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Week 5 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome back to the Premier League playground.
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  I am the dad, Bjorn. With me, of course, is the main
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  man, the lad. Luca Miller.
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  How are you doing today, Luca? I'm doing good.
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  How are you? Doing good well, another week in
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  the books of the Premier League. We've got a lot of some big
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  interesting games to talk about. Should we just dive on in and
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  start talking about the games? I think that's a good idea.
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  All right, well, let's talk, let's go.
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  First up on the weekend we had the Merseyside, Darby,
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  Liverpool, Everton. Take me through this game, Luca.
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  This game was not relatively close, but in the 10th minute
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  Liverpool strikes first with a nice volley from Gravin
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  Bircher's really nice goal. The ball is traveling the same
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  way that he is and that's not an easy way as it's not an easy
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  goal to score, but he gets it done and it's a really nice
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  finish. And then in what the 29th
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  minute, the ball Grabenberg I think had the assist here and he
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  plays it through the Ekatika. He makes a nice run the stand
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  sides and swaps it home. And that was I think I'm really
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  nice finish trying to prove to the Liverpool that they don't
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  need these sacks starting. I mean, I think he's doing a
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  pretty good job at it. Then in the 15 eighth minute,
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  Everton, I'm trying to come back and Gay scores with like a
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  pretty nice one touch finish in the 58th minute and that was
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  pretty much it in that game. Yeah, that pretty much sums it
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  up. I mean it, You know, Merseyside,
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  Darby, this is a big, big rivalry game between these two
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  teams. So it generally is close.
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  But Liverpool has pretty much dominated this of late.
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  In the last 28 home matches in all competitions, Liverpool has
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  lost once to Everton. Wow.
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  So Everton, if they're going to get a result in the Merseyside
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  Derby, feels like they've got to do it at home.
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  But yeah, Liverpool with a too early goals.
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  Like I said, Everton, credit to them, they fought back.
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  Greela still playing well for Everton on the left wing.
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  He is really like he's a different guy from when he
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  plays. A good player, he just doesn't
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  play at Man City because they already have enough good players
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  in that position that he plays. And I, you know, I think it's
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  important for him too, with the World Cup coming up next summer,
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  that he gets good playing time because his position on the
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  English team is not, you know, assured.
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  So I think he's making a case that that maybe he should go to
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  the World Cup with England, but he'll he'll have to keep it up
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  but playing well for Everton. But ultimately, this is just
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  what Liverpool do, Luca. They win every game, 55 wins in
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  five games. They are sitting well atop the
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  Premier League here. They finally didn't win past the
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  83rd minute. That's true, they got their
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  goals early. This.
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  He's yeah. Yeah, so like I said, not not
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  much else really happened in this game.
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  Liverpool at 57% possession. Shots are pretty even though 11
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  to 9 in Liverpool's favor. But yeah, like I said, Liverpool
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  just keep marching along. Like I said, no late dramatics.
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  They just got the wind done. They'll be happy to get a
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  Merseyside Darby out of the way. But all right, let's move on to
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  the next game here. Maybe not as quite glamorous or
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  exciting, but what about wolves and leads?
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  OK, so wolves and weeds. There's actually a decent amount
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  of goals in this game, though. Three one in Leeds favor.
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  I predicted 00 and I was wrong in 8th minute.
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  I may be birching in this. I'm sorry, I think creche I
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  might be saying that correctly, I have no idea.
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  That's good enough for me. Yeah, scores in the eighth
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  minute off of a really nice ball from the Wolves fighter in into
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  space and then he one times in and then in the 31st minute we'd
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  pull one back with Dominic Calvert Wuen and makes it 11.
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  And then in the 39th minute, oh, if you have not seen this goal,
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  you should stacks free, I think stack.
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  I think it's pronounced stack. Yeah, it's part of names today.
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  Free kick right into like the top corner you.
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  If you haven't seen that, you should.
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  It's a really nice goal. And then Okar, what is it?
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  Okafor, in the added time of the first half scores for Leeds and
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  that pretty much shums the game up.
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  That was a pretty one of the best games with most goals this
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  weekend almost. Yeah, I mean, for as well as
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  Liverpool have been doing, Wolves have been doing that
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  badly 5 and they are now 5 losses in five games.
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  They actually did have the lead like you said in this game,
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  they're at home and then they just get blitzed.
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  I mean, you know, you said three goals by leads from the 31st
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  minute on before halftime and then they just sort of cruise
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  out. Wolves make 3 substitutions at
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  halftime to try to shake things up.
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  It didn't work. Wolves, like I said, they are
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  really struggling. They are 20th in the table.
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  Like I said, they don't even have a point on the season yet.
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  So but leads, again, we talked about these newly promoted teams
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  really seem to be holding their own.
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  So credit to them for getting three points on the road.
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  I wonder if Wolves will break the all time record for least
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  points scored in the season. We talked about that before.
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  What Derby County is it 11 points?
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  It was something around that who's who finished 20.
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  Southampton finished 20th last year.
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  They were pretty close to breaking that.
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  I'm not really sure what the record is there, but they were
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  close and I saw like they made like a tweet or something.
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  They posted on social media that sorry if we got your hopes UPS
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  mean like because they didn't break the record they didn't
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  want just a little bit better than that.
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  I kind of forgot how bad Southampton was.
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  They had 12. No, I mean that is awful.
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  They had two wins and six draws. They lost 30 times last year.
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  They had two wins. Two wins and 38 games.
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  I kind of forgot your draws. 6 draws.
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  So they lost. 3030 games they lost.
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  Well, they drew, so yes. 6 straws, two wins and 30 losses.
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  That's 38 games. Oh yeah, I think.
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  He was 30 games. So you're right.
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  So I look, I, I don't know if I think wolves are better than
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  these than than Derby from before and Southampton from last
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  year. I I think they will get some
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  points, but they're they're they're in serious trouble, I
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  think for relegation. Like they are absolutely a team
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  that they need to start worrying about that.
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  I know we're only five games in. I hate to sort of start making
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  these grand, you know, predictions, but this is a
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  horrible, horrible start for a team that so that usually is,
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  you know, maybe will flirt with relegation, but it's not really
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  been close to being relegated. I mean, last year, like I said,
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  they had 42 points. That was 17 off of getting
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  relegated last year. So they weren't really, like I
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  said, they weren't great last year but they were easily above
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  the relegations. How many points did Southampton
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  have five games in the season? It's got to be like more than
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  zero. I I think it was more than zero.
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  I think they had like a tie or something.
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  Maybe they had one point, but yeah, yeah.
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  So like I said, not much to say about this.
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  I mean, credit the leads, like I said, and that stack free kick
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  goal, that's a beauty. And so, yeah, look, I mean,
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  they're going to be happy. Luca, you predicted A00 tie.
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  I was wrong. But I do want to real quick,
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  going back to the Everton, Liverpool game, you almost had
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  that one perfect. You predicted 2 nothing.
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  It was 21, so we're going to give you credit for the win
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  there. But yeah, you missed the Wolves
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  leads game but can't get them all.
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  So yeah, I can't get them all. All right, Luca, let's move on
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  to West Ham and Crystal Palace. Tell me about this game.
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  Well, this game started out with Mattetta in the 37th minute off
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  of a header that was a really good save by Areola and then he
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  kind of just heads it again and Areola can't do much about it
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  and it's a goal off of a it's off of a corner also.
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  Then Bowen ties the game up with a another goal off of a corner,
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  a header and really nice header into the far corner and ties it
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  up. Then in the 68th minute, Tyreke
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  Mitchell gets the winner and it ends up to 1.
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  My prediction was 2 nil Crystal Palace.
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  So again, I almost had that spot on if I had West Ham scoring.
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  But yeah, not much to talk about other than the goals here.
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  Yeah, Yep. Again, West Ham, another
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  struggling team here, they, they're going to drop points in
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  this one. Crystal Palace now with
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  Liverpool, one of the two teams left undefeated without a loss
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  on the season. 18 other teams have lost at least one.
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  Credit to them, they're playing really well.
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  We've talked before about them losing always say last year as
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  they this year. Always say two years ago.
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  Two years ago, OK, and as they this past year and they just
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  sort of keep getting it done. I think Oliver Glasser is a
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  great coach. He's got them really well
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  organized and I'm excited to sort of see what Crystal Palace
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  does here over the next couple games.
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  You know, they're going to get some harder competition coming
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  up. West Ham is not exactly hard
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  competition. But yeah, I mean, you know, any
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  Premier League games a tough one.
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  So it'll. Be fun to see like Liverpool,
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  Crystal Palace, City, Crystal Palace, Arsenal, Crystal Palace.
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  Those, I think will be good games.
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  No, I, I agree with you and we'll, well, we'll get to next
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  week, Crystal Palace, play Liverpool next week.
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  We'll get to that with your prediction.
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  So I'm excited to hear what you think about that.
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  But you know this, you know, it's interesting.
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  West Ham had 57% possession in this game but got out shot 18 to
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  8. So it's like all this
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  possession, they don't really do anything with it.
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  Their defense is kind of struggling this year.
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  Worst defense in the league right now.
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  So yeah, West Ham, Graham Potter probably going to be get fired
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  very, very soon. I can't imagine he can last much
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  longer so. Nuno Espirito Santo already got
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  fired after few days into the season.
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  Few weeks into the season. Well, the rumor is is that they
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  want to bring Nuno on at West Ham, but Nuno wants too much
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  money. So they're looking at like Slob
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  and Bilic as a possible coach. So there's all these things
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  going on behind the scenes where they're already looking to
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  probably replace Grant Potter. Just trying to find the right
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  guy. But Nuno's one guy that you
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  know, if our West Ham, I would definitely look to bring him in.
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  Yeah, he's a pretty good coach. Yeah, you mean got 90 We talked
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  about Nottingham fires into Europe in the Europa League and
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  then he gets fired because he can't get along with her crazy
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  owner so. Yeah.
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  All right, Luca, let's move on to to Burnley and Nottingham
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  Forest. Take me through this game.
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  In this game, Nico Williams, but he's score in the second minute.
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  Yeah, it's a really nice one touch hit.
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  You should if you should probably look this one up, It's
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  another pretty good goal. It'll be a probably a nominee
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  for my goal the week and really, that's cool.
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  Then Jaden Anthony, he's been one of their star players this
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  year. We'll talk about Sunderland star
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  player this week year, but for newly promoted teams, he's been
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  a star for their player. He scores in the 20th minute and
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  just a stat on him, he's had three goals this season out of
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  five weeks, right, Five weeks. Yep.
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  Uh huh. So that's that.
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  He's one of the he's he's top five for scoring.
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  I'm pretty sure If he's not, it's because there's a lot of
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  players who have three goals. Yeah, I think a lot, a lot of
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  players right now are sitting on three goals.
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  Holland's like, you know, 6 miles ahead of everybody else.
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  But yeah, I think a lot of other people are on three.
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  Yeah. So you know, this game, Luca,
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  you had a 2, nothing. Forest, it ended 11.
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  You know, Forest had 63% possession.
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  They had seventeen shots to 12, but they just couldn't find that
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  second goal. And you know, Burnley is going
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  to be, you know, happy. I think they could all get a
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  point against a team like Forest.
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  Burnley were at home, so maybe they would have liked to have
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  tried to win this one. But you know, it's probably
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  feels like a pretty fair result. These are two kind of bottom
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  table teams. Forest.
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  Say 9M4, she's a bottom table team, they're in Europe.
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  Well, they're in Europe because of their results from last year,
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  but I'm just saying this year it just doesn't, it doesn't feel to
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  me like they've kind of captured that magic that they had last
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  year where they were hanging around top five.
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  I'll, I'll be shocked if forests find their way into Europe this
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  year with a lot of these other good teams in the Premier
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  League. I, I, I don't see it happening.
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  Certainly they can turn things around and do better.
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  They're they're 1-2 and two right now.
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  What place are they in? Well, they're currently in 15th.
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  OK, so now again. It's early.
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  You run off three wins, you can move right up into the top seven
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  or eight. I'm just saying, from what I've
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  seen, I don't know, I'm not convinced that farce is gonna
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  sort of capture that magic they had last year.
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  Yeah, that would be, that would be hard.
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  All right, Luca, let's get into one of the big games from this
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  weekend here, man, you and Chelsea, these two teams seem to
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  play games that are just completely bananas lately.
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  So of course, this game gets started off.
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  I mean, it literally looked like a hurricane out there, the water
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  coming down being held on the pitch.
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  So take me through, Luca. This game had a little bit of
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  everything. Take me through it.
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  All right, Dad, hold my juice box.
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  All right. A lot to unfold here.
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  So to start off in the 5th minute, you got that right. 5th
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  minute, there's already a red card.
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  This game is already going bananas.
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  Sanchez, he gets a red card for taking down in Blammo and he was
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  the last man. And in my opinion, this is
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  definitely a red card and you have a decision to make in this
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  situation. In my opinion, you could let the
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  guy go and risk him scoring, but you still have 11 men on the
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  field. Or you could take him down, get
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  the red card, they don't score, but you're down to 10 men in.
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  In my opinion, it depends what minute.
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  So if it's like the 95th minute, you're winning by 1 and you just
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  need to take him down. I feel like that's the right
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  choice there right now. You could have just let him
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  score and kept 11 men on the field, but I don't know.
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  He takes him down. Red card.
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  In my opinion, this is a red card.
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  And then in the 14th minute, Fernandez to get the goal off of
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  our nice ball. They look at VAR to see if this
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  is offsides. They do not.
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  It is very, very close. It's like a toenail, like a
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  toenail on sides. And then in the 37th minute,
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  Casimiro gets a header and you'll see his name again.
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  He gets a header off of a like mistimed clearance.
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  Luke Shaw gets the header and he gets like the double header and
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  nikes it in. And as I said, you'll see
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  Casimir's name again in the 45 + 6 minute.
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  He's already on a yellow and he gets another yellow for just
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  grabbing the guy and throwing him down.
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  Kind of. It's a little soft.
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  I do think it's a foul. I'm not sure if it's going to be
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  a yellow. I I think it's a foul, not a
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  yellow, but he ends up getting a second yellow and a red.
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  I think it's just dumb because he had the fenders back.
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  He didn't need to do that. But anyway, he did.
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  And then in the 40th minute, No, not 40th. 80th. 80th yeah. 80th
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  minute Chowaba off of like I a short corner crosses it in and
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  gets a header. It's pretty nice header and
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  Chelsea after that the many I just defended it out and one
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  thing on Chelsea and there's after that red card.
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  They substituted all of their attacking players almost it it
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  looked like there it seems like they're just going to give up on
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  the game. They substituted Cole Palmer,
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  Pedro Neto, Estavo, all three of those in the first half after
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  that red card and subbed them in for like defensive players.
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  Well, like a center back came in and I forget who else, but I was
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  just weird. Like you never know what's going
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  to happen after that. If they had those attacking
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  players on their team, I feel like this would be a whole
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  different game after that second red.
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  Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up.
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  It's an interesting point about the substitutions because they,
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  you're right. So I agree with you.
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  The Sanchez red card is a very clear red card.
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  And I, I like the point you bring up about this so that we,
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  we see these situations where teams, you know, you have
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  somebody on a breakaway and a defender pulls them back or a
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  goalie is coming out and doesn't get the ball.
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  And it's like, do you commit the foul?
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  Do you let him go by, you know, if you get by, there's a high
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  chance they're going to score. I agree with you.
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  Like in the 5th minute, I I'd say give up the goal and then,
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  you know, then try to like, you know, regroup and you try to go
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  again. You have the entire game in
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  front of you to to at least make up one goal, if not 2 and.
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  They did. And they did, but I, I just, you
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  know, I don't like the and look, it's a split second decision.
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  It's hard, you know, these guys are just sort of reacting in the
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  moment. It's not like this is like well
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  thought out, But I I just think people have to sort of think I
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  agree with you as you're getting later in the game and a goal can
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  make a huge difference. Then, Okay, maybe you do risk
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  take getting the the the red card and you know, keeping the
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  goal out, but it's just so tough.
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  These red cards that happen in the beginning of the games.
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  Your team is a mountain to climb when they're down a man for
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  almost an entire game and then the whole game plan goes out the
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  window and they're when the and Maresca's got to make decisions
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  as a coach at Chelsea. So you're right, he pulls.
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  So he pulls off 2 attacking players.
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  Palmer had to come off because he got hurt.
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  Oh, he. Did so.
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  They came out later on. Palmer's got a bad groin injury
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  so he may be out for a while, but I guess so.
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  Palmer had to come off like I said, right after he makes the 2
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  Subs. Oh, I didn't.
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  I didn't know Palmer came off for an injury.
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  I thought he was just coming off because they were just giving
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  up. Well, they didn't know at the
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  time, but I guess it came out later on that he was sort of
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  pointing to his groin where he's had a little bit of a problem
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  before. But with those 3 Subs that
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  Chelsea made, that is the earliest a team in the Premier
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  League has ever made three substitutions in a game.
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  Wow. But you're right.
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  Like, so you never know what's going to happen in a game and
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  all of a sudden, you know, the game literally flip.
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  I mean, United are in cruise control until the Casamira red
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  card. I mean, this game, they're just
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  going to see this out. Like you said, it looks like
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  Chelsea's just almost defending and giving up.
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  And then I, I agree with you. It is a bit, to me, it's a
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  little bit soft that the Casamira gets a yellow for that.
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  I would not have given him a yellow.
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  It's a foul, not a yellow, but he gets sent off.
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  But then all of a sudden Chelsea, now it's 10 on 10, but
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  you've got no attacking players left.
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  Yeah. And on this, like, I even made a
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  bet with you for $5. If I said if Man United score
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  three or more goals, you give me $5.
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  Anything below that, I'd give you $5.
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  I was so confident that Man United, we're just going to pour
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  on the goals here until that red card and everything flipped on
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  its side. I was like, Oh no, but that's
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  just crazy. Yeah, so it's just one of those
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  wild things that you're right, it was very, very strange to
• 19:29
  take off and also take off all your attacking players.
• 19:32
  And you have guys with speed like Esteveyo and Neto.
• 19:37
  To me, when you're when you're defending down a man, your
• 19:40
  chance to score is like a counter attack, you know,
• 19:42
  because you know you're going to have to sit back and defend and
• 19:44
  the other team's going to be pushing forward.
• 19:46
  Well, your chances and all of a sudden boom on a counter.
• 19:49
  Neto he's known for his speed. Esteval, like I said, he's got
• 19:53
  speed too. I so I very puzzling to me.
• 19:56
  Like I said, it didn't work. I mean, it just was very, very
• 19:59
  strange substitution. Like I said, Palmer, I get it
• 20:01
  had to come off because of an injury, but I don't think they
• 20:03
  gave themselves much of a chance.
• 20:05
  And then when all of a sudden it's 10 on 10, but you're just
• 20:08
  left without any attacking players.
• 20:09
  Those guys have got to be so mad after that.
• 20:11
  No, I'm sure they are. Sacrificed Palmer.
• 20:14
  He was like kind of making the hand motions, like, yeah, OK,
• 20:19
  when he came off, I thought he was just really mad that he came
• 20:21
  off, but I didn't know he had a groin injury.
• 20:24
  Yeah, groin injury there and but you know one thing Man United
• 20:28
  have done very well against Chelsea at home.
• 20:29
  In fact, they're Man United are unbeaten in their last 12 in all
• 20:33
  competitions against Chelsea at home.
• 20:35
  So you know is is struggling as Man United have been recently.
• 20:40
  They seem to do well. They.
• 20:41
  Play Chelsea tough. They do, they do, and it's.
• 20:43
  Like every team is like one of these teams that play them
• 20:47
  tough. Yeah.
• 20:48
  And also just remember, Old Trafford is a very difficult
• 20:50
  place to go even when United are not playing well.
• 20:53
  That is a very, very difficult place to go in and get results.
• 20:56
  As you can see, the Chelsea, they didn't and and they
• 20:59
  dropped, you know, look, they're they're going to be unhappy that
• 21:02
  they went down to 10 men for all the game, for the whole game and
• 21:05
  ultimately dropped points in this one.
• 21:07
  So it's the whole game, not even they didn't even last the first
• 21:10
  half the red card. Yeah, I know, I know.
• 21:13
  All right, Luca. Well, let's move on to the next
• 21:14
  game. Here we have Brighton and Spurs.
• 21:17
  Tell me about this game. OK, so Brandon Spurs in the
• 21:21
  eighth minute, we have Minta. They play a ball and he makes a
• 21:26
  good run, gets on it. He's through a goal.
• 21:29
  No one's going to catch him with Minta.
• 21:31
  Speed swats at home, good goal. Then Brighton go up to now with
• 21:37
  IRAREI think, I think that's what his name is.
• 21:40
  I think that's it. Yeah, in the 31st minute, a nice
• 21:43
  curling finish from that to the box.
• 21:46
  I feel like Vicario could have done a little bit better with
• 21:49
  this, but it is what it is. Brightener up to nil.
• 21:54
  Then Rick Charleston gets one back at the 43rd minute and just
• 22:00
  when Brighton think they have the win, Van Hecke in the 82nd
• 22:07
  minute and own goal against him and it ends 22 and and Tomlin's
• 22:16
  credit to Tottenham's credit, they did fight back.
• 22:20
  I'm happy for them to fight back.
• 22:22
  It's hard to say for from an Arsenal fans perspective, but
• 22:28
  good way to fight back, a way to fight back.
• 22:31
  Yeah, they did. They got, I mean, you get down
• 22:32
  two goals early on the road and they did.
• 22:36
  And, and you know, comeback always helps.
• 22:38
  If you can get that goal, like right before half, you know,
• 22:41
  you're down to nothing. But Richard Allison gets that
• 22:44
  goal right before half. It's such a difference going
• 22:45
  into the locker room down to 1 rather than two nothing.
• 22:48
  And, and you're right. And look, they had, they had
• 22:51
  6764% possession in this game. So they they were on the front
• 22:55
  foot a lot in this game. Javi Simones looked really good
• 22:58
  coming off the bench for him, created a lot.
• 23:01
  And they kind of kept pushing it, pushing, pushing.
• 23:03
  And ultimately you play a ball in two guys kind of go for the
• 23:06
  header and Van Hecke sort of right behind him.
• 23:08
  I don't think he knows much about this.
• 23:10
  Sits off his thigh and goes in. It's just bad luck for him.
• 23:12
  But what do we always say? Like put the ball in danger
• 23:15
  spots and good things can happen.
• 23:18
  Yes. And so good things happen.
• 23:19
  So like I said, suppose Spurs this is this is one of those
• 23:22
  where, you know, they're they're gonna probably be pretty
• 23:24
  thrilled getting a tie out of this because it probably looked
• 23:26
  early on like they're definitely gonna get a loss.
• 23:27
  So they're gonna probably feel pretty good at the end of all
• 23:31
  this getting a tie. So Spurs sitting there tied for
• 23:35
  second right now after five games, they look like a very
• 23:39
  competent, well coached team. We've said this before multiple
• 23:42
  weeks, Thomas Frank is a good coach.
• 23:45
  I think he did great at Brentford, like he was a great
• 23:47
  hire for that team. I really think Tottenham I think
• 23:51
  are going to be hovering around these European spots this
• 23:54
  season. I just think you mentioned
• 23:56
  before you like the business they did with some of the
• 23:58
  transfers. I agree with you.
• 24:00
  I don't, you know, I say this even though Spurs every year,
• 24:05
  it's very Spursy. They usually collapse, they do
• 24:07
  something stupid. But we'll see.
• 24:10
  I don't know, I just feel like feels like there's something a
• 24:12
  little different about this team.
• 24:14
  And the team last year, even without Sean.
• 24:17
  For sure, yeah. Yeah.
• 24:18
  I think I just look, I think there's a lot of quality on that
• 24:21
  team. And again, a new coach comes in
• 24:24
  who's, like, knows what he's doing.
• 24:26
  Like I said, can play. In the Premier League before.
• 24:28
  Yeah, exactly. Premier League experience and
• 24:31
  can play different systems too. He's not set like Pasta Koglu
• 24:34
  last year had to play one way. He's like, this is the way I'm
• 24:36
  going to play, and this is maybe what gets Ruben Amarim in
• 24:38
  trouble. As they say, I'm just going to
• 24:39
  play this in my way, only going to do it this way.
• 24:42
  Thomas Frank will set up in multiple different ways based on
• 24:45
  who he has available and who he's playing, and I think that's
• 24:47
  really smart. Yeah.
• 24:50
  All right, Luca. Well, let's move on to Full and
• 24:52
  Brentford. OK, so in this game, last game
• 24:57
  of Saturday, I predicted one nil and Phil actually Brentford got
• 25:06
  the first goal here in the 20th minute.
• 25:09
  Damsegard off of a Josh King like he kind of bad pass and
• 25:17
  Dam's guard gets on it. He still has to do a good bit to
• 25:20
  get it in, but he has a nice finish into the bottom corner
• 25:24
  and but full again another. They got two in the first half
• 25:30
  and you said to come back and it helps they were actually up so
• 25:34
  they didn't really have to make much of A comeback.
• 25:36
  But in the 38th minute, I will be as a pretty nice goal and
• 25:41
  he's an ex Arsenal player. And in the 40th minute, this is
• 25:45
  a nice goal, a ball from Irobe, he Harry Wilson one touches it,
• 25:54
  curls it into the far bottom corner and they go into halftime
• 25:59
  leading to 1:00. And then in the 50th minute,
• 26:03
  Pinnick own goal, another game won by an own goal.
• 26:07
  It wasn't the winning goal, but it's still the last goal the
• 26:10
  game and they win 3 nil 3131. Sorry.
• 26:14
  Yeah, so 31 good prediction. You had Fulham winning this
• 26:17
  game. One, nothing.
• 26:18
  There is even a disallowed goal on Muniz, who scored.
• 26:22
  What did you think on that? Yeah, I think this is close, but
• 26:26
  I do. He gets called for a foul and I
• 26:29
  was saying to you, Muniz is getting robbed on these goals.
• 26:33
  He's had two to two out goals. He had that one against Chelsea
• 26:36
  and now I do think it is a foul because he does kind of elbow
• 26:42
  him in the head. Oh, but it's not on purpose.
• 26:44
  But still, it doesn't have to be on purpose to be a foul.
• 26:48
  It's close, but I do think this is a foul in the end.
• 26:51
  Yeah, I think this one, it's it's close.
• 26:53
  You know, he's basically the, there's a ball kind of played
• 26:56
  high in the air. He's going for it.
• 26:57
  The defenders kind of right behind him, right behind him as
• 27:00
  he jumps up, his arms sort of go out and one of his sort of his
• 27:04
  elbow or right below his elbow kind of hits the defender in the
• 27:07
  face. You know, clearly it was not
• 27:10
  intentional, but you do have to kind of be in control of your
• 27:14
  body. He does make contact with him
• 27:16
  now. The only thing is the call on
• 27:18
  the field was no foul and. The call on the field was a
• 27:20
  goal. Yeah.
• 27:21
  And so they let the play go on. He has a great finish.
• 27:25
  It's a great finish on this one. They go and they look at it.
• 27:29
  So I think my problem with this may be more that I don't know
• 27:32
  that it was to me clear or obvious where VAR needs to
• 27:35
  overturn it. I think I would have just been
• 27:37
  OK with whatever they made the call in the field.
• 27:39
  I think it's just one of those where you see it called one way,
• 27:41
  you see it called another way. So if the referee on the field
• 27:43
  makes the call that there's no foul there, I don't know that it
• 27:46
  was clear and obvious to overturn.
• 27:48
  Now, if they, if he makes the call on the field and it's a
• 27:50
  foul, I'd be OK with that too. So I don't know.
• 27:53
  Again, I, I, I think it's, I'm very anti VAR.
• 27:55
  I don't like when VAR has to get involved in all this kind of
• 27:58
  stuff. Ultimately, it did not make any
• 28:00
  kind. Of difference on the game.
• 28:02
  Yeah, so. But if you're Muniz, you're
• 28:03
  like, I just had a beautiful goal.
• 28:05
  I like that goal. And like you said, he absolutely
• 28:08
  got robbed in the Chelsea game. We know that the PGMOL who runs
• 28:12
  the officials in the Premier League has already said they
• 28:15
  made a mistake on that. We all know we talked about that
• 28:17
  one. That was a clear mistake that he
• 28:19
  deserved when, you know, they called him for a foul and he
• 28:21
  stepped on the player's foot making a move.
• 28:23
  So yeah, he's going to feel a little hard done by by VAR this
• 28:27
  season, so hopefully he can find his way into a goal that does
• 28:29
  not get overturned by VAR. But nice win for Fulham.
• 28:32
  Look, they're two wins, 2 draws and a loss on the season, so
• 28:35
  they're only. One loss, that's good, that's
• 28:37
  good. Fulham and Fulham typically to
• 28:39
  me are like slow starters, you know, I always feel like Fulham
• 28:42
  always have like a hard time getting off like a good start,
• 28:45
  but they're off to like a pretty good start here.
• 28:46
  I think they're playing pretty solid.
• 28:48
  I like their new player, Kevin. Yeah, Kevins an exciting player
• 28:52
  to keep an eye on. I like him a lot too.
• 28:55
  I'm excited, I think. I think he'll be starting
• 28:57
  relatively soon. I think it's just that he's
• 28:59
  coming over from Shakhtar much lower league, so give him some
• 29:03
  time to get used to the Premier League.
• 29:05
  He's been coming off the bench, which I get, but he'll be
• 29:07
  starting for that team soon. I like him a lot now.
• 29:10
  The only thing is I think he plays a similar position to
• 29:12
  Iwobi, Iwobi with a goal and an assist today.
• 29:16
  So he's making a case that don't take him off So interesting.
• 29:21
  And I to me, I almost like the assist better than the goal that
• 29:24
  slots that ball across will such a like a pretty goal.
• 29:28
  You know, Wilson comes on to it, one touches with the left foot,
• 29:31
  just sort of curls it back around.
• 29:33
  It's a really nice. Goal.
• 29:34
  That was a nice goal. I like that.
• 29:36
  Well worked but yeah, good on Fulham.
• 29:37
  So they get, like I said, three points.
• 29:39
  I had a great stat lined up for Fulham.
• 29:41
  Where Luca Fulham Since the start of last year I've had
• 29:45
  nineteen goals from substitutes. That's more than any team in the
• 29:49
  Premier League. So they usually can bring off
• 29:50
  guys off the bench to score goals.
• 29:52
  Wow. Now the only thing is today it
• 29:53
  was just all starters are scored, so no Subs scored for
• 29:56
  them today. But Fulham was one of those
• 29:58
  teams that when they make a lot of Subs, they seem to get goals
• 30:00
  from their Subs, which is really obviously, you know, goes
• 30:03
  without saying, an important thing.
• 30:05
  Yeah. All right, Luca, let's move on
• 30:07
  to Sunderland and Villa. Tell me about this game.
• 30:11
  So they send in one, one I predicted one nil.
• 30:14
  Sunderland, I was pretty close on it, but the first goals well
• 30:19
  at well before the first goal, there's a red card on Sunder 1
• 30:23
  Reneeldo He gets called for a kick out at Maddie Cash, who
• 30:28
  later in the 67th minute scores a really nice hit.
• 30:33
  The goalie could have done a little bit better but won the
• 30:37
  red card. I do think it's a red card
• 30:39
  because he does kind of go, He kind of kicks out at him.
• 30:43
  I don't know if it was on purpose, it was close to his
• 30:46
  thigh, but I do think that's a red card.
• 30:49
  As I said, Cash in the 67th minute scores a rocket from way
• 30:55
  out. If only he could have done
• 30:57
  better. It's still a really nice goal.
• 30:59
  Villa finally score. Yeah, Villa, they're still in
• 31:03
  18th though, right? Yeah.
• 31:04
  But at least they finally scored a goal in 19. 15 Then Wilson
• 31:10
  Isador gets a 75th minute tie goal.
• 31:16
  And another. I said when I was talking about
• 31:19
  the Burnley game, I'm going to talk about him.
• 31:22
  He's one of their best players so far.
• 31:24
  He's been one of their key players for newly promoted
• 31:28
  teams. But yeah, pretty good game.
• 31:32
  Yeah. So, you know, like you said it
• 31:34
  kind of at the red card early on there.
• 31:37
  I I think you have to, I mean he clearly kicks out with the
• 31:41
  bottom of metal studs, like into the guy's groin slash lower
• 31:45
  stomach. Like, I mean, you just can't do
• 31:47
  that. I mean, you can really hurt
• 31:48
  somebody. I mean, it's very clear that if
• 31:51
  you kick out at a player, it should be a red.
• 31:54
  So he didn't really leave. I think the ref much of A choice
• 31:57
  he had to go off. You know, Villa from there on
• 32:00
  out, I mean, they have a ton of possession in this game.
• 32:02
  It's 71% possession now. They still got out shot somehow
• 32:06
  14 to 12. So Sunderland did pretty well
• 32:10
  with their possession, creating shots.
• 32:12
  So look, Villa finally did score a goal, but still getting a tie
• 32:16
  there. I mean, this team to me, they've
• 32:19
  got better players than what they're doing right now.
• 32:22
  I mean, this is it's just unbelievable to me that Villa
• 32:24
  now have, you know, no wins, 3 losses and two draws.
• 32:28
  I mean the only they're. Doing that almost as bad as
• 32:30
  wolves. Well.
• 32:31
  I was just about to say the only other team without a win are
• 32:33
  Wolves. So there's two teams.
• 32:34
  We have two teams that are undefeated, Palace and
• 32:37
  Liverpool, and there's two teams that I guess we say are defeated
• 32:39
  almost in a way, you know, So Villa and Wolves and Villa, like
• 32:43
  I said, to me, there's just no excuse.
• 32:45
  They've look at their lineup. I mean, they've got good players
• 32:47
  on that team. There's just no way.
• 32:50
  Watkins, Martinez, He's a good goalie, too.
• 32:54
  Yeah, they're so, you know, I think I do think Villa's going
• 32:57
  to get this together a little bit.
• 32:59
  I I, I don't think they're finishing 18th is which is where
• 33:02
  they sit now. But like I said, they put
• 33:04
  themselves in a big hole. You know they were in Champions
• 33:08
  League last. Year.
• 33:08
  Yeah, I know. I was about to say that.
• 33:10
  Like they want to get back there, but they are in a massive
• 33:13
  hole now to try to dig out to try to make top 456, you know,
• 33:18
  So we'll see with them moving forward.
• 33:20
  Like I said, I I'm expecting them to play better soon, but
• 33:24
  right now I guess it's a baby step for them.
• 33:26
  They get a goal, they get a tie. Sunderland's been doing really
• 33:29
  well so. They're going to be a horror
• 33:31
  team to play. They are and, and they seem to
• 33:34
  be doing real well at home. I mean, they're now two wins, 2
• 33:37
  draws and only one loss through five games.
• 33:39
  So they are like a tough team and I think especially at that
• 33:42
  stadium, the Stadium of Light is a big home field advantage for
• 33:45
  them. But yeah, Sunderland, like I
• 33:47
  said. Now the other thing I would say
• 33:49
  about Sunderland, they've had a pretty easy schedule.
• 33:51
  They've they've played West Ham, Brentford, they won those two,
• 33:55
  they've tied Palace, they tied Villa and they lost to Burnley.
• 33:59
  So they haven't played great teams.
• 34:02
  You know, like I said, we're excited.
• 34:03
  Sunderland sits in 7th. This is all feel good.
• 34:06
  Story Burnley. That's kind of sad.
• 34:08
  Though I know I'm not. So like I said, I like the story
• 34:11
  of Sunderland. I kind of like I'm pulling for
• 34:13
  them, you know? But I'm, I'm curious, you know
• 34:18
  what they've got to play, they've got to show me against a
• 34:20
  little bit better competition. You know, the the draw against
• 34:22
  Palace, that's pretty good. But the rest of these teams are
• 34:25
  not great teams. Yeah, what's he all they do
• 34:28
  against bigger teams? Yeah, yeah, like I said, we'll
• 34:31
  see. They've got Nottingham Forest
• 34:32
  next week. Again, not that great, but at
• 34:34
  some point everybody has to play everybody twice so they'll get a
• 34:36
  better team soon. Yeah.
• 34:38
  All right, Luca, well, let's move on to to Bournemouth.
• 34:40
  Newcastle here. Bit of a snoozer 00.
• 34:43
  What do you think of this game? Well, the talking point is that
• 34:47
  there's nothing to talk about, but I'll give you a few stats on
• 34:51
  this. Bournemouth have had 56%
• 34:54
  possession and they outshot Newcastle 11 to 4, so that's
• 35:01
  pretty much it for that game. Not much to talk about so.
• 35:04
  Yeah, I mean, not much to talk about in a Game 00.
• 35:07
  No real controversial moments, no red cards.
• 35:10
  So I kind of wish there was a few goals.
• 35:11
  My prediction was 22. I got a tie, right?
• 35:14
  Just not the goals. Yeah, I mean, this is Eddie Howe
• 35:17
  who coaches Newcastle coming back against his old team.
• 35:20
  So that's always kind of an interesting storyline.
• 35:23
  Of course, Bournemouth are sort of one of these feel good
• 35:25
  stories to start the year. We talked about, you know, we
• 35:28
  talked about Nottingham Farce last year had this sort of
• 35:30
  magical run. They were hovering around the
• 35:31
  top. There's always like one of the
• 35:32
  dark horses. Every so, you know, maybe, maybe
• 35:35
  Bournemouth, they're now three, one and one.
• 35:37
  I mean, would you have thought after five weeks Bournemouth
• 35:39
  would be tied for second in the table?
• 35:41
  Wait, they're tied for second. Tied for second.
• 35:43
  You don't really kind of realize it because they don't really get
• 35:45
  talked about, but. Are they tied with us?
• 35:47
  Tottenham, Arsenal and Bournemouth all are on 10
• 35:49
  points. Wow.
• 35:51
  So I mean that's, that's really like quite impressive, you know,
• 35:54
  by Bournemouth, their their only loss is at Anfield.
• 35:58
  And that's always a hard place to go, yeah.
• 36:00
  So, you know, Bournemouth, like I said, there are another one of
• 36:02
  these teams. I sort of like I said, I'm
• 36:04
  pulling for you know, I just think it's like a great story.
• 36:08
  It's a, you know, a smaller team.
• 36:09
  The stadium's real small and kind of intimate.
• 36:12
  They always sort of play an exciting style.
• 36:14
  Talk about we talked about some of these, you know, coaches and
• 36:17
  how well they did. Thomas Frank right now with
• 36:19
  Spurs and who else am I going to say?
• 36:23
  Another good coach? Oh, Glassner at Crystal Palace.
• 36:26
  What Areola at Bournemouth. He's done a masterful job with
• 36:30
  them and like sort of the things that he gets set up and how he
• 36:34
  sort of develops players. I mean, he, he's, you know, I
• 36:37
  hate to say it because he's probably going to get plucked by
• 36:40
  a bigger club because he does such a good job there.
• 36:42
  Yeah, it's kind of sad out smaller teams just can't keep
• 36:46
  their good coaches or players. Yeah, but so far, like I said,
• 36:50
  Bournemouth, I really, I, I, I like watching this team play.
• 36:54
  Semenya, we talked about him last week.
• 36:56
  He's just such a good player. I just love watching him the way
• 36:59
  he plays. So Bournemouth, like I said, fun
• 37:01
  team to watch. Like I said, people don't talk
• 37:04
  about them a lot in terms of like big glamour teams.
• 37:07
  But I would encourage people if you see Bournemouth on man, put
• 37:10
  them on, like watch them play. They're they're a good fun team.
• 37:12
  Yeah, they're a fun thing to watch.
• 37:14
  All right Luca, well, there's one game left to talk about Wow
• 37:18
  I I we say maybe the best for last.
• 37:20
  I don't know but it. Is the last game.
• 37:23
  That Arsenal, City, Luca, there's a lot to unpack with
• 37:26
  this game. Obviously us being massive
• 37:28
  Arsenal fans, we, we were heavily invested in this game.
• 37:31
  But all right, Luca, walk me through Arsenal and City.
• 37:35
  The final score was 11. My prediction was 21 Arsenal,
• 37:40
  but we get it started with Holland's breakaway in the ninth
• 37:45
  minute. I would say Gabrielle kind of
• 37:47
  goes in into the mix and does not win the ball and then
• 37:51
  Holland just outruns him. And then maybe Zeliva could have
• 37:56
  taken a step over to kind of Mark Cohen and cut off the pass.
• 37:59
  But I would say this is more Gabrielle's fault.
• 38:02
  I'm not really faulting anyone, but like if I had to pick it
• 38:05
  would be probably Gabrielle, but then a crazy bit 90 + 4 from as
• 38:13
  a great ball, like almost at the halfway line plays it over the
• 38:17
  top and Martinelli. I don't know if people think
• 38:21
  we'll know how good a goal this was.
• 38:24
  He uses the outside of his right foot to tap it over and on a
• 38:28
  rumor and he's very tall and into the far corner.
• 38:33
  That's a very good goal and as Arsenal fans we were pretty
• 38:36
  pumped for that and some steps on this.
• 38:40
  Or Teta is the only manager to go five games unbeaten against
• 38:46
  Pep in the Premier League, so that's crazy.
• 38:49
  Yeah, five games in a row. Yeah, five games in a row, City
• 38:54
  had 33% possession in this game that just some of these other
• 38:58
  sets like they had the that's the lowest under PEP, 33%
• 39:03
  possession. Yeah, ever in a Premier League
• 39:05
  game, the lowest the Pep team has ever had percentage wise.
• 39:08
  Yeah, this is a team that usually dominates possession
• 39:11
  like 7075%. Yeah, and they also had the
• 39:15
  fewest passes attempt in this single Premier League game under
• 39:19
  Pep with 295, and then also the most clearances in a single game
• 39:26
  under Pep was 60. That just proves that they're
• 39:30
  playing so defensively. And like another one, fewest
• 39:34
  shots attempted since December 2023 with five, and fewest
• 39:40
  touches in the opponent's box since the start of last season
• 39:45
  with eight. That's just to prove they just
• 39:48
  after that goal, they just defend, defend, defend.
• 39:52
  That's literally all they did. So I just proved that they just
• 39:55
  kind of gave up. Yeah, so this, this is
• 39:57
  interesting to me. You're right, Lucas.
• 39:59
  So, you know, the game ends 11. You talk about some of these
• 40:02
  stats. You know, to me it probably was
• 40:05
  a fair result though, you know, as much as Arsenal sort of
• 40:08
  dominated the second-half. It's not like they created a ton
• 40:12
  of great scoring chances as a thing.
• 40:14
  Now part of that is what you said with City defending a lot.
• 40:18
  Now I want to, I want to though, get your opinion on something
• 40:20
  because I, I, these two, Pep Guardiola is maybe the best
• 40:23
  manager ever. You know, everything he's done.
• 40:26
  You know, he's been at Barcelona, won everything, been
• 40:28
  at Byron, won everything. He's been at City, he's won
• 40:31
  everything. So, you know, he's been at great
• 40:32
  teams, but he's clearly at least, let's say, in the top
• 40:36
  five best managers ever. OK Arteta, like I said, not
• 40:42
  nearly in his class, hasn't won that much, you know, but he's
• 40:45
  very well thought of as like a young up and coming manager.
• 40:47
  This is, remember, this is Arteta's first head coaching
• 40:50
  job. He was with Pep, right, for all
• 40:52
  those years at City. So this is like, you know,
• 40:55
  teacher versus pupil here. Yeah, he's an assistant coach
• 40:57
  there. So.
• 40:59
  But I actually think, Luca, I've got some problems with with both
• 41:02
  of these managers in this game. And I want to get your opinion
• 41:04
  first with Arteta and Arsenal, the way they set up for this
• 41:07
  game game. So remember this, OK, Arsenal
• 41:09
  are at home. I think Arsenal have a better
• 41:13
  squad, meaning like I think we have a better starting 11 even
• 41:16
  with injuries. And look, both teams had
• 41:18
  injuries. OK, so I'm not going to like cry
• 41:20
  injuries here because we didn't have Odegard, we didn't have
• 41:23
  soccer fully healthy. You know, no hammers, you know,
• 41:26
  no J Zeus. So you know city had injuries
• 41:29
  too. So no Shirky, No 8 Nori, I'm
• 41:33
  missing somebody else. Oh, Nomar Moosh.
• 41:36
  So they've been missing guys too.
• 41:37
  So both teams missing guys. But Arsenal to me.
• 41:39
  Luca, what did you think about the way they set up?
• 41:41
  Tell me about the midfield and the way they set up in the
• 41:43
  midfield. What did you think?
• 41:43
  They just kind of went all defensively.
• 41:46
  They put Marino, Zumeni and Rice.
• 41:48
  Now I don't agree with this. Then they put Essay on the
• 41:52
  bench. I would actually start Rice
• 41:56
  Zubamendi and Essay as my midfield and I would actually,
• 42:01
  they just started too defensively in my opinion.
• 42:04
  And they just couldn't build. They couldn't build any attack
• 42:07
  in the first half. And they made some halftime
• 42:10
  substitutions. They brought in Saka and Essay
• 42:12
  for Matawake Marino and and they play much better and just proves
• 42:17
  that they need to put it. They needed to put in a little
• 42:19
  bit of attack there. Yeah.
• 42:21
  And so remember, Saka comes on for Matt Awake because Matt
• 42:24
  awake apparently got hurt. He got hurt somewhere in the
• 42:27
  first half, finished out the half.
• 42:29
  We don't know much about that. So that was more of an injury
• 42:31
  substitution. But a tactical change at
• 42:34
  halftime, which Arteta does not usually make Subs at halftime is
• 42:37
  pulling off Marino and putting as they in.
• 42:39
  I agree with you. That should have been from the
• 42:41
  very start. If Odegard can't go and play at
• 42:43
  the number 10 and sort of it'd be an attacking, creative
• 42:45
  midfielder, you brought SA in because that's where he mostly
• 42:48
  played a Palace. We want him to play on the wing
• 42:51
  a little bit too, and that's fine.
• 42:52
  But this is where he mostly played a Palace.
• 42:54
  He's Premier League proven he's been to, you know, he's played
• 42:57
  against City before when he played a Palace.
• 42:59
  So I agree with you. It just felt so conservative.
• 43:03
  And the first half was pretty bad, yeah, pretty bad from
• 43:06
  Arsenal and you know, and the second-half was almost the exact
• 43:10
  opposite. It was total dominance in
• 43:12
  possession. And this is where I want your
• 43:14
  opinion on on what Pep did. Pep all of a sudden kind of did
• 43:19
  exactly what he never does is goes very defensive.
• 43:22
  So they have a one nothing lead. And now he starts substituting
• 43:26
  off attacking players for defenders.
• 43:27
  Tell tell me about what you thought about what Pep did.
• 43:30
  So he serves off voting for Ake, then Subs Holland off for Nico
• 43:35
  Gonzalez, who is a defensive midfielder.
• 43:39
  So they basically have 75 defenders and two defensive
• 43:42
  midfielders. So they're just basically giving
• 43:45
  up on the attack. And once Arsenal scored, I mean,
• 43:47
  there wasn't much time left, but they had no nothing, no one to
• 43:50
  attack with. So I think both managers messed
• 43:53
  up here. Yeah, I think it's interesting.
• 43:56
  I, you know, Pep, it was almost like they were saying, we're
• 43:58
  just going to absorb the pressure.
• 44:00
  We're going to sit back and we're gonna absorb the pressure
• 44:03
  and just defend this out. We've got our goal.
• 44:05
  We're just gonna defend this out and try to get out of here. 1
• 44:07
  Nothing, which is interesting because it's very similar to
• 44:10
  what Arsenal did against City last year, except we were down
• 44:13
  to 10 men, you know. So remember, we got a red card
• 44:16
  in that game. We're up a goal and we tried to
• 44:18
  defend it out. So it's totally different
• 44:22
  situation when you're down, when you're down 10 men versus they
• 44:25
  had 11. And I think they could have
• 44:27
  tried to hit us on the counter a little bit because we're
• 44:29
  obviously going to push for a goal.
• 44:31
  We're at home. We got to get at least a tie, if
• 44:33
  not try to win the game. And I think if you leave some,
• 44:36
  you know, Holland in, I think he left Doku in most of the game.
• 44:40
  These are the guys that can hit you on the counter and they can
• 44:42
  get the second goal. If they get a second goal, they
• 44:44
  kill the game off. Yeah, So, you know, like I said,
• 44:48
  it's one of those where ultimately, you know, I think
• 44:51
  it's probably a fair result. You know, obviously I wanted
• 44:54
  Arsenal to somehow win the game, but it took sort of a moment of
• 44:58
  magic there. Like I said, when you watch this
• 44:59
  Martinelli goal, I had to watch it back a couple times to just
• 45:02
  sort of appreciate the run he makes.
• 45:04
  Ese's ball is unbelievable to even think to play that ball.
• 45:08
  And Martinelli makes a run, stays on sides and like you
• 45:10
  said, to kind of be running sideways and to flick that ball
• 45:14
  with your foot, like almost on the outside.
• 45:16
  And remember, like you said, he's got to get it over Don
• 45:18
  Aruma, who's like a mountain of a person.
• 45:20
  You've got to get it up and over him and have enough sort of pace
• 45:23
  to carry it into the goal without a defender coming and
• 45:25
  clearing it. It really, it really was a
• 45:27
  really great goal. Yeah.
• 45:29
  So well, you know, interesting. So, you know, Arsenal drop now
• 45:33
  further behind Liverpool. We're now five points behind
• 45:36
  City. Luca, this is so City after five
• 45:39
  games, they're sitting on 7 points.
• 45:40
  This is their worst start since O six O 7.
• 45:44
  So, you know, we're so used to city just sort of, you know,
• 45:47
  cranking out results and wins and all this kind of stuff.
• 45:50
  But they're like I said this. Last year they had a pretty bad
• 45:52
  start. They did it wasn't as bad as
• 45:54
  this, though, after five games, like I said, this is the worst
• 45:57
  since O six O 7. So I think you know, I still
• 46:01
  think city's going to be fine. I I truly think this is like a
• 46:05
  three horse race for the title. I think Liverpool are the clear
• 46:07
  favorites. I think Arsenal and City I still
• 46:10
  think are the second and third best.
• 46:11
  And then I think it gets interesting as you think about
• 46:13
  like the 4th. 5th Chelsea, United maybe Tottenham maybe.
• 46:18
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, I, I think those are the
• 46:20
  teams you're talking about. I don't know about United.
• 46:22
  I don't know if. United 6, you know.
• 46:27
  Around that. There's always like a surprise
• 46:29
  team. I mean, like I said, maybe it's
• 46:30
  Bournemouth, maybe it's Palace. Maybe it's Tottenham.
• 46:33
  Well. 17th last year, almost getting relegated so.
• 46:37
  They do, but I do think that was unusual for Todd.
• 46:39
  I'm not typically a bottom half of the table team.
• 46:41
  They are typically a top ten team.
• 46:44
  So we'll see. This is what kind of makes it
• 46:47
  fun, you know, is, you know, like I said, kind of I like that
• 46:50
  there's multiple teams in the mix.
• 46:52
  It shouldn't always be the same three or four teams winning
• 46:54
  every year. Just would be nice if Arsenal
• 46:56
  could win once one of these. Years.
• 46:58
  Yeah, it. Looks like and it looks like yet
• 46:59
  again, we're going to be second or third to Liverpool, but.
• 47:02
  I just hope. There's a long way to go.
• 47:04
  I just hope Arsenal wins a Premier League and a Champions
• 47:07
  League in my lifetime. Well, let's see.
• 47:09
  So you're 11 years old. I wouldn't hold your breath.
• 47:13
  Goodness gracious. All right, Luke.
• 47:15
  Well, that wraps up the wrap, wraps up the week.
• 47:17
  So once we wrap up the week, Luca, you've got to go ahead and
• 47:20
  give me your goal player and team of the week.
• 47:23
  So who do you got? OK, so goal week.
• 47:25
  It was tough, but I'm going to go stacks.
• 47:28
  Free kick with an honorable mention for Cash and Martinelli.
• 47:33
  OK. Because they both had really
• 47:35
  good goals too. I agree there wasn't like an
• 47:37
  obvious 1 so I like this. Who's your Player of the week?
• 47:40
  My player of the week, I think I'm gonna go grabbing Birch
• 47:45
  because he had a really nice finish and he had an assist in
• 47:48
  this game, so I think he played well in that 21 win against
• 47:52
  Everton. That's a good call.
• 47:54
  He's been phenomenal this year. He is a very, very good.
• 47:57
  Young player of the year, I think he had it last year.
• 48:00
  Did he? He might have.
• 48:02
  I don't know who it was. He might have been Lewis, Kelly
• 48:04
  or Ranieri, but he he might be this year.
• 48:07
  He's a perfect example of of, you know, a guy comes over from
• 48:10
  another league, he came over from the Bundesliga and like
• 48:13
  wasn't great his first year, but give him time, let him settle
• 48:16
  in. And now he's just, I mean, he's
• 48:19
  just a really phenomenal player. So good call there.
• 48:21
  Who's your team of the week? Form for coming back down one
• 48:26
  note and just pound, but seeing them with three goals, I think
• 48:30
  they played well. All right, Cottagers team of the
• 48:32
  week there so OK, Luca, so. That's for Andrew, friend of the
• 48:36
  pod. Friend of the pod.
• 48:37
  Yeah, Andrew, there you go. Big shout out.
• 48:40
  Yeah, Andrew, a friend of the pod, he does a fantasy football.
• 48:42
  He's a Fulham fan and he does a fantasy football.
• 48:45
  Podcast you like American? Confessions of the Bishop,
• 48:48
  everybody should check that podcast out.
• 48:50
  Good fantasy football podcast. But all right, Lucas.
• 48:53
  So let's take a look at this upcoming.
• 48:55
  Let's look around Europe here. We've got some stuff going on
• 48:58
  now. So we've got Wednesday and
• 49:01
  Thursday of this week. You've got League Cup games, so
• 49:04
  and a lot of the big teams now we're back in action with League
• 49:06
  Cup games. You can see those on Paramount
• 49:08
  Plus, Europa League games, Luca, on Wednesday and Thursday.
• 49:14
  Those are also on Paramount this weekend, Luca.
• 49:17
  We've got the Madrid Darby, all right?
• 49:20
  Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid. This is a good Derby game to
• 49:24
  watch OK these teams. That should be pretty good to
• 49:26
  go. Do not like each other.
• 49:28
  This is Saturday at 10:15, so this is a La Liga game.
• 49:31
  It'll be on ESPN. Oh, me and you will just be the
• 49:33
  only ones in the house because my mom and my sister are going
• 49:37
  on a trip for my sister's birthday.
• 49:40
  But so we'll be watching that game on our own.
• 49:42
  Yeah, so we've got so so yeah, that'll be a good one.
• 49:46
  Like, so we'll have to find a TV to get well, but some of the
• 49:47
  Premier League games on, But I'm going to have my eye on Madrid,
• 49:50
  Darby in Syria and Italy. Luca, you have UVA in Atlanta,
• 49:54
  that's first, first, fifth. That's 12:00 on Saturday.
• 49:57
  And then AC Milan and Napoli play at 2:45 on Sunday.
• 50:01
  They're in second and third. So some good matches here inner.
• 50:03
  Come on. No UVA, I said for you're in
• 50:06
  first and Atlanta's in 5th, so we've got some good games here.
• 50:11
  It's kind of sprinkled around, you know, the rest of the
• 50:13
  continent to keep an eye on. No real big soccer news that
• 50:17
  kind of let people know about, like I said, Cole Palmer, kind
• 50:19
  of a groin injury. Keep an eye on that.
• 50:21
  See how long? That awake might be out.
• 50:24
  That awake yeah we'll keep an eye on that like I said he
• 50:26
  finished out the half so I'm. Hopeful that he will.
• 50:29
  He's he's been very good for us. He's been real good.
• 50:31
  So we'll kind of see. But all right, Luca let's we got
• 50:35
  a viewer mailbag question. We always go to our viewer
• 50:37
  mailbag here. This question This question is
• 50:40
  from Nina Miller. OK, my sister.
• 50:43
  Yeah, friend of the pod. Probably our cutest pod fan, I
• 50:47
  have to say. All right.
• 50:48
  What I do? Your your sister, my daughter.
• 50:51
  So Nina wanted to know. She submitted the mailbag
• 50:54
  question. She wants to know why are we
• 50:57
  such fans of personal? Well, I can give you my reason.
• 51:02
  It's because you are a fan. It's kind of a chain reaction.
• 51:07
  I was pretty much born into Arsenal, born into an Arsenal
• 51:12
  fan like club I guess. And ever since I was born, I've
• 51:18
  been a fan of Arsenal with you. And I like some of their
• 51:21
  players. But that is why I'm a fan of
• 51:24
  Arsenal, mainly because you are and you lived in London and
• 51:28
  you're a big fan of Terry Henry. So yeah.
• 51:31
  Right. Yeah.
• 51:31
  So my, my viewership goes back to right when I was very, very
• 51:34
  young, younger than you are. I lived in London.
• 51:37
  I love London, it's one of my favorite cities in the world.
• 51:39
  It's my favorite. I was going to say, you're a
• 51:41
  massive fan of and you've been there twice now or 3 * 3 times
• 51:45
  you've been there. You're 11 years old.
• 51:47
  Disney Cruise and we've been twice to see a bunch of games.
• 51:49
  Right. So you and you're 11 and you've
• 51:51
  been to London three times, you've been to Emirates Stadium
• 51:54
  twice, you've done a stadium tour.
• 51:58
  No, three times. Three times, right?
• 52:00
  Two games and every time we went we saw the Emirates Stadium.
• 52:04
  That's right. Yeah.
• 52:05
  So yes, but so I always liked London.
• 52:08
  I always kind of like like the London teams, but I always just,
• 52:11
  like you said, Terry Henri is my favorite player of all time and
• 52:14
  I just love watching him. It's also why I'm a bit of a fan
• 52:16
  of Barcelona too. Terry, Henri.
• 52:19
  Played at Barcelona as well, but I've also loved like they play a
• 52:22
  beautiful style of soccer. It's always been attacking, lots
• 52:26
  of passes. So I've always liked like what
• 52:28
  they've kind of done on the field too.
• 52:30
  And obviously we we could go on do a whole podcast and all the
• 52:34
  great players that have come through personal so but yeah, so
• 52:37
  good question. Like I said, we are die hard
• 52:39
  Arsenal fans, Lucas literally doing the podcast right now and
• 52:42
  Arsenal from a bunch of this. So yeah.
• 52:45
  So yeah, no question about it in our household who we read for.
• 52:49
  So. All right, Luca, let's move on
• 52:51
  to the did you know section. OK, OK, did you know?
• 52:54
  And Luca doesn't know any of these, but did you know that the
• 52:57
  Balandor, the award for, you know, the best players in the
• 53:02
  world just literally just finished up?
• 53:04
  So Luca, do you know Balandor means golden ball?
• 53:09
  Yeah, I. Do the Balandor has been given
• 53:11
  out since 1956 and it is started by a magazine, actually a French
• 53:18
  magazine called France Football. And they're the ones who started
• 53:22
  this. A couple journalists sort of got
• 53:23
  together and had the idea of like, hey, let's give out an
• 53:25
  award, you know, to the best footballers out there.
• 53:29
  And so since 1956 they've been giving out the obviously the
• 53:32
  award. And it used to be that you just
• 53:35
  was just for Europe. And so in 1995 they expanded it
• 53:40
  to be you could be any player, but you had to be active with
• 53:44
  the European club. Oh, you had to be active with
• 53:47
  the European club, but you can't be MLS.
• 53:50
  Well, and now in 2007, they expanded to just anybody in the
• 53:54
  world. You can play anywhere in the
• 53:55
  world. So it used to be very, very
• 53:56
  European based. And so if you look back, you
• 53:59
  know, you may look back through the 60s, seventies, 80s and 90s
• 54:02
  and be like, you know, why aren't some of these South
• 54:04
  American players, you know, winning battle on doors is
• 54:06
  because they weren't even like eligible for it.
• 54:08
  In 2018, they started giving an award to the to women.
• 54:14
  And then in 2022, they changed it from it used to be the
• 54:18
  calendar year, right? So from January 1st to December
• 54:22
  31st, like what you did during that period of time, but then it
• 54:25
  switched to be like the season. So let's look at it from like
• 54:28
  the season standpoint. So the Balandor that just went
• 54:31
  out was given for basically the 2425 season.
• 54:34
  You know, what did you do for your club in the league?
• 54:38
  What did you do in the cup competitions?
• 54:39
  What did you do in Champions League?
• 54:41
  And then like, you know, probably a little bit of
• 54:42
  international play sort of mixed in as well, although it feels
• 54:45
  like it's more geared towards, you know, clubs and what you did
• 54:49
  for your club team. So that's sort of the back story
• 54:52
  on how we got to the Balandor. Now, of course, they give out a
• 54:55
  couple different awards, right? We've got the Copa trophy for
• 54:58
  best young player. You've got the Yashin Trophy for
• 55:02
  what? Goalie.
• 55:03
  Best goalie. There's a Johann Kroy trophy.
• 55:06
  Do you know what that's for? Coach.
• 55:07
  Coach of the year. Good.
• 55:08
  Yeah, coach of the year. And then they also give out like
• 55:10
  a club of the year, so. All right, So you don't even
• 55:13
  know, right? Look at the awards literally
• 55:14
  just ended like a few minutes ago.
• 55:16
  Actually. I've got the results here, but I
• 55:18
  want to know Luca. All right, let's just talk about
• 55:20
  like men's player of the year, the Val, the true Balandor
• 55:23
  trophy. Luca, who like give me your top
• 55:25
  four or five for this past year if you we're voting, if it was
• 55:28
  like Luca Miller, who are you giving it to?
• 55:30
  And give me your top four or five.
• 55:32
  I'll give you my top five. OK, number one, I'm going to
• 55:36
  Yaminia Mall. The winner.
• 55:38
  Well, I don't, I don't know if you want I I just he's.
• 55:41
  Your winner, he's your. He's my winner, OK?
• 55:43
  So. He's number one.
• 55:44
  Number two saw #3 is Ben denbelly #4 Athena #5.
• 55:55
  I'm Ronaldo. Bernaldo what?
• 55:59
  He's still dominating in the Saudi league.
• 56:01
  Oh for goodness sakes, that's that's a Homer pick.
• 56:03
  Luke is a big fan of the lady. Don't.
• 56:05
  Don't listen. Surprised.
• 56:06
  He didn't say Kai hammers. I was thinking about it, but if
• 56:10
  I'm being quite honest. OK, so your top four are solid
• 56:14
  and good #5 that's ridiculous. So we're going to pretend like
• 56:17
  you didn't even say that. Maybe I'll edit that out, but.
• 56:19
  Oh, come on. OK, so here you go, Luke.
• 56:22
  I'm going to count it down from 12:50.
• 56:24
  OK. So they rank these, right?
• 56:26
  Oh they did top. 10 they actually, when they do it, they
• 56:30
  do an initial list of 30 and then they start whittling it
• 56:34
  down and they start and they start going like 30 to like 20
• 56:37
  and they rank those. And then those people obviously
• 56:39
  can't win. And then you do like 20 to 10.
• 56:41
  And then so today they have the top ten and yes, they actually
• 56:44
  rank it. So #10 Nuna Mendez.
• 56:46
  Oh, OK #9 Donna Ruma. Oh wow. #8 Cole, Palmer, OK #7
• 56:53
  Killian and Bompe. OK.
• 56:55
  Number six Hakimi. OK. #5 Rafinia.
• 57:01
  All right. Yeah, that's fair. #4 Sala.
• 57:04
  Whoa. Here's one this is a bit of a
• 57:07
  surprise #3 Vitinia at PSG, that's.
• 57:11
  Not a bad pick. It's not a bad pick.
• 57:13
  He is a real. He had an amazing year.
• 57:15
  He was really, really good. All right, drum roll, right?
• 57:18
  Because when I say 2, you're going to know 1.
• 57:20
  So 2. Laminia Mall number one.
• 57:23
  Dembele Dembele won the ball endor.
• 57:26
  He won the ball endor. So let me all right, let me make
• 57:28
  the case, all right, for Dembele here, OK, his team.
• 57:33
  Won the Champions League. Won the champ, they won the
• 57:35
  treble, so they won Lee gun, he won the Champions League and
• 57:38
  they won the Coupe de France. He had 35 goals and 14 assists
• 57:43
  in 53 games. All right, so let's just let
• 57:46
  let's go through some of the top guys just for comparison, Sala.
• 57:49
  All right, Salah won won the Premier League.
• 57:51
  He won the hardest and they won of like running away, but lost
• 57:55
  in the round of 16 in the Champions League and he lost in
• 57:58
  the final of the League Cup. OK, now he had 37 goals, 23
• 58:03
  assists in 60 games. That's yeah.
• 58:06
  All right, so Laminia Mal and Ruffinia, right, they're going
• 58:08
  to have the same. They won a treble kind of too.
• 58:11
  Kind of, yeah. So they won La Liga, they won
• 58:14
  Copa del Rey and they won the Spanish Super Cup.
• 58:16
  So court. Kind of.
• 58:18
  Yeah, I mean, advantage PSG players with winning Champions
• 58:22
  League. All right, so here's Lamalle's
• 58:25
  stats. 21 goals, 22 assists in 62 games.
• 58:29
  Ruffinia 39 goals, 24 assists in 68 games.
• 58:34
  Is anything Ruffinia played better than your mall?
• 58:37
  So? But your mall's skills are just
• 58:40
  outstanding. He's ridiculous.
• 58:41
  I mean, all these players are amazing, right?
• 58:43
  I mean, we're splitting hairs a little bit.
• 58:44
  All these players are like world class.
• 58:46
  I have no problem with this top five, by the way, like one bit
• 58:49
  at all. Like so you know, like it's just
• 58:52
  a matter of like, you know, to me, I kind of thought with
• 58:55
  Ruffina might be a little higher.
• 58:57
  I kind of feel like I would. Have been top three.
• 59:01
  I feel like I would have put Ruffina over Laminium all.
• 59:05
  Okay, that's a bit of a. Stress just based on last year,
• 59:08
  not on like potent. Higher than Saul.
• 59:11
  If I could change my answer right now, I would put what I
• 59:14
  have. I had, I think I had Orphenia at
• 59:18
  4:00. I'm going to put Saul for you
• 59:21
  and me. Rafina 3.
• 59:24
  So my problem also with the PSG players are is like the league
• 59:28
  that play in is a. Just.
• 59:30
  So easy and that allows them a big advantage when they go to
• 59:32
  Champions League that they can rest players they can.
• 59:35
  Almost like their league is usually wrapped up months before
• 59:39
  their season ends. So what can they do?
• 59:40
  They can just rest players for and just prioritize Champions
• 59:44
  League at the end. Now they clearly deserve the
• 59:46
  Champions League. They were amazing through that
• 59:47
  competition. They had a great, great team fun
• 59:50
  to watch. You know, I have no problem.
• 59:51
  But like, they have a massive advantage over Premier League
• 59:54
  teams, while league of teams who are like typically battling it
• 59:56
  out to the very end every game is tough.
• 59:59
  So, you know, I'm always a little bit hesitant to give PSG
• 1:00:04
  players too many props. But then Belly was pretty
• 1:00:06
  amazing scored against Arsenal in the Champions League.
• 1:00:09
  Yeah. So I don't know that I have much
• 1:00:11
  of a problem here. I don't.
• 1:00:13
  Have much of. A problem?
• 1:00:14
  Yeah, with them belly. Included a lot of PSG players.
• 1:00:17
  They did. There's a ton of PSG players and
• 1:00:20
  I don't know if I love that because again, I just think
• 1:00:22
  they're they're basing that off of the fact they won the travel,
• 1:00:25
  which is impressive, but it's not like winning it from La
• 1:00:29
  Liga, even the Bundesliga, certainly not the Premier League
• 1:00:33
  or even Syria. They are still world class
• 1:00:35
  players so I I don't have much of a problem but.
• 1:00:38
  They aren't, and they look and they beat some good teams going
• 1:00:40
  through the Champions League. It wasn't like they had like an
• 1:00:41
  easy draw to get there, you know?
• 1:00:44
  It's like City, they play Arsenal and they play.
• 1:00:46
  Who is that? They play in the.
• 1:00:48
  Final right, they play in. The villa and they and.
• 1:00:50
  They just absolutely destroyed them.
• 1:00:53
  So all right, so look at the other results.
• 1:00:55
  Copa Trophy best young player Laminium all like 0 surprise
• 1:00:59
  they are Yashin Trophy best goalkeeper.
• 1:01:01
  Donna Ruma. Donna Ruma got it.
• 1:01:04
  Coach of the Year, The Johan Cruise Trophy.
• 1:01:06
  On a nice swat. No, I thought you were going to
• 1:01:09
  Luis Enrique. OK, yeah, there's there's two
• 1:01:12
  pretty hobbies. Yeah, again, I think it's like,
• 1:01:15
  you know, Slot probably was a front runner like Sala was, but
• 1:01:19
  then they didn't really add on any other trophies besides the
• 1:01:22
  Premier League, which. Keep thinking like Liverpools.
• 1:01:26
  I just think they're going to be so good this year.
• 1:01:28
  Like in in every competition. PSG no Liverpool.
• 1:01:32
  Oh yeah? Well.
• 1:01:33
  So many good players. They have so the real test is
• 1:01:36
  going to come. Like I mean, they they crashed
• 1:01:38
  out of champions like that was a massive disappointment for them.
• 1:01:40
  You go down and run. PSG.
• 1:01:42
  I know. And that's, like I said, there's
• 1:01:44
  no shame in losing to them. But like, you know, they gotta
• 1:01:47
  get farther this year. I mean, like, you know, they've
• 1:01:49
  won the Premier League, their favored to win it again.
• 1:01:53
  They've got to add on some multiple trophies here, you
• 1:01:55
  know? Yeah.
• 1:01:55
  Although, look, I mean, I say that and I would take a Premier
• 1:01:57
  League title and nothing else in a heart, Yeah.
• 1:02:00
  I would take that too. All right, Club of the Year,
• 1:02:02
  Luca, PSG big shout out. Female Club of the year.
• 1:02:06
  Arsenal women. Let's go.
• 1:02:08
  Arsenal Women. Champions League so.
• 1:02:11
  I know and they did well in the women's league, they won the
• 1:02:13
  Champions League GERD Moeller Trophy, Luca, which is for best
• 1:02:17
  performing striker Victor Giacores.
• 1:02:20
  Got it. Oh, really?
• 1:02:21
  Yeah, so we want him. And real quick shout out to some
• 1:02:25
  of the Arsenal women. Lisa Russo finished third in the
• 1:02:29
  Balandur. Who won the Balandur for women?
• 1:02:33
  Bon mati. Yeah, OK.
• 1:02:34
  Third year in a row for her. Oh my God, sorry I'm saying this
• 1:02:39
  on the pod, but a few months ago I pulled a game one jersey card
• 1:02:43
  of Bon Mati. Her value of a card may be going
• 1:02:47
  flying up after she just grown the ball on door for the second
• 1:02:50
  time, right? Third year in a row.
• 1:02:52
  Third year in a row. Yeah, she's gonna.
• 1:02:54
  Be like the Ronaldo Nessie of the women's ball on door.
• 1:02:57
  She's unbelievable. She's great but real quick.
• 1:02:58
  Chloe Kelly for Arsenal Women's got 5th and Leah Williamson.
• 1:03:02
  When Kelly when joined Arsenal, I didn't.
• 1:03:05
  She was on Like City for a while.
• 1:03:06
  Yeah, and Leah Williamson got 7, so 3 Arsenal Women in the top 7.
• 1:03:11
  Big shout out to them and got Team of the Year so good on
• 1:03:14
  them. Right.
• 1:03:16
  All right, Luca, it is time for us to end the show with our
• 1:03:20
  penalty kick trivia shootout. This is where we will ask each
• 1:03:24
  other questions. We'll give a second or two so
• 1:03:27
  people can kind of form their own answers.
• 1:03:29
  But of course, if you get the question right, you've made a
• 1:03:31
  goal. If you miss it, you've missed
• 1:03:33
  it. And so you're we're obviously
• 1:03:34
  trying to to get more right than the other person.
• 1:03:37
  So do you want to go first or second?
• 1:03:38
  I'll. Answer first.
• 1:03:41
  Answer first. All right, Luca.
• 1:03:42
  So my first question is Speaking of Balandors, OK, And how many
• 1:03:50
  Balandors has Lionel Messi won? That is exactly right.
• 1:03:56
  Yeah, I'm screwed in bottom. Lucas Boom that was an easy one
• 1:04:01
  right in side netting. 1 Nothing.
• 1:04:03
  What country is Unai Emery from? Spain.
• 1:04:07
  Correct. All right, 11 All right, Luke, a
• 1:04:11
  question #2 for you, what national team is nicknamed the
• 1:04:14
  Azuri? Italy.
• 1:04:18
  That is correct. Oh my God, what's?
• 1:04:21
  The Blues, because of course, they famously wear blue.
• 1:04:25
  Yeah, I have a big brain. Good job, Yeah.
• 1:04:28
  Which country is Julian Naglesman from?
• 1:04:33
  Naglesman. Is he from Germany?
• 1:04:38
  Correct 2222. 2 All right, Luca, we've talked on this pod about
• 1:04:43
  Alan Shearer. The reason why is because he
• 1:04:45
  holds the Premier League record for most goals at 260 goals.
• 1:04:51
  So Alan Shearer played Luca from 1988 to 2006, and he played for
• 1:04:55
  three teams over those 18 years. Can you give me two of those
• 1:04:59
  teams? OK, Newcastle.
• 1:05:01
  That is correct. That is 1.
• 1:05:03
  I know Sheffield Wednesday. No.
• 1:05:08
  Oh shoot, going. To give you another guess
• 1:05:10
  though. I don't want to leave a bunch of
• 1:05:16
  dead air. I'm just going to threat United.
• 1:05:19
  No, not United. So Southampton, which is I think
• 1:05:23
  that's a tough. One Stoke.
• 1:05:25
  And Blackburn Rd. Blackburn I knew that one.
• 1:05:27
  I. Was going to say I felt like the
• 1:05:28
  South. So he came up with Southampton
• 1:05:30
  and played with them and then he went on to the other teams.
• 1:05:32
  But. I get half a point for that I'm.
• 1:05:34
  Going to give you half. OK.
• 1:05:37
  All right, go ahead with your question.
• 1:05:39
  This is not an easy one. In which country is the
• 1:05:43
  Americana Stadium located? Americana Stadium.
• 1:05:47
  Just Americana. Americana.
• 1:05:50
  Which country? Argentina.
• 1:05:53
  Close, Brazil. The other big country in South
• 1:05:56
  America. I skied it over the bar with a
• 1:05:58
  miss. I barely hit the post.
• 1:06:00
  All right, Luca, question #4 All right, Luca, what 2 clubs have
• 1:06:06
  had the most Malandor winners? So we're thinking, like I said,
• 1:06:10
  club teams that have had the most obviously players on those
• 1:06:13
  teams to win. So what 2 clubs?
• 1:06:15
  Because they're tied, actually. Madrid.
• 1:06:18
  Real Madrid. That is one of them.
• 1:06:20
  Is it Barsa? Yeah.
• 1:06:22
  Yeah, that's pretty. Easy.
• 1:06:23
  We just had Messi winning 8. So each of them, each of them
• 1:06:26
  have 12. So Messi did 8 of Barcelona's
• 1:06:29
  12. But yes, so.
• 1:06:31
  Like what? How?
• 1:06:32
  How many do you have? 5 He.
• 1:06:33
  Had five, so he's got five of their 12.
• 1:06:35
  I had one. Yeah.
• 1:06:37
  I mean, I'd have to go, but I mean, obviously both these
• 1:06:40
  teams. Madrid.
• 1:06:41
  Real Madrid don't have more than that.
• 1:06:43
  Yeah, I know. I was going to say, I mean, both
• 1:06:44
  of these teams always have, you know, amazing players all over.
• 1:06:47
  So yes, good job on that. OK.
• 1:06:49
  So yeah, Barcelona and Real Madrid each with 12 Balandor
• 1:06:52
  winners. So, OK, that's a make for you.
• 1:06:54
  All right, in the 2006 World Cup, which referee mistakenly
• 1:07:00
  issued 3 yellow cards to one player and I have choices all.
• 1:07:04
  Right, I'm going to need choices.
• 1:07:05
  I don't know many referees. Howard Webb, Martin Atkinson,
• 1:07:10
  Graham Pole, Mark Klattenberg, All.
• 1:07:14
  Right. I'm going to go with who was the
• 1:07:17
  second one you said? Martin Actenberg.
• 1:07:23
  All right, Howard Webb. Oh no, it's Graham Pole.
• 1:07:28
  Graham Pole referee trivia. Wow, Lucas.
• 1:07:33
  All right, Lucas. So who holds the record?
• 1:07:36
  So we know that the Golden Boot is given to the person who
• 1:07:40
  scores the most goals in the season, right?
• 1:07:42
  So the Premier League Golden Boot, you get that if you score
• 1:07:44
  more goals than everybody else or if you tie, then you also get
• 1:07:47
  a Golden Boot. So Luca, in the history of the
• 1:07:49
  Premier League, who has the most Golden boots ever?
• 1:07:54
  And there's two players. I want Luca because they're tied
• 1:07:56
  for the. Most Alan cheer.
• 1:07:58
  No good guess, but he so the win.
• 1:08:02
  The two winners here have four. I think Shearer has three, so
• 1:08:05
  he's right behind them. So I'm going to give you 2
• 1:08:06
  months. Good guess, but no.
• 1:08:11
  Rooney. No.
• 1:08:12
  Ronaldo. No, Ronaldo only has one.
• 1:08:15
  I think so. Tyrion Ree.
• 1:08:18
  Tyrion. Rey, Tyrion.
• 1:08:20
  Rey. Yep, he got three and four
• 1:08:21
  years. Oh, Salah, Salah.
• 1:08:24
  Yeah, yeah. So Henri and Salah so.
• 1:08:26
  Another half of the question, the goal. 2 halves make one all.
• 1:08:31
  Right, I think I I think I need to to make this to and.
• 1:08:36
  We can do our bonus question at the end.
• 1:08:37
  Mine's pretty easy. All right.
• 1:08:38
  Got it. In which year did Lionel Messi
• 1:08:41
  make his debut for the Argentina's first team?
• 1:08:44
  And I have choices. All right, so all right, give me
• 1:08:49
  choices on this. One A 2000, 2003, B 2004, C
• 1:08:54
  2005, and D 2006. 2004. Close, 2005.
• 1:09:01
  That's a struggle. All right, So I think you win
• 1:09:02
  the penalty kick shootout. So you just want to read your
• 1:09:05
  bonus question. Yeah, it's pretty easy.
• 1:09:07
  Which international team won the 2024 Copa America?
• 1:09:12
  Argentina. Correct.
• 1:09:13
  All right, my bonus question Lugo is what Premier League team
• 1:09:16
  plays their home games at Turf more?
• 1:09:19
  Burnley. That's correct.
• 1:09:21
  All right, Luca. Well, that's it.
• 1:09:23
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• 1:09:27
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• 1:09:30
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• 1:09:34
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• 1:09:36
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• 1:09:39
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• 1:09:41
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• 1:09:44
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• 1:09:46
  Like I said, questions, if you want us to plug anything, we're
• 1:09:49
  happy to do that. So yeah, come find us there.
• 1:09:52
  But well, Luca, what do we always say at the end?
• 1:09:55
  It's the final whistle. Thank you for listening and
• 1:09:58
  goodbye. Thanks for listening everybody.
• 1:10:00
  Good night.