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Week 11 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome into another episode of the Premier
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  League Playground. I am the dad, Bjorn, with me as
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  the star of our show The Lad. Luca Miller.
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  All right, Luca, right off the bat, how do you spell champion?
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  CHAMPION, Champion. All right, why am I asking you
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  how to spell champion? Because I want my 5th grade
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  school spelling bee. Luca had his whole school, his
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  elementary school, he's in fifth grade and the whole school
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  spelling bee. You were one of the finalists,
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  won a 15 and you won the spelling bee today.
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  This that happened this morning. Congratulations, Luca.
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  That's amazing. That's awesome.
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  I was battling out with my other friend Bo.
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  We went on for a while, but yeah, I finally got the win.
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  What was the winning word for you?
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  It was savant. Savant.
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  How do you spell Savant? Do you still need to spell?
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  It Yeah, SAVANT. Yeah.
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  Well, congratulations, Luke. French, actually.
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  We're super proud of you. You did an awesome job.
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  You, like I said, are a great speller and that's amazing that
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  you won. Congratulations, it's awesome.
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  Very proud of you. Thanks.
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  All right, now what about some soccer this weekend?
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  How did those soccer your soccer go this weekend?
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  I won and lost, so we lost 32, but it was close that the team
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  scored in like very last minute and then I won my other game 4
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  to 1, so it's pretty easy win. Yeah, so winning a loss, you
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  played well in both games. I thought your team, I I was
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  with Nina, your sister for your first game.
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  That's all the second game. But the first game you guys
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  played one of the better teams in your league and you played
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  them away. You guys hung in there pretty
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  tough and yeah, it's a bummer not to get a good.
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  Result. It's super hot too.
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  Super hot, yeah, but so I know it's kind of disappointing not
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  to get a result, but it sounds like you guys did real well
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  against a real good team. So all right, Luca.
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  Well, we turn our attention of course to the Premier League and
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  the games this weekend. Some real interesting to me,
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  results and games to get into. So Are you ready to get in and
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  start breaking down some of the games?
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  Yes. All right, Luca, first game,
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  which to me was an interesting one this weekend, the first one
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  of the weekend Spurs hosting Man U What about this one?
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  This game ended 22 and I predicted it to be two One
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  United. This is off a 32nd minute and
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  Bueymo gets a header and scores and nothing really happens until
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  like the 84th minute when I think, well, I don't really know
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  his first name, but tell Matthias, Matthias tell scores.
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  It kind of goes. It gets a little bit of a
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  deflection and goes into the top corner and that then that's
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  where the action all starts then.
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  Or Charleston scores a header 92nd minute and acts all crazy
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  like he won the World Cup. But of course, 97th minute Tay
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  is still licked off of a corner and is a header.
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  The goal Goalie gets a hand on it, almost knocks it out when it
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  goes into the side netting or well, the inside side netting.
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  So the goal but man you unbeaten last five games and Spurs now
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  five points in six home games. Yeah, Spurs continue to struggle
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  at home. It's just when we talk about
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  this every week, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
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  But they are really miserable at home, not getting a lot of
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  points. Somehow these two teams are on
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  the same amount of points. They both have 18 points, which
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  is pretty amazing because Spurs kind of got off to this great
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  start. Everybody was talking about
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  Batman. United was.
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  And now here they are. You know, even, you know, after
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  11 weeks, Richarlison, you know, I, I, I like the pile on him.
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  He's not one of my favorite players.
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  I didn't even like him at Everton.
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  And then he goes to Tottenham. I just don't like him.
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  But he is now the first player in the Premier League who has
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  scored a goal in the 90th minute and gotten a yellow card for
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  ripping his shirt off, only to have the opposing team tie the
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  game up. So only player ever to do that.
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  Yeah, he did it in 2023 against Liverpool.
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  He scored, scored an extra time, rips his shirt off and.
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  Yogo shirt to scored that goal. To tie it back up.
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  Good call. Yeah.
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  So, you know, I mean, look, it's it's I get it.
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  You can be excited. I mean, it was it was a big goal
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  that he had. But the game, the game's not
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  over yet, man. These people celebrate like
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  it's, you know, sudden death winner.
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  It's not you got to play out the full time and you know, they're
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  going to be real disappointed dropping points.
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  They are giving up a late goal. They Cesco for United.
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  He didn't even start in this game.
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  He had to come off injured. So.
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  So United. To play 10 men.
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  They had to play 10 men because they had no more Subs.
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  So, you know, even worse for Tottenham is that United only
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  had 10 men and and. Didn't even have a red card.
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  Yeah. So yeah, like you said, United
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  now unbeaten in their last five. Like I said to me playing real
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  well. Like I said, a little bit more
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  consistency with this team, so good on them.
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  Like I said, I want to see them after the international break,
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  sort of keep this going. But five games unbeaten, that's
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  by far the longest run. I don't even think they had at
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  last week. When they do in four weeks,
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  unbeaten was the longest run under Ruben Ruben Amarim.
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  So yeah, big on them now, five games unbeaten, so good job.
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  Yeah. All right, Luca, let's turn our
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  attention to maybe not the most glamorous 2 teams in the league,
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  but two teams kind of in relegation battle a little bit.
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  West Ham hosting Burnley. Alright so this game ends 32
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  West Ham and I predicted it to be 11.
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  This starts off flooding in the 35th minute and Calum Wilson
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  header and suit check and other kind of like tapping goal and
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  Walker Peters also kind of in the well actually.
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  So counting with some scores in the 44th minute, suit Chick in
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  the 77th, Walker Peters scores in the 87th minute and then
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  Colin in the 98th minute. Say Burnley kind of score as a
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  consolation goal in the 98th minute and then first time West
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  Ham United, we're back-to-back wins this year and West Ham tied
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  Burnley on 10 points now. Yeah, so West Ham slowly pulling
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  themselves out of that I. Knew always helping with that.
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  Yeah, there is a new manager. They are.
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  They had just an awful, awful start, but two wins in a row,
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  you know, and again, this is a, a win against another team that
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  figures to be in the relegation battle.
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  So it's always good to kind of beat A-Team.
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  You know, you gain 3 points on them.
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  They're now, like I said, tied with Burnley, if you want to
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  call it tied at for 17th or 18th.
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  But you know, West Ham showing a little bit signs of life.
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  I also feel like Burnley kind of this is where they're going to
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  be. They're going to be like, I just
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  don't, I see them in the relegation battle.
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  I'm not saying they're definitely going to get
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  relegated but they feel like a team is going to be 16171819 ish
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  place so. I think wolves are definitely
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  have secured their spot in 20th. Wolves.
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  Yeah, Yeah, wolves. I mean, now look, wolves did
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  this. We'll get on to wolves in a
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  second. But they did this last year
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  where they had this horrible start and did pull themselves
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  out. So I'm not saying yet.
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  They haven't shown any signs of life.
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  No, they have not shown any signs of life and we'll talk
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  about them in a second. But yeah, like I said, not not
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  too much to say here. Like I said, these two teams are
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  going to kind of be in this battle, but I I see a little bit
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  of more signs of life from West Ham than I do from Burnley.
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  So good win for them. Yeah.
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  All right, look, let's move over to Everton hosting Fulham.
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  This game ends 2 nil Everton and I actually predicted to be two
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  one full. Sorry, this is 2 nil Everton.
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  I don't think I said that right. Just start.
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  Nothing really until the very end of the first half where Gay
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  45 + 5 kind of bounces around on the box and then Gay, he kind of
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  gets a one touch finish to the bottom corner.
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  And then Michael clean in the 81st minute, using his height to
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  his advantage. And Pho have lost five of their
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  last six Premier League games. They sit in 15th.
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  Yeah, so like you said, Luca, Fulham in in in 15th place, only
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  one point above the relegation zone.
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  They are really struggling now. Now they've lost 5 to 6.
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  Now they've played some good teams, you know, they, I think.
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  They played us. They played us at home.
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  They had to go to Villa, they had to go to Newcastle.
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  I think they had City going to their place.
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  Like their losses are not terrible losses.
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  Yeah, they're so they're hard. They're hard games.
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  Yeah. So it's not as if you look and
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  you're like, oh, they should have easily won two or three of
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  them. They're all really, really hard
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  games. So, you know, this is not, I
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  expected Fulham to be a little bit higher at this point, you
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  know. Now my question to you though,
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  Luca is like, do you think Foam are in jeopardy of being
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  relegated? They might, they might.
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  OK, so. That you, you think they're
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  going to be in the relegation battle here?
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  They're going to be, they're, they've got to worry about this.
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  I I would think yes, definitely relegation worry right now.
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  OK, Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, this is
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  this is a team that didn't do much over the summer in terms of
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  adding to their squad and, you know, now they didn't lose a lot
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  of players, you know, and this is a team that's been kind of
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  mid table for the past couple years.
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  They, you know, are organized defensively.
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  They play, they always seem to play like the good teams tough.
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  But this year, I don't know, it feels a little different.
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  A couple injuries to some of their forwards, there's not a
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  lot of. That feels like this Arsenal.
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  Yeah, I know, but I mean look, we can't combine Arsenal have
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  way more depth than foam. The problem is like Fulham lose
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  a guy or two, they don't really the kind of the depth that they.
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  Lose the knees and him and edge. They're like they they have
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  nothing to do really. Well I know they put a winger
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  Treyori at striker then at that point cuz they just don't even
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  really have 1/3. Party isn't that bad but still
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  not a striker. Yeah, So, you know, they they
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  got their new signing, Kevin started this game.
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  And so I like to see that they had Josh King and Neil Smith row
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  on the bench. You know, I'm not both, both on
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  the bench. I kind of puzzled me a little
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  bit. Yeah, I.
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  Don't they? They both play that kind of #10
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  position? So I'm kind of curious about
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  that. Maybe they're just managing Josh
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  King's minutes, you know, young kid, only 18.
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  But you know, Fulham have got to now look ahead.
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  They've got some winnable games coming up and they've got to
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  start getting some results here because I agree with you like
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  this is getting a little concerning 11 games in and
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  you're only sitting on 11 points.
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  So look at Everton seems to be like, they seem to like their
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  new stadium now, three wins, 2 draws and a loss at home.
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  So you know, they were always tough to beat at Goodison, you
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  know where they played before, but they seem to like this new
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  stadium. They've been getting some good
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  results. So, you know, like I said,
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  Everton doing well, getting results at home is important for
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  them. Yeah.
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  All right, Luca, let's, let's talk about Chelsea Wolves.
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  So you had Wolves going to Stamford Bridge.
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  Take me through this game. This game and just three now and
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  I predicted it to be 3 now, I got the spot on.
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  Chelsea were abysmal in the first half.
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  They got booed off at halftime, but huge comeback gusto in the
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  51st minute, then Pedro. Pedro in the 65th minute, then
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  Neto in the 7th, 3rd minute. Obviously, yes, Chesley were
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  booed off at halftime and they were a lot better in the
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  second-half and Chelsea now alone in 3rd at 20 points.
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  Do you think Champions League ready now?
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  Yeah, I think Chelsea are definitely a team that certainly
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  they're gonna be in contention, but I'm starting to with the way
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  Liverpool struggling with. Where is Liverpool right now?
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  Well, so Liverpool's an eighth and again, we'll we'll get on to
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  them, but it's you sort of have this log jam, you know, of teams
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  in the middle. So really like from like Everton
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  is on 15 points and 13th, you know, all the way up to Chelsea.
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  It's a difference of five points from 3rd to 13.
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  So it makes for an exciting table, I think because literally
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  like a win or two, yeah, you can just move up and down.
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  But Chelsea to me, Luca, you know, they've now, like I said,
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  won five of their last five of their last six Premier games
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  they've won. They almost fly a little bit
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  under the radar a little bit. Yeah, well, I mean, they didn't
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  until now. They just signed everyone and
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  everyone knew about them because they just signed everyone.
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  Now they're kind of flying under the radar.
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  Yeah, I just don't feel like people talk, you know, everybody
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  talks about the big three of Arsenal, City and Liverpool, and
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  then people like to talk about how great a season Bourne this
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  had or Sunderland, you know, and then Spurs and United, you know,
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  after their disastrous seasons last year, doing really well
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  this year and you sort of forget you're like, well, wait, Like
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  Chelsea sitting there in 3rd all by themselves, scored 21 goals,
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  only giving up eleven goals. You know, they're like I said to
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  me, an interesting team where, you know, of course, like you
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  said, they signed a bunch of players.
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  So it's like who's their best 11 if they figure that out?
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  And Kaiseto has been like amazing for them.
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  Esteval is coming off the bench. That kid looks phenomenal.
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  He is exciting to watch. I feel like he's going to be
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  starting for them soon. I like they're just an
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  interesting team. I think they're going to give
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  some people problems. I think they're going to be
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  inconsistent. I think they're going to drop
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  points in games where you may didn't expect them to.
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  But I'm telling you, when the big teams are, when they play
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  some of these games, they're going to be a real pain, you
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  know, to to play. And I think for sure they're
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  going to be very close to I don't know, I mean, maybe third
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  would be the ceiling. I don't we're not getting top 2.
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  Yeah, it's going to be. I get the feeling it's going to
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  be Arsenal City battling it out this whole season and Liverpool
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  might creep up there with a couple wins or something like
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  that, but I get the feeling it's just going to be Arsenal City.
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  Yeah, and you know, there's not much to say about wolves.
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  Their their misery continues. They fired their manager.
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  So they're in the process and maybe hiring Rob Edwards, who's
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  who who coached at Luton Town back in the day when they were
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  in the Premier League a couple years ago and he's he's been at
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  Middlesbrough 320. 4 are you talking about?
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  Yeah, I think they were there two years ago.
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  Luton, Yeah 20. 324 and he's currently at Middlesbrough so it
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  looks like they're gonna get a new manager in but you know look
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  they they sold their two best players right Cunha and Nate
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  nori got sold this summer you know it's it's hard to get rid
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  of your two best players when you're a marginal team anyway
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  and they don't expect to get any kind of results so.
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  They haven't really signed anyone too.
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  Yeah. I mean, and, and so, I mean, you
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  said it like it's hard to, you know, it's hard to think they're
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  going to turn it around like they did last year, you know.
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  So that's all I think that we really need to talk about
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  wolves. Yeah.
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  All right, Luca, let's move on to Nottingham Forest hosting
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  leads. This starts off in or actually
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  before I say anything, 3190AM forest is the final score and I
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  predicted to be two 198 M forest.
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  So that was pretty close. Then first I think, am I saying
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  this right in the metro? And Mecca.
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  And Mecca the 13th minute for leads, and then Sangare in the
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  15th minute. And then Gibbs White 68th
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  minute. Pretty nice goal.
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  And then Elliot Anderson off of a PK, Amari Hutchinson goes
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  down. Definitely a PK there in the
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  92nd minute. Yeah.
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  So you know, Forrest, they're sitting in 19th, but they're
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  going to say, well, you know, they got a win and a draw here
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  in their last two. So, you know, maybe they're
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  starting to put it together a little bit, get some results.
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  Yeah. Leeds kind of moving the
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  opposite way. They've now lost four of their
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  last five. They're sitting on 11 points
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  too. So they're now going to be, you
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  know, they've sort of drifted back down the table like Burnley
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  again, the two promoted teams that this is probably where
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  they're going to be struggling around this area, Sunderland.
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  'S the one that's like holding their ground right now.
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  Yeah, yeah. And I think they're Sunderland
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  is is vastly better than than Leeds in Burnley when it comes
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  to the newly promoted team. So, but again, this is a good
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  win. We, it's the same thing we
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  talked about with West Ham playing Burnley.
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  You've got Forest beating leads. You know, when you're, these are
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  probably some of the teams we're going to be talking about all
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  seasons. We'll talk about being relegated
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  from the bottom 3. And to have a win now over a
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  team that you theoretically, you know, are going to be competing
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  with where it could come down to a couple points at the end of
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  the year, whether you stay up or get relegated, it's a good win
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  for them. So they'll move on to next week.
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  All right, Luca, talk to me about Crystal Palace hosting
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  Born Brighton. The talking point here is
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  there's nothing to talk about this game in 00, and I predicted
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  to be 11, so I just got the goals wrong.
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  Palace 5 draws in 11 games, so yeah, that's pretty much it for
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  that game. Not much.
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  Yeah, yeah, you, you predicted it was going to be a tie and it
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  was a tie, yeah. No goals, really, No talking
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  points. Not much to say in this Crystal
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  Palace 11 games unbeaten at home, their last 11.
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  So you know, they're a tough team to break down and beat.
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  But sometimes it feels like if Matetta doesn't get goals for
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  them, I I don't always know where the goals are going to
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  come from. With Palace if maybe.
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  SAR maybe? They have other guys, but it's I
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  just they don't score consistently.
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  Defense. They do have a good defense,
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  yeah. I mean, that's the thing that
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  they don't concede a lot, but it again like you.
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  Need. To score, who else is going to
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  step up when Matetta doesn't have, you know, goals?
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  Somebody else has got to be, you know, step up to try to win
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  games like this. So yeah, like I said, well,
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  we'll see. Crystal Palace, like I said,
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  both of these teams are kind of mid table teams and you know,
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  probably are where they are in the table.
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  You've got, you know, Palace sitting there in 10th and
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  Brighton sits there on 11th. So mid table.
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  But before any of this, we got the Arsenal game.
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  Arsenal versus Sunderland. This game ends 22.
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  I predicted if you won one 36 minute.
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  Dan Ballard I think is the first name is Dan Vice Volley.
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  He's a central offender. Controversy on this goal.
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  Was this a foul on Zuba Mendy? I don't want a yellow card.
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  I think that was a little harsh for a yellow car.
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  What what I think is that he got the ball, he got most of the
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  ball, He get the ball before he got the man.
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  So this is close. But I, I don't think this is a
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  foul. I think it should've been played
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  on whether we're in a yellow. But then Arsenal, should they
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  have done better on this free kick played into the box, headed
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  up and then Ballard, nice volley.
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  Oh, well, yeah, that's some controversy on that.
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  But then Saka equalizes in the 54th minute, Trosard a banger in
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  the 74th minute, Cal Fiore makes a good run to draw the defender
• 19:23
  and then Trosard give, they give him too much space and he hit
• 19:28
  awesome goal. Then Bobby in the 95th minute
• 19:33
  ties it up. And that's just hard to watch
• 19:35
  for an Arsenal fan. We think we have the win and
• 19:38
  then we don't. But at Sunderland now, three
• 19:42
  wins and three draws in six games at home.
• 19:44
  So that's a pretty good record for at home.
• 19:47
  Yeah, this, this was a great game.
• 19:49
  I mean, you know, being an Arsenal fan, it was tough
• 19:52
  because you know, you're thinking in the beginning that,
• 19:55
  you know, Sunderland go up, they're playing really well.
• 19:59
  That stadium was rocking. I mean, those fans were into it.
• 20:02
  So I mean, that place is tough to go play.
• 20:06
  As you just said, they're the results speak for themselves.
• 20:08
  It's always been a tough place to play.
• 20:10
  But I think they feel like when they get teams come in and it
• 20:13
  just felt like Sunderland were up for it.
• 20:14
  They wanted to prove a point. Here comes the team from the top
• 20:16
  of the table. Here comes one of the big boys.
• 20:19
  They're like, you know, we're good this year.
• 20:20
  Just felt like from the very jump, Sunderland was ready for
• 20:23
  this game. They really, I thought.
• 20:25
  Played well. Dan Ballard, Luca is
• 20:28
  interesting. He was 8 years old.
• 20:30
  He was at Hale End, at the Arsenal Academy.
• 20:32
  Oh, wow, didn't make it there. He kind of popped around a
• 20:35
  couple Championship teams, got signed by Sunderland, and I
• 20:39
  think he's 26 years old. So he's not exactly super young,
• 20:42
  but he's like, it just shows. Goes to show you not everybody
• 20:45
  follows the same trajectory, as you know.
• 20:47
  Yeah, you got to go to some Academy, You come up, you break
• 20:49
  into the first team at age 18, and then you go on to
• 20:51
  superstardom. Some people just come to it a
• 20:53
  little bit later. He's a player, man.
• 20:56
  He is a beast. I mean, he is big, strong,
• 20:59
  skilled. His first goal, he scored the
• 21:01
  first goal of a beautiful volley.
• 21:03
  He helped create the second goal because he wins the header that
• 21:06
  flicks it on the Brabi, then volleys in.
• 21:08
  And then in the dying seconds of the game, Arsenal are pushing
• 21:11
  for a goal. Ball falls a Marino like right
• 21:14
  on the 6 yard line. He comes fly, Ballard comes
• 21:18
  flying out to block it. I mean, this is like a sure
• 21:20
  goal. He like throws his body, gets
• 21:22
  his foot on it to block it. I, I hugely impressed with this
• 21:25
  guy. I'd seen him play a little bit
• 21:27
  before, but watching a full game of him, he's a central defender
• 21:30
  for them. He is a really, really good
• 21:32
  player and, and they've got good players all over the field.
• 21:34
  I mean, we've talked before about Sunderland, when they got
• 21:37
  promoted, they realized like in order to kind of stay up, you
• 21:42
  got to like change the squad a little bit and they went and
• 21:44
  they signed 14 players, 1414. It's probably more than anybody
• 21:49
  to sign that many. But they also were they were
• 21:51
  looking for guys that were like athletic.
• 21:53
  They wanted guys that were going to be physical.
• 21:55
  And you can see that. And then one of their great
• 21:58
  signings, we have to talk about Granite Jaka.
• 22:00
  There's only like the Granite Jaka Darby, who spent seven
• 22:03
  seasons at Arsenal, was the Arsenal captain for a while.
• 22:06
  He left and went to buyer Leverkusen brought in by
• 22:08
  Sunderland. What amazing signing that is for
• 22:11
  that team because he's the captain of the team plays with
• 22:14
  like a fire, you know, but he's a veteran person that you like
• 22:18
  people can kind of look to and he's he he's in like a great
• 22:22
  sign and plus he's been really productive.
• 22:23
  He's got a bunch of assists. But I'm telling you, I was
• 22:26
  hugely impressed by Sunderland. I was also impressed by Arsenal
• 22:29
  in this one, Luca, because you know, they went down one and
• 22:32
  they were struggling to kind of get into this game and they came
• 22:35
  out in the second-half. There's a little bit more of an
• 22:36
  urgency. You know they get the two goals
• 22:39
  and then credit back to Sunderland for not giving up at
• 22:42
  that point and kept pushing their their manager made a
• 22:46
  couple good substitutions. Robbie was one of them.
• 22:49
  Robbie was one of them who gets the tying goal.
• 22:51
  Nice goal by him to sort of flick that on.
• 22:53
  You can question whether Dave would.
• 22:54
  Riot should have come off the line.
• 22:56
  Yeah, I don't think he should have.
• 22:57
  Yeah, I mean, I, I think, you know, you have Gabrielle kind of
• 23:00
  right on Robbie's back. I would have just let my
• 23:02
  defender sort of handle that and just sort of stay on your line.
• 23:06
  I think if he does, he probably makes the save, but he kind of
• 23:08
  comes for the ball and Bobby. Just about school kicks so it's
• 23:12
  not an easy one to score. If the goal is right on his wine
• 23:15
  and he could easily say then the games over, we win.
• 23:18
  Yeah, we've said this before, Sunderland are a fun team to
• 23:22
  watch. I would encourage people to put
• 23:23
  on a Sunderland game, especially when they're at home because
• 23:25
  that stadium, like I said, and those fans, credit to them, it
• 23:29
  is a very, very difficult place to go play.
• 23:31
  So they're now they're alone in fourth on 19 points.
• 23:35
  So we're 11 weeks in and this newly promoted team is ahead of
• 23:38
  Tottenham, Man United, Liverpool.
• 23:41
  I mean, it's just incredible. I mean, to me, Luca, there's no
• 23:46
  chance of them getting relegated, no chance.
• 23:48
  Like I, I think, you know, they are going to easily, I think
• 23:51
  finish in the top 10 again, I don't think they're going to
• 23:54
  finish 4th. I think it's awesome that they
• 23:56
  are there right now, but this team has so much quality.
• 23:59
  They play well, they're well managed.
• 24:01
  I, I, I see zero chance of them being really they're staying up
• 24:04
  to. Me going to finish 20th when
• 24:06
  they came into the season because you're just not a well
• 24:09
  known team like like Burnley and Leeds are a bit more well known
• 24:13
  because they've been in the Premier League more a lot more
• 24:16
  times than Sunderland has. But Sutterland's proved fans
• 24:22
  wrong by just they've been playing outstanding.
• 24:26
  Yeah, there's nobody that would have said after 11, ever, after
• 24:29
  11 weeks of the Premier League season, Sunderland's gonna be by
• 24:32
  themselves and there's nobody would say that.
• 24:33
  But it's well deserved. And like I said, I was hugely
• 24:36
  impressed in this game. You know, look, Arsenal,
• 24:39
  everybody's gonna say they drop points, but you're not gonna win
• 24:42
  every game, OK? Like, you're not gonna win it
• 24:46
  lose, you know, like they'll take a point.
• 24:47
  I actually think, you know, when it'll be interesting to see.
• 24:49
  I want to see you in like, Liverpool City, go to
• 24:53
  Sunderland, what happens? Because I'm telling.
• 24:56
  You people are gonna. Have some said Sunderland are
• 24:58
  gonna give people a lot of problems this year, just like
• 25:01
  they did Arsenal. So yeah, look, Arsenal's still
• 25:04
  in first, Luca. They have a four point lead over
• 25:06
  City and we talked about Sunderland, like I said, sitting
• 25:09
  there nice and pretty in fourth place, 5, four and two.
• 25:12
  So good for them. Sunderland unbeaten in their
• 25:15
  last four. I mean, it's just, it's a great
• 25:17
  story. Unbeaten the last six at home
• 25:20
  games. At home games, yeah, yeah, just
• 25:22
  overall games. Unbeaten in 4, though.
• 25:24
  Yeah. All right, Luca, let's switch
• 25:26
  over to Brentford hosting Newcastle.
• 25:30
  All right, so this game actually ends. 31 Brentford I predicted
• 25:35
  to be two one Brentford it starts.
• 25:38
  Harvey Barnes, Newcastle actually scored this first in
• 25:42
  the 27th minute. Shade offered another long throw
• 25:46
  in the 56th minute. Igor Tiago, PK, he's been really
• 25:51
  good for them and or actually there's and well, OK, so Tiago
• 25:57
  scores again in the 96th minute, but there's also a disallowed
• 26:04
  PK. It was burn versus Otara, and
• 26:09
  Otara goes down burn. It looks like he quips some.
• 26:13
  It's kind of hard to tell. I think it's I don't think it's
• 26:17
  really APK, but then I get I think Otara gets a yellow for
• 26:22
  diving. Yeah, I think they look back and
• 26:24
  they said he's simulated and dove, so they gave him a yellow
• 26:27
  for diving instead of the foul. Yeah.
• 26:29
  And and then the PK for Tiago, that did get called, which again
• 26:34
  Otara versus Burn. This time Burn gets the yellow
• 26:39
  and that was actually his second yellow, so he gets set off for
• 26:41
  that. But this one is definitely APK
• 26:47
  Brentford. Wow.
• 26:50
  I mean, I know you're tough at home, but they beat Newcastle.
• 26:52
  That's pretty good. Yeah, Brentford.
• 26:55
  Look, like you said, it's pretty amazing there.
• 26:57
  There are four wins, one draw and one loss at home.
• 27:00
  They play real well now. They're terrible on the road.
• 27:03
  They've got 4/4 losses in five games.
• 27:05
  But going to Brentford is going to be tough.
• 27:08
  And this is a team that's doing a little bit better, I think,
• 27:10
  than most people thought. You know, they lost Emboemo,
• 27:14
  they lost Wisa, they lost their manager Thomas Frank.
• 27:16
  The Spurs, I can't, you know, I kind of thought and they didn't
• 27:20
  sign any big names. It's not really what they do.
• 27:22
  You know, Brentford is like one of the B models with Bournemouth
• 27:25
  and Brighton who typically buy, you know, young talent who turns
• 27:28
  out to be good rather than like the big name.
• 27:31
  But credit on them, Lugo, they're still, they're sitting
• 27:33
  there in 12. They've got 16 points.
• 27:35
  They're five, one and five now after 11 games.
• 27:39
  They, like I said, are playing well at home.
• 27:41
  Yeah, they're doing really a lot better than I thought.
• 27:44
  Newcastle's the exact opposite. Look, I I don't know what is
• 27:47
  going There's they're in 14th place.
• 27:50
  I can't figure this team out because if you look at Champions
• 27:54
  League and you look at League Cup, OK, for Newcastle, they
• 27:57
  have five wins and one loss in those competitions.
• 28:00
  But then in the Premier League they have three wins, 3 draws
• 28:03
  and five losses. What place are they sitting in?
• 28:05
  They're in 14th place. 14th. Place they've only scored eleven
• 28:09
  goals and 11. Games, they have the Champions
• 28:10
  League. Yeah, and they're like I said,
• 28:12
  they're three and one in the Champions League and they've won
• 28:14
  two games in in the in the League Cup.
• 28:17
  So they're good at every competition, but they're we.
• 28:21
  And, and the Champions League, you know, should obviously you
• 28:23
  know they're playing some of the.
• 28:24
  Best of the best. So they're just I, I can't
• 28:27
  figure this team out. I look at, I look at the players
• 28:30
  and I think there's a lot of talent there.
• 28:32
  I think they're a really good team.
• 28:33
  They've done well the past two years, but then their results
• 28:36
  are just not very good. I mean, they've lost three of
• 28:39
  their last four now in the Premier League.
• 28:41
  I mean, you know, and and they're playing teams that you
• 28:43
  know, I would I mean, Brentford may be a tough place to go, but
• 28:46
  they they should be able to go at least get a tie against
• 28:48
  Brentford. I mean you.
• 28:49
  Know. So I don't know, I mean, to me,
• 28:53
  you know, look, I, I don't think they're getting relegated, but
• 28:55
  to me their thoughts of, of making like Champions League or
• 28:58
  even Europa League, they're like fading by the 2nd to me.
• 29:01
  I'm just, I'm just not seeing it from this team.
• 29:04
  Yeah, I mean me neither. Yeah, I mean you think they have
• 29:07
  any chance of? No, pretty much.
• 29:11
  At most through Open Conference League.
• 29:14
  That's the best they could do. So that would be like 7.
• 29:18
  Yeah, yeah. They would have to really turn
• 29:21
  this around though. Yeah, I mean, now look, like I
• 29:24
  said, there's this big sort of jam in the middle of the Premier
• 29:26
  League table, you know, so we're talking about how bad they are.
• 29:29
  They're, you know, they're on 12 points, but you know, you, you
• 29:32
  string together, you know, two wins and very quickly you can
• 29:35
  sort of be, you know, top 7 because again, the difference
• 29:39
  from 14th where Newcastle is to let's say 4th, it's only 7
• 29:43
  points in the table. You know, two wins in a.
• 29:46
  Draw two wins in a draw where, you know, other obviously other
• 29:49
  teams get to play games and try to get points too.
• 29:51
  But my, my point is, I do think we're going to see this sort of,
• 29:54
  you know, pack in the middle where if, if a team can get it
• 29:57
  together and go on a little bit of a run, I think you can real
• 30:00
  quick move up the table, you know, and this will transition
• 30:03
  over to Aston Villa because they're sort of doing that.
• 30:06
  So talk to me about Aston Villa, Bournemouth.
• 30:10
  Well, this game was just a blowout.
• 30:12
  Aston Villa beat Bournemouth 4. Nothing.
• 30:16
  Everything's going to be it's 22.
• 30:17
  I thought they was just going to be close, but when the end of
• 30:20
  28th minute, really nice free kick lobby over the wall in 40th
• 30:26
  minute, not a really nice goal into the bottom corner.
• 30:30
  So manual miss PK in the 67th minute, Barkley in the 77th
• 30:35
  minute off of a corner and I'm Mullin in the 82nd minute kind
• 30:40
  of deflects off of him and into the goal.
• 30:43
  I don't think he meaningfully tried to hit the end to the
• 30:45
  goal. It doesn't reflected.
• 30:48
  Yeah, pretty easy win for Aston Villa, which I did not think
• 30:52
  would happen. I thought there's gonna be
• 30:53
  close. I didn't see this coming at all.
• 30:56
  Bournemouth, like I said, have been playing great.
• 30:58
  They've been one of the great sort of early stories of a small
• 31:01
  team doing really well. Villa, you know, have been
• 31:04
  coming on, though. This is what I'm sort of saying.
• 31:06
  Like, you know, transition over to them.
• 31:07
  They've been sort of coming. They get off to a really bad
• 31:10
  start. But now they're, you know, four
• 31:11
  wins in their last five. They're starting to tick
• 31:14
  together the wins. And now, boom, there they are,
• 31:16
  sitting there, you know, tied for fifth on 18 points.
• 31:19
  Yeah. You know, Villa Park.
• 31:21
  Is this a really hard place to go and get a result?
• 31:24
  Villa have only lost one of their last 24 home Premier
• 31:28
  League games. So I mean, playing Aston Villa
• 31:31
  at home is just is just never going to be easy, you know, So
• 31:34
  now look, there's five teams sitting there essentially on 18
• 31:38
  points. So you want to say like tied for
• 31:40
  fits, you have Spurs, Villa, United, Liverpool and
• 31:43
  Bournemouth, all of 18 points sort of in that, you know,
• 31:45
  middle section. My question to you, Luke, is it
• 31:48
  is this game, like I said, this obviously kind of surprises
• 31:50
  Villa just sort of taking Bournemouth apart like this.
• 31:53
  Who do you think finishes higher at the end of the year, Villa or
• 31:56
  Bournemouth? Of course, because like
• 32:01
  Bournemouth have been on this great run and Aston Villa had
• 32:08
  started out terribly, they're both tied right now, correct?
• 32:14
  Yeah, so they're both 11 games and they're both on 18 points.
• 32:20
  I think I'm going to say Astonville finish higher.
• 32:23
  What makes you say? That I think they use some more
• 32:25
  depth. They were a good bench and I
• 32:29
  think Simeno has been a big factor and I just don't think he
• 32:33
  can carry a team on his back for the entire year.
• 32:36
  So yeah, I just think they'll have a better roster overalls
• 32:43
  than Bournemouth. OK, that's fair.
• 32:45
  Yeah, I mean, I think you're probably right.
• 32:46
  They probably maybe have a better starting 11, a little bit
• 32:49
  more depth, but it's close. You know, I, like I said, I hope
• 32:52
  Bournemouth hangs around and sort of in the mix, you know?
• 32:55
  But yeah, I think you're probably right on that.
• 32:59
  All right, Luca, the last game of the week kind of heavyweight
• 33:01
  matchup, we had Man City hosting Liverpool.
• 33:04
  This was the last game of the weekend.
• 33:06
  What about this one? Take me through it.
• 33:08
  Well, you were actually right. You you said that city was going
• 33:11
  to RIP Liverpool apart, and that's exactly what they did.
• 33:16
  Three, nil city. I've actually predicted 2.
• 33:19
  Two. I didn't know where you were
• 33:20
  that I'm pretty sure you predicted 3 nil.
• 33:22
  You really predicted 3 No 41 the last episode.
• 33:26
  Well, certain Holland missed PK the 13th minute.
• 33:32
  Doku kind of gets clipped by Marmadashvili and it's really
• 33:37
  close, but there is contact so he goes down and there's
• 33:40
  penalty. Holland the 29th minute.
• 33:43
  Header is crazy. Header contains Nunez with the
• 33:47
  cross in and just Holland doing what he does using his size to
• 33:53
  his advantage on header. Then Van Dyke goal, header goal
• 34:01
  off of a corner. VAR calls back because they say
• 34:06
  Andy Robertson was offsides. I don't really think this should
• 34:09
  have been called offsides. Andy Rob, they're saying that he
• 34:13
  was blocking the goalies view, therefore he has part of the in
• 34:17
  the play, but he ducks. He ducks once the ball is hit,
• 34:21
  but with it once Van Dyke heads it, he ducks.
• 34:24
  So I don't know, I think it's kind of harsh on Van Dyke.
• 34:27
  But yeah, Godzilla's in the 45 point 45th plus 5 S 1st half and
• 34:35
  then Doku the 63rd minute. Yes, like I said, I don't know.
• 34:40
  I felt like I did see it coming a little bit.
• 34:43
  City's just been playing so well.
• 34:45
  City are also one of the most healthy teams.
• 34:47
  You know, I think Kobachic is like the only, and I guess Roger
• 34:50
  are the only two players out for them.
• 34:52
  But they almost have all their players available to them where,
• 34:55
  you know, certainly Arsenal and Liverpool don't really as you
• 34:58
  talk about like the big teams, it just feels like, you know,
• 35:01
  City have been sort of getting this together.
• 35:03
  They have that little blip. They lose 2 games, but you know,
• 35:06
  it just to me, Liverpool, I'm just not quite sold on their
• 35:11
  consistency. I've been talking about their
• 35:13
  defense. I just that was my biggest
• 35:16
  concern. You know, we I, I we mentioned
• 35:18
  it a million times, is that you know, they didn't, they had Mark
• 35:21
  Gay he all tee up to be, you know, all teed up to be signed.
• 35:25
  That's what they needed more than bringing Esac in.
• 35:28
  You know they they had signed Ekatika, who was going to be a
• 35:30
  striker. He ended up playing very well.
• 35:33
  They still shined Esac. And yeah, so I was going to say,
• 35:38
  so then they signed it, but then they go out and sign Esac as
• 35:40
  another striker. Now Esac's been sort of in and
• 35:42
  out of the lineup, sort of been hurt, but really where they
• 35:45
  where needed help was on defense and they tried to sort of
• 35:48
  address it, but they but they waited the last minute.
• 35:50
  So the problem was is that they they didn't file all the
• 35:52
  paperwork in time. So and and I think there was
• 35:55
  something that thought that like Palace really didn't.
• 35:57
  It's a second had sort of second thoughts about letting him go.
• 36:01
  But so that's my problem is there is their defense and you
• 36:05
  know, Saul's not quite been himself.
• 36:07
  You know, maybe he misses Trent as his sort of right back that
• 36:10
  chemistry they had on the right side.
• 36:11
  Maybe that's just not there, but yeah, I don't know.
• 36:14
  I you mentioned it before when we talked about it.
• 36:17
  I do feel like this is going to be a 2 horse race for the
• 36:20
  Premier League title. I think this is going to come
• 36:22
  down to Arsenal City. I think City is going to, to me
• 36:28
  go on a bit of a run here. You know, City has sort of a way
• 36:32
  of just sort of churning this out where all of a sudden, and
• 36:35
  they've never quite had anybody like Holland scored.
• 36:38
  They've always had this great sort of team effort, passing the
• 36:40
  ball around, scoring goals from all.
• 36:41
  Over. Now they just give it to Holland
• 36:43
  and here's the rest. I I know, I mean he so he's have
• 36:46
  been unbelievable. He scores at least a goal every
• 36:48
  game, but the guy I want to talk to him that this game Doku Doku.
• 36:52
  Unbelievable. Phenomenal in this game.
• 36:54
  I mean, Oh my goodness, He's always been super quick.
• 36:58
  He's like this twitchy guy, you know, he just sort of, you know,
• 37:01
  it's just so quick out of that first step and it's always been
• 37:04
  that sort of like the LastPass, the last shot, that finishing
• 37:07
  product that he's been missing. His goal was really nice.
• 37:09
  His goal was fantastic. He created so much.
• 37:12
  He got, he got, you know, taken down very lightly, taken down
• 37:16
  for the penalty. But there was contact.
• 37:18
  It was close, it was close. But yeah, it's, it's a penalty.
• 37:21
  But it's it's, you know, not much contact, but he did get
• 37:23
  hit, but he was just, you know, and the interesting thing is
• 37:27
  Connor Bradley, who's on the right back for.
• 37:30
  Liberty smoked by him. He was at midweek Luca, he
• 37:33
  played against Vinnie Junior in the Champions League and did
• 37:36
  great against Vinnie. I mean, he's a good defender,
• 37:38
  Connor Bradley and like I said, did an awesome job on against
• 37:41
  Real Madrid and Vinnie Junior. But he I mean, he just couldn't
• 37:44
  handle Doku. But I'm not sure anybody could
• 37:46
  have in that game. Like I said, if Doku plays that
• 37:49
  well regularly and then Holland, you know, just keeps piling in
• 37:53
  goals, it might not even matter what anybody else does, you
• 37:56
  know? So yeah, I mean, like I said, I
• 37:59
  just think, you know, City is sort of primed.
• 38:01
  My only worry with City is injuries.
• 38:03
  Like if Holland goes down, there's just no answer for that,
• 38:06
  you know, and and a couple other key guys getting.
• 38:09
  Injured. Yeah, I mean, if, if I I, that's
• 38:12
  my only, you know, I, I think it may come down to between Arsenal
• 38:16
  and City. Like who?
• 38:17
  Stays the health field. Yeah, like you know, I Arsenal,
• 38:20
  like I said, are getting some guys back for their attack.
• 38:24
  They were down 6 attacking players going into this game
• 38:27
  again. You might get them all back
• 38:29
  after the international break, which would be great.
• 38:31
  Right. And that to me is going to be
• 38:33
  the key is how do Arsenal integrate all these attacking
• 38:37
  players? So you think the Ocharis,
• 38:39
  Haverts, Gabrielle, Jay Zeus, Matt OAK, Odegard, Gabrielle
• 38:43
  Martinelli, all of them have been out injured?
• 38:46
  Yeah. Like you said, they're all close
• 38:49
  if not going to come back after this international break.
• 38:51
  So how do how do look, how does Mikel Arteta integrate these
• 38:55
  guys into a team that already has a great midfield, great
• 38:57
  defense? If, if Arsenal can get this sort
• 39:01
  of attacking going, you know what we would all hope, right?
• 39:04
  All these sort of creative guys creating goals and all this kind
• 39:06
  of stuff. You, you know, they're obviously
• 39:08
  great at set pieces. We talked about that, that maybe
• 39:12
  would be a little bit of a difference.
• 39:13
  But if they don't, if it takes like another 10 games to get
• 39:16
  these guys up to speed and integrated and City just roll
• 39:21
  off, you know, eight wins out of nine or something, then it could
• 39:24
  be a, you know, uphill battle to catch City the rest of the way
• 39:27
  for Arsenal. But you know, look, I think
• 39:29
  Arsenal like said a tough eleven games to start here.
• 39:32
  They're sitting four points up on City.
• 39:34
  Chelsea, like I said, we said they're in 3rd.
• 39:36
  They're six points back of Arsenal, Liverpool now eight
• 39:40
  points behind Arsenal, 4 points behind City.
• 39:46
  You know, are you, are you saying Luca Liverpool are, are
• 39:50
  they still title contenders or are they done Cook?
• 39:56
  Not right now, no. At at the moment they are not
• 39:59
  title contenders. Now if they start rolling away a
• 40:02
  couple wins then we'll see. We'll cross that bridge when we
• 40:06
  get to it. Well, I want to know right now,
• 40:07
  Luca, your prediction and when we get down to the final ten
• 40:11
  games of the season, are we going to be talking about, you
• 40:13
  know, Liverpool in the Knicks? They've got a chance.
• 40:15
  They've just got to do this and that.
• 40:17
  Are we just going to be like, no, they're they're trying to
• 40:19
  get 4th or 5th? I think they're trying to get
• 40:22
  4th or 5th. I think it's just going to be
• 40:23
  Arsenal City the whole way. Well, think about it.
• 40:26
  So think about, think about this, OK, I look, look at the
• 40:28
  last seven years in the Premier League.
• 40:30
  The team that won the Premier League, how many losses did they
• 40:34
  have? Last year?
• 40:35
  Liverpool, 4 losses. The year before that, 3.
• 40:38
  Losses The year before that, five losses.
• 40:41
  Year before that, three-year before that, six.
• 40:44
  The year before that, three-year before that, 4.
• 40:47
  Are you talking about all teams that?
• 40:48
  No, the, the, the team that won the Premier League, OK, which
• 40:51
  was Liverpool, then City, a bunch of those years, that was a
• 40:54
  total amount of losses that they had in the Premier League.
• 40:56
  So the highest in 2021, the season 6 losses.
• 41:02
  And you win the Premier League every other year.
• 41:04
  You have to have fewer than six losses, basically, you know, and
• 41:09
  Liverpool already have 5. It's not great.
• 41:12
  Not great. So I mean that would mean they
• 41:13
  need, you almost need to go like 27 games unbeaten the rest.
• 41:17
  Of the and that's not looking good for them.
• 41:19
  Yeah, I mean, I, it's just, it's a mountain for them to climb.
• 41:22
  Like I, I just don't see them all of a sudden, you know, like
• 41:25
  if you told me Arsenal or City did that, OK, sure, maybe.
• 41:28
  But I don't see Liverpool doing that.
• 41:30
  I think they'll yeah, I think they're going to start to play
• 41:33
  better. But I, I agree with you.
• 41:34
  I I'm kind of saying, you know, I still think they get third.
• 41:39
  Yeah, I still think they'll. Find their way to 3rd Champions
• 41:42
  League contenders. But I think they may be 1012
• 41:44
  points behind City and Arsenal, whoever ends up there.
• 41:46
  And like I said, you just can't lose.
• 41:48
  I mean, you basically have to think about it that way.
• 41:50
  Like you, you basically almost get 5 losses in a year.
• 41:53
  Now look, of course it's going to come down to you can't like
• 41:56
  draw 10 games, you know, like that factors in as well.
• 41:59
  But my point is like losing games, you basically have to
• 42:02
  lose 4 or five games to have a chance to win the Premier
• 42:05
  League. That's how hard it is.
• 42:08
  Arsenal have lost one, City 3, Chelsea three, Sunderland 2,
• 42:12
  Tottenham 3, Villa three, United 3.
• 42:15
  So there's a Crystal Palace only two.
• 42:17
  So you know, look, it's going to be interesting coming back.
• 42:20
  We have an international break coming up and it'll be kind of
• 42:23
  interesting to see as we get into a lot of games through
• 42:26
  November, December, what kind of happens with some of these tough
• 42:29
  games. Luca Pep Guardiola manages one
• 42:32
  thousandth game for City. Yeah, and he gets a three nil
• 42:36
  win. Win my question to you Luca is,
• 42:38
  is so like, is he the best manager ever?
• 42:42
  No. OK, so you know other people.
• 42:46
  Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Johan
• 42:50
  Croix. I was going to say, yeah,
• 42:52
  Ancelotti, because he made it in, I think he managed in like 4
• 43:00
  weeks, 5, four or five weeks, and every league he managed and
• 43:05
  he won the league. So yeah, yes, he managed
• 43:09
  Everton, but he also managed Chelsea in the Premier League
• 43:12
  and they won the league that year.
• 43:14
  And Pep, he's only coached what, three teams?
• 43:21
  He didn't win the trouble with both.
• 43:23
  He's definitely up there for best manager ever, but I do
• 43:27
  think Enchiladi is better because he played in more
• 43:30
  leagues and won the title in every league he managed, which
• 43:34
  is not easy. Other than the League One.
• 43:38
  Yeah, but you could say that Pep had an easy run 'cause you know,
• 43:45
  Byron always wins in the league. It's tough.
• 43:48
  It's more tough in Barcelona because you have to play Real
• 43:53
  Madrid and Athletico. Madrid was pretty good back then
• 43:56
  and again, City always hard with Premier League.
• 44:01
  But I do think Angela, he's just a better manager.
• 44:04
  Yeah, I think it's interesting. So for Pep Luca, he's got 12
• 44:08
  league titles, he's done it in three countries, two FA Cups, 3
• 44:13
  Champions League. He's done the treble twice.
• 44:15
  Sir Alex Ferguson Luca 13 Premier League titles, 2
• 44:19
  Champions Leagues, 5FA Cups, He's done the treble once.
• 44:24
  Jose Mourinho three Premier League titles, He's won titles
• 44:29
  over three different countries, 3 Champions Leagues for Jose
• 44:32
  Mourinho won an FA Cup. Ancelotti, Lucas, like you said,
• 44:37
  titles in four countries, you know, France.
• 44:41
  Italy, Italy, Spain, England. Yeah.
• 44:45
  So it was a would it be 5 countries?
• 44:47
  Italy, Spain to be Germany too, right?
• 44:51
  Yes, Bayern. Yeah, so, but so five countries.
• 44:54
  For him, he had five. Yeah, 5 Champions Leagues.
• 44:58
  Francholotti. Geez, one FA Cup and all the
• 45:01
  Champions Leagues aren't all at Real Madrid.
• 45:02
  He got 2 Champions Leagues at AC Milan, too, one FA Cup for
• 45:06
  Enchilada, Johann Kroy, Fluca, you know, kind of reinvented the
• 45:10
  sport almost, you know, went to Barcelona, that sort of Total
• 45:13
  Football model, you know, 4 La Liga titles, a European Cup,
• 45:18
  which the European Cup was a Champions League.
• 45:20
  Yeah, before you did it. So, you know, I mean, I, to me,
• 45:23
  the conversation is probably Guardiola versus Ferguson versus
• 45:28
  Ancelotti. You know, you can kind of go
• 45:29
  back and forth on that. They're all obviously amazing
• 45:32
  managers. They've done like amazing
• 45:33
  things. I think for me, like, you know,
• 45:36
  I've seen Pep the most, you know, Ancelotti, you know, has
• 45:40
  been coaching now to for Alex Ferguson has been retired for a
• 45:43
  long time. I, you know, am old enough to
• 45:46
  remember, you know, the dominance that Man United had,
• 45:49
  especially over Arsenal for all those years.
• 45:53
  But my only thing about Pep is that, like you said, I mean,
• 45:56
  managed at Barcelona, you know, Bayern Munich, Manchester City
• 46:01
  and of course Manchester City when they had unlimited funds.
• 46:04
  They're owned by essentially a country in the Middle East.
• 46:07
  They can just spend more than anybody on player salaries, on
• 46:12
  transfer fees. I mean, they have such a
• 46:13
  financial advantage. And so I, I would like to just
• 46:18
  see him either with a national team or with this like a team
• 46:21
  that's just not like the dominant power.
• 46:23
  He already coached Everton. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing.
• 46:25
  Yeah. He coached AC Milan like he
• 46:27
  coached, I mean, some like it's in slightly big teams, but it's
• 46:30
  not as if he's just sort of saying, well, you know, the only
• 46:33
  places I'll coach are, you know, PSG who win every year, Iron who
• 46:36
  win every year, you know, City who have this like massive
• 46:39
  financial advantage. Or even in Spain where, you
• 46:42
  know, it's one of two teams, it's either Real Madrid or
• 46:44
  Barcelona. So like, I don't know what Pep
• 46:46
  will do next. I don't know if he'll just
• 46:47
  retire and walk off into the sunset, but I feel like I hope
• 46:50
  his next move is not to go to PSG and then just win like.
• 46:52
  Yeah, better not or I'm just out of the.
• 46:55
  Yeah, like I just want to see him.
• 46:57
  I want to see what he can do with like.
• 46:59
  See if he coach Wolves gets a matter of relegation.
• 47:02
  There you go. Yeah, yeah.
• 47:03
  Switch over to Wolves midseason. All right, Lucas.
• 47:05
  So, all right, that that's the week for us.
• 47:08
  Give me your We gotta. I need a goal of the week, Team
• 47:11
  of the week, Player of the week. Who do you got for me?
• 47:13
  All that so go of the week I'm going Trosard banger from
• 47:19
  outside the box in the Sunderland Arsenal game with A a
• 47:27
  nomination of also. An honorable mention.
• 47:29
  Yeah, I forgot what that's called.
• 47:31
  Sorry. Wendy is free cake.
• 47:34
  That was really good. Yeah.
• 47:36
  And player of the week. I gotta go.
• 47:37
  Jeremy Doku. I mean, he was.
• 47:39
  That's a. Good call.
• 47:40
  He was unbelievable, Yeah. Good call.
• 47:43
  Yeah, team and league, I'm going.
• 47:46
  I think we're going to go West Ham for that.
• 47:50
  Two games in, two wins in a row. I think they're kind of signs of
• 47:54
  life from them. So that's my team of the week.
• 47:56
  I. Thought you may I thought you
• 47:57
  may go Aston Villa, but I like West Ham.
• 47:59
  Yeah, You know, I thought maybe lean Villa with a four nothing
• 48:02
  win, but all right, Luke. I like it.
• 48:04
  So we talked about there's no games next week, but we do have
• 48:09
  games in two weeks. So we'll do a little bit of an
• 48:12
  Ask Luca segment next week where we'll just sort of ask Luca some
• 48:15
  questions, you know, get his thoughts on soccer and different
• 48:18
  things. So let's look ahead a little bit
• 48:21
  of two weeks. So like I said, no games this
• 48:22
  week, but let's quickly look ahead so we can get your
• 48:24
  predictions, see what we have coming back to us for Week 12
• 48:27
  after this international break, Burnley hosting Chelsea when we
• 48:31
  get back. What do you think?
• 48:32
  Give me a prediction. I think to know Chelsea.
• 48:36
  All right, Chelsea 2 nil. How about Liverpool at home
• 48:39
  against Nottingham Forest? OK, I think Liverpool win 2.
• 48:44
  Nothing. All right, so Liverpool get back
• 48:47
  on track. If we were talking last year,
• 48:49
  this would have been close. Yeah, yeah.
• 48:51
  But not this year. A little bit of an interesting
• 48:55
  game here. Newcastle at home against City.
• 49:01
  I think city is 3/1. 31 OK, yeah, I think city may kind of,
• 49:06
  you know. If they RIP to Liverpool apart,
• 49:08
  they're gonna RIP you. Now this is This is at St.
• 49:11
  James, that's true. Newcastle likes that, a very
• 49:14
  difficult place to go play. They're much better at home, but
• 49:16
  they're just so inconsistent and I.
• 49:17
  I was generous giving them a goal, yeah.
• 49:19
  There you go. Right?
• 49:20
  Fair enough. All right.
• 49:22
  How about Wolves hosting Crystal Palace?
• 49:25
  Crystal Palace win 1 Nothing. They don't want much better
• 49:28
  offense but Wolves are just so bad.
• 49:30
  OK, all right. Wolves still don't have their
• 49:33
  first win from you. No, I wonder if they'll actually
• 49:36
  go the entire season without a win.
• 49:38
  I I they'll, they'll win a game, they'll win.
• 49:40
  Who? Who would they be?
• 49:41
  They'll they'll win against like, you know, Burnley, Leeds,
• 49:45
  I mean, just you know. They'll be crazy.
• 49:47
  If they never won the entire season they'll be insane.
• 49:50
  Well, that would be a record. I mean, I think we've talked
• 49:52
  about the the Derby County team. I think Juan, Juan.
• 49:54
  And they were just. Just absolutely.
• 49:56
  Horrible. They they did one.
• 49:58
  So, all right, look, how about Fulham hosting Sunderland?
• 50:04
  Sunderland win 2/1. 21 OK Brighton hosting Brentford,
• 50:10
  Couple of our B teams here. I think 11 tie. 11 tie OK
• 50:17
  Bournemouth hosts West Ham. I think why Sam Streak is going
• 50:22
  to end Bournemouth win 2 nothing. 2 Nothing.
• 50:24
  Yeah, I think Bournemouth back at home.
• 50:26
  Let's see them get get back in the win column.
• 50:28
  Leeds hosting Aston Villa. Aston Miller are going to win
• 50:32
  this three nil. Oh, boy.
• 50:34
  Wow. Leads are good, and they're
• 50:36
  better at home. This isn't a lot of love for
• 50:40
  Ellen Rd. where leads play all right.
• 50:42
  Must have a lot of faith in Aston Villa.
• 50:45
  Doing second thoughts on that but I'm just going to keep it
• 50:48
  for now. All right, how about Man United
• 50:50
  at Old Trafford hosting Everton? I think 21 United. 21 United and
• 50:58
  all right, the big one of the week.
• 51:00
  The north London Derby Biggest rivalries in all of the Premier
• 51:05
  League. Arsenal host Tottenham Hotspurs.
• 51:11
  I think 31 Arsenal, 3 Arsenal, getting there attacking stuff,
• 51:16
  hopefully getting there attacking help back.
• 51:19
  I think we get a couple goals here and then Tottenham sneak
• 51:21
  one in like a consolation or something.
• 51:24
  Yeah, so this is an interesting one to me because you would
• 51:27
  think, all right, so Arsenal are at home, you know, they get
• 51:30
  Spurs coming in. Spurs for whatever reason, play
• 51:33
  better on the road. You know, Darby games, I feel
• 51:38
  like you never quite know. I So one interesting thing to
• 51:42
  keep an eye on her injuries for this game because Spurs in their
• 51:45
  last game were without Kudus, Fergwall, Ben Davies, Solanke,
• 51:49
  Besuma, Kola, Moana, I think got hurt during the game.
• 51:52
  Still without Kulasevski, still without Dragus in, of course,
• 51:55
  James Madison out for the year, Arsenal, of course, we talked
• 51:58
  about there's six attacking players that we're all hurt too.
• 52:01
  So to me, like a big question mark will be what happens over
• 52:05
  the international break, Who comes back for these teams to
• 52:07
  sort of, you know, help the squad.
• 52:10
  Because I mean, on paper Arsenal are a better team, yes, they're
• 52:14
  playing better. They're at home again.
• 52:16
  Darby games, though, have a way of sort of you.
• 52:20
  Know just flip flopping. Flip flop, it's just very hard
• 52:22
  to predict games like this. So this to me clearly the best
• 52:26
  game of the week here. I'm a little interested in City,
• 52:28
  Newcastle, Fulham, Sunderland, but man, a north London Derby is
• 52:32
  going to be always going to be fun.
• 52:34
  So that'll be something to look forward to after the
• 52:36
  international break. So all right, Luca, let's move
• 52:40
  over to the mailbag. OK, viewer Mailbag comes from
• 52:45
  friend of the pod, Nina Miller. Your.
• 52:47
  Sister. She wants to know Luca like what
• 52:51
  are the most important qualities it takes to be a professional
• 52:55
  soccer? That's a good question.
• 52:57
  All right. And I have a couple here that I
• 52:58
  want you to kind of rank. I want to get your top three
• 53:01
  between these qualities that people might have one, one
• 53:04
  speed, two work ethic, how hard you work 3 agility, 4 focus, 5
• 53:12
  endurance, 6 discipline, 7 teamwork. 8 would be like
• 53:19
  tactical intelligence. You know, you're like soccer IQ
• 53:22
  and what am I up to 8 or coach ability.
• 53:25
  So if you look at like these traits, OK, and you're designing
• 53:29
  like like you're saying these are going to be give me the most
• 53:31
  important three or four out of those.
• 53:34
  I'll give you 4. All right, give me 4 that you
• 53:36
  think are the most important things for like a professional
• 53:39
  soccer. Number one, work ethic.
• 53:41
  OK. #2 Coach ability #3 I'm going to go focus and #4
• 53:55
  intelligence, soccer IQ. Soccer IQ.
• 53:58
  So you, you think those four, you put those four in that like,
• 54:02
  you know, like every professional soccer player needs
• 54:05
  to have like those. Speed is the key nowadays, OK,
• 54:08
  But you got to be good on the ball.
• 54:10
  You got to like think about where the passing could go.
• 54:14
  And you you have to be coachable and you have to work hard.
• 54:18
  You're not going to get good if you don't work hard.
• 54:21
  I would know that because I got player of the month for my team,
• 54:26
  which is a pretty big deal. I work hard.
• 54:29
  I really want to play for Arsenal.
• 54:31
  So yeah, cool. But yeah, so I think there's a
• 54:35
  in focus. You got to focus on like your
• 54:39
  touch, your passing skills, your finishing.
• 54:42
  You got like, and you got to focus when the coach is talking,
• 54:46
  you know, explaining a drill. You got to know what to do.
• 54:50
  I think those are all good, yeah.
• 54:51
  In fact, so Luca, you are, you're like I said, your club,
• 54:55
  FC Charleston, who you play for here, you got one of the four
• 55:00
  players of the month and that's throughout your entire club,
• 55:02
  right? Which is really cool.
• 55:03
  Thanks boys, girls, younger kids than you, older kids than you.
• 55:08
  Like I said they nominate 4 people every month and said and
• 55:10
  and here's what they say. Luca Luca embodies the spirit of
• 55:13
  FCC through his passion, work ethic, and love for the game.
• 55:18
  Always ready to help his teammates and other teams, his
• 55:20
  energy is contagious off the field.
• 55:22
  He shares the same passion on the Premier League Playground
• 55:25
  Podcast with his dad. Sponsoring the Premier League
• 55:28
  playground. Yeah.
• 55:29
  So a nice little plug for us. We appreciate.
• 55:31
  It work ethic and that. So there you go, my point of why
• 55:35
  work ethic is so important now. Yeah, yeah.
• 55:38
  Hard for me to argue with any of those.
• 55:39
  Those are all good. So, yeah, All right, Luca, let's
• 55:42
  turn our attention to to our did you know section.
• 55:45
  OK. We, I thought it would be kind
• 55:48
  of interesting. We talked about last week to go
• 55:50
  through maybe all the teams alphabetically.
• 55:53
  So we learn a little bit about some of these teams in the
• 55:55
  Premier League. We did born AFC Bournemouth last
• 55:58
  week and we learned. A little bit.
• 56:00
  So we've got a we going alphabetically, our favorite
• 56:03
  team, Arsenal. It'd be the Next up.
• 56:06
  So Luca Arsenal was founded in 1886.
• 56:10
  It's almost 140 years ago by workers at the Royal Arsenal
• 56:14
  munitions factory in southeast London, and it was under the
• 56:18
  name Dial Square in 1887. It was then named Royal Arsenal
• 56:24
  and then Woolwich Arsenal when they joined the Football League
• 56:28
  in 1893. So you know, they were around
• 56:31
  for about 7 years and they joined the Football League in
• 56:33
  1893 and they they came up, they changed the name to Woolwich
• 56:37
  Arsenal. So like I said, they've been
• 56:40
  playing, you know, in the Football League since 1893, and
• 56:44
  that's just sort of crazy how? Long ago, that is.
• 56:46
  They're one of the oldest teams. They are, you're right, they
• 56:51
  move Lucas. So they, it's interesting that
• 56:53
  they were originally, Arsenal are very much known for being in
• 56:56
  North London, right? North London Derby against
• 56:58
  Spurs. So though the two major teams in
• 57:00
  North London, but they, like I said, started in southeast
• 57:03
  London, but they moved to North London in 1913.
• 57:07
  So they played for a bunch of years, but then they moved to
• 57:09
  play in Arsenal Stadium, which of course became known as
• 57:12
  Highbury because that's sort of the neighborhood.
• 57:15
  But it was actually called Arsenal Stadium when people, oh
• 57:17
  people always refer to it as Highbury, where they played
• 57:20
  since 1913 till 2006, of course was nicknamed the home of
• 57:25
  football. About 38,419 was the capacity of
• 57:30
  Highbury. Lots of famous, like I said,
• 57:32
  memories there. Arsenal and Luca have been in
• 57:35
  the top flight for 105 years straight.
• 57:40
  Like I said, yeah, they one of the longest runs there of not
• 57:42
  being relegated. They're owned by Kronke Sports
• 57:46
  and Entertainment. So Stan Kronke is the owner, an
• 57:49
  American who also owns the Los Angeles Rams, the Colorado
• 57:53
  Avalanche, amongst other things. So a lot of we talked about
• 57:57
  Bournemouth owned by an American.
• 57:58
  There's a lot of American owners in the Premier League because of
• 58:01
  how popular and ultimately how profitable it is to own these
• 58:04
  teams. Yeah, all time.
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  Look, of course Arsenal are known as what's their?
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  Nickname. The Gunners, if you're an
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  Arsenal supporter, you're called a Gooner.
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  Yeah. So we're Gooners.
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  The Canon has been on the logo, Luca, ever since 1886, except
• 58:24
  through 1936 to 1949, they did not have actually a Canon on the
• 58:29
  logo, but almost every other year.
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  So there's a small period of time where they changed up the
• 58:33
  logo a little bit. But the otherwise I've had, like
• 58:36
  I said, a Canon is obviously very much synonymous with
• 58:39
  Arsenal. And of course, it goes back to
• 58:41
  the people that originally started that team in 1886 were
• 58:45
  people that made cannons, that made guns.
• 58:48
  Yeah, they made. The Arsenal.
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  The Arsenal. So that's why of course there's
• 58:51
  the cannon on it. The the motto of the team.
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  Luca Victoria, Concordia Crescent Victory grows through
• 58:59
  harmony or victory through harmony.
• 59:03
  So Luca 13 league titles, third all time, 14 FA Cups, first all
• 59:09
  time, 2 League Cups, 17 Community Shields. 17 community
• 59:15
  Shields. Yeah, they were the UEFA Cup
• 59:17
  Winners Cup in 93 and 94, so lots of history there, lots of
• 59:22
  trophies. The last trophy they won was the
• 59:24
  FA Cup about 5 or 6 years ago. That's why it's been, you know,
• 59:29
  almost 25 years or something since a Premier League title.
• 59:32
  So Arsenal fans desperate for, you know, a Premier League
• 59:35
  title, biggest rival. Of course we just talked about
• 59:39
  it. Tottenham north London Derby all
• 59:43
  time. Luca.
• 59:44
  Arsenal 89 wins. Tottenham 67 wins.
• 59:49
  So Arsenal have had the better of this competition, especially
• 59:52
  in the last 9. Arsenal have won seven, drawn
• 59:54
  one, lost one and in the Premier League, Arsenal of 114, lost 15
• 1:00:01
  and draw 23. So Arsenal, like I said, on the
• 1:00:04
  better side of that rivalry there.
• 1:00:07
  So Luca, when you talk about some of the famous managers,
• 1:00:10
  you've got Herbert Chapman, real famous manager back in the from
• 1:00:13
  he managed from 1925 to 1934. He's actually one of the most
• 1:00:17
  important managers kind of of that era because he sort of
• 1:00:20
  ushered in like modern tactics, you know?
• 1:00:24
  Put shirt numbers on, put floodlights up, like kind of
• 1:00:27
  modernized training and sort of revolutionize a little bit
• 1:00:32
  before just like a bunch of guys working, going and drinking beer
• 1:00:35
  was like, all right, let's make this like a real team.
• 1:00:37
  Like let's like have tactics. Let's put people in like proper
• 1:00:40
  positions. He's also very famous because
• 1:00:42
  look at he, he was the one who came up with the red shirt and
• 1:00:45
  the white sleeves. And that's sort of been Arsenal
• 1:00:48
  sort of trademark color and style is that sort of base red
• 1:00:52
  with the white sleeves. It dates back to like night the
• 1:00:54
  20s and 30s. He won five league titles, 2FA
• 1:00:59
  Cups. George Graham, another famous
• 1:01:01
  manager from 86 to 95. Very famously in 1989, Arsenal
• 1:01:07
  won the league title at Anfield. They went into that game having
• 1:01:12
  to beat Liverpool to nothing to win the to win the league title.
• 1:01:17
  Wasn't the Premier League at that time.
• 1:01:20
  Famously got a goal I think early in the second-half and
• 1:01:23
  then Michael Thomas scores an extra time, gets the second
• 1:01:27
  goal, Arsenal win 2 nothing and they win the league title over
• 1:01:31
  Liverpool. Oh my God, beating them at
• 1:01:32
  Anfield in 89. George Graham was a manager
• 1:01:35
  then. That's crazy.
• 1:01:36
  At Liverpool, the game at Anfield was the last game of
• 1:01:39
  season. I know, I know, How cool is that
• 1:01:41
  2. Time Emirates steam flooded,
• 1:01:47
  people jumping out of their seats.
• 1:01:49
  I swear I I would have joined them.
• 1:01:51
  I would join I. Flooded the pitch pretty
• 1:01:53
  amazing. So Michael Tom is very is famous
• 1:01:56
  and like he's really mostly famous for that goal.
• 1:01:58
  He was a good player but not like a legend type player.
• 1:02:00
  But Michael Thomas scored that goal.
• 1:02:02
  Arsene Wenger, of course, Luca match from 96 to 2018.
• 1:02:06
  He's another one is sort of like revolutionized like like like
• 1:02:09
  nutrition, fitness brought in like this attacking, beautiful
• 1:02:13
  style of soccer. Three Premier League titles,
• 1:02:16
  9798 O1, O2 and O3O4. Famously, Luke the Invincibles
• 1:02:22
  in O3 and O4, the only team in the Premier League to go
• 1:02:25
  undefeated for a year. They went 2612 and 0.
• 1:02:29
  He's also the manager for over that time, the season before and
• 1:02:33
  the season after, they combined to go 49 games unbeaten, 7 FA
• 1:02:38
  Cups, 7 Community Shields for Arsene Wenger and then of course
• 1:02:41
  Mikel Arteta, the manager. Now he's the second longest
• 1:02:44
  manager in the Premier League, which is kind of crazy.
• 1:02:48
  So he's been there of course, but since 2019 when you talk
• 1:02:54
  about club legends Luca. Tirion starts with Tony Adams.
• 1:03:02
  There you go. Yeah, Tyrion Rio, Luca, they
• 1:03:04
  call him the king all time leading scorer at Arsenally
• 1:03:07
  played from 1999 to 2000 to 2007.
• 1:03:11
  He's the eighth highest scorer ever in the Premier League.
• 1:03:15
  That my favorite player of all time.
• 1:03:18
  You mentioned Dennis Bergkamp, played from 95 to O6
• 1:03:21
  intelligence. He had like vision, just like a
• 1:03:24
  graceful player. You mentioned Tony Adams, Mr.
• 1:03:28
  Arsenal, that was his nickname. He played Luca from 83 to O2,
• 1:03:32
  almost 19 years played for Arsenal.
• 1:03:36
  Did he only play for? Arsenal.
• 1:03:37
  Yeah, I think so. I don't.
• 1:03:38
  I'm almost positive he did not play for anybody else.
• 1:03:40
  Just amazing defender leader Patrick Vieira.
• 1:03:45
  Seaman. Yep, Seaman, great goalie
• 1:03:48
  Patrick Vieira, like like just this like raw power, speed, just
• 1:03:52
  sort of the engine of those teams.
• 1:03:54
  He was there from like 96 to O 5.
• 1:03:56
  South Jack, Wilshire. Jack Wilshire, Yep, great young
• 1:03:59
  player that came up. The Arsenal Academy, Robert
• 1:04:01
  Perez, Sol Campbell, Sis Fabregas, Mezzo, Santi Cazorla,
• 1:04:06
  Liam Brady, Charlie George, Cliff Bastion, Lee Dixon, who
• 1:04:10
  manages for the Premier, manages or announces for the Premier
• 1:04:14
  League. I mean Arsenal, that so many, so
• 1:04:15
  many great, great players. I mean, I could go on forever.
• 1:04:18
  Soccer might be a team legend, too.
• 1:04:20
  Could be, yeah, Osaka came up through Halen, their Academy.
• 1:04:23
  So Osaka can bring like a title or a Champions League title.
• 1:04:26
  I mean, maybe he's the next one to get a statue outside the
• 1:04:29
  stadium. Maybe there's a chance.
• 1:04:31
  There's a good chance. Yeah, I mean, we could do a
• 1:04:33
  whole episode on Arsenal for sure, but that gives you kind of
• 1:04:37
  a little bit about the history of Arsenal.
• 1:04:39
  And so, yeah, like I said, we'll we'll move on to the next team.
• 1:04:42
  I think it's kind of good we learn a little bit about each
• 1:04:44
  Premier League team. We obviously knew a lot about
• 1:04:46
  this team. But all right, look, I'm moving
• 1:04:49
  along. I think we're at that point.
• 1:04:51
  Let's quickly say, remind people you can find us on Premier
• 1:04:54
  Penalty Shootout. Well, I know, I just want to
• 1:04:57
  quickly plug that. You can e-mail us at
• 1:05:00
  premierleagueplayground@gmail.com. You can find us on Instagram at
• 1:05:05
  Premier League Playground. You can now find our podcast on
• 1:05:09
  Apple Podcast, Pocket Cast, Amazon, and of course, Spotify.
• 1:05:13
  So we're over there. So come find us on anyone of
• 1:05:16
  those podcast platforms. All right, Luca, let's get into
• 1:05:20
  it. We do our penalty kick trivia
• 1:05:22
  shootout. We're gonna ask each other
• 1:05:24
  questions back and forth. And if you make it, you get a
• 1:05:27
  point, like a goal on a penalty kick shootout.
• 1:05:30
  So do you want to go first or a second?
• 1:05:32
  I'm gonna answer first. You're going to answer first.
• 1:05:35
  OK, So Luca, my first question to you, I think we'll give it a
• 1:05:38
  second or two so everybody can think about their own answers.
• 1:05:40
  What Premier League team plays home matches at American Express
• 1:05:45
  Community Stadium? I'm going to go Brighton.
• 1:05:51
  That is correct. Yep, opened in 2011.
• 1:05:54
  It's about 31,876 for capacity. Used to be called Fulmer
• 1:05:59
  Stadium. All right, that's a goal for you
• 1:06:02
  all. Right.
• 1:06:04
  And which city is the club Crystal Palace based in?
• 1:06:08
  Which city? London, Yeah, OK, all right. 11
• 1:06:14
  Luca who is Manchester City's all time leading goal scorer.
• 1:06:22
  I'm gonna go Sergio Guerra that. Is correct.
• 1:06:27
  He played for 2011 to 2021, a 184 Premier League goals.
• 1:06:31
  He's 6th all time in the Premier.
• 1:06:33
  That's pretty good. That's brilliant, but Holland is
• 1:06:35
  on track to beat that. The Holland may break it this
• 1:06:37
  year. He may get 184 this year.
• 1:06:39
  He's he's got 100 or he's at 90. 999 yeah, yeah, he's he's he's
• 1:06:44
  like I think Shearer did it in like 124 games.
• 1:06:48
  He's Holland's going to blow that a. 184 there's no way he
• 1:06:50
  does it this year. I'm joking, Luca, OK, Obviously
• 1:06:53
  I know he's not going to get 184 goals this year.
• 1:06:55
  OK, I I I take everything literal.
• 1:06:57
  So all right, go ahead. What's your second question?
• 1:07:00
  In which City is the club Fulham based in?
• 1:07:03
  Oh my gosh, Luca, these are pretty easy, London.
• 1:07:06
  Yeah. OK, All right, all right, Luca,
• 1:07:10
  you're a third question. What Premier League team is
• 1:07:12
  nicknamed the Red Devils? I'm going to go Liverpool.
• 1:07:16
  That is wrong. Oh shoot, it's United.
• 1:07:20
  It is Manchester United that is a miss.
• 1:07:22
  I messed up. Oh wait, that's like a miss.
• 1:07:24
  That's like you just tried like a Peninka PK and you just
• 1:07:27
  chipped it right into the going stars.
• 1:07:29
  Wow, your uncle and cousin are not happy.
• 1:07:33
  I I know that she's. All right, that's a miss.
• 1:07:37
  Go ahead. What's your third one?
• 1:07:38
  In which city does Everton play their home match in?
• 1:07:42
  Liverpool. Correct.
• 1:07:43
  All right, Luca, what national team does Moises Caisado play
• 1:07:49
  for? Ecuador.
• 1:07:53
  That's correct. All right, back on track.
• 1:07:57
  Which soccer legend is known as the King?
• 1:08:00
  Terry Henry. No, it's Pele.
• 1:08:04
  No, see, my king is Terry Henry. Yeah, but the question is soccer
• 1:08:09
  wedge, not Arsenal legend. That's amazing.
• 1:08:12
  Tyrion Re is a soccer leg. That is not a Tyrion Re.
• 1:08:18
  Luca is. I'm not saying he's at Pele
• 1:08:20
  level, but he is clearly a soccer.
• 1:08:22
  Leg Well, it says which soccer legend is known as the King, and
• 1:08:26
  it's Pele. All right, that's a move.
• 1:08:28
  Moving on. All right, Your boy Neymar.
• 1:08:30
  Let's talk about Neymar. All right, All right, look.
• 1:08:33
  And Neymar has played for four clubs in his life.
• 1:08:40
  Can you name the four clubs Neymar has played for him?
• 1:08:43
  Yes, Santos, Barcelona, PSG and El Ha.
• 1:08:48
  That is correct. He actually did play three games
• 1:08:50
  for all the well. Yeah, he played three games, but
• 1:08:53
  he was there for like a couple months.
• 1:08:55
  He's injured. So Neymar's 33, Luke, of course
• 1:08:58
  he's Brazilian, he's back at Santos now.
• 1:09:00
  You think he'll ever play in Europe again?
• 1:09:03
  No, I don't think so. You think he's done in Europe?
• 1:09:05
  Pretty much. All right, Luca, what do you got
• 1:09:07
  for me? What number did Francesco Talti
• 1:09:10
  wear for Roma? I I want to say Talti wore 10.
• 1:09:16
  Yeah, it's correct. OK, They're tied right now. 4
• 1:09:19
  Four. Yeah. 4/4 right.
• 1:09:22
  Yeah, 4. Yeah, yeah, you missed.
• 1:09:24
  This this is your bonus so. All right, I'll give you your
• 1:09:27
  bonus question and then you give me mine.
• 1:09:29
  All. Right.
• 1:09:30
  What Premier League club Lucas set the record for most yellow
• 1:09:33
  cards in a season? It was a 2324 season.
• 1:09:37
  It recently happened. What club set the record for
• 1:09:39
  most yellow cards in a season? Chelsea.
• 1:09:43
  That's correct. They.
• 1:09:45
  Had 103. Oh close 105 oh averages 2.76
• 1:09:50
  yellow cards a game that's. How many red cards did they
• 1:09:52
  have? I I mean probably a lot that's.
• 1:09:54
  Unbelievable. That's a lot of yellow cards.
• 1:09:56
  All right, this is for the tie. We have to get this right.
• 1:09:59
  OK, which player is known as the phenomenon the?
• 1:10:04
  Phenomenon. Gosh, I don't think I know this.
• 1:10:06
  I'm going to guess Neymar. Brazilian or although?
• 1:10:11
  Really. You're close the.
• 1:10:12
  Same nationality, but you're. The fan.
• 1:10:15
  I didn't know that. I've never.
• 1:10:15
  Oh. Megan, that was tight 54.
• 1:10:18
  Came back on me there. All right, Luke.
• 1:10:20
  Well, I think that about wraps it up.
• 1:10:22
  Like I said, international break coming up.
• 1:10:24
  So we're going to hopefully get a little ass Luca segment and
• 1:10:27
  then we'll be back with week 12, you know, going through the
• 1:10:31
  games like we normally do. So why don't you take us out,
• 1:10:33
  Luca?