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Napoli return to top of Serie A - Ep. 242 Ft. Carm from Napoli Club Toronto · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: So la couplelice. It feels like we're saying that every
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  Speaker 1: week for a new team, and this week it's Napoli.
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  Speaker 1: Last week gives uns or two weeks agoes union as
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  Speaker 1: last week was three, this week Napoli. And so we
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  Speaker 1: got car from Napoli Club Toronto on to Chats and
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  Speaker 1: Napoli today. I'm Nicholas joined by Adrian on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: O guys, But Karen, how how's it going?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? You know, being in first place? I couldn't be
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  Speaker 2: going better. I'll be honest with you. It's been four hundred.
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  Speaker 1: In I think it was thirty three four one of those.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's well over a year. So being back on
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  Speaker 2: top really does feel nice.
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  Speaker 3: It's good, it's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tight race. Napoli thirteen points two, A twelve,
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  Speaker 1: Melin Intero both eleven, to Reno eleven, Amply ten. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean, anything could happen. It's only six days. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: enjoy why we can.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. Yeah, I'm not going to complain about this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really gonna say, after the season we had last year,
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  Speaker 2: any moment in the top four, I'm gonna savor anything.
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  Speaker 3: Anything is better than last season, anything.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get into car first, we just want to
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  Speaker 1: give you your congratulations get Zerra doctor now doctor of chiropracty.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We've known you long enough that where you could say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, we're proud of you. Great job for
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  Speaker 1: all the hard work you put in school.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So when are you going to work for a city
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  Speaker 1: team anytime soon?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be in the works hopefully. The goal
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  Speaker 2: is to always work with athletes. Been my passion for
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  Speaker 2: for years now to work with sports injuries and sports rehabilitation.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, starting off with smaller levels, getting in
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  Speaker 2: with local teams is uh, you know, just just as
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  Speaker 2: satisfying to be quite honest with you. And I thank
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  Speaker 2: you both again for the congratulations on.
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  Speaker 3: No, absolutely and I know only cann't beer tonight and
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  Speaker 3: he sends the same well wishes.
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  Speaker 4: Uh for you karm Listen, Like next said, we've we've.
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  Speaker 3: Had you on so many times.
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  Speaker 4: You're like one of like the top you have like
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  Speaker 4: one of the most caps I think on the show,
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  Speaker 4: or it seems to be at least so yeah exactly
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  Speaker 4: so No, honestly, like we've seen, we've seen your progression,
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  Speaker 4: not only with what you're doing with your club and
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  Speaker 4: not with up Toronto, but in your personal life as well.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, and and achieving what you what you dream
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  Speaker 4: to do is is really uh, it's really amazing to see.
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  Speaker 4: So like next said, we are proud, we're happy to
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  Speaker 4: call you a friend. Uh And yeah, listen, notis in first.
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  Speaker 4: So I guess it was the perfect time to bring
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  Speaker 4: you on saying that game over the weekend against Monza.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, Carmen, I don't know, Listen, everybody
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  Speaker 4: puts out their previews to start up the season. I
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  Speaker 4: was the only one on the show to pick up
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  Speaker 4: with the Window School this season. I'm just putting that
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  Speaker 4: out there, guys. I have the the Napoli drip on
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  Speaker 4: tonight from.
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  Speaker 1: I have the receipt.
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  Speaker 3: Don't worry, he has the receipt.
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  Speaker 4: So this time, maybe if I get my prediction right,
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  Speaker 4: maybe we'll have to do something. But I said not
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  Speaker 4: to this season. I know you guys, especially in the
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  Speaker 4: scottamanzia is is definitely a big thing.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not going to ask you that question.
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  Speaker 4: But we'll start off with with the game this past
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  Speaker 4: week against Months at the two nil. Just your thoughts
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  Speaker 4: of the game, uh, and you know, just I guess
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  Speaker 4: the expectations that you kind of had to open off
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  Speaker 4: the season after we spoke about off air that the
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  Speaker 4: laster that was last season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just your expectations to open the season and how
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  Speaker 3: you felt this game against Mons, I wanted.
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  Speaker 2: To know, So I guess I'll start off with the
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  Speaker 2: expectation of you had this season. Personally, Scottancia, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do this to while I'm at it, but I thought
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  Speaker 2: we were going to do very very well this season.
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  Speaker 2: Just everything was aligned for us to do well. First
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  Speaker 2: and foremost, you have a serial winner leadinger squad, and
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  Speaker 2: Nicholas being a UFM can attest to this. There's no
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  Speaker 2: playing around. When Conte is in charge. It's his way
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  Speaker 2: or the highway. There's no two ways about it. And
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  Speaker 2: when everything is going Conte's way, it's perfect. And so
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  Speaker 2: far that seems to be the way things are going
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  Speaker 2: right now. The team seems to be more united than ever,
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  Speaker 2: which is something that we lost last season under Garcia,
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  Speaker 2: and then I think Garcia was the first domino to
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  Speaker 2: fall that caused everything else. I mean, that team just
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  Speaker 2: seemed they didn't seem normal. If that's a lifeless they
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  Speaker 2: seem lifeless, like they didn't enjoy being there. Now this
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  Speaker 2: is this is not an individual sport. This is a
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  Speaker 2: team sport. This relies on the group. If the group
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  Speaker 2: is since together, if the group isn't on the same page,
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  Speaker 2: you've lost. There's no hope of getting that back right.
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  Speaker 2: You can see that with any team like Italy when
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  Speaker 2: they won the Euros. They didn't have the best team,
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  Speaker 2: but they were a group. They're all on the same
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  Speaker 2: page and that's the key to success. So seeing that
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  Speaker 2: this season, you can see in every goal coink they've
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  Speaker 2: running up and on the sidelines, hugging all the players.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone just they fight for each other and that is
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  Speaker 2: amazing to see. You couple that with only playing one
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  Speaker 2: game a week, Copetalia being your only other competition, things
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  Speaker 2: are lining up to be pretty good for this season.
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  Speaker 2: I won't say we will win, but there's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good chance that Napoli could win this schoetong In terms
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  Speaker 2: of the last game against Monza, amazing game. I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was really really well coached. The first half. The
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  Speaker 2: first couple of seconds it seemed like Munza was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a little bit of a problem, but then
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  Speaker 2: Mappoli really quickly got a hold of the game. They
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  Speaker 2: controlled the ball, not even controlling the ball, they controlled
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  Speaker 2: off the ball. They controlled the pace of play through
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  Speaker 2: through defense. They just weren't letting Muns up play the
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  Speaker 2: way they wanted to play by shutting them down defensively,
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  Speaker 2: and then of course classic Conte style, hitting them on
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  Speaker 2: a couple quick plays, a couple of counters and it's
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  Speaker 2: a goal. Second half got boring, but with a Contia team,
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of what you expect, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more tactica than it is flair. Conte doesn't
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  Speaker 2: care and as long as he gets to three points,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter how you play, you come out with
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  Speaker 2: a win with three points. Personally, it's not my favorite style.
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  Speaker 2: I always like to see a little bit of added pressure,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of flair, you know, not so much
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  Speaker 2: sitting back and absorbing the pressure, but also giving it
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  Speaker 2: back because like a weaker team like Muns, that you
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  Speaker 2: can give that pressure back and really take control of
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  Speaker 2: the game offensively as well. He did it against Juve
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  Speaker 2: the Mill Mill tie. I completely understand that you're away
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  Speaker 2: at Torino against a top four team, they have to win.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to win that game. They have to
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  Speaker 2: go out and win, so just take the pressure, absorb it,
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  Speaker 2: let them get frustrated, and then if you happen to
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  Speaker 2: come across a goal, you take your chance. So I
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  Speaker 2: think Conte what he's done really well is prepare the
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  Speaker 2: team for the game that they're going to be playing,
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  Speaker 2: preparing them for their opponent. So depending on if you're
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  Speaker 2: playing Roma, Juve, Atlanta, you name it, they might play
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  Speaker 2: a little bit differently than as if they were to
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  Speaker 2: play a mid table or lower level side. So overall,
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was an amazing game tactically and just
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  Speaker 2: you know, everything worked out perfectly and I think the
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  Speaker 2: season is going to go pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny when you mentioned the especially with the UVA game,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what Jenny said last week, where it was
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  Speaker 1: a game where out you know, I came into the
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  Speaker 1: podcast podcast, I was frustrated with the play and even
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  Speaker 1: the result, you know, I expected more, and then Jenny
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  Speaker 1: on the other side and say, you know what, zero
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  Speaker 1: zero away at a Juventus, That's that's a good result.
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  Speaker 1: So like you said, you played to your opponent. But
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  Speaker 1: for for Napoli, they they have to play up to
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  Speaker 1: those opponents. But they can't play down to the to
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  Speaker 1: the opponents, right because you know, look at their schedule,
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  Speaker 1: they have Como coming up. They just played obviously it
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  Speaker 1: was a Manza. They played Palermo in this city of
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  Speaker 1: B team and that's kind of what makes a difference
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  Speaker 1: between you know, a good team and a great team
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  Speaker 1: where they won't play down to these opponents. They come
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  Speaker 1: out beat Permo five nothing, beat Monsa to nothing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's safe to say that that again, that's
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  Speaker 1: down to context preparation.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, it all comes down to that. And yeah
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  Speaker 2: know that was not Palay's biggest problem is that they
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  Speaker 2: always played down to their opponent. For example, last season,
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  Speaker 2: in our first game, we lost four nilt to Frozen
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  Speaker 2: on It. How do you lose how do you manage
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  Speaker 2: to lose nil to a Frozen on the team. But
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  Speaker 2: that's just because first of all, the group wasn't there
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  Speaker 2: and they always played down to their and we saw
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  Speaker 2: it in seasons past. This year, the tides have shifted
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  Speaker 2: where you have that strong leader at the front preparing
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  Speaker 2: this team for the game that they need to play,
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  Speaker 2: and no variance in the style. This is what we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do. This is what everyone needs to do in
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  Speaker 2: their role. If you don't want to play that role,
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  Speaker 2: we have someone else who can play it for you.
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  Speaker 2: That's the beauty of this team is that you have
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  Speaker 2: that that structure to it. And and yeah, just just
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  Speaker 2: coming out with the proper preparation is just massive.
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  Speaker 3: No, I told you. I mean it was to start
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  Speaker 3: off the season. I had said, you know, for NAPO,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with them getting content, I think obviously it
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  Speaker 3: was huge. They needed they needed that that picked me
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  Speaker 3: up because they were really down and it was a
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  Speaker 3: shame to to really see how it went down from
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  Speaker 3: being on top of the world to really at the bottom.
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  Speaker 3: It was such a drastic fall.
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  Speaker 4: And I guess if there was any name to to
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  Speaker 4: to bring them up, it would have been a guy
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  Speaker 4: like Conte, because, like you said, we all know by
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  Speaker 4: watching this this league and following Conte's career, Uh, there's
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  Speaker 4: almost nobody better to whip You whip your players into shape,
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  Speaker 4: and they're gonna be in shape, There's no two questions,
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  Speaker 4: There's no two ways about it. So I thought that
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  Speaker 4: was a strong point, just to cherry pick off of
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  Speaker 4: what you had said earlier and honestly, again, I want
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  Speaker 4: to I was gonna hit you with a question about
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  Speaker 4: you know, the these transfers that have come in, But
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  Speaker 4: I think the biggest one for me that I was
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  Speaker 4: saying at the.
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  Speaker 3: Time because I didn't know and was going to come in.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know what MC tommony was going to come in. More.
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  Speaker 4: You know these players, But you know, Lukaku for me,
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  Speaker 4: as much as it pains me to say, seeing you know,
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  Speaker 4: he played for Inter, he won with Intern and whatnot
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  Speaker 4: for me being the Melan fan, but you know, Conte
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  Speaker 4: and and and Conte and Lucaku is equivalent to.
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  Speaker 3: Bread and butter. Right. They've shown it everywhere they've went.
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  Speaker 4: It's worked, it tastes good. It's nothing fancy, but hey, listen,
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  Speaker 4: but bread and butter at the weddings. You know, we
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  Speaker 4: would always go for the bread and butter, right, so
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  Speaker 4: when we were kids. So I think I think that
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  Speaker 4: was kind of a match made in heaven.
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  Speaker 3: They made it.
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  Speaker 4: Happen, and I think that was gonna be the biggest
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  Speaker 4: X factor for them because and we'll get into maybe
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: the whole a man and all that situation maybe later.
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  Speaker 3: But what are you what are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 4: On the transfers that have come in, because if just
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  Speaker 4: looking as an outsider, you can correct me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Carm majority of them, if not all, have.
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  Speaker 4: Been plus like plus is like they've been positive in
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  Speaker 4: my opinion so far. I just want to get your
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  Speaker 4: take on the additions that were made, where you're surprised
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  Speaker 4: they invested the way they did, uh, and just kind
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  Speaker 4: of your overall thoughts of of you know, the new
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  Speaker 4: acquisitions and how they've been playing so far.
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  Speaker 2: The only way in which I'm surprised in the investments
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  Speaker 2: is because of the fact that we didn't have championship
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  Speaker 2: money in the squad. That's the one thing that surprised.
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  Speaker 4: Me a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But to that point, it just shows you how well
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  Speaker 2: the team has been has been run up until this point. Delis.
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  Speaker 2: We all made fun of them, novel events, all made
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  Speaker 2: fun of them, everybody. But there's a reason. There's a
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  Speaker 2: reason madness, and he built himself a little squirrel fund
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  Speaker 2: for if things were to go awry, and they did
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  Speaker 2: last season, he can dip into his pockets a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more and try to build yourself out of it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's and that is just like you. You rarely
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  Speaker 2: see that in football nowadays, and they're still in the green,
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  Speaker 2: which is amazing. They were able to invest all this
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  Speaker 2: stuff and they were still in the green. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: lose much with all these investments, so that's the only
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  Speaker 2: thing that surprised me. It also didn't surprise me in
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  Speaker 2: the fact that when you signed Conte, you are going
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  Speaker 2: in with the mindset that he is going to want
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  Speaker 2: these amount of these players. He comes in with the list, him, Oreali, Manna,
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  Speaker 2: they all come in saying these are the guys we want.
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  Speaker 2: You buy them or we walk. That's exactly how it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be. De la Rentis I believe realized that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you must have realized that when he signed Conte and
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  Speaker 2: was happy to oblige him, and it's worked out perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: Lukaku has been a great signing. I mean Lukaku with Conte,
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  Speaker 2: you see what happens. He's always he plays his best
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  Speaker 2: football under Antonio Conte wherever he goes. Absolutely, he's a
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  Speaker 2: striker that we needed. He's a pure number nine that
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  Speaker 2: can hold the ball but also be quite lethal in
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  Speaker 2: the box. He's a great number nine. Billy Gilmore is
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  Speaker 2: on another amazing signing. You know, basically I started in
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  Speaker 2: the Premier League with Brighton. Very very rarely will you
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  Speaker 2: find another player that is like Stanislav Lebotka. Maybe you
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  Speaker 2: have hot Gun Hedri and then that's it, like that's
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  Speaker 2: in the world. That's what you get. And then you
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  Speaker 2: have another young midfielder that plays that same Regie Si
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  Speaker 2: style role and he has time to learn under a
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  Speaker 2: mentor like Lebotka before he may take his place in
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  Speaker 2: the future. Let's say Davig Nettis has been phenomenal and
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: has always been phenomenal since his i AX days. I'm
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  Speaker 2: also an i AX fan. I like watching i AX.
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  Speaker 2: They suck now, but that's besides the point. But when
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  Speaker 2: when Nettis was coming up through i AX and then
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  Speaker 2: through Benfica, he's all always been a solid player, very creative.
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  Speaker 2: His dribbling ability, as you can ever save it unbelivable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's very tough to get the ball off
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  Speaker 2: of him, and you need that creativity up front. Politano
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  Speaker 2: offers you a little bit more stability defensively, but nett
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  Speaker 2: Is obviously a little bit more of that creativity up top,
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  Speaker 2: which when you pair it with kat at Scalia and Lukaku,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: it's a backline nightmare, right, So those are the great signings,
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  Speaker 2: But my favorite signing is Scott mcdonmeney. Scott mccomney is
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  Speaker 2: my favorite signing that that we made so far, because
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: he's basically if you took Zilensky and gave him a
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  Speaker 2: plus ten boost and every other attribute, heights, weights, just
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  Speaker 2: like everything. It's like he's like, yeah, he's just like
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: an upgraded Zielensky. In lack of a better term, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't get a fair shake at United. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: United is also a very tough team for a young
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  Speaker 2: player to break into, right Like, I think he needs
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  Speaker 2: to go to another squad to break through and then
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  Speaker 2: back to United. That being said, he's still fairly young.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's about twenty seven seven or something like that,
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  Speaker 2: so he's starting to just enter the prime of his career.
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  Speaker 2: And what better coach to do that with than Antonio
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  Speaker 2: Gonte And you can see every time he steps on
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  Speaker 2: the field he's just pure box the box. Not only
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  Speaker 2: does he win the ball, but when he wins the ball,
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  Speaker 2: he knows exactly what.
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  Speaker 3: To do with it.
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  Speaker 2: Looks for his outlet pass supports with flat at Scalia
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  Speaker 2: scored a beautiful goal against Paul Edbal. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you guys saw that COCKU caught back first time
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  Speaker 2: to the bottom corner. Not an easy finish. I think
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  Speaker 2: our biggest impact signing is Scott mctominy for this season.
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  Speaker 3: He alread kissed, invested, he's invested.
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  Speaker 2: That's shielded for me too.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: But it's funny. Car The last time you know, not
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  Speaker 1: Believes talked about how great of a summer was in
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  Speaker 1: terms of summer signings was back in that twenty two
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  Speaker 1: twenty three season. You look back who they signed that
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  Speaker 1: summer and Gisa Cavara, Kim, Simeone, Raspadori, all these guys
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  Speaker 1: had an impact as they as they you know, marched
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  Speaker 1: on to the Scudetto. And now you're talking and it
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  Speaker 1: seems like they hit every signing saying you just.
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  Speaker 2: Said Kim, I forgot about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: Center back, correctly, Maybe Calafiodi, if he plays it is
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  Speaker 2: more of a left back, but.
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  Speaker 1: I think no. But but Ordo doesn't have nice hair,
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  Speaker 1: so no one gives him credit.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: I saw that post. I saw that post, that stat
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: it up put what's it been like?
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Uh, fifteen fifteen fifteen hundred over fifteen hundred minutes without
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: getting past Yeah, like I mean that has to stand
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: for something.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Like I mean even in this tourno days, like we're
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: a solid defender, like like how Bremer broke through at
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Torino and went to Juva to make that jump to
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: the next step, when Journal almost seemed to do the
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: same or so far the similar thing in breaking through
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: with a you know, an upper squad in Inopolis. So
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: that's another one I forgot.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: You're right that quality for forty million, that is that is.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: In today's market market is unbelieved business.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: So yeah, sorry to interrupt you, Nick there, but you
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: said Kim, and I'm like, oh, yeah, put Jordan, that's.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Another yeah, no worries, Uh but yeah, what I wanted
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to ask is more, you know, one thing that stranded
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you a last season was no European competition. A lot
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: of people talked about that helping the team. Obviously, ultimately
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: you didn't win the school that toil finished top four
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: good enough to get back into Europe, to get back
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: into the Champions League, and I'm not I'm gonna ask
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: you the same question for Naplete, especially because it's a
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: new coach, new players, new system. How much does that help?
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Just not having these games? You know, he's been week
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: games pretty much every second week. Sure, they just played
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Coptalia in the next round for copetally I think is
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: in December, but they really have to just focus on Citia.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: How much does that help?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I think it helps a lot. Now if you ever
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: lose focus, which could happen pretty easily, Yeah, it could
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: also be very detrimental if you're not having that consistent playtime, right,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I think the coach matters a lot. Uh, Like I said,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: having Antonio Conte, he's going to make sure that these
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: guys are primed and ready for every game, doesn't matter
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: if it's once a week or four times a week.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: He's always going to have them ready to go out
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: and play the game that they need to play. Like
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: with you VI last season, it's it's also tough to
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: make a comparison because VE is still somewhat rebuilding. You
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: can tell from this season as well. They're not really
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: after full potential just yet, so a little bit a
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: little bit different. But I think just the main the
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: main problem is staying focused, making sure that you stay
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: focused on the goal and don't be distracted by what's
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: going on in the present. You always have to keep
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: thinking about the future. Doesn't matter if you have two
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: games of a week, three games a week, or just
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: one game a week. You always have to keep your
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: mind on the price. If not, then that's where you
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: can start having some difficulties.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: No, another thing like you know, the whole Like I
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: want to get into the Ustu man thing, but maybe
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I'll push it a little bit later. But you know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: with Antonio Antonio, first off, were you surprised that he
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: came in Antonio?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: No, no, I do last season that he was going
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: to be coming.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Okay, so you so you had you, you were aware
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: and you wanted and you were good to have him.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: No, I just have a follow up questions that, were
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you surprised that ADL hired Antonio Conte because you know
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: she was talking about Brandon Butter. These guys are like
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: olive oil and vinegar.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: They don't mesh water and oil.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you, No, not really, because I
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: think what happened last season was that Della Antis realized
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: that I want to say, not like you can only
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: have so much luck is like the I guess that's
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: to say it because he's always made the signings with
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: some not no name coaches, but like just like Sabby
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: for example, he took Sady from from emply essentially and
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: brought him up to Monopoly and a couple other coaches
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: like that. It didn't surprise me that hepped that he
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: would realize after such a disastrous season where he appointed
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Rudy Garcia, who did nothing in his career, to take
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: over Anboli squad, he must have self reflected and said,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I can't let this happen again. I can't take a
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: gamble on someone like Rudy Garcia. I need something more established,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: and Antonio Quinte is the easy answer.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, I think many many people would have
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: thought that.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Again, listen, the season is still young, so who's to
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: say that things you know won't change or what have you.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: But you know, for you guys, we hope that they don't.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: But you know, the two characters like that that you know,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: I think the first thing that in people's minds were like,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: these guys are gonna clash like instantly, like the character
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: of de Orient is that.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: The character of Quante.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: At one point I feel like I guess people thought
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: that they would have they would have clashed My thing
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: that I wanted to ask concerning content, and you.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Know, you knew that he was going to come in.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: You wanted him to come in. You're happy that he
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: came in. The whole stigma of Quante, Yes, get your
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: players motivated. He's he's always you know, he's a serial winner,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: the whole nine. We know all that, the stigma around
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: him of really only staying on for two max. Three
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: years and then he's out and once he doesn't get
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: his way. Is that something that yourself or AMPLI fans
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: are have in the back of your mind or like.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Are you okay with that if it's only this small
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: window of Antonio Conte or would you would you have
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: rather something that could contextually have been you know, for
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: the long haul and and more than just that two
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: or three season window under a coach Aconte.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I think I'm okay with it for now. Okay, because
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: even if he does stay for two or three seasons
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and they do exceptionally well where they win for example
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: for Mars, Yeah, i think I'm okay with that because
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: unte will establish a basis to this team, right, re
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: establish a basis to this team and that can be
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: used for a future coaches coming in. Even the system
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: might change a little bit, the core group is still
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: going to be the same intact, so I'm okay with it. Also,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: you're allowing other coaches in Europe that are just starting
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: to come up a little bit more time to gain
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: experience and then maybe you can go for them, like
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: let's see, like Pauladino for example, or Buddy old with Ias.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know a couple of Nesta. I guess you
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: can say too, like all these coaches, Yeah, exactly, exactly.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: So these guys are just starting to come out, get
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: their experience, and then in the future, depending on how
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: their career goes, you can take one of them. But
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I think I'm okay with it right now for the
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: two years at or three years that may say.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to Napoli's matches, so like I said, they
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: play on Friday, and then there's the international break that
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: come back, they play Emply and then they got Lecha
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and then they got Milan at the end of October.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So okay. No, Emplie has been doing actually really well
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: this season, but this is you know, they don't play
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: a true top team until Meland and then it gets tough.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: You got out the Lantil, you got inter you got Roma,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and then to Reno, and then latsu and the Copalia
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of December, and then Latsuo again at
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the beginning of right after that again at the beginning
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: of December in the city. So how important is it
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: just alone the month of October to get these points
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: now against these Como's Amplies and light Chase, you.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Have to get them nine points, get them. You have
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: to get There's there's no other way around it, because
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I don't want it to happen. Of course, nobody wants
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: to lose. Unfortunately, you may lose one of those games,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: or at the very you'll draw things go as bad.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: But going on into that stretch of games, Milan enter Tono,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: lot Seal, lots Seal because is doing really well this season,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: so you have them too. That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: eight games of basically top six matchups one after another.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: You're not gonna win every game, You're not gonna you're
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: not gonna go three points on every single game. So
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: getting the points right now, where other teams may drop
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: points during this month as well, that's gonna be the
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: thing that sets you apart. You can't win a school
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: that till in October, but you can lose it. So
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: that's that's the mindset and you kind of have to have,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: especially when you're going up against a new promoted side,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: a relegation side didn't lunch and then who else let's say, uh.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Was Amply Ample?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: You know, you know what?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Give you know what, I'm gonna give credits Amply because
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: they're one of the best defensive teams in the city.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Right now. They can't they can't get much win wins
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: in let me just let me just pull up.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Their record for a second year, two or three wins.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Two wins and six games uh two goals against five
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: goals for so you know what, they're playing well defensively.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: They haven't lost. Up, they haven't lost, they.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Haven't lost exactly. It's them, them and you Invade the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: only teams that haven't lost. And they're the two best
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: defenses in the city. So defense wins championships.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Go figure.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: No, Listen, I agree in Karen, I think it's crucial.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Again, we always say on the show, and I think
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: just being fans, we know, you know there is no
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: easy games in Sea and we've seen it time and
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: time and time again.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: That you know, these these lower.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: End teams, you can't really take it lightly, even though
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: on the calendar and on on paper you should pick
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: up maximum points.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: So but I agree with what you're saying. It's a
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: it's a must nine points, uh for for for not
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: if they want to if.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: They're serious, right like at the end of the day,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: if they're serious to get to the levels that you
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: know you won't.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Say, but I will say for you.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: I come the end of the season, I think this is,
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: like you said, this is the time to to start
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: picking up those those points where you you have to.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: It's not that you're content with the drug and you've
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: at a way like you have to pick up these
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: nine points. And in those three straight matches, does you know,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: as we're saying, you know, the whole one game a
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: week copey Talia of mixing in into it, it's copy
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Italia something that you you're I mean, listen, it's hard
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: to it's hard to ask this type of questions because
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: I think you should go into every competition trying to
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: do well.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Just your thoughts on the copy Italia run.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: If they have one, like is it Is it something
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: that is a importance for yourself or for Napoli fans.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Like what do you what do you think about that?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it's be all end all, but it
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: is important to do well in that competition. It's a
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: it's a trophy at the end of the day, right,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: we want to win a trophy, and if that's the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: only one of the only competitions that you have to
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: play in, you should try your best to go out
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: and win it. For me, I can't speak for on
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: behalf of Allknopoly fans. It's somewhat important. I'd be very
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: happy if we won. I wouldn't be heartbroken if we
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: crashed out well, if we crashed out early, rather if
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: we lost in semi final or final, I'd be okay
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: with it because you gave it your best, you gave
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: it a run, and whatever happens in ninety minutes of
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: football happens. So I think it's important that they go
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: out and win this competition because you need some some
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: form of winning back, you need something after last season.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and it's interesting because you know I mentioned
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: they play lots off too.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Right, Sorry nick? I don't want to cut you off,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: but I was just gonna say that side of the
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: bracket is the tougher side.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was gonna bring up. Oh sorry, yeah,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: no worries you you were buffering so I didn't even
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: realize you you were talking anyways. Uh yeah, like I said,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: they Lato round of sixteen, and then the winner of
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: that game it plays winner of Inter and Udinese. And
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: on that side of the bracket there's ac Meanline versus
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a Swallow, and Roma versus Sam Doria. So yeah, it's tough.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: You got four big teams versus the other side there's
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: you a fur In, Tina, Bologna and Atalanta, which are
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the four of the top teams. So uh not, Pali
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: is on the tough side. But anything could happen in
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: this tournament, especially with teams that play basically their their backups.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Obviously it gets a bit more serious when they get
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: to the semifinals they're playing a bit more regulars. But
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you know, anything could happen, uh in this tournament. But Adri,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: did you have any other questions?
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: I had like two.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: If that's cool, karma, I guess I'll we've the also
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: meant think for last but because I've been saying it
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: throughout this throughout the time.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Here, but.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: You mentioned mctommeny as as one of your your favorite
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: signings that came into Napoo this season. Just trying to
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: get your your your maybe I know it's very early,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: but maybe just your talks like who is who's impressed
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: to besides mcdonmmeny on the roster, because I think if
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: there's one player that really is I mean he already
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: was putting the team on his back, but really now
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: he has no choice?
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Is far like he he the kid is you know?
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I Thoughtano say, is the best left wing instead?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Again, we don't know if we have to believe Cassano
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: or not, but he's really phenomenal, phenomenal player. We've said
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: it since he came into the league, since he broke out.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: We've we've given him his flowers.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I just want to give.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: I just want you to give your thoughts on maybe
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: even just and then kind of who else has impressed
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: you on the squad so far in these opening match days?
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I mean what else do we have to
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: say about him? In his bad season, he had double
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: digits and goals and assists. So you know, the stats
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: speak for himself. Is he the best left winger? In
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: saidiya could be, could be, Yeah, there's there's a there's
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: a good group of players that also could be up
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: there lay out if he has he really is on
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: his game, the al could be one of them, for example.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. To me, just from the past
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: seasons up until right now, he be one of the
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: best player left wingers and said even one of the
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: players one of the best player and said, yeah, he's
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: still young. He saws something to sort out. I feel
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: like at times he holds onto the ball a little
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: bit too much. He tries to be a little bit
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: too much of the phenomenal, trying to do everything himself,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: you know, and that kind of holds him back a
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: little bit. But other than that, I think, you know,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: it speaks for itself. Just watch the kid play and
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: you'll understand another here that's past Davin Nettis. I mean,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the guy plays thirty minutes of football, has six thousand
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: goals and forty thousand assists.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, and like is created.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: It is unbievable. Every time he steps on the pitch,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: it's it's a goal. Whether he scores it or somebody
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: else scores it, there's going to be a goal. He
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: has like the mightas touch. Everything he touches turns right
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: in to the goal. He's been very, very impressive, especially
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: coming off the bench. I feel like he should be starting.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Coe has his reasons why he's not. That's up for
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: to decide. I can't say anything about that. But he
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: has a plan. Let him do whatever he wants. But
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Nettas for sure has been one that has impressed me
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: the most. And yeah, I stepped up a lot this year.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Last year wouldn't even run even if he took a
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: whip and hit him in the back. That's a bad example.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Never mind, we get, we get, we got.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: If you laid a fire under his ass, he wouldn't run.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't. Last season, wouldn't do it.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: No his former self, Yeah, he was just he couldn't.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: He didn't have the void yet to do his role.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: This year, he's been completely rejuvenated. He's he's been tracking
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: back non stop. I mean he does not stop running.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: And I don't know where he's got this energy from,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: but it's just like a complete one eighty to see
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: AISA played this season. Uh, other than that, I think
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: everything else has been going as expected from all the
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: other players on the pitch. Yeah, MANI has stepped up
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: this season too. De Lorenzo also has been has been
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: performing pretty well. Yeah. I think those are like the
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: main three that I'd point out for sure.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: That's good, especially what de Lorenzo in the off season.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: His his back and forth is yaut is he in?
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Is he the captain? Still?
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: I think when he scored that goal at the beginning
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: of the season, it really meant a lot. So, you know,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: so we hope to see him continue on this path.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: But that is a good shot. If you weren't going
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: to say him, I was gonna probably throw that name
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: in there because Johnny was we were speaking about on
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: the on the part before.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: It's the first three games he had three assists already.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: It seemed like it was crazy like you would come
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: off the bench and would be that that super soll
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: up but.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: One player that was, you know, not a super sub
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: and he was just an incredible player for for anop
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: we you know, in the in the last seasons. And
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: finally bring up the Osuman thing, Karen, just.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: I guess I don't know, just your overall thoughts, like
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: for me and I know Johnny we were speaking about
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: it on the pod, you know, the three of us.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: It's just a weird situation how things just ended up
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: being so far right now he's.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Now, I gotta ta.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: With the Kardi, with with Mertens, they're all they're all
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: there and enjoying life in Turkey. But are you disappointed?
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Are you like, what are your emotions or what did
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: you think of this whole Asuman situation?
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Leaving Opo?
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: We kind of the way he did. I believe it
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: is alone. This is a direct loan and he will
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: be back and we'll see what happens after. But I agree,
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: upset or or or you're okay with how things panned
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: out with the Suman situation.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty upcited about it, be honest with you. Could
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: things have been handled better from the upside? A million percent,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: no doubt about it. Not we could have done things better.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: But I don't know. To me, it's the the lack
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: of respect for a player to its society, to the
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Shida and to its fans. This is a complete lack
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: of respect. Sure, there was some things that happened last season,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: like the TikTok that, you know, the coconut video and
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: all that. It's just like, yeah, I get it, you
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: can be upset about something like that, sure, but it's
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: just the way in which he acts is very childish
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: in my opinion, and he is not. And it's not
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: a fault of his own. I believe it's the fault
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: of the people who surround him, because they are not
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: guiding him in the right way. Personally. I don't believe
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: his First of all, his agent is number one corporate
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: in this, and then all of the people in this
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: posse are also corporate in this, because if he has
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: people who genuinely cared about his interests, they would never
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: let him do what he did. Never you have it
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: made in monopoly, mate. Everyone loves you, right they anywhere
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: in the city you have his face painted everywhere. The
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: fans come out in the game, they buy jerseys with
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: the name on your back. They wait hours outside training
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: facilities and after the game to get signatures from you.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: They love and respect you, and you don't give them
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: that respect that anyone in his posse who had half
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: a brain cell would tell them what you are doing.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Deleting all your pitchers from social media, all that all this,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: all that other stuff is you're shooting yourself in the
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: foot because not only are you disrespecting the only people
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: that love you, you are disrespect You are showing to
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: other teams, potential buyers, potential people who want to pay
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: you the money that you want to get paid, that
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: you are not worth it. I don't care how much
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: how good of a player you are, you are not
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: good of a person. I don't want that on my team.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I don't want that energy around my my my group.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Why would I pay you that if this is what
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: the results are going to be. This is just it's
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: it doesn't make sense at all, And it really does
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: infuriate me because you get this big divide and Knopoly
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: fans and then amongst other fans saying that Knopoly the
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: club is, you know, they're they're they're deally and bad
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: faith and all that other sort of stuff. It's just
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: why don't we look at it from the other side too. Also,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: his agent had months months to get this guy a
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: deal with any other club, and just because they didn't
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: give them exactly what they wanted. Now you've subjected your
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: own star player, the player that you represent that's gonna
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: give you the most money for your commission on a
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: loan in Turkey. You should be fired. Everyone who's who
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: has you as an agent should fire you doing something
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: you should be ashamed. You should because you have one
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: of the best strikers in the world and you couldn't
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: secure him a deal anywhere in Europe, any of the
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: top clubs. And there's reasons behind it. All of those
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: reasons are what I told you that the character Buzzuman's
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: a great player, shit character, that's all it is. And
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: no one's gonna pay that.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: No, I agree. I think. I think for him put
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: in scudetto winner, the whole nine.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: He had it all.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Like you said, you hadn't made Naples. So for us
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: it was just a weird situation. Like I just honestly,
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: I didn't know how to feel like if. To me,
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: it didn't make sense how you went from all that
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: to nothing too in a blink of an eye, in.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: A blink of a season. In a season, I get it,
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: the season didn't go right. You want to win, you
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: you know, you want to get paid.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: You want to everybody wants their big I get all that,
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: but a bit of sacrifice in between.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: I think has has to be done. Uh, you know,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: you can't always just cry and get what you want.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know. That didn't work in my house, and
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: I know that didn't work in your guys house either, right, So.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: You know, so for for me, it's still a strange one.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: I'm curious to see what happens at the end of
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: the season, right, like Carmike, I don't know, like after
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: this loan and that he comes back. He had just
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: signed a new deal with that when I don't know
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: what happens next. Uh, it's crazy to see that even
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Conte couldn't, you know, whip them into shape in the.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Small time that they had together.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: So if Kant is gonna stay on to be the coach,
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's gonna work again come you know,
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: the following season.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: So I think contin knew he was a lost cause.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what That's what it wanted to be clear,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: called the right away.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, he knew it was a lost cause because
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: even last season, what as you mean, we're starting to
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: show signs of of the like he was on his
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: way out, but also like do it he did it?
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Like I said, is this with a lack of respect? Well,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I get that the social media manager did what he
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: did on some stupid video, and yeah, you're mad about it,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: but he would our roles and he wouldn't celebrate. He
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: just walk away like it's a little bit disrespectful to Yeah,
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: you can be mad at the team, you can be
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: mad at the social media manager, double entity, wherever you
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: want to be mad at. But why are you taking
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: it out on everyone else too?
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Like we are all in this conspiracy against Victor Osiman.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: This doesn't it just doesn't make sense to me. And
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: he always has that mentality And I get why he
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: has it of him versus the world, because he came
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: from nothing. He was selling water bottles in the streets
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: of Legos. Yeah, being one of the best soccer players
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: in the world, I get why you have that mentality.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: But eventually you're gonna have to break away from it's
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: me versus the world to be more of a of
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: a team player for lack of a better word. And
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: that all comes down to the people he has around them, because,
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: like I said, if the people around him gave a
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: damn about Victor Osiman, they would never in a million
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: years let him act the way he's acting At least
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: I would if I had a friend who was like
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: that and they were acting, I'd stop him across the
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: base a couple of times, tell them that they're an
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: idiot because it's just complete disregard and lack of respect
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: for everyone. I don't know, it's and that's what I
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: feel about it.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: No, so it's well said.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: And uh, I think if if we continue on this,
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: we can we can blow up another whole episode.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: So uh what ended there? Karm? Uh?
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: We know where you have to go and and we
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: really appreciate your time, you know, just before we let
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: you go again, if anybody's living under a rock and
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: hasn't seen Calm on the on the culture guys or
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: or doesn't know about UH his club, Karm, just plug
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: away all the great things that you do. You're always
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: doing something new with your you and your guys uh
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: down in Toronto. So it's honestly, I've said it since
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: day one. Come since we met you, being so young
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: taking charge of of of a fan club doing it.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: The right way. Excuse me? Is is that really commendable?
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: So again, plug away and anything coming up, anything you
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: want to share about the club?
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, So if you don't know it's Anopoly Club Toronto.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: You find us on all social media. Just type in
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: NAPI Club Toronto and it'll pop up, or even plug
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: it into Google. We have a website and everything will
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: direct you to there. As for new things coming out
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: to the club, we're still selling our memberships for the year.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Memberships come with this very fine looking hat wow tower
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: on it there.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: On the You know it's not in Toronto.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So we're still selling memberships until the end
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: of this week, so Friday would be the last day
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: to secure a membership. There's different pricing for memberships this year.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: There's one hundred dollars, which gives you a jersey you
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: had and a bunch of other things nice fiving fifty dollars.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: It's all outlined on our social media website. So if
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: anyone's interested in the GTA, or even outside of the GTA,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: we have people from New York and Italy buying or membership.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: So if you just want to support the club, feel
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: free and give us a ring and we'll get you
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: set up. No real events coming up right now. Setia
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: scheduling has not been kind to us in October. Yeah,
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: games are either at six thirty in the morning or
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: we play Melan on Tuesday afternoon, so fucking crazy. I
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: know how that works out is freaking I can guarantee
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: you the meal and fans are just as unhappy as
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: we are.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: The story.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: All the fine clubs like who I meant, I get
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Italians don't work. But come on, guys, I know all
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: these fan clubs like it's going to lay in the
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: middle of the week. I died.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I might have to call it
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: sick that day.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: But.
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, call in stick. But I heard,
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: did you you guys move? You guys have changed locations
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: of where you guys are meeting?
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: We have, Yeah, we have. So we were at Novi
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Baschi last season. This season we found a place that's
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: more fitting. It's called Knopoly Bite Nice and we're there.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: The owner is also an Opoly fan, so it just
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: it worked out perfectly. And yeah, that's up in Vaughan.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: If anyone from the GDA is listening, it's at Weston
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: and lang Staff, right at the corner of Weston and
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: lank Staff. Yeah. So that's the major news with the
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: club right now. And once again, I appreciate both of
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: you for having me on here. Like I said, it
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: feels like home at this point. The hell many times
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: I've come on and I enjoy it. Every time I
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: come on, it gets better. I actually think more and more.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: So I appreciate you for having me on here.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Guys, we appreciate you too, man and uh thanks again.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: It was such short notice. We basically planned this all
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: out today, but it was an absolute pleasure, absolutely pleasure
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: to listen to talk about anapoly. You can tell your passion,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: you can tell your passionate about the club, So it's
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: always a pleasure. And for sure we're gonna have you
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: on probably before we know it.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Adrian will stay on. We'll talk some Champions League.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: But thanks for coming on, carm all right, thanks guys.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Back on the couch, guys, this time just me and
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Adri again.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: That was a great conversation. Napolis said, yeah, but switching
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: gears now, Adri. Champions League is back tomorrow, so we're
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: recording this Monday night, and so Champions Leagu's back on Tuesday,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: match day two. First, I don't know if you have
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: how many games did you watch from the first from
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: the first round of games, because they had games on
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. I think they kind of did
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: that on purpose to advertise this new Champions League. How
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: many games there are? I don't know if you had
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: a chance to watch all all the games and what not.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: All the games. Listen, listen guy, we work here in Montreal.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: It's hard. But no, I caught some of them, but no,
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: not definitely, definitely, not all of them.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy. So uh they spread them out the
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: first match day, but this time it's back to Tuesday
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: and Wednesday. Uh two games to twelve forty five on Tuesday,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: and then another six at three pm and sorry, another seven, yes,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: another seven at three pm and then and then the
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: same thing on Wednesday. So there's that makes sense. Nine
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: games total each day, thirty sixteen. It's just it's so
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: much to keep track. But there's some interesting matchups this
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: time around. Arsenal PSG is probably the headliner this time around.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Man with all these added teams, Like, there's some teams
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: that probably shouldn't even be here, but you know whatever,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: let's focus on the Italian teams. UH both Melan and
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: interplay at the same time. On two day uh Milan
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: travels travels to Leverkusen, and play by Liver Cusen and
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: then inter plays Red Star Belgrade and then on Wednesday
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: we have three Italian teams. That's a lot to play
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: Shack Dar Donsk. I don't know if if Shak Dark
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: plays their games in Ukraine, and the answer is no,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: they're playing in Germany, so they're not even they're not
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: traveling to Ukraine for that one. Uh Juve plays against Leipzig.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's an away game, so
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: they're traveling to Yeah, they're traveling to UH Germany. Let's
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: play Leipzig and then Bologna. For me, this is the
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the the premier game for Italian teams is Bologna. They've
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: traveled to Liverpool, so already, you know, a team like Bologna.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: It was you know, a main, amazing atmosphere at the
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Retina to d Lada two weeks ago and they tied.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: It was a game that they probably should have won.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: And you know what, hey, maybe they got a bit
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: of confidence. But to go to add Field now to
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: hear that song You'll never walk alone and hear the
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Champions League, it's gonna be a big game. And hey,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: if they could pull off a point here it's it's
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: gonna be absolutely insane, but we'll see. I don't know, dude,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: what do you think about these matchups to the Italian teams.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, just to go off piggyback of what you're
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: saying about Bolonnia, it's definitely it's definitely a tough the
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: toughest match up. I mean, I said, first time backing
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: Champions League away to don't Field.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: Like you said, you painted the picture perfectly. It's it's
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: gonna be tough.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: Like we spoke to our buddy Nick Deanya a couple
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: of weeks ago, you know, considering the Champions League and
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: and you know, especially for Bologna if they want to
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: pick up these points early against teams that they should
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: like you like you mentioned at the at at home,
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: the nil nil a couple of weeks ago, where they
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: probably should have picked up the points and you know,
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: in the rainy Dame Bologna, but.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: It wasn't to be.
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: They picked up one instead of three. And for a
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: team like Bonia, they need to pick up these these
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: three points as much as they can if they want
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: to continue to be relevant, if they want to pass
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: the you know, the the first round of of matchups,
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: so definitely tough. I also think New Ones, you know,
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: UH matchup is tough against Liver lever cusin UH. You know,
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: last year they were never never losing, right, they just
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: never seem to lose. So this season I haven't really
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: seen if they've if they've started off hot, I think
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: they beat Buying if I'm not or tied Buyern not
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: too long ago, if I'm not mistaken. But nevertheless, I
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: still think they're a tough, tough squad and a tough team,
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: especially uh, you know, being for them at home. Leon
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: obviously didn't start the uh you know, their Championszegue campaign
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: in an ideal way, you know, with the with the
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: result against Liverpool.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: But you know, I guess you'll take that.
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: Liverpool you know, defeat as much as as much as
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: it hurt, and and try to you know, pull back,
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: you know, a result against Levercus, and especially after the
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: week that they've had, or the week and a half
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: that they've had, you know, the derby win, the win
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: against uh, the win over the weekend. So you know,
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: it's just I don't know, I think it's gonna be tough.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: You know, it's it's not an easy thing and and listen,
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know, is this high gonna end for you?
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: And I really don't know, hopefully not. I hope, I
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: hope they can always perform, you know, in these upcoming
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: Champions League games, because nothing beat Champions League nights. We
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: all know it, especially when you're you know, when you're
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: away from it. We joked, you know, you've a out
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: of it for two years and they're and they're back.
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: But you know, even at that, it's it's you know,
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: being serious about it.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: It's you know, once you're out of it and you
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: come back, it's there's no better feeling. Right. So I'm
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: not sure what to expect that.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: I hope for some.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: Sort of continue with positivity with with how things have
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: been going, but you know, you know, we'll have to see,
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: uh in there. I think should pick.
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: Up the points if I if I'm not, if I
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: if I were to say, even though they've kind of haven't,
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: they didn't look good obviously in the dead bit we
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: spoke about it, they managed to pull out, uh you know,
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: a win against the Mighty, the money Torino.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: Uh no, sorry, the Mighty, I'm sorry. Over the weekend.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: Uh So, listen, I think they should be able to
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: to pick up the points and then you say you've
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: at Leipzig again, I'm gonna stick to what I had said,
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: you know a couple of weeks ago when we spoke
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: to our boys, Nick Deani from Kicks and Picks, I mean,
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: you've a I think you've needs to pick up these points, uh.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: As as as much as they can, and I think
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: they should. I think they can, you know, ultimately do well. Uh.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: It seems to be going to your point.
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: I think it was last week or the other week
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: there it's either they tie Hill and Hill or what
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: is it they win through nothing.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: That seems to be a seems to be a u
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: aged trend so far.
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: This season, although they didn't win three one in the
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: other Championsing matchup.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: But yeah, but in terms of the city, it's three wins,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: three nothing and then three wins at zero zero three draws.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: So it's that seems to be you as trend. We'll
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: see what happens come Wednesday against Leipzig in Germany. But
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: I'm expecting if I were to say, I would say
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: the Atlanta Atlanta they play shocktar, Yeah, but playing shocktar,
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: not at shractar is a different thing because the commonality
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: of of of people. They would always say when you're
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: playing Shocktor in the Champions League, it's like it's always
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: a tough place to go play, which it is. It
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: always has been, at least in recent memory, to go
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: play at Shaktar in Ukraine. Uh, you know, unfortunately that's
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: not the case now where they're not playing there currently.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: But so I don't know how that's gonna how the
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: atmosphere is going to be. But if I were to say,
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: in terms of predictions of the Italian teams how they
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: would do, I would probably say, uh, I'm gonna say
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: three wins, I draw on a loss. I say interjuven
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: and Atlanta win, Mio and draw and and at Tolanto lose.
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: If if I were have to make a prediction on
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: I say score and all that, because I really don't know,
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: but that's how.
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: I see it.
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: Three three wins, a draw and a loss come this
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: upcoming window of Champions League.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: It's funny. So the shack Star Atlanta game is actually
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: at the Velopins Arena where Italy played Spain in the Euros,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: and then you've a plays in Leipzig where Italy be Croatia,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: so a little a little interesting fact. So a return
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: to those two stage is, for your opinion, competition for
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: a couple of players, and on both sides are are
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: gonna be returning to those arenas. But yeah, for me,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: like you know, obviously I'll talk about you a first
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: h To be honest, this is gonna be. This gonna
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: be a tough game. Lipstick is a good team. They're
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: a team that they're They're like Juve this season where
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: so far five games in the Bundesliga, three wins, two draws,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: uh e goals for, two goals against. So this is
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: gonna be a defensive matchups. This is gonna be this
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: could be a one nothing, hey zero zero type game,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: so it will be interesting to see. I don't have
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: too much expectations. This is a game where hey, if
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: you've finishes zero zero comes out with a draw. I
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: think I'll be happy, almost like what Johnny said, like
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: with Knopoly last week when they when they traveled away
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: to Juve.
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: Result, but you'll accept it.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly obviously the goals will win, right, but
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: this is still this is still a tough team. It's
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: a well coached team, team that finished third in the
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Bundesliga last year, so you know they're they're almost like
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: the German equivalent of you right now. Uh so you
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: know that spider Man meme, that's pretty much hit what
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: this game is in terms of the other games like that.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: You know, for me, the Melan teams should should hopefully
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: squeak out two wins. I know Meelan is going until
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: liver Cuson. I know that's a tough team, but uh this,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: you know it's a different lever Cuson than last season.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Right in their in their first game in the Champions League,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: well they beat fire Noode for nothing, so you know
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: they're no pushover. But you know, if you was the
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: law of love, I don't know a lot it would be.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: But if Atlanta beat uh laver Cuson in the in
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: the Europa League final last year, I think you could
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Meelan could beat them in the Champions League this year
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: and then yeah, I mean for Bologney, it's gonna be
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: tough against Liverpool we just talked about. I think if
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: they get a draw at anfield, that'd be crazy results.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: But I'm sure you know, if you're asking a Liverpool fan,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: they'll be like, hey, this. This is probably an easy
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: three points against against Bologna, and then yeah, the whole
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Atalanta shacktar thing. Atalanta is a weird team because they're
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: in twelfth or thirteenth right now in the city. Ah,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: but we expect so much more from them, right and
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: they're already I'm already drawing a blank. But their first
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Champions League game was against There's too many games to remember.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: There's too many games.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: There's too many games to remember. I'm pulling it up now.
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: Don't have to phone a friend, Johnny.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: What Arsenal? Arsenal zero zero? And this is why we
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: don't remember it because it was a zero zero game.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: They missed a penalty.
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: Thought, yes, say you're right, I'm sorry, but no, and
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: I agree on that point.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: I think they've even even the game. Uh over the weekend?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Who do they play wild Champions League team?
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: One right, yeah, exactly ten men. Yeah, they had to
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: manage to get a squeak away with the one to
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: one drawers each a hell of a goal at the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: end of the game. And I was actually watching that game,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: funny enough, and you know they were bony went down
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: to ten men and it didn't even look like Atlanta
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: was had the advantage.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: It was one of those types of games. So you know,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: in turn, I do think, you know, Gus Benini like
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: turns that turns out that tiede. But you know, I
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: It's interesting like I think, you know, with all the competitions,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: all the games, like you know, new acquisitions for for
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: for Atlanta, like they started off great, right was it
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: the three or four?
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: Nothing like to open off the season like Brescian Ninia
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: scoring it you scoring tired for a couple on the
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: on the on the race there.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: But I don't know, it's it's it's maybe a little
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: bit of a lull, like a dull moment currently, but
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: I think, you know, they should be able to to
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: pick up the points. And I'm gonna stick on the
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: point of me saying they're not pointing at Shacktar like truly,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: Like so I don't know how the atmosphere is going
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: to be, Like it's a it's a home game, but
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: it's also an away game for for Shocktar, like they're
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: not at home, they're not this another stadium like their
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: fans probably might travel.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: Or what have you. But I don't know. I think
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: that the one of that needs to uh, you should.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: Step up, and I hope, you know, we hope for
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: for them to step up in the competition because they're
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: not gonna they're not gonna advance with just no no draws, uh,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: you know, to throughout this Championsue campaign.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: So it's still early. Uh, so many things can change
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: for all these Italian teams.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: But you know, currently after match they won, I think
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: news in the worst position.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: I think for twentieth if I'm not mistaken or something
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: along those lines, twenty ninth, twenty ninth, is it, sorry.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: Officially in twenty ninth place, but if I mean, if
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: you look at the standings, there's there's fifteen teams at
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: three points, yeah, another six at one at one point,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: and then the rest at zero, another fifteen teams at zero.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: So based on gold differential, they lost three one fool.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: It's you know, it's understandable where they are.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: Again, like you said, how your confidence is not the highest.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: My confidence is there, and I'm optimistic for a result,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: but I just don't know if they will ultimately get
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: the result. The draw I think will be the best
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: case scenario if they lose, I think that's they're really
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: putting themselves behind the eight ball because it's it's not
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: gonna like I know, we said like the end of
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: the schedule gets a bit easier for me on it,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: and they kind of started off with like the harder
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: end of the schedule, if you will, But all the
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: games matter. You want to get results in in all
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: the games if it be you know, uh, you know,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: a winner, a draw. So I'm hopeful because it seemed
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: in a span of a week it was like we said,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: funseeka out in the whole nine yards of that to
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: him staying team, the team seems to be playing together,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: similar to what Karen was saying when not, well, you know,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: it's a group. I think so. But surely this group
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: a melon is is forming and I hope for it
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: to continue to form. A guy like Pusich is is
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: a man on form, and uh, you know, I think
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: the best player statistically on on Melan currently and the
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: stats show it. Uh, I think it's what seven seven
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: h seven goal contributions in seven matches or whatever.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: It is so or six and six whatever it is.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: But so he's a man on form. We'll probably have
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: to win on a guy like him offensively. I hope
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: for they out to to wake up as well, even
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: though you know he guys. I think it's like four
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: or five goal contributions on the season so far.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: So yeah, our top players is gonna have to step up,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: and I think a lot of the top players for
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: the Italian team's gonna have to step up. But one
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: thing I think it's gonna be interesting to see is
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: do you think he has a place or starts for
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: for Liverpool against.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: He literally read my mind because you talked about Italian
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: players and you know it, it hit that hey Cases
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: again playing against an Italian team, and you know, I
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: was just thinking or Stalini versus Case that maybe I
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: don't know, I know he got some he got an assist.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was this weekend or the
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: weekend before for Liverpool. I don't know how much he's playing.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's a starter there.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: You come off the bench and yeah he provided that
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: assaists and credit to him. It was a pretty acrobatic
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: assist and I guess maybe a better a luck. You
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: know that I found.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: I think I'm not mistaken who scored, but or one
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: of their attackers. But you know, I wouldn't be surprised
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: to see him get some minutes. We saw call that Fiorty,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: what he was able to do with Arsenal, uh you know,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: against City and then just as of late, he seems
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: to be uh you know, so he getting integrated into
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: the Arsenal setup.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: So I don't see why kids can't. I know we've
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: spoken about it in the past, but I don't know.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: I think I think he gets some minutes in this game. Personally,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know if.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: He contributes in terms of goals or it says, but
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: I do think he gets at least some sort of minutes.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: I don't know about you.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: I mean probably probably. And he played against Meland right,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: he was subbed on late.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: In that game, I believe, so yeah, like like real light. Yeah,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know, like the last five or ten or
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 4: so minutes. If I'm not mistaken, it already escapes me.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: But yeah, no, I was. I think he got.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: I think he gets some minutes, and itsten he seems
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: to be all smile so at the end of the day,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: and I've said it since this move happened, as long
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: as he's uh in not informed, well informant obviously, would help.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: But whatever it is to get him in a good
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: state of mind, getting him playing, getting in minutes. For
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: me at this point in time, it's I'm only worried
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: about the national not worried about the national team, but
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: his his contribution to the national team, because I still
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: think there's something to give. That's what all I care
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 4: about for Kieza currently. Hopefully as well. We'll see, but
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 4: I do think he gets some minutes. And who knows
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: he he knows he knows Boonia probably better than any
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 4: of his teammates, or definitely knows Bonium.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: Better than any of his teammates that he'd been playing with.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: So I wouldn't be surprised if if they throw him
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: out there.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Uh And Europa League Conference League. So Europa League's back
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: this week, they back to they plan back to back
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: weeks Conference League. It's their first their first game the
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Italian teams a Roma plays if ELF Sport. Do you
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: know where that's from where they're from Adriana, Sweden. No,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, exactly the exactly. Yeah, good job,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: and I think you'll know where a Lacho's oppointment is from. Nice.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: I think that's an easy one. Yes, everyone knows that,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: and I mean easy travel for for Loatzo, you just
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: go up the Mediterranean and you're there. I pretty much
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: an Italian team in Italian city at this point. But
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: and then this is an interesting one for Fierantina. They
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: played the New Saints, not the New Orleans Saints. The
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: New Saints, who are fifth in the Welsh League right
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: now with five wins and two losses and the Welsh League,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: so a team you've definitely never heard of, and I believe,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I believe it's there. It's their first it's their first
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: European competition, So I mean tough to say. I mean
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: it's easy for us to say out of these three teams,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: three wins. Obviously, Lacho, they have the hardest competition against. Again,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: don't know too much about them, but you know, just
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: based on the league they planned in the French League,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: it's better than the Swedish League's better than the Welsh
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: Premier League. For Fiorentina, you know, they're they're playing a
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: team that might even be a bit of shell shocked
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: even just playing this year, this European competition for the
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: first time. Hey, who knows, Maybe they'll go to Florence
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: enjoy the museums, enjoy all the food, and get a
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: bit tired for the game. But yeah, I don't, you know,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: these two competitions, it's tough to make any predictions, especially
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: so early on.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: It is it is so it is the home game
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: for for Fiurdentina. Is that yeah?
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: Exactly?
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think yeah for Fiorentina. And I said,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: we said it. I think we all kind of agreed
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: to it.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is a competition that they've now been
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: in these past couple of seasons, they've made it to finals.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: They haven't been able to get over the hump of
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: winning it. I think they or I would hope for
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: them to maybe get over that hump finally.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: Third times the charm I think, you know, they don't
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 4: have all the same tools clearly as as seasons pass.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: That's that's that's clear, and they have been a bit lackluster.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: But I still think there is talent there too, as
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: in a competition like the Conference League, to do well
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: in Pauladinos, still young, still getting his his his feet
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: wet on a you know, on an upper on a
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: bigger piazza, if you will, you know, going going from
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: Monsa to to to Fiorentina, is is a bigger jump
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 4: so and now pointing in some sort of European competition
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: is is obviously a new experience for for him and
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: some of those players as well. So I'm obviously expecting
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 4: to win there, you know, Roma, It's uh, it's it's crazy.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: How what what.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: That that change of coach really did? Right?
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: Like we we were thinking, you know, a de Rosti
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: campaign again in in in Europa League and and and
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: seeing how that would pan out with and all that.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: Obviously he ended up being the first coach fired.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: And I know we kind of put those our predictions
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: off air about that, and none of us were right
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: because none of us thought that us he was going
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: to get fired first, So he happened to be the
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 4: first set coaching fire. But yeah, Yurtich comes in and
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: it's so far too for two the three nil and
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: the two to one win over the weekend.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: So what to expect.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: In this in this matchup with who they played the
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: offsport team, the Swedish team. I think they got the
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: one to one against us, if I'm not mistaken. Last
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: week I had predicted either a one nail or a
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: two to one win the end against going right in
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: the middle to that and tying one to one against
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: who was a Seville was.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: It Athlit a bill bow Bow?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, So.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: Whatever it is, what it is, I think, I guess
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: again not the ideal but happy to take the points
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: type of situation. But I think they should be able
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: to pick up the maximum points in this game. We
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: mentioned Dove big back to scoring at a at a
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: respectable rate because he looked invisible on the pitch in
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: the opening matches of the season.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: So to see him on the scoreboard, it's it's a
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: positive sign, you.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: Know, notmally for for for Roma, but for himself as well.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: So they should pick up the points. And you know, honestly,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: Watso sneakily has a look good.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: You know. Uh, they were able to.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: Pick up points in the in the Espresso match, you know,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: over the weekend, the six thirty am match against Torino,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: they pulled up, they pulled up to win. They looked,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: they looked good in their opening match in your in
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: Europa League. Again, it just gives me who they played,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: but I.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: Know they won.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: Uh who was it Dia and the bush there whatever there?
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: They both looked they both looked like men on form.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 4: So it's it's it's something positive because again but only
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: we haven't spoken about him too much. But our expectations
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: obviously weren't the highest I want of new faces a lot,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 4: but uh, you know, so far in Europa Leage, they've
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: looked good. This last match day, they look good. You know,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 4: they need to stringle, they need to string some some
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: wins together to kind of get that momentum going and
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: to get their foam going.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: But you know, I think it's another team that can.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: Do well in Europa Week again, the toughest matchup out
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 4: of the three teams there. But yeah, I know it's
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 4: it's another thing if they want to be I'm gonna
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: continue saying it. But if they want to be serious
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 4: about you know this this competition, if if not only
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 4: wants to set a precedent with with this Lasso team
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: and kind of set a bar or expectation of goal,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: I think picking up results in Europa League and and
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: the Sadia are important.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: And I think they have so far not all the tools,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: but they have some, you know, some tools.
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  Speaker 4: To to definitely do definitely do well enough to advance
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: and and you know, only time will tell to see
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 4: where they would finish, but because it always seems that
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 4: they always end up forgetting about europe League. But they
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: always end up forgetting about you know, European competition, and
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: you know, they go so far and then they kind
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: of crash out.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: So it'd be nice to see them kind of go
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: a bit.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: Further and kind of get this new crop of players
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: this experience and you know, ultimately their goals to get
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 4: back to the Champions League, so you know, one way
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 4: to do it is to win Europe the week.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: So we'll see.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: But it's kind of how I see I think it,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: Like you said, it's it's easy to say three out
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: of three, but I think it kind of has.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: To be three out of three for me, uh, for
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: for the Italian teams, and I see Adre.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: This weekend is last weekend before the international break, so
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: these game is this week and then they only return
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: in well in three weeks, two weeks after this weekend.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: You know, some fine matchups. I guess you could say
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Inter Torino is probably an interesting one near the top
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: of the table. Two teams at the top of the
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: table Fiorentina Melan just because of the names a lotto
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: emply so there you go the whole you know, emply
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: their their stingy defense. We'll see what they could do,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: what they can handle versus this Lato team we talked
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: about that kicks off the the season, Como team that's
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: getting hot with Patrick. So I think they might be
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: in the top half of the table now as Johnny predicted,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: they're They're right at ten. Yeah, exactly exactly. And is
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: I think Melan do they play? Do they play Monza
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: this Weekendina? No, sorry, yes, you're right, h Melon plays
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: Ferenti's Roman that plays Manso so wrong. You'ven placed Cality
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: six thirty am on Sunday morning, Yes.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: So much.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: Probably I'm probably waking up, you know, thirty minutes into
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: that one. I'll just fine, normal normal wake up time, exactly.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: I'll see just in time to see vol which get
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: a penalty and then do twelve orations.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: Against Coledy. So you know he's gonna score Yo, for sure.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: He had this one marked on his calendar.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: If it was against anybody else, we know it wouldn't happen.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: But it's against the bottom team, so we know he's
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: gonna Scoreality Mancality man.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: But is there any I don't know if you have
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: the schedule pulled up injury. But is there any matchup
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: you're looking forward to?
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: No, I think, uh, you know, you know as much
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 4: as it you know, I don't eat it, but I
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: think you know it's gonna be a tough It's gonna
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: be one of the.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: One of the early tests for for Vanoi. I know
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: he's spoken highly about him, but who does you have
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: to want to play by the way I didn't.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know they played Genua, but mean versus versus
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: his former former team.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know Tegy going back as well, So yeah,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 4: I know list there's a storyline there too.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: But yeah, in the uh into Torino, I think it is.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: It is an interesting one. Like I said, we've spoken
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: highly above Vanoi. He's done well.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 4: He has his team in the top half of the table,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 4: in the top six at least, so it's it's a surprise.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, you know he deserves his credit.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 4: But this is going to be a true test. Can
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 4: you can you steal a result from the mighty inter?
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 4: I mean it's I don't know, it wasn't able to
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 4: do it over the weekend. Now Torino, that other sneaky
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 4: team has a has a chance to do it. We'll
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 4: see if it happens. But if if, if Inter starts
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 4: to find their form and their stride, I think it's
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 4: gonna be tough. Excuse me, it's gonna be tough for
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 4: Torino miland Fiorentina. I think is is still a good one,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: you know, regardless of just it being the names. I
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 4: do think it should be a decent matchup, hopeful for
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 4: me On to pick up the points. But Fiorentina is
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: a team where they're they're still tricky, like they get
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 4: this no know a result against Ampue. I know it's
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: the mighty employ now, but and they pick up these
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 4: lackluster results and then they'll they'll hit you with with
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 4: with the game that you're not expecting. So I think
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 4: needs to be focused, especially coming out of the Champions
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: League matchup, depending.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: How that result goes. But we'll see how.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 4: How they wind up and how they and how they
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 4: how they fare against team like Fiorentina. Uh, you know youve,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 4: like you said, we we know Volovich is going to score,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 4: so you know, put your put your bets in now,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 4: and yeah, no, I think it's not the most exciting
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: city that weekend we've had obviously more exciting ones. But yeah,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 4: going into the international break, it's it's you know, these
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: top teams need to pick up the maximum points, get there,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: get there well, hopefully get some rest and then you know,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 4: come back to uh to a whole school, a whole
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 4: new matchups after.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: The international breaks. So yeah, no, I think that's pretty
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: much pretty much it.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: And uh, you know, international break we obviously hopefullly to
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 4: to continue their their momentum too, so we'll see how
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 4: that goes.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: And so that'll do it for us. Ager. Hopefully Johny
• 1:18:15
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• 1:18:19
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• 1:18:22
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• 1:18:26
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