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GW29: Arsenal's Core-Nerd Manager I Ep: 126 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Looks good that when they're playing football they're
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actually playing football like the the movement.
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It's just the end result and at least the build up play is
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really good. It's the Tottenham is
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unbearable. I send you guys thing it says
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number of days since each Premier League team last won the
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league game. Tottenham's on the bottom at 64.
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Do we have the worst 202026 record?
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Oh, you guys haven't won the game?
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So I just said, yeah, well, fucking thank you.
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It's fucking horrible. Why are you not wearing New
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Jersey? I ain't no no mate.
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I'm sorry. I shouldn't be wearing this.
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I'm bloody piping hot right now. Take it off.
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You'd like that, wouldn't you? Give me one SEC, I say.
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Yeah, so going back to the conversation of like today's
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football as well, it's not, it's just it's just like people
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complaining about basketball saying, oh, it's too many
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threes. Again, I wasn't saying what was
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what is better, I was saying what is what was more enjoyable
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to watch. That's why I just kept saying so
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and I enjoyed the football in the late 90s in the early.
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I think if you went back and tried to watch it, yeah, no, you
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would have not enjoyed it. Like.
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I think you'd have a hard time enjoying it like.
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Now a possession, you're used to them having a possession having
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like 1520 passes in a row. You go back and watch those
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games like 5-4 passes, 5 passes, clear it out, throw it.
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I'd be. Interested to go back and watch
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because I there's games I remember like for example
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Chairman's Lee Zidane that left foot volley.
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There's only A1 nil game. Yeah, but what else do you
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remember from that? Game.
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You're remembering moments, yeah.
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But what else you're saying from that game?
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Never. That's basically what I know
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from that. Game.
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There we go. Moments, but there was moments,
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but you're saying it's the same thing today.
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It's but there's there's fewer far between moments.
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It's just literally build up, play, build up play, pass it
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back around the back. And what they, and I know what
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you said about defenders and what they mean by that is I
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don't want to watch a defender pass the ball left and right
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between the left back and fucking right back.
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I want to see the midfield create something towards the
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forwards. That's what I want to see.
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The best pass I've ever seen, or that the the most entertaining
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pass, The sexiest pass I've ever seen is a pass from Marcelo to
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Carvajal. That's different.
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When you hear across the across the box like half volley, that's
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that's fucking beautiful. And you know what I'm talking
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about. You know the past I'm talking.
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About. Yeah, I know exactly.
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Yeah, so here's the thing, like few years ago, I wanted to go
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back and watch the 2002 World Cup final, which I think is the
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greatest, the most dominant national team tournament ever
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because they won every single game they played.
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I turned it off after like 20 minutes man.
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Yeah, I did. I did that.
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I think I did that with an FA Cup final.
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It was like Chelsea, Liverpool or Chelsea Arsenal, like 2000
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and yeah, same right around the same time period.
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It is ugly. Hello and welcome to episode 126
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of draft offsides. I'm a Tico Enzo.
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My name is Keith. Follow us at draft offsides at
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all places that you can. All right, boys, let's get into
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the headlines. Let's talk a little bit.
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It's a it's a short game week. So by the time you listen to
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this games, we'll just about be starting.
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So we've adjusted our format a little bit for that reason.
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Let's just talk headlines for what game week 28 and then we
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can then get into waivers for game week 29 and then kind of
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look ahead to the game Week 29 and beyond.
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Tikka, you want to take waivers? All right, let's get this
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started so First off, Villa drop some more points.
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They're out of the running for the Premiership as of right now,
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no way to catch up and now the folks shifts to top four.
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That was a very disappointing loss.
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They had to. Was it Wolves 20?
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Wolves are on a hot streak. So and with that Wolves win.
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Keith, Congrats. Last week you said you don't,
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you need them to win another game so to secure Derby count as
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worst record ever. Darby County right here, baby.
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There we go. Hey, Falling.
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Apart so I thought it was so long.
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Just like the team, yeah. I think and so obviously
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terrible, terrible showing for Villa, but also importantly,
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terrible fantasy showing for Villa.
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Morgan Rogers was the high scorer with eight, 8 1/2 points.
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Ian Matson next. And I don't even think Ian
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Matson started the game, did he? No, no, I I pick up Lucas Dina
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in the hopes of getting a clean sheet and obviously they gave up
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a goal, didn't do shit and. Yeah, Mattson scored 8.25 points
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in 19 minutes and obviously Douglas Lee 7.25.
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I guess you're OK with that. But then everyone else is
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pretty, pretty poor. So just pretty dismal, very bad.
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And they played Chelsea next and I think Bill's been on a little
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bit of a downswing, so I would probably be able to.
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Obviously, you know, you have Morgan Rogers where you dropped
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him, you probably have to start him.
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But I think for everyone else, maybe Douglas, Louise, he still
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start. But I'd be tempering.
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I'd be like tempering my Villa picks going into the midweek.
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What do you think? I agree Chelsea's going to try
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to bounce back off the losing to Arsenal this week so but they'll
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be without Neto right? So is Estefal still?
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He had a he had a hamstring injury here.
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He had himself in training. I don't know if he'll be back in
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time. OK.
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So who's that gone? Nacho Kittens is still injured,
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so unless there's like, unless like the lap players or
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something, it's probably gonna be Garnacho.
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There's just not really any other healthy attackers.
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So yeah, I'd I'd maybe look a little bit.
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And who else is there in Chelsea?
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Defenders? Is for Fauna Z still out?
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Fauna, that's a good question. I think it's just a one game
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injury because there's two yellows.
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Yeah, yeah, or one game suspension.
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I'm sorry, just for because two yellows.
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So he could be back. That could be interesting.
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I mean, they'll have struggled to score so.
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The last few games, yeah, they just dropped off after the new
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year. Yeah, I mean, they, they drew,
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they drew leads like the weekend before that too.
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Did Tammy stall? I don't think Tammy stall at
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all. No, he didn't.
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He came on. Yeah.
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So I bet. I don't think you could, you
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could really gamble on, you know, him.
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No start. So yeah, that that's Villa for
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ya. What else we got?
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Brinley had an amazing day. They scored three goals, but
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they lose the game in the 93rd minute.
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You know, I think that was unfair too.
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I think they probably should like, like common sense to me
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says that that that that goal that they scored like got
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disallowed in like the 93rd minute or 95th minute or
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whatever. They probably should have
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counted. But there's a there was a few of
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those this weekend. But they had AI mean for
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Burnley, they had a lot of high scoring games, Jian and Anthony
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24, Hannibal Meshbri 23.25, Zion Fleming who's been pretty good
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14.75. So it was, it was a lot of
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obviously with seven goals, a lot of people scored a lot of
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points. Yeah, there are several players
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that are up there. One thing in the in the top 20,
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I think like Lawson, you said Fleming, I think that's two
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weeks in a row where he scored double figures so.
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Scored goals two weeks in a row. So yeah, that's a big part of
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it, Yeah. I mean, obviously Brentford, I
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mean, you got to talk about DAMS card.
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I think he had 35 plus points first time.
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Yeah, first time he started in a while and he shows up in a major
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way, which so I think me and a lot of people benched him or
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dropped him. And then when this happened, it
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was painful. But if you were patient with him
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and you saw he started and you rolled the dice this week,
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you're really heavily rewarded. So that's good.
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I mean, you, you hope that he's going to kick on from here.
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Yeah, we'll see that. We know Damndell's a good
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player. We've got a goal and assist.
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Is he going to do that every game?
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But no. But look at his ghost points
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too. But I think, I think he's the, I
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think the only reason he was being benched is because he just
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wanted to play like he just like the coach took him out of the
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team. Otherwise, people are pretty,
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pretty happy to continue to start him.
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So he's kind of like like the Mint situation right now where,
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you know, if he's not starting, he's he's probably droppable.
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But the second he gets a game, you, you, you want to have them.
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So I don't blame anyone for holding on to him for that
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reason, you know? And moving on, Liverpool scores
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five goals, no thanks to Mosala. I think it's the second time
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they score 5 and Sala had 0 contribution.
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It's crazy. He has not scored a goal since
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November 1st. Mosala had the second lowest
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scores from the team with one point.
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He. Hasn't been a goal.
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He's maybe had like maybe 2 to 3 assists since he's been back,
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but maybe only like 1 of them was kind of like a real assist.
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There was a few that were pretty like fan tracks.
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He like, you know, like not indicative of like that they
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were repeatable. You know what I mean?
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Like there was one where he like he like rolled a ball off a
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direct free kick to slow the slide.
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Another where it was like, you know, like a fan tracks assist.
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I was like Sean, it bounced off the goalkeeper and then went to
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the blur. So yeah.
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For the year he has four goals, 6 assists.
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Obviously he went to Ofcom where they made the finals.
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They win the finals or they lost still.
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Yeah, that's not the point. But from the four goals, I
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wonder how many of them are penalties.
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I haven't looked this up and I was also wondering is it the
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largest drop off from year to year to the amount of goals
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considering the minutes and the playing time?
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Because their last year he scored 29 goals and 18 assists.
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So far has four goals and six assists, I think.
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That's a good. I mean the quantifier there is
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considering the minutes right? Like for the amount of minutes
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played that drop off is pretty extreme.
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Yes, and the minutes per game last year was 88, this year is
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85. So it's not like he's playing 60
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minutes. Yeah, no.
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So yeah, I think, I think it's a really good way to like quantify
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it. It's not like there was an
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injury or he's like being subbed out.
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It's like he's still playing all the games he's not doing just.
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Cash out in this summer anyway. Why you so?
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Yeah, brutal. I think that.
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Who were the good scorers? Obviously I can see KCK had two
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goals and an assist or he had one goal in an assist.
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One-on-one he had one-on-one. Van Dyke had a goal.
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Gavin Bridge scored 60.5. Gakbo had a goal. 16.25 MC
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Callister. 14.25 Fred. Callister, I called the call a
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few weeks ago as someone I was interested in and he's been good
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since. But yeah, I think, I think it's
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just a matter of how it's just a it's OK.
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Is it is this a hot streak or are they doing something
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different that's allowing him to be?
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Story works. Get.
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More in the field not having words.
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It's not having words because having played a more offensive
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role. How did slow the side perform
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considering that he was playing in the 10?
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10 points. 10 points. 10 points for the good ten position.
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And that frame Punk came back from his injury, he played the
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last 12 minutes and he had an assist.
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Yeah. Which was like a known goal
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essentially, right? Yeah, it was a known.
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Goal for it too, got the assist for it.
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But still, we got the assist for it.
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It's crazy. Ever him.
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On the West Ham side, your favorite doof?
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Yeah, so we'll talk about him a little later.
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Got a really good assist. Thomas Suchak had 16 points,
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which, you know, love to see it. He's been there for a while.
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He had a goal, played almost the whole game, 88.
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That's Somerville, who's been pretty money recently.
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He had 4.75, so he was riding on a drop. 2A.
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Little drop. Off 6 yeah 6 amazing games in a
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row so. I mean, I watch this game, it's
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pretty entertaining. I still felt like Somerville was
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a really big rat. It's just nothing came off this,
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you know, where in the past games where he'd had like a
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little run where he was able to burst or had like a little
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moment. So I'm not super worried about
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Somerville. You know, I feel like you saw
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still still was cooking. Then the next game, Everton
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Bento starts for Everton, scores a goal, Barry comes off the
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bench. He also scores a goal on the
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83rd minute right after Jacob Murphy scored another one.
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McNeil, who is a part favorite, that he actually had a good
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game. I think he had the assists and
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he finished with 14 points, 14 points, 75 points.
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So it was good to see McNeil perform well.
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And then Beto had his best game of the year at 20.5 points.
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Obviously he's lost the starting job to Barry, who's been pretty.
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But didn't didn't he start? Didn't better start?
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Yeah, better start. No, no.
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So Beto started the game when the year started, he was the
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starter on the team and then Barry took over as the starting
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9? Yes.
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But neither have a really big assistance.
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For us, yeah, but but congratulations to those people
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that added better on the morning and fucking got 20 points.
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Yeah, I think, I think the Jerry's still out on who's gonna
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like who's gonna start midweek. You think it's?
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You think it's better guaranteed or?
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No, I think it's stop. Sorry.
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Beto started. So I think Barry's going to
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start, yeah. I I mean, whichever one of those
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guys starts against Burnley, you, you kind of, you like your
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chances. Right.
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Oh yeah, probably sucks. Yeah.
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So out of the 28 matches, Barry has started 19, Beto has started
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nine. OK, Yeah, So yeah.
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And then Manchester City, they arrest Holland.
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Seven. He was the only goal.
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He was injured. He had a knock.
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Was he injured? Yeah.
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Got it. OK, so how long does the play?
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Symania scores. Savio comes back, plays 21
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minutes. This was a game Shirky started.
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I thought he would have an amazing game, but he's
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disappointed. Yeah.
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And I also thought we would see more goals in this game.
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I know it's hard playing at Leeds, but Leeds City, you
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expect more goals. But one goal, That's all it
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took. So I think, you know, like
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considering this and it's like, I think it's probably, it's very
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possible Holland doesn't play midweek too.
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It might just be too soon off the knock.
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For the plane. Question Forest.
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They're playing Forest. Yeah, they don't need a plane.
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But I think that even though, even though he didn't, he didn't
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perform well in the week when he started in Holland's place, I
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think Marmouche is probably the the one that's more most likely
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to benefit from holding out. But it doesn't matter of like,
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do you want to, is it worth starting?
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Like the week prior, Marmouch scored, had an assist that
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scored like 16 plus or 14 plus. But this week, no, no assists,
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no nothing. He only scored 2.75 points on 67
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minutes. So it's just a question of is
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that is it worth it to play him well?
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I think it's still worth it. It's also going to be more of a
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clusterfuck for City because Savio's back, Doku's back.
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Doku's back. Shirky's playing amazing,
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Roger's getting a start all the time, and so is Bernardo Silva.
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So something about. Foden.
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Foden as well. He's there at least, yeah.
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Yeah, so it's, and obviously this is, I mean, let's be on the
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city cannot drop any more points if they want to win the league.
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No, they have to win. That's win every single game.
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Every single game. So I think knowing that it's
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they're always going to get the best players and I think even
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whoever is on the bench, I think they're going to play about 70
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minutes and Subs are going to come out to come out for whether
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it's Doku coming down, Shirky coming in or Slavio.
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And those are three players, with the exception of Savio this
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year, that even if they come out late to the game, they could
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produce a lot of points for the team.
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I agree. Dribbles, nibbles, completely
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crosses the box, key passes, they all could do every single
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one of those stats. And then right now Thorry got
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his first assist for the year last year for the Wolves, he had
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seven City were actually led by their right back and left back.
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Yeah, and and Guayhi Gray had a good game, too.
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Yeah. He did 12.25 but Nunez and that
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Thorry had respectively 24 point 7523.5.
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Yeah, yeah, those are amazing scores for both of them.
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You have in one of our leagues, you have both of them and then.
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I held up to a third one. You people said drop it.
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Oh, wait. And that's funny.
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You said in our other league, Tigo, But we I have both of
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them, so it's kind of funny really.
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Did you play both of them? I did play both of them.
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I mean, I see a lot. And Artore has been getting the
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stars on Earth. That's what keeps doing.
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He's just copying my roster to do better fantasy.
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You know, it's funny, I think he's got a, he's got a
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combination of your roster, my roster, and it's just not
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working. What?
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I've had Nunez since I'm drafting Nunez and I picked
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about New York because to see if someone dropped him.
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I'm not. I'm not even aware of you.
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I'm not even aware of your existence in these things.
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Falsehoods. OK.
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So yes, we talked about city. Is there anything to talk about?
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I mean. Didn't stock still have a good
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game? Stroke still had a good game.
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I think the defenders still had a good game in this game because
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they're only letting him 1 so they'll be.
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Sock at 12 and Padu at 9. Darlo, the goalie, had 9, struck
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at 8. Solid.
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Nothing. I mean, the the city scores were
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like, yeah, they're like. No, no, I'm saying that, but a
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lot C was on the winning side. Losing sash is like he's sash is
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kind of like the modern Pascal Gross in the sense that he just
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like scores points did. We talk about Pascal Gross yet?
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Not yet. But yeah, but it's actually kind
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of like that to that profile where you just like, you don't
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know how he does it, but he just does it.
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Honestly, I feel like we we don't have to talk about leads
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for the rest of the year because I feel like Leeds, fantasy wise,
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they're like the usual suspects. It's always the same people.
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Performance. Yeah, always say people.
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Yeah, I was so. Next we have Welbeck scores
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again back-to-back, the Welbeck St. design.
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We'll see how long that goes, but for them it was obviously
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Welbeck's scoring was amazing and then on the Forest side
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gives us the one who scored. So there was, there was 3 really
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good goals in the game between Brighton and Forest, right?
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So Gomez scored an amazing goal. Did you guys see that one where
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like gross like popped it out to him on the right wing and he
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like he like didn't hit the half Ollie on the with the outside of
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his foot like low invented on the keeper.
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Keeper probably should have saved.
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It was so amazing. And then James White scored that
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amazing curler from the center. They're not a curler like a
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knuckler like a knuckle. Then Welbeck scored like a
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classic little striker goal. It's like Welbeck soon the
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opposite he's done the last couple years, which is he
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started off really pretty rough this season and now he's
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starting to pick it up. Yeah.
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I mean, what do you, I mean he's available in a lot of leagues.
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He's owned it. I mean 73% he's owned, but
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still. He's not on, he's on the profile
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league. I need a really striker.
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But it's a tough position, so I get it.
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I mean, there's definitely worse, worse ways you can go.
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And if Brighton's starting to look up a little bit, I don't
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blame you. Man, if we talk about Pascal
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Gross and how freaking amazing he's looking like he.
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Just yeah. What are his?
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Scores he. Scored 20 this week.
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Think so go and assist any. No, just no.
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Just assist. Just an assist, but still that
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Pascal gross 20 points his last few games 28 and a half 12757512
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and a half seventeen 9.75 dude then five so yeah, but so.
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Great with ghost points. He contributes on offensive
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ghosts and defensive ghosts. Yeah, I mean, to think that he
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people got him for pretty much free.
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He was, he came in January and like not a lot of fanfare.
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There probably wasn't that much hype unless he knew what was
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going on. He could be a league winner for
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a lot of people. Yeah, someone picked him up.
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Didn't you say 33 Fab? Yeah, in our league then I and I
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got him in in our league where we don't have Fab, I got him off
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waivers. So yeah.
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But I think Kyle spent 33 foul on him, which is I think in
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hindsight like yeah, no, that's great.
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I think that's. You're getting, you're getting
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payback for what you added. So, well, I'm going, but that's
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good. OK, like, oh, it's for last
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time. Just talking about Gomez, I
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think that's his second goal in two games. 02 and 3.
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Isn't it? He's yeah, two and two.
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These are waivers. OK.
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So yeah, just just shouting him out to OK, what's next?
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One of two London derbies, this one, no, this was the oh, sorry,
19:07
but both of you guys were on the losing side of derbies this
19:10
year, this week when 2 defeated people.
19:14
It's a Real Madrid loss today if it counts.
19:16
So but this one we had a it was like the dream case for our
19:20
podcast Richarlis's scores here. It wasn't scores.
19:24
It won't be scores Oscar Bob with 2B's gets an assist.
19:29
So it's like everyone we like with the exception of like
19:31
Jimenez contributed something. But when I said I was like this
19:35
is interesting. Chavi Simmons has a shit game
19:37
because you know a. Week.
19:40
After I praised them. And then the other thing of note
19:43
over here, fantasy wise, Kevin had an injury, so he's most
19:46
likely not for the year. Operation.
19:49
Which is good news from Oscar Bob, I guess.
19:52
With two B's. Oscar boys, Yeah.
19:55
And Chuckwasy, Just Chuckwasy came back from his injury and
19:58
played for a little bit, right? He came off the bench play.
20:00
Yep. More minutes.
20:02
Yeah, not too much, honestly. I'm, I'm not going to whine.
20:08
I think Jackson got foul before that volley went in.
20:11
But, you know, it is what it is. I guess you can get, you know,
20:15
thrown to the ground, but you can put someone in a headlock
20:18
and handball and, you know, and you can punch somebody in the
20:22
face. And you know, I didn't know.
20:25
I don't think any of us know what you're talking about.
20:26
You're. Just like you're like a.
20:28
Conspiracy theory. Rice.
20:30
Rice sucking the Chelsea player. Yeah, why talking the Chelsea
20:33
player and handball in there, Ryan punching.
20:35
Yeah, Pedro. Dragon is pushing the.
20:37
Back by Jimenez, like pushed. Not even what happened to the
20:41
Arsenal player. You're talking the you're
20:42
talking the Chelsea game. So Chelsea and and Tottenham
20:46
saying this, I guess I got pushing it back too.
20:48
I'm just saying I'm looking at other other games.
20:52
How happy are you guys that Sergei was not able to join the
20:54
podcast this week or last week after Arsenal beating Tottenham
20:58
and Chelsea? Because I still have to do them
21:00
either way. On is ignore now I don't even I
21:02
don't even know it affect me. He's he's got.
21:05
But The thing is, This is why I said he says some stupid shit.
21:10
OK. Yeah.
21:10
We don't need to get into like the reasons why we we are the
21:13
producer. We don't need to.
21:14
We don't need to get too deep into that.
21:16
I just will say that like he single handedly is making me
21:20
root against Arsenal to win the league.
21:22
Like literally almost single handedly.
21:23
I have other Arsenal friends that are like great, that are
21:25
like enjoyable and they're respectful and I.
21:28
Don't know any of those. I don't know any of those.
21:30
It was a great shout out, like shout out Luke that we play
21:32
with. He came over on Sunday and we
21:34
watched the game that really had really respectful dialogue that
21:37
we had during the match and all the whole time I was thinking
21:40
about like, man, Sergey would be such a Dick if he was here.
21:42
You know what man, that's not it.
21:43
Then it must just be me because I even had Derek over once and
21:46
like ruin against England in my house.
21:50
Yeah, I know. OK, so that was that game.
21:54
Is there anything else to really talk about there?
21:55
I mean, I think that I think honestly, the one thing I do
21:58
want to say and I'd like not trying to Rev in too much ends.
22:00
I was like, this was the very first time where I legitimately
22:02
was like, oh, wow, like Tottenham actually is in a
22:04
relegation battle. Like, like before it was kind of
22:06
just like banter and talk. And now it's starting to really
22:09
feel like legitimate, like not funny.
22:12
Like, kind of like actually, oh, you should actually be a little
22:14
worried. Let's be honest, the only reason
22:16
why we're still where we are is because all the other fucking
22:18
teams lost. They're in the same position and
22:21
that's not going to happen. That's not going.
22:23
To happen, I mean, will you look at Tottenham's roster, whether
22:26
it's fantasy wise or just the roster itself?
22:28
Like what player is good enough to be like on a competing team?
22:33
Like the only quality high who? Are you talking about Tottenham
22:36
team Tottenham, Yeah, Yeah. But you also have I mean, in
22:38
their defense, their whole almost almost all the starting
22:40
11 is injured. So it's really hard to be like,
22:42
what would be good enough because like a lot of teams like
22:43
they're no. No, no, yeah, I'm talking about.
22:45
The current team, I'm not talking about like the starting
22:47
11 on day one, I'm talking about what they are right now.
22:51
Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. I mean, maybe Solanke, he's
22:55
coming back from a massive injury.
22:56
Maybe Pedro Poro on certain teams, like a lot of teams.
22:59
I don't think Pedro Poro would do that well on, you know.
23:02
Like, you know, yeah, I think. Their best player is James
23:05
Madison and you know, obviously they lost them before they even
23:07
started so. Well, James Madison, Rich
23:10
Allison. I mean, Rich, Allison,
23:12
Kudoszewski, these are all players that are in there.
23:14
Last year it was amazing. Yeah, it's called successor.
23:17
Gonna come back this year. Bloody no, man.
23:20
I mean, remember. Doing drafts.
23:21
During drafts we were drafting was they thought he was going to
23:23
come back like in a few in like a month.
23:25
And it's now. Now we're about 6-7, eight
23:28
months later. So.
23:30
It is brutal over there from the Fulham side.
23:33
They're on a little bit of a tear, like good for them.
23:35
They're definitely scoring, they're attacking, they're
23:36
having little moments that well, we go was pretty amazing, that
23:39
little like side foot knuckler. Little snooker shot.
23:43
Yeah. So I think, I think like jumping
23:46
on that Dan wagon is not a bad thing.
23:48
No for. I would.
23:50
And they are only 5 points behind 6th place Chelsea and
23:53
eight points behind 5th place so.
23:55
Like they're still fighting for something.
23:58
Yeah. What's going on?
23:59
There's purpose there. What's the next one you got,
24:01
Tika? All right, let's go.
24:02
Sasco and Bruno score. Can they be stuffed?
24:06
No. Are.
24:07
You one of the fans that think they're going to win the league.
24:09
I've seen that have you seen that those those like a little
24:11
fan that like maybe I did I'm going to win the league here's
24:15
how they're going to do it. They're going to win every
24:17
single game and. Also going to lose 3 or 4 games,
24:20
yeah. Yeah, yeah.
24:21
No, they're 13 points behind. That's yeah.
24:24
They don't have to play. They can't play Arsenal game
24:26
right. They already play them twice.
24:28
They played twice. Yeah.
24:29
Yeah, they've already. Played them twice so it's only
24:31
Man City that we saw I think. Does Lilville play Arsenal
24:35
again? No, they played him twice.
24:38
No, I, I mean, we'll get to Arsenal on the last game, but so
24:44
for United, Cesco started, which he's been coming off the bench
24:48
recently and Ahmad was the one who bit the bullet and he went
24:52
to the bench and Buomo played on the right, CUNY on the left and
24:56
AMA still came out and he's still at eight points in 21
24:58
minutes. United is just looking amazing.
25:04
They look really, they're looking good.
25:05
I mean, again, I'm looking at them like, you know, a few
25:09
things don't go their way in that game.
25:11
Like, I I didn't think that they they played particularly bad
25:14
like that. They played on.
25:17
Who was it? Oh, Palace, like Palace scored
25:20
early and it took a long time for United to break them down.
25:22
Yeah. They also got a red, so both of
25:25
the goals came after one that read the penalty and then won.
25:28
Yeah. And that's kind of what I'm
25:29
getting at is like, I feel like like good fortune and good and
25:33
good, like individual kind of performances have papered over
25:36
some of these crafts for United, but compared to compared to the
25:38
way that they're being spoken about.
25:40
Here. Here's the difference though,
25:42
Keith earlier in the year. If they went that one, though,
25:45
you're like, without a doubt, it's over, Yeah.
25:48
Yeah, I'm saying no, they're, they're so much better than they
25:50
were that there's no way you can argue that.
25:52
But I'm saying that the way that they're being spoken about, I
25:56
feel like they're not quite as good as people are treating
25:59
them. And they've been a little bit
26:00
fortunate on the side of like, things have things have gone
26:03
their way in these like, tight moments.
26:05
Correct. Yeah, I.
26:06
Which you, which you need a little bit of.
26:08
I'm not saying that that's like, you know, I'm not, you know, but
26:10
I'm just saying there's like a level.
26:11
It's like I haven't the last few games I've watched them.
26:13
I'm not like, wow, these have been dominant performances, but
26:16
they've just absolutely controlled, you know?
26:18
It's not the performance, it's just the the product you see.
26:21
You see the fight, that's you see.
26:22
The fight, yeah, that's super fair.
26:24
And then for. Bruno Fernandez last week
26:26
against Everton he had zero points in 90 minutes.
26:28
He rebounded with 39.5 points. Like a monster fucking game.
26:32
Six key passes, three shots, goal, assists.
26:35
He's gonna pass Holland pretty comfortably, if not next week,
26:38
if not this midweek, very soon, and he's going to probably run
26:42
away with the number one spot I think by the end of the year at
26:45
this at this clip. But he's going to have played
26:47
more games in Holland. Yeah, but you still.
26:51
Have more? Yeah, yeah.
26:52
The best ability is. Availability.
26:56
Yeah, yeah. But see go to your point.
26:58
Just unstoppable last year, huh? Yeah, I think I, I, I disagree a
27:04
little bit. I think Manchester has looked a
27:05
lot better in the build up, but just them finding the pass in in
27:12
their playoffs and they look a lot better.
27:13
Do I think they're going to win the league?
27:14
No, but do I think they have a few pieces and A and a manager
27:18
that can bring them somewhere? I'm not saying it's Carrick, I'm
27:21
saying the next person. I think they got all the beats.
27:23
We we already know how how good their players are.
27:25
Yeah, I mean, I don't think that's disagreeing.
27:27
I think I think we agree. I I was just saying I feel like
27:29
they're a little overhyped for what we're for, but I'm still
27:31
think compared to where they were so much better.
27:34
Well, they're. 16th last season. I also thought it was
27:37
interesting like a kudos to I guess Carrick is that Cesco
27:40
started this game after coming off the bench for the last few
27:43
managed to get a goal. Yeah, look good.
27:45
I mean made typical decision to bench Diallo had and when will
27:49
come on off the off the right as opposed to blank striker.
27:52
So yeah, there were some decisions made.
27:54
You know she's good. Cesco's been an amazing form.
27:58
He scored in three goals in a row and two of them he came off
28:01
the bench. He had another against full and
28:03
he came off the bench. He scored a goal and then he had
28:05
the brace against Bradley and January 7th.
28:08
So that's seven goals in nine games.
28:09
He's been on amazing form. It doesn't matter if he starts
28:12
or he comes off the bench. And I think you could see, Kyle
28:15
mentioned that. I think you could see something
28:16
there. They actually might have a
28:17
striker who could put balls in the net.
28:20
Yeah, yeah. It's exciting for them.
28:22
I think it's just now just trying to figure out how to make
28:24
all the pieces work. You know, you have like, yeah,
28:27
yeah, there's always going to be one person missing out.
28:29
And it seems like right now it's either Dalo or Cesco, right,
28:32
Depending on the formation they use.
28:34
Yeah. And I mean earlier, earlier
28:36
under Carrick, it was when Dorgie was there, it was Cunha,
28:39
so. Yeah.
28:42
I think the safe bets are obviously Bruno and Blammo,
28:44
yeah, on that team. On the Palace side, obviously
28:50
there was a red card. Every time I see his name,
28:53
Lacroix, I think of the that sparkling water.
28:56
Yeah. Dean Henderson had another
28:58
amazing game. 16 point, 16.25. Yeah.
29:02
No one else called. Brendan Johnson got the start
29:05
over Jurgen Strand Larsen, But I actually, no, both of them
29:10
started to get. I'm sorry.
29:12
Yeah. And then I think Palace has a
29:14
easy game. I'm sorry they play top.
29:17
I'm sorry I even want to take you.
29:19
I didn't even want to take a shot.
29:20
It just. It just came naturally.
29:23
It's just, yeah, it is what it is at this point.
29:25
It's not even fine anymore when it's this easy.
29:28
So I mean, good for Tottenham because, you know, obviously
29:31
he's a big part of their defense.
29:32
But ironically, besides Henderson and the Crow, no one
29:36
else scored big on the on the team.
29:38
It was. This is kind of a must win for
29:40
Tottenham but I and I also think you look at Palace, they haven't
29:44
been great. They got, you know, they haven't
29:46
been doing great. So I think Tottenham really
29:49
needs to get something here. But I'm not, I'm not, I'm not
29:50
necessarily afraid of rolling out my Tottenham assets in this
29:54
game, in this coming game, you know, like.
29:58
It is at Tottenham Stadium. It might be the first year for
30:01
Tottenham. Horrible, horrible home.
30:03
Home record, horrible. Every record but home record has
30:05
been horrible. Yeah, Rudolph Brew, Brew.
30:09
So Brendan Johnson, Brendan Johnson.
30:11
So he literally played almost 60 minutes and he had all his
30:17
points were from one key pass to 1 assess Those really had zero
30:20
other contributions whatsoever. I've been 60 minutes proper
30:24
which is so weird, you know what I mean?
30:26
Proper talking planner. He had one moment.
30:29
What'd you Santa? So he's like Tottenham, proper
30:32
Tottenham player had one moment and that was it.
30:34
You could take the player out of Tottenham, but you can't take
30:36
the Tottenham out of the player. Another note is Ishmael SAR,
30:40
like what are you doing with him?
30:41
Is he almost dropable again? He went on a little run where he
30:43
scored two games in a row after F con and people are and after
30:47
having a good off con, people like oh wow, maybe he's going to
30:49
be viable. And the last three games have
30:51
always been pretty garbage so. Garbage.
30:54
Something to look at, something to consider.
30:56
I wouldn't put it. I wouldn't be mad at people who
30:58
are dropping him. No.
31:00
OK, what's next? And then it was the game of the
31:03
week. Arsenal scored three set piece
31:05
goals, they went to one. NATO gets one of the dumbest
31:09
trades I've seen trying to attack a fucking Martinelli of
31:11
old people. Good news for Chelsea fan is
31:14
that Yokers did a score. Keith, do you know what that
31:16
means? That Chelsea is not a smart
31:18
club. Chelsea is not a small club.
31:20
Congrats. And then obviously a lot
31:24
happened over here. I thought that was an obvious
31:27
penalty on. Vice.
31:30
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:33
You could flip a coin, go with a head ball or go with the foul.
31:36
I thought it was more of a foul than the head ball, but.
31:39
He did it a couple times mate. Yeah, there was a few.
31:41
There's the Jon Pedro on, too. I mean, it's also you can't like
31:43
if you're going to win, you're going to win.
31:46
And it's like you also got to give props, Araya.
31:48
You had to make two amazing things.
31:50
One off that like that Garnacho cross.
31:53
Yeah. And there was another off a
31:54
header where he like dove, he like had to do like a backwards
31:57
dive to get the ball out. He had a few really good
31:59
moments. So, you know, they they I
32:02
thought Chelsea were better in points and I thought Arsenal
32:04
were better in points. But at the end of the day, it's
32:06
one of those things didn't help. They didn't help themselves with
32:09
that rad there. That's their 7th red in the
32:11
Premier League and their ninth red of the season total.
32:14
You've got you've. Such an idiotic red.
32:16
Yeah, we're literally a midfielder and a another striker
32:19
away from a full team of Reds. Because you have the manager on
32:22
there too. Yeah, we have the manager on the
32:23
team. We're totally where we are.
32:25
So idiotic. Set P.
32:27
What are you? Gonna do called FC's you know,
32:28
Don't know what's gonna happen. What are you gonna do?
32:31
You know the GIF I sent in the group chat and no one cares to
32:36
hear this every time, You know, like Arsenal does well or
32:38
Gilchrist does well, Sergey says, the GIF of them spread
32:41
running towards the camera. Right, like with the you.
32:44
Do it backwards. Yeah, cuz there was a no goal.
32:47
Yeah, I know. I got it.
32:48
No, I got it. No, I got it.
32:51
You got it. Did you like make it?
32:52
How did you get the game to go backwards?
32:55
I'm glad you asked to make a short story long.
32:58
So I saved the meat, I saved the jib and I was trying to figure.
33:01
So I googled it went a couple of things.
33:03
I screen recorded, tried to do it that way, but then I found
33:06
the website just uploaded reverses everything for me.
33:11
But I was so proud of it. No.
33:13
Not even a single thumbs up like nothing.
33:16
Honestly man, like. This because someone needs to be
33:18
engaging with other people. Oh, you're yeah, You're
33:20
definitely not going to engage, but it's Tico like it's just
33:24
it's T going. But sometimes I just I score
33:27
partial shit. On a losing end of Darby's.
33:30
Yeah, brutal. This was, we actually went
33:34
pretty deep on our recap, our headlines.
33:36
So this will be where we're pretty much going to be pretty
33:38
close to done. All right, so I'm kind of power
33:42
through them. Some of these we mentioned, so
33:44
I'll just power through them. Oscar Bob with 2B's midfielder
33:48
for Fulham roster at 47%. I mentioned him last week
33:52
briefly but he got the start and got the assist.
33:54
Kevin is out so more playing time for him and probably will
33:58
be in the rotation. You feel good about if he gets
34:01
another start, you feel pretty good about it, right?
34:03
Oh, he's playing. They're playing West Ham next.
34:05
Yeah, you're. Playing West Ham.
34:07
Just West Ham Ship 5 at Liverpool.
34:09
It's like whoever West Ham plays, that's the team of
34:11
supporting that. I mean, unless it's awesome.
34:14
I'd be talking Forest. I think West Ham is going to
34:17
stay out. I think Forest is she's going.
34:19
Down. No, I'm talking West Ham,
34:20
because they're already in relegation and I need them to
34:22
keep losing. And then then we have Diego
34:28
Gomez midfield for Brighton rostered at 39%.
34:30
That's two games in early as a goal and there Brighton is
34:34
playing Arsenal. So hard to bank on the goal,
34:37
but. You know what's the?
34:39
I think there's some history though, though I think Brian
34:41
gives them a hard time. Do they well?
34:44
I'm I'm wishful thinking at this point.
34:47
I feel like we it tells you I'm gonna on foot mob.
34:50
Let me see Head to They had two draws in.
34:59
January I like that. I like draws in.
35:00
January of 2025 and August of 2024 they had won one draws.
35:04
Nice. So they draw once a year.
35:06
There we go there. You go.
35:07
Here we go. Yeah.
35:08
So this is this is our year this.
35:10
Is our game? Is it Brian at home?
35:13
It is spicy at home. So they go go to the beach, man,
35:16
it's horrible over there. Why is it horrible over there?
35:19
Is it just not tonight? Like when you go on Instagram
35:23
you see beautiful beaches. Does England beaches ever come
35:26
up? No, I've never.
35:28
Never even. I don't even know.
35:29
Just imagine. Because no one wants to go
35:31
there, mate. I'm imagine like Coney Island
35:34
flags. No, it's worse.
35:36
At least there's a fucking fairground, mate.
35:37
You're playing, you're going over there for like, you know,
35:40
fish and chips is good obviously because right by the sea.
35:42
But sometimes it's not even sand.
35:44
Sometimes it's pebbles. I actually like those beaches
35:47
more. Pebbles.
35:48
Yeah. With rocks, yes.
35:51
You want to lie on rocks? I I do not want to get sand on
35:55
my feet when I'm at the beach. I don't like sand.
35:58
Give me rocks. Change, change man, but.
36:00
I went to bars on a trip. I went to Barcelona, didn't go
36:03
to the beach because it was sand.
36:04
I went to Croatia, Dubrovnik and it was all pebbles.
36:07
Love that shit. Are you guys going to be trying
36:12
to pick up Diego Gomez? I'm actually good on
36:15
midfielders, but if you were desperate for midfielders I
36:17
would. You know what?
36:19
Let's do some schedule watch for Brighton.
36:21
Keith is just weighing up his freaking options whether there's
36:24
a point of him going for him right now.
36:26
I'm telling you, the only reason Keith does this podcast is to
36:29
kind of get a gauge of the league or what we're going to be
36:31
doing. I don't need you guys I I make
36:33
online. You do need us.
36:35
You've never won the league. I did.
36:39
Whatever you guys. Don't worry, Keith, I'm not one
36:41
of. You freeze.
36:42
You need people like me. Oh yeah.
36:44
And. Let's move on.
36:46
Yeah. I've consistently come top three
36:47
though, yeah. That is Jensen midfield for
36:52
Benford. Roster at 34% has started the
36:54
last nine games and over that span he's averaging 8.2 points.
36:58
Not bad. So not bad.
36:59
That's pretty good for a team that's, you know, doesn't do a
37:02
lot of clean sheets. Yeah, I think it's been good.
37:05
I think the biggest thing is, like with that, if Damsgard
37:07
continues to start, will that eat into him a little bit?
37:10
I think he ended up still scoring like 7 and 7 to 9
37:12
points. I don't remember exactly what it
37:14
was, but it's still respectable. Yeah, he's one of the higher
37:18
ones on my list for the waivers because their upcoming schedule
37:21
is Bournemouth tomorrow and then they have Wolves, Leeds,
37:26
Bradford, Fulham, United, West Ham.
37:28
So it's kind of a lighter schedule for the like you feel
37:32
confident starting with some potential good issues I would
37:34
say. You're boring, Keith to go keep
37:37
on going. Then we have Dwight McNeil,
37:39
midfielder for every 1033% / 10 points in two of his last three
37:43
games. Has two assists.
37:44
We love McNeil, fell off for whatever reason, but we talked
37:48
to him about him a lot. He's someone, if he's starting,
37:52
I feel confident playing game, moving on.
37:55
We have Santiago Bueno, defender for Wolves roster at 7%.
38:00
He's averaging 10 points over the last four with three clean
38:03
sheets. How long that going to happen?
38:05
I think the only Rob there is they play Liverpool.
38:07
Yeah, there you go. So.
38:10
Just be be cautious. Just choose the right bueno.
38:13
Yeah. And his name's Hugo.
38:16
All right. You go, you go.
38:20
Oh yeah, next. Do you want me to take it?
38:23
Yeah, these are yours. I think you added these.
38:26
Next is Mads Hermanson, keeper for West Ham at 7%, averaging
38:29
14.5 over the last three with a total of 12 saves and two clean
38:33
sheets. Conceded one goal.
38:36
Obviously Liverpool was the the exception.
38:40
Last week was not good, but in general, Liverpool is there in
38:45
general, West Ham has been significantly better.
38:47
And then I, I honestly think when you look at that, that
38:49
game, some of those goals were just like a little bit
38:51
unfortunate, Like they're just good goals, you know, So I, I
38:55
back him to continue to have pretty good scores rest of the
38:57
season. I think they play Fulham next.
39:01
And then even like and even a team like that, like you're not
39:03
that mad about obviously you're not happy when they scored five
39:05
like Liverpool did, but like Man City or Villa, like you're not
39:08
that mad about those sets of games where like he was going to
39:10
be busy. Yeah, and they did put in two.
39:14
They put two goals in. And it wasn't like it was
39:16
garbage goals. They were.
39:17
They were trying to climb back. Yeah, next on here is Rowdy
39:20
Dragonson. He's on here on Ironically, like
39:24
he's actually on here for real. The Spurs 1% owned, I think he's
39:28
averaging like 9.75 over the last three, even though they've
39:31
given up like eight goals, you know?
39:33
So there's something, there's something going on there like
39:35
where there's actually some points if they were to ever like
39:37
kind of get something to get it together a little bit.
39:39
You know where those points are coming from, right?
39:41
I I know. Go on from.
39:43
Clearances. Ariel's what?
39:45
Yes, that is it, because he's panicking the whole time.
39:48
This guy panics and just whacks the ball out like he's what I
39:51
appeal myself as a defender when I'm playing against players that
39:55
are a lot better than me, which is quite a few.
39:58
Yeah, and I just flash it out. Why?
40:01
He he's just not on the level. Yeah.
40:04
But he's not like for the for fantasy, you're just kind of
40:07
like, well, if he's getting activity, he's true.
40:10
You know it's true. Next one here is DUF from West
40:14
Ham. I've I've been talking about how
40:15
much I level my West Ham assets. You pick him up, you drop him,
40:18
you pick him up. It's like Man City defenders and
40:20
goalkeepers. It's like a.
40:21
Yeah, it's like a bad, it's like a bad, a toxic relationship with
40:25
me and me and Duf. But this last game he's had a
40:28
strong season. It's like 3 of his last four
40:30
have been really strong. And yeah, I think like, you
40:35
know, full on, it's very possible that they have a pretty
40:37
good he has a pretty good match against them, especially where
40:41
the way that full and wing back full and full backs are like to
40:43
get high, that'll createspace for him to get him behind Big
40:47
strong guy. If if West Ham you go down, I
40:49
think he probably gets trans a transfer away.
40:51
Yeah, yeah, I'm interested in that one.
40:54
The last one on here is about Brantwaite from Everton.
40:57
Defender scored a goal this week, which was great, but I
41:00
think on on top, like other than that, he's kind of like the
41:03
Everton. They've he's been injured most
41:05
of the season, but he's Everton's like he's like their
41:08
linchpin defender that you know, him and Tarkowski.
41:10
We're supposed to be like the guys there.
41:11
So I think with him back, I think that partnership's going
41:14
to lock up and lock in and be pretty difficult to play against
41:18
and play with, you know, teams and the fact they play Bradley
41:20
Max, it's just juicy, juicy, juicy, juicy, juicy.
41:25
Any other kind of? Any other ones you want to call
41:29
out? No, man, I think we said last
41:32
week we've got 10 games left. Don't be scared to drop players
41:34
that aren't fucking performing, especially if you're in like
41:36
other last ball, last place. There's no relegation here.
41:40
But if you're in like trying to get to top two, top top three,
41:43
then we scared to drop players. Yeah, it's home.
41:45
It's home stretch right now. You guys really got to make
41:47
moves. OK, Round 29, bunch of games.
41:51
It's kind of tricky. It's like 1234 games on Tuesday
41:55
and then 12345 games on Wednesday, then one game on
41:58
Thursday. So that Thursday game is where
42:00
you really got to be careful. It's Tottenham Crystal Palace
42:03
and not having any risky picks there, huh?
42:06
Honestly, outside of Dean, Henderson and Muniz, why would
42:11
you even risk anyone else? I mean, there's anyone on
42:14
Tottenham, you're like, like, I mean again, like the guys who
42:17
have Jeremy Simmons are probably going to plan because they don't
42:20
have another option, right? I don't.
42:22
Know, but again, like they're probably going to play.
42:26
And then you think, like, I've seen the play that Christy,
42:29
you're going to play the Palace defenders that like giving you
42:31
so many points. Chris Richard means yeah.
42:34
You're going to play exactly the players you're going to play
42:36
like. It's not worth risking someone
42:38
else. Like, oh, let me hold out.
42:39
What if Solanki starts or Richard Lesson starts?
42:42
Who? Cares if a Solanki or Richard?
42:44
You know what? Screw that.
42:45
Every charlatan starts. He could score, it's a monkey.
42:48
Thoughts. It's a monkey.
42:49
I think a good example is like I'm Ishmael Assar and he's been
42:52
not good and and so there's no point like I, I just know he's
42:55
staying on my bench if or if I might even be dropping him, you
42:58
know, because it's like he's he's offering me nothing this
43:00
week because I'm there's no, I'm going to wait till that.
43:03
Then some interesting games. I think just maybe chat briefly
43:06
about being Newcastle United, Manchester United.
43:08
That's always an interesting 1. Newcastle I think has lost three
43:12
in a row. So they're looking for a bounce
43:14
back game that's I have. A question for Vincenzo.
43:20
Yes. Oh, what you mean?
43:24
Has to be for it has to be C. Why would I be room for forest?
43:28
It has to be. There's no reason for forest.
43:31
There's no reason. I just to start.
43:33
Relegation. I want C to be forest.
43:37
That's that's right, yes, City for sure, yeah yeah, for sure,
43:40
because you because you're like you want City like not Arsenal.
43:43
I'm. Going to tell you it's right
43:44
now. I've already got asked this
43:46
question. Arsenal wins the league and
43:49
Tottenham stays up. Arsenal doesn't win the league.
43:52
Tomlin gets really gay. Arsenal, which one I want?
43:55
Thomas. You know you mentioned this in
43:58
the. In the channel, come on in zone
44:01
No, I think that's just that's that's the wrong.
44:04
I've done it wrong. If I'm going to choose one or
44:06
the other, I don't mind getting really gay.
44:09
We actually might win some fucking games.
44:11
You're one of those fans, man. I don't really.
44:13
Hate Arsenal I hate Arsenal I. Hate Arsenal.
44:17
I hate Arsenal. I hate Arsenal.
44:21
You know what's going to happen, right?
44:22
Jackson, what's going to happen? Get out of.
44:24
We're going to, Arsenal's going to win.
44:25
Win and all the time is going. To get relegated.
44:28
The worst? Case scenario that's the worst
44:29
case scenario we'll. Put you on that would make that
44:31
joke so but this is a possibility that's actually out
44:35
there. You kind of touched up on this
44:37
ends and I was upset because I wanted to bring this up in the
44:38
chat. There's a world that the Spurs
44:41
could not could win the. Get Champions League.
44:44
Champions League get relegated and Arsenal could win the
44:48
league. And especially if Arsenal
44:49
bottles. Imagine like Arsenal doesn't win
44:52
the league, Tottenham gets relegated and Tottenham is the
44:54
Champions League that'd. Be.
44:56
Funny. Imagine that though.
44:59
You'd literally be in the in the championship planes in the
45:01
Champions League. Yeah, You know, like that made
45:05
me laugh. And do you ever wish Ted Lasso?
45:06
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where he was like, so you win,
45:10
you get top four and you're playing Champions League, but
45:13
then if you get really gay, you play in another league called
45:16
the Championship. I know it's really funny.
45:20
OK, I don't know another hypothetical just because we
45:21
really ended up the sound we're shooting the shit VD.
45:25
So there's been rumors that like if City was to get a like docked
45:29
for all their infringements, it would be like almost like a 60
45:32
point that there's it wouldn't be off the table for like a 60
45:35
point penalty, which 60 points almost guarantees relegation
45:39
almost. So I was trying to think of what
45:41
would the number be to keep it really interesting for them to
45:46
get really good or not? Like what do you mean?
45:48
Like what are the points? Should they be deducted?
45:51
No, no, no, not like what they should be.
45:53
I think that's not really an RR preview, you know, but like to.
45:55
Make it interesting. And make it.
45:57
And what would be the most exciting number for them to get
45:59
really? 40 points, no.
46:01
So I think I think it's. 50 is my I think.
46:04
No, no, No 40. So right now they're 59 points,
46:09
West Ham, who's has 25 and. They're.
46:12
So if you deduct 50 points, they'll be at 9 points and
46:16
there's no way they're coming out of it.
46:17
So what's that? They could score.
46:19
They could score how many? They could score 30 more points.
46:22
Yeah, there's a lot more points and you got to think about their
46:25
record this year. Well, their record, maybe.
46:29
Maybe 45? Yeah.
46:31
So I'd say 40 because that still makes it that they can get out,
46:35
but get out. Cleanly, but like 40 So like
46:37
let's let's look at the last few years, right.
46:38
So if you go. I pulled it up.
46:39
So. So last year the team that was
46:42
out of the relegation was Tottenham.
46:43
Congratulations. They had 38 points, 38.
46:45
Yeah, The year before it was Forest at 32.
46:50
So seems like over 30 is the magic number.
46:53
Yeah. So that's what I'm looking at.
46:54
So when you look at Man City last few years, they had 91
46:56
points. In 2324 they had 71.
47:02
Oh, that was damn and 2425. OK, but, but Keith Forest at 17
47:05
is already 27. One more win there at 30.
47:07
So essentially Forest gets like two wins or three wins.
47:10
That's it. I, I, I think it would be like
47:13
45 would be sweet spot. So they have like, yeah, so like
47:15
like 15 points because they'll be, they'll be second to last.
47:19
They'll be behind Burnley. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
47:22
So 45 is the number that would be like that would be an
47:25
exciting watch all season long. Like if Kansas City.
47:29
So they would have to score and they would have to essentially
47:31
score 4056. They'd have to score 80s plus to
47:35
get not gonna get in. Yeah.
47:37
Which happened. How many times have they done
47:39
that in the last? That's that's kind of what I'm
47:40
getting at. I'm just saying I think.
47:41
They've I think they've done that a few times.
47:43
Most of the time, I mean, yeah, last year they scored 71, which
47:47
is very out of character. The year before that it was 91.
47:50
Year before that it was. 89. 89. 9386 81 They're doing it.
47:59
They're doing it most. Years and pep, Pep.
48:00
Doesn't 100? Pep doesn't.
48:02
They're doing it most years. That's what I'm saying.
48:03
That's why I think 50 is better, because they're doing they're,
48:06
they would have to be comfortable 6 out of eight
48:10
years. I'm gonna tell you right now,
48:11
most. 4550. Especially Man United and also
48:14
fans. They'll want to see 60 and
48:16
Liverpool they wanted. Yeah, of course.
48:18
I mean, we're yeah, I think it's not about like what's fair,
48:20
what's legit. I'm just thinking about what
48:21
would be the number that would be exciting.
48:24
Like The Jets of the championship.
48:26
There's a chance. He's leaving.
48:28
They did up 60 points from C Whether he wins something this
48:31
season or not, he's leaving. I think if he gets relegated and
48:36
he leaves, that would be terrible look.
48:38
I don't think so. I.
48:40
Mean he'll probably say, I mean he has one more year in his
48:41
contract. So if they get relevant, he'll
48:43
probably stay for the last year of his contract.
48:44
He'll probably stay for the last of his contract.
48:46
To be done. I mean, he's never won the
48:47
championship. He could.
48:49
He could be. Has the championship ever had
48:51
like an invisible season? No, but they've had what was
48:55
that one team where they were like overall?
48:57
Was it Fulham had over had over 100?
48:59
Points Mitrovic. When that year they came up with
49:01
like Mitrovic and Harry Wilson was on that.
49:03
Team both the Sessignons, yeah, yeah, they had a crazy team and
49:07
I scored like 121 points, yeah. They ran away with it, yeah.
49:11
Do we want to talk about anything else in these matchups
49:12
or should we just call it? Let's call it.
49:15
Yeah, I think good luck. Definitely as you're doing your
49:18
matchups make you give yourself a plan for like if this guy
49:21
doesn't start, who am I going to start?
49:23
Because you like the Beyond a games and the way they're broken
49:25
up is tricky. And over the weekend we have the
49:29
FA Cup matches, so there's not going to be another APL game
49:33
week until the weekend of the 13th. 14 is when it starts,
49:37
yeah. Yep.
49:38
And then yeah. And then after that.
49:40
And then when's the international break?
49:42
After. And then after the 20th is the
49:44
international break. Well, yeah, that's coming.
49:46
Everything's happening. It's happening.
49:47
Quick make or break, boys. I this has been episode 126 of
49:52
Dropped Off Sides. My name is Keith.
49:53
I'm with Tico. And then Zoe, follow us at
49:55
Dropped Off Sides and we'll be seeing you guys very soon.
50:00
What do you guys think about PSG being able to postpone and
50:04
fussing before? Right.
50:07
They're on that league. Let me read a comment that we
50:11
got on TikTok. Oh.
50:13
So I posted the clip of are we going to hate on Tottenham
50:16
relegation or not? And then they put because you
50:21
know, over there we talked about if they get relegated there's a
50:23
chance they could win the championship.
50:25
And they said they definitely ain't winning the league because
50:27
they want to win the trophy if they get relegated.
50:30
They're saying if they get relegated they want to win the
50:33
championship trophy next year. Because they don't win.
50:36
Because they don't win trophies. Yeah, but we don't near win the
50:39
trophy. We could just gotta get through.
50:41
I know, but he's just saying in the sense of like, well, they
50:44
would because we in the episode. Yeah, yeah.
50:48
Yeah, it's nice. Yeah.
50:49
Yeah, I suppose. I like this comment.
50:52
Fucking guitar fee today man 14th place.
50:56
That's fine. Four points behind Barcelona.
50:59
You know, La Liga has like this much significance in my life.
51:05
The Champions League is where what?
51:07
Was the last time we. Were three right now after you
51:09
guys took a big owl. Nah, like 223.
51:12
Years, that was a good. That was a good goal today
51:14
though, against. Amazing goal, great goal,
51:16
amazing goal. Pretty amazing, Yeah.
51:18
But like, come on, how how does Real Madrid not really attack?
51:21
Like I feel like they they had a few chances, but how do you not
51:24
finish? How do you not create more?
51:27
The way the the way the formation one was weird to me.
51:29
Like everything about that game was weird.
51:33
It's I think the most important play for Real major is Jude
51:39
Bellingham and it's hard to play a game with Venicius Venicius
51:45
when he doesn't have a striker to play with.
51:47
Like Ben, Zimmer was the ideal partner for him.
51:49
But so didn't they have that young guy in there, Garcia or
51:51
whatever, wasn't he played striker?
51:53
He's not quite the same. He's not quite.
51:55
Yeah, like Benzema's the threats for the pass, for the goal.
51:58
This guy just wants to score. Chico, do you really think that
52:01
they have a like, what are what are your chances?
52:04
Do you think we're able to actually win the Champions
52:06
League this year? So it's low, but I've also seen
52:15
them like win the Champions League in years around.
52:18
Like, holy shit, how the fuck did they manage this?
52:20
Yeah, yeah. I think one year they beat the
52:24
defending champions. I think they beat Chelsea, who
52:26
were the defending champions. They beat City, who were the EPL
52:29
champions. They beat PSG and Munich or like
52:33
along those lines are like those teams like that.
52:34
So this isn't the first time. Terrible too.
52:37
I remember that. I remember that year.
52:38
They look bad for a lot of a lot of the games and then they just
52:40
pull around it out of the hot. That was it was Champions
52:43
League. There was seven goal.
52:45
Well, he's talking about Champions League right now, so.
52:47
That's why I said, that's why I'm agreeing, I'm saying.
52:48
Like, yeah, so it's not one of those things where like you hear
52:53
like players talk about it now, it's not like players like
52:55
fucking, I don't know, like irrelevant players.
52:58
It's like there's like Tony Cruz, Luke Armados, They're
53:01
like, well, you wear it. There's always a belief and like
53:03
you could see in the opponent's eye.
53:05
And the same thing, even Pep Guardiola, he talks about it
53:09
hopefully how like it's their tournament.
53:11
That's why they have all of these comebacks.
53:13
No, but to me, the to me, the frustrating part is how like
53:16
fucking Barcelona always gets the easier side of the bracket
53:19
And and they always and it's like it happens all the time.
53:24
They still like fuck it up obviously, but it's like
53:27
frustrating for like a change be get a goblet play against a
53:30
good. Team, I don't think they get
53:31
past the quarters. Barcelona.
53:34
Who? Who's their quarter?
53:36
I mean their defense is ass. I mean that they have to be in
53:38
Newcastle, which I'm not convinced they're going to do.
53:41
That's going to be a difficult game.
53:42
Newcastle's pretty hard like especially in Europe, and then
53:45
they have to be 1 of the Athletico Tottenham and like
53:48
like it's bad as Tottenham have been in it's.
53:49
Pretty gonna be Athletico though, let's be honest, yeah?
53:51
But like, it's bad as Tottenham have been in the in the league,
53:53
like they've looked really good in Europe so.
53:56
Dude, I mean Athletico just spanked spanked Barcelona
53:59
recently. Forced.
54:00
Athletico is like, you know, there's what I'm saying.
54:02
Athletico's are good. They're a joy.
54:04
They're a joy in the way that they upset teams, yeah.
54:06
It's just I feel like Tottenham are gonna fuck shit up and beat
54:09
Athletico. I hope.
54:10
I hope so. I freaking hope so, Ralph.
54:13
But then. I mean, it would be very amazing
54:15
to see Tottenham get into the semis of the Champions League.
54:19
Yeah, how amazing would it be if Bodo Glint beat Arsenal?
54:23
Oh my God. I.
54:24
Think I think photo glint beating sporting would be would
54:27
be a story on its own like much less.
54:29
Arsenal, they're on a freaking. They're doing some amazing
54:34
things right now. Can we talk about and?
54:36
Tell you what they are, but I know they're amazing whatever
54:38
they are. I haven't really watched a
54:40
bunch, but no OK, I will say that remember did you draw
54:43
against them in the earlier this year at the end zone?
54:45
And I was like, hey, there's no pushover and I I like you can
54:48
check the chart. I say no, no, you.
54:49
Did say that. Hey, there are no, there are no
54:51
slots like they're going to. They beat Man C Yeah, they beat
54:56
Man C Hey, what? What?
54:58
Just just, if you look at Arsenal's lost games, where are
55:02
the I don't see them dropping points besides C.
55:05
It has to be scheduled losses or injuries.
55:08
Yeah, I don't see him. I don't see him dropping any
55:11
other points. The last points they dropped
55:13
points to wolves man, come on. I know, but I'm just saying if
55:17
you think about who this Arsenal team is, they should house
55:20
Brian, Everton and then what? Bournemouth.
55:26
Newcastle where? They're going to drop I'll.
55:29
Tell you no dude, they could drop points to Newcastle.
55:31
They could drop points to Fulham and Palace.
55:34
I think they dropped points to Everton they can drop points to.
55:38
Bournemouth, you think? It's gonna happen.
55:40
They can drop points to yeah, you said Newcastle.
55:42
Hell, I can see them dropping points at West Ham.
55:45
Well, the thing with. Also, when I look at the drop
55:47
points, they don't need to drop points.
55:50
Well, they have to have to. They have to lose to a city.
55:53
No, they don't. If they win, yes.
55:55
That's the city is. If City wins out, they win the.
56:01
League. No, they don't.
56:02
Yes they do. They're four points.
56:04
They're. 5:00 They have a game in hand.
56:06
They. Have a game in hand.
56:07
Yeah, but they're still, but they're still five points, five
56:11
points, five points, five points.
56:12
If they beat them, then they're two points behind them.
56:14
Yeah, and then they have a game in hand.
56:16
They have a game in hand, so they'll win by one point.
56:19
Yes. Arsenal has played 29, City have
56:23
played 28. If Arsenal win every game but
56:27
this game against City, and City wins every single game, then
56:30
City wins. That is the best case in New
56:33
York since they lose by a one point chef's kiss.
56:35
Yeah, sure. I.
56:37
Think truly, I'll just say that you guys have rub.
56:39
I'm looking at it completely different to you.
56:40
Yeah, they got a game, so they're 6459 points.
56:44
See, he's got a game, so they beat Arsenal.
56:46
Now say they played Arsenal tomorrow. 62 points.
56:52
Oh, there you go. Thank God man.
56:54
See Win out please. Just fucking went out.
56:57
And city has done this many times before where they just
56:59
kind of they go. On a tear at the end, I.
57:01
Fucking hope so, boys. I don't.
57:03
If I move to England, I don't want to deal with that.
57:06
I don't want to. I don't and I'll be moving and
57:09
I'm moving to Islington.