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My name is Presh, and this week we have a guest
host. Can you tell the listeners your name and
who you support so everything's up front? Hi,
I'm Isaylin, and I support Manchester United.
Alright, I don't know. Listeners, you've never
heard this guy before, but he's putting on an
accent. It's very bizarre. But, okay, I'm the
only one who knows that here. Anyway, how are
you doing? Yeah. I'm doing okay, and yourself?
I'm alright. I've been listening to audiobooks
recently. I listened to the Dune audiobook, the
Moby Dick audiobook, and the Godfather audiobook.
Very good movies. Yes, but the Godfather audiobook,
it's like very... All of them, they give a lot
more detail. Yeah. But the Godfather one is especially,
like, trashy. Oh, okay. It's like Sonny had sex
with her and the cum was dripping down her. Oh,
okay. Okay. it's so graphic yeah it's very graphic
and then uh but the movie makes it a little bit
classier they just have sex and then you see
it dropping down you don't they don't tell you
all right anyway i'm looking for a new audiobook
to start i'm watching them on youtube and uh
the recommendations are like fiodor dostoevsky
books and like you know really heavy literature
stuff i'm not really keen to get into right now
yeah i've never heard of that before dostoevsky
wow but then uncultured uncultured reader yeah
but yeah i'm not a big reader but uh i'm cultured
i'm aware i'm aware of the world around me right
all right i'm just uh so let's start with wolves
won liverpool three and wolves made seven changes
to the team that beat liverpool in the league
game on tuesday uh so tylen and i covered that
game last week but Didn't realize in that game.
They also made seven changes to the prior game.
So in back -to -back games making seven changes
so the end in that game they beat Aston Villa
to know they beat us to one and now Okay, they
lost, so mixed results, but mainly positive.
It's a sign of a good coach, I think, that you
can chop and chain certain players, but the ethos
and the style of play remains the same. It used
to be like that under Jurgen Klopp, where a backup
right -back would do the same thing, maybe not
at the same level as the starting player in that
position, but it's been drilled into them. It
definitely comes down to the coaching because
I feel like different teams, although the quality
of players are different, if that same system
can run through the whole squad, it's definitely
a sign of a team that has their, I was going
to say stuff together, but you know what I mean?
Yes, have their stuff together. That's exactly
right. Liverpool, quote unquote, only made four
changes for this game. Another example of Arneslott's
absolute refusal to rotate properly. So he started
Alisson instead of Mamedashvili in a cup game.
Chiesa cannot get a game to save his life. No
changes to an already tired -looking midfield.
Gravenberg especially looks like he needs a break.
And then we have a youth player named Traignoni,
who only got 10 minutes, who's supposed to be
Gravenberg's backup. Then the first person to
complain about fixture congestion and player
fatigue will be on a slot. He is a massive hypocrite.
Every time, every interview after the next pisses
me off even more. But yeah, any thoughts about
the team sheets for both teams? I will say I
like that he started in Gomoa. I don't like that
he's still starting Gakpo. Yes. I feel like your
attack could be so inventive. So I said this
in the last episode. Our starting wing should
be Riongamo on the left and Jeremy Frimpong on
the right. Those are two of our currently most
creative players. So, yeah. And especially, I
think Ekatsika is one of the best signings or
players this season. Positions. Yeah. And, okay,
it's a cup game. So I get why you wouldn't start
him. But I don't know. what Gakpo is shown to
be consistently starting. I suspect that him
and Slott are lovers. That's my only explanation
I can find as to why Cody Gakpo can never, ever
be dropped. Never. Yeah. It's a damn shame. But
this is the thing. Rian Ngamoa is good. But there
were people calling it man of the match worthy.
And I disagree with that. The only reason is
because Gakpo is awful in the left wing position.
The Liverpool fan base seeing someone with actual
ability to take on a man and be creative is like
when a caveman first saw fire. We are simply
awestruck and don't know how to act because of
that. So hopefully this will be the end of the
Gakpo era and the beginning of the Rio era. Hopefully.
I said this last week about the league game,
but this type of fixture is the most boring,
both to watch and to analyze. Did you watch the
game? I watched the first half. So Wolves are
going to sit deep and counter, and it's a question
of whether Liverpool can break them down or not.
A question that was answered, but I'd say it's
like a 6 out of 10 answer. We just barely passed
the test against the bottom team in the Premier
League, who, I have to stress, they beat us last
week. So losing one and winning one, And winning
unconvincingly is just very poor in my estimation.
It's inconsistent. And it was 0 -0 at halftime,
meaning they kept us at bay. Their plan, you
know, until very late on worked very well. Yeah,
from what I watched, I don't think they were
the better team, but they handled everything
thrown at them. Yeah, very well. You don't need
to be the better team to win a game. You just
need to have tactics and to implement it properly.
And like to, you know, to be somewhat flexible
in the face of what's happening. Exactly. Yes.
In terms of individual moments, Robertson scored
a screamer. Yeah. Possibly the sweetest he's
ever hit a ball. I was really impressed by that.
Because the thing about Robertson is, attacking
-wise, he really fell off. There's been a lot
of games where he just will put the ball totally
into the stadium, the top tier of the stadium.
So, you know, it's good to see him. Because not
just that, the second goal was Robertson putting
in a cross and Salah just had to tap in. Really
good play from Robertson once again. So, he's
who I would say is the man of the match. And
then Curtis Jones rounded it off with a very
neat finish. That's about it. Any notes or anything
you want to say about the goals? The first goal,
I think that was just beautiful from Robertson.
And the only thing that I think I can critique
on Wolves is that maybe they should have closed
him down quicker. But even then, it was just
a great strike. you know, twisted back a little.
Salah was in space. So they all went over to
the left -hand side to kind of stop Salah, and
that worked. Salah had to play it back inside,
and no one expected Robinson to hit it first
time. So they were kind of doing the right thing.
They went to the man, the more quote -unquote
dangerous player in Salah, who actually hasn't
been that dangerous, but that's another conversation.
It's understandable that Robertson wasn't as
tightly marked as the forward players. So, once
again, Wolves are hard done by the situation.
Alright, still with the second goal. You said
they moved the ball quicker and then... Wolves
weren't quick enough to react. And, yeah, goal.
Yeah, third goal. Curtis Jones... Put a curl
in. Yeah, he just pretty much walked through
the hole. midfield like defensive midfield kind
of area and just he had too much space so now
I'm not an expert on Wolves the squad but a guy
I really like is Andre he was with some South
American team and they won the Copa Libertadores
every time I see him I think wow what a neat
player and he wasn't playing so perhaps that's
a maybe a reason yeah But once again, I have
to say that the team was relying on individual
brilliance instead of tactics to break down Wolves'
defense. Robertson in the first two cases, Curtis
Jones in the third case. At no point did we tear
apart Wolves through, you know, like pressing
them high and like turning the ball over or like,
you know, dominating the position and, you know,
moving them from side to side and then getting
the ball through. Or like, you know, it's very
disheartening to see the team Or even draw them
in and then hit them on the counter. There's
plenty of ways to score a goal, but recently
we've just been relying on set pieces. We beat
Sunderland 1 -0, we beat... West Ham. No, we
beat West Ham, but we scored lots of goals. Oh,
but we... Three of them were set pieces, yes.
But I'm saying we beat somebody else 1 -0 and
it was a set piece. Doesn't matter. Wolves' consolation
goal comes from one ball over the top from the
keeper and Sabotsalai doesn't deal with it and
Hwang scores. So this is not a good sign. It's
a sign of a poorly coached team that they are
caught out by one ball over the top. That being
said, Sabotsalai is not a right back. He has
some good defensive instincts, but we can't expect
him to know what the right thing for a fullback
to do in every situation because that's just
not... how he learned the game, you know. I think
Robertson is also, he was a bit, as a fullback,
if you know that your other defender, if it's
a two -on -one pretty much, and you know that
your teammate has the person, right, they're
following the person, you need to cut off either
a side that you think they're going to go or...
passing lane and he kind of just slows down and
doesn't really close him down yeah all right
I didn't notice that but good catch yeah so Robertson
a mixed bag you're saying yeah but I think overall
goal and assist versus one consolation goal exactly
you know yeah pretty he's coming out on top yeah
he's not completely at fault but I think that
was just a bit of a blemish on a otherwise good
performance I think any other thoughts about
the low pool game because like that's really
all i have to say type games like this it's there's
nothing much to talk about yeah yeah i just i
think i don't know what changed from the first
half to the second half for wolves but from what
i watched in that first half they were very compact
the thing is also with these games is you can't
defend for 90 minutes yeah so there's another
thing that we underrate is that the concentration
of players we don't we obviously can't see the
mental fatigue yeah so concentrating for 90 minutes
is very tough for any yeah anyone so that therefore
usually in these games around the like 70th minute
or so that's when you know, mistakes start to
creep in. That's when the bigger team usually
makes their move. Yeah. So that just makes sense
to me that, you know, it's not anything out of
the ordinary that Wolves lost their concentration.
And I do wonder if it has to do with these seven
changes, you know, that's very drastic. Also,
I know it worked against Villa and you guys,
but I think it's extremely drastic. Yeah. Seven
is a lot. Back to back. I don't know. I don't
think it's sustainable. Newcastle won Man City
3. So Newcastle made four changes to the team
that beat Man United, as well as a change of
formation into a 4 -2 -3 -1 instead of 4 -3 -3.
So we spoke about this a few episodes ago, but
Nick Valtamato was playing in the 10 again. A
misuse of him, in my opinion. But we'll get into
that, right? City made 10 changes to the team
that drew with Nottingham Forest, with only Mateus
Nunes retaining his place. The front three of
Doku, Marmoosh and Savinho, in my opinion, is
absolutely rancid. I think all three of them
are Europa League level players, and if you mix
them with like a Cherki, Semenyo and Haaland,
they seem decent. But playing the three of them
together is a mistake in my eyes. I saw two City
fans on Twitter ask if they were throwing away
this game to focus on the Champions League game
on Wednesday because of that front three. But,
yeah, you were going to say something. I feel
like they're good individual players. But when
it comes to cooperating for a goal, I don't know.
I know that Mamou scored two and Savinho scored
one. And Doku got two assists. Yeah, but those
were individual. moments. I know, can I go into
the goals? Yeah. So. You can do whatever you
want. The goals came from Doku running on the
wing and I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but
Newcastle's defensive move when someone's running
on the wing is to compact and their fullback
gets drawn in. So if it gets past their fullback,
there's a free attacker and it happened twice
for Savino's goal. And for one of Mahmood's.
Mahmood, yes. And it's a good exploit, but I
don't know how to explain it. It's just, it's
not them being good. It's that Newcastle makes
mistakes that they exploited. Yes. You know what
I mean? Yeah. Yeah, so. Manceri not good, Newcastle
worse. Yeah. pretty much yeah just going back
to uh there's something a point I made I wanted
to make to Darren right but he wasn't here in
the last episode and he's not here in this episode
so he He said that Eddie Howe lives and dies
by his high press. And I didn't say anything
to him, right? Newcastle have been playing counter
-attacking football. They've been sitting deep,
you know, keeping compact. And then when there's
space available, hit them on the break. This
has had mixed results. You know, they lost to
City in the league. They won against United and
they lost again here. So I'm not saying it's
a winner. But I'm just saying, Eddie Howe has
left the high press behind and he's, you know,
being a little bit more practical. But, no, not
but, because they are like 13th in the league
or something like that, they're pretty low. So
being more practical about things and not, you
know, being so adherent to his ideology, a sign
of a good coach in my estimation. Yeah, I agree.
Not change of tactics, but... The way he approached
the league game against United, I think was great.
To go a man down, changing to a five at the back,
to whatever, he brought on midfielders and attackers.
He stayed positive. Exactly. And I, as a United
fan, I'm not angry at that. Although I feel when
they went down to City, they... They didn't show
the same fight back. Exactly. I don't know. Yeah.
Perhaps, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe
Man City is a better team than United. I'm wondering
if against one team it's difficult to score and
other team is pretty easy to score. I'm just
wondering out loud here, you know. So for the
first 20 minutes it was all Newcastle. They had
a few really good chances and City hadn't settled.
Especially John Stones. John Bonestones, one
of my favorite players. He was poor, but I think
we can put that down to rust because he hasn't
played much this season. He's had a few injury
problems here and there. So I'm not going to
totally blame it on him, especially because they
won this match. So for Newcastle's goal, it wasn't
anything spectacular. City just left a gaping
hole in their defence and Tonali played a through
ball into the space. Harvey Barnes then latches
onto it and opens up his body to finish. So watching
the highlights, it was actually Matthias Nunes
moving forward while the rest of the back line
maintained their line. So this caused the gap
for Barnes to score. So just a mistake by Nunes.
Again, I'm going to extend the same... Kind of
slack that I did to Sebastian Nunes, who's a
midfielder by trade. So Pep just forcing him
out to right back. Certain things I'm just not
going to blame him for. 1 -0 to Newcastle. I
think that the big positive Newcastle can take
was that Tonali was outstanding. Yes, he really
was amazing. I've noticed that not just this
game, the past couple of games. He really should
be at like, I don't know, a Barcelona. Yeah.
He's really that top tier kind of player. He
really is at the top of his game. Yeah, so for
the rest of the first half, City started to dominate
the ball and were just having it their own way.
And then the chances started to come in. So for
City's goal, Doku fizzes across it. Across, across
the box. The Newcastle defender completely misses
it and it bounces off Savinho to go in. That
really, perhaps... Either it just bounced off
him and he had no idea or that's the most nonchalant
finish of all time. He totally just... He was
super chilled about it. The second half starts
with the first half left off with City exerting
pressure and Newcastle powerless to stop them.
So throughout the match, I was just stunned by
how Newcastle just could not get the ball off
City. City are just too good on the ball to be
caught out by. now you could say well they don't
press them high they don't like try to pressure
them that much so city kind of had it easy in
that sense yeah so i guess uh i think it's just
they i don't think they they rose up to the occasion
you know what i mean they kind of just looked
tired and yeah so City's second goal is almost
a carbon copy of their first but this time the
cross came in from the right hand side with Mateus
Nunes fizzing a ball in and Mamouch had so much
time to much time and space to finish off nicely
so 2 -1 to City yeah any thoughts about that
yeah like I said they but if you see repeated
types of things that means it's a tactic that's
working not that They got lucky. Yeah, they got
lucky or something like that. I know, that's
what I was saying. Yes, about them exploiting
Newcastle's, not mistakes, but weaknesses. Yeah.
Yes, I totally agree with that. That's why I'm
saying Pep is the GOAT. There's no news to anybody,
but I'm just saying that's how a proper coach
is supposed to behave and set up his team. I
don't know if there's any other ball managers
who want to take some notes in the league if
they... All right. So this apparently wakes up
Newcastle, who start to gain some position and
create some chances of their own. So I also wonder
if it's perhaps City taking their foot off the
gas a little bit. And this lasts for about five
minutes until City regain their momentum and
go back to creating so many chances. The main
culprit, I think, is Reinders, who had so many
chances of his own, and he just fluffed them
all. Serie A's play of the year. He came in and
now he's on the bench at City. You know, it's
not looking good. So they eventually take advantage
of this dominance by a stunner from Mahmoud.
I still think he's overrated, but that was a
top, top finish. And he does have that in his
locker. Last season, he scored another like really,
really long range quality goal. Like the power
he generates is good, but he just doesn't do
that enough. you know a goal once in like maybe
30 games is not uh like somebody you should be
building your team around or like that should
be a key part of your squad yeah um yeah i kind
of feel bad for mamush because i do think he's
good and he has scored a few stunners but when
your competition in the team is holland i don't
think but they're different types of players
yeah but as a as a striker I would take Holland
over Marmush. Don't you think it's game -specific?
That, like, in certain times, it would be better
to have somebody who, like... Like a Marmush
who can play, like, as a false nine, who will
drop deep and, like, create space for the wingers.
Or, like, a Holland will lead the line and, you
know, try to bully the defender. Like, it's all
dependent on whatever match. And sometimes they
play together as well. Yeah. You know, I don't
think it's either or. Yeah. Okay. I don't...
Just from my perspective, I think, I don't think.
He's worth it. Yeah. He costs like 65 million,
something disgusting. Yeah. And. Just don't play
him. Eddie Howe makes a triple change. This was
his gambit to get back in the game. This is roughly
around the 70th minute. He brings on Joe Linton,
Dan Byrne and Anthony Gordon. And Pep responds
by bringing on Semenyo Foden and Cherki. So,
you know, six really good. changes but none of
these changes make a tangible difference to the
gameplay or the scoreline it's just they all
came on and the game carried on as it was just
city dominating the ball you know creating chances
but not taking advantage of it yeah yeah i feel
like although the quality is there i think being
down two goals kind of the wind taken out of
your sails it's just i don't think difficult
to pick yourself back exactly yeah all right
We're done with this. Do you have anything else
you want to say? Not really, I think. Now we're
in the miscellaneous section. This is just, you
know, two to five minutes. We just want to quickly
say something about, you know, a team, right?
So, or a game, I should say. Mansfield Town won
Arsenal 2. So, I didn't watch this game. It was
in the early afternoon, but I was tired and I
had a nap instead. However, I did hear that there
was a magnificent performance from Max Daumann.
Do you know who that is? 16 -year -old, yeah.
I even saw an Arsenal fan on Twitter say, Max
Daumann and Lamin Yamal are the new Neymar and
Messi. So, based on highlights, it looked like
an even first half, with both teams getting chances,
but the second half was all Arsenal. Arsenal's
first goal was a stunner from Madueke. Then against
the run of play, an Arsenal youth player named
Salmon gave the ball away at the back and Mosquera
couldn't recover in time to stop the goal. And
then Eze scored a stunner as well, assisted by
Max Dalman. Anything you want to comment on the
things I just said? Not really. I didn't watch
the game. But I do know from what I saw about
Max Dalman. Then you name her. Actually... I'm
actually unclear on if he's Neymar or if he's
Messi. The guy wasn't very clear about it, but
whoever Max Daumann is... I like Max Daumann.
I just think Arsenal fans get ahead of themselves
a little bit. Any other thoughts about the game?
I didn't expect this game to be anything other
than an Arsenal win, but based on highlights,
it was very close. Not very close, but... tighter
than you would assume. Yeah. Especially because
they had, like, they have very capable backups
in, like, Mosquera, Norgard, Madueke. Like, all
of them are very decent players, so they shouldn't
have struggled with, like, I'm not sure what
league Mansfield are in, but I think they might
be League 1. Next, Wrexham 2, Chelsea 4. So I
watched the second half of this game, but missed
extra time because I switched over to the City
game. Now, if you notice, we did the deep dives
into the all Premier League games. The other
games, I just kind of assumed that the bigger
team would win. And for the most part, that was
true. So it's Fulham, I think? Fulham lost? Well,
we'll get to that now. So yeah, I was supporting
Chelsea because, first of all, I don't like Ryan
Reynolds. I don't find him funny, especially
his Deadpool schtick. Regardless of who it is,
I dislike celebrity owners. The only reason for
a camera to pan to the owners... is if the team
or if the crowd is chanting for them to leave
the club right football isn't about celebrities
and their little tv show football is about losing
one nil to a relegation threatened side and then
scoring two goals in added time to break their
hearts you know it's about your star player getting
a yellow for diving and then getting up and getting
a second yellow for descent almost immediately
after right it's about having an awful season
but it's saved by winning a cup right so i'm
not gonna go through all the important moments
but i will say it was 3 -2 to chelsea and wrexham
scored in the last couple of minutes of extra
time to take it to penalties and var overturned
the goal apparently the first ever game in wrexham
to have var yeah and it overturned the last minute
equalizer that could have taken them to penalties
any thoughts so far on the wrexham a chelsea
game i thought so i did watch it but snippets
of it and i honestly thought that for the first
half it looked very tight and all the the full
game actually until extra time but it was very
tight and wrexham actually played good expansive
yes that's exactly what i was going to say it's
you would expect them to have parked the bus
and like try to uh you know be conserve their
energy and be be, let's say, practical about
it. But no, they went out, they played ball,
they took the attack to Chelsea. It was very,
like I said, I watched only half of the match,
or not even half of the match. I just watched
the second half, but it was a very entertaining
game. you know i kind of in certain parts wanted
wrexham to kind of win because chelsea are a
horrible club i hate chelsea but you know um
so yeah i wasn't i don't know who to root for
so i don't know another thing i will say is this
this was the slowest game i've ever seen in my
life both teams passed the ball so slowly i started
to wonder if the grass was too long and it was
like slowing down the ball I don't know what
it was, but it was very bizarre to watch. I personally
don't think Chelsea are a good team. Why do you
say that? They get the results, but I don't find
their football attractive to watch. I don't think
I've been stunned by a Chelsea performance in
a while. How much have you watched them? I'd
say a decent amount. Because they've only lost
to Arsenal. Yeah, but even the... I'm saying
the games they win. You think the performances
are bad? Yeah. Okay. I'm not sitting there like,
oh my days. Rosen, you're out, is it? The only
black coach in the league, is it? I'm just wondering.
I'm just wondering why you're so... I think he's
very funny. I'm wondering why you're a racist,
that's all. Okay. Sorry, carry on. Anyway, I
think he's funny. That's all I think about him.
He's... Like, people online have taken to calling
him LinkedIn Liam. Because he says stuff that
people on LinkedIn say. Like, that's how he carries
himself. Both him and Arteta. Yeah. So, yeah.
And they hugged each other and somebody put a
picture there and said, LinkedIn colleagues meeting
up. Yeah, anything else you want to say about
this? Or do you want to go through the goals?
Because, like, with this miscellaneous section,
we don't really go through the goals. But if
you want to, it's fine. Yeah, carry on. Go for
it. I thought Doyle's equalizer in the... He
flicked it... What's the word? Like, behind him.
Yeah. I don't know how to describe it, but that
was a very good goal. Backwards flick. I thought
that was beautiful. I thought both of Chelsea's
goals were very... Lame. Yeah. Their own goal...
it bounced off the keeper's back yeah from a
goal line clearance very uh a champion's goal
it was a good finish but there were at least
three like the defender just got caught out because
they went past him too quickly he didn't realize
yeah and then he tried to bring action pong down
but he wasn't strong enough yeah Yes. And even
the lead up to that, there were like three times
where Wrecking should have cleared. Yeah, one
guy slipped. Yeah. And they blame the guy who
slipped, but you have to look at the team. You
can't say this one guy, you're only as good as
your weakest link, etc. No, but the ball, he
should have been closed down. The ball shouldn't
have gone through. That defender should have
covered the ball. Again, it was a goal. But it
was just... I don't want to say lucky because
I don't think there's luck in things like in
football. But it wasn't a great goal. Which one
are you talking about now? The 10 -pounds goal.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. They didn't break down.
Yes, I agree with that. They got lucky from set
pieces. The third goal was Garnaccio's goal.
Like, he just wasn't marked at the back post.
And, again, take advantage of Wrexham's poor
defending, not their brilliance. Yeah, exactly.
Yes, I agree with that. Yeah, that's pretty much
what I said. Yeah, I didn't see a fourth goal,
but it said... Oh, Jao Pedro pretty much just
ran through the whole team. Wow. Yeah. And it
wasn't even, like, brilliant. They just, like,
left him. I have to put my hands up and say I
was wrong. I thought Jao Pedro, when he signed
from Brighton, I thought he would be poor. I
thought, you know, Chelsea were putting their
hopes on this guy to be their new centre -forward.
But even Enzo Maresca said Jao Pedro cannot score
20 goals in the league. He's not that type of
player. And to give him credit, Liam Roseno has
changed that around. He's the one who's kind
of supercharged Jao Pedro's season. And so, yeah,
I was wrong. Jao Pedro, good player. I think
he's a baller. But I think, Rossinho, I don't
know if it was after this game or before the
game, but he said he's up there with Haaland
and Mbappe and Kane. Why not? I don't think.
That's good management, right? To, like, pump
up your player, you know, like, in the media,
gas him up. You know what slot does? People were
asking for Rio Ngamoa to play more. And he said
if he was so good, he wouldn't be playing for
the England under -19s. Meaning... This guy is
16, by the way. Yeah. And he's playing for the
under -19s. And this guy is like, no, he would
be playing for higher... Yeah. But whatever.
Just ugly things on his slot comes out and says
about his players. Yeah. Just for no reason.
Absolutely no reason. Yeah, that's... I get gassing
your players up. Yeah, you want to make them
feel good and rated. But at the same time, I
feel like that's just unrealistic. Who cares
what he actually believes or what the truth is?
It's about how Jao Pedro in this case feels.
So, Rosenio is doing the right thing. I guess.
I think so. Any other things you want to say
about Wrexham versus Chelsea? Your best mate
Ryan Reynolds that you love. I don't... Deadpool
is your favorite character. I think it was a
good movie. Which one? Deadpool. The first one?
Yeah. The first one was good. The third one...
The third one is like a crime against humanity.
That's like... Everyone who made it should be
embarrassed of their affiliation with that movie.
Just poor, poor... Anyway, sorry. You were saying?
Yeah. I don't really have anything to say about
this game. It was just... I think... the difference
between the difference between a like championship
side or lower division side and a premier league
side really came to in extra time with the depth
but again it's okay it could be conditioning
which i think you're alluding to with the fitness
of the players but it could also be mental fatigue
which i just said yeah i think it's a combination
of both okay yeah yeah yeah that's true could
be that um Another person I'll mention is Rob
McElhenney. Do you know who that is? No. He's
one of the creators of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
He is Ryan Reynolds' partner in this Wrexham.
I don't think you've watched the Wrexham TV show.
Neither have I, but I'm aware of who he is. I
really like his TV show, It's Always Sunny in
Philadelphia. But one of the funniest comedies
of all time. If you have time, check it out.
It makes me burst out into laughter every time.
Port Vale won Sunderland 0. Now this is the shock
of the round. Port Vale from League 1 beat Sunderland
of the Premier League. I've never heard of Port
Vale in my life. Clearly haven't been playing
FIFA and then taking a team from like the non
-league to winning the Champions League. That's
a classic like FIFA 11 through 14 move. That's
okay, but whatever. um yeah so the goal wasn't
anything spectacular it was actually kind of
scrappy and the rest of the highlights were as
you would expect it was Sunderland peppering
the goal with shots and the keeper saving them
or you know it going wide or whatever yeah uh
yeah so it's just this is like I said with the
Liverpool game not the type of game you want
to watch or analyze. It's very frustrating when
one team sits deep and the other team is forced
to be creative and try to break you down. And
that team that's trying to break you down is
bad. Then it's a very frustrating watch. So I'm
glad I didn't watch this. Any other thoughts
you want to... Yeah, just the Port Vale one shot
on target, one goal. Very clinical. Yeah, incredible.
I didn't actually look at the stats for that.
Okay, pretty good. And then, like, they took
seven shots in total, one on target, compared
to Sunderland's seven on target. Yes, okay, I
did see that, yeah. Yeah, so, I don't know, it
just, I think in games like this, I honestly,
it's easy to just say, oh, just be more creative,
and the more chances you make, the more likely
you are to score. But when you're up against
a low block or a team just sitting back, it's
very hard to just come up with something, some
brilliance. But I understand what you're saying,
but given the context of this game, it's a Premier
League team versus a League One team. Usually,
the best way to break down a low block if you
don't have tactics to do it is just have better
players. And you would assume Sunderland would
have better players than Port Vale. But clearly
not. Yeah. I also feel like it's very much how
you turn up on the day. Okay. You know what I
mean? Maybe somewhere in the back rooms they
weren't very positive or they weren't, I don't
know, mentally they weren't there. Could be.
Definitely could be. Fulham 0, Southampton 1.
So this is another shock, but Southampton are
at least in the championship and were recently
in the Premier League. It's not as big a shock
as Port Vale winning. Based on highlights, this
was a very even match, with Southampton possibly
even being better than the scoreline suggests.
Despite the big chances for both teams, the game
was decided by a very soft penalty. Because as
I'm watching the highlights, I'm like, okay.
This is such a big chance. Clearly, this is going
to be the goal. They missed every single, like,
huge opportunity, both teams. I was like, wow,
this must be so frustrating to watch if you were
either Fulham or Southampton fan. Yeah. Yeah,
but, yeah, like I said, very soft penalty. I
didn't watch the match, but I think these soft
penalties are ruining football. Okay. Speak on
it. Even in the United Palace game where Lacroix
got a red card and we got a penalty. First it
started outside the box. Two, I think it was
a red card because there was no one covering
and he would have gone to, Kunio would have gone
to and scored. But they got a red card and we
got a penalty. And from there, it was all United
because they were just finished because of that.
And it's very soft. And I don't know. Okay, well,
I don't think that's because of the penalty,
is it? Yeah. I think you're more angry about
the red card. Because you're saying it ruined
the game. Yeah. You're saying he got the red
card because the penalty was so soft. Yeah. Okay.
I understand that. But what do you think about
an orange card? What would that be? Like in rugby,
you have the cinnamon. Yeah. So 10 minutes out.
Yeah. You get an orange card for like, maybe
I don't think it replaces the yellow. It goes
yellow. Second yellow is a 10 minutes out. Yeah.
And then red card is off. Okay. So you're trying
to keep the player on more so than. Yeah. But
you would think that certain players would abuse
this. Yeah. But you get what I'm saying where
an in -between where it's like. Take 10 minutes
off, you lose a player for a little while, but
it's a little bit more fair than losing the player
full stop. I do get that. Wasn't that trialled
sometime? It was trialled somewhere. But I don't
think... I don't know what came of that. Any
other thoughts about Fulham 0, Southampton 1?
Not really. I think they're just... Yeah, I would
have expected Fulham to win, but I actually quite
like the way Fulham play. They're very, okay,
not a tactic, but they do pass the ball quick
and they make a lot of runs and there's a lot
of dummy runs that the defenders have to kind
of watch out for and they pick their passes well.
But yeah, I didn't watch the game, so I don't
know if they did all of that. Well, like I said,
based on highlights, it seems Southampton were
the superior team. Yeah. So, probably not in
that case. Yeah. Leeds 3, Norwich 0. In the six
-minute highlights package that I watched, Norwich
didn't have a single chance. Leeds absolutely
dominated them. In fact, Leeds had another goal
dubiously ruled out. It could have been 4 -0.
Damn. And they had a few really big chances as
well. So, yeah. Another game, I guess it would
be fun to watch. Just seeing one team getting
dunked on. It's pretty funny. But another type
of game that I'm not so keen on, where it's so
open, it's one team just dunking on the other
team. What you want is a good game where both
teams are attacking each other and really going
for it. That's my ideal game that I like to watch.
you know, to each their own... A very back and
forth. I'm sure a Leeds fan would be like, no,
I want every game to end up Leeds 3, the other
team, no. I'm sure. But, yeah, any thoughts about
Leeds versus Norwich? I can't say that I've watched
Leeds at all this season. Not at all? Not at
all. Wow. That's... We've been chatting about
them recently and we've been chatting about Daniel
Farker. Sorry to repeat this to the listeners,
but I'm happy to go over it again. Daniel Farker,
when he was at Norwich, was extremely open at
the back. And Norwich went down, I think, conceding
a record number of goals. I'm not sure. Don't
quote me on that. But I just honestly remember
that Norwich team being so bad. They would lose
every week. But the thing is, they were good
at attack. So they would lose like 3 -1, 2 -1.
4 -1 you know whatever they would always concede
but they would always score so i know he's a
good attacking coach now at leeds they've been
conceding a lot less recently yeah and i wondered
why that was and the conclusion we've kind of
come to is that it's partly because he's playing
a back three which makes them tighter at the
back because there's an extra man. So if you
get beaten, there's an extra man always covering
the space. So it makes it much easier to defend.
But that's only part of the tale because clearly
he's improved his tactics because there's managers
who play a three at the back who are hopeless,
right? I don't know if you want to mention anyone.
No, I'm okay. Okay. Anyway, so Daniel Falker
has clearly improved. He's clearly seen the error
of his ways and, you know, found ways to combat
his previous weaknesses. And in that, Leeds looked
like they're actually going to stay up. They're
two points off, not relegation, but two points
off their closest rivals. So they're not out
of the woods, but based on how they're playing,
it seems as if though... they would go further
than Spurs, Nottingham Forest, West Ham. Those
are the three they're in competition with. So
yeah, anything else you want to say? Yeah, no,
I'm good. I just want to wrap that up by saying
Daniel Farker, take my hat off to you for being
an open coach that can, what's the word, learn
instead of being closed -minded like certain
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