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How good was John Durant's goal for Aston Villa?
What is happening to Everton?
Who won the North London Derby? Tottenham or Arsenal?
And what is a screamer? And what is a sitter?
Hello everybody, welcome back to the Footglitch Podcast.
Hopefully your favourite English learning podcast about football.
The Premier League is back. We all missed it.
The international breaks are way too long for my liking.
And today on the Footglitch Podcast, we have got two happy fans.
Myself, Zanec Lucas and my guest, Tom Smith.
Hi Tom, welcome to the podcast.
Hey Zanec, it's great to be here and congratulations on your derby win today.
I have to say the same congratulations on your win against Everton.
Yeah, it was an up and down game for sure. It was a dramatic one.
So you are an Aston Villa fan. Your team beat Everton 3-2.
Yes.
And so how do you see that game then?
So I'm a long suffering Aston Villa fan. I've been a fan since I was about 8 years old.
So this is kind of the peak of Villa as I've known them I think.
Under and I am rating.
We are in the Champions League for the first time since I can remember.
Yeah, we have a squad that actually has some deaths this year.
Injuries for now, touch wood, are not a major problem.
There's players coming back from injury.
So yeah, it's an exciting season.
I kind of expected just a sort of easy victory in a way.
Because Everton unfortunately are really struggling at the moment.
Do they have zero points? I think so, right?
Yeah, they're on zero points.
I mean they did really well even against the points deductions last season.
They stayed up pretty safely really given the challenges they were facing.
But this season it's really dark. It's not good.
I think they are one of the six teams or something like that that have never been relegated from the Premier League.
Exactly.
They are like six or something teams and they are one of them.
And they have been close many times but they never, they always made it.
Yeah, they're a historic team.
Villa and Everton is like the longest running game in English football.
So it would be sad if things don't change.
I think they're going to maybe change the manager soon and think about doing something.
But they gave us a really good game. That was the thing.
As a Villa fan it was quite shocking how poor we were in the first half.
They took a two-nil lead through mistake.
Exactly.
Normally knowing Villa and knowing our mentality often isn't the best,
sort of was going to just give up and enjoy the rest of the day doing something else.
And for once Villa came through because over the years they don't usually come back from losing positions, I found.
Did you keep watching?
Are you one of those fans that wouldn't leave the stadium even if you were three-nil down?
No, normally I do. Normally I stop watching.
Normally I'm just at home. I have other things to be doing.
And if Villa are doing what they normally do, which is maybe not usually...
Prior to an IEMRI they weren't exactly beautiful to watch and there was no major joy to be taken in.
All it took was an ex-Arsenal manager.
Yeah, who maybe wasn't as appreciated as he could have been, I think.
It was tough for him because he came after Arsen Wenger.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, and it was a good day in general because we have Olly Watkins, who's a phenomenal goal scorer,
has been a really brilliant player for us, but has been really struggling because he hadn't really come back since the summer.
He hadn't scored in quite a while, so he got two goals.
And then we had that unbelievable long underhand strike, which I just started shouting.
My wife was like, what the hell is going on? It's just incredible. It's not something you see.
That was amazing. I wasn't watching your game, but for some reason I turned it on, like five minutes before that strike,
and I saw that live. So I was really happy to catch that.
And so obviously, as you said, you equalised through Olly Watkins to go embrace a struggling striker.
And then that winning goal you scored, that incredible goal that was by Duran. What's his name? Duran?
John Duran.
Yeah, he's an interesting figure. I assumed we'd signed him for too much money from Chicago Fire a few years ago,
like £20 million or something like that. And he's been controversial because he has hinted he's not happy.
He wants to leave Villa, maybe whatever. But yeah, apparently yesterday he broke a record.
That was the most goal winning, sorry, most match winning goals by a substitute in a season.
Really?
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.
Well, this one, that was an absolute screamer. It was from long distance.
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.
And it's curved into the top corner. It's an unbelievable goal. And Bigford stood no chance against that.
No, no, no. It was, yeah, it curled away from Bigford and was absolutely inch perfect just right into the corner.
And yeah, it's not easy. But he actually, that's all he does.
Well, that's not all he does, but he seems to really have a knack for scoring extremely beautiful and often long range goals.
He's just a real talent. And he's 20 years old. West Ham wanted to sign him.
Exactly, exactly.
Evidently, there was about 40 clubs that wanted to sign him over the summer.
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.
So they have to kind of fit somehow, both of them.
Olly Watkins has been squandering his chances lately, right? So there was a chance. Who did you play against?
It was like an absolute sitter that he missed. It was a header or something.
Well, I mean, it could have been Arsenal, right?
Oh, yeah, it was against Arsenal, right? It was David Raya's save.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
That was a great save. That was a great save, but it should have been put away. There was no...
It should have been, yeah. But now he got two goals, so he's probably off to a good start, hopefully.
And Duran now is on fire too. And can you hear me, Tom?
We have Edwin Dier coming back as well. He played for the first time in over a year coming back from injury.
He's a great player, a great attacking player as well.
We have, yeah, we made some good signings over the summer. We have T. Lemons playing midfield, Ross Barkley now.
So, yeah, we've got some creative players and let's see if we can keep it up.
Let's see where it takes you.
Yeah, with the Champions League this year as well.
Yeah. So, no, right now you are doing really well. You are in the fourth place.
So, again, in the Champions League spot, top four.
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?
Because we saw what happened to Newcastle last season, right? They were struggling.
So you have to have some rotation and stuff, right? So do you think you will handle it?
All I can do is hope. I hope for a good run.
This is a new format of the Champions League, so we'll see how that goes.
And we do have, we spent a lot of money in the summer. We sold a lot of players as well.
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.
We were just buying solid players.
At left back now we have Ian Mattson, who was playing for Dortmund last season, and he's on our subs bench.
Whereas we have Lucas Dien, who's an international, a French international in the left back position.
So we've got cover in a lot of places that is really top class really, in a lot.
But in other places we're weak. So, for example, goalkeeping, we don't have any backup for Martinez really.
So if I mean Martinez, he's a huge figure, world class goalkeeper.
So if something were to happen to him, for example, I would be worried.
Right back we really don't have, we have a guy called Maddie Cash, Polish international.
That's a funny name for a Polish guy.
Yeah, I don't know how he gets on in the locker room.
I have no idea.
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.
So I think we might struggle over the long season, you know, let's see.
Yeah, you might need to shell out some more cash or a replacement for cash.
Exactly. Well, the thing, I mean, a lot of people wanted him replaced anyway.
I don't think he's quite at the level according to a lot of fans.
And he did tend to like give away penalties and handballs and make nothing.
He's not, he's really good going forward. He's very quick, but he's not so good in his...
He's not good at defending and being a defender, you have to be good at defending.
All right, fair enough. But exciting times for your team, Aston Villa.
I'm glad that a team from Birmingham, you know, is it the second largest city in the UK?
I think so, right?
Yeah, second biggest, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, so, you know, it's good for a team from Birmingham to do well, honestly, because the other team.
Is it Birmingham FC or...?
Birmingham City, yeah.
Birmingham City, yeah, they are not in the Premier League. So they used to be, I think.
Exactly, yeah. So the big rivals, they actually went down.
I think Wayne Rooney took over for a walk for part of that season and he went...
Wayne Rooney is a curse wherever he goes.
It seems so. I mean, yeah, he's still got the early plays, but not so much managing.
I don't think it's his strength.
Yeah, now, speaking of Everton, zero points.
And what really struck me is the fact that they lost four matches, right?
We have four matches into the season or four rounds into the season.
And Everton lost two games while being 2-0 up, right?
So they were 2-0 up against Bournemouth.
And then they lost in that incredible fashion, like in the last 10 minutes of the game or something.
They conceded three goals, lost three too.
Now, the same with you guys. They were 2-0 up.
It must be really kind of dispiriting for the fans and for the club, right? Can you imagine?
Hugely, hugely dispiriting because the reason I kept watching was because of what had happened the previous week.
You just knew that you always have a chance against Everton, unfortunately, at the minute.
They gave us a good run.
They also hit the crossbar in the last few minutes. It could have been a 3-3 draw.
I think it's a couple of strange things. Anything can happen.
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.
Yeah, well, it's still not over. It's just four games, right? It's just four games.
They have some quality players, Calvin Lewin and so on.
So we'll see. We'll see. I think there are a lot of teams.
To be honest, there are a lot of teams that are at like one or two points.
It's all it takes is one win and they are out of the relegation zone, right?
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.
I wonder what happened to them. This took place twice.
Is it a lapse of concentration, complacency, or is it what one famous Czech manager, Zaplar, calls Zaplar's trap?
Actually, that's what Zaplar says in his interviews and then they named it after him.
Zaplar's trap is when your team is 2-0 up. That's when you're at risk, basically.
Because all it takes is one conceded goal and then the other team is still in it.
So it's the Zaplar's trap. What happened to him?
Yeah, it's not enough. It's sort of a mental... There's a big mental side to the game, right?
And you think you can relax and they went ahead. I think it was after 27 minutes they were 2-0 up.
So then it's just too much left, too much time and too many doubts can creep in.
Exactly. Because you think it's in the bag, right? It's 2-0 up. It's quite a good, comfortable, comfy cushion, right?
And then complacency creeps in or you get into a mental state where you have something to lose, basically, right?
Exactly.
And they can't deal with it at the moment.
What surprised me a lot as well is the fact that Liverpool lost at home to Ipswich Town.
Not Ipswich Town, Nottingham Forest, sorry. So what did you make of that?
Yeah, I haven't seen it. I was disappointed because I have Salah in my fantasy.
I don't rely on Liverpool too much for some reason. I don't have a ton of Liverpool defenders or anything like that.
So I'm too disappointed. But yeah, it's shocking. It's not the dominant Liverpool.
And I don't think it has been. They've been playing really well. They haven't conceded that much.
But I think for me, I'm still yet to watch them enough to know what this new coach will do.
I think time will show. It's still early days again.
It might be hard again to follow up Jurgen Klopp. It's really tough. A tough act to follow, right?
Yeah, he's been doing a good job of following up. The results have been good.
But the Premier League, there's this quality throughout the whole league as well.
Nottingham Forest actually, to me, have a strong team.
They've got Morgan Gives-White who runs everything.
He was not even playing. I think he was a substitute in this game.
Alright, OK.
I think so. Let me check. Yeah, he's a great player. I like him.
Yeah. And so you're always going to have that possibility.
And Liverpool maybe, I don't know, they haven't had the dominance that they used to.
And we'll see. I think really it's this season between Man City and Arsenal for me at the top.
No, sorry. He was playing my bad. He was substituted.
Yeah, no, you're right. You're right.
I think it's just a bit different. It's like what happened at Arsenal after Arsene Wenger left.
It's just difficult because everyone is going to naturally compare you to that legend that Jurgen Klopp obviously is
after winning a title after so many years with them and playing such fantastic football and that heavy metal style.
It's not so much the titles or anything because he was there when Pep was at Man City.
So he's had that struggle that they were almost always coming out second best.
Well, they won once during Covid. They got one title.
Yeah, exactly. He had them playing fantastically well.
It's a shame in a way because at any other point in English football, they probably would have won a lot more.
Yeah, it's true. They were the only team that were challenging basically Man City.
They were like two, three year period or something. Arsenal were nowhere near them at that point.
Yeah. And their points totals were incredible and should have been league winning.
Except you just got this machine of Man City.
I think for our teams, it's not a bad thing that Liverpool dropped points, obviously.
But we would like to see Man City do the same.
And unfortunately, they have this one player called Alain. He's just an absolute monster.
He's got, I think, 10 goals right now. He's on nine goals.
He's the top goalscorer of the league currently.
Can you imagine nine goals after four games and the second best, you've got about seven players on three goals.
Yeah, I think he's probably scored more goals than any other team combined in a way.
The next team below him is Arsenal or whatever. It's seven goals for the whole team.
Whatever. It's unbelievable. Yeah, it's great to watch.
I enjoy watching him. I think he seems like a solid guy, hardworking, down to earth and really phenomenal for Man City to have.
But unstoppable. He's like a cheat code.
And I think he's also the teams that he plays for are lucky that he only plays for Norway,
because that means that they don't always get into the latest stages of tournaments like Euros or the World Cup, right?
Playing for Norway. So that means he's well rested like this season.
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.
He's hungry and phenomenal. Right. Yeah.
I'd say he was disappointed he didn't get the three hat-tricks in three games.
Yeah, he was close. He hit the post. He hit the post. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. So for us, I think if we have Haaland in our fantasy teams as well, because he's just left, right and centre.
So did you watch the North London derbies? Obviously that happened today. We are recording on Sunday and about two hours ago.
Arsenal managed to defeat Tottenham away from home, which is a great achievement every single time for us.
And it wasn't easy because we didn't have many chances. They had more possession, more chances.
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.
So just like one set piece and Gabriel scored a header. It was from a corner kick. So we won.
It was a great header. I mean, very powerful, really well put away. I mean, it was phenomenal.
And yeah, I watched the sort of last maybe 25 minutes or so. And I'm impressed.
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.
From most of what I saw, they were controlling it and frustrating, frustrating Spurs a lot.
I mean, the defence, the Arsenal defence is great. You know, as a Villa fan, I'm happy.
You know, we've got Pautara's Spanish international and Nesbj Kansa right now in our central defence.
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.
But Arsenal, the defence of Arsenal just has everything.
But to be fair, Arsenal fans were quite worried because we were without our arguably two best players.
I mean, you could say that Sakka is one of them, but Declan Rice and Martin Odegaard were both unavailable for this game.
So one was suspended. Declan Rice was suspended, had a red card and Odegaard got injured in an international game.
So considering we had those two absences, it's an amazing achievement, especially bearing in mind that our next game is at the Etihad.
Will he be back? Who?
I don't know. Rice should be back. He got suspended after two. It was after two yellows.
So it's not it's not a straight red. So I think it's just one one match banned.
So, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Let's just hope that Man City don't start pulling away next weekend.
And the whole cycle starts again. It has been dominating.
And they haven't even played Foden yet, I think. He's still trying to catch up on his fitness.
But anyway, Tom, let's talk about our Heroes of the Week. Have you got one?
I have I have renamed this this segment into Haaland of the Week, by the way.
So Hero of the Week or Haaland of the Week, take your pick.
Yeah, I'll stick with Villa as it was the game I watched in most detail.
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.
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.
So for me, it's going to be Watkins.
Oh, yeah, that's fair. He's in my fantasy team. So I'm not I'm not unhappy about this.
I'm going to give it to Haaland and not because he he scored only two goals, you could say.
So it's it's it's not progress because he got the hat tricks the two games before.
But I think the issue there was is that he had he had had someone die in his family.
So his uncle passed away and he didn't even celebrate those two goals.
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.
And for that, he's my he's my hero of the week. What about the villain of the week?
Do you have one? Yeah, again, I would go back. We signed on Anna from Everton over the summer
and he's been playing really, really well, but he was really poor against Everton.
He really gave the ball away for their first goal.
And then he was taken off at halftime because Emery wanted more control of the game.
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,
but he just he didn't he didn't turn up for the occasion, basically.
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.
Yeah. OK, fair point.
And I'm going to give it to Mohamed Salah because of the result, like losing one nail against nothing in the forest.
Mohamed Salah is someone that should lead by example.
He's a senior player. He's an experienced player.
And I have to say I didn't see the game, but I checked the player ratings and he had the lowest player rating.
And obviously, he's I'm not unhappy about this again because I don't have Salah in my fantasy team.
So whenever Salah fails, like that means points for me.
For sure. Yeah. Yeah.
So far this season, I've had both both Haaland and Salah in.
And so it's been it's been a good decision so far until yesterday.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They played really Salah until this point was really good.
So you want to check our fantasy teams or our scores and the table in our Footgris podcast league,
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.
Shall I share my screen? Yeah, we are close.
I think neck and neck. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, again, it's too early, you know, because it's so easy to mess up in this game.
But yeah. All right. Let's see.
League. Where is it? The Footgris podcast league.
Okay. Standings. Oh, yes. You're right. You are one point ahead of me.
You're on 267 points while I'm at 266.
For now, until we recalculate, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm going to be above you. You know why? Because I've got one substitute that is coming in for me.
I'm going to show you. So you are on 56. So you had Haaland, the captain.
You're going to have Socek. Socek is one point. Unfortunate.
That's my Czech solidarity going on there.
I have Socek too, but I think he's going to be out of my team soon with these kind of performances.
But let me show you my team then.
And I'm going to get... I also have Joao Pedro like everyone else.
So that means we get points from the substitute. And my substitute is Emil Smithrow.
Which is a good thing because I'm going to be at, I think, something like 59 points.
Yeah. My weakness is my bench at the minute.
So that's something I have to look into over the next few weeks and get that sorted.
It's quite important to have the depth, but I haven't had the subs to make and things.
Yeah. Well, I'm preparing to take the wild card soon.
I think when after the game against City, I need Arsenal players in my team.
But right now I'm OK with how the season has gone so far. I think it's an OK start for me.
The important thing is that I got the captaincy right every single time with Haaland.
I never failed to captain him obviously, because if you did, I mean, this is an issue, right?
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.
And then they really just... Yeah, you can't doubt him.
You can't play without him. He broke the game.
Yeah, exactly. And then they put the price up to some crazy level, like 15 million this year.
And still just... He's still cheap, you know? It's crazy.
Yeah, exactly. Right.
The Premier League table, shall we show that as well?
Those of you who are watching us on YouTube, you will now be able to see the Premier League table after four rounds.
There's still one game going on, by the way. I think it's... What is it?
It's Wolves against Newcastle. Wolves are 1-0 up in the 75th minute. Interesting.
Yeah, my last player that I had a bit of hope for was Dan Byrne defending, but that hasn't worked out.
You mean in your fantasy team, yeah? Yeah, yeah.
So this is the Premier League table after four rounds. An incomplete table.
We still have that one game that is being played right now.
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.
Then in the third place, Liverpool, closely followed by Aston Villa, both nine points.
And then we have Brighton with eight points, Nottingham, of course, in the sixth place with eight points.
Yeah. And then, yeah, it's quite tight, I think. Still quite tight.
Anyone can beat anyone, it seems like, again.
Yeah, it's great. I mean, I like seeing teams like Brighton up there and playing really well.
And, you know, they did Pedro, but when he comes back, I think they'll, yeah, they seem solid.
And they've got this really incredible young manager. It's really nice to watch. Yeah.
Absolutely. OK, Tom, I think we can leave it there. Have you got anything else to say?
No, no. Thanks for having me on. And yeah, it's a pleasure.
Thank you for telling us about your team, Aston Villa. And I'm sure we will catch up at some point.
It's great because, you know, I haven't talked to an Aston Villa fan before, so I'm glad I had the chance.
Yeah, we're a rare enough species, I think. Not so many of us around, yeah.
Exactly. Exactly. All right, man. Take care and thanks for coming on today.
Yeah, goodbye. Bye bye.
Welcome back to the language corner.
In this part of the show, as always, I'm going to do my job.
And that means I will be teaching you some expressions, some English language expressions,
because obviously that's what you are here for, right? I'm not sure, actually.
I'm not sure if you like the concept of this podcast.
If you do, why don't you write a review, leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on those usual places?
It's going to give me some feedback, right? I will see if you guys like it.
Maybe you say, Oh, Zdenek, please just don't explain this vocabulary, please.
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,
this podcast wouldn't be unique enough. I need to keep it unique, right?
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.
Otherwise, you know, anyone, anyone could do this kind of podcast. You know what I mean?
Right. So I'm going to have a look at actually six nouns. OK, six nouns.
Tom said we have a squad that actually has some depth this year.
He was talking about his team, Aston Villa. Depth.
By the way, this is a difficult word to pronounce. Depth.
Depth. Can you repeat it? Depth. It comes from the word deep.
You know, when something is deep, right, it's the opposite of shallow. Right.
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.
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.
Right. So you have so many options to choose from.
And obviously, if you want to play in European competitions, you need to have a lot of squat depth.
So this is good for Aston Villa. Then Tom said they did really well against the point deduction.
He was talking about Everton. So last year they deducted some points from Everton because of breaching the FFP rules.
Hopefully I'm saying it right. And the financial therapy rules. Right.
And I'm looking at the word deduction. So deduction is a noun again.
And it comes from the verb to deduct. If you deduct points, you subtract points.
You take away points from a total, OK, from a total amount of points.
So, for example, let's say Everton were at 30 points.
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.
I think it was less. But anyway, the point is the point is this is what the word deduction means.
OK, right. Now, I said this one that was an absolute screamer.
I was referring to the goal John Durant scored for Aston Villa, the goal that put them three nil up.
Sorry, three to up. Right. Remember that? And the screamer.
So you know the the verb to scream, you scream, right? A screamer is a noun.
It's like a slang word which is used for an amazing goal.
Usually it's some sort of long distance shot into top corn into the top corner.
And then we can talk about this kind of goal as a screamer.
OK, then I said it was an absolute sitter that he missed.
Now, I was talking about Ollie Watkins. There was a game Arsenal against Aston Villa.
And Ollie Watkins has had a chance where he had to score.
He was a free header. And I think he had like half of the goal was empty.
And if you miss a sitter, you miss an easy goal scoring opportunity.
It should be easy for you to score. And it's a sitter. Right.
It comes from the verb to sit. But again, it's another sort of slang word which we use as a noun.
A sitter, an easy goal scoring opportunity.
Then Tom said goalkeeping. We don't have any backup for Martinez.
You know, Emiliano Martinez. Is it Emil Martinez?
I can't remember the Argentinian goalkeeper that used to play for Arsenal.
That is now, of course, number one at Aston Villa.
And what Tom was saying is that they don't have a backup for this guy.
A backup is like a player that serves as a substitute when necessary, when needed.
It's not your number one. It's someone who will step in if necessary.
It's someone who will replace your main keeper if he gets injured, for example.
So a backup. We can use this word for a lot of other things like a backup plan.
What's your backup plan if it rains?
You want to play five-a-side football with your mates, but it's good to have a backup.
What if it rains? Maybe you just go to the pub instead. That's your backup plan.
Finally, when Tom was talking about his villain of the week, he was talking about Onana.
He said Onana played against his former club because he used to play for Everton,
and now he's at Aston Villa. Apparently he looked rattled. He had an off day.
So if someone has an off day, it means that that person doesn't perform as well as he usually does.
You could talk about your off day as well, perhaps at work.
Normally you put in a standard performance at work. You do everything as expected,
and your boss is satisfied with what you deliver on a daily basis in your work.
But from time to time you have an off day. It's like a bad day, an off day.
A day when you're not doing as well as expected.
Onana had an off day in this game against Everton, against his former club.
Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode of the podcast.
I hope you don't think that I had an off day today. Hopefully not.
You enjoyed this episode. It's important for me, of course.
I told you I need feedback, and I need you to feel like this podcast is useful for you and enjoyable.
I am inviting interesting guests, which in my humble opinion Tom definitely was.
It's a fantastic addition to all the guests that I've had on this podcast.
Hopefully it's not the last time I talk to Tom about Aston Villa.
So, that's it I guess for today. Thank you very much for listening, and I'll speak to you soon. Cheers. Bye bye.