1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Love football, learn English. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 How on earth did Arsenal manage to get a point against Manchester City 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,000 despite being down to 10 men for the majority of the game? 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Was Strasart's red card a good refereeing decision? 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,000 What sort of shithousey was Erling Haaland involved in at the very end of the game? 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,000 And what is the meaning of the phrase to have the upper hand? 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Hello and welcome to the Footglitch Podcast where we combine football and learning English. 9 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:04,000 I'm Zdenek, your host for today and I'm not alone as you can see if you are watching me on YouTube. 10 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,000 If you are listening to me on the podcast you probably can't see him. 11 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,000 It's a he and it's someone that has been here before. 12 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Karl, welcome back to the podcast. 13 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Zdenek, great to be back. 14 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Hopefully better circumstances next time but definitely positive circumstances anyway. 15 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Yeah, it's fantastic to have you back to talk about Arsenal. 16 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,000 We can see if you are watching this on YouTube that your team is indeed Arsenal. 17 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And my listeners know that it is exactly the same with me. 18 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 But Karl, you know what? Let's go through the results quickly. 19 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:51,000 I'm just going to say the results and maybe you can think about which of these results was the most surprising one for you. 20 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Sure. 21 00:01:52,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Starting with Saturday, West Ham, nil, Chelsea 3, Arsenal 3, Wolves 1, Fulham 3, Newcastle 1, Leicester 1, Everton 1, Liverpool 3, Bournemouth nil, Southampton 1, Ipswich 1, 22 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Spurs 3, Brentford 1, Crystal Palace nil, Manchester United nil, and then Sunday, Brighton 2, Nottingham Forest 2, and then finally Man City 2, Arsenal 2. 23 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 So what do you think? 24 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Yeah, it was my god, super eventful game week. 25 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:43,000 And I don't know for any of your viewers and listeners who are also involved in the fantasy football side of things, it was certainly an up and down week. 26 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 You either had everybody or you had nobody scoring. 27 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:57,000 There was a lot of people that missed on certain players and others that kind of got lucky with their selections or as they like to put it, a master stroke with their selections. 28 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:04,000 I suppose in terms of the actual results themselves, United at Crystal Palace kind of did surprise me a bit. 29 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 I thought United might have gotten a better result out of that. 30 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:15,000 They've got a goal. They certainly looked a lot more likely to score a goal, especially in the opening exchanges. 31 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Apart from that, I think maybe Fulham surprised me a bit that they put three past Newcastle. 32 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:33,000 I know Newcastle have been struggling lately, but certainly didn't see them putting three past the Newcastle defense, especially how well Nick Pope has been doing in goal. 33 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 And yeah, the big one, I suppose, will come on to it in a bit, Sunday night's one. 34 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:45,000 But outside of that, I think every other fixture kind of went according to the script of what was expected. 35 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Chelsea had another clean sheet, which was... 36 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Chelsea are unstoppable. 37 00:03:49,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Yeah, at the moment I saw a stat thrown up there recently that Nicholas Jackson has scored the same amount of goals as Mo Salah in like the last, I think it's a year or calendar year possibly. 38 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,000 It's not like the last season and a half or so, but they threw it up anyway. 39 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 It must have been a Chelsea supporters club site. 40 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Of course. Anyway, this is the Arsenal supporters club. 41 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:22,000 It really isn't, but let's talk about the Arsenal game, because I think that's the main reason we are here. 42 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:28,000 So let me start by asking you this question. 43 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:35,000 If someone before the game offered you a 2-2 draw, would you have taken it? 44 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 100%, 1000%. 45 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,000 I think most Arsenal fans would have taken your arm off you if you'd offered them that. 46 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Especially missing Odegaard, our key creative player. 47 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Our captain. 48 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Our captain, exactly. 49 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Just the fact that we could have scored two goals at the Etihad without him would have, I think, surprised a lot of people. 50 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:06,000 So yeah, definitely would have taken the one-point draw beforehand. 51 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Absolutely. I couldn't agree more with you. 52 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 But, well, I thought we started quite slowly. 53 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Perhaps it was due to the fact that we have fewer days to recover after the Champions League game. 54 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 I think City had one more game. 55 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 And on top of that, they played at home. 56 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 We played away from home. 57 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 So that wasn't exactly ideal circumstances. 58 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 So I thought that kind of reflected the start of the game. 59 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Would you agree? 60 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Definitely. 61 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:40,000 And I think that as well as that, it's a new back-forward. 62 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Those defenders across our back line hadn't played as a unit in that way before. 63 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Timber on the right and Calafiore on the left. 64 00:05:49,000 --> 00:06:01,000 And Calafiore, although he made up for it with his spectacular goal, you could see that there was the kind of willingness to get stuck in and try and get close to his man. 65 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:17,000 But unfortunately, if there was somebody to put blame on for the first one, you kind of would have said he was the one that might have started the tumbling of the rocks, I suppose, in terms of the defensive mistakes. 66 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,000 But they performed so well across the whole game. 67 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000 It's hard to fault them. 68 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,000 But definitely you saw it. 69 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,000 It was a surprise for me as well. 70 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:33,000 I wasn't sure. I don't know how I missed it that Ben White had picked something up during the days preceding the Atalanta game. 71 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 But I was surprised to see him out. 72 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:46,000 But also not as kind of worried, I suppose, given the business that we've done getting Calafiore in and having Timbers back up. 73 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,000 To be honest, Calafiore is a really, really good player. 74 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,000 I wouldn't have even minded if you just replaced Ben White. 75 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 I like Ben White, but Calafiore seems to be an upgrade. 76 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 At least that's how I feel about this. 77 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:08,000 But we have to say that Manchester City started off in an unsurprising fashion. 78 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 They scored the first goal. 79 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:17,000 It was an excellent Savino's pass and Haaland just found his pocket. 80 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Whenever he's alone on keeper, it's like one 1000% chance that he scores a goal. 81 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 It's like, can anyone stop this guy? 82 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Yeah. And like you think about other goal scorers down through the years, you know, like your mind immediately goes to Ronaldo or even in the Premier League. 83 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:45,000 You think Henry or Aguero, like those kind of quintessential goal scorers down through the years. 84 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Haaland doesn't really have like a kind of beautiful style of scoring, really. 85 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,000 He just kind of he has whatever way he needs to get it into the back of the net. 86 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:05,000 But at the same time, it seems to be the most effective way or the best sort of decision or the best solution to that situation. 87 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:23,000 If I'm thinking of how to score a goal from that angle, when I'm considering the distance between the keeper and the striker and the angle and the options and whether the player is right footed, left footed, it seems like Haaland always picks the best solution. 88 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 I don't know how he does it. 89 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:32,000 If it's the fact that he practices yoga and he's always so calm or I don't know. 90 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Well, I kind of I suppose because he scored so many goals, he's been in so many situations before in front of goal that he's kind of gained that experience already at such a young age that like he just knows like angles and like keeper timing and all that. 91 00:08:50,000 --> 00:09:07,000 So it's just it's crazy. But one thing that struck me was the first time in a long time, really, that especially with Arsenal's defense, that you'd seen Haaland or a Haaland-esque striker kind of running at full speed through our defense in that sort of way. 92 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:21,000 You're so used to, especially with City in the way they play, kind of a brilliant pass from the likes of the Bernardo Silva or Gundogan or De Bruyne who was missing. But, you know, he was just in full flight. 93 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,000 The Savino pass was really good and got straight in, stuck it away. 94 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Exactly. And it was Haaland's 100th goal as well in the Premier League, as far as I understand it. 95 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Yes. In the Premier League or was it across all competitions for City? I'm not sure. 96 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:52,000 So it was his 100th goal for Manchester City in 105 matches, which I saw equaled Ronaldo's record for most or for like the quickest 200 goals for a single club. 97 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,000 So it's almost one goal per game, basically. 98 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Yeah. It's just so alarming. It's crazy. It's insane. It's absolutely insane. 99 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:13,000 And for some reason, though, we equalized pretty quickly as well. And something interesting happened there. 100 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:28,000 One of our players was fouled and we took the free kick very quickly and it surprised Kyle Walker and Martinelli ran with the ball on the left flank and then Kyle Walker wasn't ready for that. 101 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:42,000 And then Martinelli set up, of all people, this new signing, Califiori, the ex-Bologna player, the Italian. And what a finish by him, right? 102 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Yeah. I mean, it's funny. It kind of reminded me of Saliba's goal against Crystal Palace when it just came to him on the edge of the box. 103 00:10:52,000 --> 00:11:03,000 And very similarly, Saliba just struck it with the left foot and it curled from like the center of the goal out towards the post and just nestled in the corner really nicely. 104 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:13,000 But yeah, it was one of those ones where I was unsure whether when they got the first goal, you kind of thought, oh no, this is going to be a really long day at the office for us. 105 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:22,000 But obviously with football, ebbs and flows, momentum changes, and we kind of had the upper hand just for enough time to get that free kick. 106 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:33,000 And yeah, as I said, Kyle Walker wasn't in position because I think the referee wanted to kind of clarify with Saka and Walker. I mean, like, lads, this is getting out of hand a little bit. 107 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Tell your players, calm it down. We don't want to be giving out yellow cards willy nilly, I suppose. 108 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Which then Kyle Walker, when he was...the thing is, when people complained, and I've heard so many City fans complain, well, he wasn't allowed to get back into position. 109 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:59,000 There's a clear amount of time between when Michael Oliver dismisses them and then he kind of Walker just kind of walks back on his job. 110 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:05,000 His name is Walker. Maybe he didn't get back into position. 111 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Exactly. 112 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:17,000 I think he was just distracted. It was his mistake, obviously. In the modern football, you can take free kicks fast as long as the referee allows it. 113 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Some referees don't like it, right? This fast restart of play. Some referees demand a whistle to be blown first, but then other referees just prefer this fast flowing restart of the game. 114 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:40,000 And that's exactly what happened. And a brilliant finish by Cali Fury. It will be one of the highlights of the season, for sure. 115 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Also his first goal for Arsenal, if I'm not mistaken. Honestly, I think he's in our hearts already. 116 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Oh, definitely. And you can see with every touch of the ball or every minute that he plays now, he's just kind of growing in confidence. 117 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Not that he needs it because he's clearly a very confident player anyway. Just on the ball. 118 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:15,000 And it's one thing that I got a call from my brother, literally as Cali Fury scored. So I think my stream that I was watching the match on was a little bit behind his. 119 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:21,000 He calls me and he's going, Oh my God, I can't believe he's just done that. 120 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:26,000 And then he started telling me all about how, you know, Sinchenko wouldn't have done that. 121 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Spoiler alert. 122 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:34,000 I was like, Oh, that's what you're talking about. Yeah, that has happened to me before. 123 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Yeah, it's it's it always ruins my experience of watching football, to be honest. 124 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:48,000 But at the same time, if it's a if it's a positive message or positive call, then you will take it. Absolutely. Absolutely. 125 00:13:48,000 --> 00:14:04,000 And there was more to come for Arsenal. Nobody saw that coming. And another quite amusing situation, in my opinion, it was twice in in a short period of time that we had a corner. 126 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:19,000 And each time that was Gabriel was kind of waiting in the middle of the six 18 yard box. And in the first case, he missed the header in the in the second case, though he didn't. 127 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:27,000 He slotted his home. Yeah. Carbon copy, though, like literally exactly the same move and City just couldn't pick him up. 128 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:35,000 And it's funny that, like, those were the only two corners that we had throughout the entire game. Oh, really? I didn't. Yeah. 129 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:41,000 We like we could have literally scored from both corners like he was so close. 130 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:50,000 It just shows you that this is it's almost like a fear now that the that the the opposition teams have for the set pieces. 131 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:56,000 And clearly, Joe Ver the set piece coaches is working his magic again. 132 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:12,000 It was our signature. It was we could say it was a signature goal by Arsenal. And there was another funny moment which we should point out as was as Gabriel was waiting in the middle of the 18 yard box. 133 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:29,000 It was Kyle Walker again, this player who was supposed to be marking him. And he tried he was trying to do some shithouse area. He was trying to poke him with his finger. I don't know if you saw that, but he did like 15 times at least like trying to poke him. 134 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:48,000 It was nothing to like the referee like couldn't, you know, give a penalty for that or anything like that. It was just one of those things, you know, sometimes in in the box, what players do is that they pinch each other or I don't know, just any sort of way of gaining the upper hand. 135 00:15:48,000 --> 00:16:03,000 He was distracting your opponent, but he didn't seem to face Gabriel at all. And then the goal he scored it, it made, in my opinion, because of what Kyle Walker was trying to do, it made him look even more stupid after that goal. 136 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Definitely, definitely. It was kind of like the way that I kind of saw it was almost like an ant prodding at a rhino in full flight. Because when when Gabriel starts running and he's like a bulldozer, he just he can't be stopped in the box. 137 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Yeah, yeah, exactly. Right. But then something unusual. Was it really unusual for for Arsenal to receive a red card, something unexpected. That's the word I was looking for something unexpected happened. 138 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:51,000 And Trossard, who was already on a yellow card, bumped into was it Silva or think it was Bernardo Silva. Yeah, yeah, I think so. He bumped into it was it was quite reckless from my point of view. 139 00:16:51,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Honestly, it was quite a bad tackle. But the referee, who was none other than Mark Oliver, who prides himself on not trying to send people off if he doesn't necessarily have to. 140 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:23,000 I think he did something last season, where he was on record saying that he did not send Kovachikov because he wanted to he wanted to he didn't want to ruin the game. 141 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Yes, but he does exactly that in the Arsenal City game to Arsenal, who have been on the receiving end with similar decisions before. And what so what happened is that, first of all, there was a reaction from from Trossard first, he was really unhappy with the decision. 142 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:55,000 In my opinion, it was an obvious fault. I don't even know why he was trying to react like that. And I thought he received the red card for that. But it wasn't that was it. 143 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:18,000 Well, he the thing was that and I think it's what the theory that everybody was working off of in the moment, especially the commentary, you know, Peter Drury and Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher were referencing, you know, kicking the ball away. And that was why he was sent off. But it's the PGMOL and, you know, the referees representation kind of 144 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:38,000 almost went back on themselves because Michael Oliver gave out the red cards. And initially, everyone thought it was for the kick kicking the ball away. But then the PGMOL come out and say, oh, no, no, that was for the foul, which to your point, again, going it didn't look like it to me. 145 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:49,000 No, to me, he definitely barges into a minute and it's it's without any sort of control. But it's not it's not a to me a bookable offense in that situation. 146 00:18:49,000 --> 00:19:03,000 I can see why a referee could give a yellow for that. And even if it's a second yellow, I think it's insensitive yet again, like in the case of Rice, which happened. Was it the game before or two games before? 147 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:09,000 So it's yeah, well, I mean, it's happened to us. It's twice in the last five games that we've played. 148 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Right. Right. Right. But it was so insensitive and the big so I could even accept it. Right. I could even accept it because you can justify this kind of yellow. In my opinion, there was a foul, which was very reckless. 149 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:37,000 It was there was a reaction from Trossard. He should have just shut up. And if he had really kicked the ball away, then we know that they have changed the rules now and then you should be receiving yellows for that. 150 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:46,000 But the problem I have with this is the inconsistency, what basically Miguel Arteta keeps pointing to the inconsistency of decisions. 151 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Yes, absolutely. Dockwood Dockwood did exactly the same in this game. He also kicked the ball away and he didn't didn't get booked for that. 152 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:10,000 So yeah, I did. To be honest, my feed on YouTube on all social media has just been reaction to the match since it's since it's all sorts of different things. 153 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:20,000 But certainly things that I've seen and listened to and read, they were indicating that, you know, Docu was actually he looks at the referee before he kicks it. 154 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:27,000 And then after kicking it points back to where the free kick was supposed to be taken from. 155 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:37,000 And as you like to your point about inconsistencies, Michael Oliver made such a point as to go back to the back to the position where the original foul taking place. 156 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:45,000 And yet for the goal that we scored, he had no issue with us being 10 yards forward from where the foul had taken place initially. 157 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:52,000 So like it is very much to your point about the inconsistencies. Joe Pedro didn't get booked in the Brighton game. 158 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:58,000 And then Declan Rice gets booked for kicking a ball that was still in motion, that hadn't yet stopped. 159 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:05,000 And Veltman then almost breaks his leg by clattering into him with the with his attempted free kick. 160 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,000 And then, yes, Docu kicking the ball away and then Trossard also kicking the ball away. 161 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:19,000 So for me, I have no problem with him getting sent off for those sort of things. I have no problem with Declan Rice getting sent off so long as it happens throughout. 162 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Yeah, exactly. And the problem is like this. The game is kind of gone. 163 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Like after that moment with City, the way they play, how good they are. 164 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Nobody expected us to get anything from that game at that point. 165 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:40,000 And we were one, we were two one up, which was, I mean, we were like, how do we hold on to that now, to that lead? 166 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Basically half time, right? Half time talk. We both, you and I weren't there. 167 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:53,000 But what could Arteta possibly said to his boys? Just park the bus, guys, and see what happens, right? Something like that. 168 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Yeah, literally. And like you listen to the post-match analysis from the likes of Roy Keane and those guys and they were saying, like, why did they not have an outlet? 169 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Like they were playing six at the back at times with three in front and then nobody up front. 170 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:21,000 I'm kind of thinking to myself, like, how could they possibly just like leave Martinelli up on the halfway line and then just soak up more pressure with less people? 171 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 It was like, like, you're a man down. 172 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:28,000 It was the only thing we could do, in my opinion. It's painful. It's sad. 173 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:36,000 It was painful to watch because it was like a siege, right? I don't know. It reminded me of, I don't know if you know the sport ice hockey. 174 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:48,000 It was like when there is a power play in ice hockey, basically the whole time the team with five skaters on the ice is in the final third. 175 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Always. 176 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:55,000 Right. And they would pass the ball and waiting for the goal to be scored. 177 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:00,000 And that's that was exactly how it felt. We didn't have, we had like 10 percent. 178 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Our possession was only 10 percent. City attempted 26 shots. 179 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:10,000 I heard somewhere, including the blocked shots, we only had one shot. 180 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:21,000 It was it was it wasn't the same kind of sport anymore. And you were just waiting for a goal to be conceded from our point of view. 181 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Right. And it wasn't it wasn't coming for a long, long time. 182 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:31,000 So I don't know how about you, but I really started hoping we could get something out of it. 183 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:38,000 And when it came to like 80th, 90th minute, I started believing that we could really win that game. 184 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Yeah, definitely. I like the as you say, like the minutes kept ticking on. 185 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:48,000 And I was actually I was I was listening along with I was watching along with a friend of mine. 186 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 We were on the phone together at the same time while watching us. 187 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:56,000 He was in England. But the two of us were saying, oh, my God, it's only like 56 minutes. 188 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Oh, my God, it's only the 66th minute. And then it kind of changed. 189 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Oh, wow. It's the 76th minute. It's the 86th minute. 190 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:12,000 And OK, this is all of a sudden. But, you know, one, it just shows you that one lapse in concentration from a corner kick at the very last. 191 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:20,000 And I know people will complain and a lot of our own fans have complained about it being the 98th of the 99th minute. 192 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:29,000 And that was it was called. But certainly if the if the roles were reversed and, you know, the opposition team had been wasting time, 193 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:35,000 we would not be objecting to add it on times on top of the the original added on time. You know? 194 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Yeah, I mean, they looked clueless city. They only they only their shots were like from long distance. 195 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Usually, like they didn't they were not able to create much. You're just passing the ball along all the time. 196 00:24:51,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Honestly, I couldn't see a goal coming and it came in the end from an unusual source. 197 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Was it John Stone? John Stones? Yeah. So like, well, it was if the ball came to Kovacic from Grealish in the corner 198 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:14,000 and he had a pop and it literally just it was the deflection. So it wasn't even a direct pass like they broke through. 199 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:21,000 It was literally a fluke deflection that dropped at Stones' face and he managed to take the chance when it came. 200 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 But like I said, they just they had no outlet. 201 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:29,000 And I think as much as we missed Odegaard, they definitely missed Kevin Bruyne in that sort of situation 202 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:35,000 because he's the man there man to pick out that pass. And when I saw Phil Fulton come on, I thought, oh, no, like, 203 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:40,000 here's a guy that can unlock the defense if anybody's going to do it, let's face it. 204 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:46,000 But he just seemed to, you know, stand on the box and sit in it like something is wrong with him. 205 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:52,000 Well, I don't know about that. I think this like Pep deployed him in a position where he couldn't actually influence it. 206 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,000 He was relying on Gvardial, Akangi and Diaz. 207 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Those three had his three center backs, they should be passing it across back and across our 18 yard box 208 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,000 and then relying on them to pick out the key pass. 209 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:12,000 If it were me, I would have had Fulton back out where Diaz was, you know, but I mean, it was strange. 210 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:21,000 She also mentioned that Rodri had got injured as well in that game and that didn't help City. 211 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,000 I think it's it's it will be a huge miss for them. 212 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:33,000 As Pep Guardiola says himself, he's the best center defensive midfielder, right, holding midfielder in the world. 213 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,000 So that didn't help them. But in the end, they got they got the point. 214 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:45,000 What do you think? What kind of impact will this have on the season, on Arsenal's confidence, on City's confidence? 215 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:51,000 Will there be any impact? It seemed significant. It seemed significant, this equalizer. 216 00:26:51,000 --> 00:27:02,000 It does. And, you know, I was having words with my housemate, who's a Manchester United fan, who was equally distraught that Arsenal couldn't beat Manchester rivals. 217 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:15,000 But he I was saying to him that it's a very stark contrast to, say, two seasons ago where we were the ones, you know, celebrating. 218 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:27,000 So, you know, outrageously, let's say about last minute winners or last minute equalizers and all the pundits and all of the supporters are saying, wow, guys, you're too emotional. 219 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:33,000 You're you're you're letting the occasion get to you. But it seemed that, you know, the tables were almost flipped. 220 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:39,000 That City kind of let the emotions get the best of them yesterday, especially with the reactions of Alan. 221 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:45,000 But and the fans, your quest. Oh, absolutely. And you can call it hypocrisy of the highest level if you want. 222 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:54,000 Definitely. But I suppose since your question about what does that do for the rest of the season, I guess it gives us great confidence going back to the Emirates 223 00:27:54,000 --> 00:28:00,000 and for the reverse fixture when it comes along later on in the season. 224 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:08,000 I think it's too early for them. I guess last yesterday and today will definitely be a day of kind of feeling sorry for themselves. 225 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:16,000 But I'm sure I won't let that happen for very long. He'll dissect and pick them up and say, look, we have a lot of positives to take from this. 226 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Absolutely. I think there are more positives than negatives like the spirit, the togetherness and the way we defended it was almost heroic. 227 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:30,000 I would describe it as heroic. Absolutely. This is the table cow. 228 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:45,000 Yeah. So it's it's quite tight. You know, actually, Man City, 13 points, Liverpool and Aston Villa on 12 points, followed by Arsenal with 11 points, then Chelsea, Newcastle with 10 points. 229 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:52,000 I think it's very tight at the top of the table and it's very open, still very open. 230 00:28:52,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Definitely, definitely. And like, as we've said before, many times there'll be ebbs and flows in the season. 231 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:11,000 And I think that, you know, draws are bad for us against the likes of Brighton or West Ham or Fulham or teams where we've kind of fallen down before, 232 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:24,000 but definitely taking a point off of Manchester City or in this case, maybe two, making sure that they don't get the full three is a really, really good result for us to get in terms of in terms of them, 233 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:38,000 because that's kind of been where we've fallen down, I suppose, over the last two seasons where we've done so well against our big bigger opponents, you know, the Manchester United, Liverpool and cities of the world. 234 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:45,000 When we come to the kind of just the tier below that, Villas, Newcastle, Fulham, and we kind of haven't put them away when we should have. 235 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:53,000 So hopefully, you know, Michael can kind of rally the troops and and get better results in those fixtures. 236 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,000 As long as we don't have too many injuries like that is the only thing I'm worried about. 237 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:06,000 I still feel like the likes of Man City, even Chelsea, Liverpool, I still feel like they have more depth, more squad depth. 238 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,000 But maybe maybe I'm just imagining this. I don't know. What do you think? 239 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:19,000 No, I think that, well, certainly across Liverpool's front line, they've a lot of depth for Chelsea. 240 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:24,000 I don't know if you can call that depth or whether you can call that a chasm of what they have. 241 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:29,000 They have more than that. Hundreds of players is what they have. 242 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:38,000 Have you seen that meme? Have you seen that meme that is doing rounds on social media where basically you've got I think it's AI generated. 243 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,000 And it's like it's like the dressing room, the changing room. 244 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:49,000 And it's like there are 100 people in the Chelsea shirt, like as in players. 245 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000 Like an actual theatre almost. 246 00:30:51,000 --> 00:31:01,000 And I also heard Peter Czech in an interview to the Czech media, he said that apparently there are eight goalkeepers in the Chelsea training. 247 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:12,000 Yeah. And I couldn't believe I was watching the because I was watching transfer deadline day hoping we would, you know, maybe get a last minute signing of someone unexpected. 248 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:22,000 Well, hopefully not. It was just like watching the ninth goalkeeper sign for the most going, where are all these players going? 249 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,000 Like they're hardly all sitting on the bench or sitting at home. How am I going to get in this team? 250 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,000 The one I suppose Manchester City are the gold standard. 251 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:40,000 They're kind of the outlier in this situation because they have so many players on their bench that could start for any team. 252 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:46,000 And you looked at you looked at their bench yesterday, I think the camera panned over and it had what? 253 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Grealish, Stones, Kevin De Bruyne and Nathan Ake all sitting in. De Bruyne and Ake hadn't kitted out at all. 254 00:31:52,000 --> 00:32:00,000 But Grealish and Stones were on the bench and you thought, wow, oh my God, two lads unavailable and two lads on the bench that would walk into any starting position. 255 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:09,000 And you think like as much as Liverpool, I suppose, and Chelsea do have a bit of depth, they don't have that level of quality of player. 256 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,000 In their squad. I think it's so hard to replicate that. 257 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:20,000 Like even if you look at Real Madrid, like Real Madrid have Mod and Hendrik off the bench. 258 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:30,000 Yeah. But like after that, you're you're looking at their kind of their players that have been there for many, many years outside their starting eleven. 259 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:38,000 So it's really not kind of I think for the Premier League, sadly, if you do want to compete, you kind of have to have almost two starting elevens worth. 260 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:44,000 And it's not just the Premier League, right? It's unfortunate. No, unfortunately, I'm glad because we see more games. 261 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:53,000 But unfortunately for the players and for the manager, it's the Champions League, the other European competitions, the two cups and other stuff. 262 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:59,000 So it's not easy. And these are the best players playing for this team. 263 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,000 And these players, of course, want to represent their own countries in the in the international games. 264 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:11,000 So it's it's absolute madness. And there's no wonder Kevin De Bruyne is complaining about it. 265 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:20,000 But yeah, him and Roger, I think a lot of the city players have been complaining. 266 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:28,000 Makes sense. And moving on, let's let's do the the popular segments. 267 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:35,000 Hero of the Week and villain of the week. Yeah. So you can pick any moment from this Premier League weekend. 268 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,000 I assume you're going to choose something from the Arsenal game, but you don't have to. 269 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:47,000 OK, so who is your who do we start with? Let's start with the villain. Who's your villain of the week? 270 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:54,000 I mean, this is such an easy pick for me. It's going to be Erling Haaland is the villain of the week for me. 271 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,000 The antics at the end, throwing the ball in the back of Gabrielle's head. 272 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:18,000 So when when Man City scored that equalizer, that late equalizer, Erling Haaland took the ball and threw it instead of normally what players do in that moment is they take it and rush quickly to the sent to the halfway line with it to the circle, the center circle. 273 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:27,000 And they want a quick restart of the game. Haaland instead, he threw it at the back of Gabrielle's head. 274 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:36,000 And it was quite with quite a lot of intensity. In my opinion, that was a possible sending off. 275 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:46,000 It's one of those ones where it's as you mentioned the phrase earlier, shit house three was was the term that was thrown out there. 276 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:51,000 And to me, it's not a violent act, really. 277 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:58,000 Like he's obviously just kind of it's a release of it's a release of of a lot of emotions and he and he throws it. 278 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,000 It's definitely not right. And I think a booking definitely probably was was warranted. 279 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:16,000 And then obviously after that, just barging straight through Thomas Parity and after the kickoff had started and was also a bookable offense as well. 280 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:22,000 But I suppose Michael Oliver will come and say, well, we didn't book Kyle Havertz in the first half for when he stumbled into Roger. 281 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,000 So we're not going to do this for for Haaland. 282 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:33,000 I don't want to say any more about this, but that's your so that Haaland is your villain of the week. Usually on the show, he's the hero of the week. 283 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,000 I even call this segment Haaland of the week, not the hero of the week. 284 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:42,000 But now he's the villain of the week. So Haaland, he always gets his. 285 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,000 Well, it wasn't just that. It was it was the the comments afterwards. 286 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:54,000 I don't know if you saw this afterwards, but he was like telling Michael Arteta, having some choice words with him and Gabrielle Jesus and a number of Arsenal players afterwards, 287 00:35:54,000 --> 00:36:04,000 which I thought kind of aired a bit more on the side of disrespectful because I'm all for a bit of, you know, sportsmanship and, you know, kind of getting behind your team. 288 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,000 Yeah. Yeah. But like there's a time and a place. There's a time. Exactly. 289 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:15,000 OK. Well, to be honest, my villain of the week will be the referee. So Oliver gets my villain of the week. 290 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,000 We don't have to really go into it much. What about your hero of the week then? 291 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:25,000 Well, I suppose I don't want to always focus on the Arsenal game. 292 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,000 I do have heroes from from the Arsenal game for sure. 293 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:35,000 If I was to pick out a moment, I think Onana made a crazy double save. 294 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000 So United keeper. Yeah. 295 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:48,000 And for the amount of kind of pressure and a lot of stick that he gets from fans and pundits alike, he's performing very, very well. 296 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,000 I think he's much better this season. He's more consistent. 297 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,000 Honestly, I think he's great. Yeah. 298 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:03,000 And the double save, I think even eclipses the double save that David Ryan made against Atalanta in midweek. 299 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:08,000 So he'd be kind of my general hero for the week, I suppose, outside of the Arsenal game. 300 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:15,000 But if I was to choose a hero of the week from the Arsenal game, it's so hard to choose any any number of them. 301 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:27,000 You don't have to. I would pick I pick Urien Timber, I suppose, if I was picking one from the Arsenal team, just like pocketed Jeremy Doku, didn't let him have a sniff and just showing. 302 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,000 You said pocketed, not pick pocketed. We should explain that. 303 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:35,000 Pick pocket someone is to steal someone's money when they are not looking right. 304 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:40,000 Somewhere a tourist, a tourist can get pick pocketed in a city center, in a crowded city center. 305 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:52,000 But if you pocket someone and that means that they are in your pocket, right, it kind of means that you take care of the usually you talk about the defender pocketing an offensive player. 306 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:58,000 It means you sort of you eliminate the threat of that player completely. They have nothing. 307 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:03,000 They they are invisible in that game because of the way you play as a defender. Right. 308 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:11,000 Absolutely. So he for me was definitely a hero. Others, you could you could pick anybody across that Arsenal team that could have been a hero of week. 309 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:17,000 But for sure, I'm going to pick Raya. I think he was excellent in that game. 310 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:26,000 Yeah. OK, I would say still the defense of like they did such a great job that they made it easier for him. 311 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:31,000 But there were a couple of great saves made as well. So I'm going to give it to him. 312 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:36,000 Yeah. My fantasy football team definitely thanks him for all those saves as well. 313 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:42,000 And that is the next thing I want to quickly look at. Like today we are going over a little bit. 314 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:48,000 I suppose there was a lot to unpack in this game. Yeah. 315 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:54,000 So let's let's take a look at our fantasy team. Just just a second. 316 00:38:54,000 --> 00:39:03,000 For those of you that are watching this, I'm going to share my screen with you and show you what's happening in this wonderful game. 317 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:11,000 So here are my points. I got 64. Basically, I kept in Watkins. 318 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:17,000 I guess I was deciding between Alexander Arnold and Watkins. I in the end I went for Watkins. 319 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:26,000 It was a mistake, but at least he got that goal. So all is well that ends well. Yeah. 320 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:32,000 Not not a bad week, not glamorous, but it's all right. I'll take it. 321 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:39,000 And let's have a look at your your. Wait, that's not why I was trying to join there earlier. 322 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:45,000 I don't think I managed to get in. But if you want, I can just I don't know how to find you now. 323 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,000 It doesn't. I can just tell you the team that I have. 324 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:54,000 Just tell me how many points you have. And yeah, I had 81 points this week, so I was very happy this week. 325 00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:04,000 OK, maybe you shouldn't join the league then. Yeah, I my my midfield definitely pulled through as well as my back line. 326 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:12,000 I had Trent. Now I captained Salah over Holland for the for the fixture that I thought was going to be the easier one. 327 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:18,000 And obviously Salah did get an assist and a clean sheet, but not as prolific as I had hoped. 328 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:25,000 But I had Konza, Gabrielle Rogers and Smith Row as well. 329 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:34,000 So a lot of players, a lot of players kind of hovering around that, you know, eight, nine, ten mark that really helped kind of bump the score up a bit. 330 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,000 But, you know, yeah, it was good week. Good week. 331 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:45,000 So what is your total score at the moment? My total score is. 332 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:51,000 Oh, let me check. Three eight seven. Three eight seven. 333 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:56,000 Wow, you would be in the lead in our in our league. No way. 334 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:01,000 Yeah, definitely. OK, I think seven is a lot like you are. 335 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,000 You're like 50, 50 points ahead of me. Oh, my goodness. 336 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,000 Yeah, I decided to wild card early. 337 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,000 I wild carded in week two to get Holland in. 338 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:17,000 And I suppose I haven't looked back since his his hat tricks have been have been great for my team. 339 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,000 But yeah, it's it's this is the first time I have started so well. 340 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000 I'm just kind of like looking around going when is this going to stop? 341 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,000 This is how I end at some point. I think you are a great player. 342 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,000 I remember from last season you were doing well as well. 343 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:37,000 So I think you are, you know, you're being too harsh on yourself. 344 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,000 But they're there about so long as I can keep the interest going. 345 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:52,000 I think my problem is that I always kind of tend to fall off towards the kind of Christmasy kind of new year type of turn of the turn of the fixtures. 346 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,000 But this year, no, the league that I'm currently in with a group of friends, 347 00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:04,000 we decided to kind of, you know, a bit more encouragement to keep engaged by having a forfeits involved every month. 348 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:13,000 So everyone has to kind of, you know, to keep the eye on the league and the team every month just to make sure they're they're not going to lose the forfeits. 349 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,000 Of course. Well, you can join this league as well. 350 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:22,000 I will let you join even even if it makes me fall one one plays down. 351 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,000 It's OK. I'll take it. 352 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:31,000 And anyone else who is listening to this or watching this on YouTube, there is a link in the description of this video or podcast. 353 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,000 And I guess that's it, Gal. 354 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:41,000 I didn't want to make it so long, but honestly, there's so much to talk about when it comes to this game that I'm not surprised. 355 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,000 But thank you very much, Gal, for coming on today. 356 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,000 And it's been a pleasure to talk to you. 357 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,000 Thanks so much to Danik. Always a pleasure. 358 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:55,000 Take care. 359 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,000 Welcome back to the language corner. 360 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:07,000 As always, this is the part of the show where I teach some bits of language, some bits of the English language, of course, because that's the language of this show. 361 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:15,000 And because I'm an English teacher, if you are thinking of hiring an English teacher, then I'm your guy, 362 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:24,000 especially if you want us to have a conversation about football and then learn English through it, because that is how I teach. 363 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:32,000 I provide a lot of feedback and basically I strive to develop your English. 364 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,000 That is the aim. That is the objective. 365 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,000 OK, the language corner. 366 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:43,000 Here is an excerpt from Carl's speech. 367 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:52,000 Carl was talking about the game, how it started, the Manchester City Arsenal game and how it started. 368 00:43:52,000 --> 00:44:00,000 He said, when they got the first goal, you kind of thought this was going to be a long day in the office for us. 369 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:12,000 But obviously with football, ebbs and flows, momentum changes, and we kind of had the upper hand just for enough time to get that free kick. 370 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,000 That's the excerpt. That's the part of Carl's speech. 371 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:24,000 And now from this, I'm going to pick out a few phrases which I think are quite interesting. 372 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:28,000 First of all, a long day in the office for us. 373 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:34,000 You thought this was going to be a long day in the office for us, for the Arsenal fans. 374 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:42,000 A long day in the office. Well, I think this is quite easy to work out, isn't it? 375 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:47,000 A long day in the office is too long. It's lengthy. It's tiring. 376 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,000 You don't want to stay in the office for so long. 377 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:58,000 It will feel longer. It will give you the feeling of boredom. 378 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:02,000 And it's probably going to feel longer than it actually will be. 379 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:07,000 A long day in the office. Longer than necessary, longer than usual. 380 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:22,000 So when you concede the first goal at the Atthahead Stadium early, then most teams sort of think that this is going to be a long day in the office for them. 381 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:27,000 Meaning they might concede a lot more goals and then you just pray for the game to be over. 382 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:34,000 Then you just want to hear the final whistle ASAP. But you know how it is with something uncomfortable. 383 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:38,000 It usually takes longer than we want it to take. 384 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,000 And then Carl said, but obviously with football, abs and flows. 385 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:49,000 So I think I've already explained this expression once when I had Carl on the podcast before. 386 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,000 And it seems to be one of his favourite phrases to use. 387 00:45:53,000 --> 00:46:01,000 Abs and flows comes actually from the movement of tides. Tides, you know, the movement of the ocean. 388 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:07,000 And it means there are ups and downs. You know, football, it fluctuates. 389 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:11,000 Sometimes you're up, sometimes you are down. 390 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:16,000 OK, and momentum changes. Momentum is a very common phrase in football. 391 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,000 I think everybody should know it. 392 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:24,000 It basically means the energy, the speed, the motivation, right? 393 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,000 So the momentum swings or the momentum changes. 394 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:37,000 Meaning at first one team was doing well and then after the momentum changed, maybe there's a goal, there is a card, 395 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,000 some kind of moment in the game and then the momentum changes. 396 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:47,000 Meaning the other team suddenly starts playing well and has more speed and motivation and energy 397 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,000 than the other team. 398 00:46:50,000 --> 00:47:00,000 OK, and also what Carl said is that we kind of had the upper hand just for enough time to get that free kick. 399 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:10,000 Right. So suddenly something happened in the game and we had the upper hand, meaning we were in control. 400 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,000 Right, which is strange when you play against Manchester City. 401 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:20,000 It doesn't happen very often, but we had the upper hand. If you have the upper hand, you have some sort of advantage or control. 402 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:25,000 You're in control or you have some kind of power over someone else. 403 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:31,000 Right. Well, that will be it for today. I know it was very long. 404 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,000 Sometimes it happens on this podcast. I hope you don't mind. Let me know. 405 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:40,000 Send me an email at thefutgrishpodcast at gmail.com. 406 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:44,000 I would like to know what you think. 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