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Week 14 Premier League Recap · Premier League Playground: Lad and Dad

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All right, and welcome into another episode of the Premier
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League Playground with the dad and the lad.
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I am the dad, Bjorn, with me as our star, the lad and.
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Luca Miller and. How are you doing today, Luca?
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I'm doing good. How are you?
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Good, good. Well, you got to be doing great.
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It's Friday, your weekend in front of.
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You. I know.
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I know we don't usually record on a Friday, but we're starting
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to now get into December. Lots of games and we of course
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had midweek games, so Week 14 was played out over Tuesday,
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Wednesday, Thursday and we roll into Week 15 this weekend, so we
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got games coming up tomorrow. There's just games all over the
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place. I seriously thought today was
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Saturday. The Saturday I.
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Thought we were recording on Saturday.
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So how are you getting all your days mixed up?
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Yeah, running together for you all.
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Right. I know.
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Well, should we just just just let's dive on in here.
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Like I said, kind of some madness this week in week 14.
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We have some exciting games, some some not so exciting games
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too. But there were some crazy games.
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A45 game. A43 game.
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So should we just dive in and go through them?
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Sure. All right.
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Well, let's Should we just get right into the madness of Form
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City, Luca? As this game ended four to five
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city, I predicted that it be two nail City.
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Holland gets his 100th goal in the 17th minute, rounders in the
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37th minute and folding in the 44th minute.
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He has a really nice goal and then Smith's row in the 45 + 3,
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so makes it 31 going into halftime.
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Foden scores in the 48th minute and Sander Berger own goal in
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the 54th minute. Yeah, it's 5:00 to 1:00, but I
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will be in the 57th minute. Gets them kind of a little bit
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hyped and too crazy in the 72nd and 78th minute.
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So it's 454 actually. And then Josh King had a a real
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big chance in the 98th minute to win it, but it was cleared off
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the line. It had done a room and beaten,
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but it was cleared off the line. So the one was tied it after
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beating 51 down. Holland fastest player to ever
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reach 100 goals in 111 games. So yeah, pretty crazy game here.
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Yeah, I mean, just create, right?
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I mean, City looks like they're just steamrolling.
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It's like we're 54 minutes into the game, they're up five one.
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It looks like they're gonna end up with eight or nine goals.
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And then Fulham, you know, don't give up.
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It just goes to show you, you know, and you just sort of keep
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chipping away and how momentum can all of a sudden swing back
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the other way. And oh man, if they could have
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gotten that goal, Can you imagine how Craven Cottage would
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have gone? Oh my God.
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Up and get a point out of that game.
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But Luca, maybe the game of the year so far.
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Yes. Definitely nine goals.
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Like I said, lots of excitement. Holland hit the post twice.
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He was scoring his goal. Yeah, pretty amazing.
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Luca, I my mailbag question, I'm going to, I'm going to come back
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to you about Holland and strikers.
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But yeah, I mean, just crazy, right?
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100 goals in 111 games. It's the fastest anybody in the
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Premier League has ever done it. Like I said, we're going to
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circle back around to that with our with our mailbag question.
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But he's he's just a destructive force.
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He's got 15 goals so far this year.
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I mean, he basically almost averages a goal a game.
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That's insane. Yeah, which is crazy.
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I know. But yeah, big win for City
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though, because you know what, we'll get on to Arsenal.
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But Arsenal answered with a win again.
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I I feel like these are the two teams that are going.
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To be going. At it the whole way.
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So it's almost like they're just going to go back and forth
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right? Who can who's going to not drop
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points? Who is going to drop points?
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So this week they both end up getting 3 points and moving on
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to the weekend. Both have some interesting games
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this weekend, which we'll get on to as well.
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But yeah, City going to be relieved that they didn't blow
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A51 lead on. Yeah, I know.
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All right, look, let's move over to Bournemouth hosting Everton.
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I predicted it to be two, one Bournemouth.
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It was one nil Everton. Not much in this game until the
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78th minute when Grilish from the outside of the box wins it
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for Everton. Bournemouth have now lost four
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of their last five games and Everton move ahead of
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Bournemouth on the table. So it's like the reign of
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Bournemouth is starting to end. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, at one point they were in second place in the table.
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Now looking, they're now in 14th.
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Yeah, they are really, really struggling lately.
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I mean, in their last five, they've got 4 losses and one
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draw. I mean, the only two teams worse
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than their last five are Burnley and Wolves.
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Yes, not a good look. No, not a good look.
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And I, like I said, it's, you know, I want them to do better,
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but it just feels like, you know, I think they're better
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than 14 personally. Yeah, I'm, you know, I never
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really thought they'd hang around like the top six or
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seven, but they should be better than this.
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It's a tough patch for them, but I, I think they'll I think
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they'll get out of it a little bit.
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So man, you got off to that super hot start.
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They could certainly use him. Yeah, doing it.
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So, yeah. But Luca Everton now up to 10.
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Yeah, that's top of the top half of the table.
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Top half of the table. So you know, they're coming off,
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you know, like I said, this is a good win for them going on the
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road to Bournemouth, getting three points.
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They're they're sort of a sneaky team that, you know, they don't
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concede a lot of goals, they don't score a lot of goals.
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So you know, they're formulas to try to win one.
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Nothing maybe 21. So this is sort of a classic
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Everton win, you know, get the goal from their better best
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player. Greelish has been really good
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for them. I don't think he's their best
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player though. Who do you think is our best
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player? Either Kieran Dewsbury Hall or
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Ellen and Jai. Yeah, that's a good call.
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Yeah, those are good players for them too.
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Dewsbury Hall has been real good this year.
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A couple real nice goals the past couple.
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And I think Enjoy is just a Everton legend at this point.
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Yeah, well, you know what I mean.
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What? What about Pickford being their
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best player? Yes, he's probably also election
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for Everton too. But it's hard to say goalies.
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Yeah, but he's hard to say if he's the best player in the team
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because he don't really, like do much.
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You just say he's a very good shot stopper that's doing
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something. Yeah, but I don't know if that
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really counts for the best player on the team if all you're
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doing is just stopping stopping shots.
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Luca pissing off goalies all over the world here if all
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you're doing is stopping shots. Well, I don't, I mean like that,
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but like, I like goalies, but, you know, and.
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I understand it's a hard comparison to a field.
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Yeah, yeah. As I'm saying.
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It's easier to compare goalies. You could say like, wow, you
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know, who do you think's better, like Pickford or Rye or
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something like that. But it is a little bit harder to
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translate if you're talking about like the best player
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because they do something that's so unique and so different.
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But Pickford is Luca. I mean, I mean, it's hard to
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like, is there who are better goalies in the Premier League
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than Pickford? I mean I I.
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Donna Rumo. Raya, Allison.
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Yeah, I mean, that's fair. I mean, but he, he's up there
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like in the top five. I mean.
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He's England's number one that. Says.
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Sells, I think Pickford, yeah, I think Pickford's better than
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Sells. Sells is good.
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Sells was really good last year. But yeah, I, I think, you know,
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Pickford sort of flies under the radar because he doesn't play at
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one of the big clubs. You know, you just mentioned all
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these guys that are at the big clubs and people talk about them
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more. But yeah, you know, like I said,
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he's England's number one. He's been the number one for a
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long time. Always seems to kind of come up
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big forever. Like when you watch the
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highlights of most games with Everton, he always seems to make
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like a big saver too, you know? Yeah.
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So. All right, like let's, let's
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keep moving on Newcastle hosting Spurs.
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I predicted this game to be 3 one.
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Newcastle ended up being 22. This really a lot of chances in
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the first half but nothing really happens until the 71st
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minute where Gamma Rice scores off of a really really pretty
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team goal. Romero in the 78th minute ties
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it up, Gordon PK in the 86th minute and then Romero off of
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like a bicycle kick in the 96th minute.
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It's like the slowest bicycle kick to go in ever.
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The ball just like bounces like 4 times before it goes in.
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But yeah, it's a goal. A goal's a goal.
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This was Spurs 4th game in a row without a first half shot on
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goal, which is not a great stack.
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No, we talked about how, you know, Spurs in her past couple
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games had crazy low XG. I mean, there's not generating
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much in the first half and they were lucky to sort of hang
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around this game. Probably, you know, both teams I
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would say had some chances to me, look at ended a tie.
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Both teams had some other chances too.
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It's probably a fair result. It's interesting both of these
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teams now have the exact same record, you know, so they're
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both sitting there essentially tied for 11th and 12th on 19
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points kind of in that mush of teams in the middle there.
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You know, we we've been talking about Newcastle, you know, are
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they going to go on a run? Are they going to, you know, now
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look, our two wins in a draw, you know, like maybe we're
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starting to see them put it together.
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They played really well in this game.
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They had a lot of chances. They did.
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If they did and again, and we always said there's a lot of
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talent on the field for them. So we're expecting them to kind
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of keep this form going. Spurs, you know, look at they've
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now no wins in their last five, three wins and two draws.
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You know, they were another team like Bournemouth, right, real
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high up. Now they're sort of falling
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down. You know, I think we'll see if
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they can kind of put the pieces together.
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They they do have a fair amount of injuries.
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So I'm willing to sort of concede that to them.
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So we'll see if they can get some guys back if they can now
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push to get, you know, not that's top table.
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I mean, they're going to want to push for a European spot.
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So, you know, Luca, Newcastle have dropped the most points
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from winning positions, tied with Brentford.
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They've dropped 11 points from winning positions.
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And we kind of think of Newcastle as being like a pretty
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sound defensive team, you know, But they're giving up.
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Like I said, they're in good positions to go on and get wins
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and they are dropping a lot of points.
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Like I said, Brentford and them have dropped 11 points from
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winning positions. So you kind of see Newcastle
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does a good job of getting up ahead, but they are not holding
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leads. And that's why they sit, you
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know, essentially tied for 11. So all right, Luca, well, let's
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move over to our boys here, OK? Arsenal was hosting Brentford.
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Well, I get this game spot on 2 nil 2 nil.
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This game in the two nil Arsenal I predicted 2 nil Arsenal Marino
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in the 11th minute from Ben White header.
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It's pretty high school and nothing until the 92nd minute
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where soccer scores like Kelleher tries to clear it off
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the line but it's not enough. It was it looks closer than it
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actually was. But yeah, Arsenal keep 5 point
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lead on top of the table. And also in this game, Shade
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really nice save from RYA. Shade almost scored and RYA like
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tips it and hits off the crossbar.
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So really good save there. But yeah, good win.
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Yeah, Arsenal, Arsenal, Luca are.
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They're unbeaten in 18 in their last 18 matches in all
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competitions. But I feel like the story is
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just injuries again with our SO Christian, it's obviously no
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Saliba, no Gabrielle. The two center backs for them
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not available again today, not even on the bench.
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So they start mascara and Hink happy mascara then has to leave
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injured again. It looks like he may be out for
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six to eight weeks with an ankle problem.
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We don't quite know the extent of that.
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Declan Rice kind of limps off at the end of the game too.
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It's it's mind boggling. Every team deals with injuries
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to a certain extent, but this is kind of crazy the way Arsenal
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from the beginning of the season, basically all their
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forwards were hurt. Now it feels like so many
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defenders are getting hurt and also like a lot of times guys
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will miss a game or two. We're losing guys for weeks and
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months. I I mean, I, I can't wrap my
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head around it. Like, you know, thankfully
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Arsenal will probably have the deepest squad in the Premier
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League. So you you have that.
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But if you just keep losing a player every game, it's going to
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catch up with you. And I I think I think Arsenal
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have the best team. If everybody's healthy on every
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but every team, I think Arsenal have the best team.
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Yeah. You would agree with that?
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Yeah. OK.
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So I truly believe that if Arsenal had a healthy squad,
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they'd win the Premier League. I really do.
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So I but the problem is that that's never going to happen,
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you know, and it feels like we're constantly going to have
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4:00 and 5:00, maybe sometimes six guys unavailable.
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And I think that could be the story of the season is that I
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think City only have like one player unavailable.
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They have almost everybody available to them.
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And I think if Holland's scoring A goalie game and they keep a
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healthy squad, I still think City then go on to win the title
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because ours I just doesn't feel to me like Arsenal's ever going
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to be healthy enough and have everybody available.
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If they do, I think they can hold off City and I think they
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can win. But what what's your thought,
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Luca? It it do you think our is
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Arsenal squad deep enough that they could sort of sustain
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injuries and still win the title?
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I think so. I think we have a very, very
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good squad, deep squad. I think we could.
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OK, well, look, I, I mean, you know, here's the thing, they've
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had a ton of injuries so far, and we're still five points
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ahead. So this is This is why I truly
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believe if we got all these guys back, you know, we would.
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Easily win. That I, I really do believe they
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would win, win the title. So we'll see.
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I think that's sort of the storyline moving forward to me,
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is who comes back, who's available and, you know, can
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they keep these players on the field?
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Because I think if they do, I really do think they've got a
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great chance to win it all this year.
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But if they don't, I don't know. Like I said, I think City is
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primed to sort of make a run here.
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Their defense worries me a little bit, you know, City.
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City's. Defense a little bit.
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There's usually very, very sound, but not having Rodri
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available, you know, that case, that's one big injury that they,
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they've not had now, you know, cuz he kind of cleans up a lot
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of that mess for the forwards. And there's attacking
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midfielders that they put on there and they've not had him
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available as sort of that guy right in front of the defenders.
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And I think they're missing him a lot.
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But I think he's getting closer to getting back.
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If they get him back and if he can play it, maybe it's not
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quite the level he was when he won the Balandor, but if he's
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close to that level and they can solidify the defense, they're
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going to win a bunch of games. Now if he can't get back, if
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he's not healthy and they're giving up four goals to Fulham,
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that's going to be a problem. We've seen it with Liverpool
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giving up a goals this many, it catches up with you.
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Yeah. All right, Luca.
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Well, let's then shift over to wolves and forests.
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Not exactly a marquee exciting game, but tell me about this
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one. I pretty used to be 1 nil
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wolves. This was one Nil Forest Igor Jay
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Zeus header in the 72nd minute and that was the only goal in
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this game. Wolves have now gone five games
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in a row without a goal. That's that's very, very bad.
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That is very bad. I mean, I think we're now
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starting to the only thing I'll say about Wolves.
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Look, I think we're now starting to talk about South Derby
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County, very famously in the O seven O 8 season had 11 points.
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It's the lowest point total ever in the Premier League.
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They were relegated by March. They had one win and eight draws
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that and they had 29 losses. I think we're now starting to
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talk about wolves. I I that that record to me was
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like almost never going to be broken.
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But wolves look are now 14 games in and they have two points.
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I mean, I think it's, I mean, are you confident?
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Wolves, I think are definitely getting relegated, but do you
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think, are you confident they'll definitely beat Derby County's
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record of points? So.
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OK, so you're still holding out hope that Wolves can do it, get
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more than 11 points? Or do you think that they're
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gonna finish below 11? I think they're gonna finish
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below. OK, so they're gonna set the
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record for the worst Premier League season ever.
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Yes. I mean, it's hard to argue,
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Luca. They've scored seven goals and
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given up 29. I mean, they're awful.
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They don't score goals. They give up a.
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Ton of -22 on goal, defential. Yeah, I mean, this is rough and
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this is really rough. You would have thought, look,
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they're playing far as far as aren't really that good either.
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They're at home. I mean, this would have been the
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game to try to get a win. They don't do it, so man, it's
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tough being a Wolves fan for. Sure.
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So. Yeah, far as, like I said, Luca,
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they move up to 16th, they're on, they're on 15 points.
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They're in a relegation battle, but that's a big three points
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for him. All right, Luca, let's shift
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over to Burnley hosting Crystal Palace.
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Burnley, Crystal Palace and the one nil Crystal Palace and I
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predicted it'd be one nil Crystal Palace, so I got that
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one spot on Moon News in the 44th minute header off of nice
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passing way. He's only going this game since
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start of last season. Menus has seven Premier League
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goals and it's more than any other offender.
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But I saw this that I thought I thought Gabrielle had more than
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Menus, but I guess not. Yeah, I guess not.
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I mean, I I don't know for sure, Gab.
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You know, Gabriel scores a lot of goals in Champions League and
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and some, you know, things like that.
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So it might be that some of the goals we think of that he scores
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have been in games like that. But and he Gabriel did go a
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spell like I feel like at the end of last season where we
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didn't score, you know, like last year, I feel like we got
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off to a lot of free kick like set piece goals in the
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beginning, not so much at the end of the season.
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And it's kind of feeling like that this way too.
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We're getting a lot more open play goals now, like since
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November, I think Arsenal are tied for the most open play
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goals. So these things kind of come and
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go. They like ebb and flow in terms
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of set piece goals. Sometimes you get hot, you're
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putting a lot in and sometimes you don't.
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But who knows? I mean, he's such a useful
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player for them. Like to be able to like to have
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that attacking strength that he provides like from a right
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backside. And that's a so useful,
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especially again for a team. They're like Everton.
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They don't tend to blow teams away.
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You know, they've got to play sound defense and this try to
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win games. One nothing 21.
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Yeah, he's such a useful player for them.
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Comes up with big goals and that's a big win for them to get
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3 points where it's looking like, yeah, maybe it's gonna
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tie. Burnley played well in this
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look, they had 58% possession. They outshot him 11 to 3, but
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you got to put the ball in the net.
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Yeah, yeah. All right, Luca, let's move over
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to an interesting game. Liverpool hosting Sunderland.
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I believe this would be two one Sunderland and that ended up
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being A11 tie. 67th minute Toby for Sunderland, nice outside box
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school and then in the 81st minute Mookie Elle own goal off
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of shot by Wyrtz. So yeah, pretty much if that
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game Isidor should have won won it for Sunderland with weight
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breakaway. He had like wide open.
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He was on sides and he like takes a couple too many touches
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and Kiesa clears it off the line when he ends up shooting it.
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Kiesa, who's a. Forward hustle, hustle back.
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Credit on him for hustling back and then being useful to clear
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it off the line. Yeah.
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Yeah, Lucas. So I mean, so Sunderland hadn't
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wanted Anfield since 1983. Again, the story you mentioned
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Sala last week, I asked you should he start?
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Well, Arne Slott agreed with you.
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We did not start him, but he came on in half time in this
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game. Thought Sala looked a little bit
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better in the second-half. So this, this, this, you know,
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Sunderland, we've talked about what a great story they are, how
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well, you know, they've done. But this was Liverpool work like
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the last 20 minutes of this game.
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We're like turning the screw the, you know, they had 68%
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possession, outshot them 23 to 9 on shots.
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Liverpool and Brighton Luke have scored nine goals in the last 10
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minutes of games. So it felt to me like Liverpool
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is going to get a goal. They're going to get a goal.
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They kept crossing it and shooting it.
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And then, like you said, all of a sudden, right or not, a
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Sunderland breakout goalie plays a beautiful ball.
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They have that breakaway, it looks like they're going to win,
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that gets cleared off the line. This is like an exciting last 20
19:44
minutes. And then it's kind of A11 draw
19:46
that I think Sunderland's going to be pretty happy getting a
19:48
point at Anfield. Liverpool are probably going to
19:51
be disappointed. As good as Sunderland are,
19:52
Liverpool are looking to try to string together some wins and,
19:56
you know, start trying to sort of get this funk that they've
19:59
been in, you know, corrected. And, you know, they're now
20:04
sitting in 9th, 22 points, I mean, 11 behind Arsenal.
20:07
It, it feels like their title shot is done this year.
20:12
Yeah. I just can't see them making up
20:14
11 points moving forward because I I still think they're going to
20:19
be better. I look, I would.
20:20
I still think Liverpool is going to finish third, yeah.
20:23
I still think it's wait wait third.
20:25
I do. Yeah, how?
20:26
Where do you think they'll finish?
20:28
Maybe. 5th or 6th? Okay, so you're 5th.
20:30
Or 6th. So who would you predict right
20:33
now above Liverpool if you had to do your end of your okay?
20:36
One Arsenal, two City 3 Chelsea 4.
20:43
I'll go like Sunderland. 5th go. I'm gonna go.
20:49
Brighton. Brighton are gonna finish.
20:51
Ahead of Liverpool, yeah, that's a hot take.
20:53
And then? 6 Is Liverpool OK?
20:55
I mean, OK, so here's what I want.
20:56
Alexander, you. Want some hot takes?
20:58
Brighton will finish above Liverpool.
21:00
That's for you, Alexander. Yeah.
21:02
That's yeah. Alexander High.
21:04
Yeah. Well, OK, here's the thing.
21:07
So we talked about how bad Liverpool have been, right?
21:09
You know, this is not that, you know, they're not doing well.
21:11
They keep dropping all these games, Luca.
21:14
They are two points behind Chelsea.
21:16
This is what's so crazy about the table is that they are
21:19
sitting two points behind tying Chelsea for 4th.
21:23
It's just like I said, we we to me this like one of the
21:26
storylines of the Premier League are these teams that are kind of
21:29
like, you know, 14th through 3rd or 4th are separated by so few
21:34
points. And I just think Liverpool have
21:37
a lot of talent, too much talent.
21:40
To be in this spot, yeah, for sure.
21:41
For sure. And I and I just think those
21:43
teams above that you mentioned, I don't know about Sunderland
21:46
and Brighton, Chelsea, maybe Chad, you know, you didn't even
21:48
mention Villa, who's sitting there all by themselves.
21:50
And yeah, that no. I think Villa will finish
21:53
fourth, Sunderland 5th and then Liverpool.
21:56
Wow, OK, Actually Liverpool 7th, 7th Brighton. 6th.
22:00
OK. All right, all right, look, I
22:02
like it. Well, let's move over.
22:04
Like we said, we were just talking about Chelsea.
22:05
Chelsea went to Leeds. Tell me about this one, Luca.
22:10
This game ends 31 leads I predict to be two nil Chelsea in
22:17
the six minute I think Brit this I think beat.
22:21
Behold, it's a. Very like an.
22:24
Age, yeah, but it's a very. Hard name.
22:26
Yeah. Behold, I'm just gonna that's.
22:31
We'll go with that. Yeah, we'll go with.
22:32
That in the 6th minute and then Tanaka in the 43rd minute, Neto
22:38
in the 50th minute and then Calvert Lewin in the 72nd
22:43
minute. Chelsea now 9 points behind
22:46
Arsenal in in fourth place, 9 points behind us.
22:51
Nuts. They were like on our table for
22:54
a while and now they're kind of dropping behind us.
22:57
When you think. About you know, we Arsenal and
23:00
Chelsea played over the weekend. The difference was 6 points.
23:03
Chelsea, let's say Chelsea win that game, it goes to three
23:06
points and then go into this Instead they they tied that
23:09
game, so it stayed at six and then they go to Leeds and this
23:12
is a bad loss for them. Yeah.
23:14
You know, if Chelsea want to be considered title contenders, if
23:16
they want to sort of be pushing, they cannot go.
23:19
And Leeds had come in they lost four in a row coming into this
23:22
game. Now, like I said, Leeds are good
23:24
at home and they played Ellen Rd. and they are good at home.
23:26
But still, you know, to me, Luca, this goes back to kind of
23:29
what we talked about before with Chelsea being a very young and
23:32
inexperienced team. And I think when Arsenal came
23:35
into Stanford Bridge to play them, they were hyped up, they
23:38
were ready to go. They're trying to prove a point.
23:40
Here comes no number one team, here comes our London Derby
23:43
rivals. We are going to like be
23:44
physical, aggressive, you know, the crowds amped up, they're
23:47
probably amped up. And it's harder than like, then
23:50
you go on the road in a game that's not as big and it's maybe
23:54
hard for an inexperienced team to like, you know, get that, get
23:57
a motion back, get that motivation back.
23:59
And it feels like they just came out flat here.
24:02
And, you know, Leeds deserve the win for sure in this one.
24:06
You know, Chelsea, Luca. Now the other thing too, Kaiseto
24:09
got to red card. So he's out for three games.
24:11
Chelsea have only won 29% of their Premier League games
24:14
without Kaiseto. So just goes to show you he is
24:17
an important player for them. I mean, he's, you know, possibly
24:20
their best field player. So you take him out, you know,
24:24
yes, they've got a very deep squad too, but it's hard to
24:26
replace those super key players. So they miss him.
24:29
But this was kind of an all over team effort.
24:31
It just, to me it just it speaks of they're not quite ready to
24:35
challenge for the title now, next year, 2 years from now,
24:38
they may learn some lessons from this.
24:40
It reminds me of Arsenal, you know, a couple years ago, we
24:43
were young, we were kind of inexperienced, made some
24:45
mistakes, drop points in games where you shouldn't and then,
24:49
you know, we finished second three years in a row.
24:51
What we're of course hoping is the team.
24:53
The team has matured. They're now learn those lessons.
24:56
They keep that consistency that every week in the Premier League
25:00
you're going to get tested. There are no Guineas.
25:02
I mean, you just never know. You could play Wolves even.
25:04
You just never know in the Premier League.
25:06
You cannot take a week off. This is a bad loss for Chelsea,
25:10
drops them down to 4th. They're still in a good spot.
25:13
But this was one of those games where I just think that Arsenal
25:16
game took a lot out of them. All right, Luca.
25:18
Let's move on to another crazy game, Brighton hosting Villa.
25:23
This one was bananas. I'd.
25:25
Break this be two 2 ended up being 43 Villa well, Van Hecka
25:32
scores in the ninth minute and pal Torres enroll in the 29th
25:35
minute so Brighton are up two nil and Watkins in the 37th and
25:39
45 + 8 so he ties it up before half time and then oh, Nana in
25:45
the 60th minute, Malon in the 78th minute and now so now it's
25:49
4/2 so Villa making an insane comeback.
25:55
Then van Hecke gets like a bit of a consolation goal, although
25:58
there's still time in the 83rd minute.
26:00
So yeah, villain now on 3rd and the table on 27 points.
26:07
But this was a big comeback from Villa.
26:09
Yeah, Villa are. Flying right now with the four
26:12
wins in a row all by themselves in 3rd.
26:15
You know, only 6 points off of 1st, you know when they got off
26:18
to that really real slow start for them.
26:21
Watkins, Luca came in. He only had one goal.
26:23
In his previous 19 appearances. Brighton hadn't lost at home, so
26:29
this is a good win for. Sure.
26:32
And. Especially when they're looking
26:33
ahead to this weekend, hosting Arsenal for a massive game
26:36
Saturday morning. So for them to like take care of
26:38
their business is a sneaky game. Midweek, you got to rotate the
26:42
line up a little bit and for them to kind of play the way
26:45
they did. They're going to have a lot of
26:46
confidence going to that game Saturday morning with Arsenal.
26:49
So that's a good, good win for them.
26:52
This is, like I said, a real good team.
26:55
Like I said, we'll get on to sort of the matchups this
26:57
weekend, but they are flying right now doing real well.
27:01
Credit on them. Like I said, that's it.
27:03
That's not so Brighton is not an easy place to go and get 3
27:05
points. Yeah.
27:07
All right, look at we. Rounded out this weekend with
27:09
Man U hosting West Ham. We had the privilege of watching
27:12
with a Man U fan. Your cousin Alexander was here,
27:14
so it's always kind of fun to, you know, watch with a supporter
27:18
of the team. So take me through the game,
27:21
this game. Ended 11 I produce to be two nil
27:24
Man United Dallow in the 58th minute from Casamiro and right
27:29
place at right time. Nice finish and then Magasa and
27:34
a third minute off of a clearance off the line and then
27:37
he gets the rebound in and ties it up.
27:42
So into the tie, man. You had Chant had a chance to go
27:47
tied for fourth place with win, but now and 9th on 21 points, so
27:53
big opportunity missed there. Yeah, yeah.
27:56
They they need to beat West Ham at home.
27:58
You know, I mean, I know they're missing guys.
27:59
Cunha was back for them, which is big.
28:01
They're missing Cesco. They had no McGuire, no delict,
28:04
so they had to kind of, you know, makeshift their back
28:07
defense a little bit in heavy. Man, yeah, you know.
28:11
Came up from Arsenal's Academy, he started, he got a yellow card
28:14
in the first half, got pulled off at half time.
28:16
I think they're just nervous about a young kid on a yellow.
28:18
So he did OK. But yeah, this is again, look, I
28:22
don't know what to make a Man United.
28:24
I say this every week so you never know what's.
28:27
Going to happen in United games. You don't look.
28:29
At that. So look at they only have one
28:30
loss in their last eight. They've beaten in their last
28:33
eight games. They've beaten Sunderland,
28:35
Liverpool, Brighton, Palace, but then they've drawn with Forest,
28:39
West Ham, Spurs, like I what? What do you make of this team?
28:44
I have no. Idea you beat all the good teams
28:47
but you like lose or tie to the bad ones yeah, it's just.
28:53
Every, every time I put on a Man U game, I just sort of feel like
28:56
I have no idea what to expect, which is not a good thing.
28:59
You know, you want to, you want to feel like, OK, you know, all
29:03
right, they're going into a tough battle.
29:04
You know, maybe they're going to try to get a draw or something
29:06
like that. But it is like, I feel like they
29:07
could show up and beat anybody or they could literally lose to
29:10
anybody, too. Yeah.
29:11
I mean, it's just sort of like, you never know.
29:14
I mean, that element of unknown. I feel like they're the most
29:16
unpredictable team in a way. Yeah.
29:19
You know, now, look, they're still in 8th right now.
29:22
You know, they're on 22 points. They're in the mix.
29:25
They're above Liverpool. They're above.
29:27
Liverpool, yeah, like I said, you know, they're above them on
29:30
point, on goal differential, but still, you know, they're both on
29:33
22 points. So they're in, they're in a
29:36
pretty good spot. It's just like, I just want to
29:39
see them kind of have a little consistency, you know, get like
29:41
two wins out of three, you know. You know, I don't know if we're
29:45
going to sort of see that from them this year.
29:46
That ultimately may be what keeps them out of a European
29:48
spot, but if they can just get a little bit of consistency, you
29:52
know, just keep some positive results.
29:54
I'm not saying you have to win every game, you know, but you
29:56
have to win at home against West Ham and then you go on the road
29:59
for a tough one. Maybe you get a draw, but you
30:01
got to take care of your business at home against, you
30:04
know, a team that's sitting there in 18th.
30:05
I think they'll get. European spot you do?
30:08
Yeah, hot take another one. OK, so.
30:11
You're thinking they're they're going to at least finish in 7th.
30:14
Yes, because I I feel like 7th is probably probably gets you
30:17
into Europe with a UEFA Conference League spot.
30:20
OK, Yeah, I don't know. I'm not quite sure I'm there
30:23
with you. You already mentioned some of
30:25
these good teams above them, like Brighton, Sunderland.
30:28
You know, I think Liverpool are better than them and I think
30:30
Liverpool will eventually rise above them.
30:33
Newcastle, could they catch them?
30:34
They're only three points behind, maybe even Spurs.
30:38
No, you know. Bournemouth maybe?
30:39
Turn it around. I don't know that I'm not
30:41
convinced yet on that. I think they may finish 8th,
30:45
9th, you know, in that range. OK, All right, all right, look
30:49
at. Well, there it is.
30:50
That's week 14 in the bag. So, you know, you got a tough
30:54
call to make because I, I want to hear a player goal and team
30:57
of the week. What do you got for me?
31:00
You can start anywhere on that. Player of the Week.
31:05
It's tough, I. Don't feel like there's an
31:06
obvious one for any of these. I'm curious.
31:08
Your choices, actually. Yeah, you know.
31:14
This is hard because there isn't any.
31:17
Maybe we'll go with Holland for getting his 100th goal tip.
31:21
Of the cap to getting, you know, goal #100 hit the post twice in
31:25
that game. This team gets to win all right,
31:27
so you're that's your player of the week goal of the week is.
31:29
Probably Foden's first goal. That was a pretty nice one.
31:32
And Tanaka, he had a nice goal too.
31:35
Yeah, that first. Newcastle goal was a nice team
31:38
goal too. Yeah, yeah.
31:39
That was a nice goal too, actually.
31:40
And you? Know the first Arsenal goal was
31:42
nice. Matt awaken.
31:44
Yeah, that. Was nice.
31:45
There were a couple of nice. Team goals there.
31:47
Yeah, you know, all right, so who's your goal of the week?
31:51
It's. Gonna go Foden with an honor
31:53
mention to Tanaka and who's your where we?
31:56
Have team of the week. We need Team of the Week.
31:58
Team of the week I'm gonna go Villa for coming back from 2 nil
32:02
down and not giving up, OK? All right.
32:06
Yeah. OK.
32:07
That's a good one. Yeah.
32:09
All right, Luca. Well, let's look ahead to Week
32:11
15. So there's there's no rest,
32:13
Luca. We are getting into Week 15.
32:15
Tomorrow it starts. OK.
32:17
We just game after game interests are always interesting
32:21
games, but the first one that kicks off early morning kickoff
32:24
tomorrow, 7:30 Eastern Time, Aston Villa hosting Arsenal.
32:30
What do you think on this game, Luca?
32:31
This is a fascinating game. I think it's gonna be. 32
32:34
Arsenal. Holy smokes.
32:36
Goals in this one, huh? Yeah, OK.
32:38
What makes you say that? Because.
32:39
I think both teams have a very strong offense and both teams
32:44
have been well, Arsenal have a good defense, but they're
32:48
missing some guys and they will have an all right defense.
32:52
So I think it'll be a battle between the attack.
32:55
OK. All right, so it's going to be
32:56
kind of in this one, you're thinking who can put the ball in
32:58
more, not a defensive struggle on this one, but you like
33:02
Arsenal to get the win. I can tell you this to me, this
33:05
is this would be, this is a massive game.
33:08
I'll be honest. Yeah, I think so.
33:11
You know, again, I'm not. I don't think Villa are title
33:14
contenders. They're doing great right now,
33:15
but they're definitely. Chipping to the contenders for
33:18
sure. A. 100% for sure they could
33:20
finish top 4 with this team. They are very tough to play at
33:23
home. Arsenal, Like I said, this has
33:25
been kind of a rough week with injuries, big games, you know, I
33:30
don't know. I got to say, as an Arsenal fan,
33:32
I'm a little nervous on this one.
33:33
I am too. Yeah, like I.
33:35
I would not be surprised if Villa wins this game to be, you
33:39
know, I hate to say it, but I maybe would take a draw as an
33:41
Arsenal fan, go up there and get a point and get out.
33:44
Because Arsenal, like I said, look at their their schedule
33:47
they have had. So this is week 15.
33:50
They've already played at Liverpool, at Newcastle, at
33:55
Chelsea, against City. Yeah, I know.
33:58
I'm thinking like Rd. games though.
34:01
Obviously. They're going to Villa, we went
34:03
to at. Sunderland at Sunderland.
34:07
I mean, these are some of the toughest at Old Trafford, so
34:11
it's hard to see. So at Man United Stadium, that's
34:14
brutal. We're only 15, we're only 15
34:16
weeks in and they're going to have this game.
34:18
So they got a lot of difficult Rd. games behind them in.
34:22
Season we'll have some not as many Rd. games.
34:25
No, no, the big. One to me on the road later in
34:27
the season is at City, you know, because I think, I think they're
34:30
going to have to go get a result there because City tied them at
34:33
the Emirates. But you're right, because I
34:35
mean, the way the schedule goes, you play everybody home and
34:38
away. So, you know, we get to go play
34:39
Wolves twice still, but this to me is one of the last big, big
34:44
Rd. games. Not that there's not other big
34:46
games coming up, but in terms of just like places where you're
34:49
like these places are really, really hard to go and get a
34:51
result. This is a big one on Saturday.
34:54
So I'll be I'll be interested in watching this.
34:56
Who got another kind of interesting game, City hosting
34:59
Sunderland. This is an interesting one.
35:01
Sunderland had to go on the road to Anfield midweek.
35:03
Now they go on the road to City. Boy, no schedule makers did them
35:07
no favors I think 2:00. 222 in. This one, OK, What makes you
35:13
think a tie in this one? Well, I think.
35:15
I think both teams, like I think City have a little bit of a
35:21
better depth worth squad, but I think both teams are very hard
35:26
to beat home and away. So I think it'll be like, I
35:29
think this will be a tough battle for both teams.
35:32
I think if. Sunderland can get a tie here
35:34
that would be big that. 'D be big for them.
35:35
To go back-to-back and field and city, and if they come away with
35:39
two ties we've already talked about, they're in great, great
35:41
shape for not being relegated. Yes, 100.
35:45
Percent. They're not being relegated.
35:46
I agree with you, I. Agree with you.
35:47
I mean, you know, I think, you know, if they can get a result,
35:50
you know, even a point, I think that is massive for them because
35:54
now they can say the same thing. They're like OK, now we've got a
35:57
couple big Rd. games out of the way.
35:58
They know how hard it is for people to come to their stadium
36:01
and play. So it it it'd be a big week to
36:03
kind of get through those two teams.
36:05
So that but that's an interesting, fascinating game.
36:07
Sunderland, like I said, are are I love watching them play.
36:10
So I'll have my eye on that game for sure.
36:13
Look at to me another kind of interesting game here.
36:15
Bournemouth hosting Chelsea, like who knows what to expect
36:18
here. Does Chelsea bounce back?
36:20
Does Bournemouth finally get it going?
36:22
I think 2 known. Chelsea two OK, so.
36:24
Oh boy, Bournemouth, Lucas still struggling.
36:27
Yeah, they're not getting back on the wind track in this one.
36:29
So do you think in Chelsea's going to bounce back?
36:31
No. Kaiseto again though, yeah.
36:34
Yeah, but I I still think it'll be two new.
36:37
OK, well, it'll. Be interesting to me to see how
36:39
Chelsea responds right? They they were great against
36:42
Arsenal and even being down 10 men, they were terrible against
36:45
leads. So what do they do?
36:47
Do they, they do they get it together?
36:50
Do they sort of just, you know, wallow in their loss at Leeds
36:54
and just, you know, not really, you know, show up with the
36:57
effort. So I'll be curious to see
36:59
Chelsea's response to this. It's a winnable game with
37:01
Bournemouth struggling for them even though it's at Bournemouth.
37:04
All right, Luca Leeds hosting Liverpool.
37:08
I think Liverpool win this 2121 OK.
37:12
Spurs hosting Brentford, a London Derby here.
37:15
I think this is 1. 1 Okay. Newcastle host Burnley.
37:20
I have. Newcastle win this two now all.
37:23
Right, Everton host Nottingham Forest.
37:27
Everton win 2/1. We've got Brighton hosting West
37:32
Ham Brighton. Win 2 now.
37:36
Fulham hosting Crystal Palace. We got a little London Derby
37:40
here, we got a little friends match up.
37:43
Andrew a big Fulham fan, Polka big Crystal Palace fan.
37:46
I think 1. 111. OK.
37:50
And then we end the week with Wolves hosting man UI think.
37:54
Wolves getting their first. Win.
37:55
Sorry. No2 New.
37:57
United 2 New. United.
37:59
OK, All right, Luca. Well, there it is.
38:03
Week 15 predictions. Like I said, everything gets
38:05
started this weekend. All right, Luca, should we get
38:09
into our viewer mailbag? Yeah.
38:10
OK, so the question comes from me.
38:14
My I have a question to you about.
38:16
We talked about Holland gets his 100th goal in for the Premier
38:23
League. He does it in 110 games, 111
38:26
games a. 111 games thank. You so the previous record, Luca
38:30
was Alan Shearer. He did it in 124 games.
38:33
Harry Kane did it in 141 games, Sergio Aguero did it in 147
38:39
games. Tirion Re, my favorite player of
38:41
all time, did it in 160 games. Mosala did it in 162 and Ian
38:46
Wright, another Arsenal legend, did it 173 games.
38:49
There's some pretty good names on that list.
38:52
I mean, to be thirteen games better than Alan Shearer and 30
38:55
games better than Harry Kane, Yeah, it's it's mind boggling.
38:59
I mean, he's just sort of come into the Premier League and he's
39:01
just taking it by storm, scoring crazy goals.
39:04
But my question to you, Luca, right now is there's a lot of
39:07
good strikers in the world, all right, playing football.
39:10
And I'm curious, my question to you is, is who is the best
39:14
striker in the world right now? I.
39:17
Think it's between Holland and Kane.
39:19
OK, so you're. Going between Holland and Kane,
39:21
so let me say that Holland Luca has 15 Premier League goals.
39:27
He's got five in the Champions League.
39:28
Kane has 14 Bundesligas goals and five in the Champions
39:33
League. Mbappe I got to show a little
39:35
love for him. 14 La Liga goals, 9 in the Champions League I I.
39:40
Forgot about Mbappe. Yeah, he's really good this
39:42
year. You know you think of.
39:44
Other, other guys, Luca, Victor Osiman, Latara Martinez, Julia
39:48
Alvarez, there's a lot of good strikers.
39:52
Levandoski at Barcelona, kind of in and out of the lineup, but
39:54
he's been doing it for a long time.
39:56
But so I'm going to pin you down though, Luca, you got to tell
40:00
me. Who's the best striker?
40:02
You gave me two I want. I want your answer.
40:03
I got to give me who is the best.
40:08
This is tough. I'm between 3 and Bopay Kanan
40:13
Holland. I think they're the.
40:14
Top three, definitely. OK, now the.
40:17
Question. The question too is like, I
40:18
guess you could look at it two ways.
40:19
Like if you look at it as like if you were to win a game today,
40:22
you're putting together your team and you were to win a game
40:25
today, who would you pick? Or you could say, all right, I'm
40:28
putting together A-Team for like the whole year, who do I want?
40:31
I don't know if that like changes your answer or not.
40:35
I think the best striker in the world is Holland, OK.
40:38
So you're going with Holland? What, what, what, what did like?
40:41
Why do you give him a little bit of an edge over Harry Kane or in
40:44
Bopic, I think. Because he has more goals in his
40:48
league than both of those guys, and he has tougher teams to play
40:52
than those. Both of those guys.
40:53
Both of those guys play in super teams.
40:55
So is he, but they don't play enough petition to be considered
41:00
the best striker in the world. Holland, like every Premier
41:04
League game, is tough. Except for when you're playing
41:06
Wolves. Throw Wolves under the.
41:10
Bus there. I don't know where, Luke.
41:11
That's rough. I.
41:15
That was a bit of a joke. Every every Premier League game
41:19
is tough, but I so but Bundesliga, I mean Leverkusen
41:27
kind of falling off Dortmund hasn't been great lately.
41:30
So it's not as much competition there.
41:33
And even in while we go like it's basically Barcelona, Real
41:36
Madrid the entire time Athletico Madrid's in there in the mix
41:41
there, but it's just not enough competition to bet you're
41:46
playing against for me to consider them best striker in
41:49
the world right now. Now what about the?
41:51
Argument and BAPE has 9 Champions League goals.
41:53
Champions League. The best of the best, right?
41:56
Yeah. Yes, but I don't think that
41:59
changes my answer. Okay, I think Bop is second you
42:03
would put him. Second over, then Kane 3rd for
42:05
you on that list. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:07
You kind? Of can't go wrong with any of
42:08
them. They're all pretty amazing
42:10
players for sure. I think City plays Real Madrid
42:14
next week in the Champions. Of course they do They.
42:16
Play them every year they play them.
42:17
Every year, but that that could be a lot of fun watching Mbappe
42:20
and Holland go like sort of not quite head to head, but you know
42:23
that that could be fun. Maybe each one trying to prove a
42:25
point, maybe that they're the best striker in the world when
42:28
the other guys right on the other side of the field there.
42:30
So that that could be a fun Champions League game to watch.
42:32
But all right, Luca, well, let's go into our Digeno section.
42:35
We've been rolling through alphabetically, learning a
42:38
little bit about all the different Premier League teams
42:41
and we're up to Brighton. Luca.
42:43
Brighton were founded in 19 O1. Their colors, of course, are
42:47
blue and white. Brighton and Hove.
42:50
Luca is a is a town on the South Coast of England.
42:53
So all kind of all the way down there on the South Coast.
42:55
That's why it's sometimes you see a lot of rain in those
42:57
games. What's their nickname?
43:00
Luca. The seagulls.
43:02
The Seagulls. So I naturally thought, oh, they
43:05
must be the seagulls because they're down on the coast near
43:07
the beach and everything. But interesting.
43:10
Their biggest rivals are Crystal Palace, actually, which is kind
43:13
of funny. Yeah, I knew.
43:14
That because you. Know they're like I said, that
43:17
rivalry, you know, they're about I think like like 40 miles from
43:22
each other geographical. Geographical.
43:25
Geographical. But they're not.
43:27
Super. Close.
43:28
That's what's kind of interesting to me.
43:29
They have other like, like I think Bournemouth is closer,
43:31
maybe Portsmouth might be closer.
43:33
But their biggest rival is Crystal Palace and it dates back
43:35
to the 70s. Terry Venables and another coach
43:39
named Alan Mullery, like really got at it.
43:42
They played some heated games and the Palace fans, of course,
43:45
were screaming Eagles, Eagles, That's their nickname.
43:48
And the Brighton fans kind of in response to that, would scream,
43:52
see goals, see goals, see goals. And that's how the seagulls sort
43:57
of became their, like, nickname and what's on their badge.
44:01
Now, I do think, of course, it ties in with the fact that
44:03
they're on the coast. Yeah.
44:04
But but they were actually known by as the dolphins before.
44:07
It was like they were associated actually with a dolphin as their
44:09
animal for that team. Oh yeah.
44:11
Yeah, I feel like I remember that.
44:13
So they joined the Football League in 1920.
44:17
In 1979, they were promoted to the First Division.
44:22
In 1983, they were in an FA Cup final and they lost a man you.
44:27
But then they almost went bankrupt in the mid 90s.
44:30
I mean, they literally almost went away and they work
44:32
themselves back up to her. In 2017, they're promoted to the
44:36
Premier League after 34 years of being out of the top flight of
44:40
football. So, you know, like I said, they
44:42
are one of those teams again. It's sort of almost bottomed out
44:45
and the big thing was they got bought by a guy named Tony Bloom
44:48
Luca and he is a long time poker player and he bought the team.
44:53
He's like a a massive fan of the team.
44:55
He's like a guy that like loves the team and like bought them in
44:57
2009. Oh.
44:59
Yeah, yeah, he's. Still, like I said, he's still
45:01
the owner. He bought them in 2009, not that
45:03
long ago, but he brought in a lot of this sort of model of,
45:07
you know, again, what will like Brentford, like Bournemouth.
45:10
We're going to go find young, talented players.
45:13
Yes, we know we can't keep them. So we're going to just find good
45:16
young talent. We'll sell them on when they
45:18
get, you know, kind of too big for us.
45:20
And they've kept that model going and they've been a really,
45:23
really good, tough team. I mean, look at some of the
45:25
names that come through Brighton, Alexis, Alexis
45:28
McAllister, Moises Kaiseto, Robert Sanchez, Dan Byrne, Ben
45:32
White, Yves Basuma, Leo Trosard, Ciao, Pedro, Mark Kukarea, Tariq
45:38
Lampte, Julio Inciso. It's just some pretty good names
45:43
got sold to some pretty big teams.
45:46
So you know, some of their famous managers, like I said,
45:50
Alan Mullery, Luca was like in the 70s, He's the one who got
45:53
him, got him promoted to the First Division, had that big
45:56
rivalry with Terry Venables at Crystal Palace.
46:00
They Chris Houghton, he got him back into the Premier League.
46:04
So he was a manager that got him to the Premier League in 2017.
46:08
Their current manager, Luca Fabian Herzler, he's only 32
46:11
years old. He's.
46:14
Only younger than some of the players on Crystal Powell or on
46:17
on Brighton. Yeah, I mean it's.
46:18
Incredible. See interesting.
46:20
He was born in the United States.
46:22
I think he so he had European parents.
46:24
I can't quite remember but when he was two he moved over to
46:26
Europe. So he spent most of his life in
46:28
Europe but actually was born in Houston, TX.
46:31
Luca. Their highest ever finish was in
46:33
2223 season. They finished 6th and actually
46:36
made the Europa League, and that was under Deserby as their
46:39
coach. So they've actually been in
46:41
European football before. Yeah, some of their famous
46:44
players, Luka, Tommy Cook at 123 goals, he played like all the
46:48
way back in the 20s I've never heard of.
46:50
Him. Glenn Murray?
46:52
Yeah, he helped. Them like when they got
46:54
promoted. He's scored 111 goals for
46:56
Brighton. Guy named Tug Wilson has 566.
47:00
He played in the 20s. And 30s Peter Ward was a striker
47:04
from the 70s Bobby Zamora played in like the 90s and 2000s Lewis
47:09
Dunk played there. Their look at their biggest
47:13
sale. Who did they?
47:16
You know who they sold for the most?
47:19
No, no. More than Ben White went to
47:22
Chelsea. Yeah, 150.
47:24
Million for crazy money and their biggest buy they bought
47:29
from Leeds, Georgino Ruter, $52 million.
47:32
So recent buy for him. Of course, look at they play at
47:36
the Amex Stadium, which was called Falmer Stadium, holds
47:39
about 31,876 that opened in 2011.
47:44
They used to play what was called Goldstone Ground and they
47:47
played there from 1902 to 1997. But now they play in a kind of a
47:51
nicer new stadium there. So that's learning a little bit
47:54
about Brighton. OK, All right, Luca, well, we
47:59
are going to get into the penalty kick trivia shootout.
48:01
But just real quick, I want to plug our Instagram and our
48:06
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48:07
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48:11
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48:14
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48:18
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48:20
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48:23
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48:25
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48:27
So come check us out there. And of course, you can always
48:31
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48:32
We're also on Apple Podcast, Pocket Cast, Amazon, and of
48:35
course, Spotify, multiple different platforms.
48:38
But all right, Lucas, so let's finish up with our Penalty Kick
48:42
trivia shootout. Do you want to go first, Luca,
48:45
or do you want me to go 1st? I'm going to ask.
48:48
You first. OK, go ahead.
48:51
In the. 20/12/2013 Season Which manager LED Byron to a historic
48:56
treble? This is hard, so I'm going to
48:58
give you choices. OK, go ahead give.
49:00
Me choice Pep Corioli. You Luis Van Gal Drop.
49:07
Hey, Nicks. Yeah, tough name.
49:09
There, Yeah. And Carl or Carl Anjoi, I'm
49:12
going to. Go with PEP.
49:13
No, no. It was drop.
49:16
Hey, Nick. OK.
49:17
All right, tough one. Yeah, that was.
49:19
Hard. All right, Luca.
49:21
Who won the EUR 2024? What?
49:26
It was? Spain.
49:27
Spain, do you remember? Who they beat in the score?
49:29
England. 21 That's exactly. Right on all of it.
49:33
All right. Which with which club did Jose
49:37
Moreno win the Champions League with?
49:39
It was Portuguese. Portuguese.
49:42
Club. He was.
49:45
Porto. Yeah, correct.
49:47
All right, Luca, what Premier League team are nicknamed the
49:50
Irons? The iron they're not in the are
49:56
they in the Premier League? They are currently in the.
49:57
Premier League, yeah, Sometimes also they're called the Irons
50:00
and sometimes the Hammers. That's.
50:02
What I thought West Ham I that's what I thought.
50:05
Because they're. Yeah.
50:06
OK, so they have origins. Look at to the Thames Ironworks
50:10
and Shipbuilding Company. So that's like part of their
50:13
history. We'll get on to them when we
50:14
kind of do, when we grow through them.
50:15
But yeah, that's kind of how they're like irons and hammers.
50:18
It's like a lot of shipbuilding in their history, OK?
50:21
All right, how many Premier League titles has Antonio Conte
50:25
won? I have choices if you need it.
50:28
Antonio Cami Premier League titles.
50:30
Yeah, What are the choices again, 01?
50:32
Two or three. One correct.
50:38
OK, all right, Luca, who was Nottingham Forest's top scorer
50:43
last year? Chris Wood, you remember.
50:47
You know how many he had? Yeah, I think he had like.
50:49
12/20. Oh yeah, he had a.
50:52
Crazy. Goodyear, 20, he.
50:55
Hasn't been as good this year. Yeah, he's been hurt.
50:57
Too a little bit but yeah, good job.
50:58
Chris Wood LED Nottingham far since scoring last year, Which?
51:02
Club is famous for its Dream Team era under the management of
51:06
your home class. IX or Barcelona?
51:11
Yeah, it's. Barcelona, I'll give that one to
51:13
you. I was like, come on, I don't
51:15
even know this. I know, I know.
51:17
I was thinking he came from IAX to Barcelona, but you're right,
51:19
the dream Team was with you. Talk about this a.
51:23
Lot I was about to say, how did you not?
51:24
I know, I know. Iax popped in my head when it
51:26
comes to him first, but it is one.
51:29
Of the choices. OK.
51:32
All right, Luca. What team won the 19 or what
51:35
team won the 2015 2016 Premier League season despite having
51:40
5000 to one odds to start the season?
51:44
Oh my God, it was, it was Leicester City.
51:47
But you really had my question. You have that.
51:49
Question I see which. Club was crown champions in the
51:53
2015, 2016 Premier League season.
51:55
I'm going. To go with Leicester City, OH.
51:59
My. God, how did?
52:01
That happen, Wow, it's crazy, yeah. 20. 15/20/16 season.
52:06
I was like no how? All right, Luca.
52:09
What country is we talked about Igor Tiago for Brentford
52:13
striker, how he's on eleven goals for behind Holland having
52:15
a great season. What country is Igor Tiago from,
52:18
I want to say? Cameron.
52:20
No, Luca, he's from Brazil. Oh, he's a Brazilian.
52:25
Oh, OK. And in fact.
52:27
Apparently he's a big football player like he's, Well, yeah,
52:29
Brazil. Football is really big in
52:32
Brazil. That's how Neymar got like a
52:33
bunch of his skills. You know, he played a lot of
52:35
football. Is that where he learned to?
52:36
Dive and roll around on the ground and be theatrical.
52:39
Good footballer all. Right, what do you got?
52:43
How many times? Did Cristiano Ronaldo win the
52:46
ball on door at Real Madrid? At Real Madrid.
52:49
Odd choices. All right, go ahead and give me
52:52
choices 234. 5 that's what. I kind of figured they'd be.
52:57
I feel like it's four or five. I'm going to go with four.
53:01
I got all right all. Right, Luca, I got one more here
53:05
for you, Mikel Arteta, manager of Arsenal.
53:09
He had a really pretty good playing career before he went
53:12
into management and being a manager.
53:15
He ended up playing Luca for six different clubs over his career.
53:20
Can you name four of the clubs? Oh I will, I'll take 3.
53:27
But if you get 4-5 or six bonus points.
53:29
So what Clubs in McKellar tending quite fun?
53:32
Of who he played for, I know you played for Arsenal, he played
53:36
for. Arsenal, yeah, the team he
53:37
manages now, he did play it for. That's one to be.
53:43
He played for one other Premier League team that is still in the
53:46
Premier League. Did he play for?
53:52
He didn't play for Chelsea, did he?
53:53
No, but they do. Wear blue.
53:56
Crystal Palace, Everton. Everton.
53:59
OK. OK, so.
54:01
Those are your two Premier League teams.
54:03
I, I he's. Spanish.
54:04
So I think maybe La Liga, yeah, I played for.
54:07
Two teams, are they still in LA? Liga, yes.
54:10
So both teams, so OK, so one of them's a little tricky.
54:14
So both teams, I'll just say this, both teams are still in La
54:16
Liga. Celta Liga Nah Athletico Madrid.
54:24
He didn't play for bars. Wait, did he play?
54:25
He didn't play for Barcelona. Barcelona.
54:27
B team, so he never played for the A-Team, but he did play for
54:31
the B team and then the other one, Luca from La Liga.
54:35
It's a real team, but not real associated.
54:37
Real Sociedad. And then he also played for the
54:42
biggest team in France, he played for PSG.
54:44
He played for PSG and then he. Played for He played in Scotland
54:47
for one of the two main Scottish teams.
54:51
Celtic, the other one. Rangers.
54:54
Rangers. So yeah, he played for
54:56
Barcelona, BPSG, Rangers, Real Sociedad, Everton and Arsenal.
55:00
They're not like. Super like easy teams.
55:03
No, no, I know. Big ones like.
55:05
Arsenal, Arsenal. I know there's.
55:06
There's a lot of video of him. I feel like with Everton there
55:10
is. A fair.
55:11
Amount you've seen him with Everton.
55:12
Yeah, I was gonna say I. Know when you said Chelsea, I
55:14
think you're because you knew like the blue jersey, Yeah,
55:16
that. So.