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#81 Liverpool Spiraling and Will the Real Madrid Please Show Up · Draft Offsides Podcast

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But this is episode 81 dropped off sides with Tico, Enzo and
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it's Keith and we are done talking about that trade and we
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can move on because it's not being traded back.
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We can move forward and want to talk.
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To my offer. Oh, I kind of want to leave it
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just in case something happened so I can so I can make make that
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quick so in case Lucia gets injured or something then I can
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quickly make accept the trade, you know, double fuck.
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Take that flap too. Yeah, take your foul too.
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OK. Should we get into some games?
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Yeah, it's kind of the game some games.
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All righty. So kicking it off for me, if I'm
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looking at that West Ham one, Everton one, kind of whatever
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game do we need to speak about that much?
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Is there anything there? No, not.
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Not really. O'Brien we can speak about
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O'Brien. O'Brien has some big points in
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that game. That's funny because I kind of
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said something a few weeks ago. I was like, oh, I don't know if
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he's really a big point scorer. And then but I was like, you
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know everything, You know, I was like, clean sheets is more where
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he's going to get points. And then since then he scored
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two goals in three games. So sometimes you shouldn't
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listen to me. The other on the other side,
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Thomas Schuchat gets another goal.
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I mean, he's just like, he's so funny because he's like a
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literally like plays like a six, you know what I mean?
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But then he'll just like he randomly scores eight goals in
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season 8, nine goals in season, which is like for the the way he
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plays as a holding midfielder, he just feels like so weird,
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yeah, such a high goal count where he plays.
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And what would you pick him up? Like I don't think he was was he
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he probably was drafted, but like he'd be a late draft round.
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So it's not bad pick up like. No, yeah, I think I agree.
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I think I mean either there might be, he might be, there
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might be some place where he's on waivers like, no, I'm
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probably not. But he's like, he's not that.
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Like he's just not that consistent.
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So it's probably tough, yeah. He's not the most.
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Desirable player. Someone else on that team want
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to talk about is James Brock. Prowse had a solid like 10 point
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game. He's now that now that, what's
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his name? The coach?
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It seems like he's getting a lot more playing time.
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Yeah, he seems to be favored more and I still don't
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understand why he wasn't favored before.
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I just wish I didn't pick him up in the fourth round this season
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to find that out to now. So do you feel like you wouldn't
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pick him up now because you're feeling too burned or something?
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Yeah, I'm not picking him up now.
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I'm fine where I'm at. See you later then pick.
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I also it's interesting that the catches back.
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I know he's like been pretty. He's pretty hard to roster
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because but he's also someone that went pretty high in drafts.
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But when that we were warning about that.
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I think I think he's good now he's too good to be on on
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waivers I think, but he's not good enough necessarily to
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start. He's like one of those guys
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that. Mean his worst series.
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He's only averaging 6.2. Yeah, the only good thing about
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him is you know he's going to play most of the game he he
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usually starts. And he's on penalties in that
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team. But you're hoping how many
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penalties has West Ham had, like?
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Yeah, maybe, Yeah. The other interesting one that's
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just been such a disappointment is kudos, right.
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Like such a good season last year had had some really good
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flashes and really good moments this year, but then it's kind of
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underwhelmed for like the latter half of the season.
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Failed off that Tottenham game, he just ate it gone.
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It was starting to get there. Then off that Tottenham game he
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fucking flipped and then that was it.
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You got the. Red cards.
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Yeah. Yeah, I was.
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Got to blame Tottenham. Yeah, I'm sorry guys.
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So. Tottenham's falling somewhere
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next game. Ipswich Town 2 Nottingham Forest
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for this game was three O at half I'm pretty sure.
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Yeah, the most surprising thing was that a switch scored two.
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So they got caught in the 82nd and 93rd minute.
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It was kind of like whatever goals stand outs for me.
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Anthony Langa two goals, Milenkovich getting a goal and
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an assist, which is kind of crazy.
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And then Gibbs White with an assist and then Anderson had an
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assist. So like kind of the big hitters,
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like the guys that have kind of been the stars.
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I mean, Chris Wood has gone what, like two or three games
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and without a goal now, but. He's even still scoring points.
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What's his points, Mantiko? I think he's still been scoring,
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but he's close to double digits. The last three games he's had 6
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1/2 three and a half 2.25. But in the loss against
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Newcastle he had 14 points without scoring a goal.
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He had the assess. He had the assess.
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Yeah, it's also surprising. For us to score four goals and
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no wood contribution. Yeah, it's really true.
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But it's gonna happen. I I mean, I still think, you
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know, you're not worried about that.
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I think it's more interesting the like, like the defenders,
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like Nico Williams, Ana, but I'm.
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Fucking worried. Swooped up.
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You're worried about what? But not in forest defence.
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That's what lost me in my game with this week because fucking
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Rio didn't get his clean sheet points.
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You only got like $2.00 they're. Up, they're up 30.
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Like I think they just kind of like, you know, you know, those
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games where you just like you stop working as hard.
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Yes, I've been. I'm a Tomlin fan.
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I don't know those games. I think you might.
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I will because those games because you're never at three
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hours that way you. Don't know.
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No. No.
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We usually doubt. You know.
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I do know those games. We usually doubt 3 and then we
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score late. You're right.
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No. No, I do.
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Yeah, when you get happy end of year, it's like after, only
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there was more time. We would have got him.
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Next game, Man City 2 Brighton Valley and two.
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What did you guys think about this game?
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My moods look good, but it's a sea that we've seen all season,
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you know, I mean like. This seemed like the more the
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freshest of the City team because when you look at the
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lineup, it was Doku and Mahmoud, Savi Savino, then Holland as the
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front floor, which actually was like, this is like kind of more
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like features of City. What's it going to look like,
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you know? Yeah.
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That was interesting. I think even though that Doku
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and Savino didn't contribute, I don't think Doku contributed.
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Did you have an assist? No.
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No. So you thought that they're both
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pretty effective, like when you watch, when I watch like the
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extended highlights and watch moments in the game, I like they
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were both like very involved and like Savino won the ball back
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for the like the one of the goals we wanted back and made
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the pass and that guy assisted. So I think, I mean, I think
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perhaps probably with them, you know, in those positions.
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I don't know, I think it's tour three starts in our for Doku,
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which is a good sign, but I feel bad for that.
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The defender with the own goal Kusanov, Krusanov feel.
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Bad cuz you? Is that what you feel bad?
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No cuz he had the own goal and then his first start, remember
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he had that bad pass to the back which led to a goal.
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So and you know when he had the own goal they were up to 1.
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So it's it's been a rough start and he's only like 1819, so he
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kind of feel bad for the kid. Feel bad, I hope he's gonna be
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fine. I also think that after that
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shaky game one against Chelsea, he's looked pretty good and then
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own goal was kind of like that kind of happens, Yeah.
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I don't know how he really could have done that right.
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He's a he's a kid, man. You just said he's 18 years old.
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Just give him time. He's he's got bought for a
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reason. He'll develop.
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He's that Sissy. Yeah.
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I think he's like pretty good now.
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Like I don't think it's like, you know, that he needs to even
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develop that much. I think it's like to your point
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like learn a little bit mentally, but like physically
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seems like he's totally there, but.
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That's what I'm saying. Like develop more mentally for
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the Premiership development, development mentally, more
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maturity, you know what I mean? Like he'll get there.
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What did you think of that? A soupy on free kick was pretty
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good. Yeah.
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Pretty frustrating if you own them.
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Yeah. What I, he's also someone I
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think like, well, he had a pretty serious injury last year
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and so this year I felt like it was always like him just like
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kind of getting this feedback under him.
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You know, I'd be curious. I'd be curious to like, he's
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like, like I'm trying to think like for next year, if he's
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still at Brighton and like, you know, that now that the coaches
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likes him and stuff. I'm, I, I kind of think he might
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be a sleeper for like a next year type player, you know?
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It was it was great two years ago and then last season I
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think, I think, I think so I picked him up last year.
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I think he was. Going and then he got a really
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bad injury. He was like, he was like the
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number 2 defender behind Trent last year, I think, or two
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season. Yeah, 2.
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Season 2 seasons ago because he was scoring goals and gain
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assists left front and seven that Brighton team.
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Yeah, I was like, Trip your Trent, Trip your whatever,
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whichever order. And then he was like the third
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guy. But I think that's the thing
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with defenders sometimes is like, sometimes they it's really
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hard to be consistent. That's why someone like Trent is
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so good, quote UN quote, because he's like doing that every year.
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It'll be interesting to see if, like, Anthony Robinson can do
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that. It can be as elite as he was the
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start of the season, like for a whole season next year as well.
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Yeah. We'll see.
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OK, that's all I can. That's all I really need to talk
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about here, right Jon Pedro like decent it was Matoma had some
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good moments. I mean those guys, I think that
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whole attacking line for or Brighton's pretty good is Rudy.
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Yeah, Rutter was good. Games, Have you been getting
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points? You didn't get your points last
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week. Rutter.
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Rutter, Yeah. He got like 11, didn't he?
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He got four last week, he got less than five last week, but
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this week he got almost 11. Yeah, I'm out at that.
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OK, next game. Southampton 1.
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Wolverhampton wanders 2. Kind of surprised that Wolves
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were able to score two goals without Cunha, but I guess when
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you think about it, it was against Southampton which they
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make everyone look good. You see, it's good to see Strand
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Larson on the on the score sheet got 2.
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Yep, that. Would have been That was a
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great. Great stop.
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A great pick up. Yeah, pick.
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Up, but then like, but then like, whoever they play next,
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you know, that's probably not gonna happen again.
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No, probably not. How Long's been you're out?
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Do we ever find that out? Well, it's still hasn't been the
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three, three games, so he's gonna miss the next game for
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sure. And if they're gonna extend it
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more, they'll probably let us know.
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But even last game when Cunha wasn't playing against Everton,
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Larson only had one point, so it's not like.
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Yeah. Guaranteed, yeah.
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There's been good stodgy defense.
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I think it would, it would be so matchup based and like there's
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no better matchup than Southampton, you know?
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There is no bad matchup. You're right about that.
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I think with Cunha, I, I wouldn't be surprised if they
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announced it during the international break or like
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after something. I just think they're taking
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their time with it, but I think you'll get at least a game or
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two more band. At least you think right?
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Because that was just ridiculous.
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Yeah, it was not good. And it's more so because it's
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also a second offense of violent conduct.
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So I think they're really trying to crack down on.
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But maybe not. That might just be wishful
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thinking for me because I want him.
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I want to go to soccer. OK, Next game, Bournemouth 1,
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Bradford 2. A little bit of a shocking
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result, but not really. I mean, but Bradford away has
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been so good, so interesting players here.
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I mean, wish I got a goal. I'd love to see that.
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Anything else really stand up for you guys not?
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Really. But I'm not too worried about
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Bournemouth. It's a couple of days.
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Their players like Kirk has I think started a good game.
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I think Christie's been one of the consistent players.
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He had a rough game. So like we you need a more
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clicking. Did Evan Nielsen, did he score?
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It is scoring. He can look decent.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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It's like, I don't know, I like, he's definitely seems like the
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player that Ariella wants to play with, you know what I mean?
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Yeah. So let's see.
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Let's see what their scores were.
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Yeah, Like Crick has had, what, 17.5 points?
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Yeah. I mean, Nielsen had 9.75.
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You're not mad at that? Like for a striker that doesn't
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score or assists, 9.75 points is pretty good.
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It's really good. Yeah, yeah, I'm not too worried
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about Bournemouth. I.
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Mean Cliber had 9.25, Cook had 9.25 sub menu at 8.
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Not, not not great stories, right?
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I mean, but not scores that lost you a week.
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You know, they didn't they lost. They didn't lose you a week.
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And then you look at Brent, you look at the Redford team, which
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got the goal. Yeah.
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But then outside of that, it was more like Norgard.
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You know, he got a goal and obviously he's not like a
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surprise going player for them, but he got 21.5 points.
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But it's kind of funny, Buemo with the assists getting 15 just
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shows and then consistent. Like the consistency of Mark
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Flecken is pretty crazy as a goalie.
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Top top 2 goalkeeper. He's number one, I think by a
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decent amount. He's averaging over 10 points a
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game. Shit, yeah he has.
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He's had like in the last. What happens is 123456789 and
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the last 10 games he's had two games without doubt that aren't
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double digits. Oh shit.
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Yeah, so definitely like a little bit of a differentiator.
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Yeah, there's like some weird ones, like Shaw has not been
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good the last few weeks. Louis Potter classified as a
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forward even though he plays left back.
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Like if he was classified as a left back I think he'd be.
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What value? Yeah.
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But it's definitely more value. It's too hard to put him in as a
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with the forward and the way forward point get core points
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they. Don't get no clean sheet points
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so. Sheet points, I guess the only
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and like even when he scores he gets less, you get more points
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scoring as a defender, a goal. Then you do.
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I think it's like 9 points. Right.
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Yeah. So it's like, it's like
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everything's working against you.
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Yeah, it's a weird one. OK What else was there?
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Arsenal 1, Chelsea 0 before they.
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Were going to get whooped on I. Thought they're going to get
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whooped on way more than 10 but they also.
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Chelsea also didn't touch the ball in the in the Arsenal box
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for the 1st 30 minutes that game.
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They had no possession in the Arsenal box for the 1st 30
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minutes. They barely.
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Had changed. What is changing that Chelsea
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team? Morasca is like imposed like
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before that they're playing way more transition counter
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attacking football and Morasca is now like imposing his style
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of play onto them and it's just not working.
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And it's also how do you replace the Nico Jackson?
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Yeah, that's true. I mean, I'm serious.
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You you think that is a joke, but I'm, I'm actually very
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serious about that. I also think that now obviously
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in this game not been called Palmer Arsenal, we're just like,
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cool, there's really no one that can beat us, you know.
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But from the art school standpoint, you got another goal
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from Marino and then it was a set piece goal.
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It was the first set piece goal in a few weeks.
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It's been a few months for them. You're celebrating.
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What was the blog was the last time you scored?
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Was that brace, what, three games ago?
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Three games, you got that, but even that, I mean, first center
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mid, those what, three goals in four games, you're like, you're
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stoked on that, Yeah. You're happy.
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Martinelli benched. What's his name?
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The young kids name, yeah. Yeah, I was looking when you're
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he like had what? He had one game where he scored
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almost 30 points and then other than that his starts were pretty
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substandard. So he's he's still building.
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He's so young. I think there's a lot of hope
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one. For next season.
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One for next season, I think, yeah, OK.
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Fulham 2, Tottenham 0. But Fulham was still like there
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were chances of there's totally chance that falls out.
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Yeah, God. It's the year 2025 and Tottenham
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lost suit match that William is still starting.
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That is a little wild. That is bro actually a really
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good state like. Fulham shouldn't be stealing
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from the poor. Can I be fucking?
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We've lost 15 games this season. Like back off, you know what I
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mean? Oh, so bad.
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You suffer from the idea just because you used to be rich,
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that people still think you're rich.
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You know you're still. Yeah, but what?
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But you're serious. At the moment we're living on
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our four O 1K and it's it's depleting.
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I think that's running dry. I think you're on USAID.
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You're getting, you're getting some full hands out.
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Is that scary? Yeah, you're having stuff.
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For security. At this point, fucking bad.
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Generous. Oh man, I don't know.
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It was Fulham, Fulham's Fulham. I, I did.
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They got so many good players, they had such a great season.
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I wasn't surprised, no, they did well against the big teams.
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So whether it be the past or or present, but Robin, it was a
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good game for Robinson coming back after having some couple
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mediocre game, getting back in the goal involvement.
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So that was good for him. A wobby not getting his wobby
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points though, that's a little bit worrying.
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What? About Andreas Prayer finally
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getting some points. Yeah, been playing games.
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He wasn't playing games for a while now.
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He's just started the last three in a row and he's got about
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14.25 and he got a 6.75 and 18.75.
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That's pretty good. Yeah, pretty good.
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On the Tottenham side. There wasn't really too much a
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shot, but I think Son got like 10 points but it wasn't too much
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a shout out. Matthew, I thought tell actually
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pretty solid. He had a few different passes
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that actually really opened stuff up and you know, it kind
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of like, you know, he got 10 points and it wasn't like the
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most amazing, but I was, I was kind of impressed with him.
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I thought he looked decent other than that, yeah.
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Your two high square players were Ben Davies and Christian
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Romero. Yeah, that that doesn't really
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speak to the Ben Davies getting absolutely bullied by the for
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the sesame on goal dude. Fucking sesame come back to buy
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us in the arse did. You is it like that he didn't
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celebrate because it was that so much of A non celebration that
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was almost kind of like a celebration, does it?
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Feel like there was a that was a celebration.
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You see his face? That's a fucking celebration.
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He woke up like it's a stanky face.
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But it was like, but he didn't celebrate because he was trying
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to be respectful, but it was like so disrespectful the way he
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scored that goal that almost felt like it was.
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So nasty. It was like the intention.
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It's like it was like a. It was an anger bang.
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Other charges I got upgraded to a murder because he was like the
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intention was clearly there to to do it.
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He just. Grabbed the bull by the horns
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and yeah by take up. Been there.
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It is insane that Willie's still playing.
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Honestly. It's because, you know, he has a
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restaurant in London, so he probably just doesn't want to
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leave London. So he's like, yeah, what do they
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play for? Like 3?
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Whenever he doesn't need me, I'll.
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Play. He's 36.
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I thought he'd be older to be honest.
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His body's he's like so looks pretty quick though.
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The way he moves around, obviously I don't think he can
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do it for 90 minutes. We can wing out, but like having
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him just be able to come in and like start a game every now and
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again. I've always like William.
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I've always. I thought he's thought he's a
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great. Player A great player what I say
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what are you guys are you guys are you feeling better about
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them with I mean is is van der Ven coming back or is he
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question marks there this. Season is over, like Europa is
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literally the last thing. Don't get wrong we had a great
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win back midweek to bring us back but literally I feel if
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anything other than European final win is a failure this
18:30
season. Fanch big failure.
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What about Solanki? He's, I still think he's a good
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player. He's a fucking Premiership
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striker. It just hasn't worked this
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season. But he still scored, what, nine
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goals? Yeah, but like, not since that
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injury, not when he missed all the time, No.
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Yeah, and back. And it's been like it hasn't
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been building anything. It's been two games.
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So maybe it just needs a little more.
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Time back to Bournemouth? We're just going to send back to
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Bournemouth. If only.
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If only was that easy. Yeah, if only it was that easy.
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You should be able to return it. There should.
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Be child peer for trades. Well, you see backspace.
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I never touched him. I never used then Kuka.
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I should be able to return it, no?
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Receipt. Do you even open the box?
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Sell the box. You got to read the small print.
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Tico, you got to read the small print.
19:31
OK, last game of the week Manchester United 3, Leicester
19:34
City 0. Hoyland with a goal.
19:37
Is there any chance this is what I get for talking shit about
19:40
Hoyland? So what's the over under?
19:42
He literally waited like so many people who are giving him shit
19:44
in the 2nd and you know, gives him shit.
19:46
So like, you know what, I need to score on this motherfucker,
19:48
this guy, even this got some shit about me.
19:50
I need to score. Still scored less goals than
19:53
like 50 plays in the league so I don't give a shit.
19:55
Only three goals. Do you think though that he's
19:58
going to go under, score 7 goals in the last nine games and.
20:02
Absolutely. Absolutely not.
20:05
Absolutely not. What about so?
20:08
But the other thing that's kind of funny is there was a goal
20:09
that was just allowed that was really tight for Garnacha.
20:11
He would have assisted, so that'd have been even better.
20:14
But Garnacha got a goal and then Fernandez had two assists and he
20:17
ended up getting a goal in 90th minute.
20:18
That was a pretty sweet goal from the top of the box.
20:22
Fernandez continues to carry. He's come on in the second-half
20:25
of the season. He was solid the first half of
20:26
the season. Second-half of the season he's
20:28
become I, I mean, I'd be curious to see, I mean, I know in the
20:31
rankings I could do it really quickly, but I'd be really
20:33
curious to see you like from, you know, October, November to
20:38
now where he says in the rankings.
20:42
I'm interested in Gonacho's playing bad too puffy, honest.
20:45
Even point wise you can see it. He's he's standing there.
20:48
You feel like this is it's finally starting to like T cars.
20:50
As a fan, you feel like you're starting to like see it.
20:53
Like finally I'm trying to see the team.
20:56
I feel like make sure the Citizen look significantly
20:59
different and part of me feels like it's going to.
21:02
We could have a new striker. I don't think Hoyland or Zerks
21:04
here are going to be the start of next year unless, you know,
21:08
they decide not to spend money. But Fernandez, man, he's drank
21:11
4th overall now. Yeah, in total point.
21:15
I mean, since November, he's ranked second overall, but only
21:18
by Insola. And so has had a dip in form and
21:22
then, well, at least in the Cup games, doesn't he just doesn't
21:26
show up in the finals, does he? No like.
21:28
We say he's had a dip in form, but his lowest scoring game
21:31
since the new year was 12 points and then he had another 113
21:36
points. Dip in form, Tigo.
21:38
Carrying your team. Fucking carrying your team.
21:41
Look at the. 35192922132630. Are you having fun roster basing
21:48
right now? You're having fun.
21:50
Can you see it? Yes.
21:52
Oh God, that's exciting. I don't even I don't even I.
21:57
Don't even the roster bag. I just look at Salah.
22:01
Put some Egyptian music in the background.
22:05
That's how you fall asleep every night you.
22:06
See that before and all the pictures of his headline, the
22:08
goat spray they sprayed on his fucking knees, motherfuckers.
22:13
OK, let's let's let's be long for this before it gets a little
22:16
X-ray in. What is up next?
22:19
I didn't really do waivers because I was busy.
22:24
Yeah, we're wrong. Tiko should have been handling
22:27
all this puffy honest. He's the one I use at home.
22:29
He should have had. Back like a day and a half ago.
22:32
That's a day and 1/2 that we're not there.
22:34
Is this the most international podcast we've recorded?
22:37
I. Think so we're.
22:38
We're like, I think we're the furthest away from each other
22:40
we've ever been. Yeah.
22:41
Like, because Chico's in LA, I'm in Portugal, and you're in
22:45
Japan. Tokyo.
22:45
Yeah, that's a little nuts here. OK, But let's look at players.
22:49
So Bruno Fernandez, we scored 41.
22:52
OK, how about Muniz? He's he started to come on and
22:55
he's been contributing from the bench.
22:57
Do you think there's a chance by the end of this season that they
23:01
start playing him over real Raul?
23:04
Or do you think it's because still pushing for Europe and
23:07
they're pushing for all these things that Jimenez will say?
23:09
Because I think it's like they were, they were a solidly
23:11
intense place that nothing else to play for.
23:13
I could see them starting to switch.
23:16
Yeah, Muniz more. But I think at this rate, I
23:18
think they're going to play line up.
23:20
Ain't broken, don't fix it because he's still scoring gold
23:22
role and he's still contributing in ways that you don't see so on
23:26
the snack chart, so do. You know how you know how to
23:28
Another really good game who we called out last week and there
23:32
was a Belgard. Oh yeah, he did.
23:35
Yeah. Yeah, he had a 20 point game
23:37
after he called him out, the three solid and he's still only
23:39
only 46% of the leagues. So someone to keep an eye out on
23:47
man, What do you think about like Timothy Castagna for for
23:50
Fulham? I see him now, Yes, no.
23:54
I wouldn't. This is me though.
23:58
Yeah, it's. A little bit of a weird one.
24:00
I think it's to me, like when it comes to like this time of the
24:03
year, I like like any international break.
24:06
I'm not like scrambling to pick people up.
24:07
Like, no, I'd probably wait like see how some of the
24:10
international games go because sometimes you can watch those
24:11
games and get like a little window into some might be pop
24:15
pop or something. Internationals completely
24:18
different to the league, completely different.
24:20
Very much so. Should we talk about some other
24:22
things that happened this week? Like my cousin getting married
24:26
or what? Real Madrid.
24:28
Real Madrid. I was just the absolute
24:30
destruction that was Liverpool's hopes and dreams.
24:33
Liverpool a week ago was still in the Champions League, was in
24:37
the Caribou Cup final and in the space of a week like got knocked
24:42
out by Real Madrid and they got knocked out by Real Madrid.
24:44
Very, very. Comfortably.
24:46
Atlanta Cup. No.
24:47
PhD. I'm sorry.
24:47
Yeah, PhD. PhD I'm.
24:50
Sorry, they got knocked out with PhD very comfortably and then
24:52
they got beat by Newcastle because big Dan Byrne was like
24:56
fuck this. I'm from Blythe and I'm bringing
24:58
it home. This is the first time
25:00
Newcastle's won a cup in. 70 years, 67 years 70 and this is
25:04
the. This is the first English
25:06
manager to win a trophy since 2008.
25:10
Hey, right now. Are we right now with
25:12
Portsmouth? Funny funny story about her end
25:14
up in 2008. You know who is very first
25:16
signing once. Who?
25:19
The Newcastle coach. Oh, really?
25:22
Yeah, Eddie Howard is was his very first signing for when he
25:25
was when he joined Portsmouth. Crazy, that weird, weird world.
25:29
Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy.
25:32
But you know that happened, dude.
25:37
Aston Villa, I know they only played Bruges but they look good
25:42
in in German's league right now do.
25:44
They have any chance against PSG.
25:45
I mean, the only chance, the only reason they give their
25:47
chances. You know, Emily is such a cup
25:49
manager. He's like, he's so phenomenal
25:51
cops. That's the guy, Yeah, that's the
25:54
guy right there. Do I think they can go with the
25:55
way and win it? I don't think so.
25:57
But do I think they can break some hearts on the way there?
25:59
Yeah, especially a young, a young PSG team, I could, I could
26:02
see them causing them some. Thanks.
26:04
So. Much Den Belly you've got to
26:05
worry about, man. Well, Den Belly and Seattle
26:09
player. Well, like all the players.
26:12
Are. Good.
26:13
There's a lot of good, good players on the team.
26:15
I mean, I honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Villo wins the
26:19
match up. They're deep, they have a lot of
26:20
midfield options and they're going to be the more physical
26:23
team. I've fit in a senior or on
26:26
fucking five. That's the partnership we never
26:28
saw. That could fucking work so well.
26:30
Puffy. Honest.
26:31
Yeah, especially because they they don't like, they don't need
26:33
to start every game either. Like, that's what Emery's doing
26:36
a really good job of, like kind of slowly betting a man make you
26:38
feel comfortable, you know, so and.
26:40
They have fresh likes too because they didn't play most of
26:42
the year. Rashford didn't play.
26:44
Asencio was sitting on the bench for PHG so.
26:48
There's a little revenge, revenge narrative there too.
26:50
Loving and revenge narratives. Nice.
26:53
And what about the other time? I have some Arsenal fans that
26:57
were saying that they were very happy that Madrid won over
27:00
Athletico because they think that there's more, even though
27:04
obviously Major the better team that Athletico.
27:05
They thought that Athletico would just get so dirty.
27:09
And I get so just like Choppy with Arsenal that that would
27:12
have been one of the most atrocious games to ever set our
27:14
eyes on. And with with Madrid, there's
27:17
always a chance that they can just stifle them a little bit.
27:19
What do you think? So I was actually thinking about
27:22
the game, what was like yesterday, the day before, I was
27:24
like, because we suck at set pieces in corners.
27:28
They're going to score a set piece goal for sure.
27:31
But. They have ninety 180 minutes.
27:34
Yeah, but I don't see how their defenders are going to cope with
27:40
Mbapa, Vini, Rodrigo especially like on on the left side were
27:45
Mbapa switches off there as well because their left back is MLS.
27:50
He's what Bank team we. Talk story.
27:52
I mean, who that? Who goes in there, I guess.
27:55
And yeah, and I you would think Saka might be back for I don't
28:00
know if both of the games, but at least for the second like
28:02
Saka, I expect them to be back, but I don't even know it.
28:06
Might be too late, but. I don't know if it's going to be
28:10
Slaughter Man I. Mean him being fit though, too,
28:12
like because he can come back and maybe come out on the side,
28:15
but I, I mean the worst thing they could do is rush him back
28:18
and try and start him in a game where he's not fully fit.
28:20
And I just thought it feels like it was like thing that you just
28:22
hope that doesn't happen, you know?
28:25
And also it's Champions League in Real Madrid, so.
28:29
Stick up. The other side of just.
28:32
Became out of like nowhere that within the last like few years
28:34
all of a sudden like you got to like kill him and do voodoo to
28:39
get rid of him. That's pretty funny.
28:41
I like, I like that bit. You have to do the the the dark
28:44
magic. You have to perform to defeat
28:46
Real Madrid and the championship.
28:47
Because with Cristiano Ronaldo, it was never like that, except
28:50
the one final when Rama scored. With Cristiano Ronaldo there,
28:52
with the three wins in a row, they just blew people out.
28:57
Yeah, it was inevitable. Yeah, yeah.
28:58
And who, who's beaten? Who's beaten Madrid in the last
29:01
like five years in the in the Champions League?
29:03
City, City, Chelsea won. Chelsea, Ajax, I actually.
29:10
That was kind of a. The first, yeah, the first year
29:13
Ronaldo left and then they got the intentional yellow card, so
29:17
the players were missing games and it came back to bite them in
29:19
the ass. Yeah, told them.
29:23
Thought I beat them and and when was this?
29:27
You're just saying stuff. I don't remember that.
29:34
OK, what about the other side of the draw?
29:35
Barsa by Barsa, BBB Doorman Barsa.
29:40
Get that? Got the easiest freaking draw.
29:42
They got the easiest route there.
29:44
Am I I mean they're going to have to play one really real
29:47
challenging team. I mean, you know, credit to buy,
29:50
you know credit dorm. You never know.
29:51
But like Inter, Bayern is going to be the real like the Real
29:55
heavy. Game that's going to be a good
29:56
game, but Harry Kane's on fire man I'm sorry I think he's he's
30:01
pushing for I think he I think if anyone is good can win it if
30:04
you if you had to pick two teams like who you think I.
30:11
Think it's going to be Real Madrid, Bayern Munich final?
30:14
Yeah. That's why I was thinking.
30:16
Same thing I think. Honestly, I think whoever wins
30:18
the Real Madrid Arsenal game probably makes it all the way
30:20
the final, and it probably is pretty likely to win.
30:22
But in the groups that in the group stage was about, say,
30:26
stage in the group stage with a new format.
30:28
I think Barcelona play Bayern Munich and I think they
30:30
dominated. Yeah, and but Arsenal played PSG
30:33
and dominated them too. Yeah.
30:35
And then it. Was also six months ago.
30:37
So you never really know. Like, yeah, she's got better by
30:39
this and it's so it's hard to say.
30:41
But you know, injured is always a surprise because they they
30:43
remember they've lost few years. They've kind of surprised people
30:45
how well they do. So you can't sleep on that.
30:46
But I think the thing with Bayern you have to remember is
30:48
that Mix, the company is such a young manager, you could see him
30:50
fucking it up. Yeah, yeah.
30:53
Got so much experience on the field, Yeah.
30:58
And on the bench, yeah. So I mean, I think there's, I
31:01
mean it's kind of a fun, pretty well poised some fun games.
31:04
Yeah, we'll see. All right.
31:06
Anything else you want to go over?
31:07
We should we should we maybe meet before the games next week
31:11
or something? Just last thing, on the
31:13
Champions League, the final is at Bayern Munich, so it's at the
31:17
they have extra motivation to make it there.
31:19
Allianz The. Final was there.
31:21
They were in the final, rich Chelsea, sure, and they lost.
31:24
And they lost, yeah. Fashionish Feinsteiger missed
31:28
the penalty. Fashion.
31:30
Yeah, Feinsteiger love his story.
31:35
He was a he was like a right winger for when he was younger
31:37
and he went back into the the center of midfield.
31:40
Love again man, you legend. Player conversion No.
31:42
Fucking terrible man He went. He should never like honestly,
31:46
he if he had gone there five years before and I wouldn't be
31:49
like, Oh yeah, he's a man like he looks like a Man United
31:51
player. He just didn't what he can't, he
31:52
went. That's for a tire.
31:53
He. Was like he was like, you know,
31:55
light in terms of being a failure.
31:57
Yeah, great player that went there, just went went.
32:02
Are we going to? We're not going to do the
32:06
previous right? It's too really.
32:07
We might pull up again. I think we got to kind of see
32:09
what happens in the all the international games and if
32:11
there's anything so much could happen talk next week.
32:15
Because the next game starts on April 1st, Everyone's will be
32:18
back in. That is Shelly, yeah.
32:22
Yeah, I should. I'll be, I'll be back on the
32:23
30th and I come back midday. So I can probably do a podcast
32:27
before so that we can get try to get on the 31st.
32:29
We'll figure it out. We got it.
32:30
We'll figure out. All right.
32:32
This is what I'm saying. We've got outside.
32:36
My name is Keith. I'm with Tigo and Enzo and we
32:38
will be seeing you guys sometime soon in the near future, roughly
32:43
a week from now. Follow us on all those social
32:47
stuff outside. On all the places and things and
32:50
cool.