06
Kevin. It's like you were waiting and
19:08
waiting and waiting and now, now you just don't have much, you
19:11
know? Anticlimactal.
19:13
Very anticlimactic. Iwobi was fine.
19:16
He had 10.5 points, you know he's his.
19:19
I mean, as much shit as we were giving Ox what we saw, I was
19:22
right. Now he's averaging 10.5 fantasy
19:24
points per game. Gangster.
19:27
So it's like, you know, it's like not the worst.
19:30
He's like, I don't know, I feel like, I feel like sometimes you
19:33
we overreact, but he's actually not doing too bad.
19:36
No, he's not doing too bad. Still a good asset.
19:38
Yeah, we went our next game. West Ham three, Burnley 2.
19:42
They're back, baby. They're back West Ham.
19:46
I thought they'd actually look solid.
19:47
Like I'm. I'm not wasn't upset with
19:49
anything that went on there. I think it was interesting that
19:51
I think Sue Check hasn't started.
19:52
He's come off the bench in the last two games and he's scored
19:54
in both of them. Yeah, which is interesting.
19:58
I thought there was someone that was on our waivers last week,
20:01
Matteos Fernandez, that looked quite good.
20:04
I think he scored double digit points, which is solid.
20:06
He did. Cal Cal Wilson had a goal.
20:09
You know it happened every week. What'd you say?
20:13
It could happen. He's not going to happen every
20:15
week, but he could go on a freaking run, you know what I
20:17
mean? So yeah.
20:18
I think, I think West Ham is still going to be somewhat match
20:21
dependent, but I think it's just showing that it's like a good
20:23
well a Co check is really hasn't well drilled that they're
20:26
they're going to be totally fine.
20:27
I think they end up comfortably. Oh, they're really.
20:30
Good. Yeah, by the end of the year I'm
20:31
feeling I felt that they were always pretty darn good.
20:34
I think I like I think the question marks are still like
20:36
the Lamba soccer, the defence area that there I think also
20:41
Jared Bowen and now they're kind of underwhelming gain.
20:43
That's been a few in a row now where he's just yeah, even
20:45
though even if he's gotten full returns, I just haven't been.
20:48
It hasn't doesn't have like this pop off games where he's just
20:51
crushing, you know? The ghost points aren't there.
20:54
Yeah. So I think that might be
20:56
something that's kind of alarming just from the
20:57
standpoint of it is a new coach. And like, if that's and this is
21:00
how it's going to be, it's just not ideal.
21:02
Yeah. Who else we talk about on
21:05
Burnley? Fleming got another goal after.
21:08
It was that two weeks ago that he had that amazing, amazing.
21:11
Like. 30 point game or something?
21:13
So if you picked him up and saw them, you go a little bit back
21:15
from him at least. Yeah, I have a feeling that a
21:18
lot of people started him because it wasn't like last
21:21
week, so it was like 2 weeks ago, right?
21:22
So I have a feeling a lot of people started him last week,
21:24
got burned and then and then fucking benched him and dropped
21:27
him and then then he scored again.
21:29
But there's something. There with him like.
21:30
I kind of like him. I mean, he is, he's 27.
21:33
He's definitely in his like his like peak of career.
21:35
Yeah. So yeah, something there.
21:38
What about Hartman? That I can't even.
21:40
I think he had 10 points, I believe, even in a three, no
21:45
loss, Am I right? Or it might be a little bit
21:47
less. I think he might have been less.
21:49
Yeah, it was way less. What was it 4.5?
21:53
Why is it showing? Oh, because I'm on minutes.
21:55
Here we go 5. .5. Josh Cohen came back into the
21:59
team and scored pretty well at 15.5 points.
22:01
He had to. It was like he had a goal.
22:03
So that's another name that was like kind of popular at the
22:06
start of the season. It's kind of had a bit of a drop
22:08
off. See, you know, his first two
22:10
weeks of the season was a 15 and a 22 pointer, and he's been
22:13
pretty haphazard since then. But right now you're going to be
22:16
looking for those players that are going to have a streak of a
22:18
couple games. I think you're going to have to
22:19
start just streaming players at this point.
22:23
If you don't have a solid 11 out there, you got to start
22:26
streaming. Yeah, you were definitely in the
22:27
phase of like waivers in this in the season where you you're not
22:31
necessarily picking up guys thinking long term, you're
22:33
thinking very short term with your waiver pickups.
22:35
You know, so it's like, oh, who can he, this guy do a job for me
22:38
this week and then I can drop him.
22:39
And you know, there's not a lot of that like long term thinking
22:41
going on the next game. Sunderland 2, Arsenal 2.
22:46
Danny Balor dominates the game. Damn, that's coming.
22:48
A note coming from Sergei too. That means that's just how how
22:50
dominant he was. He was actually a former former
22:53
Arsenal youth Academy player. Oh, was he didn't know that?
22:56
Yeah. He scored a goal, he had an
22:59
assist, he had an amazing block at the end of the game.
23:02
OK. Arsenal let in.
23:04
We talked about Arsenal let in three goals all season prior to
23:06
this and let in two in this game, one of them.
23:09
Being again, I'm not, I wouldn't say I'm worried about it though.
23:12
No, no, I would have liked it if it didn't come immediately after
23:16
I made that trade for Gabrielle. You know, it was like the game
23:19
after. So I this whole theory about how
23:21
they were potentially like they're on track, they're on
23:23
pace to break the Chelsea like least goals computer record and
23:27
like obviously now they're not on track to do that.
23:30
Yeah, that's right. But that's still, I mean, it's
23:32
still phenomenal. And I hopefully this is just
23:34
like a wake up call for them. But honestly, to me, I felt like
23:38
someone made it very uncomfortable for us.
23:40
So there's like big and physical and just like threw bodies
23:44
around and like usually that's what Arsenal does.
23:45
It was kind of like the bully. It was like the big guy, like
23:48
all of a sudden, like a bigger guy came.
23:50
It was like, you know. But again, 22 Ballad who scored
23:55
Gilker, I scored. For Arsenal.
23:58
So yeah, who scored for? Arsenal, Trusod and somebody
24:02
else. Was it soccer?
24:06
Soccer. It was soccer.
24:07
It was from the. It was a merino assess, Yeah.
24:10
Yeah, so at least the positive is that soccer going go go on
24:14
Bob moment. You know, he, I don't think even
24:16
need that goal involvement to score the points he scored.
24:19
Yeah, but he was good. I think Sunderland defenders
24:22
really still show that they're they're worth starring week in
24:26
week out. Well, some of them are like
24:28
Trey, I think, like the Trey Humes and stuff like that.
24:31
Like I think in a game like this, I, I benched from where I
24:33
could because I knew that this was going to be a tough game for
24:36
it, like a wingback to score in. But like the, the, the, the
24:39
center backs in this game, I was ready.
24:41
I was starting any chance, you know, anywhere I had some of the
24:44
center, center backs chance to start because even knowing that
24:46
there were going to be some goals conceded, it's like
24:48
they're just going to be so busy.
24:50
So I didn't, I didn't, I haven't thought about it.
24:52
I just thought about it after our last our last part, the
24:55
reason why sandbags are doing so well, a part of it is because of
24:58
the set pieces and the long throwings that we've.
25:00
Seen totally. That's a big part of it 100%.
25:03
I think I want to talk about Eze too.
25:06
He's been pretty underwhelming from a fantasy standpoint and
25:09
even when he has so he's gotten some returns.
25:11
You know, it's not like he's been like like a void of
25:13
returns, but like even when he does get a return, it's like the
25:17
scores aren't out of this world. So his last two games he's got
25:20
like against, against Sunderland he got 5.25 points.
25:24
Against Burnley he got one point, you know, and then
25:27
obviously against Crystal Palace he he had a goal.
25:30
So that's hard. But like against Fulham he got
25:32
5.25 points. So it's like if he's not scoring
25:35
or assisting, it's pretty tough him to get points right now.
25:39
At at Palace, I don't think he was like crazy amount of points
25:43
every game either, but I think it's worse now that he's in
25:46
Arsenal because now he's like small fish in a big pond in a
25:49
big pond with all these big. Just less involvement.
25:52
I think, you know, Palace, everything went through him and
25:54
Arsenal like things are still going through.
25:55
Much just less of that is going through him.
25:57
I think concern now too is I'm pretty sure like Odegard's
26:00
pretty close to coming back. I think they're getting starting
26:02
to get a bunch of guys. Matter of fact, he's on his way
26:04
back. Like suddenly it's just it's
26:06
less clear where he's going to play in this team.
26:09
And so I'm not saying trade as a, but maybe like I, I think
26:15
that there's, there's a conversation to be had and maybe
26:18
it's like, maybe it's like maybe that's a good one for Jack
26:20
Reelish. What are you saying?
26:22
Oh, Oh yeah, could be. I like it.
26:26
It's a good idea. It's funny you go by namesake.
26:30
They both got names. Both got names, but I think as A
26:32
at Arsenal just has like a little bit more of a glow to it.
26:35
Yeah, it. Does it really depends on what
26:37
the person would say? I think you know.
26:39
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, cool.
26:46
Anyone else in this game you want to talk about?
26:49
And so I think I just don't have defence.
26:50
Mckelly trust has another one to look at.
26:54
Also with the rotation blade, like you just said, can you
26:57
trade him right now? I think someone already asked in
27:00
our league for a forward for trust.
27:02
Odd and probably that person that probably knows that.
27:06
Oh to God and and matter wacky on the way back.
27:10
So if you can get a trade out for toss out early, you could
27:13
get a gem out of something nice. I think it's interesting.
27:17
The other thing we didn't really talk about last week, and that
27:18
was kind of on us, was Michael Marino.
27:21
Oh yes, playing up front. The fact that he's playing up
27:23
front, I mean he got 11.5 points in this game with the assist.
27:26
He's there. It's definitely not like a like
27:29
an an option that you're like very excited about, but it's an
27:31
option that like I'd probably rather do that than like Berry
27:34
or Beto from Everton. Yeah, strikers, you know what I
27:38
mean? There's.
27:39
Just like there's, there's a. Yeah.
27:41
It's just like, it's like one of those things where it doesn't
27:42
feel the like the best thing ever, but you definitely could,
27:44
like, do a lot worse than that. Yeah.
27:47
Great. And I mean he's rostering, he's
27:49
always rostering 64% of leagues his you know, he's, he's
27:53
increased 39.8% in the last week, obviously.
27:55
So I'm sure it'll only go. Up.
27:57
It'll only go up. I don't know the extent of the
28:00
Kyokrez injury though. That's that's really, that's
28:02
really the question. Do you know Gilchrist's injury?
28:07
No. Yes.
28:09
I think that's, yeah. I don't know if he if you'll
28:11
know, but I think the other thing too is habits is still in
28:13
there. Like I don't think he's quite
28:14
training with the team, but it might be something where he's,
28:17
they don't rush him back, but he might be willing to play, you
28:20
know, sooner rather than later. So just to keep that in mind
28:24
before you do too much to try and get Marino or anything.
28:27
Yeah, yeah. OK, next game, Chelsea three,
28:30
Wolves 0. And Zona had the pleasure of
28:32
watching some of this together with some people who didn't know
28:37
was didn't know anything about soccer.
28:39
So we were just great. We were kind of muting our
28:41
celebrations and our talk because we were like, OK, we
28:43
don't want to act like Tuttle freaks in front of these people.
28:46
I know holding back all the custom and blind as oh wait, I
28:50
don't I don't know. You don't know me.
28:53
I think the highlights were probably Garnacho getting 2
28:55
assists, playing 90 minutes, 24 points.
28:59
Very good for him. You felt, yeah, vindicated if
29:02
you'd started him and he played pretty well mid week.
29:05
So there were some, you know, indications that he yeah, there,
29:08
there they've been. There's kind of been signs.
29:10
I don't, I don't think that this is like him in the future, move
29:14
forward. If you, if you see his goals a
29:16
lot, both goals are him getting balls into space, running on,
29:19
running into it. It's like, I still don't know.
29:21
I still don't know how I feel like him trying to like break
29:23
down a little blah, you know what I mean?
29:25
You know what, man, I'm just going to go with it because
29:27
anyone that leaves my United turns to a great player.
29:30
Yeah, yeah, they just do well. So I'd ride that for those
29:33
coattails all the way to the bank.
29:35
Yeah, fair enough. The lap has got to start his
29:38
first start since that red card. Do you do much?
29:41
So I think there's only 1.75 points.
29:42
He came off, came off like in the 60th minute.
29:45
I will say though, I think Burnley next after the break if
29:49
you're if you're really need to drop them, I don't think so in
29:52
the world, but I also think that it might be worth holding on to
29:54
you for a for a game like Burnley.
29:55
I think so too. I think you want to hold on to
29:57
it. I know Gio Pedro scored.
30:00
He should have. Three, this is the second game
30:02
in a row where Gio Pedro should have had more goals than he did.
30:05
So is that worrying? Yeah, it's totally worrying
30:07
because it's like he's not finishing.
30:09
He's not finishing the chances as well as he should, I think.
30:12
And I think that's been something with him his whole
30:14
career. Yeah.
30:15
I mean like he gets his creates, gets a lot of chances that
30:18
doesn't score a lot. I was.
30:20
Looking when someone gets back. Yeah.
30:23
That's going to help him. You got to say that's going to
30:25
help him. Of course they have a good, they
30:27
have a good relationship. OK like I someone someone shared
30:30
on the on one of the discord, someone shared the XG chart for
30:35
the league you want. You want to guess who's in
30:38
first? Man United.
30:40
Now Chelsea, we're talking about Chelsea.
30:42
Chelsea's XG is 23.34 right now. They've only scored 20.
30:49
No, sorry. How many goals did they scored?
30:51
21. So they're they actually have
30:53
one of the worst. They have one of the worst, like
30:55
plus minuses of XG from the top five, you know, Yeah, but so it
31:00
wasn't Nicole Jackson after it wasn't Nico Jackson.
31:03
It would, but the the finishing. Finishing is a problem though.
31:05
That's that's for sure. Yeah, I know all about that.
31:08
Trust me. Let's look at I'm just out of
31:11
curiosity, Enzo for you, let's look at Tottenham.
31:12
They have an XG of 12.75 and they've.
31:16
Scored 19. 19 that's that's why people are saying there's a big
31:21
problem there yeah, you know what I mean?
31:24
I think 1 to call out two we haven't gotten to this game yet
31:26
but it's it's the next one so we can so I'll leave it I'll say
31:30
that OK. The other things is Fafana
31:32
impressed again, he was also on waivers last week, so in that
31:35
he's going to be on waivers again this week because he still
31:37
hasn't risen up past 50%, but 15 points with the clean sheet.
31:41
Obviously the clean sheets help, but he's still getting a solid
31:43
like 8 plus goes points without. So worth looking at.
31:49
He didn't have any successful dribbles this week like he did
31:51
last week. So I was like, I saw that that
31:54
last week and I was like, this guy could be something.
31:57
Yeah. Hugo Bueno, back to my games
31:59
with less than two points. It's definitely alarming.
32:01
Yeah, I think, I mean, I think it's I think it might be a
32:04
coaching thing a little bit. I also think that I think we
32:06
talked about this, but it's concerning that he with a new
32:09
coach, like he might not be on set.
32:11
So it's just so many things that might change and like what that
32:13
coach wants him to do might change.
32:14
And so I definitely he's unread alert with him about what like
32:18
what expectations are moving forward.
32:20
Well, 10 hog is the is the is the rumor because.
32:23
No, it's something Edwards right the the old former Luton boss, I
32:27
thought. Oh, is it?
32:28
No. I heard 10 Hog too, and I think
32:30
it might be you want because what's his name, the last Gary
32:33
O'Neil or Eve Gary O'Neil? Is it Gary O'Neil, the last
32:36
manager that did well with him, the English manager here?
32:39
He said no. He said no, I don't want that
32:42
project. Middlesbrough give Wolves
32:44
permission to speak with coach Rob Edwards.
32:46
Oh. Shit looking like Rob Edwards.
32:49
But I think me and you said this, keep on watching the game.
32:51
Wolves look good at times, like the the passing, the build up
32:55
there's. Certain things, yeah.
32:57
End. Result.
32:58
Yeah. So it doesn't look good.
32:59
I think Rob Edwards is actually not a bad coach for them.
33:02
If you remember that Luton Town, Luton team from two years ago
33:04
and just the way that they kind of like got bodies in the box
33:07
and just like played a little bit of a way.
33:09
And I don't mean it's a good thing for actually, I'm sorry, I
33:11
don't think it's a good thing for Wolves necessarily.
33:13
I think it's a good thing for Hugo Bueno.
33:15
Yeah, I. Don't think it falls into the
33:17
box. I mean, I'm just, I'm thinking
33:18
from a fantasy point standpoint, yeah, maybe, maybe with not bad
33:22
words. It might, you actually might be.
33:23
That might be a good thing. I think 10 high.
33:26
I don't know if it'd be good there or not.
33:27
Yeah. Well, hopefully you know I
33:30
agree. Oh yeah, next game.
33:33
Aston Villa for Bournemouth. Zero.
33:36
Damn right. Emmy Martinez doing Emmy
33:39
Martinez things. What 7000?
33:41
What else do you do well? Also the fucking shit doing all
33:45
this trying to get in his fucking head, but what a fucking
33:47
save he's he's. Terrible and madman.
33:50
This is what I call it. So, you know, you know, Aston
33:52
Villa is third to last in expected goals, really ahead of
33:57
Burnley and Wolves. Really.
33:59
Yeah. Well, I think there's some good
34:02
notes in there too. Like what?
34:03
Ollie Watkins not involved in any of those goals, not involved
34:08
at all. Tillerman's coming on and
34:11
getting an assist. Yeah, I mean, you should
34:13
absolutely checking your your leagues to make sure that no
34:16
one's dropped him because he's definitely a very viable player.
34:18
He's not like a world beater. He's not a league winner
34:21
necessarily, but he's solid I think.
34:23
India with another goal contribution.
34:25
Yep, another goal contribution. He's on waivers for that reason.
34:28
He he looks good. I think it's important to call
34:32
out that Semenyo is the one that missed the penalty that that
34:34
Martinez scored. So now that's now we're talking
34:37
Semenyo having few bad games in a row, right?
34:40
Few bad games in a row. He's it's it's like, did you
34:44
know? It's also the way the defend
34:46
against the Meno is is now it's more focused.
34:48
So he had a little bit more free time in those first few games.
34:52
And now teams are starting to realize that, OK, shut down
34:54
Semenyo. What else do they have?
34:56
Yeah, it's like when you become a superstar, like, I mean, the
34:58
same thing happened to called Palmer, you know, It's like the
35:00
second that you become, you start doing what you're doing,
35:03
like they're going to game plan specifically for you and you
35:05
have to figure out new ways to beat it.
35:07
Yeah. So Semenyo's last three scores
35:09
against Nottingham 47.5, Man City 6.5 Villa won.
35:15
So not idea, I think especially when you were when you was been
35:19
crushing it for the whole season prior to that.
35:21
Yeah, but what? I mean, what are you gonna do?
35:24
He's so, he's so great and he's still doing all the right
35:26
things. Yeah, you're still going to star
35:27
him. Yeah, yeah, I think with Villa,
35:31
I think the XG thing is still alarming though.
35:33
Like I like they're, they're finding ways to win games.
35:35
But do you like, I think like of their last like five goals, like
35:39
3 or 4 of them have been squirting outside the box?
35:41
Five of them. Yeah.
35:44
Like I've all been from outside the box.
35:46
So thinking that those are just not high percentage, high
35:48
likelihood things. No, they're not.
35:50
They're not high percentage shots.
35:52
But I I've always been like not too fond of the XG stat,
35:57
perfectly honest. That's just me.
35:59
I know that's opportunities created and when whatnot, but at
36:03
the end of the day it's you can create as many opportunities as
36:05
you want. You could have freaking A50X
36:07
sheep or if you're not banging them in it doesn't really matter
36:10
does it? I think it's XG untethered from
36:13
reality is a problem, but I think if you're looking at XG in
36:16
relation to like what's what's going on on the field, then you
36:19
can then you can just use it as a second data point, you know, I
36:22
know you're saying though for. Sure, yeah.
36:26
Luka Digne can can use to look pretty good at 20.5 points every
36:31
single time. We think Ian Matson is going to
36:32
get this spot. It's been two seasons, man.
36:35
It's. Been two seasons, I think
36:37
finally next year No like Ian Notson had a great like midweek.
36:40
I think you know they he scored a goal in Europa League.
36:45
So yeah, it's just tough, tough thing Ross Ross Barkley popped
36:50
up with the goal. I haven't heard that guy's name
36:51
in a. While yeah, I haven't heard that
36:53
name in a while. Yeah, I think he, I think you
36:55
can safely live him on labor stuff.
36:58
Oh yeah, I'm pretty far. What do you think about Mullen?
37:01
Did you watch? Did you watch the highlights
37:03
from the Sun or did you see some of this?
37:04
I watched the highlights again. Yeah, I think he missed a
37:07
sitter, but he also got he did pretty well in moments.
37:11
He came on later in the game. He's definitely a player, but
37:16
with this with so many teams that have like rotation, like he
37:19
doesn't get how how many games does he start in a row?
37:22
You know what I mean? Has he got many games?
37:24
No, no. Exactly.
37:26
So that's the problem with Marlon.
37:28
But he's he's definitely a player, but he's not one that if
37:31
he's on the bench, you start because it's not a sure thing.
37:34
You know what I mean? And I think you just got a shout
37:36
out Morgan Rogers with a one point fiver.
37:39
He's been a struggle. He's been a real struggle this
37:41
year. But we called that early.
37:42
I mean, we we were always really concerned about him.
37:45
So. That's fantasy value, at least
37:47
I. Don't even know what you can
37:47
get. What could you get from Morgan
37:49
Rogers now? There's not much you can get for
37:51
him. You kind of suck with him.
37:53
Yep. Yeah.
37:54
Oh, you drop him. Oh, I don't that that would be
37:57
hard. I'd rather keep on the bench and
37:59
hope that he starts to figure it out, you know?
38:01
But at some point, maybe we've got to just, you just got to
38:04
bite the bullet and drop players.
38:05
Yeah, I think, I think what with the Rogers, what you know is
38:08
that on a good day he could score 30 points and that's
38:11
that's what makes it tough to bench.
38:12
But it's so rare, yeah. It's not even like it's 25% of
38:16
the season. It's like 10%.
38:18
And when they do that, they're probably on the bench.
38:22
I have a question, do you drop Rogers for Gomez, the bright
38:26
Brighton guy? Oh.
38:29
If you're forced in a corner there, you know, it's that's a
38:31
really tough one because like, you know, Gomez, we're going to
38:34
talk about a little more in waivers.
38:35
Like Gomez did it one way two weeks ago where he scored goals
38:38
and got a lot of points. And this last week he scored
38:41
well. He had no goal or no assist and
38:42
he scored 20 plus points. I mean, I think the concern with
38:46
Gomez is if Matoma comes back and where does Gomez play?
38:49
Does he play out on that left? Did they maybe try to move him
38:51
to the middle? Is that going to change his
38:53
points? I think with Rogers, what you're
38:55
getting is you're getting a guy, you know who's going to pretty
38:57
much start all the time, but but that doesn't like.
39:00
How much value does that hold on?
39:02
I mean not. If he's giving you a point or
39:03
two points, yeah. So I'm just, I'm just trying to
39:06
point, just paint both sides of it.
39:07
But no, I think, I think that's a really good question, Sergei.
39:10
I think a gun to my hand. Gomez It's just depends on it
39:15
depends on my team construction. But I think if I'm trying to, if
39:17
I'm gambling, you go Gomez, right?
39:19
Gomez. If I'm gambling, yeah, if I'm
39:21
like if I need, if I need something, if I need a change,
39:24
if I need change but yeah, that's a good question.
39:27
Next game Crystal pal 0 Brighton zero.
39:30
We talked about JD Cambaugh from Palace.
39:33
Literally I think he played one minute of one game prior to this
39:35
and he comes in and plays a full 90 he gets 15 points.
39:38
I there's a note that says not a waiver ad yet that keep in the
39:41
back of your mind. I think there's an argument to
39:43
be made that he is a waiver ad because.
39:44
With Gwahi being out. If Gwahi's out after the break
39:47
in which I I mean the him, not him being on crutch, which is
39:50
now doesn't bode well for him of a sudden being able to play in a
39:53
week and a half, you know. So I I think this guy gets
39:56
another at least another start, maybe more like depending on how
39:59
bad the way the injury is. So and that, that hurts.
40:02
Whoever had them on their team, this guy, it hurts.
40:04
It hurts a lot. Yeah, Rishane.
40:08
So I think, I think he's supervisible.
40:10
Palace Avengers combined for over 50 points.
40:14
Wow. I need to see that to believe
40:16
that. I also want to shout out the.
40:20
I mean, both. I mean, this is Brighton's
40:22
second clinch sheet in a row, and they hadn't had, no, they
40:24
hadn't had a clinch sheet prior to this.
40:27
So that's pretty interesting. Yeah.
40:29
Chris Richards 60.5, Tyler Mitchell, 16.
40:32
Ken Vott, 15, Henderson, 14.5. Lacroix.
40:37
Yeah, he's 10.25. Yeah.
40:40
Damn. Yeah.
40:42
And then, like talking, we were just talking about Diego Gomez.
40:44
I think the most impressive thing is, as we said, was that
40:46
it was gross points. You got 21.5 points with no
40:49
goal, no assess. Crazy.
40:52
Shouting out Jean Paul van Hecky Sergey, I know you've been a fan
40:58
of him for a while. I mean all the all the Tottenham
41:00
defenders were all double digits as well.
41:02
I think you know, I think you Coupa Vinta had a good
41:05
opportunity to miss early in the game, but I'm not too worried.
41:08
She's been so good this season. So you know this these games are
41:11
going to happen to everyone. Welbeck had a Welbeck had a
41:14
sinker, finally. It's coming.
41:16
Boys, it's coming. You think?
41:18
It's just like, it's like getting closer and closer to
41:20
Christmas and therefore well back soon.
41:22
It's just keep going down and down and down.
41:23
It's like he's got the legs of a 22 year old the first 3-4 months
41:27
and then all of a sudden his age comes into fruition and then he
41:30
just can't run. No more school goals.
41:33
My last comment on the Diego Gomez thing is we'll talk about
41:36
it more, but I guess. But is that the the other thing
41:39
to be concerned about is that this is Brighton.
41:41
And I feel like there always is a guy that pops off on Brighton
41:44
like every any given week, you know what I mean?
41:46
Yeah, like one week it's yeah. AR he goes crazy.
41:50
You're you. Know.
41:52
Yeah, so I mean that there is, there are some, you know,
41:54
there's some really positive signs with him and there's also
41:57
some stuff where you're like, OK, on the second Brian.
42:00
Yeah, I just just, I don't know, have a look at it.
42:04
OK, Next game, Bradford 3, Newcastle one.
42:06
Gordon missed the game due to a hip injury.
42:08
Expected to return after the break.
42:09
There was talk that he was even going to go with the England
42:12
squad. So I really don't think it's
42:13
that major of an injury. I think the Morgan do anything
42:15
with Gordon is that he just hasn't been playing well.
42:18
Yeah, he's, unless he's playing Champions League, but yeah, he's
42:20
just not been playing well again, Is that another?
42:23
How many, how many of these top names have we've had to bench?
42:27
You know, so. Like any kind of rough for a
42:29
second. Like how many of these top teams
42:31
do we have to top players, do we have to bench this season?
42:34
I haven't seen. It because it's really tough.
42:38
Nice and tough decisions being made by fantasy managers and
42:41
with your what's with your, with your Xavi Simmons, with Gordon?
42:47
Who else? I mean Sala.
42:49
Sala, Sala. You still start because he's
42:52
he's has he had a game on the seven He has, right?
42:56
Yeah, but not that many. But Gordon's had consistent
43:00
games where he's had 230. Yeah, it's something.
43:03
No. No he hasn't.
43:05
He has a Gordon's had like Gordon's highest score all
43:07
season 8.5. Oh my God, yeah, horrible.
43:12
Yeah, it has not been great. But I mean in the defence,
43:16
Newcastle general has not been great.
43:18
I mean, now they're, they're, they're closer to relegation
43:20
than they had to the top 4 right now.
43:21
Yeah, Baltimore has stopped. Scored Baltimore.
43:23
Has stopped scoring. He did get an assistance game
43:25
for a nice little flick that was very delayed in awarding him the
43:29
assistant. I was very furious about it and
43:32
I'm glad that happened. But even with that, like he he
43:34
certainly managed. He managed less points than he
43:37
would get for an assist because he got disposed that so many
43:38
times. So it's just not things are just
43:42
not clicking there at the moment and it's a little alarming.
43:45
So you also got to give credit to Brentford, You know, Igor
43:47
Tiago, one off you had two goals, 29.5 points.
43:50
I think he's he's probably getting up there for one of the
43:54
best values of the season now, huh?
43:56
Yeah, Tico, Tico, if he goes here, he'd be screaming because
43:59
he, he, he knew about him last season, picked him up one season
44:02
too early. But yeah, yeah, he's, he's
44:04
definitely been a diamond in the rough, too.
44:06
Right. He's the number, he's the number
44:07
3 ranked forward and then he's the number 5 ranked player
44:12
overall. Yeah.
44:13
And he's just, he's been doing it fairly quietly.
44:15
Like, you know, it's not like there hasn't been as much
44:18
fanfare, but I mean, we're talking 2345678 goals already
44:23
and 11 games. Bloody.
44:26
Hell, as as elites. Elites.
44:28
Isn't that bad And the lap when he was out on what's that team
44:33
switch? It switch.
44:34
I mean, life had like, what, ten goals?
44:37
Yeah. Yeah, what's?
44:38
Significantly better like he's on track do significantly
44:41
better, but you know so few players can maintain this level
44:44
of production for a whole season.
44:45
That's why I'll tell you like what solid last year was so
44:48
amazing because he was able to do it for for a whole season.
44:50
Kevin shade got a goal. I think Cody had an assist, I
44:54
believe yes so there's some there's some good things there.
44:58
I mean, I think, yeah, I mean, there's some good things
45:00
happening on this team and we where we talk, we've talked
45:02
about it, we talked about last week where they're so direct
45:05
that when it works, it works. But when it doesn't work and
45:08
that directness, it doesn't amount to much.
45:10
It's just you're like, nobody scores.
45:13
So yeah, it's because they because they play deep and they
45:16
do that direct play and they put them on the top.
45:18
Even if they lose the ball, the players are still in position to
45:21
defend. Yeah, Dan Behring got sent off
45:25
and it was like he knew it was coming.
45:26
I felt like he he almost got sent off prior to this and it
45:29
literally felt like he was just like he like he literally gave
45:32
like a thumbs up when the ref gave him the red.
45:35
He's like, good job boss. Yeah, he's like it was the right
45:38
call. Yeah.
45:39
So the Dan Bird going off and Lewis Hall playing like 30
45:43
minutes midweek. I think it's worth noting that
45:46
Lewis Hall is probably going to get a start after the
45:48
international break. So he's probably worth picking
45:50
up. He was, he didn't make waivers
45:52
since 54% owned. But I just want to shout out
45:54
that he is viable. It's main city, it's not the
45:58
best game, but I just think that I think there's a chance for him
46:04
in the second-half of the season.
46:04
But how long? When when is livermento coming
46:08
back? That's a good question.
46:09
I think it's longer than you think.
46:11
I think that was a bit pretty serious injury.
46:12
So I, I think it's probably after Christmas, after the
46:16
Christmas break. So you drop him or you hold on
46:18
to. Him, I think you got to drop
46:19
him, maybe not so saying you still have him.
46:23
I still have him. Is he saying if aimed for a turn
46:26
after international break? Yeah, that's why I saw, but I
46:29
heard it was a really bad injury, so.
46:32
I just, I don't trust some of these, these knee injuries,
46:34
again, it's another knee injury. I just don't trust that that's
46:37
going to be the truth. I feel like they I really I
46:39
don't. Know we shouldn't talk about
46:42
other sports but they need a fucking do like day by day, at
46:46
least every other day. Fucking injury reports.
46:48
Injury reports, what they do in the NFLI know.
46:50
Fuck, it's so helpful. So helpful.
46:54
But you know, so helpful. Is one last game Nadia Forest
46:59
three leads 1 Forest came from behind Gibbs.
47:03
Why does that? Two good games back-to-back
47:06
back-to-back games with goals, back-to-back games with 16 plus
47:09
points. But this is not having any like
47:12
being so poor prior to this. But this is what Giz Watts does
47:16
though. Every season he has a couple
47:19
good games, gets your hopes up and then you start him a couple
47:22
games and he does fuck all. I mean, the argument would be
47:26
that that's a new coach, right? So maybe, maybe there's
47:28
something there. OK, you can say that.
47:31
But they've had three, They've had three coaches.
47:34
Yeah. He didn't exactly do good with
47:37
Big Edge, did he? So I don't know.
47:40
I think it's more to do with him as a player and whether he's on
47:44
or he's off. And that's terrible to have,
47:48
Yeah. Yeah.
47:49
I mean, we'll see. I think that.
47:51
I think the one thing I think is that I think both the goals are
47:53
headers, which is not what you associate with him.
47:56
No. At all.
47:57
So it might be something where he's just, he's being asked to
48:00
get in the box more, which might be a good thing.
48:02
So maybe. Maybe Aronson double digits
48:06
right after, again, right after Keith drops him.
48:08
That is true. I did drop, I did drop Aronson
48:10
and he scored 10.5 points. But it's a sister of and I mean,
48:13
his, a lot of his points have been, yeah, he's just got to
48:15
stop out what I'm going to say. I think he's been good at.
48:18
I mean, I like Aronson. He's a streaky player.
48:22
Yeah, I think he's he he does enough.
48:24
I think that league team is going to be tough.
48:25
I think it's going to be tough to like really depend on league
48:28
that leads assets because you just don't know what you're
48:30
going to get. And they are losing against
48:31
teams. They're losing against the teams
48:33
that are in the lower half, which is problematic for them
48:35
because they need to be getting points in those games.
48:37
And so if it becomes a matter of time before that can be a
48:40
problem, you know, for them just emotionally.
48:45
Seriously, though, you know, I wanted to just chat about
48:48
nodding Forest from the defender standpoint.
48:51
Mm hmm, Do we? They had a few guys that scored
48:55
all right. Are we back to thinking that
48:56
there's some viability from Nottingham Forest defenders?
49:00
I'm not. You're still not ready to go
49:02
there. No, I just don't think that I
49:06
can trust them yet to do what they did last season.
49:10
And this is obviously not the same teams last season form
49:12
wise. So it's not like they're they're
49:15
busy, but it's not like they're doing anything with the ball
49:18
when they got it. They're landing more goals than
49:21
they're scoring. So they're not as comfortable.
49:23
They're not sitting back like they would did before where they
49:25
got a lead and they just chilled for a little bit and trying to
49:28
catch on the counter attack. Now it's just, again, they're
49:30
getting beat on all sides of the porch.
49:33
Yeah, but they're, I mean they've, they've they drew, they
49:35
drew against United 2 weeks ago, they won against Leeds.
49:38
Like Sean Daish is clearly having some sort of effect on
49:40
them, you know? Great.
49:42
So I just, I don't know. I don't know what that means,
49:44
you know, and we'll see. But like it's also a noted that
49:47
Dan and Dan and Doy started last two games.
49:51
I guess United he did nothing but against nothing.
49:54
He had scored 14 points within a six.
49:55
So what are you? It's definitely worth knowing.
50:00
Just keep an eye on it. We can talk about I guess we're
50:02
going to go into waivers after this so we can just start with
50:04
this as Amari Hutchinson came off the bench, played for 30
50:08
minutes, scored 18.5 points. You got 2 assists or one assists
50:12
and then drew a penalty a fantasy assists.
50:15
So pretty, pretty good Audi for him.
50:17
I think he's knocking the door for a start after that, huh I.
50:21
Think so. I agree.
50:22
I think he's a good playoff. Yeah, he's a good player,
50:24
Ipswich. I mean, I'm not, I'm not like
50:27
breaking the baking, the breaking the bank for him or
50:30
anything, but I think like he might be a cheeky little pickup
50:33
if you need it and I don't even know if I'd throw foul on it or
50:35
anything, but no. But I think it's just he's.
50:37
Definitely worth the wave of wire that's about.
50:39
Potentially, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's one.
50:42
What else do we have on waivers? Sergey added a few, added a few.
50:47
Kenny Tete. Sergey has on here fantasy
50:48
points per game 8.2 roster, 35% of leagues.
50:51
His previous three games have been 13.25 twelve .75, and then
50:56
with a clean sheet and then the last game was 3.75.
51:00
The next three games are Sunderland, Tottenham, Man City.
51:02
I don't know about this one. No, I don't know about this one.
51:05
I don't know about this one. The first, the first game
51:07
started sounded nice, yeah, but then the next two games doesn't
51:10
sound so good. Yeah, I mean, you can do worse.
51:14
I mean, at least he's an attacking defender.
51:15
But I think just Sunderland has just proven to be really
51:17
difficult for a lot of teams. And Tottenham, again, Tottenham
51:21
defensively have been quite good, even if they're struggling
51:23
offensively. And then Man City's, Man City
51:25
again. So yeah, I'm on the fence about
51:28
that one. We talked about Fernandez, the
51:31
test Fernandez last week. I think he's on here again
51:34
previous 30 days finish the points per game 9.92.
51:37
I think more importantly, I think he started the last two or
51:38
three games and his had contributions in each of them
51:41
yeah previous three games 12.514 point 2513.5 S solid next three
51:47
games Bournemouth, Liverpool, Man United again I'm not as
51:52
scared though. I think Bournemouth,
51:53
Bournemouth, what you see is a team that is very open.
51:55
So there's it's very they can be chaotic games.
51:58
Liverpool's been soft last few weeks.
52:01
So again, I I don't know, we're fully in like the not afraid of
52:04
them mode, but I also think that.
52:06
Well, they're out of the top five too, so that just tells you
52:08
about their results. Yeah.
52:10
And then Man United is just, you don't know you're going to get
52:12
there. No, I think that I think the
52:15
number one shout out is we've talked about them a lot already.
52:18
Is that Diego Gomez on from Brighton?
52:21
What are we what are we, what are we spending on them like
52:24
foul blast. Sergey has a now says don't be
52:27
frugal 25 you're willing to you'd be willing to throw that
52:30
much like 1/4. Quarter of yourself and you need
52:33
him if you want him and you need him 25 fab.
52:37
Yeah, I think it's one thing if he had just, it was just one
52:39
good game, but it's like it's two good games now, 2 good.
52:42
Games. And it's what it's doing it
52:43
different ways that they were not.
52:44
One of them was obviously very gold dependent.
52:46
And this one is very, you know, ghost dependent.
52:49
So yeah, I'm not. Yeah, 25 is you.
52:53
You're definitely taking a claim that you'd really think he's
52:56
going to be good. I I'd have a hard time with
52:58
that. But I think I think if you know,
53:00
north of 10 is there's not not crazy.
53:03
We talked about about Emiliano Bandia, Emilio, Emiliano Bandia
53:07
Emilio. It's.
53:09
What a great free kick, huh it? Did it was a great free kick.
53:13
But the same thing with Brandy is is he going to start every
53:16
game and is he going to produce every game?
53:19
He's definitely got the Billy and the capability to do it.
53:22
You know, if you watch him pass the items every time.
53:25
But can he, is he is he goal dependent?
53:28
Does he have to have a goal contribution to get points?
53:30
That's why I think. Let's look at his ghosts, see if
53:35
I can pull it out. But yeah, yeah, points for start
53:41
8.6. So his ghosts once we start, I
53:47
don't know, points per start ghost points per start is 4.9.
53:51
So yeah, that's a really good, good point.
53:53
You know, I think that with him is that he was starting to get
54:00
playing time before he got that little injury and then he came
54:03
back and literally in his first start back, he scores a good
54:06
goal. So I like there's a pathway
54:09
where you see that you got he's going to play more.
54:11
And I also think like the fact that their extra is so bad is
54:14
both like makes me not that excited to pick him up, but also
54:18
makes me think that he's more likely to start because like,
54:20
he's the only one that's doing things, you know?
54:22
Yeah, can you pay fat for that guy?
54:25
I'd maybe so one to two. I wouldn't I wouldn't turn no
54:29
more than that. I just I just I think there's
54:30
just I think with Villa's goal trying issues, I'm a little
54:33
concerned there. We talked about Wesley Fafana.
54:36
I he's still only like less than 50% owned.
54:39
I think he you know, I think we forget how high the comedy he
54:41
was before injuries, you know, when he played out Leicester and
54:44
then when Chelsea bought him, they paid a lot of money for
54:46
him. And these injuries have really
54:47
kind of made us forget that. But if he could stay healthy, I
54:51
think he could be a nice restless season because I think
54:53
I think he makes his team ahead of Chalibal even.
54:57
Like I think I think if Coel, but I don't think Coel's coming
55:00
back. But if Coel was to come back in
55:02
time, I think I think the final and Coel would be the starting
55:05
too in this team. So.
55:08
You think for Final is going to be undervalued just because of
55:11
that, and you think he's going to be like the riches of last
55:13
season where no one, just hardly anyone, would put any faith in
55:15
him. You think that's what it is?
55:17
I think right now, yeah, But I think if he does this in another
55:21
week or two, people are going to be like people.
55:23
He has enough like game recognition that people are
55:26
going to be like, Oh yeah, this guy, like he was good a few
55:27
years ago. I don't really, I don't have an
55:28
issue picking up. I think with Richards, it was
55:30
like he'd never been good before.
55:32
So and he was on a team that like Crystal Palace was doing
55:35
well but didn't have as much publicity around him, you know
55:37
what I mean, Or like attention around him.
55:39
So he just kind of fell through the cracks a little more.
55:41
I think Fafana will be quicker to get picked up.
55:43
But I think that I think now it's probably, if he's still
55:46
available, I think now is what you where you need to grab him.
55:48
You know, I don't think he's going to be.
55:49
I think if he has another good game, who's supposed to play
55:52
next week after the break? I mean they play Burnley.
55:58
Like if they if they go out and beat Burnley and he scores
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another 15 plus, I think it's going.
56:05
To be. Yeah, so it's, I mean that the
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match up thing is huge too, you know.
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Yeah, match up thing is very. Yeah.
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And then we talked about JD Kenva.
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I, I think that he's arguably up there as like a waiver.
56:17
Like I think he's the top. Gomez, I think Gomez and maybe
56:19
him, you know? Yeah, they're just.
56:21
Just because of like what their thing is that also knowing that
56:24
that next game is against wolves.
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Yeah, it's top waiver wire for this week.
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If you can get him, pick him up. Yeah, I mean, again, I might do
56:32
them as a head of him, but yeah. But I think like just because
56:35
there's more potential for long term with Gomez, but I think if
56:38
you need something for the week like a sink, like a one week
56:40
play, I think yeah, it's JD Canva for sure.
56:44
Agree. A couple other names, just like
56:46
quickly, Nico O'Reilly Defender. So it was only 46% owned.
56:50
She's continued to look great. I think to the point where
56:52
people are starting to question if when out Nora comes back, if
56:55
he's going to take a spot now, O'reilly's, I don't have to hold
56:59
that spot down for right out Nora I don't.
57:02
Think. He's going to no.
57:04
Yeah, yeah. I just, I'm with you.
57:06
I don't think I know he's going to get his spot back.
57:09
Yeah. That's concerning.
57:12
We talked about the forest offenders.
57:14
Nicolas Savannah has been well liked in the last few games by
57:19
by Daish. And so, I don't know, maybe
57:23
forest offenders are back on the menu, it sounds like and you're
57:25
a little more hesitant. I'm a little bit wary because I
57:28
know, I know Daish is more defensive and I think there'll
57:31
be games, but I don't. I'm worried about what about
57:34
Forests and about them keeping the goals out, because if you
57:37
don't get clean sheets with some of these for these Forest
57:40
players, I think that's going to hurt the points.
57:42
Yeah, I. Mean it's Liverpool next week
57:43
not ideal I think thinking after that is West Ham so it's worth
57:46
keeping an eye on like it might you know there might be some
57:48
guys on waivers in two weeks worth picking up then we talked
57:52
about Van Hecke he's still only he's still not 50% on but he
57:55
continues to score well I think he's a great he could be at
57:58
Chris Richards desk you know where he's kind of float
58:01
floating on the radar but I mean I think the biggest thing for
58:03
them is the 2 thin sheets like having two thin sheets in a row
58:05
is going to help him a lot I. Don't think they're going to do
58:08
another clean sheet. They played Bradford next.
58:11
Who's They're so direct. Yeah, they're scoring goals.
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That'll be a big test for them, you know.
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Yeah, All right, that's where it is.
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We could talk game week, talk preview, but I think it's a
58:21
little premature to do that. So I think we kind of just call
58:25
it. Yeah, wait on that.
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Wait, wait for Tico on that one. Yeah, we'll, we'll do the bet
58:31
next week. The bet next week and we might
58:33
have a guest next week too, so that could be fun.
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And you're going to be in the UK, right?
58:37
We could, yeah. I'll be in the UK.
58:38
We should get that guy to do a bet with us.
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He's a stack guy, so in my. Yeah, maybe you can actually may
58:44
actually contribute something. Well, because we've been
58:46
absolutely sucking. I don't want to do paradise
58:49
anymore. I'm done.
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OK, I like your idea where we just do our single bets.
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Yeah, I'm into that. I'm into it.
58:57
I'm into it. All right, This has been episode
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