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Week 8 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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  All right, welcome in to another episode of the Premier League
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  Playground. I am the dad, Bjorn, and of
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  course joining me is the star of our show The Lad.
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  Luca Miller. How are you doing today, Luca?
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  I'm doing good. How are you?
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  Doing well, I I shouldn't say how are you doing today?
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  It's night time for us. We're we're late in getting our
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  episode out because. We had some technical
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  difficulties yesterday it. Wasn't our fault.
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  It was. Yeah, yeah.
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  It was actually not our fault, so we couldn't do it yesterday.
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  We're sorry for the inconvenience.
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  We hope it will never happen again.
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  Yeah, our our listeners, I'm sure we're have been eagerly
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  waiting the the new Week 8 up. Our fans.
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  Yeah. So yeah, we're we're a day late,
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  but we're excited to do it. How was your weekend, Luca?
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  It was good. How was your weekend?
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  Well, it was good. I basically did all the stuff
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  you did so. Yeah, you played soccer?
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  Watched soccer? Yeah, how are your games this
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  weekend? Oh, they were good.
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  We I won a game. I got my first win.
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  Come on. I was guest playing for gold 2
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  and we won 6 Nothing. I I think I played really well.
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  I think that was my best game yet.
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  And then I got when I, well, I went back to my, before that, I
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  was in my gold three team, my normal team and what we've lost,
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  I think. But we, it was, it was somewhat
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  close. He was like 5, two.
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  We played good though. And in the last game, I had
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  three games this weekend, my last game of the weekend was El
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  Charsiko was what we're calling it.
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  It was Gold 3 versus Gold 2. And we tied 11.
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  And we, I thought we actually played really well in the
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  second-half. I think we outplayed them in the
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  second-half. Yeah, so you're calling it El
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  Chasiko, the CACHAS for Charleston.
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  But yeah, you played another team from your same club that
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  you play a team that sort of ranked than you guys and you
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  guys tied them 11. Yeah, and we practiced with them
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  too, so. Yeah, yeah, they're guys.
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  Captain that game too. Yeah, yeah.
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  So that's a good result. Like I said, you're playing a
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  team that's theoretically sort of above you guys and you got a
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  good result, 11 tie. I thought you guys did really
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  well in that game, but. Yeah, I think we're starting to
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  like. Yeah, so a win, a loss and a
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  draw for you in the weekend. A little bit of everything.
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  Yeah, yeah, I got everything. Well Luca, we had Week 8 of the
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  Premier League, we have some interesting games to go through,
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  so I think we should just jump on in.
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  Are you ready to talk about the games this weekend?
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  I am not. No, I'm kidding.
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  I'm kidding. I'm ready.
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  You're ready to go. All right, well, let's start off
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  with the first game of the weekend.
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  Actually, we had Nottingham Forest hosting Chelsea.
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  Why don't you walk me through this game?
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  OK, so we start off, but actually 9 and M4 is pretty much
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  dominates the first half here and it.
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  But then in the 4940 ninth minute, like Chelsea's playing
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  terrible and Moresca actually made 3 halftime Subs every.
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  Anytime you make 1/2 time substitution, you know it's bad.
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  It's bad, let alone 3 but 3 halftime Subs and then new
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  defender. He's his first senior goal.
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  I might be saying this from a chimp pong.
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  That's pretty close. See, I'm not sure I.
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  Mini it comes in. Was it a header?
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  Yeah, I think, yeah. Yeah, he was kind of wide open
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  in the middle. That was the.
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  Yeah, it was in great defending. Yeah.
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  Is that where the one where Neto plays it over too many?
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  Yeah, it was a good ball by Neto.
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  And then not too much longer after that. 3 minutes later,
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  Neto gets a free kick into the bottom corner that sells.
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  Probably should have done a little bit better on, but we
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  don't really know. Probably should have done
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  better. Then of course he goes over to
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  the Force fans and celebrates in front of them.
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  That was not very nice. And then in the 84th minute,
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  James Reese, James gets a goal and it's awful, like a set
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  piece, I'm pretty sure. And then he gets like a ball.
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  He's in the middle. It's not really being marked.
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  It wasn't great defending for Forest in this game, but and
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  also in 87th minute Goose Mal Gusto, he gets a second yellow
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  red card. And honestly, I kind of think
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  that's dumb. I mean, why would you kind of
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  take the guy down when you're waiting through nothing and it's
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  the in the 87th minute? I think that's kind of dumb.
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  But yeah, I think in, in my opinion, that's the red card.
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  Yeah, you know, This is why I think Chelsea's fourth or fifth
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  red card they've had in their past five.
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  Or I think it's four in five games.
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  Yeah. So, I mean, it didn't affect the
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  outcome of this game, but they've got to clean that up
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  because that's just. Kind of.
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  It's ridiculous. It's pretty dumb, but yeah, they
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  so home is a game, which is unfortunate because he's been a
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  good player and a starter for them.
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  But yeah, so So no call Palmer in this game for Chelsea.
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  He's out for six weeks with his groin injury.
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  The manager Maresca had to serve a sideline band, so he's up in
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  the stands. They don't have their manager on
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  the sidelines, but Nottingham Forest are a mess.
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  The backdrop on this, of course, they're already on their second
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  manager and Pasta Kaglu, he gets fired about 19 minutes after.
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  This game. So apparently they, I think I've
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  hired Sean Dyche. She used to coach Burnley.
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  So they're literally going to be going into their ninth game with
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  their third manager. I mean this is.
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  Sean Dyche also didn't he coach Everton?
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  I think he did. Yeah, he goes Everton.
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  Too, So he's he's familiar with the Premier League.
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  He he plays a very defensive style.
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  So he's going to get him organized defensively.
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  They tend not to be a very exciting style.
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  So usually they're well drilled. They're organized defensively,
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  but they're not very attacking. So you know, he may get them
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  better organized, but I think a lot of times Forrest and the
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  owner wants to have a little bit more of an upbeat style, little
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  counter attack, some goals. He's not getting that.
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  Like I said, Pasta Cogley was a bit of a disaster.
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  He had gone eight games without a win.
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  He never won a force. He never won a game.
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  He lasted I think 39 days. And again, he's the second
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  manager already. I mean, this is just it's crazy
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  what's happening there, but they're.
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  So good last year. They were, they were a great
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  story last year and they had, you know, we've talked about
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  this, they fired a decent manager because he wasn't
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  getting along with the owner and possibly the, the.
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  That's still so dumb. Nuno is a good manager, you just
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  keep him. Yeah, so, you know, look,
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  Chelsea, Luca, you picked them to win 2 nothing.
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  They want 3 nothing. So you're pretty, pretty spot.
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  On with your prediction. This was, you know, they they
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  kind of went in and just took care of business and get they
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  really, really bad team. So we'll have to see.
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  Like I said, Forest is going to look differently.
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  Like I said, I think they're going to be they're going to set
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  up very defensively. They're going to be well
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  organized in the back, but they're not going to, like I
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  said, be very exciting to watch again.
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  We'll see how Chelsea can do without Palmer moving forward.
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  They have a very deep squad because they buy a lot of
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  players. So even with some of these red
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  cards and missing Palmer, Chelsea, like I said, still
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  doing well here to start the season.
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  They're a little bit of an up and down team, but doing pretty
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  well. So they'll take the win and move
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  on. All right, let's move over to
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  another game. Is kind of an interesting match
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  up here. We had City hosting Everton.
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  Talk to me about this one. In this game I predicted 21
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  city. It ended being ended up being 2
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  nil city. I was pretty close as close on
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  both of these first two games. It all starts in the 58th minute
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  and the 63rd. Holland gets 2 roles.
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  He's been on a roll so far. He's 11 roles, I think now,
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  Yeah, he 11 of City's 17 Premier League goals, and he's also had
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  23 goals in 13 games for club and country.
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  That is ridiculous. He's on a roll right now.
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  But yeah, City get the win, 2 nil.
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  City, we're always coming in favorites at home here, but
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  yeah. Yeah, so for Everton, they had
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  no Jack Reela. She's on loan from City.
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  So a loaned player cannot play against their club.
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  If you buy a player then they're your property.
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  Of course they can play, but like this, sometimes people
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  don't always understand a player can be loaned to a team.
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  So technically Jack Reelish is still City's property and still
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  their players. It's loaned to Everton for the
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  season, so he plays with them, but you cannot play against your
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  club. So that's a big loss for them.
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  Jack Reelish has been very good for Everton.
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  So they had no Everton. I mean they had no Grillish for
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  Everton. Jordan Pickford signed a new
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  contract for Everton, so he's now signed through 2029.
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  He's been their long time goalie.
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  How long has he been there? Did he come up with him?
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  I don't know, I'm not sure, but you're right, he's been there a
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  long time. He's their captain.
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  He's also England's number one keeper.
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  So you know, it's some good news for Everton that they're going
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  to have him. He's obviously one of the best
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  goalies in the Premier League and does well for them.
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  But, you know, I don't think many people thought they were
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  going to go into the that he had to get a result against
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  Everton's winless in their last 14 away games against City.
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  So they've had eight losses and six draws in those last 14
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  games. So we'll add another one on to
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  that. My my question for you, Luca,
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  is, is Holland is like just on another planet right now.
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  Like you talked about the the premier, like how many goals he
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  has. He's scoring for club for
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  country. Like do you think City are too
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  reliant on Holland's scoring goals or is it just doesn't
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  matter? Like you just can keep scoring
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  and they keep winning or. I don't know, I think I think
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  Alan could just keep scoring. I mean, do he's doing well what
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  doing what he's doing? I would city just keep making
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  him do what he's doing. He's they're winning because it
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  and if I were city, I'd just be like, Yep, all right, cool, at
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  least we're winning. Well, I guess the question would
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  be is right. His form is just is is
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  unbelievable. But like to to to think that
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  he's just gonna keep this up maybe a little bit much.
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  Yeah. And he plays a lot, you know,
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  And So what I'm saying is like, what if there's an injury or
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  what if his form dips? So City right now, Luca, they
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  don't have another player with even two goals.
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  So. Holland has, you know, 11 in the
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  Premier League. They have been a bunch of guys
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  with one goal. So they don't even have all, you
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  think of all the talent they have on the field, not one of
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  those guys even has two goals yet this year.
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  But City sit in second place right now all by themselves,
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  only three points off of Arsenal in first.
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  So they're doing very well. They had that little blip where
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  they lost those two games. Otherwise they're winning games.
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  But it's just because Holland's good for pretty much two goals
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  every game and so they're winning 2, nothing 21.
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  But I think it's just something to think about moving forward.
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  I mean, it's it's crazy to think so.
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  He's got eleven goals through eight games.
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  He's on pace, looking for almost like 50 to 55 goals.
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  I mean, the record, he set the record with 36 goals in a
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  Premier League season, and that was in 2223.
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  Yeah, but I mean, if he gets fifty goals.
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  I mean that is can be outstanding.
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  That would be unbelievable and I don't know what I would say at
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  that point. Well, think about this to when
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  you look at the last five years, the Premier League teams that
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  won the league, of course you had Liverpool last year, City
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  the year before that. As a team.
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  Liverpool last year scored 86 goals.
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  The year before that, city 96. The year before that, City at
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  94. The year before that 99.
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  The year before that, City at 83.
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  So Holland, like I said, is on pace for 50 to 55.
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  I mean, he's like, you know, 2/3 of the way to what a team needs
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  to. Win and he's already like 1111
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  goals. It's just it's mind boggling.
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  He he scored so you know, the Champions League games, he
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  scored again today in the Champions League against
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  Villarreal for them. Like it's just he is like on
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  another world. Like I like it.
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  It's there's like no comparison for him, like what he's doing.
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  Again, my only thing is, yes, this is all fine and good, but
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  you he, like I said, plays Champions League games.
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  He goes to Norway and he plays for them.
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  He starts every city game. They, you know, Marmusha's been
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  hurt. So I wonder if they'll work him
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  in. They've got to try to give him a
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  little bit of a rest. I mean, he's like a machine,
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  right? So, but like, I just think at
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  some point you worry. About him?
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  Getting injured, I think that's just something to watch.
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  But like, it's just mind boggling.
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  Like he is unstoppable right? Right now.
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  I've never quite seen anybody, you know, dominate, like I said,
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  just the start of the season like this.
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  And and like I said, he's on pace to smash his own record
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  that he already has the record. He's on pace to smash it.
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  So all right, Luca, let's move on to maybe not as quite a
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  glamorous match up here, but yet Sunderland hosting Wolves.
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  What about this one? This starts with in the 16th
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  minute. Wait, was it muka muka lele?
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  Yeah, Mookie, LA. MOOKIE, LA.
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  He's a new signing. My right back.
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  Is he right or left back? He's he's right or left back.
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  Just say that. Back.
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  Yeah, I don't know 100%. You're right.
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  A new signing from PSG gets his first goal for his new club and
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  then in the 93rd minute Cret T isn't has an own goal and I
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  actually get this spot on. It ended.
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  It ends 2 nil Sunderland and I predicted 2 nil Sunderland.
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  Sunderland are now unbeaten at home in four games, three with
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  three wins and one draw. Yeah, and we talked before
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  Sunderland, you know, plays at the stadium a light.
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  First of all, I think it's a super cool name for a stadium,
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  but also it's a great, great home field advantage that they
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  have there and they're taking advantage of that.
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  Yeah, you were spot on with the score.
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  I think your thought was that Wolves are terrible and Wolves
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  are terrible. So Wolves still without a win.
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  They. Still don't have a win?
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  They still never win, so this is actually the second year in a
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  row that Wolves have gone eight games to start the season
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  without a win. Wait the second year in a row
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  last. Year they did not win a game in
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  their first they. Just really picked it up then
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  after that. Well, so that's the question is.
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  So Wolves last year were able to obviously scrap together enough
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  points. They did not get relegated even
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  though they got off to a horrible start last year.
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  But I think they were really helped out.
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  You know, the past two years we've talked about how the three
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  teams that get promoted went immediately back down.
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  This year it's different. It feels a little different and
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  I think especially with the team they played.
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  So Sunderland to me feels like the team, certainly if I had to
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  pick one of the three to stay up right now, I'm.
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  Picking Sunderland? All day long.
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  So they and they made 14 signings this summer.
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  This is a very different team that even played in the
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  championship last year that did very well.
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  You know, we know, like granted, Jacques we talked about, but
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  there's a bunch of other new guys that they're working in and
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  they're doing a great job sort of integrating a lot of new
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  players and they're, you know, look at they're sitting in 7th
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  right now. It's funny because most people
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  probably predicted Sunderland to finish like 20th.
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  I saw in this magazine I I read called Match that magazine
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  convicted Sunderland to finish 20th.
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  Yeah, I mean, you, you understand why.
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  Like I said, that the the the history lately of promoted teams
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  has not been good the past two years.
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  The three teams went up, the three teams went right back down
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  now Burnley and Leeds, the other two teams that go up with
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  Sunderland. They're not in relegation.
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  No, neither of them are. Well, we'll talk about that
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  next. In fact, that they played each
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  other this weekend and we'll get into that game.
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  But no, currently right now, neither one are sitting there.
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  However, I worry a little bit more about those two teams.
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  I think is we're going to get into like a real congested
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  fixture schedule as we get into like November and December
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  because the weather gets cold. And I think that could be a time
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  where they start to fall back a little bit.
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  Well, they've already fallen back, but possibly even more.
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  Because neither of those teams have ever played like anyone
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  that good. Yeah, and they've not played
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  anyone that great. So yeah, like I said, Sunderland
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  to me, you know, I, I maybe like some of the best stories to
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  start the season to me is like Bournemouth, you know,
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  Sunderland I think are like 2 awesome stories of those teams.
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  They're just like, you know, kind of maybe punching a little
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  bit above their weight. You doing a little better than
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  people thought. It's like I said, they're an
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  exciting team to watch. Like I actually do enjoy, like I
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  said, watching like I said that team play and so credit to them,
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  but you know they're playing the worst team in the league.
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  Wolves they've got to get the win, but they did.
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  They took care of business to nothing.
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  Win so good on them. Yeah.
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  All right, Luca, let's move on to one of the crazier games this
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  weekend. Was Crystal Palace Bournemouth
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  again, two of the better stories to start out.
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  They came in here 4th versus 6th.
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  What about this was a wild one all?
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  Right, fasten your seat belt. This ended 33 and I actually
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  predicted 22, so I was close. But so it starts out in the
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  seventh minute, croupy scores for Bournemouth and then he
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  scores again in the 58th minute. Then Mateta in the 64th minute
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  makes it 21, then in the 69th minute makes it 22.
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  Then Christy in the 89th minute, they think they have the winner,
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  but no, in the 98th minute, Matetta with the PK and Matetta
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  right after that. He had like a sitter that he
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  missed. It was kind of like a volley,
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  like 5 yards away from goal that he could have won the game,
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  could have four goals. Yeah, but my teta gets a hat
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  shirt. My teta five goals so far this
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  year. He's sitting in like third or
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  fourth in the top meeting goal scorers table.
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  Yeah, I think Mateta is fifth. So he's tied with Igor Thiago,
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  tied for third for goal. So Holland at 11, Semenya on 6
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  and then, yeah, Mateta with five, tied with Igor Thiago at
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  Brentford. Yeah, like you said, I mean, he
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  he should have probably had four in this, you know, at the very
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  end probably would have been his easiest goal.
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  I know compared to the other 3. First hat trick of the season
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  for anybody. So wait.
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  For anyone. Yeah, nobody's had a hat trick
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  yet, Even Holland, who's got all these goals.
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  And he's just got like a bunch of braces.
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  So you know, Bournemouth first start for croupy and you know
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  their manager does a good job managing that team obviously
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  puts him in gets you know he makes he looks like a genius
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  right start the guy and he scores two goals in the 1st 20
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  minutes. I I actually messed up
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  something. Croopy's second goal was not in
• 18:51
  the 58th minute, it was in the 38th.
• 18:54
  So I'm sorry I messed up on that.
• 18:56
  Yeah. And so, but yeah, like I said,
• 18:58
  this was a wild back and forth game.
• 19:01
  Like I said, back and forth to, like I said again, two exciting
• 19:04
  teams that have been doing a little bit better than people
• 19:06
  probably thought that they would.
• 19:08
  You know, Bournemouth, like I said, they get a point out of
• 19:10
  this one. So Bournemouth now, Lucas
• 19:12
  sitting in 3rd, you know, would you have thought we'd say, well,
• 19:15
  Bournemouth tied with Liverpool on 15 points and 3rd hanging in
• 19:20
  there. And Palace, like I said, still
• 19:22
  with only one loss on the season, they've got 4 draws.
• 19:25
  So you know, they're in 8th now on 13 points.
• 19:28
  So like I said, they're off to a great start this season.
• 19:30
  We'll talk about a big matchup they've got coming up this
• 19:32
  weekend with Arsenal. But yeah, this was a fun game
• 19:35
  too. Like I said, these are two teams
• 19:37
  that I definitely like to watch. They're exciting, they've got
• 19:39
  good players form if it's just amazing.
• 19:42
  We talked about this all the time.
• 19:43
  They they just keep finding good young talent and they come in,
• 19:47
  they lose guys, they sell them for a bunch of money, but they
• 19:50
  just replace them with good young, exciting players so.
• 19:54
  This is like probably the best game of the year so far.
• 19:57
  You think this is the best game of the year?
• 19:59
  Probably. I don't think so.
• 20:01
  What's what's better? Yeah, this one.
• 20:04
  Look, I mean, you had back and forth, you had a ton of gold.
• 20:09
  Yeah, I don't know, maybe the the Arsenal, Newcastle, maybe.
• 20:12
  Yeah, I thought you were going to say that that's up there.
• 20:15
  But I do think because there's only two one and it was like a
• 20:19
  late goal in this to tie it up. So yeah, I think it's something
• 20:22
  is the best. Now I do want to ask you on
• 20:26
  this. So the the PK towards the end of
• 20:29
  the game, you know, there's sort of a tangle in the box, gay.
• 20:33
  He kind of goes down. In your opinion, is this APK?
• 20:38
  I actually don't think this is a PK because gay he is, is
• 20:42
  honestly pulling the other guy, the Bournemouth player down.
• 20:46
  He's kind of pulling him down and then the Bournemouth player
• 20:50
  falls on Gay he and he goes down and they call it a penalty.
• 20:54
  That's what I said. I don't think that was actually
• 20:57
  a penalty. Yeah, I kind of agree with you
• 20:59
  on this one. This one really surprised me
• 21:00
  because, you know, there's always all this wrestling and
• 21:04
  grappling on all these free kicks and corners.
• 21:06
  I hate it. I don't like it.
• 21:07
  They just sort of allow it. And apparently the, the PGMOL
• 21:11
  who runs there, they run the referees.
• 21:13
  They, you know, they, they came out in the beginning of the year
• 21:15
  and said, we're going to crack down on this.
• 21:16
  We're going to. We don't want all this clutching
• 21:18
  and grabbing. I don't think they'd do a very
• 21:20
  good job with. It well, I don't think that I've
• 21:23
  seen anything change in my opinion, I think they still do
• 21:26
  all this nonsense in the referees will blow the whistle,
• 21:28
  go over, talk to the two guys and they immediately start
• 21:30
  grabbing each other again. So I wish that didn't happen,
• 21:33
  but the point is it happens all the time.
• 21:35
  I, I, I, I agree with you. I, I, I think that Bournemouth
• 21:38
  were hard done by this. This to me is not not a penalty
• 21:40
  at all. If anything, you're right.
• 21:42
  Gay. He's kind of the, I can't
• 21:44
  remember who the defender was for Bournemouth, but he's kind
• 21:49
  of pulling him down. This happens in every single
• 21:51
  game, probably two or three times.
• 21:54
  Why this one was called, I honestly have no idea.
• 21:56
  Maybe because it was in the 98th minute?
• 21:59
  Well, I know, but I think if you're a Bournemouth, I feel
• 22:01
  you, feel like you're pretty hard done.
• 22:02
  I think you had this game 132 and they get a late penalty, you
• 22:05
  know, I don't know. So yeah, I'm kind of with you on
• 22:08
  that. Not a penalty for me.
• 22:09
  But Palace, you know, they got and they tied it.
• 22:11
  So all right, Luca, let's move on to two of those promoted
• 22:15
  teams against each other. We had Burnley hosting Leeds.
• 22:19
  What about this one? I predicted 2 one in this game.
• 22:23
  Is it 2 on leads? It ended up being 2 nil.
• 22:26
  Burnley in the 18 minute, Chu Chu Klu, I came from Chelsea, he
• 22:35
  scores and then in the 68th minute.
• 22:42
  Yeah, like like Chu Ohana. Yeah, that's, that's a tough
• 22:45
  one. Yeah.
• 22:46
  This this calls a screamer. Yeah, it's a beauty.
• 22:49
  It's a Rocket And Burnley. Two wins against promoted teams.
• 22:57
  Yeah, Burnley is two wins against promoted teams.
• 23:01
  Sunderland plus Leeds obviously. Yeah, so you know, Burnley
• 23:05
  really came in struggling, but yeah, they've beaten Sunderland
• 23:08
  and now they beat Leeds. So they've gotten two wins
• 23:10
  against promoted teams, which, you know, look, teams like
• 23:14
  Burnley and even leads to a certain extent.
• 23:16
  They they've just got to kind of scrap together and get points
• 23:18
  where they can. Yeah.
• 23:19
  The the the goal of their season is to try to not get relegated
• 23:22
  and that that's like what they're trying to do.
• 23:24
  They're trying to basically stay up, not finish in the bottom 3.
• 23:27
  So yeah, you thought leads, you know we're going to come in and
• 23:30
  win and I, and I don't blame you because Burnley had been playing
• 23:32
  so badly, but Burnley are pretty good at home leads to be honest
• 23:37
  with you had a lot of they were probably the more dominant team
• 23:40
  this I don't know that the scoreline totally reflected
• 23:43
  Leeds had 69% possession in this.
• 23:46
  They had nineteen shots to four for Burnley.
• 23:48
  Leeds put in 47 crosses in this game 40. 7 crosses.
• 23:54
  That's the most by any team in the Premier League this season.
• 23:56
  How are you? I mean, that's unbelievable.
• 23:59
  But but with this win actually so so Burnley now they move out
• 24:02
  of the relegation zone eight games in.
• 24:04
  So like I said, they said 17. So, you know, this is the thing
• 24:08
  you get like a win here here or draw there.
• 24:10
  You just got to like scrap together points.
• 24:11
  And people always talk about like, if you can get to like 30
• 24:15
  to 35 points, you know, or even like then you've got a good
• 24:18
  chance of staying up. And so that's literally what
• 24:20
  these teams I think are trying to do is just like find your way
• 24:22
  into some wins, beat some of the other teams you're going to be
• 24:25
  competing with to not get relegated down.
• 24:28
  So this is kind of a big win for Burnley, you know, and, and
• 24:31
  Leeds are probably going to feel like this would been an
• 24:32
  opportunity for them to get some points and they kind of drop the
• 24:35
  ball. Yeah, like I said, I mean, they,
• 24:37
  they they tried to create chances, but, you know.
• 24:41
  Yeah. So all right, Luca, let's move
• 24:44
  on to Brighton hosting Newcastle.
• 24:48
  I predicted 21 Newcastle and ended up being 21.
• 24:52
  Brighton starts in the 41st minute.
• 24:56
  Welbeck scores. He kind of chips it over the
• 25:00
  keeper a little bit. It's pretty nice goal and
• 25:04
  Voramade gets another goal, 76 minute.
• 25:09
  It's really nice. Like back heel or like a flick?
• 25:15
  I don't even know how to describe it.
• 25:17
  It's just like a kind of like a back heel flick.
• 25:19
  Yeah, it's one of those balls that like comes across and the
• 25:22
  players sort of like, you know. Flip chop it.
• 25:24
  Yeah, like they sort of flick it like behind them, almost like
• 25:27
  it's like a no look, it's a pretty cool goal.
• 25:30
  It's a cheeky little goal to like I.
• 25:32
  Think Bernardo Silva did it like 2 years ago or something.
• 25:34
  Yeah, it's, it's Newcastle. It's worth checking out.
• 25:37
  It's like I said, it's a nice, it's a very, really nice goal.
• 25:40
  Yes, 84th minute. Welbeck scores again.
• 25:44
  And Welbeck, at age 34, has four goals in his last three games.
• 25:49
  That's pretty good. Yeah, you know, ex Arsenal
• 25:52
  player. So I'm always happy to see these
• 25:53
  guys doing well there. But yeah, look, you know, 30-4
• 25:58
  years old. It doesn't seem old.
• 26:00
  However, in like soccer terms, that is definitely on the older
• 26:04
  side and it's great to sort of see him contributing big goals.
• 26:07
  Like there's a big win for Bright, you know, like
• 26:10
  Newcastle, you know, I they've got a lot of talent on that
• 26:13
  team. They've obviously struggled to
• 26:15
  start off this year, but you know, that's a big win for them.
• 26:18
  I mean, think about it this way. You know, we had like Raheem
• 26:21
  Sterling came to Arsenal on loan last year.
• 26:23
  He's terrible. He looks like he's completely
• 26:25
  cooked, right? He looks like he's like he's
• 26:27
  only 30. It's 34 out there producing
• 26:31
  against good teams, helping Brighton win.
• 26:33
  So, you know, that's what I'm saying.
• 26:35
  Like you think of like, oh, well, Sterling must be 39 years
• 26:38
  old the way he can't even run or he can't even do anything
• 26:41
  anymore. Yeah.
• 26:42
  And so like credit on Danny Welbeck, like I I'm happy
• 26:44
  because he's an ex Arsenal player.
• 26:46
  But like I said, that's the two big goals here to get Brighton
• 26:48
  to win Brighton Luca undefeated at home.
• 26:51
  You know, they've got two wins and two draws at home.
• 26:53
  Arsenal undefeated at home. Yeah, our only loss came out at.
• 26:57
  Liverpool. But Brighton, like I said,
• 26:59
  they're unbeaten. In their last four Premier
• 27:01
  League games, they've actually never lost the Newcastle at
• 27:04
  home. They've got three wins and five.
• 27:05
  Runs so the Newcastle, like Brighton, well, nuke Brighton
• 27:11
  always plays Newcastle tough. It's like one of those teams
• 27:15
  like like form always plays Arsenal tough.
• 27:20
  We'll get into that in a second, but yeah.
• 27:24
  Yeah, well, and we've mentioned it before, you know, even last
• 27:26
  year, I think Brighton only lost three times at home last year.
• 27:29
  You know, they people don't quite think people think of like
• 27:32
  these great home field advantages, like, you know, an
• 27:34
  field for Liverpool, Old Trafford, for Man United, you
• 27:37
  know, the Emirates, for Arsenal or something like that.
• 27:38
  But like, you don't realize, like going to Brighton is like,
• 27:41
  that's not an easy game. Yeah.
• 27:43
  So like, is it going there? Like I said, they've got a big
• 27:45
  home field advantage. They do very, very well at home.
• 27:48
  So yeah, big win for them. Like I said, Brighton move up
• 27:51
  the 10th with that win, you know, three wins, 3-3 and two.
• 27:55
  So they're doing well. Newcastle, like I said, still
• 27:57
  trying to, you know, no goals yet for Anthony Gordon, you
• 28:00
  know, Voltamade scoring, but they got to get some goals from
• 28:03
  like their wingers. Yeah, I.
• 28:05
  Think, but we'll see. Like I said, I still have faith
• 28:08
  in Newcastle kind of making a run at at, you know, a top 8
• 28:11
  finish, but they've got to kind of get it into gear here a
• 28:13
  little bit. Yeah.
• 28:15
  All right, Luca. Well, let's talk about our
• 28:17
  favorite team to talk about Arsenal going to Craven Cottage
• 28:20
  to play Fulham. What did you think on this one?
• 28:23
  Well, I predicted 2 Nail Arsenal ended up being 1 Nail Arsenal.
• 28:28
  The only goal in this game came Charleson scored it from a
• 28:31
  corner kick in the 58th minute. Set Pfc and there's actually no
• 28:37
  yellow cards in the whole game here.
• 28:40
  And in this game Cal Fiori had a pretty nice goal, but it was
• 28:44
  called offsides. But honestly, that was pretty
• 28:48
  much it for this game. There's not much else to talk
• 28:51
  about. Yes, Yeah.
• 28:52
  So you were spot on. Like I said, you're pretty.
• 28:54
  So you picked, you know, 2 nothing.
• 28:55
  It was 1 nothing. Fulham.
• 28:57
  Fulham, like you said, they always play Arsenal tough.
• 29:00
  Going to Craven Cottage is always hard.
• 29:02
  Yeah, like I said, Arsenal just, you know, Fulham I think are one
• 29:05
  of those teams that's Silva, their manager.
• 29:07
  They they're always like well organized, they're well coached.
• 29:10
  They're always kind of tough to break down.
• 29:13
  Now they I I find that with that though, they don't offer a lot
• 29:16
  of attacking threat coming forward.
• 29:19
  So it never really quite felt to me like Fulham, we're going to
• 29:23
  get a goal in this game. So it's just like Arsenal were
• 29:25
  just kind of like banging on the door, banging on the door and
• 29:29
  finally get the goal. And then it felt pretty
• 29:31
  comfortable from there on in. You know, one thing I think we
• 29:36
  have to talk about is Arsenal's defense.
• 29:38
  So Arsenal's defense, look, is is unbelievable right now.
• 29:42
  So they've given up. And this would be the eighth
• 29:44
  Premier League game they've given up three goals in eight.
• 29:47
  In all competition, like 12 games I think.
• 29:50
  After today's Champions League game, they've now had so they
• 29:53
  played eight Premier League games, 3 Champions League games
• 29:57
  and a League Cup game. So that's 12 games.
• 29:59
  They've given up three goals total in all those games.
• 30:02
  And so they haven't. They have not been up a
• 30:05
  Champions League, no goal and then they've only played one
• 30:10
  what, Caraval Cup you said? Yeah, and they they had a
• 30:13
  shutout in that one too. So I mean, this is so the record
• 30:17
  is so the Premier League record for fewest goals given up.
• 30:19
  Chelsea did it in O4 and O5 and they give up 15 goals.
• 30:23
  So that's a 38 game season and they give up 15 goals.
• 30:26
  That is the record or basically on pace for that right now.
• 30:30
  I don't think they'll get it. That's that's that is crazy to
• 30:33
  me like that you give up that those few goals.
• 30:36
  They have to win the league, right?
• 30:37
  Did Chelsea win that year? I mean, I don't they have to
• 30:40
  they. Have to, I mean, yeah, like I
• 30:41
  can't imagine not winning, only giving up fifteen goals.
• 30:43
  It's like a goal every 3rd game. I mean, it's just absolutely
• 30:46
  insane. So I'll again, I, I don't think
• 30:49
  Arsenal are going to break that record, But I, I think the point
• 30:52
  of this is that Arsenal have, to me clearly the best defense in
• 30:54
  the Premier League. Oh yeah.
• 30:56
  OK. And they've got depth and
• 30:58
  they've got like, you know, and and I think they're just going
• 31:00
  to be very, very hard to score against.
• 31:02
  And I'm just wondering if like that you have that kind of basis
• 31:05
  and sort of solidity at the back.
• 31:07
  The I think they're going to find their way into more goals.
• 31:10
  You know, I think as they get some guys back, you remember
• 31:13
  they're missing Odegard from this game, they're missing
• 31:16
  Havers. That's a lot of attacking, you
• 31:19
  know, power that they didn't even have available.
• 31:21
  Now they still have good guys. I mean don't, don't.
• 31:23
  Get me wrong I'm. Not like, you know, crying poor
• 31:25
  that Arsenal didn't have anybody to start in this game or
• 31:27
  anything, but you have those guys coming in with the guys you
• 31:30
  have. You're still integrating in some
• 31:32
  new people. So I think Arsenal are going to
• 31:34
  score some more goals, you know, but it it's just I think with
• 31:39
  that defense that gives them a real chance to win the premier.
• 31:43
  I think like, you know, they, they in the past has to so
• 31:46
  Fulham did not have a shot on goal and last week Arsenal did
• 31:49
  not give up a shot on goal. So this is they went
• 31:51
  back-to-back with no shots on goal.
• 31:55
  I mean, it's unbelievable. You know, I, I, I think it's
• 31:58
  been like 22 years since Arsenal went back-to-back without giving
• 32:02
  up a shot. On goal.
• 32:03
  Wow. Very famously, Luca one nil to
• 32:07
  the Arsenal. So Arsenal win 1 nothing.
• 32:10
  It is a very, very famous song. In fact, there's a podcast
• 32:13
  called one nil to the Arsenal and it's it's, it's a song song
• 32:17
  and Arsenal fans love it. It dates back Luca to in 1989
• 32:21
  and 1991. They they had a manager named
• 32:24
  George Graham and he won two league titles.
• 32:27
  For Arsenal. Yeah, for Arsenal, that was at
• 32:29
  Highbury when they played there at that stadium.
• 32:31
  And so they very famously want, they had a great, great defense
• 32:34
  and they very famously want a lot of games.
• 32:36
  One nil. And so that song, one nil to the
• 32:40
  Arsenal, one nil to the Arsenal, a very famous song that
• 32:44
  everybody will sing you and I have been to A1 nil to the
• 32:47
  Arsenal game where we've gotten. To Newcastle, Arsenal, yeah,
• 32:50
  it's. A It's to the tune of a Pet Shop
• 32:52
  Boys song. Go West.
• 32:54
  But yeah. So if you ever hear people
• 32:56
  singing that, that's it. Like I said, been a song sung
• 32:59
  for, you know, almost, you know, 35 years, one nil to the RC.
• 33:03
  They were singing it today in the Athletico Madrid game, but
• 33:06
  obviously that came in four nails.
• 33:08
  Smash them. Real quick look at this the Saka
• 33:12
  PK call. So what do you think on this?
• 33:15
  Saka got fouled in the box they called APK VAR, looked at it,
• 33:18
  overturned it. I think that's a PK for me.
• 33:23
  He sure he gets like the smallest sliver of the ball you
• 33:27
  can possibly get, but I get some of soccer and it's definitely in
• 33:33
  the box. He clips him and that's
• 33:36
  definitely a PK. Yeah, yet another PK called on
• 33:41
  the field by the referee that gets overturned for Arsenal.
• 33:44
  I hate bar so much. Yeah, I, you know, this is, this
• 33:47
  is 1 where I don't know, they, they say he, well, he gets a
• 33:50
  piece of the ball. But he gets like the smallest
• 33:53
  piece human possible. Well, just cuz you get a piece
• 33:56
  of the ball doesn't mean you can't foul somebody.
• 33:58
  Exactly. Like if I, if I come
• 33:59
  steamrolling through you, I kick the ball and I just absolutely,
• 34:02
  you know, demolish you, that's still a foul, right?
• 34:04
  Like, yeah, I'm not saying that's what happened here, but
• 34:06
  this whole notion, this is what the the call when Yocharis went
• 34:09
  around. Oh yeah, it on Pope.
• 34:12
  Pope. Yeah.
• 34:13
  And they said, well, Pope gets a piece of the ball.
• 34:14
  Well, I'm like, yeah, but he's they make contact and you trip
• 34:16
  him. Like I like if I, I, I don't
• 34:18
  quite understand this. I'm it also speaks to me like a
• 34:23
  problem with VAR. Again, we're rerefereeing so
• 34:26
  many of these decisions. The referees there, he makes the
• 34:28
  call. I just think that I don't know
• 34:31
  why VAR gets involved with so many of these, these these
• 34:34
  calls. I just it's a broken system.
• 34:37
  I did hear Luca in some other leagues, some lower leagues,
• 34:40
  they're trying out coaches get cards and you get like one or
• 34:45
  two challenges a game. Remember we talked about this
• 34:47
  like how could we change VAR? And we talked about like, what
• 34:50
  if it's like a football type of system where you maybe get 2
• 34:53
  challenges a game? And so you're the manager,
• 34:56
  right? And you see something and you're
• 34:57
  like, well, I want to challenge that.
• 34:59
  You know, you, you throw. I think they're so I think
• 35:01
  they're like hold up a card or something like that.
• 35:03
  And they're there. So they're not, they won't look
• 35:05
  at every little call. So you may just have to be like,
• 35:07
  oh, that was close. So I want to challenge it.
• 35:09
  No, I don't. I, I kind of like this system
• 35:13
  actually where you like, so let's say you get 222 challenges
• 35:17
  a game and maybe you get one right.
• 35:19
  You should get that one back, right.
• 35:21
  But if you, if you miss your two challenges, then you have none.
• 35:24
  And that means late in the game, if you want to question
• 35:27
  something, you don't have a challenge, you don't get to do
• 35:28
  it. And we just keep playing the
• 35:29
  game. I, I kind of like it as a way to
• 35:32
  like, OK, if there's something, if you see something obvious,
• 35:35
  let's overturn it. Let's get it right.
• 35:37
  Well, let's not like these fractional like, you know, we're
• 35:40
  offsides by a toenail or something like that.
• 35:42
  Like, I don't think we need it, you know, to the VAR to get
• 35:45
  involved. And we spend 5 minutes looking
• 35:47
  at 30 different angles. Yeah, I think that would be
• 35:51
  probably beneficial despite because.
• 35:54
  What do you think about my what do you think about my cards for
• 35:57
  the referees or for for the managers Having cards for the
• 36:00
  challenge, it's like whether it's a card or a token or, you
• 36:04
  know, in football, they throw the red flag out.
• 36:06
  Do you think what you're asking if it should be a card or a flag
• 36:09
  or something? No, no, I'm asking you like, do
• 36:10
  you like the system of like a man?
• 36:12
  The managers are in control of it, but they only get, like I
• 36:15
  said, at most two or three challenges.
• 36:17
  And if you miss it, you know you only get 2.
• 36:21
  I think maybe 1, maybe one or one or two, one or two.
• 36:25
  And I do like that because of how bad the calls have been so
• 36:32
  far in the Premier League. They're so bad.
• 36:35
  There's been some diabolical cards calls that most people
• 36:42
  thought they should have been over, like either overturned or
• 36:46
  just not even though. Yeah, I, I like that somebody's
• 36:50
  trying something different. I just, I just feel like there's
• 36:52
  a better way to do it. They're like.
• 36:54
  I Sunday league or something? No, no, it's like I honestly
• 36:57
  don't remember. It's like this the Portuguese
• 36:59
  third league or like like the Norwegian second league or
• 37:02
  something like that. I honestly don't.
• 37:04
  It's way, way down, but I just like that somebody's trying
• 37:06
  something different and we. Can.
• 37:07
  Where did you see that? There was an article about.
• 37:09
  It all right. All right, Luca, let's move on
• 37:11
  to Spurs. Villa.
• 37:12
  So Spurs hosting Villa. Take me through this one.
• 37:15
  I predicted it to be two, two. It ended 21.
• 37:18
  Villa Benton Curve scores in the 5th minute, right place at the
• 37:23
  right time, Roger Morgan Rogers in the third seven.
• 37:26
  Then a pretty nice goal from outside the box here, kind of
• 37:30
  top corner. It's nice goal.
• 37:32
  And then when the really good team here like Maddie Cash, you
• 37:39
  could see him again asking Cash to play it back to the goalie.
• 37:43
  Cash says Nope I'm good and volleys it.
• 37:48
  It's a great volley. Lucas Leucothenia great touch
• 37:53
  and like flick to Blendia all in like the same motion takes 2
• 37:58
  touches like still in mid air and Wendia tracks it and does
• 38:01
  the rest. So really good to go.
• 38:05
  Spurs struggling at home. They have one win, 2 draws, one
• 38:11
  win, one draw and two losses. Poorest home start since 2008,
• 38:17
  2009. Yeah, You know, you've got to
• 38:20
  get wins at home in the Premier League, especially if you're a
• 38:22
  team that theoretically wants to challenge for the title or even
• 38:26
  to be, you know, a Champions League spot.
• 38:28
  And then, I mean, this is terrible form at home for Spurs.
• 38:32
  You know, Spurs got up in this game.
• 38:34
  So I mean, you're you're up at home and you concede two goals
• 38:37
  and you know, Villa come away with the win.
• 38:40
  You know, we we've talked about whether Spurs are like the real
• 38:43
  deal or not. Like I still don't know if I I
• 38:46
  feel like they've got a solid team.
• 38:48
  I like again, I've talked about how I like their manager, but
• 38:51
  they had a real easy schedule so far.
• 38:53
  Look here, here's spurs schedule coming up.
• 38:55
  Advil at Everton, at Newcastle, home to Chelsea, home to Man U
• 39:00
  and at Arson, you know, so they got some tough games coming up
• 39:04
  that you know, or if you're not getting these kind of wins at
• 39:08
  home, it makes it a real fight for them.
• 39:12
  Almost like a got to win Villa is a got to win.
• 39:17
  I, well, I don't know. I mean, I think, I think the
• 39:20
  thing with Villa is that they've had talent, they're a good team.
• 39:23
  They're now unbeaten in their last five Premier League games.
• 39:26
  They've won their last three Premier League games.
• 39:28
  So they were got off to this horrible start, right?
• 39:30
  It was like, you know, they didn't score a goal for like 5.
• 39:33
  Games. In all competitions, but they
• 39:36
  are now starting to roll a little bit and so they are now
• 39:40
  up to 11th. You know, Tottenham, Luca are in
• 39:43
  6th, but the difference is it's two points.
• 39:47
  So my, my, my point is though, like Villa and Spurs feel like
• 39:50
  real similar teams, feels like teams that could be battling for
• 39:52
  to me, maybe 4th at the best, but really probably like 6 or 7.
• 39:58
  To me, there's no way either one of these teams finishes above
• 40:01
  Liverpool, City or Arsenal. So like the top three are pretty
• 40:04
  much locked in. But I think luga that you know,
• 40:09
  Yes, I know I said 6. Yeah.
• 40:14
  We're but we talk about numbers a lot.
• 40:16
  I'm bound to say six O 3. Episode.
• 40:19
  But I so I think like matchups like this.
• 40:21
  So like when teams that are going to be in that next year,
• 40:24
  you know, Chelsea, you know, even maybe United, Palace,
• 40:29
  Bournemouth, when they play each other, you got to win your games
• 40:31
  at home. Yeah.
• 40:32
  So that's my point with Tottenham is like this is just
• 40:34
  sort of a missed opportunity to to beat a team that you may may
• 40:37
  later on that be challenging for maybe a Champions League.
• 40:40
  Spot, Yeah, or like any Europe spot.
• 40:42
  Yeah, yeah. So is that Spurs I, I, it's
• 40:46
  weird. I don't know why they're just
• 40:47
  struggling so badly at home, but all right, Luca Whoo, shocker
• 40:52
  here coming up in this next game, Liverpool at home at
• 40:55
  Anfield, nobody goes there, wins at Anfield, especially not Man
• 40:58
  United, right? Yeah, right.
• 41:04
  All right, well, let's get into this.
• 41:06
  So I actually predicted this would be one one I was close to
• 41:10
  1 United. Let's go.
• 41:13
  My cousin and aunt and uncle, cousins, aunt and uncles are
• 41:19
  actually United fans so I bet they would be pleased about this
• 41:23
  win. Also in the second minute and
• 41:26
  Blaimo second minute, it was pretty early from that score and
• 41:30
  Blaimo gets kind of like boggy down.
• 41:32
  But then credit to him, he gets right back up and makes a good
• 41:35
  run and just pretty much out hustles Van Dyke and and Ahmad
• 41:41
  plays a good ball and then in Blaimo scores and it was kind of
• 41:45
  lazy from Van Dyke. He just kind of jogs back on
• 41:49
  defense, not thinking that in blame will we get back up?
• 41:54
  But then in the 78th minute, Gecko ties it up and he hit the
• 42:00
  post, what, three times in this game?
• 42:03
  I think he hit the post 3 times. Yeah, and that's great.
• 42:05
  And then Andy also got it. He's finally got to go in the
• 42:07
  78th minute. It was, it was.
• 42:09
  And then Harry Maguire of all people gets a header in the 84th
• 42:13
  minute. First win at Anfield since
• 42:18
  January 2016. Reunited back.
• 42:22
  Premier League win under Amrim since he's been there.
• 42:28
  Yeah, pretty amazing. Yeah.
• 42:29
  Not they've not had back-to-back wins.
• 42:31
  So I, you know, they, they finally get it done.
• 42:33
  This is, this is a massive Derby.
• 42:35
  Actually, they call it the Northwest Derby.
• 42:38
  People don't maybe realize that Manchester and Liverpool,
• 42:41
  they're only about 30 miles. Apart and they do not like each.
• 42:44
  Other, they do not like each other.
• 42:45
  And so it's one of those, you know, these are like 2 of the
• 42:48
  classic like blue blood teams of the Premier League.
• 42:51
  You know, Liverpool and Man United, you know, we're two of
• 42:54
  the best teams when the Premier League started, like probably
• 42:56
  with Arsenal, they're sort of the three that would sort of
• 42:58
  interchange. And so there's sort of that
• 43:01
  rivalry is built in. So this is this is like a
• 43:03
  massive win for for Man United. And yeah, they're gonna like
• 43:07
  shove that in Liverpool spaces. They're gonna rub that in.
• 43:12
  I know they are. And they should.
• 43:15
  You know, my question to you, Luca, is like what?
• 43:17
  So what does this mean for Man United now?
• 43:19
  You know, we've talked about them.
• 43:20
  You just said like, I mean, Ruben Amiram, the manager has
• 43:23
  not had back-to-back Premier League wins.
• 43:25
  You know, they go to Anfield, they beat their, you know, one
• 43:28
  of their most your biggest rival teams.
• 43:31
  Like what do you think that like are we just sort of still in a
• 43:34
  wait and see mode with United? Do you think this could like
• 43:36
  kick them on for like a bit of a run?
• 43:38
  I'm. Still in a wait and see mode, OK
• 43:41
  for United because I feel like this could be like the juice
• 43:46
  they needed to get going. And I, I, I want to wait and see
• 43:53
  if United can like pick up a couple more wins and stuff and
• 43:56
  start moving up the table. But for me, I'm just going to
• 44:00
  wait and see about United. OK, yeah, and I think that's
• 44:03
  fair. You know, like I said, this is a
• 44:05
  big win. But Liverpool have been
• 44:07
  struggling. I mean, it's crazy to say that
• 44:08
  They started off with five wins in their first five games, so
• 44:11
  they've now lost four in all competitions, 4 losses in a row,
• 44:15
  No draws even in there. So Liverpool, this is, you know
• 44:19
  what? Like in your opinion, you know
• 44:21
  what is the biggest problem right now with Liverpool?
• 44:25
  I think it's their defense. Their defense, other than Van
• 44:30
  Dyke, is not really even Van Dyke is not what he used to be
• 44:35
  like. Van Dyke is kind of getting
• 44:36
  older. Still good.
• 44:38
  He's still their captain. But their defense has not been
• 44:42
  playing very well this year. New signings.
• 44:45
  Kirk, as in friend Paul, I do not think they've done much this
• 44:49
  year. So I think that's their the hole
• 44:52
  in their team. They were close to getting
• 44:54
  greedy, but they he bailed out at the last second.
• 44:59
  But yeah, I think Liverpool's defense is their biggest problem
• 45:05
  this year. Yeah, it's amazing to think
• 45:07
  that. So last year Klopp left and Slot
• 45:10
  came in as their manager. They made one signing last year,
• 45:13
  so the whole summer they made they signed.
• 45:16
  Chiesa barely even registered from last year.
• 45:18
  He got hurt. They had better players and they
• 45:21
  go on and they win the Premier League this year.
• 45:23
  They spent almost like 5 to $600 million on players.
• 45:28
  You know, they, they broke the record when they signed Florian
• 45:31
  Works. They broke again when they
• 45:33
  signed Alexander Isaac. You said they signed Kirk as
• 45:36
  they signed Frank, Tom, they signed Ekatika, They signed all
• 45:39
  these guys and you're like, Oh my gosh, like all these new
• 45:41
  parts. Marmadishu goalie.
• 45:44
  Goalie so you know if it's, but you've got to then now it's like
• 45:49
  a whole different mix. It's all different chemistry,
• 45:51
  you know. And how are you going to play
• 45:52
  Isaac in Ekatika? You know, that's the thing.
• 45:55
  And we said before, yeah, it's great to just keep signing great
• 45:57
  attacking players, but like, how does it all fit together?
• 46:01
  And I, you know, I I agree with you.
• 46:02
  I think the defense, so the, the clearly, you know, MO Sala
• 46:06
  doesn't look like the same guy from last year.
• 46:08
  You know, it's just, but like he hasn't forgotten how to play
• 46:10
  soccer, right? He's still like an amazing
• 46:12
  player, but it's just finding the right balance with all these
• 46:15
  guys, you know, and and last year was like the perfect
• 46:17
  balance and they all were doing great and they're steeping,
• 46:20
  rolling everybody. And they had the League 1, you
• 46:22
  know, in basically April. But it's now, like you said,
• 46:25
  they're trying to figure out all this and doing that with, like I
• 46:29
  said, a defense that's very leaky.
• 46:32
  And that's a major problem for them.
• 46:34
  I mean, look at this. So this is the first time
• 46:35
  they've lost four games in a row since 2014.
• 46:40
  If they lose next week, if they lose for the first five games,
• 46:44
  it'd be the first time since 1953, 1953.
• 46:48
  Almost like. 70 some years that Liverpool doesn't lose 5 games
• 46:52
  in a row, so keep an eye on that.
• 46:55
  You know, like I said, it's crazy to think, but we too.
• 46:59
  They've lost four in a row right now.
• 47:00
  They've lost four in a row in male.
• 47:02
  Competitions, yeah. Because they've lost three in
• 47:04
  the Premier League, one in the Champions League.
• 47:05
  Who's the play next? They play blind.
• 47:08
  I think they probably have a Champions League game tomorrow.
• 47:10
  I haven't like looked to see who they play but.
• 47:13
  We're recording this Tuesday, if you're wondering.
• 47:15
  Yeah, we're Tuesday night, so the Champions League games for
• 47:18
  tomorrow. Liverpool play Eintracht
• 47:20
  Frankfurt tomorrow, so. OK.
• 47:24
  So all right, Luca, let's move on to the last game.
• 47:26
  We'll roll through this real quickly.
• 47:27
  West Ham was hosting Brentford. What do you got for me on this
• 47:31
  one? Not much other than talk about I
• 47:32
  pretty good Nil. Nil is handed to an old
• 47:34
  Brentford E York Tiago in the 43rd minute.
• 47:38
  He's tied with Miteto for goals and Jensen in the 95th minute
• 47:45
  and then and two nil. Yeah, not much to say.
• 47:48
  West Ham are are not very good. They're in 19th Brentford kind
• 47:52
  of mid table where probably they belong in 13th.
• 47:54
  So all right, Luca, well, that that wraps up week 8 fun week 8
• 47:59
  lots of good games. All right, let's wrap up the
• 48:02
  week with your goal player and team of the week.
• 48:05
  So which one do you want to start with?
• 48:07
  I'll. Start with goal of the week.
• 48:09
  What's your goal of the week? I'm going to give you 2 because
• 48:14
  there's some good ones this week.
• 48:16
  I'm going to go with Buen Diaz, like the team goal.
• 48:19
  I'm going to give like Aston Villa as a team goal.
• 48:23
  That was really nice. And in the Burnley game, Chew
• 48:27
  and Noah Chew. Yeah, that was a banger.
• 48:30
  Yeah, that was really nice. Goal 2 good goals.
• 48:32
  I like him. Who's your player of the week,
• 48:34
  Luca? I'm going to give it to Mateta
• 48:36
  for getting the first hat trick of the week or the year, the
• 48:39
  season. The other thing about Mattetta
• 48:41
  to his first call up over the international break with France
• 48:46
  and scored a goal for France. So super, super big, super big
• 48:50
  week for Mattetta. I mean, he's got to be throw,
• 48:52
  gets his first call up with the French national team, scores a
• 48:54
  goal there, comes home three goals.
• 48:57
  He's got a bit, you know, he's got to be thrilled this week.
• 48:59
  Wait, is he, how is he like 26? Yeah, I don't know exactly.
• 49:04
  Is he he would be like their starting striker with like
• 49:08
  imbabe and stuff like that. Yeah, it'd be interesting, you
• 49:11
  know. You know, I'm trying to think
• 49:12
  other French strikers. Teram maybe?
• 49:15
  Yeah, Teram Giroux is probably too.
• 49:18
  Old Drew already retired from the.
• 49:20
  OK. All right, all right, Luke, and
• 49:22
  who's your team of the week? I'm going to give it to Man U.
• 49:29
  Yeah, yeah, it's a good call. They they had the biggest result
• 49:33
  of the week. Yeah, Feel the win in a Derby
• 49:35
  game. Yeah, good call.
• 49:36
  All right, no problems with any of the other of those.
• 49:38
  So. All right, Luca.
• 49:39
  Well, let's look ahead to next week.
• 49:42
  We have week 9. We got some interesting matchups
• 49:45
  here. First game of the weekend, maybe
• 49:49
  not so interesting, but Leeds hosting West Ham.
• 49:52
  Oh, it's boring. I'm going to go one nil lead.
• 49:58
  At least pretty good at home. You like him to get just one
• 50:01
  goal. West Ham struggles continue.
• 50:03
  So yeah, All right, the next game I this game's interesting
• 50:06
  to me. Chelsea at Stamford Bridge,
• 50:08
  hosting Sunderland, both come in with the same record 4/2 and
• 50:12
  two. Who do you like in this one
• 50:14
  though? I'm actually gonna go 22. 22 OK.
• 50:18
  All right, Some goals in this one, but you like a tie.
• 50:21
  Yeah. OK, All right, Luca, Does Man U
• 50:24
  keep it rolling against Brighton?
• 50:26
  So at Old Trafford, Man U. Yes I do.
• 50:29
  I think they're going to win one nothing.
• 50:32
  One nothing. OK, All right, so the defense
• 50:35
  rises big here for United. Yeah, Harry Maguire going to get
• 50:39
  the winning goal in this one too.
• 50:40
  Oh yeah, you you bet it. All right, Luca, how about
• 50:44
  Brentford hosting Liverpool? I think Liverpool are going to
• 50:49
  get this two nil, 2 nil. I think they are going to.
• 50:52
  Win. All right, so they finally get
• 50:53
  back on track, get themselves a win at Brentford.
• 50:56
  Yeah. I hope they don't, but I think
• 50:57
  they will. Yeah, hard, hard to imagine them
• 51:00
  not beating Brentford. Can I come again you?
• 51:02
  Never know you. Never know in the Premier League
• 51:04
  and it's always hard, you know, so.
• 51:07
  And Brentford is good at home. They're not easy to play at
• 51:10
  home. Yeah, yeah, they're not.
• 51:11
  They're not that bad A-Team. Like I said, I think there's a
• 51:14
  definite. Mid table.
• 51:15
  Team. But all right, look, what about
• 51:17
  Newcastle hosting Fulham? Newcastle.
• 51:21
  I think I'm going to go 21 Newcastle.
• 51:25
  All right, and Newcastle good at home.
• 51:28
  Hard, hard to imagine. Newcastle 14th, Fulham and 15th
• 51:31
  going. Into the 14th Newcastle.
• 51:33
  So both of these teams are going to really want to try to get,
• 51:35
  you know, a win out of. This game.
• 51:37
  This is this is 1 where Newcastle being at home, they,
• 51:40
  they got to try to find, they've got to win that game.
• 51:43
  All right, look, here's an interesting game to me is Aston
• 51:46
  Villa City at Villa Park. This is an interesting game to
• 51:50
  me. So obviously both of these teams
• 51:53
  have been in good form. We talked about how Villa
• 51:57
  unbeaten in their last five, City, of course, unbeaten with
• 52:02
  four wins in their last five. What do you think of this one?
• 52:06
  I think I'm going 32 city. Whoa, All right, 32 cities.
• 52:11
  One's getting hat trick. Holland hat trick.
• 52:13
  All right, Yeah, makes sense. Why kick Holland?
• 52:15
  To score all the goals, Yeah. And and then the Maddie
• 52:19
  cashier's gonna have like another insane volley and
• 52:22
  they're gonna, I know they can have another really good team
• 52:25
  goal. All right, I like it.
• 52:27
  Hot takes there. All right, Luca, Arsenal at home
• 52:31
  hosting Crystal Palace. I think we're going to get this
• 52:34
  21 Arsenal. I don't think Palace or much of
• 52:39
  an attacking team. Oh, Teta, he's going to get
• 52:43
  their one. Go watch he's.
• 52:44
  Going to get their goal. I think we just talked about.
• 52:46
  He's obviously been in good form.
• 52:48
  I do like our physical center backs against him, you know, but
• 52:51
  that's like a big strong guy. But I think you know, Gabrielle
• 52:55
  and Saliba I feel I can do well with.
• 52:57
  And I think Ukraine, Saka and what to know, whoever starts at
• 53:03
  The West Wing can take on the like Moon Noise and Grahey and
• 53:09
  their other defenders. I think we should win this.
• 53:11
  OK, all right, not a great match up here.
• 53:13
  Luca Wolves at home hosting Burnley.
• 53:19
  Wolves are going to get their first win.
• 53:21
  We go all right, Wolves finally going to get their win 1 nothing
• 53:25
  all right Luca Bournemouth hosting Nottingham Forest, so
• 53:29
  3rd manager for Nottingham far so going to Bournemouth.
• 53:32
  What do you like here? I think I'm going to nail
• 53:34
  Bournemouth. OK 2 Nail Bournemouth in the
• 53:37
  last game of the weekend, Everton hosting Tottenham.
• 53:41
  I think I'm going Tottenham 2/1. Tottenham on the road, OK, 21.
• 53:45
  I don't know if Everton's lost at home yet, so that could be
• 53:48
  their first home loss there. All right, Luca, that's some
• 53:50
  good predictions. So yeah, so interesting,
• 53:53
  exciting games to look forward to in Week 9.
• 53:56
  Looking around the rest of Europe, Luca, we have a big one
• 53:58
  on Sunday in Spain. You've got El Classico,
• 54:03
  Barcelona, Real Madrid at the Berna Bayou in Madrid.
• 54:07
  This to me, I don't know. I in my opinion, I think it's
• 54:10
  the best Darby. It's the best rivalry in all of
• 54:13
  soccer. I love this game. 11:15 Sunday.
• 54:17
  I would highly advise people check it out as a little warm up
• 54:20
  for your NFL. Game the channel.
• 54:22
  I think it's ESPN has La Liga and then the other game, the
• 54:27
  game in Italy, Inner Milan sits in second.
• 54:31
  They play Napoli who sit in 3rd. So that that's one to kind of
• 54:33
  keep an eye out if you're looking for something to watch
• 54:35
  too. All right, Luca, I don't.
• 54:39
  Should we move on to the viewer mailbag?
• 54:41
  Yeah, who's your from? All right, the viewer mailbag
• 54:44
  question, Luca comes from your grandfather Pawpaw.
• 54:47
  OK, so he wants to know, Luca, what is the difference between
• 54:51
  Champions League and the Championship?
• 54:54
  Oh, okay. Guys, so they sound very
• 54:58
  similar, but they're very, very different.
• 55:00
  So people will talk about that we have a Champions League game,
• 55:03
  champions or people talk about while we're in the championship.
• 55:06
  What do they mean? Okay, so the Champions League is
• 55:11
  has basically the best teams in Europe in it.
• 55:16
  So if you finish top 4 in your league, I believe for Premier
• 55:21
  League at least I, I, I would think it's most teams top 4 for
• 55:26
  most leagues go to the Champions League and if you're the winner
• 55:30
  of the Europa League, you automatically go to the
• 55:32
  Champions League. But Championship on the other
• 55:38
  hand is the league below the Premier League.
• 55:41
  So they cannot make the the Champions League because you
• 55:46
  have to be at the top level of your league.
• 55:49
  League like the like basically be at the top level of the top
• 55:55
  league basically. So you can't be the Championship
• 55:58
  is the second league and the Premier League is the first
• 56:00
  league. So you have to be the top at the
• 56:02
  first league, Top 4 for Premier League at least.
• 56:05
  So the difference between a Champions League and
• 56:08
  Championship is basically there's basically better teams
• 56:12
  in the Champions League than there is in the Championship,
• 56:15
  and 1 is just English teams. Championship is just English
• 56:20
  teams and the Champions League is all over Europe.
• 56:23
  Yeah, yeah, I think you explained it well.
• 56:25
  You know, right, that the English soccer system is like a
• 56:28
  pyramid, right? The very top of that pyramid
• 56:30
  sits the Premier League. Below that is what's called the
• 56:33
  Championship. Below the Championship is League
• 56:36
  One, League One is League 2. League 2 then is the National
• 56:41
  League. And then it it keeps going down
• 56:42
  and down and down. And then is non league.
• 56:44
  Yeah, and what they've got is what's called promotion and
• 56:47
  relegation, which means if you do well and you finish in the
• 56:49
  top of your league, you can move up, you know, and very famously,
• 56:52
  Wrexham is the team everybody talks about right now that has
• 56:54
  moved up. From the.
• 56:55
  From the National League to all the way they sit in the
• 56:58
  Championship, they're one step from the Premier League and
• 57:02
  what? Place are they in right?
• 57:03
  Now they're they're like mid table or bottom ish.
• 57:06
  They're and they're not looking right now like they're going to
• 57:09
  go up. But the point is that people,
• 57:11
  teams can move up and down through that and right that the
• 57:13
  so you know, people make, you know, people who are familiar
• 57:16
  with baseball. You think of the major leagues
• 57:18
  below that you have what's called AAA and then AA and
• 57:21
  single A. That's sort of like, you know,
• 57:23
  the Premier League, the Championship League One and
• 57:27
  League 2. And you're right.
• 57:28
  And then the Champions League is sort of the, is a, is a
• 57:30
  tournament of the best of the best of just Europe, right?
• 57:34
  And the better leagues get more teams in.
• 57:38
  So, you know, if you're the team from, you know, Poland or Czech
• 57:43
  Republic, you may get one spot, right.
• 57:45
  You gotta win your league. And you get in where England
• 57:46
  gets 4, Spain gets 4, you know, that type of thing.
• 57:49
  And they play a tournament. And there's a lot of money that
• 57:52
  goes into the Champions League. So it's if the longer you stay
• 57:55
  in, the better you do, the more money you get.
• 57:57
  And of course, winning the Champions League is is basically
• 57:59
  as prestigious as winning. Your league, Yeah.
• 58:01
  It's a massive trophy to win. If if not more prestigious.
• 58:05
  Yeah, well, that's a good question.
• 58:06
  I mean, in your opinion, what what's what's more prestigious,
• 58:09
  winning your league or the Champions?
• 58:11
  League it would depend like how many times you have won like
• 58:18
  let's say for like what I mean is how many times you've won the
• 58:23
  Champions League or how many times you've won your league.
• 58:26
  Like for Arsenal, I would think winning the Premier League is
• 58:30
  probably more prestigious for us because we have not won it in a
• 58:33
  very long time. For City, let's go back to 2223
• 58:38
  when they won the Champions League.
• 58:40
  They also had won the Premier League a couple times in a row
• 58:44
  and then they had won their first Champions League.
• 58:47
  I would say the Champions League in that situation is more
• 58:50
  prestigious in the Premier League.
• 58:52
  So it kind of depends with the situation in my opinion.
• 58:56
  OK, fair enough. Yeah, I do think you're right.
• 58:58
  It it could be a little bit team dependent.
• 59:01
  You know, I like as an Arsenal fan, we've never won the
• 59:04
  Champions League. Never won.
• 59:05
  Or actually, we have. Won we've won the Premier League
• 59:07
  three times, but I, I, I would rank like if this year, if I had
• 59:11
  to pick one, I'd want to win the Premier League.
• 59:12
  Like the. To me, the point of it is to win
• 59:15
  your league. Yeah, the Champions League is
• 59:16
  certainly a great bonus, and believe me, I would take it.
• 59:19
  But like, the point of playing, you know, is to win your league.
• 59:23
  Yeah. Now again, if you're like Bayern
• 59:25
  Munich or PSG, you win your league all the time.
• 59:28
  That's not like a big deal at all.
• 59:29
  So they prioritize like Champions League probably a
• 59:31
  little bit more. Even lover he's in is not good
• 59:34
  like that. Yeah.
• 59:35
  I mean, you know, it's just, you know, now in Spain, you've got
• 59:37
  two teams, you know, Barcelona, Real Madrid, they bounce back
• 59:40
  and. Forth a lot of coach sometimes.
• 59:42
  Yeah, but I mean they win like once every 15 years.
• 59:44
  It's like other than that it's either Barcelona, Real Madrid.
• 59:47
  So I think like, but in England to be like the Premier League,
• 59:50
  like you have done something, you have won the best league in
• 59:53
  the world, you've beaten like the best teams.
• 59:55
  There are no easy games. So like that is a mass of a
• 59:59
  where like PSG won the Champions League last year.
• 1:00:01
  That's great for like who cares what they won in their league?
• 1:00:04
  They win it 9 out of. Ten.
• 1:00:05
  Yeah, so. All right, Luca, that was a good
• 1:00:08
  one. I like that.
• 1:00:09
  All right, Luca, let's do the did you know?
• 1:00:12
  OK, so I want to talk about the Premier League.
• 1:00:14
  Are we named our podcast the Premier League Playground
• 1:00:17
  because we love the Premier League.
• 1:00:18
  We just said it's the best league in the world, but the
• 1:00:21
  Premier League has not been around forever.
• 1:00:23
  It is. When did the Premier League
• 1:00:25
  start? 9293.
• 1:00:27
  Yeah. So in 92 and 93, look at the
• 1:00:29
  Premier League was founded with 22 teams and it was a bit of
• 1:00:32
  like a breakaway that like they did this because there's been in
• 1:00:37
  English. The English Football League was
• 1:00:39
  founded in 1888. So soccer basically started in
• 1:00:43
  England and the first league was in 1888.
• 1:00:45
  So think about that. You know, you're talking 100.
• 1:00:47
  And like almost 40 years ago, soccer started in England again,
• 1:00:52
  English Football League, and they would call it the Football
• 1:00:54
  League. It's the oldest Football League
• 1:00:58
  in the world, OK. You know, England basically
• 1:01:01
  started there. And so they had this Football
• 1:01:03
  League forever until 1992 and 93, when all of a sudden the top
• 1:01:09
  teams started to realize we got to get like, our act together
• 1:01:13
  here. We want to get a little bit more
• 1:01:15
  money. And so they sort of got together
• 1:01:18
  and they like, we're going to break away and form the Premier
• 1:01:21
  League. And so there are 22 teams that
• 1:01:23
  did this. And what happened really, really
• 1:01:25
  70s and 80s, you know, people, we think we look at these
• 1:01:28
  amazing stadiums, we look at these amazing pitches and these
• 1:01:32
  great teams out there. But in the 70s and 80s, look,
• 1:01:34
  they were playing on like dirt fields.
• 1:01:36
  The stadiums were like in disrepair.
• 1:01:39
  There was like 4000 capacity. Yeah, I mean, and like people
• 1:01:42
  were like in the stands were getting in fights.
• 1:01:44
  They call them like hooligans, right?
• 1:01:45
  They get in fights and and it was like it was like a total, it
• 1:01:48
  was like a total mess. And so in fact, the English,
• 1:01:51
  English clubs were banned for five years from like the
• 1:01:54
  European competitions because of like these terrible things that
• 1:01:58
  were happening at the stadium. So they banned them for five
• 1:02:01
  years from 1985 to 1990. So the English club, like I
• 1:02:05
  said, got together and they said, all right, we're breaking
• 1:02:07
  away. We're going to form the Premier
• 1:02:08
  League. Because what we can do now is we
• 1:02:09
  can go to these TV places, TV companies and be like, give us a
• 1:02:15
  lot of money and you can put our games on TV.
• 1:02:18
  And so that's how it basically started.
• 1:02:21
  And it and they, they went in 95 and 96, They went from 22 teams
• 1:02:26
  to 20. And that's where we sit now with
• 1:02:28
  with 20 teams. And it was sort of rebranded in
• 1:02:32
  2007 as like the Premier League. And that's sort of what we have
• 1:02:35
  now. And of course with 20 teams, you
• 1:02:37
  play everybody home and away. So you have 38 games.
• 1:02:41
  It's now the most watched sports league in the world.
• 1:02:44
  So more people watch the Premier League than than the NFL, than
• 1:02:47
  the NBA. And it makes sense, right?
• 1:02:49
  Because everybody in the world basically watches soccer.
• 1:02:53
  Not every like American football in the United.
• 1:02:55
  States is #1A lot. A lot.
• 1:02:58
  And it's broadcast, Luke, in about 212 countries or
• 1:03:02
  territories worldwide has, they estimate, a TV audience of about
• 1:03:06
  4.7 billion people. Oh my God, There's like 8
• 1:03:10
  billion population. Yeah, that's like half the
• 1:03:13
  population watching. Yeah, I mean like it's just,
• 1:03:15
  it's, it's incredible. I mean, you know, you've had 51
• 1:03:19
  clubs have competed in the Premier League, so obviously we
• 1:03:21
  have promotion, relegation, 3 come up, 3 go down.
• 1:03:24
  We've got 51 different teams, 49 from England, two from Wales is
• 1:03:30
  a super hard question. You know the two from Wales.
• 1:03:33
  This is really hard. 2. There's been two teams from
• 1:03:36
  Wales that because the Wales plays in the Premier League too,
• 1:03:40
  Swansea City and Cardiff City. I didn't know they're Welsh.
• 1:03:44
  Yeah. Like I said, the 2 Welsh,
• 1:03:48
  there's six teams that have never been relegated from the
• 1:03:52
  Premier League. It Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham,
• 1:03:58
  Manchester United, Manchester City.
• 1:04:01
  No, no, no, not city. No City, not city.
• 1:04:04
  So I'm at 4 right now, right? 4/1.
• 1:04:07
  Everton. Everton.
• 1:04:09
  Oh no, the other one you should get.
• 1:04:11
  It. Is so you said Arsenal, Chelsea,
• 1:04:13
  Everton, Tottenham, Man United and there's one more Who's
• 1:04:23
  Everton's biggest rival? Liverpool.
• 1:04:26
  I've never been, yeah. So they're the six.
• 1:04:29
  So think about all these other teams have at one point been up
• 1:04:32
  and been down in the Premier League.
• 1:04:33
  We talked about, like I said, we talked a little bit about how
• 1:04:38
  now you've got the English Football League and they they,
• 1:04:42
  it's basically the Championship League One and League 2.
• 1:04:45
  So you hear people talk about the EFL, the English Football
• 1:04:48
  League, and what they're talking about is the Championship,
• 1:04:50
  League One and League 2. And when you look at like total
• 1:04:54
  revenue, like how much money the Premier League brings in,
• 1:04:57
  they're bringing in about like $7.7 billion.
• 1:05:01
  Which to give you an idea, the NFL is 19 billion, the NBA is 12
• 1:05:06
  billion, Major League Baseball's about 11.8 billion.
• 1:05:09
  Hockey's about 6. LA League is like 5.2.
• 1:05:13
  So it's like the IT it brings in the fourth most amount of money
• 1:05:17
  of any league in the entire world.
• 1:05:20
  OK. You know, so that's sort of a
• 1:05:21
  little bit of like the history of.
• 1:05:24
  Oh. Wow.
• 1:05:26
  Yeah. All right, Luca, we've got to
• 1:05:28
  move on now to our penalty kick trivia shootout.
• 1:05:32
  And of course, we go back and forth asking trivia questions.
• 1:05:35
  Maybe we'll try to remember. I'm not good about it, but we're
• 1:05:37
  going to give it a a second or two before we blurt out our
• 1:05:41
  answers. So people playing at home, if
• 1:05:42
  anybody's still listening at this point, they can, they can
• 1:05:45
  do it. But do you want to ask 1st or do
• 1:05:49
  you want me to ask you first? I I want you to ask me first.
• 1:05:55
  All right, Luca, my first question to you is Real Madrid
• 1:05:59
  has 15 Champions League titles. That is, that is #1 they've won
• 1:06:03
  more Champions League titles than anybody else but Luca, who
• 1:06:06
  is second? And if I'm going to give you
• 1:06:09
  multiple choice, is it one Man City?
• 1:06:14
  Is it 2 AC Milan? Is it 3 Barcelona?
• 1:06:17
  Is it 4 Liverpool? So who has the second most
• 1:06:21
  Champions League titles? I'm going to go AC Milan.
• 1:06:26
  That is correct. Well done.
• 1:06:30
  They have 7, Liverpool have 6, Barsa 5 and City only has one.
• 1:06:35
  Yeah, I mean that was. Good.
• 1:06:37
  That was a tough one there. All right, who is Manchester
• 1:06:41
  United's all time leading goal scorer?
• 1:06:43
  I have choices if you need it. It's not Ronaldo.
• 1:06:48
  No, I know. I was going to say Wayne Rooney.
• 1:06:50
  Yeah, correct. OK.
• 1:06:52
  Luca number question #2 What Premier League team is nicknamed
• 1:06:56
  the Toffees? Burnley.
• 1:07:00
  Wrong. Wrong.
• 1:07:01
  It is Everton Everton's nickname, the Toffees.
• 1:07:07
  So Everton Luca, you can probably know Everton is
• 1:07:11
  actually a district in Liverpool, right?
• 1:07:14
  That's why there's such a big rival, the Merseyside Darby, the
• 1:07:16
  Mersey River. So it has a strong history of
• 1:07:19
  toffee shops. And there used to be a toffee
• 1:07:22
  Lady Luca that would throw sweets into the crowd in the
• 1:07:26
  like the 1890s. They they would come and they
• 1:07:30
  throw sweets and Toffees into the crowd.
• 1:07:32
  And toffee's just basically like, like caramelized sugar,
• 1:07:35
  like with like butter. I don't know if like, you know,
• 1:07:37
  like, like a Heath bar. Yeah.
• 1:07:40
  So that is how they got the nickname the Toffees.
• 1:07:42
  They were the toffee lady. A lot of toffee shops apparently
• 1:07:44
  in the, in the. All right, all right, we'll see
• 1:07:48
  if you're going to pay the price here.
• 1:07:49
  All right #2 for me. Who is the old time leading most
• 1:07:54
  for it in Syria history. I.
• 1:07:57
  Have choices. I better give me some choices
• 1:07:59
  on. This French Francesco Totti,
• 1:08:02
  Roberto Baggio, Silvio Piola or Gigosipe Miaza.
• 1:08:11
  I'll go with Totti. Incorrect that one.
• 1:08:16
  That one's hard, I'll give you that.
• 1:08:17
  All right, Luca, what country has won the most World Cups?
• 1:08:23
  And I want to know how many they've won, because I think
• 1:08:26
  you'll get this. What country has won the most
• 1:08:28
  World Cups? Brazil and five.
• 1:08:32
  That is correct on both. You want you want a bonus.
• 1:08:36
  Can you tell me the their last World?
• 1:08:38
  Cup it What year? Yeah, this is kind of hard 2002,
• 1:08:47
  so it's been been some time since they won one.
• 1:08:50
  But yeah, good job. Yeah, that's a Brazilian 5.
• 1:08:52
  Good job. How many Champions League titles
• 1:08:55
  has Cristiano Ronaldo won in his career?
• 1:08:58
  Ronaldo Champions League titles 5.
• 1:09:03
  Correct. OK.
• 1:09:05
  So we're tied. We're tied, all right.
• 1:09:07
  Question #4 Luca What Premier League team plays their home
• 1:09:11
  games at G Tech Community Stadium?
• 1:09:16
  Brentford. That is correct.
• 1:09:20
  All right, we're joining Manchester United in 2003.
• 1:09:25
  Which club did Cristiano and Ronaldo play for before that?
• 1:09:30
  Before joining in what year? In 2003.
• 1:09:33
  Sporting. Correct.
• 1:09:35
  OK, Tide. All right, Luca, what national
• 1:09:38
  team does MO Salah play for? Egypt.
• 1:09:43
  That is correct. All right, before joining
• 1:09:48
  Barcelona in 2013, which club did Neymar play for?
• 1:09:52
  It's Brazilian. I played for this club too.
• 1:09:56
  Santos correct. OK.
• 1:09:58
  Tie. It is close.
• 1:10:00
  Here we go. All right, my butt.
• 1:10:02
  My tiebreaker question look involves my favorite player of
• 1:10:05
  all time, Tyrion Ree, Premier League legend, played from 1990,
• 1:10:10
  2014 Luca. He played on five different
• 1:10:15
  teams. I came back to Arsenal, so you
• 1:10:18
  can't say Arsenal twice, OK, but he played on five different
• 1:10:21
  teams. I need you to name me 4.
• 1:10:27
  Monaco. That's correct.
• 1:10:29
  Barcelona, Yeah. Arsenal, yeah, I know.
• 1:10:37
  It's like, was it Juventus? That is correct.
• 1:10:43
  No, I don't know anymore. He played, so he went to the
• 1:10:48
  MLS, played for the New York Red Bulls, actually, yeah.
• 1:10:52
  I knew he. Came up with Monaco.
• 1:10:54
  He played 16 games for Juventus famously.
• 1:10:57
  Actually, Arsenal bought him from Juventus, Yeah, where he
• 1:11:00
  went on to play 254 games for Arsenal, 175 goals, his eighth
• 1:11:05
  all time and goals. And then he played, they went to
• 1:11:07
  Barcelona and he played 80 games for them and then went to the
• 1:11:10
  Red Bulls, then came back to Barcelona, came back to Arsenal
• 1:11:12
  for four games, actually scored a goal in those, kind of.
• 1:11:15
  Only four games. Well, he was at the very end of
• 1:11:18
  his career. I mean, it was like.
• 1:11:20
  How much he was sat him for. Like nothing.
• 1:11:23
  It was just it was almost from what I remember, like it was at
• 1:11:26
  the end of the season that like Arsenal weren't really playing
• 1:11:29
  for anything. So he came back and he came in
• 1:11:32
  as a sub in for like a couple games, but like the games didn't
• 1:11:35
  mean that much. So you know, he, he was
• 1:11:38
  definitely at the end of his career and things like.
• 1:11:40
  That so all. Right, you want to throw me out
• 1:11:43
  One bonus 1 you win the PK shootout.
• 1:11:45
  No for the tie. All right, go ahead.
• 1:11:48
  Which goalkeeper is known for making the famous Scorpion kick
• 1:11:52
  save against England I I had. All right, give me choices.
• 1:11:58
  On there, George Compost and Joe Compost.
• 1:12:03
  It's not. It's not compost.
• 1:12:04
  No, you didn't even want me to. Finish.
• 1:12:06
  All right, All right. Go ahead, Go ahead.
• 1:12:09
  And and Joe Peruzzi, Rene Shiguita, Jen's lemon.
• 1:12:15
  Aguita. Correct.
• 1:12:17
  Yeah, yeah, I rushed it. All right, Luca, you're the
• 1:12:20
  winner again. It was close, though.
• 1:12:23
  It was close. It was close.
• 1:12:24
  Good job on that. So all right, well, like look at
• 1:12:27
  that's it. It's you know, for anybody that
• 1:12:29
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• 1:12:35
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• 1:12:39
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• 1:12:41
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• 1:12:44
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• 1:12:47
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• 1:12:50
  show and the episodes and that's it.
• 1:12:53
  You got anything else, Luca? I don't have anything new.
• 1:12:56
  Nope. Well, there's the final whistle,
• 1:12:58
  Luca. That's full time for us.
• 1:13:00
  Bye. Thank you for listening.