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Week 34 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  Edition of the Premier League Playground with me, as always,
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  is the lad. Shoot, he's.
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  Very eager to jump in and I can start talking so the lad Luca.
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  Luca Miller, yeah. Luca Miller.
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  Yeah, we're kind of messing up our intro.
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  Yeah, it's OK. It's all right.
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  Right off the jump. Happy birthday to the lad.
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  Thank you, it was yesterday. How was your birthday?
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  It was really good. I I bet no one can guess what I
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  got for my birthday. I mean, what did you get for
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  your birthday? What were some of the
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  highlights? Soccer cards.
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  Soccer cards. OK, awesome.
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  So you got a lot of soccer cards.
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  What else did you get on your birthday?
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  I got tickets to a World Cup game to see Cape Verde play
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  Spain and I got Spain jersey to go with it.
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  Which jersey did you get? Zubamendi.
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  Zubamendi, Spain, Yeah, we're lucky that Spain has a couple
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  Arsenal players. Is Marino going to be there?
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  He'll be healthy enough I I would assume he'd get picked for
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  it. I can't say for sure that he's
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  like guaranteed to make the team, but he's usually a
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  national team call up. Who else would be there?
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  Oraya and. And Zubamendi.
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  And I bet Simeon He Rye is definitely going to get the star
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  over Simeone Simone. Simone well, I don't know
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  that'll be an interesting thing for Spain is who stars Rye's had
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  a great year, but unai Simone typically gets.
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  No, we're not putting Bilbao's goalie.
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  I think Lucas, sometimes they trust sort of the experience of,
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  you know, having a guy that's been there.
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  I look, I agree. I love Rye.
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  He's had an amazing year. I can't imagine.
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  If they don't start him, I'm going to crash.
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  But also Laminia Mall should be healthy.
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  Oh. Yeah, Padri, Spain's obviously
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  loaded with great players, so I'll be excited and and Cape
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  Verde Luca, third smallest country to ever go to the world.
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  Cup Do they have any players that we know I.
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  Don't think so. I don't sometimes.
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  It's we're naming Yamal Raya and you don't even know one player.
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  Sometimes those small African countries do have like a Premier
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  League player too, but I, I don't think they do.
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  They're this is their first time ever going to a World Cup, third
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  smallest nation ever. So it's a cool story and I think
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  their fans will be like super into it, but they got a when we
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  go to see that game, Spain will be heavy, heavy favorites in
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  that. But what else did you get for
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  your birthday? I got a Valverde jersey, I've
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  been begging for one, so I'm really happy about that.
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  You're a big fan of his? Yeah, Real Madrid's fed
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  Valverde. Yeah, and I got the newest Kai
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  Harvard Germany jersey for the World Cup.
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  I got stuff like boxes to put my cards in and I got this like
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  trivia game it for soccer. It's like a World Cup ball and
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  it asks you questions and you choose your answer and you can
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  play against people. And I also got a Lego soccer
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  ball. It's like too big and it opens
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  up. 1400 piece Lego set. It's a big soccer.
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  Ball. That's pretty cool.
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  So that that'll take you some time to finish that up.
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  Yeah. Yeah, you had a good birthday,
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  so we have to watch the Champions League, Arsenal at
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  there's. 11. 11 But then we got to celebrate your birthday, so
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  happy birthday to the lad. He turned to Big 12 here.
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  So yeah, exciting times for you and you got a birthday party
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  with some of your buddies on Sunday.
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  Playing some football, yeah. So you can think of a big.
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  Football birthday party with some buddies and that'll be fun
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  on Sunday. So the birthdays, you know,
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  we'll, we'll keep it going for another couple days.
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  Yeah. All right, Luca.
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  Well, Luca, we are in the thick of the Premier League race to
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  the end here. Week 34 in the books.
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  Interesting games, Luca. The battle for top spot in the
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  Premier League, as well as the battle for the last relegation
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  spot is tight. Very, very tight.
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  So you ready to jump into the games?
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  Yes. All right, Luke.
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  Well, First off, this week was kind of stretched it like went
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  ran from Tuesday to Monday, first game early game on Tuesday
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  because of the FA Cup. Chelsea get their game moved up.
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  They went to Brighton. Tell me about the game.
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  And they lost 3 nothing. They got destroyed.
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  Yeah, I predicted 2. Nothing Brighton.
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  So I was actually close to my prediction.
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  Kenny Odd Blue scores in the third minute, then Hinchelwood
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  in the 56th minute, then Welbeck in the 92nd minute.
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  And when he scores, he does the Suey celebration and the whole
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  crowd goes sue. It was kind of kind of funny.
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  You love Ronaldo and that's Ronaldo's signature celebration.
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  Yeah, and I love when the crowd joins in and goes Sue.
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  Chelsea have lost five in a row without scoring for the first
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  time since 1912 and Brighton are five straight unbeaten in the
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  Premier League. Four wins in one draw.
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  And that led to Chelsea getting their manager fired, so Liam
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  Rose senior Luca fired after 106 days. 26 games.
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  I have 23. Oh, OK.
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  You said 26 also 26 somewhere. OK.
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  Maybe it's 23 Premier League matches and 26 in all comps.
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  Oh, Oh yeah, because there's two against Arsenal and then the
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  one. Well, he was in charge during
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  the he must have been more because he was in charge for a
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  couple Champions League games. He got.
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  Blown out. He was in charge of, I think,
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  both. No, but I think I is counting
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  Premier, Premier League and Champions League because he did
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  not. He only managed like 10 Premier
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  League games. Well, I think it was a few more
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  than that, but the point obviously is it was very short.
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  They signed him to a 6 1/2 year contract.
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  He's still going to get paid too.
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  They'll. Still get paid unless they can
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  find some loophole or something. But yeah, I mean, it's this is
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  we'll just say find something in the contract to try to void it
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  and not pay him out the money. But this is what Chelsea do with
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  their players and their managers.
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  They sign to these very, very long deal.
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  Most of the soccer contracts are four and five years.
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  Chelsea sort of do 678 year contracts, but then they're on
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  the hook for paying these guys when they only last 106 days.
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  It just didn't work out. Luca, you just didn't seem like
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  the right fit. It felt like the job was too big
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  for him. What a mess Chelsea have made of
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  this season. I mean they were cruising for a
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  Champions League spot. They're probably going to be top
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  four. They now sit in 8th, Luca 8th
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  place and like you said Luca, they've gone they set a record
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  and 14 years the last time they went this many games without
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  scoring a goal. I mean that's it's how long?
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  Crazy. I wonder how long it has been
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  going six games without a goal. I mean, you wonder at that point
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  if they've ever done that in the history of their club.
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  That's true. I.
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  Mean, if it's been five games and we're talking 100, I mean,
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  the the club's only probably been around since like late
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  1800s. So I mean, yeah, we'll see.
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  Six games in a row without scoring would be just especially
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  because like you look, they've got good players like.
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  They're not going to score next week, mark my words.
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  Do you think it's a hot cake, Alexander?
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  That's for you. Early prediction is that they're
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  going to get shut out by Nottingham Forest.
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  They are Wow. Nyan Forest just beat the like
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  they just beat up Sunderland at the Stadium of what?
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  I mean, look at Chelsea are two points above 12th place, 22
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  points above 12 place well. Even twelve place.
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  Sunderland are in 12th place on 46.
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  Points. If they lose and Sunderland win,
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  they could go in 12 place. I mean, you know, it's, it's
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  crazy, but I, I think we should also give a little love to
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  Brighton though. So as bad as Chelsea have been,
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  Brighton have been this good. Luke in their last eight games,
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  six wins, one loss, one draw. They now sit alone in 6th place.
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  So if the season ended today, they would be in Europa League
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  spots, which is would be amazing for Brighton.
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  I mean, that's just incredible to be if they finished sixth in
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  the Premier League. Geez, I mean that would be
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  crazy. Yeah, I mean you.
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  Know, I mean it would be big for them too.
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  Europe, I mean, I don't, I think they might have had Europe in
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  like 2324, but it it certainly would be big for that club.
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  Yeah, it's interesting. It's a good call.
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  Like I don't know if they've ever made Europa League or UEFA
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  Conference. League I think they have, but
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  never Champions League. Yeah, never Champions League and
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  they're not going to get Champions League, but still 6 or
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  even 7th would be amazing for them.
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  So they're they're rolling right now.
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  They're playing really well. Chelsea were just terrible in
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  this game. So I like credit on Brighton for
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  putting 3. On Yeah.
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  Chelsea were just awful, awful in every aspect of this game.
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  When we were watching the highlights, like their best
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  highway probably was when Sanchez gave the ball away,
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  yeah. I mean, so like I said,
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  Brighton, like I said, you know, they're playing really well, but
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  again, how much stock do you put in them beating?
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  Like I said, just an awful Chelsea team.
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  Timing is kind of everything with when you find team, right?
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  Like we played Chelsea the beginning of the season.
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  They play us super hard. It was a tough game.
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  You know, a lot of it is just when you catch these teams,
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  whether in good form or bad form.
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  So everybody probably wants to be playing Chelsea right now
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  because they are just just terrible right now.
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  Can't wait to see City beat up Chelsea in the FA Cup final.
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  Yeah, I can't imagine that that's not going to be a
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  blowout. My prediction 6.
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  Nothing. Yeah.
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  Well, Speaking of City Luca, next game Burnley hosted City.
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  Yeah, this end ends 1 nothing. I predicted it to be 3 nothing
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  it. So Holland scores in the 5th
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  minute and they don't score ever.
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  Like, and I think as you would like to say, Pep, Pep
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  Guardiola's got to be pulling his hair out because Cindy, he
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  doesn't. Have much hair to pull out?
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  But that's true. What am I even doing?
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  He has no hair to pull out. He's probably, like, scratching
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  his bald head like he does. Yeah, he's probably, like, on
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  the ground, rolling around the ground, crying like he always
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  does. And because Cindy had so many
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  chances in this game and hit the hit the woodwork a couple times
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  and just a couple that like they should have put away.
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  Yeah, for sure. I mean the XG in this game.
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  Luca City 3.54, Burnley. 0. .63 shots were 28 to 9 shots on
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  target, 9 to one. City has 66% possession, 66%
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  possession. Yeah, I mean, this is, you know
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  what? We've the reason why it's
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  important it. Look, City gets the win, They
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  get the three points. That's the most important thing.
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  But them and Arsenal are just going back and forth right now
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  and the first tiebreaker if they finished tied, is goal
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  differential. And they're very close.
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  On it and they're very close so this was a game where city were
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  like I said your call of three nothing that's exactly what I
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  would have thought and I. And I it should have been right.
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  It should have been right. Yeah, no, exactly.
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  I mean, you see an extra 3.54 and then it should have been 3
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  or 4. So you were spot on.
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  I think it just it was crazy. Some of those, yeah, a little
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  bit unlucky. The O'Reilly chance at the end
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  of the game. I mean, it just scuffs and he's
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  been great. He's been banging in goals
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  against everybody, specifically Arsenal, you know, So City,
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  like, look, they get the win and that is the most important
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  thing. But they're going to feel like
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  this is a lost opportunity to possibly push that goal
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  differential up a little bit. Because at the end of this game,
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  Arsenal and City were tied on points, tied on games played,
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  goal differential. Luca was then the same.
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  So the next tiebreaker is goals scored, which City had I think
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  two more. So that's why on Wednesday, at
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  the end of Wednesday, before Arsenal play this weekend, City
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  had technically moved above them in the table.
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  Yeah, again, continuing. Took over top spot since after
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  Arsenal LED for 201 consecutive days and City haven't lost in
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  the Premier League since January 17th when they lost the United
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  to nothing. Yeah, and Lucas, so City have
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  never not won the Premier League after leading the table after 33
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  games. So it's it basically every other
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  time that City had been top of the table after 33 games like
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  they were this week, they've always won the championship.
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  It's 'cause they're so, so there's, I mean it, it makes
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  sense that they're so strong finishing.
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  It's just they just keep winning, keep winning, keep
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  winning. So Arsenal, basically, it feels
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  like we have to win out and then maybe even get some help because
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  doesn't look like the tiebreakers will sort of fall
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  our way with goal differential. It's got to be points.
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  It's got to be. Points, I think it probably does
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  too, because I, I don't think we score enough goals to run up the
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  goal differential. So I'm kind of with you there.
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  And that's I think what. Makes although we just played
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  Newcastle and we'll get into that game and that was probably
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  the hardest game left. So we have opportunities now to,
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  you know, start scoring some goals.
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  Yeah, I think we finished. Now what?
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  Fulham. Burnley.
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  Crystal Palace Crystal. Palace and then who's our we
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  play, we here, we go to Palace, we have Fulham and Burnley at
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  home and then we go to Palace and gosh, I'm drawing a blank on
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  our other fourth game. Don't we?
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  You don't. Hold on.
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  We don't let me look it up real quick 'cause I'm curious, but
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  you're right, they're all bottom table teams.
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  And so that, look, I agree with you, that does give us a pretty
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  big advantage in terms of all right, like if there's going to
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  be a chance to run up and score some goal.
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  Because they have to go to Everton, they have at.
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  West Ham at West. Ham OK, well we they have to go
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  to Bournemouth, to Everton and final day against Villa and
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  Villa may not try but you know, they're still a good team.
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  Yeah, there. Look, there's no, I think
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  there's no like if you look at it, if you're sort of
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  handicapping this, giving odds to it, there's no question
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  Arsenal have the better schedule.
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  So we just named Arsenal's teams like you said.
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  So City have at Everton, home to Brentford, at Palace, at
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  Bournemouth and home to Villa. So clearly one city has to play
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  one more game and they've got they've got to win that again.
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  We're back with the game in hand again, but we have the advantage
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  with schedule. But I think city have the
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  advantage with like form. They're they're clearly playing
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  better than we are right now. That doesn't mean they can't tie
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  a game and you know, or, or or two, you know, and we may tie
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  one too. They're doing greedy one too.
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  Well, I don't know. I, I think I'm just hopeful
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  because I, I, I don't know that we win out is the thing.
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  I. Think we do?
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  It feels like Luko, every game we play is like 1 nothing and
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  we're just hanging on by a thread.
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  It just feels like there's going to be some unlucky break that
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  ends up a tie. I agree with you.
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  The teams we're playing aren't very good.
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  But it's like, are you confident?
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  Like we always get tripped up by Fulham, you know?
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  Like. West Ham have a ton to play for
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  and they're at home and they're playing pretty well right now.
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  You know, I it just, it just feels like just somewhere along
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  the way we don't score enough goals.
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  I think that's my biggest worry. So if you're trying to win every
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  game, one nothing, it's tough. Yeah, although I do still think
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  we will win out. I think we will start scoring a
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  couple more goals. That's a hot take right there.
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  But yeah, I I guess, I guess you're right.
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  I think and and you know, I, I always feel like, and I don't
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  mean to use it as a crutch all the time, but I always sort of
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  fall back on the injuries where I'm like, if I just wanted to
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  see a run where you have Haberts at striker Sock on the right
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  wing as a maybe at left wing and Odegard at the 10.
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  If I, if I could have just seen like 3 or 4 games of that and
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  let's and if we just can't score with that line, I'm OK when then
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  there's something just wrong with our attack.
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  I just wanted to see those guys play together consistently.
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  What did what did I tell you the other day to set Luca?
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  That was it. Haverts, Saca and Odegaard had
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  not played together since 2024. That's crazy.
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  And and they didn't, they still haven't.
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  It's still going because. Habits came off and then Saka
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  came on and, and that habits came off injured and then Saka
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  comes on. And so they still have not done
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  that. I mean, those are three key
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  offensive creative players and we've gone 2 years without them
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  being on the field together. I mean, I, you know, so like
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  when people talk about like Arsenal's attack, like I, I, I
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  feel like, you know, it's, we always go back to injuries, but
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  it's, it is hard to get away from that.
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  If you don't have your best players available, it is very
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  difficult to win. There's a, there's a very basic
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  hot take, right? You need your best players on
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  the field to do well. There's.
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  AI wouldn't call that a hot take.
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  No, I know it's not a hot take, but I think it's like it's we
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  gets lost in all this other stuff we talked about that like
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  if you don't have your best players available, how are you
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  supposed to like beat the best teams in the world?
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  Yeah. You know, and we have a deep
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  team and look, we can we can handle it a little bit, but it's
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  just still so hard, you know, when you're chasing down a team
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  like City and and you know, the resources they have to buy
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  players, how deep their team is, you know, they're pretty healthy
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  right now. I think they're only missing
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  like one or two guys. So we'll see.
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  But anyway, yeah, look, you know, City, look, they got the
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  three points, they moved ahead. We'll get on to Arsenal.
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  They move back in front with their win, but in it, let's go
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  on to Bournemouth, Leeds. This was a pretty fun,
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  entertaining game. Yeah, I got this spot on.
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  Picked by you. I predicted 2 two and it was 22.
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  Kroopy scores and you know nothing actually happens until
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  the 60th minute where the game actually comes alive.
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  Kroopy scores in the 60, 60th minute, Hill scores an own goal
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  in the 68th minute, Ryan in the 85th minute and then long staff
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  to tie it up in the 98th minute. Dramatic.
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  Which made my prediction right, so thank you long staff.
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  Bournemouth now 14 games in a row unbeaten but they have
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  dropped 20 points from winning positions.
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  Only Newcastle, with 25, have dropped more.
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  Yeah, it's all those ties, Luca. They're they're leading a lot of
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  those games and then end up tying them.
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  So if you're leading a game and then you tie, that's two points
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  dropped, right? You know, now look, even with
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  that being said, they're now sitting there in 7th.
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  OK, so Bournemouth right now in 7th place.
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  So that would be UEFA Conference League, which again would be
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  amazing for them. They're also only one point out
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  of 6th, so they're right there, they're playing great.
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  Luca, you just mentioned they just nobody can beat them right
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  now. Now they tie a lot of those
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  games, but still they are very, very difficult.
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  They tie a city, I'll take that. Well, exactly.
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  I mean, that's what we're hopeful for, that that may be
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  the hardest game City have left. It's hard to imagine that, but
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  like going to Bournemouth, maybe the hardest game because again,
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  Bournemouth have a lot to play for.
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  They're battling for 6/7. Although Brent or Everton they
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  have, so do Brentford. But I think it to me, you know,
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  Everton have lost their last two.
• 18:29
  I think Bournemouth are in better form right now but it's
• 18:32
  still not an easy game going to Everton for them.
• 18:34
  And Brentford is pretty good. Yeah, but they get Brentford at
• 18:37
  home and Brentford Luca. Now they're like they lost this
• 18:40
  week at 4-4 or five draws before that in a row.
• 18:45
  You know, we'll see. Look, they're.
• 18:46
  Sitting in like ninth, I think. Yeah, I mean, look, it's tough
• 18:48
  and they've got to play, you know, right, 7th, 9th and 11th
• 18:52
  and teams that have a lot to play for.
• 18:54
  That's one of the biggest things right now.
• 18:55
  Who has a lot to play for? Who doesn't?
• 18:57
  You know, teams like Palace, Sunderland, Newcastle, even
• 19:00
  Leeds, they don't really have much to play for, you know,
• 19:03
  like. They're not going to get
• 19:05
  relegated, but they're not going to get your.
• 19:06
  Exactly, exactly. So leads, Luca, you know, we
• 19:09
  talked about Brentford with their long throws.
• 19:11
  Leads have now scored four goals from long throws.
• 19:14
  Brentford have 5. But leads do real well with the
• 19:16
  long throws too. And everybody thinks a coyote
• 19:19
  with Brentford. But leads do, like they said, do
• 19:22
  a good job with the. Long throws too.
• 19:23
  And Luca, I think it's pretty safe to say, I think leads are
• 19:25
  like they're now 6 above Tottenham for the last
• 19:29
  relegation spot. I think it's almost look, it's
• 19:32
  not mathematically done, but I think it looks very, very good.
• 19:35
  The leads are going to stay up. So great season by them.
• 19:39
  They've been really tough lately to beat.
• 19:41
  I'm happy to see them stay up. All right, Luka, let's move
• 19:45
  over. The most shocking, maybe big
• 19:48
  shocking result here? Sunderland at home versus
• 19:50
  Nottingham Forest. Yeah, forest.
• 19:53
  I predicted 11 forest one by not one.
• 19:58
  Not 2, not 3. Not 4, but five goals.
• 20:04
  This game ends 5. Nothing.
• 20:08
  Probably the biggest blowout of the year.
• 20:10
  Hughes scores an end goal in the 17th minute, Wood scores a goal
• 20:14
  in the 31st minute, then Gibbs White the 34th minute, Igor Jay
• 20:17
  Zeus in the 37th minute and Elliott Anderson in 96 minute.
• 20:23
  Goodness. I mean nine.
• 20:24
  M4 scored four goals over 20 minutes and 9:00 AM.
• 20:29
  Forests are unbeaten in their last seven in all competitions.
• 20:32
  Yeah, they're they're playing really well Luca.
• 20:34
  They're now 5 of of Tottenham for that last.
• 20:36
  Relegation. I don't think they're going to
• 20:38
  get relegated. I think they're in a good spot
• 20:39
  too. I I think Leeds and Forests have
• 20:41
  probably done enough to say they're going to stay up.
• 20:44
  Sunderland, Luca we all year we've talked about how tough
• 20:47
  Sunderland is at home, how good they are at the Stadium of
• 20:50
  Light. This was Luca.
• 20:51
  It was tied for the worst home loss in English top flight
• 20:55
  history ever. They had 261 losses to Newcastle
• 20:59
  in 1950. Five to Newcastle, old man.
• 21:02
  Birmingham City in 1958, five goal difference.
• 21:06
  This was 5. Nothing.
• 21:07
  I mean this is how just shocking this result is.
• 21:10
  This was like I said, to lose 5 Nothing at home is just like.
• 21:14
  This is probably one of the weirdest results.
• 21:16
  All year. It's crazy.
• 21:18
  I mean, they're a good team, but they just got Blitz there, like
• 21:21
  you said, 4, four goals in 20 minutes.
• 21:23
  Yeah, yeah. So Sunderland, like I said,
• 21:25
  they're going to finish mid table.
• 21:27
  You know, it's still going to be a great year for them.
• 21:30
  They've been a really good team. I'll be interested to see what
• 21:32
  they do in the summer, if they can kind of make add a couple
• 21:34
  guys and you know, make sure that they stay up for next year.
• 21:38
  But they've had a great year, really good year.
• 21:39
  Just this is a weird weird result.
• 21:42
  Yeah. All right, look, let's move
• 21:43
  over. Fulham hosted Aston Villa.
• 21:46
  Yeah, this game ends one. No fall.
• 21:48
  I'm not much to talk about. Cecil Young scores in the 43rd
• 21:52
  minute. I also predicted it to be two.
• 21:54
  Nothing. Villa have only won one of their
• 21:58
  last eight on the road and form ended a run of 6 consecutive
• 22:03
  defeats to Villa. Yeah, you know, I, I think Luca,
• 22:07
  Aston Villa probably knows they're safe in the top five.
• 22:11
  They've got Europa League to kind of focus on and it feels
• 22:14
  like I bet their attention is focused a little bit more on
• 22:17
  Europa League. They're in the semi finals.
• 22:19
  They'd like to win that cup. Like I said, there's not much
• 22:22
  going on in the Premier League for them.
• 22:23
  It doesn't really matter if you finish 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th,
• 22:27
  right? Matters if you finish first, of
• 22:28
  course, but 2nd through 5th you're all getting Champions
• 22:31
  League. Doesn't really matter.
• 22:32
  I don't know, just it just didn't seem like the Aston Villa
• 22:35
  team we saw before. And again, I think it's probably
• 22:37
  more of their attentions on the Europa League full and this is
• 22:40
  just what they do. It's like they lose, they tie,
• 22:42
  they win, you just you kind of never know with them.
• 22:47
  Again, I think they're destined to kind of finish mid table.
• 22:49
  Although we keep saying this, they're only two points out of
• 22:53
  six. They just suck you back in like
• 22:56
  2 weeks ago. We're like, oh, they're done,
• 22:57
  and then they suck you back in. I I guess so, you know I.
• 23:06
  So I think Luca, like, you know, Fulham, we'll see, they've got a
• 23:08
  big one with Arsenal. We're clearly not going to be
• 23:10
  pulling for him this week. But it's just amazing to me.
• 23:13
  I've never quite seen this many teams kind of compacted in the
• 23:16
  middle of the table where one or two decent results can just move
• 23:21
  your way up or move your way down with a couple bad results.
• 23:23
  So all right, Luca, let's move on to Liverpool hosting Crystal
• 23:27
  Palace. This game ends 31 Liverpool.
• 23:30
  I predicted it to be two one Liverpool ESAC scores in 35th
• 23:35
  minute, then Robertson in the 40th minute, Moon News in the
• 23:39
  71st minute and Vert in the 97th minute.
• 23:42
  XG for Liverpool was 1.14 to Crystal Palace's 2.26.
• 23:50
  Liverpool now up to 4th and on the Moon News.
• 23:54
  I don't moon menus. I don't know.
• 23:56
  Yeah, tough, tough last name. To say Munoz.
• 23:59
  Yeah, So Woodman, they're like third string goalie.
• 24:04
  He was in goal today or yeah he gets like hurt and the referee
• 24:10
  doesn't stop play and MNUJ just kicks it into an open goal.
• 24:15
  And yeah, we'll take people through that.
• 24:16
  I think this is an interesting thing that happened in the game
• 24:19
  is like you said, the goalie comes out a little bit.
• 24:23
  So he's he's kind of he makes he sort of comes out and he sort of
• 24:26
  lands awkwardly on his knee. His knee kind of buckles and
• 24:28
  he's out, out like kind of by like the six yard marker and he
• 24:32
  goes down, he's holding his knee and the ball then goes out to
• 24:34
  like the 18. And Munoz gets on the ball.
• 24:37
  And it's almost like the Liverpool players sort of like
• 24:39
  start putting their hand in the air, like hey, a guy's injured
• 24:42
  and sort of stop playing a little bit and Munoz then kicks
• 24:47
  it into the goal. Yeah, so.
• 24:50
  So what what is your thought on this?
• 24:51
  Because so the Liverpool players are saying, well hey, we have a
• 24:54
  guy down here hurt, why are you kicking the ball into the goal?
• 24:56
  You should Kick It Out and let us tend to our injured player.
• 24:59
  Crystal Palace are going to be like, wait a second, why should
• 25:02
  we have to stop play? Still going on?
• 25:04
  We could. We're allowed to kick it in.
• 25:06
  Where? Where do you fall on this?
• 25:07
  I thought this was kind of interesting.
• 25:08
  I think Crystal Palace have the right to kick that in because
• 25:12
  like, who knows if he's just diving so we they can like tend
• 25:17
  to them and like take some time off the clock, you know, time
• 25:20
  waste and he's he's just kind of rolling around.
• 25:24
  He tries to get back up and then just falls back down, which I
• 25:28
  feel like Crystal Palace have the right to kick that in.
• 25:32
  He didn't stop playing. The place still going on no
• 25:35
  matter if he's on the ground or not.
• 25:36
  It doesn't matter. Like I I would have kicked it in
• 25:39
  too. Yeah.
• 25:40
  So I, I think by, by the letter of the law, I think they're
• 25:43
  totally fine with doing this. So the referee, Luca, has the
• 25:46
  discretion to stop play immediately for a head injury.
• 25:49
  It wasn't a head injury though, it was a knee injury.
• 25:51
  No, I understand that. I'm, I'm what I'm just trying to
• 25:52
  line up the rule here is that so if, if you're worried that
• 25:55
  somebody has a head injury, the referee should blow his whistle
• 25:57
  and and guy should immediately get like medical attention no
• 26:00
  matter where the ball is. But everything else is really up
• 26:03
  to the discretion of the players.
• 26:05
  And it's, I feel like it's been a newer thing, maybe in the
• 26:07
  past, like 10 or 15 years where a guy goes down her, let's say
• 26:11
  on your team and I'm playing against you and I have the ball.
• 26:14
  I'll like Kick It Out of bounds, you know, and let the medical
• 26:17
  team come on and check him out. And then when play restarts,
• 26:21
  your team will usually throw it back into me.
• 26:23
  And, and because we had possession of the ball, But
• 26:25
  there's no like rule saying you have to do that.
• 26:27
  And in some ways I, I don't quite understand because then it
• 26:31
  gets into like a Gray area. Well, when do you Kick It Out?
• 26:33
  When do you not if it, you know, if you're on the attack, then
• 26:37
  like why would you be kicking the ball out?
• 26:39
  So to me, I, I don't know, this whole notion that that you
• 26:42
  should have to kick the ball out.
• 26:43
  I, I think is ridiculous. I'm with you.
• 26:44
  Like, I think Crystal Powell's have every right to do that.
• 26:46
  Like Liverpool, they kind of stopped playing.
• 26:49
  They, they, you know, someone should be running back on the
• 26:51
  goal line to at least try to defend the goal line and then
• 26:54
  keep playing. I mean, he they basically let
• 26:56
  him stand out there and lava ball into the goal because they
• 26:59
  thought he was going to Kick It Out.
• 27:01
  I'm not buying that either. Did Liverpool think that was?
• 27:03
  Like, were they? Did anyone say anything in the
• 27:06
  interview after that game? Well, I mean, they end up
• 27:08
  winning the game, so I don't know that anybody's going to get
• 27:10
  too fired up about it. But I bet if Crystal Palace had
• 27:12
  one by one or ended up being tied, they might have made more
• 27:15
  of a stink about it. But they clearly were upset when
• 27:18
  it all happened. You see them waving their hands
• 27:20
  and as soon as the ball goes in, they're going over to the
• 27:22
  referee. I don't know why they're going
• 27:23
  over to the referee like he has anything to do with it, you
• 27:26
  know, But I'm with you. Like, I, I just, I, I don't
• 27:29
  understand this whole notion. A lot of times when everybody's
• 27:31
  asking the other team to kick the ball out of play, you know,
• 27:33
  because one of your players are down, but they have the ball.
• 27:35
  You just have to keep playing on, you know, I mean, because,
• 27:38
  like you said, it's also hard nowadays because half the time
• 27:40
  we don't know who's really hurt or who's not as you're
• 27:42
  constantly rolling around. So they bring it upon
• 27:44
  themselves. Then when you're like, well, I
• 27:46
  don't know if he's really hurt. You know what Arsenal Athletic
• 27:49
  game Alvarez was? Running around the.
• 27:51
  Ground right and the phrase going on.
• 27:54
  And then literally as they cut back to the frame, he's
• 27:57
  sprinting at the ball once they restart.
• 27:59
  Play so it's like he went down I think three times in that game
• 28:03
  and had to have medical attention, so he better be hurt
• 28:06
  for the second leg like. I think they've already said
• 28:08
  he's probably going to be OK for the second leg.
• 28:11
  There we go, you know, and so I think this is the thing.
• 28:13
  So the players have a little bit of of like a responsibility is
• 28:16
  like not, and not all of them do this, right.
• 28:18
  I'm not saying every soccer player does this, but there's
• 28:20
  certainly a handful that you they go down extremely easily
• 28:23
  And look, players on our team too.
• 28:25
  Players on every team do it. I'm not saying we're, you know,
• 28:27
  exception to that rule, but I'm with you, Luca.
• 28:30
  I I agree that you have every right to just kick the ball in
• 28:33
  just because it's the goalie that his knee buckled.
• 28:36
  You know, like I'm not saying I'm not saying he was faking it.
• 28:38
  His knee did kind of wobble, but he.
• 28:40
  Kept playing. He kept playing on, You know, it
• 28:43
  is what it is. You know, like I said, you, you,
• 28:45
  you get hurt and it's a weird thing.
• 28:46
  It does not happen very often where the goalie gets hurt and
• 28:49
  then all of a sudden I can just literally kick it into an empty
• 28:51
  net. But.
• 28:51
  I mean it. What if he got hurt and couldn't
• 28:54
  play like under? Their fourth string goalie.
• 28:57
  That would be insane. That'd be pretty wild.
• 29:02
  All right. Anything else on that game for
• 29:04
  us, Luca? No, no.
• 29:06
  OK, well let's move over. Oh, real quick Luca, let's check
• 29:09
  in on our Luke. So Luke and I made a bet weeks
• 29:12
  and weeks and. Weeks ago.
• 29:13
  Luca had asked him once. Ago he made it at the start of
• 29:16
  season. I don't think it was quite the
• 29:17
  start. I think it was a couple weeks in
• 29:19
  because Villa were up by like 7. It was right when Liverpool had
• 29:22
  their big dip. Remember, Liverpool won their
• 29:23
  first five games. Oh yeah.
• 29:25
  So Liverpool then went on this huge slide and I said and that
• 29:29
  Villa, and then it was when Villa were on their good run
• 29:31
  because Villa started off poorly too.
• 29:33
  I said, Luca, you wait, Liverpool will still finish
• 29:36
  ahead of Aston Villa. You said, no way.
• 29:37
  So we have a $5 bet about who finishes higher.
• 29:40
  And Liverpool. Although they're tied on points
• 29:42
  goal differential, Liverpool is officially ahead of Villa.
• 29:45
  Who did? Who does Liverpool win X?
• 29:47
  United and Villa play Tottenham. Oh, oh, Oh yeah, Villa are going
• 29:52
  to win that. So yeah, though listen, the bets
• 29:55
  clearly not over yet, but. It is going to be tight.
• 29:59
  It's. Going to be tight.
• 30:01
  All right. Well, Speaking of Spurs Luca,
• 30:02
  they went to Wolves in a must win game.
• 30:06
  Yeah, this game ends 1 Hill, Spurs.
• 30:08
  Spurs finally win in 2026, no. They finally get a win.
• 30:14
  It isn't. Was it April 27th or 6th?
• 30:18
  They finally get a win in this. Yeah, yeah, I predicted when
• 30:22
  they're Wolves pulling their scores in the 82nd minute.
• 30:26
  Spurs still 2 points behind West Ham in 18th because West Ham
• 30:31
  wants to go on. Spurs first win since December
• 30:34
  28th. Yeah, it, it was kind of a wild,
• 30:38
  you know, right now it feels like it's Spurs in West Ham for
• 30:41
  the final spot. And it was sort of a wild 10
• 30:43
  minutes of action. Both teams were playing.
• 30:45
  And so I think it went West Ham is leading 1, nothing and Spurs
• 30:50
  are tied. So it looks like West Ham are
• 30:52
  going to gain 2 points, then all of a sudden Spurs score to go up
• 30:56
  and. West Ham or Tide?
• 30:58
  And then all of a sudden, yeah, Dewsbury Hall scores and then
• 31:01
  all of a sudden you have Spurs winning West Ham Tide.
• 31:04
  So it looks like Spurs are then going to go above them and then
• 31:07
  all of a sudden West Ham score. I mean, just for a while.
• 31:09
  And then West Ham get the win and Spurs get the win.
• 31:12
  So nobody gains or loses really any ground in this I because
• 31:16
  even for goal differential, each was just a + 1.
• 31:18
  So West Ham still 2 points above Spurs gold differential.
• 31:22
  Those Spurs are in very good. They're six better on the gold
• 31:25
  differential. So I don't know that that's
• 31:27
  going to be close. But I think it I, I don't think
• 31:29
  it's going to go down the gold differential.
• 31:30
  I think it is going to go the points.
• 31:32
  It it might not, but I mean you can easily see a situation where
• 31:36
  Spurs win and West Ham tie. That's a 2 point swing and then
• 31:41
  it get you get us back on gold differential as a tiebreaker
• 31:43
  there. So we will see, Luca, there are
• 31:45
  four games left in this. It's going to be down to the
• 31:49
  wire between these two teams. And it just, again, it would be
• 31:52
  amazing if Spurs go down. It'd be hard to believe.
• 31:55
  But the Battle of the Buns. The Battle of the Buns.
• 31:58
  Well, Speaking of it, Luca, West Ham hosted Everton.
• 32:00
  We just sort of talked about this.
• 32:01
  Well, yeah, so SU check scores in the 51st minute, Dewsbury
• 32:06
  Hall in the 88th minute ties it up and then tell him Wilson off
• 32:10
  the bench scores in the 93rd minute to win it.
• 32:14
  I, I, yeah I predicted Everton to win this 21 but West Ham
• 32:19
  unbeaten last six home games and Bowen has 9 assists in 2026.
• 32:24
  Only Fernandez with 11 is more. Yeah, Bowen's been really good
• 32:27
  here. You, you look at like these
• 32:28
  teams, like the, the big players stepping up, like we took Gibbs
• 32:32
  White for Forest, Bowen stepping up here for West Ham.
• 32:35
  You know, you need your big players when you're like like in
• 32:37
  these, you know, dog fights essentially SU check Luca, look
• 32:41
  at this his 14th goal from a corner kick since he came into
• 32:44
  the league. So SU check came into the league
• 32:46
  in February of 2020, said fourteen goals from corners.
• 32:49
  Only Gabrielle and Virgil Van Dyke have more.
• 32:52
  Wow. It's kind of a bit of an
• 32:53
  underrated player. You know, I think SU check's one
• 32:56
  of those guys that you know, comes up with some big goals for
• 32:59
  them. I think you look he's.
• 33:00
  I like his celebration. I like his celebration too
• 33:02
  because we're sort of arms out, spins around like AI don't know
• 33:05
  which. Is that like a top or something?
• 33:06
  Like he just sort of spins. I don't know.
• 33:08
  I don't know. Hey, I kind of like it too,
• 33:10
  though. It's sort of different.
• 33:12
  I just think he's not a glamorous player.
• 33:14
  Like he's not flashy, but he's just sort of a useful guy to
• 33:16
  have out there. And he even cleared one off the
• 33:19
  line, You know, the the Everton player heads it down and
• 33:24
  literally like heads onto his head, hits the cross bar.
• 33:27
  So I mean he might have literally won him 2 points and
• 33:31
  sort of saved. Them.
• 33:32
  Did he get rid of the match? I don't know if you probably
• 33:35
  don't know, but he probably should.
• 33:37
  Yeah, yeah, like I said, just sort of an underrated good
• 33:39
  player and like I said, really good off of corners though for
• 33:42
  sure. All right, Lego, let's move on
• 33:44
  to Arsenal here. So like I said, by the time
• 33:46
  Arsenal started their game, we we play on Saturday or Sunday.
• 33:50
  We played on Saturday because remember, we were at the card
• 33:53
  show. Yeah, so by the time Arsenal
• 33:55
  kicked off, they were into second place, like you said,
• 33:57
  what, 201 days we were leading the league, but they kicked off
• 34:01
  big game against Newcastle. Newcastle always seemed to give
• 34:04
  us some trouble. So tell me about the Arsenal
• 34:08
  Newcastle game. Yeah, we we end up winning this
• 34:10
  one. Nothing.
• 34:11
  I predicted it to be two nothing as they scored a banger from the
• 34:15
  in the in the ninth minute from a corner and Arsenal set Premier
• 34:20
  League record for most goals from corner kicks in a single
• 34:23
  season with 17. Yeah, and that adds that's
• 34:27
  Newcastle's ninth loss in 2026. They are also not doing well in
• 34:31
  2026. No, they're not.
• 34:33
  In fact, only Spurs and Burnley have more.
• 34:35
  Losses in 2026? Oh no.
• 34:37
  What's interesting Lucas, so you mentioned Arsenal now seventeen
• 34:40
  goals from corner kicks, tying the record.
• 34:43
  Two have come from short corners.
• 34:45
  So this is a short corner that they took a little bit of a
• 34:47
  routine to kind of work the ball.
• 34:48
  The Haverts lays it off as a amazing finish.
• 34:52
  The other short corner came away to Newcastle.
• 34:56
  So we've had two short corner goals against Newcastle and
• 34:59
  away, which, you know, does sort of make sense.
• 35:02
  I mean Newcastle is a big tall team so it does make sense to
• 35:06
  maybe try to go short against them.
• 35:07
  As and we weren't going short against Athleti Atletico Madrid,
• 35:11
  so maybe it was tactical. Yeah, I think it, I think it
• 35:14
  was, you know, you realize like this, playing balls into the box
• 35:17
  against Newcastle, it's going to be tough.
• 35:19
  I mean, not that we don't have some big strong guys too, but
• 35:21
  it's just they have a lot of guys that are good in the air
• 35:23
  that are big, that are strong. So we needed a Luca.
• 35:26
  I mean, it's, you know, again, Arsenal most important thing,
• 35:31
  win the game. It's never going to.
• 35:32
  It's not going to be pretty with Arsenal.
• 35:34
  Like I said, we're just not going to just have these
• 35:36
  glamorous, high flying 5 nothing games.
• 35:38
  It's going to be kind of pretty. It's going to rely on our
• 35:41
  defense. Can be boring.
• 35:43
  OK, that's fair. That's fair.
• 35:45
  Yeah. I mean, it's going to be a
• 35:46
  little more. We are not the most exciting
• 35:48
  team to. Watch you're not the most oh, we
• 35:51
  are awful to watch. I I, I don't even even enjoy
• 35:54
  watching Arsenal. Like right?
• 35:56
  Well, let me tell you that what would you rather have?
• 35:59
  A season like this, where I agree with you, we are not an
• 36:02
  exciting, fun team to watch. But a season like this, it ends
• 36:05
  with winning the Premier League or you finish second again, but
• 36:09
  you score 30 more goals, you're up and down like almost like the
• 36:12
  PSG Byron game. Would you rather finish in 2nd
• 36:15
  and have this like high flying attack goals galore or would you
• 36:19
  rather win the Premier League and and play?
• 36:22
  Yeah, And I think it's totally fair to say boring.
• 36:23
  Like defensive minded, scrappy, you know, goals that go in
• 36:28
  aren't exactly glamorous. I guess win the Premier League
• 36:34
  and be a boring team. Obviously you'd like to do have
• 36:38
  it be high flying goals and win the Premier League.
• 36:41
  I mean, that's. That's what we.
• 36:42
  Want but it it, it doesn't feel like Luca with four games left,
• 36:46
  we're all just going to flip a switch and all of a sudden be
• 36:48
  playing like, you know, the Invincibles under Wenger and
• 36:51
  things like that. We need to bring back Wenger.
• 36:54
  Well, I think it's just, you know, we just have as Arsenal
• 36:57
  fans for this year, you just we'd have to sort of like strap
• 36:59
  in and realize like every game is going to be kind of nail
• 37:01
  biting. It's going to be gritty.
• 37:04
  Like I said, we need our defense, like I said, to
• 37:06
  basically hold teams either zero or one, you know, cuz I don't
• 37:09
  see us Luca scoring 3 or 4 five goals in the game.
• 37:12
  I just don't see it. But but anyway, look at most
• 37:15
  important thing. Like I said, the win they go top
• 37:17
  of the table again. So again, we go back in the
• 37:19
  whole game in hand. Arsenal lead the city by three,
• 37:22
  but of course city have the game in hand.
• 37:24
  So it's going to go I think right down to it.
• 37:28
  Luke. I just really do.
• 37:28
  I just I think this will be they'll be.
• 37:31
  I don't think it'll be decided until the last day I.
• 37:34
  Really. Yeah, I I think so too.
• 37:36
  All right, Luca. Well, the last game of the week,
• 37:38
  Man U hosting Brentford. Yeah, this game ends 21 United.
• 37:42
  I predicted it to be 3 two United.
• 37:44
  Casimiro scores ahead or in the 11th minute, chess go in the
• 37:47
  43rd minute and then Jensen scores a really nice score in
• 37:51
  the E 7th minute. Yeah, that was a great shot.
• 37:53
  Yeah, Fernandez has 19th assists of one off the Premier League
• 38:01
  record. So yeah, the KDB and Henri are
• 38:06
  not 20. So if Fernandez just gets two
• 38:09
  more assists in the next, what, 4 game?
• 38:11
  Yeah, four games, then he'll be joint.
• 38:15
  He'll win. He have the record.
• 38:17
  Yeah, yeah. And it's a record that's, you
• 38:19
  know, like you said, Henri did it 20 years ago, KDB probably 10
• 38:24
  years ago. Yeah.
• 38:26
  I mean, to give you context, Lucas.
• 38:27
  So Bruno Fernandez, like you said, sitting on 19 assists that
• 38:30
  go going down right now, the leaders you have Cherokee and
• 38:33
  Bowen, 10 each, Holland at 7, Garner, Wilson, Sala at six.
• 38:38
  I mean, that's how far ahead is. He is almost twice as many as
• 38:41
  Shirky and Bowen, who are in second place.
• 38:44
  It's just crazy. Like you just don't get that
• 38:46
  many assists really, you know, in in football or soccer.
• 38:49
  So it's amazing. And you know, you can make a
• 38:53
  case for him, Luca as player of the year in the Premier League,
• 38:56
  I mean. Yeah, yeah, I I would say yeah.
• 38:59
  You think of what the turn around that United have had,
• 39:01
  they're right now in 3rd place, 3, they're probably going to
• 39:04
  finish in 3rd, so you think of the turn around they've had,
• 39:07
  they're back in Champions League, how important he's been
• 39:10
  for that team to. Sort of, I mean, every year he
• 39:12
  stayed so loyal to that team and he's, he's like always been
• 39:16
  their best player. He he carries that team
• 39:18
  basically. So are you like, is he a legend
• 39:21
  to is he a united legend? Absolutely.
• 39:24
  Really. Absolutely.
• 39:25
  He hasn't won much there. Yeah, I know.
• 39:27
  But like he's he's been there a long time and he's pretty
• 39:31
  legendary if he gets this record.
• 39:34
  Premier League single season assists.
• 39:36
  That would help. I I agree with you that would
• 39:38
  help. This is like.
• 39:39
  You know, also he made he got them to a Europa League final.
• 39:42
  They just played the most boring match of all time and got beaten
• 39:45
  by Tottenham. Who ever won a trophy in 17
• 39:47
  years, I mean. Well, and he does have, I mean,
• 39:51
  you know, I have to go back to when he started.
• 39:53
  I I know recently of course, they've got an FA Cup and a
• 39:56
  Carabao Cup. He has won them yet, yeah.
• 39:58
  So, and then and those were recent.
• 40:00
  I mean when, when he's, I'm trying to think when he came, if
• 40:04
  he maybe got another FA Cup, maybe.
• 40:07
  He's got an at least in one FA Cup and one Carabao Cup.
• 40:10
  That's what we. Mean I agree with you at a
• 40:11
  minimum. I mean, I did haven't been that
• 40:13
  great when he's been there. Like this is the first year
• 40:16
  they're like really good when he's been there.
• 40:18
  And and I think he's a big part of this turn around.
• 40:20
  I mean, he's always been a great player, but he's almost taking
• 40:23
  his game to the next level. And some of his passing, I mean,
• 40:25
  even some of the ones that he doesn't get credit and assist
• 40:27
  for. I mean, some of these like
• 40:28
  balls, I mean, it's like it's slightly Beckham esque or KDBS
• 40:33
  where he's like you, when you think of like you watch a pass
• 40:35
  and you're like, oh, a perfect pass would put the ball right
• 40:37
  there. And that's like where the ball
• 40:38
  goes. So like the perfect weight, the
• 40:40
  perfect speed. It's just like, if I could drop
• 40:42
  a ball right to that player, that's where it would be.
• 40:45
  And his passes. I mean, it's, he really is
• 40:48
  phenomenal. Like I said, with his passing,
• 40:50
  it really is. And it's, and it's short passes,
• 40:52
  it's long passes. So yeah, I, I think you're,
• 40:56
  you're right, Luke. I mean, I it's tough at United.
• 40:58
  They have so many legends, but like recently in the past 10
• 41:02
  years, I mean, I think he's miles better than any player
• 41:05
  that United. Yeah.
• 41:06
  Oh yeah. I can't even think of who would
• 41:07
  be second, but so he's. Second Ronaldo.
• 41:11
  Well, when Ronaldo came back. Yeah, yeah.
• 41:16
  I don't know, you love Ronaldo, so you're just going to.
• 41:18
  Say no no. The second when Ronaldo came
• 41:21
  back but he was okay, but again, and that's not his fault, the
• 41:23
  team wasn't that great. Also they were saying Ronaldo is
• 41:26
  the problem which is just stupid.
• 41:27
  I don't know where the 10 had was the problem.
• 41:31
  Okay people. Oh, I want to get something
• 41:34
  straight. Well, look at Brentford though,
• 41:36
  have a massive problem here. They have not won a Premier
• 41:39
  League game since February 20. 8th Oh my gosh, they.
• 41:41
  They're, like I said, now dropped down to 9th.
• 41:43
  But again, we're going to keep saying this two points out of
• 41:46
  six, so they are right there. This basically comes down to
• 41:50
  like who can play some consistent football over the
• 41:52
  last four games. You're going to make Europa
• 41:55
  League or you're going to make UEFA Conference League.
• 41:57
  That's like a big deal for some of these teams, especially like
• 41:59
  the Bees teams, the Brentford, Bournemouth, Brightons, you
• 42:03
  know, I'm pulling for them. I'm pulling for Fulham a little
• 42:06
  bit. Obviously I'm not pulling for
• 42:08
  Chelsea. I want them as far down the
• 42:09
  table as possible. But I think it'd be super cool
• 42:12
  if we could have like Bournemouth, Fulham, Brentford,
• 42:15
  Brighton take off the six or seven spot.
• 42:17
  Like I, I want something like that to happen.
• 42:21
  Like I said, Chelsea, I hope they finish as far down the
• 42:23
  table as. Possible.
• 42:25
  All right, look. Well, there it is.
• 42:25
  There's Week 34 wrapped up. You mentioned FA Cup, Luca, no
• 42:30
  big surprises there. Chelsea ended up beating Leeds,
• 42:32
  City beat Southampton. So the FA Cup final will now be
• 42:37
  City and Chelsea. That went on this weekend as
• 42:39
  well. All right, Luca Wolt guts, Tell
• 42:42
  me your player, goal and team of the week for Week 34.
• 42:45
  All right, so my goal week is going to be Eze's goal.
• 42:48
  Yeah, it was a nice one. That was a nice one and an
• 42:50
  important goal too. Yeah, gets gets you the three
• 42:53
  points. My team of the week is we not
• 42:55
  enforced. Yeah, yeah, it's a good call, I
• 42:57
  mean. Just just that was wild.
• 42:59
  And my player of the week, I think I'm going to go with
• 43:06
  Dubrovka. He made some wild saves in that
• 43:10
  game. It's first time giving it to a
• 43:13
  goalie. Yeah, there you go.
• 43:15
  A losing goalie too late for Burnley Did make a lot of saves.
• 43:21
  First time I've given something to a Burnley player, yeah.
• 43:23
  I think probably. All right, Luca.
• 43:26
  Well, let's look ahead to Week 35, OK?
• 43:28
  So important games coming up here.
• 43:30
  We're down to basically the final four games.
• 43:32
  It starts with Leeds hosting Burnley.
• 43:35
  What do you like in this one? Oh, I think Leeds are going to
• 43:37
  win 2. Nothing. 2 Nothing.
• 43:39
  All right, Leeds keep on rolling.
• 43:41
  Burnley obviously already relegated their manager Scott
• 43:44
  Parker. They kind of parted ways, so
• 43:46
  they're a lot of a new manager in the Championship.
• 43:47
  You mean fired? Yeah, yeah, it's a nice way of
• 43:50
  saying fired. All right, look again, another
• 43:53
  game, but not really a whole lot involved in it.
• 43:56
  But Wolves hope Sunderland, nobody really with a ton to play
• 43:59
  for here. I think 2 Nothing Sunderland.
• 44:03
  All right, so Sunderland, get back on track if you're getting
• 44:06
  stomped. By far as all right, Luca.
• 44:09
  Newcastle hosting Brighton. I think Brighton win 31. 31
• 44:15
  yeah. So Newcastle, Luca, they've been
• 44:17
  terrible. We continue being terrible.
• 44:19
  Again, the team and time Brighton have been really good,
• 44:21
  so this is a big chance for Brighton to keep piling the
• 44:23
  pressure on, you know, Bournemouth and Chelsea and
• 44:25
  Brentford and Fulham. So Brentford though London Derby
• 44:29
  here hosting West Ham. So here's an important game you
• 44:32
  got West Ham Luca battling for their lives I.
• 44:35
  Think it's going to be 1 nothing West Ham.
• 44:36
  West Oh my gosh, that would be a massive result.
• 44:39
  Brentford tend to be good at home but they have not been good
• 44:42
  Luke over the past two months. Yeah.
• 44:44
  So West Ham, like I said, this would be a massive result for
• 44:47
  them. All right Luke, Arsenal here
• 44:51
  hosting Fulham. Interesting Luca, that Arsenal
• 44:54
  now play 2 days before City. City play on Monday, Arsenal
• 44:58
  play on Saturday. So Arsenal with a chance now.
• 45:02
  Again, it'd be the two games in hand, but they could go 6 points
• 45:05
  clear with a win, four with a tie.
• 45:08
  Pressure in the city. Yeah, but what do you like?
• 45:10
  Like I said, we've talked full mud a couple years ago, I think.
• 45:12
  Did they beat us twice or we tied and lost to them?
• 45:15
  Yeah, I think, yeah, I think we did tie and.
• 45:17
  Lose Arsenal, like I said, Champions League game midweek.
• 45:20
  Also looking ahead to Champions League next week.
• 45:23
  I do think we'll win 2 Nothing. 2 Nothing.
• 45:26
  OK why? 2 Nothing.
• 45:28
  Because I feel like Fulham are starting to realize they don't
• 45:31
  have much to play for and we have everything to play.
• 45:34
  For I just said that we can fool them.
• 45:35
  Two points out of six Fulham with us, they could be.
• 45:39
  OK, OK, OK, yeah, sure, OK sure. They they have a little bit to
• 45:43
  play for, but also they're super up and down.
• 45:46
  Like that game against Aston Villa was, you know, kind of a
• 45:53
  scrappy game. Villa weren't really trying
• 45:57
  their hardest and I just I just think that it's going to be a
• 46:03
  give or take against Fulham because it can be so
• 46:05
  unpredictable. Yeah, I, I, I, I, I hear what
• 46:08
  you're saying. Yeah.
• 46:09
  I mean, Fulham, like I said, you just don't quite know.
• 46:12
  Look, Arsenal are at home. I mean, you know, everything to
• 46:15
  play for. I think my worry would be just
• 46:18
  like tired legs with Arsenal, you know, like so many games you
• 46:22
  had to go to Madrid midweek. You know, now you're coming
• 46:26
  back. Luckily you're coming back home
• 46:28
  and you'll be home for this game and home for the for the second
• 46:31
  leg of the Champions League semi finals.
• 46:33
  So at least there's no no travel there.
• 46:37
  You know, we of course we're dealing with some injuries.
• 46:40
  Timber's probably not going to be available.
• 46:41
  Marino not available. Howard's likely not to be
• 46:44
  available. But you know, we got you know,
• 46:48
  Ese was back. Calafuri was back on the bench
• 46:52
  yeah, I had Saka coming back in. So you know, hopefully we're
• 46:56
  getting some guys. I mean, we need these guys Luca
• 46:59
  desperately. So it'll be interesting.
• 47:02
  Like I said, I mean, I just every time it just feels like
• 47:05
  it's been very nervy with Arsenal.
• 47:07
  So I I'm not expecting it to be easy, but they've but there's no
• 47:11
  choice. You got to you got you got to
• 47:12
  win against Fulham at home. If you're going to try to win
• 47:14
  the Premier League. If you tie or lose the Fulham
• 47:16
  then probably don't deserve to win the Premier League.
• 47:18
  Yeah. All right, Luke, a big Derby
• 47:20
  game here, Northwest Derby, Man U hosting Liverpool.
• 47:24
  This is always, you know, maybe not a ton to play for here, but
• 47:26
  this is a big Derby, big rivalry game.
• 47:29
  What do you like in this one? I'm going to go 43 United.
• 47:31
  Oh boy. Geez, 43 defense optional, huh?
• 47:35
  Yep. What makes you think it's going
• 47:37
  to be kind of? Crazy.
• 47:38
  I think both teams just like like they want to win and we'll
• 47:42
  do whatever it takes and they'll just like I feel like both
• 47:46
  defenses are a little questionable and I just think
• 47:50
  that what their attacks definitely are really good and I
• 47:54
  think friend is going to break the s s record in that game.
• 47:58
  He's. Going to get 2 assists, break
• 47:59
  the record or tie it. Break it.
• 48:01
  Well OK, wow, 2 assists break the record.
• 48:04
  Yeah, all. Right, I like it.
• 48:06
  All right, Luca, Bournemouth hosting Crystal Palace.
• 48:09
  I think Bournemouth will win 1 Nothing.
• 48:11
  One. Nothing.
• 48:11
  OK, what about Aston Villa hosting Spurs?
• 48:18
  I'm going 3-1 in Aston Villa. 31 Villa Well, if your predictions
• 48:22
  hold true Luca, you have West Ham winning, Spurs losing.
• 48:25
  That would be a 5 point spread with three games to go.
• 48:29
  That might doom Spurs. Chelsea hosting Nottingham
• 48:34
  Forest. Nottingham Forest are going to
• 48:36
  win 3. Nothing. 3 Nothing.
• 48:38
  Yeah, I was going to say you already told me that Chelsea
• 48:40
  weren't scoring this week, so there you go.
• 48:43
  And Luca, we finish with Everton hosting City I.
• 48:48
  Think it's V 22. Oh.
• 48:50
  Gosh, it's not we. Got Luca a lot of picks here
• 48:53
  with your heart, a lot of picks with your Arsenal winning, City
• 48:56
  tying, Spurs losing feels like a lot of picks with your.
• 48:59
  Not really, though, because, like, everything's a good team
• 49:02
  and they're at home and like, yeah.
• 49:05
  OK, all right. I mean.
• 49:07
  And City have to play the FA Cup final and then they're going to
• 49:11
  Everton. Yeah, well, City, you know,
• 49:13
  look, they they have an interesting schedule coming up
• 49:16
  with, you know, they're so they obviously they play.
• 49:19
  So they play on Monday, OK, Then they go next weekend.
• 49:23
  They've got Brentford, but they've got this stretch, Luca,
• 49:26
  where over 10 days they play four games.
• 49:29
  So they play Brentford on May 9th, then Palace on the 13th,
• 49:33
  the FA Cup final on the 16th and then Bournemouth on the 19th.
• 49:37
  So that is four games, like I said, over 10 days and then they
• 49:41
  have the final game with Villa. So that is going to be an
• 49:44
  interesting stretch right in there.
• 49:47
  That's a lot of games. You know, one of them being a
• 49:49
  cup final at Bournemouth. So that's something just to keep
• 49:54
  an eye on. There is is, like I said, that
• 49:56
  really condensed sort of schedule they've got coming up
• 49:59
  there. So they'll they'll want to
• 50:02
  obviously get a win against Everton before they get into
• 50:04
  that stretch there. But all right, Luca.
• 50:07
  Well, let's Luke, I just want to give a quick shout out to the
• 50:13
  Bundesliga. Had the youngest player ever
• 50:16
  come on. His name is Mathis Albert.
• 50:18
  He is from Greenville, SC, about 3 1/2 hours from US, played for
• 50:23
  Cisa Cesa, which is a club up in Greenville that you've played
• 50:27
  against in tournaments before and he came on for Dortmund.
• 50:30
  Luke, he is 16 years, 11 months and five days breaking the
• 50:34
  record for to be the youngest ever Bundesliga player.
• 50:38
  So that's pretty cool. Like I said, an American guy
• 50:40
  from down here, like I said in South Carolina.
• 50:43
  Doesn't sound very American. Matisse, Albert.
• 50:45
  Mathis, Albert. That sounds very German.
• 50:47
  Are you sure you're? Saying it's Matisse.
• 50:49
  His name is not Matisse, it is Mathis.
• 50:51
  The same it sounds German and Albert is very German.
• 50:55
  Do you know whose record he broke?
• 50:57
  Luca. Another Dortmund player, Young
• 51:00
  guy. Royce.
• 51:01
  Nope, American. Oh, put pure say.
• 51:05
  No, What? Another American, his dad played
• 51:10
  for the national team, too. Where?
• 51:12
  Gio Rania, he was 17 years and two months, but he's following
• 51:17
  Luca, you mentioned following it in a long line of Americans
• 51:20
  going to Dortmund with Pulisic, Rania and him.
• 51:23
  So got to kind of keep from. Him.
• 51:25
  Where is he right now? He's.
• 51:27
  He's kind of all over the place. Yeah, I know, I know.
• 51:30
  Wherever he is, I don't think he's playing very much.
• 51:33
  All right, Luca. Well, let's move over to our
• 51:35
  viewer mailbag. And the viewer mailbag question
• 51:37
  for you, Luca, is I am curious your opinion on the rankings of
• 51:41
  soccer leagues. So Premier League is what we
• 51:44
  focus on, but we talk a little bit about La Liga in Spain,
• 51:47
  Syria and Italy. We just talked about the
• 51:49
  Bundesliga in Germany. And of course, you've got
• 51:52
  Championship, you've got MLS, you've got the Belgian league,
• 51:55
  Portugal, all these different leagues.
• 51:57
  And so Opto Luca came out with their rankings as they rank sort
• 52:01
  of the strength of the teams there.
• 52:03
  And I'm curious your ranking though, and seeing how it
• 52:05
  matches up when you were to say, so start out like, what is your
• 52:09
  opinion? What is the best Soccer League
• 52:10
  in the world? Premier League, obviously.
• 52:12
  What makes you say that? Because it just has the hardest
• 52:15
  games. Every game is not a guaranteed
• 52:18
  win and every team is very, very good.
• 52:23
  Yeah, I don't think anybody would argue with you on that.
• 52:25
  Like Premier League I I agree. And look, they tend to do very
• 52:28
  well in these these competitions, you know,
• 52:30
  Champions League, Club World Cup, whatever you think of that.
• 52:34
  World champions. World champions they.
• 52:36
  Did they did Chelsea did win? So, but you're right.
• 52:40
  I I think look like you said, top to bottom quality teams all
• 52:43
  over quality players, it's got the most money, so they tend to
• 52:46
  be able to bring in the best players.
• 52:47
  So yeah, I think Premier League, nobody would argue with that.
• 52:51
  Now, I think it gets interesting here when we start talking about
• 52:53
  like 2-3, four and five. What, in your opinion, would be
• 52:56
  the next two or three leagues in terms of your, in your opinion,
• 52:59
  strength? I'm going to Syria #2.
• 53:02
  OK. And.
• 53:03
  Then what we go #3? OK, what would be so?
• 53:06
  All right, so you're going Syria, La Liga, what would be
• 53:09
  the next 4? Bundesliga.
• 53:12
  Bundesliga OK, so and I agree with you.
• 53:15
  I think everybody would have them in some order, 2-3 and
• 53:18
  four. I think very clearly, like
• 53:19
  there's like tears to this, right?
• 53:21
  There's Premier League at the top, 2-3 and four.
• 53:24
  So APTA Luca had La Liga at 2, Bundesliga at 3 and Syria at
• 53:29
  4:00. I think, look, I, I agree with
• 53:33
  you. I think it's, it's sort of a
• 53:34
  little interchangeable. I, I'm, I wonder if like the
• 53:37
  power of like the top teams of La Liga.
• 53:39
  So you've got like Real Madrid, Barcelona Athleti is a little
• 53:44
  bit more than maybe the top like.
• 53:46
  Oh well, I was just going off. I feel like just cause Barcelona
• 53:51
  and Real Madrid are the two that win every year, but in Syria
• 53:54
  it's like you never know, Inter could win, AC Milan could win,
• 53:57
  Juventus. What Napoli?
• 54:01
  Everyone's like pretty. Equal I agree I think I think
• 54:04
  Syria's maybe the most interesting league to watch from
• 54:06
  that standpoint because you're right like every year it feels
• 54:09
  like I I think it was like a stretch where it was like 5
• 54:11
  different champions in five years a little while back.
• 54:14
  So I agree with you. Like I love that about Syria
• 54:16
  that you don't really know going in, whereas, you know, France,
• 54:21
  it's always. Peaceful.
• 54:22
  Germany. Always by I think the Portuguese
• 54:24
  league is better than French league.
• 54:26
  Well, we'll, we'll get on to that in a second.
• 54:27
  But so I, I, I think it's just, look, this is all, when you're
• 54:32
  doing rankings like this, it's all your interpretation.
• 54:34
  This is all just your opinion, how you do it, whether you sort
• 54:36
  of skew it like, well, these top power teams at the top, or if
• 54:39
  you're looking all the way down, you can see, right, Siriakon has
• 54:42
  6 pretty good teams, you know, like, I can't tell you who's in
• 54:45
  six in the Bundesliga. They're probably not that good,
• 54:48
  you know, So, yeah, you know, but I do agree that I think most
• 54:53
  people would have those as 2-3 and four.
• 54:55
  All right. What about what about if he kept
• 54:57
  going down like 567? Let's see, I'm gonna go to
• 55:05
  Portuguese league. Portuguese.
• 55:07
  OK, you got Portugal. OK, you have that.
• 55:11
  Next. What about League One?
• 55:13
  Belgium? The Championship Argentina.
• 55:16
  I think the championship will be 6.
• 55:19
  OK, so you go Portugal, then the championship.
• 55:23
  Then I think the the Brazilian league.
• 55:27
  Brazil, Syria, Brazil. Yeah, Well, you're really hating
• 55:30
  on Lee Gun here. There's like no good teams other
• 55:34
  than like Leon and like PSG. I have any Marseille and lawns.
• 55:39
  This year is pretty good. I, I, I hear what you're saying.
• 55:42
  I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to sit here and
• 55:43
  defend Lee. I Lee gun is going to be 8 for
• 55:45
  me like. OK, we going to be 8.
• 55:47
  Where do where do you put the MLS in all this?
• 55:50
  Oh, I think the MLS is better than the Belgian league.
• 55:53
  Oh, do you really? OK, so.
• 55:56
  So that puts PSG at 9 or the what we going at 9:00?
• 55:59
  So you have MLS at what, 8 or? Something 7.
• 56:01
  Seven. OK wow, that's pretty good.
• 56:03
  All right. Yeah.
• 56:05
  So all right, so Opta ranked legal in at 5.
• 56:08
  Geez, they the Belgian League at six.
• 56:11
  Interesting. They had Liga Portugal at 7,
• 56:17
  Argentina Liga Professional Argentina at 8.
• 56:22
  They had the championship at 9:00, Syria, Brazil at 10 and
• 56:27
  then some of the other ones, you know, I didn't.
• 56:29
  I have everything listed but Airy DVZ in the Netherlands at
• 56:32
  17 which I thought was kind of low.
• 56:34
  I feel like that is a little low because like IAX and like
• 56:38
  Firenord isn't like PSV. Yeah, like they're.
• 56:42
  Decent I I feel like 17 was a little low for them.
• 56:44
  Turkish Super League at 16. MLS.
• 56:48
  Did I say MLS at 15? Wow.
• 56:51
  Yeah, I know, pretty low for MLS.
• 56:53
  But I don't think we're that bad.
• 56:55
  I know. I mean, we're bad, but we're not
• 56:57
  that. I mean they have the Danish
• 56:59
  Super League at 11. OK.
• 57:02
  I mean, that's pushing all. This below the Danish Super
• 57:05
  League by 4 spots like I mean. I don't know.
• 57:08
  I think that's pushing it a little bit and.
• 57:10
  Then League Emekis, Mexico 22. I can't say I can really speak
• 57:15
  to that too much. We watched a little bit when we
• 57:17
  were in Mexico, we watched a little bit of League Emekis a
• 57:19
  little bit. So we did.
• 57:20
  I mean, we've seen a little bit, but I, I mean, not enough.
• 57:23
  But yeah, I just thought it's kind of interesting to some of
• 57:25
  these leagues that, you know, some of the teams like the
• 57:27
  Turkish, Turkish Super League, of course, is Galatasaray
• 57:30
  Fenerbache and what's when I'm in missing the third other big
• 57:34
  team from. Turkey.
• 57:37
  Arvacha Galatasaray oh Besiktas. Oh yeah.
• 57:40
  You know, so you know, teams we know, we see him in the
• 57:43
  Champions League. Belgium felt kind of high at
• 57:45
  six. OK, I mean.
• 57:49
  There's a ton of great players that come from Belgium, but I
• 57:51
  don't know that those teams really are better than like the
• 57:55
  Portuguese teams championship, even Argentina.
• 57:58
  Yeah, I'm, I'm all, you know, mixed feelings on on that
• 58:02
  ranking. Yeah, but I like your ranking,
• 58:05
  Luke. I thought I would.
• 58:06
  Thank you. Did a good job there.
• 58:07
  So all right, Luca. Well, on our Did You know
• 58:09
  section here, we've been talking a little bit about some soccer
• 58:12
  terms and where they came from. And instead of saying uniforms
• 58:15
  like in the United States, do we say uniforms?
• 58:17
  What do we say over there? You talk about a kit.
• 58:20
  So why is it called a kit? Well, it's an old English term.
• 58:24
  This goes back to the 17 and 1800s, sort of a set of
• 58:27
  equipment needed for a specific activity.
• 58:31
  So gear someone would carry for a job, a soldiers kit or a tool
• 58:35
  kit, traveler's kit. And so they kind of said,
• 58:39
  therefore the players full set of clothing and gear became
• 58:44
  their football kit. So it's like they would get a
• 58:46
  little like bag of their clothes and gear, right?
• 58:49
  Kit, you know, it's like somebody goes, a soldier goes
• 58:51
  off to war, he's got his soldiers kit or a traveler's kit
• 58:54
  or tool kit. So the players would be like,
• 58:56
  hey, you're going to your game, here's your kit with your
• 58:58
  cleats, your shin guards, your socks, of course, your shirt and
• 59:02
  shorts. So it became sort of the term
• 59:06
  instead of uniform or jersey, they started saying that's a
• 59:10
  kit. Do you have your kit?
• 59:11
  Put your kit on. So kind of like I said, it's
• 59:14
  just more kind of using that old English term of sort of a set of
• 59:17
  equipment or gear. Like I said, soldiers kit, tool
• 59:20
  kit or traveler's kit. All right, look, another term is
• 59:23
  if you play for your international team, Luca, what
• 59:25
  do you get? You get a a cap.
• 59:29
  A cap, right? So why why do we call him like a
• 59:31
  cap? OK, so yeah.
• 59:34
  So if I've got 30 caps for the American National team, and I've
• 59:37
  played 30 times for the American National team, a cap.
• 59:40
  So in 1886, Luther Nicholas, Pennsylvania Jackson, he was the
• 59:45
  head of the FA committee saw in cricket.
• 59:49
  So he was watching cricket that they would get an embroidered
• 59:52
  meaning like a stitched up cap, like a like a total a cap.
• 59:56
  Every time they play for the national team.
• 59:58
  And so every time you would play for your national team, like I
• 1:00:02
  said in cricket, that's how they started.
• 1:00:04
  They would get, like I said, a literally a like a, a cap.
• 1:00:07
  And so he thought, well, why don't we do this in soccer?
• 1:00:10
  And when he became head of the FA.
• 1:00:13
  He was a committee member. He brought it over to soccer and
• 1:00:17
  sometimes they would actually play in their caps.
• 1:00:19
  So you would go to your national team, here's your cap.
• 1:00:22
  They'd put it on and then they would go out there and play with
• 1:00:25
  their actual embroidered caps on.
• 1:00:28
  And this is still done a little bit actually.
• 1:00:31
  Like they're occasionally like if somebody gets their like
• 1:00:33
  100th cap, let's say for like England or something, they will
• 1:00:36
  like give them an embroidered cap with like, you know, 100
• 1:00:39
  caps for, you know, Wayne Rooney or something like that.
• 1:00:42
  Now he doesn't wear it during the game obviously, but.
• 1:00:44
  You can. You I guess you could, but like
• 1:00:46
  I said, they did that back in the day, but like I said
• 1:00:48
  something that came from cricket and like I said, they actually
• 1:00:52
  like I said, it's kind of talking about a physical legit
• 1:00:55
  real cap. Other one boots.
• 1:00:58
  Luca, what are boots? Cleats.
• 1:01:00
  Cleats, right? In the United States we have
• 1:01:01
  cleats. So essentially it cleats shoes
• 1:01:04
  with traction spikes, right. So why do they call them boots?
• 1:01:07
  Well, in the 1800s Luca heavy leather work boots, they were
• 1:01:13
  like the same type used for like labor jobs or military jobs
• 1:01:17
  people. That's what they basically wore
• 1:01:19
  all the time. And so they were like an above
• 1:01:21
  the ankle thick leather and like they would sometimes hammer
• 1:01:25
  metal studs into the sole of the foot and they were real heavy.
• 1:01:31
  But remember, a lot of these teams started off like Arsenal
• 1:01:33
  started off with workers at the Arsenal.
• 1:01:35
  They were making ammunition and stuff like that.
• 1:01:38
  So they needed heavy work boots to do their job.
• 1:01:40
  And then they're like, hey, job's over, let's go play some
• 1:01:43
  football. So what would they walk out in
• 1:01:45
  in their boots, right? So that's what they, like I
• 1:01:47
  said, but that's how it came from, is these heavy leather
• 1:01:50
  boots and it's just sort of stuck.
• 1:01:52
  We're now of course, nobody plays in that, but people still
• 1:01:55
  call them the hey, put on your boots and we'll go play there.
• 1:01:57
  So that's how we got the term boots instead of cleats like we
• 1:02:00
  call them here. You and I were talking about
• 1:02:03
  like other terms that are different in American and like
• 1:02:06
  said American sports to soccer, you've got sideline versus
• 1:02:12
  touchline, right? So in football, like pushed out
• 1:02:14
  at the sideline, soccer is always a touchline.
• 1:02:17
  We really call them games, but they're it's a match, right?
• 1:02:22
  And so how did we get matched? Luke, though?
• 1:02:24
  Well, back in the 1500s, people would want to do 2.
• 1:02:28
  I like what? And this isn't just for soccer
• 1:02:30
  back then, but any event, a sporting event, you'd want 2
• 1:02:34
  evenly side people to ever matched up evenly.
• 1:02:37
  That was like a big thing is they always wanted like, well,
• 1:02:38
  let's make sure it's matched up evenly matched, matched up
• 1:02:41
  evenly. So it became a match.
• 1:02:44
  All right, Luke, we say we want 2 to 02 to nothing, they say.
• 1:02:49
  Two nil. Two nil.
• 1:02:51
  I say that all the time. Yeah, So nil, how do we get the
• 1:02:54
  word nil, Luca? Well, it comes from the Latin
• 1:02:56
  word nihil, which means nothing. NIHIL means nothing in Latin.
• 1:03:02
  Shorten that to nil. Nihil, Nil.
• 1:03:06
  Talk about like on frame versus on target, right, Sometimes we.
• 1:03:09
  Hear those? Words in overtime here.
• 1:03:13
  Flyers land overtime. Well, they don't go into
• 1:03:16
  overtime, they go into it. What'd you just say?
• 1:03:17
  Extra time, exactly. So that is the period played
• 1:03:21
  after a draw. So the proper term if you're
• 1:03:23
  watching a soccer game where they're going on to play as the
• 1:03:27
  regulation is ended and at tide, they're playing extra time, not
• 1:03:31
  overtime, extra time. Now, Luca, additional time.
• 1:03:34
  Additional time is actually when they add the time on at the end
• 1:03:39
  of the game. So we watch Arsenal foam this
• 1:03:40
  weekend, they're adding on 5 minutes of additional time.
• 1:03:44
  It's actually not stoppage time, it is not injury time.
• 1:03:47
  Those are slang terms and in fact, FIFA as well as the IFAB
• 1:03:51
  who comes up with the rules, they both say it is additional
• 1:03:54
  time, but we of course say how much stoppage time, how much
• 1:03:57
  injury time is left? Those are slang terms.
• 1:04:00
  So if you want to be very proper, you talk about
• 1:04:02
  additional time, which again, different than extra time,
• 1:04:06
  right? Extra time is after a tie,
• 1:04:08
  you're playing like a period. It's usually two things of extra
• 1:04:10
  time. And then like I said, how much
• 1:04:12
  additional time is added on. So I thought that was kind of
• 1:04:15
  interesting. So I always feel like I hear
• 1:04:16
  that stoppage time, injury time, additional time, all this
• 1:04:19
  different kind of stuff so. All right, Luke.
• 1:04:21
  That's cool Quote of the week, all right.
• 1:04:24
  Oh, Oh yeah. All right, quote of the week.
• 1:04:26
  Luca is from Johann Kroif, one of the greatest soccer players
• 1:04:29
  of all time, one of the revolutionaries of the game,
• 1:04:34
  Total football, right? Went to Barcelona, like I said,
• 1:04:36
  and they've sort of never been the same since, in a good way,
• 1:04:39
  said, I love this Luca. Playing football is very simple,
• 1:04:42
  but plain simple football is the hardest thing to do.
• 1:04:45
  Oh, I've I've seen that before. Yeah, I like that.
• 1:04:47
  What does that mean to you? Like.
• 1:04:49
  I mean it, sometimes I don't really get it.
• 1:04:54
  It's like playing, So playing football is very simple, meaning
• 1:04:57
  it is a sort of a simple game. Right, like it doesn't have two
• 1:05:00
  complicated rules. Yeah, and I think it's literally
• 1:05:03
  just, it's like 1. I mean, think about it like, all
• 1:05:05
  you need is a ball in a way, right?
• 1:05:06
  I mean, OK, it helps to have like, sidelines in the goal.
• 1:05:09
  But like, soccer in some ways is like, at its essence, incredibly
• 1:05:12
  simple game. You know, there aren't that many
• 1:05:14
  rules, like most people think. Like, all right, offsides is
• 1:05:17
  very complicated and confusing. But the rest of it people
• 1:05:19
  understand you can't use your hands.
• 1:05:20
  You're trying to kick a ball into a net.
• 1:05:22
  You know that in an essence is very similar.
• 1:05:25
  Like think about the complexity of like basketball or or
• 1:05:27
  American football like very complex rules are very.
• 1:05:31
  Esoteric there. But I think also, but playing
• 1:05:35
  simple football is the hardest thing to do because I can tell
• 1:05:38
  if it's like you're a coach and you go out there and you're
• 1:05:39
  like, guys, keep it simple, control the ball, pass the ball,
• 1:05:43
  shoot the ball. You know, that in itself sounds
• 1:05:47
  very easy to do. But it's not.
• 1:05:49
  But it's not right. You've played before, right?
• 1:05:51
  So I mean speak to that a little bit.
• 1:05:53
  Yeah, OK, OK, now I get. So I guess maybe you're trying
• 1:06:00
  to make a good pass and just a simple pass, but the nerves get
• 1:06:04
  to you and you mistakenly give it to your team and cause a
• 1:06:09
  giveaway and they score. It's a simple pass, but
• 1:06:12
  sometimes all your brain can start to, like, mess with you
• 1:06:18
  and you mess up. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:06:20
  And I think that's it, right? Like it just you, you, it can be
• 1:06:22
  a very simple thing to do, but that's not always very easy to
• 1:06:25
  do. So, all right, Luca, 1 real
• 1:06:28
  quick thing before we get into our trivia questions.
• 1:06:30
  I want people just to be aware the, the Championship, the
• 1:06:32
  league below the Premier League is, is finishing up this
• 1:06:35
  weekend. So before you dive into Premier
• 1:06:37
  League on Saturday at 7:30 Eastern Time in the United
• 1:06:40
  States, all the games are going on and there's a ton at stake in
• 1:06:44
  the Championship. So this is it.
• 1:06:46
  Like I said, their final game. Why did it have to be at 7:30?
• 1:06:50
  So what here's what we know already is that there's of
• 1:06:52
  course three teams will go up and we know one of them is
• 1:06:55
  Coventry City. They are done.
• 1:06:56
  They're going up. Did they win?
• 1:06:58
  They they've won the league and they're going to finish in
• 1:07:00
  first. OK, now second, third and 4th.
• 1:07:04
  Luca could be Ipswich, Millwall or Middlesboro and they're
• 1:07:08
  separated by just a couple points.
• 1:07:10
  So Ipswich is in second. If they win, then they're going
• 1:07:12
  to get the second spot and go up.
• 1:07:15
  But keep an eye out. Like I said, Millwall,
• 1:07:17
  Middlesboro right behind them. That could get the 2nd place,
• 1:07:21
  which is important because you're automatically promoted.
• 1:07:23
  You don't get involved with the playoff, which Luca is kind of a
• 1:07:27
  bit wild here. So 3rd through 6th, like I said
• 1:07:31
  will be in the playoffs. And so we know that the the two
• 1:07:36
  that are left out of not getting second.
• 1:07:37
  So let's say Ipswich Town gets second, then Millwall,
• 1:07:41
  Middlesboro and also Southampton will definitely get the next
• 1:07:44
  three spots. So the battle though is for that
• 1:07:46
  six playoff spot to try to get into the Championship playoff.
• 1:07:49
  You've got Rexam, Hull and Darby all separate.
• 1:07:53
  So Rexam on 70 points, goal differential of +4.
• 1:07:57
  How Rexam could go in the Premier League.
• 1:07:59
  Well, I mean, they get them into the playoffs well.
• 1:08:01
  They I'm just saying theoretically they could go in.
• 1:08:04
  Hull, Lucas 70 points plus three goal differential.
• 1:08:08
  Darby 69 points but a + 9 goal differential.
• 1:08:12
  So it is going to be wild. So even if Rexum win, Hull could
• 1:08:17
  go above them on goal differential if they win by more
• 1:08:19
  than two goals to Rexum's difference.
• 1:08:22
  So let's say Rexum win 1 nothing.
• 1:08:24
  If Hull win 3 nothing. Hull then go above them and get
• 1:08:28
  the 6th spot but Darby has the best goal differential but need
• 1:08:32
  a little bit of help because they're a point behind so it is
• 1:08:35
  really really interesting to me Luca like there's a lot on the
• 1:08:38
  line to watch here you're. Going to have to tell me about
• 1:08:40
  that Wrexham game because I want to.
• 1:08:41
  I want to know if they get into the playoffs.
• 1:08:43
  And Wrexham I think plays Middlesbrough, who's a really
• 1:08:45
  very good team who, like I said, are kind of trying to battle to
• 1:08:48
  try to get to 2nd. So that's a big, big game there.
• 1:08:52
  We already know that Oxford City, Leicester City and
• 1:08:55
  Sheffield Wednesday are all relegated and from League One.
• 1:08:59
  Luca promoted. Lincoln City and Cardiff City
• 1:09:02
  are promoted so they'll go into the Championship and then League
• 1:09:05
  One has a playoff too, so there'll be one more team.
• 1:09:07
  Leicester got relegated too, right?
• 1:09:08
  Yeah, yeah. Oxford United, Leicester City
• 1:09:11
  and Sheffield Wednesday. That's wild.
• 1:09:13
  But then like I said, from League One, moving up, Lincoln
• 1:09:15
  City, Cardiff City. But yeah, like I said, so no
• 1:09:18
  Premier League games start till 10:00 on Saturday, so people
• 1:09:21
  want to get up early. Like I said it, it's going to
• 1:09:23
  make for a wild day as the Championship finishes up.
• 1:09:26
  All right, Luke, let's move on to our penalty kick trivia
• 1:09:29
  shootout. We're going to ask each other
• 1:09:31
  some trivia questions going back and forth.
• 1:09:33
  Do you want to ask first? Or I guess receive first?
• 1:09:37
  I'm going to ask first. All right.
• 1:09:39
  Anyway, your first question. Who is the oldest?
• 1:09:42
  These three first three questions are going to be all
• 1:09:44
  but the Balandor. Bob Balandor.
• 1:09:46
  OK, OK, so who is the oldest player to have won the ball?
• 1:09:50
  Andor I can give you the country if you need it.
• 1:09:55
  Let me think. I don't know if I knew this.
• 1:09:56
  One of them, my oldest player to win the Ballander.
• 1:10:00
  All right, give me the country. England.
• 1:10:02
  England. It's a long time back.
• 1:10:04
  It's a long time back, Bobby Charles.
• 1:10:07
  Oh, Stanley Matthews. OK, never heard of him.
• 1:10:10
  You haven't? No, really.
• 1:10:13
  All right, Luca, which side has won the UEFA Cup or Europa
• 1:10:19
  League the most? And you get choices Atletti,
• 1:10:23
  Sevilla, Inter Milan or Uday. Sevilla.
• 1:10:27
  Sevilla has won the most, yes, seven of them.
• 1:10:30
  So that used to be the UEFA Cup and I was the Europa League.
• 1:10:33
  Yeah, they won seven of them, so good job.
• 1:10:35
  OK, who was the only defender to win the ball on door twice and
• 1:10:41
  again, it's a while back. Maldini.
• 1:10:45
  No Beckenbauer I. Was gonna start just thinking
• 1:10:47
  Franz Beckenbauer, but I was like, oh, it was my second
• 1:10:50
  choice. But all right.
• 1:10:52
  Luca What 2 teams play in the Old Firm?
• 1:10:55
  Darby in Scotland? Rangers and Celtics.
• 1:10:59
  That is right, Rangers and Celtic, the two teams from
• 1:11:02
  Glasgow, which I have here look in 19 O four.
• 1:11:07
  There was a cartoon mocking them as like a single entity, making
• 1:11:13
  them like make it almost like a business unit.
• 1:11:15
  They called it like the Scottish Scottish, the Scottish referee.
• 1:11:21
  It was like a business called the Scottish referee and they
• 1:11:23
  called them the 2 Old Firm friends because they like, you
• 1:11:27
  know, basically were just dominated the league.
• 1:11:30
  And yeah, so Celtic and Ranger playing the Old Firm, but
• 1:11:33
  really, really good, good Derby. Like I said in Scotland and like
• 1:11:36
  I said, that dates back to this cartoon from 19 O 4 the old, the
• 1:11:39
  old 2 Old Firm friends, 2 Old Firm friends.
• 1:11:43
  That's how it got that term. So all right, good one.
• 1:11:45
  All right. Who won the ball on door in
• 1:11:47
  2018? You got to get this one. 2018
• 1:11:51
  Ronaldo. It's Luca Mondrich.
• 1:11:53
  Well. I was going to say that, but
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  then you're saying I got to get it.
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  Because it's my name. Well, Ronaldo's like one of your
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  favorite players. Yeah, I know.
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  But like, OK, all right, All right, Fairpoint.
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  All right, Luca, who is the only club to have won all three of
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  the Champions League, Europa League and UEFA Conference
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  League? Oh, oh if.
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  You want I can give you the the league.
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  Yeah, kind of the league. They're a Premier League team.
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  Champions League, The rope League.
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  And you wait for Conference league.
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  OK. So I don't, I don't think it's
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  united. It's not united.
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  I I don't, it's not Aston Villa, it's not Liverpool.
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  Does like UEFA Cup count? Like you know, the before the
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  Champions League was invented? I guess it would it would, but I
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  think this team has won all three in their like iteration
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  they are now. So.
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  Yes, I would have included that by but because the UEFA
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  Conference League is so new that you know, in order to win that
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  you're you're, you've won the other ones.
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  OK. Was it a recent that they wanted
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  to wait for conference? Yeah, I think it's somewhat
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  recent. I mean, if I had to guess 5 or 6
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  years ago, I don't quite know, but all right, three.
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  I'm just going to go out there in city.
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  I don't know. Chelsea.
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  Oh God, I mean. Yeah, Chelsea did it.
• 1:13:40
  All right, Luca, next question. Which player won the Golden Boot
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  in the 2010 World Cup? He's German.
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  Closer. And more.
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  Mahler yeah, one of my second choices would have been right,
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  but. You.
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  You were going. You were.
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  Going to thinking him yeah yeah, but I think closer I just I just
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  felt like it but he asked he was maybe a.
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  Little Maybe next time you always go with your second,
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  yeah. Exactly.
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  All right, Luca. Harry Maguire from Manchester
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  United signed with them in 2019. From what club?
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  Leicester. Yep, the $100 million signing
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  from Leicester. Whoa, which player won the
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  Golden Boot in the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
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  2022. Was that go with your second
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  thought? Imboppen.
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  Yeah, OK. All right, Luca, Speaking of
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  World Cup La Roja, the Red one is the nickname for what
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  national team? Spain.
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  That is correct. Because roja means red in
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  Spanish. There you go.
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  So I was thinking that. Nickname the La Roja, the red
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  one, which look good. Like I said, we're going to go
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  see them when the World Cup starts so all right, look at you
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  in that one. That was pretty decisive yeah
• 1:14:55
  Look all yes, real quick, find us on Instagram, Premier League
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  playground. You can e-mail us at
• 1:15:00
  premierleagueplayground@gmail.com. We also have some videos up on
• 1:15:03
  our YouTube channel, yeah, some videos of Luca playing and doing
• 1:15:07
  some stuff. So yeah, Premier League
• 1:15:09
  Playground on YouTube. We're trying to work on getting
• 1:15:12
  a few more videos up there. So yeah, that's it.
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  That's all I've got, Luca. There's the final whistle on,
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  that's full time for us. Thank you for listening.
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  Bye.