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You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast. Love football, learn English.

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What were the results of round two of the new season of the Premier League?

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And what does the table look like after two rounds?

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How many Czech players are there now at the German club Hoffenheim?

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And what do the words thrashing and battering mean?

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Hi everyone, welcome to the Footglitch Podcast.

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Quite possibly the best English learning podcast about football in the world.

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I am the boss, my name is Denek, I'm the host of this podcast.

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Welcome everyone, thanks for listening.

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And in this episode of the Footglitch Podcast, let's talk about the Premier League.

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And maybe some other stuff too, but primarily the Premier League,

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because it is the best league in the world, it is the league that I watch the most.

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And we can go through the results on Saturday.

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Brighton beat Manchester United. I was actually listening to this game on my bicycle.

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There is an app, livescore.com, and I quite like this app.

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And they have an audio commentary, and there was a commentator who was so passionate,

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that I have to say I really enjoyed that commentary, especially when Brighton scored the winning goal.

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It was of course a goal by João Pedro, and excellent result for Brighton.

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Another three points. They are one of the few teams that have six points after two games.

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Brighton is one of them, that's incredible, honestly.

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Manchester United, not the most convincing result of course for them.

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And then there was a game, Crystal Palace, West Ham United.

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I was watching this game, I have to say, because I naturally,

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since there are two Czech players in the West Ham United team,

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I like to watch the games of the West Ham United team.

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And they managed to beat Crystal Palace away from home.

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The goals were scored by Tomáš Socek, the Czech player, and Jared Bowen.

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It was a good performance from West Ham, tactically well done by Julio Lopetogu,

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the new manager of West Ham United.

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Fulham beat Leicester City, a great result for this team of course.

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Emile Smith-Rowe, a new signing from Arsenal on the score sheet.

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And the second goal Fulham scored was also scored by an ex-Arsenal player, Iwobi.

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But I think Iwobi used to play for Everton as well after he left Arsenal.

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Then we have Manchester City, Ipswich 4-1, I think everybody expected a battering.

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Ipswich is a newly promoted team, everybody knew this was going to happen.

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Erling Haaland, a hat-trick, of course he scored a hat-trick.

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One goal from penalty and another goal by Kevin de Bruyne.

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Even though it was actually Ipswich who opened the scoring.

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And then of course Manchester City turned it around, I don't think anybody doubted that.

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Southampton, another newly promoted team, lost to Nottingham Forest at home, 1-0.

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The goal was scored in the 70th minute by Gibbs White.

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And this game had seven yellow cards in total, which is of course an interesting fact that you all wanted to hear.

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I'm sure you did.

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Okay, Tottenham beat Everton 4-0, another thrashing.

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Everton are not looking good at all this season. Is this the season they're going to get relegated?

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I wouldn't be surprised.

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Tottenham responded really well to the draw from their opening game by winning 4-0.

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Humainsong, two goals, Bissouma and Romero, both one goal each.

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Right, and then the most important game of the day was Aston Villa versus Arsenal.

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I think after Aston Villa had beaten West Ham in the first round, everybody expected them to do well against Arsenal.

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But Arsenal took no chances in this game.

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A great goal by Trossard in the 67th minute.

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Trossard, who was a substitute, and when he scored this goal, he wasn't really celebrating.

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His celebration was very muted.

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I think this was some sort of protest against his manager Miguel Arteta, because Trossard is not a starting player.

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And he thinks he should be.

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And to be honest, he probably should be, because his goal threat is really well known.

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And Martinelli didn't look exactly sharp in the first two games.

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So I'm with Trossard on this one.

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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.

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The second goal was scored by the defensive midfielder Thomas Parte, the Ghanaian player.

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And the assist came from Pukai Osaka, of course.

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Right, so these were the games that took place on Saturday.

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Then on Sunday, Bournemouth, Newcastle United 1-1, really a disappointing point for Newcastle United.

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I don't think they have started the season well.

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They were quite lucky with the first game.

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They won despite being one man down.

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But now they were held to a draw by Bournemouth, who look like a decent team.

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Again, they were a decent team last season.

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I think they will be all right this season as well.

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I'm predicting a mid-tail finish for them.

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Then, amazing game, Wolves-Chelsea 2-6.

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Chelsea six goals, Maduekes Hetrick, Scott Palmer scored one, Jackson one, and Joao Felix as well.

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And Wolves, their goals were scored by Cunha and Larsen.

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So yeah, that looks like Chelsea are on fire, honestly.

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Their first game, yeah, they lost it to Manchester City, but everybody loses to Manchester City these days.

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But a good response from Chelsea, beating Wolves in this kind of manner, I think that shows intent.

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And honestly, I am afraid because, you know, I'm not a Chelsea fan exactly.

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I'm afraid Chelsea will be one of the teams that we should really expect to do well this season.

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And then the final game of this round, Liverpool-Brentford 2-0.

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I thought it was a comfortable win by the Reds.

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Luis Diaz scoring the first goal in the 13th minute and Mo Salah doubling the score in the 70th minute.

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Mo Salah, two goals in two games.

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I think he's one of the best strikers in the league, of course, as usual.

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And he keeps scoring goals, of course.

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Which brings me to the next thing I want to talk about, and that is the fantasy team that, you know,

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everyone knows that I play in, I play the FBL, the Fantasy Premier League.

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And I'm going to share my screen.

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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.

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It's I guess it's all right.

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It's much better than the previous week.

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81 points. You always look at the average number of points, 69.

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So 81 is above that.

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I'm happy with my captain Highland, of course, who scored a hat trick.

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So my points were doubled for this player.

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Then David Raya, 10 points.

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He made a lot of saves and he got bonus points as well.

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And he got a clean sheet.

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That's why he ended up with 10 points, which is amazing for a goalkeeper.

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Emil Smithrow, of course, and Robinson, two players from Fulham, really delivered.

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But everyone else has kind of been disappointing.

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Well, the Liverpool players, they did their job, I guess.

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But as a Garnacho, Bailey, Izak, I think all these four players have been disappointing so far.

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I've already sorted Garnacho.

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I bought Tomas Socek, of course, and I'll have to send Barko as well because I think he is injured.

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No, he was loaned to Sevilla, I see.

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So Barko needs to get out of my team as soon as possible.

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Yeah, Watkins isn't exactly on fire either, but he was playing against Arsenal.

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We will see. I'm still keeping Watkins.

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I think his next game is against Leicester and then a few other easy games.

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So that should be all right.

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Looking at the Footgrish Podcast League, which, by the way, all of you can join.

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Just follow the link in the description of this episode.

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Looking at this league, you can see I'm in the third place, which is not too shabby.

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I'm quite happy about that.

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All things considered, especially considering the fact that my first round wasn't that impressive,

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but I suppose I was more consistent than the people below me.

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And I even saw some of them play the triple captain chip.

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For example, Budgie played his triple captain chip.

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That's why he got 92 points, which is great.

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Great choice of triple captain.

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But I'm still above Budgie, so it's not looking that bad.

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My cousin, Honza, 82 points also has played triple captain.

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And yeah, we can see Paul has been playing really well at the start of this season.

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90 points.

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That's rather impressive.

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A lot of points the previous week as well.

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Deservedly in the first place, but I'm not too far.

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And neither is Duc.

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Barcelona Terminator team, 83 points. These are the best three players so far.

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So we will see what happens next.

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Of course, this is a very competitive league and the season is long.

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So only two rounds of the Premier League have been played and there are still 36 left.

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So anything could happen, right?

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Anyway, this was the fantasy Premier League.

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And now I'm going to include my two new segments.

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Those of you who used to watch my YouTube show, Learn English with Football,

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and then it was called, I think, Premier Corner.

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I kept changing the name.

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I used to have this segment called the hero of the week and the villain of the week.

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I'm going to do the same thing here and see if I can keep it up.

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And of course, we're talking about the Premier League hero of the week

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and the Premier League villain of the week.

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So my Premier League hero of the week has to be Haaland, who I heard scored his 10th hat-trick.

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10th hat-trick, apparently, in the Premier League.

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I'm not surprised if this number is correct. I'm not surprised.

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Then my villain of the week, I'm going for Eddie Howe, the Newcastle manager.

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I thought they played two unconvincing results,

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even though their first game they managed to beat their opponents one-nil,

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despite being down one man. They were reduced down to 10 men.

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They still managed to win, so that was all right, I guess, but I thought he was quite lucky.

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And their second game against Bournemouth won one.

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Had it not been for a crossbar and then VAR intervention, they would have lost this game, in fact.

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I thought Bournemouth, their chances were better.

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And also they had a goal disallowed, right?

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So, yeah, I mean, what else can I talk about here on this podcast?

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Guys, I think maybe we can have a look at the table, at the Premier League table.

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Again, I think I should probably share this with you, those of you who are watching this on the YouTube channel.

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You will have a chance to see it.

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Those of you who are not watching this, well, just listen.

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Just listen to what I have to say.

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We have four teams at six points.

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So four teams, 100% record.

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It's Manchester City. They have the best goal difference, plus five.

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Brighton and Hove, Albion, plus four. Arsenal, plus four. Liverpool, plus four.

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So basically we have four teams at six points.

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Then Tottenham, four points in the fifth place.

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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.

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I guess it's not too bad.

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But next game is against Tottenham, against Tottenham at home.

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So we will see how they do there.

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Nottingham Forest in the second place.

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I'm pretty sure they are happy with that.

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Good start to the season.

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Chelsea, yeah, Chelsea will be all right.

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They just lost to Man City at three points.

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West Ham at three points.

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They lost to Aston Villa at home.

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Now they beat Crystal Palace.

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And their next game is against Manchester City.

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Pullham, three points.

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Manchester United, three points.

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We've already spoken about them.

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Aston Villa, three points as well.

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And Brentford also got a win.

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Then Bournemouth has two draws.

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That's an anomaly here.

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Two draws, two points.

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Leicester at one point.

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Southampton, Crystal Palace, Ipswich Town.

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Walthampton Wanderers and Everton.

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Everton are bottom of the league with minus seven goal difference.

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Yeah, so that's the table.

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And obviously this is early days for the league.

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So a lot can change.

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But I think we can already see some patterns.

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We can see that the teams that did really well last season, more or less,

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started off well this season as well.

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So no surprise there, I suppose.

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And the last thing I can talk about here, guys, is about some Czech players.

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You know, I'm Czech.

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So those of you who are not Czech, those of you who are from other countries,

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please forgive me for mentioning a few Czech players.

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Apparently Alex Graal, who is now playing for Real Club Deportivo Espanyol de Barcelona,

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has started the season well.

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Apparently the fans like the way he plays.

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And that is something he needs because this player used to have a lot of confidence.

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But the last few years has been under a lot of criticism.

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So it's good to hear that he started the season well.

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Then, of course, we need to mention Tomáš Souček scoring his goal for West Ham,

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even though the fans are totally against him.

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The way they speak about Tomáš Souček in the media, I hate it, absolutely hate it.

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Not the media, excuse me, the fans.

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The fans are just so fickle.

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One week they will just absolutely hate Souček because he's not as elegant as the other players.

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But whenever he scores, suddenly they love him.

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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.

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He's the captain of the national team.

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And he saved a kid because after his helicopter celebration,

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he went to the away fans, to the West Ham fans, to celebrate his goal.

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And they leaned on an advertising hoarding, which then fell on a ball boy, a young ball boy.

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I think he was about, you know, could be like 10 years old or something.

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And Tomáš Souček helped him get out of that advertising hoarding because it was kind of leaning over him.

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So it looked like a really dangerous situation.

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So Tomáš Souček is now the superhero, which is a headline that I saw in a few newspapers, online newspapers.

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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.

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He seems to be playing in a more advanced role under this new manager, Lopetegu.

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So that's great to see that he might be given more freedom.

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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.

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Tomáš Souček is a hybrid. He's a box to box midfielder.

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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.

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He is just very clinical. He's one of the best finishers, definitely at West Ham.

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And I think they know it. I think they know what sort of gem they have there.

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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.

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Pavel Kadezábek has been a legend there almost. He's been playing so many seasons there now.

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By the way, he already retired from international football, unfortunately, but what a great player.

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Karel, what's his name? Pavel Kadezábek has been. What a great player.

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And then David Jurásek joined him from Benfica. He was transferred from Benfica, but unfortunately he got injured in preseason.

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And now Hložek from Leverkusen, also signed by Hoffenheim. Yeah, we have Hložek. Adam Hložek is now at Hoffenheim as well.

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And that's not it. Several days ago, it's quite fresh. This news is quite fresh.

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One of the best Czech center midfielders, Robin Hranáč, playing for Victoria Plzeň, has also joined Hoffenheim now.

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I think it was 10 million euros, something like that. Really, really good money for this player, I think.

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So everybody is happy. And we have four Czech players at Hoffenheim.

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So that has to be one of the teams that I must support now, like in the German League.

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Of course, we still have Patrik Schick at Bayern Leverkusen, but he didn't exactly play.

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They won their first game against Borussia Mönchenglenbach 3-2, but Patrik Schick didn't play, unfortunately.

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And by the way, check out the first goal by Graničeká. It must be the goal of the season. Oh my God.

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What a fantastic finish. Long range shot. Absolutely amazing. Check it out. Graničeká, an ex-Arsenal player as well.

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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.

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He also got injured in preseason. In the first game, he played, I think, about 10-15 minutes.

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In the second game, he didn't play at all against Atletico Madrid. They lost 3-0.

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I think Girona this season won't be the same team they were the previous season.

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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.

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These smaller teams, I'm sorry to say that, but these smaller teams, it's impossible for them to stay consistent, basically.

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But they are in the Champions League, so that will be fun. That's for sure.

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Okay, guys, I guess that's enough for today. I guess I will do the language corner, right? I think I should.

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Welcome back. This is the language corner. I'm not sure if this is your favorite part of the show.

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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

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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.

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Yes, footballers, journalists, football managers, scouts, you name it.

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And that is why it's a good idea for someone like me to have a podcast. Okay?

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And I need to show some teaching there, right? I need to do my job.

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So this is the explanation for those of you who don't understand why I add this bit at the end of every show.

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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.

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Most people, I guess, are positive. And unfortunately, someone apparently said that I am too analytical sometimes when it comes to my podcast.

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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.

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Anyway, if you do enjoy the Footgrish podcast as a whole, as the whole package, please let me know. Okay?

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And the best way to do it is really to leave a review on Apple podcasts, Spotify, wherever you can do it.

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If you give me a five star rating, I would be absolutely delighted, of course, and very grateful to you.

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But let's talk about the words thrashing and battering today. I said Manchester City Ipswich 4-1. I think everybody expected a battering.

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And then I also said Tottenham beat Everton 4-0. Another thrashing.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Thank you very much for listening, everyone, and I will speak to you soon. Take care. Bye bye.