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Milan back on top, Como making a push, & Coppa Italia reactions - Ep. 289 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: Last week it was Aroma on top of the standings.
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  Speaker 1: We celebrated here, we'll celebrate, we talked about it in
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  Speaker 1: now this week it's Melan back on top Topsy Turvy
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  Speaker 1: couch of guys, Johnny Adriano. I'm Nicholas. You could follow
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing okay.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you wanted to go first.
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  Speaker 3: Agent or no. It's going good. I just throzed my
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  Speaker 3: balls off outside because my mom thought it was a
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  Speaker 3: good idea to put Christmas lights on at this hour.
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  Speaker 3: But besides that, guys, we're doing good. If you're muchre
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  Speaker 3: our listener, you know it's a bit fucking cold outside,
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  Speaker 3: but uh, it's the whole day time. It's a stress time.
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  Speaker 3: So but yeah, happy to be back at talking culture
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  Speaker 3: with my guys.
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  Speaker 2: Reaching the end of fall. Winter's right around the corner.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently Google says it's zero, but I went out today
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  Speaker 1: it's it feels a lot colder than zero.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah with the Winshill for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's cold. It's gonna be cold this weekend minus
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  Speaker 1: eighteen on Sunday. Bundle up, boys, bundle up.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. Put your scarf, put your mits, put your too,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you gotta do, Guys that do it because it's
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  Speaker 3: it's getting cold.
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  Speaker 1: Next year. Next year you're gonna put the Christmas lights
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  Speaker 1: lights up in uh in July to avoid this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. Every year it's a different story. But us,
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  Speaker 3: enough about that, more about cultural That's what the listeners
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  Speaker 3: are here for. So what's it going.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna be putting up the Scudetto lights anytime soon
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  Speaker 1: in the city out with the way the season's going.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about it. But I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: quickly about Cope Italia because there were games today. But
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  Speaker 1: I do want to just ask guys, is it me
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  Speaker 1: or does it feel like there's zero hype about this tournament.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's never been like the biggest fan favorite,
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  Speaker 1: but even the way the city is promoting it, it
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  Speaker 1: feels it feels bare. Like I check Instagram today and
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  Speaker 1: I saw Atlanta be Genua for nothing and they had it.
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  Speaker 1: They had a morning game, well at least morning for us,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't. I didn't know about it, you know, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I could have checked social media. Maybe it would be
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  Speaker 1: a bit more active the schedule of Coope Italia. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, even Juve's game yesterday, it's like, guys are there,
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  Speaker 1: they show up, do the job, go home. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: I know it's around the sixteen and everything, but it
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  Speaker 1: has that, it has that different vibe. Maybe not so
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  Speaker 1: much for Inter today five to one against Venetzia, but
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's a tournament that you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: always gonna be criticisms, right, but it's ternament that I
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  Speaker 1: believe it's only city at B and city city a
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  Speaker 1: city and B if I'm not mistaken, I don't, I don't,
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  Speaker 1: I forget if there's city achieved teams involved in this.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to see maybe a bit more depth,
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  Speaker 1: deeper leaks, kind of like England where you have these
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  Speaker 1: random teams hosting man u in in uh in the
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  Speaker 1: was it f a cup? Maybe we could see that more.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we could see I don't know, uh, what's what's
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  Speaker 1: the team name from your your town? Johnny? Is its
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  Speaker 1: chev Nada? Maybe you could see them play against Napoli
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  Speaker 1: in the round of six or something. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's get casts up to see you there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like Elza now now we're going to Cilents.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know if you guys feel the same
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  Speaker 1: about the Cope Italian If you think that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe uh, there could be a better format instead of
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  Speaker 1: just always the same thing every year around the six teams,
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  Speaker 1: always the top teams against bottom teams in CID.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I just to bounce off to what you
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  Speaker 3: were saying. I think it's I feel like the hype
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  Speaker 3: or the buzz if you will, kind of went down
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  Speaker 3: over the years. Like I think it's been like a
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  Speaker 3: slow process, like I remember back in like even the
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  Speaker 3: early days of the podcast, you know, like even twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, twenty seven, those those those years. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it was just because maybe we're a bit younger,
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  Speaker 3: so we kind of felt a bit more attached to it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is, but I felt there
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  Speaker 3: was a bit more I don't want to say relevants,
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  Speaker 3: because I think the relevhants will always be there because
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  Speaker 3: there is a cup at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't know, it just feels like it's it's
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  Speaker 3: I guess you can say gone down. But at the
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  Speaker 3: same point, like the round sixteen, it's like nobody really
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  Speaker 3: nobody really like like fighting hard. Like I mean, once
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  Speaker 3: it gets to you know, the semison and then the final,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's when you kind of see a bit
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  Speaker 3: more of the show, a bit more of the lights.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Uh, the Olympico is always when it's hosted there,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's it's always obviously a big, big event, so
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  Speaker 3: I think besides, but before we get into those points,
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  Speaker 3: it's just another game in the schedule midweek, you know
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  Speaker 3: for these clubs that are that are ultimately fighting for
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  Speaker 3: more if it be the school that though, if it
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  Speaker 3: be you know, fighting in Europe. So but like we've
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  Speaker 3: said timeless amount of times on this podcast, guys, you know,
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  Speaker 3: these guys play so much, these players, uh, throughout the year,
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  Speaker 3: throughout the calendar year, if it be within with their clubs, internationally,
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  Speaker 3: different competitions. You know, you mentioned off Arab and Nick
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  Speaker 3: before you know, there's Super Copa in a couple of
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  Speaker 3: weeks at another games in a different country, right, Like
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  Speaker 3: it's it's it's a lot, so I feel like it
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  Speaker 3: maybe plays a factor into you know, the wesser buzz
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  Speaker 3: or lesser lesser relevance if you will, at this stage
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  Speaker 3: of the tournament. But but yeah, like City Out versus
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  Speaker 3: City Be Team today, you know, inter versus Vanze. Like
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  Speaker 3: you saw the you saw the drop off, So I
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  Speaker 3: guess that's kind of what you you. I guess it's
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  Speaker 3: what is expected because I think dark City of cheap
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  Speaker 3: teams or at the beginning of the stages.
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  Speaker 1: No, or in the preliminary round. So I I just
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  Speaker 1: found that out that the city of City of b City.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the chances of them, you know, advancing and
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  Speaker 3: obviously so slim that you we don't we don't get
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  Speaker 3: to see that. You know, you have a stop you
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  Speaker 3: have versus not right, that type of type of game
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  Speaker 3: or whatever the case may be. So maybe there's a
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  Speaker 3: way to expand it, Maybe there's a way to to
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  Speaker 3: format it in a better way, to to make it
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  Speaker 3: a bit more of that underdog story. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if that's really going to please the crowd, But these
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  Speaker 3: guys play already a lot, so I don't see that
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  Speaker 3: changing anytime soon.
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  Speaker 4: Uh Well, My honest belief is that usually there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of hype when you see a team that's you know,
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  Speaker 4: not Scudetto favorites to actually go far and try to
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  Speaker 4: achieve for that trophy. Like last year Bologna winning. It
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  Speaker 4: was actually very nice to see, you know, like it's.
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  Speaker 3: Different, it was a different story in the history of
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  Speaker 3: the tournament.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's it's like you rather see those type of
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  Speaker 4: teams win this type of trophy. And I think the
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  Speaker 4: hype died out for us because ever since let's say,
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  Speaker 4: if you want to go from the podcast, since it
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  Speaker 4: started the podcast, ever since then, like Milan has won
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  Speaker 4: two school uh one one Scudetto not please want to
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  Speaker 4: Scudetti Like our team, we now know that our team
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  Speaker 4: is capable of winning the league and it's competiti enough
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  Speaker 4: to win the league. So like our sites are on
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  Speaker 4: like what the like for Vey was winning the league
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  Speaker 4: at the time, so you know, like it was you
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean, And it's like now it's like,
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  Speaker 4: we know what our team is able to achieve. That's
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  Speaker 4: what we're always aiming for. Now for we were like,
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  Speaker 4: oh well, you know, I'll take a Copytalia because it's
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  Speaker 4: better than nothing, right, but now it's like, no, we're
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  Speaker 4: capable of school that though, Let's go for it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I would like to see Romo when the tents copy Italia.
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  Speaker 4: That would be nice to get their tents and see
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  Speaker 4: if it's true, if there is such thing as the
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  Speaker 4: rumored Silver Star as as like the Old Wive's tale.
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  Speaker 2: Likes to say, uh but you know, uh.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't just bounce off what you guys are saying.
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  Speaker 3: Even I don't know if it's I didn't look into it.
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  Speaker 3: But in the KNAPA game after they advanced against Calary today,
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  Speaker 3: they were saying it's the first time in what five
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  Speaker 3: years or something that they hadn't got past the runner
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  Speaker 3: sixteen or something. I don't know if if that was accurate.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't look into it.
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  Speaker 4: That makes sense because last time they won was in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty during a pandemic.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty. So yeah, like they haven't even so
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  Speaker 3: there you go, like, you know, what was it last
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  Speaker 3: week when we're speaking to to president to Marcelle. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Mion hasn't want the things O three like it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a it's a tournament that has a and a Cup
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of escaped. Are these bigger teams you know,
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  Speaker 3: I guess you can exclude you of it because they
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  Speaker 3: had that run of dominance, but you know, it seems
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  Speaker 3: like it's kind of escaped some of these, some of
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  Speaker 3: these you know, other bigger teams, you know, the Milans,
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  Speaker 3: the the Roma's, the you know, the the Napolis of
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  Speaker 3: the world. So it's again, I don't know if that
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  Speaker 3: has to do with just you know, putting you know,
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  Speaker 3: your eggs into that schooldo basket like Johnny was aloding
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  Speaker 3: to or or or other factors or just paid less
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  Speaker 3: attention to the tournament. But nevertheless, I think once, if
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  Speaker 3: and when you do win it, I think obviously it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a big joy. So but I think we'll only
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  Speaker 3: see that type of hype come the the laiter stages
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  Speaker 3: of the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was interesting today, uh Napoli with
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  Speaker 1: the shootout win penalties from over over cality. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if if you had a chance to watch it January,
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  Speaker 1: if you were working.
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  Speaker 2: I was working, unfortunately, said I get a chance to
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  Speaker 2: watch it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw, I saw, I saw some of it.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see the whole thing. Personally I saw the
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  Speaker 3: penalty shootout was a bit crazy. It went it went
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  Speaker 3: the distance. Uh what was it? Ten nine? I think
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  Speaker 3: on uh on penalties on PKS.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's what I got. I got something crazy like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was funny when because obviously you know
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  Speaker 1: when they post a score, just showed ten nine and
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  Speaker 1: then like.
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  Speaker 3: One one or whatever it was, yeah, one one, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But it was crazy because when as soon as they
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  Speaker 3: went to pal to p KS, I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: not we had Vanya Monk Vishavaga nets and you know
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  Speaker 3: he's just been a monster. Uh not only just in
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  Speaker 3: seriat or just regular matches and in game play he's
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  Speaker 3: been he's been lights out for for for penalties as well,
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  Speaker 3: but this shootout it was like not his to be. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: he ended up getting the win at the end, went
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  Speaker 3: the distance and you know he ended up making finally
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  Speaker 3: making a save at the end, but it was a
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  Speaker 3: bit strange. I thought he would have done a lot better.
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  Speaker 3: I guess again it is called palia, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: the importance, the level of play, the hype that we
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  Speaker 3: just alluded to earlier, I guess is kind of fizzled out.
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  Speaker 3: But that was like the only thing that I kind
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  Speaker 3: of saw on that I guess for nap we finds.
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  Speaker 3: It was good to maybe see Lorenzo Luca get it
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  Speaker 3: on the board yea, his struggles, but but yeah, even Kagedy,
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  Speaker 3: I mean a good fight. I got to give it
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  Speaker 3: to them, a good fight so supposed to scored, uh
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  Speaker 3: to put it to actually to the penalty, sorry, And
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  Speaker 3: ultimately it came down to two missed penalties, one being
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  Speaker 3: that it was a hit off the crossbar I think
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  Speaker 3: it was, and the other one it was finally saved
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  Speaker 3: at the end by by Vanya. So but a good
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  Speaker 3: fight from Katy. A team that is con been you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think overwhooked in some of these games and some
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  Speaker 3: of these matches, so it was good to see them
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  Speaker 3: put up a fight and they put not be on
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  Speaker 3: the ropes there for for a second.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny, I would have to say, I mean, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: it was definitely something to like honestly be worried about.
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  Speaker 4: But just from judging from like what I saw from
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  Speaker 4: the score line, saw from the stats. Haven't I chance
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  Speaker 4: to watch highlights said because they haven't been uploaded.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the vibe that a guy was obviously
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  Speaker 2: Galliadi wanted it longer.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they want longer. They wanted it more. M Like,
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  Speaker 4: that's longer. I guess we'll add it to the repertoire.
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  Speaker 4: But they wanted it more because, like as we've said before,
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  Speaker 4: usually the Kopetalia as a trophy that teams that are
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  Speaker 4: not scooed that the contenders will push their hardest for
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  Speaker 4: because it is some silverware to bring home and I
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  Speaker 4: feel like it is a way to help you, you know,
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  Speaker 4: boost yourself and develop more hype, to become a school
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  Speaker 4: that the contending team or a team that's want to
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  Speaker 4: push into the top four.
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  Speaker 2: Like look a look at Bologna. Bologna now was Cope.
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  Speaker 4: Tally winners, they're competing for top four. They're I mean,
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  Speaker 4: like there their two second year in their own champions league.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like, it's is it? Is
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  Speaker 2: it because of just what the team currently has?
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  Speaker 4: Is it because you know certain players are just playing
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  Speaker 4: well above our minds? We don't know, but it's nice.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice for.
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  Speaker 4: Those teams, the non Scudetto contenders to to win and
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  Speaker 4: push for because it's some some some form of glory
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  Speaker 4: and you also have to beat some good teams to
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  Speaker 4: get to it too.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it is a trophy at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, it is a trophy.
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  Speaker 3: It's even like the Fjordentina like in years past, kind
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  Speaker 3: of ye pushing till the end there and I mean
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  Speaker 3: obviously they didn't win, but you know those years of
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  Speaker 3: them kind of giving the bigger teams if you will,
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  Speaker 3: run for their money and you know, pushing to the
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  Speaker 3: finals and you know, semi finals and whatever it was there,
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  Speaker 3: But it's it's every now and then. I think you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get You're gonna get that. I think even Atalanta, right,
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  Speaker 3: if you're mistaken in years past, I think they made yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean you're not gonna say a lot of
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  Speaker 2: Europa League winners.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah no, and there you go.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So again, I think it's for all these stories and
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  Speaker 3: what we're trying to get at our point here is
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a combination of things. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it's all yeah, because we went far in the courp
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  Speaker 3: Utalia is why we're winning you know, Europa League titles
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  Speaker 3: or making it the top four or going to you know,
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  Speaker 3: Champions League. I don't think it's only that, but it
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  Speaker 3: plays a factor. I think if you want to take
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  Speaker 3: the Bologna aspect, you know, I think they gotta they
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  Speaker 3: they've been overlooked. I think that's that's that's helped there.
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  Speaker 3: There's less pressure there if if I'm honest, and it's
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  Speaker 3: been a good mix of you know, good coaching and
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  Speaker 3: a good system in place, and you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: players buying in and everybody in the club buying in
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  Speaker 3: to to what the the end goal is. So and
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  Speaker 3: you know what, respect to them, I know they they
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  Speaker 3: you know, they had to take a trophy away from
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  Speaker 3: my mewan, but it's it was justified, right, it was
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  Speaker 3: it was merited and you know they went on and won.
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  Speaker 3: So again, I don't know if we'll see that again
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  Speaker 3: this year. We'll have to see. I think I think, well,
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: who uh Bolonia plays? Was it tomorrow?
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  Speaker 1: Lotso rematch? Yeah, at least on the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, then we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just had it up. But there's more
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  Speaker 1: games in January, Roman in January, Fiorentina Cuomo in January.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't I don't know who comes up with
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  Speaker 1: these schedules. All all I'm gonna say is the last
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  Speaker 1: thing about this topic. Uh, we used to have different
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  Speaker 1: format where even City of D teams were included. More
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  Speaker 1: City Chiet teams were included in twenty seventeen. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you guys remember Port One inters of penalties and famous
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  Speaker 1: cult favorite to that game.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But back to the city I guys, h Jenny, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like every time someone asks you Romo and Appley,
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  Speaker 1: who do you cheer for? You always say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it depends who needs to win more. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: like Roma needed to win more this weekend because if
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  Speaker 1: they won, they would have been in first place. Napoli
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  Speaker 1: wins and they're not in first place. So now Adriana's
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  Speaker 1: teams in first place and neither of yours are.
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  Speaker 3: On the top.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about that, Jenny? And what did
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: you make of the derby bill Jannine? Uh, it was.
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  Speaker 4: A game where Roma dominated. It just couldn't basically finish
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  Speaker 4: in the final half, in the final third. So the
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: final half and the final third like that was that
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: was the issue with with this game for Roma. You know,
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: get getting there, getting in, getting into like where they
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: have to finish, getting to the area already have to finish,
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: and they just couldn't.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: They couldn't be clinical. They dominated possession. Uh then, but the.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: Thing is dominated possession, but you don't have any high
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: score and danger chances, you know what I mean? There
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: was nothing threatening for for for Napoli to handle. Napoli
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: actually had the much more dangerous opportunities. Conte's counter attacking
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: was working very well for them. They they they weathered
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: the storm and then from there we're able to be clinical.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: And obviously the goal came from the countertack. Mctomminy with
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: a nice little draw, little like a little past to
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: split the D two and Netta is and that's just
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: tucked it.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: In funny land.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: The sorry, thank you for correcting me, because.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Because they obviously mc talminin now that he's in Italy,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: he looks so like m and I can't every I
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: can't that that joke was funny.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: But one thing that is concerning now if you're at
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Amani Sta is that three out of your four losses
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: this season come against big teams inter Milan and Monopoly,
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: you know, and lost to Torino because Simone is I
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: think when a very underrated striker. But that's just me, right,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: But that's like if you want to be part of
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: the big dogs. You have to beat the big dogs,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like the goal has always
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: been top four. It's always been top four because they
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: have been missing top four for the longest time. And
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I still say that's what it is. The Scudeto push
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: is nice, don't get me wrong. It's it's a bonus
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: at this point. It's a bonus. But the main goal
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: is to get it back at the Champions League and
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: get that Champions League funding. That's the reason why I
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: guess Padini was brought in. That's the reason why you
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: take risks on players like Dibala, you know, and you
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: just go with it, right, You try to keep a
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: consistent core, you know, like now you identify cv lar
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: as part of that Carstulet, Dibala, Manchini, like you know
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: what I mean, Like like you you kind of are
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: establishing like Haistante's been it for so long, Like you're
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: you're you're kind of establishing like a like a core
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: group of guys that are going to be the honestly
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: the pillars in the sense of like they're so good
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: that you can't replace them.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: But it's like these are guys that you know, uh, we.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Can feel like we if we can get consistency from
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: right so we don't have confusion year in and year
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: out and you're losing those really important games. It's it
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: sucks because it's like one thing that's been Roma's issues
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: this entire season is offense, you know. It's it's something
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: that they we've talked about before. The lack of goal,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: even though they are you know, in the in fourth
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: place right now, Like it's they have fifteen goals in
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: thirteen games, you know, and like there are teams in
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: the top four. You have inter with twenty eight, which
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: is crazy, you have monopoly with twenty and you have
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: me Line with nineteen. You know, like you're scaring Bear,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: You're scaring You're scoring barely above a goal of game.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: You can't really win or do much when you're doing that.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: You have to bring that racial just a little bit higher,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: just just a smidge, you know. Defensively great, but because
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: that's s Fielar just you know, bailing the team out,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: you know, as much as you could like and the
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: back line is still doing a good job too, Like
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: I don't want to discredit them to Mancini, you know
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: for playing in the league is something different than Mancini
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: on the national.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Team, but is pretty uh pretty impressive.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, But besides that, it's like if you want to
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: if you want to compete in this top four spot,
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: you have to beat the other people in the top
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: four to stay there, you know what I'm saying, Like
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: it's it's and it's tough because like that, the first,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: second and third place are all your losses. You lost
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: the Melt, you lost Annapolis, you lost the inter and
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: then obviously.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Todriobo Torino's a thirteenth place.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: So I think that's the storyline that if you're Manista,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: you're kind of looking at where it's like, okay, good,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Like they're getting their results against the team.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: They should be getting their results.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: But these crucial games, these crucial uh uh, like like
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: positioning games, right, you're losing one zero every single actually
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: is it once zero every single one.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: It was one zero Napoli, one zero Milan, and it
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: was one zero Inter. Yeah, so you lost one zero
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: to all of them. You know what I'm saying.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: It's just you gotta turn like you gotta turn a
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: couple of those into draws if you want to stay in.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: At the very least at the very least.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And what's crazy, you're saying it's four one nothing losses
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: and they have seven goals against all season, well in
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: nine of their in nine wins, they've allowed three goals. Yeah,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I was scoring fifteen. So it's it's almost like a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: jackal and Hight situation with Roma because nine wins, four losses,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: no draws. It's yeah, win or loose, yeah.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: And and and the losses aren't blowouts. That's what's really fantastic.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: It's you know, it's just the other team was more
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: clinical than you are. But it just goes to show that,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: like you can like they're lacking something in terms of
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: transitioning to the game into offensively. You dominate possession, sure
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: you you probably get an opportunity, but there was no
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: clean chances. There was no scary, scary, scary opportunities. Right
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: like when it got to the final third, you know,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: like nothing, nothing, nothing came of it. And this is
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: so different to what we've seen a Gasparini in the past.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: I think it was like, what was it during the pandemic.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I think it was like four years ago, five years ago,
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Atlanta had like one hundred something goals at the end
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: of the season.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, some crazy, crazy amount. I remember, like, do you
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: think it's I think you do? You think it's because
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: he doesn't have the And I don't want to make
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: it an excuse, but do you think it's because he
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: doesn't have the players to produce at that level? Or
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: is it something else? In your opinion?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I think right now he just hasn't.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I think it's what it is that he hasn't established
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: his full system in just yet.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: If he wants to establish the system, hold on, let's
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: see here.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: They had ninety goals in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, ninety eight and twenty nineteen twenty twenty oh Jesus Christ.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are almost one hundred goals, almost.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: A your goals and it was like five five came
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: against me and Adri right before Christmas in twenty nineteen.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a game.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: It's a game that's burning my mind.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I remember was where he was hopping and then after
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: we went to school that we started hopping. But yeah,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: I know you're you're right.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: But Atlanta was scoring at the pace the guys at
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: two point.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Five eight goals a game that year.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Think about it, like like you're you're scoring at least
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: two goals each game.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: But they had against it. They had the players that
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: were again I think bought in and and and rolling
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: on all cylinders because I think the problem for Roma
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: is and Johnny you can correct me if I'm wrong.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I feel like they are attackers, you know, Dolf Bick.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: It's like we're still waiting this and nothing.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: There's nothing fantastic, right the Fergusons of the world were
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: still We're still waiting.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: For it to kind of unlock a bit. You know,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Soule can only do so much offensively. You're getting some
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: help from the midfield. Okay, bah blah, it's one in
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: one out. Know, he''s what it is.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: So you know, you don't have you don't have a
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: good offensive attacking mid that is going to be that
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: playmaker that.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: You know, that pa is that Malonovski, you know like
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: that you know what I mean?
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: The guys that, yeah, that they had the offensive midfielder
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: driving it, like like Pallagarini is trying to for a
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: third year in a row, is trying to find himself again.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's ever I think at this point.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Now it's like he's not still keep looking.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like I think at this point it's it's it's like, buddy,
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: forget about you know, just become a defensive midfielder at
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: this point. You know what I'm saying, Like uh and
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: then yeah, you just you said it perfectly, like like
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: you're gonna be waiting on Ferguson, sure, but like how
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: long can you wait?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: You know, maybe you could give him some time, but
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: like Suley can do it on his own.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: When you get the balla back, it's like, okay, cool,
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Like it's you know what I'm saying, it's sorry, well,
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I mean the ballot back to one what I wanted
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: to say.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: But you know what I mean, I don't need to
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: talk are up there like they're they're they're I don't
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: know the combined goals, but like your your too center
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: forwards you know, Ferguson and and Dolf Bick. We're still waiting,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: it seems, yeah, it's still waiting to be.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Like if you want to play like in terms of
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: a false nine and we want to talk about Deballa
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: of or Deballa of the U years, that's a different
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Deballo that would have that would be perfectly fine, you know,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: like we have a different Deballo right now, you know
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, and it's not I'm.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Not insulting the guy. He's he's still an immensely talented.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Player, but he has to obviously reshape the way he plays,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: And he's made of paper. That's why it's Yeah, it's hard.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: So that's the thing until Roma gets some kind of
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: supporting cast, not even supporting cast, uh, like a main actor,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: like a like a main main character, main character in
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: uh up front, this is basically what the what it's
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: going to be, Gas spitting is gonna have to rely
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: on defensive excellence from Spieler, from his back line, from
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: the defensive mids, just you know, like being smart with the.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Ball or else.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: You're not gonna be because can be losing every game.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: But when you play against the teams that are strong
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: enough to be contending for the Scudetto, they will get results.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: They're gonna get that goal because they have the capacity
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: to do that. They have the capacity to break down
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: strong back lines. That's why they're continuing for the Scudetto
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: insteadia when you have strong manager versus strong manager, right,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: eventually the talent is going to be the difference maker
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: because if the managers are going head to head and
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: and they're trying to play a chess match on the pitch,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: offense like whatever, depending on which side defensive or offensive talent.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: But in this case, the offensive talent will prevail, you
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So that's what happened in his game.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: It wasn't as if Napoli was in terms of overall performance,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: was the better team, but Napoli was the team that
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: you know, had the more dangerous chances, the more dangerous opportunities,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: and at the end of the day, they got the
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: ones ZERI a result, and that's why Napolis where they
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: are today. Uh and Roma sitting in third place because
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: they were able to get the result against a big
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: team that they needed to win against it for a
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: third game out of four. But I guess you said
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: that for third game in a row versus top four team,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Roma lost, So you know, I think that goes to
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: show that, Okay, well, let's aim for top four, but
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: you have to make sure that you can't slip up
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: even further.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's fine too, Like you know,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: they're not there yet. I don't think you know, many fans,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: including yourself, Johnny, I don't think. You know, obviously, it's
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: nice to kind of see the true fight by this
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Roma team and getting back to where they they've been
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: in the past, you know, top four and kind of
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: fighting and flirting for that scudetto range. But I don't think,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: you know, if they're not there yet, I don't. I
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: don't think that's either a problem in terms of scudetto
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: top four, top four. If I'm a Roma fan, it's
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: a must. You know, they were very close last year,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: ultimately went down to the wire with Juve was was
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: it a point? I think difference from fourth and fifth.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: I think it might be similar this year. That's kind
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: of how I predicted it before the season started. But
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: you know, just because they're not truly there yet, and
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: ultimately this game they got caught on one counter attack.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: They got kind of caught on one counter attack. Kudos
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: to Mapui for for for being clinical enough to to
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: capitalize on that counter attack, because a lot of these
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: counter attacks sometimes you know, they they they fizzle out
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: because of of a you know, a bonehead mistake or whatnot.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: But you know, good on and you know, some people
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: were saying maybe there was a foul there on on manukone.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I think it was Mani there that kind of slid
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: in there, but I think he got the ball, if
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken. I saw it a bit on a
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: on a bit of a replay there, but it was
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: a heads up counter attack. You know. Uh there is
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I think is Old a lot of credit. He's kind
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: of the one who started to push up and then
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: foun Hoylan and he continued his run. He continued his run,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: and yeah, you know you're gonna blow by Christante. I'm
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: sorry to say, but you know, a guy Devin the Rez,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: you're gonna blow by Christine. You're gonna you're gonna be
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: able to bowl buy some of these defenders because I
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: think Dovin Therez, it's it's and even the lines of
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: the World Monopoly, it's it's only recently that they've kind
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: of been finally showing what they're why they got brought
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: into this, to this squad, right, so uh, kudos to them.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I think Therez was able to slot it in, you know, perfectly,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: and he he was obviously the match winner and in
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: uh In in this derby, but you know, for for
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Rome mis sake. You know, they got caught on one counter,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: weren't able to capitalize on the other end, and ultimately
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: they lose one nothing. So it's you know, those these
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: are just to end off this point. You know, these
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: are the games that you're gonna look back on, not
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: only this game, but the other games that Johnny mentioned,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: the other one Nils to the Bigs, that you're gonna
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: look back on and say, well, you know, damn like
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: these are those are the results that you know, if
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: you get a draw and maybe two of them in
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: a win, you know, it's maybe we're seeing a different tune,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: you know, come come the end of the season. So
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: but again, I don't think Roma fans should should really worry.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I think nap we fans should still be level headed
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: because it's there's a long time to go, uh still
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: in the in the in the season. So but you know,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I think I don't know if in the Mercato in
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: the winter, the Winter Mercato, if Roma goes for an attacker,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they go if they're going to
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: be active this winter, I don't know. I don't think
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: so either. But in case they do, I think it's
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: it's a center for that of some sort that is
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: a bit more proven or a bit less green, that
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: is able to come in and score some more goals. Because,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: like I alluded to earlier, we're still we're still waiting
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: for Ferguson. He is still young, you know the dolve bicks.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: I think it's it's yeah, he has a good performance
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: and then he goes on on a cold streak. So
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: I think the more consistency is what I think Roma
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: fans are probably looking for. Offensively, defensively, it's been a
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: it's been a bit of a surprise for me. I
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: didn't think it would be this good. To be honest
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: with you, to call I don't want to insult them,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: but I didn't think they were going to be this good.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Sophie are on on another level this season, and you know,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: he won best Goalkeeper last season at you know the
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Grangala that they had the other night, rightfully, so he's
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: been he's been lights out and a player that will
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: really taken that next step. So we'll see what happens.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: But you know, kudos to Napo for getting the job done.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're talking about defense, uh, Roma and Como
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: or tied best defense in the league seven goals against each.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Only Roma, Como and Melan have less than ten goals
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: against through these thirteen games, and Melan as a team
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: that's they've also won their last Their last three wins
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: in the city have been won nothing. Their last five
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: wins in the city have been by one goal, one nothing.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: This weekend against Lato coming off the derby performance a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: goal from Layau. And it's interesting because we're talking about
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Copetalia Melan plays Lato. I mean, what did you see
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: in the game, Adria. But also, you know what do
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: you think it kind of impacts the cop ittality game
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: because now Latscho almost they almost have a bit of
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: a revenge coming into this game. Obviously, regardless of what
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: would have happened, you'd think lats you would want to win, right,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: but you know it's almost like that that that chip
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: on their shoulder. They know what to expect. And yeah,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, look one nothing, I'm just gonna say it,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: alleg win.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: That's what you get with a yeah no's and that's
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: what it's been right this season or with Allegri, and
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: you know, Latscho, for Lotso's sake, they're obviously going to
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: have that bit more of a bitter taste in their
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: mouth coming for tomorrow's match after the you know, the
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: whole hoopla and Shenanigan that kind of happened, uh in
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: the match over the weekend, you know, with with you know,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: the penalty non penalty, the call, the non call, the
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: var the all that, you know bs. But in terms
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: of the game, it was again another typical Allegri win.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: You know, you nick saw it for for many years
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: at Juve and you know, if you kind of go
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: back to to uh, you know mean uh Mewan Day's
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: first Milan stints, you know you kind of start a
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: bit there too, but now it just repeats uh cort
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: toomuso uh aeg style win. And you know, so far
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: it's been so good. I think, you know, ultimately, I
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: thought it would have been a bit of a different match.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: I thought we would be able to expose Latcho a
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: bit more. Ultimately it wasn't to be. But I don't think,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: you know, either either team really did much to to say, yeah,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: we deserve to win more than the other team. I
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: think Milan was able to capitalize on a great play.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: It truly was for me a great play, you know
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: for Fanna, you know, getting that ball to tomorrow tomorrow,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: putting in a great cross and finding layout who's kind
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: of been able to reinvent themselves a bit under Allegory
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: as that center forward, a position that I'm not a
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: huge fan for him, but it's kind of where we're at,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: and he's been able to take that that role by
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: the horns and and run with it. I don't think
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: it's hard when you get when you get to the criticism,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: because ultimately he's not a true striker, he's not a
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: true center forward, but he's been able to kind of
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: produce at a good level. I think that's what he's
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: up to five goals this season and instead of hat
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: this season, that's that's only one off the top goal
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: scorer so far this season with six, So you know
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: it's it's it's another game where Leals plays kind of
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: plays hero for Melan and after that goal, you know
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: it's kind of locked down. Locked the doors, lock the
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: back door, the front door, the windows, walk everything, because
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: you know it's going to be one of those Allegory
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: style smother don't let anything passed, And that's pretty much
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: what you saw up until up until the end. I
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: think there were some chances. Ultimately, the biggest chance, I
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: would say Filazzo came in what two three minutes in
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: a hell of a ball in by I think it
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: was Bassis. I think it was Funny who was a
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Mariohila i FM taking the defender with a crazy header
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: and obviously once again Mike Manna Magic Mike making just
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: another great save. Time we save early on in the match.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Usually you know you're kind of getting a little bit
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: of the jitters out within the first five minutes, and
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: you know, Manya was already locked in, ready to go
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: and making I think, you know, the save of the game.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Because that goes in. I think the game gets turned
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: on its head right away. And we're probably maybe singing
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: a different tune tonight on the podcast. So I think
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: it's credit to credit to Milan down the stretch, able
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: to get the job done. H you know, find find
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: a way to win, and unlike Roma and again not
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: to disrespect Roma, but unlike Roma, Mion has been able
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: to kind of get these wins against their their their
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: direct rivals. Uh, these top four teams, these top six
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: seven teams, so you know, getting the wins against Roma,
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: NotI in inted all. Okay, they didn't lose. They didn't
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: win against Sorry, they didn't lose against you. They drew
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: that game, but still didn't lose. Picking up this win
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: against Latzo. So uh, it's it's kind of been a
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: bit of a different story for for me on they're
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: able to kind of get those wins against these these tough,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: top teams, and it's been the smaller teams quote unquote
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: that they've been struggling with, so that needs to kind
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: of get maybe ironed out. But in this match, again
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: it was it was pretty solid ultimately at the end,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: you know, with with with the penalty, Uh, that was
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: that whole I don't even I don't even know what
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: to call it. It was just a mess at the end,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: from the referee on the field, to the var in
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: the room, to the review, to the explanation, to the
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: audio that we hear afterwards, and again it's I've seen
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: so much different takes on it. Personally, I first glance,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't think it was it was a penalty. Efforst.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I didn't even realize it was a penalty at first
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: because I didn't think it hit off off off an
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: arm off off a hand of anybody. But ultimately that's
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: kind of what was originally called. They go to the
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: var and gets gets taken taken away and the explanation
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: was that there is a handball, but there was a
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: foul and that obviously erupted the lots so faithful, But
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: I again, it's it's week in week out that we
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: kind of speak about these that these instances and we
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: know how it is instead, Yeah, you know your team
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: is gonna is gonna get an advantage on one of
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: these calls one week and then get screwed the next.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Just in the past couple of weeks, we've been we've
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: been saying it on the show. Right, we spoke a
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: bit about it about last week with with Marcello, we're
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: speaking a bit about it today and we go back
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: to the the Feudentina yovea game, right, the Pablo mari
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: and and and Volvic incident. We kind of saw with
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: that with that transpired to be so again for me,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: it's I personally, I didn't think it was a foul,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: and person I didn't think it was a it was
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: a it was a penalty. I think it was just
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: should have been a corner kick or I think it
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: went out of bounds for a corner, so it should
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: have been that in my personal opinion, because for me,
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: that's never that's never a foul because that happens. You
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: want to say, cultures of contacts sport, those are the
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: types of contacts you're gonna have in the box, you know,
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: wrestling for for position. That happens every play, uh, in
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: the set pieces and and and just in the midst
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: of play so called a corner called it. They don't
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: go out and say, yes, it's a penalty, but I'm
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: only calling it back because there was a foul and
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: then making it more than it needs to be. And
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: again that just you know, shuts the eyes of of
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: neutrals and and kind of trying to get into this,
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: into this sport, into this league. And it's like, man,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: that's that's how it gets called in Italy, Like why
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: am I going to turn in tune into this circus?
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Like unless you're a true culture fan, you you you
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: kind of already are prepared and know that this this
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: type of stuff is gonna happen. But for us, for
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: somebody that's a neutral or just trying to get into
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: the league or into the sport. It's like, well, you know,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: they called the something in in the Uve Fiorentina game
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: one way and then they called something in a different
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: in this game. So I think that's as being a
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: dead horse at this point because we've said so many
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: times on the show and other you know, Sadia cultural
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: content creators have said it as well. The lack of
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: consistency and it truly being called one way in one
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: game and the same in the next has always been
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: the big discrepancy in Sadiyah with with with these officiating
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: and these types of calls, if it be handball, if
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: it be you know, a foul or or what have you.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: So until that ever gets you know, ironed out, I
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: think we'll continue to have these types of discussions going forward.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: But listen, we uh we we were you want to
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: say the lucky ones. If some people Latcho fans are
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: going to call the meal On fans lucky for getting
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: away with this call, so be it. I don't think
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: they did much more to to really deserve the win.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: If if I would have to say anything back, but
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe uh maybe a draw was the right
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: results that probably should have happened but ultimately it wasn't
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: to be. And I think going into tomorrow's maw that's
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: that's the chip on the shoulder, the sour taste in
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: the mouth of Lotso, the team, the fans, you know,
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: the city is going to kind of feel going into
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: this match, and so we'll see what happens. I appersonally,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: when I spoke last week, I said that I think
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Milon should be able to handle a lotso in both matches.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: I still stick by that. Well, we see a bit
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: more drama this time around because of what transpired over
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: the weekend potentially, but I think we're going to see
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: a bit of a different lineup. I don't know about
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Lato because I didn't see any projections. I didn't really
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: look at it. But if the projections of lineups for for,
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: for me and are are are true, we're going to
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: see a bit of a bit of a shake up
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: in the lineup, which I think is is makes sense
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: because we can't continuously play the same players week in
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: and week out and expect uh, you know, you know,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: ten out of ten performances every time. So I think
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: we'll probably see a Yes, Shari starts to est, I
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: think it's gonna jump back into the lineup. I think
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: uh loftis cheek gets into the lineup. I think that
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Ichi probably gets a start for a minute. One they're
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: saying maybe the winter instead of gab Yah. So again
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: we'll see probably some rotation, and ultimately I think they
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: have to they have to get past this, this Latcho team,
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: because again, this is a tournament and a cop that
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: has eluded me one for so many years, like we
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: said last week, since the early two thousands. So and
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: I don't want to say they're on an easier path,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: but they're on an easier path on the side that
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: they're on. So if they win tomorrow, they have a
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: chance to point either Bologna or or or Partama. Ultimately,
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: you're you're kind of only gonna play a big team,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: I think after that. If it be, I think they're
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: on the same side as Juve, right, if I'm not mistaken.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: It last time I checked, I believe So, yeah, they're.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: On the same side as Juve and who else plays
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: on outside Uh.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Well obviously it would.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Be want to Uh so you're only going to catch
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: a bigger team if you will at that stage, if
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: if you advance, So for tomorrow's game. I'm hopeful for
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: a win. I think you know, they need to they
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: need to make some noise in this tournament because you
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: make it the finals, you and you've you've lost. You
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: you haven't advanced out of out of the run of
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: sixteen this time around. You had to go in through
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: the preliminary round against Body to even make it to
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: this point. So listen, we're in too deep. We have
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: to go forward. And ultimately I think there might be
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: a bit more action maybe in this match. I think
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: maybe hopefully a couple more goals scored for for the
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: neutral right to kind of see a bit more action.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: But if it be another one pill result at this
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: point in this season, with all agree, that's what it's
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: going to be, and that's what we're going to take.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: And the three points or or the win in this
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: case for Copetal is the only thing that matters. So
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: hopeful for that. And we'll see if if if Lato
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: kind of puts a bit more, uh you know, more
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: of a performance, uh to to kind of deserve more
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: than what they got last last time out. So we'll see.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: And uh, finally for Majuve, we actually won three games
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: in a row. Crazy guys, Wow, I should I should
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: do like that that men U fan that doesn't get
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: a haircut until until Manu wins five.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Games in a row.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe I should pull that. See how long
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: it takes five games in row. We're definitely not getting
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: now that now that we put Napoly on Sunday and
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: now and you grow, you can still grow that much
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: hair or no start starting here.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just asking. I haven't seen it in so
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: many years, I am. I'm true with asking.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Uh, but uh, look good good wins yesterday,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: interesting game, David Scores gets ruled back for offside. David
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Scores again gets given as an own goal. But I
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: think now it's uh, it's David's time to shine for Juve.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: With the unfortunate injuries Flavich, I know he had a
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: good start to the season, kind of cooled off for
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: a bit, you know, I think he's gonna be out
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: for a solid two months. Valvag So if David wants
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: to be a serious player, wants to be a serious
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: player long term, I know he signed in the five
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: year contract. This is his time now. Look, and he
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: kind of got off on a good foot good foot,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: good foot with the goal in Bodo last week in
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: the Champions League. Again scored, not scored against you Dinas
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: won't count on the score sheet for I'm sure for
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: split d it's as good as a goal, right, So
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: we'll we'll see how long. We'll see what kind of
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: rotation now you've does between David and Openda. I'm not
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: too concerned about you know, at the end of the day, yes,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: it sucks losing Valvich, but like I said, he kind
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: of cooled off. He hasn't been scoring much. I think,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: you know, offensively, it needs to be a team effort.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: And what I liked about the winning gainst Cality two
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: one on the weekend was that Yield has stepped up,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: stepped up. He's a player that kind of I wouldn't
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: say it has been disappearing lately, but it almost feels
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: as if he's falling under pressure as being the number
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: ten of Juve. You know, some some games I feel
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: like he does too much.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: And you know, it was a.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Saturday against Cality kind of simplified it. Two great goals,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: but look it was also team goals. It wasn't only him.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Lots of great passing on the build ups in both
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: of those goals. So that's what I like to see,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: and I think that's what we're going to need to
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: see from Yielda is moving forward, and I think, you know,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: if we're going to go back to the striker debate,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: that's maybe what Openda brings is kind of that passing
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: attack versus David is more a bit more of a
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: you know, typical number nine. He needs that service. So
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see. Obviously, Uve Anopoly on Sunday,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: back in Champions League on Wednesday, and then Bologna in
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Roma before Christmas. So it's a tough schedule ahead for Uve. Yeah,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: where they are in the standings, I mean, you guys
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: talking about school at the races and that obviously for
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: you it's more of about top four, kind of kind
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: of similar to to Roma. But there are four points
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: behind Roma right now, so if they want to get
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: serious about that top four, they need to beat maybe
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: get a point. I'd be happy with the point Sunday
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Innapoly and and then go out and beat Roma in Bologna.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: But you know, with the way that Juve, it feels
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: like every time they go to Napoli recently they get destroyed.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Johnny, but I have very
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: low expectations for this game.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: But that's the thing though, It's like it's it's it's
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: always it's it's not the Uve, it's it's always gonna
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: be dramatic. There's always gonna be some some form of
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: like good controversy. It's a rivalry game, right, so there's
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: gonna be you know, flair, tempers flaring, there's gonna be
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: you know, a big passion behind it, and there's gonna
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: be a player coming stepping up big for either club,
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: you know, like yeah, Like recently Napoly has had the
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: upper hand against Juve.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: That's about that. They were you know that it's been one.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: It was one so much more one sided at one point.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: So it's ties up turn and that's fine.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, And you've actually hasn't won in April
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: since March twenty nineteen. But at the same time, I
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: How many of those were losses though they were all
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: they were all losses. They were all losses.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Ahead ahead never mind then and then when when the
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: games are in Toronto, Napoli hasn't won, Sorry, Lampolis won
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: one game out of the past five I believe could
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: go longer, just as a quick look. So it's really
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: it's a home and home right where the home team
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: definitely has the advantage and it's a hostile environment when
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: they traveled to the Maridona, right You've so it's yeah,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: well expectations. That's why I say I'd be happy with
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: the point. For me, what's the most important game is
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: the Champions League game on Wednesday. I want to see
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: them finish in that top twenty four. They controlled their
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: own destiny because the teams they play, I think it's Patpos,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Benfica and Monaco. Those are the three remaining games in
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: the Champions League. They're all teams around them in the standings,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: so they control their own their own destiny to finish
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: in the top twenty four and move on to the
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: knockout phase of the Champions League. It's a home game
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: against Patfos, but you know, I don't know too much
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: about Patfos, but it could be a trap game, almost
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: like the photo game game. I know, no one can
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: say that that game in Norway, the weather, the field
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: conditions and that it's different. So the fact that sorry, yeah,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: can you do it on a cold day in Bodo
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: where there's like apartments around the stadium, you know, crazy
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: to see people are on you know, looking out their windows.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: Watching the game and buy a ticket. That's great.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: They bought the ticket when they bought the house.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: See the tickets at the house exactly.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: So yeah, home game against PATFO. I think it's a
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: much must win, and I do I do want to
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: see Jonathan David continuing to push as the UVA striker
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: because we know we have stocks in him, right.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: But you do now that they want to do fuck him.
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: When he puts on the red, it's one thing, but
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: when he puts on the black and white, it's a
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: different for us. But personally, I don't think he has
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: a choice. Like there's not much of a choice, right, Like, no, exactly,
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: It's it's I don't know how much as an outsider,
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know how much. I look at a guy
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: like Openda, which I thought would have done better, if
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: I'm honest, I did. I was like, fuck, they stole
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: a guy like Openda. I thought he would have done
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: a lot better. So listen, I think there's not much
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: of an option. There's not much of a choice. David's
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: going to have to step up. He there's no other
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: way about it. And if he doesn't, you know, I
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: don't know how long this this. You know, Jonathan David,
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: you've partnership my last like it's it's one of those
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: things like he's gonna have to do well because you
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: made that jump. You know, you decided to say, you
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: know what, I want to take that that next step
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: in that leap to a bigger league too, to a
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: bigger team. You know, this is your opportunity and this
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: is your runway, and especially in a World Cup year,
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: he needs to be right ruin on all cylinders because
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: for Canada he's dependent on a lot in that attack.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: So you know, uh, it's it starts now, like Nick said,
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: and I totally agree, and again it's it's unfortunate that
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: it takes a downfall or an injury of a player
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: to for that next guy to step up and hopefully
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: take the reins. But you know that's what it is,
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: so be it. David is gonna have to do it,
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: and I honestly, I think not only does it start
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: in Champions League, but this time I didn't realize that
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: the schedule is that tough for you before Christmas. It's
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: gonna have to start in the Cetia too, because he's
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: yet to really make a true mark in Seia. He
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: scored what the first game I think against Potima, and
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: we haven't heard of him since in the league. So
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: you know, if I'm a if you know, if if
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: you're even Dino you know, or just a Jonathan David
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: fan or whatever, it is a Canadian that just sees
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: that Jonathan David's in the in the city, and you're
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: supporting that. You want to see him, you want to
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: see him kickoff and and really go, uh you know,
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: because uh, Roma, sorry, He's going to be tough. Northeast
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: the South is always is always. Uh, there's obviously a
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: big divide there and there's always that rivalry, regardless if
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: it's on the pitch or on the street. But that game,
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: I think, the Bologna game, the room, like, these are
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: big games. And again I don't know Juve's record against
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: the other top teams. They obviously got to draw against Milan.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: They won against inter Right and that crazy four to three.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: If I'm yeah, and then lots latso is it a
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: draw or a loss? I already forget. Yeah, and now
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: they're up and coming playing you know, the Bolognas, the Napolis,
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: the Romas of the world. So they you know, they
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: I think as much as they control their own destiny
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: in Champions League, I think they can't like that can
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: kind of come back in Citia as well, because you know,
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: they need to get it back into the top four
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: and stay there, right that that's obviously their goal. And
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: if they be a push for the Schuudental down the line,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: we don't know, because that could happen as well. And
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: Yuva is always going to be Yuva, right, They're always
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: gonna be that big team that's can get in the way,
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: and you know, we'll see what happens. But for the
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: Jonathan David topic, I think he has no choice but
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: to step up and if if, if it's not to be,
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: then it's not to be and we move on. But
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: I think he has to step up.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: And lastly, you have one team that's really stepped up, Homo.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: They're right in there. They're right in there, guys. We
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: know we talked about them. You know Chinye with his
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: bold prediction. Was it last year?
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Is it their second? It's their second season. Back in city. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: twenty four points. They're right there with Bologna at twenty
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: four twenty three. Uh, but what's impressive. Eleven street games
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: now without a loss. They have one loss on the
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: season and that was early in the season, and then
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: since then they've they've they've they've killed it. They have
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: the best defense and nineteen goals nineteen goals for not
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: the best. They're still behind inter at twenty eight. But look, guys,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: they're showing what a serious ownership group, a serious quach,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: a serious scouting department could do. I know, that's that's
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: exactly what I was just about to say. I know
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: they have the influx of money. It's almost like in
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: FIFA when you do the career mode when you ask
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: for a financial takeover or whatever it's called. Yeah, at
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: the same time, no matter the amount of money you have,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: you could still screw up on scouting, you still screw
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: up on coaching, you could still screw up on overall management.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: So they've done good things with this money, and so
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: this is it. I would go as far as say,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: it's what the city I needs, just that extra team
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: now to add to you know, let's say the seven Sisters.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe this is a team that will be here for
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: a lot long time in the battle. I don't know
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: if they'll ever win the Scudetto, but imagine them in
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Champions League all the money they'll get from that. But
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: then again, I don't know if they'll be allowed to
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: play in their small stadium, so so I don't know
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: what what that would be like. But you know, this
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: is not I think they moved from the part where
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, this is a magical team finishing in
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: top ten in the city to hey, guys, this is
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: a serious team that knows how to develop players. That
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Nico Paz is one of the best young players in
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: the city, if not the best, uh and even in
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: the world. And then obviously Fabricat this guy's a good coach,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: obviously had a great career as a player. Apparently he's
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: a really good coach too. So it's not they're not
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: a pushover team anymore.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: No, I I totally agree again, I was listening to
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: a clip from our friends a Nima and Carlo there
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: at the Italian Football pod there. I think it's good
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: for the Setia, but maybe not so good for for
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: for Italian football. Because you know, they carry really o
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Italians on their squad. I know Coutron is there, I
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: know they have some some some other you know Wesser
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: name players as Italians. So that's probably the only downer
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: on this downfall of of this topic, I would say,
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: or the only negative if you will, because ultimately it
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: would help if if a team like so glamorous like
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: this that's doing so well, that's like, it's just an
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: amazing story can kind of translate to the national team
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: because we need that help. But besides that, I think
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: obviously it's a great story. And but beyond that, you know,
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: not only it's a great story, and I'm like, oh,
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a feel good moment. You know, this
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: team seems like they're for real and uh again, it's
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: it's I've said it many times on the show. It's
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: a credit to obviously their their their management, their ownership. Again,
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: I know, obviously, like Nick said, the the money helps.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: But Shack Fabergays, I think is is is a is
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: a nice, young, bright coach that has really implemented his
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: style into a league that I feel like hasn't really
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: seen this type of style before, and it seems to
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: be working. I think it obviously helps too when you
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: have some bright stars on your on your team, because
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: for me, Nico Paz is like out of this world.
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: Like this guy when you watch him play, it's just
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: another it's another level. And the kid is still so young.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: It's the only shame out of all this is that
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: there's the whole he's owned by Real and they kind
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: of are like that the puppet master of how they're
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: gonna decide where he ends up playing, uh, you know,
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: this season and into the future. And I kind of
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: was listening hearing some rumblings probably by next year he's
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: probably on on Real Madrid squad. So that's the only
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: like down other down, the negative point of this. But
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a serious project. It's it's you know,
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's here to stay for for
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: for eternity, but it's for now. It's it's it's working.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: So it's it's it's good, it's it's it's great. Honestly,
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: they're in what sixth place now, fifth place? Sixth place?
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: What are they at? Fifth? Fifth place? Who would have thought?
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: We we all thought, I mean I thought we all
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: thought it was a bold prediction. Obviously from Johnny last year,
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: you know, getting to the top ten. They're gonna be
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: a top ten team coming from Ceitia B. They you know,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: check that checkbox. Now it's can they push for some
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: sort of European competition. And again, I don't think it
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: has to be from top from Citia B to top
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: ten team to Champions League. I don't think that has
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: to happen. I think it could be a progressive step,
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: uh to to to the CETI hierarchy, if you will,
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: kind of like Atalanta slow back in the day, right
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: like Fjordentina as of you know, in in these last
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: few seasons. It doesn't have to be an overnight thing.
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: It could There's nothing wrong with it being a grind
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: and you know, a slow, slow building, you know project.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: You know, put put the sauce on simmer and let
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: it go, right, like make that Sunday sauce a taste,
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: a tasty want, and you know, make this como team
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: a serious project that's gonna grind and get you uh
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: to where you gotta go in the future. So very exciting.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: I hope it it does last longer than uh then
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: than a short period of time, because I think it's
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: it's something new that the league hasn't really seen a
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: team that that is kind of playing this way and
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: doing so well so fast. Like we saw the whole
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: Monsa thing. Right, Oh my god, Monsa came up, they
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: did some some some pretty good things they say in
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: City Ah for a bit, and then obviously that just
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: fizzled out. We don't want that to happen again with
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: with this como. Personally, I don't think it'll happen, uh
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: similarly to how it happened to Amonza, if you will.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: But as long as the backing is there, as long
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: as fabric Gas is there, and as long as he
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: has some sort of core that he's able to implement
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: his style and those players buy in, I think they
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: can be a dangerous for for for years to come.
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: It doesn't even need to be them in Champions League.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Like I said, I Europa League, Conference League, like make
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: that a goal. Like if they get into conference league,
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: then we're seeing next year like oh my god, can
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: this can this Homo team win Conference League? And you
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: know they're gonna go to Europa League and and make
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: some noise like making be those baby steps and and
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: get get to higher you know, higher positions as the
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: years go by, but happy for them and hopefully it
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: hopefully all last.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: But that's that's what it is.
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: Like, it's the infrastructure that people need to consider. Like
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: I knew coming up, Like I'm like, okay, this team's
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: got money. It's not like if it's a City of
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: B team, that's you know, like they just happened to
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: be a true City of B team. Yeah, like a
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: true City of B team. Like no, it's like it's
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: like it's like like when when Uve wasn't SETIV Obviously
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: that's a terrible example, or like Napoly Napoli coming up
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: from Citi I B Likenapoly. We knew that it was
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: gonna be team that was going to be back up
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: in Sadiyah just because of their history in Citi A.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: You know, like it's a team that's gonna have that
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: financial backing to get there. And that's the same with
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: Como is a very it's already a multi part in Italy,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, And like at the lot
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: to like bed com you know, but like but but nonetheless,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: like with the infrastructure that they set up in terms
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: of professional players, former professional players, buying in and the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: minds that they have around, Like you just mentioned before,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna go through them again, but you knew
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: that it's a project that it's it's it's set up
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: to succeed, it's not gonna set up to fail. However,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: that said, I think a very big underline that we
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: need to emphasize on is the fact of Nico Paz
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: with the loan to Real Madrid. I think I think
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: this is like I think the como that we're gonna
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: see post Nico pas is going to be a different
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: type of Como that's going to be having a big
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: hole to fill.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: It's just unfortunate because they just it's it's a dry loan.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: There's no there's no there's.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: No Real Madrid. Real Madrid holds all the cards. They're
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: the up and master of this whole Nico Pass situation.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: So out of Como's hands.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: All this I feel, and it's like como if they
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: want to that's the thing. If you're como, you do
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: have some financial power.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: It's like what kind of price tag will Real want
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: if you want to keep Nico Pass.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: I don't think there's a number that they can pay.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: Exactly, and I don't think if you're real, it's seeing
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: how Nico pas is doing in city. Yeah, there's no
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: way you're gonna try to let go of this player,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: no matter what dollar amount is thrown at you. Not
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: because you think he's priceless, but it's more about like
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: like the intangibles that he can do for real, you
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Like I think that. I think
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: that's why. That's why I don't think Nico Paz stays
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: in Como, and I don't think even Nico himself wants
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: to say, not in a key disrespectful sense of like
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: you know, like like he doesn't like it there. You
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, It's more like it's like, dude,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: like you it's real Madrid. You know what I'm saying,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: Like ninety five percent of players and and and and
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: this and this a world in the footballing world, to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: get an opportunity to play real they're gonna take it.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: They're not gonna He's already owned by them. It's not
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: like they're scouting and then like ready to like pounce
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: like they already owned him. So it's that he's already
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: one step yeah to there into the benabal like it's
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: it's a no brainer.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: So for him, for him, you know, like he doesn't
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: cuomo anything besides his best possible performances which he has
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: been giving.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: So absolutely so.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: I got both parties walk away from this like you
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: know what, it sucks that we can't keep you, but
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: we're not but we are sad to see you go.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Like it's like that's that's
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: what it is.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Uh, guys, one last topic, I want to talk about
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: a solo in Italian moment, just kind of tying in
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: our two sports.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: No, no, not not not not that, not that, not that.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: So so as we know Melan, Melan is hosting the
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Olympics this year, and there's been stories coming out of
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: out of Milan that the hockey arena isn't ready in time.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: You're shocked, No, absolutely not.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: I'm shocked that people are shocked about it, Like, yeah,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: this is Italy, this is Italy. And then also like
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Olympics is two months away, We've got plenty of time.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: Like as long as the structure is there, put a
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: couple of seats, make sure the toilets are working, make
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: sure the ice is good. You're good to go. But
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: apparently apparently another story coming out of this arena is
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: that it's three feet too short for NHL standards. Yeah,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: so this is this is this is only, this is
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: only in Italy that they could build the arena bid
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: late past deadline. It's fine as long as you get
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: the job done. But if you're not even going to
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: get the job done, that's a problem. And I want
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: to tie it to Kolcho because guys, Italy's hosting the
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Euros in twenty thirty two, that's seven years from now,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: less than seven years from now. And if you look
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: on their their bid, they're joint bid with Turkey. They
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: had to submit ten stadiums. Three the three of the
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: stadiums they it don't even exist. The new stadium in Milan,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: the new stadium in Naples, the new stadium Intality, which
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I guess is their current stadium but renovated, and then
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: every other stadium except for for Alliance Stadium to be renovated.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: Do we really trust Italy to host Nope, at all,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: the Euros in twenty thirty two with.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: New stadium ready, We're not gonna be ready.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: I'm already nervous. It's seven years away this, this is
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: gonna be a joke.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: So forget seven years. We're two months away from the
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: Olympics and they didn't take my dad's advice. Measure twice,
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  Speaker 3: cut once. That's the biggest thing in my head always
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: when we're drink construction. Measure twice cut one, measure twice
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  Speaker 3: cut once. These guys they they didn't measure and they
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  Speaker 3: cut ten times. Like it's you know, for me where
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  Speaker 3: they measured too much and they didn't cut at all,
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  Speaker 3: or or that the way either or it's one or
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: the other. But it's you know, I'm not shocked. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think any of us here tonight are shocked. You know,
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  Speaker 3: coming from Italian descent, we know how Italians are, especially
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: on the other side. Uh, it's you know, the organization
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  Speaker 3: out the window. You know, when does the Olympic. When's
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  Speaker 3: the first day of the Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, February. I know the hockey starts, the women's hockey
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  Speaker 1: tournament starts February fifth, February fifth.
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  Speaker 3: They might be ready by the February fourth, eleven fifty
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  Speaker 3: eight pm. Like you know what I mean, Like it's
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  Speaker 3: one of those things like I don't I don't listen
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  Speaker 3: as much as we love the country, we adore the country,
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  Speaker 3: we're so proud to be from. Uh you know, coming
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  Speaker 3: from the sense of that country, it's it's a it's
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  Speaker 3: a it's a nono. It's a non shocking thing, man,
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  Speaker 3: Like you know, even the for the EU it was
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  Speaker 3: the Euros right in twenty thirty two. Like I'm not shocked,
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  Speaker 3: like it's and I don't personally, I don't even think
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  Speaker 3: half of those projects are going to even get done.
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  Speaker 3: Like I really truly don't think, Like I don't know
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  Speaker 3: watch Ones, I forget the other stadiums that we were
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  Speaker 3: in the bids there. But like I don't think from
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  Speaker 3: start to finish, We're not Qatar that is gonna build
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  Speaker 3: six stadiums in an unknown land that's gonna automatically pop
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  Speaker 3: up for the for a tournament and then get teared
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  Speaker 3: down a couple of years later. Like we're not We're
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  Speaker 3: not the you know, the Middle East. So it just
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  Speaker 3: it's a bad look obviously because people that are not
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: Italians or come from Italians, I don't know how Italians
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  Speaker 3: are kind of see this and like there is a circus,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: this is a joke, Like are they serious? But when
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: you're around it, you kind of you know, you know
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: a bit more and you kind of hear and you
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: see it, and it's like I'm not shocked, Like I'm
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: really not shocked. And it's a shame because I think
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  Speaker 3: these are these are these are tournaments or events that
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: can really really boost you know, your your economy for
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: that period of time and can really do a lot
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: of good for your time. It does a lot of
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: negative tools behind the scenes, don't get me wrong, but
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: it also brings a lot of good for that period,
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  Speaker 3: for those periods of times. So I don't see why
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: they don't take it a bit more, uh like serious
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: if you want to know, seriously the right word, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, get the fucking job done. Host these things.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: Put Italy on the map again, even though they already
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: on the map and everybody loves and adors them, but
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: really put them on the map and put a good
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: name and a good, good step forward. But with Italy,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: it's it's one step forward, ten steps back. So we
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: can't even get to study out right right, we're still
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: in the in the Stone Age years with some of
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: these things in sad yeah, and they're expecting to host
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: you know, major events like you know, the Olympics and
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: you know, a euro Like not shocked, guys, I don't know,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: I'm just totally not shocked.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, I think it's just a factor of like
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: like a small side effect of the brain dream that
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: they're going through, you know, especially with the economy and
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: everything there.
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  Speaker 3: It's just I think a lot of politics obviously, yeah,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: politics that get involved in you know, Italian politics are
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: a whole different ballgame, but that's probably holding a lot
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: of these things back. So maybe we're a bit over critical,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: but nonetheless, it's it just it just crazy to me
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: trying to cut you off.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to know.
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  Speaker 4: I like I said, like I I I think there's
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: obviously other factors, external factors that are just like you know,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: the true stories behind this, Like politics is definitely probably
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: the biggest reason, but also the fact for the incompetencies,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: just like you know, like all the good professionals and whatnot,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: they're just leaving the country. They're not staying there because
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: there's no money to be made in the country, and
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: there is there is a brain drain that's occurring in Italy,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: so it's it's unfortunate. So like it's it's I think
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: it's a whole mess problems.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like it's it's not one
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  Speaker 3: it's not one thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm curious to see how these Olympics are gonna run.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I hope there's hockey where.
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  Speaker 3: Even pulled out. I heard that. I don't know if
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: that's true.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently there's no plan be which I'm gonna blame the NHL,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: the you know, the only big committees for that too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to Reno has the the arena for six
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they could go down down the road and
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  Speaker 1: play there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean, like it's the cost for that.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I understand, Like ready no,
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  Speaker 4: because in my head, I'm like that that would be
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: like the next best solution. But doesn't mean have hold on,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 4: doesn't mean loan have like a professional ice hockey team.
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  Speaker 2: It's Italian.
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  Speaker 1: Well this this arena is brand new. Yeah, no one's
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: ever played on it.
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  Speaker 2: Italian Hockey City. There's a professional ice hockey league in Italy.
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  Speaker 2: Does Melan have a team? Yeah, each.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Giano's favorite team.
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  Speaker 3: Now I have a basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: I know as bad. Here's a website, but the hockey.
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  Speaker 3: In Italy is like, uh, I don't even know what's
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: the comparable to that, but.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, hey, you know what I mean. I
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: wouldn't say I could go play there, but.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: No, but what I'm saying you wouldn't be far off.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: I don't think I could be.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: I could be a fourth line grinder.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, fuck be the water boy. Fuck.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not clear, it's not clear. Uh what teams
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: are in the league.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, this Cortina for example, Cortina has a team. Yeah, okay,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: Cortina hockey arena. Let's see stadi Olympical.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: That show.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: How many how many people can fit in this venue?
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: Forget that, bro? How big is the ice regulations?
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: They're using the ice to host the host of curling.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: They're using that hockey arenat the host curling curling.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: I love curly, Come on, okay, we're.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is that, like you could.
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  Speaker 5: It was also like the stadium that was it was
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: using many Olympic events before, you know what I mean, Like,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: it's yeah, it's you could do the hockey anyways, whatever,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: find a way to do both.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll figure I'm sure they'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm more worthy.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: I'm more worried for twenty years.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just about to stay that.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: They need five stadiums that meet the standards.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: They have one right now.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: We're seven years away, guys, like, yeah, I know you.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: Can do what one year they're gonna have to do
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: one a year.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: Let's you can renovate some stadiums like the Olympic Hole
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: and who knows what's gonna happen with the Sansiito And.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: It's a shame to see that can again tear down
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: if that's if that's really gonna happen in the running,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: if they get their innovation.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, data, but.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: The comedies, guys.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: These are stadiums that hosted the Euros in nineteen eighty,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: like the Olympic Hole and the San Nicola like we're using.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: Then there was Italian nineties, right, the World Cup too,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: right ninety?
• 1:11:40
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• 1:11:47
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• 1:11:50
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