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Week 7 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  OK, welcome into another episode of the Premier League
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  Playground. I am the dad.
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  Bjorn with me is the star of the show, The Lad.
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  Luca Miller all. Right, Luca, good to have you
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  here on our show. I'm actually like you're a
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  guest, you're like a Co host. Yeah, yeah.
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  So how are you doing today, Luca?
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  I'm doing good. How are you?
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  Doing great. How was your weekend?
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  It was good. I had a tournament.
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  Yeah, how did the tournament go? Not very well.
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  We did not win a game. Tough tournament.
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  You guys played some good teams this weekend.
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  You did well though. I thought you played pretty
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  well. Yeah, I thought I played good
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  too. Yeah, Yeah, I thought, I thought
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  I played really well. I we'll get we'll get into a bit
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  of that and we'll. Talk about in a little bit.
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  Yeah. You, you and your team mates
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  went to Columbia for a tournament.
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  Like I said, you played a couple really good teams.
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  You battled one team to a tie. What were what were two things
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  that you thought you did well in the tournament?
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  I thought I did well with my aggressiveness.
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  I know I'm working on that to try and be more aggressive and I
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  thought I had some nice passing. OK.
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  And what were two things that you came back and like?
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  I better work on those two things.
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  Maybe defending like 1V1 defending and probably, I don't
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  know, like passing under pressure.
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  OK, All right. Yeah, every tournament rights
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  chance you improve on some things, keep working on other
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  things. So yeah, of course, Luca.
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  Well, you had your tournament, but of course we had week seven
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  of the Premier League. We had some, we had some
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  interesting games. I think there's one upset I'm
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  I'm not even going to call it a big upset, but a lot of other
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  games I think kind of held form. But we got Week 7 in the books.
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  Unfortunately, Luca, we have a international break again coming
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  up, so we've got no games next weekend, but we'll talk about
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  the games in two weeks because I do think there's some
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  interesting matchups to look ahead to in two weeks.
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  But let's talk about Week 7, Luca, the game.
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  Do you want to get into it? Yeah.
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  All right, Luca, so we had a Friday game.
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  We had, you know, plucky upstart Bournemouth off to their best
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  start in the Premier League, playing Fulham at Vitality
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  Stadium in Bournemouth. And tell me about the first game
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  of the week, Luca. Well, I had this prediction
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  right until the 97th minute. We'll get into that in a second.
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  I predicted 21 and ended 31. Fulham actually started, they
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  scored first and everything just kind of unfolded in the
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  second-half. Here we have Cesenon scoring in
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  the 70th minute. Then we got Simenio in the 78th
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  minute. He's been really well.
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  He's been playing really well. And then Cliver had a rocket.
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  If you have not seen that, you should.
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  And then in the 97th minute Simenio scores again, so ends
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  3/1. 31 So Bournemouth continue to roll on with their great
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  start. Fulham came in a little bit
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  shorthanded. They basically had no striker,
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  Raoul hurt. What was his?
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  Injury, Remember he had that header goal two weeks ago hurt,
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  I don't know like his side or something.
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  So he wasn't there. Rodrigo Muniz, he's hurt as
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  well. So they kind of played their
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  their young superstar Josh King is like a false 9.
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  You know, not like the 9 be in the striker position, but he
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  sort of was dropping in. He's more of a 10, but they kind
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  of played him as a false 9. Didn't really work out well in
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  terms of generating a lot of offense.
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  There were crazy weather in this game, pouring rain, huge wind.
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  You know, Bournemouth is down on the South Coast of England, so
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  you can get these kind of crazy storms.
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  But Bournemouth are good at home.
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  Luca. They've only lost, you know,
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  their last seven at home. They've only got one loss, four
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  wins and two draws. They do well against Fulham or
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  Fulham, too. They've only lost two of their
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  last 16 to Fulham. Simenya Luca just continues to
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  get it done. How good a player is he?
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  We talked about him every week I feel like.
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  And and my coach, another shot, shout out to him, he's a
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  Bournemouth fan. They're doing really well, so.
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  Yeah, Simenya is unbelievable. He so Luca.
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  He's got 8 of of the last 15 goals scored by Bournemouth.
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  Of course he's second right now in the Premier League on six
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  goals. He's got 3 assists, so he's he's
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  right now has nine goal involvements.
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  The entire team this year has 11.
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  I mean, he's basically almost like a one man offense for them,
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  but. How many goals does Holland
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  have? Allen's on 9 so Simeno is second
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  in the league in in goals behind Holland, who's just on a
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  different world level than everybody else.
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  But this guy Bournemouth look, I think is becoming like must see
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  TV like when they're on I want to watch their games.
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  I think they're exciting, their managers great.
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  We say this every week, but he did another great job because
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  this game was like really boring actually for about 70 minutes
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  and then a lot of substitutions, you know, Areola took off a
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  defender, put on an attacker. He made some really good
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  switches to kind of, you know, freshen the team up, get more
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  attacking out there. And it paid off because they
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  scored goals and they end up winning the game.
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  And now, like I said, they go into the international break
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  feeling pretty good about themselves.
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  The only loss they had is at Anfield.
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  So you know. Not a bad loss at all there.
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  So they're doing great. Yeah.
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  All right, Luca, well, let's move on to the next game we had
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  rolling into Saturday. We had Leeds and Tottenham
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  leading off Saturday morning. What happened in this one?
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  So I predicted 11 again, I was close.
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  Tottenham 121. So we get start off with Tell.
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  I don't know his first name, but Tell for Tottenham scores in the
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  23rd minute, then new signing Okafor scores in the 34th minute
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  and then kudos in the 57th minute.
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  Preneur school. And in fact, about him, only
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  Holland and Simenyo we just talked about.
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  Simenyo have more goal involvement in the Premier
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  League so far than him. Yeah, he's been a great signing
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  for them. This is what we've we've said
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  Tottenham did really good business, they made good
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  signings, Paulinho on loan, kudos, a good signing and he's
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  really paying off goals and assists for them.
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  Spurs are, like I said, they are looking like a completely
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  different team from last year. They're they're undefeated on
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  the road and let me tell you, going to Ellen Rd. and beating
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  Leeds there is not easy. In fact, Leeds had not lost at
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  home in over a year. Now obviously part of that was
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  'cause they were in the Championship last year, but they
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  are really tough. That is a tough place to go and
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  get a result. And I, you know, credit to them
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  for for, to credit the Spurs for getting a win there that that's
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  a pretty nice win for them. But yeah, they're, like I said,
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  Spurs. Look to me, we've said this
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  before, like they're going to be, I think hanging around
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  European spots. I don't think they're a title
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  contender, but I think they can challenge for Champions League.
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  Yeah, Europa League. But what do you think could,
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  could, could Spurs even do better than that?
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  Could they possibly contend for a title?
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  No. You're saying just flat out now.
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  What makes you say no? I just don't, I think that their
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  competition is too good, like Arsenal, Liverpool, even City.
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  They they hopefully maybe start pick up the pace.
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  I just, I don't, I think they're just better teams than
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  Tottenham. But I do think they will finish
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  top five, at least top five, if not top 4.
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  OK, all right. Yeah, like I said, you know,
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  good win for them actually, you know, going in their Leeds had
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  been doing well as a newly promoted team.
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  But Spurs, like I said, they come away with the three points
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  and they've had a great start on the road.
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  They have not lost the game so far on the road this season.
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  So all right, Luca moving on to Man United at home versus
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  Sunderland. What about this one?
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  So this game ended 2 new United. I actually predicted 21
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  Sunderland is their dog in the 8 minute mount.
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  He's that thing he started over Cesco in this game and then he.
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  Started over Kunya. Or sorry, yeah, Kunya.
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  And then. Or actually, Cesco scores in the
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  31st minute and then this goalie, their new goalie, Sene,
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  is it? Sene Laments.
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  Yeah, I think so. Lamins.
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  Maybe Lamins. It's going to be hard.
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  We'll have to learn his name. It's a tricky 1.
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  It's his first, yeah, starting goal for menu.
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  He was a summer signing, so you then he kept the clean sheet.
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  So maybe, maybe he'll be their new goal against Bender.
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  Yeah, You know, Bay and Deer, like you said, have been start.
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  Obviously they they loaned Onana out.
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  Bay and Deer has been starting most games, but they sign this
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  guy. I think they kind of flirted
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  with possibly signing Emmy Martinez for a while.
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  I think they were looking to upgrade the goalie spot.
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  So it's a spot to watch on that team.
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  You know, you would think keeping a clean sheet, he'd earn
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  at least another start moving forward.
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  You know, this is a pretty good match up for him.
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  You get to come at home against Sunderland.
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  Granted, Sunderland has played well, but this will be a kind of
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  a nice start for him and we'll see.
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  So someone when you watch Man United games, keep an eye on
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  their goalie like. It's.
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  Kind of a new guy. It's a big step up, you know, I,
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  I want to say he came from the Dutch or Belgian.
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  Yeah, I I've never heard of him just now.
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  Certainly not a big league that he came from.
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  This is a massive step up to go to Man United and play in the
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  Premier League. They're just looking for anyone
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  at this point. Yeah, yeah.
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  So like I said, good start for him.
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  The goal by Mount was nice. Look at that, that the whole
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  build up on that goal. United had 18 consecutive passes
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  that led up to that goal. So yeah, nice goal there.
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  So this is Ruben Amram's 50th match in charge in all
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  competition. So he sort of hit what we're
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  going to talk a little bit about managers this week.
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  A lot of them are hits, hit some milestones.
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  But so obviously it feels like you can't talk about Man United
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  without ever throwing the manager into the mix because
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  everybody's wondering week to week, is he going to get fired.
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  But his 50th match in charge, you know, obviously they're
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  going to take the win here. Man United typically do great
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  against Sunderland. They've only lost two of their
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  last 31 games to Sunderland. So yeah, they're 23 wins, 6
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  draws and only two losses. So this is one that they were
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  probably looking at. Let's get right, let's beat down
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  as a team, we usually win. They're newly promoted, we're at
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  home and sort of checks all the boxes.
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  And then they did and they're going to be real happy.
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  I think about Cesco getting a goal.
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  So like I said, nice move starting Mount over Cunha and he
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  gets a goal. So I feel like Amaram looks
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  pretty good in this one. He feels like he got a lot of it
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  right. They've got a massive match up
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  next week going to Anfield. We'll talk about that.
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  So I'm curious again, I I'm curious week to week with Man
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  United, which team is going to show up.
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  You're going to have to give me your take on what you think when
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  they go to Anfield, what's going to happen.
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  But yeah, for right now, I think rumor Ruben Amaram's job is
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  safe. Goes the international break
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  with a win. Yeah, yeah, You know,
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  Sunderland, Luca, they they're they one of the best starts for
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  a newly promoted team since 20/12/2013, where West Ham were
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  sitting on five points. Jacques.
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  Sitting on five points. I'm sorry, I'm sitting on 11.
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  Oh, OK 11 points at that point in the season was, like I said,
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  they've had one of the best starts for a newly promoted
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  team. Their last three goals all
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  assisted by Jacques. No assists today.
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  Obviously they didn't score any goals, but Jacques has been
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  great for them. We'll see.
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  Like I said, they're a fun team to watch.
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  I'm excited to kind of see if they can sort of hang around.
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  You know, we've talked about these great starts, but this is
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  now the point in the season, like we're almost a fifth of the
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  way through the season now. And I think like when we get
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  back from this international break, the next month or two
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  will really be telling to see if these teams can maintain this
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  sort of level of success that they've had.
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  Yep. All right, Luca, well, let's
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  move on to our team, OK? Arsenal played West Ham at home.
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  What did you think of the Arsenal West Ham game?
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  So I predicted 3 nil and then the two nil, I got the winner
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  right? So in the 38th minute, Rice
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  scores against his old team for the second year in a row.
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  Then Saka in the 67th minute of PK and Odegard came off injured
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  in this game again for like the third time with a knee injury
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  that they're looking at now. But you that's pretty much it
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  for that game, not much else. OK, So what did you think on the
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  on on the PK? So also, I guess we should
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  mention that Rice goal. You know what's interesting to
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  me about this goal? Of course he's scoring against
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  his old team, right? He's a sort of a West Ham
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  legend. He got them a trophy.
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  He was their captain for a long time.
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  Odegard had to come off in this game.
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  They Arsenal started a real attacking lineup in this game as
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  a Odegard in the midfield together with Rice kind of then
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  pushing further back. But then of course, Odegard has
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  to come off injured. They bring on Zuba Mendi, who's
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  our most defensive midfielder. But that actually then allowed
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  Rice to push up further forward, which to me put him in a good
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  position to be in the box for that rebound that he bangs home.
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  So you wonder if that little, you know, having to make a
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  tactical adjustment because of injury actually paid off by
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  getting Rice further forward. He probably would have been
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  further back if it have been Eze and Odegard still in the field
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  at the same time. What did you think on the foul?
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  So what would the ball, I think is what played into Timber.
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  He kind of does a nice little turn this.
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  What do you think? So he he's getting to me, it's
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  clearly a foul. He's sort of getting fouled
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  outside the box, continues on inside.
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  So what would you think is this APK for?
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  You I yes, it's a well, it's foul in my opinion, but I don't
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  think it's APKI think we got a little bit lucky on this because
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  I do think that foul initially was outside the box.
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  I know it's tricky because right, so they you initiate
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  contact maybe outside the box, but he's sort of maintaining the
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  run into the box. I think that was sort of the
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  argument, yeah. I don't know, like the exact
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  rule on that because, you know, it's like the act of the foul
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  carried through starting outside the box that ends up inside the
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  box. Yeah, it's it's one of those.
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  I could have kind of seen that go either way.
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  And I'd have to probably actually look at the official
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  rule on something like that. I feel like we saw that once in
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  a game already this year where some guy was sort of being
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  fouled outside the box. And I think they said if you're
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  sort of continuing the act of what you were doing inside the
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  box, it's actually APK. So, you know, maybe the refs did
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  get this one right. Either way, Socca bangs at home.
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  We went to nothing. We talked about managers Luca
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  and milestones. So Mikel Arteta's 300th game in
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  charge of Arsenal. And your stock is 200th?
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  It was soccer's 200th Premier League game and amazing thing
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  about him Luca, so he it's his 200th Premier League game.
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  He now has a hundred goal involvement for Arsenal.
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  He's got 55 goals, 45 assists. He's the 7th youngest player in
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  Premier League history to get a hundred goal involvement.
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  He's only 24 years old. We think he's been an Arsenal
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  forever and we've just been seeing him, but he's only he
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  just turned 24. I know it's incredible forever.
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  And I mean you think if you think he stays, if he can stay
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  healthy, I mean he could, he could rack.
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  How many more appearances do you think?
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  I mean he rack up, you know, 5-6. 100 I mean, yeah, he could
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  be an Arsenal legend. He could, he could, I mean, he
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  has all the makings of an Arsenal legend, right?
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  He came from Halen, which is Arsenal's Academy.
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  You know, he's he's English, you know, he's like I said, one of
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  our own. He's like come through the
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  Academy. He's been like the star boy of
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  the team for all this time. Everybody loves this guy.
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  He seems like he's a super nice guy.
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  And then on top of that, he's like an amazing player.
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  So I think right, the only thing left for him to do, which also
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  kind of feeds into, I got a question about Arteta for you is
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  win trophies, right? Yeah.
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  So let me ask you this about Arteta, Luca, 300 games in
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  charge of Arsenal. We are clearly a better team
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  than we were before Arteta came. You know, Arteta did win the FA
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  Cup when he kind of came in. He took them and won an FA Cup.
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  He's won a Community Shield, maybe 2.
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  I don't even know if I consider that a trophy to be honest.
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  With you. Yeah, kind of.
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  But it's just like one game and it's it's sort of a glorified
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  exhibition. But do you in your opinion Luca,
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  does Arteta need to win a trophy this year to to keep his job?
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  I, I don't think so only because I think he's still like he's got
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  a good team and I think even if we don't win one this year, but
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  our team is really young and can do some improvement and possibly
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  win a trophy next year. If we don't win one this year,
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  which I actually think we might win one this year.
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  But if we don't, I feel like he'll keep his job for next year
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  and maybe one more year. If we don't win one, then it's
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  it's going to be close, but I think he will.
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  It's tough because I mean, it's, you know, at Arsenal you're
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  expecting like to win big trophies.
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  Like it's not enough to just qualify for Champions League or
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  finish second. I mean, the expectation is, is
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  that you're going to win Premier League, you're going to have a
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  shot of Champions League. I mean, although Arsenal have
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  never won the Champions League, you know, even FA Cups, Arsenal
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  have won more FA Cups than anybody else.
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  So I don't really consider the Carabao Cup a real trophy.
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  I mean, it is a trophy. Carabao Cup.
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  I don't really consider it like a real trophy that that doesn't
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  really move the needle for me. I, I, I, I understand that it
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  look, It's A Knockout tournament, it's a trophy, but
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  to me it's pretty low down. Yeah, but like, it's still a
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  tournament. It's like like just like like
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  some James Island tournament for me.
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  It's like you're saying that is not a if we win, that's not a
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  trophy. My argument for it is that it
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  doesn't include all levels of English football right?
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  It's what the top 4 levels of English football?
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  Most teams Luca run out B squads, especially the top teams
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  as they get further along when you get to like the
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  quarterfinals and semi finals in the starters fight.
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  But most of the time it's really the bench to B team that goes
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  out and plays these Carabelle Cup games.
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  Yeah, I guess, but I still think it's a good turn.
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  Well, what? What?
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  What is a better trophy? The Community Shield or the
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  caramel? Carabel Cup.
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  OK, but you would also what if it would it be ranked 4th behind
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  Premier League title, Champions League, FA Cup?
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  Caribou Cup, Yeah, No, no. Wait wait, Caribou Cup is more
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  important than that one of those 3?
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  No. It's 4th on that list, right?
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  It's the fourth most important trophy.
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  That English team can win, Yes, Yes.
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  OK, All right, All right. Well, then we're on the same
• 18:51
  page there. Yeah.
• 18:52
  OK, fair enough. All right.
• 18:53
  That's about as much as I want to say about the Caribou.
• 18:55
  OK. All right, Lucas.
• 18:58
  So Arsenal, you know, West Ham, obviously Luca, not doing very
• 19:03
  well this year. They've got a new manager,
• 19:05
  though. I think Luca, they're gonna
• 19:07
  start to do better. My in my opinion, I think Nuno
• 19:09
  is a very good coach. I think he's gonna get that team
• 19:12
  better. They they've got some quality
• 19:14
  guys out. Yeah.
• 19:15
  Hockey top Bowen, Yeah, I mean, I think there's some there's
• 19:19
  some talent there. They should not be this bad.
• 19:22
  And I I I kind of look for him to get that team organized.
• 19:25
  He did great with Forest last year.
• 19:27
  So let's keep an eye on West Ham.
• 19:29
  Look, I'm not saying they're going to finish top 10, but I
• 19:32
  think they're going to stay up. That's my hot take is that I I
• 19:35
  think West Ham will end up staying up at the end of the
• 19:37
  season. We got a long way to go,
• 19:38
  obviously, but we'll see. Like the only reason Nudo is not
• 19:43
  at force right now is because he did not get along with their
• 19:46
  like general manager. But other than that he Forest.
• 19:51
  There's a lot that could have gone into this.
• 19:52
  Like Forest actually would have been a better team right now if
• 19:55
  Nuna was still there, but because he didn't get along with
• 19:59
  Edu, their general manager is it.
• 20:01
  An owner, yeah. Edu is like the sporting
• 20:04
  director, the general manager and then Marinakis is the owner.
• 20:07
  Yeah, he. Apparently he didn't get along
• 20:08
  with either one. Yes.
• 20:09
  So that's the only reason he got fired.
• 20:12
  He was doing good for them. Yeah, he got he got him into
• 20:14
  Europe, you know, they qualified for Europa League and now
• 20:17
  they're making a mess of that. But yeah, anyway, we'll get on
• 20:20
  to them in a second. But all right, Luca, the other
• 20:22
  big, big game here. OK, the last one to finish up
• 20:25
  Saturday, we had Liverpool, the defending champs, going to
• 20:29
  Stamford Bridge to play Chelsea. Holy smokes Luca, talk me
• 20:33
  through this one. OK, so this ended 21 Chelsea,
• 20:37
  which is crazy because I predicted 2 nil Liverpool.
• 20:41
  In the 14th minute, Kaisto has that you rocket from outside of
• 20:44
  the box into the top corner, it's a bullet.
• 20:48
  Then in the 63rd minute, Gapo ties it up and in the 96th
• 20:53
  minute, pissed around. He kind of comes in perfect,
• 20:58
  perfectly timed run. Just needs to guide it in and
• 21:01
  does. And he's the second youngest
• 21:03
  Brazilian player to score in the Premier League.
• 21:06
  Should in Chelsea win two one. That is an insane ending.
• 21:09
  Cue the celebrations. Cue Enzo Maresca losing.
• 21:13
  Oh yeah. Running down the sideline to
• 21:15
  celebrate with his players. Yeah, and then he gets a red
• 21:17
  card for it. Yeah, he got a SEC.
• 21:19
  He picked up a second yellow. I think he left the coaching box
• 21:21
  and got a red card. Of course he's not going to
• 21:24
  care. He'll take the win any Yeah.
• 21:26
  But he's gonna miss another game.
• 21:27
  He's gonna miss a game for that. That is true.
• 21:29
  That is true. He is gonna miss the game.
• 21:31
  But look, I don't fault him at all.
• 21:33
  Man I'd be going crazy if your team just knocked off Liverpool
• 21:35
  with a goal like that that late only.
• 21:38
  He was not on a yellow, he would he would have still be in on the
• 21:42
  field. Yeah, so look at Liverpool now
• 21:45
  are winless in their last five at Stamford Bridge.
• 21:48
  So they struggle when they go there.
• 21:50
  Now they've had a lot of ties, you know, they've got three ties
• 21:52
  now and two losses. But Liverpool struggle at
• 21:55
  Stamford Bridge. Liverpool Luca hadn't lost
• 21:57
  consecutive Premier League matches since April of 2023.
• 22:01
  They've now, of course lost three in all competitions, 2 in
• 22:04
  the Premier League, they lost in the Champions League, and look
• 22:07
  at This is the first time in Arnie Slot's entire coaching
• 22:10
  career that he's lost three games in all competitions.
• 22:12
  Because he coached at IX and you're usually really.
• 22:14
  Good at well, fair enough, that's true, but he also, you
• 22:17
  know, you know, it's still pretty impressive to not lose
• 22:19
  three straight in all competitions.
• 22:21
  I mean, until now, you know, until now.
• 22:22
  So, you know, this is a bit of a wobble here for Liverpool now.
• 22:26
  You know, they they raced out five wins in five games.
• 22:30
  Everybody's talking Esacs gonna come in and score a million
• 22:32
  goals. This team's gonna, you know, go
• 22:34
  undefeated. Like they barely won a lot of
• 22:36
  their games they won in like the 80 and plus over minutes.
• 22:41
  Well, that's just it right? To me, you know, when you talk
• 22:44
  about luck in sports, luck tends to even itself out.
• 22:47
  So they want a lot. With those late goals we talked
• 22:50
  about, there were some what was like three or four games.
• 22:53
  They're scoring in the 85th minute to win games.
• 22:55
  Well, luck tends to even itself out.
• 22:57
  So what have they now they've lost?
• 22:59
  A couple in. A row couple in a row, they lose
• 23:01
  to palace way late in the game. They lose to Chelsea way late in
• 23:04
  the game. And I also think this speaks to
• 23:06
  the the the deficiency of Liverpool, which is their
• 23:08
  defense. Yes, everybody talks about and
• 23:10
  they've got attacking talent, no question about yes, but I think
• 23:14
  the problem with this team outside of Virgil Van Dyke is I
• 23:17
  don't know that they're defenders.
• 23:19
  Luca are really, you know, world class.
• 23:22
  Like Fring, Pong and Kurkas have not done very much for them.
• 23:26
  No, I mean, you know, and look, you could, we can always just
• 23:28
  sit here and say, OK, they need more time.
• 23:30
  Like Kurkas was in the Premier League, so he should be used to
• 23:33
  it. But granted, he's going to a new
• 23:34
  team. Fring Pong comes over from the
• 23:35
  Bundesliga again there. I understand they're on a new
• 23:38
  team. I'm willing to be a little
• 23:39
  patient with people. But you know, they have not
• 23:41
  looked good. Works does not look good.
• 23:43
  You know this game, Chelsea deserved this win.
• 23:46
  They had way more chances in this game.
• 23:48
  They outplayed Liverpool in this game.
• 23:50
  Liverpool's only chance was like their goal.
• 23:52
  Yeah, I mean, so this isn't like a fluke result.
• 23:54
  Yes, they get a late, late winner, but and remember,
• 23:57
  they're playing without Cole Palmer.
• 23:58
  They had some injuries on defense.
• 24:01
  But I you know, Liverpool, this is going to be interesting kind
• 24:03
  of moving forward. I think, like I said, I we've
• 24:05
  mentioned before, one of the most underrated things that
• 24:07
  happened at the transfer deadline was Mark Gahy almost
• 24:11
  signing for Liverpool. Like it was literally like just
• 24:13
  people needed to sign paperwork and he was going to be a
• 24:16
  Liverpool player. It didn't work out.
• 24:18
  He had to go back to Palace, but that is what they needed more
• 24:21
  than an attacker in my opinion essentially.
• 24:23
  How did? How did that not work out?
• 24:25
  Did they run out of? Time.
• 24:26
  Well, so apparently the story is that the owner, Steve Parrish
• 24:31
  got a call from the coach, Oliver Glasner and Glasner was
• 24:33
  like, I'm going to quit. You just sold heads A to
• 24:35
  Arsenal. If you sell gay heat to
• 24:37
  Liverpool, like I'm out of here. And then Steve Parrish kind of
• 24:41
  like stalled and delayed and then they sort of missed the
• 24:43
  deadline. But it sounds like they weren't
• 24:45
  going to let him go because his contract gays contract is up at
• 24:48
  the end of the year. So the, the risk Palace is
• 24:51
  running is that they can wait till next summer and then he
• 24:54
  could leave on a free like Trent did at Liverpool.
• 24:57
  So the question is like, do you, you know, do you sell them with
• 25:00
  the and and gay? He said he's not going to sign a
• 25:02
  contract at Crystal Palace, so he could always change his mind.
• 25:06
  But the question is, if you're Crystal Palace, do you sell a
• 25:09
  player, you know, last summer or you can sell them in January,
• 25:13
  maybe get 30-40 million in for him?
• 25:15
  Or do you just keep them all year, see what you can do with
• 25:17
  him, and then you let him leave for free in the summer?
• 25:20
  I mean. What would you do, Luke, if
• 25:22
  you're, if you're the owner of Crystal Palace, Liverpool comes
• 25:24
  in. Here's $40 million for Gay He.
• 25:26
  Do you keep them for the year or do you take the money?
• 25:30
  I would take the money because if I were gay he I would stay
• 25:35
  because Crystal Powell. Actually I would have mixed
• 25:39
  feelings because Crystal powers are really good right now.
• 25:42
  But like I don't know what's going to happen the next year.
• 25:45
  I would take the money though because he said if he says he's
• 25:49
  not going to sign another contract, he's not going to sign
• 25:51
  another contract and I think I would just take the money now so
• 25:55
  I don't risk losing a defender like Liverpool is losing Trent
• 26:00
  and lost him for free. It's a it's a tough decision,
• 26:04
  you know? Yeah.
• 26:04
  But you know, you're losing, you know, one of your best players,
• 26:08
  I think. Is he the captain?
• 26:09
  I feel like he's maybe the. Captain, I think he is.
• 26:11
  Yeah, as I say, you know, and it's tough.
• 26:13
  And look, they've kept him, and look how well they've done,
• 26:16
  right? Crystal Palace is off to this,
• 26:18
  you know, a great start. So, you know, they've, you know,
• 26:21
  built on this FA Cup championship that they've had.
• 26:24
  You know, but you're right, for a team like Palace to try to
• 26:27
  bring in $40 million, it's a lot to them, you know, like bigger
• 26:30
  clubs, 40 million maybe doesn't You can say what's 40 million,
• 26:36
  but club like Palace of these, that's a lot of money.
• 26:38
  So it's not an easy decision. Don't envy owners.
• 26:42
  Like I said, having to make these decisions on these with
• 26:43
  these players. And he wanted to leave is the
• 26:46
  thing. So then you worry if he comes
• 26:47
  back, is he gonna be unhappy? 2K's credit, everything says
• 26:51
  that. He said like, I'm back here, I'm
• 26:53
  here now. I'm going to give my all for
• 26:54
  Palace. So Mark Gay, he's acting like a
• 26:56
  professional, which is good to see.
• 26:58
  Some of these guys would be throwing tantrums, refusing to
• 27:00
  play Alexander Isaac, you know, But yeah, So, you know,
• 27:07
  interesting game, you know, Chelsea with these late
• 27:09
  finishes. Exciting.
• 27:12
  Yeah. Esteval, like I said, Luca, he's
• 27:14
  the second youngest Brazilian ever score in the Premier
• 27:16
  League. Raphael for Man United is the
• 27:18
  youngest. But he looks like an interesting
• 27:20
  player. I think he's only 18 years old,
• 27:22
  so one to keep an eye on, you know, as Chelsea continue to
• 27:24
  just buy and sell guys, he's one that, you know, I think may be
• 27:28
  there for a little bit. He looks like an exciting young
• 27:30
  player. Yeah, how do we get the Crystal
• 27:33
  Palace? By talking about Liverpool
• 27:35
  versus Chelsea. Well, we started talking about
• 27:38
  Mark, Mark Gahey going to Liverpool because Liverpool's
• 27:41
  defense is not, I think, going to be their problem this year.
• 27:44
  Look, I think if Liverpool don't win, and look, they still could
• 27:47
  easily win, don't get me the championship.
• 27:49
  I mean, the Premier League. I'm not saying they're not going
• 27:51
  to do it. If they don't, I guarantee it'll
• 27:52
  come down to their defense. It'll be that they gave up too
• 27:55
  many goals or they gave up too many late winners because the
• 27:58
  teams that win the Premier League, if you look at it,
• 28:00
  they've got really, really good defenses.
• 28:02
  Maybe they don't always have to have the best defense, but you
• 28:04
  cannot give up to three goals in games.
• 28:08
  You've got to be giving up like 0 and one in most games.
• 28:10
  And that's how we got on the gay is that to me, that was a big
• 28:15
  like non transfer that happened. So all right, Luca, we were on
• 28:19
  some some of the other games, maybe not quite as exciting, but
• 28:22
  let's run through some of these. We had Wolves and Brighton.
• 28:26
  What about this one? So this game ended one one I
• 28:29
  predicted one nil. Brighton Verbrugen had an own
• 28:34
  goal in the 21st minute. It was a netsy off the crossbar
• 28:38
  and hit off through Verbrugen's back.
• 28:41
  And then the 86th minute gem Van Hecke off of a header and ties
• 28:47
  it up. And that's pretty much it for
• 28:48
  that game. Yeah, Wolves had a lot of
• 28:50
  chances in this game. Yeah, they they played well.
• 28:54
  You know, they just feel like they've been real unlucky to not
• 28:56
  get to win the past two weeks. But maybe they kind of build on
• 28:59
  these two draws that they've had and start trying to, you know,
• 29:02
  get it together. But they they had chances.
• 29:03
  I think Larson hit the post and and they had some good shots and
• 29:08
  good chances that more than than Brighton had in this game.
• 29:11
  So maybe they're a little unlucky to get a draw, but is
• 29:14
  what it is. Each team will take a point.
• 29:16
  All right, Luca, we got Newcastle and Nottingham Forest.
• 29:20
  Talk to me about this one. All right, so this game ended 2
• 29:23
  nil Newcastle. I predicted it to be two one
• 29:25
  Newcastle. So I was close Bruno gimerice in
• 29:30
  the 58th minute had a really nice going to the top corner and
• 29:33
  there's some controversial things on this.
• 29:37
  Was this a foul on Morgan Gibbs white when he in the build up?
• 29:41
  I I say no, I think he gets the ball and then hits him and he
• 29:45
  didn't like kick out at him. He just kind of hits him and
• 29:48
  then Morgan Gibbs White goes down and score.
• 29:52
  And then in the 84th minute, Boldemone scores a peak game to
• 29:56
  the top corner, which is a rocket.
• 29:59
  Risky, but gets it and it's a clear and obvious foul.
• 30:04
  Elliot Anderson, kind of heavy touch and then kind of gets
• 30:08
  clips in down and it's definitely a foul.
• 30:11
  And now Voldemort has scored in all three Premier League home
• 30:16
  games for Newcastle. Yeah, he's slowly sort of
• 30:18
  becoming like a club legend here.
• 30:20
  I mean, you got to love that. Like he's, you know, newly
• 30:23
  signed to Takeover for ESAC, You know, the the Bayern Munich
• 30:28
  manager, sporting director was criticizing how much Newcastle
• 30:34
  spent to buy him from Stuttgart. Because apparently I think
• 30:37
  Bayern wanted to buy him so that I think it's a little bit of
• 30:39
  sour grape. So they were saying they're
• 30:41
  idiots for spending that much on him.
• 30:43
  And it was kind of like I said, three goals and three home
• 30:46
  games. You know, this is like you said,
• 30:48
  a real nice PK that he took his other two goals look or headers
• 30:52
  that he had and this one's APK. Interesting.
• 30:55
  So he's 66. We talked about it.
• 30:56
  He's a he's a giant. He's got 2 header goals.
• 30:59
  Last year. He only had one of his seventeen
• 31:02
  goals was a header last year for student.
• 31:04
  So it's kind of weird. He's already come in and like
• 31:06
  doubled his header total because I feel like this guy would be
• 31:08
  scoring 5-6 header goals every year.
• 31:12
  Newcastle, they, they do well against so they've won their
• 31:14
  last four, They've won seven of their last eight against
• 31:17
  Nottingham Forest. So new Newcastle I think likes
• 31:20
  to see Nottingham Forest on the schedule.
• 31:23
  Luca, Nottingham Forest and Pasta Kaglu been in charge now
• 31:26
  for a little over three weeks, seven games.
• 31:29
  He has not won a game yet. Geez, that's not a very good
• 31:33
  start for him. No, not a very good start for
• 31:35
  him. He of course, the Spurs manager
• 31:37
  last year won the Europa League with them, but.
• 31:38
  Finished 17th. But finished 17th and he got
• 31:41
  fired, so he got hired here. This is a rough start, Luca.
• 31:45
  Are we? How much longer do you give
• 31:48
  engine charts? Like if you're the owner, and
• 31:50
  I'm not saying I don't want you to predict, OK, you've fired
• 31:53
  Nuno Espirito Santos, you've hired and Pasha Kaglu.
• 31:56
  You've now gone seven games without a win.
• 31:59
  How much longer do you give him? I give him one to two games and
• 32:03
  if they don't win those games and win time, I don't take that
• 32:10
  win. If you don't win at least one of
• 32:12
  those games, then he's he's gone.
• 32:16
  He's a goner for me. All right, so you're giving him
• 32:19
  one to two games? I'll give him 2-2 you're.
• 32:23
  Going to give him two more and then it better be, you know,
• 32:26
  some results. One of them needs to be a win.
• 32:28
  All right, so here's what he has in front of them.
• 32:30
  Luca, they go. They're home to Chelsea and
• 32:34
  they're home to Porto. Then they are at Bournemouth,
• 32:39
  home to Man United. Not exactly an easy stretch.
• 32:50
  Yeah, I mean, it's, it's tough to see where, you know, I mean
• 32:53
  the Leeds game, you know, it may be there, but I mean, it's not
• 32:58
  an easy run here. He's probably should have tried
• 33:01
  to get, you know, get a win if it's good.
• 33:02
  But now cuz like. Yeah.
• 33:04
  So we'll see. We'll see.
• 33:06
  I mean, I think there is precedent with teams firing 2
• 33:09
  managers in one year so far far as maybe you know, firing 2
• 33:13
  managers in one year kind of crazy.
• 33:16
  It's. It's still been the beginning of
• 33:18
  the year. I know, I know.
• 33:19
  We're only seven games in Newcastle, Luca playing much
• 33:22
  better. They only have one loss in their
• 33:23
  last five and that loss came to Arsenal with a very late goal.
• 33:29
  I'm going to continue to say I think Newcastle's A-Team.
• 33:32
  That's definitely going to be sniffing around top six or
• 33:35
  seven. I think there's a lot of quality
• 33:37
  on that team. I like Eddie Howe as a coach, so
• 33:41
  I like Newcastle to get it together and move up.
• 33:45
  Yes, Luke, I understand. I said 6-7, go ahead.
• 33:48
  All right, get it out, get it out.
• 33:51
  All right, 6-7. All right, Luke, let's move on
• 33:55
  to the next game here. Let's move on to Everton and
• 33:59
  Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace Luca was the last
• 34:02
  undefeated team. What happened in this game?
• 34:05
  They actually lost this game. I predicted 2 nil.
• 34:07
  Crystal Palace Everton wins this 21 and Munoz in the 37th minute,
• 34:13
  he is like a good a good wing back, a very attacking wing back
• 34:17
  and enjoy in the 76th minute off of a PK and Greenwich in the
• 34:24
  94th minute first Everton goal and Crystal Palace lose after 19
• 34:30
  games unbeaten. Yeah, an amazing run, a club
• 34:32
  record run. Like I said, this club has been
• 34:34
  around for over 100 years. They broke the record midweek
• 34:37
  with the Europa Conference League win, 19 games unbeaten.
• 34:41
  Just incredible. An FA Cup win and all that.
• 34:44
  Credit to them, a lot of people. Luke is saying, though, this is
• 34:48
  their third game in a week, right?
• 34:49
  A Premier League game. You have the midweek Europe
• 34:52
  game. Is it heavy legs?
• 34:53
  You know that kind of like, is it catching up?
• 34:56
  Teams like this don't have the depth of like the big clubs, you
• 35:00
  know, like Arsenal, City, Liverpool, Chelsea.
• 35:02
  Yeah, we would be OK against Everton because we have so much
• 35:05
  depth, yeah. It's tough.
• 35:07
  That's the advantage like our clubs have, is to be able to
• 35:09
  spend a lot of money, add this depth and to be able to manage
• 35:12
  games like this. You know, Crystal Palace doesn't
• 35:14
  really have that, so it's going to be interesting to see how
• 35:17
  they sort of manage rotation with the squad that they have as
• 35:20
  they kind of manage through some of these European games and the
• 35:23
  Premier League games as well as some of the other cup games,
• 35:25
  Carabel Cup, FA Cup. Hopefully.
• 35:28
  Like I said, I think Palace and Bournemouth have been two of the
• 35:30
  best stories to start the year. I want to see, you know, these
• 35:35
  teams do well and kind of hang around up here.
• 35:37
  We'll keep an eye on it. Like we'll say we'll see as now
• 35:39
  we get into like, you know, the busy fixtures games are becoming
• 35:42
  as we get towards December where there's like a congested fixture
• 35:45
  schedule. We'll see how they can manage
• 35:47
  it. But great start by then, like I
• 35:50
  said, you know they're going to be disappointed.
• 35:51
  You know, late goal. They could have had a tie.
• 35:54
  Everton Everton's playing pretty well, 332 and two.
• 35:58
  They're undefeated at home. They're loving their new
• 36:00
  stadium. Luca, listen to this.
• 36:02
  Everton have only won three their last 31 matches when
• 36:07
  they've conceded the first goal. All three of those have been
• 36:11
  against Crystal Palace. Wait, what?
• 36:13
  There's something about they give up a goal to Crystal Palace
• 36:15
  and they just, they know they're going to come back and get it.
• 36:17
  Yeah. And that wild, like I said, most
• 36:19
  of the time because Everton doesn't score a ton of goals,
• 36:22
  you know, historically when they give up a goal, they typically
• 36:26
  do not come back and win. But they've done it 3 * 31
• 36:28
  matches, all against Palace. Palace struggle like they've
• 36:32
  only won 6 of 31 meetings with Everton.
• 36:34
  Palace sort of struggle. Like I said with Everton, they
• 36:38
  did today. Like I said, Everton, like I
• 36:40
  said, better than I thought they were going to be this year.
• 36:42
  Greelish has been great for them, gets his first goal for
• 36:47
  Everton. You can see how happy and
• 36:48
  thrilled he was. It's.
• 36:50
  Also in the 94th minute, yeah. Another late goal, just the one
• 36:53
  of the early themes of the Premier League just never turn
• 36:57
  the game off until that final whistle is blown because there
• 37:00
  have been so many. Extra time.
• 37:01
  Goals and I love it. It's so exciting.
• 37:04
  Yes, I love it. All right, Luca, let's move on
• 37:07
  to Aston Villa verse Burnley. Take me through it.
• 37:11
  So not much here except for the goals.
• 37:15
  I predicted 2 nil Aston Villa I was pretty close and ended 21
• 37:19
  Aston Villa Mullen gets a brace here with and the he scores in
• 37:24
  the 25th minute and the 63rd minute and then over the corner
• 37:29
  who wrote Chukwu? He came from Chelsea.
• 37:33
  He not very good defending here. He was wide open header and
• 37:38
  that's pretty much it for that game.
• 37:40
  Yeah, you know, interesting look at.
• 37:42
  So Malin got his fourth ever start.
• 37:44
  He's at 21 appearances for Astonville.
• 37:46
  This is only his fourth ever start.
• 37:48
  He's clearly a guy that they like to sort of typically bring
• 37:50
  off the bench. But, you know, this is the way
• 37:54
  you make a coach start, you right, get you get a start.
• 37:56
  What do you do? You go out and you get a brace.
• 37:59
  Love is Yeah, we are way back when.
• 38:02
  I mean, a long, long time ago he did.
• 38:04
  They, of course, bought him from Dortmund.
• 38:06
  He was pretty good there. He I love the second goal, Luca,
• 38:11
  I love his run kind of calling for the ball.
• 38:13
  Well played into him by Morgan Rogers.
• 38:16
  I love that. Like when these guys are sort of
• 38:18
  moving for that first touch into space, run on it.
• 38:20
  Great finish. So, you know, well done by him.
• 38:24
  Another coaching milestone, Luca.
• 38:26
  Unai Emery, it's his 150th game in charge of Villa.
• 38:30
  What now? He's been there a little bit
• 38:31
  longer. I think the most people realize
• 38:33
  villain now Luca are unbeaten in their last four with two wins.
• 38:37
  Another team that I. Think you're going to get it
• 38:40
  together? Yeah, it's another team started
• 38:42
  off terrible, you know, but just too much, just too many good
• 38:47
  players for them to be, you know, 18th, 19th in the table.
• 38:51
  And I think in teams like Newcastle and Villa, just watch
• 38:54
  the table, they're going to just slowly creep and creep and.
• 38:57
  Creep chip away at these team Swedes.
• 38:59
  In the table, all these like great stories and we love sort
• 39:02
  of seeing the Sunderlands do well and all these other, you
• 39:04
  know, Bourne this do well. But a lot of times these sort of
• 39:08
  big teams with deep rosters. So Villa, like I said, playing
• 39:12
  much better. They're finally scoring goals.
• 39:14
  What was it, four or five games without even?
• 39:16
  Scoring. At the start of the season.
• 39:17
  So they're they're looking way better Burnley and look, I mean,
• 39:21
  they're going to take the win, but like Burnley's not very
• 39:22
  good. They're struggling big time.
• 39:25
  One win, 1, you know, one draw, 5 losses a start.
• 39:28
  So this is this is. They're 19th, right?
• 39:31
  Yeah, I believe they're 19th. I mean, you know, they're
• 39:34
  they're lucky that Wolves literally don't have a win on
• 39:36
  the season. But yeah, Burnley and West Ham
• 39:39
  are 18th, 19th or they're on four points.
• 39:41
  So the relegation zone right now would be Burnley, West Ham and
• 39:44
  Wolves, you know. So yeah, struggling.
• 39:47
  I don't know. I'm more, you know, worried
• 39:49
  about Burnley. I, I'm not real confident in
• 39:52
  them staying up as much as I am. Like Leeds and Sunderland, we'll
• 39:55
  we'll kind of see. But Burnley struggling.
• 39:57
  So most teams are going to be going to play them expecting to
• 39:59
  win. Yeah.
• 40:01
  All right, look at the last game of the week.
• 40:03
  We had Brentford at the G Tech hosting Man City.
• 40:07
  What about this one? I predicted 2 nil, it was a one
• 40:10
  nil. Well, I predicted 2 nil City and
• 40:13
  ended one nil city. Holland scored in the ninth
• 40:17
  minute. Frontie.
• 40:18
  It was his ninth school of the year.
• 40:19
  Roderick came off hurt with a hamstring injury.
• 40:24
  Another milestone Pep's 250th Premier League win.
• 40:29
  He's the fastest manager to reach 250 wins.
• 40:34
  Yeah, So, yeah, Holland, I mean, just keep scoring every week,
• 40:40
  you know, it's amazing. Nine goals.
• 40:42
  He's even scoring for Norway when he plays there.
• 40:46
  Yeah, I, I mean, you know, this was just sort of business as
• 40:48
  usual for for City in this game. You know, they go in there.
• 40:52
  Brentford didn't offer much in this game.
• 40:55
  There wasn't actually much except for that one goal.
• 40:57
  Yeah, Rodri had to come off injured with a hamstring.
• 40:59
  Keep an eye on that. It sounds like it's not as
• 41:01
  serious as maybe they first thought.
• 41:02
  So he's not gonna play for Spain over the international break,
• 41:04
  but sounds like maybe he may even be back for their first
• 41:07
  game. But yeah, I think the story here
• 41:10
  is a talk about Pep a little bit.
• 41:11
  You know, he's generally considered, if not the best
• 41:14
  manager ever, one of the best managers.
• 41:16
  So he gets 250 Premier League wins.
• 41:20
  He did. He did it in 349 games.
• 41:23
  Alex Ferguson, legendary manager at Man United, did it in 404
• 41:27
  games. Arsene Wenger, legendary manager
• 41:30
  at Arsenal, did it in 423 games. So he did it, you know, well
• 41:36
  before them. Interestingly enough, if you
• 41:39
  look at Premier League managers, all time wins in the Premier
• 41:43
  League, Sir Alex Ferguson is first.
• 41:45
  He's got 528 wins and that's pretty amazing.
• 41:49
  That's literally double even what Pep has right now.
• 41:52
  Arsene Wenger had seven, I'm sorry, 475 wins.
• 41:57
  Surprisingly #3 David Moyes #3 he's got 279 wins.
• 42:03
  Because he he coached United when they were really good.
• 42:07
  Well, he coached a lot of teams and I think that's the point is
• 42:09
  that he's been just around the Premier League a whole lot.
• 42:12
  And then Pep is 4th. So he, with his 250 wins, puts
• 42:16
  him 4th overall. You know, it's interesting when
• 42:20
  you look at titles too, Sir Alex Ferguson, obviously way ahead.
• 42:24
  He's got. 13. PEP has 6, 2 managers have
• 42:29
  three. Your early trivia question, can
• 42:32
  you tell me one of them you should get one of them is hard.
• 42:36
  There's two managers with three titles.
• 42:39
  Is it Zenger? Yes, he's got.
• 42:40
  He's along with three. That's the one I figured you'd
• 42:42
  get. Arsenal, Legendary Arsenal
• 42:44
  manager Arsene Wenger. No, no.
• 42:48
  Only thing is it is he like famous like.
• 42:51
  Kind of. His nickname is the Chosen 1.
• 42:55
  Portuguese coached all. He's coached like a million
• 42:59
  people. Jose Marino has three titles.
• 43:02
  You know, you kind of. Because he got united again.
• 43:05
  Well, in Chelsea. Yeah, Chelsea, yeah, that's.
• 43:08
  It and then then there's like a couple managers with one, but
• 43:11
  basically if you win two Premier League titles, that puts you
• 43:14
  like 4th on the list, you know, I guess there's a tie for for
• 43:17
  4th, you know, but I mean, it just goes to show you how hard
• 43:20
  it is, I think, and also how demanding the job is that these
• 43:24
  guys don't stay for that long. I think it's just such a
• 43:26
  demanding job. They don't stay for that long.
• 43:29
  Like the days of, you know, Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger
• 43:32
  managing for like 20 years. Like feels like that's over.
• 43:35
  You know, I think, I think even Pep is going year by year.
• 43:38
  You know, I think this could be his last year.
• 43:40
  Because, like, he's not been good last year, He was not great
• 43:44
  this year. Yeah, it's a rocky start, but I
• 43:48
  don't know. Well, I don't wanna.
• 43:50
  I don't know if we can say he's not been good.
• 43:52
  He was all right. He was all.
• 43:54
  Right. I mean their standards are
• 43:55
  pretty insane. Good, but not as good as they
• 43:58
  were. Well, it's just he didn't win a
• 43:59
  trophy last year, Pep, and that's super rare.
• 44:02
  I mean, Pep almost always wins at least one.
• 44:04
  Of course, he's won the trouble with City, but yeah.
• 44:08
  And the other step for this Luca is Holland has now scored in 22
• 44:12
  of 23 stadiums he's played in in the Premier League.
• 44:14
  So he basically has scored in like every stadium but one.
• 44:17
  What is that one? Do you want him to throw out a
• 44:20
  gas? Crystal Palace.
• 44:22
  Because not a bad guess. Anfield he's never scored at.
• 44:24
  Anfield Oh, OK, I made him this year.
• 44:27
  Yeah, I was going to say they they still go there.
• 44:29
  So the way he's scoring, he's scoring in every game.
• 44:31
  So it'll probably, you know, get to 23 of 23.
• 44:34
  But yeah, Lucas City, now 41 and two, I think City kind of
• 44:39
  quietly going about their business, hanging around, you
• 44:42
  know, they had that little blip where they had two losses in a
• 44:45
  row, but. Then they tied us.
• 44:47
  Arsenal. They tied us, but you know, that
• 44:48
  may even be a decent result for them getting a tie on the road.
• 44:52
  So yeah, you know, there it is. Look at that.
• 44:55
  Wraps up the week. So there we have it.
• 44:58
  We're through 7 through 7 games. But for this week, Luca, you got
• 45:01
  to give me your, your, your. Let's start with your goal of
• 45:04
  the week. OK, so I have a couple my gold
• 45:09
  week Dromo please as me Yep, you heard that right, me.
• 45:16
  So actually we I I said we were going to talk about my
• 45:19
  tournament. I actually scored in one of my
• 45:21
  games this tournament. So I'm going to count that as
• 45:24
  this week and I'm going to nominate myself for my gold a
• 45:28
  week. But I am going to give a few
• 45:30
  honorable mentions to Cliver and Quesado.
• 45:33
  They both had really nice goals, but yeah, that's my goal of the
• 45:36
  week. We'll.
• 45:37
  Take people through it, Luca, describe this goal of the week
• 45:41
  you had. So one with my defender, he
• 45:45
  kicked it a long ball. He was a good ball.
• 45:48
  He was played through. My striker couldn't get it so I
• 45:50
  ran from the left wing onto it. It was a good run.
• 45:55
  My coach said I really good field awareness from that and I
• 45:59
  went on to on it. The goalie came out, I passed it
• 46:04
  through his legs and into the goal, and then I hit the suey.
• 46:08
  Yep. I gave the crowd a little taste
• 46:11
  of that. So so yeah, that's my goal of
• 46:16
  the week. Ronaldo would be proud.
• 46:17
  Yeah, yeah, all. Right, Luca, that's your goal of
• 46:20
  the week. Who is your Team of the Week?
• 46:24
  All right, my team of the week, I'm gonna give it to Chelsea for
• 46:28
  playing well against Liverpool. I thought, I thought they kind
• 46:31
  of an upset. I think most people thought
• 46:34
  Liverpool were gonna win. But yeah, I'm gonna give it to
• 46:36
  Chelsea. Yeah, hard to argue with that.
• 46:38
  I mean, big win for them. Like I said, no Cole Palmer in
• 46:40
  that game, this in a couple defenders.
• 46:42
  So good call there. All right, Luca, who is your
• 46:46
  Player of the Week? I'm going to give it to Simeno
• 46:50
  for having two goals that were both pretty nice, but yeah, he's
• 46:55
  been unbelievable so far. He's been like the glue that's
• 46:59
  holding Bournemouth together. If they did not have him, they
• 47:02
  would be a totally different team.
• 47:05
  But yeah. Yeah, no, no beef from me there.
• 47:08
  I love him as a player. Like I said, Bournemouth is one
• 47:10
  of those teams if you're flipping around and they're on,
• 47:12
  like just stay and watch their games.
• 47:14
  They play exciting soccer. They've got good, young,
• 47:17
  exciting players. Cliver comes off the bench.
• 47:20
  I mean, it's amazing to bring him off the bench.
• 47:22
  Love him as a player too. He.
• 47:24
  Should probably start for me. Yeah, I know.
• 47:26
  I mean, it's just they have a great team and a great thing
• 47:29
  going, a great manager. It's a, it's an awesome story.
• 47:31
  We talked about their stadium only having 11,000.
• 47:34
  There's like super teeny tiny club and they're literally
• 47:36
  hanging in there with these giants like, you know, Arsenal,
• 47:39
  City, Liverpool. So I love it.
• 47:41
  I I really really hope Bournemouth can just keep this
• 47:44
  guy. It's such a good story.
• 47:46
  I think it's so cool so all right look well that that wraps
• 47:49
  up the week here again no games next week.
• 47:53
  Can we have an international break?
• 47:54
  All the players will go to their countries teams and and most of
• 47:58
  them are doing World Cup qualifiers.
• 48:00
  There's a World Cup next summer, so.
• 48:01
  And with Arsenal's luck, half of them are going to get every.
• 48:04
  Every manager of a club team is just praying their players come
• 48:08
  back healthy and then we will as well.
• 48:10
  And so let's look ahead though, Luca.
• 48:12
  Two in two weeks, some of the games we have and I want to get
• 48:16
  your predictions now. I I feel like next week it's
• 48:18
  probably time for ask Luca 2 point O yeah.
• 48:21
  So we'll do a quick little ask Luca.
• 48:23
  We'll get his opinion on different soccer topics.
• 48:25
  So we won't really have any games to talk talk about, so
• 48:28
  we'll do that. But I do want to, like I said,
• 48:30
  run through. I think there's some interesting
• 48:31
  matchups for Week 8 when we get back here.
• 48:34
  Starting off Luca, we have Nottingham Forest hosting
• 48:38
  Chelsea in a game. What do you think of this one?
• 48:42
  I think Chelsea are going to get this too new.
• 48:46
  I think NYAM Forest had not been very good, so I think Chelsea
• 48:51
  will get. This more misery for Forest
• 48:53
  sitting 17th in the table teeth. Hasn't really.
• 48:58
  And Luca does not even like him to score a goal at home.
• 49:01
  Wow. They've not been good.
• 49:03
  They have not been good. OK, All right, Luca.
• 49:06
  Interesting game here. I actually think.
• 49:08
  City Man City at home to Everton fifth verse 8th.
• 49:12
  Everton 8th in the table. City 5th.
• 49:14
  What do you like for this one? I think I go to one City.
• 49:19
  I think I do think City are going to win this game even
• 49:23
  though, but like Everton have a good defense.
• 49:25
  You never know what's going to happen here.
• 49:27
  Yeah, I mean City at home, it's hard not to pick them to win at
• 49:30
  home. Everton, like I said, have been
• 49:31
  a good story, played well, but it's hard to think they're going
• 49:35
  to get a result at City. I think City are playing pretty
• 49:38
  well, all things considered. Rodri is a big one to watch.
• 49:41
  He is so important for that team.
• 49:43
  You know, even that game against Brentford this week, I felt like
• 49:45
  when Rodri came off, you know, they just don't look as sort of
• 49:49
  solid, especially through the midfield when he's not on there,
• 49:52
  when he plays, it just feels like they're such a different
• 49:54
  team. You forget how good a player he
• 49:56
  is, you know, like, I mean, he won the Balandor, you know, so
• 50:00
  we'll see. We'll have to see about his
• 50:02
  injury. Like I said, it doesn't seem
• 50:03
  like it's too serious, but I mean, if he misses two or three
• 50:05
  games, that's a massive loss for them.
• 50:07
  But all right, Luca, then we've got Sunderland hosting Wolves.
• 50:11
  So Sunderland still sitting in 9th.
• 50:14
  They've still have guitar. So you know, the top half of the
• 50:16
  table, Wolves sitting in 20th have not won yet.
• 50:20
  Are Wolves going to get their first win?
• 50:23
  No, okay. Not like wolves get their first
• 50:26
  win. I'm sorry wolves, I have no beef
• 50:29
  with you, but I think some winner gonna get this two nil.
• 50:33
  Two nil. Okay, so Sunderland gets back on
• 50:35
  track. They're good at home, they're
• 50:37
  tough to play at the Stadium of Light Wolves.
• 50:39
  Okay, yeah, not going to get their first win.
• 50:42
  Keeping more misery on that team.
• 50:43
  All right, Luca, we have Chris. Here's an interesting game.
• 50:46
  I'm definitely watching this one.
• 50:48
  Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park versus Bournemouth 6 verse 4
• 50:53
  here. So Palace and six, Bournemouth
• 50:54
  and four. Wow, what do you like?
• 50:56
  This is interesting to me. I'm going to go 22. 22 What kind
• 51:01
  this. Is going to be an exciting game
• 51:03
  that I'll be wanting to watch. I can't wait to watch that.
• 51:05
  I I I tie is not a bad call in this game because like I said,
• 51:09
  both these teams playing well. You know, Crystal Palace now
• 51:13
  coming off their first loss. Let's see how they bounce back
• 51:16
  from a loss you. Know.
• 51:18
  But yeah, this this game is going to be kind of fascinating
• 51:20
  to me how this one plays out. I'm definitely watching this
• 51:23
  one. Yeah.
• 51:24
  All right, look, the one that maybe, you know, we're not gonna
• 51:26
  be watching every second of Burnley hosting Leeds.
• 51:29
  So this is 18th verse 15th. I think 2/1.
• 51:33
  Bleeds. OK, so Leeds goes into turf more
• 51:36
  and gets a win here, huh? Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be Yeah,
• 51:40
  that best game of the week that totally.
• 51:44
  All right, all right, Luca, what about Brighton hosting
• 51:47
  Newcastle? So Newcastle moved up to 11,
• 51:50
  Brighton sitting in 12th. What do you like for this one?
• 51:53
  I I think I'm like 2-1 Newcastle for this one.
• 51:57
  All right, now Brighton at the Amex, Tough team to play on the
• 52:00
  road, OK. I like Voldemade and Gordon,
• 52:04
  like I think they're gonna get a goal maybe.
• 52:06
  OK, so all right. I like this.
• 52:07
  You're calling the goals. Goals from Gordon and Voldemade,
• 52:10
  huh? Yeah.
• 52:11
  OK. All right.
• 52:12
  Boldemade header or through. I think head through his feet,
• 52:19
  through his feet. All right, Luca, here we go.
• 52:22
  Our team, Arsenal on the road at Craven Cottage Stadium.
• 52:27
  You've been to watch Fulham play Arsenal, of course, sitting top
• 52:31
  of the table. Oh.
• 52:32
  Yeah. Fulham and 14th What do you like
• 52:36
  in this one? I think I'm going to go to
• 52:39
  nothing Arsenal because I don't know if Fulham is going to score
• 52:44
  any goals because when we were really good defense and Fulham
• 52:48
  have no striker right now so it's going to be hard for them.
• 52:51
  Yeah, Arsenal with the best defense in the Premier League,
• 52:54
  only giving up three goals all year.
• 52:56
  Fulham. You're right Luca, They they've
• 52:58
  only scored eight goals on the year, so we'll have to see.
• 53:03
  You know, I don't know the status of Raul and Rodrigo.
• 53:07
  So we'll see if they're back. They have an extra week here,
• 53:09
  you know, in terms of trying to get healthy.
• 53:11
  So they have a sort of legitimate striker.
• 53:13
  Maybe Silva can figure out a little bit more of a strategy
• 53:16
  without the striker. Fulham have been sort of a bogey
• 53:19
  team for Arsenal, you know, kind of like Newcastle for whatever
• 53:22
  reason. Fulham to me always play us
• 53:24
  tough. They've had late winners against
• 53:26
  us. So it always makes me nervous.
• 53:29
  I mean, I think we are a much, much better team even if Odegard
• 53:33
  is not playing. You know, you know, Arsenal have
• 53:37
  injuries piling up here, too. You know, we talked about
• 53:39
  paverts and Matt awake now throw Odegard in the mix.
• 53:42
  I don't think we quite know how long Odegard will be out for,
• 53:46
  but I think, you know, as they can slide in, play that kind of
• 53:49
  creative attacking, midfielding role.
• 53:52
  So we'll see. It just makes me nervous always
• 53:54
  going to play Fulham, although I mean, I think clearly we have a
• 53:57
  better team. Arsenal are playing very well.
• 53:59
  I love the way we're playing on defense.
• 54:02
  You know, I just I love that sort of like solid defensive
• 54:05
  platform that we have it just I think it makes this everything
• 54:09
  so much easier that, you know, you get one or two goals and
• 54:12
  it's like pretty much the other team that you're playing feels
• 54:14
  like game over. Just how how are we going to get
• 54:16
  two goals against them? So to me, that's like the one
• 54:19
  thing moving forward I think that Arsenal can really rely on
• 54:22
  because even our on our bench, typically you've got Lewis
• 54:25
  Kelly, you've got Rice mascara. You know, these are guys you're
• 54:29
  bringing off the bench to like. Rice you're bringing off.
• 54:32
  In Oh, I'm sorry, no, I what I I said Lewis Kelly White.
• 54:36
  Yeah, I'm sorry. Ben White, Lewis Kelly mascara.
• 54:40
  You know, these are all defenders that are typically on
• 54:43
  the bench because you've got Timber Big, Gabby Seliba and
• 54:46
  Calafiore starting most that's been the typical starting back
• 54:49
  for. So Arsenal, like is it very
• 54:51
  solid in the back? They've got to get the attack a
• 54:53
  little bit more fluid and figured out, you know, like
• 54:56
  scoring two goals against West Ham, you know, I don't really
• 55:00
  care. I got to see them do it against
• 55:01
  better defenses and better teams.
• 55:03
  We'll see. That's going to be I think the
• 55:04
  trick for our. So Barcelona are going to go on
• 55:06
  to win the title. They got to get a little bit
• 55:08
  better and attack score some goals.
• 55:09
  Might help when we get Haberts back, them out 08, Gay back and
• 55:12
  Odegard back. But all right, look at you've
• 55:14
  got Spurs hosting Villa. This is another interesting
• 55:16
  game. I think so at Tottenham Hotspur
• 55:19
  Stadium, Spurs sitting in 3rd. Villa have now crept up the
• 55:22
  13th. What do you like in this one?
• 55:23
  I like Tutu tie. OK, 22 tie what?
• 55:27
  Why a tie? I just think these two teams are
• 55:31
  pretty even right now and they both have pretty good offenses
• 55:36
  and OK defenses, so that's why. OK, all right, look again to me,
• 55:42
  another interesting game. Liverpool sitting in second
• 55:45
  hosting Man U, So of course we know Liverpool coming off of 3
• 55:48
  losses in a row in all competitions, Man United up to
• 55:51
  10. What do you like?
• 55:55
  I'm gonna go Man United 1 now. Oh, Man United wins at Anfield.
• 56:01
  Actually, well, OK, why don't? I talk you out of it.
• 56:03
  No, I'm just, I'm just, you know.
• 56:04
  Hold up. OK, I'm gonna go 11.
• 56:12
  I'm one one time. I always 1,000,000 United is a
• 56:16
  bit much. I don't know.
• 56:17
  I don't know if United's going to get the win as I I think it's
• 56:20
  going to be close though, because Liverpool shaky couple
• 56:23
  games United to come coming off a win.
• 56:27
  So I think it's going to be close, but I think it's either
• 56:31
  going to be a 11 tie or A21 win in Liverpool's favor.
• 56:34
  I think Liverpool smash them. Think Liverpool get right on
• 56:38
  this one and smash them at home. But we'll see.
• 56:41
  We'll see. I don't like my pick there.
• 56:43
  All right, look at the last game of the week.
• 56:45
  Not that all that great. You've got West Ham hosting
• 56:47
  Brentford, West Ham City in 19, Brentford in 16. 00 in my name.
• 56:53
  Oh wow, 00 no love for that game at all?
• 56:55
  Well. OK, let's not do that, but.
• 57:00
  All right, Luca, well, there it is.
• 57:01
  You you've given us your picks. So like I said, I think
• 57:03
  interesting games to look ahead to for two, two weeks from now.
• 57:07
  All right, Luca, the viewer mailbag question for you comes
• 57:10
  from me. OK, I've got the I've got the
• 57:12
  mail here. I want to know Luca, who's the
• 57:14
  best midfielder in the Premier League right now.
• 57:16
  The best midfielder in the Premier League right now is
• 57:19
  definitely going to be Declan Rice.
• 57:21
  Why? Because he is so good, never
• 57:24
  gives up on the ball. Can he can attack, he can
• 57:28
  defend, he can pass, dribble. I mean, 200 million a bargain
• 57:34
  for me. He's so good.
• 57:36
  Just that's why I think he's the best midfielder for me.
• 57:39
  What about you? That's that's a good call.
• 57:41
  I mean, we're obviously a little biased.
• 57:43
  I love Declan Rice. I but kind of what you mean his
• 57:47
  play speaks for itself, you know, I mean whether it's
• 57:49
  England, whether it's Arsenal, you know, he can do a little bit
• 57:53
  of everything. So he can be your defensive
• 57:55
  midfielder, he can be your attacking midfielder, takes free
• 57:57
  kicks, he takes corners, he's scoring some goals now.
• 58:00
  I think he's a leader. I think he's a guy like people
• 58:03
  look up to. You mean he was a captain for
• 58:04
  West Ham. So when he came to Arsenal,
• 58:06
  obviously we had Odegard as our captain, but to me he's like a
• 58:09
  future captain of Odegard would ever leave and he just.
• 58:12
  He's younger than. Odegard.
• 58:14
  That's a good question. They're probably pretty similar
• 58:16
  ages actually. Rice is 26 and Martin Odegaard
• 58:22
  is 26. So they're like literally
• 58:26
  probably months apart. Yeah.
• 58:28
  They're like, maybe. So, yeah, it's a good call.
• 58:33
  Give give me a second. Then.
• 58:34
  Like who? Who would be, you know, like
• 58:37
  just some just some ideas like Rodri, Bruno, Gravenberg,
• 58:43
  Kycedo. No, no, no, do not even Sam by.
• 58:51
  His third as a fourth ODA. Guard 5th nor Guard 6th.
• 58:54
  Marina. All of Arsenal midfield.
• 58:58
  No no, third is essay for me and 4th maybe.
• 59:04
  You're literally just naming Arsenal midfielders.
• 59:06
  No, no, stop. Because we have the best
• 59:08
  midfielders that's why. Then maybe grabbing Birch Verts
• 59:12
  and Rodri. Alright, I'm gonna just, I, I
• 59:14
  don't like this player, but he's been doing really, really well.
• 59:19
  No, I actually think Kaiseto has been playing better than Bruno
• 59:21
  has right now. I think, yeah, Kaiseto, like I
• 59:24
  said, I don't like him as a player.
• 59:26
  I think he's a little bit dirty. I don't.
• 59:28
  But he has been really good this year and he's throwing in goals
• 59:32
  now and he's scoring bangers too.
• 59:34
  But he has been really good for them and I think he is one of
• 59:38
  the key reasons why Chelsea, like I said, if he plays at this
• 59:41
  level, I think he could be a big difference maker for Chelsea.
• 59:44
  And especially when Palmer gets back, he allows Palmer to have
• 59:47
  freedom to kind of roam up there and be an attacking because he's
• 59:50
  so good defensively, wins tackles.
• 59:53
  He's a guy like when you watch Chelsea play, like just keep an
• 59:55
  eye on him when you when you're watching those games, like I
• 59:58
  just think he's sort of taking his game to another level this
• 1:00:00
  year. So and again, I don't like him
• 1:00:02
  as a player, but I got to, you know, tip my hat to him.
• 1:00:05
  He's been good. Yeah, he's been pretty good,
• 1:00:07
  Yeah. All right, Luca, let's move on
• 1:00:09
  to the Did You know section. OK, I want to talk about there's
• 1:00:13
  been some, you know, trends to me in the Premier League this
• 1:00:16
  year. We've talked about, right,
• 1:00:17
  talked about the long throws. We saw another goal this week
• 1:00:20
  come off of a long throw. You know, we've talked about,
• 1:00:23
  you know the. Long the you know the center
• 1:00:29
  kick play. Right center kicks, you know,
• 1:00:31
  set piece type of thing, goalies going long with the ball.
• 1:00:35
  But one other thing is like the importance of set pieces, you
• 1:00:38
  know, free kicks, you know, set pieces, you know how important
• 1:00:42
  these have become where they're like teams are almost like, of
• 1:00:45
  course they have set piece coaches now, right?
• 1:00:47
  You know, Arsenal famously has Nicholas Jover, who's our set
• 1:00:50
  piece coach and we. We're set piece FC.
• 1:00:52
  Set Piece FC, We score all these goals from this and these set
• 1:00:55
  pieces. Luca, There's almost this like
• 1:00:57
  merger between the NFL, like American football and soccer.
• 1:01:02
  And you know, there's people like Sean McVeigh is the coach
• 1:01:05
  of the Rams and he and our Ted are kind of friends and sort of
• 1:01:07
  see how there's just like almost like merger where these set
• 1:01:11
  pieces that teams run, especially Arsenal, when you
• 1:01:14
  watch them, it's it's a lot like NFL plays.
• 1:01:18
  And of course every NFL play is sort of scripted and guys know
• 1:01:21
  exactly where to go and they every person sort of has like a
• 1:01:24
  thing that they're trying to do and it's taking it where before
• 1:01:27
  it just used to be like lump the ball into the box, tall guys try
• 1:01:31
  to head it in. You know, it was just like just
• 1:01:32
  out physical somebody. Now it's like you're watching
• 1:01:35
  like it's like choreographed what they do.
• 1:01:38
  And you know, if you think of like corners, free kicks, throw
• 1:01:41
  insurance and kickoffs, they're now like all being prioritized
• 1:01:44
  and coaches are looking for every little edge that they can
• 1:01:46
  get, right. So it's not just like, you know,
• 1:01:49
  hey, go out there, just throw it in.
• 1:01:51
  No, it's like we're going to do a long throw.
• 1:01:52
  Who can do the long throw? So let's run a playoff.
• 1:01:54
  And 28 Luca point. 28.4% of Premier League goals have come
• 1:01:59
  from set pieces. I bet 25% of that is ours.
• 1:02:03
  Well, now there's a lot of other teams doing it too, but Luca,
• 1:02:06
  that's the highest percentage in in 10 years.
• 1:02:09
  So it goes to show you, like I said, how important it is.
• 1:02:12
  I mean 3.2 have come from throw insurance.
• 1:02:15
  Wow. 3% of goals have come from the.
• 1:02:17
  That's the highest rate in 10 years.
• 1:02:19
  Yeah, well, that's it. I mean, it's, it's the
• 1:02:20
  percentage of the goals that are being scored.
• 1:02:22
  So clearly like the like the numbers bear it out that there's
• 1:02:25
  like, you know, they're scoring more goals from this and you
• 1:02:28
  know, the players are like running like predetermined
• 1:02:30
  routes on these set pieces, which is like different before,
• 1:02:33
  like I said, when you were just sort of cross the ball into the
• 1:02:35
  block. What they do is they're relying
• 1:02:37
  on like their teammates, like winning.
• 1:02:39
  You know, they used to be before just your teammate will win the
• 1:02:41
  header, be physical, win a duel. But think about the NFL like a
• 1:02:44
  rub route in the NFL where like an attacking player makes a
• 1:02:47
  movement that like kind of indirectly blocks the path of
• 1:02:50
  somebody else. Think about how many times
• 1:02:52
  somebody does that to a goalie. Yeah, right.
• 1:02:54
  You just sort of move where the goalie is.
• 1:02:55
  You don't, like, knock them over.
• 1:02:57
  You don't push. Them the white likes to do.
• 1:02:58
  That he does and it's just like that.
• 1:02:59
  It's like a rub route in football.
• 1:03:01
  You just sort of, like I said, go right near the goalie.
• 1:03:03
  The goalie tries to go out, we can't get around you.
• 1:03:05
  And then that can lead like the Newcastle goal.
• 1:03:08
  I hope it's like a little bit was like Saliba.
• 1:03:11
  I think it's almost like, like I said, it's like an NFL rub route
• 1:03:13
  where a wide receiver will run right in front of like a
• 1:03:15
  cornerback to free up his teammate.
• 1:03:17
  Yeah. You know, these are like things
• 1:03:18
  that we see in the NFL all the time.
• 1:03:20
  It's like indirect crowding of goalkeepers.
• 1:03:22
  You're not directly blocking them.
• 1:03:24
  Like, I'm not just, you know, standing there blocking you, but
• 1:03:26
  I'm just sort of, you know, indirectly moving where you
• 1:03:28
  might move to kind of make it a little bit harder from you just
• 1:03:32
  going into the space where the goalkeepers are going to go.
• 1:03:35
  And that's exactly what Seliba did.
• 1:03:36
  And it's legal. And I just think it's
• 1:03:38
  interesting because it reminds me so much of, like, what you
• 1:03:40
  see on an NFL field with these, you know, trying to get what is
• 1:03:43
  it? It's like creating space.
• 1:03:45
  Both sports have that in common. Yeah.
• 1:03:50
  So do you like, do you like this trend?
• 1:03:52
  Like, do you like that they're like being this sort of like
• 1:03:55
  almost analytical about it? Are you just kind of like, let's
• 1:03:57
  just play some soccer, man? Why are we overthinking this?
• 1:03:59
  I I like this trend. I think it helps a lot of teams
• 1:04:02
  in a way like for Arsenal and like most, most teams, but like
• 1:04:06
  Arsenal have I feel like benefited the most from this
• 1:04:12
  because we have some tall guys and I think this is working for
• 1:04:15
  most teams too. Yeah, I think it is too.
• 1:04:18
  I mean, I, I like it too. I mean, I, I, I think I like it
• 1:04:21
  because it's creating attacking moments.
• 1:04:22
  It's creating goals to me. Anything that does that is good
• 1:04:25
  for the game. You know, I we want to see games
• 1:04:27
  that are like 3-2 rather than like 00.
• 1:04:30
  Yeah, yeah. All right, Luke.
• 1:04:32
  Well, that's the did you know? Now we of course have our
• 1:04:36
  penalty kick. Trivia shootout Luca.
• 1:04:40
  So we're going to ask each other questions.
• 1:04:41
  Maybe we'll give a second or two before we give our answers to
• 1:04:44
  people at home listening. Maybe can they can give theirs.
• 1:04:46
  And of course, it's all about who gets the most questions,
• 1:04:50
  which of course equals a penalty kick goal.
• 1:04:52
  If you missed the question, you missed the goal.
• 1:04:54
  All right, look, do you want to go first or?
• 1:04:55
  2nd I'm going to answer first. You want to answer first, OK,
• 1:04:59
  Look at your first question is what national team does Granite
• 1:05:03
  Jaka play for? Switzerland.
• 1:05:06
  All right, that's good. Give it.
• 1:05:07
  Give it a second or two. Sorry, sorry.
• 1:05:09
  All right, Luca shoots any scores.
• 1:05:11
  Side netting, you're up 1. Nothing.
• 1:05:13
  Who missed the last penalty for Italy against Brazil in the 1994
• 1:05:18
  World Cup final. Was it Baggio?
• 1:05:21
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:05:22
  Yeah. Roberto Baggio the the ponytail
• 1:05:24
  guy. The man who died standing the.
• 1:05:26
  Man who died standing. There you go.
• 1:05:28
  Yeah, Yeah. Pretty famous mess, that one.
• 1:05:32
  All right, Luca, seven teams have won at least one Premier
• 1:05:37
  League title. So the Premier League's been
• 1:05:39
  around. We course know since 199293
• 1:05:42
  we've had 33 total titles given out, but only seven teams have
• 1:05:46
  actually won a Premier League title.
• 1:05:49
  Can you name the seven teams? I mean, I'm willing to give you
• 1:05:52
  6 of seven if you can do so, but extra bonus points if you can
• 1:05:57
  tell me all seven teams that have won a Premier League title.
• 1:06:03
  I'm in Arsenal. That's correct.
• 1:06:05
  Liverpool. Correct.
• 1:06:07
  City correct, Leicester City correct United.
• 1:06:14
  Correct. So you've got five of five, you
• 1:06:16
  have two more. Let me think.
• 1:06:21
  One of these teams has won five titles, the other have won one.
• 1:06:26
  What are they both still in the Premier League right now?
• 1:06:30
  One of them is still in the Premier League and one of them
• 1:06:33
  is not. All right, I'm trying to.
• 1:06:36
  I don't have much time to think. Think of a team that is who's
• 1:06:41
  the last team to win one that's not named Liverpool or City?
• 1:06:46
  Oh, OK, so Chelsea and then one that's not in the Premier League
• 1:06:51
  anymore. They won like real early on.
• 1:06:56
  This is this is a tough one. This is the hard 1.
• 1:06:58
  You got six of seven, which is pretty good.
• 1:07:00
  I expected you to get those. This one is pretty tough.
• 1:07:02
  It's do. You want to take a guess on it?
• 1:07:05
  Oh. I know this.
• 1:07:07
  You'll you'll when you hear the name I, I think you'll be like,
• 1:07:10
  oh, but it's hard to just think of.
• 1:07:12
  I know they're bad, I don't know their name.
• 1:07:15
  Blackburn Rose. My their badge was in my head.
• 1:07:20
  I swear I had it. I'm going to give that one to
• 1:07:23
  you. I said if you get 6 of seven,
• 1:07:25
  you get it right. So there you go.
• 1:07:27
  There you're 6-7 again. All right, Luca, that's two for
• 1:07:32
  two for you all. Right in the famous World Cup.
• 1:07:37
  In which World Cup was the famous Hand of God goal scored
• 1:07:41
  by Maradona? 1986.
• 1:07:43
  Correct. All right.
• 1:07:46
  Luca Oh, we're supposed to give AI did listen to my own thing.
• 1:07:49
  I should pause everything, all right?
• 1:07:51
  Luca, who is Chelsea's all time leading scorer?
• 1:07:56
  Oh, Frank Lampard. Good.
• 1:07:58
  Guess that's good. Yeah, that's right.
• 1:08:01
  Oh, that's right. Oh, cool, cool, cool.
• 1:08:02
  Yeah, I don't know, I thought maybe people would say like
• 1:08:04
  draws. Right, right.
• 1:08:05
  That was my second guess when I got that.
• 1:08:07
  That's good. Yeah, good.
• 1:08:08
  They have Frank Lampard's Chelsea's all time leading goal
• 1:08:10
  scorer. So all right, Luca, 3 for three.
• 1:08:12
  Your your boys have stepped up here, made all their penalties.
• 1:08:15
  Who the first ever FIFA World Cup?
• 1:08:19
  Uruguay. Correct, you're 3.
• 1:08:22
  We have we come in club in here, all right, Luca, who led the
• 1:08:29
  Premier League in assists last year, so who led in assists?
• 1:08:35
  Last year. Yeah, Shala.
• 1:08:38
  Good. Yeah, 18 assists.
• 1:08:41
  I mean, everybody knew like a lot.
• 1:08:42
  Well, maybe not everybody. He led the league in goals, but
• 1:08:45
  people forget he had 18 assists too.
• 1:08:47
  I know he. Was really good last year.
• 1:08:49
  Yeah, that's good. Look, I thought that one, I
• 1:08:50
  might trip you up on that one, but.
• 1:08:51
  Now yeah, most some people would say like the Bruner or
• 1:08:54
  something. I know, I know.
• 1:08:55
  Saka was on pace for a great year.
• 1:08:57
  He missed so much time, but he at one point was leading for for
• 1:09:00
  the first month or two. But yeah, so most solid led the
• 1:09:02
  Premier League in assist last. Year.
• 1:09:04
  This one's kind of hard, but you should get it eventually.
• 1:09:07
  Which player scored the winner against Argentina in the 2014
• 1:09:12
  World Cup final? I'll give you.
• 1:09:14
  It's a German player. It was Germany who?
• 1:09:17
  All right, in 2014 World Cup Moeller.
• 1:09:22
  Close. I'll give you one more.
• 1:09:24
  Guess what? Closer, Mirosov, Closer.
• 1:09:29
  No, it was Mario Gotze in extra time.
• 1:09:33
  I don't know if I would have got that one.
• 1:09:34
  OK, I do remember the goal, but I don't remember who scored.
• 1:09:37
  Oh. I skied it, Luke.
• 1:09:39
  I missed it. This.
• 1:09:40
  Is for the win. All right, Luca, what Premier
• 1:09:42
  League team does nickname the Black Cats?
• 1:09:47
  Whoa, you might have stumped me here.
• 1:09:52
  Wait, this isn't for the win? By the way, Was it in the
• 1:09:56
  Premier League? They're in the Premier League
• 1:09:57
  currently, the Black Cats. Trying to think a team that is
• 1:10:02
  like a black logo. Oh shoot, I might be cooked
• 1:10:09
  here. I'm just hit threat needs.
• 1:10:13
  Nah, the Sunderland or the Black Cats?
• 1:10:16
  Oh, you can, OK. So all right, so I need, I need
• 1:10:19
  to get this one right here. Let's see.
• 1:10:21
  Which player won the Golden Boot in the 2018 World Cup?
• 1:10:26
  I have choices. Give me choices.
• 1:10:28
  Give me. Messi, Ronaldo and Bobby were.
• 1:10:31
  Kane in the 2018 World Cup. Messi.
• 1:10:37
  No, it's Kane. Kane did really okay.
• 1:10:42
  All right, Luca, here's this. So you're you win the penalty
• 1:10:44
  shootout again. I was.
• 1:10:46
  Defeated too. Undefeated you.
• 1:10:47
  Hey. You got some easier questions
• 1:10:49
  today too. I know I'm going to study up for
• 1:10:53
  our next one. Yeah.
• 1:10:54
  All right, look, here's your bonus question.
• 1:10:57
  Kevin De Bruyne. We talked about great Premier
• 1:11:00
  League midfielders, one of the best ever.
• 1:11:03
  Luca He has played for six teams.
• 1:11:06
  Five of them have been his primary team.
• 1:11:08
  He's been on a loan for one. Team Yeah.
• 1:11:11
  How many teams of Kevin De Bruyne's can you name that he's
• 1:11:14
  played for? So there's there's 6 total
• 1:11:16
  answers here. How many do you think you can?
• 1:11:19
  Get OK, so one is Wolfsburg. That's correct.
• 1:11:22
  Chelsea correct. City, correct.
• 1:11:25
  Napoli, correct? Now it gets interesting.
• 1:11:29
  Although to your credit, Chelsea and Wolfsburg aren't easy
• 1:11:32
  either, so there's two more. Anderwick.
• 1:11:36
  Good guess, but no. I knew he started with like a
• 1:11:38
  Belgian team. Yeah, it is a Belgian, Exactly.
• 1:11:41
  So the Belgian team that he came up with.
• 1:11:45
  And he didn't start with like a like after we left that Belgian
• 1:11:48
  team, he didn't like play for like a huge team.
• 1:11:52
  So he got bought by Chelsea from this Belgian team.
• 1:11:56
  And then got loaned out to someone else.
• 1:11:59
  Then he got loaned to a Bundesliga club, which you have
• 1:12:01
  not named yet. Then he got sold to Wolfsburg,
• 1:12:04
  sold the city and then I think he left, he left on a free to go
• 1:12:07
  to Natalie. So that Belgian club he came out
• 1:12:11
  with an A Bundesliga team on loan which?
• 1:12:13
  These Bundesliga. Team If you get the Bundesliga
• 1:12:15
  team on loan, I'll be impressed. Are they?
• 1:12:17
  Are they in the? Bundesliga.
• 1:12:18
  I think so. You've definitely heard of that
• 1:12:21
  team, no? You guess so.
• 1:12:24
  I don't know. All right, so gank is the TV
• 1:12:28
  came on. I've heard of them.
• 1:12:29
  And then I know I thought maybe that's it's hard though.
• 1:12:33
  That's really. It's really hard.
• 1:12:34
  Word or Bremen, He was on loan to Word or Friend.
• 1:12:37
  That's really hard. But that's really hard.
• 1:12:41
  All right, My last one. What is the name of the award
• 1:12:45
  given to the top goal scorer in the FIFA World Cup?
• 1:12:49
  It's not just the Golden Boot. Yeah, this is golden.
• 1:12:51
  Boot OK, I didn't know if it was like a person's name they put
• 1:12:54
  on. It.
• 1:12:54
  No. Yeah, it's golden.
• 1:12:55
  Boot. OK, the Golden Boot.
• 1:12:56
  All right, Luca. All right.
• 1:12:58
  Well, Luca, Well, I think that wraps it up.
• 1:13:01
  You know anything else you want to add?
• 1:13:04
  No, I'm good. I don't have anything.
• 1:13:06
  All right, well, there's the final whistle, Luca.
• 1:13:08
  That's full time for us. So thank you everybody for
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  listening and we'll hopefully see you with an Ask Luca next
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  week. Bye.
• 1:13:14
  Thank you for listening. Bye.