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And welcome back to PD Football. My name is Presh.

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My name is Darren. And how are you doing today?

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I'm good, I'm good. As good as can be, I guess.

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How's everything on your end? I went to watch

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a movie today with my brother. We've been going

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to... So, okay, I know we have international

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listeners, so let me provide some context. The

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local theatre chain that I go to has these very

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cheap... throwback movies so from the 90s 2000s

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whatever can watch like a old school classic

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yes so uh over the last couple of weeks they've

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been showing the lord of the rings uh incredible

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incredible trilogy of movies uh just an incredible

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achievement You know, the craft and the dedication

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put into that movie is just some of the best

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stuff. Unfortunately, you know... If you've got

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three weeks to set aside, you can watch it. Yes,

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that's the thing. This movie was four hours,

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15 minutes. This extended cut of Lord of the

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Rings. So, not a bad four hours to spend. But

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still, four hours is quite a bit. A long time

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to sit in a movie chair. Yes, I peed like four

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or five times. I have a serious problem. at the

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movies i need to pee a lot but yeah aside from

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that anything else you want to say before we

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get into it no nothing much just a regular weekend

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on my end oh yeah i was gonna say both of us

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had like a busy weekend so it may not be as deep

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a dive uh on the matches as you may want or we

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may have done in the past but uh we're doing

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our best we're doing our best we'll try to keep

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it as thorough as we can yeah so first of all

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leeds named an under excuse me excuse me We're

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talking about Leeds 1, Man City. Leeds 0, Man

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City 1. And Leeds named an unchanged side to

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the one that drew with Aston Villa last week.

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Man City made one change with Cherokee in for

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Haaland and a change of shape into a... 4 -2

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-2 -2 with a box midfield, which is probably

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the first time we've covered a game with a box

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midfield. This is kind of a specialty of the

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Red Bull system, so I'm not sure if maybe Pep

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Blinders brought it over and said, hey, let's

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try this out. Could be that. It looked a bit

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very similar to more of like a Deservey style

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to me, though. It used to dominate in central

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areas with the fullbacks providing the width.

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So that's the general idea of it. I've seen it

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at Liverpool a couple of times. But yeah, this

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is the first time we're covering it, so I thought

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I'd mention that. And leads were pressing, but

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you know how there's certain pressing triggers?

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So, for example, if a defender has a heavy touch,

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that's an immediate pressing trigger. Like three

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or four guys... Three or four closest guys should

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be making a move to pressure him if he does something

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like that. The defender does something like that.

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But Leeds' press was kind of time -based. So

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they pressed really hard the first five, ten

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minutes. Then, like, the last five, ten minutes

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of the first half. And it was man -to -man most

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of the time. It wasn't really, like, triggered

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by counter -pressing. Yes, yes, that's what I'm

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saying. There were no triggers. It was just them

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pressing really aggressively and really high.

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A bit of, like, old -school football in a way.

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Everyone runs after their own marker, you know.

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Yeah, and City can't get out of their half, right?

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That five to ten minutes, they would just stay

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camped in their half. It was really... I mean,

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Leeds have done this to quite a few teams recently,

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so it's not something new, you know. I mean,

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we've spoken about how far Daniel Farker seems

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to have come along in his tactical development.

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I'll mention that just now. Oh, actually, we

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can mention it now, but we've been kind of contemplating

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why Daniel Farker has become so defensively resolute

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recently where his Norwich team were amiss, to

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put it lightly. They finished like... A distant

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20th when they were in the Premier League. I

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mean, they started well. I think they won their

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first three. Well, no. There was one season,

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the season they went down. And, excuse me, their

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first game was against us. And we beat them 3

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-2. And they gave us like a very scary... They

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had put in a decent show. Why am I thinking about

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Leeds? No, I think you're thinking about Leeds.

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That was the 4 -3. Yeah. Yes. We had a really

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good game with them. And Bielsa was the... guy

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in charge at the time but yeah why am i mentioning

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this uh are you talking about daniel yes so i

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realize he's playing with a back three which

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you would say okay i haven't been watching enough

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leads games to really for that to really get

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into my skull but when i saw him playing with

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a battery i'm like oh it all makes sense now

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it's just it's not that they're really well drilled

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it's just that there's an extra man that can

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cover whenever if someone were to make a mistake

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so that's why they look much more solid than

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than previous seasons yeah i mean well it depends

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i guess The fact that they're also generally,

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I guess, in almost every game they play, they're

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controlling some portion of it. Maybe that would

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speak more to his coaching coming along. Like,

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I mean, everyone can use a back three. Yeah,

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that's the thing as well. There are coaches who

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use a back three and are not defensively resolute.

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So it does come back to Farker's coaching and

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Farker learning. They are able to sustain pressure

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a lot. I think even when we played them, it was

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one of the more difficult games for the season.

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So after that 5 -10 minutes, oh actually let

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me say during that 5 -10 minutes, Leeds had,

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or let me say Calvert -Lewin had two golden chances

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very early on. That he was in space and he just

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put it wide and was very frustrated. It was easier

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to, one of those ones where some people would

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say it was easier to score than miss. Easier

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to score than miss. Yeah, just very frustrated

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with him because we know how good he can be.

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Yeah, I mean, he's a bit like Olivier Giroud

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in a way. You know what he can do, but he doesn't

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do it as much as you'd like him to, you know.

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I was hoping they would score and that would

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open City up more, you know, because City have

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been playing very poorly. And I was hoping that,

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you know, going one down, they would, you know,

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dig deep and like play better football. Start

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getting their patterns together. But yeah, Leeds.

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didn't score or, you know, make use of their

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pressure. So after that 5 -10 minutes, City get

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like, they take more control of the game with

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more possession, but are lacking creativity.

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Every attack ends with a poor final pass. They're

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not even getting to the shot. It's just them

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playing around in midfield, passing, passing,

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passing, attack breaks down, restart. Passing,

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passing, passing, attack breaks down, restart.

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Very frustrating to watch. this game i'm not

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i'm not gonna lie this was a very bad game yeah

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it wasn't uh it wasn't a good advertisement for

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the premier league i guess you could also see

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the tiredness in both players i guess lack of

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risk taking but i think in the end uh what is

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it i think man city were probably more focused

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on just trying to get over the line right now

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that's that's the most important thing I would

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say Leeds are not really good at set pieces.

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Their delivery was nowhere near the danger areas.

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So every time they put in a cross from a corner,

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it just went wildly off target. And I was like,

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again, very frustrated because these are the

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games you want to see City under the cosh, you

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know? Yeah, at least do something. I mean, the

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one thing I think... Not that I'm an Arsenal

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fan that's preying on City's downfall, but I

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want to see good attacking football, you know?

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Yeah. Yeah, that's... Okay, sorry, you were saying

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something. I just rudely cut you off. No, no,

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no. No, you don't need to apologize. I'm just

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saying that I think, what is it, with Man City

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and even Arsenal to an extent now, they're both

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teams that can, I guess, they lose control for

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large portions in the game, whereas Arsenal can

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defend better, so we don't give as many chances

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away during those periods. But definitely, I

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think without De Bruyne, without Rodri being

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at his best, you can see that... City have to

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control games in a different way. But the one

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thing I'll give them generally is that when they

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get control of a game, it's very hard for the

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opposition to wrestle it back. Even if you can

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create a couple of chances on the transition

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against them, I think once they're in control

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of the game, they at least keep hold of the ball

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well enough to limit what the opposition does,

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which is why I think it'll be very close and

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I expect both teams to win most of their games.

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Then Leeds are eventually opened up very near

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to halftime. So, like I said, first 5 -10 minutes,

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Leeds pressed. Last 5 -10 minutes of the half,

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they also pressed. Now, City break that press,

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get into midfield, and then Chirky plays an unbelievable

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ball, which puts Aitnuri into space, Aitnuri

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crosses, and Semenyo taps in. Reminiscent of

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KDB a bit. That's not the comparison I was going

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to make. The comparison I was actually going

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to make was David Silva. He's the guy who would

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make the pass before the pass. You know what

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I'm saying? Yeah. He would put in Sterling or

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Sane into space and then they would cross to

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Aguero or, you know, whoever. You know, change

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the names as you see fit. But I just remember

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David Silva being the one who would, like, open

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up a team and not get the credit because... Or

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Bernardo, one of the Silvers. Yeah. In fact...

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Okay, we just watched the highlights, re -watched

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the highlights now. But during the match, I thought

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that was Bernardo who played the ball. And I

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was like, wow, Bernardo, he's doing it all on

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his own. He's back on form. Yeah, but Ait Nuri

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was the real architect of this goal. Chirky.

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Excuse me. Chirky was the architect of the goal.

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Ait Nuri was, I guess, his tool. i mean turkey

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has that like he's always had that like i think

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he's he's right now if there's any player in

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the premier league who you know just needs a

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moment to define the game it's him right now

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like he can disappear for large portions of the

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game but i didn't think five or ten minutes he

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can swing the momentum i didn't think he had

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a poor game aside from that like overall play

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because let me not uh you know circle him out

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like the entire man city team weren't having

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a great game so to be like oh it was chucky chucky

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chucky like i'm not blaming rodry rodry had a

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good game yes okay yeah a few people had a good

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game i don't want to let me say in an offensive

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sense no one really had a good game yeah uh leeds

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or man city because it was a moment of brilliance

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you know that's all it took yeah Another thing

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I want to point out is that Chucky stamped on

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a lead player's leg and just got a talking to.

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I'm not saying red card, but that's definitely

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a yellow. At least some punishment. But then

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again, if the Rift doesn't see it, unless it's

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a 100 % red card challenge, I don't think they're

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going to go back and change their decision very

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often. But still, a stamp, that's not good play.

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What so what? Fair play. That's a... Yeah, it

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should be. Like, I think there should be certain

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rules where, even for diving, for example, obviously,

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like, I think context says, like, sometimes you

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have to dive out of the way of a bad tackle,

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which is different. But I think retrospective

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action should be something that's more considered

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in the game because I think it would get players

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to consider what they're doing more as well when

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it comes to trying to manipulate the ref or manipulate,

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I guess, the narrative of the game through illegal

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means, you know. alright then I want to say the

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second half starts and again it follows that

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same pattern Leeds come out pressing really high

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really aggressively City just absorb the pressure

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let it happen and then after that 5 -10 minutes

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they gain control again and I thought Semenyo

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had very little time on the ball and was poor

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when he had it again I don't want to you know

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single him out I want to say City's whole attack

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was poor again it was a bad performance and they

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won so it's it's like uh yeah if if that's a

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bad performance i guess and you're still winning

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there's not it's it's hard to criticize because

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uh i guess unless it's a concept but the one

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thing i'd agree with you on is that i would say

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it's a pattern of them playing this way for like

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a couple of weeks now and but again i think It

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is conceivable that a team that can be that good

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in attack can, at least till the end of the season,

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chalk off enough results to win something. So

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it depends. It could swing either way, I think,

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as far as Man City is concerned. I think in the

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Champions League it will affect them a lot because

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I don't see them leaking this many chances and

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getting to the final, especially on that side

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of the draw. But in the Premier League, I think

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both them and Arsenal, the vulnerability from

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each side, I think it's going to go right down

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to the wire, you know. All right. The big talking

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point of this match in terms of the title race

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was that there was a handball from Matthias Nunes

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in the box. And his arm does make a, what's the

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word, like a movement towards the ball. But first

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of all, it was, okay, it was just blasted at

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him extremely quickly. So he didn't have time

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to move out of the way. And his arm was already

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moving that way before the ball was kicked. So

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to me, it's not a penalty, but a lot of people

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have come out and said that, you know, it's the

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city agenda. Once again, they're being propelled

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to a Premier League title on the backs of referees.

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I mean, we said it like last week. We say it

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every week that it's the refs are bad. It's not

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a specific team, you know. And there's no narrative

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that the referees are trying to enforce. It's

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just a PG. mol having shitty refs you know yeah

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so in this case i think the correct uh decision

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was made but uh you know to a lot of people it

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was very controversial and again there's so many

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like it's like what's the the discrepancy or

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the transparency with the rules you know because

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sometimes it's given sometimes it's not like

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like we said before just let the var decide give

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him a rule book he obeys it 100 percent tells

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the ref what to do and then move on you know

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it's not like you have to make it overly complicated

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and make the ref like a significant part of the

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game. The ref is just supposed to be the organizer

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of the game. They're not supposed to be the coaches

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or the players or someone who gets any more,

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I guess, limelight than just being the referee,

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you know. The last point I want to bring up in

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regards to this game has nothing to do with football.

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It has to do with the Muslim players were breaking

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their fast for Ramadan. I believe this is called

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Iftar. right yeah so during iftar the leeds fans

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were booing the man city players who were eating

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their whatever they eat i don't know i think

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it's like a paste that like keeps you full or

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like you know for high performing athletes to

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like you know replenish their body so they don't

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need to have like a full meal yeah a full course

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meal in the middle of a game but uh i just thought

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that was not classy yeah it's just uh it's very

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disrespectful i mean we've seen like now it's

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like it seems to be A theme and an unfortunate

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theme that's arising in European football. Well,

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there's three teams. Okay, let's be honest. Every

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single fan base has idiots, right? Let's not

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target certain teams, but I am about to target

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certain teams. So Leeds, Chelsea and Millwall.

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Those are the three where racist incidents always

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pop up. And you would hope that the... I don't

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know who it would be, but the relevant people

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kind of try to make a stop. You know what I'm

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saying? like uh which is kind of a shame you

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know because i think uh especially in the case

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of uh chelsea they're like one of the biggest

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clubs in the world and they have a lot of black

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fans you know yeah yeah so the i don't want to

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call it islamophobia but that's why it's leaning

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towards it's leaning towards that because because

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the leeds fans were booing everything it's not

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like they i mean it essentially is because how

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how much of a big deal did uh i mean i haven't

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seen it in the media i didn't even know about

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it till you brought it up but i'm saying how

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much of a big deal was made a couple years ago

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when your fans disrespected the Queen which is

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I mean everyone has their own political beliefs

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you can understand where people are coming from

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but at the same time I'm like oh okay if there's

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something wrong with the Liverpool fans doing

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that surely there should be something wrong with

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the Leeds fans not respecting okay i think that's

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way different but uh you know because like the

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queen and the crown committed some heinous crimes

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uh yeah no i'm not saying like i understand individual

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uh islamic people have like done terrorism or

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whatever but that doesn't reflect on no no i

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know i i get where you're coming from i'm saying

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that the liverpool fans could have been right

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or wrong it doesn't matter it's islamophobic

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in the sense that this issue is not even being

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highlighted like i didn't hear about it maybe

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you brought it up now but it's certainly not

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like something that was like oh the Leeds fans

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are doing this in the same way that oh the Liverpool

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fans are booing the Queen are you saying like

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the same amount of stink wasn't made in both

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cases okay okay that makes more sense alright

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is there anything else you want to say about

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the game or surrounding the game or any notes

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you just have I mean you know like I think I

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would say the same thing about the Arsenal performance

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later, but when you're in the title race, if

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you play bad and win, I think at this stage of

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the season, it's not a bad thing. I don't think

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Man City fans should be too worried. I don't

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think Leeds fans should be too worried. If they

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watch their team play, they should definitely

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think they're going to be safe this season, I

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think. Out of all the teams in the bottom right

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now, who are, you would say, more or less involved

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in the relegation scrap? You'd say Leeds are

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probably the safest. I'd say Leeds are the safest

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in terms of the football they're playing. All

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right, so let's move on then to Arsenal 2, Chelsea

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1. Again, Arsenal unchanged from the team that

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beat Spurs last week, so pretty much their full

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-strength team. I know you would disagree and

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say Yorker is out for... Havertz and maybe Hinkapy

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out for Calafiori. Yeah, I mean, that would be

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my first choice. But again, for the course of

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the season, this would be the first choice. I

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still think if Calafiori is available, he's been

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injured most of the season, but if he's available,

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I think he'll be there. Okay, so let's say this

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is the best first team you have available. Yeah.

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Chelsea made two changes to the team that drew

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with Burnley. One was enforced with Mamadou Sarr

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in for the suspended Wesley Fofana and Hato in

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for Marlo Gusto. Marlo Gusto is obviously a right

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-back, but he played at left -back for Burnley

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and I'm assuming because Hato is naturally left

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-footed, he would fit in better. Yeah, I think

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they were thinking about the one -on -one defending.

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Something is not Hato's strong point anyway.

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I don't rate Hato. you know it's not just based

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on this game over the past couple of games i've

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watched him and he just obviously he's inexperienced

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he's like 18 19 i think like again i've watched

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him a little bit at eye accessible and i think

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he has good technical traits i think he's just

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been thrown into the deep end too early following

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bad agent advice again okay it could be i have

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no idea but i just thought every time malo gusto

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is on the pitch he looks better than Yeah, I

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mean, Malagusto's generally a good one -on -one

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defender and he's good at inverting. So, I mean,

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if those are the things you want... Like, again,

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I guess it's like... what is the thing? It's

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probably like the technical level from Hato is

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probably what Rossini is looking at in terms

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of building around. I think he's probably thinking

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about the longevity of the team or the long -term

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future of the left -back option. In which case,

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I would say that I'd see Gusto as more of a right

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-back or like an auxiliary who fills in when

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either of them are injured. But again, for the

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same reasons you mentioned earlier, I wouldn't

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say he's an out -and -out left -back. Whether

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Hato's the right choice or not, I think time

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will tell. Well, it's because of Cucurella being

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injured, you know, Hacho is not their preferred

00:20:01.130 --> 00:20:04.049
left back. Yeah, I mean, Cucurella, I think,

00:20:04.049 --> 00:20:07.170
yeah, he's probably... decent for me I still

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think they can do better they can do better I

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still think like in terms of Chelsea going up

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another level he needs to be able to like at

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least create more or become like become a certainty

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defensively where it's like you know he's gonna

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win almost all his duels or at least overlap

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more something like Ben White who's like okay

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if you know you know exactly what you're getting

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out of him in a technical sense you know so it

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supports the structure more but I guess you know

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I like Kato from what I've seen in terms of when

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I've seen him play at Ajax. I don't know if he

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will be the same at Chelsea, but I would say

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right now Chelsea don't have anything to lose

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by making him the lift -back option for the long

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run. So both teams were working hard off the

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ball to pressurise the other team, but it's Arsenal's

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press that was way more effective at getting

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Chelsea to be... Again, we pressed off like what

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we said about Leeds going man -to -man. In this

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game, we pressed off of triggers a lot. So it

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was like, okay, the minute someone had a loose

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touch, we're on them. Especially Sanchez, who

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had a few, let's say, scary moments. Yeah, I

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mean, it was a very uneasy game for a Chelsea

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fan from your goalkeeper, you know. I mean, if

00:21:21.170 --> 00:21:23.730
you were a Chelsea fan, having a goalkeeper that's

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that uneasy would make you very insecure every

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time he had the ball, you know. On the other

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hand, Arsenal were breaking Chelsea's press,

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but every time they broke the press and had space

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to get into the final third, the attack fizzled

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out, which was a shame. Chelsea, when they were

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in possession, were in the back three, with Hato

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as the left -sided centre -back, and Rhys James

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was pushed all the way up to offer more width.

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Yeah, and I guess use his crossing and his passing

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way in the middle. Yes. As a consequence, I thought

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Chelsea's left -hand side was very... Passive.

00:22:00.059 --> 00:22:03.279
Passive. But, you know, just the way Rosinho

00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:05.839
set them up, I don't think they could have done

00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:10.200
more. I thought, like, obviously we were using

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hindsight here. I thought Chelsea were pretty

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well set up in terms of they troubled us more

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than I thought they would and they contained

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us more than I thought they would as well. I

00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:22.059
mean, at the end of the day, it came down to

00:22:22.059 --> 00:22:25.319
set pieces from both teams. In a lot of ways,

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I think... We're going to see a lot of elite

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games going forward in the Premier League I think

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decided by the set play because tactically teams

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and technically teams become so close you like

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split the margins usually through set plays it

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becomes I guess the things by which the fine

00:22:42.019 --> 00:22:45.690
margins are decided you know. Speaking of which,

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you just mentioned that set plays decided it.

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Arsenal's goal, or their first goal, comes from

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a corner. Honestly, I think it was a poor delivery.

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Totally over hit. But Gabriel is able to get

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to it and header it back into the danger zone.

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And Saliba finishes it off with the help of a

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Chelsea defender. I'm not sure. I think it was

00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:06.980
Sarr. It was Sarr. I think it was Sarr, but he

00:23:06.980 --> 00:23:08.819
headers it onto Sarr and then it goes inside.

00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:11.859
So, good goal. Like I said, Saka over -hit it,

00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:14.359
but it's good that they can, what's the word,

00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:16.440
like, you know, change in the moment. You know

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what I'm saying? Yeah. Then, for certain portions,

00:23:19.460 --> 00:23:21.799
Arsenal were defending in the mid -block. They

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let Chelsea come at them and then, when they

00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:26.559
were in the middle, just get at them. Very nervous.

00:23:26.700 --> 00:23:28.740
I think the performance became a bit emotional.

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skew passes, Zubamendi losing the ball a lot,

00:23:32.019 --> 00:23:34.460
trying to dribble, trying to pass back. So I

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think, you know, like Zubamendi is very weird.

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Like I think he's maybe... getting used to the

00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:43.440
the the intensity of the premier league in terms

00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:45.819
of duels like it's probably something he's not

00:23:45.819 --> 00:23:48.400
used to but there's like minutes in the game

00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:50.559
periods in the game where he he does so well

00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:52.880
in terms of breaking the press in terms of controlling

00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:55.059
the game that'll be like just extend this to

00:23:55.059 --> 00:23:57.420
like a 90 minute game and we have no problems

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but when he makes mistakes just they're very

00:24:01.130 --> 00:24:03.150
they make you very uneasy because they can be

00:24:03.150 --> 00:24:06.309
like mistakes yeah like practically an assist

00:24:06.309 --> 00:24:09.250
to the opposition striker all right uh just a

00:24:09.250 --> 00:24:11.809
quick side note do you think it's possibly because

00:24:11.809 --> 00:24:15.170
arteta hasn't rotated him enough yeah i think

00:24:15.170 --> 00:24:17.769
i think he could be possibly being overplayed

00:24:17.769 --> 00:24:20.490
in terms of uh it's hard to say i think at the

00:24:20.490 --> 00:24:22.529
end of the day when we look at a lot of sixes

00:24:22.529 --> 00:24:24.490
they generally absorb minutes more than other

00:24:24.490 --> 00:24:27.029
players so it's it's it's not necessarily something

00:24:27.029 --> 00:24:29.890
that's I could say you could pin on Arteta or

00:24:29.890 --> 00:24:32.029
Zubamendi, I think. No matter where he went,

00:24:32.109 --> 00:24:33.849
if he had come to you guys, I think he was going

00:24:33.849 --> 00:24:35.750
to have the same, like... No, it's just something

00:24:35.750 --> 00:24:37.789
that we've been speaking about pretty much every

00:24:37.789 --> 00:24:39.750
week, that it's like, oh, Zubamendi's playing

00:24:39.750 --> 00:24:42.269
again? Yeah, I would understand. Like, I would

00:24:42.269 --> 00:24:45.250
give Nogard a game. Like, I get you. But I think,

00:24:45.269 --> 00:24:48.529
like, right now, we're not controlling games

00:24:48.529 --> 00:24:51.009
in a way where it's like we can afford to bench

00:24:51.009 --> 00:24:53.589
him because he still creates a lot going forward.

00:24:53.630 --> 00:24:55.750
He's still our best press breaker, our best line

00:24:55.750 --> 00:24:58.269
breaker in terms of passing. as well so it's

00:24:58.269 --> 00:25:01.170
like it's hard to get like to conceivably replace

00:25:01.170 --> 00:25:03.549
him when the margins are so fine if no god has

00:25:03.549 --> 00:25:05.829
a poor game then he doesn't offer you anything

00:25:05.829 --> 00:25:08.769
it's uh we we lose the game where super mindy

00:25:08.769 --> 00:25:10.970
can have a bad game and 10 minutes he can still

00:25:10.970 --> 00:25:13.970
facilitate enough play generate enough play for

00:25:13.970 --> 00:25:16.869
you to to do something you know okay so your

00:25:16.869 --> 00:25:20.650
career is he's in the penalty box and i think

00:25:20.650 --> 00:25:24.450
it's uh chalaba who gets the ball off him and

00:25:24.450 --> 00:25:27.250
then jokers clearly dives and i thought that

00:25:27.250 --> 00:25:29.250
should have been he should have been booked for

00:25:29.250 --> 00:25:32.269
a dive because that was really blatant yeah yeah

00:25:32.269 --> 00:25:34.930
but at the same time this is what i'm saying

00:25:34.930 --> 00:25:37.289
you have to go like i think diving like that

00:25:37.289 --> 00:25:39.730
should be something that you could go back retrospectively

00:25:39.730 --> 00:25:42.470
and say give this player three match ban because

00:25:42.470 --> 00:25:45.269
like what's the like how many times a player's

00:25:45.269 --> 00:25:47.730
gonna do it you know and it's like where's the

00:25:48.619 --> 00:25:50.839
Where do you draw the line as a defender now?

00:25:51.099 --> 00:25:54.480
I mean, you know, it's something that I guess

00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:57.039
we've seen some of the greatest players of previous

00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:00.839
generations do. So it became normalized. But

00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:04.079
at the same time, I'm not against diving to avoid

00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:06.319
a heavy challenge if a defender comes to bash

00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:10.000
you. That's different. Diving to gain an advantage

00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:12.400
or treat is list. It's very weird because that

00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:14.640
happens more than people diving out of the way

00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.539
of a challenge So Declan rice is committing a

00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:19.720
penalty offense in holding the Chelsea player

00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:22.960
like with both hands and a second penalty offense

00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:26.200
Because it hits his elbow while making a jerking

00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:29.240
motion. Yeah, I've been a penalty so two different

00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:33.619
Whatever you want to give the PGM always speaking

00:26:33.619 --> 00:26:36.420
about it against speaking about it for us not

00:26:36.420 --> 00:26:40.240
for Man City. Hmm You know, it's not a specific

00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:42.720
team. Every team is going to get decisions against

00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:46.750
them. but justice is served because Rhys James

00:26:46.750 --> 00:26:50.970
or Hinkapie scores so it was given as a Hinkapie

00:26:50.970 --> 00:26:54.089
own goal but yeah you said you didn't feel I

00:26:54.089 --> 00:26:56.309
mean I saw a swing in the ball it's hard to tell

00:26:56.309 --> 00:26:58.170
I guess to me like the ball was swinging already

00:26:58.170 --> 00:27:00.569
going into the net and Hinkapie kind of misses

00:27:00.569 --> 00:27:02.869
the ball and goes straight so I thought there

00:27:02.869 --> 00:27:06.369
was a Rhys James Olympico I think the the PDMOL

00:27:06.369 --> 00:27:08.529
are going to get the cricket hawkeye to just

00:27:08.529 --> 00:27:10.809
bring more attention on themselves in situations

00:27:10.809 --> 00:27:16.109
like this I'll trade Jordan he's his head yeah

00:27:16.109 --> 00:27:18.089
and speaking of which Rhys James had a really

00:27:18.089 --> 00:27:21.569
excellent game Rhys James I would say was probably

00:27:21.569 --> 00:27:24.230
the best player on the field both going forward

00:27:24.230 --> 00:27:27.890
and defensively he just you know very influential

00:27:27.890 --> 00:27:30.410
in this game and then in the second half I would

00:27:30.410 --> 00:27:32.930
say there was kind of a role reversal it was

00:27:32.930 --> 00:27:34.789
Chelsea who looked more dangerous with corners

00:27:34.789 --> 00:27:38.369
and they were getting more corners too you know

00:27:38.369 --> 00:27:42.589
I mean Like, I think in a weird way, all three

00:27:42.589 --> 00:27:44.809
of the last games between Arsenal and Chelsea

00:27:44.809 --> 00:27:47.170
have had a similar theme. You know, I think Rosinha

00:27:47.170 --> 00:27:49.470
mentioned it in his post -match conference. Arteta

00:27:49.470 --> 00:27:51.710
also mentioned it, that all three games were

00:27:51.710 --> 00:27:54.250
like a game of two halves with a momentum swung.

00:27:54.250 --> 00:27:56.609
And I guess our defence just kind of won it for

00:27:56.609 --> 00:27:58.930
us. I would say Arsenal's best player for me

00:27:58.930 --> 00:28:00.990
was Saliba. Saliba put in a great performance.

00:28:01.049 --> 00:28:04.049
So I think having him back, if he plays like

00:28:04.049 --> 00:28:06.319
that till the end of the season. and he scored

00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:09.140
yeah and he scored as well so i think that that

00:28:09.140 --> 00:28:11.839
would be huge but we also lost declan rice which

00:28:12.250 --> 00:28:14.529
might be even huger. What do you mean you lost

00:28:14.529 --> 00:28:17.410
Ekman Rice? He walked off with an injury so it

00:28:17.410 --> 00:28:19.789
looks like a hamstring. I don't know how bad

00:28:19.789 --> 00:28:22.289
it will be hopefully. That would look too bad

00:28:22.289 --> 00:28:25.289
to me. I didn't think like oh Rice is out for

00:28:25.289 --> 00:28:28.170
a few weeks now. I didn't either but from what

00:28:28.170 --> 00:28:30.670
I've been seeing on social media is that it might

00:28:30.670 --> 00:28:32.450
be more serious. Is it confirmed or is it just

00:28:32.450 --> 00:28:35.049
people speculating? Speculation but you never

00:28:35.049 --> 00:28:38.509
know. I'm just hypothesizing myself. Because

00:28:38.509 --> 00:28:40.930
I swear there was a game like earlier this season

00:28:40.930 --> 00:28:43.849
where Rice got fucked up and we're like oh Rice

00:28:43.849 --> 00:28:45.650
is out for a few weeks and then the next game

00:28:45.650 --> 00:28:48.809
week next game week he's back in pumping oaks

00:28:48.809 --> 00:28:51.369
yeah I would hope so because I would say that

00:28:51.369 --> 00:28:54.630
like yeah if he's injured for four or five games

00:28:54.630 --> 00:28:56.809
I mean I still think we could get through them

00:28:56.809 --> 00:28:58.910
but if he picks up like a one or two month injury

00:28:58.910 --> 00:29:01.089
where he has to get back into the rhythm for

00:29:01.089 --> 00:29:03.990
us I think we don't have a replacement for him

00:29:03.990 --> 00:29:06.990
Rice not players that will break up play and

00:29:06.990 --> 00:29:09.049
carry the ball as much as him I don't think we

00:29:09.049 --> 00:29:12.920
have a is there no backup Backup eight. We potentially

00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:15.039
could put Myles Lewis -Skelly in the eight. That

00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:19.000
would be my most probable internal solution,

00:29:19.019 --> 00:29:21.900
unless you could move Odegaard there, who's not

00:29:21.900 --> 00:29:24.960
as good, not anywhere close to as good as Rice.

00:29:24.980 --> 00:29:26.940
Who is Rice's backup? That's the thing. I think

00:29:26.940 --> 00:29:30.099
it usually is Waineri used to play there sometimes

00:29:30.099 --> 00:29:32.980
in the ten or the eight. He's at Marseille now.

00:29:33.299 --> 00:29:36.339
You can't say a 16 -year -old is the backup to

00:29:36.339 --> 00:29:39.240
Rice. Yeah, but for the last half of last season

00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:41.099
and the first half of this season, he was the

00:29:41.099 --> 00:29:43.279
one who filled in. Odegaard moved to the 8, he

00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:45.700
came in the 10. Rice would fill in as the backup

00:29:45.700 --> 00:29:49.400
for the 6. I think sometimes the option in theory

00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:52.380
for me would be Miles because that's the only

00:29:52.380 --> 00:29:57.119
one I could see. Why hasn't he been playing as

00:29:57.119 --> 00:29:59.319
much this season? Do you think? I mean, when

00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:01.200
he's played, he hasn't played well. But again,

00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:05.380
it's just a thing. Maybe something, I don't know,

00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:07.140
he's just out of form. Players can have a season

00:30:07.140 --> 00:30:08.880
where they're out of form, especially at that

00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:11.880
age. But when I've seen him, he hasn't been good.

00:30:11.980 --> 00:30:13.660
So I think that's why he hasn't been given a

00:30:13.660 --> 00:30:17.059
chance in the starting lineup. But to me, that's

00:30:17.059 --> 00:30:20.559
on a slot logic, right? Yeah. Slot won't play

00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:23.440
you. Slot will play you one game. If you have

00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:25.440
a bad game, he won't play you. But how are you

00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.599
supposed to build up form if you don't get...

00:30:27.710 --> 00:30:29.990
game time, you know? Yeah, I think, but again,

00:30:30.130 --> 00:30:33.109
we haven't really needed him this season because

00:30:33.109 --> 00:30:37.390
at left back, Hincape has been better than him

00:30:37.390 --> 00:30:40.630
defensively and Rice has been like our best player

00:30:40.630 --> 00:30:43.549
of the season by a country mile. So I don't think

00:30:43.549 --> 00:30:45.809
Rice has been movable as far as the number eight

00:30:45.809 --> 00:30:48.460
is concerned. I mean, the couple times I've seen

00:30:48.460 --> 00:30:51.900
Rice rotated, I think it was just like a makeshift

00:30:51.900 --> 00:30:53.759
midfield. Sometimes people from the academy would

00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:55.920
come in. Sometimes Nogard would fill in the eight.

00:30:56.099 --> 00:30:58.680
Zubamendi six, Zubamendi eight, Nogard six. So

00:30:58.680 --> 00:31:01.319
it's hard to say. I think we don't have a Rice

00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:02.920
replacement, though, because I don't think we

00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:05.420
have another player that can do what Rice does.

00:31:05.859 --> 00:31:08.740
Then nearly everyone in the attacking sense had

00:31:08.740 --> 00:31:11.279
a bad game. But I want to highlight Palmer, who

00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:13.400
had very little influence if he doesn't score

00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:16.579
or assist. Like, very Salah -like in that side.

00:31:16.619 --> 00:31:18.579
Salah won't do anything unless he's scoring or

00:31:18.579 --> 00:31:22.339
assisting. He won't beat a man. He won't put

00:31:22.339 --> 00:31:26.880
somebody into space. Those kinds of things. And

00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:29.099
the other one I want to highlight is Saka, who

00:31:29.099 --> 00:31:31.720
really struggled against Hato. And Hato was poor.

00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:34.700
So, you know, what does that say about Saka?

00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:37.519
And the reason I'm highlighting the two of them

00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:39.980
is because they're supposed to be the star players

00:31:39.980 --> 00:31:43.619
for either side. And neither of them had a good

00:31:43.619 --> 00:31:47.150
game. Yeah, I mean, just like Man City, I don't

00:31:47.150 --> 00:31:48.849
think... Like, Arsenal played one of the best

00:31:48.849 --> 00:31:50.829
teams in the league. We played badly and we still

00:31:50.829 --> 00:31:54.809
won. I think Saka, what, this is like third or

00:31:54.809 --> 00:31:58.210
fourth game back from injury. Oh, my God. No,

00:31:58.250 --> 00:32:00.329
I'm not making an excuse. I'm just saying that

00:32:00.329 --> 00:32:02.470
I think the level of other players... Not just

00:32:02.470 --> 00:32:05.349
you, but every time Saka has a bad game, Arsenal

00:32:05.349 --> 00:32:07.170
fans are like, he's just coming back from injury

00:32:07.170 --> 00:32:08.470
or he's still carrying an injury. Because he

00:32:08.470 --> 00:32:11.789
hardly has a bad game. Yeah, but when... That's

00:32:11.789 --> 00:32:13.650
what I'm saying. When he does have a bad game,

00:32:13.789 --> 00:32:16.410
there's always all these excuses. He literally

00:32:16.410 --> 00:32:19.490
only has a bad game when something off the field

00:32:19.490 --> 00:32:22.089
is pertinent to affecting his performance, like

00:32:22.089 --> 00:32:24.390
he had an injury. But if you're injured and you're

00:32:24.390 --> 00:32:26.109
carrying a knock, I don't think you should be

00:32:26.109 --> 00:32:28.789
playing. Yeah, then you could blame the coach,

00:32:28.910 --> 00:32:31.829
but I don't think that Saka's the one to blame

00:32:31.829 --> 00:32:33.750
here. I'm not blaming him. I'm just pointing

00:32:33.750 --> 00:32:36.539
out that in this game, him and Palmer... you

00:32:36.539 --> 00:32:39.599
know opposing sides both didn't do enough yeah

00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:42.240
yeah i agree in that specific game but i think

00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:44.720
uh he's been good recently like when he came

00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:46.740
back from injury i think he's facilitate a lot

00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:48.880
of play the last couple of games even the ones

00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:51.039
we drew he was our best player i guess the team

00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:53.579
was less under underperforming alongside rice

00:32:53.579 --> 00:32:56.019
obviously i'm just taking rice as nominally being

00:32:56.019 --> 00:32:57.900
the best player in almost every game we play

00:32:57.900 --> 00:33:00.220
now because that's what it is you know but uh

00:33:00.220 --> 00:33:04.259
i mean i think the thing is like with palmer

00:33:04.259 --> 00:33:06.660
you could make that You could ascertain that

00:33:06.660 --> 00:33:09.880
as being a general trait of his. I don't think

00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:11.880
with Saka you could say that because Saka has

00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:15.000
probably had one or two spells in his career

00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.660
where he's been out of form and hasn't affected

00:33:17.660 --> 00:33:21.720
play. But I will say he really struggled to beat

00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:23.859
his man in this game. And that man was Hato.

00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:29.099
So then I want to say Timber scores. Did you

00:33:29.099 --> 00:33:32.720
see that goal? Yeah. I just thought... sanchez

00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:34.960
was way too weak on coming to claim the cross

00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:39.319
yes so that's why tim has scored not i mean tim

00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:41.359
has scored because he's good at head ring i mean

00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:45.039
chelsea didn't prevent it because sanchez wasn't

00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:47.660
strong enough or you know i mean in a lot of

00:33:47.660 --> 00:33:50.640
games this in a lot of ways sorry this game showed

00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:55.470
the the importance of how much difference a top

00:33:55.470 --> 00:33:58.289
-class goalkeeper can have as opposed to an average

00:33:58.289 --> 00:34:01.009
goalkeeper, you know? Because I would say Raya

00:34:01.009 --> 00:34:03.230
won us the game in the end. I don't know about

00:34:03.230 --> 00:34:07.450
that, but very soon after, Neto gets two yellow

00:34:07.450 --> 00:34:10.989
cards in quick succession. Very, very poor mentality.

00:34:11.730 --> 00:34:14.710
Very poor decision -making. He even forgot that

00:34:14.710 --> 00:34:18.429
he got one. Bruh. This guy, it's... I was kind

00:34:18.429 --> 00:34:21.369
of frustrated with Neto. Because at that moment,

00:34:21.530 --> 00:34:24.130
it's 2 -1 to Arsenal. The game is still very

00:34:24.130 --> 00:34:26.610
much in the balance. You can come back. You can

00:34:26.610 --> 00:34:29.449
do something here, right? But going down to 10

00:34:29.449 --> 00:34:31.929
men, I thought, okay, Neto, you've ruined the

00:34:31.929 --> 00:34:34.690
game for your team. Because now we'll speak about

00:34:34.690 --> 00:34:36.510
it. Just he didn't really ruin the game because

00:34:36.510 --> 00:34:38.510
there were still chances on either side. But

00:34:38.510 --> 00:34:42.289
yes, getting a red card unnecessarily, it's...

00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.019
This is the ninth red card that Chelsea have

00:34:45.019 --> 00:34:47.420
gotten this season in all competitions. I mean,

00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:49.320
you can always say what would have happened if

00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:51.280
they had stayed at 11. But then the other thing

00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:53.079
I've noticed about Chelsea, which is probably

00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:55.360
a mentality thing right now, is that they seem

00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:57.719
to get better when they go down to 10 men. So

00:34:57.719 --> 00:34:59.639
you can say that, oh, if he had stayed on the

00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:01.480
pitch and they played that way, they might have

00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:05.139
won the game. But sometimes they need something

00:35:05.139 --> 00:35:07.320
to trigger them, to motivate them to play better.

00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:09.880
I don't think they would have played that way.

00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:12.500
If they hadn't gone down to 10 men, I think Arsenal

00:35:12.500 --> 00:35:14.019
would have controlled the game until the very

00:35:14.019 --> 00:35:18.840
end. Right. I'm just, in a general sense, if

00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:21.380
a team goes one down, it's bad. That's what I'm

00:35:21.380 --> 00:35:24.539
trying to point out. And Neto, it's not as if,

00:35:24.539 --> 00:35:27.159
though, he made a bad challenge and tried to

00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:29.679
pull out of it. It's two very cynical yellow

00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:32.079
cards, because one for mouthing off to the ref,

00:35:32.179 --> 00:35:36.480
one for blatant poor tackle on Martinelli, just

00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:40.519
killing the counter -attack, which is... pure

00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:42.699
yellow card if i've ever seen it i mean again

00:35:42.699 --> 00:35:45.340
i mean and probably if we can critique anything

00:35:45.340 --> 00:35:49.579
about this it's the it's that uh the amount of

00:35:49.579 --> 00:35:51.900
red cards the discipline in chelsea squad probably

00:35:51.900 --> 00:35:54.860
comes back to validating like buying into a lot

00:35:54.860 --> 00:35:56.699
of players egos like i mean we've been speaking

00:35:56.699 --> 00:35:59.300
about this for a long time before we started

00:35:59.300 --> 00:36:02.860
the podcast but the transfer policy is just atrocious

00:36:02.860 --> 00:36:06.510
it's like You can't sign players based on Twitter

00:36:06.510 --> 00:36:09.710
hype. Sign all the best, best in inverted commas,

00:36:09.710 --> 00:36:12.590
young players in the world. Expect to put them

00:36:12.590 --> 00:36:14.789
all in the same team, give them crazy salaries,

00:36:14.829 --> 00:36:17.070
and now they're all just like, I'm the main guy.

00:36:17.190 --> 00:36:19.710
Who's going to be the main guy? Well, that's

00:36:19.710 --> 00:36:21.789
actually, I'm going to disagree with you on one

00:36:21.789 --> 00:36:24.929
point. They don't have crazy salaries. Bowley

00:36:24.929 --> 00:36:28.389
gave them like, like Man United will give a crazy

00:36:28.389 --> 00:36:31.179
salary, like 200k and up. These guys are like

00:36:31.179 --> 00:36:33.619
on 150 and... No, but I'm saying these are teenagers,

00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:36.219
though. These are not like early 20s. These are

00:36:36.219 --> 00:36:38.019
not players who've proved anything. I mean, what

00:36:38.019 --> 00:36:41.880
is Bino Gittins doing on 100k a week, honestly?

00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:45.719
Sure, sure, sure. Okay. I thought the lap was

00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:48.360
really awful. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Did you

00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:50.900
see the quote from Todd Bowley this week? No,

00:36:50.900 --> 00:36:55.619
I didn't. He said, my recruiting manager left

00:36:55.619 --> 00:36:58.639
me. So it was up to me and I had no idea what

00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:02.340
I was doing, but... If Man City wanted Cucurella,

00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:04.679
then I wanted Cucurella. And that's why we bought

00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:10.360
him. That's possibly the most hilarious transfer.

00:37:10.900 --> 00:37:13.380
Because then what is the vision? Yeah, it's just

00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:16.139
whoever wants somebody, that's mine now. Which

00:37:16.139 --> 00:37:19.159
makes sense. Like, I mean, if you look in terms

00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:23.000
of, if you consider probably that Thomas Tuchel

00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.599
walked away as soon as he saw them coming in,

00:37:25.659 --> 00:37:27.539
and he's one of the best minds in the game. So

00:37:27.539 --> 00:37:30.550
he probably could see that. This board has no

00:37:30.550 --> 00:37:32.730
understanding of football. The fact that they

00:37:32.730 --> 00:37:35.349
made him take a hiatus to find himself in India

00:37:35.349 --> 00:37:38.090
and stuff, it's a separate issue, but... I don't

00:37:38.090 --> 00:37:40.409
remember that. What happened there? Thomas Tuchel,

00:37:40.449 --> 00:37:42.349
when he quit the Chelsea job, he said he went

00:37:42.349 --> 00:37:44.630
to a deep depression because he really got close

00:37:44.630 --> 00:37:46.869
to the squad, and then he went to India, he was

00:37:46.869 --> 00:37:52.409
meditating and stuff, found himself, came back

00:37:52.409 --> 00:37:55.780
to the game. At Bayern Munich. I've never heard

00:37:55.780 --> 00:37:59.739
this. But I think he saw how dizzy Todd Bowley

00:37:59.739 --> 00:38:01.340
was and he's like, there's no way I'm working

00:38:01.340 --> 00:38:04.239
under this guy. Yeah. Alright, anyway, back to

00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:06.500
the match. I really thought De Lappe was awful.

00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:09.679
We've spoken about this every time we cover Chelsea,

00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:11.619
but I'm just like, hey, De Lappe is awful, right?

00:38:12.739 --> 00:38:15.000
Which, that's not a new thought. I just think,

00:38:15.059 --> 00:38:18.860
at Ipswich, he had a specific role. Be the bully.

00:38:19.340 --> 00:38:22.239
But now when I'm seeing him at Chelsea, when

00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:25.179
he comes up against really physical centre -backs,

00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:28.280
he can't do anything. So what's the point of

00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:33.570
you if your main thing... isn't working then

00:38:33.570 --> 00:38:36.809
what do you have yeah again if if uh going back

00:38:36.809 --> 00:38:38.909
if there's anything i'll give your curious credit

00:38:38.909 --> 00:38:41.630
for now is that he's learning to use his physicality

00:38:41.630 --> 00:38:44.510
and facilitate play a lot better so the lab should

00:38:44.510 --> 00:38:47.510
be doing that if he can see that uh i think he

00:38:47.510 --> 00:38:49.449
still has the mindset of someone who thinks he

00:38:49.449 --> 00:38:51.309
can be the main player in chelsea though just

00:38:51.309 --> 00:38:54.150
like he was at ipswich so it seems to be as if

00:38:54.150 --> 00:38:56.329
he's more focused on give me the ball and I'll

00:38:56.329 --> 00:38:58.610
finish it than like, oh, let me use my body to

00:38:58.610 --> 00:39:00.849
facilitate play for the other attackers, which

00:39:00.849 --> 00:39:03.550
is the way it should be, given that he's not

00:39:03.550 --> 00:39:05.789
the best player at Chelsea, you know. Okay, cool.

00:39:05.889 --> 00:39:08.309
The last thing I want to mention about this game

00:39:08.309 --> 00:39:11.110
is that the crowd were way better. I mentioned

00:39:11.110 --> 00:39:13.530
in previous games that, especially the Liverpool

00:39:13.530 --> 00:39:15.789
game, the crowd went quiet and they were very

00:39:15.789 --> 00:39:18.329
like agitated. But this game, they were really

00:39:18.329 --> 00:39:20.690
behind Arsenal. They were chanting, they were

00:39:20.690 --> 00:39:23.429
singing up until, you know, even if it was 1

00:39:23.429 --> 00:39:26.150
-1 the crowd was still way behind them and like

00:39:26.150 --> 00:39:30.070
I feel that's a big positive a positive but I'm

00:39:30.070 --> 00:39:33.230
saying a thing that we as as you know watchers

00:39:33.230 --> 00:39:36.250
from outside don't put enough stock in fully

00:39:36.250 --> 00:39:38.969
appreciate yeah we don't appreciate that a player

00:39:38.969 --> 00:39:41.849
that's feeling down they start singing your song

00:39:41.849 --> 00:39:45.250
and suddenly you feel you know like way better

00:39:45.250 --> 00:39:48.929
and more confident and you know I mean yeah it

00:39:48.929 --> 00:39:52.300
just depends you know I've also heard Real Madrid

00:39:52.300 --> 00:39:55.679
fans argue that the toxicity of their stadium

00:39:55.679 --> 00:39:58.360
is what keeps the high standards up. Yeah, they

00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:00.900
boo the players that are doing badly. So, I don't

00:40:00.900 --> 00:40:03.239
know, to each their own. I haven't been in one

00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:04.840
of these big... Though I would agree with you,

00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:06.820
I don't agree with the Real Madrid approach.

00:40:07.300 --> 00:40:11.019
I haven't been to one of these big European arenas,

00:40:11.019 --> 00:40:14.219
so I haven't experienced it myself, so I can't

00:40:14.219 --> 00:40:16.639
speak. But again, that's the Spanish approach,

00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:19.559
and Spain in the modern... Context has dominated

00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:22.719
the game. Cool. To each their own, like you said.

00:40:22.980 --> 00:40:25.239
Okay, so I'm done with that. Do you have anything

00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:28.320
you want to mention about Arsenal 2, Chelsea

00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:32.699
1 before we end? Oh, I mean, if anything, I was

00:40:32.699 --> 00:40:37.280
just a bit disappointed with Eze when he did

00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:39.000
play because he played so well in the last game.

00:40:39.059 --> 00:40:40.739
But I don't think it's anything personal. I think

00:40:40.739 --> 00:40:43.570
it's just momentum thing. again i want to see

00:40:43.570 --> 00:40:46.090
him on the left still i'd like i think he he

00:40:46.090 --> 00:40:47.809
would be way better on the left he can afford

00:40:47.809 --> 00:40:50.190
to make more mistakes and take more risks than

00:40:50.190 --> 00:40:52.530
being centrally where if he loses the ball it's

00:40:52.530 --> 00:40:55.170
directly against us you know so we don't like

00:40:55.170 --> 00:40:57.269
i think we're still struggling on the left and

00:40:57.269 --> 00:41:00.429
i just hope at some point as it gets played as

00:41:00.429 --> 00:41:02.530
as the main choice at left wing at least till

00:41:02.530 --> 00:41:04.550
the end of the season you know especially with

00:41:04.550 --> 00:41:06.750
the amount of plague your curious is facilitating

00:41:06.750 --> 00:41:09.150
now i think just having someone who could spring

00:41:09.150 --> 00:41:12.119
off the back would simplify the game a lot but

00:41:12.119 --> 00:41:15.900
hey we'll see all right so moving on we have

00:41:15.900 --> 00:41:18.980
our miscellaneous section where i want to look

00:41:18.980 --> 00:41:21.980
at the other premier league results but usually

00:41:21.980 --> 00:41:24.500
we would have watched highlights of the game

00:41:24.500 --> 00:41:27.440
unfortunately we watched the liverpool game i

00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:29.539
did watch that but aside from that the rest i

00:41:29.539 --> 00:41:31.920
didn't watch so we're in a bit of a time crunch

00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:34.800
today so we didn't have time to watch the highlights

00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:36.780
so we're just going to go through the results

00:41:36.780 --> 00:41:39.789
and like just one minute you know, thoughts,

00:41:39.949 --> 00:41:44.329
right? Wolves to Aston Villa, no. I mean, Wolves

00:41:44.329 --> 00:41:47.250
have picked up form all too late. The great escape.

00:41:47.449 --> 00:41:49.170
You don't think the great escape is going to

00:41:49.170 --> 00:41:51.010
happen? It could happen, but I mean, they'd have

00:41:51.010 --> 00:41:54.869
to win all nine games. It would be very... I

00:41:54.869 --> 00:41:58.329
haven't done the maths, but it's probably...

00:41:58.329 --> 00:42:01.469
Even then, if they win all nine games, it's still

00:42:01.469 --> 00:42:04.630
very difficult for them. But I would hope. for

00:42:04.630 --> 00:42:06.889
the sake of having some sort of narrative like

00:42:06.889 --> 00:42:10.150
that. That would be hilarious. I'm not going

00:42:10.150 --> 00:42:12.750
to lie to you. Just randomly against Arsenal

00:42:12.750 --> 00:42:15.090
one day, they're like, hey, we should stay in

00:42:15.090 --> 00:42:16.750
the Premier League. We should turn it on. And

00:42:16.750 --> 00:42:19.289
then they win everything else. And then everyone

00:42:19.289 --> 00:42:21.130
actually looks at Arsenal like, hey, you guys

00:42:21.130 --> 00:42:24.449
got a point against Wolves. Fair enough. This

00:42:24.449 --> 00:42:28.079
Wolves super team, you made it out alive. Yeah.

00:42:28.099 --> 00:42:31.000
On the other hand, Aston Villa losing again.

00:42:31.460 --> 00:42:34.280
I assume they're out of the title race. I hate

00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:36.900
to say that. I told you this was good. They're

00:42:36.900 --> 00:42:39.320
going to finish fifth or sixth. You actually

00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:42.539
said they're not in a title race to begin with.

00:42:42.619 --> 00:42:46.300
So, yeah, it's a shame for Aston Villa. Apparently,

00:42:46.420 --> 00:42:49.610
Emery didn't shake hands again. He's always been

00:42:49.610 --> 00:42:51.690
a sore loser, you know, even at Arsenal. That's

00:42:51.690 --> 00:42:54.409
very poor. You know, I understand you, you're

00:42:54.409 --> 00:42:56.210
a winner, you're competitive, blah, blah, blah,

00:42:56.309 --> 00:42:59.389
but come on, man, you know, just have some professionalism,

00:42:59.389 --> 00:43:02.349
have some sporting integrity. Yeah, I mean, I

00:43:02.349 --> 00:43:05.389
think he also, a couple of seasons ago, I mean,

00:43:05.389 --> 00:43:07.110
when he was at us, not a couple of seasons ago,

00:43:07.170 --> 00:43:09.530
when we lost one of the games to Man United,

00:43:09.750 --> 00:43:11.829
I think, and then he was just talking rubbish

00:43:11.829 --> 00:43:14.550
about the way Solskjaer plays and stuff, which

00:43:14.550 --> 00:43:17.429
also, I think he's always kind of been like that.

00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:21.460
But again, he's someone who can turn you into

00:43:21.460 --> 00:43:23.960
a Champions League level team. And then I think

00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:26.199
if you want to go further, Aston Villa will have

00:43:26.199 --> 00:43:29.480
to move on from him. Bournemouth won, Sunderland

00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:32.940
won. Any thoughts? I mean, kind of what I expected

00:43:32.940 --> 00:43:35.539
in this game, honestly. Both very unpredictable.

00:43:36.059 --> 00:43:38.940
I thought Bournemouth would score more. I'm really

00:43:38.940 --> 00:43:40.719
looking at them every week and I'm like, they

00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:43.280
could score three goals. That's how chaotic and

00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:46.559
so... you know, attacking they are. They could

00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:49.960
end up 3 -3 every week. I mean, he's like, Iriola's

00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:52.719
probably, like, I guess since Bielsa left, he's

00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:56.239
taken that spot of, oh, we'll just go at everyone.

00:43:56.820 --> 00:44:00.500
So 1 -1, a bit of a shock, but not a bad result

00:44:00.500 --> 00:44:02.659
for either team, I don't think. Neither of them

00:44:02.659 --> 00:44:06.119
are in relegation problem. Neither of them have,

00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:09.159
like, bigger ambitions. I guess they might have,

00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:11.260
but I'm saying for this season. It's just about

00:44:11.260 --> 00:44:13.400
closing out the season for them, you know. Yeah,

00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:16.099
so nothing really to be said there. Liverpool

00:44:16.099 --> 00:44:21.280
5, West Ham 2. And I was really frustrated with

00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:23.480
this performance, right? First things first,

00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:27.219
three set -piece goals, which is... Were they

00:44:27.219 --> 00:44:30.289
ethical set plays? Nope, not at all. You guys

00:44:30.289 --> 00:44:32.170
are copying Arsenal. We're copying Arsenal. We're

00:44:32.170 --> 00:44:33.949
putting a man in front of the goalkeeper and

00:44:33.949 --> 00:44:37.730
then scoring. But to be honest, I know Slott

00:44:37.730 --> 00:44:39.909
talks a lot of rubbish and stuff in your opinion,

00:44:39.949 --> 00:44:41.789
which I agree with. The stuff you've highlighted

00:44:41.789 --> 00:44:44.469
has been nonsensical from his part. But the one

00:44:44.469 --> 00:44:46.849
thing I'd agree with him on is that the margins

00:44:46.849 --> 00:44:49.070
in the Premier League are becoming so fine. I

00:44:49.070 --> 00:44:51.610
don't think this is necessarily a theme that's

00:44:51.610 --> 00:44:53.889
going to go away. I think the defending, the

00:44:53.889 --> 00:44:56.530
athleticism of teams is so good. I think we're

00:44:56.530 --> 00:44:58.380
going to see a lot of... games in the future

00:44:58.380 --> 00:45:01.260
in the next decade that are that hinge on set

00:45:01.260 --> 00:45:03.739
pieces which is probably not a good thing it's

00:45:03.739 --> 00:45:05.599
going to start to resemble an american sport

00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:07.960
but they should have never allowed the american

00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:10.980
owners in now i don't have a problem with arsenal

00:45:10.980 --> 00:45:13.300
winning the league right i have a problem with

00:45:13.300 --> 00:45:16.750
arteta So if they got rid of Arteta and got a

00:45:16.750 --> 00:45:19.489
new manager and won, I wouldn't complain. But

00:45:19.489 --> 00:45:22.250
honestly, I think whoever's going to win the

00:45:22.250 --> 00:45:24.809
league right now is going to have to win it the

00:45:24.809 --> 00:45:27.989
same way. Well, let me repeat, right? I don't

00:45:27.989 --> 00:45:31.449
have a problem with Arteta. Excuse me. I don't

00:45:31.449 --> 00:45:33.449
have a problem with Arsenal. I do have a problem

00:45:33.449 --> 00:45:36.230
with Arteta. Why is that? Because he's a defensive

00:45:36.230 --> 00:45:39.869
manager. And I don't like having a defensive

00:45:39.869 --> 00:45:42.429
manager win the league. Because what does that

00:45:42.429 --> 00:45:46.429
say about our league? But again, I think it's

00:45:46.429 --> 00:45:49.519
just... Like he's played attacking football two

00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:52.639
seasons ago. And I liked it. I was, in fact,

00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:54.719
I was like, yeah, Arsenal should win the league

00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:57.420
when they were, they were like such a pleasure

00:45:57.420 --> 00:45:59.800
to watch at a point. I don't know if it was like

00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:02.019
three, four years ago. This is, yeah, in 22,

00:46:02.179 --> 00:46:06.179
23 and 23, 24, both those seasons, we played

00:46:06.179 --> 00:46:08.460
very openly. We attacked everyone, pressed high

00:46:08.460 --> 00:46:10.480
every game. But I think it's not necessarily

00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:13.599
like something that's come specifically from

00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:15.840
Arteta. I mean, if you look just even at Luis

00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:18.380
Enrique last season, And PS3 targeted a lot of

00:46:18.380 --> 00:46:20.539
throw -ins, a lot of set plays. I think generally

00:46:20.539 --> 00:46:23.940
it's the way the game's going. And the game is

00:46:23.940 --> 00:46:25.960
becoming more direct. I think you guys in the

00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:28.519
past, like obviously you have Pep Guardiola.

00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:32.219
He kind of is on his own. He stands on his own

00:46:32.219 --> 00:46:35.780
as like someone who's consistently able to evolutionize

00:46:35.780 --> 00:46:38.079
the game. But a lot of the ways you guys were

00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:40.719
able to keep up with them is concentrating on

00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:43.519
the margins. I think you guys... were like more

00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:45.820
focused on direct play. And a lot of that was

00:46:45.820 --> 00:46:47.920
set plays. A lot of that was long balls. And

00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:50.719
I think Arteta's list philosophizes that, if

00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:53.239
that's a word. But he's put it into an ideology

00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:56.320
where it's like, oh, okay, we might as well target

00:46:56.320 --> 00:46:58.239
these things because these are the margins where

00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:00.400
we can win games that are tight. And in the Premier

00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.690
League... Right now, it seems like almost every

00:47:02.690 --> 00:47:04.650
game is going to be on a knife's edge at some

00:47:04.650 --> 00:47:08.210
point. Well, we're saying Arteta and Slott, but

00:47:08.210 --> 00:47:10.489
the real people who should get credit is Nicholas

00:47:10.489 --> 00:47:14.929
Jover and whoever the fuck Liverpool's new...

00:47:14.929 --> 00:47:17.849
I mean, in a lot of ways, from what I understand,

00:47:17.929 --> 00:47:20.130
this whole blueprint of playing can be traced

00:47:20.130 --> 00:47:22.869
back to Brentford. Brentford were the team that,

00:47:22.929 --> 00:47:25.650
like Thomas Frank, I think all their set -piece

00:47:25.650 --> 00:47:27.690
coaches have gone everywhere now. So it's like,

00:47:27.750 --> 00:47:30.449
I think something of... Which is why I expected

00:47:30.449 --> 00:47:32.389
Thomas Frank to succeed at Tottenham, because

00:47:32.389 --> 00:47:35.170
I see that a lot of his ideas are being used

00:47:35.170 --> 00:47:37.949
and translated. Whether they were his ideas or

00:47:37.949 --> 00:47:39.809
Jouvet's ideas when they worked together, who

00:47:39.809 --> 00:47:43.449
knows? But those ideas were being, I guess, transmitted

00:47:43.449 --> 00:47:46.309
in a successful way. So last thing I'll say about

00:47:46.309 --> 00:47:49.679
this Liverpool game, conceding two... and scoring

00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:53.480
three set pieces that's a bad sign to me uh we

00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:56.320
should be i'm not against set pieces if you can

00:47:56.320 --> 00:47:59.199
score set pieces why not what i dislike is when

00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:01.599
all your attacking play is geared towards set

00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:04.840
pieces instead of open play and if we get a set

00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:07.280
piece then sure why not try score from there

00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:11.579
i think like If there's anything that I think

00:48:11.579 --> 00:48:13.679
will happen though in the positive realm is that

00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:15.300
just like when football was like if you look

00:48:15.300 --> 00:48:18.280
at the early 2000s when Mourinho, Rafa Benitez,

00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:20.800
Vincente Del Bosque came along and were dominating

00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:25.179
the game defensive football became like the archetype

00:48:25.179 --> 00:48:27.280
that most coaches followed to get success and

00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:29.519
then you'd maybe have a player like Wenger who

00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:31.699
the game a coach like Wenger who the game passed

00:48:31.699 --> 00:48:34.159
on where he was Considered the person playing

00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:36.420
the most attractive football getting to that

00:48:36.420 --> 00:48:39.199
state the next evolution will definitely be attacking

00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:42.199
So I think if there's anything that that's positive

00:48:42.199 --> 00:48:44.099
that will come out of this I think people fear

00:48:44.099 --> 00:48:45.860
-mongering about the state of the game about

00:48:45.860 --> 00:48:48.280
the state of individuals I think individuals

00:48:48.280 --> 00:48:50.280
will get better because if defenses get more

00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:53.639
resolute you're gonna need players to think more

00:48:53.639 --> 00:48:55.500
you're gonna need more your malls and Pedris

00:48:55.500 --> 00:48:58.239
I think your mall being a throwback in a lot

00:48:58.239 --> 00:49:00.360
of sense or old -school Brazilian talent and

00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:02.480
still being able to rise to the top of the game

00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:05.360
right now. And Pedri being more like an Iniesta

00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:08.239
or Xavi sort of player being able to get back

00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:09.960
to the top of the game. I think those are the

00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:11.840
sorts of players that will now come about more

00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:14.320
and more because of defences being as good as

00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:18.360
they are. Just a quick note on that. It is interesting

00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:22.099
that a lot of international trophies are won

00:49:22.099 --> 00:49:24.420
by strong defence and playing on the counter.

00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:28.239
And Spain won the Euros with just attacking play.

00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:30.139
Yeah, Spain have won all their trophies with

00:49:30.139 --> 00:49:32.519
attacking play. But again, A lot of it goes down

00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:34.980
to Guardiola. I think it's hard to understand.

00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:37.360
I think we can't fully conceive of it because

00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:39.340
we're living through it. It's like one of those

00:49:39.340 --> 00:49:43.400
things when we look back in maybe 10 to 15 years,

00:49:43.500 --> 00:49:46.840
we'll realize how truly impactful Guardiola was,

00:49:47.059 --> 00:49:49.380
you know, and how some of the things he did,

00:49:49.559 --> 00:49:52.300
not saying nobody can do them, but it requires

00:49:52.300 --> 00:49:56.679
a very high degree of... talent for football,

00:49:56.860 --> 00:49:59.320
for football philosophy, for developing systems

00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:02.000
and understanding man management, being able

00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:04.739
to, I guess, be a leader of people, a leader

00:50:04.739 --> 00:50:08.920
of men. I don't think people have fully realized

00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:14.599
how much of what Guardiola has done probably

00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:18.079
is just never been done and might never be done

00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:19.719
again. I don't want to say will never because

00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:22.840
I'm always optimistic, but... Almost every season

00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:25.119
he evolves his game, and I don't think that can

00:50:25.119 --> 00:50:27.139
be said of any other coach in the history of,

00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:29.840
at least as long as I've watched football, you

00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:32.820
know. So let's move on to Newcastle 2, Everton

00:50:32.820 --> 00:50:35.780
3. Any thoughts? I didn't watch much of this

00:50:35.780 --> 00:50:39.800
game, but I think, yeah, again, Newcastle, what

00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:41.760
do you say? Eddie Howell lives and dies by his

00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:44.019
high press. It's easy enough to pick apart when

00:50:44.019 --> 00:50:47.360
he's going full intensity. The same things you

00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:50.320
said about Leeds, kind of. I guess they just

00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:52.840
play with the back four. They go man -to -man.

00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:54.599
They don't have any triggers. If you beat the

00:50:54.599 --> 00:50:56.780
first line, it's kind of easy to play through

00:50:56.780 --> 00:50:59.480
them a bit, you know. So I have literally nothing

00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:02.360
to say. I don't even hear about this game, anything

00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:05.420
about it. There's just one Newcastle fan I follow

00:51:05.420 --> 00:51:08.579
that says Eddie Howe out. That's all I've seen

00:51:08.579 --> 00:51:11.239
about it. But that guy doesn't seem to be very

00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:13.119
knowledgeable about football. I follow him for

00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:15.719
other reasons. I wouldn't say they should get

00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:17.320
rid of Eddie Howe, though. I think that would

00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:19.320
be... But I mean, he's been there for like, what,

00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:21.599
three, four years now? Yeah, I mean, but at the

00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:24.519
same time, it's like, what is he working with?

00:51:24.619 --> 00:51:27.420
Like, I understand, like, I'm the one who's probably

00:51:27.420 --> 00:51:29.679
more than anyone pointed out that he's a stubborn

00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:32.599
coach who lives and dies by his high press. But

00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:34.599
at the same time, you're getting all your players

00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:37.199
sold. They're not signing the players you want.

00:51:38.340 --> 00:51:40.719
It's hard to know whether he's working under

00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:43.719
conditions that are the best for him in terms

00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:45.579
of squad building, you know, in terms of what

00:51:45.579 --> 00:51:48.039
he wants. You would think that the coach would

00:51:48.039 --> 00:51:50.539
be involved with the squad planning, right? yeah

00:51:50.539 --> 00:51:53.719
so I don't know maybe he's not making himself

00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:56.679
heard enough or I don't know what the case is

00:51:56.679 --> 00:51:59.219
but yeah it's it's a shame that it's come like

00:51:59.219 --> 00:52:00.960
this because Eddie Howe is a very talented coach

00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:04.150
yeah he is and I think I think it could still

00:52:04.150 --> 00:52:06.829
be a thing of Newcastle if they lose him and

00:52:06.829 --> 00:52:09.630
all the off the pitch issues get exposed more

00:52:09.630 --> 00:52:11.670
than we know what's going on. It could end up

00:52:11.670 --> 00:52:13.670
getting a lot worse for them, you know. All right.

00:52:13.710 --> 00:52:16.210
Burn me three, Brentford four. I didn't watch

00:52:16.210 --> 00:52:19.690
this game. I don't have much to say, but congratulations

00:52:19.690 --> 00:52:21.949
to Brentford. So I didn't watch this either,

00:52:21.989 --> 00:52:24.110
but it was on at the same time as the Liverpool

00:52:24.110 --> 00:52:25.889
game and I was kind of checking on my phone.

00:52:26.510 --> 00:52:29.130
Brentford were 3 -0 up at a point. Damn, they

00:52:29.130 --> 00:52:32.789
got the win though. Yeah. So it was Burnley 3,

00:52:32.889 --> 00:52:35.989
Brentford 4 and Burnley scored a stoppage time

00:52:35.989 --> 00:52:41.550
equaliser and VAR overturned it. So a 4 -4 draw

00:52:41.550 --> 00:52:43.969
would have been an instant Premier League classic.

00:52:44.090 --> 00:52:47.050
I think both Burnley and Wolves have seemed to

00:52:47.050 --> 00:52:50.070
pick up form all too late. Yeah, it's a shame.

00:52:50.630 --> 00:52:53.289
Brighton 2, Nottingham Forest 1. Yeah, I mean,

00:52:53.349 --> 00:52:56.780
I think... I saw the highlights of this game.

00:52:56.860 --> 00:52:58.960
Good goal from Gibbs White. I think Brighton

00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:02.880
also scored two crackers. Yeah, like, I don't

00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:04.900
know. I think pretty much the same as the Bournemouth

00:53:04.900 --> 00:53:07.800
game. I think both teams are just... Well, Nottingham

00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:09.659
Forest, I think they're in the relegation battle,

00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:13.219
yeah. But I think Brighton, you know, I think

00:53:13.219 --> 00:53:16.679
they're just closing out their season now. Fulham

00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:20.639
2, Spurs 1. Well, I mean... What do we say about

00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:22.500
Tottenham? They're actually looking like they

00:53:22.500 --> 00:53:24.679
might get relegated right now. I thought it was

00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:26.980
kind of a joke. Like, oh, Spurs are getting relegated.

00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:29.179
I looked at the table. They're like three points

00:53:29.179 --> 00:53:31.159
off it, you know? Yeah, and I've been like watching,

00:53:31.320 --> 00:53:33.820
like not watching the games, but I've been like

00:53:33.820 --> 00:53:36.019
seeing the highlights, seeing the match stats

00:53:36.019 --> 00:53:38.460
and shit. From what I realized, like in the last

00:53:38.460 --> 00:53:40.940
couple of, like they got completely outplayed

00:53:40.940 --> 00:53:43.480
by Fulham. They got, it's strange how they were

00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:45.340
doing well in the Champions League, but I'm sure

00:53:45.340 --> 00:53:48.320
Atletico is going to smash them. But it's just

00:53:48.320 --> 00:53:51.130
the... I don't know. I wouldn't even, like, I

00:53:51.130 --> 00:53:53.150
don't want Tottenham to get relegated, as I said.

00:53:53.289 --> 00:53:56.030
You want your rivals there. But right now, it's

00:53:56.030 --> 00:53:58.170
looking like they might be the most expensive

00:53:58.170 --> 00:54:02.030
team to probably ever get relegated, right? Probably.

00:54:02.989 --> 00:54:06.289
Man United 2, Crystal Palace 1. I mean, yeah,

00:54:06.349 --> 00:54:08.869
I heard Man United got outplayed and snuck over

00:54:08.869 --> 00:54:11.550
the line in the end. So not much to be said there.

00:54:11.590 --> 00:54:13.539
I guess the same. qualms you were bringing up

00:54:13.539 --> 00:54:16.159
with Carrick persist so we'll see I think for

00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:18.539
them also just get to the end of the season it's

00:54:18.539 --> 00:54:20.440
going to be hard to not give him the job I think

00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:22.739
again he's going to definitely get them back

00:54:22.739 --> 00:54:24.619
in the Champions League now it looks like so

00:54:25.019 --> 00:54:27.119
It's still a battle. I think they still could

00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:29.340
go on a bad runner form, but I think all of the

00:54:29.340 --> 00:54:31.099
teams that are in the Champions League race are

00:54:31.099 --> 00:54:34.059
not looking the best. So I expect them on the

00:54:34.059 --> 00:54:36.139
balance of it to probably get over the line.

00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:39.119
But I'm kind of agreeing with you on the fact

00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:40.860
that I wouldn't give him the job personally,

00:54:40.900 --> 00:54:44.519
but I don't see how he doesn't get the job with

00:54:44.519 --> 00:54:46.880
the pressure on from the fans and the board just

00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:50.559
being as emotional as they have been. So my cousin,

00:54:50.619 --> 00:54:53.000
who's a Man United fan, sent me a message saying,

00:54:53.449 --> 00:55:00.690
Title charge question mark. To which I said,

00:55:00.769 --> 00:55:03.130
are you actually watching these games? Carrick,

00:55:03.150 --> 00:55:05.550
he's been outplayed in every game. He's just

00:55:05.550 --> 00:55:08.949
been getting good results by, you know, tenacity.

00:55:08.949 --> 00:55:11.190
The quality of the individuals. Bruno Fernandes

00:55:11.190 --> 00:55:13.769
has been sensational. Just playing players in

00:55:13.769 --> 00:55:17.099
their proper positions. gives them like a big

00:55:17.099 --> 00:55:19.519
bump up from what they were doing under amaram

00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:22.380
secondly they have a lot of good players so beating

00:55:22.380 --> 00:55:24.940
a crystal palace who got a red card is not you

00:55:24.940 --> 00:55:27.980
know and who've lost their two best players yeah

00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:29.960
If you actually watch... Well, three, because

00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:32.739
Mateta's not even playing now, right? But they

00:55:32.739 --> 00:55:35.079
have Strand Larsson, so it's not like... Losing,

00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:37.659
like, an 8 out of 10 player and getting a 7 out

00:55:37.659 --> 00:55:39.639
of 10 player is not the biggest. Maybe those

00:55:39.639 --> 00:55:41.579
are too high, but... But, I mean, they lost...

00:55:41.579 --> 00:55:44.039
You get my point. They lost... Well, I mean,

00:55:44.039 --> 00:55:46.519
if you consider the last two seasons, they've

00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:50.219
lost four players who probably... They lost Olisse.

00:55:50.619 --> 00:55:54.639
Olisse, Eze, Gueye. And Mateta, who... And they're

00:55:54.639 --> 00:55:56.300
going to lose Watton and they're going to lose

00:55:56.300 --> 00:56:00.000
Munoz. Yeah, so it's, I mean, you know, nothing

00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.860
that Man United should necessarily be saying

00:56:02.860 --> 00:56:04.739
that, oh, but at the same time, it's like, you

00:56:04.739 --> 00:56:06.559
know, you understand where they're coming from.

00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:09.900
in in respects to results like they were losing

00:56:09.900 --> 00:56:13.420
they lost 18 games last season so yeah i'm just

00:56:13.420 --> 00:56:15.940
anything's an improvement right now i'm praying

00:56:15.940 --> 00:56:19.639
to the lord actually i'm praying to sergium ratliff

00:56:19.639 --> 00:56:21.920
please give him the job yeah it'll be good for

00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:26.199
us hilarious dude like they went through it with

00:56:26.199 --> 00:56:28.940
salsha and they're doing it again where like

00:56:29.389 --> 00:56:32.110
interim comes in does an okay job gets a few

00:56:32.110 --> 00:56:35.969
good results doesn't play well uh relies on individual

00:56:35.969 --> 00:56:38.849
quality and then you know yeah hopes everything

00:56:38.849 --> 00:56:42.929
else will fall into place yes so i think we're

00:56:42.929 --> 00:56:45.969
done with that our last segment for today is

00:56:45.969 --> 00:56:48.869
the round of 16 draw also i just like want one

00:56:48.869 --> 00:56:51.929
or two minutes on each match even less if you

00:56:51.929 --> 00:56:54.269
can because we kind of over time now we over

00:56:54.269 --> 00:56:57.610
one hour so psg versus chelsea i mean you know

00:56:57.610 --> 00:57:01.199
i think Like Chelsea, some people would say they

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:02.820
might have a psychological itch, but I think

00:57:02.820 --> 00:57:05.019
PSG will get through it comfortably right now.

00:57:05.179 --> 00:57:07.619
So all I've been hearing about PSG is that they

00:57:07.619 --> 00:57:11.219
fucked up by selling Donnarumma to Man City.

00:57:11.480 --> 00:57:14.000
Their replacement Chevalier has been benched

00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:16.440
for the last three months in favor of their backup

00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:18.480
keeper. So they've been having a lot of games

00:57:18.480 --> 00:57:21.949
where the keeper has been... pretty poor but

00:57:21.949 --> 00:57:24.550
did they up if he didn't want to stay i think

00:57:24.550 --> 00:57:27.630
they didn't want to pay his wages or something

00:57:27.630 --> 00:57:30.550
like that which is crazy if you're psg to be

00:57:30.550 --> 00:57:32.889
like we do we can't afford these wages after

00:57:32.889 --> 00:57:35.530
this one knew the champions yeah but whatever

00:57:35.530 --> 00:57:38.590
the case is uh apparently they're in a bad position

00:57:38.590 --> 00:57:41.630
uh chelsea i wouldn't say i'm the most commanding

00:57:41.630 --> 00:57:44.230
position either So I think this will be a good

00:57:44.230 --> 00:57:51.010
draw, a good fixture. So maybe like over the

00:57:51.010 --> 00:57:54.889
two legs, like 4 -3 to PSG. I think PSG will

00:57:54.889 --> 00:57:57.750
win it comfortably because I think they'll get

00:57:57.750 --> 00:58:00.630
into a rhythm or form now. Okay, Newcastle versus

00:58:00.630 --> 00:58:03.230
Barcelona. I think Barcelona are going to thrash

00:58:03.230 --> 00:58:06.039
them. Newcastle are in a very bad place at the

00:58:06.039 --> 00:58:08.699
moment. Barcelona are looking very good. So I

00:58:08.699 --> 00:58:10.460
have to agree with you. At current moment, it

00:58:10.460 --> 00:58:12.739
looks like probably 3 -0 Barcelona over the two

00:58:12.739 --> 00:58:15.659
legs. Then we have Galatasaray versus Liverpool.

00:58:16.039 --> 00:58:18.780
I'll let you do this one. So we caught a hiding

00:58:18.780 --> 00:58:21.380
from Galatasaray a few months ago in the group

00:58:21.380 --> 00:58:25.139
stages. So I'm not confident. But I will say

00:58:25.139 --> 00:58:28.340
getting in this new set -piece coach that's...

00:58:28.750 --> 00:58:31.269
We actually have seven set piece goals now this

00:58:31.269 --> 00:58:33.530
season. Yeah, you guys have more than us this

00:58:33.530 --> 00:58:35.489
season. And it only started like a few weeks

00:58:35.489 --> 00:58:38.989
ago since that new person came in. So whoever

00:58:38.989 --> 00:58:40.789
that person is, they're doing a very good job.

00:58:40.849 --> 00:58:43.469
Good recruitment from the board. So, you know,

00:58:43.469 --> 00:58:47.010
hopefully the increased threat from the set pieces

00:58:47.010 --> 00:58:49.989
and the increased defensive awareness at set

00:58:49.989 --> 00:58:52.730
pieces, defending set pieces, I think will go

00:58:52.730 --> 00:58:56.590
a long way to helping. But yeah, maybe I think

00:58:56.590 --> 00:58:59.289
we might squeak through. Not like 5 -0. Not uncomfortable,

00:58:59.650 --> 00:59:02.670
but... Yeah, like 2 -1 maybe. Oh, yeah. Or like

00:59:02.670 --> 00:59:04.550
a 4 -3. I feel like there's going to be a lot

00:59:04.550 --> 00:59:06.570
of goals. Oh, yeah. I'll probably go with Liverpool

00:59:06.570 --> 00:59:08.849
get through like 5 -3 or something. I was going

00:59:08.849 --> 00:59:12.309
to say 2 -1 and we get a bullshit penalty that

00:59:12.309 --> 00:59:15.469
Salah converts and we just get past them. All

00:59:15.469 --> 00:59:18.230
right. Atletico Madrid versus Spurs. I think

00:59:18.230 --> 00:59:20.329
Atletico are going to walk all over them, honestly.

00:59:21.110 --> 00:59:24.010
Again, I haven't watched too much of Atletico

00:59:24.010 --> 00:59:28.300
this season. I did watch them... against What,

00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:30.400
in the Champions League, right? Yeah. Against,

00:59:30.460 --> 00:59:32.559
was it Brugge? I don't know who they played,

00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:35.079
but whatever. Oh, Brugge, yes, the qualifier.

00:59:35.340 --> 00:59:37.940
Yeah, so I watched them last week, so that's

00:59:37.940 --> 00:59:40.360
all I have. I don't have, like, you know, a full

00:59:40.360 --> 00:59:43.320
season worth of opinions on them. But just the,

00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:46.059
you know, in the, like, the fact that they're

00:59:46.059 --> 00:59:48.619
generally a team that, right, like, I mean, obviously

00:59:48.619 --> 00:59:51.000
they've struggled in finals against Real Madrid,

00:59:51.159 --> 00:59:53.599
but they generally rise to this occasion in the

00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:55.519
Champions League. They always, like, I think

00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:58.659
in the last 10 years or so, So in the last 10

00:59:58.659 --> 01:00:00.639
times they've qualified, I think seven times

01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:02.960
they've made the quarterfinals. So I would expect

01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:06.739
them to more or less be there again. So I think

01:00:06.739 --> 01:00:09.179
they're going to destroy Tottenham. I think it's

01:00:09.179 --> 01:00:11.360
not even going to be close. Real Madrid versus

01:00:11.360 --> 01:00:15.820
Man City. The yearly tie at this point. Thoughts?

01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:19.219
I think that's probably the closest one. Very

01:00:19.219 --> 01:00:22.480
hard to predict. I think right now I'm favoring

01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:25.690
Man City. I'm not... If you're basing it on which

01:00:25.690 --> 01:00:29.090
team looks more threatening, which team is playing

01:00:29.090 --> 01:00:31.090
the better football, it's Manchester City comfortably.

01:00:31.409 --> 01:00:33.449
But we know Real Madrid in the Champions League

01:00:33.449 --> 01:00:36.670
and we know them in the big games. So this one

01:00:36.670 --> 01:00:39.250
I'm thinking could go all the way right to extra

01:00:39.250 --> 01:00:41.630
time. It could swing either way. I'm favouring

01:00:41.630 --> 01:00:44.210
Man City. I give them the edge. I'm basing this

01:00:44.210 --> 01:00:48.030
totally on the playoff that Real Madrid went

01:00:48.030 --> 01:00:50.760
through with Benfica. And I think City are going

01:00:50.760 --> 01:00:53.360
to destroy them. They were so poor. Alba Loa

01:00:53.360 --> 01:00:55.480
is out of his depth. Mbappe is just not doing

01:00:55.480 --> 01:00:57.780
enough. And he was injured in one of those games.

01:00:57.820 --> 01:01:00.079
I just think I agree with you to some extent.

01:01:01.369 --> 01:01:03.809
analyzing it at the surface level but those Madrid

01:01:03.809 --> 01:01:06.510
players in big games I think this is not Madrid

01:01:06.510 --> 01:01:09.150
of like you know I'm talking more specifically

01:01:09.150 --> 01:01:12.150
about Vinicius and Mbappe I think if Man City

01:01:12.150 --> 01:01:13.969
give them the chances they've been giving other

01:01:13.969 --> 01:01:16.090
teams I think they could also score three or

01:01:16.090 --> 01:01:18.429
four comfortably we're just gonna have to disagree

01:01:18.429 --> 01:01:21.809
on that I think City are gonna pump them 4 -0

01:01:21.809 --> 01:01:25.590
maybe Bodo, Glimpfer, Sporting, Lisbon. I think

01:01:25.590 --> 01:01:28.170
probably can't go anyway. This one's a tough

01:01:28.170 --> 01:01:30.170
one. I think Bodo, like obviously they're riding

01:01:30.170 --> 01:01:32.469
on a lot of momentum, high on confidence, but

01:01:32.469 --> 01:01:34.769
something in me is saying Sporting is going to

01:01:34.769 --> 01:01:36.409
get through. I mean, they're doing well in the

01:01:36.409 --> 01:01:37.809
league. I think they're running away with the

01:01:37.809 --> 01:01:40.050
league. No, Porto is running away with the league,

01:01:40.090 --> 01:01:42.530
sorry. But I have a feeling Sporting will get

01:01:42.530 --> 01:01:45.360
through. I don't know why. So I truly have no

01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:48.559
opinion on this. I did watch Bodo Glimt in the

01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:52.599
playoff, but I haven't seen one game of Sporting

01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:54.639
this season, so I can't comment on this at all.

01:01:54.860 --> 01:01:58.239
You know, may the best team win. That being said,

01:01:58.300 --> 01:02:01.460
this looks like a very Europa League tie. And

01:02:01.460 --> 01:02:03.079
I mean, at the end of the day, I'm thinking,

01:02:03.159 --> 01:02:05.760
is this going to come down to both these teams?

01:02:06.250 --> 01:02:08.670
want to sit deep. So who's going to take the

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initiative and is that going to play into the

01:02:11.010 --> 01:02:14.349
other team's hands or not? Atalanta versus Bayern

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Munich. Oh, I would love Atalanta to turn them

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over, but I don't see it happening. I think Bayern

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will get through comfortably. I think Bayern

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are a bunch of frauds and Atalanta are going

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to expose them. But I think Bayern might make

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it through by like one goal. I think they'll

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edge it in the end. Like a 5 -4 or something.

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Just make it through and then you'll see the

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chinks in Bayern's armour. When they play? You

01:02:38.130 --> 01:02:40.789
guys? I have no idea. They'll play you guys.

01:02:41.389 --> 01:02:43.409
Okay, I'll just show you the graphic I'm looking

01:02:43.409 --> 01:02:46.710
at. This isn't the road to the final. This is

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just showing the fixtures. So I have no idea

01:02:48.849 --> 01:02:51.869
who plays who next. Yeah, I think the road to

01:02:51.869 --> 01:02:54.170
the final did have you guys coming up against

01:02:54.170 --> 01:02:56.489
Bayern, I think, if you both get through. Okay,

01:02:56.489 --> 01:02:59.170
well, I'm glad. I do not like Bayern. I think

01:02:59.170 --> 01:03:01.730
Kompany is a very overrated manager. So you think

01:03:01.730 --> 01:03:03.610
you guys can turn them over if it came about?

01:03:03.949 --> 01:03:07.809
Man, this is the one team, I think. Bodo Glimt

01:03:07.809 --> 01:03:10.170
will fuck us up. Bayern Munich on the other hand,

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I'd love to get them. I'd love it. Yes, and then

01:03:12.750 --> 01:03:14.949
our final match of the round, Bayer Leverkusen

01:03:14.949 --> 01:03:17.489
versus Arsenal. I mean, I heard people saying

01:03:17.489 --> 01:03:20.250
Ten Hag has a good record against Arsenal, but...

01:03:20.250 --> 01:03:23.050
Oh, Ten Hag is not the coach of Leverkusen. Oh,

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he's not anymore. He was sacked within like four

01:03:26.389 --> 01:03:27.849
weeks. Oh yes, he was sacked within like very,

01:03:28.050 --> 01:03:30.090
very early on. But I don't know why someone was

01:03:30.090 --> 01:03:33.820
tweeting that last night though, so... But I

01:03:33.820 --> 01:03:37.199
think Arsenal win comfortably though. I don't

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see us having any problems navigating that tie.

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Leverkusen have just lost too many players. Frampong,

01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:47.619
Wurz, Puevels, I don't know. Those are just the

01:03:47.619 --> 01:03:50.400
two. The only problem with Arsenal is that we

01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:53.099
have the easy run. A team that has the easy run

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usually doesn't win. Do you think perhaps complacency?

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Like you think, oh, it's so easy. The thing is,

01:03:59.860 --> 01:04:01.719
I think it would be easy and we'd get through

01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:03.840
both those ties. And the nice thing after that

01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:05.539
is that I think we'd play, for me, Barcelona

01:04:05.539 --> 01:04:07.260
are the best team in the world. I think we'd

01:04:07.260 --> 01:04:10.000
play them after that. So it's the ultimate test.

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If we get through that, I'd have every confidence

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that we can win it. But I expect us to fall at

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the feet of Barcelona. Any other notes or anything

01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:20.619
you want to say about, frankly, anything? No,

01:04:20.719 --> 01:04:24.219
not really. I mean, I think we have some fixtures

01:04:24.219 --> 01:04:27.079
coming up this week. Just looking forward to

01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:29.559
those. Alright. Well, thank you for listening.

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