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Week 30 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome into another edition of the Premier
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  League playground. We are in our Week 30 edition.
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  We finally hit the 30s for the Premier League schedule.
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  Luca, we are getting towards the home stretch for sure.
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  I am the dad though, and with me is our star, the lad.
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  Luca Miller. And how are you, Luca?
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  I'm doing good. How are you?
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  Good, good. If anybody can tell, Luke is a
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  little bit of a sad sack right now.
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  You opened up some cards. I'm not.
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  Wasn't real happy with the car city guy I'm.
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  Not sad sack, was that? So Luca, what when you open up
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  cards, what are you looking for? When you open up cards Like what
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  like. Cards worth something?
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  Worth something? OK, all right.
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  But you don't sell cards. I know, but it's cool to have
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  cards like that are worth a lot. So even though you so Luca, is
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  that we've talked about this is a big soccer collector, but even
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  though you don't sell them, you like to just have valuable cards
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  just to have them. Yes.
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  OK. And what are some of your
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  favorite types of cards to get? Like brand.
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  No, like the types of cards. So you, you know, there's
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  obviously like Tops, Panini, Donrus that you open up, but you
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  like, like when you open up cards, you obviously want to get
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  players you like, right. I mean, that makes sense.
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  You like numbered cards too. Yeah.
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  What is it about numbered cards you like?
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  It just showed that there's only a certain amount in the world
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  and. They're like kind of rare and
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  valuable. Yeah.
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  Yeah. So they'll actually like put a
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  stamp on the card, right? Like 7 of 50 or one of 10,
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  right. So you like the numbered cards.
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  Obviously you can get an autograph card.
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  You like those? The end Jersey cards.
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  Jersey cards, those are very rare though, right?
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  Yeah, yeah. Who's the last autograph card
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  you got? Who was it?
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  I don't know, I haven't got one in a while.
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  Well, didn't you get like Somerville or?
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  No, I was just a numbered card that.
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  Was just the numbers 1. I know.
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  I was trying to think the last one, you've got it maybe.
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  Yeah, I was going to say even at the card shows you go to
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  sometimes it's hard to find a autographed soccer card.
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  There's a lot of other baseball and football ones.
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  But all right, Luca, well, week 30 is almost in the books.
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  We've got a game that's kicking off pretty soon here, Brentford
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  Wolves, which we're not going to talk too much about, but Luke,
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  it was an interesting week overall.
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  Are you ready to dive into the games?
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  Yes. All right, well look, a First
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  off the bat we had Sunderland hosting Brighton.
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  This game ends one nil brain are predicted it to be A11 tie.
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  Nothing happens in the first half until the 58th minute when
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  Minta scores. I think you're trying to cross
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  it and you like with they changed it and it ended up going
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  in. I think keeper should have done
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  a little bit better on this but it is what it is.
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  Sunderland have lost last three at home and Brighten now tied
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  with Sunderland on 40 points. Yeah, kind of on the goal, Luke,
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  he said goalie should have done better, maybe covered that in
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  your post a little tighter. Yeah, cuz Minta, I agree with
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  you. He sort of flubs it.
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  I think he's just trying to play it across, but it just and maybe
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  that's what threw the goalie off, but then it sort of sneaks
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  in the the near post there. Yeah.
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  I, I think the goalies got to kind of be tighter on that post
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  and not let the ball go there. Trust your defenders can play
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  the cross. Yeah.
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  Lucas Sunderland. Lucas feels like they've sort of
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  just run out of steam. You know, we talked about how
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  great they were at home. They've now lost three in a row
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  at home. They just have a problem scoring
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  goals. They've been shut out in 11 of
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  30 games. Only Wolves and Forests have
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  been shut out more. So you know, Sunderland, they're
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  going to still have a great season because they're not going
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  to get relegated. They're going to come back in
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  the Premier League. But I I think the big thing to
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  keep an eye on for them, Luca is, is what they add in the
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  attack. They've got to figure out a way
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  to score more goals for next season, you know, if they want
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  to, you know, kind of keep sustaining the success.
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  But still, like I said, a great season.
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  But it looks like they're just going to kind of finish mid, you
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  know, bottom table. They're sitting in 13th right
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  now. You know, Brighton get the win.
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  They tie them up on 40 points. They each actually, it's fine.
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  They have the exact same record, ten wins, 10 losses, 10 draws.
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  But yeah, both these teams look at kind of feel like mid table
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  teams. Not a lot to play for for either
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  of these teams. So, yeah, kind of is what it is.
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  All right, let's move over to Burnley hosting Bournemouth.
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  This game in 00, there was not really anything to talk about.
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  I predicted it to be two. No Bournemouth.
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  There's 37 total shots in this game.
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  Only Nottingham Forest V versus Wolves with 42 had more in a 00
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  game in all all time, The 14th tie for Bournemouth but unbeaten
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  in the last 10 Premier League matches with four wins and six
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  draws. Yeah, Bournemouth feel like a
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  really streaky team, you know, like started off really great,
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  then they that huge run where they didn't win and now they're
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  kind of unbeaten in this big run.
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  Last four games they they just keep drawing four straight draws
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  in the Premier League, putting them on 14 draws.
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  I mean, the next most I think leads have 11 draws.
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  So I mean it look, it's keeping them hanging around possibly
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  finishing in 7th, which we know will probably be UEFA Conference
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  League, which would be a big deal for Bournemouth if they
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  could do it. So they're in the mix, Luke.
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  I mean they're only three points off of off of Brentford there
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  currently are are are going to go down.
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  I mean, it's not official yet, but they're on 20 points that I
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  don't see any way Luca, they're going to stay up.
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  So you know, Bournemouth, like I said, I I think this is 1 where
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  they're going to feel like they probably could have tried to get
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  the win in this one. You know, sometimes it just
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  doesn't fall for you. So disappointed for Bournemouth,
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  but we'll keep an eye on them. Like I said, they're in 10th.
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  Like I said, still in striking distance from Brentford, but
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  they they got to start getting some wins, turn some of these
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  draws into wins. All right, look, let's move over
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  to Chelsea. Newcastle.
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  This game ends one. No Newcastle are predicted to be
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  3. Two Chelsea.
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  Gordon scores in the 18th minute off of a like nice ball from
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  Tina Livermento to Willock and will plays it across like you
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  draw Sanchez in, plays it across and Gordon has an easy tap in.
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  Chelsea haven't won at home in last three Premier League
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  matches, which is the first time since 2023, and that's Gordon's
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  fourth Premier League goal in 23 games.
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  Yeah. So two things I want to ask you
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  about Luke, in this game there the the the Rosenior was kind of
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  adamant about there was should have been a penalty on Cole
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  Palmer. What it were your thoughts on
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  that? It was not called.
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  No. Not a penalty for you.
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  No, I mean, he he doesn't really get tripped.
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  It's I don't like to see penalties that are super soft.
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  And I think it was also very soft, like penalties should be
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  like there's actual contact, like a good amount of contact,
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  not just like a little nudge and then, oh man, it's a penalty.
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  No, I for me that's not a penalty.
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  OK, all right, see you there. All right, look at more
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  importantly, I have to ask you about the beginning of this
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  game. There's a very weird thing in
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  this game. So Chelsea, look at the past
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  couple games before kickoff have decided they want to huddle in
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  the middle of the field. OK, Most teams they come out
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  before kickoff, they huddle together, they have their whole
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  half to do it right. You see the team huddling up,
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  you know, getting themselves pumped up and then they break
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  the huddle, they line up and then they go.
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  Well, Chelsea decided to do it in the middle of the field,
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  which is typically they put the ball in the middle of the field.
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  Usually the referee stands there until they're ready and then he
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  kind of backs out, blows a whistle and they go.
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  Chelsea did this against Villa and Villa were not real thrilled
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  about it. Chelsea did it again today.
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  Luca the the referee standing in the middle of the Chelsea
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  huddle, They're all huddled around him.
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  It just, it seemed really weird. What?
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  What were your What did you think of all this?
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  Well, I think Chelsea are weirdos and that should be, I
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  mean, what is that? What are you, What are you
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  trying to do? You're trying to bribe the ref
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  or something. I got, I got $20 in my pocket
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  here. What?
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  What's the point of that? Just just, I mean, huddle up in
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  your own half like a normal team, what's the point of doing
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  it in the middle? It's not going to help you in
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  the game, let alone around the referee.
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  That referee, the poor referee looks so confused in the middle
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  of that huddle. He was just looking around, like
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  what? It was bizarre.
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  I agree with you. The referee kind of didn't know
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  what to do. The whole thing is just so
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  strange to me. Like the.
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  And all the players look so chill about it, like.
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  Yeah, I, I don't know, I, it is hard because I think Chelsea do
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  some weird stuff. And so it's hard to not think
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  like, I don't know the motivation for having to do this
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  in the, you have your entire half of the field to do this.
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  I, I, it feels to me Luca, like they're coming out and being
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  like, you know, it's a little bit of like they're trying to
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  intimidate the other team. Like we're, this is like our
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  ball, this is like our is what we're going to do.
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  And I don't know, like. It doesn't work.
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  They lost. I mean, that's the other thing.
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  Yeah, no, it does not work that they did lose.
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  But yeah, it's just a weird thing.
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  I'll be interested to see Luke. I I guess there's technically no
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  rule against it. So we'll I'll be interested to
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  see like what they do moving forward with this because it it
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  just, it's another thing again, Chelsea seem to get all this
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  attention for the wrong reasons. They get attention for red
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  cards, they get attention for goalie mistakes, they get
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  attention for having to huddle up in the middle of the field
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  around the referee where you should just getting attention
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  for your play on the field, the results you're getting.
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  And, and Luca, they're in big trouble right now because
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  they're now a point behind Liverpool for 5th place.
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  So they're out of Champions League spots right now.
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  This would be a big, big deal if they cannot get Champions
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  League. And so, you know, they've got to
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  start getting some better results moving forward or else,
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  like I said, this could be a big, big problem for them.
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  So, you know, Newcastle, Luca, their story I feel like has
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  already sort of been told. I mean, you know, they're moving
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  up. They've had two wins in a row.
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  So they're, you know, they're chasing that sort of 6-7 spot,
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  maybe more probably 7th than than six.
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  So we'll see if they can do that.
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  But you know, I don't know, like it's a Newcastle feel like
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  they'll maybe get 7th, 8th, 9th, but probably all disappointing
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  for them. They're probably thinking, you
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  know, they were in Champions League last year.
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  We should be there again this. But feels like they just don't
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  have the squad depth to kind of compete with the Champions
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  League and the Premier League going on at the same time, plus
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  the other competition. So they're going to need a
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  deeper squad if they want to kind of continually find
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  Champions League spots. All right, Luca, well, let's
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  talk about Arsenal, Everton. This was kind of a crazy game
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  talk. Take me through this by the way.
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  Perfect prediction. Yeah, I predicted 2 nil Arsenal.
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  It was 2 nil Arsenal. Did you predict that a 16 year
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  old was going to score? I did not.
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  Take us through it, Luca. So there's nothing happening
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  until the 89th minute for Yocharez scores it it like
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  Downman plays the ball over and it Pickford dives for it.
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  He can't reach it. It falls off of him.
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  Cappy, it's got and your grass has a tap in me and you freaking
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  out like absolutely going bizarre.
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  And then in the 98th minute, Pickford comes up from his goal
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  for a corner. It's just the last player of the
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  game and Gilchrist heads out, Martin Lee heads it again.
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  Then it falls to Downman who heads it past 1 defender, 2
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  defenders and just runs all the way to the goal and taps it in
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  for like it feels like the winning goal, but it's not.
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  It's a very important goal 'cause now Diamond's now the
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  youngest Premier League scorer at 16 years and 73 days.
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  He breaks James Bond's record at 16 years and 270 days.
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  He scored for Everton in 2005 and Arsenal are now unbeaten in
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  the last seven Premier League games against Everton.
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  So we kind of own them. Yeah, I mean, Luca, the the to
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  me the the story of this game is down and we'll we'll talk a
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  little bit more about him. But yeah, I mean, Luca, since
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  January of 2025, Everton have picked up 41 away points.
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  That's second to only to Arsenal.
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  So that's how good Everton have been away from home.
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  Like I said for, you know, a little over a year now, but
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  Everton really do struggle against Arsenal.
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  They only have one win in their last thirty trips to to play
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  Arsenal. So it is one of those things
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  that that Everton, like I said, I've been good on the road but
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  just aren't that great against Arsenal on the road.
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  But they played them very closely.
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  And in fact, couple things in this game before we talk about
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  down and Luca is, you know, the first half I think Arsenal
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  played pretty well, had like a pretty good possession, created
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  some OK chances to really the better chances came from from
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  Everton. How about the Caliphiore?
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  Save Luca? Oh yeah, I was insane.
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  The ball falls to McNeil. He's like on the right, like on
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  the right side of the box, you know, probably like, you know,
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  10 yards out from goal, shoots at Calipari's on the ground,
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  kind of jumps up with his legs in the air, blocks what is sure
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  to be a goal. Incredible, like, athleticism by
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  him, incredible. Just like thought to even do
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  that. McNeil later on hits the post in
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  the first half. Yeah.
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  So Everton probably had the better chances even though maybe
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  Arsenal had more chances. And then, you know, you and I
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  are watching this game and then Luca tell me, take me through
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  that, that there's a kind of a shout for a penalty on Habards.
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  Take me through that and we are thoughts on this.
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  OK, so I kind of forget. Was it like Michael Keane on
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  Habards? He kind of habits just played
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  through. It's a great ball, I think by
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  Eze and he stumbles and trips and the referee is not called
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  penalty. And we did not think it was a
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  penalty first because we were looking at like was there a
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  push? But actually I haven't seen
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  this. But like apparently he he, he
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  got stepped on his foot got stepped on, which would
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  definitely have been contacts. It would have been more contact
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  than that Cole Palmer one which I did not think was a penalty
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  and did you not go back and look at it and it is never called a
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  penalty, but in my opinion I think it should have been a
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  penalty. Well, yeah, so you're right,
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  Lucaso Eze plays a great ball through the defenders.
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  Haverts is in on goal. Keene is then sort of trailing
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  him. And you're right, I think you
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  and I initially were thinking, was there a push?
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  Did his arms push? Cause Keene kind of like extends
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  a little bit and from so I initially saw that I'm like, no,
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  he doesn't really push him. But when you look at the replay,
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  it's his feet. He gets tripped.
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  He literally like steps on his foot and trips him to the
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  ground. He's in on goal.
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  Luca, I I would argue this is not only a clear penalty, but
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  possibly a red card too. Denial of the goal scoring
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  opportunity or last man. So, you know, this was 1 and
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  Lucavar, I think looked at this for like 3 seconds.
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  This is crazy how quick a look we've seen them look at
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  penalties, look at for 5 minutes, looking at every little
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  angle, every little thing. This one was barely looked at.
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  They were so quick to wave this one on.
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  But this was this is a clear penalty me look.
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  And again, if people want to go back and watch it, watch the
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  feet. And I think it's Habert's.
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  His left foot gets literally stepped on.
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  It's a clear. Foul you should put it on like
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  our Instagram or YouTube channel.
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  Yeah, I can try to find a picture of it or you know, but
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  this one again is and again, I just, I'm surprised at VAR
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  barely even looked at this. But yeah, Luca, we got to talk
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  about Dalman here. This is just incredible.
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  I mean, so Luca, he's 16 years old, 73 days.
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  He's now the youngest scorer ever in the Premier League.
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  James Vaughn. Luca back in 2005 for Everton
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  was 16 years old, 270 days. The next day after that was
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  Milner in 2002 for Leeds, he was 16 years old, 356 days.
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  Wayne Rooney Luca, famously for Everton against Arsenal, was 16
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  years old, 360 days. Rua Ingamoa, who did it this
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  year for Liverpool, was 16 years old. 361 days.
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  Four days before their birthday. I'm pretty incredible.
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  And then Cess Fabregas for Arsenal in 2004.
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  He was 17 years old, 113 days. So those are the youngest top 6.
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  And like I said, Diamond's now number one.
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  It felt, look at it felt to me like something significant
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  happened in that moment with him.
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  Like, first of all, how about like a shout for Arteta, making
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  the substitution and putting him in?
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  Yeah, You know, he had Jay Zeus on the bench, veteran of the
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  Premier League, Brazilian national player.
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  You would have thought, OK, we're throwing attackers on,
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  right? We needed a goal you're throwing
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  attackers on, but he he chose Downman and puts him in there,
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  Luca. And like you said, he comes in
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  and boy, what a difference he makes because he basically sort
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  of creates the first goal, then scores the second goal.
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  And you know, we've been hearing about him now for like a year.
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  He's super young, but he's been like highly, highly talented
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  prospect. And I don't know, Luke, I think
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  like watching that goal and the reaction to it and then what
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  happened in the City game later on, it felt like something
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  significant happened in the title race.
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  You and I were freaking out. It was just like such a moment
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  there to win that game because like you said, in the 88th
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  minute, it's looking 00. City have to play.
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  We're gonna tie. They're gonna close the gap with
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  a win and then not only to get the first goal, but then to have
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  that second goal sort of cap off the whole day.
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  I don't know. It just like it feels like if
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  Arsenal don't punch their ticket and win the Premier League this
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  year, like we're just never going to do it because, you
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  know, I don't know. And like I said, I think this is
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  like, you know, down is not going to come into every game
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  and have basically a goal and an assist.
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  But what were what was like your what was your sort of thoughts
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  looking back on the whole game and what it all sort of meant
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  and have like a 16 year old score and make this impact and
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  what that means for Arsenal. I think it'll really boost his
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  confidence too, and I want to see him be playing more.
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  And yes, I agree with you when it it's a significant moment in
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  the title race because City dropped two points to West Ham.
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  We'll get on to that next and we get the three points.
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  So we gained 2 points in City. That brings us 9 points clear of
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  the table or of City, which is huge because the next game we
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  have city and even if we lose we're still 6 points clear like.
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  Now, City do have the game in hand.
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  Yes, I do. OK, well, we have to sort of say
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  that it's a nine point, but if City plays their game in hand.
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  But theoretically, we shouldn't lose our next game at the city
• 18:55
  theoretically. And also, even if we do and they
• 18:59
  win, we're still 3 points clear and.
• 19:04
  Yeah, I think that's just it, Luca.
• 19:05
  Like you're right. Like I mean, City have to win.
• 19:08
  They have to win their game in hand and they have to beat us.
• 19:11
  They can't tie. They certainly can't lose to us,
• 19:13
  you know, but there's a lot of pressure on them when we go
• 19:16
  there and I don't think there's now as much because like you
• 19:19
  said, if they win their game in hand and they beat us, it's
• 19:21
  still a three-point lead for us, you know, and you know, you look
• 19:25
  at our remaining fixtures, they're, you know, like I said,
• 19:28
  we have to play Newcastle, but it's at home.
• 19:30
  You know, it's doesn't it's not the hardest schedule for a run
• 19:34
  in here. I mean we're seven games away
• 19:36
  now. Basically.
• 19:37
  If Arsenal, like I said, can get, you know, I don't know what
• 19:41
  would they mean? Like, I mean, five wins out of
• 19:43
  those 7:00, then that's and they may only even need four wins,
• 19:47
  maybe four wins and two draws or something.
• 19:49
  I mean, it's right there, you know, and, and, and like you
• 19:53
  said, I don't know, it just sort of it feels to me like this
• 19:56
  could be something Luca that really kicks the team on a
• 19:58
  little bit where you're just like, you know.
• 20:01
  That are tense that you know, in the Everton game you're tied.
• 20:04
  You could feel sort of how nervous the crowd is.
• 20:06
  They're pushing the team forward.
• 20:08
  You know, even the goal I was even looking back on that first
• 20:11
  goal, you know Rye is holding the ball in the back.
• 20:13
  Remember he has that pass this to Gabrielle in the back there
• 20:17
  just goes over I think Barry's foot.
• 20:19
  I mean, it's like if Barry knocks that ball down, he taps
• 20:21
  it into an empty net and then and then Gabrielle, I think it's
• 20:25
  Gabrielle then plays his cross pass like across the field and
• 20:28
  up. Then the next pass is over to
• 20:30
  Downman that goes out. But it's just like, you know,
• 20:34
  it's, it's just, I don't know, it was such like on a Knight's
• 20:36
  edge that whole game. And and I just think to find a
• 20:39
  way to win that game and then have that sort of moment with
• 20:41
  with a 16 year old setting the record it it feels a little bit
• 20:45
  like destiny. I don't know.
• 20:47
  It's not done yet, Luca. Like I mean there's still work
• 20:49
  to be done, but man like this is as close and a good of chances
• 20:53
  will ever have. Yeah, yeah.
• 20:55
  All right, well, let's talk about the City game because I
• 20:57
  mean, this is what we're talking about, Arsenal versus City.
• 20:59
  So West Ham hosted City. Talk to me about this game.
• 21:01
  This game into one one. I predicted the two 2.
• 21:06
  Silva has a chip goal in 31st minute which I think probably
• 21:10
  was across, but yeah, lucky goals there.
• 21:13
  And then Maverpon was header in the 35th minute off the crossbar
• 21:17
  and in at all the goals in that game.
• 21:20
  The XG in this game was City 2.03 to West Ham's .54.
• 21:28
  The shots said he was 24 to 1. The shots on goal was 6 to 1 and
• 21:34
  Holland now only has four goals in last 18 games.
• 21:38
  So he's on a bit of a cold stretch right now, but yeah.
• 21:42
  Yeah, it's it's the weirdest thing with him.
• 21:46
  Luca we've talked about this stat before that when when
• 21:48
  Holland plays, the win percentage for City is 65% and
• 21:52
  when he doesn't play, they win 78%.
• 21:55
  It like it doesn't make sense because he clearly is a great,
• 21:59
  great player. He's a great goal scorer.
• 22:01
  He's even with this cold stretch, Luca, he's still four
• 22:04
  goals ahead of Tiago. He's going to win the Golden.
• 22:07
  Boot. Really.
• 22:07
  Yeah, I mean, he's still in 20 two goals.
• 22:09
  Yeah, I I don't see Tiago. I mean, Tiago may not even get 4
• 22:13
  the rest of the season and we're down to like 8 games here and,
• 22:16
  and I, you know, I mean, he could, it's possible, but I, I,
• 22:19
  I'd still put my money on Holland to win the gold boot,
• 22:22
  so. Hey, Gilchrist is up there now
• 22:24
  it's 11. Yeah, yeah.
• 22:25
  I mean, he's had, like I said, a Goodyear.
• 22:27
  You know, Ekatique's at 11, of course, Simenio at 15 and.
• 22:31
  Gilchrist is going to get 11. He holds in eight games.
• 22:35
  No, he will not. He will.
• 22:37
  He's not tied with Ekatique. Yeah, Sean's yapping about.
• 22:41
  Oh, we should get. We should have gone Ekatique.
• 22:43
  Look at it now. Well.
• 22:45
  You're right. I mean, a lot of it is you got
• 22:47
  to wait till the end of the season for a lot of this stuff.
• 22:48
  But yeah, look at this is big drop points for city.
• 22:52
  They totally dominated this game.
• 22:54
  I mean, they're going to be kind of hard pressed and not think
• 22:56
  that they deserve to win the Bernardo Silva one Luca, I mean
• 22:59
  it is he's like coming down the left side.
• 23:02
  I I truly think if you look at his eyes, he's seeing Holland at
• 23:04
  the back post, but he's such like a creative.
• 23:08
  I, I, you know, we know, we, I don't really like.
• 23:10
  Him, I don't like him at all, but he's a.
• 23:14
  He's a really good player, though, Luca and The thing is
• 23:17
  like, if it was any other, like a lot of other players, you'd be
• 23:19
  like, Oh my gosh, that was so lucky.
• 23:20
  But even I with him, I was like, Oh my God, he might have done
• 23:23
  that because he is that creative, He's that talented.
• 23:25
  But I do think it was a pass. But hey, man, you find your way
• 23:28
  to these goals. But you know, it just feels like
• 23:31
  if if you know this is the problem, though, is that city
• 23:33
  can't really keep clean sheets. Their defense is still kind of
• 23:36
  shaky. So Maverpanos Luca, of course.
• 23:39
  X Arsenal product helping out Arsenal in a big way, you know.
• 23:43
  Should we invite him to the parade?
• 23:44
  Yeah, maybe you know. Jim and Maria yeah, yeah, they
• 23:47
  can carpool to the to the parade, you know, but it's yeah,
• 23:51
  it's just funny again, you talk about like destiny and things
• 23:53
  happening like the ex Arsenal guy playing now for West Ham
• 23:57
  heads in a goal that that basically gets, you know, a 2
• 24:00
  Arsenal two more points in the terms of the their lead over
• 24:04
  City. But yeah, I mean look at this
• 24:06
  game. I will say this though, it goes
• 24:09
  to show you Luca, in the Premier League, what's interesting are
• 24:11
  these teams at the very bottom how hard they will play because
• 24:14
  they don't want to be relegated. So people probably know the
• 24:18
  bottom three teams get relegated and what a big deal that is.
• 24:20
  The relegation promotion thing keeps everybody interested.
• 24:24
  It keeps teams like this playing hard.
• 24:26
  But West Ham, Luca were defending for their lives in
• 24:28
  this game. So they desperately needed a
• 24:30
  point. I mean, city, like I said, you,
• 24:31
  you just said the stats totally one sided.
• 24:35
  But I mean, they were defending for their lives and in another
• 24:38
  sport, Luca, these teams at the in the bottom, like in the NBA
• 24:41
  and so like they're just tanking.
• 24:42
  They want to lose. There's no effort.
• 24:44
  But that's what I think is so cool about the Premier League is
• 24:47
  like, I almost want to watch like Forest, Leeds, Tottenham
• 24:52
  and. No one wants to watch Tottenham.
• 24:56
  And West Ham, because of the fact that they're like they're
• 24:59
  they should be playing super hard because they don't want to
• 25:02
  get relegated. So, you know, credit on West
• 25:05
  Ham, you know, like I said, it's a big point for them.
• 25:08
  Again, this is feels like a massive blow to City's chances.
• 25:12
  Not over yet, but this is this is a tough one.
• 25:14
  Yeah. All right, let's move over to
• 25:17
  Manchester United hosting Aston Villa.
• 25:19
  These are some Champions League teams, possibly, you know, in
• 25:22
  terms of the end of the season. This game in three one United I
• 25:26
  predicted to be 4 three United Castamiro and scores a header in
• 25:31
  the 53rd minute. Then Ross Barkley equalizes in
• 25:35
  the 64th minute, Cuno off of a really nice one touch ball from
• 25:39
  Bruno Fernandez. He scores in the 70s first
• 25:43
  minute and Chesco in the 81st minute.
• 25:46
  Fernandez has two more assists for a total of 16, four off the
• 25:52
  Premier League record, which Terry, Henry and Bruno are tied.
• 25:57
  And Villa have lost three straight Premier League games,
• 26:00
  so they're on a bit cold stretch too.
• 26:02
  Yeah, not not the time. You want to go cold here?
• 26:05
  They're falling down. In fact.
• 26:08
  Let's revisit our bet, Luca. The bet we made what, like 20
• 26:12
  weeks ago? I said Liverpool will catch
• 26:14
  Villa. You said that Villa will finish
• 26:17
  above Liverpool. It is now a 2 point difference.
• 26:20
  The problem is both of these teams are playing awful.
• 26:24
  Liverpool just tied time. Well, I know, I mean, hey, they
• 26:27
  still gained a point on Villa to have, like you said, lost three
• 26:31
  in a row there. Villas in fourth on 51 points,
• 26:34
  but Liverpool in fifth on 49, Chelsea in 6th on 48.
• 26:38
  I mean, even Brentford like hanging around at, you know, 45
• 26:42
  points. So, you know, Villa, Luca,
• 26:45
  they've got to turn this around quickly or else they're going to
• 26:49
  find themselves out of Champions League spots.
• 26:52
  But, you know, I think the story is Bruno Fernandez.
• 26:54
  Luca curious, who do you who do you dislike more, Bruno
• 26:58
  Fernandez or Bernardo? Bernardo Show OK, well, can't
• 27:02
  stand that guy. Can't stand him.
• 27:05
  Bruno Fernandez, Luca. I can't, I'm not a big fan of
• 27:08
  his either, but what a player he is.
• 27:11
  I can't stand either of them, but he.
• 27:13
  But I mean, you got he broke David Beckham's record of 15
• 27:17
  assists in a season for Manchester United.
• 27:18
  I mean, if you're breaking David Beckham's records, that's pretty
• 27:21
  impressive. And like you said, now 4 off the
• 27:24
  all time we, I mean, you know, God what a player he is for
• 27:29
  them. I mean, it's amazing to think
• 27:30
  there was all this talk in the summer about him leaving and,
• 27:33
  you know, we'll see if that comes back up again, but they'd
• 27:35
  be fools to let him go. I mean, he think about it like
• 27:39
  he takes PKS and he's almost automatic.
• 27:41
  He takes free kicks and he's very good at free kicks.
• 27:43
  And then some of these assists are just phenomenal.
• 27:46
  And he puts that that that ball he plays into Cunha, it's
• 27:48
  perfectly weighted right there. Cunha can take it.
• 27:51
  Great finish by Cunha too. But I mean, you know what a
• 27:54
  player he is like I I got to tip my cap.
• 27:56
  He is set. Been so important to Man United
• 28:00
  and look at they are got to be feeling good.
• 28:02
  They are sitting all by themselves in 3rd 54 points.
• 28:05
  They're closer to City than City are to Arsenal.
• 28:08
  How about that? Wait, actually.
• 28:10
  Yeah, Man United are are 7 points behind City.
• 28:13
  City are 9 points behind Arsenal.
• 28:16
  So I mean would you would you ever in your like wildest dreams
• 28:20
  when they were like, you know, firing their manager?
• 28:23
  What if I had told you, like United maybe are going to hunt
• 28:26
  Town City? I don't think they're going to
• 28:29
  do it. They could.
• 28:30
  It's possible, but. City have been withdraw drew
• 28:35
  their last two games. United have just been grinding
• 28:39
  out these wins easily. Yeah, I mean, you know, next
• 28:43
  Premier League game that you know, United get Bournemouth,
• 28:45
  City. Got script.
• 28:47
  They might, they might wanted this to happen.
• 28:49
  Can. You imagine, I mean, Can you
• 28:51
  imagine like if they finished second United?
• 28:53
  I mean, Oh my gosh, but United, Little League, they're going to
• 28:57
  be a super interesting team to me.
• 28:58
  I think to me, they definitely look like they're going to
• 29:01
  finish in 3rd. You know, obviously there's
• 29:03
  nothing guaranteed because of how close it is third through 6,
• 29:06
  but I feel like they look like a Champions League team.
• 29:09
  United. I think so.
• 29:12
  And I think Luca, to me that the summer is going to be super
• 29:14
  interesting for that team. You know, can they add, you
• 29:17
  know, Casamiro is going to leave.
• 29:18
  They've got to add some midfield depth, maybe a defender or two,
• 29:21
  but their attack is great. Goalie looks like they've got a
• 29:24
  pretty decent goalie in there now.
• 29:26
  So if they have the right pieces, United to me are going
• 29:29
  to be very interesting team to see what they do in the summer
• 29:31
  transfer market. All right, like, well, let's
• 29:34
  move over. We got a couple of not really
• 29:37
  that exciting games, but Nottingham Forest hosted Fulham.
• 29:40
  Yeah, this game ends 00. I predicted it to be one one
• 29:45
  form have didn't have a shot on target for the second time all
• 29:51
  year. Nottingham Forest are a winless
• 29:54
  in the last seven Premier League games.
• 29:55
  So yeah. Yeah, you know, I mean,
• 29:58
  goodness, the Fulham every time they get a little momentum and
• 30:00
  you're like, all right, they're like right there.
• 30:02
  They're going to challenge for 7th.
• 30:03
  Then they go and they what did their last two games lost in a
• 30:06
  draw. You know, you're like goodness
• 30:08
  gracious and they're like not hard games for them.
• 30:10
  It's it's just got to be madding being a Fulham fan when you're
• 30:12
  just like, you know, I mean, I guess they probably are just a
• 30:15
  team that's going to finish in 10th or 11th.
• 30:17
  But it's a shame because we kind of root for Fulham a little bit.
• 30:20
  And of course we know our our my friend Andrew, you know, big
• 30:23
  Fulham fan. Shout out to him like man, it's
• 30:27
  just you know, here's a game against Forest, but again,
• 30:29
  forest have a lot to play for. You know, I guess we'll talk
• 30:32
  about sort of the the the bottom teams after the next game.
• 30:35
  But you know, it's I guess it comes out to be a big point for
• 30:38
  Forest as they're trying to not get relegated.
• 30:41
  But let's let's move over real quick to talk about Crystal
• 30:43
  Palace leads. Oh yes, also end 00.
• 30:48
  I predicted it to be 1 nil leads.
• 30:50
  Dominic Calvin misses a peak in the 45th minute and 6 minutes
• 30:55
  later good Goodmanson gets a red card and the 45 + 6.
• 31:03
  The referee almost forgets to give him a second yellow.
• 31:07
  This is crazy. Yeah, they had to give VA Rs
• 31:09
  help to the. Fourth official.
• 31:12
  It wasn't far. Yeah, fourth official to get
• 31:15
  help on this cause the Palace players like what you should be
• 31:19
  off and I think the weeds players knew that too because
• 31:22
  they were like bringing them away from the ref.
• 31:26
  If we hide them, maybe they won't remember like so you know
• 31:29
  what I think? Look, I, I, I watched this back
• 31:32
  the. So, yeah, Goodmanson, like you
• 31:34
  said, he picks up a yellow and then of course, the game goes
• 31:36
  on. The foul that he in the middle,
• 31:38
  that he and then in the middle of the field where he gets the
• 31:40
  second yellow. It's such a soft foul, Luke.
• 31:42
  It's not a yellow card. It's a foul.
• 31:44
  But not every foul is a yellow card, OK?
• 31:46
  And it just feels like in the Premier League, every foul,
• 31:48
  people are screaming for yellow cards all the time.
• 31:50
  I think, Luke, I was thinking about this.
• 31:52
  I think the referee forgot he gave him a yellow.
• 31:55
  And so therefore I think if he had remembered that he gave him
• 31:58
  a yellow, he would have just called a foul.
• 32:00
  Because you know, a lot of times the if you're going to the
• 32:03
  second yellow, usually the bars a little higher, right?
• 32:05
  Because you're like, do I really want to send somebody off?
• 32:08
  So a lot of times they give a little more leeway if you're on
• 32:10
  a yellow. I mean, not always, but you get
• 32:12
  a little. I think the referee totally
• 32:14
  forgot, so sees this sort of soft foul and was like, all
• 32:17
  right, I'm going to give a yellow.
• 32:18
  And then all of a sudden is like, oh, wait, like he's on a
• 32:21
  yellow. And then they have to, like you
• 32:23
  said, then they're getting the fourth official involvement.
• 32:25
  Like you already yellow carded them and they're like, oh, OK,
• 32:27
  now. Well, now he has to give him a
• 32:29
  red card. I mean, it's just it's crazy.
• 32:32
  Like, I've never quite seen a situation where the referee
• 32:34
  literally looked like he forgot that he gave a player a yellow
• 32:36
  before. And, you know, again, I don't
• 32:39
  think he would have given him a yellow if he remembered, but it
• 32:42
  is what it is. And, you know, credit on leads
• 32:45
  for then grinding out a tie, you know, like down a man.
• 32:48
  And so, yeah, Luca, let's talk about the relegation sort of,
• 32:53
  you know, scrap here at the bottom.
• 32:54
  You've got so four teams, probably one of them is going to
• 32:58
  get relegated. So you have leads on 32 points,
• 33:01
  Tottenham on 30, Forest on 29 and West Ham on 29.
• 33:05
  So one of those teams is going to get relegated.
• 33:08
  The other 3 will stay up because we know Burnley and Wolves are
• 33:10
  going to go down. Frankfurt scored.
• 33:13
  Frankfurt scored OK, well, we can touch base real quick on
• 33:15
  that. But right now, Luca, if you had
• 33:18
  to bet, not who you want to go down, but if you had to bet all
• 33:22
  your soccer cards, who, which of those four teams to you looks
• 33:26
  like the most likely to be relevant?
• 33:27
  Tottenham. You think Tottenham, OK, even
• 33:29
  though they they found their way to or we'll get onto that game,
• 33:32
  but will they found their way to a result at Anfield?
• 33:34
  But you still think, you truly think that this is not your
• 33:38
  heart, this is your brain. Because I know that's who you
• 33:40
  want to go down. No, this is my brain.
• 33:42
  OK, Why? Why Spurs?
• 33:44
  You're awful. There's so much better, worse
• 33:47
  than all the other teams. Would you be willing to admit
• 33:51
  though they probably have more talent than the other teams?
• 33:54
  Yes, OK, but it hasn't done them any good.
• 33:57
  OK, no, fair enough, Fair enough.
• 33:59
  I'm not No look, just cuz you have more talent that doesn't
• 34:01
  guarantee you anything. I I think though it it will be
• 34:05
  enough to find their way to not be one of those four teams.
• 34:11
  But I can see to you, Luca, that it is going to be really tight
• 34:15
  with these four teams. Who do you think is going down?
• 34:18
  I, I kind of feel like it may be farce.
• 34:21
  I think they're. I think the problem is they
• 34:23
  don't. You can't be happy all year
• 34:24
  about how, oh, they have too much of A talented team.
• 34:27
  Yeah, they're not going to go down and they think it.
• 34:30
  They change your mind. I'm allowed to change my mind.
• 34:33
  I just think Luca, they don't score enough goals.
• 34:35
  That's my problem. 14 games without 14 games or you don't
• 34:39
  score any goals. They've won 14 games.
• 34:42
  You got a goal. No, not fourteen in a row.
• 34:44
  They've had 14 of their games this year where they've not,
• 34:47
  like I said, scored a goal and I think that ultimately is going
• 34:51
  to be a problem. You look, Spurs have scored
• 34:53
  forty goals, Leeds have scored 37, West Ham 36, far as 28.
• 34:59
  Oh, OK, I. That that to me is the issue
• 35:03
  with this team where look, I mean they kept the clean sheet
• 35:05
  against Fulham, one goal and that would have been a massive 3
• 35:08
  points for. Him they would have gone ahead
• 35:10
  and totten. Yeah, Well, and and we'll get on
• 35:14
  to the games for next week, Luca, but Tottenham play for us
• 35:16
  next week. So ultimately, yeah, I mean that
• 35:19
  that's the thing. And this is what makes it kind
• 35:21
  of fun is like, I want to watch that game because it's going to
• 35:24
  should mean a ton to these teams where they're going to be
• 35:26
  playing hard even though they're the teams in 16th and 17th.
• 35:29
  But that's what makes the Premier League kind of great is
• 35:31
  it keeps so many teams engaged until the end.
• 35:35
  The teams that really don't have much to play for are like.
• 35:37
  Those mid table. Yeah, who are like not going to
• 35:39
  make European spots, not going to.
• 35:41
  Get really good. Yeah, like Sunderland, Brighton,
• 35:44
  Palace, you know, probably Fulham now you know Leeds.
• 35:49
  Well, I don't know. I don't know that I would say
• 35:51
  Leeds are safe yet. Not to me. 32 points, they're
• 35:54
  only three points above, you know, relegation.
• 35:58
  They've got Brentford coming up. I, you know, I'm, to me, Leeds
• 36:01
  are still in the mix. They're in they're in the best
• 36:04
  spot because they're on 32 points, but I'm not there yet
• 36:07
  with Leeds. All right, well, let's talk
• 36:10
  about Spurs. Spurs went to Anfield and
• 36:12
  Liverpool, we thought they were going to get smashed.
• 36:14
  You predicted 52. Yeah, it was actually 11 several
• 36:18
  slot hit another bananas free kick in the 18th minute Enema
• 36:22
  Charleston gets an equalizer in the ninety 90th minute.
• 36:27
  A big point for spurs to keep on one point above the relegation
• 36:31
  zone and Liverpool in fifth on 49 points. 5 free kick goals for
• 36:36
  sober slide this year's season. Is there a better free kick
• 36:40
  taker in the league? In the Premier League?
• 36:42
  Like it? Probably not in the Premier
• 36:45
  League as, but if you didn't say Premier I would have said Val
• 36:48
  Verde. Val Verde for free kicks in the
• 36:51
  world. You need to go with him.
• 36:52
  Maybe. Yes.
• 36:53
  Yeah. It's not a bad call.
• 36:54
  I mean, I'm just trying to think, you know, at the top of
• 36:56
  my head, like, I mean, you know. You mean like shooting?
• 37:00
  I'm just saying if like, all right, if you had a free kick,
• 37:03
  all right, in the Premier League, so you're, you know, 20
• 37:05
  yards out, all right, you get a free game.
• 37:07
  If you had to pick one player in the Premier League to take that
• 37:09
  free kick, who are you picking? To shoot it, yeah.
• 37:11
  To shoot it, yeah. I think it's got to be him.
• 37:14
  I mean, like I said, we just said Bruno Fernandez is great.
• 37:17
  But he's like more. Pretty good, but you know.
• 37:20
  He's good. He's good, but I mean, he hasn't
• 37:22
  even scored one this year, has he?
• 37:25
  Well, he hasn't gotten very many opportunities, I would argue
• 37:27
  that. OK, I mean he don't.
• 37:29
  Give very many free kicks on the outside of the box because they
• 37:32
  knew that Decker Nice would probably smash it.
• 37:34
  I mean, well, the other thing too about Silva Slide is like, I
• 37:36
  mean, he can be like 30 yards out and he's still shooting
• 37:39
  where like most teams are like going to be playing that across.
• 37:41
  But I mean, Silva Slide's like range is just absolutely
• 37:44
  ridiculous. Yeah.
• 37:47
  It's just it's when he stands over a free kick, it's like more
• 37:50
  often than not, I'm like this, how is this going to go in?
• 37:52
  It's like, it's just incredible. Like you have so much confidence
• 37:55
  that he's going to hit the ball so cleanly.
• 37:58
  Yeah. I mean, just unbelievable.
• 37:59
  But the rest of Liverpool's play is pretty garbage.
• 38:02
  This team. It's just, I don't know, man,
• 38:05
  Luca, there's like something just sort of broken and off with
• 38:07
  this team. I mean, Salah, it's unbelievable
• 38:09
  to drop off in his play. He missed like a very, very good
• 38:14
  chance in that game. I know and don't you feel like
• 38:17
  we say that every game like he's like, you know, and and you know
• 38:21
  some some of these chances he gets he's not even close with
• 38:24
  him. He's in like 10 yards are in the
• 38:25
  bar. I mean just so weird because he
• 38:27
  was so good last year. But you know, let me ask you
• 38:31
  this. Look, so Liverpool are in 5th,
• 38:32
  All right, That would be Champions League if the season
• 38:34
  ended today. I I maybe I did ask you this
• 38:36
  last week. If they don't finish Champions
• 38:38
  League I think you said you would fire slots.
• 38:41
  Yes. OK, if they finish in fifth in
• 38:43
  Champions League, do you bring them back or have you like seen
• 38:46
  enough and you're like, this is just awful.
• 38:48
  He needs to go no matter what or I.
• 38:51
  Think he's gone in the summer no matter what happens for me.
• 38:54
  Now wait, that's your opinion or you think that's what will
• 38:57
  happen? Oh, what are you asking me that?
• 39:00
  I'm asking for you like if you're the owner of Liverpool
• 39:02
  and they finish in 5th. What would I do?
• 39:05
  What would you do? I would fire him.
• 39:07
  Wow, wow. OK.
• 39:08
  So that's pretty tough. Do you think that's what
• 39:11
  Liverpool will do? Probably not.
• 39:13
  OK, They don't feel like a team that makes like rash decisions.
• 39:17
  They're not like Chelsea or well, I know.
• 39:20
  I mean like, you know, Chelsea will fire a coach no problem.
• 39:22
  Like. You know Tottenham.
• 39:24
  Yeah, Tottenham's another one, but it, it feel like Liverpool
• 39:28
  feel a little bit more thought out, a little more strategic
• 39:30
  with it. So like that's what makes me
• 39:32
  think like if he, if he finishes in Champions League spots one
• 39:34
  through 5, he comes back. But I agree with you if he
• 39:37
  finishes in six. Yeah.
• 39:39
  Maybe not. And that's kind of crazy to
• 39:41
  think because he won the Premier League last year.
• 39:43
  I mean, that's crazy in a way. Like.
• 39:45
  But yeah, he basically inherited Klopp's team.
• 39:48
  Yeah, no, I know, I know. But he still did have to manage
• 39:51
  the team right? Yeah, but he's not doing the
• 39:54
  work the players are. Well, no, I of course the
• 39:58
  players are the ones playing. But you don't.
• 39:59
  You don't, I mean, you don't think he had any role in them
• 40:02
  winning the Premier League last year?
• 40:04
  He didn't have a big role. Wow, you're tough, man, You're
• 40:07
  tough. I am.
• 40:09
  I mean, you know, I understand what you're saying about it.
• 40:12
  Like he inherited this great roster.
• 40:14
  They played great, but like I, I got to give him a little credit
• 40:17
  for like managing the team, you know, managing the personalities
• 40:20
  and all that. Like I, I think he, I don't know
• 40:22
  that we can diminish it that much, but I do agree with you.
• 40:25
  Look, if he finishes in 6th, I I think they may move on from it.
• 40:30
  All right Luke well, the last game is going on right now.
• 40:32
  We have Brentford and wolves battling it out looks like
• 40:36
  coyote scored Luke in the 22nd minute.
• 40:39
  So brentford's up 1 nothing wolves have been playing pretty
• 40:42
  good lately, so we'll we'll see if they can kind of battle back
• 40:44
  in this one. Ultimately, Luca, this is, you
• 40:47
  know, a game where you know, Wolves, they're going down, but
• 40:52
  could be a massive 3 points for Brentford because like I said, I
• 40:56
  mean they are kind of hanging around Champions League, but
• 40:59
  that's 7th. Probably not.
• 41:01
  Yeah, not champions. League I don't think so, but
• 41:04
  they can at least make it interesting.
• 41:05
  But 7th would still be big for Brentford.
• 41:07
  They're making Europe. They're making Europe.
• 41:09
  That's my hot take. OK, I, I don't know why I would
• 41:13
  disagree with you. I, I, to me, I've seen enough
• 41:16
  from this team and of course when Arsenal last played them,
• 41:18
  they played us so, so tough. I think they're a really good
• 41:21
  team and I think they're well managed, you know, I mean,
• 41:24
  they're sort of battling it out now, Luca with Everton,
• 41:26
  Newcastle, Bournemouth, maybe Fulham.
• 41:29
  I I cut them with you like I would probably say Brentford,
• 41:34
  you know, probably have the best chance to do it.
• 41:35
  So we'll see, you know. All right.
• 41:39
  Luca Well, there it is, Week 30 in the books.
• 41:42
  We are getting down to the home stretch.
• 41:45
  We got to get a player of the Week, goal of the week and team
• 41:49
  of the week. What do you got for me on that
• 41:51
  cat? What part of the week I've got
• 41:53
  to go down? Yeah, got to be.
• 41:55
  I mean, got to be. And you set the Premier League
• 41:56
  record. Youngest goal scorer ever, I
• 41:59
  mean. For Gold week, I'm going to go
• 42:03
  showbird slides for a kick. That's a nice one.
• 42:06
  Team of the Week. Oh well.
• 42:09
  Not an obvious choice for Team of the Week here.
• 42:11
  I mean, you know, go with like West Ham.
• 42:15
  Like a super boring week. Yeah, it wasn't really an
• 42:18
  obvious choice for team of the. Week, I'll go West Ham.
• 42:21
  West Ham, I mean, it's a big point for them.
• 42:23
  You know, probably most people thought City needed to win.
• 42:28
  Yeah, they're going to go up there.
• 42:29
  They're going to find a way to beat West Ham.
• 42:31
  So that's kind of a big point for West Ham, you know, because
• 42:35
  everybody drew down there, you know, like that's The thing is
• 42:37
  like West Ham, Forest, Tottenham and Leeds all drew.
• 42:41
  So it, you know, and, and that's the thing, like a point here and
• 42:44
  there can make a massive difference.
• 42:45
  So it was big for them to sort of, I guess, keep pace with the
• 42:48
  rest of them. So I don't know, that was kind
• 42:51
  of a big result for them. We'll see what it means at the
• 42:53
  end of the season. But all right, Luca.
• 42:56
  Well, should we look ahead to Week 31, which we're going to
• 43:00
  have an added bonus game, Luca, because of course we have the
• 43:03
  Carabout Cup final, which will will be our final game with City
• 43:06
  versus Arsenal. But let's first go through.
• 43:09
  We'll only have eight games this week, OK, because a little bit
• 43:13
  of scheduling, moving around. But First off, look, you've got
• 43:17
  Bournemouth on their good unbeaten run.
• 43:19
  They tie everybody, but they play.
• 43:22
  Posting Man U who's been playing well, this could be an
• 43:26
  interesting, fun game. Menu in 3/2.
• 43:30
  Menu in three, two OK, so Bournemouth finally don't tie,
• 43:32
  but they're going to lose. Yeah.
• 43:34
  All right, so lots of goals in this one, man.
• 43:37
  You find a way to get a win on the road.
• 43:39
  I'd be a big win for them because like I said, Bournemouth
• 43:41
  have been really good lately. So all right, let's move over to
• 43:45
  Brighton hosting Liverpool. I'm going to go over for Win 21.
• 43:52
  All right, Liverpool 21. How about Fulham hosting
• 43:56
  Burnley? 00.
• 44:01
  I mean goodness for Fulham like Luke if they if they want any
• 44:05
  chance of trying to get 7, I mean got to win this game.
• 44:09
  I mean goodness it just would be so Fulham to to finish 00 though
• 44:13
  yeah I agree. Everton hosting Chelsea.
• 44:20
  I'm going to go to nothing, Chelsea.
• 44:23
  OK, so Chelsea kind of get back on track at Hill Dickinson
• 44:27
  Stadium. OK, You're like a lot of the
• 44:29
  road team. This is interesting.
• 44:30
  We have Rd. winner, Rd. winner, a tie and another Rd. winner.
• 44:34
  OK, Luca, how about Leeds hosting Brentford?
• 44:41
  I'm gonna go to two. 22 All right, tie there.
• 44:44
  Newcastle hosting Sunderland. This is kind of a big this game.
• 44:49
  This will be a fun one to watch. Where Darby?
• 44:52
  Time where Darby so this is a pretty big rivalry right here
• 44:55
  with these two teams so. Newcastle at Newcastle.
• 44:58
  At Newcastle. I'm going to go.
• 45:05
  I want, I want to say 21 Newcastle. 21 OK, yeah, you
• 45:10
  gotta feel like the the the, the fans are going to be fired up
• 45:13
  for this one for sure. So, all right, how about Villa
• 45:17
  hosting West Ham? I didn't Villa win 2 Nothing.
• 45:23
  Villa went to OK. But I'm rooting for West Ham.
• 45:26
  Yeah, well, I mean, you know, this again, interesting, because
• 45:29
  West Ham, obviously desperate for points, have been playing
• 45:32
  better. Villa.
• 45:33
  Yeah, I don't know what's going on with them.
• 45:35
  They're playing terribly and they're not just they usually
• 45:38
  are so good at home, but they've not been great at home.
• 45:40
  So this this could be an interesting one to watch.
• 45:42
  All right, here's a massive Luca relegation battle game.
• 45:45
  You have 6. We talked about this.
• 45:46
  You know we have Spurs hosting Forest, two teams right now
• 45:50
  separated by a point. This could be a massive result
• 45:55
  one way or the other. What do you like in this game?
• 45:57
  Just saying this is not by heart.
• 45:58
  OK, one nil forest, one nil. Forest, OK boy, would that be a
• 46:03
  big, big result for them if they could go on the road.
• 46:06
  Two points. Yeah, exactly.
• 46:08
  So they would jump above, jump above Tottenham for two points
• 46:12
  and then depending on what West Ham do and Tottenham could find
• 46:16
  themselves then in the relegation zone.
• 46:19
  All right, Luca, well, like I said, then we have a cup final
• 46:22
  here to talk about. League Cup final is Sunday at
• 46:26
  12:30. All right, we have Arsenal and
• 46:28
  City, of course, they play this at Wembley Stadium.
• 46:30
  So it's a neutral site. Hold on, don't Arsenal and City
• 46:35
  play in the Premier League dudes next?
• 46:37
  Week they do. We got a lot of, like I said,
• 46:39
  Arsenal and City coming up here. So yeah, we have the we have the
• 46:41
  League Cup final and then I think in a couple weeks after
• 46:46
  that or maybe a month, we have Arsenal going to the AD you had
• 46:50
  in a League Cup game, I'm sorry, in a League Cup in a Premier
• 46:53
  League game. But first we have a League Cup
• 46:55
  final. So this is the first silverware,
• 46:57
  like I said, trophy given out here, OK, Because we still have
• 47:00
  the FA Cup. Of course we have Champions
• 47:01
  League in Europa League and we have obviously all the leagues
• 47:04
  to finish up. So like I said, Luca, the
• 47:06
  context of course of this game is that both teams have
• 47:09
  Champions League games on Tuesday.
• 47:11
  So Arsenal host Leverkusen on Tuesday, City host Real Madrid
• 47:17
  on Tuesday as well. Both teams will be at home.
• 47:21
  But you know, we both teams played this weekend.
• 47:24
  Both teams have a midweek game, then they've got to get ready
• 47:27
  for the cup final. So injuries, fatigue play a
• 47:30
  little bit of a role. What are your thoughts on this
• 47:33
  game? Where, Where?
• 47:34
  Where's your head at? I think the Caribou Cup is going
• 47:36
  to finish one nil Arsenal. One nil.
• 47:39
  OK, well take take me through. Why you think that?
• 47:41
  Well, I think Arsenal's offense have been playing relatively
• 47:47
  good and City's defense is not great.
• 47:50
  Also, this is at neither team's home stadium, so neither team
• 47:54
  will have the advantage in that in those circumstances.
• 47:59
  But I think City will just get out play in this game.
• 48:04
  OK, All right. Yeah.
• 48:05
  So now City, they're going to have way more experience in cup
• 48:09
  finals, right? All these guys have been in a
• 48:10
  bunch of finals. Arsenal really have not.
• 48:14
  So there's City have a little bit of the experience.
• 48:16
  They're probably both teams have pretty deep rosters, you know,
• 48:21
  You know, I don't know City's, you know, Govardiol is obviously
• 48:24
  out, but they don't have many other injuries.
• 48:27
  Arsenal, you know, our timber apparently did not practice
• 48:31
  today. Odegard did not practice they,
• 48:33
  but Trosard was back. Oh, OK.
• 48:35
  So Arsenal probably going to be without, of course, Marina,
• 48:38
  who's out for like probably the rest of the season, but probably
• 48:40
  without Odegard. What?
• 48:42
  Happened to Marina. He broke his foot and had
• 48:44
  surgery but we get Trosard back. Losing Timber's a big loss if he
• 48:51
  can't go. I, I, we do.
• 48:52
  Have been white though. You've got Ben White, you have
• 48:55
  mascara. Interesting.
• 48:56
  Yeah, that's that's actually I was about to say that.
• 48:58
  You know, so that was kind of interesting when when Timber had
• 49:01
  to go off injured in the Everton game, is that I, I, they had
• 49:04
  been white even warming up and then all of a sudden mascara
• 49:06
  popped in. So that was kind of interesting
• 49:07
  to me. But I wonder maybe if he was
• 49:09
  thinking ahead to the lever accusing game and thinking,
• 49:11
  well, Ben White starts that game, you know, and maybe Ben
• 49:15
  White starts gives you 60 minutes, mascara gives you 30,
• 49:18
  you know, and then you. See that happening?
• 49:21
  You see that how they're healthy, they are two nil.
• 49:24
  Brentford. Two nil Brentford.
• 49:25
  So they're looking good to get the three points.
• 49:28
  Yeah, look, I think this is interesting too because, you
• 49:30
  know, and obviously there's no points that are given out for
• 49:33
  Premier League in this game. But, you know, could you argue
• 49:37
  that if City can find their way to win, it gives them a boost of
• 49:39
  confidence, especially with us coming to play them in a month
• 49:43
  and you kind of like can sort of kick them on to try?
• 49:45
  To oh in a month. I think it's in a month.
• 49:50
  Oh, I thought it was like next week.
• 49:52
  No. Oh.
• 49:55
  Well, OK. No, yeah, like I said, I.
• 49:57
  Was so confused. No, no, no.
• 49:59
  Like you said, Arsenal's next Premier League game, they don't
• 50:04
  play for a while now because we play Bournemouth next.
• 50:07
  But what will happen is, is when we have it, we'll have an FA Cup
• 50:10
  game coming up. Like I said, we have Champions
• 50:13
  League this week and we have the League Cup final, then they have
• 50:15
  the FA Cup. I think the next weekend then
• 50:17
  they'll finally get around to the Premier League, which is
• 50:19
  then we'll be playing Bournemouth again because
• 50:22
  remember, Arsenal have played an extra game already.
• 50:25
  Right. So us and Wolves are up now.
• 50:27
  City still have to make up that game.
• 50:29
  So that's why we've got like. Is that only 8 per?
• 50:31
  So now City will be equal to us on Premier League games.
• 50:34
  Once they play the game against Dallas, they'll be equal to us.
• 50:37
  Yeah, They have not rescheduled that game against Dallas yet,
• 50:40
  so. But we're not playing next week
• 50:42
  and they are. No, no.
• 50:45
  Right, neither of them are playing.
• 50:47
  Yeah, yeah. So we play them, like I said,
• 50:48
  Sunday League Cup final, we play them.
• 50:50
  So all right. Well, like I said, we got your
• 50:52
  prediction down on that. So all right, Luca, so you wanna
• 50:57
  do move over to our viewer mailbag question for you.
• 51:00
  Yeah. All right, Luca.
• 51:01
  So the question comes from me is talking about there's been a lot
• 51:06
  of talk I feel about time wasting and what it all kind of
• 51:09
  means for for, you know, the league.
• 51:11
  And so my question to you is, is time wasting a major problem in
• 51:15
  soccer or Luca, do you feel I guess just sort of a tactical
• 51:19
  element about the game? I think it's a major problem in
• 51:22
  soccer. OK, so tell me why.
• 51:25
  Well, I feel like players do that to, you know, just like the
• 51:32
  clock isn't stopping games. So players can just run down the
• 51:36
  clock and sometimes not as much as that time gets added on later
• 51:42
  on to the at the end of the game.
• 51:46
  And I feel like it kind of ruins the gameplay.
• 51:48
  It ruins the flow of everything. And it it messes up, it messes
• 51:54
  up the game for me. OK, All right.
• 51:57
  You know, now, I mean, there's a lot of little tactical things
• 51:59
  that happen in games, right? Like people, you're not supposed
• 52:02
  to grab people's shirts. People grab shirts all the time.
• 52:05
  You know, that rarely ever gets called.
• 52:07
  You know, people sort of fake injuries, which ties into time
• 52:11
  wasting a little bit, you know, or stay down a little bit
• 52:14
  longer, right? If you're up a goal and it's the
• 52:16
  90th minute, the goalies, what do they do?
• 52:18
  They, you know, fall on the ball, right?
• 52:20
  They catch it and they fall to the ground.
• 52:22
  Yeah. They don't do that in the 10th
• 52:23
  minute, you know, So there's all these little tactical things
• 52:26
  that you do to try to gain that little bit of an edge.
• 52:30
  But it does seem like time wasting to become a little bit
• 52:33
  more of an issue. Do you think they should
• 52:36
  actually stop the clock? Yes.
• 52:38
  OK, so in college soccer I don't.
• 52:40
  They do. They do.
• 52:41
  They still do it. I think they still do it where
• 52:43
  the referee will actually stop the clocks.
• 52:45
  They don't play extra time in college soccer in America.
• 52:48
  So you think they? Count up to.
• 52:51
  Yeah, I think they might. They might count.
• 52:53
  Up. That's weird.
• 52:54
  Well, that's The thing is, every other place in the world, Luca,
• 52:57
  it's just, it's a running clock and then the referee kind of
• 52:59
  adds the time on. And you're right, it's sort of
• 53:01
  their discretion to a certain extent.
• 53:03
  And I agree with you that they don't ever seem to get it right.
• 53:06
  And it's sometimes it's both ways.
• 53:07
  Sometimes you'd be like, well, there was no delays at all and
• 53:10
  they've added on 7 minutes. And then other times you're
• 53:12
  like, there were delays all over the place and they added on 2
• 53:14
  minutes. You know, it feels very random.
• 53:18
  So you think they should actually, like, they should
• 53:20
  literally stop the clock on the scoreboard.
• 53:21
  Oh, yeah. All right, That feels a little
• 53:23
  drastic to me. It just.
• 53:25
  OK, you know, but you would do it.
• 53:26
  OK All right, well, this. I'm going to roll it into our
• 53:30
  Did you know? OK, because the International
• 53:32
  Football Association board, which to be honest with you,
• 53:35
  like I didn't really know much about, but apparently they sort
• 53:38
  of come up with the rules for soccer and then they sort of
• 53:42
  give recommendations and then the leagues can kind of take
• 53:46
  them and they typically do. And this is for world soccer,
• 53:48
  club soccer. They've come up with some
• 53:50
  proposals that I want to get your take on.
• 53:52
  OK, so these are all approved, Luca, by the IFAB in February
• 53:58
  28th. And there's a good chance with
• 53:59
  some of these things we may see at the World Cup this summer.
• 54:02
  So they won't start this year, but it could be you might see
• 54:06
  some of these things in the World Cup.
• 54:07
  And then there's also a good chance that for the season that
• 54:10
  starts up, you know, if this fall, like the 2627 season, you
• 54:15
  may start to see these. 21 I just saw it change.
• 54:21
  So I want to get your take Luke on like give me sort.
• 54:23
  You can do something a little pot, you know, thumbs up or
• 54:25
  thumbs down on some of these rule changes.
• 54:27
  So these are these are the people.
• 54:28
  Look, so we had a rule change at the beginning of this year that
• 54:31
  a goalkeeper cannot hold the ball for more than 8 seconds,
• 54:34
  right? And if a goalkeeper, once they
• 54:36
  pick it up, the referee gives them a countdown.
• 54:39
  And if they hit 8 and they have not released the ball, it's a
• 54:42
  corner kick for the other team. So that is a rule.
• 54:44
  I haven't seen it very much, you know.
• 54:46
  Probably always do tend to get it off in time.
• 54:48
  They do tend to get it off in time, 8 seconds, you know, it
• 54:51
  feels like a reasonable time for a goalie to get the ball off and
• 54:53
  I, I think you're right and it's such.
• 54:55
  A. Didn't it used to be 6 and they
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  changed it to 8? I can't remember what it used to
• 54:59
  be, but it basically just never enforced.
• 55:01
  Goalies would sit back there and look around, right and pretend
• 55:04
  like they're going to play it short and, you know, push
• 55:05
  everybody long and it'd be like 20 seconds and they finally kick
• 55:08
  just there was nothing enforced with it.
• 55:10
  Well, now it's like in force. And I think there was like one
• 55:13
  time I in the Premier League where the the referee awarded a
• 55:17
  corner kickoff. And he probably didn't know he
• 55:18
  was at 80 seconds or something. You didn't hear the ref?
• 55:21
  Yeah, yeah. But I like I said, I'd say so
• 55:23
  that that was a rule. Like I said, this is the same
• 55:25
  the IFAB Luca came up with that rule.
• 55:27
  So all right, so the first one Luca would be.
• 55:30
  And then again, these are basically the sort of counteract
• 55:32
  time wasting to speed the game up.
• 55:34
  The first one, the referee can start a 5 second visual
• 55:38
  countdown for throw insurance and goal kicks.
• 55:41
  So ball goes out of bounds for a throw in or a goal kick.
• 55:45
  The referee then says you have time.
• 55:48
  Now like I said, it's not as if it's like you have 5 seconds
• 55:50
  right from when the ball goes out.
• 55:52
  This is I guess I think the referee's discretion.
• 55:54
  Maybe you pick the ball up, you look around, they then put their
• 55:57
  hand up 54321 and if you don't do it on a throw in, it goes to
• 56:03
  the other team. If you don't do it on a goal
• 56:05
  kick, it becomes a corner. Yes, I like that.
• 56:08
  You like that? OK, so you're in favor of that
• 56:10
  one? It feels like a kind of a common
• 56:12
  sense one to me. What is this?
• 56:14
  Things that they might do or that you thought of.
• 56:16
  No, no, no. These, these.
• 56:17
  So these were the the International Football
• 56:19
  Association board. Look who governs the rules of
• 56:22
  football, soccer in the world. They have passed these, OK, they
• 56:26
  have said these are our recommendations.
• 56:27
  Now it's up to the league and and FIFA if they want to do it.
• 56:31
  But there's a lot of talk that the World Cup may do this when
• 56:34
  they start the World Cup. And I get the feeling because
• 56:37
  again, the the the the FA who runs the Premier League, they've
• 56:41
  already done it last year with this goalkeeper rule I talked
• 56:44
  about. So I think there's a chance we
• 56:45
  may see some of these things, if not all of them.
• 56:47
  But no, it's not as if this is definitely going to happen.
• 56:50
  But these, like I said, have been passed as like a shed
• 56:53
  strong recommendation. Yeah.
• 56:56
  I like the only thing I don't know if I love because that it's
• 56:58
  like up to the referees discretion about it.
• 57:00
  Like, So what does that kind of mean?
• 57:02
  But I do like, you know, and look, Arsenal are very guilty of
• 57:05
  like the lame throw insurance, you know, big time.
• 57:09
  So I kind of like that one too. All right, look at the second
• 57:11
  one is our players being substituted.
• 57:14
  We'll have 10 seconds to leave the pitch for the player waiting
• 57:18
  to come on. We'll have to wait one minute.
• 57:21
  And so this is once that sub board goes up, right?
• 57:24
  Fourth official holds it up #29 is coming on for #10 That player
• 57:29
  then on the field has 10 seconds to get off the field, or else
• 57:32
  that player coming onto the field has to wait a minute.
• 57:35
  Yes, good. I like that.
• 57:36
  All right, so you like this one too.
• 57:37
  Yes. I think I kind of do too.
• 57:39
  I mean. That's good because all the
• 57:42
  players that come off are usually just, you know, taking a
• 57:46
  nice little stroll, walking as slow as possible, and it'll
• 57:50
  really speed up the gameplay if we enforce.
• 57:53
  This, and I think so too. And also remember players can go
• 57:56
  off like any part of the sideline, right?
• 57:59
  So if you're like in like the far corner of the field, you
• 58:02
  don't have to run all the way over and go off like, you know,
• 58:05
  right, where your players coming on, you can just step off in
• 58:08
  that corner and then walk around, you know, outside of the
• 58:10
  field there. So I I know I think I kind of
• 58:13
  like this one too, because I agree with you.
• 58:15
  If you teams that are winning and they're making Subs,
• 58:17
  everybody's high fiving their teammates and they go to, you
• 58:20
  know, change the captain's band that takes 30 seconds and
• 58:22
  they're just they're clearly just delaying things.
• 58:25
  Whereas when you're down, right, they're sprinting off, you know,
• 58:27
  because they were like not trying to waste time.
• 58:30
  So this kind of feel and I think like the penalty for it seems
• 58:33
  pretty reasonable. Like, you know, you don't want
• 58:35
  to play a man down for a minute. Like it doesn't seem like a long
• 58:38
  time, but like it kind of is like when you're yeah, it is.
• 58:41
  So I kind of, I feel like it's a good sort of penalty if you
• 58:44
  don't do it kind of makes sense. So like, I think I kind of like
• 58:48
  that one too. Yes.
• 58:49
  OK. All right.
• 58:50
  Next one, the players leaving for an injury must wait a minute
• 58:54
  before returning. I think right now it's 30
• 58:56
  seconds. But this now, like I said, goes
• 58:59
  into like possibly people faking injuries, right?
• 59:02
  So do you like it that if you are injured, All right, and that
• 59:06
  the trainers come on that you then have to be off the field
• 59:08
  for a minute? Yes.
• 59:10
  OK. So you like the longer time
• 59:12
  before they can come back on the field?
• 59:13
  Yes. OK.
• 59:15
  Why do you like it longer than like, say that's 30 seconds,
• 59:17
  Somebody would say, well, why penalize somebody for getting
• 59:20
  injured? You can't help it.
• 59:21
  Well, most of the time they're faking it like most there.
• 59:26
  I would say there's more dives in soccer than actual injuries.
• 59:30
  OK, All right. So you're, you're you're not,
• 59:33
  you're not impressed with some of these injuries.
• 59:34
  You want them, you know. No, no, unless they like look
• 59:37
  bad then. Yeah, I don't know if I feel
• 59:40
  strongly one way or the other on this one.
• 59:42
  Like a minute feels kind of long, but like 30 seconds maybe.
• 59:45
  45 seconds would have been better.
• 59:47
  Yeah, I mean, maybe, you know, I'm kind of OK either way.
• 59:50
  I don't know if I'd go more than a minute.
• 59:52
  For sure, Yeah, definitely not more.
• 59:53
  Than a minute, but I, I do kind of like it.
• 59:55
  I'm, you know, I'm maybe not as strong as you are on all these
• 59:58
  guys faking injuries, but clearly people do.
• 1:00:00
  I mean, I'm not saying they do, but I, I think that the majority
• 1:00:02
  of these guys like it hurts to get your foot stepped on with a
• 1:00:05
  metal cleat. You know, you get an elbow to
• 1:00:07
  the head, you know it may take you a second or two, you know?
• 1:00:09
  You may take it 2030 seconds on the ground to sort of get your
• 1:00:12
  wits about you. So, but yeah, I know I this one,
• 1:00:15
  I'm like, I'm kind of OK with this one too.
• 1:00:17
  All right, Luke, here's another one about VAR.
• 1:00:20
  OK, so we know what VAR can intervene on and what it can't.
• 1:00:23
  So they say VAR can now intervene on and here it is,
• 1:00:27
  clearly incorrect. Second yellows leading to Reds.
• 1:00:31
  So right now, VAR can only intervene on a red card, no
• 1:00:35
  yellows. But if you get a second yellow
• 1:00:37
  Luca and you're gone and it's clearly incorrect, do you want
• 1:00:41
  VAR to intervene to say no, that wasn't a yellow?
• 1:00:43
  Yes, yes, definitely. I Yeah, tell me.
• 1:00:46
  I think var could. I want var to also intervene on
• 1:00:52
  a red yellow card in case that could also be a red.
• 1:00:56
  Oh any any yellow. Yes.
• 1:00:58
  Oh wow, I don't know, that feels like a lot of our checks on
• 1:01:01
  yellows. Some games we've got 5 or 6
• 1:01:03
  yellows you want. Them.
• 1:01:04
  Oh, no, no, no, no, not on any yellow.
• 1:01:06
  I didn't. I didn't mean it like that.
• 1:01:08
  I meant like on yellows that they think might actually be
• 1:01:12
  Reds, because right now you can't change a yellow to a red.
• 1:01:17
  Oh, you mean OK? I see what you're saying.
• 1:01:19
  Like the? If varsity is something
• 1:01:21
  different than the ref on a yellow card.
• 1:01:23
  They can do that. They can change a yellow from to
• 1:01:26
  a red yes, but I thought they can't look at VAO on a yellow
• 1:01:29
  card. No, they, they can.
• 1:01:31
  So if it's deemed, you know, that the foul was excessive.
• 1:01:35
  So tell me if I'm saying this right for you.
• 1:01:37
  You're saying, like in the course of a game, the referee
• 1:01:40
  comes over and gives you, you know, you step on, you know,
• 1:01:42
  let's say my ankle, he gives you a yellow.
• 1:01:45
  But it really shows like, excessive force.
• 1:01:47
  It was higher up. And it's a really a red card.
• 1:01:49
  You're saying they should, VAR should be able to look at that
• 1:01:51
  and then change that yellow. Yes, they can do that.
• 1:01:54
  OK. So yeah, so VAR can already do
• 1:01:55
  that. Like said, they deem it like I
• 1:01:57
  said, now they can't, like I said.
• 1:02:00
  So this one is more of that second yellow.
• 1:02:03
  So if you pull my shirt back, you know, on a second yellow and
• 1:02:08
  get tossed, nobody can look at that right now, but they're
• 1:02:11
  saying looking at 4 incorrect second yellows.
• 1:02:15
  You like that or no? Yes.
• 1:02:18
  OK, I know. My only thing that makes me
• 1:02:20
  nervous is like a clearly incorrect second yellow is
• 1:02:23
  pretty vague, you know? And this gets into like
• 1:02:26
  subjective, like what is, you know, we think we should know,
• 1:02:29
  like clear or not. Like we say this all the time,
• 1:02:31
  clear or not, Var should only get involved with clear and
• 1:02:33
  obvious stuff. And Var's involved with
• 1:02:35
  everything. So it is it makes me a little
• 1:02:38
  nervous of wording on that where we're going to start to really
• 1:02:40
  be like, well, was it clearly incorrect?
• 1:02:42
  Why are we looking at it again? I mean, I think I know what
• 1:02:44
  they're trying to intend to do, but I don't know.
• 1:02:48
  All right, Luca, can VAR intervene on corner kicks
• 1:02:50
  awarded in error? So, you know, like.
• 1:02:56
  I don't think we need VAR and all those different things.
• 1:03:00
  I I don't like that one. Yeah, the reason, yeah, I know.
• 1:03:05
  I mean, it's a slippery slope with this.
• 1:03:06
  Like, how much do you want VAR to look at?
• 1:03:07
  Like it is, you know, we we see this a lot where like was the
• 1:03:10
  ball tipped? Should have been a corner,
• 1:03:12
  should have been a goal kick. Of course I want to get those as
• 1:03:14
  right as we can. Now they have said that they
• 1:03:17
  want this to be done immediately without delaying a restart.
• 1:03:20
  So I mean, they literally sometimes would have maybe four
• 1:03:22
  or five seconds. It feels like in the NFLA lot of
• 1:03:25
  times they have to throw the challenge flag before they the
• 1:03:27
  other team snaps the ball. You know where you're like, did
• 1:03:30
  he catch it? And the other team like runs up
• 1:03:32
  and snaps it real quick and then they can't challenge it.
• 1:03:35
  So it feels like that could get into that a little bit where
• 1:03:37
  it's like a deflected shot. He's awarded a goal kick or the
• 1:03:40
  other team now like running to play the ball back in play,
• 1:03:43
  right? You know, like get to put the
• 1:03:44
  goal kick down so they can't do it.
• 1:03:47
  So I don't know that one I feel like needs to be work tweaked a
• 1:03:50
  little bit for me. You know, I understand where
• 1:03:52
  they're going with that and I do think that's important.
• 1:03:54
  A lot of times, I mean, corner kicks as we know Lucas set
• 1:03:56
  pieces are hugely important part of the game.
• 1:04:00
  So I do want to try to get that right.
• 1:04:01
  But I feel like that one maybe needs a little bit of work in
• 1:04:04
  terms of, you know, what some of the wording on that means when
• 1:04:07
  it says has to be able to be done immediately without
• 1:04:10
  delaying restart. I'd like to sort of see what
• 1:04:11
  that looks like in practice. All right, Luca, well, we are.
• 1:04:15
  We went through mailbag and did you know so real quick, of
• 1:04:19
  course we have Instagram. Come find us on Premier League
• 1:04:22
  Playground on Instagram. You can e-mail us at
• 1:04:24
  premierleagueplayground@gmail.com. And of course, we end Luca every
• 1:04:29
  show with our penalty kick trivia shootout.
• 1:04:32
  Do you want to go first or second?
• 1:04:33
  I'm going to ask first. Yeah, I brought the heat this
• 1:04:36
  time. You kept beating me.
• 1:04:39
  I do have choices though. All right.
• 1:04:41
  Well, you go ahead. What is the famous anthem often
• 1:04:44
  sung by Manchester United fans? I thought it was just like
• 1:04:52
  Manchester United. Glory, Glory.
• 1:04:56
  Manchester United. Yeah.
• 1:04:57
  Is that the name of it? Yeah.
• 1:04:59
  OK, All right. I just know like that line from
• 1:05:02
  the song. So, all right, Luca.
• 1:05:04
  Well, I'm gonna start off with a little Arsenal tribute, Dennis
• 1:05:07
  Burkamp, who played for Arsenal from 1995 to 2006.
• 1:05:12
  What country is he from? The Netherlands.
• 1:05:15
  That is correct. He had 79 caps for the
• 1:05:18
  Netherlands. Luca scored 37 goals, 22 assists
• 1:05:20
  for his country. Which English club features a
• 1:05:24
  RAM on its emblem? What?
• 1:05:27
  I think I made it all right. So English club has.
• 1:05:30
  A They're not in the Premier. League.
• 1:05:31
  Yeah, they're gonna. Is it Darby County?
• 1:05:37
  Oh my gosh, yes, OK. I know that is only kind of a
• 1:05:40
  unique logo that they have. Looks like a kind of a RAM
• 1:05:43
  there. So yeah, you ain't.
• 1:05:45
  Good. All right now, well, I got to
• 1:05:46
  like, I got to like, you know, you're asking some tough ones.
• 1:05:49
  I got to bring it all right. Luca.
• 1:05:51
  Virgil Van Dyke. Luca, captain of Liverpool, has
• 1:05:54
  been a center back for them for a long time.
• 1:05:58
  He got bought in 2018. From what team?
• 1:06:02
  Southampton. That is correct.
• 1:06:04
  Yes, $100 million back then. Wow.
• 1:06:07
  He's also played for Gronigen in the Netherlands and he played
• 1:06:10
  for Celtic. I kind of forgot.
• 1:06:12
  Who he played for? You knew that, yeah.
• 1:06:13
  I kind of forgot that he played for them.
• 1:06:16
  But yeah, look at that. Liverpool for a while.
• 1:06:18
  We're Brian a lot of players from Southampton so.
• 1:06:20
  Yeah, like Sadio Monet too. Yeah.
• 1:06:22
  Yeah, yeah. Which Italian club features a
• 1:06:25
  wolf on it's emblem? Which Italian club?
• 1:06:29
  Oh boy. It it's like a decently well
• 1:06:32
  known Italian. Right, so I'm pretty sure not
• 1:06:36
  inter, not ACI, don't think Uve, I don't think Lazio, Fiorentina,
• 1:06:45
  Polonia, Genoa a wolf. You haven't named this team yet.
• 1:06:54
  I haven't named him yet. OK, I know.
• 1:06:55
  Not Atlanta. How about I don't think it's
• 1:07:03
  Roma? Is that your answer?
• 1:07:05
  Yeah, you. Got it right, I did.
• 1:07:08
  That was a bit of a guess on that, I'll be honest with you.
• 1:07:12
  All right, wow, Luca, where we're rolling here.
• 1:07:14
  Me too. All right, Luca, we got the
• 1:07:16
  World Cup coming up, so I got a question about the US men's
• 1:07:19
  national team. Who is their all time leading
• 1:07:23
  scorer and Luca? There's two choices because
• 1:07:26
  there are two players tied with the same amount of goals.
• 1:07:29
  Each of them have 57 goals for the US Men's National Team.
• 1:07:33
  And are they both retired? They are both retired, yes.
• 1:07:37
  OK. So I know it's actually we'll
• 1:07:38
  see. Yeah, not him, although he's
• 1:07:40
  probably getting somewhat close. I don't know how many goals he
• 1:07:43
  has but yeah they played pretty recently but have probably both
• 1:07:49
  been retired for 10. Landon Donovan.
• 1:07:52
  That is correct. And Clint Densey.
• 1:07:55
  Look at you getting both of them.
• 1:07:57
  OK, I was going to say if you just give me one of the two
• 1:08:00
  because, I mean, this is a little bit before your time, But
• 1:08:02
  yes, Clint Dempsey and Landon Donovan, very good, each had 57
• 1:08:05
  goals. It's kind of funny they tied.
• 1:08:07
  So we'll see if people can catch them.
• 1:08:09
  All right. Wow, Luca, this is this is.
• 1:08:11
  Tight 33. 33. How many goals did Earling
• 1:08:14
  Holland score in his 2223 debut Premier League season where he
• 1:08:19
  broke the record? Oh, I think I know.
• 1:08:24
  All right, hold on, let me think.
• 1:08:25
  I think it is 35. 36 close Oh boy, we need to take the lead
• 1:08:32
  all. Right.
• 1:08:32
  But I got a tough one here. OK.
• 1:08:36
  All right, Luca, all right, I'm going to want a number to this,
• 1:08:39
  OK, The most yellow cards in a single game by a team, OK?
• 1:08:45
  And this game was Spurs versus Chelsea in May of 2016, OK, And
• 1:08:50
  it's the most yellow cards by a single team in a game.
• 1:08:53
  How many was it? And you have choices, OK, 6911
• 1:09:00
  or 15, 6911 or 15. So this is just one team's
• 1:09:06
  yellow cards in a game. They set the record. 15. 99
• 1:09:15
  yellow cards now the most in a game between two teams.
• 1:09:18
  Luca was actually in September of 2024.
• 1:09:21
  Chelsea again versus. 4. 14 yellow cards total in that game.
• 1:09:26
  That's the most ever in a game, but yeah.
• 1:09:28
  That was not that long ago, too. I know, I know.
• 1:09:30
  All right. So I guess we're still tied.
• 1:09:32
  All right. What do you got?
• 1:09:33
  Fifth question. How many times did Johann Kroy
• 1:09:36
  win the ball on door? Kroy putting the ball on door?
• 1:09:41
  How about two? 3I.
• 1:09:44
  Was thinking three, I was thinking 3.
• 1:09:46
  All right, here we go for the win.
• 1:09:47
  Here we go for the win A list question.
• 1:09:49
  Luca. OK, current Premier League teams
• 1:09:52
  whose home jerseys are blue or at least have like the majority
• 1:09:57
  of the color blue on them. OK, So that, like I said, teams
• 1:10:01
  right now in the Premier League. How many there's?
• 1:10:04
  Five that I had, but like I said, the majority of the color
• 1:10:07
  is blue. Right.
• 1:10:08
  OK, so City correct. Everton correct?
• 1:10:16
  So majority is blue and they're in the Premier League this
• 1:10:26
  season. Yep, three more.
• 1:10:31
  You might want to think like stripes.
• 1:10:32
  I mean, it's like, you know, at least 50% blue.
• 1:10:36
  I'll say that. OK, that's the part I started.
• 1:10:40
  So if you think of 1, I think if you think of one with like, you
• 1:10:42
  know a lot of blue on it and they can be striped with another
• 1:10:46
  color. Oh, Chelsea.
• 1:10:48
  Yeah, Chelsea next to are the trickier ones.
• 1:10:53
  So yeah, you got Everton, Chelsea, City, which I think are
• 1:10:55
  probably the three easiest, and those are of course almost all
• 1:10:58
  blue. There's two others.
• 1:11:00
  I will say they're not 100% blue.
• 1:11:04
  It's not Tottenham, right? They just white.
• 1:11:06
  They're like. Black, yeah.
• 1:11:11
  Not Wolves, not Burnley, not Forest.
• 1:11:18
  It's not. No, it's not Leeds.
• 1:11:21
  No, Leeds are like a white and yellow.
• 1:11:24
  It's not Fulham. These two teams have a very
• 1:11:28
  weird Darby, an unexpected Darby.
• 1:11:33
  Like, you know, just one where you're like, wait, why are they
• 1:11:36
  rivals again? Brighton.
• 1:11:40
  Brighton are like a blue and white basically striped comb
• 1:11:43
  jersey. Yep.
• 1:11:44
  I'm trying to think back to our like, did you know?
• 1:11:47
  So Brighton are definitely one who is Brighton's like big Darby
• 1:11:50
  match. It is a weird one.
• 1:11:52
  It is, like I said, one where you drive North Brighton down
• 1:12:00
  there on the South Coast and you drive north at that big City of
• 1:12:04
  London. Brighton The.
• 1:12:11
  Eagle in their logo. Crystal Palace, Goodness
• 1:12:14
  gracious, what am I doing? Crystal vows the Crystal Palace
• 1:12:17
  is kind of like, you know, a blue and red there's a lot of
• 1:12:20
  blue in there so all right look, I'm going to give it to you I'm
• 1:12:23
  going to give it to you took it home so.