Latest / The Calcio Guys / Calcio Carousel - Serie A Matchday 11 & Champions League Preview - Ep. 246
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- 0:06Speaker 1: We are so back, baby.
- 0:07Speaker 2: The culture guys, Johnny Jano, Nicholas, it's been a while, dreams,
- 0:11Speaker 2: it's been a while you've been away.
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- 0:22Speaker 3: We're back, baby, We're back. We're back. Johnny munching in
- 0:25Speaker 3: the in the in the bo over here.
- 0:27Speaker 4: Yeah, my microphone on mute because I'm munching on some
- 0:29Speaker 4: popcorts that I want to be that guy going.
- 0:30Speaker 3: Like as there.
- 0:33Speaker 4: We're trying to record the podcast, but were pretty good,
- 0:35Speaker 4: feeling snacky bets about it.
- 0:39Speaker 3: I just polish off some lemon cookie and my buck
- 0:41Speaker 3: on the other day.
- 0:41Speaker 5: So so yeah, I feel you, Jenny.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Uh we we could do an as Mr Eating podcast.
- 0:49Speaker 5: Culture guys, if you want, Johnny, if the listeners want
- 0:54Speaker 5: I don't think that's a good Honestly speaking, I don't
- 0:57Speaker 5: think it's a good idea.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Don't think anybody wants here.
- 1:04Speaker 5: It wasn't loud enough, tantalizing, tienttalizing listen if if the
- 1:10Speaker 5: viewers want him, whatever gets the viewers.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Bro, maybe we'll make some Experimentationchina, guys.
- 1:18Speaker 6: The only couch guys, the cat only guys only guy.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Uh but uh but yeah, guys, before we get into it, Adri,
- 1:34Speaker 2: I mean, you just came back from Italy again, and
- 1:37Speaker 2: this time you actually got to go to a soccer game,
- 1:40Speaker 2: because I know you went in the summer, you didn't
- 1:41Speaker 2: really have that chance. Uh, you got to go to
- 1:44Speaker 2: a soccer game that you know what, I think all
- 1:47Speaker 2: three of us have probably been dreaming about.
- 1:48Speaker 1: You.
- 1:49Speaker 2: You were able to see Italy play live. It was
- 1:51Speaker 2: the game against Belgium, right, you know in October. Tell
- 1:55Speaker 2: us all about it. What was that experience?
- 1:57Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I listened.
- 1:58Speaker 7: I didn't even know I was going to have the experience,
- 2:00Speaker 7: to be honest with you, it was kind of like
- 2:01Speaker 7: a last minute thing.
- 2:03Speaker 3: Myself and my brother were able to We're.
- 2:05Speaker 7: Able to go back to the Motherland and you know,
- 2:08Speaker 7: just you know, spend some time you know, with family,
- 2:11Speaker 7: some some touristy stuff. And yeah, the day we landed
- 2:15Speaker 7: October tenth was the game Italy versus Belgium at the Olympico.
- 2:18Speaker 7: We were able to get tickets, you know, just before
- 2:21Speaker 7: taking off from Montreal to Rome that we knew as
- 2:23Speaker 7: soon as we got into that plane and we would land,
- 2:25Speaker 7: we would have a bit of that afternoon in Rome and.
- 2:27Speaker 5: Then be able to go go to the Olympical for
- 2:31Speaker 5: you know, for for my second match at the Olympico,
- 2:33Speaker 5: because myself and you Nick went to go see the
- 2:37Speaker 5: Latcho Juve in twenty back in twenty nineteen.
- 2:41Speaker 3: But getting too see Italy live is is something like
- 2:44Speaker 3: you said, Nick, I think I dream cone true for for.
- 2:47Speaker 7: Not only us, but you know, any Italian cultural fan.
- 2:50Speaker 7: I think, you know, is a dream to see them
- 2:53Speaker 7: in a in a you know, somewhat of a competitive match,
- 2:57Speaker 7: you know, obviously in a tournament, I think would be
- 2:59Speaker 7: the ultimate goal and the ultimate dream. But just to
- 3:01Speaker 7: see them in in Nations league, you know, at home
- 3:09Speaker 7: en role at the Olympical, it was it was a
- 3:11Speaker 7: special It was a special, you know, special game, special
- 3:15Speaker 7: moment for for myself and ultimately not the result we wanted.
- 3:20Speaker 7: I know, it was a to to draw. It was
- 3:23Speaker 7: in against seeing getting in to see four goals a
- 3:25Speaker 7: red card by PELLEGREENI uh, you know, just the the
- 3:31Speaker 7: joy off the two goals that that were scored. It
- 3:36Speaker 7: was just I don't know, it was just like I
- 3:39Speaker 7: think all the check mark all the check marks on
- 3:41Speaker 7: all the checkboxes, like we're checked, and it was just
- 3:44Speaker 7: it was so just a great experience overall.
- 3:47Speaker 3: I know they there was a bit of before the
- 3:51Speaker 3: before the match.
- 3:51Speaker 5: They uh they had a little moment for for Total Sachi,
- 3:55Speaker 5: who who unfortunately passed away.
- 3:56Speaker 3: They they dedicated a moment for him.
- 3:59Speaker 7: And just the open opening presentation of the Nations League
- 4:02Speaker 7: that like I guess you don't always see on TV.
- 4:04Speaker 3: Or maybe you don't tune.
- 4:05Speaker 7: In from the from minute one and you don't you
- 4:07Speaker 7: kind of miss it was just very cool.
- 4:11Speaker 5: To be part of, uh, you know the I think
- 4:14Speaker 5: they put on a.
- 4:15Speaker 3: Good show and it was.
- 4:17Speaker 7: Another it was another case of that for for this match,
- 4:19Speaker 7: and seeing Spiletti on the sidelines with his normal antics,
- 4:23Speaker 7: like just his his facial reactions, his his hands is
- 4:27Speaker 7: you know, he's going up, going up and down the
- 4:29Speaker 7: touch line and you can kind of hear him as
- 4:32Speaker 7: well because we were kind of.
- 4:33Speaker 3: We were sitting behind the.
- 4:37Speaker 7: You know, behind the bench is not like right behind,
- 4:39Speaker 7: but like in the intersections behind the benches, so we
- 4:41Speaker 7: saw that point of view and uh, luckily enough we
- 4:44Speaker 7: scored in the opening minute there Cambiaso.
- 4:46Speaker 5: And and I had it on video like from the moment,
- 4:48Speaker 5: like from minute one.
- 4:49Speaker 7: So I just made a quick video just to just
- 4:52Speaker 7: a kind of panel, uh, in the in the stadium.
- 4:55Speaker 3: And I saw that there was a bit of a
- 4:58Speaker 3: bit of a turnover.
- 4:59Speaker 5: And and and and a counter attack the.
- 5:00Speaker 7: Other way, and Italy was was heading forward. I'm like, fuck,
- 5:03Speaker 7: let me could just continue this.
- 5:05Speaker 5: Video and along and behold, you know, the great cross
- 5:08Speaker 5: by DeMarco.
- 5:09Speaker 3: Gets into Cambiaso.
- 5:12Speaker 7: He's able to put it away and just just a
- 5:15Speaker 7: crowd of motion.
- 5:16Speaker 5: And uh, you know, I don't think it wasn't it wasn't.
- 5:20Speaker 5: I don't think it was a full house. If I'm
- 5:21Speaker 5: I'm not mistaken.
- 5:22Speaker 7: It wasn't completely sold out, but for the most part
- 5:25Speaker 7: it was and just the roar when Italy.
- 5:27Speaker 3: Scored, and uh, you know, when Italy.
- 5:30Speaker 7: Was having good, good moments in the game, was was
- 5:32Speaker 7: just you know, so electric to be a part of
- 5:34Speaker 7: and getting to sing the national anthem, uh.
- 5:37Speaker 3: With our flags and just.
- 5:39Speaker 7: Uh, you know, being part of the being part of
- 5:42Speaker 7: the of the spectacle, you know, with with random with
- 5:45Speaker 7: random people on your left and on your right, you know, uh,
- 5:49Speaker 7: you know, uh, embracing each other and singing the national anthem,
- 5:52Speaker 7: the Italian national anthem was was a cool thing as well,
- 5:55Speaker 7: and yeah, I really enjoyed it, honestly, really really enjoyed it. Again,
- 5:59Speaker 7: not the end result we wanted in terms of the win.
- 6:04Speaker 3: I thought, you know, we were gonna go on and.
- 6:07Speaker 7: Take the win after I saw that first half cambiaso
- 6:10Speaker 7: and get on the score sheet. And then unfortunate, a
- 6:13Speaker 7: bit of a turn of events, and I know you
- 6:14Speaker 7: guys probably spoke about it.
- 6:16Speaker 3: I went to when I was gone.
- 6:17Speaker 7: But the red card by pel Greeney kind of changed
- 6:21Speaker 7: the game a bit, and uh, you know, tale of
- 6:24Speaker 7: two halves. The second half was a bit of a
- 6:25Speaker 7: different half Italy and unfortunately got caught twice in that
- 6:30Speaker 7: second half to ultimately draw the game. But besides the result,
- 6:33Speaker 7: I think just the overall experience was was one I'll
- 6:36Speaker 7: never forget.
- 6:37Speaker 3: And yeah, happy, happier and grateful I was able to
- 6:40Speaker 3: do it.
- 6:42Speaker 1: What was it like singing the national anthem?
- 6:44Speaker 3: It's cool, man, Like I brought my I brought my flag.
- 6:48Speaker 7: From from home and I might fuck it, like I
- 6:51Speaker 7: don't know who we're gonna be saying next to I
- 6:53Speaker 7: know it's gonna be like a bunch of randoms, a
- 6:54Speaker 7: bunch of you know, men, women, fam families, kids, whoever
- 6:58Speaker 7: it is.
- 7:00Speaker 3: But the people on on both our sides were really
- 7:03Speaker 3: really cool and uh, you know.
- 7:04Speaker 7: Just shooting the ship with them throughout the game. And
- 7:07Speaker 7: when it was time for the national anthem, I'm like, listen,
- 7:09Speaker 7: I'm gonna hold I'm gonna holding my flag, so I
- 7:11Speaker 7: don't care who's next to me, if there's nobody, if
- 7:13Speaker 7: there's somebody that don't care, And they each grabbed one
- 7:17Speaker 7: end and we.
- 7:17Speaker 3: All have like you know arms, uh kind of like
- 7:20Speaker 3: embracing each.
- 7:21Speaker 7: Other, and uh, you know, everybody knows the passion of
- 7:25Speaker 7: the Italian national anthem, and uh there's always those famous
- 7:28Speaker 7: posts every time, uh you know, the Adzuti sing sing
- 7:32Speaker 7: the national anthem, and you kind of felt part of
- 7:34Speaker 7: that part of that moment, uh singing the national anthem.
- 7:38Speaker 7: And and actually you know, being.
- 7:40Speaker 5: Around uh you know, like actually Italians from Italy and
- 7:46Speaker 5: just getting to experience that, it's just it doesn't I
- 7:50Speaker 5: guess it beats just doing it by yourself at home
- 7:52Speaker 5: or or you know, with with with a couple of buddies,
- 7:54Speaker 5: but in a Park Stadium. It's uh, you know, in Italy,
- 7:59Speaker 5: I the Olympical, in.
- 8:00Speaker 3: Rome, the Eternal City. You could not ask anything better.
- 8:06Speaker 1: Moving on to present day, Johnny, the snack is good.
- 8:10Speaker 6: It's still as a loving popcorn right now.
- 8:14Speaker 2: There was some popcorn that you were able to eat
- 8:16Speaker 2: while watching the games. This weekend created some popcorn whatever
- 8:19Speaker 2: you whatever. The expression is, get your popcorn ready, get
- 8:21Speaker 2: your popcorn watch the games city.
- 8:24Speaker 1: I was match day eleven for me.
- 8:26Speaker 2: I think the you know, the big game coming into
- 8:28Speaker 2: this weekend that everyone kind of knew expected fireworks was
- 8:32Speaker 2: the at Talanta Monopoly game. And you know, Jenny, I
- 8:35Speaker 2: know you are eating, but you know, we'll interrupt the
- 8:37Speaker 2: snack and let you speak for a while. But this
- 8:40Speaker 2: is a game that you know, for for Fornopoly, they
- 8:43Speaker 2: were they came in hot I don't know exactly how
- 8:46Speaker 2: many wins in a row they had, but they came
- 8:47Speaker 2: in Hot right, and Atalanta as well, and.
- 8:50Speaker 1: There are two of the better teams. If you look
- 8:51Speaker 1: at the standings. Uh now there it's still okay.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Monopoly still first, Yes, you got into there a second,
- 8:58Speaker 2: but Atalanta's right there there on a five game win streak,
- 9:02Speaker 2: Napoli coming in was at least four games, but you
- 9:07Speaker 2: know this was I'm.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Gonna say surprising result.
- 9:11Speaker 2: Like if you'd say Atlanta would walk away with points
- 9:16Speaker 2: from the amount of done, I would I would say, okay,
- 9:18Speaker 2: probably one one draw to draw, you know, a high
- 9:20Speaker 2: scoring game, but it's three nothing, a repeat of last
- 9:24Speaker 2: year they also won three nothing. I forgot if it
- 9:27Speaker 2: was Anopoly or Medigam, but lukeman with two goals and
- 9:32Speaker 2: it had to do with another But Jenny, and you know,
- 9:36Speaker 2: I don't know if you had a chance to watch
- 9:37Speaker 2: a game, but was this surprising at all for Anopoly
- 9:40Speaker 2: considering the run run a form?
- 9:41Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not gonna say, okay, is it worrying?
- 9:45Speaker 1: But you know, but it's a it's.
- 9:47Speaker 6: A key game that's lost. Yeah, especially at Atalanta, you know,
- 9:51Speaker 6: is nipping at the heels.
- 9:53Speaker 4: They're they're also trying to make a like you know,
- 9:55Speaker 4: coming off of Europa League Championship last year, you know,
- 9:58Speaker 4: they're trying to show that like what we could take
- 9:59Speaker 4: the next up of you know, winning city. Ah, so
- 10:02Speaker 4: they're making that push if it's possible. But mind you,
- 10:05Speaker 4: their players are just on fire this year, So why not.
- 10:08Speaker 4: It's it's about getting hot at the right time, and
- 10:09Speaker 4: they're only three points behind.
- 10:11Speaker 6: So it's a very big game for them. This game
- 10:14Speaker 6: was too early for me.
- 10:14Speaker 4: I slept in that day because's one of the few
- 10:16Speaker 4: days that I could sleep in, but I managed to
- 10:18Speaker 4: watch some highlights and you know, catch up on a
- 10:20Speaker 4: few things. And yeah, honestly, it just was a tale
- 10:25Speaker 4: of Atalanta coming in with a very good game plan,
- 10:27Speaker 4: but Medea himself.
- 10:29Speaker 6: Was just not good.
- 10:33Speaker 4: It was just it was just that it was just
- 10:34Speaker 4: Media himself just really performing poorly, and the team themselves
- 10:38Speaker 4: just couldn't break through. And I think, honestly speaking, we
- 10:41Speaker 4: have to give credit a bit too too Atalanta themselves
- 10:45Speaker 4: for being the better team. It's it's straight up them
- 10:47Speaker 4: just being the better team. So going forward, I think
- 10:52Speaker 4: that Anapoli now they know, okay, if they're gonna get
- 10:55Speaker 4: them on the clip back game, they have to understand
- 10:57Speaker 4: that this is basically how Atalanta likes to play, Uh,
- 11:01Speaker 4: play play their game. So tough loss, uh, But from
- 11:06Speaker 4: what I saw from the little tibbets, it would have
- 11:09Speaker 4: helped if Napoli had better better goaltending.
- 11:11Speaker 6: But you know, what can you do? Mere himself as yeah,
- 11:15Speaker 6: you know.
- 11:15Speaker 4: He's not he's not he's not as he's not as
- 11:18Speaker 4: good as he wanted to be.
- 11:19Speaker 6: And uh, it's it's been like this.
- 11:21Speaker 4: This is a since last year given this year a
- 11:24Speaker 4: bit like the games that he's played has been very
- 11:26Speaker 4: been very lackluster.
- 11:28Speaker 6: So for me, it's more mere like just having one
- 11:31Speaker 6: of his bad ones.
- 11:33Speaker 7: I think it's a small dent in the in the
- 11:35Speaker 7: run of Formaopoly has had. I know I haven't be
- 11:39Speaker 7: in a way I wasn't able to catch all the games,
- 11:40Speaker 7: but I'm not coming back. Uh, you know, the same
- 11:45Speaker 7: like with you know, the same same case. But I
- 11:47Speaker 7: think personally, for Knopoi's sake, I think it was just
- 11:49Speaker 7: this game obviously is a big one because it's against
- 11:52Speaker 7: the direct rival and especially in the table.
- 11:53Speaker 3: But I think I don't know if I don't.
- 11:56Speaker 7: Know if fans are going crazy you know about this loss,
- 11:59Speaker 7: But you know, I wouldn't take it for for for
- 12:03Speaker 7: too much.
- 12:03Speaker 5: I mean, obviously it hurts to lose three nil after
- 12:08Speaker 5: you know they've been able to to.
- 12:09Speaker 3: Score, uh, you know, kind of when they've.
- 12:12Speaker 7: Wanted to this season. I think it's a small dent,
- 12:16Speaker 7: but again, you got to give what Jenny said, I
- 12:17Speaker 7: think you.
- 12:18Speaker 5: Got to get credit to to Atlanta, Like you said,
- 12:22Speaker 5: Nick Lukeman two goals with Teggy another goal. I think
- 12:27Speaker 5: it's what eleven goals and eleven games for him, I
- 12:29Speaker 5: think he's on top of the couple kind of leader boards.
- 12:33Speaker 5: So yeah, just I think it's more, you know, credit
- 12:37Speaker 5: for Atlanta for taking advantage of Anapoli who played midweek,
- 12:43Speaker 5: you know, the Tuesday game against against Milan, and we're able.
- 12:47Speaker 7: To really dominate that game and then having to come back,
- 12:50Speaker 7: and obviously I think the the target is obviously on
- 12:54Speaker 7: Apoy's back seeing how they've been able to perform, seeing
- 12:56Speaker 7: that they're in first place. So uh, any chance that
- 12:59Speaker 7: these teams around them can can take to to uh
- 13:02Speaker 7: to kind.
- 13:03Speaker 3: Of take them down, you know, they'll they'll definitely jump
- 13:05Speaker 3: on that.
- 13:05Speaker 7: So I think that was one of those cases in
- 13:07Speaker 7: this in this particular matchup, and uh, you know, kudos
- 13:10Speaker 7: to Gaspadini and his men, But I don't think that
- 13:13Speaker 7: we should ultimately, I don't think that we should be
- 13:16Speaker 7: all too worried, but I think.
- 13:18Speaker 3: Something definitely to to look back on and not.
- 13:23Speaker 7: No, not to be able to take a loss like
- 13:24Speaker 7: that you known, you know, down in the future.
- 13:29Speaker 1: How many goals is that now? For it take eleven?
- 13:32Speaker 5: I think it's eleven and eleven, Jesus.
- 13:37Speaker 3: Look it up, look it up.
- 13:38Speaker 1: I think eleven eleven couple.
- 13:41Speaker 5: He's he's on talk, he's still in first now pretty sure?
- 13:44Speaker 3: Pretty sure?
- 13:45Speaker 1: That's crazy.
- 13:46Speaker 2: And you know, me ad Me and Jannu we were
- 13:49Speaker 2: talking before how there was rumors that he'd leave the
- 13:52Speaker 2: city out before the season because his his transfer to
- 13:56Speaker 2: Atlanta was a bit late. No, didn't they get him
- 13:58Speaker 2: when got hurt?
- 13:59Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, Yeah they did.
- 14:01Speaker 5: They were able to jump if I remember correctly, he
- 14:04Speaker 5: went down with his injury and they were able to capitalize.
- 14:07Speaker 7: On getting a replacement for him, like almost instantly, they
- 14:11Speaker 7: were able to bring the Tagy who.
- 14:14Speaker 3: Again, small sample size in.
- 14:15Speaker 5: Genua, but you know, I think the perfect move so
- 14:19Speaker 5: far for him. It's gonna be funny and it's gonna.
- 14:20Speaker 7: Be interesting to see when Skamaka comes back how that
- 14:23Speaker 7: all plays out.
- 14:24Speaker 5: But I don't like, we're gonna take you right now?
- 14:26Speaker 5: Is unplayable, Like you cannot take him out of the lineup,
- 14:29Speaker 5: Like he's just been red hot. He's scoring for Italy
- 14:32Speaker 5: as well.
- 14:33Speaker 3: I was able to see that, you know, live, so.
- 14:37Speaker 7: He's he's a man on form and when you got
- 14:40Speaker 7: the hot hand or in this case, the hot foot,
- 14:42Speaker 7: I think you just gotta continue rolling with it. So,
- 14:44Speaker 7: you know, kudos to him, and I'm happy to see
- 14:47Speaker 7: him make that that jump, not only not only for
- 14:52Speaker 7: his career at the club level, but also internationally for
- 14:55Speaker 7: the Azuli as well.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what they say, like everything happens
- 15:00Speaker 2: reason right, and this is just this is just one
- 15:03Speaker 2: of the cases. And I hate hate to say that
- 15:05Speaker 2: for Skamaka. Yeah, you know, I'm not saying like, oh,
- 15:08Speaker 2: his injury happened for a reason. It's just more the
- 15:10Speaker 2: process in which Atlanta got red tagie is it. It's
- 15:14Speaker 2: one of those you know, transfers that's Atlanta fans are
- 15:18Speaker 2: probably going to talk about for a long time that
- 15:20Speaker 2: you know, if if Skamaka doesn't go down, they don't
- 15:22Speaker 2: have red to g I don't think Skamaka scores.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Eleven goals in eleven games.
- 15:25Speaker 2: I don't think Atalanta's is starting the table now with
- 15:28Speaker 2: twenty with twenty two points.
- 15:31Speaker 1: So it's just it's crazy and it's crazy.
- 15:34Speaker 4: But even when Kamaka comes back, like you what argument
- 15:38Speaker 4: do you have to play him over at Taggi right now?
- 15:39Speaker 1: But it won't be for a while right at this
- 15:41Speaker 1: a moment.
- 15:41Speaker 4: None, No, but like but like if an tagy like
- 15:44Speaker 4: let's just say I'm dis argument that because since we're
- 15:47Speaker 4: on the topic, right, yeah, it continues in this form,
- 15:50Speaker 4: stays consistent.
- 15:51Speaker 6: You know, what argument do you have to place Kamaka?
- 15:53Speaker 3: Mindrew?
- 15:53Speaker 4: Can you use it as a wealth of riches, you know,
- 15:54Speaker 4: like oh, Scamaka can come off the bench like you
- 15:57Speaker 4: definitely started at TAGI right Like, either way, the offensive
- 16:00Speaker 4: forces lethal right now, and it's it could get it
- 16:03Speaker 4: could potentially be stronger with being back as well.
- 16:05Speaker 6: That's something to consider it for city right now.
- 16:08Speaker 7: I think it's it's you know, I know for me personally,
- 16:11Speaker 7: I'm on the fence. I don't know if it's gonna
- 16:13Speaker 7: if it's going to be a blessing this guys to
- 16:16Speaker 7: kind of have both of them and be able to
- 16:17Speaker 7: kind of, uh.
- 16:18Speaker 3: You know, play both of them.
- 16:20Speaker 5: I don't know about together, but maybe you know one
- 16:23Speaker 5: on one on went off, you know, one.
- 16:25Speaker 7: Game, one game and obviously they have Europe to play
- 16:28Speaker 7: as well. But you know, because Camaca last season was
- 16:32Speaker 7: was was was a big player for them as well,
- 16:34Speaker 7: especially down the stretch, you know, when it matters most
- 16:37Speaker 7: for for the lot.
- 16:38Speaker 3: So you know, it's a shame to see him go down,
- 16:42Speaker 3: like we said.
- 16:43Speaker 5: But I think, uh, you know, I really don't think
- 16:47Speaker 5: you can take that they.
- 16:49Speaker 3: Out of the lineup.
- 16:49Speaker 5: And I'm curious to see how Gasperini plays, plays his
- 16:54Speaker 5: cards when those cards are dealt to him.
- 16:56Speaker 7: And I don't know when it when Comaka does come back,
- 16:59Speaker 7: I don't know if it's still a couple of months away,
- 17:01Speaker 7: but I think it was always six months that he
- 17:04Speaker 7: was supposed to be out, if I'm not mistaken, and
- 17:06Speaker 7: well they didn't. Yeah, so I'm not sure the timeline.
- 17:10Speaker 7: But like the current day, I don't know where they
- 17:13Speaker 7: are on the timeline. But regardless, it'll be a while,
- 17:17Speaker 7: it might be a.
- 17:18Speaker 3: Little while, it might not. Maybe in the new year.
- 17:20Speaker 3: We'll see. But yeah, I stink.
- 17:24Speaker 5: Stand now, I mean, Fortegi is the guy, and uh,
- 17:27Speaker 5: and I don't think you can you can take him out.
- 17:32Speaker 4: Uh.
- 17:32Speaker 1: Another team that's scoring a lot, Fiorentina.
- 17:34Speaker 2: I mean they beat uh, they in this past weekend, Sorry,
- 17:38Speaker 2: they beat Torino one nothing, only one nothing. Uh, you
- 17:42Speaker 2: know during during the midweek match week last week only
- 17:45Speaker 2: one nothing as Toerrino.
- 17:47Speaker 1: Sorry Genoa. But before that they beat Roma five to one.
- 17:52Speaker 6: Uh.
- 17:53Speaker 2: They won in Europa League for two, they beat Le
- 17:55Speaker 2: six nothing. They beat Milan two one to start the month.
- 17:59Speaker 2: To start the month and back in Europe leading their
- 18:02Speaker 2: first game it was two nothing. So they've been scoring
- 18:04Speaker 2: a lot. Paladino has been doing a fantastic job. But
- 18:07Speaker 2: for me, I think they're easily their best player this
- 18:09Speaker 2: season this season is moist Kent eight goals now in
- 18:12Speaker 2: the city he scored, he scored against to Reno, and
- 18:17Speaker 2: he's just you know, as a U fan, I don't
- 18:19Speaker 2: I forget if he's on loan. I'm pretty sure he's
- 18:21Speaker 2: on loan now, but you know, as a Juve fan,
- 18:24Speaker 2: it makes me happy to see him do well and
- 18:26Speaker 2: it's almost like it almost feels like we should have
- 18:29Speaker 2: kept him. And I'm not saying that just because he's
- 18:31Speaker 2: scoring goals, but I'm also saying that because you've has
- 18:33Speaker 2: no depth with a striker. But at the same time,
- 18:36Speaker 2: he probably wouldn't be playing like this if you've had
- 18:38Speaker 2: kept him on the bench.
- 18:40Speaker 1: Just rotating in for Vovic, so.
- 18:42Speaker 2: You know what, good for his confidence talk about national team,
- 18:44Speaker 2: good for the national team. I don't know if he'll
- 18:45Speaker 2: make the squad the next call ups. I think it's
- 18:49Speaker 2: in two weeks, but you know, it's it's almost like
- 18:53Speaker 2: a revitalization project. And I Farantina, they they either they
- 18:57Speaker 2: grow players or they kind of revital players.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Even now with Robin Ghosts.
- 19:01Speaker 2: He scored uh last week against against Genoa, So it's, uh,
- 19:06Speaker 2: it's good to it's good to.
- 19:07Speaker 1: See for these guys.
- 19:09Speaker 2: And you know, especially King, like I think him he's
- 19:13Speaker 2: almost like Talvich where it's a confidence thing.
- 19:16Speaker 1: So when he's down, he's down.
- 19:17Speaker 2: But when he's on fire, kind of like his season
- 19:19Speaker 2: that he had a PSG, he's on fire.
- 19:22Speaker 3: Yeah No, And I think you got to give credit
- 19:24Speaker 3: to Palladino.
- 19:25Speaker 5: I think I honestly, you know, uh, being able to
- 19:28Speaker 5: kind of see a bit of the games and kind
- 19:31Speaker 5: of see where they're how they're climbing up the table,
- 19:33Speaker 5: you know, sneakily, like nobody's really talking about them. A
- 19:36Speaker 5: lot of credit has to go to Palladino, still a
- 19:38Speaker 5: young coach making the jump from ones at the Fiorentina.
- 19:41Speaker 3: Not an easy one, but I think it was a
- 19:45Speaker 3: sole start so far.
- 19:47Speaker 1: The rolling.
- 19:48Speaker 3: We'll see how long a lasts.
- 19:50Speaker 7: But no matter how long it ends up ultimately lasting
- 19:54Speaker 7: in this time and in this in this time of
- 19:57Speaker 7: the season, that that are doing well, you got to.
- 19:59Speaker 5: Give praise where credit where credits do and and I
- 20:01Speaker 5: think has a lot to do with it. You know,
- 20:03Speaker 5: his his his modern approach to the game and uh,
- 20:07Speaker 5: the tactics and just the play style.
- 20:09Speaker 3: It's it's able to activate a guy like him and
- 20:12Speaker 3: get him going a guy out.
- 20:15Speaker 5: You said that needs that confidence, needs that needs that
- 20:19Speaker 5: uh you know.
- 20:20Speaker 3: Mental stability to be able to to to play his.
- 20:22Speaker 5: Game freely and not really uh you know, be afraid
- 20:26Speaker 5: to to make a mistake or or to you know,
- 20:28Speaker 5: to say that I'm gonna make a mistake, I'm going
- 20:30Speaker 5: to get bench, I'm not gonna be able to play next.
- 20:32Speaker 3: Game, or what have you. He's kind of their man
- 20:34Speaker 3: up top, and you know, ultimately for him, good.
- 20:37Speaker 7: For him, like a good step in the in his career.
- 20:41Speaker 7: I know he's made a lot of different steps and
- 20:44Speaker 7: with plenty with different clubs at such.
- 20:45Speaker 3: A young age.
- 20:46Speaker 7: But again he's still young and still has time to grow.
- 20:50Speaker 7: And it seems like he's he's hitting the gritty every
- 20:52Speaker 7: every weekend after scoring. So it's good for him. And
- 20:56Speaker 7: you know, honestly, I think, you know, bringing you know,
- 21:00Speaker 7: guys like Bove, bringing guys like Copani, uh, you know,
- 21:03Speaker 7: young Italians to to Fjordentina.
- 21:05Speaker 5: In the mix of the other players that they have,
- 21:07Speaker 5: I think is has been has been great.
- 21:11Speaker 7: You know, the hair you know, what about revitalization. This
- 21:14Speaker 7: guy came out of out of was the free agent.
- 21:16Speaker 7: I don't even I don't even know where he came from.
- 21:18Speaker 3: It seemed like and and he's kind of making you.
- 21:21Speaker 5: Know, flashback, you know man you uh, you know, the
- 21:25Speaker 5: hair type saves and it's just another another boost.
- 21:30Speaker 3: Of and another another player that adds.
- 21:32Speaker 7: Experience and with his experience and youth with with this
- 21:35Speaker 7: Jurgentina team. Ultimately, I think always doing it for for
- 21:39Speaker 7: you know, Joe Barona who passed away for them, and
- 21:42Speaker 7: I think it's it's big, it's really really big for
- 21:46Speaker 7: for Fudentina. We'll see ultimately how long it last. I
- 21:48Speaker 7: don't know how much how long it could last, but
- 21:52Speaker 7: I think, uh, you know, if they continue on this path, uh,
- 21:56Speaker 7: you know, they can make a push.
- 21:57Speaker 3: Ultimately.
- 21:57Speaker 7: For me, what I would like to see is for
- 21:59Speaker 7: them finally take over the Conference Lee camp. In terms
- 22:02Speaker 7: of winning the trophy, I think they've gotten so close
- 22:05Speaker 7: in these past two years. I know Johnny was able
- 22:09Speaker 7: to catch a game of theirs uh in Italy for
- 22:13Speaker 7: the Conference League last season at the front key, and
- 22:17Speaker 7: I think they just need to get over that hump
- 22:18Speaker 7: and hopefully they do it this year and and see
- 22:21Speaker 7: kind of where they lie in city in terms of
- 22:23Speaker 7: if they finished in the European spots or not.
- 22:29Speaker 1: Jennie, do you have anything to end well?
- 22:31Speaker 4: No, I mean I will be the one that's a
- 22:34Speaker 4: bit pessimistic to this. I think Fidantina just has the
- 22:37Speaker 4: benefit of like.
- 22:39Speaker 6: Playing with a really playing with house money, so to speak.
- 22:43Speaker 4: I don't know, just it just feels like as if
- 22:45Speaker 4: things are working out for them.
- 22:50Speaker 6: Do I think they're gonna consistently say this.
- 22:52Speaker 4: Way, you know, like I'll be the Debbie Downer here,
- 22:56Speaker 4: I don't think so. I think eventually they're gonna peter
- 23:00Speaker 4: out of it and just eventually like dip in form.
- 23:03Speaker 4: But that's just that's just me making like an assumption
- 23:07Speaker 4: because I I Atlanta I could see consistently keeping this
- 23:11Speaker 4: up Finitina.
- 23:13Speaker 6: I just feel like as if they've just been like
- 23:14Speaker 6: really just been doing very well for themselves.
- 23:19Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's fair.
- 23:23Speaker 6: It's not to say.
- 23:24Speaker 4: That that I think they're a terrible team. No, no, no,
- 23:26Speaker 4: I think they're to be top four. But did you
- 23:30Speaker 4: damage in some in some of the competitions why not?
- 23:33Speaker 3: No?
- 23:33Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, you're right.
- 23:36Speaker 2: And yeah, like you said, they're in fourth now, probably
- 23:41Speaker 2: not realistic to maintain that all season.
- 23:43Speaker 3: You know, it's so close to how many points they
- 23:46Speaker 3: have twenty one right, twenty.
- 23:48Speaker 2: Yeah, they're at twenty two, Atlanta's at twenty two inters
- 23:50Speaker 2: and twenty four non please a twenty five. There's lots
- 23:52Speaker 2: two in fifth place of twenty two, u lais the
- 23:54Speaker 2: twenty one and then a bit of a separation Melin
- 23:57Speaker 2: and seventh at seventeen. But you know it's it's eleven
- 24:00Speaker 2: match days in with twenty seven left. So I think
- 24:05Speaker 2: this is going to be what do you expect from
- 24:06Speaker 2: Fiorentina fighting for a European spot?
- 24:09Speaker 1: Which one is it?
- 24:10Speaker 2: That remains to be seen, but one team that's not
- 24:14Speaker 2: fighting for Europe right now fighting relegation as Genoa, but
- 24:17Speaker 2: they stole the headlines this week with Balatelli back in
- 24:20Speaker 2: city out of nowhere. You talk about Dehy, you know,
- 24:24Speaker 2: coming out of nowhere. This is Balotelli coming out of
- 24:26Speaker 2: nowhere to Genoa of all teams. Maybe we have talked
- 24:31Speaker 2: to our friend for Bizco, but it's it's interesting. I
- 24:35Speaker 2: don't know how much of an impact we'll have. You know,
- 24:37Speaker 2: Pinamonti has been playing well.
- 24:39Speaker 1: There they went today.
- 24:40Speaker 2: He came on in the eighty six minute and got
- 24:42Speaker 2: a yellow in the ninetieth. So cue that video, cure
- 24:47Speaker 2: that Marino video. What's the team they're playing in the
- 24:51Speaker 2: Champions League?
- 24:52Speaker 1: Kan Rubin Kazan.
- 24:54Speaker 2: In the halftime, I speak, fourteen minutes out of fifteen
- 24:57Speaker 2: to matter made volleyball only.
- 25:06Speaker 3: Don't touch anybody? What do you do? Right all right
- 25:09Speaker 3: after the break? Touch somebody?
- 25:11Speaker 2: But guys, what do you what do you expect from Baltalian?
- 25:14Speaker 2: Are you guys surprised at all from from this.
- 25:19Speaker 3: First?
- 25:19Speaker 6: Honestly speaking?
- 25:20Speaker 4: No, I mean it's it's it's it's it's Battletelli, like
- 25:24Speaker 4: we we love him for this reason. That's that's he's he's.
- 25:29Speaker 6: He always has like that character. He always has that
- 25:32Speaker 6: type of like Uh. I don't want to say spark or.
- 25:37Speaker 1: Like effect.
- 25:39Speaker 6: I think effect is probably the best word for it.
- 25:41Speaker 3: Uh.
- 25:42Speaker 4: It's it's entertaining, it's it's it's a lovable and you know,
- 25:45Speaker 4: I'm happy that he's back insteady uh. We we all
- 25:48Speaker 4: know that many times in episodes in the past, I've
- 25:51Speaker 4: always mentioned I have a soft spot for I'm always.
- 25:52Speaker 3: Wanted to do well.
- 25:53Speaker 4: So for me, uh, you know, if if this is
- 25:59Speaker 4: how it's gonna be, this is how it's going to be,
- 26:00Speaker 4: and I wouldn't want it any other way, to be
- 26:03Speaker 4: honest with.
- 26:03Speaker 7: You, Now, I have to agree with in that for me,
- 26:07Speaker 7: I know he gets a lot of eight and I
- 26:08Speaker 7: know he gets a lot of fun.
- 26:09Speaker 3: But I'm about a tele fan. I've always been one.
- 26:13Speaker 3: I think I'll always continue to be one.
- 26:15Speaker 7: And it's just a player that especially in our in
- 26:19Speaker 7: our generation, in this last i don't know, fifteen twenty years, he's.
- 26:26Speaker 3: Kind of been one of the more uh.
- 26:29Speaker 7: You know, entertaining slash, especially for the Italian national team,
- 26:33Speaker 7: like you know Sadiya whatever, he had his moments. You
- 26:36Speaker 7: know in Sadiyah he went to a win out elsewhere
- 26:38Speaker 7: obviously with City earlier in his career too, but just
- 26:43Speaker 7: influential player in the last fifteen twenty years Italian player
- 26:47Speaker 7: for that matter. I think stole the hearts to a
- 26:51Speaker 7: lot of to a lot of you know, people like
- 26:53Speaker 7: in and around our generation.
- 26:57Speaker 3: Everybody's always going to always going to bring.
- 26:59Speaker 5: Back Euro twenty two.
- 27:00Speaker 7: All of his his moments there and and the famous
- 27:02Speaker 7: you know, the celebration, you know, the why.
- 27:05Speaker 3: Always me celebration, But you know, just balt.
- 27:09Speaker 7: Telly is Bala tellis balt Telly, like we wouldn't have
- 27:11Speaker 7: any other way, and interesting project that he goes to
- 27:15Speaker 7: at Genua. You know, Giordino Is is a coach.
- 27:19Speaker 3: That I've I've liked. He's had moments, but it needs
- 27:22Speaker 3: to be more consistent, can he? Because right now they're
- 27:26Speaker 3: they're I don't know if they're still in last place.
- 27:28Speaker 1: I believe they're in nineteenth, they're in the seventeenth.
- 27:33Speaker 3: Well now they're in seventeen. Okay, sorry, So before before the.
- 27:36Speaker 5: Game this past weekend, they I think they were in
- 27:38Speaker 5: last They just jumped out of it into seventeenth. But
- 27:40Speaker 5: let's they're on that cut. So it's an interesting project.
- 27:43Speaker 5: That he goes to can he be a piece of
- 27:46Speaker 5: the puzzle to save them from relegation.
- 27:48Speaker 3: Only time will tell.
- 27:51Speaker 7: But he he has said it for a while that
- 27:53Speaker 7: he's wanted to return to Italy. He wants to try
- 27:55Speaker 7: to return to the national team.
- 27:57Speaker 5: I know spelect he said, you know, we don't and
- 28:01Speaker 5: you know we we we uh we.
- 28:04Speaker 3: We look at everybody. We we don't kind of like, uh,
- 28:06Speaker 3: you know, discriminate, but we don't. We don't close the
- 28:09Speaker 3: door so for anybody who who wants to be there,
- 28:12Speaker 3: So we'll see. Ultimately, I think it's just.
- 28:16Speaker 5: A really a waiting game about tell you like, I know,
- 28:19Speaker 5: like he hasn't played like in a professional game besides
- 28:23Speaker 5: like today's like appearance, uh in in in.
- 28:27Speaker 7: A little while now, So he needs to get back
- 28:29Speaker 7: into game shape. I know, he's obviously always going to
- 28:32Speaker 7: be uh you know, have these these little intricacies and
- 28:35Speaker 7: these little these little sparks of brilliance because not just
- 28:38Speaker 7: the type of player he is and and was and is,
- 28:41Speaker 7: but back into game shape week in.
- 28:44Speaker 3: Week out, playing at you know, in a in a
- 28:46Speaker 3: top five league.
- 28:46Speaker 7: Like said, yeah, it's gonna take some time for him
- 28:48Speaker 7: to get I think his his feet under him. But
- 28:52Speaker 7: I'm intrigued to see how Giordano you know, ultimately you know,
- 28:58Speaker 7: plays him, uses him because like you said, they have
- 29:00Speaker 7: a young striker in in in Pino Monty who's been
- 29:03Speaker 7: you know, pulling his weight and doing a lot for
- 29:05Speaker 7: for that attack. So I don't know, we'll see ultimately.
- 29:10Speaker 7: Like I said, I'm happy to see him back. It's
- 29:12Speaker 7: it's it's a headline that I wasn't sure that was
- 29:15Speaker 7: gonna end up happening, because every day it seemed like,
- 29:17Speaker 7: you know, he's talking, but they're not sure. And then
- 29:20Speaker 7: there's like a wemp in the matrix is coming back
- 29:22Speaker 7: at forty eight years old, and then and then it's
- 29:25Speaker 7: like Bale's is close.
- 29:27Speaker 3: To genuine and ultimately.
- 29:28Speaker 6: He either armor elsewhere and.
- 29:31Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, another another glimpse in the matrix, right.
- 29:34Speaker 5: So uh, it's it's one of these things that you know,
- 29:38Speaker 5: kind of came out of the blue but ended up
- 29:40Speaker 5: getting getting done. And I'm happy for for Balt. He's
- 29:43Speaker 5: still I think he's thirty four years.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Old, so uh, you know, near the near the end.
- 29:48Speaker 5: But we've seen a lot of guys in Seria up
- 29:51Speaker 5: there in age still.
- 29:52Speaker 3: Be able to perform you know, the Ebers of the world,
- 29:55Speaker 3: the Jus, the the kwadyrell As, the you.
- 29:58Speaker 5: Know, the Luca Toni's, the Total dinatal Is, like these guys,
- 30:03Speaker 5: you know, to put the Pazzini's, the Giordinos back in
- 30:06Speaker 5: the day, like these guys were able to have, you know.
- 30:09Speaker 3: Careers that even though in their in their elderly uh
- 30:14Speaker 3: you know quo unquote elderly state of age.
- 30:17Speaker 5: For for for the in the sporting world, we're still
- 30:19Speaker 5: able to get it done and score some goals. I
- 30:21Speaker 5: don't know if people are already saying, yeah, he's gonna
- 30:24Speaker 5: score five goals, ten goals, fifteen.
- 30:26Speaker 7: Goals, guys, I don't know how many goals he's gonna score.
- 30:28Speaker 7: I would like to see him get on the score sheet.
- 30:31Speaker 7: I think that would be a moment that we.
- 30:33Speaker 3: Would all enjoy.
- 30:36Speaker 7: But listen, and what is it you said that twenty
- 30:39Speaker 7: seven matches left to play.
- 30:42Speaker 3: If he scores five.
- 30:43Speaker 5: To seven goals, I think at the end of it,
- 30:45Speaker 5: you know, I don't know if.
- 30:46Speaker 3: He gets to ten. It was yeah, it's the tennis.
- 30:51Speaker 5: I think asking a lot, but I would say five
- 30:53Speaker 5: to seven if you can do that.
- 30:54Speaker 3: In twenty seven games. I think I would hope no
- 31:00Speaker 3: offense can. Can we be pleased as long as they
- 31:02Speaker 3: obviously stay up In said, yeah.
- 31:06Speaker 1: Guys, let's talk about our teams now.
- 31:07Speaker 2: I don't know, uh well, I mean, we already talked
- 31:09Speaker 2: about Napoli, but you know, we'll talk about we'll swinging.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Back to Roma after Johnny. But you know, we talked
- 31:15Speaker 1: spoke about me and so.
- 31:16Speaker 2: I guess it's my turn to speak about You've talk
- 31:18Speaker 2: about just the game against you, Toay's this was the
- 31:21Speaker 2: most allegri win ever. You know, this is most alleged
- 31:24Speaker 2: win for a coach not named a Lagry. Let's at
- 31:26Speaker 2: least for you. Let's put it that way. You know,
- 31:28Speaker 2: they come off to you know, a good start, two
- 31:31Speaker 2: goals and what the first thirty seven minutes uh from
- 31:35Speaker 2: uh technically was an own goal the first one, and
- 31:38Speaker 2: then Savona put it away for the second one, and
- 31:41Speaker 2: then they just they sat back and that's fine.
- 31:44Speaker 1: You know, three points is three points. I've said it
- 31:47Speaker 1: so many times on this podcast.
- 31:48Speaker 2: I don't care how they get it, but it's just
- 31:50Speaker 2: funny how last year, you know, the UVE fan based
- 31:54Speaker 2: on Twitter spends all season complaining about these type of games,
- 31:57Speaker 2: and this is exactly what we're getting again. It's you know,
- 32:01Speaker 2: you could put you could put makeup on a donkey,
- 32:03Speaker 2: it's still a donkey, you know. It's and you know
- 32:07Speaker 2: what what's funny is with these type of games is
- 32:11Speaker 2: I'll take these wins obviously, but it's the games like
- 32:14Speaker 2: the midweek game last last week with two two versus
- 32:18Speaker 2: Parma and even the draw versus versus Cality that I'm
- 32:22Speaker 2: not you know, those games are the frustrating ones because
- 32:26Speaker 2: those are the games you have to win, especially against
- 32:28Speaker 2: teams like Cality and Patama, and and then you come
- 32:31Speaker 2: away with a drop. I think their first ten games
- 32:34Speaker 2: they had four wins, six draws versus last year, I
- 32:36Speaker 2: think it was, uh six wins, three losses and a draw,
- 32:42Speaker 2: or sorry, six wins, three draws and a loss, something
- 32:46Speaker 2: like along those lines.
- 32:47Speaker 1: Like they had more points.
- 32:48Speaker 2: They're higher up in the standings after ten games last
- 32:51Speaker 2: year than this year, So you know that it's that
- 32:54Speaker 2: part that's frustrating.
- 32:55Speaker 1: Obviously.
- 32:56Speaker 2: You look back to the inter game, you know, I
- 32:58Speaker 2: know we didn't do a podcastlast week, so I didn't
- 33:00Speaker 2: get a chance to speak about it, but even that
- 33:02Speaker 2: inter game, it feels like they should have come away
- 33:05Speaker 2: with a win because you can't allow four goals. Yes,
- 33:07Speaker 2: it's nice scoring four roles, but it's you know, there's
- 33:11Speaker 2: no point in for scoring four goals if you're just
- 33:12Speaker 2: gonna allow four goals.
- 33:13Speaker 1: Yes, you get you get.
- 33:14Speaker 2: One point, there's a point in that, but uh, it's
- 33:18Speaker 2: the same as there was a draw at the end
- 33:19Speaker 2: of the day.
- 33:20Speaker 1: So uh, you know.
- 33:22Speaker 2: What I want to see from youve is you know,
- 33:25Speaker 2: just continue to run a form of winning games. Obviously,
- 33:28Speaker 2: the big game tomorrow against lil I think this is
- 33:30Speaker 2: gonna be a real tough game. This is a good team.
- 33:32Speaker 2: They have real great scorer in Jonathan David. I'm excited
- 33:34Speaker 2: to watch Jonathan David play against you. That's awesome.
- 33:37Speaker 5: Uh.
- 33:39Speaker 1: But they they can't.
- 33:40Speaker 2: They can't you know, get trapped if you if you
- 33:42Speaker 2: go up to nothing against them in the Champions League,
- 33:44Speaker 2: you can't fall back. We saw Legry do that so
- 33:46Speaker 2: many times and he gets burned. Or rather, you know,
- 33:49Speaker 2: you'd go up one nothing and then fall back defensively.
- 33:52Speaker 2: So Mata and you, they can't, they can't get in
- 33:55Speaker 2: this trap. We need better goals scoring from Vovid, better finishing,
- 33:58Speaker 2: cool miners needs to better finishing. You know, I tweeted
- 34:02Speaker 2: on when do they play on Saturday? He's what kind
- 34:06Speaker 2: of loss of their kub miners kind of a bit
- 34:08Speaker 2: like Vavish. You know, maybe I'm hating on this guy,
- 34:11Speaker 2: these guys for no reason, but you know, they paid
- 34:14Speaker 2: a lot of money. One hundred and thirty million they
- 34:16Speaker 2: spent to get each of them in separate seasons, right,
- 34:19Speaker 2: so you expect better for me? Uh, you know, guys,
- 34:23Speaker 2: even to ram he's you know, he's been he's been good.
- 34:27Speaker 1: He's been good.
- 34:28Speaker 2: One player I've liked definitely is obviously Cambiaso, but even
- 34:31Speaker 2: even Savona he scored right against you Today's He's a
- 34:34Speaker 2: player that comes in through the youth, the youth generation.
- 34:37Speaker 2: This is the type of player you're gonna want as
- 34:40Speaker 2: Juve continues to rebuild that you're able to build him
- 34:43Speaker 2: up through the youth. You don't have to spend thirty forty.
- 34:45Speaker 1: Million on him.
- 34:46Speaker 2: On him, sure, he's not a superstar, but he's he's
- 34:49Speaker 2: he's serviceable on the right side, and and he's young,
- 34:53Speaker 2: so at least you know, he could probably grow into
- 34:55Speaker 2: that role and and hey, who knows, maybe he'll stay
- 34:57Speaker 2: with you here for years to come and maybe he'll participate.
- 35:00Speaker 1: You know, partaking in the national team.
- 35:01Speaker 2: So you know, it's it's an interesting situation where the
- 35:06Speaker 2: players where you they didn't have to spend a lot
- 35:08Speaker 2: of money, are better than the players where you did
- 35:10Speaker 2: have to spend a lot of a lot of money.
- 35:12Speaker 2: But I know we're still literally in this early in
- 35:13Speaker 2: the season, but it is what it is, and you know,
- 35:17Speaker 2: at the end of day, I'll take those three points, right.
- 35:20Speaker 5: No, absolutely, I think you know, it's funny the same
- 35:25Speaker 5: people that were bitching the morning about the allegories Corto
- 35:29Speaker 5: Muso wins and now they're they're where they're they're talking
- 35:31Speaker 5: about Mata because it's it's not allegory now, so it's Mata,
- 35:34Speaker 5: so it's acceptable.
- 35:36Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not in the UFA world, so
- 35:37Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 35:38Speaker 5: But it's it's crazy. I mean, at the end of
- 35:41Speaker 5: the day, the ball is around, it goes in the net.
- 35:43Speaker 7: You score, you win, the game finishes, you get the
- 35:47Speaker 7: three points at the end. Unfortunately, in this game, that's
- 35:50Speaker 7: all that matters, right, is the three points at the
- 35:53Speaker 7: end of the day. Obviously, you want to play a
- 35:55Speaker 7: certain way, and I think ultimately that is nice and
- 36:00Speaker 7: it is it is you know, interesting to watch because
- 36:02Speaker 7: there's only so much you can watch one nothing boring, cultural, But.
- 36:08Speaker 3: You know, I think you know, you have a along
- 36:12Speaker 3: with the other.
- 36:12Speaker 7: Teams up there at the top there, it's it's a
- 36:14Speaker 7: close race. So it's uh, it's you know, even.
- 36:18Speaker 5: Those those two two's, those one ones, those four fours.
- 36:22Speaker 3: You know, it's not the it's obviously not the results
- 36:24Speaker 3: you want.
- 36:25Speaker 5: I think, you know, as much as it pains it
- 36:28Speaker 5: because it's a dead beat, but you can.
- 36:30Speaker 3: Kind of eat the four four.
- 36:31Speaker 7: Because that game was just bananas. Ultimately, from start to finish,
- 36:35Speaker 7: that game was was insane. But you can kind of
- 36:39Speaker 7: eat that. But you know, the coalities that the Problemas
- 36:42Speaker 7: like when I see me on it and they get
- 36:44Speaker 7: these results against these teams, it just infuriates me because
- 36:47Speaker 7: these are the games that you need to pick out
- 36:48Speaker 7: the points and and those are the games that you.
- 36:51Speaker 5: Know, ultimately at the end of the at the end
- 36:53Speaker 5: of the day, at the end of the season, those
- 36:55Speaker 5: missed opportunities against these teams where you know you should
- 36:58Speaker 5: have picked up points can ultimate back and bite you
- 37:00Speaker 5: in the as so especially with a with a tight
- 37:04Speaker 5: race at the top like this season, it's not a
- 37:06Speaker 5: runaway like like the Napu season or Oriente. It's not
- 37:10Speaker 5: a runaway season.
- 37:11Speaker 3: So far. It seems to be that it's really really close.
- 37:14Speaker 7: Uh hopefully it ends up going like that, you.
- 37:17Speaker 3: Know, to the end of the season.
- 37:18Speaker 5: But these these points dropped on all on all our
- 37:24Speaker 5: team's fronts can eventually come.
- 37:26Speaker 3: Back to haunt us. But you know, again, the only
- 37:29Speaker 3: time will tell.
- 37:34Speaker 1: Other games that we got know Roma lost, Johnny, was
- 37:36Speaker 1: it three to two against Rona? What's happening there? It
- 37:39Speaker 1: feels like I have.
- 37:41Speaker 6: No idea, to be honest.
- 37:42Speaker 4: I feel like what Roma is going through this season
- 37:44Speaker 4: is exact same thing that Napoli went through last year,
- 37:47Speaker 4: where it's just it's there's no sense in the room.
- 37:52Speaker 4: On paper, this teams like it should be better, but
- 37:55Speaker 4: it's not. Uh, you're gonna go through revolving do over coaches.
- 37:58Speaker 4: It seems you know, uh already Jerch is on the
- 38:02Speaker 4: hot seat. And organizational wise, like the ownership group is
- 38:06Speaker 4: also a bit of a mess. You know, you have
- 38:07Speaker 4: the whole fiasco with chief Operations and sorry the president,
- 38:15Speaker 4: Uh yeah, it was the president right, I forget her.
- 38:16Speaker 4: I forget her position either way with the whole that
- 38:18Speaker 4: ass situation.
- 38:19Speaker 6: It's it's it's.
- 38:20Speaker 4: One headache after the other, and it's it's becoming a
- 38:23Speaker 4: bit of a nightmare, and you just it's it's, it's, it's,
- 38:26Speaker 4: it's it's a it's a very terrible merry go round
- 38:28Speaker 4: and you just want to get off the ride, but
- 38:29Speaker 4: you can't. You got you got the kids screaming and
- 38:32Speaker 4: crying to your left, even though it's a small little
- 38:34Speaker 4: merry go round. You know, you see you see all
- 38:36Speaker 4: the other teams, like the top says that this is
- 38:38Speaker 4: not only having fun at the front of at the
- 38:41Speaker 4: What the hell's that deeping noise?
- 38:43Speaker 3: My fucking dryer?
- 38:45Speaker 6: Right, okay, okay. I was like, I'm like, am I sorry, No,
- 38:48Speaker 6: it's okay, I'm ahead. I'm like, is it my time now?
- 38:51Speaker 3: Is that?
- 38:51Speaker 6: Is am I? Am I going right now?
- 38:53Speaker 1: Is no?
- 38:55Speaker 3: No?
- 39:00Speaker 1: Is it a Samsung?
- 39:01Speaker 3: I don't know the stupid dryer. It's like as if
- 39:05Speaker 3: they doesn't know that, we'll record it.
- 39:07Speaker 6: You know, my mine is mine? Is uh what to
- 39:11Speaker 6: put my dingle? Yeah?
- 39:20Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the same Yeah, it's the same one.
- 39:25Speaker 1: It's Samsung's it's Samsung.
- 39:28Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, Samsung.
- 39:30Speaker 1: The guys, I think that's there too. It's the dryer.
- 39:35Speaker 3: Guys.
- 39:37Speaker 1: Did you remember to take out the lint?
- 39:40Speaker 3: Yes? I did.
- 39:41Speaker 1: Don't forget to take out the lint there.
- 39:45Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't have to like mofa now, right, So.
- 39:48Speaker 1: Put them on.
- 39:48Speaker 2: Put them on now, your your cheeks are gonna be
- 39:50Speaker 2: nice and warm.
- 39:53Speaker 1: Real talk.
- 39:53Speaker 3: When I was younger.
- 39:54Speaker 4: When I was younger, especially when I was in high school,
- 39:56Speaker 4: when I had to take the bus or whatever to school,
- 39:58Speaker 4: I used to I used to put my pants in
- 40:00Speaker 4: the dryer before leaving the house, like it'd be nice
- 40:03Speaker 4: and toasty when I left the house when I had
- 40:04Speaker 4: to take the bus. So that was like, even though
- 40:06Speaker 4: they were clean, I was just there like fucking just
- 40:08Speaker 4: put it in the dryer and just like keep them
- 40:10Speaker 4: up a bit.
- 40:10Speaker 3: Uh. Now we're back.
- 40:13Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 40:14Speaker 4: But so as I was making my joke, you know,
- 40:17Speaker 4: it's like it's like.
- 40:17Speaker 6: A very horrible merry around.
- 40:19Speaker 4: You got your you got a kid screaming to your left,
- 40:21Speaker 4: you know, and that kid is probably cold bull right now,
- 40:23Speaker 4: and you got you know this said this suddenly having
- 40:25Speaker 4: fun on the little horses in the front and everything
- 40:27Speaker 4: and that, and you're just stuck there, like why am
- 40:28Speaker 4: I with the short end of the stick?
- 40:29Speaker 3: You know.
- 40:30Speaker 4: So that's that's basically the summary of Roma where it's
- 40:33Speaker 4: like it on paper, this team should not be where
- 40:36Speaker 4: they are right now. They should definitely be in a
- 40:38Speaker 4: better position. I'm not saying like in terms of like
- 40:40Speaker 4: a dominant team. I'm saying that they're gonna be like, oh,
- 40:42Speaker 4: like it's.
- 40:42Speaker 6: Likely challenging team, like oh, a super team.
- 40:45Speaker 3: No, no, no no.
- 40:46Speaker 4: But it's just more of like, well, howard they in
- 40:49Speaker 4: the bottom ten? How are they in the bottom half?
- 40:52Speaker 4: Like this does not make sense. It's it's mind boggling.
- 40:55Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever I don't think I've seen
- 40:56Speaker 4: it Aroma in that kind of position before. So it's,
- 40:59Speaker 4: you know, it's scary. So in my eyes, I'm like, uh,
- 41:03Speaker 4: you know, obviously, you know, if I don't want to
- 41:06Speaker 4: bring the the R word into talk, you know, relegation,
- 41:09Speaker 4: but if that, if that happens, you know, they'd no
- 41:12Speaker 4: no no no no no no no, please, I don't
- 41:15Speaker 4: need to be canceled with.
- 41:20Speaker 3: Either way.
- 41:21Speaker 6: If I don't want that to happen to the team,
- 41:22Speaker 6: because at.
- 41:23Speaker 4: This pace, it looks like it's it's it's it seems
- 41:26Speaker 4: it's very likely there's chances of it happening.
- 41:28Speaker 6: So team's too good for that to happen. I think
- 41:32Speaker 6: there's things need to change.
- 41:34Speaker 4: There needs to be some form of a discussion or
- 41:36Speaker 4: some form of a town hall something, because it doesn't
- 41:41Speaker 4: make sense. I I'm at withs End, and I'm pretty
- 41:44Speaker 4: sure the players in a management group are at withs
- 41:46Speaker 4: End as well.
- 41:48Speaker 3: Already. I'm seeing like bringing that all seed back and everything.
- 41:51Speaker 6: That's that's not going to solve anything.
- 41:53Speaker 1: It's it's it's would you bring them back?
- 41:55Speaker 6: I personally wouldn't, not that, not that I not that,
- 41:58Speaker 6: I not that I hate, not that. I wouldn't that
- 41:59Speaker 6: I hate guy.
- 42:00Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, like I just I personally wouldn't
- 42:02Speaker 4: because it's like, why would you go back to square one?
- 42:06Speaker 3: You know, like.
- 42:08Speaker 4: We saw that it wasn't working with the current group.
- 42:10Speaker 4: Nothing's really changed to why I bring him back. It's
- 42:12Speaker 4: not because it's like I said, it's not because I
- 42:14Speaker 4: hate the guy. I don't want to bring him back
- 42:16Speaker 4: and put him in another situation where he's gonna be
- 42:17Speaker 4: set up to fail again. You know, some fans are
- 42:19Speaker 4: campaigning FORMIEI to come back and do what he did
- 42:22Speaker 4: a few years back where he just like, you know,
- 42:24Speaker 4: like kept the ship stabled until the end, you know,
- 42:26Speaker 4: and then have them figure out in the summer. And
- 42:28Speaker 4: you know you could do that. I mean, he's that
- 42:30Speaker 4: kind of coach. But the guy officially retired. I mean,
- 42:32Speaker 4: I don't think he's ever gonna. I don't think Everyon
- 42:34Speaker 4: wants to manage a team again, not that not that
- 42:36Speaker 4: he you know what I mean, Like he just.
- 42:39Speaker 3: Brett Farb and comes out of retirement. Yeah. So, but
- 42:43Speaker 3: like would you because I know mew On fans with
- 42:46Speaker 3: with On sec.
- 42:47Speaker 5: Kind of you know, I almost at the breaking point
- 42:50Speaker 5: there in terms of you.
- 42:50Speaker 3: Know, getting rid of him or not. But if and
- 42:55Speaker 3: when would you pull the pull the eject button on
- 42:58Speaker 3: you it?
- 42:59Speaker 5: Itch? If this continues? Like do you pull the egject button?
- 43:03Speaker 5: Or do you ride the wave until the winter?
- 43:06Speaker 3: Mercato or what do you where do you want on that? Johnny?
- 43:10Speaker 4: Like I like, I'm gonna say the same thing as
- 43:12Speaker 4: I did with with the whole situation last year with Napoli,
- 43:17Speaker 4: just ride it out till till the winter. The macat though,
- 43:19Speaker 4: so you have a bigger like you have time to
- 43:21Speaker 4: think of a proper, suitable replacement for If you're gonna
- 43:24Speaker 4: replace them, at least find somebody to replace them.
- 43:26Speaker 6: That's gonna be a good one.
- 43:28Speaker 4: You don't want it to be like I said, you
- 43:29Speaker 4: want it to be a revolving our managers and just
- 43:31Speaker 4: end up back to square one as you did before.
- 43:33Speaker 4: That's that's what I want the team to avoid, and
- 43:36Speaker 4: right now, at the current pace, it doesn't seem that
- 43:38Speaker 4: they're gonna avoid that.
- 43:44Speaker 2: Not many other interesting you know games talk about in
- 43:47Speaker 2: the city this past weekend. But you know one thing
- 43:49Speaker 2: I want to bring up, Champions League, Europa League Conference
- 43:52Speaker 2: League back this week Champions some interesting games for the
- 43:56Speaker 2: Italian teams. We got Real Madrid Milan tomorrow, you know,
- 44:01Speaker 2: definitely the biggest game out of the five Battalian teams.
- 44:04Speaker 2: AH Juventus is in lil And and Bologna hosts Monicos.
- 44:10Speaker 2: Feels like game where you know, if Bologna wants to
- 44:12Speaker 2: give them give themselves a chance to finish top twenty four,
- 44:15Speaker 2: they got to get three points here. And then on
- 44:18Speaker 2: Wednesday inter hosts Arsenal, so second time that Arsenal comes
- 44:22Speaker 2: to Italy uh and Atlanta goes to Stuttgart. So, I mean, guys,
- 44:30Speaker 2: what are your thoughts on these games? You know, what
- 44:32Speaker 2: do you expect for the talent teams? I think, you know,
- 44:34Speaker 2: looking at the big game Real Madrid Melan, I think
- 44:38Speaker 2: safe to say this is gonna be a tough game
- 44:40Speaker 2: for Melan, you know, especially in Madrid.
- 44:44Speaker 1: Obviously you know Real is the favorites here. But if hey, if.
- 44:48Speaker 2: Melan could walk away with with a dry I think
- 44:50Speaker 2: they'll be very happy inter versus Arsenal and I don't
- 44:53Speaker 2: know exactly how are how Arsenal is doing. I know
- 44:56Speaker 2: they drew at Atlanta when they played, so this feels
- 44:59Speaker 2: like a game that you know, again interests at home.
- 45:01Speaker 2: They're probably the favorite, the favorites, so uh, you know
- 45:05Speaker 2: they're gonna want three points, Well they get three points possibly.
- 45:08Speaker 2: I feel like this is gonna be another draw the
- 45:11Speaker 2: other games, uh at Banta's red hot, so I could
- 45:13Speaker 2: see them going to stut Guard getting the win you
- 45:15Speaker 2: versus well, again, I see this as a draw. I
- 45:18Speaker 2: don't see a winning, especially with their runner for him
- 45:21Speaker 2: and Bologna Monico, I think this is a tough one.
- 45:24Speaker 2: This is not you know, the twenty fourteen twenty fifteen Monaco,
- 45:27Speaker 2: So yeah, again, I don't know how they are. But
- 45:29Speaker 2: Blodney is getting better. It's what two three games in
- 45:32Speaker 2: a row that Arsenali scored. They're getting better. They're they're
- 45:36Speaker 2: you know, progressing right with Eliana as the coach. So
- 45:40Speaker 2: I could see them, you know, almost like a desperation win,
- 45:42Speaker 2: getting three points, getting their first champions leg win.
- 45:44Speaker 1: What do you guys, what do you guys think.
- 45:47Speaker 3: It's gonna be. It's gonna be tough across the board.
- 45:49Speaker 3: I think yeah, for me on sake, I mean, I
- 45:54Speaker 3: think I don't know if we have a chiance at all.
- 45:55Speaker 7: To be honest, like it's it's one of those newon
- 45:58Speaker 7: fans are I think after just these runoff games, you know,
- 46:02Speaker 7: the whole LAO situation with Onseeca and and you know,
- 46:08Speaker 7: postponement of games when it shouldn't have been postponed, you know,
- 46:13Speaker 7: not having the players that you would have had in
- 46:16Speaker 7: a in a matchup that would have should have been
- 46:19Speaker 7: there weren't there because of the suspension that carried over.
- 46:21Speaker 7: It just not playing up to scratch for the most part, uh,
- 46:28Speaker 7: for what you have on paper, similar to kind of
- 46:30Speaker 7: what Johnny said, a bar Roma, you know, Miolan kind
- 46:33Speaker 7: of falls in that same category.
- 46:35Speaker 3: And you know, yeah, okay, getting the win against months
- 46:39Speaker 3: of this this weekend, but losing the big one against.
- 46:42Speaker 7: Against Napui, which ultimately was written in the start seeing
- 46:46Speaker 7: how the lineup was gonna shape up to be. But yeah, man,
- 46:51Speaker 7: just Vinnie Junior not winning the battle and Door, nobody
- 46:54Speaker 7: of Real Madre going to to.
- 46:56Speaker 3: France for the Battle of Door ceremony. They're they're off
- 46:59Speaker 3: for for revenge. Then we're gonna do better and to
- 47:02Speaker 3: go all out.
- 47:03Speaker 7: Now it's I think it's gonna be a really tough
- 47:05Speaker 7: test for Melon, especially at the Bendabao.
- 47:07Speaker 3: It's it's already it's tough.
- 47:09Speaker 5: To go there and you know, and try to try
- 47:13Speaker 5: to eke out a win. But with a you know,
- 47:16Speaker 5: a team with you know that are kind of like
- 47:18Speaker 5: on a mission to to do bigger and better things,
- 47:21Speaker 5: It's it's gonna be even even more tough. So I
- 47:24Speaker 5: think I'm just hoping for for for something to go
- 47:28Speaker 5: our way, to maybe hopefully pick up a draw.
- 47:31Speaker 3: But ultimately I don't think we win, you know, I
- 47:34Speaker 3: know they were able to pick.
- 47:35Speaker 5: Up the win against Bruges which was which was huge
- 47:37Speaker 5: three to one, which was which was a nice confidence
- 47:40Speaker 5: booster in the Champions League.
- 47:41Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't think. I don't think Neon wins.
- 47:45Speaker 4: Uh.
- 47:46Speaker 3: You know when you have an attacking trio of.
- 47:51Speaker 5: Ro Di Diego, Vinnie Junior and then Bought Bay going
- 47:54Speaker 5: against Emerson Royale, Malik Chao and Okay, Taylornande.
- 48:02Speaker 3: Is his world class. But just those three it's.
- 48:06Speaker 5: You know, you're right, You're you're asking for for for
- 48:09Speaker 5: a beating.
- 48:09Speaker 3: So we'll see. I'm hopeful.
- 48:12Speaker 5: I'm always gonna be optimistic, you know, you know, deep down,
- 48:14Speaker 5: but to say realistically you kind of take off the
- 48:17Speaker 5: Nealon cap and the Neoon goggles and and all that.
- 48:19Speaker 3: I think it's really gonna be tough.
- 48:21Speaker 7: And you know, if if they can you know, kind
- 48:25Speaker 7: of control that midfield and and.
- 48:27Speaker 3: Their star players wake up, you know, the layouts. You know, the.
- 48:31Speaker 7: Polistic has a game. You know Ryanders, who has been fantastic,
- 48:35Speaker 7: you know, has a game.
- 48:37Speaker 5: You know, Taylornandez, you know, Magnon kind of you know,
- 48:40Speaker 5: really saved them almost a weekend and week out.
- 48:43Speaker 3: I think maybe something can kind of happen. But ultimately
- 48:48Speaker 3: I think it's their real Madrid is too tough. You know.
- 48:50Speaker 5: Angelotti on the other side to managing, he's he's mister,
- 48:53Speaker 5: mister Champions League. He's he's a winner.
- 48:55Speaker 3: So I don't know. Maybe this is fun his last game.
- 48:59Speaker 3: I don't know. But ultimately, from Fonseca to the.
- 49:03Speaker 5: Players, to management, to Ebra to the whole club, everybody
- 49:07Speaker 5: has to be better.
- 49:08Speaker 3: Hopefully it can. It can start tomorrow. We'll see if
- 49:12Speaker 3: that's the case. For the other matchups.
- 49:14Speaker 5: I think, uh, I think Inter you've in at Tolanto
- 49:20Speaker 5: win and I think, uh, I think Boga I'm gonna say.
- 49:28Speaker 3: I'm gonna say draw. I think that it's gonna be
- 49:30Speaker 3: tough for them too.
- 49:32Speaker 5: Again, I don't know Monaco, you know all too well
- 49:36Speaker 5: in terms of how they've been playing and what they've
- 49:37Speaker 5: been looking like. But they've just been in europe European
- 49:42Speaker 5: competitions at a better rate than obviously Boonia has, and
- 49:47Speaker 5: I still think they probably have some quality out there.
- 49:49Speaker 5: But I'm gonna say draw for I'm gonna say the
- 49:52Speaker 5: other three are gonna win. I think I think Inter
- 49:56Speaker 5: who they plays two guards.
- 49:58Speaker 2: Right, no interplace Arsenal To play sorry.
- 50:03Speaker 5: Arsenal, I think uh, I think they they win, especially
- 50:06Speaker 5: at home. I think they I think they I think
- 50:08Speaker 5: they take it to them. I think they win.
- 50:10Speaker 3: You know that their quality is is uh is on par.
- 50:14Speaker 3: I think with.
- 50:14Speaker 5: Everybody wants to kind of set the bar with with
- 50:17Speaker 5: what the Premier League has and you know, can they
- 50:19Speaker 5: make it in the Premier League?
- 50:20Speaker 3: Can they do it in the Premier League?
- 50:21Speaker 5: I think there's inter side as much as it again
- 50:23Speaker 5: pains me to say that can match with with with
- 50:26Speaker 5: the team from the Premier League. We saw it in
- 50:28Speaker 5: in the in the in the final last year against City,
- 50:32Speaker 5: you know, when going toe to toe they play it
- 50:34Speaker 5: against it.
- 50:34Speaker 3: They drew the nil nil. I think they win. I
- 50:37Speaker 3: think they beat Arsenal. Uh take care of business there.
- 50:40Speaker 3: And for me, I.
- 50:41Speaker 5: Think against Little Yeah, maybe a tough match, but I'm
- 50:44Speaker 5: gonna stick to it.
- 50:45Speaker 3: I think, you know, if.
- 50:47Speaker 5: You know, if these bigger teams in Italy want to
- 50:49Speaker 5: be serious, you know, the Inters, the Uvers of the
- 50:52Speaker 5: world and ultimately I would like to say Milan two,
- 50:55Speaker 5: but they're in a bit of a funk. You know,
- 50:57Speaker 5: they need to get these wins and I think you
- 51:00Speaker 5: it does it against against Live. It's gonna be not
- 51:03Speaker 5: the easiest. That maybe Jonathan David's course of scores of
- 51:06Speaker 5: penalty like he always seems to do uh for Live.
- 51:09Speaker 5: But it's I think it's a win for you Van
- 51:13Speaker 5: and Frontalanta against stuck Cart like you said, Nick, Uh.
- 51:18Speaker 5: For me, it's a win, it's another win. I think
- 51:20Speaker 5: they're they're they're too hot right now to say otherwise.
- 51:24Speaker 5: I want to try to be that edgy guy. They say,
- 51:25Speaker 5: oh yeah, they're gonna you know, slip up over here.
- 51:27Speaker 5: And I kind of predict the future. But if I
- 51:30Speaker 5: if I would put money on it, I would say
- 51:32Speaker 5: they win. Watch now that I say this, We're gonna
- 51:35Speaker 5: come back next week. They lost like the three nothing
- 51:38Speaker 5: or something. But no, ultimately I think they do pick
- 51:42Speaker 5: up the points. Uh, they you know, continue to progress
- 51:45Speaker 5: and and this could run a form and yeah, just
- 51:49Speaker 5: their their rotation of players to a like the Melchatos
- 51:52Speaker 5: that they had has been has been one that has
- 51:55Speaker 5: been I think in the uh in the upper tier
- 51:58Speaker 5: of merkatos.
- 51:59Speaker 3: That that the Italian teams had in the summer.
- 52:01Speaker 5: So I think they pick it up and yeah, I
- 52:04Speaker 5: guess that from Bologna to draw and I think neon losers.
- 52:07Speaker 3: So what's that three wins a draw on a lott
- 52:09Speaker 3: for for.
- 52:10Speaker 5: Me, for the Italian teams come these next two days,
- 52:15Speaker 5: Johnny Well, I.
- 52:17Speaker 6: Don't want to be the pessimistic guy I did. I
- 52:23Speaker 6: do unfortunately see Milan losing to Madrid. No disrespect to Adriano.
- 52:28Speaker 6: I think you said it perfectly before.
- 52:29Speaker 4: He gave very valid reasons why as to why that
- 52:31Speaker 4: may may happen if they win, fantastic, I'm pretty sure
- 52:34Speaker 4: no one's gonna complain. Fuck, I will complain if Melan
- 52:37Speaker 4: beats Real Madrid. I'd be happy either. I'd be really
- 52:41Speaker 4: happy if that happens. But it's it's it's it's extremely unlikely.
- 52:45Speaker 6: It's unlikely.
- 52:46Speaker 4: Uh. I actually think Inter draws versus Arsenal. I think
- 52:51Speaker 4: uh Inter themselves, it's just yeah, just recently, you know,
- 52:55Speaker 4: like they they did have that draw versus against Youve
- 52:58Speaker 4: and stuff in the four to four game.
- 53:00Speaker 6: But it's like right now, I feel like as if
- 53:01Speaker 6: they're just probably.
- 53:02Speaker 4: Gonna I don't know, it's it's just a vibe.
- 53:06Speaker 6: It's just a vibe.
- 53:07Speaker 4: I wish I can give you guys, like an honest
- 53:10Speaker 4: explanation and like a full in depth analysis and whatnot.
- 53:13Speaker 6: But uh, I just I just get a vibe that's
- 53:16Speaker 6: going to be a draw.
- 53:17Speaker 4: To be honest with you, Uh, you've a picture winning
- 53:19Speaker 4: versus a little I wouldn't say it's a clean win,
- 53:23Speaker 4: but I think it'd be like a like a two
- 53:24Speaker 4: to one win Atlanta beat Stutgart.
- 53:27Speaker 6: I think we all come into I think we all
- 53:28Speaker 6: agree with that.
- 53:29Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, you know, yeah, but but there there Sue
- 53:36Speaker 2: Guard four points, Atlanta five points.
- 53:38Speaker 1: So this is actually a big game for both teams.
- 53:40Speaker 4: But I don't I feel like Atalanta this year is
- 53:43Speaker 4: just one of those teams that, uh, they're playing with
- 53:45Speaker 4: a lot of confidence, especially after coming off of win
- 53:47Speaker 4: versus Napoli. You know, Uh they have there, they have
- 53:50Speaker 4: a belief in themselves, you know, and that's big you
- 53:54Speaker 4: you want to have that.
- 53:54Speaker 3: If they put that home, Nick, I didn't, I don't know.
- 53:58Speaker 1: Uh, it's in it's in Germany.
- 54:00Speaker 3: I't okay, films at home, but I I it's fine.
- 54:06Speaker 1: They're a good road team.
- 54:07Speaker 3: They're a good road team.
- 54:09Speaker 4: But uh, you know what, I'm gonna go for a
- 54:13Speaker 4: surprise factor.
- 54:14Speaker 6: I think Bologna wins this one. I'm gonna there you go.
- 54:17Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Jenny, go I say Bologna.
- 54:21Speaker 6: I think Bologna is gonna win.
- 54:22Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't realize Monico was actually in fourth place
- 54:25Speaker 2: seven points. They beat Barcelona, uh, two to one. They
- 54:29Speaker 2: beat Red Star Belgrade five to one, and they tied,
- 54:33Speaker 2: they tied against I had it before, Oh my god,
- 54:38Speaker 2: I lost it. They tied a game Zagreb. So you know,
- 54:45Speaker 2: obviously the win against Barcelona is the big one. So yeah,
- 54:49Speaker 2: it's gonna be interesting. But yeah, even look at the standings,
- 54:52Speaker 2: the matchups Inter seven points, Arsenal seven points, Juve and
- 54:55Speaker 2: Little at six points each. Uh, you know the ones
- 54:59Speaker 2: were there are bigger differences is the Monaco Melon game.
- 55:04Speaker 2: But even that Monica is that's sorry, Monica Bologna six
- 55:08Speaker 2: points apart. And then Real Madrid and Meelan there are
- 55:11Speaker 2: three points apart, so you know, the win Melan will
- 55:17Speaker 2: tie Real Madrid.
- 55:18Speaker 3: But you know that's how many points are they on.
- 55:21Speaker 1: Melan is at three, Real Madrid's at six.
- 55:26Speaker 2: Yeah, and then yeah, looking at Europa League, Roma is
- 55:31Speaker 2: going playing away against you know you and you know
- 55:33Speaker 2: Saint was.
- 55:35Speaker 1: Jenny asked me where that is, I'll say France or Belgium.
- 55:39Speaker 1: I don't know where it is.
- 55:40Speaker 2: I would say, I don't know if they're friend team
- 55:43Speaker 2: or Belgium team. And then maybe I don't know, Yeah,
- 55:46Speaker 2: maybe they're from the backyard.
- 55:48Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't know.
- 55:50Speaker 3: Uh.
- 55:50Speaker 2: And then uh Lato against Portal so the Sergio derby. Uh,
- 56:00Speaker 2: Belgium there from Belgium, Royale Union slois means they're from
- 56:07Speaker 2: actually from Brussels.
- 56:08Speaker 1: So Latio gets to to travel to Brussels, so lucky.
- 56:10Speaker 3: Then go to Brussels.
- 56:14Speaker 1: It's yes, Roma, Yeah, traveling the region.
- 56:18Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they're traveling from Rome. They're probably taking off
- 56:21Speaker 2: the airport in Rome.
- 56:23Speaker 1: Yes, and they're going to Brussels.
- 56:25Speaker 4: And uh.
- 56:27Speaker 2: And and then Europa League Fiorentina plays against applewell, which
- 56:30Speaker 2: are they a Greek team?
- 56:33Speaker 1: Conference league? I'm messing it's too late for me. It's
- 56:35Speaker 1: too late for me. It's Monday, guys. It's Cypress.
- 56:39Speaker 2: They're they're from Cypress, so I I was close enough
- 56:42Speaker 2: with that one too. They're from Cypress. Guys, you have
- 56:46Speaker 2: any expectations for these games? Do you guys watch any
- 56:48Speaker 2: of these games? For me, it's too early to watch it.
- 56:50Speaker 2: To tune in into Europa League Conference League got to
- 56:53Speaker 2: watch the knockout but not group stage.
- 56:55Speaker 4: Like but besides, besides the Aroma games, I mean like
- 56:57Speaker 4: I yeah, you know, but it sucks because more more
- 57:01Speaker 4: often than not, when Roma plays, I can't even watch
- 57:03Speaker 4: the games. I'm too busy with like school or teaching
- 57:06Speaker 4: or whatnot, which it hurts. But people work, so yeah,
- 57:10Speaker 4: people work way we have Like I like our European counterparts.
- 57:15Speaker 6: We're employed.
- 57:19Speaker 3: Thank the word.
- 57:20Speaker 5: But uh no, for me, I'm gonna say I'm gonna
- 57:23Speaker 5: say Queen sweep I I I say all three wins personally,
- 57:27Speaker 5: Uh you know, Roma, I don't know, man, It's it's
- 57:33Speaker 5: one of these seasons like Johnny kind of recapped earlier.
- 57:35Speaker 5: It's on paper, should be working on the pitch, it doesn't.
- 57:39Speaker 3: It's one week on, one week off. I'm gonna say this,
- 57:42Speaker 3: this is the game that it's on and and Roma
- 57:45Speaker 3: is gonna pick up pick up to win. Uh you know,
- 57:50Speaker 3: if they don't.
- 57:50Speaker 5: Beat who is it Wise over here, if they don't
- 57:53Speaker 5: beat Jill Wise Union whatever their team.
- 57:56Speaker 3: Name is, there's a there's there's a major problem.
- 57:59Speaker 5: And maybe that's his last game, so I think they
- 58:01Speaker 5: pick up the points there For me, also, lots So.
- 58:05Speaker 3: We didn't. We spoke about Fidentina. Point.
- 58:06Speaker 5: Well, Latsu's another team that's been really doing wonders lately.
- 58:11Speaker 3: You know.
- 58:11Speaker 5: Got to give them their their their shout out, their
- 58:13Speaker 5: their kudos because mister Baroni Coach of the Month uh
- 58:20Speaker 5: for in Seia this past month of October, so uh,
- 58:24Speaker 5: you know.
- 58:25Speaker 3: Chapel to him, it's a it's a it's a it's
- 58:28Speaker 3: an award.
- 58:28Speaker 5: I don't even think any of us thought he would
- 58:30Speaker 5: get uh, to be honest with you, we didn't really
- 58:33Speaker 5: think that Baroni was the was the right man for
- 58:35Speaker 5: the job for Lotso and who knows how he was
- 58:37Speaker 5: going to do. I'm not gonna say, so far, so good.
- 58:40Speaker 5: I think it's on part of maybe kind of where
- 58:43Speaker 5: they want to be. I think there's obviously room to grow,
- 58:45Speaker 5: but there's there's some players on on lots of that
- 58:48Speaker 5: have been really stepping up.
- 58:49Speaker 3: I think has been playing well.
- 58:52Speaker 5: Obviously their main man, uh you know, John Tavares there
- 58:55Speaker 5: has been assisting all kinds. Uh you know is their
- 59:00Speaker 5: eighth assist and said, yes, it's ridiculous. Uh, it's it's
- 59:04Speaker 5: really impressive. So you know, there are other pieces Rovella
- 59:09Speaker 5: coming back into into the into the into the mix.
- 59:11Speaker 5: Their defense and still needs I think a bit of work.
- 59:14Speaker 5: But with Provodel between the sticks, I think you're always
- 59:18Speaker 5: safe as well. But I think again, I don't know
- 59:20Speaker 5: if they're going. They're not going to Portal, they stay.
- 59:23Speaker 3: In Rome to play whatever wherever they're playing.
- 59:26Speaker 5: I think Lato gets to win, and I'm gonna say
- 59:29Speaker 5: and like I said, clean sweep, and I think Fiorentina
- 59:33Speaker 5: beats I didn't even catch who they're playing. Who they playing,
- 59:37Speaker 5: uh well from Cypris, So I think it's a clean
- 59:42Speaker 5: sweep for the Italian teams in europea slash Conference League.
- 59:46Speaker 5: I think it's all doable. The toughest one, I think
- 59:49Speaker 5: it's gonna be for a lotso against Porto. Uh you know,
- 59:52Speaker 5: Porto is never an easy team to to play.
- 59:55Speaker 3: These Portuguese teams.
- 59:56Speaker 5: There are always a bit tricky and if it be
- 59:59Speaker 5: you know, Champions League or Europa League or what have you,
- 1:00:02Speaker 5: so it's gonna be I think the toughest of the
- 1:00:05Speaker 5: of the three matchups for the Italian teams in those competitions.
- 1:00:09Speaker 5: But I think if if Baroni and company are able
- 1:00:12Speaker 5: to ride this positive waves of of results and and
- 1:00:16Speaker 5: just you know, style of play and how they've been
- 1:00:19Speaker 5: you know, attacking games. I can see them picking up
- 1:00:22Speaker 5: the points and same thing like I said for for
- 1:00:25Speaker 5: Roma and Fiordentina Conference League as well. So I'm gonna
- 1:00:29Speaker 5: go Queen sweep you guys.
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: It's okay.
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: I mean I think I think Queens Queen slip is
- 1:00:37Speaker 4: a good representation for that Queen sweep.
- 1:00:39Speaker 3: Yeah, Nick.
- 1:00:42Speaker 2: Portos a good team, Notcho's good team, that one that
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: you know, at least that's probably a decent game.
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: Put it down as a drop.
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: But yeah, for Fiorentina, the way they're playing, they got
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: to go out and get to win in.
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: Uh in Brussels and you know, uh sorry in Cyprus.
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: Yeah, and Roma probably not so much, but they're probably
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: gonna get some magic in Russels.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: But well, we'll see, we'll see.
- 1:01:10Speaker 3: Uh it.
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: You know, I don't know what the standings are in
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: each of those leagues, but you know, at the end
- 1:01:15Speaker 2: of the y, I'm sure they all want to get
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: three points. But yeah, I think I think that's enough.
- 1:01:20Speaker 2: Europa League and Conference League talking. It's gonna be interesting
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: what kind of stadium Apple plays in. You know, there's
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: a small stadium in Cyprus.
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: But you know this, Yeah, this tournament is just you.
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: Go on if you go on Google and you you
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: search up like you know, a conference, you will give
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: you the schedule and all that.
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: Half the teams don't even have their logos on Google.
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: Crazy and so apparently.
- 1:01:46Speaker 5: A Wi Fi password of a name too, and it's
- 1:01:49Speaker 5: like where are we going with this?
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: Apparently Apple Well, Apple Well plays in a stadium called
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: the GSP Stadium, so definitely named after George Saint Pierre.
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: Shout out local legend, shout out.
- 1:02:02Speaker 2: Twenty two thousand capacity. It actually looks it looks it
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: looks nicer. It looks nicer than the Frankie, I'll put
- 1:02:07Speaker 2: it that way. Oh so you know, if this was
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: a stadium in city, I would probably be like top ten.
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: Really at least the seats are next to the field, so.
- 1:02:21Speaker 3: There's no track.
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: It looks like the track, but it looks like they
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: put the seat. It looks like they built the track.
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: And then they're like, you know what, let's make the
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: stands closer to the field. Then they put the seats
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: on top of the track and they said no more
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: track after that. That's what it looks like.
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: Based on the picture I'm seeing. But yeah, guys, I.
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: Think they'll do it for us this week. It was
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