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Week 12 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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All right, and welcome into another episode of the Premier
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League playground. I am the dad.
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Bjorn with me is our star, the lad.
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Luca Miller. So how are you doing, Luca?
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I'm doing good. How are you?
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Doing real well. So how was your weekend?
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It was good. How was your weekend?
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Very good, Good. You had a couple games, you had
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a tournament this weekend. How did it all go?
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Well, we did not win but we had a very good last game in the
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season. We won nine to two and I had a
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really nice gold in that game. Yeah, you played well.
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Yeah, you guys, you guys played well, played some tough teams.
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Lost on the first day with two games that they, first one was
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real close, second one not so much.
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Then you came back on the last day, got yourself a win to close
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out your fall season. So your fall season's done and
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now you're going to play some football this winter, right?
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You looking forward to that? Yes, I had you sign me up on the
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very last day. Yeah.
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And I think we we had a one of our Ask Luca questions was about
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whether you liked outdoor versus football.
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Yeah, that was much tough because I really like both.
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Well, there you go. You get to play both.
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So fall season ends and you move on to footsaw, which is fun.
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Get to do something a little bit different through the winter.
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But Luke, a big week in the Premier League, lots of
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interesting, maybe unexpected results.
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This is what we love about the Premier League is you just never
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know what's going to happen in these games.
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Are you ready to dive in and breakdown what happened this
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week? Yes, I am.
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All right, Luca, first up we had Burnley hosting Chelsea.
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Tell me about this game. Talk me through it.
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This game well before any of the goals.
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Well, OK, so this game ended 2 nil Chelsea.
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I predicted it to be two nil Chelsea before any of the goals.
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There is a controversial play. Sanchez on the goal kick.
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So Sanchez gets the ball for a goal kick.
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He's in the box yet normal. He plays it to Chaoba.
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Chaoba stops it with his hand like he's going to take the goal
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kick, but by the looks of Sanchez, he backs up like he's
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getting back into position after taking the goal kick.
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So I feel like this should have been a penalty and possibly a
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card for Burnley because I think it clearly looks like Sanchez
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plays it to Chaoba and he just picks it up.
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So a little bit of miscommunication there, but they
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get over it and Neto, nice ball from Gittins and the 37th minute
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scores and Enzo Fernandez to finish it off in the 88th
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minute. Nice little ball there from GUI
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and nice finish for Fernandez. So Chelsea finished the week in
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second place, Neto now their top scorer, three goal or OK, yeah,
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he is their top scorer, but he also has three goals and two
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assists in the last five games. So averaging a goal involvement
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per game, which is good. So yeah, that's pretty much sums
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up that game. Yeah, it's interesting.
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Going back to your point with that goal kick, I feel like we
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see this a lot where it gets real casual how these goal kicks
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are taken. The ball gets sort of thrown
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down in the six yard box. Nowadays, defenders or goalies
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take the kicks. And you're right.
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This this to me, this was missed because Sanchez, like you said,
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the goalie puts the ball down, plays it.
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And if you watch Sanchez, he very clearly is going back in
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goal, like ready to, you know, for the action to start.
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He very clearly thought he was starting.
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Chaliba puts his hand on the ball.
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The burdenly players are putting their hands up like they meet.
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They immediately see this. Yeah, this is a big miss here
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because, you know, this happened to Arsenal, too, and we actually
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got away with it, too. And I remember when this
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happened sort of being like, whoa, like they just shouldn't
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have done that and we got away with it.
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I think Tyrone Mings in the Champions League last year got
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called for it, you know. And I think this is what
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happens, though. Everybody gets real casual with
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this about like, well, you know, here, Luca, you kick the kick,
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I'm going to kick it to you. And that sort of starts the play
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and then people putting their hands on the ball.
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I just wonder if this is going to be looked at a little bit
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more, you know, if referees going to pay a little bit more
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attention. Teams, I think, need to be real
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careful with this because somebody's need to get called
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for it. It's really going to, like I
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said, Mings did get called for it, but this should have been
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called. That was missed.
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You know, look, Chelsea, we're still going to go on and win
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this game. Cole Palmer still not there.
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He got a he had a broken toe at home, so he's out.
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He was already nursing, I think a groin injury now broke his
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toe. So he's.
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Offered Did he come into this game?
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No, he's out. Yeah, that's what I said.
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He broke his toe. He's out.
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Oh, so he's not was not there available?
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He missed their Champions League game today and he may not even
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be available for this weekend, but they still kind of keep
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clicking along. Andre Santos filled in for
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Kaiseto in the middle. He was really, really good in
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this game. Chelsea, Luca, they they,
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Chelsea have gone 50 games in a row without a player over the
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age of 30 in their starting lineup.
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You know. We probably have done that, or
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actually no, because we had Jocko.
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Yeah, I mean, to think to go 50 games in a row with essentially
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you're going with obviously a very young squad.
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You know, Chelsea's model feels like it's paying off a lot.
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I mean, like they've just spent money, spent money, brought guys
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in, brought guys in. I think it's, you know, look,
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you buy enough guys, you're going to buy some good ones.
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But I think this team to me, again, I think they're young,
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but they are super talented. Like you said, they are now
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alone in second place after 12 weeks of the season.
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You know, they're on a very good spot.
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I think they're a good team. Do you think Luca there are a
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title contending teams? I still do not think they're a
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title contending team. I think it's just basically
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going to be City to Arsenal. City and Arsenal for the entire
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season. But I definitely think Chelsea
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can contend for for 3rd place Champions League spots.
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OK. So you're saying they're not
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quite ready? Yeah, not quite ready.
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Yeah, they're, they're going to be an interesting team to me.
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I, I think the next I, I'm, I want to see how they do here
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over the next, let's say 345 weeks, you know, because if they
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can run off, if they can beat Arsenal this weekend, close the
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gap to three points and they can run off some wins here, I'm
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going to start to kind of believe that maybe they could
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make a push. I, I'm not quite there yet.
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I think they'll be a little inconsistent, but I I would
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absolutely say they can contend for 2nd, 3rd, or 4th.
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Yes, definitely. All right, Luca, let's move on
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to one of my surprising results. This weekend we had Liverpool
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hosting Nottingham Forest. You're going to tell me all
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about Liverpool throttling and winning easily, right?
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No, that was gonna happen here. Well, I actually predicted 2 nil
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Liverpool, but no, complete opposite, not even close.
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Three nil Nottingham Forest. Wow.
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So this starts off Mario in the 33rd minute, Savona in the 46th
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minute, 2 defenders scoring here and Gibbs White topping it off
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in the 78th minute. And also Nottingham Forest beat
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Liverpool at Anfield last year, so this was also at Anfield.
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But geez, this was a rough loss for Liverpool.
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They should not. I feel like they should have
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done better here. They were getting booed in this
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game. Yeah, I mean, you think if you
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were, do you think it's right to Boo them?
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Yes, they're at Anfield playing a team who's fighting
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relegation, so it should be an easy win at home.
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Anfield's not an easy place to go to this.
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This should be like this should definitely be a win for them and
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they just get smacked. So I, I, I think they have a
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right to be booed. Yeah, the amazing thing is that
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Forest, I think, had a disallowed goal too.
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I mean, they, they yeah, they almost could have had four in
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this game. Like you said, they, they they
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were the only team to beat Liverpool at Anfield last year.
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Liverpool have now given up at least two goals in seven of the
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last eight Premier League games. I mean, I, I feel like we go, we
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have been talking about the problems with Liverpool's
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defense since we've been doing this podcast saying that is the
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problem for this team. Now, look, their midfield's not
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great right now. Their offense isn't that great.
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But to me, the, the, the problem with this team is the defense.
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They're giving up way too many goals.
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I I still think, and I'll say this is that they're going to
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get the offense in the midfield figured out a little bit.
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But ultimately what I think will eventually keep Liverpool from
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possibly at this point, not even maybe making Champions League is
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going to be this defense. We'll see if they make a move.
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They're they're going to have to make a move in January for some
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defenders. You know, Connor Bradley's out
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hurt. Verts is out hurt.
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Now, look, Verts hasn't even been that good for them.
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You can't be reliant on Connor Bradley.
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It's not. I mean, they still have Van
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Dyke, right? They still have Andy Robertson.
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This is it's, it's sort of mind boggling with this team, Luca.
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They've now lost six of their last seven Premier League games.
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They've six wins and six draws. I mean, look at here are the
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teams in in the Premier League that have more losses in
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Liverpool, Wolves, Burnley, Leeds and West Ham, and Leeds
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and West Ham only have one more loss than Liverpool.
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Those are the only teams that have more losses.
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Than Oh my gosh. I mean, it's like, how do you
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even wrap your head around this? They're the defending champions.
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What? Are they like it's West Ham,
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Wolves and who? And Burn are the there's four
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teams that have more losses. Who of those were newly
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promoted? I I mean if.
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One of them has not gotten to win yet.
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They're just obviously probably getting relegated and West Ham
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not. They had a pretty awful start,
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but kind of getting it back together.
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What is that? Yeah, look at This is the first
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time since 1965 that they've lost back-to-back games by three
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goals or more. Oh my gosh.
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Yeah, the the the last time they sat in the bottom half of the
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table this late in the season was 11 years ago.
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I mean Liverpool are currently 12th in the table.
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Oh my gosh. I mean I, I I can.
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In the bottom half. The bottom hand easily in the
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bottom half their their Liverpool rival Everton is ahead
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of them. That's not a good work.
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No, I mean, is there a bigger surprise in the standings at
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this point than Liverpool? I mean, I can't think of another
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one. I mean, there's there's some
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surprise, some good stories or some teams that should be doing
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better. But there, there can be no
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bigger surprise than Liverpool sitting there at six wins, 6
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straws in 12th place. I mean, just mind boggling
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what's happening to them. You know, look, Forrest, this is
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a nice win for them. Is there, like you said, they're
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trying to get things going. They've been in the relegation
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zone. So good, good three points for
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them for sure, winning at Anfield.
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Yeah. All right, Luca, let's go over
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to Crystal Palace and wolves talk me through it.
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Crystal Palace wolves. Oh OK, so this thing ends 2 nil
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Crystal Palace. I predicted it'd be one nil
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Crystal Palace. There's not much in the first
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half until wait a little bit late and well, there's nothing
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in the first half then a little bit like so in the 63rd minute
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Moon yours He he's pretty good for them.
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He's a good wing back scores and then Jeremy Pinot for them.
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He's a new signing in the 69th minute 6 minutes later, a really
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nice finish into the top corner and obviously Crystal Palace.
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I everyone yeah, you know they getting in going into this game
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they were easily the heavy favorites.
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They're only only Arsenal has less losses than Crystal Palace
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and only Arsenal has less amount of goals given up than Crystal
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Palace. So even though they're sitting
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in fifth now, they still so they have the second best defense in
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the Premier League and they only have two losses.
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It's the Arsenals win. There's even though in 5th the
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Palace don't get enough credit for only losing 2 games, that's
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still pretty good. They lost Eze and some other
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guys in the summer and still are doing pretty well.
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I I don't think they they deserve this win.
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That's good. Yeah, they're they're a great
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story. I mean, like you said that that,
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you know, they're now unbeaten in their last three.
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They're obviously doing it with defense.
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You know, you just don't concede goals.
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You're going to get some draws. They have five of those.
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So they have a lot of draws, but they are very difficult to beat.
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Even Arsenal beat them one. Nothing took, you know, an as a
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goal to beat them. They are they are they're the
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real deal to me. Like they're I think, look,
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they're sitting in fifth. They're three points off a
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second. You know, the tables kind of
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interesting right now, Luca, to me, because you have Chelsea on
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23 points. You go all the way down.
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We just talked about Liverpool. They're five points behind in
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12th. So you have this like from 2nd
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to 12th are separated by 5 points.
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So anybody if if you play like really good football and just
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sort of keep some consistent results, you're going to have a
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chance to kind of, I think challenge for Champions League
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here. And if you can run off some
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wins, you really can kind of move yourself up.
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And Palace, I think, are in a good position here, well
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coached, well organized team, like you said, doesn't give up a
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lot of goals. You know, Rob Edwards is the
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manager for Wolves. This is his first game.
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He has a massive job. They are not good, right?
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Wolves are terrible. They are right now still without
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a win, still in last place. So this is good.
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I mean, Palace, like I said, this is a game they had to win.
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You're playing the worst team in the league.
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And they took care of business. They did it.
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And like you said, only two losses on the year.
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You know, like I said, they're a good story here as we kind of
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move forward. So we'll kind of see what they
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can do moving forward. All right, Luke, another
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surprising result here. Newcastle and City, another
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surprising result. Tell me what happened in this. 1
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So I predicted this to be 3 one Manchester City, but it ended up
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being 21 Newcastle with Barnes scoring in the 63rd minute, Diaz
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in the 68th minute and then Barnes again in the 70th minute.
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So a lot going on in the second-half.
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There's some VAR controversy on that Barnes goal.
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There's like 2 offsides checks for this.
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They both got cleared, but Eddie Howe was first to win over City
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in 17 attempts. So that's like 6, maybe like 8
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seasons. Yeah, maybe even more than.
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That, yeah, I don't know, that's a long time.
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But yeah, Newcastle get the win. I think it's usually that St.
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James's Park, but yeah. Now there's a situation early in
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this game when it's tied 00 where Foden is taking the ball,
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gets a real nice pass in from Doku, takes the ball and Shark
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comes over. There was they were looking at
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this one, whether it's a penalty or not.
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What was your thoughts on this one?
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So there's arguments both ways. So on one angle it looks like
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Shard does not get much of them. On another angle, though, it
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looks like Shard like gets them high up.
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So on these two angles, you can't really tell.
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This did not get cold, obviously, but I I think this
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was close. I don't really know what I would
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say for this. I really don't know.
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I think, because there I see on one angle that he barely doesn't
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doesn't even get them on the other angle.
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It looks like you get from high up.
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So I don't really know what to say about this one.
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Yeah, so I looked this up a little bit and they said that.
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So this in a situation where so Foden gets the ball on his foot
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and gets. A heavy touch.
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Gets a heavy touch, but then he he either, you know, he, he
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takes his shot and then Char comes in.
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So Char clearly gets none of the ball.
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Foden plays the ball before Char gets there.
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But when you look this rule up, if a player's momentum or their
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the defenders movement comes at them and it's sort of like a
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natural motion like if they're sliding in and you shoot it and
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then they sort of maybe like hit your leg, that should not be a
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foul. But if it's reckless, that is
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where you can shoot it and they don't touch it and you get your
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shot off. And if it's a reckless foul,
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then it should be called. Like Anthony Gordon's against
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Van Dyke, where you get that red card?
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Right. And So what I think is hard on
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this one is you're right. There's a couple different
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views. Some look like it Char didn't
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even touch them. But there's there's to me,
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there's a very clearview where Char gets some studs up with
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Char's leg extended high up on the ankle.
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And you can see Phonon's leg to me sort of snapped back.
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That does not look good. No, it does not look good.
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And that to me, in my eyes is actually reckless.
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I think I agree with you. It's not entirely clear, but
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this to me is a penalty. I actually think this is a
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penalty because of that fact. Like I said, you can't you can't
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do something reckless just because a player plays the ball
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or the ball is gone. You if you slide in there
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recklessly and endanger a player, then that is a foul.
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If that had been anywhere else on the field, I think it's I
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think it gets called and it's a foul.
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But because it's in the penalty box, people don't want to call
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PKS. But that should be ref like any
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other place on the field. I again look, I'm not trying to
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give city any breaks here, but I I think they're hard done on
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this one. That should have been a penalty
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there. The VAR decision is interesting
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because when you look at it with your naked eye, just looking at
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it, it looks like he's offsides. And when they do it, when they
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draw the lines, Luke, what's interesting is if you watch when
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they draw the end, like the animated lines, a semi automated
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offsides, they have Diaz jumping but he's not actually jumping.
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So I don't know why all of a sudden they're drawing it with
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the player jumping. It's like I think part of me is
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I don't have full trust in VAR, so I don't know maybe where
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they're drawing the lines or where they're starting it.
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I don't know why Diaz is up in the air when he's on the ground
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in real life. I don't know.
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To me, just like I said, looking at it.
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But again, I understand like these angles, you can look at an
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angle and he looks off sides and then when you get right up on
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the line, they're on sides. And I the semi automated is
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supposed to be better than people just dropping lines like
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it was before for bar. So I'm going to maybe say, OK,
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I'm going to sort of trust that they did the right thing here.
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But I don't have a lot of faith in bar.
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I don't have a lot of faith in these referees if they do the
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right thing. There's some shady things there
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and it looked offsides to me. So I don't know.
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I kind of feel like City, we're hard done in this.
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This was an exciting game. Chances all over the place for
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both teams. Harvey Barnes missed a good
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chance. City, Holland had a good chance.
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I mean, this is an exciting, fun game to watch as a neutral, but
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you know City's going to be disappointed dropping points
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here. They haven't lost the Newcastle
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in the league since 2019. Wow, yeah, City's kind of owned
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Newcastle for a while, so big opportunity.
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They drop points sort of fall a little bit further behind
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Arsenal. But I I, you know, I said this
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before when I thought the City were going to do real well
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against Liverpool last week. I still think this team's going
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to be OK. I still think they're going to,
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like I said, they're going to start to kind of get it together
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and run off some wins. Yeah.
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So like I said, I think they'll close the gap on Arsenal a
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little bit coming up here. But we'll see.
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Yeah. All right, Luca, let's move on
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to Sunderland, going to Craven Cottage to play Fulham.
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This game wasn't much, but I predicted to one Sunderland
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Fulham actually win this one new in the nothing really until the
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84th minute or Jimenez nice ball by too crazy.
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I think that's how you pronounce it.
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I think that's it yeah he's a winger.
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They signed in the summer plays it in good really good place
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ball and Jimenez what strikers do right place at right time and
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Sunderland have no wins in the last three Premier League
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matches. So you're kind of on like a.
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Like a a slump right now and they need to get out of it if
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they want to like keep trying pushing for Europe or something.
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But yeah, not much in this game. Yeah, just that was the only the
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goal to talk about. Yeah, Fulham.
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If Fulham created probably more chances, I think they deserve
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the three points. They get a little breathing room
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from relegation here. Fulham were a little closer than
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they wanted to be. They're now in 15th on 14
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points. Sunderland, like you said, they
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had been right up there, second, third.
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They're now sitting there in 7. Still a great spot to be for a
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newly promoted team, but yeah, they're kind of falling back to
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the pack there a little bit. So all right, look, let's move
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on to Brighton hosting Brentford, a couple of those B
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teams with Bournemouth that are always as darling teams, lots of
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young talent. What happened in this one?
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I predicted this to be 11. This ends 21 Brighton.
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This starts off actually Brentford score first Igor Tiago
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on the 29th minute off of a PK, then not much until the 71st
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minute where Welbeck scores and then Jack Henschelwood in the
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84th minute. But there's actually another PK
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in the 94th minute for Brentford, Igor Tiago.
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He missed it this time and now Thiago is now second in the
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Premier League with nine goals and Welbeck is third with seven
21:36
goals. So yeah, it's kind of good for
21:38
both of them. But yeah, I was pretty much that
21:41
that for that game. Yeah, who would have thought at
21:44
this point in the season that Igor Thiago would be second in
21:46
scoring and Danny Welbeck would be third in?
21:48
Scoring, I know. It's kind of crazy that they're
21:51
sitting on a nine and seven goals, respectively.
21:53
But yeah, you know, you know, Brighton here kind of flying
21:57
under the radar a little bit. You know, right now in 6th
22:00
place, 19 points, you know, you don't.
22:02
I feel like they're kind of just flying under the radar.
22:04
But boy, they're they've had some good results there and
22:06
they're really in a good spot after 12 games.
22:08
Yeah, you don't really hear much about them, but they're like
22:11
slowly creeping up the table. Yeah, yeah, unbeaten in their
22:15
last three, two wins in a draw. So yeah.
22:18
And they're always kind of a fun team to watch play too.
22:20
Yeah. All right, Luca, let's move over
22:22
to Bournemouth. They were hosting West Ham.
22:24
This was kind of an action-packed game.
22:26
Yeah, this game ends 22. I predicted to beat the two nil.
22:30
Bournemouth. Callum Wilson scores for West
22:35
Ham. He used to play for Bournemouth.
22:37
He scores in the 11th minute and the 35th minute.
22:41
So make it 2 nil. So West Ham are up two nil, then
22:45
Tavernier in the 69th minute off of a PK and it's, you know, a
22:49
really nice turn and then scores to tie it up in the 80 first
22:53
minute. Bournemouth no wins in the last
22:56
three Premier League matches and West Ham haven't lost in the
23:00
last three, three Premier League matches.
23:02
So yeah. Yeah, two teams kind of going a
23:04
little bit in different directions there, and West Ham's
23:06
kind of slowly moving up from their terrible start.
23:09
Bournemouth had this amazing start.
23:10
They're sort of dipping down a little bit.
23:12
I mean, they're still in a good. Thought kind of expecting you
23:14
can't like get even like for these good story teams.
23:19
You can't just, you can't go forever.
23:21
So you don't have as much depth as some of like the big boys.
23:25
When it's tough, it feels like Simeno's cooled a little bit and
23:28
that, you know, like he was off to such a great start, you know,
23:30
no goals in his last three Premier League games.
23:33
And you know, he's such an important player for them.
23:36
You know, they're missing Kleibert, Gannon, Doke, we're
23:38
both injured. So it it's it's tough.
23:40
Bournemouth, they're just not going to be as deep as some of
23:42
those big teams. So losing a couple guys makes it
23:45
a little bit harder. But but credit to them for
23:46
battling back to at least get a draw on this game.
23:49
Yeah. All right, Luca Leeds hosted
23:52
Aston Villa. Take me through it.
23:54
This game ends 21 Aston Villa. I predicted 3 nil Aston Villa.
23:59
So this starts off Leeds score first in this in the Metro in
24:02
the eighth minute, then Rodgers from down Yale Mall and I flick
24:07
from the outside of the foot in the 48th minute and then Rodgers
24:10
sit in the 75th minute. Scores again off of a beautiful
24:13
free kick and Villain now have won 6 of West Seven Premier
24:19
League games. Villa are now fourth with 21
24:23
points. So they're kind of slowly.
24:27
I get also them also kind of flying under the radar after
24:32
this really bad start. Lance scored in like the 4th,
24:36
1st, like 3 or 4 games. Now starting to pick pick up the
24:40
pieces a little bit and creep up the table like Brighton and
24:43
stuff. Yeah, they're, they're one of
24:44
the hottest teams in the Premier League right now.
24:46
So I mean they started 03 and two.
24:48
So they three, you know, you know, 3 draws and two losses.
24:53
Like you said, I don't, I don't know that they scored in their
24:55
first five games. Did they Did they even have a
24:57
goal? Or yeah, they.
24:59
They just couldn't find the back of the net.
25:01
But man, they're starting to sort of get it together.
25:03
They they were real bad in the first half of this game.
25:05
Made a couple halftime substitutions.
25:08
Unai Emery, their coach paid off really well as those guys came
25:11
in, really contributed. Morgan Rogers, man, he's a
25:14
really good player. I mean, he's, I think he's one
25:17
of the best midfielders in the Premier League right now.
25:19
Definitely. Yeah, really like him as a
25:21
player. I think they signed him to a
25:22
long term deal, so that's good move on them, like identifying a
25:26
good talent that maybe a lot of teams would love to get their
25:29
hands on him. So they locked him down.
25:31
Yeah. Villa, Luca, they're they're
25:33
rolling right now. I mean, like I said, sitting
25:35
there, you know, all alone and 4th in a good spot after that
25:38
terrible start. They got Wolves coming up this
25:41
week. They're going to be looking for
25:42
three points there. Yeah, Villa, like I said,
25:44
they're coming. And that Villa and Newcastle
25:46
were the two teams that started off so slow that I'm like, give
25:49
them time. They're going to get together.
25:51
Newcastle. Too good of a team to be on this
25:53
terrible run. Yeah, Villa has gotten it
25:55
together. Newcastle.
25:56
We'll see, yeah. All right, Luca, I'm saving the
25:59
best for last. So we're going to jump ahead to
26:01
Man U Everton, the game on Monday.
26:03
What happened in that one? So this game ends one nil
26:05
Everton, but there's some drama with this.
26:07
I predicted it would be the two one United.
26:10
So Dewsbury Hall scores in the 29th minute.
26:13
They seal Everton the win, but before this, in the 13th minute
26:17
there's a red card for Everton. Ghana Gay for hating his own
26:24
teammate in the face. That is a new one.
26:28
I've seen a lot of red cards. I've never seen one like this.
26:33
He like they were arguing off of gonna gay kind of had a giveaway
26:39
pass their hospital pass. I I guess he was mad at Keene
26:43
Michael Keane for not going to it.
26:45
They they didn't score off of that.
26:47
But and they're kind of arguing and gonna gaze all up in Michael
26:52
Keane's face and then he kind of Michael Keane pushes him away
26:56
and then gay slaps him and gets a red card for that.
27:00
So that's kind of crazy. And the menu now five game
27:04
unbeaten run comes to an end. So what some drama in that game?
27:08
Yeah, that this is just absolutely crazy.
27:11
I mean, within 13 minutes of this game, Everton had a player
27:15
hurt who had to be subbed off and they had their own player
27:17
get a red card for hitting their teammate.
27:19
I mean. It's still.
27:20
And still went on to win this game.
27:22
I mean, man, you did not have Cesco.
27:24
They didn't have Cunha, both out injured.
27:27
But this, I mean, it's just, it's just crazy that you get a
27:30
red card for hitting your teammate.
27:31
I, I, I don't know that I would have given a red card if I was a
27:33
referee. I mean, he kind of sort of slaps
27:35
the lower part of his face. Kind of kind.
27:39
Of goes like I know, but I, I think like, you know, I get it.
27:41
Like any, like, you know, violence to the head is sort of
27:46
a red card, but like I, I don't know, like I, I don't know that
27:49
I'd be given a red card for hitting your own teammates.
27:52
So I. Don't know.
27:53
I mean, I don't They ended up doing it, but then they end up
27:56
holding on for all this time. I mean, it's pretty amazing that
27:59
they'll be able to defend out like a man down for 77 minutes
28:02
and get the win on the road at Old Trafford.
28:05
Pretty impressive. I saw once that Luca no team,
28:08
Man United has beaten Everton more than any other team has
28:12
beaten anybody in the Premier League.
28:13
They've got 42 times. 42 times and you own them.
28:16
I know and man you Luca, they're good at home.
28:19
They didn't in five games they had four wins and a loss.
28:22
Their only loss was to Arsenal. So man, you are really good at
28:25
home. Everton had only won once on the
28:28
road. I mean how do you even explain
28:29
the fact that they, like I said, man down, they go on and they
28:34
win. I mean, it's unbelievable.
28:35
I mean, like, they, they, I don't know, I can't wrap my head
28:40
around the fact that they still won this game.
28:42
Yeah, it was a nice goal though. Yeah, from.
28:45
Dewsbury Hall there. So all right, Lucas, I'm I'm
28:47
save the best rollings, the North London Derby, the big the
28:51
big rivalry, one of the best rivalry in sports.
28:53
Yes. This to me rivals Yankees, Red
28:55
Sox, Michigan, Ohio, but you all.
28:57
Know that Spurs won this 5 Dails?
29:00
Yeah, totally. So Arsenal hosted Spurs, like I
29:03
said, two teams from North London, one of the biggest
29:05
rivalries in all of sports, let alone the Premier League.
29:08
Obviously, our favorite team is Arsenal.
29:11
Yeah. All right, We're going to spend
29:12
the next two hours talking about this game.
29:14
Right. Yep, this kid, I predicted 31
29:18
Arsenal, it was 41 Arsenal. So I was close.
29:22
Troy started in the 36 minute scores and as a in the 41st
29:26
minute and as a again in the 46 minute.
29:29
And then we're Charleston. I have to as much as I dislike
29:33
this man, I he it was he had a really nice goal.
29:38
It was a giveaway from zoo Amendy and then Ryo was off his
29:41
line. So Richarlson just kind of chips
29:45
it right over Ryo's head and it perfectly placed and makes it
29:49
3-1. But as a kind of shuts them up
29:52
and in the 76th minute gets his third goal of the game and makes
29:56
it 41. Spurs 1st Rd. loss.
29:59
So they had the best Rd. record ever anyone in the primarily as
30:04
they had only the 4th ever North London Darby hat trick.
30:10
So yeah, fourth ever. That's pretty.
30:12
That's pretty crazy. There's only been 4.
30:15
Yeah, so Arsenal and Spurs have played each other 198 times over
30:20
all this time and there's been 4 hat tricks.
30:22
So the first one in 1934 by Ted Drake, then Terry Dyson did it
30:28
for Spurs in 1961 and the last time was Alan Sunderland in
30:31
1978. So that's the last time.
30:34
No, I have not heard of any of these guys.
30:36
I don't know. I don't know any of these guys.
30:38
But that's how rare this is. Like I said, to have a hat trick
30:42
and like a Darby game that the amazing thing is like who did
30:45
it? So Eberiche, Eze, Luca, the
30:48
people don't. Some people may know the story
30:50
or not. He was at Arsenal's Academy at 8
30:53
years old and he was there for five years from 8 to 13.
30:56
So he was there and then he got cut.
30:59
He got like let go and he sort of bounced around to a couple
31:03
different teams and he was the kid.
31:05
Luca, like you, where's he like it says he wore an Arsenal shirt
31:08
every day to school. He's like, that was my team.
31:11
And even when he got cut, he always talked about how much he
31:13
like loved Arsenal, love the team.
31:15
And he's one of these guys that sort of like blossomed later in
31:19
life. Like he wasn't an 18 year old
31:20
prodigy that, you know, just blew up and he found his way to
31:24
Queens Park Rangers, did real well there.
31:27
Crystal Palace bought him and that's where he sort of became
31:30
like the great player that he is now, Crystal Palace.
31:32
And then of course, this summer. The story, though, was that.
31:36
He was Spurs almost bought. He was literally about to go to
31:40
Spurs. They wanted him like the deals
31:42
almost there. And he literally made like 1
31:46
phone call to our Ted Arsenal's manager and was like, is there
31:49
any chance that you guys still want me?
31:50
And they're like, this guy wants to be here, we're going to sign
31:53
him. He's a good player, he's a good.
31:55
Player and like, Can you imagine that like you're like an 8 year
31:58
old in an Academy, you get cut and then you come back around?
32:01
I think he's like 27. Play for your dream.
32:03
Club play for your dream club and then in like the biggest
32:05
game you like produce a hat trick.
32:07
I mean, it's just it's such a cool story to me.
32:10
This game was total domination though.
32:11
Arsenal just absolutely owned them.
32:14
You know, 57% possession, 17 shots to three.
32:18
That's what they say. London is red.
32:20
So it was a it was a great day. Spurs XG expected goals, Luca
32:24
0.07. It's the lowest by any Premier
32:28
League team in any game this season.
32:30
I mean, they literally did nothing outside of a gift goal
32:33
that they got. Wow, yeah, pretty amazing.
32:36
All right, Luca, let's take me through.
32:38
That's all. Those are all the games.
32:39
So I need my your Goal of the week, player of the week and
32:42
Team of the week. Goal of the week is tough.
32:47
Lots of good options here. I'm, I'm not giving it to her
32:51
Charleston, so I'm giving it to Dewsbury Hall.
32:54
I keep forgetting. Honorable mention to Pinot.
33:00
That was also a nice goal. Yeah, yeah.
33:02
For Crystal Palace, the second goal there.
33:03
Yeah, that. Was team of the week.
33:05
I'm giving it to Arsenal for absolutely clapping Tottenham.
33:08
I like it. I like.
33:10
It Yeah, yeah, it was just fun to watch.
33:14
And then wait, what? Player of the Week.
33:17
Yeah, it's that I have no arguments with any of those.
33:23
I liked it. So All right, Luca, let's look
33:26
ahead to next week. All right, Always some
33:29
interesting games for next week. You've got City trying to bounce
33:33
back from a lost hosting leads. What's your prediction on that?
33:37
CV leads I'm going three nil city.
33:41
Three nil. City.
33:42
All right. You think they're going to
33:43
bounce back? Leads struggling lately.
33:45
City gets it done at home. Yeah, OK.
33:48
Sunderland hosting Bournemouth. This is an interesting game.
33:50
Yeah, Battle of the Dark Horses, I think 22.
33:56
A22 tie, OK, All right. So like I said, Sunderland and
34:00
7th, Bournemouth and 8th, both on 19 points here.
34:02
So you're going with a draw? Yeah.
34:04
OK. Brentford hosting Burnley.
34:09
Oh, Brentford are good at home, so I'm going to know Brentford.
34:12
Yeah, Brentford do play way better at home.
34:14
Burnley, another team struggles on the road a little bit.
34:17
So yeah, I see why you're going with that.
34:20
Everton at home versus Newcastle.
34:24
I'm going 11. 11 OK, yeah, they're all there.
34:31
Let's see, how about Crystal Palace hosting Man United?
34:37
I'm going to wait. I'm going one nil palace.
34:45
One nil palace. OK, so they're going to get the
34:48
job done at home. West Ham host Liverpool.
34:53
OK, if Liverpool don't win, I'm going to nil Liverpool.
34:57
But if they do not win this, I give up.
35:01
I give up. You're just going to give up on
35:03
them? Just bet against them all year
35:05
the rest of the way. Well, I didn't say that.
35:08
They'll lose out every single Game 6 and 32.
35:13
Give up hopes of Champions League.
35:15
OK, all right, all right. They have to win this.
35:19
All right, what about Spurs hosting Fulham?
35:21
Another London Derby here. I think Spurs are not good at
35:28
home, are not great away. I'm going 11.
35:32
A11 draw. OK, all right, how about
35:34
Nottingham Forest hosting Brighton?
35:38
I think Brighton win 2/1. Brighton win on the road 21.
35:42
OK, all right. Aston Villa hosting Wolves.
35:46
I think Aston Villa wins three nil.
35:48
Three nil. Yeah, that's a good call.
35:50
They're rolling. They're really tough at home.
35:52
Wolves, Yeah, exactly. Wolves are going to win at some
35:55
point. But, and I don't know when, but
35:56
I mean, no team's ever gone a whole season without winning.
36:00
So you have 38 games first. Time for.
36:02
Everything that's true they might they're pretty awful.
36:04
So all right, look at the game of the week is a big one another
36:08
London Derby Chelsea hosting Arsenal.
36:11
This is one verse 2. So this could be the difference.
36:14
Right now there's a six point separating the team.
36:16
Arsenal wins, they push that to 9, Chelsea wins, they close the
36:19
gap to. Three at Stanford.
36:21
So Arsenal go to Stanford Bridge, get a win 21 Yeah.
36:24
What makes you say that? I don't know, I feel like
36:27
Arsenal just have more depth like on even we might have
36:30
Yokra's back and he will be a big help and even if Moreno also
36:36
he's also solid up there. And then we have a lot of we
36:40
have Matt away game, Martinelli back from injury.
36:44
And I think I think we have a better offense and we have a
36:47
really good defense even without Gabrielle.
36:51
So I I think we can, we can beat Chelsea.
36:55
OK, All right, It'll be a fun game to watch.
36:57
I'm, I'm, I'm. Yeah.
36:58
All right, Luca, let's let's go on to the Did you know section
37:01
here we are moving through the teams alphabetically.
37:04
OK. And so we're up to Aston Villa.
37:07
And you may not realize, Luca, Aston Villa, founded in 1874 by
37:11
members of the Aston Villa cricket team.
37:14
They were looking for something to do when cricket season wasn't
37:16
going on. And they thought, well, let's
37:18
play some soccer. I guess so.
37:20
Like I said, they are one of the founding members of the Football
37:23
League. So we talked about what is now,
37:25
you know, the Football League formed in 1888 and they were one
37:28
of the 12 original founding members.
37:31
Their colors are claret and blue.
37:33
Their nickname is the Villains motto is prepared.
37:37
So Aston Villa plays in Birmingham and they played Villa
37:40
Park which is about 43,205. That stadium loop has been
37:45
around since 1897. I actually hosted a World Cup
37:49
game in nine in 1966 when England host of the World Cup.
37:54
They're like, they've got a pretty good history.
37:57
So they, they, they were relegated for the first time in
38:00
1936 or for about 50 years. They stayed up in the top league
38:03
and they sort of bounced up and down a little bit.
38:06
They're kind of rebuilt after World War 2.
38:08
But they, they, you know, did real well for about again, 20 or
38:11
30 years, but they actually dropped all the way down to the
38:13
third Division in 1970, worked their way back up again recently
38:19
relegated in 2016 after 29 years in a row in the top flight.
38:25
And then they were back in the Premier League in 2019.
38:28
And they've been there since. And they, like I said, we talked
38:31
about them right now in 4th and they've sort of been one of
38:33
these teams now that's been pretty consistently in the top.
38:36
They've got 7 English league titles, 7 FA Cup wins, 5 League
38:41
Cups, one European Cup. That's that's good.
38:45
Or just like the Champions? League old champions.
38:46
League a European Super Cup, so they've got a really big
38:51
history. Like I said, they're they're.
38:52
Decent trophy cabinet. Yeah, for sure, absolutely.
38:55
I mean, you kind of forgotten a lot of it probably was a little
38:57
while ago, but still, this is like sort of a one of those
39:00
teams that's been around for a long time, really good history.
39:03
They're owned by V Sports. They're most expensive signing.
39:09
You know who their most expensive signing is?
39:11
This is kind of tough. It's somewhat reason.
39:13
Jack Grusch. That's their most expensive sale
39:18
date. Onana from Everton, so
39:20
65,000,000 now. They sold Grilish for 130
39:24
million so they did good work there.
39:27
You know who their biggest rival is?
39:29
I just said they're from Birmingham.
39:31
Yeah. Or is it like, is it Birmingham?
39:35
Yeah, Birmingham City. So again, geography playing a
39:38
role in the rivalry there. They call that the second city,
39:41
Darby. They're also a rival with West
39:44
Bromwich Albion. They call that the West Midlands
39:46
Darby. So famous players.
39:49
Charlie Atkinson, he's has the most appearances.
39:53
Dwight York has played there. Harry Hampton, Paul McGrath,
39:59
Gordon Cowan's, Peter White, some of their famous names.
40:02
John McGinn is their current captain right now.
40:05
Birmingham. Luca.
40:06
It's like all the way in the northwest sort of part of
40:09
London. It's a little South of
40:11
Manchester. It's actually the second largest
40:13
city in England. Oh, wow.
40:15
Yeah. I don't think like I don't even
40:16
know that I. Kind of realized it is obviously
40:17
the first London. 'S obviously the first.
40:19
I didn't realize like Birmingham actually had like that many
40:21
people. It's that big a city.
40:22
So Astonville, like I said, they're definitely the biggest
40:25
team in Birmingham, but Birmingham City, he's a pretty
40:27
big team too. So it'll be interesting to
40:29
Birmingham City. They're in the Championship
40:31
right now. Be nice to see maybe that
40:33
rivalry kind of go back on as they start playing each other
40:36
again. So all right, Luca, we've got a
40:39
special guest. We have a special guest here.
40:42
Last week we had our first guest, but we have another
40:45
special guest, your cousin. We got to get a little MLS talk
40:50
on here. Your cousin Elliot is here.
40:52
How are you doing today, Elliot? Good.
40:54
Good. Now, you just flew in from
40:57
Columbus. Yeah, home of the Crew.
41:00
So you're our resident MLS and Crew expert.
41:04
Tell me about some of your favorite things about going to
41:06
Crew games. They're really fun, yeah, Fans
41:11
are really good and it's fun to go.
41:14
Now, you guys have been going to games for a while, Yeah.
41:16
Who's your favorite all time Crew player?
41:20
Cucho. Cucho.
41:21
That's a good one, yeah. What did you like so much about
41:24
Cucho? Scored goals and you just did
41:27
really good for the team. Yeah, yeah, Cucho's a fun
41:31
player, came over from the Premier League and now I think
41:33
he's back in Spain. But it was a good player for you
41:35
guys for sure. The Crew are definitely, you
41:38
know, we talked about the Crew on our podcast before.
41:41
Been in the MLS since the start. Three.
41:43
You guys have won three championships I think.
41:45
Yeah. And the last one being what,
41:47
just two years ago. Yeah.
41:48
Yeah. So you guys have a pretty good
41:51
history. A Crew are pretty big in
41:53
Columbus. Yeah.
41:54
You know, cuz you guys do have, you have minor League Baseball,
41:57
you've got hockey, obviously you've got Ohio State football.
42:03
So I don't know if they're quite at that level yet, but are they?
42:06
Who do you think are bigger, the Blue Jackets or the Crew?
42:09
Probably right now, the crew. Probably the crew.
42:12
Blue Jackets aren't really too good lately.
42:14
OK, now I got to get your opinion.
42:18
The change in the name of your stadium.
42:20
Yeah. All right.
42:21
I. Don't like it?
42:22
You don't like art. So you're it was it was it, what
42:25
was it called? lower.com. lower.com.
42:27
Now you're going to Scott's Miracle Gro Field.
42:29
Yeah, it should. Well, give me your opinion on
42:31
the name change. Probably too long and it should
42:34
just be called Scott's. Scott's, I know you wonder if
42:38
maybe someone will come up with, like, a good nickname for that,
42:40
because you're right. Scott's miracle Gro Field is a
42:42
little bit wordy, a little bit long there.
42:45
All right, so you're giving a thumbs down on the name change.
42:47
Yeah. OK.
42:50
All right. Now they're changing also the
42:52
schedule for you guys. So MLS schedule is now changing
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to what the Europeans have gone to.
42:58
So you're going to be starting kind of late summer and running
43:02
through and kind of ending in like May and they're probably
43:06
even going to be like a little bit of a breakthrough the winter
43:08
or before you guys were just playing kind of over the year.
43:11
And this is to kind of more get on like with how the European
43:15
schedule is. So do you have any, you have any
43:19
thoughts about the schedule change?
43:20
Do you like it? Do you like are you kind of like
43:23
wait and see are you? I don't.
43:27
Really know I I didn't hear about this but it really could
43:30
be good. It could be good.
43:32
I think the idea behind it is in so all all other soccer seasons
43:37
run the same way and MLS has always done it a little bit
43:40
differently this way. I think possibly if everybody's
43:44
offseason is the same time, you may be able to sign some of the
43:47
other players and bring better players in.
43:51
You know, the question is it'd be tough to play.
43:53
You know, it's pretty cold in Columbus.
43:56
There's teams in Minnesota, it's probably even colder there.
43:58
So I think that's why they're then taking a little bit of a
44:00
break in the middle. Yeah, that's pretty good.
44:03
So that helps a little bit. I don't know if it's going to
44:06
like divide the season up a little bit.
44:08
You know, you go to a bunch of games, then you don't go for a
44:11
while. I have to kind of see on that.
44:15
So we also don't talk about the Premier League.
44:17
Do you have a favorite Premier League team?
44:20
Not really. Not really.
44:22
OK, now you've been to a game, though I know you've been over
44:24
there. You saw Man City play Arsenal.
44:27
Yeah, that was pretty. Cool.
44:28
That was pretty cool. What was kind of your favorite
44:30
thing about that? Stadium was very, there's like
44:37
just fun to watch 'cause it's like Holland and players that I
44:40
like heard of but never like. Yeah, and this, that was at
44:43
Wembley when you guys went right.
44:45
So that's to be a pretty massive famous stadium where the English
44:47
national team plays. Now, unfortunately, you guys sat
44:50
in the wrong section. You were the City fans, you
44:52
should have been with the Arsenal fans.
44:54
But we'll let that slide. Yeah, I know.
44:56
We'll we'll let that slide, but next time you go back, we're
45:00
going to make you honorary Arsenal fans now.
45:02
So if you don't have a team, you're going to join with
45:05
Arsenal because we we think this may be our final year to do it.
45:07
All right, all right, well, thanks for coming on, man.
45:10
It was good having you. All right, Luca, we got to
45:14
finish up with our trivia here. OK, so penalty kick, trivia
45:17
shootout, like we end our shows. How about?
45:21
Do you want to go first or you want me to go first?
45:24
I want you to ask me first. All right, Luca, my first
45:26
question to you is what two players have recorded 20 or more
45:31
assists in a season in the Premier League?
45:35
Kevin the Briana. That's one of them.
45:38
Ryan Giggs. Nope.
45:39
I'm going to give you one more guess.
45:48
I'll give you a hint, it happened in two in the 2002,
45:51
2003 season. I wasn't Bullburn.
45:54
I don't. Know if you were born or not?
45:55
You should say yeah. Henri.
45:59
That's right. Oh, Henri, Henri.
46:01
One of the best goal scorers ever had.
46:03
A season where he had. OK, so you're going to count
46:05
that one? Yeah, I'm going to count it.
46:07
Yeah, all right. Who missed the last penalty for
46:10
Italy against Brazil in the 1994 World Cup final.
46:15
Roberto Baja, the ponytail. Yeah, that's what.
46:18
They call them the nickname for that situation was the man who
46:23
died standing. Yeah, that's right.
46:25
Because he just was standing there in despair.
46:27
Yeah, he's a great player for them and fortunately he's kind
46:30
of known for that, which is tough.
46:31
But all right, Luke. And my question to you, what
46:33
Premier League team is nicknamed the Claris?
46:37
Want to say Burnley? That's right, yeah, kind of for
46:40
their their dark red and blue uniforms, kind of a purplish red
46:45
as sort of that that sort of dark blue.
46:47
Yeah. And do you know, they actually
46:50
they the reason why they're that color is because they were
46:53
trying to match Aston Villa. They were like wanted to because
46:56
Aston Villa was such a good team.
46:58
We just talked about them. They were like such a good team
46:59
way back in the day. Then when Burnley was founded,
47:01
like, oh, that's the team we want to be like we're going to
47:04
copy their colors. So that's actually how Burnley
47:06
got their colors. In which World Cup was the
47:10
famous Hand of God goal scored by Maradona?
47:13
I believe that was 1986, yes. Do you know what the bonus
47:20
question Do you know what team that was against?
47:22
England. Against England, yeah.
47:24
All right, Luca, my question to you.
47:26
Victor Yocheros, Arsenal striker, plays for what national
47:30
team? Sweden.
47:31
That's right. OK, who won the first ever FIFA
47:35
World Cup? The first ever winner was
47:41
Uruguay. Correct.
47:42
All right, boy, we're, we're, we're rolling here.
47:45
All right, Luca, who is second all time in Premier League
47:49
goals. We've we've talked before about
47:51
Alan Shearer being first, who is second all time in Premier
47:55
League goals. No, Oh second, it's either like
48:03
ruining your cave or it's not. No, Holland's not there yet.
48:08
You probably will be up there. He's Holland's been on 99 for
48:11
two games. That's the big thing is his next
48:13
goal will be 100 for Holland. Yeah.
48:15
This player, this player we're talking about is 213.
48:23
Rooney. Should have gone with your other
48:25
guests. Oh, Kane.
48:27
Yeah, it's a candy. You think you should?
48:30
Do you think he should come back to the Premier League to try to
48:32
break the record? I hope he doesn't just said I,
48:35
I, but yeah, he could. I bet, I bet he could probably.
48:39
So he, Alan Shearer, is like, how many does he have?
48:44
I think 260 and Kane has 213, so we'd need to come back and get
48:48
48 to break the record. So yeah, it needs two or three
48:52
seasons. Yeah, Yeah.
48:54
I think he could do that, though.
48:55
I think he still has two or three seasons left in him.
48:58
I think he would if he could come back.
49:00
OK, I don't want him to because he's so good.
49:02
I don't want him playing against unless he plays for Arsenal.
49:05
He's not coming back and playing for Arsenal, I'll tell you that.
49:07
The biggest rival? There's no way.
49:09
There's no way. All right, which player scored
49:13
the winner against Argentina in the for 2014 World Cup final?
49:17
It was an extra time. It's.
49:22
Not like a super well known player.
49:25
I feel like I don't Iniesta. No, no, it was a German player,
49:32
no. Who wasn't?
49:34
Mario Gotze. Well, no, I know, I know.
49:38
I didn't know the answer. Oh, so we're still tied, all
49:41
right. Luca, how many points did Man
49:43
City have in the 2017 2018 season when they set the record
49:48
for most points in a season? 103. 100 good guess.
49:56
That was good guess, all right. Oh goodness sakes, which player
50:01
won the Golden Boot in the 2018 World Cup?
50:05
2018 Closer. What you thinking of?
50:13
Like, no, there's Harry Kane. Harry Kane.
50:16
Older player. I know, I know.
50:18
Back. To these years blend together
50:20
for me. I get we're so we're still tied.
50:25
So I guess we do a bonus question all.
50:27
Right, bonus question. Gareth Bale, Wel Welsh legend
50:31
played for four different clubs in his career.
50:35
He's probably the best Welsh player ever. 111 caps, 41 goals.
50:40
Can you name the four teams that he's played for?
50:46
I knew Tottenham and Real Madrid off the bat.
50:49
That's. A boom.
50:49
That's two of the four. LA Galaxy.
50:53
Actually, LAFC. OK, well, the LA team.
50:58
One of the LA teams, there's two.
51:01
There's two MLS team. I'm going to get Elliot, our MLS
51:04
expert, back up here to tell me that you're wrong.
51:05
There are two LA teams. You did not get that, yes.
51:09
OK. And who did he, Who did he come
51:11
up with? Who did Spurs buy him?
51:12
From Birmingham. Good guess, Southampton.
51:16
Hi, it's just. That's hard.
51:18
All right. I mean, so do we count that one
51:20
or no? No, you missed OK.
51:24
What is the name of the award given to the top goal scorer in
51:28
FIFA World Cup? They have a name for that isn't
51:33
just a Golden Boot. Yeah, it's a golden.
51:36
Boot OK, All right. I thought there's gonna be like
51:37
a like a person's name or something.
51:39
Yeah. All right, well, that's it,
51:42
Luca. I think that wraps it up and
51:43
we'll get back next week when we'll go over week 13 games.
51:47
Anything else you want to add? Well, that's the final whistle
51:51
and that's full time for us. Thank you for listening.
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Bye.