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What were the main reasons Manchester City defeated Chelsea in their opening game of the season?
How positive are the Chelsea fans about this season?
What is the goalkeeping situation like at Chelsea and do they still miss Peter Czech?
And what do the adjectives reactionary, inferior, elite, rash and others mean?
Welcome back to the Footglitch Podcast.
The best English learning podcast about football since sliced bread.
My name is Denik Lukas. I'm your host and the Premier League has got underway.
We have got Marvin here to talk about the first round and specifically about, I would say,
the most interesting game between Chelsea and the current holders, Manchester City.
Welcome back to... It's not welcome back, is it Marvin? It's your first time.
Welcome to the Footglitch Podcast.
Thank you, brother. We talked before so I can understand that confusion.
Thank you very much for having me on Zenech. I'm very happy to be back.
And I won't be here for the first time as it were. So, yeah, let's do it.
Yeah. So, Marvin, is there anything we should promote?
I know you are an English teacher. Do you want to tell people about your Instagram or anything?
Well, my Instagram nowadays is used as I'm a dad.
So now I use my Instagram to just make videos of my son most of the time.
But yeah, I'm teaching English much like you. On italki, you can find me there.
I don't remember the link, but yeah, I'm teaching there every day.
And, you know, love the profession, doing exams, business, you know, interview practice,
speaking development, all the usual kind of things, my friend.
From time to time, I see some of your posts and from what I can see,
you're in top 1% of all teachers there.
So, Marvin, if anyone wants to have an amazing English teacher,
I think Martin is definitely your guy, so you can check him out.
I will put the link to his profile in the description of this episode.
But, Marvin, we are here to talk football.
So what do you make of the first game of your team, Chelsea? You're a Chelsea fan.
Well, yes, I mean, it was an interesting...
Unfortunately, it was a 2-0 loss in the first match.
But unlike, I mean, and I'm, you know, if the people, the listeners probably don't know that much about me,
I'm probably one of the most reactionary fans that exist.
I remember.
Yeah, every time we lose, it's, you know, like the sky has fallen.
In this case, though, I'm a lot...
I know this might go against the general consensus, but I'm very positive about the team,
because unlike last season, where I actually felt close enough to walking away from it all
because we were losing games at a time, there was no clear idea of what we were supposed to be doing,
in this case, I felt we were the better team against, well, completely the best football team in the league.
I think we should have won.
Unfortunately, we lost, and it's those small margins why you lose.
I don't think we lost because we were the inferior team.
So that's obviously a good way to get it going.
And now we're going to start building a proper team again, because you cannot do it like you used to be able to do it,
which was, you know, buy a couple, spend a lot of money, Allemand United style,
and outspend the other teams and win,
which is obviously what Chelsea have also done at times.
And you just cannot do it that way.
Now you need everything to fall into place.
You need a clear style.
We need a very technical team because the way the games are changing.
And I was very happy with the technical performance.
Even more, I was happy that some of the players have been ostracised,
the ones that I personally did not think were good enough to play anymore.
So this is a very rare occasion.
Can you give us an example? Give us an example of players like that.
Well, yes, the perfect example for me is Raheem Sterling on 325 grand a week
and hasn't played well more than five times in the two and a half seasons he's been there.
And I'm very happy to see that the manager didn't even put him in the squad,
which is what I've been crying for for years.
And had we had a proper, we had two main issues, unfortunately.
Number one, we don't have an elite number nine, Man City does.
He scored, we didn't.
And we also don't have a very good goalkeeper.
And the second goal was because the keeper should have saved it.
And thankfully, it's very easy to see that those are the only problems.
Whereas last season, we had more of a plethora of issues,
starting from lack of technical players being able to build out from the back,
too many injuries, not enough clinical strike out again still,
bad goalkeeper that we switched for Petrovic in the second half of the season.
So, yeah, I'm pretty happy in general with the start.
I mean, we should have done better, but, you know, on to the next game.
Yeah. Can I ask you this question?
Are you also being investigated like Man City because there were some financial irregularities in the past?
Are you one of those teams? I think you are, right?
Not in the case of what's happening with Man City and the other teams.
Of course not. No one is.
No one compared to Man City at the moment, I think.
Well, this is also a very different situation.
What happened in our situation is that the new owners actually flagged up a situation
that they'd found from the previous ownership and admitted to it.
We had to pay a fine already.
In terms of that profit and loss sustainability,
Chelsea is completely compliant due to the sales they made.
And they made quite, if you noticed, we made quite a few sales this season, even in the previous.
A lot of players have been moved on for substantial fees.
But yeah, I think there could be a potential ban again coming in.
But hard to really talk about.
Deductions, points deductions.
Like we saw the same thing happening to Everton, Nottingham Forest.
And to be honest, if it happens to these teams, it should happen to everyone that breaks the rules.
Yes. And I'm actually on that.
And I don't care who it is, like if it's a big team or not, especially it should happen to City.
I'm on the opposite side of that, whereas I think it shouldn't happen to any of the teams.
I think that what happened with Everton was really unfair.
They were trying to meet those sustainability situations by building a new stadium.
And I felt like, I don't know why, but it felt like, and I'm not a fan of Everton.
I don't really like Everton, but I felt like they were kind of harshly done by.
It was a precedent step for sure.
So now they have to kind of play it fair, right? With everyone else.
So, OK, so you also have a new manager.
Mauricio Pochettino is gone.
So now who is the manager? Sorry, I can't remember his name.
Now we have Enzo Maresca.
I said his name. It could be a woman, right? These days.
That is a possibility, but we haven't seen a female manager in the Premier League yet, I think.
It's possible.
No, we haven't seen. You know, we might have a president.
The US president could be a woman now.
Yes, they are possible, but I'm very happy with him at the moment because there's a clear style of play that he's trying to implement.
And the thing is, you know, just to get me on the side is to kind of understand where some of the problems are.
And for me, I noticed some of them and it seems he's tried to deal with almost all of them.
And I was very impressed by the way he's handled those situations.
So what would be on top of the list for you of these problems then?
Well, if you look at last season, in my opinion, there was a big problem with the attack.
There was no attacking patterns and way of play, in my opinion.
We played well at times, but because there was no set style of way of play, in one game we would be absolutely brilliant and the next game we'd be dreadful.
And I think that comes from a lack of clear identity about what we're trying to do.
OK, that's true, right?
You are more reactionary to what the opposition plays, right? You adapt, you're trying to adapt to their style.
And that means that takes away from your own identity from the way you want to play your football.
Yes.
I think, to be honest, personally, I actually believe in balance of those two things because it depends on who you are.
If you're Manchester City, you have the best players in the world, then you can have your clear identity and everyone else has to react.
But if you're Chelsea, a team that is now building a new team full of young talents, right?
Players who still are a bit, what's the word for it, raw, right?
You can say they are a bit raw. They need to develop.
Players like Jackson and Kunku, we can see a lot of potential, but they are very young and inexperienced and reckless and often make the wrong decisions, right?
Kunku, no.
I'm surprised by what I just said.
No, Kunku is not one of those. He's more of one of the...
OK, how old is Kunku then?
I think he's like 24, 25.
Well, that's still quite young. It's definitely young compared to you and I.
He's played in the Champions League, he's scored in big games, won trophies.
I don't think he's...
Fair enough.
But Jackson, I agree, he's one of those players.
Yeah, I mean, obviously with a lot of young players, there will be inconsistencies, of course.
In general, last season we made one final, one semi-final. In the end, we managed to have a decent ending towards the season.
You can see the quality is there.
And one player in particular has really impressed, I think, you know who I'm talking about.
Yeah, Palmer.
It's actually a Man City reject called Palmer. It brought him to the Euros as well. Oh my God, he was on fire.
I definitely put him in my fantasy team, you know, as a result of those performances.
And now he's a real force, you know, I think.
Absolutely. And he surprised a lot of people. Actually, we love him. His final ball is fantastic. He takes a risk.
His passes are really good. He scores goals. He works hard off the ball. A complete bona fide star after just one season.
He was so close to helping us win the Euros as well.
That's true. That's true.
But it's nice to have him. And obviously, he played today. He was a little bit off it in place, but he hasn't really played.
He's only just come back and he had one preseason game. So obviously, you've got to give a bit of time to get up to speed.
But yeah, we're very lucky to have a player like that on the right hand side.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't have him in my fantasy team because nowadays he's too expensive.
And I was I was expecting that thing that he would be a bit tired, a bit rough on the edges.
So I watched the game and I thought, as you said, you played quite well.
I thought there was a lot of intensity in your in your game. And I think you pressed quite, quite high.
And it seemed like your players were really up for it.
I think the main difference for me was the the the way how Man City were just so much more clinical and just just there was this like little edge they had over you in terms of players like Haaland.
And they just did that extra bit better than you did.
Like, for example, that Jackson scored a goal, but he was like fractionally offside, which I thought he should have really he should have really paid closer attention to what was happening in the game.
Like if you see you're offside, just step step back.
Like all you need to do is like half a meter behind the player and you're not offside.
Right. And he had a lot of time to do it.
So that for me, you know, he played really well, but those were the tiny margins in the game.
It's what I was saying before is that like lack of elite number nine for Chelsea and lack of good goalkeeper are the biggest issues.
And they are the two things, the two reasons why we did not win today's game.
Unfortunately, I do like Jackson a lot, but he had a complete stinker to play.
Wait, wait. Do you mean Marvin?
You talking about Jackson, the player, not Michael Jackson, the singer?
No, he was on it, you know, but yeah, Jackson had a very bad game, very bad game.
And there was the one I mean, he can be offside sometimes, but he should have scored that chance.
He had or he kicked it straight.
It wasn't just that as well. He dribbled the players. He had games like that last season where he'd be brilliant and then other times terrible.
I think he's a very nice player, but you've got to take those chances, especially against the best teams.
You will get one or two and you cannot miss two.
That's what will ultimately make the difference.
That's why City always keep winning and they're just so robotic. They just keep doing it.
Well, that's the difference. They've got a good striker.
You know what I liked? I liked how the commentator of this match described the game at one point.
He said it was as if the teams were playing PlayStation football.
Did you also hear that or were you watching the same?
I've got Spanish because I'm living in Mexico. My commentary is in Spanish.
Oh, yeah.
But yes, it's a new. I mean, we look at the way football has become in the last two seasons.
So it has become a bit of a different game from the one that we grew up with.
Right. It's counterattacks are maybe less than before.
Now we're talking about controlling possession a lot more, which thankfully Chelsea did against a Man City team.
That's good. But I did feel there was a sense of robotism to the game. But I think I don't know. It depends on tastes.
Right. Football grows and our tastes also grow with that sometimes.
I kind of like the possession style more. I didn't like it a few years ago when we had Maurizio Sarri as our coach and I hated the football.
But more recently, I watched this today and I love seeing them kind of play the balls between the two defenders, you know, trying to get in the pockets.
I do enjoy watching that.
Yeah, I think you also save a lot of energy when you do that.
Even look at someone like City after they scored a goal. I thought they just stopped playing like they stopped attacking.
It seems like they just let you play. And maybe that's that's the time where they just take the foot off the pedal.
Right. Just to just to take a little break in order to conserve their energy.
Or I don't know if it makes any sense.
That's what I'm saying. But that's just maybe what they can do so well. I imagine when Guardiola gives them the tactical tips or when he's coaching them,
he is teaching him how to behave in different game situations rather than just play in the same way all the time, because that's another school of thought.
Right. Play the same way all the time, no matter what the result is. That's one school of thought.
And then in my opinion, what Guardiola is like, you play differently when you're winning and you play differently when you are chasing the game.
Of course.
Would you agree?
Yes, I think actually it's a good idea sometimes, not at the end of games. I never like it when you score a goal and everyone starts defending in the last five minutes and they always concede.
But in the case of what City did in this game, it was one of the very first times I've seen all of their players in their own penalty box.
I don't ever remember them doing this before. And it was quite smart because I think when we were both playing and trying to, we created some really good chances.
We got the ball forward, we got numbers over. And obviously when Neto got on, I think we looked a bit more dangerous.
So I think the tactics were good from them to kind of keep that for a little bit and then got a lucky goal to kill it off.
And they did well, but they always will do well, I think, because they're a very, very good team.
So let's talk about the goals a little bit then.
So first Haaland scored a goal. I don't exactly remember the minute, but it was in the first half, I think around the 20th minute or something.
And Kukureya, was he too in that challenge or did he have no chance against Haaland?
It was not his mistake. I mean, he's seen as making a mistake because he's the one that gets across to try to cover the space that's been lost.
But it was, I'm not sure if it was Colwell or Fafana, nowhere near the player when the ball is played.
He's got extra space to get the ball in, bit of a lucky touch. Kukureya tries to stop him. He can't quite do it and they say score.
You know what I think, Marvin? Whenever Kukureya makes a mistake, I think it's sort of exacerbated by his haircut.
I don't know if it's my own theory. Like whenever I see him make a mistake, it's almost like I see it twice.
Like I see it with double the intensity because of the hair I see. I don't know about you, but it's not just Kukureya specifically.
That almost sounds like I'm racist or something. It doesn't matter who it is, whether it's David Lewis, who had like, I don't know how to describe that hair, but like so much hair everywhere.
It used to be Salah. We have one player like that in the Czech team, Alex Král.
Oh yeah, I know.
Somehow whenever they make a mistake or they are around something that goes wrong, I always kind of blame the hair subconsciously.
Do you feel in the same way?
I think it might be because of the sense of messiness. You assume that that's how they play as well.
And he's a bit of a rash player, just like you see him fly around.
Yeah. You know, technically very good. I think like actually Halfway Through Light, you know, actually he did show a good level for us.
We were making those kind of mistakes in the early part of the game. We were attacking well, but when it every time City got the ball out wide, I felt like it took a bit long for us to close down.
And Doku was able to just have Malogusto on toast the whole game, which was a problem in the end.
But in this case, that goal, I think it needed a bit of luck, obviously, because we did make the challenge.
You did make the challenge, but the ball just bounced back to him and unfortunately he was able to get the goal one on one.
He was very strong, Holland, in that challenge again, like his muscles.
Another player with weird hairstyle. Again, like, I just don't know, Marvin. I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan.
I don't know if these players would play under someone like Alex Ferguson. I think he would have ordered them to have a haircut.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be brought on the pitch. They wouldn't be allowed to play.
And in my opinion, it reduces your vision, right? If you have so much hair, I think, for example, someone like Salah, now he has a new haircut.
He looks more like me now. He doesn't have much hair. I think he will do much better. He already scored one goal.
He always does at the beginning of the season. I know he does.
But I think we will see a resurgence of Salah as a result of him changing his haircut.
I hope the same happens for Mudrik. I hope the same happens for Mudrik as well.
Does he have a different haircut too?
Shaved it. Yeah, it's really shaved now.
What about the tattoos? Has he covered his tattoos as well?
No, they are still there. Well, but you might not see them because he doesn't get to play.
You have some players who have a lot of tattoos like Leona and Messi and they are still good.
So I don't think we can blame the tattoos. Yeah.
The haircut, you know, that's a different story. At least I think so.
Because I remember back in the day when I used to play football and when my hair was a little bit longer and I had to wear the, what do you call it, the headband?
Headband, yeah. It actually annoyed the hell out of me at times, yeah. And I couldn't see very well.
But, you know, I wanted to look good and I wanted to be attractive for females.
So that was the reason I wore that. But football wise, it never helped me. So I'm still not a big fan.
So you didn't want to do the Jan Koller kind of style?
No, I'm doing that. That I'm doing now. I knew that would happen anyway, right?
So that's something you can't prevent. Like you have receding hairline. Not you. Not you. You're younger than me.
But I think we're almost the same age, you know?
No, I think you're younger. I think you're also getting a lot of Mexican sun. Yeah. So sunshine.
So I think you're getting like some extra nutrition from the Mexican sun and your hair still keeps growing.
I mean, mine is also OK. It could be worse, to be honest. It could be worse.
Definitely.
I could look like, what's his name? Tenhark.
Oh, God. Yeah, yeah. We could go down that road.
Yeah. OK. So to be honest, it's one of the toughest games to play anyway against City.
So I think you showed some promising signs of, you know, some progress, I thought.
So I completely understand that you're quite positive about this and I'm sure all Chelsea fans and the channels like this.
We have so many fan channels everywhere. I don't know if you subscribe to any of those, but those fans go crazy sometimes, right?
I don't pay attention to these. A lot of them, one or two of them are quite good, but a lot of them just trying to get money off the club, you know, profit from the club.
I mean, you know that. Arsenal started that with the fan TV. Arsenal fan TV.
I bet that was not your favourite show.
When they lost, it was quite interesting. But like, no, I liked a few of them. I met Robbie at the Community Shield game and he was a pretty nice guy.
Yeah, he was very nice. I just didn't like the... there was two of them and one of them was a bit of a... was a criminal, the other ones needed...
I like some of them were really nice guys. Actually, just trying to be a fan of the club and you respect that, right?
Because everyone loves their club and wants to support, consume content as much as possible.
Absolutely. Also, let's mention Kovacic, who scored the second goal. Obviously, the ex Chelsea player and I thought it was a brilliant goal.
Maybe you will see it as a mistake of your defence that they let him do that. But in my opinion, it was some neat play from him and good finish.
OK, you could blame the keeper a little bit. He could have done better there. But then again, Ederson wasn't at his best either today.
Kovacic didn't celebrate though, so that was nice. Sure, wasn't it?
Very nice. Actually, nothing against him. I mean, he was a nice player for us. We won a lot of trophies with him and I always liked Kovacic.
I thought he was a good player, passed it well, moved it well, good football, tried his best.
The fact he didn't celebrate, extra respect from me for that, that he didn't do that. He's got to score, he's got to try and help the team when he didn't do anything disrespectful.
So, that's all good. But yeah, I mean, 100% that should be saved. Would you have saved it?
Well, I'm not a goalkeeper. Not you and you, your son would have saved it. My son can save it, but maybe not me.
But the defence was bad and they did walk straight through. Same thing happened to us in a pre-season game against Inter,
where one of the players walked all the way through to hold in the middle and passed it when they scored. Similar thing.
Again, high corner shot goal. But yeah, again, this is where unfortunately the margins of detail are very important.
What separates a great team from a good team? And you cannot get away with having a terrible number nine or a terrible goalkeeper, unfortunately.
And it shows. Sanchez, yeah. Your goalkeeper is Sanchez.
Yeah, and last season he was replaced by Petrovic, who was a much better goalkeeper than him.
I know they're trying to say that he's good at passing a ball out, which he is, he's not bad.
But we've got another goalkeeper we just bought and I don't understand why he won't play.
I have a suggestion for you. You could also ask Petr Cech to come back from his retirement. He is now an ice hockey goalkeeper.
Did you know that? He is playing in, I think it's the second professional league in the UK or something like that.
It's not a joke. He is playing ice hockey now and he is a goalkeeper, so he's keeping himself fit.
I don't think he has forgotten how to play football, that maybe it would be a bit too old for modern football.
We were very blessed to have that guy in our goal for so many years. Like, a wonderful, wonderful goalkeeper.
We were blessed with goalkeepers. Since I was born, we've had good goalkeepers.
And him, we had Courtois for a while as well after him. I prefer Cech a lot more.
He's a legend, right? He must have been there for 10 years or something.
He won everything he could.
He did. And we won the Champions League thanks to his goalkeeping. We won the Europa League. He was fantastic.
Marvin, do you remember we also recorded one episode of Zdenek's English podcast, my other podcast about Peter Cech?
Yes, I remember. I remember a great podcast.
If anyone is interested, there is a football episode about your goalkeeper legend, Peter Cech, recorded with this guest, Marvin.
I think we did it like four or five years ago or so. And it's one Zdenek's English podcast, so you just have to do a bit of Googling and you will find it.
I love it. I would have him back all day. He was a wonderful goalkeeper for us. He worked for the club for a while as well.
Yeah, until he was fired. Not tired, fired.
I don't know if he got fired per se, but we'll have to see what happened with that.
I think there's something to do with Ibrahimovic. What's his name? Not Ibrahimovic, that's Latin.
Ibrahimovic, I think he was associated with that era.
And I think as a result, he had to make a complete change of the staff. And I think that's why he had to go.
I think he is a professional in anything he does. Honestly, I cannot imagine him not doing his duties properly.
So I think he's more than anything, to be honest.
Yeah, I agree. I've always been a big fan of his and it's a shame to go from that to Kepa.
I still find it insane how on earth you managed to find, because I always said Kepa was the worst goalkeeper on Earth.
How we managed to find the worst goalkeeper on Mars and replace him with that, I don't understand.
The worst goalkeeper on Mars?
Because Kepa was so bad and Sanchez is even worse. I don't know how he managed to do this, especially in your team.
I don't think Ramsdale is that good, but you've got two decent goalkeepers and we've got none.
Ramsdale doesn't seem to be happy. There are some speculations of him leaving.
I'm not surprised, he used to be number one. Then Raya came in and unfortunately nobody understood why Afteta chose Raya over Ramsdale.
It took a few games and then everybody knew that this was a good decision.
Yeah, he's much better with the feet. Nowadays the goalkeeper has to be the final defender, right?
So to make more overload, so you can play the ball out much more. That's why they changed Petra.
Yeah.
Alright, Marvin. Well, it's been fantastic talking to you about Chelsea.
Normally, under normal circumstances, I would wish you good luck because I have a lot of respect for my guests and anyone who wants to be on the Footgrish podcast.
But in this case, it's a bit difficult because you are a London rival as well, right?
I support Arsenal, you are a Chelsea fan.
Nobody's perfect.
Good luck to you as long as you finish below us. Good luck to you.
Well, I'm willing to accept that as long as my son comes to say hello.
A future Chelsea supporter already.
I got in there already, I just got to decide what position he's going to play.
Sometimes I wonder, is this fair? The kids don't really have a choice, right? It's imposed on them.
What if your son wanted to support? Who is the biggest rival of Chelsea? I know you hate Manchester United, but who is the biggest Chelsea rival?
I mean, in general, they say that Tottenham is it, right?
It's everyone's biggest rival.
I mean, I do understand some historical factors.
Yeah, but they never win anyway against us. Is that really a rival?
It's more of a joke, right?
For me, it's a cross-up really between Manchester United and Liverpool, but there is a certain thing with Arsenal, obviously, as well, because obviously now you're good again.
But even then, you still haven't won anything for your golden era.
That's true.
But I think we have a bit of something with Arsenal and Tottenham and then obviously Liverpool.
Liverpool, that's dated back for a while, since like, kind of 2003, 2004, we started winning and they didn't like it.
But I know you personally always, Manchester United is the team you absolutely can't stand, right?
Yeah, absolutely. Despise a ball.
All right, well, we will see what happens this season. It will be exciting to watch only one round behind us.
Tottenham, there is one more game to be played tomorrow. It's Tottenham.
Oh, yeah.
Tottenham against, is it Leicester? A newly promoted side. And yeah, so many more games to go, so anything can happen.
Marvin, it's been fantastic to have you here and I hope we can catch up in the future again.
Me too. Have a great day. Thanks for having me, mate.
You take care. Bye bye.
All right, everyone, welcome back to the Language Corner.
As always, in this part of the show, I'm going to go through some language.
I'm going to clarify some vocabulary.
And that's something that English teachers like myself have to do in order to teach English.
Yes, it's part of the learning experience.
And this is your opportunity to learn something new.
Marvin is a well-spoken person.
He's an English teacher himself, so he use a lot of very, very cool vocabulary.
And I have decided to pick out several adjectives.
Now, adjectives are those words that we use in order to describe other words.
So I'm going to go through several examples, several adjectives from the episode and then explain them to you.
So Marvin said, I'm probably one of the most reactionary fans.
A reactionary fan. What does it mean if you are a reactionary fan?
Well, it means that you are an emotional fan and you react to what is happening in the games in a slightly emotional way, let's say.
So if Chelsea lose, Marvin goes absolutely crazy.
If Chelsea win, he's really happy, right?
He's really excited and happy.
So he is a reactionary football fan.
He reacts quickly and often emotionally to events during a football match or season.
And yes, sometimes this is slightly disapproving.
It's kind of the opposite of being a measured football fan, a level headed football fan.
Right. I don't think we lost because we were the inferior team.
Here we are looking at the word inferior.
The inferior team means the worst team in the game.
The better team would be the superior team.
The inferior team means the worst team.
So Marvin said that he didn't think that Chelsea were worse than Man City.
And I think he was right.
He also said, I don't, sorry.
He also said we don't have an elite number nine.
Man City does.
Number nine is that striker, right?
The most advanced striker role.
Man City have Haaland and Chelsea don't have an elite number nine.
So an elite, what does elite mean?
Elite means like really, really good quality, really high level, top class, world class elite.
Right. So they have a number nine, but this player is not elite.
Haaland is elite.
He's one of the best in his position.
OK. Right.
One way we would be brilliant and the next day we would be dreadful.
So this is how Marvin described the way Chelsea played last season, I believe.
One day we would be brilliant and the next day we would be dreadful.
So the word I'm looking at here is dreadful.
If something is dreadful, it's it's horrible.
It's really bad. It's awful.
It's really, really poor.
OK. So when you're talking about a football team and their performance being dreadful,
it's a really abysmal, poor, below par performance dreadful.
Oh, it's just horrible.
OK. Then I said, you still have players who are a bit raw.
We use this word actually to describe vegetable.
If you eat raw vegetable, it means you don't cook it.
Right. So this is a metaphor.
Basically, when we talk about players who are still a bit raw, it means they are very young, inexperienced.
They need to play more and develop as players. They are still a bit raw.
They are not a finished article, as we say.
OK. And then we were talking or Marvin was talking about Scott Palmer.
And he used a really, really interesting phrase that I have to admit I did not know and I had to find it.
He said that Scott Palmer is a completely bonafide star, bonafide.
Also, I found star. It's a really strange word.
And it is spelled as B-A-N-A space F-I-D-E.
And apparently it comes from Latin and it means in good faith in Latin.
But here it kind of means a real star, a genuine, a complete bonafide star.
Yeah. So a real star.
So basically, Scott Palmer is just, you know, he's top class, world class again, a bonafide star.
OK. Then we were also talking about Cucurela, the defender, the Spanish defender.
And Marvin said he is a bit of a rash player.
Now, the word rash means impulsive.
This player does not think through his actions.
He acts on an impulse, right?
If you make a rash decision, you don't consider the consequences of that decision.
You just make the decision quickly without thinking it through.
And you can be a rash player as well.
It means your decision making is not maybe always the best because you act on an impulse, right?
And then we were talking about the Kovačić goal.
And I was describing it to Marvin as a brilliant goal.
Basically, Kovačić dribbled past several players.
And I said, in my opinion, it was some neat play from him. Neat play. Neat.
If you show a neat play, you demonstrate skill and efficiency.
So it was skillful and efficient.
You can be a neat player or you can make a neat move or something like that.
So neat. Okay, guys, I hope you find all these adjectives useful.
You can definitely use them to talk about football.
And of course, as always, this podcast goes beyond football.
I know most of the listeners of this podcast are football fans or people that have to do with the football industry,
the football field, football players, football managers.
But it's possible that some people listening to this don't even like football or it's not their number one thing,
in which case, why are you listening?
And secondly, I think I know why you are listening, because a lot of things that I am explaining here,
a lot of vocabulary that is used in these episodes can also be used outside football.
A lot of vocabulary is applicable beyond this sport because it's everyday usage vocabulary.
Right. Anyway, guys, it's been wonderful to talk to you again.
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