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- 0:00[SPEAKER_01]: When he's actually fit, I don't look at another midfielder even close to his level.
- 0:03[SPEAKER_00]: Can you win a title with a defense that looks this shaky?
- 0:06[SPEAKER_00]: Christian policy, I would say he's underrated.
- 0:09[SPEAKER_00]: Don't you Chris will have his boots on somewhere a bit in life?
- 0:12[SPEAKER_00]: Mama's mama's welcome back to Sports Illustrated FC today.
- 0:16[SPEAKER_00]: I'm joined by Leah's, I'm joined by Alessandro and we are going to start in La Liga.
- 0:20[SPEAKER_00]: Now there were results, mainly at the top of the league that we're going to look at.
- 0:25[SPEAKER_00]: Both teams won, Barcelona were able to win, but neither were overwhelming convincing Alay.
- 0:32[SPEAKER_00]: I want to start with Athletic Club Zero Barcelona won.
- 0:37[SPEAKER_00]: They get the job done, but not convincing.
- 0:40[SPEAKER_02]: And in what way they got the job done, because he's the guy special.
- 0:45[SPEAKER_02]: Probably we could have a show just about him.
- 0:48[SPEAKER_01]: We basically did last week.
- 0:51[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I wasn't there to the people in the comments being like he's not that good.
- 0:56[SPEAKER_00]: Just going to have a look Don't have a look again or or if you think is not that good take a ball Go outside and do it and try that 100 times the serial Italian way of saying touch grass
- 1:10[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so Bilbao caused Barcelona lots of problems, uh, the high line was exposed as it kind of is kind of semi-regally now.
- 1:20[SPEAKER_00]: But Barcelona kind of trundled in the first half, yeah, it's how did you see this one?
- 1:24[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I say this in every league.
- 1:26[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like the last ten or so games of the season.
- 1:29[SPEAKER_01]: play style for.
- 1:32[SPEAKER_01]: It all goes out the window.
- 1:32[SPEAKER_01]: It's just about getting results and getting over the line, especially in this La Liga campaign where it is so tight at the top and almost always feels like every week.
- 1:40[SPEAKER_01]: One is leapfrogging the other, one's trying to get one over the other.
- 1:42[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't really come into account for me much about how you're playing just get the job done.
- 1:47[SPEAKER_01]: But going to Samami is that's a tough place to go to.
- 1:50[SPEAKER_01]: Bill Bauer always a difficult side to face.
- 1:52[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Barsa lasted long enough in this game for their big players to really make an impact.
- 1:57[SPEAKER_01]: That's all you can really hope for.
- 1:58[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we can talk about the two guys that I think defined this game.
- 2:01[SPEAKER_01]: But at the end of the day, I think if you can go to Bilbao at any point in the season and grab three points the way they did.
- 2:06[SPEAKER_01]: You snatched your hand off and you just get out of there.
- 2:08[SPEAKER_00]: I want to talk about the first half specifically LA because I felt like 20 seconds in.
- 2:12[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 2:13[SPEAKER_00]: And you almost have the own goal of own goals from JavaScript.
- 2:16[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 2:16[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of under no pressure ball into the area.
- 2:18[SPEAKER_00]: And he just...
- 2:19[SPEAKER_00]: It kind of goes low to scoop it away in some blasting it almost into his goal hits the bar, but there was a moment with Paul Kubassi where he clips and Naki Williams, who seemed to go to her own goal, looks like Gassi and May have got to the ball.
- 2:37[SPEAKER_00]: As a yellow card shown, did you agree with the decision or did you feel like you got away with on there?
- 2:43[SPEAKER_00]: Fifty-five?
- 2:43[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, five-four.
- 2:45[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
- 2:46[SPEAKER_02]: Orange card, I would say.
- 2:48[SPEAKER_02]: But I wouldn't go down to the, to the ref.
- 2:51[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, of course, I agree with Lees, at this stage of the league, you need to find the way to win games.
- 2:58[SPEAKER_02]: And we also listen to Mourinho now, pleasing Arsenal, telling, hey, they're doing really, a really good job because they're finding different way to win games, of course.
- 3:07[SPEAKER_02]: It's Mourinho style.
- 3:10[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
- 3:12[SPEAKER_02]: to survive in your own half and then to create what they created in the second half and then the led to the goal.
- 3:19[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, let's go to the second half then, because Pedro comes on for Mark Banal, who apparently had stomach issues and I feel like that's kind of a turning point in the game.
- 3:28[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's how did you see that?
- 3:29[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean definitely.
- 3:31[SPEAKER_01]: We have to talk about this gay peddry in general, man.
- 3:33[SPEAKER_01]: I think.
- 3:34[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, just similar to how we talk about Yamal in terms of my opinion.
- 3:38[SPEAKER_01]: He's the best player in the world, and I don't really find it that close I look at peddry and when he's actually fit I don't look at another midfielder even close to his level.
- 3:45[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's so far ahead of the chasing pack And that's no disrespect to the dude bellygums of the world.
- 3:50[SPEAKER_01]: The deck on the rise of the world But I think peddry's been a different sport, and I think there isn't a player in Europe
- 3:55[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe your hard press to find one, whose impact is felt when he's off compared to where he's on as pedrius the Barcelona and this game is the perfect example of it.
- 4:04[SPEAKER_01]: He comes on and they just seem to gain another level of control but then even past that they just gain another level of creativity.
- 4:11[SPEAKER_01]: That pass into Yamal is nothing sort of genius.
- 4:14[SPEAKER_01]: The guy's an absolute star.
- 4:16[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he gets enough talk as he should because I think his game at times is very easy to overlook, right?
- 4:21[SPEAKER_01]: He's not particularly imposing.
- 4:24[SPEAKER_01]: He's not the strongest guy.
- 4:25[SPEAKER_01]: He's not running past players, but he's always in control and playing at his own pace.
- 4:29[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a big fan of peddry.
- 4:30[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry to see Bernal come off because I think in recent weeks he's really made a nice impact.
- 4:34[SPEAKER_01]: If I have a player like that coming back from injury, it's almost like a new signing in a way, but the guy was coming on for him, peddry.
- 4:39[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I could wax the record about this guy all day.
- 4:41[SPEAKER_00]: One person, you were in a kit today of a player that I'd like to say, Vittignya, a similar, I think, if you're saying who's close to him in New European terms, I think Vittignya a lot, but I think what Pedro offers is, again, that creativity, the trust forwards, like the penetrative passing.
- 4:58[SPEAKER_01]: I think Vittignya's a fantastic controller from deep, and he's added goals to the game as well, two over the years.
- 5:02[SPEAKER_01]: for peddry men.
- 5:03[SPEAKER_01]: He has this vision in the final third to unlock even the most tight defense.
- 5:07[SPEAKER_01]: I'm such a big fan of you know.
- 5:09[SPEAKER_02]: Also, when you receive the ball, you know there is a situation of density in that area.
- 5:15[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, let drive the ball there because he's going to be alone.
- 5:19[SPEAKER_02]: And then then you have to know what is done.
- 5:20[SPEAKER_01]: So he never seems like he's under that much pressure as well too.
- 5:23[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's almost pleased the game in his own pace.
- 5:25[SPEAKER_01]: So turn a guy will be on him.
- 5:27[SPEAKER_01]: He knows he's already there and he'll peer a wet out of there.
- 5:28[SPEAKER_01]: He please just such a calm pace.
- 5:30[SPEAKER_01]: Almost like there's no one around him.
- 5:32[SPEAKER_02]: And you can see the body language.
- 5:33[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he sometimes he reminds me off of belo.
- 5:36[SPEAKER_02]: It's like you see the pressure.
- 5:37[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, give me the ball.
- 5:38[SPEAKER_02]: If I won the ball, you need to give me the ball.
- 5:40[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that he reminds you of all these great players, right?
- 5:42[SPEAKER_00]: You see, in yesterday's elements, you see, Javi, you see, he's playing the wrong year, right?
- 5:47[SPEAKER_00]: He's playing the wrong year for the year.
- 5:49[SPEAKER_00]: But it also speaks to the talent that he has, right?
- 5:51[SPEAKER_00]: That you get even mentioned in, like, the same line of those players is to say that you are a top player already, especially.
- 5:57[SPEAKER_00]: So, look, he gets an assist.
- 5:58[SPEAKER_00]: But the assist isn't really the story behind the goal.
- 6:02[SPEAKER_00]: That's his tent assist for the season.
- 6:04[SPEAKER_00]: He's only played 2,000 minutes.
- 6:06[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't take set pieces.
- 6:08[SPEAKER_00]: He also plays a double pivot to our point.
- 6:10[SPEAKER_00]: Pedri is unbelievable.
- 6:12[SPEAKER_00]: But the assist's nice, right?
- 6:14[SPEAKER_00]: It opens up the game.
- 6:15[SPEAKER_00]: It comes to the minima hallet.
- 6:18[SPEAKER_00]: We've watched the goal again this morning.
- 6:19[SPEAKER_00]: We've both walked away from the computer, so hands-on-head, it's a special goal, isn't it, from the minima?
- 6:25[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a special go, but what's it's even a special?
- 6:28[SPEAKER_02]: It looked effortless.
- 6:29[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, okay, I received the ball, I couldn't talk, and it's back in there.
- 6:34[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
- 6:35[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't even need to put it that top, top, top bins, but he just does because he has that.
- 6:41[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, because he can.
- 6:43[SPEAKER_00]: But like, week last week, I mean, like, we really did work.
- 6:46[SPEAKER_00]: It's little before that in last week, but...
- 6:48[SPEAKER_00]: Um, we said there's name eye elements, there's Leo Messi elements that and then there's iron robin elements and I think he saw basically that was the robin and then in that moment Um, I mean to find that he didn't he wasn't even having a particularly great game, but then
- 7:05[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think that's what defines players like that, that they can just turn it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and play it on and
- 7:23[SPEAKER_01]: We're through on Goi's perfect all the way to there, and maybe a lack of composure, maybe just this technique, in terms of finishing chances, was not where it needed to be.
- 7:31[SPEAKER_01]: However, if you really look towards the end of last season for Barça, the last ten or so games, which we're talking about as the most important, he really found himself in a nice goalscoring form, and he was deciding games for Barça Lona, whereas it had been a more
- 7:43[SPEAKER_01]: I look at Lamin the Sierra, and I think that's something that he has definitely improved on.
- 7:47[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's already doubled his goal-tally from last season or something around that.
- 7:51[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, these moments right here is where Lamin is starting to grow now.
- 7:54[SPEAKER_01]: There isn't that indecisiveness, I feel one-on-one against the goalkeeper.
- 7:57[SPEAKER_01]: And I say one-on-one, this isn't really one-on-one, right?
- 7:58[SPEAKER_01]: He creates the opening to make it a more of a one-on-one chance point.
- 8:02[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is what the best players do to your point.
- 8:04[SPEAKER_01]: They're just the side games, even when they aren't playing the perfect match.
- 8:07[SPEAKER_01]: That's brilliant.
- 8:09[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
- 8:09[SPEAKER_02]: You look at an NBA play.
- 8:12[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, okay, I received a ball.
- 8:14[SPEAKER_02]: Now I'm going to go to score.
- 8:15[SPEAKER_02]: I decide to score and I do it.
- 8:17[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's no score.
- 8:18[SPEAKER_00]: So you're saying he's getting to the point of being almost inevitable.
- 8:21[SPEAKER_00]: Like, there's an inevitability when he gets the ball in that area.
- 8:25[SPEAKER_00]: You're expecting a goal now.
- 8:26[SPEAKER_02]: If it's which don't, yes, it's not even the first time this is, I mean, I remember one goal, for example, against Rouge, where when he decide, but okay, now I I do it and and yes, when he decided to do so, it's in everything.
- 8:41[SPEAKER_01]: I think the best part of that goal though isn't even the finish, I think it's the touch.
- 8:44[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, the touch.
- 8:45[SPEAKER_02]: When you prepare that, the touch is over.
- 8:47[SPEAKER_01]: That touch is over.
- 8:48[SPEAKER_01]: I think that.
- 8:49[SPEAKER_01]: this is where to your point talking about you need to go outside and even try this because on first look it looks easy because ilamina is so great he makes it look easy but i'm sorry to take that extra touch to open himself up that much more space is something that only the special players can do that's something that i saw messy to countless times that's something that the best players in the world do but it's not an ordinary thing he makes it look ordinary because of how great he is but i think that touch is is the most important part of that game
- 9:11[SPEAKER_00]: So, look, that was your most 50th senior goal, which he reaches that landmark younger than Lion Messi, Lionel younger than Cristiano Ronaldo, by more than two years, by the way.
- 9:21[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, we're talking about silly, silly, silly stats at this point.
- 9:26[SPEAKER_00]: But also, to get over the line, like you guys, to your guys point, it's not really at this point about like, brilliant performances about winning games.
- 9:33[SPEAKER_00]: It's a clean sheet, that's big for me.
- 9:34[SPEAKER_00]: But it's only going to be a clean sheet as huge.
- 9:36[SPEAKER_00]: But I weighed that.
- 9:39[SPEAKER_00]: Talking about the high line afterwards, and did you seem to be speaking to us?
- 9:42[SPEAKER_00]: People always say the high line the line, but it's not that it does not matter how high we play, nor the players in the back line, and matters how we press.
- 9:50[SPEAKER_00]: If we press well, the high line works.
- 9:52[SPEAKER_00]: If not, we can get hit in behind easily.
- 9:55[SPEAKER_00]: Their press hasn't looked particularly in line recently.
- 9:59[SPEAKER_00]: My worry for them, it's less only in the Champions League, even against Newcastle, by the way,
- 10:07[SPEAKER_00]: tomorrow or the day after.
- 10:08[SPEAKER_00]: That's this week.
- 10:09[SPEAKER_00]: It's coming quick and personal.
- 10:10[SPEAKER_00]: But is you will see a team built for that kind of football?
- 10:14[SPEAKER_00]: You will see Antony Langer and you will see Antony Gordon.
- 10:20[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to come up against a team that can play that high line quite effectively.
- 10:25[SPEAKER_01]: And you saw in the first meeting between the two sides, right?
- 10:28[SPEAKER_01]: Marsa came away with a win and unbelievable performance from Rashford.
- 10:30[SPEAKER_01]: But that threat from Gordon, Barnes, Elangah, they have runners in behind for days.
- 10:35[SPEAKER_01]: I respect Flick so much and he clearly knows much more about football and his team and his style than me.
- 10:40[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to try and even debate that here, right?
- 10:42[SPEAKER_01]: But I also think there's an element here of him trying to protect his brand in terms of his brand of football.
- 10:46[SPEAKER_01]: Because yes, the press is massively important.
- 10:49[SPEAKER_01]: If you press team from the front and you win it, they don't even have the chance to counter attack on you.
- 10:53[SPEAKER_01]: However, even last season when Barça weren't absolute joke, they were still conceding an unnormal amount of chances.
- 11:01[SPEAKER_01]: So I think there is a middle ground here whereas you can play high, you can't press.
- 11:05[SPEAKER_01]: I think you still need to have an element of caution in the back.
- 11:08[SPEAKER_01]: And I think better teams further along in the season will her Barça, maybe more than Athletic closer.
- 11:13[SPEAKER_00]: It's interesting because you saw in the last two weeks both sides of that against athletes go Madrid in the first leg, they get absolutely white washed, four nil, they don't get any of them.
- 11:23[SPEAKER_00]: Second leg, the press works, they're better, three nil, probably could have got back in the game.
- 11:27[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 11:28[SPEAKER_00]: But those are the risks.
- 11:29[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 11:30[SPEAKER_00]: Each time you take that risk, it's much more alert.
- 11:32[SPEAKER_01]: You're playing Russian rule over for that.
- 11:34[SPEAKER_00]: How does he, the question is, can he change that and have as an effect of an attack do you think?
- 11:41[SPEAKER_00]: Like, is it possible to have that space deeper in the pit and then still be as fluent in an attack?
- 11:45[SPEAKER_00]: Probably not.
- 11:46[SPEAKER_00]: No, sorry.
- 11:47[SPEAKER_01]: It's a cash 22, it's a huge cash 22 too, because the football that they play, whatever you want is fit and they're firing, they can score six goals and for that that's worth the risk.
- 11:56[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm sorry, you cannot play that attacking and also it's a given take here.
- 12:00[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm going to do a weird analogy here, for example, watching, for example, comma, the best in terms of pressing Europe, they are there to create and they create a lot during games and they don't have the spy diving, a lot of quality, they don't have the quality, for example, of Barcelona front, but they don't concede that much.
- 12:22[SPEAKER_02]: So, there are really, really protecting the line.
- 12:26[SPEAKER_02]: So for me, there is a compromise.
- 12:29[SPEAKER_00]: But when it goes wrong for Komo, they do lose three or four, five now and at that, it has happened, right?
- 12:36[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 12:37[SPEAKER_00]: Because I've seen the gimmick at the end of the day, yeah, I've seen where Faburgas got very angry, because of that.
- 12:43[SPEAKER_00]: It less often, but it can still happen to any team that plays a high line.
- 12:47[SPEAKER_02]: And normally it happens against Milan.
- 12:52[SPEAKER_00]: It's exactly, exactly.
- 12:54[SPEAKER_02]: Normally it happens with against team who are preparing the game plan on basing on contract back.
- 13:02[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so look, let's go to the other game in La Liga this weekend that defined the top of the league.
- 13:09[SPEAKER_00]: It was self-severed, go one, rumored to, Madrid leaving it very late with the Valverde deflected effort, I think in the 95th minute.
- 13:18[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let's go.
- 13:20[SPEAKER_00]: I've rumoured our struggling for injuries and suspensions, but this was a game that felt like was gonna be lost, and they turned it into a win.
- 13:30[SPEAKER_00]: So like, there's something to be said there.
- 13:33[SPEAKER_00]: I want to start with Cotua.
- 13:36[SPEAKER_00]: Because he really, I mean, in a defense that looked all over the place, he set the levels again.
- 13:41[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I know you're a big fan.
- 13:43[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's the best goalkeeper in the world.
- 13:45[SPEAKER_01]: That's how far I got.
- 13:46[SPEAKER_01]: No, you're going to say don't ever forget that.
- 13:48[SPEAKER_01]: And he's certainly getting it.
- 13:49[SPEAKER_01]: But I think over the last five or so years, I think court wise just hit a level of eliteness and consistency that edges him for me at the top.
- 13:57[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there's a serious argument to be made that he could be around Madrid's most valuable player.
- 14:02[SPEAKER_01]: Because the amount of times I've seen this brother say around Madrid over the last few years is getting to a point where it's a joke.
- 14:08[SPEAKER_01]: He is almost the ultimate insurance policy back there because around Madrid we know how their weaknesses are in midfield in terms of shielding their back for.
- 14:14[SPEAKER_01]: We know their back for has their own issues as well too.
- 14:17[SPEAKER_01]: We saw trends defending the other day.
- 14:18[SPEAKER_01]: They can see chances.
- 14:19[SPEAKER_01]: But this guy in goal, I mean, if you want any goalkeeper to play behind that, leave give a back line.
- 14:24[SPEAKER_01]: Just be there.
- 14:25[SPEAKER_01]: And come up with saves that 99% of goalkeepers can't make, it's him and it's another game where I think he's just shown his work.
- 14:31[SPEAKER_00]: I like there was three, four in the first half that another keeper just isn't getting down to them.
- 14:38[SPEAKER_00]: We don't press to sell to them.
- 14:41[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, Seltar are a good side, of course, are a good side, and of course, they're competing in Europe.
- 14:47[SPEAKER_02]: It's like they're going to face Leon and they believe they can go through.
- 14:54[SPEAKER_02]: So it's like, it's a difficult game away.
- 14:58[SPEAKER_02]: and Jaguaspas, Borghe Gilesias, Alonso, so they have also a mix of experience team, so you know it's a difficult game when you go and play there.
- 15:12[SPEAKER_02]: So I wouldn't say it was impressed.
- 15:13[SPEAKER_02]: I was impressed by the ball of Trent Alexanderander for Vinny in the first half.
- 15:18[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what a ball.
- 15:20[SPEAKER_02]: What a ball.
- 15:21[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, look, that's a good point.
- 15:23[SPEAKER_00]: We basically saw both sides
- 15:28[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll show it.
- 15:29[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
- 15:30[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, no one's ever questioned his ability on the board, and people have questioned his defensive inputs, but for the sale to go.
- 15:41[SPEAKER_00]: There was a question around the intensity in which he defends that situation, right?
- 15:44[SPEAKER_00]: The ball goes through to Sred, Sred work.
- 15:47[SPEAKER_00]: And he kind of does this thing that Sred has been accused of in the past, which is moving with the full back, without ever really like engaging in a way that is difficult to create more problems for the attacker.
- 16:00[SPEAKER_00]: And then Sredberg's just able to just break back on his right foot far too easily, and then from there,
- 16:08[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I wonder if he goes 1v1 against the opponent with a really offensive play mentality.
- 16:16[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, okay, I need to defend you, but when ever the ball is better than you.
- 16:21[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, look, I'm not going to play them fully for that goal, because then there's defending from neither really go or essentially a bother to do any actual defending from there.
- 16:29[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I think a question marks over this entire backline.
- 16:37[SPEAKER_00]: You've seen when he has two solid sentence backs behind him, he can have the freedom to go and do whatever he wants, right?
- 16:43[SPEAKER_00]: He can go and run the midfield, he can go and play all up and down the wing.
- 16:47[SPEAKER_00]: When you need to be in that back four, and it really does need to be a back four at the moment, questions.
- 16:52[SPEAKER_00]: Let's head to you, see, because that going particular, I think, summed up what was a bit of a nice way of saying it.
- 17:01[SPEAKER_01]: Well without basically saying a bit of an all over the place with us again with two sides like this But yeah, I think that's the problem with trend You're only really getting one side at times, but around Madrid will have known what player they're getting with trend They will know as you said that he is an absolute magician of the ball.
- 17:15[SPEAKER_01]: He can play any pass in the dictionary and we know defensively He can be got it there is no secret.
- 17:20[SPEAKER_01]: There is no point in even debating it I know over the past few years that has been a delay.
- 17:24[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, see you good defenders.
- 17:25[SPEAKER_01]: He just the loses for
- 17:26[SPEAKER_01]: He's on reliable defensively, but that's the beauty and the curse of Trent.
- 17:30[SPEAKER_01]: You play him because you know He can unlock any defense and you always have to worry going the other way around the only thing I will say here is in a game like this I agree with you 100% Around Madrid are injury-stricken.
- 17:40[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this team.
- 17:40[SPEAKER_01]: This is not a vintage
- 17:41[SPEAKER_01]: You're looking at, you're looking at, it's a very makeshift team even for a moment, he hasn't played much of this season.
- 17:49[SPEAKER_01]: So first and foremost, I give them huge credit because going to Salta as you guys correctly pointed out as a tough place to go.
- 17:53[SPEAKER_01]: And they got a win, no matter how it takes.
- 17:55[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, these are games where you need the other side of Trent and unfortunately at the moment.
- 18:00[SPEAKER_01]: for whatever reason it's not really coming.
- 18:02[SPEAKER_00]: A question I want to put out there.
- 18:04[SPEAKER_00]: Actually first of all, I want to say, one player that is turning up week after week at the moment is sure many, like another man in the match performance.
- 18:11[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's his, his, his, his man in the match in the last three wins that they've been in.
- 18:17[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
- 18:18[SPEAKER_00]: He looks like a man who's found his role within this round with Dredteen after, I mean, arguably a few years of kind of being tested for positions in and out.
- 18:30[SPEAKER_00]: But how did you see his, his game at the weekend that day?
- 18:33[SPEAKER_00]: Because even for the goal, he's the only one who tries to get in there and disrupts what his laser is doing.
- 18:37[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he's finding him if he feels small comfortable.
- 18:40[SPEAKER_02]: It's like it's finding a leading position inside the pitch.
- 18:44[SPEAKER_02]: But if I look at this quad, despite everything I would say, Real Madrid need if they want to come back and compete for every title, they need for sure something different than a sensor in the back line and they need something in the middle.
- 19:00[SPEAKER_02]: Because watching muddrich during the weekend,
- 19:04[SPEAKER_02]: I would say, I would say, maybe, I thought that would happen very well.
- 19:11[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 19:12[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you where you are actually.
- 19:14[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we'll see soon.
- 19:16[SPEAKER_00]: I'll see you at the event together, man.
- 19:17[SPEAKER_00]: Tony Curse will have his boots on somewhere very light.
- 19:20[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, too many, I would say, is doing well, it's definitely the one carrying together with Fedeval Verde.
- 19:29[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to say Vini as well.
- 19:30[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, over the last few minutes.
- 19:32[SPEAKER_01]: Over the last month or so, Vini is returning to the Vini.
- 19:34[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes, Junior.
- 19:35[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I really did.
- 19:36[SPEAKER_00]: There were points in that attack where it was basically the winning show.
- 19:38[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't like he'd take the ball, he'd create something, he'd go past people like he's the main man in that the attack, especially this week, he was the main man.
- 19:45[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because we have to say they risk to go down with Jaguar's special, a few minutes from from the 90s, but in the first half they had a few chances to really close the game.
- 19:58[SPEAKER_00]: but I'm a big ass-bass fan, I have to say.
- 20:01[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a big ass-bass fan, I have to say.
- 20:02[SPEAKER_00]: I'll probably get caught here on.
- 20:03[SPEAKER_00]: So look, the question that I want to put to you guys, then, is we've spoken about a defensive inconsistencies with injuries that haven't helped, but can you win a title with a defense that looks this shaky?
- 20:17[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's either number Barça, so someone's got to do it and you can't let it go.
- 20:20[SPEAKER_01]: That is a call-up out, pick your poison and serious, yeah.
- 20:24[SPEAKER_01]: The team they're up against is hardly marigno's portal, right?
- 20:27[SPEAKER_01]: So they got their own issues.
- 20:29[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I really struggled to see Madrid winning La Liga this year.
- 20:33[SPEAKER_01]: I think I've said it for a few weeks now.
- 20:35[SPEAKER_01]: I think the only team that can stop Barça as themselves, which is entirely plausible by the way, right?
- 20:40[SPEAKER_01]: That's not rule that, no.
- 20:41[SPEAKER_01]: But I think if Barsa are playing at their best, in this version of Madrid, as currently construct their playing at their best, I only see one team winning the league, and that's Barsa alone.
- 20:50[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, great.
- 20:51[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 20:51[SPEAKER_00]: No.
- 20:52[SPEAKER_00]: 0.87xj for Ramadrid, and it's a 95th minute deflected goal from Valverde, probably didn't deserve to win, but they get the win, and that's what good teams do at this point.
- 21:02[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 21:02[SPEAKER_00]: So, 4.7 right Barsa and Ramadrid, in a La Liga-type race,
- 21:07[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the upcoming games for Barcelona, severe at home, Velocana at home, at letty away, Espanol at home, selt at home, and from Rayau, there at home to Elchay, at home to Elchay, at home to Elchay, at home to Elchay, at home to Elchay, at home to Elchay, at home to Elchay, at home to Elchay, at home to Elchay, at home to Elchay, I would say both teams would feel very confident about those running.
- 21:27[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I was looking for, it was like playing four games for the normal and one away.
- 21:31[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, both teams.
- 21:32[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
- 21:33[SPEAKER_01]: At letty at Elchay, Elchay is going to be
- 21:35[SPEAKER_00]: The interesting, the interesting is both teams are playing English clubs in the Champions League.
- 21:41[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like both are going to struggle to compete on multiple fronts this year because of the injuries.
- 21:47[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see how Madrid beats city.
- 21:49[SPEAKER_01]: Now with those injuries.
- 21:49[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
- 21:50[SPEAKER_01]: I hope they do.
- 21:51[SPEAKER_01]: As the United Fennel would love them to do it, but when you look at the amount of injuries they have compared to the city, that's going to be really, really tough.
- 21:57[SPEAKER_01]: I think this might be a season where Madrid just have to focus on the league, there I say it.
- 22:00[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it feels almost a 2000s or every year they're used to go around a 16 Champions League feels like they're kind of in that era That game though.
- 22:07[SPEAKER_01]: I just realized barsel.
- 22:08[SPEAKER_01]: They might play a link with your six times this year Yeah, just a two in the league two in the cup.
- 22:12[SPEAKER_00]: They're on course to play them the Champions League quarter five Yes, but it's insane you think we're gonna I gonna lose the towel you think we're gonna lose the title So if it's a boss line
- 22:21[SPEAKER_02]: As Leah said, if Barcelona can keep the offensive at a consistency, they are going to win.
- 22:32[SPEAKER_02]: Because that's the real quality that can make the difference to win this league.
- 22:38[SPEAKER_00]: Another massive game in World Football this weekend, and one that we're going to come to you straight up, the way on was the Malan Derby.
- 22:47[SPEAKER_00]: Internacional Zero.
- 22:50[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, like, every chance.
- 22:53[SPEAKER_00]: Internacional!
- 22:55[SPEAKER_00]: Zero, A-C-M-Lan won.
- 22:58[SPEAKER_00]: Malan now undefeated in last seven Derby's, in all competition five wins, two draws.
- 23:03[SPEAKER_00]: What's happened?
- 23:05[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing different than the last seven, the last seven Derby's.
- 23:10[SPEAKER_02]: Another allegory's master class, I would say, Luca Mordridge, a professor in Syria, a professor.
- 23:18[SPEAKER_02]: They're professor in Syria.
- 23:20[SPEAKER_02]: And I wasn't a bit disappointed from Inter, because you have a chance to kill the league.
- 23:28[SPEAKER_02]: and they did, the body language was telling something different.
- 23:32[SPEAKER_02]: They try sometimes I have the feeling in Serie A.
- 23:35[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, okay, let's try to keep the ball.
- 23:38[SPEAKER_02]: And then we can go in the post-match interview and say, okay, but we are the ball.
- 23:43[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but you have to do something with the ball.
- 23:45[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
- 23:46[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't feel at the same fighting for the Scudetto.
- 23:49[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, 7 points still are huge advantage.
- 23:54[SPEAKER_02]: But now, now I'm really curious, because Milan looked really fighting and dreaming to take it all the way.
- 24:04[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
- 24:05[SPEAKER_00]: One man we've spoken about already today, Luka Moderic.
- 24:09[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the question, the question I have and we kind of spoke about earlier, is Luke and Audrey still a player that can dominate games at any level or can he dominate games in Serie A because he still has that step quicker from, from leagues before.
- 24:24[SPEAKER_00]: How do you, how do you see that?
- 24:25[SPEAKER_01]: Good question.
- 24:26[SPEAKER_01]: Can he still dominate the top things?
- 24:28[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't know, Madrid.
- 24:29[SPEAKER_01]: I think he could.
- 24:30[SPEAKER_01]: I think he was more so the minutes in terms of could he start and play 90 minutes every single week like he's doing for Milan.
- 24:36[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 24:37[SPEAKER_01]: And I think towards the end of Madrid, perhaps not.
- 24:40[SPEAKER_01]: But I think look a mother.
- 24:42[SPEAKER_01]: The way a legory has him set up this year, as you guys call it, the Registrar role, right?
- 24:47[SPEAKER_01]: Playing behind two more athletic players in Rabiol and Fauna.
- 24:51[SPEAKER_01]: And just allowing him to dictate play, Alapirolo, how he used to do.
- 24:54[SPEAKER_01]: Is the perfect way to deploy motherage at this stage in his career.
- 24:57[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the evolution of motherage is career.
- 25:00[SPEAKER_01]: It's fascinating because, I mean, you would have watched them at Spurs.
- 25:03[SPEAKER_01]: I was almost playing up the left when you first got him.
- 25:04[SPEAKER_01]: Almost playing
- 25:05[SPEAKER_01]: as a 10 out of times, then transitioning more into a box-to-box midfielder at Madrid.
- 25:10[SPEAKER_01]: They amount of ground that he used to cover while just being a marvelous, so player.
- 25:14[SPEAKER_01]: And now, almost playing as a deep-lying midfielder.
- 25:16[SPEAKER_01]: He has just done everything in midfielder.
- 25:18[SPEAKER_01]: He's checked every single check mark off.
- 25:21[SPEAKER_01]: But I think when you are that experienced and that intelligent, and then that technically gifted,
- 25:26[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't matter what age you're playing guy, it doesn't matter what level you're playing.
- 25:29[SPEAKER_01]: The game will always come easy for players like that because he's just a step ahead of everybody.
- 25:34[SPEAKER_01]: The performance that he put on today, and not just today, all season long.
- 25:37[SPEAKER_01]: I remember the game gets Napoli in particular, where he absolutely rend the show.
- 25:41[SPEAKER_01]: He is showing that class is permanent, honestly.
- 25:45[SPEAKER_01]: Such a technically gifted player, such an intelligent player.
- 25:48[SPEAKER_01]: And for me, maybe the best player in Serie A this season.
- 25:51[SPEAKER_01]: Is there an argument in the past?
- 25:53[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, and to what you said, it's like, I don't even need to run, because my brain, my knowledge, my reading of the game, get me there before you.
- 26:04[SPEAKER_02]: Yesterday was able to close any past line, and it was always there.
- 26:11[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really impressed, but even the way it uses body and it's like when I saw him for example against Roma when a physical midfield he always uses body in the in the correct way and he always managed to keep to say to to build that.
- 26:28[SPEAKER_01]: It's fantastic.
- 26:29[SPEAKER_01]: It's fantastic.
- 26:30[SPEAKER_01]: It was 41 years old,
- 26:32[SPEAKER_02]: It was dreaming to play for Milan, it's sign for Milan, and you can see it's really enjoying it.
- 26:39[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 26:40[SPEAKER_01]: But I think that's for me champion mentality, because this guy has won everything in the game.
- 26:44[SPEAKER_01]: Right, numerous times over by the way, he's done it with Croatian international stage.
- 26:48[SPEAKER_01]: He has nothing left to prove.
- 26:50[SPEAKER_01]: Most players at 41 years old are either retired on a beach or playing in with all the respect lesser leagues, right?
- 26:56[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this guy has the side us.
- 26:58[SPEAKER_01]: I still have room in the tank.
- 26:59[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not gonna go to a lesser league.
- 27:01[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to stay in Europe, go play for one of the biggest teams in Europe, and propel them from a team that were in mid-table last season.
- 27:07[SPEAKER_01]: And now I want a title challenge for me that is a ridiculous mentality to have.
- 27:10[SPEAKER_02]: And you also can see how we celebrate a tackle.
- 27:13[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, he's really, he's really good at the game.
- 27:15[SPEAKER_00]: He's a winner.
- 27:16[SPEAKER_00]: He's spoken about for his technical ability and the way that he moves his body, but he wants to crunch you.
- 27:22[SPEAKER_00]: He wants to attack you, gives you no space, he's physical.
- 27:25[SPEAKER_00]: He uses it for like quite a diminutive stature, uses his body so well, but he's always done that.
- 27:30[SPEAKER_00]: He's a genius.
- 27:32[SPEAKER_00]: If you're teaching kids how to use your body, show them the magic, because that guy is a genius at how he enuvers people around the ball in the police.
- 27:41[SPEAKER_00]: First goal for a student land, he's had some injuries at the club, hasn't really hit the ground at Milan yet.
- 27:47[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think, firstly, let's talk about the goal, Alec.
- 27:50[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it's really well worked from Milan, and it's a very, like, a leg-restile goal.
- 27:53[SPEAKER_00]: The wingback is kind of ending up in the area.
- 27:56[SPEAKER_00]: How did you see it?
- 27:57[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, contractac, huge, huge chance for me, Hitterian.
- 28:01[SPEAKER_02]: They did an event, they did an event at all, and then walks through the middle.
- 28:04[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly.
- 28:05[SPEAKER_02]: And then in, uh,
- 28:06[SPEAKER_02]: on opposite side, great ball from Favanna, of course you can see that, for example, Luis Rigue is not a proper full back and it was a bit exposing to me, to even with Bisec and Akanji, not a brilliant performance from the backline from Inter, but anyway, great goal from Estupia and I would say any, it can be, it can be interesting because I am, of course,
- 28:31[SPEAKER_02]: because of the injury of Estopinian discovered Bartesagin, he's one of the emerging talent on Ovidalian football, but Estopinian is a solid player for three years.
- 28:43[SPEAKER_00]: One player I want to speak about is roughly how, because I still don't think people have any idea of whether he's a top class player.
- 28:53[SPEAKER_00]: or a middling player.
- 28:55[SPEAKER_00]: And you might see two games of his career and think, wow, this guy is unstoppable.
- 29:00[SPEAKER_00]: And then you'll see two other games you'll be like, he looks like a disinterested kind of forward.
- 29:05[SPEAKER_00]: How do you guys, we've had long conversations about my fair LA.
- 29:09[SPEAKER_00]: I love it, my
- 29:11[SPEAKER_00]: And I know I love it, you love it.
- 29:13[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm a beat, I would say, the now that this kind of performances is becoming the normality of the time.
- 29:23[SPEAKER_01]: The standard.
- 29:24[SPEAKER_01]: The standard.
- 29:25[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's playing injured.
- 29:26[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but when, for example, we talk about Laminia Malen, we say, the big difference from last season is the way it makes decision.
- 29:39[SPEAKER_02]: We never saw that from Raphael, we saw it when he literally led and drugged me and to win the Skudetto, but then you expect something more, and it's like, no, it's in
- 29:52[SPEAKER_02]: But until a certain level, it's like, okay, it's just up and I know how to play football guys.
- 29:59[SPEAKER_02]: Please don't ask me to be fully focused on what they do because I don't think it can guarantee.
- 30:06[SPEAKER_01]: that I think I think of Leel like I said I think he's injured I don't think he's playing at his best that's not an excuse for the last few years of his career because I think he's been disappointing even when he has been fit I also don't really think the way I like greed is utilizing him at the moment fully suits him I know he's I think he scored 10 serial goals so it's not like he's not productive but I find him to be an hour now winger I don't see him as a forward like he's used him in a front suit with a guy like like blows it I don't really think that's the best way to get the best out of Leel
- 30:31[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, I think with Layout, you're almost at a point now where it's like, did you miss your chance, right?
- 30:38[SPEAKER_01]: Did you stay on the ship too long?
- 30:40[SPEAKER_01]: I think he may be sure to love to Milan a few seasons ago or maybe even last season and tried to reinvent himself somewhere else because sometimes I think you need a new environment, you need a new voice in your ear, you need players around you that are a bit different to take the next jump.
- 30:52[SPEAKER_01]: I almost feel now at Milan.
- 30:54[SPEAKER_01]: It's not that he's stagnated, but I think he's very comfortable.
- 30:56[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, absolutely.
- 30:58[SPEAKER_02]: For Zon, I have the number ten of Milan.
- 31:01[SPEAKER_02]: I love leaving the life in Milan.
- 31:03[SPEAKER_02]: No one is going to question me because when I had a huge offer, I decided to stay.
- 31:08[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
- 31:08[SPEAKER_02]: And to say that, when Milan won the Scudetto, he was playing exactly that.
- 31:14[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was the end when it was able to score important and massive goals to win that Scudator Race, it was playing there.
- 31:23[SPEAKER_00]: So the other man playing up top with him, Christian Puylicic, another solo performance from him and like he's really starting to find his feet again.
- 31:30[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell me about his season because it's been his top star.
- 31:33[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it's he had some some issue in terms of we we we we didn't do it stuff, but we we'd we'd Christian Puylicic on the pitch or on the field, I just say,
- 31:44[SPEAKER_02]: It's a different melon because he is the one that elevate the offensive performance of melon when it's time to take the right decision.
- 31:58[SPEAKER_02]: It's the one often leading and driving the ball when it's time to counter a talk.
- 32:02[SPEAKER_02]: Chris, in policy, I would say he's underrated, for me, he's a really good player.
- 32:09[SPEAKER_00]: There's been rumors of Premier League teams looking to bring him back to League.
- 32:14[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think A, do you think he could go back and make an impact?
- 32:18[SPEAKER_00]: And B, do you think it would be the right move for him?
- 32:20[SPEAKER_01]: I think he can make an impact anywhere.
- 32:24[SPEAKER_01]: You look at his speed, you look at his technical ability, his finishing.
- 32:28[SPEAKER_01]: And he's also strong when it's time to put like, he's a player.
- 32:32[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, even at Chelsea, if you look back at his time, it's marred by injuries.
- 32:35[SPEAKER_01]: But when he was, I mean, he had good periods in the beginning.
- 32:37[SPEAKER_01]: That locked on period in particular.
- 32:39[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's one of the standouts in those in those three months.
- 32:41[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it really depends on where I could see him at a club like Austin Villain at a club I mean if spurs were while do respect higher up the league But that for me is where I think he could maybe thrive now if you ask me at our snow or Liverpool Maybe not so much, but I think he can make an impact anywhere he goes right now I have a question for you.
- 32:55[SPEAKER_02]: Go ahead.
- 32:56[SPEAKER_02]: Would you sign in for Manchester United?
- 32:57[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, for me, I don't look at him as too much of an upgrade on what we already have, right?
- 33:02[SPEAKER_01]: If I'm looking to improve on Kunya, or in Burma, I think I want the next step of all do you respect the Pulitzer?
- 33:07[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure that's him.
- 33:08[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 33:09[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, interesting.
- 33:11[SPEAKER_00]: How much credit does a leg rate deserve this season?
- 33:13[SPEAKER_00]: Because ultimately he took a kind of a slightly lost man, the second and the league, obviously it's going to be a lot to turn around this title now, but he was linked with
- 33:28[SPEAKER_00]: How much credit does he deserve and do you think that a move to Madrid would be a good move for him?
- 33:35[SPEAKER_02]: Full credit or Massimiliano Legri, he perfectly knows how to prepare and survive in a season with one competition.
- 33:45[SPEAKER_02]: So, okay, that's it.
- 33:47[SPEAKER_01]: So, you can do it in numerous competitions, though.
- 33:49[SPEAKER_01]: It's short in the past, you can bounce.
- 33:51[SPEAKER_02]: He's short in the past, we did a different squat, though.
- 33:53[SPEAKER_02]: Inside, we did this Milan for me, they would struggle.
- 33:57[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's so much the United to be honest to you.
- 33:59[SPEAKER_01]: In terms of one game a week for the, because Milan don't have a deep squat, I agree.
- 34:03[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if United, if they were playing three competitions, would be a third place.
- 34:06[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
- 34:06[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
- 34:07[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I, for me, if Milan would have been playing in Europe right now, probably they would struggle to make into the top four, but to do that, and he knew exactly what he wanted.
- 34:21[SPEAKER_02]: And he wanted Luca Maudrich, and he wanted Rabio.
- 34:25[SPEAKER_02]: We'd rub your, it can go, it can literally go anywhere.
- 34:30[SPEAKER_02]: Then we saw him developing player-like, for example, Bartezaggi.
- 34:35[SPEAKER_02]: He works with what we ask, so full credit to a legary.
- 34:39[SPEAKER_02]: Now it's like, of course, having manager-like sesfabricas, it's like...
- 34:47[SPEAKER_02]: It was a bit of revolution for the Italian food momentality.
- 34:51[SPEAKER_02]: Now, everyone wants to play beautiful food, but is showing is efficient.
- 34:57[SPEAKER_02]: Now, if you ask me, is the right manager for Real Madrid?
- 35:01[SPEAKER_02]: Uno's is a great manager in terms of managing elite players.
- 35:05[SPEAKER_02]: So, but we also know the Santiago Bernabelle crowd.
- 35:09[SPEAKER_01]: So, it's not exactly a play, a legary style at around the moment.
- 35:14[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
- 35:15[SPEAKER_01]: Even if they win, I'm not sure.
- 35:16[SPEAKER_00]: That's the question.
- 35:16[SPEAKER_00]: Do you see Garif Bell's interview on the overlap last week?
- 35:19[SPEAKER_00]: Where he's talking about, you just can't manage a team around Madrid.
- 35:23[SPEAKER_00]: And I was not something that's not revolutionary, but it's interesting, again, hearing another top player come up around Madrid and say,
- 35:29[SPEAKER_00]: Don't try and manage, sorry, don't try coached too much.
- 35:34[SPEAKER_00]: You just have to manage the people and the players tell them what to do and they'll make it happen.
- 35:38[SPEAKER_01]: And in the way that is a legary, I mean, I get huge credit to what you were saying.
- 35:42[SPEAKER_01]: I think to come in to a Milan team that no one gave a chance and held exactly the season.
- 35:46[SPEAKER_01]: They were getting the water last year and have them.
- 35:49[SPEAKER_01]: They have the best defense in Europe at the moment, statistically.
- 35:51[SPEAKER_01]: For him to do that.
- 35:52[SPEAKER_01]: I think A, it's credit to his job, but also it speaks to what kind of manager he is because in this era now of managers who want to come in and they want to play their brand of football and they would rather almost play their brand than actually get results.
- 36:04[SPEAKER_01]: Our legacy of that mentality that I would do whatever it takes to win.
- 36:07[SPEAKER_01]: The way he's brought this 532 to Milan and the way he's executed it is out of this world.
- 36:13[SPEAKER_00]: OK, so look, it's a massive week of Champions League football.
- 36:17[SPEAKER_00]: We're at the fun bit.
- 36:18[SPEAKER_00]: Let's be honest, we're at the really fun bit now.
- 36:22[SPEAKER_00]: And this week, what I want to do, guys, is just go through the fixtures this week.
- 36:27[SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to get your opinions on who's, what the results are going to be.
- 36:32[SPEAKER_00]: So I think if we start with a game that we're ready to spoke about a little bit, Newcastle versus Barcelona, I'm just quickly we'll run through these.
- 36:40[SPEAKER_00]: Newcastle versus Barcelona, how'd you say it?
- 36:43[SPEAKER_00]: Adds and changes parked under the lights.
- 36:45[SPEAKER_00]: Alley, tough, draw, draw, and Newcastle.
- 36:50[SPEAKER_01]: At Newcastle, oh, I go, bar, so on now.
- 36:55[SPEAKER_00]: Low scoring.
- 36:57[SPEAKER_00]: No, that's crap.
- 36:58[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, that's crap.
- 36:59[SPEAKER_00]: No, that's crap.
- 36:59[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's crap.
- 37:00[SPEAKER_01]: No way.
- 37:01[SPEAKER_01]: I know they won't want to know this weekend.
- 37:03[SPEAKER_01]: Bars are two one.
- 37:03[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
- 37:04[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
- 37:04[SPEAKER_00]: Fun.
- 37:05[SPEAKER_00]: Atletty versus Tottenham.
- 37:06[SPEAKER_00]: Tottenham obviously in the form.
- 37:09[SPEAKER_00]: Probably the worst form in Europe at the moment.
- 37:12[SPEAKER_02]: We should say what Tottenham are we.
- 37:14[SPEAKER_02]: Are we seeing tomorrow?
- 37:16[SPEAKER_00]: Who knows?
- 37:17[SPEAKER_02]: Who knows is the answer.
- 37:19[SPEAKER_02]: It's time for the highest paid manager in the world to prove something.
- 37:23[SPEAKER_02]: So I would say.
- 37:24[SPEAKER_02]: This is the semi-only chat, comes back.
- 37:29[SPEAKER_01]: Yes?
- 37:30[SPEAKER_01]: It's in our bloody.
- 37:32[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, yeah.
- 37:33[SPEAKER_01]: So I'd like a bloody two little.
- 37:35[SPEAKER_00]: Two now.
- 37:36[UNKNOWN]: I think I could be a little bit.
- 37:38[SPEAKER_00]: But a glimpsed sporting.
- 37:41[SPEAKER_00]: Two-one.
- 37:42[SPEAKER_00]: In Bodo, we've spoken up recently on the Sports Illustrated FC channels, how difficult it is to go to Bodo and get anything.
- 37:50[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think they'll be able to... Yeah, but it's like the excitement that you get when you host a top team is different than tomorrow.
- 37:58[SPEAKER_00]: Two-mill bottle.
- 38:01[SPEAKER_00]: I think they come over the wind here.
- 38:04[SPEAKER_00]: I think at home they've just...
- 38:06[SPEAKER_00]: The recipe is there to beat big teams.
- 38:10[SPEAKER_00]: Levo Cousin versus Arsenal at the Sandro.
- 38:13[SPEAKER_00]: Mmm.
- 38:13[SPEAKER_00]: See you very soon.
- 38:14[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can't let that happen to you.
- 38:16[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I say one meal to the Arsenal.
- 38:19[SPEAKER_00]: I think Arsenal could quite easily run right home and away against Levo Cousin to be honest.
- 38:24[SPEAKER_00]: This Levo Cousin, who you can count the players that have left.
- 38:28[SPEAKER_00]: and make a better team out of the players there last.
- 38:33[SPEAKER_00]: Alessandro, a Parasandra Man versus Chelsea, arguably one of the games of the week.
- 38:39[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 38:39[SPEAKER_00]: A rematch of the Club World Cup final in which, obviously, Chelsea ran right at, how do you see this one going?
- 38:45[SPEAKER_00]: An opportunity for PSG here.
- 38:46[SPEAKER_02]: An opportunity.
- 38:47[SPEAKER_00]: Who lost at the weekend?
- 38:48[SPEAKER_02]: Parasandra Man lost at the weekend.
- 38:50[SPEAKER_02]: I would say, to one year,
- 38:53[SPEAKER_00]: So you want a personal one?
- 38:54[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, two personal ones.
- 38:55[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, interesting, liars.
- 38:57[SPEAKER_00]: I got one, one.
- 38:59[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think this is going to be one to watch.
- 39:00[SPEAKER_00]: I think this would be an incredibly tight game.
- 39:03[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you also love, they seem to turn up for the big boys at the moment.
- 39:08[SPEAKER_00]: I feel much more confident against...
- 39:11[SPEAKER_00]: Parasans are more than I do against Rexon.
- 39:13[SPEAKER_00]: Do you want my sort of that to be honest?
- 39:14[SPEAKER_00]: Rexon, by the way, played their socks off.
- 39:16[SPEAKER_00]: They were unbelievable.
- 39:18[SPEAKER_00]: A beautiful Champions League tied Liverpool going away to Gadotasteri, horrible place to go.
- 39:24[SPEAKER_00]: Gadotasteri, obviously, have really, really enforced that team in recent months and years.
- 39:30[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm going to say, one, one.
- 39:32[SPEAKER_02]: And then we talk at Adanfield.
- 39:35[SPEAKER_00]: It's like Liverpool Playgirls, that's right already.
- 39:37[SPEAKER_00]: And they lost the season.
- 39:38[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, please.
- 39:40[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to go three-one-gala.
- 39:42[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
- 39:43[SPEAKER_00]: Liverpool not going to be able to handle that press.
- 39:45[SPEAKER_00]: No, I was going to go back there and feel like they got it all to do.
- 39:48[SPEAKER_00]: OK, interesting.
- 39:49[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting.
- 39:49[SPEAKER_00]: OK, so next up, probably the one we've spoken about already, round with your investors Manchester City, the game that just seems to pop up in the Champions League every year.
- 39:58[SPEAKER_00]: No.
- 39:58[SPEAKER_00]: Inclash.
- 39:59[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
- 40:01[SPEAKER_00]: How do you see this one going?
- 40:02[SPEAKER_00]: One, two.
- 40:04[SPEAKER_00]: one, two, so one, two, and two, and two, one.
- 40:07[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but they're away from home.
- 40:08[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, one, one, one, one.
- 40:09[SPEAKER_00]: What we'll do after this, and we'll make a graphic of what you both said.
- 40:13[SPEAKER_00]: All right, everything, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all
- 40:29[SPEAKER_00]: And last game, the only Italian team in it at Atlanta take on Button Munich.
- 40:36[SPEAKER_02]: Facing the probably one of the main candidates.
- 40:40[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
- 40:41[SPEAKER_02]: One, three by a winning away, three one.
- 40:45[SPEAKER_00]: by and when we're doing the same thing, yeah, by and when we're doing the same thing.
- 40:48[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so absolutely massive.
- 40:51[SPEAKER_00]: I have to say, this is, they're great fixtures, the super computers done a great job of making this really interesting.
- 40:58[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you all for watching.
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- 41:05[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much to Alay, thank you to Liaz, and we'll see you on the next one.