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#5 Newcastle in the Streets, Aston Villa in the Sheets · Draft Offsides Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to episodes five of Dropped Off Sides.
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  I'm with Tico Nenza. My name is Keith.
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  Week one is in the books of the Premier League season.
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  How are you guys feeling after that?
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  Would have felt a lot better fucking Tottenham one, but yeah
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  not but not bad it was actually. I got to watch a lot of games at
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  the weekend off, so got to watch a lot of games.
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  Excited we get to finally talk about the sport and actually get
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  to watch it at the end of every week, so that's very exciting.
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  It's off to a great start, Can't wait until this coming week.
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  More games, more action, so it should be fun.
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  What were the big takeaways for you guys?
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  Like Big picture where you kind of What were you thinking?
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  I'll start with Tottenham. What a fucking shit show.
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  Jesus, I watched that game. It was just unpleasant to watch,
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  just to set up in the middle. It was like a cluster mess.
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  I know, and you and I touch touch bases on this over the
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  weekend. And to me it was Sun not being
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  featured that often. And it felt like Sun was just
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  kind of just an average player just going up and down getting
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  passes here and there. Madison looked amazing.
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  So that was my take away from that game.
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  And Richard, listen. Was just kind of up there
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  walking around, not doing much. All right, just a touch on that.
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  I I completely agree. I watched that game, obviously,
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  and the first half was a shit show, as you said.
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  There was a lot of the wingbacks where we're basically playing
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  San midfield. So we had like 5 in the middle
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  plus Sun and Cooloo trying to get involved and it just wasn't
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  working. We weren't getting Madison on
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  the ball and then obviously Ramos.
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  Being get Ramos, Romero, being hurt like real early.
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  Even after scoring that goal. That was a big one to hurt for.
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  If I'm gonna take any positives, it looks better than last year
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  and the year before that. Honestly, it was more, it was
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  more interesting to watch. We weren't just sitting back on
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  the counter attack. But yeah, it doesn't look good
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  honestly. Rich Alison didn't touch the
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  ball. Some was in existence.
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  My one thought there is like, I felt like even if it didn't, it
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  wasn't perfect. I think everyone knew it wasn't
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  gonna be perfect with and right off the rip, right?
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  Like that's kind of been his DNA or his style is that sometimes
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  takes a while to get used to. But the one thing I thought was
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  at least there was like a sense of identity.
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  Like you were saying, like the wing backs were kind of under
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  lapping and playing midfielder like and playing the midfield.
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  But like at least that's something.
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  At least they were trying to like they had a system, they
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  were trying to implement. So I don't know.
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  I think that was a positive take away from that situation.
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  Anything else like kind of big. I think one thing for me is I
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  always on the opening week, I always look forward to like a
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  big upset, like a big subversion of expectations and some
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  capacity. And I was a little bit
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  disappointed there wasn't like a big draw or a big, big loss.
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  And like I the game today with United and United Wolves I I was
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  like I started getting really excited like 1/3 of that with
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  1/4 of the way through the games.
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  I was like, holy shit, Wolves might be the team, this might be
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  the upset of the week, but I'm lucky for them they didn't.
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  They weren't able to get that and they weren't able to get a
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  penalty in the dying minutes. Any other any other things that
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  were just really surprising for you guys, any like big
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  surprises? Surprising to me was that Man
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  City did not start Grillish and they didn't even bring him on as
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  a sub, at least just to get 1520 minutes.
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  I thought that was a big surprise when I saw the lineup.
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  You know, with the starting lineup, Pep always tinkers and
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  he moves people around. But usually he kind of brings
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  them in and gives him some playing time.
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  I was kind of surprised that he didn't get any playing time, to
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  be honest. Yeah, you think that's, you
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  think that's just a week one thing and he'll be.
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  He'll probably start next week, I bet.
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  What do you think? It's a pep thing he's putting.
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  He's doing the same thing he always does, his rotation.
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  Don't get around that piss me off too.
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  I had a cold players in there and a couple of my leagues where
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  I was like they usually start. He even said they were good to
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  go like Vardio and they didn't start so.
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  It's just PEP doing PEP things. I was really surprised.
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  Obviously we talked about Newcastle being good, but just
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  the extent of how good they were against Villa, that's pretty
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  impressive. They were.
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  They were really good. I watched that game too.
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  I thought Villa got a little bit off their momentum.
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  When Ming's got hurt, he's gonna be probably out for a little
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  bit. Looks like he's got shine down
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  with his knee. He looked in pure agony.
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  So that. Yeah.
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  But besides that, like Harvey Bonds Isaac.
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  Freaking amazing, man. Look, they look really bloody
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  good. They're relentless.
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  They keep coming 90 minutes non-stop attacking.
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  Even though the scoreline was 5 to 1.
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  The game was closer than the 5:00 to 1:00 I think it
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  suggests. Especially when it was 2/1, it
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  was still good game three. One it was still somewhat
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  competitive, and then afterwards just Aston Villa just gave it
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  up. But I Villa also played well.
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  Just, you know, if someone looks at the score they'll see five
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  and one, they're gonna think, you know, it's just complete
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  thrashing. But it was a close game for what
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  was it the first half? 60 minutes is when it kind of,
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  and I think that's kind of what Newcastle is going to be doing
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  to people, just kind of attacking, keeping the high pace
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  of the whole 90 minutes and that's going to affect the
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  opposition sooner or later. They're just going to tire out.
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  I totally agree. I feel like we're all so eager
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  to talk about the games. Should we just get straight into
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  the recaps and just kind of start plowing, plowing through
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  these things? Because I think they're gonna.
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  It's gonna take us some time to get through it all.
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  Just kick off the week was Burnley versus Man City.
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  Burnley Zero. Man City Three.
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  Kind of touched on it. I think the big point of
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  discussion that hasn't really been talked enough about is the
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  KDB injury. The brain went down in like the
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  25th minute and it seemed like it was a similar injury to what
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  he'd been dealing with for the last.
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  You know, he was injured at the end of last season.
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  He was playing through it and I think it's that same hamstring
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  that he just messed up again. How worried are you guys for
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  him? Worried for him for the season.
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  It's it's not exactly the best time to get injured is right at
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  the beginning, but it is the best time because then you have
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  time to recover. But oh man, see, you're going to
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  do the right thing and let him recover.
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  Because honestly, I think they should have.
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  If they're going to arrest him, they should arrest him against
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  fucking. Apparently, they arrested
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  everybody else. You know what I mean.
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  It's just like a big upgrade for Bernard Silva.
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  Or do you think is there anyone else that really could benefit
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  from the KDB injury? Foden Foden could be that
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  centerpiece where he can create a little bit more.
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  We saw what he did in that game. He did a lot of running down the
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  wing, but if you put me a little bit more central, let him cut in
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  a little bit more. I think he can create, he can be
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  that creator for him. I.
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  Also Covert Church, because when they took up KDB they put in
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  Covert Church. So again, he's not gonna be
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  getting a lot of assists, a lot of goals, but he's gonna get the
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  playing time. So and you know they're gonna
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  get the clean sheets. So I would the where I had
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  Covert you drank. Obviously, this elevates him, at
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  least until Kevin De Brune comes back.
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  And like you mentioned, Keith, like this is something that was
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  been hampering last year as well.
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  And then they had the World Cup, He wasn't himself playing in the
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  World Cup as well. So something to definitely keep
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  an eye out on moving forward for the rest of the year.
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  City feels thin now. Like, I feel like they they're
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  gonna have to sign somebody. I know there's been some
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  discussion about Matoma, Lisa, was there someone at Paketa or
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  all three people that they're talking about signing?
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  I think they have to sign one of them, right?
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  Just to fill that void at KDB with the way that he came off,
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  the fact there was an old injury, I'm I'm like that could
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  be anywhere from a month to four months to to longer.
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  Like, I can't imagine he's back in next week, you know?
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  They might have to sign it to a couple of them.
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  Honestly, I think the care would be the obvious choice to pick
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  up. At least I didn't hear about.
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  But yeah, I think the care would be the obvious choice that
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  they're gonna pick up somebody. What do you guys think?
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  It was Holland with two goals. Is he just unstoppable for us?
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  Don't get wrong, was against Burnley, but come on man, he
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  does it against everybody. So and scoring within what, the
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  first like what, 5 minutes and it's Harlan doing.
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  Harlan, what do we say? Harlan eats, and that's what
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  he's gonna do. He's gonna keep it.
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  Honestly, it felt like if KDB was in.
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  Played the whole game, he would have had more goals.
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  A couple of times he was open, just people couldn't pass the
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  ball to him. And Halan even had a couple of
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  nice passes too. I think it was Alvarez, one
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  inside the box. He shot it right at the
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  goalkeeper. So Halan is just going to
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  continue where he left off last year and obviously him not going
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  to the World Cup kept them fresh.
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  So Halan eats and he's going to continue doing it and I'm going
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  to enjoy it. Man, it's that you.
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  It feels so much better when you have a more fantasy.
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  Are we all big dumb idiots Cuz we just missed Rodri all off
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  season and then he's had about two assists in a goal or?
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  In my defense, I told them so to draft them.
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  He just ignored me. No, man, He's just, look,
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  there's gonna be so many players in Man C that are gonna be part
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  of the game and it won't be every game of the season.
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  There's only a few that are gonna be there every game.
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  We know this already. There's so many talent players
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  on that team that there's gonna be someone who has to step up
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  and they'll step up. That's the thing about Man C
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  they have so much talent. But Rodri doing it every game, I
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  don't think so. There's gonna be games where
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  he's gonna have to sit back. He's gonna have to play more,
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  come more deeper. I think so too.
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  I think that was like a little bit of a flash in the pan.
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  Were you guys surprised to see Kyle Walker in the starting
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  lineup as well? I think he once he signed that
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  deal, he was pretty much gonna be playing.
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  I think it was. That was kind of the only
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  uncertainty. The one surprise was Enzo's guy,
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  Rico Lewis, who he called out preseason as to he thought he
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  was gonna get some serious minutes, but he started.
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  That was pretty interesting. Again, is he gonna start every
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  game? I don't know.
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  I thought he'd be more like rotation.
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  So he still, I think, could have a good season.
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  And if he can take the opportunities that I've given to
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  him, yeah, it'll be good. Yeah, I guess kind of just
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  continue our conversation about Grealish.
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  Like, man, he, he fell to me in the third round in one of our
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  leagues, which is so late, and I really didn't want to take him,
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  but at that point I felt like I had to.
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  But man, I'm nervous after after that, after him not starting at
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  all, not even coming on at any point.
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  It's just like what what that's about.
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  I think TI was kind of rolling my eyes when T at the beginning
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  of the season was Tiko was being like, oh, he's been drinking so
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  much offseason. But now I'm like, oh, maybe.
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  Maybe there's something to it. Maybe he just needs to get a
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  little fitness back. No, no.
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  No, man. He's a professional and these
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  are all professionals. They get ready for the game.
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  That was just Tico just saying Tico things.
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  He'll get in the lineup again. You will.
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  It just gave me it just it was just a little kernel of doubt in
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  the back of my head, even though I know that there's a little
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  kernel. I was like, Oh my God, it's
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  Tico, right? Like I say, being just joking
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  around, messing around. But there's actually a Twitter
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  account called Drunk Village. And they followed.
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  It's they posted literally every day at different places like
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  sometimes multiple different bars in the same day.
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  So I do think he will play himself into shape.
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  He will be a regular keep. I think it's just early season,
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  you know, we like to overreact on the react because a player we
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  drafted in the first second round that they don't put up a
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  good day and we start panicking. But you know, Grill is just
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  someone. Eventually he'll be crack the
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  rotation on a regular basis and get at least, you know, his
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  minutes. OK, last last question before we
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  move on to the next game, is there anyone on Burnley that
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  even remotely gave you any shred of interest after that game?
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  I mean, we're assuming there'll be better days ahead.
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  You can just say no, we can move on.
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  No, no. OK, let's let's move on then.
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  Arsenal 2 not in force. One got goals from Eloni and
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  then he scored the 82nd just to keep it kind of nervy at the
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  end. What do you guys think of this
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  game? I watched this game too.
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  I don't know why I woke up for it, but I did and I watched it
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  also. Looked good in the first half.
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  Don't get wrong, they actually look good for a lot of the
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  second-half. But I don't know what happened.
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  Someone switched off and Norman Forrest were just pushing them
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  on their back foot. It got exciting at the end, so I
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  did not watch the game, Did they?
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  Were they pushing them like for the whole second-half?
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  It was. It just kind of like they got a
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  goal and then it was nervy after that.
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  Around the 65th, maybe 68th minute, it just seemed that the
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  ties started turning. I don't know what it was like.
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  I couldn't tell ya. I was watching the game, but it
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  just. I was.
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  I'm not gonna lie, I was wishing for knowing Forest to score the
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  whole play time. But soccer's goal was amazing.
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  What a frigging. What a goal.
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  And Kaya? Yeah, it was more about
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  Martinelli. Yeah, that Martinelli is.
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  No, that's. What that was about really cuz
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  even his shot was. And it was a reflection.
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  It was a deflective shot. But do I see Nikay, you're doing
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  that week and week out? No.
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  Do I see soccer doing that week and week out?
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  Yeah. I think again, Odegaard was was
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  OK, wasn't. I don't think he was the same
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  player that I saw him lost last season.
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  But a big one for that game is, is Tim Burke.
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  And he's out for what, four months now?
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  So the whole just talk really quickly about Odegaard before we
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  get into the defense. Are you worried with Kai habits
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  in there? It's screwing up what he does.
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  Do you think he's getting in his way in some capacity or like
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  taking some touches away from him?
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  And that's what it is in my opinion.
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  I still don't understand where car have as well.
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  I think trossage should have started honestly, because I
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  think the chemistry is a lot better and I hate to say that
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  Sergey's right, but yeah, the chemistry's a lot better.
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  Have has just seemed lost sometimes in that midfield
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  attacking role. He was getting in the way.
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  He wasn't spacing correctly, but.
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  Again, first game of the season, we'll see what happens.
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  Maybe he'll find his his feet and maybe he'll help improve
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  that side, but at the moment I think he's better off coming off
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  the bench. I watched the game after the the
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  replay and even the goal that Niketia scored, he could.
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  He should have laid that one off.
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  He got lucky with the deflection there.
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  It'd be interesting to see he starts moving forward if if or
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  they just kind of put your start or have it somewhere else.
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  Just shift the lineup because I don't think he's gonna be he's.
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  He he didn't look that great as a night for me up there.
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  The Martinelli, that assist was amazing, Not sure if he was
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  trying to make the pass or not and same thing with Ode Gardius,
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  he did good, but he needs to be better than that for Arsenal to
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  be successful. So it'd be interesting to see it
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  how he plays moving forward. But it's interesting to watch
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  what you said, Keith, with Haverts being in the lineup and
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  taking touches away from him in the midfield because there.
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  They go as Odegar and soccer goes, and you don't want soccer
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  to get less touches. You wanna maximize, maximize his
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  role with the timber injury that Enzo mentioned is are there any
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  defenders that suddenly are, are we interested in like, are we
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  interested in party? Because it's just weird because
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  he's not technically classified as a defender, so you're not
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  getting clean sheet sheet points for him.
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  But is there anyone else that like is because everyone else is
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  pretty drafted in their back line?
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  Tommy Yasu came on. It's Enchenko tinny still in
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  there so they have plays are slowing.
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  I'm just but it doesn't put any confidence in them if they're
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  putting pie at right back. You know would you stream an
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  arsenal that let's say like next game Tommy Yasu comes in and
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  you're kind of shorted offender. Would you would you drop, would
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  you strip, drop a bench player and potentially stream Tommy
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  Yasu. Do you think that's like a
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  potentially a good play? Depends what players you go on
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  your bench. Yeah, of course.
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  But like, if you have shit players on your bench.
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  Yeah, you you pick up Tommy Austin because he's probably get
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  a little bit more minutes. But honestly, there's gonna be a
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  lot of changes in my opinion, to a lot of people's teams this
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  week because they're gonna see that we're gonna panic or
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  they're gonna see players that didn't play or didn't get any
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  minutes and feel they have to pick up a star to get.
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  You get those points and what do you think about the the goal for
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  a woni was that, Do you think that's indicative of what
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  they're gonna do? I feel like he was.
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  He was. I remember him being very good
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  at the end of last season, like he kind of helped keep them up.
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  Yeah, we start playing, but he didn't, he didn't start the
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  game. Do you think he starts the next
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  one? Do you think Danilo comes out
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  and they they play at one with Gibbs, White and Johnson playing
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  10s behind them? No, I don't.
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  I think they go with the same thing.
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  They're one of the teams I got going down, so all right, let's
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  let's keep moving then. Next game is Bournemouth one,
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  West Ham one. There was a beautiful goal by
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  Jared Bowen in the 51st and it seems like after that West Ham
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  just kind of like went to a show, yeah.
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  They were playing, they were playing for the win.
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  With the one they'll win. I watched extended highlights.
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  Honestly, they felt like they were missing a piece.
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  They did just pick up James Woolprouse, so that might help
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  them with a little bit more creativity in the midfield to
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  create something for the forwards.
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  But West Ham at the moment, I think.
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  They need a lot more that I think they're gonna be bomb half
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  the table this season. It's wild to me that both
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  Antonio and Danny Ings like aren't being drafted and like
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  just think about how scarce strikers are.
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  But like no one has any confidence in the West Ham
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  strikers. Like, like Antonio has scored a
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  lot of goals in the Premier League.
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  Danny Ings has scored a lot of goals in the Premier League, but
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  just West Ham in general is just no one.
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  Just is like wanting to touch that.
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  Well, like I said, their value might go up now that war process
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  is in there, cuz he can put on a dime when he's having the top of
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  his game. So we'll see, totally.
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  I think the other thing I really noticed in this game was the
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  fullbacks for both teams, like Emerson had a pretty solid game.
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  He was getting up and down the pitch that Kirk is on for.
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  Bournemouth was doing really well on the other side.
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  Those might be guys to look at and then yeah, then other than
• 17:26
  that, I think just the James word processing is like the
• 17:27
  biggest talking point. This is what he's gonna do.
• 17:29
  Kind of ends up brought it up, but do you guys think he becomes
• 17:33
  a like top 20 player? Because when you look at where
• 17:36
  he where he was drafted last year for a worse Southampton
• 17:39
  team, he was going in like the second round.
• 17:42
  So now that he's playing for West Ham, do you think he
• 17:45
  should, Should he be? I think he should be the number
• 17:48
  one waiver priority for everyone.
• 17:50
  Do you guys disagree? I think it's also just the trust
• 17:55
  in West Ham. Like you said, people are not,
• 17:57
  are not drafting him. They sold players.
• 17:59
  They haven't bought a lot of talent and I don't think they're
• 18:02
  going to, I mean, out of the any of us think they're going to be
• 18:04
  as successful as they were last year.
• 18:08
  The person I will look at is their goalkeeper, Areola, just
• 18:10
  because I think he's going to be busy this year.
• 18:12
  He's going to have a lot of saves, but they're also going to
• 18:15
  lose a lot of games. So if they're playing.
• 18:17
  Obviously not the elite teams. That's someone I would probably
• 18:20
  play just because they are gonna have shots on gold.
• 18:21
  They are he's, he is gonna have the saves and that's the only
• 18:24
  one that will probably look at. Especially if you don't have one
• 18:27
  of those goalkeepers that you plug in every week and you don't
• 18:30
  worry about this is a goalkeeper that I would definitely look to
• 18:33
  pick up for matchups. No, you're gonna pick up anyone
• 18:37
  off the waiver. And Sanyolo just signed for
• 18:39
  Aston Villa. He's an exciting player.
• 18:41
  He'll be one to look at. I kind of holding on to the West
• 18:47
  End thing real quick. I initially felt like Piquetta
• 18:49
  going to City would be like a bad thing for Piquetta because
• 18:52
  he wouldn't get as many touches and whatever.
• 18:54
  But now, like just the way that West End is not looking super
• 18:57
  exciting like he might of City, even if it doesn't play every
• 18:59
  game, it might just be better because he might actually be in
• 19:01
  point scoring positions way more frequently at that team.
• 19:05
  Because that right now the way he's playing is just, I don't
• 19:07
  see them doing much. There's just so much reliance on
• 19:11
  Jared Bowen to do something magical.
• 19:12
  He stubbed them off. They needed them on the pitch.
• 19:15
  All right, let's go to the next game.
• 19:17
  Brighton Fort Luton Town won, right?
• 19:19
  It's pretty good. I watched the game, man.
• 19:22
  It was. They were fun to watch.
• 19:24
  They were very fun to watch. Brian again.
• 19:27
  It was against Luton though. It's against Luton, don't get me
• 19:30
  wrong, and only wrong. Luton did score a goal and it
• 19:33
  was, it was a penalty and everything.
• 19:34
  But Brian just looked on it, man.
• 19:37
  Like Matoma class. Kevin Ferguson coming on.
• 19:41
  Just putting the cherry on top. Excellent, man.
• 19:44
  They they look good. They look, they were like,
• 19:46
  gross. All the all the shit we were
• 19:48
  talking. Well, shit that we were all
• 19:49
  talking about selling Marty Gros.
• 19:51
  They fucking stepped up, man. They look, they look good.
• 19:53
  But again, it's against losing. Let's see how they do against
• 19:57
  the next team. I'm not sure who they're playing
• 19:59
  next. I think my biggest red flag for
• 20:03
  Brighton was the four goals, four different goal scorers, 2
• 20:07
  Subs scored, lot of lot of substitutions on the attacking
• 20:10
  line and see. So we didn't even see.
• 20:12
  There's guys, you know, there's attacking players that were
• 20:14
  drafted relatively high, that we didn't even get a like a look,
• 20:16
  that didn't even get a look in this game.
• 20:18
  I'm almost worried that it's gonna start turning into a city
• 20:21
  situation where these guys are gonna be doing a lot of rotating
• 20:24
  and then we're gonna just be like it's we're gonna be kind of
• 20:26
  having that balance, like balance who's like, who's
• 20:29
  playing. That's gonna be a headache.
• 20:33
  But, and like Enzo said, it's also against Luton Town.
• 20:36
  So you could just put out your B squad and give some of the
• 20:39
  players a rest, bring a new players, try different things
• 20:43
  out. I don't think this is going to
• 20:44
  be indicative of what lineups are going to use moving forward.
• 20:49
  But yeah, it was they're a fun team to watch.
• 20:51
  Definitely put out four goals. You know, they took care of
• 20:53
  business, essentially. That's what they had to do.
• 20:56
  And per Luton Town Man, I I think that's to be my team
• 20:59
  rooting for this year. You know what though?
• 21:01
  I kind of disagree with you guys.
• 21:02
  I think I know it's looting talent, but it's the first game
• 21:05
  of the season. I feel like they're gonna put
• 21:07
  out what they think is their best team.
• 21:09
  I don't think you. I don't think you rest guys for
• 21:10
  game one. I think you wanna put out your
• 21:12
  best team that you think is gonna give you the best chance
• 21:15
  to win. I think they put out their best
• 21:17
  team. I know we talk about Danny
• 21:20
  Welbeck and he's a veteran. He played well, He created, he
• 21:24
  was strong. He created chances, He made
• 21:27
  chances for himself. I just think they went with the
• 21:29
  veteran, Like Evan's still a young kid.
• 21:32
  Will he eventually take over? Eventually though, if he keeps
• 21:36
  playing the way he's playing, he's strong, he's big, he's
• 21:38
  hungry, but well, Welbeck's a vet.
• 21:41
  He's been the Premiership for a long, bloody time.
• 21:44
  He's played for some top teams and he can get you goals.
• 21:47
  How long is eventually cuz Evan Ferguson looks so good.
• 21:51
  Like I was kind of. I was uncertain about him coming
• 21:53
  to the season. I knew he was raw and good and
• 21:55
  young. We saw him.
• 21:56
  He hit the post on that one where he just turned his shot.
• 21:59
  He scored a really good goal. Just just, you know, just really
• 22:02
  strong running. Are you trying to make a trade
• 22:05
  for him? You think are you trying to get
• 22:06
  him, acquire him in leagues? I want Evan Fog.
• 22:09
  I'm pretty good and most my league, but if I have a striker
• 22:12
  that I think could score and if he was coming off the bench, I'd
• 22:15
  probably go for him. And when I say adventure, I mean
• 22:18
  if Welbeck doesn't score in the next like 5-6 games and Evan
• 22:22
  Ferguson comes off the bench and scores, you got a star him.
• 22:25
  You got a star him. But we'll see what Welbeck
• 22:28
  Welbeck's a vet. He'll take his time and he'll
• 22:30
  eventually score any. The only player on Luton Town
• 22:35
  that's worth probably talking about is Boris, right?
• 22:39
  Colin Morris? Yeah, Colin Morris.
• 22:42
  Well, no. Who's who was the winger?
• 22:45
  He had the the crazy hair. Not Chong.
• 22:49
  No, not Chong. He's always a cowboy.
• 22:52
  Kabori, That guy. That guy could be one to look
• 22:55
  at. He could.
• 22:56
  Make a few runs. He's pointing crosses each we
• 23:00
  one you could look at. Yeah, but Moore is taking the
• 23:04
  penalty is huge advantage. You know, isn't get a couple of
• 23:06
  those just like this game. So he's the main one and then
• 23:09
  other people. You could take a look at it.
• 23:11
  See. Yeah, it's it's it's almost a
• 23:13
  bummer that he's scored from the points perspective because if he
• 23:16
  hadn't scored a goal this game out, he would have been someone
• 23:18
  that would have said to target for trades.
• 23:20
  You know, Cuz that goal kind of makes it seem like he scored
• 23:24
  better than he did. But he was getting a lot of
• 23:26
  touches. He was definitely the focal
• 23:27
  point up there. He's definitely, I think the
• 23:28
  most important player and everything that good is gonna
• 23:31
  happen. It's gonna go through them, go
• 23:33
  through him. So someone to keep an eye on.
• 23:36
  OK, next game, Everton 0, Fulham one.
• 23:41
  This game actually had the highest scoring player on fan
• 23:44
  tracks. Do you guys wanna take a wild
• 23:46
  guessing who it was? Was it the keeper?
• 23:49
  It was Bert Leno. High scoring, high scoring
• 23:52
  player. I think it was like something
• 23:54
  they get like 28 points or something like that.
• 23:56
  Wow. Yeah, cuz he had to save like 15
• 23:59
  shots cuz everyone just kept kicking at him.
• 24:01
  I actually thought everything looked better than I thought
• 24:03
  they would. They look flat.
• 24:06
  I really did. To me, I think a striker fixes a
• 24:09
  lot of their flatness. I think if like Calvert Lewin
• 24:11
  can come in and be a focal point for them, I think a lot of that
• 24:15
  will be fixed. What?
• 24:18
  What? What?
• 24:19
  Calvert. Lewin.
• 24:19
  Which one's gonna show up? The healthy one?
• 24:22
  The. Healthy one, okay, if the
• 24:23
  healthy one shows up. The one that got the call up to
• 24:25
  England and was banging in goals, what two years ago?
• 24:29
  Was it three years ago then? Yeah, I think I might sort out,
• 24:32
  but I don't think so. They they look flat.
• 24:35
  That's another one. I think they got lucky last year
• 24:38
  not to get relegated and I think they have to fight for survival
• 24:41
  again this year. Keith, what did you think of the
• 24:45
  Raul Jimenez playing over Metrovich and then being sucked
• 24:48
  off? You think that's going to be
• 24:50
  moving forward, that's going to be the regular, or you think
• 24:52
  Mitrovich takes the starting position eventually?
• 24:56
  I think Mitrovich takes the starting position sooner rather
• 24:58
  than later. I think it's, I think that was
• 25:00
  kind of a statement to the fact that like Mitrovich was causing
• 25:03
  such a stink about moving. But if Mitrovich stays, then
• 25:07
  that's like one of the pickups of the season, whoever, whoever
• 25:10
  dropped it him. But that being said, I also
• 25:13
  don't expect Mitchovich to have as good of a season, a good of a
• 25:16
  first half of the season that he did last year, because last year
• 25:19
  was like he was like unstoppable.
• 25:21
  I think it's going to take him some time.
• 25:22
  If he ends up saying it's going to take him some time to
• 25:24
  mentally get back to that place. So, so we'll see there.
• 25:28
  I think that was shocking though I was.
• 25:30
  I thought Mitchovich was done and dusted, not never playing
• 25:34
  for them again. He said that much himself.
• 25:37
  I also was shocked that Williams started and played because that
• 25:39
  the other remember on that was that he was leaving like I don't
• 25:42
  even. I think he might have been
• 25:42
  dropped in our league or something, not drafted or.
• 25:45
  I don't think he was drafted and he started.
• 25:47
  He played the first half and I remember reading before, before
• 25:51
  the season started, that he verbally agreed to leave Saudi
• 25:54
  Arabia, but Fulham, but he also signed a contract extension with
• 25:58
  Fulham, so it was kind of a shit show.
• 26:01
  So I was surprised to see him start.
• 26:02
  He played the 45 minutes. I I got him last year and he was
• 26:06
  actually pretty good for me last year.
• 26:07
  If he does play he is going to contribute.
• 26:10
  He's he does have fantasy value, so that's something else to keep
• 26:12
  an eye out as well, 100% I think, especially if Mitch Evich
• 26:16
  is back and the Williams pinging balls in to his head, I think
• 26:20
  that's definitely something to look for.
• 26:21
  And Jimenez didn't look horrible like he had a he had.
• 26:24
  I mean, he was inches away from scoring a goal and that would
• 26:26
  have been a huge storyline for him to come back, leave Wolves,
• 26:29
  go to Fulham's, got a goal. I mean that would have been
• 26:31
  huge. It was kind of rooting for him.
• 26:32
  Is a little bit of a bummer that that didn't happen.
• 26:35
  The other one is Adama Troy, I just signed for Fulham.
• 26:39
  I don't know where he fits if he's gonna be starting, but he's
• 26:42
  always one of the more interesting looking players on
• 26:44
  the field because he looks like a freaking football player.
• 26:48
  So I'll be keeping an eye on him and just see see what he does.
• 26:51
  I'm glad they went to follow him because at least we'll actually
• 26:53
  get some minutes. He's just another guy that runs
• 26:55
  up and down the field, got greater flag ability.
• 26:58
  But when he gets to the final third, doesn't know what the
• 27:00
  fuck to do with the ball has no idea.
• 27:03
  Yeah, that's kind of the general consensus.
• 27:05
  Both him and St. Maximum were very similar like
• 27:08
  that. OK next game, Sheffield United
• 27:11
  0, Crystal Palace won. Man.
• 27:14
  Do you think Crystal Palace is gonna struggle to score goals
• 27:16
  without Elise, without Zaha as they looked really good.
• 27:22
  I you does this thing. But he's also getting old right?
• 27:25
  He must be in his. He's getting up there, Edward.
• 27:29
  Yeah, Edward. I thought that was actually a
• 27:30
  really good he was a he went really late in drafts and he
• 27:33
  might be a steal where he was going to drafts.
• 27:35
  Not so much that he's. I think he's gonna score 15
• 27:37
  plus. But I think even if he gets 7-8,
• 27:40
  nine goals and you're getting him in the 8th, 9th, 10th round,
• 27:43
  11th round, that's a great, that's a great come up and he
• 27:46
  looks like the guy. Yeah, they had a lot of half
• 27:48
  chances. One noticed Crystal Palace, I
• 27:53
  think they're still trying to find.
• 27:55
  What their style of play is without Zaha, I think if they
• 27:59
  keep at least a as a, I think they'll find their feet.
• 28:03
  I don't think they're going to be challenging for Europe or
• 28:06
  anything, but I do think they'll be well safe above the
• 28:08
  relegation zone. I think Edouard's going to take
• 28:11
  his chances, but like you said, I think he's going to get what,
• 28:13
  maybe 8, maybe 910 goals Max and that's if he has like a couple
• 28:18
  braces in the season. But he's not going to score
• 28:20
  every game. I don't think they're going to.
• 28:23
  Like not score that, but they're gonna struggle.
• 28:27
  Sheffield United anyone? Interesting Tiko, you're you see
• 28:31
  do the goal goalie whisperer. Is that goalie interest you at
• 28:34
  all? Are you staying away from him?
• 28:38
  It does does not know, It does not interest me.
• 28:41
  But I before we move on to Sheffield United I wanted to
• 28:44
  kind of go back to Crystal Palace.
• 28:46
  I was looking at just the amount of points their players scored
• 28:50
  and. The lowest is 9.75 and they have
• 28:53
  three people who score over 20 points, which is insane for the
• 28:57
  entire team to score essentially in double teams, double digits.
• 29:01
  And the the weirdest thing about that is in our league only two
• 29:07
  of the players are owned that were drafted 3.
• 29:10
  If you can't Elise, say so but who didn't play?
• 29:13
  So I don't know if people are going to attack Crystal Palace
• 29:16
  and then you kind of pick up their players, but.
• 29:18
  You see 23 points, 1612, everything on the waiver wire.
• 29:21
  It's gonna be interesting. That's that's surprising.
• 29:24
  Who are those three players take off?
• 29:27
  Yeah, Eduard scored 23 points. His own by Canto essay is by
• 29:33
  Keith. He's on your team 20 points and
• 29:35
  that's it. Everyone else is appeared.
• 29:37
  Who is? The other one that scored over
• 29:38
  20 points was a you. Joe Kim.
• 29:40
  Anderson the defender, 23 points and he's a central black too.
• 29:45
  Ohh the defender. So here's my question.
• 29:49
  Was this indicative of Crystal Palace being good or Sheffield
• 29:53
  United being bad? Because like if their defense
• 29:56
  looks or if there's joking, Anderson was scoring 20 plus
• 29:58
  points. Is it was?
• 30:00
  Was Sheffield United sending in a lot of balls and forcing him
• 30:02
  to defend a lot? The jury's out for me on Crystal
• 30:05
  Palace I don't think. I don't think Sheffield United
• 30:07
  is the like. Litmus test is the litmus test
• 30:11
  that we really want, yeah. No, they had no possession, man.
• 30:14
  I think Palace had like nearly 7% possession.
• 30:18
  I think Palace had like over 20 shots on goal.
• 30:20
  Are they going to get that every every week?
• 30:22
  I don't think. They're not against, not against
• 30:24
  good teams in the Premiership. So from the Sheffield, they're
• 30:26
  another team I got going down. They're not going to be able to
• 30:30
  hack it in the Premiership, I don't think.
• 30:31
  They didn't. They improve.
• 30:32
  They didn't get any real good players, anything solid, I don't
• 30:35
  think. You know, it's that good in the
• 30:36
  Championship. So I think all three of the new
• 30:38
  teams are going down. That's my prediction.
• 30:40
  I think it's the first time in a while that it'll be 3 up, three
• 30:43
  down, moving on next game. This one is a freaking banger.
• 30:48
  Newcastle 5, Aston Villa, one. Kind of touched about it in the
• 30:53
  opening segment, but I think we were talking about not a lot of
• 30:58
  trash, but we were just saying be a little bit hesitant of
• 31:01
  Tonali. Just the big sign.
• 31:03
  He were like watch it, you know it's, you know, he doesn't play
• 31:05
  in a position where we thought he was gonna score a lot of
• 31:07
  goals or get a lot of positions. I will say he was in a lot of
• 31:10
  scoring positions. Like he scored in the first 5-7
• 31:13
  minutes and then all of a sudden he showed up again one-on-one
• 31:15
  with the keeper like 2 minutes later and he kept getting into
• 31:18
  the box. So I don't know if that's just
• 31:19
  something that I didn't feel like he was doing that at Icy
• 31:22
  Malone that much. And maybe it's just a change of
• 31:26
  a change of tactics. Maybe Eddie Howe just sees him
• 31:28
  playing high up the field, but I was a little shocked by that.
• 31:34
  Me too, man. But he played amazing, amazing.
• 31:38
  I watched that game 51, I agree with you.
• 31:42
  It wasn't how the game actually really went, but they took their
• 31:45
  opportunities. And honestly every single player
• 31:48
  that scored, even on Madison Villa, we we spoken about
• 31:50
  whether good or bad. So Tenali scored early.
• 31:53
  I think Isaac got brace. Callum Wilson, I I think he's
• 31:57
  still viable as a pickup, so if he got picked up late.
• 32:00
  We actually got a goal on there and Harvey Barnes, you know, I
• 32:03
  know he came on late, but bloody yell, what a goal.
• 32:07
  And Musa Diaby for Aston Villa. Yeah, let's stay with Newcastle
• 32:12
  just for one minute. So Anthony Gordon was on, he got
• 32:15
  that amazing assistant and all, he looked decent.
• 32:18
  Then Harvey Bonds came on and just looked on a different
• 32:20
  level. I'm gonna.
• 32:21
  I'm curious to see what they do. I would have Gordon drops down
• 32:23
  into the midfield and then Harvey Barnes goes, goes under
• 32:26
  those four positions. They have so many pieces.
• 32:29
  They just have so many good pieces in that team.
• 32:32
  Oh yeah, Isaac looked great. I mean, yeah, can't say enough
• 32:38
  good things about Isaac. He was on point.
• 32:40
  Can't say enough. Good thing I've been saying it,
• 32:41
  man. He's gonna have a great season
• 32:42
  this season again. ASA Villa is not a bad side.
• 32:45
  They're a good side. Like I said, I think they got a
• 32:48
  little bit disrupted when when Ming's went down and then pal
• 32:51
  Torres came on, he didn't exactly have the best stocks.
• 32:54
  He just got slotted in. And I think they were already
• 32:58
  losing. I think they're already down one
• 33:00
  nil, maybe even 2 nil at that point.
• 33:02
  So you had a lot of work to do. But Newcastle look good, man.
• 33:06
  They've moved the ball around, It was smooth, they create a lot
• 33:10
  of chances and they got a lot of chances on target.
• 33:14
  But to be honest, they're peppering that goal.
• 33:17
  They're gonna overwhelm a lot of teams.
• 33:19
  It's not stop A tag. It's I I think they're going to
• 33:23
  have another year that where most of their players that get
• 33:25
  minutes are going to be very score a lot of points in fantasy
• 33:29
  there. It's just like Keith mentioned
• 33:32
  they have so much that you know Colin Wilson, Harvey Barnes.
• 33:35
  How are they going to manage the starting lineup?
• 33:37
  Is it going to be another mad city where they rotate or is it
• 33:40
  just going to kind of be who's in, but most informed they're
• 33:43
  going to play them and just bring on the sub 6070 minute
• 33:46
  like they did game one so. This was for me, it was my
• 33:50
  favorite game. I thought it was the best game
• 33:51
  of the week, very exciting. And the whole time I was
• 33:54
  watching it, I was just thinking about Enzo's prediction for
• 33:57
  Aston Villa, then finishing top 4.
• 34:01
  OK, wait, Aston Villa. Like we said, it wasn't that
• 34:08
  bad. Possession was nearly 5050.
• 34:11
  I think Aston Villa had a shit ton of shots also.
• 34:14
  Wasn't like they they just sat back and took in five goals.
• 34:17
  They just didn't finish their chances.
• 34:19
  They had sixteen shots on goals, 6 on target.
• 34:22
  The difference there being with new cars, they had seventeen
• 34:24
  shots, 13 on target. If you get more shots on target,
• 34:26
  which I think they can do, and they can make sure not that many
• 34:30
  go in the back of the bloody net, they'll still be a force
• 34:32
  and I think they'll still be up there to fighting for the
• 34:35
  Champions League spots. I think 100% that it is ahead
• 34:39
  for us to be left. I think everyone knows that
• 34:40
  they're gonna have better games in the future, so.
• 34:43
  Don't get defended, I said. I was just thinking about you.
• 34:45
  That's it, yeah. But you're thinking about me in
• 34:47
  a negative way and they just picked up Zaniolo, who's another
• 34:50
  great Italian center midfielder. So they just took what Newcastle
• 34:54
  did with Tenali and now they got Zaniolo.
• 34:56
  Do you know how do you feel about your Douglas Louise pick?
• 34:59
  I feel a little less confident about that.
• 35:06
  Let's move on to the next game. Wait, we haven't even talked
• 35:09
  about Villa. I just wanna, I wanna touch on
• 35:11
  the front too. I think it's almost like
• 35:12
  refreshing the way that that villa's playing with Watkins and
• 35:16
  Diaby up there like that. That goal is like a Walkins.
• 35:19
  Walkins kind of generated that and headed the ball to Diaby.
• 35:22
  I think it's it's pretty fun to watch them do that and John
• 35:25
  Mcginn's running all over the place, running kind of in behind
• 35:27
  them. Douglas, Luis, you know, for all
• 35:30
  his thing he's ping, ping along balls.
• 35:32
  I think there's a lot of a lot of good things to look forward
• 35:34
  to for Villa. Honestly, I've been they take
• 35:37
  out McGinn putting Tillermans in next.
• 35:38
  When Tillermans came on, he looked good and have DRB,
• 35:43
  Bailey, Tillermans and Watkins in there.
• 35:45
  I think that's that's gonna be more ferocious, man, honestly.
• 35:49
  And the topic yet they still got Philip continue on the bench.
• 35:52
  Complete regard about that motherfucker, you know?
• 35:55
  I mean, I know he's done and dusted, but he can still pull
• 35:57
  sign out his ass. We'll see.
• 35:59
  I think he might be past it. He might be on his way to Saudi
• 36:04
  Arabia to play with his friend Neymar.
• 36:07
  OK, next game, Brentford 2, Tottenham 2.
• 36:11
  So I kind of the first note, I think Tottenham as as much as
• 36:14
  that's a, I mean I think that's not an easy game for Tottenham,
• 36:17
  you know, But I think that they had an identity like they were
• 36:20
  trying to do stuff and it's early and I still think they can
• 36:23
  show that they can do stuff. I think there was some,
• 36:25
  definitely some red flags, which Charleston was a red flag for
• 36:29
  me. I appreciate you, Keith.
• 36:32
  I watched that game. There was, there was no identity
• 36:35
  there. They they had like multiple
• 36:38
  personalities. They didn't know what to do.
• 36:40
  There was times where we were playing with fucking back too.
• 36:42
  It was only Van de Ven and freaking Sanchez in the back,
• 36:47
  which was honestly Sanchez played a lot better than I
• 36:50
  thought it was. As soon as he came on I thought
• 36:51
  we were going to let in like 5 goals because that's what
• 36:53
  usually happens. Don't get wrong is more exciting
• 36:56
  to watch. You doggy played really great,
• 37:00
  really aggressive. Royale still questionable?
• 37:04
  Coming back to defend matters, Amazing Son Inc line doesn't
• 37:09
  even exist. Rich Alison doesn't even move
• 37:11
  the bloody statue and then Kulaski didn't know what to do
• 37:14
  on that. On that right hand side.
• 37:16
  He kept cutting in where I just wanted to run down to the
• 37:19
  fucking byline and cross the fucking ball into the box.
• 37:21
  That's all I wanted. We had no one in the box,
• 37:23
  everyone was in the bloody midfield.
• 37:25
  I think we can still use that as a stepping stone.
• 37:28
  I saw see what Andrew's doing, but I don't think the players
• 37:30
  are executing it to the way he wants it because there's way too
• 37:33
  many. People in that midfield, way too
• 37:35
  many people. There's no space.
• 37:37
  Do you wanna touch base? He's on your new goalkeeper.
• 37:40
  Oh my God, he's horrendous. Yeah, if I'm going by that, by
• 37:44
  that game. Some of the stuff he did was
• 37:46
  very highly questionable. Running out of nowhere, he
• 37:49
  nearly gave away. A penalty I thought was a
• 37:51
  penalty Logo Ladia came flying out.
• 37:53
  Could have been a penalty. Yeah, it could have been a
• 37:54
  penalty, but seeing after today I don't even know anymore.
• 37:58
  I think goalkeeper's game protected, I guess.
• 38:00
  What about are we on like red alert?
• 38:02
  I feel like we should be all be patting ourselves on the back
• 38:03
  for the Pedro Poro thing, cuz we we were saying all preseason
• 38:07
  that he was a big red flag. Just that the way he played and
• 38:10
  how exposed he would look in the back four seems like Ange kind
• 38:13
  of figured that out too. He must be just as smart as we
• 38:15
  are. And he and he started playing at
• 38:18
  Emerson Royale, who I happen to draft in both our leagues of
• 38:21
  like my last pick. Cuz I had a feeling that he was
• 38:23
  gonna be starting games. And he scored a goal.
• 38:26
  Yeah, he did. And it was a it was a pretty
• 38:29
  bloody good goal too. Yeah, it was a really good goal.
• 38:33
  Yeah. Ship power about sells in the
• 38:34
  back. I don't think.
• 38:35
  I don't think Poro fits into what he wants, cuz I know Roy
• 38:38
  L's by defending, but Poro's even worse.
• 38:40
  So I think you made a good call in there.
• 38:42
  I think, I think the if they can get Rich, Charleston and Son
• 38:45
  into the game and it. I don't know, maybe that takes
• 38:47
  Son playing higher up next to Charleston.
• 38:49
  Or maybe, you know, maybe I don't know what what that
• 38:51
  solution is. I think Tottenham is gonna be
• 38:54
  fine, so let's go. Let's talk about Brentford.
• 38:57
  A couple of performers in Bembo with Sebel and with Sebel
• 39:01
  scored. Was there anyone on the team
• 39:03
  that you were kind of excited about?
• 39:08
  Anyone stand out? Like, not really.
• 39:12
  Besides Rico, Henry, Rico Henry stood out.
• 39:15
  He was playing really well on that left hand side.
• 39:20
  They were playing at back five, honestly.
• 39:22
  So that's why it was so hard to get anything through.
• 39:25
  By Rico Henry played Rebo on the left besides Weso and Grembo and
• 39:29
  they are the ones causing a lot of havoc alongside Henry.
• 39:33
  But besides that they had, especially in the second-half.
• 39:36
  They had no possession. None.
• 39:39
  They were just sitting back. I'm curious to see, without
• 39:42
  Ivan, Tony, if they can really do what they did last year.
• 39:46
  I think he a lot of his goals looked really simple, but I
• 39:50
  think he did a lot off the ball and just even get in those
• 39:53
  positions. I think it's going to be hard
• 39:55
  for them to really replicate that that forum or that style
• 39:59
  without him because I don't think Memo and we start do the
• 40:02
  same things. I think they were both better
• 40:04
  off playing in and around Evan, Tony then they are like playing
• 40:08
  together, so. Dan's got played well when he
• 40:11
  came off the bench. He's another one but nothing
• 40:14
  really stand out. I know they scored two goals,
• 40:16
  but one was, in my opinion, was an own goal.
• 40:20
  Van Evan got his foot in the way.
• 40:22
  I think Vikari actually had that one.
• 40:25
  But yeah, I don't think they do it week in, week out.
• 40:28
  I don't know if Vikari had that one.
• 40:29
  No, Keith, he had it. I watched the replay.
• 40:31
  He had that one not to like. I'd feel through the fire but if
• 40:35
  I was a Tottenham fan I'd be upset because Tottenham did
• 40:38
  enough to win that game and you know, you give up a penalty and
• 40:40
  then there's a deflection Bradford.
• 40:44
  They just parked the bus. I don't think anyone stood out
• 40:46
  just because they were just playing super defensive and
• 40:50
  Tottenham was essentially just driving into their wall.
• 40:52
  It's just the defenders, the back five, back three, back
• 40:55
  five, however you want to frame it or phrase it.
• 40:58
  They did a good job of stopping them, but no one that stood out.
• 41:01
  That I think is going to make an impact, at least until you know
• 41:04
  they get their full squad back. Alright, let's keep moving.
• 41:08
  Chelsea won. Liverpool won.
• 41:10
  That was another. I thought pretty interesting
• 41:12
  games through a tactical standpoint.
• 41:15
  What did you guys think? It was a fun game to watch, man.
• 41:18
  It was definitely a midfield battle.
• 41:20
  I think Nicholas Jackson was very aggressive.
• 41:22
  It was, it was very upbeat. I think that he's exciting to
• 41:24
  watch. I think both teams were unlucky
• 41:27
  to have a goal disallowed on both sides.
• 41:30
  They were very close, very close.
• 41:33
  I think they're both missing that same piece which the
• 41:36
  defensive midfielder, which now Chelsea are going to hoard with
• 41:39
  Leyva and Sasedo, so. Casedo's confirmed LA via Still
• 41:45
  TV Man, he he trapped everyone's playing loop where they don't
• 41:48
  want to go. I don't get it.
• 41:49
  Do they not know who Lupo is then?
• 41:51
  I don't. I just don't think they want to
• 41:53
  go to the city of Liverpool. I think if it's the option
• 41:55
  between going to London and Liverpool, I think that's yeah,
• 41:57
  OK. Nicholas Jackson looked amazing.
• 42:01
  Ezra Fernandez did The Dirty work.
• 42:02
  Honestly, Kif you being a Chelsea fan, I feel so much
• 42:07
  excitement for the year. I know both of us think they're
• 42:09
  gonna finish top 6. Diago Silva, Just the ageless
• 42:13
  wonder. He was amazing.
• 42:15
  Greece, James, he picked up an injury.
• 42:18
  So we'll see how that is. I mean, I know they said it's
• 42:21
  nothing serious. He was fatigued.
• 42:22
  That's where they took him off. But he was kind of limping off.
• 42:26
  But Jackson, Nicholas Jackson, What a gate pick up ends and
• 42:30
  you've got him pretty late. The guy just doesn't give up.
• 42:32
  He's a workhorse. He creates chances.
• 42:35
  They didn't, you know, they didn't put one behind the net,
• 42:38
  Didn't finish, but. He's good to score goals for you
• 42:41
  guys. He's gonna score a lot of goals
• 42:42
  and especially when then Cuco comes back, make things easier.
• 42:46
  And Mudrick, actually, I like when he came on, he's a player I
• 42:53
  was high on last year too. I thought he's gonna make an
• 42:55
  impact. I think he'll be cutting into
• 42:58
  Sterling's minutes moving forward, just getting on
• 43:00
  earlier, earlier in the game, but.
• 43:03
  I'm a fan of him. I think he'll make an impact
• 43:05
  this year, so that's someone else to keep an eye on.
• 43:07
  Yeah, definitely. I think the biggest thing Midget
• 43:09
  is just consistency. So he'll do something amazing
• 43:11
  every little bit, but just not like every time he touches the
• 43:14
  ball. He needs to like, get his game
• 43:16
  to a point where it's every single time he's touching the
• 43:18
  ball, he's driving, he's creating.
• 43:20
  And I think right now he kind of disappears.
• 43:22
  I'd be remiss not to talk about Bed Chill well too.
• 43:24
  He was getting very advanced. He was very high up the field.
• 43:27
  He's someone that like. You know, he had an assist, he
• 43:30
  had a decent game, but if you could trade for him you could
• 43:32
  try and get him on your team. I think that's someone that I
• 43:34
  would really target on the Liverpool side most.
• 43:38
  Salah with that, a beautiful ball for that Luis Diaz assist.
• 43:42
  Unbelievable. Interesting that he got stopped
• 43:44
  off and how pissy was about it. Well, there was still goals in
• 43:47
  that game, man. It was 11.
• 43:49
  He got what, 70th minute? There was still goals in that
• 43:51
  game. Like why would you pull off
• 43:54
  Salah, who they replace him with?
• 43:56
  They replaced him with Harvey Elliott.
• 43:58
  Rvlu, But honestly, I'd be pissed off too.
• 44:02
  You're one of the best players on the team.
• 44:06
  You're one of the ones that scores.
• 44:07
  You usually score every game, the first game of every season.
• 44:11
  Granny had one taken away from him.
• 44:12
  But be honestly, be a fucking professional though, you know
• 44:15
  what I mean? Just get off the fucking pitch.
• 44:17
  But I understand why he's angry. That's how I feel.
• 44:21
  No, you should be angry. Anytime you're a star player,
• 44:23
  you get subbed up. You should be upset.
• 44:25
  You should never be happy with getting golf, especially when
• 44:27
  it's a tight game or you're losing.
• 44:29
  But you're also, you're a veteran of the team.
• 44:32
  You're one of the team leaders you're supposed to set an
• 44:34
  example of, especially for like a 19 year old kid coming out for
• 44:38
  you. You know, ripping off your tape,
• 44:41
  throwing it on the floor, you know, not shaking clubs and on
• 44:43
  the way out. But I I thought it was very
• 44:46
  interesting that he was the one who got sobbed off in the
• 44:50
  frontline. I would have.
• 44:52
  I mean you want to play him the whole if you want to win you
• 44:54
  want, you want to keep him in there to increase the chances.
• 44:56
  And if I drafted him in the first round that's something I
• 44:59
  would you know keep an eye out for.
• 45:00
  And is that something you're worried, worried about or you're
• 45:03
  you're comfortable with? Salah you you think this was
• 45:05
  like a one time incident? I'm I'm Contour with Sala.
• 45:11
  Sala played well that game he got sobbed off.
• 45:13
  Yeah, but that was a choice by the manager and it's not gonna
• 45:15
  happen every game. He's gonna play a lot of
• 45:18
  minutes. I mean the whole frontline got
• 45:20
  sobbed off like solid Jota Andy has got sobbed off.
• 45:23
  I thought it was really interesting to see Cody Gakpo in
• 45:25
  the midfield. I did not like that one bit.
• 45:27
  I as as someone who dropped to him in the second round I was,
• 45:30
  that's not where I want him playing.
• 45:32
  So hopefully that whoever they signed for their third
• 45:34
  midfielder, well, they'd push Jota onto the bench.
• 45:37
  Yeah, could go into that forward position or else I might be in
• 45:40
  some trouble this year. I just want to go back to
• 45:42
  Chelsea real quick. Do you think because they played
• 45:45
  that back three, when they get went to say those just slots
• 45:48
  into that team, do you think they still play wingbacks?
• 45:51
  Because I think it was great that they played Coldwell and
• 45:54
  who was the other center back with him, DRCDRC with Thiago in
• 45:58
  the back? Because it actually worked
• 46:00
  fantastic for Thiago and made him look even better because he
• 46:03
  had those two kids on this other side of him and then you had
• 46:06
  Chill and James going up and down that wing.
• 46:08
  Do you still play that back three or do you go back to a
• 46:10
  back four? You know, it's so funny cuz all
• 46:13
  preseason they played it back four.
• 46:14
  Like they didn't, they didn't go to a back three at any point in
• 46:17
  preseason. So it's kind of shocking to see
• 46:18
  them pull this out for this game.
• 46:21
  I've heard in the past that Thiaga Silva's just a little too
• 46:24
  old to be playing in the back two against the best teams.
• 46:27
  You know, he's just a little too old, a little too slow.
• 46:29
  He needs some young guys around him.
• 46:31
  So that might have been part of the reason it might have been
• 46:33
  just the opposition. It might have been just because
• 46:34
  it's Liverpool. But I think another big thing
• 46:36
  about it is that, like you want to get your best players on the
• 46:38
  ball and like Ben, Chill, Will and Reese James are two of our
• 46:40
  best players, so playing with a wingback system is gonna allow
• 46:43
  them to get way more on the ball.
• 46:45
  So I don't know. So.
• 46:47
  So then, where does the Sado fit?
• 46:49
  Does he take Gallagher's role? Because Gallagher played well
• 46:51
  also. Chuckle Maker probably comes
• 46:53
  out. Maybe Gallagher plays a little
• 46:54
  bit more advanced and Cassano slots in there.
• 46:57
  Maybe Enzo plays in that a little more advanced role.
• 46:59
  I think losing in kunku just really screws us up so much.
• 47:03
  Next week will be interesting. See what if there's any changes.
• 47:06
  No, the way the way Chill well and James played, I think you
• 47:10
  just need them on the field as much as you can and you want
• 47:13
  them to give more flexibility to go up and down the corners.
• 47:16
  Yeah, the crosses they were making, especially James his his
• 47:19
  crossbow looks so pretty. It just kind of like folds in
• 47:21
  there, goes on the spot. So I would give them the most
• 47:25
  flexibility as you can and just go have them go up and down and
• 47:29
  just roam the field as much as they can and just have a back
• 47:33
  three. Like you said, Enzo Fernandez
• 47:35
  could play up and down wherever and just tinker on in the
• 47:37
  midfield just to give them the free space.
• 47:40
  The way that Reese James strikes a ball is like erotic.
• 47:43
  He just hits it so well. It it reminds me of what the way
• 47:47
  stuff Curry shows just a trajectory of it is a little
• 47:50
  different than everyone else. D Aussie scored the goal for
• 47:53
  Chelsea. It was kind of like a little
• 47:55
  opportunistic goal, but I thought he played really well,
• 47:58
  like he really accounted for himself well.
• 48:00
  He's not going to be on anyone's team.
• 48:02
  He's going to be a pickup if you're looking for someone.
• 48:04
  And Chelsea has a really good run of games coming up, so he
• 48:08
  might be someone worth picking up off waivers.
• 48:10
  Not so much for the goal, but just so much because they're
• 48:12
  going to have some pretty easy games in the next few weeks and
• 48:15
  so he might have a good run of clean sheets moving on to the
• 48:19
  next game. The game that happened today,
• 48:23
  Man United won. Wolverhampton.
• 48:25
  Wanderer. Zero man.
• 48:29
  Disappointing from United. I think that's the only thing
• 48:31
  you can say. I don't.
• 48:32
  And like, Wolves did a lot to make it hard.
• 48:35
  But United didn't do enough. Well, they did enough.
• 48:38
  They scored. But I agree with your Wolves
• 48:40
  looked actually after all the plays they've lost.
• 48:43
  They look really good. Like Cunyo was amazing.
• 48:46
  NATO, I think if you're talking about players that weren't
• 48:49
  drafted, a lot of those players weren't bloody drafted and
• 48:52
  they're sitting on the wave of wire right now.
• 48:53
  And if anyone's smart, I know I'm one of them.
• 48:56
  I wouldn't go pick up a couple of those players just to see if
• 48:58
  I can fit into my team. For players that didn't get
• 49:00
  started, this at the first game of the scene because they're
• 49:02
  gonna play every bloody minute. Looks like Kunia's a free agent
• 49:06
  in at least one of our leagues. I think he's gonna be, there's
• 49:09
  gonna be a lot of people scrambling for him.
• 49:14
  Gard Nacho looked really bad to me.
• 49:16
  Did you guys feel that way? I I like.
• 49:17
  I don't think he starts next week.
• 49:18
  I think Sancho came on and looked better in 8 minutes that
• 49:22
  he had. Then Gard Nacho did.
• 49:23
  For the whole 68 minutes that he was in, Gard Nacho was fucking
• 49:27
  pissing me off and I'm not even a Man United fan.
• 49:29
  He was playing like a Martinelli from two years ago, just running
• 49:32
  with the ball down, putting his head down, running into space
• 49:35
  and running into players and not passing the ball like he wanted
• 49:38
  the ball his feet all the time when he should.
• 49:40
  Was giving it up to Radford that whole time?
• 49:43
  Perfect. Honest.
• 49:43
  You're a winger. You're not that kind of winger.
• 49:45
  You're not Ronaldo. Pass the ball off the Rasford to
• 49:48
  one of your scores. I didn't get a chance to watch
• 49:50
  the game and I didn't get a chance to watch the highlights,
• 49:53
  but I was very curious the whole day to get your assessment of
• 49:56
  Mason Mound. He did a few.
• 49:59
  He did a few things that really did with the crowd, like the
• 50:01
  running hard, like kind of using his body, tackling.
• 50:05
  But from an attacking standpoint, he was a ghost,
• 50:07
  right? And so you're laughing over
• 50:09
  there. Do you think that's because he
• 50:11
  was it was shit he did is we we spoke highly of him when he got
• 50:15
  traded and we thought, oh he's gonna fit well in the Man United
• 50:18
  and then we were preseason game. We saw those little glimpses.
• 50:22
  But I don't know why he's staying corners.
• 50:24
  I don't know what he's doing. He he doesn't know what he's
• 50:26
  doing in that Man United. He was getting in the way of
• 50:28
  Bruno. Bruno needs to take the corners.
• 50:30
  I'm sorry. He needs to take the corners.
• 50:32
  Not just corners, I just feel like positionally.
• 50:34
  I think he was getting away positionally.
• 50:35
  Bruno a little bit too, like like.
• 50:38
  I don't know what they're gonna do there.
• 50:40
  I don't know if that it just mount needs to just be a little
• 50:43
  bit further back and let Brino kind of be in that role or what
• 50:46
  it is. But it was, yeah, it did not
• 50:48
  look correct. Like, and I think Mount, I think
• 50:51
  they're still struggling. It's funny that these two
• 50:54
  Chelsea guys were both bought and then we're putting in
• 50:56
  positions that they haven't normally played and they both
• 50:58
  struggle in those positions. It's kind of a funny thing
• 51:01
  that's happening right now. Yeah, I don't think.
• 51:04
  I think he should have been playing the same sort position
• 51:06
  that we thought he was going to play, which was more of a clean
• 51:09
  up in midfield. Like Casimero does defend him,
• 51:12
  but then you give him the ball and he can spread out to the
• 51:13
  wings because he wasn't really doing that.
• 51:15
  He was trying to go up the middle and then once he got into
• 51:17
  those, the wings, it just didn't seem right.
• 51:21
  Agreed. I think Rashford cut a really
• 51:23
  frustrated figure as a striker he I think he if anyone's
• 51:28
  excited for Holland to come in. Rashford, Cuz That means
• 51:32
  Rashford can go on left. That means that he can run on
• 51:34
  the balls. He has someone to play off.
• 51:36
  I don't. I did not get the sense that he
• 51:38
  enjoyed playing striker. Now.
• 51:40
  Even some of the substitutes didn't make sense to me, like
• 51:42
  Mctominay coming on for freaking Rashford and he It seemed like
• 51:47
  he thought he was coming on to play more defensive midfield to
• 51:49
  try and make sure they weren't gonna score that late goal.
• 51:51
  But he looked like he was playing up front at times.
• 51:54
  They had. They won that new kid Polestri
• 51:57
  for Anthony. I think Anthony had a decent
• 51:59
  game. Did he have a great game?
• 52:00
  I don't think so. But there wasn't really any
• 52:03
  highlights for any Man United. For me, what I expect from
• 52:09
  players from Man United, there was no highlights for me.
• 52:12
  Yeah, I got pretty chaotic at the end of that game.
• 52:14
  You know, what do they call it? Squeaky bum time.
• 52:16
  It was pretty. It's pretty it was just pretty
• 52:19
  chaotic. Like we were saying, Mctominay,
• 52:21
  like playing striker, essentially.
• 52:22
  It was just weird. The whole thing just looked
• 52:24
  weird and chaotic and a little bit desperate by the end.
• 52:27
  Speaking of desperate, oh, Nana had some pretty good little
• 52:32
  moments throughout the game, but then at the end, he just fully
• 52:34
  slammed into two dudes that had already headed the ball.
• 52:37
  I mean, that was shocking to me, that that wasn't given as a
• 52:39
  penalty. That's like anywhere else in the
• 52:41
  field. If someone goes into another
• 52:42
  player like that after they pass the ball, that's an instant
• 52:45
  foul. And like we were saying, you're
• 52:47
  like goalies get some sort of protection.
• 52:49
  But that to me was like beyond the pale even for even for
• 52:52
  goalie. I thought that was bad.
• 52:54
  And I have a feeling if that's if if you knighted down 10
• 52:57
  against Wolves and the Wolves keeper does that to freaking,
• 53:02
  you know, Martinez, I think that's a penalty.
• 53:04
  I think that's there was a little bit of like top six bias,
• 53:06
  top six bias there. It felt like to me, yeah, don't
• 53:10
  get wrong and I had a good game, but he had five saves.
• 53:13
  He did pretty well until that last literally.
• 53:17
  And I tell and I say it's about goalkeepers, Goalkey was a great
• 53:19
  until they make that one bad decision in a game and that was
• 53:23
  a bad decision. Don't get wrong.
• 53:25
  Yeah, his eyes on the ball, but he was never going to get there,
• 53:28
  never going to get there and he just, he clamored two players.
• 53:31
  I think it was a striker and the sender back.
• 53:33
  He got lucky. Dead.
• 53:35
  I think the other person used to call out is.
• 53:37
  Bruno's clearly the guy in this team, and we've known that for a
• 53:40
  few years. But like even with Mount kind of
• 53:42
  getting in his way, like it doesn't reflect as well on this,
• 53:45
  like on the fantasy point sheet. But like, he created that goal
• 53:48
  he set, looped that really nice ball over the top to Wampasaka
• 53:51
  to then hit into Veron. So he's definitely the guy
• 53:56
  there. I thought I I Wampasaka was
• 53:58
  another guy drafted because I just did not have faith in Delo,
• 54:01
  because if you look at last year, Delo wasn't starting
• 54:04
  games. By the end of the season,
• 54:05
  Wampasaka had won that role. And I think people just
• 54:07
  automatically go for Delo cuz he's a little bit more
• 54:10
  offensive, but you can be as offensive as you want if you're
• 54:12
  not getting games in. So I think, I think Wamasaka is
• 54:16
  1 to look at and maybe 1 to kinda.
• 54:18
  He's probably not on any waivers but he's definitely one to keep
• 54:21
  an eye on for. You know if he you know today is
• 54:24
  he was has scored a ton of points but I think next week or
• 54:27
  in the next few weeks he might be trade worthy.
• 54:30
  Yeah, there's a few take. Can you look up me with top
• 54:33
  scores for Wolves? Because I know there's three of
• 54:36
  them. I think it was Nunez, NATO and
• 54:39
  there was one more. I think they were like top.
• 54:41
  Scorers, Dawson, Dawson got 1212 points.
• 54:46
  Kunia. Kunia had like 7, seven and a
• 54:48
  half points. It wasn't huge, but I think he
• 54:50
  what he was doing was just running with the ball was just
• 54:51
  so impressive. So as I'm looking this up, we
• 54:56
  actually it's, I find, I find this interesting from all the
• 54:59
  whole we'll see. We only have one player that was
• 55:01
  drafted and they're goalkeeper. Jose Saw and everyone else is
• 55:06
  available. So key.
• 55:09
  If you mentioned you know people should be running to their
• 55:11
  waiver wire, they have some quality players there.
• 55:13
  They literally have. You could pick anyone they want,
• 55:15
  with the exception of the keeper.
• 55:17
  I would be looking at Netto. I think the way he does on the
• 55:21
  ball, the way he he really looks to whip the ball in, really
• 55:24
  looks to get advanced. Cunha also, but I think Cunha is
• 55:27
  going to be. I think anyone that watch that
• 55:28
  game is going to be going for Cunha but I think Pedro Netto is
• 55:31
  definitely worth looking into. So if there's any players to
• 55:35
  pick up with the wave wires I'm not gonna lie to I think it
• 55:37
  should be wolves. Look at a few wolf players
• 55:40
  there. So you had Nunes, Netto, Kunya,
• 55:42
  even Huang he Chan when he came on he looked really good.
• 55:45
  So these are players to look out for cuz like we just said in our
• 55:49
  in our draft and I think in our other draft none of them really
• 55:52
  got picked up. So have a good look.
• 55:54
  Some good pickups right there. Perfect transition.
• 55:57
  That was the last game of the week, so now we can start
• 56:00
  looking ahead and thinking about waivers.
• 56:03
  The three big signings and I and so you had another one to talk
• 56:07
  about was James Wordprouse, Jack Harrison going to Everton and
• 56:11
  then Adama Troy to Fulham. We kind of touched on James
• 56:13
  Wordprouse and and Adama Troy, but Jack Harrison to Everton, I
• 56:18
  think that's a pretty, I think that's worthy of a pickup.
• 56:20
  I think someone he should be on teams, yeah.
• 56:23
  He scored a lot of points on Fantasy last season.
• 56:26
  He's one of Leeds best players. I think Leeds were just
• 56:29
  unfortunate. The run was on the wall the end
• 56:32
  of the season but they have some good players that that should be
• 56:34
  coming up. Yeah.
• 56:36
  And he's, you know he's classified as a mid, but he gets
• 56:38
  up and down the field a lot. I think he's, I think he's
• 56:41
  someone you should be looking at.
• 56:42
  I still, I mean do you guys disagree I think Jay's were
• 56:44
  proud, should be the number one target for waivers.
• 56:47
  Do you guys disagree? Is there anyone that you really
• 56:49
  feel like shouldn't, should go ahead of him, that you dropped
• 56:52
  ahead of him? All things being equal, like if
• 56:54
  you know if your team was, if not worrying about team
• 56:57
  construction. I just think from like the
• 56:58
  standpoint of I think Zaniolo's another one that could fight for
• 57:02
  that number one spot. Just knowing what kind of player
• 57:04
  he is, how he was at Romo, how he how he played well at
• 57:07
  Galatasaray. I think Zanio's a he's more, I
• 57:10
  think like he's more effective attacking.
• 57:13
  James will prowl sits deep, he's good with set pieces and
• 57:16
  whatnot, but is he gonna get set pieces at West Ham?
• 57:18
  Who takes the set pieces at West Ham?
• 57:20
  He's gonna first share, get set pieces.
• 57:22
  There's just no way. He's so he's like one of the
• 57:24
  best strikers of the ball in the Federal League, Yeah, but then
• 57:26
  he really scored that many free kicks, though.
• 57:29
  I think he's more. Did he scored lots of free
• 57:31
  kicks? He scored Like, yes, look at I'm
• 57:35
  looking it up. So while he's looking it up for
• 57:40
  me, I would look at Kyle Walker. He's starting, He's getting
• 57:45
  minutes, especially for my team especially.
• 57:47
  I need a defender, so that's someone I'm gonna look at.
• 57:51
  And we spoke about how long and you know he's gonna get the
• 57:53
  crosses in there and he'll probably be more involved in the
• 57:56
  attack as well with KDB out. So that's one player I would
• 57:59
  look at it. I know he usually gets drafted
• 58:01
  this year with all the uncertainty of him possibly
• 58:04
  moving. That's why I feel like he he's
• 58:06
  available. But that's one player I would
• 58:07
  like along with Pedro Nader like we mentioned, Do you guys have a
• 58:13
  strapped? Do you guys have the strategy as
• 58:15
  far as after Week 1 because you know there's a lot of
• 58:18
  overreaction on the reaction depending on the players you
• 58:20
  pick up, if they do well or someone on the waiver wire.
• 58:23
  Do you guys like making moves after the first week or do you
• 58:26
  guys like staying steady for like a couple of weeks and then
• 58:29
  kind of going into the waiver wire?
• 58:32
  I like to make a few adjustments for sure.
• 58:35
  I think it's there's sometimes you just get something really
• 58:38
  wrong doing your draft and you just you just know right away
• 58:41
  like I think. You know, but like that, and
• 58:44
  that's not being like overly dramatic.
• 58:45
  Like if I draft a guy in the first five or six rounds, I'm
• 58:48
  probably keeping them for a few weeks, just cuz there's I have
• 58:50
  so much draft capital invested in them.
• 58:52
  But like, you know, some of those guys in later rounds like
• 58:55
  I had, I had a few really wonky picks later in the draft.
• 58:59
  And I'm definitely gonna be looking to make a few
• 59:01
  adjustments, but I'm not overreacting, for sure.
• 59:07
  No, There's always like one, at least one, if not two players in
• 59:10
  your team where you you pick them up just in case.
• 59:12
  But then there's those players that obviously got overseen
• 59:15
  during a draft and you want to try to pick them up.
• 59:17
  Because honestly, let's be honest, you want to capitalize
• 59:20
  on every player, even if they don't play for your team,
• 59:22
  because you don't want anyone else to have them, you know what
• 59:25
  I mean? And going back to James Ward,
• 59:28
  Prouse, he had nine goals last season.
• 59:34
  Not all those are free kicks for that, which is pretty good.
• 59:44
  He's probably the closest thing David Beckham since David
• 59:46
  Beckham. But again, not all those were
• 59:38
  free kicks. He's not gonna get you that man.
• 59:40
  He's not David Beckham, is he? I think he's the from a free
• 59:43
  kick. The amount he, he hit like James
• 59:50
  fucking Madison. What do you think about, I mean
• 59:52
  how many free kicks do you realistically?
• 59:54
  Score in a season. James Madison is the example you
• 59:56
  brought up. Yes, yes he is David Beckham
• 59:59
  till now. That's the example you brought.
• 1:00:01
  Up. Are you just saying that James
• 1:00:02
  will process the closest thing? To David Beckham.
• 1:00:05
  I think I said in regards to free kicks.
• 1:00:08
  Yeah, yeah. No, I would stand.
• 1:00:10
  By that so. Okay.
• 1:00:11
  Cool. So.
• 1:00:13
  Should we make? Should we make another bet?
• 1:00:16
  I think we need to make another bet.
• 1:00:17
  Madden will score more. Free kick goals.
• 1:00:19
  Than James Warprouse. Okay.
• 1:00:21
  Let's check on that. Easy.
• 1:00:22
  That's the easiest. Bet I've ever made.
• 1:00:24
  Take free money. Free money.
• 1:00:28
  It's on the podcast. I don't need to take note, it's
• 1:00:31
  on record. I'm sorry, I made a little a
• 1:00:34
  little error earlier when I said that Burt Leno was the highest
• 1:00:39
  scoring player. Actually, that was eclipsed by
• 1:00:42
  no Airwan Basaka. 29 fantasy points.
• 1:00:46
  Really. Yeah.
• 1:00:47
  Wow. I still think you drafted
• 1:00:51
  terrible, Kyle. I don't care.
• 1:00:55
  Yeah, we have the guy in our. League who won it last year?
• 1:00:58
  We all felt like he had a terrible draft and he somehow
• 1:01:01
  scored the most points this week and we are going to deal with
• 1:01:05
  that by watching him lose next week.
• 1:01:08
  And then we could just move on and never talk about it again.
• 1:01:11
  You know, during the draft, I was joking around that he should
• 1:01:13
  pick up Rafael Veron because that's the only defender it
• 1:01:15
  seems like he didn't have. If he got Veron, he would have
• 1:01:18
  got an extra 21 point. Oh my God, Oh my God.
• 1:01:21
  I want to talk about it, OK. Guys, Players that are on
• 1:01:24
  waivers. Who you who you looking to pick
• 1:01:26
  up? We already kind of we talked
• 1:01:27
  about the guys that are getting brought in.
• 1:01:29
  You know the James Wordprouse, the Jack Harrison at DOMA Troy.
• 1:01:33
  I think they all should be getting picked up.
• 1:01:35
  But people who are who went undrafted, who should be getting
• 1:01:38
  picked up, we spoke. About Wolves players spoke about
• 1:01:43
  Wolves players, I kind of talked.
• 1:01:45
  About Diasi from Chelsea, I think just the schedule wise
• 1:01:49
  they're gonna have a few easy games.
• 1:01:52
  A Woni Knottingham Forest might be worth a flyer.
• 1:01:57
  I mean, he just needs to start though.
• 1:01:58
  Jeffrey Slot from Crystal Palace if he's starting games.
• 1:02:01
  Another potential potential guy I'd be very interested in.
• 1:02:05
  And this is not me being biased, but Persuma I didn't.
• 1:02:07
  Expect him to play that well. I think Persuma's another one.
• 1:02:09
  I think he got like 8.59 points from playing in that terrible
• 1:02:14
  game against Brentford, so he got 12 points, but I think it
• 1:02:21
  was more of a fluke, I don't think.
• 1:02:22
  He's going to be producing points fantasy.
• 1:02:24
  I don't think he's going to give a lot of fantasy value.
• 1:02:27
  I'd like the way he played. Bisoma was amazing on the ball
• 1:02:30
  he he wouldn't give up possession.
• 1:02:32
  I just don't see him making those key passes, assists or
• 1:02:36
  goals. That kind of gives you fantasy
• 1:02:38
  points for him to bring value. I know this first week he did
• 1:02:42
  put up double digit points, but I would don't think that's going
• 1:02:46
  to be consistent moving forward. I mentioned Kyle Walker and then
• 1:02:51
  obviously the you mentioned the Stasi and.
• 1:02:55
  Then Pedro NATO, those are the two I'm looking at and right now
• 1:02:58
  in our league, Harry Maguire, we joke about it but he might
• 1:03:02
  actually bring be viable option for for West Ham.
• 1:03:07
  And then anytime he plays against Man U, you know he's
• 1:03:10
  good for a goal. He scores so many own goals
• 1:03:12
  against him. He's with his going on and so
• 1:03:15
  he's very familiar with scoring up Man U, so that's one to look
• 1:03:20
  at as well. All right.
• 1:03:21
  And then I guess looking ahead to next week.
• 1:03:23
  Games are gonna start on Friday. I'm trying to look right.
• 1:03:27
  I'm looking right now. I'm trying to see if there's
• 1:03:28
  anything super interesting. It looks like the best game is
• 1:03:31
  that there's two really good games.
• 1:03:32
  There's that Tottenham versus United, Tottenham versus Man
• 1:03:35
  United, which I think is gonna be a really fun game, and then
• 1:03:38
  Manchester City versus Newcastle United, I think that might be.
• 1:03:41
  That'll be a really good litmus test for Newcastle United after
• 1:03:44
  such a good game last week. Are they, are they like if they
• 1:03:47
  can put up a good fight against City?
• 1:03:49
  I think they're officially like, that wasn't a flash on the panel
• 1:03:52
  they made that for and we need to start taking it really
• 1:03:54
  seriously. How do you guys feel?
• 1:03:57
  Yeah, well, that's gonna be we're gonna see.
• 1:04:00
  Their credentials and if they can actually step up, that's
• 1:04:05
  gonna be a game I'm gonna wanna watch.
• 1:04:07
  It's 12:00 PM too, so it's a pretty good game.
• 1:04:10
  I'm upset to see that the Loot and Burnley game got postponed.
• 1:04:13
  I'm assuming it's cuz their stadium was shit because the
• 1:04:17
  stadium was out already. It's an amazing stadium.
• 1:04:22
  I will now let them talk. To you about their stadium, you
• 1:04:25
  get fish and chips. Outside the stadium, as you walk
• 1:04:28
  in, it's like an entrance. A game.
• 1:04:31
  I'm a game. I'm looking forward to Brian
• 1:04:32
  Wolves, I think after this week and watching how they played, I
• 1:04:36
  think that's gonna be a good game to watch.
• 1:04:37
  I was just gonna mention, do you does that.
• 1:04:39
  Temper your desire to pick up some wolves.
• 1:04:41
  Players know they're playing bright next week.
• 1:04:44
  Maybe some of the defenders. Are you less inclined to pick up
• 1:04:47
  one of the defenders? Not the defenders.
• 1:04:48
  I'd probably go for attackers because you.
• 1:04:50
  Go by the way, both Brian and Wolves play.
• 1:04:52
  They play very, very attacking football.
• 1:04:54
  So there's that's gonna be some goals in there.
• 1:04:56
  There's some points in there. Totally.
• 1:05:01
  I think that'll be a good one to watch.
• 1:04:58
  I think this is a get right game for Aston Villa against.
• 1:05:03
  I think that's where we'll really see what they can do.
• 1:05:05
  You've got two London derbies, man. 2 London derbies.
• 1:05:07
  Already, man. You've got West Ham and Chelsea,
• 1:05:10
  you've got Arsenal and Crystal Palace.
• 1:05:12
  They're gonna be good to watch too, always.
• 1:05:15
  Derby's always tough games, so. I expect Chelsea to smash on
• 1:05:19
  West Ham, but I think Crystal Palace and also will be a little
• 1:05:22
  bit more interesting. I think that's gonna be an
• 1:05:24
  interesting game to just to see if Arsenal kind of gets
• 1:05:26
  everything in mulching and if they could play the full 90
• 1:05:29
  minutes and not give up like the last 20-30 minutes, take their
• 1:05:32
  foot off the gas essentially. Kind of.
• 1:05:34
  That game sums up what happened to them last year and Arsenal
• 1:05:38
  just they need to come out and, you know, win this game, make
• 1:05:41
  statements that last 1520 minutes had to worry you as an
• 1:05:44
  Arsenal. Fan, especially that being not
• 1:05:46
  in the forest or a bum off table team.
• 1:05:49
  They really should have won that game convincingly.
• 1:05:51
  And I'm not saying it should have been like 314151.
• 1:05:54
  I'm saying even 21 can still look convincing.
• 1:05:57
  And that last 1520 minutes was not convincing.
• 1:06:01
  They could have been 10 and you could have, you know, if it's
• 1:06:04
  A10 game, it seems close, but sometimes they dominate the ball
• 1:06:07
  so much, you know the other team has no chance.
• 1:06:09
  So the scroll line is not something you look at when you
• 1:06:11
  watch the game. You're like, Nah, this is not a
• 1:06:13
  team that could dominate the EPL and win it all.
• 1:06:17
  They need to get their stuff. They shit together, so to say.
• 1:06:20
  I mean some mental frailty from the team that.
• 1:06:22
  Blew like a eight point lead going into the last few games of
• 1:06:25
  the season. Isn't that shocking to me?
• 1:06:26
  I think they that's the use in the team.
• 1:06:29
  They need to. They need to kind of fix that
• 1:06:31
  though. I think they're gonna place,
• 1:06:32
  they're gonna face tougher opponents, are gonna push them
• 1:06:34
  harder than than Forrest did and the only saving grace for
• 1:06:38
  Tottenham forgets, man. United is that we're playing at
• 1:06:40
  home cuz Man United the the stadium with dreams is just a a
• 1:06:44
  fortress right now. I think the saving grace.
• 1:06:47
  I think the saving grace for. Tottenham is that Man United
• 1:06:49
  look bad and I think that when you look at last year, Man
• 1:06:52
  United started really bad last year too, so I think the saving
• 1:06:54
  grace is maybe it just takes 10 a little bit of time to.
• 1:06:58
  Get things worked out. I mean, that's what it's looking
• 1:07:00
  like after, you know the opening opening of two seasons for him
• 1:07:04
  is neither. Neither time have they looked
• 1:07:05
  very good. It seems like you want to get
• 1:07:08
  Man United early on because it seems like they pick up seam as
• 1:07:11
  they go and he gets his lineups, he gets a 10 that gets his shit
• 1:07:14
  together, and he also want to play them before the future
• 1:07:19
  Golden Boot winner gets back into the lineup.
• 1:07:23
  All right. All right.
• 1:07:23
  I think we can wrap up the episode.
• 1:07:25
  After that comment, nothing good is coming, Nothing good is
• 1:07:28
  coming after that. Well, how do you guys feel about
• 1:07:30
  Harry Kane being the? Curse in not Tottenham cuz he
• 1:07:33
  went by, he went to Bayern Munich and I know he wasn't on
• 1:07:39
  the pitch, but who scored the hat trick?
• 1:07:40
  Omo. Danny.
• 1:07:41
  Omo. What a hat trick.
• 1:07:44
  I can't believe we almost did the entire podcast without like,
• 1:07:47
  talking about Harry King and me. I was literally when I heard
• 1:07:49
  about that, I was just having visions.
• 1:07:51
  Of that Taylor Swift song, like it's me, it's me, I'm the
• 1:07:54
  problem, it's me. This thing like that was just
• 1:07:56
  cycling through Hurricane's head.
• 1:07:57
  Probably you see he's already found.
• 1:08:00
  His new favorite Korean best friend in Kim Min Jay.
• 1:08:03
  I just realized by Munich I've got some ridiculous Sennabacks
• 1:08:06
  man. Kim Min Jay.
• 1:08:08
  They got Pervard. Who Plays Right Back or
• 1:08:10
  Sennaback? Lie.
• 1:08:11
  They called good center backs, but they're leaking goals like a
• 1:08:14
  freaking faucet. We're not.
• 1:08:16
  We're not analyzing their team. This is not trolling, not making
• 1:08:20
  fun. Like, how did you feel?
• 1:08:21
  Did you want him to win a trophy or were you happy that they
• 1:08:23
  lost? I'm not gonna lie, I was
• 1:08:25
  expecting him to win a trophy, but.
• 1:08:26
  I saw pleasantly, happily that he didn't straight away, cuz I
• 1:08:29
  didn't want to see all those fucking memes.
• 1:08:32
  Yeah, I think that's a valid. You still see him but now it's,
• 1:08:35
  you know, Tottenham, you know not even that bonus has been put
• 1:08:38
  pointed. Towards Kane and not a
• 1:08:40
  Tottenham. I got it.
• 1:08:42
  He's one of our own. Did they play their They play
• 1:08:45
  their first game tomorrow. Sounds good, right?
• 1:08:47
  I also thought it was funny how you.
• 1:08:48
  Were shitting on Onana, saying he's gonna make mistakes and
• 1:08:52
  which are gonna be to ghost to them, but you essentially have
• 1:08:55
  another version of Onana for Tottenham, so enjoy that for the
• 1:08:58
  next look Brian he had, he had a lot of saves.
• 1:09:01
  And honestly, I'm not gonna lie, he played well.
• 1:09:04
  But. I'm still being proven right
• 1:09:06
  with that last fucking thing he did at the end of the game.
• 1:09:09
  Could it cost his team? I totally agree with you, Enzo.
• 1:09:12
  I totally. I think.
• 1:09:13
  That was like exactly what we were talking about.
• 1:09:14
  And like, yeah, I didn't reflect in points on game one, but I
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  think that's the type of behavior that it's gonna be
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  problematic moving forward they play on.
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  Friday against Burma Braman. So we'll see if he scores a
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  goal. I'd hate if I'd hate If he
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  scores less than 10 up by Munich, I'd hate it.
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  Completely. There's nowhere he literally
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  could like. He could like he could chop off
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  on his arms and he'd score at least ten goals on that team and
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  we'll see all righty. Guys, that concludes.
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  Episode 5 of Dropped Off Sides and with Tico Nenza.
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  My name is Keith and thanks for listening.