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Week 9 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  Welcome into the Premier League playground.
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  We're back for another episode recapping week nine of the
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  Premier League. The dad Bjorn with me as the
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  star of the show The lad. Luca Miller.
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  How are you doing today, Luca? I'm doing good.
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  How are you? Doing good.
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  So how was your weekend? It was good.
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  I've actually, I've had a bit of a cold, but I had two games this
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  weekend and I still played them and I actually got two goals out
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  of those two games, one in each game.
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  So pretty good, but yeah. Yeah, you weren't, you weren't
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  100%. You've been battling a little
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  bit of a cold, so you made it through.
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  You played both games. And so you're, you're getting
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  through the pod here, not 100%. Right.
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  Yeah. All right, so you're going to do
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  the best you can. But yeah, I, I, I got to watch.
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  I was away this weekend, so I, I don't like to miss your games,
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  but me and me and mommy were away.
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  But I got to watch a little bit on the phone and thought you and
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  your teammates played real well and I got to see your goal the
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  the the benefits of technology and being able to.
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  Watch I know. Luca playing in Mount Pleasant,
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  SC while I was in New York City on my phone, it's pretty cool.
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  Yeah, a whole different state. Well, Luca, also, week nine of
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  the Premier League, every week, ups and downs, there's never
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  anything you can predict. We have some unexpected results,
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  but should we get talking about the games?
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  Yep. All right, Luca.
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  Well, let's start off with one game.
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  Kind of started the week off. We had Leeds hosting West Ham.
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  Take me through this one. So this starts out in Aronson in
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  the third minute of follow up goal.
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  This is his first goal of the season or for Yeah, for Leeds
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  and for the season. He's American, so we like him.
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  And then in the 15th minute, Joe rode on a header from a corner
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  and then Matthias Fernandez in the 91st minute, a header from
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  Bowen. And I was just talking to you
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  about this. I feel like Bowen should just
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  find a better club. He's so good but he just stuck
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  at West Ham where he could be at a bigger club winning stuff but.
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  You wonder, right? And he's he's been their best
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  player, I think for a couple years.
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  And, you know, West Ham, this this is we'll get into this a
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  little bit. This has been a disaster of a
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  start for them. They are really, really bad.
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  And and what you hate to see is like a good player, maybe kind
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  of like wasting his career a little bit, you know, as his
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  team just sort of struggle. So, yeah, you know, it, it's
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  hard for some of these guys that have been with these clubs for
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  real, real long time. You know, it's never an easy
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  decision to move, but if you're if you're, you know, Jared Bow
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  and Luca, you starting to like push for a move here.
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  Maybe in the in the winner in the, you know, the winner
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  transfer. Maybe wait till next summer.
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  I would push for a winner. You're ready to get out.
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  There. Yeah, I'm ready.
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  Well, so you're right, Luca. So West Ham now, Luca, are one
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  win, one draw, 7 losses in their first nine games.
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  That is tied for the worst start in the history.
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  Who? Did they even be?
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  I don't remember who they beat. I.
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  Don't think it was anyone good. It is tied for the worst start
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  ever Luca then in 1932 and 1933 and in 1973.
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  In 1974 they they only had four points after 9 games.
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  So just just terrible start. Luca.
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  They've given up nine goals from corner kicks.
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  That's three times more than so. Villa, Fulham and leads are in
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  second. They've given up three goals
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  from corner kicks. They're all tied for second
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  West. Ham second, second most.
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  Second most given up goals from quarter West Ham has given up
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  nine goals in nine games from corner.
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  Three times the second place. Yeah.
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  So, you know, leads, this is a good win for them.
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  They're trying to bank as many points as they can to kind of
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  stay, you know, so they don't get relegated.
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  Luca, you had this game spot on. Yeah.
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  You thought Leeds were going to win one.
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  Nothing. They want 2/1.
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  Aaron's the most dangerous in this game.
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  Yeah, you like the way he played today?
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  Yeah, he played really good. He got a goal and he had a shot
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  off the crossbar. There's a really good solo.
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  Well, I would say it would be a really good solo goal if he
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  scored it, but it took a deflection in it off the
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  crossbar. Yeah, it was a real nice run.
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  I mean he almost went the length.
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  Of the field. With the ball and scored, yeah.
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  He was real lively in this game. Yeah, we like seeing American
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  play, players doing well, especially with the World Cup
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  coming up. So he'd be 1 to watch probably
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  next summer for the US team. But Yep, Leeds takes the win,
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  Luca 21, West Ham, more misery. All right, let's move on to
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  Luca. Chelsea, Sunderland.
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  This was an interesting matchup. You had it as 2/2.
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  What happened in this one? This starts off with Garnacho,
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  his first goal for Chelsea in the 4th minute.
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  He also does one of Ronaldo's celebrations in a Chelsea
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  uniform, which was interesting. But then Isador, his fourth goal
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  of the year, he's been their star player in the 22nd minute.
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  And then I'm Toby, Is that his name in the 94th minute from a
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  long throw? Chelsea lose at Stamford Bridge,
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  so big win for Sunderland there against Chelsea at Stamford
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  Bridge which is a hard place to go and win.
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  Yeah, Sunderland keeps the good story rolling on here, right?
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  I mean, we've been talking about their newly promoted, how well
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  they've been doing. They go get a pretty good win.
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  Again, like you said, Sanford Bridge a tough place to go play.
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  They go get another win, another three points.
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  They're now 5, two and two. Luga.
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  This is the best start for a promoted side in 17 years.
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  Wow. Yeah.
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  So what they're doing is almost historic here.
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  Like I said, we just don't see promoted sides come up and do
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  this well. And so they are not only doing
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  well, but they are thriving. In fact, after Saturday, this
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  game, they were sitting in second all by themselves.
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  That was before some of the teams played on Sunday, but.
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  What place are they in now? Like third maybe?
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  I would think third. Sunderland, they're they're in
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  fourth, but they're tied with Tottenham on 17 points, one
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  behind Bournemouth in second. So yeah, just amazing, like I
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  said, what they've done. We talked about how they made a
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  lot of summer signings, they got promoted a lot of summer
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  signings and so they've just hit the ground running and it's an
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  awesome story. They're a fun team to watch.
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  They're. Exciting.
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  Chelsea, Luca have now dropped six points from winning
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  positions. That's the most in the Premier
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  League. So Chelsea went up there, up 1,
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  nothing early at home. You think, all right, they're in
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  cruise control here. Good chance to go get a win.
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  Not only do they, you know, not even get a draw, they lose this
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  game. What do you think Luke are like
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  Chelsea? What, what, what, what should we
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  expect from Chelsea this year? You know, I felt like they came
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  in with a lot of. Potential.
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  Potential like what do you think is a good like reasonable
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  expectation at this point? They're not.
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  They have four wins, 2 draws, 3 losses.
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  They sit in 9th. I would think either Europa
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  League or Champions League would be a good expectation.
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  They're not a title contender, I don't, I don't think they ever
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  really were, but they're definitely a Europe contender
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  and I think they'll finish higher than Europa Conference
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  League. So I would think between Europa
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  League and Champions League for me would be their expectations.
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  OK, so just so just so we're clear, you know, the top 4 get
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  Champions League, Yeah, the 5th right now gets Europa League,
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  and six would be the Europa Conference League.
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  Now that can change a little bit depending on how things go.
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  Sometimes it opens up like another spot, so we'll kind of
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  see, but basically you've got to be top 6 to sort of guarantee
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  yourself a spot in the European competitions.
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  You still think Chelsea can do it?
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  Yeah, I think they can. OK, all right.
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  Fair enough. All right, Lugo, let's move on
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  to Man U hosting Brighton. Take me through this.
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  I predicted one nil. I was completely wrong.
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  It was 4, two. Well, I predicted one nil.
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  United it was 4 till United to United and Kuna in the 24th
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  minute, his first goal for United and then Castamiro in the
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  34th minute. 10 minutes later deflected goal in Bueno in the
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  61st and makes it three nil and Welbeck in the 74th minute,
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  really nice free kick and then that 93rd minute Kustos.
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  I think that's it. Like Kustos?
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  Yeah, header from Milner corner and then the 97th minute and
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  Waymo finish it off with a brace and Man United go out with a win
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  for two. So we we've talked about before
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  how Man United were like could barely even string together
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  under amerem 2 straight, you know, wins in a row.
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  Well, all right, here's now three straight wins in a row.
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  Are you start? Are we starting to believe in in
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  Man United? Yeah, and there's also the so I
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  I see I've seen this guy on YouTube who has done this
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  challenge for a long time of not cutting his hair until Man
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  United win five games in a row. His hair is all poofy and like
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  crazy like that, but he's like, man, not cutting my day like
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  386. He's gone like a full year.
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  Day three I I just saw day three 887 it's.
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  Going to be five wins in a row before he cuts.
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  It yes. OK, well we'll set 3.
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  Read 3 the chat. New draws.
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  This is a pretty good, you know, he's on his way maybe to getting
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  a haircut. And it's like.
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  Tottenham next, I think. I'm not really sure we'll get
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  into that later, but. Yeah, Man United, well, they get
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  Man United gets they go too Forest next weekend.
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  So I mean that should be a winnable game.
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  Forest our dumpster fire so that, you know, this is what I
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  want to see from Man United is this was, you know, to me.
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  Brighton, though, is one of those teams that is way better
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  at home than on the road. You know, we felt like Brighton
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  is like a very hard place for people to go in and get a
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  result. They're really good at home.
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  But Brighton are a bit of a mess on the road.
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  So, you know, Man and I take care of business there.
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  You know, now they go on the road for a game they should win.
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  You know, again, another game they should win.
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  Let's see him kind of keep stacking these wins.
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  But Luca, right now, I mean, you know, 9 games into the season,
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  Man United have the same record as Man City.
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  Wait, actually. Right.
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  And you're like, nobody would expect this because like the
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  beginnings, the season starts off and it's just, you know, all
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  this sort of negativity around this team and the manager and
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  they've slowly, like I said, got.
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  Chipping away at these bigger teams leads.
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  Yeah. So I mean, they're sitting in
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  six right now. I mean five wins, one draw, 3
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  losses. Is Man City in 5th?
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  Yeah, but that's a better goal. Differential you.
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  Know, but you know, and again, so I mean, my question to you
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  is, you know, with Man United, what is like the ceiling for
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  this team? Like what?
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  Like, if you're a Man United fan, you know, your cousin and
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  your uncle are massive Man United fan.
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  Yeah. You know, can they start getting
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  excited about this team? Or is it still kind of wait and
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  see what's going to happen? Because, you know, a lot of
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  times it's 2 steps forward, one step back with this team.
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  Or should they start getting excited?
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  I would be a little bit excited, but I would also wait and see
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  for the next two games, which are definitely probably, I would
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  think, wearable. I don't think they play anyone
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  huge, but I would be still a little bit wait and see, but I
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  would start to get a little bit excited if I if I was at the
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  United Center right now. Yeah.
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  So, you know, if if you just want to look ahead at their
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  schedule, like I said, we said next week they go to Forest,
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  should be a definitely winnable game.
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  They're going to be favored to win that game, OK.
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  The next week they're at Tottenham, OK.
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  That's a decently hard game. It's definitely winnable for
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  them, but it's not easy I would say.
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  No, no, I think that now the only thing is we talked last
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  week like Tottenham have not been good at home.
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  We'll get into them a little bit in a second.
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  They have really struggled at home for whatever reason.
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  But Tottenham's a good team so that'll be an interesting game.
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  They're an international break, then they come back, they host.
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  Everton should win that at Crystal Palace.
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  That's that's a tough. Game, right?
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  There so interesting games over these next 4, but I I think
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  they're starting, like I said, I think what if you're a United
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  fan? You like, OK, they started the
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  big three forward signings, right?
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  Cesco, Cuna, Emboymo. Cuna gets his first goal and
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  Buena gets a brace. Cesco, I think looked pretty
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  decent. I think he's still kind of, you
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  know, settling in a little bit. So you're seeing some maybe
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  progress from those big summer signings of the forward
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  position. Yeah, so, you know, I, I think
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  it's starting to look a little better.
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  But again, yeah, I think we want to see consistency from this
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  team moving forward. Brighton, you know, one
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  interesting stat on them, Luca James Milner made his Premier
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  League debut in 2003. OK, so the the guy who he
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  assisted Kustolos, he was born in 2007. 2007.
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  So James Milner had been playing in the Premier League for four
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  years before the guy he assisted was even born?
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  My God, that's amazing. That yo, he's wait, he's 18.
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  Yeah, he's real young. Yeah, yeah.
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  And you know, Milner's been playing so long as you know,
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  he's chasing down Gareth Barry's, Gareth Barry's record
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  for most Premier League appearances.
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  He's now 8 away. He's looking like he's going to
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  do it because he's been playing regularly.
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  So if he stays healthy, he's been in Brighton's lineup.
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  So he's 8 away from breaking the record for most Premier League,
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  Premier League appearances. So credit to him.
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  Like I said, you know, is a nice corner kick that Cousteau less
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  like it's a nice header. It wasn't enough to win, but
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  like I said, well, we'll keep following Milner as he does it,
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  but it's amazing. He's 39 years old and he's still
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  playing at a high level. I know.
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  Tip of my cap to him. Yeah.
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  All right, Luca, let's move on to one of our, I don't know if
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  it's shocking or not anymore, Brentford hosting Liverpool.
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  Luca, you thought Liverpool were going to come in and win 2?
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  Nothing. But tell me what happened.
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  This ended up 32 Brentford. It starts off with Dango Otara,
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  their new signing. Brentford's new signing in the
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  5th minute on a long throw shot a really good ball from DAMS
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  guard 41 or 46 minute breakaway. Then in the 51st minute, still
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  in the first half, Kirk is makes it 21 and they go into halftime
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  21. Then in the 60th minute Igor
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  Tiago with APK. And then in the 89th minute Sala
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  tries to nice volley but wasn't enough to win.
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  And on the PK, I think this was APK, they, they first call it a
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  free kick, but then they tell the ref to look again.
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  Well, they don't, they tell the ref that they might be inside
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  the box. So that's APK and it's
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  definitely a foul. And I they say it's on the line.
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  I think it's on the line. I think that's APK.
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  OK, yeah, So what? Tara has the ball.
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  He's sort of coming back to the top of the 18 yard box.
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  He's being guarded by Van Dyke, takes sort of a touch away from
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  him and Van Dyke sort of like lunges at the ball to me,
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  clearly hits Wattara like fouls and he kind of kicks the bottom
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  of his shoe. So there's two aspects of it to
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  me, like is it a foul and is it in the box?
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  So I, I think it's pretty clearly a foul.
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  Like I said, he doesn't get the ball.
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  He kicks them. Then is it if it's on the line,
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  it's in the box. So initially this was called
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  outside the box. They took a long time to look at
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  this, though. Yeah, again, you know, I've said
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  this before with Arsenal, so as much as I don't want Liverpool
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  to do well, it's a long time. It's supposed to be clear and
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  obvious. If it's clear and obvious, you
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  overturn it. If it's not, then we shouldn't
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  be overturning calls in, in my opinion.
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  Like I said, when I looked at it, I I did think he was on the
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  line and probably should be at PK.
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  But again, I don't know why it takes them so long.
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  And to me, if it's taking that long, it's not clear and obvious
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  and you should not overturn and re referee these decisions.
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  So you know, is what it is. You know, like I said, PK, they
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  make it. Liverpool, look at, you know,
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  they first five games they went all 5.
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  The next four in the Premier League, they've lost all four.
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  I mean, what is going on? I I don't know, This is not the
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  Liverpool we saw last last year. No, it's not.
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  In fact, Well, so last year, Luca, the entire season, 38
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  games. Liverpool lost four games all
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  year. We're nine games in and.
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  They've already lost 4. So you can see this is a vastly
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  different team than last year. You know, it's, it's again,
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  we've talked about to me, it's really their defense.
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  They've not kept a clean sheet in their last nine games in all
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  competitions. And you would think that
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  they're, you know, smoke the Premier League even more than
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  they did last year because of all their new signings, stuff
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  like that. Yeah, well, it's just, you know,
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  look, Isaac didn't really have much of A preseason.
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  He's been sort of in and out of the lineup.
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  Ekatika, I think has looked good.
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  Good. Yeah, Warts has not looked good.
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  But, you know, I I think he's just, you know, got to get used
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  to the physicality of the Premier League.
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  It's just sort of a different beast than playing in the
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  Bundesliga. And from Pong and Kirk as have
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  not really done much. No, they haven't for him.
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  Pong again, coming from the Bundesliga.
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  Kirk has, you know it hasn't. Quite settled, but.
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  I also think, like, don't forget losing a guy like Trent
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  Alexander Arnold, like how good a player he was, how much he
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  offers in terms of, you know, assists him and Salah on that
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  right side, you know, playing together for all those years.
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  Like losing a guy like that, like you, I don't know that you
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  just sort of replace him. So yeah, people have talked
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  about all the new signings. They need time and stuff, but
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  I'm also like, think about who leaves your team.
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  And I think that was a big loss. I mean, there's nothing they
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  could do about it. He wanted to go.
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  He went to Madrid. Lost them for free.
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  Lost them for free. Yeah, maybe they should have
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  sold him a year before. But, you know, look, I mean,
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  it's you can't force players to stay, but I I just think people
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  don't talk enough about that. Like losing a guy like that, I I
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  think he's like such an important player for that team
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  being able to hit those long balls, get them out on the
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  break. Yeah, they're just, you know,
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  it's unbelievable sort of watching this right now.
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  Luca Brentford Eight goals from long throws since the start of
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  last season. They're good at that.
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  They're real good at that and in fact, look at that is actually
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  twice as many as the next best. They are clearly head and
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  shoulders above everybody else with this long throw.
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  Who says the next best? I don't know who's who's second
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  so, but their coach Luca, he was their set piece coach.
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  So Thomas Frank left to go to Tottenham and they promoted us.
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  He was their set piece coach and a lot of people he never had had
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  hit coaching experience before as Guy Andrews.
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  But he is doing a pretty good job with them.
• 19:00
  And you know, they said are very, very good at these long
• 19:03
  throws. What is it Coyote who takes
• 19:06
  their long throws? Clearly better than a lot of
• 19:09
  people. And in fact we we talked about
• 19:10
  Arsenal are not good at. Long Yeah, they're not.
• 19:13
  Good. But this guy, look at when he
• 19:14
  throws it in there, it is not only far, but it's on a line.
• 19:17
  It's with pace, I mean, and that's what you sort of want
• 19:19
  with these long throws. And they are clearly
• 19:21
  prioritizing it and doing a good job and getting goals from it.
• 19:25
  And we'll kind of come on to Arsenal with free kicks in a
• 19:27
  second here. But I I think, you know, more
• 19:29
  power to them. A lot of people don't like this
• 19:31
  Luke. They don't like the long throws.
• 19:33
  They don't like set piece FC with Arsenal scoring off the set
• 19:36
  pieces. But I'm just sort of like, I
• 19:38
  think everybody's looking for an edge, right?
• 19:40
  And if you can get an edge, whether it be long throws or
• 19:43
  your set pieces, I mean, to me do yeah, I, I don't understand
• 19:48
  sort of the knock against it. I mean, everybody can try to do
• 19:51
  it. It's not like they're bending
• 19:52
  the rules or doing something other teams can't do.
• 19:54
  But. Yeah.
• 19:56
  So yeah, Luca Brentford, four wins a draw and four losses.
• 20:00
  You know, they're sitting in 11th.
• 20:03
  They're doing, like I said, pretty well all things
• 20:05
  considered after losing Lisa and Emboymo, so credit to them.
• 20:09
  Yeah. All right, Luca, let's move on
• 20:12
  to Newcastle and Fulham. Luca, you had a prediction of
• 20:15
  two, one Newcastle winning. And I got it spot on. 2/1.
• 20:21
  Thanks. It serves up a bass.
• 20:23
  He had a giveaway in the 18th minute and Murphy got it.
• 20:27
  He shoots it, hits the post and it bounces.
• 20:29
  It flex in and Newcastle go up one nil.
• 20:35
  Lukic. Then I think it was off a corner
• 20:39
  in the 56th minute he gets a goal, ties it up.
• 20:43
  Then in the 91st minute, Bruno Gimmer Rice, he scores 21.
• 20:49
  Newcastle. It was rebound after another
• 20:53
  bassy giveaway. So he had a rough day.
• 20:56
  But yeah, Newcastle win this for 2:00 on.
• 21:00
  Yeah, Newcastle needed a win. You know, the two teams that
• 21:03
  started off slow to me that I thought were really going to
• 21:06
  start to move up the. Table and Newcastle.
• 21:07
  And Newcastle and we'll talk, we'll get on to Villa in a
• 21:09
  second, but Newcastle have not quite gotten into gear yet.
• 21:13
  Fulham have been really struggling.
• 21:15
  Luca, this is four straight losses for Fulham.
• 21:17
  They, they just can't seem to one, get out of their own way
• 21:20
  Today, 2 pretty bad mistakes leading to two goals.
• 21:24
  They were sort of punished for that.
• 21:25
  But that's, that's the Premier League.
• 21:26
  It's like little mistakes just get punished.
• 21:29
  You know, these teams are so good that it's just almost like
• 21:32
  you just can't make any mistakes.
• 21:34
  They to me, they just really struggle to create a lot of like
• 21:37
  chances, you know, like who's their guy who's going to sort of
• 21:41
  like get them goals or create. It was new knees, but he's hurt
• 21:44
  right now. And then like Jimenez has not
• 21:46
  really done much. I know, I know.
• 21:48
  I just whenever I watch them, I just want a little bit more on
• 21:51
  the offensive end and you know, they signed Kevin and they're
• 21:53
  working him in. They haven't started him in a
• 21:55
  game yet and I like what I've seen from him.
• 21:58
  He's all right. He's been all right.
• 21:59
  I know. I mean, like I said, he's a guy
• 22:01
  that I'm interested in seeing more from, I guess I should say.
• 22:04
  So I'm I'm hopeful he maybe gets a start or maybe they could
• 22:06
  figure out a way to get Smith Row and Josh.
• 22:09
  King Yeah, I said say that because.
• 22:10
  I just feel like at some point you got to, you know, like
• 22:13
  they're always well organized. They always typically don't give
• 22:16
  up a lot of you know, chances, you know so.
• 22:18
  They didn't give up. Those two give.
• 22:20
  If they didn't do those two giveaways, it would.
• 22:22
  They would have won. Yeah, yeah, I know it's a good
• 22:24
  point. And and you know, Arsenal,
• 22:25
  having just played them and like I said, they they typically
• 22:28
  always, you know, are always close if it feels like they
• 22:31
  rarely get blown out, but they just don't think they just just
• 22:34
  don't seem to me to get enough goals.
• 22:36
  And and they're they're struggling, Luca, I mean Fulham
• 22:39
  now sitting there in 17th place, you know, one off of the
• 22:43
  relegation zone now they got eight points and Forest in 18th
• 22:47
  have 5 but. Forest might get relegated.
• 22:50
  They could, they could, I mean, it's it's they're in trouble
• 22:53
  here, but Fulham, they've got to try to turn this around.
• 22:56
  Four straight losses. This is not like Fulham usually
• 22:58
  they can kind of eke out a couple draws, find their way
• 23:01
  into a win. So you know what we'll kind of
• 23:03
  talk next week. They they have wolves coming in.
• 23:06
  This is to me and must, must win what we'll get on to that when
• 23:10
  we talk a look at next week. But they at least they have
• 23:12
  wolves coming in worst team in the Premier League.
• 23:14
  So the hopefully they get a win next week.
• 23:16
  Yeah. All right, Luca.
• 23:17
  Well, let's get on to another interesting game to me was Villa
• 23:21
  hosting City. You had City winning three to
• 23:25
  two. I was wrong.
• 23:28
  There's not much happening in this other than Cash's goal in
• 23:32
  the 19th minute. Pretty good goal into the far
• 23:35
  corner from outside the box, yeah, but that's pretty much it
• 23:40
  for that game. Not much.
• 23:41
  Yeah, I know not not much in that one.
• 23:43
  I mean, we, we, we've talked about this, you know, our city
• 23:46
  too reliant on Holland to score goals, you know?
• 23:49
  Obviously. Obviously Holland didn't score
• 23:51
  today. They nobody did.
• 23:53
  But we talked about it before and it nobody on the nobody else
• 23:56
  on the team even has two goals. So, you know, this would be the
• 23:59
  game where you'd hope somebody else would step up.
• 24:01
  You know, I mean, Holland's been unbelievable all year, but you
• 24:06
  know, he's going to have days where he just, you know, just
• 24:07
  doesn't fall for him or he's going to get double and triple
• 24:10
  team. So, you know, just something to
• 24:13
  keep an eye on if Holland's form dips at all.
• 24:15
  This team looks to me that they've got to try to get goals
• 24:18
  from other positions. They have too many good
• 24:19
  attacking players and not get guys like Foden, Doku Savino and
• 24:23
  Bernardo Silva. I mean.
• 24:25
  Foden, ever since he got that Premier League player of the
• 24:28
  year, he's not looked very good. No, you're right, He has not
• 24:31
  been the same player, you know. Now look, Marmouche is back for
• 24:34
  for them. I like him as a player.
• 24:35
  A lot. And, and he's been to me very
• 24:38
  productive when he's been out there last year and into this
• 24:41
  year. You know, he got hurt for a
• 24:42
  spell and Shirky's back, he's kind of a creative, attacking
• 24:45
  kind of #10 type player. So I, I want to see these guys
• 24:49
  maybe a little bit more on the field.
• 24:51
  I'd, I'd like to see them maybe figure out a way to get
• 24:53
  Marmouche and Holland on the field together because I think
• 24:57
  that could really kind of offer a little bit more of an
• 24:59
  attacking punch there. Does Marmoush play like striker
• 25:02
  position? Yeah, I mean, what does he play
• 25:04
  like Central attacking midfielder?
• 25:05
  I mean, I think he's probably more of like a number of 10,
• 25:08
  sort of a central attacking midfielder.
• 25:10
  But Pep's creative Pep moves guys all around, you know, So I
• 25:14
  I, you know, they just figuring out a way.
• 25:16
  And maybe it is where he sort of tucks in right behind Holland.
• 25:19
  But I'd like to, I just would like to see them on the field
• 25:21
  together and sort of see what can happen.
• 25:24
  You know, City, Luca, this is three years in a row they've
• 25:26
  gone to Villa and lost. There's something about, you
• 25:28
  know, going up to to Birmingham there and Plainville they do not
• 25:32
  like. So three years in a row, not
• 25:34
  gotten the job done. We talked about it there now,
• 25:37
  you know, five wins, a draw and three losses, same record as Man
• 25:42
  United. That is not what City wants to
• 25:44
  see. They're dreaded rivals from from
• 25:47
  Manchester. So all right, Luca.
• 25:50
  Well, let's move on to our team. Arsenal hosted Crystal Palace
• 25:53
  again. To me, this is another very
• 25:55
  interesting game. 2 very, very good teams.
• 25:58
  Both teams came in with only one loss.
• 26:01
  Luca, you thought is going to be two one Arsenal.
• 26:04
  What happened? It only ended up one nil,
• 26:06
  Arsenal, at least we got the win.
• 26:07
  But as a his first goal in an Arsenal shirt, and of course it
• 26:13
  was against his old team, it's inevitable.
• 26:16
  He scores in the 36th minute, 39th minute with a really nice
• 26:19
  volley. But yeah, that's pretty much it
• 26:22
  for that. Yeah, this was an interesting
• 26:25
  game to me because Crystal Palace is a very good team.
• 26:31
  You know, like I said, the FA Cup winners, they've only lost
• 26:33
  once coming in. You know, they have a bunch of
• 26:36
  draws, you know, so that's why they kind of came in sort of,
• 26:39
  you know, mid table ish. But you know, very well coached.
• 26:42
  They're well organized. I think they've got some
• 26:45
  interesting players. Mateta, Adam Wharton, Gay Munoz.
• 26:51
  Yeah, like a really good right back gets forward.
• 26:53
  Like they've got some really good players.
• 26:55
  They're like I said, you know, but you know, they kind of sat
• 26:58
  in a little bit. They kind of gave Arsenal the
• 27:01
  ball, kind of did the low block thing that we tried to break
• 27:04
  down. Arsenal really didn't create a
• 27:06
  whole lot for the 1st 30 minutes.
• 27:09
  Crystal Palace gives away a free kick.
• 27:11
  Here we go with the free kick stuff.
• 27:13
  Tekken Rice plays the ball in big Gabby gets his head on it
• 27:17
  and Crystal Palace tries to clear it.
• 27:19
  They don't Ball falls to as a nice little volley gets the goal
• 27:23
  and that it kind of ends up being the winner, you know?
• 27:26
  So two things I want to ask you, Luga.
• 27:29
  For some reason in soccer, I don't quite know where this
• 27:32
  started, but you don't celebrate against your old team.
• 27:36
  I don't, I don't, I don't know where that came from.
• 27:42
  And I mean, I guess if you've been at that team for like your
• 27:46
  whole career, it's the end of your career and you're just
• 27:49
  going to another team for just a little bit, then maybe like you
• 27:54
  did a lot, you want a couple trophies with them, then maybe
• 27:58
  you don't celebrate. But if you've only been there
• 28:00
  for like a year, we can celebrate.
• 28:02
  It's not that hard. Haverts did it against Chelsea.
• 28:06
  Yeah, Now not everybody does it. It's interesting because this is
• 28:08
  like a soccer thing, right? We, we, we watch, look at me and
• 28:11
  you watch a lot of NFL, we watch NBA, even hockey, baseball.
• 28:16
  People celebrate against their old teams all the time, right?
• 28:18
  Like in in American sports, nobody thinks about this at all.
• 28:20
  But for some reason in European soccer, it's like if you left
• 28:23
  the team and you scored against them, you got to like be real
• 28:26
  muted and calm about it. Well, there's a rule about you.
• 28:29
  It's like an unwritten rule. And I'm just curious, like I
• 28:33
  don't quite get it because I don't know the why is it what
• 28:36
  You're not showing them disrespect just because you're
• 28:38
  celebrating you did something good for your team that you play
• 28:40
  on now, it doesn't mean he hates Palace or disrespecting Palace
• 28:45
  now, you know? So I'm curious like, where do
• 28:47
  you fall on this? Are you like hey man?
• 28:49
  Celebrated. You say, well, it was a very it
• 28:52
  was. He was pretty tame.
• 28:53
  About he. Was he did his little like
• 28:55
  letter thing, but it was pretty chill.
• 28:58
  Like he wasn't no knee sly. There was no big thing.
• 29:01
  I thought it was like like a, like a that's.
• 29:03
  Just a celebration, I thought. Why do a nice slide?
• 29:06
  No, he doesn't do a nice slide, but he may jump in the air like
• 29:09
  a fist pump or something like that.
• 29:10
  I thought he was, I thought he clearly was trying to tone it
• 29:13
  down because he scored against his old team.
• 29:15
  So I'm, I'm just curious, in your opinion, are you like,
• 29:18
  where do you fall on this? Are you?
• 29:20
  Don't celebrate, just be cool about it or hey man, go ahead
• 29:23
  and celebrate. It depends how long you've
• 29:25
  played there and how, like if you've won some trophies there,
• 29:29
  if you played there for a year, just celebrate the heart.
• 29:33
  But if you played there for multiple years, won some stuff,
• 29:37
  was there captain, I would I would turn it down a little bit
• 29:41
  like deck on Rice. He won a trophy with their
• 29:44
  captain for a long time. He didn't he come up with them.
• 29:48
  Yeah, I think so. Believe.
• 29:50
  He came up with them, I'm pretty sure.
• 29:52
  Then, yeah, he's celebrate, Yeah.
• 29:54
  I would turn it down a little bit.
• 29:55
  It depends how long you've played there.
• 29:57
  Okay, that's fair enough answer. I like that.
• 29:59
  And like you said, if you've maybe achieved some big goals
• 30:02
  with that team, yeah, you go to the new team, you chill out.
• 30:06
  All right, look, my other question to you is Arsenal.
• 30:08
  Arsenal that seems to be sort of taking a lot of Flack because
• 30:11
  they score so many goals from set pieces.
• 30:13
  You know, we as Arsenal fans sort of embrace the, you know,
• 30:17
  set piece FC type of thing. You know, do you think, you
• 30:21
  know, does it worry you? I guess I should say that
• 30:23
  Arsenal are so reliant right now on scoring goals from set pieces
• 30:27
  and not getting enough goals from open play where you, you
• 30:30
  know, hey, you get the goals where you get the goals and
• 30:34
  don't need to apologize for this at all.
• 30:37
  Well, I think, I think we get enough goals in open play, but I
• 30:43
  would just get the goals where you can get the goals.
• 30:45
  I don't really care how we score them.
• 30:47
  Just score is my is my answer. But I feel like we get enough
• 30:52
  goals from open play. It's not like we get what it's
• 30:56
  not like we get like 5 every game.
• 30:57
  But when we get I, I think if you score a goal, score a goal,
• 31:03
  be happy about that. I don't care how, but.
• 31:06
  I think, you know what, what I don't think people talk about
• 31:09
  enough is like how how much like attacking talent we're missing,
• 31:13
  you know, so people want us to, you know, apologize for scoring
• 31:16
  goals off the set pieces, but. How do you need to apologize
• 31:19
  about scoring? Well, they're just saying, you
• 31:21
  know, Arsenal are just too reliant on that and that can
• 31:24
  that hold up over a whole season to win a title.
• 31:27
  You know, I don't know the answer to that, but all I know
• 31:30
  is they've clearly prioritized this.
• 31:32
  We have a set piece coached, you know, they run plays.
• 31:36
  We've talked about this like an NFL team.
• 31:38
  They've prioritized this and they do well at it.
• 31:41
  Not to mention you have to me like one of the best really,
• 31:45
  maybe that's one of the well, no, I was going to say one of
• 31:48
  the best players in a set piece situation, Gabrielle.
• 31:51
  I mean, this guy, he's just he just to me, he's better than
• 31:54
  other people about just going up and getting his head on the
• 31:57
  ball. So whether it's a corner kick or
• 31:58
  whether it's flicking it on, you know, some players are just
• 32:01
  better at it than others. And then we have Rice Soccer and
• 32:04
  Udegard who can put the ball in and have a really good set piece
• 32:08
  ability to get it in and then Gabrielle goes on it.
• 32:11
  He just wants it more than everyone.
• 32:13
  Yeah, I I don't quite get this. It reminds me in football, Luke,
• 32:16
  Luke and I are massive Philadelphia Eagles fans.
• 32:18
  And the Eagles run a play called the Tush Push.
• 32:20
  And the touch push, you know, is basically where the court, it's
• 32:23
  like a quarterback sneak and it gets kind of pushed from the
• 32:25
  back from it. And everybody said, oh, it's not
• 32:27
  a football play. It's not it's boring to watch.
• 32:30
  You know, I we don't want the Eagles to do it.
• 32:32
  And I'm like, it's not against the rules.
• 32:34
  Every team can do it just because they do it so much
• 32:37
  better than everybody else. Why do they need to apologize
• 32:40
  for it? Like either defend it better or
• 32:43
  you go practice it and get good at it.
• 32:45
  Like it's not against the rules. So like I, I find.
• 32:47
  A play that is open to everyone. They no one else, just no one
• 32:51
  else does it. Yeah.
• 32:53
  So like, why like everybody can get free kicks and, you know, in
• 32:56
  in soccer. So like you said, we've got
• 32:58
  really good people that deliver the ball into like dangerous
• 33:01
  spaces. You've got people that attack
• 33:03
  it. We've got a a good plan with it.
• 33:05
  Like every other team can do this, you know, and or defend it
• 33:08
  better. You know, like I just don't
• 33:10
  understand sort of this notion that like, you know, like
• 33:13
  Arsenal need to sort of apologize for this.
• 33:14
  Of course Arsenal want to get a bunch of goals from open play
• 33:17
  too. You know, we'll we'd love to get
• 33:19
  a goal from Seth piece and three from open play.
• 33:21
  Yeah, we want you know, like, yeah, we'd love to do that.
• 33:23
  But sometimes you got to grind out a win against a really good
• 33:25
  team and you're playing Crystal Palace and to me that's like a
• 33:28
  good win. These are win.
• 33:30
  These are games last year that we were drawing or losing, you
• 33:33
  know, like, so, you know, our defense is great.
• 33:37
  We talked about this. They've given up three goals and
• 33:39
  13 games in all competitions. I mean, that's absurd.
• 33:42
  That's ridiculous. So you have this great defense.
• 33:46
  You know, we've got a good bench.
• 33:47
  Saliba goes out at half time in this game, Mascara comes in.
• 33:50
  It's like we barely miss a beat. And Rice came out with.
• 33:53
  An yeah, Rice came out. I think he's going to be OK, but
• 33:56
  Saliba and then Martinelli came in, he got injured.
• 34:00
  They have not said what the injuries for Seliba and
• 34:03
  Martinelli are, but they're not going to play in the Carabao Cup
• 34:07
  game tomorrow. Calafury Rice look OK and even
• 34:11
  Saka was like a little sick but he's looks.
• 34:13
  Like during the game? No, like before the game, you
• 34:16
  know, I don't know if you just said like an illness.
• 34:19
  So that's what that is. But no, he he played but but
• 34:22
  Saka had to come off after like 6560 or 65 minutes and he's a
• 34:26
  guy who usually gets you. 90 minutes so.
• 34:29
  But yeah, Lucas, Arsenal sit, you know, top of the table.
• 34:32
  Like I said, to me, this is a really good win.
• 34:35
  It wasn't pretty. These are the games you got to
• 34:37
  grind out if you're if you're going to win the title.
• 34:39
  It's just like I said, you play a really good team and you grind
• 34:43
  out A1, nothing win. So one nil to the Arsenal.
• 34:47
  Luca. Yeah, there we go.
• 34:49
  All right, Luca, Wolves hosting Burnley.
• 34:53
  You had it. One nothing.
• 34:54
  You thought Wolves were getting their first win?
• 34:56
  Did they get it? No, sadly no, they still have
• 35:00
  not won even if they play newly promoted teams.
• 35:05
  So I predicted one nil Wolves and ended 32 Burnley which is
• 35:11
  crazy. This starts off with Z and
• 35:16
  Fleming in the 14th minute and the 30th minute makes it 2 nil
• 35:24
  to Burnley and then Strand Larson with a pecan the 42nd
• 35:29
  minute and then Munetzi and the 45 + 5 S 50th minute.
• 35:35
  Still in the first half 22. Then nothing really happens
• 35:40
  until the 96th minute where Foster scores.
• 35:43
  So Burnley come out with the win 3/2 at Wolves Stadium.
• 35:49
  You know, more misery for Wolves big win for Burnley.
• 35:53
  Yeah, the late winner. Nice goal there.
• 35:55
  Like I said on on the late winner.
• 35:58
  So yeah, I mean, not much else to say about this Game 2 two
• 36:03
  teams at the bottom of the table, but Burnley big three
• 36:05
  points. Yep.
• 36:06
  All right, let's move on. Luca.
• 36:07
  Bournemouth hosting Nottingham Forest.
• 36:10
  All right, Luca, you thought Bournemouth would win 2 Nothing.
• 36:13
  They want to nothing. Luca, nice job.
• 36:16
  So this starts out in the 25th minute were Tavernier scored in
• 36:23
  a wimpy code which which is a goal off of a corner and then in
• 36:29
  the 40th minute Creepy gets his fourth goal of the year and
• 36:33
  Bournemouth went to no. Yeah, so Bournemouth, like I
• 36:37
  said, one of our great stories to start the season after this
• 36:42
  week, Luca Bormis sitting all by themselves in second place.
• 36:47
  Yeah, just, you know, they're one of my favorite teams this
• 36:51
  year. Croupy.
• 36:52
  Luca is has four goals in six league games.
• 36:57
  He's 19 years old. So Luca, he is, if you look at
• 37:00
  all the Big 5 leagues in Europe, his four goals puts him second
• 37:04
  for teenagers in all the Big 5 leagues.
• 37:07
  So Tan Uzan, who plays for Eintracht Frankfurt, he has five
• 37:11
  goals, but croupy, like I said, four goals and he's only played
• 37:15
  in six games. It's just like we, I mean, we
• 37:17
  said this last week, I think when he had a brace.
• 37:19
  It's just here we go Bournemouth again, finding good young
• 37:21
  talent. So he's a fun like I said, fun
• 37:25
  player to watch. He's probably going to get more
• 37:27
  and more playing time because he keeps scoring.
• 37:30
  That's a way to get more and more playing time.
• 37:33
  Luka for Bournemouth, 18 points after 9 games.
• 37:38
  Best Premier League start ever for them.
• 37:40
  Wow, they have, like I said, this is the best Bournemouth has
• 37:43
  ever done. 18 points after 9 games.
• 37:46
  I hope they keep it up. You know, I really, really do
• 37:49
  hope they're just hanging around.
• 37:51
  But like I said, the spots, I would love to see them, you
• 37:54
  know, at least maybe Europa League.
• 37:57
  Yeah, Dream about Champions League.
• 38:00
  I don't know. I don't.
• 38:01
  Know all to see. We'll have to see, I know.
• 38:04
  Too early. It's very early.
• 38:06
  I mean, you know, I guess that I would love to see it, but we'll
• 38:09
  we'll see. Time will tell them that.
• 38:11
  But look, they beat up on a team that is this absolutely
• 38:14
  struggling big time. Not even Forest.
• 38:16
  One win, 2 draws, 6 losses. I mean, they're sitting in
• 38:20
  relegation zone, Luca, they've got five points.
• 38:22
  They've already fired their manager.
• 38:25
  You know, this is our four straight game without a goal.
• 38:28
  I mean, just miserable right now for Nottingham Forest.
• 38:31
  Yeah. All right, Luca, let's go into
• 38:33
  the last game of the week. We had Everton hosting
• 38:35
  Tottenham. You thought Tottenham would win
• 38:38
  2/1? And they did not win 21, but
• 38:41
  they won three. New van Devin had two goals in
• 38:46
  this game. 19th minute and 45 + 7 and then to go some corners.
• 38:53
  And then it was funny because they actually showed a stat
• 38:56
  right before then and then scored his first goal.
• 38:59
  That Everton are the only team that has not conceded a goal
• 39:02
  from a corner. And then 2 seconds later they
• 39:05
  concede and they and they concede his again.
• 39:09
  And then Star scored again in the 89th minute.
• 39:12
  Make it 3 now. Yeah, Tom, I'm Lucas.
• 39:16
  I I, I can't figure them out. So they they have they're like
• 39:20
  the best away team. They and they have four wins and
• 39:23
  a draw away, but then they're for some reason they struggle at
• 39:27
  home. It's very strange.
• 39:29
  The weird thing is last year they only won five games all
• 39:34
  year away. They were so last year they were
• 39:36
  just terrible away. And in fact, that was like a big
• 39:38
  reason why they didn't have the, you know, they had this horrible
• 39:40
  season is because they couldn't get any points away.
• 39:42
  This year they've already got four wins away.
• 39:45
  Yeah, it's, I find it very hard to put my finger on this team.
• 39:50
  Like, you know, what is again, their ceiling or their floor?
• 39:54
  I mean, you know that they're sitting in 3rd.
• 39:56
  I mean, they're, you have 17 points.
• 39:58
  They're they're in a great spot right now.
• 40:01
  They're going to have to get better results at home.
• 40:02
  And they very well could because I do think they're they're a
• 40:04
  pretty good team. But but kudos to them, like I
• 40:08
  said, for for doing well on the road.
• 40:10
  I you know, I don't know if anybody could really have an
• 40:14
  answer for why. Right now.
• 40:15
  Team's playing better on the road than at home.
• 40:17
  But so random. Yeah.
• 40:18
  So yeah, it was kind of funny with the stat, you know, like
• 40:21
  Everton haven't conceded a goal from corners and then boom,
• 40:23
  right there they do it. And then a couple minutes later.
• 40:26
  They do it again, they do it. Again.
• 40:27
  So yeah, Everton, you know, three wins, 2 draws, 4 losses.
• 40:32
  Sitting in 14th feels about right for them and look at that.
• 40:36
  That basically sums up Week 9. I think we covered all the
• 40:40
  games, Luca, you got so your predictions, Six games correct,
• 40:45
  two games perfect. Yeah, I got I I was 2 for today.
• 40:50
  You've been keeping track. Yeah, I figured I'd keep track
• 40:52
  here. So yeah, pretty good.
• 40:54
  I mean, that's like I said, it's not easy because you got to, you
• 40:56
  know, you got it. There's wins, losses and draws.
• 40:59
  You know, it's not just like a picking, like a winning or a
• 41:00
  loss. So yeah, so good job.
• 41:04
  Interesting thing we've talked about the permit, the promoted
• 41:06
  teams, right and how well they've done.
• 41:09
  It's been to me a little bit of a storyline.
• 41:10
  We're so look at we're 1/4 of the way through the season, OK,
• 41:14
  so we're nine games into the season, it's a 38 game season.
• 41:17
  So we're now like 1/4 of the way through.
• 41:20
  So I think we get like a sense and one of the big storylines to
• 41:23
  me has been how good the promoted teams have been.
• 41:26
  So we've got Leeds, Sunderland and Burnley, you know, and
• 41:30
  usually the past two years the three teams that went up went
• 41:33
  right back down. Yeah.
• 41:35
  So this year though, the three or no, Okay, so let me say last
• 41:39
  year the three relegated teams over the season had 59 points
• 41:43
  and twelve wins combined. Combined so far this year, the
• 41:47
  three teams OK 38 points and eleven wins.
• 41:52
  And that's in nine games, and those three teams did that in.
• 41:55
  In the full season, yeah. So you can just, I mean, you'd
• 41:58
  see how much better they're doing, which brings into play
• 42:02
  all these other teams who, you know, we talked about Wolves
• 42:05
  getting off to this horrible start last year.
• 42:07
  Well, but that everybody else was terrible.
• 42:10
  So they were able to stay, you know, promoted.
• 42:13
  But I I think these teams at the bottom right now, Forest, West
• 42:17
  Ham, Wolves, maybe even Fulham a little bit are in like serious
• 42:23
  jeopardy of getting relegated because they can't just rely
• 42:26
  that Leeds and Burnley and they're.
• 42:29
  Just. Going to drop points, they're
• 42:31
  going to be in games, they're going to play well.
• 42:33
  So I think that the relegation battle is going to be a real
• 42:37
  interesting thing as we kind of move through the season to see,
• 42:40
  you know, because again, these teams who would just sort of
• 42:42
  take for granted maybe a little bit, well, you know, we'll find
• 42:45
  our way into 16th or 15th and stay up, I don't know, this
• 42:49
  year, like I said this. Is a different year.
• 42:51
  Yeah, yeah. So you can see the the the
• 42:52
  promoted teams are doing very well and I think it's been a
• 42:55
  real storyline for the first quarter of the season.
• 42:57
  So all right, Luca, you've got it.
• 43:00
  Now give me your player goal, team of the week for Week 9.
• 43:05
  Go ahead, start it anywhere. I'll start with goal of the
• 43:08
  week, and I'm going with James Taverniers of Wimpico.
• 43:11
  That was insane. Nice, I like it.
• 43:14
  Yeah, also give an honorable mention to Danny Welbeck's free
• 43:16
  game. That was pretty good, too.
• 43:20
  Then Team of the Week, I'm going to Brentford for beating
• 43:25
  Liverpool. Okay, all right, the Brentford
• 43:27
  Bees. Yeah, little side note, Luca, I
• 43:30
  was in New York this weekend with Mommy.
• 43:32
  We found our way into a bar in Manhattan and without even
• 43:35
  realizing it, the Red Lion Bar in Manhattan turn out to be a
• 43:40
  Brentford bar. The flag up, the bees, people in
• 43:44
  jerseys. I'm like this is this.
• 43:46
  Is like Edmonds is here in Charleston.
• 43:48
  Exactly. Yeah.
• 43:48
  So we always go watch. We have an Arsenal supporters
• 43:51
  bar here called Edmond Zoe. So now Brentford, like I said,
• 43:54
  that's not as popular team as. Arsenal.
• 43:56
  But it was awesome being in there because of course I went
• 43:58
  in there rooting against Liverpool and I'd be pulling for
• 44:00
  Brentford with all the other. Fans So were you cheering with
• 44:02
  everyone? Yeah.
• 44:03
  Of course, you know, we were loving the result, but it was
• 44:07
  very cool. Like I said, it was a fun place
• 44:08
  to kind of watch the game. And yeah, being with some
• 44:11
  Brentford supporters was pretty cool.
• 44:12
  Yeah, it's fun. Good call on that for Team of
• 44:14
  the Week. Player of the week I'm gonna
• 44:19
  give it to. I want to give it to Aaron soon.
• 44:24
  I thought he played really well in that game today.
• 44:28
  Yeah, it's a good call. You know, give a shout out to an
• 44:30
  American doing well in the Premier League.
• 44:32
  And well, different. I wanted to not do like a big
• 44:35
  name player. Now Google, before we get into,
• 44:38
  did you know you said your goal of the week, Taverniers
• 44:41
  Olympico? Yeah, you know why it's called
• 44:43
  an Olympico? So an Olympico goal is where you
• 44:45
  score a goal directly from a corner kick, right?
• 44:47
  The corner kick taker kicks the ball typically with a curb and
• 44:50
  it goes directly in the goal, not headed in by anyway.
• 44:52
  That's what you called on Olympico.
• 44:54
  Do you know why it's called an Olympico?
• 44:57
  No. OK, so it's named after an event
• 45:00
  in 1924 when an Argentinian player, Cesario Ansari, scored
• 45:06
  from a corner against Uruguay, who had just won the Olympic
• 45:10
  title, leading to the Spanish name goal.
• 45:14
  Olympico or Olympic goal. So a little bit of history of
• 45:18
  why people call that an Olympico goal.
• 45:21
  OK. All right, Luca, I've got to
• 45:24
  give. I've got to give a My goal of
• 45:25
  the week is not from the Premier League.
• 45:27
  It's coming from a College of Charleston.
• 45:31
  Our local college team, the College of Charleston played
• 45:34
  William and Mary, another team. We know your cousin, my nephew
• 45:38
  Alexander Levengood star player for William and Mary.
• 45:42
  He's not there anymore. He's.
• 45:43
  Not there anymore, yes, But we know these teams very well
• 45:46
  because College of Charleston's right here where we're based.
• 45:48
  So the game was in Williamsburg, VA's College of Charleston
• 45:51
  double bicycle kick goal. And they're both out of the
• 45:55
  year, so the first guy bicycle kicks it, and then the second
• 45:58
  guy in mid air bicycle kicks it again and it goes in.
• 46:01
  Yeah, completely bananas. Anybody You got to go check it
• 46:04
  out on YouTube? I've never.
• 46:05
  Seen anything like this before in?
• 46:07
  College. The College of Charleston scored
• 46:11
  a goal where a guy bicycle kicks it back into the box and then a
• 46:14
  bicycle kick into the goal. Completely outrageous.
• 46:17
  It was #1 on Sports Center the next morning.
• 46:20
  Very, very cool goal. So check that out.
• 46:22
  That's my goal of the week. So all right, Luca, let's let's
• 46:28
  see any big soccer news. I don't think there's really
• 46:31
  anything to touch on or games around Europe.
• 46:33
  So let's get into the viewer mail better.
• 46:37
  Do my picks. Got to do your picks.
• 46:39
  OK, yeah, let's do your picks for next week.
• 46:40
  So week 10 you've got Drum Roll Nottingham Forest hosting Man
• 46:46
  You Luca. Oh I think man you are gonna win
• 46:50
  2 now. Nottingham Forester Just so such
• 46:53
  a dumpster fire and man you looking pretty good.
• 46:56
  All right, so man, you that's gonna be four wins in a row for
• 46:58
  them, Luca, they are rolling. Yeah, maybe that guy will be
• 47:01
  able to cut his hair after. He's getting close, you know,
• 47:03
  warm up the warm up the Clippers.
• 47:05
  Yeah. All right, Luca, Burnley hosts
• 47:08
  Arsenal. OK, I think Arsenal are going to
• 47:12
  win two nil. Two nil, OK, I kind of like it.
• 47:15
  Burnley are actually pretty good defensively at home.
• 47:18
  But Arsenal have some good attacking weapons but.
• 47:21
  Yeah, I mean, this is the one where Arsenal's got to go, you
• 47:23
  know, like I said, turf more where Burnley plays this tough.
• 47:26
  But Arsenal, yeah, Arsenal you got to get a win against.
• 47:29
  Burnley, yeah. All right, here's an interesting
• 47:31
  game. Luca.
• 47:32
  Tottenham hosting Chelsea, London Derby here.
• 47:35
  This to me is one I'm going to keep my eye on and try to watch
• 47:38
  a little bit. What do you think of this one?
• 47:40
  I'm going to go, I'm going to go 21, Chelsea. 21 Chelsea OK, so
• 47:47
  Tottenham's home struggles continue.
• 47:49
  Chelsea gets back on track. 21 Chelsea All right, another
• 47:53
  interesting game here, Luca Liverpool hosting Villa.
• 47:57
  So Villa, one of the hottest teams in the Premier League
• 48:01
  right now. They've won their last four,
• 48:03
  unbeaten in their last five. They are rolling right now,
• 48:07
  Liverpool at home, but I mean, who knows who's going to show up
• 48:11
  for this? What do you like in this game,
• 48:12
  Luke? I'm fascinated for your pick
• 48:14
  here. I'm going to 1 Villa.
• 48:17
  Wow, holy. Smoke.
• 48:18
  Oh yeah. 5 losses in a row for Liverpool in the Premier League
• 48:22
  Villa. Yep. 21 Villa OK, all right.
• 48:25
  Liverpool's defense shaky again. Two goals.
• 48:28
  All right, all right. How about Fulham hosting Wolves?
• 48:33
  I think Fulham will get it one nil.
• 48:36
  All right, Fulham one nil, big win, They need 3 points against
• 48:39
  Wolves. Crystal Palace hosting
• 48:42
  Brentford. Another London Derby here.
• 48:44
  This will be close. I'm going 11, OK.
• 48:47
  Tie 11 Brighton at home against Leeds.
• 48:54
  Brighton are really good at home so I'm going to go 2 nil
• 48:56
  Brighton. Two nil.
• 48:58
  Brighton over Leeds, West Ham at home against Newcastle.
• 49:02
  I think Newcastle will get 3 now.
• 49:05
  Newcastle. Oh boy.
• 49:06
  All right boy. Westham.
• 49:09
  Yeah, travelers continue. They're going to give up another
• 49:11
  corner kick, goal. No.
• 49:13
  Not this week. OK, well, at least they don't do
• 49:15
  that. Yeah.
• 49:16
  All right. Another interesting game to me,
• 49:18
  Luca right here. City hosting Bournemouth.
• 49:21
  Wow, I'm gonna go 21 Bournemouth.
• 49:24
  Oh wow, wow, Bournemouth at the Eddie.
• 49:28
  Hat Yeah, the. Win.
• 49:29
  OK, All right. Yeah, it's hard to believe that
• 49:32
  game is 2 verse five in the standings and Bournemouth are
• 49:35
  two and that's it. Yeah, you would have thought
• 49:37
  maybe the other way around. All right, final game with Luke,
• 49:39
  we have Sunderland hosting Everton.
• 49:42
  I'm gonna go 2 nail Sunderland. 2 Nail Sunderland.
• 49:46
  OK, well, there's good. Story continues there.
• 49:48
  All right, Luke, I like your picks.
• 49:50
  I'm going to try to make sure that I'll, you know, we we'll
• 49:54
  give an account of how well you did since you had a solid week
• 49:57
  here this week. All right, Luca, the mailbag
• 49:59
  question I kind of tied into my mailbag question was about like
• 50:02
  celebrations against your old teams.
• 50:04
  Like I kind of tie that in with while we were talking about it.
• 50:07
  So my my question again, and you kind of answered it already was,
• 50:10
  you know, is it OK celebrate against your old team?
• 50:14
  You know, soccer has this unique thing about it.
• 50:16
  So you I liked your answer. I thought it was good in terms
• 50:20
  of you know what you say, you know you're how long you been
• 50:23
  with the club, what you've accomplished there and what
• 50:26
  other thing like it. Does it matter maybe how long
• 50:28
  you've been away from that club? Like if it's been 8 years since
• 50:32
  you played for a. Team, can you then celebrate
• 50:33
  against that? No, I think you'd still.
• 50:35
  I think you'd celebrate. I think I'm OK there.
• 50:38
  Like. Or or actually it again, it
• 50:42
  depends how long you were there and how how good you played for
• 50:46
  that. Car Well, so you OK, So I like
• 50:48
  your example of Declan Rice. So Declan Rice was, like I said
• 50:51
  with West Ham his whole career, captain of the team.
• 50:55
  Won them. You have a conference.
• 50:57
  So it it sounds to me, I don't want to put words in your mouth.
• 51:00
  But he should never celebrate, ever, against West Ham.
• 51:04
  No, I didn't say that. OK, it will.
• 51:06
  All right. Give me the the time limit where
• 51:08
  it's OK for him. To maybe it's like in like 3
• 51:11
  years or something like 2. Years, OK, so two or three
• 51:14
  years. So I mean, he, he's been gone
• 51:15
  now for this is his. Two, I think because he came in
• 51:19
  2324. So 23/24/24.
• 51:23
  So this is his third year. I'll give it two to three more
• 51:27
  years. Two to three more years after
• 51:29
  this. OK, so 6 total years and Declan
• 51:31
  Rice is allowed to celebrate against West Ham?
• 51:33
  Yes, OK, then. It's been long enough and he's
• 51:36
  like, OK to celebrate. OK, I know.
• 51:40
  I think it'd be funny. I almost think like how like
• 51:42
  crazy would be like if that ever happened in the NFL, like if you
• 51:46
  know, Saquon scored a touchdown and.
• 51:48
  Against. The Giants and and just like was
• 51:50
  like real like muted and cool about him and.
• 51:53
  Celebrate it. Would seem so weird.
• 51:55
  Like I don't think Americans could wrap their heads around
• 51:57
  this. Like we're all about like,
• 51:58
  selling. Division too, so they hate each
• 52:00
  other. Right, right now there, well,
• 52:02
  there's a rivalry too, you know. Yeah.
• 52:04
  And it happens less. I mean, teams do obviously go
• 52:07
  from one rival to the other, but doesn't happen quite as much as
• 52:10
  in American sports. Like if we talked about before,
• 52:11
  like very few Tottenham and Arsenal players have gone back
• 52:14
  and forth. There's only like a handful and
• 52:16
  even probably City, you know, and United.
• 52:19
  It doesn't happen as often in American sports.
• 52:21
  I think people just sort of go wherever they don't think.
• 52:23
  About, yeah. All right.
• 52:25
  Look. Well, that was, that was sort of
• 52:26
  our, our viewer mailbag. I kind of tie that into the
• 52:29
  front there. But all right, Luca, I want to
• 52:32
  talk to you our did you know section.
• 52:34
  All right, let's talk a little bit about the MLS.
• 52:37
  OK OK, so the MLS is starting their playoffs, which to a lot
• 52:41
  of European soccer fans are like, what are you talking about
• 52:44
  playoffs or no playoffs in any of the other European leagues,
• 52:47
  right? You just you have you have a
• 52:49
  standings at a table and and at the end of the season, whoever
• 52:51
  has the most points, you win it, you hold up the trophy, you're
• 52:54
  done with it. So MLS does this a little bit
• 52:56
  differently. And so their playoffs are just
• 52:58
  getting started. So I wanted to talk a little bit
• 53:00
  about like the history of the MLS is that when the United
• 53:05
  States got a word of the World Cup in 1994, part of the deal
• 53:09
  was they needed to start like a real Soccer League.
• 53:12
  So in 1993, sort of the MLS was formed to start getting the
• 53:17
  league together. They were going to need like 3
• 53:19
  years to do it. So in 1993, sort of the
• 53:22
  organization, the MLS was formed with the idea they were going to
• 53:25
  start the season in 1996. And, of course, the World Cup
• 53:28
  happened in 1990, 94, and they thought, OK, we're going to
• 53:31
  bring all this attention. Soccer in the US, everybody's
• 53:34
  going to have eyes on us. We're going to build, you know,
• 53:36
  we're going to have, you know, like, you know, we've got these
• 53:39
  stadiums, although they were all football stadiums at the time.
• 53:43
  Yeah. So the idea was, of course, you
• 53:45
  know, bring a lot of attention, get Americans riled up for
• 53:48
  soccer. And then we're going to start
• 53:49
  this league in 96 and we're going to finally get like a real
• 53:52
  Soccer League, you know, going, going in this country.
• 53:56
  So it was a World Cup that kind of got it going.
• 53:58
  And they did, they started the league in 1996 and they had 10
• 54:01
  teams. When you they have, of course,
• 54:06
  at the end of the regular season team that has the best regular
• 54:10
  season records, they get something called the Supporter
• 54:12
  Shield. It's sort of like a like a, you
• 54:14
  know, a little like a trophy, but not the title because the
• 54:18
  winner of the playoffs wins the MLS Cup.
• 54:21
  That's what everybody's playing for.
• 54:22
  You want to win the MLS Cup, but again, that is the team that
• 54:25
  wins the playoff structure, which we'll get kind of get into
• 54:28
  here. So it's not really about winning
• 54:29
  your league, it's just making the playoffs basically.
• 54:32
  Basically, yeah, I mean, it's it, and this is sort of what it
• 54:34
  is in American sports. We have playoffs in all our
• 54:37
  other sports. And you're right, it's like get
• 54:38
  into the playoffs and then win the playoffs.
• 54:41
  So yeah, you could finish and we'll talk about it.
• 54:43
  You can finish in 9th and make the playoffs and then yeah, if
• 54:47
  you go on a run in the playoffs and you win the MLS Cup, you are
• 54:50
  the champion even though you finished 9th in your comps.
• 54:53
  That's interesting. So.
• 54:55
  I don't think I could live like that, like I'm so used to, just
• 54:59
  regular like all the other league, the European league just
• 55:03
  do it so differently. Yeah, I mean, it is, it's a very
• 55:06
  different structure and there's no promotion relegation, right?
• 55:09
  So all the teams, if you finish and last, you get to play again
• 55:13
  next year in the MLS like they all did.
• 55:15
  And so it started with 10 teams. There are now 30 teams in the
• 55:18
  MLS. And so the MLS has done a good
• 55:21
  job. In fact, Luca, for the first
• 55:22
  like 5 or 6 years, the league almost folded.
• 55:25
  So in like 2001, they were really struggling and they, like
• 55:30
  I said, almost folded as a league because they were doing
• 55:32
  so poorly. But they kind of started to get
• 55:34
  their act together a little bit. 2007, they have the designated
• 55:38
  player role or the Beckham rule because they have a salary cap.
• 55:43
  So every team has a salary cap that's spending a certain
• 55:45
  amount. But they said well we got to get
• 55:47
  some big names in here. We can't be paying David Beckham
• 55:50
  a couple $100,000 a year. So they came up in 2007 with and
• 55:56
  the designated player roles, you can sign players outside of the
• 55:59
  salary cap. So now you start getting Beckham
• 56:02
  comes in Tirion, Ree comes in Frank Lampard.
• 56:05
  Of course. Now everybody knows Lionel Messi
• 56:08
  comes in. So that allowed them to start
• 56:10
  attracting some better players. They started doing a lot more
• 56:13
  soccer, specific stadiums and league started to grow and grow
• 56:19
  and they started to add teams and AD teams.
• 56:21
  And so they've gone from 10 teams to now thirty teams, of
• 56:24
  course, 27 in the US. There's three teams in Canada,
• 56:27
  so it's kind of AUS Canadian League.
• 56:30
  The average attendance for this past year was 21,838, which is
• 56:35
  down a little bit. Last year MLS hit their top
• 56:38
  attendance average of 23,234, so they dipped a little bit, but
• 56:43
  you know, you can see they get about low 20s on average.
• 56:46
  Some teams obviously do more than others.
• 56:49
  So if you want to put that into perspective, an NFL game, which
• 56:52
  of course we know NFL is by far the most popular sport.
• 56:56
  They average about 69,000 people for an NFL game.
• 56:59
  Wow. I mean, every NFL game gets sold
• 57:00
  out. But a Major League Baseball game
• 57:02
  Luca 26,000. We set, you know, an NBA game
• 57:07
  averages 18,300. A hockey game averages about
• 57:10
  17,000. So you can see like, and they're
• 57:13
  just right below baseball in terms of how many people go and
• 57:16
  watch the sport. That's pretty good to me.
• 57:19
  You're never, you're never going to compete with the NFL and
• 57:21
  that's fine. But that's pretty good.
• 57:22
  And like I said, they get more people than, you know, a hockey
• 57:25
  or basketball game. Now, you know, if you want to
• 57:28
  look at it in terms of global soccer.
• 57:30
  So of course, we're the Premier League playground.
• 57:32
  Premier League averages about 40,000 people for for games you
• 57:36
  know. Still doesn't compete with the
• 57:37
  NFL. No, but also the stadiums are a
• 57:40
  lot smaller, right? I mean Bournemouth has 11,000
• 57:43
  people, so that's going to and every Premier League game is
• 57:45
  sold out. So it's just a matter of like
• 57:48
  what the maximum, you know, cause an NF, most NFL stadiums
• 57:51
  are about, you know, 40 to 80,000, you know, so and then
• 57:56
  they sell all their games out too.
• 57:57
  But you know, Bundesliga 38,000 in Germany, Syria in Italy,
• 58:02
  about 30,000, La Liga about 29,000.
• 58:06
  So I mean, to me the MLS is like, you know, doing pretty
• 58:10
  well all things considered. I think they've really sort of
• 58:12
  found their niche. You know they, you know, when
• 58:15
  you look at turtle like total revenue, you know, they're at
• 58:19
  about $2.2 billion is how much money the league brings in,
• 58:24
  which puts them pretty well below.
• 58:26
  You know, NFL is 19 billion, NBA 12 billion, Major League
• 58:30
  Baseball 11.8, Premier League 7.7.
• 58:34
  So, you know, obviously well below those, but seem like
• 58:37
  pretty respectable in terms of, you know, how much money they're
• 58:42
  bringing in, how much people are going to watch it.
• 58:44
  So I think they've really like settled in and sort of found
• 58:46
  their niche here. So are the playoffs, right?
• 58:50
  Playoffs are getting started, but what the playoff structure
• 58:52
  in the MLS is a little bit goofy.
• 58:54
  All right? So you have obviously 2
• 58:57
  conferences, East and West. The top 9 make it into the
• 59:01
  playoffs. What they do is they take 8
• 59:03
  versus 9. They play a wild card game.
• 59:07
  OK, one game the winner moves on and plays the number one seed
• 59:11
  and two play 7, three play 6. So number one seed gets a buy.
• 59:15
  Well, no, they don't get a buy. They just get the winner of that
• 59:17
  8-9 game. So that 8-9 game, they play that
• 59:20
  game before anybody else plays anything.
• 59:22
  And like I said, they move into that eighth slot even if you're
• 59:25
  the 9th seeded team. So the the next round is a best
• 59:31
  of three. So again, 1, you know, 2 play,
• 59:33
  7, three play, 64 plays, 51 plays the winner of that 8-9 and
• 59:38
  it's a best of three. HomeAway home higher seed gets
• 59:42
  the first game at home and they would get the last game if they
• 59:44
  need it. No extra time.
• 59:46
  OK, so game's done. You go right to PK's.
• 59:50
  OK, when that round is done, of course everybody moves on.
• 59:54
  Now it's single elimination. Now you play, you know the
• 59:58
  winners kind of move on and you play.
• 1:00:01
  One game there is extra time in PKS and then the winner moves
• 1:00:06
  on. Same thing, single elimination.
• 1:00:09
  There is extra how many PKS and then you get a winner from the
• 1:00:12
  Eastern Conference, a winner from the Western Conference and
• 1:00:14
  then they play for the MLS Cup and that is how you then crown
• 1:00:18
  the winner for the MLS. OK, that's pretty cool.
• 1:00:22
  All right, who's your favorite MLS team?
• 1:00:26
  Probably the Philadelphia Union because you're from
• 1:00:28
  Philadelphia. So I just root for Philadelphia
• 1:00:30
  teams. OK, All right.
• 1:00:31
  So yeah, we've got the Union. Like I said, we root for because
• 1:00:34
  they're a Philadelphia team. You've been to an MLS game.
• 1:00:37
  Yeah, who? Did you see?
• 1:00:39
  I saw the Columbus Crew play and it was fun because my cousin
• 1:00:45
  cousins live in Ohio and we they're big Columbus Crew fans.
• 1:00:50
  So we went up to Ohio to visit and meet.
• 1:00:54
  During that time, we saw Columbus Crew game.
• 1:00:56
  It was really fun, yeah. They're good.
• 1:00:59
  So friend of the pod, our relatives and family, Craig,
• 1:01:03
  Ashley, Parker, Elliott, massive crew fans, right?
• 1:01:07
  So we, we were for the crew. Shout out to them.
• 1:01:10
  Shout out to them and like I said, shout out to the crew.
• 1:01:13
  And so I want to give, I want to talk a little bit about the crew
• 1:01:15
  here because they're they're one of the most long standing and
• 1:01:18
  successful teams in the MLS. So they are one, they are the
• 1:01:22
  original team in the MLS. So they were the first team
• 1:01:25
  formed before the league even started.
• 1:01:29
  And they like I said, were announced in 19, I'm sorry, 1994
• 1:01:37
  they were announced and then they started in 1996.
• 1:01:40
  So they were one of the original 10 teams.
• 1:01:43
  They have the tie. They've not won the most
• 1:01:46
  championships that are the LA Galaxy and they are also the
• 1:01:49
  defending champions. But the Crew last won in 2023
• 1:01:55
  and they have 3 championships. So they are one of three teams
• 1:01:59
  in the history of the MLS to win three or more champions.
• 1:02:02
  OK, so you've got the LA Galaxy with six DC and of course the
• 1:02:07
  Crew. So they got 3 championships that
• 1:02:08
  they won in O 8 and 2020. The mascot is called Crew Cat.
• 1:02:18
  Pretty sweet huh? I said one of the original MLS
• 1:02:22
  teams. In fact they were announced in
• 1:02:23
  1994 on my birthday. Shout out shout out to my
• 1:02:27
  birthday. On June 15th, 94, the Crew were
• 1:02:31
  announced as a team. Their big, big rivalry is hell
• 1:02:34
  is real Darby. Do you know who their big, big
• 1:02:37
  rival is? Cincinnati FC.
• 1:02:39
  Cincinnati FC, who? They're actually playing in the
• 1:02:41
  playoffs. Yeah, right now.
• 1:02:43
  And it's because of a big roadside billboard on I-701-A
• 1:02:47
  big Rd. Between Columbus.
• 1:02:49
  Yeah, I think that's a pretty cool name.
• 1:02:51
  Hell is real, Darby. It's pretty cool.
• 1:02:52
  Pretty cool, all right. Of course, their colors.
• 1:02:55
  What are their colors looking? Call this group.
• 1:02:59
  Yeah, and they're like yellow and black.
• 1:03:02
  Yeah, yeah, kind of gold and black, kind of yellow and black.
• 1:03:07
  And their motto is tough, tougher as one.
• 1:03:12
  And so interesting look at their badge that they have.
• 1:03:16
  So they have obviously a black and gold badge with like a big
• 1:03:19
  C, which stands for Columbus or Crew, but probably more
• 1:03:22
  Columbus. It's shaped.
• 1:03:24
  So the shape of their badge is actually interesting.
• 1:03:27
  They call it like a swallowtail flag.
• 1:03:30
  And the reason why there's two reasons that I saw is one kind
• 1:03:34
  of looks like a corner flag, you know, so it almost like comes
• 1:03:38
  out and kind of does the same. The other thing is that the
• 1:03:41
  state flag of Ohio is shaped like that.
• 1:03:44
  So every other state, every state has a state flag and every
• 1:03:48
  state as a rectangle flag. That's what most flags are.
• 1:03:51
  But Ohio is the only state with what they call a burgie or
• 1:03:55
  swallow tailed flag. And if you look at the badge of
• 1:03:58
  the crew, you see how it comes down and it's got this sort of
• 1:04:01
  kind of scallop. OK, it's pretty cool out there.
• 1:04:05
  They're different from all the others.
• 1:04:06
  Yeah. And so I think it's like a cool
• 1:04:07
  way they've sort of stylized this after their state's flag,
• 1:04:11
  but also after like a corner flag, you know the flags that
• 1:04:13
  sit in the corner there. So and of course they've got the
• 1:04:16
  year, they've got 96 on it and of course for their founded in
• 1:04:20
  1996. And the other thing that I saw
• 1:04:24
  about them is that their name crew started off being like a
• 1:04:30
  construction crew, almost like, because they had the idea that
• 1:04:33
  like Columbus is like a blue collar town, a lot of like labor
• 1:04:36
  and sort of like industry there. And and so people working.
• 1:04:39
  And in fact, one of their badges has like guys with hard hats on,
• 1:04:42
  OK, but it's changed over time. And as the town changed, they
• 1:04:47
  kind of like I've adopted crew is more like, you know, your
• 1:04:50
  crew like people that you like, people that you have a lot of in
• 1:04:53
  common with. So like kind of the fans and the
• 1:04:55
  crew and they sort of changed, they've moved away from that
• 1:04:58
  sort of like because and the town has become very different.
• 1:05:01
  It's not just like it's a more of a progressive town that like,
• 1:05:04
  you know, there's more other jobs that aren't just sort of
• 1:05:06
  like, you know, hard working jobs.
• 1:05:08
  So they the the crew name is sort of, you know, evolved even
• 1:05:13
  a little bit. So while it stayed the same, the
• 1:05:14
  meaning of it is like a little bit different, which I thought
• 1:05:16
  was kind of cool. So I guess at one point too,
• 1:05:20
  when they came out with the new badge, when they rebranded it,
• 1:05:22
  they weren't going to have crew at the bottom.
• 1:05:25
  And I guess a lot of the supporters and the fans were
• 1:05:27
  saying no, no, you got to keep that in there.
• 1:05:29
  And they said, you know, yes, we've moved away from like, you
• 1:05:31
  know, hard hats and construction, but crew can have
• 1:05:35
  that different meaning. And I thought that was kind of
• 1:05:37
  like a cool way to sort of evolve and change.
• 1:05:39
  And so they put the crew so you on their badge, it says Columbus
• 1:05:42
  at the top and crew at the. Bottom SO.
• 1:05:45
  Yeah. So I thought that was
• 1:05:45
  interesting looking at a little bit of the history of the crew
• 1:05:47
  there. I'm sure our relatives up in
• 1:05:49
  Columbus know all about. This but.
• 1:05:51
  For other people, like I said, we had a great time.
• 1:05:53
  I would love to go back to another game.
• 1:05:55
  They have an awesome stadium. In fact, they built the first
• 1:05:57
  soccer specific stadium for the MLS in 1999.
• 1:06:01
  And a lot of people credit that as like a turning point with the
• 1:06:05
  MLS moving away from playing in football stadiums.
• 1:06:08
  Let's build soccer specific stadiums.
• 1:06:10
  Let's not make them 60,000. We know that's not going to be
• 1:06:13
  how many people are going to come.
• 1:06:14
  Let's have, you know, 20 to 30,000.
• 1:06:17
  Let's fill it up. Let's get a good environment.
• 1:06:19
  And so the Crew did that with such success, it kind of paved
• 1:06:22
  the way for a lot of other teams to build their own soccer
• 1:06:24
  specific stadiums. So, yeah, so they're like I
• 1:06:27
  said, they're like a real important team in the history of
• 1:06:30
  the MLS and soccer in America. And also, a lot of U.S.
• 1:06:34
  National games have been played in Columbus, you know, with Dos
• 1:06:37
  Acero, the 2 nothing win against Mexico.
• 1:06:40
  It was a real famous game played there.
• 1:06:42
  So that's really cool. So, yeah.
• 1:06:44
  So there you go, Luca. That's the did you know?
• 1:06:46
  I thought we'd touch base on American soccer a little bit.
• 1:06:50
  All right, Luca, you ready for a little bit of a penalty kick
• 1:06:54
  trivia shootout? Yeah, there we go.
• 1:06:57
  All right, Luca, do you want to go first?
• 1:06:59
  Do you want to go second? I will ask first.
• 1:07:02
  Go ahead. Which club?
• 1:07:04
  Which German club is named Die Roten?
• 1:07:08
  Die Roten German club, I believe it is Bayern Munich.
• 1:07:13
  Correct. All right, off to a good start.
• 1:07:16
  Yeah. All right Luke, in the Premier
• 1:07:17
  League, currently right now in the Premier League, there are 7
• 1:07:21
  london-based clubs. Who are the seven teams that are
• 1:07:25
  based in London currently right now in the Premier League?
• 1:07:28
  OK, so Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Crystal Palace, oh,
• 1:07:38
  London, London, London. I don't have much time to think
• 1:07:43
  about this. I'll.
• 1:07:45
  Give you another 10 or 15 seconds. 1015 seconds.
• 1:07:49
  Yeah, so much time. Chelsea, Arsenal, Palace, Spurs.
• 1:07:53
  You got born now. Another.
• 1:07:58
  One that begins with B though. Brighton.
• 1:08:02
  Nope. Are we serious?
• 1:08:05
  I'm going to talk. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness.
• 1:08:10
  Brentford Bees. You've driven by the Brentford
• 1:08:13
  Stadium like 3 times in your life.
• 1:08:15
  Oh yeah, On the way out to the airport you actually drive by G
• 1:08:18
  Tech. You've also been to so two other
• 1:08:21
  teams. You've been to one of their
• 1:08:22
  stadiums, Craven Cottage. Oh yeah.
• 1:08:26
  And then West Ham. Oh.
• 1:08:30
  Yeah, London, London Stadium for West Ham.
• 1:08:32
  So yeah, West Ham's one that sometimes is tough, but all
• 1:08:35
  right, I'm going to attribute that to you feeling sick because
• 1:08:38
  you generally, I thought that would be an easy one.
• 1:08:40
  For you, yeah, I don't know. I was just not a that then that
• 1:08:45
  easy of a question. All right, fair enough.
• 1:08:46
  All right, look, go ahead. Your second question.
• 1:08:48
  Which club in this in the 20/17/2018 Premier League season
• 1:08:52
  played? Its whole match is at Lumbley.
• 1:08:56
  20/17/2018 play their home matches at Wembley was it?
• 1:09:01
  I don't think those are is it Tottenham?
• 1:09:03
  Yeah, OK, they're building their new stadium, you know so they
• 1:09:05
  used to play at White Hart Lane. They were.
• 1:09:07
  Building a new stadium. All right, Luca, I'm gonna talk
• 1:09:10
  about one of your favorite players of all time, Ronaldo.
• 1:09:13
  So everybody knows in the world probably the Cristiano Ronaldo
• 1:09:17
  wears the number 7, right? OK, when Ronaldo came up with
• 1:09:21
  Sporting though in Portugal, what number did Ronaldo wear at
• 1:09:26
  Sporting? Oh, OK, I know.
• 1:09:30
  I want to say 22. That is incorrect Luca.
• 1:09:35
  So Ronaldo wore 28. I knew that.
• 1:09:38
  I knew that. So Ronaldo came up with them.
• 1:09:41
  He played with them for from 97 to 2003 and then famously went
• 1:09:44
  to Manchester United in 2000. Oh my gosh.
• 1:09:47
  He's really never worn nothing but seven since that time.
• 1:09:50
  So, All right, Luca. Oh, man, struggling.
• 1:09:52
  Start here. Who is Santos's biggest rival in
• 1:09:56
  Brazil? Is it fluminancy?
• 1:10:01
  No, it's Corinthians. I should have gotten mad.
• 1:10:05
  Oh, man. All right, Luca, what Premier
• 1:10:07
  League team is nicknamed the Magpies or the Jordys?
• 1:10:11
  Newcastle. That is correct, Luca.
• 1:10:14
  They're called the Magpies because a magpie is a bird that
• 1:10:17
  is black and white. And of course, Newcastle's
• 1:10:19
  colors are black and white like a magpie.
• 1:10:21
  So, all right, Yep, you got that one for sure.
• 1:10:26
  All right, which MLS club did Frank Lampard play for?
• 1:10:30
  Lampard, MO Alright. Just ties in with our MLS here.
• 1:10:34
  I like it. Yeah.
• 1:10:36
  Oh, man, I don't know my MLS trivia as well as I do my
• 1:10:40
  European soccer. Lampard.
• 1:10:43
  Did he play for the Red Bulls? No NYSE.
• 1:10:48
  Oh, that's right. Oh, OK, 22.
• 1:10:51
  All right, Luca. All right Luca, what is the most
• 1:10:54
  goals in a Premier League match by one team?
• 1:10:58
  This has happened 4 times, so it's actually a tie.
• 1:11:02
  OK, All I want to know is how many goals the team scored.
• 1:11:05
  I don't need to know the games or anything like that.
• 1:11:06
  But when you know just not total goals between 2, the one team
• 1:11:10
  they put up this number happened 4 times.
• 1:11:12
  What is the most goals? 9.
• 1:11:15
  Correct. No, it has happened 4 times
• 1:11:19
  Lucas. So Liverpool did it to
• 1:11:20
  Bournemouth in 2022 man. You did it to Southampton in
• 1:11:24
  2021, Lester did it to Southampton in 2017 and
• 1:11:29
  Tottenham did it to Wigan in 2009.
• 1:11:31
  That brains looking real big, yeah.
• 1:11:35
  No team has ever scored double digits in the Premier League, so
• 1:11:38
  no team's ever gotten to 10. But nine goals?
• 1:11:40
  That is a lot. Of mean ten goals is I mean
• 1:11:44
  that's. Pretty crazy.
• 1:11:45
  That's, I mean, I don't know what game I would think that
• 1:11:47
  would be like Real, Real Madrid versus like Wrexham or
• 1:11:52
  something. I don't even know.
• 1:11:55
  All right, Luca, go ahead. Little more MLS for you.
• 1:11:58
  Your favorite OK, which MLS called the Kaka play for?
• 1:12:02
  Oh, Orlando City. Yes, OK.
• 1:12:05
  I remember that one all right. Luca, who won the Golden Boot at
• 1:12:09
  the 2022 World Cup. Killian Boppe, That is correct.
• 1:12:14
  Yeah, you know how many he had I.
• 1:12:17
  Want to say 7? 08 but you get all I was looking
• 1:12:22
  for was the player. So all right, good job.
• 1:12:25
  All right, Wow. Are we looking coming back?
• 1:12:27
  Here are we tied I. Think so.
• 1:12:30
  Right. Yeah, we're tied 33.
• 1:12:31
  Could we vote this too? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:12:33
  That's. True.
• 1:12:33
  All right, I got my extra. You hit me.
• 1:12:36
  Which player has the nickname Three Lungs for his extreme
• 1:12:40
  endurance? I have heard this before.
• 1:12:47
  It's not Mojorge, is it? No, it's not Mojorge.
• 1:12:49
  I'll give you one more guess. Can you give me a league you
• 1:12:57
  played in mostly? I don't really know what league
• 1:13:02
  you play, but I can give you choices.
• 1:13:05
  OK, give me choices. In Google, Conte, James Milner,
• 1:13:08
  G Song Park or Fernandinho. For an ending, yeah.
• 1:13:12
  G Sung fart. He was really good though.
• 1:13:15
  He was good. I know.
• 1:13:16
  Yeah. I.
• 1:13:17
  That wasn't what I was I. Don't really know much about him
• 1:13:19
  though, I'm sorry. I think he was really good
• 1:13:21
  though. All right, Luke goes.
• 1:13:22
  For the win. For the win.
• 1:13:25
  All right, Luca Modric is one of your favorite players, your
• 1:13:28
  namesake, although he misspells it with AK.
• 1:13:30
  Yeah. Luke, I want to know.
• 1:13:33
  He has played for six teams. OK, Can you give me 4 of them?
• 1:13:40
  All right. Dina Mozagreb, AC1, Real Madrid.
• 1:13:52
  I knew he passed. He played at another.
• 1:13:58
  He's kind. Of like team.
• 1:13:59
  Yeah, he's kind of like the Tottenham.
• 1:14:02
  Tottenham yeah, yeah, It's one thing we kind of hate about.
• 1:14:04
  Him, yeah. I'm impressed, yes.
• 1:14:07
  So those are the ones. He also went on loan Luca to
• 1:14:10
  Zrinkski MO Star. Oh yeah?
• 1:14:12
  Well, that's an. Obvious zopper.
• 1:14:13
  Zopper sick I've just gotten. That.
• 1:14:16
  You should've gotten to this all right, Luca, That is correct.
• 1:14:19
  You got the four that that I was looking for.
• 1:14:22
  I was not looking for his loan spells to two Croatian teams
• 1:14:24
  when he was very, very young. So.
• 1:14:26
  What a comeback. Good job.
• 1:14:28
  You came back. I know you were just dominant
• 1:14:31
  it. It's unbelievable.
• 1:14:33
  All right, great job, Luca. All right, well come find us on
• 1:14:37
  Instagram Luca, Premier League Playground, give us a like,
• 1:14:41
  e-mail us any questions, concerns, plugs, anything you
• 1:14:45
  want at premierleagueplayground@gmail.com.
• 1:14:49
  You got anything else for us, Luca?
• 1:14:53
  It's full time for us. Thank you for listening.
• 1:14:56
  Bye.