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What were the results of round two of the new season of the Premier League?
And what does the table look like after two rounds?
How many Czech players are there now at the German club Hoffenheim?
And what do the words thrashing and battering mean?
Hi everyone, welcome to the Footglitch Podcast.
Quite possibly the best English learning podcast about football in the world.
I am the boss, my name is Denek, I'm the host of this podcast.
Welcome everyone, thanks for listening.
And in this episode of the Footglitch Podcast, let's talk about the Premier League.
And maybe some other stuff too, but primarily the Premier League,
because it is the best league in the world, it is the league that I watch the most.
And we can go through the results on Saturday.
Brighton beat Manchester United. I was actually listening to this game on my bicycle.
There is an app, livescore.com, and I quite like this app.
And they have an audio commentary, and there was a commentator who was so passionate,
that I have to say I really enjoyed that commentary, especially when Brighton scored the winning goal.
It was of course a goal by João Pedro, and excellent result for Brighton.
Another three points. They are one of the few teams that have six points after two games.
Brighton is one of them, that's incredible, honestly.
Manchester United, not the most convincing result of course for them.
And then there was a game, Crystal Palace, West Ham United.
I was watching this game, I have to say, because I naturally,
since there are two Czech players in the West Ham United team,
I like to watch the games of the West Ham United team.
And they managed to beat Crystal Palace away from home.
The goals were scored by Tomáš Socek, the Czech player, and Jared Bowen.
It was a good performance from West Ham, tactically well done by Julio Lopetogu,
the new manager of West Ham United.
Fulham beat Leicester City, a great result for this team of course.
Emile Smith-Rowe, a new signing from Arsenal on the score sheet.
And the second goal Fulham scored was also scored by an ex-Arsenal player, Iwobi.
But I think Iwobi used to play for Everton as well after he left Arsenal.
Then we have Manchester City, Ipswich 4-1, I think everybody expected a battering.
Ipswich is a newly promoted team, everybody knew this was going to happen.
Erling Haaland, a hat-trick, of course he scored a hat-trick.
One goal from penalty and another goal by Kevin de Bruyne.
Even though it was actually Ipswich who opened the scoring.
And then of course Manchester City turned it around, I don't think anybody doubted that.
Southampton, another newly promoted team, lost to Nottingham Forest at home, 1-0.
The goal was scored in the 70th minute by Gibbs White.
And this game had seven yellow cards in total, which is of course an interesting fact that you all wanted to hear.
I'm sure you did.
Okay, Tottenham beat Everton 4-0, another thrashing.
Everton are not looking good at all this season. Is this the season they're going to get relegated?
I wouldn't be surprised.
Tottenham responded really well to the draw from their opening game by winning 4-0.
Humainsong, two goals, Bissouma and Romero, both one goal each.
Right, and then the most important game of the day was Aston Villa versus Arsenal.
I think after Aston Villa had beaten West Ham in the first round, everybody expected them to do well against Arsenal.
But Arsenal took no chances in this game.
A great goal by Trossard in the 67th minute.
Trossard, who was a substitute, and when he scored this goal, he wasn't really celebrating.
His celebration was very muted.
I think this was some sort of protest against his manager Miguel Arteta, because Trossard is not a starting player.
And he thinks he should be.
And to be honest, he probably should be, because his goal threat is really well known.
And Martinelli didn't look exactly sharp in the first two games.
So I'm with Trossard on this one.
I like this player, and I like Martinelli too, but it looks like Trossard should be given a chance to start the games, in my opinion.
The second goal was scored by the defensive midfielder Thomas Parte, the Ghanaian player.
And the assist came from Pukai Osaka, of course.
Right, so these were the games that took place on Saturday.
Then on Sunday, Bournemouth, Newcastle United 1-1, really a disappointing point for Newcastle United.
I don't think they have started the season well.
They were quite lucky with the first game.
They won despite being one man down.
But now they were held to a draw by Bournemouth, who look like a decent team.
Again, they were a decent team last season.
I think they will be all right this season as well.
I'm predicting a mid-tail finish for them.
Then, amazing game, Wolves-Chelsea 2-6.
Chelsea six goals, Maduekes Hetrick, Scott Palmer scored one, Jackson one, and Joao Felix as well.
And Wolves, their goals were scored by Cunha and Larsen.
So yeah, that looks like Chelsea are on fire, honestly.
Their first game, yeah, they lost it to Manchester City, but everybody loses to Manchester City these days.
But a good response from Chelsea, beating Wolves in this kind of manner, I think that shows intent.
And honestly, I am afraid because, you know, I'm not a Chelsea fan exactly.
I'm afraid Chelsea will be one of the teams that we should really expect to do well this season.
And then the final game of this round, Liverpool-Brentford 2-0.
I thought it was a comfortable win by the Reds.
Luis Diaz scoring the first goal in the 13th minute and Mo Salah doubling the score in the 70th minute.
Mo Salah, two goals in two games.
I think he's one of the best strikers in the league, of course, as usual.
And he keeps scoring goals, of course.
Which brings me to the next thing I want to talk about, and that is the fantasy team that, you know,
everyone knows that I play in, I play the FBL, the Fantasy Premier League.
And I'm going to share my screen.
If you are watching this on YouTube, I'm going to share my screen and show you my points, show you how I have been doing.
It's I guess it's all right.
It's much better than the previous week.
81 points. You always look at the average number of points, 69.
So 81 is above that.
I'm happy with my captain Highland, of course, who scored a hat trick.
So my points were doubled for this player.
Then David Raya, 10 points.
He made a lot of saves and he got bonus points as well.
And he got a clean sheet.
That's why he ended up with 10 points, which is amazing for a goalkeeper.
Emil Smithrow, of course, and Robinson, two players from Fulham, really delivered.
But everyone else has kind of been disappointing.
Well, the Liverpool players, they did their job, I guess.
But as a Garnacho, Bailey, Izak, I think all these four players have been disappointing so far.
I've already sorted Garnacho.
I bought Tomas Socek, of course, and I'll have to send Barko as well because I think he is injured.
No, he was loaned to Sevilla, I see.
So Barko needs to get out of my team as soon as possible.
Yeah, Watkins isn't exactly on fire either, but he was playing against Arsenal.
We will see. I'm still keeping Watkins.
I think his next game is against Leicester and then a few other easy games.
So that should be all right.
Looking at the Footgrish Podcast League, which, by the way, all of you can join.
Just follow the link in the description of this episode.
Looking at this league, you can see I'm in the third place, which is not too shabby.
I'm quite happy about that.
All things considered, especially considering the fact that my first round wasn't that impressive,
but I suppose I was more consistent than the people below me.
And I even saw some of them play the triple captain chip.
For example, Budgie played his triple captain chip.
That's why he got 92 points, which is great.
Great choice of triple captain.
But I'm still above Budgie, so it's not looking that bad.
My cousin, Honza, 82 points also has played triple captain.
And yeah, we can see Paul has been playing really well at the start of this season.
90 points.
That's rather impressive.
A lot of points the previous week as well.
Deservedly in the first place, but I'm not too far.
And neither is Duc.
Barcelona Terminator team, 83 points. These are the best three players so far.
So we will see what happens next.
Of course, this is a very competitive league and the season is long.
So only two rounds of the Premier League have been played and there are still 36 left.
So anything could happen, right?
Anyway, this was the fantasy Premier League.
And now I'm going to include my two new segments.
Those of you who used to watch my YouTube show, Learn English with Football,
and then it was called, I think, Premier Corner.
I kept changing the name.
I used to have this segment called the hero of the week and the villain of the week.
I'm going to do the same thing here and see if I can keep it up.
And of course, we're talking about the Premier League hero of the week
and the Premier League villain of the week.
So my Premier League hero of the week has to be Haaland, who I heard scored his 10th hat-trick.
10th hat-trick, apparently, in the Premier League.
I'm not surprised if this number is correct. I'm not surprised.
Then my villain of the week, I'm going for Eddie Howe, the Newcastle manager.
I thought they played two unconvincing results,
even though their first game they managed to beat their opponents one-nil,
despite being down one man. They were reduced down to 10 men.
They still managed to win, so that was all right, I guess, but I thought he was quite lucky.
And their second game against Bournemouth won one.
Had it not been for a crossbar and then VAR intervention, they would have lost this game, in fact.
I thought Bournemouth, their chances were better.
And also they had a goal disallowed, right?
So, yeah, I mean, what else can I talk about here on this podcast?
Guys, I think maybe we can have a look at the table, at the Premier League table.
Again, I think I should probably share this with you, those of you who are watching this on the YouTube channel.
You will have a chance to see it.
Those of you who are not watching this, well, just listen.
Just listen to what I have to say.
We have four teams at six points.
So four teams, 100% record.
It's Manchester City. They have the best goal difference, plus five.
Brighton and Hove, Albion, plus four. Arsenal, plus four. Liverpool, plus four.
So basically we have four teams at six points.
Then Tottenham, four points in the fifth place.
Newcastle, four points in the sixth place somehow, even though I gave Eddie how the villain of the week, they are still in the sixth place.
I guess it's not too bad.
But next game is against Tottenham, against Tottenham at home.
So we will see how they do there.
Nottingham Forest in the second place.
I'm pretty sure they are happy with that.
Good start to the season.
Chelsea, yeah, Chelsea will be all right.
They just lost to Man City at three points.
West Ham at three points.
They lost to Aston Villa at home.
Now they beat Crystal Palace.
And their next game is against Manchester City.
So they will probably remain at three points after next week as well.
Pullham, three points.
Manchester United, three points.
We've already spoken about them.
Aston Villa, three points as well.
And Brentford also got a win.
Then Bournemouth has two draws.
That's an anomaly here.
Two draws, two points.
Leicester at one point.
And then we have five teams at zero points.
Southampton, Crystal Palace, Ipswich Town.
Walthampton Wanderers and Everton.
Everton are bottom of the league with minus seven goal difference.
Yeah, so that's the table.
And obviously this is early days for the league.
So a lot can change.
But I think we can already see some patterns.
We can see that the teams that did really well last season, more or less,
started off well this season as well.
So no surprise there, I suppose.
And the last thing I can talk about here, guys, is about some Czech players.
You know, I'm Czech.
So those of you who are not Czech, those of you who are from other countries,
please forgive me for mentioning a few Czech players.
Apparently Alex Graal, who is now playing for Real Club Deportivo Espanyol de Barcelona,
has started the season well.
Apparently the fans like the way he plays.
And that is something he needs because this player used to have a lot of confidence.
But the last few years has been under a lot of criticism.
So it's good to hear that he started the season well.
Then, of course, we need to mention Tomáš Souček scoring his goal for West Ham,
even though the fans are totally against him.
The way they speak about Tomáš Souček in the media, I hate it, absolutely hate it.
Not the media, excuse me, the fans.
The fans are just so fickle.
One week they will just absolutely hate Souček because he's not as elegant as the other players.
But whenever he scores, suddenly they love him.
I feel like there is a lot of inconsistency in the way that West Ham fans show love to the best Czech player at the moment, I believe.
He's the captain of the national team.
And he saved a kid because after his helicopter celebration,
he went to the away fans, to the West Ham fans, to celebrate his goal.
And they leaned on an advertising hoarding, which then fell on a ball boy, a young ball boy.
I think he was about, you know, could be like 10 years old or something.
And he was in danger.
And Tomáš Souček helped him get out of that advertising hoarding because it was kind of leaning over him.
So it looked like a really dangerous situation.
So Tomáš Souček is now the superhero, which is a headline that I saw in a few newspapers, online newspapers.
So, yeah, that's great to hear that Tomáš Souček is on the score sheet yet again and has one goal in two games for West Ham.
He seems to be playing in a more advanced role under this new manager, Lopetegu.
So that's great to see that he might be given more freedom.
He might be given that role that he used to have at Slavia and the first year at West Ham until David Moyes changed him into a defensive midfielder, which he is not.
Tomáš Souček is a hybrid. He's a box to box midfielder.
He can do it all, but he must be given some license to Rome because he is excellent at running late into the box and scoring goals.
He is just very clinical. He's one of the best finishers, definitely at West Ham.
And I think they know it. I think they know what sort of gem they have there.
Right. What's interesting is that the Czech contingent at Hoffenheim, the German club, has been growing because now we have two more players there.
Pavel Kadezábek has been a legend there almost. He's been playing so many seasons there now.
By the way, he already retired from international football, unfortunately, but what a great player.
Karel, what's his name? Pavel Kadezábek has been. What a great player.
And then David Jurásek joined him from Benfica. He was transferred from Benfica, but unfortunately he got injured in preseason.
And now Hložek from Leverkusen, also signed by Hoffenheim. Yeah, we have Hložek. Adam Hložek is now at Hoffenheim as well.
And that's not it. Several days ago, it's quite fresh. This news is quite fresh.
One of the best Czech center midfielders, Robin Hranáč, playing for Victoria Plzeň, has also joined Hoffenheim now.
I think it was 10 million euros, something like that. Really, really good money for this player, I think.
So everybody is happy. And we have four Czech players at Hoffenheim.
So that has to be one of the teams that I must support now, like in the German League.
Of course, we still have Patrik Schick at Bayern Leverkusen, but he didn't exactly play.
They won their first game against Borussia Mönchenglenbach 3-2, but Patrik Schick didn't play, unfortunately.
And by the way, check out the first goal by Graničeká. It must be the goal of the season. Oh my God.
What a fantastic finish. Long range shot. Absolutely amazing. Check it out. Graničeká, an ex-Arsenal player as well.
Going back to the Spanish league, that's where we started. I mentioned Alex Kral, but also Krejci, the center defender who joined Girona from Prague.
He also got injured in preseason. In the first game, he played, I think, about 10-15 minutes.
In the second game, he didn't play at all against Atletico Madrid. They lost 3-0.
I think Girona this season won't be the same team they were the previous season.
I think for a team like that, it's really hard to keep this standard up. It's like when Leicester won the Premier League, I think it was the same.
These smaller teams, I'm sorry to say that, but these smaller teams, it's impossible for them to stay consistent, basically.
But they are in the Champions League, so that will be fun. That's for sure.
Okay, guys, I guess that's enough for today. I guess I will do the language corner, right? I think I should.
Welcome back. This is the language corner. I'm not sure if this is your favorite part of the show.
Perhaps it's your least favorite part of the show, but I still have to do it, and that's because otherwise it would be just an ordinary podcast about football
and I would not stand out. And I need to stand out because I'm an English teacher and I teach English to people from the football field.
Yes, footballers, journalists, football managers, scouts, you name it.
And that is why it's a good idea for someone like me to have a podcast. Okay?
And I need to show some teaching there, right? I need to do my job.
So this is the explanation for those of you who don't understand why I add this bit at the end of every show.
I actually asked ChetGPT the other day what kind of reviews I'm getting from the online world, and it said there are some mixed reviews.
Most people, I guess, are positive. And unfortunately, someone apparently said that I am too analytical sometimes when it comes to my podcast.
And that probably was about this bit, the language corner, which it's okay. You know, this is not for everyone. You cannot ever possibly please everyone.
Anyway, if you do enjoy the Footgrish podcast as a whole, as the whole package, please let me know. Okay?
And the best way to do it is really to leave a review on Apple podcasts, Spotify, wherever you can do it.
If you give me a five star rating, I would be absolutely delighted, of course, and very grateful to you.
But let's talk about the words thrashing and battering today. I said Manchester City Ipswich 4-1. I think everybody expected a battering.
And then I also said Tottenham beat Everton 4-0. Another thrashing.
Battering and thrashing mean almost the same. We use these terms metaphorically to describe a match where one team dominates and defeats the other by a significant margin.
So these results were 4-1, 4-0. You know, any score line which is by three and more goals is more or less a thrashing, let's be honest, or battering.
Yeah. So there you go. Be careful about the pronunciation of the word thrashing. It's not trashing. It's not from the word trash as in garbage.
It has nothing to do with that. It's there is an extra H, T, H, R, thrash. That's why you have to pronounce the th sound.
Thrashing. All right. Well, let's see if there are any more thrashings and batterings in round three of the Premier League, which we are all looking forward to.
Thank you very much for listening, everyone, and I will speak to you soon. Take care. Bye bye.