1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast. Love football, learn English. 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,000 How good was John Durant's goal for Aston Villa? 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 What is happening to Everton? 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Who won the North London Derby? Tottenham or Arsenal? 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:31,000 And what is a screamer? And what is a sitter? 6 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Hello everybody, welcome back to the Footglitch Podcast. 7 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Hopefully your favourite English learning podcast about football. 8 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,000 The Premier League is back. We all missed it. 9 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,000 The international breaks are way too long for my liking. 10 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,000 And today on the Footglitch Podcast, we have got two happy fans. 11 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Myself, Zanec Lucas and my guest, Tom Smith. 12 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Hi Tom, welcome to the podcast. 13 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Hey Zanec, it's great to be here and congratulations on your derby win today. 14 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I have to say the same congratulations on your win against Everton. 15 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Yeah, it was an up and down game for sure. It was a dramatic one. 16 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,000 So you are an Aston Villa fan. Your team beat Everton 3-2. 17 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Yes. 18 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 And so how do you see that game then? 19 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,000 So I'm a long suffering Aston Villa fan. I've been a fan since I was about 8 years old. 20 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:43,000 So this is kind of the peak of Villa as I've known them I think. 21 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Under and I am rating. 22 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 We are in the Champions League for the first time since I can remember. 23 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Yeah, we have a squad that actually has some deaths this year. 24 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Injuries for now, touch wood, are not a major problem. 25 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 There's players coming back from injury. 26 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 So yeah, it's an exciting season. 27 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:09,000 I kind of expected just a sort of easy victory in a way. 28 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Because Everton unfortunately are really struggling at the moment. 29 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Do they have zero points? I think so, right? 30 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Yeah, they're on zero points. 31 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:22,000 I mean they did really well even against the points deductions last season. 32 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:30,000 They stayed up pretty safely really given the challenges they were facing. 33 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 But this season it's really dark. It's not good. 34 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:38,000 I think they are one of the six teams or something like that that have never been relegated from the Premier League. 35 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Exactly. 36 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,000 They are like six or something teams and they are one of them. 37 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And they have been close many times but they never, they always made it. 38 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Yeah, they're a historic team. 39 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Villa and Everton is like the longest running game in English football. 40 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 So it would be sad if things don't change. 41 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:05,000 I think they're going to maybe change the manager soon and think about doing something. 42 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 But they gave us a really good game. That was the thing. 43 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 As a Villa fan it was quite shocking how poor we were in the first half. 44 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 They took a two-nil lead through mistake. 45 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Exactly. 46 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Normally knowing Villa and knowing our mentality often isn't the best, 47 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,000 sort of was going to just give up and enjoy the rest of the day doing something else. 48 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:35,000 And for once Villa came through because over the years they don't usually come back from losing positions, I found. 49 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Did you keep watching? 50 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Are you one of those fans that wouldn't leave the stadium even if you were three-nil down? 51 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 No, normally I do. Normally I stop watching. 52 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Normally I'm just at home. I have other things to be doing. 53 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:54,000 And if Villa are doing what they normally do, which is maybe not usually... 54 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Prior to an IEMRI they weren't exactly beautiful to watch and there was no major joy to be taken in. 55 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 All it took was an ex-Arsenal manager. 56 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Yeah, who maybe wasn't as appreciated as he could have been, I think. 57 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 It was tough for him because he came after Arsen Wenger. 58 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Yeah, exactly. 59 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Yeah, and it was a good day in general because we have Olly Watkins, who's a phenomenal goal scorer, 60 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:32,000 has been a really brilliant player for us, but has been really struggling because he hadn't really come back since the summer. 61 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,000 He hadn't scored in quite a while, so he got two goals. 62 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:44,000 And then we had that unbelievable long underhand strike, which I just started shouting. 63 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,000 My wife was like, what the hell is going on? It's just incredible. It's not something you see. 64 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:56,000 That was amazing. I wasn't watching your game, but for some reason I turned it on, like five minutes before that strike, 65 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000 and I saw that live. So I was really happy to catch that. 66 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:09,000 And so obviously, as you said, you equalised through Olly Watkins to go embrace a struggling striker. 67 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:16,000 And then that winning goal you scored, that incredible goal that was by Duran. What's his name? Duran? 68 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 John Duran. 69 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Yeah, he's an interesting figure. I assumed we'd signed him for too much money from Chicago Fire a few years ago, 70 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:38,000 like £20 million or something like that. And he's been controversial because he has hinted he's not happy. 71 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,000 He wants to leave Villa, maybe whatever. But yeah, apparently yesterday he broke a record. 72 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:50,000 That was the most goal winning, sorry, most match winning goals by a substitute in a season. 73 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Really? 74 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Four games in because he's done it, I think, three times now out of four games. He's come on and scored the winning goal. 75 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Well, this one, that was an absolute screamer. It was from long distance. 76 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:11,000 And he took it, I think it was a left footed finish, I think, right? And he's playing with the outside of his foot. 77 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:20,000 And it's curved into the top corner. It's an unbelievable goal. And Bigford stood no chance against that. 78 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:27,000 No, no, no. It was, yeah, it curled away from Bigford and was absolutely inch perfect just right into the corner. 79 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:32,000 And yeah, it's not easy. But he actually, that's all he does. 80 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Well, that's not all he does, but he seems to really have a knack for scoring extremely beautiful and often long range goals. 81 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:48,000 He's just a real talent. And he's 20 years old. West Ham wanted to sign him. 82 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Exactly, exactly. 83 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Evidently, there was about 40 clubs that wanted to sign him over the summer. 84 00:06:53,000 --> 00:07:04,000 So there's a bit of a problem now because Olly Watkins is sort of the star of the club, but he's kind of under pressure a little bit with John Duran now. 85 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 So they have to kind of fit somehow, both of them. 86 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Olly Watkins has been squandering his chances lately, right? So there was a chance. Who did you play against? 87 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,000 It was like an absolute sitter that he missed. It was a header or something. 88 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Well, I mean, it could have been Arsenal, right? 89 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Oh, yeah, it was against Arsenal, right? It was David Raya's save. 90 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly. 91 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 That was a great save. That was a great save, but it should have been put away. There was no... 92 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:38,000 It should have been, yeah. But now he got two goals, so he's probably off to a good start, hopefully. 93 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:44,000 And Duran now is on fire too. And can you hear me, Tom? 94 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:51,000 We have Edwin Dier coming back as well. He played for the first time in over a year coming back from injury. 95 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 He's a great player, a great attacking player as well. 96 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:00,000 We have, yeah, we made some good signings over the summer. We have T. Lemons playing midfield, Ross Barkley now. 97 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:06,000 So, yeah, we've got some creative players and let's see if we can keep it up. 98 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Let's see where it takes you. 99 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Yeah, with the Champions League this year as well. 100 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Yeah. So, no, right now you are doing really well. You are in the fourth place. 101 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,000 So, again, in the Champions League spot, top four. 102 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:26,000 And the question I have to ask you is, do you think you will be able to play those two competitions at the same time? 103 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Because we saw what happened to Newcastle last season, right? They were struggling. 104 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:38,000 So you have to have some rotation and stuff, right? So do you think you will handle it? 105 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 All I can do is hope. I hope for a good run. 106 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,000 This is a new format of the Champions League, so we'll see how that goes. 107 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,000 And we do have, we spent a lot of money in the summer. We sold a lot of players as well. 108 00:08:53,000 --> 00:09:01,000 But I think in general we upgraded. We didn't, the good thing was we weren't buying star names and big, for big money. 109 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 We were just buying solid players. 110 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:10,000 At left back now we have Ian Mattson, who was playing for Dortmund last season, and he's on our subs bench. 111 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Whereas we have Lucas Dien, who's an international, a French international in the left back position. 112 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 So we've got cover in a lot of places that is really top class really, in a lot. 113 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,000 But in other places we're weak. So, for example, goalkeeping, we don't have any backup for Martinez really. 114 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,000 So if I mean Martinez, he's a huge figure, world class goalkeeper. 115 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,000 So if something were to happen to him, for example, I would be worried. 116 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Right back we really don't have, we have a guy called Maddie Cash, Polish international. 117 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 That's a funny name for a Polish guy. 118 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Yeah, I don't know how he gets on in the locker room. 119 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 I have no idea. 120 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:57,000 I don't know if he speaks any Polish, but yeah, he's injured now and we don't really have much up for him. 121 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,000 So I think we might struggle over the long season, you know, let's see. 122 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Yeah, you might need to shell out some more cash or a replacement for cash. 123 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Exactly. Well, the thing, I mean, a lot of people wanted him replaced anyway. 124 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,000 I don't think he's quite at the level according to a lot of fans. 125 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,000 And he did tend to like give away penalties and handballs and make nothing. 126 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,000 He's not, he's really good going forward. He's very quick, but he's not so good in his... 127 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 He's not good at defending and being a defender, you have to be good at defending. 128 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:33,000 All right, fair enough. But exciting times for your team, Aston Villa. 129 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:40,000 I'm glad that a team from Birmingham, you know, is it the second largest city in the UK? 130 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 I think so, right? 131 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Yeah, second biggest, yeah, exactly. 132 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Yeah, so, you know, it's good for a team from Birmingham to do well, honestly, because the other team. 133 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Is it Birmingham FC or...? 134 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Birmingham City, yeah. 135 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Birmingham City, yeah, they are not in the Premier League. So they used to be, I think. 136 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Exactly, yeah. So the big rivals, they actually went down. 137 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:08,000 I think Wayne Rooney took over for a walk for part of that season and he went... 138 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Wayne Rooney is a curse wherever he goes. 139 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000 It seems so. I mean, yeah, he's still got the early plays, but not so much managing. 140 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 I don't think it's his strength. 141 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Yeah, now, speaking of Everton, zero points. 142 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:30,000 And what really struck me is the fact that they lost four matches, right? 143 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,000 We have four matches into the season or four rounds into the season. 144 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:39,000 And Everton lost two games while being 2-0 up, right? 145 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 So they were 2-0 up against Bournemouth. 146 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:48,000 And then they lost in that incredible fashion, like in the last 10 minutes of the game or something. 147 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 They conceded three goals, lost three too. 148 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Now, the same with you guys. They were 2-0 up. 149 00:11:54,000 --> 00:12:01,000 It must be really kind of dispiriting for the fans and for the club, right? Can you imagine? 150 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Hugely, hugely dispiriting because the reason I kept watching was because of what had happened the previous week. 151 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:12,000 You just knew that you always have a chance against Everton, unfortunately, at the minute. 152 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 They gave us a good run. 153 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,000 They also hit the crossbar in the last few minutes. It could have been a 3-3 draw. 154 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 I think it's a couple of strange things. Anything can happen. 155 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:32,000 But with the way Everton are at the minute and also, I think, the new stadium and the debt and problems, actually, it's kind of sad. 156 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Yeah, well, it's still not over. It's just four games, right? It's just four games. 157 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,000 They have some quality players, Calvin Lewin and so on. 158 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,000 So we'll see. We'll see. I think there are a lot of teams. 159 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,000 To be honest, there are a lot of teams that are at like one or two points. 160 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:51,000 It's all it takes is one win and they are out of the relegation zone, right? 161 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Yeah, it's too early at all to know. But given the previous season as well, it's a constant sort of spiral for them. 162 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:04,000 I wonder what happened to them. This took place twice. 163 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Is it a lapse of concentration, complacency, or is it what one famous Czech manager, Zaplar, calls Zaplar's trap? 164 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Actually, that's what Zaplar says in his interviews and then they named it after him. 165 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Zaplar's trap is when your team is 2-0 up. That's when you're at risk, basically. 166 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Because all it takes is one conceded goal and then the other team is still in it. 167 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:39,000 So it's the Zaplar's trap. What happened to him? 168 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Yeah, it's not enough. It's sort of a mental... There's a big mental side to the game, right? 169 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:50,000 And you think you can relax and they went ahead. I think it was after 27 minutes they were 2-0 up. 170 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:55,000 So then it's just too much left, too much time and too many doubts can creep in. 171 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Exactly. Because you think it's in the bag, right? It's 2-0 up. It's quite a good, comfortable, comfy cushion, right? 172 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:12,000 And then complacency creeps in or you get into a mental state where you have something to lose, basically, right? 173 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Exactly. 174 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 And they can't deal with it at the moment. 175 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:25,000 What surprised me a lot as well is the fact that Liverpool lost at home to Ipswich Town. 176 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Not Ipswich Town, Nottingham Forest, sorry. So what did you make of that? 177 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Yeah, I haven't seen it. I was disappointed because I have Salah in my fantasy. 178 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:41,000 I don't rely on Liverpool too much for some reason. I don't have a ton of Liverpool defenders or anything like that. 179 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:49,000 So I'm too disappointed. But yeah, it's shocking. It's not the dominant Liverpool. 180 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:54,000 And I don't think it has been. They've been playing really well. They haven't conceded that much. 181 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:02,000 But I think for me, I'm still yet to watch them enough to know what this new coach will do. 182 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,000 I think time will show. It's still early days again. 183 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:19,000 It might be hard again to follow up Jurgen Klopp. It's really tough. A tough act to follow, right? 184 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Yeah, he's been doing a good job of following up. The results have been good. 185 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,000 But the Premier League, there's this quality throughout the whole league as well. 186 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Nottingham Forest actually, to me, have a strong team. 187 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,000 They've got Morgan Gives-White who runs everything. 188 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:42,000 He was not even playing. I think he was a substitute in this game. 189 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Alright, OK. 190 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,000 I think so. Let me check. Yeah, he's a great player. I like him. 191 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Yeah. And so you're always going to have that possibility. 192 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:59,000 And Liverpool maybe, I don't know, they haven't had the dominance that they used to. 193 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:05,000 And we'll see. I think really it's this season between Man City and Arsenal for me at the top. 194 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:10,000 No, sorry. He was playing my bad. He was substituted. 195 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Yeah, no, you're right. You're right. 196 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:18,000 I think it's just a bit different. It's like what happened at Arsenal after Arsene Wenger left. 197 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:26,000 It's just difficult because everyone is going to naturally compare you to that legend that Jurgen Klopp obviously is 198 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:37,000 after winning a title after so many years with them and playing such fantastic football and that heavy metal style. 199 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:45,000 It's not so much the titles or anything because he was there when Pep was at Man City. 200 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,000 So he's had that struggle that they were almost always coming out second best. 201 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Well, they won once during Covid. They got one title. 202 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Yeah, exactly. He had them playing fantastically well. 203 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:02,000 It's a shame in a way because at any other point in English football, they probably would have won a lot more. 204 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Yeah, it's true. They were the only team that were challenging basically Man City. 205 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:13,000 They were like two, three year period or something. Arsenal were nowhere near them at that point. 206 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Yeah. And their points totals were incredible and should have been league winning. 207 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Except you just got this machine of Man City. 208 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:29,000 I think for our teams, it's not a bad thing that Liverpool dropped points, obviously. 209 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,000 But we would like to see Man City do the same. 210 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:40,000 And unfortunately, they have this one player called Alain. He's just an absolute monster. 211 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:45,000 He's got, I think, 10 goals right now. He's on nine goals. 212 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 He's the top goalscorer of the league currently. 213 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Can you imagine nine goals after four games and the second best, you've got about seven players on three goals. 214 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Yeah, I think he's probably scored more goals than any other team combined in a way. 215 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:08,000 The next team below him is Arsenal or whatever. It's seven goals for the whole team. 216 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Whatever. It's unbelievable. Yeah, it's great to watch. 217 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:24,000 I enjoy watching him. I think he seems like a solid guy, hardworking, down to earth and really phenomenal for Man City to have. 218 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,000 But unstoppable. He's like a cheat code. 219 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:34,000 And I think he's also the teams that he plays for are lucky that he only plays for Norway, 220 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:43,000 because that means that they don't always get into the latest stages of tournaments like Euros or the World Cup, right? 221 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Playing for Norway. So that means he's well rested like this season. 222 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:56,000 He's like a new player. I didn't think he could get better, you know, but he rested and worked over the summer or whatever he was doing. 223 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,000 He's hungry and phenomenal. Right. Yeah. 224 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,000 I'd say he was disappointed he didn't get the three hat-tricks in three games. 225 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Yeah, he was close. He hit the post. He hit the post. Yeah, exactly. 226 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Yeah. So for us, I think if we have Haaland in our fantasy teams as well, because he's just left, right and centre. 227 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:26,000 So did you watch the North London derbies? Obviously that happened today. We are recording on Sunday and about two hours ago. 228 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Arsenal managed to defeat Tottenham away from home, which is a great achievement every single time for us. 229 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:40,000 And it wasn't easy because we didn't have many chances. They had more possession, more chances. 230 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:52,000 But these chances were not huge chances. So it's like if you look at XG, it was I think each team had below one, something like 0.7 or something. 231 00:19:52,000 --> 00:20:02,000 So just like one set piece and Gabriel scored a header. It was from a corner kick. So we won. 232 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:07,000 It was a great header. I mean, very powerful, really well put away. I mean, it was phenomenal. 233 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:14,000 And yeah, I watched the sort of last maybe 25 minutes or so. And I'm impressed. 234 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:24,000 I mean, Arsenal are playing great. Without Rice and without Odegaard, still to be able to go to Spurs and like I think control the game from what I saw. 235 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:31,000 From most of what I saw, they were controlling it and frustrating, frustrating Spurs a lot. 236 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:36,000 I mean, the defence, the Arsenal defence is great. You know, as a Villa fan, I'm happy. 237 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:42,000 You know, we've got Pautara's Spanish international and Nesbj Kansa right now in our central defence. 238 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:50,000 And it's a it's a really good pairing. They're both very classy. They're not very physical in a way, but they're very technical and really high quality. 239 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,000 But Arsenal, the defence of Arsenal just has everything. 240 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:03,000 But to be fair, Arsenal fans were quite worried because we were without our arguably two best players. 241 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:11,000 I mean, you could say that Sakka is one of them, but Declan Rice and Martin Odegaard were both unavailable for this game. 242 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:20,000 So one was suspended. Declan Rice was suspended, had a red card and Odegaard got injured in an international game. 243 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:31,000 So considering we had those two absences, it's an amazing achievement, especially bearing in mind that our next game is at the Etihad. 244 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Will he be back? Who? 245 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:42,000 I don't know. Rice should be back. He got suspended after two. It was after two yellows. 246 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000 So it's not it's not a straight red. So I think it's just one one match banned. 247 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:53,000 So, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Let's just hope that Man City don't start pulling away next weekend. 248 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,000 And the whole cycle starts again. It has been dominating. 249 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:04,000 And they haven't even played Foden yet, I think. He's still trying to catch up on his fitness. 250 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:10,000 But anyway, Tom, let's talk about our Heroes of the Week. Have you got one? 251 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:16,000 I have I have renamed this this segment into Haaland of the Week, by the way. 252 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:21,000 So Hero of the Week or Haaland of the Week, take your pick. 253 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Yeah, I'll stick with Villa as it was the game I watched in most detail. 254 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:35,000 And we one was focusing on John Duran and his goal, but in reality, it was it was Ali Watkins who got the two goals that got us in the game. 255 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:50,000 And yeah, he never stops working. He's he's a really solid sort of servant of the club and has been and is starting to get towards sort of record breaking territory for Villa goal scoring wise. 256 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,000 So for me, it's going to be Watkins. 257 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Oh, yeah, that's fair. He's in my fantasy team. So I'm not I'm not unhappy about this. 258 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:03,000 I'm going to give it to Haaland and not because he he scored only two goals, you could say. 259 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:09,000 So it's it's it's not progress because he got the hat tricks the two games before. 260 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:17,000 But I think the issue there was is that he had he had had someone die in his family. 261 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:23,000 So his uncle passed away and he didn't even celebrate those two goals. 262 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:33,000 So it's you know, it was a doubt for this game and the way he just handles this any pressure pressure situations, it's incredible. 263 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:38,000 And for that, he's my he's my hero of the week. What about the villain of the week? 264 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:48,000 Do you have one? Yeah, again, I would go back. We signed on Anna from Everton over the summer 265 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,000 and he's been playing really, really well, but he was really poor against Everton. 266 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:57,000 He really gave the ball away for their first goal. 267 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:02,000 And then he was taken off at halftime because Emery wanted more control of the game. 268 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:08,000 And so I don't know if there was some psychology going on around playing against his old team or he felt a bit rattled, 269 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:13,000 but he just he didn't he didn't turn up for the occasion, basically. 270 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:19,000 So I would just put on Anna. But that's not to say that he hasn't been been good previously, but it was an off day. 271 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Yeah. OK, fair point. 272 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:30,000 And I'm going to give it to Mohamed Salah because of the result, like losing one nail against nothing in the forest. 273 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Mohamed Salah is someone that should lead by example. 274 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000 He's a senior player. He's an experienced player. 275 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:44,000 And I have to say I didn't see the game, but I checked the player ratings and he had the lowest player rating. 276 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:50,000 And obviously, he's I'm not unhappy about this again because I don't have Salah in my fantasy team. 277 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:58,000 So whenever Salah fails, like that means points for me. 278 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 For sure. Yeah. Yeah. 279 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 So far this season, I've had both both Haaland and Salah in. 280 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,000 And so it's been it's been a good decision so far until yesterday. 281 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:12,000 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They played really Salah until this point was really good. 282 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:19,000 So you want to check our fantasy teams or our scores and the table in our Footgris podcast league, 283 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:27,000 which, by the way, all fan or listeners of this podcast can join as well because there is a link in the description of this episode. 284 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Shall I share my screen? Yeah, we are close. 285 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,000 I think neck and neck. Yeah. Yeah. 286 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Well, again, it's too early, you know, because it's so easy to mess up in this game. 287 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:49,000 But yeah. All right. Let's see. 288 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,000 League. Where is it? The Footgris podcast league. 289 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Okay. Standings. Oh, yes. You're right. You are one point ahead of me. 290 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:04,000 You're on 267 points while I'm at 266. 291 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,000 For now, until we recalculate, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 292 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:16,000 I'm going to be above you. You know why? Because I've got one substitute that is coming in for me. 293 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,000 I'm going to show you. So you are on 56. So you had Haaland, the captain. 294 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:25,000 You're going to have Socek. Socek is one point. Unfortunate. 295 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:29,000 That's my Czech solidarity going on there. 296 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:36,000 I have Socek too, but I think he's going to be out of my team soon with these kind of performances. 297 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:42,000 But let me show you my team then. 298 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:47,000 And I'm going to get... I also have Joao Pedro like everyone else. 299 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:54,000 So that means we get points from the substitute. And my substitute is Emil Smithrow. 300 00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Which is a good thing because I'm going to be at, I think, something like 59 points. 301 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Yeah. My weakness is my bench at the minute. 302 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:12,000 So that's something I have to look into over the next few weeks and get that sorted. 303 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,000 It's quite important to have the depth, but I haven't had the subs to make and things. 304 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Yeah. Well, I'm preparing to take the wild card soon. 305 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:28,000 I think when after the game against City, I need Arsenal players in my team. 306 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:34,000 But right now I'm OK with how the season has gone so far. I think it's an OK start for me. 307 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000 The important thing is that I got the captaincy right every single time with Haaland. 308 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:45,000 I never failed to captain him obviously, because if you did, I mean, this is an issue, right? 309 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Yeah. I mean, his ownership is back up to, I don't know, something like 70% because people doubt him at the beginning of the season. 310 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,000 And then they really just... Yeah, you can't doubt him. 311 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,000 You can't play without him. He broke the game. 312 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Yeah, exactly. And then they put the price up to some crazy level, like 15 million this year. 313 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,000 And still just... He's still cheap, you know? It's crazy. 314 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:11,000 Yeah, exactly. Right. 315 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,000 The Premier League table, shall we show that as well? 316 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Those of you who are watching us on YouTube, you will now be able to see the Premier League table after four rounds. 317 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,000 There's still one game going on, by the way. I think it's... What is it? 318 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:35,000 It's Wolves against Newcastle. Wolves are 1-0 up in the 75th minute. Interesting. 319 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Yeah, my last player that I had a bit of hope for was Dan Byrne defending, but that hasn't worked out. 320 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,000 You mean in your fantasy team, yeah? Yeah, yeah. 321 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:50,000 So this is the Premier League table after four rounds. An incomplete table. 322 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,000 We still have that one game that is being played right now. 323 00:28:53,000 --> 00:29:00,000 But as you can see, Manchester City didn't drop any points. They are on 12 points. Arsenal in the second place with 10 points. 324 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:06,000 Then in the third place, Liverpool, closely followed by Aston Villa, both nine points. 325 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:12,000 And then we have Brighton with eight points, Nottingham, of course, in the sixth place with eight points. 326 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:19,000 Yeah. And then, yeah, it's quite tight, I think. Still quite tight. 327 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,000 Anyone can beat anyone, it seems like, again. 328 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,000 Yeah, it's great. I mean, I like seeing teams like Brighton up there and playing really well. 329 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:31,000 And, you know, they did Pedro, but when he comes back, I think they'll, yeah, they seem solid. 330 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,000 And they've got this really incredible young manager. It's really nice to watch. Yeah. 331 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:41,000 Absolutely. OK, Tom, I think we can leave it there. Have you got anything else to say? 332 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:46,000 No, no. Thanks for having me on. And yeah, it's a pleasure. 333 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Thank you for telling us about your team, Aston Villa. And I'm sure we will catch up at some point. 334 00:29:52,000 --> 00:30:00,000 It's great because, you know, I haven't talked to an Aston Villa fan before, so I'm glad I had the chance. 335 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:07,000 Yeah, we're a rare enough species, I think. Not so many of us around, yeah. 336 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:13,000 Exactly. Exactly. All right, man. Take care and thanks for coming on today. 337 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,000 Yeah, goodbye. Bye bye. 338 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:22,000 Welcome back to the language corner. 339 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,000 In this part of the show, as always, I'm going to do my job. 340 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:32,000 And that means I will be teaching you some expressions, some English language expressions, 341 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:38,000 because obviously that's what you are here for, right? I'm not sure, actually. 342 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 I'm not sure if you like the concept of this podcast. 343 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:49,000 If you do, why don't you write a review, leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on those usual places? 344 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:54,000 It's going to give me some feedback, right? I will see if you guys like it. 345 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,000 Maybe you say, Oh, Zdenek, please just don't explain this vocabulary, please. 346 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:05,000 This is my least favorite part of the show. I don't know. But I have to, you see, if I didn't do this, 347 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:10,000 this podcast wouldn't be unique enough. I need to keep it unique, right? 348 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:16,000 Because I'm a teacher, I need to keep it unique and I need to sort of showcase what I can do as a teacher. 349 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Otherwise, you know, anyone, anyone could do this kind of podcast. You know what I mean? 350 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:29,000 Right. So I'm going to have a look at actually six nouns. OK, six nouns. 351 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,000 Tom said we have a squad that actually has some depth this year. 352 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,000 He was talking about his team, Aston Villa. Depth. 353 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,000 By the way, this is a difficult word to pronounce. Depth. 354 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,000 Depth. Can you repeat it? Depth. It comes from the word deep. 355 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:52,000 You know, when something is deep, right, it's the opposite of shallow. Right. 356 00:31:52,000 --> 00:32:01,000 You know what deep is. And you can talk about the depth, which is the noun from the word deep, the depth of the squat. 357 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:08,000 If you have deep squat, a deep squat, if there is a lot of depth in your squat, it means there are a lot of players in your squat. 358 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,000 Right. So you have so many options to choose from. 359 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:19,000 And obviously, if you want to play in European competitions, you need to have a lot of squat depth. 360 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:27,000 So this is good for Aston Villa. Then Tom said they did really well against the point deduction. 361 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:37,000 He was talking about Everton. So last year they deducted some points from Everton because of breaching the FFP rules. 362 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:42,000 Hopefully I'm saying it right. And the financial therapy rules. Right. 363 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,000 And I'm looking at the word deduction. So deduction is a noun again. 364 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,000 And it comes from the verb to deduct. If you deduct points, you subtract points. 365 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:57,000 You take away points from a total, OK, from a total amount of points. 366 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,000 So, for example, let's say Everton were at 30 points. 367 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:13,000 And then because they they were found guilty of breaching these FFP rules, they deducted, let's say, 10 points from from the 30 points. 368 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:20,000 I think it was less. But anyway, the point is the point is this is what the word deduction means. 369 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:27,000 OK, right. Now, I said this one that was an absolute screamer. 370 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:39,000 I was referring to the goal John Durant scored for Aston Villa, the goal that put them three nil up. 371 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,000 Sorry, three to up. Right. Remember that? And the screamer. 372 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:51,000 So you know the the verb to scream, you scream, right? A screamer is a noun. 373 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,000 It's like a slang word which is used for an amazing goal. 374 00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:01,000 Usually it's some sort of long distance shot into top corn into the top corner. 375 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000 And then we can talk about this kind of goal as a screamer. 376 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:10,000 OK, then I said it was an absolute sitter that he missed. 377 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Now, I was talking about Ollie Watkins. There was a game Arsenal against Aston Villa. 378 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,000 And Ollie Watkins has had a chance where he had to score. 379 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:25,000 He was a free header. And I think he had like half of the goal was empty. 380 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:31,000 And if you miss a sitter, you miss an easy goal scoring opportunity. 381 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,000 It should be easy for you to score. And it's a sitter. Right. 382 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:42,000 It comes from the verb to sit. But again, it's another sort of slang word which we use as a noun. 383 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,000 A sitter, an easy goal scoring opportunity. 384 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:52,000 Then Tom said goalkeeping. We don't have any backup for Martinez. 385 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,000 You know, Emiliano Martinez. Is it Emil Martinez? 386 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,000 I can't remember the Argentinian goalkeeper that used to play for Arsenal. 387 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:06,000 That is now, of course, number one at Aston Villa. 388 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:11,000 And what Tom was saying is that they don't have a backup for this guy. 389 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:21,000 A backup is like a player that serves as a substitute when necessary, when needed. 390 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:27,000 It's not your number one. It's someone who will step in if necessary. 391 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:32,000 It's someone who will replace your main keeper if he gets injured, for example. 392 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:40,000 So a backup. We can use this word for a lot of other things like a backup plan. 393 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000 What's your backup plan if it rains? 394 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:49,000 You want to play five-a-side football with your mates, but it's good to have a backup. 395 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,000 What if it rains? Maybe you just go to the pub instead. That's your backup plan. 396 00:35:53,000 --> 00:36:04,000 Finally, when Tom was talking about his villain of the week, he was talking about Onana. 397 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:10,000 He said Onana played against his former club because he used to play for Everton, 398 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:17,000 and now he's at Aston Villa. Apparently he looked rattled. He had an off day. 399 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:28,000 So if someone has an off day, it means that that person doesn't perform as well as he usually does. 400 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,000 You could talk about your off day as well, perhaps at work. 401 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:40,000 Normally you put in a standard performance at work. You do everything as expected, 402 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:46,000 and your boss is satisfied with what you deliver on a daily basis in your work. 403 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:51,000 But from time to time you have an off day. It's like a bad day, an off day. 404 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:57,000 A day when you're not doing as well as expected. 405 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:03,000 Onana had an off day in this game against Everton, against his former club. 406 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,000 Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode of the podcast. 407 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,000 I hope you don't think that I had an off day today. Hopefully not. 408 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:16,000 You enjoyed this episode. It's important for me, of course. 409 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:26,000 I told you I need feedback, and I need you to feel like this podcast is useful for you and enjoyable. 410 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:32,000 I am inviting interesting guests, which in my humble opinion Tom definitely was. 411 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,000 It's a fantastic addition to all the guests that I've had on this podcast. 412 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:40,000 Hopefully it's not the last time I talk to Tom about Aston Villa. 413 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:48,000 So, that's it I guess for today. Thank you very much for listening, and I'll speak to you soon. Cheers. Bye bye.