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Week 19 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right and welcome into the Week 19 edition of the Premier
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  League Playground, the halfway point of the Premier League
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  season. This is the Premier League
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  Playground. I am the dad, Bjorn, with me as
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  our star of the lad. Luca Miller.
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  And how are you today, Luca? I'm doing good.
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  How are you? I'm good, I'm good.
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  So how you been? I'm good, my mom just helped me
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  get a splinter out. OK, All right, so big news.
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  We're breaking big news here on the pod, right?
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  Splinter is now out. Yes, I got it today when I was
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  playing soccer. I think it was just grasped and
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  then she just got it out like 5 minutes ago.
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  So yeah, he's doing good. Amazing.
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  Your mom's amazing, Luke, isn't she?
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  She does it all. Got the splinter out.
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  You're still on spring break, still no sleep.
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  Winter break. Yeah, right, right.
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  Thank you. Winter break, spring break
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  coming up. But yes, winter break.
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  So you're still enjoying your no school hanging out a couple?
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  Of. Dates today.
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  Oh yeah, that's awesome. Buddies having a good time.
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  Yeah. No football games for you
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  recently because we've been through Christmas and then we
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  just got past New Year's, so lots of holidays.
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  So you've been kind of quiet from your playing games, but you
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  know, it has not been quiet, Luca.
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  The Premier League games all over the place.
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  We just finished Week 19, Luca. We have week games starting
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  tomorrow for Week 20. There's just no rest for us.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  You ready to dive into it all? All right, Luca, we'll start us
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  off with the first game of the week.
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  The first game was Chelsea versus Bournemouth which ended
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  22 I predict to be 3 nil. Two goals from wrong long throws
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  for Bournemouth. Brooks in the 6th 6th minute,
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  then Palmer, PK after Esteval got tripped by Simeno.
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  Enzo Fernandez really nice goal in the 23rd minute and then
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  Cliver the other goal from a long throw in the 27th minute.
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  Chelsea with only one win in the last seven games.
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  Oh, but Chelsea fired manager after the game, so.
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  Oh yeah, by the way, they fired their manager.
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  Yeah, yeah. They fired their manager right
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  after the game. Yeah.
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  And he, he was manager of the month for the for November.
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  They they gave it to him on December 8th, but he was the
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  manager of the month for November.
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  So that's kind of crazy. Yeah, I think that's the big
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  story here. I mean, so the game ends 22.
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  You know, Chelsea are going to be disappointed that they don't
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  get a win against Fornemouth, who have not been very good
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  lately, so they're going to be disappointed they didn't get 3
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  points. But the story here is that a
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  team that's currently sitting in 5th place in the Premier League
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  just fired their manager and kind of what all that?
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  Completely out of the blue. Completely.
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  Yeah. Well, I mean, yes and no.
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  I think it was a shock when it came down, but there's been all
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  these sort of rumblings. Luke, remember a couple weeks
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  ago we talked about how Enzo Maresca, the manager of Chelsea,
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  was saying it was the worst 48 hours and nobody really knew
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  what that. Meant.
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  And people were saying it seems to be him and the owner not not
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  getting along. I mean, it's never good if
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  you're not getting along with the owner who's technically your
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  boss. But you know, look at the, the,
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  the argument. He he's done.
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  I think he's actually done a good job there.
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  So he, he got hired in June of last year.
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  He's currently sitting in fifth in the Premier League.
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  He has his team in the semi finals of the Carabao Cup.
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  They're going to play Arsenal. He won the Club World Cup this
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  summer. He won the UEFA Conference
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  League, but Luca, he was also talking to Citi about their job.
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  Of course, Pep Guardiola is sort of a legendary manager there.
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  He every year kind of does this song and dance.
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  Is he going to stay? Is he going to go?
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  But probably he would maybe has this year, maybe one more year.
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  So everybody's been talking about who's going to be the next
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  manager and all of a sudden we talked about it last week.
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  Mareskas, Ty's there. He was Pep's assistant.
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  He managed their under 21 team. So it's not a good look.
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  Luca, if you have a big job at a big team like Chelsea, but
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  you're also talking to another team about their position.
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  So I'm curious what what's your take on this whole drama of
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  their manager at Chelsea? I think Chelsea are right to
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  fire him. OK.
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  All right. I think because like, you can't
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  be you're if you're it's not a good look if you're one of the
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  big six clubs, but have your manager talking to another one
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  of the big six clubs. So I think I mean and and also
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  the comment that is the worst 48 hours of his life really
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  confused me. I think Chelsea have the right
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  to fire Enzo Maresca and I think they they did and they should.
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  OK. All right.
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  So you're you're kind of team Chelsea here versus team
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  Maresca, you say so even though you would say that like, would
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  you say that Maresca's done a good job?
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  Where did you rate him? Like what would be OK?
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  So he is now gone. What would be your grade on Enzo
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  Maresca's very brief tenure at Chelsea if you had to give him a
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  grade? A an, A OK Flat out a Yeah.
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  OK. All right, So you, you're
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  impressed by UEFA Conference League Club World Cup wins?
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  Kind of where? They, I mean he beat like the
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  Champions League winners. No, I mean the PSG in the
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  finals. Yeah, I mean, the whole
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  tournament felt like a little bit of a glorified advertisement
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  for kind of FIFA and stuff, the Club World Cup.
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  But yes, they they beat some good teams.
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  They won that also brought in a ton of money for Chelsea.
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  So if you're the owner of Chelsea, you're pretty happy
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  that he brought in a lot of money winning that tournament,
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  more than Champions League, so. Wait, you win more money when
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  you win the Club World Cup than the Champions?
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  Club World Cup, look, they pumped a lot of money into that.
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  And so the further you went, the more money you got.
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  And of course they they won the whole thing.
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  They beat PSG and they they beat them kind of decisively.
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  So yeah, it's interesting to me. I mean, Luca, the the on the
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  other side of it, you have Chelsea's owner Todd Boley, who
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  came in in March of 2022. He inherited Thomas Tookel as
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  his manager. Gets rid of him, brings in
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  Graham Potter, gets rid of him, brings in Mauricio Pochettino,
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  gets rid of him, has now brought in Enzo Maresca, got rid of him.
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  So he's gonna hire somebody, right?
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  So there's gonna be another coach.
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  It'll be the 5th manager and coach since March of 2022 for
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  Todd Boley and Chelsea here. I mean, that's a lot of turmoil
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  and turnover. You know, I mean, it is sort of
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  the way it goes. I mean, managers don't last long
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  in the Premier League with these teams.
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  But this is it's hard to sort of get any continuity and like
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  build around a coach and a system when you're just kind of
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  getting guys in and out. But I do agree with you.
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  I would not love it if my coach that I hired was talking to
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  another team, especially another big team, you know, one of the
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  big 6. Chelsea's going to look at it
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  like, hey, man, this is a good job, what are you doing?
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  So I sort of get that. And especially if he's sort of
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  saying these comments to the press about worse 48 hours and
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  it's implying that he's not getting along with the owners.
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  Yeah, I kind of understand that, too.
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  The rumor, Luca, is that the next coach is this guy named
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  Liam Rossignor. He's from Strasbourg in Lagoon,
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  and that team is also owned by Chelsea.
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  So you see the connection there is that the Chelsea owners own
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  that team as well. And so this guy's kind of a well
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  thought of, you know, up and coming manager from the French
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  league. Like I said, I didn't know
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  anything about him until a week ago.
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  When I didn't know you could be up and coming like like a good
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  prospect as a manager, I didn't know that was a thing.
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  Yeah, yeah. Some of these guys, people say,
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  oh, you know, he's real smart, has good ideas, you know,
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  manages people well, gets along with people.
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  You just sort of see certain traits that you say, yeah, you
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  know what? I think like you're going to
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  make a good coach down the road. You know, I think certain people
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  just sort of, you know, have that little bit of a quality.
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  But yeah, going back to Chelsea, Luca, they have dropped 15
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  points from winning positions. That's the most in the Premier
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  League. And again, I think that speaks
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  to a lot of what we talked about.
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  Is there a young team inexperienced and just not
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  knowing how to get these games over the line?
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  You know, but they're, look, they're still sitting in 5th.
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  Yeah, I mean. You know, it could be worse.
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  Could be Champions League. It could be.
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  I mean, they're still in a good spot.
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  And I mean, whoever comes in and takes this job, there's still a
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  lot of talented players on this team.
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  And what's interesting is they, you know, if you're taking over
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  the interim manager, they get to go play City this weekend.
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  So it's like welcome to Chelsea, meet the team and now you got to
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  go play City. But you know, I'm sure I say
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  meet the team, but I'm sure it's just an assistant that was
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  there. So we'll know the team, you
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  know, they have not hired anybody officially yet, but I
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  bet they will probably pretty soon in the next week.
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  So, well, maybe on our next one, we'll have an official hire
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  there. But all right, look, let's move
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  on to West Ham and Brighton. This game ended 22 as well.
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  I predicted be 11. Bowen scores in the 10th minute,
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  along with a PK from Welbeck in the 32nd minute.
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  Then in the 36th minute, Wellback misses a PK, so yeah,
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  there's that. And then in the 45 + 5, so extra
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  time for the first half. Patsy top scores another PK so
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  there's three PK's in the first half and Veltman scores in the
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  61st minute off of I think a corner and not not very good to
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  goalkeeping by Areola and Veltman's just right place to
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  the right time. Only second game in the Premier
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  League with three penalties in the first half and Bowen is now
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  top of the walk like team for goal involvement for West Ham
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  with 101. Yeah, we've talked about what a
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  great player is. He's been at West Ham for such a
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  long time and and I think now, yeah, like you said, he's now
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  tied for first with Miguel Antonio with 101 goal
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  involvement. So I mean, he's kind of a club
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  legend there. You know, like we talked about
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  whether he should move or not, but he's such a good player for
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  them. And, you know, look at the three
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  PKS in the first half. I mean, that is nuts.
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  I mean, I don't remember the last time I seen 2.
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  I know. So the the the other game you
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  mentioned the second-half, the only other game was Fulham
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  versus Bolton in 2002. That game also had three PK
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  first half. 24 years ago. Yeah, I mean it.
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  This does not happen. I mean 3 like you said, three in
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  a game would be crazy, let alone in the first half.
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  Welbeck missing that Pennenka. What do you think of what do you
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  think of the Pennenka? So the Pennenka style explain
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  the Pennenka style to people. It's.
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  Basically you just chip it down the middle.
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  It's like A and you expect the goalkeeper to just dive one way
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  and you just chip it down the middle.
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  It's supposed to be pretty cheeky and risky too.
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  What do you think of it like that?
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  That's like, would you ever like, are you like in favor of
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  it or are you like, no. I wouldn't do it if I, I mean
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  it's very risky like goalkeepers are going to now are probably
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  going to save that. I don't think it works in many
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  situations and you've kind of a high risk of missing when you
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  take it. So I don't, I don't favor it.
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  I probably will not be taking that unless I'm just playing in
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  the backyard or something, but other than yeah, I don't, I
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  don't really favor the Pennanka. It feels like a little bit of an
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  unnecessary Rick. Like I said, the, the, the like,
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  it's one thing if you want to drive like the Pennanka.
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  Also you mentioned like it, it's hit softly like you almost like
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  you just sort of like almost chip it like a golf shot.
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  And just sort of like the idea is that the goalie's going to
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  dive to one side and you just lob this ball slowly down the
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  middle. I don't mind people going down
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  the middle, but you got to hit it with some pace.
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  Like I, I don't understand like the the advantage the kicker
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  has. I mean, penalty kicks are are
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  made, you know, high 80s to 90% of the time.
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  So just pick a corner or again, if you want to pick the middle,
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  I'm OK with that. Expecting to go, but you got it.
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  Like they hit the ball hard, man.
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  Like I don't I don't I'm not a big fan of it.
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  He hit the crossbar even on it. So when you bring that element
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  of risk into it, it just it feels like unnecessary risk for
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  a shot that you have a massive advantage of as the kicker.
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  So yeah, don't love it either. I.
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  Mean what if Brighton could have won this game?
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  Yeah, yeah. Look, both teams had some
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  chances to win this game. I mean, they'll split the points
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  here, you know, but probably an important point for West Ham,
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  they're still sitting in 18th, you know, 4 point.
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  There's four points behind Forest in in 17th.
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  So that's sort of the safety zone is to try to get the 17th.
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  They're still in relegation zone.
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  But you know, every point matters when you're down at the
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  bottom and you know, Brighton sort of holding, you know,
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  holding there at 14th kind of where we kind of expect.
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  Them to be. All right, Luca, let's move over
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  to Nottingham Forest toasting Everton.
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  This game ended 2 nil. Everton I predicted B00 Garner
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  in the 19th minute with a nice goal there, a nice ball and then
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  good take by him and then Barry in the 79th minute from Garner.
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  Nutmeg's a player and then nice balls to Barry.
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  Everton H 8th clean sheet, second in the Premier League to
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  Arsenal's 10. So yeah, pretty much it for that
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  game. Yeah, Garner's been really good
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  for them. He's been, I feel like, another
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  good story. I feel like there's like a ton
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  of good stories that Everton would like.
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  Like we talked about Dewsbury Hall being a great sign and Jai,
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  like, you know, I mean, he's been a good player for a while,
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  but I just feel like this year we see like Dewsbury Hall go to
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  a next level. Greelish.
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  Greelish, But Greelish has been good for a while.
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  I'm talking about like. He came back after like, not
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  really playing well. No, he wasn't good as he was
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  good at Villa, not great at City.
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  He's been kind of back to his old self, you know, But I think
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  Garner, here's another one. Luke, I mean, he want eight of
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  nine duels in this game. He's got two goals and three
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  assists on the year. Like he's been a really good,
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  solid player for them, you know, contributing a little bit of
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  offense while also being really sound defensively.
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  So yeah, good on that. The the two, if we, we don't
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  give an assist of the week, but I feel like if we did his ball
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  into Barry there was really sweet, just kind of splitting 2
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  defenders right on his foot. Yeah, far as look in this game
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  and they, they may feel a little hard done.
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  They had 7070% possession. They outshot Everton 21 to 11.
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  But you know, this is sort of what Everton does.
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  They play good defense. You talked about all the clean
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  sheets that they have. They've only given up 20 goals
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  on the year. This is sort of their formula,
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  you know, get a goal or two, play good defense and they get
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  the three points. And I mean, look, they're look,
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  they're now sitting in 8th. You know, they're not far off
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  of, you know, thinking about maybe contending for a Champions
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  League spot. I mean, you know that you've
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  talked about Chelsea. They're on 30 points ever since
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  on 28 like. They're two points behind them.
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  Yeah, I kind of think like Everton, I, I don't know if
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  they'll be able to get top five, but I would not be surprised if
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  they're in that 7th or 8th and if they can go on a little bit
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  of a run. I think especially when if they
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  get the guys back from AFCON that they lost and they get
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  Dewsbury Hall back healthy, like they're missing some guys, but
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  they're still sort of getting some results here.
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  You'll win this week, a draw last week.
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  So I don't know, like I kind of see, again, I don't think
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  they're going to have enough to get top five, but maybe, you
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  know, 6 or 7, which gets you Europa League spot or UEFA
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  Conference League. You see what I did there?
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  Look at the 6-7. Yeah, you love it.
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  This again. All right, let's move on to
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  Burnley, Newcastle. This game ended 31 Newcastle I
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  predicted to be 1 nil Newcastle. Joelton in the second minute
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  scores off of like a deflected cross from Gordon.
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  We send the 7th minute off of like chaos in the box.
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  He finally gets his first goal for Newcastle Lawrence in the
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  23rd minute and Demuraish or Lawrence goal is pretty nice is
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  a nice like one time volley and then Demuraish after like some
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  messing up in the defense, he scores in the 94th minute to
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  like seal it from like 30 yards out.
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  Yeah, it's almost comical. You know, like the last goal
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  there, the defender and the goalie coming together,
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  somebody's got to take charge. Like the defenders running,
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  looking at the goalie, goalies coming out.
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  Yeah, it's just a mess. And it ultimately, I don't think
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  mattered in this game. You know, Newcastle, we're going
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  to win. Yeah, we say gets a start and
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  gets a goal. So good to see him back healthy.
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  He was a big signing for them this summer.
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  So Luca, to give you an example, Burnley, of course we know they
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  were in the Championship last year and they did like amazing
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  in the Championship. They only give up 16 goals in
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  the Championship, which is in 46 matches.
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  They were just so good defensively.
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  You just could not score on Burnley last year and they
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  rolled, you know, to getting promoted.
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  So just to give you an idea, Luca, they've given up 37 goals
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  in 19 games this year like that. It just shows you like.
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  How far the Premier League? Yeah, the jump to the Premier
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  League is just so, so tough. It's just it is a massive
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  difference. Championship's a great, great
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  league, but it is not the Premier League.
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  Yeah, it's not even close. Burnley are finding out the hard
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  way that that you know they're they're going to need some help
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  here to not get relegated. They're in 19th.
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  They're on 12 points. They're probably going to have
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  to do some business in January. Yeah, you know, we'll see.
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  You know, the problem is with these teams because if they
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  spend, if they spend and bring players in and then you don't
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  stay up, you lose all that Premier League money.
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  So then you go back down and now you've got all these guys you
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  paid money for, they're on high wages.
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  And if you're not bringing in the avenue that you brought in
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  when you're in the Premier League, then it gets.
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  So that's like the debate they always have.
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  You push and go for it, go spend money, sign players.
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  So then if you go down, you know, you're not making as much
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  money as a Premier League team. So, you know, we'll see, you
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  know, like I said, we'll see if they try to maybe add one or two
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  or if they just sort of say, well, you know what, we just got
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  to kind of see, but it's not looking good.
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  Yeah. You know, again, you know,
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  they're not they're they're six points off of being safe.
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  So it's not outside the realm of possibility, but I just don't
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  know that I've seen enough from Burnley.
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  To yeah, I think. I think they're one of my 3
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  going down. Going out.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, Newcastle, Luca, they'll get 3 points.
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  They're in 13th. You know, we talked about
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  they're just sort of a little bit inconsistent, but you know,
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  they, they beat a bad team. You know, that's all going to
• 17:33
  say about that. Yeah.
• 17:35
  All right, Luca, we have wolves who came in winless.
• 17:38
  They went to Old Trafford in Man U.
• 17:39
  What happened in this one? They actually got a tie at a
• 17:42
  tie. And not a win, but a tie.
• 17:44
  Yeah, I mean, that's a big tie for Wolves.
• 17:46
  Every point counts for them. This one, one tie I predicted to
• 17:50
  be two nil united Xerxi in the 27th minute off of a very lucky
• 17:56
  like deflection. So like Wolves look at the
• 18:00
  flexion away from winning this game.
• 18:05
  Oh Crachy Crachy and the 45 plus first so at a time in first
• 18:12
  task. So he gets the tide for them.
• 18:16
  Menu tied at home by the worst team of the week.
• 18:20
  Yeah. I mean, what do you say about
• 18:21
  that? I mean, it's the type of thing
• 18:24
  United would do, just saying and come through and United under
• 18:26
  the bus, they're very unpredictable.
• 18:28
  I need I I just. Yeah, that yeah.
• 18:31
  Unpredictable, inconsistent, it's it's every week they, you
• 18:34
  know, we, we talk about a good result, then we have a bad
• 18:37
  result that I, I think, you know, they're just inconsistent.
• 18:40
  I think that's just the bottom line with that team.
• 18:42
  They're not a bad team. I mean, again, Luca, they're
• 18:45
  they're, they're on 30 points. They're tied with Chelsea in
• 18:48
  fifth. You know, it's almost like hard
• 18:50
  to wrap your head around like if, if they could, you know,
• 18:53
  just find a little level of consistency.
• 18:56
  You know, now I will say this, they are missing key players at
• 18:59
  AFCON, Guaimo Ahmad. They have they have a lot of
• 19:02
  injuries too. You know, I, I again, I think
• 19:04
  they're out the wire. I think mount was hurt for this
• 19:09
  one. You know, they they are sort of
• 19:11
  piercing this together a little bit right now.
• 19:13
  Now, you've still got to find a way to beat Wolves, Although I
• 19:17
  will say this about Wolves, Luca is they're they're not a good
• 19:19
  team, but there's effort there that I don't think they've sort
• 19:22
  of just quit like you sometimes see teams do.
• 19:24
  So, you know, listen, we bare Arsenal barely struggle to get
• 19:28
  by them. So again, you're going to be
• 19:31
  very disappointed if you're a knighted fan.
• 19:32
  But it's not as if Wolves have just completely, you know, gone
• 19:36
  into the tank and just quit on the season.
• 19:37
  Like there's effort there. And you're right, this could
• 19:40
  have gone kind of either way, but Wolves had a couple chances
• 19:43
  of get their first win. But yeah, if you're United, I
• 19:46
  mean, you're at home. You got to find your way to
• 19:47
  three. Points, yeah.
• 19:49
  Look at this Wolves so well, unfortunately, I feel like we
• 19:51
  always have these terrible stats for for Wolves.
• 19:54
  We're halfway through the season, so 19 games.
• 19:57
  They're now the second team ever in the top flight.
• 20:00
  So we're talking like the first tier of the Football League back
• 20:03
  in the day and now the Premier League starting in 92, the
• 20:06
  second team ever going back to 1888 to start the 1st 19 matches
• 20:12
  without a win. The last team to do it Bolton
• 20:14
  Wanderers in 19 O 219 O three season.
• 20:18
  To go 19 games to start the season without a win, I mean.
• 20:21
  That's just sort of like horrendous.
• 20:22
  It's unbelievable. Like, just like how futile and
• 20:26
  bad they are. You know, I hate, I feel like I
• 20:29
  keep piling on with this. Every week there's some new stat
• 20:31
  about how bad they are. But, you know, we'll leave it at
• 20:34
  that for Wolves. Yeah.
• 20:36
  All right, Luca, we've been waiting to talk about this one.
• 20:39
  The game of the week. Everybody keyed up.
• 20:43
  Arsenal Villa One verse 3 Luke. Buckle your seat belt people.
• 20:48
  We got Arsenal 4, Villa one. Say it one more time.
• 20:54
  Luca Arsenal 4 Villa 10. That is so nice to say.
• 20:58
  I could, I could talk about this game forever.
• 21:01
  Nothing. Well, I predicted to be 21, I
• 21:05
  think in the first half. Gabrielle, wow, how good is it
• 21:10
  to have him back? I mean, in the 48th minute off
• 21:14
  of a corner, he they looked at VAR for like a foul on us, but
• 21:22
  they were kind of grabbing Gabrielle.
• 21:23
  But he still like bodies them and gets the header and it kind
• 21:27
  of rolls back off of his foot. So it's kind of a foot goal.
• 21:30
  But yeah, I'll take it. A goal is a goal.
• 21:33
  Yeah, however you get it in the net doesn't really matter.
• 21:35
  Yeah, nobody will care as long as it crosses the line.
• 21:37
  Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, and then Ugar wins the ball back and
• 21:43
  then it plays a really nice ball to Zuvamendi in the 52nd minute.
• 21:48
  Then true star, really nice finish.
• 21:50
  After we were like appealing for a penalty.
• 21:52
  We didn't need it. We really 69 minute really nice
• 21:56
  finish. They also looked at VR for this
• 21:58
  one for like offsides, but both of them were cleared and was a
• 22:02
  goal. And then Jay Zeus, after coming
• 22:04
  on the bench, he came on for like 30 seconds and his first
• 22:10
  two touches were the trap and a finished angle.
• 22:13
  And then Watkins in the 95th minute.
• 22:16
  It really hurts as an Arsenal fantasy.
• 22:18
  Then like score I it would have been really nice if we got this
• 22:22
  clean sheet. Yeah, it would have felt a
• 22:24
  little man like, well, obviously always take the three points,
• 22:26
  but it would have felt really pretty good.
• 22:28
  Yeah, getting a clean sheet on that one.
• 22:30
  And it's just, it felt like just, you know, end of the game,
• 22:32
  everybody's kind of ready to get off the field and the ball sort
• 22:34
  of squirts through and walk and folks it in.
• 22:36
  But yeah, look, I mean, Villa had an 11 game-winning streak.
• 22:40
  I mean, ended it. Ended it.
• 22:43
  Sweet revenge. Yeah.
• 22:44
  For like Abdullah Park. Yeah, this is a good team that
• 22:46
  Arsenal basically just took apart in the second-half.
• 22:49
  I mean, the first half I felt like it was a little bit both,
• 22:52
  kind of both back and forth, a little slow.
• 22:54
  I mean, it was 00 at halftime, so five goals in the second, if
• 22:57
  in fact Arsenal get three goals, I think in 30 in the 30 and 30
• 23:00
  minutes. But man, Arsenal went to a
• 23:03
  different level in the second-half.
• 23:04
  Flew. I know.
• 23:05
  It was just like almost like a different team came out and I
• 23:08
  mean to easily they, I mean to me looked like the better team
• 23:11
  in the second-half was. Nice to see them actually score
• 23:14
  more than like 2 roles. Well, we've been talking about
• 23:17
  that. Is that like, you know, they've
• 23:18
  been a bit unlucky. You know, their XG, their
• 23:21
  expected goals was higher, you know, for the past couple games
• 23:23
  and what they actually did. And you just sometimes feel like
• 23:26
  these things level out and you know, you have good players and
• 23:30
  like if you just if you just sort of be patient, like they're
• 23:32
  going to start to finish their shots.
• 23:34
  You know, you look at the finishing was great today.
• 23:37
  You know, like, yo, Chris had a couple chances in the first half
• 23:40
  that were I thought like good chances, not great chances.
• 23:42
  He didn't finish, but you know, like Trosar's finished top world
• 23:46
  class Jay Zeus has finished top world class Zubamendi with the
• 23:49
  outside of his foot off a beautiful ball in.
• 23:51
  And even Gabrielle. And Gabrielle just, it's just
• 23:54
  what he does, you know, he's just like a force in there.
• 23:57
  And and to me and look, it's so great to say it, Emmy Martinez,
• 24:01
  who I'm no fan of, even though he's like played it.
• 24:03
  Artist you don't like? Him, No, no, he annoys me and he
• 24:06
  whines and he cries all the time.
• 24:07
  He got into it with the fans as he was leaving.
• 24:10
  I just feel like, you know, he does.
• 24:11
  He does a lot of shenanigans. I'll put it in, do it with the
• 24:14
  fans like. The Arsenal fans in the tunnel
• 24:16
  as he was leaving and stuff, I mean, you know, they're giving
• 24:18
  it to him. He gave up four goals in the
• 24:19
  second-half. And I get it, he's pissed.
• 24:21
  But. But yeah, just I mean, look at
• 24:23
  Gabrielle. I mean have him back.
• 24:25
  What do you adds for to you defensively as well as
• 24:28
  offensively? That's the thing.
• 24:29
  I mean, if think about if you're defending a corner, any of
• 24:32
  Arsenal's team coming at you and there comes Gabrielle walking
• 24:34
  into the box, you're going to be like, oh man, I don't want to
• 24:37
  defend the I mean, it's like that.
• 24:40
  But I think that aura that he has is just so important.
• 24:42
  And then, let alone on defense, just how much he loves to block
• 24:45
  shots get in the way. What does Aura mean?
• 24:48
  Aura is like just sort of like the thing that you have.
• 24:50
  It's like almost like you can't say like you walk into a room,
• 24:52
  you're like, oh man, look at that guy.
• 24:54
  Like it's just sort of something you kind of project.
• 24:56
  The OR when you do something really cool while everyone's
• 24:58
  watching, you just have like aura because of that or
• 25:01
  something. Yeah, it's almost like something
• 25:02
  you can't quite, you can't quite feel or touch, but you just sort
• 25:05
  of know, you know, like that sort of.
• 25:07
  Feeling that people. Have So, you know, look, here's
• 25:10
  the thing about I would say like just getting back to the result,
• 25:13
  it's kind of a big result because you go into this weekend
• 25:16
  where City's going to play Sunderland, Sunderland are
• 25:18
  missing all these players and you're thinking, all right,
• 25:20
  City's just rolling through teams.
• 25:22
  City wins. You know, if we lose to Villa,
• 25:24
  which we just lost to them at Villa Park, it would have been
• 25:28
  City up by 1:00 and we would've been tied with Villa.
• 25:31
  So you would have a top three teams separated by a point.
• 25:34
  We'd be in second. Then instead we smash them, you
• 25:38
  know, we'll get to the next result.
• 25:40
  But a strange result. City tie.
• 25:42
  Now all of a sudden we're six up on Villa and four up on City.
• 25:45
  It's just like amazing how like little results that may be
• 25:48
  unexpected because all of a sudden your outlook is just so
• 25:51
  different on it. So I mean it to me, it was a
• 25:53
  really, really big result to get a little bit of revenge on them.
• 25:56
  And now City gotta go play Chelsea.
• 25:58
  And now City have to go play Chelsea.
• 25:59
  And so we'll get into the City game in a second.
• 26:01
  But now, you know, like I said to me, just, I also think Luca,
• 26:05
  this sort of officially ends Villa's title chances.
• 26:08
  I know we're only halfway through and I know it's only 6
• 26:10
  points, but I was never quite buying into them as a title
• 26:14
  contender. I certainly think they can
• 26:16
  contend for a Champions League spot.
• 26:18
  But where are you now on Villa? Are you still saying, hey,
• 26:21
  listen, they're only 6 points off, They have a chance?
• 26:24
  Or are you saying, no, I think they're done too.
• 26:27
  We're only we're only halfway through.
• 26:29
  I'm a little bit wait and see OK, is that's OK to say?
• 26:32
  I I want to, I want to see how they do against City and like
• 26:37
  other big teams too. I know now.
• 26:39
  Remember they beat City already once.
• 26:41
  Yeah, that's true. That's also why I'm kind of
• 26:44
  waiting to see right now. They beat us.
• 26:46
  Yeah, I'm kind of lucky, but still, I'm just gonna accept the
• 26:50
  loss, OK? And they beat City, so I still
• 26:54
  think I'm gonna wait and see and see what happens with these
• 26:57
  other games coming up. Yeah, I like I said, I think
• 26:59
  it'll be interesting. You know, they've had this
• 27:01
  amazing run, they've lost the game.
• 27:03
  Let's see how they now like kind of reboot from that and kind of
• 27:06
  go on. You know, they have Nottingham
• 27:08
  Forest in their next game. So you've got to think like, OK,
• 27:11
  good chance to get back on track, get a win.
• 27:14
  So we'll kind of see. Yeah, they're in a good spot,
• 27:16
  Luca. You know, they're they're
• 27:16
  they're sitting there pretty in 3rd place again, six points off
• 27:20
  of 1st, but they also have a six point gap off of Liverpool and
• 27:22
  4th. So yeah, great, great game.
• 27:24
  Luca. That was a lot of fun watching
• 27:26
  that second-half. We we watched the highlights a
• 27:28
  couple times. I mean, just it was great.
• 27:31
  All right, we'll go. Well, move over to the games.
• 27:34
  Sunday was basically as boring as you can get for four games on
• 27:38
  Sunday and only two goals in one of the games, so.
• 27:40
  And they're all ties. Yeah, well, they're all ties, so
• 27:44
  I guess we'll quickly kind of run through.
• 27:46
  There's not a whole lot to say, but talk to me about Liverpool
• 27:48
  and Leeds. Well, this game was 00.
• 27:50
  I predicted to be two now. Liverpool 1st 00 trial for
• 27:56
  Liverpool in 117 matches in all competitions.
• 28:01
  Which is, I mean, we and Leeds drew both games this year
• 28:06
  against Liverpool, so that's pretty crazy.
• 28:09
  Yeah, I mean, you know, like Leeds again, newly promoted team
• 28:12
  going against the defending champs in the Premier League.
• 28:15
  I mean, if you told them, hey, you're going to go get a tie at
• 28:17
  Anfield and a tie at Ellen Rd. they'll probably be like, hey,
• 28:20
  great, thanks. We'll take it.
• 28:21
  Yeah. So, yeah, good on them.
• 28:24
  Again, important point for leads.
• 28:25
  They're in 16th on 21 points. So you know, they're sitting
• 28:29
  there right now. Look at their seven points above
• 28:31
  West Ham in that last relegation spot.
• 28:33
  They. They got some, they got some,
• 28:35
  like a little bit of a gap. Yeah, I mean, I think they got
• 28:38
  to feel pretty good halfway through the season to be like,
• 28:40
  OK, we're seven points above here.
• 28:42
  Like, you know, there's nothing guaranteed at the bottom of the
• 28:45
  table, but you know, I think they're going to be pretty happy
• 28:47
  lead. I mean, Liverpool, they're not
• 28:49
  going to be happy. I mean at Anfield, getting a tie
• 28:51
  against. I mean, they would like to do a
• 28:53
  little bit better than that. Yeah, yeah.
• 28:55
  Where are you on Liverpool right now, Lipa?
• 28:57
  Like I mean, they had three wins, you know, they haven't
• 29:00
  been beaten in a while. You know, they had three wins
• 29:02
  coming into this one, you know. Are you still like this team is
• 29:06
  inconsistent? Do you feel like they've turned
• 29:07
  the corner? Do you think there's a still
• 29:09
  something off about this team or are you still where are you on
• 29:13
  this team? I think they're a bit
• 29:14
  inconsistent and there's just something off.
• 29:17
  It could be injuries, it could be players going to F con or
• 29:21
  like Sala going to F con. I think it's mostly
• 29:26
  inconsistency, OK? Like they just they get a win.
• 29:31
  We think this is a new Liverpool we're seeing and then they go
• 29:34
  tie weeds at Anfield and OK, well that's just really bad.
• 29:40
  They really want to get a win there.
• 29:42
  So yeah, I think it's just the inconsistency is killing them
• 29:45
  here. Yeah, I think it's interesting
• 29:47
  because in the beginning of the season it was their defense
• 29:50
  leaking goals. Now you know, they can't get a
• 29:52
  goal at home against Leeds. You know, it's so it's like
• 29:55
  first it was the defense, now it seems like the offense and look,
• 29:58
  they are missing guys. I mean, Isaac, who, you know,
• 30:02
  look wasn't doing a whole lot, but he was, you know, the most
• 30:05
  expensive Premier League transfer ever.
• 30:07
  And everybody was talking about like, oh, what a great signing
• 30:09
  he is. I mean, he had a great year last
• 30:11
  year. He's now gone with a broken leg.
• 30:13
  And he said Salah's now playing with Egypt and Afghan.
• 30:17
  Of course, in the background of all this is one of their players
• 30:19
  died in the summer, Yoko Jyota. So there's like that aspect of
• 30:23
  it, but also just like he was a good player on the field, you
• 30:25
  know, So there's like that part of it too.
• 30:27
  Of course, Luis Diaz got sold to Bayern Munich in the summer.
• 30:31
  So, you know, it's just it's interesting that at first it was
• 30:34
  their defense. Now it's like they can't score
• 30:36
  goals, like you said, just sort of inconsistency all over the
• 30:38
  all over the pitch for them. But.
• 30:40
  Yeah. All right, Luke.
• 30:41
  Well, the one goal that did, or the one game that did have a
• 30:44
  couple goals, was Crystal Palace hosting Fulham.
• 30:49
  Well, I got this spot on. I pretty good.
• 30:51
  Perfect tick. Yeah, I've been good with my
• 30:53
  picks lately. I predicted the 11.
• 30:57
  It was 11. Mateta in the 39th minute off of
• 31:01
  a nice ball from Klein. Tyranny.
• 31:03
  Can't. Can't sorry, I can't speak.
• 31:06
  Comes on as a sub and scores in the 80th minute.
• 31:09
  Kind of a nice volley with the inside of his foot.
• 31:13
  Since start of last season, Fulham have 22 goals by
• 31:17
  substitute, second only to Brighton's 23 crystal powers.
• 31:22
  No wins in last four Premier League matches plus 6IN all
• 31:26
  competitions. Yeah, you know, look at Mateta
• 31:29
  had gone eight games without a goal from open play.
• 31:32
  So, you know, good for him to kind of he's he's important for
• 31:35
  them scoring goals. They don't have a ton of goal
• 31:37
  scorers, so they need to get him going again.
• 31:40
  That was a nice goal that he had, You know, Fulham unbeaten
• 31:43
  in their last four. Luca, you know, it's interesting
• 31:46
  they've got, you know, Liverpool and Chelsea coming up, you know,
• 31:50
  so you know Fulham, like I said, I've been kind of taking care of
• 31:54
  some of their easier games, getting some wins.
• 31:56
  They get a draw here. You think with with with Fulham,
• 31:59
  with Fulham playing Liverpool and Chelsea, you think Fulham
• 32:02
  can get anything, anything results from those two games?
• 32:04
  I. Think they definitely could.
• 32:06
  Think they could You think they could beat them or I?
• 32:09
  Think they could get a draw out of it maybe?
• 32:10
  Get a draw out of it, OK? I mean, look, it could be a good
• 32:13
  time to be playing, right? I mean, Chelsea just fired their
• 32:15
  manager. Liverpool we talked about down
• 32:19
  here. So if Fulham, you know, like I
• 32:22
  said, if they've got a little momentum here, you know, they're
• 32:24
  getting you know, they're getting a lot of look goals from
• 32:28
  Subs. That helps too.
• 32:29
  So you know, Fulham always I think have to like try to
• 32:32
  struggle to get goals. So I'll be interested to see,
• 32:35
  you know, if if look, if Fulham go out and just lose these next
• 32:37
  two games, You're like all right, same old Fulham here.
• 32:39
  You know, they beat the teams below them, they lose the teams
• 32:42
  above them and then they sort of just are a mid table team.
• 32:45
  But again, Fulham right now, Luca in 11th, 27 points.
• 32:49
  We're going to say this for all I I think almost until the
• 32:52
  season's done, couple wins, you move right up.
• 32:55
  I mean there are three points Luca off of 5th.
• 32:58
  You know, I know it seems crazy to talk about like Fulham in 5th
• 33:00
  place, but it's literally I mean like a win here, win there.
• 33:03
  I mean, if they if they go on and they beat Chelsea, they
• 33:06
  that's they immediately close the gap.
• 33:07
  They're three points below them. So, you know, it's these mid
• 33:10
  table teams. There's an opportunity I think
• 33:13
  there for them. If one of these teams can just
• 33:15
  sort of put it together and have a little bit of a run, I think
• 33:18
  they could knock off one of those really quote, UN quote big
• 33:20
  teams from one of these at least European spots.
• 33:22
  Yeah. So all right, Luca, let's move
• 33:25
  over to Sunderland City. This was a bit of a surprise
• 33:28
  result. Yeah, this game ended 00.
• 33:32
  I pur to be two, two. Sunderland, third best defense
• 33:35
  in the Premier League, only giving up eighteen goals.
• 33:40
  Only two unbeaten teams at home are Arsenal and Sunderland.
• 33:44
  So yeah, they seem to be pretty good at home and real good,
• 33:48
  Yeah, real good at home. And they have a good defense.
• 33:50
  So yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know what
• 33:53
  you're going to get when you go up there, Luca?
• 33:54
  Like the crowd's going to be like whipped into a frenzy.
• 33:56
  They're going to be, it's a great home field advantage.
• 33:58
  Sunderland are going to play physical.
• 34:00
  They're going to be well organized.
• 34:02
  I mean Luca, they were missing like 8 players.
• 34:04
  Sunderland for this game. They're missing Dan Ballard.
• 34:07
  Dan Ballard was hurt. They're missed.
• 34:10
  They had, they had more players when we went through the AF con
• 34:12
  list, they had more players going to AF Con and some
• 34:14
  important players. I think it's 5 or 6 went there.
• 34:17
  Ballard was hurt. I think there's one other player
• 34:18
  that was hurt. So look at this was like not
• 34:21
  even their best team and they hung in there.
• 34:24
  They had some chances, City had some chances.
• 34:26
  You know, Bernardo Silva had a goal call back for being
• 34:28
  offsides. But believe me, this wasn't just
• 34:30
  like Sunderland sitting back, parking the bus, parking the
• 34:33
  bus. You know, like I said, they were
• 34:36
  like I said, but this should not be a huge surprise to any of us,
• 34:39
  especially Arsenal fans when we went up there and that was maybe
• 34:43
  Arsenal's toughest game of the year in a way.
• 34:45
  I really look back on that and I'm like, what they brought for
• 34:47
  90 minutes against us really was one of the toughest environments
• 34:51
  and teams that we played against.
• 34:53
  And I mean, it's just they're they're such a good story
• 34:55
  because they're a newly promoted team and here they are on 29
• 34:58
  points and seven. I looked this up like I was
• 35:00
  trying to think of like the best finished by a promoted team.
• 35:04
  I was like, and it you look back in in Newcastle in 9394 and
• 35:09
  Nottingham Forest the following year, 9495, both finished third.
• 35:13
  Now I don't think Sunderland's finishing third and also they
• 35:16
  had more games that year, but they had 77 points.
• 35:20
  So Sunderland right now at the halfway point are on 29 points.
• 35:23
  So if you just doubled that, they're not going to get the
• 35:26
  record. But I think the point being is,
• 35:28
  you know they should. They're in 7th right now, and
• 35:31
  the way they've played to the first half of the season, I
• 35:33
  truly believe they could finish 6th or 7th staying right where
• 35:37
  they are. What do you think?
• 35:40
  I think maybe 5th, 5th or 6th for me.
• 35:44
  I think definitely European football, but possibly Champions
• 35:48
  League maybe. I think around maybe Europa
• 35:51
  League or Europa Conference League for me.
• 35:54
  Yeah, so you're you're you're bought in fully on this team.
• 35:56
  Yeah. I mean I think especially once
• 35:58
  they get these players back, you know, you can see the little bit
• 36:01
  of a wobble here where they've, the last three games they've had
• 36:03
  draws, not terrible, you know, not losing games, but you know,
• 36:07
  three games now, 3 draws again, you know, getting a draw against
• 36:12
  C, that's going to be pretty good even at home.
• 36:15
  But when they get players back, maybe they can go on again a
• 36:18
  little bit of a run like they did at the beginning and maybe
• 36:20
  they could start getting up around 5th place.
• 36:24
  One guy I wanted to highlight Luca, do a little bit of a
• 36:26
  player profile on is their goalie.
• 36:28
  You know this guy Roofs. Luca has 67 saves this season.
• 36:32
  That's second to Dabrovka for total saves.
• 36:35
  He's got 7 clean sheets. He has the highest save
• 36:38
  percentage of any goalie in the Premier League.
• 36:41
  So I, I didn't know much about him.
• 36:42
  Luke, he's a 22 year old. He's from the Netherlands.
• 36:45
  He's he's a pretty big guy, 6 feet 4 inches.
• 36:48
  He came over from a team in the Netherlands.
• 36:51
  So they just bought him in August for 11 or $12 million.
• 36:55
  Pretty good value to get a goalie of this quality, Luke.
• 36:57
  And they bought him from NEC, which is a team in the air DBZ,
• 37:02
  the top league in the Netherlands.
• 37:03
  I don't know much about that team at all, but I think the
• 37:05
  point is that he he came up. He's only been with one team
• 37:08
  before, but credit to Sunderland identifying him, bringing him
• 37:12
  in. And he likes been one of the
• 37:14
  best goalies in the Premier League.
• 37:16
  And I'm even like you Fast forward to the World Cup this
• 37:19
  year. The Netherlands are a big team
• 37:20
  in the World Cup, right? I mean, they're they're one of
• 37:22
  the teams that possibly could win it all.
• 37:24
  You look at their goalies, Luca, they've got Verbruggan from
• 37:27
  Brighton, Flecken, who's who's at Brentford.
• 37:31
  No, no, he's not at Brentford anymore.
• 37:32
  Where did Flecken go? He is, I don't think, no, he's,
• 37:37
  he's not on Brentford anymore. I know that.
• 37:39
  OK. Well, they have Flecken and then
• 37:41
  they've got Roofs here. I'm just curious, your opinion,
• 37:44
  maybe Verbrugen versus Roofs? Like if you're the Netherlands
• 37:47
  coach and you had to start a game tomorrow, you know, do you
• 37:49
  go with like the experience and the guy that's been there a
• 37:52
  while, like Verbrugen, he's been there number one for a while.
• 37:54
  Or as like, do you think Roofs has shown you enough through
• 37:57
  half a season? I think I still goes for Bruin.
• 37:59
  OK, tell me why. I think the experience, he knows
• 38:03
  what to expect and roofs. I would start him out in some
• 38:06
  friendly games to get some experience in him.
• 38:10
  But yeah, for like a game right now I would do verb rigging.
• 38:15
  OK, yeah, it's interesting. I mean, I think the good thing
• 38:18
  is you don't have to make the decision right now.
• 38:20
  Yeah. So you see what he does in the
• 38:21
  second-half of the season. And then, of course, you can
• 38:23
  kind of have like a little bit of a training camp and see,
• 38:26
  Flecken's a buyer. Leverkusen.
• 38:28
  Yeah, a good call. He wasn't a friend for it
• 38:29
  anymore. But yeah, like I said, look,
• 38:31
  I've just been impressed really by this goalie a lot.
• 38:34
  You know, he's got a good defense in front of him, but
• 38:36
  he's also clearly making saves. He's got a very high save
• 38:38
  percentage. He just looks the part like a
• 38:40
  really good up and coming goalie.
• 38:42
  So like I said, someone to keep an eye on.
• 38:45
  Alright, look at the last game of the week, we had Brentford
• 38:47
  Spurs. This game ended 00.
• 38:49
  I predicted the two nil. Brentford.
• 38:52
  Brentford unbeaten in last four and Spurs 1st 00 draw in 137
• 38:58
  games so yeah, pretty crazy. Yeah, yeah, pretty crazy.
• 39:02
  You know, Brentford still, like I said, one point above Spurs in
• 39:06
  the table. Thomas Frank, manager of Spurs,
• 39:08
  manager of Brentford last year. Maybe he's having some regrets.
• 39:11
  Yeah, looks at his old team and they're above them in the table,
• 39:13
  even though he quote UN quote went to a big.
• 39:15
  Team Yeah. All right, look.
• 39:17
  Well, that wraps up the games. So of course I want to know your
• 39:21
  player of the week, your goal of the week, your team of the week.
• 39:25
  My player of the week is going to be James Garner first goal
• 39:30
  and assist. My team of the week is I'm going
• 39:35
  to go Arsenal. OK.
• 39:38
  Yeah, and we like demolished them.
• 39:41
  Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah, it was.
• 39:43
  That's a good call. I mean, that was, you know, one
• 39:45
  verse 3, that was a big game of the week and we just took them
• 39:47
  apart in the second-half. Yeah, my goal week is Lawrence
• 39:50
  volley versus Newcastle. The.
• 39:53
  Burnley player kind of kind of got headed on to him.
• 39:56
  He just came in volleyed kind of far post.
• 39:58
  Yeah, that was a nice finish for sure.
• 40:00
  Yeah, it wasn't really any crazy, crazy good goals.
• 40:03
  This, yeah. Solid goals.
• 40:05
  That's a good call on that one there.
• 40:06
  So all right, Luca, so that wraps up Week 19.
• 40:13
  So couple Lucas, we, we we talked about the January
• 40:16
  transfer window opening up. OK, so teams now can start
• 40:20
  buying and selling players again.
• 40:21
  We have a one month window here where teams can either add or
• 40:24
  sell players, whatever they feel like they want to do.
• 40:27
  And it allows teams to, you know, change the squads up a
• 40:30
  little bit. So we always going to keep an
• 40:31
  eye on some key comings and goings.
• 40:33
  So we have we've already had a couple moves here.
• 40:35
  So we have a player named Allison who's coming to Aston
• 40:38
  Villa. Look, he's a Brazilian winger.
• 40:40
  He's 19. He's coming from Grammio for
• 40:43
  about $16,000,000. We don't watch a lot of Grammio
• 40:47
  in the Brazilian league, so we're not experts on him.
• 40:50
  But Luca, we do watch a lot of Spurs and a big move between
• 40:53
  Spurs and Palace. Brennan Johnson, Luca winger for
• 40:56
  Spurs, got sold to Crystal Palace $47 million.
• 41:00
  It's. A really good deal so.
• 41:01
  Pretty, you know, like I said, you know, kind of middle tier.
• 41:04
  Pretty, like I said, not cheap, but not crazy money.
• 41:07
  But he goes to Palace from Spurs and I'm curious your opinion on
• 41:11
  this deal. What do you like?
• 41:12
  Do you? What do you like or dislike
• 41:13
  about it? I think it's good value for both
• 41:18
  teams. I mean like Crystal Palace get a
• 41:21
  good player and Spurs get the money and they can use that to
• 41:25
  buy someone good too. OK, so, OK, so you're you're
• 41:29
  you're looking at it like kind of given a good grade for both.
• 41:31
  Sometimes it's a win win, right? Sometimes it's you know, the
• 41:33
  team getting the player, you like it, but you also like the
• 41:35
  sale. Sometimes it's more like, oh,
• 41:37
  you know, they should have never sold that player, but you're
• 41:39
  you're kind of liking it for both teams.
• 41:40
  Yeah. OK.
• 41:41
  All right, yeah, I mean, it'll be interesting.
• 41:43
  I think, you know, Palace get a little bit more of attacking
• 41:45
  talent. Spurs, they get a little bit
• 41:48
  money. I assume they're probably
• 41:49
  reinvest this money. They probably have their eye on
• 41:51
  another player or two and and they may feel like they want to
• 41:54
  bring in either maybe let's say a midfielder.
• 41:56
  You know, they they probably are expecting some of their guys to
• 41:58
  come back. They've had a lot of injuries to
• 42:00
  some of their attacking players. So maybe they look to say, you
• 42:03
  know, coolest FC is coming back. Slanky is not a winger, but he's
• 42:06
  coming back. So maybe they feel like are
• 42:07
  we've got enough attacking talent, let's reinvest this.
• 42:10
  So yeah, we'll we'll keep an eye on Spurs.
• 42:12
  Like I said, I'd be very surprised if they just take this
• 42:14
  money in bank and I think they'll probably, you know, go
• 42:16
  for another player. Not a done deal, Luca, but it
• 42:19
  looks like it's pretty much a done deal.
• 42:21
  So may Antoine Simenyo from Bourne myth looks like he's
• 42:24
  probably headed to city. His release clause is about
• 42:28
  65,000,000. I think that's pounds that's
• 42:31
  maybe up like around 80 million U.S. dollars.
• 42:35
  Look is that I'd be shocked if this doesn't go through.
• 42:37
  So just give me your early take, if Simenyo goes to City, what do
• 42:42
  you think from a Bournemouth and a City standpoint?
• 42:45
  I also think there's a win, win a Bournemouth 60 million you
• 42:49
  said. Well, it'd be, I think so.
• 42:52
  I think is he has a release clause of £65,000,000 and so I
• 42:56
  think that's probably about 8580 million U.S. dollars.
• 43:00
  Now City can come in though and negotiate a lower price or
• 43:04
  Bournemouth can, you know, try to hold out and maybe try to get
• 43:07
  a higher price. They don't have to sell them,
• 43:10
  but if they pay the release clause, I think then it has to
• 43:13
  go through. So I think, you know, at a
• 43:14
  maximum you're looking at about 80 million.
• 43:16
  Maybe it's a little less 70 million, but you know, you're
• 43:19
  talking about 70 to $80 million. Well, Samina is a really good
• 43:22
  player. Again, like I said for Brandon
• 43:24
  Johnson, he's going to City, you might probably start maybe, I
• 43:30
  don't know, he's a good midfielder, might swap right in
• 43:34
  there. And then Bournemouth, that's big
• 43:38
  money for them. They could, they could go and
• 43:40
  get someone good, like I said with Tottenham.
• 43:43
  So yeah, I mean, it's again a win, win for both teams.
• 43:47
  Yeah, it's interesting. I think ultimately, too, you
• 43:49
  mentioned before on another one, you know, you have to kind of
• 43:51
  like, what does the player want to do?
• 43:52
  It feels like Semenya wants to go.
• 43:54
  You don't want to hold him hostage.
• 43:56
  You know, he's been a good player player for them.
• 43:58
  It probably is that point where I'm sure it looked Bournemouth
• 44:00
  fans like he's our best player. We don't want our best player to
• 44:03
  go. But it is sort of the cycle with
• 44:05
  them. You're getting pretty good money
• 44:08
  for him. I mean, if it's 80 million U.S.
• 44:10
  dollars, like that's a lot of money for for Simeonio.
• 44:13
  I like him as a player. That's probably the top amount
• 44:17
  that I'd want to pay for him. Like I said, I don't know if I'd
• 44:20
  feel totally comfortable. I'd maybe think 80 million could
• 44:23
  be spent in a different area on a different player.
• 44:25
  But you know, it'd be interesting to see what does
• 44:27
  City do with him? He can play kind of wings.
• 44:30
  He can play a little bit of striker, but they don't really
• 44:32
  need a striker. So you look at their wingers.
• 44:35
  There's been some talk about Savino maybe being, you know,
• 44:38
  kind of sold. There's been talk about Oscar
• 44:40
  Bob maybe being sold. So, you know, a lot of times a
• 44:43
  player comes in, another player goes out.
• 44:45
  So I bet if they bring some menu in, look for maybe Oscar Bob or
• 44:48
  Savino to get sold on and that kind of opens up some playing
• 44:51
  time for some mania there. So we'll see.
• 44:53
  But those are kind of the transfers.
• 44:54
  There'll be a lot more, like I said, as coming through January,
• 44:57
  we'll try to keep up to date on some of those.
• 44:59
  Sorry, Luca. Before we look ahead to our
• 45:03
  picks for Week 20, let's do a little bit of a a birthday shout
• 45:08
  out here, Luca. Today is our friend of the pod
• 45:12
  and also family of the pod Alina's 770th birthday, so happy
• 45:18
  birthday. 70 It's impossible Luca 40 Birthday right?
• 45:21
  She's not 70. She looks like she's 40.
• 45:24
  No. Is she 70?
• 45:26
  I got some pod. No way.
• 45:27
  I don't believe she's 70. She looks too young.
• 45:29
  I think she, Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, I think I believe so.
• 45:32
  So happy Happy birthday to Elena.
• 45:35
  Happy birthday, Elena. Yeah, happy birthday.
• 45:38
  Yeah, yeah. Hope you have a great birthday.
• 45:39
  Thanks for being a faithful listener to the Premier League.
• 45:43
  Shout out to our fans. Absolutely.
• 45:45
  Yeah. Big deal.
• 45:46
  So yeah, big happy birthday to Elena from all of us here at the
• 45:50
  Premier League. Blake.
• 45:50
  Yeah, All right, Luca, let's get on to Week 20.
• 45:54
  We have some interesting games here, Luca.
• 45:57
  These games started their tomorrow, so no time to waste.
• 46:01
  First game Aston Villa hosting Nottingham Forest.
• 46:05
  I think Aston Villa bounced back and get a nice two nil win.
• 46:09
  Two nil win. Yeah, I think Villa bounced back
• 46:11
  too. You know, they'll, they'll,
• 46:12
  they'll, you know, still not feel too bad about losing, you
• 46:15
  know, away at the Emirates and they're a way better team than
• 46:18
  Forest. Yeah.
• 46:19
  All right, Luca, Wolves are hosting West Ham.
• 46:22
  All right, Luca, here we go. 20 verse 18 in the table.
• 46:25
  Do Wolves get their first win? Against.
• 46:27
  I think it's gonna be a nil nil tie.
• 46:28
  Oh, gosh, brutal nil, nil tie with these two teams, all right.
• 46:32
  We won't, we might not spend a whole lot of time talking about
• 46:35
  that game next week, all right? Luca Brighton host Burnley. 11.
• 46:41
  A11 tie. All right, all right Luke,
• 46:43
  interesting game here. Arsenal go on the road to play
• 46:46
  Bournemouth. Bournemouth Luca, we had all
• 46:49
  sorts of trouble with them last year.
• 46:51
  We lost both games to Bournemouth last year.
• 46:54
  Bournemouth are struggling but Luca, surprisingly Bournemouth
• 46:57
  very, very good at home. In fact, I think they only have
• 46:59
  one loss so far on the year at home.
• 47:02
  What do you like for for our Arsenal boys?
• 47:04
  I think it's going to be 3 to Arsenal.
• 47:06
  Whoa. OK, All right.
• 47:07
  Lots of goals here, huh? Yeah.
• 47:09
  All right. So 32 Arsenal.
• 47:11
  Who scores for Arsenal in this one, Luca?
• 47:13
  So we finally get Haverton. He's going to get a goal.
• 47:19
  Rice. Wait, if Rice played.
• 47:20
  So he's gonna score and soccer is gonna score.
• 47:23
  OK, all right, so soccer, Rice and haverts.
• 47:25
  Won't we just give haverts the game winner?
• 47:27
  He's your favorite player. Oh yeah, comes off the bench.
• 47:30
  Game-winning goal. The 5th minute.
• 47:33
  Oh, gosh, Oh, God, Can it be earlier than that?
• 47:35
  I don't know if I can keep sweating these games out like
• 47:37
  this, but all right, yeah, like I said, are so getting some guys
• 47:41
  back. Like you said, We'll see on
• 47:42
  Rice. He had some knee swelling sounds
• 47:45
  like he was pushing to play in the Villa game but didn't play
• 47:48
  habits was on the bench. I bet he does get minutes in
• 47:51
  this game because I think he's now finally, you know, you bring
• 47:54
  him back slowly. He's been out for a long time.
• 47:56
  But now Luca, I mean Arsenal it we all three strikers available
• 47:59
  Geo Chris Jesus haverts big Gabby Saliba.
• 48:04
  Now we'll see. It doesn't seem like Cala Fury
• 48:06
  is going to play. So, you know, we have to kind of
• 48:10
  see. But Ben White came back.
• 48:12
  So Arsenal getting some guys back here, no downman mascara
• 48:16
  and probably Cala Fury and then question mark on Rice.
• 48:20
  But I, like I said, I've been dreaming Luca for this season,
• 48:25
  if Arsenal could if we could just see the full contingent of
• 48:27
  Arsenal players, like all the attackers, all the defenders are
• 48:30
  sort of close. But it kind of always feels like
• 48:32
  we're going to have somebody go out and stuff like that.
• 48:34
  So I don't know that any team has everybody healthy all the
• 48:37
  time. But it feels like we're getting
• 48:39
  a lot of the key guys back, which is important because I
• 48:41
  think we need to really now like push on for a run here.
• 48:44
  And, you know, if we can win on Saturday, Luca, and really put
• 48:47
  the pressure on City plays on Sunday.
• 48:50
  And if they they can, you know, they have a tough match up with
• 48:53
  Chelsea, which we'll get to. But we could really put the
• 48:56
  pressure on with an early win. But careful these games where
• 48:59
  you go to Bournemouth, man. Like they like I said last year,
• 49:02
  I I hope Arteta's team talk is we owe them from last year.
• 49:06
  Yeah, Remember, Selena got that kind of BS red card.
• 49:09
  They went on to win that game and then we lost again.
• 49:12
  So they beat us twice last year. It's payback time.
• 49:14
  Yeah. All right, Luca Leeds host Man
• 49:16
  U. Man, you win 1 nothing.
• 49:19
  OK. All right.
• 49:21
  That's interesting. Leads good at home, I know.
• 49:23
  Man, you win. That's why I'm like shortening
• 49:25
  the goals. OK, so we're getting good man
• 49:27
  you this week. They get a nice Rd. win.
• 49:29
  Yeah. All right.
• 49:30
  Good man you wins. All right, look, here's a bit of
• 49:32
  an interesting game. Fulham at Craven Cottage hosting
• 49:35
  Liverpool. Oh, I thought they played
• 49:37
  Chelsea first. No, Chelsea plays City.
• 49:41
  All right, Yeah. So it's Liverpool then Chelsea
• 49:43
  for Fulham, but yeah, this. 11. 11 OK, all right, I think Fulham
• 49:48
  would probably take a one, one draw with Liverpool.
• 49:51
  Here's another interesting game like a Spurs hosting Sunderland.
• 49:57
  Spurs hosting. I'm going 2 on Sunderland.
• 50:01
  OK, all right, yes, Spurs not great at home, Sunderland just,
• 50:05
  you know, it's time to stop picking against them, although
• 50:07
  you're not that you are picking against them.
• 50:09
  But people got to start believing in this team they are
• 50:11
  the real deal for. Yeah.
• 50:12
  So yeah, Spurs are gonna have their handful.
• 50:14
  This this will be an interesting game to watch because again,
• 50:15
  Spurs very inconsistent team, like a lot of teams in the
• 50:18
  Premier League, we'd say this with a lot of teams just sort of
• 50:21
  don't know what you're gonna get from them.
• 50:23
  But I look at like, you know, there's a lot of talent on that
• 50:25
  team. It's just very strange to me,
• 50:26
  some of these results, but all right, Luca, Newcastle hosting
• 50:30
  Palace. 21 Newcastle. All right, win at home for them.
• 50:37
  All right, Luca, this is probably the biggest game of the
• 50:39
  week. I'm fascinated to know your pick
• 50:41
  on this. You've got City coming off of a
• 50:43
  probably a disappointing tie for them at Sunderland, now 4 points
• 50:47
  behind Arsenal. Chelsea just fires their
• 50:49
  manager. Of course, they're sitting in
• 50:51
  5th place. What do you like for this game?
• 50:54
  I'm going 22. 22 OK, All right, tell me why 22 on this one.
• 51:00
  Well, I wanted to go 33, but when you said Chelsea just fired
• 51:04
  their manager, I feel like that's going to take one more
• 51:06
  goal away from me. And I think City are are going
• 51:10
  to like, it's always hard witnesses at Chelsea, right?
• 51:14
  No, this, this is at City Stadium, the Eddie Head.
• 51:17
  Yeah, yeah, OK. It still doesn't change my mind
• 51:21
  but I knew this is going to be a hard game for both teams and
• 51:26
  Chelsea coming off of their firing manager and it's at City
• 51:29
  so it's going to be hard for them.
• 51:31
  This game's interesting to me because I, I, I could be talked
• 51:34
  into like any result. You could talk me into like a
• 51:36
  City win. You could talk me into a Chelsea
• 51:37
  win and you could talk me into a draw.
• 51:39
  Because I feel like there's times where I watch Chelsea play
• 51:43
  and they look unbelievable. You know, like, and especially
• 51:46
  against us that game when they went down to like in the
• 51:48
  beginning of that game, they looked really, really good.
• 51:51
  And then of course, Kai Sedo got a red card and they still hung
• 51:53
  in there and played really well even with with 10 men in that
• 51:56
  game. And then I watched him play at
• 51:57
  other times and I'm like, who is this team out there?
• 51:59
  They're just sort of like not interested and they're like kind
• 52:01
  of disjointed a little bit. You kind of feel like you never
• 52:05
  quite know what the starting lineups going to be with them.
• 52:07
  But you know, they have really good players.
• 52:10
  Like Cole Palmer's now been back for a couple games doing well.
• 52:13
  He scored Esteval Luca, like he to me looks like a real exciting
• 52:17
  talent. But then there's just like the
• 52:19
  City machine on the other side. You know, Rodri came back this
• 52:23
  week. Luca came in at halftime.
• 52:24
  They were way better in the second-half against Sunderland.
• 52:27
  He was a big part of it to me, like he just looks the part when
• 52:31
  he gets back out there. Nico Gonzalez I think is an okay
• 52:33
  player, but he's not Rodri. And if Rodri is healthy Luca and
• 52:37
  can play regularly for them, that is a big, big like I said.
• 52:42
  It's like all skating Gabriel back.
• 52:45
  It is. You're exactly right.
• 52:46
  I think the president said he is.
• 52:47
  It's just not only that he's a great player, but just also that
• 52:50
  presence of having him back there, I think.
• 52:52
  And again, you put him in front of the four defenders and that
• 52:55
  just sort of solidifies that defense.
• 52:57
  If Donna Ruma back there, look for City's defense to get way
• 53:00
  better than it's been. It's been a little leaky, like I
• 53:03
  said it before, but I think he just like I watched him back out
• 53:06
  there and he looked good for 1/2.
• 53:08
  Now you have to see how his knee holds up.
• 53:09
  You know, he had a little bit of an injury set back.
• 53:11
  That's why he hasn't been playing for a while.
• 53:12
  So we you have to see there's no guarantee.
• 53:16
  But I this game to me is going to be fascinating because I can
• 53:19
  almost see a situation where city blow them out, but I can
• 53:22
  see Chelsea winning. I just sort of have no idea what
• 53:24
  to expect and it's mostly because of Chelsea just being a
• 53:27
  little unpredictable. All right, last game of the
• 53:29
  week, Luca Everton host Brentford.
• 53:32
  I think 00. 00 OK, Everton keeping that defensive record
• 53:37
  going there. So all right, Luca, let's go
• 53:41
  over to our viewer mailbag here OK, and we are at the halfway
• 53:45
  point of the season and I kind of want to check in with you all
• 53:49
  right and get some mid season maybe grades or picks from you.
• 53:52
  OK, because we have the half the season done here.
• 53:54
  So I feel like we start to now get to know the teams a little
• 53:58
  bit. You know the beginning of the
• 53:59
  season, right? It's a couple games in.
• 54:01
  Oh, this team are in second place, so they're gonna stay in
• 54:04
  second place. Halfway through the season, we
• 54:07
  get a pretty good sense. So I'm curious from you, and
• 54:10
  this can be in a good way or bad way, what is the most surprising
• 54:14
  team so far for you? Obviously Sunderland.
• 54:17
  Sunderland, yeah, that's probably a good call.
• 54:19
  Maybe a little honorable mention.
• 54:21
  Villa, you know that's. Pretty surprising.
• 54:23
  But yeah, yeah, suddenly. Tell me why suddenly?
• 54:25
  I mean, because everyone expected them to finish like
• 54:28
  20th because they hadn't been in the Premier League for so long.
• 54:32
  But they completely like just destroyed those rumors.
• 54:36
  And they're like they're trying. They're competing for Europe as
• 54:41
  a newly promoted team. I think that's easily got my
• 54:46
  attention as the most most surprising team.
• 54:48
  Yeah, that's hard to disagree with.
• 54:50
  You know, maybe a little shout out for Newcastle in a
• 54:52
  disappointing way, you know, in 13th.
• 54:55
  But yeah, I agree with you. Clearly Sunderland's been like
• 54:58
  the the most surprising team sitting there in 7th and you
• 55:01
  could say they're they're literally, you know, one point
• 55:05
  off of being, you know, in 5th place.
• 55:07
  Like it's it's incredible. All right, Luca, give me what?
• 55:10
  Who's your best signing? So let's think of some of the
• 55:13
  signings that we had this summer.
• 55:15
  I think Ekatike. Yeah, that's a good call.
• 55:17
  Tell us. Tell me why.
• 55:18
  I think, I think he's just been like the guy for that for
• 55:21
  Liverpool, like the striker that they they need.
• 55:24
  I mean, Esac has been good, pretty good, but I think.
• 55:27
  Played that much Esac, he's been like a couple games.
• 55:30
  Yeah. It's hard to say, really, that
• 55:32
  he's been good. He's been all right and then
• 55:34
  Ekatike has just been really good as a striker for them.
• 55:41
  Yeah, I I, I agree. I mean, it's he's been great.
• 55:44
  And I mean, to come in and just sort of hit the ground running,
• 55:46
  you know, like this because Isaac was hurt.
• 55:49
  So he had to start. He had to come in.
• 55:51
  There wasn't like they could say, all right, I think probably
• 55:53
  the plan would have been for Isaac to be starting these
• 55:55
  games. You know, he's been in the
• 55:56
  Premier League. He's older, he's more
• 55:59
  established. You say, all right, bring him in
• 56:00
  and let Eketique slowly get used to the league.
• 56:03
  Could Eketique? He's hit the ground running.
• 56:05
  He's and look at he scores in every different way too.
• 56:08
  I mean it, it's you know, he's getting headers.
• 56:10
  He's sort of getting the poacher goals in the box.
• 56:12
  He's getting, you know, skill goals.
• 56:15
  I I I look at him, look and I know I've seen I said it before
• 56:18
  that I'm like, man, I wish Arsenal had gone for him and not
• 56:21
  the ocharist. I'm a little disappointed.
• 56:23
  You put Ecka TK at our night. Oh, man, like that would been
• 56:27
  fun because he looks like the real deal.
• 56:29
  I just think I agree with you, you know, You know, you think of
• 56:33
  the other striker, Cesco Guyokaress, Wesa's been hurt.
• 56:37
  You know, these guys are taking some time.
• 56:39
  Like I said, Wesa's been hurt. The other guys I think are
• 56:41
  taking some time to kind of embed in a little bit.
• 56:44
  But yeah, that's a good call. I could TKA lot a lot of money
• 56:47
  for him, but it wasn't even as much as verts or E SAC.
• 56:50
  Yeah. Where would they be without him?
• 56:52
  Do you have a worse signing, Luca?
• 56:54
  Someone who's been sort of a bit of a Dutch?
• 56:56
  You know, you could always go with somebody who's been hurt or
• 56:59
  just sort of not done a whole lot.
• 57:02
  I mean Yoker. Yoker has worse signing, okay.
• 57:06
  I mean well. I mean, he was, you know, like
• 57:09
  in the mid 70s. I think for his cost, you know,
• 57:12
  he's got what, four or five Premier League goals?
• 57:16
  I don't know if that's worse signing.
• 57:18
  I know. I'm trying to think of, I mean,
• 57:20
  to be honest, Luke, it might be Esac.
• 57:22
  It was $170 million and. Scored two goals, Scored two
• 57:26
  goals. Yeah, he's hurt.
• 57:27
  Again, I mean, it's not his fault entirely.
• 57:28
  I mean, it's not his fault he breaks his leg, but he like came
• 57:31
  in and he wasn't in good shape so he wasn't up to play right
• 57:34
  away. First couple games he's sort of
• 57:36
  getting his fitness back. Then he gets hurt.
• 57:38
  Like, I mean, you're the most expensive signing ever in
• 57:41
  Premier League history and you're now going to be, it's
• 57:45
  almost a lost season for him. I mean, that has to be the worst
• 57:47
  signing I think. I mean, it's crazy to say.
• 57:50
  Yeah, I know. All right, Luca, who wins the
• 57:52
  Golden Boot? Obviously Holland.
• 57:56
  Hot take Holland with his nineteen goals.
• 57:58
  So Holland on 19, Igor Thiago on 11, Simeno at 9, Ekatika at 8,
• 58:03
  Welbeck at 8, Mateta 8. So you're going, you're going
• 58:07
  controversial. You're picking Holland to do it,
• 58:08
  huh? It's controversial.
• 58:10
  I'm joking, Luke. All right.
• 58:12
  Yeah, Luca. And who wins the Golden Globes?
• 58:15
  RYA. So you think RYA is going to do
• 58:17
  it? Yeah, Arsenal's defense is very
• 58:21
  good and we have all of our players healthy.
• 58:23
  We're just insane. Yeah, I, I think so.
• 58:26
  I mean, I, I think it's, of course, you know, goaltenders,
• 58:29
  you know, it's a combination of their defense as well as what
• 58:32
  they do in goal. But yeah, I think it's hard not
• 58:34
  to pick him to win, to win that. All right, Luca, who has been
• 58:40
  what's 1 player? Who's the most improved player
• 58:43
  so far? If you have to think of somebody
• 58:44
  who you're like looking at, you're like, man, they have.
• 58:46
  They've really gotten a lot better than what I remember what
• 58:49
  I saw before. Who's the most improved player?
• 58:55
  Improved That's that's a tough one, Martinelli.
• 59:01
  Martinelli OK. I mean, he's done a lot.
• 59:04
  Troshard maybe? Troshard, yeah, Martinelli's
• 59:06
  done a lot in the Champions League, you know, like a lot of
• 59:09
  his goals are there. Trosar's not a bad call, man.
• 59:12
  He has been really, really good for Arsenal.
• 59:15
  You think a lot of people wanted him to leave because, you know,
• 59:17
  they're saying, oh, he's not going to get any playing time.
• 59:19
  They, you know, but they, he's. Starting now.
• 59:21
  But he, oh, he's starting and he's scoring big goals.
• 59:23
  He. Needs to freak out when he
• 59:25
  doesn't start too. Right.
• 59:27
  He's like a good team player, you know, Like he'll come off
• 59:29
  the bench, he'll start, he can play a little bit on both wings.
• 59:32
  He can even play at the 9 a little bit.
• 59:34
  Yeah, yeah, it's been. Really useful as we've sort of
• 59:36
  navigated a lot of these injuries and.
• 59:38
  The player? Yeah, yeah, he won his jersey.
• 59:40
  That's it. He won his jersey, OK?
• 59:42
  How come all the Arsenal Warriors jerseys?
• 59:44
  Yeah, that's a good call. Yeah, I like it.
• 59:47
  He's been. He's really to me taking a bit
• 59:49
  of a step up. Yeah.
• 59:51
  All right, Luke, do you have a best match of the season?
• 59:54
  So. Far match of this season.
• 59:58
  What was that? Was it City?
• 59:59
  What was the City Fulham game that was?
• 1:00:01
  Like, Oh yeah, 54. I'm gonna go with that one.
• 1:00:03
  That game was pretty bananas. 54 at Yeah, it was, it was like at
• 1:00:08
  Fulham or something, yeah. And it was like 5-1 and Fulham
• 1:00:10
  came back and even had like a chance where Josh, I know, like,
• 1:00:13
  cleared off the line. And that game was pretty
• 1:00:15
  bananas. I can't think of them more
• 1:00:16
  crazy. Or or the city I mean not city,
• 1:00:19
  Tottenham, Liverpool game with the 2 red cards.
• 1:00:22
  That was pretty crazy too. I think those two are the
• 1:00:24
  craziest for me. Yeah, yeah, as an Arsenal fan,
• 1:00:27
  what's your game of the season as an Arsenal fan?
• 1:00:30
  Like for Arsenal? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:32
  Like what's in the best Arsenal game for you?
• 1:00:33
  Survive. The Villa game.
• 1:00:35
  Villa game, yeah. The second villain at home.
• 1:00:38
  Right, right. The one with.
• 1:00:39
  Yeah, the one. With four one.
• 1:00:41
  Yeah, I'm gonna give a shout to the North London Derby too.
• 1:00:43
  The AZE hat trick. Oh yeah, that one too too.
• 1:00:46
  I like that one. Those two definitely stood out
• 1:00:48
  for me in the first half of the. Season.
• 1:00:49
  But Aze didn't have the only goal, did he?
• 1:00:51
  We see we had one. Was it 4 we put on them?
• 1:00:55
  What was the final it? Was like 4.
• 1:00:58
  It was 41 I think. The four one, so somebody I
• 1:01:01
  can't remember who else had a goal.
• 1:01:02
  I just remember his hat trick. Yeah, I can't remember if if
• 1:01:04
  somebody else got a goal in that.
• 1:01:06
  Game. Yeah.
• 1:01:07
  What's it, Gabrielle? Maybe.
• 1:01:09
  OK, Yeah, I don't. Know All right, Luca.
• 1:01:11
  All right, let's think of the teams here.
• 1:01:13
  So First off, I want to know in no order, OK, let's assume that
• 1:01:17
  England gets a fifth Champions League spot.
• 1:01:19
  Who are your 5 Champions League team?
• 1:01:22
  So you don't have to give me an order, All right, I'm going to
• 1:01:24
  ask you for the I'm going to ask you for our Premier League
• 1:01:25
  winner next. That'll be the last question.
• 1:01:27
  But just give me the five teams that you think at the end of
• 1:01:29
  this season are going to be in the top five spots in no
• 1:01:31
  particular order. Arsenal, City.
• 1:01:34
  Liverpool. Chelsea.
• 1:01:39
  OK. And.
• 1:01:42
  Like Villa, United, Sunderland, Everton.
• 1:01:45
  OK, All right. So you're saying the top five
• 1:01:47
  now is not going to change? So you you gave me the the top
• 1:01:49
  five there. OK, yeah, I I kind of lean that
• 1:01:53
  way. You know, it's hard to sort of
• 1:01:55
  make an argument. Between a different way, but I
• 1:01:57
  just I can't. I know well, it's tough to make
• 1:01:59
  an argument for United or Sunderland or Everton or
• 1:02:02
  Brentford or pals. I'm just rolling through the
• 1:02:03
  next, you know, 5 there. I I do sort of feel like the top
• 1:02:08
  five right now are the top. I you know, obviously there's no
• 1:02:11
  guarantee, but it just does feel like they are the five best
• 1:02:14
  teams in the Premier League. You know, United again, a lot
• 1:02:19
  can we'll see what teams do in January.
• 1:02:21
  You know, if United were able to get like a couple guys back
• 1:02:23
  healthy, maybe assign a guy or two.
• 1:02:26
  I don't know if they're going to do that.
• 1:02:27
  Maybe, you know, we'll we'll see what Chelsea does here in this
• 1:02:32
  interim, getting a new manager in.
• 1:02:33
  Does that affect their results? You know, I mean, may take a new
• 1:02:36
  manager. He comes in with a new system.
• 1:02:39
  I may take them like four or five games maybe that drops them
• 1:02:41
  down. Obviously I, you know, I'd love
• 1:02:44
  to see Sunderland do it You. Know yeah, I.
• 1:02:46
  Just can't imagine a newly promoted team can finish 5th in.
• 1:02:49
  The that would be awesome if it happened though it.
• 1:02:51
  Would be crazy. All right, Luke.
• 1:02:53
  And finally, here we go. Who is going to be the Premier
• 1:02:56
  League champion at the end of the year?
• 1:02:57
  Arsenal. Arsenal.
• 1:02:58
  I'm gonna do it. Why?
• 1:02:59
  Tell me why Arsenal? I just think they have more
• 1:03:04
  depth than all the other teams. And the depths gonna be the key
• 1:03:07
  for you. Yeah, okay.
• 1:03:08
  All right. Yeah, I do think they're deeper.
• 1:03:13
  I worry a little bit about injuries.
• 1:03:15
  Well, injuries always, that's always in the back of our mind
• 1:03:18
  is injuries, but also just a little bit.
• 1:03:21
  I have no worries about our defense, no worries about our
• 1:03:23
  goalie, no worries about our midfield, our offense.
• 1:03:26
  It's just gonna be like, but it's like where do the goals
• 1:03:29
  come from? I don't think we're gonna have a
• 1:03:31
  twenty goal scorer this year, but I think we may have multiple
• 1:03:35
  people between 10 and 15. Like, I think that's the key for
• 1:03:38
  Arsenal is getting, you know, we have half a season to see if it
• 1:03:41
  maybe haverts could get, you know, 10 maybe, you know, maybe.
• 1:03:45
  Maybe 7? Kyochrist can kick on a little
• 1:03:47
  bit, get a few more, maybe Jay, Zeus.
• 1:03:50
  I just think it's going to have to come from multiple and that's
• 1:03:52
  how it's sort of been so far this year.
• 1:03:54
  You know, it's multiple different people.
• 1:03:55
  It's the defense getting some goals, obviously midfield, you
• 1:03:59
  know, maybe Rice can get, you know, to 10.
• 1:04:01
  You know, I just I don't see a twenty goal score on this team,
• 1:04:04
  but I think that could be OK, you know, but it just makes you
• 1:04:08
  nervous. You know, city going to add some
• 1:04:09
  Meno Rodri coming back and maybe they had another player.
• 1:04:13
  It's just it's hard because we've just seen it so many times
• 1:04:15
  where they just go on these runs.
• 1:04:17
  But it's you know, we're in a very good spot here, Luca.
• 1:04:20
  You know, we're four points up on them.
• 1:04:23
  We still have to go play them at their place.
• 1:04:25
  I think it's a two team race myself.
• 1:04:27
  Yeah. I just think it's it's gonna be
• 1:04:28
  so like to me, I watch all these other teams and they're gonna
• 1:04:31
  have up and downs and maybe they close the gap on us a little
• 1:04:34
  bit. But it's just me, week by week,
• 1:04:36
  what City does, what Arsenal does.
• 1:04:37
  Yes. This week, you know, the three
• 1:04:39
  weeks before was just win, win, win, win, win, win for each
• 1:04:42
  team. This week we got a little bit of
• 1:04:43
  a break. You know, they they tied, we
• 1:04:45
  won. You know, maybe this week, same
• 1:04:48
  thing. Maybe we can win.
• 1:04:49
  And yeah, so it's just going to be about maintaining the kind of
• 1:04:52
  consistency because I think we play Liverpool next.
• 1:04:55
  That's no easy game, so. And it's what it is at home.
• 1:04:59
  Now it is at home, it is at home, but you don't want to
• 1:05:01
  overlook Bournemouth on the road.
• 1:05:02
  So it's like go take care of your business on Saturday, then
• 1:05:05
  you gear up for a big one with Liverpool, you know, and it's
• 1:05:08
  even better if we can win on Saturday and then you can just
• 1:05:10
  sort of watch City on Sunday and just hope.
• 1:05:12
  I mean, if they go and they win, OK, they win, but maybe they
• 1:05:15
  stumble, maybe they tie, then you really feel good about it.
• 1:05:18
  So you put the pressure on them a little bit, you know, because
• 1:05:21
  now they're four points behind. But if we go and we draw, then
• 1:05:24
  they're going to set smell blood in the water.
• 1:05:25
  They know, OK, we win, we close that gap again.
• 1:05:27
  So we'll see, you know, like I said, it'll be fun.
• 1:05:31
  The second-half of the season I think is all about Arsenal
• 1:05:33
  versus City. But I also think it's at mid,
• 1:05:36
  like I said, that there's a lot of teams, like I said, you know,
• 1:05:38
  if you look, Luca, right now from 4th place, Liverpool, 33
• 1:05:43
  points all the way down to even Bournemouth, 10 points separate
• 1:05:46
  them and Bournemouth are in 15. So it's only 10 points
• 1:05:50
  separating 4th from 15th right now.
• 1:05:52
  I mean, it's kind of crazy, but I think it just makes it really
• 1:05:54
  interesting. A lot of these teams, you know,
• 1:05:57
  who typically don't qualify for big European spots or even
• 1:06:00
  finish in the top seven. Really.
• 1:06:01
  I think adding the right players or going on a run, they can
• 1:06:05
  really do it. So it'll be interesting.
• 1:06:07
  But all right, Luco. Well, let's move on real quick
• 1:06:10
  to our Did you know section. We've been rolling through the
• 1:06:13
  teams. We have made it up to Fulham,
• 1:06:15
  Luca, the Cottagers, friend of the pod, Andrew's favorite team,
• 1:06:20
  your second favorite Premier League, right?
• 1:06:22
  Yeah, OK. We have been to Craven Cottage
• 1:06:25
  to see a game. We've got a stadium tour.
• 1:06:27
  We've been there twice. We've been there twice.
• 1:06:29
  Wants to see a game. But yeah.
• 1:06:32
  So they're nicknamed the Cottagers.
• 1:06:33
  Fulmer, based in West London, of course.
• 1:06:35
  They've got the white shorts and black, you know, shirts and
• 1:06:38
  combinations of that kind of white and black as their color
• 1:06:41
  scheme. They were founded in 1879.
• 1:06:44
  They're London's oldest Pro Football club.
• 1:06:47
  They were formed at Fulham St. Andrews Church and they sort of
• 1:06:51
  formed a pro team in in 1898 and they ended up joining the
• 1:06:55
  Football League in 19 O 7. And they finally reached the
• 1:06:59
  First Division for the first time in 1949.
• 1:07:02
  And they were a bit of what you call yo-yo club route, right?
• 1:07:05
  They yo-yo up and then the next year they go down next year up
• 1:07:08
  next year down. So it's like up and down, up and
• 1:07:10
  down. And in fact, look, in 1997 they
• 1:07:12
  almost went bankrupt and they got bought by somebody named
• 1:07:15
  Mohammed Al Fayed and he owned Harrods, that real famous
• 1:07:18
  department store in London. His son was Dodi Fayed, very
• 1:07:22
  famously had a relationship with Princess Diane and died in a car
• 1:07:26
  crash with her. You know, you think of you've
• 1:07:27
  heard of like Princess Guy, The Who was married to who is now
• 1:07:31
  King Charles back in the day, but he he owned it for a while.
• 1:07:36
  In 2001, Luca, they were promoted to the Premier League
• 1:07:39
  for the first time and they've been in the Premier League since
• 1:07:42
  the 2223 season. So they've managed to kind of
• 1:07:45
  stay up these past couple seasons.
• 1:07:46
  But they were a club that never just sort of was always up.
• 1:07:50
  Of course, they play a Craven Cottage.
• 1:07:52
  Luca, that was in, it was built in 1896 and it was opened as a
• 1:07:57
  stadium. And of course, they have that
• 1:08:00
  cottage there. Look at you've been in there.
• 1:08:02
  It's interesting. They have this sort of cottage.
• 1:08:03
  There's actually like a clubhouse.
• 1:08:04
  It's like right there in the corner of the stadium.
• 1:08:07
  It's super cool to see this little thing there.
• 1:08:09
  And we've gotten to walk through the dressing room.
• 1:08:11
  They've got training stuff like underneath there.
• 1:08:15
  And then up top they have like a little balcony where the 2
• 1:08:18
  owners get tickets for one side or the other for the games and
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  they can have seats there. Remember, the seats are all like
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  wooden old. Yeah, they're like almost these
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  100 year old seats. So you think of like the owners
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  of these teams like sitting on when they go to watch the teams
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  play. But it's super cool stadium.
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  It's really neat to have this sort of very unique cottage
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  there. They're Luca.
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  They're now owned by someone named Shad Khan.
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  He bought the team in 2013. He also owns the Jacksonville
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  Jaguars. Trophies Luca unfortunately, and
• 1:08:45
  we saw their trophy case, they have no big trophies.
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  They Luca. They've been to an FA Cup final
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  in 1975, but they lost 2. Nothing to West Ham.
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  But yeah, they've never quite been able to kind of win a
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  League Cup or an FA Cup. They're not quite that team.
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  They're their biggest rival. Who's their biggest rival?
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  It's Crystal Palace. Chelsea, another W London club
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  because Chelsea, they're only a mile apart and so, you know,
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  Chelsea and Fulham really have the big rivalry.
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  The other teams, kind of Queens Park Rangers and Brentford a
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  little bit, but Chelsea, yeah, cuz they're kind of London.
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  And Queens Park Rangers is close by too.
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  Some of their famous managers, Luca, Kevin Keegan managed them
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  from 97 to 99. John Tigana managed them from
• 1:09:34
  2000 to 2003. Roy Hodgson, who managed a lot
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  of different teams from O 7 to 2010.
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  Of course they have Marco Silva now, he's the third longest
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  tenured coach in the Premier League right now.
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  He's been there since 2021. I mean, just goes to show you if
• 1:09:52
  you've been at a club for five years, he's now the third
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  longest behind Pep and Arteta. So he's been there for a while.
• 1:09:58
  He came from Everton, Luca, Marco Silva hired for Fulham,
• 1:10:02
  famous players for them, Luca, Johnny Haynes, one of their most
• 1:10:06
  famous players. He had 658 appearances.
• 1:10:09
  He played from 52 to 70 and George Cotton, he played for one
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  club from 56 to 69. He was on the World Cup winning
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  team of 1966. I'm sorry, George Cohen, Luca
• 1:10:23
  George Cohen. Both of them have statues
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  outside of Craven Cottage. Gordon Davies, real famous
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  goalkeeper, Brian McBride, Clint Dempsey.
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  Americans played there. And in fact, they they have a
• 1:10:37
  kind of a long history of Americans going and playing
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  there. Tim Reem, of course, they have
• 1:10:43
  Anthony Robinson right now, Tim Reem, Casey Kelleher, Carlos
• 1:10:47
  Bocanegra, Eddie Johnson, all American players that have come
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  through there. And in fact, one of the rumors
• 1:10:54
  is a Ricardo Pepe maybe signed for them and another American
• 1:10:57
  player as a striker. He may get signed in the January
• 1:10:59
  window. But they've also had, of course,
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  you know, Paulinia Mitrovic, Saha, Adam O Lookman went on
• 1:11:05
  loan there. Berbatov played there.
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  So they've had some players come through Fulham.
• 1:11:11
  Their most expensive buy was this year.
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  Who do they buy this year? They bought it was.
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  Wait, no, they bought Chiquizi. Kevin.
• 1:11:23
  Right. Yeah.
• 1:11:23
  Yeah, Chiquizi came over, I think on loan, but Kevin was
• 1:11:26
  bought for $46 million from Shakhtar Donets.
• 1:11:29
  The most expensive sale got sold to Saudi Arabia.
• 1:11:33
  Who do they sell to? Saudi Arabia?
• 1:11:35
  Three years ago now, tried to choke out a referee.
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  Oh, Mitrovic. Mitrovic, yeah, 667,000,000 They
• 1:11:45
  sold him to Saudi Arabia, so he was the biggest sale that
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  they've ever had. So yeah, a little bit about,
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  like I said, Fulham Football Club.
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  And like I said, if anybody goes to London, a great, great
• 1:11:55
  stadium tour. We we've done that.
• 1:11:57
  And like I said, it's super cool.
• 1:11:58
  You're right on the stadium. They take you through the little
• 1:12:00
  cottage in the dressing room. Super cool.
• 1:12:01
  So all right, Luca, let's move on real, real quick.
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• 1:12:11
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• 1:12:15
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• 1:12:18
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• 1:12:22
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  mailbag question. You have a birthday you'd like
• 1:12:28
  us to give a shout out for? So all right, Luca, we end every
• 1:12:33
  show. Our penalty kick, trivia
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  shootout. You want to go first or second.
• 1:12:37
  I'll ask first. All right, go ahead.
• 1:12:40
  Who scored the fastest Premier League hat trick?
• 1:12:44
  Satya Amani. Yeah.
• 1:12:47
  All right, Luca, what Premier League team plays at Vitality
• 1:12:50
  Stadium? Vitality.
• 1:12:57
  Oh, it's Bournemouth. That is correct, Yes, Arsenal
• 1:13:04
  are going this weekend. Yeah, who holds the record for
• 1:13:08
  fastest Premier League goal? Fastest Premier League goal was
• 1:13:13
  it Barry? No Shane Long in 7.69 seconds.
• 1:13:20
  That's amazing, all right, Luco, who led Aston Villa in scoring
• 1:13:26
  last year. Watkins.
• 1:13:30
  Yes, that is correct. He had sixteen goals.
• 1:13:34
  Who scored the most goals for a single Premier League club?
• 1:13:38
  Most goals for a single Premier League club?
• 1:13:43
  That's a tough one. That was sheer.
• 1:13:48
  Kane. Oh, right, right, Harry Kane.
• 1:13:52
  All right, look who led the Premier League in assists last
• 1:13:55
  year. Last year, last oh, who was it
• 1:13:59
  last year? Oh, who was like the big assist
• 1:14:08
  person last year? Fernandez.
• 1:14:11
  Bruno Fernandez. Mohamed Salah.
• 1:14:15
  Right. Yeah.
• 1:14:15
  And goals and assists. Yeah, he got the Golden Boot.
• 1:14:18
  Wait, what did they give you for most assists?
• 1:14:21
  I don't know if they call. I mean, you just get, you just
• 1:14:23
  get the title. I don't know if I really call it
• 1:14:25
  anything. But yeah, he had 18 assists.
• 1:14:26
  So yeah, Mohamed Salah led the he had the Golden Boot for most
• 1:14:28
  goals and most assists. Pretty amazing year he had.
• 1:14:32
  And 2324 all three promoted clubs got relegated.
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  Can you name 3 all the three clubs?
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  In 2223. 2324. 2324 so that would be two years ago.
• 1:14:45
  Yeah, one of them is in the Premier League right now.
• 1:14:52
  Burnley. Yeah, that's one.
• 1:14:54
  Who else came up with Burnley? Not Lester.
• 1:15:04
  No, we, we went to when we went to our first Arsenal name.
• 1:15:08
  Luton Town. Yeah, and one more.
• 1:15:11
  Who was that? So Luton.
• 1:15:13
  And they were really bad. They were like, really, really.
• 1:15:16
  No. Who is it?
• 1:15:18
  Sheffield United? Oh.
• 1:15:19
  Right. Right Sheffield United, they
• 1:15:21
  were super bad they. Were super bad.
• 1:15:23
  I know. All right, Luca Fabian Char
• 1:15:27
  center back, plays for, of course, Newcastle.
• 1:15:30
  What country does he represent? Switzerland.
• 1:15:32
  That is correct. Which goalkeeper has the most
• 1:15:36
  clean sheets in a single Premier League season?
• 1:15:40
  Peter, check. Correct.
• 1:15:42
  All right, Luca, the last one I got for you here.
• 1:15:44
  Speaking of goaltenders, all right, six goalies, Luca, had 10
• 1:15:48
  or more clean sheets last year, so 66 of them.
• 1:15:52
  I just want you to give me 4/4 of the six.
• 1:15:55
  So yeah, had 10 or more clean sheets last year, 6 goalies, so
• 1:16:01
  just give me four of the six. OK so I know riot and sells.
• 1:16:08
  That is 2 correct? So two more.
• 1:16:10
  Pick for me. That is correct.
• 1:16:14
  Did Ederson have it? That is correct, Ederson.
• 1:16:20
  You want to try to get the next two.
• 1:16:22
  Yeah, yeah. Are they like?
• 1:16:27
  They're both typical. I would say this.
• 1:16:29
  They're both starting for Premier League teams.
• 1:16:32
  I think the same. They're both starting for the
• 1:16:33
  same teams and they both start regularly this year.
• 1:16:38
  I don't think Robert Sanchez had it last year.
• 1:16:41
  Robert Sanchez did, actually. Last year.
• 1:16:43
  And I was a little surprised on that one.
• 1:16:45
  OK, The other one doesn't surprise me, but was a little
• 1:16:48
  hard. I don't know if I would have
• 1:16:49
  thought of it. But when I say the name, you're
• 1:16:50
  going to be like, yeah, like they played good defense.
• 1:16:53
  He's a he's a pretty good goalie.
• 1:16:57
  Was it? Was it Flakin?
• 1:17:00
  Not Flakin. Dean Henderson.
• 1:17:03
  Ah, right. Yeah, he's on.
• 1:17:04
  Yeah, he was on Palace last year.
• 1:17:05
  OK, Yeah. So that's good.
• 1:17:07
  So I think you win the shootout again, Luca.
• 1:17:09
  All right, you, you won last week, though.
• 1:17:10
  I. Know that was my first win win
• 1:17:12
  in a while so all right look there it is.
• 1:17:15
  I mean there's week 19 wrapped up like I said, we're going to
• 1:17:18
  be right back at it games this weekend so I'm excited to watch
• 1:17:22
  them. So anything else for me, Luca?
• 1:17:25
  There's the final whistle and that's full time for us.
• 1:17:27
  Thank you for listening. Bye.