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Week 29 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome into another edition of the Premier
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  League playground. I am the dad.
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  Bjorn with me is our star, the lad.
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  Luca Miller. And how are you doing today,
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  Luca? I'm doing good.
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  How are you? Doing really good so we're here
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  to talk about week 29 of the Premier League.
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  We always like to check in with you, see how you're doing.
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  I guess not a whole lot for you since our last pod because we
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  have the midweek games that you have two soccer games you're
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  playing tomorrow, so we'll have to update everybody on your
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  games on our next pod. But you didn't really have any
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  games since we last potted, I guess.
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  So not really much to update. You just had some practices.
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  But weather's getting good for us here in South Carolina.
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  You have two games tomorrow. Should be good, right?
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Well, I guess we might as well just jump into the games here,
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  Luca. It's some interesting midweek
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  games we have I feel like a little bit of movement in terms
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  of like our mini tables, you know, like the two teams at the
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  top, that's one table. We have the teams battling for
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  Champions League, that's sort of the two tab, the second table.
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  Then we have the teams battling for 7th but last European spot
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  for next year and of course a relegation battle.
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  So we'll kind of break those down a little bit.
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  But we started off Luca with Wolves hosting Liverpool.
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  Jump in there for. Me.
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  Yeah, this game ends 21 Wolves I predict to be 31 Liverpool.
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  Rodriguez Gomez scores in the 78 minute, then Sawa scores in the
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  83rd minute off of a bad giveaway from Wolves, and then
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  Andre scores in the 94th minute and off of like a big
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  deflection. Liverpool's fifth goal allowed
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  after the 90th minute. New Premier League record, and
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  actually for Liverpool is 1.83 to Wolves, 0.44.
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  So yeah. Yeah, you know, so Wolves, we've
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  talked about them, Luca, they're they're making maybe a push to
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  not get relegated. They they, they dug such a hole.
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  I still don't think they can get out of it.
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  But they are right now playing very well.
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  They're playing teams tough. Liverpool Luca, the defense
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  doesn't mean again. I mean, you know, we've talked
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  about Liverpool's defense kind of being the weakness of this
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  team. Maybe they should have scored
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  more goals. You know, like I said, they
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  clearly had a better XG in this game.
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  Andre First ever goal for Wolves though.
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  Yeah. Listen, so listen to Wolves last
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  four games, Luca, They tied Arsenal, they lost the Palace
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  they wanted for against Villa and they want against Liverpool.
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  That's pretty impressive. You know, that's the first place
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  team, Villa I think was maybe in 3rd before and then the team,
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  you know, that was in 5th. So I mean a top of the table
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  teams they went to. Win a draw.
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  Defending champions. Defending champions?
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  Exactly. Yeah, I mean, you know, clearly
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  they're not going to win it this year.
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  But yeah, they're still the defending champions until, until
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  we crown a winner this year. I hear Wolves are.
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  I mean, it's just pretty incredible.
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  And like you said, Liverpool, it's it's the defense.
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  It's these late goals that sort of are doing them in this year.
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  And they're Luca in a real, not a relegation scrap, but they're
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  in a real battle for Champions League spots because they're now
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  Luca after this week sitting in 6th.
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  They're now they're tied with Chelsea.
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  But for goal differential, Chelsea have plus 19, Liverpool
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  +9. So that's a lot of goals to make
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  up. So they're probably going to
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  have to beat Chelsea on points. And I mean, this would be a bit
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  of a disaster if you're the defending Premier League
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  champions. And you don't even get
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  champions. League and yeah, you spend all
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  that money in the offseason and you don't need to get Champions
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  League. I mean is that is that grounds
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  to fire Arnie slot? Yes You think so?
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  OK so for you, if you're the Liverpool owner Luca, let's
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  let's say let's play this for the year ends Liverpool
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  finishing 6th. That means they miss out on
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  Champions League. They make Europa League.
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  You would fire slot. Yes.
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  Tell me why. Because he spent all that money
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  on all those big players and not any of them.
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  Well, I wouldn't say not any of them, but you couldn't even get
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  you couldn't even get Champions League like let alone win it
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  again because everyone thought they were a big favorites
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  because of all the like spending they did in the summer, all the
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  big names they brought in and just couldn't even get Champions
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  League. Yeah.
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  I mean, do you have any sympathy for he's basically not had ESAC
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  all year. That was, I mean, they're big
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  signing now. You question whether that was a
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  smart signing, but it was a big signing in terms of the money
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  they spent the the notoriety of the player.
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  Do you have any sympathy that he's basically not been there
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  all year? No, no, OK.
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  I mean, what has he even done for Liverpool?
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  Who? Esac.
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  What I'm saying he's a. Couple games he's played.
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  All right, but remember he was like training by himself with
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  Newcastle before they bought him.
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  He had no pre season, you know, they had we're trying to work
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  his fitness in. You're right.
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  Then he gets in. He doesn't really do anything.
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  In fact, I think he's when he scored the goal, he broke his
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  leg. Yeah.
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  So that's, I mean it's a little bit unlucky to to break.
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  Your leg couldn't. He wasn't even breaking the line
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  up when he was in it. He played like 8 games or he was
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  available for like 8 or 9 games and didn't even play maybe like
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  half of them. Yeah, no.
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  And I think that is a good point.
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  And that goes back to whether it was a smart move to buy ESAC or
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  not, because they had bought Eketike, who came in and they
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  spent a lot of money on him and he was actually looking very
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  good and he still looked good. He's looked good all year.
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  Why do you go out and you buy another nine, another striker
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  when you just bring this guy? In that was pure greed right
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  there. Well, and I, I, well, I think
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  it's well, you can say it's pure greed.
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  I think it was also just dumb because you're not addressing a
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  weakness in your team, which is defense.
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  So you can say, well, we're just going to go out and buy all he's
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  attacking players. OK, that's fine and good.
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  But. You gotta have a good defense
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  you. Gotta have a good defense and
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  and they knew the defense was weak.
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  And again, we always talked about like how they at the very
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  last minute they're trying to buy buy Mark Ahey from Crystal
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  Palace. That deal falls through like
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  literally at the deadline of the transfer window.
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  But it shouldn't you shouldn't wait that long.
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  You should be you know, that's fine.
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  Go out, get Ikatike, get verts. You know, they bring Frimpong in
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  who's more of like a wing back. You know, he's not really a
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  great. Their main problem is they're
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  center backs. Yeah, I mean, Van Dyke is great.
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  Kanate's OK, But then if one of them gets hurt, who do you have?
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  You know, they they signed this guy.
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  Who was it? Leone from the from Syria.
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  He blew out his ACL like right away, you know, you know, then
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  Connor Bradley gets hurt. He's been out now.
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  Robertson's kind of getting a little bit older.
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  So yeah, I, I think they need it to me.
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  Don't spend that money on Esac, Spend it on a defender.
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  You have enough attacking talent at Liverpool.
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  I I just, I just don't think they needed to do it.
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  And then it's just obviously hasn't worked out.
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  I think there's a little bit of just being unlucky with the way
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  he got injured. But I think I think it's a valid
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  point, Luca, that that it'll be interesting.
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  I would not fire Slot. I I look, you won the Premier
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  League last year. Now look, we can call him the
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  question. He basically inherited Klopp's
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  team. Arsenal and City basically had
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  like just horrible seasons. So, you know, now look, they
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  won. They're the Champions.
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  I'm not trying to take it away from them, but there's if you
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  want to sort of if you want to go after Slot and say, well, it
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  wasn't even really his team. It was really easy for him to
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  win. Look what he's done this year.
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  OK, like I can see that argument, but I would give him
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  another year. I I would, like I said I would
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  bring him back even if he's not in Champions League, give him
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  one more year. Now if it if they're doing this
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  again, then yeah, you're going to have to make a move.
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  But for me, give him another year.
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  No, not for me. OK, fair enough.
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  All right, look, let's move over to Leeds hosting Sunderland.
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  Yeah, not much of this game and one nil Sunderland I predict to
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  be one, one draw DRPK and 70th minute off of the handball from
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  Ampadu. It kind of like rolls off his
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  arm and he kind of hits it away with his hand as a clearance.
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  And yeah, it's a penalty for me and yeah, DRI steps up and
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  almost could say he's a little lucky there, but shots for leads
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  with 18. The Sunderlands 3 Sunderland
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  unbeaten when scoring first. Six wins and four draws this
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  season. Yeah, yeah.
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  Sunderland, they they get up and they don't really drop, you
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  know, leads and that that's, you know, to their credit, they've
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  been a really good team. Yeah, I'm with you, Luca.
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  It's, it's I think it's a handball for me.
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  It's it's unfortunate. I don't think he's trying to do
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  anything, but he extends his arm out.
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  He knocks the ball kind of away. I think you have to call it to
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  me. You know, it is APK.
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  I'm with you, Lucas. Sunderland have made 27 of their
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  last 28 penalty kicks. That's pretty impressive.
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  Like they just don't really miss penalties.
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  Like that's, you know, I mean, most penalty kicks obviously go
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  in. I think the stats, something
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  like 80 to 85% of penalty kicks go in, but that's that's an
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  impressive record right there. But that's almost like 95% or
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  something or maybe a little bit higher.
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  So yeah, don't give a Sunderland APK.
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  They're basically going to make it.
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  And that was the difference in this game.
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  You know, big three points for Sunderland, they're on 40
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  points. You know, like I said, they're
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  in that, they're in that talk for 7th.
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  You know there are only four points behind Brentford.
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  Wouldn't that be a story that was newly promoted team get to
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  Europe? It would be amazing.
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  I mean, there were plenty of people who said Sunderland are
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  going to go right back. So I have a magazine, soccer
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  magazine I I get every year or every like couple weeks.
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  And before the season started, they predicted Sunderland
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  finishing 20th. Yeah, I and Luca, there were
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  plenty of, plenty of like, you know, report, you know, pundits
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  on TV, all the like. A couple of the NBC guys I think
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  said it's the same thing, Sunderland, like they're going
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  to go, they're going to go back down and now they're definitely
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  not going to go back down. And you're right, that would be
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  if they finish in 7th. I don't think they'll do it,
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  Luca. I think they'll just sort of run
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  out of gas. And I think Brentford, Everton
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  are a little bit too strong, but it'd be amazing.
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  That would truly be amazing for them to be playing in UEFA
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  Conference League next year. So they've been a great story.
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  They're a good team. You know, Leeds a little hard
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  done in this game, you know, but I still think Leeds are in good
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  shape. You know, I mean, I say that
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  they're only three points above the relegation zone, but I feel
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  like when I watch Leeds play, they really are tough to play
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  against. And I think they're going to
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  grind out like enough draws and maybe a win or two to stay to
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  stay up. But you know, they're only three
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  points above the relegation zone.
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  So they're in. They're in the relegation scrap
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  for sure, but I think they'll do enough.
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  All right. All right, look.
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  Well, let's move over to Everton hosting Burnley.
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  So this came in two nil Everton. I predicted 54 Everton.
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  I'm not sure where you call 54 coming from.
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  Hey, I like it. The bold call.
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  Yeah, I mean, I guess the right winner.
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  You did get the right winner, yeah.
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  Turkowski in the 32nd minute off of a nice golf ball from Garner
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  in Dewsbury Hall in the 60th minute.
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  Nice team goal there Dewsbury Hall.
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  Six Premier League goals. He only had three in past three
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  seasons combined and Everton have won eight of 10 at home
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  against Burnley in Premier League.
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  Yeah, Everton kind of owned Burnley a little bit, which you
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  know, this is a good win for Everton.
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  You know, they just sort of take care of business.
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  You know, they they pretty much dominated this game.
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  You know they move one, they move now within one point of
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  Brentford for seven. So they are right in the mix
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  Luca, for possibly, you know, getting that last European spot
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  in the UEFA Conference League. They right there, two wins in a
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  row, big game coming up with Arsenal, we'll get on to that in
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  a little bit. But look, they're doing this
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  without Grealish too. He's been out now.
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  I think it's been like 6 weeks. You know they've got Dewsbury
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  Hall back. Enjoy has been pretty good.
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  Enjoy has been really good. I like him a lot.
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  James Garner, look, I like him a lot as a player.
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  You know, they they have good players.
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  And also like some credit to David Moyes as a manager.
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  Like I feel like he flies under the radar because he's like an
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  older manager. He's sort of little old school.
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  Like he's probably not the biggest tactician like Arteta or
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  Guardiola. He did manage United.
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  Plus the thing, no, he's managed at big clubs and he's, he's
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  gotten good results. He won.
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  He he was West Ham's manager when they won the UEFA
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  Conference. Like he's won trophies at small
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  clubs, you know, like he, I just think he's what he's not like
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  flashy. You don't really talk about him
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  that much. But he obviously is like does a
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  good job managing teams. Like he's had very good success.
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  You know, maybe, yes, maybe he did not get United to the
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  heights that they wanted to get to, you know, in terms of, you
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  know, winning the Premier League or Champions League.
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  But I just think he does like a good job at these sort of mid
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  table teams, you know, these like the West Ham, you know,
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  Everton, he's got them like I said, you know, primed here, you
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  know, one point in back of Brentford and again, doing it
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  without Grilla. She was really good in the
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  beginning of the year for them. Yeah.
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  Yeah. So yeah, I just want to kind of
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  give a little shout out to David Moist there.
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  Old school manager. Yeah.
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  All right, look, not much to talk about here.
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  We had a Bournemouth hosting Brentford.
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  Yeah, this game in 00I predicted to be two one Bournemouth FG for
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  Bournemouth was 1.92 to Brentford 0.4.
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  Bournemouth unbeaten last nine Premier League matches and
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  Brentford still 4. Head of Bournemouth for for 7th.
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  Yes. So yeah, not really much to talk
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  about in this game. Yeah, it kind of feels like a
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  missed opportunity for Bournemouth.
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  You know, they're at home. Like you said, they kind of
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  outplay Brentford on the XGI feel like they needed this win
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  because they're they came in four points behind Brentford.
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  So if they could have gotten the win at home.
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  That would have made it one. Yeah, they closed the gap to
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  one. Now it's still 4.
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  And they don't play them anymore.
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  And they don't. In fact, Bournemouth have never
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  beaten Brentford in eight Premier League matches.
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  It's the only side they've faced without winning.
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  They, like I said, just never. Beat right, because they've
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  beaten Arsenal last season and they beat City also last season
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  I think, right. Not sure, you'd probably know
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  that better than I would, but yeah, it's just for some reason,
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  you know, but we probably should have seen a draw coming.
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  Bournemouth I feel like just draw everybody.
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  They have 13 draws in 29 games. The next most is 10.
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  OK. They just have a.
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  Oh, is it Everton behind them? No, Everton actually only have 7
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  draws. The teams with 10 draws are
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  Sunderland, Brighton and Leeds United have 9 draws.
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  So they have 13 draws. I mean, they only have nine wins
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  and it's kind of crazy, like our school have twenty wins.
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  City 18. Bournemouth have nine wins in
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  our. Because they have 13 draws,
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  they've only lost seven times. But you know, I mean, they've
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  drawn 4 out of their last five. They're tied with Sunderland for
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  40 points. Yeah, they're on 40 points with
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  Fulham and Sunderland. So like I said, we'll kind of
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  talk about that. But yeah, they're I mean,
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  they're right there. Like I said, they're in the mix.
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  But I just felt like this was this was a game that Bournemouth
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  had to sort of find a way to get a goal, get a win, not a draw.
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  You know, this may come back to haunt them if they if they, you
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  know, if they finish two points out of seven and this, this
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  feels like a missed opportunity. Here, Yeah.
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  Let's move over to our boys Arsenal.
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  They went on the road. Tricky game Luca against
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  Brighton. We've talked before how good
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  Brighton are. They're very good at home.
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  I think they'd only lost twice at home this year.
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  This was a tricky midweek game. Tired legs take me through this
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  game. Yeah, we scrap out not so great
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  win. One NIL off of a 9th minute
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  soccer deflected goal that goes right through the goalies legs.
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  Maybe the goalies should have done better, I don't know.
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  It took a pretty big deflection. A little walkie there.
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  XG for Brighton was 0.80 to Arsenal's .43.
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  This was soccer's 300th appearance with Arsenal.
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  He's the 4th youngest to reach that milestone.
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  And Arsenal will now go 7 points up on City.
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  City do have a game in hand, but it's it's a lot better because
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  City dropped two points to not, not am Forest, but we'll get to
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  that. But yeah.
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  Yeah, you know, so like you said, Saca Luca, I mean, he's
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  feels like he's been there forever, but he's only 24 years
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  old in 180 days, so he makes his 300th appearance.
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  That's pretty incredible for a 24 year old.
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  Raya actually made his 100th appearance for Arsenal.
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  Wow. And he got a clean sheet and
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  that was his 43rd clean sheet out of 100 appearances.
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  Pretty good right there. But in terms of Luca Field
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  players, so the youngest player ever to do it for Arsenal was
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  David O'Leary. He played for Arsenal for 1975,
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  1993. Really good center back.
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  He was 23 years old in 315 days. Saka's what, 2425?
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  Saka's 24 years old in 180 days. The next youngest was Seth
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  Fabregas. Great, great midfielder.
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  Yeah. He played there from O3 to O8
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  and then Liam Brady, Luca, who was another midfielder, he
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  played from 73 to 80 and then Saka.
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  So Saka being the force youngest after David O'Leary, Seth
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  Fabregas and Liam Brady. So yeah, you know, credit to
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  Saka. Yeah, look at this game wasn't
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  pretty. I mean, this just was like a
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  grinded out game. Arsenal really basically did get
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  a little fortunate with the deflection.
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  They get the goal and then they just sort of defended out.
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  There really wasn't much else to talk about in this game.
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  I think the big talking point was the manager of Brighton
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  before the game calling out Arsenal, saying they take too
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  long when they go to take their free kicks and their corners,
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  their time wasting. And then you know, within like 2
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  minutes into the game he's up there with the fourth official
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  on the sideline arguing that we're taking too long.
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  Fabian Herzler, the manager of Brighton.
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  Isn't he like the youngest? He's the youngest manager, yeah.
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  And you know, here's The thing is, you know, like Arsenal did
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  take a long time in this game over free kicks, over corner
• 17:54
  kicks, over anything to kind of I, I do think we were trying to
• 17:58
  slow the game down a little bit. You try to chop it up a little
• 18:00
  bit because Brighton probably were the better team.
• 18:02
  Yes, they controlled more of the ball.
• 18:04
  They probably had. They didn't have great chances,
• 18:06
  but they created OK chances. They had chances.
• 18:09
  So I think this is one of those, again, I think to me it looked
• 18:12
  Arsenal had a lot of tired legs. They played so many games.
• 18:16
  So it this is one of those and we, Ted Brighton are really good
• 18:19
  at home. Like they're not easy to beat at
• 18:21
  home. This is one of those games where
• 18:23
  I think you just grind out a win.
• 18:24
  I think it's actually like a really good win.
• 18:26
  I don't particularly care how they did it.
• 18:28
  Now, here's the thing. When you look at the overall
• 18:30
  season, Brighton are at the bottom though, for how much the
• 18:35
  ball is in play during their games.
• 18:36
  So it's just funny that they're complaining about us doing it.
• 18:40
  What we're in like the top, we're like the 6th.
• 18:42
  We we have the ball and play like the sixth most.
• 18:45
  So what basically what it's indicating is like when we play
• 18:48
  our games, the balls in play more than when Brighton plays in
• 18:51
  general. Now I'm not saying in this game
• 18:53
  that was the case. I think clearly we were trying
• 18:56
  to sort of just slow everything down.
• 18:58
  Time wasting maybe, you know, I mean, just be honest with you.
• 19:01
  I I don't, you know, is it an intentional thing?
• 19:03
  Is it just something because you're just trying to like slow
• 19:05
  the game down and this? I would think that's what it.
• 19:08
  Is, you know, it kind of it is what it is.
• 19:10
  People do it against us all the time.
• 19:11
  And again, if you look at the whole season, we're not one of
• 19:14
  the biggest time wasters. Brighton R.
• 19:17
  And it's just funny that this manager, you know, kind of
• 19:19
  crying. Full hot.
• 19:20
  Air, you know, Yeah. So it just was kind of funny.
• 19:22
  He and Arteta got into it on the sidelines, pointing at each
• 19:25
  other a little bit. You know you.
• 19:26
  Know so but anyway you know massive win Luca because
• 19:31
  especially when you can't take into the result the city result
• 19:34
  because going into this week we're going to Brighton on the
• 19:37
  road midweek cities at home against forest.
• 19:39
  You certainly think that's an opportunity for city to maybe
• 19:42
  gain points. Maybe we tie, maybe we lose, you
• 19:44
  know, city win that game. The whole thing just sort of
• 19:47
  flips on its head because we somehow get this win and then
• 19:50
  city somehow sort of get a tie out of that game, which we'll
• 19:52
  get to. So you know, big result.
• 19:55
  Like you said, you you put it well, we're up 7.
• 19:58
  City do have a game in hand, so they win that.
• 19:59
  It's four. We have to go to City, so they
• 20:02
  win that. It's down to 1.
• 20:04
  You know, so it's like it feels like a big lead, but like very
• 20:07
  quickly it could be a one point. But we have to lose the game
• 20:10
  before we play City too, though. We have to lose that.
• 20:14
  Well, not necessarily. Remember City have the game in
• 20:16
  hand, so if they win that, that puts us even on games and then
• 20:19
  it's a four points. Then if we play the game against
• 20:22
  City and they win that, then we're still leave it on games
• 20:24
  and that's a one point. Now look, you're still a point
• 20:28
  up and look City, they have to win that game in hand.
• 20:31
  They've got to go play Crystal Palace, who are OK.
• 20:35
  And then also it gives Arsenal, I think if we can just get a tie
• 20:40
  up, you know, at the Eddie head when.
• 20:41
  We that would be pretty big because no one gains anything.
• 20:44
  Exactly, and I think that's The thing is that City will have to
• 20:46
  push to try to win the game. We'd be OK with a tie now.
• 20:49
  I don't I don't know that you say you well, we're going to go
• 20:51
  up there and just play for a tie.
• 20:52
  It's just if the result, it happens to fall that way, great.
• 20:57
  I mean, look, if we win or tie, great.
• 20:59
  If we lose, OK, maybe not the end of the world because we
• 21:03
  still now control our own fate, but it just makes all the other
• 21:07
  games kind of must win games. So it'll be interesting moving
• 21:10
  forward should we move over to Villa hosting Chelsea.
• 21:15
  Yeah, this game is a bit of an interesting game because Villa
• 21:18
  score first in this game but then get swapped for one.
• 21:23
  Don't know really really happened there Villa, but yeah,
• 21:27
  I predicted 22 Douglas movies. In the second minute he gets a
• 21:33
  goal in the then pet Joe Pedro in the 35th minute and in the 45
• 21:39
  plus 7th minute, Palmer in the 55th minute and Joe Pedro gets
• 21:43
  the hat trick in the 64th minute.
• 21:46
  Pedro now has 14 Premier League goals and he's 4th overall on
• 21:49
  the table or on the like, Golden Boot table.
• 21:54
  And that's Villa's first loss at home after leading in 45 games
• 22:00
  since February 2023. So it's their first loss at home
• 22:04
  after leading. Yeah, pretty incredible.
• 22:07
  They had 39 wins and six draws in their last 45 when they go
• 22:10
  up. So it's like they're a team that
• 22:11
  typically we talk about like Sunderland getting a goal and
• 22:14
  basically holding on. Like, yeah, Villa at home get a
• 22:16
  goal. They don't never really lose,
• 22:19
  except today. I mean, not only did they lose,
• 22:22
  they got smoked 41. Holy smokes.
• 22:25
  I mean, it feels like a little bit like the wheels are sort of
• 22:29
  falling off the Villa train here.
• 22:31
  Yeah. And their last five, they now
• 22:33
  have one win, 2 losses and two draws.
• 22:35
  They are now tie. They're now in fourth on goal
• 22:37
  differential. So they're tied with United on
• 22:39
  points, but they're six behind them on goal differential.
• 22:42
  And now they look in the rearview mirror, Luke, And
• 22:44
  there's Chelsea and Liverpool three points behind it.
• 22:46
  Which is good for Arsenal because I've said this multiple
• 22:49
  times last day City have to play the off.
• 22:52
  It comes down to that. Yeah, it's a good point that,
• 22:56
  you know, if it comes down to a situation on the last day,
• 23:00
  right, City play Villa and if Villa have nothing to play for,
• 23:04
  you know, are they going to give really like 100% effort?
• 23:07
  But if they're battling, if they're like if they need to win
• 23:09
  to get Champions League, well, they're going to have to go
• 23:11
  100%. Because we have palace on the
• 23:13
  last day. Who likely won't have anything
• 23:15
  to play. Yes.
• 23:17
  Yeah, you know, look, they're professionals, like they're
• 23:19
  going to show up. But I do think there's something
• 23:21
  to that, like, you know, the last game team or two, if you
• 23:24
  can catch a team that's like mid table, they're like, we're not
• 23:27
  making a European spot, We're not getting relegated.
• 23:30
  That's an advantage. Like I just think as opposed to
• 23:32
  a team that's like pushing to be like, hey, if we win today, we
• 23:35
  get Champions League, like they're going to go, you know,
• 23:38
  full bore. So yeah, I agree with you.
• 23:40
  We need Palace sort of in the mix and they're definitely sort
• 23:43
  of in the mix. I mean, we don't need to mean
• 23:45
  Palace. We need Villa in the mix, but
• 23:48
  they're definitely in it, Luke. I mean, remember our bet,
• 23:50
  Liverpool finishing ahead of Villa starting to look good
• 23:52
  again. For me, it's only a three-point
• 23:54
  cap. Oh no.
• 23:56
  You know, like I say, we'll kind of talk about this sort of race
• 23:58
  for Champions League and it is tight right now for sure.
• 24:01
  But yeah, you know, Luca, I think the XG on this game 3.92
• 24:06
  to .8857% possession. Yeah, Chelsea, Chelsea are a
• 24:11
  good team. You know, I mean, they're like,
• 24:13
  you know, it's interesting. It's just sort of, you know,
• 24:16
  they have all these sort of young players.
• 24:17
  They got this young manager in there.
• 24:19
  But I, I watch them play like I'm like, they're a tough team
• 24:22
  to sort of play against. And Zhao, Pedro, Luca, what a
• 24:25
  year he's having, like he said, fourteen goals.
• 24:28
  So he's now fourth, you know, Holland on 22, Igor Tiago on 18,
• 24:32
  Simenyo 15 and then Pedro on 14. What a year he's putting.
• 24:36
  Together, yeah. All right, let's move over to
• 24:39
  This is a bit of a crazy game, Newcastle hosting Manchester
• 24:43
  United. Well, I predict this be
• 24:45
  2,000,000 United, there was 21 Newcastle.
• 24:49
  What happening in the first half?
• 24:51
  So in the second minute of extra time in the first half, Ramsey
• 24:56
  gets a red card for simulation. I do think this is a dive.
• 25:00
  He does not really get touched by layman's like the balls
• 25:02
  played through to him. He's not getting around it like
• 25:06
  he's not getting around layman's and layman's like barely
• 25:09
  touches. He doesn't really touch him at
• 25:10
  all. I think that's that's definitely
• 25:12
  a red card for me. Just to be clear, he gets a
• 25:16
  second yellow for a red, right? It wasn't a straight, Yeah, it
• 25:19
  wasn't a straight red. But he's on a yellow.
• 25:21
  He simulated and they gave him a second yellow.
• 25:23
  Yeah, it was very dumb because 5 minutes later Gordon gets APK.
• 25:28
  So after they were just dieting, they get APK.
• 25:31
  Sacrificing themselves just to get APK, they get one like come
• 25:35
  on. Now for you, for you on this
• 25:36
  one, Gordon sort of takes the ball down the left side.
• 25:39
  He cuts across. He gets clipped by Fernandez.
• 25:42
  OK, so for you, you're good with a with a penalty being called.
• 25:45
  Here, Yeah, OK. And then he scored, he converts.
• 25:48
  That's one nil Newcastle, but it's not it for the first half.
• 25:52
  In the 10th minute of added time in the first half, Castamiro he
• 25:57
  gets he gets a goal and there's a 6-7 celebration.
• 26:00
  Yeah, 6-7 Luca Casamiro. All right, here we go.
• 26:05
  For all the kids out there. Oh man, go.
• 26:07
  Check it out. Casamiro hits the 6-7
• 26:09
  celebration. That was painful.
• 26:11
  See. That was pain, yeah.
• 26:13
  Bruno Fernandez, another assist. Luca from a free kick kind of
• 26:16
  plays it across. I mean, Bruno is like running
• 26:18
  away with the assist title. It's I think.
• 26:20
  How far is he from 2nd? He's 6 up on Shirky, so yeah, I
• 26:25
  mean, he creates so much. But you don't get like a trophy
• 26:27
  for most assists. No, but it's still though.
• 26:32
  You're right, you don't get a trophy for it, but I think it's
• 26:34
  a very meaningful stat. Yeah.
• 26:36
  Like goal involvements, we always talk about goal
• 26:38
  involvement, so it means goals and assists.
• 26:41
  And Bruno is obviously one of the best at setting people up.
• 26:45
  He's obviously will score some goals too.
• 26:48
  He's not one of my favorite players in the world, but like,
• 26:50
  he's a very good. Player Yes, I.
• 26:52
  Just personally just sort of don't like him very much.
• 26:55
  But man, like he's so good and he's so important for that team.
• 26:59
  I just couldn't imagine United without.
• 27:00
  But anyway. Then Osulah scores in the 91st
• 27:05
  minute and this is a worldly. So he wins the ball in the
• 27:09
  midfield and then sprints up a nice ball played to him.
• 27:14
  Then he kind of does a couple moves, cuts in and hits a corner
• 27:19
  to the far corner. It was wasn't top corner, but it
• 27:22
  was like it was really nice. You should check it out.
• 27:25
  And it was what the top speed that anyone's hit in the Premier
• 27:29
  League this season. I think they said what Osulah is
• 27:32
  making this run on like literally from like half field.
• 27:35
  He's like almost like I mean literally it's almost like a 40
• 27:37
  yard run up the right sideline. And I think they said when he
• 27:39
  hit his top speed, it was the highest speed any Premier League
• 27:43
  player has hit this year. So he's he's flying up there and
• 27:48
  it's just an unbelievable goal. I mean, it's just like an
• 27:50
  unbelievable effort from this guy.
• 27:52
  Like he said, I love it that he wins the ball in midfield,
• 27:54
  sprints up, gets the ball, like you said, cuts in on his left
• 27:57
  and just sort of like a curler, like you said, not top corner,
• 27:59
  but it's one of the one of those like curlers just inside the
• 28:02
  post. Nothing the goal he could do on
• 28:04
  it. Yeah, beautiful goal.
• 28:06
  I mean, you know what, what can you say?
• 28:08
  I mean, just a huge, huge effort from him and that's a massive 3
• 28:12
  points for Newcastle. And that's Newcastle's third
• 28:14
  winner, scored an extra time and Carrick's first loss as a United
• 28:19
  manager. Let's go.
• 28:22
  I don't know why you, like, are so against Michael Carrick.
• 28:25
  I'm not against him, but I'm tired of people hearing how he's
• 28:28
  so good at everything because he won a couple games.
• 28:31
  Well, yeah, he's been really good.
• 28:33
  Like I said, this is his second interim spell as manager.
• 28:36
  He's now eight wins, 2 draws and a loss.
• 28:39
  So he's been very good for them and he's sort of steadied this
• 28:42
  ship here. I mean, they're they're still,
• 28:44
  they're still in 3rd. So, you know, now they're tied
• 28:47
  with Villa on 51 points, you know, because Villa lost too.
• 28:50
  So Chelsea were the big winners here in terms of gaining points
• 28:53
  on those two. You know, like I said, we'll
• 28:57
  see. This is just one of those, you
• 28:59
  know, games where I don't know, I don't know how a United fan
• 29:02
  feels about it because like you go to Saint James Park, it's a
• 29:04
  tough place to go, but you're up, you know, like you said, the
• 29:07
  red card happens early. I don't know that it's ever good
• 29:10
  when you lose a game to to a team with 10 men, especially
• 29:13
  when you get like a whole half to play.
• 29:16
  So it feels like it's a missed opportunity to to maybe at least
• 29:19
  get a draw on a point, you know, but.
• 29:21
  Yeah. You know it it United have had
• 29:23
  like an amazing run here, so you know again.
• 29:26
  It's time for it to stop it. It was their time to stop.
• 29:29
  They they fought their fight. And I don't have to hear anymore
• 29:34
  about Michael Carrick. Thanks.
• 29:35
  Bye. Well, he finally they somebody.
• 29:37
  Somebody that's finally beaten this guy.
• 29:39
  Yeah. All right, Luca.
• 29:40
  Well, let's move where we talked.
• 29:42
  We we talked, we sort of hinted at this game before, but City
• 29:45
  hosting Nottingham Forest. This game ends 22.
• 29:49
  I predicted 2 no city. So Manio in the 31st minute he
• 29:52
  gets a goal, then give his quite really nice goal in the 56th
• 29:56
  minute, he bats your volley, have like 1/2 your back.
• 30:01
  Unbelievable. Like half volley back your goal.
• 30:05
  It was insane. You should check it out.
• 30:07
  That one out too. That was just unbelievable.
• 30:11
  That timing on that. I mean, it has to be.
• 30:13
  Perfect. It's incredible.
• 30:14
  Yeah. It's such a wild goal.
• 30:16
  You just don't see it like you said, that the timing, the
• 30:18
  skill, just even the thought to do it.
• 30:21
  Yeah, I mean, like, it's just it's bold.
• 30:24
  It's bold. It's worth checking out for
• 30:25
  sure. I mean the like I said, I'll be
• 30:27
  curious your goal of the week because the Osula goal in this
• 30:30
  one just top class. Yeah, and and Rodri, he gets a
• 30:35
  goal in the 62nd minute off of a corner.
• 30:38
  And then Ellie Anderson, really nice, cool in the 76 minute,
• 30:41
  nice, 1-2. And then from outside of the box
• 30:44
  curler into the far corner and then there's a clearance off the
• 30:49
  line in the 98 minute from Mario.
• 30:51
  He's like you're standing there. And then he has he gets on the
• 30:54
  line and then clears it off. And then that right after that,
• 30:57
  the final whistle is broke. It could have been a winner.
• 31:00
  Yeah, just, I mean, the ball's clearly going in.
• 31:02
  It's just incredible heads up play too by him.
• 31:05
  Like I, you know, these guys, I mean, think how tired they must
• 31:08
  be at the end of these games. And like, you know, you're
• 31:10
  physically tired and mentally tired, but to like, have a
• 31:12
  wherewithal to like the balls bouncing around there and
• 31:15
  there's this bodies everywhere. But for him to be like, my
• 31:17
  goalie's out out, he's almost like right in front of the
• 31:19
  penalty spot because he's in the sort of the mix to have the
• 31:22
  heads up to be like, I'm going to go on the line and then like
• 31:25
  I said, literally steps there and the ball comes at him
• 31:28
  clearly going in the goal and he clears it off.
• 31:30
  I mean, it's just it's one of those moments that you're like,
• 31:32
  gosh, I don't know what it means at the end of the season, but it
• 31:34
  like got them a point. And we're going to invite him to
• 31:37
  the parade if we win. Yeah, I was going to say, I
• 31:39
  mean, it's it's obviously massive for Arsenal because if
• 31:42
  City score that one, they obviously just get the three
• 31:45
  points. But think about like the
• 31:46
  euphoria and what that like if they could have ground out a win
• 31:49
  there, you know, where forests keep coming back.
• 31:52
  But City somehow it would have been like the same also like
• 31:54
  here City go again finding ways to win games.
• 31:57
  They battle to the end. You know, it's like these are
• 31:59
  the stories you constantly hear. You know what a great team they
• 32:01
  are, the winning mentality, but it just felt like there's
• 32:04
  something like a little different about this City team.
• 32:07
  Or maybe, you know, they're just not going to get those, you
• 32:10
  know, lucky break or you just or maybe it's an unlucky break.
• 32:13
  I don't know the way you look at it, but it's just a heads up
• 32:15
  play by Mario and it's just incredible.
• 32:17
  You think of like, Oh my gosh, like, you know what that could
• 32:20
  have could have meant for for either side there.
• 32:22
  So yeah, look at Gibbs White. You know what, what a player he
• 32:26
  is. I just want to kind of do a
• 32:27
  player profile on him. He's a 26 year old.
• 32:30
  He came up with Wolves and so he was a Wolves looking from O 8 to
• 32:34
  2022, had a loan spell with Swansea, got loaned to Sheffield
• 32:38
  United. Then Forrest fought him in 2022
• 32:42
  for 32,000,000. He now has 25 goals for.
• 32:47
  Forrest. For Forrest, he's now their
• 32:48
  second leading Premier League scorer of all time.
• 32:51
  Chris Wood has 37 goals, but he has in terms of like the Premier
• 32:55
  League, you know, not all time for Forest.
• 32:57
  We're not going back 140 years or anything like that.
• 33:00
  But in terms of the Premier League, he's second for goals
• 33:02
  for that, you know, coming from the midfield.
• 33:04
  And he's only been there like this is like his fourth year.
• 33:06
  Yeah, I mean, like he's, I just think he's like kind of an
• 33:09
  underappreciated if you don't talk about him as much.
• 33:11
  He has 6 caps for England. You know, he almost went to
• 33:14
  Spurs this summer. There was a big situation where
• 33:17
  they were trying to activate his release clause and Forest came
• 33:20
  in and there was like some legal stuff going on where they were
• 33:24
  like, well, how do Spurs know what his release clause is?
• 33:27
  And there was like some talk about like lawsuits and this and
• 33:30
  that. We ended up staying at Forest,
• 33:34
  obviously. Because no one wants to go to
• 33:35
  Spurs. He sucks.
• 33:36
  Well, and he now has six goals and two assists this year.
• 33:41
  You know, I think he's a guy. Look at like that, you know,
• 33:45
  England's World Cup team, you start thinking ahead to the
• 33:47
  summer, you know, he's a guy in the mix.
• 33:49
  I'm not saying he definitely makes the team, but I think he's
• 33:52
  a guy in the mix there and I think he could be a useful guy
• 33:54
  for them. It's just they're so loaded.
• 33:56
  There's so many good. Players Bellingham, Rice,
• 33:59
  Rogers. Yeah, I know.
• 34:01
  It's like, where do you slot him in the?
• 34:04
  I just feel like he's like, I just think he's like when you
• 34:06
  watch Forest play to me, people should watch Morgan Gibbs White.
• 34:10
  Like I think he's such a really, really good player.
• 34:12
  It's not just the goals. He does a lot of things off the
• 34:14
  ball too. So I don't know.
• 34:16
  I just wanted to kind of like talk a little bit about him and
• 34:18
  for people, like he said, who don't maybe watch a lot of
• 34:20
  Nottingham Forest, keep an eye on him.
• 34:22
  Elliott Anderson, another great player for that team.
• 34:25
  But yeah, look at they're battling.
• 34:26
  I mean, they're, you know, they're now tied with, you know,
• 34:29
  West Ham and, you know, they're on that last relegation spot.
• 34:32
  But it's going to be a battle down there because they're not a
• 34:36
  bad team. Like they do not feel like a
• 34:38
  team that should be relegated. They still might, you know, But
• 34:41
  I watch them play and they're playing hard.
• 34:43
  Look, they drop. They took points off of us.
• 34:46
  They put towing toe off the city.
• 34:47
  You know, they're playing well, like these teams.
• 34:49
  There is no easy game in the Premier League.
• 34:51
  Yes, yeah. Look at you know you have some
• 34:55
  stat you don't want to talk about Simenio.
• 34:57
  Yes, Simenio's 15th Premier League goal this season,
• 35:01
  combining the Bournemouth and City, not just for City and and
• 35:07
  he had four goals and one assist since joining in January.
• 35:11
  That's for City and City have dropped 13 points from winning
• 35:16
  positions this year. That's that's a good amount.
• 35:19
  Yeah, yeah. We talked I think last week
• 35:21
  about Arsenal have dropped a bunch of points from winning
• 35:23
  positions to City have as well. I mean, it's I just think to me
• 35:27
  it's like, you know, it speaks to just how hard it is right now
• 35:31
  in the Premier League. There's so many late goals, so
• 35:33
  many extra time goals. Every team is just so difficult.
• 35:35
  You've got to play it all the way to the end.
• 35:39
  So I don't know, I don't look at this as like a huge knock
• 35:41
  against Arsenal or City in my opinion.
• 35:44
  Like I said to me, I just think the overall quality of the
• 35:47
  Premier League is probably better than it's ever been.
• 35:50
  These teams are all they all have good managers.
• 35:52
  They all have players at play on international teams throughout
• 35:55
  the world. You know, they've all all the
• 35:57
  money that's come into the Premier League for these teams.
• 35:59
  They've reinvested in the clubs. They've gotten players.
• 36:02
  Some teams do it by, you know, like we talked about, like
• 36:04
  Brentford, Bournemouth, Brighton, they go out and they
• 36:07
  scout and they get these young players and they come in and
• 36:10
  you're like, Oh my gosh, you know, here goes Ryan and Junior
• 36:12
  Kruppy and you know, the other teams.
• 36:15
  It's, you know you're investing by signing the big boys, you
• 36:18
  know? You like Liverpool?
• 36:19
  Yeah, Liverpool go get ESAC or you know, Eketeke and where I
• 36:22
  mean, but it's like. City get Cherokee and Simeno and
• 36:25
  Gayhee all most of them in the winter somehow.
• 36:29
  Well, look, Arsenal sign a bunch of players too.
• 36:31
  Not in the winter. Well, not in the winter, but we,
• 36:33
  we signed up by look, we Arsenal spend money too.
• 36:36
  Where I'm not going to sit here and cry poor.
• 36:39
  You know, with Arsenal we spent a ton of money on guys as well.
• 36:42
  So it's but all these teams have so much money, money and that
• 36:45
  they do spend it, but it's just it's up to the quality of yes,
• 36:49
  of course, City, Arsenal, Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool, these are
• 36:52
  unbelievable talented teams. But like, you know, you forget
• 36:55
  you look towards like the bottom of the table and you're like
• 36:58
  Nottingham farce have a lot of good players, like Leeds are a
• 37:00
  tough team. Brighton are really good.
• 37:01
  You know, Palace have some good players like Newcastle are in 12
• 37:05
  like they're loaded with like good players like it's it's it's
• 37:08
  amazing. You know, like it really is.
• 37:10
  So yeah, you know, like I said, obviously disappointing result
• 37:13
  for City. We talked about they're now 7
• 37:15
  points behind, but they do have a game at hand.
• 37:17
  So. All right, look, let's move over
• 37:19
  to Fulham hosting West Ham. A little London Darby here.
• 37:22
  Yeah, not much in this game. And one, no West Ham I predict
• 37:25
  to be two on Fulham. Somerville in the 65th minute.
• 37:28
  He's been playing well for them. He gets a goal, a bit of a
• 37:32
  miscommunication from the defense here.
• 37:35
  Leno comes out to clear it, then kind of just stands there
• 37:39
  outside his box, walks back. Bassie should go to that ball.
• 37:43
  He doesn't. Somerville gets it.
• 37:46
  Everyone's switched off, no one's on the line while Leno is
• 37:49
  way out and Somerville just gets an easy open goal ball like.
• 37:54
  Yeah, what? So I know.
• 37:56
  Look at what I saw on it like that, right?
• 37:57
  So a long ball gets played over the top of the defense.
• 38:01
  The defenders are running back and the West Ham players are
• 38:05
  running at it. Leno comes out of his box, it
• 38:08
  like kind of hits it off his thigh and so it's sort of
• 38:11
  squirts like a yard or two in front of him.
• 38:14
  Then he just sort of stops. I think Bassey is kind of
• 38:18
  running towards it. He sort of stops and like you
• 38:21
  said, then Somerville eventually just takes it.
• 38:23
  Look, I don't know. This one for me is more on Leno,
• 38:26
  I think is the goalie running out when when a goalie decides
• 38:29
  to like leave his box and come get a ball, you've got it.
• 38:32
  You've got to launch that ball in like the 5th row and then get
• 38:35
  back into like your goal mouth like.
• 38:36
  Well, it was a little too high for him to do that.
• 38:38
  The ball bounced like up to his chest and like upper thigh.
• 38:45
  Yeah, I hear you on that. But like I I think he and he
• 38:48
  does, but he and he takes that first touch, but then then but
• 38:52
  the ball it wasn't like the ball went too far away.
• 38:53
  You. Didn't take a first touch.
• 38:55
  I what I saw Luca was the ball comes across so the ball's over
• 38:59
  the top. He comes out.
• 39:00
  He then like it like hits off his like upper thigh and then he
• 39:04
  stops. He, he touches the ball, he
• 39:05
  moves it forward. And I think that's where Bassie
• 39:07
  thinks, Oh, my goalie is going to take care of the ball.
• 39:10
  And I, so to me, Leno, Luca, Leno gets a touch on it and then
• 39:15
  needs to go and clear the ball like he needs to like I hear
• 39:17
  what you're saying. He couldn't have like volleyed
• 39:19
  it or one timed it away because it was too high.
• 39:21
  But it's that second touch where he didn't sort of freezes.
• 39:24
  And yeah, maybe you could say, well, Bassie needs to just like
• 39:26
  jump on the ball, but I don't know.
• 39:28
  This one for me is on more on Leno.
• 39:31
  I think it's just on their whole defense, but.
• 39:33
  You're like old defense is a mess.
• 39:36
  Yeah, it was. It was a defensive error.
• 39:37
  That's what I'll call it. West Ham now tied for nine,
• 39:40
  force for 17th form, dropped to 10th on 40 points.
• 39:45
  Hadn't been hadn't been held scoreless at home since October
• 39:50
  10. Game run.
• 39:51
  So Yep. Yeah, look, and I do want to, I
• 39:53
  do want to kind of again, do a deep dive here on, on Chris
• 39:56
  Encio Somerville, like I, I, I really like him a lot as a
• 39:59
  player and he's somebody to kind of keep an eye on.
• 40:03
  He's a 24 year old winger. He's from the Netherlands, you
• 40:07
  know, look at he came up with Phionord.
• 40:10
  In the Netherlands he was there from O 8 to 2020.
• 40:13
  He played for Leeds. Went to Leeds.
• 40:14
  So then he was at Leeds for four years where I always felt like
• 40:17
  you saw flashes, you know, like, oh, like this guy looks really
• 40:20
  good. And then it didn't read like
• 40:21
  sort of nothing. So he was there for four years.
• 40:24
  West Ham bought him in 2024 for about $33 million, and I think
• 40:29
  he's really starting to hit his try.
• 40:30
  He has six goals and one assist in 23 matches this year.
• 40:33
  Lately I think he's been really good.
• 40:35
  He he got his first goal in the Premier League for West Ham not
• 40:38
  too long ago and now he has 6. Yeah, he's really sort of, well,
• 40:42
  I think five goals in an assist. But you know, he's really, he's
• 40:45
  really kicked on here. And I just feel like now I'm
• 40:48
  starting to when I watch West Ham games, I feel like week in
• 40:50
  and week out I'm seeing like him and I'm like, wow, OK, this is
• 40:53
  probably what everybody saw at Fine or in Leeds.
• 40:57
  So he's just like, like I said, I think he's a real good.
• 41:00
  Like I said, he's only 24, but I think he's a really nice player
• 41:04
  for them. Obviously, like I said, it's a
• 41:05
  big, big goal for them because they are now Luca, like you
• 41:08
  said, tied for that last relegation spot with Forest
• 41:11
  Spurs only one point. So West Ham are battling,
• 41:15
  battling back again, like I said, every team being really,
• 41:18
  really tough. And you know, it's going to be
• 41:21
  an interesting relegation fight because, like I said, West Ham
• 41:24
  are playing pretty good like. Do you think Somerville will get
• 41:27
  caught up to the like Netherlands national team for
• 41:31
  the World Cup? That's a good, good question.
• 41:33
  I I don't think so. I.
• 41:35
  Mean who do they have for wingers?
• 41:37
  I know like Gac PO but he's more of a striker.
• 41:40
  Yeah, they don't have many options on the wing.
• 41:43
  I know I have to kind of look at like the Netherlands World Cup
• 41:46
  team because you know, like you said, there's there's, you know,
• 41:49
  gac PO. I mean, obviously, you know, I
• 41:53
  know they're do you feel like I know their defense a little bit
• 41:55
  more with, you know, obviously Virgil Van Dyke.
• 42:01
  Yeah. Is is Ake Dutch?
• 42:06
  Or Ake is Dutch but he's at center back.
• 42:08
  Yeah, I know. I'm just thinking of like the
• 42:09
  fenders. Yeah, Ake's Dutch.
• 42:12
  Yeah, I mean, you know, you got Gecko rinders, Shabby Simmons.
• 42:17
  They're all midfielders. Though oh, I've got our boy.
• 42:19
  You're in timber. Oh, Timber.
• 42:20
  Yeah, he, but he's also in defense.
• 42:22
  They've got great defenders like Memphis to pay a forward.
• 42:26
  Yeah, he's. Super strong.
• 42:28
  Yeah, I hear what you're saying. You know, like their strength of
• 42:31
  their team feels like it's more on defense like.
• 42:33
  Midfield. Timber Van Dyke.
• 42:35
  Dumfries Van Deven. Yeah, Matthias Delict.
• 42:39
  I forgot about him. Frimpong.
• 42:40
  Delict Geez. Now 4 words.
• 42:43
  Here you've got clivert. Clivert.
• 42:45
  Yeah. The pie Gecko Waghorst yeah, he
• 42:51
  he he got called up the World Cup team in 2022.
• 42:54
  I. Forgot about Grabenberg.
• 42:56
  Oh yeah, Grabenberg. You know, like, I mean midfield
• 42:58
  or Danielle Mullins. I forgot I mean Liverpool. 3
• 43:02
  Dutch players in their team. Yeah, right.
• 43:04
  I know. It's interesting. 444 with van
• 43:08
  knife. Right, Yeah, here are a lot of
• 43:10
  Dutch players there. I think so.
• 43:12
  I think with with Somerville, I think he's played on someone
• 43:14
  like the U21 teams or some of the younger Dutch teams.
• 43:17
  I don't think he's ever had a cat with the with the like the
• 43:20
  national team. So you wonder if maybe this
• 43:24
  isn't quite his time this summer, but maybe he gets into
• 43:27
  like the rotation, you know, like for the next World Cup
• 43:31
  coming up. I don't know, Like he he, I
• 43:33
  mean, the argument would be his inexperience.
• 43:35
  He's never had a cap with the Nationals, you know.
• 43:38
  But I agree with you. I think he'd be in the mix.
• 43:40
  But I don't know, I mean. Has has Rogers like ever had a
• 43:43
  cap for? I think, yeah, I think Rogers.
• 43:46
  I think Rogers has played with the English national.
• 43:47
  Team. Plus I kind of feel like also
• 43:49
  Morgan Rogers is like a better overall player than some.
• 43:52
  Probably, but like. Rogers is like, I don't know, I
• 43:56
  think he's great summer, but I think it's really good.
• 43:59
  That's. My opinion on it.
• 44:02
  All right, Luca, let's move over to our last game, Spurs hosting
• 44:07
  Palace. Oh my goodness, the dumpster
• 44:09
  fire that is Spurs. And it gets worse. 31 The
• 44:12
  Crystal Palace When they scored first, I predicted one.
• 44:16
  No Crystal Palace Slanky scores in the 34th minute, then Van de
• 44:21
  Van Red Red Car Dog. So what's a dog show?
• 44:25
  Denial of a goal scoring opportunity.
• 44:28
  They call it a dog so. Yeah, that makes no sense.
• 44:31
  But I don't. Make sense?
• 44:32
  I mean, you make dogs. I like it, but it makes sense.
• 44:34
  Denial of a goal scoring opportunity.
• 44:37
  DOGSO. OK, OK, sure.
• 44:42
  Hey. Listen, I didn't make it up.
• 44:44
  All right. Well, yeah, he kind of.
• 44:47
  He pulls SAR down in the box off of a breakaway.
• 44:52
  So yeah, that's a deniable scoring opportunity.
• 44:56
  And he gets like 2-2 arms on her, two hands on her, and you
• 45:01
  could see the force pulling them down.
• 45:03
  Definite red card for me. Yeah, me too.
• 45:05
  It's pretty obvious. And that's APK.
• 45:09
  So SAR converts the PK Strand, Larson and the 45 + 2, SAR and
• 45:14
  the 45 + 8, and yeah, that's pretty much it.
• 45:20
  Before the Solanki goal, the SAW had a goal called back for the
• 45:24
  top of his head being offsides. Wasn't the top of head was just
• 45:28
  like his face, It was the. Top of his face.
• 45:31
  Yeah, like it was. That's unbelievable it.
• 45:33
  Was it was absurd. I, I, I, it's like, I don't
• 45:36
  understand this. I watched it in real time.
• 45:38
  I thought it was a goal. Yes, they stopped it.
• 45:40
  The announcers role, like that's a goal.
• 45:42
  It looked like a goal. Everybody they all of a sudden
• 45:44
  VAR keeps looking at it, keeps looking on it.
• 45:46
  And then when they put the lines up there, they literally it's
• 45:48
  like you said, it goes over his face, like his nose and stuff,
• 45:51
  even though the rest of his body is on.
• 45:53
  I, I don't know, you know, we could do a whole podcast on VAR
• 45:56
  and just how it's basically ruining it.
• 45:58
  Like, like it just absurd to me that that wasn't a goal.
• 46:02
  It was just ridiculous use. It would have been star hat
• 46:05
  trick too. I know, I know, good player
• 46:08
  Lucas our I like him a lot as a player for Palace.
• 46:11
  Like I said, I I just, you know, I like what I kind of see out of
• 46:14
  him. He was really good in this game
• 46:16
  like you said, basically should have had a hat.
• 46:17
  Could have had a first half hat trick.
• 46:19
  Right. Yeah, could have a first half
• 46:21
  hat trick. Yeah, Wharton, Luca, he was good
• 46:24
  to assist. Love him as a player.
• 46:26
  Like I said, I just think he's he's one of those guys and
• 46:28
  unfortunately won't be there much longer.
• 46:29
  A big club will probably come and buy him.
• 46:31
  But yeah, Luca, I think you know, the story of this is just
• 46:35
  just the dumpster fire essentially that is Spurs right
• 46:38
  now. Look, they are now.
• 46:39
  They are now one point above the relegation.
• 46:41
  And Spurs are without a win in last eleven Premier League
• 46:45
  matches. That's a new club record.
• 46:48
  Spurs are now one win in last 13 home games.
• 46:51
  And Spurs are one point above relegation zone and Palace 13th
• 46:55
  on 38 points. That's just yeah.
• 46:58
  Yeah, but it's it's as bad as they were Luke last year.
• 47:01
  Look at their worst this year right now.
• 47:05
  I mean, I'm being serious. Like, look, I we're not Spurs
• 47:07
  fans, OK, But trying to be objective.
• 47:09
  Is there currently right now a worst team in the Premier
• 47:12
  League? Yes.
• 47:15
  Like, no, just when you like when you watch them play on the
• 47:17
  field. Now, I know, I know my points
• 47:19
  there are, but like I'm just saying, when you watch like what
• 47:22
  team right now is playing worse, like in the last two or three
• 47:25
  games in the Premier League? Oh my.
• 47:30
  Like I think it's I don't even think it's close because Art if
• 47:33
  you want to go to the teams below them, we did Burnley,
• 47:36
  Burnley maybe OK, Burnley maybe, Although Burnley Luca in their
• 47:39
  last five at least have a win in a girl.
• 47:41
  But like Wolves right now, definitely playing better than.
• 47:44
  Spurs 100%. West Ham.
• 47:46
  For sure, definitely. Forest definitely.
• 47:48
  All right, Leeds. Definitely.
• 47:50
  OK, now we're getting into like Brighton, Palace, Newcastle.
• 47:52
  Obviously. Obviously, right.
• 47:53
  So look, I watched this game and it's like, I mean it's amazing
• 47:58
  how bad they are. I mean I'm really, I'm not just
• 48:02
  saying that because I don't like them as a team.
• 48:04
  It's like. One would say it's a miracle.
• 48:06
  Yeah, I mean, well, so I mean, the context with this, if Spurs
• 48:10
  were to get relegated, this is a like, it's hard to wrap your
• 48:13
  head around. It's a massive like movement in
• 48:16
  the history of the primarily. It really is like, I mean, it
• 48:18
  really is. So I mean, the context of this
• 48:20
  is people talk about the big six clubs of and that is, yeah,
• 48:25
  Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool,
• 48:28
  Chelsea and Spurs. They are generally considered
• 48:31
  like the glamour teams. They're probably the teams that
• 48:33
  most people root for, probably the teams with the most money,
• 48:36
  the teams that spend the most on transfers.
• 48:38
  They've also maybe not Spurs so much have a lot of trophies now,
• 48:43
  they've won a lot of titles, they've won all the all the, you
• 48:46
  know, like a lot of stuff. Essentially I.
• 48:48
  Know not us. Fake.
• 48:49
  No. Well, no, we have though in the
• 48:51
  pan. We have three Premier League
• 48:52
  titles, like we have 14 FA Cups, you know. 14 FA cups you.
• 48:56
  Have to look at the, you know, you have to look at the whole
• 48:57
  history of the club, you know, and Spurs look at like, I mean,
• 49:01
  they're setting records, like you said.
• 49:02
  I mean, you know, they've lost five in a row and I mean, I
• 49:06
  think right now they're actually the worst team in the Premier
• 49:08
  League. Look at they are never been
• 49:10
  relegated from the Premier League.
• 49:11
  So there's only six teams. We've talked about this only six
• 49:14
  teams that have never been relegated from the Premier
• 49:16
  League, Arsenal, Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Everton and
• 49:21
  Spurs. Would you bet $5 that they are
• 49:23
  getting relegated? Last week, Luca, I, I think I
• 49:27
  said, I don't think they're going to get relegated.
• 49:29
  I, I watched them, Luca and I was like, I think they may, I
• 49:33
  think they are serious. I now seriously believe that
• 49:36
  they have a very strong chance. I think when you look at their,
• 49:39
  what's interesting, if you look at their schedule, they play a
• 49:42
  lot of the teams at the bottom will play each other.
• 49:45
  And so those it's basically going to come down to those
• 49:48
  games. You know, like that's what to
• 49:50
  me, what is like the whole thing is going to come down to is
• 49:52
  like, what can Spurs do when they actually play the teams at
• 49:55
  the bottom of the table? Let's see if I can like just
• 49:58
  bring up. So that's no go on the bit.
• 50:01
  Well, I'll bet you, but what do you think?
• 50:02
  I mean, are you I? Think they're definitely getting
• 50:03
  relegated. You think they're definitely
• 50:05
  getting relegated? Yes, get them.
• 50:07
  Yes, yes, I mean by far. You want them to get relegated.
• 50:11
  Yeah, they are. By far.
• 50:12
  So let me I'll take you through the the other thing too is
• 50:15
  they've got they're in Champions League.
• 50:16
  This is like crazy like, you know, as a team, like.
• 50:19
  Fighting for really what if? They want Champions League and
• 50:21
  then get relegated. I mean, so here like real quick
• 50:25
  here, I'll go through their schedule this evening or their
• 50:28
  next Premier League game at Liverpool.
• 50:29
  OK then. They're home to Forest.
• 50:31
  Big one right at Sunderland. Not easy home to Brighton, not
• 50:36
  easy at Wolves. Not easy, not easy.
• 50:39
  At Villa, home to home to Leeds, big right there at Chelsea and
• 50:44
  home to Everton. So that game with Leeds and that
• 50:47
  game with farce are going to be huge.
• 50:49
  The rest of them? Not particularly easy.
• 50:52
  Particularly easy, yeah. I mean, I don't know.
• 50:55
  I just look at it and you're like, I can't guarantee if
• 50:57
  there's any wins in there. I think they will win some of
• 50:59
  those. But like they have some tough
• 51:00
  games against teams that have a lot to play from Villa, Chelsea,
• 51:04
  I don't know. Liverpool.
• 51:05
  Yeah, Liverpool. Hanging up.
• 51:08
  Yeah, I mean, they're going to go to Anfield this week, I mean.
• 51:10
  They're a fried. It's so I look, I don't know, I
• 51:15
  think it's I'm finally at a point now where I'm like, this
• 51:17
  is just, it'd be like, is it? It would be monumental.
• 51:21
  I don't know if I'm willing to say that yet, but they're
• 51:22
  definitely going down. But I look at it, I'm like,
• 51:24
  they're in like a world of trouble.
• 51:25
  They're in a world of trouble. They've got to get this.
• 51:28
  If they keep playing like they did in this game, they're going
• 51:31
  down. But I still think, look, there
• 51:34
  are still a lot of good players there.
• 51:37
  I think they also may need to fire their interim manager.
• 51:40
  Fire everyone at that. Club, yeah, I mean, maybe.
• 51:43
  Fresh start. Wait, so yes go or no go?
• 51:47
  Yay or nay on the bet? All right, so what's the bet?
• 51:49
  Bet that you think they're going down.
• 51:51
  Yes, if you get me, $5 if they. Bet that they stay up.
• 51:54
  I want them to go down. But right, I will bet you $5
• 51:57
  they stay up because I still think, I still think Spurs will
• 52:01
  not go down. OK, I still think so.
• 52:03
  OK, so we'll bet 5 now. You think they're going down?
• 52:05
  I don't. So we have our second bet for
• 52:07
  the I could possibly we get. One of us could possibly get
• 52:10
  $10, one of us could possibly get 05.
• 52:14
  You never know. You never know.
• 52:16
  Well, there you go, Luca. So there we have it.
• 52:18
  Like I said, you know, interesting, interesting table.
• 52:22
  Right now we head into, we have FA Cup games this weekend.
• 52:26
  So we don't have Premier League games for about a week, but when
• 52:29
  we have Champions League next week.
• 52:30
  So we have FA Cup to get us through the weekend.
• 52:32
  We got Champions League next week and then we'll get into
• 52:36
  next week's games. But Luca, let's put a, let's put
• 52:38
  a bow on Week 29. I need your Goal of the week,
• 52:42
  Team of the week, Player of the week.
• 52:44
  Player of the Week is wait Oh oh oh, Gerald Pedro with the hat
• 52:50
  trick. Hat trick against Villa that's.
• 52:51
  It was an honorable mention of Star because she deserved the
• 52:54
  hat trick too. That's.
• 52:55
  A good call. I like that.
• 52:56
  I like that. Team of the week, we've got to
• 52:58
  go Wolves. Wolves I.
• 53:00
  Know a bit of a streak going here.
• 53:01
  I think I picked them last week too the.
• 53:03
  Team at the bottom of the table. I think it's going back-to-back.
• 53:06
  Team of the Weeks here. Unbelievable beat.
• 53:09
  Villain that beat. You gotta get, you gotta give
• 53:12
  love, some love here. Yeah, they're they're still 12
• 53:15
  points from safety. That's that's still I'm.
• 53:17
  Rooting for them. I'd be amazing if if they could
• 53:20
  do it. I mean, it would be amazing.
• 53:23
  Yes. All right, goal of the week.
• 53:25
  I'm dying to know on this one. I need a goal of the week.
• 53:29
  I don't want you giving me honorable mention stuff.
• 53:31
  Who is the goal of the week? I'm gonna go Gibbs White.
• 53:35
  Yeah, I knew you were because you you just it because it was
• 53:38
  against city. No, no, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 53:43
  No, no, because have volleys. Really.
• 53:48
  I believe you were gone with Gibbs White or Asula.
• 53:50
  Asula did win the game for them. It was a game winner.
• 53:53
  Yeah. I know, but.
• 53:55
  White 1 was more important for us as Arsenal fans.
• 53:57
  Yeah, but I feel like it was just a better goal in general.
• 54:00
  I'm not going by this it. Was an awesome goal.
• 54:02
  Listen, I take it up and away from it.
• 54:04
  It was an awesome, awesome goal for sure.
• 54:06
  All right, Luke, Well, let's, well, let's look ahead to week.
• 54:08
  Week 30, Week 30, Luke. It's hard to believe.
• 54:11
  All right, so these games will start a week from today.
• 54:16
  OK, so on the 14th we start. We have Sunderland hosting
• 54:19
  Brighton. I'm going 11. 11 OK, interesting
• 54:24
  game there. I think that could.
• 54:25
  Be because it's hard to go to Sunderland and Brighton.
• 54:27
  I've been OK playing OK. Yeah, yeah, Brighton have been
• 54:30
  good. It gave Arsenal from trouble.
• 54:32
  They did, they did, but I also feel like Brighton, our team
• 54:34
  that are way better at home than on the road.
• 54:36
  Oh yeah, so. All right, Luca, Burnley hosting
• 54:39
  Bournemouth. I think Bournemouth should get
• 54:43
  the win. 2 nil. 2 now, yeah, Burnley have been real bad.
• 54:46
  I mean, you know, again, if we're going to find a team worse
• 54:48
  than Tottenham, it maybe Burnley, they've been awful.
• 54:51
  Bournemouth, look, they've got to get a win in this, They've
• 54:53
  got to find a way to get three points if they want to challenge
• 54:56
  for 7th. I mean, they are right there.
• 54:57
  This is a game, I know it's on the road.
• 54:59
  Burnley are better at home, like basically every team except the
• 55:02
  Spurs they've got, but Bournemouth have to find a way
• 55:06
  to win this game. No more draws.
• 55:07
  Yeah. All right, here's an interesting
• 55:09
  game, Luca Chelsea hosting Newcastle.
• 55:13
  Oh, oh, I think Chelsea win 32. Yeah, I, I cut it's, it's both
• 55:21
  these teams kind of feel like chaos agents in a way.
• 55:24
  Newcastle games feel like they're just like bonkers all
• 55:27
  the time, like penalties, red cards get great goals.
• 55:32
  Like, you know, you just feel like you never quite know.
• 55:34
  And Chelsea are a little bit like that too.
• 55:36
  Yes, I. Kinda hear you on.
• 55:38
  This, I think there's gonna be like a red card from Chelsea,
• 55:40
  too, yeah. Well, yeah, that's not a bold
• 55:42
  call. They they basically they're like
• 55:44
  they seem to pick I. Got that right.
• 55:45
  In the Orson game, I predicted that there's gonna be a a red
• 55:48
  card, and I got it right you. Did yeah.
• 55:50
  So I kind of feel like you're right on this game.
• 55:52
  It's gonna be like 3-2 or it's gonna be 00.
• 55:54
  I don't. Know yeah it's gonna be awesome
• 55:56
  game or it's gonna be the so bad.
• 55:58
  But I, I kind of, I'm kind of with you on that.
• 56:00
  I think it could be interesting. Yes.
• 56:03
  All right, Luca, our boys are at home.
• 56:04
  Arsenal have a big one with Everton.
• 56:06
  What do you think? I think 2 nil Arsenal.
• 56:09
  Two nil Arsenal OK, West Ham hosting City.
• 56:14
  I want to pick West Ham, but I think I'm gonna go Michael 222.
• 56:24
  Two OK all right well that may seal the Premier League title if
• 56:28
  we win in City draw again I. Mean it could.
• 56:30
  I mean that nine points clear. 9 point gap with 7 to go, Yeah, I
• 56:37
  mean. I but they didn't have the game
• 56:38
  in hand. Yeah, they.
• 56:39
  'D have a game in hand. But they'd be 6 points.
• 56:42
  I mean, that would be a lot so. So maybe this is a a game
• 56:46
  sealing or a title sealing week possibly.
• 56:50
  Well, let's not go that far. You know, look, it's it's a week
• 56:54
  where, you know, City may be playing the word like West Ham
• 56:57
  have a lot to play for. They're playing better.
• 57:00
  You know, going on the road is always a little tricky.
• 57:04
  You know, West Ham's defense is not very good.
• 57:06
  So I think and City's attack is very good.
• 57:08
  So I, I do think you're called 22 is interesting because I do
• 57:11
  think they'll be goals in this. Game, Yeah.
• 57:13
  Because City's defense has been a little leaky too, you know.
• 57:17
  So this is 1 where. Because like, I think non Ham
• 57:20
  Forest and West Ham are relatively equal and if they
• 57:23
  tied non Ham Forest at that, Eddie had and I think they'll
• 57:27
  tie West Ham at London Stadium. Yeah, we'll see, you know, I
• 57:33
  mean, and, and look, Everton coming to the Emirates is going
• 57:36
  to be a tricky game too. I mean, we have a Champions
• 57:38
  League game midweek. So do City though.
• 57:40
  Yeah, so City have to go to Madrid.
• 57:42
  We have to go to Leverkus. We have to go to Leverkus, and
• 57:44
  so both teams will have to travel midweek, which puts a
• 57:47
  strain, you know, on the teams. Oh, actually, wait, it's our
• 57:51
  city. Maybe our city.
• 57:53
  No, no, Yeah, I think I think both of that.
• 57:55
  Right. So I think both teams travel
• 57:56
  midweek. Yeah, Yeah.
• 57:58
  I was wondering if they were at home, but I think both teams.
• 58:00
  So we'll kind of see what that does.
• 58:01
  Everybody's trying to basically survive the FA Cup this weekend,
• 58:04
  you know? So Arsenal played this morning,
• 58:06
  but Cal Fury and Trosar got hurt.
• 58:09
  I think Cal Fiori get him out of here.
• 58:12
  I'm tired. I've never really liked him that
• 58:15
  much, but now I'm just like I've had.
• 58:17
  I've seen, I've seen quite enough.
• 58:19
  He just can't stay healthy and I think.
• 58:21
  Ian Cappier has been a lot better.
• 58:24
  I think he's just a better player.
• 58:26
  Well, maybe. Maybe you know.
• 58:28
  And maybe we could get him for like 20 mil like sell him in the
• 58:31
  summer. Well, we'll see.
• 58:32
  I mean, and you know, look, Citi, Luca, they've, you know,
• 58:34
  they've got to go to Newcastle with a game.
• 58:37
  So I mean, you know, who knows if they win or not, but I think
• 58:39
  everybody's just like you just trying to get through these
• 58:41
  games. There's so many games coming,
• 58:42
  just trying to get through without losing guys because you
• 58:44
  need all these guys. And so we'll kind of see what
• 58:48
  happens there. But all right, Luca, another
• 58:50
  interesting game. Man United hosting Villa.
• 58:53
  Wait, this is a big game. Tied on the two teams.
• 58:56
  Tied on 51 points. I'm going 43 United, OH.
• 58:59
  My goodness Luca 43 Why so many goals?
• 59:03
  Because like both teams have like good attack like and very,
• 59:08
  very mid defense both teams like I think both teams are a little
• 59:12
  leaky on defense and very strong on attack.
• 59:15
  So yeah. Fair enough.
• 59:17
  All right, Forest hosting full. I think 11. 11 Okay, Crystal
• 59:24
  Palace hosts Leeds. I think 1 new Leeds.
• 59:30
  Okay, that'd be a big result for Leeds there.
• 59:33
  Liverpool hosting Spurs boy, 10. Nothing. 52 Liverpool. 52 OK not
• 59:43
  Liverpool just had a 5 two game right It's been takes.
• 59:46
  West Ham, Yeah. So.
• 59:48
  It's relatively possible because like, isn't it like the highest
• 59:51
  scoring, one of the highest scoring Premier League games
• 59:53
  ever? Yeah, I think that the matchup
• 59:55
  you mean, Yeah, yeah, Yeah, I think you're right.
• 59:57
  It's it was. Like it was, there was a game.
• 59:59
  It was 63 last year, I think, or two years ago.
• 1:00:02
  We just, yeah, a couple weeks ago we did something on the
• 1:00:04
  highest scoring matchups and you're right, that was
• 1:00:06
  definitely in the top four. I can't remember or not but.
• 1:00:10
  Good match of the zoo. Yeah, there are.
• 1:00:12
  There's some interesting games here and and it closed out the
• 1:00:14
  week with Brentford hosting Wolves.
• 1:00:18
  Oh OK, wait, I'm going to win the Wolves.
• 1:00:22
  Oh my goodness, the Wolves train continues.
• 1:00:26
  They're going to get another win.
• 1:00:27
  It can be like the hottest team in the Premier League right now.
• 1:00:31
  All right, Luca, there it is Week 30, that'll be next week.
• 1:00:34
  So we have a little wall in the Premier League, but it'll be
• 1:00:36
  good. We can catch our breath.
• 1:00:37
  But again, it's not like there's not games going on.
• 1:00:39
  So all right, Luca, let's give a quick shout out and plug the
• 1:00:46
  Match magazine. Luca, we are in the newest Match
• 1:00:50
  magazine. Yeah, the.
• 1:00:51
  Premier League Playground A picture of you and I at our
• 1:00:54
  podcast station. Or yes.
• 1:00:56
  We are in Match magazine, which is like, you know, you're
• 1:01:01
  probably favorite soccer magazine.
• 1:01:02
  Yes, obviously. Tell me what you love about
• 1:01:04
  Match SO. Much I just like that there's
• 1:01:07
  all kinds of stuff about the Premier League, like all kind of
• 1:01:10
  new transfer news. There's even a little comic like
• 1:01:14
  comic strip about this guy. It's a match man, and he goes
• 1:01:20
  and does a bunch of stuff do it's like all kinds of leagues
• 1:01:24
  around Europe, not just the Premier League.
• 1:01:25
  They they do talk about Europe, but it's main, main focus is the
• 1:01:29
  Premier League. And I just, I just like there's
• 1:01:33
  a quiz at the end. There's a did you know section,
• 1:01:35
  you get posters. Sometimes they can come with a
• 1:01:38
  pack of cards, which is just awesome.
• 1:01:41
  Yeah, I like every part of it. It's an you've done it for a
• 1:01:44
  couple years now. I long.
• 1:01:46
  Time subscriber. You're a long time subscriber.
• 1:01:48
  It's actually your third. Your third time even being in
• 1:01:51
  Match magazine. Yeah.
• 1:01:52
  So it comes out about every two weeks.
• 1:01:54
  Luca's been getting it for a couple years now.
• 1:01:56
  I I think it's by far the best like starter soccer match
• 1:01:59
  magazine for. Kids, but I don't care how it's
• 1:02:01
  a starter, I'm I want to keep doing it.
• 1:02:03
  No, I don't. No, I actually, but it's not as
• 1:02:05
  if it's just like a kiddie magazine.
• 1:02:07
  Like there's a bunch of, they have like some pictures in a
• 1:02:09
  comic, but it's like. And there's like interviews
• 1:02:11
  sometimes. Right.
• 1:02:13
  And they do like little, like pictures of players that you can
• 1:02:16
  RIP out and put on your wall. Yeah.
• 1:02:17
  I've gotten a Haverts poster one time.
• 1:02:20
  Yeah, and that does not happen very often.
• 1:02:22
  It was a Germany one, not a not a Arsenal one, but still.
• 1:02:25
  I have it on my wall right now. Yeah, it's I we're going to put
• 1:02:29
  a picture on our Instagram page of from Match magazine.
• 1:02:32
  But I, like I said, I encourage anybody, especially if you're
• 1:02:34
  looking for something for your kids who are like getting into
• 1:02:37
  soccer or really into soccer, they will love it.
• 1:02:40
  It's to me by far, like I said, the best one, but some of the
• 1:02:42
  other magazines. Like 442, they're a little more
• 1:02:46
  for grown-ups. Yeah, for free to a world soccer
• 1:02:48
  or drawn a blank on the other one.
• 1:02:50
  It's a little more like article driven.
• 1:02:51
  It's a lot more text. So it's it's a little more dry
• 1:02:56
  for kids. There's a lot of good stats in
• 1:02:59
  Match Magazine. They.
• 1:03:00
  Have a ton. They have a ton.
• 1:03:01
  Believe me, I read through it with you and.
• 1:03:03
  And like you said, it comes usually with a pack of cards.
• 1:03:05
  Sometimes they do stickers. Yeah.
• 1:03:06
  So. Yeah.
• 1:03:08
  Well, listen, we thank Match magazine for putting us in
• 1:03:10
  there. It's super cool to see the
• 1:03:11
  playground there. But like I said, would love.
• 1:03:13
  That could like sponsor the POP like in the match because lots
• 1:03:17
  of people read that. Yeah, well, we encourage
• 1:03:19
  everybody to like go out and read Match magazine because
• 1:03:22
  it's, it's awesome. Like I said, I think it's based
• 1:03:23
  in the UK. You can find it online.
• 1:03:26
  I think you can sometimes find it at like Barnes and Noble,
• 1:03:29
  like a bookstore, but you can order online and there's digital
• 1:03:32
  and hard copies. Again.
• 1:03:33
  Yeah. All right, Luca viewer mailbag
• 1:03:36
  time. OK.
• 1:03:37
  Mike, the question to you is if you.
• 1:03:41
  From you. Yeah, this one's from me.
• 1:03:43
  If you could pick 2 soccer stadiums in the world to go to,
• 1:03:48
  what would it be that you have not?
• 1:03:50
  A game. To no Luca has been lucky enough
• 1:03:54
  to go to. Craven Cottage, Stamford Bridge,
• 1:03:57
  the Emirates. Yeah, so.
• 1:04:00
  Yeah, there's, like I said, 3 stadiums.
• 1:04:03
  You right that you've done? Yeah, you've seen games.
• 1:04:07
  You now you we've seen. We've been to the camp new kind
• 1:04:09
  of. You wouldn't see a game.
• 1:04:10
  Well, we didn't. Yeah, we wouldn't.
• 1:04:12
  We weren't in it too. They were like remaking.
• 1:04:14
  It yes, we've seen that in Barcelona.
• 1:04:16
  Oh wait, so I can choose from any?
• 1:04:19
  Yeah, this is anywhere in the world, Anywhere in the world.
• 1:04:21
  Like even if you were like, I want to go see the English
• 1:04:23
  national team at Wembley, like it could be any.
• 1:04:26
  I'm curious, like the combination, what I'm thinking
• 1:04:28
  of this question is a combination of like stadium,
• 1:04:31
  City, team, you know, like all have to kind of fit together.
• 1:04:36
  If I said, look, you get to go to two, OK, you're gonna do a
• 1:04:38
  trip and you're gonna, you're gonna teleport there.
• 1:04:41
  You don't have to worry about flying or traveling.
• 1:04:43
  Oh yes. But like, you know, so like you
• 1:04:45
  may, there may be a team you really like where you're like, I
• 1:04:47
  don't really like love their stadium or the city that they're
• 1:04:49
  in. So I'm, I'm curious for you like
• 1:04:52
  the combination of all those things that come there where
• 1:04:54
  you're like, OK, these would be my top 2 that I have not been to
• 1:04:58
  yet because obviously Emirates is your favorite team.
• 1:05:00
  It's Arsenal, Craven Cottage we've loved that was super cool.
• 1:05:04
  We've done stadium toursing a game so.
• 1:05:06
  You mean for a game or for? For a game, not for a stadium
• 1:05:10
  tour that you're going to go see a game, you know, maybe spend a
• 1:05:12
  day or two in the city, go see a game so you get to see the team
• 1:05:16
  play at their home stadium. What do you got for me?
• 1:05:20
  Alright, I got Santiago Berna Bayou.
• 1:05:23
  OK. And the San Siro.
• 1:05:25
  Oh, alright, OK, give me a little reason.
• 1:05:28
  I like those calls. Why?
• 1:05:30
  Why on that? The Berna Bayou is just like,
• 1:05:33
  you know, I mean, it's just a glamour stadium.
• 1:05:37
  Yeah. I mean, it would be so cool to
• 1:05:39
  go. That's a.
• 1:05:39
  Real Madrid for people that don't.
• 1:05:41
  Yeah, it'd just be so cool for it to go to the Berna Bayou and
• 1:05:44
  see Real Madrid play, hopefully get sports or Athletico Madrid.
• 1:05:48
  Yeah, yeah. See Madrid Derby or Alaska.
• 1:05:51
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a great call.
• 1:05:53
  I mean, look, they're like maybe the most famous team in the
• 1:05:56
  world, loaded with stars. The stadium got like renovated
• 1:05:59
  and it's supposed to be like just amazing.
• 1:06:01
  Like that's a good one. And Madrid's a very, very city.
• 1:06:06
  And then, OK, so San Ciero in Milan now, now curious, are you
• 1:06:10
  going to see AC Milan or Inter Milan?
• 1:06:11
  Too, I'm going to see the clash. Which actually is tomorrow.
• 1:06:15
  Wait, really? Yeah, they play them all.
• 1:06:17
  So it's funny you should say that because yes, tomorrow you
• 1:06:20
  have. What time, What time, What time?
• 1:06:23
  Tomorrow is at 3:45. You have what's called the Derby
• 1:06:26
  della Madonna. Or Milan Darby.
• 1:06:30
  Or Milan Darby, but apparently that has to do with a cathedral
• 1:06:33
  In Milan. I think there's like a big
• 1:06:34
  statue of like the Virgin Mary. Like Oh my and those fans are
• 1:06:39
  bananas. I just hope I don't like, die.
• 1:06:42
  Yeah. He's like, don't they throw
• 1:06:44
  flares? They do all kinds of it's it's
• 1:06:47
  pretty cool to watch. But like, hoof, it's a little
• 1:06:50
  scary. It's a little intimidating.
• 1:06:51
  But I think I would like to go there.
• 1:06:53
  OK, so you're going. I'm older.
• 1:06:54
  Well, you're OK. Yeah.
• 1:06:56
  I, I, that's a great, great call, Luca, because you're
• 1:06:58
  right. Like the, the sort of the
• 1:06:59
  passion of the Italian fans. It's probably no more famous
• 1:07:02
  stadium in Italy than that one. Yeah.
• 1:07:04
  I mean, to see the Darby game would just be unbelievable.
• 1:07:08
  Yeah. In fact, I encourage people to
• 1:07:09
  tune in tomorrow. It's awesome.
• 1:07:10
  I mean. So we.
• 1:07:11
  Kind of wrap the league up. I think it's a 10 point gap.
• 1:07:14
  So like AC Milan have to win this and they're sold 7 points
• 1:07:17
  back. But it's going to be wild.
• 1:07:19
  I mean these, these games like, said Darby.
• 1:07:21
  They do not like it's. It's like the Old Firm.
• 1:07:25
  Right, right. It's a.
• 1:07:26
  Little bit like that. So is that would it?
• 1:07:29
  Would I still be able to watch it even with my two games
• 1:07:32
  tomorrow? Yeah, you may maybe.
• 1:07:35
  Able because one's in the morning and one's a little bit
• 1:07:38
  later. Yeah, actually, yeah.
• 1:07:39
  I think that with the time of the year games tomorrow, you'll
• 1:07:41
  be able to make it back and see you.
• 1:07:42
  So, yeah. And for people that don't know,
• 1:07:44
  what's interesting is that the two teams from Milan, AC Milan
• 1:07:48
  and Inter Milan share the same stage.
• 1:07:49
  They play at San Siro, the same stadium in the city.
• 1:07:52
  So it's kind of a wild situation where like two major big teams
• 1:07:56
  actually play at the same stadium.
• 1:07:58
  That's I can't think of another example.
• 1:08:00
  In the rest of the world, two teams you know, let alone huge
• 1:08:04
  rivals, play at the same stadium.
• 1:08:06
  I know that's gotta get like a little messy with like the fans
• 1:08:10
  and stuff. All right, Luca, what's a good
• 1:08:12
  mail bag? I like your answers on the mail
• 1:08:14
  bag there. So let's move over to our Did
• 1:08:15
  you know section Luca and we are finally closing off the last
• 1:08:19
  Premier League team we have. Yeah.
• 1:08:21
  Did you know every all 20 Premier League teams and we have
• 1:08:24
  made it to the end, We have made it to Wolves.
• 1:08:27
  Wolves. Come on.
• 1:08:28
  Where's the wolves? The old gold.
• 1:08:32
  Because their shirt color is not just gold, Luca.
• 1:08:34
  It's old gold, of course. They it's very old.
• 1:08:37
  Black Shorts Luca. They were formed in 1877, a
• 1:08:41
  Saint Luke's Football Club, and then they merge with the local
• 1:08:44
  Cricket Club in 1879 to for perform Wolverhampton Wanderers
• 1:08:51
  in 1888. They're they're one of the 12
• 1:08:54
  founding members of the Football League.
• 1:08:55
  Yeah. So that year, 1888, very famous
• 1:08:58
  was the that's sort of when the Football League was founded,
• 1:09:00
  which sort of became the core of English football.
• 1:09:04
  And then it's become the Premier League.
• 1:09:05
  So they're one of the 12 founding members.
• 1:09:07
  Yeah. They won their first FA Cup.
• 1:09:09
  Look, in 1893, the 50s were kind of their Golden Arrow.
• 1:09:14
  They had their three first league titles.
• 1:09:17
  They won an FA Cup in 49 and 60. So that kind of run at the end
• 1:09:21
  of the 40s to the 60s would be like the golden era for Wolves.
• 1:09:24
  Otherwise, it's sort of an up and down team.
• 1:09:27
  They're owned by a Chinese company called Fosun
• 1:09:30
  International that bought them in 2016.
• 1:09:34
  So they won like look at like 3. So for their trophy cabinet,
• 1:09:37
  three top flight championships, like I said, all in the 50s.
• 1:09:40
  So 5458594 FA Cups, 2 League Cups and they've won four
• 1:09:47
  community Shields. They play at Molyneux Stadium
• 1:09:51
  which was built in 1889. It's just crazy how old some of
• 1:09:54
  these stadiums are. It was the first stadium built
• 1:09:57
  for use by a Football League club, so some history there
• 1:10:01
  holds about 32,050. Who won the first stadiums with
• 1:10:04
  floodlights? Oh.
• 1:10:06
  And Molyneux Luca, I didn't know this, his name for Benjamin
• 1:10:09
  Molyneux, who's a local merchant and landowner.
• 1:10:13
  And so his last name is attached to the stadium most of the time
• 1:10:15
  now it's a big, you know, corporation pays for the naming
• 1:10:18
  of Emirates. Eddie had all that kind of
• 1:10:20
  stuff. That's kind of cool.
• 1:10:20
  It's still named for this guy who used to own the land back
• 1:10:23
  then. So Benjamin Molyneux has his
• 1:10:26
  name on the stadium. Luca Their biggest rival, Aston
• 1:10:31
  Villa, Stoke, Birmingham City, But their biggest rival is West
• 1:10:36
  Bromwich Albion, the Black Country Darby both founding
• 1:10:41
  members of the Football League. So again, you have the geography
• 1:10:45
  they're they're locating what's called the West Midlands, so the
• 1:10:47
  middle part of the country towards the western side.
• 1:10:50
  So West Bromwich Albion. Luca they're close together.
• 1:10:53
  But also think about they've been playing against each other
• 1:10:55
  on and off not every year since 1888.
• 1:10:59
  The Black Country Darby, I think that's a pretty cool, yeah,
• 1:11:01
  sounding Darby game there. Luca, their famous manager was
• 1:11:06
  named Stan Coolis, managed there from 48 to 64.
• 1:11:10
  So he kind of presided over that golden era of the 50s and the
• 1:11:13
  league titles. Bill McGarry was a manager
• 1:11:15
  through the 60s. Rob Edwards, of course, there
• 1:11:17
  now legends Billy Wright. Luca's a guy back in the 30s.
• 1:11:22
  Forties and 50s have played there.
• 1:11:24
  Peter Broadbent, Ron Flowers, Burt Williams, Matt Jarvis, Jody
• 1:11:29
  Craddock, Steve Bull, Andy Thompson, Premier League players
• 1:11:35
  that have played through there. They've had some big players.
• 1:11:37
  Matthias Nunez. We talked about Gibbs White.
• 1:11:40
  Gibbs White? Yep, good call.
• 1:11:42
  Cunha now with Manchester United.
• 1:11:45
  Pedro Neto, Ruben Nevez, Max Killman Was there Riot 8 Nori
• 1:11:50
  starts from Man City. You just mentioned Gibbs, White,
• 1:11:53
  Nathan Collins, Robbie Keen, Connor Cody, Joelle Lescott,
• 1:11:59
  Jimenez with Fulham. All right, Yeah.
• 1:12:01
  Wayne Hennessy, Fabio Silva, Nelson Sameta, Willie Bowley,
• 1:12:07
  you know, they've had some guys now that like went on to play
• 1:12:09
  and that's sort of the problem is they've let all these guys go
• 1:12:12
  and a lot of guys are playing and doing well at other teams.
• 1:12:15
  Their their most expensive sale is they sold Cunha this summer
• 1:12:19
  to Manchester United for about 87.5 million most expensive buy.
• 1:12:24
  Cunha. From Atleti in 2023 for 59
• 1:12:28
  million. Oh, here's the Athletico.
• 1:12:30
  Yeah, yeah. Wow.
• 1:12:32
  There have one I think one statue Oh no they the statues
• 1:12:36
  outside of Molyneux Lucas stand coolest the manager and then
• 1:12:40
  they had an owner named Jack Hayward and they have a statue
• 1:12:43
  of him outside as well so I don't think they actually have a
• 1:12:46
  statue of any players outside of Molyneux stadium their highest
• 1:12:49
  Premier League finish ever Lucas 7th in 2018-2019 so there it is
• 1:12:56
  I guess we're all totally informed on every Premier League
• 1:12:58
  team right we've made it through our digeno section so we're. 46
• 1:13:02
  weeks. So we started it.
• 1:13:04
  We started that in the 4th week of.
• 1:13:08
  Well, no, it's Week 29 now, so we started it probably in Week 9
• 1:13:12
  because we had to do 20 teams. Oh, right.
• 1:13:14
  I'm, I'm thinking of the alphabet for whatever reason,
• 1:13:16
  yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:18
  So there you go. Look, we're gonna we'll shift
• 1:13:20
  our did you know I got a little something else planned for next
• 1:13:22
  week. So yeah, hopefully everybody
• 1:13:24
  kind of like just like hitting some highlights on all these
• 1:13:26
  teams that we watch. But all right, Luca.
• 1:13:29
  Well, real quick, let's plug our Instagram page, Premier League
• 1:13:32
  Playground. We put up some pictures from the
• 1:13:35
  week. We'll have pictures of our match
• 1:13:37
  magazine, a little plug. And yeah, we just kind of it'll
• 1:13:41
  let you know when a new episode's out.
• 1:13:43
  So come find us at Instagram Premier League Playground.
• 1:13:46
  We've been emailed. People want to e-mail us any
• 1:13:48
  mailbag questions or want us to plug anything
• 1:13:51
  premierleagueplayground@gmail.com and we have a YouTube page.
• 1:13:56
  We're working on Premier League Playground, so we end all our
• 1:13:59
  shows though Luca with our trivia penalty kick shootout.
• 1:14:03
  We'll go back and forth asking each other trivia questions,
• 1:14:06
  just like a penalty kick shootout.
• 1:14:08
  Who do you want to go first or do you want to go?
• 1:14:10
  2nd, I'm going to ask you first ask.
• 1:14:11
  Me first, all right. What do you got for me?
• 1:14:14
  This country won the very first FIFA World Cup in 1930.
• 1:14:18
  All right and just before you answer, this is going to be I
• 1:14:21
  have a little bit of a theme for my.
• 1:14:24
  Our next 5 episodes are going to be about international soccer,
• 1:14:28
  so this week it's World Cup history.
• 1:14:32
  OK, well, it's good we a World Cup is in.
• 1:14:34
  Yeah, just a couple. I think it's in less.
• 1:14:36
  It's now less than 100 days. So I saw a couple days ago we're
• 1:14:39
  100 days from the start of the World Cup.
• 1:14:40
  So it is the World Cup is bearing down on us.
• 1:14:43
  I know it's hard to think about because we're trying to finish
• 1:14:45
  out all these leagues and Champions League, but we're
• 1:14:47
  gonna be flipping over to the World Cup real soon and so yeah,
• 1:14:51
  it's good a little bit this one. I think I do know Luca.
• 1:14:54
  I think I can get everybody a second to get their answers in,
• 1:14:57
  but I believe it was Uruguay. Correct.
• 1:15:00
  All right, Luca, Arsenal trivia for you.
• 1:15:03
  What three players have been captain for Arsenal in the
• 1:15:07
  Premier League this year? This year.
• 1:15:09
  This year we've had three different players captain the
• 1:15:11
  team. A lot of times because of injury
• 1:15:14
  to certain players, you know, not being available.
• 1:15:17
  So what three players in the Premier League have capped in
• 1:15:19
  the team? Odegard, Gabrielle and Marino.
• 1:15:23
  Not Odegard, Gabrielle. Odegard 13 times.
• 1:15:27
  Gabrielle five times. Somebody else who did it 10
• 1:15:29
  times. Not Marino.
• 1:15:30
  Saka. Saka.
• 1:15:31
  Yeah, I'm going to give it to you.
• 1:15:32
  OK. Yeah, Yep.
• 1:15:34
  Sakas. Yeah.
• 1:15:34
  Odegard, Saka, Gabrielle. OK, this country has won the
• 1:15:39
  most FIFA World Cups. The most FIFA World Cups I
• 1:15:44
  believe. I know.
• 1:15:44
  This one too, I believe, is Brazil.
• 1:15:47
  That's correct, it's 5. Five.
• 1:15:49
  OK, I was going to say 5 or 6. OK, All right, 2 for two.
• 1:15:52
  Luke, I'm up on my World Cup trivia here.
• 1:15:55
  All right, we'll go back to the Premier League, Luke, and say
• 1:15:57
  what team holds the record for most points in a Premier League
• 1:16:01
  season? So what team at the end of the
• 1:16:04
  season, what they are the most points ever in a Premier League
• 1:16:07
  season? I mean, I want to say city, but
• 1:16:15
  I feel like that's too obvious. I can't think whoever with that,
• 1:16:22
  with winning it. They did win it.
• 1:16:24
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, they want it. This is the most ever.
• 1:16:26
  Yeah, they they definitely, yeah, they want it.
• 1:16:29
  I want to say this, you think won by like 19 points or
• 1:16:31
  something like that. Trust your gut.
• 1:16:35
  I'm between United and City. I would just go City.
• 1:16:39
  It was city. 2223. No, no, it's in 1718.
• 1:16:44
  They had 100 points. They went 32, four and two, I
• 1:16:48
  mean. It's a sort of absurd.
• 1:16:50
  Yeah, 100 points. I mean, is, is just out of this
• 1:16:53
  world. So yeah, but it's, it's crazy.
• 1:16:55
  I know. I I think like they were kind of
• 1:16:57
  like low 90s for their their most recent run.
• 1:17:00
  But yes, it was that that was in 19/17/19.
• 1:17:02
  Eighteen seats all. Right, so 22 for me.
• 1:17:06
  The only African country to reach a World Cup semi final as
• 1:17:10
  of 2026. I think I know this one too.
• 1:17:13
  I think I know this one too. I believe the only African
• 1:17:15
  country to reach a semi was Morocco.
• 1:17:17
  Dang it. Yesterday.
• 1:17:20
  All right, look, I got a hard one here, OK?
• 1:17:22
  I had a feeling you may get the 1st 2, so I'm bringing the hard
• 1:17:24
  one here. We talked recently.
• 1:17:26
  Well, recently we talked in this podcast about Alexander Isack
• 1:17:29
  being the highest paid transfer in Premier League history.
• 1:17:33
  That was this summer. It's like $175,000,000, who is
• 1:17:37
  the second highest player transferred.
• 1:17:41
  And I will give you a hint, he transferred out of the Premier
• 1:17:44
  League in 1718 for $160 million. So like I said, this is the
• 1:17:51
  second highest transfer and he went from I can get you if I
• 1:17:55
  want, I can give you the team. So this is hard.
• 1:17:58
  I'm gonna go Paul Pogba. That's a really good guess.
• 1:18:01
  That's a really good guess. It's not Pogba though.
• 1:18:04
  OK, give me the teams give. Me.
• 1:18:05
  OK, so he went from Liverpool to Barcelona.
• 1:18:07
  Oh, Phil Cotino. Oh, OK, good.
• 1:18:10
  I didn't even know. I didn't even know if I gave you
• 1:18:11
  the teams if you get that, because like Cotino, like he's.
• 1:18:14
  Like, not really. Felt like we haven't heard of
• 1:18:16
  him like almost since. It's crazy.
• 1:18:17
  Pogba was like a very expensive. Paul Pogba is up there, he has
• 1:18:21
  to be top 10. For are you going to count that
• 1:18:24
  or no? I'm.
• 1:18:24
  Going to give that to you for sure.
• 1:18:26
  That was a hard one, like I said, because you know, I mean
• 1:18:28
  I'm asking you the second highest transfer be $160 million
• 1:18:32
  and it was almost 10 years. And he wasn't even like that.
• 1:18:34
  Good for Liverpool, average there.
• 1:18:36
  He's all right. He was.
• 1:18:37
  Good, I would say. I thought he was good for
• 1:18:38
  Liverpool and then he basically just did nothing really after
• 1:18:41
  that. I mean, he was pretty good for.
• 1:18:43
  Oh, OK, he was. I met for Barcelona.
• 1:18:45
  Yeah, Yeah, he was. He really did not do much for
• 1:18:47
  that. Yeah.
• 1:18:48
  All right. Yeah, I'm going to give that one
• 1:18:49
  to you. Yeah, Good job.
• 1:18:50
  All right, this country hosted the 2014 World Cup and lost
• 1:18:54
  seven won in the semi final to Germany.
• 1:18:57
  Oh, German. Germany.
• 1:19:00
  No wait. Brazil.
• 1:19:02
  Brazil. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
• 1:19:03
  Yeah, I was saying yes, that game.
• 1:19:05
  Oh my gosh, I remember watching that game and not even believing
• 1:19:08
  my eyes. What?
• 1:19:08
  Was I know I didn't see. To see Brazil lose like that.
• 1:19:12
  I throw from turf. I saw a video of a guy who
• 1:19:16
  predicted 71. Really.
• 1:19:18
  Germany here. How do you know that he really
• 1:19:20
  predicted it? Though I saw a reporter asked
• 1:19:23
  him. Asked him.
• 1:19:24
  Yeah but like couldn't AI like just pretend like the year was?
• 1:19:28
  I assume they asked him before the game, not after the game.
• 1:19:31
  Yeah, before. OK.
• 1:19:32
  But something like I, I don't know, like I always feel like AI
• 1:19:34
  can like dock his updates. Felt like a Brazil fan and he
• 1:19:36
  was like, yeah, 7/1 for Brazil. But I, I don't know, I, I don't
• 1:19:42
  know if that's real, but I've seen it like a couple times, so.
• 1:19:44
  That'll be a while. Yeah.
• 1:19:45
  I wonder if he should have bet on that.
• 1:19:46
  He would have gotten crazy. Yeah, $100 and win like a
• 1:19:50
  million. Yeah.
• 1:19:51
  All right, look at Tebow Courtois.
• 1:19:53
  You just talked about Real Madrid and when you go to
• 1:19:55
  Santiago Bernabeu, Tebow Cortois, the goaltender for Real
• 1:20:00
  Madrid comes from what country? Belgium.
• 1:20:03
  He comes. From 4:00 to 4:00.
• 1:20:05
  Mike tie here. Wow.
• 1:20:06
  OK. All right.
• 1:20:09
  Kind of annoying that it's my last question because I know
• 1:20:11
  you're going to get this, The player who scored the infamous
• 1:20:15
  Hand of God goal in 1986. I mean, gosh, I'm almost
• 1:20:20
  insulted you're asking me this. Police asked me who that was
• 1:20:23
  against or anything. Like that, I'm going to ask you
• 1:20:25
  who it's against. Well, I know.
• 1:20:26
  That famous Hand of God goal, of course, was Diego Maradona, one
• 1:20:31
  of. The most and it was against
• 1:20:33
  England. Yeah, yeah, he, he basically
• 1:20:36
  went up for a header and punched the ball in with his hand, and
• 1:20:38
  it was not called. The goal stood very, very
• 1:20:41
  famous, controversial goal. Yeah, for an amazing player,
• 1:20:45
  Diego Maradona, one of the best ever.
• 1:20:47
  All right, Luke, we have a tiebreaker because my question
• 1:20:50
  involves a list. See how many you can get.
• 1:20:53
  All right, in the in the Premier League history, which you know,
• 1:20:56
  the Premier League started in what year?
• 1:20:59
  9293. Correct.
• 1:21:01
  So we're talking Premier League, OK, history, the top ten teams
• 1:21:06
  wins. So I want to know the list of
• 1:21:09
  the top ten teams so the total amount of wins.
• 1:21:12
  Not points, not draws, not losses, just wins.
• 1:21:16
  In general, just overall wins since overall.
• 1:21:19
  Wins since the Premier League started, I have the top ten
• 1:21:22
  teams. OK, if you can get, I'm going to
• 1:21:26
  say, let's say I'll give you, let's say if you can get 8, then
• 1:21:30
  you'll win. If you don't, I win.
• 1:21:33
  But you're weighing 54 right now, yeah.
• 1:21:35
  I know, but I'm going to give you like a bonus on this that if
• 1:21:37
  you can get eight of the 10. Geez.
• 1:21:40
  All right, let's go, Let's go. There's going to be some easy.
• 1:21:44
  Ones, well, I mean right after that, Arsenal, City and United.
• 1:21:48
  OK, so Man United is number one at 768.
• 1:21:51
  Arsenal are #2 at 711. Man City are five at 567.
• 1:21:56
  So you've got 1-2 and five, right?
• 1:21:58
  Off Liverpool. Liverpool are number 3690.
• 1:22:02
  OK, Chelsea. Chelsea are number 4679, so
• 1:22:08
  you've now knocked off the top five.
• 1:22:10
  Newcastle. Newcastle, OK, look at you
• 1:22:13
  number eight, 449. That was a little bit of a
• 1:22:17
  tougher 1. The top five, super easy.
• 1:22:19
  I still think 6 is pretty easy. The seven through 10 are the
• 1:22:23
  trickier part of this. But yes, the Newcastle #8 in
• 1:22:26
  terms of Premier League wins. Tottenham Campions, listen.
• 1:22:31
  Yes, they are 550. Eight.
• 1:22:33
  Oh my gosh, what place are they in?
• 1:22:35
  Think about it again, Luca, they've been there the whole
• 1:22:37
  time, OK, So they've never been relegated.
• 1:22:40
  I mean, when you get relegated, you're not going to like rack up
• 1:22:42
  wins. So Spurs are 6 at 5:58 and look
• 1:22:45
  at there been one of the big clubs.
• 1:22:47
  I mean, you know, like it or not, they've won a lot of games.
• 1:22:50
  Not lately, but. Not all.
• 1:22:52
  Right. So you've gotten 6, you gotten 7
• 1:22:56
  of the top 10, all right. One more.
• 1:22:59
  One more I can. Just roll through the all.
• 1:23:01
  Right, I'll give you 2 guesses all right, but only two guesses,
• 1:23:04
  and if you get one of the next three then you win.
• 1:23:09
  OK. All right.
• 1:23:10
  It definitely gets a little harder, but I mean, it's
• 1:23:12
  available. Wins, wins.
• 1:23:15
  Trying to think of like seems like a pretty good back in the
• 1:23:20
  day. Villa's not on there, honey.
• 1:23:27
  Admitted that an official guess you can't just throw names.
• 1:23:29
  Yeah. Villa are on there.
• 1:23:31
  Oh. My gosh, yes.
• 1:23:34
  Villa are #9 at 4:26, you want to All right, so I'm going to
• 1:23:40
  let you win the penalty. Shed.
• 1:23:41
  Do you want to take a shot the last two?
• 1:23:42
  Yes, yes, yes. I want to try.
• 1:23:44
  OK, OK. So are they both in the Premier
• 1:23:48
  League still? Yes, OK.
• 1:23:51
  Is, is is Brentford on there? No, Brentford is not.
• 1:23:58
  OK. It helps if you're in there all
• 1:24:02
  the time, right? It helps if you've never been
• 1:24:05
  relegated. Which have I missed about?
• 1:24:10
  Wait. It's Arsenal, Chelsea, United,
• 1:24:13
  City, Tottenham. Wait, oh, oh, West Ham.
• 1:24:19
  No. Well, OK, OK, West Ham are on
• 1:24:21
  the list, but they have been relegated.
• 1:24:24
  So West Ham are 10. Oh, wait.
• 1:24:26
  What's the six team that have never been relegated?
• 1:24:30
  Who do Arsenal play next week? Everton, yeah.
• 1:24:36
  Everton are #7 all time Premier League wins, so more than
• 1:24:39
  Newcastle, Villa and West Ham. So OK.
• 1:24:41
  Yeah, I mean, look, like I said it, if you're playing every year
• 1:24:44
  in the Premier League, like Spurs, like Everton, like all
• 1:24:47
  the other big teams, then yeah, like, you know, you're going to
• 1:24:50
  rack up wins it that helps. But if you get relegated and
• 1:24:53
  knocked down for a couple years, then it makes it a lot harder.
• 1:24:56
  So yeah, there it is. I thought that was kind of a fun
• 1:24:58
  one, but All right, Luca, wow. We went a little long today, but
• 1:25:03
  yeah. And you got anything else for
• 1:25:04
  me? There's a final whistle and
• 1:25:06
  that's full time for us. Thank you for listening.
• 1:25:08
  Bye.