WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.960 And welcome back to the PD Football Podcast. 00:00:03.140 --> 00:00:06.360 My name is Presh and this week we have a special 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:09.279 guest host with us. Do you want to introduce 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:14.359 yourself? Hello, I am Ty and I'm a United fan. 00:00:14.740 --> 00:00:19.399 Alright, thank you Ty, the United fan. How are 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:23.280 you doing today? I'm alright, thanks. Just a 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:30.519 little bit tired. I think work fatigue. I see. 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:33.340 Yeah, otherwise good. How are you? I'm well, 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:37.840 I'm well. So I just want to, hmm, what have I 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:41.700 been doing? I don't know. I usually like mention 00:00:41.700 --> 00:00:44.460 a TV show or something, but haven't really watched 00:00:44.460 --> 00:00:47.179 anything or listened to anything the last couple 00:00:47.179 --> 00:00:53.039 of days. We've been busy with work? Yes. work 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:56.719 work work work i see okay but yes first and foremost 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:58.539 i want to address something we said last week 00:00:58.539 --> 00:01:01.920 not you but you specifically to provide some 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.739 context uh in the game between man city and leeds 00:01:04.739 --> 00:01:07.420 during the break for ramadan for the muslim players 00:01:07.420 --> 00:01:10.239 to eat this is called iftar the leeds fans were 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:13.299 booing yes so in the episode itself i said it 00:01:13.299 --> 00:01:15.900 would be down it could be down to islamophobia 00:01:15.900 --> 00:01:19.340 and darren agreed and in the episode title i 00:01:19.340 --> 00:01:24.310 put the word racism In all capital letters. Right? 00:01:24.450 --> 00:01:27.090 Right. So my friend who's a Leeds fan reached 00:01:27.090 --> 00:01:29.129 out to provide a different point of view on the 00:01:29.129 --> 00:01:32.150 matter. His reasoning was that the break for 00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:35.129 Iftar came in a period where Leeds had Man City 00:01:35.129 --> 00:01:37.730 under a lot of pressure. And the break gave Man 00:01:37.730 --> 00:01:40.430 City a chance to regroup and for Pep to give 00:01:40.430 --> 00:01:43.430 new instructions to the team. Also, I mentioned 00:01:43.430 --> 00:01:45.870 this last week, but to be fair, the Leeds fans 00:01:45.870 --> 00:01:48.239 were booing everything. It's not like they've 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:50.239 only booed the Iftar. They booed through the 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:53.079 entire match. You know, it could still well be 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:55.599 racism, but I thought it's unfair to just say 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:58.459 it's racism without hearing the other side of 00:01:58.459 --> 00:02:01.560 the argument. Fair enough, yeah. Right, so I 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:06.379 just wanted to say that up top. Now, are you 00:02:06.379 --> 00:02:10.580 ready to start with Wolves 2, Liverpool 1? I 00:02:10.580 --> 00:02:15.590 am ready to start. So in terms of teams and shape, 00:02:15.849 --> 00:02:18.330 Wolves made several changes and changed shape 00:02:18.330 --> 00:02:20.990 from the team that beat Aston Villa. They actually 00:02:20.990 --> 00:02:23.710 made seven changes. Oh my goodness. Yes, I was 00:02:23.710 --> 00:02:26.750 trying to be like, okay, who plays who? But it's 00:02:26.750 --> 00:02:29.650 not that they even changed players. Certain players 00:02:29.650 --> 00:02:32.430 changed position as well. Okay. Because they 00:02:32.430 --> 00:02:35.430 also went from a 3 -4 -3 to a much more conservative 00:02:35.430 --> 00:02:39.849 3 -5 -1 -1, which provided more midfield solidity. 00:02:40.169 --> 00:02:44.389 Right, I see. Liverpool made one change to the 00:02:44.389 --> 00:02:46.610 team that beat West Ham with Frimpong coming 00:02:46.610 --> 00:02:49.789 in for Joe Gomez. So I really like this change 00:02:49.789 --> 00:02:52.310 because Frimpong can actually take on a man and 00:02:52.310 --> 00:02:55.590 puts in a cross. No shade to Joe Gomez. He's 00:02:55.590 --> 00:02:59.729 a good defender and a right -back is a defender. 00:02:59.949 --> 00:03:02.310 So he's doing what he's supposed to do. It's 00:03:02.310 --> 00:03:05.050 just in a game like this, it suits Frimpong rather 00:03:05.050 --> 00:03:09.810 than Gomez. Now, this is both a boring game to 00:03:09.810 --> 00:03:12.389 watch and to analyze. I could have told you how 00:03:12.389 --> 00:03:14.550 this game was going to go before it even started. 00:03:14.750 --> 00:03:17.449 Not the precise result, but the patterns of play. 00:03:18.430 --> 00:03:20.849 Wolves were going to sit and defend deep while 00:03:20.849 --> 00:03:24.289 looking to counter -attack where possible. If 00:03:24.289 --> 00:03:26.409 you're new to football, this is commonly referred 00:03:26.409 --> 00:03:31.400 to as parking the bus. Added to this, they were 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:33.379 playing a back three, which gives them an extra 00:03:33.379 --> 00:03:37.120 man in case a Liverpool player does beat his 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.580 man, the extra defender can still cover the space. 00:03:40.180 --> 00:03:43.780 So both at the back with the three men and the 00:03:43.780 --> 00:03:47.580 five in the midfield, they just crammed the spaces, 00:03:47.780 --> 00:03:50.319 essentially, and made it very difficult for Liverpool 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:54.020 to play through, which, you know, kudos to them. 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:56.219 That's what you're supposed to do. Fair enough. 00:03:57.449 --> 00:03:59.870 So it becomes a test to see if Liverpool can 00:03:59.870 --> 00:04:03.270 break down the Wolves' defence. A test that was 00:04:03.270 --> 00:04:07.849 abysmally failed. We created one clear -cut chance 00:04:07.849 --> 00:04:11.949 from a corner and none from open play. We had 00:04:11.949 --> 00:04:14.449 some half chances when Rio and Gamora came on, 00:04:14.530 --> 00:04:17.949 but nothing concrete. Even the goal wasn't created 00:04:17.949 --> 00:04:21.029 by team play or individual brilliance. It's because 00:04:21.029 --> 00:04:23.370 the Wolves' player gave the ball away in a dangerous 00:04:23.370 --> 00:04:28.250 area and Salah finished it off. right any any 00:04:28.250 --> 00:04:32.410 thoughts about uh general gameplay or the teams 00:04:32.410 --> 00:04:35.829 i mean okay well i didn't watch the game yeah 00:04:35.829 --> 00:04:40.430 right but from what i saw on the highlights on 00:04:40.430 --> 00:04:43.069 the highlights yeah liverpool got a little bit 00:04:43.069 --> 00:04:45.750 unlucky in terms of like that there was that 00:04:45.750 --> 00:04:49.550 early header i want to say it was Gakpo? No, 00:04:49.550 --> 00:04:53.569 no, no. It's actually, if it weren't so tragic, 00:04:53.610 --> 00:04:56.350 it would be hilarious. Gakpo clears it off the 00:04:56.350 --> 00:04:59.949 line. Oh. It's going in, and Gakpo clears it 00:04:59.949 --> 00:05:02.490 off onto the chest of Curtis Jones, and it bounces 00:05:02.490 --> 00:05:07.149 up. Oh. So, yeah. Oh. You didn't see the proper 00:05:07.149 --> 00:05:09.310 replay from the different angle on that goal. 00:05:09.509 --> 00:05:14.610 Yeah, okay. Okay, I'm sorry about that. Yeah. 00:05:14.670 --> 00:05:18.790 But also the Ngomawa shot. That saw pulls out 00:05:18.790 --> 00:05:21.089 a great fingertip save. But like I said, it was 00:05:21.089 --> 00:05:24.290 just a half chance. Yeah. It's not clear cut. 00:05:24.529 --> 00:05:27.290 Yeah, fair enough. Makes sense. But yeah, that's 00:05:27.290 --> 00:05:30.329 about it in terms of... So in terms of players, 00:05:30.829 --> 00:05:33.769 Kirk has gotten some crosses. None of them led 00:05:33.769 --> 00:05:35.990 to anything, but it's better than the beginning 00:05:35.990 --> 00:05:37.970 of the season when he wasn't getting forward 00:05:37.970 --> 00:05:40.850 at all. Yeah. Why would you buy the most attacking 00:05:40.850 --> 00:05:43.769 left back in the division and play him defensively? 00:05:45.550 --> 00:05:50.230 Your silence speaks volumes. Another reason that 00:05:50.230 --> 00:05:52.689 Kirk is being limited is because Gakpo refuses 00:05:52.689 --> 00:05:58.230 to pass to him. But why? Partly I would ascribe 00:05:58.230 --> 00:06:02.209 to Gakpo's poor decision -making. His poor, poor 00:06:02.209 --> 00:06:04.550 decision -making. We'll get to that just now, 00:06:04.610 --> 00:06:08.319 but he actually did... slip him in once. And 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:10.740 I'm like, okay, he's learned a lesson. From now 00:06:10.740 --> 00:06:13.019 on, we're going to, we're in a new era now. The 00:06:13.019 --> 00:06:18.939 Gakpo passing to Kirk is era. Everything's different 00:06:18.939 --> 00:06:22.339 now in a new world. And then he didn't pass to 00:06:22.339 --> 00:06:24.300 him a single time the rest of the game. It was, 00:06:24.300 --> 00:06:29.759 it's actually incredible. How do you avoid? someone 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:31.759 who you're meant to be working so closely with 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:35.680 for 90 minutes. Yeah, and the fact that the manager 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.439 hasn't done anything about it to be like, hey 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:44.060 man, pass to this guy. Just like every 10 minutes 00:06:44.060 --> 00:06:46.860 of something, just slip him something. But yeah, 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:50.939 we know Gakpo only has one move. And that's what 00:06:50.939 --> 00:06:55.680 he does. So how can we blame him? He's using 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.399 his one move. Not effectively, but he is using 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:02.620 it. So Salah and Gakpo are awful once again. 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.459 They are both playing poorly for different reasons, 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:08.660 but the thing that unifies them is their atrocious 00:07:08.660 --> 00:07:11.819 decision -making. The truth is, if this is a 00:07:11.819 --> 00:07:14.740 meritocracy and everyone is fit, our starting 00:07:14.740 --> 00:07:17.379 wingers should be Rio Ngamoa on the left and 00:07:17.379 --> 00:07:20.259 Jeremy Frimpong on the right. They have shown 00:07:20.259 --> 00:07:22.980 far more industry and creativity in their limited 00:07:22.980 --> 00:07:26.740 minutes than Gakpo and Salah. If Slot tried that 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:29.220 for one match, I think we would see an improvement 00:07:29.220 --> 00:07:31.680 because right now, it feels like we're playing 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.660 with one hand tied behind our back. Okay. That's 00:07:34.660 --> 00:07:38.160 the brutal truth. Okay. Fair enough. I mean, 00:07:38.220 --> 00:07:41.339 like, I haven't watched many Liverpool games 00:07:41.339 --> 00:07:45.420 this season at all, so I can't really comment 00:07:45.420 --> 00:07:48.810 on it. But from what I've heard, there's some 00:07:48.810 --> 00:07:53.290 like i how do i describe this in a way that so 00:07:53.290 --> 00:07:55.089 actually i was speaking to someone yesterday 00:07:55.089 --> 00:08:00.209 and he said it's it kind of seems like slot has 00:08:00.209 --> 00:08:05.009 like not lost the dressing room necessarily but 00:08:05.009 --> 00:08:07.949 he's he's not entirely in control of it anymore 00:08:07.949 --> 00:08:12.149 he's it seems from his public statements as he's 00:08:12.149 --> 00:08:15.519 as if though he's a very poor man manager Okay. 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:17.879 Because he said, like, some horrific things. 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:22.199 No, just, like, people are asking why Rio Ngamoa 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:24.600 can't play more. And he's like, if he was so 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:26.360 good, he wouldn't be playing for England under 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:30.519 19. Oh. And I'm like, bro, why would you say 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:33.759 that? There's no need. That's a bit rude. Zero 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.539 need. And then, like, there's something like 00:08:36.539 --> 00:08:40.059 we're asking why Calvin Ramsey can't get a game, 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:43.080 right? Yeah. Because it's, like... Who's our 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:45.980 first choice right back? I guess Connor Bradley. 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:50.480 And then Jeremy Frimpong, number two. Joe Gomez, 00:08:50.620 --> 00:08:53.720 number three. Sabotstein, number four. Curtis 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:58.940 Jones, number five. Endo, number six. And Calvin 00:08:58.940 --> 00:09:02.100 Ramsey, who is a backup right back, can't get 00:09:02.100 --> 00:09:06.299 a game. So people ask, hey, why can't Calvin 00:09:06.299 --> 00:09:09.639 Ramsey get a game? And he's like, well, when 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.490 you're not playing, you become the best player 00:09:12.490 --> 00:09:15.049 in the squad how you know what you know what 00:09:15.049 --> 00:09:18.190 that means like people don't know how bad you 00:09:18.190 --> 00:09:20.950 are oh right okay people just assume that because 00:09:20.950 --> 00:09:23.870 you're not playing you the answer to yeah the 00:09:23.870 --> 00:09:25.789 problem this happens a lot of the time where 00:09:25.789 --> 00:09:28.190 like a lot of people say like kaiser will come 00:09:28.190 --> 00:09:31.169 in and fix our problems yeah uh which i think 00:09:31.169 --> 00:09:35.230 he will he could but i'm saying uh he hasn't 00:09:35.230 --> 00:09:38.919 given been given the platform yeah But that's 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:42.720 a different story. Now, I actually said in previous 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:44.700 weeks that I'm going to stop talking about Gakpo 00:09:44.700 --> 00:09:49.340 and Salah. That the real problem is slot. Because 00:09:49.340 --> 00:09:51.899 Gakpo and Salah are not choosing themselves. 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.980 So, Ego, it's the manager that's the problem. 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:00.039 But they're not going to sack him right now. 00:10:00.139 --> 00:10:03.740 So, in his capacity, the best thing that he can 00:10:03.740 --> 00:10:07.399 do is drop the wingers. In my opinion. I mean, 00:10:07.419 --> 00:10:12.779 they're not the only problem, but they are a 00:10:12.779 --> 00:10:17.379 problem. Yeah. But at the same time, I mean, 00:10:17.379 --> 00:10:21.659 he won the league last season. And, okay, obviously 00:10:21.659 --> 00:10:23.500 last season doesn't speak about this season. 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:27.340 But they're still technically in contention for 00:10:27.340 --> 00:10:30.679 both the Champions League and the FA Cup. Like, 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:34.240 it's possible that they could still win two really 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:37.169 big trophies this season. Sure, it's possible. 00:10:37.409 --> 00:10:40.470 It's possible. I'm not saying it's likely, but 00:10:40.470 --> 00:10:43.750 it's definitely possible. And so maybe... Are 00:10:43.750 --> 00:10:46.909 you saying he should stay in the job because 00:10:46.909 --> 00:10:49.809 it's possible to win trophies? Yes. You don't 00:10:49.809 --> 00:10:51.769 think an interim could come in and do a better 00:10:51.769 --> 00:10:55.970 job? They could. Depends on who. I would like... 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.299 Though every time I'm told that this can't happen, 00:10:59.299 --> 00:11:01.740 I like to point to Tuchel who replaced Lampard 00:11:01.740 --> 00:11:04.240 midway through the season. Lampard was like, 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.659 Lampard said a quote in the media, this Chelsea 00:11:07.659 --> 00:11:10.259 squad is not a top four squad. And Tuchel took 00:11:10.259 --> 00:11:13.500 them and won the Champions League. Right? This 00:11:13.500 --> 00:11:15.919 idea that... Wait, but did they make top four? 00:11:16.100 --> 00:11:19.340 Yes, they did. Okay, just make sure. Right. This 00:11:19.340 --> 00:11:23.759 idea that... Nobody can do better. Like, this 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:26.500 is the best we can do is such a ridiculous notion. 00:11:26.860 --> 00:11:31.559 But yeah, into individual moments. For the goal, 00:11:31.779 --> 00:11:34.860 Arakadare pushes Van Dijk and plays it through. 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.740 Yeah. Kanate and Allison can't do much after 00:11:37.740 --> 00:11:40.860 that because it was a quality finish. Yeah. But 00:11:40.860 --> 00:11:42.940 I'd like to point out that the same thing happened 00:11:42.940 --> 00:11:46.860 between Gabriel and Kolo Mwani last week with 00:11:46.860 --> 00:11:49.720 a far weaker push. And he was called a foul because 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:53.399 Gabriel fell down, whereas Van Dijk didn't. So 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:55.740 this is why I say the referees encourage play 00:11:55.740 --> 00:11:58.980 acting, because if you don't, then you are penalized. 00:11:59.419 --> 00:12:01.799 So, yeah, in my opinion, it shouldn't have been 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:06.220 a goal. That's the thing. It's like, so actually 00:12:06.220 --> 00:12:09.500 I've, I've realized Lissandro Martinez does that 00:12:09.500 --> 00:12:13.179 a lot where it's like, even if he's out muscled, 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:17.600 if you, if you just like lightly push someone 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:22.059 just as they spring up, it kind of unbalances 00:12:22.059 --> 00:12:24.419 them. Yeah. It unbalances them. And so it basically, 00:12:24.539 --> 00:12:28.019 it's technically not an aerial duel or anything 00:12:28.019 --> 00:12:32.700 because there's, there's no actual dueling. he's 00:12:32.700 --> 00:12:34.759 just pushed the guy away and then gotten the 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:37.500 ball or let it roll through to the keeper or 00:12:37.500 --> 00:12:42.100 whatever but i don't see that being penalized 00:12:42.100 --> 00:12:46.200 again because they don't fall down yeah but even 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:51.059 even then i mean in recent times i've i've seen 00:12:51.059 --> 00:12:53.980 a lot of like certain referees will give it and 00:12:53.980 --> 00:12:56.820 certain refs won't yes and that's the issue isn't 00:12:56.820 --> 00:13:00.799 it yeah there's inconsistency with the the referees 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:04.539 where it should be a a standard across all games 00:13:04.539 --> 00:13:07.659 you know yeah the cola the colomoni one was a 00:13:07.659 --> 00:13:10.039 push therefore it's disallowed yeah this is a 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:12.419 push therefore it's disallowed fair enough right 00:13:12.419 --> 00:13:15.100 that's that's the the point i'm trying oh Or 00:13:15.100 --> 00:13:18.940 the Colomoni one was a push, but contact is allowed. 00:13:19.379 --> 00:13:22.559 Let it be a goal. This one in the low pool game, 00:13:22.700 --> 00:13:24.940 there was contact, but contact is allowed. Let 00:13:24.940 --> 00:13:28.179 it go. Whatever the case is, choose one and be 00:13:28.179 --> 00:13:34.159 consistent with it. Don't do one and do the other. 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:36.639 You know what I'm saying? Yeah. That's what I'm 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:38.899 trying to get at. That makes sense to me. Anything 00:13:38.899 --> 00:13:41.480 else you want to say about that first goal? No. 00:13:41.850 --> 00:13:43.870 yeah you don't think alison or kanate could have 00:13:43.870 --> 00:13:46.309 done better to be honest no it was a really good 00:13:46.309 --> 00:13:49.289 finish and like fair play yeah and like i said 00:13:49.289 --> 00:13:51.629 he was slipped into lots of space because uh 00:13:51.629 --> 00:13:55.149 you know i guess they weren't expecting van dyke 00:13:55.149 --> 00:13:58.809 to lose that yeah aerial duel so he was in acres 00:13:58.809 --> 00:14:01.700 and acres of space kanate did his best too Close 00:14:01.700 --> 00:14:03.559 him down, but there's only so much you can do. 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:06.340 So I don't know what he was thinking, but Bellegarde 00:14:06.340 --> 00:14:08.919 plays a loose pass, which gives the ball to Salah, 00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:11.139 and he finishes with the outside of his boot. 00:14:11.259 --> 00:14:14.740 Very unorthodox finish, but... Yeah, it did kind 00:14:14.740 --> 00:14:17.600 of surprise me that he went with the outside 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:20.120 of his boot instead of either opening up his 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:22.399 body or just taking the shot with his right. 00:14:22.620 --> 00:14:27.639 He's just very left dominant. Oh, okay. He very 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:30.320 rarely trusts his right foot. He's a bit one 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.559 -footed. Yeah. Okay. But I have seen him score 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:36.259 with his right foot, but I'm just saying he seems 00:14:36.259 --> 00:14:39.200 very much more... Like, he doesn't ever cross 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:43.019 with his right foot. Okay. He always does a traveller. 00:14:43.259 --> 00:14:47.179 Ah, okay. That's actually... I mean, it makes 00:14:47.179 --> 00:14:48.940 sense. Like, there's quite a few footballers 00:14:48.940 --> 00:14:51.740 out there. But I wouldn't have... Well, quite 00:14:51.740 --> 00:14:54.720 a few footballers like that out there. But I 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.500 also... I wouldn't expect that from someone of 00:14:57.500 --> 00:15:00.990 Salah's quality. Obviously, I haven't watched 00:15:00.990 --> 00:15:03.190 much of it. It's only what I've heard of him. 00:15:03.289 --> 00:15:06.610 But it kind of, it doesn't make sense to me, 00:15:06.649 --> 00:15:09.710 personally, that he hasn't, you know, developed 00:15:09.710 --> 00:15:12.970 that side of his game that much. Well, if you're 00:15:12.970 --> 00:15:15.929 very good with your left, why, you know, practice 00:15:15.929 --> 00:15:18.250 with the right? To be very good with the right 00:15:18.250 --> 00:15:24.049 as well? Yeah, I guess you caught me. Yeah, then 00:15:24.049 --> 00:15:27.669 Andre scored a deflected goal in stoppage time. 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.039 So there's nothing you can do about the deflection 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:32.679 itself. But why wasn't he closed down before 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:35.600 the shot? I counted five players who were close 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.340 enough to pressure him, but none of them did. 00:15:38.460 --> 00:15:41.360 And he took a speculative shot and it went in. 00:15:41.539 --> 00:15:45.700 Yeah. I would point to Keza and Rion Gamora specifically 00:15:45.700 --> 00:15:49.580 who were closest to him. But any one of, I think 00:15:49.580 --> 00:15:51.559 McAllister was there, Konate was there, and Van 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:54.120 Dijk was there. Any one of them. Anyone could 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.299 have done something. Yes, but very poor. What 00:15:58.299 --> 00:16:00.919 do we call it? It's not really a market. Closing 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:04.779 down. Closing down. Very poor closing down from 00:16:04.779 --> 00:16:08.460 all of them. Yeah. And, yeah, a deserved loss. 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:11.100 But, you know, like I said, they shouldn't have 00:16:11.100 --> 00:16:13.580 scored that first goal. Let me just say this. 00:16:14.179 --> 00:16:19.120 Spiritually, we should have lost. Okay. But not 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:22.539 like this. Coaching the Matrix, not like this. 00:16:23.820 --> 00:16:29.029 Okay. Spiritually. Yeah. In spirit, we should 00:16:29.029 --> 00:16:32.389 have lost. Yes. But you also lost. Oh. Yeah, 00:16:32.470 --> 00:16:34.669 we did lose. That's what I'm saying. Not like 00:16:34.669 --> 00:16:40.169 this. Right. Okay. Our second game of the week, 00:16:40.190 --> 00:16:43.090 or the other game we're going to go into, is 00:16:43.090 --> 00:16:47.429 Newcastle 2, Man United 1. Yeah. So, I don't 00:16:47.429 --> 00:16:50.750 know. Do you want to take the initiative on this 00:16:50.750 --> 00:16:54.299 one, or do you want me to? I mean, I can... I 00:16:54.299 --> 00:16:57.100 can do the United side of things. Like, I don't 00:16:57.100 --> 00:16:59.919 know how Newcastle... Okay, let me just... Let 00:16:59.919 --> 00:17:03.419 me say, Newcastle kept their usual 4 -3 -3, but 00:17:03.419 --> 00:17:05.839 made two changes to the team that lost to Everton. 00:17:06.339 --> 00:17:09.559 Nick Pope and Nick Valtamata out for Aaron Ramsdale 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:12.559 and Harvey Barnes. Yeah. So, got them both out 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:16.960 in the nick of time. Oh, no. Now I know why you 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:19.920 wanted to take the lead on that. All right. Anyway, 00:17:20.099 --> 00:17:22.440 I didn't even write that down. That's off the... 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:25.799 I just saw Nicky and Nick now. You know, I wrote 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:27.720 out this document and it never occurred to me 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:31.720 that they have the same first name until right 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:35.579 now. All right. So, yeah, all the early play 00:17:35.579 --> 00:17:38.259 was coming from Newcastle. Yeah. Their press 00:17:38.259 --> 00:17:40.480 wasn't that aggressive because this is something 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:45.369 I wanted to talk about with Darren. He's unavailable 00:17:45.369 --> 00:17:49.809 today. Actually, both you and him share the same 00:17:49.809 --> 00:17:53.549 birthday, which was two days ago. Actually? Yes, 00:17:53.549 --> 00:17:56.690 so that's why he's unavailable today. He's having 00:17:56.690 --> 00:18:01.950 a family get -together tonight. That's very sweet. 00:18:02.230 --> 00:18:05.529 Yes, but last week we were just going through 00:18:05.529 --> 00:18:08.069 the games that we didn't watch, and he said, 00:18:08.210 --> 00:18:10.769 well, Eddie Howe lives and dies by his high press. 00:18:11.390 --> 00:18:14.069 But the last couple of games that we've covered, 00:18:14.329 --> 00:18:16.849 Newcastle haven't been pressing high. And in 00:18:16.849 --> 00:18:19.009 this game as well, I just thought, you know, 00:18:19.029 --> 00:18:22.390 they weren't aggressive in their press. They 00:18:22.390 --> 00:18:26.029 weren't high. Well, to be fair, they had the 00:18:26.029 --> 00:18:28.049 ball. So you don't need to press if you have 00:18:28.049 --> 00:18:32.150 the ball. That is true, yes. So most of the first 00:18:32.150 --> 00:18:35.049 half, yeah, United absorbed the pressure and 00:18:35.049 --> 00:18:37.630 now getting more possession around the 25th minute. 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:41.380 right yeah and then that started to suit newcastle 00:18:41.380 --> 00:18:43.920 because newcastle just sat deep and started playing 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:47.480 on the counter yeah which is you know what their 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:50.859 new tactic uh i would say instead of pressing 00:18:50.859 --> 00:18:54.000 high is what they've been doing recently right 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.259 and uh anything to say about the first 25 minutes 00:18:57.259 --> 00:19:02.140 the first 25 uh yeah i mean there were not chances 00:19:02.140 --> 00:19:06.180 necessarily from a united perspective but like 00:19:06.180 --> 00:19:08.660 they they could barely get out of their own half 00:19:08.660 --> 00:19:11.779 even if you know even when they won back possession 00:19:11.779 --> 00:19:15.660 there'd be a missed place pass or players weren't 00:19:15.660 --> 00:19:19.059 on the same page or you know just something and 00:19:19.059 --> 00:19:21.319 it would just gift possession back to Newcastle, 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:24.660 and they'd come again and again and again. And 00:19:24.660 --> 00:19:27.440 in that situation, well, as a fan specifically, 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:33.039 it's really frustrating. But I am kind of glad 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:37.960 that they didn't let their heads drop. They sat 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:40.779 in there, they soaked up that pressure as best 00:19:40.779 --> 00:19:43.720 as they could, and they sort of grew into the 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:48.490 game. Yeah. Jacob Ramsey gets a yellow for just 00:19:48.490 --> 00:19:51.670 a rough tackle. I agree it was a yellow, but 00:19:51.670 --> 00:19:54.930 then he gets a yellow for diving, and then he 00:19:54.930 --> 00:19:58.170 gets a red card. Well, a second yellow into a 00:19:58.170 --> 00:20:01.309 red card. And I think the ref made a mistake 00:20:01.309 --> 00:20:04.109 with this one. Ramsey doesn't even appeal for 00:20:04.109 --> 00:20:08.430 a penalty. He's more frustrated with himself, 00:20:08.650 --> 00:20:13.130 kind of. I just think the ref misread the situation. 00:20:14.269 --> 00:20:17.549 Yeah. No, I... There's a difference between I 00:20:17.549 --> 00:20:20.230 fell contact and I went down, but that contact 00:20:20.230 --> 00:20:23.410 wasn't enough for a penalty, and I didn't feel 00:20:23.410 --> 00:20:26.130 contact and I just dived. Yeah. You know, and 00:20:26.130 --> 00:20:30.410 I think he fell contact. No, no, no, no. He didn't 00:20:30.410 --> 00:20:32.849 feel contact. He made a mistake. Yeah. He tripped. 00:20:32.890 --> 00:20:35.809 Yeah, he just fell over. Yeah. Yeah. That's what 00:20:35.809 --> 00:20:38.990 I thought. Which, that's the thing, because in 00:20:38.990 --> 00:20:42.400 none of the replays... can you actually see what 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:46.839 happens with Laman's hands like in the in the 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.519 side on replay sort of thing that they showed 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:53.720 during the VAR or not VAR uh like during the 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:56.500 kind of yeah the replay the analysis of that 00:20:56.500 --> 00:21:01.779 decision the the camera just barely has Ramsay's 00:21:01.779 --> 00:21:05.420 back leg out of the shot so you can't actually 00:21:05.420 --> 00:21:08.720 see if there's any contact made there so I'm 00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:13.079 i'm not entirely sure but i i think like with 00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:16.220 his body language specifically it didn't scream 00:21:16.220 --> 00:21:20.720 oh he wanted a penalty he wanted to dive he was 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:24.140 just extremely unlucky with what the ref thought 00:21:24.140 --> 00:21:27.579 he saw i i don't think it was a red or a second 00:21:27.579 --> 00:21:32.180 yellow even well a minute later gordon gets fouled 00:21:32.180 --> 00:21:34.740 by fernandez and that's a clear -cut penalty 00:21:34.740 --> 00:21:38.869 for me yeah i just i guess it's the The fact 00:21:38.869 --> 00:21:41.450 that Bruno's not a defender, he's just not wise 00:21:41.450 --> 00:21:45.230 to the tricks of a winger. Yeah. You know, Gordon 00:21:45.230 --> 00:21:48.990 just cuts in and Bruno, unfortunately, from a 00:21:48.990 --> 00:21:51.730 United perspective, fouls him. He just gets up, 00:21:51.809 --> 00:21:56.269 converts, and Newcastle are 1 -0 up. Yeah. Although 00:21:56.269 --> 00:21:59.789 a man down, 1 -0 up. Then, United get a free 00:21:59.789 --> 00:22:03.970 kick. Yes. And Fernandes puts in an incredible 00:22:03.970 --> 00:22:07.960 cross and Casemiro... Headed his home. Yeah. 00:22:08.140 --> 00:22:10.920 Now, Casimir had a black eye during the game. 00:22:11.059 --> 00:22:14.640 Yes. No one knows why that is. We were all just 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:17.440 kind of like, what the fuck? What has Carrick 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.420 been doing to him? Yeah. A lot of people speculated 00:22:20.420 --> 00:22:23.880 it was domestic abuse from his wife. Any number 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:28.680 of things. So, yeah. Hopefully, it's not a bad 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:32.140 situation for him. It's like he just tripped 00:22:32.140 --> 00:22:34.359 and fell or something. Yeah. Hopefully. Like 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:36.329 nothing serious. But yeah, I just thought Bruno 00:22:36.329 --> 00:22:39.470 had an incredible game. You know, one of the 00:22:39.470 --> 00:22:42.230 best creators in world football. Yeah. Since 00:22:42.230 --> 00:22:45.809 KDB is gone, you know, probably the... Well, 00:22:45.950 --> 00:22:48.609 he has the most assists in the league by quite 00:22:48.609 --> 00:22:52.069 some margin. Yeah. And the most chances created. 00:22:53.190 --> 00:22:56.109 A lot. Yeah, so aside from giving away the penalty, 00:22:56.250 --> 00:22:58.670 I just thought he was the man of the match. Yeah, 00:22:58.670 --> 00:23:01.589 he had a really, really good game. Right, but... 00:23:01.869 --> 00:23:05.230 The question is, in a game like this where Newcastle 00:23:05.230 --> 00:23:07.650 are sitting deep, is the same question in the 00:23:07.650 --> 00:23:10.470 Wolves and Liverpool game. Can United break them 00:23:10.470 --> 00:23:15.309 down? No. To be honest, no. And this is the thing 00:23:15.309 --> 00:23:17.849 I've been bringing up about Carrick. Is that, 00:23:18.069 --> 00:23:21.109 you know, the games against Arsenal and Man City, 00:23:21.230 --> 00:23:24.829 there's a set plan. Yeah. You sit back and you 00:23:24.829 --> 00:23:27.769 counter them. Yeah. But if you have to break 00:23:27.769 --> 00:23:29.769 down a team, it becomes much more complicated. 00:23:30.109 --> 00:23:33.630 Yes. You have one of the best creators in the 00:23:33.630 --> 00:23:36.670 league, so you already have a leg up on most 00:23:36.670 --> 00:23:40.230 teams. Yeah. But you need to platform him in 00:23:40.230 --> 00:23:43.289 the best way possible so that he can, you know, 00:23:43.329 --> 00:23:46.130 create as much as possible and the plays that 00:23:46.130 --> 00:23:48.470 you have to take advantage of that. Yes. And 00:23:48.470 --> 00:23:50.690 I just don't think Carrick is putting them in 00:23:50.690 --> 00:23:54.289 the best positions possible. Or, first of all, 00:23:54.369 --> 00:23:57.630 playing in patterns that will enable them to 00:23:57.630 --> 00:24:00.890 score, one. Yeah. Two, putting them in the right... 00:24:01.309 --> 00:24:04.990 places to score. So, for example, there's not 00:24:04.990 --> 00:24:07.869 a lot of width on the right -hand side because 00:24:07.869 --> 00:24:11.430 Mbwemo is left -footed. Yeah. So he can't whoop 00:24:11.430 --> 00:24:14.190 in a cross. And Dalot hasn't been playing well 00:24:14.190 --> 00:24:17.710 at all. No. So... Well, Mizrahi came in this 00:24:17.710 --> 00:24:20.029 game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But in the second half, 00:24:20.269 --> 00:24:24.609 Dalot came in. Yeah. But I'm saying, recently, 00:24:24.690 --> 00:24:27.589 Dalot hasn't been putting in good crosses. Yeah. 00:24:27.650 --> 00:24:30.890 So my point stands that... The right -hand side 00:24:30.890 --> 00:24:35.430 is very weak. Yeah. So, what to do about that? 00:24:35.670 --> 00:24:38.569 New winger? That's the thing. I don't think... 00:24:38.569 --> 00:24:43.130 Well, I think Boymo suits the sort of counter 00:24:43.130 --> 00:24:47.210 -attacking style very well, right? But it's... 00:24:47.210 --> 00:24:51.589 Like, you can't rely on three or four or, like, 00:24:51.589 --> 00:24:54.289 let's say five games a season or ten games a 00:24:54.289 --> 00:24:57.509 season against, like, the rest of the big six. 00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:00.200 In inverted commas. I don't know if we should 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:04.279 include Tottenham there. You and Darren just 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:08.440 attack Spurs at any possible opportunity. I don't 00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:10.660 know why, but you're not even an Arsenal fan. 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:12.660 You just want to attack them. They're just poor. 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:16.859 Okay. They're doing so poorly at the moment. 00:25:17.220 --> 00:25:21.380 It's an uncalled for jab at Spurs. Okay, carry 00:25:21.380 --> 00:25:24.299 on. But anyway, you can't rely on those big games 00:25:24.299 --> 00:25:30.230 to win you. a season or like well you know what 00:25:30.230 --> 00:25:32.329 i mean right like when when the premier league 00:25:32.329 --> 00:25:34.250 you can't compete for the premier league if you're 00:25:34.250 --> 00:25:37.009 not beating the small teams yeah exactly and 00:25:37.009 --> 00:25:40.329 i mean recent form has been fairly good in terms 00:25:40.329 --> 00:25:47.509 of results but in terms of actual play it's it's 00:25:47.509 --> 00:25:50.710 it's been most of our goals have been set pieces 00:25:50.710 --> 00:25:54.890 well yeah one set pieces and two counters yeah 00:25:54.890 --> 00:25:58.900 i don't think we've I think there was maybe a 00:25:58.900 --> 00:26:03.200 goal, not last match, but the match before, from, 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:06.160 like, actually breaking down, you know, like 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:08.799 playing... Against Palace? Yeah. What did you 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:11.079 do? I can't remember exactly. Okay, fine, fine, 00:26:11.099 --> 00:26:14.380 fine. But I'm just saying, these counters and 00:26:14.380 --> 00:26:18.420 set pieces are what Arsenal and Liverpool are 00:26:18.420 --> 00:26:21.180 doing at the moment. Yeah. Which is... Oh, to 00:26:21.180 --> 00:26:25.019 Sheshko's goal. Sorry. Okay. Which... Working 00:26:25.019 --> 00:26:28.920 for some, not working for others. But both are 00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:31.380 very defensive tactics, which I disagree with. 00:26:31.539 --> 00:26:34.099 I believe teams should be front -footed and attack, 00:26:34.380 --> 00:26:39.759 etc. I agree. But that's why I don't rate Carrick, 00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:43.279 and that's precisely why he should get the job, 00:26:43.339 --> 00:26:48.660 in my opinion. To make United as bad as possible. 00:26:48.819 --> 00:26:51.880 Yes. But, that being said, Ramsdale made a number 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:55.690 of key saves. Yeah. There were quite a few shots 00:26:55.690 --> 00:26:57.990 that... Now, unfortunately, they were kind of 00:26:57.990 --> 00:27:01.650 speculative shots. It wasn't like point blank 00:27:01.650 --> 00:27:04.490 or like, you know, difficult saves, I should 00:27:04.490 --> 00:27:08.970 say. Yeah. But, yeah. Then later on, Asula wins 00:27:08.970 --> 00:27:11.849 the ball, passes it to Trippier. Trippier finds 00:27:11.849 --> 00:27:14.849 him again on the counter and he scores an impressive 00:27:14.849 --> 00:27:18.470 curler. Yeah. That wins the game for Newcastle. 00:27:18.589 --> 00:27:22.089 I think it was the 89th minute. It was somewhere, 00:27:22.269 --> 00:27:27.140 yeah. Very... Very impressive counter and performance 00:27:27.140 --> 00:27:30.500 from Osula, who only had about, what, 10 minutes 00:27:30.500 --> 00:27:35.019 to show what he had. And, yeah, any other things 00:27:35.019 --> 00:27:37.500 you want to mention about this game? Any specific 00:27:37.500 --> 00:27:41.059 players you want to mention? I actually think 00:27:41.059 --> 00:27:44.240 Kunja had a really good game as well. It was 00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:49.099 just... Unfortunate. Problematically, he struggles 00:27:49.099 --> 00:27:51.839 in the final third, which is not what you want 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:57.809 from a winger. But he did really well to drop 00:27:57.809 --> 00:28:01.650 deep and overload Newcastle's midfield. After 00:28:01.650 --> 00:28:05.730 the card, it was a 4 -3 -2. And so Kunja could 00:28:05.730 --> 00:28:10.369 drop in and effectively make it a four -man midfield 00:28:10.369 --> 00:28:15.390 for United. He made some really good progressive 00:28:15.390 --> 00:28:22.359 drives, but they didn't end up in anything. He 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:25.880 would take it from the second, like, roughly 00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:30.079 midfield area, take it out to the Newcastle box, 00:28:30.220 --> 00:28:32.720 and then that's where that move would end because 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:35.420 there was nothing else going on around him that 00:28:35.420 --> 00:28:39.700 he could do. I just feel as if, though, you are 00:28:39.700 --> 00:28:43.400 being hamstrung by certain signings, such as 00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:46.140 Konya and Mwemo. Even though they've been better 00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:49.920 players, you're not getting the best out of them 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:53.690 because... of the system so they were bought 00:28:53.690 --> 00:28:57.589 to be inside tens yeah right yeah but aside from 00:28:57.589 --> 00:29:00.289 being inside tens both of their other preferred 00:29:00.289 --> 00:29:03.190 position is striker yeah so they can either play 00:29:03.190 --> 00:29:05.849 strike or inside 10. now you're asking both of 00:29:05.849 --> 00:29:09.089 them to play on the wing yeah which is not what 00:29:09.089 --> 00:29:11.069 they're used to and not what their skill set 00:29:11.069 --> 00:29:15.670 uh is geared towards yeah so now you're not getting 00:29:15.670 --> 00:29:19.130 the best out of either of them and sesco is probably 00:29:19.130 --> 00:29:21.509 the least talented out of the three, not to be 00:29:21.509 --> 00:29:26.210 rude, but he's the guy that's playing striker 00:29:26.210 --> 00:29:28.829 ahead of either of them where perhaps they would 00:29:28.829 --> 00:29:35.869 be better. So the kind of concern there is that 00:29:35.869 --> 00:29:39.710 I think it's only Ahmad that can actually come 00:29:39.710 --> 00:29:43.000 in. be a wing that can cross and such. Yeah. 00:29:43.259 --> 00:29:47.880 And Ahmad has not been good recently, to be honest. 00:29:49.539 --> 00:29:53.720 And so currently, like, I don't see another front 00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:57.720 three. Like, until probably... No, yes, that's 00:29:57.720 --> 00:29:59.700 the problem for the next manager. I'm just trying 00:29:59.700 --> 00:30:02.779 to point out right now that Carrick, you know, 00:30:02.779 --> 00:30:06.059 the formation that he's using and the game plan 00:30:06.059 --> 00:30:09.759 he's deploying is not... helping those two players 00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:14.900 get to their best selves. Yeah, I guess. So would 00:30:14.900 --> 00:30:18.019 you rather have like a... What about swapping 00:30:18.019 --> 00:30:20.240 them? Boehm on the left, Kunja on the right, 00:30:20.259 --> 00:30:22.480 and then they can just cross like regular. They 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.619 could, but... I'm not saying that's going to 00:30:25.619 --> 00:30:27.480 work. I'm just saying, why not try something? 00:30:27.940 --> 00:30:30.119 Yeah, fair enough. Like they've both got really 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:35.640 good ball striking. But I think Kunja specifically... 00:30:36.220 --> 00:30:39.740 He seems to function much better in sort of that 00:30:39.740 --> 00:30:42.480 kind of like midfield area. Where he does a lot 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:46.000 of like twists and turns. And like there's some 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:49.900 flamboyant stuff. But it's mainly just like getting 00:30:49.900 --> 00:30:53.019 past his man. How do I describe this in a way 00:30:53.019 --> 00:30:55.160 that doesn't make it sound like he's a good winger? 00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:59.079 Because okay no okay. So I think it would be 00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:01.940 a good idea. But I'm just not sure of their crossing. 00:31:02.140 --> 00:31:05.039 Like specifically Kunya's crossing. I think Mboma. 00:31:05.559 --> 00:31:08.500 can do it i just don't know about kunya necessarily 00:31:08.500 --> 00:31:12.039 and then at that point if he's if he's kind of 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.440 herded into the byline then where does he go 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.079 from there what does he do i think perhaps like 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:21.859 an oliver glasner yeah could make use of them 00:31:21.859 --> 00:31:24.619 okay because that's what he's doing at palace 00:31:24.619 --> 00:31:28.119 right now with ismail assai and uh come on and 00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:32.279 jeremy pino on the left yeah so i think a back 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:35.250 three manager would have a solution of playing 00:31:35.250 --> 00:31:38.869 them as inside tens yeah and but again i have 00:31:38.869 --> 00:31:41.529 no idea who united are looking for you know to 00:31:41.529 --> 00:31:44.109 manage them or what they're trying to do but 00:31:44.109 --> 00:31:46.829 at the moment it just looks to me like that like 00:31:46.829 --> 00:31:50.950 you know your wings are not being used to their 00:31:50.950 --> 00:31:54.289 even the full backs are not so all the the width 00:31:54.289 --> 00:31:58.769 is not being used effectively yeah no i would 00:31:58.769 --> 00:32:02.730 agree because it seems as though they don't fully 00:32:02.730 --> 00:32:06.420 understand so Currently, against United, it seems 00:32:06.420 --> 00:32:09.519 to be just block out the midfield, block out 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:12.140 the central channels, and that shuts them down 00:32:12.140 --> 00:32:14.799 entirely. They don't really know how to play 00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:17.519 off the wings. Like, every now and then. I mean, 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:21.819 I think it was Carrick's first game of this interim 00:32:21.819 --> 00:32:26.400 spell. They had a really nice little, like, rondo 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:29.380 thing that ended up in a goal. But that's, it 00:32:29.380 --> 00:32:32.519 was like maybe, I think, that game and one other 00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:35.700 one. they just they don't do it all that often 00:32:35.700 --> 00:32:40.059 they don't really oftentimes if they get stuck 00:32:40.059 --> 00:32:44.059 on a wing you know like if if like like let's 00:32:44.059 --> 00:32:45.960 say the winger gets doubled up on or something 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:48.279 then they'll play it out to bruno bruno will 00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:52.500 put in a cross instead they don't really do that 00:32:52.500 --> 00:32:55.140 kind of thing they don't they don't they can't 00:32:55.140 --> 00:32:57.890 really get that separation And I don't know why 00:32:57.890 --> 00:33:01.849 that is necessarily. It is. I just don't think 00:33:01.849 --> 00:33:05.049 Carrick is a great coach. So he doesn't see the 00:33:05.049 --> 00:33:10.569 issues that a more experienced, more tactically 00:33:10.569 --> 00:33:13.950 adept coach would see. Yeah. But that's just 00:33:13.950 --> 00:33:16.150 my opinion. Are you ready to close up this segment, 00:33:16.250 --> 00:33:19.349 John United? Yeah. Okay. Now we're going to the 00:33:19.349 --> 00:33:22.049 miscellaneous section. This is just the other 00:33:22.049 --> 00:33:25.329 matches or other news or any other things that, 00:33:25.329 --> 00:33:27.990 you know. That have happened. That have happened 00:33:27.990 --> 00:33:30.190 this week in the football world. Right. So we 00:33:30.190 --> 00:33:34.210 have Everton 2, Burnley 0. Yes. Tarkovsky header 00:33:34.210 --> 00:33:36.650 from a free kick and a neat chip finish from 00:33:36.650 --> 00:33:40.970 Dewsbury Hall. Based on highlights, Everton had 00:33:40.970 --> 00:33:44.329 all the chances. Yeah. I originally thought it 00:33:44.329 --> 00:33:47.950 was just like Everton's page posting highlights 00:33:47.950 --> 00:33:51.730 of Everton specifically. No. They had more chances 00:33:51.730 --> 00:33:55.109 in the game. Yeah. And, yeah, a deserved win, 00:33:55.130 --> 00:33:58.799 I think. From the outside looking in. I think 00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.000 they maybe deserved a couple more goals, to be 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:04.160 honest. Burnley really didn't offer anything. 00:34:04.339 --> 00:34:08.119 If you look at the stats, very poor game from 00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:12.219 them. Bournemouth 0, Brentford 0. So I watched 00:34:12.219 --> 00:34:14.619 45 minutes of this game before the Liverpool 00:34:14.619 --> 00:34:17.280 game. Just because of the way the games were 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:19.739 structured this weekend. I mean, excuse me, this 00:34:19.739 --> 00:34:22.800 midweek. There was a game at half past nine and 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:25.559 then the main game at quarter past ten. So the 00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:28.539 half past nine game I watched on Tuesday was 00:34:28.539 --> 00:34:32.619 the Bournemouth -Brentford game. I watched 45 00:34:32.619 --> 00:34:35.360 minutes of that and then 15 minutes during halftime 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:38.820 of the Liverpool game. I went back to that game. 00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:42.760 And it was an entertaining 0 -0 with Bournemouth 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:45.940 getting most of the chances. Perhaps they were 00:34:45.940 --> 00:34:48.880 unfortunate not to win, but just really good 00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:52.019 attacking football. A few weeks ago, I covered 00:34:52.019 --> 00:34:54.059 the Newcastle -Brentford match and it was just 00:34:54.059 --> 00:34:57.579 two teams going at each other. Really fun and 00:34:57.579 --> 00:35:00.420 like a good advertisement for the Premier League. 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.860 I would say the Bournemouth -Brentford game as 00:35:02.860 --> 00:35:06.519 well. Just a really fun, interesting game between 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:09.719 two attacking managers. Well, less so Brentford, 00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:14.280 but, you know, both... having a good game and 00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:17.280 i liked it yeah now it's just unfortunate ended 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:19.719 no no so there was no like things to talk about 00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:24.119 but yeah i mean they were those two tavernier 00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:27.440 shots yes two that hit the bar but yeah i mean 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:29.539 the one was the outside of the post so i don't 00:35:29.539 --> 00:35:35.199 know but still yeah next game leads no sunderland 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:38.360 one yes so based on highlights a pretty even 00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:43.380 game both teams had good chances and uh Perhaps 00:35:43.380 --> 00:35:46.639 it should have ended in a draw, but Ethan Ampadu 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:50.199 handles the ball in the box. You disagree with 00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:52.199 the decision? Yeah, I don't know about that. 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:54.760 From what I understand, and I don't know if they've 00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:57.300 changed the rules recently. I'm basing it off 00:35:57.300 --> 00:36:02.500 of Lissandro Martinez against Arsenal like two 00:36:02.500 --> 00:36:06.099 years ago. But if it hits your body and then 00:36:06.099 --> 00:36:10.409 bounces up onto your hand, it's not a foul. But 00:36:10.409 --> 00:36:12.929 again, it's one of those things that we were 00:36:12.929 --> 00:36:14.750 talking about earlier where like certain refs 00:36:14.750 --> 00:36:17.070 will give it and certain ones won't. I don't 00:36:17.070 --> 00:36:19.969 think that's what happened. Is that not? I think 00:36:19.969 --> 00:36:22.449 it just hit him on the hand and then he does 00:36:22.449 --> 00:36:25.150 like a, I don't know what to call it, like a 00:36:25.150 --> 00:36:28.269 jerk motion. Okay. And it hits his hand, like 00:36:28.269 --> 00:36:30.550 it hits his arm and then it hits his hand as 00:36:30.550 --> 00:36:34.769 well. Okay. So is it, but okay. I think it bounced 00:36:34.769 --> 00:36:39.000 up, hit his arm, hit his hand. Hit like his bicep 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:42.039 region and then his forearm. Yeah. I think it 00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:44.380 just bounced up like in front of him. So it looks 00:36:44.380 --> 00:36:46.900 like it. Oh, okay. But it didn't actually... 00:36:46.900 --> 00:36:50.300 Touch his body. Okay. The first point of contact 00:36:50.300 --> 00:36:52.679 was on his arm. That's what I'm trying to say. 00:36:52.739 --> 00:36:56.679 And then to confirm it, that it is a deliberate 00:36:56.679 --> 00:37:00.260 handball, that jerking motion. Okay. That second 00:37:00.260 --> 00:37:03.559 motion is what confirms the penalty. Okay. Whereas 00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:06.639 the first one could have been construed as a... 00:37:07.210 --> 00:37:10.329 As an accidental handball. Yeah, okay. That's 00:37:10.329 --> 00:37:12.530 my reading of what happened. That's fair enough. 00:37:13.170 --> 00:37:16.969 Yeah, and Diarra converts the penalty. Yeah. 00:37:17.050 --> 00:37:19.150 I've never heard of this player, and he's apparently 00:37:19.150 --> 00:37:22.010 Sunderland's penalty taker. Yeah. Enzo Le Fay 00:37:22.010 --> 00:37:24.050 is the usual taker, and I assume he was injured 00:37:24.050 --> 00:37:26.489 or something, but I've never heard of this Diarra 00:37:26.489 --> 00:37:31.369 chap. And, yeah. It also, to be honest, wasn't 00:37:31.369 --> 00:37:34.369 a very good penalty. It was not. It was not. 00:37:34.650 --> 00:37:38.409 He was so poor. He got a little bit lucky. Very 00:37:38.409 --> 00:37:41.750 lucky. The keeper already dived. If the keeper 00:37:41.750 --> 00:37:44.909 had waited one second more, he would have hit 00:37:44.909 --> 00:37:48.309 his legs and not gone in. It actually came off 00:37:48.309 --> 00:37:51.630 his hip. Maybe if he was a little bit higher. 00:37:51.869 --> 00:37:54.190 Yeah, if he was a smidge higher, it wouldn't 00:37:54.190 --> 00:37:58.289 have gone in. Brighton 0, Arsenal 1. So again, 00:37:58.369 --> 00:38:00.369 based on highlights, it looked like an even game. 00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:05.079 The goalkeeper makes a meal out of a speculative 00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:08.679 soccer shot. So I think that's Bart Verbruggen. 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.480 Yeah, it is. He went straight through his legs, 00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:14.199 which was very poor. Yeah. Very poor. It was 00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:16.599 a long speculative shot. It was from far out. 00:38:16.860 --> 00:38:19.239 It's not like it was, you know, particularly 00:38:19.239 --> 00:38:22.179 incredible. It was just... Yeah, it was just 00:38:22.179 --> 00:38:26.739 poor from Verbruggen, to be honest. fabian herzler 00:38:26.739 --> 00:38:29.320 said after the match quote there was only one 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:31.840 team playing football i would never want to win 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:35.039 like that end quote so i assume based on that 00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:38.340 quote arsenal were parking the bus yeah uh it 00:38:38.340 --> 00:38:40.800 does seem that way yeah i didn't watch the game 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:44.460 but uh that's what i assume uh i mean they took 00:38:44.460 --> 00:38:47.980 the lead 10 minutes in so i guess they don't 00:38:47.980 --> 00:38:50.300 really have anything to play for after that and 00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:52.639 that's what kind of frustrates me about arsenal 00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.699 that They'll score a goal and then try to hold 00:38:55.699 --> 00:38:59.219 on, where instead of teams of the past or champions 00:38:59.219 --> 00:39:02.639 of the past that would go for the kill, try to 00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:06.039 score more, go for three, go for four. I hate 00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:09.539 this defensive type of football that Arteta plays. 00:39:11.019 --> 00:39:14.139 It's not good for the league. If they win the 00:39:14.139 --> 00:39:15.980 league and other teams start playing like that, 00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:19.619 it's just what's happening to the league that 00:39:19.619 --> 00:39:24.440 I love. Next thing you know, we're La Liga. Well, 00:39:24.619 --> 00:39:26.360 I mean, La Liga has some nice football every 00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:29.420 now and then. Anyway, Man City 2, Nottingham 00:39:29.420 --> 00:39:32.340 Forest 2. Yeah. So, in my opinion, City were 00:39:32.340 --> 00:39:35.539 badly cheated. Yeah. They had two good penalty 00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:38.119 claims turned down and not even looked at in 00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:41.039 the one case. Yeah. And Forest scored two very 00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:44.420 good goals like screamers. Really outstanding 00:39:44.420 --> 00:39:48.260 stuff. Yeah. One was a backheel through the legs 00:39:48.260 --> 00:39:53.250 of Morgan Gibbs. No, from Morgan Gibbs. I think 00:39:53.250 --> 00:39:56.309 it was Ruben Diaz. Yeah. I don't know. No, one 00:39:56.309 --> 00:39:57.989 of them. Because they were showing their legs. 00:39:58.030 --> 00:39:59.489 They weren't showing their faces. So I don't 00:39:59.489 --> 00:40:02.710 know who. No, it was Diaz. Okay. Yeah. It goes 00:40:02.710 --> 00:40:05.090 through his legs and beats Donnarumma on his 00:40:05.090 --> 00:40:07.590 right hand side. Then Elliot Anderson gets the 00:40:07.590 --> 00:40:10.210 ball in midfield, does a one -two, and then scores 00:40:10.210 --> 00:40:13.010 a curler. And Donnarumma just can't do anything 00:40:13.010 --> 00:40:16.489 about it. It was so well hit. Yeah. Incredible. 00:40:17.070 --> 00:40:20.510 Right. But the question is, is the title race 00:40:20.510 --> 00:40:23.409 over after last night? I don't know. The gap 00:40:23.409 --> 00:40:25.570 is seven points with City as a game in hand. 00:40:26.250 --> 00:40:30.050 Yeah, but they do play each other. Yes. So that's 00:40:30.050 --> 00:40:32.510 the question, right? Say City win their game 00:40:32.510 --> 00:40:35.849 in hand, the gap is four. Say they beat Arsenal, 00:40:35.929 --> 00:40:38.170 the gap is one. Yes. They still need Arsenal 00:40:38.170 --> 00:40:42.570 to drop points somewhere. Yes. Now, it was in 00:40:42.570 --> 00:40:45.190 City's hands, now it's out of their hands. Yeah. 00:40:45.210 --> 00:40:50.030 So, do you want to maybe look at Arsenal's fixtures 00:40:50.030 --> 00:40:53.610 and see if... They'll beat, or who could beat 00:40:53.610 --> 00:40:58.010 them? Newcastle, maybe. So let me just go. Arsenal 00:40:58.010 --> 00:41:00.789 versus Everton. Everton have a good defense, 00:41:01.070 --> 00:41:05.409 but I don't think this is the game that Arsenal 00:41:05.409 --> 00:41:08.369 are going to drop points in. Then they have Bournemouth. 00:41:08.550 --> 00:41:10.789 Low -key, I think Bournemouth can do something. 00:41:11.150 --> 00:41:13.530 Maybe. Because Bournemouth are such a chaotic 00:41:13.530 --> 00:41:16.989 team. Yeah. So... They thrive on chaos ball. 00:41:17.250 --> 00:41:21.030 Yes. So to get, like, Arsenal flustered... All 00:41:21.030 --> 00:41:25.409 over the place, that could be a way of beating 00:41:25.409 --> 00:41:29.650 them. Could be an option, yeah. Newcastle, they 00:41:29.650 --> 00:41:32.909 could be an option, but they're playing at the 00:41:32.909 --> 00:41:37.070 Emirates, so they don't have the power of SJP. 00:41:37.429 --> 00:41:41.030 Yeah, St. James' Park, for those of you who don't 00:41:41.030 --> 00:41:43.050 know. We'll skip the City game because, like 00:41:43.050 --> 00:41:45.630 I said, for this to work, City have to win that 00:41:45.630 --> 00:41:48.489 game. They're playing Fulham and West Ham, which 00:41:48.489 --> 00:41:51.329 both of them I don't think... are the ones to 00:41:51.329 --> 00:41:54.369 do it unlikely then burnley and crystal palace 00:41:54.369 --> 00:41:57.730 also not the ones to do it so i think palace 00:41:57.730 --> 00:42:00.550 might be able to uh the thing is palace are in 00:42:00.550 --> 00:42:03.809 a bad place right now they are but they might 00:42:03.809 --> 00:42:06.510 show up for a big game could be on the last day 00:42:06.510 --> 00:42:08.869 of the season yeah everything's against us and 00:42:08.869 --> 00:42:14.530 yeah top shagger ollie glasner comes in and ends 00:42:14.530 --> 00:42:17.909 the arteta minutes i would love it i would love 00:42:17.909 --> 00:42:20.880 it and i think i deserve it I mean, last game 00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:23.579 of the season, London Derby, everything to play 00:42:23.579 --> 00:42:27.559 for. Well, maybe nothing to play for. Well, there's 00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:32.059 Fulham, West Ham. They're also London Derbys. 00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:34.260 So three London Derbys. They are, but they're 00:42:34.260 --> 00:42:37.139 not the final game of the season. Yeah, but Burnley. 00:42:38.380 --> 00:42:41.119 I'm just like, oh, this guy can't do it, this 00:42:41.119 --> 00:42:43.059 guy can't do it. And then it's Burnley who turns 00:42:43.059 --> 00:42:45.960 up. Burnley who beat them 1 -0 and dashed their 00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:50.780 title hopes. It would be incredible if, like, 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:54.119 they had, like, two or three draws in the next 00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:58.719 few weeks. I would like, well, it would. Well, 00:42:58.739 --> 00:43:01.400 let's look at who City have to play. So City 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:05.380 are playing West Ham, Crystal Palace, Chelsea, 00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:10.039 Burnley, Everton, Brentford, Bournemouth, Villa. 00:43:10.260 --> 00:43:12.989 It's their Brentford game. That's dangerous. 00:43:13.309 --> 00:43:18.190 Yeah. That's very dangerous. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe 00:43:18.190 --> 00:43:21.769 Chelsea as well, but the way Arsenal dealt with 00:43:21.769 --> 00:43:24.570 Chelsea, I watched those games, and Chelsea are 00:43:24.570 --> 00:43:28.269 so predictable. Yeah. You know what they're going 00:43:28.269 --> 00:43:31.570 to do, and yeah, I just don't think they're going 00:43:31.570 --> 00:43:34.869 to beat City. That's, you know, my opinion. Well, 00:43:34.909 --> 00:43:38.150 it's either going to be down to City versus Brentford 00:43:38.150 --> 00:43:40.409 or Arsenal versus Bournemouth, in my opinion. 00:43:40.409 --> 00:43:43.449 Those are the two key fixtures that we are looking 00:43:43.449 --> 00:43:46.449 at in this title race. Okay, but hear me out, 00:43:46.550 --> 00:43:52.170 right? What if Villa get over their burnout by 00:43:52.170 --> 00:43:57.489 then? By the last game of the season. I see. 00:43:58.889 --> 00:44:01.510 You know, once upon a time, we were one point 00:44:01.510 --> 00:44:04.389 behind City and Aston Villa were beating them 00:44:04.389 --> 00:44:08.010 2 -0 on the final day. And they scored three. 00:44:08.190 --> 00:44:15.030 We scored three and we lost. Okay, so maybe let's 00:44:15.030 --> 00:44:17.409 not hope on Villa. Yeah, Villa on the final day 00:44:17.409 --> 00:44:22.730 is not a happy hunting ground for us. Okay. Fulham 00:44:22.730 --> 00:44:26.099 0, West Ham 1. Based on highlights, Fulham had 00:44:26.099 --> 00:44:29.059 all the play, but Somerville scored after a mess 00:44:29.059 --> 00:44:32.059 -up by Bernt Leno. Yeah. Any other thoughts about 00:44:32.059 --> 00:44:35.880 that game? Not really. I think they got a little 00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:38.860 bit lucky there. So the question is, will West 00:44:38.860 --> 00:44:42.760 Ham survive? I don't know, to be honest. I think 00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:46.380 so, and I think comfortably. So I believe, despite 00:44:46.380 --> 00:44:49.179 the memes, I think Wolves are not going to do 00:44:49.179 --> 00:44:53.760 a great escape. No. Burnley, I think, are down. 00:44:54.269 --> 00:44:57.530 So it leaves one spot left. One spot between 00:44:57.530 --> 00:45:01.170 West Ham, Nottingham Forest, and Spurs. And I 00:45:01.170 --> 00:45:03.150 think West Ham are just too good to go down. 00:45:03.230 --> 00:45:06.510 They've won three of their last five, I believe. 00:45:07.369 --> 00:45:11.289 And those other two were draws. So I think form 00:45:11.289 --> 00:45:13.909 -wise, they're the best position team. Nottingham 00:45:13.909 --> 00:45:17.190 Forest, I think with their new appointment of 00:45:17.190 --> 00:45:19.750 Vitor Pereira, I think they're going to survive 00:45:19.750 --> 00:45:22.130 as well. And I think Spurs are going to go down. 00:45:22.789 --> 00:45:25.440 Okay. Because Igor Chudov, I don't know what 00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:29.260 kind of appointment... Like, who recommended 00:45:29.260 --> 00:45:33.420 this man? This is such a... He walked in and 00:45:33.420 --> 00:45:36.880 lost two games already. It's incredible. And, 00:45:36.940 --> 00:45:40.400 yeah, they have a lot of players out, like Kuduz, 00:45:40.699 --> 00:45:45.599 Kulosevsky, Madison, Solanke at the moment, I'm 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.780 pretty sure. Like, a lot of their good attacking 00:45:47.780 --> 00:45:51.360 players are out. So... I'm pretty sure at one 00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:55.099 point they, like... They only had like 12 or 00:45:55.099 --> 00:45:57.980 15 or something in the squad. I think it's currently 00:45:57.980 --> 00:46:02.099 10 players injured. No, like 12 or 15 players 00:46:02.099 --> 00:46:06.219 that could play. But yeah, I see what you're... 00:46:06.219 --> 00:46:09.920 Yeah, any other thoughts about Fulham West Ham? 00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:14.320 No. Okay. I didn't watch it. Essendon Villa won 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:17.800 Chelsea 4. Yeah. So Villa scored a classy goal 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:20.530 after two minutes. Yeah, fair play. And then 00:46:20.530 --> 00:46:26.010 Chelsea dominated them. Chelsea absolutely dominated 00:46:26.010 --> 00:46:29.269 them. Just, like, a lot of, like, very basic 00:46:29.269 --> 00:46:31.630 goals. It's not as if, though, Chelsea were really 00:46:31.630 --> 00:46:37.090 incredible and created, like, outstanding efforts. 00:46:37.250 --> 00:46:40.590 It's just, like, the guy gets played in, he puts 00:46:40.590 --> 00:46:44.690 a cross in, and Jao Pedro taps in. It's, like, 00:46:44.809 --> 00:46:49.170 that's how most of the goals happen. Yeah, not 00:46:49.170 --> 00:46:51.369 much to say about it. Do you have anything you 00:46:51.369 --> 00:46:53.349 want to say about this game? I just want to ask 00:46:53.349 --> 00:46:57.570 you, how's this weather we've been having? It's 00:46:57.570 --> 00:47:03.119 been cold. Cold! Okay. He's rubbing his shoulders 00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:06.599 like Cole Palmer. All right. That was it. All 00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:09.380 right. Enough. That's such a bad joke or whatever 00:47:09.380 --> 00:47:12.139 that was. Can I call it a joke? Yes. That's so 00:47:12.139 --> 00:47:17.199 awful. I shudder to call it a joke. I don't know 00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:20.480 what that is. You shudder because yeah? Okay. 00:47:22.179 --> 00:47:24.840 Thank you for listening. Please remember to rate, 00:47:24.940 --> 00:47:29.400 review, subscribe, give a like, etc. Importantly, 00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:31.750 it needs to be a five -star review. You can find 00:47:31.750 --> 00:47:35.010 all our links at pdfootball .com. 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