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Week 33 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, and welcome into Week 33 of the Premier League
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  playground. I am the dad.
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  Bjorn with me is the lad, the star.
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  Luca Miller. And how are you today, Luca?
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  I'm doing good. How are you?
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  Doing really well. So we are, we're jumping on here
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  Luca getting this pot out because Week 34 is already
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  started here. The Premier League has games,
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  they finished up Week 33 on Monday and boom, right into
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  games on Tuesday. We have two on Wednesday,
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  Friday, kind of spread out all week here.
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  But Luca, before we dive in to the Premier League games, you
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  had a big tournament this weekend.
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  How did it go? We won, yeah.
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  So we tied our first game 33 and we won our next 321.
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  And in the finals we were down, won nothing until like the 5th
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  minute or not. The 5th minute took 5 minutes
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  left and then my teammates scored a really nice free kick
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  and with 13 seconds to go in the game, my teammates scored and we
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  won. So that was really cool, yeah.
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  Yeah, I mean, it's pretty amazing.
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  I mean, I feel like you're underselling this a little bit.
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  Luca. You literally you your team
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  scored on the last play of the game.
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  They. Didn't even do the kickoff they.
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  Didn't even do the kickoff. It was literally like 13 seconds
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  to go. They put the ball down and they
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  blew the whistle and the game was over.
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  And not only do you guys win that game, that was the finals
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  of the tournaments. You guys were the Champs of the
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  of the tournament, you and your teammates, so obviously you're
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  thrilled about that. How do you think you did?
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  Well, I scored a corner kick, so my teammate said was known goal,
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  Son said. It was my goal.
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  I don't really know. I think it's my goal.
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  I'm just going to say it's my goal because I don't really
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  care. This was in the second game.
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  Of yeah. Oh, take me through that.
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  So like what? Tell me what describe it to.
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  Everybody I had a corner and what I was kicking it was so
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  bad. So I kicked it and it went to
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  the near post and it kind of like slipped through and it kind
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  of hit off one of the other teams players and went in.
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  I think if that ball kept going and like there was no one there
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  and think it would have been on target.
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  So I'm going to say it's my goal because of that.
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  I also had a nice assist in that game where I was played a ball
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  through and it was about to go out, but I barely saved it,
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  passed as my teammate and he scored.
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  Yeah, I think I played pretty well in the game.
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  Yeah. So yeah, what you're alluding
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  to, Luca, is the first three games, the field conditions were
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  rough. Not good.
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  The fields, it's been very dry down here in the southeast of
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  the United States. So the fields were very dry.
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  There wasn't a lot of grass. It was like almost sand on it.
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  And then at one point, you guys would be kicking the ball and
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  there'd just be like this haze of dust.
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  I. Mean it was.
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  Pretty rough conditions now. We always say, right, both teams
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  have to play in the same field, so you didn't complain about it.
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  I also had to play against like a super tall kid.
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  He was like 6 foot. Yeah, Luca's not really
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  exaggerating so in this. So this is the same game that
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  you scored and. Had the assistant.
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  The kid that so Luca, you're playing left wing, so probably
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  they're kind of right, mid, right wing on that team.
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  I mean, no exaggeration. He's probably the biggest kid
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  you've played all year. And Lucas?
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  The biggest kid I've ever seen. I don't know that Lucas
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  exaggerating when he says he was literally he had to be 510 five
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  eleven, close to 6 feet. It was unbelievable, right?
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  But I thought. He was like a man child.
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  Like a man child. I mean, I, I expected to go up
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  to him and be like, which kid's yours out there?
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  Kid during during my during my game, the other team at a corner
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  and I was like guardian and me and my teammate.
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  We asked the kid how old he was during the game and he said of
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  11. Well, I'm almost older than him
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  maybe. Maybe, but he he was huge.
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  However, I thought you held held your own pretty well against.
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  Him, yeah, I didn't really have. He didn't really do anything.
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  No, no, he didn't really do anything the whole.
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  Game so. But yeah, I thought, Luca, you
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  and your teammates, super proud of all you guys.
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  I thought you guys did really, really well.
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  You played some really good teams and you guys really played
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  well. Like you said, you tied your
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  first, then you went on to win your next three.
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  You guys have shown a lot of improvement as a team and and
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  individually. So it was, like I said, well
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  deserved you. But the team you played the
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  finals were a very, very good team and you guys hung in there
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  and like I said, it was super dramatic with the free kick goal
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  and then scoring on like, like he said, a.
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  Little yeah, my teammate, he like clipped the ball with his
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  like kinky toe nail and it just trickled into the goal.
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  And then he like my coach said he like closed his eyes and just
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  kicked it. And when I was about to come on,
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  when he scored and I heard from the background, my coach going,
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  Oh my God, when it when it went in.
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  It was pretty dramatic. The parents on the sideline were
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  just like staring at each other like what just happened.
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  And me and my teammates who are about to come on, yeah, we're I,
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  I like ran onto the field for a second because I I was about to
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  come on and I just wanted to celebrate with everybody.
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  They're so good. Yeah, so it was a fun weekend.
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  Like I said, proud of you, proud of your teammates.
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  It was also and you. Wouldn't let me go to practice.
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  Well, it was also a much needed lift me up after getting a gut
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  punch by Arsenal losing the city which we'll get on to.
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  So thankfully Luca, you lifted my spirits on that day and made
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  me feel a little bit better after Arsenal losing.
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  But Luca, let's roll through week 33 of the Premier League.
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  OK, We started off with not exactly an exciting game.
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  Brentford hosted Fulham. Oh yeah this came in 00I
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  predicted me to 1 Brentford 5 jaws in a row, form had zero
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  shots on target and form only one win away in my state.
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  Yeah, it's it's the first time, Lucas, since April of 2023 that
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  Fulham had no shots on target in an away game.
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  I mean, that's pretty amazing to go 90 minutes and nobody can
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  shoot one ball on target. That's.
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  Rough I think I will be. Did come off injury though.
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  Yeah, yeah, I guess. Well, we came off injured.
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  That's not good. But this this sort of seems to
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  be what Fulham do, right? Just these sort of mixed bag of
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  results. They they drew their last games
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  is a draw loss, win, draw loss. I mean I.
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  Think that's a pattern. Yeah, a little bit, little bit.
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  So they should be due for a win next week.
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  So we'll see if they can keep this sort of pattern going.
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  But more. Look at Brentford though.
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  We Brentford, we're sitting there at one point sort of, you
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  know, locked into, you know, 6th place.
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  They were looking very good for a European spot. 5 draws in a
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  row. 5. Yeah, not exactly the time they
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  want to do this. They're still in the mix.
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  I mean, they're still on 48 points.
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  That's tied with Chelsea. That's yeah.
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  So that's, you know, so they're still in the mix here for Europa
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  League and you wrote, but they've got to start turning
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  some. Of the and the way Chelsea's
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  been playing, I I would take their chances.
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  Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. It's going to be whoever can
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  play. You know, like I said, Chelsea
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  are doing horrible. They have 4 losses in a row,
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  Brentford with all these draws. So you're looking like all
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  right, here comes Bournemouth with some wins, Brighton with
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  some wins moving up. Because it is really it's going
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  to go down to the wire here for for kind of 6th through 10th.
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  And we know that, you know, 6th and 7th are Europa and.
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  You wake up the conference. Well, Speaking of one of those
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  teams over that's been coming, Bournemouth went to Newcastle.
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  This game ends 21 Bournemouth I predict.
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  I predicted to be 31. Bournemouth Cat.
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  Call on you predicting a Bournemouth win on the road.
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  Yeah, they've been good on the road.
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  They beat us or yeah and they beat us and they beat Newcastle.
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  So Cavaniers scores in the 32nd minute, Suva then in the 68th
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  minute and then True Fair in the 85th minute.
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  Born in 13 games unbeaten, longest ever run in Premier
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  League. Osua got third goal goal in last
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  four. Yeah, Osua has been getting the
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  start for them at striker, even over Voltamada.
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  It was like a big summer signing.
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  But Luca, Newcastle's eighth loss in 11.
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  Only Spurs have more losses since the start of 2026.
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  It's pretty amazing that Newcastle, like I said, are
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  second for total losses since the start of the year.
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  What have we talked about? They're just a huge
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  disappointment to ME3 losses in a row they've got.
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  They've got to go to Arsenal. That'll be an interesting game
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  because usually Newcastle give us problems but hopefully we're
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  catching them in bad form because obviously we desperately
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  need a win. But more of the story here.
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  Looking at me as Bournemouth, like you said, it's incredible
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  run of being unbeaten. They're now on 48 points so
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  again they have clearly put themselves in the mix here to
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  try to finish in 6th or 7th and they are playing great.
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  Nice wins for them on the road, beating Arsenal and Newcastle
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  and back-to-back weeks. Yeah, yeah.
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  All right, Luca, let's move over to Leeds hosting Wolves.
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  I got this spot on. I predicted it to be 3 nothing
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  and it was 3 nothing. Justin in the 18th minute scores
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  a bicycle kick and which is really good off of a corner.
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  Okafor in the 20th minute off of a really nice ball from Brendan
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  Aaronson and then dominant Calvin Moon in the 96 minute
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  penalty. Weed come back-to-back Premier
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  League matches for first time all season.
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  They win back-to-back matches for the first time all season
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  and the XG was lead 2.78 to Wolves 0.54 and Wolves are
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  officially relegated. Wolves are officially relegated.
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  Yep, and Leeds Luca while not officially staying up.
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  To me this pretty much ices it. They're now eight points above
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  Tottenham here with five to go. I think it's pretty safe to say
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  Leeds are staying up. They've done great work here
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  over the last four weeks, two wins and two draws, so they have
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  done enough. It'll be a good season for them.
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  It looks like they're going to stay up, so great job by them.
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  Like I said, they've played well all year.
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  They've been kind of a interesting team to watch, but
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  they're going to consider this season a big success staying up
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  and like I said, get it done when they need to here.
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  Like I said, not a totally mathematically staying up, but
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  they're in a great spot on 39 points.
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  All right, Luca, well, speaking to one of those teams in the
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  relegation battle. Your boys here, Tottenham
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  Hotspurs. They were.
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  What? Well, they're the team I when I
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  say your boys more, the team you're desperate for them to
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  get. Rough.
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  Oh yeah. They hosted Brighton.
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  This game ends 22. I predict it to be two on
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  Brighton. Pedro Poro scores in the 39th
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  minute, Matoma scored a really nice goal in the 49th minute, 45
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  + 4. Then Seaman scored another
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  really nice goal in the 77th minute and Ruter equalizes off
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  the bench in the 96th minute. Spurs winless and last 15
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  Premier League matches and Brighton got 11th goal from the
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  substitute tie with Arsenal for Motion the Premier League.
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  Yeah, it's a big goal for Brighton.
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  I didn't know we had that many. Arsenal had that many substitute
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  goals. Yeah, they've been getting a
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  fair amount. I mean, you know, we typically
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  make a lot of Subs. So, you know, usually we are
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  subbing in, you know, wingers and a lot of times, you know,
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  Geo Chris would come out. So I think it's a matter that we
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  do tend to make a lot of attacking substitutions in
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  games. A lot of it too is that we're in
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  very tight games. So we're either tied and we're
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  trying to, you know, get a goal. A lot of times if you're up 3,
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  nothing, maybe you just set that midfielders or you take a
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  forward off for a defender. But we're rarely in an easy
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  cruising went to a win situation.
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  But yeah, look, it's a big point for Brighton.
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  Like I said, you know, Brighton, like, you know, are right again,
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  right? They've been playing great right
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  in the mix there to try to get 6th place.
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  So, you know, they get a point. Spurs, I don't know, Luca, is it
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  a good point for Spurs or this, this?
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  Obviously they're disappointed. No, they need.
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  To win 6 minute, but you know, at least it just sort of breaks
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  these two losses. Luckily West Ham tied 2 so they
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  didn't lose any ground to West Ham, but it's another game down
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  Luca where they're still in 18th, which it means relegation
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  spot 2 points behind West Ham but now five behind Forest,
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  eight behind leads. It's starting to feel, Luca,
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  like it's definitely going to be maybe West Ham, Tottenham still
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  forest a little bit for that last spot.
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  Yeah. Who are you?
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  Who are? Who's your pick to go down?
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  Is it still? Spurs.
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  Tottenham. All right.
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  And yeah, it's not just with your heart.
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  No. Brain too, no.
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  Yes. So.
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  So you think like right now West Ham's a better team than Spurs?
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  Yes. OK, All right.
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  Yeah. You know, Spurs looked better in
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  this game. No, they didn't.
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  They did look better. There was a little bit more.
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  Effort. They created a little bit more,
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  you know, this is Deserbi's second game with them, so maybe
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  then. And he's already doing 4.
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  Look, you can't win against the old team.
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  This is all with your heart what you're talking.
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  About This is all with your heart.
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  OK, look, it's going to be super interesting.
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  Tottenham, Luca, they play. Wolves must win.
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  They will not win they. Well, we'll see what your pick
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  is when we get to it, but I'm just saying this isn't one they
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  have to win, absolutely have to win.
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  You cannot tie, cannot lose. You're playing a team that's art
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  now been officially relegated. So it may it may be a little bit
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  of do or die time here for Spurs.
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  But like I said, West Ham chance to pull away.
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  They did not do it. So it's so 2 point gap there.
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  All right, Luca, a game that you and I have been to the past two
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  Premier League seasons. We have been to Stamford Bridge
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  and we have seen Chelsea play Man United.
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  We saw him two years ago and last year, Luca, we did not go
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  this year. We did not make it three years
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  in a row. Yeah, but you predicted a big
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  score. I think it's because two years
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  ago we saw an absolutely crazy, bonkers game there.
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  We did not get that big score. But however, you did predict the
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  winner and the gold differential here.
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  Yeah, Simmons, one. No, Man United, I predicted
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  could be 4. Three Man United Kuna scores in
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  the 43rd minute, assisted by Bruno.
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  Bruno is now 2 assists away from the Premier League, tying the
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  Premier League record of 20 and United now 10 points ahead of
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  Chelsea and Chelsea. Four straight losses were at
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  scoring a goal. I was watching the Brighton game
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  today and I saw it was in like 16th minute.
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  It said Chelsea have gone 400 minutes without scoring a goal,
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  He said their last goal of the commentators together last goal
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  was against Aston Villa when Pedro.
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  Pedro scored their Patrick. It is unbelievable.
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  How does a team with like that, like the amount of quality guys
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  not be able to score one goal and now what 4?
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  100 minutes, probably more than that now.
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  Yeah, so we're halfway through. They're currently playing
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  Brighton and they're they have no goals that.
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  Happen and they're losing. And they're losing.
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  Look at 4 now and a half Premier League games without one goal.
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  I mean, this is ridiculous. How are they still in six?
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  How how they're like. Well, if this result stands,
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  they will drop. Brighton will move two points
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  ahead of them. So yeah, they're they're now
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  getting to the point where they've let, they've basically
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  now almost given Liverpool, Villa and United the last three
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  Champions League spots. They're barely even competing
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  for those. And now what they've done is
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  they've basically gone down to the point where Luca, they could
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  finish out of all European spots.
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  Actually. Yeah, I mean, look, if they if
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  they lose today, they'd be on 48 points tied with Brentford, tied
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  with Bournemouth, who would have a game in hand, one point behind
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  Everton, who have a game in hand, 2 points behind
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  Sunderland, who would have a game in hand.
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  So some of those teams are going to win.
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  They they could. This is this whole thing between
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  6th through 10th and 11th is like, if you lose a game and
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  people win, you can go from 6 to 10th in one week.
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  So they have, they're in like a real dogfight now and they're
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  playing way worse than Brighton, way worse than Bournemouth, way
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  worse than Everton, probably worse than Sunderland, probably
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  worse than Brentford. Like I mean, I have like no
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  faith in that Chelsea are going to get this done, nor do I
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  really care. I don't like Chelsea very much.
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  So let them finish outside European.
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  Chelsea are going to get Europe. But right now I I would say no.
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  No, but like not right, not technically speaking right now.
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  Do you think at the end of the season they will not have
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  Europe? No, that's what I mean.
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  If you're asking me right now to make a pick on it, I do not
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  think they're going to, no. Any European?
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  Yes, I think, I think they're going to finish outside the top
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  seven. Wow.
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  Yeah, I look, I just look at like the teams that are playing
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  well. And granted, like I said, we're
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  looking we're down to like 5 games here in the season.
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  Like it's not like, well, just give it another week or two.
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  You can turn it around. They're after this week, Luca.
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  They'll have four games left. You know, I, no, I, I don't
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  think that I see a whole lot from Chelsea, Cole, Palmer, Luca
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  had us apparently a minor hamstring, so he's out.
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  Ciao, Pedro. 'S again.
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  Yeah, I mean, it's like, you know, this is what we talked
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  about with Arsenal, like not having your best guys.
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  Esther, Val's out. So they're not, you know,
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  they're in a little bit, you know, again, they were playing
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  poorly even with those guys. But of course, you know, it's
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  like the Arsenal thing, like we even when we have our best guys,
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  we're not exactly like playing great.
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  But certainly you'd like to have your best guys.
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  So no, I don't. And maybe it's just cuz I would
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  love to see them. I just, I don't like Chelsea, I
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  don't like the way they're run, I don't like some of the things
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  they do and I would love to see them finish outside of European
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  spots. That would be crazy.
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  Yeah. Oh, I I was expecting you to say
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  something about the next game. So.
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  Let's move on to the next game, Luca.
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  Big, big rivalry. One of the biggest rivalries in
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  the Premier League. Merseyside Derby Everton hosting
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  Liverpool, the first Merseyside Derby at the Hill Dickinson
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  Stadium. This game was absolutely
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  bonkers. 2 stretchered off players.
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  Do you know what happened to either of the So Mormon Ash
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  really got had to be stretchered off?
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  He's a goalie. Yeah.
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  So I will talk about that in a second.
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  But I'll the goals so solace or scores in the 29th minute, Beto
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  equalizes in the 54th minute and that's when Mormon Ash really
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  gets hurt. And I don't, I don't know if you
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  know what happened. No, I don't know.
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  I know Branthwaite was a bad hamstring injury.
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  Is he going to have to have surgery on it again?
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  He's already had a surgery on it so.
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  Yeah, yeah. Not good.
• 18:15
  And the Virgil Van Dyke and the 101st minute gets the winner off
• 18:19
  of a corner. I mean, adds absolutely gutting
• 18:22
  for Everton and as great for Liverpool and for Sala.
• 18:27
  That's his last Merseyside, Darby.
• 18:30
  Ever he gets a big goal for. Him, yeah.
• 18:33
  The captain steps up Luca. Yeah, it's big.
• 18:36
  Liverpool now 7 points up on Chelsea for 5th place and
• 18:39
  Everton now in 10th but only one point behind Chelsea for six.
• 18:43
  Everything's just on Chelsea right now.
• 18:45
  I don't know what. It is, yeah.
• 18:46
  Well, they seem to. They they seem to be that sort
• 18:48
  of linchpin where for a while they were chasing the Champions
• 18:51
  League spots. Now that's.
• 18:53
  Now they're trying to hang on for Europe.
• 18:55
  Yeah, Luca. So Virgil van Dyke's goal, the
• 18:58
  third latest winning goal in Premier League history.
• 19:02
  You know, we had the the latest being, of course the Newcastle,
• 19:06
  Leeds game in January and then the second latest again, a game
• 19:10
  you and I were at Chelsea, Man United in April 2024.
• 19:13
  That was the second latest goal. This is now the third latest
• 19:16
  winning goal in Premier League history.
• 19:19
  You know, what can you say, Luca?
• 19:21
  This is this. This goal is the third latest.
• 19:23
  3rd latest winning goal in Premier League history.
• 19:26
  The Cole Palmer's winning goal that we saw was the second.
• 19:30
  What's the 1st? The the game in January, the
• 19:33
  Newcastle Leeds game. Oh yeah, it was like 104.
• 19:38
  Yeah, I can't remember who actually scored it.
• 19:40
  Was Harvey Bonds. Harvey Bonds, Yeah.
• 19:41
  So that was the latest goal. Like I said, you so for a while
• 19:43
  when you and I were at that game when when Cole Palmer scored
• 19:46
  that goal, that was the latest winner for you know what a
• 19:49
  almost two years until wow, January.
• 19:52
  That was in January. I felt later than that I don't.
• 19:55
  Yeah, they have it listed down here in January.
• 19:58
  OK, Yeah, we'll go Liverpool, like I said, again, you know,
• 20:01
  putting some distance between them and the rest, kind of
• 20:03
  securing that last Champions League spot.
• 20:05
  So disappointing scene for them being obviously the defending
• 20:08
  champs, but they'll they'll get Champions League, it looks like
• 20:10
  and they'll probably try to regroup, you know?
• 20:14
  And we'll see what they kind of look like over the summer.
• 20:15
  They've got to make a couple moves, probably to to, you know.
• 20:19
  They already spent like a billion dollars last year.
• 20:22
  I know that's what teams do though, even.
• 20:23
  Having that much money to spend this year.
• 20:26
  Yeah, well, we'll see. I mean, you know the.
• 20:28
  Salary cap is got to be going. Well, it really isn't much of A
• 20:32
  salary cap and, and it's not, there's not like a traditional
• 20:34
  hard cap and there's, there's, they put some spending rules in
• 20:37
  place. Oh, I I meant yeah, like not
• 20:40
  salary cap, but like like they're spending them out so
• 20:44
  they don't get like fined and. But Liverpool sell players well,
• 20:47
  too, you know, So it's a combination of of money coming
• 20:50
  in versus money going out. You know, I mean, they sold
• 20:52
  Trent for, what, $80 million for Real Madrid?
• 20:55
  They tend to sell players. They didn't get that much.
• 20:57
  Oh, that's right. I'm sorry.
• 20:58
  Yeah. Who am I thinking of that they
• 20:59
  sold for big money, I guess. Really.
• 21:02
  Yeah. Oh, maybe Luis Diaz.
• 21:04
  They sold him for like 60 million.
• 21:05
  Yeah, maybe that's what I'm thinking of, the Diaz sign,
• 21:08
  you're right. And.
• 21:08
  Then that was kind of it, like Jugo, Choko Salvi died.
• 21:13
  I think he would have still have been on the team.
• 21:14
  This. Year, yeah, Harvey Elliott was
• 21:15
  alone. You're right.
• 21:18
  Trent left on a free. It's a good call.
• 21:21
  Yeah, we'll see, Luca. But all right, Luca, let's move
• 21:24
  over to a team that was, you know, well, probably still in
• 21:27
  the relegation mix, but Nottingham Forest hosted Burnley
• 21:31
  in a big game for them. Yeah, this game ended 41
• 21:34
  Nottingham Forest. I predicted it to be two.
• 21:37
  Nothing. Nottingham Forest, Burnley
• 21:40
  actually score first. Fleming in 45 + 3.
• 21:44
  Put Brantford or Burnley up. Gibbs White gets a 15 minute hat
• 21:50
  trick with 62nd minute, 69th minute and 77th minute and Igor
• 21:55
  Jay Zeus scores in the 90 + 9. Gibbs White on the third.
• 22:00
  Nottingham Forest prior to score hat trick in the Premier League
• 22:04
  and Nottingham Forest now 5 above sport first.
• 22:07
  Yeah, the other ones for Forest, Kevin Campbell in 1996 and Chris
• 22:11
  Wood did it twice in 2023 and 2025.
• 22:14
  Got hat tricks, Gibbs, White, Luca, like he's like basically
• 22:17
  putting them on the back of their the team on his back.
• 22:19
  And it's like, I'm not letting this team go down.
• 22:22
  That kind of Fleming for Burnley's not bad.
• 22:25
  Yeah, he, I think he's probably their best player.
• 22:27
  He. Said some good so look at he's
• 22:28
  got 8 away goals which is kind of interesting.
• 22:31
  Only Holland and Thiago have more.
• 22:33
  This season. Yeah, this guy's like a knack
• 22:35
  for just scoring on the road. Wait but he was like brought in
• 22:39
  in winter? He's already got 8 away goals.
• 22:41
  I think he's been there all year.
• 22:43
  I don't think he was a no. Because he was a Dortmund start
• 22:45
  of the year. Well, we'll have to check that,
• 22:48
  but I, I, I thought, I feel like Fleming's been there.
• 22:50
  Because I have a 2526 card that has Pascal Gross on Dortmund I
• 22:56
  could have sworn they brought. Pascal Gross.
• 23:00
  Wait, who are we? Who are we talking about?
• 23:01
  Oh, we were talking about Fleming.
• 23:03
  I thought we were talking about Gross.
• 23:04
  No, no, I'm talking about yeah, Fleming for for Burnley.
• 23:08
  Oh, right. Right, right.
• 23:09
  Yeah, Fleming. He's got 8 away goals so wow.
• 23:12
  Yeah, it is a little bit interesting.
• 23:14
  Yeah, he's probably their top ball scorer, right?
• 23:18
  I think so I'd have to. Look, I don't think anyone else
• 23:20
  is near. No, I wouldn't think.
• 23:22
  Yeah. I mean, Burnley don't have a lot
• 23:23
  of big scorers. So yeah, they're they're one of
• 23:26
  the other teams. They're gonna get relegated at
• 23:28
  some point. They'll be Next up to get
• 23:29
  officially relegated. Yeah, because we we talked about
• 23:32
  already in a big three points for Forest.
• 23:34
  There are five points ahead of Spurs.
• 23:36
  So they're in a good spot here. They just got to sort of keep
• 23:38
  doing. They've been kind of a tough out
• 23:40
  here lately, five games in the Premier League, unbeaten.
• 23:42
  So just like Leeds, they're kicking it on here at the right
• 23:45
  time to make sure that they stay up and big effort from gives
• 23:48
  away. Yeah.
• 23:50
  All right, look, probably was. I mean, probably definitely the
• 23:53
  most entertaining game of the week.
• 23:54
  Villa hosting Sunderland. Holy smokes this game was fun.
• 23:58
  Yeah, this game and four, three, we were actually watching the
• 24:00
  Everton, Liverpool game and we got a score update that it was
• 24:04
  3/2 Sunderland and then 33 Sunderland and we were like Oh
• 24:08
  my gosh, we've got to put this game on.
• 24:10
  So, yeah, what can scores in the second minute, then what is it?
• 24:18
  Who's it run or rig, rig, rig. Yeah, rig.
• 24:23
  He scores in the ninth minute to equalize walking.
• 24:26
  Scores again in the 36th minute. Then Rogers in the 46th minute
• 24:31
  to put so, Astonville up 31 and Hume in the 86th minute and
• 24:36
  Isador in the 87th minute. And then Abraham scores in the
• 24:40
  94th minute to get the winner. Watkins now has 10 or more goals
• 24:46
  in all six of his Premier League season seasons.
• 24:50
  Aston Villa now 10 points above Chelsea in fourth place.
• 24:53
  How many times do we say Chelsea today?
• 24:56
  I know. I think it just goes to show you
• 24:58
  like, you know this, how safe now these top five teams are for
• 25:02
  Champions League. For a while, we felt like it was
• 25:04
  a real battle. Who was going to get that fifth
• 25:05
  spot? Liverpool, Villa, you know,
• 25:09
  doing enough now and Chelsea are just the bottoms dropped out.
• 25:13
  So I think that's the kind of the point of this is a Chelsea
• 25:15
  where that team, you're thinking, all right, there's six
• 25:17
  teams for five spots, but Chelsea just completely falling
• 25:20
  off. So now it's really five teams
• 25:22
  for five spots. So I don't know that that's
• 25:24
  going to really go down to the wire.
• 25:26
  We thought that could be a real exciting finish between, you
• 25:28
  know, Villa, Liverpool, Chelsea, maybe one of those other teams,
• 25:31
  but it's not looking that way. Villa looking very, very safe to
• 25:35
  to get one of those top spots. Sunderland.
• 25:38
  Oh, man, Luke, a brutal loss. You know, that last goal, you
• 25:41
  feel for the goalie when that you get that curling ball across
• 25:45
  that like, you have to kind of and then a guy's come in, but
• 25:47
  you have to kind of wait because you can't commit.
• 25:50
  If you go and think the guy's going to tap it, then the ball
• 25:53
  could just roll right by you. But if you do that, you don't
• 25:55
  want the guys going to tap. You get kind of caught in
• 25:56
  between. Tammy Abraham does duck just
• 25:59
  just enough on it to get it in. But yeah, super fun game to
• 26:03
  watch. I mean, just like you said, the
• 26:04
  goals and the comeback, the two goals and within a minute for
• 26:07
  Sunderland, yeah, really entertaining.
• 26:10
  Sunderland have been a fun team all year to watch.
• 26:12
  They're gonna be just kind of finished mid table, but boy they
• 26:15
  sure could have used a draw or a win here if they wanted to kind
• 26:18
  of challenge for hiring the table.
• 26:20
  But yeah. All right, Luca, Well, we have
• 26:24
  two games left. Let's just knockout Palace West
• 26:26
  Ham and then we'll get on to City Arsenal, but really wasn't
• 26:29
  much to talk about here. Palace, West Ham.
• 26:31
  I predicted a tie. It was.
• 26:32
  I predicted 11. It was 00.
• 26:35
  You had some good predictions this.
• 26:36
  Week, I know I had one spot on and a bunch that were right.
• 26:39
  Yeah, yeah. West Ham 2 points above Spurs in
• 26:42
  17th place and the extra for Crystal Palace was 0.68 versus
• 26:47
  0.61 for West Ham. Yeah, and it just wasn't much in
• 26:51
  this game, you see. Like it's not even.
• 26:53
  Nobody really created a whole lot.
• 26:54
  It sounds like you didn't really have much to write down for
• 26:57
  this. Yeah, I don't know that there
• 26:59
  was much in it. I watched some of this game, you
• 27:01
  know, some minor league good chances.
• 27:04
  Crystal Palace, they're I think they've given up the second
• 27:06
  fewest goals at home. They're just a tough team to
• 27:09
  score on at home. You know, I don't really know as
• 27:13
  much else to say about them. They're going to be kind of mid
• 27:15
  table. They're in 13th on 43 we've.
• 27:17
  Already. Yeah, we stood an hour and a
• 27:18
  half of football, like sitting there watching that game,
• 27:21
  praying for a goal. Yeah, well, I know we're, you
• 27:24
  know. That's an hour and a half I
• 27:26
  won't get back. West Ham and Tottenham really
• 27:28
  kind of in a battle for 18th and West Ham still 2 points above
• 27:31
  them, but a big game against Everton coming up.
• 27:33
  So sorry Luca. Well, the, the not what you
• 27:37
  know, not the result we wanted here.
• 27:39
  Massive, massive game Luca. Probably the biggest game of the
• 27:42
  Premier League season was, of course, City hosting Arsenal.
• 27:45
  We used to talk about this a lot.
• 27:46
  I know it's been hard talking about Arsenal recently, hasn't
• 27:49
  it? Yeah, not.
• 27:51
  Been a lot of fun. How about we just talk about how
• 27:53
  it should go on holiday? Haverts did score.
• 27:57
  They go at some goat technique right there.
• 28:00
  Well I I may push back on the goat technique because Haverts
• 28:03
  had a breakaway and a free header that he did not.
• 28:06
  Score. OK, well, you can't.
• 28:10
  Why do you always focus on the negatives?
• 28:12
  I'm not. Well, because you keep calling
• 28:13
  them the GOAT. That's why I'm not.
• 28:15
  In fact, I actually think Habert's put in a very good
• 28:17
  shift and played great. Well, I mean, look, we could
• 28:19
  just knock it out here, just go through the things, then we'll
• 28:21
  we'll get on to the talking about it.
• 28:23
  So. Do we have to talk about it?
• 28:25
  Yes, yes, I think we should talk about it for a little bit.
• 28:27
  I think it'll be good for us to to.
• 28:29
  Not that long, no, because I don't want to hear about it.
• 28:31
  OK, fair enough. Like Cherokee in the 16th
• 28:34
  minute, he scores. Haverts 2 minutes later, scores
• 28:37
  in the 18th minute after Donaruma, like Haverts, is
• 28:40
  pressuring Donaruma. Donaruma goes for a long ball
• 28:44
  and Haverts blocks it and it just skims in.
• 28:47
  So yeah, I'll take it. And we were freaking out.
• 28:52
  You were like, what was going on?
• 28:54
  And Holland then scores in the 65th minute.
• 29:00
  Of course. I mean, just why?
• 29:02
  He's inevitable. Yeah, Holland has now scored in
• 29:07
  four straight Premier League matches against Arsenal, sitting
• 29:10
  out three behind with a game in hand.
• 29:13
  Yeah, so couple things, you know, Luca, take on the first
• 29:18
  goal Cherokee, who's been who's who is becoming I?
• 29:21
  Don't like him at? All player, however.
• 29:24
  He's turning. Bernardo Silva's leaving, but
• 29:27
  now we got to deal with this loser.
• 29:29
  So, but he is a really good skilled player to watch when he
• 29:35
  sort of, I mean, he sort of slaloms and dribbles through
• 29:37
  about three of our players. Are you like when you look at
• 29:42
  this goal, is this a goal where you're like, man, that's like
• 29:44
  amazing footwork, great dribbling?
• 29:47
  Or you look at Arsenal's defense and being like, they should do
• 29:49
  better there? Where are you on that?
• 29:51
  I think the dribbling was good, but I also think our defense
• 29:54
  should have been a little stronger there.
• 29:55
  Like everyone was just kind of like stabbing, just putting a
• 29:58
  foot there hoping that it would work out and it did not and they
• 30:03
  scored. So I think it's a little bit of
• 30:05
  both A. Little bit of OK.
• 30:06
  I think this is the advantage of having the ball in the box is
• 30:09
  that defenders cannot not really lunge in because you're afraid
• 30:13
  if you foul, you're will. They step like, don't just stick
• 30:16
  with. Them, well, I think they were
• 30:17
  stepping. I think, you know, like I think
• 30:19
  it's Eze, maybe the first person he gets by, I feel like could
• 30:22
  have done a little bit better. And then he sort of gets in
• 30:24
  there and Gabrielle sort of puts his leg out to try to block it.
• 30:27
  You know, you're at that point, you're trying to just not let
• 30:29
  him get by you and he puts his leg out to block it.
• 30:32
  I mean, it, it's a, the guy is really, really good on the ball
• 30:36
  and he's sort of, it's sort of what he does.
• 30:38
  But yeah, I'm kind of with you though.
• 30:39
  I would have liked to seen a little bit better defending
• 30:42
  there. But on the other hand, it is
• 30:44
  like a wonderful piece of skill the way he gets through then,
• 30:48
  like you said, literally in a moment's eye, Don Aruma, Luca,
• 30:51
  which I think this is like the deal you make when you sign Don
• 30:54
  Aruma. He's an amazing shot stopper.
• 30:57
  But he's not very good with. His he's not very good with his
• 30:58
  feet, so you just have to realize he's going to, he's
• 31:00
  going to like probably give up two or three goals a year with
• 31:04
  his feet making mistakes, but he's going to save you a bunch
• 31:06
  of goals to being a such a good shot stopper.
• 31:08
  Because that's the risk you're willing to take.
• 31:10
  Yeah. And so he takes a heavy touch,
• 31:12
  the ball gets played back to him and he takes a heavy touch and
• 31:14
  it's a little too far away. Credit, though, on Habert's
• 31:17
  because not everybody tries to close down the goalkeeper as
• 31:21
  much as Habert's did. And the heavy touch, Habert's
• 31:24
  closes it down and Donna Ruma basically slams it off Habert's
• 31:27
  foot and it goes right in the goal.
• 31:28
  But this is one of those things that people, you can be like,
• 31:30
  it's a lucky goal, but I actually don't see it that way.
• 31:33
  I actually see it. The work to pressure him.
• 31:35
  Yeah, I think it's one of those where like, OK, the goal, you
• 31:37
  put the goalie under a little bit of pressure, he takes the
• 31:39
  heavy touch, you close them down.
• 31:41
  And Habert's is very good at pressing.
• 31:43
  And so it's one of those where I'm like, yeah, it's a mistake,
• 31:46
  but you capitalize on somebody's mistake.
• 31:48
  It's like if somebody gives the ball away in like a bad spot,
• 31:51
  you score. So I, I, I don't think it's a
• 31:53
  fluky goal. I don't think it's a lucky goal.
• 31:54
  You see this a couple times a year in the Premier League
• 31:56
  because goalies constantly have the ball at their feet.
• 31:59
  And so you know what, sometimes they make mistakes, you know,
• 32:04
  now one other play, Luke, I I got to get your opinion on this.
• 32:06
  So have her, have her. So, Holland and Gabrielle, what
• 32:10
  a battle, What a battle. I mean, I love how the referee
• 32:13
  in that game did not like do much about it.
• 32:16
  They were going at it. They were going at it, I think
• 32:19
  both going at it equally and that is like a battle.
• 32:21
  I mean that is like a world class center back in Gabrielle
• 32:24
  against maybe the best striker on the planet in Holland.
• 32:26
  And that is like a like what a matchup to see those 2GO at it.
• 32:31
  But you know, eventually Luca, a lot of clutching, a lot of
• 32:34
  grabbing. They the referee.
• 32:36
  I was like you said he let it go.
• 32:37
  He let it go both ways. And so like it is what it is.
• 32:41
  If you wanted to call tighter, that's fine.
• 32:43
  You know, as long as they're calling it equally.
• 32:45
  Calling shortcut rips by Gabriel.
• 32:47
  Shortcut ripped. But Luca, there's a situation
• 32:50
  where there's a foul. They kind of get up in each
• 32:53
  other's faces. They just sort of go far head to
• 32:56
  far head, and then Gabrielle gives a little, sort of.
• 32:58
  Nudge. Nudge or push with his forehead.
• 33:01
  And that's not good. What?
• 33:03
  You cannot do that. So what now?
• 33:06
  Nothing was so they so they ended up bringing them over.
• 33:08
  Both got yellows and they had already called a foul on
• 33:12
  Gabrielle. So the city we're always going
• 33:13
  to have the free kick. However, a lot of people said
• 33:15
  should have been a red card. Where are you on that?
• 33:17
  I think, I think Gabrielle dodged a bullet there.
• 33:21
  I think that's definitely a red card.
• 33:23
  You cannot hit another person's No.
• 33:26
  The thing is, I don't know if he actually hit, but he went
• 33:29
  adamant and Holland's forehead got pushed back.
• 33:33
  So technically I think he kind of did hit him.
• 33:36
  So you cannot do that. And I think we got really lucky
• 33:41
  there. And I think he should have had a
• 33:43
  red, but yeah. So yeah, I think I'm kind of
• 33:46
  with you on this one. Like, you know, so it wasn't.
• 33:48
  Like a We were really nervous and that.
• 33:50
  It wasn't like a classic head butt where you like literally
• 33:53
  bring your head back, bang it on somebody's head, you know, like
• 33:56
  it was like the heads are there and he sort of just like pushes
• 33:59
  that are like they're literally forehead to forehead.
• 34:01
  I mean, touching and he sort of pushes his forehead.
• 34:04
  However, it's a very clear motion of moving your head
• 34:08
  towards somebody else's head. If Holland flops to the ground.
• 34:12
  And I mean, think about if they had done this to Bernardo Silva
• 34:15
  or if they'd done it to. Well, Bernardo Silva's not tall
• 34:17
  enough to. Well, I know, but you know my
• 34:19
  point. Certain types of players that
• 34:20
  would have thrown themselves on the ground rolled around like
• 34:23
  they'd literally been shot. And you know what, however?
• 34:26
  But if they do that, Gabrielle probably gets a red card.
• 34:30
  So let me say. This credit on Holland.
• 34:31
  I was just about to say this. I'm going to actually, I, I
• 34:34
  don't like, I don't like Holland mostly because he scored so many
• 34:37
  goals against us. It's like the Harry Kane effect
• 34:39
  where you're like, yeah, I get it, this guy's amazing, but can
• 34:41
  stop scoring against our team. But I I've got to give him big
• 34:44
  props on this. And he even said in the
• 34:46
  interview afterwards, he's like, I'm not going to do that.
• 34:48
  I'm not going to like, you know, throw myself on the ground and
• 34:50
  act that way. Although he knew Holland
• 34:52
  probably knew it. He goes, if I did do that, he
• 34:55
  probably would have gotten a red card.
• 34:57
  And somebody made a good point too.
• 34:58
  Not only would have Gabrielle been kicked out of the game, but
• 35:01
  think about look at three games we would have lost him for.
• 35:03
  How big would that have? That would have been violent
• 35:05
  conduct, right? Oh man.
• 35:08
  I know I didn't quite think about that, so somebody brought
• 35:09
  that up. I was like in the in the moment,
• 35:11
  I'm just like, Oh my gosh, we got totally lucky that he stayed
• 35:13
  on the field. Now it didn't impact the game.
• 35:16
  We ended. Up what he could have.
• 35:17
  But it could have. But also, I think about him
• 35:19
  like, what if we did not have Gabrielle for three of our next,
• 35:22
  you know? We play Newcastle and I'm not
• 35:24
  sure next two, but I know Newcastle and that's.
• 35:27
  So I like I said, and the other thing about Holland too, is
• 35:30
  after the game he was sort of, you know, he said, he even said
• 35:34
  Gabrielle, he goes he's like a world class defender.
• 35:36
  You know, I enjoy the battle. You know I.
• 35:39
  Think they do have respect for each other?
• 35:41
  I think so. I mean, I think it's, I think
• 35:43
  it's it walks a fine line with the two because, you know,
• 35:46
  there's a situation where where Holland threw the ball at the
• 35:48
  back of Gabrielle's head. I thought that was kind of
• 35:50
  childish and immature on his part after they'd scored a
• 35:52
  couple of year or two ago. And to tie it, by the way, yeah,
• 35:55
  I'm still not over it. I know, I know.
• 35:57
  So, you know, but I do, I do think there's one of those where
• 36:01
  and I, I get the feeling probably when these guys retire
• 36:03
  and look back on it, they're going to look back and be like,
• 36:05
  yeah. It's like Messi, Ronaldo, yeah,
• 36:07
  but it's a great battle. But I think like Messi and
• 36:09
  Ronaldo don't really like match up against each other like
• 36:12
  Gabrielle and Holland Luther, like they go at it like it is
• 36:16
  central defender versus central striker.
• 36:18
  And to me, you're talking about, I mean, I think Gabrielle is one
• 36:21
  of the best central defenders in the world and I think Holland is
• 36:24
  the best striker. In.
• 36:25
  In the world. So I I think like I kind of
• 36:28
  enjoy watching them go at it. You know, ultimately Luca
• 36:31
  Arsenal had chances in this game.
• 36:33
  I I so let me ask you this, Luca, are you looking back?
• 36:38
  It's obviously disappointed we lost.
• 36:41
  We know what that means, but do you take any consolation?
• 36:44
  Like what? I thought we actually played
• 36:45
  pretty well. Yeah, I did too.
• 36:47
  You know, I thought, look what, we could have gotten blown off
• 36:50
  the pitch before this game. I was honestly, what did I tell
• 36:52
  you? I feel like I was waiting around
• 36:53
  for my execution. Yeah, you, yeah, you were
• 36:55
  telling me that you said that like 3 times.
• 36:57
  It felt that way to me. Look, I was honest.
• 36:59
  There was, there was, there was a scenario in my head where I'm
• 37:02
  like, we may lose 5 nothing we've played so.
• 37:04
  FAR 5 Nothing. As well much so we're missing
• 37:08
  Timber, Calafury, Saka, all right, hugely important players,
• 37:13
  OK, and especially. When you could have used timber.
• 37:16
  Could have used timber against Doku right?
• 37:17
  I thought mascara did OK but Doku is a tough player to play
• 37:22
  against. You don't think we could use our
• 37:23
  best one-on-one defender against him?
• 37:25
  You don't think because they they had a lot of success coming
• 37:28
  down their left side against our right side.
• 37:30
  So Matt awake ain't not very good.
• 37:32
  Saka is much better tracking back helping.
• 37:34
  So if we had had Saka on the right right wing timber at the
• 37:37
  right back, I just think I don't know that it would.
• 37:40
  I'm not saying it would have changed the outcome of the game,
• 37:41
  but I think that was a big loss for us.
• 37:44
  The Calafiore thing. Kind of like you.
• 37:46
  Know and Capia actually played really well.
• 37:48
  He kind of limited Simeno to not very much.
• 37:51
  I think in Capia, so that's what I think in Capia gives you is
• 37:54
  like really good defense. Calafiore gives you the element
• 37:57
  of like going forward. I think in that game we needed a
• 37:59
  little more defense than offense.
• 38:01
  And I agree with you, except for like when there's 15 minutes to
• 38:04
  go in the game and we're like, OK, time to start trying to get
• 38:08
  a goal. I would have loved to have been
• 38:09
  able to bring Cala Fury in at left back and then have a little
• 38:12
  bit more of an attacking presence from the left back
• 38:15
  position. Just having that option.
• 38:17
  I guess that's what I'm saying. We just didn't have it.
• 38:20
  But I thought, look, it actually was a very good performance.
• 38:22
  I I just and and let me. It's just unlucky.
• 38:26
  With well, it's not unlucky, Luke, I mean it, it's, you know,
• 38:30
  they're cities. Look, go, we have not won at the
• 38:32
  Yeti Hat in 10 years or 11 years now.
• 38:35
  I think it's 2015 the last time we won and it's not an easy
• 38:39
  place to obviously go and get a win, all right.
• 38:41
  And so obviously we would have taken a tie.
• 38:44
  You know, again, what did I tell you the other day in the car?
• 38:47
  What I'm mad about is not that we lost 21 the city at the Eddie
• 38:50
  Hat is that this game was that big because we dropped points to
• 38:54
  Wolves, we dropped points to Forest, we lost the Bournemouth
• 38:57
  at home. Those those are the ones Luca
• 39:00
  that really stick in my crawl that I'm like, though, if you
• 39:03
  don't drop points in those games, this game doesn't feel as
• 39:06
  as monumental as it did. And so that's that.
• 39:08
  That's what bothers me is that Arsenal have those games to look
• 39:11
  at. Go if you go lose it Anfield,
• 39:13
  you go lose it. The Adi had OK.
• 39:15
  That's. Like some hardest places and
• 39:16
  great teams at home, like, you know, it's that we, we drop
• 39:20
  points in those other games when you can't do it.
• 39:22
  So I don't know, Luke, I, I think moving forward here, what
• 39:26
  I, what I here's what I want Luke, I want, I actually, I'm
• 39:28
  going to shout out the haverts. He he had a couple chances that
• 39:31
  he didn't take, but he played a really good game.
• 39:35
  I want him starting at forward for the rest of the season.
• 39:38
  I don't want you Chris anymore. Luca Haberts gives you so much
• 39:41
  more in hold up play, winning aerial duels.
• 39:43
  She's much more technical. I'm telling buddy he's the goat.
• 39:46
  Well stop saying he's the goat, because he's not the goat, but
• 39:49
  he's. The goat.
• 39:50
  But my point is, I just thought like it looked better.
• 39:53
  And also, look, I think, you know, what I'm ready for is to
• 39:55
  have Eze and Odegard on the field at the same time.
• 39:58
  We've barely had that, Luca. I want Eze and Odegard on the.
• 40:02
  Field, same thing. Two guys that.
• 40:04
  Are weird jets we need I think I would rather have zuba mendi
• 40:08
  rice essay. Yeah, no, I want Eze, like more
• 40:12
  of the left wing. I want a midfield of Zubamendi,
• 40:15
  Rice, Odegard. I want Eze at the left wing,
• 40:18
  haverts at striker, I guess. I don't know, I don't.
• 40:21
  Sacca may not even be back this year.
• 40:23
  Who knows? I mean, it's just like this just
• 40:24
  goes on from week to week. But certainly he hasn't even
• 40:27
  been that great. No, but I mean I do think it'd
• 40:29
  be a boost to get him back. He's also better than than Matt
• 40:32
  Awake and I just can't trust Dalman.
• 40:34
  I mean, he's 16 years old like. I would trust him.
• 40:37
  But maybe I maybe at this point you put Trostart on the right or
• 40:40
  Martinelli on the right if if you know.
• 40:43
  I did play on the right for a while, but I think.
• 40:45
  But I think my my point more Luca is Giochrist comes off the
• 40:48
  bench when we need him. Habert starts as a left wing.
• 40:51
  Because I just want to see guys that are creative on the ball
• 40:54
  that can create stuff as a look at that shot off the post.
• 40:57
  I mean, Oh my gosh. Gabrielle had one off the post.
• 41:00
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, we had chances.
• 41:02
  We had, I said. We're a little unlucky that we
• 41:04
  didn't. Well, I mean, look, the XG in
• 41:06
  this game was almost even, I think it was around 1 1/2 for
• 41:09
  each team. So it's like you look at it, I'm
• 41:11
  like the difference to me, Luca, is that they've got the best
• 41:14
  striker in the world. He get, you know, we held him in
• 41:17
  check pretty well, but he's like a handful.
• 41:20
  He kind of bullies Gabrielle off there and he scores the goal we
• 41:24
  had. We had just as many chances as
• 41:25
  they did. We just we don't have that guy.
• 41:28
  And that's no knock on Giocaris or habits like no other team in
• 41:31
  the world maybe besides Bayern with Harry Kane have a striker
• 41:35
  that, you know, lethal at the number 9 position.
• 41:37
  So, you know, like that just is what it is.
• 41:40
  But Luca, I'm going to try to be positive.
• 41:42
  You're more positive than I am. In general, yes.
• 41:44
  Here's the situation. All right, so City have a game
• 41:47
  in hand. We call you Eeyore because of
• 41:49
  that. There are three points behind us
• 41:51
  with a game in hand. OK.
• 41:53
  They could go top of the table on Wednesday.
• 41:56
  Tomorrow they could. So here's a situation, right,
• 41:58
  Luca? We get into tiebreakers now.
• 42:01
  What? Well, we got to start thinking
• 42:02
  about tiebreakers because right now City and Arsenal would then
• 42:05
  let's say City win their next game.
• 42:08
  We're tied on points and the games are even at that.
• 42:11
  So we currently, Luca have +1 for gold differential.
• 42:15
  But again, let's say that if they win by 1:00 tomorrow, we're
• 42:19
  literally even on points. We're even on gold differential.
• 42:23
  So do you know what the next tiebreaker?
• 42:26
  Is goals scored. Goals scored, OK City have more
• 42:29
  goals scored than us by like it's by like 5 so that probably
• 42:34
  would give them that tiebreaker. Do you know what the next
• 42:36
  tiebreaker though is after goals scored?
• 42:40
  Goals against. Good thought, but head to head
• 42:43
  record, then you do head to head away goals, then Luca playoff
• 42:49
  match at a neutral site. What?
• 42:52
  Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's ever gotten to this point.
• 42:54
  That could that could be possible.
• 42:56
  A playoff, a playoff like a Premier League final, basically.
• 43:00
  But. Think about So I started
• 43:02
  thinking about this. So I'm like, why don't they do a
• 43:04
  playoff like as the number one thing?
• 43:06
  How great would that be if City and Arsenal finish the season
• 43:09
  tied on points and you say great, you now both go to
• 43:13
  Wembley, one game for the Premier League title.
• 43:17
  How awesome would that? Be I mean, why are we go out the
• 43:20
  roof? I'm like, why are they not doing
• 43:23
  that anyway? I'm like that.
• 43:25
  I'm like, they got to move. The playoff thing would be
• 43:28
  awesome. I would love to see it go to
• 43:31
  that. Like it's probably.
• 43:33
  Gold differential. I mean, I guess what they but I
• 43:35
  guess like they're saying, well, you know, you'd want you want
• 43:38
  that final week maybe where, you know, like remember the year
• 43:42
  when City took it from United, when Aguero scored that goal,
• 43:46
  they got it on goal differential.
• 43:48
  So it was, you know, I mean, they had to they had to win that
• 43:52
  game, right? And then that got them tied with
• 43:54
  United on points, but then they had the goal differential they
• 43:56
  went. Up on.
• 43:57
  Points, no, I think they tied them and I think it went to, I
• 44:00
  think it went to goal differential that year.
• 44:03
  They need to, City need to. City won the game and they got
• 44:06
  the three points, I'm almost positive.
• 44:08
  Then they tied United and then it went the goal differential
• 44:11
  and so they knew. So I don't know.
• 44:14
  I, I, to me, there's got to be a reason because I think a playoff
• 44:17
  would be awesome, but. Yeah.
• 44:19
  So anyway, we'll keep an eye on all the tiebreakers moving
• 44:22
  forward here. It's not over yet.
• 44:23
  Luca is not over. All the momentum is with City,
• 44:27
  but look, it is not over yet. We have a chance.
• 44:30
  We just need somebody to to tie them.
• 44:32
  We'd love somebody to beat them, but it just takes one tie and if
• 44:35
  we can just win out, which is not easy.
• 44:38
  I don't think either team. Do you think either team wins
• 44:40
  out five games? City of 6, Arsenal have 5.
• 44:44
  No, I do not think any team wins out.
• 44:46
  OK, so in you, so Sluki, in you're you're saying they're
• 44:50
  both teams are going to do you think one team wins out?
• 44:54
  No. OK, so both teams will drop
• 44:56
  points? Yes.
• 44:59
  OK, well, it'll go to the final day.
• 45:01
  Even if they win out, I mean, it'll go to the final day.
• 45:03
  No, but I think it'll be like like possible for either team to
• 45:08
  win on the final day. It won't be, just like City are
• 45:11
  up by 6 points on the final day. Well, what I what I understand,
• 45:14
  but what I'm asking you is do you think either team wins every
• 45:17
  game all the way or or maybe you think both teams are going to
• 45:20
  win every game all the way? No, I think both teams will drop
• 45:24
  points. OK, yeah, I kind of think you're
• 45:27
  right too. I mean, I think that's the
• 45:28
  problem. It's like, you know, I don't
• 45:31
  know, it's it's harder than you think to just sort of win every
• 45:33
  game, although City feels like they do it.
• 45:35
  But we'll see like it's gonna be it'll be interesting.
• 45:39
  Luke, I agree with you. I think it comes down to the
• 45:40
  final day. I I'm with you on that.
• 45:42
  So all right, Luca. Well, there it is Week 33.
• 45:45
  Let's put a bow on it. Let's look ahead to week 34.
• 45:47
  So there's no time, Luca. We got to get right into week
• 45:50
  434. It's already going on right now.
• 45:52
  Brighton, Chelsea, that's today, Tuesday, the 21st.
• 45:56
  What do you like for this game? Well, I already know it's going
• 45:58
  to be two nothing. And it's there's 18 minutes left
• 46:01
  in the game and I'm going to get my prediction.
• 46:03
  I'm gonna say it's gonna end 2 Nothing.
• 46:07
  All right, 2 nothing. Luca.
• 46:08
  Yeah, it's a good call when spot on 75% of the game is over and
• 46:12
  he's gonna score. All right, Luca, Tomorrow we
• 46:15
  have two games. Burnley hosting City.
• 46:18
  Is this one of the game? City drop points?
• 46:20
  No. Yeah, no, no.
• 46:21
  So you're winning 3 Nothing. That's a good call, yeah.
• 46:25
  Burnley, Yeah, There's no chance City don't find a way to win
• 46:29
  this game. All right, Luca, here's an
• 46:30
  interesting game though. The other game on Wednesday,
• 46:32
  Bournemouth hosting Leeds. So Bournemouth, like I said,
• 46:36
  what are we saying? 13 games unbeaten.
• 46:38
  Yeah. You know, they're at home.
• 46:40
  Leeds, though, Luca playing very well lately.
• 46:43
  Still, like I said, avid, totally secured, you know,
• 46:46
  promotion. Not promotion, just staying in
• 46:49
  the Premier League. But who do you like in this one?
• 46:51
  I think I'm going to go to tie. To tie.
• 46:54
  OK, all right, all right, Luca. Then we turn our attention.
• 46:57
  Friday we've got a game. Sunderland hosting Nottingham
• 47:01
  Forest. It's me one one. 11 OK, All
• 47:06
  right, Luca. Then on the weekend we've got
• 47:09
  Fulham hosting Aston Villa. I asked.
• 47:12
  No 1-2. Nothing. 2 Nothing OK Liverpool
• 47:17
  hosting Crystal Palace. I'm a good 2IN Liverpool.
• 47:23
  OK, Wolves hosting Spurs, Luca, now take a.
• 47:29
  Second one, nil wolves. Oh my goodness, Luca.
• 47:33
  You will get in for three Nils. All right, Luca, the other team
• 47:36
  battling down here, West Ham host Everton.
• 47:42
  West Ham I I do think Everton win 21.
• 47:46
  Oh, OK. All right.
• 47:48
  So Wolves and West 21 you said are two nothing 21?
• 47:51
  All right. Luka Arsenal hosting Newcastle.
• 47:56
  I think Arsenal win 2 nothing. 2 Nothing.
• 47:59
  All right, yeah, I mean, I'd like to think we're catching
• 48:02
  Newcastle at A at a good time here.
• 48:04
  They they we generally struggle with them, but they have not
• 48:07
  been very good 3 losses in a row.
• 48:09
  I think Joelton is. Yellow card suspension.
• 48:12
  Yellow card suspension. Gordon is a question mark.
• 48:15
  Didn't play last week. I don't think it's a serious
• 48:18
  injury, but that would be nice if he wasn't available.
• 48:20
  Of course, Bruno guy Marash came back, looked really good, but
• 48:25
  maybe he's, I don't know if he's fully fit to do 90.
• 48:27
  So we'll kind of see. And that'll be good because
• 48:31
  there's shenanigans during those games.
• 48:33
  It is, and he's also a good player though too.
• 48:35
  Well, yeah. All right, Luca, finishing out
• 48:37
  the week, we've got Man U hosting Brentford.
• 48:41
  Man U I'm gonna go 32 United. 32 United OK And the reason why,
• 48:49
  Luca, we have some of these games spread out is because we
• 48:51
  have the FA Cup semis this weekend, so on Saturday you have
• 48:55
  City hosting. Southampton, of course.
• 48:58
  City get Southampton. Well, any of Chelsea hosting
• 49:02
  leads so. That's all.
• 49:04
  Well, City would have smacked Chelsea anyway so.
• 49:07
  Well, I mean, I I mean it's like, how does City not win the
• 49:10
  FA Cup? Look who's left.
• 49:11
  Like Chelsea are just. Awful.
• 49:13
  Exactly. City are going to get the double
• 49:16
  like. South Hampton actually may be
• 49:17
  the the the toughest opponent for City between Leeds, Chelsea
• 49:22
  and S S have been actually playing really well in the.
• 49:24
  Champions. I think the Meeds are the
• 49:27
  toughest opponent. Yeah.
• 49:29
  I think Leeds are better than South Hampton.
• 49:32
  Yeah, maybe South Hampton, they look good.
• 49:35
  They they look good against Dawson.
• 49:36
  They've been cruising in the Championship like it's.
• 49:39
  Like you see Leeds play South Hampton and Chelsea play the
• 49:41
  city. City would have just rushed
• 49:45
  shelves. We would have either seen
• 49:47
  guaranteed to see weeds or Southampton in the front.
• 49:51
  Yeah, that's true. That's true.
• 49:52
  Yeah. All right, Luca.
• 49:55
  Well, there it is. Let's wrap it up.
• 49:56
  Give me your player goal and team of the week.
• 49:59
  I guess I should have done that before we made our picks, but
• 50:01
  it's all right. Give me your for Week 33.
• 50:03
  What's your Player of the Week? Haverts.
• 50:05
  Haverts. No.
• 50:06
  Gibbs White, he's. He's giving me my honorable
• 50:09
  mention. Haverts is the player of the
• 50:10
  Week. What's your goal of the week?
• 50:13
  Oh, oh, James Justin bicycle kick.
• 50:18
  Well, that Matoma goal. Matoma goal is good it Gibbs
• 50:22
  White had a few nice goals. There were a couple of good
• 50:26
  goals this week. Team, league, team.
• 50:32
  I think I'm gonna go Bournemouth, be going to
• 50:40
  Newcastle and winning. Yeah, that's a good win.
• 50:43
  I mean, and then you've just been cruising.
• 50:44
  So. All right, Luca.
• 50:47
  Well, let's get into our mailbag.
• 50:49
  Question comes from me. And my question to you, Luca,
• 50:53
  you're, you're from a different generation than me.
• 50:56
  So I'm curious, like you and your generation, you know, what
• 50:59
  you think about showboating on the pitch when the game's going
• 51:02
  on. I I.
• 51:03
  I want you to define showboat. OK, so an example to me would be
• 51:08
  in the Caraval Cup game, City are kind of cruising.
• 51:11
  They're beating Arsenal and Cherokees, literally juggling
• 51:14
  the ball. Like in the game's going on, you
• 51:16
  know, the game's and then he's just juggling over there, you
• 51:19
  know, like Neymar trying to do a rainbow over somebody typically.
• 51:24
  That's not showboating. Well, actual soccer move.
• 51:28
  Well, so it's juggling, you know, OK.
• 51:30
  Juggling's disrespectful rain rainbow's not.
• 51:33
  So I, I think a rainbow, see, I think a rainbow is a little bit
• 51:36
  disrespectful because it's like like there's never, I don't feel
• 51:39
  like there's ever a time in a game that calls for a rainbow.
• 51:44
  I beg to differ. OK, that sounds so old.
• 51:47
  Oh my gosh, you guys all right. I do sound like I'm 8.
• 51:52
  I think a lot of it, like a lot of it depends on the context of
• 51:54
  the game too. So typically, you know, you'll
• 51:57
  find it, a team is up by a lot, right?
• 52:00
  The game sort of already been decided and people are doing
• 52:03
  stuff that you wouldn't typically do in a game if it was
• 52:06
  like 115 minutes to go. That to me is so you could
• 52:10
  almost do the same thing, you know, like it's one something
• 52:14
  like, you know, if you are in your own defensive corner and
• 52:17
  you flip the ball up, you juggle it twice and then clear it, you
• 52:20
  know, like, I'd be like, oh, that's a normal move to do,
• 52:23
  right? Like, but it's another thing to
• 52:24
  sort of be like laughing at your your your team you're playing
• 52:27
  against as you're juggling on the sidelines.
• 52:29
  You know, that to me is showboating, even though you
• 52:31
  say, well, well, each player just juggled and did something.
• 52:34
  I'm like, yeah, but one's more in the context of the game.
• 52:36
  The other's you know you're. Something to clear it.
• 52:39
  Yeah, yeah. Like if you're trying, it's a
• 52:40
  close game and you juggle the ball because it's what you need
• 52:44
  to do to try to do the play. That's different than, yeah,
• 52:47
  we're up big. I'm looking at you, I'm sort of
• 52:49
  smiling, smirking at you as I juggle the ball, you know, but
• 52:54
  like some people like to see that kind of skill and they like
• 52:57
  that kind of flair on the field and they like people to be
• 52:59
  creative and you know, Neymar, look, I think sometimes
• 53:02
  occasionally would cross the line with that where you're
• 53:04
  starting to just sort of again, you're.
• 53:06
  Reading Neymar though. Well, I know you like him.
• 53:08
  That's fine. You like it.
• 53:09
  Doesn't It doesn't mean you can still like him.
• 53:12
  I'm just saying you know it. We don't see it a lot, I would
• 53:15
  say. But like I said, the Turkey
• 53:17
  thing was one that stood out for me because.
• 53:19
  And then about a minute later, Ben White goes over.
• 53:22
  And like. Knocks him on his butt and gets
• 53:23
  a yellow card. And I'm kind of like, you have
• 53:25
  it coming, man. Like, yeah.
• 53:27
  Like I, I just don't, I personally don't love to see it.
• 53:31
  Like, I, it feels like shit, like, it feels like showboating,
• 53:33
  gloating. It feels like rubbing it in a
• 53:35
  little bit. And I kind of just think that
• 53:37
  like, I do still like sportsmanship.
• 53:40
  Like I said, I love to see Gabrielle and Holland go at it.
• 53:43
  And I hope that at the end of the game, they kind of like,
• 53:45
  look at each other in, like, good battle, you know, shirts.
• 53:48
  Or something. Well, they don't even need to
• 53:50
  trade shirts. That's that's the thing your
• 53:52
  generation does here with all the trade shirts and talking in
• 53:54
  the tunnel and things like that. Yeah, nobody traded shirts 30
• 53:57
  years ago. Like nobody like talked in the
• 53:59
  tunnel and like buddied up to people and stuff like that
• 54:01
  because you're playing against them.
• 54:02
  You like, these are professionals.
• 54:04
  They want to win the game. Yeah, like they're not your
• 54:06
  buddies. It's said and done.
• 54:08
  You know they can go back to the normal life, right?
• 54:10
  Well, I think you can, you know, you can give, you can give you
• 54:13
  can go. You certainly can go over shake
• 54:15
  the guy's hand. Hey, man, you played well.
• 54:17
  It was a good battle. Like I'll see you next time we
• 54:19
  when we play, you know, like yes, I'm all for that.
• 54:22
  You know, I don't know the the shirt exchanging stuff.
• 54:25
  I'm OK with it. I don't have a massive problem
• 54:27
  with it, but it's definitely like a newer thing.
• 54:28
  Oh, we got up the 468 minutes for Chelsea without a goal.
• 54:33
  I also think it's gotten ridiculous, like what was the
• 54:35
  game like? Oh, I think it was Turkey was
• 54:36
  another one. Didn't he have somebody else's
• 54:37
  shirt on and the game wasn't even over yet?
• 54:39
  He like, what was it like Ecka TK shirt he had on or something?
• 54:44
  There was a game where they exchanged shirts before the game
• 54:46
  is even over. I'm like, what are we doing
• 54:48
  here? Like come on, like.
• 54:49
  Yeah. He got subbed off he.
• 54:52
  Subbed off and I think I could TK also subbed off in that
• 54:56
  traded shirt or something and he was wearing it for some reason
• 55:00
  during the game. I mean, I don't know like that
• 55:03
  that to me that kind of stuff don't.
• 55:04
  You're a bum. So, so you look are like I said,
• 55:07
  are you like, do you like showboating?
• 55:10
  Are you in the middle or do you dislike it?
• 55:13
  I don't, I don't like it, but I think certain things are
• 55:17
  showboating. Like like I do think the drawing
• 55:20
  is showboating, but in my opinion I don't think a rainbow
• 55:23
  flake is showboating. OK.
• 55:26
  But yeah, when like stuff like that, I don't, I don't like
• 55:30
  showboating. It doesn't happen often, but I
• 55:32
  think of other times where like a guy will beat the goalie and
• 55:35
  then that's like walking along the goal line, yeah, like turn
• 55:38
  around to the other team and then like back heel it in.
• 55:40
  I'm like, I don't love that. One time I saw on a YouTube
• 55:44
  video, it wasn't like any of the big leagues, but the player got
• 55:48
  it, just you're bullying it in. He like got down on his knees
• 55:52
  and headed it in. Yeah, I don't.
• 55:54
  I don't love that kind of stuff. That's disrespectful.
• 55:56
  You know, like I remember the famous Balotelli play where he
• 55:59
  like he like spins and tries to back you it and miss.
• 56:03
  Yeah, he missed and. He immediately gets pulled off
• 56:05
  and you're like, well, that's what it can lead to Like is like
• 56:07
  just kick the ball on the goal like you did the work, kick it
• 56:10
  in, go celebrate. That's fine.
• 56:12
  But I know I don't know, I don't love seeing that kind of stuff.
• 56:14
  I don't even know if that showboating or rubbing it in
• 56:16
  but. Or just being stupid.
• 56:18
  Or just being stupid. Fair enough, Balotelli did a lot
• 56:21
  of stupid things. There's yours.
• 56:22
  Why always me? Yeah, well, exactly.
• 56:26
  All right, Luca, did you know section this week we want to
• 56:29
  talk a little bit about some soccer terms.
• 56:31
  All right, Jarvis, Why? Well, no.
• 56:35
  I'm more thinking like, why does the United States have different
• 56:40
  terms for so many things? I can define a few terms.
• 56:43
  I I speak soccer language, I will be anyone's translator.
• 56:47
  Well, here's the interesting thing, Luca.
• 56:48
  So one of the biggest things is obviously the entire world calls
• 56:51
  it football, but of course, the United States we call it.
• 56:54
  Soccer, Soccer. I don't know why can we just
• 56:56
  call it football? Here's the thing, Luca,
• 56:58
  interestingly enough, actually it's not.
• 57:01
  We did not come up with the word soccer.
• 57:03
  So actually it started in England.
• 57:06
  England came up with the word soccer and.
• 57:08
  Then and then they changed. And we adopted it because of
• 57:11
  course we have American football.
• 57:12
  So here it is, Luca, in the, in the 1800s in Britain, several
• 57:17
  sports were called football because they were played on
• 57:19
  foot, not horseback. That's the big thing is that
• 57:23
  there were so many sports when we look, we're talking like
• 57:25
  1800s there. They played a lot of sports on
• 57:27
  horses. So when they started playing
• 57:30
  sports on your with your feet, they would just call a lot of
• 57:33
  these things foot, they'd be played on foot and they call it
• 57:36
  like a football. So one of the biggest things
• 57:38
  there is Rugby Football and then there's association football.
• 57:43
  So rugby started before soccer or?
• 57:46
  Football. That's Australian.
• 57:48
  Rugby is in 1845 it there's Australian rules football that
• 57:52
  Luca that is slightly different than rugby.
• 57:53
  So just stay with me for a second.
• 57:55
  OK, So there's Rugby Football. Then there's association
• 57:57
  football, which we learned is 1863 with AFA, the Football
• 58:01
  Association. So Luca, if you think of the
• 58:03
  word association AS then SOCSOC first 3 letters of soccer,
• 58:10
  right? So there are Oxford students
• 58:12
  Luca that shorten that would shorten words and just add ER to
• 58:16
  it. So they would just be like a
• 58:18
  thing they would do. It's kind of like, you know,
• 58:20
  like a vernacular. So they're just like shorten a
• 58:21
  word, add ER. So you take association, you
• 58:24
  make it like SOCER. We're starting to get like the
• 58:28
  word soccer here a little bit. So they would shorten it Assoc
• 58:32
  put ER on the north and that's how like we sort of got this
• 58:35
  word. So it actually comes from the
• 58:37
  middle of the word association for association football,
• 58:40
  Football Association. So they used soccer in England
• 58:44
  until about the 1950s. So for a long time they actually
• 58:48
  did use it. Now, since we had football, we
• 58:52
  took soccer to avoid any confusion.
• 58:54
  So it really wasn't entirely an American thing that they did
• 58:56
  this. We were like, all right, well
• 58:57
  England, you guys are using soccer, we've got American
• 59:00
  football, so we'll use soccer. It's just all of a sudden they
• 59:04
  kind of change and everybody else, and that's how we got to.
• 59:08
  Go with. It and even FIFA Luca still uses
• 59:10
  association football. They still say like what they're
• 59:14
  playing is association football. And like I said, that dates back
• 59:17
  to 1863. And so that's how we got the
• 59:20
  word soccer. So that's one of them.
• 59:24
  The other clean sheet. What's a clean sheet?
• 59:26
  Oh, it means when you don't have any goals scored on you.
• 59:29
  Yeah. And why?
• 59:30
  Well, hold on. What do we call it in America,
• 59:32
  right? What our word is we would say
• 59:34
  shut out. A shut out.
• 59:35
  OK, well you tell me why. Because back in the olden days I
• 59:40
  guess they used to keep the scores on sheets.
• 59:45
  So if you didn't have any goal score then you it's clean.
• 59:48
  So that's why they called it clean sheet.
• 59:50
  Yeah, there you go. Exactly.
• 59:51
  And this also dates back to the 1800s.
• 59:53
  You had officials or reporters in in the United Kingdom for the
• 59:56
  Football Association. They would keep handwritten
• 59:58
  score sheets, sheets that recorded goals, right?
• 1:00:02
  If a team did not concede any goals and the goalkeeper and
• 1:00:05
  defense finished the game with a blank or clean line next to
• 1:00:09
  them. There it is, clean sheet, right?
• 1:00:12
  They'd have a clean sheet just like you said there.
• 1:00:14
  There's nothing to write down, no goals, and so they had those.
• 1:00:17
  The score sheets, they'd be blank or clean.
• 1:00:20
  All right, Luca, one other one pitch.
• 1:00:23
  What do I like? What is a pitch?
• 1:00:24
  That's a soccer best field. That's the field, right?
• 1:00:26
  We'd say we're going to the soccer fields.
• 1:00:28
  No, it's a pitch, which Luca is a bit of an old British term.
• 1:00:32
  So old British, they use the word pitch, which means to set
• 1:00:36
  something down or place it in position.
• 1:00:39
  Like we think of like pitching a tent.
• 1:00:41
  Pitching a tent is like when you place a tent down, you place it
• 1:00:44
  in position, you build it. So the pitch Luca, refers to an
• 1:00:47
  area where the game is set up or laid out.
• 1:00:51
  And it's like they mark the area where the match was played.
• 1:00:55
  And so that's how it kind of, they use this old British term
• 1:00:58
  and it's sort of just been like, yes, this is where we've marked
• 1:01:00
  the whole thing out. That's the pitch, right?
• 1:01:03
  So place something down to put it in position.
• 1:01:06
  The lines, we've put them in position.
• 1:01:09
  So that is the old British term. Even though we say field here,
• 1:01:12
  they say pitch. So I've got a couple more that
• 1:01:15
  we'll do next week here as we just go to roll through our
• 1:01:18
  different, you know, terms that we use here.
• 1:01:21
  Where, where are you looking? Like, if so, we live in America,
• 1:01:24
  you're an American. Are we allowed to use terms like
• 1:01:27
  pitch and? Yes, I use them all the time.
• 1:01:29
  OK, that's all. I.
• 1:01:30
  Use now. But like when you people ask you
• 1:01:33
  what's your favorite sport to play, what do you say?
• 1:01:36
  I say soccer. Say soccer.
• 1:01:37
  OK, so it's a little selective which ones you use.
• 1:01:40
  Yeah, but I, yeah. So I think it's fun.
• 1:01:45
  I know a lot of people have a problem with Americans using
• 1:01:47
  some of the terms. I think it's fine.
• 1:01:48
  I don't think it's a. Big what?
• 1:01:49
  Really. Are Luca, I thought I'd do a new
• 1:01:51
  thing. Quote of the week.
• 1:01:53
  All right, I I sent you some quotes.
• 1:01:55
  So. Yeah, I thought these are some
• 1:01:57
  interest. There's I just have one quote.
• 1:01:59
  I figure like I'll just draw like on a soccer related quote
• 1:02:01
  and I I kind of like this one. This came from Bill Shankly
• 1:02:03
  Luca, who's a legendary Liverpool manager and I like
• 1:02:06
  this quote, he said. Some people think football is a
• 1:02:09
  matter of life or death. I assure you it's much more
• 1:02:12
  serious than that. Wow, I kind of, I kind of like
• 1:02:15
  that one, you know, Like it just goes to show you how.
• 1:02:18
  Serious. Serious people take it and I
• 1:02:21
  don't know, I thought that was an interesting sort of play on
• 1:02:23
  words that you did. All right, Luca, of course,
• 1:02:25
  Instagram, I'm going to have some pictures of you from your
• 1:02:29
  tournament this weekend so people can go see some of those.
• 1:02:32
  You can put them on the YouTube channel too if you have any
• 1:02:34
  videos you could. Yep, I could try to get those
• 1:02:38
  up. Yeah, our YouTube.
• 1:02:39
  So we have YouTube channel Premier League Playground.
• 1:02:41
  We've got Instagram Premier League Playground.
• 1:02:43
  We have an e-mail if people want to e-mail us questions or plugs
• 1:02:47
  that they want us to do, it's premierleagueplayground@gmail.com.
• 1:02:51
  But let's roll into our penalty kick trivia shootout.
• 1:02:53
  Luca, do you want to go first or do you want to go second?
• 1:02:56
  I'm going to ask first. OK, go ahead, Luca.
• 1:02:58
  OK. And which which year did Real
• 1:03:03
  Madrid sign Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United?
• 1:03:13
  What year 2010? 2009.
• 1:03:22
  Oh man. Because remember, his O seven O
• 1:03:25
  8 season was like really good O8 or O8O9.
• 1:03:29
  My bad. Yeah.
• 1:03:31
  All right, look, a good one. All right, who is England's all
• 1:03:34
  time leading scorer? Hurricane.
• 1:03:38
  That's correct. Wayne Rooney second, Bobby
• 1:03:40
  Charlton 3rd and Gary Lim. Bobby Charlton was a defender,
• 1:03:43
  right? No, no, he, he was a forward.
• 1:03:45
  Oh yeah, I thought he was defending.
• 1:03:47
  Oh, man. Oh no, it's 3 now.
• 1:03:50
  And also I saw something Chelsea have not had a shot on target.
• 1:03:54
  Oh my gosh, it's. Amazing and.
• 1:03:55
  Probably 5 games in a row shut out.
• 1:03:57
  Yeah jeez, bonkers. Anyway, how many club goals did
• 1:04:03
  Messi score in 2011? 2012 record-breaking season.
• 1:04:07
  Club goal I have. Choices for is it?
• 1:04:09
  For the season or for the year? They said season the.
• 1:04:14
  We see it, says season. OK, sometimes I'll put like
• 1:04:16
  calendar year for gold. It's it's a lot. 3670. 3.
• 1:04:23
  Oh, so then that's going to be, that's for the calendar year
• 1:04:25
  then? There's no, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:04:28
  yeah. I think it was calendar.
• 1:04:29
  I said a lot but. Our main.
• 1:04:31
  Our main. Choices was 82.
• 1:04:33
  Well, I OK, I thought they meant like, I thought they were
• 1:04:35
  talking like LA League of Goals. Oh, maybe they're thinking all
• 1:04:38
  like competition. Record for his calendar year
• 1:04:41
  thing. Yeah, OK.
• 1:04:44
  All right. Luca Killian and Bafe came up
• 1:04:45
  with what French club? Monaco, that's correct.
• 1:04:49
  This is not looking so good for you.
• 1:04:52
  Might sweep you. Which club did Virgil Van Dyke
• 1:04:56
  play for before joining Joining Liverpool in 2018?
• 1:04:59
  All right. I think I know this one and I'm
• 1:05:00
  going to go with Southampton. Correct.
• 1:05:03
  All right, Luca who? We're talking about the World
• 1:05:05
  Cup coming up. Luca, we're getting closer and
• 1:05:07
  closer. Who is the United States men's
• 1:05:09
  national team coach? Mario Pochettino.
• 1:05:13
  Mario Pochettino, Yeah. I don't really know how to
• 1:05:16
  pronounce it, but you know, he's been.
• 1:05:17
  There, since 2024, he's Argentinian.
• 1:05:19
  Of course, he's also at Espanol, South Hampton, Spurs, PSG and
• 1:05:25
  Chelsea. OK, Frank Ricker.
• 1:05:31
  Rick Ricard. Yeah, Ricard.
• 1:05:33
  Yeah, it's from which country? All right, I think I know this
• 1:05:36
  one I might get. I'm going to go with the
• 1:05:38
  Netherlands. Correct 3. 2 All right, Luca ML
• 1:05:41
  s s San Jose team is nicknamed what?
• 1:05:45
  San Jose What? Oh, can I get?
• 1:05:50
  A little MLS trivia in here. I I don't, I watch British
• 1:05:54
  soccer, not American. I'm not that American.
• 1:05:58
  San Jose, Rockies, They. Have the earthquakes.
• 1:06:04
  I guess I'm a little bit close, but OK, it's not over yet.
• 1:06:07
  You could tie it up here. Make it.
• 1:06:09
  A comeback? Diego Simeoni is from which
• 1:06:12
  country? Isn't he?
• 1:06:19
  I should definitely know this one.
• 1:06:20
  Is he Argentinian? Yes, Oh my gosh, 33.
• 1:06:24
  All right, Luca, Premier League goal leaders right now.
• 1:06:28
  OK, can you name me the players that have scored more than ten
• 1:06:32
  goals in the Premier League? This year.
• 1:06:35
  Yes, currently, right now with more than ten goals.
• 1:06:38
  So and how you said how many are there?
• 1:06:41
  I think I've got 10. OK, so or.
• 1:06:44
  Actually, I think there's 11 now.
• 1:06:47
  OK. Well, that's interesting.
• 1:06:49
  I I think I've got 11 with. Yeah, so right off the bat, I
• 1:06:54
  can go Holland, Igor, Tiago, Simeno, Morgan Rogers.
• 1:07:00
  No Morgan Rogers. I know giocores.
• 1:07:03
  Giocores, yeah. 12 He is 12 I think Mateta.
• 1:07:10
  No. Right, because he is exactly 10.
• 1:07:14
  Does he? I'm not sure, yeah.
• 1:07:16
  But because he got his 10th like 2 weeks ago we got his brace.
• 1:07:24
  Creepy. No.
• 1:07:26
  Geez, not so. I already said I Katika, right?
• 1:07:30
  I mean, yeah, I already said. Yeah, although, OK, to be OK, to
• 1:07:34
  be fair, you're right, Matetta and Creepy do have 10.
• 1:07:36
  Did I say more than 10? I said ten goals.
• 1:07:39
  So I've got to give you credit for that, as I should have said,
• 1:07:41
  more than 10. Is that part of the 11 or is it
• 1:07:43
  not 13? No, no, it's now 13 actually,
• 1:07:47
  and there's a 14th too. Sorry I'm making a mess of this
• 1:07:51
  question, but I meant to say more than 10.
• 1:07:54
  But it's OK, you'll get the point.
• 1:07:56
  So I'm going to give you Matetta on 10, Creepy on 10.
• 1:08:01
  Gibbs White. Gibbs White now, yes, up there.
• 1:08:04
  OK, another. Guy you you listed his stats six
• 1:08:07
  years in a row with 10 plus goals.
• 1:08:08
  Yeah, who was that? 06 years in a row.
• 1:08:13
  Oh yeah? Oh no, I forgot.
• 1:08:17
  Wait, I could just look right here, Watkins.
• 1:08:24
  Ollie Watkins, yeah. Welbeck.
• 1:08:26
  Danny Welbeck, yeah. He's scored just now.
• 1:08:29
  Yeah, he's having a great season.
• 1:08:30
  He's on. What is he on?
• 1:08:31
  He's on 13. JAL Pedro.
• 1:08:37
  Yeah, JAL Pedro. Yeah, he's been out for a while,
• 1:08:39
  but he's still on 14 goals. I've got three more here.
• 1:08:44
  Oh, he's Cunha. No.
• 1:08:47
  And Buena no Fernandez. OK, I guess it's it's probably
• 1:08:52
  not united anymore, are we? Chesco?
• 1:08:54
  No. Oh my God.
• 1:08:55
  They're all like many. They just don't have scores.
• 1:08:57
  We just listed like 3 guys with 9 basically.
• 1:09:00
  OK, Bueno Cesco of nine. One guy just tore his Achilles.
• 1:09:03
  So Liverpool. Ekatiki.
• 1:09:07
  Yeah, I was talking about Ekatiki and you didn't say
• 1:09:10
  anything. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't hear
• 1:09:11
  you. OK.
• 1:09:13
  OK. So you said two more now.
• 1:09:15
  Two more. All right.
• 1:09:19
  Follom in leads. Harry Wilson and Dominic
• 1:09:23
  Calvert, Women. Yeah.
• 1:09:25
  All right. I'm going to give that one to
• 1:09:26
  you, Luke, a good job. Yeah, you made a good comeback.
• 1:09:29
  Yeah, I tried. I tried.
• 1:09:30
  Really couldn't get it done. So you win our penalty kick
• 1:09:32
  trivia shootout. So all right, Luke will take us
• 1:09:35
  out. Well, Chelsea are terrible and
• 1:09:39
  there's the final whistle. Nuts full time for us.
• 1:09:41
  Thank you for listening. Bye.