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Week 31 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome into another edition of the Premier
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  League Playground Week 31 edition here.
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  Getting down to the home stretch of the Premier League season.
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  I am the dad Bjorn with me as our *.
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  Luca Miller, I want to say the. Lad, the lad, the lad you can
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  call him the lad. You can call him Luca.
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  How are you doing, Luca? I'm doing good.
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  How are you doing? Well, doing well.
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  So it's been a little bit, Luca. I feel like we were rolling
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  through a lot of podcasts. They're coming fast and furious,
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  But I think it's been like a week and a half since we've done
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  1. You think you remember still how
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  to do it? Yeah.
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  Yeah. So tell us, Luca, you had a big
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  tournament this weekend. You and your team.
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  How did the tournament go? Yeah, 1 didn't go great.
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  We lost in the final. Well, I I don't know that losing
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  in the final is not doing great. I understand it's maybe not what
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  you want, but you guys did pretty well you.
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  We did OK. You went, yeah, you made it to
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  the finals and you did. You guys lost in the finals.
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  Kind of a tough loss there. You played that team before,
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  right? We played in like in the same
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  day. We played the same team twice in
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  one day. Yeah, because it was a situation
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  where you guys played two games on Saturday.
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  You won both those games, Yeah, close Games 221.
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  One. Both of them are 21.
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  And then so you then had another sort of group stage game, but
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  you both were two and oh, so it really didn't matter.
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  Yeah, and we tied 22. You tied 22 and you almost beat
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  them because you guys had a ball on the net.
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  But we're called for what? A handball.
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  Yeah, handball. So you had the ball on the net
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  for a third goal, which would have won the game, but yeah,
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  they called a handball. What What?
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  What did you think? I I couldn't really see.
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  Was it a handball? Yeah, I didn't touch his hand,
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  but it was pretty soft in my opinion.
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  Pretty soft, yeah. Kind of a shame, but yeah, you
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  end up tying that. Either way, that wouldn't
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  matter. You went to the finals and yeah,
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  you guys got off to a bit of a bad start, letting a couple easy
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  goals. 1st 4 seconds we can see that a goal.
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  Not great when you do that, but but you guys, you guys battled
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  back and you had a good assist. Yes, yeah, right.
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  So your your good friend Charlie had the goal you ball was shot
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  in goalie makes a save. You didn't give up on it.
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  You played the ball back across you're.
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  Good. I fell on the ground too.
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  I was like, oh. Well, I think it was on as
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  you're doing everything you can to just get the ball back
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  across, trying to get it on goals and.
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  Please make that. And he did.
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  I was like, yeah. I don't know.
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  So that got you back within three one, but yeah, just
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  distinct. And then they scored one more.
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  Yeah, yeah. That was like at the very, very
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  end, but. Like there's like seconds.
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  Left. But I thought you, you and your
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  teammates did really well. I've seen a lot of improvement
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  in your team. I've seen improvement in you.
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  And like I said, it was awfully a good tournament.
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  You come home with a medal. I know it's not you wanted to
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  win, but you know, good job by you guys.
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  Yeah. Thank you.
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  All right, Luca. Well so Week 31 in the Premier
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  League and we have to touch base on the League Cup final
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  unfortunately. Do we?
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  Yeah, I guess maybe we'll go through it real quick, but we
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  have eight games to get through and then we'll talk about the
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  League Cup final. So you ready to dive into them?
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  Yeah. All right, Luca.
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  Well, the week started on Friday.
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  We had one Friday game which was Bournemouth hosting Manchester
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  United. This came in two two I predicted
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  to be 3, two United. Fernandez gets a PK in the 61st
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  minute after Kuna gets pulled, his shirt gets pulled and he
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  goes down. My opinion, that's a foul.
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  There is contact, he pulls his shirt and that's a penalty for
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  me. It was a nice little movie, like
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  kind of cuts in between two defenders and yeah, they clearly
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  pull him down. Yeah, and Fernandez, he makes
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  that. Then there's a controversial
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  moment where Ahmad gets fouled in the box and United want to
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  PK. The ref does not call it and
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  Bournemouth go down and Christie scores in the 67 minute and
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  United are all annoyed because they should have had a penalty.
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  My opinion, I I don't think there is any contact there in in
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  the like the penalty asks like for on Ahmad, I don't think
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  there is very much conflict. So, so not enough contact to
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  give a penalty in your Yeah, yeah 'cause there's, there's
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  contact. I mean, there's definitely some
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  contact. It's just is it enough to throw
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  him off his shot? Is it enough to kind of like
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  put? Him on?
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  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, I'll tell you, I I feel
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  like this one I'm kind of on the on the border with like they do
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  make a little bit of contact, but he gets a shot off the
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  defenders goal side of it. Yeah.
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  I mean, I guess it's a little unfortunate United fans are
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  gonna be like, well, gosh, you know, they didn't call it and
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  then literally it leads down to the other end and born the
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  score. But yeah, I'm kind of OK either
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  way on this one. If they had called it, I'd
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  probably be OK with it. I just, I'm kind of making sure
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  they just left the call on the field because I don't know that
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  I felt strongly one way or the other myself.
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  But it sounds like you're thinking more no penalty for.
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  You Yeah, OK, then he'll only on the 71st minute off of a corner.
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  McGuire gets a red card in the 78th minute, which it's also a
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  PK. He was called for deniable goal
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  scoring opportunity. And yes, I do think that's a red
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  card. He pulls Evan Nielsen, clearly.
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  So the the argument United fans make is that was about the same
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  amount of contact as what was on Ahmad.
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  I think the difference is that. It's Evan Nielsen's like in on
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  goal. Yeah, and I do think there is a
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  big difference. Exactly right.
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  Evan Nielsen is in on goal. He has a step on McGuire.
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  I again, there's not a ton of contact.
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  I agree it's about the same, but I do think it's sort of a
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  different than so I'm with you on this one where, like I said,
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  the Ahmed one, him on the fence. This one, I think you have to
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  give it. You know, he's in on goal, goal
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  scoring chance. It's a foul and then you know,
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  if you're gonna, if you're gonna call it, then you got to send
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  them off. Like no one would dive in that
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  situation, so there has to be a world of.
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  Fun. Nobody would dive.
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  You've watched enough Premier League to know a few people
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  would dive. Yeah, but like.
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  Evan Nielsen is not known to be a diver.
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  Yeah. You know most players.
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  You know he is Brazilian, right? Yeah.
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  OK, so he's maybe one of the few Brazilians that doesn't die.
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  But I I don't know that Evan Neilson is the type of player I
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  see like go down real easily or try to like.
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  You know, milk, Yeah. So yeah, so anyway.
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  So anyway, they get McGuire sent off and they get a PK.
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  And then they let Junior Croupy take the penalty and he scores
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  it in the 81st minute. Bournemouth unbeaten in last 11
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  with four wins and seven draws and Croupy's ninth goal in the
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  Premier League. United still in 3rd on 55
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  points. Yeah, you know, Luca Croupy,
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  he's only made 14 starts and he's played 1161 minutes.
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  To get just put to put that into context, like Evan Nielsen,
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  their sort of mostly starting striker, he's probably played
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  twice as many minutes. So the point I'm trying to make
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  is like croupies return of what you said, nine goals, yeah, it's
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  pretty impressive. Only making full, not as many.
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  I think croupies are leading scorer by a couple goals.
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  I mean, and this kids 19 years old.
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  And he didn't start the season on the team.
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  No, no, Croupy did. Oh yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, he was bought I think in the summer.
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  You thinking of Ryan who they bought in the winter?
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  Oh yeah, might be, yeah. Croupy.
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  No. I think has been there since the
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  start and he scored some just incredible goals.
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  But he didn't like play for the whole season.
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  No, he doesn't. I think what they're, it reminds
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  me a little bit of what like they're doing with like Arsenal
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  are doing with Downman or Fulham are doing with Josh King, like
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  these young kids. And again, he's like 19 and he's
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  pretty young. This is the Premier League.
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  They bring them along slowly, which I really think is smart.
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  You know, give him some spot starts off the bench, maybe a
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  spot like Subs off the bench. Give him a start here and there.
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  You don't just throw him in and let him play 90 minutes for 38
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  games of the Premier League like that.
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  That's the way you get these guys hurt and then, you know,
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  they get into the cycle of just kind of injury after injury.
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  You know, Jack Wilshire at Arsenal comes comes to mind, you
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  know? He happened to him.
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  Yeah, he just, I think he played too much at an early age because
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  he was so good. He was like a he was like a
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  phenom, you know? And I think this is a risk you
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  run. I think I think people are
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  smarter now with these young guys, as much as like we love
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  seeing like these young, exciting players.
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  You've got to be smart. Give them some time, get them,
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  you know, get them used to the league, let them build up their
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  legs. You know, again, they're a lot
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  of these kids. Endowment 16 crew, He's 19.
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  You know, Ingamo at Liverpool I think is 16 or 17.
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  I mean, I love watching these guys play.
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  But Bournemouth are very smart. They know how to bring guys in.
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  They know how to develop them. He's going to be super exciting
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  to watch next year because I think he'll get more time.
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  But yeah, he's, it's, he's been one of the, you know, amazing
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  sort of out of nowhere guys. Just really, really good for
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  them. Yeah.
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  Yeah, Luca Bournemouth, do you think they'll ever not tie a
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  game anymore? They just like their last five
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  Premier League games. They have 5 ties.
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  They have 15 ties on the year. Is that the most in the Premier
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  League? By like, oh, like Leeds have 12
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  and then the next most there's a bunch of people with 1015 ties.
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  They've only won nine and lost seven.
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  I mean, it's like. There's like what, like 10s or
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  something? Well, I mean, the problem is all
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  those sides only get your points.
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  They're in 13. But again, you know, we've
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  talked about this all year long, how jam packed it is in the
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  middle of the table. So they're sitting there in 13
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  on 42 points, but they're four behind Brentford and seven.
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  So they're in the mix. I mean, they've got to turn some
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  of these draws into wins. You know, they've only been
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  beaten 7 times. So look at think about this.
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  They've only lost seven times. There's only three teams in the
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  entire Premier League that have lost fewer games.
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  Arsenal, City and United, everybody else have lost more.
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  Games like Bournemouth are a really hard team to beat.
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  It's a problem for them is like they just tie too many times.
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  If they can just get a few of those ties to wins, they'd
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  almost be challenging for Champions League.
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  I mean, it's just it's kind of wild to me.
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  I mean, it's just how many draws that they get, but they're a fun
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  team to watch. I like watching Bournemouth
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  play. I like their style.
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  I love their coach. And they always just sort of
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  seem to have good, you know, attacking players.
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  So anyway, man, you look like, you know, they're they're
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  they're doing fine. They're sitting there in 3rd,
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  they're on 55 points. They're in a good spot here, I
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  think to sort of lock in a Champions League spot pretty
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  soon. Yeah, I would say.
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  All right, Luca, one of those teams chasing them for a
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  Champions League spot. Liverpool, they went to
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  Brighton. And they lost two one yeah huge
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  my back come on now, let's go. I predicted it to be two one
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  Liverpool well back scores in the 14th minute off of a like
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  nice looping corner kick headed and right place at the right
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  time for Welbeck and Kirk is off of like a giveaway from dunk.
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  He tries to head back to the goalie not knowing that Kirk is
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  was behind him. And then Kirk is has a nice
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  finish. Whoops it over the over Brugan
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  and in and then Welbeck in the 56th minute.
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  Really nice goal it gets it comes like a cross comes in
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  Fermenta. I might have been Gomez who like
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  plays it across. Then again well by great place
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  at the right time and he scores. Liverpool's 10th loss only had
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  eight past two seasons combined and Brighton have won four of
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  last five Premier League matches.
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  Yeah, look at this. So this is the seventh time that
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  a reigning champ, Liverpool have lost 10 or more games in a
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  season. And I'm talking not just Premier
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  League, the entire top flight. So you know the the top division
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  into the Premier League, you know 140 years, this is only the
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  7th time that a team has won and the next year lost 10 or more
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  games. Wait, what's the most that a
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  team has? Yeah, I don't.
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  I don't know the last time it happened.
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  Chelsea did it in 1718 where they came back.
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  I mean, Liverpool, like you said, I mean, you know, they won
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  last year. They were really good the year
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  before. You see how hard it has been to
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  beat him over those two years. And I mean, there's just
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  something sort of broken with his team.
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  You know, they're just, yeah, just not the same team.
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  Salah announced Luca he's going to be leaving at the end of the
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  season. What do you think about that?
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  I think it's time. It's time for him to go.
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  Yeah, he's definitely going to be a Premier League legend of
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  Liverpool legend, but I feel like his his race is run in the
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  Premier League. He's just not the same from last
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  year. No, he's clearly not, you know,
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  and whether that's like just all the games they played last year,
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  whether it's just him getting older, tired legs, whether last
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  season was just sort of like, you know, just an amazing season
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  with all the goals and assists that he had as everything came
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  together perfectly. But yeah, it does sort of feel
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  like it's time for him. You know, it almost seemed to
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  happen in the winter. There was all that sort of, you
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  know, him and slot going back and forth.
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  It look like, is he ever going to play another game?
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  So I'm glad he sort of come back.
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  He's played a little bit, you know, he hopefully we'll see,
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  you know, I'm sure he's going to want to try to like at least
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  qualify them for them for Champions League on his way out.
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  But it does feel like this is the right time.
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  So I, you know, I was thinking about.
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  Him. I wonder if he'll go to Saudi
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  Arabia cause so he's Egyptian. He is.
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  His religion is Muslim. That's the same thing as Saudi
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  Arabia. Feels like that'd be a good fit.
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  You know, maybe MLS did. They get all the moolah.
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  Well, yeah, the money helps too. You know, I, I don't know, I
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  don't really see him going to like, you know, he what he
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  can't, he played in Roma in Italy, so he's got some
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  familiarity with Syria, but I, I don't really see him going to
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  Italy, Germany, Spain, France, I mean.
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  Probably not. You know, like, you know, MLS.
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  Possibility because lots of like older legends have gone to like
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  the Bruin a mess. He's for us more Giroux, but
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  he's not there anymore. He's back in the French league.
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  But yeah, I think it'll be between Saudi Arabia and the
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  MLS. Yeah, I think so.
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  I mean, personally, I'd like to see him go to the MLS just
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  because. He's more competitive.
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  Well, yeah, I mean, that's interesting.
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  Like whether the MLS and Saudi League, which ones more
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  competitive. I just was thinking more just
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  it's on TV more like we don't watch a ton of MLS, but at least
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  it's available to watch a little bit.
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  And I think like up the prices of tickets or not like I bet
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  more people will want to see that team because Sal is like a
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  legend and well known. For sure, for sure.
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  Wherever he goes. I mean, yeah, like I said, I
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  mean, he's still, look, I mean, if he goes to MLS, he's still
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  going to be like a really good player in the MLS.
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  Yeah, he's probably dominant. You know, you know, I like
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  somebody brought the point Luca, like do you think he's in like
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  the all time Premier League starting 11?
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  Like do you think he's like in the top eleven all time Premier
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  League players? I know I'm putting you on the
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  spot here for this one. This one's tough for me because
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  he's been really good. Like it's his stats and numbers
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  are pretty amazing, but I don't know if he quite so like his
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  resume would be Luca like two Premier League titles, Champions
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  League title. I think they won a couple league
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  cups. You know, he's obviously scored
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  a ton of goals. You know, he's meant a lot to
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  Liverpool, but I don't know if that's quite enough to get you
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  in like the top 11. What do you think?
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  Maybe. Like so he plays what, right
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  wing or roughly? He plays right wing.
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  So you try to think like other right wingers who would be in
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  that position? Like would you say Ronaldo's a
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  winger? Yeah, yeah, I think when Ronaldo
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  played in the Premier League, he.
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  Was then like, I mean Ronaldo's like far from Saul or Saul is
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  far from Ronaldo, like Ronaldo's way better?
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  Right right now you could counter and say that I mean,
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  Ronaldo's career clearly is better, but Ronaldo's played,
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  you know, all over the world essentially like, you know,
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  Sala, like I'm, you know, you have to when you're talking
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  about like an all time Premier League legend, you're looking at
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  like just their time in the Premier League.
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  Well, Ronaldo was great, but like wasn't long enough, you
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  know, when you think of some of these other players.
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  Champions League. He won a Premier League.
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  Yeah, I'm not trying to knock Ronaldo.
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  Look at like he's amazing and great you.
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  Think he's in there 11? Maybe, I mean, I'm doing this
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  all off the top of my head. We should do some probably
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  research on this and really look because I'd like to see like.
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  I I in my opinion, I don't think Sala quite cracks the list.
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  I think maybe. Do you think Hazard was better?
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  No, I, I, I think Hazard maybe like it is, I, I think, you
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  know, Eden Hazard to me like had like two or three amazing years
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  and he probably at that point was like either like one of the
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  top three players in the Premier League.
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  But then it wasn't that long, you know, And like, Salah
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  probably has at least two years where he was a top player in the
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  Premier League. And he also has a bunch of other
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  years where he was like really, really good.
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  So to me, I think Salah is way, way above Hazard for me in terms
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  of their Premier League career, you know, but this could be
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  maybe we should like do a little bit of research on this and see,
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  you know, because. You know, do they announce like
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  the Premier League? No, just like this is like your
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  opinion on it, you know, like and just with him, like he's
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  like I said, a true Liverpool legend.
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  Like I feel like he maybe has earned himself a statue outside
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  the stadium, although I don't really know if Liverpool do a
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  lot of that. Really.
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  Yeah, like some of those teams don't really have, I feel.
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  Like Van Dyke deserves 1. Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, I in my opinion, I feel like Van Dyke deserves one more
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  than Saw. Maybe, you know, maybe he's.
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  Captaining the team to a Champions League title, two
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  Premier Leagues. He's been there for what, like
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  15 years? Maybe not quite 15, but a long
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  time. 11:50 Yeah. And he's sort of been like that
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  sort of steady guy, you know, anchoring the midfield, like you
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  said, captain of the team. Yeah, I, I, I kind of hear you
• 17:58
  on that. It's just, yeah, like Salah gets
• 17:59
  goals and assists. So it's everybody sort.
• 18:01
  Of like defenders don't get enough love in my opinion.
• 18:05
  Yeah, yeah. And I mean, like I said, Virgil
• 18:08
  Van Dyke has been like one of the top center center backs in
• 18:12
  the Premier League for like 7 or 8 years.
• 18:14
  Yeah, yeah, for sure in the world, you know, And it's been a
• 18:16
  long time. So maybe a statue with the two
• 18:19
  of them? Yeah, that'd be cool.
• 18:21
  Like team like holding up the Premier League trophy.
• 18:25
  Yeah, yeah, If there's a picture of that, that would be sick.
• 18:28
  I know, I wonder how players feel about that.
• 18:30
  You know, like, well, I wonder a lot of these guys probably want
• 18:34
  their own statue. You know, like they're some of
• 18:36
  these guys are a little bit egotistical, right?
• 18:38
  I mean, it's sort of comes with the territory.
• 18:41
  I don't know, I think it would. Be kind of cool, I think,
• 18:45
  knowing Van Dyke. And so I think they'll be cool
• 18:48
  about that. Yeah.
• 18:49
  They don't seem like guys who are like super giant egomaniacs.
• 18:54
  I know. I feel like Ronaldo would not.
• 18:57
  Yeah. Ronaldo not having it probably,
• 18:59
  but all right, well, anyway, there's a little little side
• 19:02
  tangent on him, but that's a big deal.
• 19:03
  Like I said, he's a big player announcing that he's leaving.
• 19:05
  So all right, let's move over to Luca.
• 19:07
  Fulham hosting Burnley. Yes, this game had no goals in
• 19:12
  the first half. Just like the United game, it
• 19:16
  ended 31 full. I predicted to be 00 Fleming
• 19:21
  scores for Burnley. They actually get the first goal
• 19:23
  and then Foam blitz them with three goals.
• 19:26
  King in the 67th minute, he gets his first goal of the year.
• 19:30
  Wilson his left foot in the 73rd minute and Jimenez PK in the 96
• 19:35
  minute, which also was a red card for Warrant did not have a
• 19:40
  goal screen opportunity. Same as McGuire, I feel like
• 19:45
  there's been a lot of red cards and penalties this year.
• 19:49
  Yeah, yeah. Lately it it feels like there's
• 19:51
  been a lot of players. Two in one week is a lot, yeah.
• 19:54
  I think there's been a lot of red cards in general in my
• 19:57
  opinion. Yeah, I know.
• 19:58
  We'd have to see you. Know I want to like compare last
• 20:01
  year to this year. See, like the red cards?
• 20:04
  Look it up and bring it back to us.
• 20:07
  Yeah, look at like Fulham, their youngest goal scorer was Collins
• 20:10
  John. He was 18 years old, 178 days.
• 20:13
  He played in 2004. So big deal.
• 20:15
  Like, you know, Josh King getting that goal he should have
• 20:18
  had to go away earlier in the season, got completely.
• 20:20
  Robbed. Yeah, I remember against
• 20:22
  Chelsea. Was it against?
• 20:24
  For like, stepping on his foot it was.
• 20:25
  Ridiculous. Yeah.
• 20:26
  That was diabolical. XG In this game Luca Fulham
• 20:31
  actually of 3.23 Burnley 1.24. I mean, Fulham probably should
• 20:36
  have had six or seven in this one did.
• 20:38
  You do that on purpose. What?
• 20:40
  Oh no, no, I did not. Wilson, Luca, his 10th Premier
• 20:45
  League goal. I mean, we, we've talked about
• 20:47
  him, what a great, great season he's having.
• 20:50
  Here we go. Look at Fulham drawing us back
• 20:52
  into yet again. Are they going to maybe get the
• 20:55
  7th and qualify for European competition 2 points off of
• 20:59
  Brentford? This is what they do.
• 21:01
  They draw us in, we start getting excited.
• 21:03
  And then they're just going to let us down again.
• 21:05
  What do you think? Like are are you back on board
• 21:08
  as Fulham? They're only two points behind
• 21:10
  Brentford for seven now there's now there's Brentford, now
• 21:13
  there's Everton ahead of them. They're one point above
• 21:16
  Brighton, Sunderland one point above them.
• 21:18
  So are you getting back on board saying Fulham, they're going to
• 21:22
  do it, they're going to get Sabbath, You say no.
• 21:24
  Not quite. You've been burned too many
• 21:25
  times. Unless they win like next week
• 21:30
  and maybe a week after that, then I will.
• 21:33
  We'll talk, but right now, not quite.
• 21:35
  All right, all right, Luca. Well, let's move over to another
• 21:38
  one of those teams, Luca, battling for European
• 21:40
  competition here. Everton, who's been playing
• 21:42
  great lately. They hosted Chelsea.
• 21:46
  Yeah, this game ends 3IN Leverton.
• 21:48
  I predicted the two. Nothing.
• 21:50
  Chelsea. Yeah, Sanchez casually making a
• 21:54
  mess of things in this game. Almost gets conceded very early
• 21:58
  in the on in the very early in the game.
• 22:01
  Beto has two goals in this game, one in the 33rd minute and one
• 22:05
  in the 62nd game. The second goal was kissed.
• 22:08
  Oh, terrible goalkeeping, awful goalkeeping.
• 22:13
  I I could go on forever like it, just I don't even know how to
• 22:18
  describe it. It just, it wasn't, well, I.
• 22:20
  Mean the ball one goes through his legs.
• 22:22
  Yeah, and I think the ball ever goes through goal to his legs.
• 22:25
  It's not. Good rolls over the line is the
• 22:27
  thing, and Sanchez is just kind of not.
• 22:30
  Not doesn't really. Well, I mean, I think he does
• 22:33
  react. It's just, you know, too late.
• 22:35
  It's too late. I mean, and he let he let a ball
• 22:37
  go through. I don't, you know, ball goes
• 22:39
  through his legs and like he said, he has to turn and try to
• 22:41
  knock it off. But it had clearly crossed the
• 22:43
  line. And then Enjoy has a really nice
• 22:46
  goal in the 76th minute right into the top corner.
• 22:50
  Curler and Chelsea have now lost four straight games in all
• 22:55
  competitions. And now Chelsea remain in 6th,
• 22:59
  one point behind Liverpool and but only two above Brentford and
• 23:04
  Everton. Yeah, so you know, Beto Luca,
• 23:07
  two goals and an assist in this game, Everton of one now on
• 23:10
  three of four. You know, their their loss came,
• 23:13
  you know, a tough game against Arsenal.
• 23:16
  They're coming on and they're playing well here at the perfect
• 23:19
  point in the season where they have now, like I said, tied
• 23:22
  Brentford for 7th. Now they're below them on goal
• 23:24
  differential. But Everton, Luca are a clear to
• 23:27
  me factor for this, for finishing in 7th, maybe 6th.
• 23:32
  I mean, this win now, Luca, they closed the gap.
• 23:34
  They're two behind Chelsea, three behind Liverpool.
• 23:37
  It's it's it's crazy to think about because in the 2223
• 23:42
  season, it came down to de Corey's like last minute goal on
• 23:47
  the final day to save them from relegation.
• 23:50
  Yeah, a couple years late. What now, three years later,
• 23:56
  Three or four years later, they're fighting for Champions
• 24:00
  League. You're upper.
• 24:02
  Yeah, I know it's it's incredible.
• 24:04
  I mean, you know, and and again, I think last week we talked
• 24:07
  about David Moise, Luca, what a good coach that he is.
• 24:10
  He's an older guy, you know, he's not really the like, you
• 24:14
  know, like the the up and coming hip young coach.
• 24:18
  You know, they're like that. Everybody would want to like
• 24:19
  grab like Ariola, Bournemouth or, you know, some of these
• 24:23
  young guys like even Andrews now at Brentford, you know, like
• 24:26
  he's just, but he clearly knows what he's doing and he gets the
• 24:30
  best out of players. Experience.
• 24:32
  He's got it. He.
• 24:32
  Coached United. Yeah, he did coach United and I
• 24:35
  think that's where he did not do great at United and I think
• 24:38
  everybody then just writes him off oh he can't coach, but he
• 24:41
  did great at West Ham. This is the second time with
• 24:44
  Everton he's done well with them.
• 24:46
  Look how many players, Luca, Everton used to be the team of
• 24:48
  like 1. Nothing boring old Everton, you
• 24:51
  know. Now look at like they've got
• 24:52
  Garner playing great, enjoy playing great, Dewsbury Hall
• 24:55
  like. Playing great, Beto coming off
• 24:57
  the bench when they need him. Yeah, I mean, you know, he, I
• 25:00
  think he knows how like it's not like his, his setup, Luke and
• 25:04
  his tactics are pretty basic. But you know, it's sometimes
• 25:07
  people overcomplicate things with tactics and stuff and then
• 25:10
  just like put the players out there, let them play a little
• 25:12
  bit, go with a normal formation. And you know, Lucas, like right
• 25:17
  now, if you had to pick one, if it was between Brentford and
• 25:21
  Everton moving forward, which team would you lean towards
• 25:25
  finishing above? I've Everton.
• 25:27
  I think I do too, you know, and I probably like a month ago I
• 25:30
  was leaning Brenton. Yeah, same here.
• 25:32
  But I think right now, now interestingly enough, because
• 25:34
  they play each other this week or two weeks, so yeah, that's a
• 25:37
  big, big game coming up. So, but yeah, I'm kind of with
• 25:40
  you. I'd I'd like the what you know,
• 25:41
  Everton right now and look, they're not going to go win
• 25:44
  every game or anything. But I just think, like I said,
• 25:46
  the way they play their they, they set up, they don't seem to
• 25:48
  have any two big injuries right now.
• 25:51
  Except for greenish. Yeah, and I mean, Greelish has
• 25:54
  essentially been out for a couple months now, but they sort
• 25:57
  of weathered that storm and yeah, he's done for the year,
• 25:59
  right? That is a bummer for them.
• 26:00
  And you're right, they'd be an impactful player moving forward.
• 26:03
  But they've seemed to sort of kind of weather the storm with
• 26:06
  him out, meaning they've got they've sort of figured out a
• 26:09
  formation and they're getting goals without him, Lucas.
• 26:11
  So credit on them. All right, let's move over Luca
• 26:14
  to Brentford, who have been sort of leaking oil here.
• 26:18
  Luca, 3 draws in a row. They went to Leeds.
• 26:22
  I love your figure of language. It's just it's it's so creative,
• 26:27
  like leaking aura. Why do you?
• 26:29
  Just make that up. Other people have used that.
• 26:31
  Before I like how you just use it out of the blue though and
• 26:35
  the episode you go you're like talking about how Chelsea keep
• 26:38
  getting these red cards and like roasting yours.
• 26:41
  Gotta be pulling his hair out. I honestly could not stop
• 26:45
  laughing. I was trying to hold it back but
• 26:47
  I couldn't. Anyway, that was that.
• 26:52
  This game ends 00. I predicted to be two 2, so I
• 26:56
  got the tie right. Weeds win this in last six
• 27:02
  Premier League games and haven't scored in last four.
• 27:05
  That's rough. Brentford Three straight draws.
• 27:09
  Yeah, this is A to me a big missed opportunity for
• 27:11
  Brentford. I mean the XG in this game is
• 27:13
  pretty bad. Brentford .46, Leeds .54.
• 27:16
  This is this is a boring game. Like this is not much to talk
• 27:20
  about at all in this. It's really just the result.
• 27:22
  If Brentford had Wanluka, they would have been tied with
• 27:24
  Chelsea. I mean that's how like right now
• 27:27
  Chelsea and Liverpool playing so badly.
• 27:29
  Brentford just sort of, you know, keeps getting these ties
• 27:32
  and then the teams that are sort of now coming up a little bit,
• 27:34
  you know, Brighton, Everton sort of closing that gap where the
• 27:39
  maybe they can start dreaming about kind of getting that fifth
• 27:41
  spot, which would even be Champions League, little in six
• 27:44
  spot, which would be Europa League.
• 27:45
  Are you sure English teams will still get the fifth spot?
• 27:48
  Yeah, it's not official yet, but it's it's almost a foregone
• 27:52
  conclusion that the 2. I mean, it's just gonna have to
• 27:54
  carry. No, because remember they also
• 27:57
  factor in Europa League, right? And you are?
• 27:59
  English teams doing any. Good.
• 28:01
  Yeah, I think like. Forests are.
• 28:03
  Forests are still alive. They are alive in Europa League
• 28:07
  forests, in the UEFA Conference League and yeah, what's?
• 28:11
  The forest for the Europa League.
• 28:14
  Right. Wait, I'm sorry, I I meant to
• 28:15
  say Palace in the UEFA Conference League, Villa in the
• 28:18
  Europa League. I think forests have been
• 28:20
  knocked out. Yeah, I think they've been
• 28:23
  knocked out of Europa League. But yeah, it, it looks like I
• 28:27
  said it's not a foregone conclusion, but it looks like
• 28:28
  the two spots will go to England and Spain.
• 28:31
  Like I said, not done yet, but it I I I would.
• 28:34
  It would take something very weird to not have 5 Champions
• 28:39
  League spots for England, but that is not.
• 28:40
  Is there wait, is there any more English teams left in the
• 28:43
  Champions League other than Arsenal?
• 28:44
  City. Oh no, no, City lost.
• 28:48
  Newcastle are out. Chelsea's out.
• 28:50
  Chelsea's out. You're right.
• 28:51
  Tottenham's out. Tottenham's out, yeah, So I
• 28:53
  guess, yeah. So I guess it's just Arsenal.
• 28:57
  Holy, yeah. Yeah, so, but I think I saw
• 29:01
  something where it literally just like they need one of those
• 29:04
  teams to tie one of their games, you know, like between Palace,
• 29:08
  Villa, Arsenal, like if if one of those teams ties, I think
• 29:12
  then it then clinches the last spot.
• 29:14
  So and then also the other leagues would have to do really,
• 29:17
  really well too. I mean, you're talking about
• 29:18
  like the Portuguese league, the German league and things like
• 29:20
  that. They're in like third and 4th in
• 29:22
  this UEFA coefficient sort of crazy table that probably nobody
• 29:26
  really understands. But yeah, so, you know, Leeds,
• 29:31
  Luca, it's a point for them. They're on 33.
• 29:34
  So they're four points above the safety zone of 18th where West
• 29:38
  Ham is. So, you know, Leeds just got to
• 29:40
  keep getting points, keep scrapping it together.
• 29:43
  You know, they're not safe yet, but I think they're looking good
• 29:46
  to be safe. OK.
• 29:48
  All right, Luca, big Darby. Game time.
• 29:51
  Where Darby? This is a big one Lucas.
• 29:53
  So this is 2 teams maybe people don't quite know as much about
• 29:57
  when we think of Darby games like Arsenal, Tottenham.
• 29:59
  But it's like up there for a big.
• 30:01
  For sure these two teams properly hate each other,
• 30:03
  there's no question. So the Tyne and Wear Darby
• 30:06
  Newcastle hosted Sunderland. This game in two one Sunderland
• 30:12
  I predict to be to a Newcastle Gordon scores in a tenth minute
• 30:16
  off of just a give gift from Sunderland.
• 30:19
  Terrible giveaway. I'm not sure who gave it away,
• 30:23
  but yeah, it was not great. Towel be then scores in the 57th
• 30:27
  minute, then Brabi in the 90th minute.
• 30:31
  He scores and wins it wins the game for Sunderland and that's
• 30:37
  the first time since 1415 that Sunderland won both against
• 30:41
  Newcastle. So they just swept the series
• 30:44
  and Newcastle have dropped 22 points from leading possessions
• 30:48
  this season. Yeah, the XG on this one.
• 30:50
  Lucas Sunderland 2.44, Newcastle 1.29.
• 30:55
  I mean, they were essentially gifted that goal.
• 30:58
  Yeah. This is like good like
• 30:59
  Sunderland now move ahead of Newcastle to 11th on 43 points.
• 31:03
  I mean, this is like a dream season.
• 31:05
  If you're a Sunderland fan, you get promoted, you get, you're
• 31:09
  playing great, you know you're winning games.
• 31:11
  You've now beat your biggest rival twice.
• 31:14
  So I looked it up. Look at they won the first game,
• 31:15
  won nothing. So they did the double on them
• 31:18
  winning both games. Now you're ahead of them in the
• 31:20
  table, You're there's no chance of them getting relegated.
• 31:24
  This is like a what a dream this is if you're a Sunderland fan.
• 31:27
  Like, just like checking all the boxes.
• 31:30
  Possibly Europe? Possibly.
• 31:32
  I mean, yeah, they're they're in a.
• 31:33
  What if though? I mean that would be insane.
• 31:35
  Yeah, I mean, you know, they're, they're three points back.
• 31:38
  The problem I think is there's just so many teams like above
• 31:41
  them. So you have like Brighton,
• 31:43
  Fulham, Everton, Brentford. So you think, all right, they're
• 31:46
  only three points, but there's just, that's a lot of teams that
• 31:49
  you'd have to sort of work your way ahead of.
• 31:51
  So that's why I don't think that they'd get there, but they could
• 31:55
  go on a little bit of a run here.
• 31:57
  And, you know, I, I don't see why they wouldn't.
• 31:59
  I I certainly think they're as good as as all those other teams
• 32:02
  we talked about. But yeah, I mean, just amazing
• 32:05
  season for them. And yeah, to pull off the double
• 32:08
  against Newcastle, like I said, they've just got to be like on
• 32:10
  cloud 9. Lou Castle, Luca what the
• 32:14
  opposite maybe, maybe the biggest disappointment in the
• 32:17
  Premier League for me this year. Come on, I don't mind ever.
• 32:19
  That's pretty strong. Oh, I thought, for Newcastle.
• 32:23
  Well, I, I just think in terms of teams that I thought like
• 32:27
  would really do well this year. I I thought Newcastle would
• 32:30
  challenge for Champions League. Well, I know that, I'm just
• 32:34
  saying I think they're one of the.
• 32:35
  Biggest. Oh, right.
• 32:36
  Yeah, like new. One of the biggest surprises?
• 32:38
  Yeah, yeah, not in a good way for.
• 32:40
  Them. Yeah, not in a good way.
• 32:41
  All right, look, let's move over to Villa hosting West Ham.
• 32:45
  This game ends 2 nil Villa I predicted to be two nil Villa
• 32:49
  John McGinn scores nice left footed goal from outside the
• 32:53
  box. Watkins in the 68th minute, the
• 32:57
  goalie kind of makes a mess of it, spills it.
• 32:59
  Watkins right place at the right time.
• 33:02
  Villa get win after three straight losses and move five
• 33:06
  ahead of Liverpool and 4th West Ham in 18.18 place, one point
• 33:14
  behind Spurs. Yeah.
• 33:16
  So West Ham, Luca, if the season ended today, would be relegated.
• 33:20
  That would be be kind of a. But luckily we still have six
• 33:23
  games left, so 77. Yeah, seven games left, yeah, so
• 33:26
  there's still time for them. This was not a great showing
• 33:30
  from them. Villa really kind of took it to
• 33:31
  them, had most of the chances which Villa needed to do.
• 33:33
  They lost three in a row, so big bounce back for them.
• 33:37
  And especially with Liverpool and Chelsea losing, this was big
• 33:40
  because now look, they've got a 5 point gap above Liverpool, 6
• 33:45
  points above Chelsea. That's starting to feel pretty
• 33:47
  safe for them getting 4th. You know, maybe they could chase
• 33:50
  down United to get third. I don't know that it matters to
• 33:52
  either team. Do they just want to be in the
• 33:54
  top five in Champions League spots?
• 33:56
  So it's starting to feel like now.
• 33:58
  This place is where everyone's. Yeah, it's starting to feel like
• 34:01
  you're everybody's challenging for fifth now.
• 34:03
  And like, you know, if you look at like a little mini table
• 34:06
  within the table, I know I kind of feels like Villa, United,
• 34:10
  City, Arsenal have all punched their cards for Champions
• 34:12
  League, one spot left and it's definitely tight there.
• 34:18
  But yeah, that's a big three points, especially like I said,
• 34:20
  when when Liverpool and Chelsea lose.
• 34:22
  So all right, Luca. Well, let's move over to our
• 34:26
  last Premier League game of the week.
• 34:27
  We had Spurs hosting Forest. Oh wow, this was a great game.
• 34:32
  Three nil Forest. All right, I predict to be 1 nil
• 34:37
  forest. Eukor Jayzoo scores a nice
• 34:39
  header on a 45 + 1 Gibbs white in the 62nd minute.
• 34:45
  No one was marking him and I will need closing it out in the
• 34:50
  87 minutes. Spurs tied for worst record at
• 34:53
  this stage with the 19141915 season and Spurs 13 games in a
• 34:59
  row without a win. They still have not won in 2026.
• 35:04
  Spurs one point from safety. It's wow.
• 35:07
  It's like mind boggling. It's, it's, it's dream come
• 35:09
  true. I mean, some would put it it's a
• 35:13
  miracle. Yeah, I mean, it really is
• 35:17
  pretty incredible. Look at like, this is just one
• 35:18
  of their worst seasons ever. I mean, you just put it like, I
• 35:21
  mean, we're talking like 115 years almost since they've like
• 35:24
  been this bad. And I mean.
• 35:25
  It's they've never been relegated from the Premier
• 35:27
  League. They would be one of their one
• 35:29
  of the six left who have never been relegated and they're.
• 35:31
  It's going to be the Big 5. We're not going to have a Big
• 35:34
  Six anymore. So this was like they're at
• 35:37
  home, they're playing another team at the bottom of the table
• 35:39
  there. This was a real opportunity for
• 35:40
  them that, you know, get a win, you know, put in a result, give
• 35:44
  yourself a little room. You know, now, I mean, like I
• 35:46
  said, they are like in there only a point above West Ham, who
• 35:50
  luckily for them lost. But you know, when you look at
• 35:53
  the bottom 4, Lucas, So like we know that Wolves and Burnley are
• 35:57
  going to go down. So then there's four teams to me
• 35:59
  battling for the for this last spot where you get relegated and
• 36:02
  move down. You've got leads 33 points far
• 36:05
  as 32, Spurs 30 and West Ham 29. To me like none of those teams
• 36:10
  are safe, any one of them could but obviously leads are in the
• 36:14
  best spot being 4 points above. So the amazing thing to me Luke
• 36:18
  is just like the lack of effort you see from Spurs.
• 36:21
  Like have no heart at all. Like I mean the marking.
• 36:24
  They're just giving up. That's what it kind of feels
• 36:27
  like. And I mean, this is like all
• 36:29
  you've got to do is just finish ahead of West Ham and you can
• 36:32
  sort of regroup and come back next year.
• 36:34
  Look, if they get, if they go down, I mean, it's like that's
• 36:36
  one of like the biggest stories in the past 20 years to have a
• 36:40
  major London. I'm getting chills.
• 36:42
  One of the big six get relegated who have never had it done
• 36:45
  before. And right now, Luca, I don't I,
• 36:49
  it's not like I like West Ham's A-Team.
• 36:52
  You know, they sometimes will look OK.
• 36:54
  It looks like they're trying. I don't think they're, they're
• 36:57
  not a great team, but it looks like there's effort there.
• 36:59
  I feel like, you know, they could go get a result against
• 37:01
  the team. They have Wolves this week.
• 37:03
  So you think, all right, here's an opportunity like I, but like
• 37:06
  with when you watch Spurs play Luca, I, I'm like there's such
• 37:08
  lack of effort and any sort of just sort of like they care.
• 37:14
  I really think I'm truly thinking like they're in big
• 37:17
  trouble. I think it's almost like a coin
• 37:19
  flip between I think it'll come down to them and West Ham.
• 37:22
  I think, you know, I think I maybe said Forest because they
• 37:24
  just don't score enough goals last week.
• 37:26
  Well, what do they do? They go and score 3.
• 37:28
  So I still think they're kind of in the mix, but I feel like it's
• 37:32
  almost a coin flip now between spurs.
• 37:34
  Too good of a team to get relegated.
• 37:36
  Yeah, I know. I mean, like I said, I still
• 37:38
  worry about them scoring goals. I mean, just because they put
• 37:41
  three up on Spurs, everybody's been bashing Spurs.
• 37:45
  We'll kind of see next week because they got to go.
• 37:46
  Punching back in the Premier League.
• 37:48
  Right now they are. Right now they are playing worse
• 37:50
  than any team in the Premier League right now, you know, and
• 37:54
  that's not a good time to be playing terrible.
• 37:56
  So we will see. Yeah, that was a big, big win.
• 38:00
  It's also what I what I sort of love about promotion and
• 38:04
  relegation, Luke, is that you can watch it like these two
• 38:07
  bottom table teams and like it has I have like a real interest
• 38:10
  in watching this game. You know, like in the NFL when
• 38:13
  we get to like week 16 and you know, The Jets play, you know,
• 38:17
  another the Giants, nobody cares.
• 38:20
  But like in this one, this was a game like I almost wanted to
• 38:23
  watch because you're like these teams desperately, desperately
• 38:26
  don't want to get relegated because one, they don't want to
• 38:28
  go play in the championship 2. They know that their contracts a
• 38:31
  lot of times change. And three, Luca, for the club
• 38:35
  it's a huge loss of prestige and money too.
• 38:38
  And without that money it's hard to, you know, recruit good
• 38:41
  players, it's hard to, you know, make investments in stadiums and
• 38:45
  you know, all the other kind of stuff.
• 38:46
  So it's a big deal when you drop down and get relegated.
• 38:50
  So it's going to be interesting, Luca moving forward.
• 38:53
  Like I said, nothing's decided anywhere in the Premier League
• 38:56
  table and we basically have seven weeks left.
• 38:59
  But Luca, let's move away from the Premier League.
• 39:01
  We gotta do it. RIP off the Band-Aid here.
• 39:04
  How? Long we have to spend on this.
• 39:07
  Not long is really not much to talk about.
• 39:09
  So we gave a trophy was given out, it was Arsenal City, the
• 39:13
  League Cup final or some people called the Carabao Cup the
• 39:17
  League Cup final. I will say this Luca, it's
• 39:20
  probably the it's the least important trophy that's given
• 39:22
  out if you think of Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup
• 39:26
  and League Cup. Now with that being said, I
• 39:28
  wanted to win and we did not. So roll through it real quick,
• 39:32
  Luca. I don't want to it.
• 39:36
  Was a painful game for sure. 22 nil city I predict to be 1 nil
• 39:42
  Arsenal. I was wrong.
• 39:45
  O'Reilly scores 2 roles in the 60th and 64th minute.
• 39:49
  First goal Keppa, what is he doing?
• 39:54
  He drops the ball, tries to catch it, fails and O'Reilly
• 39:59
  right plays at the right time. And Arsenal have lost the last
• 40:04
  four League Cup finals and they've like, OK, Second goal
• 40:10
  soccer, where were you? I mean like on the back post
• 40:15
  also, where were you all game and you were the captain number
• 40:19
  7. And well, Speaking of seven,
• 40:21
  this is seventh time Arsenal have lost in the Caribou Cup
• 40:26
  final. Seventh time.
• 40:29
  We don't do well in this tournament.
• 40:31
  It is amazing. I don't really have an
• 40:33
  explanation for it. We don't do well and City do
• 40:36
  great. What?
• 40:38
  Pep Luca's fifth. 15 week cups as city manager more than any
• 40:44
  other manager in history. OK, time to move on.
• 40:47
  Well, so interestingly enough, Luca, this is the first time in
• 40:49
  the history. So the the the League Cup has
• 40:51
  been played for 66 years. This is the first time Luca
• 40:54
  we've ever had first, first, second in the Premier League or
• 40:56
  top flight play each other. I thought that was kind of
• 40:58
  weird. Arsenal Luca had been unbeaten
• 41:01
  in their last six against City, so we've actually had some good
• 41:05
  results. I mean there was years there,
• 41:06
  they were just crushing us. But the last six times I think
• 41:09
  it's two wins and four draws. But City had not beaten us for a
• 41:11
  while. But this Lugo we Arsenal starts
• 41:14
  off well. I think 1st 15 minutes, they're
• 41:17
  moving the ball around. Kai Haberts has a really good
• 41:19
  chance. Traffic.
• 41:20
  Comes down. Don't remind me.
• 41:22
  Don't remind me. Well, he makes a good save.
• 41:23
  I mean, I do credit Trafford, you know, both teams starting
• 41:26
  their backup goalies. Ours dropped the ball right to
• 41:30
  them to give up a goal. There's saved essentially a
• 41:32
  goal. You know, maybe, you know, is
• 41:34
  that the difference? I don't know.
• 41:35
  Could be. It could be.
• 41:37
  Give me one one. You know, in a.
• 41:39
  Whole different game. But really, look, if you look in
• 41:40
  the first half, so the XG in the first half, Arsenal are .47,
• 41:45
  City are at .33. So pretty even first half,
• 41:49
  right? Second-half Luca We got played
• 41:51
  off the field, played off the field.
• 41:53
  XG Luca Arsenal .17 City 1.18 I mean, it's like, I think for me,
• 42:01
  everybody came up small, like all these players we have.
• 42:05
  Luca Where are the superstars stepping up in a major cup final
• 42:09
  game? Like nobody like to me like
• 42:12
  cover themselves in glory at all in this game, you know?
• 42:15
  And it's just, it's so disappointing.
• 42:17
  Luca Like, I can take losing, but I just can't take losing
• 42:19
  when you just sort of see, like we couldn't even string together
• 42:22
  passes. We couldn't even hold on to the
• 42:23
  ball. I mean, City just did whatever
• 42:25
  they wanted in this game. And I think that's the biggest
• 42:28
  disappointing thing for me is, you know, they're a great team,
• 42:30
  OK, Like you lose 21, you know, OK, like it happens, right?
• 42:34
  I mean, it's fine margins in games, but this was not fine
• 42:37
  margins. This was played off the field.
• 42:40
  And so look at my question to you, though, is like, do you
• 42:42
  think there's going to be like carry over for this?
• 42:44
  So, you know, do you think this is carries over into the Premier
• 42:47
  League where City now get a little like boost, a little wind
• 42:49
  in their sails when Arsenal are like, here we go wobble, wobble.
• 42:53
  Like here come the chokers again, you know, or, or is it
• 42:57
  like, no, this is just a one off cup final game played at Wembley
• 43:01
  neutral site. You know, when we get back to
• 43:03
  the Premier League, it's back on, you know, and, and the other
• 43:06
  side of this could be that this like kind of like brings Arsenal
• 43:09
  together. Where Bottle FC is going to
• 43:10
  choke again. Well, but the other side would
• 43:13
  be is that you get back in and you're like, OK, we just got our
• 43:16
  butts kicked. Now let's like we have seven
• 43:19
  games in the Premier League. We control our own destiny.
• 43:22
  Does this sort of like bring everybody together be like, now
• 43:24
  we got to kick on like the ends insight, go get these wins.
• 43:28
  What, Where? Where do you fall on that?
• 43:30
  I think it's going to give City a boost because like now they
• 43:35
  know they can beat us and it's at the EE head.
• 43:38
  That wasn't even at the EE head that game, it was at a neutral
• 43:42
  site and now we're going to have to go play them at the Eddy head
• 43:46
  and I just don't see us getting a result in that game.
• 43:50
  Yeah, I can't say that I do either.
• 43:51
  And I, and I think that what Luke, I think one thing we've
• 43:53
  talked about all year is sort of like Arsenal don't create a
• 43:58
  whole lot in open play. You know, like you said, set
• 44:00
  piece FC. All I saw something where they
• 44:03
  some guy said, you know that YouTube channel is trying to
• 44:06
  sell you called Maddie FC, He said if Arsenal win the title,
• 44:11
  they'll be will be the worst team to win the title.
• 44:14
  Yeah, I see that that that to me is complete nonsense.
• 44:16
  Like who's worse? Who's worse?
• 44:19
  Luca? How about like some of the teams
• 44:20
  that be like the Premier League is so much deeper from top to
• 44:23
  bottom. Back in the day, like when the
• 44:25
  Premier League started, there was literally like four teams
• 44:27
  that even had a chance to win. So I, I don't buy that at all.
• 44:30
  Whether City win it, whether Arsenal win it, that, that is
• 44:32
  nonsense. Well, maybe since 2000?
• 44:34
  Since 2000. I don't know, look, I I don't
• 44:37
  really buy that at all. Like because I think it's like
• 44:39
  you have to understand like the way the game is played now, look
• 44:42
  at like the depth of the Premier League teams that are getting
• 44:45
  relegated, Burnley, Wolves, you know, these are like look at
• 44:48
  like the effort that like wolves turn it.
• 44:50
  You know, you got like forest leads at the bottom there.
• 44:52
  Like, I mean, but more like the mid tables, like Bournemouth.
• 44:56
  We just talked about them like what are they 11 games in a row
• 44:58
  on beat, You know, Brighton on a run, Everton like good team, you
• 45:02
  know, Sunderland, Luca, they're an 11th.
• 45:04
  You know, Crystal Palace are in 14.
• 45:07
  Like I don't buy that at all. I think it is so difficult every
• 45:11
  single week we're back in the day, Luca, like half their games
• 45:14
  or cakewalks for United, Arsenal, like, you know,
• 45:17
  Chelsea, the like the big clubs could go walk into these like
• 45:20
  little like small teams and just beat them up.
• 45:23
  Like, I don't know, like I, I I keep seeing that thrown around.
• 45:26
  I think it's just haters on that.
• 45:28
  And again, if City win it, I would say the same thing Like
• 45:30
  they're, they're not the worst, you know, team to win the
• 45:33
  Premier League. Not the best either.
• 45:35
  No, I'm not saying either one of them are the best ever, you
• 45:37
  know, but I think that the the whole notion that you know, that
• 45:42
  whoever wins the league, you know, and I, I, of course, I
• 45:44
  only see that with Arsenal. Well, why, if City goes on in
• 45:47
  Windsley, well, why aren't they then the worst team?
• 45:49
  It's just. Because we keep scoring from
• 45:50
  corners, we can't do anything from open but.
• 45:53
  Well, I mean, that's not entirely true.
• 45:55
  Like we've scored 61 goals. That's more than anybody in the
• 45:57
  Premier League. Yes, a lot of them have come
• 45:59
  from corners and set pieces, but there's a lot of open play goals
• 46:02
  too. So I mean, you know, and I also
• 46:04
  like, I don't apologize to anybody for scoring from corner
• 46:07
  kicks. Like it's a part of the game and
• 46:09
  it's almost been forced upon us to like prioritize that because
• 46:13
  when we go to play half these teams, they sit in a low block
• 46:16
  11, you know, they have 10 guys behind the ball.
• 46:18
  And so you have to then figure out, OK, if if we're if they're
• 46:21
  going to play that way, then we need to make sure we maximize
• 46:25
  every other little small advantage.
• 46:28
  So I, like I said, are we supposed to not try to score
• 46:31
  from corners? Do other teams not get corner
• 46:33
  kick opportunities? So we're better at it.
• 46:36
  Like I don't apologize to anybody for that.
• 46:38
  To me, like, you know, whatever, like you, you can cry all you
• 46:41
  want that we don't score enough, you know, But I'm like, I just
• 46:44
  look at it. I'm like, you know, other teams
• 46:46
  can do. It's like the tush push with the
• 46:47
  Eagles. Yeah.
• 46:48
  Like other teams can do it just because we do it better.
• 46:51
  Don't like hate on us, You know, like.
• 46:53
  Band of Green Bay. Packers Exactly.
• 46:55
  And it was, you know, we got it. From Green Bay.
• 46:59
  So yeah, Luca, I don't know, It'll, it'll be interesting
• 47:02
  moving on like you said. Well, we'll see.
• 47:03
  We have this little lull and break now, though.
• 47:06
  So you know, we've wrapped up Week 31.
• 47:09
  We kind of talked about the table and where everything
• 47:11
  falls. So right now everybody's on 31
• 47:13
  games except Palace and City still have to play their 31st.
• 47:17
  I'm tired of hearing that they have a game in.
• 47:18
  Here I know, I know, but. Can they just play?
• 47:21
  We don't play a Premier League game, Luca, for like, you know,
• 47:24
  still almost like 2 weeks because we have FA Cup coming up
• 47:29
  so. Champions and Champions League.
• 47:31
  Yeah, FA Cup coming up. Look at you've got City hosting
• 47:33
  Liverpool, Chelsea hosting Port Vale, a League One team in the
• 47:37
  quarterfinals, Southampton hosting Arsenal, so Championship
• 47:42
  team and West Ham hosting Leeds. So those are going to be played.
• 47:46
  Look at the FA Cup. Quarterfinals are played April
• 47:49
  4th and 5th. City plays who?
• 47:52
  Liverpool. Yeah.
• 47:54
  So that's, that's a, you know, great match up there.
• 47:56
  I think City smashes them because I just think Liverpool,
• 47:58
  we've talked about that. It was.
• 47:59
  Not a very good team. Chelsea you'd like to think
• 48:03
  you'd get by League One team Port Vale.
• 48:05
  I just love watching City Liverpool games.
• 48:08
  Yeah, I know they they tend to be pretty good and usually
• 48:10
  usually something kind of weird happens like at the end of the
• 48:12
  last. One last time, we're so good.
• 48:14
  So I got that red card like seconds before the final whistle
• 48:16
  blew. Yeah, City scored and then they
• 48:18
  like pulled the goal back and then.
• 48:20
  Game. I mean they could have just
• 48:21
  counted the goal and then they get sent off.
• 48:24
  I know, yeah. Interesting.
• 48:26
  Like so Arsenal going to South Hampton.
• 48:29
  South Hampton is not an easy place to go play.
• 48:31
  I know, but I do think think we'll get to.
• 48:33
  Win, Yeah. What do you who do you like in
• 48:35
  West Ham? Leeds for that one?
• 48:37
  West Ham at home versus Leeds in a quarterfinal game.
• 48:42
  I think West Ham wins in penalties.
• 48:44
  West Ham wins in penalties OK all right, well, all right well,
• 48:48
  there's a little FA Cup, but let's look at it so Week 32 Luca
• 48:52
  OK, so these will start April 10th Friday, April 10th and
• 48:57
  interesting in week 32 Luca is almost like NFL style.
• 49:00
  There's games Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
• 49:03
  So all right before we get to our picks though, let's let's
• 49:06
  wrap up Week 31. So you got to give me your
• 49:08
  Player of the Week, Goal of the Week and Team of the Week for
• 49:11
  Week 31. Player of the week, I'm going to
• 49:14
  go Danny Welbeck, Goal of the week.
• 49:16
  Two goals for Welbeck, Yeah. Goal of the week, I'll do.
• 49:22
  I had one in mind. I begins.
• 49:27
  Goal and then enjoy. Yes, yeah, enjoy and team of the
• 49:34
  week Sunderland. Sunderland, yeah, yeah, Winning
• 49:38
  the Darby on the road, that's a good shout.
• 49:40
  Out, yeah. Yeah, I mean, forests, I would
• 49:42
  have thought about them a little bit, but yeah, I think.
• 49:45
  Yeah, doing that I will mention the forest.
• 49:47
  Well, big win for them, but yeah, you got to go.
• 49:49
  I mean, doing the double over your biggest rival, that's
• 49:51
  that's a big deal for Sunderland.
• 49:53
  So, OK, all right, well, look. Well, like I said, we let's look
• 49:55
  ahead to Week 32. We talked about the FA Cup this
• 49:57
  week. So in, like I said, almost two
• 49:59
  weeks, we'll get back to Premier League action.
• 50:02
  First game up, Luca, we have important game for West Ham.
• 50:05
  They're at home first Wolves. What do you like for that one?
• 50:12
  I think it's going to be two, one West Ham.
• 50:14
  Right, that would be a big. Win.
• 50:16
  That would be huge. Yeah, big win.
• 50:17
  They yeah, West Ham, I feel like they need to win this game,
• 50:20
  although it's going to be tough because Wolves are not you know,
• 50:24
  they're going down, but they are not giving in to anybody.
• 50:26
  But all right, Luca, Arsenal hosting Bournemouth, big game
• 50:32
  here. You're, you're a coach Luca, for
• 50:34
  your FCC team. Big Bournemouth fan, so you got
• 50:38
  a little Darby between you and your coach.
• 50:40
  What do you like in this one Luca?
• 50:42
  This to me is a very interesting game.
• 50:47
  She like I want to go. I maybe to win Arsenal.
• 50:54
  Two on Arsenal what what makes you what makes you lean?
• 50:57
  Arsenal winning two, one in that one.
• 50:58
  I'm curious. I I was leaning towards 11, but
• 51:03
  I do think we will get that win, yeah, because we're at home, I'm
• 51:09
  at the crowd. We pumped.
• 51:11
  Yeah. I I just think we're a better,
• 51:13
  better squat. We have more depth.
• 51:15
  So I think we've scored weight once against like towered legs
• 51:18
  where we could bring on like Choice Yard Met awake, like
• 51:21
  Martinelli, like those players, and I think we'll get that.
• 51:25
  Now you remember Bournemouth are only allowed to tie games in the
• 51:27
  Premier League, so. But that's a new real rule.
• 51:32
  Is it? I will say this, it's tough sort
• 51:33
  of picking these games because is we have, we'll get in, we'll
• 51:36
  talk about this a little bit. There's an international break
• 51:38
  right now and a lot of players have gone away on international
• 51:40
  duty and we don't know the state they're going to come back in,
• 51:43
  right? We always feel like we have one
• 51:44
  or two of our guys going for international duty to come back
• 51:47
  hurt. We just hold our breath as they
• 51:48
  play. So, Gabrielle.
• 51:50
  Gabrielle though, he Luckily a lot of players for the big teams
• 51:53
  have pulled out because a lot of them are friendly.
• 51:57
  Like who? Well, get so Gabrielle, Suliba,
• 51:59
  Trosard are not going. You know, haverts went to
• 52:02
  Germany. I don't know that that's the
• 52:04
  worst thing in the world. As long as they're smart with
• 52:06
  these guys. I don't know if Harvard if
• 52:08
  habits gets like, you know, 30 to 40 minutes.
• 52:10
  Skip the hamstring. Well, I know that's what you
• 52:15
  Silva dense Diaz didn't go. I don't quite know.
• 52:18
  I think I think Holland might have gone.
• 52:20
  I, I don't know, you know, Please.
• 52:22
  Please, Holland Terry Ratio. Don't wish injuries on people.
• 52:28
  Bad karma. Bad karma.
• 52:30
  I don't wish injuries. I just you can win the title
• 52:34
  next year. All right, well, let's move
• 52:37
  over. Another big one here, Nottingham
• 52:39
  Forest hosting Villa. I think it'll be 11.
• 52:47
  They'll have not been good at home and forest maybe.
• 52:50
  Well, forest or at home. I meant wed, you are not good
• 52:53
  away. OK, All right, yeah, yeah.
• 52:55
  And that'd be a big point for for Forest.
• 52:57
  They're like I said, they've got that win over time, so they're
• 53:00
  ahead of them. Every little point when you're
• 53:01
  at the bottom helps. So yeah.
• 53:03
  And Villa kind of feel like they're pretty safe there.
• 53:05
  They find take up the line Crystal Palace hosting
• 53:08
  Newcastle. I think that's going to be 000.
• 53:11
  00 yeah if these are like those weird situations kind of feels
• 53:15
  like 2 teams with really nothing to play for you know like we
• 53:18
  don't have a lot of these games and again that's where the
• 53:19
  promotion relegation keeps it interesting, but these are two
• 53:22
  mid table teams that not going to get relegated but they're not
• 53:24
  going to make Europe feels like not a lot to play for so all
• 53:28
  right like a Burnley hosting Brighton.
• 53:33
  I'm a one nil Britain. One Nil Brighton OK Brentford
• 53:38
  hosting Everton Luca we talked about this big big game sixth
• 53:41
  verse 7th right here I'm. Gonna have 32 Everton.
• 53:44
  OK, I'm sorry, I should have said six verse 7.
• 53:47
  What did I? You said 6.
• 53:49
  OK, I was looking. I saw fifth anyway.
• 53:51
  Yeah, sixth verse 7th. Brentford at home against
• 53:54
  Everton. Sorry.
• 53:54
  What did you? Say 3 to Everton.
• 53:56
  Three to Everton. Oh boy, it's gonna be a fun game
• 53:58
  to watch. OK, that would be massive for
• 54:01
  them going on the road and getting a win.
• 54:04
  All right, Luca, Liverpool hosting Fulham.
• 54:08
  Remember the last time there? Liverpool versus film reads like
• 54:13
  absolute thumper. I was watching that game live
• 54:19
  and boy did I go nuts. I took my shirt off and started
• 54:23
  running around the house. One of the best goals of the
• 54:25
  year. I think goal the season for me.
• 54:28
  So far, goal the season OK. This is only goal of the season.
• 54:31
  I'm gonna go 43 Liverpool, OH. My goodness. 43 Liverpool.
• 54:36
  Wow. OK, all right, Luca Sunderland
• 54:40
  hosting Spurs. Can Spurs get at?
• 54:43
  Least two No Sunderland. Oh my goodness, the misery
• 54:46
  continues for Spurs. All right, based on your
• 54:49
  predictions here, West Ham winning Spurs losing Spurs will
• 54:51
  be officially in the relegation. They will.
• 54:55
  OK, here's a big game, Luca, that Chelsea hosting City.
• 55:03
  So you know, this was a game that I had circled in terms of
• 55:06
  like being an Arsenal fan where you're thinking maybe City could
• 55:08
  drop points. And we've got a little lucky
• 55:10
  that City have drawn their last two going into this one.
• 55:13
  So two games that I did not expect City to drop points in,
• 55:16
  they drew. Now, like I said, this was 1 I
• 55:18
  had circled. Now the problem is it feels like
• 55:20
  Chelsea are a bit of a dumpster fire right now.
• 55:22
  They're they've been to their goaltending is an absolute joke.
• 55:25
  They've lost two in a row in the Premier League.
• 55:26
  What you say 4th in all competitions.
• 55:29
  It it just feels like something's kind of off right
• 55:32
  now with them. And again, this is it.
• 55:34
  This do city get kind of a boost from that Carabao cup?
• 55:38
  Or or maybe they don't. I I don't really know, but this
• 55:41
  is sort of a fascinating game to me.
• 55:43
  I do think City will win. 2 nothing. 2 nothing.
• 55:46
  Sanchez is going to make a giveaway.
• 55:49
  Yeah, I, I, I know I have to say, like I said, I mean, if you
• 55:52
  had asked me this a couple weeks ago, I would have been like, I
• 55:54
  think Chelsea can win or certainly get a draw.
• 55:58
  I don't, I don't see it. I I just don't see.
• 56:01
  And it's, it's more to me and more of a Chelsea thing than a
• 56:03
  City thing. Like I, I think we know what
• 56:05
  City are. But with Chelsea it just
• 56:08
  they're, they're like the parts are great, but the, some of the
• 56:12
  parts are not like the way they play as a team.
• 56:14
  Like I look at their players. There's talent all over that
• 56:16
  team, but then you watch them play.
• 56:19
  I don't know, they're just, you know, But I also think you just
• 56:21
  never know when you have like that many good players on the
• 56:23
  field for Chelsea, maybe a couple of them just sort of
• 56:26
  create a couple moments of magic.
• 56:28
  Maybe they can get two goals and it's like a 22 tie or something.
• 56:31
  Obviously as an Arsenal fan, we'll take a tie for sure, you
• 56:35
  know, because we want to try to create as much of a gap as we
• 56:39
  can because I know it's tired to say a City have a game in hand
• 56:42
  and of course we've got to go there.
• 56:44
  I agree with you based on what I saw in the League Cup, I'm not
• 56:46
  confident we're going to get a result there.
• 56:48
  So then if that happens then the lead is 3, you know, and then
• 56:51
  that's really, really tight. So, but we'll see.
• 56:55
  Like I said, definitely a game I'm going to be watching there
• 56:57
  because, you know, it'll be interesting to see what happens.
• 57:00
  Last game will be on Monday. We have Man U hosting leads.
• 57:07
  I'm going to go to nothing United.
• 57:09
  To Nothing United. OK, All right, Luca.
• 57:12
  Well, you gave us our picks for Week 32, which will be in a
• 57:15
  little bit, but let's go over to our viewer mailbag questions.
• 57:20
  And this involves the championship.
• 57:22
  What's the championship? It's the league below the
• 57:25
  Premier. League.
• 57:26
  League, right? So different than Champions
• 57:28
  League. It can be confusing, right?
• 57:29
  A lot of people have Champions League, Champions League, and
• 57:31
  then there's the Championship. So Champions League is when the
• 57:35
  top teams in Europe get together for a knockout tournament that's
• 57:38
  played over the course of the season, separate than
• 57:40
  everybody's league. And the Championship is
• 57:43
  essentially the league right below.
• 57:45
  So we talked, and we talked a little bit about like, should
• 57:48
  the Premier League have a playoff?
• 57:49
  Well, the Championship does have a playoff for the three teams
• 57:53
  that will get promoted to the Premier League next year.
• 57:55
  And the way they do it right now, Luke, is if you finish
• 57:58
  first and second in the Championship, boom, you're
• 58:01
  promoted, you're going to play in the Premier League next year.
• 58:04
  It's a big, big deal. The teams that finish 345 and
• 58:08
  six go into a playoff where 3 plays, 64 plays, 5 S Four teams
• 58:14
  go into the playoffs and they do it over the first round over 2
• 58:18
  legs. So 3 plays, six, they play home,
• 58:20
  they play home, 4 plays five, home and home.
• 58:23
  The winners go on for A1 game, game at Wembley Stadium in
• 58:27
  London. The winner of that, boom, you're
• 58:30
  in the Premier League, you're the third team and you go.
• 58:32
  So my question to you, Luca, is they're changing that.
• 58:34
  Not this year, but the next year.
• 58:36
  OK, same thing, Luca. Top two teams, the new format,
• 58:39
  top two teams, you're done. OK, nothing else for you to do,
• 58:42
  you're promoted. But now Luca, we have 3 through
• 58:45
  8 will go into the playoff and here's the way it's structured.
• 58:50
  Now five will play 8 and six will play 7.
• 58:53
  And the higher team in the table gets the home field advantage
• 58:57
  for the for those games. OK, the third and fourth team
• 59:01
  that finished, they get a bye, so they go to the sort of the
• 59:03
  next round. So if you if the winner of five
• 59:06
  and eight, they, like I said, go and play the team in fourth.
• 59:12
  The winner of six and seven plays a team in 3rd and that's
• 59:16
  over 2 legs, OK? Just like it was sort of in the
• 59:19
  quote UN quote semi finals. The winners of those go on
• 59:22
  again, one game final at Wembley, boom, the winner of
• 59:25
  that goes on. So essentially what they've done
• 59:27
  is they've drawn 2 more teams into the playoff.
• 59:30
  And my question to you Luca, is basically real simple.
• 59:32
  Do you like this change and why? Why not?
• 59:35
  I do because I think it gets more teams invested in trying to
• 59:43
  push for a play in the spot because like now all the before
• 59:48
  be all these teams, like 7th and 8th, really nothing to play for.
• 59:53
  If they're kind of, you know, behind by a good amount.
• 59:56
  Now they'll try and really push. Everyone's trying to get at
• 1:00:00
  least 8, which is very doable. So I think lots of teams can
• 1:00:04
  definitely fight for it and I think it'll make things a little
• 1:00:08
  more competitive. OK, so you like it's going to
• 1:00:11
  bring more teams sort of into the mix.
• 1:00:13
  Yes. Do you feel like it's like it?
• 1:00:15
  Do you feel like it's overly complicated, like the structure
• 1:00:18
  of the format? You feel like?
• 1:00:19
  Because I think that's one thing people want to just be able to
• 1:00:21
  like know and be able to follow it.
• 1:00:24
  And you know, it's sometimes if it's like, wait, there's like 4,
• 1:00:26
  there's all these other stages or steps.
• 1:00:28
  If it feels like it gets overly complicated for people, they may
• 1:00:30
  sort of tune out a little bit. But you feel like you still like
• 1:00:33
  the structure of it. You know, I'm good with it.
• 1:00:35
  The one game in the first round. Essentially.
• 1:00:38
  Well, no, I think it's OK. I do worry.
• 1:00:40
  Like if you're not like we're hardcore soccer fans, so we get
• 1:00:43
  into all the nuts and bolts of this and really like it and
• 1:00:45
  stuff. So I think for me it's not.
• 1:00:47
  But I do wonder, like if you're a casual fan, you're sort of
• 1:00:49
  like, wait, what? It's like 1 game in the first
• 1:00:52
  round, then you do the two games, then it's one game in the
• 1:00:55
  final. I mean, I think it's simple
• 1:00:57
  enough I people could understand.
• 1:01:00
  It. Yeah, I know, but I mean, I, I,
• 1:01:02
  I do get drawing more teams in, you know, like, so if you're a
• 1:01:06
  mid table, like if you're in 10th with like 4 weeks to go,
• 1:01:08
  like you're still in the mix, right?
• 1:01:10
  Yeah, because you're just like, well, all we got to do is get to
• 1:01:12
  8th. So.
• 1:01:13
  And the other thing people would would argue is that it will, it
• 1:01:17
  could possibly dilute the quality of team that gets
• 1:01:19
  promoted. So theoretically you could now
• 1:01:22
  finish 8th in the Championship and then still go to the Premier
• 1:01:26
  League. Like does that feel right?
• 1:01:29
  Like, you know. I don't know.
• 1:01:32
  I feel like it at least gives them a chance, you know,
• 1:01:34
  experience the Premier League and maybe next time they do it
• 1:01:37
  they'll be better. Maybe, you know, I mean, I do I,
• 1:01:41
  well, I would say this. I mean, I think it's worth
• 1:01:44
  trying this out for two or three years.
• 1:01:46
  If there's just like crazy upsets and we see like the teams
• 1:01:48
  that finished 7th and 8th go and then they just get destroyed in
• 1:01:51
  the Premier League, then I would maybe want to tinker with this a
• 1:01:54
  little bit. I think it's I, you know,
• 1:01:57
  they've given advantages to the top teams.
• 1:01:59
  I mean you get a buy if you get 3rd or 4th, so.
• 1:02:01
  But The thing is, there'll only be one team that could possibly
• 1:02:04
  be just not that good. Right, right, because you're
• 1:02:06
  still yeah, which I like that I like that you have not changed
• 1:02:10
  that there's there definitely should be big incentive for
• 1:02:13
  finishing one and two so one and two good You're you're done
• 1:02:15
  you're in you don't have to worry about the playoff at all.
• 1:02:17
  So I like that they did not mess with that part.
• 1:02:19
  I I definitely do. So yeah, I don't know.
• 1:02:21
  I I don't know that the 7th or 8th place team is really
• 1:02:26
  probably you. Know at least I'll try at least
• 1:02:28
  we'll give it give it a. Chance so we'll see like I'm I'm
• 1:02:31
  up for like I like giving it a shot here.
• 1:02:34
  Let's see kind of what happens. You know, maybe it's not quite
• 1:02:36
  set. And so next season, they'll be
• 1:02:38
  this or. Next season, not this year.
• 1:02:40
  So like I said, this year, we'll finish up here in a cup in like
• 1:02:43
  a month or so. And they're still doing it the
• 1:02:45
  old way, six teams. But it's it's the next year, the
• 1:02:48
  2627 season, they're going to institute the new playoff format
• 1:02:52
  for the championship. So yeah, the next upcoming
• 1:02:54
  season. Wait.
• 1:02:55
  OK, Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:02:57
  All right, Luca. Well, there's our mailbag
• 1:03:00
  question, so let's go over our Did you know, Luca?
• 1:03:03
  Did you know World Cup qualifying?
• 1:03:05
  OK, Did you know, Luca, that right now we do not have all the
• 1:03:08
  teams for the World Cup still still, we still have spots
• 1:03:12
  available. The World Cup is coming here.
• 1:03:14
  But the right there's like playoff games.
• 1:03:17
  CNN. Yeah.
• 1:03:18
  So here's what we've got is right now the teams are on an
• 1:03:21
  international break. So the international break Luca
• 1:03:24
  is from March 26th to April 3rd OK, and we have a bunch of teams
• 1:03:31
  going and playing friendlies right teams that have qualified
• 1:03:33
  for the World Cup or teams that have not like France is playing
• 1:03:36
  Brazil today right. Both teams are in the in the
• 1:03:38
  World Cup, doesn't really matter, but they're just playing
• 1:03:40
  a friendly keep themselves sharply US what?
• 1:03:44
  Didn't they already end? What end?
• 1:03:47
  The the France versus Brazil, I think I ended right now.
• 1:03:50
  No, I think it started at four. I think it's still.
• 1:03:51
  Going oh, OK. So US plays Portugal and
• 1:03:54
  Belgium, you know, they're just getting their teams ready.
• 1:03:57
  But there we have games that actually mean something here.
• 1:04:00
  And So what games you probably are wondering, OK, let's go,
• 1:04:05
  let's talk about the games we have.
• 1:04:06
  So there's six spots to give out.
• 1:04:09
  This is the, did you know, 6 spots, Lucas, still to give out.
• 1:04:12
  Four are going to come from Europe.
• 1:04:14
  So we have a playoff through Europe where we're going to get
• 1:04:16
  four teams. And then we have this like
• 1:04:18
  intercontinental, so between six other teams, like all over the
• 1:04:24
  other continents are going to play for two spots.
• 1:04:26
  And we're going to get these decided here over the next two
• 1:04:29
  weeks. So for Europe, Luca, we have
• 1:04:32
  Wales versus Bosnia, Italy versus Northern.
• 1:04:36
  Ireland, Italy still haven't gotten.
• 1:04:38
  Italy still have not now the winner of those games, Luca,
• 1:04:41
  play each other and then that winner, boom, you're in the
• 1:04:44
  World Cup. OK, OK, another bracket, Luca.
• 1:04:48
  Ukraine versus Sweden. Oh.
• 1:04:50
  I hope Ukraine gets in, that'll be big.
• 1:04:52
  Poland versus Albania, OK, again, winner of that play each
• 1:04:56
  other. The winner?
• 1:04:57
  Boom, you're I. Think Ukraine is a shot?
• 1:05:00
  Well, we'll get, we'll go through the scores here in a
• 1:05:02
  second because they're being played now.
• 1:05:03
  OK Turkey A just beat Romania this morning.
• 1:05:06
  They play the winner of Slovakia, Kosovo.
• 1:05:10
  Winner of that goes into EU s s group.
• 1:05:12
  OK, so the US will have Turkey, A Slovakia or Kosovo in their
• 1:05:17
  group? We don't want Turkey, Turkey.
• 1:05:19
  I I agree Turkey are very good. I watched some of that game
• 1:05:22
  against Romania and they definitely looked good.
• 1:05:24
  I think they they won one or two nothing.
• 1:05:26
  Chelanon, who's good? Yeah, Arda, Guler, Keenan
• 1:05:30
  Yieldees, they've got some good players on Turkey.
• 1:05:32
  Yeah. Like we hope that they're the
• 1:05:34
  favorites for sure out of this group here.
• 1:05:36
  And but it would be nice if Kosovo or Slovakia not.
• 1:05:39
  I don't see that happening just. All right.
• 1:05:41
  Look at the last group for Europe, Denmark versus North
• 1:05:44
  Macedonia and the Czech Republic for Chechea versus Republic of
• 1:05:49
  Ireland. Winners of those games play each
• 1:05:51
  other and boom, that's the four from Europe.
• 1:05:54
  OK, now like I said, the Intercontinental 1 is OK.
• 1:06:00
  This gets a little confusing. Oh boy.
• 1:06:04
  You've got where is that now? Maybe I didn't write down who
• 1:06:11
  they were all going to play, but essentially I can pull it up
• 1:06:16
  here. OK?
• 1:06:17
  You've got Bolivia, play Suriname.
• 1:06:20
  Surinom. Surinom New Caledonia plays
• 1:06:22
  Jamaica. New Sark, could you repeat that?
• 1:06:25
  New Caledonia plays Jamaica, and then the winners of those go on
• 1:06:31
  to play like Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo
• 1:06:36
  and. Iraq, we set points for that
• 1:06:38
  team. Yeah.
• 1:06:39
  So you've got, like I said, then I think the winners of those,
• 1:06:43
  those are sort of the teams sort of left here from there and I
• 1:06:46
  think we'll get 2 spots. So I think essentially Congo
• 1:06:50
  plays somebody, one of those winners and they'll get a spot
• 1:06:52
  and Iraq plays one of those winners and they'll get a spot
• 1:06:54
  and those will be the final six spots.
• 1:06:57
  So right now, Luca, Italy is up to nothing on Northern Ireland,
• 1:07:02
  Czech Republic and Ireland, not Northern Ireland. 220 Kosovo
• 1:07:07
  42-ON Slovakia. What?
• 1:07:10
  So Kosovo will play Turkey A and then we've got Poland Luca 21 in
• 1:07:15
  Albania, Wales and Bosnia won one, Denmark 4 nothing on North
• 1:07:21
  Macedonia. Good, good.
• 1:07:23
  Sweden 3 Nothing on. Ukraine.
• 1:07:28
  Ukraine, No. With a Victor Giocaris hat
• 1:07:30
  trick. Oh my.
• 1:07:31
  Yeah, well. Why can't he do that for?
• 1:07:34
  Ourselves, that's gonna be. Some good confidence for him,
• 1:07:36
  Yeah. So three goals for Sweden for
• 1:07:38
  for big Victoria. So big Victoria.
• 1:07:41
  So it looks like Italy will take care of business.
• 1:07:45
  Kosovo moves on. Certainly looks like Denmark and
• 1:07:48
  Sweden will get the job done. I.
• 1:07:50
  Don't like Turkey a beat Romania already.
• 1:07:53
  So that's where we stand with some World Cup qualifying going
• 1:07:57
  on here. So it's interesting we have some
• 1:07:59
  like, you know, international games that actually really truly
• 1:08:01
  means something going on right now.
• 1:08:04
  So like I said, those games and so I think the repeat games are
• 1:08:08
  on like the 31st. Sorry, let me just check.
• 1:08:13
  Yeah, I think the 31st. So Tuesday Luca will flip around
• 1:08:18
  and we'll get the the games that'll really truly means.
• 1:08:22
  I mean those will be like the play in games for the World Cup.
• 1:08:24
  So everybody keep an eye on Tuesday 2:45 and those
• 1:08:29
  international games are late. OK.
• 1:08:31
  But yeah, anyway, so yeah, so still some good games going on.
• 1:08:34
  All right, Luca, real quick, of course, we come find us on
• 1:08:39
  Instagram, Premier League Playground.
• 1:08:41
  You can e-mail us any questions, concerns, mailbag questions,
• 1:08:45
  plugs you want us to do at premierleagueplayground@gmail.com.
• 1:08:49
  We also have a YouTube page, Premier League Playground.
• 1:08:52
  So come give us a shout out. A quick shout out to our
• 1:08:56
  hometown soccer team. Charleston Battery got a big
• 1:09:00
  comeback win down 2. They rallied 32.
• 1:09:04
  Charleston Battery play in the USL Championships of the top
• 1:09:07
  tier of USL. They're now 2 and O.
• 1:09:10
  We'll give a little shout out to Nathan Messer.
• 1:09:12
  Luca from William and Mary played with your cousin
• 1:09:15
  Alexander Levengood. Yeah, he's looks like he's
• 1:09:18
  playing some like right wing back for them, but we got to
• 1:09:21
  make it down to a game. He he you watched him play in
• 1:09:24
  college. This is his first year with the
• 1:09:25
  Battery, so we want to give a shout out to him.
• 1:09:27
  Wish him luck this season. But yeah, well, you know, we're
• 1:09:30
  we're big soccer fans. We got to root for our hometown
• 1:09:33
  team. But yeah, they had a big
• 1:09:34
  comeback, getting a goal and extra time to win 32.
• 1:09:37
  So good start for the Battery in the USL.
• 1:09:40
  All right, Luca, we end all our segments and podcasts with our
• 1:09:45
  Penalty Kick Trivia shootout. We'll ask each other some
• 1:09:47
  questions back and forth. Would you want to go first or
• 1:09:50
  second? I'm going to ask first.
• 1:09:52
  All right, go ahead, you. Ask my first question.
• 1:09:54
  You should easily get this. OK, The hand of God is famously
• 1:09:57
  associated with which player. I have choices for all of these
• 1:10:01
  questions. I'm going to, I'm going to let
• 1:10:02
  other people, I'm going to let our, our, our audience think on
• 1:10:05
  this one. I do know the answer to this,
• 1:10:06
  the hand of God. It's obviously what what is it?
• 1:10:11
  Diego Maradona. Yes.
• 1:10:13
  Yeah, famously in the World Cup in 86 against England, yes, he
• 1:10:17
  punched the ball in with his hand.
• 1:10:18
  They missed it and they gave him the goal.
• 1:10:20
  So I think he, I think the quote from him later on was like it
• 1:10:23
  was the hand of God that scored. You know, yeah, I still think
• 1:10:28
  even if they had VAR back then, they would still call it a goal.
• 1:10:32
  VAR just can't even get it. Right.
• 1:10:35
  All right, look at my question to you is we talked a little bit
• 1:10:38
  about the championship, all right, what championship team
• 1:10:41
  Luca are nicknamed the Foxes. Oh, Leicester City.
• 1:10:47
  Leicester City. That is exactly right.
• 1:10:49
  Nickname. All right, one more.
• 1:10:50
  All right. What is the nickname of the
• 1:10:52
  Mexican player Javier Hernandez? Is it?
• 1:10:55
  Wait, do you need choices? I don't think I do.
• 1:10:58
  OK, wait. It is Chicharito, Yeah, OK.
• 1:11:03
  Cool, was he? He was pretty good.
• 1:11:05
  He played for Real Madrid. Yeah, he was a good player.
• 1:11:08
  No, he was a real like AI mean. I think he played for United.
• 1:11:11
  I mean, he played for some top, top teams.
• 1:11:12
  He was a good player for sure. Luca, what is the championship
• 1:11:18
  of the National teams of South America called?
• 1:11:23
  Wait. So the the, you know, the the
• 1:11:25
  national teams for South America, when they play their
• 1:11:27
  championship, what is? That, oh, the Copa America.
• 1:11:30
  Copa America, that is exactly right.
• 1:11:32
  Argentina Luca won 16 times and that's played every four years,
• 1:11:36
  so usually in between World Cup. So two years after that, they'll
• 1:11:39
  play that, yeah. When David Beckham played for
• 1:11:42
  Real Madrid, which jersey number did he wear?
• 1:11:45
  Oh. You're not good at jersey
• 1:11:48
  numbers. I'm not good with jersey
• 1:11:49
  numbers, I know. I am.
• 1:11:51
  I should know Beckham though. Goodness.
• 1:11:53
  You need choices. No, no, don't give me choices.
• 1:11:55
  I I want to say 7. Are you walking it in?
• 1:12:00
  Yes. No, it's 23. 23 I was thinking
• 1:12:04
  of 20, but I was thinking 2123. Gosh, how did I miss that?
• 1:12:09
  It's not like an obvious number, I'll give you that.
• 1:12:11
  Yeah, but he's so iconic and like that jersey too.
• 1:12:14
  I've seen like a million times in my life, Beckham's Man United
• 1:12:17
  jersey it. Was Real Madrid.
• 1:12:20
  What's that? It was Real Madrid when you
• 1:12:22
  played for Real Madrid. Oh, I thought you said Man
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  United. I said Real Madrid.
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  OK, either way I wouldn't know. Did he?
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  Yeah. He wore Chevanette.
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  Wait, did he wear Chevanette? I don't know.
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  I don't think he did. Because of a jersey numbers,
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  it's not my specialty. All right, so you missed that
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  122 chance for me to take the lead here.
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  All right. Look good.
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  Just real quick looking at Beckham, Mandy, he was 7.
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  All right. So I was right on that, but that
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  wasn't the question. Yeah.
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  All right, Luca, what is the most northern team in the
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  Premier League? So is the geography question for
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  you. Luca, what team is the most
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  north in the Premier League? I mean, they talk about this on
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  TV and stuff like if you look at a map and you go north up, what
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  is the most northern team? Is it Arsenal?
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  No, look at London is like very South in England, like we're
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  not. I don't live there, no.
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  But you've seen maps and they talk about this a lot too.
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  Teams in the north team, Newcastle, OK, they're about 250
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  miles north of Arsenal. So it would be about a 5 hour
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  drive if you drove from like North North London all the way
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  up. You.
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  Know we got to look at you got to look at maps a little bit
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  better here yeah Newcastle, they're the most northern team I
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  just. Happened to know what team is
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  the most north in England. Well, we got to you got to brush
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  up on your geography. Oh, come on.
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  All right. What do you got?
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  Which country is Michael Audrey from?
• 1:14:03
  Oh, I think I know this one. I believe it is Denmark.
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  That is correct. OK.
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  Yeah, I remember he was a good player.
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  I think he was a striker, scored a bunch of goals.
• 1:14:13
  All right, Luca, MLS question for you.
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  What is the Seattle team name? The Seattle Sounders.
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  That is correct. That is correct.
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  Good job. Yeah. 44 All right, here we go.
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  Which country is Viktor Roshimin from?
• 1:14:28
  I think I know this one too. He's from Nigeria.
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  OK. All right, Luca list question to
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  end it here. OK, we're thinking of Premier
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  League team badges. I need to tie it up.
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  This is to to tie. The tie, OK, so look, I have 12
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  teams listed here that have an animal on their badge, OK?
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  Wait. All I want are 6.
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  In the Premier League. In the Premier League, currently
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  in the Premier League, not like they've been in there.
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  So currently right now in the Premier League, of course,
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  there's 20 teams. I.
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  Got this. 12 of them have an animal.
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  Not it doesn't have to be the only thing on it, but just have
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  an animal somewhere on their badge.
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  OK, what do you got? What are the teams you've?
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  Got all right, so wolves. Wolves is a good one.
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  What animal do wolves have again?
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  On there a wolves. Wolves have a wolf.
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  Yep, that's one. Crystal Palace.
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  Crystal Palace have what? Wait, wait.
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  An eagle. An eagle, Yeah.
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  Brighton. Brighton have a.
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  Seagulls. Seagull.
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  That's three. United.
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  United. Yeah.
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  What do they have? Red Devil.
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  Red OK, devil I know. I like you could debate like
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  whether it's an animal or not, but I have it here, yes.
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  Chelsea. Chelsea have what?
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  Like a lion. A lion, yeah.
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  Yeah. Lions a lot like, you know, the
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  national team's called 3 Lions. Lions like a very symbolic.
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  Animal. Of England, so.
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  Yeah, Tottenham. Tottenham good look what?
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  Have a chicken it's it's so lousy they.
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  Call it of course. They call it a cockarell, which
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  is like a young stupid chicken basically.
• 1:16:05
  That's just making it more lousy.
• 1:16:07
  OK, so all right, look at this. What?
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  You've gotten 6 already. I'm gonna see if I can.
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  It's 12. Or six more.
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  One of them I feel like is impossible.
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  I never would have gotten, but is.
• 1:16:21
  In the Premier League. There's definitely like a couple
• 1:16:23
  other easy ones. In the Premier League.
• 1:16:25
  Yes, yes, in the Premier League current OK, so like I said, this
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  is not teams in the Championship, like I said, is
• 1:16:29
  currently in the. Does Burnley have it?
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  Burnley does. Do you know what animals on
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  Burnley? Absolutely not.
• 1:16:36
  They have a lion. On their Let's Go, Yeah.
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  So that's seven. OK.
• 1:16:42
  That's seven. So I'm already going to give you
• 1:16:43
  credit for getting the question. Right.
• 1:16:45
  What's the OK? Was that the impossible one?
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  No, no, yeah. We just think of Bournemouth.
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  Bournemouth does not. OK, they have a person.
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  They have a person on there. I didn't know if that counts
• 1:16:59
  because we're. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
• 1:17:02
  I thought about that. No, yeah, just animals in the
• 1:17:04
  the. We asked in Ville, right?
• 1:17:06
  Yes. What do they have?
• 1:17:09
  Oh, what do they have? I'll just say Lion if in doubt.
• 1:17:13
  Oh yeah, Lion. They have a lion too.
• 1:17:16
  OK, so I've got city. Do they?
• 1:17:18
  No city do not get they have a boat but no animal got four
• 1:17:22
  more. 1 is pretty easy when you think about it.
• 1:17:25
  You'll you'll kick yourself if you don't get it.
• 1:17:27
  Not full. Not, oh, Brentford.
• 1:17:30
  Brentford. That's the one I thought would
• 1:17:31
  be pretty. What animal are they have?
• 1:17:33
  What's their nickname? The bees, the.
• 1:17:35
  Bees. Yeah, they've got a bee, a
• 1:17:37
  bumblebee on theirs. OK.
• 1:17:39
  All right. Giz Now it gets a little harder
• 1:17:41
  for sure. All right, I'm trying to mid
• 1:17:46
  table teams not OK, I'm trying forest.
• 1:17:56
  Do they have not? Forest trees.
• 1:17:57
  They have the tricky trees. Have tricky trees?
• 1:18:00
  They just have trees. I'm trying to think.
• 1:18:05
  I have to think fast too. Yeah.
• 1:18:09
  Everton. Yeah, they have like a tower and
• 1:18:12
  some other things. Sunderland don't.
• 1:18:15
  Sunderland do okay. They also have a lion, yes.
• 1:18:20
  Why do all these teams have wines?
• 1:18:21
  Well, we just talked about. 10. That is 10, there's two more.
• 1:18:25
  So Newcastle. Newcastle.
• 1:18:28
  Dude, do you have any idea what animal?
• 1:18:30
  Absolutely not. Seahorses.
• 1:18:33
  They have two kind of seahorses on the side of their thing.
• 1:18:37
  I have no idea why. Maybe we should look that up and
• 1:18:39
  say why do Newcastle, the most northern team in the Premier
• 1:18:42
  League, have seahorses? But yes, that is one of them.
• 1:18:46
  Last one I want to get this. You should know you've seen this
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  badge a lot. They are a big team.
• 1:18:54
  They OK, it can't, well it can't be any of the big six or it
• 1:18:59
  could wait. Big 6 is Chelsea, Arsenal, City,
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  United, Tottenham and wait, oh, Liverpool.
• 1:19:13
  Liverpool, they have a liver bird, A liver bird.
• 1:19:17
  Sorry. Is a type of almost like a
• 1:19:19
  cormorant like a type of bird, yes, liver bird, you think?
• 1:19:22
  I think of Liverpool's like thing that is they have that
• 1:19:24
  sort of bird a. Liver Bird A.
• 1:19:26
  Liver Bird. That sounds unpleasing.
• 1:19:29
  Yeah, so there it is. Look at 12 teams with badges.
• 1:19:32
  I got them twice to give me hints.
• 1:19:35
  I have one more just for all right.
• 1:19:37
  Go ahead, give me one more on our way.
• 1:19:38
  I just. Want to see if you get a right?
• 1:19:39
  Which African country is George Way from right?
• 1:19:42
  Oh, I think I know. I think I know this one.
• 1:19:45
  I think Weya is from Liberia. Yes.
• 1:19:48
  OK, Yeah. We'll call that one a tie.
• 1:19:50
  All right, we'll call it a tie. We'll call it a tie here.
• 1:19:53
  All right, Luke. Well, that's all I got for me.
• 1:19:55
  There's the final whistling that's full time for us.
• 1:19:58
  Thank you for listening. Bye.