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Week 6 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. I am the dad, Yorn with me as
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the lad. Luca Miller.
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How are you doing today, Luca? I'm.
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Doing good, How are you? Good, good.
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How was your weekend? It was good.
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How was yours? Although we had like, we were
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just, it was just the boys for the weekend.
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Just us this weekend, our Luca's mom, my wife and your sister
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were out of town on a Disney cruise, so we had a little guys
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weekend. So we of course watched a lot of
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Premier League soccer, but we had some other fun times this
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weekend. What did we do this weekend?
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We went to a concert, went to the card shop.
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I had a soccer game myself and it was just a lot of fun.
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We watched some of the Premier League with my dad's friend and
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his son. Yeah, it was fun.
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Yeah, good weekend. Like I said, we got the out and
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about, did some fun things. Luca, he played well in his
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game. Yeah, we went to The Lumineers
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concert, which was fun, so good times.
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But Luca, big exciting weekend in the Premier League.
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I feel like there's lots to dive in, lots to talk about with the
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games this weekend. So you ready to talk some
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Premier League? Yep.
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All right, well, let's let's start off with the first game of
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the weekend here, OK? First game was early Saturday
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morning. We had Brentford and Man United.
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Tell me about the first game of the weekend.
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So the first game of the weekend, we got a three one
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finish. Brenton Brentford's favor.
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I predicted 21 Manchester United.
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I was wrong to get it started. We have Tiago.
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When you see it, it's a great ball from Henderson.
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He looks offside, he looks 5 yards offside, but he's actually
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on sides. There's a really nice like half
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volley, hits the post and goes in really nice first goal.
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Then in the 20th minute he scores again off of like a
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cross. He kind of just is running in
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and then just kind of pokes it in and then in the well it says
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26th minute Cesco comes in and he he on his like third attempt
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like they they shoot like 3 times and on third attempt he
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finally gets one his first goal for Manchester United and they
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try to come back. Then in the 76th minute we have
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a lot of drama and blame well and blame out gets pulled down
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by Nathan Collins and it's a penalty.
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I think it's definitely a penalty.
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He pulls him down. But what we're going to talk
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about is if there should have been a red because he I think he
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is a red because he is the it's a denial of the goal scoring
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opportunity. But the reason they did not call
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this a red, they've looked at it on VAR.
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The reason they did not call this a red is because he didn't
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he was about to one time it. So I guess if they have not
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touched the ball yet, you can just pull them down and me.
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Yeah. Well, it'd still be a penalty.
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But yeah, but Bruno steps up, gets a PK and the goalkeeper
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saves it. Now this is his second miss out
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of three penalties this year. I was thinking, I said to you
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that maybe this is time for a new penalty kick taker for
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United. I don't know.
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But then in the 96th minute, this game is pretty much wrapped
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up. But the icing on the cake for
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Brentford? Jensen screamer of a goal from
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outside the box, doesn't see the pass and it hits it right into
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the net top corner and that's the end of that game.
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Yeah, so interesting game. Yeah.
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So this to me is a bit of a crazy thing that happened to
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him. Bueno.
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Here the balls played across. He's clearly going on to the
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ball. He's going to have a one time,
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probably an easy finish, gets pulled back.
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And so I to me, I don't know how this is not a red card.
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I guess like you said, the rule is that if you're not in
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possession when you're, you know, denial of a goal scoring
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opportunity or even last man, if you don't have possession of the
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ball, then you can't be a red card.
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But that makes no sense. I mean, how many times do you
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see guys making that run into the box and they one time it So
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just because you don't have possession of the ball doesn't
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mean it's not a denial of the goal scoring opportunity, which
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is a red. It's just this is craziness to
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me, Like I just is a red all day long.
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Like I said, I it's just one of those weird things.
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But I guess technically maybe by the rule, they're right, but
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this is a weird rule in my opinion.
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That's that's the only explanation I heard, because
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when I saw this and looked at replays, I was like, this looks
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like a red card. Bruno missing another one and he
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has taken their PKS for years and has been really good at
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taking him. He's a really good PK taker.
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So in your opinion, Luca, next PK for Man United, is it
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Fernandez or you going to somebody else?
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I'm probably going to in blammo. Wow, okay, so Bruno, the captain
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of the team, the person who's been there through thick and
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thin, all right, it's time for somebody else to take him and
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you're okay. Well, interestingly enough,
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Luca, in this game, Kelleher, who plays goalie for Brentford,
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made the save. He's now saved four of seven PKS
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in his pro career. In the Premier League between
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Liverpool and now Brentford, he was.
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A good backup. He was a good backup for
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Liverpool and and he's a good goalie for Brentford now.
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Yeah, and so he really has a knack for for a penalty.
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This wasn't the best penalty from Bruno, but wasn't terrible.
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But Kelleher, like I said, clearly does well.
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Like I said, stopping penalties. Lugo, Ruben Amarim now still has
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not won back-to-back Premier League games ever.
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Yeah, since he's been there. This is just incredible.
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And Brentford, we maybe we shouldn't be surprised by this
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result because Brentford have now won seven of the last eight
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Premier League matches between these sides.
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So Brentford kind of has Man United's number in this.
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You know, even though Brentford were they were off to their
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worst Premier League start ever. They came in at 1-1 and three
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worst Premier League start ever. But they still managed to sort
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of get the win in this one. So credit to them.
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They get the three points. Yeah, every team just has that
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one team that kind of just they always have trouble facing.
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But I guess for United, it's Bradford.
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Yeah, Yep. So, yeah, you know, Man United,
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like I said, you just never know what you're going to get week to
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week from this team. You know, sometimes they look
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good, maybe they're getting better, they're putting it all
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together. Then other times they just look
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kind of lost. And I don't know, I I I don't
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know what's going to happen with this team moving forward.
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I don't know if they just need better players, if they need to
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get rid of the coach, but kind of a bit of a mess with this
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team. And just when you think, oh, you
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know, they're showing signs, not a great performance, losing to
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Brentford, they're going to be very.
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Yeah, yeah. All right, Luca.
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Well, let's move on to the next one.
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Man City, Burnley kind of ended how pretty much everybody
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thought it would. But talk to me about this game.
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Well, Man City, just like they kind of blitzed them with four
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goals. It was 11.
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It's driveway. Esteve own goal in the 12th
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minute, then Jane and Anthony ties it up.
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He's his fourth goal of the year.
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He's tied for second in top score scoring.
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And then in the second-half, the Burning kind of holds on for the
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rest of the first half, but they kind of blitzed them with four
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goals and it ends 51. Esteve actually had two own
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goals in this game, one in this 12th minute and one in the 66th.
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I predicted 3 nil. I got the team team right is not
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score but like not much to talk about it in the goals here.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't think anybody thought Burnley were
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going to get a result at the Eddie ad against City.
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Cities playing better, you know, they came in two, one and two.
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Also, listen to this record City has against Burnley.
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City have now won the last 14 games against Burnley by an
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aggregate score of 51 to three. I mean, they just own Burnley
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and Burnley typically not a very good team, but City just
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destroys them. And no big surprise, they
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destroyed them today. So.
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We'll see. I don't know that this says much
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about either team. I mean, like I said, this is a a
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result that you could sort of see coming.
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I guess credit the Burnley, they hung around for about 60 minutes
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in this game. It was 11 and and city just too
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much class there. So yeah, city moves on with a
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gets a three points. All right, Luca.
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Well, let's move on to one of the shockers of the week.
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Let's go to Selhurst Park, Crystal Palace, Liverpool.
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Holy smokes Luca, talk to me about this one.
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This was basically the battle of the undefeated.
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Both of these teams were the only two teams undefeated coming
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into this game. I predicted 21.
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Liverpool, it was Palace 21 and it starts up a star in the ninth
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minute and pretty nice goal and then in the 87 minute Kiesa ties
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it up. And a little controversial thing
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here is that when it's closed in Sala, is this a handball?
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I don't think it is. It's really close.
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I don't really think it's a handball.
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But yeah, it was a account to the world.
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They looked at it on VAR but the call on the field stood and then
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in the 98th minute, guess who scores?
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Eddie and Katia, former Arsenal player.
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It's a really nice goal too, like full volley out of the air.
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It was really nice goal, chest sit and full volley and then
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Yep, they get the win. That's so now Powers are the
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only team on undefeated this season so far.
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Yeah, it's amazing. After six weeks now, one team
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left undefeated. If you had asked me this at the
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beginning of the season, I don't think I would have said Crystal
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Palace. But credit to them.
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They're playing great. So Lugo, they are now on a run
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of 18 games unbeaten. That is now tied for the longest
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in their club's history dating back to 1969.
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They did it. So that's, you know, 50-6 years
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ago. Palace went 18 games unbeaten.
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Well, they're on 18 games. They can obviously, you know,
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extend that streak and you know, this is one look, Liverpool
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Ekatika was out of the game, so he sacks started.
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Ekatika got a red card in the Carabao Cup, had to miss this
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game. He's been in great form.
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So they didn't have him available.
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Remember, Palace beat them in the Community Shield game too,
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you know. With Ekatika.
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With Ekatika, so you know, on one hand you say all right,
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maybe you're surprised because Liverpool lost, but on the other
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hand. I was usually a good team, I.
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Think I was going to say I think it's time to start paying
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attention to Palace as a really good team and maybe a contender
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for, you know, top four top. Champions League.
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Yeah, I think it's reasonable to to start thinking about that.
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I mean, look, Liverpool came in in their last 1010 games at
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Selhurst Park. They had nine wins in a tie.
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So Liverpool had come in usually doing very, very well at
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Selhurst Park, but obviously not today.
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We've talked about late goals in Liverpool games.
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It's usually Liverpool getting them this time.
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I don't know. It's like, you know, the balance
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of, of, of, of the luck kind of balancing back the other way.
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And Eddie and Keddie are scoring maybe his most important goal
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for Arsenal in a Palace uniform. I she sure you could say that.
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Helps Arsenal a lot. The Liverpool drop points here.
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This is kind of like when Leicester City won the Premier
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League. An underdog doing well.
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Like, no one predicted Leicester City to win, but they ended up
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doing it and Crystal Palace might.
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I mean, I don't know, they're, they're what like second right
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now, third time for second or third And I don't know,
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contenders for the title maybe. All right, so you're you're
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we're six games in, you're saying, you're saying a title
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contender. Crystal Palace.
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We got to pay attention. So they're sitting on 12 points,
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three behind Liverpool. They're they're in 3rd by
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themselves. We talked.
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Yeah, they've not lost. They've three wins and three
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draws. Are you saying do you want to
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give it a little more time or are you saying no Palace
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legitimate title contenders? Palace legitimate title
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contenders 100% Europe and 90% Champions League.
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Wow, OK. It's a hot take right there.
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All right, Yeah, You know, I want to go back to the the Salah
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play there. So the ball comes across Salah's
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hand clearly in an unnatural position to me.
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His hand is way up in the air. The ball, like I said it, it's
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very close. You know, I actually think the
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ball takes a little deflection. You know, if you watch the ball,
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the ball should be sort of just coming down.
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To me, it deflects a little bit. Richard's the American defender
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who I thought played really well in this game, goes to head it
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and kind of like misses the header, which to me actually
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suggests that the ball path, the ball flight path sort of, you
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know, wasn't what he normally expected.
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He doesn't get a real good header on it, but I will say
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this. So in my opinion, I think he did
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touch the ball. But I'm OK with VAR just sort of
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leaving this go because I don't again, I don't think it's clear
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and obvious and we'll get into some of this with VAR in the
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Arsenal game. But again, VAR is supposed to
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step in for clear and obvious. You know, the times when you're
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like, Oh yeah, of course, right. You see the guys 5 yards
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offsides, you see, you know something, that's what it's
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supposed to be. It's not supposed to be for
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these microscopic little things. Did it?
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Didn't you know? So I was OK with them to sort of
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leaving the call on the field. Although I, I do think like I
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said, based on my impression, I think Salah got a little piece
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of it with his hand. But anyway at.
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This point var should be just used for anything really.
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They're not. They're not.
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Definitely not using it for just clear and obvious stuff.
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Yeah. And I mean, they don't even need
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it for clear and obvious stuff. But that's what it's supposed to
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be for. Like var.
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The var is the. The bar it's supposed to be is
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if there's a clear and obvious error, then Var's supposed to
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get involved and tell the referee go have a look at the
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monitor. It's not supposed to be like
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we're spending two minutes, we're blowing up and enlarging
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frames and looking at 5 different angles of slow motion
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replay. No, it's supposed to be clear
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and obvious and we know that, right?
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You see something and you're like, anybody can see it, right?
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Like a hard foul, you know, like guy who went studs up and hits
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him like below the knee. You're like, oh, yeah, it's a
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red card. Yeah, look at it.
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Give him the red. Let's move on with the game.
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But more and more, VAR just looks at these little things,
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you know, like, is it this, is it that?
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And I just don't think that's what it's supposed to be for.
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And that's what the PGMOL who runs the referee says that it's
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not supposed to be for, but that's what it is used for.
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Well, Luca, one thing that you know, interesting we we talk
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about stats a lot in games too. And and this is sometimes where
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where stats can like lie to you a little bit because Liverpool
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had 72% possession in this game, but they were outplayed in this
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game. You know, Crystal Palace had
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sixteen shots. They had seven on goal.
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Becker Allison was fantastic in this game, made numerous saves.
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I mean, this is not a shock result.
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Palace deserve the win on this game.
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But if you looked at just the numbers, you may say, oh,
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Liverpool were, you know, hard on done.
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They had all this possession. But you know, Palace, like I
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said, totally deserved this win. I was really happy to see it,
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happy for Palace fans. Happy to see Liverpool.
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And of course, being an Arsenal fan, this was a massive weekend
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because Liverpool, we needed them to start dropping some
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points and they did, so we're happy as Arsenal fans.
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Yep. All right, let's move on to
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Chelsea and Brighton. Talk to me about this game.
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So this game ended 31I predicted 11 tie.
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So it starts off at Enzo Fernandez in the 24th minute,
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gets the opener, the balls played across and he gets like
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an open header. He's wide open and he gets goal.
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Then in the 53rd minute Chaliba pulls him down.
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They say red card because of the dial of the goal scoring
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opportunity. Yep, easy red card 100%.
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I I I say this is definitely a red card.
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He pulls him down, he's the last man get the red cards for me.
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So he gets sent off. Then in the 77th minute, Welbeck
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gets a goal. It's a pretty nice, pretty nice
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goal. And then and then ninety 93rd
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minute which is got. The coopier I think.
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It's the Coopier, yeah, that's a hard name to say.
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In the 93rd minute, he gets the winner, but it's not over yet.
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In the 101st minute Welbeck finish it puts the icing on the
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cake and finishes it off, so that's the end of that game.
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Yeah, so Chelsea, Luca back-to-back red cards last
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week, Sanchez gets sent off early in the game today,
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Chalabah gets sent off. That's that's you can't have it.
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But I mean, that's just I mean, you look at this game and and I
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agree with you. This is a pretty obvious red
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card. I don't think there's much to
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talk about, but you look at how a red card just flips a game on
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its head. You know, Chelsea's winning the
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game, you know they're at home. And then the red card, the game
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just flips on its head bright. And you know, like I said,
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scores to tie it up. And then of course, they get 2
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late ones. But you know it.
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Look, Chelsea's now winless in their last three Premier League
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games. You know this is not good.
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A lot of people were thinking Chelsea would be a title
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contender, not just a contender for Champions League in Europe.
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But a lot of people saying Chelsea coming off of the Club
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World Cup win, you know that they're going to be a title
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contender with Arsenal and City in Liverpool.
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I never thought they were going to be a title contender.
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Well, they're certainly not looking like it right now, are
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they? I thought they were maybe going
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to make Champions League though. And they still could look.
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I mean, you know, Cole Palmer's out.
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Although listen to this Luke. Chelsea have a better win rate
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without Palmer than they do with him.
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They win 60% of the games without Cole Palmer and they win
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49% with Cole Palmer. Don't really know how to wrap my
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head around that, but interesting.
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Stat. And Luca, listen.
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So since 2023, Chelsea have spent $337 million on Brighton
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players, Just Brighton players In the past few years, $337
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million. In the three games they've
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played them since that time, they have lost all three.
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Oh my God. I.
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Mean that's. Like us and Chelsea players, we
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just spend on Chelsea players. I don't think we spent 337
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million. Chelsea.
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Arsenal. And also we still beat Chelsea.
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They have not even beaten Brighton.
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I can't think of one player who came from Brighton to OK.
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I can think of 1 Kukoraya. Kukoraya Kaiseto.
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Oh, Kaiseto, Yeah. Jao, Pedro.
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Jao, Pedro. And Kaiseto was about 100
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million. Jao, Pedro, 6070, Kukoraya, like
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I'm 40 or 50. We're probably missing one other
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guy. I'm trying to like, think
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through their lineup. We're probably missing like one
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other. But yeah, I mean, that's a crazy
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amount of money. Look, Chelsea just spend money
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like crazy and buy players from all over, but I just thought
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that was amazing. They go to that, you know, and
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look, it makes sense to go buy Brighton players, right?
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Like I get that part of it, but then you buy their best players
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theoretically and then you can't even beat them.
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I. Mean that's just it's just sad
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it's. Unbelievable.
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But yeah, so we'll see you, Luca.
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Chelsea's got a, Chelsea's got a, you know, finish the game
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with 11 guys on the field. They've got it like the red
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cards are killing them. We'll see.
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I think next week they get Liverpool and I'll be curious to
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see what your take is on that game moving forward next week.
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But all right, let's move on Luca to Leeds and Bournemouth.
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Bournemouth have been a nice darling start to the season.
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Tell me about this one. So this came into two, two I
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predicted 2 nil. Bournemouth in the 26 minutes.
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Simenio gets a goal, it's a nice free kick, bottom corner under
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the wall with pure power there. Then in what, 37th minute or
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32nd minute I think it was. The in the 30s.
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Yeah, in the 30th minutes whatsoever Joe Rodon gets like
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he gets a nice goal. He comes in, gets it and in in
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the 54th minute. Oh wait, this is a nice goal.
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If you have not seen it, you should long step the ball is
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kind of like it got across. He like volleys it 1/2 volley
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off the post top corner, just a rocket and in the 90 + 4 creepy
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of a free kick like last minute. It's like a header goal I think
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and gets in and and ends 22. Yeah, so you know, ends a tie,
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you know, Leeds seem to be a much better team at home.
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In fact, Leeds all time against Bournemouth at home they were
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seven, O&O it's 7, played them seven times and won every time.
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So this has been a tough place for Bournemouth to go and
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obviously get any kind of result.
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So, you know, Bournemouth's off to this great start.
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I mean, you know, they're probably going to be happy
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getting a point here because I kind of rescue it late.
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Rodon Luca, he scores that goal. It's only a second goal ever in
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the Premier League. He's played in 177 Premier
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League, second goal ever. Simenio just continues the week
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in and week out. It's now his 11th goal
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involvement in the last 13 Premier League games.
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I mean, we've already talked about him, what a player he is.
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Great free kick. He just smashes it almost
20:46
through the wall and. In is that thing is, he'll just
20:48
get plucked by like a bigger team and.
20:50
Yeah, I, I'm, you know, I'll be honest with you, I'm surprised
20:53
teams didn't come for him a little harder.
20:54
I know there was some talk about him, but didn't seem like
20:57
anybody was really pushing real hard this last summer.
20:59
But you're right, it's sort of what happens to Bournemouth with
21:02
great players. And you know, I, I just, I like
21:05
him a lot as a player. You know me too.
21:07
So yeah, like I said, ends a tie here.
21:10
Each team gets a point, yeah, and I don't think there was a
21:13
whole lot else to talk about in this game.
21:14
So let's move on to to Nottingham Farce and Sunderland
21:17
Luca. Yeah, my boy Sunderland, they
21:20
get a one nil win. I predicted 11, but in this 38th
21:26
minute, this is kind of a horror name to pronounce Omar Al.
21:33
Alderete. Alderete from Jocko, off of a
21:36
free kick in the 38th minute, gets the only goal in this game.
21:40
There's not really much to talk about other than that one goal.
21:43
So that pretty much honestly wraps up that game.
21:46
Yeah, you know, Nottingham Forest still have not gotten a
21:48
win under and Pasha Kaglu, who came in to be their coach.
21:52
Sunderland, I mean, so far, just great story.
21:55
You know, they're sitting here 3, two and one.
21:57
They've gone 11 points, which puts them tied for fourth.
22:02
They're playing really well. They're kind of a fun team to
22:04
watch Luke. I like watching their their
22:06
players. I think they play a pretty good
22:07
style. This is a nice goal.
22:10
Like you said, Jaka kind of plays the ball over Eldoret, a
22:13
nice header into the goal there. You know, Forrest, we talked
22:16
about this last week. They're they're they're
22:18
struggling right now. They're, you know, clearly not
22:20
the team they were last year. But you know, this is a good win
22:23
for Sunderland. Again, three points on the road
22:26
you take down almost against anybody and so they're not going
22:29
to, you know. Back down now.
22:31
Yeah, so I like, I like this story.
22:33
I like that the table is looking kind of crazy, you know, like
22:36
you've got Liverpool and Arsenal at the top, which most people
22:39
would have predicted. But I love that it goes like
22:41
Alice, Tottenham, Sunderland, Bournemouth, I mean.
22:45
I do not like that it has Tottenham.
22:47
Well, OK, fair enough, fair enough.
22:49
But I think it's like it makes it interesting, you know, then
22:51
it goes like City and Chelsea, but like I, I like that, you
22:54
know, we've got some teams here to talk about that.
22:56
We all thought, oh, Sunderland, they're just going to come up
22:58
and go right back down. We talked about this the past
23:00
two years. The three teams that got
23:02
promoted went immediately right back down.
23:04
I don't know, doesn't feel so far.
23:06
Again, it's very, very early. I mean, we're six games in.
23:09
But I think this has been kind of fun, like I said, seeing
23:11
these teams play and learning about some of their players.
23:13
Yeah. All right, Luca.
23:15
Well, let's move on. You just mentioned Tottenham.
23:17
Let's move on to Spurs and Wolves.
23:19
This is a bit of a surprise result, so talk to me about this
23:22
game. So this game ended 11 tie.
23:24
I predicted 2 nil Spurs Bueno in the 54th minute.
23:29
It's the opener and then in the 95th minute, another added time
23:35
goal. Paulina.
23:37
It's pretty nice goal. It's kind of like a fall from
23:39
the outside of the box into the far bottom corner.
23:42
And I feel like he kind of overreacts here, takes off his
23:44
shirt starts like flexing the fans going ah, I I mean, he he
23:52
calmed down. You just tied against wolves.
23:56
I mean, you didn't deserve the tie, but anyway.
23:59
And you won one. Not much else to talk about
24:01
here. Yeah, I mean, you're mentioning
24:03
Wolves. They came in with five losses in
24:05
five games. I mean, they were sitting bottom
24:07
of the table, did not have a point.
24:08
It was their worst start ever in the Premier League and actually
24:12
they got a point here. But if they had lost, there was
24:15
only three teams ever that started with six losses in six
24:18
games. Norwich did it I think in 2122,
24:22
Crystal Palace in 17 in the in 1718 and Portsmouth in O nine
24:28
2010. So only three teams ever
24:30
started, you know, 6 losses in six games.
24:33
So wolves they got a point here. They're going to be disappointed
24:36
because they had three points there and they give up sort of a
24:39
late goal to Palenia like that. You know I mean that would have
24:42
been made them feel a whole lot better if they could have gotten
24:44
a win on the road. I guess they'll take the point.
24:47
Maybe try to build from there You.
24:49
Know there the situation they're gonna they're probably gonna go
24:53
through like 5 managers this year well.
24:55
Yeah, they have not fired their manager yet.
24:58
They should. Already had two firings, so
25:00
we'll come on to the second firing here in a little bit.
25:03
But yeah, so 11 each team gets a point.
25:07
So let's move on Luca to villain Fulham.
25:09
We we got up on Sunday to watch this with our number one Fulham
25:13
fan Andrew and so that was fun. Yeah, shout out to him.
25:16
Although they lost three, one I predicted Fulham to win one nil
25:21
and the third minute I just woken up, I came down, I heard
25:24
you guys cheering. I was like what happened?
25:27
And then I came down and saw that Jimenez had scored.
25:30
It's a header. But then as soon as that
25:33
happened, he like was like wincing in pain and then came
25:38
off like a couple minutes later. I don't really know what the
25:42
injury was, but I don't know. I they're out of strikers now.
25:48
New knees is hurt now. Jimenez, I don't know what
25:51
they're going to do. Then in the 37th minute, Watkins
25:55
of like a ball played over the top.
25:57
He kind of lobs it over the keeper fast.
26:00
He tries to get it, can't and try one.
26:04
One goes in the halftime 11, but then they kind of get blitzed
26:08
with two goals begin in the 49th minute, nice, a nice finish into
26:12
the bottom corner from the outside of the box and then
26:15
Blendia in the 51st minute. So there's a little
26:18
controversial thing in this too, in this game too, Possibly a
26:23
handball on cash in the box. I think he so he kind of the
26:29
bull is shot by Josh King. Cash tries to like turn away to
26:33
block it when he leaves his arm there and it hits his arm and it
26:40
definitely helps block the shot. For me this is easily a
26:45
handball. Should have been a penalty.
26:46
I think Forum got robbed there. Yeah, this one, you know, I, I
26:51
think so their, their argument is saying his hand was in sort
26:54
of like a natural position. I don't know where they get that
26:58
from I. I think it's a penalty too.
27:00
I don't think his hand is in really a natural position.
27:02
He sort of turns his body and I get that your hands turn a
27:04
little bit, but his hand was pretty far back.
27:07
Like you said, clearly alters a shot of the ball.
27:10
Again, I feel like there's so much inconsistency in the
27:13
referee and because I feel like. I'm basically saying that you
27:15
can catch the ball and you'll be fine.
27:17
Well, I just feel like I've seen this happen before where guys
27:20
hands have been in that position and it's and it's usually called
27:22
a penalty. So I again, I just, I wish there
27:24
was more consistency with calls. So I I feel like Fulham a little
27:28
hard done. Fulham actually played really
27:30
well in the first half of this game.
27:32
Yeah, they did not play very well in the second-half and just
27:36
sort of Villa kind of blitzed them with, you know, you know, 2
27:39
quick goals. And then from there there really
27:41
wasn't a whole lot else in this game.
27:42
So, you know, I guess the question is going to be, you
27:45
know, are Villa starting to get it together?
27:48
You know, they came in really struggling, so they're too good
27:52
A-Team to be sitting there in the bottom 3.
27:54
Right you. Know so I'm expecting this team
27:57
to sort of get it together. Is this the moment or was just a
28:00
sort of, you know, a one off We'll see.
28:03
You know, I think Villa is a team to kind of keep an eye on
28:05
moving forward because there's just too many, they have too
28:07
many quality players to be playing the way they were before
28:10
and getting those results before.
28:12
Yeah. Yeah, so you know, Villa
28:16
typically do well against Fulham.
28:18
They won their last six against Fulham, so maybe we shouldn't be
28:22
hugely surprised by this result. They were at home.
28:25
They do well against Fulham and they'll they'll they'll take the
28:27
win and move on. All right, Luke, I'm going to
28:30
save the best for last year. So we're going to talk real
28:32
quick about the game that just finished here on Monday.
28:35
Everton, West Ham West Ham fires their manager Graham Potter
28:39
hires Nuno Spirit dos Santos, who literally just got fired 20
28:43
days ago from Nottingham Forest. So crazy world, you get fired to
28:48
get rehired 20 days later by a different team.
28:51
All right, quickly take me through this and then we'll get
28:53
to the big. So I predicted this Everton and
28:56
West him to tie 00. It did tie 11 and in the 18th
29:03
minute Keen scores and then in the 65th minute Bowen ties it
29:09
up. And this is the first game under
29:11
Nuno Espirito Santos, as you just said, but just not much to
29:15
talk about there. It wasn't that good of a game
29:17
so. Yeah, West Ham obviously
29:19
struggling. They fired their manager, so I
29:21
guess maybe they'll take the point on the road at the new
29:24
Everton Stadium. Yeah.
29:26
So like I said, that ends up 11. They each get a point.
29:29
All right, Luca, the last game, the one we were most excited
29:33
about. Call my.
29:34
Arsenal, Newcastle, these games, you know, there's usually a lot
29:39
of talking points in this game and I don't think this one
29:41
disappointed. So all right, Luca, just dive
29:45
into it. Tell me, Arsenal.
29:46
Newcastle. So I actually predicted this to
29:48
be a 22 tie. I was wrong.
29:51
And two, one, Arsenal. Come on.
29:57
If Voltamade header in the 34th minute and before this kind of
30:03
like Gabrielle and Voltamade, we're kind of going at it a
30:07
little bit. We'll talk.
30:08
You'll see Gabrielle again. But yeah, so and then and then
30:13
there's not like anything. Well, actually before the goal
30:17
there's a penalty claim for Arsenal.
30:20
So the ball is he kind of gets deflected to yokere as he takes
30:25
a touch and gets taken down. I think that's clearly a
30:29
penalty. They they initially called the
30:33
penalty on like initially the call in the field was penalty.
30:39
Then they looked at VIR and changed it.
30:41
I initially thought they were looking at VIR for a red card.
30:44
I thought this was a penalty and a red card.
30:48
I think that is crazy how they did not call that.
30:51
But anyway, 34 minute Baldomada header.
30:54
Both of his goals have been a header that just shows how he's
30:57
using his size against wait to benefit him.
31:01
And then in the 84th minute is not not much until the 84th
31:04
minute, Marino off of like a short corner playback in Marino,
31:10
nice header in the far corner and it were tied 11.
31:13
Then in the 97th minute, Gabrielle gets a header and you
31:21
won't believe my reaction. I was running around the house
31:24
screaming. I took off my shirt, started
31:27
running around. I was so happy and excited.
31:31
I was just great. Another thing was maybe a PK on
31:35
Gabrielle. We just talked about Cashes PK
31:38
it. This is kind of the same thing
31:40
They're saying this is in a natural position.
31:43
I think we go Milwaukee there with that one.
31:46
I think it's like this kind of like the same thing as cash is
31:49
doesn't matter. We get to win a great win on the
31:53
road at at Saint James's Park. I think that's always a hard
31:57
place to go to. But yeah, great win.
32:00
Yeah, I could talk about this game for the next 30 minutes.
32:03
Yeah, this was so to me, the backdrop of this game is that we
32:07
talk about how certain teams struggle against certain teams.
32:10
Arsenal struggle against Newcastle.
32:12
So we've lost our last three at Saint James Park.
32:16
We lost to them three times last year.
32:19
Typically when we go, I feel like the Saint James Park
32:22
Newcastle have a great home field advantage.
32:25
They have great fans. So that place is tough.
32:27
It's loud, their fans are singing, they're cheering and
32:30
like all like more power to them for that.
32:32
I love to see that. However, I feel like Newcastle
32:35
does run around the field trying to be bullies, trying to be
32:38
thugs, trying to kick us. And I feel like they always get
32:42
get the benefit of a lot of calls.
32:44
And what I mean by that too is that I feel like, you know, the
32:47
threshold to get a card, the threshold to call a foul is so
32:51
high and they get away with a lot of stuff, especially when
32:53
they play at home. 2 minutes into the game, Joelton basically
32:57
does a scissor tackle on Saka. This is a yellow card all day
33:01
long. I'm not saying a red, but this
33:02
is a yellow card all day long. But I think because it's early
33:05
in the game, because it's Newcastle at home, of course
33:07
they don't get it. Yeah.
33:08
And these guys, you know, Bruno, guy Marash punched, you know,
33:12
Georgina in the head on a play, didn't get anything for that.
33:14
This was last year or two years ago.
33:17
So there's like, this is just sort of the history of what
33:19
happens And, and look, we typically don't play well
33:21
against them. They get results against us, you
33:23
know, so whatever they do typically works.
33:26
They had Anthony Gordon back for this game.
33:28
So he had served his suspension. He's back.
33:31
You know, Newcastle came in with a very, very good defense.
33:35
So Newcastle, well, you talk about them struggling a little
33:37
bit. They played five games.
33:39
They'd only given up goals in one of those games.
33:42
Nick Pope came in with four clean sheets out of five games.
33:44
They gave up three to Liverpool in that one game.
33:47
So, you know, this is a good team.
33:50
I, I, I think Newcastle is going to be like Bill a little bit.
33:52
I, I see them going on at some point.
33:54
They're going to get this together.
33:56
You know, I think this ESAC drama really kind of, you know,
33:59
mess with their chemistry. So I think they're I think
34:03
they're a really good team actually, you know, I think
34:05
they're a quality team. You know, they were, like I
34:07
said, trying to bully us around the park.
34:09
But I think Arsenal showed me a little bit like mental fortitude
34:13
here that they kind of came out, I thought looked real good
34:16
coming out. The goal that Boltimod scored.
34:22
Nice goal. Gabriel has to do better there,
34:23
Luca, I think he feels hands on the back and he flops himself
34:27
down trying to get a foul that's not like him.
34:29
Yeah. You know, he is usually much
34:30
more of a physical, strong defender.
34:32
I think he was looking for the foul, didn't get it and it
34:35
wasn't a foul. So credit on them.
34:37
They scored a goal there. Interesting.
34:39
All three goals came off of headers.
34:40
Yeah. And all three goals somewhat off
34:42
of corner kicks, too. Yeah, I do want to talk about
34:45
the PKA little bit situation with Guy Ocharis.
34:47
So like you said, ball gets played in.
34:51
It's sort of almost like a back pass Guy Ocharis clearly touches
34:54
the ball first, OK, Touches it, he touches it on the Pope's foot
34:59
and then it's like a knee on knee collision that takes Guy
35:01
Ocharis down. Luca, I don't know in what world
35:05
this is not at least a penalty. At least a penalty.
35:08
If not, I had the same thought you did for a second.
35:10
I'm like, he's gone because last week Sanchez in the Chelsea game
35:14
against Man United comes out to get a ball and Buemo gets there
35:17
first. Sanchez fouls him and he gets a
35:21
red card and he's gone. These are very, very similar in
35:24
my opinion, where the attacking player gets on the ball first.
35:27
You know, and really what happened was Giocaris is
35:30
touching the ball on the Pope's foot, but Pope doesn't win the
35:32
ball. You know, we see this all the
35:34
time in the in the field where defender will come in, he may
35:39
get the ball, but he doesn't win it and clatters a guy.
35:42
It's a foul. You know, just because you just
35:44
because Pope touches the ball doesn't negate the fact that he
35:46
clearly fouled him there. And then my other problem.
35:49
So I think it should be a penalty just based on the call.
35:52
But the other my other huge problem with this Luca is that
35:55
again, VAR gets involved to like re officiate this the call on
35:58
the field, referee was standing there.
36:01
It was a penalty. They had to overturn this, which
36:04
means it was clear and obvious that this was not a penalty.
36:08
I think it's just complete madness and I'll tell you why,
36:11
Luca. So I went back and watched it.
36:13
When the referee gets told to go over to the screen, he goes over
36:16
to the screen and spends a minute and 30 looking at the
36:20
screen. So are you trying to tell me
36:22
that it was clear and obvious but he needed a minute and 30
36:25
seconds to decide that? No, he was like looking at every
36:28
little frame, going back and forth.
36:30
That's not clear and obvious. Yeah, crazy.
36:33
I I, yeah, I, I this just sort of makes my head explode because
36:36
I just feel like, you know, var getting involved in this kind of
36:40
stuff, re officiating stuff. It's supposed to be for clear
36:42
and obvious. This was not clear and obvious
36:44
and it just like to me, the whole thing way to play it out.
36:47
This is this game to me is a lot like the Palace game.
36:50
I feel Arsenal deserve the three points out of this game.
36:52
They played well at the end. They were the one pushing for a
36:55
goal. They were the one keep going,
36:57
keep going, keep going. They got the goal, they're
36:59
running, getting the ball out of the net because they feel it
37:01
like we can get three points out of this.
37:04
This is, I think I think this is a real massive game for Arsenal
37:07
because of the fact that we don't do well against Newcastle.
37:10
We needed to capitalize on Liverpool losing.
37:13
We talked about Arsenal had a really tough first six games.
37:16
So this kind of gets them through this really tough start.
37:18
They've now been to Old Trafford, they've been to
37:21
Anfield, they've been to Saint James Park.
37:23
We've played City at home. So, you know, and now we sit
37:28
only two points behind Liverpool better full differential.
37:31
So yeah, I, I just, you know, I'm, I'm thrilled because I felt
37:36
like we really deserved the result.
37:38
Yeah, I think we did. We definitely did.
37:40
Yeah, so like I said this, this really made our day.
37:44
It helped that the Eagles went on and won right after this from
37:46
the Eagles fans, of course, too. So that was good.
37:48
But yeah, you know, let me just talk a little bit about
37:51
Gabrielle, too, Luca, you know, this guy is such a weapon on
37:54
corner kicks. So Gabrielle came in in
37:57
September of 2020. He's had eighteen goals.
38:01
To put it in context, Luca, I'm sorry.
38:03
So if you look at this defenders since that time, so Gabrielle's
38:06
a defender, right? He has eighteen goals, the next
38:08
best is 12 goals and that's Trent Alexander, Arnold, Virgil
38:12
Van Dyke and Char. They have 12.
38:15
He has eighteen goals and if you look at all players, all
38:19
players, OK, you know, no, just in the Premier League, so just
38:23
in the Premier League, the only people with more headed goals
38:26
and Gabrielle are Holland, Kane, Wood and Watkins.
38:31
All forwards, they're all strikers.
38:32
They're all strikers and forwards and Gabrielle's like
38:35
said, next on that list with with just headed goals.
38:38
So I mean, it's just what a weapon to have this guy, you
38:41
know, being able to kind of attack free kicks, attack
38:44
corners. So I I just wanted to kind of
38:46
give him a shout out redeemed himself because I thought he
38:48
made a big mistake on the first goal.
38:51
All right, well, that that wraps up Week 6 in the Premier League.
38:55
Luca nine goals scored an extra. Time I know that was in, it was
38:58
an insane week in the Premier League.
39:01
Unbelievable. So that is obviously a record
39:03
for most, you know, Premier League goals scored, an extra
39:07
time. What?
39:07
Do you think was the next closest?
39:09
I don't know. I don't know.
39:10
I mean it, it just, it was crazy.
39:12
I mean, but nearly as close as 9.
39:15
Yeah. All right.
39:17
Well, Luca, let's let's we got. So let's look ahead to next
39:20
week. I want to get your opinion on
39:21
some of these games because we have games next week and then we
39:23
go on another international break.
39:25
But real quick, give me some of your predictions here.
39:29
So we have Bournemouth at home against Fulham.
39:31
Give me a prediction on that one.
39:32
I'm going to go 21, Bournemouth. I think Bournemouths are just a
39:36
better team here. OK, so Bournemouth at home, get
39:39
the win 21 all right Luca, What about Leeds at home against
39:42
Tottenham? Spurs going to Leeds?
39:46
I think 11. OK, SO11 tie there.
39:50
All right, look a man you at home against Sunderland.
39:53
This could be interesting. I think Sunderland win 2/1.
39:57
Oh, boy, here we go. Shocker, shocker.
40:00
Sunderland go to the head he had and get a result.
40:02
They keep this. Yeah, it's at.
40:04
It's at. Oh, I'm sorry.
40:05
I'm sorry. Man UI.
40:06
I Old Trafford. OK, So you Sunderland's going to
40:09
Old Trafford. I'm sorry.
40:09
Yeah, I meant Man U, not City. OK, 21 win against Man U.
40:14
OK. Oh, boy.
40:15
Amora May. He may start packing his bags.
40:17
Yep. All right, look at Arsenal at
40:19
home against West Ham. I think we win this 3 nothing. 3
40:24
Nothing. OK, Big game here at Stanford
40:28
Bridge, Chelsea, Liverpool. I think Liverpool get this two
40:32
nil. Two nil.
40:33
OK, so Chelsea, Oh. Boy, I think they're going to
40:36
bounce back from that, win a loss.
40:38
OK, they so they get the win on the road at Stanford Bridge.
40:41
OK, look, we have Wolves at home against Brighton.
40:44
I think Brighton get this one nothing.
40:46
One. Nothing.
40:47
One for Brighton. OK, you have Newcastle at home
40:49
against Nottingham Forest. 21 Newcastle I'm I'm in predict.
40:54
All right, we got Everton at home versus Crystal Palace.
40:59
Do Palace go down this week? No they do not 2 New Palace.
41:04
Palace keep. Keep it rolling, all right?
41:06
It's just for the record, by the way.
41:07
They're tied with the record right now.
41:09
They could set their club record and and they've been around it's
41:12
like since like the 1860s or something.
41:14
They're one of the oldest premier.
41:15
League, yeah. I mean it's like they're like
41:16
150 a 160 years old. Arsenal is the oldest.
41:19
No, no, Arsenal are 1886 Palace else I think is older.
41:22
I think they're like in the 1860s.
41:24
So I don't know that for sure, but Arsenal one of the oldest,
41:26
but Palace are definitely up there.
41:29
All right, Luca, Aston Villa at home against.
41:31
Burnley, I think they get this two now.
41:34
Aston Villa, OK, I think they are going to win this.
41:38
All right, to round off the week, Luca, you have Brentford
41:40
at home against Man City. I think Man City get this 2
41:44
nothing. 2 Nothing. All right, we're there.
41:46
We got your predictions locked and ready to go, all right,
41:50
Look, as we look around Europe this week, got Champions League
41:53
back, all right, So Tuesday and Wednesday we have Champion
41:56
League, Champions League games on Wednesday you've got
42:00
Barcelona, PSG. That's going to be a big game.
42:03
That's a juicy 1 real quick. Who do you like in that one?
42:07
I'm going to get 335. Yeah, it very well could be.
42:12
I mean, remember Barcelona last year in Champions League?
42:14
Every game. Just so fun to watch.
42:16
Yeah. So, yeah, so keep that in mind.
42:18
You have Europa League on Thursdays next weekend.
42:22
You also have some decent games, Luca, actually in some of the
42:24
other countries. In Germany, you've got Dortmund
42:27
versus Leipzig. That's two verse 3 in the table.
42:30
You have Bayern playing Frankfurt which is one verse 4.
42:35
If you like some Spanish La Liga, you have Real Madrid
42:38
versus Villa Real 2. Verse 3 Villa Real sitting in
42:41
3rd and in Italy you've got AC Milan sitting in first against
42:45
UVA in fourth. So some wait.
42:48
AC Milan's in first I thought UVA was in.
42:50
First AC Milan now in first place.
42:52
Oh, OK, so Captain America, Kristen Pulisic playing well for
42:55
them. So yeah, like I said, if the if
42:58
you know these games tend to a lot of times be on in the late
43:01
afternoon. So it's like especially Italy
43:03
and and Spain games. So if you're looking and for a
43:05
little extra soccer after the Premier League ends, you've got
43:07
some pretty good games in the other countries there.
43:09
So. And then like I said, Champions
43:11
League this week. So All right, Lucas, should we
43:15
move on to the viewer mailbag? Yep.
43:17
All right, Luca, we have two questions. 2 viewer mailbag
43:20
questions. Wow.
43:21
All right, First question comes from Nan, your grandmother.
43:26
Oh, yeah. OK, Lucas, she wants to know
43:29
what makes a pro soccer player qualify as a legend.
43:34
Like when do you call a soccer player a legend?
43:37
I think I call a soccer player a legend when they've won a lot of
43:42
trophies, gotten a lot of individual stats, like good
43:46
stats like scoring lots of goals, assists, and played for a
43:54
long time and just been all time great.
43:57
Just playing all league, just dominating every league he's
44:01
been in. That's when I call a soccer
44:03
player a legend. OK, so obviously I don't think
44:08
anybody would argue Ronaldo and Messi are legends.
44:10
Oh yeah, OK. And Neymar.
44:12
Neymar. Yes.
44:15
Wait a second, we just talked about Ronaldo, Messi and you
44:18
just quickly just threw Neymar in with those 3.
44:20
Yes, I did. OK, I'm going to push back on
44:22
that big time. Whoa, No, no, Sir.
44:24
No. Sir.
44:25
All right. Well, my question was, and I
44:26
guess maybe you. Answered Elsa Lewandowski.
44:28
What's I was going to say? So are there any other players
44:31
playing right now, playing right now, that you would consider a
44:34
legend? OK, Neymar.
44:37
OK. Lewandowski.
44:39
OK, I'm more with you on Lewandowski than Neymar, but
44:45
like, is Mbappe a legend? No, cuz he's too young.
44:49
He's too young. OK, how about?
44:53
He will be a legend. I think Harry, I mean, I hate to
44:55
say it, but it's Harry Kane, a legend.
44:57
He's a legend, Kane. Kane is a legend.
44:59
OK, even even though no real good results for the National?
45:04
He's on Spurs. I mean, I don't know why he
45:06
stays his. Only trophy came with Bayern
45:08
Munich, which is like a free trophy basically because.
45:10
Yeah, I still think he's a legend.
45:12
OK, fair enough. Like Kevin De Bruyne.
45:19
Is he a legend? Yes, yeah, he is a legend.
45:24
I think I'm I'm drawing a blank here.
45:30
Like other guys, I'm trying to think of like other like big
45:33
Nash teams that like some of the like who's some of the guys from
45:35
like the Spanish national team, you know, they're more like a
45:40
collective. I would like Spain to me, like,
45:43
you know, it's hard to think of like even like who's the best
45:45
player on the Spanish national team.
45:47
They just play so well together and have so much depth.
45:50
But. Like, well, a medium all would
45:52
be the best player in the Spanish team.
45:54
Yeah, that's probably fair. He's not a legend yet, though,
45:56
because he's, what, 18? 17 if we're going to start
46:00
calling the medium all legend. And yeah, we have to.
46:02
He's on his way. Yes, I mean James Zimbabwe,
46:05
that's from Venice's junior. That those three on their way to
46:09
becoming legends. OK, all right.
46:12
What about like someone like Marquinos?
46:18
No, OK, he's not watching because he just plays.
46:21
He played APSD pretty much his whole career.
46:24
They did do the treble last year.
46:25
Yes, and champions, but like they only did it once, Ronaldo,
46:29
Messi like twice or something. Three times.
46:33
They've won it more than once. I know that.
46:34
I don't know, like maybe I will, maybe we'll have to look that up
46:37
for next week because I don't know that.
46:38
I think like I know they've won it once.
46:41
I think I was going to I, I, if I had to get, I think Ronaldo
46:44
and Messi each did the trouble once.
46:46
Well, OK, I would argue that Martino's is a defender.
46:52
Sure, he can be a legend, but also he played in a very easy
46:57
league on the like with there's no competition in that league.
47:02
And then I would argue that Ronaldo and Messi played at the
47:05
same time in the same week, battling it out.
47:07
It's always, it was always close and I feel like that's why
47:12
they're more of a legend than Marquinos and another one.
47:16
I think Van Dyke would be a legend.
47:18
Yeah, that's probably a pretty good call.
47:20
I mean. I think Milner.
47:22
Milner is a legend I don't know. Like his 1st for like your.
47:28
Great career, but a legend. Legend, Premier League legend.
47:31
I think you're. Like the appearances record that
47:34
he might. He's played a lot.
47:35
I give him credit for that. But like Legend, I mean, come
47:37
on, we're just talking like. You know, like, sure, sure,
47:39
sure. You know.
47:41
Van Dyke though, he is. I think Van Dyke's a good call.
47:44
I mean, like I said, just having one cuz he's a Champions League
47:46
winner. Obviously he's won the Premier
47:48
League twice. I mean, he's been the best
47:51
central defender for like the past 10 years.
47:53
Yeah. I mean he's so any still
47:55
playing? Ramos just watching.
47:57
Sergio Ramos. Yeah, that's an interesting one.
48:00
Yeah. I think it's hard with these
48:02
guys that played at big clubs. I agree with you.
48:05
If you played a PSG, it's sort of like because you're gonna win
48:08
the league every year, that's like a given.
48:10
You're probably gonna win the Coup de France every year.
48:13
You know some. Of every trophy.
48:14
Some of the bars and Real Madrid guys like you, you better pile
48:17
on like some Champions Leagues because it's it's either one of
48:20
the two pretty much win La League every year and they're
48:22
probably going to win the Copa del Rey every year.
48:25
So you better win some Champions Leagues.
48:27
Now Sergio Ramos did that. He checked that box.
48:30
So I think that's like a fair. Thing You won like 345 Champions
48:34
Leagues. Yeah, they did.
48:35
I know. I mean, it's, it's crazy how
48:36
many, you know, they've won. So all right, I like that.
48:39
All right. I think that was a good, good
48:41
definition of a legend there. All right, mail bag question #2
48:44
we have two. One this one came in through the
48:46
Premier League playground e-mail #1 fan as he wanted to be
48:51
called. Andrew.
48:52
All right, number our #1 fan our. #1 Fan All right, Luca, he
48:56
wanted to know, he said OK, Man City and Liverpool have won
48:59
every Premier League title since 2016, 2017 season, that's when
49:04
Chelsea won. So the past eight seasons have
49:07
been dominated by two teams. OK, He wants to know when and
49:12
who is going to be the next champion not named City or
49:17
Liverpool. So you're going to have to come
49:19
up Luca, and you got to have to tell me who the team is and when
49:22
you think this will happen, that we're going to get a team not
49:25
named City or Liverpool to win the Premier League title.
49:27
You're ready for a big hot take. Yeah, hit me.
49:31
This year an Arsenal, OK, I think we're doing it.
49:36
So you think we're doing it OK all?
49:38
Right, all right. Fair enough, Andrew thought That
49:40
might be the question. All right, give me somebody,
49:43
give me a team now, give me an A new when and who?
49:48
That is not Arsenal, City or Liverpool.
49:52
Maybe next year, Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace next year.
49:59
Oh my goodness. Wow.
50:01
OK, so Palace is going to win the title next year.
50:05
So Arsenal this year, Palace next year.
50:07
Wow, we're really shaking it up OK because.
50:10
Salah and Van Dyke might be retired and some players on, I
50:16
don't know. City and Arsenal might be
50:19
retired. You never know.
50:20
We don't have very many old players, but, you know, so,
50:24
yeah. All right, there you have it.
50:26
OK, so Luca's picking Arsenal this year, Crystal Palace next
50:29
year. So all right, good mail, bad
50:30
questions, Luca. All right, Luca, did you know?
50:35
OK, we had an announcement this week.
50:38
World Cup. A little bit of World Cup news
50:40
here, OK, We have our World Cup mascots, Luca.
50:45
Yeah. All right, we got our mascots.
50:47
If anybody wants to see the picture of the mascots, you can
50:50
go onto our Instagram page. Of course, Premier League
50:52
Playground on Instagram and here we have our mascots.
50:56
So government. So we have 3 because of course
50:59
we have three host countries, right, Canada, US and Mexico.
51:03
Luca, we have Clutch. He is an Eagle, he's a
51:06
midfielder. He's in the US men's national
51:09
team. Blew away kit.
51:10
I think he mean, I think that's because our America's bird is a
51:14
or America's animal is a eagle. Yeah, I was going to say that
51:19
there. It's the national bird, which
51:21
was formerly designated in 1782 as our national bird and of
51:24
course, the symbol of America. OK, Luca, we have Maple.
51:28
Maple's a moose, a goalkeeping moose.
51:31
It's in Canada's home red kit. And of course, this is inspired
51:35
by the Maple Leaf, which is Canada's national symbol.
51:39
And finally, Luca, we have Ziyu, A striker Jaguar.
51:44
This animal is revered by ancient civilizations as a
51:47
symbol of strength and bravery, like civilizations in Mexico as
51:52
a symbol of like, strength and bravery.
51:54
So that's how we got Ziyu, the Jaguar striker.
51:58
And Luca, did you know OK that we've had a World Cup mascot in
52:03
every World Cup going back to 1966?
52:06
Do you remember where the 1966 World Cup was?
52:10
Where it was. Yeah.
52:14
Italy, no. England, England.
52:19
So we had Luca, we had World Cup Willie.
52:23
He was the first ever World Cup mascot in 1966 in England.
52:27
And then like I said, we've had one ever since.
52:29
Like usually like lots of different fruit for different
52:32
kind of shapes. Or they're a little strange
52:34
actually, if you go online and just sort of Google World Cup
52:36
mascots or they're, they're kind of some weird mascots.
52:38
Yeah. What's your take?
52:39
So give me your take on Clutch, Maple and Zayou.
52:42
I like these. I think these are I like the
52:49
mascots. These are my favorite is Maple.
52:53
I like Maple. You like Maple, the goalkeeping?
52:56
Moose, Yeah, the goalkeeping Moose.
52:58
Yes, Sir. He's he's my favorite.
53:01
And then Clutch and then Zayu. I think they're all cool.
53:05
I think they're they're all cool.
53:06
So thumbs up on all three of them.
53:08
You're a fan of of all three of them.
53:10
You think they? Did a good job, yes.
53:12
All right. Would you have thrown a
53:13
different animal into the mix for any of these or OK, so
53:18
you're you're good with them all there?
53:20
Yeah, I'm cool with them all. All right, well, there you go.
53:22
A little. Did you know on World Cup
53:23
mascots? OK All right, Luca, we're moving
53:27
on to our penalty kick trivia shootout.
53:32
All right, we end every show with this, Luca.
53:34
OK, so as we know, we'll go back and forth asking trivia
53:37
questions. Maybe we'll give it a second or
53:39
two before we give our answers to let other people, you know,
53:42
listening, give their answers. But yeah, do you want to go
53:46
first or second? I'll.
53:47
Answer first. You want to answer first, OK.
53:51
All right. Luca, my first question to you
53:53
is we just, we talked a little bit the Balon door last week and
53:57
of course Usman Denbelly won the Balon door.
53:59
But before that, OK, from 2008 Lugo to 2023, we had 15
54:05
Balandors given 13 of them were given to Messi and Ronaldo
54:09
combined. So that means over those 15
54:12
years, we had two people not named Ronaldo or Messi win a
54:15
Balandor. Can you give me the two players
54:19
that Juan Balandors over that time period?
54:22
Madrich. That's right, that is one of
54:24
them, Luca Madrich. Oh, I think I know this was it.
54:35
Was it Rooney? Not Rooney.
54:39
I will give you a hand. He played for the same club team
54:41
as Mondridge. So much dream thinking.
54:46
It's hard because he's out in Saudi Arabia now playing.
54:49
Saudi Arabia now playing Saudi Arabia?
54:56
What team? I don't.
54:57
I don't pay attention to Saudi Arabia soccer.
54:59
Kareem Benzema. Benzema.
55:02
Benzema that was a little bit of a tricky.
55:03
I had a feeling you'd get Luca Madrich because you guys share
55:06
your face name. But all right, Leah, Kareem
55:09
Benzema in 2022 won the Balandor.
55:12
So I just hit the post in it I missed.
55:14
Yeah. I mean, you kind of got, hey,
55:15
I'll maybe give you a half on that.
55:17
All right, Luca, give me your question.
55:19
What is the name of IX's home stadium?
55:23
Yeah, you have choices for me. Amsterdam Arena, Kraif Stadion,
55:30
Johann Kraif Arena or Phillips Stadium.
55:34
I'm. Going to go with Johann Kraif
55:35
arena. Correct.
55:37
I had a feeling I need a little help.
55:39
I don't know if I would have come up with that one on my own,
55:40
but all right, Luca, Are you ready for your second question?
55:44
What Premier League club plays their home games at Vitality
55:48
Stadium, which used to be called Dean Court?
55:51
Bournemouth. That is correct Bournemouth.
55:55
Look at the the the how much it holds 11,307 people.
56:00
That's like how much the credit One Stadium holds here in South
56:04
Carolina. I know to to put so it is it is
56:06
the smallest stadium by about like 6 or 7000 I think.
56:10
Brentford's is pretty small too, but just put it in comparison.
56:13
Old Trafford, the biggest, holds 74,000 people.
56:17
That's the biggest. That's the biggest and born
56:19
vitality stadium is all it's a difference of 63,000 people from
56:24
what that stadium. So yeah, I I it's amazing 11,000
56:28
people. I mean, I it's got to be so cool
56:30
to see a game there. I.
56:31
Mean you know shall be hard to get tickets.
56:34
I know, I know. Yeah.
56:35
I mean, only 11,000 people, 11,307 had listed somewhere.
56:39
So yeah, difference of the Old Trafford 74,000.
56:41
But all right, Luke. Yep, you got that one right
56:43
score. What a goal.
56:46
Which season did Ville Real reach the Champions League semi
56:50
finals for the first time? And I have choices.
56:53
I'm going to need some help. Yeah, OK.
56:55
A 1988 to 1989, B 1994 to 1995, C 2001 to 2002, or D 2005 to
57:04
2006. How about about 9495?
57:10
2005, 2006, that was hard. OK, that's a tough one.
57:14
That's a tough. One, I'm not up on my villa.
57:15
Real true, yeah. Me.
57:17
Neither. All right, Luca, your third
57:19
question involves MO Sala, Liverpool forward.
57:21
OK, so MO Sala Luca has in his career currently right now, he's
57:26
played for six different clubs, OK?
57:29
He's been actually on five one one of those was alone.
57:32
Can you give me 3 of the clubs that MO Sala has played for?
57:36
Romont, Chelsea, Liverpool. Yeah, boom, right there.
57:40
You can you get? Can you keep going?
57:42
Oh, Wolfsburg. No.
57:46
Oh OK, I can't. I know there's like some other
57:49
small clubs that he's been on. Well, I'm disappointed you
57:53
didn't get Al Ma Kaloon, his Egyptian club that he came.
57:57
Up. Oh yeah, he's not you're.
57:58
A big Egyptian, you know, premier.
58:00
League fan there. Yeah, big SO.
58:01
He came up with that Basel. It was 1, so obvious.
58:06
Well, some people had it because he went from Basel to Chelsea.
58:11
So that that was like the thing. So like when he popped in at
58:13
Chelsea, some people may know he came from Basel and he got
58:16
loaned actually for a season to Fiorentina, so actually played
58:20
with them on loan for Chelsea. But that's good.
58:22
You definitely got that one right.
58:23
Yeah. The Roma's a tricky one in
58:25
between Chelsea and Liverpool. Some people forget he went back
58:27
to Syria, but like I said, he had been there on loan with
58:30
Fiorentina. So yeah, good job.
58:32
That's a that's a kind of a tricky one with Roma there, but
58:35
Yep, that's another one for you all.
58:37
Right, which club has the second biggest fan base in the world?
58:42
And I had choices. Well, don't give me choices.
58:44
I, I, I, I feel like I'd wanted to.
58:47
They're all big teams. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Real
58:50
Madrid. Close Barcelona.
58:53
Are we assuming that United are first I guess, or Real Madrid
58:56
are first? What's his second biggest?
59:00
I don't really know. United and Real Madrid are both
59:03
choices here. And PSG so.
59:06
OK, that's interesting. Yeah.
59:07
Because I just, you know, sometimes I wonder how they sort
59:09
of quantify that. But all right, Luca, we've been
59:14
talking about Crystal Palace a lot, so I want to get Crystal
59:16
Palace question in here. Who was Crystal Palace's leading
59:20
goal scorer in the Premier League last year?
59:25
Mateta. Mateta is correct, fourteen
59:28
goals. I thought maybe some people
59:29
would go with Ezzy as they only had eight goals for them.
59:32
He like a bunch of assists too. He does, yeah.
59:34
He's sort of. He's a guy who's gonna get you
59:36
like 10 goals, 10 assists. Yeah.
59:38
So which is good. Yeah, So good job.
59:40
Yeah, Mateta had a real nice year last year, 14 goals.
59:43
So boom, you got that one right. All right, next one.
59:46
Which player won the FIFA best award?
59:49
The feat won FIFA the Best awards in the 2019 twenty
59:53
seasons. I have choices.
59:54
OK Oh OK. Sorry, Lionel Messi, Killian
1:00:02
Mbappe, Robert Lewandowski or Cristiano Ronaldo?
1:00:06
Messi. Lewandowski all.
1:00:08
Right, All right, Luca, Question 5.
1:00:11
Alexander Esack plays for what national team?
1:00:14
Sweden. That's correct.
1:00:17
All right, my fifth one, which player is known as El Pistoro, I
1:00:27
don't know. I have choice.
1:00:28
You are bringing some tough questions.
1:00:29
Yeah, I I would say it is a famous player and he did play
1:00:35
for Barcelona. OK, I'll piss.
1:00:37
What is it again? Pistolero it's like hard to say
1:00:41
OK with Tom Martinez, Luis Diaz, Luis Suarez and Edison Cavani.
1:00:47
Suarez. Yeah, I'm just guessing.
1:00:50
All right, we'll go real quick. I'll give you a bonus 1.
1:00:52
You won the penalty shootout, but I'm gonna give you a bonus
1:00:54
one. It involves Arsenal.
1:00:55
OK? Yeah.
1:00:57
Arsenal famously are the only team to go undefeated through a
1:01:01
Premier League season. They were called the
1:01:02
Invincibles. What year were the Invincibles?
1:01:07
O 203-0304 O. Three O 4.
1:01:11
I knew it was something around that.
1:01:13
I'll give you my this just real. Quick on that though, Arsenal
1:01:16
went 26 wins, 12 draws and famously of course went 49 games
1:01:22
unbeaten where they had 36 wins, 13 draws with no losses.
1:01:25
So that was over the the back part of one season all the way
1:01:29
through the 03/04 season and even a little bit into the
1:01:31
04/05. See.
1:01:33
Wow. And they famously lost a Man
1:01:35
United in a very controversial game where some of the calls
1:01:40
were completely outrageous in that game.
1:01:43
Yeah, you told me about that. I wasn't alive, but.
1:01:45
Over that so from May of 2003 to October of 2004, Arsenal did not
1:01:50
lose a game and they scored 112 goals and gave.
1:01:53
Up. Oh my God. 35 goals over that
1:01:55
run. I mean, that is that was
1:01:56
probably a lot of fun watching soccer for those 3049 games,
1:02:00
but. I was alive for that.
1:02:02
Time. Go ahead and give me your final
1:02:03
one. It's not as hard.
1:02:06
Which Saudi Arabian club did Neymar join in 2023 after
1:02:10
leaving Paris Saint Germain? Neymar, did he go to?
1:02:15
Like I said, I don't I don't pay attention that many Saudi it.
1:02:19
Starts with Al. Yeah.
1:02:21
Well, a lot of them do. That's not much.
1:02:22
Of it. Oh yeah.
1:02:25
Ronaldo's at Al Nasser. It's not Al Nasser.
1:02:28
It he had. Close.
1:02:29
It's alcohol. He's not.
1:02:31
He's not even on that team anymore.
1:02:33
He's on Santos now where he came up.
1:02:36
All right, look. Well there, it wraps it up.
1:02:37
You you win the the the penalty kick.
1:02:40
Pretty sure I. Was going to say, I know.
1:02:43
All right, Well, real quick, like I said, come find us on
1:02:45
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1:02:47
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1:02:51
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I don't think we got anything else so.
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Well, thank you for listening. This is the final whistle and
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that's it for us. All right.
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Bye, everybody. Thank you.
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Thank you for listening. Bye.