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KOBBIE SLOTS THE WINNER FOR CHAMPIONS LEAGUE & DERBY DOUBLE 🔴 · The Fellow Reds Podcast - Manchester United

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I was super worried to to hear that and, you know, really hope
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that he's he's OK, but just wanted to take a moment on the
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pod just to kind of recognize him because we'll never, ever
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forget, you know what he's done the United football and, you
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know, he's given me like the best moments of my life.
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But worrying times isn't it when you hear stuff like that about
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the great man. It took another 8 minutes I
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think for TV to actually get those angles of his fingernails,
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which are often, you know, trimmed and removed, raising the
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ball and going in. So just you need to get over it.
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How are we fellow Reds? And welcome to this Manchester
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United review of the match against Liverpool with me, Span
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Come and join this carrot revolution as we March on to the
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Champions League. But yeah, we'd love to have you.
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So get get signed up. But Jazz the day after we beat
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in the scouses, the double S done, we've secured the
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Champions League, the six point gap between US and them in
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fourth. How you feeling?
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Perfect. Wasn't it an absolute dream?
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Right. Obviously it could have been a
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lot more perfect, but end of the day, like even the way it ended
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almost makes it not better. But just with it being menu and
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everything like that, this the week he's had and Oh yeah, just
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yeah, unbelievable. It's crazy how stuff like that
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happens and you know, he signed a new contract, the load to hype
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around him and then he gets you get us to win.
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Yeah, fantastic. Give them, give this ghost a
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little bit of hope and then take it away.
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Place it. Place it away in the corner.
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Beautiful, beautiful. We'll get into that.
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But yeah, I watched it in Bracknell and my wife's
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Southern. So I sat down there visiting a
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family in a pub, somehow surrounded by fake scouses.
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Literally I was the only one, me and this other fella that was
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just me and him, who United fans and I was.
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I thought, where am I? I'll be in Anfield.
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But I think it'd still be a bit of a mixed.
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And honestly, two of us in the pub and and loads of them as
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well. So it was even sweeter to win
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that because it would have been hell to lose.
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And when we were tuning up, I was flying.
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But when they pulled it back, oh, what's to get that that
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winner was, was was sweet as well.
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And I will, I said I would. I'll shout him out.
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Chris here is effectively my brother-in-law, Liverpool fan
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from down there with a very southern accent.
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You better United to win. Really.
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Could never do that. I mean, I'm being cheeky now.
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He did also bet on Liverpool to win in a separate bet.
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But I said to him you cannot be betting against your team.
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I had. I was trying to make it, I mean
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like, at least I won money type thing.
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Yeah, stopping the blow, I guess.
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And he and he did, to be fair to him, he did win with that, with
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that United bet. So yeah, but not as happy as us
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to get the win and all those things we've we've just
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mentioned. But in terms of our bets, we
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weren't miles off Jazz. But.
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No, we got the right amount of goals for us.
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Exactly. I we both won't be the three
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one. I went with Cesco Ahmad, Brian,
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I didn't put Jack Paul on the back, but did say Jack Paul
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would score. And you said similar.
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You said 31 as we mentioned Cesco Bruno Ahmad and and Gapo.
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Yeah. Yeah, no, obviously when I saw
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Ahmad was starting, I was like, well, that's that's that's a
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gonna. And I would have put in like I
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was almost tempted to point of a bit Al Makuna being the goal and
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then thinking that he'd come off and then maybe Alad would come
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on and replace him and get his goal.
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So yeah, we went a mile. We're 1,000,000 miles now and.
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This surprised me that CUNY started, but I was so happy
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because he's just. I mean, he's great to watch
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anyway, but he's a big game player, isn't he?
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So when I saw that he was starting, it gave me a bit of a
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lift. I don't know about you.
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Yeah. They say I remember the the game
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with the at that place, like I'd remember him like in the what is
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it 85th to like 96th minute. He's just kind of running
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out-of-the-box for the ball, drawing in fouls, like just
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getting stuck in and like people don't like people are all
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soldered in. But I think he's like class.
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And we said it before, just that he's a big game player.
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He knows what it means to get stuck in.
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He's got a bit of bite about him.
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Yeah, we've missed that. I think having that kind of a
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bit of arrogance, a bit swagger, but also that the fight as well.
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Yeah, Alo man's a belly in the pods.
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I think I was saying I want a little bit more from him, but
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I'm fully sold now. He's just he's such a Man United
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player. I love his arrogance.
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I love his celebration, which we're going to get from you at
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some point that he busts out. And I was buzzing to see.
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I thought in terms of the bet, I thought, OK, CUNY starting, I'm
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had to come on, maybe get maybe get a goal.
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But as we'll get into in a minute, it was kind of the
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opposite. But but yeah, and then I
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obviously got a Liverpool perspective because I was
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watching it with some of them and the amount of excuses.
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I had a message early on to say he's acts injured.
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Congrats on the win. And then it was look at how many
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kind of injuries we've got and it's not our first 11.
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How much money had those guys spent?
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And yeah, you can be. A title winning team last year
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and you spent 450 million on top of that?
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Yeah, all you all you got rid of was Trent, who isn't like a
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defensive super superstar. He's got a deep and decent pass
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on him. But like, yeah, like if we spent
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450 million like this summer, I'd hope to be performing better
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than they are this year. Like, I know, obviously, yeah.
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So I was out. Esac was out.
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Like, fair enough. But for example, the midfield
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was their starting midfield that I think they would play no
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matter what, which is massive. And obviously that keeper was
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missing. It wasn't like I didn't think
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that keeper played bad, wouldn't it wasn't even really at fault
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for any of the goals. So yeah, the excuses came out
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and as you probably saw as well with a press conference, buddy
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wins where I wins bag like quite in PSG games and like so
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apparently UEFA is against them. So is the Premier League,
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probably FA Cup as well. Everyone's against Liverpool
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apparently now. Now you're not winning and since
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you started putting your own stamp on a team and if it was a
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bar. Well, you've reminded me.
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So I didn't catch it in the pub because it was quite loud, but
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what was the thing at half time when slots giving it the giving
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it this was it 2 hour bench, did you see that?
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I think it was just like piped down basically because we're
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yeah, like I think he obviously moaning about a humble because
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he kept like get doing this and stuff.
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I think it was just a bit of follow on from that.
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Do you see this slobber slide thing?
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Have you seen that? So as he's walking down the
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tunnel after we've won, he's pointing at the Premier League
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badge. Like they obviously got a gold
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badge and it's like, mate, you've, you've won two of them.
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This is in, we've got 13. If you're pointing purely at the
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Premier League that is. And then also, mate, you've had
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the the worst defence of a title ever.
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Like obviously we defended the title, but it was a different
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manager. We fell off massively.
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Like accept that. But you had the same manager and
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you spent 450 million and you're finishing fifth or 4 probably.
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But like, and then you're pointing the badge just like
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mate, think about it a little bit.
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I love it. I love this energy.
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Today he's back. He's fighting for it and he's
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he's going for the scouts. Like that is.
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That is horrible. Yeah.
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And you still can't say it's on the sly, like I can't either.
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Right. Let's get into it then.
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So we're buzzing. We're fairly happy to beat them.
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I've already mentioned Chris is ridiculous bet and against his
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team. But yeah, really good start from
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United. I mean a fantastic first half,
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but. Yeah, yeah, keep like, yeah,
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everyone was on it start like from basically from me at one.
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I pretty much after our second goal was maybe when it dipped
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off a little bit, but before that it was like Ukraine, lots
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of chances. Obviously the goals were a bit
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more like kind of a bit fluky, but the other we probably should
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have scored other chances. I thought like obviously we're
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big Cesco fans, but I thought he was probably maybe at his best
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game for us. Just putting himself out there
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like great runs, like being a bit more aggressive is what we
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wanted from him. I thought he was class.
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I thought also he was we'll get to the second-half.
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I think him going off is a massive part of that kind of
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crazy 10 minutes. But I just thought, yeah, it's
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best we'd started a game for for a while.
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Especially like it's similar to the city in the Arsenal games.
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Like we just went at it straight away and it was like, I think we
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kind of shell shocked Liverpool a little bit as well.
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I just thought Carrie got it tactically right spot on as
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well. Yeah, you've nailed a few things
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there. And one of the things I'm loving
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the dynamic between Cesco, some of the younger players and some
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of the more experienced players like Cunya, like the
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conversation between them and the direction and giving each
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other is a really nice kind of balance.
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I really enjoyed that. And you've also just nailed
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carry got a spawn I've already seen since the win.
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Again, question marks over obviously the fact that we, you
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know, we went to and a lot and then we kind of went to two, two
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and again, question marks of whether he is the right man
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going forward. Like the reason why we came out
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and battered Liverpool in the first half was because of him,
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how he as up the players he's chosen, what he's done the week
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before. Like he's the one who's going at
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Liverpool and the game could have been out of sight.
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So yeah, stop working for faults.
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Like he's all he does. This man just wins.
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And yeah, he hasn't got two games a week at the moment.
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But if he's given the summer, he's also going to get more
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players, He's going to get a bigger squad.
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He's going to get a chance to rotate.
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Like right now, you know, he hasn't really got that depth of
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squad as well. And he's the one who's what?
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Can he do? It's not his, it's not his fault
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there's not more games. Like I know.
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He's basically won 10 out of 14, drawn 2, lost 2.
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Like it's a ridiculous record and people are just trying to
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pick folks like, oh, well, he went down to it next year.
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Well, how do you know that he's not a chance to do it yet?
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All you can do so far is what he's been doing and that's
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smashing it. So like, yeah, like you said,
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like no team, especially this this end of the season that
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dominates for 90 minutes and wins every single game really.
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Like, it just doesn't happen physically in the Premier
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League. And I just think he's doing,
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yeah, like you say, all he can. And we were playing really good
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football in the first half. And again, after that kind of
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mad spell in second-half, we start playing better football
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again and controlling it and passing around.
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I just think, yeah, you just got to give him credit.
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Like, stop trying to find negatives in what we're doing.
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Like, you just secured Champions League football.
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We didn't. I didn't think we're gonna get
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Champions League football. Like I was kind of like, it's
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probably going to be a Europa season, which is.
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Mad. Yeah, and we've we've done it.
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I canter as well, like finishing third.
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You thought maybe we'd straight there is probably what we
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thought if we're gonna get Champions League football, we're
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not like surging up six points ahead of 4th and 5th.
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Like just let him like bask in it a little bit.
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Yeah. And look, if and hopefully when
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we hire him, yeah, we don't have to go all Liam senior and give
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him a six year contract and you know, all that stuff.
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He deserves a proper contract and commitment.
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But yeah, I imagine just hiring at work and you've got this
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person in your exact company doing the job, doing an amazing
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job, but you're constantly thinking, yeah, but there's this
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other person in this other company who's done some other
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things like yeah, he's doing the job right now for you again.
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Really. Well, Yeah, yeah, look at all
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the scalps he's got in terms of City, you know, Liverpool,
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everyone he went everyone. Yeah, he's stopping the league
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since he giants. So yeah, I've just seen a few
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more podcasts, another channel just constantly just going Yeah,
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but I know I stopped with the part just behind it and and
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almost let's see what happens. But you're getting excited, but
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let's get let's get like it's in the moment a little bit.
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But we mentioned that mentioned that Mancunia, his goal, how
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technically good is it? Like his first attempts on
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target, it comes back out and then yes, to adjust and another
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fantastic finish. Yes, it has a deflection, but
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just don't even get it back in so quickly.
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It's just amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's he's
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class. Like I thought he played work
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really well today. And it's like because again,
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this the third goal is his little ball through to a grade
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in a class pass for Luke. Sure.
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We're also going to shout out in a minute.
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Yeah. So yeah, I think he's he's
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class. And yeah, like you said,
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technically to take that second shot kind of on the bounce and
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he kind of hits it down to the floor, which also helped it kind
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of get the direction put it in. Like yeah, he's just stuffy goal
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in terms because it's a direction, but he still hit two
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shots and target in two seconds type thing.
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Where someone else might just fluff that, download would just
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fluff that over the bar. Unless you mentioned it just
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now, the guy obviously I'm quite impressed with at the minute in
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terms of what he's doing at right back, but imagine if he
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could ship him with something and he gets himself in spots but
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that. One at the end, Oh my God, I'm
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like, oh, so I was like, why? Like there was 3/4 on three, so
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there was a spate I was like, and he's given to dollar.
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He wasn't the best position to be fair, but unless like they
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just fucking yeah, that was it. Doesn't he just died it?
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To download it yeah and you're a firm member of the right back
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union and like I said he's doing that bit well but he just in
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Easter he needs to get in some of these workshops with Bruno's
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and just learn how to finish because.
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He needs to be staying at the training, just shooting for an
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hour or something. Yeah, and let's get let's get
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straight into our second goal because we had a bit of fun with
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with some of our mates who were screaming handball and slot as
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well. Said if the changes guys.
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Literally it took another 8 minutes, I think for TV to
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actually get those angles of his fingernails, which are Austin,
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you know, trimmed and removed, grazing the ball and going in.
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So just you need to get over it. You know it.
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Woodman, I think you said wasn't at fault.
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He's come out, he's kind of flapped a little bit.
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And then Van Dyke's nowhere, as always, the most overrated
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defender in Premier League history.
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And Cesco's just got the important touch off his body,
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clearly. And then the tiniest thing.
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Yeah, that doesn't, you know, I think one of the guys I was
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watching with results, does he go in if he doesn't touch his
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fingernails? Definitely.
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What? Yeah.
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What is this? Also, I was thinking in the
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idea, I've not seen it. Obviously go got caught up in
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the fingernail drama, but I don't know if he was fouled in
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the the first leader. I think he was right now.
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I'd not be able to see it properly in there.
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Any other replays? They keep just showing the
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handball. I'm like, well, we maybe should
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have had a penalty before that anyway.
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If they were to just like that, then it's like, well, they
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probably should have gone back and checked that.
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But I think again, that really shows how Cesco's come on.
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He had that chance, got fouled. We sort of complained for like
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one second, then saw the chance. We still got back up and then
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came back in by behind there by was it Yeah, Van Dyke and then
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was in the right place and just improvised with his with his
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hip. So yeah, really impressed with
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him again. Obviously annoying that Bruno
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doesn't get the assist because of the Woodman touch.
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I feel like if it's like an on target shot and he gets
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deflected, it counts as a shot, a goal for the players had the
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shot on target. So I feel like it was an assist
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going. But yeah, he'll get it.
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Still will get the record. Yeah, I almost feel you should
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remove the goalkeeper from those kind of things because he's
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like, his whole purpose is to try and stop goals, right.
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So if he gets a touch on it, I don't think you should intervene
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with a with an assist. But yeah, it's mad.
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I again, I can't help mentioning that I watched it with Liverpool
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fans because it's given me such a different viewpoint.
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But it was a, there was a really nice bit of TV on Sky actually
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for that goal where they obviously went through all the
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offsides and like we were almost checking them together and it's
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perfect. It was like the first one bang
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on, not offside, the second one not offside.
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And then that, that penalty chance, I was like, yeah, that's
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definitely, you know, he pulled him back, but then you get the
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goal anyway. So if you want to, if you want
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to split fingernails, let's go back to maybe he was having a
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penalty and it probably would have been a red card as well.
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Yeah, yeah, definitely, because he was definitely through on
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goal. With where he was at.
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So yeah, we're having it. That was so good.
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That's so good. And then just a little moment.
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Well, I didn't like Kanate shoving Cesco into the Hardens,
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but not that one. I like a bit of a bit of a
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challenge, but that was a bit. He knew what he was doing there
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and he knows what Old Trafford is.
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The big ramp off. Yeah, didn't like that one.
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Did you see it? I like Cesco to just, I don't
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know if that's why he went off because I know Cesco in the last
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in the Brentford game, he was like, I remember at one point he
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slowed down and kind of his feelings growing a little bit.
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So I don't know if it was that or it was a bit of a knock from
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being smashed into the audience or not.
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I don't know. I guess we'll find out.
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But it sounds like from I think character after they'll be all
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right. And.
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That's games. I don't know if it was a knock
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or is that growing thing that he I think he had before like like
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2 weeks or something because he wasn't apparently might not have
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been even been starting the game.
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Oh really? Yeah.
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He was like a fitness risk. But they started to play and I'm
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obviously very happy they did because I think, like I said, I
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think he was class in the first half.
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Yeah, it really was. It really was.
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Yeah. But I didn't like that.
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And then there was a really good chance for Bruno to to make it
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again, technically so good the way he guides that because I
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searched so difficult and it just goes past the post.
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Yeah, I thought I was in like, it's like a bit of a shinner,
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but he he scored that one with mission anyway before he does it
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on purpose. The shingle.
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So yeah, I thought I was in. I got guys kind of celebrated
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thinking I was just waiting for it to hit the background there
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and then. Yeah, just just why.
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But again, really good play, a decent ball in from from Brian
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as well. Yeah, He's not someone I
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mentioned later, actually, when we talk about players, but I do
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want to give Brian a bit of a shout out because I thought,
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yeah, again, he's not. He's not happening for him in
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terms of gold, the work he's doing.
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I really like it and it's coming, isn't it, with Brian?
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Yeah, I think so. I know.
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I think in these big games like that, work rate and drive is
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kind of massive. Like so even if you're not
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scoring goals or getting assists, but you're putting the
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work in basically from like a defensive perspective as well, I
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think he does that really well. So yeah, I think that's a worthy
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shout out. Yeah, it's such a good half,
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such a good half. I was so happy with it.
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Obviously I didn't want to get too carried away because, you
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know, you didn't know what was to come.
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And the only, the only disappointing thing was that it
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wasn't more than two, right? Yeah, exactly.
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Like if we'd gone in four up, I don't think Liverpool could have
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been like, how are they 4 up? I don't we we kind of battered
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them. Yeah.
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So yeah, I we, I messaged you say, oh, we need to this should
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be more and we should go on and win this.
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And obviously we did. But like I think I was
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expecting, I was hoping for like about to battering basically.
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Yeah, Can you imagine? That'd have been so good and so
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sweet to meet that there. But no, I guess then start the
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second-half. I saw that Amad had come on and
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at first I had no idea who'd come on for, I think your
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message or someone's message. Well, that kind of helped me
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know it was for Cesco. So yeah, we hope he's all right,
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because he had a really good first half.
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And I think that did that did change the dynamic.
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But unfortunately they got a goal, which we.
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Even had a chance before that, like in the wherever it was 46th
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minute or something. Like we had a decent little bit
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of play before. I'm a game when it's like like
19:34
we just like that. I can't say his name anyway, but
19:38
like fair play. Just slobbers like slobbers like
19:43
because he actually had a lot to do still, even though I might
19:47
played a little nice three ball for him, but he still had a lot
19:50
to do and it was like a decent finish in a good room.
19:54
Maybe yeah, they do order of McGuire or that I should just
19:59
got out to him and tried to hit him before he got to the penalty
20:02
area maybe, but I think they almost didn't think it was that
20:05
much of A risk. I think McGuire had Dalla behind
20:09
him but died didn't really come over.
20:11
I said I laughed the space. I think I've kind of blamed
20:14
Dalla more than McGuire for that, even though McGuire was
20:17
the one on him because I think. Should have come in kind of
20:20
supported, but he wasn't there. This said, the space was there
20:23
for the shot and it was a really good finish.
20:25
To be fair, he was probably their best player.
20:27
I'd say yeah, I think he's a good player.
20:30
That's honest. I think he's I think he's got a
20:32
lot like a lot going. I think like you said, he
20:34
ghosted past some of our players a little bit too easily really
20:37
to get in space. And then he's always tricky.
20:39
If you manage to get the ball through a defenders legs, it
20:41
kind of unsettles the keeper and then it goes in the bottom
20:45
corner to be fair. So that was a bit of a shame.
20:47
But you are right, I guess the start of the actual second-half
20:50
just before like goal fun day. It always got it always got an
20:53
assist for us, didn't it, with one of it's a very strange,
20:56
strange backwards header, which was which was mad.
21:01
But yeah, so annoying to conceive, particularly early on.
21:03
But then after that, there was that unreal better play from
21:06
United and if that would have been a goal, that literally, if
21:10
you remember, out the sky. The touch and also the finish.
21:15
Oh, she was outside in the end anyway, but like if I hadn't
21:17
gone in and it was then offside even absolutely gutting because
21:20
that touch was unbelievable. And then tough that finish of
21:24
like the back heel enough. The post if you've gone in, like
21:27
it would have been more that I don't know.
21:29
I must have been goal a season I reckon, if I would have gone in.
21:33
I was gutty. It's like literally sorry,
21:35
imagine. Getting assisted like that as
21:37
well to equal the record, bring that down and then had a good
21:40
ball in and just, I don't know, I care about how far offside he
21:43
was, but. Yeah, I don't remember seeing
21:46
the offsides. No good catch for me.
21:48
Yeah, yeah, it definitely was always giving up.
21:51
Not to be, not to be and a bit of a theme, but then we give
21:55
them an equalizer like so poor. And look, I'm going to be
21:58
chained to lemons here because he's literally been
22:00
unbelievable. I think that's the first goal
22:02
he's giving away, right? Yes.
22:04
And look, when you play in that position and he's so good with
22:07
his feet and he's takes some risks, it's going to happen.
22:10
And it's a shame that it happened at that stage and it
22:12
was just such a crap goal. Wasn't it?
22:15
Literally just. Passed out and also it's even
22:17
lucky that it kind of it passed out.
22:20
They had still play two players and the Today was like nice to
22:23
have interplay, but partly almost fellows been lucky that
22:25
kind of. I don't know if it was a pass or
22:27
a bad touch that went across to get, but then I think so this is
22:33
what I was going to say with Ahmad coming on for Cesco.
22:37
I wonder like because we were going a bit more long in the
22:40
first half because you had that presence of Cesco and when there
22:43
was like a bit of a high press from Liverpool, we would just
22:45
play over the top. And that was working for us.
22:48
And maybe because he wasn't on the pitch that we didn't do that
22:53
as much. And that's where we kind of let
22:55
me try that risky pass and obviously, yeah, awful.
22:59
But maybe that's part of the, yeah, because of the tactical
23:02
change, or not a tactical change, but because of it,
23:04
because of that change, that maybe that goal wouldn't have
23:07
happened, particularly if we were under pressure.
23:09
It's 21. If your Cesco is up there, you
23:11
might have got just lump it because just alleviate the
23:13
pressure because it was just wobbled a little bit.
23:16
So maybe that wouldn't have happened if Cesco was on the
23:18
pitch. But it's fine because we won't.
23:22
Yeah, it's a good point. I think that is where we've
23:24
mentioned it before, but that's where we need kind of a Danny
23:27
Welbeck type backup striker. So the because because at the
23:31
moment if Cesco goes up injured, we have to change our playing
23:34
style because we haven't got another Cesco type player.
23:37
Whereas if we had someone who was a bit more like Cesco, we
23:41
could still carry on playing the same way.
23:42
Yeah, yeah, that was working. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.
23:46
So, yeah, it's a good point and hopefully we kind of can address
23:49
that in the summer. But like we said before, it's a
23:51
tricky signing, right, because someone has to play second
23:54
fiddle really to Cesco and be a be OK with that.
23:57
That is why a Danny Welbeck at his age type player would, you
24:01
know, he would be ideal. So we.
24:04
Take Danny Welbeck type player. We just, we just love it to be
24:06
Danny Welbeck. Yeah, now I just worry that
24:09
we've, you know, wasted another year of not having him.
24:11
So is he getting? Inside a two year deal anyway.
24:14
Actually, I don't think he's going anywhere.
24:16
Yeah, true, true, true. And then to be fair, Liverpool
24:19
did have a spell. I wish you had Lennon's making
24:21
that's kind of save on the line as well, which was.
24:23
Good save from Van Dyke. Was it Van Dyke?
24:25
Yeah, yeah. Well, he wasn't like, yeah, and
24:28
obviously a little bit nervous, but then we had we had some
24:31
chances. So we had the Castamero sold.
24:34
Him I was like, that's it. He's been putting them away all
24:37
season as probably that's probably an easier chance than
24:41
most of the goals he scored the season.
24:43
So yeah, he just put it straight down, down the middle basically,
24:46
didn't it? Yeah, another great run though.
24:48
Got in a great, a great ball for him as always.
24:51
And I was like, he's gutted. But then man like Kobe Maynard,
24:56
that is unbelievable. Like just any new contract
25:00
committed to United play in the Scousers and what a finish from
25:05
him. So yeah, and again, sort of shot
25:07
him out just a little bit now just in terms of his all around
25:09
play and we'll probably get on to him later, but he's just gone
25:12
to another level and if he can add them then type goals to his
25:16
game as well a bit more. I loved it.
25:18
Jazz what did you think? Yeah, like I think he said in
25:22
his contract signing that he wants to add more goals to his
25:26
game and he's just done one. This weekend is just like even
25:29
more perfect. But like, yeah, just I think
25:33
most players would try and smash that and then it probably flies
25:38
over the over over the bar or hits.
25:42
Why is it pretty sub as I again hits some as like because he
25:46
came in with like a flying tackle, which would put most
25:49
people off I think as well. But to have that composure just
25:51
to kind of place it into the bottom corner with that power
25:55
from that that distance was just it kind of is him though, isn't
25:58
it? It's just the kind of goal.
25:59
He's it's kind of goes. He's been scoring like the ones
26:01
against Leon, the one his Wolves.
26:02
They're always kind of like edge of the box, such moments where
26:06
you need like important goal, you score.
26:08
He just scores important goals, isn't he?
26:09
That's what he does. He does, he does, he does.
26:11
I absolutely adored it. And I tried not to go too crazy
26:14
in the pub when it happened because I like say, I was
26:16
surrounded and I was like, didn't want to get up there.
26:18
But it's just such a good feeling just watching do it.
26:21
And then to run off when I was like coming.
26:23
Go on, go on. Yeah.
26:25
How are you feeling from that point with confidence to kind of
26:27
bring you home? Are we still a bit a bit
26:29
nervous? No, I was actually fairly all
26:31
right after that. I didn't think they really
26:34
threatened too much. The only one slight threat was I
26:37
have to go on and react Rio because I thought he, he looks
26:42
decent. He looks really good, to be
26:43
fair. Like, yeah, he was a bit tricky.
26:44
But other than that, other than him, he had one way, took it
26:47
past down and cut in and that shot, it just went wide.
26:50
And then another one, we kind of ran it out.
26:53
Other than him, though, really it wasn't much.
26:55
I wasn't that worried. I thought we were kind of off
26:58
that equalizer. We actually started playing
27:00
better again and creating more and we created some chances
27:03
ourselves after that. Obviously, I guess they were
27:05
kind of put pressure on, but I wasn't really, yeah, concerned.
27:09
Yeah, I was a bit frustrated with Dallow because yeah, Rio, I
27:12
thought he looks he's going to be a player, right?
27:14
And he looks pretty sharp, but he very obviously loves to come
27:17
inside every time. Yeah.
27:18
Kind of showing in that. What are you doing?
27:21
Like, yeah. Yeah, Exactly, Exactly.
27:25
So learn from that. But luckily we managed to keep
27:29
him quiet. He had a couple of chances.
27:31
And then later on, obviously, he's actually came on for Cunha
27:35
and Bruno going off. Loved it.
27:38
Just loved everything that was about, you know, just a bit of
27:40
shit housery in terms of taking his time walking off and then
27:43
just pumping everyone. Understand to stand up for the
27:46
first time, yeah, ever. Putting the prawn sandwiches
27:50
down and then again, I'm going. But a lovely moment and just he
27:54
deserves that kind of, you know, treatment, doesn't he?
27:56
Because I also was getting it, Bruno, you know, like, you know,
28:00
why is he whinging at players and all this kind of stuff?
28:02
And I was like, don't even mention this man's name like he
28:05
is. It's unbelievable.
28:07
You would have him in your team in a heartbeat.
28:10
I think Chris compared him to Luis Suarez.
28:12
And I was like, this can't, this can't happen.
28:14
This can't happen in terms of that hatred type.
28:17
There's no way in comparing comparing him to him.
28:20
He's not fighting people and racists he just made.
28:23
He's actually with a whinge. He does, he does.
28:26
And look, what he's done with that more recently is to turn
28:28
that into other players around him stepping up and putting in
28:31
really good performances. So Bruno, but to me was to win
28:36
so important, so important to do that.
28:39
Let's get into the players that we've not really mentioned or
28:42
maybe let's echo some others. I thought let's send on a
28:46
positive. There was some shaky
28:48
performances and this is comparative compared to what
28:51
I've done before for me. I'm not coming on like again.
28:55
Obviously he gave that kind of ball away, straight away and
28:57
still just want a little bit more from from his.
29:00
Maybe his confidence has gone a little bit or maybe some of the
29:05
Europa League long campaign where we games 60 odd games we
29:08
had last year. Then I think combinations maybe
29:12
just a bit tired. I think I think he'll be a more
29:15
like Ahmad next season. I just think he's a bit like his
29:17
confidence a little bit. But you still we still know as a
29:20
player in there. And the important thing is that
29:22
he works. He's a hard worker.
29:23
He's not like he's not a guy natural type who spit his dummy
29:27
always not going right. He keeps trying so, but yeah, he
29:31
wasn't great, let's be honest. Yeah, but like you said, I think
29:35
that's a great point around his, you know, how he's applying
29:38
himself, you know, full responsibility for the mistake
29:40
that he taught. And then, you know, he tries to
29:42
react. He's just not really happening
29:44
for him at the moment. But hopefully he just keep this
29:46
going. And I'm going to say a very
29:48
quick point. Obviously just lammons by his
29:50
standards that he says he's unbelievable standards.
29:53
Obviously a shame for him to make that mistake.
29:55
But you know, he also made some important saves.
29:58
He's probably 1 end players as well.
30:00
He'll probably analyze that storm, watch after the game to
30:03
go, you know, how do they do do that?
30:04
What I do, yeah. You think you'll kind of learn
30:07
from that. But then in terms of before we
30:10
get into man of the match players, you want to shout out
30:12
Jazz that didn't just make you man of the match.
30:15
Yeah. I was going to say Luke Shore
30:17
actually, just because I thought particularly going forward more
30:21
so than anything, because I think he's been good defensively
30:25
this year. He's obviously playing a lot, a
30:26
lot of games. But I think I'd probably mention
30:28
it on the previous pods. They hasn't really got the
30:30
engine anymore to to overlapping runs.
30:33
But I think he was doing that today.
30:34
So maybe it's just because it's the Liverpool game and you're
30:35
just a bit more fired up. But like obviously for the Kobe
30:38
goal, trying to play that a great pass in to him.
30:41
He was doing those overlapping runs quite a few times.
30:44
So it was just nice to see. So I thought I'd show short as
30:47
often. He didn't get many Pawness these
30:49
days, so I think he deserved a little share.
30:53
And then who else? I've already I think I've
30:56
already mentioned Kunia and and Cesco.
30:58
So yeah, they're probably the main ones over the match will
31:00
matter match so. Fair, fair.
31:02
Yeah, no, Kunia like you just because I love him.
31:07
He suits those kind of those games so much and he's just
31:12
scoring important goals, so I just don't want to take that for
31:14
granted. The fight was brilliant, as
31:15
always. Not going to take Bruno off for
31:17
granted because you just know the, you know, does he ever
31:20
played less than a I was going to say 7-8 maybe.
31:25
Yeah, he's an 8 plus player, isn't it?
31:27
Typically he's a 910 in terms of United players anyway.
31:31
All right, let's get on to man of the match.
31:33
And I'll be very surprised if we don't christen the same person.
31:37
But go on, you go first. Slobber.
31:39
Sly. Obviously.
31:43
Obviously Kobe. And not, not just because of his
31:48
his goal. He actually was playing like
31:51
he's been in the other weeks, but he's even better today.
31:54
Just like, again, we say all the time, but that's a press
31:57
resistance that kind of more like dropping the shoulder, more
32:00
like combativeness, just more of what he's good at and the extra
32:05
bits he's adding to his game. But he's just so good on the
32:07
ball and like, if you can add more goals like that as well.
32:11
He had to be had to be mad much. Yeah.
32:13
He was absolutely unbelievable. And now I'm like, obviously I'm
32:18
not an England fan, but he must be almost playing.
32:21
I don't think he'll start because of the way too Shaw
32:24
plays. It'll be Anderson and Rice and
32:27
Anderson's blast, and Rice's decent as well.
32:30
So I think he probably won't get to start.
32:34
But like, surely he's the next name on that midfield 2 now
32:38
because he's just playing so well.
32:41
And again, we've mentioned it before, but like, what the hell
32:44
was Amarin thinking? Oh my God it's absolutely bad
32:48
news. To think that he can't play any
32:50
sort of role in your team is insane.
32:52
Like he's him. I guess Bruno, then Casimiro.
32:57
You probably have the top two since Carrots come in, but then
33:01
you'd have Kobe straight after that and he could even get even
33:05
get in a squad sometimes, which was absolutely lunacy.
33:10
Well, yeah, no surprise, Kobe's mine as well.
33:12
And you touched on some good points there as well.
33:14
In terms of, yeah, as a England fan, I'm trying not to be Man
33:18
United biased, but I would play him over Rice genuinely.
33:22
I don't. I'd had, I do rate Rice, I
33:24
really do. But I just don't think he's got
33:26
copies got to have next to Anderson.
33:29
And he will. Get the Arsenal fans angry.
33:33
I would, I would genuinely. I think he just offers more than
33:36
Rice offers and he's kind of proving that now.
33:39
So for me, yeah, I would have I would have copy over rice all
33:43
day next to Anderson. If you're listening to you.
33:47
Sure, I'm sure he's I'm sure he's changing every now and
33:49
then. He's a.
33:49
Subscriber, I'm sure. And then you've raised another
33:52
good point. Do you reckon Ameren watches our
33:54
games? Because if he is doing, he must
33:57
be borderline crying, right Thinking, I don't know.
34:01
He's quite like a arrogant bloke, right, Right.
34:04
Yeah, So he's probably just more like, why didn't they try like
34:09
this for me type thing. Probably because you're playing
34:11
a stupid formation mate. That's probably why.
34:15
The last thing is that you think back and people were like
34:17
starting to doubt Coby and like, oh, maybe he's not actually good
34:20
enough and maybe like he's not doing it stuff in training.
34:23
But what he's shown is that the only is he as good as he was
34:27
when he was playing under kind of previous managers.
34:30
But that is he was obviously listening to Amarin's criticisms
34:36
because he's kind of positionally much better from a
34:38
defensive perspective. He's he's more physical, he's a
34:43
lot more combative. He's winning his duels.
34:45
So that just gives me so much kind of more kind of aberration
34:50
for him because he wasn't playing for half a season and he
34:52
was still learning. He was still getting better and
34:54
better even though he had no manager, had no faith in him.
34:57
So if he we'd let him go in an absolute life sin.
35:03
Can you imagine? Obviously you like going,
35:05
actually go. And we're almost kind of
35:07
relieved and laughing at what he's up to in other clubs.
35:10
And we've just seen Kobe just go like this.
35:12
Yeah, imagine what him in. Italy as well if he went to Napa
35:15
absolutely bossing it. It won't be fair.
35:18
I don't think it would be hard enough for him in Italy,
35:21
genuinely. The pace for him would be so
35:23
easy. I'm good.
35:25
So yeah, we've made a couple of points, but I'm right.
35:27
But I'm going to mention something.
35:29
So he had a mare with the team he picked.
35:32
He had an absolute man with copy.
35:34
To be fair to him, we probably after looking back now, give him
35:38
some credit for how he sets up in terms of he got rid of gun at
35:42
you even got rid of Rashford out the door.
35:45
He brought in, you know, in his watch.
35:47
You don't know how much he's been involved, but you know,
35:49
he's brought in Kunia, he's brought in and blame.
35:51
All right. He's kind of he has made a lot
35:54
of these changes and and all the stuff is going on around him.
35:57
So I do feel that hopefully in our progression and if this
36:01
becomes, you know, a title challenging team at some point,
36:04
he's definitely made his mark for me.
36:06
It just makes it more frustrating that he did a lot of
36:09
good stuff and the one thing he did was just pick a crazy
36:12
formation and refused to adapt because yeah, you know, imagine
36:16
if he'd have actually just twigged at some point and gone,
36:18
right? I know I've got a system and I
36:20
know they brought me in to do a system, but it ain't working.
36:23
And actually, this could work. And he tried it, didn't he?
36:27
Against someone? We won.
36:29
And then he went back. Yeah.
36:31
So he's just imagine being that stubborn way you've done such,
36:34
so much work and you've made some really good decisions and
36:38
changes. Yeah, Yeah.
36:39
And this the one thing you need to do is just just get away from
36:42
yourself and just make, you know, pick a team that makes
36:45
more sense for the players you've got.
36:47
Yeah, he must kick himself when he thinks about it.
36:50
But like you said, maybe he's just that stubborn there.
36:52
He still sits there thinking, actually, if this was a 3340.
36:58
7:00 and 2:00. Yeah, so thanks, Ameren, for
37:01
some of the stuff you did. But if you would have let Kobe
37:05
golf, he would never would have forgiven you, never would have
37:07
given you. All right, Kobe, what a game.
37:11
Let's have a quick chat about the scouses and what you think
37:15
about them. I thought first half they were
37:20
pretty pants and then I think they only came back into it
37:24
because it wasn't because of kind of pressure from them.
37:28
And then wrapped me up because Ahmad was still asleep and made
37:32
a stupid pass. And then Diamonds did the same
37:35
thing. And then it became a bit more
37:38
pressurized or became more pressurized after that first
37:40
goal. But like, yeah, I wasn't
37:43
impressed for them at all really.
37:46
I think they were lucky to get it to three, two essentially as
37:48
the whole game. It's a flattering score line for
37:51
them. And I think like if you look at
37:55
their squad, obviously everyone was fit.
37:57
They still have a better squad than us.
37:59
I just think that their managers being found out, he's not
38:04
actually very good. Like he's just inherited clocks.
38:08
Team made a tiny tweaks and in a title where no one else is
38:14
playing well so you didn't really have any challenges.
38:17
So he's never under any pressure and now Susie under some
38:19
pressure. So even though they started the
38:21
season pretty well, but it was scraping past every single game.
38:26
So I think annoyingly, I think they have a load of money still
38:30
to spend because they've been really well run for quite a
38:33
number of years. Fair play to them.
38:37
So I think they're gonna spend big again.
38:39
If I was them I would. I'll be a little happier if Slot
38:44
still in charge and they spend a load of money.
38:45
If they bring in Jabby Alonso and spend a load of money and
38:48
they have that squad they have, then I don't think it's sort of
38:52
a fourth place will be their target again.
38:55
I think you can see them as title challenges because they
38:57
have got a decent kind of spying still.
39:00
Yeah, and they agree with you on the squad, but I was thinking
39:02
about this and I'm honestly not just trying to cause chaos
39:05
there, but if you think about the money they spent, they just
39:07
won the title. But if I do look at a combined
39:10
11 now, let's let's go for it together quickly.
39:14
So goalkeeper, we know Allison has been a great, but he's
39:19
moving on to event. That's right as well.
39:20
And we've brought with his whole career ahead of him.
39:23
So Lamons, yeah, ankle right back the deal.
39:29
Yeah, Robinson's off friend Pong.
39:31
I don't actually think he's a right back.
39:34
I'll be honest. Dallow, we know that we love him
39:36
and hate him for different reasons.
39:37
But defensively, I'm probably going Dallow over for important,
39:41
right? Yeah, I I was annoyed when we
39:44
didn't sign for him Pong because he was like where he was 32
39:48
million or 35 million. And he actually hasn't impressed
39:52
me at all this season. I've not watched those
39:53
Liverpool, but he's not been they've not been great.
39:57
He's not been great. So yeah, I'd probably you'd have
40:00
to get with that. At least on this this season's
40:02
form, Dallas has been one of our consistent performers, at least
40:06
defensively. Not talking about issue yet.
40:10
Centre Alps. So we've got Van Dyke and
40:13
Kanate, which is there, they're established too.
40:16
And as I. Guess fully fit what we say and
40:20
we're saying Martinez and delict delicious.
40:25
Yeah. So our Dells, what are you going
40:28
for? So annoyingly you people will be
40:30
like, I think this season and probably back in the last season
40:35
on diet, he's been rubbish. Like he's not playing at a world
40:39
class level. Like he's he's he's playing on
40:41
reputation at the moment. And this whole thing, he's never
40:44
been drove past because he never tries to tackle anyone.
40:46
He just runs backwards. He's still a bit fast.
40:49
He's made a lot of mistakes this season.
40:50
So based on the season you, I would say you'd have.
40:55
McGuire and Delict. McGuire and Delict.
40:58
Yeah, I think McGuire deserves to be in there.
40:59
And Kunatos shite. There you go.
41:04
Right, All right. So we're having that left back.
41:07
So for them, you've got Kirk Kest or yeah, Andy Robinson is
41:11
off, isn't he? Yeah, he's spares if they stay
41:14
everything. I'll Luke Shaw.
41:17
It sounds already bad, but like, obviously you're gonna get a
41:21
link, Shaw. There we go back five Man
41:24
United, right? And now we're playing.
41:26
They play too, like, like we do. They've got McAllister and
41:29
Graffenberg honestly come out as Liverpool fans, come out as
41:33
rivals. You ain't picking Grammar Birch
41:36
over Catamero, no. And you ain't picking McAllister
41:39
over Coby Maney. No, no, not chance.
41:43
All right in front of that, they've got the slobber slide
41:49
and normally they would have seller who's on his way out.
41:53
We've got Cunha, Bruno and and Buemel.
41:58
Yeah. So I would say to them obviously
42:01
last year there's no conversation between and Wemo
42:04
and Stella and just we're completely mental.
42:07
Let's give them seller on the right.
42:09
Yeah, because he is a great summers like good player.
42:13
Bruno Fernandez, he's being picked all day.
42:15
And then the. £125 million verts over Cunya?
42:20
No thanks. No.
42:22
Yeah, right. OK.
42:23
So they've got a seller, They've got a seller so far.
42:25
And then up front, they've got ESAC, which let's be honest,
42:29
when they signed in 400 million, I was worried.
42:32
But would you have he's a cover, Cesco.
42:35
Well, I probably I wouldn't. I'd have.
42:43
Yeah, to be fair, I would. I would, yeah.
42:45
I think he's probably, if you obviously got a bad injury.
42:49
I don't have any goals he scored, but I feel like he's
42:51
scored more than Cesco. So maybe he he might have had a
42:57
better season than Cesco if he hadn't got that bad injury.
43:00
And so maybe you'd have him Cesco.
43:03
But then going into next year, my head's thinking, well, I
43:08
think Cesco's kicking on more, but I'll let him have a cube
43:12
all. Right, big, huge.
43:14
All right, fair play. They spent, how much have they
43:16
spent? And we're giving him most alert
43:18
who's about to leave and we're giving him Hugo like a TK and
43:23
the rest is Man United. So it shows our recruitment as
43:26
well. It's actually been pretty good.
43:28
And there's lots of chat about them and what they did.
43:30
And to be honest, in the summer everyone was like Liverpool for
43:33
the title. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
43:36
But when I was thinking about that combined 11, I was like.
43:38
And then just a little chat about Anna slut.
43:40
I don't know about you mate, but I hope he stays for 10 more
43:42
years really. Yeah, yeah, he's his head's
43:46
going as well, which I love. In press conferences, he's
43:50
moaning lots, He's getting angry, which, yeah, that's the
43:53
kind of stuff we're here for. So the hope these days, if I was
43:59
a Liverpool fan, I think most Liver fans fixed me after
44:01
yesterday, probably don't want him to stay.
44:04
Yeah, I think, I think I read that they've had like meetings
44:07
and they're doing planning with him in mind still.
44:10
I feel like obviously I know he's won a title a season ago,
44:14
but then if you're looking like objectively as a kind of
44:17
Liverpool chairman, whatever you are, you go.
44:19
Well, that was Pops team pretty much.
44:25
And let's look at like City were off it, Arsenal were off it,
44:28
everyone was off it and we obviously won the league so
44:31
great. But we've then spent 450 million
44:35
on his players and we've gone backwards by like 28 points.
44:40
I think it is something like that.
44:41
So, yeah, surely if you just look at it from a statistical
44:45
perspective and also from a kind of the way he's behaving, sure
44:50
you go actually that's just car losses because if you're going
44:55
to let him spend another which pound, they are a couple 100
44:59
million this summer. Like there's a good mergers,
45:03
you're about to be free who come in and spend that money and
45:07
there's still some very good players in that squad.
45:09
So yeah, I think it's a it's a risk that I'm hoping they're
45:12
going to take and keep keeping. I think, yeah, I think they keep
45:17
him and then I think they start crap next season and the wheels
45:19
come off and then he goes would be my my prediction.
45:24
But yeah, let's hope the thumb sticks around a bit longer
45:26
because I'm like, yeah, all right, let's look at the rest of
45:31
the league and the rest of the game week as well.
45:33
Split it up into three again. So relegation battle got
45:36
interesting. So West Ham, we're up first.
45:39
They got slapped 3 nil by a very impressive Brentford and then
45:44
Spurs went to Villa Park and got A-21 win and Villa only just,
45:49
you know, they just got that one.
45:50
No, he's sick toward the end of. A minute, yeah, yeah, So big
45:55
result. I think we I think we mentioned
45:56
that there that Villa might have their eye on there, especially
45:59
after losing the first leg, you know, might have their eye on
46:01
that Europa League final. So probably a place Spurs could
46:04
go, but I was looking at the fixtures for West Ham and Spurs.
46:11
They've both got tough fixtures, to be fair, like so I still, I
46:15
don't think it's done. I think there's going to be some
46:17
slip UPS still because they both got hard games, but that is a
46:22
big advantage. I think think initially you
46:24
would have said supposed to go together and beat them away, but
46:28
apparently it's quite I think Villa are just off off it.
46:32
They're kind of pretty safe for getting Champions League
46:34
position anyway and they are playing a semi final so I think
46:40
that's probably more the reason they lost their home spurs.
46:46
Have you seen all the memes about Villa ruining it for
46:48
everyone behind the apparently Spurs beat them?
46:50
Yeah, you're ruining our fun with Spurs by letting them get a
46:54
win because you gave up. But yeah, on our side, let's get
46:56
into obviously the top four or five battle.
46:59
Obviously Villa dropping points again is brilliant because that
47:02
means now we've opened up a six point gap to Liverpool and Villa
47:05
in 5th and a three-game left and now Bournemouth are 6 points
47:10
behind Villa. If they really really take their
47:13
their eye off the prize then you never know, Bournemouth could
47:16
sneak in if they're not careful because I mean it's a gap right?
47:19
An issue. That they would have to lose.
47:21
I mean, they've lost five in a row.
47:23
I just don't know. I haven't seen you there playing
47:26
to there. But yeah, I think, I think
47:30
they'll be fine. Yeah, and then obviously we did
47:34
the job of Liverpool, which is great.
47:35
So it was just a fantastic weekend for us and looking at
47:38
the table now it just feels feels nice doesn't it?
47:42
But then done 2 above us, annoyingly.
47:43
So to be fair, I thought it was actually a big win for Arsenal.
47:47
Like not just to be full and but to beat them three nil.
47:49
And I'm actually played well. He did.
47:52
And. May I honestly think, you know,
47:55
City played tonight against Everton.
47:56
That's going to be tricky for them.
47:58
You ever since always a hard place to go.
48:00
Like I still think City are going to get it done.
48:03
I think they'll win, but then while they go, they need to
48:05
thing is that yeah, you said they have to.
48:08
They got two games in hand for goal difference difference.
48:11
So it might go down to goal difference.
48:15
I think you were right the other day, yeah.
48:18
I may. Everton are in 11th.
48:19
If they win today, they go above.
48:22
Brighton. You go above the goal, but yeah,
48:23
the goal. Joint Joint Brighton.
48:25
Giant jointly Brighton in eight. Both Chelsea.
48:28
That's a math. So massive opportunity in it,
48:30
Yeah, yeah. So they're gonna, they're going
48:32
to be right up for it as well into those house, into the
48:34
European places, right, Particularly with how things are
48:37
shaping up as well. Yeah, I think it can go down to
48:39
8th or 9th I think at the moment.
48:41
Yeah, yeah. Pillow win the Europa League and
48:44
stay in 5th. Yeah, a few more games left and
48:48
everything's pretty, pretty interesting.
48:50
It's. Nice to have a bit of excitement
48:52
in the league at the end of the season still.
48:54
Yeah, definitely, definitely. But massive win and just wanted
49:00
to end the podcast, mate on unfortunately, not a great tone,
49:03
but this is more important than anything to me and I'm sure it
49:07
is to you. Just before the game, I saw kind
49:09
of a ping come through about Sir Alex Bergsen being rushed to
49:13
hospital and just immediately panicked.
49:16
And I forgot about the game. And I was on my phone looking at
49:20
what I'd what I'd gone on. I don't know the full details,
49:23
but what I heard was that he kind of was at Old Trafford, you
49:25
know, doing his thing and then. He's in the tunnel he got.
49:28
Yeah, he got looked at the tunnel in me and he got kind of,
49:32
I think rushed was the quote I heard to hospital where, you
49:35
know, he was looked over and everything as well.
49:38
And it just it's hard and I never forget about him like he,
49:43
I think I saw Steven Allison do a video this morning and nearly
49:46
nearly did me genuinely like that.
49:48
It was a tough watch because people don't maybe people do get
49:52
it if they've, you know, got similar managers and stuff as
49:55
well. And people might laugh at us for
49:57
this bit. But like he is, you know, a bit
49:59
of a granddad and more than that a bit of a God.
50:03
And I'm not daft. He's getting older.
50:07
We do know at some point, unfortunately, like with all of
50:09
us, but you know, unfortunately he's closer.
50:11
That day is going to come, never going to never going to be ready
50:15
for it. And when you ask the fight this
50:16
as well, it just brings it home. So I was super worried to to
50:21
hear that, you know, really hope that he's he's OK, but just
50:25
wanted to take a moment on the pod just to kind of recognize
50:28
him because we'll never ever in our lifetime and I'll be passing
50:31
it on to my family and all that kind of stuff.
50:33
We'll forget, you know, what he's done for United football
50:36
and, you know, for those he's given me like the best moments
50:39
of my life. But worrying times isn't it when
50:41
you hear stuff like that about the great.
50:44
When you say when you first saw it and you read the headline and
50:46
then obviously you read the articles and so it says it's
50:48
like precautionary. It gives you more hope.
50:51
But like, obviously when you get to that sort of age, then you're
50:55
even small things can become big things.
50:56
So you just got to hope that he's they, that he recovers.
51:00
But like you said, it's. Yeah, he's absolute legend.
51:03
Like every time everyone asks who would you have at your kind
51:06
of perfect dinner table, he's always the first first name on
51:09
the table. I think I've come close to, I
51:13
mean, him a few times and never quite happened.
51:16
So yeah, he's always a little person I'd love to have a
51:18
conversation with. And it again, I'd probably would
51:20
just freeze up and just say thank you or something like
51:23
that. I don't know what I'd do, but
51:24
just it'd be amazing just to shake his hand one day and just
51:27
say thank you for the memory. Especially like obviously now in
51:30
the context of how crap we've been since he's retired, it's
51:33
like even more special what he did and what he did for us.
51:37
And obviously we're that kind of generation where we we saw it
51:41
all happen. So yeah, absolute legend.
51:44
And obviously hope he's hope he recovers.
51:47
Yeah, we've said it before me, I've never actually had the
51:50
privilege of meeting him. And I do think about it like you
51:52
as well in terms of I would love to, but I honestly think I'm
51:55
just probably I'd freeze, maybe cry, maybe.
51:59
I don't know what I'd do. But yeah, it would just be more
52:02
of a thank you for everything, which probably most people kind
52:05
of say to him. But yeah, just wanted to mention
52:08
him kind of at the end is the most important thing.
52:11
And sending our love and best wishes to Fergie.
52:14
Absolute legend. And we wish him, wish him all
52:17
the best. But yeah, what Fergie would want
52:20
is a big three points over the Scousers, United, Yeah, United
52:26
doing doing well as well, like a little bit closer to where they
52:29
should be. You know, obviously next season
52:30
we want to be looking even higher, but more results like
52:34
that, please. But just let's leave it there.
52:37
A good one, a good one. What do you guys think?
52:40
What do you think of the game? Best memories of Fergie as well
52:43
about them in the comments. Let's send some positive vibes
52:46
his way. And as always, don't forget to
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52:52
We will catch you in the next one for a preview against
52:56
Sunderland. See you then.