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GW33 Double GW Masterclass I Ep:130 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Hello and welcome to episode 130 of Draft Offsides.
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I'm with Tequin Enzo. My name is Keith.
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I got the plug in early this time guys, you noticed that?
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That was a fast. I did that was.
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The first. That was the first.
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OK yeah. So game week 31 was devastating
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in ways that actually didn't feel as bad as they should for
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me personally, because AI had AI talked.
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Matt I after Friday, I talked mad shit to Endo because I was
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playing him. And then I ended up losing.
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And it was like one of those losses where it was like Enzo
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ended up being the highest scorer and I ended up being the
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second highest scorer in the league and just yeah, I was the
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second highest. Scorer technicality.
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Techno you you scored less than me.
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I'm the second high scorer in the.
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League, but he but he's done the whole thing If if if I'd woken
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up and if yeah, I'd start this no.
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No, no, no, no. That's a derailment of epic
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proportions. There No, no, no, no, no, no,
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no. I saw my opponent had a player
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who was injured on the starting lineup and so I bet played a
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player who was not playing to show us all their.
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Their that's a lie. That's literally the most
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biggest lie ever in my life. Like you never do that and you.
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Guys were giving me a hard time for this, so yes, I.
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That's not true. You literally you that's a
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that's that's literally a lie that that that notice to the
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tikka anyways, yeah, so anyways, ends up beating me after I talk
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shit. And it was a very karmatic and I
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did not feel good and then Chelsea lost and that did not
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feel good. But I think the only saving
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grace is that Arsenal loss weekends are like, feel slightly
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better, but I feel like I should.
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And also just having the Premier League back, I feel better,
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yeah. Like, even though I like, lost,
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I literally lost everywhere this week in all my matchups.
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But it was like, Oh well, at least the Premier League's back.
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No one in both my matchups this week.
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Top scorer in both. That's a big week, friends.
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I remember someone telling me I would never get top score in any
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league. Who was that?
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Tico? That's a Tico thing.
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That's a Tico fucking saying right there.
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There's an asterisk technicality.
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OK, yeah, so Congrats to Enza for a big week, big win.
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It was if I would have won, I would have went into the money
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spots and knocked him out too. So it's.
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Just I'm still just waiting for my my little speech on the on
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the chat. Room.
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It's coming, it's coming. OK, let's get into the details
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here. It never rains, but it pours a
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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. So they lost.
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Caption Captain injured. Kudos Out for the rest of the
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season, Spurs remain in the relegation zone.
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Welcome to Tottenham, Rupert in his AB.
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That's a no. It's the most spazzy star ever
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for a manager like he He starred in the relegation zone, he lost
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his captain, he lost his star player, and he lost his first
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game. What did he do to deserve this?
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But. He said he's going to stay
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through relegation. He's got a big contract.
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He's going to be, yeah. I mean, I would say through
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relegation too. I was getting paid as much as he
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is. Who cares?
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OK, let's talk fantasy elements. Pedro Poro was the top scorer.
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So we talked about like who is going to be who's going to be a
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winner from Richard Derby? I think the answer was none of
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the attackers. Nope.
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Nope. Pedro Poro had scored like 15
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points. He was pretty active.
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Romero had a solid 8. He probably before going off
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like she probably would have ended with more too.
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So I think I think like like so shout outs for the wing backs
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and the center backs were solid. Tika, I know you picked up
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Connor Gallagher. I don't know if you started him
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or not, but 7.5 is fine I guess. For a team over there, yeah,
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it's it's, it's OK. Like I think the yeah.
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The only one that I'm slightly interested in that didn't
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perform great was Natas Towel. Just because he came, he was
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injured like before, you know, in the international break.
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Then he came off the bench and I thought he looked good when he
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came off the bench. He just came off late.
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I just at least the ball a lot. He's got great first touch but
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he's dribbling past players, he thinks they're not there and he
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just tries to run through. Him, yeah, but at least he's
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running at players. I feel like he's the only
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Tottenham player that's running at people, so you know you're
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going to lose the ball sometimes doing that.
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And how did Richard listen and Solanki look?
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Solanke looked like he was trying to like he lost.
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Perfectly honest, wasn't getting that much of a ball, but
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Charleston just kept doing the same thing.
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He's got concrete for feet. Colin Mulani kept trying to do
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flicks like he plays for Real Madrid.
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It wasn't working either. I think Colin Mulani is the only
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one that realizes that he's like he's additionally for a new job
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boy because he knows. He's only there on loan so he's
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like, I'm true, I'm mad. He's like, he's like, he was
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trying to, yeah, he was trying to be kind of fancy.
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I know that, too. And then I'm like, oh, yeah,
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he's he's definitely trying. He's trying to like, you know,
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get a suitor for next season. It didn't fill me a confidence,
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the midfield he put out there, right?
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No. Yeah, I was a little, I wasn't
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that creative. And then Simmons came on and was
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pretty underwhelming too. Just very frustrating.
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So yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't know if there's
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not much more to talk about here.
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Like, without getting into just like piling on the fact that
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they're in the relegation zone, it's.
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Got to be rough. Yeah, but at least you won both
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your matchups this weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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All right. Next Arsenal drops points at
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Bournemouth. Should Arsenal fans be worried?
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And do you continue to start Arsenal assets?
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No high press on Arsenal. They don't know what to do.
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Well, let's look at let's look at the scores for Arsenal this
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week. I think like I had, you know,
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obviously I'm like big Gabrielle fan and he scored like 10, you
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know, or just under. And that was with the yellow.
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So if I mean, there's no one that was exceptional.
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Declan Rice 11, Yokoresh with a goal and he score 10.
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So he literally would have had a zero.
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I'm pretty sure would have what for that?
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Oh. No would have a zero would had.
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A Oh, no, because he doesn't get a he doesn't get a key pot.
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I don't think he gets a key pass.
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He gets a shot. He gets a shot on target for and
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that. I think that's two points.
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So he would have been what? Negative?
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Goal shot on target, yellow card.
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Because he was. He got a yellow card too.
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A2 Aerials 1. I'm going to look at it right
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now. 00 dispossessions, yeah. And did he shot?
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Did he started? He started, yeah, he started and
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Kai Haver started under him and that was a disaster for anyone
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that started Kai habits. He scored like one point again,
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me less than one point. He would have had -1 points if
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it wasn't for that goal and that was his only shot on target too.
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Just. Well, how do you go now?
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Just for the yellow card. Yellow.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I mean, I think it's funny
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because there's a few players that did OK, like, you know, Ben
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White 9, Gabrielle 9 1/2 yo Crash.
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We just talked about 10. That was 11.
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But like for a team that's in first place, you're expecting a
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lot more points to be being scored like in some capacity,
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either in the defense or the offense.
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You know what I mean? You're somewhere so.
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Yeah 'cause like more and Ellie more and Ellie only got 1.5.
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Diamond three, he got the start, which was interesting that he
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started but he didn't you know, it's hard it's hard to put a lot
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of pressure on a 16 year old to do much though you.
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Know. But yeah, so troubling times
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there. Your kind of question.
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I like, I feel you're not going to not start your Arsenal
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assets, but I I wouldn't be as eager pivoting into their
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defenders as I have in the past given everything going on, you
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know? Well, it's going to be
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interesting week for Arsenal because they play Champions
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League against Sporting which they only have A10 lead and
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they're playing it Portugal, so it's not like going to be
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cakewalks especially. No, they're playing, they're
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playing it. They're playing in in London.
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Are you sure? The last I'm almost positive the
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last one is in Portugal. So, but they they can't arrest
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their players. They need to have yeah.
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And they have city coming up. So it's going to be an
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interesting time where they're going to park the bus most
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likely. Yes, it's going to be, that's
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going to be again, but everyone's going to be watching.
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It's going to probably be one of the worst games of the season.
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I was thinking the same thing. Because Arsenal's going to just
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make it just not fun. Yeah, that's going to.
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Sit right, it is at London. Yeah, the Champions League game.
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It's London. Yeah, yeah.
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So the Emirates, OK Anything else you want to talk about
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there? Like Miles, Luis Kelly got a
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start. I think it was first starts in a
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while. I don't know if it's really
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relevant, though, just because what we're speaking about, like
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just, I just don't know. The Arsenal defense isn't what
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it was, you know, at the beginning of the year.
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So I just I'm not sitting here filled with a ton of confidence
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there. What do you guys how do?
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You guys well, will you starve the attackers that are trying to
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replace soccer and oh the God well are you going to stop the
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essays and matter what Keys and Martin.
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Ellie, I think that he's like for there was a period of time
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where matter what, he just felt like you had to start in the
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socket and start and now I don't think you have to start.
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And I I think Gabrielle Martinelli has proven to not be
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that viable. I think Kai habits, there's a
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lot of hope that he was going to be, but like I have them in a
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league and like I'm probably not going to start a next game.
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Like I'm not actually, he's burned me the last few so.
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The only mustard players for Arsenal is Gabrielle Timber if
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he's playing and Declan Rice, no one.
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Does only for me I guess. Maybe Saka if he's playing in
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Riot too, yeah. No, no, I'm, I'm, I'm not
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counting Saka. Oh yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I, I think there's a yeah, there's a
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lot of guys like you could like I, I think there's an argument
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obviously, like Selena, like whoever the, the left back is or
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the right back is. Seems like whether if it's not
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Timber, like then White's kind of scored decently too, as
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anyone he's played. Yeah.
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So or no, yeah, when he's gotten starts, he's scored decently.
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So yeah, I, I think it's a good shot.
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Yeah. We're just at that point, like
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Zubin Mendy's not, you know, covering himself in glory.
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Nope. Down man is it's unfortunate
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that he's he's a child though so you can't really expect much
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from him so so yeah I mean even Raya like for the most part he's
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been good but he's 22 in the last game yeah that's not good
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for. Raya, he's that.
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He's not a busy keeper because that defense was so good.
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So it's mostly clean sheets. If they don't get a clean sheet,
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he doesn't get a lot of points. Manager if he got pause
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completion like passing around the back.
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He's Oh my God. He'd have so many points.
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Maybe the the point leader. OK next Manchester United hard
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done again by bar and lose to a bustling leads team who now goes
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6 points clear from relegation. Hard done, but also like.
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I don't think it was undeserved. No, it was the first half.
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Leads were were excellent. Yeah, excellent.
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I think Man United started taking over the game when they
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went down to 10 men, which is funny enough because that's when
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he started looking good. Yeah, I think the red card was
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one of the worst calls I've seen in a long time.
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I just think that you need to like, I like the letter of the
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law stuff needs to have a little bit of like common sense to it.
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And like, I don't think that he had any idea that he was
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grabbing. Probably tell though.
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I don't think. And then this, I think the
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second he realized he might have been, he let go.
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And it was not a yank. It was almost like he was trying
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to grab onto something. He's trying to grab the shirt.
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That's all he was trying to do. So and he clearly wasn't looking
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where he was grabbing. That's just there has to be like
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a level of common sense there. And I think that's a really good
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example of like, why people are so fresh as are.
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Well, DCL also when he punched frigging Euro in the face.
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Yeah, I mean, that one bothers me less because they're both
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going up for a ball in the air and DCL won it.
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So that one bothers me. You're one, win it.
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No, you're a won it first, and then he got the hand to the
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face. Yeah.
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Yeah, that one bothered me a little less because at least
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like they're scrapping and like it's not like again, I don't
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think I was intentional, but. Someone posted an e-mail online
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said if Arteta I want to see fans out pulling hairs in a red
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card and it's Arsenal players, everyone would long care.
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Stupid. That's.
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Everyone, everyone puts on wigs. Castamir with another goal.
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Yeah, it was a nice header too. Nice header.
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Very nice. He is he.
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But go ahead, Chico. No, I think I put added in the
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notes somewhere. He has seven goals from set
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pieces, which is the most in EPL this year.
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Really. I know it's funny.
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It's like people aren't talking about the fact that Manchester
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United is low key become like a set PC, like the way that
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Arsenal lies, like we're giving Arsenal shit for that and it's
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really made. It's a lot of it from corners or
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is it from? Free kicks What today?
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I think it's a mix. I think it's a mix, yeah.
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Cuz I mean, he has eight goals. That's a lot like for him,
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that's a lot even like counting his like prime years with the
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Real Madrid. He's right now in out of
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midfielders in the five game week setting is like the number
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two player in in the heat tracker for midfielders number
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not not ranked #9 overall. And that's cuz he has a 2675 and
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he has a 2.25 and he has like a 14 1/2 thirteen and a half 9.75.
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So he's been like crushing it the last five game weeks and a
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lot of that is goals from set pieces.
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So. It's crazy by a number.
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Yeah. I mean especially where all you
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have to do is score on side pieces.
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Is he going to MLS, you think? I don't know.
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Where he's going, I heard into Miami, into oh really?
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That's why I heard. Messi it would be good for he'd
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dominate, they think. I think any.
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I mean he's even with him not having the best legs.
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I think he's. Oh shit.
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Whoa, sorry, I just dropped something.
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Was ID to stop you, Bailey? No, I just dropped my work.
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I just dropped my. Never mind.
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I don't want to tell you what I dropped.
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OK, I dropped something. OK, I dropped something I
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shouldn't drop. Oh my God, fuck what?
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I had a great joke with that the Sybian.
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The what? I don't want to say what it is.
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OK, OK. Should we keep moving up?
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Yeah, alright, I do. Am I missing?
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I'm missing something, But I think we need.
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No, no, you're good. I'll tell you later.
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OK, so United, anything else to speak about with United?
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Obviously Bruno continues to this crush another 17.25.
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Lenny, you're had a really solid score, 17.25.
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Oh, who's gonna play for Man United centre back Bugatti?
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Because McGuire is injured, right?
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Martinez. Martinez got recorded.
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It's. Probably gonna be Castamira
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dropping. What are you saying?
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He's played centre back before that.
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'D be interesting. He's not his key.
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Points though. What about the Licht is injured
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too, right? He's been injured for half the
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season. Yeah.
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Is McGuire injured? I think I thought he didn't he
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get a red. Card I think it was a suspension
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I. Think yeah, he got the right.
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He probably, he's probably gonna be back.
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Yeah, yeah. Bruno had his worst game in the
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last five weeks. 17.25 I know, what a bum.
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What a bum, what a what an amazing run he's been on.
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Is he still #1? Yeah.
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Oh yeah. It's only going to get bigger
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the way that Holland is slumping right now.
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So Speaking of which, City beat Chelsea 30.
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We thank you for your sacrifice. So that defeat, the defeat of
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the one St. evil, the Arsenal fan arrogance and delusional
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delusions of grandeur. Grandeur.
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Yeah, grandeur, But you spelled it Granger.
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Like, like. Hermione.
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Yeah, Granger. Grandeur.
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Grandeur. OK, what do we talk about?
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City Shirky. Chucky is.
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Is that the one? Is that the most the one?
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He's the one I love to watch and that's The funny thing is a way
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for like Pep to start yelling him and yanking him off because
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Pep hates it every time he dribbled.
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But it's absolutely amazing. But I mean, when he does that, I
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think he hates it. But when he does that, you're
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just like, you kind of shake your head.
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I think the biggest. Oh, sorry.
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Go ahead, Chica. That was to say, it's a
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testament of how good of a player he is that he pisses Pep
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off. Like he does everything Pep
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believes against and he's still getting this minutes you.
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Still get a stop. Yeah, he's.
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So good. Do you think if Pep successfully
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completes this comeback title win that he retires?
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Yeah, because they're probably getting deducted 60 points next
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season. Yeah, for the last three years.
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I, you know, I hope they get, I hope they, it happens next
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season and not this season. Even if that was mean that Tom
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would get our relegation, I still want them to win.
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No, that's, that's ridiculous. That's not true.
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Don't say that. It's very true.
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I hate Arsenal. OK, question.
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Nico O'Reilly coming off. I'm think that's very alarming
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and interesting. And I think at Nori owners just
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got really excited about that, about the Nico Riley injury,
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right? Yeah, I mean, especially with a
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double game week coming up. We haven't even spoken about
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that yet, though. Double game week.
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Anything else? Wait, before we move on to that,
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anything else we want to talk about here?
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Mark Gay, he got a goal that's good for him in a monster score.
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He's got a few monster scores though, yeah.
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Just something random about Holland.
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Four games in Nairobi he hasn't scored.
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It's the tied his longest drought in his EPL career.
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The last time he went four games without scoring good goal, he
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only started three of them. This one he started all four and
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went scoreless. What did he do often?
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What did he do? All three went scoreless for
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four games. He didn't do much.
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It was like, you know, like in the second-half where he kind of
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trails off. But one thing different about
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Holland, he has seven assists this year, which I think it's
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third or fourth in the league. Sounds about right.
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Yeah. Yeah, it's been a lot more.
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Yeah, but Diego is catching up to him in goals too.
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So for the Golden Boots. There's only one back.
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He's only one behind him now. He's.
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Got 20. He's got 21 goals, man.
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Yeah, pretty crazy. OK, let's move over to waivers
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and then we can talk like key players.
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So sign up everyone. That's why everyone's here, you
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know, so big thing, game week 33 is a double game week.
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So City, Chelsea, Leeds, Bournemouth, Brighton, Burnley
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all have two games. So it's going to be a bloodbath.
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Waivers is this is probably one of the most crucial waiver weeks
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with crunch time and everything going on.
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So the way that we did waivers is we broke it down into double
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game week waivers and then non double game of waivers for like
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if you just aren't able to get any of the double game with
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guys, OK. But so.
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But fair warning to everybody, if you drove out and try to grab
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every double double game week the week after, you're gonna be
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fucked. You're gonna be hurting because
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yeah, they a lot. All those teams don't play the
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next week. I believe almost all of them
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don't right. So that yeah, it'll be
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problematic very quickly. OK, first one on here is
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actually probably not my favorite.
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I just there's no there's there's no rhyme or reason to
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when the people go on this list. But is Zion Fleming from Burnley
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46% owned double game week for a guy who's managed to score
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pretty decently even when not like getting goals like he was
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weak. I think he had like 7 1/2 points
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on a in a in a team in a game where they were lost like 2 zero
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or three 040. Yeah.
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So I think that I think that's something that speaks to him
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just like a he's been hot and he's been scoring goals, but
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even when he has it, he's kind of did an OK the last few.
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So I think that's interesting. And like you, you're going to
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bank on him getting some points. And who are they?
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Who are they playing? Burnley.
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Forest the city. Yeah, forest, the city.
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So I mean, forest is the one that you're hoping to really
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generate points and then city's like a free hit.
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Yeah, but I look at it. Even for City, it's not like
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they're scoring like 5-6 goals like.
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Yeah, no, he's he's a mid too. He's a midfielder, yeah, he's a
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midfielder, so. Yeah, so.
18:33
Yeah, yeah. So he's interesting.
18:35
He's 46% owned. That's one.
18:37
The other one, Jack Hensonwood, Brighton, 25% owned.
18:41
He's had a few good games in a row and like there was a period
18:44
of time where they were he was like scoring and assisting.
18:46
And even when he hasn't been the last two, I believe they've
18:49
been, he's been doing pretty good.
18:51
Like he's got, I think he's in like 8 to 9.
18:53
That's not the best scores, but when you're talking about a
18:55
couple game week kind of parent a few of those together, it's
18:59
not bad. And then he plays Tottenham and
19:00
Chelsea, both of who are conceding yes, Chelsea's been
19:05
leaking like a faucet. Tottenham very unfortunate to
19:08
let that go in, but yeah, they it's not like they've been great
19:10
either. So so yeah, I think that's
19:13
actually one of the top ones and especially I have a feeling he's
19:16
going to go pretty quickly at 25% with a double game week.
19:18
Another one, a bit of a punt. Wesley Fofana from Chelsea, 41%
19:22
owned. He's the only Chelsea player
19:23
that's on the double game week list.
19:25
It has to do with his just he he he looked like the best offender
19:30
at Chelsea in a game where they lost 30, which doesn't speak to
19:33
that much confidence, you know, But I think if you're if you
19:37
want to go that route, he's the one that you want to grab.
19:39
They play Man United and Riot in so I'm not sure.
19:45
Was was he the defender that when the year started he was
19:48
scoring a lot of points for Chelsea?
19:49
He when he came back, so I think the year started and he was kind
19:52
of injured and he's, he really hit a stride around like
19:55
December, end of December and then into like or yeah, into
19:59
like, yeah. Oh, are you, are you.
20:02
You're right, Tico, I'm sorry. Beginning of the year, he was
20:05
crushing it and then that's dropped off a little bit
20:07
recently. That's right.
20:09
Yeah. But.
20:11
I still think that like, he can do it.
20:13
And I think he's kind of the only one there.
20:14
He's really the only like first choice offender left, you know,
20:18
like child is injured, Cobol's injured.
20:20
So I think he's gonna be busy. He's probably gonna play both
20:23
games. He's.
20:24
Definitely gonna play both games and I think he's gonna be the
20:27
one that's expected to be doing a lot of the the action, if you
20:30
know what I mean. Action Jackson.
20:33
All right, another one Burnley James Ward Prowse 42% owned man,
20:38
these are this is where it starts really getting like icky
20:40
in these double double game week things and it's like you really
20:43
need to think about long and hard like do you really want to
20:46
play with fire here? Because like James Ward Prowse
20:48
42% owned. He's his last four games he's
20:52
had essentially 2 zeros like he's had like a 0.25 and a
20:56
negative 0.25. Then he's had two games that
20:58
were like 14 plus. So it's like which, which,
21:01
which, which one you're going to get and then you're going to
21:03
have two games there to just, you know, so it's to me that's
21:06
like a little bit of a risky one.
21:08
But you know, sometimes, I mean, you just got to do, you got to
21:11
roll the roll the dice. You know, what do you guys think
21:13
of him? Would you, would you, would you
21:15
dip into that pool? Would you, would you jump on
21:17
that? If I needed him, and that won't
21:20
be until the probably the week after which I won't need him
21:22
because he won't be playing. I don't know, I like JWP.
21:25
Well, we all like him, but he's not been the same player since
21:28
he left Southampton. He hasn't been, but he at least
21:30
has been on he's been on set pieces and stuff at Burnley.
21:32
So that seems like where he goes.
21:34
He's getting points and like the fact that Burnley didn't score
21:37
any goals last game and he still had what, 14 something So like
21:41
it shows that those are all like coast points.
21:43
Yeah, You know. So next one from Leeds.
21:46
Pascal struck 46% own the last what four games have been nine
21:51
or three games have been 915 point 7515.75 very promising for
21:56
his surging Leeds team. I I just think that that's like
21:59
a really easy one, like kind of a no brainer.
22:01
And then at the same time Jaden Bogle 22% owned he's he's been
22:08
popping up in really advanced positions for leads too, and he
22:10
has two great scores in the last two weeks.
22:14
So it's a little bit if you're thinking you're looking at a
22:16
shorter window like when he when he pops up really high on the on
22:19
the heat tracker when you're looking at the three-week game
22:20
window for that reason. So very interesting, very, very
22:24
interesting. I think I feel like Tito's doing
22:26
waivers as we talk right now. Do you?
22:28
Know, I know he's chatting on the in the chat room is what
22:31
he's doing. Is the chat room.
22:34
No, I'm I'm pulling up the players as.
22:38
Yeah. OK.
22:41
Another one that we want to chat about is post Cogley on Brighton
22:45
so that he looks like like Enzo was like, oh, we should add him
22:48
to waivers. And I think something to call
22:50
out there is that Lewis Dunk has been suspended for the he's
22:54
suspended for two games. That's why Bus Goggly came in.
22:56
And then so he'll be he'll Bus Goggly play the first game in
22:59
this double game week, but he won't likely won't play the
23:01
second because Lewis Dunk will come back.
23:03
So it's not as like slam dunk of it as a play as you thought,
23:06
considering that Bus Goggly scored 20 this week.
23:09
So just something to be aware of.
23:11
I think Bryden played Tottenham and Chelsea.
23:13
Yeah, So, mm hmm, it's not like they're you know, it's I like I
23:17
I would almost maybe even consider starting bus bus
23:19
cockley for one game if you really needed to you.
23:22
Know because he he scored well. He scored well, Holy, yeah.
23:26
And he, he tends to do. He tends to do when he plays
23:30
also like. If he does well in the first
23:33
game like he might still get some playing time but my next
23:35
game's dunk into back maybe like 30 minutes get like.
23:38
Now you hope we can. Maybe.
23:39
I mean, it's center backs are a little harder, you know, it's
23:42
not like they're not, I like wingers or something where they
23:44
throw them on. But yeah, but there's always a
23:46
chance. It's like just, it's like a
23:47
bonus thing, like, you know, you're gonna get one game for
23:49
sure and then you might get a few minutes of another game.
23:53
Double game weeks always rough. You're not really.
23:55
You can't. You don't know if they're going
23:57
to start both games so. Yeah, Oh yeah, let's keep going.
24:00
Kusanov, Man City, that's the big one there.
24:03
He's kind of established himself.
24:04
He's 50% oh, he's kind of last year items have been solid like
24:07
10 plus. He's kind of becoming he's kind
24:09
of becoming the guy over here. Him and Gay, he seem like they
24:11
have a good partnership going and if you believe CD is going
24:14
to go on a run and beat Arsenal, then he's like a no brainer.
24:17
It's. Going to be a.
24:17
Big it's going to have to be, but he's done a he's done a lot
24:21
of long balls at the top, so he's getting key passes too.
24:23
Oh, I see. Is that what he got Some points?
24:25
Interesting. Yeah, so I think that's another
24:27
shout. All right, then last.
24:29
OK, so then I I have another section called non double game
24:32
week waiver. So if you have like if all these
24:34
guys are gone or no one's available, Constantine's
24:37
Avroponos pretty pretty self-explanatory.
24:40
He's been absolutely crushing it. 22% roster, but 3 double
24:44
digits games in in a row, three goals in the last two games and
24:48
a clean sheet in the other. And though your call is, is he
24:51
like tricking us though? Is this just like a like a, a
24:54
run of form or what do you, what do you kind of what are your
24:57
thoughts there? Well, is it is it because look,
25:01
one was a clean sheet, so you go I think it was like 11 points.
25:03
And then the other two games he scored two goals and he scored
25:06
one goal. Is he going to score again?
25:09
Because if he's in that clean sheet one in that clean sheet 1,
25:12
he would only had four points, you know what I mean?
25:14
With the ones with the goals. Is he ghosting?
25:16
Well, not really. So he's a defender, the.
25:21
The game that he scored 12 1/2 points, they lost that game to
25:24
0. So that wasn't a clean sheet.
25:25
So the last two there was no clean sheets.
25:27
Oh. Yeah, interesting.
25:29
OK. So the clean sheet was back in
25:31
February where he scored 20 points.
25:32
It was a tied and but he he where he wants 7 aerials.
25:36
So yeah. Interesting.
25:38
Interesting. Yeah.
25:39
But I think, I think it's a valid question, but I also think
25:41
you got it. You have to respect the last
25:43
three-game weeks, you know. Yeah, but they're also playing
25:45
Crystal Palace, Who? I mean, Matetta was on fire last
25:48
game, but they're now they're pretty inconsistent.
25:51
It's not like guaranteed they're going to score a lot of points.
25:53
And Matteo only came on for the last 25 minutes, he didn't
25:55
start. Yeah, we'll see how that shakes
25:58
out there, but I'll, I mean, he's there for a reason.
26:02
I think he's going to get swooped up in most leagues.
26:04
Another one, Rio and Lamoa, Liverpool 30% owned, still young
26:08
and starts aren't guaranteed by any means, especially at
26:10
Liverpool, but kids seem special.
26:12
You can just see when he touches the ball.
26:14
So I feel like he's someone, if you have if you have room you
26:16
could grab and you could feel good about starting it whenever
26:19
he starts. You know you can play him when
26:21
he starts, I think, but you just can't expect him to be starting
26:24
games every week that seem fine. Is anyone like just totally
26:27
fading that No like it? Yeah.
26:31
Tika, you're, you're looking a little more hesitant.
26:34
No, I like it. It's just I, I, I think I will
26:37
wait until after the Champions League.
26:39
So after Champions League. Yeah, I'd be hesitant to like,
26:42
drop a player for him right now. Yeah, I think that's fair.
26:46
I think the thought would be that maybe he gets starts
26:49
because he's not gonna play the Champions League, so maybe he
26:51
gets in the Premier League games.
26:53
But but yeah, I think that's valid too.
26:56
Yeah. So yeah, I think you're saying
26:58
if they kind of lock up Chelsea, if Liverpool locks up Champions
27:01
League too? Yeah, it's one of those things
27:03
where like you could drop a player early for him, but then
27:06
you see the line up for that day, he's not starting.
27:07
You're like, shit, I muscle so. And I think it's the risk versus
27:11
reward value. I think it's just too low for
27:13
me. Yeah, I think you'd have to have
27:15
some room on your bench, like if you were sitting there holding
27:17
on to Dwight McNeil or you, if you had to choose between Dwight
27:19
McNeil or Rihan and Gamala, to who'd or.
27:21
Foden. Or Foden, Yeah.
27:24
Who'd you I'd probably take. I'd probably take Foden over
27:26
real, actually. Actually, I don't know, maybe,
27:28
but yeah, I do think that that's that that I think the Dwight
27:30
McNeil thing's another thing where it's like an asset that's
27:33
like not the most exciting, where you like the upside is
27:36
there and like you don't really need either 1.
27:38
Like you don't. You're not basing your game plan
27:40
on either one. You know, it comes out to a
27:41
mystery box. A mystery box?
27:43
No, I'm sure a speedboat to speedboat, but a mystery box
27:45
could be anything. Yes, OK, next one.
27:50
Valentin Casianos, I'm sure everyone, I'm sure he's going in
27:54
most leagues to score two goals. So he's labeled as volatile in
27:57
the heat tracker for a good reason, because he's got a
27:59
couple of really poor scores in the last five.
28:01
I think he's got a couple of one or two point scores and he had
28:04
that not much score last week and before that I think he had
28:06
like a 10 plus. So it's like you know that you
28:08
don't know what you're going to get there as far as scores go,
28:10
so. He's only scored four goals all
28:12
season and two goals in this game, plus one and another and
28:16
another. So yeah, he's very, when you say
28:19
volatile, I mean, he really has to score.
28:21
He doesn't really get involved too much in the offense.
28:24
Yeah, I mean, he's got a few OK, go see games.
28:26
But yeah, for the most part, I agree that it's very possible he
28:28
just doesn't because he's done that too.
28:30
I think that the other saving grace is that Palace acts.
28:33
We talked about that, Yeah. And I think that's a good thing.
28:36
Yeah, and we talk about teams being like, you know, picking up
28:39
players from the right team at the right time, their schedule
28:41
and until the end of the year it's pretty easy.
28:43
Palace, Everyton, Brentford, Arsenal, Newcastle and Leeds,
28:48
they're all solid teams, but they're not going to put in a
28:49
shit load of goals. It's everything's going to be
28:51
close and maybe a couple of clean sheets.
28:54
Yeah, I think as a forward doesn't matter, but you know.
28:55
Super valid. Super valid.
28:56
Yeah. OK.
28:58
Next one I have like 3 more was Buster Allah, Anna, Nottingham
29:01
Forest, 47% owned. He's had three really legit
29:04
scores in a row and they play early next.
29:06
It just seems like a great defender to think about.
29:09
Matthias Jensen, Brentford, 33% quietly putting together a solid
29:14
back half of the season. Nothing spectacular are like
29:17
sevens and eights. I think he's from 11, I think,
29:20
you know, but like those like, kind of like if you have a hole
29:22
in your team, you see the guy that you can plug in there and
29:25
feel pretty good about. He's been pretty good for that.
29:29
Yeah. And the last one, a total risk.
29:31
Idrisa Gay, Everton, His last three scores have been really
29:36
solid, like really, really solid.
29:38
He's only 20% Owen, so he's going to be available in almost
29:40
every league. But I think the biggest concern
29:42
is before those last two games, he's been like very poor, like
29:46
like very poor for multiple weeks.
29:47
So I don't know if it's a new system thing or what's going on,
29:52
but but yeah, just worth worth noting.
29:54
Who would you rather have, Tes, Jensen or Jessica?
29:57
Jensen. I I go Jensen too Tika.
30:03
I think I could go, yeah. Why?
30:05
Why? Just because we're on Jensen.
30:08
Mostly, but Jensen's been consistent.
30:13
Like the Guaz, his last three games are 8.25, seventeen, 11.75
30:18
S decent. Jensen's I think are like 11.
30:22
Jensen's are 11.25. Jensen's 7.253 point 5.
30:28
Jensen's floor is higher. You think so?
30:30
I thought yes Guaze hot floor is higher.
30:32
I think Jensen's floor is higher, glaze ceilings probably
30:35
higher just from given the points that we've seen in the
30:37
spread. Yeah, OK.
30:39
That's waivers and the other ones that you guys want to add.
30:43
There's those a lot. You could look at just in case
30:46
you get a striker Osula from Newcastle, you got the.
30:48
Start. Yeah, you guys start.
30:50
That's very interesting. And he scored and then nothing
30:52
else happened for Newcastle after that.
30:53
Nope. Yeah, absolutely tragic.
30:55
I think that it's just as interesting as the double game
30:58
week is going to be next week, not having any of the players on
31:01
these teams. Broth I'd go from having 18
31:04
players against you Keith, to having six the week after.
31:09
Yeah, I'm going to like have potentially have to drop some
31:11
like like I think I there's one league where I think I have 3
31:14
Brighton players and two City players.
31:18
So that's that all that that are started for me.
31:20
Which league? I don't trade, baby.
31:23
Maybe in my house, Yeah, I might have to do some finessing for
31:25
sure. I've got 4 Bournemouth players
31:27
in one league and three of them stopped for me.
31:30
Hey, how? How about that Alex Scott kid?
31:32
That's the one, I think. He's pretty good I.
31:34
Think he's Tottenham fan? No, he's an he's a Tottenham
31:38
fan. Yeah.
31:38
Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
31:40
He grow up, it's gonna. Maybe you can go there and say
31:44
if they say that, maybe he'll go there and say.
31:46
Take him. He's like him, Alex.
31:48
He. Seems like the type I made.
31:49
You guys actually do need. Do you want to hear about my
31:52
evil master plan? But you cannot.
31:53
This cannot make the podcast and you cannot tell and let anyone
31:56
know. Then tell me after we're still,
31:58
we're still doing the podcast right now.
32:00
OK, you should. Say it, I don't think.
32:03
I don't think he actually listens all the way to the end.
32:05
He might, I think he does from the waivers.
32:08
Just I think Hola Ena is probably the best shout because
32:10
last year was amazing too. And I, I used to always go with
32:14
the mindset of like, oh, let me just like double up, get 2 games
32:17
instead of 1. But I think if you get one good
32:19
player for one game, it's better than getting two players.
32:22
I agree. I think so.
32:22
I think the only time that I maybe would like get in like an
32:25
arms, it's like would really start doubling up heavy is if
32:28
the guy I'm playing against has a ton of players that are double
32:31
game with guys because it's like if you almost got into like an
32:34
arms race a little bit and like. Pretty much.
32:36
But but like, for example, like the 12 men league, right?
32:40
I have a bunch of Man City players.
32:43
So if let's say Athori's not in the lineup for the first game,
32:47
it's kind of risky starting him. You might lose him out on the
32:50
second game, like you don't know.
32:52
But if he's like Shirky, if he's starting the first game and the
32:55
second game they play Burnley, like he might not get any
32:59
minutes against Burnley. Shirky's the type of guy you
33:02
know he's probably going to come a bench and could potentially
33:05
still score a lot of points, which he's exactly.
33:07
If because, and obviously like City cannot afford to drop any
33:10
points, Yeah, I guess it all depends on the Arsenal game.
33:13
They need to beat Arsenal. Yes, I would agree.
33:18
I would agree. I would agree.
33:20
Oh, I think Zombie Simmons is a drop now by the way guys.
33:23
Oh yeah, after that zero. He only played for 5 minutes.
33:25
That's another thing, he's not playing like the first game with
33:28
the zombie and he didn't play. Yeah, trouble.
33:32
OK. Do you want to just talk through
33:33
some player reviews? You think we need to?
33:34
I guess we can. We kind of covered it right.
33:36
We covered it. I think the only kind of shouts
33:38
are like Jared Bone had a monster game with three fan
33:41
tracks, assists, 2 real assists. Yeah, 1 fan tracks, assists and
33:45
two real assists. Oh yeah, that's right.
33:47
Yeah, yeah. 1 fan tracks, assists, 2 real assists.
33:50
He's like, he's really shot up the the Heat ranking board, the
33:54
Heat tracker board. He's now in the third, only
33:56
behind Igor Tiago had another monster game.
34:00
He's putting up crazy numbers. He is he the the second he's
34:05
like must be like one of the top most points, right?
34:09
I think probably right behind Holland.
34:11
He's right. He's right behind Holland.
34:14
He's passing and yo, yeah, he, he might, he might overtake
34:18
Holland at this clamp. Huh.
34:23
Maybe no, but how long has the game in hand and also how long
34:28
has played less games? Sure.
34:31
Yeah, hopefully he could do this for Brazil too.
34:35
Yeah, I mean, he's definitely like staking a claim for that
34:37
Brazil starting soccer ball. Him draw Pedro, who's having a
34:41
great season, great season. But a little bit less slump in
34:44
the last month. Yeah, also he's not like a
34:46
traditional 9 so. Yeah, sure.
34:49
I also came to another decision that Declan Rice in fact is not
34:54
better than Valverde. Why?
34:57
What? What made you decide that?
34:59
Just watching both of them play. I, I don't necessarily disagree
35:04
that much. I mean, I, I think, I don't
35:05
know, it's hard to, it's hard to compete.
35:07
It's. Not it's bless you, it's not
35:08
definitive you go either way, but.
35:11
It's not definitive I'm allergic.
35:12
To I think it's not true yeah, because I think TT girls I think
35:16
you hang on like Valverde having that epic game where you score
35:20
the hat trick like you'll you'll hang on to that for like 10
35:22
years like you'll you'll always like reference that you're.
35:24
You're the same. It's.
35:25
In the no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
35:26
It's not even that game. It's not even that game.
35:29
It's just everything he does for the team.
35:32
But I mean, same thing with Declan Rice.
35:35
The only reason we talk about him it like this is because of
35:37
those two free cakes. Well, that's yeah.
35:40
I mean, how many goals did Declan Rice have this season?
35:43
He hasn't scored a free kick since those.
35:45
Yeah, I mean, Declan Rice says they were comparing, Rice says.
35:48
Like four goals all season, guys. 5 assists, yeah.
35:52
Like what's his hype like? What does he do?
35:54
Like that's amazing. He does everything very, very
35:57
good. That's it.
35:58
You know, you know what's funny? I think Declan Rice at West Ham
36:01
is better than Declan Rice else. I don't have the points back
36:04
that up, but I feel maybe like he was more influential there
36:07
for sure because he had, he was asked to do more.
36:09
That's true, yeah. Yeah, I think he had more goals
36:11
at West Ham. He had to score more goals,
36:13
especially at last season. He was there.
36:15
I just don't. I don't know if that's actually
36:16
backed up. I think this season he hasn't
36:18
scored. I think Bryce scored more goals
36:20
last season, did he not? Last season he finished with
36:23
four goals right. OK, so.
36:25
Yeah, the year before the 1st year at Arsenal he had seven
36:28
goals, 8 assists. Valverde has five goals and for
36:31
the year. But he played against farmers.
36:34
But they're all outside of the box.
36:35
Have you guys seen that one clip where Lucas Vasquez passes in
36:37
the ball late, so he scores from inside the box and he gets mad
36:40
at him? He's like passing to me earlier
36:42
so I should outside the box. Yeah, I got it.
36:44
That's that's silly, OK. He also doesn't play against
36:46
farmers come. On a lot of those, OK, he plays
36:49
against inferior teams a lot of the time, OK Hugo Tiago, we
36:56
talked about he's he's totally on track for an amazing season.
36:59
He already is. What a pick up whoever got him.
37:02
I'm very curious to see where he goes next year.
37:04
Is he? Is he gonna be a first round
37:06
here? I think so.
37:08
Yeah, I think, yeah, I think it's gonna be, I mean, just
37:11
those, those players that have amazing seasons on teams that
37:14
aren't in the top like four or five and they just do it like
37:17
once it's really risky. Those guys are the most probably
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the riskiest play to put high really like early capital, high
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drop capital players. Those are those are the riskiest
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ones for sure. But it is.
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Interesting. I think bottom half of the first
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round he would be. Yeah, early.
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Second or or early second, Yeah. And you.
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So let me ask you a question. Who would you rather have, James
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Tarkowski or Igor Thiago? Like for next year or like in a
37:42
draft or just right right now, rest of the season?
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And the draft. Your.
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I think Talkowski is disrespected, yeah.
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And Strikers is always harder to get, yeah.
37:53
He is. That's exactly why strikers are
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so much harder to get. Just last little thing.
37:59
Yeah. But I think, yeah.
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But I think that's interesting. You think you think way.
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He's like a top three draft center back next year.
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No top three rounds. He shouldn't be.
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Top three he should be, yeah. I mean, look at the way he's
38:12
been scoring since he's gone to City.
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And how he was scoring? When was that palace?
38:16
He's that big club, he's kind of scored well through it through
38:19
both. But is that a trick I?
38:23
Don't think city center backs have historically scored a lot
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of points. I think Ruben Diaz had like one
38:31
Goodyear that's about. It Johnsons had a few good
38:33
years, but they also they. Johnson yeah, dude, but they
38:36
also. Never had like Mar.
38:37
They never had like a marquee center back like they with like
38:39
gay. It's been a rotation kind of
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thing. Yeah, yeah.
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He's third out all defenders, right and.
38:46
He's 10, but that's such a but that's such a like a thing
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you're doing like. But that's such a, that's such a
38:52
such a fan tracks points, ranking them by points.
38:56
No, no it is. But if you factor in games play,
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I think if you go points by starter it's more accurate
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because Muniz has been in. Fancy points per game, for
39:05
example. Like if you look at fantasy
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points per game, that's not even fantasy points per starter.
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It's Gabrielle at 13.14 at 11.97, Muniz at 11.85.
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So Gabrielle is the clear best offender from a games played
39:19
standpoint. I mean give me.
39:21
Literally ladies to argue. Hey guys, let's let's clean this
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up because I've got to go cook dinner.
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Oh. Yeah, let's do it.
39:27
That's it. This has been episode 130 of
39:30
Dropped Offsides. My name is Keith.
39:31
I'm with Tigo. Enzo, Follow us at Dropped
39:33
Offsides. Let's hurry up and finish this
39:34
episode before Tico finds whatever start he's trying to
39:36
find. No, no, no.
39:37
Finish this argument. I'm trying to see when he went
39:40
to Man City and just filter from that day just to see from that
39:44
day on who was the best offender.
39:45
Oh my God, why are you trying to you?
39:47
Guys don't have to be here for this.
39:50
Yeah, OK. You want to tell me your master
39:52
plan? Oh yeah.
39:52
Tell me, I want to hear this. It's fucking hilarious.
39:55
So Keith, you cannot tell this to anyone, obviously.
39:57
Yeah, especially, especially your butt buddy.
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Yeah, OK. So they send me, they send me a
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trade offer for he stocked for Atenori.
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OK. Atenori has a double game week
40:13
this week and the following week he doesn't play.
40:16
I the trade is still sitting there.
40:18
My goal is. To accept it this after the
40:21
first game start in. Yes.
40:24
So if he leaves it there until then.
40:27
That's evil, but but like, it's also kind of on him.
40:31
It's so messed up. It's so messed up.
40:33
It's so messed up, but you should I I I'm not going to
40:36
stand anywhere. Yeah, but it'd be amazing
40:39
though. I just need him to not cancel
40:41
the trade. Before Saturday.
40:45
Is the game Saturday? I'm not gonna lie to you.
40:47
He probably will cancel it because he's pretty.
40:49
He's pretty much on it. He's on like he's Sunday.
40:52
It's Sunday. I do believe when Keith told us
40:55
that he's a psychopath when it comes to like overthinking.
40:58
Things, competitive stuff. Competitive, but he overthinked.
41:01
But he overthinks. All of it.
41:02
Yeah, He's. She's like an I hope.
41:04
There's some kind of a disaster in Portugal or something.
41:06
So Mark, you guys are like Guevi.
41:09
Gue is fifth overall since he went to City and he's averaging
41:13
13.75, which is more than Gabrielle.
41:16
All. Right.
41:17
Do you know you know who's third in that same time frame?
41:19
No one gives a. Fuck the the Greek defender from
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West Ham he knows. Yeah #1 is James Hill.
41:27
Number 2 is Van Justin Hill. No, it's James Hill.
41:31
It's James Hill. It's J Hill.
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It doesn't matter. It's.
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James, I'm looking at it right now.
41:37
Or maybe it's Thomas. It's Thomas Hill.
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He's not, He's not from South America.
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Bye bye. Have a good one.