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Week 4 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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All right, welcome back to the Premier League playground.
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I'm the dad, Bjorn. With me, of course, is the lad.
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And how we doing today, Luca? Doing good.
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It's been a little bit since we've gotten to record a pod.
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We had the international break, but we've got week 4 to wrap up.
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You ready to talk some soccer? All right, Luca, let's let's
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dive into the to the games from this last week.
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We had some great games this past weekend.
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Probably not a lot of crazy results.
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You know, I think form kind of held its own.
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But let's dive into the first game of the week, which of
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course our favorite team Arsenal played, Nottingham Forest.
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You can actually the funny story about this, I was asleep during
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this entire game so I didn't get to watch any, but I feel like
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Arsenal I my prediction was 3/2. We won three nothing.
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Zuma menu. Oh my goodness, what a goal.
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If you haven't seen it, you should look it up.
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It's an insane volley. Then bureaus from SA cross in
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the 46th minute and then Zuma menu had her in the 79th minute.
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But overall, I think he played insanely good.
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From what I saw. I was, again, I was asleep, so I
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didn't see the whole thing. But from the highlights that I
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saw, I think we played really well.
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How about you? Yeah, I I think Arsenal did
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well. They were clearly the better
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team on the day. I wasn't real impressed with
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Forest. The the back story, of course,
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is that Forest, three games in, fires their coach.
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So Nuna Spirito Santos gets fired.
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Only three games in, Lots of drama with Nottingham Forest.
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Apparently the coach not getting along with the owner but also
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not getting along with the sporting director Edu.
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So he gets fired. He did great for them last year.
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I mean, he got them into European football.
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They're playing in what, the the Europa League, right?
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Yeah, I believe so, yeah. Yeah, so I mean, he did a great
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job and they were hanging around top 4 for most of the year.
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And but it's just, you know. Just missed out.
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Yeah, and I mean, now he doesn't get along with the owner.
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The owner's in charge, right? So he fires them.
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So who do they hire but ANJ Pasta Kaglu, Tottenham's old
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coach. Of course.
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The best part is when Arsenal 3 nothing at the Emirates Stadium,
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they're singing you're going to get sacked in the morning.
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He's only been on the job for four days.
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They're in our two fans letting him know that he in a joking
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fashion that he may get sacked in the morning.
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But yeah, kind of crazy. So, you know, new coach coming
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in. But yeah, he'll he'll you know,
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he's got a very different system than than Santos does.
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So we'll see how that kind of plays out over the year.
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But we'll we'll talk a little bit more in the Didgino section
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about how how quickly managers get fired because this is pretty
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three games then Luca to get fired.
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And was Tottenham last year and that is not very good so and it
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sure he's like Celtic though. Yeah, he was good before he got
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to Tottenham and struggled now. Interesting though, you're
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right, they were terrible in the Premier League, but they won the
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Europa League. They're in the Champions League
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this first. So just one of those weird,
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weird years where they played United in the final two teams
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that did terribly last year but somehow made it through the
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Europa League. So he wins the Europa League,
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they do terribly, he gets fired now he's back on the job.
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So we'll see. But yeah, good win for Arsenal.
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They're at home. They needed the three points and
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we'll kind of what Forest does with the new coach moving
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forward. All right, look, let's move on.
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Next game up, let's talk about Newcastle and Wolves.
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What did you think of this game? Well, there's not much to talk
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about here other than the one goal in this game of I don't I
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might be butchering this Voldemort in the 29th minute.
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Aheader. He's the new signing trying they
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got him to try and replace ESAC. And I think this really helps
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them like get back on track from the ESAC drama.
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And yeah, this is only really talking point in that game.
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Yeah, it wasn't much else. This guy comes over from the
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Bundesliga, He's 66. He's so not shocking.
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He actually heads the ball in. He's got to be one of the
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tallest players in the Premier League.
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But yeah, he cost a huge amount of money.
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They were looking for a striker all summer.
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Isak always looked like he was on his way out.
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He's now at Liverpool, so he's sort of the replacement and and
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you know, his first game gets a goal, they get a much needed
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win. You know Newcastle, this is
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their first win on the season, so I think they're going to be
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happy getting the win, hopefully now moving on from the drama of
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of V SAC staying going and they're going to be thrilled
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their new signing gets the game-winning goal.
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Luca, you had a good prediction on this one.
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You predicted 2 nothing. So you predicted a Newcastle win
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and clean sheet. They didn't score 2 but they won
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one nothing. So good call by you.
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Yeah. I mean, I thought there would be
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at least one more goal in this game, but Newcastle, I always
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thought they were going to win this.
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I always think they're a better team, but even without Gordon, I
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still think they deserve this win.
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Yeah, Anthony Gordon was out because of a red card in this
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one and Wolves last in the table.
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Oh, and four through four games, they are struggling big time.
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Yes. I'm not really sure if they're
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going to stay up this year. It's not looking good right now
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for them. All right, Luca, let's move on.
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The next game let's talk about is Fulham leads at Craven
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Cottage. What do you think on this one?
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There wasn't much to talk about other than the insane ending in
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this game. Show sold the corner in the 95th
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minute. They crossed it in and an angle
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by another name. That's going to be hard goodness
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messing, I think. Goodman.
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Said it's a hard name but it's an own role.
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It's just a crazy ending and he he's stupid to be honest.
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Like right up his own role. I mean it was a good header if
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it was you think he was on the weather team but I just crazy
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ending there. Leads in this one, you know, a
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newly promoted team, they look so close to getting a point on
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the road and just the ball comes right across.
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He just sort of freezes. It's almost like it just hits
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them and and like you said, this would have been a great goal.
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If it's a goal he literally puts a top corner but crazy.
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For this was one now on the film, I got that spot on.
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There you go perfect prediction from you Luca, you got and you
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got the perfect score. Fulham yeah, I watched a lot of
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this one Fulham were were actually pretty dreadful in the
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first half. They they literally had zero
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shots on goal and 0 XG for what people don't XG is expected
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goals like an analytic computer will kind of you know all the
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shots you have all the things you create.
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It comes up with like a number of what the expected goal should
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be. So I mean 0 0.0 is obviously you
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can't go any lower than that, but better in the second-half.
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They they have a new signing and Kevin who looked pretty exciting
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off the wing. He definitely generated some
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opportunities and chances for them.
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He's he's the one who earned that corner.
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He had a good shot. You know, I think with the goal,
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he tipped it over the bar. That earned the corner that
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eventually led to the goal, I believe.
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But he he looks like an exciting player.
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So if you're watching Fulham, keep an eye on him.
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He's sort of an exciting player for them.
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So yeah, Fulham, look, they needed this win pretty badly.
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What's his name again? He's like a Thrones place for
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them. Josh King is he's an exciting
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player for them, plays kind of right behind the striker, kind
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of in like a, you know, attacking midfield role.
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Yeah, young kid for them. Yeah, he's he's a fun one to
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play as well. Fun one to watch as well.
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But all right, Luca, let's move on to Everton and Aston Villa.
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What do you think on this game? There's not really much to talk
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about. I predicted 11.
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I mean, I got the tie, right, But Aston Villa aren't, they're
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like they're goalless, right? And Andy Martinez faced 2025
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shots or 20 shots. Yeah, twenty shots and a couple
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of really nice saves, but that's a lot of shots faced against.
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It was at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, if you don't know.
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Yeah, that's everything's new stadium.
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But man, Astonville are looking dreadful.
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They're in 19th place right now. They are not looking very good.
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Yeah, this game was pretty dreadful.
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I mean, 00, not much to talk about.
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Everton, like I said, had a bunch of shots.
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I mean, Martinez did real well to keep it 00.
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But listen to this stat. Look, so Astonville have now
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played four games in the Premier League.
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They've scored zero goals in the top 7 divisions of English
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football, which is 162 teams. They're the only team that has
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not scored a goal yet. Premier League and the six
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leagues below it is 162 teams. They're the only one that have
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not scored a goal. In the Yeah I.
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I don't know what's going on with them, but they, they, this,
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they have to be 1 of the biggest disappointing teams so far this
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year. All right, Luca, let's move on
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to Crystal Palace and Sunderland.
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We have, you know, look at two friends of the pods that are
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Palace fans friend, our friend of the pod Pole and our friend
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of the pod TJ, both Palace fans. So kind of like that.
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But tell me about the Palace Sunderland game.
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Again, A00 finish. I predicted Palace to win three.
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One I was nowhere near that, but a 00 finish.
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Palace's defense has given up one goal in four games.
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I think that's the lowest amount of goals given up so far.
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Yeah, they're they're tied with Arsenal and Tottenham for giving
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up one goal. But yeah, it's, you know, people
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obviously Arsenal, Tottenham sitting in second and third, you
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don't really think of Palace and yeah, exactly right.
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Look, they've given up one goal in four games, so they're
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obviously playing great defense. Their problem is scoring goals.
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They've only scored four, so that's why they're unbeaten.
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But they have three ties and a win.
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So it's not like they're acting up a bunch of points playing
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this great defense because they're struggling to score
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goals, just as in this game they didn't score any.
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Yeah, they lost ESA. That's a big piece of their
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team. If they haven't sold anyone from
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like let's say the 2122 season from now, they would have had
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Michael Le Say and ESA and I think they would be a very good
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team. Yeah, it's always tough, these
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sort of teams like that in the middle to have their best
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players sort of, you know, you know, pride.
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Yeah. I mean, look, I mean, we're
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thrilled. I love ESA on Arsenal and all he
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says is like with Bayern Munich. But yeah, it's it's hard.
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You know, the teams like Bournemouth and Brighton and
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Brentford, they just, you know, the players, you can't turn it
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down. So we'll see though.
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But like I said, Palace, like I said, you know, your prediction
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of three goals, maybe you want to tamper your predictions now
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in Palace a little bit. But, you know, like I said,
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Palace will probably be a little disappointed in this one.
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You know, playing Sunderland's come out playing really well.
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But but Palace, they were at home against a newly promoted
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team that they would have wanted to win this game.
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So they're going to be a little disappointed with the tie.
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But yes, Sunderland picks up another point on the road.
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So good on them. All right, Luca, let's move over
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to two of those darling teams that everybody, you know, loves
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because they always have these good young players coming up
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that end up, you know, moving on to other teams.
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But Bournemouth versus Brighton. Tell me about this one.
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So I actually got this spot on again, another game 21
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Bournemouth and we have well, technically a coach of the pod,
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my soccer coach and he is a big Bournemouth fan who's from
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England and he's my my main coach and he's from England.
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So shout out to him. He's a Bournemouth fan.
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So Alex Scott scores on the 18th minute of this game, then Matoma
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ties it up with a header. You don't see that every day.
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He's not known for his heading, but he gets a header in the 48th
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minute and ties it up so it's 11.
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And then Simeone gets a peak in the 61st minute. 61st minute,
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sorry. And about this, the peak close,
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I think there was a little bit of content, but there wasn't
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much. So I I would think it's a PK but
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it's really close for me. Yeah, this one was was tight.
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Yeah, I guess it was sort of on the line.
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I'm leaning a little bit more towards it probably was a
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penalty and they did make the right call, but it was very
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close to not a ton of contact there.
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But yes, Simenio finishes it off.
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Luca, how good has he been? I think he's literally been
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involved with a golden assist for I think almost all their
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goals or four of their five goals or no, I think they had
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six goals. I think he's had a goal and an
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assistant five of them. How good is he and.
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He was just carrying their team on his back, like they lost a
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lot of pieces during in the summer.
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So I think he's been like the big part of this team so far.
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Yeah, I love watching him play. He he's a good exciting player.
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So Scott too, you know, again, Bournemouth are one of those
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teams that, you know, like I said, he lose 3.
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We talked, we've been talked this a bunch of times.
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He lost three of their four defenders.
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And you know, they just keep having other guys come up.
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They're just a fun team to watch.
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You keep an eye on these players and they're they're good.
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Like I said, they're well coached.
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So Bournemouth, Lucas sitting fourth in the table after four
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weeks there, you know, three wins, one loss, sitting fourth
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in the table. Is season ending right now?
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They'll be in Champions League. It's impressive, you know, like
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I said, I mean, I'm, I'm pulling for them, like you said, you
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know it's. You're up this year.
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You did. I was just about to say you had
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a good call there. So yeah, And good.
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Lucas main soccer coach, is a Bournemouth fan.
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He says his family's got season tickets.
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He's from the South Coast of England, so yeah, true
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Bournemouth, Cherries fans. Yeah.
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All right, Luca, let's move on to the next game.
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We had Spurs and West Ham, a bit of a London Derby here.
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Tell me about this game. So it's pretty much a blowout
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from the star or not from the star, but it was a blowout in
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the end. I predicted 1/1.
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It was 3 male. Tottenham in the end saw with a
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47th minute header and then in the 54th minute Sue check.
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It's a red card and it is a brutal tackle.
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It is in my opinion. It's stupid too because he goes
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in studs up and like it looked like it hurt.
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He's so dumb. He had a bunch of defenders
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behind them too. He kind of like takes a bad
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touch and then kind of slides in on the guy.
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It was studs up. Definite red card for me.
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Then in the 57th minute, Birdwall gets his first ever
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Premier League goal and then in the 64th minute, then the van
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finishes it off with a three nil victory.
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And it was just really bad defense from West Ham in this
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game. I mean, he on the van de van
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goal, he was just wide open. No one was marking him.
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Yeah, and I feel like we've said this before with West Ham, the
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defense, right? Yeah, terrible defending.
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And they just, they look like, you know, they're just not any
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kind of organization in the back.
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It looks like they, I mean, it looks like they're like the U-12
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level of defense. Nobody's talking.
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Nobody's marking anybody. Yeah, the the red card, You
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know, I think I joked around that if you want to see the
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definition of a red card, like watch this replay.
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I mean, it's just literally destroys, you know, Paulinia's
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sock and I think he almost breaks his shin guard too.
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But yeah, this is as easy a red as you can imagine.
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I I can't there's no debate on this.
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And yes, Spurs, look again, Spurs sitting in 3rd here.
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So, you know, we just talked about how bad they were last
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year. They did win the Europa League,
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but they're now three wins out of four.
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You know, they're only behind Arsenal on goal differential.
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So Thomas Frank has them playing well.
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Signings too. Johnny Seamans, they got Cougars
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and Pong alone, so I think those are some pretty good signings.
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I think they did good business and I also think they hired a
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really good coach. You know, I think Thomas Frank
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did really well at Brentford with the players that he had
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there. I always thought that they
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played well. I think he's one of those guys
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that can put in like a different lineup.
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He doesn't always have to play the same way like certain
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coaches. So, you know, it pains me to say
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this because I don't like Spurs at all, but he's a good coach.
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I agree with you, Luca. They did some good signings.
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They've added it to a couple good players.
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They're doing a lot of this without Kulosefski.
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Some of their other players who are are hurt right now.
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So Spurs playing well, you know, and like I said, you know, I'm
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not going to go crazy about beating West Ham, but you know,
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they're in a good spot here after four games with three wins
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and and one loss so. They have to do a pretty easy
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schedule compared to us. We had to play Liverpool, not in
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Forest, and we have City Next up, so it only played United in
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Week 1. So to be fair, we have probably
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played a little bit better. Yeah, yeah, no, I agree with
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that. Yes, I I now Spurs did win at
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City, so they do, they do have that win to them, but.
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OK, well, we've. Got a couple of other easier
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games, but I always say, you know, I don't get too bent out
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of shape about the schedule because everybody has to play
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everybody twice. So you know.
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Because there's dirty with the homeless teams in like a row in
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the beginning of the season. But it is a tough stretch and
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you're right, we got City that we'll get into the games this
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weekend, but City, then Newcastle and with Champions
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League starting up, it's a tough stretch.
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But Arsenal, they're managing it pretty well.
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All right, Luca, let's move on to Brentford.
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Chelsea, tell me about this game.
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This was probably the best game of the weekend. 22 I predicted
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21 Chelsea. I was pretty close.
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If I put Bradford one more goal, I would have been right, but the
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start of the opening role in this game was shot out in the
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35th minute, then home on kind of later in this game, 61st
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minutes, Then Kaiser they makes it, makes Chelsea take the lead
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and then Carvalho off of a long throw in the 94th minute to tie
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it up. So I think this was a pretty
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good game, best game of weekend in my opinion.
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But yeah, I think this was the best game of the weekend.
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Yeah, I, I this was a pretty good game.
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This is actually pretty exciting to watch.
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Luca, you predicted 21. You were real close.
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You had Chelsea winning 21, which I guess you're so close
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you literally had it until the 94th minute.
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You. Had it but you know one thing I
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don't know that we should be surprised Brentford plays
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Chelsea tough. In fact, you since Brentford's
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been promoted in 2001 Chelsea's only won two of eight games
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against Brentford. So they they kind of struggle a
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little bit with Brentford by yeah you know and I'm I want to
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talk a little bit later on about the kind of long throws but you
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know you just long throw gets it into the box it gets flipped
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over and Carvalho right there at the post to tie it up.
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So good point for Brentford. Chelsea's going to be
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disappointed. They you know they're going to
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feel like they had this one in the bag at the end and just who
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couldn't close it out Chelsea's defense.
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Luca, is it worrying you at all? I mean, it's been brutal so far.
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If I was a Chelsea fan, I would be a little bit worried right
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now, but I think it's kind of been off.
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Yeah, it's it's that's the one area Chelsea needs to shore that
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up. They they've got to figure out,
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you know, a little bit better defend.
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I'm a little I'm not been impressed with their defense so
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far this year. I think they they obviously have
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guys because they signed 50 guys every summer, but.
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Yeah, it's one area that worries me a little bit on that team.
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You know, I think they've got good, good midfield, good
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attacking talent, but that defense, keep an eye on that if
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Chelsea gives up some late goals like this or other soft goals.
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But all right, Luca, let's move on to Liverpool and Burnley at
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the Turfmoor. Burnley, newly promoted team at
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home. Tell me about this game.
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Well, Burnley had this time to well, they got a red card in I'm
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pretty sure the 84th minute and there are some talking points
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about this. Some people were saying that
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this guy Hugo Chukwo and so hard names this weekend, but Hugo
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Chukwo said even set off earlier because of a yellow.
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We had a yellow, but I think should have been sent off
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earlier, but it was a yellow. And then he eventually got a
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second yellow in the 84th minute, which he then got sent
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off. And then in the 96th minute,
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Shala get the PK off of a handball and you can see by the
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guy's reaction he knows it's a handball.
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In my opinion, it's definitely a clear handball and you could
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tell by his reaction he immediately knew that it was
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going to be a penalty. And then of course, Shala scores
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and Liverpool win. It's just insane.
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Yeah, Liverpool get that done again.
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So, you know, this game, Burnley, who last year in the
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Championship were undefeated at home, nobody beat them at home.
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They played great defense, give up very, very few goals.
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And that's sort of what they were trying to do today.
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They basically, they basically parked the bus low block, just
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were going to defend. And they really did frustrate
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Liverpool for most of this game. I agree with you that Hugo
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Chukwo, if you look back on that first yellow, that very easily
21:48
could have been a red. You know, they gave them a
21:51
yellow. They kept them on the field, but
21:53
I don't know, maybe it's like karma eventually caught up with
21:56
it to get that, you know, the, the the second yellow, which of
21:59
course then gets him off. But that first tackle, like if
22:03
that was against my team, I'd be wanting a red for sure.
22:08
Yeah, the ball, you know, the, the, the handball it, it's a
22:10
clear handball. There's just, you know, as much
22:13
as I, I was hoping obviously for Liverpool to drop points being
22:16
an Arsenal fan, but they're just, you know, the ball gets
22:18
played across. I think it's Hannibal Mabry.
22:21
He's in the box, he turns his arms outstretched.
22:24
He's clearly in the box. You can do exactly like he said.
22:26
Look at his reaction. He knew right away.
22:29
It's a clear handball. Yeah, my prediction was 3 nil
22:32
Liverpool and I was too off. I thought Liverpool was going to
22:35
get a smack then so. Well, I think everybody did.
22:38
I mean, you know, they're going, they're going in there.
22:41
Nobody knew if VSAC was going to play or not.
22:42
He did not. He wasn't quite ready.
22:44
They think he'll probably be ready for the Champions League
22:46
game and next week. But yeah, I mean, like I said,
22:49
Burnley, I mean, Liverpool had 81 percent, 81% possession.
22:54
They had 27 shots in this game. And this was all played with
22:58
Liverpool having the ball, just shaking shot after shot after
23:01
shot. And Burnley were defending,
23:02
defending, defending. I mean, they, you know, they
23:04
deserve to get a point. Except Liverpool just always
23:08
seems to find some way to get a goal.
23:12
In fact, listen to this. That Lupe Liverpool are the
23:14
first side in Premier League history to win 4 consecutive
23:18
games with the winning goals in the final 10 minutes or later,
23:22
Yeah. I saw that sometime.
23:24
Yeah, I saw that somewhere. They're just the wait minute
23:27
Winners is all the time. So lucky.
23:30
Yeah, I mean, I, you know, look, I think, you know, good teams
23:33
make their own luck, but man, that is really kind of lucky.
23:36
I mean, you know, against Newcastle, they have a 16 year
23:39
old who scores now this so but Liverpool, the only team four
23:43
wins in four games, they're sitting pretty at the top.
23:47
They're getting E sack back. So you know, they've not looked
23:50
great, you know, but so here, here's the thing.
23:53
Do you look at it as Liverpool have went four wins in four
23:57
games and they've not looked great, meaning they're going to
24:01
get it together and they're going to go on a run?
24:03
Or are you worried because they're doing this or having to
24:06
wait for these last minute PK's and these last minute winners
24:09
from 16 year olds? So are you on the side of
24:11
they're going to get it together and just roll or are you kind of
24:14
like, I don't know, signs of worry?
24:17
If I was a Liverpool man right now I would be a little bit
24:19
worried, but I do think they will eventually together because
24:24
they have so much talent on their team.
24:27
But right now I do think they would be a little bit worried.
24:30
Yeah, I think that the one area and not based on this game, but
24:34
the one area that concerns me a little bit is their defense
24:37
because they wanted to sign Mark Yahy.
24:39
That deal was like pretty much done on and and you know, he was
24:42
going to be a big help for them because I actually think they're
24:45
a little thin there. If if they have no injuries like
24:48
last year, they had no injuries. If they do that again, they're
24:51
going to be just fine. But if they get a key injury to
24:53
one of their forwards or one of their defense, I think it could
24:56
get a little interesting, you know, so we'll, we'll see.
25:00
They had real good luck with with injuries and everything
25:02
last year. But we'll, we'll, we'll see.
25:03
But. Have a really good defense, so
25:11
yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, I I think
25:13
Arsenal have the best defense in the Premier League.
25:15
I mean the only goal scored against Arsenal so far in the
25:19
Premier League is that world device.
25:21
So if he doesn't score that, we have 4 clean sheets in four
25:24
games and we're missing guys too so.
25:29
And soccer. And so we was out too.
25:32
Well, I was, I was thinking more on defense.
25:34
You know, Ben White, Saliba played all the games.
25:37
So. All right.
25:38
Well, yeah, but like I said, Liverpool, they're they're going
25:40
to be like, all right, well, you know, for 4/4 wins in four
25:44
games. So, all right, look at the last
25:46
game, the Manchester Derby. You know, this game is one of
25:50
the biggest Derby's, you know, in Premier League.
25:53
I love watching the Manchester Derby.
25:54
Lately, it has not really been either competitive or really
25:58
that great of games to watch. But tell me about the Manchester
26:01
Derby this year. Well, my prediction was 3/1.
26:05
I got the Manchester City goals right, but if I said three nil I
26:08
would have been spot on. It was kind of a blowout.
26:13
Again, not a great game. I thought this would be closer
26:17
because Man United have definitely upgraded their team
26:20
since last last year. But it says out Fodin header off
26:25
of a Doku cross. He tries one time, gets blocked
26:29
and then tries another. Fodin's there and heads in, then
26:32
Holland, in the 53rd minute, he kind of chips it over, Bander
26:37
there, Man United's goalie, and in the 68th minute, Holland is
26:43
on a breakaway. Mcguire's trying to catch him.
26:45
He does not and Holland scores again.
26:49
Another thing Donna Ruma is debut for the city had a really
26:55
nice save on in Bueno and Blamer kind of like does what he do,
26:58
cuts it in, tries to curl it to the far corner and Donna Rumo
27:02
had a really nice save. So I think that's like is a go
27:06
to try and save the he makes some really nice saves.
27:09
He's really tall too, so he can do that.
27:11
Yeah, this game never really felt competitive.
27:13
It just always felt inevitable that he was going to win this
27:16
game. Man, you, I, I don't know what
27:18
to make of this team, Luca, Ruben Amiram, the coach of Man
27:21
United, he's got 31 points in 31 games.
27:26
I mean, that's that's awful for especially for Manchester
27:29
United. You know, in your opinion, Luca,
27:32
do you keep giving him some more time?
27:34
Do you make the argument he needs more time, he needs better
27:37
players? Or do you pull the plug and go
27:39
with somebody else? I have to go with somebody else.
27:42
31 points in 31 games is awful. That is terrible.
27:47
He's got to do better or I I would.
27:50
If I was the general manager, I would sack him.
27:53
Yeah, it, it is crazy. I don't know what's happening
27:55
with with Man United. This is just, it's so unusual
27:58
because they are, you know, have a lot more Premier League titles
28:01
than everyone but. 13 Premier League titles.
28:04
It's crazy, but now on the other hand, Holland just a machine.
28:07
Luca, listen to this. Fifty goals and 50 home games.
28:11
The only player to do it quicker to get the 50 goals.
28:14
Is Alan Shearer. Alan Shearer did it in 47 games.
28:17
Games. I mean, is there, is there, in
28:20
your opinion, is there a better striker in the in the world?
28:24
No. You could say E SAC is, but
28:27
other than that I don't really think so.
28:31
Yeah, I, I, to me, he just, he's got, he's the whole package.
28:35
You know, he's got the size, physicality, he's fast, he's
28:39
strong and he finishes well. I mean, he's just such a force.
28:43
You know, I mean, I, I can't wait for this weekend.
28:45
We'll we'll get into the games. When we talk about about, you
28:47
know, the way Arsenal kind of try to match up against him,
28:50
it's just a great battle because we we said Arsenal's got a great
28:53
defense, but he's he's unbelievable.
28:55
I mean, and when he's rolling like this and the team's playing
28:58
well, he just scores goals at will.
29:00
So two more today. He's leading the Premier League
29:02
in goals and City's sort of back on track at this point.
29:06
You know, good win for them. You know, they were coming off
29:09
of two losses. We didn't really know what to
29:10
make of them. So we'll see.
29:13
But yeah, so good on them. They're going to be happy.
29:15
Always good to win a Derby game. And that wraps up Luca the the
29:19
week of games here. So all right, we've wrapped up
29:22
the weeks. Luca, you've got to give me your
29:24
your goal of the week, player of the week and team of the week.
29:26
So let me start with the goal of the week.
29:28
OK, this one's probably not very close.
29:31
It's definitely Zuma Mendy's volume the 32nd minute
29:35
unbelievable. It like perfectly strike struck
29:40
and if you have not seen this, you have to see it, search it up
29:44
on YouTube, look at it on YouTube TV.
29:46
It's just an insane volley and then like scene of the week.
29:52
I'd probably give it to maybe Bournemouth for like hanging in
30:00
there. They're doing really well
30:01
without all their like big defenders that like is a Barney
30:06
Houston and I forget who is he? I forgot.
30:12
And then also I lost Dango Utora.
30:17
But like, kudos to them, as you would like to say, they they're
30:23
doing really well. Now.
30:25
My player for this week is probably going to be Super
30:28
Mandy. Yeah, listen to this, that you
30:30
might only already know this, but Zoom and the art only has 10
30:34
moles in his entire well, he did before this game. 10 moles in
30:39
his entire career and he just got 1/5 of that in one game.
30:44
That's crazy. Yeah, it's amazing.
30:46
I mean, he's he's a defensive midfielder.
30:49
He basically sits right in front of the defenders and kind of
30:51
like that's his job is to basically prevent goals, win
30:54
tackles. But the volley is was the
30:57
technique on the volley was just spectacular to keep that ball
31:00
down. That was beautiful.
31:01
And then, yeah, chips in with a header, right?
31:03
Just crazy. He he probably won't score
31:05
another goal all year, but it's true in that game.
31:08
So. Scored like in last year.
31:11
That's true. That's true.
31:12
You do, you're right. You just never know.
31:14
And yeah, I, I like your picks there.
31:16
I mean, I, I, I have no beef with the goal of the week and
31:20
the player of the week. And I like the team of the week
31:22
too, because I, I do think, you know, when you look at the top
31:25
five, you know, everybody would have been like, oh, of course,
31:27
Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs, maybe a little bit of a surprise and
31:31
then Chelsea, but Bournemouth sitting there in fourth.
31:34
Well, City are in 8th. But you know, when you look at
31:36
the top five, I don't think a lot of people were picking
31:37
Bournemouth. Good.
31:39
I like that for for a for a team of the week.
31:43
So all right, well, Luca, let's look ahead.
31:45
We have games this weekend, so let's look ahead.
31:48
I want you to give me some predictions.
31:50
We got some good games coming up this weekend.
31:52
I need to know your predictions. We're going to start off
31:55
Saturday morning, Luca. The Merseyside Darby, another
31:58
great Darby with Manchester Derby last weekend.
32:01
Liverpool Everton. It's at Anfield, so give me your
32:06
thoughts and your score prediction for Liverpool,
32:08
Everton. Do know Liverpool, because I
32:12
know even though at Andrew, Everton do have a very good
32:16
defense, but their offense is if it's actually it's OK.
32:22
Well, I'm going to give you 2 now for that game.
32:24
OK, I like it. Next game we've got Man U and
32:28
Chelsea at Old Trafford. That's a pretty good game.
32:31
This game, we've gone in it twice.
32:33
Is that is that Old Trafford? This one's at Old Trapper.
32:36
Yeah. Luke and I have been to this
32:37
game at at Stamford Bridge in the past two years.
32:39
Two years ago. Epic game.
32:44
Today. All right, so give me your what
32:46
do you think? What's your It's odd on this
32:47
Game 2? Chelsea, I think they're just
32:52
the better team. Also men do not have due to
32:56
injury, so yeah. All right, moving on, look at we
33:00
have Wolves leads. Not exactly glamour game like
33:03
the other ones. This is going to be at Molyneux
33:05
or Wolves play. What do you think of Wolves and
33:07
Leeds? 00 I don't think any of these
33:10
teams really are that great with their offense, so I'm just going
33:15
to go no goals there. All right, fair enough.
33:18
Then we've got West Ham and Palace.
33:21
This one is at London Stadium, where West Ham play the West Ham
33:26
at home. Palace coming in.
33:27
What do you think of this game? I mean, two narrow powers, like
33:31
West Ham's defense is just terrible so far.
33:35
And I know Palace's offense is it's it's OK.
33:40
But I do think they're going to get two goals in this game.
33:42
Yeah, and West Ham, the worst defense in the league.
33:45
They've conceded 11 goals in four games.
33:47
Do we talk about like if Palace is going to get some get their
33:50
offense going, here's a great opportunities?
33:53
All right, Luca, we also have now Burnley and Nottingham
33:56
Forest. They're at the turf more so
33:58
Burnley at home for this week. What do you think of this?
34:03
Nottingham Forest, I think they will bounce back off of that
34:06
loss to Arsenal and get this dub.
34:09
OK, Brighton and Spurs, that is at Brighton Stadium, the Amex.
34:15
So who do you like in that game? One run tie.
34:19
I think these are pretty equal teams right here, or maybe Spurs
34:23
might be a little bit better, but it is at Brighton Stadium so
34:27
I'm going to go 11 all. Right London Derby here with
34:31
Brentford and Fulham at Craven Cottage.
34:34
Who do you like? I'm going one more Fulham.
34:37
I think Fulham are going to get this win because they're at home
34:42
and their fans will be very supportive for them, so I think
34:45
they'll get the win. OK then we've got Aston Villa
34:48
and Sunderland at the Stadium of Light for Sunderland.
34:52
I think Sunderland will get this one nil.
34:57
Fella doesn't score again, no. Ho, I am terrible and Sunderland
35:03
are looking pretty good and it's at the Stadium of Light so I do
35:06
think Phil will not score again. If we could pick Phil to score
35:10
negative, we would. But all right Luca, we got
35:14
Bournemouth at home versus Newcastle.
35:15
This to me is an interesting game.
35:17
What do you think of this one? 22 I think this will be a close
35:23
game because Newcastle might be a win for.
35:26
I think this will be a really good game.
35:28
Watch out for this game. All right, drum roll, please,
35:31
Luca. The last game of the week is a
35:33
big one. Big one.
35:34
This is Arsenal and City. This is at the Emirates.
35:39
This is a big, big, big game here.
35:46
I'm not being biased, I do think Arsenal has a little bit of a
35:49
better team than Citi, although I do think this will be close.
35:53
Yeah, this, I mean, this is going to be fascinating to me
35:55
because this is such a test for both teams.
35:58
And, you know, it almost feels like, you know, sort of
36:01
desperation time for both because you figure, you know,
36:03
Liverpool are going to win this week.
36:05
They're going to be five wins in five games.
36:08
If if you know, Arsenal lose, they're they're now six points
36:11
behind Liverpool. But if City loses, you know,
36:14
then they're way behind too. So, you know, City looked way
36:18
better. You know, City had two bad
36:20
losses and they look good this week.
36:21
You know, Arsenal, like I said, are looking good.
36:24
But, you know, maybe not quite clicking still with injuries.
36:28
You know, Seliba made the bench for Champions League.
36:32
So is he going to be ready to go?
36:33
Soccer probably won't be ready. Hubbard still out.
36:36
Jesus, still out. Ben White a question, question
36:38
mark. So, you know, lots of questions
36:40
there. But Arsenal, the whole thing of
36:43
the summer, all the signings was the added depth.
36:45
And so they look good, you know, against Forest, they look good
36:49
in the Champions League yesterday.
36:51
So we'll see. This is a true test of sort of
36:53
the added depth and. Games this weekend.
36:56
Yeah, yeah, there definitely are.
36:57
So I like it. Good calls on all of those, you
37:01
know, other things to keep an eye out around Europe right now,
37:03
Luca, Champions League started, so we're recording this, you
37:07
know, Wednesday, Arsenal won yesterday, We have games going
37:12
on today, games going on tomorrow and then next week as
37:16
well. So yeah, so keep an eye out.
37:18
Like I said, Champions League on Paramount.
37:20
Those are always fun games. Other than that, no real other
37:23
big soccer news that I could think of that we need to update
37:25
people on. You can you?
37:26
Nope. All right, Luca, let's go to our
37:30
viewer mailbag. All right, Viewer mailbag.
37:32
This week, Luca comes from me. All right, My question to you
37:36
is, are we better off with VAR? That's it.
37:41
Take it away. What do you think?
37:43
So it's all used for both sides here.
37:47
I I need to say no because VAR has messed up a lot of games and
37:56
I can't think of like a time where VAR has just made a great
38:00
call praising VAR. Great job, we hope you keep this
38:06
up but I didn't. If the referees paid like more
38:11
attention and then just use VAR, I think the rules would be
38:15
better. All right, Yeah, There you have
38:19
it. I mean, you know, I like the
38:21
idea of VAR, but the execution of it, especially in the Premier
38:23
League, is not always great. And it doesn't always seem to,
38:27
you know, get things right. I don't love that every time a
38:30
goal is scored we all have to like hold our breath waiting for
38:32
VAR to get. Involved and I it's supposed to
38:37
be used for like a clear and obvious error, but it's
38:40
sometimes used for other stuff like I I can't think of an
38:46
example right now, but I feel like it's used kind of more than
38:50
it should be. Well, sometimes don't you find
38:53
with VAR, they'll, you know, they spend 2 minutes looking at
38:56
something and I always think I'm like, if you're spending two
38:58
minutes looking at it, it's not clear and obvious.
39:01
It should literally be like, you watch a replay and you're like,
39:03
Oh yeah, that's a handball, That's a red card.
39:06
That's, you know, it should be obvious to us.
39:08
It, it should not be literally looking at 20 different angles,
39:11
slowing it down, replaying it. If we're doing that, then it's
39:14
not clear and obvious. And then what, what are we
39:15
doing? Let's just move on with the
39:16
game, you know, and I think it just you know it it.
39:21
I don't know, it's frustrating because I think one of the best
39:23
things about soccer, right, is when the ball goes in the you
39:26
get a goal that's scored. And I feel like every time that
39:28
happens, what are we all doing? We're like, hold on, hold on,
39:30
let's wait. It's bargain like so all right,
39:34
look, I wanted your take on bar. You gave it to me.
39:37
All right, let's talk a little bit about did you know?
39:39
Okay, all right, so First off, just a did you know fact Mosala
39:44
scored this week? He had the PK look that was his
39:47
188th Premier League goal, which moved him into 4th place all
39:53
time in the Premier League for goals.
39:55
Who? Didn't pass.
39:57
Who did he pass? I don't remember who he passed,
40:00
but the people above him. Of course we know.
40:02
Alan Shearer 260 goals, Harry Kane 213 goals and Wayne Rooney
40:08
with 208. So Salah now sits 20 goals off
40:12
of Rooney trying to get to 3rd place score for.
40:15
Twenty goals this season, he'll be able to do it.
40:18
He could 20 more, he might get 20 more.
40:20
Yeah, if he gets 25 more, he catches Kane.
40:24
So pretty impressive. Like, you know, Mosala, you
40:28
know, I, I, I think most people acknowledge he's an amazing,
40:31
great player. But to put that, I mean, just
40:32
it's pretty amazing to move into fourth place in the Premier
40:35
League and goals. So all right, couple other
40:37
things we talked about. We talked about getting fired
40:40
Luca after three games on the job.
40:43
So Nuna Espirito Santos now it wasn't it was three games into
40:46
the season. He had been there before.
40:49
Did you know Luca? That's not the quickest firing
40:50
into a season. Paul Sturrock, Luca in 2004 he
40:57
was at Southampton. He got fired 9 days into the job
41:00
on the season. So not into the season fired.
41:03
He actually went one and one. He lost 2, nothing, then 132 and
41:07
then got fired. So Peter Reed at City in 1993
41:11
got fired 12 days into the job. Kenny Dalglishluk, a legendary
41:16
player for Celtic and Liverpool. He was an amazing, amazing
41:20
forward. He went on to manage.
41:22
He was managed Newcastle in 98 for 12 days.
41:27
Bobby Robson, another amazing player and manager.
41:30
He managed England, actually their national team for eight
41:33
years. He got fired at Newcastle 16
41:36
days into the season. That was in 2004.
41:39
There's Alan Kurbishly at West Ham 18 days into the season.
41:44
And Kevin Keegan, he was another amazing player, went on to
41:48
manage. He got fired at Newcastle in
41:49
2819, days in, so Nuno lasted 25 days, so kind of crazy
41:56
interesting in us. So that out of the top 6,
41:58
Newcastle did it three times. I know.
42:02
Everyone right, all they this, they love to fire legends early
42:05
in Newcastle. So all right, so Luke, I want to
42:08
know what is your opinion? How long should a manager have
42:11
at the start of the season before you say got to pull the
42:15
plug? Like what?
42:16
How long would you give a manager?
42:20
Losing and the player, I would get the players opinions on this
42:24
too. And if they are, yeah, I can't
42:29
take that with this coach anymore.
42:31
Yeah, I would fire him even if he's been on the job.
42:34
One with not not one day, but like a couple days but in
42:39
supply. He's kind of like 1:00 and 1:00
42:42
to start. I would give him a chance
42:45
because that's not a terrible start of the season, but it
42:47
could be better. So I I would give him a chance
42:50
but if he keeps on losing and can't find a way to win, I would
42:54
fire him no matter how early it is in the season all.
42:57
Right. Do you think it should be
42:58
different at a quote UN quote big club versus a quote UN quote
43:01
small club? No, not really.
43:04
OK, so just the just results, pure and simple, that's your
43:08
thing, but give them a little bit of time.
43:10
Yeah. OK.
43:12
All right, Luca, two, I'm going to talk to you about a couple
43:15
trends I've noticed here in the Premier League, OK?
43:17
Since the start of this season, I think there's been a couple
43:19
things that to me seem a little different than I've noticed in
43:22
other season. The first thing I want to talk
43:23
to you about is long throws. I feel like when I've watched
43:27
these games over the first couple weeks, we're seeing a lot
43:29
more long throws. And so this is like early in the
43:33
Premier League, people used to do long throws all the time.
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They'd throw it into the box and you let your guys try to head it
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on. And then it became, you know,
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these little throw insurance, right, just like right to a
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guy's foot. But I think that the long throw
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is coming back and they so if you look the long throws, which
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they rate as 20 meters, which is 65 feet.
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OK. So like a long throws, if we
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think about it in feet, you know, 65 feet that this season
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if you look at the stats, Luca, we're getting 3.03 long throws
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per game. So last year we had 1.5 year
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before that 1.47, the year before that 1.44, the year
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before that 1.27, and the year before that 0.89.
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So there's a clear trend over the past five years it was going
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up a little bit, but it's almost doubled this year.
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Last year, fourteen goals scored from long throws, that was the
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most in the past nine years. We've already had I think 4 now
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this year. One from the Bradford game.
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Yeah. So I want to know what what is
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your opinion on the long throw? It's actually a pretty good
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idea. It's kind of like a corner but a
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little bit shorter. And I think it's it's a pretty
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good idea. It's a chance that if you're in
44:47
desperation mode, just put it up there like a corner or a Hail
44:51
Mary in American football and just pray that it goes goes and
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fine and comes to a players foot and they get it in.
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I think it's actually a good idea.
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Yeah, this to me kind of feels like a bit of a no brainer
45:05
because, you know, while you can't throw, you know, a corner
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kick obviously can be driven because you can kick harder than
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you can throw. But if you can throw the ball
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into the box and just get like a bunch of bodies in there, you
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never know where the ball is going to bounce, where it's
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going to kind of end up. And the Brentford, Chelsea game
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is the perfect example of this. At the end of the game, they do
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a long throw, it gets flicked onto the far post.
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I mean, that's just it is like putting the ball in the box and
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good things kind of happen. So this to me, I I think is an
45:33
interesting trend. I I would keep an eye on this
45:35
when you watch games for these long throws, if every team now
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is lining up a guy or two that can really throw it.
45:40
Obviously some people are better at it than others.
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But if I thought that was an interesting trend in this
45:44
season, like I said, it's really bearing fruit that you know, you
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will, like I said, we're seeing almost twice as many last season
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after an increase. All right.
45:51
The other trend Luke, I've noticed is tick offs.
45:56
Teams just Kick It Out of bounds.
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So Arsenal did this against Liverpool.
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You go up, Arsenal had the kick to start the game, Declan Rice
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kicks it right out of balance. And what the idea is that you're
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trying to pin the team back. So the idea is like, you can see
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the deep throw in PSG did this a lot less.
46:14
They were so good at pressing, especially in the Champions
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League. So going into this week, it
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would happen three times already, where in the past eight
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years it only happened three times.
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And so it's interesting because like I said, teams have gotten
46:28
so good at pressing that they figure I'm just let's just kick
46:31
it into the, you know, kick it. I'm going to kick it right out
46:34
of bounds and we're going to start pressing you.
46:35
Good luck getting out. And like I said, so it's already
46:39
happened three times. I don't know if it happened this
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past week, but I know going into this past week it happened three
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times or like I said, the past eight years that it happened
46:47
three times. So definitely a trend there.
46:50
Some teams even have routines that have led the goals based on
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this. And also a lot of teams what
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they do is they'll play it back to the goalie and then kick it
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into the corner too. So that's almost like a
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variation of it. But I'm curious, Luca, in your
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opinion, if you're a manager, how would you instruct your team
47:07
to start the game So your team has the kick off, they put the
47:09
ball down. What would your instructions be
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to your team for this? Trying bear out of the back.
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Why don't you try and build this?
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Like build with passes to score and go?
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I'm not sure I would just take it out of bounds because that's
47:23
just wasting possession. Is a good idea to figure it out
47:27
of bounds if you're like really, really good at pressing.
47:30
But yeah, I would build. I would kind of build with
47:34
passes to score. OK, sorry.
47:37
So you're still like build out of the back.
47:38
So you just play the ball back, build it out, go from there.
47:41
Yeah, All right. The other, the last trend I want
47:44
to talk to you about is goalkeepers going along with the
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ball. And what we're seeing is a
47:50
definite trend where back in the day, Luke, again, this is old
47:54
school Premier League. When Premier League started,
47:56
goalies almost always went out of the back.
47:57
So like, for instance, in the year 2014, 2015, goalies went
48:01
long almost 80% of the time. Then that all of a sudden
48:05
drifted down to like 46% in the 2324 season because everybody
48:10
wanted to do what you did, put the ball down, play out of the
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back. You know, Manchester City Pep
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style. We're just going to hold onto
48:16
the ball, play out of the back. Nobody goes long because we're
48:18
going to give up possession. But again, I feel like that's
48:21
starting to change a little bit this year.
48:23
We're already up to about 52% of the time goalies going long
48:28
because there's it's starting to be like a much higher risk
48:31
playing out of the back. You know, that's The thing is
48:33
that every everybody's gotten better at pressing.
48:36
So you know, you force a turnover.
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It can lead to look what happened when Trafford, you
48:42
know, in the city you went city with against Tottenham when
48:44
Trafford played the ball, you know, there's that high risk of
48:48
playing out of the back. If the teams good at it, it
48:50
works great. You, of course want to keep
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possession, but I feel like, again, this is a trend and we're
48:55
seeing the numbers back this up. Look, you like for goalies going
48:58
a little bit more long with the ball, saying again, I'm curious
49:02
for you, if you were the manager of your team, Luca, what are you
49:05
instructing your goalie to do? Puts the ball down?
49:07
Do you want them to go short? Do you want them to go medium or
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are you playing it long? I'm kind of playing it long
49:12
because like, you never know, because bacon, you're bouncing.
49:15
Fall to one of your players and they could score rather than
49:19
burning at the back. You're risky, like losing the
49:22
ball and the other team scoring rather than going on and you
49:28
maybe could have a chance to score on the other team.
49:32
OK, alright, I like it. All right, Luca, let's move on.
49:36
Are you ready for the penalty kick trivia shootout?
49:39
Let's go and all our shows with a little bit of soccer trivia
49:42
going back and forth. Penalty kick shootout style.
49:45
All right, Luca, do you want to go first or do you want to go
49:49
second? I will.
49:50
Ask first. All right, Luca's asking first.
49:53
We got 5 questions each, so Luca asked the first question.
49:57
The two stars on Nottingham versus Emblem represent what?
50:03
I believe is it for Cup Winners Cup?
50:10
What kind of cup? Cup like Champions League?
50:15
What was it called before? That to you?
50:16
It's two European Cups, the Champions League before every.
50:20
Time. Yeah, they give that to you.
50:22
So I, I, I'm going to say like, it went off the goalie's hands,
50:25
but it went in, you know, all right, Luke.
50:27
And my first question to you, Luke, is what Premier League
50:30
team plays at Ellen Rd. I didn't hear about this
50:38
Burnley. It is not Burnley, it is Leeds.
50:41
Burnley plays a chosen bar. Luca skies it over the bar.
50:45
Miss Oh. My goodness, like.
50:47
Question #2. In which year did Arsenal win
50:51
their first FA Cup? Oh boy, 1934.
50:59
You're close. 1930 Mist hits the post.
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Hits the post with a mist all right Luca, one of your favorite
51:06
players of all time Ronaldo this should be easy for you you know
51:09
all things Ronaldo how many balandors that means for people
51:13
that don't quite know Balandors is like best player in the world
51:16
award how many has Ronaldo won six wrong 5 he's.
51:21
Like 5. All right, still up 1.
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Nothing. Shot 3.
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Go ahead. Next club is known as the LA Bla
51:29
Grana. Oh, Barcelona, Yeah.
51:33
Yeah, too easy. All right, Speaking of
51:35
nicknames, Luca, what Premier League team is nicknamed the
51:38
Magpies? The Newcastle.
51:40
That's right, Luca's on the board.
51:44
Chelsea's all time leading goal scorer.
51:47
Zola. No Frank Williward.
51:51
Oh. Man OK, All right, Luca, tell me
51:56
all the club teams Lionel Messi has played for.
51:59
OK, so he's played for Newell's Old Boys, Barcelona, PSG into
52:06
Miami. That is correct, yes.
52:08
You got all right, Lucas. So we're at 22 going into our
52:12
last shot. All right, Juventus all time
52:16
leading goal scorer. Juventus is all time leading
52:19
goal scorer. Gosh that's a tough one.
52:24
Thinking back on some old Juventus abagio.
52:27
That's close. It's one of the choices here,
52:29
Del Piro. I shouldn't.
52:31
All right, Luca for the win. Luca, in the 1986 World Cup, we
52:35
had one of the most famous moments ever in soccer.
52:38
Diego Maradona for Argentina. The famous hand of God goal,
52:43
right? Everybody knows that goal.
52:44
We've seen the video a million times, right?
52:46
Luca Who did they score against? England?
52:49
Luca slotted for the win. Luca got me again.
52:56
And let's do the 6th. For fun here, go ahead.
52:59
What was your bonus? The record for most assists in
53:04
the history of Real Madrid Help. I have choices.
53:10
Give me, give me choices. OK Ozil, B Gucci, 3 Benzema or D
53:18
Cristiano Ronaldo. Ozil.
53:22
Benzema. Benzema with a cyst,
53:26
surprisingly too. All right, look, real quick.
53:28
My bonus question was what African nation has gone the
53:32
farthest in a World Cup? It was like Garner.
53:37
Good, yes, on that Morocco, they finished.
53:41
Fucking country there you. Go.
53:42
You got to brush up on your geography.
53:47
Belly kick, shootouts over. You win again.
53:52
Quick plug Luca for the Premier League Playground.
53:55
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54:00
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54:10
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54:14
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And there's the final whistle, Luca, and that's full time for
54:22
us. No extra time's over.
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Bye. Thank you for listening.
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Bye everybody. Thanks.