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Calcio Carousel - Serie A Matchday 30 & Coppa Italia - Ep. 220 · The Calcio Guys

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  Back to the origins. After Easter, Wick and He on the couch of
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  guys Idiano, Johnny and Nicholas. I hope you guys got some good Eastern
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  chocolate this weekend. How are you guys doing? Mh, not bad,
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  not bad, not enough Easter chocolate unfortunately, but uh good man. I
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  don't know. I think I'm still I'm a bit tired of eating the same
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  Eastern leftlovers. But besides that, I think I think we're all good.
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  I had a bunch of keen their eggs and uh and uh mini eggs,
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  so I'm all hyped up for time. Yeah, I got I got a
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  ton of chocolate, so I've been like just on a sugar rush the past
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  few days, you know, but can't complain the only time of the year
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  we get this on chocolate, so you know. But Calcho, there was
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  still Coucho this weekend. As usual city they didn't play on Sunday. They
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  played a bunch of games on Saturday, and then I didn't even know this.
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  They even played games on on Monday, so I was a bit surprised
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  to see. I was getting like, you know, I was seeing posts
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  on Instagram, uh with from games on Monday. I thought they just did
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  everything on Saturday, but that wasn't the case. I might as well just
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  start right off the bat. I mean Saturday game Latio Juve, uh not
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  not not a good effort right for my Juve. Seems like that's been the
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  case for the past few months. You know, I don't want to beat
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  a dead horse here. It's been it's been the same old I think it's
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  like it was seven winless games in city, if I'm not mistaken. I
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  forget the exact number. But you know, what was interesting about this game
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  is lots of they knew at that point they were just going to play a
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  couple of days later, which they did in Coptalia. And you know,
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  it's always interesting because you know, you obviously want to focus on that one
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  game, but you always have your mind thinking about the next game in a
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  couple of days against the same team, you know, in terms of strategy
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  and all that. I think with Youve it, the same problems occurred.
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  Lack of goal scoring, you know, and getting scored on. Right at
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  the end. Marbisic at a point when you had young guys on the field
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  and he was he was mad marked by a player who I didn't even know
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  who he was. Had to message all my friends like who is this guy?
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  Uh, I already forget who it is. And that's what happens when
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  you play young young players sometimes in experience we saw that. I think even
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  with eliing against Snopoly, it just happens. Obviously, I think it was
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  one of those games. Probably would have been fair to get a point each.
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  But you know, that's the way she goes sometimes. And uh,
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  you know, for you Ade that that that that top four battle just keeps
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  sliding down and at this point, you know, there's doubt, there is
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  doubt whether they'll make the Champions League next year. Obviously the fact that there's
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  there could be a fifth Champions League spot helps them because Roma is seven points
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  behind them in that fifth spot. But it's tight, like Bologna is right
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  there fifty seven points where they'll continue. Yeah, they're continuing their strong season.
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  And you know, for you it's almost for a while it was a
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  Scudetta race and then became in like hey, let's just you know, fight
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  for you know, second place with Melan. Now it's it's a matter of
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  it's a matter of saying alive in the top four. But you know,
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  we'll talk about cope Tally later, but I think the Copetali win hopefully gave
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  them some confidence. Another big game this week and I gets another copy Itali
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  team Fiorentina. Uh, I think that's Sunday at two forty five, which
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  I think this is almost a mustman game for you, especially a team that's
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  in tenth place right now. It's a team that UVE is better then and
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  you know you still then you start getting wins, as simple as that.
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  Obviously, right now, the goal is to win the Copally there there are
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  two games away from that, but the secondary goal or one b if you
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  if you want, is also to get that Champions League spot, because I
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  think at the end of the day, Champions League COPI Itally I think is
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  an acceptable season. Uh probably, I think overall you've a at this point
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  it you know, they they're gonna look back on the season. They're gonna
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  call it disappointing. There's a chance they finished with less points than last year.
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  But you know, we'll wait and see and uh yeah, just another
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  frustrating game. Your your guys teams Roman. On the other hand, Jenny's
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  or reserve against Lecha, I don't know if you had a chance to watch
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  it on that on Monday, and then Milan did pick up the win on
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  Saturday to one against Fiorentina. I don't know if I forgot I forgot Napoli.
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  Napoli another disappointment. It's okay, we will I think everybody wants to
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  forget that game. It's all, yeah, there go, I already forget
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  that. We don't know who wants to go first talking about their teams,
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  Johnny, I'll let you go first. Uh, well, Sarah le Roma.
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  Basically this was a game that showed that if you don't have lean uh.
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  I think both both games pretty much demonstrated that when you don't have a
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  key player in the lineup, the results kind of show. You know,
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  in the Roma game, Fella Greeni was suspended for the match. You had
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  to deal with the red card, so you and you lose a player that
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  under that OSSI has just seen a new life. He's become fantastic for them
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  and a very very vital player in that formation. And you know, nothing
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  could have like got going in that matchup. Uh you know, like mind
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  you it sucks because like like lineup, it wasn't wasn't the healthiest wasn't the
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  strongest possible line up because they figure might as well, you know, take
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  a little bit of a resta versus Leche. But I think that was the
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  worst call to make, and probably just an inexperienced uh an experienced decision from
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  that OSSI at that point. But I mean, look, at least you
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  walk away with a point, especially that you're in a race for the top
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  four. You're still you're still in a punching distance. It's not like as
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  if you're far off right now. Actually, I mean I have the standings
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  open over here. Uh. I think next said it was what seven points?
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  Right next was it? There's there are five points behind uh behind Bologna.
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  Well, there's still a punching distance. It's it's still a little bit
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  of a hill to climb, but it's not the worst when it was comparable
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  to they're in the like near nine tenth place this uh when that OSSI first
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  took over the team. So it's okay, it happens, but like I
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  said, you get at least you get the point out of it. Moving
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  on to Anapoli Atlanta game, like not being there kind of, I would
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  say it was demis. I wouldn't say it's the reason why they lost.
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  It does it doesn't help because your team let in three goals. It's not.
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  It's not. It's not one of those games where it's like, oh,
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  you know, it could have been a difference maker by a goal or
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  two that like by offense. This was like, you know, this is
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  an exposure that the Napoli back line is. It's like I said, even
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  though uh it wanted was good at the last year, it wasn't a strong
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  back line. It just so happened that Kim played out of his mind.
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  It really massed a lot of a lot of a lot of issues. Juan
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  Jesus and Romani is probably the worst period I've ever seen in my life.
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  But I've never been a big fan of Rocklane since day one. I always
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  like I remember and I we can even look back in the previous episode,
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  like maybe like one hundred and something episodes ago when Jan Jesus first came to
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  Tanapoli, and I'm like, it's a lot of remove And I'll say it
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  again, it's a lot of remove. That thing. It doesn't push the
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  needle, It just just fills the spot. You know. It's it's it
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  sucks because Rui's back and form you're you're started season was he wasn't the healthiest.
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  He wasn't in his best of shapes. Uh, you, Lorenzo was
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  a bit lost at time. So there was times he was the best and
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  there's times he was the worst. Now there's rumors of him possibly going to
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  inter and during the summer. I don't know, these rumors are always happening,
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  right, and then it shows that man isn't the solid goalie that you
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  know that he was last year. You know, like it's it's something that
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  like last year he played well and it was a bit of a surprise,
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  but it kind of also helps demonstrate why he kind of did like a split
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  between him and right now but not right now? My god? Uh oh
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  my god. Why am I blanking out like it's you know, I don't
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  like I'm like, it's a Spanish goalie Janet, it's not and it's not
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  Raina. Holy fuck. It's funny, how like the first Spanish play thing
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  I think for for Anapoli it's Rena and on an eastern buzz. Yeah,
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  it's probably it's probably because of the bubbles. I guess that's why I just
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  uh maybe goleaning would have been probably the better call to to do to doing
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  this match typically the fact that it's against Atalanta, so he might have a
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  bit of a chip on his shoulder. I'm I'm making assumptions. I'm not
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  saying it's fact. I'm making assumptions. So hopefully no he just takes that
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  and just like runs with it. But it's it's more than just like it's
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  on the goalie. Like it was just a defensively atrocious game. It also
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  showed the big coaching or experience between guest Bedini and Calzona versus like Guesperini,
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  you know, been coaching in the league for a very long time with the
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  same team and you know, analyzing analyzing the matchup, he probably had like
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  you knew the better call how to break it down, versus Calzona where it's
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  just like, uh, he has been getting some nice results with the team,
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  But I don't know. I think there was a sense that the team
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  was gonna come down to ear at some point because you can only get so
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  much of a high from a coaching change. Eventually, you're players are going
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  to have to rally together and push to make that difference, and this game,
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  unfortunately did not happen. It was a frustrating one, and it's definitely
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  one of those goldfish games, as Ted Lassa likes to say, be a
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  goldfish, you know, like forgetting to move on and now my cat's jumping
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  onto my addresser to get on top of my clean clothes. So no,
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  I also think that it just a bounce off. To Jenny's point there,
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  I think like there's only so much, like you said, there's only so
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  much of a high that you can kind of ride with. And I think
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  it's also takes. It's also about like how the players take that, Like
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  Johnny, both of Johnny's teams, you know, Roma and Not we have
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  those coaching changes, and we've seen like kind of night and day results in
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  terms of in terms of progress since that coaching change. So I think it's
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  it's a mixture in terms of, you know, obviously the coaching change,
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  you're going to have that fresh start, you're gonna have that a little bit
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  of a buzz. It's kind of to the players to take to that and
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  and to to have that that connection and and to kind of roll with it.
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  And it also seems to have done a good job so far, I
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  think in his ten games that he's been around, it's only one loss,
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  and I think he was the one against in there, so whereas not with
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  situation has just been a nightmare with every coaching change that they've made. So
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  I think it's like a two way street for that. But and then like
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  look at you know, Nichol opened the show with with you know, the
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  you in a game and you know, two Door comes in and you know
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  it's it's a quick sample size, but he gets that a little bit of
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  spirit at the end to to to finish that game. Because with Sadi,
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  I don't think that's a that's a win. I don't think that's even a
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  point maybe, you know, so two Door, you know, hats off
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  to that. You know, it's very very brand new. So it we'll
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  we'll see. And obviously cope Talia game yesterday. You know, they didn't
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  they didn't do him any justice. But you know, it's it's still the
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  whels are turning. I think, uh with these clubs. But when I
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  move over to Milan, my team, yeah, man, like listen,
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  it's it was I was anxious for this game to start because it was just
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  one of those it was it was a it was a game where you know,
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  me One was facing Fiordentina. Uh, you know, right after obviously
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  the passing of Joe Barone. We said it on the show the past couple
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  of weeks and on these previous episodes. You know, obviously his passing has
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  impacted a lot. And this was before the international break. We come back
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  from an international break. You know, the first game is against Fidentina.
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  Obviously high emotion, beautiful, obviously tribute moment of silence, the balloons,
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  you know that went up up in the air, you know, the jersey,
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  the flowers at his spot, uh, you know, at the at
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  the terminal Frankie. It was just it was a beautiful moment, and you
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  kind of get maybe caught up in those emotions. But I think if there
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  was anybody to kind of like that path to, you know, trying to
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  get a victory, uh, would have been a guy like Puoli having having
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  dealt with something similar obviously losing uh, losing a player from story years ago.
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  Now. So it was you know, it was an emotional moment,
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  but at the same time, I think there was culture to be played and
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  there had to be results that needed to take place. So I'm happy that,
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  you know, when I was able to weather weather that emotional storm and
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  and kind of you know, go out and win. Obviously culturally secondary in
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  in cases of of of this, but you know, the game did go
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  on, and I think it was it was an encouraging game on me on
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  on the Meal on side two, you know, two goals to one,
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  loft his cheek, having uh, you know, having an incredible season since
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  joining Melon, him alongside of the guy push As, has been two guys
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  that really you know, reform their their their careers, maybe uh with this
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  stint with Melon, So it's encouraging to see. And then obviously you know
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  Layout Uh, like we've always said, when he's on, he's on,
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  and goaling and assist in his two hundred appearance for Melon, I think was
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  huge. And yeah, man, just being able to to shut them down,
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  man, you know, making some crucial series at crucial times, you
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  know, even though the hate that he gets sometimes for for letting in some
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  some suspect goals this season, I think, you know, when he's another
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  one, when he's when he's up up to the task, he's he's pulling
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  off those timely saves, and that's kind of what you need if you really
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  want to make a push for for top four. Obviously Scudetto's seems to be
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  out of the picture with only eight games left and you know you're four,
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  I think about fourteen points behind, but you know, trying to trying to
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  cement that second spot even though it's it is the number two spot in in
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  in the title race. You know, you separate yourself from Juve with their
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  result, So it's it's it's encouraging and not not only that I think I
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  saw somewhere earlier today, you know this this Mellan points. I think they're
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  at what sixty five mistaken currently they're they're a point off from I think their
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  their School Detto winning season in terms of after thirty match days, the amount
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  of points that they've that they were able to grab. So obviously it's a
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  different season, and obviously it's a you know, there's different competition and the
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  School Detto race is more more over than it is alive. But just to
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  say that, you know, people criticizing POI, criticizing the team, criticizing
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  the squad, those are just but at the same time, if we're going
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  to kind of like balance ourselves with other with other seasons, that we've had
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  in this Poe era. It's it's it's right on part. So I'm not
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  saying that's that's a that's a scapegoat for for anything that's kind of gone wrong
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  this season, but it just to put things into perspective of how this season
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  is going and hopefully where it could finish. Uh you know, come uh
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  you know, come may So yeah, encouraging, but at the same time,
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  it's there's eight more finals until until until the end of the season,
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  right, so we we look over to so this weekend and let chay which
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  which gave you know, a good romaicide some trouble. So there's no but
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  we always say on the show, there's noasy games in Sadiyah, and I
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  think Melan needs to, you know, take care of business in these eight
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  in these eight finals as we like to call them, to the end of
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  season and you know, work towards you know, getting getting some important results
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  in the europe League europe League campaign, hopefully to make a run there as
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  well. I want to talk about other games in the city. But before
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  we move on, you know, we're on the top, we're on the
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  topic of our own teams and looking ahead this month, it's a pretty big
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  month for all of our teams obviously. Uh you know, look at Milan,
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  they play Roma in the Europa League, and then on April twenty second
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  they play Enter. Then April twenty eighth, well, the date, the
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  exact date of that weekend, the time of the game, it's Juve,
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  So you got you got Roma Meelan sorry, Roma inter Juve. Look at
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  Roma, obviously they got me line. But then they have the derby this
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  weekend Johnny against against Lazio. And then moving ahead, they have a huge
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  game against Bowlny on April twenty second, which you know, if Romo wants
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  to qualify for Champions League, that's a must win game. And then they
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  play Napoli on April twenty eighth, and then the week after I know we're
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  getting from May here, they play Juve and then they play at Talanta.
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  You've a bit quieter month, but they do play Lazio. Still another game
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  called Batalia. They have the the Trino Derby, obviously not the same extent
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  of the Derby's and Melon or Rome, but it's still a derby nonetheless.
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  And then obviously there's the games against me Evil twenty eighth and fifteen against Rome,
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  and then uh Napoli. There's Derbidella Janine on April twenty eighth, and
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  and then two weeks later against Bolognia. But uh, look at these schedules,
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  guys. I mean obviously big month for all of our teams, but
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  specifically between melan And and Rome, which month do you think is tougher?
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  I think it has to be me lines I would think, I don't know,
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  man, like, Okay, you go first present your evidence and the
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  rebuttal, so you know, I mean maybe if I'm gonna kind of say
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  maybe not in the sense that you know, we're really chasing anything. I
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  think obviously the whole chasing factor of getting into into top four for Roman is
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  obviously maybe uh is a bigger a bigger target and a bigger thing to do.
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  You know. I just think it's it's it's the it's the sheer,
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  you know, opponents that were you know we're we're facing. I mean,
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  you know, you have a Derby and you know, no not to a
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  Latcho, but obviously Inter's a tougher matchup than than than it is Latcho.
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  This season again, both their derbies, everything goes out the window. We
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  all know it but at the end of the day in the has been unfortunately
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  the best team in the league this year and Newon has to go face them
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  on Monday Night football. Like we spoke about a couple of weeks ago with
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  with John Marco from Interviewspot. Obviously, the game against you is big,
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  you know, that two or three matchup is huge. Who knows, you
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  know what the points are going to be, come come that, come that
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  match. But again, these are still two top teams in this league that
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  are fighting for for a bit of pride and you know, obviously a bit
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  more of that compensation come the end of the year. That money which all
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  these said yet teams need desperately. I think it is going to go a
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  long way. And then obviously the you know, the the Europa League matchups
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  against against Roma, I mean, is there this is an Italian matchup,
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  which is there's always a big thing in Europe. You know, Romas no
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  push overside under de Rossi, as we've seen, and you know, I'm
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  I'm I'm excited to see how that, how that unfolds and and what type
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  of what kind of meal and and what kind of Romo We're going to see
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  in these matchups. I'm expecting for two, you know, heavy duty matchups.
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  I'm hoping at least I think we're both hoping, and in this case
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  with myself and Johnny, but yeah, I don't know. I just think
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  if we're talking, if we really want to compare, which I hate to
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  do. But in terms of, you know, strength to schedule, I
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  think I think Melan's schedules is is a bit tougher. But again, at
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  the end of the day, I don't think it's whoever you want to say
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  is has the tougher schedule. I think there there can be any excuses,
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  and these teams have to go out and and and play the games and and
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  come out with maximum points or trying to advance or or what the case may
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  be. So that's how I kind of see it. But I think I
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  think they're both. I think they're both like pretty tough. I mean,
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  there's no there's no easy route in kind of weaving away these last two months
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  of the season. Johnny, you may proceed. So the reason why I'm
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  arguing that Roma's got the tougher schedule, like you said before, you have
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  the two matches against Melne coming up in Europa League, because they're very good.
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  Those are very competitive matches, and then more often than not, the
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  remaining matches are against a lot of teams that are in the top ten or
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  you know, more specifically, you know, like in the top six,
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  and it's teams that you're fighting against to get into those Champions League spots.
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  You know, Bologna is one of those teams that you're gonna have to beat.
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  You gotta you gotta beat Napoli, who's like, you know, I
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  know Napolis haven't had that hasn't had the best season. It's still it's exactly,
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  it's still a game that you need to It's it's a derby. You
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  still need to take it seriously, and you still have to know that Napoli's
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  got a lot of threats as well as Roman. You know, uh,
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  the Latio game, you know, it's the first derby fo that I'll see
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  as a manager. You know, it's something that has extra weight to him.
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  And also Roma's playing with this pressure to get into top four. I
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  know, Melon's playing against Inter who's been the dominant inter team. But Melon
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  doesn't have that much pressure to retain that top four. It would take a
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  dramatic, dramatic collapse from a melan side for them to fall out of top
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  four. And I'm not saying this with the like evil eye intention. I'm
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  saying it's like like that's they're they're they're in a comfortable spot. You know.
• 22:32
  Obviously you can't get too comfortable because then yeah, you slip up on
• 22:36
  points and you know, next thing, you know, it sneaks away from
• 22:37
  you. You know, like like like you've had enough of a cushion or
• 22:41
  else that could have happened to them too, and even you'vede them too like
• 22:45
  that they have to you know, take it a bit, you know,
• 22:47
  a bit seriously now, because that was a way the past few games have
• 22:52
  been a wake up call for them. So that's why it's like especially like
• 22:57
  third, fourth and below is the toss up sometimes, so whereas you know,
• 23:02
  sixty five points is, oh we lost Adri, Oh then he's back,
• 23:07
  sixty five points is it is not that it's not the safest, but
• 23:11
  it's pretty safe. So I feel like the reason why Winoma has the toughest
• 23:17
  because they have to fight in whereas Milan just has to maintain uh and mentality
• 23:22
  wise, it's different in the dressing room. Ah, it could be,
• 23:26
  it could be dangerous when you have to maintain because you can get complacent and
• 23:32
  you know you can make mistakes here or there versus you know, when you
• 23:36
  have to fight in it could motivate your players. But as you can tell,
• 23:41
  you know that Ausi is not the perfect like manager for the team,
• 23:45
  but he's not the worst either, Like he's getting the best as he can
• 23:47
  for his players and he's gonna try for for that top four spot. But
• 23:49
  the teams that you're going up against, you know, like you're going up
• 23:52
  against Atalanta, You're going up against Napoli, You're going up against Lotsio,
• 23:55
  You're going up against youve A. You know, like these are teams that
• 23:59
  this is a tough part of the schedule. Like now he's playing against some
• 24:02
  serious contenders you know and belong yet too, Like you can't sleep on them,
• 24:07
  you can't, you can't. It's not a team that you should under
• 24:10
  estimate. The like I probably said at the beginning of the season that them
• 24:15
  fighting for the top four spot is cute and you know it might not last
• 24:18
  long. But here we are day thirty, we're going into match day thirty
• 24:22
  one, and you're still holding onto that fourth place spot at what point do
• 24:26
  we say what like, like, I'm not trying to like it could be
• 24:30
  that this is just a miraculous season for them. It could be we also
• 24:36
  have to consider the fact that, Okay, maybe Manta finally found something that
• 24:40
  clicked, and this might be something. If he stays, this might be
• 24:42
  something to maybe consider going into next season. Now, we don't know if
• 24:45
  he's gonna lose a lot of his players, or if Ross can get picked
• 24:49
  apart, or you know, it's just Mata's gonna leave. There's rumors that
• 24:53
  you know, you've might approach him to replace a legacy. I have thought
• 24:59
  it's gonna be too or like it's it's you know what I'm saying, Like
• 25:02
  it's it's it's all up in the air with the way comes summertime. But
• 25:03
  if this kind of squad kind of stays the same, you know, who's
• 25:07
  to say he doesn't pull like a guest but any type effect and just you
• 25:11
  know, starts getting the most like makes uh makes mountains out of mohills type
• 25:15
  of thing, you know, and in a positive sense instead of a negative
• 25:18
  sense. But anyways, that's neither here nor there. What I'm saying is
• 25:22
  that like Roma schedule is tougher because you're fighting to get in and the teams
• 25:29
  that you're fighting against to get in are your is your competition essentially, So
• 25:33
  it's not like as if you have a chance to bank points on lesser quality
• 25:37
  teams and lesser in parentheses, it's it's more like if you're gonna try to
• 25:41
  get into that top four spot. If you get in, it's because you
• 25:45
  have to earn it, and they will and if they do, they will
• 25:48
  if they do earn it. Whereas Milan, yes, tough games An,
• 25:52
  I'm not denying that, and you know, but in terms of league play,
• 25:57
  they they can, you know, hold steady and they should be fine.
• 26:00
  They don't. They have less pressure than Romo does. I think I
• 26:03
  think I just going just to bounce even off of that. I think what
• 26:07
  I'm looking at as is that to start the season the pressure was higher for
• 26:11
  me, and then it was Roma. I think I think we can probably
• 26:14
  we can probably all agree with that. I think just how me one has
• 26:17
  uh, you know, performed in these last couple of seasons. Obviously last
• 26:21
  year was a bit of a down year. Uh this season, wanting to
• 26:23
  get back to two levels that we've seen in about you know, since the
• 26:27
  school that year. I guess we can say and I think just the overall
• 26:32
  and how I'm looking at is like the overall pressure just to just to maintain
• 26:37
  I think competes with Roma trying to get in. That's kind of how I'm
• 26:41
  also looking at it. So because listen, they did not advancing in in
• 26:48
  Champions League, they have an opportunity to go far in this europe League and
• 26:51
  potentially hopefully maybe even win the whole thing. But they still need to get
• 26:56
  through Roma to do so, you know, facing an inter in the Daylina,
• 27:00
  you know, facing the UV that they're battling with. Having those expectations
• 27:04
  so high to start the season, I think, you know, kind of
• 27:08
  I don't want to say trumps everything else, but it kind of it kind
• 27:12
  of adds to what this what this month means, and what what you know
• 27:18
  may means as well to end the season for for me one so and again,
• 27:23
  like you said, Johnny, I think you said it well. I
• 27:25
  mean, you can't get complacent. You can't think that you know, number
• 27:29
  two position is locked up. We thought that number two position was locked up
• 27:33
  for Juve, you know, weeks ago Mion was able to I think,
• 27:37
  uh, you know, gain thirteen points ground on on on UF. I
• 27:41
  think it was if I'm not mistaken, and and surpassed them, and now
• 27:45
  I think they're what, uh five six points ahead of them if I'm not
• 27:49
  mistaken. So I think the overall pressure for the club was was higher,
• 27:56
  and I kind of maybe take that into consideration in terms of how this,
• 28:00
  how this, how these schedules can kind of weigh in terms of in terms
• 28:04
  of wait, sorry, I just gotta go with Johnny. Maybe it's my
• 28:10
  family bias here, but not I think Roma that that's an incredibly tough schedule.
• 28:15
  Feels like it feels like almost every week they're playing a rival. You
• 28:18
  know, they gotta they got a game against you. Today's in there,
• 28:22
  But I know that's not gonna That's not an easy game either. But other
• 28:25
  than that, it's just pure rivals Bologna and not believe that you're throwing the
• 28:29
  games against TV and Thattalent and that talant and and maybe it's tough schedule for
• 28:33
  Roma, but if there's a guy who to guide them through is the Rossi.
• 28:37
  And it's one of those coaching changes that it seems like it's it's actually
• 28:41
  working, uh in a positive way. There wasn't so much a case with
• 28:45
  monopoly. But sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. The words of Catusa
• 28:48
  sometimes may be good. Sometimes maybe should I feel like Johnny, you were
• 28:52
  about to say that, Yeah, you kind of did, but I realize
• 28:53
  that everything. Uh. Looking looking at the other games of this past week
• 29:03
  in the city, a lot of draws actually, uh, Genua one one
• 29:06
  against Frozen one, uh, Cality one one against Verona. Same thing for
• 29:10
  Sosolo Unse. Well we talked about Lechi Roma, but you know Bologna as
• 29:17
  expected, three nothing against Celerity Tana. Torino got one nothing win against Months.
• 29:22
  I think that's their second straight win for to Reno. Uh. And
• 29:25
  then Inter, I mean it since or season, we know that they're they're
• 29:27
  on their route to win the Scudetto. And I think the earliest mathematically they
• 29:33
  could actually win is April twenty second against Milan. So uh, that would
• 29:37
  be odds. That adds to the schedule strength and that has everything. And
• 29:41
  and you want to schedule Trump's Romans. Is inter at home that game or
• 29:48
  is it the Milan's home game? I forget? Is it? Imagine?
• 29:52
  Imagine they win the scudetto with that game, that that would be those players
• 29:59
  gotta be care man, if that happens, those players better be careful because
• 30:03
  like I think, I think it should like amp up security that they for
• 30:07
  sure is gonna be on fire, for sure, forget like that on fire,
• 30:11
  Like it's gonna be one of those, one of those. And like
• 30:15
  again, obviously as a mean fine or mew on fans listening to this obviously
• 30:21
  don't want that to happen. That's that's clear, but like that's gonna be
• 30:23
  a moment that unfortunately will be foreverent in the books if it does happen.
• 30:29
  So I I do want to say the only reason why I kind of hope
• 30:33
  it happens not because it's against you, Adri, not because it's against you
• 30:36
  or any lanist or depending on how you identify, but I kind of hope
• 30:45
  that happens just to see the ship posting done by Big Show on Twitter,
• 30:48
  by like by boy John movie. I just I just can't wait for the
• 30:52
  quote heats and the bookmarks and everything, just to see it's just gonna be
• 30:56
  hilarious. I just that's the reason why I kind of want that to happen,
• 31:00
  because it's like prime opportunity to be a troll and a ship poster.
• 31:04
  So leave it to leave it the big short to to kind of yeah,
• 31:08
  like coch Twitter is going to be on fire that day exactly. Sadly's gonna
• 31:12
  come to the expense of our our friends. But it's just it's just gonna
• 31:18
  be funny to see how many people he actually gets like riled up just by
• 31:22
  beating an idiot. That's that's the Monday game. No, yeah, exactly,
• 31:25
  that's that's yeah, yeah, that's the Monday I remember we talked about
• 31:27
  a few squats. I forgot like what day the twenty second was, and
• 31:32
  then we also have roma Bologna that day. Oh Mann contract for doubleheader Monday
• 31:37
  night football. I don't know, man, Jesus, it's like week one
• 31:41
  in the NFL season all over. I don't know if there's any of the
• 31:45
  other games in city. Do you want to talk about it this week?
• 31:48
  Move on to I just wanted to say, uh, you know, in
• 31:52
  terms of I know we've spoken a lot about Bologna and I need to Obviously,
• 31:56
  those are the two matchups that really went, you know, their way.
• 31:59
  But for Bologna to say it's like there's it's like what else can we
• 32:02
  say about this Bologna team, Like it's it's like it's no longer a fluke,
• 32:06
  it's no longer just luck. Like maybe they're just having a great season,
• 32:09
  that's possible, but I think it's it's really something special that they're that
• 32:14
  they're that they're creating. And again obviously our boy listening to this, Nick
• 32:19
  Deianni's gonna there's gonna have a field day. But or Seleni, I mean
• 32:22
  just amazing his goal beautiful, solid makers goal beautiful, you know, not
• 32:30
  having to only depend on ZERX day. I think is has been has been
• 32:34
  huge. I think it's a really collective effort that Mantas created. And or
• 32:37
  Selenia I think is he's has the most goals as an Italian, uh,
• 32:43
  you know the in in Sadia and I think in all top five weeks,
• 32:45
  so with ten goals now so or Seleni Euro twenty twenty four, I mean,
• 32:52
  I don't know. It seems to be a big talking point and the
• 32:54
  way he's playing. And I don't want to bring in the Adjuti talk because
• 32:58
  we spoke a lot about it last week and we have plenty of other episodes
• 33:00
  to speak about it. But if he continues like this, and you know,
• 33:05
  we always talk about who's who's hot, who's informed, who's who's ready
• 33:08
  to go, who's pointing, you know, lights out deserves those spots,
• 33:13
  and you kind of maybe have to roll the dice with these types of players
• 33:15
  or Sileni's kind of making his name to to do something like that. So
• 33:21
  exciting player. I think it's about time that he maybe kind of comes out
• 33:23
  of his shell and and and produces at a at a level that I think
• 33:28
  in the past, like many people wanted him to, and he had that
• 33:30
  kind of tie that he was going to be the next you know, Italian
• 33:34
  star, didn't really pan out maybe the way his path was supposed to go.
• 33:38
  But you know, at in his mid twenties now and and kind of
• 33:44
  rolling into that quote unquote prime, he's doing the business. It's it's encouraging
• 33:49
  to see and you know, I'm hopefully I'm hopeful continues not only for for
• 33:53
  our buddy Nick Gianni, but just for just for you know, obviously the
• 33:58
  Italian national team, for for the city as uh, you know, excitement.
• 34:02
  I think it it can go a long way. So yeah, that's
• 34:07
  kind of really what I wanted to add in there. Besides that, I
• 34:10
  think, you know, we we spoke about quite quite a bit the Watso
• 34:15
  game, like you said, Nick was was was huge, and we spoke
• 34:17
  a bit about that. I just want to throw in their Genduzi and I
• 34:21
  know we spoke about a bit on our personal chat with with Bornando, but
• 34:24
  GenZ, I think for me, has been, uh you know, one
• 34:28
  of better players this season, just looking from Afar and I just want to
• 34:30
  throw that out there because a player that I wasn't sure what to expect that
• 34:35
  I kind of knew a bit about him, but didn't know all too much,
• 34:37
  and he's kind of exceeded expectations in my eyes. And if if was
• 34:43
  able to hold on to him, you know, and and and kind of
• 34:46
  build this to build this thing, it's it can hopefully be encouraging, uh
• 34:51
  you know, moving forward. But uh yeah, no, I don't know
• 34:54
  if I guess we'll talk maybe more Cope Talia, but the bologn yourself is
• 34:59
  is definitely something that we uh we always have to throw in there, just
• 35:01
  because of because of the season they've they've been having this campaign for sure,
• 35:07
  and uh yeah, looking at the Colpi Italia uh you know, we had
• 35:14
  the uve A Lato game yesterday, so it was a rematch, quick rematch
• 35:16
  from the city game on the weekend. Honestly, I was not expecting much
• 35:21
  because of the recent struggles how they played against uh Latio on the weekend.
• 35:27
  But I don't know. For some reason, this year, for you it's
• 35:30
  been. It's been the best games of the season have have come in Copid
• 35:34
  Italia, whether it's Celeriny ten. I think it was six to one,
• 35:36
  frozen nor and for nothing h to nothing this time in the first like you
• 35:39
  know, job's not done and the words of Kobe Bryant, it's pretty much
• 35:43
  halftime. But I'm confident, you know, and I liked how they played.
• 35:46
  They I think it was just a good game. It wasn't like out
• 35:51
  of this world amazing. They really struggled, I finally struggled the first half.
• 35:54
  They came alive in the second. You know, Cambia has amazing,
• 35:57
  amazing pass to Quiza. Looking about him on the podcast before, how versatile
• 36:01
  he is, he's not, you know, Camby Cambias is not the best
• 36:06
  of one thing. He's he's just solid. He's good. He's a good
• 36:08
  player and he plays the ball out back from the back. Well and we
• 36:13
  saw that and then uh Valvich with a striker's finished on the second goal to
• 36:17
  give you ve that cushion, you know what, Like, you know,
• 36:23
  we'll wait and see that. I think it's what three weeks so April April
• 36:28
  towight, there's still another three weeks until uh the return league. But I
• 36:31
  tweeted this yesterday, guys, like for you it's yeah, they have to
• 36:36
  win the Copiatali, no excuses, this is their tournament. They have to
• 36:38
  finish with the trophy. They haven't won a trophy since they last won the
• 36:42
  Copiatalia three years ago under Pilow. You know, we've talked about, uh,
• 36:47
  you know, agree at nauseum. I don't at this point. I
• 36:51
  don't think he's going to come back this season. But if he wants to
• 36:54
  have any shot of coming back, you know, win that trophy convinced management
• 37:00
  let's go school in the let's win that trophy. Is qualified for Champions League.
• 37:05
  So yeah, I think that that game is huge. Obviously, on
• 37:09
  the other side, it's you know, no disrespect obviously to Fiorentina Atalanta,
• 37:15
  but I think whoever wins this, you have a lazo game is obviously the
• 37:21
  favorite right in the final. It's the two better teams on one side.
• 37:23
  Obviously Atalanta's is there, like they're a tricky team that for youve. So
• 37:28
  I'm happy that Fiorentina one today, but it's only one. Nothing, There's
• 37:31
  still a lot left. But what a goal in terms of that game,
• 37:36
  what a goal by Mandragora, the former U A man h an absolute last
• 37:42
  from outside from outside the box. But you know that game, if I'm
• 37:47
  not mistaken, was in Florence, so they still got to go back to
• 37:51
  Betigamoh. It feels like out of those two games, obviously that one is
• 37:55
  the one where anything could happen in the second leg. You'll be interesting to
• 38:00
  see, that's all. It seems like they have a bit of a love
• 38:02
  hate story with Kopetalia. They lost in the final in twenty nineteen, lost
• 38:06
  in the final in twenty twenty one. You know, they just want to
• 38:07
  get back there. If they get back there and play You've again, like
• 38:12
  like in twenty twenty one, it could be a revenge game. So a
• 38:16
  lot left to be to be determined in three weeks for that tournament. I
• 38:22
  think also just to add quickly to what you said, Nick, I don't
• 38:28
  think it'll be enough with a copy Italia, you know, trophy and top
• 38:31
  four finished for aegrity to state personally, that's just my opinion. Yeah,
• 38:37
  it's fine, but I think it you know, you strive for more and
• 38:42
  it wasn't delivered. So again we're not going to be that worse. Again,
• 38:44
  we'll talk about it if once and if that stuff happens. But both
• 38:50
  goals by players that we've criticized, and I think many people have criticized in
• 38:53
  in terms of Quieza and Vaovich the play up the Devil's Advocate. I mean,
• 39:01
  yeah, okay, great finds and stuff, but lacklester defense in my
• 39:05
  opinion on on on both goals, I mean, there's no way you're gonna
• 39:08
  tell me you're gonna you're gonna make a pass like that, straight through the
• 39:12
  defense like that and like on the ground like it was great pass. I
• 39:15
  don't get me wrong, But at the same time, you need to be
• 39:17
  better. If you're if you're if you're allowed to defend that. I think
• 39:22
  it was Casale that really bit hard on on Volvach. Credit to Volovich for
• 39:27
  scoring, but again I think it was Casali. I don't know why you
• 39:30
  bite. You know, he's he's he's deadly on that left foot, even
• 39:34
  though he hasn't shown it so far in these last couple of weeks, he's
• 39:37
  still deadly. He bit went the wrong way, you know you was able
• 39:43
  to score another one. So I think for in terms of using you have
• 39:47
  this case. You know, like we said, the two players that have
• 39:50
  been supposed to be you know, that dominant attack scoring. I think it's
• 39:54
  huge just in the sheer sense of of confidence I have said it, and
• 40:00
  I think I think we can pretty much all agree on this show. You
• 40:05
  know, a guy Valovich, the tools are there, but it's up here.
• 40:08
  I think mentally that he's weak. We set it. I think this
• 40:14
  kind of goal, you know, maybe hopefully for you fans can can kind
• 40:19
  of spark something to end this season. And uh and for kids, I
• 40:22
  think again another another one that's been struggling, doing a lot of like a
• 40:29
  lot of the hard work, maybe doing sometimes too much of the work.
• 40:31
  Uh and no finish. This this time typical kis back to his back to
• 40:37
  his scoring ways, and I think that was huge. So we'll see how
• 40:40
  these two goals and these two you know, momentum switches and and hopefully confidence
• 40:45
  boosters do for these types of these players. Because I think it's I think
• 40:49
  it's big in terms of the other game, Yeah, I was. I
• 40:54
  was watching it today again, I was able to do that. So like
• 40:59
  what a Mandragorda like you said, like absolutely no goalkeeper in the world is
• 41:04
  saving that like left foot. It had. It had everything, the distance,
• 41:07
  the power, the swerve off the post top corner in like you're not
• 41:14
  getting any better than that. The celebration to finish it was. It was
• 41:17
  a great moment at home. I think Atalanta's lucky that that game didn't get
• 41:22
  out of hand because I think Fidentina had chances to to to do more it
• 41:30
  wasn't. So I think they're happy even thought they don't win the game.
• 41:32
  I think they're still happy with the result. Maybe maybe i'll put in quotations
• 41:37
  happy because you're never happy to lose. But in terms of it's still manageable
• 41:42
  going into that return leg at home in betigmo So and Atalanta's is a team
• 41:49
  that's quality this season. They've showed it over the weekend. A guy that
• 41:54
  has gone a lot of criticisms scoring didn't get on the score Withoot today,
• 42:00
  but you know, if he gets going, it can be dangerous. Coop
• 42:04
  Minors is unbelieaval a great player, So I think it's I think bold games
• 42:09
  are within reach, if I want to say, obviously the Latcho Haile is
• 42:15
  a bit steeper to climb, but I'm happy that there's a lot to play
• 42:20
  for in these in these second legs, and it's going to make it exciting
• 42:22
  to to see who who moves onto the into the final for for the Covia.
• 42:31
  Jenny, do you have any thoughts? I just kind of hope wins.
• 42:36
  Yeah, I just say wins. I just I just I just want
• 42:40
  to joke to like, I'm just doing it because at this point, like
• 42:45
  Roma is not like like the only thing I got going for me is just
• 42:47
  like if by some divine miracle, Napoli hits a European spot and Roma hits
• 42:52
  top four, because that's the only thing I got, like your Europa League,
• 42:54
  even if Roma were to get past mild h with like they have the
• 43:00
  roster on paper, but I don't have that much confidence for them to like
• 43:06
  what really puts them over the hill compared to last year in uh, you
• 43:09
  know, winning that Trophy with all that happened this year, you know,
• 43:13
  maybe the fact that Pela is playing under and uh like wouldn't like with fire
• 43:17
  under his ass might make a difference. But it's still a tough competition,
• 43:22
  especially now that Liverpool is in the mix. So I'm still sting to consider.
• 43:27
  So I I just think that, like I I, if I'm gonna
• 43:31
  not have fun, I want everyone else to not have fun. So be
• 43:36
  kind of funny, be kind of funny if you made doesn't win the uh
• 43:44
  doesn't win the Kobe Valley just because because what was it? Uh? Uh
• 43:50
  Alexa put up a put out a tweet that you know, like a legacy
• 43:53
  won trophies got fired, sad he want trophies got fired. Pierlo Wan trophies
• 43:59
  got fired. I'm like, oh, so what you're saying is that if
• 44:00
  when like he doesn't win any trophies, he stays, all right, let's
• 44:05
  go for that reverse reverse jinks. Yeah, but I'm just having fun with
• 44:10
  takes. Obviously it's because it's ubays a rival, but it's not going to
• 44:15
  like ruin my day. If they win it, they deserve it, right
• 44:17
  they are. Nick said it perfectly out of the four teams that are remaining.
• 44:20
  Tooby Dalley, they're the best team. They're the best team that like
• 44:24
  when they are playing on on like under like hot foot, that's like that's
• 44:30
  I don't say the hot hand, but like you don't use your hands in
• 44:32
  soccer, but unless you're the keeper. But when they're hot, they're hot,
• 44:37
  and uh, you know, when the players quality is still going to
• 44:42
  be there. It just hasn't been shown. There's a lot of arguments to
• 44:45
  be made, and I'm pretty sure we can have an old whole hour and
• 44:47
  a half episode long about those discussions. But it's the the quality is still
• 44:54
  there for the team. So I uh, out of the four, it's
• 44:59
  it's it would take like you know, Fidentina when if they meet up against
• 45:02
  you in the final, like it would take some like masterclass tactics from Italiano
• 45:07
  to to to get over it, which Tanny probably but off especially yeah,
• 45:14
  you know, like he made like a history of kind of proving those one
• 45:19
  offs. So yeah, like a like might thing too defensively and Italiano can
• 45:24
  can can probably capitalize on that, especially if a legty considers doing tactics defensive
• 45:30
  tactics tactics because I I think I forgot who tweeted it, but I have
• 45:37
  to agree with the point where The reason why I say all this because I
• 45:40
  never want to steal credit for people's ideas. It's like I like to share
• 45:44
  what I've seen on the internet, and I like to give other people credit.
• 45:49
  I think it was I think it was Bonetti that that that said the
• 45:53
  statement that alegencies Juve is incapable of surmounting a competent counter attack where there was
• 46:01
  a play last game might have been Bonetti. I can't, I can't,
• 46:06
  I can't remember. But anyways, the person said that at one point Kiza
• 46:09
  had the ball in the forty second minute for a potential for a counter attack,
• 46:13
  but he was all alone up front, nobody was maintaining with him.
• 46:16
  So what did he do? He passed the ball back right. Yeah,
• 46:20
  it was a prime counter Yeah, it was a prime counter attack opportunity,
• 46:22
  and he had no options and he decided to pass back. And that that
• 46:27
  does kind of suck when you're when your guy at a very quick pace like
• 46:30
  Kiezza. You know, if you have nobody that's like rushing up with you
• 46:32
  to make a play too, especially when you're a good play making winger like
• 46:36
  I know, I've always like when you would played with Fidentina always hyped up
• 46:38
  Kiaza as the guy who always got the job done and he is capable of
• 46:42
  doing that. But at Juventus he doesn't feel like he is that guy that
• 46:45
  he needs to be, the guy who who has to step up all the
• 46:49
  time. He feels that juve he's there to be this like a supporting cast
• 46:53
  member and a successful team. You just feel like as if he's carrying the
• 46:57
  squad over the finish line, you know what, you know, you know
• 46:59
  what. I think. It also doesn't help that they played like ten guys
• 47:02
  behind the ball, so yeah, point, I mean that that kind of
• 47:07
  is a factor. So it's it's a it's a shame because I think win
• 47:12
  numbers, they're obviously dangers, but if they shoot themselves in the foot,
• 47:15
  they're not helping that cause. So I agree. There was last year was
• 47:19
  a good example when they had the Maria the Unapoli game where like it was
• 47:23
  called offside, but d Maria basically exposed Napoli on the counter attack. Like
• 47:30
  at that point was like fuck this, I'm not listening to tactics. I'm
• 47:32
  just going by pure footballer instinct and he and he went for it, and
• 47:37
  and and they called Thank god, the goat got called back because he exposed
• 47:40
  that it was it. His goal was a kiss goal that got called back
• 47:45
  in that too. It was a two to one game. I remember that
• 47:46
  it could have been too too. I just can't remember whose goals on callack
• 47:51
  last year. Yeah, last season, it wasn't the Likenopoly one two games
• 47:55
  against you, but the second I think it was the second game was because
• 48:00
  it would have been a draw, but one of the goals for you by
• 48:01
  I got called back. I just couldn't remember if it was de Madia's goal
• 48:05
  or if it was Kias's goal. I forget either way. Yeah, all
• 48:09
  I remember from Uvane Appoli last year rather than was the five one that's like
• 48:14
  imprinted in my brain unfortunately. Yeah, like the other game, but I
• 48:16
  can't remember, Yeah, because l last Faditi scored the game winner, but
• 48:20
  it could have been two gives because the counter attack. Just basically I'm just
• 48:27
  saying, like, that's an example of Juventus when they have those moments,
• 48:32
  they I guess the players are like it's allegedly yelling, you know, like
• 48:36
  telling them not to you know, go for it. Be safe, But
• 48:38
  sometimes being safe is the worst decision you can make. You got you gotta
• 48:44
  take those gambles at times, you know, And I think he has at
• 48:47
  risk of like not getting cursed out by allegrity and not getting like vilified by
• 48:52
  some of the fans or you know, some of the people in the management
• 48:55
  group doesn't want to do that. But buddy, you have the talent,
• 48:59
  man, go for it, you know, go for that. So a
• 49:01
  game against Fidentina Juve, I hope, like, if you're a Juventus fan,
• 49:07
  you want instincts like that to kick in. Obviously, like the final
• 49:10
  hasn't been set yet, you know, it's not right on paper, it's
• 49:13
  not right in paper, But in a matchup of like Fidentina versus Juve,
• 49:16
  if we're gonna say that's gonna to call Italian final and Italiano right, he
• 49:22
  knows that a leged he's gonna try his best to play defensively, especially in
• 49:25
  a one off game. So he's probably gonna try to find some aggressive tactics
• 49:30
  to try to expose some holes. If that's the case, he might leave
• 49:34
  himself liable for a counter attack. And if you're if you're a top quality
• 49:37
  player, when that hole opens up, go for it, like don't even
• 49:40
  if you're on your own, like a guy like Kieza, Like there was
• 49:44
  that goal earlier this year that he scored that he tried, He went on
• 49:46
  his own, took the shot, rebound came in and he had to like
• 49:50
  slide for it or something to score. Was it was it like a like
• 49:53
  that That's that's That's the Kieza that was at Fiorentina. That's the Kiazza that
• 49:58
  made him special. That's the one that you needs, not one that's being
• 50:01
  managed by legly. I also think, like you know, I think back
• 50:06
  to the keys at Farantina. He did a lot of things by himself,
• 50:08
  and that's totally fine. And you know, on a team like Fiorentina that
• 50:13
  in that point, I'm not saying all his teammates are trash, but you
• 50:16
  know that he was their best player. He was their best player, and
• 50:22
  and for him to do things by himself, it made sense. And and
• 50:27
  sometimes I see that with you Ve or he tries to do things by himself
• 50:31
  and a lot of time, a lot of times it doesn't work. And
• 50:35
  I don't think that's based on system. Sure you could say that you know,
• 50:38
  uh, you know, there's no support, no players coming back to
• 50:42
  help. But there's times that's fishing in the game against Lotso on the in
• 50:47
  the Kopie Tally game. Yeah he got the goal and he had another good
• 50:52
  chance too. That was a good stop. But there's just times where he
• 50:58
  just lost. He loses the ball along the touch line. He just he
• 51:02
  sometimes he even gives up on ball. So that's that's a frustrating part about
• 51:07
  Kisa because we all know he has the talent, but if maybe if he
• 51:13
  trusted his teammates more. And you know, there was I forget, I
• 51:16
  forget which goalie was in which game, but there was a one two play
• 51:21
  with with McKenny and and Rabbio. I'm drying a blank now. It's a
• 51:24
  couple of weeks ago too, I forgot, I forget the opponent opponent,
• 51:28
  but it was one two play along the touch line between him and and McKenny
• 51:31
  and then I think it was Rabbio who scored. It was a beautiful play.
• 51:35
  And that's the keys I want to see use his speed past to other
• 51:37
  teammates and go when he does it all by himself, I'm sorry, he
• 51:42
  just doesn't have enough skill to to to get past that that guy you know,
• 51:46
  even look at his goal on Tuesday, it was just a simple play.
• 51:52
  Obviously amazing past by Cambia Cambiaso. A simple play. He gets the
• 51:55
  ball in space and he has to put it away. That that's that's what
• 51:59
  he's good at, finding space and getting a pass from a teammate, also
• 52:02
  passing to teammates into open space. Uh. So I think he just needs
• 52:07
  to trust his teammates a bit more. I think, I think, I
• 52:09
  mean for me, for me, it's clear, I think he can.
• 52:13
  He has the tools. Uh. For me personally, I still think he
• 52:15
  can take on a man uh and be the man. It's it's but it's
• 52:20
  being a man. I don't think it's being ten men, right Like,
• 52:22
  so there's a difference there, right So, uh being a bit less selfish
• 52:29
  at times, I think obviously it's something we've spoken about. But for me,
• 52:31
  I'm going to stick to it. You know, yes, there's things
• 52:36
  that he has to improve and and and you know there's things that you know
• 52:39
  though, those those giveaways or those maybe lack of lack of bursts or lack
• 52:44
  of effort in situations. But this allegory system for me doesn't do him any
• 52:49
  favors like that for me is clear if it's I'm not going to put all
• 52:53
  that onto that. But at the same time that has to be said.
• 52:57
  So maybe he's trying to do too much because of the system that he's that
• 53:02
  he's that he's in that he kind of feels that he has to to kind
• 53:06
  of break out of this ten men behind the ball system and defend and hope
• 53:09
  for a counter attack. And he's doing anyone on that, on that board
• 53:13
  and on that train. So I don't know. Again, like Jenny said,
• 53:15
  we can speak about this, you know, for for for hours,
• 53:19
  but I don't care how how how it comes. We need a Kieza that's
• 53:25
  that's in top form come the summertime. It's kind of the only thing that
• 53:30
  non Uve finds I think are probably looking towards in terms of if you're an
• 53:34
  Azuri fan, you kind of want to be a tough form. So however
• 53:38
  that happens, it happens. But you know, I think with changes,
• 53:45
  I think and maybe lebly not be on there. We will have to see,
• 53:49
  like I don't know, like we saw kind of a bit of a
• 53:52
  small sump size before Avery came back and and and you know he had great
• 53:57
  moments. Obviously, his injury will always be there and will always be a
• 54:00
  factor of maybe him not getting back to where he was, but the quality
• 54:06
  is still there. Maybe the circumstances is not the best, but he needs
• 54:10
  to he needs to take advantage of of of the moments that he's able to
• 54:15
  control. And but yeah, no, I don't know like this this Colpalia,
• 54:21
  I think will will will be interesting the second leg, like I said,
• 54:24
  for for both matchups are like quote unquote within reach, which I'm excited
• 54:29
  about, like I said earlier, So we'll see how how much this two
• 54:32
  goal cushion does for you. I'm curious to see how they obviously approach this,
• 54:38
  this this matchup on the road. I believe they go they go to
• 54:46
  again, I'm not sure. I haven't. I didn't check. You know,
• 54:50
  their their home and away you know records, but again trying to get
• 54:54
  to a final, albeit the Copaliah against you know, on their day,
• 55:01
  a capable watch a side. We'll see, we'll see how how takes it.
• 55:07
  I think if he does get over the hump, like I said earlier,
• 55:10
  that the one off final type of atmosphere kind of sways in his direction,
• 55:16
  even though maybe you don't like the team, you don't want them to
• 55:20
  win, or you don't maybe like his his his style. I think whoever
• 55:23
  he faces on the other side in the Fiordentina or a Tanta, that are
• 55:28
  both capable bunches, I think in a one off final setting in the atmosphere,
• 55:32
  I mean, Age has kind of made it, uh made a made
• 55:36
  a history kind of taking those So that's why I was just about the with
• 55:45
  with it within Italy. But but yeah, like in those circumstances, like
• 55:51
  he's he's made a name for himself. So yeah, man, I'm just
• 55:54
  curious to see how how these how these matchups pan out and eight eight matches,
• 56:00
  eight matches away until the end of the season. I still can't believe
• 56:02
  it. So and then Euros the best parts, Yeah, moving away from
• 56:10
  Cia and and kope Italia Champions League, Europa League Conference League back next week.
• 56:19
  Uh so a couple of Italian teams left. Obviously in Champions League there's
• 56:22
  none. And then obviously we know as we know in in uh the Europa
• 56:28
  League, we still got Melan against Roma, so at least one Italian team
• 56:31
  will be in the semi final. And then Atlanta is playing Liverpool, so
• 56:36
  that's that's a big game. And then in conference League Fiorentina is still there.
• 56:39
  They're playing Victoria Pleasant. Obviously we've talked about Milan Roma. Well,
• 56:45
  we'll probably talk about it more next week as we get into that game.
• 56:49
  But Liverpool Atalanta, what do you guys expect from this one? I mean,
• 56:51
  I'm not I don't watch EPL or anything. I don't know if you
• 56:53
  know in the top of the league, you know, Yeah, I was
• 56:55
  gonna say, I don't know if they're at the top of the league.
• 56:58
  I know they're battling. They are, so they're having a good season.
• 57:01
  Liverpool, I don't know how much they're gonna put into their basket for the
• 57:06
  Premier League versus europe League. Obviously, they're a European team. They love
• 57:09
  their European nights. It's a great atmosphere when you go to anfield. They
• 57:15
  got amazing, amazing crowd all at all times. I just I love watching
• 57:20
  these European games in a field. Obviously not the same that they're not in
• 57:22
  the Champions League. But it's it's tough. It's gonna be tough for Atalanta,
• 57:25
  but at the same time, it's a it's a chance for them to
• 57:28
  showcase their talents. Uh, they've been this kind of I wantn't say unknown
• 57:35
  team in Europe, but at least underrated throughout Europe for the past five six
• 57:38
  years. On this under gas Bedini, They've they've played some big opponents.
• 57:44
  Obviously, they really don't have much to show for it, unfortunately, but
• 57:47
  this is a chance. Guys, what do you what do you what do
• 57:50
  you expect from Atalanta in this one? Well, just Johnny, Johnny,
• 57:53
  did you did you check? Is is Liverpool the second there they're exact,
• 57:58
  but but off by one point. Arsenal's leading the league by with sixty eight
• 58:01
  points and uh, Liverpool is in second with sixty seven but Liverpool has has
• 58:07
  one less game played, so that could be yeah, yeah, they have
• 58:12
  a game in hand with one point behind, very big difference maker. Liverpool's
• 58:15
  also a team that's won the Europa League three times to go along with their
• 58:19
  Champions League title wins six Champions League title wins, so so definitely is something
• 58:25
  to consider because it's it's the European competition. They always do well in European
• 58:31
  competitions. If there's a game where Gaspadini can actually show why he's employed by
• 58:39
  Atalanta. It's this game. If if there's a game that he can really
• 58:45
  flex his managerial muscles. I know there's times where it's like he loses badly
• 58:50
  and there are times where he gets exposed like it's it's it's it makes sense
• 58:53
  right, But he's been there for so long, you know, he's like
• 58:58
  Clough, he's been He's been with this in squad for more or less the
• 59:00
  same the same time, like same, like the time Klop is on his
• 59:04
  way out versus Gasparini is kind of on his way out, but it's still
• 59:07
  up in the air, like it's not definitive yet as Klop because Clop kind
• 59:13
  of made a statement early on in the season, you know he's like,
• 59:15
  I'm running out of time. Not because the guy is getting tired, it's
• 59:19
  just it's, hey, you know what, you could win so much.
• 59:22
  You could only win so much when you're when you when you landed a team
• 59:24
  like Liverpool. But anyways, Uh, if there's a game where Gasparini could
• 59:29
  kind of flex his muscles, this would be the game. The matchup technically
• 59:32
  Monopoly last year's showcase that playing against Liverpool is not an intermountable, intermountable UH
• 59:39
  problem or issue as it may seem. They may be dominated in the prem
• 59:45
  UH and they are a very strong quality roster, but they're not superman either.
• 59:50
  They do have weaknesses, they do have holes that you can expose if
• 59:54
  you know how to identify them. They're in Europa League for a reason.
• 59:59
  They weren't good enough to maintain and their competition in Champions League now Europa League
• 1:00:04
  is still a very tough trophy to win, and I I will not take
• 1:00:07
  any quality like that away, but to get for them to get there,
• 1:00:12
  you know, it's like they're not They're not this like superpower team that that
• 1:00:16
  they once were thought to believe. Still very strong, still a team that
• 1:00:21
  can you know, at any moment they can just switch it on and just
• 1:00:24
  become a dominant force. But we have examples in the past that have showcased
• 1:00:30
  that more or less, this roster is not this like UH dominant force.
• 1:00:35
  You know, vv D is not this greatest center back of all time that
• 1:00:37
  people like to argue, you know, like uh, Trent Alexander Arnold is
• 1:00:42
  a fantastic right right back, but he's like a right wing you're playing right
• 1:00:45
  back. He's not he's not a defensive minded like right back who's gonna you
• 1:00:50
  know, who's gonna cover himself and that and that's why Napoli had such a
• 1:00:52
  neat like easy time in Liverpool because at Scelia just basically had so much fun
• 1:00:57
  on that side because Thaa couldn't cover him, you know, like there are
• 1:01:02
  places where they lack a bit or they might have some weaknesses. So Gasparini,
• 1:01:08
  I do have a bit of confidence in him trying to find find a
• 1:01:10
  way to expose that. And how many times have we said, oh,
• 1:01:14
  you know, I got Atalanta is probably not gonna do it well this year
• 1:01:15
  because they lost X player or why player and they just have the next man
• 1:01:21
  up mentality and they just do as good of a as good of a job,
• 1:01:23
  best example. And I will still say to this day they thought I
• 1:01:27
  thought I personally thought Papa Gomez being gone was be very hurtful for the team
• 1:01:30
  and it was. But Manonovski was ready to go from there. You know
• 1:01:34
  what I'm saying. Uh Duvan Sapata you know, had like his like after
• 1:01:39
  Leavingnopoly ends up in Atalanta has phenomenal years with Atalanta. He's gone. I'm
• 1:01:45
  like, well, there goes to the top striker. I wonder who they're
• 1:01:47
  gonna use and skamaka mister Fridge over there is just you know, being somewhat
• 1:01:52
  decent. So I hate his comments. You're like, oh, there's a
• 1:01:57
  lot of people blah blah blah and the rest of me. You know,
• 1:01:59
  it's suff buddy, like like underestimates you. It's like what are you doing,
• 1:02:02
  Like you're not You're not giving us reasons to even estimate you sometimes,
• 1:02:06
  you know, so uh, but Gasperini just has ways to get efficiency out
• 1:02:10
  of those players. That's why, like I don't rambling a lot, but
• 1:02:15
  I I this is gonna be one of those games that if you really want
• 1:02:19
  to showcase because there's gonna be a lot of eyes on this match. You
• 1:02:22
  know, there's given me a lot of There's gonna be a lot of prem
• 1:02:23
  heads watching this game because either A they're Liverpool fans or B they're Prem League
• 1:02:30
  fans that just are gonna support Atalanta because they want prem they want the Liverpool.
• 1:02:32
  They want Liverpool to lose, unless they're like one of those people like
• 1:02:36
  oh no, I want Liverpool to win because they're not going to focus on
• 1:02:38
  the league. That's bullshit. You always want the team to lose. You
• 1:02:42
  always want that team to lose. So I don't know what anybody says.
• 1:02:45
  Yeah, so it's either A it's gonna be Liverpool fans or B it's gonna
• 1:02:51
  be Atalanta and the rest of the year going up against Liverpool. So there's
• 1:02:55
  been a lot of eyes on that game. So if Gaspini wants to flex
• 1:02:59
  his manage skills, that's the time to do it. Yeah. No,
• 1:03:02
  I think listen, uh, the Satalana team within these past years, even
• 1:03:08
  since we've started the podcast, I mean, you know Cinderella's story. Now
• 1:03:15
  they're a bit sleeping beauty. Shes gonna wake up. She's gonna wake up,
• 1:03:19
  and she gonna wake up, She's gonna wake up. So but surely
• 1:03:22
  they're waking up, you know, and getting results and still being in the
• 1:03:25
  picture, you know, in Sadiyah and you know, listen, this is
• 1:03:30
  a team that you know when when they made the Champions League finally, and
• 1:03:32
  you know they they stayed in Champions League for a couple of seasons. I
• 1:03:37
  mean, like next said and you guys mentioned, I mean, they faced
• 1:03:42
  some some heavy duty competition. They played Liverpool three years ago. Then in
• 1:03:46
  the group stage. Yeah, there you go. Right. So again obviously
• 1:03:51
  not the same circumstances, same coaches, not the same players entirely, circumstances
• 1:03:57
  obviously different as the years of a buy. So but again, like I
• 1:04:00
  think, you know, as much as people are gonna ship on Gaspadini,
• 1:04:05
  which as me and fans kind of kind of do, and I hear that,
• 1:04:11
  you know, in these matchups, I don't think he's gonna be an
• 1:04:14
  idiot, Like I don't. I don't think like for me, there's you're
• 1:04:16
  going up against a quote unquote better opponent, sure, but you kind of
• 1:04:21
  have You're going in there as the underdog. So I mean, there's really
• 1:04:26
  I don't want to say there's nothing to lose, but you kind of have
• 1:04:28
  to have a bit of that mentality going into it and for you to kind
• 1:04:32
  of go forward and kind of take those risks and kind of put the pressure
• 1:04:38
  on on a Liverpool team that is expected to either dominate you or or just
• 1:04:44
  progress regardless. So yeah, I'm I'm curious to see how that how that
• 1:04:49
  unfolds, you know, Like you said, Nick, obviously there's gonna be
• 1:04:54
  one Italian team moving on either be me or Aroma, and you know Atalanta
• 1:04:59
  has a fighting chance to do the same. I don't think it's I don't
• 1:05:04
  think Liverpool is gonna wipe the forward Atlanta. But at the same time,
• 1:05:09
  Atlanta can't take them, you know, not as serious as as they should
• 1:05:14
  either, right Like I mean, yeah, you're gonna want to have to
• 1:05:15
  go for it, but you still have to know that across across that across
• 1:05:18
  the pitches is a Liverpool that is tough. I think you know their attack
• 1:05:28
  is is still deadly. Atlanta's defense isn't entirely I would say the best.
• 1:05:35
  I don't know their their stats in terms of how many goals the concedent and
• 1:05:39
  said, yeah, I I I didn't toll that up, so you know,
• 1:05:41
  part of me for that. But when I look at you know,
• 1:05:47
  these types of players going forward attacking, you know at Gym City. Obviously
• 1:05:55
  Calvini didn't point today, but uh he and uh you know, these types
• 1:06:00
  of port to Loy if he's in there or whoever's whoever's back there kind of
• 1:06:03
  like kind of scares me if if if I'm Atlanta, But at the same
• 1:06:08
  time they still have every fighting chance to to to go and and and get
• 1:06:12
  a result of these ties. So I agree with Johnny. I think this
• 1:06:15
  is is a chance for for Talanta to to fox those those you know,
• 1:06:20
  underdog muscles. Gasperini has has been the bridesmaid a lot in these competitions and
• 1:06:30
  just as a whole. If we said, yeah, if it be copally,
• 1:06:33
  if it be uh, you know, fighting in Europe, whatever your
• 1:06:38
  oppid competition it is, he's he's definitely fallen short a lot. Can he
• 1:06:42
  can he finally kind of get over that hill. I don't know. It's
• 1:06:45
  gonna be tough. So that's that's it's it's gonna be interesting to see.
• 1:06:49
  But I don't know. They're they're big players, are gonna have to step
• 1:06:54
  up. Is kind of how I'm gonna end it, you know, is
• 1:06:58
  gonna have to be on form. I don't know if, if, and
• 1:07:01
  when CDK comes back, I don't know. He's been out for a couple
• 1:07:03
  of weeks. I think now you know, he's kind of you know,
• 1:07:08
  dipped out of the picture with with that injury. Coup Miners is going to
• 1:07:13
  have to step up. Martin Drone is going to have to step up.
• 1:07:15
  You know, their their their defenses like I said, is kind of going
• 1:07:19
  against those types of players on the other side is kind of worrisome. But
• 1:07:21
  they're gonna have to step up. You know, their wing backs are gonna
• 1:07:25
  have to be playing huge roles. Look, man, whoever it may be
• 1:07:30
  like, these players are gonna have to step up. So I think there's
• 1:07:33
  no better, no better time to step up than these European Knights. Albeit
• 1:07:38
  it's not Champions League, it's Europa weak, but still it's still European Knights.
• 1:07:41
  So these players are gonna have to step up. He's gonna have to
• 1:07:45
  get it right and and we'll see. I don't know if the first matchup
• 1:07:51
  is home and away for them, but you know they're their fans travel pretty
• 1:07:56
  well. You know they're gonna be field that is that on field. Okay,
• 1:08:01
  so listen, you you kind of get that out of the way early.
• 1:08:05
  Uh, and first you kind of put yourself hopefully in a position that
• 1:08:10
  you can finish the job at home. So that's the ideal situation for for
• 1:08:14
  Atalanta, for at Talantini friends that are gonna really want you know this,
• 1:08:19
  this this matchup to go their way. So yeah, it's it's gonna be
• 1:08:27
  it's gonna it's it's it's gonna be huge. So I'm alongside the MEW and
• 1:08:30
  Roma matchups. I'm curious to see how does for Fierdentina and Conference this is
• 1:08:38
  another one man like, they have all the tools to go all the way,
• 1:08:41
  they have all the tools that you know, they've kind of been breezing
• 1:08:45
  if I'm not missaying they've kind of been breezing by for the most part in
• 1:08:47
  Conference League. It would be it would be such a joy, I think
• 1:08:51
  for for them to win it, you know, not only to do them
• 1:08:56
  for themselves, do it for you know, they're directed that they lost in
• 1:09:00
  Joe Baroni. I think there's a lot of emotion that going into finishing this
• 1:09:02
  season now. So I don't I don't see why Ferdentina can't get past a
• 1:09:12
  prison Victoria prison and can't get past anybody that kind of faces that that they
• 1:09:15
  can potentially face come the end of that a the end of that tournament.
• 1:09:19
  So I'm we're we're pretty excited for Italian teams. I think we can stick
• 1:09:24
  you know, collectively here on the on the on the cultural guys. So
• 1:09:28
  we'll see how it goes. But it's it's gonna be interesting and exciting.
• 1:09:31
  Nonetheless, and uh, lastly, Champions League. I mean, I like,
• 1:09:36
  I said, no Italian teams, but honestly, I like I like
• 1:09:40
  the matchups because it's still heavy day. It's exciting. You got Dormant Athletical,
• 1:09:45
  BARSA, PSG, Byron, Arsenal and the Man City Real Madrid.
• 1:09:48
  And you know, looking at the back on the bracket, the Athletico and
• 1:09:53
  Dormant uh matchup is on the same side as PSG and Barcos, so the
• 1:09:59
  winners face each other. Then on the other side you got Arsenal and Byron
• 1:10:01
  and Real man City. It's like you said, Adri, it's heavy duty
• 1:10:09
  matchups. You know, I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I'm an expert
• 1:10:12
  on any of these teams, but obviously Real Madrid and Man City that matchup
• 1:10:15
  alone is is crazy for quarterfinals. It's two favorites of the competition. Whoever
• 1:10:21
  wins this could easily go and win the competition. But even on the other
• 1:10:26
  side of the bracket between Athletical, Dormant, PSG and BARSA, those are
• 1:10:30
  teams that you know, he starts BARSA winning, you know they okay,
• 1:10:34
  sure they won. I think it was what two thousand and nine and then
• 1:10:39
  twenty fifteen unless they won in twenty eleven, I forget or that was menu
• 1:10:43
  Like, these are teams that you know, got close, they got to
• 1:10:46
  the finals, they've lost in finals and then but they just never got there.
• 1:10:50
  So one of those teams is gonna go back to the final. It's
• 1:10:54
  interesting. I don't know if you guys have anything to before we wrap up
• 1:10:57
  about the Champions League. Uh For me, it just you know, in
• 1:11:01
  terms of does PHG get over that mountain finally? I think it's gonna be
• 1:11:05
  a hard task to to do. You know, this is this is obviously
• 1:11:11
  the farewell to uh as as He's gonna be PHG to go to the real
• 1:11:15
  Madrid. Can you do one more wonder for this for this club before you
• 1:11:20
  before they part ways. I don't know. I think it's gonna be tough.
• 1:11:24
  Can we get to the final, sure, but can they you know,
• 1:11:27
  get over that fin that that hill of actually winning it. I think
• 1:11:30
  it's gonna be It's gonna be tough. Like we said, you just mentioned
• 1:11:34
  Nick the Man City real matchup. If I'm if I'm a diehard of any
• 1:11:41
  of those teams like that, just like crazy to me, that's a matchup
• 1:11:44
  in in this uh you know, at this point in the in the tournament.
• 1:11:49
  But again, you know, one of those teams, I think that
• 1:11:51
  the team that advances from that has has every fighting shot to to make it
• 1:11:56
  to the final and potentially win it. Can Man City get to the know
• 1:12:00
  again, you know they're they're obviously raigning champs, so it's there's obviously pressure
• 1:12:04
  there. But you know, with with Rail's history, it's it's that you
• 1:12:08
  can never deny. Unfortunately that just uh it's just a fact, you can
• 1:12:13
  never deny their history. So I'm curious. Obviously points for Ancelotti obviously,
• 1:12:18
  Uh you know, Corleto's obviously has always an important uh you know place in
• 1:12:25
  uh in Mew and fans hearts, So we'll see what you can do with
• 1:12:29
  this with this real Madrid, but get them in the in this in this
• 1:12:33
  tournament, at these stages, you know, anything is possible. Arsenal was
• 1:12:36
  another one that, like Johnny said, first in the league so far,
• 1:12:41
  or have to say at stage sorry in in uh in the in the Premier
• 1:12:44
  League, Uh, you know, battling with Liverpool, but you know there's
• 1:12:46
  still a top top team Barsa. I think is is. It's not the
• 1:12:53
  barcel of old, but still no pushover. But again, I think if
• 1:12:58
  PHG gets past them, you know, PHG has has has you know,
• 1:13:02
  sites for for potentially a final, so we'll see. And I think it's
• 1:13:08
  just it's exciting that, you know, even though there's no Italian teams,
• 1:13:11
  it's exciting that it's it's heavy duty matchups. Like we said, I think
• 1:13:14
  that kind of keeps the the engagement, keeps the excitement for for for non
• 1:13:19
  fans of these teams, just fans of of the game and and of this
• 1:13:24
  tournament especially is going to be huge. So yeah, man, I don't
• 1:13:29
  know, I don't really care who I guess I don't. I guess at
• 1:13:30
  the end of it, we don't really care who wins. We just want
• 1:13:33
  some exciting culture to be played in in the most prestigious club club competition.
• 1:13:39
  So that's how I kind of see it. That's it, John, I
• 1:13:43
  kind of hope but Lettico comes out on top. Yeah, I would.
• 1:13:48
  I just I don't know, out of or do you playing against each other?
• 1:13:56
  Yeah, like, either way, they're playing against each other right now,
• 1:13:58
  so it's only gonna be one of them. Moving onto the Semis so
• 1:14:02
  I would like to see one of them get it versus any of the remaining
• 1:14:06
  six, not like specifically, like I don't want the Man City Real,
• 1:14:13
  which one of them is gonna get eliminated anyways. And I don't want to
• 1:14:16
  see PSG or Barsa Arsenals because the fans are gonna be obnoxious Byron. Okay,
• 1:14:21
  Byron. I could. I don't mind if they went to because you
• 1:14:25
  know it's Byron. There's just like maybe five out of the eight. I'm
• 1:14:29
  like, don't win, please, don't win. I think I don't know,
• 1:14:32
  Like it's I think Ag said it perfectly before. The thing to look
• 1:14:38
  at is uh Mimbape swan song with PSG, because if you're PSG, where
• 1:14:46
  do you go after you lose Mimbape? Because there's a point where you had
• 1:14:49
  you had messy, messy name Naymar and Mimbappe and it just nothing happened,
• 1:14:55
  you know, like where do you where do you go from there? You
• 1:14:58
  know, like like you've been you've been trying to you've been trying to like
• 1:15:02
  break that glass ceiling for so long and you've never done it. And now
• 1:15:06
  that you lose your main project, your main star, mind you it wasn't
• 1:15:12
  it was like it was I think it was not Monocle before you went to
• 1:15:15
  PSG no, or was he always owned buye out? He Yeah, he
• 1:15:18
  was a monocle first. But either way, he's the guy that you like,
• 1:15:21
  wanted to build your team around, right, and he spent so much
• 1:15:25
  and he invested so much and maintaining keeping this guy around, and now he's
• 1:15:28
  on his way out. So if this is, if all these years of
• 1:15:32
  investments, the billions of dollars that you put in towards this team just to
• 1:15:38
  win this one fricking trophy this year, this this Champions League title, if
• 1:15:42
  you don't win it this year, you're like not not you already are considered
• 1:15:46
  a bit of a joke, but you're becoming an even bigger joke. You
• 1:15:49
  know what I'm saying. Yeah, like it's it's it's I might like it
• 1:15:54
  sucks because you know, maybe there are the diehard passing Saint Germain fans of
• 1:15:58
  the world, you know, like the ones that were then before, you
• 1:16:00
  know, the Saudi you know, like it sucks. But you know,
• 1:16:06
  legue aarn like is never gonna be taken seriously, even I don't think that
• 1:16:10
  even changes that much. Even if PSG wins Champions League. I just think
• 1:16:14
  it's gonna be a surprise. People are just gonna be shocked, like,
• 1:16:15
  oh shit, they finally did it. You know. I don't think it
• 1:16:19
  changes the way people view it. But either way, like if if if
• 1:16:25
  you're a dire at of PSG, or if you're if you're just you know,
• 1:16:29
  a fan like I am BAPE fan, Like you want this to happen
• 1:16:32
  this year, because if it doesn't happen, it's not gonna happen for the
• 1:16:36
  next fifty years unless you just come up with another star player out of nowhere
• 1:16:41
  to help rebuild that club and like rebuild the credibility and talent or you know,
• 1:16:46
  the the the respect I guess, you know, because you always kind
• 1:16:53
  of respect PSG just because not only what they have financially, but the potential
• 1:16:57
  players that they can they can get to their roster. But they brought so
• 1:17:01
  many players throughout the year. It's like Vetsis, Cavanis, the Raimovich is,
• 1:17:04
  the nay Are, the messis that uh, you know, the Mapes.
• 1:17:10
  It's like at one point, man like like, yeah, something's got
• 1:17:15
  I don't think it will, but it's going to give exactly. I don't
• 1:17:17
  think it will, but you know, it's that's what it is. So
• 1:17:19
  it's that's that's that's what it's like billions and billions of dollars like you said,
• 1:17:24
  and it's like still no cigar. It's like, it's pretty pretty crazy.
• 1:17:27
  You had like the best okay, even though it was for a short
• 1:17:30
  stint, like you have the best player in the world, like on your
• 1:17:31
  team, couldn't do it. You invested before you invested on with within Bappe.
• 1:17:36
  There was the whole name mark right time, and that was supposed to
• 1:17:41
  be the time where you were You're going to do it all. Even going
• 1:17:45
  back to like you said, like the Ibrahimovich, the Kavani, I know
• 1:17:48
  what Vetsy was there. They brought Beckham and when he was on his way
• 1:17:50
  out of you know, before going MLS, like you know, you know
• 1:17:56
  now the rumas in between the sticks, they always had a capable goalie.
• 1:17:59
  Like their defense was was was pretty good, yes, almost at one point.
• 1:18:01
  So it's like the constant rotation of likes off of Roma when Marcino me
• 1:18:11
  like like he was that eighteen year old like center defensive, mid center back
• 1:18:15
  that Roma was definitely going to be using in the future to build that backline
• 1:18:17
  around. And you bought him like for a good price forty five million euros,
• 1:18:20
  right, So I mean at the time it was considered, it was
• 1:18:23
  considered a large price, but it was like in the long run, and
• 1:18:26
  it's been extreme, extreme value for PSG. But like, like that's just
• 1:18:30
  another name to add to the list, like how much can you spend and
• 1:18:32
  how many players can you get until eventually works out, you know what I'm
• 1:18:35
  saying, Yeah, no, I exactly. You know, you know,
• 1:18:39
  Verdakia was there for so long, like a guy that we we we we
• 1:18:43
  wish would have seen in said yeah, throughout all these years, never got
• 1:18:46
  to see that. I went from straight from Pascata City of b to Phg
• 1:18:50
  and and now he's burning away. God knows where he is now in the
• 1:18:55
  Middle East. So you know, it's it's it's one of those things again,
• 1:19:00
  like we said all that to say that, you know, they they
• 1:19:04
  invested all this, and I still don't think it's gonna do I still don't
• 1:19:08
  think they're gonna win. But who knows. Mant City was able to do
• 1:19:11
  it last year after they've spent boads of money and that they finally got over
• 1:19:15
  that home, so we'll see again. Maybe to sum it up, who
• 1:19:18
  cares who wins? As long as the Italian team wins Europa League and Conference
• 1:19:23
  League, I think we'll be happy in the Euros here and the Euros obviously
• 1:19:27
  because they were saying it's not going to go it's not going to Rome.
• 1:19:30
  Going to Rome last time, hopefully comes back this time. So exciting times
• 1:19:35
  going forward, we could actually have a few rematches in the Champions League final.
• 1:19:41
  Let's say PSG Byron rematch twenty twenty. I would love to see Athletico
• 1:19:45
  Real Madrid rematch back in what was it twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen, Yeah,
• 1:19:50
  twice and both both Real Madrid. Yeah, so those are crazy moments.
• 1:19:58
  But yeh again different times twenty sixteen at the sansiero oh man, But
• 1:20:04
  I think that'll do it for us. I enjoyed this conversation guys. Big
• 1:20:10
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• 1:20:15
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