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Week 25 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right and welcome into the Premier League playground, our
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  Week 25 edition. I am the dad, Bjorn, with me as
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  our star of the lad. Luca Miller.
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  And how are you today, Luca? I'm doing good.
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  How are you? Doing good.
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  So we're doing this on a Sunday. We don't usually do them on
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  Sundays, but all the games wrapped up.
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  We just watched the craziness of Liverpool City and we figured
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  we'll get the podcast in because we have some midweek games in
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  the Premier League. So week 26 will be Tuesday,
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  Wednesday, Thursday, so we gotta keep our weekly pods going.
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  But how's your weekend been? It's been good.
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  I'm excited to watch the Super Bowl tonight.
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  It's gonna be cool. Yeah, so we have the the
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  obviously different football, American Football, Super Bowl.
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  So we have the Seahawks and the Patriots.
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  So Luca, everybody wants to know your pick for the Super Bowl.
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  You pick the Premier League games.
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  What is your pick for the Super Bowl tonight?
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  My pick is it's gonna be 3135 Seahawks.
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  Wow. OK, so Seahawks 35, Patriots 30.
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  One, yeah. What makes you lean the Seahawks
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  in this game? I think they just have a better
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  overall team on paper and I think they'll get the better of
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  New England, but I do think it will be very close.
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  OK, so you're thinking it's going to be a good tight game,
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  but the Seahawks pull it. Out, yeah.
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  All right, all right. I like it.
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  You want to give me a quick MVP pick for the Super Bowl?
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  JSN, Jackson Smith and Jigwa. Good receiver?
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  He's really or. Sam Darnold or Drake may They
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  usually give it to quarterbacks, but I if Jason just cooks up
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  then. Yeah, yeah, we'll see.
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  Yeah, it should be an interesting game.
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  We don't really have too much of A rooting interest.
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  We're big Eagles fans. We had a lot of rooting interest
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  last year in the Super Bowl. Yeah, Eagles did OK this year.
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  But yeah, I I'm just, I'm here for the commercials.
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  Maybe a close game. Yeah.
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  Well, look, you had a game, though.
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  You had a soccer game. How did that go?
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  So it went good and bad. So I score.
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  I got a brace and I scored one goal and then 10 seconds later I
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  score another. This isn't a foot saw.
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  Game, Yeah. So goals can come pretty quick.
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  Yes, and then the bad. The bad thing was that we tied
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  66 and they scored with 7 seconds left to tie it.
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  Yeah, late, late goal, you know, kind of doomed you guys to.
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  A Yeah. Yeah, tough one.
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  Yeah, Ties never feel great, but at least you know it wasn't a
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  loss. So yeah.
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  And you have another football game Tuesday, which is your last
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  one because you've been already doing some of your outdoor
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  practice. Yeah, Yeah, last football game
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  on Tuesday to finish up that season.
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  So all right, Luca. Well, let's turn our attention
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  to Week 25 in the Premier League, should we get started?
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  Yep. All right, Luca.
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  Well, the first game we we start off with a Friday night game.
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  We had Leeds and Nottingham Forest, two teams kind of in the
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  thick of the relegation fight. Take me through it.
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  So this game ends 31 Leeds. I predicted be 1 new Leeds ball
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  and a 26th minute from a nice Gruev long pass.
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  Okafor and the 30th minute Dominic Calvert Loon in the 49th
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  minute and there's new who signing Lorenzo.
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  Luca gets a consolation in the 86 minutes.
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  You love that name? Don't.
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  You yeah, so Luca and Luca scoring back to that games.
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  There you go. I know.
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  Yeah, Lorenzo, Luca, I think he came from Napoli.
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  We talked about him as one of the the January transfer running
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  signings. So although he he doesn't spell,
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  he he misspells. Right, Lucca?
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  Yeah, it's close though at least it's not AK.
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  Yeah, yeah. So yeah, Luca, leads.
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  We, we, you know, we've talked a while for, you know, how good
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  leads are at home. And that's why we thought when
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  Arsenal played there last week it was going to be a closer
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  game. Leads have taken 22 of their
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  total 29 Premier League points at home.
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  So they are really good at home. They were fired up.
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  This is sort of a big battle here, Luca, between 16th and
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  17th. So it's a big three points for
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  leads. They're now on 29 points.
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  So they're three ahead of Forest and now they're six ahead of
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  West Ham, who also won this week.
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  So this sort of battle here down at the the bottom for this last
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  relegation spot is going to be is going to be pretty tight.
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  And so you when you see two teams kind of play, they're in
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  the bottom 5 or 6. This is kind of what they're
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  looking for. So big three points for Leeds.
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  Luca how good is dominant Calvert Lewin been for Leeds
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  this year? Ten goals in the in the Premier
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  League this year, so wow, it's just breakout season.
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  Yeah, yeah, I know. Pretty amazing.
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  You know, I kind of wanted to talk and do a little bit of a
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  deep dive on him. You know, he's he's going to be
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  29 years old in March. You know, he's a guy that at one
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  point he had 11 appearances for England.
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  Like he was making the first team for the English national
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  team. That's four goals for them.
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  But injuries have kind of slowed him down.
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  You know Luca, he he came up with Sheffield United and he was
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  there from 2014 to 2016. Then he sort of got sold to
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  Everton and really burst on the scene with Everton where he
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  played for about 9 years at Everton from 2016 to 2025.
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  Scored 57 goals for Everton over that time but just was in and
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  out of the lineup. Like inconsistent injuries were
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  always the thing that slowed him down, comes the leads here.
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  And he has really sort of found a new life.
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  Yeah. Like you said, ten goals.
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  His best seasons, I mean in two, in 2019 and 2020 he had thirteen
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  goals and then his best season ever in the Premier League was
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  2020 and 21 where he had 16 goals.
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  He might break that. So he might, you know, he may
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  have his best goal scoring season ever.
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  And boys, he scored some important goals for leads and
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  he's just been such a good player for them.
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  And it's good to see this guy, you know, kind of, like I said,
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  find a little bit of a second life here.
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  But yeah, he's been really, really good for them.
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  All right, look, let's go over to another 1-2 Big Six teams
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  here. We had Manchester United hosting
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  Spurs. This game ends 2 new United.
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  I predicted to be 3 one united. Remember, I get to red card in
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  the 20th minute after like kind of hitting Castamiro studs up on
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  the ankle and then Blamer scores in the 38th minute from a nice
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  corner kick routine and then Fernandez in the 81st minute.
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  Cesco kind of misses it, but Fernandez is there to get a one
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  timer in. That's Romero's sixth red card
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  for Spurs and Fernandez is 2000. Sorry, 200th goal involvement
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  for Man United. Yeah, we've talked about how
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  important he's been for Man United just over the past couple
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  years, you know, such a good player, contributes goals,
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  contributes assists. Yeah, I mean, 200 goal
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  involvement is pretty impressive.
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  So the Romero red card, Luca, what did you think?
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  He sort of loses the ball. Yeah, I think.
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  Samir is getting it. Then like you said, he kind of
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  comes studs up. He's trying to win the ball
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  back. What did you think on?
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  That that's definitely a red card for me.
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  Why was it a red for you? Well, he caught, he comes in a
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  kind of high and it it's with much force.
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  So I think there's enough for a red card there.
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  Yeah, I I agree with you on this one.
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  He it's not, it's, it's high on the ankle, but it's not.
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  Super high. Yeah, it's not super high where
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  you get him like on the lower leg where you're thinking, Oh my
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  way they could like snap somebody's leg.
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  Now, Casimir. Now not to say you can't have a
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  significant injury by doing this because he, like you said, he
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  comes in with a lot of force on this one.
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  This isn't 1 where you kind of glance or graze over.
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  It like kind of like Dallas one. I still think that was a red
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  card, but. Yeah, Dalla was lucky on that
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  one too. But yeah, I, I mean, I don't
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  know. I don't know that Romero could
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  have a lot to argue with. I mean, look, we've talked about
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  him. He just, he just feels like a
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  guy that's maybe just a little too kind of hot headed and
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  emotional out there. I mean, you said I think 6.
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  So he's got 6 red cards for Spurs.
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  I think four of them have come in the Premier League.
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  This is his second red card this year.
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  We're only 25 weeks into the season and he's their captain.
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  Luca, we've talked about this before.
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  Like I, I just don't know what kind of an example or, you know,
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  what kind of leadership he is. You know, he, he got benched
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  last week in the game. And apparently, you know, he
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  posted on social media even before the City game last week
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  that, you know, just sort of making comments about the board
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  of Tottenham that it's sort of disgraceful, like the way their
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  squad is because they they do have a ton of injuries.
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  They do. I mean, Spurs, like I said, have
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  a lot of injuries. But that's not on the board of
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  Tottenham to like, fix that. Well, I think what he's saying
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  is they should have maybe done more in the January transfer
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  render to bring players in. But I look, I agree with you.
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  I mean they, they, they brought players in.
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  I mean Spurs, if you look, Spurs have spent money on players.
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  Exactly. It's not like I've done nothing.
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  Yeah, and, and I don't think that, I mean injuries are just a
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  part of it for every team. Sometimes you're more lucky than
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  other times they're they've been a bit unlucky with injuries.
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  I mean, we know that like Arsenal the past couple years
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  have had a lot of players miss, a lot of games miss.
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  So, you know, look, I mean Spurs, look, they're in some
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  real trouble here. They're in 15th place on 29
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  points. We were just talking about
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  leads, right? And relegation battle.
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  Well, leads are tied with them on 29.
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  They have the same amount of points as leads.
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  Oh boy. So you know.
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  Good grief. I mean, do you think there's a
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  is there? Are you thinking Tottenham are
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  still pretty safe from relegation?
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  No. You think they're in a real
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  relegation? Oh yeah, Oh yeah, and I love it.
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  Yeah, I mean, you think that like they could possibly be
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  worse than West Ham, Forest, Leeds, Yes.
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  OK, I don't know if I'm quite there with you.
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  I still think they'll get. It's not changing my opinion.
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  You want them to be relegated. And they will they.
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  Will, you're not being buried. I think you're you're.
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  This is all with your heart, not your.
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  No, no, weeds are going to go ahead to them because they're
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  just better and taught themselves and West Ham been
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  playing very well. So they're just going to like
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  when West Ham play Tottenham, they're going to beat them and
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  then Tottenham get relegated because they're just terrible
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  and then lose every other game is exactly what's going to
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  happen. We will.
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  We will see right there. Tottenham are going down.
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  Well, let let's show some love. Luca from Manchester United who
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  just continue to win under their interim manager Michael Carrick.
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  Four wins in the Premier League in a row here.
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  Now in sole possession. Luca a fourth place.
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  Sole possession. There are 44 points, you know, 3
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  back behind Villa, you know, 12 points off of 1st.
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  But look at this, they're now eight games unbeaten.
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  That's our longest unbeaten run in four years.
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  I mean, this is this is quite a turn around for, you know, last
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  year was obviously a total disaster.
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  But I've even said from the start of this year like they've
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  never been as bad as people maybe think they are when you
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  watch them play. What are your thoughts on Man
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  United? Right.
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  I think, I think they're definitely gonna qualify for
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  Champions League. OK, so you think like I said,
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  which in in it's looking like that's probably gonna be top
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  five when we talk about this. So they're in a good spot here
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  with Liverpool losing. You know, you now have Chelsea
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  on 43 and now Liverpool and Brentford are in six and seven
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  on 39. So right now United have
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  essentially like a 5 point lead over anybody that could sort of
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  bump them out of a Champions League spot, which is a great
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  spot to be in. I think ultimately, look,
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  they're playing so much better though.
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  I mean, it's a different formation, but the players just
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  look like they've been freed up. They're going to be a tough team
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  for people the rest of the way and I still think they'll drop
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  points here and there, but I just think that they're going to
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  be a real, real tough team. As we found out, they're the
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  only team to beat Arsenal at home.
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  So yeah, credit to them, credit to Michael Carrick, and he's
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  making a real push. Luca, like for the permanent
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  job, they'll make a decision this summer and I'm sure they'll
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  interview other people, but boy, he's really making himself a
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  case here to say he deserves a permanent job.
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  All right, Luca, well, let's move over to Wolves hosting
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  Chelsea. This game ends 31 Chelsea I
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  predict to be two nil. Chelsea Palmer gets a hat trick
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  in the first half with APK in the 13th minute and the 35th
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  minute and then scores in the 38th minute and in the 54th
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  minute or arrow could. I think it's Arrow Kadare.
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  OK, yeah, he scores in the 54th minute for Wolves to just get
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  like a consolation goal. Ro Signor has won seven of nine
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  games since taking over, and that's Palmer has three first
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  half hat tricks in his career, which is pretty, pretty insane.
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  Yeah, he seems to score goals in bunches.
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  I don't know. It's like when he gets like one,
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  usually 2-3 are coming. Yeah.
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  I mean, he's just, you can, you know, he's been sort of battling
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  his health all year. You know, he's been in and out
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  of the line up a little bit even when he's been there.
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  There's been some talk whether he can give like a full 90
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  minutes, but well, he just feels like an important guy for
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  Chelsea to have out on the field.
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  Now, look, two of the three goals today were were were
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  penalties. The first one for me, Luke of
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  the that's very tough, was a little bit soft.
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  The the second one is bizarre. The Wolves, the wolves defender
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  was sheriff, but Lily puts two hands on gial Pedro and pushes
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  him down. I mean, what are you doing?
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  What it's just it's crazy. I mean, he's like I I don't like
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  I mean, that has to be called every day.
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  I mean, you know, now of course Gial Pedro for both of them
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  makes a meal of it. Yeah, around.
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  But the second one is very clearly.
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  A penalty, yeah. You know, Palmer's great at
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  converting penalties. I think we've said before, I'm
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  pretty sure he's like Jimenez. I don't think he's ever missed a
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  penalty in the Premier League. So yeah.
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  You know it's he's. Got to be like tied because he
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  got tooted to yesterday. Got to Yeah, Jimenez had one
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  last week. Against the United, yeah.
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  So they're. Probably up to like.
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  Like 13 inch I think. Yeah, so pretty impressive.
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  We we talked about him last week, Jimenez, about his
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  penalties. Yeah.
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  I don't know if you still have that paper, but like, yeah.
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  I think I, I I. Think 13.
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  I think it might have been 13 to kind of go ahead of Yaya Tory
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  for most penalties converted without a miss in the Premier
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  League. Look at Chelsea, four wins in a
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  row in the Premier League. They're they're playing pretty
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  well. Like you said, the new managers
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  come in, he's done well. His only two losses have come to
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  Arsenal in the League Cup games. So he is, like I said, done
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  pretty well here since coming in.
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  And like I said, Chelsea are also in a real good spot here,
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  you know, 43 points sitting there and 5th they're going to
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  be happy to hit Liverpool loss today.
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  So they have a four point cushion on Liverpool and
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  Brentford because that fifth spot, again, that's going to be
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  a Champions League spot as opposed to the Europa League
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  spot. And that's, you know, one, it's
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  a lot more money comes in for the team when you qualify for
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  Champions League. It's a lot easier to recruit
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  players in the summer when you can offer them Champions League.
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  So you tend to get a better quality of player.
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  So, you know, plus teams that don't have a chance to win the
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  title, that's sort of like the next thing that you want to look
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  for, right? You'd say, all right, like,
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  well, if you're Chelsea or probably Man United said we
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  probably can't win the title this year.
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  So that's sort of the next thing is let's finish top five.
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  You know, let's get some momentum for next year and let's
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  make Champions League. So that's what all the players
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  want to do. So yeah, they're in a good spot.
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  Like I said, they're going to want Cole Palmer healthy the
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  rest of the year playing lots of minutes, right?
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  Yeah, yeah. All right, Luca, well, let's
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  move over to our team. Arsenal had a big game against
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  Sunderland. Take me through this one.
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  This game ends three nil Arsenal.
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  I put it in two nil arsenal zoom ND in the 42nd minute and really
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  nice one timer outside the box off the post and then and then
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  Yokrez in the 66 minute from haverts to go.
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  No haverts is to go Nike Yokrez yes.
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  Always contributing to the team, yes.
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  Yes, Lucas. Favorite player?
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  The goat, I guess. The GOAT is the GOAT, Messi,
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  Ronaldo, step aside. Yogurt then gets another goal in
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  the 94th minute for eight Premier League goal of the year.
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  And he also has six goals in all competitions since the start of
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  2026. So honestly, he's been honestly
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  decent, not bad. Yeah, this is this is an
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  interesting game because, you know, we've talked about
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  Sunderland, what a great story they've been.
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  They're they're they're, you know, a newly promoted team.
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  They've signed a lot of guys in the summers.
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  They have a lot of like talent that's added in.
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  They've just been a really tough team.
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  And and this game probably was closer than the scoreline
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  indicates because this game was kind of going back and forth for
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  a while. Zubamendi strike from outside
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  the box. Was fantastic.
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  But again, this was kind of A1 nothing game for a while.
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  I felt like could have caught and gone either way.
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  Brian Bravi, Luca, I was super impressed with him.
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  You know, striker for Sunderland.
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  He really, I actually thought got the better of Saliba in this
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  game, which I think Saliba is one of the top center backs in
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  the world, but he's just a physical player.
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  He's skilled. Like I said, I'm just really
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  impressed every time I watch him.
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  No, Jacques, it's a shame he couldn't come back and play
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  against his old team for Sunderland.
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  Well, it's good for us because he would have probably
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  contributed to that game. It is.
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  It helped us. But yeah, like, you know, this
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  was a pretty kind of comfortable win in the end.
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  You know, it never really kind of looked like Sunderland was
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  going to get back in this game. Lugo, Arsenal actually unbeaten
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  in their last 19 home games against Sunderland.
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  So when Sunderland come to the Emirates, Arsenal typically get
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  a good result. But ultimately, I want to get
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  your opinion on where you kind of stand right now with Geo,
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  Correct. So big summer signing, comes
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  over from Sporting, so you mentioned looking in.
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  In all competitions he now has thirteen goals.
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  You know what, What did you just say in the Premier League?
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  Eight. Well, he's up to 8 in the
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  Premier. League, yeah.
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  So where are you right now? Are you, are you kind of saying
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  right now good signing? I'm still kind of wanting to see
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  meh or bad signing. Like where, where, where's?
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  What's your opinion? On you.
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  Doesn't he have 14 though? Well, because.
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  Possibly. Six, you said, because eight
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  goals in Premier League and oh, then it could have been OK Six
• 17:31
  since the start of this. Yeah, that's it.
• 17:33
  It's a start. Never mind.
• 17:35
  In all competitions, I think. It's third I'm I'm leaning
• 17:40
  towards I want to see a little bit more then I'll be like ready
• 17:45
  to like say yes, good sign your no bad signing.
• 17:49
  But I think he has been a lot better than when he we first
• 17:53
  brought him in. He's kind of been like haverts
• 17:56
  who has had like pretty slow start and when they're first
• 18:00
  brought in and then kind of ended up being pretty good after
• 18:04
  they started scoring a little bit.
• 18:07
  But yeah, I I'm leaning, I want to see, I want to wait and wait
• 18:12
  and see a little. Bit see how he kind of finishes
• 18:14
  up the year. He has a 13 more Premier League
• 18:16
  games. Obviously Arsenal sold a ton of
• 18:18
  games to play because we're in four competitions.
• 18:19
  There's Champions League games coming up, there's the Carabao
• 18:22
  Cup final, there's FA Cup games. So I, I think Luca for me, you
• 18:27
  know when when guys come from non Premier League leagues.
• 18:31
  So he obviously came from Portugal or if a guy comes from
• 18:34
  Syria or the Bundesliga or Lagoon, you know, I think they
• 18:39
  just need some time to settle in.
• 18:41
  Everybody wants to make judgements on these players
• 18:43
  after 2-3 games, you know, all right, it's 1/4 of the season.
• 18:45
  Let's make judgements on, you know, if you look at a guy like
• 18:48
  Florian where it's at Liverpool, you know, just need some time to
• 18:51
  like get used to the league and the physicality and the speed of
• 18:54
  it. It's the best league in the
• 18:55
  world, right? There's no debate about what is
• 18:58
  the best Soccer League in the world.
• 18:59
  So you know, now guys that come from Premier League teams, you
• 19:03
  know, if you signing off a Premier League team, I think
• 19:05
  it's a little bit fair, more fair to judge them quicker
• 19:07
  because they've been in the. That's why haverts got judged
• 19:11
  quicker than. Yeah, I think so.
• 19:13
  And Haverts was coming from Chelsea, you know, a big club.
• 19:16
  So your expectation with Haverts was like, OK, he's going to come
• 19:18
  right in and hit the ground running.
• 19:19
  Now The thing is that Chelsea's a bit of a hot mess.
• 19:22
  Exactly. They go through coaches all the
• 19:24
  time. They buy and sell players at a
• 19:26
  crazy crazy, so you know that being at that club is not the
• 19:31
  most stable environment. And.
• 19:33
  Remember, he was real young when he came over from buyer
• 19:35
  Leverkusen. So I mean Haverts is still only
• 19:37
  what, 25? Yeah, 25 right now.
• 19:40
  He feels like he's been around forever, but he's still super
• 19:43
  young, you know? So yeah, I think the expectation
• 19:45
  was high on him to do well right away, but I think he did.
• 19:48
  He needed to sort of like get his confidence back.
• 19:50
  It used to be in like a stable environment and and look, he's
• 19:53
  been real useful the past couple games, you know, real nice
• 19:56
  assists and this one. But Odegard's been out.
• 19:59
  Saka's out for Arsenal, but haverts can kind of step in in
• 20:02
  that number 10 role for Odegard. I thought he had a pretty good
• 20:05
  game. So he's working his fitness back
• 20:08
  up because I think we're going to.
• 20:08
  And really, like I said, Howard's is a guy I look to in
• 20:11
  the second-half of the season here, or actually kind of the
• 20:13
  last. 3rd of the season. That I think Arsenal are going
• 20:16
  to desperately need his versatility, move him up to
• 20:19
  striker. He can play a little bit in the
• 20:20
  midfield because they're going to be a lot of games and a lot
• 20:24
  of like key games coming up here.
• 20:26
  And I just think he's he's an important guy to keep an eye out
• 20:28
  for, for, for Arsenal, Luca, your first four games, by the
• 20:32
  way, pick them all correctly. Yeah.
• 20:35
  So 4 for four, you know, no perfect picks, but you had all
• 20:38
  the wins, no? Perfect pick for Bournemouth.
• 20:41
  Oh, you're talking about the first four?
• 20:42
  1st 4 So all right, but let's move over to a game.
• 20:45
  You did not pick this one. Yeah, but I got it.
• 20:47
  I got the opposite. You got the score right, just
• 20:49
  not who was going to be on either side of it, but Fulham
• 20:52
  hosted Everton. I predicted this be two one
• 20:55
  form. It was 2 in Everton, Mikolenko
• 20:58
  own goal in the 18th minute, then Dewsbury Hall equalizes in
• 21:02
  the 75th minute. Then on Leno own goal in the
• 21:05
  83rd minute. He sort of kind of he like it
• 21:09
  has like a weak punch and it skims back of the his like
• 21:14
  knuckle and it goes back in, Yeah.
• 21:17
  And that's kind of a disappointing loss for Fulham,
• 21:20
  Everton five straight straight away games without losing.
• 21:25
  So they're kind of on a good away run.
• 21:27
  Yeah, that's it's important to be able to pick up points on the
• 21:30
  road in the Premier League, you know.
• 21:32
  And and that's why they're look at all of a sudden Luca, there
• 21:34
  they are in 8th place, 37 points.
• 21:38
  I mean, they're only, you know, Luca right now six points out of
• 21:41
  a Champions League spot. It's hard to imagine for
• 21:43
  Everton, but this game really look at like tale of two halves
• 21:45
  in this one. So the first half Fulham's XG
• 21:48
  1.82, the second-half Fulham's XG .16 Everton's XD in the first
• 21:54
  half .74 and in the second-half .94.
• 21:57
  So this is 1 where Fulham, like I said, goes into half time,
• 22:00
  they're up 1 nothing. They're feeling pretty good
• 22:02
  about things, but then just didn't do anything offensively
• 22:05
  and in the first half. It's a shame because I mean what
• 22:07
  I. Had so many chances.
• 22:08
  So many chances Smith Row hits the cross bar I think.
• 22:10
  Chu Quez hit the cross bar. So it's like for them, they're
• 22:13
  going to feel like, gosh, if just one of those had gone in,
• 22:16
  this game would have been so different.
• 22:17
  And but credit on Everton, you know, flipping it at halftime,
• 22:20
  coming out, getting two goals on the road again, big three points
• 22:23
  for them because they're you know, them and Fulham are these
• 22:26
  mid table teams. I mean, Fulham are in 10th right
• 22:28
  now. And if you can beat these teams,
• 22:31
  they're sort of right next to you in the standings, you can
• 22:33
  really sort of jump up and forever 10.
• 22:36
  You know, they're going to be sort of dreaming about maybe
• 22:38
  making you wait for Conference league, you know, with Brentford
• 22:41
  and Sunderland there 7 eighth and 9th.
• 22:43
  So it's a big three points for them.
• 22:45
  Yeah. All right, they're not exactly a
• 22:47
  glamorous game, but one with definite relegation stakes.
• 22:51
  We had Burnley hosting West. Ham.
• 22:53
  Favorite word? Glamorous.
• 22:55
  Glamorous. Yeah, this is not glamorous.
• 22:58
  Unglamorous. Here, it's unglamorous.
• 23:02
  This game's at ends, 2 nil. West Ham.
• 23:04
  I predicted A00 draw Somerville in the 13th minute.
• 23:09
  He's been very good for them in the past couple games.
• 23:12
  Then new signing Cassianos in the 26th minute gets a header
• 23:16
  goal of players. Kind of see all the victory.
• 23:20
  Burnley 16 Premier League games in a row without a win and West
• 23:24
  Ham now three points behind Nottingham Force for 17.
• 23:29
  Yeah. So for anybody that doesn't
• 23:31
  know, in the Premier League, the bottom three teams get
• 23:33
  relegated, they get moved down and the three teams will get
• 23:36
  moved up. So we have three spots for sort
• 23:38
  of teams that'll get moved down. Wolves have pretty much clinched
• 23:42
  one. Burnley, we feel like are pretty
• 23:44
  much. Yeah.
• 23:45
  So there's really like one spot here.
• 23:47
  So here, here is Luke. I want you to tell me if you had
• 23:50
  to pick today who the team going down is.
• 23:52
  Let's let's say you've got Spurs on 29, Leeds on 29, Forest on
• 23:59
  26, West Ham on 23. All right.
• 24:03
  I mean, are you really thinking you're picking Spurs out of all
• 24:06
  those that they're going to? Go.
• 24:07
  How did you know? Oh.
• 24:08
  My God. Well, we, we just talked about
• 24:09
  it, but I just figured you were sort of, you know, again picking
• 24:13
  with your heart. No, no, no.
• 24:14
  If you if you had to put all your soccer cards that you own
• 24:17
  on this bet, OK, you're going to put them out there.
• 24:20
  So if you miss, you're going to lose all your soccer cards.
• 24:23
  No. Who are you picking today out of
• 24:25
  those? What?
• 24:26
  What I say? Four teams?
• 24:28
  Tottenham. OK, all right.
• 24:30
  So you think Tottenham? So that's a six point.
• 24:33
  West Ham will have to make up on Tottenham.
• 24:35
  That's it's very We'll get to who West Ham plays next, but I
• 24:41
  don't know what would you. West Ham plays Man United,
• 24:44
  Tottenham play Newcastle. Tottenham are not beating
• 24:48
  Newcastle now, West Ham get. Wolves and Leeds get Chelsea so.
• 24:53
  What we they don't like get Chelsea.
• 24:57
  They have to play Chelsea. Well, I know.
• 24:59
  I mean, like, they get them in the schedule.
• 25:00
  I mean, look at even Bright Brighton may be in this
• 25:02
  conversation. They've been awful lately.
• 25:05
  We'll get on to their game in a second, but they've been,
• 25:07
  they're all. Think they're game relegant?
• 25:08
  They're better than Tottenham. Yeah, well, I mean, are they
• 25:11
  though? I mean, you know, they're two
• 25:13
  points above them, Luca, I don't think they won a game in like
• 25:16
  what feels like a year. And they've got Villa coming up.
• 25:19
  I mean, we'll talk about the games for next week.
• 25:21
  But Brighton, they're really in a bad run of form.
• 25:24
  I mean, look, I I think having an 8 point cushion over West Ham
• 25:28
  is probably enough to say if they can just get 5 more points,
• 25:33
  they're probably safe. Yes.
• 25:34
  Yeah. So yeah, it'll be interesting.
• 25:36
  Look, I think West Ham, and I get it, they're better than
• 25:38
  Tottenham right now. All right, all right, Lucas
• 25:41
  taking them the Spurs to go down.
• 25:43
  Yep, Spurs weren't going down. All right, well, let's move over
• 25:47
  to Bournemouth hostingville. I got this one correct.
• 25:49
  I predicted 11 and it was 11. Rogers in the 22nd minute, Nice,
• 25:55
  nice goal. And then the new signing, Ryan,
• 25:57
  I think he was on his debut and 55th minute scores.
• 26:01
  I don't know what DNA was doing on this defense.
• 26:04
  So just poor defending well. Tell me about what?
• 26:08
  What? What Ryan is driving at DNA and
• 26:12
  he kind he kind of goes to his left.
• 26:15
  DNA just stops and just walks. He's he doesn't even try and
• 26:19
  recover and he leaves his team in a big hole and then he ends
• 26:23
  up scoring. So that was really bad.
• 26:25
  But Rodgers now ten goals in all competitions and new sign.
• 26:30
  Well, yeah, Ryan scores his first goal.
• 26:33
  Yeah, at the club, I mean, we've, we've talked about
• 26:35
  Morgan. Rodgers A.
• 26:36
  Lot like what a great, great player he is.
• 26:39
  He's been so good for them this year.
• 26:40
  So you said ten goals in all competitions, 8 Premier League
• 26:44
  goals. That's as many as he had last
• 26:46
  year. So he's already reached his goal
• 26:47
  total from last year. He'll probably, you know, go
• 26:49
  above that. Any Martinez?
• 26:52
  Look at what? It was pretty good in this game.
• 26:53
  He had 7 saves. Yeah, he had a couple really
• 26:57
  good saves in that game. Big saves to kind of, you know,
• 26:59
  basically, you know, keep a point for them.
• 27:03
  I mean they're now 9 points off of Arsenal and 1st Luca it
• 27:07
  feels. Like they're kind of slipping
• 27:09
  away from the title. Yeah, I know.
• 27:11
  And we've gone back and forth on this week in and week out.
• 27:13
  Are villain in the race? Are they not in the race?
• 27:15
  I think if you're doing that, they're they're probably not in
• 27:18
  the race. You know, it's like they'll have
• 27:19
  a good week and but you know, I, I think they're basically now
• 27:23
  pulled down into that second tier.
• 27:25
  I mean, like, sure they beat Arsenal, but they beat them on
• 27:27
  literally the last kick of the game.
• 27:29
  It falls to point dear open shot.
• 27:32
  I mean, that's super lucky. Well, it yeah, to a certain
• 27:36
  extent. I mean, I do think you create
• 27:38
  your own luck to a certain extent.
• 27:40
  But yes, I mean it's pretty crazy the way that ball fell.
• 27:42
  He literally kicks it in like you said.
• 27:44
  I mean on. Like the last second of.
• 27:46
  The game. I think it was the last kick
• 27:48
  other than the kickoff. But look, they were in an
• 27:50
  amazing run at that time. You know, they had this crazy
• 27:53
  run of like, was it like 11 wins in a row or something?
• 27:57
  And it was just something. But like even with that though,
• 28:00
  they it's not as it like if you win 11 games in a row, you
• 28:03
  should be like a couple points up on 1st.
• 28:05
  But they got off of that bad start.
• 28:07
  Then they had this crazy run which basically just got him
• 28:09
  into the. Conversation like 5 games
• 28:11
  without scoring a goal. Yeah, they've been like a weird
• 28:14
  team. Like I said, they started off
• 28:15
  that way, but then they went on that amazing win run and now
• 28:17
  they're just sort of, you know, you know, they're just sort of
• 28:20
  grinding out some different results here.
• 28:21
  I mean, they obviously, you know, Drew this week, they lost
• 28:24
  last week a win before that a loss, a draw.
• 28:26
  You know, they're doing what a lot of teams do.
• 28:28
  They're just, you know, but it's hard to win every single game.
• 28:32
  But I, I to me, they're now in that second tier with United,
• 28:36
  Chelsea, Liverpool, maybe Brentford, I don't know.
• 28:41
  But essentially, you know, battling out for those three
• 28:45
  last Champions League spots. And it feels like the title race
• 28:47
  is A2 team race. Probably if we look back and
• 28:50
  it's always been really just a two team race between once
• 28:53
  Liverpool kind of dropped out once Chelsea sort of you
• 28:57
  realize, and they maybe they're not quite as mature or
• 29:01
  experienced to kind of stay in it.
• 29:03
  They got a few bad results. I mean, they even fired their
• 29:05
  manager. It's always probably felt like
• 29:08
  it's just Arsenal and City kind of going back and forth, you
• 29:11
  know, for the for the title. So now, like I said, Villa,
• 29:14
  Lucas still in a good spot here. They're sitting in 3rd again.
• 29:18
  You know, they're going to want to try to qualify for Champions
• 29:21
  League. They got to see, you know,
• 29:23
  they're they're being stretched because their squad is injured
• 29:25
  and they don't have a lot of depth.
• 29:27
  So I think that's why you're seeing them kind of drop points
• 29:29
  here along the way. But we'll see moving forward.
• 29:32
  They get Brighton this week. That should be a nice matchup to
• 29:35
  try to get 3 points. All right, Luca, here we go.
• 29:38
  This game was maybe one of the most exciting games of the week,
• 29:41
  Newcastle hosting Brentford. Yeah, this game ends 32
• 29:45
  Brentford, I've breaking 2 new Newcastle.
• 29:49
  Newcastle get the first goal with Bachman in 24th minute,
• 29:53
  then Yano absolutely a nice cross from with Tara in the 32nd
• 29:57
  minute, he gets a header Tiano PK the 45 + 3 so added time and
• 30:03
  then demonized 79th minute PK and with Tara gets the winner in
• 30:08
  the 85th minute. Brentford in 7th on 39 points
• 30:12
  now and Brentford have won four of last five on the road, so
• 30:17
  yeah, they're doing well. Yeah, and that you kind of set
• 30:21
  it there a little bit, I think. So Brentford now, Luca, they are
• 30:23
  tied with Liverpool. It's sort of amazing to say
• 30:25
  right now in 39 points and actually same on goal
• 30:28
  differential +5. So wait, who's ahead?
• 30:31
  Well they have Liverpool listed ahead.
• 30:34
  I wonder if it then goes. To goal scored.
• 30:36
  Total goals scored and Liverpool have 40.
• 30:38
  Brentford, though, right behind him at 39.
• 30:40
  Jeez. So I mean, we we've talked this
• 30:43
  year, Luke, about like, you know, team, we've always been
• 30:45
  like, you know, oh, what a great story.
• 30:47
  Sunderland, where to start? Remember Bournemouth for the
• 30:49
  first couple games or in second? Crystal Palace.
• 30:51
  Crystal Palace, we've had these teams that have been like, oh,
• 30:53
  these great stories, you know, can they hang in like a top five
• 30:57
  race and they've all. None of them have really nuts.
• 30:59
  Fallen off and here we are now 25 weeks into the season.
• 31:02
  So we're essentially almost like 2/3 of the way through the
• 31:05
  season. And here's like lucky little
• 31:06
  Brentford, who lost Imbumo, Wisa, their manager Thomas
• 31:12
  Frank, the Spurs. And here they are like just 7th
• 31:15
  place tied with the defending. They don't have an actual coach
• 31:19
  too. Well, they have a coach.
• 31:21
  It's their assistant. He's kind of an intern.
• 31:23
  No, no, no, no. They.
• 31:25
  So he was a set piece coach last year under Thomas Frank, but he
• 31:28
  is hired as the head coach. Yeah, yeah, he no, he is like
• 31:31
  their legitimate. Yeah.
• 31:32
  Yeah, yeah. So he is their head coach.
• 31:34
  It's just that he he's, you know, they hired within, they
• 31:36
  hired within the organization. So I mean, huge credit to him.
• 31:39
  Like he's had no head coaching experience.
• 31:41
  Yeah, said Peace coach. Said peace coach.
• 31:44
  And now he's got them, it's they're like, they are like the
• 31:48
  great story. I mean, Sunderland are still
• 31:49
  like a good story to me. You know, Everton and Fulham in
• 31:52
  8th and 10th, that's sort of what Everton and Fulham do.
• 31:54
  They're sort of teams that finish at like, you know, 9th,
• 31:56
  10th, 11th. But you know, I this is just
• 31:59
  amazing and, and we'll get into next week's game, Luca, but
• 32:01
  Arsenal go to Brentford next week.
• 32:04
  That's a massive game because. We're going to have our hands
• 32:06
  full, yeah. Brentford are playing really
• 32:08
  well. Look at back-to-back weeks.
• 32:10
  They just went to Villa Park and beat Villa, went to Saint James
• 32:13
  Park and beat Newcastle. I mean, that's two impressive
• 32:17
  Rd. wins. And, and they were down to 10
• 32:19
  men against the. Yeah, so they've had their back
• 32:22
  against it, you know, like I said, back against it in that
• 32:24
  game. Now the weird thing is, is like
• 32:26
  you look at it and you're like, OK, then the game before that,
• 32:29
  they lose at home to Nottingham Forest.
• 32:31
  You know, it's like, so it's a little weird.
• 32:33
  And then the game before that, they lost at Chelsea, OK.
• 32:35
  That's, that's fair. That was the game where they had
• 32:38
  so many chances to that just couldn't.
• 32:40
  They did, I know. And then before that at home,
• 32:42
  they beat Sunderland, they wanted Everton, they drew with
• 32:45
  Tottenham, they'd be Bournemouth.
• 32:48
  Tottenham. Oh, goodness gracious.
• 32:50
  You know, so it's, you know. They're kind of unpredictable.
• 32:54
  They're a little unpredictable. I think they're a very good
• 32:56
  team, I really do. And I really truly think, you
• 32:59
  know, Arsenal, I think play them on Thursday and it's going to
• 33:02
  be, like I said, a very, very tough game.
• 33:04
  We've already talked about how good Brentford are at home and
• 33:06
  the reason why they're moving up the table is because of what you
• 33:08
  just said. They're not getting results on
• 33:09
  the road. They were terrible on the road
• 33:12
  to start Luca, but you just said what, four wins out of their
• 33:14
  last? Yes.
• 33:16
  Yeah. So, you know, that's, again,
• 33:17
  that's the way to do it. You, you know, defended you, you
• 33:20
  basically take care of your home field and get your wins there.
• 33:23
  And then you go on the road and you figure out ways to get
• 33:26
  results. So huge credit to them.
• 33:28
  Like I said, I mean, it's it's, you know, Newcastle have been
• 33:30
  certainly one of the bigger disappointments for me this
• 33:33
  year. Three lose, 3 losses in a row in
• 33:35
  the Premier League. But yeah, well done by
• 33:37
  Brentford. All right, Luca, let's move over
• 33:40
  to the two games today. We did have a big Darby game,
• 33:43
  Luco, they called the M23 or the A 23 Darby, which is the road
• 33:48
  that leads from South London, where Crystal Palace are down to
• 33:50
  the Brighton on the coast, the South Coast.
• 33:53
  So you had Brighton hosting Crystal Palace in the M 23
• 33:56
  Darby? Well, it actually ended up being
• 33:58
  a bit of a snooze fest. It only ends one known Crystal
• 34:01
  Palace, I predict to be 00. I was correct until the 61st
• 34:06
  minute when SAR scores. So yeah.
• 34:10
  And then 2020 of Palaces 32 points have come away.
• 34:14
  So just another team that's been really good away.
• 34:18
  Yeah, not so good at home, which is?
• 34:19
  Yeah, it's interesting. Things.
• 34:21
  Yeah, they, these are like 2 teams that have just been sort
• 34:24
  of like falling in the table. I mean, you know, I, I think
• 34:27
  Brighton had come in with one win in their last ten.
• 34:32
  I think Crystal Palace had no wins in their last nine games.
• 34:36
  So you know, Crystal Palace like as they're going to feel good
• 34:39
  about getting three points out of out of this.
• 34:41
  I mean, look, Crystal Palace, they're going to have a lot to
• 34:43
  figure out this summer, but you know, just to make sure you just
• 34:47
  don't get yourself into any kind of relegation battle.
• 34:49
  I mean, it feels like the wheels are sort of falling off this
• 34:51
  team so much. You know, just sort of, I don't
• 34:54
  want to say like bad press, but just negativity around.
• 34:57
  The team. So it's a good win for them to
• 34:59
  just sort of steady the ship a little bit.
• 35:01
  But yeah, Brighton, like I said, just sort of been a bit of a
• 35:03
  free fall here. They're now in 14th on 31
• 35:05
  points. James Milner, Luca, we're
• 35:08
  keeping an eye on him for the appearance record.
• 35:10
  He did not get in the game so he's still 1 appearance behind
• 35:13
  Gareth Barry for the all time appearance record in the Premier
• 35:17
  League. So.
• 35:18
  I mean, come wait. So he's, he's got it.
• 35:20
  You got to get two more appearances to break.
• 35:22
  I think I'm almost positive he needs two more to break it so.
• 35:25
  I don't think anyone's gonna beat Milner after that.
• 35:27
  Maybe. That's a lot.
• 35:28
  It's like, what is it, 600 some games?
• 35:31
  It's like, yeah, I think it's like 650 or something.
• 35:34
  I. Mean Milner's 40 years old.
• 35:36
  You know his. Game is very good.
• 35:39
  He was pretty good. He's like a solid player.
• 35:41
  Who does he play for? I have to look up like Gareth
• 35:44
  Barry, like in who he played for.
• 35:47
  Yeah, I don't remember. That's OK.
• 35:50
  All right, Luke And then that week finished up with a bit of a
• 35:52
  sort of AI, don't know if it's like, it's certainly a kind of a
• 35:55
  chaotic finish to this game, but you have Liverpool hosting City,
• 35:59
  a big glamour game here, you know, two teams that have sort
• 36:02
  of, you know, always been there at the top the past ten years or
• 36:06
  so. I think the last 8 championships
• 36:07
  have all come from just these two teams.
• 36:10
  Obviously as an Arsenal fan, we were hoping that the, you know,
• 36:12
  there may be at least a tie or Liverpool could get a result at
• 36:15
  Anfield. But take me through this game.
• 36:18
  Yeah, this was 21 City, I predict be 32 Liverpool.
• 36:22
  Sober Sly. 74th minute he gets a free kick and just bombs it
• 36:27
  again like he did against Arsenal.
• 36:29
  And we thought, oh man, he burned Arsenal, he's gonna burn,
• 36:33
  burn City 2 no in the 84th minute, sober scores and then
• 36:38
  Holland peak in the 94th minute. Then sober Sly gets sent off in
• 36:43
  90 + 13 for like Allison was way out of his goal and he pulls
• 36:49
  Holland and it goes in but they call back the goal for whatever
• 36:53
  reason. It was just chaos.
• 36:55
  But yeah, that's it for that game.
• 36:57
  Yeah, So, you know, you had so like I said, soba slavery,
• 37:01
  reminiscent of the Arsenal free kick that just it's just an
• 37:03
  unbelievable free kick. And you think out there it is,
• 37:06
  he did it. The Arsenal he's done at the
• 37:07
  City. But no, credit the City for sort
• 37:10
  of bouncing back in this one. A game maybe some people would
• 37:13
  say they had to have or the title race is over.
• 37:16
  That's not true. Well, I'm not going that far
• 37:19
  either. People like to make declarations
• 37:21
  after. Exactly.
• 37:22
  Title races on or not, I mean, it's gonna go down to the wire
• 37:25
  here. Arsenal still have to play City
• 37:26
  in the Premier League, so and it's at their stadium.
• 37:29
  There's a lot to decide for this, but I mean it would have
• 37:32
  been a huge advantage of Arsenal obviously could have gone up 9
• 37:35
  points. So City maybe feeling
• 37:37
  desperation, maybe it's just you know, look, they had chances in
• 37:41
  this game in the first half, they were way, but Liverpool
• 37:43
  were awful in the. First they pull a Tottenham on
• 37:45
  us. Yeah, I was talking.
• 37:46
  I was talking to you. They're pulling a Tottenham on
• 37:48
  us. Yeah, Tottenham last week
• 37:50
  against City were just awful in the first half of that somehow
• 37:52
  came back in the second-half and and tied it up.
• 37:55
  So yeah, Liverpool go into halftime feeling lucky at 00.
• 37:59
  Like I said, City we're the way better team in the first half.
• 38:02
  But in the second-half it was kind of back and forth.
• 38:04
  Yes, Sopa sly hits an amazing free kick.
• 38:07
  City battle back Holland a nice little flick on header that
• 38:10
  Silva just gets his foot on on to kind of poke it by.
• 38:13
  Allison, take me through. So look at the penalty call
• 38:17
  here. I want you to sort of take me
• 38:18
  through it. I, I can't remember who plays
• 38:20
  the ball to ball over the top to Nunez and he's sort of running
• 38:24
  onto it. Tell me what you saw here on
• 38:27
  this call. Well, there's it's hard because
• 38:32
  so he Nunez basically kicks the ball out of bounds on purpose.
• 38:37
  He knows what he's doing. He's trying to get the penalty
• 38:41
  and Allison is trying to come out when they get the ball.
• 38:43
  Now, I will say, I don't know why Allison is trying to come
• 38:46
  out. He just, all goalkeepers do that
• 38:49
  and they're always going to get called for that.
• 38:52
  I do think that's a penalty, even though I don't want it to
• 38:55
  be because he does clip him and there is contact.
• 39:00
  There's enough for me there. But it it's just he, he
• 39:05
  shouldn't have come out and Nunez, even if he got a shot
• 39:08
  off, he was at a very tight angle.
• 39:11
  It couldn't have been like that. Great.
• 39:14
  And even if you got a cross in, he had the fenders in there.
• 39:17
  So in my opinion it was not needed for him to come out and
• 39:21
  try and slide to get the ball. But yeah, I think it's a pen.
• 39:24
  Yeah, so I think that you know what I saw like, right, the ball
• 39:27
  gets played over the top, coming on the right side and and
• 39:30
  Nunez's ball bounces. Allison makes the decision to
• 39:33
  come get it. Nunez, of course, is running
• 39:35
  onto it. Nunez gets his his toe to it,
• 39:39
  but it's too far away. So he's, he's, he never controls
• 39:44
  the ball. Nunez never has control of this
• 39:46
  ball. So he's running onto it, He gets
• 39:48
  his toe to toe to it, which he then touches it out of bounds.
• 39:51
  I don't think he's trying to go down.
• 39:53
  I think he's trying to gain control, shoot it or quite
• 39:56
  trying to get to the ball and then make a quick decision about
• 39:58
  what to do with it. But the ball is too far away.
• 40:00
  So all he can do is get his toe onto it and eventually just
• 40:03
  pokes the ball out of bounds after he touches the ball.
• 40:05
  Then Allison comes in. I I don't think there's as much
• 40:09
  contact as everybody thought. I actually Lee Dixon was one of
• 40:11
  the announcers who's like an Arsenal legend.
• 40:13
  I actually, you know who I would typically agree with because I
• 40:15
  really like him a lot and he's an Arsenal legend, but he was
• 40:18
  going on and on that this was a clear penalty.
• 40:20
  It's not for me, Luca, like I said there, there's a little bit
• 40:22
  of contact here, but this is not excessive force or excessive
• 40:25
  contact in the box by Allison. I agree with you.
• 40:28
  He shouldn't have come for the ball.
• 40:29
  He made a mistake coming for the ball.
• 40:31
  I don't think he needed to. I don't think there was as much
• 40:33
  defensive help in the middle that you might have thought
• 40:35
  there, because I think he thinks it if Nunez can get in control,
• 40:39
  there's actually not that much where they sort of he.
• 40:41
  Could have at least come up and jump for the ball.
• 40:44
  Who? Allison.
• 40:45
  Yes, yeah. I mean, yeah, like.
• 40:47
  Maybe he could have came out a little bit and then gotten in
• 40:50
  front of Nunez, because Nunez couldn't control that either.
• 40:54
  He clearly couldn't get on to it.
• 40:55
  Really. Well, that's just it.
• 40:56
  I so but but again, look, I understand the they're making
• 40:59
  split second decisions. I agree with you.
• 41:01
  It was a mistake for him to come.
• 41:02
  He should have stayed in the goal.
• 41:04
  And ultimately, if he does, I don't even think the Nunez can
• 41:06
  control it. Now, again, what ends up
• 41:09
  happening is he does get part of him, a part Alison gets part of
• 41:14
  Nunez. But I look, I think it's just
• 41:16
  the inconsistency though, because I can think of two
• 41:18
  different times where Arsenal been in situations where a
• 41:21
  forward has gotten to the ball first, touched the ball past the
• 41:24
  goalie. You know, specifically Geo
• 41:26
  Caress against Newcastle, touched up that ball, stayed in
• 41:29
  bounds even. And then in that situation, Pope
• 41:32
  then clips Geo Caress basically makes contact with them,
• 41:36
  Yocharis goes down and they said, Nope, it's incidental
• 41:38
  contact, you know, So I don't know how this is that different.
• 41:42
  There's, like I said, it's not as much force.
• 41:43
  If you watch it, I even think in some ways Nunez leaves his leg
• 41:47
  out a little. Bit that's what I'm saying you.
• 41:48
  Like touches the ball and sort of leaves the leg there knowing
• 41:51
  that Allison's coming in there a little bit.
• 41:53
  And he does not really get, he's clearly gets.
• 41:56
  I'm not saying that he doesn't. He doesn't get him as much as
• 41:58
  you might think, where it's like, wow, he really wiped him
• 42:00
  out or there was excessive contact there.
• 42:03
  Well, there's contact. There is contact.
• 42:06
  Yeah, but you're but if they're going to say Luca, you can have
• 42:08
  contact in the box, right. This is what I've heard in all
• 42:10
  these ones against Arsenal or even other times and other
• 42:13
  teams, Luca that you can still have contact.
• 42:15
  They've told us, Luca, if there is contact does not mean that
• 42:18
  it's a necessarily a foul. So what they're looking for, I
• 42:21
  think is excessive contact, you know, or endangering the player
• 42:25
  or anything like that. This isn't for me, Luca.
• 42:27
  I I think they I think they got this one wrong in this
• 42:30
  situation. Maybe I'm Luca.
• 42:32
  I'm doing this one with my heart here because obviously it would
• 42:35
  have been better for Arsenal if city had tied or lost and this
• 42:37
  clearly just won on the game. But I don't know, Luca, to me
• 42:40
  this just it feels a little soft.
• 42:42
  That's all Like I just this one feels a little soft for me.
• 42:46
  Again, I guess I get it why they gave it.
• 42:49
  You know, I can see you can say, well, Allison doesn't get the
• 42:51
  ball and makes contact with them.
• 42:54
  But again, it's just the inconsistencies of the
• 42:56
  refereeing and bar decisions because I go back and I'm like,
• 42:59
  well, what about these other situations where a goalie didn't
• 43:02
  get contact with the ball, made contact with the player?
• 43:05
  Why? Why weren't those penalties?
• 43:06
  That's, I think that's for me is if I see it all these different
• 43:09
  ways, it's hard for me to say, well, yes, that's always the way
• 43:12
  it's been called. It is what it is.
• 43:14
  They've been consistent with that.
• 43:16
  If that was the case, I'd be a little bit OK with it, but I
• 43:20
  don't know. So yeah, it is what it is, Luca.
• 43:22
  I mean, it's a big win. You know, City, like I said,
• 43:25
  needed those points. They haven't wanted Anfield I
• 43:28
  think since 2003. Jeez.
• 43:30
  Yeah. So they only had, you know,
• 43:32
  like, and in fact, City don't do great against Liverpool.
• 43:34
  I think one win in their last five, first Liverpool.
• 43:36
  So Liverpool have kind of had their number a little bit so.
• 43:40
  That was this year. Yeah, big win.
• 43:42
  So, you know, like I said, big win for City, who, like I said,
• 43:46
  pull the double over Liverpool, beat them twice this year.
• 43:49
  So you know, good on them again, six points behind Arsenal, full
• 43:53
  on title race here. They've got Fulham coming up at
• 43:56
  home. We'll probably get 3 points
• 43:58
  there. They're getting some guys back.
• 44:00
  You know, Ruben Diaz is now coming back.
• 44:03
  So like I said, they got a fully loaded squad.
• 44:05
  I think it's going to be an interesting race to the end of
• 44:07
  the year. Luca, like I said, and it's it's
• 44:09
  going to be Arsenal and City just sort of back and forth.
• 44:13
  You know what each team does every week, the game points,
• 44:16
  lose points. You know, right now it's at six
• 44:19
  point gap. Arsenal have a goal differential
• 44:22
  over City of five. The goal differential
• 44:25
  essentially becomes a tiebreaker, which is almost like
• 44:27
  an extra point. It's actually sort of important
• 44:29
  that goal differential. So in some ways them pulling
• 44:31
  that goal back at the end of the city game, you can see we're
• 44:33
  going to win the game no matter what.
• 44:34
  The chaos at the end there where you said essentially it's a
• 44:37
  breakaway, Soba Sly pulls Holland, and then Holland pulls
• 44:41
  Soba Sly, and then the ball rolls in the goal.
• 44:43
  I mean, and then they go back and they say, all right, well,
• 44:46
  we're going to call the foul on Soba Sly and give him a free
• 44:50
  kick. Why couldn't they just give him
• 44:52
  the goal? I think they're saying because
• 44:54
  there was that foul and then there was another foul, so it's
• 44:57
  not like you can just play advantage.
• 44:59
  You have to say, OK, you know, we have to call the first foul
• 45:02
  or you have to call the second foul.
• 45:04
  You know, it's not as if there wasn't that second foul.
• 45:06
  So you just said we played advantage and the ball rolled in
• 45:08
  the goal and you give them the goal.
• 45:09
  But it's like these little fine margins.
• 45:12
  I mean, who knows, it may make no difference at all in the end
• 45:14
  city. We're always going to get the
• 45:15
  win in this. But again, goal differential,
• 45:18
  Luca becomes an important thing because of the fact that if you
• 45:20
  tie with the same amount of points at the end of the year,
• 45:23
  the goal differential decides it.
• 45:25
  So that becomes like an extra point in all this.
• 45:27
  So Arsenal have done well the past couple weeks, you know, 4
• 45:30
  nothing win, 3 nothing win. So it's like we've gotten a + 7
• 45:33
  for our goal differential where City, yeah, plus one because
• 45:36
  City, we're ahead of us on goal differential.
• 45:38
  So just a little thing to keep an eye on.
• 45:40
  But like I said, 13 games to go, it's going to be tight.
• 45:44
  Like I said, lots of sort of tricky games for each team
• 45:47
  coming in. And of course, like I said, what
• 45:48
  what do we look at our Arsenal play at City?
• 45:51
  Is it in April? You said it was like the end of
• 45:56
  March or something. Yeah, Let me see.
• 45:58
  I'm just curious about that one because that's a big one for the
• 46:02
  like I said, we've got to go. You know that we unfortunately
• 46:05
  tied them at home at home. So now we're like I said, so
• 46:10
  April 18th is the Arsenal City game.
• 46:13
  I, I kind of feel like we'll have to see what happens, what
• 46:16
  things look like in April, but I can be.
• 46:17
  An early birthday present if we win.
• 46:19
  Yeah, your birthday's on the 29th, so.
• 46:21
  And we've played Newcastle before my birthday in like the
• 46:25
  26th or something. Yeah, so a couple big games
• 46:27
  there. Yeah.
• 46:28
  All right, look. Well that that wraps up week 25.
• 46:31
  Like I said, interesting week. So Luca, I want to know your
• 46:36
  player of the week, your team of the week and your goal of the
• 46:39
  week. My player of the week is going
• 46:41
  to meet with Tara. Okay, goal and assist.
• 46:44
  For and then honorable mention for Palmer, because he did have
• 46:47
  a hat trick in the first half. Okay.
• 46:50
  And then so team of week is going to be Brentford.
• 46:55
  OK, it's a good call. 32 winners.
• 46:57
  At Newcastle. Yeah, and goal of the week is
• 47:00
  Gobby, so go size free kick. If you haven't seen it, you got
• 47:02
  it. Yeah, that one's worth looking
• 47:04
  up. My gosh, he's so good at free
• 47:06
  kicks and just striking the ball in general.
• 47:08
  Like, I mean, he's one of those guys that every time he goes to
• 47:11
  shoot, you're like, Oh, my gosh, like something spectacular could
• 47:14
  happen here. So, yeah, it's a shame.
• 47:16
  It didn't really help his team at all.
• 47:18
  But still has, yes, an amazing free kick.
• 47:20
  So. All right, Yeah, Luke, I like
• 47:22
  all those calls. I've got no problems with those.
• 47:25
  All right, well, look, I said midweek games here.
• 47:27
  So very quick turn around for teams.
• 47:29
  We're going to look at Week 26. Hard to believe Week 26 coming
• 47:33
  up here. So games are all going to be on
• 47:35
  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. First game up.
• 47:38
  Luca, we have Chelsea hosting leads.
• 47:41
  What do you like in this one? I think it's going to be two,
• 47:44
  one Chelsea. 21 Chelsea All right, so Chelsea get the job
• 47:48
  done at home, Tottenham hosting Newcastle.
• 47:52
  Newcastle win 21. Newcastle win 21.
• 47:56
  All right, two very, very disappointing teams here.
• 48:00
  Everton hosting, Sorry, Everton hosting Bournemouth.
• 48:09
  I'll go 11. 11 OK Bournemouth been playing better lately but
• 48:17
  everything's a pretty tough team, especially at home.
• 48:19
  West Ham hosting Manchester United.
• 48:24
  It's going to be too early, United.
• 48:27
  Good vibes keep rolling it united here.
• 48:31
  City hosting full on Luca. I'm going to go 22. 22 Wow.
• 48:37
  All right, so form Luka. Last time it form city, city was
• 48:41
  54, so I think it's going to be kind of close.
• 48:44
  Yeah, it's one of the most bonkers game of the of the year
• 48:48
  so far. So.
• 48:49
  All right, so you're thinking another high kind of kind of
• 48:51
  high scoring 224 total goals. What about here with a
• 48:55
  relegation? We got a relegation battle game
• 48:58
  here, Nottingham Forest hosting Wolves.
• 49:01
  I think none of him force will win 21. 21 OK what about Crystal
• 49:06
  Crystal Palace hosting Burnley? 00. 00 No goals in this one
• 49:16
  Aston Villa hosting Brighton. Villa win 2 nil.
• 49:24
  OK, Sunderland host in Liverpool.
• 49:29
  Liverpool win 1 Nothing. One nothing.
• 49:32
  OK, so Sunderland, Luca, famously the last team to not
• 49:36
  lose at home, Liverpool are going to get them at home, huh?
• 49:39
  Wait, did you write that down yet?
• 49:41
  No. OK, I want to change.
• 49:42
  I want to. Change your mind.
• 49:43
  I'm just making a. Point No, I, I, I forgot it was
• 49:46
  at home and that's not going to be easy.
• 49:49
  So I think it's going to be 11. All right, so draw at home.
• 49:53
  So they'll still be undefeated at home.
• 49:55
  Yes. All right, Luke, and the last
• 49:58
  game on Thursday again kind of shaping up to be maybe the best
• 50:01
  game on this list here, Brentford host Arsenal.
• 50:04
  Luke, what? Tell me, give me your score line
• 50:07
  and just tell me your overall thoughts on this one.
• 50:09
  I think it's going to be two, one Arsenal and because I think
• 50:14
  again on paper Arsenal just have a better team and we are away.
• 50:21
  But we have been pretty good away.
• 50:22
  The season are like our only weight loss was at at our only
• 50:31
  weight losses were at Villa and at Liverpool.
• 50:35
  So I think we could go to it's not, it's not that far away from
• 50:39
  the Emirates too. They're both in London.
• 50:41
  So we don't have to travel that far and I think that we will be
• 50:46
  able to get out with a win. OK.
• 50:51
  All right. So even though, you know, like I
• 50:52
  said, Brentford, obviously, like I said right now, in very good
• 50:55
  form, really played well all year.
• 50:57
  But I've been like, in really good form lately here.
• 51:00
  But you think, like I said, desire's a little bit too
• 51:02
  strong. Yeah, Yeah.
• 51:04
  I mean, things to keep an eye on for this one.
• 51:05
  Luca Trosard went off injured in the last game.
• 51:08
  Did what was. We don't know.
• 51:11
  And then you've got, of course, it looks like Saka will probably
• 51:14
  miss Odegard. It doesn't sound like Odegard's
• 51:17
  injury's serious. We don't really know what it is,
• 51:20
  but he's not even been able to make the bench.
• 51:22
  He's made. He's made of the glue sticks,
• 51:26
  the power of friendship and some paper sticks, so.
• 51:32
  That doesn't sound like a real positive endorsement you're
• 51:34
  giving him. Because he's like made of paper
• 51:37
  or something. He's so he just gets injured all
• 51:40
  the time. He's not physical at all.
• 51:43
  He's like made paper clips or something.
• 51:45
  Well, I, I, I think, look, I don't think he'd end up starting
• 51:49
  this game. I think probably Haverts gets to
• 51:51
  start at #10 again. Yes, yes.
• 51:54
  Maybe as a because it's again a very.
• 51:56
  Quick Haverts starts already as a.
• 51:58
  Question who, who would you start at?
• 52:00
  Who would you start at striker for Arsenal?
• 52:01
  So obviously we just talked about Kyokaras kind of getting a
• 52:04
  couple goals, but Jay Zeus started this week.
• 52:06
  So if you had to start, you know essentially your choices are
• 52:10
  Jay, Zeus, Kyokaras, possibly have, who are you starting at
• 52:14
  striker for Arsenal in this game?
• 52:16
  I think I'm going yo, Chris. Okay, so you gotta go back to yo
• 52:19
  Chris. He started most of the year and
• 52:21
  he seems to be kind of in good form right now.
• 52:25
  I mean, I'm a little leery to say that cuz it's like, you
• 52:28
  know, I think the thing to look up with him is like a lot of his
• 52:30
  goals are not like beautiful goals.
• 52:31
  They're just sort of like they're ugly goals, but they all
• 52:34
  count the same. Yeah.
• 52:35
  You know, like, I, I, I don't think particularly he cares, but
• 52:37
  I guess everybody wants to see people score these beautiful
• 52:39
  goals, right? Yeah, I mean.
• 52:41
  But to me, I'm like, if you get the ball in, you get the ball.
• 52:42
  In exactly, they all count the same amount.
• 52:45
  Yeah. So, you know, like I said,
• 52:48
  that'll be an interesting one. But all right, Luke.
• 52:50
  Well, that's let's move along here to I don't really think
• 52:55
  there's any real big soccer news to touch on one.
• 52:58
  So let's go to the viewer mailbag question.
• 53:00
  Luca, the mailbag question comes from me to you, and I'm curious
• 53:05
  that you're you're a player. Of course, you watch a lot of
• 53:08
  soccer and you play a lot of soccer, and I'm curious what you
• 53:11
  think is the hardest part of attacking and defending.
• 53:15
  So the you know, I want you to think about you playing what you
• 53:18
  see. And in your opinion, if you were
• 53:21
  to say like, what is the hardest part about attacking when you're
• 53:24
  like, you know, playing and watching?
• 53:26
  I think the hardest part about attacking is knowing what to do
• 53:32
  before you get the ball, what knowing where to pass it, if
• 53:36
  you're going to shoot it. Also, it's kind of hard to like,
• 53:39
  you know, get by all these defenders.
• 53:42
  But mainly I think it's the hardest part is knowing what
• 53:46
  you're going to do before the ball gets to you and reacting in
• 53:52
  the split second if you haven't made-up your mind yet.
• 53:55
  OK, so so you like almost like the off ball work?
• 53:57
  You. Know, so when you don't have the
• 54:00
  ball, you know, you're thinking what you're going to do with it.
• 54:03
  You know, do you, are you thinking too like positioning
• 54:05
  with this, like where you need to be, where you need to move
• 54:08
  to? Or is it more just like, if the
• 54:10
  ball comes to me, what am I going to do next?
• 54:12
  I think it's if the ball comes to me, what am I going to do
• 54:15
  next? OK, All right, So that's one of
• 54:16
  the trickiest parts is the kind of.
• 54:18
  All right, well, let me also, you know Luca, you play
• 54:20
  midfield, which of course midfielders have to attack and
• 54:23
  defend, yes. So in your opinion, what is the
• 54:26
  hardest part of defending in the inside?
• 54:29
  I think the hardest part about defending is one-on-one
• 54:31
  defending. I think it's hard to stay with
• 54:35
  the ball not and not look at what players doing what the
• 54:39
  balls doing and personally I'm not very good at defending, so I
• 54:44
  sometimes have trouble with one-on-one defending.
• 54:47
  OK, so a lot of times they teach you, Luca, when you are
• 54:50
  defending, right is to just when you're defending, watch the
• 54:53
  ball, don't watch people's bodies, don't watch their feet
• 54:56
  because guys are constantly doing little faints.
• 54:59
  Like. Stepovers or things like that.
• 55:01
  So if you follow the foot, what they're trying to get you to do
• 55:03
  is lean and move. If you do that and then that
• 55:06
  creates the space for them to get around you or pass or shoot
• 55:09
  around you. So the idea is right.
• 55:11
  You just if you just focus on the ball.
• 55:13
  So if they roll the ball to the left and you go to the left,
• 55:15
  you're following the ball and that's what you need to do as
• 55:18
  opposed to watching their feet. But it's it's hard to do that in
• 55:20
  the moment, Right. Yeah.
• 55:22
  OK, Well, good, Luca. So let's move over to our did
• 55:25
  you know? All right, Luca, we are almost
• 55:27
  to the end. I think we have three more teams
• 55:30
  to do. But we've been going through, of
• 55:31
  course, every team right now in the Premier League and trying to
• 55:34
  learn a little bit more about those clubs and we're up to
• 55:37
  Nottingham Forest. So their nicknames are Forest,
• 55:41
  the Tricky Trees, the Reds, the Garibaldi.
• 55:44
  'S they have a lot of nicknames. They have a bunch of nicknames I
• 55:47
  hear feel like I hear most people just call them Forest.
• 55:49
  Yeah, usually I hear people say the tricky trees, probably
• 55:51
  because it's just fun to say. Yeah.
• 55:53
  But yeah, so you know that there, like I said, and some
• 55:58
  people say Luca, they are the oldest football club in the
• 56:01
  world. They are.
• 56:02
  So you can go back to 1865. OK, yeah, I mean, it's crazy.
• 56:08
  1865 there is, like I said, a club formed in Nottingham that
• 56:13
  it's sort of, if you follow along, they became Nottingham
• 56:16
  Forest. So like there's a lot of people
• 56:18
  say they are the oldest football club in the world, which is
• 56:20
  pretty amazing. They joined the Football League
• 56:23
  in 1892 and like a lot of teams we've talked about, you know,
• 56:27
  they've had some success. They've had some not so good
• 56:30
  times. So they've been up and down, you
• 56:32
  know, relegated, promoted, relegated, promoted.
• 56:34
  They're probably glory years. Luca came in in like kind of the
• 56:37
  70s. They had a very famous manager
• 56:39
  named Brian Clough. I think I'm saying that right
• 56:42
  Clough, he got him in in 76 and 77.
• 56:47
  He got him promoted back to the First Division.
• 56:50
  They then won the league title in 7778.
• 56:54
  They went back-to-back European Cups, which is essentially the
• 56:58
  Champions League. They did that in 78 and 79 and
• 57:01
  79 and 80. So Nottingham Forest essentially
• 57:04
  have like 2 Champions League. So it's like hugely impressive.
• 57:06
  He won four League Cups and you know, he was there, Luca, from
• 57:11
  1975 to 1993, so one of those famous managers there, they had
• 57:17
  a statue outside the City Ground for him.
• 57:20
  So like I said, that was their sort of bulk of their success
• 57:22
  for that club. So they have, like I said, the
• 57:24
  one League title. They want 2 FA Cups, 4 League
• 57:28
  Cups and then the two European Cups, which is now the Champions
• 57:31
  League and they have a UEFA Super Cup as well.
• 57:35
  They play at the City Ground that Luca holds about 31,042
• 57:41
  people. There's some plans to increase
• 57:43
  that by 23rd, 2031 to 45,000 that that stadium has been
• 57:48
  around since 1898. So very, very old stadium.
• 57:53
  Their current manager is Sean Deitch who came in mid season
• 57:57
  because they fire their other manager.
• 57:59
  They're owned by a guy named Luca Evangelos Marinakis who
• 58:02
  bought the club in 2017. He also owns Olympiakos and I
• 58:08
  don't know if it's Rio Ave. in the Portuguese league.
• 58:11
  It looks like Rio Ave. but I don't think it's maybe Rio Ave.
• 58:16
  in the Portuguese league. So we've seen a lot of these
• 58:18
  owners own like a couple different clubs.
• 58:20
  It's not uncommon for them to do that.
• 58:22
  Their biggest rivals, Luca is Darby Count.
• 58:25
  They call it the East Midlands, Darby, Darby County, who I think
• 58:29
  are either in League One or Championship.
• 58:31
  Championship, maybe? I think either Championship or
• 58:35
  League One. Yeah, obviously not in the
• 58:37
  Premier. League so.
• 58:38
  A little bit of a rivalry with Leicester City and Knotts County
• 58:41
  as well some of their club legends.
• 58:44
  Luca John Robertson played from 70 to 83.
• 58:47
  Stuart Pierce was a really good left back in the 80s and 90s
• 58:51
  Peter Shelton, real famous goalie, played there for five
• 58:54
  years in the 70s and early 80s Trevor Francis.
• 58:58
  Des Walker. Greenville Morris.
• 59:02
  Bob McKinley is their appearance leader and Greenville Morris is
• 59:05
  our goal leader. 217 goals in all competitions.
• 59:09
  I think the only statue outside the City Ground is that manager
• 59:12
  Brian Kloe. I not a single club legend from
• 59:16
  I Am Forest I've ever heard of. Well, yeah, I've heard of any of
• 59:19
  those. Well, that's the thing.
• 59:20
  I mean, their success, Luca was essentially even when I was born
• 59:23
  back in the 70s. So it's like, so you heard of
• 59:25
  any of these guys? I've heard of Des Walker, Trevor
• 59:29
  Francis, Peter Shelton I ever heard of.
• 59:32
  I think Peter Shelton played for the Nationals like he was that
• 59:34
  good. For England, yeah.
• 59:36
  Oh yeah. Now, look, they've had a lot of
• 59:38
  other Premier League players come through there.
• 59:41
  So Brendan Johnson, who just got recently sold to Crystal Palace,
• 59:45
  Musa, Ian Cattate, Maddie Cashluka, Danilo Miguel Antonio
• 59:52
  Matt Turner, American goalie Jamal Lasalle's Roy Keene played
• 59:57
  four years there. Alf Ingay Holland, famously now
• 1:00:02
  known as just Holland's dad. He played there for four years.
• 1:00:07
  James Garner, Chris Wood. So they've had some like, decent
• 1:00:10
  players lately, like come through there, you know, and
• 1:00:12
  then, you know, so then they spent some money on some
• 1:00:15
  players. So they're most expensive by
• 1:00:19
  Luca, the most expensive player they ever bought.
• 1:00:22
  Was Omari Hutchinson from Ipswich for $51 million?
• 1:00:26
  51 million, yeah, that's a lot. Now they all like in Doyer from
• 1:00:30
  Bologna and Elliot Anderson from Newcastle are very close.
• 1:00:34
  They're like right around like 50 million too.
• 1:00:36
  So those are the most expensive buys, their most expensive sale
• 1:00:40
  to Newcastle. Oh, Olanga.
• 1:00:42
  Olanga they sold this summer for $73 million.
• 1:00:45
  That's a lot. That's a lot of money for for
• 1:00:47
  Olanga. So yeah, look at their their
• 1:00:50
  highest Premier League finish ever was third in 9495 season
• 1:00:55
  and they've essentially been promoted since the 2223 season
• 1:00:58
  so far. It's in a bit of a relegation
• 1:01:00
  battle this year, but they've been like I said, what I guess.
• 1:01:03
  So that makes it the last three years that they've been there.
• 1:01:06
  So we'll see how they do. But like I said, kind of a
• 1:01:09
  famously old club there a lot of success, like very early on.
• 1:01:12
  In the. 70s but yeah, they got some decent trophies in their
• 1:01:15
  trophy cabinet. So all right Luca, well let's
• 1:01:19
  just give our quick plug to our Instagram page Premier League
• 1:01:24
  Playground. You can come follow we post
• 1:01:26
  before every new episode drops so you can follow kind of some
• 1:01:31
  news and about new episodes about the Premier League
• 1:01:34
  Playground on Instagram. We have an e-mail if anybody
• 1:01:36
  wants to e-mail a viewer mailbag question or ask us anything or
• 1:01:40
  have us plug anything premierleagueplayground@gmail.com
• 1:01:45
  We've got a YouTube page Premier League Playground.
• 1:01:48
  We're working on maybe getting some things posted there.
• 1:01:52
  So yeah, like I said, come follow us on any of the social
• 1:01:54
  media there. But Luca, of course, we end
• 1:01:57
  every show with our penalty kick trivia shootout with.
• 1:02:00
  My favorite part of every episode.
• 1:02:01
  Yeah, asking each other some soccer trivia questions.
• 1:02:05
  And of course, if you get it right, it's like scoring a goal.
• 1:02:07
  If you get it wrong, it's a miss.
• 1:02:09
  So I always ask you, Luca, do you want to go first or second
• 1:02:11
  with your trivia? Question I want to answer first
• 1:02:14
  do. You want to answer first?
• 1:02:16
  OK, Luca, my first question to you, I'm trying to like mix in
• 1:02:19
  an Arsenal trivia question to all our ones here.
• 1:02:22
  So I'm. Going to get it right.
• 1:02:23
  Who holds the record for most Premier League and overall clean
• 1:02:28
  seats for Arsenal? So what goal has the Premier
• 1:02:32
  League record for most clean sheets?
• 1:02:37
  For, I think it's Seaman. It is David Seaman.
• 1:02:41
  Listen. Very good.
• 1:02:42
  Yeah, he famous great Arsenal goalie I.
• 1:02:45
  Was between Czech and Seaman, but Czech played mostly for
• 1:02:50
  Chelsea and he wasn't crazy when he came for came to Arsenal.
• 1:02:54
  He's all right, but he wasn't. Yeah, Chip holds a lot of the
• 1:02:57
  Premier League records overall because, yeah, he played at
• 1:03:00
  Chelsea when they had those amazing defense.
• 1:03:01
  Yeah. And he was a great, great goalie
• 1:03:03
  to be a David Seaman. Luca played from 1990 to 2003,
• 1:03:06
  so 13 years at Arsenal. Yeah, really, really great,
• 1:03:09
  great goalie. And like I said, he holds the
• 1:03:11
  record for us. All right, the FIFA World Cup
• 1:03:15
  trophy. This the the pipe, the picks,
• 1:03:18
  the picks. Yeah, two individuals holding up
• 1:03:21
  What? I have choices if you can't
• 1:03:23
  figure it out. I think I may know.
• 1:03:25
  Let me think. I want to take a yell, let
• 1:03:27
  everybody else think about it for a second, but I believe
• 1:03:29
  they're holding up the world. Yes, there's, yeah.
• 1:03:32
  The Earth. OK, Yeah.
• 1:03:33
  Yeah, 11. All right, 11.
• 1:03:36
  All right, Look, my question to you is what is the name of the
• 1:03:38
  stadium West Ham United play in? Oh, do they still play at the
• 1:03:47
  Olympic Stadium? So.
• 1:03:50
  But that's hard. That's hard.
• 1:03:52
  You're you're partly right. So it was a stadium built for
• 1:03:56
  the Olympics in 2012, so. OK, you want me to name that
• 1:04:00
  one? But what is the name of the
• 1:04:01
  stadium? It is not called Olympic
• 1:04:03
  Stadium. No, I meant like.
• 1:04:07
  It is the stadium that was built for the Olympics, but it it has
• 1:04:10
  a name. But yes, it was built for the
• 1:04:12
  Olympics and they moved into it. It got like retrofitted kind of
• 1:04:15
  after the Olympics were done and then West Ham kind of taking it
• 1:04:18
  over as their stadium. So if you go play West Ham,
• 1:04:24
  you're going to go to what stadium?
• 1:04:27
  With. Him Wow, I didn't think I could
• 1:04:30
  stump you with a Stadium 1. I feel like you almost knew all
• 1:04:33
  the stadiums. I mean with him, just a well, I
• 1:04:35
  know. I'm not going to give you like
• 1:04:38
  Manchester United or. Something.
• 1:04:39
  Yeah, it's. Somewhat hard here.
• 1:04:46
  I don't know. London Stadium, jeez as generic,
• 1:04:50
  is just the city that it's in. Yeah, only.
• 1:04:52
  London Stadium, Yeah, no great advertising name on it, just
• 1:04:57
  London I. Forget that.
• 1:04:59
  Jeez. Yeah, big same.
• 1:05:00
  It holds about 62,500 people, so pretty good stadium there for
• 1:05:04
  them. So all right, that's a myth.
• 1:05:06
  All right, here's my chance. Which country appeared in the
• 1:05:09
  most World Cups without ever winning it?
• 1:05:12
  That's an interesting one. So I know we had a question
• 1:05:17
  before about which countries have won the World Cup.
• 1:05:23
  Still feel like I want to go with a European one.
• 1:05:27
  Let me think. So let's go through like who
• 1:05:30
  made my good choices that have not won Portugal and.
• 1:05:35
  I have choices if you need. Give me choices on this.
• 1:05:38
  One so Mexico, Sweden, Japan or Belgium.
• 1:05:43
  I'm gonna go in Mexico. My gosh, how did you get that
• 1:05:46
  right? I.
• 1:05:47
  Switched it up. I was thinking Europe and then
• 1:05:48
  when you said Mexico, my gosh, I think Mexico has been.
• 1:05:51
  My gosh. So you're gonna go with Belgium
• 1:05:54
  or something? Yeah, I would have been my
• 1:05:57
  second film. Woo, you.
• 1:05:59
  Just you. You're all over Europe.
• 1:06:01
  And then I gave you the choices. Why did I give you?
• 1:06:03
  The well, the other thing too is if you look at it, it's always,
• 1:06:06
  it's so hard to qualify from Europe where like it's always
• 1:06:09
  been so easy to qualify from. But Belgium have qualified a
• 1:06:12
  lot. I thought that's why they.
• 1:06:13
  Have, but I'd have to look. I don't know the answer to this.
• 1:06:16
  I wonder how much did they qualify back in like the
• 1:06:18
  Thirties, 40s and 50s? Lately they've been very good
• 1:06:21
  and they qualify all the time. Oh my gosh, Mexico.
• 1:06:23
  It's so easy and Mexico's been good forever, but it's so easy
• 1:06:26
  to qualify from from North America, so.
• 1:06:29
  Two on you. Jeez.
• 1:06:31
  All right, Luca, who is Fulham's current manager?
• 1:06:36
  Marco Silva. Marco Silva That is correct,
• 1:06:39
  Luca. Andrew would know that right off
• 1:06:41
  the bat, too. Oh, I know, our friend of the
• 1:06:43
  pod and big Fulham fan Andrew definitely knows that.
• 1:06:45
  Yeah, Portuguese manager. He's been there since 2021.
• 1:06:48
  All right, I got that right 22. If you get this wrong, then
• 1:06:51
  we're tied still all. Right, my third question is
• 1:06:53
  what? How many World Cup titles and
• 1:06:56
  does Uruguay have? I think I know the answer to
• 1:06:59
  this one. I'm going to let everybody else
• 1:07:01
  get their answers in and I'm going to go with two.
• 1:07:03
  Yes, yeah, Dang it. I know, I I think I remember.
• 1:07:06
  The Uruguay a long. Time, but they won like because
• 1:07:08
  they hosted the first World Cup, they won the 1st 2:00.
• 1:07:12
  I don't think so. They're early, early.
• 1:07:14
  On I don't think they won back-to-back.
• 1:07:17
  All right, Luca, who is Chelsea's captain?
• 1:07:21
  Rhys James, But sometimes it's Enzo Fernandez.
• 1:07:25
  That is true. That is true.
• 1:07:26
  But I was going with if healthy, you know, like most teams have a
• 1:07:29
  guy if healthy. But you're right, like if you
• 1:07:31
  look, sometimes teams obviously have to sort of deputize him
• 1:07:34
  because the captain has to be in the starting line.
• 1:07:37
  So the guy's hurt or benched or not starting, and then they put
• 1:07:41
  the captain's armband on somebody else because typically
• 1:07:42
  Chelsea's captain is Reese James.
• 1:07:44
  So that is correct. All right, so now it's 33.
• 1:07:48
  Come on, you need to get one wrong for me to get back in
• 1:07:50
  this. Which country is Pavel Nedved
• 1:07:53
  from? Hold on, hold on.
• 1:07:58
  Let me think for a second, Nedved.
• 1:08:01
  I think I know and I'm going to go with Sweden.
• 1:08:05
  Oh, check with some Czech Republic.
• 1:08:09
  Oh boy, I'm back in it. I'm back in it.
• 1:08:13
  All right, here's a good one, Luke, because I have to update
• 1:08:16
  this one because of what happened this week.
• 1:08:17
  Oh, so five players have had hat tricks in the Premier League
• 1:08:22
  this season. Can you at least name, let's say
• 1:08:26
  four of the five players that have a hat trick so far this
• 1:08:30
  season? And like I said, I had to update
• 1:08:33
  it this. Well, obviously, Palmer.
• 1:08:35
  All right, there you go. Cole Palmer was the I had, I had
• 1:08:37
  my question was 4, but Palmer just was the 5th.
• 1:08:40
  OK, so Palmer's won. OK all.
• 1:08:42
  Right, so four more players have had hat tricks this year, one of
• 1:08:48
  them Luca. Holland.
• 1:08:50
  No, Holland has not had a hat trick.
• 1:08:52
  Because I know it's surprising that's what all these will be.
• 1:08:54
  Has not had a hat. Trick as Ekatiki.
• 1:08:57
  No Ekatiki. What is?
• 1:08:58
  Not what? Simeno No 26.
• 1:09:04
  Take a second and think there's one that you absolutely should
• 1:09:06
  be getting right off the bat, Luca.
• 1:09:09
  Tro, Sir, no Rice. No north London Derby, Luca.
• 1:09:14
  North, What about it? The first north London Derby.
• 1:09:19
  Oh essay essay. Essay against Spurs in November.
• 1:09:21
  So, OK. And then Rogers has not.
• 1:09:28
  How about how about the guy in second place in out goals in the
• 1:09:31
  Premier League? Oh, Igor Tiago.
• 1:09:34
  That's three. I think Everton in January 2.
• 1:09:39
  More has Dewsbury Hall. No.
• 1:09:43
  OK, no, Cherokee has not kind of think who.
• 1:09:50
  This is hard if you don't just sort of know where we're you.
• 1:09:53
  I Yeah. You usually don't make Calvert
• 1:09:55
  moon. No, you're usually so good at
• 1:09:58
  remembering games you like like find like remember like things
• 1:10:01
  that happen in. Games, but not Fernandez.
• 1:10:03
  I know that it's so I don't think.
• 1:10:05
  One of them is a pure striker on a like low table team and the
• 1:10:09
  other is AI guess like winger striker on A real up and coming
• 1:10:16
  team that Arsenal's going to play on Thursday.
• 1:10:20
  So is it Sade? Sade did it in December.
• 1:10:24
  OK, so there's Shraker on a low tier.
• 1:10:28
  Oh, Welbeck. No good guess though.
• 1:10:32
  That was a knee injury now. Oh, but he finished the game.
• 1:10:39
  No, he's he's out with a knee injury.
• 1:10:40
  I don't know what he what are you saying?
• 1:10:42
  He finished the game? I don't know what that.
• 1:10:44
  Means well, but played Brighton versus Crystal Palace.
• 1:10:46
  Yeah, yeah. No, no, the hint I'm giving you
• 1:10:48
  for this last play. Oh, Oh yeah, out with a mean.
• 1:10:54
  Yeah, Mateta, I'm gonna say yeah.
• 1:10:56
  They did. It against Bournemouth in
• 1:10:58
  October. You had a hat trick.
• 1:10:59
  Yeah. So Igor Tiago, Kevin Shade,
• 1:11:01
  Everiche as a Mateta and then Palmer did it this week.
• 1:11:06
  So we've had five Patricks in the Premier League this year.
• 1:11:08
  So I got 4 out of five. So not bad.
• 1:11:11
  My last one for you is which country is Jan Ablak from?
• 1:11:16
  Oh, he Jan Ablak. Is he Slovenian?
• 1:11:21
  Yes, OK. That's correct.
• 1:11:23
  All right. Guess we'll call it a tie.
• 1:11:25
  We'll call it a tie. We'll call it a tie.
• 1:11:26
  I got nothing else here. We're running a little long, so.
• 1:11:28
  All right, Look. Well, I got nothing else so.