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Calcio Carousel - Serie A Matchday 32, Milan Derby, UCL · The Calcio Guys

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A quite an episode of The Couch. You guys this week, just me
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and Adriano. No Johnny, he's busy tutoring, had some trouble finding.
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You guess everyone's busy. I guess on on this Wednesday night, Adrian's going
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not bad, not bad. I guess it's uh. I don't know.
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Rolling back to time is just uh. I don't even know if it was
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ever just the two of us, but hey, while we're here, Oh,
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definitely definitely was. Yeah, one time, I guaranteed CJO something I
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don't know back in the days. But yeah, man, happy to be
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back. What our culture will be uh to talk about and uh yeah,
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yeah for lots of exactly lot's talk about. As the city a season winds
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down, I think it's what six weeks left, six games left for most
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teams. But before we start, I just want to wish are well wishes
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to Evan Indica from Roma, who seems to be in good condition. You
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know, as we know, he collapsed on the pitch this weekend against you
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dense a scary scenes, you know, especially with what's happened in the past.
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I think it was the anniversary of Motoscenis passing, who passed away.
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I think he was playing either for Piscatta against Piscatta about ten twelve years ago
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in the city of b Obviously, you know Joe Barone this year who had
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you know, heart related issues before his deaths. And at the end of
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the day, we're happening in Dicka. Is is fine. He's taking a
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hospital further tests. Shout out to Roma because for the fans this weekend at
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their upcoming game this weekend, fans over forty five could get free medical exam
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heard exams. I think it's really important. It's it's scary, guys.
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These are one of the two most important organs in our body alongside our breaton,
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you know, and and you got to take care of it. It's
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uh, it's scary for these athletes because their heart's working a lot more than
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then me. Yeah, then then me and you Agiano and as we sit
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here tonight. So yeah, just glad he's fine, what you know,
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speedy recovery. Hopefully he's back on the pitch for Roma soon and hopefully this
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gives an opportunity also for education for fans and just for the league in general.
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Just just make sure everyone's healthy. You know, it's scary. Man,
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It's scary, like you said, like, you know, we've seen
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obviously, unfortunately, we've seen incidents like this occur. You know, obviously
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you see things like this. Uh. And I had the game I kind
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of on and off, and when I kind of came back to the game,
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it's like I kind of caught like the tail end of what was happening.
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I went to go like rewind, just to go see what happened.
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And listen, man, I don't care who you support on care what what
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you know, what you believe in. I mean, this is this is
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something that you feel for. And uh, you know Indica young young guy
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obviously. Uh, and this stuff happens too. And you know these are
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these are professional athletes training at the highest of levels, playing at the highest
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of levels. You know. So yeah, man, just to stay to
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stay healthy obviously, and and and keep keep uh you know, these things
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in check. I think is obviously important. And uh, you know,
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I think all the protocols went according to plan. You know, I got
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him to the hospitals as fast as possible, and you know, kind of
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just even like how it was handled in terms of you know, listen,
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this is the business end of the season in Sadia. You know, there's
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there's quite a lot to play for for these teams in their own rights,
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you know, one trying to get into Europe, one trying to stay out
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of the relegation battle. So you know, just from the ref to that
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as se to trophy, to the captains, to everybody involved, uh,
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you know, deciding to just end the game there, postpone the game there,
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and pick it up at at a later date, you know, from
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that point on. So yeah, I think it was handled, uh,
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you know, relatively well from what I saw, you know, so that
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that was obviously an important thing. You know, it seemed like you gave
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that that that thumbs up before he kind of got taken off the field,
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which was somewhat of somewhat of a positive sign. You always every time you're
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watching professional sports and you see these types of injuries or any type of injury
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really that they have to get you know, cart it off, stretched off,
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whatever taken in the in the ambulance. Uh, you know that that
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thumbs up everybody's looking for, right, So it looked like that's what he
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kind of gave. So it was obviously a positive sign that we were all
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hopeful for and you know we've seen you know, things like this. It
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brings you back to you you know, ericson Christian Erickson in the Euros right
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with that, with that incident, you know if you follow the NFL,
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the more Hamlet right uh on that Monday night game you know with the Bills
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and the Bengals in the NFL and obviously a very very scary scene. So
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yeah, it's just you know, we always we always remember of course David
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story, you know, his his his tragic death was was one that really
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hit home, you know, home for a lot of Italians, especially at
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that time. So it's crazy man, you know these it's just you know,
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not much more to say, but yeah, we wish them well.
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We hope for him to be a safe and you know, speed recovery and
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get back on the pitch as soon as possible. Yeah, and I don't
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know what's gonna happen with the game. I don't know if you heard eat
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anything yesterday, it's still unknown. It's fifty minutes left, so I don't
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know if they if you just play those fifteen minutes, replayed the match,
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and it's what I had, yeah, what I was hearing just by like
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I just stayed on the stream, you know, the shout out to UH
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to Foobo TV, you know, being able to kind of go back and
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forth and being able to like re listen, rewatch whatever you need to do.
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And from what I was hearing on on the feed, it seems like
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they're gonna they're gonna pick up the play from I think it was what the
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seventy odd minute when when this incident happened. So just I don't think that's
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the whole game is gonna be replayed. From what I understanding, it should
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be from that point on, which is still you know, crunch time in
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culture, right those last twenty odd minutes at the end of the game there,
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so in a one on one game that it was at. So yeah,
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that's what I had heard. I didn't really read up and see more
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reports, so I guess we'll have to wait and see. But for my
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knowledge, that's that's what I've what I've seen. Yeah, I mean it,
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it'd be pretty crazy if for Romas to travel back there just for fifteen
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minutes, but you gotta do what you gotta do. And you know,
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even look at both teams in the standing, Roma is they're gonna be fighting
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for a top five. I don't know. We'll talk some UCL later,
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but I think at this point is confirmed that Italy is going to get a
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fifth spot. That's what I was seeing on Twitter. And then even Udins
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with the relegation battle, they're one point ahead of Froze, So you know,
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this is big. It was a big game going into going into it
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for both teams. But at the end they obviously they did the right job
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canceling the game for the guys on the field, like it's hard emotionally,
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you know. We even saw that in the NFL, like you said with
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with de mar Hamlin or the game was just stopped and ultimately they never finished
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it just because it didn't there was no change i think in the playoff standings.
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But anyways, we'll have time to talk about all the other games that
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from this past weekend. It started on Friday, UH four to one Latio
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over so Learnitana, and then it finished on Monday, UH to to Verona.
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There's two games on Mondays, both draws, so it was a long
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weekend. I mean, they do this every weekend. It's gonna same thing
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this weekend where we have Genua and Latio on Friday, and then we finished
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with the derby on Monday, and we'll definitely talk about that after, but
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uh, you know, we'll start We might as well just start with our
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teams, get get right into it, because they each drew three to three
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for Sosolo and Melan. It seems like Sosolo they have a thing for these
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Melan teams, whether the inter or or mean line itself, like they always
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get results. You know, even when we went to go see so Solo
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mean line back in twenty nineteen, a beautiful zero zero draw with that one
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disllowed goal. Yeah, and this time three three Pinamontes scored Lerian Tayo two
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goals, and then from Melan, from mel inside it was layout Jovic and
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Oka four. I mean, what did you make of the game, Adri?
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Yeah, just pure madness right. Uh you know you said you said
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it right there, Nick. You know, Sosolo always seems to be somewhat
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of a trouble for for the Melano teams. When you said it time and
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time again on this show, dating back to uh you know, the c
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j Odays. I remember we were talking stuff like this, so it's no
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surprise. I mean, I think the only time where it was it was
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a it was a true true beatdown. Was the Meo and scudetto a year
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at the last game of the season where they I think trump them. It
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was three nothing right, So uh yeah, just pure madness. You know
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these early games, I think it was it was a nine name game.
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I don't I don't know. Just right off the bat it didn't go right,
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like and I don't know if this was fatigue from from from the Europa
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League match, because you know, POI changed a lot of the lineup.
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Obviously, we saw a lot of fans even by seeing the predicted lineups,
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we're already getting you know, a bit a bit upset. Uh. You
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know, p always had a bit of a history of like shaking the boat
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and really rotating the squad and kind of getting like negative results and following that.
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So listen, I was always gonna be hopeful. But you know,
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once the game started one nothing to not thing goes like here we go again,
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like this is another another story with a swallow that it's probably not gonna
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end well, So listen, I give them credit for for battling back and
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salvaging a point. You know, obviously in the Grand schemes of the schoolator
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race. You know, that doesn't really mean much, but in terms of
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you know, being able to hopefully capture that second place still, you know
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you've a within within distance, uh, you know, a decent distance,
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not anything crazy, you know, was obviously the goal. Couldn't do it.
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Seeing you know Jova's results as well, it seems like we didn't even
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play a match there, right, we both drop both at the same spot.
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We're still I think it's what six points difference between two and three.
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So yeah, I obviously didn't like the approach I think, you know,
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even dating back to I guess, you know, we'll get into it later,
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but you know, from the Eupen weight match, I didn't like the
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you know, the attitude in that game. I think it kind of even
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though it was a bit of a different lineup, you know, it kind
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of rolled over in this game too. You know. Obviously the subs,
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I think we were positive in terms of you know, Yovic coming in that
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that made a bit of a difference, you know, Okafour seems to be
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mister clutch off the bench. You know, I think as what five five
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or six goals I think, and I think all of them are off the
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bench. So yeah, it's just one of those things that you want to
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progress, you want to take a step forward, but you know, it
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seems like with once forward, it's two backs sometimes with this Melon so frustrating
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to say the least. And I know there was a lot of frustrating matches
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in this match day, but you know, being the Melon final, I
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think there was this was was one of them. Somehow it was a six
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goal thriller in terms of the three three year result. But yeah, I
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don't know, it's one of these things, you know, business in the
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season, you want to have a string you know, positive results and kind
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of finished on the right foot. And I don't know, it's I know
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it's one game and you know there's what six more you know, in my
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head, in my eye, six more finals, uh to play to finish
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off the season. So you know, I think, I guess it was
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good that they didn't lose, But at the same time, you know,
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three three against you know, a relegation battling team in Sassuolo, you know,
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obviously was a n ideal. So and it showed I think they were
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obviously they were more hungry, you know, even going back to the Roma
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game in Europe League. You know, Roma was more hungry than Mean and
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they showed, they showed that that fight from the get go. Same thing
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with the Sasol game. I think they were hungrier, they had you know,
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quote unquote more to play for. You know, stayed in Citia is
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obviously a big importance for a teams as well, So I think that showed.
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And yeah, it kind of bit us in the ass in terms of
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not picking up maximum points, but on the flip side, the character to
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to come back and in a game that I really didn't think they would have,
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they were able to do. So I think it's a bit of a
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silver lining. But again it's not enough for for for this meal, and
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I think obviously the end goal needs to be more than that. So uh,
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you know, listen, we put it behind us, and uh,
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you know, there's a big game, two big games coming up, you
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know, starting from tomorrow, so definitely have to turn the page after this
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madness, you know, and uh against as well. Yeah, you know,
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it's funny you bring up both of our teams draw I mean even naptly
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drew Romo. Okay, the game's not done, but it was. It
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was a state. Yeah. Yeah, so between between you and Jenny,
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none of our teams won this weekend. I mean there was a bunch of
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drums drugs in the city in general. I was just looking at the scores
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before LATCHO one le one and that's it. Two wins this weekend, Jesus,
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two wins, eight draws. When it was last on behalf, I
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was thinking of looking it up, scrolling up on the pada. Too much
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work, too much work, probably a long fel free to drop that,
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feel free to drop that below somewhere. Yeah, exactly. It's probably a
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long time for only two wins out of ten to finish a draw in both
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of those on the Friday, h yeah. And then I mean Saturday.
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Two games on Saturday. Oh sorry, sorry, I say both with the
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wins were on Friday one and the win was on Friday. One of them
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was on Saturday morning, but Saturday afternoon zero zero Torino Juventus and then zero
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zero Monza, two teams well between Juve and Blonia, two teams that are
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battling for the Champions League right now. You know, yeah, for both
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teams, obviously disappointing, but I think even more so for Youve. I
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mean, it's just it's more of the same. Right, struggles continue,
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But I didn't like. I really didn't like the effort in general from even
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just from the players. They they didn't grab the bull by the horns.
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You know, this is this is this is still a derby. Okay.
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I know it's not the same derby as let's say, when you play inter
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or even when you play me line. It's not. It doesn't have that
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same international field. But it's important for the city of to Reno. And
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and you know, I gotta give credit to Tatrino fans. If you watch
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the game, they're you know, started the game, they're waving their flags
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like crazy, they're singing like crazy, They're passionate. That's what he love
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to see. But you know, just in general, it's just not a
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good game eve to Reno. They didn't come out like they weren't anything special
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either. I think there was there was one chance in the second half.
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You know, even you'd you'd expect more, even for a ninth place team,
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and obviously for a third place team from you they'd expect you'd expect more.
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But you know, there was a whole talk about case of being subbed.
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I think it was like the fifty seventh minute, fiftieth minute, which
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you know whatever. It almost felt like one of those subs where it was
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predetermined that a player was going to play a certain amount of minutes, because
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it seemed like it, you know, came close to the sixtixth minute mark
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and he's out. But he came off. He wasn't he wasn't too happy.
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He had some words for for a like, you know, I understand
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from the player's point of view, that passion, that competitiveness. You don't
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want to get subbed off, especially in soccer. It's not like, you
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know, you miss a playing football, you missed a shift in hockey,
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you're going back on after In soccer you're out. You're out, you're not
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playing for another week. So so I I get that from Kiza. But
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at the same time, like sometimes you just need to change things up and
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if it's zero zero in the sixty eth minute against rival, just bring someone
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else on and and try to do the job. Clearly it wasn't working,
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no I know, Valvich missed a couple of chances again and Kisa, you
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know what, Kisa, he actually he didn't have a bad game. He
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was creating chances. He had that one chance where a beautiful pass across the
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box to Valvich. That was the one play that you got to score that.
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Man, you're we paid seventy million for you. You you got to
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finish that and Adri, don't I sound like a broken record because I feel
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like how many times have I said that on this show? You got to
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you gotta finish fall that, you gotta finish that, like it it's it's
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too much, you know. Yeah, you know another thing like obviously I
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know this doesn't have an effect on the game, but I was, you
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know, I was looking through Twitter at one point. Some people are like,
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oh, bring on Yieldez. Okay, so if you bring on someone,
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you gotta take someone off. So who do you want to take off?
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Defender? Yeah, yeah, mm hmm, pick your pick your choice,
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yeah, pick your poison. Yeah. You know, so you can't
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play with tel players. Someone's got to get off. You know. It's
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I think it's like one of these things like you're damned if you do your
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damn if you don't, if you don't with yeah, with this whole ve
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saga, I don't know. This is me looking on the outside, ind
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but you know, I don't mind. I don't mind the change up.
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I think it's still clear in my opinion that you know, this allegre stint
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is is over. I think now they're just beating a dead a dead horse
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or a dead zebra, whatever you want, a dead old lady, Like,
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I don't know what you want to what you want to beat down now,
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but it's one of these things. It's don't beat don't beat an old
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lady. Guys, just putting that out there. Please don't don't beat no
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nanas Nana's are are the goats of the world, but metaphorically being there nicknamed
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the old lady. But yeah, I know, I get that, but
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I think, you know, they're just I don't know. It seems like
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they're going through the motions just to finish off this season. It seems like
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in my perspective, like, you know, it's clear to me that you
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know this system and this this this you know atmosphere around you of a is
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kind of just I don't know if they're permanently ruined their top players, but
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for the moment, it looks like that. So it's an interesting one.
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Again. They're lucky Todino didn't do any much more because this would have been
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even more of an embarrassment. I don't know, uh, you know if
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you agree with that, Nick, But you know, it's one of these
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things where it's like, yeah, you played bad, but you know,
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thankfully your your your arrival and in the derby didn't play that much better than
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you, right, So, and we're just surprising because Torino has had some
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some decent moments this season. I mean, nothing crazy, but you know,
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Snabia has been on a bit of a tear. You know, obviously
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Belanova has been a big talking point, not only in the but obviously you
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know internationally with with potential duty call up and maybe he can have a role
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come this summer. So you know, I think they got I think they
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got pieces, but you know, I think it was just it was one
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of these derbies. It was just a nothing derby. And I don't know
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if it's kind of been a bit of a hobby with the Debbie de la
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Molle, but it's it's one of these things, man, that both teams
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with obviously a lot of history, one more than the other for sure,
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but you know what it means to the city, and that's the type of
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performance you put out. It's just not good enough in my opinion, No,
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exactly. Yeah, and you're right, like it feels like the Derby
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sometimes like one nothing two one games. Yeah, and you're right if I
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mean, if if this is lost, it would have been even worse.
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You know. But I think one thing that's working in you's favor right now
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where it's you know again, don't want to beat a dead horse here,
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don't want to beat an old lady. Please don't please, don't like this
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whole coaching change. You know, we've talked about it. It's likely just
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gonna happen at the end of the season, simple as that. And the
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reason why it's not happening tomorrow is because You've is in a in a position
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right now where they're eight points above Roma with well Roma Staw has six games
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left, Juve has five games left. So it's like, obviously Roma's closing
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the gap, you know every time You've drops points. But they're in a
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position where they could close up the season with legree and likely still qualify for
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top four maybe you know, top five in this position right now, and
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and you know, make you make the coaching change in the summer. It's
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not you know, that's clear. We at this point, it's pretty clear,
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like yeah, you know, but we'll see, we'll see if it's
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Mata, We'll see if who it is. But uh yeah, you know
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that that's a story for another day. Napoli. Interesting thing we saw on
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on Twitter. They're on pace to become the basically worst defending champions ever in
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terms of point total for a twenty team season, and they're the only other
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team that has as as least as less points that's bad was the nineteen forty
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five nineteen fifty to Reno, which as we know, happened the season after
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the Petiga disaster. So they shouldn't they shouldn't even be counted in this conversation.
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You know, they lost their entire team, you know, like that
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was completely expected. But for Napoli, it's, you know, struggles continue.
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We you know, we've talked about this, Jenny's talked about this crazy
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eighth place right now, forty nine points after the to to draw to a
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Frozene on the weekend, Shadira or kid I don't know how to pronounces,
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uh two goals and then for Napolio's goals from Politano and nose he Man and
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he's owned by and he's owned bnopoly right and have him. They haven't rolled
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out. He played up body City of b You know, I did well
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whatever, went to the I think the World Cup whatever, and then I
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think from Rocco and he comes back to bite, you know, not pling
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the ass with And again I don't know if I think it was the second
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goal. Was it the blunder by Medet that he kind of just passed it,
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passed it out And I think there was a bit of a bonder there
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from a mistaken notopply fans can correct me if I'm wrong there, But yeah,
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man, just not good enough, man. Like it's one of these
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things like we've again we've beaten you know, we've beaten the donkey this time,
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like you know, Napolis, the mascot there. But it's it's crazy,
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like it's it's a it's a bit sad. I had the privilege of
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jumping on Kicks and Picks podcasts with our with our good friends over there,
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uh you know, nick Yanni and Steve Chabo and the other night, and
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you know, just talking about something that was a bit you know, not
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you know, your biggest disappointment maybe of the season for me. I just
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it's been a tough pill to swallow, just as a neutral with this Napoli
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team like going off, you know, just beautiful football that they were playing
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last season on top of the world. They had their moment rightfully, so
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as we've said it, they deserved it. They were high flying all of
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us season, took city up, you know by the horns, and ran
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with it pretty much the entire season. And now it's like it's almost there's
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just not much and there's just nothing to to almost look forward to. You
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know, you have Spoleetti in the house that made the appearance in that in
23:45
the stadium, and I mean that's the type of performance you put on in
23:51
front of your former coach, you know, just the season ago. I
23:52
mean, just not good enough in my opinion. Not the fans I know
23:56
are are are angry, or are upset, or they just wanted the season
24:02
to end. I think I think this is one of these things where I
24:03
just let's wrap this up and start fresh from from the summer, and I
24:07
think that's honestly what they need. I don't know where this direction is going
24:11
to go. There's a lot of things to fix, obviously, but you
24:15
know, you're facing You're facing the frozen on. They were, again similar
24:19
to Melan, you know, you need to win, you need to beat
24:22
these teams. You should be beating these teams, and you slip up and
24:26
you manage to salvage a draw or you know, be able just to pick
24:30
up this one point instead of about three. Is is something too that is
24:34
worried obviously, and you know it hurts. So I don't know, it
24:38
seems like they have to turn the page and hopefully the summer is something that
24:42
they can look forward to it in a positive way because this downfall has been
24:48
I didn't know all the stats behind it in terms of one of the worst
24:51
title defense, and I know a lot of people were seeing you know,
24:53
you know, Melan did a pretty terrible job, but I guess I guess
24:57
now it takes the cake for the one. So yeah, just not good
25:02
enough. Yeah, you'd think you'd think there was like at least one team
25:11
in the past that got extremely low points. You know, but I want
25:15
I wanted to. I have to look because it says like the worst title
25:18
defense for a twenty team league is that are they only considering twenty team leagues
25:22
just for the point total. I don't know, maybe maybe you should use
25:26
average points it said, but we'll see. Yeah, at the end of
25:30
the day, annopoly is they might not even play in Europe next season,
25:33
which is which is nuts? No, yeah, yeah, how many points
25:37
are they out of their what their They're forty nine points said out of six
25:42
six spot for seven. Yeah, forty nine. I mean they're right there
25:48
with Latso and then Atlanta's six fifty one with a game in hand, so
25:52
I mean it's possible, but yeah, I don't know. They're their schedules,
25:57
like for this of the year. Uh. Like I said, Latso
26:00
did get the win on the weekend, Felipe Anderson going out in style for
26:04
for Lats of two goals and then right after he gets announced to move to
26:07
Palmadas UH in Brazil and you know this one. I wouldn't say he's a
26:14
shock, but there was rumors for him going for him going to Juve for
26:18
the past few weeks. But guys, I've tweeted this, like, come
26:21
on, we're not talking about rumors for the transfer market in March and April.
26:25
You know they're not They're not legit. You know, don't believe that
26:27
gott will never sleeps my friend. No, but uh yeah, I mean,
26:37
are you surprised by it at all? I mean Brazil and going back
26:40
to Brazil. No, I mean listen, I think, uh, he's
26:45
this is what was his second stint at Lato, He's he's obviously found a
26:48
bit of a home enroll, uh these past you know, two stints,
26:52
and I think I don't know. I know there's some fans that want them
26:57
out or some fans that's will think he provides something. But wherever hi,
27:03
I think, you know, I think he did his time. From my
27:06
outsider perspective, like he did his time. I think he's still he's not
27:11
old. I think he's what thirty one, thirty two maybe I don't know
27:15
that in that range, early thirty, so I think he probably still has
27:18
something to give, maybe in Europe, but you know, Brazilian going back
27:23
to Brazil. I mean, it's not the first time, no, nor
27:26
the last for it to happen. So I was a bit shocked about again
27:32
again obviously paper talk and wasn't sure, but just the rumors with with the
27:36
ju of a I think, just for me, it was a bit of
27:37
a head scratch. I didn't really think that move was what you know,
27:42
Juve entirely needs, Like, yeah, they can maybe use him, sure,
27:45
but you know, it's not something that I think would be their their
27:49
main focus point going forward. So yeah, not really shocked. I think
27:55
he He's given a lot to city, especially to Latso, and you know,
28:00
I think he I'm pretty sure he wants you know, what the super
28:04
I think on his on his journey in Sia. So you know, not
28:11
much more to say. I think he's He's a good player. I mean
28:12
definitely someone that you know goes goes missing at times. But like I said,
28:18
it is time. I think you know, lots of fans if they're
28:21
pissed, if they're happy, so be it. I think this is something
28:23
that they they get rid of him, and I think they have bigger problems
28:27
to worry about than behind me to to Palmtas. Honestly, after Luis Alberto
28:36
post game, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna be gone. After I
28:41
signed a four year contract. I don't want to take another dollar another euro
28:45
from from Lazio. All that talk that many fans are going pretty uh pretty
28:48
crazy for so yeah, I think they have other things to worry about besides,
28:53
you know, Anderson leaving. So that's kind of how I how I
28:56
see it. Yeah, and you know, could to say him for still
29:03
putting, you know, putting in that effort. How many years he's been
29:06
in Uh, I feel like it's been combined him like his two stints.
29:10
I don't know, probably yeah that's true. Years maybe no, maybe more
29:15
than I forgot. Yeah, I forgot there was that split in in between
29:18
he's been his second stint. It was twenty twenty one. I thought it
29:22
was before that. I was like, you know he came back twenty twenty
29:25
or twenty nineteen, but his first was five years so yeah years, yeah,
29:29
yeah, forty years. Yeah he did. He played for west Ham
29:33
and Portal. And you asked me what he played for obviously you know,
29:38
you just think gatso he didn't play obviously to to he played two years at
29:42
West west Ham, one year at Porto. But whatever. Uh yeah,
29:48
that's I don't know if you have anything else to add for for latso you
29:52
know they're there, they are still battling to get into a European spot.
29:56
Uh. Like I said, tied with Knopolief twenty nine points or two points
30:00
behind Atalanta. I don't know what the rest of their schedule is like I
30:06
think they haven't. I think they have if I'm not mistaken. Nick Deani
30:08
was saying it the other night, I think they have one of the easier
30:11
schedules to end the end of the year and saidiyah, easy quote unquote.
30:15
Guys, we always say that these games and Steadia, but especially this season
30:21
and with this lot, show that that has been a bit of lackluster.
30:22
So no, man, like, listen, I think this is another team
30:26
that, you know, maybe similar to a U of It, maybe similar
30:29
to an OP we that just kind of when I write out to the rest
30:32
of the season, see what happens in the summer, start fresh, start
30:37
in on a positive note, and just kind of get all this negativity out
30:40
because from coaching changes, to terrible football, to lackluster results, to being
30:47
at such highs and such lows. It's in some of these things that I
30:51
think they just kind of want to turn the page from. And again I'll
30:53
continue to say, I still think Wacho has pieces to work with. How
31:00
competitive they can be with that I think is obviously, you know, obviously
31:03
subjective, but they need to reinvest they obviously didn't correctly with after losing their
31:11
best tool in SMS, you know, one of the better, if not
31:14
best midfielder and said, yeah, you know, year in year out,
31:15
we've we always would say, and yeah, I just not it just wasn't
31:22
good enough there too. I think it comes down to that. I mean,
31:25
you know, from Saudi now to to Tudor coming in, I can't
31:29
really win t door too much. Like i mean, like what do you
31:30
want to It's kind of called zona, Like how much you want to blame
31:33
this guy like just walked in, you know, a couple of weeks.
31:38
He has to finish off this season in somewhat of a positive fashion, like
31:42
after you're you've been playing you know, terrible football and and just you know,
31:47
blackluster results. I mean, it's it's a hard task. So I'm
31:49
not gonna fault that too much on on these on these managers, but I'm
31:55
just hopeful to see, you know that that race even for for Europa Conference
31:59
League too, to be a good one. And where they are in the
32:02
standings, I mean with the points, I mean it's pretty close. I
32:05
think obviously the game in hand with Atalanta's is a big one. And I
32:08
said the other night on Kicks and Picks and I'll stay here again. You
32:12
know. I think that's a huge one, just because for Atalanta's sake,
32:15
that's like either getting you know, closer to Roma or following closer for you
32:21
know, I'll watch you not to catch. So it's it's a tricky one
32:25
with that, but we have to wait and see. I think, uh,
32:30
you know, obviously the result for for Latsu was a positive one,
32:32
you know, a big win, but they need to string a couple more
32:37
of those together to kind of be at a respectable place come come the end
32:42
of the season in my opinion. Yeah, and they still got obviously Goalia
32:45
left but down to nothing against you that's in uh not obviously not this weekek
32:52
after uh on Tuesday. On Tuesday next week actually yeah, so they still
32:59
got that. But other other city games, uh this weekend, Like I
33:06
said, a lot of draws. I don't know if there's too much to
33:08
talk about Atlanta surprise draw against Rona. I think that that's another of those
33:15
surprise draws. That was a game in which they they scored early two goals
33:21
from a goal from Scamaka and a goal from Ederson Scomaka is getting hot.
33:24
He's saying he's telling Splitt, hey look at me, uh, you know,
33:29
heading into Germany. But then well, I said, let's hold man.
33:34
Yeah, and then uh, and then Verona came back and tied a
33:37
big point for Verona there in sixteenth, sixteenth place. But Atalanta there's still
33:43
five four points behind Roma now and they each have a game left because Atalanta's
33:47
thoughts to play Fiorentina that game that was that game was postponed because of the
33:53
Joe Barona situation. But you know, if I even want to look at
33:58
the bottom of the table, you know you got Udine's twenty eight, Verona
34:00
twenty eight, Emply twenty eight, Frozy twenty seven, so Swallow twenty six,
34:05
and then obviously tena fifteen. I mean they're going down. But man,
34:09
that's that's a tight race. Like you can easily make the argument like
34:16
City actually go down to eighteen teams, because if you have five teams with
34:20
twenty eight points after thirty two games, that's that's pretty bad. But you
34:24
know whatever, that's another discussion for another day. Who do you think,
34:30
I mean, who do you think is going to go through? Is gonna
34:31
stay out? Who do you think two teams are going down to these out
34:35
of these four, you know, and Kledi is right there to thirty one,
34:37
but they're they're getting the points, have points in three straight. Now,
34:43
yeah, that's thanks to the end company over there. I mean the
34:46
big, big results. I think the one last week, not this past
34:50
match day, about the one before against Atlanta obviously was huge. But yeah,
34:55
man, again another talking point that I spoke about, uh Kicks Picks
35:00
podcasts the other night. And you know, it's just crazy to think,
35:05
like I said it there and again I'll say here, but could you imagine,
35:08
like you know, obviously we've been following said yeah for so long,
35:12
and you know, the teams like subsole teams, likens, they have been
35:16
around, you know, in in the time that we've obviously been watching culture.
35:22
I think I don't remember when Susol I forget when Susho came back into
35:27
or into SETI ah, maybe around ten years ago. Maybe I don't remember,
35:30
But could you imagine just even thinking a couple of seasons ago, that
35:35
and sasol or in the relegation battle like it can potentially go down to be
35:40
for me, I went to thought, Uh, to see that is has
35:44
been pretty crazy. You know, I think I think on the on the
35:50
flip side of that, I do think and we spoke about it, when
35:52
when Genoa was in this situation, uh, potentially going down, they were
35:57
always just surviving, just surviving, just survive iving, and then you know,
36:00
they finally had to go down, and for me it was and I
36:05
think we maybe can agree on this, you know, blessing in the skies
36:09
even though it's a top bill of the swall. You obviously never want to
36:12
go down to the second division, but you know, maybe a bit of
36:15
a busting in the skies for for Genoa that came back into a and sayah,
36:20
and you know, they're they're what eleven twelve position, I think they're
36:23
they're they're safe from from from going down again. So and having some players
36:30
on that team obviously upper management, you know, ownership, coach has been
36:34
impressive and Giordino. So you know, maybe that's kind of what these you
36:38
know, Swolls and Theys of the world need, you know, that that
36:43
wake up call, that blessing in the skies by facing the facts that hey,
36:47
I'm going to go down to B I'm going to work my way back
36:50
up and make some changes again. I don't know if it's going to be
36:53
them too. I think we know obviously it's going to be Sill or anything
36:57
that's one of them, which which is a shame, but who else it's
37:01
for me, it's tough, but you know, there's a very high possibility
37:06
that it could be a sus Walls going down and something that I would never
37:09
have thought. I really again, I'm really not sure. You know,
37:17
EMPOI is down there not really doing much. I think is I think has
37:22
been. I think they're somewhat of a better They've been playing a bit better
37:29
than some of these other oppositions around them, you know that don't know in
37:31
that in that mixed frozen but again, hey, like listen, some of
37:35
these small teams are picking up results when it matters, you know, against
37:40
some bigger opposition or against themselves in that in that direct competition to stay up.
37:45
So you know, with Sasos in their best player in Mimo Berardi,
37:51
this last stretch of stretch of time obviously hasn't helped. They're change of managers.
37:55
I think I think it's who Ballardini now the on the touch line there
38:00
from watching the game against me on it, it's like they went through a
38:02
bit of a you know, change of change of managers. You know,
38:07
we were we were praising I remember now what season it was, but we
38:09
were praising the guy like deal easy right because you know at the time he
38:13
was he was doing well. Things then go according to plant, they bring
38:16
up a guy like Ballardini to to try to finish up this season. Now
38:21
down now back to trophy. Uh, you know in so I don't know.
38:28
I I think they have the betting on to go down. So we'll
38:35
see if that happens. But it's gonna be an interesting race, just like
38:37
the top half of the table and you know, for the fight for Europe
38:40
is interesting. I think this relegation battle is is uh for for the cultural
38:45
fans, for the city of fans that the Watches League, you know,
38:47
weekend and week out is just is gonna be just as interesting as the top
38:52
battle, just in obviously a different light with with different things at stake.
39:00
You know, what, do you think maybe it goes down or what It's
39:02
It's hard to say, really I find Yeah, I feel like I feel
39:06
like frozen. They got the results done early in the season, they were
39:09
like in the top half of the table one point. Yeah, you know,
39:15
like they have the talent to at least survive, Like they play Celarning
39:20
Tana, they play Amply and play inter, they play Monza, and they
39:23
play Udines. So three of those five games are are you know, direct
39:29
opponents in well, okay, you include Celearning Tanna in one of those games,
39:36
and sorry, they also play they played Torino. But uh yeah,
39:43
like they you know a lot of these teams that they're still going to play
39:45
each other. They basically control their own destiny. Even look in Verona they
39:49
play Udinese and Celearning Tana, so they have a bit of a tougher schedule.
39:54
They also played Ferentina, Lazzio, Torino and Intern the last match date.
39:59
Honestly, like Verona is an ugly team there, and they've just been
40:04
like this for the past how many years. You know, last year they
40:07
had the relegation battle playoff against Spetsia. They won. You know, maybe
40:13
it's time to send them down. You know it five six years ago we
40:16
had two Verona teams. Maybe it's time for zero. But we'll see.
40:22
Even emply like this is a team that they're up and down, up and
40:24
down. I think Empleon and Rona. Honestly, because Frozen northern and at
40:32
least has the talent to survive. So solo, they're not convincing this year.
40:39
I think they need a year away, as you were just saying,
40:42
I think maybe they need a year away to kind of rebuild. They came
40:45
in and what I think twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, they came in years
40:52
ago and they took city out by storm and they played in Europa League,
40:58
you know, and it's just not the same obviously since those days, since
41:01
those different Jessica days. But it is what it is, and so maybe
41:06
it is time to for them to to go down to sadeb uh And uh,
41:12
yeah, I mean, you know, I mean I'm even curious.
41:14
I can't say I follow cd B. I don't know what the standings are
41:16
like. But Parma there in first, so we might see Parma back next
41:21
year. Como is in second, three points up on Vanettia, so that
41:24
that would be interesting. Uh, if I'm not mistaken, is that is
41:30
is that the Yber guys, Yeah, Faber guys their own they're owned by
41:36
him or he didn't he play for them for a bit? Is he still
41:38
this guy went through the owner and in the blink of an eye, I
41:43
don't know what and I goes over there in Como but hey, you know,
41:45
chopo to him doing it, doing it the right way. I guess
41:49
I know. Cutrone is their former Milan player. Uh he's playing, he's
41:52
playing there. So yeah, interest, Like obviously, you know, beautiful,
41:59
beautiful city, beautiful, beautiful kids, and their kids are pretty nice
42:01
and uh maybe a beautiful story. Who knows for them to come up,
42:06
we'll see, but yeah, parmas always part is always nice to see in
42:09
Sadia. Obviously, the stuff with Parama, it's always it's always good to
42:13
see them after what they've been through as a club. Right, So yeah,
42:19
intriguing. Like I said, the top half of the table for Europe
42:22
is an exciting one. And like this race for for who's going to get
42:27
out of you know, the salvation relegation battle and all that and who's coming
42:30
up from the city B is always something to look out for too, because
42:34
there's always some sort of shocks and surprises and something that happens on the last
42:38
match they you know, I think it was was it when we went down
42:43
a couple of seasons back when that game against Inam that post, I think
42:45
we were at your charvel. Yeah what is like what like those were scenes
42:51
like and again you have to be a fan of the league, I guess
42:52
to really appreciate it. So we are, so you know, we're able
42:57
to kind of appreciate these things. But it's like Jesus Christ, like,
43:00
that's why you know you can turn off the TV when you're watching, said
43:05
yeah, because there's always something going on, positive or negative. There's always
43:08
something going on, and said yeah, so yeah, yeah, exactly.
43:14
And so you know, obviously this relegation battle is gonna go, uh right
43:19
down to the wire, but you know, talking you know, we'll move
43:23
from the bottom of the city at table to basically top of Europe. I
43:25
want to talk to some Champions League, you know, move away from Caucho.
43:29
Obviously Champions League quarter finals ended today. Uh you know two games between
43:34
sorry, four games between yesterday and today. We saw apparently shootout today between
43:38
Real Mint and Man City. Real advanced Byron beat Arsenal one. Not thing,
43:44
so no more English teams in the Champions League. And then yesterday PSG
43:49
I want to say they dismantled Barcia Barsa did go down to Man but for
43:52
to one and then Dorman beat Athletico four to two, winning five four and
43:58
aggregate. So that was a pretty exciting game. Too. Athletical, not
44:00
the athletical that we know with their defense and everything. They allow four goals
44:05
over over two lakes, including four yesterday alone. You have to wonder if
44:10
Simon's time is coming to an end there. It just feels like, you
44:15
know, maybe they want a new era. But yeah, and that's also
44:20
a team that they've always been the brides bid. They haven't ever been the
44:22
bride, especially when it comes to Champions League losing two finals. Crazy that
44:25
they lost two finals against the same team two years apart. That's I would
44:30
be hard. I'd be heart broke. I mean, I saw my team
44:32
lose two finals, you know, in the same time span. But at
44:36
least those two different teams, you know, especially especially across city rival when
44:42
they lost to Real Madrid. Yeah, yeah, even walk we can't even
44:45
walk Outsie, you're gonna get ridiculed. That's a that's a tough pill as
44:49
well. I'm actually imaginally if Milan lost Champions League final to Enter like two
44:55
back to back in three years, you lose twice, they're the same team,
44:59
and you're it's your right, like literally like in in in city rival.
45:04
It's a top build as well. Yeah, uh, I know we
45:07
were kind of talking about it before we started. But PSG, you know,
45:12
this is a team that every year people are predicting them to win the
45:15
Champions League, you know. I know they went to the final I think
45:17
it was twenty twenty, lost to Byron, but they've kind of tailed off
45:21
the past few years and then now they're back in the semifinals. You know,
45:23
Mambape is pretty much on his way out. Wouldn't be something special if
45:29
he finishes his PSG career with the Champions League, you know, especially now
45:34
they played Dormant, So you got one team who's really hyped up in terms
45:37
of talent and then another team who's just they have that tradition Dormant. The
45:42
beautiful stadium, beautiful fans, they they love their their football there. Uh,
45:46
and that'll be interesting to see that that matchup. And then obviously on
45:50
the on the other side, Byron Real Madrid two more heavyweights in the Champions
45:54
League. I think was what was the last Byron won twenty right and Real
46:01
Madrid won't. Did they win in twenty twenty one? Mmm, you're gonna
46:07
have to work twenty twenty two, I forget, no, no, I
46:12
forget look it up because Liverpool won one of those years also, right yeah,
46:16
yeah, yeah, I forget which which which one was? Which?
46:20
So anyways too, two recent champions and that will be uh, that will
46:23
be a great matchup too. I don't know if you had a chance to
46:27
watch any of these games, like any of your thoughts on on pretty much
46:30
the four remaining teams. Yeah, uh, well, I caught the majority
46:35
of the of the Real City game today. I think that was again,
46:40
you know, you had plenty of time to catch just one. You know,
46:43
I went to distance all the way to the shootouts. So if you
46:45
didn't pick up a part of this game, I mean, I guess you
46:49
were just really busy working or something was going on. Yeah. I was
46:54
able to catch more more of that than I had that game on. And
46:58
I didn't really pay much attention to the to the obviously on the score.
47:00
But yeah, the Bayron Arsenal game, you know, I didn't really pay
47:06
much attention to it. I saw that was the one. Nothing that's kind
47:07
of That's how I finished, obviously, and you know they advanced there.
47:13
So for for our Canadian boy Alfonso Davies. It's another semi final for him
47:17
in the Champions League, which is which is a which is a plus.
47:22
But yeah, man, this this real city game today. I mean the
47:27
first like was pure madness, like pure madness at the Bennebao three three UH
47:32
Champions League football like in Madrid. Like, it doesn't get any better than
47:37
that. Obviously, the reigning champions against the most witest team in in in
47:44
this competition, two legendary managers obviously in Pep and Carlo Ancelotti. You knew
47:50
it was going to be interesting. I think I was in my eyes the
47:52
game today. The early goal by Rodrigo, the somewhat late equal by de
48:00
Bruyne one hundred and twenty minutes didn't solve nothing. They went to the shootout.
48:05
I think. You know, Rails keeper Looning stepped up obviously in not
48:13
only in the tie in in terms of this game, but in the shootout,
48:16
making some saves there. So yeah, it's it's gonna be an interesting
48:22
semi final. I think. I don't know, man, the scriptwriters I
48:24
think are doing their work because it almost seems like it's it's a match made
48:29
of having for a PHG Real Madrid final and Bopp's current team versus his next
48:36
team. Who's gonna win. We'll we'll have to wait and see, but
48:39
I think that will be the final in my opinion. Not to say any
48:45
anything bad against you know, you know, Dortmann or Baying, I just
48:49
think, you know, to a man more or less, I would say
48:53
that, you know, the Phgs and the Reil Madrids of the world are
49:00
superior. Again, anything can happen on Champions League nights. Uh. You
49:04
know, football that's played in the Champions League is always heightened and and everything
49:08
is is under scrutiny, and everything's you know, so much more that the
49:13
value of it is so much more so anything can definitely happen. But if
49:16
I have to really choose, and I had, you know, gun to
49:21
your head, who are you gonna choose to go to the final? For
49:22
me? It's PHG Real Madrid. I think, like I said, you
49:27
know, we talk about the NFL script for any of your NFL heads out
49:30
there, but that that are working extra hard here and here out. I
49:34
think it almost seems about similar in in the cultural world in terms of this
49:39
Champions League. Uh, you know, semi final and campaign here so exciting.
49:45
I think these games are gonna be exciting. Nevertheless, you know both,
49:51
I think all the first legs were very very exciting. I think the
49:53
second legs like, yes, it is games like the comeback by PHG to
49:58
beat you know, Barca was was huge and you know, again kudos to
50:04
Dormann to get it done against Atletico because I think I like to go was
50:07
always there like they'll always you. I mean, I agree obviously the bridees
50:12
me never the bride type of thing, but you know, they're they're always
50:16
there, They're always a threat, they're always powerful. Uh. You know,
50:20
Simeoni has has the teams always playing at a high level. So you
50:24
know, Kudros to Dormant to getting past this is a team that I didn't
50:27
even know if it was going to get out of the group. They managed
50:30
to get out now all the way to a semi final and it's gonna be
50:32
no easy task to like you said, to go play at at a signal
50:37
of doing a park, I mean this this is a stadium, you know,
50:38
the the yellow wall that they have, it's it's you know, bring
50:43
on an extra pair of underwear because it's it's it's a big task when you
50:46
go over there, so yeah, I mean I'm excited. Obviously, it's
50:52
a shame not to see any Italian teams. We always like to see if
50:54
it not be our team, an Italian team in in uh in the competition
50:59
at stage, but it's not to be, so yeah, I think for
51:05
me, I would like to see Carletto do well. Obviously Gilotti holds a
51:09
special place in me on East Arts, so yeah, I think I as
51:15
much as you don't want to see Rails, you know, Trophy Camney get
51:19
bigger and bigger in terms of the Champions League and kind of making that gap
51:22
even bigger than it already is in terms of titles. It almost seems like
51:27
it's it's them in the competition year in and year out. So most see
51:30
what happens on Gilotti a legend, so I would like to see that happening
51:34
form once more. Yeah, you know, I know I just said it
51:38
would be a dream scenario for PSGF. You know, I'm up it goes
51:43
out on top. But you know, I wouldn't be surprised all German final.
51:45
That would be pretty interesting. I know they did that in twenty thirteen,
51:51
and yeah, that would be uh, especially with them hosting the Euros.
51:55
It almost feels like the scraper. That's another script. I didn't think.
52:00
I wasn't on that script. I was on No, I was on
52:04
the PHG Madrid script. I didn't get to that page on the script.
52:07
Okay, yeah, yeah, it's later on. I don't think I didn't
52:12
see you ce ceed on the email, so exactly I didn't. I didn't
52:16
do I didn't do my homework. I guess I don't know, but yeah,
52:21
it would be something else. I forget where the final is. I
52:23
might be a Wembley. Honestly, the Champions League. It's always every fucking
52:28
finals, Like every event now is a Wembley. Talk about script writer,
52:32
talk about the script writers. Everything is always out why yeah, joking aside.
52:40
I think it's gonna be a good one, no matter which way go
52:44
watch. We're saying all this script talk, and it's gonna be I think
52:46
it's gonna be a PHG Madrid. You think it's gonna be an all German
52:51
final. It's it's not gonna be either of those things. One German team
52:55
and yeah, you know, statistically speaking, most likely scenario just one of
53:00
the German teams make it and then the other one doesn't. Yeah, but
53:06
yeah, I'll be interesting. And then I mean for a wrap of the
53:07
show, we got to talk about the elephant in the room for me.
53:10
And there's two finals coming up tomorrow on Thursday and Monday. Uh, you
53:16
know we talked about it last week. What would you rather have? The
53:21
Derby or the Europa League? Has your mind changed since we last spoke?
53:28
Now, I'm just even more pissed, That's what I am. I'm just
53:30
even more pissed, you know, seeing seeing there's a time and how we're
53:37
playing Monday morning quarterback, which we always hate to do but unfortunately fall in
53:40
this type of situation. Or today we're playing Wednesday night quarterback. I guess,
53:45
but yeah, no, just more pissed. I guess what I'd rather
53:50
want now. I'm not even gonna choose anything out because I think I gave
53:53
a bit of the maloca on these performances. I'm not even a fucking ruse.
53:58
But listen, I think, like I said earlier, you know,
54:02
Europa League, the tie against Roma, the I knew it wasn't gonna be
54:08
easy. That's one thing I did say. It wasn't gonna be an easy
54:12
task. Uh yeah, we might be the favorites going into the matchup,
54:15
but again, you know you're playing Europe. It's a different animal, so
54:21
that hasn't changed. That's that's still gonna be a tough match. But you
54:27
know, at the same time, I think it's still manageable, manageable.
54:30
One nail down obviously. You know, the fact that it happened at home
54:35
was was and there was like no fight or very little fight from from Melon
54:42
in terms of the intensity, like kudos to Roma, like they went into
54:46
the game hungary. You saw it from pretty much minute one. Uh and
54:51
you know, mean was playing catch up, you know, from almost you
54:53
know, the get go after what twenty one minutes you already done one nothing?
54:59
Just not not a good look, especially at home in front of your
55:01
home fans. Uh, top players not stepping up. Listen, I listened
55:06
to a bit of a bit of what Leo had to say in terms of
55:08
his quotes in the in the in his press conference, in the press conference
55:13
today, you know, I think this team obviously still believing. I think
55:16
they definitely should, like I said, manageable, manageable tie. You know,
55:22
the only one down one nothing should have been one one I think.
55:25
I mean, obviously the big controversy in that game was was you know,
55:31
was was Uku side in the build up? For me, I'm still sticking
55:36
to yes. But again, at the end of the day, the past
55:37
is the past. You're not going to change nothing. I mean I thought
55:43
there was offside. It wasn't to be. Uh, they scored the goal.
55:46
But again not to put Blayman and and excuses on that, meal had
55:52
to be better. They didn't show up in terms of the where they should
55:54
have, at the level they should have. You know, you Lou's chance
55:58
at the end, you know, the the fancy footwork by Tuku finding Jiu
56:05
in front of in front of in front of the goal. There I had
56:08
to finish that didn't. So these are moments where you know, on another
56:13
night, these things go in. You know, Ju nine times out of
56:15
ten and he scored those. It wasn't to be. So it is where
56:20
it is. But again I'm sticking with the whole it's it's manageable, because
56:22
I still think it is. You know, you're down one that thing it
56:25
could be it could have been a lot worse. So for that, you
56:30
know you're going to Rome, which is gonna be a tough, tough,
56:34
you know, obviously atmosphere to play in. We already know that going into
56:37
it. So I just want, uh, you know, the best possible.
56:43
Obviously I'm biased to say that the best possible was off from me on,
56:45
but you know, just I just want to see a better display,
56:47
like results gonna be what the result's going to be. I just want to
56:52
see the hunger and the fight there from for a minute one, because when
56:57
it only comes a minute seventy five, it's not good enough. So you
57:00
know, for me, that's that's where I kind of lie with that again,
57:05
two big, two big games like you said, you know, the
57:07
Europa League second leg tomorrow and you're down the goal, and then the big
57:13
you know, Derby Delamandolina on Monday Night Football or Monday Night Culture. Sorry,
57:19
you know, in a in a game where uh you know, Internal
57:22
has has the potential to win the school that on on that match day.
57:25
So you know, we're gonna be a big, big greedy and say we
57:31
want both because I think both are are crucial at this point. But you
57:37
know, I know, I know had said in and I'm pretty sure he
57:40
had said in the conference in one of the press conferences that I had listened
57:44
to, you know, he kind of you know at this point, you
57:50
know the school that goes over, right, so go out and win this
57:52
derby, like they've had our number for too many derbies in a row.
57:55
Now it's time. So I hope, I hope it's to be. I
58:00
hope it for it to be a good matchup like you know it usually is,
58:04
even though it's been one sided for the most part. I know the
58:06
t folds are going to be huge. I know the I know the atmosphere
58:08
is going to be buzzing. And let's let's let the snakes wait another week
58:15
for them to celebrate, because we already know they're going to celebrate. We
58:16
already know they have it in the bag. Let's let them wait another week
58:21
or so for them to do so for them to do that. So,
58:24
you know, I'm excited for even though you know, the schedule doesn't help
58:30
you know, the working man in terms of being able to watch these fucking
58:35
games. But hey, you know, if there's a will, there's a
58:37
way who will try to make it work for tomorrow and Monday night so or
58:39
Monday afternoon here in Montreal. But yeah, I'm not picking what I rather
58:45
at this point, I'm just hoping and praying and looking forward to some good
58:52
culture tomorrow and and definitely on Monday against against rivals in there. But shout
59:00
out to uh. I want to add the same shout out to Atlanta.
59:05
I don't know if you saw any of that, Nick, but fucking Atlanta.
59:07
The three and zero against Liverpool at Anfield, all right. I didn't
59:12
actually have a chance to watch the game, me neither, but again I
59:15
saw the aftermath and I saw the result that I was done. Uh three
59:19
nail. This is a game where if you go back to the episode that
59:23
we we had before that matchup, I know Johnny had said and again it's
59:29
it's Nostra Johnny, Nostra damis john Johnnas whatever you want to call him.
59:35
Uh, you know, he he predicts these things right, And he said
59:38
there's no better time for for Gus Perini to to fox his man managerial muscles.
59:45
If I poured it him correctly, I'm pretty sure that's what he said,
59:50
you know, I love him or hate him, and got Sperini he
59:52
he he foxed, He foxed the muscles a bit, you know, he
59:55
foxed the muscles at anfield, so you know he which for that Kamaka.
1:00:00
Like we said earlier, again, love him or hate him. He's getting
1:00:04
hot, guys, he's getting hot. I don't know. Let's see.
1:00:08
I don't know, maybe June, I don't know. We'll see. Uh,
1:00:13
you know, you know again we can laugh and and and hate on
1:00:16
him what we want. But if he gets hot, comes to your house,
1:00:20
does some magic, all that goes away, my friends, all that
1:00:22
goes away. So we'll see. But yeah, just two uh too manageable.
1:00:32
I think results for my melan Johnny's Roma uh or Antalanta friends to to
1:00:39
advance, we know, we know there's gonna be hopefully too Italian teams progress
1:00:46
to the semi finals. So why not why not Mealan and Mayland and Atalanta?
1:00:53
Yeah, that would that would be interesting. But they play on the
1:00:55
opposite sides of the bracket, right, so they could only need it in
1:00:59
the semis. They can uh, they were they would meet in the final
1:01:05
years you know, sorry to the final. They would not meet in the
1:01:08
semis. Yeah, they would have a chance. Whoever makes it to the
1:01:13
final. Yea, they have a chance. But again it's it's a tough
1:01:15
task. I think who's on the other I forget who's on the other side,
1:01:20
but on on mel and Roma's side, it's you know, likely you're
1:01:22
playing probably a viol ever cus In that's you know, shut out to them.
1:01:29
Just won the league, uh for the first time. If I'm not
1:01:32
mistaken that I think it was. I think it was that having right they're
1:01:38
like and if you did in like forty five games, beautiful, It just
1:01:44
again a change. Finally I got in the in the Boon League, so
1:01:47
you know, that's a tough tasko again on top of the world in terms
1:01:51
of his managerial performances. I bio ever cus so h yeah, whoever passes
1:01:57
in this turn, it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough match up if
1:01:59
they do face Biolevercuisin So yeah. Man, just excited, just excited to
1:02:05
see how things pan out. And I think it was nil nil Fidentina Victoria
1:02:13
Prison in the Conference League. So hopefully they are able to step up and
1:02:21
get a result there because again all these Italian progression in Europe helps to that
1:02:27
coefficient that Nick was talking about earlier for potential that top five. Again,
1:02:31
I don't know when it becomes officially official, if that makes sense. But
1:02:36
when it does, and if it does, I mean, it's gonna be
1:02:38
an exciting time I think for Italian culture, even more than it already is,
1:02:44
to finally say, hey, maybe it's not a top four race.
1:02:45
Now it's a top five race. So we get to see some other some
1:02:50
other teams that maybe not or wouldn't get there normally into this prestigious competition potentially
1:02:54
get there in the future. So excited to see how how these Europeans battles
1:03:01
conclude. Come tomorrow, Yeah, definitely, if you get the chance to
1:03:08
watch a game tomorrow, enjoy it. I don't think I'll be able to
1:03:12
watch any any of the games. I'm sure you will try to sneak a
1:03:15
sneak a peak with the Melon game. Yeah, but we'll have to We'll
1:03:20
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1:03:22
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