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Week 36 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome into the Week 36 edition 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. And how are you doing today,
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  Luca? I'm doing good.
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  How are you? Doing well, doing well.
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  What a weekend it was, Luca. Stressful weekend it was.
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  Stressful. Yeah, for most people, I think
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  listening Luca, know that we're obviously massive Arsenal fans.
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  We love the Premier League, right?
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  We watch all the games and we love all the action and the
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  drama and stuff, but obviously we root for Arsenal.
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  But it was quite a stressful weekend watching the game,
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  wasn't. It yes, it was.
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  So what? Well, tell him what we did to
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  watch the game. We we went.
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  We went to an Arsenal bar at M dose.
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  Yeah. And so tell, tell, describe that
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  experience a little bit. It was cool.
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  There's like a bunch of Arsenal fans who gather together to
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  watch the game and it's so great.
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  Everyone goes nuts when we score.
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  Yeah. So we, so we live down here in
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  Mount Pleasant, Charleston, SC and there's an Arsenal
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  supporters club down here called Charcenal, which of course
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  they're taking the word Charleston and Arsenal and
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  smashing them together. I think it's called a
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  portmanteau. There's a fancy word for.
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  You, yeah. So Charcenal is an awesome
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  supporters group we're lucky to have down here.
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  They have an Instagram page, so people should go follow up them
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  there and I think they're on X or Twitter or whatever as well.
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  But yeah, it's great Luca, that we go to a bar downtown.
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  The bar staff are like awesome. They open up early a lot of
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  times for all the Arsenal supporters and they get a huge
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  crowd in there for games. We try to make it to as many as
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  we can, but we can't make it to a lot because you a lot of times
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  the soccer we have stuff going on.
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  But the pet place was packed. It was tense, Luca, during the
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  game. Yeah, we'll talk about the
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  Arsenal game, Luca. Obviously it impacted us a lot,
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  but boy, it was a lot, a lot of talk about the Arsenal game.
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  We certainly VAR with that one, but we better dive in and talk
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  about these games. I think what we'll do is we'll
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  save the Arsenal game for last cuz there is a lot of talking
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  points in that one. But week 36 ago we are we are in
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  the home stretch. They call it the run in.
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  It is crunch time. So some games, Luca, have a lot
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  going on, a lot of meaning, others really don't.
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  But look, let's talk about Liverpool, Chelsea first.
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  Yeah, this game ends one one. I predicted it to be a three no
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  win for Liverpool. I was way off there.
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  Gravin Burch has a really nice curler in the 6th minute.
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  He like in Ingamoa plays Grabin Burch.
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  He opens up on the half turn, really nice first touch and then
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  curls it in to the top corner. Then, oh, Enzo Fernandez scores
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  in the 35th minute. It's it's off of like a free
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  kick. He plays it in.
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  I think it's supposed to be a cross.
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  No one touches it. Mormon dash really like is
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  waiting for someone to touch it and it just roll goes right in.
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  So yeah, kind of a weird goal there, but you know, goals Goal
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  14 total shots. The only Premier League game
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  with fewer shots was Newcastle. Sunderland with 11.
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  Chelsea are not winless and last 7.
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  Yeah, You know, like you said that that Fernandez goals
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  interesting because it's like a free kick on the right side.
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  He's probably about 25 yards out.
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  And you're right. I mean, I think for sure it's
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  it's a ball that you're playing to the far post and you're just
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  sort of trying to bend it across.
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  What you're hopeful is that your teammates who have lined up on
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  the other side are crashing and we'll we'll get a touch on it.
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  And the goalie sort of has to hold their position.
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  It's tricky because they see and everybody crashing at the ball,
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  the balls there, he can see it, but they have to hold their
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  position. And then if nobody touches it
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  and you don't react quick enough, we see this, we're all
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  of a sudden just rolls sort of in and you're like, wait, what
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  just happened there? But those are tricky for the
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  goalie and and you play a ball into a dangerous area, good
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  things will happen. The Grabenberg goal, I really
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  like that one look like you said, you described it well, he
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  sort of takes it one touch. He sort of opens his body up,
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  curls it in. Inga MOA Luca.
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  His assist was the 55th by a teenager in the Premier League
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  this year. That's the most since O 6 and O
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  7 when they had 58. So there's still a chance to
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  get. There's still a chance to get,
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  you know, like I said, you know, I don't know if that's the
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  record for most ever. That's just the most since that
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  time. So I don't know if that's the
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  most on a season. But I think the point is like
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  Premier League is just feels like it's sort of stocked with
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  like good young talented players and they're sort of making an
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  impact. 55 assists by teenagers. That does feel like a lot.
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  Yeah. Yeah, look, you know, again, I
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  don't know that this game is real impactful on the table.
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  We know Liverpool are going to qualify for Champions League.
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  They're still in fourth Chelsea and 9th on 49 points.
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  Just incredible. They're that far down.
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  Yeah. They really, if Chelsea wanted
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  to somehow maybe get a European spot like UEFA Conference of
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  Europe, but they kind of needed to win this.
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  But it was at Anfield. Maybe they take a draw and
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  really try to, you know, concentrate on their last two.
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  But they're, I mean, I guess a draw is good.
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  They what, lost six in a row before that?
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  Yeah. So all right, well, let's move
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  over to the next game, Sunderland and Man U again, not
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  a whole lot on the line for this game, but talk to me about.
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  I mean yeah this was a pretty boring game. 00 I predicted it
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  to be two. One United United break a 23
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  match run of scoring at least one goal in a game and the XG
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  for Sunderland was 1.17 to United 0.66.
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  Yeah, not a huge talking point in.
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  This. No, I don't think there's much
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  to say. Like I said, United are are
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  pretty much, I know they're almost guaranteed 3rd place.
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  They're six points up on 4th. I guess goal differential
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  technically, but it it doesn't really matter.
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  You know, whether you get 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th, it doesn't
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  really matter. You make Champions League and
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  you haven't won the Premier League.
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  So Sunderland Luca 48 points in the Premier League.
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  It's their best since 2001, 2002, 1001 season.
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  Wow when they had 57 points. They did pretty good that
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  season. Yeah, I know.
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  That's pretty amazing. I mean, they look they could
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  still, if they win out, they could still get 54 points, but.
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  Close, yeah. We said it just shows you, like
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  I said, what overall all great season Sunderland's had like I
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  said, they're gonna finish mid table.
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  But yeah, I mean, like I said, they like I said, I've had a
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  great season and like I said, one of the newly promoted teams
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  that's gonna stay up. All right Luca, let's move over
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  to a team that is red, red hot. Bournemouth went to Craven
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  Cottage to play full. Yeah, this team didn't have very
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  many goals, but it's kind of bonkers.
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  It ends one nil Bournemouth. I predicted it to be two nil
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  Bournemouth. Christie in the 41st minute hits
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  a red card. He slides in on Castagnier and
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  it's a terrible challenge. It's it's a dumb challenge too.
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  I don't know why he's going in for that.
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  Tackle gets him high up on the ankle.
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  The referee originally says yellow card, goes to VAR and
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  turn it, overturns it and makes it red.
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  Then in 45 + 8 Anderson gets a red card for going in with a 2
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  foot tackle, which again the referee did not call on the
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  field. Had to go to VAR again.
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  Wasn't the refs best half there? He missed two.
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  What do you think? Like, pretty obvious.
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  Well, blatant foul. Went.
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  Reds, blatant Reds. Yeah, I kind of agree with you.
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  These are these were, you know, I look, I get things happen
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  fast, but these are pretty clear Reds, I mean. 2 feet tackles is
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  just what? Yeah, I guess eventually they
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  got it right, which is what you want.
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  I I agree there's not much. I don't think there's much to
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  debate in terms of whether these are Reds or not.
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  They were pretty clear that the Anderson wanted just you.
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  You rarely see players 2 foot tackle slide in like 2 feet and
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  he almost jumps into it. Exactly.
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  I think Anderson is like, he's kind of crazy.
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  He's lost his head there for a second because it's just such a
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  crazy thing to do. And you're just, I mean, you're
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  literally, if you do that, you're just asking for a red
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  card. I mean, because it just looks so
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  dangerous and that even if you kind of somehow miss the player
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  or get a lot of the ball, it just still looks so dangerous.
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  So you're just, you're just asking for a red card.
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  You're almost gonna be lucky if you don't.
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  It's. Just I also think watching
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  Fulham, Anderson is the type of player who would do that.
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  OK, He's kind of a tackler. A tackler in a way.
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  Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of awkward.
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  Anyway, then Ryan scores in the 53rd minute.
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  It's like he gets the ball, He cuts.
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  He doesn't. Yeah, he cuts in and he hits it
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  on his left foot. I don't know, maybe when I
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  didn't see it, but it goes into the near post or near corner and
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  yeah, that was it for that game. 17th Premier League goal from a
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  teenager for Bournemouth main mainly those two Ryan and
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  creepy. 16 games unbeaten for Bournemouth now.
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  Yeah, you know the the goal Luca I but you know what I kind of
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  like about those goals is like so yeah, like you said, he's
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  he's cutting in from the right side, gets it on his left foot.
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  I think like most of the time you watch people with their
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  left, what do they try to do? They try to kind of curl it far
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  post, which works well for for lefties.
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  And I think goalies then start sort of hedging like they start,
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  you know, anticipating that. And I sort of feel like Len is
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  sort of almost anticipating that.
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  But I love it when people kind of go back in your post with it
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  because it's so unexpected and you can catch goalies leaning
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  And that's sort of what he did because it wasn't like a
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  complete banger that he hit. You know, he places it pretty
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  well hits it with decent pace. But you do sort of feel like,
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  oh, how did Leno not save that? But I think it's because most of
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  the time they're thinking the goalies are there left footer.
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  We how much time did we see Saka cutting in off the right side
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  that curling left foot to the far post?
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  But I love it when people sometimes still go to the near
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  post there because a lot of times you can kind of catch a
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  goalie by surprise and get it in there.
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  Look at Bournemouth. I mean, I don't like week in and
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  week out, like I've run out of great things to say about this
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  team. Like they are unbelievable,
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  Lucas. So they are now 16 games
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  unbeaten. So look at the next best run all
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  season long in the Premier League.
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  City went 12 games unbeaten. Arsenal went 11 games unbeaten.
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  They are now 16 games. It's 4 better than City and five
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  better than Arsenal did. There were one and two.
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  I mean, this is just an incredible team.
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  I mean, yeah, it just shows how good they scout.
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  Like Coopy and Ryan have been unbelievable.
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  Ryan even, he's coming from the summer window and it's already
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  got like five goals, 3 assists. He, I mean, Coopy's probably
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  going to get bought by a big team this summer.
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  It's just how they work. And Ryan, I bet he'll stay this
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  summer, but I do think he'll be like Coopy, play the next season
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  and then get sold again. Yeah.
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  I well, I and I think that'll be interesting.
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  Here's a here's a stat. Luca So in the past year,
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  Bournemouth have made $350 million in sales.
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  That's mind blowing. Luca They sold their entire back
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  line in the summer. They sold Simenio in January and
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  they are right now Luca in 6th place in the Premier League.
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  They are I mean they are 4 points in back of Liverpool and
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  Villa for 4th you know and their coach is leaving and they are
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  still just like rolling along. I mean that's even hard for me
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  to wrap my head around Like they made that much money in sales
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  and they still just like don't miss a beat.
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  And if is some, I mean, they their best player that got sold
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  the city for like $100 million and they're now in six points.
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  And spend that much, like they could go out and buy like
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  Bellingham or something, but they just buy like $5,000,000,
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  like $5,000,000 players and they end up being like $100 million
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  players. I know I've always thought if
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  you're, if you're like Arsenal or City or Liverpool, why would
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  you not go to the entire scouting department of
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  Bournemouth and be like, we will triple your salary, come work
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  for us. You guys are geniuses for like
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  all these amazing players. If they somehow find that, I
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  guess all these big teams, not that like the the other big
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  teams don't do a good job, but it's just incredible with like,
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  you know, the size of the team, you know, the size of the
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  stadium that they just do this well.
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  And and you're right, like I hope that they don't sell Croupy
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  or Ryan or any of these guys. Yeah, I'd.
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  Like to see a year or two with these guys playing for
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  Bournemouth because they, like Bournemouth fans, to me deserve
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  this. Like, they deserve to see these
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  players. Like, I think they understand
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  when a player has been there for three or four years, PSG, Real
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  Madrid, Liverpool come in for their guys, City come in for the
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  OK. Like Semenya, it was his time to
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  move on, right? He'd been there for a while.
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  I think they get that. But I mean, they don't deserve
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  that Like creepy come in for a year and then like, leave.
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  So I'd like to see him stay for a year or two and then sell them
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  for $100 million, you know, like, but yeah, I mean, like I
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  said, this is Bournemouth are really, really making this
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  interesting. Like I said, they've closed the
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  gap on the villa to 4, you know, so you.
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  Always thought they were safe, they.
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  Did but just Bournemouth just keep, they just basically won't
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  lose and they've now, like I said, they've won their last
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  two. They have a massive game with
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  City coming up, so we'll see. You know, I, I again we said I
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  really, really want Bournemouth to make a European spot.
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  I still don't think they'll have enough to get a.
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  Champion it will. You think they will now.
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  You think that they're going to get 5th or there's going to be
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  the situation where 6th place gets champions?
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  5th. You think they're going to catch
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  Liverpool or Villa? Villa, they'll catch Villa.
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  They're going to catch Villa. Yes, disagree.
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  No, I disagree. No, you don't.
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  Well, interesting is that Liverpool play Aston Villa this
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  week, so one for our bet. That's important.
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  Yes, that is. Luca and I have got a bet of who
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  will finish higher, Liverpool or Villa and they're both on 59
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  points and they play each other this week.
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  So massive from that standpoint. But all right, Luca, we'll see.
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  That's a bold call. It's a hot take that Bournemouth
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  will finish ahead of them because that means Bournemouth
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  that they they would have to beat City.
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  Yeah. OK, well I guess technically
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  they could. I'm looking at it here.
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  There are four points behind, so Villa lose their last two.
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  Bournemouth could win and tie and then they would actually
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  catch Villa. Because what's the goal
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  differential? It's +4 for both teams but if
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  Villa tie and lose, their goal differential would immediately
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  at least go down by 1 and if Bournemouth win in tie they
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  would have a pod they would jump ahead of them with gold
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  differential just based on results alone.
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  So it's it's possible, but. I think you're going to make
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  Champions League no matter what happens because like, it could
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  be a situation with Villa in the Europa League or they're going
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  to pass Villa. Can you imagine if like Real
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  Madrid come to Vitality Stadium, the 11,000 people and they were
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  like for a Champions League game at Vitality Stadium?
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  I mean, that would be like unbelievable.
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  I would be so cool. I would absolutely tune in for
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  that. So you always mentioned Luca,
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  like your Arsenal are like obviously by far our favorite
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  team, but you always have like other like a soft spot for other
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  teams and your other soft spots are for who?
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  Fulham and Bournemouth. Fulham and Bournemouth, OK,
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  yeah, I, I think for me, like Bournemouth.
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  I, I, I do kind of like Fulham too.
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  But I think Bournemouth, like this season of sort of like wand
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  me over as like I'll definitely root for them in almost any
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  game, except for when they play Arsenal, of course.
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  And Bournemouth beat Arsenal at the Emirates, so I definitely
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  have faith that they can beat City at their own stadium.
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  Well, and and I want to yeah, we'll get into that with your
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  predictions because that's a big, big game.
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  So I'm curious to hear about like your take about that
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  because that is a big, big game. I mean, Arsenal, like I said,
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  are in a good position where if we went out, we win the Premier
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  League, but you know, would be bad, have a little bit of a
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  buffer if they could, if Bournemouth could, could tie
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  City in that game. And that's really.
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  I can see. Or win or win, for sure.
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  For sure, yeah. And that's definitely City's
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  last hard game in my opinion. So we'll get on to that, though.
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  All right, Luke, another game with, again, not a whole lot to
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  to, you know, riding on it. Brighton hosted Wolves.
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  Yeah, this game ends Three. No wolves.
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  I predicted 3. One.
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  Sorry, 3/3 No Brighton. I predicted 31.
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  Brighton. Pretty good call on your part.
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  Yeah, if I just predicted wolves not score.
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  Yeah, All right. Henschelwood and the first
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  minute scores. Dunk in the 5th minute.
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  Minta in the 86th minute. Yep, not too much here.
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  Wolves are terrible, we all know that.
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  Brighton still in 7th at on 453 points, two behind Bournemouth.
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  Yeah, the goal Luca scored 35 seconds into the game.
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  That's the earliest Premier League goal ever for Brighton.
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  It is probably the earliest season, right?
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  I think it is. I haven't.
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  There, there's been, I know I, I don't know the answer to that.
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  There, there's been another like one or two one minute goals.
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  In 2223, like Phillip Billing scored in like 20 seconds
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  against Arsenal. Yes, I do.
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  But we ended up winning because remember Reese Nelson?
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  Yeah, that game, Oh my gosh, I remember that we were driving to
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  like a soccer game of yours and I'm like following in in the in
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  the car and all of a sudden, yeah, like we were down to 1.
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  I think we then we tied it late to make it 2 two and then.
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  Nelson. We've done 2 nothing.
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  I think we're done. 2 Nothing. Yeah.
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  And they came and they just sort of started chipping away and
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  then we tied it and then. Reece Nelson scores in like, I
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  think the 97th minute. I think you're right on that,
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  the volley from outside the box. I remember Reece Nelson, he he
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  went to Fulham and like never seen again.
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  Yeah, yeah. We'll always remember that goal
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  from him. Like, I mean, you know, but
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  yeah, Luke, I think you know, Brighton, they're like I said,
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  they are definitely one of those teams challenging Brentford and
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  Bournemouth for a European spot. They're currently in 7th on 53
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  points. They've got a game with Leeds
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  coming up. They're in a good spot.
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  They're playing well. Like I said, they're going to go
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  down to the wire here. They got a really, really good
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  chance to make one of these, you know, 6th, 7th, possibly 8th
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  year, you know, which would get you a European spot here.
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  So good on them. They've had a great, great
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  season. And yeah, they just sort of took
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  care of business against this. Yeah.
• 18:24
  All right, Luca, well, let's move over to pretty big game.
• 18:27
  Here we have City hosting Brentford.
• 18:30
  We thought this could be tricky because Brentford have been
• 18:32
  playing very well. Brentford have a lot to play
• 18:34
  for. So we thought, well, is this an
• 18:37
  op? You know, City had just dropped
• 18:38
  points against Everton. Talk to me about this game.
• 18:42
  Yeah, city just absolutely demolished friend for three.
• 18:45
  Nothing. I predicted 22 Doku scores in
• 18:49
  the 60th minute. A really nice curler.
• 18:52
  He just does it again. Absolutely just terrorizes
• 18:56
  Brantford defense. But then I think they're double
• 18:59
  teaming him and Brentford's defense just switches off.
• 19:03
  They don't step up to him right into the top corner.
• 19:07
  Holland in the 75th minute and Marmouche in the 93rd minute.
• 19:11
  Dooku, seven goal involvement in the last six games, five goals
• 19:14
  to assist. That's as many in his previous
• 19:17
  24 games, and Holland has scored in his in four straight Premier
• 19:22
  League games. Yeah, Doku's like carrying them
• 19:25
  right now, you know. I mean he basically sort of
• 19:27
  saved the point against Everton by scoring 2 great goals and the
• 19:31
  final goal and had another great goal.
• 19:35
  I mean, this game was tight for a while.
• 19:37
  I mean, I think it's what what Doku scores first goal what
• 19:40
  minute I mean. Oh, 60.
• 19:41
  Minutes. Yeah.
• 19:41
  So it's like for 60 minutes this game is tied and then Doku
• 19:44
  scores that goal and then sort of City go on pretty easily from
• 19:48
  there. You know, get the Holland goal,
• 19:50
  get the Marmoush goal, which important for them because if
• 19:53
  Arsenal city tie, goal differential is important.
• 19:55
  So that's a + 3 for them. That's that's pretty big in a
• 19:58
  game to get plus three there. Holland Luca 34 goal
• 20:01
  involvements. It's his most since the 2223
• 20:04
  season when he had 44. City outshot him 25 to 4.
• 20:10
  Now you know, people, I'm going to get on a soapbox here a
• 20:14
  little bit because I I get a little frustrated when we talk
• 20:16
  about the Arsenal game. Obviously there's been all this
• 20:18
  talk about VAR. You know, and you know the
• 20:22
  decision made in Arsenal's favor, but I'm going to say
• 20:26
  this, I don't really want to hear anything from City fans
• 20:28
  because there's a couple things that have really gone in their
• 20:30
  favor. Here.
• 20:31
  So last week there's a situation on a on a corner kick where
• 20:35
  Bernardo Silva almost football tackles somebody to the ground
• 20:39
  and it's not even called. Which to me I'm kind of like
• 20:41
  this was a little bit more than clutching and grabbing and this
• 20:44
  is like 2 hands tackling the guy down doesn't get called which
• 20:47
  should have been APK which could have allowed Everton to win that
• 20:49
  game. This time I think it's Sade gets
• 20:52
  in on a break and gets clipped and goes down and they don't
• 20:57
  call a penalty. In my opinion this.
• 20:59
  And Rhodri, like halfway through the season, should have been
• 21:02
  sent off. Right.
• 21:03
  I'm just talking about like recently though, you know, and
• 21:06
  in this game specifically, if they call that penalty, I mean
• 21:09
  that who knows what would happen in the game.
• 21:11
  I mean, maybe City still go on to get three goals or maybe they
• 21:14
  get tightened up and get a little bit nervous.
• 21:16
  I think they said not enough contact, but I, I don't
• 21:19
  understand. Contact in the box is contact in
• 21:22
  the box. I think they got lucky on this
• 21:25
  one to not get APK. Also, there's a situation where
• 21:27
  Bernardo Silva falls to the ground.
• 21:29
  I can't remember if it's ire standing over him, punches him
• 21:33
  in the leg. He punches him very clearly.
• 21:37
  It's not accidental and I think it's a yellow for it.
• 21:41
  But I, I, you could argue that that like, if you punch another
• 21:45
  player, if he punches them in the head or above the neck, he's
• 21:49
  gone, right. You, you know, I maybe make the
• 21:52
  argument, why is it so different if you punch somebody in the
• 21:54
  leg? I mean, you're still punching
• 21:55
  somebody. I get that it's different
• 21:57
  punching somebody in the head and in the leg.
• 21:58
  You know, it's not like I got hurt or anything like that, but
• 22:01
  I'm just sort of like, you know, yeah.
• 22:04
  They get their fair share of benefit from calls to, you know.
• 22:07
  So. You know, it is what it is.
• 22:10
  You know, I I don't really like, you know, that bar has to be so
• 22:14
  consequential with a lot of this stuff.
• 22:15
  But I just think that like there were two situations in that game
• 22:18
  that really seemed to go cities way.
• 22:21
  But you know, look, look at they keep the pressure on Arsenal.
• 22:24
  You know, they've got the game in hand.
• 22:26
  They're five points back, so they're looking for Arsenal to
• 22:28
  slip up against Burnley or possibly Palace in the last
• 22:31
  game. They like I said, this starts a
• 22:34
  tough stretch for them. Ten or four games in 10 days.
• 22:38
  So they've got, they've gotten by Brentford, they've knocked
• 22:40
  off one of those, they have the FA Cup final.
• 22:43
  Oh, I'm sorry, they've got Crystal Palace tomorrow.
• 22:47
  Oh yeah. So they got Crystal Palace
• 22:49
  tomorrow, FA Cup final on Saturday and then Bournemouth I
• 22:52
  think on Tuesday. We were talking yesterday that
• 22:56
  City have 4. You said four games in 10 days.
• 23:00
  Yeah, that's a lot so. That's a lot and one of them is
• 23:03
  a cup final. You know, there's always like a
• 23:05
  little bit more emotion with that now they should easily
• 23:07
  handle Chelsea in the FA Cup final.
• 23:09
  I I don't think it's going to be close.
• 23:11
  So I imagine City will romp through that game and maybe even
• 23:14
  be able to rest guys because I think the trickiest game is the
• 23:17
  last one. You've got to go to Bournemouth
• 23:19
  and talk about how good they are.
• 23:21
  It's your 4th game in 10 days. You're just coming off the FA
• 23:24
  Cup final, which they'll probably.
• 23:25
  Win the 4th game. Four games in 10 days, yeah.
• 23:30
  Oh, wait. Oh, and not including the final,
• 23:33
  final day because. Yeah, yeah, they'll, they.
• 23:36
  Have five games in total left of the.
• 23:37
  Season yes, but what my my point is that yeah four games in 10
• 23:41
  days yes, they have their final game like everybody does, but
• 23:43
  they'll have like 5 days off before that so you have that
• 23:46
  compact schedule there so to me, you know, I, I think they'll get
• 23:50
  by Palace. You know they've like I said,
• 23:53
  they took care of Brentford. I think they'll do enough to get
• 23:55
  by Palace and then, like I said, the FA Cup final doesn't matter
• 24:00
  in terms of Premier League standings, but it's just another
• 24:02
  game to have to manage with minutes and tired legs.
• 24:05
  But then that, that Bournemouth game, like I said, that's the
• 24:07
  tricky one where we'll see, you know?
• 24:10
  Yeah. All right, let's move over to
• 24:12
  Nottingham Forest hosting Newcastle.
• 24:14
  Yeah, not too much to talk about here.
• 24:16
  One, one. I predicted it to be two, one
• 24:18
  Nottingham Forest. Barnes scores in the 74th
• 24:22
  minute, then Anderson in the 88th minute equalizes against
• 24:27
  his old team. Newcastle have dropped 27 points
• 24:30
  from winning positions this season and Nottingham Forest are
• 24:33
  officially safe from relegation after West Ham loss.
• 24:38
  Yeah, Elliott Anderson's a good player.
• 24:39
  You know, I Newcastle had to sell them for, for PSR rules,
• 24:43
  which profit sustainability rules, they basically had to
• 24:47
  sell basically. I think what ended up happening
• 24:49
  was they sold him and they sold Minta, you know, to bring in a
• 24:52
  little bit money to to, to kind of basically make themselves
• 24:55
  compliant with those rules, which means it's complicated,
• 24:58
  but essentially you, you. Can't.
• 25:00
  Those players ended up being pretty good.
• 25:02
  I know. And you know, I think the Elliot
• 25:04
  Anderson one will probably look back on be like, oh man, I wish
• 25:06
  we could have found a way to keep him because he's a quality
• 25:08
  player and he's I see him moving on this summer to a bigger club
• 25:12
  in United City, probably City. But he's a really good player.
• 25:17
  Again, this game, like I said, that doesn't really matter that
• 25:19
  much in the standings here, but like I said, just shout out to
• 25:23
  Elliot Anderson. Good player, Alright Luca?
• 25:26
  Well, Crystal Palace hosting Everton.
• 25:29
  Yeah, this game ends 22. I predicted it to be 3 nil.
• 25:31
  Everton Turkowski scored off of a corner that folds right to me
• 25:35
  kind of like full volleys it into the bottom corner.
• 25:39
  SAR in the 34th minute scores Beto in the 47th minute and the
• 25:43
  Teta scores off of a corner, kind of puts the top corner a
• 25:47
  little in a way falls right to him.
• 25:49
  And yeah, that's it for that Stars 20th goal in all
• 25:55
  competitions this year and Everton five games in a row
• 25:59
  without a win. Yeah, Everton, not a good time
• 26:02
  to kind of go cold here. They're now down in 10th on 49
• 26:05
  points. So it feels like the European
• 26:06
  spots are slipping away from them a little bit.
• 26:09
  I think, you know, look, Palace are not getting relegated.
• 26:12
  They're in 15th. They're all eyes for them.
• 26:14
  They have a cup final, the UEFA UEFA Conference League final,
• 26:18
  which as everybody knows is well, not everybody knows, but
• 26:21
  it's three days after the final day of the Premier League
• 26:23
  season. So there's been a lot of talk
• 26:25
  about what kind of a lineup will start against Arsenal in the
• 26:28
  final game. You know, because an Arsenal
• 26:30
  fan, we'd like them to start a weaker lineup to rest their guys
• 26:33
  for that cup final. But I to me, I think Palace sort
• 26:35
  of have all eyes on that, you know, the Premier League games,
• 26:38
  you know, against City, against us.
• 26:40
  Just don't. Really matter that they're not
• 26:41
  even starting Mateta. Yeah, yeah.
• 26:45
  You know, and, and they, you know, they signed Strand Larson,
• 26:47
  so maybe it's a matter of wanting to get him some.
• 26:49
  And they have SAR. And SAR.
• 26:51
  And they have decent strikers. Well, I mean, you know, look, I
• 26:54
  I was kind of surprised by that stats.
• 26:56
  I didn't quite realize SAR has been really productive, you
• 26:59
  know, like he's sort of a very underrated player.
• 27:02
  I mean, twenty goals in all competition.
• 27:03
  That's really. It's like as much as like
• 27:05
  yokerish as. Yeah, I mean that that's a
• 27:07
  really good return for him. He sort of says stepped up.
• 27:09
  You know, I mean they've lost Olli say they've lost as a he's
• 27:12
  really sort of stepped up happened to be like that kind of
• 27:15
  I mean, we all know Meteta can bang in some.
• 27:17
  We'll see about strand Larson, but he's really sort of stepped
• 27:19
  up as that sort of second option and that that's a great season
• 27:23
  for him. So he's be someone, you know, I
• 27:26
  I hope they keep him for next year and see if he can kind of
• 27:28
  build on that and grow. But all right, look, let's move
• 27:32
  over to Burnley hosting Aston Villa.
• 27:35
  This game ends 22 as well. I predicted it to be 1 nil.
• 27:39
  Aston Villa Jane Anthony scores in the eighth minute and Barkley
• 27:43
  in the 42nd minute. He equals is Watkins in 56
• 27:50
  minutes and two minutes later Fleming makes it to to Burnley.
• 27:55
  First Premier League since March 14th.
• 27:59
  They're terrible though. I have earned 20 points from
• 28:03
  losing positions, so yeah, although they were in a winning
• 28:06
  position and drop points, they gain points and then drops they.
• 28:11
  They they do have a way of sort of coming back, you know,
• 28:14
  whether they're they're down and get ties or, or, you know, come,
• 28:17
  come back sometimes and get wins.
• 28:18
  This one again, you know, they'll guess, they'll take the
• 28:22
  point. They they certainly made this
• 28:24
  interesting. It looked like it was just they
• 28:25
  were a runaway to qualify for top five.
• 28:27
  I still think they're OK. You you think they're in trouble
• 28:30
  a little bit, you know, but they've certainly made an
• 28:33
  interesting night. I was not expecting them to get
• 28:35
  a tie against Burnley. You know, Burnley have the
• 28:38
  worst. They've given up the most goals
• 28:40
  in the Premier League, even more than Wolves.
• 28:41
  Like you said, they hadn't got a point since what you say March.
• 28:45
  On March 14th. I mean, goodness gracious.
• 28:47
  So yeah, disappointing result and you can say, Oh well, Bill,
• 28:50
  a scrap back to get a point, but I mean, you know, against
• 28:53
  Burnley, that's still a disappointing result.
• 28:55
  So all right, Luca, well, let's move.
• 28:58
  Let's look. We're going to save the Arsenal,
• 28:59
  West Ham games. There's a lot to sort of unpack
• 29:02
  with that one, but let's talk about Spurs hosting leads.
• 29:05
  Yeah, this game ends one one I predicted it to be 31 leads tell
• 29:10
  scores in the 50th minute off of a outswinger from pair or I
• 29:17
  think Poro. Yeah, yeah, Poro corner kick.
• 29:20
  There's so many Pedros and it falls.
• 29:26
  It's headed out, falls right to tell right outside the box.
• 29:29
  He curls it into the far corner and it's a pretty nice school,
• 29:33
  actually. Then he gives away PK about 25
• 29:39
  minutes later in the 74th minute, 24 minutes later,
• 29:43
  Calvert woman PK. Well, describe exactly what
• 29:46
  happened. Yes.
• 29:47
  So it's. On this one.
• 29:48
  It's like bouncing around in the box and it's popped up to tell
• 29:53
  he tries to break school, Kick It Out of his own box, which I
• 29:56
  think is a little bit stupid. Ampados coming in the head it he
• 30:01
  hits the ball but also accidentally kicks Ampadu's
• 30:05
  head. Ampadu goes down and they don't
• 30:07
  call it for a couple minutes, but then the ref goes to the AR
• 30:10
  and calls it a pen. Calvary Lynn steps up and yeah,
• 30:14
  he scores. You do you.
• 30:15
  What do you? What is your take?
• 30:16
  On that I agree with that he does get contacts and even you
• 30:21
  told me after the game Ampadu showed a picture of his head and
• 30:24
  had like a giant bump on it. Yeah, He put something out on
• 30:27
  social media. He's got like a big like a kind
• 30:29
  of a scrape and bump there. Like it at first it was like not
• 30:33
  100% clear. It's look, I think it's crazy.
• 30:37
  Why are you trying to clear the ball with a bicycle kick in your
• 30:39
  own box? Like there's safer, easier ways
• 30:42
  to kind. Of tell, make some questionable
• 30:43
  decisions. I think that's it.
• 30:45
  He's, you know, like you said, you see sort of both sides of
• 30:48
  his game, right? He produces a pretty nice goal,
• 30:50
  you know, and then does something really, really stupid,
• 30:53
  you know, and I think that's sort of his game.
• 30:54
  He feels maybe a little bit immature.
• 30:56
  He does some like, really good things and then some crazy
• 30:58
  things. Earlier in the game, he dribbled
• 30:59
  down to his own. Yeah.
• 31:00
  Sideline, I don't even know why he's that far back and then
• 31:03
  tries to like literally clear the ball like in his own box and
• 31:06
  literally almost gives a free header to one of the Leeds
• 31:10
  players. I mean, it's just he's just sort
• 31:11
  of one of those guys that probably manning the coach
• 31:13
  because you're just like, I did something great and something
• 31:15
  crazy so. Pulling his hair out.
• 31:18
  Yeah. Pulling your hair out.
• 31:21
  But yeah, I think when you saw the other angle on the replay,
• 31:24
  it does look like he catches his head.
• 31:25
  And like I said, we saw later on there's a picture of his head.
• 31:28
  So I think it was a good PK. Yeah, and Kinski makes an
• 31:32
  unbelievable save in the 100th minute.
• 31:36
  Actually there was 13 minutes of that time, 13.
• 31:40
  And they played 15. Yeah, they played 15 because of
• 31:44
  AVAR check and like, I don't know.
• 31:47
  Well describe that this Kinski save.
• 31:49
  I would tell people this is worth going and finding online.
• 31:53
  This. Save It could save the season.
• 31:55
  I mean describe this save a little bit.
• 31:57
  This is. We don't talk about Kinski for
• 31:59
  making that terrible performance to come in all 15 minutes into
• 32:02
  the game against Athletico Madrid, but he's actually taking
• 32:05
  a step up. This is unbelievable.
• 32:08
  So Justin plays long staff in on goal, Justin long staff strikes
• 32:15
  it, Kinski hits, hits it up off the crossbar and it goes out for
• 32:20
  like a corner. But goodness gracious reaction.
• 32:26
  Time yeah it's unbelievable yeah and like I said I mean just this
• 32:29
  is worth going and seeing you can't really when we watched it
• 32:33
  live Luca it looks like long stamp that shoots it off the.
• 32:36
  Crossbar. You can't even tell because the
• 32:38
  ball's he's hit so well and so hard.
• 32:40
  You're like, oh, he just hits it off the crossbar.
• 32:42
  And then on replay, you look, the ball's going in and you
• 32:45
  literally get that, like you said, just a piece of it and
• 32:47
  just enough to deflect it onto the crossbar.
• 32:50
  And I mean, look, I think how important that's safe to be.
• 32:53
  Relegation, Saving save. Yeah, I mean, if that goes in,
• 32:57
  they lose the game and and then they're only one point above
• 33:00
  West Ham. And it's just, you know,
• 33:02
  anybody's, I mean, it's still, look, it's still very, very
• 33:05
  tight for relegation. But I mean, if it comes down to
• 33:07
  one point between Spurs and West Ham and Spurs stay up because of
• 33:11
  that. Yeah.
• 33:12
  Oh my gosh. Amazing.
• 33:14
  I mean, yeah, Spurs 2 points up on West Ham with two games to
• 33:19
  go. Yeah XG Spurs 1.32 to Leeds 1.26
• 33:26
  Spurs now two wins, 6 draws and 10 losses.
• 33:30
  Only 12 points at home. That's kind of amazing to me.
• 33:34
  Like they're that bad at home. So I think all right.
• 33:38
  So they've played eighteen home games, they've won two games at.
• 33:42
  Home with the last two games or away?
• 33:44
  No, no, you play 19 games on the road, 19.
• 33:47
  You play 38 games in the Premier League, 19 away, 19 at home.
• 33:50
  So they've currently now played 18.
• 33:52
  They'll have one more home game and one more away game.
• 33:55
  But right, I mean, they have two wins.
• 33:57
  I mean, how is that even possible?
• 34:00
  Like that doesn't make any sense to me.
• 34:02
  I mean, some teams literally Luca will lose once at home.
• 34:07
  I mean, Arsenal, I guess I've lost twice at home and maybe a
• 34:10
  draw or something. But yeah, I mean, it's why
• 34:14
  they're here basically in this 17th is they can't get points at
• 34:17
  home. You know, they've done fine on
• 34:20
  the road. Actually, if you took the road
• 34:21
  record and then like a normal home record from a team, they.
• 34:24
  They would be like mid table for.
• 34:26
  Sure. So it's like they can't take
• 34:28
  care of business at home in front of their home fans for,
• 34:31
  you know, every sport there's a home court, field, rink
• 34:34
  advantage. I can't wrap my head around it,
• 34:38
  Luca, but that is unbelievable to me.
• 34:40
  Two wins out of 18 so far, only one more game.
• 34:43
  So at most we'll have three wins at home.
• 34:45
  Yeah, but yeah, so yeah, Leeds look officially safe.
• 34:49
  Great season for them. Spurs, like I said, it's still
• 34:53
  on. I mean that, you know, I know
• 34:54
  West Ham feel really hard done by the Arsenal game and and
• 34:57
  losing, but they're still actually in a decent spot.
• 35:00
  Yeah if they win and Spurs lose that flips the whole thing on
• 35:03
  the take cause West Ham move above Spurs.
• 35:05
  And that's exactly it. So, you know, Spurs have Chelsea
• 35:09
  this week, West Ham have Newcastle.
• 35:12
  I mean, who knows what to expect from Chelsea and Newcastle,
• 35:15
  right? I mean.
• 35:16
  A very unpredictable. Team they are so like, but
• 35:19
  there's an easy world where you could tell me that, Oh well,
• 35:22
  Spurs lose to Chelsea and West Ham beat Newcastle.
• 35:26
  You know, like, of course I could see that happening.
• 35:27
  I'm I'm not saying like I do think that'll happen, but
• 35:30
  there's very easy like West Ham have actually been playing very
• 35:33
  well. Look, and and to Spurs credit,
• 35:34
  they've been better. Deserby has done a better job.
• 35:38
  They're unbeaten in their last four.
• 35:40
  So they're, you know, they're playing better.
• 35:44
  And look at it's a good I, I will say this, you know, I, you
• 35:47
  know, don't root for any Spurs glory.
• 35:49
  I don't root for any Spurs player.
• 35:51
  But I like what happened to Kinsky in that Champions League
• 35:53
  where he gets gives up three goals.
• 35:56
  Basically two of them were his fault.
• 35:58
  And then he gets pulled from the game by Tudor, who was their
• 36:00
  interim coach. You know, like, it's that's just
• 36:03
  like embarrassing, like, you know, he knows that he did
• 36:06
  wrong. And then he gets pulled from the
• 36:08
  game and for. 15 minutes into the game, by the way.
• 36:10
  Yeah, like, I mean, I've never ever seen anything like that
• 36:13
  and. I think it's a terrible decision
• 36:14
  by the coach, too. I do, I do.
• 36:16
  I put it on the coach like you mean.
• 36:17
  I would just let the player play through it like, you know, but I
• 36:21
  have to say Luca, I do sort of like him coming back and doing
• 36:25
  something positive. Like it is a nice story to see.
• 36:28
  He's a young kid, Luca, like I don't want to see him like, you
• 36:32
  know, never, you know, I look, I still want to see him give up
• 36:35
  goals and stuff like that, but it is good to see him like
• 36:38
  playing well, like yet another decent save in the first half.
• 36:41
  And like I said that the save he had this week and we'll get on
• 36:44
  to the Arsenal game in a second man, some amazing goaltender
• 36:46
  saves. We don't always talk about
• 36:48
  goaltenders, but Kelleher had a really, really good save.
• 36:50
  Didn't really matter that much in the city Brentford game.
• 36:52
  But and this like I said, the Kinsey save absolutely
• 36:55
  phenomenal. So yeah, look, it's still on
• 36:58
  Spurs, West Ham, like I said, two point difference, two games
• 37:00
  to go. We'll see.
• 37:03
  All right, Luca, well, we may be an hour on this game here, West
• 37:07
  Ham hosting Arsenal. Yeah, this game ends one new
• 37:11
  Arsenal. I predicted 2 new Arsenal.
• 37:15
  So Troy started scores in the 83rd minute from Odegard.
• 37:19
  Odegard kind of dribbles. He gets the ball, he dribbles
• 37:22
  like out, Tribbles back in, plays a 1/2 from Rice, tribbles
• 37:27
  in the box, plays Tricer, Tricer.
• 37:30
  It shoots, it gets reflection, it goes in.
• 37:33
  And yeah, but before that, 11 minutes before then 72nd minute,
• 37:38
  Ryan makes maybe a title saving save.
• 37:40
  Mateus Fernandez is played in a for a 1-2 and strong goal.
• 37:46
  He goes near post and Ryan, just like he gets it with his leg.
• 37:50
  It was unbelievable. What a save.
• 37:53
  And then at the very end of the game, West Ham score.
• 37:56
  But there's a 6 minute VAR check for West Ham which ended up not
• 38:03
  going to West Ham's favor. It was a foul on Ryah.
• 38:06
  Pablo is like pulling Ryah's arm.
• 38:09
  He drops the ball. It falls to Cal Wilson who
• 38:14
  rockets a volley. It crosses the line, even though
• 38:17
  Rice's efforts to try and keep it out, we're just like dying.
• 38:23
  We're like, no, what? And then we're happy again
• 38:27
  because they called it back. And I, in my opinion, I do think
• 38:33
  this is a foul, not being biased.
• 38:35
  He does pull him. And I think goalies do get a
• 38:38
  little more protection just because, like, I mean, if you
• 38:44
  foul goaltenders, it's just an open goal basically and no other
• 38:48
  player can use your hands anyway.
• 38:50
  West Ham had been unbeaten in last six at home and Arsenal
• 38:53
  five points up one City, although City have that game in
• 38:56
  hand. Yeah, it's a 7th Arsenal 1,
• 38:58
  nothing of the season. It just goes to show you like
• 39:01
  how good the defense has been and like, that's how we seem to
• 39:04
  win games. Yeah, Rye is third straight
• 39:07
  Premier League Golden Gloves, so he has 18 clean sheets.
• 39:11
  He's, like I said, got. He's going to win the Golden
• 39:12
  Gloves. Oh so no one has like 16 or
• 39:15
  anything? Nope, nobody can catch him.
• 39:18
  So Luca, three other goaltenders have won three straight Golden
• 39:22
  Globes. It's actually pretty tough to
• 39:24
  come up with this. You have any you want to take?
• 39:26
  Any guesses on these? Well, I'm assuming check.
• 39:29
  No. Oh my.
• 39:31
  God. OK.
• 39:31
  It's Michael. No.
• 39:34
  Allison no Ederson. Ederson did it in 2020 to 2022.
• 39:40
  Ederson 3 straight. So no goalie has done it four
• 39:43
  times. So Ryan could break a Premier
• 39:45
  League record if he can do it next year.
• 39:48
  And then is it a legend? It's like a play right now.
• 39:51
  You know these two players, they are not legends.
• 39:54
  One played for Liverpool, One played for City, like about 10
• 40:02
  years before Anderson got there. It's.
• 40:07
  It's tough. These are tough.
• 40:08
  I mean, like I said, you'll know the names.
• 40:09
  I don't think you'll come up with them.
• 40:11
  It's pretty tough. Oh, Joe Hart.
• 40:13
  Joe Hart, good call. Yeah, from 2011 to 2000. 13 and
• 40:17
  he said the Liverpool. Liverpool goalie, I'll give you
• 40:19
  the years O6 to O8. Do deck.
• 40:25
  Good, good guess. Pepe, Rania.
• 40:29
  OK, I would never. It's hard, it goes to show you.
• 40:33
  I mean, there's been a ton of great goalies that have played
• 40:35
  in the Premier League, but to win three straight Golden Gloves
• 40:37
  is actually really, really difficult.
• 40:39
  Which of course, what what that means.
• 40:41
  If anybody doesn't, if that's clean sheets, it's a basically
• 40:43
  accumulation of your clean sheets.
• 40:45
  So like this was his 18th. Look at that.
• 40:48
  So there's a ton to unpack here. I want to first start like the
• 40:51
  flow of this game. You know, Arsenal I think
• 40:54
  started off very, very well in this game.
• 40:55
  We were on the front foot. I think, you know, you said
• 40:57
  Trosard header like early on in the game hits it off the post or
• 41:02
  crossbar. When Ben White gets hurt though,
• 41:06
  Arteta moves Rice to right back and brings in Zubamendi.
• 41:09
  So Ben White playing right back. What were your thoughts on?
• 41:12
  That I didn't love it. You didn't love it.
• 41:14
  I would have just probably mascara, although wait, it
• 41:17
  wasn't like starting to change my mind because I was thinking
• 41:21
  it's it gives like Rice on the right back gives us a little
• 41:25
  more attacking threat from the right flank.
• 41:28
  Like mascaras are a little more defensive than right, like Rice
• 41:32
  playing right back or Ben White. So in a way it could be good,
• 41:36
  but in a way I did not. I also did.
• 41:38
  Well, you know, I think at the time, I mean, looking back on
• 41:41
  it, I think the game clearly started to change a little bit
• 41:44
  there though, because I think West Ham started to get the foot
• 41:46
  in the game, started to get a little bit on the ball, start to
• 41:49
  have a little bit more possession where that first 35
• 41:51
  minutes we were pretty dominant. I guess.
• 41:53
  I'm not saying we created a whole lot.
• 41:55
  We were pretty dominant. And also I think the thing about
• 41:58
  it, what I didn't quite think about it at first is that you
• 42:00
  can put Rice at right, right back and I think you can do OK
• 42:03
  there, but then you don't have Rice in the midfield.
• 42:06
  And I think that's where all of a sudden the game started
• 42:08
  tilting a little bit is we don't if we don't have him in the
• 42:11
  midfield. You know, I think West Ham
• 42:13
  started midfielder started having a little bit more time on
• 42:15
  the ball, a little bit more possession.
• 42:17
  And I didn't quite think about it at first where you're like,
• 42:19
  OK, yeah, Rice can go in and do the job, but then you don't have
• 42:22
  him in the midfield. And I think that was a big loss.
• 42:24
  And I think Arteta realized that that's why he makes a halftime
• 42:28
  substitution to bring in mascara, move Rice back to the
• 42:31
  midfield. So I think even Arteta realized
• 42:33
  he made a mistake and I think it was good for him to quickly
• 42:37
  correct it rather than saying, well, I'm just going to stick
• 42:40
  with it. He.
• 42:41
  Didn't make a halftime. It wasn't halftime.
• 42:43
  It was like 5655. It wasn't a halftime, OK, So he
• 42:47
  ran with it for a little bit and then he brought muscarian, but
• 42:50
  no the Cal. Yeah, OK, because the Cal Fury
• 42:52
  started. Oh, Cal Fury didn't come off at
• 42:54
  halftime. Yeah, Yeah.
• 42:55
  But so they and they moved with Skelly, right?
• 42:59
  OK. So he, he, he, like I said,
• 43:00
  makes a couple tweaks there. Because he he takes his
• 43:03
  yubimendi off. Well he does, but not right
• 43:05
  away. He brings Yubimendi on, then he
• 43:07
  takes him off like later on. But you know, and then Luca go
• 43:12
  into so, you know, the emotions of this game for us, you know,
• 43:16
  is you start off and you're feeling pretty positive we're
• 43:19
  off to this good start. Then all of a sudden the game
• 43:21
  just sort of starts dragging on, dragging on, and you're thinking
• 43:25
  like, we got to get a goal here, like we can't tie the game, you
• 43:28
  know, and you're just like, for me, I'm getting more anxious,
• 43:30
  more nervous. You're getting later and later
• 43:33
  into the game. And then when Ryan makes that
• 43:35
  save, you know, I mean, you think back to like moments where
• 43:39
  goaltenders can like, change the course of like, a season, A
• 43:42
  tournament. You know, I think back to when
• 43:44
  Son had the breakaway against Ortega when we needed Tottenham
• 43:47
  to beat City. And there it was, on like Son's
• 43:50
  foot. And Ortega makes that save.
• 43:52
  I don't think someone tries hardest to score though.
• 43:56
  Well, I don't know. Not really trying to do Arsenal
• 43:58
  any favors. Well, I know, but I mean, in the
• 44:00
  moment I don't know that he's thinking about Arsenal as he has
• 44:02
  a breakaway in a Premier League game.
• 44:04
  You know, I'm not going to get into conspiracy theories like
• 44:06
  son intentionally missed it, but also think of like World Cup.
• 44:10
  Emmy Martinez was an Uncola Milani, you know, that save
• 44:13
  literally basically won Argentina the World Cup.
• 44:16
  You know, in the end, I just wonder if we're going to look
• 44:19
  back possibly at the end of the season and who knows what it
• 44:21
  means yet because there's still 2 games to go.
• 44:22
  If you're going to look back on that Riot save and be like, you
• 44:25
  know. Oh, in the riot save against
• 44:27
  Brenton. Riot save against Brenton.
• 44:30
  The one where like Mintos crawls it and riot tips it over the
• 44:34
  bar. Yeah, yeah.
• 44:36
  I mean, look, you can go back and look at a lot of goals and
• 44:38
  like great saves that they had. I'm just saying like this moment
• 44:41
  at this point of the season, with the pressure, the way it
• 44:43
  was with this game, sort of getting away from Arsenal a
• 44:47
  little bit. I mean, think about if West Ham
• 44:48
  score that goal in the 74th in it, they can just sit back.
• 44:52
  They can just defended out, you know.
• 44:54
  So yeah, I mean like it's we're getting so nervous. 1 You said
• 44:59
  it like Odegard, you described it.
• 45:00
  He was really good for us. He was.
• 45:02
  You know, he's not had a great season.
• 45:05
  He's been injured. I don't think his form has been
• 45:07
  great. But I think we have to say, like
• 45:08
  the captain came on Luca, we need big.
• 45:10
  What do I always tell you, like big players step up in big
• 45:12
  games. And I mean, you have to admit he
• 45:15
  was very positive in this game. He was and did really well to
• 45:18
  set Troy Sart up for that goal. Yeah, he was.
• 45:22
  Yeah, and and, you know, then going to this far decision,
• 45:25
  Luca. You know, I mean, I I tried the
• 45:27
  best I could before our podcast to listen to a lot of like
• 45:31
  neutrals. I listen to a bunch of podcasts
• 45:33
  trying to read a bunch of stuff that had nothing to do with
• 45:35
  Arsenal fans, nothing to do with City fans, Tottenham fans, West
• 45:38
  Ham fan, just like people that are neutral looking at this.
• 45:41
  And I feel like not everybody, you know, like Peter Schmeichel
• 45:45
  was saying, no way that this, you know, should be a foul.
• 45:47
  This happens all the time, but the majority of the people, you
• 45:51
  know, and there was a referee, there was like a retired referee
• 45:54
  that kind of like weighed in on it and, you know, basically said
• 46:00
  what it has to come down to is holding the goalkeeper's arms,
• 46:03
  preventing him from getting the ball.
• 46:05
  That's the foul. There is a lot of clutching,
• 46:08
  grabbing, shirt pulling all the time.
• 46:11
  And Rya's shirt is being pulled. And if that was all that there
• 46:14
  was, I would say we don't have any case for this being
• 46:18
  overturned. But I do think Raya catches the
• 46:20
  ball or punches it away if his arm is not held.
• 46:23
  And if you look, there's this clear evidence that his arm is
• 46:26
  not only almost being held down, but almost like being gripped.
• 46:29
  And I think it does prevent him. And Raya, you know, look, we
• 46:31
  know this is one of the best, I think highball catchers in the
• 46:34
  Premier League. You know, he is so good at
• 46:36
  coming and getting those balls that I, I just, I do think they
• 46:39
  made the right call here. I, I know City fans are probably
• 46:42
  going to think differently. West Ham fans are going to think
• 46:44
  differently. But I think it's, you know, like
• 46:46
  I said, I tried to read as many neutral things to see and I
• 46:49
  think it was like 80 to 90% of the things that I read from
• 46:52
  people that have no skin in the game, you know, not a fan of
• 46:54
  either team. We're saying like, yeah, this is
• 46:56
  sort of a foul. I do think though, Lucas, we do
• 47:00
  have a problem with free kicks and corner kicks, the clutching,
• 47:03
  the grabbing, the shirt pulling. They've got to figure out a way
• 47:06
  to clean that part of it up because I don't like it either.
• 47:09
  And look, you know, like we do it, but every team does it.
• 47:13
  It. It's ridiculous, though.
• 47:15
  I mean, you know, I think they've got to figure out a way
• 47:17
  to get that cleaned up. Yeah, I mean, it's been a
• 47:20
  problem for a while now. Yeah, I I agree with you, they
• 47:25
  do need to find a solution. I mean, well, I, I, you know,
• 47:27
  and I guess my question to you and I, I don't know that I have
• 47:30
  a great answer is like, well, what do you do outside of just
• 47:32
  like saying we're going to call it, which then all of a sudden
• 47:36
  there's going to be like. So many calls.
• 47:38
  So many calls which are going to lead to penalties.
• 47:41
  But then you said, I don't now thinking of that, I would just
• 47:45
  play I I would just play on with it.
• 47:47
  You're just, you're just, you're just cool with it.
• 47:50
  I mean, I don't want there to be penalties galore.
• 47:53
  But look, I think it's getting worse.
• 47:55
  Like, don't you feel like it started off and it'd be like a
• 47:56
  little bit of clutching and a little bit of grabbing and now
• 47:58
  it is literally like tackling people in the box and.
• 48:01
  Well, OK, if there's that, then yes, call that, but not, not
• 48:05
  quite just pulling the shirts and now, no, we can let that
• 48:08
  slide. I know I think it's a tricky one
• 48:11
  because I would like to see it called more.
• 48:13
  I agree with you. I don't want penalty like 5
• 48:15
  penalty kicks a game, but I just feel like, Oh my gosh, like I
• 48:19
  just watch these corner kicks and, and like the corner the,
• 48:21
  the way everybody does corner kicks now are in swingers right
• 48:25
  on top of the goalie and everybody puts like 6 players
• 48:28
  right on top of the goalie. And you just, and, and like you
• 48:30
  have a right to do that. I mean, look, you have a right
• 48:32
  to do an in swinger and you have a right to position people
• 48:35
  there, but I just like when people are just, you know,
• 48:38
  grabbing shirts and tackling guys down.
• 48:40
  I mean, I don't know, like we'll see.
• 48:43
  You know, there's been some talk that they may look at this after
• 48:45
  the World Cup. The one of the the rules is the
• 48:48
  IAFB are the ones that look at like soccer rules.
• 48:50
  And they there's been some talk about, yes, they recognize it's
• 48:53
  a problem. They want to try to do something
• 48:55
  about it. I'll be curious to see what they
• 48:57
  come up with. But anyway, Luca big win for
• 49:00
  Arsenal. Luca Arsenal win their last two
• 49:03
  games. They are Premier League
• 49:04
  champions. Yes.
• 49:06
  They've got Burnley this week and then Crystal Palace the last
• 49:09
  week. I mean, it's not done yet, but
• 49:12
  this was a big step. This was a big step.
• 49:15
  I thought this was probably the hardest of the final three.
• 49:17
  Yeah, yeah, it was so. We'll see.
• 49:20
  But all right, Luca. Well, there it is.
• 49:21
  There's the week 36 wrap up. All right.
• 49:26
  Well, one thing Luca, just also was we're talking about results
• 49:28
  from this week. We had the at the Championship
• 49:31
  playoff we had Millwall playing Hull which their first leg ended
• 49:36
  00. Second leg Hull with the upset
• 49:40
  wins 2. Nothing.
• 49:41
  So Hull are now in the Championship playoff final and
• 49:46
  the other one is between Southampton and Middlesboro.
• 49:49
  First leg of that ended 00. Jeez, you were born.
• 49:54
  The second leg, currently 11 in the 112th minute, so that is
• 49:58
  going on right now and either Southampton or Middlesboro will
• 50:03
  win that and they will play Hull in the Champions League final,
• 50:07
  which they play at Wembley, and the winner of that makes it
• 50:09
  premiere. That, I mean, I kind of would
• 50:13
  like to see Hull in the Premier League in a while.
• 50:17
  I mean, we've seen Southampton and Middlesbrough, I know that
• 50:21
  would be cool, but like we haven't seen Hull.
• 50:23
  And so they were like one of the first teams in the Premier
• 50:26
  League in the 9293 season. They were one of the original.
• 50:30
  Things they were on, it's definitely been in the Premier
• 50:33
  League before. They have been, I know they have
• 50:34
  been in the Premier League before and you're right, it is
• 50:36
  been a while that they've been there and they finished in
• 50:39
  sixth. They were the team that jumped
• 50:40
  Rexam on the final day of the Championship season, so they
• 50:44
  barely squeaked into the playoff.
• 50:46
  But now they're literally one game away from making the
• 50:48
  Premier League. And of course they always say
• 50:50
  it's like a $250 million game because that's the difference in
• 50:53
  how much money the team will get from being in the Premier League
• 50:56
  or Championship for a season. So it's but yeah, it's a fun
• 51:00
  game. Like I said, when they play that
• 51:02
  final, I can't remember when in the final is probably in about
• 51:06
  like a week and 1/2 or so. But like I said, haven't quite
• 51:10
  figured out the last team to be promoted, but we're getting
• 51:12
  close. So all right, Luca, well, that's
• 51:16
  week 36. I need a player of the week,
• 51:18
  goal of the week and team of the week from.
• 51:21
  My goal week is getting me Gravin Birch, My player of the
• 51:27
  week is going to be Raya for saving Arsenal.
• 51:30
  OK, I might have saved the Premier League title.
• 51:33
  And my team of the week is, is Arsenal.
• 51:41
  Arsenal, I mean, I, I kind of have to give it to them boys.
• 51:45
  And there's a lot of draws this week.
• 51:47
  So no team really stood out. Yeah, it's tricky because we're
• 51:49
  getting to the point now we're like we're.
• 51:51
  Not giving anything to city so like.
• 51:54
  Well, we just, we have a lot of games that don't mean a ton.
• 51:57
  So yeah, it's kind of hard to find a.
• 52:00
  Team a week, Yeah. All right, Luca, well, let's
• 52:02
  look ahead to Week 37, OK? We are, like I said, second to
• 52:06
  last week, the penultimate week. Here's an all sorts of vocab
• 52:09
  words here. We have portmanteau penultimate,
• 52:12
  which means a second to last. All right, So Luca, we start
• 52:16
  off, we're going to have 11 games because we finally get
• 52:19
  City to get that game in hand done, and that'll be on
• 52:22
  Wednesday. So we're going to kind of bundle
• 52:24
  that in as we then roll into our week 37 games.
• 52:27
  So we're going to pick City and Palace games twice, but the
• 52:30
  first one, Luca, starts Wednesday.
• 52:32
  Tomorrow, May 13th, you have City hosting at the Etihad,
• 52:36
  Crystal Palace. What do you think for this game?
• 52:40
  I want to, I want to hope that Crystal Palace is going to, you
• 52:43
  know, do something, but I just don't see it happening.
• 52:47
  Now I'm going to have to go to Nothing City.
• 52:50
  Yeah, I'm kind of witty on this one.
• 52:52
  I I don't think that Palace, you know, Palace play good defense.
• 52:57
  They're yeah, but I just don't think there's, they have a lot
• 53:00
  of motivation in this game. It's on the road.
• 53:02
  I think City at home, I think they get it done too.
• 53:04
  I just can't see Palace being able to get the result here now.
• 53:09
  I guess you could argue City may be resting a few starters
• 53:12
  because they've got the FA Cup final is 10 AM on Saturday.
• 53:16
  B team could beat Chelsea. Well, I agree.
• 53:18
  That's the thing, City right now, I think I've already all
• 53:21
  injured and maybe that's it. Like Diaz coming off an injury.
• 53:26
  Yeah. And so they have a healthy team,
• 53:28
  like you said, their bench can be 90% of the Premier League
• 53:31
  teams pretty easily. So all right, Luke.
• 53:33
  Well, then we move on to Friday. We have a game on Friday, which
• 53:36
  is Aston Villa hosting Liverpool, which really doesn't
• 53:39
  mean anything except for our bet finishes higher here.
• 53:43
  So Villa at home against Liverpool.
• 53:45
  You like it? I want to bet for Villa but I'm
• 53:48
  going to say 32 Liverpool. 32 Liverpool OK What makes you
• 53:52
  think Liverpool can win on the road?
• 53:54
  I just think they're a better team and Villa have just been
• 53:57
  not playing very good after tying Burnley.
• 54:01
  So yeah, Liverpool are not bad on the road too.
• 54:04
  I think they can win. All right, well then, Luca.
• 54:08
  So we get no games on Saturday because the FA Cup final gets
• 54:12
  the the whole day of course. Then Sunday we get a ton of
• 54:16
  games, starting with Man U hosting Nottingham Forest.
• 54:20
  I think it's going to be 11. 11 OK what about Walt hosting full.
• 54:27
  I'm going to go one nil full. One nil full.
• 54:31
  Yeah, Leeds hosting Brighton. I'm going to go to 1 Brighton.
• 54:38
  OK Ellen Rd. Not a not an easy place to get a
• 54:41
  result. Yeah, I think it's going to come
• 54:42
  close. You're going to get like a
• 54:43
  weight, weight winner. OK, Everton hosting Sunderland.
• 54:48
  I think 22. 22 OK, All right, We've got Brentford hosting
• 54:56
  Crystal Palace. So you know, Palace, like I
• 54:58
  said, coming off, this is their second game in the week.
• 55:02
  They played City on Wednesday and they've got to go on the
• 55:04
  road again playing Brent. I think you have some tired legs
• 55:08
  and I think it's going to two. Nothing, Brentford. 2 Nothing
• 55:10
  Brentford Yeah, Brentford. So with a lot to play for, good
• 55:12
  at home. All right, look, well, here's an
• 55:15
  important game for West Ham. Okay, West Ham on the road,
• 55:18
  playing Newcastle. Like I said, West Ham and a
• 55:21
  relegation scrap here, 2 points behind Tottenham.
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  What do you like? What do you see from West Ham,
• 55:26
  Newcastle? I think it's going to be a
• 55:27
  pretty boring game one nothing West Ham.
• 55:29
  Oh my God, Luga, you think West Ham, we're going to get it done,
• 55:33
  get the three points all right. It's.
• 55:37
  Going to be a scrappy game, not going to be very entertaining.
• 55:40
  All right, well then Luga, we again go to Monday.
• 55:42
  Okay, Monday, one game, we've got Arsenal, our boys toasting
• 55:46
  Burnley. So like I said, we are up in the
• 55:50
  Premier League, we were playing the second to worst team but
• 55:53
  nerves Luca, this is it. It's hard with a run in.
• 55:55
  What do you see in the Arsenal? Burn.
• 55:57
  I didn't give me 3. Nothing.
• 55:58
  Arsenal. 3 Nothing, Arsenal. All right, well, tell me why.
• 56:01
  Take me through your sort of thought process.
• 56:03
  Because I mean, Arsenal are just so much better than Burnley and
• 56:08
  Burnley have just been on this terrible run like I and they
• 56:13
  have nothing to play for. They're probably not even in a
• 56:16
  hope they won't try and Arsenal are coming off that big win
• 56:20
  against West Ham should have some confidence.
• 56:23
  They beat full and three nothing.
• 56:24
  Maybe we'll start the same lineup, but yeah, I I just think
• 56:28
  we we will forfeit on them. I mean this, this should be the
• 56:32
  result, you know, and it is hard to imagine a world where
• 56:36
  Burnley, you know, tie or somehow beat Arsenal.
• 56:40
  I mean, look, we, we, we drew with Wolves this year.
• 56:43
  You know, it's, it's not like these games are just.
• 56:46
  I honestly think Burnley are worse than wolves.
• 56:48
  Well, they may be, you know, and now the only, like you said,
• 56:52
  when we played against Wolves, they were still fighting to not
• 56:54
  be relegated again. Like you said, a lot to play
• 56:56
  for. This is sort of where, you know,
• 56:57
  this happens in every sport where teams are like not in the
• 56:59
  playoffs and they just sort of, you know, you'd like to think
• 57:03
  that everybody gives 100% every time, but there's this sort of a
• 57:05
  mentality. It's been a long season.
• 57:07
  They're tired, they know they're getting relegated.
• 57:08
  Like do they really have that sort of, you know, that extra
• 57:12
  oomph, that next gear to really try to challenge, you know, like
• 57:16
  Arsenal have everything to play for, you know, so it is hard,
• 57:21
  but it it's like there's just that nervousness about we're so
• 57:25
  close, like, you know, and we've been close before and there's
• 57:28
  always been something that's sort of gotten there and like,
• 57:31
  you know, but I I agree with you.
• 57:33
  This is sort of a chance to hopefully make up a little goal
• 57:36
  differential. You know, if it does come down
• 57:38
  to that point with City where we tie, you would like to think a
• 57:41
  home game against Burnley, you're going to get plus three
• 57:43
  or more for all differential. I would take it Luca 3 nothing
• 57:47
  win. I would absolutely take.
• 57:49
  I hope that my hope for this game would be can Arsenal can
• 57:53
  get like an early goal within 15 minutes and maybe a second
• 57:56
  before half and then you can kind of maybe cruise a little
• 58:00
  bit in the second-half, you know, manage some tired legs.
• 58:04
  Maybe you just like you said, get another goal.
• 58:07
  You know, you do wonder, Luca is now we're on a Arsenal on our
• 58:12
  schedule of a game a week now, which is more is less than we've
• 58:16
  been playing where we've been midweek all the time with all
• 58:18
  these other tournaments, FA Cup, Carabao Cup and Champions
• 58:20
  League. So it does give him a little
• 58:22
  time to rest. If you would, you maybe leave
• 58:25
  people in a little bit longer pushing for more goals.
• 58:28
  Like let's say you are up, I would you would.
• 58:31
  Because we need goal to French, we need that extra like.
• 58:35
  So the risk with it would be one injury, right?
• 58:38
  You leave guys in there tight or a team like Burnley tried to hit
• 58:41
  you on the counter. So you're pushing for that
• 58:43
  fourth goal and they then hit you on the counter and score,
• 58:46
  you know, So what? So you but.
• 58:48
  You I would take that risk. You would take that risk?
• 58:51
  Yeah. I so I'm, I'm with you on
• 58:54
  pushing. I still think, you know, I'd
• 58:57
  probably pull Saka out. I would I would probably pull
• 59:01
  Saka out. I think there's certain guys
• 59:03
  because we have a good bench, right.
• 59:05
  So if you put, let's say, you know, you put in Matawake or
• 59:09
  Dalman or Haverts for the Ocharis look, we they're so
• 59:14
  really, really quality players. Eze or Odegard, you know,
• 59:17
  whoever starts to bring the other one in.
• 59:18
  So I think you can do both, I think, and that's the advantage
• 59:21
  of a very deep team. One thing to keep an eye on Luca
• 59:24
  Ben White done for the year. Really.
• 59:26
  What happened? NCL, which is a ligament on the
• 59:29
  inside of your knee. I don't know if it's torn or
• 59:32
  just sprained, but he is. He will not be back and likely
• 59:35
  will miss the World Cup for England.
• 59:37
  Which is, oh, was he really going to get a call up anywhere?
• 59:40
  Well, he probably wouldn't have made the final team, but you
• 59:44
  know, yeah. So I don't know.
• 59:46
  I probably wouldn't have made the final team.
• 59:47
  But we're we're short on right backs now.
• 59:49
  You got now Mascaras are only sort of pure right back.
• 59:53
  Timber doesn't look good for him to come back.
• 59:56
  And even if he comes back, like how match fit is he?
• 59:59
  How sharp is he? So right back for Arsenal, Luca,
• 1:00:02
  a little thing to keep an eye on.
• 1:00:05
  Like I said, this makes me a little nervous, but Mascara's
• 1:00:07
  still a good guy who should be able to get the job done against
• 1:00:11
  Palace and Burnley now against PSG in a Champions League final.
• 1:00:17
  That's a problem as far as as far as Kelly on the left side
• 1:00:20
  for PS2 running it now. He's going to make toast of most
• 1:00:24
  guys. But anyway, let's one step at a
• 1:00:26
  time. Let's just get by Burnley, then
• 1:00:28
  we'll talk. I'm not excited for that
• 1:00:30
  Champions League final. At least if we win the Premier
• 1:00:32
  League I won't feel as much pain when we lose.
• 1:00:37
  Well, look, I, I, yes, I, I think to me, I look at it and
• 1:00:40
  I'm like just one step at a time.
• 1:00:41
  Just let's just try to get the job done in the Premier League.
• 1:00:44
  Then we can turn our attention to the Champions League.
• 1:00:46
  If, if, if Arsenal win the Premier League, to me the
• 1:00:50
  Champions League almost becomes like gravy.
• 1:00:51
  It's just like if they do it amazing, maybe one of the best
• 1:00:55
  Arsenal seasons ever. Maybe you would say even Terry
• 1:00:58
  Henry has said this if they do the double or no, I thought I'm
• 1:01:00
  sorry, I think Ian Wright said, you know, legendary Arsenal
• 1:01:03
  striker. If they do the double, this is
• 1:01:05
  probably the best team ever, even more than the Invincibles
• 1:01:08
  because the Invincibles never won the Champions.
• 1:01:10
  True. So you know, but anyway, to me
• 1:01:14
  it's just like one step at a time, three games left, one game
• 1:01:17
  at a time. But anyway, all right, Luca.
• 1:01:20
  Well, let's move on then to Bournemouth hosting Man City.
• 1:01:24
  This game will be on Tuesday. We have two of the games on
• 1:01:28
  Tuesday then, which will wrap up Week 37.
• 1:01:30
  So Week 37 is going to kind of stretch from Wednesday to
• 1:01:32
  Tuesday before then. All the other games will be next
• 1:01:37
  Sunday to finish off the season. But tell me what you see in this
• 1:01:40
  game. This game is fast.
• 1:01:41
  Enough. I'm going to go to 1.
• 1:01:42
  Bournemouth. Oh.
• 1:01:43
  My gosh, Bournemouth win the game.
• 1:01:45
  Yes. Why do you think Bournemouth are
• 1:01:47
  going to beat City in this game? I I just think it's really hard
• 1:01:53
  to go there. And they beat Arsenal at, at the
• 1:01:58
  Emirates. So I think they'll have
• 1:01:59
  confidence and they can take it from that game.
• 1:02:03
  And I just feel like City are gonna have some tired legs maybe
• 1:02:08
  and it'll, it'll be close. But I just think Bournemouth,
• 1:02:11
  they're gonna get it. They're rolling.
• 1:02:12
  They have confidence, yeah. Yeah, I I think this is super
• 1:02:18
  interesting. Like I am just sort of
• 1:02:19
  fascinated by how City sort of managed through these games.
• 1:02:23
  Like I said, these four games in 10 days, you know, because this
• 1:02:27
  one, like I said before, this one to me, I have sort of
• 1:02:29
  circled as AI think maybe a tie. I don't know if City, I mean, I
• 1:02:34
  agree with you all those things, but I mean, City are just,
• 1:02:37
  they're so dangerous offensively, you know, and I
• 1:02:40
  think Bournemouth, look, Bournemouth are going to play
• 1:02:42
  their game. They're going to press, you
• 1:02:43
  know, they're going to press high up.
• 1:02:45
  But I think that kind of plays into what City does really well,
• 1:02:48
  which is like passing through you really super skilled guys on
• 1:02:50
  the ball. I think with City kind of
• 1:02:53
  sometimes struggles with his physicality.
• 1:02:56
  And I'm not saying Bournemouth are not a physical team, but I
• 1:02:58
  don't think that's their exactly their game, you know?
• 1:03:01
  Yeah, but I do think Bournemouth maybe could get a tie and if
• 1:03:06
  that's the case, Luca, we may win.
• 1:03:09
  So if Arsenal win against Burnley and City then tie this
• 1:03:12
  game, it will not matter the final game, Arsenal will have
• 1:03:15
  won the title sitting at home on the couch watching this game.
• 1:03:18
  So there was a chance on Tuesday, depending on the result
• 1:03:22
  of this game, depending on what we do on Sunday and the result
• 1:03:26
  of this game. So it could be one of those very
• 1:03:28
  anti climactic things, but I don't care, I would take it.
• 1:03:32
  Yeah, me too. All right, Luke, in the final
• 1:03:34
  game. Then also on Tuesday, you have
• 1:03:36
  Chelsea hosting Spurs. I'm gonna go 21, Chelsea. 21
• 1:03:41
  Chelsea All right, so Luca, if this plays out the way you said,
• 1:03:45
  then you have West Ham above Spurs and Arsenal will have won
• 1:03:50
  the title at the end. Of all, yes.
• 1:03:52
  All right, well, I like it, Luca.
• 1:03:53
  I like it. I hope you're right.
• 1:03:56
  All right, Well, yeah, that's it.
• 1:03:59
  So we got your picks in for a big week 37.
• 1:04:03
  All right, Luca, ready for our viewer mailbag question?
• 1:04:06
  OK, Mailbag question to you, Luca.
• 1:04:09
  This week comes from me. My question, Luca, is we're
• 1:04:12
  getting to the end of the seasons here.
• 1:04:13
  Now I want to know your top three candidates for the
• 1:04:17
  Balandor, which the Balandor is given.
• 1:04:19
  What is the Balandor? It's given to the best player in
• 1:04:22
  the world. Exactly.
• 1:04:24
  So it's sort of like the MVP of the world and and the Balandor
• 1:04:27
  can be anybody, right? It can be anybody from any team
• 1:04:30
  in any league. It's not just specific to the
• 1:04:32
  Premier League or anything like that.
• 1:04:33
  Now the Premier League does give out a word for like Premier
• 1:04:35
  League player. The Balandor is sort of the
• 1:04:37
  highest honor you can get. Now a lot of it, the World Cup
• 1:04:41
  will factor into this. But I'm just curiously after the
• 1:04:43
  leagues have finished up, what are your thoughts on right now
• 1:04:46
  top three for Balandor? Can I say I'm not in order?
• 1:04:51
  Can I say my 3 candy? Yeah, that's fine.
• 1:04:53
  That's fine. Doesn't necessarily like to be
• 1:04:54
  in. Order Yamal, Holland and Rice.
• 1:05:01
  All right, Well, tell me what what what's your thought process
• 1:05:03
  on on. I mean, Laminia Mall, Laminia
• 1:05:07
  Mall is just, well, he's one of my favorite players, but I'm not
• 1:05:11
  being biased. I think he's probably maybe one
• 1:05:14
  of the best players in the world.
• 1:05:15
  He's probably top two, top three best players in the world right
• 1:05:18
  now. He can dribble almost anybody
• 1:05:22
  and he's really good finishing and I think he won Maliga.
• 1:05:27
  Barcelona didn't do great in Champions League, but I do think
• 1:05:31
  he produced enough to be a bond or winner.
• 1:05:34
  OK. What's your thought on Holland?
• 1:05:36
  Holland is just an unbelievable goal scorer.
• 1:05:39
  He has led his team to a Caribou Cup win and possibly AFA Cup
• 1:05:46
  win, and they're still challenging for the title.
• 1:05:49
  I mean, he's been just scoring like just awesome goals.
• 1:05:56
  I mean, it's annoying, but you know, it is what it is.
• 1:06:00
  OK, and then tell me what? What about rice?
• 1:06:02
  I mean, Rice is just he never runs out of energies, always
• 1:06:06
  running sprinting, always winning the ball in midfield and
• 1:06:10
  is a good finisher and could lead Arsenal to a Champions
• 1:06:13
  League and a Premier League title.
• 1:06:15
  OK, what about would now? What about if I said Ryan?
• 1:06:21
  Yes, Raya would be top 10 for me.
• 1:06:23
  Top 10 but not top 3. Not top 3.
• 1:06:26
  OK. Because I think almost like when
• 1:06:27
  you look at, I'm with you. Like top five?
• 1:06:30
  When I think of like Arsenal's player of the year and we'll
• 1:06:32
  maybe we'll do a little like, you know, at the end of the
• 1:06:34
  season kind of player of the year for teams.
• 1:06:35
  I agree with you. Like Rice and Raya have probably
• 1:06:39
  been the two most important players.
• 1:06:42
  Oh, like most improved probably. Well.
• 1:06:45
  I I think they both played at a super high level, you know, last
• 1:06:48
  year. I mean, to say they've improved.
• 1:06:51
  I mean, maybe I, I do think they've improved, most improved,
• 1:06:55
  maybe, I don't know. I mean, you know, I think they
• 1:06:59
  both have been better than they were last year, which is
• 1:07:02
  starting the bar really high because they both were great
• 1:07:04
  last year. But yeah, look, I mean, Holland,
• 1:07:07
  like I said, he's playing in the best league in the world.
• 1:07:09
  He's going to win the Golden Boot.
• 1:07:11
  He's kind of mixed in some assists this year, too.
• 1:07:13
  Yeah, he's got like 6. I feel like he's got more
• 1:07:17
  assists than that. Actually.
• 1:07:17
  I was kind of surprised when I like saw, like when you actually
• 1:07:21
  look at assists, he's got 8 assists, you know, which was
• 1:07:24
  some fourth in the Premier League in assists.
• 1:07:26
  Wow. And Aluminium all is a good, I
• 1:07:29
  mean good call. So Lamall Luca, you know, he's
• 1:07:32
  going to finish I think 4th. He's he's obviously out for the
• 1:07:36
  rest of the year. So he's going to right now
• 1:07:37
  finish 4th in La Liga in goal 16, but first in assists with
• 1:07:41
  11, so 27 goal involvement. That's pretty good.
• 1:07:44
  His team ran away with La Liga. Yeah.
• 1:07:47
  Did fine in the Champions League.
• 1:07:49
  I don't think they got Copa del Rey.
• 1:07:51
  Went to a weird. Team it was Sociedad.
• 1:07:54
  Sociedad So I mean one trophy, you know, if if Rice, let's say
• 1:08:00
  Arsenal do not win Champions League or Premier League, would
• 1:08:03
  you still include Rice in your top three?
• 1:08:05
  Yeah, you would. Yeah, I would not.
• 1:08:09
  I think he's got to close the deal on one of those trophies.
• 1:08:12
  What about Harry Kane? Like, Oh yeah, probably Harry
• 1:08:14
  Kane. I should have included him.
• 1:08:17
  Yeah, I mean it. It's absurd.
• 1:08:18
  Like a 33. Goals.
• 1:08:20
  Oh, you say too. Oh, you say?
• 1:08:22
  Oh, you say is a good call too. I mean he 15 goals but 19
• 1:08:26
  assists. And also like just his play on
• 1:08:30
  in field. Yeah, he's a guy that's just
• 1:08:32
  sort of taking his game to the next level.
• 1:08:33
  But yeah, I mean, I think and also Kane also scored a ton in
• 1:08:37
  Champions League. I mean, I think he's close to
• 1:08:41
  Levandowski's Bayern record for most goals in all competitions
• 1:08:45
  for Bayern. But she's saying something.
• 1:08:46
  One. A couple what?
• 1:08:48
  I know so I but I might have been before last week.
• 1:08:52
  I don't even know if he played or scored, but I think, I think
• 1:08:55
  Ollie says a good call too, because he's been, I mean that
• 1:08:57
  frontline of Diaz always saying Kane is just absurd, but only
• 1:09:01
  say Luca. I'm watching him play, man.
• 1:09:02
  He is, I mean a phenomenal player.
• 1:09:06
  What about Dembele? Any thoughts on him?
• 1:09:08
  Yeah, he's. He's I wouldn't call him top top
• 1:09:12
  10, not top 3. Yeah, You know what's
• 1:09:14
  interesting about him? Look, I looked it up.
• 1:09:16
  He started 9 games in Lagoon this year, 9.
• 1:09:20
  It's almost like they've literally take a night because
• 1:09:22
  because he gets injured a lot, right?
• 1:09:23
  But when he plays, he's phenomenal.
• 1:09:25
  But it's PSG just have the advantage as being like they've
• 1:09:27
  almost just made him into a Champions League player.
• 1:09:29
  They're like, OK, you're going to play a little bit in league
• 1:09:32
  on we have enough guys that will win that league no problem, but
• 1:09:35
  just focus on the Champions League.
• 1:09:37
  Like it's just the advantage they have in playing in like a
• 1:09:38
  believe it's kind of a joke that they can just sort of manage the
• 1:09:42
  league out and just focus all their attention on Champions
• 1:09:44
  League, you know, and obviously the results speak for
• 1:09:46
  themselves. They won last year and they're
• 1:09:48
  in the finals this year. But I don't know for me, look,
• 1:09:51
  when he plays, he's a great, great player.
• 1:09:54
  I, I don't know if he'd be top 8 for me this year because I'm
• 1:09:59
  like, you got to start more games in your league, you know,
• 1:10:02
  and I'd even put Kizbar, Kabar, Scalia.
• 1:10:04
  Or cool, yeah, off him I would. You know, I, I, I just, you
• 1:10:08
  know, and that's probably a little personal preference for
• 1:10:10
  me. I don't even really know their
• 1:10:11
  stats. I don't pay attention to league
• 1:10:12
  in very much. But yeah, I don't know if
• 1:10:15
  there's a whole lot of other players.
• 1:10:17
  I don't really know in Syria if there's really a good enough
• 1:10:20
  player. Not really.
• 1:10:23
  You know, like who's Syria's leading goal scorer?
• 1:10:25
  It's it Latara Martinez like? He's probably probably.
• 1:10:30
  Not he's not top 10, even even top 15.
• 1:10:34
  DeMarco leads and assists. Like there's just, I don't think
• 1:10:36
  that much quality in Syria, in Bape, maybe a little.
• 1:10:40
  Yeah, maybe, but he kind of gets hurt a lot.
• 1:10:43
  He does, and also Real Madrid didn't win anything.
• 1:10:45
  And he's a dictator too. Bold.
• 1:10:49
  All right, look, I like it. I, I, I, I got no beef with your
• 1:10:51
  calls there. I mean, I think those are three
• 1:10:53
  amazing players. So all right, Luca, well, let's
• 1:10:58
  move on to our let's do our quote of the week, which I look
• 1:11:02
  at this. One of my favorite quotes comes
• 1:11:04
  from Tony Adams, Mr. Arsenal center back for Arsenal, played
• 1:11:09
  from 1983 to 2002. He made 669 appearances for
• 1:11:14
  Arsenal, which is a second all time to George O'Leary and his
• 1:11:18
  quote. Luca says play for the name on
• 1:11:20
  the front of the shirt and they will remember the name on the
• 1:11:23
  back. Oh.
• 1:11:24
  Yes, I've heard that before. Yeah, I just think that's a
• 1:11:26
  great quote. Like what does that mean to you?
• 1:11:29
  That means don't like if. If you're a legend for the club,
• 1:11:33
  they'll remember you and if you try your hardest and do
• 1:11:37
  everything you can for the club, they will remember you in a good
• 1:11:41
  way. Exactly.
• 1:11:42
  It's like you play, you go out there and you play.
• 1:11:43
  It's a team sport, right? And you're playing like it's an
• 1:11:46
  honor to play for these teams. So like he played for Arsenal.
• 1:11:48
  It's like an honor. And like you play for Arsenal.
• 1:11:50
  You're an Arsenal player. And look, he, you know, played
• 1:11:54
  for 19 years, was an amazing player.
• 1:11:56
  And of course, now everybody knows Tony Adams.
• 1:12:00
  He's got he's got a he's got a he's got a statue outside the
• 1:12:03
  stadium. Like I said, he's called
• 1:12:04
  nickname Mr. Arsenal. It's pretty cool.
• 1:12:06
  But yeah, I always like that because it's like, you know, so
• 1:12:08
  many, so many times. There's a lot of like me players
• 1:12:10
  all about them, all about your your name on the back, right.
• 1:12:13
  My name on that. No, you like play for your team,
• 1:12:15
  the name on the front. So all right, Luca.
• 1:12:19
  Well, let's go over to our Digimo section.
• 1:12:22
  Luca and my Digimo section is about time in play.
• 1:12:27
  So how often is the ball actually in play in a game of
• 1:12:31
  soccer, right? You know, we see the clock
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  rolling, right? You play a game, there's 90
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  minutes and then of course you've got added time, right?
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  So how long is the ball actually in play rolling around play,
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  play for what would you guess? OK.
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  I would guess 65 minutes. OK, not a bad guess because I
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  think most people would be like, oh, the ball's in play for like
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  80 minutes. You know, Luca, an average
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  Premier League match, the ball is actually in play for 55
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  minutes and 31 seconds. So it's about 55% of the time
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  the ball is actually in play. OK, it's 2 minutes fewer than
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  last year and three minutes fewer than two years ago when
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  the ball is actually in play for 58 minutes and 11 seconds.
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  But seven years before was actually similar to this.
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  So it's not as if we're like so far off what's been happening
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  over the past couple years, but we're definitely down from a
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  couple years ago. So you know where a lot of times
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  is, you know the delay in action, it comes from a lot of
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  times when the ball goes out of play, right, a corner kick.
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  For that a lot each game. It does and and that's normal,
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  right? I mean, you're going to have
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  throw insurance, corner kicks, free kicks, but it's just a time
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  spent over that. So you think about corner kicks,
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  right? The team that spends the most
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  time over a corner kick is actually Arsenal.
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  Wow. How long do you think Luca
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  Arsenal spend from the time like AI think it's from the time the
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  corner is called till the time the ball is kicked.
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  How long do you think it takes Arsenal to put the ball?
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  4 minutes. 4 minutes no. Could not for 44 seconds.
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  Oh, oh, oh. 4 minutes, I mean, that's forever, but OK.
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  So then comes Sunderland at 40.56 and then Spurs at 39.79.
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  So we take about four more seconds than the other sort of
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  highest teams. All right, Luca, direct kick.
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  OK, Liverpool spend the longest over a direct kick.
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  Look at their 114 seconds. That seems crazy to me.
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  That's almost 2 minutes of time spent over a direct kick.
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  So people complain about Arsenal sometimes, like wasting time
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  doing corner kicks. Liverpool spend almost 2 minutes
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  before a direct kick. The least Luca is Crystal
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  Palace. They only take about a minute
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  over a direct kick, on average about 60 seconds.
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  That's a big gap from Liverpool to Crystal Palace on time spent
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  over a direct kick. If you look at the team that has
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  the ball in play the most, so the most time with that ball
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  actually in play, what team do you think would have the ball
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  and play the most? Bournemouth.
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  Interesting. Bournemouth actually have the
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  least of any team. I'll get on.
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  I'll get onto the three I'll get Yeah.
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  So City have the ball in power, of course.
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  So they actually averaged almost they're basically 58.99, so
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  about 59 minutes, you know, and it makes sense because they're
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  such a possession based team, you know, they just get the ball
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  in. They don't do long throws.
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  It's just like throw in, just dump it to your feet.
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  Let's just recycle and go. Everton Luca 57.09 So City have
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  the ball and play like almost 2 minutes more than the next team
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  and then Forest are about 56 minutes and 42 seconds that was.
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  Pretty close. Top three.
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  Now the the fewest, the team that has the ball and play the
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  least is Bournemouth 52 minutes, Newcastle right over 53 and
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  Spurs at 53.2. So those are the the three Like
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  I said, teams that have the ball and play the least are
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  interesting. Look, if you look at Champions
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  League, Champions League has about 58.4% of the time.
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  The balls in play, where are, like I said, the Premier League
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  is 55.3. So with Champions League balls
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  in play, like I said, about 3% more.
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  And actually it's interesting when you look at added time,
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  Luca, Champions League typically adds on about 7 minutes and 10
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  seconds. Premier League adds on about 10
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  minutes and 24 seconds. So you get a lot more added
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  time, and I think that's because they are trying to compensate
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  for that ball being out of play a little bit more.
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  So a Champions League game you can expect to see, you know,
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  anywhere from about 3:00 to 4:00 minutes each half for Premier
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  League averages like 5 to 6 minutes each half.
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  And of course, there's variation with it too.
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  So I don't know, I thought that was a little bit interesting,
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  you know, looking at like how much time the ball is actually
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  in play, rolling around, because there's been a lot of talk
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  about, you know, trying to speed the game up and having the ball
• 1:16:58
  in play more. Now.
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  The only thing I would say, Luca, is it'd be hard to have it
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  in play a whole lot more. There's so much running and
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  sprinting that you can't really ask the ball to be in play like
• 1:17:06
  70 minutes. That'd be a lot more physical
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  exertion on the players. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it would.
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  All right, Luca. Well, just before we get into
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  our penalty kick trivia shootout, let's just give a
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  quick plug to our Instagram Premier League Playground.
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  We're on Instagram, we post something every week letting you
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  know the new shows are up, trying to include some pictures
• 1:17:28
  of Luca playing soccer or some pictures, you know, the kind of
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  like sum up the week in the Premier League.
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  We have a YouTube page, Premier League Playground.
• 1:17:38
  We post some videos of Luca playing there and you can always
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  e-mail us.premierleagueplayground@gmail.com
• 1:17:45
  if you want going to get a mailbag question in or a plug
• 1:17:47
  for the show emails. But Luca, we end every week, of
• 1:17:52
  course, with our penalty kick trivia shootout.
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  Before we go, Luca, I think we have, let's just check in on the
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  championship. I think it's over.
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  So Luca Southampton win an extra time, they are going on to play
• 1:18:08
  Hull. They.
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  Score. So they got a goal in the 116th
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  minute. So Southampton move on to take
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  on Hull and they were the 4th seeded team and the 6th seeded
• 1:18:22
  team. So there you go.
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  All right, Luca, do you want to ask first or second?
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  I will ask first. All right.
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  Well, go ahead, Luca. Which country is Unai Emery
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  from? Why do we have choices for all
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  of these? Unai Emery, who is what the
• 1:18:37
  manager of Aston Villa used to manage Arsenal.
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  Interesting fact about him Luca. So he, I think in the past 10
• 1:18:44
  years has now been in like 4 or 5 Europa League finals.
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  Yeah, because he managed Villa, Real and like a bunch of other
• 1:18:52
  teams. Well, so all the teams he's
• 1:18:54
  managed have the word Villa in them, so Aston Villa.
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  No, but Arsenal. All the teams that he's made
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  that he, I'm sorry that he's won a final with now he's not won it
• 1:19:04
  yet with Aston Villa, but it is Aston Villa, Villa Real and
• 1:19:13
  what's the other? Sevilla.
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  And Sevilla which has villa in it as well.
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  So interesting. Sad but he is.
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  I believe he is Spanish. Cool.
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  Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
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  OK. All right, Luca.
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  Well, I mentioned RYA. Luca has won the Golden Gloves
• 1:19:28
  for the most clean sheets with 18.
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  Who is number 2 for Golden Gloves for clean sheets this
• 1:19:36
  year? Will not win the Golden Gloves.
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  Rya's won it, but who's number 2 on the list?
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  Donna Ruma. Donna Ruma is number 2.
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  That is correct. OK, which country is Julian
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  Nagelsman from? Is Nagelsman German?
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  Yes. Luca Omar Marmouche, forward for
• 1:19:52
  Manchester City, plays kind of behind Holland a little bit.
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  Had a goal this week. He was transferred.
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  Luca from what team? Oh, in 2025.
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  I'm track Frankfurt. That's correct.
• 1:20:04
  Good job. Yeah, for about 80 million in
• 1:20:06
  2025. South was ekatique.
• 1:20:09
  Yeah, yeah. They've had some good forwards
• 1:20:10
  at that team recently. In which country is the
• 1:20:13
  Americana Stadium located? Americana Stadium.
• 1:20:19
  What? What?
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  Like what? I have choices if you want.
• 1:20:22
  Yeah, go ahead, give me choices. Brazil, Argentina, Mexico or
• 1:20:25
  Italy. I was going to say Argentina
• 1:20:27
  before I heard choices, so I'll stick with that.
• 1:20:30
  It's Brazil. OK, that one's a tough one.
• 1:20:32
  I'll give it. Luca, who is Belgium's national
• 1:20:36
  team's all time leading scorer. Kaku.
• 1:20:41
  That is correct. 89 goals for Belgium.
• 1:20:43
  That's pretty good, Pretty good tally for him.
• 1:20:45
  In which year did Lionel Messi make his debut for the Argentina
• 1:20:50
  first team? Oh my goodness, 2008.
• 1:20:59
  Five, OK. All right Luca, who is
• 1:21:02
  Bournemouth's leading Premier League scorer this year?
• 1:21:05
  Koopi. Yeah, that's true.
• 1:21:07
  I figured that would be an easy one.
• 1:21:09
  He's on eleven goals. He's 19.
• 1:21:11
  Luca. He got bought from L'orealt for
• 1:21:14
  13.6 million. He signed in 2025 but finished
• 1:21:20
  of the season at L'Oreal. He's kind of stayed in France
• 1:21:24
  for that season. And then, like I said, he's come
• 1:21:26
  over here and he's been sort of a sensation this year.
• 1:21:28
  L'Oreal is a team in like the northwest of France.
• 1:21:30
  Not many people have heard of him.
• 1:21:32
  But again, great recruiting. 13.6 million.
• 1:21:35
  He's probably worth right now, 80 million.
• 1:21:37
  Yeah, which international team won the 2024 Copa America?
• 1:21:44
  The 2024 Copa. America.
• 1:21:46
  Yeah, the recent. One that wasn't an Argentine.
• 1:21:48
  Yeah, it was OK. All right, Luca, my final
• 1:21:51
  question to you involves Premier League winners.
• 1:21:54
  All right, the Premier League has been going on since what?
• 1:21:58
  9293. 9293 But we've only had seven different teams win the
• 1:22:04
  Premier League. Obviously a lot of teams have
• 1:22:06
  won it multiple times. Only seven different teams have
• 1:22:08
  won. Who are the seven teams that
• 1:22:10
  have won the Premier League? United, Liverpool, Chelsea,
• 1:22:14
  Arsenal, Western City. Rattle off 6.
• 1:22:19
  And and wait, you know, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, City,
• 1:22:28
  Western. Oh, oh, Blackpool or no, no, no.
• 1:22:35
  What is it? Blackburn Rovers.
• 1:22:36
  He got it. Blackburn Rovers.
• 1:22:39
  But I knew Alan Shearer played for them in. 9495 Blackburn
• 1:22:44
  Rovers won. Lester won in 1915 and 1916
• 1:22:48
  season and then the other ones have all won multiple times.
• 1:22:51
  So we've had two one time winners and the other five big
• 1:22:54
  teams, Chelsea, United, City, Arsenal and Liverpool have all
• 1:22:57
  won multiple times that it's kind of crazy like you know that
• 1:23:01
  only seven different teams and two of them, so five teams have
• 1:23:04
  done it multiple times. Only two of those teams were
• 1:23:05
  won. Blackburn and Leicester are not
• 1:23:07
  even in the Premier League anymore, so.
• 1:23:09
  Blackburn I don't even know what we.
• 1:23:11
  There in, I'm not sure. And Leicester just got moved
• 1:23:13
  down out of the out of the Championship, so they're going
• 1:23:15
  to be in League 1. So yeah, I mean kind of crazy
• 1:23:19
  easy but, and it looks like we're not going to have an
• 1:23:22
  eighth because it's either going to be City or Arsenal.
• 1:23:24
  So somebody will add to another Premier League title.
• 1:23:26
  But yeah, it is a very rare club to win it.
• 1:23:29
  It just sort of goes to show you how hard I think it is to win
• 1:23:32
  this league. You can maybe say, well, it's a
• 1:23:35
  very top heavy league if you want to argue that.
• 1:23:38
  I think it's very like it's, it's, it is very difficult to
• 1:23:42
  compete with those top five teams there with the money that
• 1:23:45
  they have, the prestige, the cities that people want to go
• 1:23:48
  live in, you know, London, Liverpool, Manchester.
• 1:23:52
  You know, it is hard to compete with that.
• 1:23:54
  You know, it's great stories to see, Brighton, Bournemouth,
• 1:23:56
  Brentford, but like, could they ever win a Premier League?
• 1:23:59
  Probably not. Probably not, but anyway.
• 1:24:01
  All right, Luca. Well, that's all I got.
• 1:24:04
  There's a final whistle. Nuts full time for us.
• 1:24:06
  Thank you for listening. Bye.