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- 0:04All right, and welcome into another edition of the Premier
- 0:07League Playground Week 24. I am the dad, Bjorn, with me as
- 0:13our star, the lad. Luca Miller.
- 0:15And how are you today, Luca? I'm doing good.
- 0:17How are you? Good, good.
- 0:18What are you been up to? Well, I went to school and today
- 0:22I'm going to soccer practice after this.
- 0:24Yeah. How's your so you've been just,
- 0:25you're finishing up your football season.
- 0:27I think you you have a game Friday and a game Tuesday and
- 0:30then that's it. And and then you got your
- 0:33outdoor. How's your outdoor practices
- 0:35been going? Yeah, they they've been going
- 0:37good. Good.
- 0:38You're getting back into the swing of things.
- 0:39Yeah, you got a couple weeks of practice before you get your
- 0:42your first game outdoors. At least you got a couple
- 0:45football games. Coming up so we'll.
- 0:47Update our listeners Luca, about your futsal games after those.
- 0:52Yeah, we've been dealing with some cold weather.
- 0:53We had a little snow here in South.
- 0:55Carolina Yeah, we did. Well, we got Did you have fun in
- 0:57the snow? I wish it lasted longer though,
- 1:00yeah. It was pretty much gone in a day
- 1:01or so when it was just about an inch here.
- 1:04Well Luca, we had an interesting week in the Premier League.
- 1:07It feels like every week is interesting with some
- 1:09interesting games. There weren't any like big
- 1:11marquee games, but certainly some exciting games.
- 1:16You ready to dive in? Yep.
- 1:18All right Luca, well first game of the week where our boys
- 1:21Arsenal had a big one going to Ellen Rd. to play lead.
- 1:25So talk to me about this game. Well, I predicted this to be two
- 1:29nail Arsenal, but it was actually 4 nail arsenal because
- 1:32you've been many scores in the 27th minute.
- 1:35Then Darlow Darlow own goal in the 38th minute, which actually
- 1:40technically that went down as mad awake.
- 1:42His goal. It was like a corner kick and he
- 1:44kind of punched it off of his own player, But he goes down as
- 1:48a mad awake a goal yoke Yokerez in the 69th minute and then Jay
- 1:54Zeus in the 86th minute. Leeds first home loss since
- 1:58November and Geochrez 4 golds in last six appearances in Hong
- 2:01Kong. So I guess you could say he's
- 2:04been doing a little bit better. A little bit better, Yeah.
- 2:06You're a little bit down on Geocherez, right?
- 2:09Yeah. But you know, so Saka hurt.
- 2:13And warmups, the second time in a month we've had a player hurt
- 2:16and warmups it seems like only Arsenal could do that.
- 2:19It's Caliphi. Ori got hurt last month, Sokka.
- 2:22So Sokka missed this game but Matt awake came in but big step
- 2:26up by him. Luca coming in real nice assist
- 2:28plays that balls even many heads a day and like you said, nice
- 2:31corner kick which caused a lot of problems.
- 2:34Goalie should have done a little better, but yeah, curling it in
- 2:38almost an Olympico, but not quite.
- 2:41Look, I thought this one was going to be a little tougher.
- 2:44Leads are really good at home. Leads look at only lost once in
- 2:47their last 10 games. And that was the four three to
- 2:50Newcastle. Yeah, so leads have been doing
- 2:52well and aren't so really just sort of steamrolled him in this
- 2:55game. Yeah, I was kind of confusing.
- 2:57I didn't think you would just be an easy win, but I like it.
- 3:00Yeah, I mean maybe we should have seen it coming.
- 3:03Arsenal just basically own Leeds.
- 3:05Luca. Arsenal have won their last
- 3:06seven against lead by a combined score of 24 to 5 and they
- 3:11haven't lost in their last sixteen verse leads.
- 3:14So Arsenal have like really good success against Leeds when they
- 3:17come up. So maybe we should have seen
- 3:19this coming a little bit. XG in this game.
- 3:21Luca Arsenal 2.39 Leeds 0.15 I mean, Leeds basically just
- 3:27didn't do anything offensively, so it almost felt like just a
- 3:30matter of time. Once Arsenal get that, got that
- 3:32first goal, then they started coming.
- 3:35Real nice goal by Jay Zeus at the end.
- 3:37No, that was a good goal. After coming off the bench, he
- 3:40like takes a couple touches in the box and slams into the
- 3:43bottom corner. That was nice.
- 3:44Yeah, Yeah. I kind of like that goal.
- 3:46And like I said, well, we're obviously looking, we're a
- 3:48little down on Guyochris, but we're obviously hoping he does
- 3:51well, I mean. Yeah.
- 3:53We need better play from our forwards from striker.
- 3:56So I I hope this sort of kicks him on a little bit and maybe
- 4:00kind of, you know, spurs him on. We we need him here this sort of
- 4:03last third of the season. We're going to need to score
- 4:06some goals. So this was like I said, this a
- 4:08real good performance coming off the back.
- 4:10Of course, Luca losing at home to Man United.
- 4:12I thought Arsenal showed me something here like is it going
- 4:15to a tough place? Trickier game, I think than
- 4:17people realize and Leeds have been in good form and like I
- 4:20said, this was a just a cruise control game form exactly what
- 4:23they needed. So all right, look, let's move
- 4:27over to Wolves hosting Bournemouth.
- 4:30This game ends 2 nil Bournemouth.
- 4:32I'd pretty to be 1 nil Wolves. Wolves had more chances than
- 4:37Bournemouth honestly in my opinion.
- 4:39Crew be in the 33rd minute nice goal there and Alex got in the
- 4:4392nd minute. Crew be each goal this year in
- 4:46the Premier League after coming in Bournemouth are now unbeaten
- 4:50in last four. So after going on that real
- 4:52stretch of not really doing much and now they're starting to get
- 4:56better. Yeah, kind of an up and down
- 4:58team, right, real streaky start off the season hot, then real
- 5:01cold now seem to be playing better.
- 5:03But you're but you're right, Luca, Wolves were Wolves have
- 5:06been look, they're not a great team, but they've been really
- 5:09unlucky too. They had a ton of chances this
- 5:13game. I mean, it says 2 nothing.
- 5:15It looks like oh, Bournemouth easily win 2 nothing.
- 5:17But you're you're kind of right on your prediction there that
- 5:19the Wolves really should have had, I mean, two or three, maybe
- 5:22four goals in this game. Again, just feels a little, you
- 5:25know, unlucky for them in terms of just not getting the ball
- 5:29over the line and getting some goals.
- 5:31Yarre Ola Luca for Bournemouth, their manager.
- 5:33He's now the third Spanish manager to manage 100 Premier
- 5:38League matches. The third.
- 5:40The third Wow. Arteta and Rafa Benitez are the
- 5:43other two. Who?
- 5:45Who's Rafa Benitez? He was a coach, he may be still
- 5:48kicking around somewhere, but he coached a couple different
- 5:50teams. So it was in the Premier League
- 5:52for a bunch of years. But yeah, you would have thought
- 5:53there would have been more Spanish managers to reach out
- 5:56injured. You know it's not Pep.
- 5:57Not Pep. Right.
- 6:00No, PEP obviously is on that list.
- 6:02Yeah, you're right. Good call.
- 6:03So yeah, I mean, for sure Pep's on that list.
- 6:06So I guess 4 if it's if it's Arteta, Benitez, certainly
- 6:10Guardiola, yeah, he's he's managed more than all of them.
- 6:12So yeah, OK, 4th then. Good call.
- 6:16Yeah. So with the Bournemouth, you
- 6:17know, like I said, just sort of kicking around mid table.
- 6:20They're in 12th right now. I think this is where we kind of
- 6:22expect them to be kind of a mid table team.
- 6:24They're certainly safe from relegation, but I don't see them
- 6:26pushing for European stocks. Wolves are pretty much a lot for
- 6:30relegation. I I still have hope.
- 6:33You still have. Hope.
- 6:33Yes, yes. I think I saw something where
- 6:36Wolves are now mathematically eliminated from actually winning
- 6:39the title. So there's only I think.
- 6:42So with 14 games to go, what's that would be 42 total points
- 6:47available to him and 45 points behind Arsenal.
- 6:51So Wolves are officially the first team mathematically
- 6:54eliminated. Man, they can't win it now.
- 6:58Can't win? Win all 14 of their games and
- 7:00Arsenal and everybody above them lose all their games.
- 7:04They still cannot win it. All right, Luca, let's move over
- 7:07to Brighton hosting Everton. This game ends 11.
- 7:11I predict to be 00. I kind of got that one right,
- 7:13Gross. Nothing.
- 7:15Well, nothing into the 73rd minute where Gross gets his goal
- 7:18and in the 98th minute Beto gets a equalizer very late in the
- 7:25game, right in that one win in one win in last eleven Premier
- 7:30League matches. And Everton had no shots in the
- 7:32first half for the second time this season.
- 7:35Yeah, Everton kind of struggle offensively.
- 7:37We we talked about like Barry lately, Luke had come into this
- 7:40game, He had four goals in his last five games.
- 7:43He'd been doing pretty well. But it's kind of the other
- 7:46striker, Beto, who gets the late goal balls are sort of bouncing
- 7:49around the box and he's just there to sort of poke at home
- 7:52and kind of, you know, make sure they at least get a point out of
- 7:54this. But yeah, Everton just, they
- 7:55just don't generate much offensively like Greelish.
- 7:59Looks like he's probably done for the year.
- 8:00He is a huge loss for them. It's looking that way.
- 8:03I mean, maybe he could. What does he do again?
- 8:06I think he broke a bone in his foot.
- 8:08Oh, Oh yeah, you said it was a stress fact fracture.
- 8:11So that's a massive loss for them.
- 8:13He was really good for them. He created a lot for them.
- 8:16So Everton are, they're going to struggle to score goals, but
- 8:20they're always pretty sound defensively and that always kind
- 8:22of gives them a platform where they can kind of tie games 11 or
- 8:25maybe win someone. Nothing.
- 8:26But yeah, look at they're hovering around 10th, you know,
- 8:29it's pretty good for Everton, I feel like.
- 8:31Oh yeah, definitely. You know Bright and Luca one win
- 8:33in their last eleven Premier League matches.
- 8:35Where are they sitting? Well, so and they're in 13th,
- 8:38you know, and again, we talked about all those teams in the
- 8:41middle there, so not separated by much, but they've really kind
- 8:46of hit a little bit of a cold spell here.
- 8:48Yeah. I mean, they're going to feel
- 8:49like they had the win right there to give up a goal that
- 8:52late. Oh yeah. 98 minutes, yeah.
- 8:55Alright, look, we had here's a wild 1.
- 8:57So we talked about a couple of these games that literally
- 9:00looked like two different games at halftime.
- 9:02You had a London Derby, Chelsea hosting West Ham.
- 9:05Take me through this game. This game ends 32.
- 9:09Chelsea operating these three nail Chelsea Bowen in the 7th
- 9:15minute or so, but West Ham actually 2 nil up in this game.
- 9:19Bowen in the 7th minute and Somerville my school in the 36th
- 9:22minute. Then in the 57 minutes, Al Pedro
- 9:26gets like gets Chelsea fans riled up, comebacks on Kuka
- 9:34Raya. Yep, scores 70 minutes.
- 9:36He's. One of your least favorite
- 9:37players? Oh my gosh, I dislike this man
- 9:39so much. You, you can't like him.
- 9:42What's your short list again? Your least favorite Premier
- 9:45League players? Yes.
- 9:46Yeah, the the list for you. All right, Kuka, Raya's on
- 9:49there. Right now.
- 9:49Oh yeah. Kuka Raya, Bernardo Silva, Bruno
- 9:53Fernandez, Charleston Holland and Rodri.
- 9:58And then obviously, yeah. OK.
- 10:00And Cooker Ray too. All right.
- 10:02Yeah, solid list. Yes, very solid.
- 10:05You, you can't like any of those guys.
- 10:06There's just no chance that you can't.
- 10:09You just can't. Oh, in Romero.
- 10:11Can't forget Romero. That's a good call.
- 10:13Good call. Oh man, I can't stand those
- 10:17guys. All right, so let's go finish
- 10:20up. You said that they tied it up to
- 10:222 and then then what happened? And then Enzo Fernandez gets the
- 10:27winner in the 93rd minute and everyone's going crazy.
- 10:31This is at Stamford Bridge, by the way.
- 10:34Then there's like a big tussle in the in the 102nd minute and
- 10:39Toady Bo gets a red card for like choke trying to choke
- 10:43someone. But yeah, first time in the
- 10:46Premier League at Chelsea as one after trailing by two or more at
- 10:51halftime. And then most senior has won
- 10:55first three Premier League matches for Chelsea.
- 10:58Yeah, he seems to have, you know, been doing pretty well
- 11:01there. You know, it's so this like that
- 11:04we'll get to the city Tottenham game, but this game is like this
- 11:07was like two different games. I mean, Chelsea were booed off
- 11:09at halftime. They're down at home to West
- 11:11Ham, terrible team and he makes 3 halftime substitutions and all
- 11:17of a sudden it's like a whole different team comes out.
- 11:19I mean, it's it's amazing to me that a team can play so badly
- 11:22and then you get to halftime and maybe it's the changes, maybe
- 11:25some tactical changes, but then they're like a whole different
- 11:27team. Like you said, massive, massive
- 11:29comeback to come back and get 3 points and win it.
- 11:32Ro Signor Luca, he's won six to seven for them.
- 11:35You know, now we know we're we're recording this.
- 11:38He lost yesterday. So I guess we should say six of
- 11:40eight. The the the League Cup semi
- 11:42final was yesterday and Arsenal beat them so.
- 11:44I have her 96 minutes sobering against his old team.
- 11:48Come on, let's go. So yeah, so actually it's funny
- 11:53roasting your Lucas. Only two losses have been to
- 11:55Arsenal. Oh yeah, both.
- 11:57League Cup games. So it's interesting, you know,
- 11:59watching him, I, you know, he came from Strasbourg, you know,
- 12:03he's never coached at this high a level, but it's got getting
- 12:07some pretty good results here with Chelsea.
- 12:09French. I think he is French.
- 12:12I mean, cuz he's Strasburg. It's French, I think.
- 12:15Yeah. And then coached at Hull for a
- 12:17little bit too, so. Rossignor just sounds French.
- 12:20Yeah, I, I believe he is. I'm not 100% sure but.
- 12:24Yeah, I just asked just the most random questions.
- 12:27Big three points for Chelsea, you know, they're sitting in 5th
- 12:29right now on 40 points for only one behind United and 4th.
- 12:32But we talked about it, Luca, it's it certainly looks like the
- 12:36top five are going to get Champions League spots.
- 12:38But to me there's really six teams going for these.
- 12:41You have Arsenal, City and Villa who are are definitely going to
- 12:44probably finish 1-2 and three. But then you've got United,
- 12:46Chelsea and Liverpool. One of those teams is going to
- 12:49miss out on Champions League. That's going to be massive for
- 12:52one of those teams. One, just a loss of money.
- 12:54Two, you think about trying to recruit in the summer and Bing
- 12:56players in. If you don't have Champions
- 12:58League golfer, it's a little bit harder to bring.
- 12:59Players. Oh yeah.
- 13:01So to me, it's going to be a real interesting battle.
- 13:03Because we're we're just saying we got 5 spots, right?
- 13:07I think it's not official, but it certainly looks like that,
- 13:11that the Premier League will get like one of the two extra
- 13:14Champions League spots that, you know, they're, they're doing
- 13:17phenomenal in all these European tournaments.
- 13:19It's based on how well the, the teams from your league do.
- 13:22And obviously when you look at Champions League, Europa League
- 13:26and you wait for Conference League, the, the Premier League
- 13:29teams are all doing really, really well those tournaments.
- 13:31So assuming they don't literally all crash out the next round, I
- 13:36think they'll get, I think we can assume pretty much that
- 13:38they'll be 5 spots for Champions League.
- 13:40So Chelsea's sitting in a good spot now.
- 13:42But yeah, they really needed to get they they can't be losing
- 13:44games at West Stand at home and credit to them for really
- 13:46battling back in that game and winning.
- 13:49Yeah. All right, Luca, here's a game.
- 13:51We thought this could be a real fun, interesting game.
- 13:53Really didn't turn out to be that great, but yeah, hosting
- 13:56Newcastle. Take me.
- 13:58Through it, I put it to be 3 two, it was 41 Liverpool, or I
- 14:02put it to be 3 two Liverpool. So yeah.
- 14:04You knew there were gonna be goals in it.
- 14:05You picked up to the right amount of goals.
- 14:06Oh yeah, yeah, I did. And Gordon.
- 14:09Gordon in the 36th minute, Ekatika in the 41st minute and
- 14:14the 43rd. So kind of just rallies
- 14:17Liverpool back and Vert in the 67th minute and then Konate in
- 14:22the 94th minute. It's like a consulate.
- 14:24Well I wouldn't say consolation, but just another goal off of
- 14:28like a corner XG. Liverpool was 1.95 versus 0.33
- 14:35and then shot 17 to 8 and big chances I guess is another stat
- 14:40now is 7 to 0. Yeah, kind of just all Liverpool
- 14:43in this one. So it's interesting.
- 14:44Luca Newcastle, you know, Voltamati hasn't scored in his
- 14:47last 11 games now in the Premier League.
- 14:50And so he didn't start, Weisa didn't start.
- 14:53They actually went with Gordon at the striker there, which I
- 14:55thought was kind of an interesting thing.
- 14:57Now, Gordon did get a goal in this game.
- 14:59But you know, like I said, it's interest.
- 15:00You pay all that money for Voltamati and Weisa and they
- 15:03can't start in a big game against Liverpool.
- 15:06Something to keep an eye on moving.
- 15:07Forward not a good look. Yeah, with their kind of striker
- 15:09situation, but Newcastle been terrible on the road, but they
- 15:12only two wins in their last 12 away games.
- 15:14I mean they just really struggle on the road.
- 15:18But yeah, Liverpool, Luca, like I said, this is a good win for
- 15:20them. I thought it would be a closer
- 15:22game they really kind of took care of.
- 15:23Business, yeah. Real nice moment, Luca at the
- 15:26end. So, you know, with Conatay, you
- 15:28know, take me through what happened there in his situation.
- 15:31So he a week ago, his dad died and he was on like a leave, but
- 15:39he knew that his team would need him in this game and it was
- 15:42really big when he scored. Even Allison came running all
- 15:47the way from the other side of the pitch to celebrate entire
- 15:49team. So yeah, it was just a good
- 15:52moment. Yeah, I think it's pretty cool.
- 15:53I mean, like I said it, it's, you know, his dad had just
- 15:56passed away I think 8 days ago. He comes back early to help his
- 15:59team. You can just see, like when he
- 16:01scored, what a human moment it is.
- 16:02I mean, just how excited the players are for him.
- 16:06He has this moment where he and Van Dyke kind of arm around each
- 16:08other. He breaks down in tears, just
- 16:10like the emotion of it all just sort of overcoming him.
- 16:12But, you know, I think it kind of shows that these, you know,
- 16:15these guys are human beings. You know, we look at him as
- 16:17players and transfers and, you know, we get very critical of
- 16:20how they're doing. But, you know, these are like
- 16:22human beings, like living a life.
- 16:23And I just thought it was like a such a nice sort of touching
- 16:26moment that here he is. I mean, look, did the goal
- 16:29matter in the outcome of the game?
- 16:30Yeah. But Can you imagine how much
- 16:31that means to him and his family to sort of score and have that
- 16:34moment there? And I, I, I bet it brought him a
- 16:37little bit of relief as he's mourning the, you know, the loss
- 16:39of his dad. Yeah.
- 16:40So that's a good moment. Very, very cool.
- 16:41Like I said, I like to kind of see those nice little stories.
- 16:44Yeah. So but yeah, we'll go Liverpool
- 16:47again. You know, I, we just talked
- 16:49about it. I mean, you know, here they are
- 16:50fighting with Chelsea and Man U, They're sitting in six.
- 16:53So in their own 39 points, they're right in the mix.
- 16:55But right now, Luca, they'd be in a Europa League spot.
- 16:58These are the defending Premier League champions and they'd be
- 17:00looking at a Europa League spot. And they spent all that money in
- 17:03the summer. They did, they did.
- 17:05But again, look at they're only two points off of 4, you know,
- 17:08and really you can almost say they're only 7 points off a
- 17:11third. I mean, it's it's to me, there's
- 17:13still a lot to play out here. I just think it's these are the
- 17:16storylines to kind of watch as we go through the end of the
- 17:19story. I think it's like what happens
- 17:20with the top three, then those next three and then I think
- 17:24there could be an interesting even battle for 7th.
- 17:26You know, if we're talking about UEFA Champions League spot, you
- 17:28know, Brentford, Sunderland, Fulham.
- 17:31You. Know, like, I mean, we don't
- 17:33typically think of those teams playing in Europe in these
- 17:35competitions, but they'd be sort of the next three up.
- 17:38So that could be real interesting to have one of those
- 17:40teams. Yeah.
- 17:43And again, we've also just talked about that sort of big,
- 17:46like I said, when you look at essentially 7th through, let's
- 17:50say even 7th through 16th, it's only separated by 10 points, you
- 17:54know? You know, but all right, look,
- 17:57well, let's move on. We had Man U hosting 4.
- 18:03This game ends 32 Man United. I probably be two new United.
- 18:07Casimiro in the 19th minute off of a free kick that was
- 18:11originally called a penalty but taken back to a free kick.
- 18:15Cunya in the 56 minute. Nice goal and Jimenez PK in the
- 18:2085th minute and Kevin really nice world being the 92nd man.
- 18:25I think that's his first goal for the team.
- 18:27I wins first Premier League and then Cesco in the 95th minute
- 18:31gets the winner. Fernandez has now 12 assists in
- 18:35the Premier League. This year we in the league and
- 18:37then you 2 losses in the last 18 Premier League matches.
- 18:42Yeah, it's crazy. Look, they fired their coach
- 18:44through this. You would, you would think, you
- 18:45know, team fires their coach. They're in like complete
- 18:47disarray. He's actually been like really
- 18:49good for a while now. And I mean, that's why they're
- 18:52also sitting in fourth place. They're five points off of 3rd.
- 18:56But we think of this team as like a dumpster fire.
- 18:57You know, everybody like piles on the Man United, the coach is
- 19:00terrible. Then they fire their coach like
- 19:03they're actually having like a really good year.
- 19:05I mean, obviously they beat Arsenal at home.
- 19:07They've had some like, really? They finished 15th last year,
- 19:09now they're in fourth. Yeah, I mean, like what a turn
- 19:11around they've had where like the other team that surprisingly
- 19:14finished low last year, Tottenham, they're still in 14th
- 19:16and there's still a bit of a mess.
- 19:17But Man United, Luca, I mean, look, Dorgu out with a hamstring
- 19:21injury, he's been really good for them.
- 19:23But Kuluka Casamiro, how good he's been, really solid for
- 19:27them. Yeah, Oh yeah, he's been.
- 19:33I mean, he's got like 5 or six goals and he had on the he had a
- 19:40really nice assist with the no look pass.
- 19:43That was pretty, that was pretty cheeky.
- 19:46Yeah. I feel like he's been a good
- 19:48player. I know and it's so.
- 19:50It's his fifth goal. He scored his fifth goal this
- 19:52year, the most he's ever had in a season.
- 19:54He had six with Real Madrid. So you know, he's like chipping
- 19:58in. Not only is he sort of like they
- 20:00don't have a lot of midfield depth, so he's playing a really
- 20:03good midfield, but he's also chipping in with goals.
- 20:05You know, he's an interesting guy.
- 20:06Luke, he's Brazilian obviously. And he he played at Sao Paulo
- 20:10from 2010 to 2013 and they had to went to Real Madrid where he
- 20:14like sort of became probably one of the best midfielders in the
- 20:17world for period of time played there from 2013 to 2022.
- 20:21He made 221 appearances for 24 goals and then massive sale he
- 20:27got. Sold to Man United in 2022, real
- 20:29high salary, real high transfer fee.
- 20:31And I think for a while it was just, you know, he's not living
- 20:35up to it. He's disappointing.
- 20:36He's lost his legs. So it's kind of good to see him
- 20:39kind of a bit of a resurgence this year.
- 20:41I mean, it's a little good guy. He's made 88 appearances for
- 20:43Brazil. I mean, he's like you kind of
- 20:46forget like he's been a really good player exactly.
- 20:49Mostly a man like Real Madrid, but.
- 20:51He was like the wandering of back then, like pretty much.
- 20:55And then what was I going to say?
- 20:59He was, he was pretty good the first year he was signed in
- 21:03United. Then 2324 and 2425 it wasn't
- 21:07great. But then this year he's been
- 21:09good. In first years he was pretty
- 21:11good. Yeah, and I and I guess that he
- 21:13said though, that he's probably leaving this summer, so it's
- 21:16good. To see him have a lot a good
- 21:18last season, I think so too, you know.
- 21:20Like I said, I always, you know, like it's always kind of admired
- 21:22him as a player. He's generally played on teams I
- 21:24root against. Reality.
- 21:25Yeah, true. But like he always, he seemed
- 21:27like a obviously he's a great player.
- 21:29I admire his talent and everything like that.
- 21:31So I do think it's kind of nice to see him go off here and have
- 21:34a little bit of a moment because he's really not had a lot of
- 21:36great moments of Man United. And just one more shout out to
- 21:40Raul Jimenez on the PK 12 for 12 in the Premier League.
- 21:43This guy just doesn't miss penalties.
- 21:44I know it's unbelievable. Great penalty he scored, it was
- 21:47super risky and just didn't care.
- 21:49Just roofed it, kind of. But yeah, you know, Fulham sort
- 21:52of feel a little hard done here, Luca.
- 21:54There's some bar decisions that sometimes feel like they go
- 21:56against them there. There was an offsides call that
- 21:58was really kind of very close. And gosh, you feel like
- 22:02something where they draw the line a little bit inch this way
- 22:05or a little bit into that way, be on or off.
- 22:09You know, it's just a tough one. You know, they they battle back
- 22:12in this game. But then that last goal by
- 22:14Cesco, I feel like was kind of bad defending.
- 22:16When you watch him get it, he's just got acres of time and space
- 22:19in the box. I don't know how that happens.
- 22:21When a ball comes in, he literally takes it, turns, fires
- 22:24it into the corner. So tough one.
- 22:27Fulham, like I said, probably I think deserved a point out of
- 22:29this one. You know, they're in 9th, Luca,
- 22:32they're on 34 points again. They're still, you know, in
- 22:35contention for European football.
- 22:38I would love to see Fulham do it because it's probably been ages
- 22:40since they have, but they gotta try to now kind of feel like
- 22:45just a team that wins lose, wins lose.
- 22:47They gotta try to string together some results here
- 22:49moving. Forward, yeah.
- 22:50All right, look. What about when?
- 22:51Nottingham Forest? Crystal Palace.
- 22:54Next up this game and one one I predict to be 1 nil.
- 22:58Nyham Forest up keeps right in the 5th minute, scores off of a
- 23:02bunch of headers and Niko Williams and 45 + 1 gets a red
- 23:06card for like handballing the ball out of the goal.
- 23:09Then because of that, the SAR gets a penalty in the 45 + 3 and
- 23:13scores that, and that's pretty much it for that game.
- 23:17Crystal Powell has nine matches without a win now, and now I am
- 23:20for six points above West Ham and 18th place.
- 23:22So yeah, they're doing pretty well.
- 23:24Yeah, I think like I said, Forrest, to me, Luca, look, a
- 23:28team that's like a team that's going to stay up.
- 23:30You know, I, I when obviously Arsenal went and struggled
- 23:33there, but they, I look at that roster, I look at the way
- 23:36they've been playing, I think they're better than West Ham,
- 23:39yes. They're definitely better than
- 23:41West. And they've got a six point
- 23:42cushion right now. I I think like I said to me,
- 23:45like I said when I look at this forest team, I'd be real
- 23:47surprised if they get well yeah, but we'll see Palace look at
- 23:50just just they're kind of in disarray.
- 23:52I mean just now apparently Mateta was going to get sold AC
- 23:55Milan, but now he has a knee injury so that sale got
- 23:58cancelled. They.
- 24:00Oh my goodness. Larson from Wolves, so he's a
- 24:03striker that'll come in that can.
- 24:04No, Bryn Larson was at Burnley. Who's the other Larson?
- 24:09Strand Larson was at Wolves. Strand Larson.
- 24:13They paid like $50 million for Strand.
- 24:16Larson I don't know if that's quite I think.
- 24:18He has one goal this year. I know he plays on the worst
- 24:22team and stuff like that, but goodness gracious, $15 million
- 24:24forgot that scored one goal. I just I don't know what palace
- 24:27are doing. Like they just it's like they
- 24:29sell gay he they're going to sell Mateta.
- 24:31Like it feels like nobody wants to be there.
- 24:33It's a team that won the FA Cup. There's so many good vibes
- 24:36around this team over the summer and now it.
- 24:38Just feels like dumpster fire. Dumpster yeah, Glassner is going
- 24:41to leave in the summer. I mean, gosh, I, I look, I mean,
- 24:44they've really, really struggled right now and it's they have 29
- 24:48points, they're in 15th. I don't think they're going to
- 24:50get relegated or anything like that.
- 24:51But I, I just, it's hard to see like this season and the like,
- 24:55it just feels like palace are going to struggle to even win or
- 24:57tie the rest of the way. All right, Lugo, let's move
- 25:01over. This is an interesting game.
- 25:02Aston Villa hosting Brentford. Well, this game in only ended
- 25:06one nil. Brentford, even though it's at
- 25:08Aston Villa report to be two nil.
- 25:09Aston Villa shot it in the 42nd minute, had a red card for
- 25:13kicking out at cash and Vitara in the 45 + 2 minute.
- 25:21He gets a nice going to the top corner, it's kind of close but
- 25:24at a hard angle. And Vitara is now unbeaten it in
- 25:2811 Premier League games when he has scored and now Villa had in
- 25:33the Villa had 27 shots with an XG of 2.40.
- 25:40I don't know how they didn't score.
- 25:41I don't. Know how they didn't score?
- 25:42Yeah, Brentford had an XG of 0.38.
- 25:45And I mean, it's like. They won the red card Villa.
- 25:49Villa had 355 passes in the second-half of this game.
- 25:53That's the most. Oh my gosh.
- 25:55The started getting records in 03 and 04. 350 that's in some
- 26:00teams has that in a game. In a game, yeah.
- 26:03I, I it's one of those games, though, like that, you know,
- 26:06that there's a red card happens which, which, what do you think
- 26:09on the red card? So shade and cash go down.
- 26:11They're sort of tangled a little.
- 26:13Bit yeah, and then you see Shade's right boot kind of ticks
- 26:17back out at cash and like the stomach to lower stomach.
- 26:22So is that a red card for? You.
- 26:23Yes, definitely. Because he kicks out.
- 26:25Yeah, yeah. It's so stupid.
- 26:28Like, why is he doing that? Like he's kicking out right in
- 26:31the referee. I mean like.
- 26:32Right in front of the referee. Yeah, even if you think, well,
- 26:34it's a little soft, he was just sort of stepping up.
- 26:37Like why even give the referee and VAR a chance to even make a
- 26:41call on? That anything just crawl out.
- 26:42You know, yeah, any. Army crawl.
- 26:45Amazingly, though, it did not. It didn't affect the team.
- 26:49Exactly. They will want to score the goal
- 26:51and then they literally just defend.
- 26:52Like they literally just defend. I mean Villa had literally the
- 26:55ball the entire game. You can tell by the XG and all
- 26:58these passes but they just couldn't get the ball in the do.
- 27:00You have the possession. I don't have the possession on
- 27:03it. Sure.
- 27:04It's crazy now. There was a situation in this
- 27:06game where they did score. Yes, Tammy Abraham scored and
- 27:11but it's called back. Now I'll tell you.
- 27:14So the reason why they pulled it back, though, what was
- 27:16interesting about this is they went back and they looked 18
- 27:19seconds before the ball went in. They go back and they look at a
- 27:24ball that had rolled out of bounds.
- 27:26So in the and then what they said was this was all the way
- 27:29back in the other end. There was like they, I can't
- 27:31remember, two players are down on the end line.
- 27:33The ball, it does roll out of bounds, but they don't call it
- 27:36at first that they then they the ball then goes back up the field
- 27:40and 18 seconds later Abraham hits it in the goal and they
- 27:42think they scored. Now it's a pretty long time to
- 27:46go back, you know, and say, well, this happened 18 seconds
- 27:50ago, you know, but it they say that it was in the build up of
- 27:54play. What?
- 27:55What do you think on this? So here's what I think they're
- 27:58doing. I they so they might have not
- 28:02known that the ball is out of bounds.
- 28:05I bet some of the Brentford players like put up their hand
- 28:07or something. They just probably let it play
- 28:11because you know how they sometimes like let offsides play
- 28:14if it doesn't lead to something crazy?
- 28:16I think that's what they were doing.
- 28:18But then they if, well, they scored.
- 28:21Now they have to go back and look at that because it's not
- 28:25fair if they just score when the ball is actually out of bounds.
- 28:29But yeah, that's why I think that's why I think they went
- 28:31back. Yeah, I look, I think the right
- 28:34call was made. I mean, to me, very clearly the
- 28:36ball was out of bounds. I think even the Aston Villa
- 28:38player, when he's down there trying to keep it in, you can
- 28:40tell by the body language he's like, oh, it's out of bounds.
- 28:42And all of a sudden he's like, wait, they didn't blow the
- 28:43whistle and then they sort of keep on playing.
- 28:46Let alone, you're right, Brentford players reacting to a
- 28:48ball out of bounds saying, wait, like they stopped playing.
- 28:51Now look, you should always play to the whistle, right?
- 28:53That type of thing. So people simply.
- 28:56You know, but I will say this, I haven't seen many times where
- 29:00people have gone back that far to like redo it, Although I do
- 29:05think the right call was made. The ball was out of bounds.
- 29:07It would have, It wouldn't. Be fair to Brentford.
- 29:10Yeah, they would not have had the ball and brought it up the
- 29:12field and then scored a goal. But that's a pretty long time.
- 29:16You know, like I, I don't want this to start being a thing
- 29:18where we're going to go back 30 seconds and been like, oh, you
- 29:21know what, there's a foul 30 seconds ago now.
- 29:24This doesn't happen before like you know, but either way, look,
- 29:28Villa's at home, Luca, they've now lost two straight at home.
- 29:31They got to be able to score against the 10 second man.
- 29:34Brentford team is not that good on the road.
- 29:36You know, look, Villa, Luca had some injuries, know Ollie
- 29:39Watkins, their whole midfield. Kamara was out, Tielemans was
- 29:43out, McGinn was out. Now, they saw Morgan Rogers
- 29:46there, but they're missing this and that's they're missing a lot
- 29:48of guys and this is not a very deep team that can, you know,
- 29:52get by with a lot of these injuries.
- 29:54You know, we'll have to kind of see Villa moving forward here
- 29:57because like I said, this is their rough patch that they're
- 29:59hitting. You know, they started off a
- 30:01little slow then went gangbusters, right?
- 30:03All those wins in a row that they had.
- 30:05Now this is what happens to every team.
- 30:07You have rough patches. Again, what we said about
- 30:09Arsenal, it's not just a straight line to a title for
- 30:11anybody. Ups and downs.
- 30:13Let's see how they sort of navigate this because this is
- 30:15tough and they're usually great at home.
- 30:17Now two straight losses at home. Yeah, and.
- 30:19This is this one to like I said a team they should win and it
- 30:22was 10 men for most of the game. Yep.
- 30:26All right, Luca, let's go to a completely bonkers game that
- 30:29like this is literally almost like 2 games in one Spurs
- 30:32hosting city. This game ends 22.
- 30:35I proved to be 3. Two spurs Cherokee in the 11th
- 30:38minute scores and then Simeno in the 44th minute scores.
- 30:43Cherokee in the 11th minute start, if I didn't stay there
- 30:46minute, then so lengthy scores and then 53rd minute they were
- 30:50looking at a foul on this. But I, I don't think it is a
- 30:55foul. He accidentally kind of kicks
- 30:58gay. He's calf when he's trying to
- 31:02shoot it. But I, I don't, I don't think
- 31:06that's kind of what happened to silly.
- 31:07But we were we were talking about that how he accidentally
- 31:10kicked Berry and they didn't call it.
- 31:12They were looking at a penalty. I feel like that's what happened
- 31:14here. But yeah, he gets to go and then
- 31:16he gets like swanky scores again in the 7th minute.
- 31:19Like it's it's insane goal. It's like a scorpion goal.
- 31:23And then it's kind of like Olivier Giroux from like I think
- 31:27it was like 19 to 20/20/19 to 20 for Arsenal.
- 31:31It was insane. Ah Spurs were so bad in the
- 31:38first half and then they completely flipped in the
- 31:41second-half. I don't you're just talking
- 31:43about how can a team be that bad in the first half.
- 31:46Time talk that they get. I mean, honestly, goodness,
- 31:50maybe I bribed them or something.
- 31:54City had won last 115 matches, win up by two goals at halftime
- 32:00in all competitions. Now that streak is over.
- 32:03Yeah, this game, this game makes no sense, absolutely makes no
- 32:07sense to me. We watched, I watched the first.
- 32:08We watched the first half of this.
- 32:10City were dominant. Spurs were awful.
- 32:13I mean awful. And I'm not just saying that
- 32:16because I'm an Arsenal fan, it's just it.
- 32:18May be the least ever I've ever seen a team put into that and
- 32:22put into a first half. Well, that's just it.
- 32:25Part of it is you're right, Luca.
- 32:26It's just effort. I mean, just wide open spaces,
- 32:30just like you said, sort of lack of effort.
- 32:32I mean, you know, we we talked about there's this whole sort of
- 32:36narrative, you know, that that Spurs sort of always play City
- 32:39well. And and Pepe has lost more
- 32:41league games to Spurs than any other team.
- 32:43He's lost eight games to Spurs. So like I said, Spurs do, for
- 32:46whatever reason, play City well, you know, but but you know, with
- 32:50City coming in a lot to play for, Spurs are winless in their
- 32:54last now six Premier League matches.
- 32:55They come in, in their last five Premier League matches.
- 32:58You're thinking, OK, like this can't hold true, right?
- 33:00You know, see. And it looked that way in the
- 33:02first half, and then all of a sudden look in the second-half,
- 33:05it's like the script completely flipped.
- 33:07We literally turned it off after Semenyo's second spaniel's goal.
- 33:11We're like, this is just going to be like A5 nil blowout.
- 33:15And then you tell me Spurs squirrel.
- 33:17I was like, there's no way. And then we see that scorpion
- 33:21kick goal. I was like, Oh my gosh.
- 33:23Yeah, and then they just sort of held on.
- 33:25Now, you know, like I said that that first to the first goal
- 33:28that Spurs scored, their Solanke goal.
- 33:30Like you said, the ball is kind of in the box.
- 33:32Solanke kind of cuts it back. Gay.
- 33:35He then kind of gets his foot in between the ball and Solanke's
- 33:39foot not really doesn't really touch the ball.
- 33:41He's sort of there and then Solanke's now kicking at the
- 33:44ball and this is obviously all happening pretty quickly and
- 33:47sort of kicks, I guess Gay, he's leg and the ball in the goal.
- 33:52So for you Luca, is this a foul or not a foul?
- 33:55No, it's not a foul. Now tell me why you think it's
- 33:57not. Why?
- 33:58He said. Because it's like he he's how is
- 34:01he supposed to react that quick to stop following through with
- 34:04this kick? Like you can't.
- 34:07It's it's like humanly impossible.
- 34:10Like, and I'll say like that Suiba incident we were talking
- 34:14about against like Barry or something in the box where he
- 34:17saw there was a penalty. He just got there first and
- 34:19accidentally kicks him. Happened to me too.
- 34:22Yeah. That's why I don't think it's
- 34:23foul. He just how is he supposed to
- 34:25stop? All right, so I'm going to go a
- 34:27little bit on the other side of this and say I, I do agree with
- 34:30you. I don't know how you're supposed
- 34:31to stop, but I still think it's a foul.
- 34:35And I'll be honest with you, I think the Seliba 1 was a foul,
- 34:37too. I think, I think we got lucky
- 34:39there because I think Luka Gahi to me, I think is playing good
- 34:44defense by getting his foot in between Solanke's leg and the
- 34:48ball. And that to me, this is good
- 34:50defense. You get in between there.
- 34:52So that way if the guy does kick through and he clearly to me
- 34:55does kick Gahi's leg, that I think to me then that that's a
- 34:59foul. Even though I agree with you
- 35:00like what Solanke supposed to do, but there's a lot of times
- 35:02there's situations where yeah, what are they supposed to to do?
- 35:04But you still doesn't mean you can't commit a fail in that
- 35:07situation. So for me, I think here City a
- 35:11little unlucky in this situation.
- 35:12Yeah. There was a foul again.
- 35:14I I thought the same thing when when Saliba did that and he's
- 35:17kicking and he kicks the foot. I think you're right.
- 35:19It was a Barry. I thought we got a little lucky
- 35:22there. You know, Luke, I've always said
- 35:25to win the Premier League, you know, you need a couple things.
- 35:27You need one A really good team. Duh.
- 35:29Right, like a very good team. Yeah, deep team.
- 35:32You need a deep team, but I also think you need a little bit of
- 35:34luck. I I think it's.
- 35:36Liverpool had tons of that last year.
- 35:38Well, that's just it. And you can say, well, good
- 35:40teams make their own luck or anything like that.
- 35:42But yeah. And then I also think you need
- 35:44either health or or a deep team. I think nowadays there are so
- 35:48many games you need to have. Like I said, you need to have
- 35:51your best players fit, OK. You just need to.
- 35:54And I think that you're right. Arsenal, Luca, this year feel
- 35:57like to me, I feel like we've been a little unlucky the past
- 36:00two, maybe three years. This year I feel like it feels
- 36:04like more of the calls are going our way.
- 36:06And then part of it then is teams that are chasing you.
- 36:09City, Villa, they get a little unlucky, you know, and again, I
- 36:13think over time, over years, these things work themselves
- 36:16out. I don't think conspiracy Rodri
- 36:18went on a rant Luca afterwards saying that nobody wants them to
- 36:21win and that they're getting ref differently.
- 36:24And you know, to me I'm like, I'm not having any of that.
- 36:28City get plenty of calls their way, and in fact Rodri should
- 36:32have probably been sent off twice in this game.
- 36:34Oh yeah. On a yellow card commits 2 fouls
- 36:38that easily could have been yellow fouls in the middle of
- 36:40the field. Exactly why dislike Rodri so
- 36:43much? I'm.
- 36:44Just saying like, look, you can't have it both ways.
- 36:46You can't. I mean, like I said, there were
- 36:47two times and Pep immediately pulls Rodri off after the second
- 36:50time because he's he knows how close he is to getting sent off.
- 36:54I think both of those to me would have been yellow card
- 36:56fouls. He's out of the game.
- 36:58So you can't have it both ways. You can't say, well, everybody's
- 37:00against us. The referees don't like us.
- 37:02Nobody wants us to win, you know, essentially almost
- 37:05accusing the referees of like a conspiracy against them.
- 37:10Dad could get you banned or something.
- 37:11Well, there's been some talk about maybe he should have
- 37:13gotten a ban for it. I don't think he's going to.
- 37:15But yeah, there's some talk about if you are calling out the
- 37:17integrity of the referee, it's one thing to sort of just
- 37:19complain, but it's another thing to like, call out their
- 37:21integrity and say, yeah, they're actively, you know, reffing
- 37:25against us. You know, again, I, I, you know,
- 37:28I, I again, and I'm saying this knowing I, I believe that they
- 37:31should have gotten that foul. The goal for Solanke shouldn't
- 37:34have stood in my opinion, but I just, I, I, I, you know, I just
- 37:37don't have time for it when Rhodri of all people in that
- 37:40game should have probably been sent off twice.
- 37:42So. Yeah, yeah.
- 37:44Anyway, you know, Lucas Spurs again, I I don't know how to
- 37:48explain this team. They, they are, they are
- 37:50decimated by injuries. I think they have 11 first team
- 37:53players not available for this game.
- 37:55Sort of sort of insane, but they somehow managed to get a result.
- 37:59I guess they really do sort of have cities number but
- 38:02interesting the last game of the week was Sunderland hosting
- 38:06Burnley. Yeah, just pretty much a blowout
- 38:09here. Sunderland three nil.
- 38:11I put to be 002 Zambie Ungle and the 9th minute, the Diara and
- 38:17the 32nd minute and Toby Nice going to 72nd minute.
- 38:21Sunderland tied for this for tied for seventh on 36 points
- 38:25and Burnley is 15 games without a win, So yeah.
- 38:30Yep, yeah, Sunderland still hanging around that those
- 38:32European spots there. So, All right, Luca.
- 38:35Well, that wraps up Week 24 of the Premier League.
- 38:39And so when we wrap up the weeks, you're going to look back
- 38:42and tell me you're player of the week, your goal of the week.
- 38:45I think I know which one that's going to be.
- 38:47It's going to be team. Of the week.
- 38:50So which one do you want to start with?
- 38:51Player, goal or team of the week?
- 38:53So actually I'll I'll start player is it?
- 38:58This is hard because some players really didn't do good
- 39:01this week. You know, I kind of want to give
- 39:05it to Konate because for like after his dad passing come back
- 39:10and scores. I'm also going to give it an
- 39:13honorable mention to Ekatike and two nice goals and Selenki.
- 39:18And yeah, yeah, both of them with braces.
- 39:20Yeah. OK, All right.
- 39:21I like it. All right, All right.
- 39:24Goal of the Week. Well, goal, which can be quite
- 39:28hard, this, it's obviously gotta be Slanky's goal, but I'm giving
- 39:31an honorable mention to Kevin's goal, Toby's goal.
- 39:36And wait, where's it? There's like one more.
- 39:39Really. Oh yeah, I think, I, I think
- 39:46Ekatika's second goal was pretty nice with the outside of his
- 39:49foot, yeah. Yeah, For anybody that that
- 39:52didn't see it, it's worth looking up on YouTube.
- 39:54So Dominic Solanke scores this goal.
- 39:56We call it a scorpion goal because he almost hits it like
- 39:58with a ball behind him. I have a picture I'll put up on
- 40:02on our Instagram page of this ball's like behind him.
- 40:04He sort of flicks it up. Now.
- 40:06He also flicks this up over Donna Ruma.
- 40:08Maybe the best goal in the Premier League, A goal who's 6
- 40:11feet five could. Be the best goal in the world.
- 40:12He could, you know, but they call it like a scorpion kicks.
- 40:16It's almost like the foots goes kind of like backwards.
- 40:18And you, you mentioned Olivier Giroux is another one to look
- 40:20up. Zlatan did it for Sweden.
- 40:23Ibrahimovic did it for Sweden. What are you talking about the
- 40:25bicycle cake though? That long bicycle.
- 40:27Cake. He had like a scorpion goal too.
- 40:29I feel he's just crazy at those Yeah and singles so.
- 40:33But this goal, I mean to me almost look so far the goal of
- 40:35the year. Probably it's.
- 40:36Just outrageous. I think I'll sell something.
- 40:39The XG on that goal is like .04, you know with the Solanki goal.
- 40:44I mean, it's just like you just don't score from that position
- 40:46with a ball behind you. But just it's worth looking it
- 40:50up. I mean doesn't mean it amazing.
- 40:51And celebrate too. It's crazy.
- 40:53He might have been just a shock. All right, look, who is your
- 40:57team of the week? Yeah, I don't want, I don't want
- 41:03to give it to Tottenham. I just don't want to about. 10
- 41:06men Brentford winning a village. Yeah, I'll give that.
- 41:09I'll give it to 10 men, Brentford.
- 41:11Yeah, throw Brentford some lovely.
- 41:13Yeah, I'll give. I'll give Brentford.
- 41:15Premier League, big win for them.
- 41:17Like I said, they're they're legit.
- 41:18Chelsea were pretty good this week too.
- 41:20Yeah, yeah. In the second-half, in the.
- 41:22Second-half, Yeah. Well, yeah.
- 41:24All right, Luca. Well, we know the transfer
- 41:27window, Luca has finally shut, so no more transfer talk for a
- 41:31while here. It closed I think, on what?
- 41:342nd on the February 2nd. So not a lot of Luca, big moves,
- 41:38you know, a couple moves. So Villa made a couple moves.
- 41:41I brought in Tammy Abraham from Besik, this $25 million.
- 41:45They got Douglas Louise on a loan from Juventus and they
- 41:48actually recalled Liam Leon Bailey.
- 41:50So they're trying to, again, we talked about not a deep squad,
- 41:54so they're trying to bring in some bodies for for their team
- 41:56there. So we'll see how they pan out.
- 41:59James Ward Prowse goes to Burnley on a loan.
- 42:03Ethan Wenieri goes to Olympic Marseille alone on alone.
- 42:07Yeah, yeah, alone with no by obligation.
- 42:10So it like the he'll be coming back to Arsenal for sure, for
- 42:12sure. It's just to get him playing
- 42:13time. Bournemouth, Luke, I always keep
- 42:16an eye on who Bournemouth. They're bringing in $30 million
- 42:18for a guy named Ryan. He comes from Vasco to Gama in
- 42:21the Brazilian league. I guess he's sort of like a
- 42:23midfield forward type of guy. But I feel like anytime
- 42:26Bournemouth, Brighton, Brentford or signing guy, yeah, sort of
- 42:29keeping my, you know, ears out. So keep an eye on him.
- 42:32RAYAN, he's coming in. Oscar, Bob Luca to Fulham,
- 42:3732,000,000. Dollars that's that's I feel
- 42:39that's a pretty good signing for Fulham.
- 42:41I think it is a good signing for them.
- 42:42I think that's who Fulham should be kind of going after.
- 42:44Exactly. You know, they they tend to go
- 42:46after guys that maybe can't quite make City Arsenal.
- 42:49We need a ton of Arsenal players there, but but I think there's
- 42:52like nothing wrong with that. You know, like these guys that
- 42:54can't make the big, big clubs, you know, like he's a young guy
- 42:58you. Know I think he could definitely
- 43:00start for Fulham. I know I, I, I'm interested in
- 43:02that one. You know, like I said, I think
- 43:04he's, I always thought he was a decent player, you know?
- 43:07Bob. I just like seeing Bob.
- 43:09So Lucas, Pakita, Luca, he bailed out on West Ham, but he
- 43:12got $44 million from Flamingo for him.
- 43:15That's pretty good. Yeah, Dama Treori.
- 43:17He's off to West Ham, so who else?
- 43:21Mateta was going to go to AC Milan, But like I said, that is
- 43:23Nick. So he is still with Crystal
- 43:25Palace, but he apparently has a knee problem, so they're looking
- 43:28at that. So he may be done for a while or
- 43:31the year. But then we just mentioned they
- 43:32signed Strand Larson from Wolves.
- 43:35Axel Desasi went on loan to West Ham, Evan Gison from Villa to
- 43:41Crystal Palace on loan, Danielle Marlin to Roma.
- 43:46Steven Stefan Ortega went to Nottingham Forest.
- 43:48Was he still City's property? He was still City's property.
- 43:52Wow. And then Spurs signed a a
- 43:54defender named Sousa from Santos and Nottingham Forest.
- 44:00You'll like this guy's name, Lorenzo Luca.
- 44:03Hey, what? Apparently he, like I said, came
- 44:07from Napoli. I think he's a forward.
- 44:09So just some new names to keep an eye on in the Premier League,
- 44:12the transfer window shots there. So all right, Lucas, should we
- 44:17move on to our Week 25 picks? Yes.
- 44:20All right, so Week 25, it's hard to believe Luca.
- 44:24First off, we've got Leeds hosting Nottingham Forest, so
- 44:27two teams at the bottom of the table here, Luca Then neither 1
- 44:30is going to want to lose this game.
- 44:33I think it's going to be a hard fought one, no win for Leeds.
- 44:37OK, so Leeds going to get the win at home here, bounce back
- 44:40after a lost Arsenal. All right, here's an interesting
- 44:42game. Luca man you hosting Spurs?
- 44:47I think it's going to be 3 one united. 31 United yeah I mean, I
- 44:51mean, again, like both of these teams don't really feel like I
- 44:55know what to expect, but I feel like at least with Man United
- 44:57lately, they've. Been at United.
- 45:00Too Battle Trafford, yeah, I mean all those Spurs tend to be
- 45:03decent on. The right it's hard, you just.
- 45:05Don't know. With Spurs, like I said, you
- 45:06just don't know who's going to show up.
- 45:07I hope that's a good game. Yeah, I know.
- 45:09I think it could be interesting, but I'm with you.
- 45:11I just, I feel like Man United are playing very well lately.
- 45:15I don't think their results are fluky at all.
- 45:17So I feel like they'll get the win there, all right.
- 45:20They'll go Wolves host Chelsea. Two No Chelsea.
- 45:28Yeah, it's hard to imagine Wolves getting a result.
- 45:30Here we go, Arsenal host Sunderland.
- 45:34I think we win 2 nil. Two nil.
- 45:36OK, well take me through Y here. I mean I'm interested in your
- 45:39take your Arsenal. Like I said, lots of games.
- 45:42We just had a midweek League Cup semi final.
- 45:45Now we get Sunderland at home. What makes you think we get a
- 45:48clean sheet and a 2 nothing win? Well, I think Sunderland have
- 45:54been point, OK. I mean we just, I mean they
- 45:59haven't been as good as they were as start of the season.
- 46:02Also missing Jacques, we are at home and we've been playing very
- 46:07well and I feel like we have pretty much every single player
- 46:11on the team back, so I feel like we will get that win to now.
- 46:17Well, now something to keep an eye on Luca is is they had no
- 46:21soccer, missed a member, came off injured, He probably will
- 46:24not be available. So in Osaka, Odegard apparently
- 46:27had a small issue. He missed the midweek game.
- 46:30And of course, Moreno looks like he's probably done for the year.
- 46:33Done for the. Year, why?
- 46:34Done for the year. He has a foot problem.
- 46:36They're not being more specific, but he's going to have surgery
- 46:39and likely I think he'll be focused on just getting back to
- 46:41the World Cup. So like I said, Arsenal, you
- 46:44know, it's just that we can never have a fully healthy
- 46:46squad. It's just never going to be the
- 46:48case. So you know, we'll see.
- 46:50We have a deep, deep team, you know, but like I said to me
- 46:54missing Saka and even I don't think ODA guards been great this
- 46:58year. But even it's just a guy that
- 47:00just be available based on matchups.
- 47:02You can bring them off the bench is a little bit of a loss, but
- 47:05they still be, you know, habits coming back.
- 47:07Luca, he can play a little bit in that.
- 47:08Score last games that in confidence.
- 47:11Yeah, he scored against Chelsea midweek.
- 47:13So I feel like we can maybe, you know, losing Saka is
- 47:17problematic, but I I feel like, you know, with between Eze and
- 47:20Havarts, maybe they can sort of fill in the 10 while Odegard's
- 47:23feeling up. And again, Odegard, it doesn't
- 47:25seem like it's serious. So it could have been just like
- 47:27real precautionary. So we'll keep an eye on.
- 47:29It but they said that last time with his knee injury.
- 47:32Well, I know, I know. We'll, we'll, we'll keep an eye
- 47:35on it. You just never know what these
- 47:36kind of injuries, but it to me it looks more like Saka won't
- 47:38play than Odegard. All right, Luca, Fulham host
- 47:43Everton. Like, fool him, get the win 21.
- 47:4721 OK Burnley host West Ham. Oh boy, relegation.
- 47:53I think 00. 00 There's nothing good in this game at all, huh?
- 47:57Yeah. All right, what about
- 47:59Bournemouth hosting Villa? I think 1. 111 All right,
- 48:09Newcastle hosting Brentford. Oh, I think 1-2 nil, Newcastle.
- 48:16All right, Brighton hosting Crystal Palace. 00. 00 All
- 48:27right, Look at the big game of the week, though, and I want it.
- 48:29I want your prediction. I know this game.
- 48:31And I want, I want a little bit, I want you to tell me why you're
- 48:34predicting this result. We have Liverpool hosting city.
- 48:39This is a big game. Luca, what is your thoughts on
- 48:42this game? I think it's 32 Liverpool.
- 48:45Wow, OK, why do you think it'll be 32?
- 48:48Well, Liverpool been playing very good.
- 48:50City have been playing all right, fine.
- 48:54They've been playing fine. But I think both teams have a
- 48:57very strong attacking team, attacking side of their both
- 49:01their teams. But I do think Liverpool have
- 49:04just been playing better and it's at Liverpool.
- 49:06That's why I think it's going to be 32.
- 49:08All right, Yeah, This, this, this is a fascinating match up
- 49:11to me. I agree with you.
- 49:12Liverpool have been playing pretty well.
- 49:14I think the two guys that fascinate me lately have been
- 49:17Ekatika and Verts. Yeah, you made an interesting
- 49:20call, I think our Premier League preview.
- 49:24I think I asked for you who is going to be your new player of
- 49:27the year or the best signing, you said.
- 49:28That was our first episode. I think it was, yeah.
- 49:32And it looked like a terrible call, Luca for the first third
- 49:35of the season, but it's looking pretty good now.
- 49:37He looks to me like he's really coming on and he and Eketike
- 49:41Luca really look like they're blending well together and that
- 49:46is going to be a problem. City for City and their defense,
- 49:50it looks like. So Ruben Diaz looked like he was
- 49:52on the bench for their League Cup game.
- 49:54So it looks like maybe they can work him back because they have
- 49:59a big gap in that middle of that defense there.
- 50:01They signed gay he and he's fine, but they need Givardi all
- 50:04back. They need Diaz back.
- 50:06Groil's done for the year, I think, right?
- 50:09It's going to be a while. I don't know if it's officially
- 50:11sort of done for the year, but it's going to be a while.
- 50:13Like I said, Diaz looks like he's on like very close to being
- 50:15back, but already all probably not.
- 50:19But yeah, look at this is this is a big, big game here because
- 50:21he said Liverpool have a lot to play for because they're trying
- 50:23to get Champions League. Of course, City now Lucas
- 50:25sitting six points behind Arsenal.
- 50:28You know, I mean, you think of a situation where if we beat
- 50:30Sunderland and they lose this game, that's a nine point gap.
- 50:33But if they can get over this hump, you know, there's you
- 50:36start to now look at the schedule with 14 games left
- 50:38between Arsenal, City and Villa. You know, where are those sort
- 50:41of games where teams can drop points?
- 50:44You know, this is 1. If you're an Arsenal fan, you're
- 50:47hoping the city somehow drop points.
- 50:48But if they can get over this, you know, if Holland can, you
- 50:50know, kind of find his scoring for maybe he gets a brace or
- 50:53something like that. You know, City, again, they
- 50:56looked great in that first half, but then just, you know, so
- 50:59leaky in the second-half. But going to Anfield's going to
- 51:02be tough. Liverpool playing real well.
- 51:05This obviously must see TV to watch this.
- 51:07Yeah, I. Think it's hopefully this will
- 51:09turn out to be a real good game. All right, Luca, well, they're
- 51:12good predictions. Let's move over to our mailbag
- 51:16question. And the mailbag question is a
- 51:19little bit of a game we're going to play.
- 51:23So ESPN Luca came out and they ranked the top 50 players in the
- 51:28Premier League so far and they based this on like how many
- 51:33minutes you play, how much you, you know, contribute, of course,
- 51:36like talent. So guys that have been out all
- 51:39year, like Esac, they're not on the list, you know, and you can
- 51:42argue how he's a top 50 player, But now this is based on like
- 51:44what we've seen on the field so far this year.
- 51:48And they ranked the top 50. And I want you to try to give me
- 51:53some of the top 50. I want to see how many of these
- 51:54you can get and we won't have to go through all 50.
- 51:57But I'm curious maybe how many of the top 25.
- 51:59And then I'm curious on some of these, in my opinion, some are
- 52:03way off. There's a couple people that got
- 52:05left off that I feel like should be on.
- 52:07So I'm curious your opinion. So, all right, so Luca, based on
- 52:10again, their talent, their contributions, the minutes
- 52:13they've played, the top 50 Premier League players and
- 52:17again, goalie all the way up the field, give me some you think
- 52:20will be on the list. So, Donna Ruma.
- 52:23So all right, Donna Ruma, Luca is you've already first somebody
- 52:27who's not even on the list, not even in the top. 50 Oh my gosh.
- 52:31Donna Ruma. Yeah, Donna Ruma was one that I
- 52:33felt like should have been on the list, But yes, not on the
- 52:35West. Luca RYA.
- 52:38The second one that is not on the list.
- 52:40So First off, you have named two people that were not in the top
- 52:4350. Where are the goalies that even
- 52:46on this? So there are two goalies that
- 52:48made the list. Oh my gosh.
- 52:50And they are not Raya, they are not Donna Rumo.
- 52:53Although I I agree with you, they are on my short list here
- 52:56of players that I look at. I'm like, I don't know how
- 52:59either one of those are not the. Top 50 players.
- 53:01But there are two other goalies that did make the list.
- 53:07You himself. No, one of them we did a little
- 53:11player profile on not that long ago.
- 53:15Pickford. Pickford is on there.
- 53:17Oh my God, how is he above Donna, Ruma and Ryer?
- 53:21Yeah, so Pickford came in at 19. Feels a little high for
- 53:28Pickford. I think he's a great goalie.
- 53:30Sane. What's all?
- 53:31Right. So yeah, Pickford's won, and
- 53:33then the other goalie was Roofs. Oh, come on.
- 53:37He came in at 41. Really good.
- 53:41He's gracious. I, I'm with you on this, Luke.
- 53:44I think from a goalie standpoint, Ryan, Donna Ruma, I,
- 53:47I think are one and two for me maybe.
- 53:49I mean, you could argue back and forth like Ryan, Donna Ruma is
- 53:52probably a better shot stopper. Ryan's probably better with his
- 53:54feet. But I think there's the top 2
- 53:55goalies. Or are they not on the whistle?
- 53:59But there it is. That's it for goalies, Luke.
- 54:01OK, so namely goalies. Give me some just a throw me
- 54:03some field players. So Holland.
- 54:07He was #1. OK.
- 54:08Yeah, so Holland is #1? So Ekatique.
- 54:12Ekatique Luca was 16. OK, All right, I feel.
- 54:16Like he should be higher but. Yeah, Gabrielle.
- 54:19Gabrielle was #6. OK.
- 54:22Oh, that's his number. Cool.
- 54:23Yeah, Soliba. #5. OK, Yeah, Sokka.
- 54:28Saka was #4. Hey, whoa, feels.
- 54:31A little high for Saka, I mean he's good but like he's been the
- 54:344th best. Player Haverts.
- 54:37Look, haverts played like about 10 minutes so far this year.
- 54:39No, haverts did not make the look.
- 54:41Dang it, I mean, this guys are playing.
- 54:43I already know. Minutes on the field.
- 54:45Well, we already know this is rigged.
- 54:48I mean, haverts isn't on it. How Van Dyke?
- 54:55He is 12. OK, let's see here.
- 55:01Cherokee. Cherokee was 36. 36 How God is
- 55:10gracious Simeno. Simenia was 30. 30 How?
- 55:17What's going on? This is the, this is the thing
- 55:20about lists that they, they're, they're meant to sort of provoke
- 55:23conversation really. I, I think some wait.
- 55:25I mean, there's Cherokee and Semenya like and there's one at
- 55:30least a high ahead of them that has no business being ahead of
- 55:32them. Igor Tiago.
- 55:35Tiago 48-O. My God, this is just, Oh my God.
- 55:42It's second in the Premier League in scoring.
- 55:44Oh my 48 is abysmal. 48. Yeah, Oh my gosh.
- 55:51I mean, oh, by let's see, Harvey Barnes.
- 55:58No. Harvey Barnes announced the
- 55:59list. Oh, let's see here, Timber.
- 56:03Yeah, timber #14 which it's. Actually fair for him I was.
- 56:08Going to say I'd like to see that because I think he's kind
- 56:10of an underrated. I think he's a phenomenal
- 56:11defender. I think he's, I think he maybe
- 56:13is one of the best one-on-one defender.
- 56:14Oh yeah, definitely. So I was glad to see him get
- 56:16some love and and be up that I I knew that Gabrielle would be
- 56:20high, but I was like seeing timber.
- 56:21I was like that. That feels right to me.
- 56:22I have no problem with him. Trosard.
- 56:25Yeah, Trosard made the list at 47.
- 56:30OK, how did Kaiseto make it? Kaiseto was 8.
- 56:36He's pretty good. No, I'm not.
- 56:38He should definitely be on the list, but he I feel like it's a
- 56:42little high. Yeah, I mean, when you see the
- 56:44people behind him, I I feel like, I feel like I don't have
- 56:47that much of a problem. I I agree.
- 56:49I think he's a top 15 player. It's maybe a touch high, but I
- 56:52don't have too much of a problem.
- 56:54The people. Behind, yeah, Enzo Fernandez.
- 56:57Enzo was 9. Oh, no.
- 56:59OK, OK, 2. Chelsea midfielders at 8:00 and
- 57:019:00. Palmer is he?
- 57:03Cole Palmer was 1515. Feels a lot.
- 57:06That's a little high because he's very played.
- 57:08Well, I agree with you. I feel like he hasn't played
- 57:10that much. I think he's a great player, but
- 57:12he hasn't really played that much. 15 feels way higher.
- 57:14Yeah, Cuna. Cuna was on there.
- 57:17Where did I see him? Cuna was 46.
- 57:20It's still. A little.
- 57:22It's a little low, yeah. Did John Pedro make it?
- 57:28No, but Ciao Pedro was 1. I had on my list of probably.
- 57:31I felt like shouldn't be on the top 50.
- 57:33I I. Pedro Netto.
- 57:35Netto I don't think made 20. 6 and.
- 57:38He's been pretty good for Chelsea's balls like.
- 57:42Is isn't bueno on? Yeah, and Bueno was 13.
- 57:49Who's three? I'm I'm trying to think you.
- 57:51Mean two and three. Well, one of them is just, I
- 57:53mean, I mean, I don't know how you're not getting #2.
- 57:58Wait, Sala's not on this list, is he?
- 58:00Sala made the list. Oh, I know.
- 58:02Sala was 27/20. Seven.
- 58:05I agree. Oh my God.
- 58:06Outrage. This is insane.
- 58:08So I don't know how solid. Goodness gracious man, come on.
- 58:13Sala made the list. Verts.
- 58:17Yeah, Verts was 34. OK, like.
- 58:20Maybe it's fair, like he's moving up.
- 58:22I feel like he's moving up. By the end of the season, I'm
- 58:24I'll bet he'll be like top 15, top 20 top. 20 Yeah, maybe.
- 58:28Yeah, no, I'm trying to think #2.
- 58:32Two and three. Two and. 231011 you haven't got.
- 58:39All right, I'm going to teams now.
- 58:41Let's so Newcastle Dan Byrne now, Cher.
- 58:47No. So any new guys?
- 58:50Gamer Rife, Bruno. Gamer Rash.
- 58:51Yeah, Bruno Gamerash was #7? OK, OK, she's.
- 58:55Been really good. I didn't have a problem with.
- 58:59It. Let's see.
- 59:01Well you're there's 2 Arsenal players you still have not got.
- 59:06Jay Zeus. No.
- 59:09Odegard. 03 Arsenal players. Odegard was a 10 Oh.
- 59:13My, Oh my gosh, I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to crash out.
- 59:18I have no idea, no idea how I'm gonna go base.
- 59:21I mean, it's like it's like solid.
- 59:22It's based off a reputation, but there's no way.
- 59:25Rice. Rice #2 How?
- 59:27Did Zumeni. Zubamendi, 2320. 3.
- 59:33Yeah, I know. I feel like I push him into the
- 59:36top 20. I love him as a player, so I'm a
- 59:39little biased, but I think Zumamendi's just so good.
- 59:41And he's just like, you know, he's chipped in some goals, some
- 59:44key goals in games. Marino.
- 59:47No. OK, so you've gotten all the
- 59:48arsenal. Oh OK.
- 59:49OK. So I feel like Rice has been
- 59:52actually, well, I think 2 might be fair for Rice.
- 59:56I think 2 is fair for. Rice, yeah.
- 59:58I think it's the best midfielder in.
- 59:59The world definitely 100%. So I mean, if like, you know, if
- 1:00:04you look at like, all right, that's fine.
- 1:00:05But Holland has twenty goals. I'd have no.
- 1:00:06Problem with. One, but like rice at 2.
- 1:00:08Like I said, three think Manchester United.
- 1:00:13Wait #3 for United, I mean, who is No is, is it Kasmir?
- 1:00:20No, no. Who's their captain?
- 1:00:22Oh my. Bruno Fernandez.
- 1:00:23Fernandez. He's 3.
- 1:00:25He's been really, I mean 12 assists, Luca.
- 1:00:27The next best in assists is 7. I know, but like he's, I mean,
- 1:00:31I'm saying. I don't like him either Luca,
- 1:00:34but he's a really good lady. 100% top ten, but three.
- 1:00:38Well, all right, So what? Little high.
- 1:00:41I don't. I don't have that much of a
- 1:00:43problem with it. I think he's been, I mean, to
- 1:00:44me, maybe Gimaresh has been better than Fernandez.
- 1:00:47Like they're right. They're pretty close you.
- 1:00:51Know Luca to be honest with the art Saka should be lower than
- 1:00:54like them you know now sleeping Gabrielle ahead of them if you
- 1:00:59want to put a defender I mean they're always going to skew
- 1:01:01more offensive there but. OK, so I.
- 1:01:03Like Kaiseto and Enzo, I don't have them above Bruno Fernandez.
- 1:01:07Oh, no, definitely. Not Odegard.
- 1:01:09Dull 100% Nine. Is Ezzy on there?
- 1:01:12No, no more. Arsenal OK, yeah, I just didn't
- 1:01:14know by like. City players, some a bunch of
- 1:01:17Liverpool players. I'm, I'm going to say towards
- 1:01:20the fence. Oh, gay.
- 1:01:22Yeah, gay. He was on there at 17.
- 1:01:26The fence I'm trying to think of the Gevardio.
- 1:01:29No. Diaz.
- 1:01:36No for City. So if you want to go City, they
- 1:01:38have a midfielder, they have a. Winger.
- 1:01:44And I think that's it for City winger.
- 1:01:48Savino. No, not no in midfielder, is he?
- 1:01:52Oh, Rodri. Yeah, I mean, I, I that's
- 1:01:54ridiculous. I know.
- 1:01:55What place is he in? 31 there's no.
- 1:01:59Six No. A reputation.
- 1:02:02He's been better than Rodri has this year.
- 1:02:04And he's lower. Yeah, sure.
- 1:02:05He's only 6 at the winger. What?
- 1:02:09On the other side, I'll let you, I think left wing usually for
- 1:02:12them real quick guy. Is he a new signing?
- 1:02:17No, he's been there for two or three years.
- 1:02:20But I think Simeno is getting to start over, whoever this is.
- 1:02:24Doku. Doku Yeah.
- 1:02:26They put him at 20, which he was real good to start.
- 1:02:29I feel like he's cooled a little bit.
- 1:02:31Yeah, yeah, he played good in that city Liverpool game.
- 1:02:35Yeah, I think that's it. So that's it for City players.
- 1:02:39You have a bunch of Liverpool player.
- 1:02:41Not still named. I need a name.
- 1:02:43Yeah. Oh, OK.
- 1:02:45Midfield A forward. Is Conan out there on there?
- 1:02:48No, he wasn't on there. Conor Bradley.
- 1:02:51Nope, none of their defense. Oh.
- 1:02:55Yeah, I said. 2 miss fields on a forward. 2 was slide.
- 1:02:58Yeah. So was slide 11, I think.
- 1:03:00That's yeah, that's definitely fair.
- 1:03:02I. Think it's ridiculous to have
- 1:03:03Odegarde or so was. Slide Oh my gosh, I was just
- 1:03:06thinking of that now. It's insane.
- 1:03:08It's insane, actually. One more midfielder for them.
- 1:03:12Last midfielder Oh McAllister. No.
- 1:03:15McAllister No. Who's your other?
- 1:03:20Gravanberg. Gravanberg. 21.
- 1:03:23And I'm I'm looking at my sheet now.
- 1:03:26How about a Liverpool forward? So you said Oh Jack though.
- 1:03:33Jack though, at 18. OK, OK, not too bad.
- 1:03:37Shade, shade. Good call again.
- 1:03:38He's at 49. Oh my, wait, who's 50?
- 1:03:41I want to I I'm I'm done. And then here.
- 1:03:43Creepy. No, creepy didn't make it.
- 1:03:47Let's see here. Dewsbury Hall.
- 1:03:50No. Greenwich.
- 1:03:52Yeah, Greenwich was a 32. OK, how did Dewsbury Hall not
- 1:03:56make it Bowen? No, but I had Bowen on my list.
- 1:04:02This probably should be. On yeah, he's definitely.
- 1:04:04Been really good. I'm surprised Bowen is not on
- 1:04:07there. Oh, please don't tell me Cougar
- 1:04:09Ray is on that list. No cougar.
- 1:04:11Ray Thank goodness. Bernard No.
- 1:04:13No, no. No more city.
- 1:04:15No. More city you've got.
- 1:04:17So not a. Couple Spurs players a Spurs 2
- 1:04:20Spurs defenders. Romero.
- 1:04:25Yeah, Romero at 40. 2 OK and then another Fender Pedro Poro.
- 1:04:30No. Oh van event.
- 1:04:33Van event at 28. And it and it is that is that it
- 1:04:36for Spurs. That's it for Spurs.
- 1:04:39Ballard Ballard in. There no Ballard, a Chelsea
- 1:04:43defender. Chelsea defender.
- 1:04:49Their captain. They're captain's Enzo, I think,
- 1:04:54right? Well, when this guy plays,
- 1:04:55usually he's the captain of Renzo Rhys James.
- 1:04:59Oh yeah, Rhys James, he's on. What place is he in?
- 1:05:0143rd. Is there any Aronson No no DCL?
- 1:05:07Yeah, DCL Dominic Coward Lewin at 40.
- 1:05:11That's pretty fair. Yeah, that's definitely fair.
- 1:05:14Villa striker. Oh, Ollie Watkins and Morgan
- 1:05:17Rogers. Yeah, Morgan Rogers probably
- 1:05:20should be higher than 26 in my opinion.
- 1:05:22O26 goodness, Bandia. No, Bandia?
- 1:05:26I don't think so. You have no more Villa players.
- 1:05:30OK, got a couple of Newcastle, a Newcastle midfielder, a
- 1:05:32Newcastle forward. Is Volta Monte on there?
- 1:05:36No Newcastle midfielder? What a Joelton.
- 1:05:41No. Is he?
- 1:05:44Is he normally start? Yeah, I think so.
- 1:05:48Oh. I think he's Italian.
- 1:05:52Oh tanali Tanali 5 and then and he said 4-O visa.
- 1:05:57No, no, we say. Yeah, I'm really.
- 1:05:58Gordon. Gordon at 33.
- 1:06:01OK. And I think I might be it for,
- 1:06:03you know. Crystal Palace.
- 1:06:05I got 2 Crystal Palace players. Is it pinot no SAR?
- 1:06:11No. Who?
- 1:06:12Who else would? Think of their big striker and
- 1:06:14their best midfielder. Oh, Mateeta.
- 1:06:16And then Adam Wharton. Yeah, Wharton at 24.
- 1:06:20Is there any Wolves players on that?
- 1:06:21No Wolves get in love, No. I think I got AI, got a Brent, I
- 1:06:24got a Bournemouth defender, a Nottingham Forest.
- 1:06:27Bournemouth defender Gun on there.
- 1:06:29Yeah, he's been good, this. Year, Oh, what's his name #3 for
- 1:06:34him he's like, wait, it's red on my tongue.
- 1:06:43Yeah. Sinesi.
- 1:06:46Sinesi, Sinesi, yeah. Is Evan Nielsen in?
- 1:06:49There no, no Evan Nielsen. So another Bournemouth
- 1:06:54midfielder, a Brentford, I think, defender who's great at
- 1:06:59long throws. Oh, Coyote.
- 1:07:01Coyote at 30. And then and then.
- 1:07:05Forest. Midfielder Gibbs White?
- 1:07:08No, not Gibbs White like the English.
- 1:07:11National team. Elliot Anderson.
- 1:07:15Yeah, and how about a Brent? How about a who's Brighton's
- 1:07:19best offender? Dunk, not dunk.
- 1:07:24He's not the rest of it, Van Hecke.
- 1:07:26Van Hecke Yeah, and then? Oh, and how about a Crystal
- 1:07:31Palace defender? Real good at getting forward
- 1:07:33from the wing. Palace.
- 1:07:35Oh, oh. Moon news.
- 1:07:36Yeah. And then here we see.
- 1:07:40And then Bournemouth midfielder. Oh, Alex Scott.
- 1:07:46No. Alex Scott.
- 1:07:49What nationality? Brooks, I'm just going to give
- 1:07:52it. To you.
- 1:07:52Oh yeah. And the last 1 #50 United
- 1:07:56winger, small and quick. Oh, Ahmad.
- 1:08:00Ahmad came in at 50, was surprising.
- 1:08:02What? Were the ones that you thought
- 1:08:04shouldn't. Shouldn't you need a few of
- 1:08:05them? I thought.
- 1:08:06I thought Ryan Donnaruma, Jared Bowen, Granite Jacca.
- 1:08:10Oh yeah, I even thought Phil Foden.
- 1:08:13He was pretty good in the beginning of the season, not so
- 1:08:16crazy. Harry Wilson.
- 1:08:18Not on this, Harry. Wilson was Oh my gosh, I forgot
- 1:08:21about it. I.
- 1:08:21Had Ciao Pedro, I felt, and I thought Danny Welbeck probably
- 1:08:24should have been. Yeah, it's true.
- 1:08:26He's like, what? Equals.
- 1:08:27Yeah, I mean, he's been really good, you know, I mean, you're
- 1:08:30looking for, again, guys that are playing and contributing.
- 1:08:32I'm kind of like, I mean, it's just crazy to me, you know, to
- 1:08:36me like way overrated on this list, Odegard, Sala, Rodri.
- 1:08:40I think it's just like name value alone.
- 1:08:41Gets that? High.
- 1:08:42It's just I, I can't. They're all way, way too high.
- 1:08:46I mean Simeno Cherokee, how are they not like top 20?
- 1:08:49They should be higher for sure. Morgan Rogers, the 26 he.
- 1:08:54Should be high. That's disgusting.
- 1:08:57You know, so I don't know, they're fun.
- 1:08:58Like I said, we look at these lists, it's just fun to like
- 1:09:00have a good discussion. Like I said, I thought that'd be
- 1:09:01kind of fun to go through. It Yeah, it was.
- 1:09:04All right, look. Well, let's move over real
- 1:09:05quick. We're all through your our
- 1:09:06Digenos section. We're all the way up to
- 1:09:08Newcastle United. The Magpies colors or what?
- 1:09:12What are their colors? They're black and white.
- 1:09:14Black and white, right? So they were formed in 1892
- 1:09:18after a merger merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle
- 1:09:22West End and they joined the Football League in 1892, the
- 1:09:26same year and they started playing at Saint James Park look
- 1:09:28in 1898. So they've been a team for about
- 1:09:316 years before they moved into Saint James Park, which is still
- 1:09:34their stadium. Today.
- 1:09:36Holds 52,305, great home field advantage.
- 1:09:39They've got real loud, boisterous fans there.
- 1:09:42So they've been playing there Luca for what, 132 years?
- 1:09:46I mean, that's pretty amazing. Yeah.
- 1:09:48Luca They are owned by Saudi Arabia, essentially.
- 1:09:51Of course. The PIFF, the Public Investment
- 1:09:53Fund owns 85% of this team. They bought them in 2021.
- 1:09:58The other 15% or RV sports and media.
- 1:10:01But yeah, so they, they've sort of gotten backing of a, you
- 1:10:05know, a country just like City, just like PSG.
- 1:10:07So they have a big, big financial advantage that they're
- 1:10:10slowly, I think funneling a lot of money into this team.
- 1:10:15They've got a pretty good trophy cabinet Luca.
- 1:10:16They've gotten 4 league titles now.
- 1:10:20A lot of them were very early on in yeah 1905190719091927.
- 1:10:27They had a lot of early success and in fact they won their first
- 1:10:29FA Cup in 1910. They've won 6 total FA Cups and
- 1:10:35of course they famously, Luca won their first League Cup just
- 1:10:37this past year in 2025. So they're the defending League
- 1:10:41Cup champions right now. Oh yeah, and that was also their
- 1:10:45first trophy in 70 years, so Newcastle.
- 1:10:48Don't they play today? Newcastle play City.
- 1:10:51Yeah, they're getting smoked. It was 3 nothing last I saw.
- 1:10:53So League Cup Looks like the League Cup final will be City
- 1:10:57versus Arsenal. So but yeah, Luca they they were
- 1:11:00last promoted in 19 in 20/16/2017 season and they've
- 1:11:06sort of been firmly now a a pretty high end Premier League
- 1:11:09team and you know, no thoughts of them being relegated.
- 1:11:13Luca they've had some famous managers along the way.
- 1:11:15Frank Watts managed in 1895 to 1899 Stan Seymour in 1924 to
- 1:11:221928 and came back in 1933 to 1938.
- 1:11:26Kevin Keegan Luca, you hear that name is like a great.
- 1:11:28Yeah. Manager.
- 1:11:30So he, he hosted, he managed from 1992 to 1997.
- 1:11:35He also came back for like a year in 2028.
- 1:11:37But very famously Luca hosted A-Team called the Entertainers
- 1:11:40and they were like a real fun, entertaining team to watch.
- 1:11:44Sir Bobby Robson managed his team from 1999 to 2004.
- 1:11:49And of course, their current manager is who's their current
- 1:11:51manager? Eddie Howe.
- 1:11:52Eddie Howe. He's been there since 2021, so
- 1:11:55some club legends for them. Luca, there's Colin Beck, Jimmy
- 1:12:01Lawrence, he has the most appearances ever for the team.
- 1:12:05Kevin Keegan Luca played there for.
- 1:12:06Three years, he. Was a great player.
- 1:12:08Peter Beardsley, Paul Gascoyne, Of course.
- 1:12:11Alan Shearer, Luca. The time.
- 1:12:13Leading scorer in the. Premier.
- 1:12:14I've been home with that though. Probably.
- 1:12:18Right now. He he played there from 1996 to
- 1:12:212006 and then Milburn was a striker there.
- 1:12:26So the, the, the statues that they have outside of Saint James
- 1:12:30Park are Sir Bobby Robson, the manager, of course, Alan Shearer
- 1:12:34and then Milburn as well. So 3 statues outside of there.
- 1:12:38Luca, their biggest rivals are Sunderland because there's 12
- 1:12:42miles apart the Tyne and where Darby and then the Middlesboro.
- 1:12:47Luca is also, they call it the Tyne tease Darby.
- 1:12:50They're a bit of a rival to Newcastle as well.
- 1:12:54Some Premier League players that have come through there, of
- 1:12:56course, Alexander Isaac, Callum Wilson, James Milner, Elliot
- 1:13:00Anderson, Kukuba Mente, Ashley Cole, Ferdinand Sells, Michael
- 1:13:06Owen played there for a little bit.
- 1:13:08So their biggest by Luca, the most expensive player they ever
- 1:13:12bought, $90,000,000 Alexander Isaac from Real Sociedad in
- 1:13:162022. And their biggest sale?
- 1:13:20Well, it's the Premier League's biggest sale.
- 1:13:22It's. Esac.
- 1:13:23Esac again for $170 million. So they turned about an $80
- 1:13:28million profit off of Esac. Exactly.
- 1:13:30They sold him to Liverpool this past summer, and he's been hurt
- 1:13:33for most of it. But yeah, this is a little run
- 1:13:36through the the the Magpies Liverpool United Football Club.
- 1:13:39So yeah, we're getting down with only a couple more teams to go.
- 1:13:42We've almost made it through every team.
- 1:13:44I'd be, I don't know what we're going to do for a did you know
- 1:13:46after that? I know we'll have to think of
- 1:13:47like something else. Yeah.
- 1:13:49All right, Luca, well, quick shout out, come follow us on
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- 1:13:59Yeah, but our e-mail is premierleagueplayground@gmail.com.
- 1:14:03We have a YouTube channel, Premier League Playground, so
- 1:14:07come hit us up there. But if we end all our shows the
- 1:14:09same way we do a penalty kick, trivia shootout, we'll go back
- 1:14:13and forth asking questions. Luca, do you want to go first or
- 1:14:16second? I'm going to ask first.
- 1:14:18All right. Well, go ahead.
- 1:14:19Ask your first question. This former Liverpool and
- 1:14:21Manchester City midfielder has scored in 47 different games,
- 1:14:25none of which is sad. Lost.
- 1:14:27Can you name that player? Oh wow, so Liverpool and Man
- 1:14:31United, you said? No Man City.
- 1:14:33Man City, Liverpool and. Man, he played man for Man City,
- 1:14:36not for a long time, but he when he was like younger.
- 1:14:40He's still in the Premier League right now, but he's very old.
- 1:14:43Milner. Correct.
- 1:14:44OK. All right, Luke, there's a new
- 1:14:48rule in the Premier League this year about goalies holding onto
- 1:14:52the ball. How long can a goalie hold onto
- 1:14:56the ball before a corner kick is awarded?
- 1:15:006 seconds wrong. Wait, what, 8 seconds?
- 1:15:04You know it for 8 seconds. Yeah, it's a new one.
- 1:15:06Wasn't that changed from 6 to 8? No, no, I, I think they, I think
- 1:15:09they came in and they've sort of made it a formal rule that and
- 1:15:12the referees are supposed to start, I think counting down
- 1:15:14when they get down to like 3 seconds to let the goalies know.
- 1:15:17And if a goalie continually holds the ball for 8 seconds,
- 1:15:20then the other team is awarded a corner kick.
- 1:15:21So a new rule there. All right, which player slash
- 1:15:29players so have won the most player of the month awards?
- 1:15:33So can there's two? Can you name them?
- 1:15:36In the Premier League history. Yes.
- 1:15:38They've won the most player. They both have 7.
- 1:15:41Seven player of the month, Wow, I would have thought it would
- 1:15:43have been more for these players.
- 1:15:45I'm going to go with Rooney. No, that's not what neither of
- 1:15:50them are still in the Premier League, but they're only one of
- 1:15:53them is retired. All right, well, my guess was
- 1:15:57Rooney. So I got it.
- 1:15:57I got it. Wrong.
- 1:15:58It was Aguero and Kane. Yeah, Harry Kane would have been
- 1:16:01a good one to. Go with yeah.
- 1:16:03All right, Lugo, what MLS club did David Beckham play for?
- 1:16:08LA Galaxy. That's correct.
- 1:16:10He played there from 2007 to 2012.
- 1:16:13All right, so now we're tied 11. One one Question 3.
- 1:16:16Which player won the most Premier League penalty to be 26
- 1:16:20in the Premier League? Wow, who won the most penalty?
- 1:16:23So I'm assuming that means like you got fouled the most in the
- 1:16:26box? Or you dived the most time.
- 1:16:28Just think of divers. Jeez, Kane.
- 1:16:37Sterling. Sterling did. 26.
- 1:16:40On 26 penalties. Wow.
- 1:16:42God, I kind of forget that at one point he actually was a good
- 1:16:45player. Yeah, he's terrible.
- 1:16:46Couple years, but yeah, I mean, is he still Chelsea's property?
- 1:16:50No, they like this. In the January, they basically
- 1:16:53terminated his contract, so he's sort of a free agent.
- 1:16:55He actually could go probably anywhere.
- 1:16:57Yeah, but he is not Chelsea's property anymore.
- 1:16:59But he's not currently on the team.
- 1:17:01OK. All right, Luca, Matt Sells, you
- 1:17:02mentioned him as a possibility for top 50 goaltender.
- 1:17:05He plays for what country? Oh sells plays for?
- 1:17:14Oh, that's actually a good question.
- 1:17:20Is it? Is it Belgium?
- 1:17:22It is Belgium, yes, very good. But yeah, I thought that would
- 1:17:25be a trick. Yeah.
- 1:17:26He's a Nottingham Forest goalie and he tied last year, of
- 1:17:29course, with 13 clean sheets with Ryan.
- 1:17:31They Yeah, the golden, what we talked about.
- 1:17:33So yeah, he plays for Belt. All right, go ahead.
- 1:17:35In the 2011 12/12 season, which Man City striker scored and
- 1:17:40assisted on his debut as a substitute?
- 1:17:45What was the year again? 2020112012.
- 1:17:51Aguero. Yes, good job 22.
- 1:17:55All right, Luca, what is the name for the style of play made
- 1:18:00famous by Pep Guardiola at Barcelona?
- 1:18:04Involved quick back and forth passing, a lot of patience
- 1:18:07possessions. What did they call that style
- 1:18:09of? Total Football.
- 1:18:12No, no, that that total football is associated more with like I
- 1:18:15think what Kroy in Barcelona, but Pep style of like back and
- 1:18:19forth pass pass. Pass.
- 1:18:21Pass was called. It's almost like a rhyming name.
- 1:18:242 words. Ticky taka.
- 1:18:27Ticky taka, yeah. They're Oh my gosh.
- 1:18:30I knew if you like, if you heard, I was like, you're going
- 1:18:32to once you hear it, I. Mean Oh man OK scored five goals
- 1:18:38in just 18 minutes on the clock against Watford.
- 1:18:41Which side scored the earliest five goals in a Premier League
- 1:18:44match? Earliest five goals in a.
- 1:18:47Premier, this happened in 19 to 20/20/19 to 20.
- 1:18:51I feel like I have heard this actually.
- 1:18:53Is it Liverpool? City I.
- 1:18:56Was going to say City, so I was thinking that, but all right,
- 1:19:02Luca, my long this team who had the longest unbeaten run at
- 1:19:08home, 86 games from 2004 to 2008.
- 1:19:16Chelsea. I believe it is.
- 1:19:19I'm double checking. Hold on.
- 1:19:21Oh gosh. I think it is them.
- 1:19:27We're going to VAR everybody we. Got a VAR on this one just to
- 1:19:30double check because I yes, it is Chelsea.
- 1:19:32Yeah. It's going to give you choices
- 1:19:34actually, and I forgot to underline the right choice.
- 1:19:36I'm pretty Yeah. So Chelsea went 86 games
- 1:19:39unbeaten, not that they want all them, but just unbeaten at home.
- 1:19:42So that is correct. I got one more for you, all
- 1:19:46right? Only five players scored five
- 1:19:49goals in a single Premier League match.
- 1:19:51Name at least three. We I gave you this question
- 1:19:55before. You you did.
- 1:19:56Yeah, five goals. They're all like names you've
- 1:20:01heard. Yeah, I think Jermaine Defoe.
- 1:20:03Yes, that's one. Sergey Aguero.
- 1:20:05Yes. How many?
- 1:20:06There's five players, Yes, yes. This is where I don't know if I
- 1:20:09know the Kane. Did Harry Kane ever do it?
- 1:20:14No, not Kane. Was like Henri ever got fired?
- 1:20:16Not Henri. Are any of them in the Premier
- 1:20:21League right now? Probably.
- 1:20:22Not no. They're all.
- 1:20:23They're all retired. Yeah, I don't know if I got any
- 1:20:26more. Actually, so the rest were Andy
- 1:20:28Cole, Alan Shearer, Berbatov and Jermaine Defoe.
- 1:20:33I got Jermaine Defoe. Oh yeah, yeah, I said.
- 1:20:35You got that one. Yeah, right, Berbatov.
- 1:20:37I should have guess Shearer. He scored the most I.
- 1:20:38Mean, yeah. Yeah, well, I'm gonna have to
- 1:20:42give it to you then, Luca. Let's go on.
- 1:20:43The family kick trivia shootout. So yeah, we went a little long
- 1:20:46on this one with our mailbag game, but I think that was fun
- 1:20:50to do. Yeah, it was fun.
- 1:20:51All right, well, that's all you got.
- 1:20:52Anything else for me, Luca? There's the final listen that's
- 1:20:55full time for us. Thank you for listening.
- 1:20:57Bye.