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Week 32 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome into the Week 32 edition of the Premier
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  League Playground. I'm the dad, Bjorn, with me as
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  our star of the lad. Luca Miller.
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  And how are you today, Luca? I'm doing good.
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  How are you? Good, Luca.
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  It feels like it's been forever since we've done a podcast.
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  Yeah, we, I feel like they sometimes come in bunches for
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  us. We're doing them like 2 a week,
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  but it's been like the past couple weeks, a lot of Champions
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  League, FA Cup with a Carabout Cup final.
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  So yeah, you think you remember how to do all this?
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  Yeah, yeah. All right, so what's been new
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  with you? Well, not really much.
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  My seat, my own season is starting to come to an end.
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  I have a tournament this weekend but other than that not much.
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  Yeah, well, you had spring break in.
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  Mexico, yeah, we went. We went to Cancun.
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  How was your spring break? Good, Yeah.
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  What was the highlight of it? I think there there is water
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  parks at the like resort we were at and I'd be and Nina did those
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  so many times. It was a lot of.
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  Fun. The slides, Yeah, it's a pretty
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  good site, like 4 slides for you guys.
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  Great. Yeah, Well, the yell.
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  I'm thinking the yell. One of them does tubes.
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  Yeah, one of them. You can do 2 at a time.
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  Right, right. It's almost like you could race
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  down. And yeah, you did some archery.
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  Huh. Mini or I didn't do mini golf
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  you. Did we did.
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  Yeah, I beat you and bought you ball.
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  You did. Yeah.
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  And we played a little bit of soccer and basketball at a
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  little court there. Did a lot of swimming in the
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  pools, right? We had some nice weather.
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  So yeah. You a fan of Cancun?
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  Would you go? Back.
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  Yeah, go back. OK.
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  But yeah, look, so your soccer season, you have a tournament
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  this weekend. Are you excited?
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  Are. You nervous?
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  Yeah, I'm both. Both.
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  OK. And then yeah, look at you.
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  Then the next week you have two games on Saturday and then then
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  your spring season comes to an end and you start looking at
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  summer stuff, which you tend to do some camps foot saw.
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  So it's not as intensive as your fall and spring seasons, but
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  you'll be doing some stuff. So we'll keep the listeners
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  updated on that. But Luga week 32 Luca, we are in
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  what they call the business end of the season here, right?
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  The home stretch. This is it.
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  Things get serious, whether it's fighting for the league title,
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  whether it's fighting for Champions League spots, which we
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  now know the top five in the Premier League will be Champions
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  League. So 6th place gets Europa League,
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  7th place gets UEFA Conference League and we know of course the
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  bottom 3 go down so it. Is is wolves mathematically
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  relegated yet? I don't know if I don't know, I
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  haven't heard that they're mathematically relegated.
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  Basically, you know, Wolves and Burnley are going down.
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  It's maybe it's not mathematical, but they're going
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  down. So Are you ready to jump into
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  the games like a roll through Week 32?
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Well, Speaking of Wolves and Speaking of relegation battle
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  Luke, a big important game for West Ham is they were hosting
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  Wolves. Yeah, this game ends 4 nil at
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  West Ham, which is a surprising score when you talk about West
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  Ham. I predicted 21 West Ham.
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  Mavropono scores a header off of corner and 442nd minute, and
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  Castiano scores 2 in the 66th minute and the 68th minute.
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  Both of them just trickle into the net, so the balls is rolling
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  so slow. But yes, the placement was
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  there. So they go in and then
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  Mavroponos scores like a scissor kick in the 83rd minute off of
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  another corner and West Ham move into 17th place, two points
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  above the relegation zone. Tottenham now in the relegation
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  zone. We were talking about whether
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  what would be the biggest disappointment, us Arsenal
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  bottling the league or Tottenham being relegated.
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  Maybe Arsenal bought in the week, bottling the week.
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  I feel like we all expected Tottenham just be terrible again
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  so. Well, if you think about it, so
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  we'll obviously get on to the Arsenal in the Tottenham game,
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  which were disappointing for Spurs fans and Arsenal fans.
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  It was not a good day in north London, It was not a good.
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  Weekend London at all? Well, I mean, some London teams
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  were happy, Palace, West Ham, I'm saying in north London where
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  Tottenham and Arsenal play, it was very disappointing weekend.
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  Yeah. So it'll be, yeah, look at, you
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  know, you can say like, what is the bigger disappointment if
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  Spurs get relegated or if Arsenal choke away the title?
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  What's like the bigger disappointment?
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  I think it's Arsenal choking away the title because like.
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  It's a it's a tough one because they're they're almost both,
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  they're almost both a little historic.
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  You know, like, well, like it like, you know, like, so Arsenal
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  blowing this lead would kind of be historic and then Spurs
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  getting relegated as kind of historic.
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  I mean, they're both like kind of big deals, but I feel like
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  it's still maybe Spurs getting relegated because Arsenal like
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  theoretically can still come back next year with a good team
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  and try to win it again. Spurs will play the whole season
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  in the Championship. Can you imagine?
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  Like it's just, it's, it's so crazy to rap you're.
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  Gonna turn on the like the Championship and it'll be like
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  Spurs versus Sheffield United. Yeah.
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  I mean, think about like them going to that brand new fancy
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  stadium they have. I mean, believe me, and I'm not
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  trying to discount Arsenal choking away this lead.
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  I'm really not like it's that would be a major, major deal.
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  But I, I just, I guess because I feel like you could say next
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  year, it's not like Arsenal. Watching Arsenal is like
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  watching Netflix. You always wait for next season.
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  Right, there you go. Well anyway, let's finish up on
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  West Ham Wolves here. Well, we'll get on to Arsenal.
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  There's plenty of time to bash them.
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  So anything else you want to say with West Ham Wolves?
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  Yeah, West Ham have won five of lost eleven Premier League
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  batches. That's all I've got.
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  Yeah, they've been playing a lot better, Luca.
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  Five wins, 3 draws, 3 losses. This is now their first time out
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  of the out of the bottom three since March 14th.
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  This is a big win. Look, I mean, they're at home.
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  You're playing the worst team in the league.
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  You've got it like and they sort of emphatically won.
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  I mean 4 nothing good win for them.
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  And like you said, they are now two points.
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  This is where they want to be right?
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  Just just stay up any way possible.
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  Just figure out you don't have to win every game, but you've
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  got to win these games. You know, if they go up against,
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  you know, much, much better competition, they can lose, but
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  you've got to win the games against sort of the bottom tier
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  teams. And they and they did that.
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  And like I said, now they're in, like I said, in a decent spot
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  here, 2 points above Spurs, So good on them.
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  All right, Luca. Well, let's let's talk about
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  Arsenal here. Arsenal.
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  We get 5 minutes to cook these losers.
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  Arsenal hosting Bournemouth You had the right score in this
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  game. You predicted 2 on Arsenal
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  unfortunately. And there was 2 on Bournemouth.
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  All right, take me through it. Do I have to?
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  Can you just do it? Nope, Nope.
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  You're you're our guy to walk through it.
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  I know it's painful. Troopy scores in the 17 minute.
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  Think Yokras gets a peak in the 35th minute.
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  Alex Scott scores in the 74th minute.
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  Our defending is horrible the whole game.
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  Rice is like the only one who does anything the whole game.
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  Arsenal have lost three of last four in all competitions after
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  having only three losses in the 1st 49 matches.
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  Bournemouth's unbeaten last 12. Yeah, I I think that's a pretty
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  incredible stat about Arsenal. There they go, their first 49
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  matches in all competitions. They only lose 3 times and
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  they've now lost. Who's that two, I wonder?
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  The beginning of the season, I, I know, I mean it would have had
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  to been Premier League games because.
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  We didn't. We haven't lost any Champions
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  League games and we didn't lose any of the FAA or Carabao Cup
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  games. Yeah, till recently, so it would
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  have been early on. I mean, who did we lose to in
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  the Premier League? We lost.
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  This year. Yeah, we lost.
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  To we've lost to yeah United we've lost to Bournemouth we've
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  lost to we didn't lose to Chelsea, we.
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  No, we didn't lose. We lost to Liverpool.
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  We lost to Liverpool on that banger by sober slide and then
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  so so we have 4 losses. Bournemouth just just happened.
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  Man United, Liverpool and who am I missing it City.
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  We tied Chelsea, I feel. Like it was like, not like that
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  crazy of a team. Oh Villa on the last play of the
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  game. Oh yeah.
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  You know, so you think about it like the first 49 games it took
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  Villa to score on like the last play of the game, Unite Soba
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  slide to hit one of the best free kicks of the season and
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  United to have Dorgu and Kunya hit like 2 amazing goals against
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  us. Like that's what it took.
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  Now it feels like anybody can just show up and I mean in this
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  game, Luca. So yeah, you know, croupy like
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  said first teenager with 10 plus goals in his first Premier
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  League season since Robbie Keane for Coventry and that was in
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  19992000. How?
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  Many goals does croupy have right now?
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  I think he's got 10. I think he's on.
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  He's he's on 10 now. Yeah, my.
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  Gosh, I mean, it's, it's, you know, amazing.
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  But yeah, I, I think it's just, it's a, it's a arsenal.
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  We're a little unlucky. Seliva gets his foot on the
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  cross and it kind of flips over to him.
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  You know, the goal it's to me, it's definitely APK the
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  handball. Like I said, it's it's a pretty
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  obvious PK Arsenal score there. But then the last goal, you
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  know, you let now look look, I like Alex Scott a lot.
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  I think he's a really good player and in fact, I want to
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  kind of do a little bit of a deep dive on him in a second
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  because I think he's a really good player for them.
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  He's one to kind of watch for the English national team.
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  I don't think he'll make this World Cup but he's but he may in
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  four years be a fact. The problem, of course, is
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  England have so many good players.
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  Especially midfielders too like Bellingham, Rogers, Rice as AI
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  mean I just named 4 right off the bat.
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  Right. And I mean, but, you know, I
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  think he's right in the tier below those guys and could still
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  get better. Look, he's 22 years old.
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  He's 5 feet, 10 inches. He's a midfielder.
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  He's born in Guernsey, which is like one of those little islands
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  in the English Channel. And in fact he sort of played
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  for Guernsey before he got sold to Bristol and he played there
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  from 20 to 23. Then Luke gets sold to
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  Bournemouth in 2023 for 33.7 million, which was actually a
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  transfer record for Bristol. So you could see like people
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  thought highly of him as he was working his way up.
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  And of course this is just like Bournemouth's move is a bye
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  guys. You know, this action almost
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  feels like a lot for Bournemouth.
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  Usually they're bang guys for like 20 million and they turn
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  out to be amazing. But Luca, he got an England call
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  up in November. So he he didn't play, but he did
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  get called up for the English team.
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  So you can see he's right on that cusp.
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  And he had a couple little knee injuries, like I said earlier on
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  in his career that kind of slowed him down.
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  But Luca, he can take free, can bang free kicks.
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  He's good on the ball. He's got some pace and some
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  quickness, like if you're watching Bournemouth play and I
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  think there's, you know, a lot to like about the way they play.
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  But he's a guy that I kind of find myself gravitating towards
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  and watching. I just love his sort of style of
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  play. Unfortunately, he scored, you
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  know, a goal, I think all too easily as he just sort of cut
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  down the middle of our defense to finish.
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  Luca this, this. I mean, you know, Arsenal
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  playing poorly, like the worst point of the season here.
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  Yeah. Yeah, I mean, So what, what what
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  do you think the problem? Like what?
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  What do Arsenal need to turn this around?
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  Like what do you mean by like when?
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  Yeah, like, I mean, are, I mean, do you think Arsenal can turn it
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  around? That's a tough question because
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  part of me says no, part of me says maybe.
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  OK, well tell me. Tell me why part of you says no.
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  I think we've just been dipping like a lot.
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  I think, I mean, I can't blame everything on injuries, but we
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  do have a lot and our players can't stay healthy.
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  I think we're just playing a lot of games 'cause we used to be in
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  all four competitions but now only two, which I guess gives us
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  a little bit of time to rest. I mean we would have been in the
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  semi finals of the FA Cup and or quarterfinals.
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  And what the? No, we lost and we were in the
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  quarterfinals and we lost. So, right, so we would have been
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  in the semi finals of the FA Cup, which is wow, wow.
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  If we would've won that leg it would've been three games in
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  total, extra cause of the final and the two legs in the semi
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  final. FA Cup semi finals home and
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  home. Yes, OK And then Carrabout Cup
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  we lost in that. There wouldn't have been any
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  more games. I.
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  Was gonna say you made it all the way through.
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  It didn't matter. So what gives you hope then?
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  So what? What gives you what what says?
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  Maybe Arsenal can turn this around.
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  I have a little hope that maybe Timber will come back, Saka
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  might come back, Odegard if he can play a game without getting
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  hurt, They come back and maybe. So the hope for you or the
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  injured players coming back. And Rice, if he can do something
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  amazing, OK, He just put this team on his back.
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  What is this? He's been you know, I, I think
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  you and I were talking and when you said like, if you look at
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  this Arsenal team, like who has taken a step up, like who is
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  sort of like risen above and would you say is almost better
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  this year than last year? We said Ryan Rice.
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  I know. And I, I, I mean, tell me if I'm
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  wrong, can you? I mean, like I said, maybe
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  Timber, although he's not on the field that much.
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  I feel like Timber maybe took a little bit of a step up.
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  But like, the problem, Luca, is that everybody else has either
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  been sort of stagnant or taken a step down.
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  And So what I mean by step down, Martinelli, Trosard, Saka,
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  Odegard, you know, those are the ones that sort of come to mind.
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  Zubamendi's tailed off. He had a good start.
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  I think he's still been OK, but he's not been as good as he was
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  in the beginning of the season. Eze, I think has been.
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  I think he's actually gotten a little bit better since the
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  start of the season. I think that's fair.
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  I think that's fair to say Eze has gotten a little bit better
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  as he's gotten a little bit more playing time.
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  But look at some haverts had. Haverts has he's been hurt too
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  much? I don't know that I can really
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  comment on Haverts. I I feel like haverts is just I
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  watch him out there. He seems a little rusty.
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  I think he's a very useful player, but he just strikes me
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  as he's missed so much time. He needs some time to get his
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  legs under him. He needs like knock off a lot of
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  rust. You can't go like look, he
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  almost went like a year without playing, you know, because of
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  the. Town.
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  How bad was that? Like injury.
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  Well, it's two injuries, right? It was the hamstring at the end
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  of last year. This year it's the knee, you
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  know, so it's two different injuries that he sort of, but it
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  was like almost the entire end of last year and almost the
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  entire beginning of this year. And you know, injuries are a
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  part of it. Luca but but Arsenal still, the
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  lineup they had against Bournemouth should be good
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  enough to win at home in Week 32 when you're leading the Premier
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  League. And what they turned in Luca was
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  an, in my opinion, an awful effort.
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  I I like, I just couldn't believe that that was the way
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  they played. Bournemouth way looked like the
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  better team. They Bournemouth were pressing
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  Arsenal, Luca. We couldn't break their press.
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  I think we had something like 35 passes back to Ryan.
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  You know, does that strike you as a team that wants to go
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  forward, that wants to attack? And I think Ryan made the second
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  most passes on the team, I think.
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  Ryan. Yeah, exactly.
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  It sounds it's absurd, right? So I think Rice made like 40
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  passes in the game. I think Ryan had 39 passes.
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  Your goalie Luca had the second most passes.
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  Because we couldn't, we weren't like I said it, it just it, it
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  feels like, look at the attack is completely broken, you know,
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  and again, maybe it's injuries, but even when Saka was playing
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  Luca, he wasn't that good. Yeah, Martinelli.
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  Martinelli I think has one Premier League goal.
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  I think Trosart has two Premier League goals.
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  He he's like 4-5 Trosart. Does Yes.
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  OK, All right. Well, Martinelli, Luca has one.
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  I scored a few in the Champions League.
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  Odegard, like you said, literally plays a game and then
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  misses the next 4. It's it's like for everyone
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  game, he misses another six. It's unbelievable with him.
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  Like, I'm starting to think there's like, no, give the
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  captain to someone else. Give it to Rice, give it to
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  Gabrielle, give it to one of those guys who are actually on
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  the field. Yeah, I mean, you know, I, I
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  don't sort of disagree with you. Next season I'm hoping for a new
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  captain. Hot take right there.
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  Here's the thing, Luca, if, if, if Arsenal do bottle this and
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  they do lose, like you've got to, I think you got to really
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  look at this and you got to say guys like Odegard, Cala Fiore,
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  just they can't stay healthy. They're not available.
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  I think you've got to try to move them on.
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  You need players, Luca, that that are available.
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  And look, I'm not saying of course guys get injured and hurt
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  and things like that, but when you see it consistently year
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  after year, you know, if guys aren't available, look, they're
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  no good to you, you know, and, and it's a major problem, look,
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  and I think, you know, we'll, we'll get on to the, you know,
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  massive game this weekend against City.
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  You know, we'll talk about that and kind of like your, your
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  preview and stuff, you know, But yeah, I mean, Arsenal, look, I,
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  I, you know, I guess I'll throw them a little bit of a bone and
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  say they're missing 4 starters from week 1.
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  No soccer, no Odegard, no Timber and no Caliphier, you know, and
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  you're asking a lot of these other guys who are going to play
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  big minutes. I mean, Rice at the end of every
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  game looks like shattered, like, I mean, just looks like he's
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  given everything he's got, plays 90 minutes every game.
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  He's running up and down the field.
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  I'm like, if everybody had this guy's motor and and desire, we'd
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  win by 20 points the Premier League.
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  But you know, anyway, it's it's disappointing Luca.
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  And you know, I feel like I'm in a dark place when it comes to
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  Arsenal. It's just like they're hard to
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  watch right now. I mean that we're boring to
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  watch. There's no question about it.
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  Champions League yesterday against Sporting.
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  I was. You didn't even really want to
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  watch the game. Yeah, you.
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  Want to watch by Real Madrid? Yeah, I've seen the player
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  watching the by Real Madrid game, which is actually insane.
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  It was 43. Yeah, well, exactly like an
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  exciting game with attacking players and people creating
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  opportunities. And there's opportunities all
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  over the place, no? I guess you could say, well,
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  they weren't playing very good defense or something like that.
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  That's not true. Both Byron and Real Madrid have
• 17:47
  a pretty good defense. Well, I think that, yeah, I
• 17:49
  agree pretty good. I think it's fair.
• 17:50
  But they also just have like, amazing attacking players.
• 17:53
  I mean, you have Kane always say.
• 17:55
  Mbappe, Vinny. Mbappe, Vinny, it's like you.
• 17:58
  Know Verde, even he. Can attack.
• 17:59
  What's the Arsenal equivalent to those guys?
• 18:02
  Like nobody is even in the same world as those guys, right?
• 18:06
  You're about to say hemisphere. I know, I mean, I just like I
• 18:09
  might, you know, my point is that like we don't have any like
• 18:11
  Yocharis has been fine, right? Yeah, he's had like, what, 1314
• 18:16
  goals? He's got 12 goals in the Premier
• 18:18
  League, you know, but like, don't you find that something?
• 18:22
  I don't know, I, I like, has he scored a goal against a big
• 18:24
  team? Like where is the goal against,
• 18:27
  you know, city, Liverpool, like Chelsea, Like I can't think of
• 18:30
  like his goals seem to come, you know, against like lower caliber
• 18:33
  teams, you know, I, I don't look, I, I think he's been fine.
• 18:37
  Luca. I don't think he's like a game
• 18:40
  changing center forward who's just going to like, you know,
• 18:43
  take the game on his back and stuff like that.
• 18:45
  I don't think he's particularly got a very good touch.
• 18:48
  I don't think his hold up play is very good.
• 18:49
  Surprisingly. He's like very bad in the air
• 18:53
  again. But he's fine.
• 18:55
  I'm not trying to say he's terrible or he stinks, but it's
• 18:58
  just that the whole attack to me and for Arsenal is broken.
• 19:00
  The game against Sporting in the Champions League.
• 19:03
  Just I'd rather watch paint dry. So.
• 19:07
  Anyway, all right, I guess that I'm in a dark place, Luca, when
• 19:09
  it comes to Arsenal. We'll talk about the City game
• 19:12
  coming up, but let's move on to Nottingham Forest hosting Villa.
• 19:16
  Yeah, this game ends 11. I predict the 11, so I got this
• 19:21
  one spot on. Maria own goal in the 23rd
• 19:24
  minute and then Nico Williams scores in the 38th minute.
• 19:27
  So you could technically say 9:00 AM.
• 19:29
  Four scored two goals in this game.
• 19:31
  Sure. Yeah, if you want to be
• 19:33
  optimistic. 9:00 AM. Four is winless in the last
• 19:37
  eight whole matches. Not Nottingham Forest, three
• 19:40
  points above the relegation zone and Aston Villa and 4th on 55
• 19:44
  points. Yeah, you know, not much to say
• 19:46
  here. I mean Villa or Forest fighting
• 19:49
  for their lives in terms of getting relegated it it's a big
• 19:51
  point for them. They're now three points above
• 19:53
  Spurs, certainly not out of any kind of danger zone, but again,
• 19:57
  a big point against a good team. Villa look pretty well locked
• 20:01
  into like 3rd or 4th to me. You know, I, I think.
• 20:04
  How far are they from 5th? So they're they're right now
• 20:09
  they're sitting there, they're on 55 points, which ties them
• 20:11
  with Man United for 3rd. Liverpool are on 52 points for
• 20:15
  fifth now that that. But remember now top five all
• 20:19
  get Champions League. So the big thing is you don't
• 20:20
  want 6, which is Chelsea on 48. So they're nine points or no,
• 20:24
  I'm sorry, 7 points above Chelsea.
• 20:27
  They're not, they're not Chelsea's not catching Villa.
• 20:30
  Maybe they could catch Liverpool, but I think Villa are
• 20:33
  pretty well Chelsea. Destroyed Villa.
• 20:35
  Yeah, I know. But now Chelsea's lost three
• 20:37
  games in a row. So I The thing is, I want Villa
• 20:43
  to like just go on an awful run, completely terrible, awful, like
• 20:48
  abysmal just because city play them on the final day.
• 20:53
  And if this were to come to the final day, I, I want Villa like
• 20:58
  fighting for their lives to get champions.
• 21:00
  Like I want them to be in 6th. It's like a two point difference
• 21:03
  if like Chelsea somehow cooked up like for like 7 the rest of
• 21:10
  the games and it comes down to that last one.
• 21:13
  I want Villa like really trying, not just putting in other like
• 21:18
  bench players. Yeah, I, I and it's looking like
• 21:22
  that's going to be the case. Like it's I you're exactly.
• 21:24
  Right, if you play Crystal Palace, who are also doing the
• 21:26
  same thing. But it is like you, you start
• 21:29
  looking, remember, it's like you start looking at like what teams
• 21:32
  have something to play for and what don't, you know?
• 21:34
  So the relegation factor keeps a lot of the teams at the bottom
• 21:38
  involved. But there does become those
• 21:40
  teams that sort of locked up either they're just mid table,
• 21:44
  you know, like like full on, you know, like all right, we're
• 21:46
  going to finish in 12th. Like we're not getting
• 21:48
  relegated, but we're not getting European spots.
• 21:49
  So like, how much do they really give, you know, and Villa, you
• 21:54
  know, United or probably another 2 are like you were like another
• 21:57
  win or two. They've got Champions League
• 21:59
  locked up. So you're right, there's a very
• 22:01
  good probability that City would roll to play Villa, who are a
• 22:04
  very good team. And Villa will have absolutely
• 22:06
  nothing to play for on the last day of the season.
• 22:09
  So if if we are not a point up, we could be in a lot of trouble,
• 22:13
  like I mean it. And also it's looking like City
• 22:16
  will have a better goal differential, so that's a major
• 22:20
  problem. Wait, how far above are they?
• 22:23
  So right now, again, it's a little complicated because I
• 22:25
  haven't played the same amount of games, but Arsenal are plus
• 22:28
  38, City are plus 35. Now City have one more game in
• 22:31
  hand, right? So.
• 22:33
  Has that been scheduled yet? No, I don't think it's been
• 22:36
  scheduled yet. Yeah, I'm tired of his game in
• 22:39
  hand. I feel like it.
• 22:40
  It's always happened. Yeah, so they've got to play
• 22:42
  Crystal Palace, but they'll probably likely win that.
• 22:45
  So you figure at a minimum you win 1 nothing.
• 22:48
  That closes the goal differential to one.
• 22:50
  We play them this weekend. So let's say we lose 2 nothing,
• 22:54
  then we're equal, Then our goal differential drops, theirs goes
• 22:58
  up, and now they're ahead of us and we're not out scoring them
• 23:01
  the rest of the season. You know, like we're going to
• 23:03
  have to, we're going to have. To win on points, yeah.
• 23:06
  Yeah, we're going to have to win on points.
• 23:07
  So we'd have to hope that they tied another game.
• 23:10
  And like you said, it's a big bummer that they're not playing
• 23:12
  Villa like now because you're right.
• 23:14
  I think it could come down to, you know, we do.
• 23:17
  We probably need, we need Chelsea to make it interesting
• 23:20
  here with Villa. You know, we need sort of Villa
• 23:23
  to drop a game and Chelsea to start winning some games.
• 23:26
  Although I don't want to root for Chelsea, but it's
• 23:30
  complicated. I would think that anything to
• 23:32
  win. Alright, look, let's move on to
• 23:35
  Crystal Palace in Newcastle. Yeah, OK, so this game ends 21
• 23:40
  Crystal Palace. I predicted A00 game will sue
• 23:44
  off. Scores in the 43rd minute off of
• 23:46
  the like scuffs it and then he like hits it in on when he's on
• 23:50
  the ground just like sitting there and kicks it in.
• 23:54
  That's kind of an ugly goal, but yeah, it is what it is.
• 23:57
  Mateta scores in the 80th minute and then scores another goal in
• 24:01
  the 95th minute off of PK. Well, all right.
• 24:03
  Well, you got to take me through the.
• 24:06
  So this is a big deal, Luke. I mean they call Botman for I
• 24:10
  guess a hold or a push. Take me through that.
• 24:13
  Your thoughts on the call? So it's like a free kick, I
• 24:17
  think. And I think it's a is it a free
• 24:19
  kick or a? Throw.
• 24:20
  Oh, I think it is a throw win. Long throw they're doing.
• 24:22
  And Bartman kind of has like a handful of Wormer shirt and
• 24:31
  Wormer goes to head the ball when it's thrown and Bartman
• 24:35
  still has a bit of like a handful of his shirt.
• 24:37
  And Wormer goes down and they call PK.
• 24:40
  In my opinion, that is that PK he does like have a good amount
• 24:44
  of his shirt in his hand. So yeah.
• 24:47
  Yeah, this one. I don't know, Luke, I, I, I hear
• 24:50
  what you're saying, but I it's one of those where I feel like I
• 24:54
  see this so much in the Premier League.
• 24:55
  There's so much grabbing of shirts.
• 24:57
  And this is as offense and defensive players do it, you
• 25:00
  know, but there's so much grabbing and clutching in the
• 25:03
  box. I don't know why this is called.
• 25:05
  And the other 10 times it happened this weekend, it wasn't
• 25:08
  that. That's my only thing.
• 25:09
  I'm like, it's just, and I I've said this a bunch of times, the
• 25:12
  consistency of the officiating is my problem.
• 25:14
  You know, if you want to say that's a foul, I have no problem
• 25:16
  saying yes, that's a foul. He grabbed his shirt and kind of
• 25:19
  gave him a little push. Is that a foul?
• 25:20
  Yeah, that's a foul. My problem is that I see this
• 25:23
  all the time and it's not called.
• 25:24
  So you're just like, well, why is that one called and other
• 25:26
  one's not? You know, it just goes back to
• 25:28
  consistency with officiating. That's my problem.
• 25:31
  But yeah, look, a big comeback. Crystal Palace, look at that's
• 25:34
  the first time they've come back after being down at half time
• 25:37
  since 2022. So good comeback by them.
• 25:42
  Crystal Palace, like I said, they're one of those teams.
• 25:44
  I don't think they have a ton to play for.
• 25:45
  They're, you know, you just mentioned they're tied with 42
• 25:48
  points with Newcastle and 13th. Again, they're not getting
• 25:52
  relegated, they're not getting a European spot.
• 25:54
  But you know, they're playing well.
• 25:56
  Their coach is leaving at the end of the year.
• 25:58
  Maybe they're playing well to kind of send him off here.
• 26:01
  They've also got UEFA Conference League that they're doing well
• 26:04
  in. So you wonder, you know, how
• 26:06
  much they're going to prioritize Premier League games because
• 26:08
  they're going to want to try to get a trophy with the UEFA
• 26:10
  Conference League. I guess that kind of helps us on
• 26:13
  the final day too. Yeah, yeah.
• 26:16
  I mean, the only problem is that they play City too.
• 26:18
  So it's like that game against City.
• 26:20
  Like how much are Palace really going to like put their starters
• 26:22
  in and go for it? If they've got like a UEFA
• 26:24
  Conference League, which I guess would be down to the semis, they
• 26:27
  probably have their quarter final game today.
• 26:29
  Actually. I have to look, I don't follow
• 26:31
  that that much, but but you would think, like I said,
• 26:34
  they've got a really good chance to win that competition.
• 26:37
  So they're going to prioritize that they could get a trophy
• 26:40
  this year. So they're going to want to do
• 26:42
  that. So anyway, so I'm going to keep
• 26:44
  an eye on with Palace. Like I said, if you don't see a
• 26:46
  real strong lineup in the Premier League, it may be
• 26:48
  because, like I said, they're prioritizing other competitions.
• 26:51
  All right, let's move over to, you know, Burnley hosted
• 26:54
  Brighton. This game ends 2 nil Brighton.
• 26:59
  I predicted the one nil Brighton weep Weeper has two goals in the
• 27:04
  43rd and the 89th minute. Brighton three straight Premier
• 27:08
  League wins, first time since January 2023.
• 27:13
  Brighton and 9th on 46 points. Yeah, Luca, Brighton.
• 27:17
  Sneaky moving up here, OK, they're now one point behind
• 27:22
  Brentford and two points, Luca, behind Chelsea.
• 27:27
  So all of a sudden, like Europa League in six and certainly UEFA
• 27:31
  Conference League in 7th becomes a factor.
• 27:33
  Brighton very, very kind of quietly here.
• 27:35
  Three wins in a row. They get Spurs this weekend.
• 27:38
  Yeah. So like, you would think
• 27:40
  Brighton would be like, look in their chops here, be like, OK,
• 27:42
  another chance to win. But like they're right in the
• 27:44
  mix here, Luca, where they very easily, you know, and what I've
• 27:48
  seen from them is a pretty consistent team all year playing
• 27:51
  pretty well. They gave us a hard time.
• 27:54
  They definitely did like we. Just think, but you know.
• 27:57
  They're a good team though, like I said this, I don't think this
• 27:59
  is kind of fluky at all that we're starting to see like
• 28:02
  Brentford, Everton, Bright and Sunderland, Bournemouth kind of
• 28:06
  all in the mix here because I think they're all really, really
• 28:08
  good teams. And again, this is what I say
• 28:10
  when I speak to like the depth of the Premier League, Like
• 28:12
  we've now gone down to like 11th and even then 12th and 13th,
• 28:16
  Fulham, Crystal Palace, Newcastle and 14th, like these
• 28:19
  are all like really good teams. There's no way you see this kind
• 28:21
  of depth in Syria and Italy, La League in Spain.
• 28:25
  You can start getting down to like eighth and ninth teams.
• 28:27
  Look, they're not very good, but this is how good the Premier
• 28:30
  League is. This why it's so hard to win
• 28:32
  this league. Sometimes I wish Arsenal was a
• 28:34
  mid table team because they can just basically relax all season
• 28:38
  when they're like fighting for the league.
• 28:40
  You're just under so much stress every single game.
• 28:43
  It is. Well, in fact, like, you know,
• 28:44
  our good buddy Andrew, who's a big Fulham fan, he even says
• 28:48
  that he's like, you know, you know, Fulham are kind of a mid
• 28:50
  table team. It does take the weight of
• 28:52
  expectations off when you're like, well, you know, like
• 28:56
  what's the best Fulham are going to do this year or next year?
• 28:59
  It's not going to be winning the league.
• 29:01
  You know, we have to like, you know, look, I mean, we should be
• 29:04
  thrilled. Arsenal are like going to finish
• 29:05
  either first or second, but it's like that weight of
• 29:08
  expectations, the disappointment that we keep finishing in
• 29:10
  second. So it's like.
• 29:11
  People say, look, it'll be a quadruple if we finish in second
• 29:14
  this year. It's the hope that'll kill you.
• 29:16
  Yeah, It's the hope that will kill you, Luca.
• 29:18
  I've never heard that, Yeah. Well, that's the thing, right?
• 29:21
  We we hope that they can do it. We hope that.
• 29:23
  And then it's just like the rug gets pulled out from underneath
• 29:26
  our feet all the time. All right, Luke.
• 29:28
  Well, Speaking of two of these teams, maybe the best game of
• 29:30
  the week here, Luca Brentford hosting Everton.
• 29:33
  This game ends 22. I predicted it to be 3.
• 29:36
  Two Everton. Igor Tiago scores a peak in a
• 29:40
  third minute after Jordan Pickford takes down I think Sade
• 29:44
  in the box. Yeah, Beto in the 26th minute
• 29:48
  after a giveaway from Lewis Potter.
• 29:50
  Tiago scores again in the 76th minute and then Dewsbury Hall in
• 29:54
  the 92nd minute. Equalize equalizes Tiago with
• 30:00
  five goals in two games against Everton this year and now has 21
• 30:05
  goals, one behind Holland. So there's actually a race for
• 30:08
  the golden boob here and Holland's not just going to win
• 30:10
  it easily. Yeah, I mean, all year we've
• 30:12
  talked about him, how good he's been, 21 goals, Who gets a
• 30:15
  Brentford record for Premier League?
• 30:17
  Goals. Was it just now a Brentford
• 30:19
  record or has it been a Brentford record?
• 30:21
  No No 21 goals is now 20 goals. Ivan, Tony and Boeemo both got
• 30:25
  20. Oh wow, now is 21, so Brentford
• 30:28
  record. He's been amazing, but credit
• 30:31
  Everton Luca for fighting back. This was actually kind of a big
• 30:34
  result for them because both are tied on 47 points, so they're
• 30:39
  essentially tied for 7th if Everton lose this game.
• 30:43
  Who has better gold? French rule.
• 30:45
  Brentford does by two though, so it's super close, like super
• 30:49
  tight. But if Everton lose this game,
• 30:51
  Luca, Brentford would have been three points above them.
• 30:54
  And then all of a sudden it's like, you know, bigger mound to
• 30:57
  bigger mountain to climb there. So good for Everton for going on
• 31:00
  the road, getting a point here, keeping it really close.
• 31:03
  And again, Luca, they're one point behind both teams, one
• 31:06
  point behind Chelsea. You even could say, Luca,
• 31:09
  they're five points behind Liverpool for Champions League
• 31:12
  spots. I mean, I don't see that
• 31:15
  happening. But I mean, it's not.
• 31:17
  And guess who, Liverpool? Guess, Guess what?
• 31:20
  Everton, it's the Mercyside. Army so let's say Everton beat
• 31:24
  Liverpool it could close the gap to two over Liverpool Oh my and
• 31:29
  I mean look and. It would move them ahead of
• 31:31
  Chelsea too. Yeah, depending on what Chelsea
• 31:33
  did. Chelsea, Chelsea play Man
• 31:35
  United. I mean, we'll get on to that.
• 31:36
  There's some juicy games this. Weekend, I know there's.
• 31:38
  Some juicy games this weekend. So it's just it is crazy.
• 31:42
  It is really sort of exciting kind of this this sort of second
• 31:45
  tier of teams in the scene. Like, could one of them go on a
• 31:48
  little bit of a run here and possibly close the gap on some
• 31:51
  of these sort of quote, UN quote, big teams that are sort
• 31:53
  of been locked in at the top five here?
• 31:55
  So. But yeah, Speaking of Liverpool,
• 31:58
  Luca, they played Fulham this week.
• 32:00
  Oh yeah, so Liverpool beats Form 2?
• 32:05
  Nothing. I predicted 43.
• 32:07
  You thought it was going to be a a bonanza of goals.
• 32:09
  Yeah, 'cause last game, like the last time they played, it was
• 32:13
  kind of kind of crazy. And there's always a few, like
• 32:15
  some drama in the full Liverpool games.
• 32:17
  I just, I don't know. Wait, how do you pronounce
• 32:22
  Ingumoa? Ingumoa.
• 32:23
  Yeah, He scores in the 36th minute, then Sala scores in the
• 32:27
  40th minute, both of their wingers scoring.
• 32:30
  Ingumoa is now the youngest Liverpool player to score in
• 32:33
  Premier League history. That's actually he's already
• 32:36
  been the youngest score cuz he scored that winner against
• 32:40
  Newcastle. So he's not now.
• 32:43
  He's already been he's. Already been.
• 32:44
  So you just. Yeah, right.
• 32:45
  Yeah, I guess technically now he's older, so when he scored
• 32:47
  before he was. But yeah, yeah, Liverpool had a
• 32:49
  lot of good young players and he looks like the real deal to me.
• 32:52
  Like real. Exciting.
• 32:53
  Not as good as Max Downman though.
• 32:55
  Well, Luka, Sala Luka. That's his 108th goal at
• 32:58
  Anfield. Nice.
• 33:00
  Only Henri had more goals at 1 Stadium.
• 33:04
  How many did he have? Henri had 114 at Highbury, where
• 33:08
  Arsenal used to play. Did he have any at Emirates?
• 33:11
  No, he might have. I don't quite remember.
• 33:15
  He he sort of was transitioning out when I think Arsenal moved
• 33:18
  into the Emirates in 2006, I think.
• 33:20
  And I think Henry was kind of on his way out.
• 33:22
  Maybe he had a season or two. He played for Barsha a little
• 33:25
  bit. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:28
  But yeah, I mean, pretty amazing Salah, we know he's probably
• 33:30
  going to he's going to leave this summer and just what a
• 33:32
  career he's had. I mean, if he gets six more
• 33:35
  goals this season, then he's. Got to do get them all at home.
• 33:40
  So. True yeah, like I said, this is
• 33:42
  all like 1 stadium so salad Anfield hungry at Highbury.
• 33:46
  So yeah, you know, like I said so yeah, we just talked about
• 33:48
  Liverpool. They they needed a result.
• 33:50
  Their last two was a loss and a draw and they've got the
• 33:53
  Merseyside Darby coming up so they sort of took care of
• 33:55
  business get their three points. They it'll be a massive failure
• 33:58
  if the defending champs. Don't even make the.
• 34:00
  Champions League and they're getting a break.
• 34:01
  Here. Oh, remember we talked about
• 34:03
  this Swap's gone if they don't make it, in my opinion.
• 34:08
  Yeah, I was gonna say that's that.
• 34:09
  Nobody's from Liverpool confirm that, but all right, Luke.
• 34:13
  Well, let's move on here. Sunderland hosting Spurs.
• 34:17
  This game was not as action-packed as some of the
• 34:20
  other one, but this game ends one No Sunderland.
• 34:23
  I predicted to be two no Sunderland.
• 34:26
  Mookie Allen scores in the 61st minute off of a huge deflection,
• 34:32
  and they started Kinski this game.
• 34:35
  Well, he he did all right, I guess.
• 34:38
  Yeah, goal wasn't his fault. Yeah, like he said, massive
• 34:41
  deflection. He's going one way and it just
• 34:43
  like when you're you just can't do anything if you're moving to
• 34:45
  the left and the ball gets deflected to the right.
• 34:48
  Yeah, I mean, you know, good call by you, Luke.
• 34:50
  You thought it was going to be two nothing end up being 1
• 34:52
  nothing so. Spurs winless in last 14 Premier
• 34:56
  League games and only team to have not won in 2026.
• 35:01
  They're also with Wolves. Them and Wolves have failed to
• 35:07
  win a Premier League match after going behind the entire season.
• 35:10
  Yeah, basically if you score first on Tottenham, you're
• 35:12
  winning the game like you know, or maybe at least drawing.
• 35:15
  They're not coming back to win which so in the meantime, Luca
• 35:20
  of us not having a podcast for a couple weeks, they fired their
• 35:22
  second coach of the season. So Igor Tudor was fired after 43
• 35:27
  days in charge. He lasted 43 days, Luca.
• 35:29
  That is the 4th shortest ever. So Sam Allardyce was with Leeds
• 35:34
  for 30 days in 2023. Pasta Kaglu at Nottingham Forest
• 35:38
  this year lasted. 39 days. Les Reed at Charlton in 2006
• 35:44
  lasted 40 days, so Tudor now the 4th shortest.
• 35:48
  Do you know what was the shortest?
• 35:49
  I just said Sam Allardice with Leeds in 2023.
• 35:52
  Thirty days. I just.
• 35:53
  Went through. That's the shortest ever.
• 35:55
  Yeah, yeah, those I, I just went through the oh, so they've got
• 35:59
  Roberta Deserbi Luca, who people probably remember he he managed
• 36:02
  Brighton, then he went to Marseille.
• 36:06
  He was over in the French league, I think of Marseille.
• 36:09
  And so he, this is his first game in charge and he's got a
• 36:13
  big job here. Luca, like I said, this is, you
• 36:15
  know, we, we talked about it. You just said they've gone,
• 36:17
  what, 14 games without a win? Yes, yeah, 14 games.
• 36:21
  So the the longest in the history of Tottenham, which look
• 36:24
  at these soccer teams, you remember when we did it, like
• 36:26
  these teams have been around since like the 1880s and 1890s.
• 36:29
  We're talking about like 130 to 140 years of these teams
• 36:33
  playing. This is now the second longest
• 36:36
  winless run. They they went 16 games without
• 36:38
  a win in 19341935. That is the worst run Spurs club
• 36:43
  have ever had. But you're talking about a
• 36:45
  season that is like one or two of the worst in 140 year history
• 36:49
  of this club. And we know Luca, they've never
• 36:51
  been relegated from the Premier League.
• 36:52
  One of the six teams have never done that.
• 36:55
  But they are in big trouble. Like I said, they are in big
• 36:58
  trouble now because they now sit Luca.
• 37:00
  There is now what, six games left and they're now in the
• 37:04
  relegation zone. So like I said, if they do not
• 37:07
  come up with some points, they're getting relegated at
• 37:09
  this point. Massive game.
• 37:11
  Like I said with Brighton coming up, who we just talked about are
• 37:13
  playing really well. I mean there's there's no
• 37:15
  Guineas. They do have a couple games I
• 37:17
  think coming up with some of these bottom teams.
• 37:20
  So I think they play like Leeds and maybe Burnley, so that they
• 37:24
  got to look to win those. Part of me wants to watch the
• 37:28
  final day Totten game because if they get relegated I just want
• 37:33
  to see the players reactions, you know, it'd be so funny.
• 37:36
  I can just laugh all day. But actually I might not be
• 37:40
  laughing if Arsenal don't win. So I might be like, at least if
• 37:44
  Arsenal bottle this league, at least if Tottenham get
• 37:47
  relegated, it'll make my day a little bit better.
• 37:50
  I know it's, it's pretty incredible.
• 37:52
  And I mean, you know, they, I thought they played a little
• 37:54
  better. Deserby went with a little bit
• 37:56
  more of like a normal lineup than than what they've been
• 37:58
  doing. I think it was like a 442.
• 38:01
  So we'll kind of see what he can do moving forward.
• 38:03
  I have a little bit more time here, you know, but it's like I
• 38:06
  said, it's. Crunch time.
• 38:08
  It's crunch time. Yeah, there's not a lot of time
• 38:10
  for him to turn this around, so we'll see.
• 38:13
  All right, Luca, this We thought this was going to be a good
• 38:16
  game. We thought Chelsea, City, all
• 38:17
  this is a glamour match up here, 2 of the big six teams.
• 38:21
  This turned out to be not much of A game.
• 38:24
  Yeah, it ended up being 3 nothing.
• 38:27
  I predicted to be two nothing. You saw this comment basically.
• 38:30
  Yeah, I did. I mean, really, were we really
• 38:33
  thinking Chelsea was going to give City problems?
• 38:36
  Well, it has seemed to do that in.
• 38:38
  Recent a month ago I thought this could be.
• 38:40
  You're right, Chelsea's form is really dipped.
• 38:42
  They've been really bad. A month ago, though, I had this
• 38:44
  one circled as where maybe Chelsea could just tie City.
• 38:48
  You know, that's all we're asking for.
• 38:49
  I'm not asking for anybody to beat City, but just somebody tie
• 38:51
  them, you know, because a tie feels like a loss to Arsenal in
• 38:55
  City. So I, I, but you're right.
• 38:57
  Going into this game, I, I this is sort of what I expected to.
• 39:00
  Yeah, nothing in the first half but O'Reilly in the 51st minute,
• 39:06
  Gay in the 57th minute and Doku in the 68th minute off of a
• 39:09
  giveaway. Chelsea winless in the last 10
• 39:12
  Premier League games against City.
• 39:15
  Wait, didn't they didn't they win that at was this at Stamford
• 39:21
  Bridge? This was at Stamford Bridge the
• 39:23
  same. Didn't they win at the Eddie
• 39:24
  head? I could have sworn did.
• 39:26
  Chelsea beat them this. Yeah, they beat them.
• 39:31
  Well, you keep going. I'll look it up here.
• 39:32
  I think they beat them. I could have sworn they at least
• 39:36
  tied them all right. Well, it was still winless, but
• 39:39
  when playing within the last 10 games of the Premier League
• 39:43
  season, City are 32 wins, 10 draws and one loss, so that's
• 39:49
  just an insane record. Yeah, so they they tied 11 at
• 39:52
  the beginning of the year. Oh yeah.
• 39:54
  But that is an insane stat, Luca, when you look at.
• 39:57
  So essentially, essentially what you're looking at are like.
• 39:59
  That's a full season, actually. Or actually, no, it's not.
• 40:03
  Well, it's essentially, if you look back like, OK, like like
• 40:06
  the last 10 games of the season, the business end crunch time,
• 40:10
  what are the run in whatever terms you want to use the most
• 40:12
  important part of the season, right where you want to start
• 40:14
  stacking wins. You know, it's incredible, Luca.
• 40:19
  They just like I, I always knew they were like good and they
• 40:22
  just played well at this part of the season.
• 40:24
  But to see those numbers, like they're just essentially
• 40:26
  unbeatable, you know, and they're almost impossible to
• 40:30
  tie. And to me, Luca, this is like
• 40:32
  the definition. Look at the difference between
• 40:34
  Arsenal and and City in this game.
• 40:37
  City were tied with Chelsea at halftime.
• 40:39
  Then they come out and it's like they just turn the dial up you.
• 40:42
  All of a sudden the intensity of the press is a little bit
• 40:45
  better. Create some turnovers.
• 40:47
  Boom, three goals in what, 12 minutes or something?
• 40:50
  The first one was in the 51st minute and the third one was in
• 40:54
  the 68th 17. Minutes.
• 40:56
  OK, so 17 minutes. Boom, three goals, games done.
• 40:59
  What? What?
• 40:59
  Can you then start pulling your starters out?
• 41:02
  Get guys some rest. You know they don't have to play
• 41:03
  a full 90, they just need to play 70 past last 20 minutes of
• 41:07
  the game. Just pass the ball around done
• 41:08
  and get out of there. Low stress, like I said, you
• 41:11
  take minutes off of your starters, like that's the way
• 41:14
  you do it. Arsenal are like sweating out
• 41:16
  every game. Everybody's got to play 90
• 41:19
  minutes to the end because we're either tied or we're up by one.
• 41:22
  We can't ever put anybody away. Think about how, like, nervy the
• 41:26
  end of our games are, right? You and I are like pacing
• 41:28
  around. We're screaming and yelling
• 41:29
  because it's always like, you know, the other team has the
• 41:32
  ball. They're playing it in City, just
• 41:34
  knocking around like it's a, you know, training session.
• 41:37
  Cherokee was chuckling the ball in the Carrabout Cup final and
• 41:41
  in the the middle of the game. Yeah.
• 41:43
  Well, I have a question. Get on to I think I have a
• 41:45
  question maybe next week about that.
• 41:47
  I'll stop a little bit. Next week.
• 41:49
  Yeah, well, just, you know, it's, it's crazy.
• 41:52
  Look, I mean, this is the first time Chelsea have gone three
• 41:54
  straight games without scoring a goal in the Premier League since
• 41:58
  1998. I mean, three in a row.
• 42:00
  They've even scored their seven losses, 3 draws in their last
• 42:04
  ten against City. Chelsea have lost three Premier
• 42:08
  League games by a combined 7. Nothing and only won one of
• 42:12
  their last seven Premier League games.
• 42:13
  I mean, they're, they're a mess right now.
• 42:15
  And, and, but basically what they're doing is they're choking
• 42:17
  away their Champions League, you know, because they're now 4
• 42:21
  points behind Liverpool And, and right now is Liverpool haven't
• 42:24
  been that great. But I'd, I'd take Liverpool to,
• 42:26
  to get it done more than Chelsea.
• 42:28
  I would at this point. So, you know, City again caught
• 42:30
  them at a good time. They're not playing well.
• 42:32
  You know, that new manager bump they had has kind of faded a
• 42:35
  little bit. But yeah, Chelsea are just are a
• 42:37
  bit of a mess here. And then if they play a good
• 42:39
  United team, so we'll we'll see. You know, they, like I said,
• 42:43
  very easily could find themselves below Brentford,
• 42:46
  possibly Everton, possibly Brighton and even Sunderland and
• 42:53
  Bournemouth could tie them, although they I don't think they
• 42:55
  would go ahead and go differential.
• 42:56
  So troubling times right now in Chelsea and and City.
• 43:00
  Look, like I said, I mean, you know, it's it's you know big
• 43:04
  game coming up with Arsenal. We'll talk about that, but they
• 43:06
  just they look to me like champions.
• 43:09
  They like the way they're playing.
• 43:10
  They have everybody healthy basically.
• 43:12
  I mean I think Diaz and Stones are their only two, but of
• 43:14
  course they've got multiple guys all over their bench, but
• 43:18
  they're playing well. Their attack is doing really
• 43:20
  well. Rodri seems to be back a little
• 43:22
  bit, playing better than he was at the beginning of the season.
• 43:25
  They look more like champions than Arsenal do you know, so
• 43:29
  we'll see. All right, look, a final game.
• 43:30
  Man U leads. This game ends 221 leads.
• 43:34
  I predicted it'd be two nil. United Luca Ford scores a brace,
• 43:39
  scoring in the 5th minute and the 29th minute.
• 43:42
  Martinez then gets a red card in the 56 minute for pulling
• 43:46
  dominant Calvert Owen's hair. I do think it is.
• 43:52
  I agree with this call and I do think it is a red card because
• 43:56
  he jumps up and kind of has a handful of dominant Calvert
• 43:59
  Owens bun and it like kind of messes up his hair.
• 44:02
  You can tell. And I think that's a violent
• 44:06
  conduct. You can't pull someone's hair
• 44:08
  and I agree with the red card. Casimir does then score in the
• 44:12
  67th minute. Fernandez gets his 17th assist,
• 44:18
  three behind the all time record Leeds first Premier League win
• 44:22
  at Old Trafford in 45 years. Yeah, pretty incredible, right?
• 44:26
  18 visits to Old Trafford without a win.
• 44:29
  They had 7 draws and 11 losses. What a time for them to get
• 44:32
  their first win, Luca. Now they're 36 points, 6 ahead
• 44:37
  of Tottenham. They're looking pretty good.
• 44:39
  Leeds to me probably need like four more points and they're
• 44:42
  totally safe either way. I think they're in a good spot
• 44:45
  to stay up, which is great season for Leeds.
• 44:47
  So yeah, let me, so I'll push back a little bit.
• 44:51
  Luke, I, I, it's not a red card for me.
• 44:54
  So on the field, nothing was called, not even a foul.
• 44:57
  So referee, you know, maybe he sees it, maybe he doesn't.
• 45:01
  And you know, Lassandra Martinez is kind of there.
• 45:02
  He's jumping over the back of of Calvert Lewin.
• 45:06
  I think he's trying to grab his shirt and he's got a little and
• 45:08
  Calvert Lewin's got a little bit of a bun back there and I think
• 45:11
  he kind of grabs it. I, I didn't look to me.
• 45:14
  And so the nothing is called that play goes on for like a
• 45:16
  minute and then VAR intervenes and says you need to take a look
• 45:19
  at it. I don't know, look, it's not
• 45:21
  violent conduct for me. I, I don't think this is a red.
• 45:25
  I think, I think it's a foul. I, I don't even think it's a
• 45:27
  yellow look, because you know, again, VAR is supposed to say if
• 45:32
  it's clear and obvious, they get involved.
• 45:35
  So it. Was not.
• 45:35
  It was obvious. But it's not like it's not to
• 45:38
  me, it's not a clear and obvious red card.
• 45:41
  That's what they're looking at. They're not looking at whether
• 45:43
  they think it's a foul, right? Not looking at whether they
• 45:45
  think it's a yellow. They only get involved if it's a
• 45:47
  clear and obvious red card. I'm starting to think as not the
• 45:51
  case anymore and that was just false information I don't know
• 45:54
  if we should be talking about. It's supposed to be clear and
• 45:56
  obvious anymore, because I don't think that's the case.
• 45:59
  But that's what it's supposed to be.
• 46:01
  Look at that. But that's what VAR says is that
• 46:03
  VAR is supposed to overturn clear and obvious errors.
• 46:06
  That's their words. So I'm just repeating what
• 46:08
  they're saying. Do they do that?
• 46:11
  No, that's my problem with VAR, Luke, is that all the time
• 46:14
  they're getting involved with stuff that isn't clear and
• 46:16
  obvious. So like, you know, I don't know,
• 46:19
  I, I think United a little bit hard done with this one.
• 46:22
  I it's just not not a red card for me, but I look, it doesn't
• 46:26
  really hurt United that much. Like I said, they're in 3rd,
• 46:28
  They're all 55 points. I think they're pretty safe in
• 46:32
  terms of making a Champions League spot.
• 46:34
  They weren't going to get first or second, so.
• 46:36
  How far are they from city? They're 9 points and City have a
• 46:39
  game in hand. Oh yeah, yeah, they're not,
• 46:42
  they're not catching them. And and I don't know that it
• 46:44
  really even matters. Like you mean United like to me,
• 46:46
  like, what's the point, right? You're either going to win or
• 46:48
  you're going to get Champions League spots.
• 46:50
  They're they were never going to win the league this year.
• 46:52
  I mean, you know, who knows next year, you know, add another guy
• 46:54
  or two. You know, they got to figure out
• 46:56
  their manager situation. But you know, like I said,
• 46:59
  they're going to make Champions League and that's going to be a
• 47:01
  great season from what they did last year.
• 47:04
  All right, Luca, well, there it is week 32 in the books.
• 47:08
  So Are you ready to give me your player goal and team of the
• 47:11
  week? OK, yes, my player of the week.
• 47:16
  I'm going to give it to Igor Tiago.
• 47:18
  OK, Yeah. Goal of the Week, Maybe you.
• 47:24
  Know I don't know if there's like a stand out goal.
• 47:27
  Maybe I'll give it to Okafor second goal.
• 47:29
  It's a nice volley, took a nice take, a big deflection, but it's
• 47:32
  still good and team of the week I'll go maybe, maybe West Ham.
• 47:42
  West Ham BIG4 Nothing win. Yeah, OK, yeah, yeah, that's a
• 47:45
  good call. All right, Luca.
• 47:47
  Well, like we said, we've been sort of hinting at this.
• 47:48
  It's Week 33 is coming up this weekend.
• 47:52
  We've got big games, obviously a lot of important games, but
• 47:57
  there's some pretty good matchups here.
• 47:58
  So let's get on to it so we can get your pick for Week 33.
• 48:02
  It starts off with Brentford hosting Fulham.
• 48:05
  So again, these are two of those teams kind of in the middle
• 48:07
  there. Brentford on 47, Fulham on 44.
• 48:11
  So this it feels like do or die for Fulham.
• 48:13
  If they want to try to make a run for 6th or 7th there, now's
• 48:17
  the time to sort of do it. So what do you like in this?
• 48:21
  Game. I think I'm going to go 2 on
• 48:22
  Brentford. All right, so Brentford at home,
• 48:24
  you like them to get a win here? Yeah, I, I, I think Brentford, I
• 48:29
  agree. I think they're probably a
• 48:29
  little bit of a better team than Fulham.
• 48:32
  They're at home. They've been good at home.
• 48:33
  I, I think I'm with you on that. Brentford find a way to win.
• 48:37
  All right Luke. What about Newcastle hosting
• 48:38
  Bournemouth? Interesting game.
• 48:40
  It's actually pretty good too. I.
• 48:41
  Know I was gonna say there's a there's a lot of good games.
• 48:43
  I didn't. Bournemouth win 31.
• 48:45
  Wow, wow, at Newcastle, Bournemouth continue this
• 48:50
  amazing unbeaten run. Three, one.
• 48:54
  Yeah, I don't know, I'm I'm thinking a little bit more.
• 48:57
  I was thinking maybe I'd go with a draw on this one myself, but
• 49:00
  just just because Newcastle are good at home, but Newcastle are
• 49:03
  also not very good. Yeah.
• 49:06
  So yeah, 2 losses in a row. Bournemouth have been playing
• 49:10
  really well. But also remember Bournemouth,
• 49:12
  they love to draw games. They love to draw games.
• 49:14
  So they couldn't, they couldn't have drawn one with us.
• 49:17
  I know that's true. That would have been a big point
• 49:19
  for. Us, I know.
• 49:21
  What about Leeds hosting Wolves? I'm going to go 3 Nothing Leeds.
• 49:29
  Wow, Leeds just blow Wolves out here.
• 49:32
  I don't know if I feel that. Strong West End can do it, Leeds
• 49:35
  can do it. Yeah, I but I felt like Wolves
• 49:37
  played better than that score line against West.
• 49:39
  End. They did.
• 49:39
  They did. They hit the post.
• 49:41
  You know, I do like Leeds at home.
• 49:43
  This is a perfect situation where Leeds have like everything
• 49:45
  to play for Wolves have nothing to play for.
• 49:47
  So I do think Leeds can find their way to win this game,
• 49:50
  which would almost like almost get them safe.
• 49:55
  So it's it's a be big. Leeds have to try to find a way
• 49:57
  to win this game. A draw or a loss is kind of a,
• 50:00
  you know, would be, you know, not I was going to say it.
• 50:03
  It doesn't like wreck everything for them, but that would just be
• 50:05
  very, very disappointing for like what all the work that
• 50:08
  they've done to this point. Go get the three points.
• 50:10
  Yeah. All right, Lucas Spurs hosting
• 50:13
  Brighton, the Zerby's second game, Can he figure something
• 50:17
  out? They only lost one nothing on a
• 50:18
  deflection last week. What do you like for this?
• 50:21
  1/2 on Brighton. 21 Brighton Oh my goodness.
• 50:25
  Lucas Spurs. Zerby.
• 50:26
  It's his whole team. What's the heck Zerby against
• 50:28
  his old team? Yeah, that's true.
• 50:30
  That's true. So he probably knows a lot of
• 50:32
  these players, knows some of their weaknesses and he.
• 50:35
  They've signed some new ones. I don't know if he has the same
• 50:38
  ones from 2223. So, so this to me, Luca's super
• 50:42
  interesting game cuz you know, like you said, can Spurs, they
• 50:46
  look to me, they looked better last week, but Brighton have
• 50:51
  been playing really well. You know, Tottenham don't really
• 50:54
  have a home field advantage. They've not really done that
• 50:56
  great at home. They've got to try to find a
• 50:59
  way. Luca, they get a result here,
• 51:00
  man. Like they're running out of
• 51:01
  time. And you know, Brighton though, I
• 51:04
  agree, I think are probably a better team and probably get the
• 51:07
  win here. So we'll see all right Luca,
• 51:10
  interesting game here game you've been to the past two
• 51:14
  years at Stanford Bridge, Chelsea hosting Man United.
• 51:18
  Like I said, you were at this game with me last year and we
• 51:20
  were at this game two years ago, which is a completely.
• 51:22
  Bonkers, I know. So good. 43 Chelsea scoring two
• 51:26
  goals in an extra time. Cole Palmer hat trick.
• 51:30
  Yeah, Anthony actually got an assist.
• 51:33
  That was a moment in history. Yeah, so.
• 51:36
  It was so cool. What do you like here, Chelsea?
• 51:39
  Luca, Like I said, three games in a row without a goal.
• 51:41
  Man United have not won their last two.
• 51:44
  What do you like? So two years ago the game was
• 51:46
  crazy. Last year was not crazy.
• 51:49
  Like just sort of a it. Was like 1 nothing game.
• 51:52
  Yeah. Yeah, kind of a little more
• 51:53
  boring. So what do you like for this
• 51:54
  one? 43 Man United Oh my.
• 51:57
  Goodness 4 three Man United So where are all these goals going
• 52:01
  to come from? Chelsea don't score anything.
• 52:03
  Look at all of a sudden. Scored three.
• 52:07
  Jao Pedro with two, Neto with one.
• 52:11
  OK, Cunha's gonna get a hat trick, Chesco's gonna get
• 52:15
  another one. Holy smokes.
• 52:16
  All right, I think that's wishful thinking that you just
• 52:19
  won a crazy game. No, no, it's not.
• 52:21
  It's I. Don't know where this game's
• 52:24
  gonna be. 7 goals with. You, you don't know that those
• 52:27
  games are so unpredictable. All right, we will see, We will
• 52:31
  see. All right.
• 52:32
  Luca, Everton, Merseyside, Darby here, 2 teams from Liverpool.
• 52:36
  Of course, this is one of the biggest rivalries in the Premier
• 52:38
  League. Awesome matchup, Everton at home
• 52:41
  taking on Liverpool. Massive game for both teams.
• 52:44
  Like a massive massive. Like we just talked about, if
• 52:47
  Everton win, there are two points behind Liverpool.
• 52:49
  I mean it's just incredible so. And Liverpool could really dent
• 52:54
  Everton's chances of making 6th or 7th.
• 52:57
  What do you like for the Merseyside Derby?
• 52:59
  32 Everton. Whoa, 32?
• 53:01
  Why do you like 32? Because I think both teams like,
• 53:06
  so Liverpool just lost like a TK, Yeah, big loss.
• 53:10
  I don't know how long. Do you know how long he is?
• 53:12
  Ruptured his Achilles tendon. That is bad.
• 53:14
  That's. Really bad.
• 53:15
  He's he's out for probably nine months.
• 53:18
  That's like a lot of next season, too.
• 53:22
  So yeah, and the Champions League.
• 53:23
  Ruptured. So does that mean tear?
• 53:25
  Yeah, ruptured tear, basically it's a big tendon on the back of
• 53:28
  your kind of ankle. Wow.
• 53:31
  It's a massive injury. And even when people come back
• 53:33
  from that, it takes him a while to get back from it, so.
• 53:36
  That's so bad because he. Won't make the start of next
• 53:39
  season. Either he's out for the World
• 53:41
  Cup. Yeah, he was gonna make the
• 53:43
  team, too. Yeah, yeah.
• 53:44
  I mean, think how good he was. I mean he tailed off a little
• 53:47
  bit as the year went on, but he was, I mean he was so good.
• 53:50
  I mean he has eleven goals. I mean that's that's 7th best in
• 53:53
  the Premier League. I mean, I think y'all All in
• 53:55
  all, had a very good first season in the Premier League.
• 53:59
  Again, I think he really sort of tailed off a little bit at the
• 54:01
  end. But I I mean, you know, I I
• 54:03
  like, I like the look of him as a player and you know, France
• 54:07
  will be fine. They've Got Talent all over the.
• 54:09
  Place. But who?
• 54:10
  Who else are they going to put A striker?
• 54:13
  Maybe Torom I guess, but like even him, he's OK.
• 54:17
  He's OK, yeah. I mean, look, it's I'm not
• 54:19
  saying it's not a loss for France, but if if any team can,
• 54:23
  you know, deal with it, France's B team would probably finish
• 54:25
  third in the World Cup. I mean, but all right, yeah,
• 54:29
  look, it's you know, this game, like I said, it'll be
• 54:31
  interesting. Everton 32 is a little more
• 54:34
  goals and I'm going maybe I'm thinking maybe a two, one or
• 54:37
  one, one game in this one. But Ari Luca, Nottingham Forest
• 54:42
  playing Burnley here at home. We just talked about forests, I
• 54:45
  think are eight games in a row without a win at home.
• 54:47
  I'm going to do a 2IN forest. They finally get a win at home
• 54:50
  here. All right, this, this is to me
• 54:52
  must win for Forest. Please win for Forest.
• 54:55
  Yeah, like I said, if they do not win this game, that really
• 54:59
  puts them back in some big trouble.
• 55:01
  They've got to be Burnley. Burnley are terrible, they're
• 55:04
  going to be relegated. They've got nothing to play for.
• 55:07
  Forest has everything to play for.
• 55:08
  They're at home. They've got to get a win here.
• 55:11
  Villa hosting Sunderland This is an interesting.
• 55:13
  That's give me 22. 22 OK Crystal Palace A little London Darby
• 55:20
  here. Crystal Palace hosting West Ham.
• 55:23
  I'm a little 111. One OK, that'd be a that'd be a
• 55:27
  big point for West Ham. Yeah, cuz that makes that.
• 55:29
  Still, West Ham probably have a better gold differential than
• 55:32
  Tottenham. No, no, Tottenham's gold
• 55:34
  differential actually isn't that bad.
• 55:36
  It's -11 W. Ham is negative, we're saying
• 55:38
  -11's not that bad. Well, I mean, it's better than
• 55:41
  West Ham's -17 Leeds -10 forests -12 so it's, they're definitely.
• 55:47
  Gonna be which wolves is do differential. -34 burnley's -30
• 55:52
  yeah, I mean, they're very clearly the two worst teams,
• 55:55
  Burnley and Wolves. All right, Luca, the last game,
• 55:58
  it's the biggest game of the week here, could be titled, you
• 56:02
  know, deciding you have City at home, Arsenal coming in, City
• 56:06
  have been flying, playing really, really well.
• 56:09
  Arsenal are struggling, you know, I mean, I, you know, look,
• 56:14
  I say struggling, but we won four games in the Premier League
• 56:18
  before we lost to Bournemouth and we just did advance to the
• 56:21
  semi finals of the Champions League.
• 56:22
  It doesn't look good on the field, OK, but the results are
• 56:27
  not grinding horrible. They're grinding it out.
• 56:30
  It's not pretty. What are your thoughts on this
• 56:34
  massive, massive game? It's the first time I'm going to
• 56:39
  do this 32 city. A lot of goals in this one too.
• 56:44
  All right, well, we'll talk take take me through it.
• 56:46
  Why are you? Why are you picking that score
• 56:48
  line and and that team? This is the first time actually
• 56:50
  picking Arsenal to lose. I I just don't think Arsenal are
• 56:57
  better than City right now. And this is at City and I just
• 57:02
  feel like we very well could get destroyed.
• 57:07
  So and you you are you said to City.
• 57:12
  They don't have many injuries. We have a good bit.
• 57:17
  Havert is rusty. You know, we haven't been in the
• 57:21
  best forum. City have just been like
• 57:24
  steamrolling teams. So I just, I just don't see
• 57:28
  Arsenal winning this game. It's hard to, I mean, it's
• 57:31
  really hard to make a case. I know.
• 57:33
  I mean, believe me, I I want look, obviously.
• 57:38
  Well, so here's the thing. Here's what's interesting about
• 57:40
  this. It feels to us as Arsenal fans
• 57:43
  like all the pressure's on us. I mean, it feels like we've got
• 57:46
  we've got to go up there, we've got to do something heroic.
• 57:49
  But like in if you look at the table, like City have to win
• 57:52
  this game. If if we tie or somehow
• 57:55
  miraculously, we win the game, If we win the game, it's.
• 57:58
  A miracle. It's a miracle, but then the
• 58:00
  Premier League's basically over. We we're going to win the
• 58:02
  Premier League that that at that point we'd be 9 up with them
• 58:07
  having a game in hand. So they win that game in hand.
• 58:09
  We're six up. I don't even think us could
• 58:11
  bottle a six point lead with five games to.
• 58:14
  Go Oh, we. Could.
• 58:16
  Well, but you haven't seen nothing yet.
• 58:19
  But I mean, you know, if we have a pretty easy run and I think we
• 58:23
  have been like Newcastle at home, but then I think we get
• 58:25
  like full one, we get West Ham, we have Burnley.
• 58:27
  Like Newcastle at home and I can't be.
• 58:29
  We're winning that. Well, I mean, you would hope,
• 58:32
  but my, my point is that when you look at this game, we're
• 58:35
  looking at it like, you know, the, the, the roof is falling
• 58:37
  in, like if we lose, it's just over.
• 58:40
  It is over. Well, but it's not technically
• 58:42
  over. Like it really what that does is
• 58:44
  that puts us tied with them assuming that they win their
• 58:47
  game in hand, right? So I know it's complicated.
• 58:50
  This game in hand is annoying too.
• 58:52
  But like, if you just assume they beat Crystal Palace in that
• 58:54
  game in hand and they beat us, that puts us both 33 games
• 58:58
  played and on the same points. Now again, they will have the
• 59:01
  goal differential. But that means then if if we
• 59:04
  could somehow win out and they draw one game, we win the
• 59:06
  Premier League or miracle of miracles, we actually start
• 59:10
  scoring goals, you know, maybe we could possibly overtake them
• 59:14
  with with goal differential. I don't think that'll happen.
• 59:18
  But you realize that like even though.
• 59:19
  So let's say we go up there and we tie.
• 59:22
  Really good. Of course that's a good result,
• 59:24
  a win or a time for Arsenal on the road against City, that's
• 59:27
  always a good result. But especially here, it's a good
• 59:29
  result. So City have to win this game.
• 59:32
  Do I think they're going to win this game?
• 59:34
  Yes, I do. But the pressure is actually on
• 59:37
  them. But it feels like just with like
• 59:40
  the narrative around Arsenal and the way the fans are, it feels
• 59:42
  like all the pressure's on us. It feels like we're the ones
• 59:44
  down 6 points in the table. So it's kind of weird, you know,
• 59:48
  But I think that's also just like how desperate we are to win
• 59:51
  the Premier League title. Like, it's been so long, we
• 59:53
  realize how close we are. And here it is again where it's
• 59:56
  like just the same old thing where we've watched City at this
• 59:59
  point of the season, real off wins.
• 1:00:01
  We we find these ways to lose games.
• 1:00:05
  We tie A-Team we shouldn't. And then City goes on and they
• 1:00:07
  win. It what time is that game?
• 1:00:09
  It's 11:30 on. Saturday, so OK, good.
• 1:00:11
  So I'll be able to watch that. Yeah, yeah, you Luga has an
• 1:00:14
  early game on Saturday's tournament.
• 1:00:16
  So yeah, it's I don't know, I I, I try not to just be
• 1:00:20
  pessimistic, Luca, but it's so hard for me.
• 1:00:23
  Like I'm like, what is like, how do I spin the narrative of
• 1:00:26
  Arsenal winning this game? Like we get maybe finally we get
• 1:00:31
  a bad call. Like, you know, think about
• 1:00:32
  games we've played against City. Trosar gets sent off for ABS red
• 1:00:38
  card. Think about when Kobachich
• 1:00:40
  running around the field literally should have gotten a
• 1:00:42
  red card when he goes in against Odegard.
• 1:00:45
  And then there's another time where he should have gotten a
• 1:00:47
  second yellow. And like Michael Oliver says he
• 1:00:49
  doesn't want to like, influence the game by giving a red, even
• 1:00:51
  though he should have been sent off twice in a game.
• 1:00:53
  Like, it feels like like the refereeing decisions a lot of
• 1:00:57
  times go against us in these games, you know, So maybe we get
• 1:01:03
  a soft call. Maybe City gets a?
• 1:01:05
  Guy, we have a terrible record of giving up gold and extra time
• 1:01:10
  last year. An example, John Stones with the
• 1:01:14
  with 10 men, we go all the way to the 97th minute and then they
• 1:01:17
  get a goal and Holland has the audacity to throw the ball at
• 1:01:21
  Gabrielle Head. I can't stand that guy, but.
• 1:01:26
  There's like so many things like you would think, you know, you
• 1:01:30
  would think Arsenal could like literally put up on a bulletin
• 1:01:32
  board. Luke of Holland throwing the
• 1:01:34
  ball at Gabrielle's head. Holland yelling at Arteta for no
• 1:01:37
  reason. Stay humble.
• 1:01:38
  Turkey juggling the ball in a Carabao Cup final.
• 1:01:41
  Like it's a, you know, training session.
• 1:01:43
  Like, I would put those on the board and be like, this is what
• 1:01:45
  these guys think of you. Like, get angry, get fired up.
• 1:01:50
  Like, you know, this is it. Like if you guys can go out
• 1:01:52
  there and get a result, you're going to probably win the
• 1:01:55
  Premier League. That's actually a good idea.
• 1:01:57
  I think they should do that. Well, like, this is what happens
• 1:01:59
  in sports, a lot like Michael Jordan for the Bull, like the
• 1:02:01
  class when he would find ways to like, he'd like almost make
• 1:02:04
  things up that you insulted him and he'd go out there and score
• 1:02:07
  50 points on you and people would be like, I didn't do it or
• 1:02:09
  say anything. And he'd like he'd find these
• 1:02:11
  ways to make it personal and it would just fire him up and then
• 1:02:15
  he was so good, right. But you know, like, that's what
• 1:02:19
  like Arsenal need to come in here and play like fit.
• 1:02:22
  We can out physical them. You know, we've got big strong
• 1:02:25
  guys, like they're a little bit more skilled and quick, you
• 1:02:28
  know. And you know, I think
• 1:02:31
  ultimately, Luca, what we have, we have to get some of these
• 1:02:33
  guys back from injury. Like we have to have Timber
• 1:02:36
  play, you know, I think we can get away without having Cala
• 1:02:39
  Fury, I think King Caffier at left back.
• 1:02:42
  I like him better than Cali Fury.
• 1:02:44
  Okay, fair enough. I would say that Cali Fury is a
• 1:02:46
  little bit better going forward and creating Pink Cappy is a
• 1:02:49
  little bit better at defending, which in this game probably
• 1:02:52
  we're gonna have to do a lot of defending.
• 1:02:53
  What I do hope is that we don't just sit back and defend the
• 1:02:57
  whole game and let them have the ball.
• 1:03:00
  I yeah, I, I, yeah, I know, but I mean, I don't know that we're
• 1:03:03
  capable of trying to attack this team.
• 1:03:05
  I think, I think, look, you got to try to hit him on like a
• 1:03:08
  counter. Like you got to it's like it's
• 1:03:11
  going to come down to like, like classic Arsenal this year, like
• 1:03:14
  what have we done? Well defended and then free
• 1:03:17
  kicks. And I think you've got to lean
• 1:03:19
  in corners. Yeah, yeah, and I think you've
• 1:03:23
  got to lean into that in this game.
• 1:03:24
  I think you've got and this is where I think if we could line
• 1:03:26
  up a back four of Seliva, Gabrielle, Hincapie and Timber,
• 1:03:33
  you know, Raya in goal, Rice, probably Zubamendi as a or or or
• 1:03:37
  haverts. I don't think I would not start
• 1:03:40
  haverts in the midfield in this game.
• 1:03:42
  I I I think it to me like I'd put as A and then, you know,
• 1:03:47
  Matawake came off hurt in the Champions League game.
• 1:03:49
  What? Don't know if he's available.
• 1:03:51
  I yeah, I don't know. Oh my, you know, but.
• 1:03:55
  I'm sure they'll probably have the ochre start left wing.
• 1:03:59
  I don't know, it doesn't really matter to me.
• 1:04:00
  They're both not great. Who?
• 1:04:03
  Trosard or Martinelli? What Trosard's really good.
• 1:04:06
  No, I don't think he's been that good this year.
• 1:04:09
  I oh. I'm just saying like if you're
• 1:04:11
  looking at like who's going to start in this game, I think if
• 1:04:12
  you do that, Luca and you could sort of then.
• 1:04:15
  Maybe Martinelli because he has a knack for scoring like the
• 1:04:17
  winners against City or yeah. That's some, yeah.
• 1:04:20
  That's a good point. Yeah.
• 1:04:22
  You know. In 2224 and this year.
• 1:04:25
  But I think if you can do that, Luca, maybe you can, like I
• 1:04:28
  said, you know, lean in, play good defense, try not to make
• 1:04:31
  mistakes. Maybe you kinda you can get a
• 1:04:34
  goal off a corner or a free kick.
• 1:04:36
  I'm going 11, Luca. That's my call.
• 1:04:38
  I think actually I think 11, I think Arsenal get a I'm going to
• 1:04:42
  go with a corner kick goal. We're due.
• 1:04:44
  We haven't scored like off a corner in a while.
• 1:04:46
  And we're close to the record. We're tied well.
• 1:04:48
  I don't care about that. I just if we could just somehow
• 1:04:51
  not lose and unfortunately I'm with you, not lose big.
• 1:04:56
  I think it's it has a potential. I could also see this game being
• 1:04:59
  for nothing City. I can just see them embarrassing
• 1:05:01
  us and it's just like all the things that we're seeing, like
• 1:05:05
  you know about arsenal playing poorly and then playing well
• 1:05:07
  just come to a fruition and they just blow us out.
• 1:05:10
  So I hope not, but it's a big game.
• 1:05:13
  Luca. All right, Luca, let's roll on
• 1:05:17
  to the viewer mailbag question, which the mailbag question comes
• 1:05:20
  from me and it is who are your two favorite retired players?
• 1:05:26
  So you know, players, Luca, that you know, you may not have seen
• 1:05:30
  a ton of, but you've heard about, you've probably watched a
• 1:05:32
  lot of YouTube videos of these guys.
• 1:05:34
  You know, of course there's like Arsenal players like Henri
• 1:05:37
  Bergkamp, Perez, Ronaldinho, Javi Baggio, Eusebio Iniesta,
• 1:05:44
  Maldini, Croix, Maradona, Paley Pele, of course, Robin van
• 1:05:49
  Persie, Marco van Bastion, Bufan, goalie, Zadon I or the
• 1:05:55
  original Ronaldo. You know, I'm just throwing some
• 1:05:57
  names out there for you, but give me who you like your your
• 1:06:00
  two favorite. I'm not saying the best, OK,
• 1:06:02
  You're you. I want Lucas favorites.
• 1:06:04
  I'm a good Henri. OK, what it what is it about
• 1:06:07
  Henri? I think he's Arsenal's best
• 1:06:10
  player ever. I can we agree on that?
• 1:06:12
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:06:13
  And he's just a legend and he's your favorite player.
• 1:06:17
  So I've gotten some, you know, passed down on that.
• 1:06:21
  And he's just an Arsenal great. So, you know, have to like some
• 1:06:25
  of them. OK, so your favorite team, the
• 1:06:26
  best player ever for your favorite team, scored a lot of
• 1:06:29
  great goals. He's just.
• 1:06:31
  Did a lot too. Yeah, he did.
• 1:06:32
  He did, yeah. Second, you know, it's hard.
• 1:06:37
  I kind of wanted to pick David Beckham.
• 1:06:40
  OK, no interest. I didn't even name him.
• 1:06:41
  That's a good call. And also Iniesta, because I
• 1:06:46
  really like his, like the LA Croqueta, do you know that cut
• 1:06:50
  catch? He did that move a lot and I
• 1:06:52
  really like that move. But yeah, I feel like those two
• 1:06:57
  are two of my favorite players. Beckham, he was really going to
• 1:07:01
  set pieces and good on the ball. If if Ronaldo and Messi were
• 1:07:08
  retired right now, I'd definitely pick them.
• 1:07:10
  So you did a good timing by not doing that.
• 1:07:12
  Yeah, yeah, well, I figured they would definitely jump in there,
• 1:07:15
  but yeah, that's a good call. So yeah, I didn't even think
• 1:07:17
  about Beckham's a good one. Iniesta.
• 1:07:19
  Yeah, Amazing player for Barcelona back in those great,
• 1:07:22
  great teams when he was with Messi and Javi and all those
• 1:07:25
  guys. So.
• 1:07:26
  All right, good call, Luke. I like that.
• 1:07:29
  All right, Luke, let's move on to the Did You know section.
• 1:07:32
  All right, we've been talking a little bit about the FA Cup.
• 1:07:36
  We are now down to the semi finals of the FA Cup, which I
• 1:07:38
  think are going to be in about two weeks.
• 1:07:41
  You've got Leeds, Chelsea and Southampton and City.
• 1:07:46
  So the FA Cup. City got Southampton, yeah, and
• 1:07:49
  then Leeds get Chelsea, yeah. Right, so Luca, the FA Cup is
• 1:07:53
  the Football Association Challenge Cup.
• 1:07:56
  That's the official name of the FA Cup.
• 1:07:58
  It was first played Luke in 187172 season.
• 1:08:03
  It is the oldest national soccer competition in the world.
• 1:08:06
  Wow. I mean, that's pretty amazing.
• 1:08:07
  They've been playing it for like over 150 years and that's just
• 1:08:11
  unbelievable. So it is Ron Luca by the
• 1:08:14
  Football Association. The FA.
• 1:08:16
  We hear that a lot, right? Like the FA.
• 1:08:18
  Like what is the FA? You know, it's the governing
• 1:08:21
  body of football in England. It was formed in 1863.
• 1:08:25
  It's the oldest Football Association in the world.
• 1:08:29
  It's headquarters are actually at Wembley Stadium.
• 1:08:31
  So if you want to go to like see like all the people that work
• 1:08:34
  for the FA, you go to Wembley Stadium, which is the national
• 1:08:36
  team stadium for. England, you stop by there on
• 1:08:38
  your way to a match, yeah. Just stop in and say hi to the
• 1:08:42
  FA So. Hey.
• 1:08:44
  It's a single elimination, you know, so loss and you're out,
• 1:08:48
  right? It's open to any team at the top
• 1:08:51
  9 levels of the English football system.
• 1:08:54
  So you think you can be in the ninth level all the way down for
• 1:08:57
  the Premier League, 9 levels down.
• 1:08:58
  You theoretically Luca could win.
• 1:09:01
  That is sort of the beauty of it.
• 1:09:02
  I mean like wait what? What would you call the 9th
• 1:09:06
  league? Like is it just non league at
• 1:09:07
  that point? Yeah, yeah, it's non league.
• 1:09:09
  I mean, it's you're right. You've got what?
• 1:09:11
  Wait, what if you get relegated from that?
• 1:09:14
  I don't even know. I don't know how they work down
• 1:09:17
  that low or a lower level but in in the 2011, 2012 season Luka,
• 1:09:22
  they had 763 clubs competed. So you have all those clubs
• 1:09:27
  competing and to get like 1 champion you have 12 randomly
• 1:09:31
  drawn rounds OK followed by a semi and a final at Wembley.
• 1:09:35
  So right, the semis and the finals are at Wembley, 12
• 1:09:39
  randomly draw rounds. The higher league teams get by.
• 1:09:42
  So they don't like we don't have the premier, we don't have like
• 1:09:44
  Arsenal playing like some ninth level team.
• 1:09:46
  Like what's the point of that, you know?
• 1:09:48
  So what happens in the third round?
• 1:09:51
  We have the Premier League and Championship teams enter in.
• 1:09:54
  So they do like round one, round two.
• 1:09:57
  Then we have the Premier League and Championship teams kind of
• 1:09:59
  enter in in the modern era. Luca So after 1925 and 1926,
• 1:10:05
  only one non league A-Team. So that means below league team
• 1:10:10
  has reached the quarterfinals. So that was Lincoln City in 19.
• 1:10:14
  So Lincoln City in 2016, 2017, they were a fifth tier team and
• 1:10:19
  they made it to the quarterfinals. 5th tier.
• 1:10:22
  Team. 5th tier team, yeah. Now, if you win the FA Cup, you
• 1:10:26
  qualify for Europa League. Actually, that's kind of
• 1:10:29
  interesting. Yep.
• 1:10:30
  So if you win like a. Europa League's not run by FA.
• 1:10:33
  No, but that's that's like the carrot that they've given to
• 1:10:36
  some of these like domestic competitions.
• 1:10:38
  They say OK, they worked it out or they say yes, we will let
• 1:10:42
  your winner of this, especially the FA Cup.
• 1:10:43
  So Crystal Palace was in the Europa League this year.
• 1:10:46
  Except for that not remember Nottingham Forest filed this
• 1:10:50
  like kind of lawsuit against them and Nottingham Forest then
• 1:10:54
  who qualified for the UEFA Champions League, moved up to
• 1:10:59
  Europa League and they knocked for Crystal Palace.
• 1:11:02
  Champion. You said champions.
• 1:11:03
  League, Europa League. So basically what happened is
• 1:11:05
  Forrest swept, swapped places with Crystal Palace over this,
• 1:11:09
  like, technicality of filing things through e-mail.
• 1:11:12
  I, I I don't know, it felt like Crystal Palace got kind of
• 1:11:15
  robbed. What?
• 1:11:16
  Yeah. So they didn't, they didn't have
• 1:11:17
  to do it. The winner, of course, gets to
• 1:11:20
  play also in the Community Shield.
• 1:11:21
  So the FA Cup winner plays against the Premier League
• 1:11:24
  winner and that's sort of is like the first match.
• 1:11:27
  And that's the Community Shield. This is like what spawned the
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  terms, you know, giant killers or minnows or these small tier.
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  Teams. Dark horses.
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  Dark horses that will knock off the big, big the big boys in the
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  competition. But yeah, look, a lot of times
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  people like, you know, there's the, the Premier League and the
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  FA and like kind of what's the difference?
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  You know, the Premier League is essentially a competition or a
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  league that the the teams play in, but they follow the FA
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  rules. So the FA sort of sets up like
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  the rules of soccer, you know. And so the Premier League, like
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  I said, is essentially the league and they follow the rules
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  set up by the governing body, the FA.
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  Arsenal, of course, have won more FA Cups than anybody with
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  14. They used to do replays.
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  So if you, like I said, were in the fourth round and you tie the
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  team, you would then go play them at the other stadium.
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  But with all these games, they've sort of done away with
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  that. You just go to a extra time
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  film. You just go to a yeah, it's just
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  too many games and they'll have these like ties and them having
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  to replay the royal family of England presents the trophy.
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  So a lot of times you see you like a king or Prince.
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  And I guess Abide with Me, Luca very famously is a song on the
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  walk out at Wembley, this song called Abide With Me.
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  I never knew that, but that's a little, look, like I said it
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  was, yeah. And going back to kind of the
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  FA, they oversee the national team and they run sports in
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  England and they're essentially responsible for the laws of the
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  game. So like I said, when you hear
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  people talk about the FA, the FA, it is different than the
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  Premier League. So the FA, like I said, they
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  again, headquartered at Wembley, they run the national team and
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  they also, like I said, are basically responsible for the
• 1:13:07
  laws of the game. So there you go, a little bit
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  about the FA and the FA Cup. All right, Luca, Well, real
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  quickly we'll move on. Of course, we come find us on
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  Instagram, Premier League Playground, e-mail us at
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  premierleagueplaygroundgmail.com. But let's end with our trivia
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  penalty kick shootout. We'll go back and forth asking
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  some questions. Do you want to go first or
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  second? I want to ask first.
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  Ask first. OK, go ahead.
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  Ask the first question. Which club has a statue of the
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  Holy Trinity outside its stadium?
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  It's an English club. Oh, this.
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  I should know this because I remember talking about this at
• 1:13:47
  our stadium when we were talking about when we were learning, did
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  you know on teams is it Manchester United?
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  It is. OK.
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  All right, Luca, real easy. Quick question, who won the EUR
• 1:13:58
  2024? It was Spain.
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  Do you remember the score and who they beat?
• 1:14:04
  It was 21 and they played England.
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  That's right, Nico Williams. And O Rosabaugh.
• 1:14:09
  And O Rosabaugh. And colpalm, yeah.
• 1:14:10
  There you go. All right, I should have just
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  given you a. Chance, yeah.
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  All right, definitely got that one right.
• 1:14:15
  All right, go ahead. OK, this is a Brazilian icon
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  nicknamed O Ray who won three World Cups.
• 1:14:23
  Oh boy, O Ray, huh? It's like if you don't get this,
• 1:14:27
  you're going to kick yourself. Oh, is it Pele?
• 1:14:29
  Yes. Oh, I thought he was like the
• 1:14:30
  Black Pearl they call him or something.
• 1:14:32
  Maybe. Well, Pele was a nickname too.
• 1:14:35
  It wasn't actually named Pele. Yeah, All right, Luca, last week
• 1:14:40
  or last week, last pod, I asked you the most northern team in
• 1:14:44
  the Premier League. Well, who?
• 1:14:45
  What is the most southern team in the Premier League?
• 1:14:49
  Brighton. Not correct.
• 1:14:51
  What? Bournemouth.
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  Yo, what I'm so sure on. Brighton, Brighton is down in
• 1:14:57
  the South of Bournemouth, is technically further South.
• 1:14:59
  And so if you look, if you drove a car from Bournemouth to
• 1:15:02
  Newcastle, we'd said Newcastle's the most northern team.
• 1:15:05
  It's about a six hour and 10 minute car ride.
• 1:15:08
  So to give you a sense of if you, like I said, did that drive
• 1:15:11
  you want to go for the most southern or northern team, it's
• 1:15:13
  going to take you about 6 hours. OK, OK.
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  The award given to the best player at the World Cup.
• 1:15:22
  What is that called? Oh man, you might have found me
• 1:15:30
  on this one, Luca. I don't know.
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  It's called the Golden Ball. Golden Ball, you're right.
• 1:15:40
  Oh gosh, I should have known that.
• 1:15:41
  One, yeah. All right, Luca, we're going to.
• 1:15:44
  We're looking at Premier League players from Norway, OK?
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  In the in the league right now. In the league right now, like I
• 1:15:52
  said, Premier League players from Norway, of course there's
• 1:15:54
  probably 2 super easy. Ones Oh the garden, Holland.
• 1:15:57
  OK, you got the Super easy ones, but I've got here four more or
• 1:16:03
  five more players. One of them's like impossible,
• 1:16:06
  but see if you can get two. Other of the players from Norway
• 1:16:11
  could. Ire.
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  Ire, good call from Brentford. Yeah, good call.
• 1:16:15
  Ire, can you get one more? You've definitely you've
• 1:16:20
  definitely heard of three of these last four.
• 1:16:22
  I did not know the 4th, but you've definitely heard of these
• 1:16:25
  other three. But I.
• 1:16:30
  OK, so I'm just going to go to the team.
• 1:16:32
  Oh, Oscar Bob. Oscar, Bob Luca.
• 1:16:34
  He's from Norway, now with Fulham.
• 1:16:37
  He was a city. There's another Fulham player.
• 1:16:41
  Midfielder. Sanderberg.
• 1:16:45
  Yeah, another Norwegian player, Norway, of course, going to the
• 1:16:49
  World Cup, so we're going to see a lot of these players can.
• 1:16:53
  You give it a team on the. Crystal Palace forward, who just
• 1:16:57
  got. Strand, Larson.
• 1:16:58
  Strand, Larson, Jorgen Strand, Larson, the other one.
• 1:17:01
  Look at David Wolf from Wolves Guess.
• 1:17:03
  What I. Guess he's a Norwegian, so I'm
• 1:17:06
  going to give you credit for that one.
• 1:17:07
  That is a correct answer. Thanks.
• 1:17:09
  All right, so we're tied to two because we've each gotten one
• 1:17:13
  wrong. We've done 3 questions.
• 1:17:16
  OK. Which country is Brendan Rodgers
• 1:17:18
  from? Brendan Rodgers, I'm.
• 1:17:22
  It's quite specific, so it's a little bit.
• 1:17:26
  Yeah, yeah, I think I know what you're going for here.
• 1:17:31
  I'm going to go with is he from Scotland?
• 1:17:35
  Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland, when you said
• 1:17:38
  very specific, I thought it was going to be.
• 1:17:39
  I knew it was either. I was.
• 1:17:40
  Actually, just because Ireland, Ireland is on one of these
• 1:17:43
  choices, so I Northern. Ireland is definitely different
• 1:17:46
  than Ireland. Yes.
• 1:17:47
  OK, missed it. All right, Luca, what team in
• 1:17:52
  the Premier League? Premier League badges.
• 1:17:55
  So think of the badges of the Premier League teams.
• 1:17:57
  Which one has a person on? Bournemouth.
• 1:18:01
  Bournemouth Good. Do you know who the person is?
• 1:18:05
  No, OK, He looks like Ronaldinho a little bit.
• 1:18:08
  So it is Dickie Douse it who plays a striker.
• 1:18:11
  Interesting name he. Was a striker for them Luca in
• 1:18:14
  the 50s and 60s and the badge Luca was inspired by AC Milan.
• 1:18:20
  So if you look at. It like colors.
• 1:18:21
  And so it looks a little bit like, so they inspired and he's
• 1:18:24
  heading a ball like. He's heading a.
• 1:18:26
  Ball but yeah, so they kind of put him on when they redid their
• 1:18:29
  badge. Like I said, his name is Dickie
• 1:18:30
  Douse, it real famous player for Bournemouth and I think that's
• 1:18:33
  the only Premier League team that has like a person on their
• 1:18:35
  badge actually. Yeah.
• 1:18:37
  Yeah, it's interesting. All right.
• 1:18:40
  Yeah, that's correct for you. So now 32.
• 1:18:43
  OK, which country is the manager Eric Tenhag from?
• 1:18:49
  Tenhag, he's, I believe, from the Netherlands, correct.
• 1:18:51
  OK. All right, Luca, World Cup
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  coming up from June 11th to July 19th.
• 1:18:57
  We have the World Cup here, of course, it's in three countries,
• 1:19:00
  Canada, United States and Mexico.
• 1:19:03
  Can you name 5? How about can you name 6 cities
• 1:19:09
  that are hosting the World Cup in any of those countries?
• 1:19:13
  Cities. Cities.
• 1:19:15
  OK, so Charlotte? No.
• 1:19:18
  OK, New York. Yes, New York City hosting.
• 1:19:23
  Georgia. Georgia is not a is not a city.
• 1:19:28
  What's? This oh city.
• 1:19:29
  Oh, shoot. Yeah, Cancun, Cancun.
• 1:19:34
  No, Cancun is not. OK, I'm gonna cancel it, all
• 1:19:37
  right? I had a feeling this might be
• 1:19:39
  hard 'cause. I don't California.
• 1:19:40
  That's a state. Oh shoot.
• 1:19:43
  Oh, oh. Las Vegas.
• 1:19:45
  No, that is a city, but they are not hosting.
• 1:19:48
  What about a city in Georgia you've been to and you've seen
• 1:19:51
  soccer? What city were we in?
• 1:19:57
  You actually went inside a stadium.
• 1:19:59
  It's all of Premier League preseason doubleheader.
• 1:20:01
  Yeah, I, I don't understand where you were.
• 1:20:02
  Atlanta. Atlanta.
• 1:20:03
  Atlanta. Yeah, Atlanta is hosting.
• 1:20:06
  OK, how about the city where Daddy was born?
• 1:20:08
  Philadelphia. Philadelphia's a host.
• 1:20:11
  Wait. What's the biggest city in
• 1:20:15
  California? San Antonio.
• 1:20:20
  No, that's in Texas. Wait, what am I doing that now?
• 1:20:25
  Hold on. Where do the Rams and Chargers
• 1:20:27
  play? Los Angeles.
• 1:20:29
  Los Angeles. Wait, I'm trying to think in I
• 1:20:36
  don't know really any cities in Canada.
• 1:20:38
  Wait, oh I Toronto. Toronto is 1.
• 1:20:42
  Yeah, let's go Vancouver. Vancouver Look, you got both
• 1:20:46
  Canadian. Ones OK that.
• 1:20:48
  So those are the 2 Canadian ones.
• 1:20:49
  Toronto. Two more Mexican.
• 1:20:51
  There's three in Mexico and what is 1 where you were like?
• 1:20:54
  I don't want to go there, Craig was saying.
• 1:20:55
  Oh, Monterey. Monterey.
• 1:20:57
  Because they're all going to get food poisoning.
• 1:20:59
  Beware do. You know what the capital of
• 1:21:01
  Mexico is? Oh well, it's not Cancun.
• 1:21:07
  It's not Cancun, just put the word city behind Mexico.
• 1:21:12
  Mexico. Mexico City, yeah.
• 1:21:15
  Mexico City, yeah, By far the biggest city in Mexico that is
• 1:21:19
  the capital. Yes, Mexico City.
• 1:21:21
  The other one is Guadalajara in Mexico.
• 1:21:23
  I don't know where that I don't know.
• 1:21:26
  And then you've got Seattle, San Francisco, Miami, Kansas City,
• 1:21:34
  Houston and Dallas, which are both in Texas and Boston and
• 1:21:37
  Massachusetts. So those are going to be our
• 1:21:39
  World Cup cities. OK, I don't know if I really got
• 1:21:44
  that one right. You know, I'm going to give it
• 1:21:45
  to you. I'm going to give you the win
• 1:21:47
  here, Luca. All right.
• 1:21:47
  Thanks. All right, Luca, well take us
• 1:21:49
  out here. There's the final whistle and
• 1:21:52
  that's full time for us. Thank you for listening.
• 1:21:54
  Bye.