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 --> 00:00:14,000 Arsenal defeated Nottingham Forest, but can they actually catch up to Liverpool? 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Has Pep Guardiola ever lost five games in a row as a football manager? 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Is Victoria Plesey a better team than FC Barcelona? 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:30,000 And what do the adjectives unparalleled and unprecedented mean? 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Hello football fans, welcome to another episode of the Footglitch Podcast. 8 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Yes, that's right, the Footglitch Podcast is back and Nrup is back as well. 9 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:08,000 We don't need to explain who Nrup is, but let's explain what the Footglitch Podcast is, right? 10 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Just in case some people don't know it. 11 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:16,000 It is a light-hearted podcast about football, which is often full of biased opinions. 12 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,000 But the thing is, the main is to help English learners who love football. 13 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:32,000 These could be football fans, football players, football managers, football referees, anyone who needs to improve their English through football. 14 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Nrup, welcome back to the podcast. 15 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Thank you, thank you Zdenek. Hello everyone. 16 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:48,000 It's been a while. I just don't know when was the last time I was on the Footglitch Podcast, but I feel different. 17 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:56,000 At some point I feel like, OK, what were the rules of the Footglitch Podcast? 18 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:02,000 But then at the end of the day, you just have to be yourself and go with the flow. 19 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:09,000 We just talked about football. I'm going to ask you about Arsenal, of course, because that's the team you and I support. 20 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 We're going to talk about the Premier League mainly. 21 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,000 We should also point out, we should mention that we've got another show that we often do together. 22 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:25,000 I mean, you only missed once. You have only one absence, to use the school kind of terminology, right? 23 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 You only have one absence. 24 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:36,000 This show is called Heroes of the Week. Do you want to tell our listeners what we do in the Heroes of the Week YouTube show? 25 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Sure, I can give my shot. So the thing is, Heroes of the Week is more about interaction with other fans and other people, 26 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:52,000 along with our opinions, where we provide, where we have segments, where we provide Heroes of the Week, 27 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:58,000 take away of the week and other segments, which you will know once you check it out. 28 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:03,000 So I won't provide all the details, but I won't spoil it. 29 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:10,000 But it's more interactive and it is a rather shorter format of a podcast. 30 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 It's live. It's nice. 31 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:20,000 We do it live. And it used to be every Sunday, I think at 8.30 or something like that. 32 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,000 But now we are changing the time and the day. 33 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Now we want to do it a bit earlier, I think, at about 6 p.m. Central European time and on Mondays, right? 34 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,000 On Mondays. 35 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 So let's see if this change is any good. 36 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 It's a pilot idea, but let's see. 37 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 All right. So this is just a quick mention of our other show that we do together with Noob. 38 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 But this is the Footgrish podcast. It's a different kind of thing. 39 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Here we just talk about a topic, a football topic. 40 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:59,000 So I think let's talk about Arsenal, the Premier League. Maybe we can mention some other matches as well. 41 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 So what did you make of the Arsenal result? 42 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 I'm pretty happy, actually. 43 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:12,000 It's been a while since Arsenal were this dominant. Arsenal were this clinical. 44 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 We're really happy. 3-0. 45 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 I mean, I expected much more considering how the game went. 46 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:22,000 But I guess I'll be humble and satisfied. 47 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Yeah. So the opponent was, was it Leicester City? 48 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 No, it was a team that is called Nottingham Forest. 49 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Nottingham Forest. 50 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Yeah. And, you know, it's a, if you look at the current table, they were at one point among the top four teams. 51 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Right. 52 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 And they were doing pretty well. They had one of the solid. 53 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,000 I think they had one of the best defenses in the league as well at one point. 54 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000 And they were doing pretty well. They had a good run. 55 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:04,000 So, yeah, like if you look at the scenario, if you look at the rematch situation, I think, I think, of course, 56 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Arsenal were the favorites because the game was in the MNF Stadium, but still looking at Arsenal's form. 57 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:15,000 In recent form, what hasn't been very good, right? Prior to this game, a lot of games. 58 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:20,000 We had like, we had like just one win in five games. 59 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:25,000 So it says a lot to our form, whereas Nottingham Forest. 60 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:34,000 I'm sorry. I wanted to say it's almost as bad as Manchester City, right? 61 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Well, I'll stay humble in that case. But anyway, whereas Nottingham Forest, they had three wins in five games. 62 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 So, you know, that's a huge difference. 63 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:53,000 And if you look at in this situation, we did not look the best in terms of preparation and, you know, 64 00:05:53,000 --> 00:06:00,000 the pool of players that we had, considering we lost Ben White and, you know, we did not have the right amount of forwards. 65 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:05,000 And, you know, I don't think our team looked that sharp. 66 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:11,000 But we need to mention one name, Nrup, and that's Martin Odegaard, because he's back, isn't he? 67 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Our captain, our Martin Odegaard from Real Madrid, 35 million pound player. 68 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:26,000 He has been fantastic for Arsenal and we met big time, big time. 69 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 How long was he out for? 70 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,000 I would say at least two months. 71 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Like, you know, because he got injured two international duties ago. 72 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:44,000 It was something with Ankle and, yeah, I mean, we missed him. 73 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Initially, I thought, like, we'll manage without him, you know, like we have a good team, but our players are fine. 74 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Like, you know, it's a similar profile player, if you look at it, like attacking midfield, we have enough of them. 75 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:03,000 But then, I mean, if you look at something else, something else, his energy, his drive, his creativity, 76 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:10,000 his thinking, his decision making and his ability to press, in my opinion, is unparalleled. 77 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 His work rate is incredible. 78 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:19,000 And one more thing, I've been thinking about this and I can see some kind of a parallel with Rodri. 79 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Yeah. So we missed. Yeah. 80 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Because Rodri got injured for Manchester City. 81 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Look where they are now, what kind of mess they are. 82 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:37,000 And he managed to win the Ballon d'Or in the meantime, but that wasn't obviously something that wasn't for the last few months. 83 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 That was for the previous year. 84 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:44,000 But the point is we miss Martin Odegaard, they miss Rodri. 85 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Rodri's injury is more serious. 86 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,000 We are lucky that Martin Odegaard recovered from his injury. 87 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 And I think that could be the difference. 88 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:00,000 However, there's one big problem and it's called Liverpool. 89 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I mean, I still don't see them as a problem yet because last season we were in a similar situation and it was them who bottled it. 90 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,000 And I expect the same to happen. 91 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 I mean, winter is here. 92 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:28,000 And it's always in such situations we rise from such, let's say, such occasions or such crisis period. 93 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 So, yeah, I mean, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm still calm. 94 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 We're still in the top four. 95 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 But there is a gap. There is a gap. 96 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Because they have 31 points. Manchester City have 23. 97 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Arsenal, Chelsea, Brighton have 22. 98 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,000 It's fine. It's nine points. It's a lot. 99 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Yeah. But but I think if you look at their fixtures, Liverpool had much, much, much more easier fixtures than us. 100 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 And now Liverpool will be having some challenging fixtures. 101 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,000 So, yeah, I mean, I'm looking forward to them being thrashed by City twice. 102 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Once by us and perhaps more times by other teams. 103 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:15,000 I would love to have them also have the same form as City that is having right now five losses in a row. 104 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,000 So, yeah, looking forward to that. 105 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:22,000 That's unprecedented. That has never happened to Pep Guardiola ever before as a manager. 106 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Like he has never experienced this. 107 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:31,000 So this is so unbelievable, actually, especially considering he is just he's just signed. 108 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:39,000 I think it was last week he signed a new contract, a two year extension, which is understandable. 109 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Even if he loses this season completely, even if he gets out of the Europa League spot or conference league spot, he will still be the manager. 110 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Of course, his position is just such that he cannot be fired, in my opinion, for what he has done in Manchester City. 111 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Yeah, I mean, even in the previous in the previous clubs that he managed was Neymar's Act. 112 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,000 He fulfilled his contract and then he left according to his terms. 113 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:16,000 As much as I love what City is going through, I feel sad for Pep Guardiola because I admire him. 114 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,000 He's one of my he's probably my favourite modern day manager. 115 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:29,000 And yeah, I understand because you also support Barcelona, so you obviously there's a connection there as well. 116 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:34,000 And also I like his style of football and considering Arteta has been inspired by him. 117 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 So there is some sort of relation to him. 118 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Yeah, that's true. Also rivalry these days. 119 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:48,000 But this will be interesting to see how the season unfolds, obviously, with Liverpool nine points ahead now. 120 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 And then we have a team like Chelsea under Marisca. 121 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Oh, my God, they are a real menace now, I think they are. 122 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 But we have been annoying. 123 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,000 But I mean, Cole Palmer has been lukewarm, as many people say. 124 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,000 True. But the team works as a unit. 125 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 The team works as a unit. That's the most important thing. 126 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000 True, true. I agree with that. 127 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,000 But it's but it's just that I believe they're not they're not ready for the title. 128 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,000 I don't even think they're ready for top four. But OK, let's see. 129 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 The season is still early. We're not even halfway through. 130 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 And many things can happen. Many things can happen. 131 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:29,000 True. Yeah, I think realistically, it's going to be a game between those three teams. 132 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000 That is us, Manchester City and Liverpool. 133 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:41,000 But who knows, even if there are some other teams that are there and they're about like Brighton, for example, who would have thought? 134 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Because, I mean, if you look at it last year, at this point, we had Tottenham and Aspen Villa instead of instead of Chelsea and Liverpool. 135 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:55,000 You know, they were like Liverpool were like the first time, like fifth or sixth position if I'm not wrong. 136 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:00,000 And yeah, you know, things can change. Yeah, I agree. 137 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 I agree. But I wouldn't write of Tottenham either. 138 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:15,000 I know they are just such a weird team because they lost they lost against Crystal Palace and also Ipswich, who hadn't won a single game when when this happened. 139 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:25,000 And they beat Tottenham. And then this week, this weekend, they beat they defeated Manchester City four nil away from home at the Emirates. 140 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:30,000 I mean, that was unbelievable as well. Did you watch that game or did you follow it? 141 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000 You follow it? I did follow it. I did not watch the game. 142 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,000 But yeah, I mean, this time the league has been much more tighter. 143 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:46,000 I mean, think of it, the points that there is only three point difference between the third, third ranked team and the ninth ranked team or eighth ranked team if I'm not wrong. 144 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Something like that. Yeah. 145 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,000 So like, you know, how many five, five or six teams are sharing three points. 146 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 It's very tight. Actually, actually, if you look at it, the second place, 147 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Manchester City and Brentford in the 11th place is only five points behind. 148 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Wow. So it's kind of Brentford and Brentford is more informed than City. 149 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Well, to be honest, every single Premier League team, if you look at the last three games, is more informed than Manchester City. 150 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:25,000 I would say last five games. But yeah, if you look at last five games, I think there is one team which is worse. 151 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Maybe more, maybe two. I think Southampton only have three points. Yeah. 152 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:39,000 It's terrible. It's really interesting this season. I have to say it's fun to watch. 153 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,000 There are some hiccups, blips and stuff like that. We're just waiting for Liverpool. 154 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Lots of injuries as well. But yeah. Yeah. Well, it's football for you. 155 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Anything else? Any other results that stand out for you this weekend or anything else? 156 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,000 You can also talk about other other leagues if you want. Why not? 157 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Well, if you want to talk about other leagues, then I will have to talk about La Liga, which I've been following from Barcelona. 158 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,000 And that is Barcelona dropped points again. 159 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:23,000 And Barcelona were like, I don't know, 10, 15 points ahead of Madrid, the current defending champions and the usual favourites. 160 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,000 And they were doing pretty well. They had a fantastic season. 161 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Arguably, they have arguably the best player in top five leagues, which is Ruffinia, in my opinion. 162 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:42,000 It's just my opinion. And they just last two games or three games probably. They just bottled it. 163 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:51,000 And Nrub, I also have to remind you that Victoria Pilsen, the Czech team, you know, the team where they brew the Czech beer Pilsen. 164 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,000 You know that one, Pilsen. You like that beer, right? 165 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:02,000 It's OK. But yeah, well, whatever. I should prefer only to tell all of that. But OK. 166 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Nrub prefers a different beer. Anyway, it's a famous beer from that city. 167 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Yeah. In Europa League, they beat. Oh my God. They also see it out, right? 168 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Yeah. The team where Michael Marino and Michael Artena came from and Martin Odegaard. 169 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:32,000 And I'm mentioning it because it was Barcelona who lost to this team. 170 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Right. They were robbed. But yeah, it doesn't matter. 171 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:44,000 You lost. You lost. Pilsen is technically better than Barcelona. 172 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:49,000 That is my conclusion. I draw from that. 173 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,000 That's football for you. The devil's game. But yeah. 174 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 I'm just joking. I'm just joking. You know that. 175 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 That's what we do here as well on the Footglish podcast. 176 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:08,000 You know, it's as I said at the beginning of the podcast, this is quite a lighthearted podcast where everything kind of goes, you know. 177 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:13,000 So, yeah, I mean, in terms of La Liga, I mean, Barcelona hasn't had a good form. 178 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:21,000 And because of that, because of those silly results, it has made the La Liga table also much more challenging. 179 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:32,000 And I don't think Barcelona would like to keep a more comfortable position, more dominant position compared to other teams because, you know, Madrid, 180 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Madrid towards the end of the season, they are a different monster and they always catch up no matter where you are. 181 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,000 So you would rather keep lots of distance. 182 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,000 So you think you can make it this season? You can win La Liga? 183 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:52,000 I think so. I think we can even win Champions League if we have all the players because Barcelona is also having lots of injuries. 184 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:57,000 And there are some here in the crisis, but on a fully fit. 185 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:02,000 I think Barcelona, they have been so far arguably the top three best teams in Europe. 186 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,000 OK. And yeah. OK, great. 187 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Getting back to Premier League, some interesting results regarding this week's matchday would be Wolves versus Fulham. 188 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 And I'm surprised. 189 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:24,000 You know, I really expect a lot from Fulham because they have our ex Arsenal players. 190 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:29,000 And I just had some basic expectations from them. 191 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 And they were thrashed. They were thrashed. 192 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:36,000 I think I think it's called the first goal and then they were just thrashed for one. 193 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:41,000 You know, I picked Wolves as my team of the week. 194 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Spoiler alert. I did. I did. I did watch your video. 195 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Oh, you did. OK. Yeah, I did. I did. 196 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,000 I have I have one more subscriber. I have one more follower. 197 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Which is the videos. 198 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Yeah, I mean, I was surprised that you chose Wolves. I was expecting Arsenal or some other team. 199 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,000 That's too easy. It's too easy. I know. 200 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,000 But yeah, Wolves, I'm surprised. I don't know what's going on with them. 201 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Like, do they like do they have a new manager? How is he? 202 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000 How long has he been with them? 203 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Because I remember they recently sacked some manager, their old manager, some British. 204 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,000 OK, I can't I can't I can't remember. 205 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:27,000 But I guess that's it, because I have to go for a run now. 206 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,000 So thank you. It's been it's been enough for today. 207 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Thank you so much. And if you guys want to hear more of Muroop, 208 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:42,000 make sure that you watch our live show on Monday at six p.m. 209 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Central European Time on the Teachers Then If YouTube channel. 210 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:52,000 See you on life. Interact with us. Write down your heroes of the week and other. 211 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Exactly. Possible questions. 212 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,000 It's different from the Footgrish podcast, because there you can actually be part of the show, 213 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,000 because we can read out your comments as well. 214 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:06,000 So yes, enjoy your night run and nice. 215 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 It is two a.m. So I will be alone in the park, but I like it. 216 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Well, I don't know how to call. How do you call Batman and Vietnamese? 217 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:20,000 But I guess you are that. Thanks. Thanks for that. 218 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Nice one. You take care, mate. Yeah, you too. 219 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Cheers, mate. Cheers. Bye bye. 220 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the language corner. 221 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:42,000 As always, in this part of the show, I'm going to have a look at some bits of the English language. 222 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:48,000 At the same time, I've got four adjectives for you, which I think can be quite useful to learn. 223 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:53,000 And of course, as always, these adjectives appeared in the interview. 224 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:58,000 So there is a context. You always need a context when you are learning new vocabulary. 225 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:05,000 Please don't learn new vocabulary from apps like what's the name of that app? 226 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:10,000 The most famous app that everybody uses. I can't remember the name now. 227 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Basically, it's like a list of random words, which are often unrelated, maybe only related by, let's say, a topic. 228 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:25,000 But that's not enough. You need it inside a text, inside a listening, right? 229 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Like a piece of text or some kind of speech. That's just way more powerful, way more memorable. 230 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,000 You can work out the meaning from context. That's how you should learn. 231 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:47,000 This is actually a piece of knowledge that I acquired at the university and then later at the teaching courses like CELTA and Delta. 232 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:53,000 So believe me when I say that this is how you should learn words. It's true. 233 00:20:53,000 --> 00:21:05,000 OK, so yeah, before I get into that, I should also apologize for the sound in the actual dialogue that I had with Nrub. 234 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:12,000 As we say, shit happens. OK, but now I think you're all waiting for that vocabulary. 235 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:17,000 So let's go. Here we go. I don't think our team looked that sharp. 236 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:27,000 So Nrub was describing the Arsenal performance against Nottingham Forest and he said that our team didn't look that sharp. 237 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:33,000 It's like if you say that sharp, it's almost like so sharp, almost the same as so sharp. 238 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:40,000 But what does sharp mean? Well, you know, a knife can be sharp. If a knife is sharp, it cuts very well. 239 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:47,000 If it's not sharp, we say it's blunt and you can struggle to cut with that knife. Right. 240 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:53,000 But the word sharp is also used to describe someone's performance. 241 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:01,000 If your team's performance is not sharp, it means that you are not performing well. You're not effective. 242 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Right. Your performance is not effective. You're not playing with enough precision, enough energy, enough cohesion. 243 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:15,000 You just don't have enough of these attributes in order to succeed in the game. Right. 244 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Well, even though Nrub thought that we didn't look sharp, we still managed to win this game. 3-0, I believe it was. Right. I think so. 245 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Right. Next, Odegaard. We were talking about Martin Odegaard and I said that his ability to press, 246 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:40,000 and I was speaking about his energy and I was praising this player for a lot of different aspects or attributes. 247 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:47,000 And I said that all this, it's unparalleled. I said his ability to press is unparalleled. 248 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:58,000 So that's an interesting word. Yeah. If your ability to do something is unparalleled, then you don't have an equal. 249 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:07,000 Yeah. No one is as good as you. Right. You're the best. Okay. For example, often we use it to talk about a product. 250 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Let's say, I don't know, Adidas. I honestly don't understand these brands. I don't really buy designer clothes, 251 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:29,000 but I suppose Adidas is quite famous. Right. So we could say Adidas' products are unparalleled or the quality of the products is unparalleled. 252 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:39,000 It means that every other brand is worse or the quality of their products is worse. I don't know if this is true. 253 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Probably isn't. But as an example, that should suffice. That should be enough. Okay. Moving on. 254 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Now Liverpool have some challenging fixtures. Right. So Noob was talking about the fact that yes, Liverpool did really well at the start of the season. 255 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Now they are eight points clear at the top of the table before the second team, which is Manchester City. 256 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:15,000 But there is a caveat. Right. There's a little sort of but Liverpool hasn't had any difficult fixtures yet. 257 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,000 And the fixtures are about to get much worse, much more difficult. 258 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:30,000 If you say that Liverpool have some challenging fixtures, you could say coming up, then the word challenging there means difficult. 259 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:38,000 A challenging game is a difficult game for you. A challenging opponent, a challenging situation. 260 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Anything that is challenging is difficult. It's a challenge. 261 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:50,000 It will be a real challenge to deal with this or to overcome this or to succeed. 262 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Okay. So challenging, similar to the word difficult. Okay. And here is the last one. 263 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:07,000 I said that's unprecedented. And I was referring to the fact that Pep Guardiola had lost five games in a row. 264 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:15,000 And I said that has never happened before. And that's exactly what the adjective unprecedented means. 265 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Right. If something is unprecedented, it has never happened before. There is no precedence for it. 266 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:34,000 If there is no precedence for it, it means that nothing that is similar to that, that just happened, preceded what just happened in the past. 267 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:52,000 Right. So it's all these words come from the same word family. Precede, precedent and unprecedented is the adjective. 268 00:25:52,000 --> 00:26:01,000 If something is unprecedented, it has never happened before. Okay. So yeah, I guess that will be it. 269 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Okay. And before I end this episode of the Footgrish podcast, let me also add that one day later after we recorded this with Nrup, 270 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:17,000 West Ham United beat Newcastle United away from home 2-0 in an amazing game for the Hammers. 271 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:23,000 They did really well. It was an excellent performance from them. And guess who scored the first goal? 272 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:30,000 Of course, it was none other than Tomáš Socek, a well-placed header from the corner kick. 273 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:37,000 It was the first corner kick goal from West Ham this season. The team that used to dominate at this is now struggling a bit, 274 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:47,000 but finally they scored through Tomáš Socek. And obviously we all like to see Tomáš Socek score goals for West Ham, don't we? 275 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Well, I do for sure because he's my countryman. That's right. And yeah, so that's all that I will manage to squeeze into this episode. 276 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Don't forget that you can support the Footgrish podcast if you really like it. 277 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Then you can go to my hero hero page. You can find the link in the description of this episode and you can support me. 278 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Thank you very much. If you decide to do that, I will be grateful to you forever because to be honest, 279 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:22,000 it's still a relatively young podcast and it's still early days for this podcast. 280 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:29,000 So it will need to grow the following in order for this podcast to stand any chance in the future. 281 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,000 I hope it will happen one day. 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