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Week 3 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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All right, welcome in to the PLP, the Premier League
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playground. Dad Bjorn with me, of course, my
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main man, the lad. Luca Miller.
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And we're here to talk about Week 3 of the Premier League.
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A little look ahead to Week 4, but Week 3 in the books.
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Also, Luca today the transfer window close at 2:00 PM Eastern
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Time. So no more transfer talk.
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I'm I'm kind of ready to be done with it.
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I'm ready for the team to be set.
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Let's play some games. Let's focus on that and we're
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transfer rumors until January. So teams are now set no more
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moves. You ready to talk about some of
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these games? Yep.
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All right well, let's dive into to week 3.
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The the biggest game Luca on the the schedule this week Arsenal,
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Liverpool did not go our way. Final result was Liverpool 1
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Arsenal 0. Luca, you had your prediction
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was drum roll Liverpool 1 Arsenal 2.
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So you missed this one in your predictions.
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I feel like you were picking with your heart.
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I get it. But.
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Luca, talk to me about the the biggest game of the week here.
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Well, actually it wasn't that good of a game.
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It was pretty boring. No team really tried to go
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forward that much and the only big highway in this game was so
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bro slides free kick. That was just amazing.
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It was, it was a amazing free kick in the what was the 83rd,
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84th minute. Talk to me about like the lead
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up to that. There's some talk about whether
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that should have been a foul or not.
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Talk to me about the lead up to the free kick.
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I do think it was a foul, too many kind of clips and down and
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it gets him. So I do you think that's a foul?
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Yeah, Virgil Van Dyke plays a nice through ball to to Curtis
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Jones, who turns well, he's heading into goals.
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Ubamendi, he clips them. I think it's definitely a foul.
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I'm not quite sure why people are debating whether this is a
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foul or not. That leads to a free kick.
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Luca. They step up.
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I mean, he's what, 2526 yards out?
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Take me through the kick, Luca. This is pretty amazing, Kick I.
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Mean. It was just like kind of like
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Declan Rice is against Real Madrid.
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It just crawls around the wall, it hits the post and then goes
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in. Yeah, I I don't, I don't know
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that you can fault the goalie on this in terms of his positioning
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or the wall. This is just like an
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unbelievable free kick. You just, I don't know, you tip
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your hat, you say someone, you know, scores like that amazing
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free kick. I don't think anybody's at fault
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here. Credit the soba Sly on this one.
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Yeah. Yeah, he's a he's a great, he's
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a great striker of the ball. It doesn't surprise me.
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I you know, Luca, when, when the free kick, when I'm watching
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this game, they put the ball down.
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I see Salah and Soba Sly over the ball.
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And I'll be honest with you, Luca, I almost wanted Salah to
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take it because I know Soba Sly can hit it with with power and
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he gets them on frame a lot. Like it's not the first time he
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sort of hit these sort of wonder goals.
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Yeah. Yeah, OK.
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Yeah, you're in agreement. Talk.
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We were talking the other day about like how Kilo Moon and
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Sobo Slide are like their team's kickers because they can hit it
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with precision, power and accuracy.
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Yeah, and, and it's ironic to me, Liverpool was a little short
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on defense as what friend Pong was hurt, so he's usually their
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right back. So besides a midfielder, he's
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filling in a right back. Who did they have last year,
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right, who took some pretty good free kicks?
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Silvis like channeling his inner Trent Alexander Arnold.
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So credit to them. Big win.
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You know, I agree with you. Look, there wasn't much to talk
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about else in this game. It was kind of a boring game,
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you know, possession wise. Liverpool at 53%, Arsenal's 47
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shots. Arsenal had more 11 to 9 shots
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on goal. Liverpool had more, 3 to 1, but
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you know, this is now Arsenals in their last 13 trips to
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Anfield do not have a win. You know, and I well and I know
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and it speaks to how hard it is to win at Anfield.
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It speaks to how good Liverpool is.
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Park, St. James Park, they're all so hard
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to go play at. It it is, you know, there are,
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there are obviously are certain stadiums that are more difficult
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to go win at. But think about this a little
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bit. In the past two Premier League
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seasons, Liverpool have lost a total of two games at home.
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So it is very, very hard to go win there.
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And to be honest with you, as Arsenal fans, we probably would
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have taken a draw and you go there and you get a draw and
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then you try to beat them at home.
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It didn't happen, you know, again, there, there's no fault
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in losing at Anfield. Arsenal, hell have to bounce
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back. But Liverpool?
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Three games, three wins. The defending champs roll along.
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Yeah. Yeah, So all right, Luca, let's
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move on to the next game. Next game we had a London Derby.
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Chelsea, Folom. All right, Luca, you predicted
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Chelsea winning 2 to one. Guess what?
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Chelsea won two to nothing. So take me through this game.
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Yeah, so one big controversial thing was like, was it like a it
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was a disallowed goal for this young kid, Josh King.
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And So what they called was a foul on Moonies.
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I'm probably butchering. Yeah.
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Muniz. Yeah.
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And he, he does like a steel move and then kind of like steps
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on his foot when he's planting. And it he called a foul.
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And I disagree with that one because it's a skill move you
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have to do. You have to point your foot
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somewhere. So yeah, they had an awful call.
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Yeah, this, this was one of the worst of our decisions I've seen
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in years. I mean, this is crazy to me.
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So when when the ball comes in, Muniz, he does a great skill
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move, actually spins, collects the ball, passes it on his foot,
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comes down on another player, but where he's not going in for
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a challenge. This is like you said, it's a
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skill move that you're doing. Your foot has to come down
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somewhere. The the other thing is the call
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on the field was a goal. Yeah.
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So they had to get VAR involved. And VAR is level is supposed to
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be clear and obvious error is where they would send the
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referee over to look at it. And I, I, I just, I can't for
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the life of me think of any way that there's a clear and obvious
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error here that the referee needs to go over for this.
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Yeah. And and so, you know, the other
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thing too is that everybody will single out the VAR official for
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sending the referee over. But what I'm a little tired of
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Luca, they why do the referees go over to the screen and always
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agree with VAR? They're supposed to go over
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there just for another look. The idea is for them to have
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another look at it. But he was sitting right.
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The referee during regular during the regular play of the
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game was right there, looked at it, said no foul.
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And it it's just sort of a charade when they go over
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because you know they're going to overturn it, but they don't
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have to. So I, I thought the the, the
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referee on this one, he made the right call and then gets himself
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in a world of trouble by overturning this.
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It's this is ridiculous. Social media after the game that
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they made the wrong decision. Exactly right.
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So they came out the next day, said it was a wrong decision.
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A lot of good that does Fulham or their fans.
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I mean, it's you know, so yeah. And look, Josh King, he's the
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real promising player for them. I've, I've liked watching him
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the first couple weeks. He's exciting.
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It should have been his first Premier League goal gets taken
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away from him, but well, take me through the rest of the game.
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So yeah, we have the disallowed goal.
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Take me through the rest. So there is a penalty and was it
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for like it was for a handball or a foul?
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For a handball. Handball and.
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Yeah, Before that you you've got Jao Pedro with a nice header, a
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ball comes across to him, you know, he heads it in from pretty
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close range. That's what gets him on the
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board. Oh, yeah.
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And something about that was it was like really close to
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halftime, right? They originally added on 8
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minutes. And it was kind of a little bit,
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they were like hustling and turn, like kind of jostling a
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little bit. The referee called them over,
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talk to him for like a 2025 seconds, then they go over and
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they go to take the corner and they miss it.
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It's it. They get another corner.
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But do they are they allowed to take this corner?
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What do you think? I think they're allowed because
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of the 20 seconds that were added on for the pushing and
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shoving, but. Yeah, you know, it's tricky with
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these where like how much time do you keep adding on, right, so
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that he's the referee's talking to him.
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So if you say, well, if he's adding that time on, then they
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probably do get to take that corner kick.
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But if, if that's sort of just in the natural run of play, then
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they probably should not have been allowed to take that corner
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kick. I I, I think if the referee's
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talking to him, that should be added on because I think the
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idea is to try to get as much playing time in.
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So I, I don't necessarily know. I had a problem with that corner
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kick being taken. Ciao.
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Pedro heads it in. Chelsea's now up on nothing.
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Yeah, late in the game, like you said, Luca, Luca, you said we
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called for a handball. Chelsea's playing the ball
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across. What do you think of the
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handball calling that? I think it's close, but I do
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think it's a handball. Yeah, his hands kind of not in a
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natural position. The right call and Enzo
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Fernandez gets the finishes of PK2 Nothings.
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Fantasy who, like I'm chow, blah.
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I know that. I think that was him who like,
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went to shoot it and then someone turned around, forget
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who it was. But yeah, they kind of did this
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time, like to block it from their face.
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But yeah, I think it's a handball.
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Yeah, it's stopping the kind of the flight of the ball, like I
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said, the hands kind of up in a little bit, not of a natural
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position. So, yeah, other than that, you
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know, other things in this game, Liam Delap went out with an
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injury early on. He may be out for a while for
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them. Stats from this game, you know,
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Chelsea had more possession, 55 to 45.
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Shots were 1311 Chelsea's favor and shots on goal.
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Chelsea had six to three. Yeah, funny thing about the
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Delap injury is that I don't know if you've heard, but before
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the Chelsea form game, Nicholas Jackson was going to go to
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Bayern Munich. But funny thing, on the way to
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Germany, on his plane to Germany, the WAC got injured.
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So they had to keep them. They didn't sell them.
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So that's just a funny thing about that game.
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Yeah, I know literally like in real time a forward goes down
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and they're now calling him up from Germany saying you may need
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to come back. Yeah.
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So that that feels one to watch here as a transfer window closes
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that now apparently may still go through.
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So something to keep an eye on is whether that now, because
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they now recalled one of their lone mark and I'm going to
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butcher this name GUIU GUI, I don't know, but they've recalled
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him from for a loan Chelsea making and there does always
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seem to be making moves and stuff.
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So apparently Nicholas Jackson may still go to Byron.
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Just. How would he still go if the
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transfer windows closed? Well, I, I don't know the latest
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exact news on that. So all right, Luca, let's move
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on to Man United versus Burnley. We've got 3 two Man United, you
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picked Man U to win 3 nothing. So you have the right team
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winning. You also have the right amount
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of goals for Man U. So take me through this one.
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Manchester United to get their first win of the season.
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So yes, it was actually close to the end.
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And I mean at Old Trafford, I think United should have done
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better. They barely squeaked by.
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I thought there's a pretty a few pretty nice goals from Foster
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and the other Burnley. But yeah, I thought they are
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pretty nice goals. And then at the end what in
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added time they call a penalty. I know we were like just like
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finishing up the Bournemouth, Tottenham game and we were
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switching it on and they were like announcing the call and we
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thought we were like, what is happening?
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And it was like it was a bit of a trip and in my opinion, this
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is not a foul. Ahmad feels a little bit of
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contact and goes down. In my opinion, it's not a foul.
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But of course they call it. Bruno scores and United win 3/2.
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Yeah, so this game it starts off with an own goal, like early on
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United get in a kind of a gift where they they head the ball on
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frame, hits the crossbar, rebounds off of Cullen for
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Burnley goes in. But Burnley and Sir Foster, like
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you said, gets a goal to even it up and Buemo gets a goal, make
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it 21 and Anthony for Burnley ties it up.
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So, you know, Burnley just kept coming back in this game even
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though United kind of dominated possession and play.
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But yeah, so the big talking thing is is of course Bruno
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makes the penalty kick. He missed it last week, but
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makes this one and they win 32. But yeah, it's, you know, it's
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interesting because the way you see it is Ahmad's dribbling it
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to me. He starts to get fouled outside
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the box. Yes, that's what I was about to
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say, yeah. But then he kind of goes down
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inside the box. So, you know, in the referee's
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eyes, you know, is it where the foul started?
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Is it where the foul kind of ended?
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I mean, it, it's sort of a bit of a Gray line there.
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I, I think there is contact. Ahmad goes down easily and I
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think he knows what he's trying to do.
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He's trying to draw the PK by doing that.
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A lot of players do that. I'm not signaling him out by any
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means, but yeah, I don't know this one.
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I, I, I, I would have maybe said, well, that the foul
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started outside the box just because he continues on and then
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ends up on the ground in the box.
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Probably should have been a free kick to me outside of the box.
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I don't. Think it was a foul at all?
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I mean, he barely gets touched and if it's it's outside the
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box, definitely not a penalty, but yeah.
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Okay, well like I said, United fans, they're going to be happy
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they get the the win for this one tough midweek.
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Everybody was talking about losing to Grimsby Town 1/4 tier
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team. It's like a Major League
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Baseball team losing to a single a team.
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A lot of pressure on Ruben Ameren, so this may be relieved.
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A little bit of pressure on him. Well, really, I mean, they took
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it to the last minute to beat Burnley at Old Trafford.
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I don't know if that takes off a lot of pressure.
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Well, that's a good point. You're right and it's, you know,
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beating a newly promoted team at home.
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You know, they, they dominated in the stats possession.
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They had 62% possession to 38 for Burnley United.
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You Man United 26 shots to Burnley 6, only six of them on
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goal. Burnley only had three, so
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United get the win. All right, let's move on.
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Luca to Wolves and Everton. Luca, you the final of this game
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was Everton three Wolves 2 and Luca you had Everton winning one
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nothing. So we're going to give you
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credit on the big board for a win picking.
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Yeah. So take me through this one,
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Wolves and Everton. So one thing about this is that
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Greenwich whoa might be the assist chain this year.
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He had two more assists and had a few.
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Had a nice ball like a header into in Indi.
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Huh, the first goal was Beto so he plays a nice ball in.
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Beto gets the first goal for them.
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The Indi does have the second goal for them now.
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In between though the the the so Beto scores the first goal gets
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them on the board. Wolves though, answer with a
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real nice goal, their first goal.
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Take me through that one. So it's I forget his name.
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What? What is it?
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What was the guy's name? Who played it in the wing?
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Oh, Munezi plays the ball across real nice you.
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Know a nice ball and then Wang one touch finish into the top
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corner at night and really nice goal.
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Yeah, and that that leveled it at 1:00.
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And then, like you said, Everton answers again with a goal and
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die, gets a goal. He's been a nice player for
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them. Yeah.
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Yeah. It will be really good this year
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for them. Yeah.
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So that put them up two to one, then Dewsbury Hall comes back
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makes it 3 to 1. That was a nice goal.
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Yeah, that one. Watching.
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Yeah, that Dewsbury Hall goals real nice one.
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And then Wolves get kind of a late one to make A32.
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Rodrigo Gomez scores, but Foster did have a goal overturned for
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offsides. So you know, ever Everton gets
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another win ever. It's it's weird to see Everton
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in these high scoring games. I feel like Everton usually has
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Everton lost. You know, it's a good question.
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You know Everton, I think that they lose week one.
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Sorry I'm looking it up here. Everton do have one loss, I
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think they lost their 2O and one.
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The only teams that are that have not lost are actually
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Liverpool, Chelsea and harder to think of the third.
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But Crystal Palace have not lost.
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They have a win, no. They're in the eights and but
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haven't lost. Well, winning two draws, you
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know so. No, they're in 15.
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Yeah, they're, yeah, they're in 13th right now, so they have a
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win. We'll get to them in a second
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here. But yeah, not much else to say
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about the Wolves Everton game. You know, Everton again, good
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win for them. They're they're kind of clicking
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along and like you said it, Greelish has obviously been a
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great addition for them so far. You know to what?
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2 assists last week, two more this week.
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Yeah, 4 assists. All right, let's go on to the
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next game. Spurs, Bournemouth.
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Luca, you pick Spurs to win this to win 21 but Bournemouth
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winners 1 nothing. Tell me about the what happened
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to Spurs here. So really firstly goal, Evan
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Nielsen, nice finish but Spurs played awful and it feels good
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to say as an Arsenal fan, but they played terrible.
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I don't know what happened in that game.
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I mean it's not easy playing Bournemouth but they did not
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play great. I mean would they have like 2
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shots? Yeah, I'll get to the stats in a
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second, but take take me to the to the goal here.
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So Evan Nielsen kind of gets it, does it, kind of gets like
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deflected and kind of goes into the top corner.
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Pretty nice goal, not bad. Yeah, early goal in the 5th
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minute, Evan Nielsen, but you're exactly right.
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The story of this game. Bournemouth should have won this
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5. Nothing like I'm exaggerating.
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Yeah, when it's funny when you look at so look at the the stats
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on this game are wild. Spurs had 62% possession but got
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out shot 19 to 5 and Spurs did not even register a shot I think
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until past this at one point in the shot. 68 minute or
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something. Yeah, At one point the shots
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were 15 to nothing for Bournemouth in this game, shots
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on goal. Bournemouth had six, Spurs had
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one. Yeah, I mean, you know, Spurs
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were awful in this game, which is crazy because they came in.
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Good. Playing great they beat city,
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they were two and O so you know this is kind of what reminiscent
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of spurs from the past couple years where they're just so up
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and down you just never know what you're getting yet so yeah
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Spurs, you know, topsy turvy team Bournemouth, though amazing
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they lose all these they lose all these great players that we
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talked about they did keep bringing keep bringing guys
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through playing really well they're just a fun team they're
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easy team to root for because. You know, for that, they just
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keep bringing these great players in and playing well.
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Areola, great coach, people don't talk about him enough.
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Yeah, Bournemouth, Yeah, get a big win on the road.
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My top 10 for coaches. Yeah, that was a great pick.
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Like I said, I, I, you know, people need to talk about him
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more because, you know, there's a lot of teams that lose a bunch
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of their good players and don't do well.
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Bournemouth and there's such a small club, you know, their
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budget, small, small stadium, come from a small town.
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Yeah. So, you know, obviously, look,
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I'm going to root for anybody against Spurs, but love to see
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Bournemouth doing well. Yeah.
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All right, Luca, let's move along to Sunderland, Brentford.
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Luca, your pick on this game was Sunderland when he won nothing.
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Well, guess what Luca? They won 2 to 1, so good call on
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that. Let's.
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Go home, take me through Sunderland and Brentford.
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So yeah, Sunderlanders, there's some pretty decent goals in this
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game. I mean, 21, I didn't get at the
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stadium of what we were talking about that the other day, but
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overall played pretty good. What do you think?
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Yeah, I mean, you know, the goals kind of came late.
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There was a miss PK early on. So what what happened is, you
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know Renildo? Oh yeah, that led to a PK, but
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Sade steps up and actually misses the PK A.
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Terrible PK. Yeah, not a great effort on the
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PK from this, but yeah, the goals kind of came late and the
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winner came real late. But Igor Thiago scores in the
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77th minute. Yeah, I mean, that was insane
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saying we, we were watching the other game and we saw that
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Sunderland had scored in the 97th minute.
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That was that was insane. We watched it.
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Great ball from Jacques and nice header into the bottom corner.
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Yeah, that's the winner. You know, like I said, Lafaye
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had scored a goal to tie it up for Brent Ferdo.
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He had. There was a PK for them in the
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82nd minute. But yeah, the late, late winner
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Isador with the winner, Jacques plays the ball in.
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Obviously Jacques, the next Arsenal player we like.
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Yeah, yeah. So it's, you know, Sunderland's
22:40
US, one of those newly promoted team.
22:42
They're doing really well. You know, Brentford, they came
22:45
in, they were unbeaten in in 11 of 13 in 11 of the last 13 away
22:50
games. So they're they're pretty good
22:52
on the road. You know, they've obviously lost
22:54
a lot of players, but they're generally a pretty good team on
22:57
the road. So nice kind of home win for
22:59
Sunderland. They had 54% possession.
23:03
They outshot Brentford 12 to 7, so good win for them.
23:07
Did they need Lisa? Yeah, so we'll we'll get into
23:10
some of the transfer talk later, but we says yeah, he went on off
23:14
the Newcastle. He hasn't played for them.
23:15
Oh, OK. He was saying he kept wanting to
23:17
go and yeah, they eventually did sell them today, so.
23:21
How much? I don't know.
23:23
We'll get to. That all right, so moving on to
23:26
Leeds Newcastle this game, Luca, your prediction for Leeds
23:30
Newcastle was Newcastle winning 2 nothing, but the game ended
23:33
00. Yeah, pretty boring game.
23:37
Not really much to talk about in this game.
23:39
I mean, there's the real talking point in this game that there's
23:44
nothing to talk about, I mean. Yeah, it's hard.
23:46
In a 00 game there really wasn't much going on.
23:49
Newcastle, you know, they they had way more possession 57%, but
23:53
they got actually out shot by Leeds 10 to 80s.
23:57
You know, the the big talk around Newcastle has been, you
23:59
know, the coming and going. They've been trying to sign it
24:01
forward. You know, Alexander Esack saying
24:03
he's not going to play. They finally signed their their
24:06
big striker Nick and that we're probably going to butcher this
24:09
name of Voltamati. Lucas already gave him a
24:12
nickname of Voldemort. From Harry Potter.
24:16
But he came in for $93 million. He's a 23 year old.
24:20
He's 6/6. He had twelve goals last year in
24:23
the Bundesliga, so that kind of started the dominoes of Esac
24:27
eventually leaving. And like I said, we'll come on
24:29
to the some of the transfers later.
24:30
But yeah, that that was sort of the big news before.
24:33
No Anthony Gordon because he got a red card the week before.
24:36
But yeah, not really much to say in this game.
24:38
Kind of a boring 00 tie. So all right, let's keep it
24:42
moving to Brighton and City, which Luca, your prediction was
24:46
a City 2 nothing win. However, shockingly, Brighton
24:51
wins 2 to one over city. So take me through this game.
24:54
So City score decently early, so Marmoush kind of gets past
25:01
little defenders, kind of pokes it, and Holland is right there
25:05
in front of the goal and kind of hits it in.
25:08
Then later I was over at my friend's house.
25:12
He's a City fan and he had the game on and I came right when
25:19
they had they had their first penalty.
25:21
It was a handball. Matthias Nunez jumps up the the
25:25
ball hits him in the hand. It's it not in a natural
25:28
position. Definitely handball for me.
25:31
City take or sorry, not City. Brighton take the penalty, score
25:36
it 11, then later in with the 89th minute, Gruder, he kind of
25:44
takes it by himself, kind of gets past a few defenders and
25:48
kind of hit past the goalie and hit it into an open goal to win.
25:52
Yeah, it's like I said, this kind of shocked me a little bit.
25:55
This, this result. I mean, again, Brighton's
25:57
another one of those teams always kind of plays you tough
26:00
like a Bournemouth team, you know, they're, they're
26:04
interesting. They're, they've got a super
26:06
young manager, Fabian Herzler, who actually Pep Guardiola, the
26:10
coach of Man U, has actually never beaten Herzler, which is
26:13
kind of interesting. But big thing is he made 4 Subs
26:16
in the 61st, 61st minute, which really turned this game kind of
26:20
on its head and really kind of bright.
26:21
And we're a little bit more potent in attack after that.
26:23
Not how many times you see 4 Subs come on at once.
26:27
So that's sort of like turn the game around for them.
26:29
Brighton were pretty good. Holland, like I said with that
26:32
first goal. So he has 88 goals in 100
26:35
Premier League appearances. He's amazing that and he's the
26:38
quickest to that number in Premier League history.
26:42
But yeah, you know, the city of course has more possession.
26:45
I mean they're going to out possess everybody.
26:47
It's what they do. They had 64%, but shots were
26:49
even at 12:12 and shots on goal. Brighton actually had 7 to
26:53
City's 3. Is hers where?
26:58
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think he's in his 30s.
27:01
He's the youngest coach in the Premier League.
27:02
I don't know his exact. Ever.
27:06
I don't know. Should be a.
27:08
Did you know in the next? We'll have to bring that
27:10
knowledge back to the people. Yeah.
27:14
So like I said, Brighton get a nice get a nice win at home.
27:18
Brighton are very tough at home. I think we I think we talked
27:21
about this before. I think they only lost three
27:22
times all all last year at home. So tough place to go play
27:26
actually. All right, let's move on to
27:28
Nottingham Forest and West Ham. Luca, you picked Nottingham
27:32
Forest to win 3. Nothing.
27:34
Well, Luca, it was a three nothing game.
27:36
Yeah, but. West Ham 10 and two West Ham go
27:40
into City Ground and thump Nottingham farts.
27:44
What happened here, Luca? That was this was definitely a
27:46
shocker. So he's kind of at the end of
27:48
the and like the dipping end of the game, like towards the end
27:53
of the game and West Ham just shoots 3 right off the bat.
27:59
Bowen and then Wilson gets one and who is the other one?
28:06
Forget who. Paki Tao with the PK Paki.
28:09
Tao with that PK, But yeah, there were quick three goals and
28:14
they get to win and that's hopefully that'll turn them
28:17
around. They've been terrible.
28:19
Yeah, this one was a bit of a shocker to me.
28:21
And this game again was sort of one of the 00 heading into like,
28:25
you know, the the mid 80s and the minutes.
28:27
There's not much happening. And then wow, you know, three
28:29
goals in about 8 minutes. Like you said, Bowen, Pocky Tau
28:33
with APK that came from a foul in the box.
28:36
It was pretty clearly a foul on APK there.
28:39
Forest actually at 58% possession, but West Ham out
28:43
shot him 12 to 11 shots on goal. West Ham at 8 to Forest is 3.
28:47
So Forest a lot of possession, some shots, not a lot of them on
28:51
goal. But it goes to show you, you
28:53
know, put the ball on goal, right?
28:54
I mean, 12 shots, you put eight of them on goal and you score
28:57
three goals. So yeah, credit to West Ham.
29:00
We'll see if this can turn them around.
29:03
You know, they they needed some positive result and they
29:05
definitely got it here. Yeah.
29:08
All right, the last game Luca we had was Aston Villa versus
29:12
Palace. Luca, you predicted A11 tie but
29:16
this was a three nothing win for Palace here.
29:18
I definitely didn't expect this to be a three nothing win.
29:22
I thought it was actually going to be pretty close, but who
29:25
knows. The palace as you like to say
29:28
and they played really well. Nice goal from GUI.
29:31
He and they they deserved the win at Zilla Park.
29:37
That was just I did not think they would lose that bad at
29:41
home. Yeah, Villa Villa looked pretty
29:44
bad. I mean the the two biggest
29:45
surprises to me for poor play whatever the spurs look who
29:49
looked awful and and but Villa looked really bad here too.
29:52
It's. Really bad for the past three
29:55
weeks. Yeah, and, and palaces look
29:57
good. I mean, like, you know, Palace
29:58
came in unbeaten in their last thirteen matches across all
30:01
competitions, you know. How many teams are unbeaten on a
30:06
Liverpool? Liverpool, Chelsea and Palace
30:09
now, after three weeks in the Premier League, are unbeaten.
30:12
But you forget Palace finished up well last year, of course, of
30:15
the FA Cup winners. So you know, they have not lost
30:18
a match in, in, in last 13. But yeah, Mateta with an early
30:21
PK yeah, Mark Gay, he had a real nice goal.
30:24
And then SAR had their third one came off kind of a header at the
30:27
post. But and this was I mean, Palace
30:30
deserved this win And this, this was a a pretty dominant
30:33
performance. You know, Villa did have a lot
30:35
of possession, but they just didn't do a whole lot with it.
30:37
58% possession. They had thirteen shots, but
30:42
obviously didn't, didn't get a goal.
30:43
And they're, they're struggling right now.
30:45
You know, another thing about Palace is that they also beat
30:48
Liverpool in the Community Shield.
30:51
Yeah, that was and and that's when they had Frim Kong too.
30:55
So I don't know what Palace might be the one of the dark
30:59
horses this year. Well, and credit to them.
31:01
I mean, they obviously lost, you know, their best player.
31:04
They lost their best player last year and Michael always say went
31:06
to Bayern Munich, they lost their best player this year went
31:09
to Arsenal, Aborici ESA, they were going to lose Mark Gahey,
31:12
but apparently that collapsed at the last minute.
31:15
But they you know, they just keep losing guys and and they're
31:18
another one that you kind of I kind of grouped them in a little
31:21
bit with Bournemouth, Brighton. They can lose guys, but they
31:25
seem to be very well coached. They seem to play a good system
31:29
and they get results. So credit to them absolutely in
31:33
this one. Yeah.
31:34
Yeah. All right, we go.
31:35
That wraps up Week 3. So all right, we've wrapped up
31:38
the week. Luca, you know what you got to
31:40
do? You got to give me your goal
31:41
player and team of the week. So let's start off with the goal
31:44
of the week. Luca, what was the goal of the
31:45
week? Pretty obvious sober slice free
31:48
kick against Arsenal. It's hard to say, but I mean,
31:51
it's sad to say for an Arsenal fan's perspective, but great
31:56
goal, unbelievable kick and yeah, that's my goal a week.
32:00
Yeah, I don't think I would disagree with that.
32:02
It was it was great free kick. It was in the biggest game.
32:05
It was a winner. I mean, you know, there were
32:07
some other good ones like you mentioned Mark Gay, he had a
32:10
real nice goal. The the.
32:15
No wangle. Wangle was a nice one.
32:17
The Dewsbury Hall goal was a nice one.
32:19
So those are those are all ones that people want to go kind of
32:21
look them up, see the highlights on those.
32:22
Those are all pretty nice. But yeah, I think Soba slice,
32:25
free kick, it pains me us to say it, but yeah, all right, look
32:28
who's your player of the week? Who's the Player of the week
32:31
this week? That's I think Greelish with the
32:36
2 assists. Greelish.
32:38
Did you pick them last week? I don't think so.
32:41
I want to check that. I don't.
32:42
I don't believe. I don't think I did.
32:45
Well, that's fine. And we can even if it is.
32:47
Yeah, I kind of forget who you picked last week, but yeah,
32:49
Greelish is all right. So you like Greelish?
32:51
The the the assists. He's kind of been a difference
32:54
maker forever since so far I didn't.
32:56
It was Ellie Men and Jai, yeah. Yeah, Everton, you know, look
33:02
again, I Everton always to me was a type of team that would be
33:06
they have a great goalie. They're going to play like real
33:09
organized on defense and they're going to try to just sort of,
33:11
you know, get a goal and win it one nothing.
33:13
I thought then that's always been their sort of, you know,
33:17
MO. But this year they're like I
33:18
said, they're putting the ball on the net a little bit.
33:20
And so, you know, I think Greelish has added something
33:23
there. They've got them on loan from
33:25
City. Buy them.
33:27
They might. And it's like I said, it's smart
33:28
business. I think they get a guy that's
33:29
sort of fallen out of favor but clearly was a great player
33:32
before he went to see me and even had a good year his first
33:34
year or two maybe with them. So yeah, and he has sort, he's
33:40
fallen out of favor. Maybe there's been some other
33:42
people that have overtaken him. So, yeah, good call there.
33:45
Yeah. Jack Reelish, like I said,
33:47
leading the Premier League in assists, making a difference for
33:49
Everton. All right, Luca, who is your
33:51
Team of the Week? West Ham was an honorable
33:56
mention of Brighton and I'll tell you why.
33:58
So West Ham on. I thought West Ham we're going
34:02
to get smacked by not am forced at the City Ground and they
34:07
ended up winning three nil with like three goal unanswered goals
34:13
and played very well. This is like the West Ham that
34:17
they need to see. Their fans need to see if they
34:21
want to stay up this year. But yeah, I felt they played
34:23
outstanding for the game they were going up against.
34:27
All right, I like it Luca West Ham, your team of the week.
34:29
So all right Luca, let's look ahead to week 4 here.
34:32
Now we have an international break coming up so unfortunately
34:35
we have no games this weekend. So you know, luckily we'll have
34:39
some NFL football to watch, but yeah no Premier League games
34:42
this weekend, everybody. So we're talking week 4, which
34:45
will be in two weeks. Let's start looking ahead on
34:47
Saturday. Saturday we got a full slave
34:49
here. We've got eight games to look at
34:51
on Saturday, there's two on Sunday.
34:53
The first game of the week is actually Arsenal, Nottingham
34:55
Forest at the Emirates look like what's your pick for that game?
34:59
I'm. Going 32, Arsenal. 32 OK, so
35:05
Luca likes Arsenal to bounce back with A32 win.
35:07
All right, look, the next game up you've got Bournemouth at
35:10
home against Brighton. At home, 21 Bournemouth. 21
35:17
Bournemouth OK now Luca Newcastle at home against
35:19
Wolves. Newcastle, I'll put two nil.
35:25
Newcastle, I think they'll get the winner.
35:28
So Newcastle is going to bounce back with some of their new
35:30
signings. Luca we've got Fulham and Leeds
35:35
at Craven Cottage. I mean, that'll be one nil,
35:39
Fulham. One nil, Fulham.
35:40
All right, look at Everton versus Aston Villa at their new
35:43
Hill Dickinson Stadium. Oh, I mean, I think 11. 11 OK,
35:48
we got Crystal Palace hosting Sunderland.
35:52
My names will be 31 Crystal Palace. 31 Palace OK West Ham at
35:57
home against Tottenham. We got a London Derby here.
36:00
I think that'll be 1/1. OK.
36:04
And then the last game on Saturday, you've got Brentford
36:08
hosting Chelsea, two more London teams here who do.
36:11
You like Chelsea will get 2/1. Chelsea wins 21 right?
36:15
Sunday Luca, we open up with Burnley hosting Liverpool.
36:19
Who do you like there? I think Liverpool will get that
36:22
win. 3 Nothing. 3 Nothing, all right.
36:25
And then to finish up on Sunday we got the Manchester Darby Week
36:28
4 here. OK.
36:30
City and Man U and the Manchester Darby it is at the
36:34
Etihad. Who do you like in the
36:35
Manchester Darby? 31 City. 31 city.
36:38
OK, All right, so we've got your picks in for Week 4.
36:43
Looking around the rest of Europe, not a whole lot to look
36:46
at again, we're going to be keeping an eye on some of the,
36:48
you know, World Cup qualifiers, people going off with
36:51
international for international duty there.
36:54
So all right, let's get on to viewer mailbag.
36:59
All right, and people want to know, Lucas, some of your grades
37:02
on the big transfers. All right, so transfers, we've
37:06
had a bunch of flurry today. I'm going to go through some of
37:09
the biggest ones here, Luca. All right, you're going to give
37:12
me a grade, okay, looks like you're in school, right?
37:15
A+ is the best F is a failing grade.
37:18
So you're going to take into consideration the player, the
37:21
cost. All right, so biggest transfer
37:26
in the history of the Premier League, Luca went down today.
37:29
Alexander Esac coming from Newcastle to Liverpool for
37:32
$175,000,000. Luca, what's your grade on this
37:36
one? B + D plus.
37:42
Say that because they don't really need me sick.
37:45
They're getting him because he's good.
37:46
I said that a couple Times Now. They already have Ekatika trying
37:52
to prove to him that they don't need him.
37:54
But like cost is insane. I don't know how they're not in
37:59
debt and I know they make a lot of money from the Premier League
38:02
and Champions League and they're a big team, but like 170, jeez.
38:07
But yeah, B plus. It's a it's a crazy fee, but
38:10
he's an amazing player. But it is interesting that they
38:13
signed Eketike, who is very similar to him.
38:16
They both play more of a striking position.
38:18
I think Eketike can play a little bit out wide, but they're
38:22
both this sort of tall, athletic type of player.
38:24
I, I, it's, I just find there's a lot of similarity.
38:27
So it'll be interesting to see the way they they use them.
38:29
But yeah, he's a he look, he's a great player.
38:32
Every team would want them, but man, oh man, that's a lot of
38:35
money. All right, look at the next
38:37
highest, which broke the Premier League transfer record before
38:39
Isaac Florian Verts went from buyer lever cues into Liverpool
38:43
for $146 million. Give me your grade on that one,
38:47
Luca. He's a good signing.
38:51
I think he'll be good for them. OK, so you like that.
38:54
Yes, To me, he hasn't shown a whole lot through three weeks,
38:57
but. Time like Gilgrez, he didn't
39:00
show a lot in the United game, but then came out with two goals
39:04
in the next game, so yeah. I like it.
39:06
He he's a, he's a young player. I I think he's going to be
39:09
really good too. I like that signing.
39:11
It makes a lot of sense to me. Again, it's it's three weeks.
39:15
I agree with you. Give these people time.
39:16
Let's not freak out. All right, Luca, the third
39:20
highest. We're still talking Liverpool.
39:22
Liverpool with the top. Oh my God.
39:25
Money transfers this window. Absolutely bananas.
39:27
Hugo Ecatique from Eintracht Frankfurt to Liverpool.
39:30
He was $111 million. Give me your grade on this one,
39:34
Luca. Also going to give this AB pause
39:37
because same thing. I mean they got 2 strikers and
39:40
we don't know if this guy's going to be insane yet.
39:43
He did play good the past two, no three weeks, but but he's
39:52
really young so you got to give him time.
39:53
So yeah. Yeah, I again, I think it's a
39:57
little strange to me that they're buying two players that
39:59
are so similar. Liverpool, like I said, those
40:02
three are the top three Premier League signings for money.
40:06
They signed other, of course, they added Kirkes, they added
40:08
frame Pong. They've spent almost half a
40:11
billion dollars, the sum on. He would be like 90 million.
40:19
Well, I think he was going to be about 35 because even the last
40:22
year of his contract he was going to be quite as much.
40:24
But mind blowing stuff like how much there it is.
40:28
But all right, let's move on to a non Liverpool player here.
40:30
All right, so the next highest Luco did we just talked about
40:33
going from Stuttgart to Newcastle.
40:35
Nick Waldemate for 99 million. What do you like on that?
40:40
What do you think of that group? He's going to be because I don't
40:44
know if he's good. He scored twelve goals in the
40:47
Bundesliga, It's OK, but I don't.
40:50
I don't know if these guys can be good yet, so I'm going to be.
40:52
This feels like a lot of money, this type of player.
40:55
Like I said, 12 goals last year is not bad.
40:58
You know, he's looked good on some of the, you know, the, the
41:02
youth German teams. So, you know, like he's a big
41:07
prospect, I get it. But when you look at some of the
41:09
cost for some of the other strikers, to me this is a lot, a
41:12
lot of money. Newcastle, to me, I think we're
41:15
a little bit desperate. You know, they missed out so
41:18
many strikers. Yeah.
41:19
And and so I think that runs the cost up.
41:20
So I don't know, I'm not as to me, I'm giving a more C minus on
41:24
this one. I'm not as generous as you are
41:26
with the greatest. All right, look, let's go on to
41:29
the next one. Benjamin Sesco, RV Leipzig to
41:32
Man U for 89,000,000. What's your grade on this one?
41:36
B. Another B.
41:39
He'll be insane. Yet it's it's hard because when
41:42
these guys come from other leagues, you got to give them
41:45
time and yeah. OK, Yeah.
41:47
I mean, he's another one coming again, coming from the
41:50
Bundesliga. He's another sort of physical
41:53
specimen. He's big, he's tall, he's fast,
41:55
he can jump, you know. Yeah, he's of course going to
41:57
need some time to settle in. It's just it's a big unknown.
42:00
He could be, it could be great or he could sort of not do much,
42:04
but this is the cost of getting strikers.
42:07
You know, 89,000,000 feels like a lot to me.
42:11
But you know, strikers, there's a premium on it.
42:13
You, you definitely pay more money for that position.
42:16
All right, let's stay with Man U here.
42:18
The next highest Luca was Brian in Blaimo coming from Brentford
42:21
to Man U. He was 87,000,000.
42:23
What's your grade on this one? I think that's an AI don't feel
42:27
really good. He he was really good at
42:29
Brentford. He scored a bunch of goals.
42:32
I don't know if he'll score that many goals, but I think he's
42:35
going to be really good for United.
42:37
I like this one a lot too. You get a Premier League proven
42:39
player. He knows the league, he knows
42:41
the teams. It's for 20 goals.
42:43
I think last year. I I like this one a lot.
42:46
I think he's he really wanted to go to man U2, which is I think
42:49
is a big thing when a player really wants to be on a certain
42:51
team. Like he basically said no to
42:52
every other team. I want to be there.
42:55
You know, I think it's a fair price for his age.
42:57
And it's I think he's he's in his mid to sort of late 20s.
43:02
I think he's not real old. So, you know, I I think this is
43:05
to me. I'm with you on this one.
43:06
This is a good signing. Yeah.
43:08
All right. Next highest Man U again with
43:10
Mathias Cunha came from Wolves to Man U.
43:12
He was just under Emboymo. So he's 86 million.
43:15
What's your grade on that one? B minus.
43:18
B minus OK. It's OK.
43:20
Just OK on Cunha. She's got a hamstring.
43:23
Injuries that moved his he did. But you know, look, I mean
43:28
injuries, you can't fault people for injuries and stuff.
43:30
But all right, Luca, next highest was here we go, Arsenal
43:34
coming in here with Martin Zuvamendi coming from Real
43:36
Sociedad. He was $81,000,000.
43:38
But you're great on this one. Plus.
43:40
A plus. Million for this guy.
43:46
That's cheap. That's what great timing.
43:51
I think he's going to be insane. You know, what's interesting to
43:54
me is everybody else we've talked about is like an
43:57
attacking type of player. Here's our first sort of like
44:00
defensive, you know, guy sits in front of the four defenders,
44:03
plays the number six. But I do think this speaks to
44:06
how much people wanted him. You know, Liverpool came hard
44:09
last summer for him. You know, you know, he plays for
44:13
the Spain national team. People have called him like, you
44:16
know, the next best player to Rodri, Max, most important
44:18
player because he plays a similar position to Rodri.
44:21
And I think I think he's going to settle in real well at
44:24
Arsenal. It's a position that we needed
44:26
and. Settle in.
44:30
So yes. All right, Luca, let's move on.
44:32
The next highest one again, we're going to stay with
44:34
Arsenal. A little run here, Eberiche Eze
44:36
going from Crystal Palace to Arsenal for 81,000,000.
44:39
What's your grade on that? 8 plus. 8 + a little bit.
44:45
Signing, yeah. Yeah, I like this one too.
44:51
I know we're probably homers here.
44:53
We're we're we're handed out eight pluses of Arsenal players.
45:00
But I, I love this player. I think he's going to fit in
45:02
well. He plays, he's such a creative,
45:05
fun player, good on the ball. He's good at striking it.
45:09
Yeah, I'm with you. I like it.
45:11
She actually came up with a few teams before we we that like we
45:19
QPR or something, yeah. And then Crystal Powers signed
45:22
them, and then we signed them now.
45:24
Yeah, it's a great story. People want to read about it.
45:25
He was 12 years, 13 years old. You know, it was at Arsenal's
45:29
Academy, got cut, was in tears, apparently because it was a team
45:33
that he rooted for growing up. You know he's from London and so
45:38
to see him back, you know, he gets to go to his sort of
45:41
boyhood team. You know, some of the images
45:43
when he gets introduced are pretty cool.
45:45
So it's, it's a great story. I hope he does really well.
45:47
I just think he's I've always, I've always liked him as a
45:50
player for Palace. So excited he came.
45:53
So yeah, all right, Luke. And Next up on the list, Victor
45:56
Giacores, another Arsenal player coming from Sporting to Arsenal.
45:59
He was for 76,000,000. What's your grade on this one?
46:01
Hey, Strikers 72 like 9 20 million.
46:08
What is going on right now? We are getting some steals,
46:12
hopefully. I know as a as a he's a Premier
46:16
League proven player, so I know he's going to be pretty good.
46:19
Zoom Andy. I think he's going to be pretty
46:21
good. I don't know about Yokrez, but
46:23
he's looked pretty good, especially in the Leeds game.
46:27
We scored two goals so I'm going to give that a We also needed a
46:31
striker. Yeah, I think it's pretty good
46:32
value. He's an unknown, like you said.
46:34
Anybody to me coming from not the Premier League, it's a bit
46:37
of an unknown. It's.
46:39
A Portuguese league, but he scored a lot of goals.
46:41
Scored a ton of goals. So we'll we'll see.
46:43
Like I said, it's a position and need for Arsenal, it's a pretty
46:46
decent cost at 76,000,000 when you see some of the other costs
46:48
we just talked about for for attacking type of talent.
46:51
So we'll see. All right, look, Javi Simon's
46:54
going to Spurs. He was all summer headed to
46:57
Chelsea, but now he goes from RV Leipzig to Spurs for 76,000,000.
47:00
What's your grade on that one? A an A OK.
47:03
I hate saying it because it's Spurs but he 76,000,000 is
47:08
definitely good for him. He's young, he should be pretty
47:10
good and he's a probably a good fit for them.
47:16
They needed someone like that. Yeah, I think it's a good move
47:19
for them too. I like him as a player.
47:22
76,000,000 feels like a lot, but they had to sort of, I think
47:25
outbid Chelsea there. So yeah, good on them for
47:28
getting him and another player. Luca will get to Muhammad Kudis
47:32
from West Ham to Spurs. He was 74,000,000.
47:34
What do you think of that, Bab? OK.
47:38
I think he'll be OK for them. He's a pretty good signing
47:42
though. He'll he'll probably improve the
47:43
team. Now what about Zhao Pedro?
47:47
From Brighton to Chelsea, he was 74 million.
47:50
B + B plus I think. I think for the price, it's like
47:54
you have just seen the other strikers cost cost it a lot.
47:57
I think he's a pretty good player.
47:59
He's not too old and he's played.
48:02
He played pretty good in the Club World Cup and has has
48:05
scored a few goals in the first couple weeks of the Premier
48:09
League and I think he'll be pretty good for them.
48:11
All right Luca, what about Anthony Alanga from from
48:13
Nottingham Forest to Newcastle for 71,000,000?
48:17
I'll give that an AI didn't. I mean, do they need more
48:20
wingers? But he's really good and I think
48:23
he'll be pretty good for them. OK, Luca, Jamie Gittins went
48:26
from Dortmund to Chelsea for 65,000,000.
48:29
What's your grade on that? BI know it's OK.
48:32
I mean, he's young, he could become good, but yeah.
48:36
What about Alejandro Garnacho? From Man U to Chelsea?
48:39
He was 54 million. C Plus.
48:42
C plus OK don't love that move. And then what about Tiani
48:45
Rynders from AC Milan to City? He was 64,000,000 A.
48:49
Plus A+. What a steal.
48:51
Like, yeah, he's a good player. I think good, real skilled on
48:55
the ball. So we kind of I think should
48:56
fit, should fit in well on that team.
48:58
I don't know. They did fit in well on all
48:59
different teams that fill in well on that team.
49:01
So all right, we got, I think we hit some of the big transfers
49:04
there. I like your grades.
49:05
I want you to be my teacher, Luke.
49:06
There are a lot of A's and B's here, so to be my teacher
49:10
getting grades, but yeah, those are some of the big ones.
49:14
There's obviously a ton of other moves, but those are some of the
49:16
big ones. So all right, Luca, let's move
49:19
into the Did You Know section. To know what your question is,
49:22
so I'm going to tell you. Well, you and I were talking
49:24
about this the other day when you asked, you know, what is
49:27
what is the size of a soccer field, or pitch, as they call
49:31
it, right. And, and, you know, so yeah,
49:34
what is sort of the official size?
49:36
Interestingly, Luca FIFA, who runs world football and national
49:40
teams, has regulations and they put out that a soccer field
49:44
should be 110 to 120 yards along and about set or 70 to 80 yards
49:49
wide. And so you have a little bit of
49:51
wiggle room in there for that. Now, the Premier League, though,
49:55
they follow the FA all right, The Football Association, they
49:59
do the rules for the Premier League, and what they say is now
50:02
theirs is measured in meters. They say it should be 90 to 120
50:06
meters long, which comes out to be 98 to 131 yards long.
50:13
And they say the width of it should be between 45 and 90
50:17
meters, which comes out to be 49 to 98 yards.
50:21
So there's a little bit of variation in that.
50:25
Now, they do say there's an optimum size for a field.
50:29
OK, so the optimum size is 105 by 168 meters, which we know to
50:36
be yards of 114 by 74 yards. That doesn't mean a whole lot to
50:42
some people, but because in a thing of an NFL field. 100
50:45
yards, plus the 10 yards in the for the end zone.
50:50
Exactly. So the playing field is 100
50:52
yards long. But the full field is 120.
50:55
That's correct. But the width of an NFL field is
50:58
53.3 yards. So the point is a soccer field
51:03
is slightly longer than an NFL field, the playing part.
51:06
But I understand what you're saying about the end sets with
51:07
the playing part. So if a soccer field is
51:10
typically going to be about like 110 to 120 yards long, it's a
51:14
little bit longer, but it's pretty significantly wider than
51:17
a football field. So not a lot of people maybe
51:19
kind of realize that if a football field is 53 yards wide,
51:23
soccer fields are going to be in like in the 75 yards wide.
51:26
So it's pretty much wider, which got me thinking Luca are like,
51:30
you know, in the Premier League, you know who has the shortest
51:34
field. What would you know the shortest
51:37
in length and width is Fulham we've.
51:39
Been there. We have been there Luca.
51:40
We have been Luca and I have been to Craven Cottage.
51:44
Awesome place to go watch a game and an awesome place to do
51:47
stadium tour. So.
51:50
And who is the longest field? Well guess what, it's Nottingham
51:54
Forest. Wow, so Nottingham Forest, their
51:57
field is 105 or is 100. I'm sorry, it's 115 yards long
52:03
where Fulham's is 109 yards. Not a huge difference.
52:07
But still. Still difference now with Craven
52:10
Cottage were full in plays okay with there are 71 yards wide
52:15
where City Ground where Nottingham Forest place 78 yards
52:18
wide. So pretty pretty good difference
52:20
there. Now they're in the Premier
52:23
League. Most of the stadiums are about
52:27
114 by 74 yards, and there's like 8 or 9 or 10 teams that all
52:33
have almost the exact same dimensions there.
52:35
But I thought it was interesting to just sort of like, think
52:37
about a Premier League pitch or field in relation to an NFL
52:41
field and interesting when you watch it on TV, see if you
52:44
notice a difference when you're watching Nottingham Forest play
52:46
at home that now you know, they have the longest and widest
52:49
field. Craven Cottage, where Fulham
52:51
plays, have the shortest in terms of length and width.
52:54
So did you know Luca? I don't think you knew that.
52:59
All right, well, that's our Did You know section, and we end
53:02
every one of our shows, Luca, with our penalty kick trivia
53:06
shootout. This is where Luke and I ask
53:08
each other trivia questions that we don't know.
53:11
Are we not? Obviously, you don't know my
53:13
questions. I don't know yours.
53:14
Yeah, go back and forth. You get the question, right?
53:17
It's like you made a penalty kick goal.
53:19
If you miss it, it's like you missed.
53:21
Yeah. So you ready, Luca?
53:23
Do you want to go first or second?
53:26
1st. All right, I'm up kicking first.
53:28
Luca, give me your first question.
53:31
OK, so which club holds the record for the most primarily
53:36
goals conceded in a single season and how many did they let
53:41
in? I believe that was Southampton.
53:47
No. No, I'm already off to a bad
53:49
start here. Who was it?
53:51
It was. Sheffield United It was 104
53:54
goals in the 2324 season. OK, All right, I missed that
53:58
one. All right, Luca, you're up here
54:00
Speaking of futility and bad teams.
54:03
Luca, what team had the lowest point total in the Premier
54:07
League? Oh, in Premier League history,
54:11
what team had the lowest point total in a year?
54:16
I've seen this somewhere. It was in like a magazine about
54:21
soccer. You got a guess for me?
54:23
I don't know, I don't think this is right, but I'm going to go
54:27
Southampton. Good guess, but no, it is Derby
54:29
County. Look, they had 11 points in the
54:33
O seven O 8. That is rough. 11 points.
54:37
All right, you throw on to a good.
54:39
Yeah, 2 misses here. Go ahead.
54:42
Which two players shared the same surname and both scored two
54:47
own goals in the 2320 fourth Premier League season?
54:52
Ah boy, look, I have no idea on that one.
54:54
Both of them had the surname Dunk.
54:57
Dunk that's. Here, Lewis Dunk and I don't
55:00
know the other one, Luca, Ethan Dunk, Ethan Dyer.
55:03
OK, for Bradford. All right, tough one there.
55:06
I missed. OK Luca, What English striker
55:09
was nicknamed Captain Fantastic and played over 300 Premier
55:13
League games for Liverpool? Liverpool.
55:18
Captain fantastic and played over 300 games.
55:21
Striker for Liverpool. No.
55:25
Steven Gerrard. The striker.
55:28
Yeah, maybe more midfield. All right, maybe that's three
55:31
off on that one. All right, tough start for us.
55:33
What do you got first? Number three?
55:40
United 19 O winning over Isbridge Town in 1995.
55:45
In Southampton in 2021. Do you mean the highest score
55:49
between two teams or one team scoring?
55:56
The score? Boy, which team did it?
56:02
11 goals for. Score the score. 9:00 to 6:00.
56:10
No, the final scoring match was naughty and fourths. 81 win over
56:16
Southampton in 1999. All right, all right, Luca What?
56:21
Who was the longest serving Premier League manager at 1 club
56:26
So manager at one club? Longest serving manager.
56:32
Pep. No, Arts and Zenger Luca
56:35
Arsenal. Oh, man, yeah, 22 years.
56:39
Arts and Wenger was a from 1996 to 2008.
56:44
Yeah, blew his pep out of the water.
56:45
I don't even think peps at 10 years yet.
56:47
So Arts and Wenger. All right, Luca, next question
56:50
from you. Which team recorded the fewest
56:55
points in a Premier League season and how many did they
56:58
achieve? I think I just answered you that
57:00
I just asked you that. Derby County with 11 points.
57:04
Oh. The Sunderland the fewest points
57:10
with 15 in 2005. I think I got.
57:14
I think you're wrong. On the meeting.
57:16
Derby County and No 70 eights All right Luca, who is the 1st
57:24
goaltender to record 200 clean sheets in Premier League
57:29
history. Cheater check that's.
57:31
Correct. All right, good.
57:33
All right. Who is the only player to have
57:37
scored a Premier League hat trick?
57:39
Scored a hat trick in the Champions League and won a
57:42
Champions League title at two different clubs.
57:46
Man, these are tough. Some says this is a very
57:49
difficult question. No, no one has done all three.
57:55
As the closest would be this. I'm not going to say the answer.
57:59
Wayne Rooney? I don't know.
58:00
No echo singular player, but this is a trick question.
58:03
The answer is no one. But what's OK, Luca?
58:08
Is going to tighten his questions up next time.
58:11
Sorry buddy. What happened there?
58:14
Luca, how many Premier Leagues? I'm going to give you this one
58:18
within one, OK? How many Premier League titles
58:21
has Sir Alex Ferguson won with Manchester United?
58:25
And I'm going to give you one on each side of it, 6/13.
58:31
All 13. Well, now he was there for more
58:33
than 13 years. He didn't win every year that he
58:36
was there, but he 13. Well, yeah, he won all their
58:42
titles. I thought he was there for 13
58:44
years now. All right, that's it.
58:47
You win the penalty kick shootout Luca.
58:50
Well, we can we do the 6th question.
58:53
Do the bonus what? What's your bonus?
58:57
Which midfielder made history by scoring a goal, providing an
59:01
assist and scoring an own goal in the same Premier League
59:05
match? Oh man, Luca, you brought some
59:08
tough, tough questions here. I don't know, I'm going to go
59:13
with, I'll go with Steven Gerrard.
59:19
Town, 2324. My bonus one was who plays their
59:25
games at Kenilworth Rd. What from what team that has
59:28
been in the Premier League but is currently in the
59:30
Championship? It oh.
59:35
Southampton. Is Luton Town plays at Kenilton?
59:38
Championship, they got relegated twice, they're in League One
59:42
all. Right, I'll have to look that
59:44
up. I thought I saw they were in the
59:45
championship. I'm sorry everybody.
59:48
All right, well, thanks everybody for listening.
59:51
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59:59
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1:00:04
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1:00:10
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