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Lazio jump to 1st in Serie A after Inter lose derby vs Milan - Calcio Carousel Ep. 322 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: What do the Montreal Roses, FC Supra, Juventus, and Milan
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  Speaker 1: all have in common here on the couch, guys? They
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  Speaker 1: all won big games this weekend. Adriano, Gianni, I'm Nicholas.
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  Speaker 1: You can follow us on all your favorite podcasting platforms
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  Speaker 1: hit that subscribe button on YouTube and wherever you listen
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  Speaker 1: to your podcasts. Guys, how's it going?
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  Speaker 2: It's going good, man. I'm on like a tear tonight.
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  Speaker 2: All kinds of episodes, but happy to be back and
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  Speaker 2: talking to the three of us once again tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I love how you started off the intro with that
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  Speaker 3: because clearly it hasn't been the same for me because
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  Speaker 3: my teams have been struggling out here besides Roma's game
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  Speaker 3: this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: But anyways, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get there when we get there.
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  Speaker 1: Roma won on the weekend. They won on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I thought about including them, but like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the big games. It's not... let's not put you in that,
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  Speaker 1: in that big category there. They're at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the season, but yeah, if you're, if you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: this one, head over to our YouTube channel, a full
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  Speaker 1: interview with FC super goalkeeper, a walkout, walking media is
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  Speaker 1: up as well. So thanks to you, general for taking
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  Speaker 1: care of that earlier. You guys know, if you listen
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  Speaker 1: to us for the past year, you know, we've been
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  Speaker 1: all on the FC super train, right. Led by Rocco
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  Speaker 1: Placentino and Placentino.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to got to go to the game,
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  Speaker 1: their first ever playoff game in franchise history at home
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  Speaker 1: in Laval this past Sunday to unwin over Calvary in
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  Speaker 1: the first leg of the CPL semi final. It was
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  Speaker 1: it was fun. It was interesting to see because we
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  Speaker 1: were right in front of the tribuna, basically. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Rocco was there and it was interesting to see everyone's
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  Speaker 1: reaction because those guys are as big as fans as
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  Speaker 1: we are. They're obviously bigger, right? And you could tell when,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let's say Rocco or even Nick DeSantis, when
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  Speaker 1: they're passionate about the team, when they're passionate about the project,
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  Speaker 1: they're there, they're there to support the team. And it
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  Speaker 1: was nice to see. And look, Forza Supra this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: big game in Calgary. It's not going to be easy.
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  Speaker 1: Calgary is a good team. But to go up 2-1,
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  Speaker 1: it should have been more.
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  Speaker 2: Could have been more.
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  Speaker 1: It could have been more. You know, it's positive signs.
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  Speaker 1: So they just need a result and they'll go to
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  Speaker 1: the final. Again, not easy, but Forza Supra.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And in their first season too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So history was, was made regardless of what
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  Speaker 2: the result was going to be. It was made already,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I just want to, again, shout out Joachim
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  Speaker 2: Mille again, goalkeeper, like Nick said for FC Supra for,
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  Speaker 2: for the time, for the gracious, you know, opportunity to,
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  Speaker 2: to get to the, for the interview. Great guy. Magic Mille,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to call him, I guess, going forward. instead
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  Speaker 2: of Magic Mike we'll call him Magic Millie yeah great
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  Speaker 2: episode yeah great episode so yeah guys definitely go follow
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  Speaker 2: that one and go you know over to YouTube and
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  Speaker 2: listen to that and watch that because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: just a casual talk it was it was like one
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  Speaker 2: of you know at the bar just shooting the shit
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  Speaker 2: it seemed like so again Joachim if you're listening to
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  Speaker 2: this we appreciate you brother.
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  Speaker 1: And as I mentioned, Montreal roses, they won their first
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  Speaker 1: leg of the semifinal three, nothing in Vancouver. So they
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  Speaker 1: have a lot easier path to the final and they
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  Speaker 1: play a stable rail this upcoming Sunday. So good times
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  Speaker 1: in Montreal for Montreal pro soccer. But you know, we do,
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  Speaker 1: we do the city out here on the couch with guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of big week, a lot of big games
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. Obviously I think we do have to start
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  Speaker 1: with the Derby. I think this Derby was, I guess
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  Speaker 1: you could say extra special because of the news of
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  Speaker 1: the stadium, but it feels like it's the 10th time
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  Speaker 1: that there's news about a new stadium. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much, how legit this one is, Adrian. It seems
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  Speaker 1: like it's legit with the new Stan Ciro. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it's not the last derby at the stadium, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's, it's special regardless. Kakao was there. And
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  Speaker 1: then Milan comes with the, the three, one win inter
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  Speaker 1: people say they, they choke in big games. I, they've
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  Speaker 1: definitely won big games in the past. You know, look,
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't, they wouldn't have won the Scudetto last year
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  Speaker 1: without it. But, uh, you know, between Champions League, between
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  Speaker 1: the derbies now, um, you know, it, it wasn't their day.
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  Speaker 1: They drop out of first in Serie A. Uh, Milan
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  Speaker 1: gets the, the big win. And, uh, I'm sure you're happy, Adrian.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, we're still celebrating as, uh, Milan fans, right?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's, uh, it's about time, you know, well,
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  Speaker 2: about time. We've kind of had their number, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the past, what was it? Seven, eight matches, I believe. Um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the last 40 games Inter have lost only
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  Speaker 2: three matches and, you know, those three matches were against
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  Speaker 2: Milan in a derby. So, it's something to obviously notice.
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  Speaker 2: It's something to be proud of as Milanisti and I
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  Speaker 2: think it's hopefully something to, you know, carry over and
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  Speaker 2: bounce off of, you know, going forward in these, if
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  Speaker 2: it be tomorrow in Europa League and just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this weekend in Serie A or just any upcoming games
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  Speaker 2: that Milan has. But, uh, yeah, Nick, you said it,
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  Speaker 2: you said it well. I mean, it's, it was, it
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  Speaker 2: was a hell of a game, honestly. I think, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, fans of both teams, I think we're obviously
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  Speaker 2: confident that then going into it, it was, uh, it
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  Speaker 2: was going to be a, one of the, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: say the first true test for, for these clubs, but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of the lot of, you know, those, uh,
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  Speaker 2: those tests, uh, early on in the season for these
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  Speaker 2: big clubs, um, Inter showed that they were able to,
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  Speaker 2: to get out of results that kind of looked, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not in their favor in the past. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: it was the Napoli game, obviously, you know, Como, the
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  Speaker 2: Roma one. So, again, this game was going to be
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  Speaker 2: a tough, tough, tough game, tough task for Milan in
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  Speaker 2: the Milan perspective. But I think the, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: game plan, you know, executed, you know, like to a charm,
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  Speaker 2: I would say. I mean, was it completely perfect? You know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not, but, I think, you know, when it mattered
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  Speaker 2: the most, Milan got the job done. I think Inter
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  Speaker 2: came out flat. And the game started off, you know,
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  Speaker 2: right on the front foot with Milan. You know, many
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  Speaker 2: are going to call this derby, you know, the derby
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  Speaker 2: di Morera, right? Diego Morera, who had a hell of
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  Speaker 2: a game. One goal, two assists in the game. His
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  Speaker 2: first derby, and he really came out to play. He
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  Speaker 2: kind of embodied... It seemed like he embodied what it
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  Speaker 2: was like to play for Milan. You know, the shirt, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we always like to say these shirts of
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  Speaker 2: these big clubs, you know, weigh a bit more. And
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  Speaker 2: especially in a matchup like this in the derby. But
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  Speaker 2: he was up for it. You know, he was full
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  Speaker 2: of confidence. Young player, but wanted to go after it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the two assists early on with the Pulisic goal.
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  Speaker 2: The Rabiot one off the corner, which was beautiful. Went
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  Speaker 2: up 2-0. early on, it's like, you know, you want
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  Speaker 2: to be excited, but at the same time you want
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  Speaker 2: to kind of, you know, manage expectations because it's what, like,
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  Speaker 2: it was felt like the super game, right? Like two
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  Speaker 2: goals in 10 minutes. And now you have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like 80 odd more minutes to go and to, to
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  Speaker 2: really hold onto the game. So, you know, unfortunately, you know,
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  Speaker 2: conceding the goal the way they did, it almost seemed
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  Speaker 2: like it was inevitable. I mean, one always seems to
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  Speaker 2: find a way to concede in these, in these types
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  Speaker 2: of fashions, if it'd be offset pieces or, you know,
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  Speaker 2: corners or what have you. Bastoni gets his first in
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  Speaker 2: a derby, which was interesting to hear. Looking back at
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  Speaker 2: the times, I guess, in 20 appearances in a derby,
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  Speaker 2: it's first goal. But as a defender, I mean, it's not,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, something too crazy. And then, again, Moreira, just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, cherry on top with the free kick. He's like, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Step aside, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Kaká' s up in the tribuna. I'm wearing his number. Let me...
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  Speaker 2: Let me put one, you know, in the back of
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  Speaker 2: the net and, you know, pushing away on a quote-unquote
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  Speaker 2: pushing away, you know, likes of Modric and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Pulisic and stuff like that. Like, players of those calibers
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  Speaker 2: to have the confidence at, I think, what, 20, 22
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  Speaker 2: years old, if I'm not mistaken, for Moreira. It's huge
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  Speaker 2: confidence and he's slotted at top corner and goes up
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  Speaker 2: 3-1 and, you know, the San Siro... when going crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And for this game, obviously it was a Milan, it
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  Speaker 2: was the Milan home game. So you saw more of the,
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  Speaker 2: the red than you did the blue, but, um, it was, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it was nice to see that, you know, after the
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  Speaker 2: Bologna game, which we spoke about last week, you know,
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  Speaker 2: these midweek games were going to be potentially trap games
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  Speaker 2: for some of our teams. Um, going to be a
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  Speaker 2: tough task regardless. And these are, these are big points swings, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, no matter what the results were going to be. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, positively or negatively. And, um, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: was a bad way to go into the derby. I
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  Speaker 2: think the game against Bologna was a terrible way to
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  Speaker 2: stroll into the derby, but like we said on this show,
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  Speaker 2: timeless times, you know, again and again, you know, anything
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  Speaker 2: can happen in Serie A, but once it's the derby,
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  Speaker 2: especially for this one, the derby de la Madonnina, it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, form and all this, you know, hype and
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  Speaker 2: all that kind of jazz kind of goes out the
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  Speaker 2: window and it's, you know, those 90 plus minutes that
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  Speaker 2: really count and, you know, Milan and Amarim and everybody
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  Speaker 2: was able to get on board on it and plot
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  Speaker 2: a big victory. Obviously, the fight for Europe is tight.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of teams up there. Some surprise teams,
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  Speaker 2: some usual suspects, and Milan trying to get back into there.
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  Speaker 2: It was exciting. Obviously, it's now over. We focus over
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  Speaker 2: for tomorrow's match in the Europa League, but It was
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  Speaker 2: great to celebrate over the weekend and hopefully we can
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  Speaker 2: build off this and go forward. But just, again, chapeau
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  Speaker 2: to Marrera. Like I said, I think, obviously, Pulisic, Rabiot,
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  Speaker 2: you know, our big player stepped up. Modric, right, played
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  Speaker 2: a good portion of the game as well. So just
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  Speaker 2: happy with the performance, even though, you know, missing some players.
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  Speaker 2: but just on Inter's point of perspective, I think just weren't,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Kivu, I don't know, it almost seemed
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  Speaker 2: like they didn't, he wasn't, they weren't up for it, like,
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  Speaker 2: it was weird, they kind of came out slow, kind
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  Speaker 2: of took them a little bit of time, they had
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  Speaker 2: that period, obviously, when they scored, that they were kind
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  Speaker 2: of trying to switch that momentum around, but then second
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  Speaker 2: half kicks off, and it was, it was, it seemed
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  Speaker 2: like a bit more of, you know, the Milan dominance,
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  Speaker 2: but regardless what it was, you know, they were able
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  Speaker 2: to coast out of it, and 3-1, and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take it, And it's, like I said, I think
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  Speaker 2: the last eight derbies, Milan have not dropped points. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said earlier, 40 games, the last 40 games, three inter,
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  Speaker 2: three losses. Milan has those wins over them in those
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  Speaker 2: three games that they did lose. So it speaks volumes,
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  Speaker 2: but there's not derbies every week. So Milan has to
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  Speaker 2: be able to take this result and this positivity and
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  Speaker 2: this momentum and go forward throughout the season.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, quickly. Uh, so Inter loses a battle, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: loses place in the battle for first place, the three
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  Speaker 1: points behind Lazio, but Lazio now, uh, they had a
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  Speaker 1: two one win this weekend against, um, drawing a blank.
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  Speaker 1: It was against Cali. Uh, who's, you know, slipping a
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  Speaker 1: bit after a hot start. Um, how long guys, how
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  Speaker 1: long do you guys think Lazio could keep it up?
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  Speaker 1: At least being in first place. Cause you know, looking
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  Speaker 1: at their, Looking at their games this weekend, it's Intercomo, Napoli-Lazzo,
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  Speaker 1: and then we already have the international break. So I
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  Speaker 1: think for Lazzo, their goal right now is to stay
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  Speaker 1: in first through the international break.
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  Speaker 2: I'll let Johnny go first, but I have some thoughts too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like, so we all know with Gattuso, he's
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  Speaker 3: always been a type of coach that if he comes
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  Speaker 3: in on a short stint, he always has an immediate
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  Speaker 3: impact on the team. He did the same for Milan
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  Speaker 3: when he came in for that. Because there was a
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  Speaker 3: point where he did a short little stint at Milan
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  Speaker 3: and helped out the team. He did for Napoli and
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  Speaker 3: he won the Coppa Italia. So it seems like the
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  Speaker 3: short stint for Lazio is working out. And when we had, uh,
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  Speaker 3: got Joe on, you know, like we discussed it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like he's a, he is a motivator in a dressing
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  Speaker 3: room and you know, it probably has been doing wonders with,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just getting the group together and also his formation, right.
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  Speaker 3: His style of play, you know, maybe he's thinking like a,
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  Speaker 3: like kind of like a lot of the Agamotto where
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  Speaker 3: it's like the best defense is a high, high, high offensive,
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  Speaker 3: like a hyper offense, you know? So, um, it's working out,
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  Speaker 3: he's getting results, uh, is this something that we have
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  Speaker 3: to start considering, you know, maybe just might be their year.
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  Speaker 3: I think it might, it might be their year at
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  Speaker 3: this point because a five game win streak is like, okay, fine. Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like, like maybe some good factors or whatnot,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe some things have been just going your way, but.
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  Speaker 4: Like a 10 game undefeated streak.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. They're undefeated. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's, it's almost, that's a quarter of the season's already
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  Speaker 4: passed guys. Like a quarter of the season. Like it's
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  Speaker 4: at some point, when do we.
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  Speaker 3: Chalk it up to like, okay, it's actually the team
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  Speaker 3: overall is just, clicking and just like lightning in a bottle.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, is this something that we can expect that it's
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  Speaker 3: going to continue on, uh, like the years to come?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's too soon to say, uh, too soon
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  Speaker 3: to say, but for this season, it's, it's been working.
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  Speaker 3: And honestly, you have to give kudos to them.
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  Speaker 2: Um, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, like I said, Gattuso is a very short term
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  Speaker 3: type of manager. He's never been a longterm type of manager.
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  Speaker 3: So my crystal ball thing is like, uh, kind of
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  Speaker 3: predicting that this year might go very well for them
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  Speaker 3: and it might lead into a Scudetto.
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  Speaker 2: It might.
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  Speaker 3: And if it, if it does happen, it's probably going
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  Speaker 3: to be a well-deserved one, but is it going to
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  Speaker 3: be sustained for the upcoming seasons? I don't think so,
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  Speaker 3: but they're not going to care if they win a championship,
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  Speaker 3: you know? So a quarter, a quarter of the way
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  Speaker 3: in doing very well, you know, against when some, some
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  Speaker 3: wins against some big teams too. Like it's not like
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  Speaker 3: as if they're, they're just chilling around, you know, they beat,
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  Speaker 3: They beat Napoli, right?
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  Speaker 4: They beat Juve.
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  Speaker 3: It's like they're beating the teams that they– they're beating
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  Speaker 3: the bigger, quote-unquote, bigger teams, despite Napoli's shortcomings this season
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  Speaker 3: and Juve's difficulties this year. You know, it's still a
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  Speaker 3: team that on quality on paper can be a dangerous
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  Speaker 3: team any day of the night.
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  Speaker 4: Any day of the night.
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  Speaker 2: Any night of the week.
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  Speaker 3: Any day of the night is going to be a
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  Speaker 3: new sound clip for this podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Any day of the night. It's like, it's like Cafe Olympico,
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  Speaker 4: open the night instead.
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  Speaker 2: Of open day and night. Yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one thing I'll add, it's almost, it's almost like
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  Speaker 1: when Napoli won the Scudetto two years ago, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they came off a bad season, finishing 10th, you know,
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  Speaker 1: then next season, they don't play in any European competition
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  Speaker 1: and now Lazio, they're coming off not the best season,
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  Speaker 1: no European competition and they're just focusing on Serie A
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes... These teams, especially under a new coach, that's
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  Speaker 1: recipes for success where they can focus on one thing
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  Speaker 1: and not have to worry about squad rotation for twice-a-week
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  Speaker 1: games or whatnot. And it's working so far.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, listen, you have to respect it because everybody chalked
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  Speaker 2: him off at the beginning of the season, including us, right?
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  Speaker 2: Nick had... I'm going to have to put Nick on
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  Speaker 2: expose here, but... you know, he predicted, you know, Gattuso,
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  Speaker 2: the first coach fired and unfortunately, or fortunately for, for
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  Speaker 2: whoever's listening, he got that wrong. So, um, but no, listen,
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  Speaker 2: you have to respect it. And to Johnny's point and
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: he made it well, you know, it's, it's 10 games undefeated.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: You know, they're one of the few undefeated teams in the, in,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: in the top five leagues. So, you know, that's something
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: you can't really, you know, roll over and kind of
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: look past. So, you know, we have to, uh, we
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: have to respect it. I think we have to maybe, uh,
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: slowly slowly you know apologize to Gattuso because you know
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: like him or not as a manager he's he's getting
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: something across to these players and getting the job done
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: so far this season um I think they have well
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: one job for sure I know against Milan it was
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: the 2-2 if I'm not mistaken or something like that
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: yeah it was the draw against Milan but you know
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: they're regardless of that you know they've won pretty much
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: all the other games and uh it's it's impressive and
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: you know You would think it's like, okay, when are
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: they going to slip up? You know, fans just, you know,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: some rival fans are like, okay, when are they going
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: to slip up? When are they going to slip up?
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: And so far it's been, you know, a pretty, a
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: pretty smooth, like quote unquote smooth path for Lazio, which
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: again is a breath of fresh air because this is
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: a club that has been going through, you know, like
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: you said, Johnny, for, you know, you know, if it'd
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: be a Napoli's, you know, shortcomings or, or, or, you know,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Juve's difficulties, you know, Lazio, as we've spoken about, if
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: it be with Biagio, if it be with, you know,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: just us off air or just whoever, you know, we've
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: spoken to, you know, it's, it's not, you know, sunshine
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: and rainbows over, over Alonso, right. You know, the, the fans,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: you know, you know, you know, going against, you know, ownership,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Lotito and all this. So not being in the stadium.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: And I think Gattuso is kind of putting a bit
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: more of a, a positive on such like a negative
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: situation that's been going on for, for quite some time now. So, Um, again,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: will it last? I don't know. I think that's only
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: time will tell. Um, but again, even if it doesn't last,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: if they get back into Europe, if they just get
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: back on a, on a, on a, on a positive note,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: on a positive run, I think that's, you know, for
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: them is a plus is a bonus because they've been
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: in such a negative, you know, uh, space for, for so,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: for so long, it seems like now that, you know,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: it's about time, I guess, maybe, you know, they kind
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: of turn the page. And if it's going to take
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: a guy like Gattuso to do it, I think he's
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: more than capable to do that short term, like you said, Gianni.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Long term, it pains me to say because I'm a
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Gattuso lover, you know, as a player, as, you know,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: just what he embodies. Will that go past this season
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: into seasons to come? I would probably have to say
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: no as well. But, And again, people are going to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: be recency biased. You know, the quote-unquote failure with the Azzurri,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of have a bitter taste in a
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: lot of Italians' mouths. And, you know, he goes quickly
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: over to Lazio and in like a blink of an
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: eye kind of turned the tide with this club. So
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: we have to respect it. We have to give our
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: props to Gattuso and the players, right? The players are
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: doing it, right? They believe in what he's putting out
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: there and they're performing. You know, I saw, unfortunately, you know,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Zakani picked up a bit of an injury. I think
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: he might be out for a little bit, but it
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: kind of seems like it's next man up for Lazio,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: whoever it may be. So, again, awful. If it's them,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I guess, you know, we'll take them over Inter at
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: the top. But they have to keep, you know, their
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: heads on right as well because, like I said earlier,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of teams fighting for if it'd be
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the Scudetto or just, you know, Europe in general. So, uh,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: they don't want to get, you know, uh, lost in, uh,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: lost in the mix. If, uh, if things, you know, uh,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: end up going a bit more South, you know, so
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: we'll see.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: So what are you guys are saying? Gattuso as a
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: coach sometimes may be good. Sometimes maybe shit. Now he's
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: sometimes maybe good.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Malakia. Malakia.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Everything's Malakia. Yeah.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Uh, but, uh, Johnny, so yeah, Juve Napoli on the weekend. Um, yeah,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't, You had a chance to watch much of this.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Game.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: First 20, 30 minutes or so.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Not much happened to that.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Obviously saw the highlights. I was very happy with the win.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Surprised with the win. I'm going to be honest. Surprised
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: with the win. I was expecting a draw or a loss.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: But well, don't forget, no legity for Napoli for that game.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Was Landucci back on the touchline?
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Landucci, Landucci. For you guys, I don't know. I didn't
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: see who was on there.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: You guys had Spalletti. We didn't have Allegri.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: He was back because he missed two games.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this was the game Allegri had to miss.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: At this point, I don't think it's going to even
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: make a difference.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't matter.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: No, Landucci's a folk hero with Juve anyways because... when
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: anytime Allegri gets suspended during his Juve days, Longucci would
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: come in.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: But look, Karim Alibagovic, I talked about him. I don't
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: know if it was last week, the week before. I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: think he's a player that has promise. He's like 19
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: years old. And this was a game where Juve's wingers
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: won between Alibagovic and Boga scoring. And I think that's
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: exactly what I said. I think it was last week. And,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: they're going to have to rely on their strong wingers.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: They do have strength in wingers. Right now, it's the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: strikers that are lacking. But when you have the depth
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: where you can bring a guy like Boga off the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: bench and score, and, you know, yes, it was down
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to 10 men. You know, I think that's the positive.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Like I always say with Juve, the trick now is
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: it's consistency because to go out and lose 2-0 to
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Genoa in a game they were absolutely flat, Genoa played well.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I think they're having a a fine season under De Rossi,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: nothing spectacular. But, you know, they're not in the relegation battle,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: which seems like the past few years, they kind of
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: have been. You know, after that game, I was very,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: obviously very disappointed on the midweek game. And then, you know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: with Juve, sorry, with the Napoli game this weekend, like
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I said, I had zero expectations. I was pleasantly surprised. Yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I think it's just, we need to see more of
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Alabaeguic from the start. and more consistency in, in terms
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: of goal scoring. And we'll, you know, they have the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: game tomorrow against, uh, AZ Akbar. I think their name
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: is from the Netherlands and the Europa league. And then
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: they play Fiorentina on the weekend. Fiorentina is always tricky match.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: They always somehow always have Uwe's number. So I, you know,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I'd like to see Uwe going to the international break
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: on a, on a high. I don't know if you
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: got the chance to watch the game, Johnny, um, or what?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Uh, uh, No, sadly, I didn't have a chance to
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: watch the game. The past few weeks have been very
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: busy because all of a sudden I'm getting a demand
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: of tutoring from kids and stuff. Unfortunately, I actually just
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: came back from tutoring two kids and I didn't even
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: have time to even watch Champions League games, which thankfully I.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Haven't been watching them because holy fuck, man.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: No, but I managed to watch the 20-minute condensed highlights
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: to at least have some talking points. The issue with
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: the team itself in this game was it just seems
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: so disorganized.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Ball possession was fine.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: It was equal, but it just seemed like Juve was
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: more deadly with the ball than Napoli was. Napoli didn't
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: really give themselves any opportunity to even try and apply
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: any pressure. They were trying too much to be too tactical.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: They were trying too hard. Being down a man doesn't help,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: but you were down 1-0 by that point anyways. and
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: the shots that went in are basically shots that were
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: perfectly placed, but Mare also could have been probably, you know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: kind of expecting them to come to his way and stuff.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: But I don't even know where to pin the loss on.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Is it through disorganization from the team itself? Is it
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: because they're trying to play a system that doesn't exist?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Is it complacency from some core players? You could pick
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: a reason out of a hat, and you would probably
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: be accurate at this point for Napoli. the number one
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: thing that's easily fixable, obviously, is the whole Allegri issue.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: As the days go by, his appointment seems more and
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: more of a non-fit. It's starting to get more and
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: more likely that it would be better to have gone
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: a different.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Direction than to keep Massimiliano Allegri.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Because even Cortomuzo, I don't think Cortomuzo is having your
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: five guys back look scrambling for a ball. and all
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: these point blank chances, even though nothing went in during
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: that time, it just, it didn't feel structured and I'm
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: not a big fan of it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: So it's the, the heart's not there. That's, that's the thing.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: And I don't know what you're going to do to
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: kind of like, let's say jumpstart the heart for it
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: to start clicking, but it's just, there's no fire in
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: the team. It seems like people are just phoning it
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: in already. And it just like, okay, let's just get
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: through the season at this point, which, It's only 10
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: games in. You still have 28 games left to play.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: It's still early on to start making those kind of decisions.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, Juve obviously merited a win. I'm not going
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: to say that they didn't deserve the win.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: They did.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: They definitely took their chances. The goals were beautiful. I'm
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: not going to lie. The shots were gorgeous. It just
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: feels like as if.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: As a player, you get deflated because there's not much
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: you can do on those chances besides stopping the ball carrier.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: But it's Who do you pin that on?
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Do you pin it on the goalie for not being
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: in the perfect moment to stop that shot, especially if
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: it's from a distance? Or do you blame the man
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: who's supposed to mark that player that he gave him
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: time to get a shot off? Like I said, this
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: whole season has been a mess of just trying to
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: find out what works, what doesn't work, and everything that
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: hasn't been working. And if I'm Di Laurentiis at this point,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I'm just looking at my drawing board and thinking, what's
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: it going to take to just turn the season around
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: at this point?
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Because Scudetto's out the window. Champions League is out the window.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Like, it's like, especially after today's game against Porto, it's like,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: I don't have faith in this team for even making
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: it into the top 24.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Like, I'll be real.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Like, I don't, I don't at all. So, yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's a better thing for Serie A. I don't know.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: But it's not just a better thing for Serie A.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: It's more like, It has nothing to do with, oh,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: are the players tired?
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: They're not tired.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Are the players not quality enough? There's quality on the team,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: you know? It's just more like.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Well, there's injuries too.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: There's injuries too, yes, but it's still overall like a not.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Like it's a deep-rooted issue, you know? Because if we're
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: thinking about it, I'm going through the list of injuries
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Quality injuries.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Buongiorno.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Buongiorno. Buongiorno. Buongiorno.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: David Nettis, for sure.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Spinazzola is so-so in terms of quality. Stanislaw Ljubljana is quality,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: I guess you can say.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Hoyland is not really injured-injured. He was just sick.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Vanya could have been great in this match. I think
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Vanya is probably the better keeper at this point. Besides that,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: it's like, you know, Juve's missing Cosenzal.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: They were missing. I'm seeing here on the list.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: They're missing Cousin Sal, they're missing Locatelli, they're missing Durab,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: they're missing Yildiz. It's not like as if you're playing
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: against Juve's top crop of players either. You know what
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: I'm saying? I wouldn't want to use injuries as an
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: excuse too much. You said it best with Lazio. Lazio
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: had that next man up mentality. That's what you need
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: for Napoli. That's what you need for any team if
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: you want a team to be successful. You have to
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: have that next man up. And if you're struggling with
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: your players in terms of that department of trying to
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: push themselves, You know what I'm trying to say?
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: It's not a good sign.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: So, all in all, this game, especially when you lose
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: against Juve, I just can't stand losing to Juve.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: But it is what it is.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: And stomach it.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: It's a rival team. It's like when the Bruins lose
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: to the Habs. It's just like, I hate my life,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: you know?
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Thankfully, that doesn't happen too often, you know? Yeah, there
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: you go. 2-1-1 last year with the Habs. Let's see
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: what happens next week.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Just to go back to Allegri and Cortomuso just quickly,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to throw in a fun line there,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: but you can't even win Cortomuso if the horse doesn't
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: even get out of the gate, right?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: It's one of those things too, right? So it's, I think,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: you know, you can't even play that way or try
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: to play that way. And obviously we've said it time
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: and time again on the show and just any fan
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: of any sports team in any sport, you know, knows
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: that the easy escape out of any negative situation is
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: to fire the coach. And already today I was seeing
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: early reports of him probably getting fired. But what I
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: always say with that is, especially now, like in, in season,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: who are you going to bring? Who's going to make
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: an instant impact? Will they make an instant impact? Will
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the players adapt to what they have to, what that
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: set coach is going to bring to the club? And
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: how sustainable is it? So there's a lot of factors
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: in just saying, okay, you know what, Max, you're out.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I think it's more than that. I think the whole
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Corto Muzo era, it seems to be done. It's like, okay,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: this is circa 2016, 2017 era, it seems like. It's
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: no longer in 2026. So, again, I think the game
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: has evolved and I don't know if Allegri has and
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: it we I saw last season Johnny and again I
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: it almost pains to kind of have to pass him
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: over to you but it's it was one of these
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: ones that for me you know many fans said Gattuso
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: to Lazio was a weird one maybe Saudi to a
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: talent like some of these ones were weird you know
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: appointments and Allegri to Napoli was a weird one for me.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Didn't know how it was going to work out. Obviously,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: you know, as a neutral, you know, you want maybe
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: to have some sort of competitive squad because the squad
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: on paper is not, I say this even with Juve,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: even though the results that they have are so-so or
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: just terrible at times, the squad list on paper is
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: not a bad one. I mean, it should be competitive.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: It should be Okay, maybe not saying, you know, you
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: have to fight, you know, have to be number one
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: and be undefeated and all this like every year. But
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: I think it's competitive enough to be somewhat, you know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: entertaining to watch. But I think Allegri, I don't know.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: The fans, the fans are pissed, that's for sure.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, 100%.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: The players, I listened to what Poitano had to say
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: after today in the Champions League. He's like, we're, you know,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: abbastanza incansato. So they're pissed, right? So it's like enough's
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: enough now. I think it's like, when is it going
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: to change? And if it doesn't change soon, it might
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: be for the whole season. So we'll see what happens.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: But I always say, like I was alluding to, the
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: grass isn't always greener. And how fast of an implication
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: will this new coach, if this new coach does come,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: will play on this team? I guess only time will tell.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Uh, Johnny, uh, Napoli, uh, sorry, Roma. Um, uh, yeah, five,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: two win on the weekend, you know, positive vibes going
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: to champions league. They get up early in, in old Trafford, uh,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: goals from Sule and, uh, in Malin on the pound
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: on a penalty. And then, and then bam, you get, uh, Fernandez,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Bruno Fernandez penalty, and then two goals from Mateo Scunia, uh, 80,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: 36 minute before he gets red card. So crazy game
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: from Mateo Scunia. Um, Yeah, another blown lead for Gasparini
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: at Old Trafford. I know the same thing happened with Atalanta.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I forget what year. Roma, I think it's second blown
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: lead this season.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: In the Champions League. Against Real, they lost it too, right?
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Against Real.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: They're starting to play like the Montreal Canadiens over here.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: But I know you didn't get a chance to watch
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: the game, but do you think this is something that
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: maybe will get into their psyche a bit and kind
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: of impact not only the Champions League campaign, but maybe
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Serie A too?
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Um, cause that's the thing, like in city, it's a
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: different story.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: It's just Gasparini's game is just not transitioning to, uh, to, to, uh,
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: to champions league.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Now, yes, Roma does have injuries too.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Like that's something that, you know, you have to also consider, uh,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: some people on it. It was like Svilar being one
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: of the best keepers in the league, probably a top,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: you could argue top 10 in Europe or top, you
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like he, not having him makes
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: a big difference in terms of like covering up mistakes
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: for the defense, but you know, not having Kone either,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: you know, or like, like, like Kone is like another
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: crucial player, but I digress.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: It's, it's the same point as Napoli.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: It's like, you can't just always say that the injuries,
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: like all we lost because of injuries, unless.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Your entire starting lineup is devastated. That's a different story.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: But you know, what I've noticed with the squad after
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: the Real Madrid game and after the Manchester United game,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: is that they don't have, like I alluded to this
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: against Real Madrid, and it's the same thing versus Manchester United.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: They don't have that killer mentality.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: They don't have that, you know, like, yeah, you're probably
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: being successful right now, but now you're playing against the
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: big boys. This is what it's going to take to
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: stay with the big boys, right? So you can hang
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: out with the big boys in Serie A. You proved
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: it last year by squeezing into the top four for
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Champions League, and you're doing it this.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Year by also competing for the Scudetto again.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: But in all reality, now Champions League is with all
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: these big-time clubs with these big-time players that know what
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: it takes to get to the next round.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: And you have players on your club that barely sniff
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Champions League competition, barring some names. For me, what this
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: shows is that it's a lack of competition maturity. competition maturity.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: That's what it feels like for Roma.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Uh, especially after missing out on champions league for eight
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: seasons now, right now they're back in it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: Sorry. Seven seasons now that they're back in.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Seven seasons, seven, eight seasons. Let's say, you know, like
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: now you're back in it.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Like, especially with a different crop to players that, you know,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: different coaching, you know, like it's, you have to kind
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: of rebuild that. You kind of have to rebuild that
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: consistency and image and you're going to have to grow
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: in it. So, um, Like, it's like night and day.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Gasperini-Zaroma for Serie A versus Gasperini-Zaroma for Champions League.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: And Gasperini won a Europa League. It's not like as
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: if this guy.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was just about to, like, add
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: that in. I don't know if you're going to mention it,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: but it's like, you would think he would be able to...
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I get your point with, you know, the players needing
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: experience in these competitions to be able to actually go
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: out and have that, like, killer instinct like you mentioned
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: or whatever you want to label it as. But it's
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: shocking to me that Gasperini, again, he's not Mourinho or
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: he's not the Ancelotti's of the world, but he's won,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: he's experienced these competitions, he brought Atalanta to a quarterfinal,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken, or semifinal, whatever it was, back
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: with Atalanta when they've lost against PSG. So it's something
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: that I would, think that he would be able to
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: motivate these players which are on a high like they
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: don't like I mean it's not even like they need
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: in my eyes at least it doesn't seem like they
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: would need so much motivation but again Champions League lights
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: you know that anthem comes on it's a whole other
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: ball game it's no longer you know Serie A it's
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: no longer club football it's you know in terms of
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: your league it's more than that it's you know the
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: biggest club competition in the world so for me it's
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: a weird one because I think If they had, I
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: don't know, some of their other managers, maybe barring a Mourinho,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: but some of these other managers that they've had, I
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: would maybe expect it to be a bit of this
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: up and down. But to have a guy like Gasperini,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: love him or hate him, let's call it what it is,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: he's been in the competition, he's won the Europa League,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: with another club obviously, but you're on a high in
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Serie A, You're competing first for top place. Are they
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: still undefeated, I believe, in Serie A? Or have they now... No.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: No, they have one loss.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: No, they didn't lose in Serie A.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: I'm mixing them up with the Champions League stuff.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right. So they're still undefeated in Serie A alongside
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: their neighbours in Lazio, right? So for me, it's like
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: with all this high and all this positive, it's a
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: bit baffling that they can't... I mean, they turn it on,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: but they turn it on halfway. You want to fucking
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: choke against Real Madrid? Okay. You know what? I think
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: as a... I don't know. As a fan, I think
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: you can maybe chalk it up. It hurts. It stings.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: You're pissed. But you can say, okay, fuck. You know what?
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: It was against Mourinho's Real. We'll stomach this one. But
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: against Man United in a team that's had so much...
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: you know, negativity, coaching changes, players not playing up to par,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: that poor guy who can't cut his fucking hair because
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: they can't win five games in a row, right? The
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: United strand on Instagram. And you go and choke. I
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: don't want to say choke. I didn't catch all the game, but,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of lose it the way they did.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: It's a bit baffling to me, Johnny. I don't know.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: It's... I....
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: That's why I just chalk it up to maturity because
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: as a manager, how much can you control on the pitch?
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: You give them the strategy. You give them the tactics.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: You give them the information. You give them the position.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: But the manager is not playing the ball. Yeah.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: He has to do his best to adapt to the competition.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: And basically, okay, this is what their usual lineup is.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: This is what their usual tactics is, how they usually play.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: You tell your players what to watch out for. Watch
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: for the cut here. This guy's always a left-footed shooter,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: so make sure that he can put the ball on
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: his right foot, blah, blah, blah. But at the end
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: of the day, you can only prep your players so much,
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: and they have to execute what goes on on the pitch.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: So that's why it's like I'm funneling more. And you
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: said it perfectly.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Gasparini, yes, he's not the Mourinho's of the world, but
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: it's not as if he didn't win.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: A trophy either.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: You have to kind of funnel it to like, okay,
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: I know it's not Gasparini because he wouldn't be undefeated
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: in Serie A if it wasn't Gasparini. It's more like
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: the maturity of the team in these big competitions. That's
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: what I kind of feel like what it is.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: That's well said.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Como, on the other hand. Yeah, great segue. Winter won
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: 3-0 against Feyenoord. Napoli lost 4-1 today. I'm drawing a
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: blank on the opponent, but... Porto. But obviously the big story.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I was shocked when I saw the scoreline. I thought
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: it was a mistake when I saw it on Instagram.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: 9-1.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Como against Lens. Away 2. So they do this in
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Lens in France, right?
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Uh, do we cast with the hat trick? Nico pass score,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the Cunha camp, Liberale, Baturina and Papa Choli. Uh, so nine, one,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: they almost doubled their goal total in the competition. They
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: had ended, they headed into the game with 10. They're
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: at 19. They're in fourth place in the league phase. Now, uh,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: just behind, what was it? Uh, PSG, Bayern and Real Madrid, sorry, PSG,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Real Madrid and Arsenal. Um, Just insane. The only other
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: team who's scored more goals so far in the Champions
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: League is PSG. I know we talk about it so much, Como,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: but like their rise, but for them to go out
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: and win 9-1. Look, I know Lens is not Man U,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: but I saw a comment on Instagram. It's as if
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Fabregas saw what happened with Gasparini. He's like, no, it's
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: not happening. And he just told the guys to go
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: out and continue scoring.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, listen, it's something that To even just, again,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: bounce off to what Gianni just said with Gasperini and
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: translating what you do in Serie A to the European stage,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I think Sheik Fabregas and Como are doing the exact opposite.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: They're doing what they're doing in Serie A, and then
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: they're also letting that translate into Europe. And these results
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: have been eye-opening for fans of the league, For fans of, obviously, Como,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: but then, you know, just even outsiders as well. Because
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: now you have people, you know, watching, keeping an eye,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: keeping tabs on this little team called Como. You know,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Thierry Henry, obviously, on CBS, giving them love, obviously having
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: a hand in the club as well. So he brings them,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: you know, extra exposure. But all these results... are just
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: giving them added bonus. And I think Johnny had mentioned
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: this on a previous episode, but I just want to
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: kind of bring it up again because it's a reality.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: And 9-1 against, like, listen, I don't care who it's against.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: It's the Champions League. You know, if you made it
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: into the Champions League, if you like how they do it,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: if you don't like how they do it, we can
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: discuss that for days. But these are Champions League, quote-unquote,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: caliber teams. They're there for a reason. If it was
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: luck or not, I don't care. They managed to win
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: 9-1 on the road against, you know, a league team
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: in Lens. So Duvikas is having a great campaign, scoring
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: all kinds. Nikopas is, again, this is a player we've
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: spoken at length about, does not stop. It seems like
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: he's always in the headlines in a positive manner. Um,
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: great celebration as well, obviously paying, uh, paying tribute to, uh,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: to this, to the Spanish player that, uh, unfortunately passed
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: away at Tenerife. Uh, you know, Fabregas had some words, uh,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: to say as well in Spanish, uh, in the press
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: conference I had seen, which was, uh, which was a
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: nice touch. Um, you know, obviously that's, that was a,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: that was pretty devastating news and, you know, they, they
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: go get this result. Uh, now are people going to say,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: is this going to last? Again, I don't know if
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: it's going to last. I don't really care if it lasts,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: but what they're doing is something that people should take notice.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: You know, we were seeing in the stands at the
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Super Game, Nick and I, you know, how teams are run,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: you know, how they're run properly compared to when they're
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: not run super properly. Hint, hint, you know, wink, wink, hint, hint, right?
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Here locally, if you know, you know. And again, that
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: translates to even what we're seeing with Como. This is
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: a club from top to bottom. Again, does it help
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: that they're fucking loaded? Sure. Absolutely. It definitely helps, you know,
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: cover some things that other clubs won't be able to cover,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: you know, monetary, you know, in terms of financials. But
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: what they're doing, the plan that they have, the goal
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: that they've, you know, set for themselves, the way they play,
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: these are all things that are rolling. And again, you
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: have to, you know, give kudos to Fabregas because, like
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: we just alluded to, is, you know, what he's doing
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: in Serie A. You know, obviously, you know, there was
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: games where they, you know, they maybe collapsed and maybe
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: they dropped points, whatever. But for the most part, what
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: they're doing in Serie A is what they're doing in
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Champions League. And some can argue even better what they're
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: doing in Champions League. So for a debut side as well,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: like this is not like we're talking about, you know,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: a team that hasn't been in Champions League and, you know,
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: they're coming back in Champions League and they're performing again.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: You know, this is not like, you know, if it
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: be Man United or if it be, you know, Milan
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: in the past or even Juve, whatever, like whatever the
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: case is, it's like this is first time at bat Como,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: you know, really shocking the world. So you have to
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: tip your hat off to it because 9-1, like I said,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: is not something to look past. And this is a
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: team that plays for each other, that their system, no
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: matter what the case is, no matter who the opponent is,
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: they adapt and they're able to get the job done
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: in whatever capacity. And if they lose, they lose. But
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: they'll learn from it and they'll go into the next game.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Even if they lose a couple of games in a row,
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: they'll go back to the drawing boards and try to
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: make it work. So it's one positive, I think, in
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Champions League for Italian clubs. So you kind of have to,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: whether or not you love it or not, you have
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: to respect it.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, anything else you guys want to cover? I know
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Europa League, so like I said, Juve plays easy. I
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: forgot to pronounce your name.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: I think it's Ferenvaros. Ferenvaros? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, for me,
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: I could just say is, you know, after the bad
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: pill they had to swallow with Bournemouth, the 3-0. They've been,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't know. Milan has been up and
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: down in Europa League and it's a weird one for
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: me because I think this is a competition that I
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: know they're obviously aiming to do well in Serie A,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: which I like, but this competition in Europa League is
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: something that I think that they can do well in,
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: in some sort of capacity. I don't know if that
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: means winning it all, but Uh, I, I think they're
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: better than a three nil loss to, to, to Bournemouth or,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: or clubs of that, of those natures, but we'll see. Uh,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: it's a tough one. I know Amrim said it's, uh,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a tough match. Um, you know,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: he's still, you know, scratching his head at the Bologna loss,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: you know, even after a big win in the Derby
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: against Inter. So this game is going to be another
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: one of those tough tests. And, um, I'm hopeful to
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: see what, uh, what they're able to, what they're able
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: to do. Um, again, for Navarro on paper, this should be, uh,
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: chalked up as a win, but we know in these competitions,
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: we know in Serie A, you know, there's no easy games. So, um, I'm,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I'm hopeful for, for a victory. And this is, uh,
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: this is a, this would be a victory that can
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: hopefully propel them to some, some momentum and momentum in
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: this competition rather than, you know, a win, a loss,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: a win, a loss, and kind of stop the seesawing and,
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: and kind of really get on a, on a good path. So, um, yeah, I'm,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: I'm curious to see how they, how that, uh, unfolds tomorrow.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: A win, a loss, a win, a loss, a win,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: a loss, a win, a loss. Right now, but it's true, right? So, uh, it's, it's,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: it's the reality and it's kind of like, you know,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: one other thing I wanted to mention is, is, is
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Fiorentina there, obviously with the big win against Atalanta, Atalanta too,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Fiorentina too, these are clubs that are up and down,
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: up and down, up and down. So, um, we'll see, uh,
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: if those continue, but, um, Yeah, it's just interesting to see.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, even Atalanta. They lost to Parma on Monday.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: That one too, yeah, right? Parma, the 3-0, right?
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very weird team, Atalanta. If you look at their
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: past five games, loss, draw, draw, loss, win. So they
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: haven't won four straight without a win now. They've been dropping.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: They're in what spot now?
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: 13th. 13th place, right? Yeah. So it's an uphill climb.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: For a team, again, on paper, like we've said, should
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: be capable enough. But unfortunately, I don't know really what
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: it is. If it's mentality, if it's Saudi, if it's
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: the players. But I don't know. It's a weird one.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Even Fiorentina, right? They go beat Atalanta 4-2 and then
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: they'll go lose against, I don't know.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Juve.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Juve. Juve or whatever, right? So, well, well, I won't
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: use Juve, but whatever, you know, like an Udinese, maybe
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: the other white and black team, but, um, yeah, just, uh,
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: it's a weird one. Serie A, we already know how
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: it is. So, um, you got guys like, uh, uh,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Varela there for, for Monza scoring at, uh, at ease, right?
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: So it's, uh, anything is possible, right? Raimondo too, right? Uh,
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: obviously the injury sucks, but, um, these players that are
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: coming out of the woodworks and scoring and doing well. So,
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens, but any big games this weekend?
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: I didn't catch who it is.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Intercomo.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: Intercomo, yeah, huge.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Lots of them. Napoli-Lazio.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: That's huge. Massive. No, it's massive.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: It's those two.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: It's those two.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: They're the top teams.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Roma plays.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I'm going to throw in Caleri-Frozenone.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Bro, that's a fucking top game. That's a top game
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: these days.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: It seems like it's... Yeah, like I said, Cavaliers, they've
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: kind of been slipping a bit, but Frosinone, they're in
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: sixth place.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: They're finding a way.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: I know it's early on. I know it's only 10 games,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: but look, there's 28 games left. They're at the one-third
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: mark of the season. I'm not saying they're going to
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: make Champions League, but let's say a top-10 finish. Even
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: a top-8 finish at this point needs to be Frosinone's goal.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's realistic, but it needs to
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: be their goal when they have 20 points in the
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: first 10 games. You know, Johnny, you do the math.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: How many points is that over 38 games?
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Of what? Sorry.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: 20 points over 10 games. So over 38 games, what's doubled?
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: It's about 80 points.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You could challenge him for the Scudetto with that.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: 80 points. These days, exactly.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, like you could say, sorry, multiply by 360.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Hold on.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: No, if they have 20 points in the first 10
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: games and there's about maybe, there's about 40 games total
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: in the season.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: It's 38 games, right?
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: It's 38, but it's near 40.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: So it rounds off to 80 points, which you could
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: say 76 to 78 points, you could say.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: That's a competitive number when you come down the stretch, right?
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: They just need to keep it up.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: I like their coach, honestly. Aldini, I've liked what he's brought.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, the enthusiasm, the hunger. I don't watch all
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: their games, right? But from what I've seen, uh, Alvini, he's,
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: he's really invested, uh, in the project and in the
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: club and in the team, the squad. So, um, again,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: it helps. Well, now it doesn't help because he's going
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: to be out for, I think about a month or so,
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: but hopefully comes back soon and back in form, uh, Raimondo.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: But it helps when you had a guy like that scoring, right?
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: I like, but then you have these unknown names for
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: a lot of people that are coming out of the
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: woodworks and scoring, right? Uh, the guy over the weekend,
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: I didn't catch his name there, but he has a,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: an interesting last name. And, uh, If he's from Georgia,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but these guys are coming out and performing.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: And I think you have to chalk a bit up
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: to a guy like Alvini winning the charge. So again,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: with all these topics that we've kind of discussed today,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: it seems like only time will tell for a lot
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: of them, but ride the wave for as long as
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: you can. And for Lazio fans, You know, salutata like
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: a polista, right? It seems to be so right now. So, Biagio,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: if you're listening, that one's for you.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Anyways, guys, that'll do it. Another good episode. Like I said,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Forza Supra this weekend.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, big time.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Big, big game.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Huge.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: You know, their franchise history. So, hopefully, they get a
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: result in Cali... In Calgary. In Calgary.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Not in Sardinia, guys. They're not playing in Sardinia. They're
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: playing in Western Canada, in Calgary.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to clip that because... Even when
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I was a kid, I remember like, you know, playing
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: FIFA 06, whatever. And, you know, going through the team
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: menus and you see Khalid, he's like, oh, like the
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Calgary Flames over here.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. Not that beautiful fly on a Sardinia, unfortunately.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's for sure. Adrian, where can people find us
• 52:42
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