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Week 21 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. We're rolling through the weeks
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  of the Premier League season. I am the dad.
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  Bjorn with me is our star of the lad.
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  Luca Miller. And how are you today, Luca?
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  I'm doing good. How are you?
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  Doing good. So yeah, Luca, we're we're week
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  21 in the books. We've got a lot of lot of FA Cup
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  this weekend. So no Premier League games this
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  weekend. We're going to look back on Week
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  21 and we'll look ahead to next weekend.
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  We do have Week 22, but lots of FA Cup going on here.
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  So and you had a game this morning.
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  How'd your game go? We lost, but I think I think we
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  played pretty well. You had a foot saw game.
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  Yeah, it was a foot saw. Yeah, so explain, explain to
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  some people who may not know what foot saw is.
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  What exactly is Foot saw? It's kind of a fast-paced indoor
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  soccer game where there's five players out, outfield players
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  and and a goalie and goal, so six players on the court at
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  once. No, you have actually four and a
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  goalie. Oh yes, sorry, sorry.
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  Five players you could have. An advantage if you had that
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  extra player right now, yeah, 4 outfield players and a goalie.
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  Yes, and you play on like a smaller court with these smaller
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  goals and it's very fast-paced and if you were up by ten goals
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  you have to take away a player. Luckily it hasn't happened with
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  yet this year, but yeah, we will be done foot so.
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  Yeah, the ball is a little heavier, yeah, maybe a touch
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  smaller. It's almost like a size 4 ball
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  and it's kind of got, it's heavier, so doesn't bounce very
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  much. And the courts.
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  I'm almost like a basketball court.
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  Kinda, yeah. You kind of play on, Yeah.
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  You enjoy it. It's something you tend to do
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  more in the winter and the summer when your outdoor league
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  isn't going on, but you seem to enjoy it as kind of something.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  You guys played this morning. You played a pretty good team.
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  They were really pretty good, you guys.
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  You guys hung in there your first game in a while after the
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  holidays and you'll have a couple more games coming up.
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  So yeah, that's it, Luca. So I guess let's turn our
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  attention to Week 21. Let's go through the games.
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  Interesting, Luca, this week that the top four teams, nobody
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  moved anywhere. They all tied.
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  Everyone dropped points. Everybody dropped points, so the
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  top 4 was completely unchanged. But the first game of the week,
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  Luca. Not exactly a marquee matchup.
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  Not exactly an exciting matchup. 2 teams struggling in the
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  relegation zone, West Ham posting Nottingham Forest.
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  This game ends 21. I predict to be 11 in the 13th
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  minute, Mario Ungol and then Dominguez in the 55th minute off
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  of a nice header and gives White PK in the 89th minute.
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  I'm pretty sure off of he gets like clattered by Areola.
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  He gets kind of punched. But yeah, force now 7 points
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  clear of West Ham for the final relegation spot and West Ham now
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  winless in last 10 games. Yeah, so the the the key moment
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  was a ball coming into the box and Arreola, the goalie for West
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  Ham, comes to get the ball, doesn't get any of the ball,
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  kind of goes to punch it, sort of punches Gibbs White in the
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  head, also hits him with his body.
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  What is your read on it, penalty or no?
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  Penalty. Definitely penalty, yeah.
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  I think if the goalie doesn't get the ball and he hits
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  somebody in the head, it it's got to be a foul on a clip, then
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  it's a foul on the box. So Gibbs White slots at home and
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  and they get a big three points for them.
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  But we could Nottingham Forests have trailed 103 times at
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  halftime. This is only the second time
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  they've ever come back to win a game.
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  The last time was 1997 against Spurs.
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  So usually you're up on a Forest at half and and you win.
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  This was not the case this time. So big three points for Forest,
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  like you said, Luca, there's a big gap between the three teams
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  in the relegation zone. And now Forest, who are in 17th,
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  sitting there safe on 21.7 ahead of West Ham.
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  This is slowly starting to feel like these three teams are
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  losing touch with any of them being safe.
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  So this is a, this is a bit of a devastating loss at home for
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  West Ham because they they're thinking, listen, if we can go
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  in and get a win here, you know, well then you're real close to
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  them. Then you're, you know, only a
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  point back of them. But now it's seven points
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  because of the three-point swing.
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  So yeah, tough loss, but good loss for Forest.
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  So they're in a lot safer position.
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  Yeah. All right, Luca, let's move on
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  to city hosting Brighton. This game ends 11.
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  I prefer to be two one City Holland PK in the 41st minute
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  after Doku gets like tripped and the toma and the 60th minute
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  scores. And this is three straight draws
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  for City after eight straight wins in all competitions.
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  Now Brighton are unbeaten in last three.
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  Yeah, this was, you know, we, we kept kind of talking about how
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  city, we're so used to city just getting to this point in the
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  season and just sort of rolling through wins and it looked like
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  it was going to be the case. And now really oddly, 3 draws in
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  a row, you know, they're dealing with some injuries now that that
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  they didn't have before. They had a pretty healthy team a
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  couple weeks ago. And now, you know, no Diaz, no
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  Govardi all they're going to be out for a while.
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  Do you know what happened to Diaz?
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  Yeah, Diaz has a hamstring injury.
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  It looks like 4 to six weeks for him.
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  Guevardi all broke his leg. He may be 3 months.
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  So you know, he may be missing a big chunk of the season.
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  So they recalled a central defender from Watford, Max
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  Aleny. I'm not sure if I'm saying that
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  right. So they he was on loan at
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  Watford. They recalled him, which means
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  they brought him back. He actually started.
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  So I mean, they're in a bit. But you know, look, it wasn't
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  the defense that was a problem in this game.
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  You know that if with a sort of a patched up defense they only
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  give up one goal, you know they're kind of disappointed
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  they couldn't get a couple more goals at home against Brighton
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  in this one. You know Holland Luca is 150
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  city goal in all competitions. That's just 150th.
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  Yeah, I mean, it's just, it feels like he's just.
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  Oh my gosh. There it's 173 appearances in
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  all competitions with 150 goals. Hasn't he been there for like 3
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  years? It's insane, right?
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  It's unbelievable. Yeah, he's he's just, there's
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  just sort of nobody like him right now in the world.
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  I mean, you know, to me the best goal scoring player on the.
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  Planet definitely. Yeah, so, you know, we'll get on
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  to, you know, Villa and Arsenal here, but that, you know, this
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  is feels like a missed opportunity for everybody in the
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  top four with everybody ends up drawing here.
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  Kind of feels like a big missed opportunity for all these teams.
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  You know, Arsenal were at home, City were at home.
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  You know, Villa were on the road playing a struggling team.
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  They all end up just all everybody drew.
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  So nobody kind of went anywhere with this.
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  So but yeah, City, Luga, it'll be interesting.
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  They got the Manchester Derby next.
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  You know, they're in a little bit of a rough patch here and
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  and you know, we'll see. You know, they're probably going
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  to spend a fair amount of money this window fortifying the
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  teams. I would imagine they'd go for a
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  central defender. Probably.
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  Maybe, I think. There's a lot of talk.
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  He'd be the one right, you know, like and so we'll see, we'll see
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  what they do here, but I think they're going to need a little
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  bit of defensive reinforcements if they're going to try to sort
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  of maintain contact with Arsenal, but.
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  But they already spent 80 million on Simeno.
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  Yep, exactly. So you know what people don't
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  people talk about like, well, Arsenal spent a lot in the
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  summer, summer or Liverpool spent a lot in the summer.
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  But you look, City spent a ton last January.
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  They even spent this summer, obviously.
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  And then they've already bought Semenya, who's for about
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  $89,000,000. I mean, they spent just as much
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  as everybody else in the sort of what they do.
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  So yeah, they've got, you know, a winger coming in with Anton
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  Semenya is a great, great player.
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  But I think they, you know, the defense is where, you know,
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  Stones is still been out for them for a while.
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  The defense is going to be where they're going to need to sort of
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  shore this team up. You know, I mean, they're still
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  in a good spot. They're only 6 points off.
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  They still have Arsenal to come play them at home.
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  So we'll kind of see what they do.
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  But I expect them to be very active.
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  Yeah. All right, Luca, we had a London
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  Derby here, kind of a bit of a rivalry game here.
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  We've talked about a little bit about the history of Fulham and
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  Chelsea, but take me through this game.
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  I pray that this be two, two tie.
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  This was 21 Fulham. Kukuraya in the 22nd minute gets
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  a red card off of like a denial of a goal scoring opportunity.
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  Kind of like just pulls Harry Wilson down on a breakaway.
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  And yes, that's a definite red card for me.
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  In your opinion, this was a right?
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  Definitely right. Yeah, OK.
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  Then Jimenez in the 55th minute, nice header, the lap off the
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  post, it kind of just falls to him.
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  In the 72nd minute he scored 11 and then Wilson in the 81st
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  minute. We talked about him.
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  He's in great form, gets the winner.
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  Foam unbeaten in six games, now tied for eight.
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  Chelsea have won one of last nine Premier League games. 7th
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  red card of season. It's amazing, Yeah.
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  I mean, the red cards are just absolutely killing this team.
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  I mean, it's affecting them clearly.
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  Like, you know, in terms of them dropping points.
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  I mean, they're going down early in games to 10 men.
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  Just I agree with you. Look, a clear red card.
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  Yeah. It basically had him an arm bar.
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  He's just holding Harry Wilson's arm as he's trying to get away
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  for kind of a breakaway. You know, whether it's denial of
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  a goal scoring opportunity or a last man, either way has to be a
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  red card for this Harry Wilson. Luca, just unbelievable.
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  Seven goals, 4 assists, 11 goal involvement.
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  It's already as high as total for a year.
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  He's already had basically the best year of his career here.
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  Right footed goal. We always talk about how good he
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  is with his left foot. It's a right footed goal here.
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  I mean, how good is he? He's such an important player
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  for them, putting the ball on the net like this and and like I
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  said, chipping in some assists too.
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  Yeah. I mean, it's amazing.
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  Luke. After Week 21, Chelsea and
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  Fulham are tied on 31 points. I mean, we it, it feels like
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  forever. Chelsea hovering around
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  Champions League spots. Can they get fourth?
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  Could they even push for a title?
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  And there was Fulham with that slow start down there in 15th.
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  And now look, it just goes to show you, you know, a little bit
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  of bad form for Chelsea, good form for Fulham.
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  And they're now I have basically have the same amount of points.
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  So is Chelsea ahead on gold differential?
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  They are, they have a better goal differential, so they
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  technically are ahead. But it's just amazing to me.
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  I mean, if you had asked me a month ago that Fulham and
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  Chelsea be tied on points and they're like, no way, you're
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  crazy. So.
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  I would have laughed in your face.
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  I. Know, right, All right, let's
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  move over to Everton and Wolves. Not exactly a glamorous game as
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  you would like to say, but this game ends 11.
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  I got this right. I pray this is 00.
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  Keene in the 17th minute and I finish and he scores.
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  Then Monet in the 69th minute. He's been really good for them.
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  Then King gets a Red Guard in the 83rd minute for pulling hair
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  and greelege. It's a 90 first minute red card
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  again, so 2 red cards for Everton.
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  Wolves unbeaten in last three having picked up five points.
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  So is this, is this a sign of life for Wolves?
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  Well, what do you think, Lucas? And now wolves, like you said,
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  five points in their last three. They're now on 7 points.
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  They're still they're still 14 points from safety.
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  So do you give them any glimmer of hope?
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  Yeah. You OK, So you're, you're now
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  before you were saying 100% sure they're getting relegated, but
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  now they have a glimmer of hope they can make up 14 points.
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  I I still have a little bit of hope for them.
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  No chance for me there. There's no way they're playing.
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  They're clearly playing better. I I don't see any way they're
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  making up 14. Points.
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  So the record was 11 points. I think the record's 11.
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  Darby County set the record with a total of 11 points at the end
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  of the year. I think they're gonna.
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  I think they'll break that I. I I you think they'll break it?
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  Well, I mean, they'll, they'll score more, they'll get more
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  than 11 points. I I think they will not set the
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  record for the worst premier. That would be insane.
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  Yeah, less than 11 points. Well, at one point, I mean, look
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  at like again, three weeks ago they were on two points.
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  So I mean, it wasn't that outside of the realm of
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  possibility, but they to their credit, they've gone draw, win,
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  draw. So again, that puts them on 7.
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  All they need to do is get 5 more points.
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  So I mean, if they can win one game and tie two, OK, the
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  record, they don't have the record, but I I just don't see
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  how. I mean, if you just set forest,
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  don't if the forest don't gain another point all year, which
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  won't happen, they still would have 21.
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  So that means wolves would have to somehow get 15 points to
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  overtake forest. I don't even think they're going
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  to get 15 more points. So I think wolves, even with
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  this good little patch here, it's still a done deal.
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  They're going down, but we will see.
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  I mean I love this guy Mana Luca.
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  He really looks like a player for them talking about being
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  their youngest goal scorer last week, scores again.
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  So, you know, it's, you know, again, they're looking for
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  little signs of life for next year the the year before.
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  So he looks like a player that could be, you know, be good for
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  them. Crazy red cards in this game.
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  I know. Pulling hair.
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  I mean, what is the? I've never.
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  Seen that before? Well, and they're both feel
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  really dumb. I mean, so Keene's going up for
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  a header and just pulls on the guy's hair and that's just
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  stupid. And then Greelish, look at 2 for
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  descent. I mean, come on man.
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  Like you get sent off for the for a second descent, you know?
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  Now look, I will say this, I feel like I've seen players on
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  yellows do similar things and not get another yellow.
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  But clapping in front of the ref, you're sort of showing the
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  ref up. Mockery.
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  Mockery And I always say like, don't give the referee the
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  decision to do it. You know, like when you're on a
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  yellow, you have to be very, very careful.
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  And you know, he may have been frustrated with the ref, but you
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  know, it's just it's just dumb. And now, you know, they gave him
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  really no chance to come back in this game and win.
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  They're both late, but still. And now look, they'll both miss
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  a game, too. So yeah, I know.
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  Hurt. Your team that way too.
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  All right, Luca. Well, let's move over to Crystal
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  Palace and Villa. This game ended 00.
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  I predict to be 31. Villa Aston Villa had a run of
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  10 games in a row with the goal stopped.
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  Palace now six games without a win.
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  Yeah, You know, Luca Unai Emery has never beaten Oliver Glassner
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  in seven matches. Yeah, Glassner sort of just has
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  Emery's number a little bit. He's just, he's never beaten
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  him. He's gotten some draws.
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  But again, you know, I think this would have been a great
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  opportunity. But we talked about how much
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  like Palace have been struggling.
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  To me, they're in 13th place. This would have been one where
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  Villa, you know, with Arsenal drawing, City drawing, Liverpool
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  drawing, this could have been a real chance for them to sort of,
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  I feel like get back in the race a little bit because while
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  they're tied with City on 43 points, I still don't consider
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  them true title contenders. Now, they can change my mind if
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  they were to close this gap over the next couple weeks, but I
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  just feel like this was a big missed opportunity for them.
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  I mean, you know, Arsenal was playing Liverpool.
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  They end up drawing. That's a big, big match up
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  there. This is, again, they're on the
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  road, I will say this. But still, Palace have been
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  really struggling. They should the game.
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  They should have won. Yeah, they hit the, I think
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  Watkins hit the post once. They had a couple chances.
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  You know, Palace didn't really offer a whole lot in this game
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  in 00 kind of boring game. Yeah.
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  All right, Luke, let's move over.
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  We did have some goals in Brentford, Sunderland.
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  This game ends three nil Brentford.
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  I predicted it'll be two one Brentford.
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  Igor Tiago gets 2 in the 30th minute and the 65th minute and
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  then Yarmaluke Yarmaluke I. Think Garmaluk.
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  Yarmaluk, it's a hard one to pronounce.
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  In the 73rd minute. Yeah, three nil if he had a
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  missed PK in his 60th minute and Brentford now up to 5th with 33
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  points. Thiago now sixteen goals, most
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  ever for a Brazilian in a Premier League season.
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  Yeah, Brentford, Luca. Unbelievable what they're doing
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  right now. They are in 5th place all by
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  themselves on 33 points, two behind Liverpool.
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  They're technically like. Maybe in a If the season ended
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  today, most likely they'd be in a champions.
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  League because we might get a fifth like another spot.
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  Right, right. England, most likely, it's not
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  official, but England for sure has four spots for Champions
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  League. Most likely we'll have 5 S
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  Brentford Lucas sitting here right now.
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  I mean, what a story this is. So this is tied for the best
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  they've been at week 21 in terms of points.
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  So this is like I said, the best.
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  Brentford season's 33 points after 20 wing weeks, they've
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  tied that. You know, Sunderland, Lucas
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  really feels to me like all these players that had to go to
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  AF con, it's starting to take its toll on them.
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  It just doesn't feel like they've got the squad depth, the
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  sort of all these games that are coming their, their results are
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  starting to fall off here a little bit.
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  You know they've 4 draws they've now lost, they're now down in
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  10. It's just it's a shame because
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  they when we talked about how they had five or six kind of key
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  players go to AF Con for this tournament.
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  They're going to be coming back soon, but I feel like it's
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  showing in their results. A.
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  Little bit And did Dan Ballard play in this?
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  You know, I don't think so, but I don't know for sure.
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  He's a key player as well who's who's been injured, but I don't
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  know if he played or not. But Luca, I want to talk to you
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  about Igor Tiago. This guy, Luca, unbelievable
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  season. He's putting together 16 goals.
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  He's four behind Holland, who we just were literally talking
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  about. I mean like a scoring machine,
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  the greatest striker on the planet.
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  This guy's four behind with 16 goals.
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  So Luca, my question for you is, OK, so he's Brazilian.
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  He's never played a game for the Brazilian national team.
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  Like never even a friendly like because.
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  And the reason being is he was really hurt all last year and we
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  talked. About You don't want injury yet.
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  He had a knee injury and so he missed almost all of last year.
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  And so he's back obviously healthy.
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  But Luca, my question to you is, do you think he's already booked
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  his place? So obviously we have a World Cup
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  coming up here in a couple months.
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  Brazil is going to be one of the teams talked about to win it.
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  They was loaded all over the field.
• 18:07
  They were loaded with wingers and strikers.
• 18:09
  Do you think he's done enough right now to be guaranteed a
• 18:12
  spot on the Brazil national team?
• 18:13
  Yes. OK, well tell me why.
• 18:16
  Well, I think, yeah, don't you? The little thing of options and
• 18:20
  you read them to me before we did this.
• 18:23
  Well, yeah, so let me just let's interrupt for a second here.
• 18:25
  Here are just some of the the key striker slash wingers for
• 18:28
  Brazil, for Charleston, Vinny Junior, Rodrigo, Neymar, Ciao,
• 18:32
  Pedro, Cunya. Like pretty good players there.
• 18:36
  Yeah, but like, well, theoretically Neymar, Rodrigo
• 18:40
  and Vinny Junior would be playing wings.
• 18:42
  So it comes down to Gio Pedro to Cuno and or Charleston and Igor
• 18:49
  Tiago. OK rank.
• 18:51
  Give me your ranking on those guys.
• 18:52
  Like if right if right now you had to rank them like best to
• 18:56
  now I want to say worst but rank those 4 for me.
• 18:58
  So Igor, Tiago, Charleston, Matthias, Cuno, and.
• 19:01
  Gio, Pedro all. Right, Igor Tiago one OK, Kunia
• 19:07
  2, you said it's. Richard Leson or Gel Pedro.
• 19:12
  Richard Leson 3 or Gel Pedro 4. Yeah, I mean, Richard Leson's
• 19:16
  been good this year. You know, obviously we we don't
• 19:18
  like him. He plays for Spurs.
• 19:19
  I didn't even like him when he was at Everton but OK, he's been
• 19:22
  good this year and. Like yes, we.
• 19:23
  Have to say, you know, and I think Kunia has been pretty.
• 19:27
  Good. He's been kind of switching on a
• 19:28
  little bit. Yeah, I feel like, you know,
• 19:30
  he's like I said, a good player, proven track record in the
• 19:33
  Premier League. I think Ciao Pedro is an
• 19:35
  interesting player too. You know, I, I do think they're
• 19:38
  all pretty good options for Brazil, especially like you
• 19:40
  said, if you were to put Vinnie Junior, Rodrigo, Neymar, you
• 19:44
  know, we'll see. I like.
• 19:46
  Neymar, that's a pretty good, you know, thing, but I I agree
• 19:49
  with you. Look, I think Igor Tiago, to me,
• 19:50
  Tiago brings something a little bit different where he's got
• 19:52
  that size. You know, that the other guys,
• 19:55
  the other guys strike me as a little bit more the sort of the
• 19:58
  quick, quicker, smaller, you know, they, they have size.
• 20:01
  I mean, but Thiago's like a big, big guy that just gets into the
• 20:04
  box. He's a knack for scoring, kind
• 20:06
  of like Yokarez did in sport at Sporty.
• 20:10
  Yeah, Yokarez does not do it. Arsenal.
• 20:12
  Yes, clearly, yeah. Yeah, I think he's, I mean,
• 20:15
  certainly he's in the conversation.
• 20:17
  It'll be interesting. I mean, I guess the knock would
• 20:19
  be he's got no experience at an international level, like he's
• 20:22
  just never played a game. So are you going to take him?
• 20:25
  You know, maybe you take him on the team.
• 20:27
  You figure they'll probably take 3 strikers, so maybe you take
• 20:30
  him, but maybe he doesn't start. Right away, I think he starts.
• 20:32
  You would start him without for World Cup game, you're going to
• 20:36
  start him right off the bat. Yes, OK.
• 20:38
  You got a lot of faith in him. I, I, I think it's good.
• 20:40
  I mean. Hot takes.
• 20:42
  Yeah, I think the good thing is, look, you have the rest of the
• 20:45
  year to like see how he does. Can he keep this form up over
• 20:49
  the second-half of the season? I mean the amazing thing Luca is
• 20:52
  he now has the most goals scored in a Premier League season for
• 20:56
  Brazilian player ever. So he's on 16 goals.
• 20:59
  We had Firmino in 1718 score 15, Gabriel Martinelli, Arsenal in
• 21:04
  2223 score 15 and Cunha in 2425 had fifteen goals.
• 21:09
  But that was the entire season for a little over halfway
• 21:13
  through, and he's already beat both of those.
• 21:15
  All that. He's already got the record.
• 21:16
  Yeah, it's kind of crazy to think, I mean, Brazil has this
• 21:18
  like amazing history of strikers and players and you, I I would
• 21:23
  have never have thought that a Brazilian had never scored 16 or
• 21:26
  more goals in a Premier League. I mean, yeah, it's.
• 21:28
  Kind of crazy to think like when I saw this, I was like, that
• 21:30
  can't be right. I mean, but all the great
• 21:33
  players, Brazil, no Brazilian players ever got into 20 or 25.
• 21:36
  But I know it's kind of crazy. But yeah, Tiago is on his way to
• 21:39
  doing it. Yeah, one of the, to me, like 1
• 21:41
  of the real cool stories of this year is this guy kind of coming
• 21:44
  out of nowhere. Really, really good.
• 21:45
  And yeah, Brentford, Luca, just amazing.
• 21:48
  Nobody wants to play them right now.
• 21:50
  They are. They are on a roll.
• 21:52
  Aren't we? Aren't Arsenal the only team
• 21:55
  that's beat them at home? I, I believe you're right
• 21:59
  because we, we have to play them again, but I do think you're
• 22:02
  right. It's at home.
• 22:03
  For us. But yeah, I do think we're the
• 22:05
  only team. I'm almost positive you're
• 22:06
  right. The Brentford have only one loss
• 22:09
  at home and it was to us, yeah, they they've been really, really
• 22:12
  good at home. All right, well, Luca, let's
• 22:15
  move on to Burnley and Man U. This game ends 22.
• 22:19
  I predicted it to be 1. Nothing Man United Heaven own
• 22:24
  goal in the 13th minute, Then the chess Go gets two goals in
• 22:29
  the 50th and 60th minute, and then Jaden Anthony a nice goal
• 22:32
  in the 66th minute after coming off the bench.
• 22:35
  Fernandez came back from Fernandez had an assist in this
• 22:40
  game and now leads to Premier League with eight.
• 22:43
  Burnley are now winless in the last 12 matches.
• 22:47
  Yeah, Burnley, like I said, one of those teams in the relegation
• 22:50
  zone. Not very good, man you Lucaso.
• 22:53
  First game without Ruben Amerem, they fired him.
• 22:57
  Darren Fletcher, who was coaching one of the youth teams
• 23:00
  at Man United, Kind of. I would call him a Man U legend.
• 23:04
  Maybe you? Said he was a legend to me.
• 23:06
  Yeah, I know a legend is maybe a little strong.
• 23:09
  I mean, especially at that club with so many great players.
• 23:11
  But he played there a long time and was a really good player for
• 23:14
  that. And so he's now kind of come in
• 23:16
  interestingly and he has twin boys.
• 23:18
  Both of them are on the roster for man UI.
• 23:21
  Mean. That's pretty crazy.
• 23:22
  That's pretty cool, yeah. Too bad.
• 23:24
  So he's like coaching his kids and they're and he's coaching
• 23:26
  them at Manchester United. So that's got to be something
• 23:29
  pretty cool. Yeah.
• 23:30
  For the rest of his life, no matter what happens, he probably
• 23:32
  is not going to be the one getting the job full time.
• 23:35
  But he's there to kind of like steady the ship here a little
• 23:37
  bit. So, yeah, first game without,
• 23:40
  you know, Ruben Amram, we're going to see they got Bruno
• 23:43
  Fernandez back. That's big for them.
• 23:45
  Yeah. You know, hopefully they're
• 23:47
  going to get, you know, these guys, you know, Imbumo back,
• 23:50
  Ahmad back. You know, we'll see.
• 23:52
  You know, the question is going to be like, who's the next
• 23:54
  manager of Manchester United? You know?
• 23:56
  I mean, I don't know, you know, people that the big names that
• 24:00
  always pop up in the Premier League are like Glasner from
• 24:02
  Crystal Palace or Areola from Bournemouth.
• 24:05
  If you had a preference for either one of those guys,
• 24:08
  obviously there's a ton of other names probably out there.
• 24:10
  But I'm just saying if I look around at the Premier League and
• 24:13
  you if I had asked Luca, all right, Luca, do we go for
• 24:16
  Glassner or do we go for Areola? Who do you lean towards in that?
• 24:20
  I'm going to go areola. Tell me why.
• 24:23
  I just what he's done at Bournemouth, even after selling
• 24:26
  all those players in the summer, I think is just really good,
• 24:30
  even though they're not like super good as as they were in
• 24:35
  the beginning of the year. But I still think he's done
• 24:39
  better, a better job at Bournemouth than Glass there's
• 24:42
  doing at Crystal Palace. OK, now the FA Cup win, Yeah, I
• 24:46
  mean that there is the FA Cup win.
• 24:48
  That's. They're both good options, I'll
• 24:50
  say that. I think they're both good
• 24:51
  options too. I, I actually do like them the,
• 24:54
  you know, the best. I I I do like them both a lot
• 24:58
  actually, and I and I I would be I think they'd be worth
• 25:00
  considering. I guess I'm sure lucky again,
• 25:03
  there'll be other names that come up.
• 25:04
  I don't know that they feel like they're in any rush.
• 25:06
  Chelsea felt like they were in a bit of a rush to get a manager
• 25:09
  in there. And of course they had Liam
• 25:11
  Reese in your that apparently his last name.
• 25:15
  It's there's some like Reese in your a is maybe how it's
• 25:18
  pronounced. I don't.
• 25:19
  Know everyone's just kind of like how we pronounce.
• 25:21
  This how do you how do we pronounce your name?
• 25:23
  They asked him that at a press conference and I guess his dad
• 25:25
  pronounced it Reese in your A, but it's pronounced like re
• 25:29
  senior. I don't know, Coach Liam.
• 25:33
  Maybe we should call him that. Yeah.
• 25:35
  You know, they Chelsea moved quickly get him in there.
• 25:39
  So I think his first game will be, you know, their next game.
• 25:42
  He's ready to go now, but feels like United may take a little
• 25:44
  bit of time here to kind of bring somebody in.
• 25:47
  But yeah, that'll be that'll be an interesting storyline to
• 25:49
  watch with this team. Like it just feels like they're
• 25:51
  never a dull team. United, there's always drama,
• 25:54
  There's always they're winning, then they're losing.
• 25:56
  It's it's always feels like there's a lot of drama around
• 25:58
  this team. Cesco, Luca, interesting the
• 26:00
  brace, 2 nice goals for him. The game before he was awful.
• 26:06
  And so, you know, there were some literally talk during the
• 26:09
  week. Should they bench him?
• 26:10
  You know, do you want, you know, sit him down, give him some time
• 26:12
  to rest, get his head clear? They obviously put him back out
• 26:15
  there. He rewarded that with two goals.
• 26:18
  I'll be interesting to see. He's an interesting guy to me
• 26:20
  because he's young. But I mean, he looks the part,
• 26:23
  man. He's like big, strong.
• 26:25
  You know, maybe he needs a little refinement with his touch
• 26:27
  or movement. But today was a good day for him
• 26:30
  getting two goals. And, you know, he's a young one
• 26:32
  to watch moving forward. I mean, if they could get him
• 26:34
  going and then you've got Cunha and Boemo kind of on the wings
• 26:37
  are tucked in behind him. You got Bruno Fernandez.
• 26:40
  All right, well, now you're starting to build something here
• 26:42
  a little bit. You know, maybe you get McGuire
• 26:44
  and to lick back on the back line.
• 26:47
  You know, all of a sudden now I'm like, OK, this feels like
• 26:49
  maybe a team that could push for for fifth or something like that
• 26:53
  right now, 3 draws in a row for them and they're tied, like I
• 26:57
  said, for six with Newcastle. All right, look.
• 27:00
  Well, let's move on to Bournemouth hosting Spurs.
• 27:04
  This game ends 32 Bournemouth I predicted to be two nil
• 27:09
  Bournemouth but tell Tell in the 5th minute his scores for Spurs
• 27:14
  and Evan Nielsen really nice header in the 22nd minute.
• 27:17
  Croopy again scores in the 36th minute, pulling off of a bicycle
• 27:22
  kick in the 78th minute, and Simeono in the 96th minute on
• 27:27
  his birthday on his last game for Bournemouth, gets the winner
• 27:33
  in the 96 minute. Wow, just wow.
• 27:35
  It was a really nice goal too. Yeah, it was.
• 27:38
  I mean, gosh, could you have like written a better storyline
• 27:40
  for a guy like leaving a club? His last touch, too.
• 27:43
  That was his last touch. I mean, it's just amazing.
• 27:45
  Yeah. I mean, you know, look,
• 27:46
  Bournemouth, we talked about how they've been playing well,
• 27:49
  they're just not getting wins. And the kind of this story has
• 27:52
  been in the back for about a week.
• 27:53
  It's sort of been a done deal, but it's not been announced and
• 27:57
  apparently the rumor was that Pep left him there to play
• 27:58
  against Arsenal in their last game.
• 28:00
  I so I don't. And we still beat him.
• 28:02
  Still beat him, but yeah, then he has one more game.
• 28:04
  He plays for them, like you said, scores a goal as he's
• 28:07
  going on. Yeah, $89,000,000 Luca.
• 28:10
  And he's a really, really good player.
• 28:12
  Is he worth close to 90 million? I don't know.
• 28:14
  I mean, you know, we'll see. Like I said, we'll see what he
• 28:17
  does there. Definitely 75. 75 the least,
• 28:21
  yeah. And you figure, I mean, city
• 28:22
  doesn't matter to them whether it's 7090 a 110.
• 28:25
  This is like endless money. But yeah, so like I said, it's
• 28:28
  just amazing sort of storybook ending there.
• 28:32
  Since the start of last season, Luca, only Wolves have more
• 28:36
  losses than Spurs. So since the start of last
• 28:40
  season, Wolves have 36 losses, Spurs and West Ham have 30.
• 28:45
  And that's their. Six blind wolves.
• 28:47
  Wolves for total losses. I mean, this is just sort of how
• 28:50
  bad this has been this. Is the start of last season.
• 28:53
  Since the start of last season, I mean, we, you know, we talked
• 28:55
  about like last season, how disappointing they were, how
• 28:58
  poorly they played and really look at they're not a whole lot
• 29:01
  better this year. I mean, you know, my question to
• 29:04
  you, Luke, and maybe this is a bit of a leading question, is
• 29:06
  like who's the like right now? Like who's the biggest
• 29:09
  disappointment in the Premier League?
• 29:11
  Spurs. Yeah, I know.
• 29:12
  I feel like it's a leading question here as we're talking
• 29:14
  about it, but it does feel like I don't really know, like who
• 29:16
  else would? Even they finish well, they
• 29:19
  finished below Wolves last season.
• 29:22
  Yeah, I mean, look, I mean, so they're right now Spurs are in
• 29:25
  14th place on 27 points. I mean, they're below Palace,
• 29:29
  Everton, Brighton, Sunderland, Fulham.
• 29:31
  You know, obviously we talked about Brentford being way above
• 29:34
  there. I mean, it's just crazy.
• 29:35
  Look at their one point behind Bournemouth.
• 29:37
  There are five, I mean, one one point above Bournemouth 5 above
• 29:41
  leads. I mean it's just you look at
• 29:44
  this team, there's way too many good players for them to be like
• 29:48
  at at at this spot here. You know, last three draw a draw
• 29:52
  and a loss. I mean, they've got West Ham
• 29:55
  coming up, Luca, if they if they don't win, I mean like Thomas
• 30:00
  Frankie started to think of like he might get fired.
• 30:02
  Yeah. It's hard to write, not think
• 30:04
  that maybe they would have to sort of make a change.
• 30:06
  I'm sorry. They I, I, yeah, Spurs have West
• 30:09
  Ham coming up, so I'll be interested to see your pick on
• 30:11
  that. I mean, West Ham are just awful,
• 30:14
  but Spurs are really. That's a huge, huge
• 30:17
  disappointment. Yep.
• 30:19
  All right, Luca, boy, that the game of the week for sure.
• 30:22
  I think here craziness at Newcastle leads.
• 30:25
  This game ended 43 Newcastle. I predict to be two one
• 30:30
  Newcastle. Aaronson in the 32nd minute gets
• 30:33
  opens to scoring and then Barnes in the 36th minute, then Dominic
• 30:39
  Calvert, Lewin off of a PK and added time of the first half.
• 30:44
  Joe Elton in the 54th minute. Aronson in the 79th minute
• 30:49
  gamerised another PK in the 92nd minute then Harvey Barnes and
• 30:54
  the 103rd minute gets the winner and that place has got to be
• 30:58
  going crazy. Latest game-winning goal in
• 31:01
  Premier League history. That goal and 32 total shots for
• 31:06
  a total XG of 4.77 goals. I mean, if you love offense,
• 31:12
  man, this game, holy smokes. I mean, Newcastle, Luca just
• 31:16
  sort of found a way to get this one down.
• 31:18
  They're now up to six. They've had three wins in a row.
• 31:22
  But I mean the drama of scoring. You said like the latest
• 31:25
  game-winning goal in Premier League history.
• 31:29
  So here, here are the list of the they'll just these are the
• 31:31
  latest goals ever scored in Premier League history.
• 31:34
  The latest one was Ollie Mcburney scored in the 102nd
• 31:37
  minute 7 seconds. That was with Sheffield United,
• 31:41
  that was an equalizer against West Ham in 2024.
• 31:44
  Dirk Kite in the 101st minute 48 seconds.
• 31:48
  Unfortunately it was for he scored for Liverpool against
• 31:51
  Arsenal in 2011. Harvey Barnes.
• 31:53
  This was a third latest goal, but the latest game-winning
• 31:57
  goal. They officially put it down as
• 31:59
  101st minute and 48 seconds. Wait, it was the 102nd minute?
• 32:06
  I know it was. Well, this is what they
• 32:08
  officially when the ball went in the net, it was 101.
• 32:10
  It's 102nd minute, but the official time the ball went in.
• 32:14
  So you you remember like when a game starts and you're in
• 32:16
  seconds right 30 seconds into it.
• 32:18
  That is the first minute. So that's minute one that you
• 32:21
  never score in zero. Luca the 4th The the the latest
• 32:26
  game-winning goal you saw in person.
• 32:28
  Cole Palmer. I know that was awesome.
• 32:30
  Chelsea versus Man United in 2024.
• 32:32
  Luke and I were at Stamford Bridge for this game on Cole.
• 32:35
  Palmer 4/3 as well. Yeah, they and in fact Chelsea
• 32:38
  scored two an extra time, but Cole Palmer scored 100 minute,
• 32:40
  39 seconds. That was the latest game-winning
• 32:43
  goal ever. I'm Joel Harvey Barnes.
• 32:45
  Gabrielle. Jay Zeus Luca scored for Arsenal
• 32:47
  against Man U in 2023, hundredth minute 15 seconds.
• 32:51
  And Leon Bailey scored for Astonville against Palace in
• 32:54
  2023, the 100th minute and 9 seconds.
• 32:57
  So yeah, I mean, it just goes. 10 minutes at a time is the
• 33:00
  least. I mean, yeah, exactly.
• 33:02
  So we've had, what, six goals scored after 100 minutes in
• 33:06
  Premier League history. Yeah.
• 33:09
  I mean, total drama there. I mean that that's just
• 33:11
  absolutely bonkers. Look at I want I just want to
• 33:14
  kind of do a little bit of a deep dive on Bruno Guy Marash.
• 33:17
  We talked about him a little bit last week.
• 33:18
  How good Luca has has he been? How important a player is he for
• 33:22
  Newcastle? Yeah, he's insane.
• 33:24
  Yeah. So look at, you know, he's a
• 33:25
  central midfielder, he's Brazilian, he's 28 years old.
• 33:29
  So Luca, already this year he has eight goals and three
• 33:32
  assists. So you kind of mentioned last
• 33:35
  week, you know, he's always been this great sort of play making
• 33:37
  central midfielder, but now he's chipping on all these goals.
• 33:40
  The most he ever had before was seven in a season.
• 33:44
  So we kind of talk about Harry Wilson at Fulham having such a
• 33:47
  great year, already exceeding his, you know, total goal
• 33:51
  involvement for his career. Bruno Greenman, rash again, just
• 33:54
  barely halfway through the season, already beat his most
• 33:57
  goals ever. He came from Leon Luca.
• 33:59
  He was there from 2020 to 2022, was bought for $54 million.
• 34:05
  And I mean, he's just been such an important good player for
• 34:08
  Newcastle since he got there. What, like it's a great signing
• 34:11
  of a player for them. And like I said that he's just
• 34:14
  now with this knack of he, you know, he should easily get
• 34:16
  beyond ten goals. Oh yeah, hugely important player
• 34:19
  for them. All right, Luca.
• 34:22
  Well, the game was the big build up for the final game, Arsenal,
• 34:26
  Liverpool, all the hype. It was by itself on Thursday,
• 34:30
  the last game of the week. 00 hybrid to be two nil.
• 34:35
  Arsenal get a point to stay 6 points up in first.
• 34:39
  Liverpool, unbeaten in last nine Premier League matches, stay in
• 34:42
  fourth and 34 points so not really anything to talk about.
• 34:45
  Yeah, you know, played in like a heavy downpour, just crazy rain,
• 34:50
  you know? I know we say this a lot, the
• 34:51
  tale of two halves, right? Arsenal good in the first half,
• 34:54
  Liverpool good in the second-half.
• 34:57
  You know, I got to, I've got to give Liverpool credit on this
• 35:00
  one, Luca. They're missing Sala Esac
• 35:03
  Ekatike and still managed to draw Arsenal on the road, you
• 35:08
  know. And they did not make any
• 35:10
  substitute substitutions until added time, I'm pretty sure.
• 35:14
  Well, and they wouldn't have, except for that Connor Bradley
• 35:16
  got hurt. He got hurt and Joe.
• 35:18
  Gomez came in. And I want to talk about a
• 35:20
  little bit on like when Connor and Bradley got hurt.
• 35:24
  Well, alright, so talk about that situation, what you saw and
• 35:27
  what happened here at the end of the game.
• 35:28
  It's for anybody that didn't see it.
• 35:30
  Walk him through. So Connor Bradley goes to get
• 35:33
  like a volley but kind of whiffs it and I think he like did
• 35:37
  something to his knee. You said he might have torn,
• 35:39
  torn his ACL or something. So clearly you could tell by his
• 35:44
  reaction that it was a very, very bad injury.
• 35:47
  And Arsenal, they kind of wanted the play on, but they couldn't.
• 35:52
  So Martinelli try tries to push him off the field, Connor
• 35:56
  Bradley while he's rolling around on the ground, which was
• 35:59
  wrong. And then all the Liverpool
• 36:01
  players are super mad and it's kind of level, but like little
• 36:05
  pushy and shoving. It was in my opinion, that was
• 36:08
  wrong for Martinelli to do that. I don't think that's that's just
• 36:12
  it's bad sportsmanship. And I'm, I'm surprised he got a
• 36:18
  yellow, honestly. I mean, it could have been red.
• 36:22
  I don't. Know Red would have been harsh
• 36:24
  for me, you know? It just, it could have been.
• 36:27
  I'm not saying it should, but it could have been.
• 36:30
  And I just, yeah, you shouldn't do that.
• 36:33
  No, no, it and I don't know anybody that's defended
• 36:37
  Martinelli, all the Arsenal fans, I everybody it was wrong.
• 36:40
  So yeah, exactly. I think what happened was it was
• 36:42
  a ball played over the top. Luca and Bradley sort of
• 36:44
  backtracking, goes to jump the headed, I think lands kind of
• 36:48
  twists like he lands awkwardly on his knee, immediately goes
• 36:52
  down. And when you watch the replay,
• 36:54
  it looks like his knee wobbles and buckles.
• 36:56
  I mean, to me, I think he's going to have a major knee
• 36:59
  injury and he goes down, he's holding his knee and he kind of,
• 37:02
  you know, is right there where. So if he's off the field of
• 37:05
  play, then, you know, we could just play on with the game.
• 37:10
  So Arsenal of course, are trying to push for a goal here late in
• 37:13
  the game, but he's right there on the end line.
• 37:16
  So they think that he's time wasting.
• 37:19
  Now I'd say they just Martinelli thinks he's time.
• 37:21
  But what happens is I don't think Martinelli saw the whole
• 37:23
  thing. I think Martinelli's looking at
• 37:25
  the balls that's coming over. He doesn't see him land.
• 37:27
  So he thinks that he's maybe he's just time wasting.
• 37:29
  So he's trying to roll him off the field so they can get on
• 37:31
  with the play, but you should never really.
• 37:34
  Push a player off the field. You don't.
• 37:36
  You don't know if it's a bad injury or it's just time.
• 37:39
  That's just it. You don't know.
• 37:41
  And yes, look, do players waste time all the time?
• 37:43
  Yes. And if they go roll around on
• 37:45
  the ground when they're not injured all the time, and I
• 37:47
  think that should be, you know, eliminated.
• 37:49
  But you don't know. And this is a situation.
• 37:51
  Now here's the other thing, too, is that Martinelli immediately
• 37:54
  apologized for it. So.
• 37:56
  He texted Connor Bradley and. He has his number.
• 37:59
  Yeah, well, I'm sure he can get it from, you know, one of the
• 38:01
  other Brazilian players. But yeah, he immediately texted
• 38:04
  him, immediately put something up on social media saying I
• 38:07
  didn't realize how injured he was.
• 38:08
  I was wrong, you know, I wish him a speedy recovery.
• 38:12
  I hope that he's not seriously injured.
• 38:14
  So he immediately owned up and then look, he made a mistake.
• 38:18
  He seems like a good guy. I would say this like from what
• 38:20
  I know about Martinelli, doesn't seem like that type of guy.
• 38:23
  And I will say, I will also say Arne Slott Luca, the manager of
• 38:26
  Liverpool deserves some credit too, because in the press
• 38:28
  conference afterwards, he could have said Martinelli, you know,
• 38:31
  he could have laid into Martinelli.
• 38:33
  And I thought he handled it really well to kind of de
• 38:36
  escalate the whole thing, saying I just doesn't strike me as a
• 38:39
  type of person. Martinelli, he is.
• 38:40
  I don't think he understood how badly Bradley actually was
• 38:43
  injured. I mean they ended up putting him
• 38:45
  on a stretcher and taking. Him because.
• 38:46
  I think it's such a bad knee injury, so credit to Arnie Slap
• 38:50
  for just being like this is just in the heat of the moment.
• 38:53
  He made a mistake, the guys apologized.
• 38:55
  Let's not make this a crazier than it is, you know, because
• 38:58
  then what happened is people talk about it all week and I've
• 39:00
  already heard some of the, you know, the the commentators, you
• 39:03
  know, Gary Neville and Roy Keane going on about how Liverpool
• 39:06
  players should have come over and hit Martinelli.
• 39:08
  And hit him. Yeah, and you know, and.
• 39:10
  Is that the best way to settle it?
• 39:12
  I I can't. Watch this in.
• 39:13
  And these guys are announcers on TV and Roy Keane, I mean, if
• 39:16
  Roy, you know, Roy Keane, you know, should not be talking
• 39:18
  about anything that goes on, the things that he's done to players
• 39:22
  on the field. Hence the name Holland's dad.
• 39:24
  Yeah, yeah. So if you ever heard the
• 39:26
  expression people in glass houses shouldn't, yeah, I don't
• 39:29
  need to be hearing anything about.
• 39:31
  Like yeah, I don't want. To be player conduct on the
• 39:32
  field from Roy T. But anyway, you know, going back
• 39:35
  to the game, Luca just kind of a bit of a dud and and sometimes I
• 39:38
  feel like, you know, the three teams that have been the best
• 39:42
  three teams in the Premier League the past couple years,
• 39:44
  Liverpool, City, Arsenal. Sometimes it feels like when
• 39:47
  they play kind of games are a bit of duds.
• 39:50
  You know, every once in a while we get like when Arsenal beat
• 39:52
  City like 5-1 or sometimes you get like a little bit of a like
• 39:55
  a great game. But gosh, for the most part they
• 39:57
  feel like kind of boring games. And they're just, you know, in
• 40:00
  fact, Liverpool, Connor Bradley in the first half hit the
• 40:03
  crossbar. Other than that, Luca like.
• 40:05
  Nothing. Else there wasn't much else at
• 40:07
  all in this game from either team.
• 40:10
  And and you know, Arsenal went into this with a chance to be go
• 40:13
  eight points up because they knew that Liverpool, I'm sorry,
• 40:16
  they knew that Villa and City had already tied and this was a
• 40:20
  real chance for them to put a stranglehold on our chances for
• 40:23
  the title. You'd be eight points up.
• 40:25
  All those injuries to Liverpool, you're at home.
• 40:27
  This meant like you throw down a steal, you go them out there and
• 40:30
  like I said, first half they were good man.
• 40:32
  The second-half they were terrible.
• 40:34
  It seemed kind of like the first time we played Liverpool as he
• 40:38
  didn't really lost. Everyone was kind of just
• 40:41
  sitting back and parking the bus.
• 40:43
  It just didn't feel like no one really like try wanted to win.
• 40:48
  I think both teams were like playing for the tie.
• 40:50
  That's what I how I feel like that.
• 40:53
  Well, I, I think I do think Liverpool lacked a little
• 40:55
  something in the attacking area and again, they were missing a
• 40:58
  ton of guys from Pong. I thought looked pretty lively
• 41:00
  for him. He's really quick, but he just
• 41:03
  doesn't really have that final product with like a shot or
• 41:05
  really like a good pass, or at least he didn't in this game.
• 41:08
  So he was getting by, especially when Lewis Kelly had to come on
• 41:10
  for Hincapie Do. You know what happened to him.
• 41:13
  He was cooking him Luca really badly and you know, luckily his
• 41:19
  crosses and shots weren't that good, but Luca Arsenal in the
• 41:22
  second they just couldn't get the ball.
• 41:24
  I mean we just couldn't even get the ball from them.
• 41:26
  They. Were, and he actually did, we
• 41:27
  would just pass it right back to them.
• 41:28
  Yeah. I mean, it's so I mean, I think
• 41:30
  we wanted to try to get it and go forward, but man, like, you
• 41:32
  know, and look, I got to ask you moving forward, the striker
• 41:36
  position in Arsenal here, obviously they spent a lot of
• 41:38
  money on Guyochris. He's been starting most games.
• 41:42
  Well, part of it is obviously that that Jay Zeus was hurt
• 41:45
  coming off an ACL injury. He's now back and you know,
• 41:48
  getting pretty fit haverts Luca. He's missed a ton of time at the
• 41:52
  end of last year, at the beginning of this year.
• 41:55
  He seems like he's been back training hasn't was on the bench
• 41:58
  three games ago was not been on the bench the past two.
• 42:01
  There's been some talk that he may be available for the FA Cup
• 42:04
  game this weekend, so he's kind of back.
• 42:06
  You've got Marino, Luca who has like done well when pushed into
• 42:12
  that position. He's a midfielder but has done
• 42:13
  well. Like in the next couple games
• 42:16
  we'll go like, what is your strategy for Arsenal to strike a
• 42:18
  position? But Haverton?
• 42:20
  Well, you love. Yes, you do.
• 42:21
  Not ready to play 90 minutes? OK.
• 42:24
  You can't. You can't start him, Luca and
• 42:25
  then just say you you're going to need to build him up a little
• 42:28
  bit. So I'm saying from a realistic
• 42:29
  standpoint. I say I start fine, fine, fine.
• 42:32
  I won't be biased for Harvard's. I say no, no more Joker is I
• 42:37
  can't take this anymore. Start J Zeus for the FA Cup game
• 42:41
  and then bring Harvard's in and say like this 75th minute, 70th
• 42:46
  minute, something like that, and then get some minutes in his
• 42:49
  legs and then maybe he'll be ready to like play a lot more in
• 42:53
  the Premier League games, the next one we have.
• 42:55
  Yeah, I think no matter what, if Habits is ready, you've got to
• 42:59
  use. So we have an FA Cup game and a
• 43:02
  League Cup game coming up. We've got to use these two games
• 43:05
  to get him some minutes in his legs.
• 43:07
  Because you're right. Like he, he's, it's going to be
• 43:09
  a while, I think before he can give you like a full 90 minutes
• 43:11
  in a game. And, and look, maybe our
• 43:13
  strikers don't need to give us 90 minutes.
• 43:15
  We talked about four good options there.
• 43:16
  He hasn't put Marino up top in a while, but still you have these
• 43:19
  options. So like, it could be a case of
• 43:21
  like a guy goes hard for 60-70 minutes, another guy comes in
• 43:25
  for 20 or 30 minutes. But like I look, I've said it
• 43:29
  two weeks ago and and he's just not showing me much.
• 43:32
  It's not just the lack of goals from Guyoka.
• 43:35
  It's like, it's just like he doesn't seem to be in the right
• 43:37
  position. Some of the runs seem a little
• 43:39
  off his touch. Luca.
• 43:41
  He's not great. He.
• 43:42
  Gives the ball away a lot. His hold up play is not great
• 43:45
  and look, you can say what we're asking him to do things.
• 43:47
  He didn't do it at Sporting in Portugal, but still.
• 43:51
  It's a whole different league. Yeah, it's a whole different
• 43:53
  league and I'm just saying I think we're trying to win the
• 43:55
  Premier League here. And it's a big jump.
• 43:57
  Yeah. And I just think that to me,
• 43:59
  when Jay Zeus comes on lately, there's just a bit of a bit of a
• 44:02
  more of a spark. When he came on against
• 44:05
  Liverpool, it was a lot more lively.
• 44:07
  We had more chances, we created more.
• 44:10
  We even had a few shots on goal when Yokers came on.
• 44:14
  So when? Jay Zeus came on.
• 44:16
  I said when Yokers came off, so yeah, pretty much.
• 44:19
  Yeah. And well, just saying you got me
• 44:23
  a Yokers jersey. But like instead of a Gabrielle
• 44:28
  jersey, is there some difference?
• 44:30
  Well, you know, in my defense, you did ask for a game.
• 44:33
  Before I knew you was going to be terrible.
• 44:36
  Yeah, that's true. We'll see.
• 44:38
  It's interesting with, like I said, some of these league, like
• 44:42
  I said, Arsenal's navigating, you know, League Cup, FA Cup
• 44:46
  games coming up. I'll be interested to see what
• 44:47
  kind of squad rotation that that we do.
• 44:51
  And then, you know, then coming back, you've got, I think
• 44:54
  forests in their next game. So we we they're going to need
• 44:56
  to get back to winning ways here in that in a big way.
• 44:58
  So yeah. All right, Lucas.
• 45:01
  So well, there it is. I mean, there's week 21.
• 45:03
  So of course we're going to wrap it up with your player goal and
• 45:06
  team of the week. So which one do you want to
• 45:09
  start with? So player of the week, I'm going
• 45:11
  to go Chesco for two goals. Team of the week, I think
• 45:15
  Brighton for like, like at City and.
• 45:21
  Good result. It's definitely a result that
• 45:23
  helped the Villa and Arsenal. Yeah, and then what?
• 45:26
  I'm forgetting goal of the week. Oh, I'm going.
• 45:30
  Where did I go with Oh, Pauline? Yeah, Pauline is 78 minute
• 45:34
  bicycle kick. That was really nice.
• 45:36
  Yeah, that was a pretty good goal.
• 45:38
  Yeah, it's a Spurs player, but still, that was a pretty.
• 45:40
  Good. Yeah, I have to tip my hat to
• 45:43
  him. All right, Luke, well, let's
• 45:45
  look ahead to Week 22. So like I said, we have a bunch
• 45:48
  of FA Cup games going on this weekend, but next weekend we got
• 45:50
  some games. We're looking into Week 22 first
• 45:53
  game right off the bat, Luca, we've got the Manchester Derby
• 45:56
  at Old Trafford here. So you have United without a
• 46:00
  manager. You have City coming in on three
• 46:02
  draws. But this is you love these Derby
• 46:04
  games. Huge, huge rivalry here.
• 46:06
  What do you like for the Manchester Derby?
• 46:10
  I'm going 21 United. Whoa whoa, big upset here.
• 46:15
  What? Why do you think United are
• 46:16
  going to beat City? Well, I think and Waymo and on
• 46:20
  lot are coming back correct. I'd have to see.
• 46:24
  I have to see how they're the quarterfinals of AFCON are like
• 46:27
  yesterday and today. I don't know the exact schedule
• 46:30
  maybe. And at least they're, they have
• 46:32
  Bruno Fernandez back so that that they have that also, city
• 46:36
  are really short on the fence. And I, I, I think Cesco got two
• 46:42
  goals last game and I think that will hopefully switch something
• 46:46
  on for him with Bruno Fernandez back.
• 46:50
  And Kuno has been playing pretty well.
• 46:53
  If they have Ahmad and Blamo back, that's a big, that's big
• 46:57
  for them. And even if they can get at
• 46:59
  least like at least maybe the lake to McGuire, that would be
• 47:04
  also very big. But yeah, and I think City are
• 47:08
  just their lack of goals is kind of killing them right now.
• 47:10
  I don't know. I don't know what's going on.
• 47:12
  Like before this past couple weeks, they're scoring like 3,
• 47:16
  two goals every game. Now they're scoring like one,
• 47:19
  sometimes 0. But yeah, that's why I picked
• 47:21
  21. I think sometimes teams like run
• 47:23
  in just good, you know, good form and bad form.
• 47:25
  And I think, yeah, they were, they were having like everybody
• 47:27
  We talked about how like for a while it was just Holland
• 47:29
  scoring for that. Then they were getting
• 47:30
  contributions from everywhere. Foden's knocking them in Rinder
• 47:33
  Shirky and you know, like you said, they're putting three in
• 47:36
  every game. Well, now it's just like they're
• 47:37
  getting chances. I've watched a lot of their
• 47:39
  games. You know, they're, they're just,
• 47:41
  like I said, they're getting into good spots.
• 47:42
  They're just not going in. It's just sort of what happens.
• 47:44
  And when that when, when that's the case, then that's when you
• 47:46
  need to really be able to grind out a win based on your defense.
• 47:49
  So yeah, it's great when you score three goals and you can
• 47:52
  win 3231, but if you only can score one, but that's where you
• 47:55
  have to have a defense that can maybe, you know, keep a clean
• 47:57
  sheet. You still get the win there.
• 47:58
  So yeah, it'll be sort of fascinating there to see who's
• 48:02
  back for this game. You know, like I say, we'll see,
• 48:05
  you know, City could be vulnerable for a game or two
• 48:07
  until they can start adding some guys and we'll get Simenio, but
• 48:10
  again, he's not going to help on defense.
• 48:12
  So yeah, that that'll be a bit of a fascinating game there.
• 48:16
  Liverpool loose Luca host Burnley.
• 48:19
  I think Liverpool are going to win this 2.
• 48:21
  Nothing. 2 Nothing Yeah. Easy win at home for Liverpool.
• 48:24
  It's good. Chelsea host Brentford.
• 48:27
  I think Brentford wins 3 to 1. Whoa at Stanford Bridge
• 48:32
  Brentford. Keep this good girl.
• 48:34
  What Igor Tiago hat trick in this?
• 48:36
  1 Igor Tiago 2 shot. They won.
• 48:39
  OK, All right, Luca, here we go. Spurs hosting West Ham.
• 48:45
  Who's going to win this one? 00 draw.
• 48:48
  Oh my. Goodness, Luca 00 draw.
• 48:51
  Does nobody bother showing them? Yeah, all.
• 48:54
  Right. What about Sunderland hosting
• 48:56
  Palace? I think Sunderman one nil.
• 49:01
  One nil, I get back to the good, that good home form they have
• 49:04
  Palace struggling. OK, Leeds host Fulham.
• 49:07
  This is an interesting game. 22, I think 22 Perry Wilson with a
• 49:12
  brace, Dominic Calvert Lewin with a brace.
• 49:16
  Oh. My goodness, all right, all the
• 49:17
  all the good stories of guys that have come out of nowhere.
• 49:20
  Now these great years. Get goals.
• 49:22
  OK, All right, Luke and Nottingham Forest hosting our
• 49:25
  boys, Arsenal, the Gunners. What do you like in this one?
• 49:28
  I think Arsenal win to nothing. To nothing.
• 49:32
  We should win it. We should, we should.
• 49:34
  Like I said, this is 1. You got to get back to winning
• 49:37
  ways. I mean, it's on the road and
• 49:38
  Forest generally are pretty strong long at home, but they're
• 49:41
  not that great A-Team and these are the games you just got to
• 49:44
  sort of go and find a way to win.
• 49:47
  So yeah, keep an eye on the line up on that one.
• 49:49
  Like I said, I'll be interested to see if it's a little
• 49:51
  different cuz. I swear to not start yogurt, no.
• 49:55
  They might. They might.
• 49:56
  I mean, look what like City United did with Cesco.
• 49:58
  They kind of kept starting him, Kept starting him.
• 50:00
  I mean, you're just hoping Luca that he can find some good form,
• 50:03
  you know, and again, part of it miss made me feel like they
• 50:05
  don't have the minutes yet for Jay Zeus.
• 50:07
  Jay Zeus came off a real bad knee injury.
• 50:10
  Haverts, like I said, hasn't played.
• 50:11
  So they just might not feel like they have enough minutes out of
• 50:14
  those two guys. But I'm with you.
• 50:16
  Listen, I'm, I've been advocating for a change for two
• 50:18
  weeks and I'm worried, Luca, that like, you know, if we keep
• 50:22
  starting him and he basically keeps offering us nothing, that
• 50:26
  we're going to draw games and drop points and that could
• 50:30
  ultimately cost us the title. Yeah.
• 50:32
  All right. Wolves host Newcastle.
• 50:37
  I'm going to 1 Newcastle. 21 Newcastle All right, Villa host
• 50:43
  Everton. Villa win 2 Nothing.
• 50:47
  And the final game you have Brighton hosting Bournemouth. 11
• 50:51
  Draw. 11 draw. All right, well there it is,
• 50:53
  Week 22, something to look forward to as we kind of move
• 50:58
  on. All right, Luca, just some, you
• 51:01
  know, news, we have some transfer news you have we talked
• 51:04
  about obviously Semenya going to City for about 89,000,000.
• 51:08
  West Ham have added two strikers.
• 51:09
  So Toddy Castellanos is a player came over from Lazio, he's a
• 51:13
  striker, cost about 39 million. A guy named Pablo Philippe came
• 51:18
  from heel Vincente in Spain 33 million, so West Ham dropping
• 51:24
  some money on the striker position.
• 51:26
  We said last week they've got the worst defense in the league,
• 51:29
  so I. Don't know why they're going for
• 51:30
  attack. They have Bowen and yeah, so
• 51:35
  that's kind of. Interesting.
• 51:36
  Kind of weird, but I guess guys to keep a name out for Pascal
• 51:38
  Gross, Luca back with Brighton from Dortmund.
• 51:41
  He was with Brighton for a long time.
• 51:42
  So he's back. And like I said, we talked about
• 51:44
  City recalling Max Aleni again, if I'm saying they're a central
• 51:48
  defender, younger guy who was with Watford first half of the
• 51:51
  season online. So they've recalled him.
• 51:53
  Like I said, he started last week.
• 51:55
  So so like I said, what we'll see.
• 51:57
  There's not been, you know, a couple other minor moves, some
• 51:59
  young players and things like that, but not not a lot of ton
• 52:02
  of movement so far in the transfer window.
• 52:04
  But all right, Luca viewer mailbag question.
• 52:07
  All right, it's for you. And Luca.
• 52:09
  The question is what soccer skill do you wish you could
• 52:12
  master? Instantly snap your fingers,
• 52:15
  Luca, and you now have the power of this soccer skill.
• 52:18
  What what is the skill you would love to have?
• 52:20
  Like right? I think maybe shooting from
• 52:24
  outside the box. All right, explain why.
• 52:28
  I think it it'll just I'm not pretty good at shooting inside
• 52:31
  the box. I think my finishing there is is
• 52:34
  it's good, but I think outside the box I don't have a really
• 52:40
  powerful foot. I I have a decently powerful
• 52:43
  foot, but I think it'll do me good if I can like be better at
• 52:46
  shooting outside the box. OK, All right.
• 52:49
  I like it. So yeah, just to be able to have
• 52:51
  that in your sort of your bag of tricks, being able to, yeah,
• 52:55
  outside the box, laying it. And it definitely is a skill.
• 52:58
  You see, certain players definitely are better at it.
• 53:01
  Like Harrison Reed. Harrison Yeah.
• 53:03
  Well, yeah, he doesn't do it a lot.
• 53:05
  What he did is that one time. He did.
• 53:07
  But I think of guys like Tielemans, Foden, Soba, Sly,
• 53:11
  there are certain guys that go for sure.
• 53:12
  They hit like it's a real clean ball from outside the box.
• 53:15
  And and you know, there's other players that step up the shoot
• 53:18
  from outside the box and you're like, there's no chance.
• 53:19
  And there's other ones you like, hold your breath because they're
• 53:21
  so good at it. But yeah, it's definitely sort
• 53:24
  of a skill that some people have to be able to really keep it on
• 53:26
  goal. You know, how many times do we
• 53:28
  see players just shoot it, you know, 20 yards over the goal?
• 53:31
  So that's a good one. Yeah, for sure.
• 53:32
  You know, a lot of obviously most goals are scored within the
• 53:35
  box and you have to have that skill there.
• 53:36
  But I like that being able to finish and have a real good shot
• 53:39
  from outside of the box. All right, Luca, let's move on
• 53:42
  to our Digeno section. Of course.
• 53:44
  We've been rolling through all the teams in the Premier League,
• 53:46
  trying to learn a little bit more.
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  We're to one of the one of the big six, Luca.
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  We're to Liverpool Football Club, one of the most storied
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  clubs in football history. Liverpool, of course, from the
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  city of. Wait, Liverpool?
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was. I had to think about that for a
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  second. So they were founded in 1892.
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  Of course they're called the Reds.
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  They joined the Football League in 1893 and they won their first
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  league title in 19 O1. They then won again in 19 O
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  619221923. But like a lot of teams in the
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  40s and 50s drifted down into the second division and you
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  know, kind of were struggling. This isn't A-Team, that's just
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  been in the First Division the whole time.
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  But very famously Luca, they had a manager named Bill Shankly and
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  he came along from 1959 to 1974 and he really like transform the
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  whole club, like just got everything kind of in order,
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  their finances, you know, got the stadium in order, got the
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  training properly. And they want three league
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  titles under him, two FA Cups, a UEFA Cup.
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  So he's one of the most famous managers of all time there.
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  They had another one follow him named Bob Paisley.
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  Luka he had, he came from 74 to 83, six league titles, three
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  European Cups, one UEFA Cup, 3 League Cups.
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  So Liverpool, like I said, just this incredible history.
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  Luca of winning. Those are two of the most famous
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  managers. They had another one named Kenny
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  Dalglish Luca. He was there from 1985 to 1991,
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  then came back from 2011 to 2. Thousand.
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  He was from Scotland. He was pretty.
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  He was, really. Good, yeah, good player and good
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  manager. Rafa Benitez.
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  Luca was there from 2000. 4. And ten, yeah, Gerard didn't
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  really do much for them. He, well, as a player.
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  I'm talking about managers. Oh, and of course, Jurgen Klop,
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  2015 to 2020. He's a pretty legendary man.
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  Pretty. Legendary there and then now
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  Arnie Slot is their manager. He came from Fionor in 2024.
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  They play Luca. Where do they play?
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  You know where they. Play Anfield.
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  Anfield built in 1884 and of course I always find this to be
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  very interesting. Is that?
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  Everton played. We learned that when we did our
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  Did you Know forever? Yeah, Everton played there for
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  from 84 to 92, and then they had a real dispute with the Rent.
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  So Liverpool came in in 1892 and like I said, they've been there
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  ever since. Anfield is actually a suburb of
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  Liverpool, so it's like a little area just outside of Liverpool.
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  So that's how it gets the name Anfield.
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  It's because of the geographic area, Luca.
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  They're owned by the Fenway Sports Group.
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  John Henry kind of runs that, and they've owned them since
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  2010. LeBron James has a little bit of
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  a very small, teeny, tiny ownership in them.
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  And of course, they also own the Boston Red Sox and baseball and
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  the Pitts Penguins in hockey, their biggest rivals?
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  Luca Who are their biggest rivals?
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  Their biggest rival? Everton.
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  Yeah, Merseyside, Darby, Both teams located in Everton.
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  We talked. About the Liverpool both like
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  located in. Yes, thank you.
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  Both live in the city of Liverpool on each side of the
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  Mersey River and they have a big rivalry with Man U to the
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  northwest. Darby.
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  'S Oh yeah, yeah. More just like because they are
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  two of the like the biggest teams and so it's just always
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  just a big game. It's turned into kind of a
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  rivalry. Crazy trophy room.
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  Luca. 20 league titles, tied for first with Man United, 8 FA
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  Cups, 10 League Cups, 16 Community Shields, six European
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  Cups in Champions Leagues. And then for good measure, they
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  even have a Club World Cup win. Yeah.
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  So I mean, one of the biggest trophy cabinets ever.
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  I mean, they're legendary players.
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  Lucas are pretty incredible. I mean, Steven Gerrard, Kenny
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  Dalglish, Ian Rush, Most solid, Jamie Carriger, Robbie Fowler,
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  even Virgil Van Dyke, Ian Callahan, Graham Soonest, John
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  Barnes, Rodger Hunt, Alan Hansen, Luis Suarez, Kevin
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  Keegan. I mean, they've had just.
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  Some Robbie Alonzo played there too.
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  Yeah, I mean, they've had so many great players, like I said,
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  come through there. The interesting thing, Liverpool
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  have been associated with two kind of disasters, sort of game
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  day disasters. In 1985, there's something
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  called the Heisel disaster, which is where 39 fans died at a
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  European Cup final in Brussels. Yeah.
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  And it led to English clubs being banned for five years from
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  European football. So during this period, for five
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  years, in fact, I think Liverpool got an extra year for
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  this. And it just had to do with like
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  rioting between fans. Back in the day, you've heard of
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  the term like hooligans, right? Hooligans were just fans.
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  They would just show up wanting to fight and they would just
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  literally show up and want to just fight and assault the other
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  teams fans. And so this sort of like was,
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  you know, this was back when this kind of stuff like was just
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  sort of allowed. And it really started to crack
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  down on that kind of stuff. And people died, young people
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  died because people were just, like I said, just getting in
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  these crazy, crazy fights. And I think it was against
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  Juventus that one. And then look at four years
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  later, something called the Hillsborough disaster, which was
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  actually an FA Cup semifinal between them in Nottingham
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  forests and 97 fans died due to to like, a stadium crush.
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  Oh, where you've got like, they just would push all these people
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  into these pens almost where they would stand.
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  And there just be these like chain fences and there's no
• 59:07
  seats and there really wasn't much crowd control.
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  So they just keep pushing people in, pushing people in.
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  Well, you can imagine there's nowhere to go.
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  And this was a just a horrible, horrible thing.
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  The Hillsborough disaster, we still talk about it now.
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  And it led to a lot of like reforms for how stadiums handled
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  like the fans and LED to like much better crowd control,
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  putting seats in. So you don't you like when we go
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  to these games, right? You don't see a lot of standing
• 59:29
  areas, right, where everybody has a seat.
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  So we lead to that sort of crowd control there.
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  So yeah, just two things that are associated with their
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  history. There's not very positive, but.
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  And of course, they famously sing the song You'll Never Walk
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  Alone before their games, which was a song from a musical called
• 59:45
  Carousel. But there's a Liverpool band
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  called Jerry and the Pacemakers, and they did a rendition of
• 59:52
  that, You'll Never Walk Alone. And apparently the story goes in
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  1963, Jerry, your Jerry Marson gave Bill Shankly a copy of this
• 1:00:01
  song. And Bill Shankly, that legendary
• 1:00:03
  manager, was like, you know what?
• 1:00:04
  This would be really good. We should start singing this
• 1:00:06
  song. And I have to say, as much as I
• 1:00:08
  don't really like Liverpool, it it to me is one of the coolest
• 1:00:12
  things in soccer is when that stadium sings that song.
• 1:00:15
  Yeah, I got to give them props, that is.
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  A. It's also cool when Emirates
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  Stadium sings or no? They sing the Angel.
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  North London. Forever.
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  Yeah, now. And I do like that Now.
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  We've been doing that for a couple years.
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  They've been doing this since 1963.
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  So I got well, hopefully it'll last.
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  A long time, I know. I do like that.
• 1:00:35
  I think it's a very, very cool thing, like when they do these
• 1:00:38
  kind of songs like that, especially when they're not like
• 1:00:40
  a super popular song. So yeah.
• 1:00:43
  All right, Luca, we'll quickly let's plug our Instagram Premier
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• 1:00:48
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• 1:00:52
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• 1:00:55
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• 1:00:57
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• 1:01:02
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• 1:01:04
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• 1:01:09
  All right, Luca. Well, we end every show with our
• 1:01:12
  penalty kick trivia shootout. We'll go back and forth asking
• 1:01:15
  each other trivia questions. Each time you get it right, it's
• 1:01:18
  a goal scored, you miss, it's a it's a miss the question you
• 1:01:21
  missed the goal. So I I think I got some tough
• 1:01:25
  ones for you, Lucas. I don't have super easy ones.
• 1:01:28
  All right, we'll see. A lot of misses here, but we'll
• 1:01:30
  see. So do you want to go first or
• 1:01:31
  second? I'm going to answer 1st and see
• 1:01:34
  how tough these are. OK, first one Luca.
• 1:01:37
  What team had the most red cards in the Premier League last year?
• 1:01:43
  I Chelsea. That was our boys.
• 1:01:48
  Arsenal was 6. We we had six last year.
• 1:01:51
  Yeah, remember we kept getting all those ridiculous red cards.
• 1:01:53
  It's. 6. Rice, Aliba, Trosard.
• 1:01:56
  Yeah, 6 red cards. Jeez, that's a miss.
• 1:02:00
  Which players scored the most free kicks in the Premier
• 1:02:03
  League? I think it's word prouse.
• 1:02:06
  It's not David Beckham. Yeah, but did word Pras go?
• 1:02:08
  By him he might have, He might have.
• 1:02:11
  Let's see. Let's see.
• 1:02:12
  Hold on, everybody. Let's see.
• 1:02:14
  For the sake of this question. I I it could be that he tied
• 1:02:20
  him. I I he's either tied him most.
• 1:02:24
  Well, wait, if you if he's tied, do I do you get the question
• 1:02:28
  right? I think so if he's.
• 1:02:29
  We're going to VAR everyone. Oh no, it looks like Becca may
• 1:02:33
  still have one more than him. Let's see, when's this?
• 1:02:39
  I think, Luca, you're right. I think we've got hold.
• 1:02:43
  On Oh Boy, the VA. I've got a source from May of
• 1:02:46
  this year so and I don't think word Prowse has really played
• 1:02:49
  very much or scored on one. So it looks like Beckham on 18
• 1:02:52
  Word Prowse on 12. On 12.
• 1:02:54
  I'm sorry, I'm sorry on 17. Ventirion, Reid, Gin, Franco
• 1:02:58
  Zola and Cristiano Ronaldo on 12.
• 1:03:01
  So that's pretty crazy though. Think about those five names,
• 1:03:05
  Beckham, Henri Zola, Ronaldo and WordPress.
• 1:03:10
  All right, that's a miss. That's a miss for me, I thought.
• 1:03:12
  You taught him, but after VAR. All right, Luke, in the 2025 FA
• 1:03:17
  Cup final between Crystal Palace and City, which you got to watch
• 1:03:20
  in the City of London, who scored the winning goal?
• 1:03:24
  It was. Is it?
• 1:03:26
  It was. Is it?
• 1:03:29
  No. Yeah, all.
• 1:03:31
  Right, who won the most primarily Golden Boots?
• 1:03:35
  Won the most primarily golden Boots.
• 1:03:38
  Oh man, I do feel like I've heard this before.
• 1:03:41
  Is it? Oh, that's a tricky 1.
• 1:03:47
  I'm going to go with Harry Kane. It's honoree.
• 1:03:49
  Honoree won the most goal is. With four.
• 1:03:52
  Wow, OK Oh man, now I'm feel really bad.
• 1:03:56
  My favorite? Not in trouble, I'm up now one
• 1:03:58
  nothing. All right, Luca Enzo Fernandez,
• 1:04:01
  a central midfielder for Chelsea, plays for what national
• 1:04:04
  team? What countries?
• 1:04:05
  Argentina. That's right, yeah.
• 1:04:07
  So 2 year, we got to get this one right at 15 years in 81
• 1:04:12
  days, who was the youngest to play ever in a Premier League
• 1:04:16
  match? Isn't it Winieri?
• 1:04:20
  Yeah, it's winner. OK, I was going to say, oh, my
• 1:04:21
  gosh, if I missed another Arsenal player.
• 1:04:23
  Yeah. All right, I'm back on the
• 1:04:26
  board. All right, Luca, here's here's a
• 1:04:28
  bit of a tricky one. We we just were talking about
• 1:04:29
  Liverpool and a lot of their history for that team.
• 1:04:32
  Well, they very famously played a Champions League final IN2005
• 1:04:36
  called the Miracle. Oh yeah.
• 1:04:39
  Liverpool came back from a three nothing halftime deficit Against
• 1:04:43
  what team? AC1 that's right.
• 1:04:46
  Yeah, I went through one very. Very famous game, The miracle it
• 1:04:49
  is. You got to get these last two
• 1:04:51
  right to tie it and I have to get mine wrong, OK?
• 1:04:54
  In 2223 Premier League season, the league lasted for 297 days.
• 1:04:59
  Which club stayed on top for 248 days 8484% but did not win the
• 1:05:05
  league? What in the 202223?
• 1:05:09
  Yes, Liverpool. Arsenal.
• 1:05:13
  God, I was going to say Arsenal, man, these are all Arsenal.
• 1:05:15
  Good. That's a bad memory.
• 1:05:16
  I don't want to watch that one away.
• 1:05:17
  I was going to say them, but yeah, you're right.
• 1:05:21
  Yeah, they. Finished like 4th.
• 1:05:23
  Liverpool maybe? Maybe.
• 1:05:25
  Yeah, you're right. I know that.
• 1:05:26
  Yeah. That was your city kind of track
• 1:05:28
  when they. Didn't even make Champions
• 1:05:29
  League Liverpool, really. Yeah, they're in your league.
• 1:05:34
  All right, Luca, Eddie Howe managed what team before
• 1:05:36
  Newcastle? Weeds.
• 1:05:39
  No Bournemouth. Oh OK, Oh OK.
• 1:05:44
  Who is the first player to win Premier League Player of the
• 1:05:47
  Season and young Premier League Player season in the same
• 1:05:52
  season? So they won the player of the
• 1:05:55
  Season and Young player of the season.
• 1:05:57
  Yes. Ronaldo.
• 1:05:59
  Erwin Holland in 2223. Wow, it just happened.
• 1:06:03
  I think I forget the age for young player.
• 1:06:05
  You have to be under 23 maybe to get to be like, to qualify, to
• 1:06:10
  be like the young player who's. Soccer everyone have.
• 1:06:13
  Been no, I don't think soccer's ever won it premierly young, I
• 1:06:17
  don't think they've given it out for that long, but OK.
• 1:06:20
  Wow. Holland.
• 1:06:21
  Yeah. Interesting.
• 1:06:22
  Yeah, all. Right.
• 1:06:22
  I think I think you want it. 31 I'm pretty sure.
• 1:06:25
  Three. One.
• 1:06:26
  Yeah. You missed a couple Arsenal ones
• 1:06:30
  I thought you would easily. Get three of them, you know.
• 1:06:33
  Yeah, bottling the table. But all right, Luca.
• 1:06:36
  Well, I guess that's it for me. You got anything else?
• 1:06:39
  There's the final whistle that's full time for us.
• 1:06:42
  Thank you for listening. Bye.