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GW 32 Double the Gameweek, Double the Fun · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Hello and welcome to episode 83 of Draft Offsides.
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I'm with Tico Renzo. My name is Keith, and we are
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covering game week 31 and looking ahead that game week 32,
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we are getting down to crunch time.
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Game week 32, that means what? There's six games left.
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No, seven games left. Seven games left.
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Seven games left. Wow, seven matches left.
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Seven big matches left I'll be. Honest, Yeah.
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So it's all hopefully your leagues are tight.
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Our our leagues are both tight. So we're, we're all sweating.
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We're all sweating over here. Yeah, it's not, it's not nice.
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I'd rather be comfortably in the lead.
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So let's get into the let's get into the key.
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Some of the key games we can talk about.
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We're not going to cover all of them, just a few and then we can
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like look ahead to some stuff. So first game, Fulham 3,
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Liverpool 2. This was a pretty exciting game.
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I think Fulham ended up going up three one in this game before
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Liverpool pulled one back. Yeah, Fulham looked good, man.
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That team looks good. They play really well.
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Honestly they outplayed Liverpool this game.
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Yeah, they would deserve to win. For sure, at least you know
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they'd love to steal from the rich.
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And why not steal from the very richest of the Amour?
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Yeah, Robin Hood strikes again. Yep, we'll be back in the
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starting lineup. 25.25 points. Wow.
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Goal and an assist. Let's go baby Obi Wan he.
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Needed that little He needed that little rest, huh?
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Yes, he did. He was tired.
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We. Were talking about Mooney's last
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week and just saying, you know, even though he'd been scoring
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and doing well, they'd all been off the bench and So what do you
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do? Do you pick him up?
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And sure enough, he started this game and he got a goal.
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So what is that? I don't know.
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Does that, does that interest you guys now?
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It does because it's the end of the season.
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Is he going to get another start next game?
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If he does, then he and he scores again, he might be a shoo
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in. That's three games in a row.
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And also if you guys remember last year when Muni became the
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starter, when Jimenez went down, he had like a stretch where he
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was super hot for like what, like 5-6 games?
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So this might be the heat waves. You want to catch it while the
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while it's there. Who are they playing next?
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So if they have a favorable match up, I would start him
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Bournemouth. Bournemouth's been on a bad, bad
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run to home. Yeah.
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I think the one thing to keep in mind is that I still think
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Jimenez is the starter. I know Muniz is on a good run,
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but I think Jimenez has done enough to be the starter there
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and it was just a matter of the fact that he that they'd played
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what, 3 days before? And Jimenez is 323132 so they
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probably need to give him a rest.
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So as like as I agree about this hotness and stuff, I just don't
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know if I trust that he's going to start in five days from now.
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Let's see, we never know because.
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What? That game's on Saturday, That
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game's on. No, that game's on Monday, April
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14th. So they almost have.
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A whole week. A week, Yeah.
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Yeah, let's see. I never know.
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But just, yeah, the other one, this is the one that's the most
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interesting to me, is Cessan Young, Right?
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Cessan Young, he had come off the bench and looked really good
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the last few weeks as well. And he got a start as well and
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he got 15 points. He's owned a 2% of leagues,
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which is richly. Nobody owns him.
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The thing that's fascinating to me is that he's classified as a
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defender and we've always seen him as a defender in the past,
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but he was playing as a like a right winger or left winger.
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So they've done that before with him when he was at Fulham, so.
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Yeah. It's not a lot of, for him at
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least. Don't there?
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But that's like, that's like a fantasy manager's dream.
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Oh, it's delicious. That's absolutely just juicy.
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So that's something to keep an eye on.
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And that's one where I think the risk is worth the reward.
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Like he like the same way with Mooney's, like even if Sassano
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doesn't start, you're like, Oh well, And if you have the the
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bench spot, like a free bench spot, pick him up because if he
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does start, you're like easy, yeah.
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Easily put some good points right there.
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Yeah, like Alistair scored into Screamer 17.25 points and then
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Diaz got one back to make it three. 215.5 points my guy.
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Another genius move by me. Right.
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How do you do it? Like how do you do it, Tico?
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I I couldn't understand why you're asking for my advice
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being in first place. Watch.
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He's a Trojan horseman. He's gonna have the run of like
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the rest of the week here. He's gonna average like 2
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points. Just watch.
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Oh wow, he's been. Hot since I've happened.
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That sounds really like oh. Yeah, I just put in words.
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Are you rooting against? A man whose father was
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kidnapped. I'm actually working on the
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getting him kidnapped again. I made the call I'm.
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Sure, you know people. All right, next game first 3
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Southampton one, this is the Southampton is officially
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relegated and they have a chance.
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They're the earliest team to ever be relegated, so they're
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the seven games left. They have a chance to be the
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worst team in the Premier League history if they don't get at
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least one point from these seven games.
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Wasn't who was it that got relegated last year that they
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were saying was the worst team ever?
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No, it wasn't. It was that Derby team from a
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few years ago that was the worst team ever.
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Yeah. Oh, look him, look him.
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I know, I know. Or they scored the OR they had
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like the most goals scored against.
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Them the most goals conceded or something?
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Yeah. Yeah, there was like a regular
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last week to Sheffield United. Yeah, Brendan Johnson with 35
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points in a brace. Tottenham.
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I mean, Tottenham looked decent. It was Southampton.
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I mean, you can't even really. No, you don't Look into it.
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I think I mean the most alarming part was that they had to score
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a goal. Yeah.
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And that that made my match up with Tico very tight, even
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though Tico did end up winning in the end.
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But you were. Tico was cursing the gods when
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not going in. And then?
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Yeah. Understand.
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Tal got his first goal off a penalty.
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I don't know. That's a weird one with not
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giving Johnson his hat trick. That was the question.
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Or do you give it to the guy to get his first goal?
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Well, you could see Johnson going me, I got two yeah, you
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could saw it. And then Tal was like Nah I'm so
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he fucking took it and he's done me wrong.
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He scored, but I think Johnson should have been allowed to have
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it and get his hat trick but. How does Johnson have?
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How does Talmoy have pulled in? Johnson tells Like a 19 year old
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on loan. I don't know.
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Someone had to make the call. I don't know, probably Big
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Andrew's been making a lot of bad decisions anyway.
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Oh man, next. Close game.
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They had to make sure they score on that one.
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Shit. Next step United 0.
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City 0 pretty pretty lackluster game dude.
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Did you watch any of you watch it?
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I mean, I tried to watch it. I kept looking at my phone.
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I kept realizing I was just staring at my like Instagram or.
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Something it was so horrible. They both looked like they were
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playing for a draw but honestly if you look at that they both
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sides defenders scored well though if you really look at it
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right. Yeah, clean sheets.
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Everyone got clean sheets. I think Bruno had like 10 plus
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points. It was just lackluster.
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Yeah, I just, yeah. Seemed like they were both kind
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of happy to just not lose. The only like big thing from
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this is finding out KDB is retiring at the end of the
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season and he's going to get a statue not.
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Retiring. I don't know if he's
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transferring. No, Sorry leaving.
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Sorry, leaving man man C. Is he really going to get a
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statue though? Yeah, they're putting a statue
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out there. He's got 18 trophies for that
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club. He's the greatest player in
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their history. By far, maybe.
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And he's. Aguero.
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No KDB and he's probably the most one of the most decorated
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and he's going to be in one of the all time premier.
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He's one of the I agree. You're right, he's one of the
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all time. What do you guys think about
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Nico O'Reilly the. Guy that you know.
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What? He played well, but it just
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looked like no one wanted to play.
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No one wanted to play. I think he's good, it's just he
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plays as left back but he's classified as the midfielder.
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I think if he was defender his value would be very high.
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I, I also think, you know, it's just, I think there's city's
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tricky because there's Kusanov's there, Kuwaitios there.
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I think he's just one of those young guys that you just don't
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know what's really going to come of them.
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But like he's looked good like that.
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He sent a few good balls in that no one found.
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And I think in the previous game last week or midweek or I saw
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him play and was pretty impressed too, so.
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It seems like a good good one for the future.
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Yeah, I also thought it was interesting just how pissed off
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all like the former United players out of pundits now are
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now about this game. They just felt like it they
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were. It was just so soft.
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I fucking love it. What if Roy Keane called it like
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the It's like they called it like a friendly instead of felt
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like a friendly out there kind of funny.
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Yeah, he doesn't care. He does eat, you know.
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Did you know Roy Keane's a Spurs fan?
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Really. Yeah, growing up, baby.
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Yeah, growing up he was a Spurs fan.
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No wonder he has so much pent up anger.
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Hey, we were good when he was when he was young.
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Man, that's been a long time ago.
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Fuck, you didn't realize Roy is that old.
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Fuck off, let's move to the next one you fucking bastard.
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All right, Lester's 0 Newcastle 3 Newcastle.
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So hot right now, huh? It's so hot right now, man,
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seriously. They're the hottest team and
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they won a Caravan Cup. They haven't stopped winning.
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They're going to go on a run. They could get top four.
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They've got two games in hand, they can get top 4.
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Top 4 is very tight I think. Like I don't have a lot of like
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knock on wood, reverse chinks, whatever, whatever, but I don't
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have a lot of faith in Chelsea being there.
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Villa looks so good, Newcastle looks so good, City's decent.
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Like there's a lot of really good teams in that zone.
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And I think with that Newcastle midfield, Tonali, John
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Ellington, Bruno game, Ryesh like that's, that's might be one
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of the best midfields in the league.
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Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep. They've been solid, Jolene, and
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it's been key. That being said, I will say that
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I felt like every single one of the Leicester goals came down to
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really just like not just bad defending from Leicester, but
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every single one of the Newcastle goals.
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It wasn't just bad defending from Leicester.
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It was like a lack of effort defending.
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It was like not getting in front of your guy on the back post is
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crazy to me for the first goal and the second goal, like not
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following up like a shot, like Murphy was the only one that
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followed up that shot. And the third goal is very
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similar to Harvey Barnes. Like, like, how do they not
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track that? I don't know.
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It's just, look, when Van Nusra took over, they were two spots
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above the relegation zone. And ever since he took over,
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it's just gone downhill from there.
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Don't get. It's kind of Fair they haven't
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scored. I haven't scored in like 8
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games. Thank you.
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Like the other guy. The guy always, Yeah, who looked
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depressed all the time. At least he kept their freaking
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morale up. I mean, he he was good.
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Steve Cooper brought Nania Force up to the Premier League.
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Yes, he did. Yeah.
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So I mean, I think they were better off sticking with him to
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be honest. It's not fair in the sense that
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it wasn't just them playing bad. It's also like Wolves, West Ham
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and like the people out right outside the relegations don't
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started playing a lot better. So that's why I don't think
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it's. So how it's a combination of
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it's a combination of two. Things.
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It's his fault you got to score goals, Lester.
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Honestly, Albert, all the teams, I thought Lester would have been
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one of the ones that tries put up a good fighter, stay up, but
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they're done. Yeah, I don't just so they got
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the the quality, Yeah. Well they had to sell their best
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player because they're fucking PSR so.
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It is really weird that like, you know, like Van Neilsroy took
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over at United and when he took over for those like 3 games that
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they were like scoring like crazy and they're playing so
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well and that's kind of what won him the Leicester job.
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And then he goes there and then you just realize you're like, oh
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wait, sometimes just having good players is.
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Is easy. Yeah, things look a lot easier
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when you have good players. Just show how much they hate it,
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then hug. That too.
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Yeah. That really.
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Yeah. So Murphy got a brace, 24
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points. Barnes scored a goal.
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So now he's been pretty viable with Gordon out.
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I still think that. I mean, Gordon has a hip injury.
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It'll see how long term that is, but.
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But they won't rush him back. You know what I mean?
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There's no need to they. Won't rush him back.
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Yeah, that's a good point, but I think they also have a bit of
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time before the next game now. Shut him down.
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Shut him down. Shut him down.
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Shut him down. Char, which Tico had this week,
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got an assist off that in fantasy off that crossbar and
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then Livermento Tico also had this week got an assist so I got
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double fucked by the Newcastle. Both of them 21.25 points.
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I know. Yeah, they crushed me.
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And I got proper fucked. Double clean sheet points.
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Look at him, look at him. Fucking smug bastard.
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I know it's rather So what was this?
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What was the thing? I was up like 14 points going
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into this game. I had Dan Byrne and you had
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Sharon Livermento and then within like a minute and a half
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of the game started fucking better.
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Got an assist? I mean.
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If it makes you feel better, I don't know why I'm trying to
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make you feel better. Of all people, even if you take
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away their assists, I would have still won.
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It's a double clean sheet point. Shut the fuck up.
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It's. Pretty close.
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It would have been really, it would have been a lot closer.
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It was 14 points, so I would have scored 90, yeah, 94.
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You would have felt worse about like Pinnock, so you're welcome.
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Yeah, I guess you are right. Yeah, I'm a nice guy.
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Yeah. I mean, there's not much else to
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talk about here. There's virtually no one unless
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it's remotely playable. Newcastle, we've talked about,
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you pretty much are playing the whole team right now.
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You read the lightning there. Next game.
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Palace 2, Brighton one Palace. It was kind of like an
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unstoppable force versus unmovable object.
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They're both kind of in such a good form, you know, for the
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most part, but Palace is just in better form.
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Crazy ending to this game. Yeah.
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Crazy ending, but. Yeah, throughout.
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Three Reds in the last few minutes. 15 minutes or so just.
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Fucking Kentia subbed on, got it.
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Got 2 yellows in like 10 minutes.
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Where he got 2 yellows but in Katya's one was harsh though
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they said he dived, he got clipped, he got clipped.
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But then you can't make that tackle after that.
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Isn't Katya the worst signing of the season?
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I think we're getting to the point.
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Who would you consider it worse signing than in Katya?
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Oh, maybe it's actually. Don't know, he does have three
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goals which is 2 more than in Katya.
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I think NK is the only strike in the league that doesn't have
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more goals than Hoyland. I think I think NKG is up there.
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I think, I think for not so much like the price point, but for
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the amount of money that is the palace, like, you know, that was
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a big spend for palace to buy, to pay out for that and for him
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to not contribute, to contribute virtually nothing to me is like
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it's pretty bad. What's going to this is like a
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silver lining for some fantasy owners because you in K you got
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red carded and so did Gwahi. So that double game weeks saw
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how you if you owned any of those players.
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However, for those other players that they play in the same
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position, they're almost nearly guaranteed to play both games.
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So you're saying like the Mateta owner stoked?
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Mateta owner stoked. Got a goal, but now you know
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he's going to start both games. They can't really.
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They can't really do anything. Else no, they have to.
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And then Gwahi, who I don't know, was it Lacroix?
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He's definitely going to play both games.
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You know what I mean though they are playing Was it man CE and.
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Yeah, dude, it's not a nice double game week.
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It's not a nice double game week.
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I have their goalkeeper, I don't know if I should play him or
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not. Yeah, you should play him.
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I think maybe you should actually.
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That's the type of 1 you might play.
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Just he's going to get a lot of action.
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I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
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Guarantee. Yeah, and we saw City can't
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score without Holland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Other than that, Munez, one of my favorite defenders, got 18
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points. He's looked so good as a 22
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points. He had two assists.
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I thought I. Thought he had no assists?
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He had two assists. He had two assists, both the
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goals. Oh yeah.
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And then and then Brighton. I think this is the second game
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in run out. I know they they they were kind
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of hot. This is about two games in run
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Out where they've been a little little lackluster.
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Yeah, Welbeck's a stud man. Yeah, I mean, he's still, he's
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still the guy, but we talk about, it's like he's the type
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of, I was kind of, you know, I was thinking about is with Evan
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Nielsen doing really well. I don't think we're going to
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talk about Bournemouth, but Evan Nielsen had two goals that were
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very like fox in a box, just like poach goals. 24.5 points.
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Who, who else is kind of like that?
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Like pure poacher, You know, there's not that.
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There's not many. Players on that anymore?
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Not that many. Anymore no, I mean, I was kind
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of thinking like, does Welbeck qualify in that way because he's
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a little more he gets involved with play, right he.
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Comes in deep. That's a last start.
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Like Holland's literally just like a poacher 2.0 he doesn't
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grab the ball. He's like the greatest poacher
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of all time. Yeah, he just like Michael
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Jordan of Poacher. He uses any part of his body to
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poach a goal in the box. Pep ruined that game man.
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Remember in man Dortmund he was a different player.
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Just don't, don't. It's too late.
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He's that Man City now, and he's definitely.
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Got such a such like AI hate that I hate that Pep ruined
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Holland. Like he literally had one of the
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highs. He broke the record for the most
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goals. In a in a season, yeah.
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Yeah, but you know, like when he would like go chase their balls
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and like. Let's go.
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Let's just go. Through the that, that was the,
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that was the Bundeslig in general that like, it's such a
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transitional league, like you're and she was never going to do
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that in the Premier League. You just hate Pep man.
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Just leave it alone bro. I do hate PEP.
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I know because you kind of look like them.
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Is that? What you're having, first of
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all, there is all of us without hair and with the beard do not
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look alike. No, I see it.
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I do, Keith, You're right. I fucking see it.
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No, wait, wait. Just like start poking your
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chest like this and then. Look like this.
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Don't go like this, obviously. It's a little bit.
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You know what it is? It's you guys think we look
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alike. It's just, well, you're
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mistaken. Is our brilliant football
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tactics and moves our brain power is what you guys think
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it's. I don't think that's what's
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happening. No, definitely that don't No,
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no. So I get cut that out.
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OK, a couple of the key moments here.
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The lap scores again. That's 12.5 points.
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That's what, two goals in the last two games.
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Is that 10 goals? And a losing battle gets him to
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10 goals. Yep.
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He's going. Where do you think he goes next?
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Season, you send us a link, you send us a link saying it's
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potentially Chelsea, United are the teams.
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That are looking at supposedly United would prefer him over
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freaking Ossoman and Giaceres. Is that how you say it?
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They say they prefer him because one, he's probably cheaper and
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two, he's already done in the Premier League of a shitty team.
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And he's younger than both of them too.
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Like significantly younger than both.
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Yeah, yeah, I would rather have Gorkarez is like, he's like
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2728, right. I just.
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Don't know if he'll work in the Premier League, Yeah.
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But he has played in Europe before, he has played in England
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before. Just in the championship was it.
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Who was it for? In the championship, I don't
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remember. Forget what team was, Yeah, but
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it was a cheer. Someone.
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Yeah, Something like that. Yeah.
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All right. O'Shea 17.5 points.
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I got to be honest. Is he on Southampton?
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No, he's on Ipswich. OK.
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He's on a Switch. The last three games have been
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still. I think he had two double digit
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games and a 9.5. Though that third game that I'm
18:38
talking about was like a month ago.
18:39
So he's starting to get starts. I guess.
18:41
He had an injury, so it's one to look at.
18:43
He's only 60% owned. He's a defender.
18:46
He's a defender. Yeah, I think I want to stay
18:48
away from bottom three defenders I think personally, but I don't
18:52
know 60% owned. You never know.
18:54
Next Evan Nielsen we talked about he got a brace 24.5
18:57
points. I think that might be the
18:58
easiest brace of all time, the goals he got.
19:00
Yeah. But there's there's a level of
19:01
like you just gotta know when to anticipate.
19:03
He's just very much anticipated some follow-ups and just poke
19:06
balls in and Yep, but he does it.
19:10
Yep, he does, and he gets there. If he can get the goals and
19:12
maybe get a couple of penalty assists, you know, he's golden,
19:15
Yeah. Imagine if he gets the he
19:18
becomes a penalty kick taker, then his value will like
19:20
skyrocket. Oh my God, yeah, Morgan Rogers
19:23
gets a goal. 20 points with two games, 2 assists and a total and
19:27
a good what does it say? And a goal.
19:29
Good job. Oh, you're missing a comment.
19:32
I'm sorry, you are you doing my grandma?
19:35
Good job Chico, trading like a donkey.
19:37
Why is your whole dose taking shots at me?
19:40
I don't understand this. I won.
19:42
No, yeah, I know. But I'm going for the past.
19:44
Trade it if I I wish could you just look at the point toll of
19:48
all the players you traded this week.
19:51
I think it's absolutely amazing. Yeah, truly.
19:53
Because you what? You traded Rogers for Odegard,
19:55
right? That's 20 points right there.
19:57
And then I didn't play. How much did Diaz, how many
20:00
points did? Diaz like 15.5 and Cuckoo had a
20:02
big fat 0. Maybe not a zero, but.
20:05
He did like 0.5 I think. Cuckoo's not on my team, doesn't
20:07
matter. Yeah, but you had him and you
20:08
traded him for freaking Odegord. Who's he?
20:11
Still got more points than Odegord.
20:13
You know, you look at those numbers, I like it.
20:15
I just look at one number, the standings.
20:18
OK, moving on. So.
20:20
That's the one next to my name. From Aston Villa, Nolan scored
20:25
again. That's what, two goals in two
20:27
games now? 13 points, 17% owned.
20:31
Issue is the issue is is that he plays like he started this game
20:36
right, but before that he hadn't really started his.
20:39
Shows. Here's my idea, right?
20:42
Aston Villa still in Champions League, they're in the league,
20:44
they're still fine for top 4 because they won that.
20:45
Just in case they're not going to win the Champions League,
20:47
they're going to rotate. But who you going to?
20:49
Who you going to play in the Champions League and who you
20:51
going to play in the league? Right for the Watkins.
20:55
I think the thing too, I think I see what you're saying.
20:57
So that they play, they play midweek in Champions League and
21:01
then they have, then they play Southampton on the weekend,
21:02
which is a great game in between 2 Champions League games.
21:05
Yep. So that it's your, I totally
21:06
agree that's going to be a rotation game.
21:08
And I think Malan could totally get a start against Southampton.
21:10
And you want to start everything against Southampton?
21:12
Yep. I would start my grandmother in
21:14
a wheelchair against Southampton.
21:15
I would too. I like that analogy a lot.
21:19
I mean if she's a defender she gets the cliche points too.
21:22
Well, that could not, not necessarily as Tottenham.
21:29
OK, OK, Next up, Sarabia came off the bench to get 26 points.
21:34
Enzo, you're calling him a glitz in the matrix.
21:36
Yeah, he only ever gets points like like once every three or
21:39
four months. So it's just a glitch.
21:42
I think he was like, I haven't seen much of them at all.
21:45
No, he doesn't replay that often because it's not going to
21:47
happen. Is this James Reese?
21:50
James 19.75 points, got a clean sheet.
21:53
It's interesting with either. They've been really, really
21:56
careful with him with his muscular injuries and stuff, so
21:57
it's just really hard to depend on him.
21:59
I know, but just imagine if he was fit.
22:02
Imagine if he was fit. Be fucking awesome.
22:05
They'd be scoring week in week out.
22:07
Like for damn sure. Too bad the physios that Chelsea
22:10
don't know what the fuck they're doing.
22:13
Well, hopefully they do now because they haven't been
22:14
playing on every single freaking game.
22:17
But I mean, the last time he started a game, he got played 81
22:21
minutes, he got two points. The time before that, he played
22:24
the full 90, got zero points. So I'm just and they lost both
22:27
of those games. So I'm just saying I'm not like
22:31
I don't know this. Obviously this is a great game.
22:33
He had, you know, some key passes.
22:35
He had a few different things, but.
22:37
To be fair, Nico Jackson wasn't playing those two games, so it's
22:39
hard to score a lot of points where you don't have a striker
22:42
up there like Nico. It tells me being sarcastic.
22:44
He's being, he's being sarcastic.
22:46
I know sarcasm. I love sarcasm.
22:49
The characters lie. You go, Jackson's a great
22:52
player. I don't know what you're
22:52
talking. About great played.
22:54
He's a great volume player and he, you know, and he gets a lot
22:56
of shots. If if only you scored more than
22:58
freaking Palmers would be higher up on the points point list.
23:02
You'll see he's going to be good again next year and you guys are
23:04
going to. Are you even going to try to
23:06
draft him? Because you'd never try to draft
23:08
him. You only just either pick him up
23:10
when you get trade for him. Because there was a lot of
23:14
uncertainty last. I would have drafted in this
23:16
year if there was, if there was less uncertainty around his,
23:19
like his starting position. Enzo, do you remember who keeps
23:22
drafted in the third round? No, tell me.
23:25
And cuckoo over Nico Jackson talking about uncertainty.
23:30
Well, it's because I watched the preseason and then Cuckoo and
23:33
Jackson were crushing it together in.
23:34
Preseason. That's true.
23:35
You're right. You're right.
23:35
I do remember that. And I thought that was going to
23:37
be a shoe in, but. It's just like how you thought
23:39
Rodri was going to be the best player in the league.
23:42
I can think that. Roger, Roger, Roger 55 is a
23:46
deal. Roger was a top 20 player last
23:48
year. Like come on guys, I get with
23:51
it, get with the program. No, you're not going to be able
23:53
to convince us on this. Ever We're going to be talking
23:56
about this next season I. Wish, I wish that he would have
23:59
gotten injured so I could have just laughed at you guys.
24:00
His face. Ifs and buts and coconuts.
24:02
I'd be in, I'd be in first by a lot if Roger didn't get injured.
24:05
No, you won't. You know what he might be.
24:08
He wouldn't. He might be.
24:10
OK Adisa get Guay or is Guay right from Everton?
24:15
12.5 points, 40% owned 4 double digit games last six but what
24:20
are the the other games? A 2.5 and a 6.76 point 5 I
24:26
believe. So they're not great, but they
24:29
but the four Double D games, that's a good ratio.
24:32
Yeah, 12612 eleven 110. OK, OK, that's not bad.
24:41
There's something going on there.
24:43
If you need a midfielder we were talking about last last week
24:45
like and you got someone that's not doing shit or you have
24:49
Christie like me and he's out for the season, you can pick him
24:53
up. Is that who you think you're
24:55
going to go? For I've already gone for
24:56
players and I've put more enough fat that you guys can't get.
25:01
Him. You're a week too late, buddy.
25:03
Yeah, fuck it. Well, I'm playing, I'm playing
25:05
Keith next week, so that's an important game.
25:07
So I need a win and I need to have a good amount of players on
25:09
my fucking team. I I picture Enzo just like if he
25:13
knows he could get a player for like 20 fab, he just like, you
25:15
know what, fuck it, I'm gonna put 40 fab.
25:16
I like those rich people, just allergic money left and right.
25:20
You know what's funny? I did.
25:21
I looked at, I was like, I looked at everyone's.
25:22
I was like, I just gonna, I don't need it with this.
25:24
I'm just gonna make it fucking. Bro I had put 10 fat points to
25:29
pick up the livermento but then after the episode I'm like no
25:32
Enzo might put like 15. Let me just Max out all my fab.
25:35
I put 20 so now I'm at 0. You didn't even put like 5 fab
25:38
on it. But you know what that's you
25:40
got. It's probably worth it to get
25:41
that win against me. Yeah, no, definitely no regrets.
25:45
And he's also like, you know, he's going to get a start of the
25:49
game. Yeah, he's going to play.
25:50
And you're going to get a couple right now.
25:52
You're going to get a double game week with him next week or
25:54
in two weeks from now, yeah, which is like not a guaranteed
25:57
win, but it's like you have two Newcastle defenders, but you're
25:59
you're always just counteracting Ezac with that.
26:02
Pretty much cuz are you? Playing against the guy that
26:04
Ezac. Yeah, and then I could also.
26:06
Wait, no, I'm playing Keith with the double game week.
26:10
You don't have E SAC though. No, but I'm saying I'm.
26:12
Playing Tom has E stock. Yeah, but I'm saying I play this
26:15
week. Coming is the double game week.
26:17
Yeah. But what what does that have to
26:18
do with you and Keith? We're talking about E stock.
26:21
I'm playing Keith next week and he's talking about you having a
26:23
double game week against Oh wait, no.
26:26
Yeah, next week against Tom against Eastside.
26:28
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
26:31
You good. Can we move on?
26:32
All right. Yeah, we can move on.
26:34
Sorry, my bad. It happened.
26:35
OK, so next, another name on here.
26:40
Kind of interesting. Ian Matson.
26:41
I thought he looked really good. Villa plays midweek, but you
26:45
guys are wrinkling your noses. I just think that there's a
26:48
chance that Dignier plays in Champions League I.
26:51
Feel like this? Is not some plays again, but I
26:54
feel. Like this, this is you trying to
26:55
just like get us to pick another player, the same player again
26:58
this season that you said was going to start tricked me into
27:00
drafting him, you bastard. And then he didn't stop.
27:03
No. No, that's what's going to
27:04
happen 100% during Champions League.
27:06
Mats is going to start and then during.
27:08
No, no opposite, I'm sorry, Dina is going to start and then EPA,
27:12
but that's one more match we could get, so which is next
27:14
weekend. Yeah, but it's also in South
27:16
Southampton. There you go.
27:19
Yeah, so. So I think there's something
27:21
there. I think there's something there
27:23
and Village is so freaking good right now.
27:25
I even think their backups could are going to score a lot of
27:27
points. The other one on here, the we're
27:29
kind of in waivers now, by the way, I don't know if I announced
27:31
it. The other one on here is Ryan
27:35
Sassignon. We talked about him 2%.
27:38
Oh, and we just thought that potential to have a defender
27:41
that's playing in an attacking midfield role is just crazy good
27:45
for fantasy. It's just a question of if he's
27:47
going to start more games. Yeah, the upside's too big to
27:50
even like, pass. On Yeah, I think it's worth kind
27:52
of taking a peek at yeah. Another name on here is Trevor
27:55
Chaleba, 41% owned. He's had a few solid outings.
27:58
Chelsea's looked a lot more defensively solid in the last
28:01
few games. We'll see if that lasts, but
28:06
well. They're also playing games
28:07
which. Yeah, yeah.
28:08
I was going to say so that's a good, it's a good match up too.
28:11
So, well, it's a good match up. I mean the lap score the last
28:13
few games, but but yeah, there's something there.
28:16
I think it's just if you're desperate.
28:17
And the last one here was actually kind of a sneaky 1 is
28:20
Toddy Gomez from wolves. Do you guys, do you guys want me
28:26
to read his his numbers to you? So they're not spectacular.
28:31
I'm going to read his last like six games.
28:33
OK, 13.7514 Point 258.757.257.2516.
28:39
They're solid. It's like very solid.
28:41
How many companies are we talking about in that span?
28:45
1/2. Two inches, that's good.
28:48
I mean, that's. For that team, that's pretty
28:51
good and. They play Tottenham next.
28:56
I think that's gonna be we're gonna see a few goals in that
28:58
game. Yeah, well, definitely against
29:00
Tottenham we will because fucking wolves go flying down
29:03
there. You know who's back?
29:05
Good. Yeah.
29:07
See my guy. Yeah, but he's rusty, so he
29:10
ain't gonna score and Romero's gonna take his.
29:12
Fucking legs. He played in Brazil and, you
29:14
know, from Brazil. Romero always goes harder on
29:17
Brazilian players. He hates them.
29:20
Well, because, you know, they're racist.
29:22
Well, no. It's just that rivalry.
29:23
Argentinians are racist. Argentinians are racist, Why are
29:26
you? Why are you isolating offense?
29:29
I don't have all Argentinians are racist, but that's
29:31
definitely a cliche. Fine, they're not, but they have
29:34
the tendencies of a racist person.
29:42
OK, no comment. No comment.
29:45
Can we move on to the game weeks next week?
29:48
Next week we're looking at round 32 questions for you.
29:55
Manchester City, Crystal Palace. Who do you think wins that game?
29:58
Manchester City. I think Crystal Palace wins.
30:00
What? Yeah, they've been so good.
30:04
Crystal Palace has been the hottest team in the league
30:06
recently. Look at their look at their last
30:08
few games. No, no, you.
30:10
Win, win, draw, win didn't. They just lose.
30:14
No, they just beat Bretton. That's right.
30:16
City to me, not that. Impressive they're also missing
30:19
players though. Palace is in the yes.
30:21
I was going to say they're missing guahy.
30:23
That's key for them in the center back.
30:26
And Keith, yeah. OK.
30:27
And Kelly is like, that's. Not yeah, that doesn't matter,
30:29
but Guahy does. Guahy.
30:32
OK, that's a factor, but I still think, I still think Crystal
30:35
Palace has a pretty good chance here.
30:38
And Brian and Lester, that's a shit show.
30:40
Brian should win that. The Palace game is at the
30:44
Etihad. I don't know.
30:47
It's not like it's not like that stadium is known for its fiber
30:50
crowd. So you.
30:51
Know and also plays Brentford away.
30:54
Brentford's away, so that could be interesting too.
30:57
Brentford's been really good away in the second-half of the
30:59
season. They could put a more of a
31:00
problematic. Yeah, I wonder this is the EMBO
31:03
tryout. The game on me, you.
31:06
Think Embo's going to go somewhere, right?
31:09
No, he hasn't gone anywhere. Who's going to pick him up?
31:12
I think a lot of people are looking at em.
31:13
But I feel like there's there's certain players that play for
31:16
teams that just there's rumors, but they never get picked up,
31:21
you know what I mean? Like like.
31:24
Like Morgan gives White a forest.
31:26
Mortgage, white a forest or you go back in the day like Matt,
31:29
Leticia, Gamps Peterson. He never left Blackburn back in
31:34
the day. Yeah, me too.
31:37
There's just some players that just stick, like Dwight McNeil.
31:40
I don't ever see him leaving Evan.
31:42
I don't think he's like, I don't think he's be good anywhere
31:44
else. He's like one of those guys
31:45
that's like uniquely good for Sean Dash Everton, but he'd be
31:49
good in the David Moyes Everton. But that's what I'm saying, you
31:52
know what I mean? Like these are players that you
31:53
just don't. They don't work anywhere else.
31:55
They work in that team and they're just the soldier, you
31:58
know what I mean? Southampton, Southampton, Aston
32:01
Villa, I think you just start every single Aston Villa play
32:04
your hands on. Oh hell yeah, that's the general
32:06
consensus. Think she grew up Galora.
32:09
Not even Forest. Everton is interesting.
32:11
It's two teams that really don't want to expose themselves.
32:15
Yeah, and I thought it's whoever goes, whoever attacks first is
32:18
going to lose. I think this might this is like
32:21
potential of 00. Like if I was a betting on this
32:24
game I would bet the under on the goals.
32:26
Yeah, it was. It was Who did Northern Forest
32:28
play recently? That was it.
32:30
Man United that sat back and they were both sitting back in
32:32
the Northern Forest. They was to do that run and just
32:35
destroy him. We were langar.
32:36
Was that the? Game, I mean, I think it's the
32:38
game that that's what happened in that game.
32:40
And then like they scored early against United and they just sat
32:43
back where that come at us, bro. And United just couldn't do it.
32:46
Yeah, Chelsea, Ipswich. I think you like your Chelsea
32:50
pieces that you have, right? Yeah, you have to.
32:52
And then you're starting the lap.
32:54
Yeah, you're starting the lap just.
32:56
In case so it's probably not as much as viable.
32:58
He's kind of let me down a little.
32:59
Bit no against this morning. Liverpool West Ham West Ham has
33:02
not been that great. No, Liverpool should.
33:04
Liverpool should get back to winning ways in this this week.
33:07
They should. So start we little players.
33:10
Salah's going to score. Bing bam boom.
33:12
Are we expecting a huge game from Mosala?
33:14
Expecting a huge game from Mosala.
33:16
This game he needs to. He's for one if he wants that
33:20
contract. He's he's getting that contract.
33:24
Yeah, he's getting that contract.
33:26
They say Van Dyke's going to resign too, so that's two out of
33:28
three they got. Yeah, I suppose it's the two I
33:32
would have rather had Trent than I would have, actually.
33:34
I don't know. I don't know.
33:35
It's hard to everything about letting you go.
33:38
Yeah, you go with the younger player you want to keep Trent.
33:40
You want to keep Trent, but yeah.
33:42
But I mean, what else is going on this week?
33:46
Dude, Newcastle, Man United, Newcastle's at home.
33:49
I think they're going to fucking whoop on Man United.
33:51
Like Whoop. I don't think so.
33:53
I think United does better against good teams and I think
33:57
Newcastle they they think Newcastle's a good team.
34:01
I think it'll be a tougher game than a whoop, but I still think
34:04
Newcastle United will win. It is the first game for the
34:08
double game week for Newcastle, so they're going to be fresher
34:11
and probably obviously fresher, so I would expect them to.
34:16
I think Newcastle's going to win.
34:17
How do you play the double game week?
34:18
So it seemed like Newcastle where they're, you know, the
34:23
thing about Newcastle, it's most of their players are, are like,
34:28
oh, do you know what I mean? Like it's not like they, it's
34:29
not like you know, so I mean, maybe like Tonali, someone that
34:34
you might just play thinking that you can get two weeks out
34:36
of them. Well, I got Yumares and Murphy.
34:40
I'm playing both of those motherfuckers.
34:41
Well, yeah, those two, they always Murphy starts all the
34:45
time, right? Yeah, yeah.
34:46
Yeah, so they're gonna start, you know, give Murse is gonna
34:48
start so that those are no brainers.
34:50
The defense, the back four is gonna be the same for both
34:54
games. Hope obviously goalkeeper who
34:56
has been amazing the whole year and who I spent a bunch of fab
35:01
on kept dropping him because they kept postponing his return
35:04
and also E stock. Obviously you play E stock both
35:07
of them with no worries cuz even if let's say E stock only play
35:10
ends up playing for one one game for whatever reason that one
35:12
game is worth it. It's I.
35:13
Think it's everyone, I think there's but there's no one
35:16
that's bad enough that you would you wouldn't think about
35:19
starting them. Like every single player in that
35:21
team should be started. Yeah, now Crystal Palace, now
35:23
that's a different. Yeah, but I think that has more
35:25
to do with the fact that the matchups are tougher.
35:27
Yeah, City and Newcastle, obviously.
35:29
Yeah, I think there's definitely a lot of like, I think that's
35:32
the trap. Morse is Palace like getting
35:35
caught up in a Palace double game week.
35:37
I agree and then the. Last game of the week is Fuller
35:41
and Bournemouth. You know what, I don't even
35:43
know? Like Fulham should win this game
35:47
or it should be a draw the way Bournemouth is playing.
35:51
Struggled a little bit. No Bournemouth's on a David won
35:54
in the last five, just two. Guys, David's struggling.
35:57
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I think Matt Fulham is
36:00
also close to top five. Top four are they, there's 48
36:06
points and Chelsea at 4th place are sitting at 53 and I think
36:12
they play Chelsea next week so. Should be interesting, I mean.
36:17
They're technically closer to 4th place than I am to Tico.
36:21
OK. In the league I need, I need 6
36:23
points. Back.
36:24
We need Thomas to win this week and Keith we both have to win.
36:27
Preferably just me when I don't care about you really.
36:30
As long as. How?
36:31
How Well, you said we both can. We need to win.
36:34
You guys play each other. Are you rooting for a tie?
36:39
Oh, fuck that. No, I want to win.
36:41
I want, no, I need Sergey to lose because he's on my ass
36:44
right now and he's catching up in points.
36:46
Need that motherfucker. Oh, 40 points.
36:48
Yeah, yeah. He's right on my ass.
36:49
Like luckily Onana lost. So perfect.
36:54
I need Mr. T to beat. You though there's there's no
36:57
single team that's on a long winning streak, just Sergei 2
37:01
two matches. So it's been pretty even.
37:04
They've gone back and forth, back and forth, been
37:06
inconsistent at the end of the season.
37:09
Yeah, it's it's tight though. It's fun.
37:12
Yeah. It's funny though, because like,
37:13
you know, the thing I love about the Premier League is that
37:14
there's always something to root for.
37:17
Like this year, like the the titles wrapped up, the, you
37:21
know, the bottom of the relegation is kind of wrapped
37:23
up. Relegation is wrapped up.
37:25
It's wrapped up, but the top 4, the top five, is like your time.
37:29
Well, especially now, especially now we're being top five most
37:32
probably. You know, I mean, that's going
37:33
to make it more interesting. But Tottenham could try, you
37:35
know, put a wrench in there and win the Europa and they get
37:39
Champions League. That's true.
37:42
And we all know Andrew win something.
37:44
In his second year. Second year, always.
37:46
I always win somewhere in my second year.
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Mate that was my straining accent was pretty bad.
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Sorry, apologize. It's.
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All right. Anything else we want to cover?
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Is that it, guys? I.
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Think that's it? This has been episode 83 of
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Draft Offsides. My name is Keith, I'm with
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Tuconenzo. Follow us at Draft Offsides on
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all the things. We'll see you next week.