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Week 15 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome into another episode of the Premier
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  League Playground. I'm the dad, Bjorn, with me as
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  our star, the lad. Luca Miller.
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  And we're here for week 15 recap.
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  We're flying through. We are barreling down on the
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  halfway point of the season. Luca, it's hard to believe it's
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  week 15, but First off, how are you doing today?
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  I'm. Doing good, How are you?
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  Doing good, doing good. How was your weekend?
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  It was good. How was your weekend?
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  Well, it wasn't so good. Arsenal loss, I didn't love
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  that, but you had a game and played well.
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  Yeah, we won seven to three and I scored.
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  Yeah, you're playing some football here in the winter
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  because your fall season's over, so you have a good time doing
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  it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  You and your team mates did well.
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  Like I said, nice win for you. That was made the Arsenal loss a
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  little, little less harsh. So it's good to watch you play,
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  have fun, score a goal. But yeah, Luca, Arsenal lost
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  title race fully on here. Premier League going crazy.
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  No team is pulling away by any means.
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  This is be could be a real fun. We're never gonna win the title.
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  I don't think it would ever happen by with.
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  Lucas, Lucas still not quite over it.
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  You know, look, we're still first.
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  We'll get into it all, but can't with this.
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  It certainly makes Luca for a tight, tight table, like I said,
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  nobody's pulling away. It's amazing.
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  You win a couple games in a row, you can just shoot up and down
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  the table. So it's kind of makes it fun.
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  You know, like I said, teams all of a sudden just pop up and now
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  they're in 4th and 5th and yeah, then teams that we're doing well
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  drop down South kind of makes it interesting.
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  But should we dive into the games, Luca?
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  Yep. All right, Well, it's like RIP
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  the Band-Aid off. Let's talk about the first game
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  of the weekend. Aston Villa hosting our team,
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  our boys Arsenal. Do we have to talk about this
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  game? I I'd like to just move on, but
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  I think, I think we should, I think we should run through it.
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  We're gonna be the bigger person here and we're gonna maybe even
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  give a little credit. Be tough to talk about but this
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  game ended 21 Villa. I predicted this be 32 Arsenal
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  cash scores in the 36 minute of a volley as a kind of switches
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  off. Doesn't pressure him and he gets
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  an easy shot into the goal and Trostard scores for us to tie it
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  up in the 52nd minute. And then a late, late winner,
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  Blendia in the 96th minute. Villa now only three points off
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  of 1st. And Villa have now won seven
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  games in a row in all competitions.
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  So they've been they've been playing really well.
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  This wasn't an easy game for us to go at Villa and they almost
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  tied which I would have taken tie.
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  Yeah, Villa are flying like you said.
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  I mean, you said seven or nine in a row.
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  What is it? Seven in a row.
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  So seven in a row in all competitions, five in a row in
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  the Premier League, five wins in a row.
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  They're now sitting three points off of Arsenal in first.
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  They're all alone in third, one point behind City in second.
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  I mean, they're playing as well as anybody in the Premier League
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  right now and Villa Park is always a tough place to go and
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  get a result. They defend their home field
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  really well. The fans, their atmosphere is
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  always really good. I mean, you know, I don't want
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  to make excuses, but Arsenal again missing their two center
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  backs, leaving Gabrielle was. So we were even on the bench.
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  No, no, still not quite ready to be back.
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  They lost mascara in a game, so I mean, they're down 3 center
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  backs in this game, so it's sort of a makeshift back line.
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  Timber was playing center back with Tim Kathy.
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  Yeah, and timber usually plays out of the way right, right
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  back. So was playing right back.
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  You know, again, I don't, I don't want to make excuses, but
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  I mean, they're certainly missing a lot of key players
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  and. In that situation, in the 96th
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  minute, I think Gabrielle and Solivo would be a huge part of
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  that and defending that and that goal, yeah, like attack.
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  Yeah, I mean, you can't help but wonder, right?
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  I mean, it's, you know, do you blame anybody for for that last
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  goal? I don't blame anybody, but we
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  did everything we could to stop it.
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  They just had everyone forward and we had everyone back.
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  But it's just right place at the right time, so I don't really
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  blame anyone for that. Yeah, I kind of agree.
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  I mean, it's just, it's one of those it wasn't.
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  Like a giveaway or anything that doesn't.
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  The only so the only thing I will say is right before that,
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  Hin Cappy is running to the sideline with the ball and sort
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  of loses control of the ball and gives up a throw in which
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  immediately they threw it in. And that sort of immediately led
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  to this attack where either, you know, he's just got to kind of
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  try to launch the ball up at that point, you know, like when
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  you're desk again, he's a young guy, he's learning.
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  I mean, there still was 20 more seconds after that for us to
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  defend it out. Balls bouncing around.
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  It's just and it just sort of happens at this sort of fault of
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  Wendy right on his right foot. Now he's ready for it.
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  If you watch, he's sort of like almost like cocked and ready to
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  shoot. I give him credit for just being
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  like the ball comes to me, I'm just going to immediately shoot
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  it, which is what he does. But yeah, I mean, Arsenal
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  players are diving all over, throwing their bodies in front
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  of it. It's just, I mean, it's a gut
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  punch to, I mean literally lose on the last kick of the game.
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  It was the last. They didn't do a kick off.
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  I don't. Think I I if they if they did,
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  they didn't even show it on TV. I mean.
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  They were just showing the replay.
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  I mean, it was, I mean, it's a true gut punch there because I,
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  I do feel like Arsenal earned a tie in this game.
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  This game was back and forth. It was actually a pretty good
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  game. Like both teams have pretty good
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  chances. I think it's two really, really
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  good teams going at it. You know, Arsenal, Luca, you
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  know, they came in at 18 games unbeaten.
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  You know, Arsenal doing well even with these injuries that
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  they've been dealing with playing well.
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  But I kind of had a feeling this would have been this was going
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  to be a loss. It just felt like one of those
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  games where Arsenal played so much football in the last, you
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  know, week or two. So many games, guys just feel
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  like they're running on fumes a little bit.
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  I mean, Rice gets no breaks, Zubamendi gets no break.
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  You know, there's just, you know, injuries to some of these
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  other key positions. And I just felt like Villa are
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  playing great. Credit to them.
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  They are playing really, really well.
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  They, you know, like I said, just fine, keep finding sort of
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  ways to win these games. You know, I'm going to ask you
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  now, Luca. Week 15 like our Villa title
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  contenders. Oh, that's, that's an
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  interesting question. Hot take, yes.
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  OK, so you think they have what it takes to possibly keep this
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  going? If they keep this going,
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  definitely, I think Chelsea are really dipping.
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  They're really dipping. They're they've not been playing
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  very well after that tie against dust lost leads.
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  And then we'll get into the Bournemouth Chelsea game in a
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  few moments. But I think Astonville are up up
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  there with like City and Arsenal.
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  I, I do think, I mean they're 100% Champions League
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  contenders, but it's hard to say because I feel like City and
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  Arsenal are just going to battle without being the whole time.
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  But I know I do think Aston the lower title contenders.
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  Yeah, I think the key is to try to maintain the consistency over
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  a long season. There's a lot of games, you
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  know, teams are going to get hot, they're going to cool off
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  it. It's sort of, you know, to me, a
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  lot of it is like managing the dips in form, you know, when
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  you're not playing well, when guys are injured, can you sort
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  of grind out results, get ties instead of losses?
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  You know, that's really the key. You know, you start if you lose
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  two or three. You know, when we're talking
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  about teams winning the title, I mean, you basically only get
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  maybe 456 losses, right? I mean, if you if you lose 7-8
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  times, you basically you can't win.
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  I think we talked about that stat before that the most losses
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  a team's had in the past like 7 or 8 years is 6.
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  Most of the time you win with like four or five.
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  Now you also make got to make sure you turn a lot of those
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  draws into wins. Like that's what killed Arsenal
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  last year, which had so many draws and you got to turn those
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  into wins. So it's like, you know, games
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  that you're going to lose, you end up drawing, games you maybe
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  should draw, you end up winning. You know, I've always said like
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  you need three things to win the title.
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  You need a good team, you know, you need like a bit of like good
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  fortune and luck, You know, just fine margins, ball kind of
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  bounces. Your way 100% had that last
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  year. They did.
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  And then the other thing is you need help like you need, you
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  need your best players. Like it sounds very obvious to
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  say, but you like teams need their best players on the field
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  playing. So when guys get injured, do
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  they miss a week or do they miss two months?
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  You know, and I feel like that's what sort of kills arsenals,
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  like every injury feels like it's 2-3 months.
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  You know, we rarely lose guys for just like a week or a game.
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  And I've said this, you know, a bunch on the pocket.
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  Like that to me is what could be the downfall for Arsenal's.
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  Like if they can't get guys back and can't keep guys healthy,
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  then they're not going to win the title.
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  If they do, they've got like a real world good chance.
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  So yeah, we'll see. But yeah, I look, I don't think
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  they'll are title contenders. I still think this is a two team
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  race, but, you know, they're certainly making it, you know,
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  more of the discussion. I'll be curious over the next
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  couple weeks if they can sort of hang around, if they can be
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  within three points as we hit like the midway point, maybe
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  I'll change my mind. But for right now, I just feel
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  like they're a hot team. I think they're definitely a top
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  4 contending team. But they, yeah.
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  And they played great in this game.
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  So, you know, I give them a lot of credit and we'll kind of see
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  how they do over the next couple weeks.
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  All right, Luke, well, the team that that, you know, I just said
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  is I think is going to battle it out with Arsenal.
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  City hosted Sunderland, which we thought, oh, this could be a
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  tempting, interesting game. You know, Sunderland, this
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  plucky upstart team here they go to City.
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  Are they going to get a result? Thunderland versus city three,
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  no city. They absolutely obliterate them,
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  so I predicted it'd be two twos. 3 No city, obviously.
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  Diaz scores in the 31st minute, Gevardio on the 35th minute,
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  obviously. Also, Diaz's goal was a rocket.
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  That sounds. Sounds a beauty.
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  Thunderbolt Foden in the 65th minute.
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  He's been Foden has six goals and two assists in Premier
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  League this season, so he's really been standing out after
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  that. Like off, not not great season
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  last year there's a red card, Luke O'nean or something in the
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  96th minute. Didn't really impact the game
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  very much. And Turkey to assist in this
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  game. He's been pretty good for them.
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  Yeah, well, talk to me about his second assist.
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  Oh yeah, it was like a rabona assist.
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  He like it was on Foden's goal. He like bonus it into the air
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  and Foden heads it and it was an insane assist.
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  Yeah, pretty tricky little player.
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  Ribona is kind of where you like take your foot and you kind of
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  wrap it behind the other one and sort of kind of flip the ball
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  for a pass. It's kind of hard to explain,
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  but if you go online and watch it, it's pretty clever.
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  It plays a perfect ball with this right onto Foden's head and
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  hits it in and they were just sort of scoring goals for fun in
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  this. You know, Sunderland did hit the
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  post. They had a chance here and
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  there, but this was pretty one sided.
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  City was 64% possession. They had eighteen shots.
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  City basically just don't lose to newly promoted teams.
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  Looking in the past 27 games Cities played against newly
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  promoted teams, they have 25 wins and two draws.
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  They just don't lose the. Newly.
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  Yeah, and they pretty much win them all.
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  Mean 25 out of 27 is just crazy. So it's just you know
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  Sunderland, I guess if you see that stat it makes sense A city
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  to sort of obliterated them again.
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  Sunderland coming off a big game at Anfield and they had to go to
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  city. That is a rough couple days
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  having to go to those two places.
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  So it feels like a little bit of an emotional let down after
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  getting the result against Liverpool.
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  You know, they get a tie there and they did look.
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  Probably. You said you'd be happy with the
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  tie there. I I would, but I think it takes
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  a lot out of you. I mean, like I said, to go there
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  and to like work to get a tie and then you got to turn it
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  around a couple days later. That's just hard for teams like
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  emotionally to like get that back up to do.
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  And it just felt like there was a little bit of a flatness from
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  them in this game. So but yes, Lucas City a good
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  week for them. So, you know, they came in five
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  behind Arsenal. Arsenal lose, they pick up 3.
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  So now they're sniffing distance, 2 points behind him at
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  31 points in the table. So you know, they've got to like
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  their positioning here. There are three wins in a row
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  now they're starting to like turn out results.
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  This is what I said. I just think with if anybody
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  stepped up and started scoring goals besides Holland, they're
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  going to be so dangerous. And now they're getting goals
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  from defenders, we're getting goals from Foden.
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  I don't know, could be tough. Yeah.
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  All right, Luca, well, let's move on to Bournemouth and
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  Chelsea. This game not much, 00 score I
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  predict to be two. No Chelsea, nothing really in
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  this game Bournemouth shut out and back-to-back games.
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  Chelsea and 5th on 25 points. Yeah, I mean, pretty boring game
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  really. Not much, obviously no goals,
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  but wasn't really a whole lot of action, you know, in the rest of
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  this game here. So yeah, you know, like I said,
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  each get a point, each probably would have liked to get a win,
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  but we'll we'll see. Like I said, moving forward, you
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  know, Chelsea, like I said, now they're kind of in 5th, but
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  again, a win here, win there, they can really kind of move
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  right back up. All right.
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  Look at what's move over to Leeds in Liverpool.
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  Some drama here. 33 tie here, who I predict to be two one
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  Liverpool. I really expected them to win
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  this. Nothing really happens in the
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  first half of the game until the 48th and 50th minute where
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  Ekatika puts Liverpool up to nil with his brace and then Calvert
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  Lewin off of PK Nanto gets like kind of chopped down from
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  Konothe. Definitely a PK for me.
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  Scores it 21, then stack stacker.
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  Yeah, I think that's how you say it.
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  In the 75th minute, Sober slot in the 81st 80, sorry, 80th
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  minute off of like a dummy and then swats at home and then
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  Tanaka in the 96th minute ties the game up.
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  Liverpool have conceded 24 goals in this season so far.
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  That's just a crazy stat for me. I mean 24 goals.
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  Yeah, I mean, I mean, week in and week out, Luca, we're
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  talking about their defense being the problem.
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  They're giving up way too many goals.
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  This game was 00 at halftime, six goals in the second-half of
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  this game. And this game all of a sudden
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  just turned on its head and was just.
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  Completely insane. But, you know, here in
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  Liverpool, they're dropped, you know, again, you know, they're
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  have a position to win the game. You know, they're away at Ellen
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  Rd. It's a tough place, but this is
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  Liverpool. Like, they should be kind of
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  crushing. Yeah.
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  Let alone just holding on to lead.
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  So they were, they dropped two leads in this game.
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  They're up to nothing. And three, two.
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  And they can't find a way to get three points.
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  You know, it just speaks to sort of the problems at Liverpool.
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  And look, I, I don't think we can talk about this without
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  talking about Mohamed Salah kind of going crazy at the end there.
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  So he did not play again. He was on the bench, did not
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  even come in as a sub and look after the game.
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  All right, I want, I want to get your, your take on this.
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  He he says, I've said many times before that I had a good
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  relationship with the manager and all of a sudden we don't
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  have any relationship. I don't know why, but it seems
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  to me how I see it that someone doesn't want me in the club.
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  Seems like the club has thrown me under the bus.
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  That is how I'm feeling. I think it's very clear that
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  someone wanted me to get all the blame.
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  The club I always support. I will always said that this
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  club, I will always support it, my kids will always support it.
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  I love the club so much and I always will because in the in
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  this situation is not acceptable to me.
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  To be fair, I don't get it. It's like I'm being thrown more
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  under the bus. I don't think I'm the problem.
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  I've done so much for this club. I don't have to go everyday
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  fighting for my position because I earned it.
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  I'm not bigger than anyone, but I earn my position.
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  It's football. It is what it is.
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  I got to get your take on this, Luke.
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  I mean, this is like a club legend who just sort of saying
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  he's being thrown under the bus, saying he has no relationship
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  with the manager, saying that he, you know, earned his
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  position. He doesn't have to kind of, you
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  know, work for it. What's your thought on all this?
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  This is a bit out of the blue, but like I don't think he should
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  have said all that. I I don't know if I was the most
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  wise thing to do. And even even if you're a club
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  legend and you you still have to earn your position.
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  I don't know what he's talking about.
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  He just automatically has the position secured every game.
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  Also, he doesn't play much defense, but if he's scoring
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  like goals per game, then it doesn't matter like he was doing
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  last year. But he hasn't been scoring as
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  much. And Liverpool, we've said this
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  many times, their biggest problem is their defense and
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  he's just, he doesn't really track back.
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  So I think it was just a tactical change to bring him off
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  like a bench him. I don't think the manager
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  doesn't like him or something. It's just because he doesn't
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  play much defense and they need players who can track back and
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  help on defense because that's Liverpool's biggest problem.
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  I don't think he should have said that.
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  I mean, I don't think he should have gone ballistic over that.
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  I think he should have just talked with the manager or
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  something like that, yeah. I don't know.
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  Yeah, I mean, I think you'd like to see them keep that like in
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  house. Like you said, he's got to go
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  talk with the manager. They got to hash it out.
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  If there's issues between the two of them, you go into the
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  office, you guys talk it out. You don't put this like, let's
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  go to a reporter because, you know, then it's going to be
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  everywhere and now everybody's got to deal with the fallout.
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  You know, the backdrop on this to look is that that like AFCON
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  is coming up and all the African players are going to be leaving
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  in a week and then they go off with their countries for, you
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  know, the African tournament. And so he's going to be gone in
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  a week, whether he was playing all the time anyway, he's going
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  to go play with with Egypt, of course.
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  So you kind of feel like he could have just kept his mouth
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  shut maybe for another week. Then he gets to go away, clear
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  his head. He gets to go, you know, be with
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  his national team and do that. So it kind of be away from the
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  team, kind of give you a little bit of a reset.
• 18:11
  You maybe he finds some form playing for Egypt.
• 18:13
  You know, maybe he starts to kind of get it together.
• 18:15
  So like to do this now, the timing's terrible.
• 18:18
  I agree with you. You, you can't do this.
• 18:22
  I mean like, I mean, do you think he'll ever play for
• 18:24
  Liverpool again? After that, yeah, chances are
• 18:30
  low in my opinion. I mean, it's crazy to think,
• 18:32
  look, he's like the third highest goal scorer ever at
• 18:35
  Liverpool. I mean, he's clearly.
• 18:36
  A Liverpool. Legend, a Liverpool legend.
• 18:39
  Like I mean it's unbelievable what he's done, how many goals
• 18:41
  he's scored. I mean, I think he's like 6 all
• 18:43
  time in Premier League and goals, you know?
• 18:46
  Kind of throwing that all away. It's a shame, you know, and I,
• 18:50
  you know, I look, I think all relationships can be repaired,
• 18:52
  but this is like. That's a big dent.
• 18:55
  Yeah, this is like, I mean, I, I and I think too, you know, that
• 18:58
  January transfer window is going to come up here.
• 19:01
  So if he pushes for a move or they're just like this has to
• 19:04
  go, there's an opportunity for him to move on, right?
• 19:07
  Like you, because you've got this January transfer.
• 19:09
  Window eventually have to move on.
• 19:12
  They do. And I also think to your point,
• 19:14
  you know, nobody's undroppable from a team you.
• 19:17
  Know like. And he'll always be a legend
• 19:20
  there. But if your form is dipping and
• 19:22
  there's a better player, like that's sports, like, you know
• 19:26
  that it's it should be the best people play.
• 19:28
  It shouldn't just be like the name on your back, right?
• 19:31
  Yeah. So something real.
• 19:33
  Interesting. It's not what you've done before
• 19:34
  to what you're doing right now. Yeah, I mean it is, you know,
• 19:37
  and and you know, like I said, just because who he is does not
• 19:41
  guarantee his starting position. I that's my opinion.
• 19:44
  On it, yeah. Yeah, it'll be interesting,
• 19:47
  Luca, to see that moving forward for sure.
• 19:49
  All right, Luca, let's move on to Spurs hosting Brentford
• 19:51
  London Derby here. This was 2 nil.
• 19:54
  Tottenham finally winning at home.
• 19:57
  I predicted to be A11 draw for Charleston.
• 20:00
  Scores in the 25th minute and then off of Simon's.
• 20:04
  Simon's ball and then Simon gets his first goal for Tottenham in
• 20:08
  the 43rd minute. Now Thomas Frank managing
• 20:12
  against his old club. And he gets the win.
• 20:15
  So yeah, pretty much it in that game.
• 20:17
  Yeah, like I said, Thomas Frank managed Brentford for all those
• 20:20
  years. Like Luca, Brentford are
• 20:23
  terrible on the road. They Luca have one win and seven
• 20:30
  losses in eight games. Gracious.
• 20:33
  Yeah, I mean, just, you know, not good.
• 20:37
  So as bad as Spurs have been at home, it's almost like Brentford
• 20:40
  have been worse on the. Road, yeah.
• 20:43
  So Simons, Simons or Simones? I don't even really know.
• 20:46
  I. Think it's like Simone.
• 20:47
  I think it's Simones, got the start, got a goal and an assist.
• 20:52
  He was a big signing for them. This summer has not done much.
• 20:56
  So kind of like, I mean, look, I don't want Spurs players to do
• 20:59
  well, but I mean, like, you know, it's good to see sort of
• 21:01
  him clicking on. Hopefully he'll become like a
• 21:03
  more of a. Useful player, he hasn't really
• 21:05
  proved himself yet. Yeah, exactly.
• 21:07
  Came over from the Bundesliga, you know?
• 21:09
  Hasn't. Like he's Bundesliga guys,
• 21:12
  except for Jacques have not been doing great once they come to
• 21:16
  the big teams. Well, Jacques though, of course
• 21:18
  had Premier League experience. Before that's true, that's true.
• 21:21
  But you're right, I think we've said this a bunch, like when
• 21:24
  you're coming to the Premier League or any of the other
• 21:27
  leagues, it's such a massive jump up in terms of like speed
• 21:31
  of play, physicality. It takes a while to get used to
• 21:34
  it. And and we can't, you just can't
• 21:35
  expect people to like literally walk in day one and just be like
• 21:38
  banging in goals or making great passes or so like, you know.
• 21:41
  Even messy like he probably wouldn't be unbelievable.
• 21:44
  First day he played, he played in.
• 21:46
  Now maybe, maybe Messi would. I mean, Ronaldo didn't well, he
• 21:53
  was like 16, but he. Was pretty young.
• 21:55
  I don't know if he was that young when he came to United.
• 21:56
  Like 18 or 19, yeah, but yeah, well.
• 22:00
  Yeah, like, all right, take Messi and Ronaldo out of it.
• 22:04
  It's hard for me to think of a young player that came, you
• 22:08
  know, from another league that just, you know, let the world on
• 22:11
  fire when they got there. You know, it just it takes some
• 22:13
  time. So he's an interesting player.
• 22:15
  Like I just think he's a very skilled.
• 22:17
  He's a little smaller, but like I think he's an interesting
• 22:19
  player to watch for them how they kind of use him moving
• 22:21
  forward. So we'll see.
• 22:22
  You know, maybe it's just they're playing against
• 22:24
  Brentford and yet a good game against a not great team.
• 22:26
  But you know, Spurs, look at you know, they're sitting there in
• 22:29
  11th, you know, they're on 22 points.
• 22:31
  They're in that sort of mix in the middle.
• 22:32
  So we'll see if they can kind of kick on and get some wins moving
• 22:35
  forward. Yeah.
• 22:37
  All right, let's move over to Newcastle hosting Burnley.
• 22:40
  This game ended 21 Newcastle I believe to be two nil Newcastle
• 22:49
  demarisation the 31st minute Olympico crazy gold there.
• 22:54
  Gordon PK in 45 + 9 and Fleming with just a consolation PK in
• 23:03
  the 95th minute. So.
• 23:06
  Oh, also a red card for I think Lucas Pierrez or.
• 23:12
  Yeah, he got a yeah, he got a red card for I think last man
• 23:16
  foul. Yeah, good.
• 23:17
  Denial of a goal scoring opportunity or last man.
• 23:21
  So yeah, that kind of kind of messed up the game for them.
• 23:25
  There was only one. No, they're still in it.
• 23:26
  But yeah, pretty much it for that game.
• 23:29
  Yeah, Burnley are going to find it tough to win games if they're
• 23:31
  going down to 10 men. You know, they're not a very
• 23:33
  good team to begin with. Newcastle, Luca playing better.
• 23:36
  You know, like I said, they're now unbeaten in their last four
• 23:39
  Premier League matches. So they're starting to, this is
• 23:41
  what we kind of been spaying like, all right, you know, three
• 23:43
  wins in a draw here. Now they're starting to get some
• 23:46
  better results. They, you know, they played a
• 23:48
  bad team. I mean Burnley.
• 23:49
  Yeah, they should get this win. Yeah, and Burnley are just doing
• 23:52
  terrible right now. I mean, like I said, the five
• 23:54
  losses in their last five games, so they're they're they're
• 23:56
  really struggling here. But again, you you got go out,
• 23:59
  you get the win. The Bruno Griemeresch goal,
• 24:02
  look, Olympic go goal. So when you score right from a
• 24:05
  corner kick, yeah, untouched it goes in.
• 24:07
  I think I saw it's the 20th ever Olympico in the Premier League.
• 24:10
  20th ever. Yeah, the the.
• 24:13
  So Premier League was meant in like 90 to 93, correct?
• 24:17
  Yeah. So it's like 3132 years I think
• 24:23
  around that. Yeah, so it's less than one a
• 24:25
  year. It's it's almost like, you know,
• 24:27
  like 1 every year and a half or something like that.
• 24:29
  Yeah. I mean, it's pretty rare.
• 24:30
  I mean, to have nobody touch the ball, like nobody gets a head on
• 24:33
  it. Goalie doesn't hit.
• 24:33
  It and then just go straight in. You gotta put really good curve
• 24:36
  on that. It's pretty amazing.
• 24:38
  I mean, they're cool goals to see for sure.
• 24:40
  Every every time I see one go in, I always love it.
• 24:42
  I always think it's like a cool goal, so you know he's been
• 24:45
  playing great for them, scoring goals.
• 24:47
  He's really an impactful player for them in the midfield.
• 24:50
  I don't personally like him as a player, but this was an
• 24:54
  unbelievable goal. It was pretty good.
• 24:56
  It was. Yeah.
• 24:57
  All right, Luke, let's move over to Everton hosting Nottingham
• 25:00
  Forest. Everton beat Nottingham Forest
• 25:03
  three nil. I predicted it 21 Molinkovich in
• 25:09
  the second minute goal off of like a doucheberry hole shot
• 25:14
  Berry in the 45 + 4. So still in the first half and
• 25:19
  then Dewsbury Hall in the 83rd minute seals the game for them.
• 25:23
  Everton now 6th on in the table on 24 points and Dewsbury Hall
• 25:29
  he's been in unbelievable form for Everton has three goals in
• 25:32
  last four games. So yeah.
• 25:34
  Yeah, it's funny. So actually with United winning
• 25:38
  this morning, Everton are in 7th this afternoon.
• 25:41
  Yeah, so Everton or they're sitting in 7th.
• 25:44
  But that's pretty good, Luke. I mean, like again, sneaky team.
• 25:47
  Like, I mean, I would not have thought Everton in 7th place on
• 25:50
  24 points. I mean, they're two points off
• 25:53
  of 3rd. I mean, that's it, I'm sorry.
• 25:56
  Two points off of 4th 2 points. Off 4th.
• 25:58
  Yeah, yeah, no, Palace is on 26 points, Everton 2 points behind
• 26:03
  them. I mean, it's just.
• 26:04
  They're like hanging behind the top 4.
• 26:08
  Yeah, I mean, it's really pretty impressive what they're doing.
• 26:10
  But I look, I want to talk about Dewsbury Hall for a second.
• 26:13
  This guy's been really good for that.
• 26:16
  Unbelievable. Yeah, so I mean, Looky, you
• 26:18
  know, he came up with Lester, then got sold to Chelsea and
• 26:22
  then didn't do anything, just couldn't get on the field really
• 26:25
  with them. So he got bought this year for
• 26:26
  38 million, you know, not, not a ton of money.
• 26:29
  That's not cheap, you know, and he's been great.
• 26:33
  I mean, you know, in this game, even the first goal went down as
• 26:36
  an own goal, but he created it with the shot.
• 26:39
  You know, he's just, you know, a really, really useful player for
• 26:42
  them. And you see that they, you know,
• 26:44
  Everton sign him to get Greelish on loan and you see just adding
• 26:48
  a couple guys like that into their team.
• 26:50
  How much more kind of dynamic there.
• 26:51
  Yeah, it really is. It's it's you know, they're
• 26:54
  Everton used to be I to me were like real boring to watch,
• 26:56
  right? Real defensive grind out like a
• 26:58
  one nothing win. But they're kind of like I said,
• 27:01
  they've got a little bit more now attacking flair and it's
• 27:03
  it's paying off. And you can see obviously the
• 27:05
  results speak for themselves. Yeah, yeah.
• 27:09
  All right, Luca, let's move on to Brighton hosting West Ham.
• 27:13
  Brighton and West Ham ended one, one I predicted to be two.
• 27:17
  No Brighton, nothing until the 73rd minute where Bowen Bowen
• 27:22
  scores. He's been really, he's like
• 27:26
  easily their best player. Then Ruder in the 92nd minute
• 27:30
  ties the game up. West Ham now have 3 draws in
• 27:35
  last four matches, so they're just drawing a lot.
• 27:39
  Yeah, I mean, you know, they, they've struggling to get wins
• 27:43
  when they're, they're not a very good team.
• 27:44
  You know, they're they're they're sitting there in 18th
• 27:46
  place. You know, Bowen Luca, it's his
• 27:50
  99th goal involvement for West Ham.
• 27:52
  He's now two behind Miguel Antonio for most goal
• 27:55
  involvements in, in, in the Premier League all time.
• 27:57
  I mean, he's been, he's been just such a good player for
• 28:00
  them. You know, he's 29, Luca.
• 28:02
  He's been there since 2020. Like, in your opinion, is it
• 28:06
  time for him to go like, to a better team?
• 28:08
  Yes. Or do you or or do you just stay
• 28:11
  at West Ham and be like, this is my club, you know, I can be the
• 28:14
  star here. I can try to, I can try to keep
• 28:17
  them from getting relegated. I mean, they're in a relegation
• 28:19
  battle. Yeah, yeah.
• 28:20
  So like he could say, all right, in January, I want to go, I want
• 28:23
  to go to like a better team. Or he could say, like, you know,
• 28:26
  this is my team. I'm going to stay.
• 28:27
  I'm going to make sure they don't get relegated.
• 28:30
  What it what would you? So what would you do if you're
• 28:31
  going, you push for a move or you stay?
• 28:34
  Push for a move. I mean, I don't want to be on
• 28:36
  it. I'm too.
• 28:37
  You're too good to be on a team that's pushing to get out of
• 28:41
  relegation. I think he could be on one of
• 28:44
  the bigger clubs like United, Chelsea, Arsenal, maybe like the
• 28:51
  one of the Big six. I think he'd definitely make a
• 28:53
  team for the Big 6. But does he start and play a lot
• 28:57
  of minutes on this? He might.
• 28:59
  I mean, like maybe not for Arsenal because we already have
• 29:01
  good wingers, but I think he could.
• 29:04
  He would start for other teams, yes.
• 29:07
  Yeah, I think, you know, I, I really, really like him as a
• 29:10
  player too. I think he's like just like one
• 29:11
  of these guys that just always seems to sort of find himself
• 29:13
  around goal. He's got a great finishing
• 29:15
  touches goal actually in this game.
• 29:17
  Was really nice. Like a real sharp angle.
• 29:20
  He finds sort of the far post. He just has a knack for like
• 29:22
  coming up with goals for them. I would I would like to, I'd be
• 29:25
  curious about him and like with a bigger team, a little bit more
• 29:28
  expectations. How?
• 29:29
  You'll see in January. Maybe.
• 29:31
  Maybe, you know, like I said, I, you know, I think look at the
• 29:35
  fact that he's 29 is going to turn some of the teams off.
• 29:38
  Everybody kind of wants more of like a younger more.
• 29:40
  I think he is sort of who he is, which is a really good player,
• 29:43
  but people don't see that upside.
• 29:44
  So are you going to come and spend like 60 or 70 million for
• 29:47
  a 29 year old from West Ham as good as he is?
• 29:50
  I don't know that a lot of teams are going to do that maybe, but,
• 29:55
  you know, if the price is right and if the price gets lowered or
• 29:57
  something like that. And again, I don't know what
• 29:58
  West Ham is asking. I'm just throwing these numbers
• 30:00
  out. But he's just an interesting guy
• 30:02
  that's been there for a while. And I agree with you.
• 30:04
  I like, might like to see him on a little bit of a better team to
• 30:07
  see what he could do. So, yeah, you know, Brighton,
• 30:11
  Luca, this sort of kind of clicking along, they're in 8th
• 30:13
  on 23 points. You know they're in a good
• 30:15
  position here after 15 weeks, even though, like I said, last
• 30:19
  couple weeks, draw they lost last week draw this week they
• 30:22
  got Liverpool coming up. We'll talk about that, but that
• 30:25
  could be an interesting game. Yeah.
• 30:27
  All right, look, let's move over to another London Derby.
• 30:29
  We had Fulham hosting Crystal Palace.
• 30:32
  Fulham versus Crystal Palace was 21.
• 30:35
  Crystal Palace, I predicted it to be A11 draw and Ketia in the
• 30:40
  20th minute. It's a goal for them.
• 30:43
  Wilson in the 38th minute, great team goal here.
• 30:47
  Like a bunch of like 1-2. And then Wilson flicks.
• 30:50
  So with the outside of his foot, great goal there.
• 30:53
  And then Gray, he wins it in the 87th minute off of a corner.
• 30:57
  Palace now alone in fourth place on 26 points, second best
• 31:03
  defense, the Premier League only giving up twelve goals.
• 31:06
  So they're like they're, they're, I mean, they're in
• 31:10
  Champions League spots. They would make Champions League
• 31:12
  if the season ended right now, but obviously it doesn't.
• 31:15
  But yeah, they're doing well, yeah.
• 31:18
  They're doing real well. I mean, you know, I think all
• 31:21
  year we've been saying like this is a really good team.
• 31:23
  They've been good manager, you know, they've got really good
• 31:27
  players. Even losing Eze.
• 31:28
  Even losing as AI mean it's they just they recruit well, they've
• 31:32
  got they play real well as a team.
• 31:34
  You know, Adam Morton's a fantastic midfielder for them.
• 31:37
  Gay, he's a fantastic defender for them.
• 31:40
  You know, we just Matata, Yeah. I mean, he bangs in goals all
• 31:43
  the time. Yeah.
• 31:44
  I mean, they're they're just a really good team.
• 31:46
  Like this isn't a fluke to me. Like I, you know, like, you
• 31:49
  know, I think for sure they can hang around this mean they won
• 31:52
  the FA Cup last year. You know, there shouldn't be
• 31:54
  like, you know, out of nowhere. The Crystal Palace is a good
• 31:56
  team. They won the FA Cup last year,
• 31:58
  you know, like you said. Now I think that the the
• 32:00
  surprise maybe is they lost possibly their best player as A
• 32:02
  and they're still doing this, you know, But, you know, it goes
• 32:06
  to show you a little bit. Mark Gay, he was literally
• 32:08
  almost signed by Liverpool this summer.
• 32:09
  It was as close as you can have a deal to get done and it didn't
• 32:12
  fall through. Does he pout?
• 32:14
  Does he complain? Does he throw a fit?
• 32:17
  No, he just goes out there and plays it feels like every minute
• 32:20
  of every game for them. Yeah.
• 32:21
  Plays good defense, contributes on offense.
• 32:24
  He's good at passing the ball, Has the game-winning header
• 32:26
  today. You know, it's like a total
• 32:30
  professional. But again, I got to ask, though.
• 32:33
  Now, here's the deal with him, Luca.
• 32:34
  His contract is up this summer. He said he doesn't want to sign
• 32:37
  a new contract with Crystal Palace.
• 32:39
  He wants to sort of do something different.
• 32:41
  So if he just stays for the rest of the year in the summer, he's
• 32:44
  allowed them to go wherever he wants, OK.
• 32:46
  He can sign with whoever he wants, and Crystal Palace will
• 32:48
  get no transfer fee. So Crystal Palace, if you're the
• 32:51
  owner, Luke, you have a decision to make.
• 32:53
  You keep possibly your best player, or one of your best
• 32:55
  players for sure, and try to make a run at Champions League,
• 32:59
  possibly the title. Certainly he'd be useful to do
• 33:03
  that. Or do you sell them in January
• 33:05
  and say let's sell them now, maybe to Liverpool and get some
• 33:09
  money for him? What would you do if you're the
• 33:11
  owner of Crystal Palace with Mark Gay?
• 33:13
  That's tough. I think I would sell him, get
• 33:17
  some money now and then go buy a new Defender, one that could
• 33:23
  possibly take his spot. It's going to be hard to do,
• 33:26
  right. He's a Premier League proven.
• 33:28
  He's an English international. He plays for the national team.
• 33:32
  You know, guys like that don't obviously fall on, you know,
• 33:34
  fall off the trees. But I hear what you're saying in
• 33:37
  terms of like, you take the money and then you like
• 33:39
  immediately reinvest. So, you know, so you'd like to
• 33:42
  think they're getting this plan together now.
• 33:44
  So that way, you know, OK, if we do sell them, you're already
• 33:47
  lining up replacements for him, right?
• 33:49
  All right, If we get this amount of money, we can go try to get
• 33:52
  this guy. If we don't, we get this guy.
• 33:54
  You know, this is what, you know, the, the, the the sporting
• 33:57
  directors do with these clubs. They should have a role plan for
• 33:59
  this. So I'll be interested, Luca,
• 34:01
  because I mean, like, you know, I don't want Liverpool to do
• 34:04
  better, but he is like the perfect fit for that team.
• 34:07
  Like you put him in Van Dyke back there.
• 34:09
  I mean, that is a world better than connote in Van Dyke.
• 34:11
  Yeah. So, you know, it just makes so
• 34:15
  much sense. It feels like, I mean, like I
• 34:16
  said, he obviously wants to go there.
• 34:18
  He was almost going there. You know, maybe Liverpool going
• 34:20
  off for like 30 million and the Crystal Palace get tempted, but
• 34:24
  that would really dent their chances of making Champions
• 34:28
  League, which they've never done before as far as I know.
• 34:30
  I shouldn't say that I don't know, but interesting.
• 34:34
  We'll see that. That'll be an interesting story
• 34:35
  to follow through January. All right, Luke, a game that
• 34:39
  just ended. Just run, run through the the
• 34:40
  goals for me there. I mean, this is Wolves and man,
• 34:43
  you played here on Monday just ended.
• 34:45
  No big shock here. Just run through real quick.
• 34:47
  Who scored? 41 United.
• 34:49
  Who are our goal scorers in this?
• 34:50
  One yeah, Fernandez in the 25th minute, Belagarde in 45 + 3.
• 34:58
  So that was for Wolves. Yeah, right at the extra time in
• 35:01
  the first half. Yeah, way MO in the 51st minute,
• 35:04
  Mount in the 62nd minute and Fernandez again in the 82nd
• 35:07
  minute. Yeah, I mean.
• 35:09
  No big shock here, yeah? Wolves.
• 35:11
  Goodness gracious Luca. They're 15 games and they still
• 35:13
  only have two. What?
• 35:14
  Is the goal differential right now.
• 35:15
  They have scored eight goals, they've given up 33 goals.
• 35:19
  Yikes. So their goal differential is
• 35:20
  that's -25 the next worst Burnley, who's also horrible
• 35:24
  it's -14. That's 11.
• 35:27
  Goals eleven goals worse. We're only 15 games into the
• 35:30
  season. I mean, I watched a little bit
• 35:32
  of this game, Luca, like they are awful, like they are really
• 35:35
  bad and and it's hard to watch because you just see a team
• 35:38
  that's like not very good. They're just they're lacking
• 35:40
  confidence. I mean, you know, it's.
• 35:42
  Hard. It's it's sad to see.
• 35:44
  It is. I don't like to see any team
• 35:45
  doing this band, you know, like, you know, I don't have any it.
• 35:48
  Must be hard being a Wolf fan. Yeah, you must.
• 35:51
  We have a good being an Arsenal fan, I have a good I, I, I'm
• 35:55
  only an Arsenal fan because of you.
• 35:57
  You got me into Arsenal and I like Arsenal now.
• 36:00
  Well, just think if you're a Wolves fan, you have to go play
• 36:02
  Arsenal this weekend. So like, that's a tall order.
• 36:06
  That's at the Emirates, Yeah. I mean, you would think Arsenal
• 36:09
  are going to be pretty pissed. So yeah, Anyway, yeah, man, you
• 36:14
  they get the win. They they should.
• 36:16
  They're now up to 6th on 25 points.
• 36:18
  They're sitting in a pretty good spot there.
• 36:19
  Yeah, we'll kind of see. We talked about they're just
• 36:21
  kind of up and down again. Anybody that plays Wolves, I'm
• 36:23
  not going to put a lot of stock and say, oh, your form's great.
• 36:26
  This is you're going to kick onto a bunch of wins.
• 36:28
  It's just you got to get the win and move on.
• 36:29
  So all right, Luca, well that that wraps up week 15, All
• 36:34
  right. Now I want some awards from you.
• 36:37
  I want to know your player of the week.
• 36:38
  I want to know your game or your team of the week and who's your
• 36:41
  goal of the week. My I'll start with player of the
• 36:47
  week, I'm going to go Dewsbury Hall for being a goal my school
• 36:51
  and also creating that own goal. He had the shot and created the
• 36:55
  own goal. Big part in that Everton win my
• 37:01
  team movie goes to leads for like good one yeah for yeah
• 37:06
  coming back off of A2 nil 2 nil deficit and coming back and.
• 37:11
  3/2. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:13
  Come back twice in a game, That's yeah.
• 37:14
  That's a good call, yeah. And then gold a week I have to
• 37:18
  give two Diaz and Gimmer Rush. Those two were really nice.
• 37:23
  Yeah, I'm I'm going to throw an honorable mention of that Fulham
• 37:25
  goal. Oh yeah, that was really.
• 37:27
  I'm going to give him a mention to that.
• 37:29
  One yeah, Fulham goal was pretty strict.
• 37:30
  I love a little like team play and then the finish.
• 37:32
  So it was like, you know, Harry Wilson connects with him and as
• 37:35
  back to Harry Wilson a little outside flick of a foot into.
• 37:38
  The that was really nice. That one was nice look like.
• 37:42
  Jack Wilshire goal against President Norwich.
• 37:45
  Yeah, a couple years ago. Yeah, that one almost involved a
• 37:48
  few more passes in the lead up to it.
• 37:49
  Yeah, all one touch passes and the one touch finish.
• 37:53
  I know I love, I love that when you have like, you know, a
• 37:55
  little bit of a build up with the great finish.
• 37:57
  So yeah, kudos to Harry Wilson. He scored some bangers.
• 37:59
  Yeah. All right, Luca, well, let's
• 38:02
  look ahead. We got Week 16 coming up this
• 38:04
  weekend. So this week we've got some
• 38:06
  Champions League games. So we got Champions League for
• 38:09
  anybody that's interested this week.
• 38:11
  I'm gonna watch the Galazo show. You got the Galazo show or you
• 38:14
  can obviously see all the goals and all the action.
• 38:17
  Arsenal playing Club Brugge. Club Brugge Brugge, it's
• 38:21
  Belgium, so. Well, I know, but it's BRUGGE.
• 38:25
  Yeah, but it's Belgian suicide, OK?
• 38:28
  I think I that's how most people pronounce it.
• 38:31
  I don't. I've never heard anyone say Club
• 38:32
  Brugge. Brugge, Brugge.
• 38:34
  That sounds that sounds weird. I guess that's how like
• 38:38
  Americans would pronounce it Brug.
• 38:41
  Brug, Bruggie. Bruggie.
• 38:44
  Brugge. Alright, they play a team from
• 38:45
  Belgium, we'll go with that. But yeah, City play Real Madrid.
• 38:50
  That's I'm going to be excited for that game.
• 38:52
  That's a juice. So that's the so week Tuesday,
• 38:55
  Wednesday, so Tuesday, Wednesday this week we get Champions
• 38:58
  League. But Luca, we're going to focus
• 39:00
  on Week 16 of the Premier League and I want to know your
• 39:03
  predictions and picks as we look ahead to this weekend.
• 39:06
  First off, kind of interesting game here, Liverpool hosting
• 39:09
  Brighton. What do you?
• 39:11
  Like in this. One Liverpool.
• 39:16
  I'm gonna go 11 draw. I kind of feel like both of
• 39:20
  these teams, man, are hard to predict.
• 39:22
  I know just you watch them and sometimes I'm like, oh, they
• 39:25
  look great and. Then Man United are pretty
• 39:26
  unpredictable though. Well, you do.
• 39:28
  It feels like that's a bit of the story of this season is the
• 39:31
  unpredictability of a lot of teams.
• 39:32
  And there's like to me like if, if you can, if you're start to
• 39:36
  be a consistent team, then like that's going to be like the key
• 39:40
  for it, you know, just like, but it's just teams are just so up
• 39:43
  and down. We're all of a sudden like, wow,
• 39:44
  they look great. Next week you're like, how did
• 39:46
  they lose that? They look terrible.
• 39:47
  So you know, this one, I honestly, I kind of have no
• 39:50
  idea. I mean, Liverpool feel like the
• 39:52
  better team here, but we say that every week and they just
• 39:54
  sort of keep coughing away. Leaves and continue to like just
• 39:58
  lose or draw. Now here's another interesting 1
• 40:02
  Lucas So 5th for 7th. Chelsea host hosting Everton.
• 40:08
  Chelsea 21 Chelsea. 21 Chelsea. I think you'll get the advantage
• 40:12
  like because the crowd probably going to be pumped at Stanford
• 40:15
  Bridge. It's always a hard place to go.
• 40:17
  Still no Kai Sado off of that red card.
• 40:19
  That's true. That's that's, you know, that's
• 40:21
  a bit of a loss for them in that midfield.
• 40:23
  Chelsea have one of the deepest teams though, So, you know,
• 40:26
  Andre Santos is a real interesting guy that can kind of
• 40:28
  come in and fill in. So, you know, I think they'll be
• 40:33
  OK. It's hard to, you know, just
• 40:34
  replace Chiseta, but they they've got a lot of guys that
• 40:36
  can sort of fill in and help out there.
• 40:38
  So all right, Burnley hosting Fulham.
• 40:43
  Burnley, Fulham Win 2 Nothing. All right, Fulham get the win.
• 40:51
  Burnley are really struggling, although they're, like I said,
• 40:54
  they were much better at home, like most teams.
• 40:56
  Yeah, yeah, they are really, really struggling right now.
• 40:59
  So we'll see if Fulham can get a win.
• 41:00
  They you know, Fulham just keep hanging around 15th here.
• 41:03
  They're another team that I kind of something I'm doing a little
• 41:05
  bit better. I mean, I don't think they're a
• 41:07
  top ten team, but they should be a little better than 15th, I
• 41:10
  feel like. But it is what it is.
• 41:13
  All right, Luke, here's our our team coming off our loss.
• 41:16
  All right, Arsenal come home playing Wolves.
• 41:19
  Worst team in the league? Three nil.
• 41:21
  Three nil, all right. Three nil to the.
• 41:23
  Arsenal, I think it's just gonna be we gotta win this game.
• 41:26
  They gotta win this game to me more.
• 41:28
  The question Luca becomes. They've got Champions League
• 41:31
  midweek, you've got this game. How do you rotate and rest guys?
• 41:35
  It's hard because the defense is gonna play the whole game.
• 41:39
  Yeah, but I mean, I I would say like, you've got it like Lewis
• 41:41
  Kelly has to get a star. Yes.
• 41:43
  You know, I think Norgaard has to get a star for Zoo.
• 41:46
  Move Cal Fiori to center back but Lewis Kelly left back.
• 41:50
  Move Timber back to right back and then keep pink happy.
• 41:53
  OK, one thing about Cal Fiori is he's suspended with with a
• 41:56
  yellow card accumulation for the Wolves game.
• 41:59
  He is. So he can play in the Champions
• 42:01
  League game. So I would, I would, so he, like
• 42:04
  I said, so I would expect him to probably start because, you
• 42:06
  know, he can't play this weekend.
• 42:08
  So, you know, to me, you know, probably, you know, Henkamp, I,
• 42:13
  I just feel like you got to like, I know there's not much
• 42:16
  rotation you can do on defense, right.
• 42:18
  And now with, with Cala Fury out for the weekend, you know, Lewis
• 42:21
  Kelly pretty much going to have to play man.
• 42:23
  I think we maybe only have 4 defenders.
• 42:25
  You know, they had, you know, Marley Salmon, like on the
• 42:28
  bench. I think he's 16 years old for
• 42:31
  the last game. So it's like here we go again
• 42:32
  with like these Academy young players just like on the bench
• 42:35
  because we have nobody else. Now the question is Selena's
• 42:39
  injury is not supposed to be serious, but it keeps sort of,
• 42:42
  you know, dragging on where he couldn't even make the bench.
• 42:44
  So will he be ready for one of these games?
• 42:47
  Do you push to start him? Do you maybe just try to bring
• 42:50
  him on and give like 20 minutes at the end of the?
• 42:52
  Game, if he's available for the Wolves game, bring him off the
• 42:55
  bench for that game and if he does OK in for like 2530 minutes
• 43:03
  during the Wolves game I would start him in the club Brewers
• 43:06
  game. Well, no.
• 43:07
  The club brews game comes. First, Yeah.
• 43:09
  Yeah, yeah. So that's the thing.
• 43:10
  You're you got Champions League midweek and then Wolves game on
• 43:12
  the weekend, so you know. I would do the same thing but
• 43:16
  just swap through it where I said.
• 43:17
  Yeah, I I, I think you know, to me, like this is an opportunity.
• 43:21
  I think you'd want to be careful.
• 43:22
  Look, if he's ready to go, then I don't know that you feel like
• 43:25
  you have to stardom because, you know, we even if we lost the
• 43:30
  club Rouge game, you're still in a good spot in the Champions
• 43:33
  League. Of course you don't want to go
• 43:34
  and lose, but like you're still in a good spot there.
• 43:37
  We still should finish. You want to get that top 8
• 43:39
  because that gets you a buy, but I still feel like they're in a
• 43:42
  good spot there. Now you can't afford obviously
• 43:44
  with wolves are are terrible, but yeah, you have to go get a
• 43:47
  win in the Premier League, you know, so it'll be interesting.
• 43:49
  I'll be interested to see line UPS.
• 43:51
  Who's maybe back. You know, like I said, is Seliba
• 43:54
  back to at least, you know, come off the bench and give you 20
• 43:57
  minutes. You know, Trosard came on and
• 44:00
  off in the game this weekend. You know, he's been dealing with
• 44:03
  a calf injury. It didn't seem like he got re
• 44:05
  injured. It sounded like they were just
• 44:07
  managing minutes, but he could only really give you like.
• 44:11
  He scored, though. He scored, That's the thing.
• 44:12
  I know he comes on, he scores and they like have to pull him
• 44:15
  off. So I'll just be interested.
• 44:17
  But I'm like, like I said, I just felt like I looked at
• 44:19
  Arsenal at the end of that Essembilla game and guys like
• 44:21
  Rice and Zubamendi, there's so many guys that just felt like
• 44:24
  they're running on fumes, like Cala Fury looked dead tired at
• 44:26
  the end of that game. You've got to figure out there
• 44:29
  are a lot of games coming, but this week these are not tough
• 44:32
  games. Yeah, but like, you've got to
• 44:34
  try them to me to, like, rotate some guys and give guys that are
• 44:37
  getting all the time in the minutes like Rice, Zubamendi,
• 44:40
  arrest, even soccer to a certain extent.
• 44:41
  Timber. We'll see.
• 44:43
  All right, Luca, Crystal Palace hosting city.
• 44:46
  This is a juicy game. Oh wow, so we got off to
• 44:49
  starting games are like, decent. Yeah, this is good.
• 44:53
  I mean, so I mean, this is, you know.
• 44:55
  I think 22. 22 OK, so I mean, this is 2 verse four.
• 44:58
  I mean, we have two verse 4-5 verse 7.
• 45:00
  Like there's some good games this week.
• 45:02
  This is an interesting one to me because city feel like they're
• 45:05
  rolling three wins in a row and you think, oh, they'll probably,
• 45:09
  you know, it's this Palace, right?
• 45:10
  They're going to go beat Palace. But like this is not Palace from
• 45:12
  five years ago, like and it's at Selhurst Park.
• 45:17
  This is going to be an interesting game.
• 45:18
  To me, you. Know I just think because I
• 45:20
  think Crystal Palace are well organized they're very good if
• 45:23
  city come in and just destroy them then like lookout man like
• 45:27
  then I. Think city you're.
• 45:28
  Going on like a 5, but you know, if you're an as an Arsenal fan.
• 45:33
  Certainly we're in palace. You're hoping, we're hoping like
• 45:35
  at least a draw? Draw.
• 45:36
  Yeah. You know, like this.
• 45:38
  If they can get a draw and we get a win, then you kind of push
• 45:40
  that advantage to four points, you know, so you you start to
• 45:45
  feel like a little bit more comfortable there.
• 45:46
  So, you know, when you're looking at the schedule again,
• 45:49
  to me, it always feels like it's like US versus city.
• 45:51
  So like, you know, like it's like a boxing match back and
• 45:54
  forth, like they hit us last week because, you know, they
• 45:56
  win, we lose. Now we got to figure out a way
• 45:59
  to like, you know, get some points.
• 46:00
  So you're looking for where they may drop points and we can
• 46:02
  easily get points. Feels like an opportunity.
• 46:04
  We'll see what happens. So you're thinking Tutu though,
• 46:07
  right? Yeah.
• 46:08
  All right, Luca, West Ham hosting Aston Villa.
• 46:13
  Astonville, we're going to win this like 3 nil.
• 46:15
  Three and okay, all right, it's, you know, it's at, you know,
• 46:18
  West Ham, but you think Astonville, they keep flying,
• 46:22
  they smash West Ham. Yeah, OK, Sunderland hosting
• 46:26
  Newcastle, the Tyne and Wear Darby Luca, this is a bit of a
• 46:29
  rivalry game here at the. Stadium of.
• 46:31
  Life. Yeah, these two teams, like I
• 46:33
  said, located near each other. Also going to two. 22 OK, this
• 46:37
  will be I'm I'm definitely wanting to watch a little bit of
• 46:39
  this one. This is going to be an
• 46:41
  interesting game because, like I said, you've got the Darby
• 46:43
  aspect of it. 2 interesting teams.
• 46:46
  Sunderland now in 9th. You know, Newcastle down there
• 46:49
  in 12th. However, they're only a point
• 46:51
  apart. So Newcastle wins this game.
• 46:53
  They then leapfrog, you know, one of their, their, their
• 46:55
  rivals. So but we know how hard it is to
• 46:59
  go to Sunderland and get results.
• 47:00
  So all right, Luca, Nottingham Forest hosting Spurs.
• 47:06
  Well, Spurs are good away, so I'm going to go to win Spurs.
• 47:09
  OK Spurs get the win far as are not very good sitting down there
• 47:13
  at 17th Brentford hosting leads. I think Brentford went to now
• 47:22
  they're good at home. To now, yeah OK and the last
• 47:25
  game Luca of the week seems like man you play every Monday they
• 47:29
  are hosting Bournemouth. Oh. 1. 111 OK.
• 47:35
  A lot of draws this. Week a lot of draws OK, some
• 47:37
  weeks that happens there so all right Luca.
• 47:39
  Yeah, so this is what I love about the premier, Luca.
• 47:42
  It feels like every week I look down and there's like
• 47:44
  interesting games, interesting matchups.
• 47:47
  It's so much fun, like I said, watching all these.
• 47:49
  But yeah, that definitely some cool, interesting matchups this
• 47:51
  weekend for us to keep an eye on.
• 47:52
  So all right, Luca, I don't really think there's any other
• 47:58
  big sort of soccer news to talk about except we had the World
• 48:02
  Cup draw. So my mailbag question to you,
• 48:06
  Luca, is drum roll. What did you think of the draw
• 48:10
  here? So we got the World Cup draw.
• 48:11
  We've got groups. We don't have all the teams yet.
• 48:14
  Right now there's still 6 spots to be decided, but I'm on.
• 48:20
  Let's run through the groups and just give me your opinion on
• 48:23
  them. All right, this is kind of fun.
• 48:24
  So we now have Group A Luca, you have Mexico, South Korea, South
• 48:28
  Africa and then a European playoff winner.
• 48:31
  So it could be Denmark, Czech Republic, Ireland or North
• 48:35
  Macedonia. Or Italy.
• 48:37
  What not, not for that one. They they would, they would fall
• 48:40
  into the Group B possibly we'll get to that.
• 48:43
  So Group A Luca, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa and a
• 48:46
  potentially European club. That's an all right.
• 48:50
  Group. That's an all right group.
• 48:51
  So you're like some sort of middle ish?
• 48:54
  Yeah. Who do you who do you think
• 48:55
  comes who wins that group? Well, I can't.
• 49:02
  Mexico has a home field advantage.
• 49:04
  South Korea's pretty good. Yeah, but if it was the only of
• 49:08
  these three teams, Mexico. But it depends.
• 49:11
  Like one of the playoff winners could win, you know?
• 49:14
  You think so? What if it what if it was like
• 49:16
  Denmark that change anything? Yeah.
• 49:18
  You think Denmark would win the group?
• 49:19
  Could. OK, well, I know, I know.
• 49:22
  Everybody could Who? Who do you pick?
• 49:24
  Wait, I I think, I think Mexico would still win.
• 49:29
  All right, Lucas A Group B Canada, Switzerland, Qatar.
• 49:34
  Then you get another European playoff winner, which could be
• 49:39
  Italy, Wales, Bosnia Herzegovina or Northern Ireland.
• 49:43
  What do you think of this? Group.
• 49:44
  I think Switzerland win it. Switzerland win it.
• 49:46
  OK, now again Canada home field advantage.
• 49:49
  But if in set finish second. OK, now this one to me is
• 49:52
  interesting because Italy's sort of the big wild card here.
• 49:55
  You know, there's no guarantee, but they'd be the heavy favorite
• 49:58
  to win that you throw Italy into the mix.
• 50:01
  That'd be big that. Could.
• 50:02
  Although they have not been playing that well, Italy.
• 50:05
  No, they haven't. They haven't.
• 50:06
  But it's just like on paper, they always have like a lot of
• 50:09
  good players and talent. So I think it, you know, look,
• 50:12
  I, I kind of like the Italian team a little bit.
• 50:15
  So I kind of hope they get in. Although Wales are good too, you
• 50:18
  know, like they're a good team. It could be, this could be tough
• 50:22
  because I think Canada has a home field advantage.
• 50:24
  They're pretty good. But like you said, Switzerland
• 50:26
  are real good. You throw Italy or Wales into
• 50:29
  the mix. Could be a fun group.
• 50:31
  Yeah. All right, look at Group C You
• 50:33
  got Brazil, Morocco, Scotland and Haiti.
• 50:37
  What do you think of this group? This is going to be a tight
• 50:40
  battle between Morocco and Brazil, but I think Brazil win
• 50:43
  this. Brazil hard to hard to pick
• 50:44
  against Brazil, but Morocco made it to the semis of the last
• 50:48
  World Cup. They got, you know, Hakimi, they
• 50:51
  got some good players. So don't don't sleep on Morocco
• 50:54
  and Scotland are tough too. They're going to play physical.
• 50:57
  And Haiti, Luca, you know, they're, they did real well in
• 51:01
  CONCACAF qualifying. So, you know, they've got their,
• 51:05
  you know, their work cut out for them.
• 51:07
  But I don't think they're going to just get rolled over.
• 51:09
  But I don't know that they're going to get any results.
• 51:11
  But yeah, hard to hard to not pick Brazil, you know, although
• 51:14
  it feels like the last couple World Cups we have not seen that
• 51:18
  Brazil from 20-30 years ago and it was just sort of like a lot
• 51:21
  to win their group and move on. But yeah, we'll see that.
• 51:24
  That's an interesting group to me.
• 51:25
  I like those top three teams. And like I said, Haiti's a bit
• 51:27
  of a wild card in there too. So all right, look at Group D
• 51:31
  US. All right, here we go, Group D
• 51:32
  USA, Paraguay, Australia, Then we get a European playoff
• 51:37
  winner, which could be Turkey, a Slovakia, Kosovo or Romania.
• 51:42
  What do you think of EU s S group?
• 51:44
  I think US win it. OK.
• 51:47
  So now are you saying that based on like the strength of the US,
• 51:50
  you're just not that impressed with the other teams?
• 51:53
  Kind of both, kind of both. Strength of the US has improved
• 51:57
  slightly and the strength of the group is not great.
• 52:01
  Like Paraguay and Australia, Australia aren't terrible, but I
• 52:05
  think you guys have a better squad on paper.
• 52:08
  Yeah, I I think you're right. I mean, US have been playing
• 52:11
  better lately in some of their their their sort of tune up
• 52:13
  games. Turkey is a tough team.
• 52:16
  They got some, you know, good players there.
• 52:18
  So if they get into the group, I think that would be real
• 52:21
  interesting. I don't know much about
• 52:23
  Slovakia, Kosovo and Romania. But yeah, I think the US again,
• 52:28
  home soil with that group. This is a pretty favorable
• 52:31
  matchup for them. Look at with the US in this
• 52:35
  World Cup. Like, success should be measured
• 52:37
  by how far they go, Like, how far.
• 52:41
  Like, if the US, clearly, if they don't make it out of this
• 52:43
  group, that's a disaster, right? Yeah, OK.
• 52:45
  If they make it to the final, you're like, that's incredible.
• 52:47
  Yeah, it's a miracle. OK.
• 52:49
  If they make it to the quarterfinal, like how far is
• 52:52
  like, do they need to go for you to say it's been a successful
• 52:55
  World Cup for the US? Quarterfinals.
• 52:57
  OK. So they've got to make the
• 52:58
  quarterfinals for you to say it's been successful.
• 53:00
  They go beyond that, great. They get knocked out before
• 53:03
  that. It's not a success.
• 53:04
  Yeah, I think that's fair. OK.
• 53:07
  All right, Luca, Group E, we have Germany, Ecuador, Ivory
• 53:11
  Coast and Curacao. This will.
• 53:14
  Be close between Ecuador and Germany, but I think Germany win
• 53:16
  this. Yeah, German.
• 53:18
  I mean, again, it's, you know, on paper the Germans have just
• 53:21
  so many good players. Ecuador's don't sleep on them,
• 53:26
  Lucas. Second in qualifying in South
• 53:28
  America to Argentina. So they finished higher than
• 53:31
  like Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Uruguay, some good teams.
• 53:35
  So like they're a tough team, but man, like it just, you know,
• 53:39
  and Ivory Coast, like I said, they tend to do pretty well.
• 53:43
  Curse out. Great story that they're there.
• 53:45
  Can't imagine that they're not going to go in three.
• 53:48
  But yeah, I mean, like I said, I just can't imagine Germany not
• 53:52
  winning this group, but Group Affluca yet.
• 53:55
  Netherlands, Japan, Tunisia and then we have another European
• 54:00
  team from a playoff, which could be Ukraine, Poland, Albania or
• 54:04
  Sweden. What about this group?
• 54:06
  Luka, Netherlands, Japan. Netherlands win this season.
• 54:10
  OK, this is 1. To me that could get interesting
• 54:13
  because Japan always seem to be like a good team when they get
• 54:17
  to these tournaments. And then if you threw Sweden in
• 54:20
  there or Ukraine or even Poland? Sweden have two of the best
• 54:24
  bakers in the world so scored a lot of goals.
• 54:27
  Like Yocharis and Esac. You know Poland with
• 54:29
  Levandowski, our boy Jacob Kibi, or.
• 54:33
  Yeah. Maddie Cash, What's that?
• 54:37
  Jakob Kibi or Ukraine? Like I said, they're a good
• 54:40
  team. So this could be a tough little
• 54:42
  group, you know, depending on, again, who that European team
• 54:45
  is. But it feels like whoever they
• 54:47
  get, they're going to get a pretty good European team there.
• 54:49
  So Group G Luca. Yeah.
• 54:51
  Belgium, Iran, Egypt and New Zealand.
• 54:55
  I didn't. Belgium win this.
• 54:59
  Belgium went, yeah, you know, Egypt, of course you have
• 55:01
  Marmouch and saw. Iran, you have Tarami.
• 55:06
  Tarami, Yeah. New Zealand.
• 55:08
  I don't really know anyone from New Zealand.
• 55:09
  Chris Wood, right? From Oh yeah, Chris.
• 55:11
  Wood, Chris Wood from New Zealand.
• 55:12
  But yeah, I mean Belgium G's, you know, like you know.
• 55:15
  Should probably win. This.
• 55:16
  You should win that, Yeah. All right.
• 55:18
  Look at Group H has Spain, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and Cape
• 55:22
  Verde. I think Spain are gonna easily
• 55:25
  kind of win this. Yeah, I mean, it's look at their
• 55:28
  rank for whatever you measure these FIFA rankings, they're the
• 55:31
  number one ranked team in the world based on the FIFA ranks.
• 55:34
  You know, Spain just, you know, could field three teams probably
• 55:37
  of good players. There's so many good Spanish
• 55:40
  players. They they tend to do well at
• 55:42
  these tournaments, right. I mean, you know, the EUR and
• 55:45
  World Cup. So yeah, I mean, Uruguay is
• 55:48
  going to be good. Cape Verde is another great
• 55:52
  story, this tiny small country in Africa that they're there.
• 55:56
  I'll be interested to see what they do against these big teams.
• 55:59
  But yeah, I mean Spain, like, I mean, you know, nobody's picking
• 56:02
  against. Spain.
• 56:03
  All right, look, a Group I has France, Senegal, Norway, and
• 56:08
  then they'll get one from a playoff between Iraq, Bolivia
• 56:12
  and Suriname. OK, I think France are going to
• 56:16
  win this but like the playoff team is probably not going to be
• 56:21
  that much of a challenge for these teams.
• 56:24
  Well like Senegal and Norway aren't bad, they'll probably
• 56:27
  contend for 2nd place but I think France have two stacked of
• 56:31
  a team to finish well. Were them first?
• 56:33
  Yeah, I mean, France are, like I said, they're loaded just like
• 56:37
  Spain or England. But of course Norway have
• 56:41
  Holland, they have Odegard, Senegal, always, again, a tough
• 56:46
  team from Africa. This this to me is I think this
• 56:48
  might be my sort of favorite group.
• 56:51
  Here because. I it might, it might be to me,
• 56:54
  you know, Norway, Luca, I don't, I don't think they lost the game
• 56:56
  in qualification for the World Cup.
• 56:58
  They were steamrolling people. And again, Senegal, Luca,
• 57:01
  they're usually a pretty good team.
• 57:03
  And of course just France or France, they're going to be
• 57:06
  interesting games like when all these teams play each other, I'm
• 57:09
  like going to be tuning in. I mean this, this might be the
• 57:11
  deepest group out there, I think.
• 57:15
  OK. All right, Luca, let's go to
• 57:16
  Group J. You got your defending champs
• 57:18
  Argentina, Austria, Algeria and Jordan.
• 57:22
  I think Argentina win this, definitely.
• 57:25
  I mean, they're just gonna probably steamroll some of these
• 57:28
  teams. Austria is not bad, but I think
• 57:32
  Argentina will win. Yeah, yeah, I, I mean, Argentina
• 57:35
  are great. You know, even with Messi being
• 57:37
  a little bit older, they still tons of good players all over.
• 57:39
  So, yeah, hard to imagine them not getting out of that group as
• 57:42
  the number one team. All right.
• 57:44
  Look at Group K, Portugal, Colombia, Uzbekistan and then
• 57:48
  they'll get a playoff team of the Democratic Republic of
• 57:51
  Congo, Jamaica and New Caledonia.
• 57:55
  I think Portugal would definitely win this.
• 57:58
  Portugal, all right, your boy Ronaldo, he's going to be back
• 58:00
  for another World Cup, Luca. It's going to be pumping in
• 58:03
  goals against Colombia and Uzbekistan.
• 58:05
  Yeah. All right.
• 58:06
  And the last group Luca, England, Croatia, Panama and
• 58:10
  Ghana. I think this is my favorite
• 58:12
  group. This is my best group.
• 58:14
  I think England win this, but Croatia definitely finished
• 58:17
  second. Yeah, England are like my sort
• 58:21
  of, maybe it's because I just really want them to win the
• 58:23
  World Cup. I like a lot of the English
• 58:25
  players. A lot of them play for Arsenal.
• 58:28
  But England, I mean, you know, Croatia are always good at
• 58:32
  tournaments like this. Like you said, Panama's a tough
• 58:35
  team to kind of go play. They're going to play real
• 58:36
  physical. And Ghana, again, one of those
• 58:38
  African teams that always sort of seem to.
• 58:39
  Do well, yeah, yeah. So this I agree with you.
• 58:45
  Look at this group is real interesting to me.
• 58:47
  Group I with France, Senegal, Norway and Group Li think are
• 58:50
  the two toughest groups. I do think the home teams, US,
• 58:54
  Canada, Mexico got real favorable groups.
• 58:58
  But all right, Luca, if you are going to pick today with you
• 59:01
  don't even know who the rosters are, but you got to give me the
• 59:03
  winner of the World Cup. Who wins the World Cup right
• 59:08
  now, if we had to decide? Spain.
• 59:10
  Spain. Wow.
• 59:11
  OK, Spain, get it done. Hold the trophy high.
• 59:14
  All right. I like it.
• 59:17
  All right, Luca, that was fun. Like I said, the World Cup draw,
• 59:20
  we'll be excited. Maybe we'll do like a little
• 59:22
  World Cup pod, you know, through the summer as it kind of gets
• 59:25
  closer and we can talk about some of the games with the
• 59:27
  Premier League. Won't be going on then.
• 59:28
  But all right, look, if that was a mailbag, should we move over
• 59:33
  to our did you know section our deep dive into every Premier
• 59:38
  League team we've been rolling through and we're up to Burnley.
• 59:41
  I know everybody's probably been eagerly awaiting Burnley.
• 59:44
  I mean, right, like you want to like you were like, please, can
• 59:47
  we learn more about Burnley? Well, Luca, the day's your lucky
• 59:51
  day, Burnley. Luca.
• 59:53
  Founded in 1882 as a rugby club. Luca, Burnley is just north of
• 59:59
  Manchester and a little bit like West of Leeds.
• 1:00:02
  It's actually a real small town. There's only about 78,000 people
• 1:00:06
  that live there. So you think like me and you
• 1:00:08
  live in Mount Pleasant, SC. We have more people that live in
• 1:00:11
  just Mount Pleasant then Burnley do and they've got a Premier
• 1:00:15
  League team there. They're one of the 12 founding
• 1:00:18
  members of the Football League. So in 1888 when they founded the
• 1:00:21
  Football League they were one of the founding members.
• 1:00:23
  So there's like a lot of history with this club.
• 1:00:25
  Actually. I kind of joke in the beginning,
• 1:00:26
  but like I said, they play at the turf more.
• 1:00:31
  That holds about 21,944 Luga. Their stadium was built in 1883.
• 1:00:36
  I mean, it's just it's crazy. It's like.
• 1:00:38
  That's before Arsenal. Yeah, I mean, it's what?
• 1:00:41
  So it's one of the oldest continuously used grounds in the
• 1:00:45
  world. Turf, more turf, more cool name
• 1:00:47
  too. Yeah, Luga, their nickname are
• 1:00:50
  the Clarets, and it's the claret and blue are their home colors.
• 1:00:55
  And there we talked about this before.
• 1:00:56
  They, the reason why there are those colors is because they saw
• 1:00:59
  Aston Villa and they said, like, you know, Aston Villa was one of
• 1:01:03
  the best teams back in the early 1900s and like, we want to be
• 1:01:05
  like them. So they basically kind of stole
• 1:01:07
  their colors. And that's why it's that sort of
• 1:01:10
  that reddish color on the Burnley that's claret red.
• 1:01:14
  And so they're called the Clarets, Luca.
• 1:01:17
  They're in the in the 70s to 90s.
• 1:01:19
  Again, like a lot of teams, they really struggled financially and
• 1:01:22
  competitively. They almost dropped out of the
• 1:01:24
  Football League but in 2009 they were promoted.
• 1:01:28
  At that time after 33 years they were out of the top flight.
• 1:01:32
  They got back up, drop back down came back up in 2014, drop back
• 1:01:37
  down came back up in 2016. Their best finished look at they
• 1:01:42
  finished 7th in the Premier League and got European
• 1:01:44
  competition in two. 20/17/2018 So one point Burnley, like I
• 1:01:49
  said they finished in 7th. They do have some trophies in
• 1:01:53
  their trophy cabinet. Luca.
• 1:01:55
  They won an FA Cup in 1914. 1914.
• 1:01:59
  Well, I know these are old, but they're trophies.
• 1:02:01
  They're so. Yeah, there's some trophies
• 1:02:03
  they. Still count Luca.
• 1:02:04
  They were First Division champions, which is basically
• 1:02:06
  like the Football League First Division.
• 1:02:09
  It's like winning the Premier League in 1920 and 1921 and in
• 1:02:14
  1959 and 1960. So they have two sort of
• 1:02:17
  championships, you know, again, a long time ago.
• 1:02:20
  But still their biggest rival Luca is Blackburn Rovers.
• 1:02:24
  It's the East Lancashire Darby and they're 2 cotton towns.
• 1:02:29
  So back in the day, both those towns kind of a little bit of a
• 1:02:31
  rivalry because they like those produced a lot of cotton.
• 1:02:34
  And of course they're, you know, geographically relatively close
• 1:02:36
  to each other. Famous manager Luca Harry Potts
• 1:02:40
  managed them from 1958 to 1970. Sean Deitch, who's now Forest
• 1:02:46
  manager, he managed Burnley from 2012 to 2022.
• 1:02:51
  Some of their famous players. Jimmy McElroy was a was a like I
• 1:02:54
  said, he has a statue outside the stadium.
• 1:02:56
  He's a midfielder that led him to that 5960 title.
• 1:03:00
  So Jimmy McElroy, Tommy Boyce was a captain of that FA Cup
• 1:03:04
  winning team back in a long, long time ago.
• 1:03:06
  More recently, Leighton James, Welsh winger, he had 325
• 1:03:12
  appearances. He actually, he he actually
• 1:03:15
  three different times came back to Burnley.
• 1:03:17
  So he would like leave, go play for another team, came back,
• 1:03:21
  left, went, played for another team and came back.
• 1:03:23
  He did three times. Three times he came back, so
• 1:03:26
  must have been something he really liked about it.
• 1:03:28
  Tom Heaton, I've. Heard of?
• 1:03:30
  Him. Yeah.
• 1:03:31
  From 9. From 2013 to 2019.
• 1:03:33
  Ben Mee had 332 appearances. He he played for them from 2012
• 1:03:39
  to 2022. They've had some decent players
• 1:03:41
  come through there. Lucas Tarkowski, Trippier,
• 1:03:44
  Michael Keane, Danny Ings, Jay Rodriguez, Andre Gray, Nick
• 1:03:48
  Pope, Charlie Austin. Chris Wood.
• 1:03:52
  Did Chris Wood play in Burnley? Yeah.
• 1:03:55
  Oh really? I didn't know that.
• 1:03:57
  Wilson Odebert, Nathan Collins, Luca.
• 1:04:01
  Their biggest sale of a player? They sold a goalie to Man City.
• 1:04:06
  Oh, Trafford. Trafford Yep, 31 million.
• 1:04:10
  Their biggest buy? Leslie Ogochukwu from Chelsea
• 1:04:14
  for 28 million. So.
• 1:04:16
  The biggest buy was 28. Million, yeah.
• 1:04:18
  I mean, it's it's tough. Like I said, they're a smaller
• 1:04:19
  club. You know they're they're owned
• 1:04:21
  by ALK Capital Velocity Sports. One of their part to owners Luca
• 1:04:26
  is JJ Watt, the ex football player.
• 1:04:29
  Oh wow, they a part owner? He owns a little piece of
• 1:04:31
  Burnley, so he's not their main owner, but you know, that's a
• 1:04:34
  little bit of like a little bit of the history of Burnley there.
• 1:04:36
  So all right, Luca, before we get to our penalty kick trivia
• 1:04:41
  shootout, shout out to our Instagram page, Premier League
• 1:04:45
  Playground on Instagram. Come find us there for all our
• 1:04:48
  latest news and put some pictures of you up and things
• 1:04:52
  that are going on or e-mail us at premierleagueplayground.com
• 1:04:57
  if you want your anything advertised, if you want to ask a
• 1:05:01
  question for our viewer mailbag or anything else they would like
• 1:05:03
  to know about from the lad over here.
• 1:05:06
  So yeah, Instagram, e-mail, mail.
• 1:05:09
  But Luca, we end every show with our penalty kick trivia
• 1:05:12
  shootout. We're going to go back and forth
• 1:05:14
  asking questions. Whoever gets the most right, we
• 1:05:17
  count them as goals. And you win.
• 1:05:18
  So Are you ready? Do you want to go first or
• 1:05:20
  second? I'm going.
• 1:05:21
  To answer first. You're going to answer first,
• 1:05:24
  OK, All right, Luca, who holds the record for most World Cup
• 1:05:27
  goals. Like in a entire World Cup or
• 1:05:33
  just. Ever, ever over all the World
• 1:05:36
  Cups? Who holds the record?
• 1:05:41
  Is it Cristiano Ronaldo? It is not he's, he's, I think,
• 1:05:44
  one or two behind Miroslav Closet 16 World Cup goals.
• 1:05:50
  Luca Ronaldo's right behind him. He Ronaldo maybe catches them
• 1:05:54
  this World Cup, though. Yeah.
• 1:05:55
  All right. For which club did Kaka start
• 1:06:00
  his professional career? Like the Brazilian, which
• 1:06:02
  started in Brazil. Corinthians.
• 1:06:06
  Close Sao Paulo. Ederson started there, too.
• 1:06:09
  OK, all right, Luca, what Premier League team are
• 1:06:13
  nicknamed the Cottagers? Oh, oh Cottagers, I knew this
• 1:06:19
  one God full. That is correct.
• 1:06:25
  Yeah. Sometimes also called the whites
• 1:06:27
  or Lily whites, but yeah, the Cottagers who play at Corset.
• 1:06:30
  The craving cottage. Craving Cottage where you've
• 1:06:32
  been and seen a game and done a stadium tour?
• 1:06:35
  Yeah. Yeah, that was cool.
• 1:06:37
  All right, Luca, you made that one, so you got one.
• 1:06:39
  What do you got for me next? Paul Mangini made his
• 1:06:43
  professional debut for which Italian club?
• 1:06:47
  Juventus. In AC Mulan.
• 1:06:51
  OK, he's like. Famous for playing at AC1.
• 1:06:54
  I know. I guess I was thinking like what
• 1:06:56
  you made made his debut. OK, you got me on that one.
• 1:06:59
  All right, there you go. What national team does Cody
• 1:07:03
  Gacpo play for? Netherlands.
• 1:07:06
  That's correct. Which MOS team does Lionel Messi
• 1:07:11
  play for? That's a question our inner
• 1:07:14
  Miami, yeah. OK, correct.
• 1:07:16
  Oh, OK, That was pretty easy. Yeah, they just won the MLS Cup.
• 1:07:20
  Luca, he's the MLS champion. I'm sure that's what Messi
• 1:07:22
  dreamed about when he grew up in Argentina, winning the MLS Cup.
• 1:07:26
  All right, Luca, what is the largest Premier League stadium
• 1:07:29
  by capacity? So the amount of people that can
• 1:07:32
  go into it, What is the largest Premier Leagues?
• 1:07:35
  Old Trafford. That is correct, 74,244 it is
• 1:07:41
  the largest. Yep.
• 1:07:44
  Oh, which Spanish club is famous for its Lamacio Youth Academy?
• 1:07:48
  Barcelona, Yeah, My favorite Spanish team.
• 1:07:52
  All right, Luca. Two players in the Premier
• 1:07:54
  League have gone five seasons in a row with at least twenty
• 1:07:58
  goals. Five in a row, so.
• 1:08:00
  They went five seasons in a row with at least 20, so 20 and up.
• 1:08:04
  Only two players in Premier League history have done this.
• 1:08:08
  Can you name one or both? I'm just getting to the Alan
• 1:08:14
  Shearer. Good guess, but no Holland.
• 1:08:17
  No Holland. He hasn't even been there yet.
• 1:08:19
  For Oh yeah, right. He probably will, but.
• 1:08:21
  Rooney. No good guess on that.
• 1:08:24
  Ronaldo no. Oh my gosh, like is he still
• 1:08:30
  playing? Neither are still playing.
• 1:08:33
  They're both pretty much legends for their club.
• 1:08:36
  As you can imagine, are they still in the Premier League?
• 1:08:38
  No, both clubs. No, but both clubs are still in
• 1:08:40
  the Premier League. Yes, they are.
• 1:08:43
  So one I'll tell you this one played for our favorite team.
• 1:08:48
  Arsenal, OH to Terry Henri Terry Henri is your drug book.
• 1:08:51
  No, no. Good guess he played for this
• 1:08:53
  one. Played for Who's Like City's
• 1:08:54
  sort of all time. Aguero.
• 1:08:56
  Aguero did it OK, Yeah. So Henri did it from O1 through
• 1:09:00
  O 6 and Aguero did it from 14 through 19?
• 1:09:03
  Yeah. I know he was more of like an
• 1:09:04
  assist. Well, he was good at both.
• 1:09:06
  I mean, like I said, he had a bunch of assists, but he also
• 1:09:09
  scored a ton of goals. OK, which English club has an
• 1:09:14
  eagle gripping a ball on his own emblem?
• 1:09:17
  Got to be, got to be palace. Right.
• 1:09:20
  Yeah, I was. Going to say the nickname the
• 1:09:22
  Eagles, but yeah, all right, Luca, one more here.
• 1:09:27
  Wayne Rooney, you just mentioned him.
• 1:09:28
  Manchester United legend played from O2 through 2021.
• 1:09:34
  Luke played for four teams over his career.
• 1:09:38
  Yeah, four teams. Of course, everybody probably
• 1:09:40
  knows one where he was, became a legend.
• 1:09:42
  But can you name the four teams? Or at least three.
• 1:09:46
  So I already know United and Everton.
• 1:09:49
  OK, He played an MLS team. What MLS team did he play for?
• 1:09:58
  Like I I want to say LA Galaxy but that doesn't sound right.
• 1:10:04
  It's not the LA Galaxy. Is it the other LA team?
• 1:10:06
  No, no. They did have typically, I think
• 1:10:10
  a dark black uniform, a little bit of red on it, but played in
• 1:10:14
  our nation's capital. Our nation's cat is it.
• 1:10:20
  DC. Oh.
• 1:10:22
  He played for DC United, OH. Yeah.
• 1:10:25
  Yeah. And then he had A and you know,
• 1:10:28
  another team he like at the very end he went and he was like a
• 1:10:31
  player manager. This was like his like the last
• 1:10:34
  year he was actually a player manager for last year, for his
• 1:10:38
  last year for Derby County. So yeah, he played for them.
• 1:10:42
  So Everton, Man U, DC United and Derby County for Wayne Rooney's
• 1:10:46
  career. I have one more too.
• 1:10:48
  Arsenal bought Tirion Re in 1999.
• 1:10:51
  From which club? They bought him from Juventus.
• 1:10:55
  Yes, Yeah, I thought you would get that one.
• 1:10:57
  It's bacteria, Henry My. Favorite player of all time?
• 1:11:00
  Yeah, I remember. All right, Luca, you got
• 1:11:04
  anything else for me? Well, that's that's the final
• 1:11:08
  whistle and that's full time for us.
• 1:11:10
  Thank you for listening. Bye.