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Week 3 Premier League Review · On The Edge Sports Podcast

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to another week of the On the Edge Sports Podcast Premier League special.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get straight into it, Darren.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: As we always say, uh the last weekend's games, we'll go through them one by one, see if there's any bit of crack out of them at all.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Ipswich Nil, Liverpool too.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Again, Isak, maybe this is where the Liverpool fans want him to be last year.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Look, obviously a really good player, but just hasn't been firing on all cylinders all his careers so far.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he and I suppose he's had his injury rose.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: And he needed them two goals against Ipswich on Friday night.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_01: He really did finish them well, you know.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but again, it's probably a game that we said it last week, Liverpool expected to win.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know, against Forrest, should have been beaten Forrest at home.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: So they went to Ipsridge the last day and they got an early goal, and that was the cushion that they needed.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: Because in them little tight games, that first goal is crucial.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_01: It really is, and it gives you something to hold on to if you're the weaker team and if you're the the stronger team that should be winning the game, it means that the opposition has to come out of their shade.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: And again, I suppose like the underdogs will at home will always do that.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: But so look, that was a kind of a comfortable one.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: There didn't seem to be any crazy talking points.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: No, Brentford won one with Sunderland.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Yannelt got the goal for Brentford, and then Sunderland uh had an equalizer from Enzo Lafida penalty, and it was a late penalty, and it just kept Brentford's unbeaten but denied them the victory.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Fulham 2-3 against uh lost 2-3 against Palace.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Ding Don Game.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: I did see this when a match the day.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: Ben Chilwell for his second debut for Palace.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: We just realised there it was your young man Harry the tollest.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he played two years ago, and then he went to was it Marseille or Strasbourg or something like that?
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and they came from behind twice, and then Chilwell struck the winner late on, you know.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: So good old mid-table battle.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and a London Derby, of course.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like there was a great goal got there by Josh King, super goal, who's a he's a right good player, but he doesn't score enough goals.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um but right good goal, and then the the left back Mitchell for Crystal Palace comes up with two goals.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: Two like from left back, you know, you know, it's like you're waiting all day for the bus to come and then two come along at once and he nailed them, and then they get done.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: Fulham get done late on with Chilwell coming off the coming off the bench and getting a it was a you know calamitous enough goal because it broke two or three times and he finished it in with his left foot.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it uh mid-table cracking match, both teams going for it, Shrike.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and again we have that young man Palacios coming from with our below from Real Madrid as well.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: So again, he's he's uh he's is that his second goal?
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: No, maybe not, but he's he has come on a couple of games.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: So uh we'll keep an eye on that man as the season goes on.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Nottingham Forest, uh nil-nil.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you might say boring nil-nil, but there's a lot of stories behind it.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Spurs again, yet to get a win, yet to score a goal.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, and then Forrest and a real, real contentious disallow goal for what was deemed a handball.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: But I was watching the ref watch, and they were like saying there was no no one could say it was obvious that he handballed it.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the Nico Williams.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, so unbelievable.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_01: And and for it to be disallowed, yeah, you know.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: So, like if you're saying that nobody can say it was a handball, was the ball over the line before it hit his hand, yeah.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: This is the that was the debate that was going on, and it's Spurs.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: We said it, they need to start picking up results uh quicker, fairly quick, and like just for fun, who are they playing next?
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: Even I'm not even sure their next run of games, they've been home to Everton on Saturday.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: Well, obviously they play Liverpool at CFL Cup, home to Villa, they're not in the best of form, away to Man United, home to Coventry.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a few games there in the league maybe more favourable.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: I suppose like if you're watching the Zerbies interview afterwards, so like he didn't give out about the players or anything like that, but the way the tone of his voice and the way that he was talking, I would say that if their you know their winless run continues, it'll not be long before he is going to throw a player or two under the bus.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: Because they've backed him and they've brought in hundreds of millions of talent and they still haven't scored a goal three games in.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: And like they have Everton at home this Saturday, like, and it's it's a game that you know could that be uh another nil all, a two-all well, Everton or Doggett, like we'll get on to in a moment, like you know, they'll they'll put it up to you, and again, under David Moyes, you really get an easy day at the office.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: But like Savio was playing, Marmoush was playing, uh again like Van De Ven is back, Van Hekka.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: No, I see Porrow is back in, so so like they had a young man there, wasn't it, last week?
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: And who doggy came back in over Robertson?
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: So and but you if for anybody that hasn't seen it, if you're looking at there was a chance late on for Spurs to Marmoush that should have squared the ball to Savinho there for a tap-in, but he's like a a guy that wants to hit the net himself, which is absolutely no bad thing for yeah, yeah.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, in front of the fans or whatever, and uh get the fans back in or get the managers back in, but he blazed a high and white and he got it double barrel then from Savinho after that, like you know.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's one of those situations that this this continues, like they're they're gonna get the fans up in their back.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, it's all the pressure and all the hype.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure if you're a Spurs fan, you were like going obviously this is an Arsenal man's day, but I'm just kind of calling it as it is.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you're probably getting really excited, all the sign is all the money spent.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, we'll wait and see what Everton do uh on uh at the weekend coming up.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: So Newcastle to Bournemouth to Harvey Barnes and Jacob Ramsey got goals.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Bournemouth was Marcus Tavanier and Malik Thial uh was an own goal.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh again, I didn't hear anything like too too exciting, particularly as regards, you know, no incidents or nothing like that.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I I I watched most of that game and uh like they were 2-0 down at home.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: There were, you know, and bourbons were credit for their two goals, they really were.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: But Newcastle stuck at it, and you know, this uh you know, rookie manager that's in there and their team decimated that we said from last year's team, like but just stuck at it and they got their goals and they got their just reward, and you know, Harvey Barnes super super goal.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like he is he is a top player, he really is.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: And he cut in off the right and put her into the far top corner, like you know, great goal, and that brought them right back into the game then and Bournemouth who are no bad team either.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: They you know I'd say they would be going to Newcastle saying if we come away from here with a point, we'll be happy enough.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, them Saturday morning games are also and they might be woken up, yeah.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, big time, and again, you know, travelling long distance there and everything like so that these things come into play.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so Brighton won one with Leeds, uh Vuskovich for Brighton.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: It was uh it was a late-headed goal to bring them level, and uh Jaden Bogle, I think, for Leeds won one.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: So again, I didn't hear any kind of too contentious or mad happening there.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Man City 1-0 against Coventry.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is a this even though it's a win, like that is definitely not what you're expecting.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Arsenal did beat them, I'm not saying that because they were Arsenal, but they beat them 3-0 at home, which is kind of go.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: I think every fella I knew that is on fantasy football had Haaland triple captain at the weekend against Coventry.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_01: And and he obviously scored, he got the winner for them, right?
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: But that's a game that over the last few seasons City win three, four, five-nil, like you know, and Don Aruma, he nearly slipped up in the first few minutes with a with a back pass, like not even millimetres, maybe it was so but after that, then he pulled off at least three top saves throughout the game.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: And you're saying that Coventry came away from that game feeling that they probably could have got something for the game.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: So, like you're saying that people are talking about uh Man City only winning by one-nil against Coventry.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'd say Coventry would be absolutely disgusted coming away with some of the saves that John Aruma pulled off.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: And don't get me wrong, the Coventry keeper pulled off one or two saves himself, which you would expect him to be having to do against Man City, like you know, but it's it's it's one of these.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: I said it at the start of this pod that if you have a machine like Halland up top, he only needs a half a chance.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: And they're the games where it's not clicking on the day, and you go, Well, we have him, and that wins us games, yeah, you know.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: So, and obviously he's three hundredths in club football, I believe.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh so Hull nil-nil against Villa, and Hull haven't conceded a goal yet.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: Now, they haven't scored too many either, they've scored three and not conceded any, and again uh they're unbeaten, their third straight clean sheet.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: We said, and Villa still winless.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I mean you mightn't be as angry or as disappointed at Villa as you are at Spurs, considering the spend and everything.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: And Villa have been decimated by sales and everything.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I think they've just kind of dug in the last two weeks and gone.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: We better get things moving the right way.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so like I had said that I would I thought that Hull would have the the hoodoo over them in our little bold picks last week.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um I didn't get mine right.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: I said maybe I'm switched could have put it in something against Liverpool because I was dis I was so disappointed with Assassin's Arsenal the week before on the Monday night, and then but a Saturday evening game having to go to a newly promoted team, you know, that is definitely a potential banana skin, especially when you're out of form and you're not finding the back of the net.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: And Hull dug in, like you have big John Egan there playing, who you know he was cast away by teams a few years ago, and that wasn't even in the Premier League, and now he's back in the Premier League, he's after getting three clean sheets in a row.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: So he he deserves massive credit as well, he really does.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and Villa, I mean, they did a uh Nicholas Jackson, I think it was he he that was his first game in, if I'm not mistaken.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, he played against Arsenal, or sorry, but it's like so new players in, they're they're kind of getting them time of the game.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: And Bubakar Camara again, I'm not sure had he played the previous game, I'm not sure if I'm getting that right or wrong now, but so they're they're they I know they've had made some signings, like Garnacho, people like that, but it's gonna take a few weeks for them to get those lads in, you know what I mean.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: They've lost too much of the spine, I think, you know, and I've obviously gone back to what we talk about.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: Consa is really grown into his roles, and you're losing, but for the likes of Villa, losing them players, very hard to replace them with a like for like and it was it was late in the window they lost players as well.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so they didn't have the opportunity to really replace them.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh it's kind of like knee-jerk signings, it's just get somebody in, yeah, you know, and whether they're the right fit for the club or anything like that, time is going to tell.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: But I suppose at the start of the week there, they had a decent uh win in the Champions League.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they beat the Club Roger 3-2, and with McGuin, Bundy, and Jackson scoring there.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, that might set their set them set them alight, but they definitely need something in the Premier League to get them going, like you know, because you can't just be relying on group stages of the Champions League.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: And then the last two games of the weekend was on Sunday.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: Everton uh they came from behind twice.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and now you were in the company of a few men United fans, and they were like, We're back, we're back, we're back.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: And then well, our old pal Ainsy Maitland Niles, the next Arsenal man, super goal with an absolute rocket.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like where did that come from?
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like I like I don't think you have everything.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: 96th minute as well, and like United obviously went one up, good goal by Mabumu, and then they get conceded in the 83rd minute, then United Cesco scores ahead of that you know, decent move, but Pickford should be saving that, and like Pickford gets huge, huge plaudits, and you know it is what it is, but he lets in too many of these goals because he got a hand to it.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: And you look at the top keepers around the world and in the Premier League, they get a hand to them balls, they're keeping them out.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and Pickford doesn't, and the ball goes into the back of the net 88 minute.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: You're like United are gonna see it out, and then all of a sudden the ball breaks to the edge of the box, and Maitland Niles on his debut for Everton, only after signing last week, rattles her in with the inside of his foot into the top corner for a screamer of a goal.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: And like if you're the Man United fans or defense, you're gone, oh that's okay, he's not going to take a shot from there.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so yeah, it was just killing.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: Let him shoot, nearly let him shoot.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so again, look at Everton ticking along, man United, I suppose, just not getting going yet.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, they had a good win the week before.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: But look, I mean, look, we're only early days into the season, like you know, and then the last game of the weekend, of course, we obviously had a vested interest.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: Now I actually didn't get to watch it live, it was away, yeah.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: But uh 2-1 Arsenal at home to Chelsea.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: Look, this was everyone was saying was a measure of where both teams are at.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone was hyping up Chelsea, uh, like this big attack, and they were they have a brilliant attack.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and the United fans that was with me after they got their sucker punch late on.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: They were hoping you were gonna get one.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I did in the in after 90 seconds or Morgan Rogers, and you know, I was like, Oh Jesus, don't tell me this is gonna happen.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: I really was, but to Arsenal's credit, they turned it round and they got the win on the day, and like they had a couple of shaky moments in the first half, which is which is unlike them.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there was you know balling off the post that the defenders left to right and yeah, and like you don't see that happening happening too often with Arsenal.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um but like Conz obviously made his league league debut like from the start, from his full debut because he came on against Aceville for a few minutes the week before, but like he is obviously he's an England international, he's a top top player.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: But what I was saying is that these teams that are operating at the top table of any of the leagues now, they have ready-med replacements for every player on the pitch, and that seems to be what Arteta has done.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like, he obviously Saliba's injured, Masquera came in, and then he got injured, and Consa came in.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, like you have an embarrassment of riches, you really have, and then Odegaard with a super goal late on, like a like super move and well left by Kaiser.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: Our new winger Solace, yeah.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he he kind of came back into his own again.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: So it just seemed he doesn't like those tigers defenses like Villa did, yeah.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: And he got bullied a bit out of the game, but he came back into his own, and in some quarters.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Chelsea weren't bad, don't get me wrong, they weren't bad.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: But I watched the first half and it looked like so exciting and non-stop, non-stop.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: It was very much gung-ho, it was maybe not like Arsenal of last season, maybe not as measured at times, but like they were not holding back.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: Seemed to be a bit more of an aggressiveness to Arsenal this year.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you're on about Constant, the way he just threw uh Morgan Rogers in the ground at most days, they need an amazing massive tackle.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, you know, you that's to become a cult hero in a stadium as well.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: I suppose you're talking about Arsenal having made some sign-ins with Bruno Gamerish in the middle of the field, and obviously Super Mendy is there from last season as well.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: But Louis Skelly, who you know, Arsenal fans and the the newspapers were putting them out the door at Arsenal at the during the transfer window, and he stayed at Arsenal, and whether that was transfer talk or agents uh throwing speculation.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: Because you never heard Anthony from McDonald's, like and then he's he he starts the first three league matches and he's been very impressive in all three matches.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: But it's just kind of where Arsenal are at at the moment is they have players to come in off the bench.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like give your roll for 65-70 minutes and we'll get fresh legs in to finish off the last 20-25 minutes.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: And and just as we're here for fun, uh Martin Odegaard got man of the match again tonight that beat Napoli 1-0 and he got the goal.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: So again, it's just kind of he's really as it was Paul Mercen said he's like a£100 million signing again.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because like he like and uh a lot of it, a lot of it, you know, you can say player squad of form, but it's your injuries as well.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like if you're if you're coming back from a bad injury and you go again with a bad bad injury, he went with ankle, he went with knee, and then he went with shoulder.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's three uh injuries back to back.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: And you can't get pace, you can't get form, you can't get up to the pitch of the games.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: You're trying to do stuff that isn't coming off, and people are getting on your back, and you can feel the heat from the crowd.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: But super goal, and you're after saying there tonight another goal to back it up.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's funny because I mean we look around about the squad, and obviously we're we're probably more joyous and excited because we were both Arsenal fans, coincidentally.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: But like Guamaras came on in 66 minutes, Solace came on and got the assist.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: This is just live as we're recording now.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: Havertz was on, Maduweke was on, Zubamendi was on, like unbelievable.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: But to give World Cup winners and Marino came off, and Zubamendi went on.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like, so yeah, yeah, it'll be very interesting.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: That was a tough place to go.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: Napoli and maybe was it Chelsea beat them there last year away, or someone beat them away?
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: So there's maybe not as prolific as they used to be, but they were always a dogged team at home.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: So first Champions League match, and again the great Cigumaris coming out of the game.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: So so like, yeah, um and Yaker is started tonight, so maybe maybe the the little niggly things that was happening maybe start to smooth out, and who knows?
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: You might start getting on the score sheet again.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: So if we were to pick our weekend, we always gotta go, let's pick like you know, three teams that we say are on the on the down there from that, like Fulham.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: I think they're kind of starting to waver a little bit in the wrong way, maybe.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: I would I would I would agree on that one.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: I would say I think we had Villa in it last week, and I'll keep putting them in it until the turn it round.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, and Tottenham were last week, and you can't say Anthony to say yet.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh like other games United, in fairness, it was 2-2, but it was way to Everton.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't a nightmare.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, so so there are three.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: They're kind of like Villa and Tottenham can't seem to get them so out of it.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: There was no one else over the weekend like that you could.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, like because I gave a few draws thrown in there to the mix with Brentford and Sunderland and Brighton and Leeds and Bourbon and Newcastle.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like all of them games could go a goal either way, or they could end up a draw as they did last week.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: End you're not surprised with any of them results, like you know.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and again, three teams on the up, like Brentford there sitting in fifth place now, five points.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: But in fairness, they're level at Liverpool, Newcastle, Everton, so it's all a bit too tight and early in the season.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: But like they're kind of they're starting off solid.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you'd have to give a hat tip to Coventry in one season.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: For a team coming up, Arsenal beating 3-0 the first day.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then they've kind of kind of gone, right, let's you know, let's let's kind of see what we're made of against one of the biggest teams.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: And as I said, they had they had every chance to frighten them.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: And like, where else are we looking here?
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: Do we I would say I would say Everton because I've like obviously have lost a couple of players and they didn't make any significant sign-ins really, like you know, um I'd say Mike's hands were hand tied there with the new stadium and the whole lot, but like being 1-0 down, being 2 1 down with time nearly up and coming back and getting a point, you know, hat tip to them, it really is like you know.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and it can only happen in the Premier League moment, probably going back to that North Forest.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: I suppose we are like it's uh the the the goal that wasn't given.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, you know, like it's uh it's is it a goal?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Is it not a goal?
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like like why is it not a goal?
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I suppose that they'll come out and tell us in two weeks' time whether it was the correct decision or not, because they've already done that today, and they said that there's three decisions that have happened over the last two weeks, including the penalty that Arsenal should have got against Villa last week, that it should have been a penalty.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, they did come out with that one.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, interesting.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: They come out with Gabrielle on Chelsea, that'll be next week, probably, is it?
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'll be giving out by Gabrielle kicking.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, that'll be Martinez.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: Martinez.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that'll be that'll be the next week.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: Well, look, it was a wild leg.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you got if something happened to him, you wouldn't be there going, This is a disgrace.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they you know they and then the they back themselves with the Harry Maguire handball and the OG got its goal because that's the rule.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, okay.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: And no, no, I did watch Ref Watch, and uh you go they were both in Tim Sherwood was there, and he was like, Yeah, look, it's it's the right decision, but it's stupid.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: So it'll be interesting that rule I say I'll come in.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll quickly just jump into this weekend, see if we get predictions wrong again.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh now we are picking mad predictions for a bit of crack, okay?
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: So Villa at home to Forest, three o'clock on Saturday, Bournemouth at home to Brentford, Chelsea at home to Hull, uh, Crystal Palace uh at home to Ipswich and Liverpool at home to Fulham.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: And they're all uh Saturday at three o'clock kickoffs.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: So there's no early morning kickoff, but there's two late games Spurs against Everton at half five.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: That'll be a dinger.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: Everton will have nothing to fear, and Spurs will have all the pressure on them.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh under the lights and on the telly, and then Arsenal have a big long trip up to Sunderland at eight o'clock on a Saturday night.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: So let's hope their Champions League travels aren't going to affect them too much.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Coventry at home to Brighton.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Manchester United will play City half four on Sunday.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: Again, we'll get into them in a second, but Monday night then leads in Newcastle.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: That Leeds and Newcastle, two mad bunches of fans, Leeds at home.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: What a ground.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to go to that ground to see the atmosphere.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: That is a proper Monday night football fixture.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: But like, like, what are we calling?
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: You couldn't call Aston Villa and Forrest.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like there's nothing to tell you why you should why you should pick one over the other there.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know what I mean?
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh like Forest have only two points, Villa have only got one.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so you wouldn't be that's a good one for the draw.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Bournemouth, Brentford.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: Again, another two teams.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: You couldn't well, Brentford are five points and they're in fifth, and Bournemouth are fifteenth, actually.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: They've only got two points.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so so maybe, maybe, yeah, but Brentford away.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I wouldn't be backing out a draw there.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Now, Chelsea play Hull.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: I know there'll be some people doing the triple captain Pedro thing, but yeah, Hull haven't conceded a goal yet.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Haven't conceded a goal.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: And they're gonna go in confident, they go, We've got the defence right.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, now we're up against the best defence or the best attack, I should say.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh God, I would like you'd have to pick Chelsea.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: You would, yeah.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: But I don't think it'll be 3 or 4 0.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: Now we'll probably get that 100% wrong yesterday.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I know I just think that again I'll go back to the fact of the early goal, which Chelsea done against Brighton.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they got the two early goals, and that gave them the cushion.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: They ended up ended up winning the game 4-3 because Brighton then have to come out and play.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: So if something like that was to happen on Saturday against Hull, I can't see how Hull would have the firepower to get two or three goals.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, no, no.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I mean?
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: McBurney up there has had a decent start in Fairness, but no, maybe not enough.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Palace and Ipswich and Palace, they've had the they've the same points, they have the same goal difference, they've scored the same out of goals, they've conceded the same amount of goals.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: So this could be the weekend for draws.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: Now, again, uh Palace after a good win away the last day, they'll probably fancy themselves.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: But like, you know, Ipsit shouldn't be too fearful of Palace away.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: Liverpool Fulham.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this if you're doing your triple captains, I think if Essex after getting two goals, then you're going, okay, lads, this could be the game where you know, at home Fulham just not really clicking in at the moment.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Sabasheim and Callister getting goals midweek in the Champions League, so they're on a high and they beat Matletico Madrid.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: So after being 1-0 down as well.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so if you're picking your captains, I think this week in the fantasy football, that's your one.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Spurs Everton.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it has draw written or it definitely is ding-dong.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: Spurs will have to break off the air going.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: We need to do something here.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: They have to come out and play.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they have to get the fans, their home fans, on their side, they have to get their fans back on them, they have to get them rolling them on, and they have to hit the net.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: That's the long and the short of it.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's uh Yeah, but Everton, Everton are unbeaten, they beat Palace.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, then they well, they did a cup game against Preston, they won that 4-0, drew away to Bournemouth, and then drew it home to Man United, and again that was last minute.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: So they'll be going in hideo.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: But again, yeah, we have more than watching this, but this is a weekend for draws.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Sunderland Arsenal, again, wasn't it last year we were saying they got a late one against the Sunderpunch to bring it to a draw?
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so look, you have to take your Arsenal hat off here and go, what would a neutral say?
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: You go, you'd imagine Arsenal have enough on the tank there, like Sunderland, they've got one win and a draw, they're in four points.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: They're nothing doing.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: But it's a it's Stadium Light's tough place to go for any team.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: It really is like and like even watching the games over the weekend like it, like when you're watching the highlights are on them, like there's no easy games.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: No, there really isn't like that.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: As you said, the the number one game you thought there was easy was Coventry.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: For Man City.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: And one nil.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: One nil.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so look, it's a bit like We have another podcast where we do a GA championship here locally, and it's getting tighter and tighter.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what's the reason for all this.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: Is it just the teams in general have grown and growing in fitness and coaching and whatnot?
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: So that'll be good.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: Now this one, um, moving on to Sunday, it's at two o'clock, Coventry versus Brighton.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: Coventry will definitely be buoyed by that.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: Brighton, they can score, but they can leak goals as well.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: Definitely concede, yeah.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, but I just maybe like if Coventry, you know, has there been enough goals in them yet to kind of go Yeah, like yes, we can we can frighten um at home.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I would say that Frank Lamper, just looking at the way that he's trying to set up his teams and they're kind of trying to hit teams on the counter-attack, that might not work at home because you know you you you don't soak up enough pressure to get they've yet to score, yeah.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: They've conceded five.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: So Brighton, again, a team who can catch anyone on their day, I'd say, will be going there confidently.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: And when they when they get their tails up, they're they're very hardstop, Brighton.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: They really are.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: Some uh well, the tabletopers currently at the moment are uh Man City, I think it's on goal scored, they've won more goals scored than Arsenal.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they're away to Man United.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: Again, we're we're lifting the shoulders here.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people like what have United done to Man City over the last few years?
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: They like they have got results, they've pulled results out of the bag when they were down in mid-table and when nobody was expecting them to get a result.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: Now they have we'll we'll say they have a so-called pep in their step after getting back into the Champions League.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: They're playing, but the problem is that they played Champions League on Thursday night.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: City played last night, and then so there's like an extra two days rest for City ahead of the game on Sunday, and United don't have the squad.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: Do you you know I don't I don't think United have the squad to deal with two games a week, like whatever about if it's EFL Cup or FA Cup or whatever it may be.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: No, like it is at home, I suppose, in one sense, and obviously, well, man, United or City are both at home again essentially on Sunday.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I I I get two days.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: I think the two days rest might be a tell and tale come Sunday afternoon, but again, like it's it's one of these games that the Manchester Derby, when you don't expect United to get a result, they come up with the goods.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and like it's like you know, drawing last weekend against Everton after being 2-1 up, it shouldn't be happening, they should be winning the game.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: So like I'd say City would be odds on favour to win that game on Sunday afternoon, and if United snatch a snatch a draw or snatch a lake a late winner, like you'll be like, no one'll be shocked.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no one would be shocked.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: No, and again, I think if we're doing nothing Monday, everyone will be watching this game, uh, Leeds United versus Newcastle.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: Again, you know, two teams like they're both uh well, they're both leveling points at five.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, nothing spectacular about either of them, but like Leeds from where they come, they I suppose they're solidifying themselves again this year already with five points after three games.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: That has to be their necastle probably overachieving, but again, the kind of turmoil in their club going on.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: So that'll be a shootout, I'd say.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: There'll be both teams going for level.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: Who's gonna be your bold prediction?
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: So my bold prediction, let's go quickly through them again.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm gonna say hull to draw okay away to Chelsea.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because I mean it's not really fancied.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: And can you see them all there?
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I I I'll I'll go with Sunderland to get a point against Arsenal.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, you can't do that, you're not allowed to do that.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'll go with that after what happened last year.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: Saturday night game, poor Stadium of Light will be rocking.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: And if Sunderland get their fans behind them, you just don't know what could happen.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: Well, look, we will be back uh next week.
• 25:51
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