Latest / The Calcio Guys / Bologna win the Coppa Italia! Ep. 265
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- 0:06Speaker 1: An historic day for Bologna, for the city of Bologna,
- 0:10Speaker 1: for the club, not so much for our friend over here,
- 0:14Speaker 1: for Drano, his Milan Agano Johnny Nicholas On the couch
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- 0:24Speaker 2: How was going, I'm doing okay.
- 0:28Speaker 3: I don't know. I think a sarticulad on this Funday
- 0:30Speaker 3: ag should be the one that.
- 0:33Speaker 1: Talk about it.
- 0:34Speaker 4: I have nothing to say. I have nothing to say
- 0:36Speaker 4: if I speak big trouble.
- 0:41Speaker 1: I You know, it's funny. You know, it's nice to
- 0:45Speaker 1: get to watch the COPE Italian Final and not stressed
- 0:48Speaker 1: like you know last year. Obviously you've a one, but
- 0:51Speaker 1: I forget if it was a year before, two years
- 0:52Speaker 1: before that they lost the Inter. You know, losing to
- 0:55Speaker 1: Inter is not a fun experience. But you know, even
- 0:59Speaker 1: in it's even worse than the COPID Italian final, but
- 1:02Speaker 1: losing losing in any final. Finally, adri as a uve fan,
- 1:06Speaker 1: I know what it's like to lose in a final.
- 1:11Speaker 1: But you know, at the end of the day, speaking
- 1:15Speaker 1: from a neutral perspective, you gotta feel good for Bologna,
- 1:17Speaker 1: the first time since nineteen seventy four that they win
- 1:22Speaker 1: the Cope Italia. I'm I'm gonna gonna assume that's the
- 1:25Speaker 1: last time they've won any trophy. I don't know if
- 1:27Speaker 1: you guys know that stat or can fact check me.
- 1:30Speaker 2: There makes sense.
- 1:32Speaker 4: I don't think it was.
- 1:34Speaker 2: I don't want Scudetto.
- 1:37Speaker 1: I know they want to that from the sixties.
- 1:41Speaker 3: I got was it the sixties or was it the eighties.
- 1:45Speaker 1: I feel like every.
- 1:45Speaker 2: Team was like one in the eighties sixty four.
- 1:48Speaker 3: In the nineties and eighties was like a different team
- 1:50Speaker 3: out of different team that won.
- 1:52Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:53Speaker 1: Yeah, like hell us Verona won in eighty five. Yeah,
- 1:56Speaker 1: they won the Scudetto sixty four. They have seven titles,
- 1:59Speaker 1: three Copidalia, the last in seventy four. They also won
- 2:02Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy. So they had good runs in the
- 2:04Speaker 1: sixties and seventies. But uh, listen, I guess we we
- 2:08Speaker 1: gotta we gotta get right to it one nothing. Uh.
- 2:13Speaker 1: I guess you could say almost tale of two Halves
- 2:14Speaker 1: because Melan. I don't know if you agree with me, Adri,
- 2:17Speaker 1: but you know, watching it feels like Melan. They started
- 2:20Speaker 1: off well, like they were creating a couple of chances.
- 2:25Speaker 1: I forget who, but there was was there was a
- 2:27Speaker 1: rebound early on. I forget who shot it. I think
- 2:30Speaker 1: high or whatever. But it just it just feels like
- 2:33Speaker 1: they came out in the second half flat. Uh And
- 2:38Speaker 1: obviously you know n Noy goal fifty third minutes eight
- 2:41Speaker 1: eight minutes into the second half, and then that was
- 2:43Speaker 1: pretty much it. You know, I kind of sat back.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Melan didn't really get much going. It wasn't the most
- 2:48Speaker 1: exciting game obviously, you know, like I said, it's fun
- 2:51Speaker 1: watching the cod batality. It's in a sort of game.
- 2:52Speaker 1: There's all you know, they do the anthem, it's the
- 2:54Speaker 1: celebration of Calco. But the game itself was was may
- 2:57Speaker 1: you know, obviously Bologna fans are gonna aren't remember it
- 3:00Speaker 1: the same way. But yeah, it just feels like both
- 3:03Speaker 1: teams kind of sat back.
- 3:05Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I think you tee it up perfectly.
- 3:10Speaker 4: I think those the beginning for Milan, I think was
- 3:14Speaker 4: it looked a bit positive, like you said, Nick, I
- 3:17Speaker 4: would have to agree, but it was a very short,
- 3:20Speaker 4: short lived positive, you know game for Milan that you know,
- 3:27Speaker 4: half a chance there axy Menez steals, it puts it
- 3:32Speaker 4: across the bony defender kind of bats it towards sc
- 3:36Speaker 4: makes that save. Yovic on the end of it goes
- 3:39Speaker 4: straight to straight to Scroupsk again he makes that double
- 3:42Speaker 4: save off the half chance, and that was kind of
- 3:44Speaker 4: like the most we tested Scrupski in the rest of
- 3:48Speaker 4: the match. So it's it's a shame because at the
- 3:51Speaker 4: beginning it looked like some of our bigger players were
- 3:53Speaker 4: up for the match, and after just a roller coaster
- 3:56Speaker 4: of the season and everything going on, not only on
- 3:59Speaker 4: the pitch but outside too, with all the noise and
- 4:03Speaker 4: you know, all the changes that are you know, inevitably
- 4:06Speaker 4: going to happen come the summertime and going forward. It's
- 4:09Speaker 4: it's it's a shame that we couldn't maybe put you know,
- 4:12Speaker 4: the last twist of and the last you know, point
- 4:16Speaker 4: of positivity on this season. But I guess there's not
- 4:20Speaker 4: really much positive you can put on this this season
- 4:23Speaker 4: as a whole currently eat spot somehow, some way still
- 4:28Speaker 4: you know, mathematically possible for for for top four, but
- 4:32Speaker 4: it just it's a match that I don't think many
- 4:35Speaker 4: Melan fans, you know, just way things have been going.
- 4:38Speaker 4: I don't think probably pegged them to win deep down,
- 4:42Speaker 4: and they obviously wanted them to, but I don't think
- 4:44Speaker 4: many people would have had me on as maybe the favorites.
- 4:47Speaker 4: I know, Bologna has had a hell of a twenty
- 4:49Speaker 4: twenty five and you know, Melan, I think the last
- 4:52Speaker 4: few games have been stringing up some results. But like
- 4:55Speaker 4: I said on previous podcasts, you know, it's a little
- 4:57Speaker 4: bit too late. It's too little too late for for
- 5:00Speaker 4: these for these types of moments, and to try to
- 5:03Speaker 4: crawl back into not any games, but in just in
- 5:05Speaker 4: the season in general. So again, listen, I'm pissed, obviously,
- 5:10Speaker 4: I think what most Mealan fans are pissed. I saw
- 5:12Speaker 4: what a backlash you know, on social media afterwards. You know,
- 5:16Speaker 4: no really targeted to our top players, but you know,
- 5:18Speaker 4: our management or our ownership, coach uh just you know,
- 5:24Speaker 4: everything from top to bottom. I think has been a
- 5:26Speaker 4: bit of a bit of turmoil as of late. And
- 5:29Speaker 4: some of them I agree with some of them, I don't,
- 5:33Speaker 4: you know, I know, I saw reports of you know,
- 5:35Speaker 4: and we've said up in previous podcasts. You know, Concesal
- 5:40Speaker 4: is more than likely out the door come the summertime.
- 5:43Speaker 4: And for me it's a bit of a shame because
- 5:45Speaker 4: I think given more time and given you know, maybe
- 5:48Speaker 4: a better a better slate to work with, I think
- 5:52Speaker 4: things could have been different, you know, coming in mid
- 5:54Speaker 4: season and just what he was, what he was dealt
- 5:58Speaker 4: with in terms of you know, the the lack of
- 6:02Speaker 4: consistency and and and hunger and and and will to
- 6:06Speaker 4: fight for the shirt. You know, it was just a
- 6:07Speaker 4: bit too too much of a shame. But and that
- 6:10Speaker 4: you know comes down to even to this game too. Uh,
- 6:14Speaker 4: you know, like you said, Nick, a tail of two halves,
- 6:15Speaker 4: and you know, I think it was that first half.
- 6:19Speaker 4: I think maybe you could have set me and could
- 6:21Speaker 4: have maybe uh you know, constructed something to get a goal.
- 6:26Speaker 4: It wasn't to be. They go in a half nil nil,
- 6:29Speaker 4: and it's it's a new it's basically a new game.
- 6:31Speaker 4: Come come the second half and you know, again me
- 6:33Speaker 4: and not able to capitalize, not create enough chances, you know,
- 6:36Speaker 4: losing the fifty to fifties sometimes in the in the midfield,
- 6:40Speaker 4: and defensively just a bit poor. You know, the goal
- 6:43Speaker 4: that it was scored by in Deui. Okay, yeah, you
- 6:46Speaker 4: know everybody's gonna want to oh, an a about Indui,
- 6:49Speaker 4: but I mean just you know, caught a bit sleeping.
- 6:54Speaker 4: I think in the back obviously a great build up play,
- 6:56Speaker 4: and I think the play of Castro there, Santiago Castro
- 7:02Speaker 4: leaving the ball for Sellini or Seleni just on side.
- 7:06Speaker 4: It goes towards him, DOUI Uh, he waits, waits, waits
- 7:09Speaker 4: and and finishes it. You know, I think it's a
- 7:12Speaker 4: good build up play. But again it's just a bit sloppy.
- 7:15Speaker 4: And there was there was time to come back into
- 7:17Speaker 4: this game. But again typical Milan not not taking uh
- 7:21Speaker 4: you know, those half chances seriously, the worst chances to equalize.
- 7:24Speaker 4: I think, uh, you know, Joan Felix comes on, he
- 7:29Speaker 4: wears the ball. That's that that's inside the box from
- 7:32Speaker 4: a from a pass I think by taylornandez if I'm
- 7:34Speaker 4: not mistaken. Uh Santimenez again not ready for for a
- 7:38Speaker 4: quick ball in he kind of he goes straight to
- 7:41Speaker 4: straight to Scrupski. So these half chances that we in
- 7:44Speaker 4: a game where Milan wasn't you know, I don't like
- 7:48Speaker 4: what isn't the better team? Uh, you know, those half
- 7:51Speaker 4: chances you got to put away. They weren't able to
- 7:53Speaker 4: do so. And uh, they come up you know, short
- 7:57Speaker 4: and in in a in a season where they could
- 7:59Speaker 4: have in a terror season where they could have had
- 8:01Speaker 4: two trophies under their belts with the Super Coco win
- 8:04Speaker 4: earlier earlier on in the season. So again it's it's
- 8:08Speaker 4: it's a multitude of factors and emotions I think for
- 8:11Speaker 4: meon fans and rightfully so, there's two games left and
- 8:15Speaker 4: it's not gonna get any easier this this weekend against
- 8:18Speaker 4: against against Roma. But there's two games left to kind
- 8:23Speaker 4: of just go out on some sort of try it.
- 8:26Speaker 4: I guess we'll see what is to be. But in
- 8:29Speaker 4: terms of the final again, you know, I guess you
- 8:34Speaker 4: have Yeah, you can't. What are you gonna say? You
- 8:35Speaker 4: have to eat it? You have to, you have to
- 8:36Speaker 4: take your hat off. I think, you know, if you
- 8:38Speaker 4: want to say the better team won, that's that's fair.
- 8:40Speaker 4: But was it a dominating Bologna, I don't think so.
- 8:44Speaker 4: Was it a dominating Melon, Absolutely not so. This game
- 8:47Speaker 4: I think was up for grabs. Uh. And and it's
- 8:50Speaker 4: a shame because yes, I know, historically okay, Bologna fifty
- 8:53Speaker 4: one years, they haven't won it since seventy four. Okay,
- 8:57Speaker 4: but out of these the big clubs you know in Italy,
- 9:00Speaker 4: you know, Milan hasn't touched the cope Italian a while,
- 9:04Speaker 4: and it's always seems to escape them, especially in these
- 9:07Speaker 4: recent years. You know, we go back to what I
- 9:08Speaker 4: think it was, what twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen, those two years,
- 9:12Speaker 4: I believe, if I'm not mistaken, were they both against
- 9:15Speaker 4: Juvenick I think.
- 9:16Speaker 1: So, yeah, yeah, exactly right.
- 9:18Speaker 4: So, you know, disappointing there, but again, you know, you're
- 9:20Speaker 4: you were the lesser team to a better juve at
- 9:23Speaker 4: that time, and I think this game was off for grabs,
- 9:25Speaker 4: like I like I said, so it's a shame that
- 9:27Speaker 4: you know, we couldn't put it together and and and
- 9:30Speaker 4: capture you know, uh, you know, another trophy, but you know,
- 9:35Speaker 4: credit to to Italiana, which I like. I like Italian,
- 9:38Speaker 4: don't get me wrong. I like what he's been doing.
- 9:40Speaker 4: And it's it's what I don't like is all this
- 9:42Speaker 4: like over obsessing about him, Like I think it's let's relax, like,
- 9:47Speaker 4: let's let's stop jerking him off here. Like he's good,
- 9:49Speaker 4: don't get me wrong. But then I like him as
- 9:51Speaker 4: a manager, but I hate when they get blown up
- 9:53Speaker 4: by that. So I'm happy for him because you know
- 9:57Speaker 4: it's it's three finals in a row that he goes
- 9:59Speaker 4: with U with Fjordentina in the conference, he couldn't couldn't
- 10:02Speaker 4: get over that hump, and maybe thinking that he'll probably
- 10:05Speaker 4: never get over a finals hump, and he got over
- 10:07Speaker 4: this one, uh in a game that you know whatever
- 10:11Speaker 4: at one nail, it's it's nothing. You know, he didn't
- 10:14Speaker 4: have to go through move mountains to achieve, but you
- 10:17Speaker 4: still have to give him his credit. And I think
- 10:19Speaker 4: just another one is Orsolini, I think is just all
- 10:22Speaker 4: the you know, his his his career has gone up
- 10:27Speaker 4: and down, and you know he was supposed to be,
- 10:30Speaker 4: you know, the guy for for Italy and you know
- 10:32Speaker 4: a lot of the top clubs when he was a
- 10:33Speaker 4: lot younger and now going pushing his you know, his
- 10:36Speaker 4: later twenties. Uh, he's still becoming relevant and he's having
- 10:40Speaker 4: hell of a season. I think one of his best
- 10:41Speaker 4: seasons yet. And I think to cap it off with
- 10:44Speaker 4: his first trophy tonight was it was huge for him
- 10:47Speaker 4: for his career. And uh, I think again a lot
- 10:50Speaker 4: more knocking on on uh on Spoleetti's door to maybe
- 10:53Speaker 4: call him up for the national team going forward. But
- 10:56Speaker 4: I think if there's two guys that you know you're
- 10:58Speaker 4: happy for is those two. And I think the Silvestri
- 11:01Speaker 4: also and an older statesman for for Bologna. And just
- 11:04Speaker 4: I said, yeah, I guess you can say legend if
- 11:07Speaker 4: you want, getting his hands on a on a trophy again.
- 11:10Speaker 4: And it's just weird seeing Calabria and Pobega on the
- 11:14Speaker 4: other side, especially Calabria'S with he was he raised the
- 11:19Speaker 4: super Copa trophy with Milan, uh, you know, a halfful
- 11:23Speaker 4: of months ago and now raising the cop for Bologna
- 11:26Speaker 4: all these months later at the end of the season.
- 11:28Speaker 4: It's just just weird to me. Uh. But hey, you
- 11:32Speaker 4: know what, like we said, a better team on the
- 11:35Speaker 4: on the pitch for especially in the second half, and
- 11:38Speaker 4: they got to go and you know, they got to win.
- 11:41Speaker 4: But it's uh, I'm just I'm just I don't even
- 11:47Speaker 4: know what to expect come the summer. I hope not
- 11:49Speaker 4: many changes because I think you know, on paper and
- 11:52Speaker 4: and and just even what we see at times with
- 11:56Speaker 4: this mealon there's some strong pieces. I think they need
- 11:59Speaker 4: also other pieces to bind everything together. And I guess
- 12:03Speaker 4: if we're listening to the reports. Uh, A manager that
- 12:06Speaker 4: can can can do so as well. I don't think
- 12:08Speaker 4: they're far off. It's a shame that, you know, we
- 12:10Speaker 4: have to go through a bad season to kind of
- 12:13Speaker 4: you know, you know, ruffle the feathers and and and
- 12:16Speaker 4: and have to start again. But hey, if if it
- 12:20Speaker 4: takes doing that kind of what we see nap were doing,
- 12:23Speaker 4: uh this season, and you know we're fighting for Scudato
- 12:26Speaker 4: next season, I guess I guess we'll take it. And
- 12:30Speaker 4: there's another question that I had and a lot of
- 12:33Speaker 4: comment that I seen. We played Bonia, you know, five
- 12:36Speaker 4: days ago on Friday, play them again this week today?
- 12:39Speaker 4: Sorry for for the final in the Cooptalia. We win
- 12:42Speaker 4: the three to one. On Friday we lose one nil.
- 12:45Speaker 3: Uh.
- 12:46Speaker 4: Today I see fans like on on on both sides,
- 12:50Speaker 4: like I would like, would you rather I've lost the
- 12:54Speaker 4: Setia match and won the final or vice versa. I mean,
- 12:58Speaker 4: at this point, it is where it is. We're down
- 13:00Speaker 4: bad in both especially in the league. I think we
- 13:04Speaker 4: needed the points there. If you want to salvage anything.
- 13:07Speaker 4: It's a shame because I think, like I said, it
- 13:09Speaker 4: was in the grasp in your grasp to win a
- 13:14Speaker 4: trophy against the same opponent, you know, five days later,
- 13:17Speaker 4: and it wasn't to be. But I think Magnal had
- 13:21Speaker 4: a good game, layoff a good I don't know, first
- 13:24Speaker 4: half ish he looked hungry. After that he looked off
- 13:28Speaker 4: and most of the team looked off. I think Fofana
- 13:31Speaker 4: I was another player that all of those fifty to
- 13:33Speaker 4: fifty balls back touch constantly in the midfield. I liked
- 13:36Speaker 4: Tomorre's hunger, but a bit stupid on the yellow card.
- 13:39Speaker 4: He had to be more cautious. He gets subbed off
- 13:42Speaker 4: ryanders not being able to push forward as much as
- 13:44Speaker 4: as he likes. And you know, Christian Poolsich, which is
- 13:48Speaker 4: another one of our top players involved but at the
- 13:51Speaker 4: same time not involved in the game. So overall, upset
- 13:55Speaker 4: maybe was expected because I don't think we were the
- 13:57Speaker 4: favorites going into it, but uh we eat it, and
- 14:01Speaker 4: you know, congratulations to Bologna for for winning the for
- 14:04Speaker 4: winning the cop Italia, and for me on it's these
- 14:07Speaker 4: next two games and uh onto the summer we go.
- 14:11Speaker 3: I'm happy you brought up Italian before. Do you think
- 14:16Speaker 3: maybe it was just a matter of better manager in
- 14:20Speaker 3: this matchup? Do you think maybe manager made a difference,
- 14:23Speaker 3: especially in a one off type of game.
- 14:26Speaker 4: It's interesting. It's interesting because since con has been with Milan, Uh,
- 14:32Speaker 4: he's listen, he came in, he had to play right
- 14:35Speaker 4: away in the super COPA and and one a trophy
- 14:38Speaker 4: like right off the right off the bounds? Was that luck?
- 14:41Speaker 4: Was that just timing? I don't know. Uh, I think
- 14:45Speaker 4: Conceal is more experienced as a manager, especially in especially
- 14:50Speaker 4: in at the highest of moments. Again, I don't know
- 14:53Speaker 4: if I think, you know, Boonia's style of play. I
- 14:56Speaker 4: think was just been superior to Milan's and especial in
- 15:00Speaker 4: this calendar year like this, this this new year of
- 15:02Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. They've we've said it on the show
- 15:04Speaker 4: guys that they've been hot, uh you know, uh, and
- 15:08Speaker 4: and they were able to to to to to get
- 15:11Speaker 4: to win. But I don't know, I'm not gonna say
- 15:13Speaker 4: that Italiano's management and what he was able to do
- 15:17Speaker 4: in this match, like I'm not gonna like overlook that
- 15:20Speaker 4: because I think he he uh, you know, he he
- 15:25Speaker 4: made sobs and he made different different changes and when
- 15:29Speaker 4: me one made a when me one switched their their
- 15:31Speaker 4: formation a bit they went forward the back. Italiano eventually
- 15:35Speaker 4: ends up making his sob to kind of match that.
- 15:39Speaker 4: I even heard the defender became a talking to CBS
- 15:42Speaker 4: there and he kind of explained that too, So I'm
- 15:44Speaker 4: gonna credit him for that analysis. But yeah, I think
- 15:49Speaker 4: I think they you know, they were they were going
- 15:51Speaker 4: to to tow and I think Italiana just got uh
- 15:54Speaker 4: you know, the last few details right. Again. His his team, uh,
- 16:00Speaker 4: it plays as a team and they are a group.
- 16:02Speaker 4: They are a good group, and I think that that
- 16:04Speaker 4: starts with Italiano. I think Milan individually have better players.
- 16:09Speaker 4: I think it's it's it's not me being biased. I
- 16:11Speaker 4: think it's it's pretty clear that Melon to an individual
- 16:15Speaker 4: have have the better players. But as a group, especially
- 16:17Speaker 4: this season, I think Bonnia has has shown, uh you
- 16:21Speaker 4: know that they're that they're a unit and that they're
- 16:23Speaker 4: that they're a strong group. And I guess who's to
- 16:27Speaker 4: who's to to reward that and who's to to look
- 16:31Speaker 4: towards as as as that being the case. Is Italiano
- 16:35Speaker 4: so on the day better But in the grand scheme
- 16:38Speaker 4: of things, I think this, like I said earlier, this
- 16:40Speaker 4: game could have went either way. It happened to go
- 16:42Speaker 4: Bonia's way on a defensive error and a slight on
- 16:46Speaker 4: on side call. Not to say that Bonnia wasn't maybe
- 16:49Speaker 4: gonna score later. I don't know, But like you said, Nick,
- 16:52Speaker 4: kind of a meg game besides that, besides that goal,
- 16:54Speaker 4: So was there really much more? Not really? Like like
- 16:58Speaker 4: I said, Melon didn't really trouble Skorupski and the opportunity
- 17:02Speaker 4: is that Boonia did have to to to you know,
- 17:05Speaker 4: Pepper Magnon was was very few as well. I know
- 17:09Speaker 4: there was the first half kind of that touch graze
- 17:12Speaker 4: off the Santi Castro's head and kind of you know,
- 17:14Speaker 4: Mania makes that save and then it goes off and
- 17:16Speaker 4: goes out of bounds, and then obviously the goal that happened.
- 17:20Speaker 4: But much more than that, Like, there wasn't anything crazy
- 17:23Speaker 4: that Mania had to do north Skorupski. So was there
- 17:26Speaker 4: going to be a goal if there wasn't that kind
- 17:28Speaker 4: of mistake and stuff, I don't know, it could have been.
- 17:33Speaker 4: It definitely could have been. You know, if if if
- 17:37Speaker 4: in deus Sky's that that ball instead of putting it
- 17:40Speaker 4: perfect on net and Jovic puts in that puts in
- 17:44Speaker 4: that ball, that he got that half a chance early
- 17:46Speaker 4: on in the game, we're talking about a different ballgame
- 17:49Speaker 4: and maybe a different result. So again, you know it
- 17:53Speaker 4: was was was Italian the better manager on the day?
- 17:55Speaker 4: I guess because he won, but I don't. I don't
- 17:57Speaker 4: think it was by that grade of a margin, if
- 18:00Speaker 4: I'm honest.
- 18:03Speaker 1: So interesting fact, Adrian Milan. They've lost ten cope It
- 18:08Speaker 1: Talent finals, the most out of any team, and the
- 18:12Speaker 1: last time they won was two thousand and three. At
- 18:13Speaker 1: that time it was a two legs aggregate. So last
- 18:16Speaker 1: time they won the Cope Itali a one league final
- 18:19Speaker 1: was in nineteen seventy. I just had it nineteen seventy
- 18:22Speaker 1: I think nineteen seventy seventy seven, seventy seven against against
- 18:29Speaker 1: Inter that was played at the San Siro. They won
- 18:31Speaker 1: a couple in those years. They won seventy seven, seventy three,
- 18:34Speaker 1: seventy two and sixty seven. So it's just an interesting,
- 18:39Speaker 1: interesting fact. But you know this is this is honestly,
- 18:44Speaker 1: I want to ask Jenny this more because you know
- 18:47Speaker 1: you like talking about this. But now that Bologna has
- 18:50Speaker 1: a trophy, you look at a team like Fiorentina or
- 18:53Speaker 1: even at Tlanta. I know at Talanta they won the
- 18:55Speaker 1: Europa League last year, so they have their trophy. They
- 18:58Speaker 1: have their trophy from this area era. They still haven't
- 19:00Speaker 1: won domestically in this Gasprin Gasprini era. If you're in Tina,
- 19:05Speaker 1: there are always a team that's right there. They played
- 19:07Speaker 1: in a Coppa Italian final recently, when usually lost. They
- 19:12Speaker 1: lost the interer in twenty twenty three, I think exactly.
- 19:19Speaker 1: He lost a few finals. He lost a few finals, lost.
- 19:22Speaker 4: The conference finals, like I mentioned, and then I guess
- 19:24Speaker 4: I called Italia too.
- 19:25Speaker 1: It was it?
- 19:26Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 19:26Speaker 1: And the conference was it two years in a row?
- 19:28Speaker 4: Right or two Yeah?
- 19:31Speaker 1: Last year in a row in a row? Yeah, against
- 19:34Speaker 1: Olympic Olympia, Olympias, Olympias and yeah West last last time, yes,
- 19:40Speaker 1: the year before, yes, right, So he finally broke up
- 19:43Speaker 1: the his his bad luck, but no what it was
- 19:46Speaker 1: gonna ask? Do you think, you know, for for those
- 19:49Speaker 1: teams that aren't, you know, really part of the big
- 19:52Speaker 1: let's say five right now of the U Intern Melan
- 19:56Speaker 1: you know you want to throw a Napoli, Roman and Lazio.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Uh do you think like me?
- 20:02Speaker 3: Essentially?
- 20:03Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 20:05Speaker 1: Say in this case, do you think like Atalanta and
- 20:08Speaker 1: Fiorentina they're looking at this like, hey, guys, let's win.
- 20:11Speaker 1: Let's win something domestically.
- 20:14Speaker 2: I mean it, you just go for whatever you can.
- 20:17Speaker 3: I don't think you you I don't think you particularly
- 20:23Speaker 3: aim for like a specific championship. I think you're just
- 20:26Speaker 3: more on defense of Look we callifed for champions League.
- 20:29Speaker 3: Let's do our best in champions Look we call fight
- 20:31Speaker 3: for Eroopa, let's do our best in Europa. We'realia, let's
- 20:34Speaker 3: push for it. You know, like yes, you know, towards
- 20:36Speaker 3: the end of the year, you know, like youre's realistically,
- 20:38Speaker 3: they're probably thinking like fuck, okay, well we're starting to
- 20:41Speaker 3: stretch ourselves.
- 20:42Speaker 2: Then we have to, uh, you know, think about it.
- 20:45Speaker 3: Do we still make the league push or do we
- 20:47Speaker 3: still make the do we try for the domestic trophy?
- 20:50Speaker 3: At that point, you just go for it. I think
- 20:52Speaker 3: these players are majority of them. I wouldn't say all
- 20:55Speaker 3: because they would be foolish to say all of them,
- 20:57Speaker 3: but majority of them are competitors.
- 20:59Speaker 2: They all want to win something.
- 21:02Speaker 3: They all want something to your name or so or
- 21:04Speaker 3: Seleni was super happy to win his first ever trophy,
- 21:07Speaker 3: you know, first of many.
- 21:10Speaker 5: Well don't uh we've seen but in all in all seriousness,
- 21:21Speaker 5: you're a competitor.
- 21:22Speaker 2: You want to win, no matter what trophy it is,
- 21:23Speaker 2: you go for it.
- 21:24Speaker 3: We talked about him many times the super cop super
- 21:26Speaker 3: COPA was a one off.
- 21:27Speaker 2: You don't care.
- 21:27Speaker 3: You still it's a still a trophy. You still play
- 21:29Speaker 3: for it. You still you still put it in the
- 21:31Speaker 3: trophy case when you win it. You still put it
- 21:32Speaker 3: as an accolade on your Wikipedia page when you win it.
- 21:35Speaker 3: So at that point, you know, it's like you go
- 21:38Speaker 3: for anything. I don't think they purposely, let's say, ship themselves.
- 21:43Speaker 3: In my opinion, I think they're more like okay, like
- 21:46Speaker 3: like Gasperini was probably going like a one by one
- 21:49Speaker 3: basis in the last year's Europa League when you reach
- 21:51Speaker 3: the finals. I'm pretty sure he was like, look, it's
- 21:53Speaker 3: a one off against uh going It's like, yeah, lever
- 22:01Speaker 3: Cuiz is on his crazy and undefeated streak, but it's
- 22:04Speaker 3: like it's just a one off. You know, you're not
- 22:06Speaker 3: thinking about the thirty something games that lever Cuzsin has
- 22:08Speaker 3: played before that you're thinking about, this is a one off.
- 22:10Speaker 3: How do they play? How do I counter it?
- 22:12Speaker 2: And then you go for it?
- 22:13Speaker 3: Yeah, and guess Bardini as much as many people to
- 22:16Speaker 3: like him as a good manager. So he's capable of that.
- 22:19Speaker 3: I Taliano to bring his team to the conference league
- 22:21Speaker 3: finals is a good manager too. Now, yes, you can lose, right,
- 22:24Speaker 3: you could, like there's always gonna be one winner and
- 22:26Speaker 3: one loser. Like you know, Mourinho has lost championship finals
- 22:31Speaker 3: and he's won championship finals.
- 22:32Speaker 2: Do we still say Mourinho's a bad coach?
- 22:34Speaker 3: No, you know Moreno is a phenomenal coach and Anchilotti
- 22:38Speaker 3: throughout the years. You know, like he's tried with teams
- 22:40Speaker 3: and he's failed with teams like that all three it
- 22:42Speaker 3: was sorry five Milan team. You know, they just had
- 22:45Speaker 3: bad luck.
- 22:45Speaker 2: I'm not skiing.
- 22:46Speaker 3: You're not gonna sit down and say like, oh, like
- 22:48Speaker 3: you know, Liverpool was far, far and beyond the better team. No,
- 22:52Speaker 3: it's like it's it's more like you sometimes you win,
- 22:55Speaker 3: sometimes you lose, and sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit exactly.
- 23:00Speaker 4: Sometimes you need the luck, right too, Yeah, I mean
- 23:02Speaker 4: sometimes you just need the luck, and especially in Corpitalia
- 23:04Speaker 4: where you kind of fall and then the bracket and
- 23:07Speaker 4: then like what your opponents are and you know where
- 23:10Speaker 4: those opponents are and there in their respective campaigns. It's
- 23:13Speaker 4: it comes down to sometimes luck too, not saying like
- 23:16Speaker 4: look at Empoly. You know, they went all the way.
- 23:19Speaker 4: They're almost battling regular relegation and they were in what
- 23:22Speaker 4: the semi finals of of of Corpitalia they faced off
- 23:26Speaker 4: against this Bolonia side. So you know, listen, it's it's
- 23:29Speaker 4: it's sometimes that there is a bit of luck. That's
- 23:31Speaker 4: it's involved in these types of things. And you know
- 23:35Speaker 4: Fiordentina losing twint a couple of seasons ago, again they
- 23:38Speaker 4: faced a really good team. They got to a final. Though,
- 23:41Speaker 4: it's it's it's it's something to kind of try to
- 23:43Speaker 4: build on, you know. So I think it's just you know,
- 23:47Speaker 4: even timing, uh as well, on top of everything that
- 23:50Speaker 4: you said, Johnny, and I agree totally, uh, for for
- 23:53Speaker 4: everything that you mentioned. Sometimes it's I think timing and
- 23:56Speaker 4: a bit of luck. And you know, again it's a final.
- 23:59Speaker 4: Anything can happen. We saw it today, anything can happen.
- 24:02Speaker 4: A one nil. This wasn't the two teams like maybe
- 24:07Speaker 4: you always see in in in the final, especially in
- 24:11Speaker 4: recent years, and you know, you know, at the end
- 24:14Speaker 4: of the day, the balls around and this is what happens.
- 24:16Speaker 4: So I think, like I said, timing a bit of luck,
- 24:20Speaker 4: anything can happen in the final, just as to what
- 24:22Speaker 4: you were what you were mentioning, Johnny, and.
- 24:23Speaker 3: I just feel like as if this year's cope Utalitia
- 24:25Speaker 3: had more emphasis on it than previous years. I think
- 24:28Speaker 3: you have to get profitable, both Milan and Bologna for
- 24:31Speaker 3: actually making it a very interesting bout that people actually
- 24:35Speaker 3: wanted to watch. You know.
- 24:36Speaker 4: It's like.
- 24:38Speaker 3: You know, it's it's it's the historic club of Milan
- 24:41Speaker 3: versus and up and coming Bologna, you know, and it
- 24:43Speaker 3: just it demonstrates the prowess of what city has to
- 24:46Speaker 3: offer because you have teams like Bologna, you know, making
- 24:50Speaker 3: these competition finals.
- 24:51Speaker 2: You have teams like Fitantee up for a conference league.
- 24:53Speaker 2: You know, I ton't have to win Europa last year.
- 24:56Speaker 3: You know. It's like like these are the unusual suspects
- 25:00Speaker 3: that are you know, that are making uh these runs,
- 25:03Speaker 3: and it just shows that there's competent in this league.
- 25:06Speaker 3: Now are we gonna say that there's competition for the
- 25:08Speaker 3: scudetto year and you're out now? Really like like there's
- 25:11Speaker 3: there's years where one team just starts off right off
- 25:13Speaker 3: the gate like guns blazing, and it's too far, far
- 25:16Speaker 3: and away, and it's always like a two horse race,
- 25:18Speaker 3: and there's times where it's a three four four horse race.
- 25:20Speaker 3: You know, it's just but everything else that happens in between,
- 25:23Speaker 3: you just want to keep an eye on because you
- 25:25Speaker 3: got crazy things. And this is a more experienced Bologna now,
- 25:29Speaker 3: you know, like this is the team that made the
- 25:30Speaker 3: Champions League this year. They had a crazy run last year,
- 25:33Speaker 3: but they lost Matta, they lost some key pieces, but
- 25:36Speaker 3: you know they still I guess found it within themselves,
- 25:39Speaker 3: like look, we we know what it takes to play
- 25:41Speaker 3: against the bigger clubs, to be with the big boys.
- 25:45Speaker 3: And this just further ads to them saying that, like
- 25:48Speaker 3: you know, they can stay, they can like stay with
- 25:51Speaker 3: the big boys. You know, they could still compete with them.
- 25:53Speaker 3: So I know, in terms of like like standings, it's
- 25:57Speaker 3: it's neck and neck right now. They can still He's
- 26:00Speaker 3: in the Champions League, but you know there's still realistically
- 26:04Speaker 3: in a in a in a position to play in
- 26:05Speaker 3: European competition next year.
- 26:07Speaker 2: Personally, I think that.
- 26:08Speaker 4: Just based off of this win, I think that's what
- 26:09Speaker 4: happens aren't they automatically?
- 26:11Speaker 1: Yeah, e Europe, I think, And Johnny to your point, Uh,
- 26:16Speaker 1: that's kind of also what you know made this game
- 26:18Speaker 1: a bit more interesting. There was a you know, spot
- 26:21Speaker 1: in Europa League on the line, and there's a chance
- 26:23Speaker 1: that both these teams you know, wouldn't have qualified automatically
- 26:27Speaker 1: within the standings.
- 26:28Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that's I think was the silver lining. I
- 26:30Speaker 4: agree with that, like especially from me on because I think,
- 26:34Speaker 4: you know, Bolonnia, if there's one thing you want to
- 26:37Speaker 4: credit Italiano for is what he's been able to do,
- 26:41Speaker 4: not only in just in this game and winning the
- 26:43Speaker 4: trophy today, but what he's been able to do since
- 26:46Speaker 4: he's gotten there, from day one until now. I think
- 26:48Speaker 4: it's been a cumulative uh you know result that he's
- 26:53Speaker 4: been able to do.
- 26:54Speaker 3: Uh.
- 26:54Speaker 4: Like you said, Johnny, the pieces that they lost, we
- 26:56Speaker 4: set it time and time again. Mata out color say,
- 27:00Speaker 4: you know those big dogs last year that brought him
- 27:02Speaker 4: to Champions League and and you know Italiano coming in
- 27:06Speaker 4: and changing his mentality and the way they want to
- 27:08Speaker 4: play and a lot of offense and really highlighting some
- 27:11Speaker 4: of their you know again top players in this current roster,
- 27:15Speaker 4: and you know, fighting on all fronts, winning a trophy
- 27:17Speaker 4: in CLP Italia and and pushing for for another Champions
- 27:21Speaker 4: League campaign next season. You know, at the end they're
- 27:24Speaker 4: going to be in Europe next next year regardless, but
- 27:27Speaker 4: still they're in the mix in that in that race
- 27:29Speaker 4: for top in for that last fourth spot. So if
- 27:32Speaker 4: there's one thing to credit Italiana for, I think it's
- 27:35Speaker 4: just that cumulative uh, you know, results that he's been
- 27:38Speaker 4: able to do so far this season.
- 27:41Speaker 3: I agree, I think he definitely deserves Uh it's some
- 27:46Speaker 3: credit for what he can do with what every team
- 27:47Speaker 3: he's given. Definitely something that you know, that definitely deserves.
- 27:52Speaker 3: Now he deserves a shot at a more bigger club,
- 27:55Speaker 3: you know, like at a club that demands more, because
- 27:59Speaker 3: I feel like he's starting to hit plateau with the
- 28:02Speaker 3: middle tier clubs and now like I want to actually
- 28:04Speaker 3: see it's like it's like Matta where he just jumped
- 28:06Speaker 3: to Uve and it's it was too much from the handle.
- 28:08Speaker 3: Like you know, I think Taliano, you know, for Specia,
- 28:12Speaker 3: then he does it for Fiorentina, and now he's doing
- 28:15Speaker 3: it for Bologna. I think he Taliano deserves a shot
- 28:17Speaker 3: with an upper tier club. You know, like one of
- 28:20Speaker 3: the seven Sisters. Why not, Like especially with the rumors
- 28:24Speaker 3: that event is gonna go after Conte, uh this summer,
- 28:28Speaker 3: Uh be interesting maybe see if if that does happen,
- 28:32Speaker 3: if Conte gets poached, mind you poach the guys, even
- 28:34Speaker 3: Tino threw and through.
- 28:35Speaker 2: It's his club.
- 28:36Speaker 4: He's gonna you.
- 28:37Speaker 3: Know, for him, it's like home, so like it's not
- 28:39Speaker 3: poaching him going home, so to speak. So if he
- 28:41Speaker 3: does end up going home to Juventus, I mean I
- 28:44Speaker 3: wouldn't mind see him Annapoli, I want to see what
- 28:47Speaker 3: I don't want. Wouldn't id seeing Taliano, Napolis, what would happened?
- 28:49Speaker 2: But that's this is just all speculation.
- 28:51Speaker 3: This is just theory.
- 28:53Speaker 4: I think most I think most clubs would would like
- 28:55Speaker 4: to see him, you know, behind the behind their bench. Yeah,
- 28:59Speaker 4: so great, It's it's nothing to go crazy about.
- 29:02Speaker 1: We just need Italiana to coach the Italian national team
- 29:04Speaker 1: one day, like like just the name, no interview, no
- 29:12Speaker 1: interview process, just for the name. Just the name Ancilotti
- 29:17Speaker 1: coach of Brazil. I think it's official now. Yeah, I
- 29:19Speaker 1: know if it's off topic, but I saw that today.
- 29:22Speaker 1: It was a bit not shocked. But you know what.
- 29:24Speaker 1: I finally had to go on. Yeah, the amount of
- 29:27Speaker 1: Brazilians we take, for the amount of Brazilians we take
- 29:29Speaker 1: as players, it's about time they take one of our coaches.
- 29:32Speaker 3: Isn't his I know his wife is from Canada. Isn't
- 29:35Speaker 3: she also like Brazilian descent to or something like that
- 29:37Speaker 3: or something. I don't know that.
- 29:39Speaker 4: I don't know about that. Maybe it could be I
- 29:41Speaker 4: don't know, he's coach.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Besides it being your fiance's team, and now you can
- 29:46Speaker 3: actually support a Bra deal for for Ancelotti, you wanted
- 29:51Speaker 3: to do well too and not Brazil.
- 29:53Speaker 1: This at this point in Brazil and Italy, the national
- 29:55Speaker 1: teams is pretty much brother clubs, the same way you
- 29:57Speaker 1: know Bologna and the impact are. You know, Brazil sends
- 30:01Speaker 1: their players Italy for loan. We send them some coaches
- 30:04Speaker 1: for to refine their their game. But no, it's funny.
- 30:09Speaker 1: But back to city uh school at the race. I
- 30:13Speaker 1: mean we've talked about it's so much, how close it is.
- 30:15Speaker 1: It's really coming down to these last two match days,
- 30:18Speaker 1: mainly mainly because Napoly lost to Genoa or sorry, tied
- 30:22Speaker 1: to Genoa this weekend. To to inter he got the
- 30:26Speaker 1: job done against Torino, so that leaves Inter Lazo. This weekend,
- 30:31Speaker 1: Napoli is playing away at Parma and then on the
- 30:34Speaker 1: last match day Inter travels to Como and Anapoly hostality.
- 30:39Speaker 1: So on paper, all all that Nabally needs to do
- 30:43Speaker 1: is win their last two games. That's all they need
- 30:45Speaker 1: to do, without even thinking about Inter. They're in control
- 30:48Speaker 1: of their own destiny and they have the favorable schedule,
- 30:52Speaker 1: you know, especially the fact that Interest is playing against Latio.
- 30:55Speaker 1: But we know how strong a team Inter is. You know,
- 30:58Speaker 1: it's it especially him at home. For them, it's you know,
- 31:02Speaker 1: it's still three points up up for grabs. But Jenny,
- 31:05Speaker 1: what did you you know, what did you make of
- 31:08Speaker 1: that loss? And you know, at this point, sorry, it feels.
- 31:13Speaker 3: Like a loss for Napoly fans, Yeah for sure.
- 31:15Speaker 1: Yeah, and at this point, like, what do you expect
- 31:17Speaker 1: these last two games?
- 31:19Speaker 2: Well, you can't.
- 31:20Speaker 3: You have to win the games.
- 31:21Speaker 2: You can't draw it.
- 31:23Speaker 3: Enter because even though the head to head is even
- 31:24Speaker 3: with one one one one, uh, it just got the
- 31:28Speaker 3: best goal differential.
- 31:29Speaker 4: I think they put one off.
- 31:31Speaker 3: No, no, I think it's it goes.
- 31:33Speaker 4: To no, no, no, they're playing the play ahead to head.
- 31:37Speaker 1: It would be it would be a final.
- 31:40Speaker 2: It wouldn't be head to head score and then league
- 31:43Speaker 2: overall goal differential.
- 31:44Speaker 1: No straight no if it like the rule is like
- 31:47Speaker 1: a couple of years old. It's if it's tight on points,
- 31:50Speaker 1: no like, no tie breakers, no nothing, just tight on
- 31:52Speaker 1: points between one and two goes to a one game final.
- 31:57Speaker 4: Yeah. Really, Yeah, we spoke to well, I mean, I
- 32:01Speaker 4: mean you weren't there to night, but we spoke to
- 32:03Speaker 4: Peter a couple of weeks ago and we brought that up. Actually,
- 32:05Speaker 4: now that you know that, we're talking about it. But yeah, it's, uh,
- 32:09Speaker 4: it would be a one off against the top two
- 32:12Speaker 4: if they they tet on points.
- 32:13Speaker 3: So well, I mean at that point, just go for wins.
- 32:16Speaker 2: Don't even bother.
- 32:17Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, don't even bother that with that, Yeah, just.
- 32:19Speaker 3: Don't even bother. I don't want to play one off
- 32:21Speaker 3: against intern. I don't. I don't have confidence innopotly being
- 32:23Speaker 3: an intern and one off. But yeah, I know, it's
- 32:27Speaker 3: it's just one of those feelings where it's like, yeah,
- 32:29Speaker 3: not losing control their own destiny, so they're gonna choke it.
- 32:31Speaker 3: It's it's I've seen the song and Dad's before for
- 32:34Speaker 3: Anopoly meet, like it's scudetto runs, you know, trying especially
- 32:38Speaker 3: during the U A Nopoly years, where it's like, you know,
- 32:40Speaker 3: they reach points where they're control their own destiny and
- 32:43Speaker 3: then they fumble it at the end. And I just
- 32:45Speaker 3: feel like something like that is probably gonna happen, especially
- 32:48Speaker 3: with news coming out about like I said about the
- 32:51Speaker 3: whole Conte you eight rumors and stuff. I feel like
- 32:54Speaker 3: it's probably gonna cause a bit of a distraction on
- 32:56Speaker 3: the team. But you have to win it. You Like,
- 33:01Speaker 3: it's you're not gonna get it. You're not gonna get
- 33:03Speaker 3: a chance like this for the next a little while.
- 33:06Speaker 3: I'm not saying this in a way of like you know,
- 33:08Speaker 3: trying to do a reverse jinks. It's more like realistically speaking,
- 33:12Speaker 3: like the stars were once again aligned for this year
- 33:15Speaker 3: like they were a couple of years back, and you
- 33:17Speaker 3: have to capitalize on it because to get back to
- 33:20Speaker 3: this point is gonna take a lot of work, you know,
- 33:24Speaker 3: especially if there's gonna be a restructure happening this summer.
- 33:27Speaker 3: So might as well get the championship while you can
- 33:29Speaker 3: and avoid and like, you know, like if you have
- 33:32Speaker 3: to take a season to restructure at least you won
- 33:34Speaker 3: championship the season before, at least that, you know, Yeah,
- 33:39Speaker 3: that's that's the way I would see it and then
- 33:42Speaker 3: think about champions League and stuff next year.
- 33:44Speaker 1: But no, go for a win.
- 33:47Speaker 3: You have to win.
- 33:48Speaker 2: You have to win these games.
- 33:49Speaker 3: The Genua Annapoli game, you know, was a bit annoying
- 33:53Speaker 3: because Mike Fratma once again phenomenal player, really uh played
- 33:58Speaker 3: very well. His assists like his assistant on the on
- 34:02Speaker 3: the fucking oh my god like goal was just was beautiful, uh,
- 34:07Speaker 3: beautifully timed and everything in Locacu puts it well. Uh
- 34:10Speaker 3: that's but Dodi's goal was nice. That he's getting a
- 34:12Speaker 3: kick in his in a step, which is very good
- 34:14Speaker 3: to see, especially when you're reaching towards the end of
- 34:16Speaker 3: the season, you're making that push. You like to see
- 34:18Speaker 3: the secondary scoring. Uh, you know, come up. This game
- 34:22Speaker 3: was just poor defending. I think that a lot of
- 34:25Speaker 3: the general goals are just from attributed to poor defending.
- 34:28Speaker 3: Good good to good to their offense for getting into
- 34:30Speaker 3: the spots they needed to to to create to capitalize
- 34:33Speaker 3: on those opportunities. But you know, the first goal, you know,
- 34:36Speaker 3: he shouldn't have been alone. The Lorenzo really left his
- 34:39Speaker 3: man on his own.
- 34:40Speaker 2: And this is coming a week after I said that.
- 34:41Speaker 3: You know, maybe I think he's getting back into the
- 34:43Speaker 3: groove and then he has a you know, a blunder
- 34:45Speaker 3: like that. You know, you lose, you lose twice in
- 34:48Speaker 3: the air, and it's just the second one. I kind
- 34:51Speaker 3: of like the first one, I don't blame on Mahrek
- 34:54Speaker 3: as the guy was alone. The second one, like, I
- 34:56Speaker 3: think there was enough distance from Mahre to like, you know,
- 34:59Speaker 3: be able to stop it. I think his reaction was
- 35:02Speaker 3: just a little bit poor on that. But you know,
- 35:05Speaker 3: it's like it's easy to blame the keeper, like in
- 35:08Speaker 3: any type of loss, but I'm not saying it's complete
- 35:10Speaker 3: as well. This is also defending. It's und defending too,
- 35:12Speaker 3: Like it's defense was a little less much to be desired.
- 35:16Speaker 3: So look, if you're gonna have a blunder, at least
- 35:19Speaker 3: a blunder turned into a draw. It should have been
- 35:21Speaker 3: a win. But this at least it was a draw.
- 35:23Speaker 1: It could have been worse.
- 35:23Speaker 3: It could have been a loss. Now you're one point
- 35:28Speaker 3: ahead of inter and it's not a cushion. That's not
- 35:31Speaker 3: a cushion at all. If you would have won this game,
- 35:35Speaker 3: you would have been still points still three points ahead,
- 35:39Speaker 3: and that kind of gives you a little bit of
- 35:40Speaker 3: breathing room because then at that point you just need
- 35:43Speaker 3: to get four out of the next six points to
- 35:46Speaker 3: you know, to instead of making it a six out
- 35:48Speaker 3: of six, Like four out of six is not comfortable
- 35:51Speaker 3: because because if inter wins both their games, they overtake
- 35:55Speaker 3: the lead. You need to get six out of six's
- 35:58Speaker 3: that's the only option. So this draw basically major last
- 36:01Speaker 3: two games of six out of six instead of before
- 36:03Speaker 3: out of six, unless by some divine intervention inter fumble
- 36:08Speaker 3: points as well.
- 36:10Speaker 2: I don't.
- 36:12Speaker 3: It couldn't mean it could happen because like because on
- 36:15Speaker 3: the in and about what two weeks and a half,
- 36:18Speaker 3: they have to play a Champions League final, you know, like, uh,
- 36:22Speaker 3: you know, now the players going to cash in really
- 36:24Speaker 3: hard to win the league title week uh, Like, especially
- 36:28Speaker 3: in the lot when the last game is about a
- 36:30Speaker 3: week before the Champions League final. I mean, yes, they're
- 36:34Speaker 3: obviously gonna do it, but you know your risking injuries
- 36:36Speaker 3: that way, especially before one of the biggest trophies you
- 36:38Speaker 3: can win in your career. So it's it's a lot
- 36:42Speaker 3: of eyes are gonna be watching this and uh, and
- 36:44Speaker 3: it's gonna feel like when Inter and Milan we're playing
- 36:48Speaker 3: for the Schooldetto on the last day a few years back.
- 36:50Speaker 3: I think it's gonna come down like that, where a
- 36:52Speaker 3: lot of people can be scoreboard watching on the last
- 36:53Speaker 3: match day just to see who's gonna be the uh
- 36:57Speaker 3: Squodetta winner.
- 36:58Speaker 2: And I like that. I like it.
- 36:59Speaker 3: It's exciting no matter what the outcome is. You know,
- 37:02Speaker 3: It's like it's like how many leagues can say that
- 37:05Speaker 3: the league winner was determined on the actual last day.
- 37:08Speaker 3: You know, it just makes it more of a storybook ending.
- 37:10Speaker 3: It makes it more excitement. It may it gives them
- 37:13Speaker 3: more excitement. It's uh. I think I think it shows
- 37:17Speaker 3: that the league is doing very well.
- 37:19Speaker 4: It keeps even neutrals like glued or just like not
- 37:23Speaker 4: hardcore fans like glue to the league till the last day,
- 37:25Speaker 4: right like when when there's these blowouts in leagues where again, okay,
- 37:29Speaker 4: we were guilty of that in these last two years
- 37:31Speaker 4: and you know with intern and Monopoly kind of running
- 37:33Speaker 4: away with the Companianato, but when it comes down to
- 37:36Speaker 4: the last you know, even few match days, it keeps
- 37:38Speaker 4: even just the general fan glued to their glued to
- 37:41Speaker 4: the TV until the very end, and at the end
- 37:43Speaker 4: of the day, it's it's it's good for for our products.
- 37:46Speaker 4: So you know, as much as it's stressful, don't get
- 37:49Speaker 4: me wrong, that was stressful a couple of years ago.
- 37:52Speaker 4: Uh when mean when it was with melon, But no,
- 37:56Speaker 4: I agree with you said, Jenny. It's it's it's in
- 37:58Speaker 4: Knopoly's hands and and if even it's even in Inter's
- 38:02Speaker 4: hands too, right, Like, it's in both their hands. So
- 38:05Speaker 4: if anything doesn't go their way either or whatever side,
- 38:09Speaker 4: there's only them to blame. There's nobody else to blame
- 38:12Speaker 4: but themselves. So you kind of want to have that,
- 38:15Speaker 4: You kind of want to be able to control your
- 38:16Speaker 4: own destiny and instead of you know, schedule watch or
- 38:20Speaker 4: match watch and or score watch and all that stuff.
- 38:22Speaker 4: But it's it's gonna come down to the end, and
- 38:26Speaker 4: even just not only the the scudetto you know, one two,
- 38:31Speaker 4: but even who's gonna get that fourth spot is going
- 38:33Speaker 4: to come down to the wire too. There's, like we
- 38:35Speaker 4: said earlier just a bit before, you know, there's so
- 38:37Speaker 4: many teams, you know, fighting for just that last fourth
- 38:40Speaker 4: spot because.
- 38:40Speaker 1: We already know.
- 38:41Speaker 4: The top three are already caquinched for for Champions League
- 38:45Speaker 4: next season. It's really only that fourth spot with I
- 38:48Speaker 4: believe you know, four or five teams you know, gunning
- 38:51Speaker 4: for it so to match his left. I think it's
- 38:54Speaker 4: very exciting on all fronts and that's kind of what
- 38:57Speaker 4: we like to have.
- 38:59Speaker 1: And yeah, uh yeah, I was gonna bring that up
- 39:04Speaker 1: next because uh Atalanta clinched uh the third spot this
- 39:09Speaker 1: past weekend. I'm drying a blank. Who did they? It
- 39:14Speaker 1: was a Roma or of course, of course they made
- 39:16Speaker 1: Roma to one. That was Roma's first lost and was
- 39:18Speaker 1: it nineteen games chiny yep, it was eighteen nineteen games nineteen.
- 39:23Speaker 1: So you've got a Roman Roman used to pope coming
- 39:26Speaker 1: in and they lose, and the Pope looks like Claudia
- 39:31Speaker 1: Renieri like, come on, Johnny, they need to win that one.
- 39:34Speaker 3: I know, I know it's gonna I saw a funny
- 39:38Speaker 3: tweet about this game where it's like at Talanta's giving
- 39:40Speaker 3: up Brodan Christante and they've been made Champions League ever
- 39:43Speaker 3: since he's done that, and ever since Roma received Brian Christante,
- 39:46Speaker 3: they haven't made Champions League. And I'm just there like hmm,
- 39:49Speaker 3: I'm just kidding.
- 39:51Speaker 2: Uh, thumbs up.
- 39:54Speaker 4: Always the thumbs up, man, This always gives me the
- 39:56Speaker 4: thumbs up.
- 39:58Speaker 3: I don't know what my camera, doesn't it I don't
- 40:01Speaker 3: have an iPhone. Uh yeah, this game, you know what,
- 40:06Speaker 3: at least it's the Atlanta They were a strong team.
- 40:09Speaker 2: You know, you can't win the mall.
- 40:11Speaker 3: This was a great run. Now you just have to
- 40:13Speaker 3: see how you bounce back from this. That's that's what
- 40:16Speaker 3: I'm worried about, the fact that you got yourself back
- 40:20Speaker 3: into a Champions League spots discussion when I totally believed
- 40:23Speaker 3: was out the window right before the winner break, you know,
- 40:25Speaker 3: like I was like, you know, like now that you're
- 40:28Speaker 3: actually saying that there's a possibility to finished fourth, you know, like, yeah,
- 40:32Speaker 3: you know what, Fuck yeah, let's go for it. You
- 40:33Speaker 3: know So, I honestly like, let's see what you do
- 40:40Speaker 3: next game. Let's see the response from the players. Let's
- 40:42Speaker 3: see what they can do, they can do deep down
- 40:45Speaker 3: amongst themselves, and see what they're capable of. This game,
- 40:49Speaker 3: particularly was just Atlanta just played, you know, better than
- 40:54Speaker 3: Roma did. You could tell guys like this is Gasperini's
- 40:58Speaker 3: like experienced squad versus Vane. You know, you know, like
- 41:01Speaker 3: hope and a prayer and power of friendship. You know,
- 41:04Speaker 3: in reality, the more structured system is gonna win versus uh,
- 41:09Speaker 3: you know.
- 41:11Speaker 1: Type of thing.
- 41:14Speaker 3: No, I love I love Claudio. This team could do it,
- 41:21Speaker 3: but if they do, I don't have faith in ownership
- 41:24Speaker 3: to prepare them for that type of competition. They can
- 41:29Speaker 3: make Champions League, but they can qualify for it, but
- 41:31Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be too excited for it, because yeah,
- 41:34Speaker 3: Champions League is gonna equal more revenue, sure, and then
- 41:37Speaker 3: you can dunk all Lazio for you know, like you know,
- 41:39Speaker 3: making Champions League and you know, being finishing better than them.
- 41:42Speaker 3: But but uh, why make it if you're just gonna
- 41:46Speaker 3: embarrass yourself unless you you know, ownerships like, Okay, let's
- 41:51Speaker 3: actually structure this team for the competition, so you know,
- 41:56Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm not too bitter about this loss. I'm
- 42:01Speaker 3: just more focused, like Napoli, I'm more focused on the
- 42:04Speaker 3: next games coming up. I'm like, Okay, this result happened,
- 42:06Speaker 3: Let's not lurk on it. Let's not you know, you know,
- 42:10Speaker 3: talk about it too much and think about it too much.
- 42:12Speaker 3: Just drop it.
- 42:12Speaker 2: Be a goldfish.
- 42:13Speaker 3: Like, like again, Ted Lasso, just just be a goldfish,
- 42:17Speaker 3: move on to the next, forget about it, and move
- 42:20Speaker 3: on to the next. I think that and that's what
- 42:21Speaker 3: Roma needs to do, especially if they're focusing on trying
- 42:24Speaker 3: to make the top fourth spot.
- 42:27Speaker 2: Their upcoming games.
- 42:27Speaker 3: Actually, I don't know. Milan, Yeah, we talked about Milan
- 42:30Speaker 3: and then Toy Okay, So it's they're tough games. They're
- 42:33Speaker 3: very tough games, very very tough game.
- 42:35Speaker 4: So especially especially the next game, my two teams kind
- 42:37Speaker 4: of coming off a rebound and trying to rebound from
- 42:40Speaker 4: the results, it should be interesting.
- 42:43Speaker 3: Yep, agreed, So let's see what they can do.
- 42:48Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you've a another another draw. I think there
- 42:52Speaker 1: are at sixteen draws this season. Crucial again, crucial points shop.
- 43:00Speaker 1: They could have been uh, three points up both both
- 43:04Speaker 1: they the driver's seat, I believe exactly. They could have
- 43:08Speaker 1: been three points out both on Latto and Roma heading
- 43:11Speaker 1: heading into these two last matches. They still they still
- 43:15Speaker 1: are in the driver's seat. If they win their last
- 43:17Speaker 1: two games against un and they said Gallagery, they qualify.
- 43:19Speaker 1: But as it stands right now, they didn't. They need
- 43:22Speaker 1: all six points because they're tied with Latto, and I'm
- 43:26Speaker 1: guessing they're ahead on tiebreaker because I think they beat
- 43:29Speaker 1: them in the first game. I think, or it could
- 43:31Speaker 1: be gold differential. I forget. I think they played in October.
- 43:35Speaker 1: So it's been a long time. Just one of those games.
- 43:38Speaker 1: Unfortunate I was only able to watch the first half.
- 43:41Speaker 1: Uh went out for lunch with my family for celebrating
- 43:44Speaker 1: Mother's Day on Saturday instead, so I missed the second half.
- 43:48Speaker 1: And good thing, I did? You know? Classic this? It
- 43:54Speaker 1: feels like I've been seeing it every week story of
- 43:56Speaker 1: youve this season, just go up one nothing, get the
- 44:00Speaker 1: get the hopes up, and then uh, let the other
- 44:03Speaker 1: team score. And this time it was what ninety third,
- 44:06Speaker 1: ninety six minute from this Vosino terrible defending, got to
- 44:10Speaker 1: kind of flopping around on the cross there. Uh you know,
- 44:14Speaker 1: you know, rebound rate in front for Vessino. Uh yeah, frustrating,
- 44:20Speaker 1: but you know it feels like you've made there. They're
- 44:25Speaker 1: gonna just squeak into the Champions League because that's the
- 44:28Speaker 1: way the season is going right now, where they've had
- 44:32Speaker 1: a lot of draws, no wins. No you know, you know,
- 44:35Speaker 1: these games are not winning, they're not losing. These games,
- 44:37Speaker 1: it's like it's it's okay, it's a draw. So that's
- 44:40Speaker 1: what that's what it feels like. You've a seasons going,
- 44:42Speaker 1: it's like, oh, it's okay, we'll sneak into fourth place
- 44:44Speaker 1: in the Champions League. Almost like the Purelus season where
- 44:48Speaker 1: they snuck on snunk in on the last match and
- 44:50Speaker 1: they had to they had to screenwatch. I forget who
- 44:53Speaker 1: they were watching on the last match, but they beat
- 44:55Speaker 1: Bologna on that I forget. I honestly forget who who
- 44:58Speaker 1: it was. It's been a while. But uh yeah, you know,
- 45:04Speaker 1: considering their opponents, I think you has to get six
- 45:07Speaker 1: points if oh sorry Vnetzia Undines and Vanetzi, I said, cality,
- 45:13Speaker 1: but they played Events on the last matchday team uh
- 45:16Speaker 1: in a relegation battle right now and then a mid
- 45:19Speaker 1: table team, so they have to get six points right now.
- 45:23Speaker 1: You know, as you've a fan, we're also torn because
- 45:25Speaker 1: you see lots of pling Inter this weekend. On one hand,
- 45:27Speaker 1: you don't want Enter to win the school that though,
- 45:30Speaker 1: so you're cheering for lots of But then on the
- 45:32Speaker 1: other hand, you don't want lots of to get points,
- 45:34Speaker 1: so you're a cheer for Inter but I think maybe
- 45:37Speaker 1: a draw would be nice if if not, if not,
- 45:41Speaker 1: both teams lose. No, we have to put ourselves interests first.
- 45:45Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm saying this, but I hope interwins.
- 45:48Speaker 4: Crazy wow crazy?
- 45:53Speaker 1: Uh yeah yeah yeah, we I mean we talked about
- 45:57Speaker 1: our teams. As I said, the relegation battle. I think, yeah,
- 46:02Speaker 1: obviously it's official, months is going down, but it's tied
- 46:04Speaker 1: between emplely Le Vanezia, uh nine points, Parma, yeah, Parma safe.
- 46:11Speaker 1: So it's three teams the last two match days, Parma safe.
- 46:17Speaker 4: I thought they were.
- 46:18Speaker 1: Parma safe because they're four point Oh no, sorry, no, sorry,
- 46:21Speaker 1: we have two games.
- 46:22Speaker 4: Left exactly thirty three even Kalid.
- 46:28Speaker 1: Even Kalid and Verona they're technically not but you know,
- 46:32Speaker 1: the chances of them going down are are very are
- 46:35Speaker 1: very low. But was it so Vanezia, Vanezia and Kali
- 46:41Speaker 1: actually played each other this weekend? Letcha will play uh
- 46:47Speaker 1: to Reno and then who else did against Manza? So
- 46:54Speaker 1: Amply they're probably the favorites in that game. And then
- 46:57Speaker 1: on the last match day Emplely I against Verona and
- 47:03Speaker 1: nmply they're sorry, Metality they're away Anompoly. But again they're
- 47:07Speaker 1: a team that I think they'll only need one or
- 47:10Speaker 1: two points in these last two games and then Venetsia
- 47:13Speaker 1: a wait wait home to juve uh and let you away. Also,
- 47:18Speaker 1: so some tough games for the relegation battle. This is
- 47:21Speaker 1: gonna be the side on the last day. I don't
- 47:24Speaker 1: know if you guys think there's a team that is
- 47:27Speaker 1: more deserving to stay up than the others.
- 47:29Speaker 3: I don't know about team, but Pederico Pascoto better stay
- 47:33Speaker 3: up it goes down. Please, somebody pick up my center back. Please,
- 47:38Speaker 3: for the love of God, this guy needs to stay
- 47:41Speaker 3: in that. I feel like he's an unarrated CB that
- 47:45Speaker 3: I think could do well for a national team in
- 47:47Speaker 3: the future. And I think he needs to keep on
- 47:49Speaker 3: playing with competitive players. I'm not saying as like as
- 47:54Speaker 3: a starting CB, but like as like as a third
- 47:57Speaker 3: like as a second string center back, you know, like
- 47:59Speaker 3: I I think he definitely can't like I could.
- 48:04Speaker 4: I have work to do in my backyard. Maybell grab
- 48:06Speaker 4: Basco to come to go back into their roots and
- 48:10Speaker 4: come and fix my backyard.
- 48:12Speaker 1: If you will fix we'll fix your Yeah, the.
- 48:17Speaker 4: Bricks, whatever they can do there and Bascarotto, you can
- 48:20Speaker 4: start up by you know, we're in the back.
- 48:24Speaker 1: That he mean just me, I thought this guy was
- 48:28Speaker 1: like thirty five years.
- 48:29Speaker 4: Old with the muscles there with he's twenty. He's got
- 48:32Speaker 4: the farm strength.
- 48:34Speaker 3: I honestly, but but but uh.
- 48:37Speaker 4: You honestly believe he's a he's a national team point Johnny.
- 48:40Speaker 3: I think I think he's like a good like like
- 48:42Speaker 3: backup CD. I think he I think he is. I'm
- 48:44Speaker 3: not saying, I just want to clarify. I don't think
- 48:47Speaker 3: he's the starting CV. Far from it. Sure, sure, but
- 48:50Speaker 3: but if you need a if you need a center
- 48:52Speaker 3: back to you know, be secured.
- 48:56Speaker 2: They can still provide some offense in a way.
- 49:00Speaker 3: And also you know, hold the line in a point
- 49:03Speaker 3: where it's like let's say God forbid, you know you're
- 49:05Speaker 3: like you have a CB go down in the in
- 49:07Speaker 3: the in the World Cup or or you know, euro Cup.
- 49:10Speaker 3: You know, I think I would have confidence in bestket
- 49:12Speaker 3: Alto taking that spot. He's a guy that can have
- 49:15Speaker 3: faith and trust, trust and faith in you know, like
- 49:17Speaker 3: I that's that's why. But I just he's it's like
- 49:20Speaker 3: see me, you know, see me way back when I'm
- 49:21Speaker 3: just saying for the national team that I'm talking about, Like,
- 49:23Speaker 3: see me was a player that should have been Yeah,
- 49:26Speaker 3: you should have been kept up in ceti Ah, but
- 49:28Speaker 3: it wasn't. He decided to stay, you know, like something
- 49:30Speaker 3: like that where it's like there's there's players that you know, fine,
- 49:35Speaker 3: they want to stick with their clubs. When they go
- 49:37Speaker 3: down to study upbeat, they try to bring him back
- 49:38Speaker 3: up like BADDI Sure, I agree, that's I understand, that's fine, But.
- 49:44Speaker 2: I feel like you're you're losing out on.
- 49:49Speaker 3: Something decent that you can get for a very cheap price, uh,
- 49:54Speaker 3: in a player like basket Alto. Like so if Lea
- 49:56Speaker 3: goes down, you know, maybe you might stick around and
- 49:59Speaker 3: you might help them. I'm back at might qualify again
- 50:01Speaker 3: next year, but if if.
- 50:04Speaker 2: Not, I really do think maybe a team should make a.
- 50:07Speaker 3: Push for him.
- 50:08Speaker 4: It would be nice interesting, I think. I don't know.
- 50:10Speaker 4: I think because it's Jump Paulo who's there as their mind,
- 50:14Speaker 4: I don't I don't put the trust in Jump Paulo
- 50:17Speaker 4: at all. I again, I don't want to crush that
- 50:20Speaker 4: bascuital to a dream and let your dream, But I
- 50:23Speaker 4: don't know. I could I probably see them going down,
- 50:27Speaker 4: and I think then it would be a toss up
- 50:29Speaker 4: for me between Ampo and Vanezia. But I don't know,
- 50:35Speaker 4: uh honestly, it probably will stay the same the way
- 50:39Speaker 4: it is. If I want to put some spice on
- 50:42Speaker 4: for that on for that pick, maybe I would say
- 50:44Speaker 4: Vanetsa goes down and Police miraculously stays up. Especially, I
- 50:47Speaker 4: think this game, like you said, against Man's another point
- 50:49Speaker 4: this week, I think is the big pincher they win.
- 50:52Speaker 4: That they're up to thirty one points, I believe, and
- 50:56Speaker 4: then it's all really to play for him that last
- 50:57Speaker 4: match day. And you know, with Vanessa pointing against you,
- 51:00Speaker 4: who knows they can maybe shocked, but if that doesn't
- 51:03Speaker 4: go their way, you know they can go they can
- 51:06Speaker 4: potentially go down as well. So you know, we already
- 51:10Speaker 4: know who's coming up to the teams sorry that are
- 51:11Speaker 4: coming up with Sasuo and Pisa that that are coming up,
- 51:16Speaker 4: which you know, congrats to them too, that that are
- 51:18Speaker 4: making the jump.
- 51:19Speaker 3: Uh to uh.
- 51:21Speaker 4: The infamous CIA playoff is is what everybody has their
- 51:25Speaker 4: eyes on for for that last and final spot to
- 51:28Speaker 4: come up. But yeah, I think just like the like
- 51:32Speaker 4: we said earlier, just like the scudetto you know, battle
- 51:35Speaker 4: between the top four race that the race for for
- 51:39Speaker 4: European football. The relegation race is going to be or battle, sorry,
- 51:44Speaker 4: is going to be the you know, the the same
- 51:46Speaker 4: type of same type of thing. In my opinion, it's
- 51:48Speaker 4: going to come down to the end. And you know what,
- 51:52Speaker 4: I don't think any you said earlier, Nick, your question,
- 51:55Speaker 4: does any team really deserve to stay up? I don't
- 51:58Speaker 4: know they're in that spot for and I guess right,
- 52:00Speaker 4: so I don't know if any team really deserves it
- 52:02Speaker 4: quote unquote, but I guess maybe just for the for
- 52:07Speaker 4: the vibes. A lot of people probably don't want to say,
- 52:09Speaker 4: you know, Vanza stays up and and all that, just
- 52:12Speaker 4: you know the Venetian vibe there. But I don't know
- 52:15Speaker 4: they they're they're they're kind of slipping off a bit.
- 52:17Speaker 4: And you know, they had a great result this weekend
- 52:20Speaker 4: against f Vierdentina, which was huge. Don't get me wrong
- 52:22Speaker 4: with the two to one win against Virdentina. But you know,
- 52:26Speaker 4: these teams and the last two matches that they keep
- 52:28Speaker 4: you know, shooting themselves in the foot, they're only gonna have,
- 52:30Speaker 4: you know, worser consequences to come and going down the
- 52:33Speaker 4: City and B. So we'll see, but I think I
- 52:38Speaker 4: guess if we're betting people, it probably stay the way
- 52:40Speaker 4: it is with Letcha Amply and obviously mons are going down.
- 52:45Speaker 4: But I wouldn't be surprised if there's a one shake
- 52:49Speaker 4: up in that in that in that mix as well,
- 52:51Speaker 4: if it be like you said, like we said a
- 52:53Speaker 4: Poduma or Venetzia and stuff like that. But I think
- 52:58Speaker 4: the Parma and Venezze vibes are too high to not
- 53:00Speaker 4: wanting them to go down, so it'll probably say the
- 53:03Speaker 4: way it is.
- 53:04Speaker 1: I have a bit of a soft tape for Vanessa
- 53:06Speaker 1: after a couple of years ago, Uh, I don't know,
- 53:09Speaker 1: they're ad Min their Twitter and Min uh tried to
- 53:13Speaker 1: start show with me on Twitter. I forget what it was, honestly,
- 53:15Speaker 1: I forget what it was. Oh, I remember that it's
- 53:18Speaker 1: like two three years ago. It was something I think
- 53:20Speaker 1: I called them like a city at B team and
- 53:22Speaker 1: then the the Edmin didn't like it or something I
- 53:25Speaker 1: forget and then they blocked me. So I don't I
- 53:27Speaker 1: can't even follow Vanessa on on Twitter, so I have
- 53:30Speaker 1: a bit of a soft tape for them. Uh, let
- 53:33Speaker 1: you want them to stay up just for the Southern representation,
- 53:37Speaker 1: but in reality, none of these teams, I mean, we
- 53:39Speaker 1: should be cutting the league's eighteen teams.
- 53:41Speaker 4: Let's you know, fair enough.
- 53:45Speaker 1: You know, so it's interesting, but actually if the the eighteenth,
- 53:53Speaker 1: seventeenth and eighteenth place teams tying points, there's actually a
- 53:57Speaker 1: one game playoff similar to what would happen. First second,
- 54:00Speaker 1: we did see that a couple of years ago Spetza
- 54:03Speaker 1: and Hellas Verona that of Verona one. So I feel like,
- 54:08Speaker 1: you know, considering there's two teams twenty eight points, one
- 54:10Speaker 1: team and twenty nine points, we might see this. I
- 54:13Speaker 1: don't know what would happen if all three teams tie points.
- 54:16Speaker 1: I don't know if the league has a rulebook for that.
- 54:20Speaker 4: They probably don't know. In the city, they probably don't know.
- 54:22Speaker 1: There's gonna it's gonna be a They're gonna fot coin,
- 54:25Speaker 1: flip a coin. They're gonna go into a instead of
- 54:28Speaker 1: a instead of a papal conclave, it's gonna be a
- 54:30Speaker 1: city a conclave. All the owners vote who.
- 54:33Speaker 4: Stays they're gonna stay, Where they're gonna stay a COVID channel,
- 54:38Speaker 4: fuck where they're gonna.
- 54:39Speaker 1: Stay exactly, but no, yeah, seriously, all yeah, none of
- 54:45Speaker 1: these teams are are any good. But you know, considering
- 54:47Speaker 1: the kality and Parma above, you know, I think they
- 54:50Speaker 1: are safe. You know, considering the points have parmas a team.
- 54:55Speaker 1: I do have a soft spot a soft spot for
- 54:59Speaker 1: just because of the history. You know, you guys remember, yeah,
- 55:03Speaker 1: you know, a couple of years ago where they were
- 55:05Speaker 1: a decent team and they almost fought for a European spot.
- 55:08Speaker 1: You know, when they came back in the city. Obviously
- 55:10Speaker 1: they haven't been the same, but you know, for sure
- 55:12Speaker 1: there's a lot of history there. Uh so, obviously a
- 55:15Speaker 1: lot left to be played for in the city and
- 55:18Speaker 1: these last two match fays. Unless you guys have anything
- 55:22Speaker 1: else you wanted to bring up. Oh actually I did,
- 55:24Speaker 1: I did want to actually bring up. I just looked
- 55:27Speaker 1: at the City of the playoffs, so we said it's
- 55:30Speaker 1: a soul and piece of the finished one too in
- 55:32Speaker 1: the league, so they're guaranteed to come back up. But
- 55:34Speaker 1: City of B playoffs, it's interesting. We got Yu Stabia
- 55:38Speaker 1: against Palermo, two Southern two Southern teams got Cantzato and Chisea,
- 55:43Speaker 1: so Contanzada. Obviously the Southern team, and then you got
- 55:45Speaker 1: spets and Crimin and so a couple of Southern representation
- 55:48Speaker 1: in this one, including Stabia who I know, Adrian. I
- 55:51Speaker 1: think it's your uncle his family. Yeah, there you go.
- 55:57Speaker 1: And you know me, as I have Sicilian, I guess
- 56:01Speaker 1: you could say Palermo, you know, represents uh, you know,
- 56:04Speaker 1: the island, even though I wouldn't say a cheer for Palermo,
- 56:07Speaker 1: you know, being my family's not exactly from there, but
- 56:10Speaker 1: it would be nice to have the Sicilian representation back
- 56:13Speaker 1: in the city. I don't I don't see them. I
- 56:15Speaker 1: think they've had They've had a bit of a rocky season,
- 56:18Speaker 1: you know. I keep up a bit with thanks to
- 56:21Speaker 1: Sicilian football.
- 56:22Speaker 4: On on Instagram. Yeah yeah, and so I see I see.
- 56:25Speaker 1: The results exactly, I see the results. But yeah, it'll
- 56:31Speaker 1: be interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if one of the
- 56:33Speaker 1: you know, the teams who have a buy right now,
- 56:35Speaker 1: whether Kriminezer or Spetia, they come back up. These are
- 56:38Speaker 1: two teams we saw recently, but I think you've Sabia
- 56:41Speaker 1: would be cool, just another you know, another Southern team.
- 56:44Speaker 1: I'm sure they have die hard fans and it would
- 56:46Speaker 1: be it would be amazing for a U a Uvea
- 56:49Speaker 1: Sabbia matchup.
- 56:51Speaker 4: It's crazy because the YUV Stabia fans are are insane.
- 56:55Speaker 3: Uh.
- 56:55Speaker 4: You know, my uncle's one of my uncle's relatives. His
- 57:00Speaker 4: actually no sorry signs, it's his. It's his cousin's daughter.
- 57:04Speaker 4: She's getting married soon, Anna to to her fiance Ja
- 57:08Speaker 4: Luka die hard fine, Diard Fine. I see his post,
- 57:12Speaker 4: I see his Instagram all the time. He's in the
- 57:14Speaker 4: Court Ofva. They're singing, they're they're just die hard fans,
- 57:17Speaker 4: and you know, I think it would be interesting. I
- 57:19Speaker 4: think it'd be nice like to see more Southern representation,
- 57:23Speaker 4: uh in the city as you know, with us coming up,
- 57:27Speaker 4: you know, being you know from you know, Southern descent,
- 57:29Speaker 4: it's always it's always you know, prideful and to have
- 57:33Speaker 4: that that representation in the in the highest league in
- 57:37Speaker 4: the country, being the city, so you know, fortnit suit,
- 57:42Speaker 4: I guess is what we can really say for for
- 57:44Speaker 4: for the city plays when does it does it started
- 57:46Speaker 4: yet or when does it start?
- 57:48Speaker 1: Saturday?
- 57:48Speaker 4: Starts Saturday, so whatever whatever it is, hopefully it's a
- 57:52Speaker 4: Southern team that comes up and because you know, it's
- 57:57Speaker 4: it's it's always the North I guess I don't know
- 57:59Speaker 4: what else to say where ted a heart, I guess
- 58:01Speaker 4: we can say. But another another crazy thing is is
- 58:08Speaker 4: Somedoria going down to Chia. We spoke a bit about
- 58:10Speaker 4: it on off air before coming on here, but some
- 58:13Speaker 4: Dooria down to city at Chi is pretty crazy. I
- 58:16Speaker 4: don't I don't know if so any Tana was in
- 58:18Speaker 4: that mix too, or they were bubbling around the drop
- 58:22Speaker 4: zone too, But yeah, Sadoria from you know, Conston Sadia team.
- 58:30Speaker 4: I think they won the league win and ninety one
- 58:32Speaker 4: was it, or they won and I've seen somewhere a
- 58:35Speaker 4: stat again escapes me if that was the case, and
- 58:38Speaker 4: my my, my Sedia Champions memories kind of going a
- 58:43Speaker 4: bit blank here, but I think they won a ninety one.
- 58:45Speaker 4: Now they're in twenty twenty five, they'll be going down
- 58:47Speaker 4: to City of Chi, So just a crazy for me,
- 58:52Speaker 4: just a crazy thing. We thought that, you know, the
- 58:54Speaker 4: shake up and going down to b was gonna be
- 58:56Speaker 4: a wake up call for some Doya. I remember what
- 58:59Speaker 4: we kind of spoke about that in the past, similar
- 59:01Speaker 4: to how it was for Genua when they went down,
- 59:03Speaker 4: they came back up, and now they're you know, still
- 59:06Speaker 4: going back in the the middle of the pack club
- 59:10Speaker 4: by Sdodia just complete office opposite. What a downfall for
- 59:14Speaker 4: me going down to chi is It's just crazy. So
- 59:18Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys saw that as well,
- 59:20Speaker 4: but for me it was just eye opening. Yeah.
- 59:22Speaker 1: And and so Settler in Anitana and frozen there they
- 59:26Speaker 1: actually playing a playoff, Okay, so that's what it is.
- 59:29Speaker 1: One team stays so again, two teams that were recently
- 59:33Speaker 1: in Sidiya.
- 59:35Speaker 4: Exactly within the last two years.
- 59:37Speaker 1: And yeah, even Brescia they tied on points with with
- 59:41Speaker 1: Rosy and but you know they're they're safe, another recent
- 59:45Speaker 1: city team. So and you know, anything could happen, especially
- 59:48Speaker 1: with these teams where they don't have a lot of money.
- 59:50Speaker 1: You know, you can have a good young player one year,
- 59:53Speaker 1: you sell them off, sell off another player, your team's
- 59:57Speaker 1: kind of torn apart, go out to city tie the
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: year after. So uh, that's the time football for you.
- 1:00:04Speaker 4: One thing I'm curious to me cool seeing pizza in Sadiyah.
- 1:00:08Speaker 4: I think just where if if you've seen the pictures online,
- 1:00:12Speaker 4: I'm sure you know many people listening have seen the
- 1:00:14Speaker 4: pictures online. Where their stadium is. It's right very close
- 1:00:18Speaker 4: to thee our PISA, So I know that's going to
- 1:00:20Speaker 4: be a big emphasis when when Pisa is back in
- 1:00:23Speaker 4: Sadia next year, the post are going to be absurd
- 1:00:26Speaker 4: every every week kind of thing. But you know, a
- 1:00:29Speaker 4: team that kind of and and these teams are kind
- 1:00:32Speaker 4: to go up and down and or or come up,
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: and you you want to try to stay up with
- 1:00:36Speaker 4: some ones that do it for a couple of seasons
- 1:00:38Speaker 4: and now they're going back down. You know, part of
- 1:00:42Speaker 4: my the you know the same thing from bankruptcy, bankruptcy
- 1:00:45Speaker 4: up to being now back in Saraya uh for for
- 1:00:48Speaker 4: a few seasons in a row. But Como Johnny's Como
- 1:00:54Speaker 4: currently in tenth place, hopefully can stay there. So his
- 1:00:56Speaker 4: prediction is is correct that he made a big of
- 1:01:00Speaker 4: the year. But talk about a team that comes into
- 1:01:03Speaker 4: Seria and wants to stay, like Legit wants to stay,
- 1:01:06Speaker 4: wants to compete, wants to be serious. I guess it
- 1:01:09Speaker 4: helps when you have investors and the money that really
- 1:01:12Speaker 4: backs it up and all that. But again, a great project.
- 1:01:18Speaker 4: It seems to be a great manager in charge with
- 1:01:20Speaker 4: Sex Sex Fabrigas. Again listening to the reports, it looks
- 1:01:24Speaker 4: like he's gonna stay, you know, going into next season
- 1:01:26Speaker 4: and into the future. So I think it's just exciting
- 1:01:30Speaker 4: times for for Como and hopefully they can string up
- 1:01:32Speaker 4: these last two results to to get that top ten finish.
- 1:01:35Speaker 3: Johnny, I I hope so too, just because I can
- 1:01:39Speaker 3: have bragging rights about.
- 1:01:40Speaker 4: It and we could and we can have some content
- 1:01:42Speaker 4: to post about your production in Janis you know exactly.
- 1:01:48Speaker 3: I mean, like if you look at the roster, it's
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: it just it kind of makes sense too. Like it's
- 1:01:53Speaker 3: like as if it's a team to just like scoff At,
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: they have the fight in them, you know, like.
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: I think that.
- 1:02:04Speaker 3: They can do it.
- 1:02:04Speaker 4: They can do it.
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: I think they could totally hold on to this Spats
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: spot and you know, maybe try and make a bigger
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: push next year, you know, like maybe try to stay
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: within the top ten or you know, just maybe find
- 1:02:16Speaker 3: some structure and you know, make themselves a more of
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: a regular team. You know, it's because if you think
- 1:02:23Speaker 3: about it, a team that fucking boats a player like
- 1:02:27Speaker 3: Dali Ali. You know, like remember at one point getting
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: shouts of like being the best center attacking mid in
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: the world. You know, uh, guys like freaking you know,
- 1:02:35Speaker 3: Patrick Kutrone, you know, hoping that he does. Like it's
- 1:02:38Speaker 3: there's names on this roster, like you still got hope
- 1:02:41Speaker 3: for it, yeah.
- 1:02:44Speaker 4: And di and stuff like that.
- 1:02:47Speaker 3: M hm hm hmm. I agree. I I think it's
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: in with some leadership, Like I feel like I think
- 1:02:55Speaker 3: they got something. They got something now if they do
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: manage to stay within the top ten next year. It's
- 1:03:01Speaker 3: a very like make or break type of thing and
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: depends what you're doing this summer.
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: It remains me seeing.
- 1:03:07Speaker 3: But damn, I should have put money on it at
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: the start of the season. I should have should have
- 1:03:11Speaker 3: money five bucks on it. I should have put five
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: bucks just to see what it would have brought. I
- 1:03:17Speaker 3: wondered the way to check up like odds from like
- 1:03:20Speaker 3: old older odds.
- 1:03:23Speaker 4: If you're listening, yeah.
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: And now, And the episode in which Jenny made the
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: prediction was the episode that we had.
- 1:03:31Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, there you go. So that's that's some freaky
- 1:03:33Speaker 4: ship right now.
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: We're gonna have to We're gonna have to listen back
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: and find that clip. I might have to post it
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: after this weekend.
- 1:03:41Speaker 4: Let's see how what what's the points for them? They're on?
- 1:03:45Speaker 3: What?
- 1:03:45Speaker 4: How many I see the ticker going on. I just
- 1:03:47Speaker 4: missed it.
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: Four Yeah, there are four points. I had a Torino
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: eleven points Parantina.
- 1:03:56Speaker 4: So with how many points? How many points would they
- 1:03:58Speaker 4: have forty already have?
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: Where did he go?
- 1:04:03Speaker 4: Now? He's he's in Portugal. He's in Portugal.
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: He's in Portugal.
- 1:04:07Speaker 3: He's yeah, did they loan them or did they sell
- 1:04:10Speaker 3: him to to I feel like they still they loan.
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: They loaned him quick like in my head.
- 1:04:16Speaker 4: I'm like, he's in Portugal fee I'm pretty sure.
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: Yeah, loan loan starting from it was in February.
- 1:04:26Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. Okay, so that's because I remember
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: early in the year, like evens on his roster.
- 1:04:32Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, thats another player has been on teams.
- 1:04:39Speaker 4: They got players, man, they have vana to be in
- 1:04:41Speaker 4: the year, No, didn't they have? And he went and
- 1:04:43Speaker 4: then he retired after he got an injury or something,
- 1:04:45Speaker 4: and now he's part of whatever management or whatever he's doing.
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: I think any old soccer player that you can name
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: he played for Como this season.
- 1:04:54Speaker 4: Or even uh exactly even what's his face?
- 1:04:58Speaker 3: Uh?
- 1:04:59Speaker 4: Former goal? We have uh not werena lots Raina Pepperina
- 1:05:04Speaker 4: even Pepperina is there between the sticks, I think, or
- 1:05:06Speaker 4: one of the keepers at least. So it's it's it's
- 1:05:10Speaker 4: just a crazy product. I just love to see it
- 1:05:12Speaker 4: from from the outside of coming going in. Man, it's
- 1:05:14Speaker 4: just it's just cool seeing it from an outsider's perspective.
- 1:05:17Speaker 4: They seem to be serious, and you know, it's it's
- 1:05:20Speaker 4: it's it's nice to see. Honestly, their project is is
- 1:05:25Speaker 4: one that doesn't get enough I think talk, so you know,
- 1:05:29Speaker 4: when we can and and when we kind of you know,
- 1:05:32Speaker 4: boast about what they got going on is always a
- 1:05:35Speaker 4: plus in my eyes. You know.
- 1:05:37Speaker 3: I also think that there there's there's there's a player
- 1:05:40Speaker 3: on defense that we can't even say his name out loud,
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: but I think he gives them extra extra boosts in
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: this that now we've been stupid.
- 1:05:48Speaker 4: Who isn't now you call me stipid because I don't
- 1:05:50Speaker 4: even know who. I forget who it is now, just.
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: We can't say it out loud on the podcast.
- 1:05:54Speaker 4: Oh, I think I know it is, so the g yes, yes, yes?
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: Is it ending in a yes go.
- 1:06:04Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I know I know what you're talking about. Eduardo.
- 1:06:08Speaker 3: Yeah, reminds me of that Instagram clip where clip where
- 1:06:13Speaker 3: the guys like estimate, like the clean lady like.
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: What's your last name?
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: Again?
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: She goes super and then the guy out super.
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: Anyway, when did there?
- 1:06:26Speaker 4: When did there?
- 1:06:27Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 1:06:28Speaker 4: You know, hopefully just let's hope Como stays in top ten.
- 1:06:31Speaker 4: Johnny's prediction correct. We get some content to post everybody
- 1:06:34Speaker 4: goes home Happy exactly?
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: Uh? Where where can people find us on social media?
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: Adri to see this post once they actually clinch.
- 1:06:45Speaker 4: Exactly exactly exactly, so, like Nick said at the top
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