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Week 16 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome into another episode of the Premier
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  League Playground. I am the dad, Bjorn, with me as
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  our star, the lad. Luca Miller.
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  How are you doing today, Luca? I'm doing good.
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  How are you doing? Well, doing well.
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  Well Luca. Week 16 in the books in the
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  Premier League. We keep rolling along.
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  How was your weekend? It was good.
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  How was your weekend? It was good, it was good.
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  What was the highlight of your weekend?
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  Arsenal getting the win? Arsenal getting the win.
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  Yeah. So you, you had a pretty quiet
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  weekend. You yourself didn't have any
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  games, so you were kind of laying low.
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  We got to watch a lot of the Premier League games.
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  We also got to watch our Philadelphia Eagles crush the
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  Raiders. That was fun on Sunday.
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  So, yeah, we kind of had a nice weekend at home.
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  Nothing too exciting. But we're getting excited for
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  Christmas, aren't we? Yeah, yeah.
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  Have you told everybody? What are you asking for for
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  Christmas? I can't remember.
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  I want soccer cards, definitely like football soccer cards.
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  Football, soccer cards, What else?
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  Probably soccer kits, yeah. And like, yeah, soccer kids.
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  Roblox new soccer ball. New soccer ball, OK, Lots of
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  soccer stuff. OK.
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  What would be your number one kit you'd want?
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  Like player and style. Like Sir.
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  Maybe I can't. For people don't know, Luca has
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  a ton of soccer kits, so he pretty much wears one every day.
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  So he's got a lot. So it's not as it's a little bit
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  of a hard choice because you have so many different soccer
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  kits, but is there like the Arsenal blue one or another home
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  one I. Don't want Kai Habert in the
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  Arsenal Blue 1 Arsenal Blue Timber in the regular.
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  Oh, OK, All right, Timber getting some love all.
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  Right. I like Timber.
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  Yeah. He keeps his cool.
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  It's not like me. I keep my cool.
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  Yeah, chill. Guy, you say?
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  You're a chill guy, right? I asked what my teammates call
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  me A. Chill guy.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You send to say pretty chill,
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  but you get a little like, you get fired up, like in a good
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  way. You get like when you play your
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  games, you're not totally chill out there.
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  Good things happen. You will throw your hands up,
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  get the crowd going right. Yeah, you.
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  Know but the crowd, but you. You tend not to get yourself
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  too. Into like the like fighting.
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  Yeah, yeah, I don't. Like argue with the referee.
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  Probably a good thing. I don't think you'd win many
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  fights. That's just mean.
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  Well Luca, yet another great week of action in the Premier
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  League and let's we got 10 games to get through.
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  Let's roll through some of these games, but First off, Luca, we
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  have Liverpool hosting Brighton. All right, walk me through this
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  one, Luca. This game ended 2 nil Liverpool.
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  I predicted it'd be one tie. Sorry, 11 tie.
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  Ekatika gets a brace in this game in the first minute and off
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  of a Joe Gomez corner. I mean Header who also came off
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  in this game in your Sawa, came in for him and Ekatika in the
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  60th minute from a Sawa corner kit.
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  Yeah, So, yeah, Liverpool Luca now in 6th place on 26th points,
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  you know, they're now unbeaten their last four Premier League
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  matches. So, you know, Liverpool are
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  starting to now get some results.
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  You know, it's you know, this wasn't pretty.
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  Brighton had some chances. Eketike very lively in this
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  game, looked really good. It felt like he could have had
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  four or five goals, but you know, most Sawa Luca kind of
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  continues to be the story of this team.
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  Yeah, Sawa now has more goal involvements for a single club
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  in the Premier League with 277. Yeah, pretty amazing now.
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  Went above Wayne Rooney. So goal involvements, of course.
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  Look at goals and assists. So yeah, for single club, pretty
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  amazing. You know, he had to come in in
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  this game. All the talk about, you know,
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  when he called out the manager and all that kind of stuff
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  about, well, he should be playing.
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  He should be guaranteed as right.
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  You know, he was left off of the Champions League squad midweek,
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  but he comes back on the bench, but he comes right into the game
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  because Joe Gomez gets hurt for them.
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  So he comes in and you know, look, he kind of created an
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  assist, had a real good corner. He actually had a couple chances
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  himself. Yeah, you could tell they wanted
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  to get solid gold. Yeah, I think so.
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  And and you know, it's interesting.
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  Look at the end of this game, he's walking around the Enfield
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  clapping for the fans, kind of tearful and like, what does that
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  mean, Luca? Because is it?
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  Is he sort of saying this is my last game here ever?
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  He might. Or is it more I'm just glad to
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  be back on the field playing he? So what people don't know, and
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  we'll talk about a little bit about this in our mailbag, but
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  the African Cup of Nations look at the big tournament where all
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  the African nations play each other in a very big tournament
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  start parts and all the African players in the Premier League
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  now go to play with their national teams and they go for
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  like about a month, of course, depending how long your team
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  stays in the tournament. But there's you know, he's going
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  to now go off for for at least a couple weeks and we'll kind of
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  see then because the January transfer window opens up where
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  teams can now buy and sell players.
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  There's always been a lot of interest from Saudi Arabia,
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  Luca, because Salah is Muslim, Saudi Arabia's Muslim, Egypt's
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  Muslim. They would love to get, you
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  know, the Egyptian king Salah to go play there.
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  So we will see this story, Luke, I feel like has a little more
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  twists and turns. But I'm going to ask you, Luca,
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  right now. Was that Salah's last game for
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  Liverpool? It might be.
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  I didn't say it might be. Is it yes or no?
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  OK, you're saying that's it? I.
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  OK, so that was it. Look at the last time we see
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  Saul on the Liverpool uniform. Yeah, well, but I don't know for
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  sure, but I think so. Well, I know you don't know for
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  sure. I don't know if anybody knows
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  for sure. I'm curious your opinion that's
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  why. I think it is.
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  All right, Luca Bright and Luca No wins in their last three
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  Premier League matches. They're sort of just kind of
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  hovering around, you know, mid table range, kind of just where
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  we expect them to be in 10th place.
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  So yeah, but Liverpool, the story with this one, like I
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  said, we will see now if they can continue to kind of build on
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  this. Like I said, they're getting
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  some results. It's not entirely pretty, it's
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  not entirely what we expect, but Luka Ekatique probably the best
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  striker signing so far. Yeah, definitely.
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  Yeah, this summer felt like a lot of strikers moving.
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  You had on the same team Luka Esac going to Liverpool.
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  But he hasn't really done much. Kyokores going to Arsenal, Cesco
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  going to Man United, Voltamade, Voltamade going to Newcastle.
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  I feel like I'm missing one other striker, but Ekatique
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  feels like so far the best 1, you know, even like, yeah, I
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  mean, it's it's he's been really good.
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  Kind of wish Arsenal had maybe signed him.
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  Luca, I'll say that. All right, Luca, let's move on
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  to Chelsea hosting Everton. Chelsea versus Everton ended 2
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  nil. Chelsea I predicted to be 21.
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  Palmer scores after getting the start after being injured from
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  Gusto. Gusto then scores in the 46th
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  minute, still in the first half from Netto.
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  Everton's last win at Stamford Bridge was in 1994, or 31 games
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  with that win. That's amazing.
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  I mean, that is really amazing that that long.
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  I mean, Chelsea's obviously always had a good team, but
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  effort is pretty solid. I mean, it's pretty crazy that
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  they've gone that long without getting, you know, any kind of
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  win there. Cole Palmer back for Chelsea,
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  that's big. You know, he's such a useful,
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  important player for them, you know, the getting him back, what
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  that's going to mean sort of working him back into the line
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  up. Chelsea, Luca 4th or on 28
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  points. I don't know.
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  For me, this kind of feels like the spot for Chelsea, you know,
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  like I I think they're going to be a little inconsistent, a
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  little young, but they're sitting there now on 28 points.
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  I mean, look at they're only 8 off the top, you know, So, you
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  know, but you know, you also can look at it and say, well, you
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  know, they're four points off a ninth.
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  You know, it's like just sort of the way the table is right now.
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  But Chelsea's a good team. You know, Malo, Gusto, Luca, I,
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  I think he's a really good player.
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  Yeah, he's really. Good I I just think he's one of
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  those guys and when I watch Chelsea play, some of their guys
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  are real up and down, but he's a good like player for them.
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  You love those full backs that can get forward and really kind
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  of offer something in the final third and and he had a real nice
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  game for them. So kudos to them.
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  Yeah. All right, Luca, let's turn it
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  over. Burnley hosting Fulham.
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  This this is a bit of a wild game, this.
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  Is a sneaky good game. Burnley forum was 3/2, Forum
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  two. I predicted to be two.
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  Nail Fulham in the ninth minute, Emil Smith row from Wilson
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  corner and Ugo Chukwu in the 21st minute.
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  Bassy in the 31st also from Wilson and Wilson gets his own
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  goal in the 58th minute. And then Sony gets a just a late
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  console in the 86th minute. Harry Wilson now has five goals
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  and three assists on the season, so he's been like their *.
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  He's been really good for them. I mean, just comes up big with
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  goals and assists. I mean, he's our leading goal
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  scorer. I mean, that's really, you
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  wouldn't really think that on that team.
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  You know, they've got a couple other guys.
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  But like, you know, Muniz has been hurt.
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  Jimenez doesn't really put a ton of goals in.
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  Triori never seems to score goals, so I mean, they really
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  kind of need him. So I always feel like Fulham's
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  one of those teams that I always feel like struggle to score
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  goals. You know, they tend to play a
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  little more defensive, but you know, they've got 23 goals on
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  the season. You know, they're getting some
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  goals and you know, hopefully they can now start.
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  They've been a little up and down, you know, you know, kind
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  of win the two wins, 2 losses now a win.
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  They've got Forest next, another winnable.
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  Game I think they should be able to win.
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  That yeah, so we'll kind of see if Fulham can get a little
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  momentum going because you know, they're they're sitting down
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  there in 14th and you know, I'm sure they would like to be a
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  little bit higher up in the table.
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  But you know, listen, it's a good win for them.
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  Luca Burnley 7 losses in a row now it it kind of feels to me
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  like at this point Burnley and Wolves are probably two of the
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  three that are going down. So it almost feels like the last
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  relegation spots going to be maybe between like Forest leads
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  and West Ham. But Burnley, boy, they are
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  really, really struggling now. They, you know, they still have
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  10 points. It's not as if they're, you
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  know, 2 points like wolves. But I don't know, Luke, I what
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  I'm seeing out of them, it looks like a relegation team.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're with me.
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  Yeah. All right, Luke.
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  Well let's let's move on. Oh man, Arsenal hosting Wolves.
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  This was a scare. I was hoping we'd be talking
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  about a smooth 5, nothing easy win.
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  I mean Arsenal number one in the table Wolves. 20th.
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  In the table, one of the worst starts ever at the Emirates.
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  So this was a cruise and easy victory for Arsenal, right Luca?
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  Yeah, no. You think so fast?
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  Not so fast. Hold your horses, everyone.
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  Wolves is here 3/3 No Arsenal was what I predicted. 21 Arsenal
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  is what happened. So this was just a scare for us,
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  for Arsenal fans. Johnston angle from corner, then
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  arrow Arrow Kadare. Yeah, that's it.
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  OK, yeah, in the 91st minute ties the game up.
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  Then Mascara won the 95th minute to win it for us.
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  Wolves now lost nine straight Premier League games, longest
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  run in their history. I thought it would be more.
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  Well, I mean you know, you lose 9 games in a row.
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  Usually teams can throw a draw in there or something like that.
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  OK, I didn't they we they have two draws though, right?
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  Everything else is losses. Yeah, I mean, well, so Arsenal,
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  yeah, like I said, look at the Wolves have lost that many in a
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  row. They have two draws on the
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  season, but I mean, we're only 16 weeks in.
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  Knew who they drew I. I'd have to look back on it.
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  Possibly tied. But you know, Arsenal kind of
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  own Wolves. They've won their last nine
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  against Wolves. We always seem to do pretty well
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  against them. However, I would say in this
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  game it's really hard to find a lot of positives for Arsenal.
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  So Luca, Arsenal had no shots on goal in the first half.
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  That's the first time all season they couldn't even register a
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  shot on goal in the first half. Yet again, another injury.
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  Ben White had to come off with a hamstring injury.
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  Looks like he's out for four to six weeks.
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  Yeah, sorry, what? Yeah, I'm just figuring this
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  out. Is that's annoying.
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  So I mean, it's just sort of the same old story here.
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  You know, Wolves basically came in and basically, you know,
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  parked the bus, which means they basically put their entire team
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  behind the ball. And we're just like, we're going
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  to defend. And teams do this to Arsenal.
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  And I think Arsenal really struggle against this because we
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  just don't seem to create a lot in these situations.
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  Yeah. And boy, I mean, it, it was not
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  a great effort. They we just did not create a
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  whole lot. And Wolves just kept defending
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  and defending and defending. And, you know, we finally sort
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  of get, you know, a little lucky.
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  I mean, soccer plays a great corner kick that almost was like
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  an Olympico. I mean, it literally almost went
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  in off the post, but knocks it off the goal and you get that
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  goal. Then Arsenal of a sudden like
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  sort of sit back Luke and all of a sudden Wolves having a little
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  spout of possession. Our Kodari comes in.
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  This guy's huge Luca. I mean, I it was coming off as a
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  sub and I'm looking at this guy and I'm like, this is where you
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  really miss Gabrielle. Like a big physical defender to.
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  Put against him. And Hincapie was defending him
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  and he just sort of redirects it.
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  It's well done ball again. A guy plays a ball in, redirects
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  it with a header. And you're thinking, this
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  reminded me so much of last year where Luca Arsenal would play
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  these like one goal game and it'd be like this game on like a
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  fine margin. And we would find ways to either
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  tie or sometimes lose these games.
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  And this time they found a way to sort of dig out a win, even
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  though it's incredibly ugly win, but it's a win.
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  A win's a win. But my question to you, Luca, is
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  like is when you look at the game, are you looking at it
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  like, man, Arsenal got lucky in this game?
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  Or are you like, well, this is what champions do.
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  Like, in in order to go on to be a champion, you have to win
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  ugly. Sometimes you have to grind out
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  a win. It's not always silky and smooth
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  all the time. Like what?
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  What is your thought at the end of that game?
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  I think this is like, what champions do they have to grind
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  out wins? You know what you just said to
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  win the world title. It's not like Wolves are like
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  every team in Premier League is good.
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  So no matter if they're 20th or first, like they're all that
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  makes those sense. But like they're all good,
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  everyone's good. So even when playing Wolves,
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  it's not a guaranteed win. Sometimes you got to dig out
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  those hard, like just ugly wins. Yeah.
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  You know, I, I may go on the little bit of the other side of
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  this Luca that to me, you know, I, I felt very lucky to get 3
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  points in this game I mean. Also, we're a bit lucky.
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  Yeah, I mean, it's probably a combination of both.
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  I mean, you, you may look back in May and and if Arsenal are
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  sort of there, you know, at the top, you know, you may look at
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  games like this where you're like, yeah, those sort of
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  stoppage time goals. You know, that's what it takes
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  to sort of, you know, get yourself to that point.
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  Because really, look, if you remember, look at last year, the
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  difference was Arsenal and Liverpool finished I think 10
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  points apart. They the same amount of losses.
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  I think they each lost 4. Arsenal had 14 draws.
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  Like that was the difference is that we drew too many games.
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  If you turn those draws into wins, all of a sudden we're
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  almost right there or possibly can overtake Liverpool from last
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  year. So, you know, that to me is
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  really the difference in these is finding ways like this, you
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  know, where you kind of do win ugly.
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  I mean, so you know, but I just felt like this reminded me so
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  much of last year when we just couldn't find goals and the
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  whole thing was Arsenal need to go get a striker, Arsenal need
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  to go get a striker. We got one Luca.
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  I mean, where are you on Giocaris?
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  Like he's. Been OK.
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  You think he's been OK? I I gotta admit, look, I'm, I'm
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  like a touch disappointed. He's got a couple goals, but
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  sometimes I just don't feel like he's really affecting the game
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  very much. You know, it's hold up play, not
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  super great. This is where we miss Kai
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  Habert's a lot. You know, your guy Kai Habert's
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  like I'm going to throw him some CUDA is his hold up play is
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  fantastic. You get the ball to him.
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  First of all, he's great in the air, but he can take the ball,
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  settles it, distributes it, you know, keep the attack going.
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  Like I, I just feel like, you know, cuz Giocaris was more this
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  sort of straight line runner when he was at, you know, in
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  Portugal and you know, he's sort of busting through the lines,
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  people playing in balls, he's knocking in goals.
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  That's not really Arsenal a little more controlled
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  possession based. So I think it's a little bit of
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  like we're learning about him, he's learning about us.
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  Of course there's, you know, you got to get used to the I.
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  Think he'll be there next year once he's like understanding how
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  we play and the tactics and the formation and all that, I think
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  he'll be good next year. Yeah, I, I, well, I'll be honest
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  with you. And, and so this is the another
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  point, Luca, is, you know, Gabrielle, Jay Zeus came back.
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  He came back midweek in the Champions League game, came
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  back. He was the one who like, we
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  almost looked like he headed in that goal, but he basically put
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  mascara under pressure to create the own goal.
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  I think he's going to, I think he's going to be actually needed
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  because theochrist hasn't quite sort of taken the Premier League
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  by storm. Where I I look, I think like in
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  the second-half of the season, it may be more Haberts and Jay
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  Zeus sharing the striker position and you know, Giochrist
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  may be offering something different.
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  He may be sort of third choice. I think it'll be interesting to
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  kind of watch how Arteta manages a striker position.
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  Yeah. So like I said, I know you love
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  haverts. We want them back.
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  We need them back because we've got to try to get a little bit
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  more out of that position and we'll see.
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  I. Think haverts last year was
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  better than Yokers this year? Yeah, I agree with that.
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  Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah.
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  I mean, look, I, I think, you know, Arsenal go to Everton this
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  weekend and we're going to see what what what happens in this
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  game. You know, was was last week
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  against Wolves, just sort of like a one off where, you know,
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  just yeah, some games are just like that, right.
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  But it just feels like Arsenal are wobbling a little bit, you
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  know, like you just in terms of just not quite.
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  And I and I do think a lot of it has to do with injuries, Luca.
• 18:25
  And you know, I, I don't want to just keep blaming everything on
• 18:29
  injuries. We have a few.
• 18:31
  But like we, we do have a few. I mean, listen to this stat,
• 18:34
  Luke. In the last five games, Arsenal
• 18:36
  have used three different front three.
• 18:38
  I'm sorry, OK, In the last five games, they've used five
• 18:41
  different front threes, 5 different back fours and three
• 18:45
  different midfield threes. I mean, you just how do you get
• 18:49
  continuity, Luke, if you're constantly having guys in and
• 18:51
  out of the lineup, you know, I mean, ideally, I think you have
• 18:55
  like a core of like a starting seven or eight that play most
• 18:57
  games. You rotate a few guys in and
• 18:59
  out, but most of the time the same lineup is out there gaining
• 19:03
  continuity, getting more consistency.
• 19:05
  We're constantly having guys playing out of position, moving
• 19:08
  guys all around. Now, look, nobody's going to
• 19:10
  like cry for us because they're like, well, you guys spend all
• 19:12
  this money. You've got the Super deep squad.
• 19:15
  And that's all true, you know, and that's why I don't think
• 19:18
  Arsenal are going to fall out of Champions League spots.
• 19:20
  But when you're trying to win the Premier League, I just don't
• 19:23
  know that you can do it like that.
• 19:25
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, so I mean, I've said
• 19:29
  it before, Luca, I think if if they don't win, I think we're
• 19:32
  the story is going to be injuries.
• 19:33
  I think we're going to look back and say, man, what if you know?
• 19:37
  Gabrielle stayed healthy. Yeah, Gabrielle stayed healthy
• 19:40
  Soccer. Came back quicker.
• 19:41
  Exactly, haverts back quicker guy.
• 19:43
  Ocris didn't miss time you know. Soca missing time, Odegard
• 19:46
  missing time, you know, and you just worry about now, like, you
• 19:51
  know, Seliba, he like even Arteta said Seliba had to play
• 19:54
  and he probably wasn't 100%. They're sort of pushing him out
• 19:57
  there to play. He's probably not even 100%.
• 19:59
  You're risking even further injury with these guys because
• 20:01
  they have got to play even more. So we'll see, Luca.
• 20:06
  All right, Luca, we're going to move on to the team hunting down
• 20:08
  Arsenal in second place. City went to Crystal Palace.
• 20:11
  Tell me about it. City beat Crystal Palace 3 nil,
• 20:17
  I predict to be 22. Holland scores in the 41st
• 20:22
  minute long cross. Kind of what he does, just
• 20:24
  bodies everyone and heads it in phone and then the 69th minute
• 20:29
  from outside the box, Holland PK in the 89th minute like Savino
• 20:35
  gets like chopped down by Henderson City now won four
• 20:39
  Premier League games in a row, 38 goals on the season, 8 ahead
• 20:43
  of our Arsenal and 17 goals from Holland.
• 20:47
  He has the same amount of Nottingham Forest, his whole
• 20:50
  team. It's incredible.
• 20:52
  I mean, it just having a player score basically average a goal a
• 20:55
  game is it's just absurd. City, Luke are there.
• 20:59
  I mean, you know, I'll say this every week they feel like
• 21:02
  they're just finding their groove and this is what they do.
• 21:04
  Look, they just get to this period of time where there's a
• 21:06
  bunch of games and they just start sort of flying.
• 21:10
  They've now look their last four.
• 21:12
  They've won their last four, scoring 3 or more goals.
• 21:16
  Foden and Luca has scored four and four consecutive Premier
• 21:19
  League matches. Six overall goals over that
• 21:22
  time. Remember, it wasn't that long
• 21:24
  ago where Luco said there's no City player that even has two
• 21:26
  goals besides Holland. Who's going to be that person to
• 21:29
  step up? Who's it going to be?
• 21:31
  It's going to be Foden. You mean you've mentioned it
• 21:33
  before, right? Player of the Year 2 years ago.
• 21:35
  2324 so yes. And Luca, he's Foden, has his
• 21:39
  knack for scoring from outside the box.
• 21:41
  He's got eight since the start of 2324, only in BAPI, and all
• 21:46
  five major European leagues has more goals scored from outside
• 21:49
  the box, which crazy isn't. PAPI has 24.
• 21:52
  Oh, he's three times as many. I know which I'm like, I don't
• 21:55
  even think of him Papi like as that type of like score.
• 21:57
  But it's interesting. But you know, I mean what I've
• 22:01
  said about city is like if they can, you know, they've got
• 22:04
  Holland who's just like gives him such like he's like a cheat
• 22:06
  code for that team because he's like worth a goal a game.
• 22:09
  Now, if they just get anybody else now, Foden stepping up a
• 22:12
  couple of their defenders scored last week.
• 22:15
  I don't know, Luca. Like it just feels to me like
• 22:17
  this is the time when City to start rolling off win after win
• 22:21
  after win their, you know, their schedules not super hard.
• 22:24
  I think they have like West Ham at home next week.
• 22:26
  So I you know, it just I don't know.
• 22:29
  Look, I've seen this story before.
• 22:31
  I mean, you know, City coming hunting down Arsenal feels like
• 22:35
  Deja vu all over again. Yeah.
• 22:39
  I'm getting bad memories. But we'll see.
• 22:42
  All right, Luca, another team at the top of the table, possibly
• 22:46
  hunting down Arsenal, Aston Villa.
• 22:48
  Luca probably know we talk about how good cities been.
• 22:51
  Astonville is probably the hottest team in the league
• 22:53
  lately. They so they went to West Ham.
• 22:55
  Take me through it. This game ended 32 Villa.
• 22:59
  I predicted to be 3 new Villa, Matez Fernandez in the first
• 23:03
  minute it off like 30 seconds the quickest fir league goal of
• 23:08
  this season. Maverick Panos own goal in the
• 23:10
  ninth minute, Bowen in the 24th minute, then Rogers has two in
• 23:15
  the 50th and the 79th minute. His last goal is a beauty done
• 23:18
  really nice goal. Villa six wins in a row, longest
• 23:22
  ever win streak and Premier League 100 goal involvement for
• 23:27
  Bowen now after this game. So yeah, pretty good.
• 23:31
  Pretty good game overall. Yeah, Astonville, you know,
• 23:34
  there, there was a period there, they're down to 1 and you're
• 23:37
  thinking, oh, is this, you know, is this going to be a little bit
• 23:39
  of a bobble for them? Are they going to draw even and
• 23:42
  drop points? You know and they find a way
• 23:45
  behind. You know what I think is their
• 23:47
  best player more definitely you know, so Luca Villa again we
• 23:51
  talked about how they are flying.
• 23:52
  You know they got off that really weird start where they
• 23:54
  went like 4 games without a score without scoring a goal,
• 23:57
  which is crazy. I don't think they had a win
• 23:59
  through their first five. Well, they now they've now won
• 24:02
  ten of the of their last eleven Premier League games, their
• 24:06
  third on 33 points. But Luca Morgan Rogers, this guy
• 24:10
  he's unbelievable. You know, 23 year old, it's an
• 24:13
  attacking midfielder. He's a winger now, got five
• 24:16
  goals and three assists. He's he's one of the three
• 24:19
  players that started all 16 games for them.
• 24:22
  You know, his story's interesting.
• 24:23
  He was at West Brom Albion for a long time.
• 24:26
  He got signed there through their Academy, came up.
• 24:28
  He went to City for four years, never played a game for the
• 24:32
  first team, never could break in at City, got loaned out to a
• 24:36
  bunch of like Championship teams in here and there.
• 24:38
  And then Middlesbrough, Luca came in and bought him in 2023
• 24:41
  and he was there and had a really good year for them.
• 24:43
  And then Villa came in and bought him in 2020.
• 24:46
  Four, $10 million. 10 million. Cheese.
• 24:50
  Now to Villa's credit, Luca, they immediately, like I said,
• 24:53
  it didn't take them long after about a year and a half to see
• 24:56
  how good this guy is. So in November, they signed him
• 24:58
  to a contract extension for five years, which I think is really
• 25:03
  smart because my question to you, Luca is even though he
• 25:07
  signed a contract Ascension and Villa does not have to sell him
• 25:10
  by any means, it's not like his contracts running out.
• 25:13
  My first question is the way he's playing and how good he's
• 25:16
  been, do you think at the start of next year he stay he'll be at
• 25:19
  Villa or is he going to be at another team, specifically one
• 25:22
  of the big you know, I. Think we have Zilla, I think
• 25:25
  he's too good for Villa to give up.
• 25:27
  OK. So you're, so if somebody came
• 25:29
  in with a bit, I'm just saying I think somebody could come for
• 25:31
  like 125 million for this. Guy it would depend, like what
• 25:35
  club? What club were we saying?
• 25:36
  OK, let's let's say, you know, let's say one of the big clubs,
• 25:40
  you know, well, Chelsea spend money on everybody.
• 25:42
  So let's say Chelsea, Arsenal, I mean, City, United.
• 25:47
  I mean, you know, it's hard to see where he fits on some of
• 25:50
  these. A lot of these teams have a good
• 25:51
  #10 but I just think he could be an upgrade for almost every
• 25:56
  single big club. You know, if I'm just thinking,
• 26:00
  if you're a Villa's owner and somebody gives you like that
• 26:03
  amount, is it worth it? Do you say, yeah, I mean, I
• 26:05
  can't turn down that money or do you say no, like we've got, you
• 26:09
  know, one of the best midfielders in the world,
• 26:11
  possibly. We got to keep him.
• 26:14
  At what the player wants to do like what does he want to leave?
• 26:20
  Does he want to go to the club? I will I will get his opinion
• 26:23
  1st and then make the decision So if he wants to leave then
• 26:27
  we'll sell him for a big amount of money.
• 26:29
  He doesn't want to leave. We're keeping him we're turning
• 26:32
  down the offer. That's that's what I.
• 26:33
  Yeah, that's probably, you know, you're right.
• 26:35
  I think people don't take that into consideration enough,
• 26:37
  right? You got to think what the player
• 26:39
  wants. You're like, when Declan Rice
• 26:40
  left West Ham, he had been West Ham his whole life.
• 26:43
  He wanted to leave. And so West Ham said, OK,
• 26:46
  listen, you've served our club well, you know, now he what?
• 26:50
  Declan Rice had been in West Ham way longer than Rodgers has been
• 26:53
  at Asenville. But my point being is like, he
• 26:54
  wanted to go. West Ham was like, OK, the
• 26:57
  timing is right. We're going to get $100 million.
• 27:01
  Yeah. You want them a trophy.
• 27:03
  So, you know, it's just. But you're ultimately right.
• 27:06
  Look, that's kind of what the player wants.
• 27:08
  So Rogers is like, no, I want to go play for City, you know,
• 27:12
  then, yeah. Then they say, OK, well, then
• 27:14
  that's fine. But they've got to pay the
• 27:15
  amount of money, which would be a lot.
• 27:18
  So yeah, he's an interesting guy.
• 27:19
  Luca. You know, I think in the summer
• 27:22
  in the World Cup, to me, Luca, it's a nice problem to have.
• 27:25
  If you're the England manager in the World Cup, who do you start
• 27:28
  at the number 10? Jude Bellingham, Morgan Rogers,
• 27:33
  Eberiche, Eze. But I don't think Eze is going
• 27:35
  to start over these two guys. But if you are the manager,
• 27:37
  Luca, let's say that World Cup started tomorrow, who are you
• 27:41
  starting, Morgan Rogers or Jude Bellingham?
• 27:44
  I don't know. Goodness gracious.
• 27:47
  I mean, can we have a formation that starts them both?
• 27:50
  I mean, you know, Rogers plays a little bit off the left, but you
• 27:54
  know, he's probably, I think a little bit better, more
• 27:56
  centrally, kind of an attacking midfielder, you know?
• 28:01
  I I don't know how good Jude Bellingham has been this year.
• 28:05
  I want I would like. He's been a little bit injured,
• 28:08
  you know, I mean, I don't think he's been as good as he was
• 28:11
  maybe last year, even two years ago.
• 28:14
  He's still an amazing player. I mean I'm I'm I'm just saying,
• 28:17
  you know, it's again, this is a nice problem to have either way
• 28:20
  you go. I think you're in very good
• 28:21
  shape. I mean, England midfield, Luca
• 28:23
  of like, I'm just throwing it out there like Rice, Bellingham,
• 28:26
  Foden, I mean. As a.
• 28:29
  Rogers yeah. I mean like it's, you know, then
• 28:31
  you have like Saka on a wing, Kane at the striker.
• 28:34
  I mean, left wing could be Bowen Gordon, I mean.
• 28:37
  Watkins on the bench. I mean England, my goodness, but
• 28:41
  the players that aren't going to make this team could form like
• 28:44
  can all start, you know, like I mean, they can only take so many
• 28:46
  players, but I just think it's an interesting thing to watch a
• 28:49
  guy I think keep watching Morgan Rogers this year.
• 28:51
  I think he's a real deal. Like I said, I think everything
• 28:53
  he's doing to me is a real deal. Like I said, he's he's a legit
• 28:58
  great player. Luca, Aston Villa.
• 29:00
  I think we're going to. I think we're going to find out
• 29:02
  a lot about Astonville for the next three games, their next
• 29:04
  three games, Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal.
• 29:07
  I think we're going to fight. We play Aston Villa pretty
• 29:09
  quick. Yeah, yeah.
• 29:10
  There's like a when we sort of turn around the schedule there,
• 29:13
  you know, when you sort of flip to start playing everybody a
• 29:15
  second time, we play them like so because we just did play
• 29:17
  them. So next three games are going to
• 29:20
  tell me a lot about Aston Villa. If they come out of there with
• 29:23
  like two wins in a draw, I'm going to say title can.
• 29:27
  They've got a shot at the title. I'm going to say the legitimate.
• 29:29
  Now if they stumble here a little bit, like 2 draws in a
• 29:32
  loss, something like that, like this to me is going to tell me a
• 29:35
  lot about this team. They've been just rolling
• 29:37
  through teams, beating West Ham, West Ham really bad and.
• 29:42
  They barely beat them. And they barely beat them so.
• 29:45
  But again, same thing you say about Arsenal is that they got
• 29:48
  the job done, they got the win. So interesting team, Astonville,
• 29:52
  like I said, I like watching them play.
• 29:54
  I like a lot of their players. So we'll see, like I said, all
• 29:59
  right, Luca, the tyneware Darby Luca the first time in over 10
• 30:03
  years. This is one of the best
• 30:04
  rivalries in the Premier League. Sunderland at the Stadium of
• 30:08
  Light hosting Newcastle. I love Darby games like this
• 30:11
  Luca. I love rivalry games and this is
• 30:13
  1. Like I said, we haven't had for
• 30:15
  so long because they just haven't been in the same league.
• 30:18
  So take me through it. Tell me, tell me about this one.
• 30:20
  Sunderland end up beating Newcastle.
• 30:23
  One nil I predict to be two two. Voltamante Own goal in the 46
• 30:28
  minute, which is probably pretty crazy because he's a striker and
• 30:31
  he I don't even know why he's that far back anyway.
• 30:35
  Own goal in 46 minute. Only goal.
• 30:37
  This was a chippy game. 9 yellow cards in any in the game and big
• 30:42
  Derby match up. Sunderland did not have the
• 30:47
  badge on the scoreboard when like the big scoreboard, they
• 30:53
  just put it as visitors didn't. They didn't put the Newcastle
• 30:56
  badge up there. Yeah, I mean, most when you go
• 30:59
  to a game, typically you look up at the big scoreboard and
• 31:02
  there's, you know, they'll say Arsenal with the badge one and
• 31:05
  Wolves with their logo zero, you know, something like that.
• 31:08
  So I kind of love this kind of stuff for like a little dig
• 31:11
  where it's like Sunderland with the badge and then just visitors
• 31:15
  like not even putting Newcastle's name up there, not
• 31:17
  even putting their badge up there.
• 31:19
  I mean, this is just the kind of stuff that I like love.
• 31:21
  I mean, but you know, so they call it the Tyne Ware Darby
• 31:24
  look, because it's the county in northeast England is like the
• 31:28
  county where these two cities are.
• 31:30
  They're only separated by about 12 miles.
• 31:32
  And there's two rivers. There's a Tyne River and the
• 31:35
  Ware River. And that's how this county got
• 31:37
  its name. And that's why the Darby's
• 31:39
  called the Tyne Ware Darby, you know, it, it's it, it's just, I
• 31:44
  love this kind of stuff. Luca 9 yellow cards.
• 31:46
  It's chippy, you know, but like you see the passion that and,
• 31:49
  and of course, Stadium of Light where Sunderland plays great
• 31:52
  crowd, great energy there. I mean, you can almost like feel
• 31:55
  it through the TV, like, you know, these are just like
• 31:58
  awesome, awesome games. I, I kind of hate to see it
• 32:00
  decided by an own goal, you know, because there were other
• 32:03
  chances, not a lot of great other chances in this game, but
• 32:06
  there were a few other chances. I would I would rather have seen
• 32:08
  like a open play goal. Not a known goal but it is is
• 32:12
  what it is. Lucas Sunderland.
• 32:14
  Interesting Luca. They had no English players in
• 32:17
  their starting 11, so it's the first time in the history of
• 32:20
  this Derby. Wait, what about Ballard?
• 32:22
  Is he not English? It's from Northern Ireland.
• 32:24
  Oh yeah. So they had no English players,
• 32:28
  which like I said, that's never happened on either side of this
• 32:31
  Darby in the history of, you know, going back 100 or some
• 32:33
  years. That's new, Yeah.
• 32:35
  I haven't seen that in a while. It's really rare for a team to
• 32:38
  have, you know, not one English player.
• 32:40
  So just a little thing, Luca, I got, I got to get your take all
• 32:44
  right. You, you wear soccer kits a lot.
• 32:47
  So Sunderland rocking the badge in the middle of the uniforms,
• 32:50
  which I feel like I'm seeing. I like that.
• 32:52
  So you're the badge in the middle.
• 32:54
  You like the badge in the middle?
• 32:55
  OK, I got to say, I'm probably just the old guy in the room
• 32:58
  here, but I don't like the badge in the middle.
• 33:01
  I don't know. There's something about it.
• 33:02
  I feel like it should be a little less.
• 33:05
  But I prefer the badge in the middle.
• 33:08
  Oh, you prefer it? OK.
• 33:09
  All right. So if you were designing your
• 33:11
  uniform, you preferred in the middle versus like off to the
• 33:14
  left? Yeah, OK.
• 33:15
  All right. You like more like.
• 33:16
  City just in 2223. I, well, I don't like city, but
• 33:20
  I, I kind of like the jersey from 2223.
• 33:23
  There, well, I feel like a lot of teams are doing it.
• 33:24
  Barcelona didn't. Say last year.
• 33:27
  Last year. They're Jersey, which is cool
• 33:29
  because I I like it. Yeah, I was going to say I feel
• 33:31
  like a lot of a lot of teams are doing it more, but I feel like
• 33:35
  it's a newer thing, you know? I mean, all teams now have like
• 33:37
  6-7, eight different types of kits, it feels like.
• 33:40
  But all right, Luca, there it is.
• 33:43
  Here, your hot take and badge in the middle.
• 33:44
  Good on the. All right, all right, Luca,
• 33:47
  Nottingham Forest hosted Spurs. Take me through it.
• 33:51
  Spurs again doing Spurs things, losing 3 nil to 989 Forest and
• 33:56
  they were better away than at her home.
• 33:58
  So yeah, I predicted to be a 21. Spurs Hudson and Toy in the 28th
• 34:04
  minute scores. He scores again in the 50th
• 34:06
  minute. Really nice score.
• 34:07
  And then Sangare in the 79th minute.
• 34:10
  Spurs with 22 points at their 16 games, lowest at this stage
• 34:16
  since O9 to O8, or I mean O 8 to O 9.
• 34:20
  Yes, I mean, gosh, Spurs are a very difficult team to figure
• 34:24
  out. They're pretty not.
• 34:27
  They're not very predictable. Yeah, I mean, they got off to
• 34:30
  this great start. They've been terrible lately
• 34:33
  Luke in in their last seven games, one win, 4 losses, 2
• 34:37
  draws. I mean, they, they are
• 34:38
  struggling and they're struggling like on both ends
• 34:41
  now, like we we've talked many times about like how little XG
• 34:44
  they generate in a game. So yet again, Luca, their XG in
• 34:48
  this game 0.37 Forest was yeah, Forest was 1.91.
• 34:53
  That's good. You know, so it was before it
• 34:55
  was it felt like the story was well, they just can't generate
• 34:58
  much offense. They're not generating a lot of
• 35:00
  chances now. I mean, they're now they're
• 35:01
  giving up goal after all. I mean, look at they probably
• 35:03
  could have given up seven goals in this game.
• 35:04
  I know, you know, they forest scores 3.
• 35:06
  They had great other chances is, you know, and forests are not
• 35:10
  good because they're in 16th place.
• 35:12
  They're fighting for relegation. Yeah, so I mean, it's a massive
• 35:16
  3 points for Forest. You know, Tottenham now down at
• 35:18
  11th on 22 points. I actually thought they'd
• 35:21
  probably be lower, but I mean they are just a struggling team
• 35:26
  right now. Thomas Frank under all sorts of
• 35:28
  pressure as the manager. Luca on the other side, Sangari,
• 35:32
  he's a good player for them. 28 year old from the Cote d'Ivoire.
• 35:36
  He had a goal and two assists in this game.
• 35:38
  Hudson Adoy with two goals and an assist.
• 35:40
  Basically those two had all the goal contributions.
• 35:43
  Players were the only players who were involved in the three
• 35:48
  goals. Yeah, two players were involved
• 35:50
  in three goals. Amazing.
• 35:52
  Yeah, Good for them. So good win for them.
• 35:54
  Spurs, I don't know. Just don't know what the hurts
• 35:56
  to say. I think it's just most teams are
• 36:00
  a little bit inconsistent. We say this, how many times did
• 36:02
  we talk about United, Spurs, Newcastle?
• 36:04
  We're just like, they're inconsistent, unpredictable.
• 36:07
  I think this is what's what we have to just get used to.
• 36:09
  I think there's very few consistently good teams in the
• 36:13
  Premier League this year, but I think it makes for a very
• 36:15
  interesting table. And I think it's going to be
• 36:18
  this way for most of the year where I think there's going to
• 36:21
  be a lot of intrigue, Luca and and movement where all of a
• 36:24
  sudden you can be in 12th and go up real high and just as easily
• 36:29
  3 losses in a row you can drop right back down.
• 36:31
  But I think it's going to stay real congested for most of the
• 36:34
  table kind of especially in the middle there.
• 36:37
  But I think it I think it could make for like a real fun sort of
• 36:40
  second-half of the season. Yeah.
• 36:43
  All right Luca, not exactly a glamorous game, but Brentford
• 36:46
  hosted Leeds. This game ends 11.
• 36:48
  I predict it'd be two nil or two nil.
• 36:51
  Brentford Henderson in the 70th minute and then Calvert Lewin.
• 36:55
  Nice header in the 82nd minute. Calvert Lewin's fifth goal of
• 36:58
  the year there and Leeds stay three points above the last
• 37:02
  relegation spot. Yeah, this was, you know, big
• 37:06
  point on the road for Leeds. Boy, look at Dominic Calvert
• 37:09
  Lewin. Like how good has he been for
• 37:10
  them? I mean, very good.
• 37:12
  He only had three goals all last year for Everton.
• 37:15
  He's. Already more than that, and it's
• 37:16
  not even half, half the way halfway through the season.
• 37:19
  I mean, good for him. You know, he's he's been a guy
• 37:21
  that's been injured a lot, you know, and I think that's sort
• 37:24
  of, you know, he's had these flashes where he's been really,
• 37:27
  really good, especially when he was with with Everton, you know.
• 37:31
  But you know, he seems, I love to see this sort of like having
• 37:33
  a bit of a resurgence, you know, leads of course, looking for
• 37:37
  goals from anywhere as they're just trying to scrap together
• 37:39
  some results. I think I'm like pulling a
• 37:42
  little bit for leads to not get relegated.
• 37:44
  You know, I to me again, I think the last relegation spot is
• 37:48
  probably a three-way battle between Forest leads and West
• 37:50
  Ham. It feels that way to me.
• 37:52
  I I think like Brentford, Fulham, Bournemouth, the next
• 37:55
  three up there I think. They're I think they're good.
• 37:58
  They don't feel like relegating to like teams that get
• 38:00
  relegated. Like I've seen enough.
• 38:02
  I'm watching to them. I'm like they're going to get
• 38:03
  results. You know, look, I mean,
• 38:05
  somebody's got to finish in, you know, 17th, sixteen, 15th.
• 38:08
  It probably will be those teams, but I just feel like it's, you
• 38:11
  know, to me, Wolves have locked in one spot, Burnley are getting
• 38:14
  close to lock in another one. So this is a big result.
• 38:18
  You know, like I said, getting points here and there,
• 38:20
  especially on the road for leads, that's that's a good
• 38:22
  result for them. So big point on the road.
• 38:24
  Yeah. All right, look at the last game
• 38:26
  of the week. Just finished up today.
• 38:29
  Complete banana man. You hosting Bournemouth?
• 38:32
  Holy smokes, look at this game was out of control.
• 38:37
  This game ended 44I predicted to be 11 Diallo in the 13th minute
• 38:43
  scores makes it 11 nil United Simenyo in the 40th minute,
• 38:47
  Casimiro and 45 + 5. Evan Nielsen in the 46th minute.
• 38:52
  Tavin, you're in the 52nd minute off of a free kick.
• 38:56
  Bruno Fernandez in the 77th minute off of a really nice free
• 39:00
  kick. CUNY on the 79th minute and then
• 39:03
  Creepy in the 84th minute. Whoa.
• 39:06
  Yeah, yeah, take a deep breath in.
• 39:08
  And I was in after all that, Yeah.
• 39:11
  Defending was optional in this game for both teams.
• 39:14
  And this. Was like just pretty bad defense
• 39:17
  all around. In fact, there's probably three
• 39:20
  or four other good chances for each team.
• 39:22
  Probably it could have been like 76.
• 39:25
  Yeah, I mean this game, but I mean for a neutral watching it,
• 39:28
  I mean. It was really.
• 39:29
  Exciting. It was like, yeah, this was like
• 39:30
  a fun game to watch. Probably both teams are going to
• 39:34
  feel disappointed to attend in a tie.
• 39:36
  Each team at one point was leading and, you know, then came
• 39:39
  back to lead again and then, you know, drop in the lead.
• 39:42
  I mean, it just was like back and forth.
• 39:44
  So I feel like in the end, probably a deserved tie, but I
• 39:48
  feel like probably United being at home, we're going to feel a
• 39:51
  little disappointed because they had a real, they had an
• 39:53
  opportunity to look at. They could have tie.
• 39:54
  If they'd won, they would have tied Chelsea for 4th.
• 39:56
  I know Odin big now they're in six.
• 39:59
  Now they're in six. I mean, they're still in a
• 40:00
  pretty good spot, but you know, it feels like a bit of a missed
• 40:05
  opportunity there because I mean, Bournemouth, we talked
• 40:07
  about how much they've been struggling, you know, lately,
• 40:10
  they're still down there in 13th.
• 40:12
  So again, look, what do we say? Like it just feels a little bit
• 40:15
  inconsistent. Now United, again, we talked
• 40:18
  about injuries for Arsenal. I will say United missing, no
• 40:21
  McGuire, no Delict. You know, they've got kind of a
• 40:25
  young defense there and it feels like it's kind of showing there.
• 40:29
  You know, Amaram system is five at the back.
• 40:31
  He likes his two wing backs getting forward.
• 40:33
  It kind of leaves then sort of three defenders back there, you
• 40:38
  know, so you're going to give up some chances, you know,
• 40:40
  especially when you don't have sort of the veteran experience
• 40:43
  or the skill of Delict and McGuire.
• 40:46
  You know, so it feels like that's, you know, they're going
• 40:49
  to have to score a lot of goals, but they've got guys that can
• 40:52
  score goals. I mean, Bruno Fernandez free
• 40:54
  kick was amazing. A little bit of a questionable
• 40:56
  call whether I even should have been a free kick and they called
• 40:59
  a handball on the Bournemouth player.
• 41:00
  It almost like hit his shoulder ball came like from like
• 41:03
  literally right next to him. I don't know I would have called
• 41:06
  that whatever it was, you know, it is what it is.
• 41:10
  So all right, Luca. Well, there we go.
• 41:12
  Another week in the books. We're going to turn our
• 41:15
  attention to Week 17 next weekend.
• 41:20
  So you got something you want to say?
• 41:22
  Well, we got to do Player of the Week, Team of the Week and Cold
• 41:26
  Week. OK, Yep, good.
• 41:27
  Thanks for reminding me. Why?
• 41:28
  Why don't we start with give me your team of the week?
• 41:31
  Luca, who is the team of the week for you this week?
• 41:35
  Team of the Week for me, I got to go Sunderland for beating
• 41:41
  their rivals. I had a feeling you were going
• 41:43
  to go there. You know, I, I think so.
• 41:45
  I mean, Sunderland, Luca, probably certainly one of the
• 41:48
  three best stories so far of the Premier League through.
• 41:52
  We're almost halfway through the Premier League, but sitting
• 41:54
  there in 8th place, you know, winning their Derby game at
• 41:58
  home. And that was like, so cool.
• 42:01
  Yeah. I had a feeling you'd go there.
• 42:02
  Good call. Yeah.
• 42:04
  All right. What about what about your
• 42:05
  player? Give me your player of the week.
• 42:07
  Player of the Week. Couple good choices out there.
• 42:11
  I'm going Hudson and Dwight and Morgan Rogers.
• 42:17
  OK, all right. Couple braces from both of them
• 42:20
  getting two goals. And and Hudson and do I had an
• 42:23
  assist. Yep, two goals and assists for
• 42:25
  him and his easy win and the Morgan Rogers have the second
• 42:27
  and third goals for Villa. So yeah, good call. 2 good
• 42:30
  players there. All right, look, a goal of the
• 42:32
  week. It's some good choices here.
• 42:34
  There were some good goals this week.
• 42:36
  I'm going Bruno Fernandez free kick with an honorable mention
• 42:39
  of Hudson and away second goal, Sengari goal and Morgan Rogers
• 42:45
  second goal. There are some tough ones.
• 42:49
  There are some tough ones. All right, you're throwing out
• 42:51
  flowers for everybody here, like, all right, I guess a goal
• 42:54
  of the week and you just listed like half the goals that were
• 42:56
  scored on for the whole week here.
• 42:57
  OK, All right, fair enough. You're you're a little non
• 43:00
  committal, but yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna give.
• 43:03
  Yeah, that that's a that's a good call that it's hard to
• 43:05
  think of another one out there that's better than those four.
• 43:08
  So. All right, good call.
• 43:10
  All right, Lucas, should we look ahead to week 17?
• 43:12
  It's hard to believe we're at Week 17.
• 43:15
  As always, there's always interesting games, interesting
• 43:18
  matchups. But the first game, Luca, we've
• 43:20
  got Newcastle hosting Chelsea at Saint James Park.
• 43:26
  So you've got Chelsea sitting there flying high in fourth
• 43:29
  place, Newcastle just sort of stuck there almost in neutral in
• 43:32
  12th place. But what do you like for this
• 43:34
  game? I think Chelsea will win 21.
• 43:36
  All right, tough place to go win, you know.
• 43:40
  Yeah, I know. Newcastle and they're going to
• 43:42
  bounce back. Struggling after and even it
• 43:45
  might be hard for them to bounce back right after losing their
• 43:47
  biggest rivals so. OK, all right.
• 43:51
  Man City hosts West Ham Luca. Man City win this three nil.
• 43:56
  Three nil. Yeah, Can't imagine anything
• 43:58
  different than that. Wolves hosting Brentford.
• 44:02
  Wolves going to get any kind of result out of this game I think.
• 44:05
  It can be 11. OK, all right.
• 44:06
  A draw for wolves. I mean, they may feel like a win
• 44:10
  for them. Yeah, they got three points, so
• 44:12
  many points. They're title contenders.
• 44:14
  All right, yeah, there they go. They're going to kick on.
• 44:17
  All right, Brighton hosting Sunderland.
• 44:21
  Sunderland win 21. OK, all right.
• 44:24
  You know the Amex, a tough place to go play Sunderland, just keep
• 44:28
  getting results that that's kind of an interesting game.
• 44:30
  Kind of yes, and see what happens there.
• 44:34
  All right, Bournemouth hosting Burnley, Luca.
• 44:38
  Bournemouth actually tie 11. Tie 11.
• 44:42
  Okay, all right, Spurs hosting Liverpool.
• 44:47
  This could be interesting. Win 2 nil.
• 44:51
  Two nil. Okay boy, Spurs still could just
• 44:54
  struggling along here. So all right, you think
• 44:57
  Liverpool is this now? Do you say I'm curious for this
• 45:00
  one, is this more Liverpool starting to play better gets you
• 45:04
  to go with this scoreline are? You just like start Tottenham or
• 45:06
  terrible? OK.
• 45:07
  So you're just like tie them or terrible.
• 45:08
  Anybody could walk in there and get a result.
• 45:11
  Yeah, OK, Wolves can, like, tie them.
• 45:14
  OK, All right. Fair enough.
• 45:16
  Yeah, I know. I mean, it's this will be 1
• 45:19
  where, you know, I don't really care what Spurs do, but from a
• 45:23
  Liverpool standpoint, this, this, I'll be interested to see
• 45:27
  the kind of the way Liverpool play, you know, and, and you
• 45:30
  know, even how they set up now, Joe Gomez is hurt.
• 45:33
  You know, they don't have much depth on that back line.
• 45:35
  I mean, I think look, all three of their right backs might be
• 45:37
  hurt, Frimpong, Conor Bradley and Joe Gomez.
• 45:40
  So they may have to move Sobasai back to right back, you know,
• 45:43
  where he's more of a midfielder, but you know, and he can do the
• 45:47
  job. He does a good job there, but it
• 45:49
  just takes him out of the midfield where he's so
• 45:50
  effective. You know, again, how do they
• 45:53
  utilize E Zac, Ecka TK? I mean, you can't bench Ecka TK,
• 45:57
  but then you've got the most expensive transfer ever in the
• 46:00
  Premier League just sitting on your bench and E Zac yeah.
• 46:02
  I mean, there's like Liverpool are kind of like a fascinating
• 46:05
  team, like how and then of course Salah is gone, so he's
• 46:08
  not their problem now for a couple of weeks, but he
• 46:10
  eventually may or may not come back.
• 46:12
  It just feels like there's so much sort of like intrigue with
• 46:14
  this team, like how it's going to play out.
• 46:16
  Yeah, like, so I'll be curious to see kind of how they set up,
• 46:20
  how they look, because I think they should go in and and kind
• 46:23
  of smash Spurs. You know, we've talked about
• 46:24
  Spurs aren't even good at home. They're playing terrible.
• 46:27
  And Liverpool, like I said, they're trying to string
• 46:29
  together some results. Starting to play a little bit
• 46:31
  better. Yeah.
• 46:32
  I mean, look at their their their two points off of 4th.
• 46:36
  I mean, for as bad as they've been and all the things we've
• 46:38
  talked about this team, they're sitting there two points behind
• 46:41
  Chelsea and they're only five points.
• 46:44
  I'm sorry, 7 points behind Villa even.
• 46:46
  I mean, it's like I still think they've lost too many games.
• 46:50
  They've lost six games. I don't think, I mean, I don't
• 46:53
  think they can win the win the title this year.
• 46:55
  I really don't. But I, I've said this to you
• 46:58
  before, Luca, I think they're finishing third.
• 47:00
  I do not think they're finishing third.
• 47:02
  OK. No, no.
• 47:03
  We, we will see, we will see. All right, Luca.
• 47:06
  Everton hosting our boys, so the Gunners going up to the hill.
• 47:10
  Dickinson Stadium here. Are we going to bounce back or
• 47:14
  you know? I think it's going to be 21. 21
• 47:17
  Who? Arsenal.
• 47:19
  Sorry. OK, All right, 21.
• 47:21
  All right, So if you like us to bounce back, are you liking us
• 47:25
  that? We won.
• 47:26
  Well, I'm thinking over. I mean, it was a win that did
• 47:30
  feel more like a tire loss, but but we still like our overall
• 47:33
  performance. OK, yeah, you know, they're
• 47:36
  missing here in Dewsbury Hall. Yeah, I know we didn't.
• 47:40
  I don't know if we touched on that.
• 47:42
  We touched on it two weeks ago. We talked about him, sort of
• 47:44
  highlighted him, how good a player he's been.
• 47:46
  He's been really effective. He came off what looked like a
• 47:48
  hamstring injury. Be very surprised if he's
• 47:52
  available a week later after a hamstring injury.
• 47:54
  That is a big loss for them for sure.
• 47:57
  Now we have our fair share of injuries too, but obviously we
• 48:00
  have a deeper squad. So for them losing him, that's a
• 48:04
  good shout out there that like he's that's a big miss for them.
• 48:08
  You know, they obviously, you know, did not look great this
• 48:11
  week against Chelsea. So both teams, this will be a
• 48:14
  little interesting to me because I always feel like whenever we
• 48:17
  used to go to Goodison Park to play them at their old stadium.
• 48:20
  They would lose. A lot of times we would lose or
• 48:22
  tie. It would be always sort of these
• 48:24
  tough, scrappy games, maybe 0011, you know, not a lot of
• 48:30
  action and score. And you got to be real patient
• 48:32
  because it always felt like they're real organized in the
• 48:34
  back. Pickford always felt like he
• 48:36
  stole two goals with great saves.
• 48:38
  You know, it always seems to have some amazing game against
• 48:40
  us. So, you know, I'll just be
• 48:42
  curious, you know, do we look a little more fluid?
• 48:45
  Do we look a little more creative?
• 48:46
  Are we creating a little bit more?
• 48:48
  So all right, legal Leeds host Crystal Palace.
• 48:54
  Crystal Palace win 21. All right, Crystal Palace back
• 48:57
  in the win column with A-21 win over Leeds, Aston Villa host Man
• 49:01
  U. Aston Villa win 21. 21 OK and
• 49:07
  then Fulham hosting Nottingham Forest.
• 49:10
  Fulham won nothing. OK, all right, all right.
• 49:14
  Yeah. So some some good matchups,
• 49:16
  nothing too crazy. Nothing like, you know, like you
• 49:19
  feel like it's like must see, no Darby's.
• 49:22
  No, like I said, no huge rivalry game.
• 49:25
  So we'll kind of see how they play out, but there it is.
• 49:28
  Lucas picks for week 17. Gosh, hard to believe.
• 49:33
  All right, Lucas, should we move along to our viewer mailbag
• 49:36
  question? All right, So Luca, viewer
• 49:39
  mailbag question is we've sort of mentioned AFCON coming up.
• 49:42
  AFCON is a continental tournament of all the African
• 49:46
  nations trying to win essentially like the title of
• 49:50
  best African nation. We know there's like the Copa
• 49:52
  America for South America, there's the Euro EUR, the
• 49:55
  European Championships for Europe, I guess we sort of the
• 49:59
  Gold Cup for North America. So every continent kind of has
• 50:02
  its tournament. There's a little interesting
• 50:04
  because it's in the middle of the season.
• 50:05
  So the the tournament essentially runs Luca from
• 50:09
  December 24th to December 21st to January 18th.
• 50:14
  So teams have a potential to lose guys for almost a month.
• 50:17
  Yeah, You know, that's sort of the big deal to all of a sudden
• 50:20
  just have a player just like have to up and go now, you know,
• 50:23
  if your team gets knocked out, you could be back a little bit
• 50:26
  earlier, you know, depends on right how well your team does.
• 50:29
  But I was kind of looking like my question to you, the mailbag
• 50:33
  question to you, Luca, is just what player or what team is sort
• 50:38
  of most affected by this? So I'm I'm going to kind of run
• 50:40
  through some of the players now this can change a little bit
• 50:43
  because obviously they have to sort of like set the African
• 50:46
  teams have to sort of, you know, announce who they're taking and
• 50:49
  announce like rosters. So Brentford Luca.
• 50:52
  So Arsenal no but doesn't No African players going Villa, no
• 50:57
  African players going Bournemouth none.
• 50:59
  Brentford lose Watara to Burkina Faso and on Yeke to Nigeria so
• 51:06
  pretty good player there. Brighton lose Boliba to Cameron.
• 51:10
  That's pretty big. That's pretty big loss.
• 51:12
  Burnley lose Tanzebe, Foster and Mayberry.
• 51:17
  Foster's been pretty good for them.
• 51:19
  Foster's been pretty good. Tuanzebi starts most games like
• 51:22
  solid player there. Chelsea lose nobody, Crystal
• 51:27
  Palace lose SAR to Senegal. He's.
• 51:30
  Great. He's pretty good.
• 51:33
  Everton lose in Daaye to. Santa.
• 51:35
  That's big. That's big.
• 51:37
  Which I'm curious. I assume maybe then he won't be
• 51:40
  there this weekend. Some to keep an eye on.
• 51:43
  Arsenal. Everton.
• 51:45
  They're missing Karen Dewsbury. And yeah, that's something to
• 51:49
  keep an eye on. Like I said, my understanding
• 51:50
  was that like teams, they start releasing players actually
• 51:54
  today. So now it may be it depends,
• 51:58
  like with training camps, like if players would be able to play
• 52:01
  this weekend or not. But like I'm almost positive
• 52:03
  like Salah's gone to Egypt like as of today.
• 52:06
  So that could be a big help for Arsenal.
• 52:08
  He's a good player. He's usually the best player.
• 52:12
  Fulham Luca lose 3 players Bassi Iwobi and Chuck Weise that's.
• 52:18
  That's a pretty big loss. That's pretty big because Chuck
• 52:20
  Weise has been playing well for. Them and and yeah, Bassi's a
• 52:23
  good defender and then I will be is like kind of their the heart
• 52:28
  of their midfield. He's a good attacking
• 52:30
  midfielder. Yeah, those are some big losses.
• 52:33
  Yeah. I mean, I think in the past
• 52:34
  couple weeks, I mean, Bassi and Iwobi start almost every game.
• 52:37
  Yeah, Chuck Weise has been starting at least maybe the last
• 52:40
  two or three. Interesting.
• 52:41
  They all are Nigerian. They'll be on the same team.
• 52:44
  I'll be on the same team. Liverpool, of course we talked
• 52:48
  losing Salah. City look like they maybe are
• 52:51
  just going to lose Marmouche. Not 8.
• 52:53
  Nori, it doesn't look like that. No, he might.
• 52:56
  Yeah. I don't know.
• 52:56
  I mean, he hasn't really played right.
• 52:58
  I mean, he's been sitting on the bench because I think Nico
• 53:00
  O'Reilly has been playing better than him.
• 53:05
  So United Lucaloos, Imbumo, Diallo and Mesrawi.
• 53:10
  That is pretty. Big.
• 53:12
  That's pretty big losses there. Newcastle lose nobody.
• 53:15
  Forrest lose. Willy Bowley and Singare, we
• 53:19
  just were talking him up. Sunderland, Luca lose now five
• 53:25
  players, Masuaku, Siddiqui, Mandava, Bertrand, Treori and
• 53:32
  Talbi, so you know some decent players.
• 53:37
  Oh, he's been playing, playing pretty good.
• 53:39
  Yeah, Siddiqui's been playing a little bit.
• 53:42
  Yeah, Spurs lose Basuma. Yeah.
• 53:46
  West Ham will lose Juan Basaka. He's from, I thought he was
• 53:50
  English. Well, they've got He was English
• 53:53
  for a little bit. I know.
• 53:55
  He's a good player. Yeah, he's a good player.
• 53:59
  Wolves lose Agbadu to the to the Cote d'Ivoire and then Chiriwa
• 54:05
  to Zimbabwe. I think Fulham and United are
• 54:08
  taking the most hits there. OK, so from a team standpoint,
• 54:12
  United losing Imbumo, Diallo, Mizrawi and then Fulham lose.
• 54:17
  Yeah, crazy. And I will.
• 54:19
  Yeah. So, you know, yeah, I think I'm
• 54:22
  kind of with you there, Luca, that that, you know, Indaya may
• 54:26
  be one of the best players going.
• 54:28
  But they only lose 1. Player, but they only Everton
• 54:31
  only loses one player. We, we, we don't have any
• 54:35
  players going. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:37
  Last year we had Partay. Yeah, so I mean, it's a it's a
• 54:40
  big advantage. I mean, you know, like you said,
• 54:43
  you can see like how some teams, you know, it's just even losing.
• 54:46
  Like, you know, for Marmoush, for city, it's not really that
• 54:49
  big a deal because Holland plays like every game and and every
• 54:52
  but like if Holland were to go down like tomorrow and then all
• 54:55
  of a sudden now like who plays forward because Marmouche is
• 54:58
  gone, you know, like that's where it affects.
• 54:59
  Them. Yeah, I mean, they'd figure
• 55:01
  something out. But you know, it's this is where
• 55:04
  teams I feel like just maybe hold their breath a little bit,
• 55:06
  you know, you're just like, OK, like we can maybe get away with
• 55:09
  this. But boy, we really hope, you
• 55:11
  know, Holland doesn't go down because we wouldn't have
• 55:13
  Marmouche or if Liverpool were to lose like another winger, oh
• 55:16
  boy, we would have had Salah. Now we don't have them, but
• 55:20
  you're right, I think Fulham losing basically 3 starters and
• 55:23
  that's that's pretty big and United lose some key guys there
• 55:27
  too. So we'll have to see Luca then
• 55:30
  how these teams do over the next month.
• 55:31
  We'll keep an eye on on United and we'll keep an eye on Fulham
• 55:35
  to see how much they're affected by this.
• 55:39
  All right, Luca. Well, should we move over to our
• 55:44
  Did You know section? Yep.
• 55:46
  All right, Luca, our did you know section as we roll through
• 55:48
  learning a little bit more about every Premier League team
• 55:51
  alphabetically, we're up to Chelsea Football Club.
• 55:53
  Luca, one of the big six, one of the glamour teams.
• 55:58
  Luca Chelsea founded in 19 O 5 at the Rising Sun pub after a
• 56:05
  local businessman Luca, you know, was trying to convince
• 56:09
  Fulham to move into Stamford Bridge.
• 56:12
  So Fulham was around before Chelsea.
• 56:15
  Of course, these are two big rivals because they're located
• 56:17
  very close to each other. And interestingly enough is that
• 56:20
  Chelsea is actually located in Fulham, an area in West London.
• 56:24
  So like the neighborhood of Fulham is has Fulham and Chelsea
• 56:29
  in it. The reason why Chelsea picked
• 56:31
  their name is because there was already a team called Fulham, so
• 56:33
  they weren't going to name themselves Fulham.
• 56:35
  So they went over to the next borough over, which is Chelsea,
• 56:38
  and said, OK, we'll be the Chelsea Football Club.
• 56:40
  So Chelsea Football Club is not even located in Chelsea.
• 56:43
  So interesting little fact there.
• 56:45
  And yeah, so Fulham, like I said, could have been playing in
• 56:48
  Stanford Bridge if if 100 years ago they decided, yeah, we'll go
• 56:51
  over and play there. But Fulham said no.
• 56:53
  And of course they stayed. And then Chelsea, like I said,
• 56:55
  have been playing at Stanford Bridge, which is their stadium
• 56:59
  built in. It was built in 1877 for the
• 57:02
  London Athletic Club. So it was around in 1877.
• 57:05
  It was around for almost like 30 years before Chelsea Football
• 57:08
  Club actually moved in there and started playing.
• 57:11
  Holds about 40,000 people at capacity.
• 57:16
  Chelsea joined the Football League pretty much right away,
• 57:19
  like in 19 O 5. They so they joined right away
• 57:22
  in in like the 19541955. They got a for their first
• 57:27
  league title under manager Ted Drake in 1970.
• 57:32
  First FA Cup win in the 80s Luca, they actually fell to the
• 57:36
  second division. They had a lot of financial
• 57:38
  trouble through the 80s. A lot of teams had some
• 57:40
  financial trouble when we've talked about these other.
• 57:42
  Teams exactly like not a lot of teams were doing well
• 57:45
  financially. Like I said during this time,
• 57:47
  this is a real down period for for English soccer where a lot
• 57:50
  of. Depression for English soccer.
• 57:52
  Exactly. There you go.
• 57:54
  And a lot of teams were struggling and you know, a lot
• 57:56
  of teams almost went bankrupt or out of business.
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  But in in kind of the 90s is when a lot of the success
• 58:03
  started to come back. The big thing for them, Luca,
• 58:06
  they had an owner come in in 2003 named Roman Abramovich who
• 58:09
  bought the club and he came from Russia.
• 58:11
  He who had like more money than you could possibly know what to
• 58:14
  do with and he really started investing in the club.
• 58:18
  He brought in Jose Mourinho in 2004.
• 58:21
  And this is now the era of like John Terry, Frank Lampard,
• 58:24
  Didier drove, Peter Check. And this is when all the all the
• 58:28
  titles and everything started coming.
• 58:30
  So 2005 Premier League title was their first in 50 years.
• 58:34
  So the first since remember I mentioned in 54 and 55 they won
• 58:37
  a league title. They win the Premier League, you
• 58:39
  know Five win the Premier League, you know 6 Champions
• 58:43
  League in 2012. Europa title 2013, Premier
• 58:46
  League in 2015. Premier League in 2017.
• 58:50
  Champions League in 2021. Kai Habert scored the winning
• 58:53
  goal, Man I point out there. You go.
• 58:56
  I know. So Luca, their trophy cabinet is
• 58:58
  overflowing. 6 Premier League titles, 8 FA Cups, 5 League
• 59:03
  Cups, 2 Champions Leagues, 2 Europa Leagues.
• 59:07
  They even are whatever it's worth.
• 59:09
  They are the FIFA Club World Cup winners from last summer and two
• 59:12
  cup Winter Cups. So they've had, you know, great
• 59:15
  success. Now, Roman Abramovich, Luka was
• 59:18
  not that great. A guy had ties, ties to Vladimir
• 59:22
  Putin, the head of Russia, and he was forced in 2022 to sell
• 59:25
  the club. They basically went in and were
• 59:28
  like, you need to go, you're not a good guy, we don't like you.
• 59:32
  It's a lot more complicated than what I'm making up.
• 59:33
  But he was forced to sell the club and it was bought by a guy
• 59:37
  named Todd Boley in Clear Lake Capital, his sort of business
• 59:41
  group. And their model, of course, has
• 59:43
  been a little bit different than other teams.
• 59:45
  They basically say, we're going to go out and buy a ton of
• 59:48
  players and we're going to buy young players.
• 59:52
  And what we're going to do is we're going to see who the good
• 59:55
  players are. We're going to keep them.
• 59:56
  And then the other ones, we're just going to sell them.
• 59:58
  And so there's a lot of turnover of players coming and going at
• 1:00:01
  Chelsea. You know, it feels like
• 1:00:02
  everybody's buying players from Chelsea and Chelsea are blind
• 1:00:05
  buying all these players from these other teams.
• 1:00:08
  And for a while, I mean, they've spent so much money over the
• 1:00:11
  past couple years. This year, like I said, feels
• 1:00:14
  like maybe the year they're slowly putting it together a
• 1:00:17
  little bit, you know, where you're starting to see, OK, some
• 1:00:20
  of these young players that they've kept are starting to
• 1:00:22
  look pretty good. You know, Cole Palmer, Malo
• 1:00:25
  Gusto, Pedro Neto is having a good season.
• 1:00:30
  So it finally seems like maybe the model is, you know, it.
• 1:00:34
  It used to be you'd go find players and you keep them for,
• 1:00:37
  you know, 35710 years. You know, these other players I
• 1:00:40
  mentioned, you know, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba,
• 1:00:43
  they were there for, you know, Lampart.
• 1:00:46
  Luke was there from O 1 to 2014. John Terry was there from 1998
• 1:00:50
  to 2017, Strogba O 4 to 2012 and came back from 14 to 15.
• 1:00:56
  I mean, John Terry made 717 appearances, you know, Lampard
• 1:01:01
  their best their. Leading goal.
• 1:01:02
  I mean, that's their highest appearances, Rick.
• 1:01:05
  Actually, there's a guy back in the 60s, Luca, named Ron Harris
• 1:01:10
  had 795 appearance. Yeah, from 61 to 80.
• 1:01:15
  But Lampard, I think is their all time leading goal scorer.
• 1:01:19
  Now, there's only one interesting Luca, you know, of
• 1:01:21
  course they've had Eden Hazard, Claude Mookie, LA, Ashley Cole,
• 1:01:25
  Gianfranco Zola. There's only one person that has
• 1:01:28
  a statue outside of Stamford Bridge, a guy named Peter
• 1:01:30
  Osgood. And he scored the goals in the
• 1:01:34
  1970 FA Cup win and was also in the 71 Cup Winners Cup.
• 1:01:40
  He's the only person with a statue.
• 1:01:41
  Interesting. I thought like Lampard or Terry
• 1:01:44
  would have one. I mean, it's hard to imagine
• 1:01:46
  them that those 2 not at some point, you know, I mean they're.
• 1:01:50
  Called Ledge. They're there for a long time
• 1:01:52
  and won a lot of things with them.
• 1:01:54
  I know. I mean, even Peter check maybe.
• 1:01:57
  Yeah. More clean sheets than any other
• 1:01:58
  goalie. Now he went to Arsenal.
• 1:02:00
  I don't know if that, like, hurts him.
• 1:02:02
  Like from a Chelsea standpoint, you're gonna put a statue up of
• 1:02:05
  somebody. Does that hurt you, Luca, if you
• 1:02:07
  played for sort of a London rival?
• 1:02:10
  Maybe. Yeah, I know.
• 1:02:11
  I feel like it might a little bit, but I mean John Terry like
• 1:02:13
  700 appearances and like all those trophies like.
• 1:02:17
  These guys. Love, I mean, to me like Lampard
• 1:02:20
  and Terry have to get statue outside that stadium drug bar,
• 1:02:24
  you know, maybe. He was a good goal scorer for
• 1:02:26
  them. He was, he was really, really
• 1:02:28
  good. And again, he was during that
• 1:02:29
  golden era when Marino came, Marino came in and did all that.
• 1:02:34
  Luca, their their highest sale, OK, the most, the most money
• 1:02:38
  Chelsea's ever gotten back for a player in 2019, they sold this
• 1:02:43
  player to Real Madrid. Do you know who it is?
• 1:02:46
  To Real Madrid. It's interesting that it's like
• 1:02:51
  6 years ago, usually all the highest sales and stuff are
• 1:02:53
  always like recently that. I I don't, I feel like I know
• 1:02:57
  what you're talking about. Eden Hazard, OH.
• 1:03:00
  OK. And then their most expensive
• 1:03:03
  buy. It's the most expensive player
• 1:03:06
  they've ever bought. I don't know what.
• 1:03:10
  Enzo Fernandez 140 million. Chisedo is 130 million, but 140
• 1:03:17
  million. Enzo Fernandez.
• 1:03:20
  Think about those two midfielders that start for them,
• 1:03:22
  $270 million spent on two players.
• 1:03:26
  That's crazy. Is that really is that worth it?
• 1:03:30
  I don't know, you tell me. I mean like, do you think those
• 1:03:32
  two players are worth? That month, I don't think Endo
• 1:03:35
  Fernandez ended up being worth $140 million.
• 1:03:39
  No, I agree with you. I don't think he.
• 1:03:40
  He's maybe he might be worth 130.
• 1:03:43
  Kaiser. I think Kaiser is good, but we
• 1:03:45
  talked about this before like. He's super young, he's.
• 1:03:48
  But he's reckless. I mean, like he, you know, the
• 1:03:51
  red card against Arsenal really hurt them.
• 1:03:53
  He he, he helps them a lot, but then he does some really dumb
• 1:03:56
  things and I think kind of hurts them at times.
• 1:03:58
  He's an awesome player. Like I I do think he's a really,
• 1:04:00
  really good player. I think he's way better than
• 1:04:03
  Enzo Fernandez in my opinion. So is he?
• 1:04:07
  So Kaiser, it probably is worth 130 million.
• 1:04:09
  I mean, it sounds like a crazy figure, but that's just how much
• 1:04:12
  good players cost. You know, we talked about like
• 1:04:14
  Declan Rice like at 110 million or something like that.
• 1:04:17
  Like it just if you get a guy that's sort of like a difference
• 1:04:20
  maker, yeah. I mean, that's just, that's the
• 1:04:23
  cost of doing business. All right, Luca, well, I think
• 1:04:27
  we're getting towards the end here.
• 1:04:29
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• 1:04:33
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• 1:04:36
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• 1:04:40
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• 1:04:44
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• 1:04:47
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• 1:04:52
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• 1:04:54
  We do a little penalty kick trivia shootout.
• 1:04:57
  We're just like a penalty kick shootout.
• 1:04:59
  We go back and forth as if each team is kicking the ball into
• 1:05:04
  the goal. And that's the question.
• 1:05:05
  So you get it right. You score a goal, you miss,
• 1:05:07
  you've either gone wide or the goalie saved it.
• 1:05:09
  Luca, do you want to go first or second?
• 1:05:11
  I'm going to ask you first. OK, go ahead and #1.
• 1:05:14
  Who scored the fastest five goals in the Premier League
• 1:05:17
  match? He's like a Premier League
• 1:05:20
  legend. And so he scored five goals in a
• 1:05:22
  match. Yes.
• 1:05:26
  Well, I think we we talked about this over the five goals,
• 1:05:28
  there's been like only five players to do it.
• 1:05:31
  Yeah, do you remember one of them?
• 1:05:35
  But it's the fastest. The fastest to get the five
• 1:05:38
  goals? Yeah, but you just have to name
• 1:05:39
  the player, you know? Cole.
• 1:05:43
  Who? Cole.
• 1:05:44
  No Aguero. Aguero Wow.
• 1:05:47
  OK. 23 minutes and 30. Seconds.
• 1:05:49
  Wow. I wonder how quick he scored the
• 1:05:52
  hat trick. Yeah.
• 1:05:53
  God, all right, Luca, who was Chelsea's leading scorer in the
• 1:05:58
  Premier League last year? Last year.
• 1:06:03
  We're just talking about Chelsea doing a little deep dive.
• 1:06:05
  So who led, who led the team in scoring in the Premier League
• 1:06:08
  last year? Not all competitions in the.
• 1:06:09
  Premier, it was like Nicholas Jackson was your striker last
• 1:06:15
  year, but was he there? I don't think he was their
• 1:06:18
  leading goal scorer. Matter Wakey was on that team,
• 1:06:23
  but I don't think it was mad awake.
• 1:06:29
  I'm just going to go mad awake, yeah.
• 1:06:35
  You're going to kick yourself, Cole Palmer.
• 1:06:37
  Oh yeah, geez. Yeah, I figured you just didn't
• 1:06:42
  think of them. All right, So all right, Two
• 1:06:45
  misses, Luca. Yeah, 2 clubs avoided defeat to
• 1:06:50
  Arsenal in their invincible season in 2003, says 2004
• 1:06:55
  Portsmouth and who? Oh wow, that's a good question.
• 1:07:00
  You, like, always talk about this game that it was so
• 1:07:02
  controversial with these terrible calls.
• 1:07:04
  Oh, United, Yeah. Oh, wow.
• 1:07:06
  So in the Invincible season, we didn't beat United.
• 1:07:09
  We're both still not over it. Well, famously united.
• 1:07:12
  So the the the invincible season of O3 O 4 is where they went.
• 1:07:15
  They're the only team to go without a loss.
• 1:07:18
  In the entire in. The entire season, However, the
• 1:07:21
  the season before and then the season after, Arsenal actually
• 1:07:23
  went 49 games without losing. They lost in that 50th game to
• 1:07:28
  United and it was in my opinion, rigged.
• 1:07:31
  The ref, the referees. United were literally should
• 1:07:34
  have probably had two guys get red cards.
• 1:07:37
  I mean, it was ridiculous. We're still not over it.
• 1:07:40
  I wasn't born, but I I. You know, I would have liked to
• 1:07:43
  seen how far Arsenal could have taken that and they that game
• 1:07:46
  was stolen from that. Yeah.
• 1:07:48
  But anyway, all right, Luca, all right, I guess I get that one
• 1:07:52
  right, right. Yeah.
• 1:07:53
  OK Luca, Andy Robertson, left back for Liverpool, plays for
• 1:07:57
  what national team in the World Cup?
• 1:08:00
  Scotland. That is correct, yeah.
• 1:08:02
  Yeah. He's actually, I think, the
• 1:08:03
  captain for that. Team.
• 1:08:04
  Yeah, yeah, he's your best player probably.
• 1:08:07
  Yeah, probably. Maybe Mctominy?
• 1:08:09
  Yeah, Yeah. Mctominy's been really good
• 1:08:11
  since he left United. That's a good call, yeah.
• 1:08:13
  The first time Newcastle scored five goals in the first half of
• 1:08:18
  a Premier League match was in the 2223 season.
• 1:08:21
  Against which side? Oh boy.
• 1:08:25
  You're going to kick yourself if you get this wrong.
• 1:08:27
  Oh, I am wolves. Tottenham.
• 1:08:33
  I don't pay attention to Todd. All right, look who holds the
• 1:08:37
  Premier League record for most consecutive Premier League
• 1:08:41
  matches scored in. So the player scored, you know,
• 1:08:46
  like I said, the most consecutive game scoring a goal
• 1:08:49
  is. But I'm by who?
• 1:08:50
  Holland. Nope.
• 1:08:52
  I'll give you another guess. It happened in 2015.
• 1:08:59
  It was 11 games in a row. Scored a goal.
• 1:09:01
  I want to go Rooney. No good guess.
• 1:09:04
  Jamie Vardy. Oh, Jamie Vardis has the record
• 1:09:08
  for 11 straight games. Leicester.
• 1:09:11
  No, he's in Italy and he's actually doing well with like,
• 1:09:13
  Creminencee. Oh, OK.
• 1:09:16
  So no, I think he left Leicester this summer and but he's doing
• 1:09:19
  really well over there. I think he's got a bunch of
• 1:09:22
  gold. 35. I think he's older than that,
• 1:09:24
  actually. It's unbelievable.
• 1:09:26
  Non league to Premier League to doing well in Italy.
• 1:09:29
  He's an amazing story. Like yeah, like anybody look at
• 1:09:32
  like Luca said, like he literally came out of nowhere.
• 1:09:34
  He's like, you know, like is it in non league?
• 1:09:36
  He was like. An amateur.
• 1:09:37
  League, yeah. Jamie Vardi's having a party.
• 1:09:40
  Yeah, yeah, he's a Premier League champion and again,
• 1:09:43
  holding a Premier League record that like, Holland doesn't have
• 1:09:46
  yet. Henri doesn't have Aguero Lamp.
• 1:09:49
  I mean like all these great goal scorers, nobody but him scored
• 1:09:52
  in 11 games in a row. From non league to a Premier
• 1:09:56
  League title. Incredible.
• 1:09:57
  It's an awesome story. I mean, really, there probably
• 1:09:59
  should be a movie. Yeah, honestly, which goalkeeper
• 1:10:03
  has the most clean cheeks in a single Premier League season?
• 1:10:07
  Oh, gotta be Peter Check. Yeah, yeah, that Chelsea year
• 1:10:12
  does it say I have the year on it?
• 1:10:13
  Look at the quantity. Yes, 0405, you got 24.
• 1:10:17
  Yeah, I think I see they gave up fifteen goals.
• 1:10:20
  Yeah, but that was Chelsea. He was for Chelsea.
• 1:10:24
  Yeah, Yeah, I, I think it was then probably.
• 1:10:27
  Yeah, I think it's the record for.
• 1:10:28
  Obviously it's a record for most.
• 1:10:30
  Clean teams, 14 games that they scored on.
• 1:10:33
  Yeah, it's and that record I I just can't imagine.
• 1:10:36
  That anyone breaking that? I mean, even as good as like
• 1:10:39
  Arsenal's defenses, then we've now given up ten goals like
• 1:10:41
  through 16 games. Like it's just like, how did
• 1:10:43
  they do that? They might, I don't know.
• 1:10:46
  It's. Incredible.
• 1:10:48
  All right, Luca, my question What Premier League team plays
• 1:10:51
  at Molyneux Stadium? Oh no.
• 1:10:58
  Oh, wolves. That is true.
• 1:10:59
  Wolves play there. They've been playing there since
• 1:11:01
  1889. Holds about 31,000.
• 1:11:05
  It's named after Benjamin Molyneux, a local merchant who
• 1:11:08
  actually bought the land. Look, in 1744, he bought the
• 1:11:12
  land where they eventually put this stadium there like 150
• 1:11:15
  years later. And even now today, he's got his
• 1:11:18
  name on it. Pretty cool, OK.
• 1:11:20
  Who is the youngest player to reach 100 Premier League
• 1:11:23
  appearances? Oh, youngest Rooney, Yeah.
• 1:11:28
  OK, 19 years old in 321 days. Wow, that's incredible.
• 1:11:32
  On September 10th, 2518 years old.
• 1:11:38
  He was almost 20. Yeah, all right, look what
• 1:11:41
  Premier League team has won the most FA Cups?
• 1:11:46
  Arsenal. That's right, Arsenal have won
• 1:11:47
  fourteen FA Cups. Yeah.
• 1:11:50
  My last one for you is which club has the most bookings in a
• 1:11:54
  single Premier League season? Oh, I know this.
• 1:11:56
  I'm almost positive. Hold on, Chelsea.
• 1:11:58
  Yeah, 109 cards, 105 yellow cards and four Reds.
• 1:12:03
  I remember that that was what, just a couple years ago?
• 1:12:05
  He's. 2324. Yeah, I remember.
• 1:12:07
  That, that was crazy. All right, Luca, my final one to
• 1:12:10
  you is Killian Mbappe, superstar soccer player with Real Madrid.
• 1:12:15
  Luca has played for three club teams.
• 1:12:17
  He obviously plays for France national team.
• 1:12:19
  Can you tell me the three club teams that Mbappe has played
• 1:12:22
  for? Real Madrid, Monaco and Paris
• 1:12:26
  Santorini. Boom, you got them all three of
• 1:12:28
  them there. So, all right, look, you got
• 1:12:31
  anything else for me? Well, there's the final whistle
• 1:12:35
  that's full time for us. Thank you for listening.
• 1:12:37
  Bye.