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Week 2 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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All right, welcome into Premier League playground.
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I am the dad. Bjorn with me again as always as
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the lad. Luca Miller.
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There he is. And Luca, Oh my goodness, have
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you caught your breath from the Newcastle, Liverpool game?
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It just ended. I'm still kind of freaky now.
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It was such an annoying. Game.
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Well, Luca wasn't happy with the result.
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We'll get around to that. But another great week in the
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Premier League. Good game games.
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We've finished up Week 2 and we're here to recap Week 2, talk
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about the games and of course look ahead to Week 3 and we'll
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do our typical mailbag questions.
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And of course we'll always finish with our penalty kick
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shootout. But you ready to talk about some
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Premier League? Oh yeah.
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All right, well, let's dive into the first game of the week,
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which was last Friday. We had Chelsea 5, West Ham one.
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Take me through it. Luca, what'd you think of the
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game? Well this is one of the examples
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of the couple games this week. It's just basically a one side
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affair. West Ham did have the first the
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opener, but then Chelsea just plowed 5 on them.
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That was pretty pretty much all the highlights West Ham ads in
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that game. Yeah, so West Ham opened it up.
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Nice goal by Paki TA for West Ham getting it open.
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So yeah, West Ham actually went up in this game and then Chelsea
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just blitzed them. Five goals.
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They had five goals by the 58 minutes.
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Yeah, literally the last 30 minutes, it's on cruise control.
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West Ham, Luca They've given up eight goals in their first two
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games. I mean, there's a chance they
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could go down in my opinion. They've been awful to start.
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I, I think, I think the team is better than what they're
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showing. And do you worry for grandpa or
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Luca, the coach, the manager for West Ham?
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Are you worried for him? Yeah, he could be fired by week
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3 or 4 if things continue like this.
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Yeah, You know, when you look at the stats of the game, you know,
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Chelsea had seven shots on goal. They scored on five of them.
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Chelsea had 60% possession to 40%.
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Yeah, West Ham's defense, I, I mean, it just was awful.
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And this is comical defending that they've had for two games.
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So they've got to turn that around big time.
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Yes. Yeah, yeah.
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So we'll see. Like I said, moving on.
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I think West Ham, like you said, they're they're sitting at the
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bottom of the table awful. And we'll see if they can get
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that turned around. And like I said, Chelsea's going
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to be happy, man. They they rolled on a way win
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51. So they'll move into Week 3
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pretty thrilled. All right, well, let's move to
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then the next game early Saturday morning, Stunner of the
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week, Spurs to City zero. What do you think?
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Well this was definitely unexpected.
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I mean they both looked good but Tottenham probably had the
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easier game to start. I mean, but both teams looked
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pretty good to be honest. I didn't.
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I honestly thought as you know, my prediction was 4/2 City
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winning and it ended up being 2 little Tottenham.
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This was a shocker. Now you start to wonder, is
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Totten going to be a favorite for like Champions League this
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year? First two games we've played
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really good. I don't know what happened to
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City and that came on so. Well, we'd say it's a surprise.
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But here's the thing. Is it a surprise?
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We we talked last week that for some reason Spurs just play City
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really tough. Remember last year Spurs beat
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City for nothing at the Yeti Hat and Peppa has now lost eight of
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his last 15 to Spurs. There's something about that
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team that that just gives City fits and and Spurs are off to a
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great start. They are terrific on defense.
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You know, they've got decent goaltending but really good
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defenders. Thomas Frank, the manager has
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them set up well. So they are looking very good.
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Brendan Johnson with a goal, Palenia with a goal.
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But it's hard to not talk about City's goaltending in this game.
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So they've got a young 22 year old that they signed was with
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City. He's now back.
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Trafford What did you think of his performance?
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Well, he got some heat off of this.
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So one of the the Paulina goal, one of the things that led up to
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it was that OK, so Trafford had the ball, he looks and tries to
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pass it to what Gonzales? I I think it might have been
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Gonzalez. He's trying to play the ball,
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too. Well, he's he's trying to play
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to a city player and you can definitely see if you watch the
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replay that there's I taught in the player right on him.
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He's like right on him and I don't know what he was thinking.
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He passed it, the Tottenham player intercepts it and it
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leads to a goal and I honestly don't know what he was doing
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there. It was a terrible decision on
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his part. He should never be playing the
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ball. You know, when you have one of
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your teammates coming at you, they don't always know how close
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the defender is behind him. And the goalies looking at it,
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he can see he's got to know. You just don't give somebody the
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ball there, let alone played it to the right, to the wrong side
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of them. And, and yeah, they Tottenham
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pressed. Well, they turned it over.
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Pauline, you finished it. But that's not even the only
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controversial thing with Trafford in the game.
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Another play where a ball gets played over the top, Kudus is
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running in, Trafford comes out, he's just outside of the box and
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take me through. What happens there?
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Well, so the ball's played over top the kudos and Trafford comes
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out and he like knees a kudos in the stomach, which could be
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foul. But also if you look at the
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replay, it might be a handball. I think he like grazes his hand
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a little bit, which it could be unintentional, but in my opinion
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he should have maybe got the yellow for the handball and the
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foul which I think he should have had a red there.
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Yeah, I think he's lucky to stay on the field there because one I
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agree with you, He he he he fouls Kudis and he's using his
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his hand outside of the box, which.
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Last Man. Yeah, exactly.
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And if he doesn't use his hand there, Kudis could be in, you
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know, for a breakaway. So he's very lucky to, I think
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not. I mean, he got not even, I don't
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even think they called him for a foul, let alone a yellow.
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But I, I agree with you. There's an argument to be made
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for a possible red there, so you know it.
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It brings up what Luca Ederson has been their goalie for so
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long. He's still there.
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Now there's some talk that that he may leave and go to Turkey,
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but what what has happened? Why not?
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Why not Ederson in goal for this team?
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I mean, he's kind kind of a city legend after that Champions
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League performance in 2223. I mean, I think you're just
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looking for the Ederson replacement.
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Like, he's getting older, he's still good.
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I don't know why they're starting them.
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They need to give this young guy some time.
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They're just automatically putting them in.
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And I don't feel like he automatically should go in.
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I think they should give Ederson some playing time and give
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Trafford some time to settle in. And then he'll probably become
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City's new goalie eventually once Ederson leaves.
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Yeah, I it's strange to me that that I, I didn't think Ederson's
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level had dropped all that much. He's probably not the goalie he
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was a couple years ago, but I still think he's he's a great
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goalie. He makes smart decisions.
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He's obviously great with his feet, so it's interesting that
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he looks like he's on his way out.
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And it's interesting that after Trafford's performance, there's
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been a lot of links with Donna Ruma possibly coming to City.
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So we will keep our eye on that this week.
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But yeah, Donna Ruma we know is going to definitely leave PSG.
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Yes, yeah. And now there's some talk that
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that maybe need to go to City, so something to keep an eye on
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there. But you know, stats on this
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game, City, you know, they had 61% possession, but that's
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pretty normal for them. They almost always out possessed
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everybody but taught them at 12 shots to City's 10.
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Tottenham had five shots on goal to City's 4I.
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This this is 1 where Spurs definitely deserve this win and
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this isn't a total fluke. I, you know, so like I said,
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kudos to Spurs. I hate to say it, but Spurs have
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looked good and they deserve this win.
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So that's a nice win for them. All right, moving along Burnley
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to Sunderland. 0 goals by Josh Cullen in the 47th minute and
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Jaden Anthony in the 88th minute.
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What'd you think of this game, Luca?
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I think Burnley deserved the win on the second goal.
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Colin had the assist on the second goal, great pass, like
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perfectly placed and then Jaden Anthony took it past the goal
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in, hit it in. But I think they deserved the
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win. I'm rooting for Sunderland this
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year, hopefully they'd stay up. So I'm kind of sad about that,
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but I think deserved win for Burnley.
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Yeah, I think this is sort of the nature of these teams that
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come up, right? Sunderland looks great last
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week, but then they don't look so good this week.
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You know it, This is kind of what to expect up and down, you
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know? So, yeah, kudos to Burnley.
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Like I said, the two goals were were, you know, nice goals that
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they had. Sunderland actually out
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possessed them 57% to 43. Sunderland actually had nine
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shots to Burnley 7. But Burnley definitely had, you
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know, good chances, good goals deserve the win.
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So good for them. They get their, you know, their
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first win after being promoted. So all the promoted teams at
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this point now, like I said, have a win two weeks in.
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So yeah, we'll see how it plays out.
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I still think it's going to be a tough Rd. for all these promoted
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teams to to stay up, but we will see.
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So all right, let's move on to the next game.
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Brentford 1, Villa 0. New signing Watara with the
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goal. What would you think of this
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game taking me through it? This was definitely a shocker.
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I mean Villa are definitely the better team and Brentford are
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just falling apart here. Oh Tara could be a good signing
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though. He scored in this game but I I
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thought Villa was going to win this.
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Honestly, I had him three now that's what I have on my
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predictions. Well, yeah, Villa is probably
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one of the more disappointing teams through two weeks.
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I mean, we're not going to make any big statements two weeks in,
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but I expected a little bit more from them.
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They tied last week with Newcastle and losing to
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Brentford. That's got to be disappointing
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for them. I mean, Brentford even haven't
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had an overturned goal. Damsgard scored a goal that got
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Oh yeah, 43rd minute. But you know, Villa 76%
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possession in this game. They had seventeen shots to
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Brentford's 9. I mean, they just, you know,
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couldn't get the ball, put it in the net.
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And Brentford, I give them credit.
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You know they they sold some of their big players, right?
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So last year selling Ivan Tony this year and Blaimo, but
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they're Ivan. Tony was still on their team.
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Wasn't he last year? I mean, I don't see him play at
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all, but. No, no, he they sold him.
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So they sold him to Saudi Arabia.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but they've taken the money
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and they've gone out to me. What?
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Tara is going to be a nice signing.
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What do you think about him for that?
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I think he will be pretty good. I think it will be the best
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player on the team if we sell leaves, which there's rumors
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that he might, but yeah, I think that's a good sign.
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Yeah, and I like to see these clubs when they when they sell
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big players and they bring in the money, like reinvesting the
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money into the club. You know, let's add some guys,
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some teams, it feels like they sell off guys, they bring in
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money, but then they never buy any guys that reinforce the
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team. So, yeah, so, you know, good win
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for Brentford. Like let's move on to the next
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game here. We've got Bournemouth one,
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Wolves 0. Take me through this one.
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What did you think of this game? Wasn't much to talk about this
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game, just the one goal. Nice goal, Simenyo hit the
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crossbar, almost scored, but nice goal from Tavernier.
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Just not much to talk about here.
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Yeah, I mean, one thing. What do you think?
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So that we we had a red card in this game.
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Oh yeah. So Tati Gomez in the 49th minute
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with the red card, what do you think of the call there?
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I think that was probably the good call.
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Yes. OK.
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So you're OK with the red? Yeah.
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OK, yeah, I, I think it was a red.
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You know, when you look back on it, you know, I, I don't think
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there's much debate about that one.
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Yeah, like I said, Semenya hits the crossbar late.
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You know, Wolf, Bournemouth, you know, they're, they're going to
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take a win here. Wolves, they're struggling.
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They're like West Ham. They're not off to a great start
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here. They're two teams that I could
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see going down this year. They're in trouble.
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I'm worried about Wolves probably a little more than West
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Ham. I feel like West Ham has better
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talent. Yeah, better talent.
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So that I, I, I'm fancy them to turn it around more than Wolves
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in this game. You know, Bournemouth has 59%
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possession to 41% for Wolves. Shots 14 to 6 for Bournemouth.
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So Bournemouth probably could have won this game 2-3.
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Nothing. Wolves have not shown us very
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much and all of a goal through two games.
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Yeah, so that's obviously not ideal.
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All right, well, let's keep moving on.
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All right, here we go. We're going to talk about our
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team. Arsenal.
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Lot to unpack here. Arsenal 5 leads 0.
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All right, look at this. These are our boys here.
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What do you think? Gunners, Yeah, What did?
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We think. Yeah, 1 sided affair.
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I mean, we cooked Yeah 5 nothing destroyed them.
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Yeah, Yoker eyes with two goals. Hope to see him start playing
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better. He did some hair flips for his
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celebration. Kind of like haverts is like
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shot back to the fans when he did like that.
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I don't know what the hands, I don't.
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Like the hands on the side of the face kind of nanny nan a Boo
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Boo or something. Yeah, I don't really know what
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to call it, but it's just a shot back to the fans that, hey, I'm
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going to start doing better. And I, I think we played really
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well, great at the Emirates to get 5, nothing win.
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But the sad things that that happened in this game that
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Odegard and soccer both had to come off due to injury.
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Soccer apparently has a hamstring injury, might be out
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for a couple weeks. Odegard is questionable for the
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Liverpool game. I'm not really sure.
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Yeah, so this game, you know, goals by Timber, Saka gets a
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goal, Geocharis, Timber again and then Geocharis again.
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So we have a brace for Timber and a brace for Geocharis.
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Saka had a real nice right footed finish.
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I mean, this was just they dominated the game.
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Yeah, 68% possession to 32 percent, 18 shots to three.
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I mean, not much to say. Leeds, this is always going to
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be tough for Leeds on the road against against Arsenal.
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But yeah, I mean, this is what you wanted to see from Arsenal
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last week. People talked about they
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struggled, but again, I I kind of made the point that they were
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going to Old Trafford. I thought United played well in
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that game. But this is what you wanted to
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see, Arsenal coming home against a newly promoted team and they
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thumped them. And that's kind of what you want
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to see. And you know, all sorts of
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storylines throughout this. You have them introducing Eze
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before the game, the new signing, the story.
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Of course, everybody, maybe not everybody knows Eze was at
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Arsenal when he was young, got cut when he was 12 or 13 years
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old. And now he's back, you know,
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something like 1314 years later. And he's been a Arsenal fan his
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whole life so that the scenes are cool, the fans cheering for
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him. He's you know, it's got to be a
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great feeling for. Him, I'm happy to have him on
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the team. Well, he's a phenomenal player.
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So yeah, I agree with you. It's a great story.
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But yeah, from a, from a, purely from a soccer standpoint, I
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think he's going. To like a 40 guard goes out or
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soccer, I think he can play a little bit on the wing but he
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prefers like central midfield. But like if one of our
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midfielders round, he would definitely be a good replacement
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or even start, who knows. Yeah, and and, you know, another
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storyline, Max Bauman, 15 years old, comes in in the game.
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So he's now the second youngest Premier League player ever.
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Who's first? Ethan Winery.
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Another Arsenal player. So I mean, this is just it's
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it's, it's absurd. I mean, he's 15 years old, but
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he looks, I mean, he looks like an exciting young player.
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And he and he even earned a penalty kick.
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So. Take me through that.
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What did you think? You know if you're the ref?
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Is it APK or no? There wasn't much contact, but
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so they're what they're saying is if there's contact in the box
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and you go down, it should be a pen.
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There was contact in the box, therefore I believe there should
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be a pen. Yeah, I agree with you.
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So when I initially saw this, I actually thought that maybe it
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wasn't. But when I watched it back,
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there's sort of he gets his foot sort of stepped on, he makes the
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cut back in the box and he gets his foot sort of stepped on.
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And I think that caused him to lose his balance.
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And then he sort of puts his leg out and he kind of then hits the
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the defender again. But yeah, I agree with him.
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He gets his foot stepped on in the box.
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He's making a move towards goal. You know, you can say it's a
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little bit soft, but, I mean, it's contact in the box.
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Yeah. You know, Anyway, I'm thrilled
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for him. It's got to be exciting.
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He earned APK. Geocharis finishes it.
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And what Luca's referring to is, is Geocharis in the first game,
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everybody said that he had more hair flips and touches on the
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ball. Yeah.
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So after getting his second goal to the camera, flip the hair a
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few times and make fun of him. And yeah, we're hoping for a lot
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more from there. So yeah, like I said, it's
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injuries. Kind of put a little bit of a
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sour spin at the end because Saka is probably gonna be out
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for three to four weeks, but it could have been way worse.
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It could have been once. Yeah.
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So we're happy. And Odegard looks like he
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probably won't be all that long. Yeah.
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So some good news there, but all right, let's move on to Everton
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at their new stadium at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.
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They've left Goodison behind, playing Brighton to nothing.
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Tell me what you think. They did really well their first
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win or their first home game at Hill Dickinson Stadium.
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They played phenomenal at their new stadium, Illiman and Jai.
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He scored the last goal at Goodison and the first goal at
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Hill Dickinson Stadium, which he'll probably be remembered for
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that, but I think they played great for their first home game
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at this new stadium. What do you think of Garners?
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So yeah. And die with the and die with
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the goal in the 23rd minute, Gardner in the 52nd minute.
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What do you think of that goal? That was a pretty nice one,
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yeah. One touch finish.
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I mean, can't. Can't get much better than that.
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Yeah, that that one's worth looking up.
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That, that that was a banger that he had there.
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And Jack Reelish playing on the left wing for Everton.
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He's there on loan, 2 assists for him.
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What do you think? I mean, Reelish on Everton was
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something I don't think anyone could have predicted, but he
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played good, he had that. He had both assists.
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Now the second goal, probably goal better than assist but just
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tapped it, but still 2 assists it counts.
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I think he played great. Yeah, the first assist was a
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beautiful play across. The second one he kind of just
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lays it off and does the recipe. But hey, it's an assist so he'll
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take it. And yeah, I thought he looked at
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look, if he can, you know, stay Halsey and play this way for
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them. You know, it's interesting.
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He's more, you know, with the Villa he was always more of a
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central player and so playing out on the wing I think I'll be
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interesting. But so far he seems to be doing
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well. You know, I, I like that he's
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back playing. I don't know, you know, I've
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always sort of just sort of liked his style.
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He's an attacking player, he's always forward with his
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movement. So yeah, like I said, so far
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it's been a good fit there for them.
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So yeah, Everton, you know, they go to the new stadium, get the
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win, they'll be happy. Brighton, they had a PK Welbeck
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had a pretty, not great effort on a PK.
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They had a chance to get one. But yeah, pretty weak effort,
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easy save for the goalie. All right, well, let's move on
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to Fulham and Man U finishing one one.
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Take me through this one, Luca. So before any of the goals Man
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United get APK and something that we were going to we're
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going to talk about for this PK is that so when when Brew's
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ready to take the PK, he's getting ready, the ref
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accidentally just bumps into him and Bruno gets all mad for
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whatever reason and he has to do his entire routine again.
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But then after that PK, well after he gets ready again, he
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goes up and hits that terrible PK just completely skies it.
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And then he answer was saying he hit it into the Thames.
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But I mean, I don't think he, it could have been, he could have
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messed up from that, but I think he could have done better with
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that. Well, tell before we even get to
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that, what did you think about the call for the PK so.
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I mean, I think it was your PK honestly.
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OK, so to take you through it, it's a corner kick.
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They play the ball in bassy and kind of mount, you know,
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jostling for it. And so tell me why you think
21:58
it's APK? Well, because Bassy, it's kind
22:02
of like holding on to him and then once he take they take the
22:05
PK, he Bassy kind of throws mount to the ground and you
22:12
can't do that to try and not call that as much, but you just
22:15
have to call that. It was definitely a queer foul.
22:19
Well, and so, so the background on this a little bit is that
22:22
they, the PGMOL who, who run the officiating for the Premier
22:26
League, have said that they're trying to cut down on the
22:28
clutching and the grabbing on free kicks and corner kicks,
22:32
which sounds like a great idea. Like, don't get me wrong, I, I
22:35
don't, I hate all the clutching and grabbing and shirt pulling
22:38
all that kind of stuff. But they've not really to me
22:40
been very clear about, well, what does that mean?
22:43
And what, where's the bar for this?
22:45
Because I watch a lot of the other games this weekend and
22:47
there's a fair amount of clutching and grabbing on corner
22:50
kicks. So this feels a lot to me like
22:53
last year when they came out, they're like, we don't want
22:56
people kicking balls away on free kicks.
22:59
And you know, of course it was a sensitive topic for Arsenal.
23:02
We got 2 red cards for little, you know, nonsense kickaways and
23:06
then nobody else got called for it, the whole rest.
23:08
Of the year like Joe Petra really booted the ball and.
23:11
So I just wonder on this one, like, you know, to me last year,
23:15
I bet this doesn't even get called.
23:17
But I understand they're trying to crack down on it.
23:19
But I feel like Fulham's going to be hard done here because I I
23:22
bet within one month, nobody's going to be talking about this
23:25
anymore. But yeah, so they they call the
23:28
PK Fernandez gets up there, gets a little bumped from the ref.
23:32
He gets all perturbed and all out of sorts.
23:35
And then literally skies it, you know, when, you know, Welbeck
23:39
had the worst penalty kick. Bruno says hold my beer.
23:44
And yeah, there's a terrible 1. So.
23:46
So. Yeah.
23:47
So then leading out so that. Yeah.
23:49
So game stays 00. All right, take us up to the
23:52
first goal of this game. OK, so it's a corner kick and
23:56
one controversial thing about this is that when it's Lenny
24:01
Yoro who scores it and when he does, he kind of shoves one of
24:07
the full defenders a little bit and then heads it in.
24:10
It's actually a poor header. It gets deflected by Muniz for
24:15
Fulham. I, I, I think this is a foul and
24:20
should not have been called actually, because he does stick
24:23
out his arm and pulls it. It's not like a little nudge.
24:26
If it was a little nudge, I would have said, yeah, it's a
24:29
goal. But I think he extends his arms,
24:34
pushes him and heads it in. So what do you think?
24:38
Yeah, I think, I mean, I get, are we we're trying to get rid
24:42
of all the contact in the in the box for these for these corner
24:45
kicks. It works both ways too.
24:46
Or can't just be the defenders can't grab them.
24:49
The defenders have a right to not be pushed and grabbed too.
24:53
I agree. I'm surprised this wasn't talked
24:56
about a little bit more on the TV because it's a clear shove in
25:00
the back. Now again, you can say this
25:02
happens all the time on corner kicks.
25:03
Everybody's pushing and shoving and all that kind of stuff, but
25:07
when you extend your hands, when you put two hands in the back,
25:09
you extend your hands and that creates the space for you then
25:12
to be able to head it. You know, I to me, I think I
25:16
would have been a foul to. So yeah.
25:18
But the goal stood, and so it was 1 nothing united until late
25:22
in the game. When What happened?
25:24
So it this is just a great goal. Former Arsenal player to former
25:30
Arsenal player. I will be crosses in great ball
25:33
to Smith Rd. Just kind of knocked it on a
25:36
like a cushioned volley. This is just a great go up to
25:41
the goal. I don't.
25:42
There's nothing much to say about it, just a great goal.
25:45
Yeah, it was a great finish. Great.
25:47
Like you said, it's a great ball in by Iwobi.
25:49
It's a great finish. Bruno Fernandez not quite
25:52
tracking back, trying to get ESR.
25:55
But you know, I would argue Bruno's not really a defensive
25:59
player. You know, you're not asking him
26:01
to come in there and play defense, but seems like he's
26:04
been dropping back, playing a little bit more defensively.
26:07
Hey, I'm not the coach, but that's not exactly where I want
26:09
Fernandez if he is on. The I mean, he could have just
26:12
been tired, but you never know. Well, I mean, you still got to
26:15
track your man. Yeah.
26:16
But anyway, yeah. So one, one final there.
26:19
Probably pretty good result for both teams in terms of just
26:22
fairness on their day. 52% possession for Fulham to 48 for
26:27
Man United, 13 shots for Fulham to 10 for United.
26:32
So yeah, let's move on to the next one.
26:33
We have Palace and Nottingham Forest 11 finished up there.
26:38
What do you think of this one? I think both teams played all
26:45
right. I mean, not there's like some
26:48
average goals, not like crazy goals, but I don't think either
26:52
team really deserved to win. I think it was a tie beyond.
26:56
Is it a fair result to you? One one yes.
26:58
R in the 37th minute for Palace. Hudson and Doy gets the
27:02
equalizer in the 57th minute. Igor Je Zeus for Forest, though
27:06
late in the game does hit the post, you know.
27:09
It's close. Could have been a real dramatic
27:11
finish there, but yeah, like I said, I agree.
27:14
Not there's not much to talk about in this game.
27:16
You know, Forest had a a lot of possession, 58% to 42 shots were
27:20
9 to 8 in Forest favor. But yeah, like you said, I mean,
27:24
fair result 11 here looks and not a whole lot of other talking
27:28
points. All right, well, let's get to
27:31
the game that just finished up last game of the weekend today
27:34
on Monday. Newcastle, Liverpool.
27:38
Holy smokes, 3 to 2 Liverpool. Luca, where do I even begin?
27:42
Oh my dad, hold my juice box. There we go.
27:46
So this was a crazy one. So the first thing Liverpool, of
27:51
course, like Newcastle are dominating this game.
27:55
It's like not even close. They haven't scored yet, but
27:58
they're dominating. And of course, Liverpool find a
28:02
way somehow to score. Gravin Birch, It's like outside
28:06
the box, pretty good finish, hits off the post and then one
28:10
nil to Liverpool, pretty good goal.
28:13
Then all the drama starts happening so Allison or one of
28:21
the Liverpool players plays it to Van Dyke and you can see
28:24
Gordon is sprinting at him. Van Dyke tries to play it
28:28
highball across and then Gordon just absolutely takes him out.
28:33
Like he was like Van Dyke owed him money, you just took him
28:38
out. And VAR looks at this and they
28:42
look at it for a little bit. I was watching this actually
28:44
Live Today and and these call, they're doing this new thing
28:53
where they're announcing stuff on like a microphone, but then
28:58
they look at it and they give them a red.
29:00
But what do you think? Well, so just to play, they give
29:04
him a yellow on the field, right?
29:06
So, yeah, So what happens is is Gordon comes barreling in on
29:10
him. He comes in pretty fast.
29:13
Studs are up a little bit, catches them on the ankle, but
29:15
maybe a little bit higher on the ankle.
29:17
And that's important because if it's more the foot or the ankle,
29:20
it's a little more yellow territory.
29:22
If it's higher up on the ankle or the leg, it's more red
29:25
territory. Catches him pretty pretty well
29:29
though and so but he gets a yellow on the field.
29:31
VAR tells the ref to go over and look at it and they come back
29:34
and give a red. If you're the ref, what are you
29:37
giving? Oh red.
29:38
He like absolutely takes him out and it was crazy.
29:42
Definite red for me. Yeah, I think it's probably has
29:46
to be a red. You know, the speed that he
29:48
comes in on, catch them. Like I said, to me, it is higher
29:52
up on the ankle. It kind of catches him on the
29:53
leg and then sort of almost like grazes down, like the studs sort
29:56
of hit the leg and graze down. You can injure somebody pretty
30:00
badly doing that. Yeah.
30:02
You know, So, you know, I, I hate when Reds are given just
30:07
because it changes the course of the game so much.
30:09
But I I think you have no choice or like violent conduct on that
30:12
one, so. I love when Reds are given, just
30:15
not for my team, right? All right, so then what happens
30:18
after the red? So now Newcastle down to 10 men.
30:21
So then they go it was actually 45 + 3, which when the red half
30:26
it was like right before halftime.
30:28
So like a couple like 30 seconds after the second-half starts,
30:34
Ekatika scores and liver pull up to now.
30:40
Then some of this, the crazy stuff starts happening.
30:44
So after that, oh, it takes Newcastle a little bit, but they
30:47
end up Bruno Gimrice on a cross heads it and it slides in and
30:55
and Allison gets a hand on it, but it's just kind of hits the
30:59
post and then goes in. Then in like the 90th minute, I
31:04
don't think at a time it started yet Newcastle play it to like
31:10
like usuala him and he like kind of barely hits it past Allison
31:16
and it kind of he kind of hits it and then it goes in and I was
31:21
going wild. I was losing my mind.
31:25
I was like, no way. Then I was disappointed again.
31:30
And they added on 11 minutes of added time, which I was that
31:35
was, that was crazy. And in but the 100th minute,
31:40
this new guy, 16, yeah, 16 years old, turning 17 on Friday.
31:47
What's his name again? In, in guma, or in.
31:51
Guma. It's kind of hard to pronounce.
31:53
Probably you're butchering that, but in in Guma, Yeah, we're
31:58
going to go with that for now. We'll, we'll, we'll try to get
32:00
our pronunciations a little better.
32:01
Well, yeah, he he kind of, so it's played across and he kind
32:05
of 1 touches it into the far corner and Liverpool win the
32:10
game. And yeah, that was Liverpool.
32:13
Just somehow always find a way to win.
32:16
Yeah, it's a this can be a big win for Liverpool.
32:18
You know, this is they were up to nothing, you're up a man.
32:22
And then all of a sudden Newcastle kind of rallies and
32:24
ties it up. But Liverpool, yeah, they just
32:26
the same thing as last year. They just always find a way to
32:30
sort of turn ties into wins. And that was the difference
32:33
really in the in the table last year was how many ties Arsenal
32:36
had and how many wins. You know, they almost have the
32:38
same amount of losses, but it's it's being able to turn draws
32:42
into wins. And that's what they just are
32:44
uncanny at. And I mean, have a 16 year old
32:46
thrown on the field and score the game-winning goal.
32:48
I mean, you know that Liverpool's a great team, but
32:51
man, they seem to get lucky too. But you know, so, yeah, I mean,
32:56
you know, look, it's the the stats on this game are going to
32:59
be skewed a little bit because of the red card.
33:01
I mean, Liverpool had 62% possession, Newcastle at 38%.
33:06
But Newcastle, listen to this. Actually, I would shot them ten
33:09
to five shots on goal were three to four.
33:12
Liverpool had four. I mean, Liverpool had four shots
33:15
on goal and scored on three of them.
33:18
You know, it's like, I mean, you know, but to their credit, you
33:21
know, but yeah, this was, this was, you know, obviously we
33:24
talked about this last week. The backdrop of this game is
33:27
that Newcastle's best player, Alexander Rieszak, is holding
33:30
out. He's not training with the team.
33:31
He wants to go to Liverpool. So, you know, Liverpool fans
33:36
are, I mean, the Newcastle fans, you know, Saint James Park's
33:39
always a tough place to go. They are a reality, passionate
33:43
bunch. They were fired up and
33:45
Newcastle, you could tell was coming out there to be physical.
33:48
First half of this game there were 19 fouls called.
33:51
Just to give you an idea, there were 14 fouls in the Sunderland,
33:54
Burnley game, the entire game. So in the first half, they had
33:58
five more fouls in one home game.
34:00
So, you know, and, and I think, you know, that's probably why
34:04
Gordon's probably running around and, and just probably kind of
34:07
lost his head there and ends up getting the red.
34:09
But wild game, yet Liverpool gets the win.
34:13
You know, just sort of crazy. As an Arsenal fan, you're hoping
34:17
the Liverpool drops points, but they don't.
34:20
Yeah, another thing on the red. So where I what I think because
34:25
he he took out Van Dyke, it was like a few minutes after the
34:30
first goal was scored and I think Gordon just kind of lost
34:34
his head there. He got a little too angry and
34:37
kind of just let it all out on Van Dyke, so that's what I have
34:42
to comment on. Well, and so the so the transfer
34:46
window is is in one week. So the window closes in a week.
34:50
Teams cannot make any transfers after that.
34:53
So this game now being done, the drama is going to ratchet up on
34:56
what happens now, right? Newcastle were never going to
34:58
sell Esac to Liverpool before they played them.
35:01
So now or, or there's going to be a lot of drama this week
35:04
about how this gets resolved. I I don't know how this works
35:07
out for Newcastle. You think if if they sell them,
35:10
they lose their best player, although they get a boatload of
35:12
money, but they can't. They're only, they're not going
35:14
to have any time to bring in new players.
35:17
If they try to bring Isaac back in, he's going to be maybe
35:21
unhappy. How do the other players feel
35:23
about him? This is just, it's a mess.
35:26
It's a mess. I don't know what Newcastle are
35:28
going to do about this. Well, Newcastle should be at
35:31
least a little happy that they they got a couple goals without
35:33
them in their last four Premier League matches without Esac,
35:36
they've scored zero goals. They got 2 today.
35:41
And you know, Sula, like I said, nice little finish there.
35:43
So, you know, now the other problem is Gordon's going to be
35:46
suspended for games moving forward because of the red card.
35:49
So I feel a little bit for Newcastle that Esac sort of
35:52
basically held them hostage here and.
35:57
For red, I know 2nd 2 demos are red is 1 game suspension.
36:04
Wait, what I always thought is that when do you, if you get a
36:08
straight red, it's a three-game suspension.
36:11
Is that, is that right? I believe that if it's if it's
36:14
for violent conduct, so if you commit a foul that is like a
36:17
violent red card foul, you know, like what Gordon did or like,
36:22
you know, a tackle, then it is a three-game suspension.
36:26
I think if it's a a straight red and it's not violent conduct.
36:30
It's just like last man or something.
36:31
Last man, I think that's only a game, but I I'd have to double
36:35
check on that. But I think that is why you
36:37
sometimes see somebody get a straight red and they only miss
36:39
one game or other times it's three games.
36:42
Yeah. So I think like if you just grab
36:43
a guy and you're the last man or somebody hands the ball, you
36:46
know, like off the goal line, I believe it's just one game.
36:51
OK, all right, well, look at that.
36:53
That wraps up. Like I said, week two, week one
36:57
had 24 goals, week 228 total goals.
37:00
So we're seeing lots of goals, which is good.
37:03
We still have two winless teams, Wolves who have scored no goals
37:07
and West Ham. And we now have three teams that
37:10
are two and O, Spurs, Arsenal and now Liverpool.
37:14
Of course, Arsenal has given up zero goals so.
37:19
Yeah. Talk about the big Week 3 match
37:22
up here in a second, but I want to know Luca, wrap it up here.
37:25
Let's talk wrap up Week 2 with your what is your first?
37:28
Give me your goal of the week. What was the best goal this
37:30
week? All right, so my goal, the week
37:32
is just tough, but I'm actually give it to Paki TA with an
37:35
honorable mention of Garner. All right, I can't argue with
37:39
that. They're great goals.
37:40
Go look them up on YouTube if you didn't see them.
37:42
They're they're, they're bangers.
37:43
All right, Luca, who's your player of the Week?
37:46
Oh, I think Timber OK, getting a brace, he doesn't score that
37:52
often. So for him to get a brace I feel
37:56
like is. And an assist.
37:59
Oh yeah, he got an assist too 2. Goals and an assist for a
38:02
defender. Yeah, beautifully that ball.
38:04
He got the assist for Saka's goal.
38:05
Nicely weighted ball. Oh yeah, I remember that.
38:08
OK, I like it. And who's your team of the week?
38:11
Who's the Team of the Week? I think I'm going to get that to
38:15
Arsenal as well for the five nil, I mean, yeah, I.
38:18
Want to give it to Spurs for winning that city.
38:22
I'll pass. For anybody that doesn't know
38:25
Spurs or Arsenal's biggest rivals, so that's yeah, Luca is,
38:28
I don't think he can bring it. It's hard for me to pick them,
38:31
but if they really play well, I'll pick them for my team of
38:35
the week. All right, well let's also if we
38:37
remember from last week, Luca gave us his stone cold pick
38:41
locks and so let's let's see how he did here.
38:44
So Luca for West Ham, Chelsea, you got it right, Spurs, City,
38:50
wrong. Bournemouth, Wolves, you got it
38:52
right. Burnley, Sunderland, wrong.
38:56
Brentford, Villa. Wrong.
38:58
Leeds. Arsenal.
38:59
Right. Palace.
39:00
Forest. Spot on.
39:01
You got that one. One tie.
39:03
You pick that one perfectly. Oh, I did.
39:05
Yeah. I didn't even know that.
39:07
Let's go. Everton, Brighton, you did not
39:09
get right. Fulham, Man United, you did not
39:13
get right. But Liverpool, Newcastle almost
39:16
got it perfect. You had a three one.
39:18
It was 3:00 to 2:00, but you got that game right.
39:21
So you got 5 right, which actually is actually a little
39:24
bit better than you might think because of the fact that of
39:26
course you can have ties in soccer.
39:27
So there's like 3 outcomes that could happen, right?
39:30
Each team can win in a tie. So that makes it a little more
39:32
difficult to just, you know, pick.
39:34
So that's not bad. Luke, you pick five.
39:36
You were real close on Arsenal leads.
39:39
You had three nothing. It was 5, nothing and then.
39:42
Yeah, I got the right winners and I got a spot on in that.
39:45
Crystal Power is not in the first game.
39:47
Let's go. All right, well, Luca, will you
39:50
ready? Let's get your picks for this
39:51
week then. So let's dive into Week 3.
39:54
So let's start looking ahead a little bit.
39:56
First game of the weekend early. So all the games are Saturday,
40:00
Sunday this week. So we have no Friday, no Monday
40:03
games. And just so everybody knows, we
40:06
have an international break after this.
40:07
So these are going to be our last games for about two weeks
40:10
after that. But first game London Derby.
40:13
Chelsea, Fulham at Stamford Bridge, who do you like?
40:17
I think this is going to be two, one Chelsea.
40:22
OK, Chelsea wins at home, 21 over there, London, I think
40:26
that. Fulham always just a hard team
40:28
to play. I don't know why they always
40:30
give Arsenal trouble. It's at Stamford Bridge, so I do
40:34
think Chelsea will come and win this, but yeah.
40:38
OK, next game we've got Man United at home versus Burnley.
40:44
Who do you like? I think Man United will win this
40:47
three nil at Old Trafford. This is always going to be hard
40:50
for Burnley and Man United have improved a lot through the
40:54
transfer window, so yeah. All right now, Man United spent
40:57
$200 million on their three forwards or any of them planning
41:00
on scoring this year or what Are they going to get one to three
41:05
goals or? Well, OK, you got, it's like you
41:09
Grace got to get Cesco time and Bueno is kind of he's on the
41:13
wing, so he might be like a lot of assists.
41:17
I don't know. I'm a United fan.
41:19
I'm not going to worry about what happens to them.
41:22
Bueno scored twenty goals on the wing last year, so we'll see.
41:26
All right Luca, we've got Wolves in Everton at the Molineux,
41:29
Wolves home stadium. Who do you like?
41:33
Wolves versus Everton, I think I'm gonna go one nil.
41:41
Everton all right 'cause I don't think Wolves have looked
41:45
dreadful these past couple games and Everton have looked pretty
41:48
good. But it is that the mole Noon.
41:50
That's not an easy place to go play so I do think it's gonna be
41:54
harder, but Everton will come out the win in mind.
41:56
All right, you like Everton getting the road win.
41:58
All right, Next up we have Spurs Bournemouth at Tottenham Hotspur
42:02
Stadium. Who do you like there?
42:05
I think 2 won Tottenham all. Right, Spurs.
42:08
Keep it rolling, Lucas. All right, two What the?
42:10
Fuck you say trust me all. Right, all right, well, now we
42:13
have Sunderland Brentford at Sunderland's home stadium,
42:17
Stadium of Light. I think Sunderland will get this
42:20
win one nil. All right.
42:22
And then the last game on Saturday we have Leeds,
42:26
Newcastle at Ellen Rd. Leeds stay at home stadium.
42:30
Who do you like there? I think 2 nil Newcastle, is it
42:34
going to be easy because without E SAC, but I do think they're
42:38
the better team in this matchup, so I didn't think you'll come
42:41
out with this win. OK, well, let's move over to
42:44
Sunday's games. And so Sunday we have two at
42:46
9:00. First one, we have Brighton and
42:48
City at the MX, Brighton's home stadium.
42:51
What do you like there? Brighton and City, I think.
42:53
Two nil city. City bounce back from that
42:56
defeat at home and and get the job done at Brighton, OK.
42:59
Yeah. All right, well, let's go to the
43:01
other 9:00 in Nottingham Forest and West Ham at the The City
43:07
Ground. I think 3 nil not an forest.
43:11
All right, more misery for West Ham.
43:13
Yes. All right, all right, well,
43:16
let's let's you know, we'll go out of timing here.
43:19
So we save Liverpool, Arsenal for the last, let's go with the
43:22
2:00 late game on Sunday. Villa Palace?
43:26
Who do you like there? I think 11. 11 OK, we got A11
43:31
tie I. Think both teams are pretty
43:32
equal because Palace just lost the best player and Villa have
43:36
not looked that great so yeah. OK, all right, big one.
43:40
This weekend we have Liverpool, Arsenal.
43:43
It's at Anfield, Liverpool's home stadium.
43:47
Two heavyweights here. Probably obviously the biggest
43:50
matchup that we have for after three weeks.
43:53
I wish it wasn't so early in the season, you know, I wish this
43:56
was a little bit later. It feels kind of early for these
43:58
two teams to play each other. But give me your prediction,
44:01
Luca. Arsenal.
44:02
Liverpool. This is a hot take.
44:04
I think I'm going 21, Arsenal. OK, 2/1.
44:08
Arsenal, I think it's going to be close.
44:10
I think it's going to come down to the wire.
44:12
All right, I like it. So there we go.
44:13
We got your picks for this week, all right.
44:17
Is there any games on Monday? No, no games on.
44:19
Oh, OK. So everything is on Saturday or
44:21
Sunday. All right, All right, Luca, we
44:23
just talked about Sunderland and playing this weekend.
44:27
Did you know, is it a little bit it's going to be a new segment
44:30
here. Did you know segment?
44:32
OK. What that the name of their
44:33
stadium, the Stadium of Light, which I think is kind of a cool
44:37
name for a stadium. Yeah, I kind of like that.
44:39
So it is called that because where Sunderland is located had
44:45
a lot of miners that would go into the mines where it's dark
44:48
and they would hold a certain lamp called a Devi lamp and had
44:52
a light in the middle of it so they could see as they go down
44:54
there to mine. There's no like light sun
44:57
underground. And so in an honor of the mining
45:02
history of that, they call it the Stadium of Light.
45:05
And in fact, outside of their stadium, they have a big Davy
45:07
lamp in honor of the miners. Wow, that's pretty cool.
45:11
Yeah, I don't know. I always thought there was just
45:12
sort of a cool name for a stadium.
45:13
I mean, a lot of these are just named after some corporate
45:16
sponsor, but I'm always kind of like a Stadium of Light.
45:18
That's pretty. Yeah, pretty cool.
45:20
So started me thinking a little bit like other cool stadium
45:23
nicknames and you've got I didn't realize Wembley is called
45:28
the venue of legends where the English national team plays
45:32
Wembley. Like I didn't, I didn't realize
45:33
I'd even had a nickname. So Boca Juniors.
45:39
Theirs is called La Bombonera, the chocolate box.
45:43
That's kind of interesting. I know it's really called the
45:46
Asadio Alberto Jose Armando, which I did not know, but I
45:51
guess they say it looks like a box of chocolates.
45:53
So they call it the La Bombonera.
45:56
And of course Arsenal's a old stadium.
45:59
So Arsenal plays in the Emirates now and they've played there
46:02
since 2006. But from 1913 till 2006, they
46:06
played at what was called Highbury, but it was actually
46:09
Arsenal Stadium. So it was actually called
46:11
Arsenal Stadium and and actually had two nicknames.
46:14
They called it Highbury because of the neighborhood, but also
46:16
the home of football. The home of football.
46:19
That's pretty. I didn't know that.
46:21
I just. I learned something new today,
46:24
so there you. Go.
46:27
So yeah, we learned something here.
46:29
So all right, well, now let's get into our listener mailbag
46:32
questions. So we have two listener mailbag
46:37
questions. OK, friend of the pod.
46:39
Let's start off with first one friend of the pod, Lindsay, you
46:43
know her as mom, all right? She wants to know what player or
46:48
players? Give me a player or two that
46:50
you're really keeping an eye on here at the beginning of the
46:53
season. Oh, OK.
46:55
That's tough. I think first one, I'm going to
46:59
go with Florian Vert because I feel like he'll be very good
47:04
this year. Another one, tough to say it,
47:08
but Rich Charleston, he was decent in that first game, but I
47:13
mean, I don't like him like at all.
47:16
But yeah, another one, Max Downman for Arsenal.
47:20
He's young. He could be really good.
47:24
Let me think. Well, I like those that that
47:27
Retarlison is an interesting one, right, Because he's sort of
47:29
not quite worked out at Spurs, but he's got off to a great
47:33
start here. And and they obviously have a
47:35
new manager coming in, Thomas Frank.
47:38
He's starting them ahead of Solanke and so far he's done
47:42
real well. But you know, can he sustain
47:45
this? Can he keep it going Like it's,
47:47
you know, they're I I think Tottenham is one of the more
47:50
interesting teams to watch because I think they've done
47:53
like some good business in the transfer market.
47:55
And then Kudis was a great signing.
47:57
I actually think the loan for Paulinia is going to work out
47:59
well for them. I always thought Paulinia was a
48:01
little overrated as a player. But if you're just getting them
48:04
on loan, I think he's a perfect guy to slot in there.
48:07
You know, like, I mean, Byron paid what, 70 million or
48:10
something for? Him.
48:11
Yeah, that was a great deal to sell them for foam.
48:13
Yeah, exactly. So I was always, I always
48:15
thought that was good business for FOAM.
48:17
I never knew why Byron paid that much money.
48:19
But I think if you're a ton and you're getting them on just sort
48:21
of a loan for the year, I think he's going to do well for them.
48:24
So they're an interesting team with an interesting player.
48:26
And yeah, Verts isn't, you know, obviously you know the.
48:29
Supposed to be really good. Supposed to be really good.
48:31
Well, I mean, they paid more money and it's the highest
48:33
transfer in Premier League history.
48:35
So yeah, that's a lot of, you know, then that puts like some
48:39
responsibility on his shoulders. He's a young guy.
48:41
I mean, look, I think he's super talented.
48:43
I think he's going to be just fine.
48:45
You know, he hasn't set the world on fire in his first three
48:47
games. Yeah.
48:48
Again, like we say, it's early or actually two games, it's
48:53
early. Everybody just take a deep
48:55
breath, right? Yeah, It's not making any rush
48:57
to judgments on anything. Like Eucharist and Cesco, they
49:00
need time, right? But I want to look at Eucharist
49:03
too though, yeah, thank you. If you give this man time, I
49:08
think you'll be really good. All right, all right.
49:10
Well, there you go. All right, second mail bag
49:13
question. Another friend of the pod,
49:15
Andrew Luca, he wants to know, all right, what are your
49:20
favorite kits for this year? Now we know this is more of a
49:24
visual question, So what I encourage people to do is go on
49:29
to the Instagram for Premier League Playground.
49:31
We have an Instagram page, right, this look for Premier
49:34
League Playground. We're going to have a link to
49:37
all these jerseys, all right, so you can kind of see what Luke is
49:41
talking about. Give us a follow, all right,
49:43
this is where you'll find updates on when new shows drop
49:47
and any news around Premier League playgrounds.
49:50
So come find us on Instagram. You can also e-mail questions to
49:55
premierleagueplayground@gmail.com. We have an e-mail too.
49:59
We're like, we're officially here, Luca, we got an e-mail.
50:01
Next thing you know, we're going to.
50:04
Start bringing in the mood law. And you said I get every bit of
50:07
it, so let's start to follow the other.
50:11
Thing if people want to go to footballkitarchive.com, you can
50:15
see every Premier League jersey, and in fact, I think every
50:19
league if you're interested in seeing like every team's jersey,
50:22
away jersey, third jersey, goaltender jersey, it has like
50:25
all the kits. So it's kind of a cool site to
50:27
just sort of flip through and see.
50:29
But again, if you want to kind of see Luca's list, like I said,
50:32
check us out on Instagram. We've got the pictures of all
50:35
all these. So all right, Luca, without any
50:38
further ado, give me your top ten kits slash jerseys for this
50:43
year. OK, so I'll start from 10 up to
50:46
1, so at #10. I'm going to go with Arsenal's
50:49
home jersey. I mean, as an Arsenal fan, you
50:53
have to love this. I mean, I like the red with the
50:56
little design, like, you know, in the middle, you know, they
51:00
made the red. But I like this kit.
51:03
OK, all right. Arsenal home at 10.
51:05
Who do you have at 9:00? #9 I've got Crystal Palace
51:08
third, I I like the the stripes on this jersey.
51:13
Yeah, I think I did a good job making this.
51:19
OK, so Palace is third at 9. Who do you have at 8:00?
51:22
At 8:00, I have Arsenal away. I think this is I, I was telling
51:27
you, Dad, that this is kind of like a throwback from 2122, our
51:32
away kit. I think it was our away kit.
51:34
It was either our away 3rd and yeah.
51:38
So if you want to look at 2122, it kind of looks similar to
51:42
that. But yeah, I want to design on
51:44
this. The blue with the stripes.
51:47
Yeah. OK.
51:49
All right. Who do you have #7 number?
51:51
7:00 I've got Newcastle away. Newcastle away.
51:56
All right, so you like the so here you go.
51:59
You're liking the non traditional green of that
52:01
Newcastle away. Yeah, I like the green jerseys
52:05
this year. I'm not really sure why.
52:07
I think I look cool. OK.
52:09
All right. Newcastle away at 7.
52:11
Who gave it 6? Number six, I got Manchester
52:14
United third. I like the black with the yellow
52:18
and like the little like like a little outline of the logo
52:26
there. Yeah, I think that looks cool.
52:28
OK. All right.
52:29
Number six or #5 I've got Man City.
52:33
Fourth. Yeah. 4th.
52:35
There's your 4th kit, people, There is.
52:38
Yeah, this is kind of crazy, right?
52:39
We've gone from now having thirds and out fourths.
52:42
I guess they feel like you kids don't have enough thirds.
52:45
So Manchester City's fourth, not first, second or third.
52:49
You like their 4th? Yeah, it's good.
52:52
I like Jersey. I want to go on them this year.
52:55
I think they're all pretty good. OK.
52:57
All right. Who do you have then at 4:00?
52:59
#4 I've got Fulham away jersey, another one with the green and
53:03
got the retro badge on it. Yeah, I like the green this
53:08
year. Feel like it's good.
53:10
It's gonna fit. The green 1A little a little
53:11
kind of more lighter more. Yeah.
53:15
Than than the Newcastle Green but OK blow them away at four.
53:19
Who do you have at 3:00? #3 I've got weeds third, yeah.
53:22
I think that they are like the Red Bull symbol looks kind of
53:26
cool with the black, blue and yellow.
53:29
I think that's a cool design #2 I've got Manchester City 3rd
53:34
that, yeah, third and 4th. I mean, 20 years from now,
53:39
there's going to be a fifth, Yeah, I mean.
53:43
Like 3 years. Yeah, they got like, I like how
53:47
they put the logo in the middle. I like, I kind of like that.
53:50
I've always liked it on the PSG from 2223.
53:53
But yeah, and with the neon and kind of like the blue and then
53:57
neon green on the logo, I think that looks pretty cool.
54:04
Who's what's the best kit in the Premier League?
54:06
Hit me. Arsenal Third, yes, that is a
54:09
bit random, but I like the zone on this, the the collar and the
54:14
white with the Canon. I I think I like that.
54:17
I think I like that. All right, so here's what's So
54:20
what people should know is that Luca is a kit expert.
54:23
He, he, I, I kid you not, 90 to 95% of his life is in a soccer
54:28
kit. He is clearly a kit expert for
54:31
probably 3 or 4 years. He just basically only wears
54:34
soccer. Kids from.
54:35
Different teams so and I I, you know what's interesting Luca is
54:40
you as like a young kid. How many third and 4th jerseys
54:44
or on that list where like I'm an old guy.
54:46
I like, I'm like a traditionalist.
54:48
I like like more the the classic uniform.
54:51
So I I don't particularly like a lot of the 3rd and fourths.
54:55
Cool design well. The city third, it looks like
54:58
there's like rain falling on it. I don't.
55:00
I don't know what that's about. I like that.
55:03
I know that's. What I'm saying like kids are
55:05
all like all these third and 4th and non traditional ones, you
55:08
know, I, I don't think they're trying to sell jerseys to me
55:10
anyway, But I actually, you know what?
55:13
I I don't, I don't mind City's home with that kind of a sash.
55:16
Yeah, that one's pretty good. I think that would give that as
55:18
an honorable mention. Yeah, and you know, hello I full
55:22
of stir jersey, the black with the gold that's.
55:25
Pretty cool too do. You like that one and the other
55:27
one I kind of like. I kind of like Palace's home
55:29
kind of the bold colors. Yeah, I said.
55:31
They're away. I like, I like the away too.
55:35
I like their home and away for palace.
55:36
I said their third. Third's cool too.
55:40
I think they're both good. But yeah.
55:42
No, I don't like the third. Don't like the third?
55:44
OK, well, it's it's all right, all.
55:47
Right. Well, like I said, go check out.
55:49
Like I said, if you want to go check out footballkitarchive.com
55:52
or go to our Instagram page and we have pictures of all these
55:55
jerseys up there so. Just got your Instagram, it's
55:58
just fine. Give us a follow.
56:00
All right, so we end every show with a penalty kick shoot out,
56:05
which is where Luke and I go back and forth asking each other
56:09
trivia questions and each one made as a goal, each one missed
56:13
is each is just a miss, so. Yeah.
56:17
So we all we have, we have 5 questions and a bonus one in
56:21
case we're tied. All right.
56:23
Do you want to go first, Luke, or second?
56:25
I'll go first all. Right.
56:27
Well, all right. When we ask the questions, we're
56:28
going to give a second or two pause just in case anybody else
56:31
is playing along at home. Yeah.
56:33
All right, go ahead. Which club has recorded the most
56:37
defeats in Premier League history?
56:40
Most defeats I believe is Everton.
56:43
Wow, that's that's you're off to a great start.
56:45
I didn't know I did that. Upper corner top end goal in the
56:50
first one. All right, Luca, what year was
56:52
the Premier League founded? 9293.
56:55
That is correct. Give a give a second so that
56:57
everybody playing at home can. You.
56:59
Oh yeah. Sorry.
57:00
All right, so right off the bat, two goals go #2.
57:04
Which club holds the record for the longest run without a red
57:08
card? Oh my goodness, wow, that's a
57:10
hard one. I'm going to go with Arsenal.
57:14
No. Who would burn?
57:16
That was interesting. All right, that's a miss, Luca.
57:20
What country's national team is called the Azuri?
57:25
God, the Azuri. The Azuri.
57:30
I might have stumped them. Brazil.
57:33
No, Italy, the Azuri Italy. Oh, that's.
57:36
A Miss A. Miss All right.
57:39
Who scored the first ever Premier League goal?
57:42
Oh man, I feel like I've heard this before but I don't know if
57:45
I remember it. Alan Shearer.
57:49
No, Brian Dean. Oh gosh, all right, another
57:53
miss. All right, one.
57:55
What is the most goal scored by one player in a Premier League
57:59
game? How many goals did they score?
58:02
I'll give you a hint, it's been done five times.
58:05
Most goals scored by one player. In one game, yeah.
58:09
How many goals? 6.
58:11
No, it's 5. Nobody's ever gotten 6.
58:14
Wow. Do you want to take a shot at
58:16
who the five players are? It scored five goals.
58:18
OK, so Alan cheer that's. Correct.
58:23
Aguero. That's correct.
58:27
It's a little harder now, OK? Harry Jane.
58:29
No. OK, son.
58:31
No. Are they still playing or any of
58:34
them still playing? No, none of them are.
58:36
Still playing. All right, so retired players.
58:40
Rooney. No.
58:41
Ronaldo. No.
58:43
OK, Beckham. No.
58:46
All right, well, I'm going to give them to you now.
58:47
Andy Cole was the first to do it in 1995.
58:50
Alan Shearer did it in 1999. Jermaine Defoe 2009, Dimitar
58:57
Berbatov in 2010 and then Sergio Aguero.
59:00
In 2010, honestly, I don't think I would have guessed any of.
59:02
This. That's hard.
59:03
That was hard. All right, so let's go question
59:06
#4 we're still tied. Who won the Premier League
59:09
Golden Boot in the 20/12/2013 season?
59:12
20/12/2013 Man you brought the. I brought the heat.
59:16
Yeah, you did. So that was about 13 years ago,
59:23
Ronaldo. No Robin van Persie.
59:25
OK, so still. All right, look, what is the
59:29
most expensive goalkeeper transfer ever?
59:32
Who was the player most expensive goalkeeper transfer
59:36
ever in 2018? Was it Ederson that city?
59:43
No keppa from Bilbao to Chelsea. From Bilbao.
59:47
Are you kidding it? Was £71.6 million, it's about
59:52
$95 million and he's now backing up at Arsenal.
59:55
So, Oh my, all right, we go question #5 and it's 11.
1:00:01
Who holds the record for most penalties scored in Premier
1:00:04
League history? Most penalties scored Harry
1:00:07
King. Alan Shearer, I.
1:00:09
Should have gone with him. He's got the most goals ever.
1:00:11
All right, Luca, you can win if you know what company owns a
1:00:14
team in the German and Austrian Bundesliges.
1:00:19
Red Bull. Red Bull is right.
1:00:23
Luca scores and he wins, 2:00 to 1:00.
1:00:26
Well, fun. Let's do the six question.
1:00:29
Just for fun here give me your 6.
1:00:31
Who owns the record for the most Premier League red cards?
1:00:36
Most Premier League red cards Shaka.
1:00:40
Patrick Vieira. Oh my gosh, how did I miss that?
1:00:44
All right, and my bonus one Luca was in 2018.
1:00:48
Which team did Ronaldo for Real Madrid score his famous
1:00:52
Champions League bicycle kick? Who were they playing in that
1:00:56
game? Juventus It.
1:00:57
Was Juventus. Let's go.
1:01:00
Anybody hasn't seen that's a worth a watch on?
1:01:02
YouTube if you haven't seen that in shoot.
1:01:05
Classic Ronaldo goals there. So all right, look, I think that
1:01:09
bout wraps it up for us, right? I mean, I can't think of
1:01:12
anything else. Any other topics you want to
1:01:14
hit? I think that's it from it we'll.
1:01:16
Call it all right. Thank.
1:01:18
You for watching or listening? Thanks again for listening and
1:01:22
we hope that like I said, you'll TuneIn next week.
1:01:25
So thank you everybody. Bye bye.