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Said oh my word! Antonio Candreva cannot stop scoring absolute wonder goals!

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Hello and welcome back to Serie A spotlight this is episode 89 and we are hosts Matt and Rick

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here to bring you guys our first episode for the 2023-2024 season.

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It's so good to be back guys our goal of the week for the first round of Serie A was

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Candreva's second goal against Roma when brother Rich crossed the ball to Candreva

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who faked shot with his right and curled it in with his weaker left foot from the edge of the

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area absolutely magnificent. Yeah we thought his first goal was great but his second goal was actually

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even better. Follow us on your favorite podcast platforms and drop a rating be it Spotify,

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We also have a Fanta cultural league that will be kicking off with our patrons and perhaps you

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can be included in that next year. There was a minute of silence if you watched say this

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week you would have realized that you spent 10 minutes of your life quietly sat there wondering

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who's gone who's died it was Carlo Mazzone the legendary footballer and manager Matt why don't

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you take it away. Yep so in case you're wondering who this guy was he is the man who first made

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Totia regular player for Roma he is the man that made Pirlo a regista and even rejuvenated Bajo

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at Brescia in case that wasn't enough he also decided to bring Ascoli back into Serie A for the

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first time he was also a player as Jake was kind enough to mention at six foot three he stood as

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a tall physical center back he played for Roma Latina Spall Sienna and Ascoli where he became

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quite a legend his managerial career stent from 1969 to 2006 where he represented Ascoli,

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Fiorentina, Cantanzaro, Bologna, Lecce, Pescara, Caliari, Roma, Napoli, Perugia, Brescia and Livorno

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he would be described as a manager that was in style quite similar to Ballardini,

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Davide Nicola and Yacchini. Yes imagine those guys but like times a hundred another level you know

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he was the king of survival say managers and promotion sale blah managers he was the perfect

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hybrid and he was even looked up to a lot by a certain Pep Guardiola while he was

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representing Brescia there was actually one time where the curva of some team I couldn't

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forget who the opponents were. Atalanta kept hurling abuse at Mazzone, Mazzone waited until

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Brescia got the winner in that game and he just ran up to the curva and gave them a mouthful back

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so you could see Pep Guardiola in his post match interview this week wearing a t-shirt with a

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cartoon depicting that moment beautiful stuff so yes guys Seyha is back in full swing over the

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weekend we saw Sarri picking his nose purely giving his team talk on the sideline of the run out of

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the Lara Stadium because the ACs weren't working Mauro Summa repeatedly screaming USA after police

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searches debut goal Giannoglu taking out the referee a relatively unknown player celebrating a goal

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against Lazio with a flip leading into a golf swing Bellotti and the K. Tala are scoring in the

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opening match of the season despite not scoring in the entirety of the previous season Vincenzo

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Italiano aggressively removing a member of staff from his seat and Antonio Candreva turning into

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prime Roberto Baggio against Roma. What a league we're back baby we're back with a bang bro we're

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fucking back and we actually watched matchday one with a patron of ours Allen and him and his

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lovely wife Sam were actually over at our house because they were having a little vacay in Malta

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seeing some of Sam's friends and lovely couple two of the very very great people they're actually

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quite fun as well they're great they're fucking good time with them absolutely drink loads of beer

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and had a few Maltese delicacies and watched a bunch of culture so that was super fun.

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Cesco was over as well he stayed over to like two o'clock in the morning and it was fucking fun

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but it's such a great game. We played a game of FIFA he kept reminding us how long it had been

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since he played and then he beat me. It destroyed you and I beat him for it. Put him in this place.

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Yes but for all of you that are listening during your five minute commute in Malta

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it's important that I let you know exactly what happened in this matchday. So here we go to start

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things off the champions of Serie A but face the champions of Serie A and despite Fosnone taking the

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lead Napoli prevailed through Victor Ossiman and won the game three goals to one. Milan fielded three

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of their new starters of their new players rather against Bologna and Milan did manage to get away

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with an away victory. Two goals to Nyl spectacular performance by the Rossoneri. Inter had a good

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performance in beating not an easy side in Monza. Two goals to Nyl. Juve were absolutely electrifying

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in the Bianconeri. Derbjern got away with a three Nyl victory. Salernetana held Roma. Two goals to

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two away at the Olimpico thanks to a brace by Candreva. Let's just surprise the world as they

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got past Napoli with the score of two goals to one with the two goals coming towards the latter stages

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of the match. Sossuolo Nyl at Alanta two CDK scoring in his first match four at Alanta. Genoa

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one Fiorentina four a fiery display by Fiorentina but a very disappointing start for Genoa over there.

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Empoli Nyl Verona one Verona also getting a late winner over there and Torino Nyl Kalliari Nyl.

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Let's take it away with Frossignone one Napoli three bro let's start off with this game. This

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game of course can be viewed as kind of a super cup final no like you know you have the winner of

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the Champions League against the winner of the Europa League. It's the same thing winner of Serie B

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against the winner of Serie A of course Grosso is no longer the manager of Frossignone as discussed

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in our previous episodes Eusebio Di Francesco has taken over. Motonna. Exactly. Historically

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Frossignone have actually never beaten Napoli in Serie A and have conceded more goals to them

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than against any other team in the top flight. They've conceded 18 goals in five top flight games.

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Rudy Garcia maintains his unbeaten six game record against Eusebio Di Francesco while Napoli

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remain to have never lost an opening match against newly promoted teams with 14 wins and four draws.

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Let's get into the lineups. Turati was in goal for Frossignone as they lined up with their four

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three three formation Mark Kizza. The new arrival from Sasuolo was the left back with Simone Romanuoli

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and Montereyzi at the back while Ollano was the right back. Harui also arriving from Sasuolo was

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in the central midfield position alongside Matsitelli and Gelli while Caso was out on the left,

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Baez was out on the right and Cuni was up front. Cuni of course is the German Albanian youth product

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from Bayern Munich. Yes let's Marvin Cuni and get it on. Yes lots of Sasuolo on this team.

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Turati was also the young Sasuolo goalkeeper who featured a few seasons ago instead of Concilio

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when he was out injured. I believe he's still owned by Sasuolo and is out on loan at Frossignone.

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Well and take a look at the manager as well Eusebio Di Francesco, quite a history with Sasuolo.

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You're right, you're absolutely right. This is basically mini Sasuolo. Meret was in goal for

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Rudy Garcia as Napoli as they also lined up with a four three three formation. Di Lorenzo the captain

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was the right back while Rahmani and Jesus were the center back partnership with Oliver out on

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the left. Newcomer Caillust or Caillustel wait for someone to correct me on that one was a

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midfield alongside Lobotka and Zelinski. Poletano was out on the right, Raspidori out on the left

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with the formidable Victor Oziman up front. Caillust of course this was his debut after joining from

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Reims while Gvaratskalia was injured for this one and Anguisa did not start as he had just recovered

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from a muscle injury. Bravo. In the seventh minute Caillust attempted to clear the ball after a corner

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but he kicked by us instead and the penalty was awarded. What a nightmare start for the new arrival

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to have a penalty given away in the seventh minute. Excuse my voice guys, I'm a little bit croaky,

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hopefully it sounds sexy and not the way I think it sounds. Haruhi converted the penalty sending

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Merritt the wrong way. This of course pissed Napoli off and in the 24th minute Poletano took the

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initiative after Napoli regrouped. He scored with a powerful left-footed shot from a rebound off of

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Giacomo Raspidori's effort. Tirati could have done better on this one in my opinion. I think so too.

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I think so too. Shortly after Raspidori found the back of the net after a really cool maneuver but

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the goal was ruled out for offside. I'm a really big fan of these long and swinging crosses at the

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far post. Kind of what we saw Pulisic play to Reinders. It was the exact same move with Victor

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Rosyman who's definitely going to get to it. He's got limbs for days. He put his leg where most

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people wouldn't even put their face and he flicked it back to Raspidori who scored but of course

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it was offside. It would have been a great assist. Guess who was offside in the maneuver?

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Shit who was it man? It was Kajus. Or Kajus to achieve me again. Or Kajus. Napoli dominated

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after equalizing to be honest. In the 42nd minute Victor Rosyman started. He scored a

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blistering first time shot over Tirati after a strong run and passed by Giovanni D'Ilorre.

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So Moscow for usual Victor Rosyman means gold. In the 56th minute for Oceano as Jamie Baez came

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close with a long range free kick that smashed the woodwork and in the 79th minute it was all over

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for them as Oceano secured his brace by beating the offside trap and calmly finishing one on one.

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The simplicity of this goal was amazing. You can see Rahmani playing a vertical pass to

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D'Ilorre. So who flicked on another vertical pass to Rosyman who found himself one on one

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and finished the car. This had three touches for one goal from defense to attack. It was crazy.

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One pass defense to midfield, one pass midfield to attack, one shot gold. Yeah and the same

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assistor and the same goal scorer in both goals. Giovanni D'Ilorre and two assists for Victor

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Rosyman bagging two goals from those assists. What a leader. So the first thing I'm going to talk

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about bro over here is how Frasinone are clearly not afraid to play. In Serie A,

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B, they were the type of team that would dominate most games and dictate the tempo of each game

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and it looks like in Serie A they're going to try to do exactly that. The problem with doing that

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is that in Serie A the teams are much better and Frasinone on paper are probably the worst team

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in the league. So what do you think of this tactic? So I can't hate on a team that obviously

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goes out there and showcases great confidence and brings the game to their opponents. I do think

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that a plan B should be in place for when actually they do get that goal or they do get that cushion.

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I was impressed by the fluidity of Frasinone. I really was and I wasn't expecting that.

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I heard other views calling this team very slow. I heard them saying that they can't defend but

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to me Frasinone, this was a good debut for them this season. Getting that 1-0 against Napoli early

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on is not easy and I think after that, up until Napoli scored in the 24th, Frasinone were still

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attacking especially down that left flank where Caso was. I feel like Caso and Harui were doing

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a brilliant job down that left together and I think they were causing some problems for Napoli

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early on. They were definitely linking up well bro. If you look at the statistics over here,

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bar the shots because that's where Frasinone struggled in reality to penetrate the defence

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when it came to everything else. They were pretty much almost on par. They had 48% ball possession.

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The pass success rate was the same dribbles, slightly fewer areas won. Napoli of course had more

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tackles and Frasinone were dispossessed more times as a result of that. A pretty good

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debut for Frasinone and Seria this season. They didn't look terrible. I thought Napoli might

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blow them out of the water over here but they actually gave them a shock start and had to snap

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them out of it. Yeah, they did. We mustn't forget that despite us both having Frasinone very low

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down the table, they are the champions of Seria. Obviously this is a tough case study to take.

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Their first match of the season facing the champions. It's impossible to say, look, they

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did well so we think this or they lost the game so we think that. I think they showed great potential

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in this match. They had a good showing and they seemed to play the way they wanted to play against

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Napoli which takes a lot of Cajones. If they take these Cajones against some lesser teams to Napoli

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then they could have some success. Simple as that. Yes, the question is should they even bother

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trying against these teams. But anyway, let's compare and contrast Rudy Garcia's system with

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Spalletti's system. They both play a 4-3-3 but they're quite different. If you look at Spalletti's

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system it's more fluid. It's less direct. They play a lot of horizontal passes. On the other hand,

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when it comes to Rudy Garcia's system, lots of vertical passes counter attacking football,

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inverted wingers are very important and they give space for the full backs to bomb forward. We saw

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DeLorentz was important so over here he was super at this game. Often linking up with the midfield

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and playing balls forward. That's mainly the difference. I noticed that Rudy Garcia doesn't

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mind conceding a little bit more possession and Spalletti did. I think it will, despite because

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a lot of people just look at a 4-3-3 and a 4-3-3 and say, hey, there's not going to be an adaptation

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period over here but the reality is that they're two completely different managers and the style

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of play is actually quite different. We didn't see. Now obviously Napoli missed some key pieces in

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Anguissa and Kvaratskjelja that added a lot of fluidity to this team. It's hard to say how

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different Rudy Garcia's system is from Spalletti in this match because two players are totally

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different. I do think that Rudy Garcia does sit back a little bit more and allow his opponents to

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have the ball a little bit more. I think that Spalletti used to go out there and dominate

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possession and attack, attack, attack, attack, attack with high pressure up the field. It was

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nice to see the Napoli team defending and changing shape and transitioning off the ball. I don't know

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yet if they have improved or gotten worse but we'll wait and see. For me, Napoli's best signings

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were keeping Viktor Ozimen and keeping Zelensky. Of course, there was a 140 million euro offer

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from Al Hilal for Ozimen that was rejected by Napoli as he looks to renew his contract with

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150 million release close apparently. While Zelensky rejected a 35 million euro move to Al

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Ahli as well. Keeping those two as amazing, they played incredibly in the first game and we expect

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nothing less of them. I think that our interest should be thanking Mrs Zelensky for that.

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Yes, she had a big part to play. I won a little in Italy. But to me, if I were De Laurentis now,

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I know I might say something a little bit absurd but I would even think about not letting Viktor

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Ozimen go for 200 million because he is literally, I mean, you look at him and the second the ball is

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in and around his area, around the area, he's dangerous. We said that to Rat, he could have

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done better in the first goal, which he could have because the shot was quite central, right?

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But it was a powerful direct strike by Viktor Ozimen. No, that was the first goal. Sorry,

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Paletano, you're right. To be honest, Ozimen's first goal that made it to one was quite central

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also. It was a really awkward angle. Yeah, man. Yeah, and shades of that Sa Swalla game last season

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where he caught Concilie of guard as well. Viktor Ozimen in the final third is just absolutely

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unplayable. Different time. Best in the league. Honestly, man, I think he put Ozimen on city and

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he looked better than Holland. And you might call me crazy for thinking that. You might

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call me reactionary, but it's not. Ozimen is an incredible athlete. The type of worker that

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doesn't give up, doesn't slow down, doesn't stop fighting. He's got an eye for goal. He's fucking

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hungry. You know, I think he is up there with the top three best strikers in the world. I agree.

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Top three best strikers in the world. Absolutely. I think it's him and Holland are the top two.

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I think Holland number one and Ozimen number two. Simple as.

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Simple as. Kajus, of course, bro, we spoke about him a little bit. He was too eager. Of course,

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he gave away a penalty. He was in an offside position. He got a yellow card, very close

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tackle, then he was subbed off. However, his quality is clear and Garcia is very happy that his

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boy can play in all the midfield positions. Yeah, I mean, Kajus brother, Kajus, your first mistake

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is out of the way. Yes. Fear nothing now. Yes, look at Lewis Maximiliano.

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I mean, not a great case study to talk. Maybe Sanjo Tonali is a good case study to take.

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You know what I mean? Yeah, so that is it. No need to look at the table for now. Frosinone won

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Napoli three. Yes, sir. And the second game we're going to be covering is Bologna Nyl Milan

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two now coming into this game. Milan hadn't lost 26 of their last 27 matches against Bologna and

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Serie A, winning 19 and drawing seven. Milan are also now unbeaten in each of their last 18 away

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matches against Bologna and Serie A, winning 13 and drawing five. The Rossoneri entered the season

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with nine new signings and started three of them in this match with a change of tactics to 4-3-3

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from the 4-2-3-1. However, Moussa, one of the new signings, was suspended due to a ban carried over

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from Valencia and Ben Nasser is carrying a rather long-term injury, leaving them both out of the

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squad. Thiago Motta had to do without Moussa Barrow and Adama Sao Mauro in this match, while

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Ricardo Arsolini was not 100% fit, so he started the game from the bench. This was also Bologna's

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first match since selling Marko Arnavotovic to Inter. Now for the lineups, it was a 4-1-3-2

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formation for Bologna. At least we think it was because Motta is Motta. Skorupski in goal and

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the back four of Lico Giannis, Lukimi, Biu Chima and Posh Butcher, that one didn't I? Yeah, that was

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Leima. Were those all like 6-6-10 or something? Bukhema, I think Bukhema suits him. Abesher in

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the register role with Ferguson, Dominguez and Indoe playing in the middle with Mouro and Xerxes

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up front. For Milan, it was a 4-3-3 formation with Mike Manjane in goal and a back line of Calabria,

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Ciao, Tomori and Theo. It was a new look, midfield three of Ruben Loftus, Czik, Kronich and Reinders,

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but Pulisic out on the right, Leal out on the left, and the experienced Olivier Giroud up front.

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Now in the opening 19 seconds of the match and of Bologna's Serie A campaign,

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Lico Giannis carried the ball forward down the left flank and unleashed a long-range bullet

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which rattled the frame of Manjane's crossbar. He had Mike beaten and was an absolute electrifying

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start for Bologna. Jake was sat next to me going ahhhhhhhhh as soon as that happened.

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However, Milan slowly grew into the game, they didn't panic and in spite of that, in the 11th

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minute, Pulisic's inch-perfect long ball was squared off the line by Reinders and into the

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part of Giroud who opened Milan's account for the season. Two new players combining in very

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impressive fashion and the veteran and old reliable Olivier Giroud finishes it off,

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what a move by Milan, what a ball by Pulisic, what a cutback by Reinders and a good finish by Giroud.

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Super well-worked Leal, what a goal, absolutely man. Bologna continued to threaten, however,

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as Ferguson's volley from just inside the area flashed into the side netting with many Bologna

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fans thinking it was in, but when Milan went forward, they caused havoc. This time, Pulisic

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and Giroud exchanged a slick one-two before the American unleashed an accurate long-range strike

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into the corner with an outstretched Skorupski having no chance of denying him a debut goal,

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a flying start for Captain America and for Milan. Moments later,

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and that was Mauro Sumo of course reacting to the Pulisic goal. Unreal man, unreal. Moments later,

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it was the familiar Pulisic-Giroud combination that almost devastated Bologna once more as

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Pulisic's cross found a sweet left-footed volley by Olivier, but this time Skorupski got there

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with a one-handed save. In the 60th minute, Zerchse and Abesher cut through Milan's defense,

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but some solid backtracking by Tijani Reinders was enough to cause Abesher to scuff his shot

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with a comfortable save by Mike Manjane. Skorupski took Theo out with a brilliant hard but timely

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defensive tackle after Leal's ball was slightly overcooked. Leal gave away a dangerous free kick

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which was skied by Lico Giannis moments later and also Lini had penalty appeals after being

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taken down by Tomori, who else? In the 89th minute, Leal almost made it three after skillfully

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dismantling two Bologna defenders before hitting the far post with a low strike, very unlucky,

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from the Portuguese, who had quite a tough time adapting to this match. Now it was either one

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of these Leal off days or it was the fact that in this 4-3-3 it does seem like he's playing slightly

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closer to gold, man. He did have a bit of a rough one, but mostly because he was trying the audacious

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more often than not, right? Yeah, trying to stand out maybe. Exactly, perhaps he was trying to stand

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out to show everyone like, look I'm the main guy over here, but it's good to see that Leal,

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during one of his more frustrating games, was still extremely deadly and still got very close

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to scoring. At one point he was, I think he had beaten the goalkeeper and the defenders hand stopped

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it from going in. The sliding defender, I'm pretty sure the ball rolled over his hand. Oh yeah, I mean,

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yeah, but it didn't really change any direction completely. It's true, but he got so close to

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scoring on a frustrating day at the office. Not to mention he gave me a bloody heart attack at

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the end of the game when he kicked the ball up into the air after the final whistle and pulled

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up with cramps. Fucking Pulisic went down in the opening five minutes and we both stood up. I went,

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it's done! It's done! It happened! It happened! But thankfully not because Pulisic was absolutely,

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so I want to cover Milan a little bit and then we can go into Bologna because I genuinely think

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Mia had a great performance here. Don't think Bologna were fucking bad either, man. I think it

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was two great teams that went up against each other, but Pulisic looked like Milan's star player

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in this game. They grabbed a spectacular goal and got the pre-assist, assist with a beautiful ball

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to Reinders. His dribbling was absolutely on point throughout the entire game and he looked

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incredibly direct whenever he was in possession of the ball. What did you make of Pulisic's

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debut, man? It was amazing. Much better than I thought it would be during pre-season. He didn't

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look this good, but he was motivated. He worked hard. He was selfless and I was very impressed.

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One of the most impressive performers for me was Giroux. Giroux surrounded by quality players

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looks like a different player. You get the most out of him. This is what you need. This is what

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Salah Macker, Junior, Messias, Brahim Diaz struggled to understand the type of flick-ons and how

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Giroux wants to play it. With Pulisic and Loftus Schrieg, Reinders, these guys seem to understand

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this playstyle. I was going to say there's a clear familiarity between at least Pulisic and Giroux

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who combined twice in great fashion. It seems like Giroux knows where Pulisic is going and

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Pulisic knows what's coming after he plays the ball to Giroux. I think Giroux looked excellent

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in combining with his new and old teammates. I feel like they were playing off him very well.

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He linked up play with his back towards goal when he was dropping back in the build-up,

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providing these flick-ons and quick transitions. I think he looked so comfortable.

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To me, he looks like the ideal starting number nine for Milan. Still early days, naturally,

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it was the first match. He was hungry, Pulisic had a great match and probably made Giroux look

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quite good as well over there. It's a lot of time to go, but Giroux did look very comfortable with

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his teammates. If you had to play Giroux once every two weeks, once every three weeks, you would

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get an incredible striker. The problem is when you start burning him to the ground, playing him

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twice a week, playing him more often than not. Milan have recently been linked to Taremi again,

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and I really hope that happens because stylistically, he's quite similar and he's very good at build-up.

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He's a 20-goal-a-season striker, granted this with Porto, but very good numbers regardless.

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He can only score where you're playing. I think it would be a fantastic addition,

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thanks to that non-use spot that opened up because of the new English rule off the screen.

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Absolutely. I think Taremi would be a very similar kind of striker to Giroux in that sense, that

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Okafor is very different, like we spoke about earlier. He's a more explosive, quick kind of player,

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so it's good to get that familiarity that he would know how to play with Taremi before he's

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even arrived. But that's enough about Pulisic, it's enough about Giroux. Let's talk to Gianni, baby.

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Let's talk about Gianni Reinders. 100% pass accuracy, 28 completed passes, and they weren't

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always safe, but rather quite offensive. He covered the most ground in this match, and he looked

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energetic as fuck for 90 minutes. It's no wonder he played 50 matches for AZ last season.

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Super. I can't put it into words how pleased I am with how this guy's just come in and adapted.

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I didn't think it would be the case at all coming in from AZ. I thought the jump would be too big,

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but this guy once again looks so motivated, and he looks the most ready out of all the new arrivals,

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even in pre-season, everything. From what I've seen, he's the most impressive so far.

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Oh man, he looked very, very comfortable. He looked like he was at home. I think Ruben looked

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very good as well. I think to Gianni had a lot more liberty in going forward, which allowed him

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to link up with his new teammates very well. Oh man, I just want to see more of this guy. I want

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to see more of Pulisic, and I want to see more of Reinders, and I want to see more of Loftus

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Treak. I think they all had an excellent display. We also saw Choucou-Aza and Dockoffer feature,

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but at a point where Milan didn't see much of the ball. At that point, I feel Milan took their

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foot off the gas and didn't risk getting any unnecessary injuries. I think it was a very

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fluid performance by Milan as well. The only point of criticism I would have is that Calabria

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and Teo seemed to lack options when building from the back flanks. Yes, that's a good observation,

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and sometimes I felt like they were a little bit too casual with possession, particularly

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when passing between the center back. I think Kronich, there were two instances where Kronich

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was dispossessed because of passes that shouldn't have been played to begin with. At a point,

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Tomori went down on the left, and he too struggled to find a pass, and he was dispossessed, and they

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almost scored it when they all gave away that dangerous free kick. Tomori recently disabled

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comments on Instagram. He's been getting a bit of abuse. I don't think it's fair personally,

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but you always need someone to sing an outro right? Even after a dream start like this,

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the fans will always find someone to pick on. Thick, you're an animal, baby. You're an animal.

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Keep it up, big dick, thick. No. Sometimes it's frustrating to watch Milan when they have the

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lead or when they're getting trashed because some players can just become lone wolves, no lone

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rangers, solo raiders. We look at Teo Hernandez, for example, sometimes again, when Teo clocks 30

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kilometers an hour, he goes blind. Yes, yes, yes, yes. But he's allowed. He's allowed.

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He's allowed. Teo's allowed to do that. I enjoyed him for most of the game. Of course,

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Teo, I thought he was brilliant. I thought he was super street smart, very mature performance,

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but it comes to the point where it's like the 70th minute and he starts charging and he has clear

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options to pass down. He keeps going. I can't tell you about Philipistov. Same goes with Lea,

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right? Yeah, and I think like he goes down a little bit easy. The referee knows that he went

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down because of the speed he was moving at or because he's simulating and sometimes it's super

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frustrating when he just loses the ball like that. And all of a sudden there's a gaping hole down the

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left back road. I did enjoy how lenient the referee was by the way. Oh yeah, man, he let

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play flow. There was a penalty shout at a point that I think in hindsight for Bologna, the one

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of tomorrow. I think it could have been given. I think a lot of referees would have given it,

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but yeah, very lenient referee and at least he was consistent in his decisions. Now, Bologna,

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yes, it's not like Milan were facing a team that were not up to the task. Bologna looked very

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organized. They were fluid and they pressed Milan very well when the Rossoneri tried to build the

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ball back from tried to build the ball. My God, tried to build play up from the back. Amazing.

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In fact, Milan weren't doing much of that, but Milan were rather dispossessing and attacking.

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They tried to build the ball up from the back, but more often than not, Zerg Zay

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was pressing to oblivion and so were the midfielders. And I feel like they gave Milan a really tough

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time particularly before Milan found that first goal. Yeah, totally. Particularly from this

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Bologna side, I was impressed with Indoya, the new arrival. I thought he was super.

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Beo Kemma looks very good, but Jirou made his life a living hell by just releasing the second he

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got the ball. He couldn't mark him. I think Zerg Zay is a player with great potential,

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great potential, but he just doesn't have the confidence to shoot when he should shoot. He will

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always try to clear the defender every time, even if he has time before he'll wait for the defender

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to come, try to clear him and then shoot afterwards. It doesn't make much sense. A player with a huge

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ceiling, he is only 22 years old, so hopefully he will improve his decision making because he can't

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become a top footballer. He scored a crazy goal in preseason as well. Yeah, I think the season

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he'll get more minutes with Arnautovic out on Lesbologna make a last Hail Mary signing

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and should Orsolini repeat last year's form, they can form quite a dangerous partnership and the

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Vindoya, because Vindoya looked dangerous throughout the entire game and he was drifting left,

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drifting right and whoever was drifting was giving Calabria out of time, who was giving Teo out of

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time. If we see him play out on the left with Orsolini out on the right and Zerg Zay up front

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with Ferguson behind them, Zerg Zay has no excuse not to score and I think he should be a bit more

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selfish because he's a very self-displayed and he's always looking for that passman. Yes, it's an

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issue of confidence with him. For me, another player who stood out when you look at the great

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chances created by Bologna this game, Posh was at the end of both of them. Oh yeah. One clear

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header and I forgot the other one but I remember noticing that was Posh as well. A great goal

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scoring right back if you are a fantasy football player, Posh should be on your team. Yeah, and

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Moro shouldn't because he barely touches the ball and he's annoying. He frustrates me and not the

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way he plays or anything or not the way he dives and stays on the ground, it does all that but

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Moro just bugs me man. Can you explain it? I can't, he bugs me. It's something in the way he breaks

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his face when he complains to the referee, the way his face kind of turns into a...

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like it's the dimples that he gets and the complaining nature of him.

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The movement of the mouth. Yeah, he is a bit of a baby. That's Moro for you. Exactly and that was

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Bologna Niel Milan 2 for you. Yes, without ACs working in the Bologna stadium. Exactly, yep,

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forgot the point that one. So purely I had to give this fucking team talk on the sideline actually.

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It's fucking mad. But anyway, moving on to the other side of Milan, we have Inter 2,

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Monza, Niel. Inter have finally managed to beat Monza who along with Juventus were the only team

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that Inter failed to win a single match against last season where they came 2-2 and lost 1-0

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at the San Siro stadium thanks to a Caldera goal. Considering the top five European leagues,

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no newly promoted team collected more points than Monza last season, 52 points for them,

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the same as Fulham. Among the teams that have debuted and say on the era of the three points

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for a win since 1995, basically only Keavo in 2001, 2002 with 54 points have done better in their

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first division, the first season in the division. So very good start by Monza of course over there.

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Inter have won their opening SEA game for the fifth season in a row, last time drawing such a

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run between 1993 and 1997. So it's five opening game victories in a row. Now let's get into the

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starting 11. For Simone and Zaghi it was usual 3-5-2, it's been the same Inter for a while now.

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We have Summer in goal for his debut, Bastoni, De Vrij and Darmian at the back with Di Marco

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out on the left and Don Fries on the right, midfield 3 of Mikita, Insha'la Noglu and Barela

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with Newboy, Thuram up front alongside Lautaro Martinez. For Monza it was a 3-5-2 formation

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as well with Di Gregorio on goal, D'Ambrosio and Mari and Calderola at the back with Churi

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out on the right, Kerya Coppolis out on the left, Pesina, Gallardini and Colpani in the middle,

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of course Gallardini playing against his former team over here, Caprari and Maric played up front.

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Who the hell is Maric you might be asking? Well Maric has been owned by Monza since 2020 and

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has played 22 games for them and scored 2 goals. He was out on loan at Crotone where he played 36

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games and scored 11 goals, however this game he didn't really get much of a feel for the ball

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at all. But anyway, let's get into the play. Also, sorry to jump in but a crazy amount of Xs over here,

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D'Ambrosio, Gallardini, two former Inter players, Di Gregorio facing their former team. There was

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naturally Frattesi for Inter, there's Carlos Augusto for Inter as well, a fantastic amount of Xs.

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X on the beach baby. Inter got the ball rolling in the eighth minute, a clever first touch

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chip by Barella, broke down free from Gallardini and Pesina down the right, down free square,

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the Tlautarro who broke free from the three, Monza center backs Calderola was particularly isolated

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over here before Laotaro smashed it into the back of the net, 1-0, their captain starting and leading

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the charge. A lot of breaking free after the Maric, 1-2. Now, Monza had the opportunity to score

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after Summer spilled a true Yacross right in front of him, K. A couple of steed up his shot and

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attempted to smack it in only for it to be blocked by a flying Hakan Chalanoglu. Hakan Chalanoglu

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also flew into the referee shortly after knocking him to the ground, he was just flying all over

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the place. There's also inches from Saudi by the way for Chalanoglu. Oh, he'd like that. He would.

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Fucking money hungry. Neutral in the 76th minute, just nine minutes after coming on, Arnautovic

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received the ball on the left, he did a few stepovers and knocked the ball forward before

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delivering a perfect low driven cross, a cross goal and perfectly into the part of Laotaro Martinez

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who once again slides in and guides the ball into the back of the net, already celebrated passionately

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by fisting the air as Laotaro ran to him and embraced him and that was pretty much quite a

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comfortable tunnel victory for Inter as Monza didn't really trouble them that much. No, it didn't

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seem like they were playing the Monza that Milan faced in preseason. That seemed like a much tougher

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Monza to play against. I think it was a bit of an off day for them if I'm being honest. Now,

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naturally Inter got off to quite a quick start getting a goal in the eighth, which would have

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impacted Monza quite a bit, but it's also worth noting that Monza have lost, for example Carlos

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Augusto, who was a key factor for them in the past so they could be a slightly weaker side to

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decide that they were last season. Yes, Kea Coppola is okay, but he's no Carlos Augusto. Carlos Augusto

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is fantastic. I'm not going to blame their loss entirely on the loss of their left back, but I

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do think that they were set back after Inter's opener. Yes, because they're losing an offensive

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tool and a defensive tool as well. The first goal came from Carlos Augusto's side and Barela

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managed to clear both players who were meant to be covering that position with a simple chip. By the

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way, Barela was fucking world class sometimes. Yeah, he was excellent. I think Inter's midfield

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was very, very dominant in this game. I think they had Monza's number all day. I think the only

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performance that I was impressed by Monza was the debut of Gallia Idini. Gallia Idini was good.

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He looked comfortable. He looked very comfortable. Maybe this is what he needed to get his career back

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on track, a new environment, right? And the key role. I don't know if it's because he was playing

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against Inter, an ex-team, who he was motivated to play well, but we'll see if he continues to

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play well throughout the entirety of the season. I was impressed as always by DiMarco, who is the

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other option instead of Carlos Augusto. They played the same position, which is such a shame,

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because they both deserve to be started. DiMarco was highly involved as always. He worked hard and

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found himself in good positions to shoot. He was inaccurate this game, but once he shakes off the

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rust, he'll probably have an even better season than the last one. Oh yeah, man. And he got pretty

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close at a point as well. His shot flashed just wide on Gregorio's far post as well. From the

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new signings, we saw that Thuram can drive, can carry the ball for long stretches. However,

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he doesn't strike me as a player who's a target man or a reference point. I think that would be

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Lautaro and he will be more like a support striker. Thuram. Yeah, that's what I think. And that's

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what I think Inter might lose a bit of what they had in the past few seasons. I think Lautaro is

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strongest when he's playing alongside a target man. Yes, I agree. You could tell when Arnautovic

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came on, for example, that worked in an instant. It worked instantly, found his name on the score

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sheet, both the strikers combining. I think it will take a lot of work for Thuram and Martínez

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to learn to play together, especially when Inter play out wide quite a lot. It is important to

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have that target man, but still a lot of time. Thuram can find his feet. He's still young as well,

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so he has seasons to showcase what he has in his pocket. And to be honest, it's exciting to

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have him in the league. Yes, Arnautovic can stay healthy. He'll be very, very useful for Inter,

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particularly in Serie A, because he is not only is he capable of playing the number nine road,

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the target man, he's very intelligent out of the box and can play brilliantly in the

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link up players. For sure, man. Yes. Bisseck was the one new Inter signing who I wasn't too

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sure about. He came on and got twisted by Thuram, who was one of the positives as well for Monsa.

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Of course, Inter didn't really have much time. He came on in a moment where Monsa were really

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trying to score. He came on in the 84th minute, he got spun and that's pretty much it. Yeah, yeah.

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Young guy as well, 22 years old, Bisseck. So again, a lot of time to prove himself.

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Yes, Fratese didn't get much time either. He came on quite late. Carlos Augusta looked quite sharp

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and comfortable when he came on eventually and Summer didn't really have much to do either.

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Kia Coppolis came in from Bologna and played pretty well. Yeah, he had a decent showing. I mean,

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again, it's tough to judge any of these Monsa players after I lost where Inter were so comfortable

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beating them. I think the team was off and therefore it's hard to point out any players,

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but I do think Kia Coppolis looked decent down that left and he has a decent amount of experience

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playing that role. So definitely Monsa had two shots on target through Gallerini and Danimotta.

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Of Inter's 22 shots, three were on target. This overall was a cautious game. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Absolutely. And I think after they got that opening goal, they took their foot off the gas a little

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bit, played the ball around and then naturally they found their opportunity later on. Yes,

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Inter prove that they have depth, Inter prove that they have quality,

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Inter prove that they're capable of getting three points. It's Inter two Monsa nil.

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Yes, sir. The next game we're going to be covering is Odines and nil Juventus 3,

437
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what an impressive play it was for the debut of the Bianconeri this season.

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Now coming into this match, Juventus hadn't lost in 14 of their last 15 matches against

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Odines and Seria, where they won 12 and drew two. Juventus have won their last seven season

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openers, while Sudeneza have now lost their last three, including last season, where after that

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they had quite a miraculous start. Juve had Mois Keane and De Shilio out injured and Leonardo

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Bonucci frozen out pending transfer, while Spockba was on the bench but did not feature after he

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was injured throughout their US tour. Odines missed quite a few guys in De La Feupe, Fundi,

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Ebosse, Ezeboe and Mazina, with Samargec on the bench after his move to Inter

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sensationally collapsed this week. As for the lineups, it was a 3-5-2 formation for Odines,

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with Silvestri in goal and a backline of Cabacele, Bischol and Niu in Paris, Camar out on the left

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and Ebosse out on the right, with midfield three of Sandilovic, Wallace and Zaraga, with Thubvan

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and Beto up front. These guys are the new Cremonese, bro. Bro, their team looks nothing like it

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did last year. Oh, they've weakened. The loss of Pereira as well. Wow, they look like a much

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weakened side. They've got to keep Samargec. Yeah, and in fact I have a point about that,

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because when Samargec came on he was the only player that looked good for Odines.

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What's his name? Satil said he can't wait for the transfer season to close, because it's been a

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it's been a pain in his, you know what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean we swear on the spot,

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because that's what that's a direct quote. Ah, okay. Okay. For you, Vert was also a 3-5-2

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formation. Welcome to Serie A. Cesney in goal, a backline of Danilo Bremer and Sandro, new signing

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Wea out on the right and the returnie from Lone Cambiasso out on the left. Midfield three of

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Maretti, Locatelli and Rabio with Chiesa and Vlaovic, both fit and both starting.

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In the second minute, well it only took two minutes for Odines to teach the rest of the 18

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teams what happens when you give the ball away in a dangerous area against Juventus. As Vlaovic

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won the ball and played it to Chiesa, the Italian slotted the ball into the bottom corner in classic

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Chiesa fashion from just outside the area, leaving Silvestri rooted to the spot. Celebrations were

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very passionate. This team has a chip on their shoulder. Definitely. In the 19th minute,

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Alexandros attempted cross was stopped inside the box by the trailing hand behind Festi Ebocelli's

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back, a bit harsh, because his hands were behind his back in trying to avoid the contact,

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but the contact was there nonetheless. So penalty awarded. Duzan Vlaovic stepped up and

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slotted it into the bottom corner, cleanly sending Silvestri the wrong way. The front two once again

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are fit and firing. In the 48th minute, in additional time of the first half, Chiesa did well to

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sprint past his man and backheal the ball to come Biazzo, who delivered a great cross to Rabio,

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who headed in, with Silvestri coming out to collect, but missing the ball entirely,

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making the Frenchman's job much easier. In the second half, Juve took their foot off the gas

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under Denezer, where granted a tough attempt at getting forward successfully against Juventus,

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to absolutely no avail. The only chances seemed to come when Samaritzec entered the pitch and

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tried a long range effort as well as provided a wonderful cross to Sandilovic, who headed just

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wide. Well, actually, significantly wide. Towards the end of the match, Chesnipoldov a solid double

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save off a Paris header and a Lukka follow-up. Absolute domination, Juventus killed the game

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within the first 45 minutes, and after that, in classic Juve fashion, they let Odenes play their

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game. They brought men back. Very smart play by Juventus and very effective play by them, man.

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And they did both perfectly. It's a tale of two halves. In the first half, Juventus blitzed Denezer.

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They blew them out of the water. And you see that first goal, it came so early on in the second

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minute. And you see Chesnipoldov running towards the curve and you see him screaming. And he's

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showing the number one on his finger, like one. Like that's my first one. That's my fucking first

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one. And Vlov, which is running behind the man spectators over there, said that Vlov, which was

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saying, don't stop. They were fired up. They wanted to win. And then in the second half,

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contrast to the blitzkrieg of a first half, zero shots yet on target. Yeah, zero shots on target.

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But one shot off target by choice. By choice. Let them have it. No problem. We've done our job.

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And man, oh man, just give me a Chiesa injury free season in this game. We saw shades of a zero

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2020 in this performance. He can be pivotal for Juve, who haven't had a star man in their side

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since the Italian tour, his ACL at the Olympic in 2022. And before that, it was Cristiano Ronaldo.

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So it's good to see them have that player that could really turn things around for them. Yes,

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that star player, man. We have many redemption seasons for players this year. We saw Bellotti

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at Roma, Chiesa at Juve. You know, these guys haven't been fully fit in a while. And Chiesa said,

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like, it's time to go Bellotti as well. It's time to get firing. It's time to show the world what

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you're doing. It's too young. Can be also had a great season opener after returning from loan

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and actually staying at the club. I feel like he looked so good. He linked up well with Chiesa

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in the offensive third. He covered the ground tracking back well, and even got himself a great

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assistant to Robbio following a great move by Chiesa. A very clean performance by him.

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Where I had a decent display to showing that the two wing backs are very fitting for this 352 system.

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Yes, very exciting. They've got a lot of pace out wide. Can be also if I lighted him on the

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podcast before at Bologna, very promising talent out on the left. He might be able to

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displace Costage now because this begs the question. Costage, what a brilliant season as a winger and

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as a wingback last year and was one of you best top players. I believe you had him as your top

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after six months, I think. Now, when it was rumored that clubs like Forest and Wolfsburg

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are keen for his signature and that you were willing to listen, I thought it was BS straight up.

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I thought it was bullshit. But the fact that can be also started this game might be.

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Yes, yes, yes. These are very telling signs. It doesn't confirm anything because everything

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can fall through and they'll just start playing Costage again. But even seeing, for example,

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Salah Anitana with D on the bench. Why the hell would Salah Anitana have D on the bench?

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You know what I mean? They're trying to maybe protect him to cash him in. Exactly.

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You never know. Exactly. Now, before I conclude the Uwe side of things, it wouldn't be a Uwe

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performance if Alegr didn't have some criticism. Now, it was hard to point out any criticism

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after this performance, but Alegr managed. His victim was Kenan Yildiz, who played nine minutes

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of football for Juventus in the match after the Turkish under 21 international replaced Duzan

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Vlahovic in the 85th minute. There are high hopes for the Germany-born Bayern Munich youth product

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following his performances for Uwe Sprimmavera squad last season, following his transfer to the

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Bianconeri in 2022. After the game, Alegr criticized the youngster and the old criticism has made

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headlines. He's got to get his hair cut tomorrow because he touched his hair about 100 times.

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Aside from that, he is allowed with a lot of quality. Yildiz did not need to be told twice

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and showed on social media that he had been to the hairdresser for Atrim and he got one of those

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kinds of crew cuts and lived the top a bit longer. It's not the first time Alegr has complained

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about the hairstyles of his young players as he had similar advice for Mathias Soule last season

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as well, but just a hilarious conversation between the two, a hilarious interaction rather,

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him actually getting his hair cut the day later, made it obvious that Alegr wasn't joking about it.

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Yeah, you could tell he was annoyed. He should go for the hairstyle Alegr had when he was his age.

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The mushroom. It was a cool look. It's dying out, for some reason. I think Uwe looked great

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in this game and very fluid. Nothing new to add to what we've already said. I think when it comes

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to Deneze, they looked flat. They looked error prone and they were struggling with moving the

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ball with any fluidity and creativity. It was far from their best performance. Could this be

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another inconsistent season for them or rather would it be a much weaker season where they'll

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have a bit of Hellas Varona syndrome? Could be, bro. I think they're much worse than they were

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last season. Last season they started out with a bang. Remember, they were incredible. They were

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blowing big teams out of the water. It might be a completely opposite season where they grow into

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it, but the way they look at the moment, they look deflated. Their transfer market wasn't really

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inspiring. I don't know much about the players on their team. To be honest, I'm looking over here

534
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:46,000
and I'm like, are these different Pokemon evolution? Kebacela, did he evolve from Ebocell?

535
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Like, what's going on over here? Zalaga sounds like a legend card on FIFA. So there's Kamara with

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a K on the left, but then there's a Kamara with a C on the bench. There's Ake and the next one

537
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:04,080
on the bench, there's Abankwan. Like, who the hell are these people? Bro, I have no idea.

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I have no idea. I am a bit concerned for Deneze. I know it's only the opening game. They lost the

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opening game of last season against Milan, Rebeccau inevitably scored. I believe it was a 4-2

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or a 3-1, I believe it was a 4-2. But yeah, I did not like the way Deneze looked at all.

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And yeah, that's kind of the end of the rundown for me.

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In Wachoku is also on the bench. Jesus. But yes, that concludes it, right?

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Yep, so that was Deneze nil Juve 3. Now we're going to move on to Roma, 2 Salernitana, 2 Salernitana,

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second ever draw to Roma. Roma have recorded 6 wins against Salernitana, 2 draws and 1 defeat

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in, say, Salernitana had never drawn in their first, say, game of the season prior to this.

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After winning against Lazio in 1947, they suffered 3 defeats, including 2 against Roma

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in 1998 and in 2022. For the first time in 18 years, Roma legend and 1982 World Cup winner

548
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Bruno Conti was in the Roma dugout. Now you're wondering why the hell is a figure, an icon,

549
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:14,240
in the Roma dugout? Well, that's because of course, Mourinho was serving yet another ban

550
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:20,400
and his assistant Salvatore Fuati followed suit by insulting the referee, so he was also bad.

551
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:24,000
So they had no coach for this, for this, he has brought an allegiant to coach.

552
00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:32,240
So you're saying Jose Mario dos Santos Mourinho Felix was suspended from last season? Jesus,

553
00:53:32,240 --> 00:53:37,600
his name, I never knew his name. Can you repeat that? Jose Mario dos Santos Mourinho Felix.

554
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:43,680
Holy shit. Also, Souza as Paolo Manuel Carvalho de Souza. Damn, these are some fertile names.

555
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:51,840
No, those lineups, of course, you're going to notice a lack of muttage who betrayed Mourinho

556
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:58,400
apparently and joined Oran. Mourinho was very delighted by the replacement. He said, I'm happy

557
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:03,120
that they didn't bring some guys off the street as they brought in Renato Sanchez and Paredes,

558
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:09,120
who are two well-known names. Debala was also suspended, Tammy was injured. There are links

559
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:15,680
to Greenwood and Duván Zapata, of course, still, let's go into the 11th. Controversial.

560
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:22,640
Roma lined up with a 3-1-4-2 formation with Rui Patricio on goal, Lorente Smolling and

561
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:27,680
Mancini at the back with Cristante playing in the pocket. Spinazola was out on the left,

562
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:33,200
Newboy Christensen was out on the right, while Newboy Aua was in the middle along with the fan

563
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:38,560
favorite Bove. El Charawi and Bellotti were the striking partnership for this one. You see how

564
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:45,520
versatile El Charawi is, man. Left wing back, left winger, striker. There we go. What a player.

565
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:51,360
Now, Olcóa was in goal for Salernitán under 3-4-2-1 formation with Lovato, Gion Bernfazio

566
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:56,480
as the three centre-backed trees. Mazzocchi was out on the right, brother-ish was out on the left,

567
00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:02,000
with Cullibali and Giulia Maggiore in the middle. Castano San Canje were playing behind Bote,

568
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:09,280
who shouldn't be a striker. No, no, no. Día was on the bench, Stewart was on the bench,

569
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:14,480
and they've just brought in a new striker. I can't quite remember his name right now, but...

570
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:21,760
Was it Stewart big? Wow. Thanks. But yeah, Día on the bench, fueling transfer speculation.

571
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:27,600
In the sixth minute, Brian Cristante whipped in a sensational ball to Andrea Bellotti,

572
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,280
who controlled the ball with his right and volleyed posto, Stewart with his left,

573
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:38,240
and celebrated wildly before the goal was ruled out for offside by Ató. If he was a shoe size

574
00:55:38,240 --> 00:55:44,080
smaller, he would have scored that. Literally. Literally. Al Gallo. Only 10 minutes later,

575
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:49,840
Andrea Bellotti scored by comfortably beating Fazio to a high ball and easily rounding Norbert

576
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:54,800
Gionber before placing the ball into the back of the net under Ató. Too easy and terrible

577
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,960
defending by the Salernitana veteran defenders over here. Fazio looked like he couldn't be bothered

578
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:04,240
to enter the 50-50 with Gallo, and Gionber just looked so disappointed by what Fazio had just

579
00:56:04,240 --> 00:56:10,400
done that he didn't bother attacking him. No, the polar opposite end of the spectrum, Bellotti,

580
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:20,480
was just on it. Rabbit dog. Rabbit rooster. 476 days since Bellotti's last league goal.

581
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:25,600
He didn't score a single goal in the league last time. Shortly after Mancini failed to score

582
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:30,640
off a rebound after a save after a corner from right in front of goal, he was very unlucky.

583
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:34,400
Didn't really have much time to think about it. The ball kind of came to him. He moved his leg

584
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:41,520
instinctively and skied it. In the 36th minute, Antonio Canjeva began his... how am I going to

585
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:50,560
put this diplomatically? His abuse, let's see. Antonio Canjeva began his abuse. He scored a

586
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:55,200
stunning strike. He beat Chris Smalling and fired into the roof of the net. Now, Antonio

587
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:59,360
Canjeva isn't the type of player to beat you by dribbling you nowadays, especially. Chris Smalling

588
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:05,520
is the type of player who isn't going to get dribbled, but he did it somehow. Antonio Canjeva

589
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:11,360
managed to get around to the right foot, the ball into the roof of the net. On the 49th minute,

590
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:15,680
this was our goal of the week. Of course, brother, which crossed the ball to Canjeva. Canjeva faked

591
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:21,200
the first time shot onto his left and with his weaker foot, curled it in magnificently past

592
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:26,880
Rui Patricio giving Salernitana the lead. Crazy, crazy scenes. Now, this is where I get confused,

593
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:32,160
bro. Because let's say you're Souza over here. Okay, you're the manager of Salernitana. You have

594
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:36,880
a 2-1 lead and it's a 66th minute. What kind of substitution do you make? Like, if you want to

595
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:42,640
bring on Dia, your best striker, who are you going to take out? I mean, in this case, I would take

596
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:50,000
out Botheim. Yes, right? You take out an offensive player. Yeah. He took out Mazzocchi. He took out

597
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:57,520
Mazzocchi. Yes. He took out Mazzocchi, which is weird and brought in Dia. A weird tactical change

598
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:03,040
where you bring out the defender and bring on a striker. Of course, Roma piled the pressure, right?

599
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:09,760
76th minute, we snap shot hit the post after Renato Sanchez set him up. Roma were pushing hard for an

600
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:15,520
equalizer and in the 81st minute, they got it as Andrea Bellotti completely unmarked in the area,

601
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:22,480
rises to a header and heads it home from Leonardo Paredes corner equalizing for Roma. Despite the

602
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:26,480
continued efforts, Roma failed to find a winning goal and Bellotti had a good chance at the end

603
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:31,840
to get that done as well. Because he's had a hat trick with Galo today. Yes, yes. And even like,

604
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:36,160
he literally had a hat trick, but one of them was the salaud, you know? So this season, bro, is it

605
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:42,000
the rooster's return, the revenge of the rooster, the gonads of Galo, whatever we're going to call it.

606
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:47,520
Has it come back season? What is it? I think we're quick to forget just how good this guy actually

607
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:52,800
is because he had, you know, his struggles with injuries a lot towards the latter stages of his

608
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:58,320
career at Torino. And then last season, he failed to hit the ground running at Roma,

609
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:05,680
didn't even score a single goal and had his opportunities to do so. But you know how things

610
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:10,000
are with football, sometimes it's a mental thing, sometimes it's a fitness thing. I think the fact

611
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:16,160
that he bagged two and even three, one of them was offside in his first match in a game where

612
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:23,360
Roma struggled, where they drew to Salernitana and Bellotti was the focal point of that,

613
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:29,840
that will fuel him with confidence. And confidence with his technique and with his industry can be

614
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:35,520
a very, very dangerous thing. He can be very much a hustling striker that Morinio was after.

615
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:41,040
And the type of player, a manager would love, a leader, a hard worker,

616
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:49,920
just a key figure in the locker room as well. We forget that towards the later stages of his

617
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:56,400
career at Torino, he was also setting up goals. From playing long balls, releasing players one

618
00:59:56,400 --> 01:00:02,400
on one, of course. Torino, there was a season where they just escaped relegation, I was going to say

619
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:08,400
Revelation, or they just escaped relegation. And he was it for them. He was everything for them.

620
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:13,120
He was everywhere. He was like Diego Fuerlan in that 2010 World Cup.

621
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:20,320
Now look at this dude, Salernitana didn't deserve to be in this game at all. If you look at the

622
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:24,240
XUG, if you look at the way they played, if you look at the chances, created Roma were actually

623
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:30,720
all over them, right? It's all thanks to the timeless Candrava, season after season after

624
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:36,560
season, be it at Lazio, be it at Inter, be it at Sampdoria, be it at Salernitana, he does it year

625
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:42,160
after year, wildly underrated. In this game, to put things into perspective, Roma had an XUG of 1.9,

626
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:49,280
right? Yeah. Salernitana had an XUG of 0.14. My god. 0.14 and Candrava scored two. Well, it was two

627
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:54,640
goals out of nothing, man. Out of nothing. He earned this point for Salernitana himself. This was

628
01:00:54,640 --> 01:01:01,760
Candrava's point. Yeah. Ages like fine wine, this guy. Like fine wine. I believe that his technique,

629
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:08,400
technique, not his physicality, his pace and whatever, with him becoming a slower player,

630
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:13,680
his technique has improved. Yes. I agree. I thought he used to come across as quite clumsy

631
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:20,000
back in the day. Yeah, exactly. He was more of a physical, okay, he was always technical.

632
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:24,480
He had a little power to his game. Exactly. But and up and down, and up and down, that's right,

633
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:28,640
man. I remember him at Inter very, very clearly. He scored the goal in front of my fucking face

634
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:32,800
at the San Siro, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how I was living in Scotland at that time. I did that.

635
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:40,240
He depressed me. Yeah. But now it's like he's matured with his age, and he's really kind of,

636
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:45,040
he's playing to his strengths and he's playing to his age. Yes, totally. Roma's midfield seems to

637
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:50,000
have improved as well. Six players capable of starting. You've got Sanchez, Paredes, Bov,

638
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:54,960
Aouar, Cristante and Pellegrini. For me, Aouar was super impressive out of the lot.

639
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:58,800
He was the main focal point for the link-up play, nothing too flashy, nothing too crazy,

640
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:03,680
but a very tidy player. And I think he'll be great for Roma going forward. I think Aouar was

641
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:08,400
great. I think Brian Cristante was even better. Oh yeah. I think Brian Cristante was excellent. A

642
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:16,800
lot of people think of him as a CDM slash center back that's just tall and strong and he's rough

643
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:23,200
and reckless. But his passing in this game, certain passes that he gave those for, was the initial goal

644
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:29,920
of Bellotti. Mamma Mia. Didn't think he had it in him. Mamma Mia, what a born. Cristante looked

645
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:36,400
brilliant in this game. Very good. He was another fan, coach's favorite. Yeah. Salinitan, of course,

646
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:40,720
I have a note over here about the lapses in concentration and defense, but I think it might

647
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:44,480
be even deeper than that. Their defenders are on the older side. I'm not a big fan of Fasio,

648
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:52,640
particularly Gionber's. Okay. Yeah. I think they needed to reinvest their defense. I think so too.

649
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:56,960
What you see in their defense is a lot of Serie A experience, which is a plus for them. But what

650
01:02:56,960 --> 01:03:05,920
you also see is that they're not great. Fasio is past it. I think Gionber is decent, but he needs to

651
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:10,400
have some decent defenders around him for him to live up to his potential. And I feel like I've

652
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:16,640
been waiting for Lovato to step up for a long, long time now. Still 23 years old, but step up.

653
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:23,440
It's like waiting for your dog to come back from the farm, you know? Or to lose, to come back.

654
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:29,280
To lose. To lose. To lose. To lose as a child with Kat, guys. She ran away. Yeah. Found out she

655
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:38,960
didn't run away like four years ago. Yeah. She died. So, Christensen, bro, was Roma's new fullback

656
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:43,920
coming in from Leeds. He lost possession and nine times out of the 27 touches that he had and

657
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:49,680
completed 72% of his pauses. He didn't make any massive mistakes, but it was quite a bad start,

658
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:55,200
to be honest. It's a good thing that his, his alternatives are Karsdorp and Shelik, who aren't

659
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:59,040
really more in his favorite players in the world, but they'll be licking their lips, looking at this

660
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:03,200
performance as there still might be hope for them. Yeah, we've seen Zalewski play at right back as

661
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:10,640
well last season a couple of times and I always liked him. I always liked Zalewski. Not to say

662
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:15,760
Christensen's a bad player, he's finding his feet over there, but Morinio is typically very impatient

663
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:22,400
with his players and I feel like Zalewski in the long run might be an important player for Roma.

664
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:27,040
I always liked him at right back. Yeah, and your girlfriend likes him too, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

665
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:32,960
This is the best looking Italian player I've ever seen. Like he's Polish. You fucking idiot.

666
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:39,040
Like who's that one with the baby face that had an interview while sat on the floor?

667
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:45,200
Sat on the floor without, without any shoes on. She has a foot fetish. Yeah, clearly.

668
01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:54,720
Yes, so that was Roma too, Salernitana too. What's that? Let's say two, Lazio one. Let's fucking go.

669
01:04:54,720 --> 01:05:01,200
The biggest upset of the first matchday of the season. Lecce are one of only two teams,

670
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:06,880
along with Torino, against which Lazio failed to win a match in the last Serie A season,

671
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:11,760
losing two-one away from home and drawing two-two in the reverse fixture at the Olimpico.

672
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:17,680
Lecce are now unbeaten against Lazio in their last four matches with three victories and one

673
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:24,560
draw. One draw. Why did I say one row, man? One draw. Before this match, Lazio had won their last

674
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:31,600
four opening matches of the Serie A seasons, which was a record streak for the Bianco Celesti,

675
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:37,200
but now that's gone. Maurizio Sarri stuck with his old guard to start the new season,

676
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:42,400
starting with just one new signing in Daetrii Kamada, replacing the now Alhel Alplayer,

677
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:50,080
Sergei Milinkovic Savic. Meanwhile, new Lecce coach Roberto Davversa had Antonio Gallo struggling

678
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:54,880
with an ankle injury following their Coppa Italia match last week, and therefore he started off the

679
01:05:54,880 --> 01:06:00,720
bench. When it comes to the line-ups, there was a 4-3-3 formation for Lecce, Falcone engoled with

680
01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:07,840
a backline of Dorgu, Basquerotto, Pongracic and Gendry, Amitfi three of Gonzalez, Ramadani and

681
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:14,640
Rafia, and a front three of Banda, Strefetza and Almequist. Strefetza starting in a false

682
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:24,000
nine role at his mighty five foot three. A 4-3-3 formation is what Sarri opted for. What? Yes,

683
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:30,080
it was Profidel Engol and a back four of Lazari, Patrick, Romaniole and Marusic. They started new

684
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:35,040
boy Kamada and Amitfi alongside Cataldi and Luis Alberto, with Anderson out on the right,

685
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:41,440
Zacani out on the left and Ciro Immobilé starting up front. What's that first game of the season

686
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:48,240
for Lazio and Immobilé scores? Yes, the Lazio legend opens his and Lazio's account for the

687
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:53,760
new season, sliding in after a brilliant vertical ball with the outstep of Luis Alberto's right

688
01:06:53,760 --> 01:07:01,440
boot. He actually tied the Luis Muriel's record over here between 2015 and 2021 when it comes to

689
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:06,560
match day one goals in a row season after season. I didn't know Muriel's score. Like I was aware

690
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:12,880
that that's why I said, ah, what a mobile scoring on the first match, but Muriel really is particularly

691
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:17,200
surprising to me because Luis Muriel has never been known to be a phenomenal athlete. You know what

692
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:22,560
I mean? Like his physical condition has never been fantastic. So you'd think match day one

693
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:27,040
after preseason, it's still be out of it. Like notice we discussed Monza without even mentioning

694
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:33,920
Petania. Why do you think that is? Probably because he's like four kilos over. From the summer.

695
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:38,640
I would have thought it's the same thing with Muriel, but then Muriel had that touch, that

696
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:42,960
technique that I forgot that was just brilliant. But nice to see Immobilé tying his record over

697
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:48,480
there. For sure, man. It well, he deserves it because he's always in peak condition unless

698
01:07:48,480 --> 01:07:54,560
he's injured. In the 43rd minute Immobilé played a great pass to Lazio who had the opportunity to

699
01:07:54,560 --> 01:08:00,800
square to Zuck Ganni, but the Italian went for goal and was denied by Falco and really should

700
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:06,000
have passed the ball there. In the 53rd minute Immobilé played an identical brilliant pass this

701
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:12,480
time to Philippe Anderson, whose finish flashed wide should have scored and could have even squared it.

702
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Lazio, Lazio, Lazio. What are you doing? In the 81st minute, some clever play by Lazio ended in

703
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:26,560
Immobilé's close range strike being saved onto the crossbar by the foot of Falco and an absolutely

704
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:33,360
spectacular save. We will be seeing more of these saves by Falco throughout the season because he

705
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:38,800
is a great goalkeeper and Lecce concede a lot of shots. So we will be seeing that combination quite

706
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:50,960
a bit. Combination. 85th minute goal, Lecce Almecvist. The Swedish winger started and ended this attack

707
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:57,040
by scoring naturally. He cut inside and played a lovely crossfield pass to Gallo who had just come

708
01:08:57,040 --> 01:09:02,160
on. He held the ball well and returned the ball to Almecvist who controlled the ball just outside

709
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:07,360
the area and half-vollied it into the bottom corner. The showcase of skill was not enough for the

710
01:09:07,360 --> 01:09:14,160
Swede as he was also keen on showing Seria viewers his unique backflip which you could see in this

711
01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:20,080
episode artwork. If you haven't seen it, look it up on YouTube because it's a spectacular celebration.

712
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:26,640
What an introduction. It goes into a golf swing. He does a weird flipping in golf swings. A mix of

713
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:33,840
Oba Febbi Martens and Craig Bellamy over here. It's beautiful. One minute later as the momentum

714
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:39,520
favored Lecce, Gallo once again got forward to Whippenacross which was miscontrolled by the

715
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:45,920
son of Eusebio de Francesco Federico de Francesco. But through some fortune and shitty defending by

716
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:51,680
Lazio, the Italian managed to readjust himself and have a swing at goal with the ball finding itself

717
01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:58,160
in the bottom corner. He sues in celebration as the Dalmare erupts in ecstasy and Lecce

718
01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:03,680
get a shock victory in the first match of the season against last year's second place team. We both

719
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:10,400
have Lecce to get relegated this season. They might still get relegated but we see teams that

720
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:15,680
typically get relegated. Really struggling to find their first victory. Lecce out here getting their

721
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:22,240
first victory against Lazio in a matter of two minutes. Title contender. That's crazy. I was

722
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:28,320
impressed by Lecce. I thought that Pongratio did a great job partnering up with Bascarotta at the

723
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:35,440
back. I thought that the midfield worked well and I was particularly impressed with the front three.

724
01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:40,800
So dynamic and fluid. I wonder if it was because no one really knew what they could do or what they

725
01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:49,600
were capable of. I suspect that as the more games they play in the league, the more managers are

726
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:54,080
going to have a case study and the more they're going to be able to find them out. You look at

727
01:10:54,080 --> 01:11:00,640
Banda, Strefetza and Gvist. They were so dynamic, so fluid and it's completely different without

728
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:06,800
Cicero Colombo. They were switching positions, laying it off each other, playing super well.

729
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:11,920
Absolutely man. What you see over here is a Banda that in this match he played better than he did

730
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:16,960
in any game of last season because Banda barely featured last season. But he had flashes. He

731
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:24,000
showed that he can get his ass shaking and drop a ball. But this match in particular,

732
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:30,720
I believe he had a very strong performance over here. I think that Ankhvist on the other side

733
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:37,440
is an animal. I think he's very good. It's such a good goal. It's such as the backflip. The Danish

734
01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:43,840
League. Yeah, it's unknown, right? I believe he played in Sweden. He's barely known in Sweden and

735
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:49,600
in Denmark. Barely known. I know because it was Mathias and Alan that were discussing him on the

736
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:54,400
group chat. Some serious ball knowledge between those two. It's such a pleasure to have them as

737
01:11:54,400 --> 01:12:03,920
our patrons. But yeah, a fairly unknown player. Also Dorgo at left back. So athletic. Very,

738
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:12,560
very athletic. He was in replacing Gallo because of Gallo's injury. He too is not well known. He's

739
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:20,080
an 18 year old from Denmark. Ankhvist is a 24 year old from Sweden and apparently they're both not

740
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:27,280
very well known in those respective leagues. But I was saying Ankhvist on the right, Banda on the

741
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:33,600
left, Strefetsa in the middle really holding back and orchestrating where that attack is going to go

742
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:38,720
was brilliant because you see the midfield three of Gonzalez, Ramadani and Rafia that I don't know

743
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:42,320
because it was against Lazio or there's the way lecture are going to line up. They were all quite

744
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:46,640
conservative. They stayed back quite a bit. And Strefetsa was really dropping deep and you could

745
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:55,600
see Banda and Ankhvist just calling for the ball and looking for the ball and running in at Lazio's

746
01:12:55,600 --> 01:13:02,000
defense. Just terrorizing. Yeah. And I feel like that's not even what Letcher did well. I think

747
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:07,600
Letcher, what they did well was remaining within a goal for the majority of this match through

748
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:14,000
tactical discipline, a deep defensive line and efficient selective pressing. They weren't just

749
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:21,440
sitting back to oblivion or pressing to oblivion. That balance was very mature. It was there. They've

750
01:13:21,440 --> 01:13:26,640
been there. They've done it. They did a great job in Serie A last year. So let's not forget that when

751
01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:37,280
we're so quick to judge them. I'm going to give a shout out to Gallo because we praised Dorogu

752
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:41,520
who started ahead of him because of his injury. But Gallo came on and he was involved with both

753
01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:53,440
goals very directly. He was brilliant. Lazio, what about the MG? So, wasteful, first of all. Second of

754
01:13:53,440 --> 01:13:58,400
all, they didn't play badly. I thought they ticked, particularly in the first half before

755
01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:05,280
Letcher completely dominated the second half, by the way. I think that if you look at the

756
01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:14,880
substitutions that Letcher made early in the second half, they... Okay, so Lazio started off with

757
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:20,400
Kamada, right? Yeah. And I thought he was kind of lost, to be honest. Match day one, fair enough,

758
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:27,760
he lost. Then they brought on Isaacson, who doesn't really give you many guarantees. He's a new guy

759
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:31,680
again. And Mattias Vecino came in instead of Philippe Anderson. Those were Lazio's substitutions.

760
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:36,080
Then there was a triple whammy by Letcher. They brought in guys that they know what they're going

761
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:41,200
to do. They brought in Blin, Gallo, and Cabo. Cabo's the only new one over there. And I feel like

762
01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:46,320
Letcher beat them through familiarity. And I feel like Letcher, as you mentioned perfectly,

763
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:50,320
they were patient. They waited for their moment and they got it. And the second they scored,

764
01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:54,160
Lazio were so shell shocked that they managed to score again. You look at the amount of times the

765
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:59,920
ball bounced in front of Patrick and Roman, you are without them clearing it, allowing Di Francesco

766
01:14:59,920 --> 01:15:03,680
to fire it. What the fuck was that? They had the best defense in the league last year. They were

767
01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:06,720
surely shocked. They didn't expect that goal. They didn't expect it at all. They're probably

768
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:14,960
still getting yelled at by Providell. And it bit them in the ass. It's a shame to see

769
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:20,960
Lazio losing after you think, okay, maybe this year they can actually take a step up,

770
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:24,560
maybe losing Sir Gamelink of his self, which doesn't mean that all hope is lost for them.

771
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:28,320
But then at the same time, there's nothing I love more than watching a minnow team

772
01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:33,840
beating a top 17. Completely man. And Letcher being on three points after facing Lazio on their

773
01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:40,240
first match is massive. I feel like Letcher knew that Lazio would be shell shocked, which is why

774
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:47,440
they attacked and just whipped that wall in the way that they did. Good to see Di Francesco getting

775
01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:54,480
on the score sheet. Yeah, brilliant win by Letcher. Disappointing start for Lazio. They struggled.

776
01:15:54,480 --> 01:16:01,680
They were wasteful with the few opportunities that were created, a bit of selfishness. No players

777
01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:05,680
really stood out, but I think Chiro did a good job carrying the ball forward from midfield and

778
01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:11,760
playing the wingers in. And Lewis Alberto has involved us ever. Yeah, Lewis Alberto. The only

779
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:15,760
thing really making the team tick in this match. It's still early and I'm sure we'll get to see

780
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:20,400
Sari Boll in full flow soon. Especially once the void of Sergey is filled in through more

781
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:26,400
game time for Camada. But for now, Lazio zero points following their opening match against

782
01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:33,440
Letcher. Sasuolo, Nill Atalanta two coming into this game. Sasuolo had won both Seiya matches

783
01:16:33,440 --> 01:16:39,040
against Atalanta at the Mappe Stadium on their Alessio Dionisi. Before that, they had won only

784
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:43,840
one of their first eight home games against Atalanta and say with three draws and four losses.

785
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:49,040
And the five campaigns when Sasuolo started the Seiya season at home, they have never lost with

786
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:54,000
three draws and two wins so far. While Atalanta are the team with the most defeats in the first

787
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:59,280
match of the season in Seiya with 27, they have now won each of their last six opening matches

788
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:05,280
in the top flight. So they're getting over that curse. So let's take a look at the lineups for

789
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:10,880
Sasuolo. It was Kwon Silje and Goulender for two, three, one formation with Vinja out on the left

790
01:17:10,880 --> 01:17:16,800
arriving from Roma. He was on loan at Bernmeth last season. Toljan was out on the right with Viti

791
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:24,880
and Erlich at the back. Erlich. Why do I say Erlich? I don't know man. Erlich. Maxim Lopez and Henrique

792
01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:29,920
formed the midfield double pivot while the extremely talented Lauriiente was out on the left. The

793
01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:36,080
not so talented Defrel was out on the right. Bayrami was playing behind Pinamonte. For Atalanta,

794
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:40,800
it was Mussso and Goldberg, Jim City's Calvini and Colassenac at the back. Colassenac, you

795
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:50,000
recognize him from his arsenal. Or Colassenac. There we go. There we go. Edith again. Zappacosta

796
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:55,120
was out on the right, Rugggeri was out on the left with Pasalic, Koukminers and the Rune in the middle

797
01:17:55,120 --> 01:18:03,040
with Duvan Zappata and Lukman playing up front. You mean Koukminers? Koukminers. Zappata, heavily

798
01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:08,480
linked to Roma. Gasperini doesn't give a fuck. He'll start the matter. You think Gasperini reads the

799
01:18:08,480 --> 01:18:15,840
news like Gasperini doesn't give a fuck, bro. Yeah, he doesn't. The Sasvolo center,

800
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:20,400
Bagviti is on loan from Nice and this was his debut for Sasvolo. They've got an option to buy on him.

801
01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:26,000
No Barardi for Sasvolo as he's trying to force a move to Juventus. But Sasvolo, like, ah, you waited

802
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:30,560
too long, you're not gonna get him now. And they're still negotiating and they're trying. We'll see

803
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:37,600
what happens. He didn't even feature Barardi at all. You see, he's trying to force his way out.

804
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:42,240
This wasn't a tactical decision or it wasn't a decision by the club to not play him. He decided

805
01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:46,320
not to play. You know what's to be exciting to see him elsewhere. Yes, I must say. And if he goes to

806
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:52,320
Juventus and they're playing Italy, they play once a week, Juve. Juve play once a week. Yep,

807
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:58,080
can you imagine with that depth? But anyway, play by play in the first four minutes, Lauriente,

808
01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:02,800
who scored versus Atalanta last season, forced Musson to a good save and Koukminers had their shot

809
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:08,400
cleared off the line by early. This was the first four minutes, crazy start. It was Maxime Lopez,

810
01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:12,720
his turn to clear the ball off the line in the 44th minute as it was going to be an own goal and he

811
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:17,760
headed off the line. 20 seconds into the second half, Lauriente rattled the frame of the goal with

812
01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:23,520
a long range dipping strike. And in the 48th minute, it started. Giorgio played a perfect pass to

813
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:28,880
Charles de Catellari, who was right in front of goal, but headed it to the ground. This moment

814
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:33,600
could have been seen as a warm up as the pair connected in a similar fashion for the first goal.

815
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:38,560
In the 63rd minute, CDK struck the crossbar after Skamaka slipped in the ball,

816
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:41,920
passed three players. Skamaka was a little surrounded by bodies over here and he still

817
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:46,800
managed to get the ball through to CDK, who first timed it into the crossbar. And you can see Skamaka

818
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:53,520
clearly pissed off saying like, I would have nailed that. The 83rd minute, CDK eventually got his

819
01:19:53,520 --> 01:20:00,960
goal. It was a powerful header that broke the deadlock after Rook Jerry's cross. The header

820
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:05,360
looked to have been saved by Constantine, but the ball had indeed crossed the line. And it was

821
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:10,320
confusion had the ball gone in. No one even noticed. And the Catellari wasn't even sure, in fact,

822
01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:14,880
didn't even celebrate that much. But it seemed like he was cursed prior to this goal. Like everything

823
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:19,440
just goes wrong for this day. I enjoyed watching him score a lot. Same here. I think a lot of

824
01:20:19,440 --> 01:20:24,320
release. Yeah, I don't even think a lot of it was the uncertainty of whether it had crossed the

825
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:28,720
line or not, because technology instantly indicated that it was passed the line. I think it was more

826
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:36,560
this means nothing. I need to continue to prove myself. You know what I mean? And that is the

827
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:40,800
perfect reaction from Charles, who looked very involved in this game and hopefully you could

828
01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:47,040
see more of that. Yeah, hopefully. In the 92nd minute, Adopo, the new boy from Roma, played the

829
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:53,600
ball to Zortea, the player who has joined who we've we've seen him at Saasvall in Salernitana

830
01:20:53,600 --> 01:20:59,680
before. Yes. He smacked it into the bottom corner from a distance. This is a gold del lex. In fact,

831
01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:07,600
he took it easy with the celebration. He put his arms up. Classic gold del lex. Talking points,

832
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:13,760
bro. Atalanta are absolutely incredible. Their striker, their starters immediately settle in.

833
01:21:13,760 --> 01:21:17,040
Right. You see Colasinac looks like he's been playing there for years, right?

834
01:21:17,040 --> 01:21:21,680
He's come up, I should have gotten assist Zortea had a long range goal of the three seasons out

835
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:26,240
on loan at Cremonies, Esal, in Intananza, Suolo. Adopo arriving from Torino never really looked

836
01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:30,560
impressive over there. Got an assist CDK didn't score a single goal last season. He scored in his

837
01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:36,080
first game for them. Crazy the way this club. Yeah, it must be a joy playing for this team,

838
01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:40,800
but because it's you follow instructions, you follow the system, you're surrounded by very

839
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:45,520
knowledgeable players. You're surrounded by players like the home, Cope Miners, Pasalic,

840
01:21:46,400 --> 01:21:54,240
Scalvini, who's literally as intelligent as one of those. So a lot of people to learn from,

841
01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:59,600
a very experienced manager in Jampiero Gasperini, who's been at the team for a decade.

842
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:05,360
So he knows what he wants from these guys and these guys know what he wants from them.

843
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:11,520
Exactly. And to be honest, Suolo, they did play to Atalanta's level. They had 49% board possession.

844
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:16,080
They had more passes than the same pass succession rate. The difference was the quality and rate of

845
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:22,960
chances. Atalanta had five shots on target to Suolo's three, but they were of a different level.

846
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:30,160
Atalanta can really pile the pressure. I think that it was a decent defensive display by Suolo.

847
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:34,320
I think where they've always really struggled defensively. This was a bit of a breath of

848
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:38,960
fresh air. There are some new faces at the back as well. So Dionysio might have listened to us

849
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:46,160
and invested in that part. And I mean, Atalanta opened the scoring in the 83rd. They took their

850
01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:52,800
time. They were struggling. Yes, it was a KGF fair prior to that. One of the best performers,

851
01:22:52,800 --> 01:23:00,160
one of the man of the match for me, Cope Miners. I saw a poster and the Atalanta stands RoboCoop.

852
01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:07,200
And it was him. RoboCoop. But epic. It's true. It describes him perfectly because the guy is

853
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:16,080
almost bionic the way he plays. The things he sees, the way he operates. So good. So good.

854
01:23:16,080 --> 01:23:21,600
How long did his scores? He's inevitable a hat trick this season. Match day seven.

855
01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:29,680
Match day seven. Okay. And that is pretty much it for this game. So Suolo,

856
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:37,680
Nell Atalanta. Two. The next game we're going to be covering is Genoa one, Fiorentina four. It was

857
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:43,440
the conference league and Coppa Italia runners up versus the Serie B runners up. The Griffone were

858
01:23:43,440 --> 01:23:49,520
back in Serie A after winning promotion on their coach Alberto Gelardino. Genoa signed Matteo Retegui,

859
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:54,960
Junior Messias and Ruslan Malinovsky among others. But only Retegui started this match as Messias

860
01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:59,920
got himself injured in Milan's preseason and Malinovsky was still in the process of signing.

861
01:23:59,920 --> 01:24:06,080
Kevin Strutman and Stefano Savelli set out to Bands. Lavio-Alahat Christian Cuame suspended

862
01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:11,760
Antonin Barrac and Gaetano Castravilli injured plus new signing Lucas Beltran on the bench

863
01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:18,240
but gave a surprise debut to Italy under 19 talent Michael Cagliode. Amrabat was an unused

864
01:24:18,240 --> 01:24:25,920
substitute following links away from the club. It was a 3-5-2 formation for Genoa with Martinez

865
01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:32,400
in goal and a backline of Dragosin, Bani and Beraschi. It was Martin on the left and Hefti on

866
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:37,520
the right with Amitfiltri of Thorsby, Baddell and Frendrup with Goodman since starting alongside

867
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:45,200
Newboy Retegui up front. It was a 4-2-3-1 formation for Fiorentina with Terraciano in goal and a

868
01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:50,800
backline of Cagliode, Melenkovich, Ranieri and Biraghi. Arto and Mandragora were in the double

869
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:55,520
pivot with Nico Gonzalez out on the right, Brecola out on the left and Jack Bonaventura

870
01:24:55,520 --> 01:25:03,520
playing behind Newboy in Zola. It only took four minutes for Fiorentina to open the scoring

871
01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:08,800
following in Zola's pass to the wide area. Biraghi took the ball to the inside following a

872
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:14,720
touch past Beraschi, then Bani before smashing the ball into the top near corner. Good luck

873
01:25:14,720 --> 01:25:22,320
Genoa and good luck Parisi. Biraghi enjoyed that, he even waddled away in celebration in Conor

874
01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:28,720
McGregor fashion. He did the Billy Strutt. Was that what they call it? Yeah, the billionaire Strutt.

875
01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:36,160
The wanker. I mean, Biraghi is a wanker. But Biraghi scores big dick goals and celebrates with a big

876
01:25:36,160 --> 01:25:47,280
dick, you know what I mean? Yeah, brother. He just has a fucking huge dick. In the other news,

877
01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:55,280
Biraghi's colossal cock. In the 11th minute Bonaventura made the two Gonzalez's long range

878
01:25:55,280 --> 01:26:00,400
strike was pushed onto the post by Martinez and into the path of Bonaventura, who slotted it on

879
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:07,040
the rebound three days before his 34th birthday. Happy birthday, birthday boy. Happy birthday,

880
01:26:07,040 --> 01:26:14,480
birthday boy. In the 23rd minute, Badels shot on the bounce skimmed just wide of Terra Canos

881
01:26:14,480 --> 01:26:20,400
far post. It was a close call, one of the few for Genoa. In the 39th minute, set piece specialist

882
01:26:20,400 --> 01:26:25,280
Biraghi did not disappoint from the corner as he pinged it perfectly to the head of Nico Gonzalez

883
01:26:25,280 --> 01:26:31,200
in the center of the box, who headed into the bottom corner, the new number 10 delivers. In the

884
01:26:31,200 --> 01:26:39,600
55th minute, Mandragora got his name on the score sheet, but it was all Bonaventura. The veteran

885
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:44,800
Italian playmaker fainted a shot and chipped the ball in perfectly to Mandragora from a central

886
01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:50,640
area, who guided his header past Martinez. What a ball by Bonaventura and not to take anything away

887
01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:56,000
from Mandragora because it was a composed header from the Genoa youth product. What a brilliant

888
01:26:56,000 --> 01:27:00,480
assist that was. Gorgeous man. Amazing man. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. His vision. Swagger,

889
01:27:00,480 --> 01:27:06,720
the finesse. And the fact that it was literally in the swing of a fake shot and then he just looks

890
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:14,400
away and chips it through perfect. Go look at it guys. Three minutes later, it was Biraghi who

891
01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:19,360
brought one back for Genoa, making it 4-1. The defender composed himself well in front of Goal,

892
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:25,520
as he controlled the ball well, took it a touch past Biraghi and finished cleanly past Taraciano.

893
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:30,720
Yes, this came from Frendrup, who headed the ball into the box from outside the area. Now,

894
01:27:32,160 --> 01:27:40,320
great display by Fiorentina. I thought they looked fluid. I thought they looked comfortable. I thought

895
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:48,400
they looked dynamic. Arter and Mandragora seemed to play well together, but I'd be very keen to

896
01:27:48,400 --> 01:27:55,920
see what they can do against a bigger side playing in that double pivot. I don't think Genoa showed

897
01:27:55,920 --> 01:28:00,960
up at all for this game. I think the season started too soon for Genoa. I think they would have liked

898
01:28:00,960 --> 01:28:07,920
to have Malinovsky and Messias over there. Yeah, and Fiorentina were just too ready. They're a team

899
01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:13,840
that have been growing. They're a team who have made smart signings to replace the important players

900
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:19,440
that have been afloat in their team with Vincenzo Italiano, one of the hottest Italian managers

901
01:28:19,440 --> 01:28:26,400
in the game. He saw the opportunity to blow a new coming team with a new coming manager out of the

902
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:33,040
water. Yeah, and I think for Genoa, the area they struggle in is defensively. What's the area that

903
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:42,160
Fiorentina excel in? The offense. So it was a match made in hell. It was a match up from Satan for

904
01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:46,640
their first, for their opening Serie A fixture of the season. I can't be too critical of them,

905
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:52,160
because again, they're finding their feet. I still think that Fiorentina showed very good signs,

906
01:28:52,160 --> 01:29:00,320
despite the fact that Genoa were weaker opponents. I think so Biragi, Bonaventura, and Niko were

907
01:29:00,320 --> 01:29:06,080
each involved in two goals. That's a great sign. That's a great sign. They each had fantastic

908
01:29:06,080 --> 01:29:11,600
performances, and those are three big boys for them. I thought, like I said earlier,

909
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:18,000
Arter and Bandraga seemed to fare well in controlling the tempo of the game. I was very

910
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:25,200
impressed by Cuyode, the right back who showcased pace, strength, intelligence, technique, and

911
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:30,720
attitude. At the tender age of 19. At the tender age of 19 is a great prospect, and from what it

912
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:36,080
seems, a great asset to the starting 11 and not just a prospect. Yes, a good cover for Dodo.

913
01:29:36,080 --> 01:29:41,200
Yeah, and I also thought that Insola's physicality up top was an asset to Fiorentina and this game,

914
01:29:41,200 --> 01:29:46,080
and his competition Beltran, has still got a lot of time to prove himself. So some healthy

915
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:54,080
competition. Not to mention Jovic. But I really like them with a big boy up front. I feel like

916
01:29:54,080 --> 01:30:00,080
Insola, that physicality, because think about it, their team isn't like, all right, they're all

917
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:06,800
motherfuckers, the Fiorentina players. They are motherfuckers. No Niko Gonzalez, Biragi,

918
01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:12,880
players like that. They're just Melenkovic sons of bitches to play against. I think

919
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:19,040
Roma take the cake for that. Yes, absolutely. But Fiorentina, have a few of those players.

920
01:30:20,880 --> 01:30:26,480
Insola and then isn't a motherfucker, but he's a big strong guy up front. You know what I mean?

921
01:30:26,480 --> 01:30:31,440
And they don't have much of that. The only two kind of big players they have are Melenkovic

922
01:30:31,440 --> 01:30:36,160
and Insola. So it adds a bit of an aerial threat for them, despite the fact that Niko Gonzalez

923
01:30:36,160 --> 01:30:42,240
is quite an aerial threat. And I think much like Milan utilized Giroud last season in

924
01:30:42,240 --> 01:30:47,840
there for 2-3-1 and even in the title winning season, I think they might use Insola in a very

925
01:30:47,840 --> 01:30:54,320
similar manner to that. Yes, with more mobility, of course. And Insola is very capable of holding

926
01:30:54,320 --> 01:30:58,560
a play and even turning and charging. So we've seen that with Spetsi and I'm sure Italiano

927
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:04,240
can do wonders with this guy. For sure. And he's got a brilliant selection of strikers to utilize

928
01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:10,240
in between Insola, Beltran, Jovic. And then he's got all that versatility out on the wings as well.

929
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:17,600
Yeah, I think this Fiorentina will have a good season, not because of this performance, but

930
01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:22,720
because this performance proved that what we were saying earlier about their very successful

931
01:31:22,720 --> 01:31:30,240
transfer market wasn't a bullshit. They had a very good summer and I do reckon that they

932
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:34,640
would have a good season. But that's pretty much it for this game. Yeah, Geno on the other hand,

933
01:31:34,640 --> 01:31:39,680
of course, need time to settle and they need their arrivals to come in as well. They will at least

934
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:46,160
have Messias and Juslan Madinowski very soon. The last game I will be covering, so the penultimate

935
01:31:46,160 --> 01:31:53,760
game of the matchday, is Empoli Nyl Verona 1. And Empoli and Helas Verona's have drawn each of their

936
01:31:53,760 --> 01:32:01,120
previous three Serie A matches. This is potentially an early relegation six-pointer over here.

937
01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:06,880
Helas Verona have never conceded more than one goal against Empoli in Serie A, nine goals and 12 matches.

938
01:32:06,880 --> 01:32:11,440
Empoli have never drawn their opening game to, say, a season four wins and 11 defeats,

939
01:32:11,440 --> 01:32:17,840
including a 1-0 defeat versus Spetia last season. Two tough pills to swallow for Empoli as they

940
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:22,240
have been eliminated from the Coppa Italia after a 2-1 loss to Cittadella and now they have lost

941
01:32:22,240 --> 01:32:30,880
to a relegation. Right, sorry, a hiccup. You've omitted. Let's go with the lineups. For Empoli,

942
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:39,040
it was the 4-2-3-1 formation with Capri Langol, formerly with Bari, bought by Napoli and loaned

943
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:46,000
out to Empoli. Yes. Oh, God, Cacaccia, he's back, bro. Yes, Liby. Liby. Liby is a liberatory Cacaccia.

944
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:51,200
Liberatory Cacaccia was out on the left. Mebuah, he was out on the right with Luperto and Ismaili

945
01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:56,720
at the back for Empoli. Gracia and Marin were the double pivots with Emmanuel Giasi out on the left,

946
01:32:56,720 --> 01:33:02,720
Cacaccia, Larry on the right, Baldanzi playing behind Caputo. I point out two things, really cool

947
01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:08,800
seeing Empoli play with Wingers with Giasi and Cacaccia, Larry and also naturally Cacaccia coming

948
01:33:08,800 --> 01:33:16,480
in because of Parisi leaving to Fiorentina. So for Verona, Marco Baroni's Verona, it was a 3-4-2-1

949
01:33:16,480 --> 01:33:22,320
formation with Montepo in goal, Coppola Maniani and Davidovic at the back with Terra Ciano on the

950
01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:28,320
right, Doig on the left, Duda and Hongla in the middle with Engange and Imbula playing behind

951
01:33:29,040 --> 01:33:37,120
Folo Rusno. Folo Runso. Folo Runso. Now, who the hell? Who the hell is Folo Runso? Folo Runso is

952
01:33:37,120 --> 01:33:42,400
owned by Napoli and has been out on loan since he joined them in 2019, having never actually debuted

953
01:33:42,400 --> 01:33:47,680
for last season's champions. He has been sent out on loan to Barri, Regina, Port Danone and now

954
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:52,480
Helas Verona. He had his highest ever goal scoring season last year with Barri and Seria best scoring

955
01:33:52,480 --> 01:33:57,920
eight goals in 27 games. Conchilleri arrived at Empoli from Lazio on loan with option to buy for

956
01:33:57,920 --> 01:34:03,600
12 million. Lazio have a buyback clause of 20 million. A player who's usually very good, well

957
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:10,160
not usually very good, a player who has flashes of good moments to be honest. I think it can be a

958
01:34:10,160 --> 01:34:16,560
useful winger, kind of or Solini type moment. Yeah. Yeah. And the seventh minute, Kakachi gave a quick

959
01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:21,760
throw in to Marin who took a touch and thundered the ball from outside the area, forcing a fingertip

960
01:34:21,760 --> 01:34:31,040
save by Montepo onto the crossbar. Absolutely crazy. Marin, Marin, Marin. Yeah. 41st minute,

961
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:36,080
Grussi controlled a loose ball in midfield and played the ball to Baldanzio, picked out Jossi,

962
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:41,760
perfectly Jossi had plenty of time. The ex-Spezia player had so much time to think about it to

963
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:47,440
tee up his shot well, but instead he leaned back. The thing that every coach tells you not to do at

964
01:34:47,440 --> 01:34:52,240
the age of five, he leaned back, he shot centrally and he failed to hit the target from right in front

965
01:34:52,240 --> 01:34:57,680
of the keeper. He picked up where he left off at Spezia, terrible miss, poor technique. Yeah.

966
01:34:57,680 --> 01:35:02,640
Horrible moment, horrible start to his Empoli. Manuel Jossi. That's a miss of the week for sure.

967
01:35:02,640 --> 01:35:10,400
In the 75th minute, Empoli goalkeeper Caprile, miss handled the corner and spilled the ball,

968
01:35:10,400 --> 01:35:16,720
clumsily the ball fell to Bonazzoli and you can just see everyone go, oh God, not him.

969
01:35:17,360 --> 01:35:22,000
Because Bonazzoli is not the person that you want to lose the ball to in the box because he

970
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:28,240
springs to life in these moments and he sprung to life, he turned and on the turn he shot the ball

971
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:37,200
and scored on his debut as he did his trademark machine gun celebration as he ran off to celebrate

972
01:35:37,200 --> 01:35:43,840
with the fans. Yep. Great passion over there. That's an early, very important victory for

973
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:51,040
Veron and Empoli once again losing out in the first match of the season. Last season they had lost

974
01:35:51,040 --> 01:36:02,080
to Spezia. So here they are once again losing out to relegation contender in the first match of the

975
01:36:02,080 --> 01:36:06,720
season. Clumsy start, clumsy start completely getting knocked out of the Coppa Italia losing the

976
01:36:06,720 --> 01:36:12,400
first game to a team that they should be beating to be honest. It was an action packed game at least,

977
01:36:12,400 --> 01:36:17,200
it was fun to watch, it featured an attempt from Miles Out forcing Montepoint to a reflex save

978
01:36:17,200 --> 01:36:21,600
that involved Marin hitting the crossbar goal keeping Blunder that left to a debut goal,

979
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:27,200
a trademark Saponara curler that just missed the target, remember that? We interrupted, Alan was

980
01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:38,080
talking. We put it on the big TV when Saponara came on, it was dual screening. And Jossia of

981
01:36:38,080 --> 01:36:42,480
course squandering a goal and opportunity pure entertainment. Yeah, these games give you

982
01:36:42,480 --> 01:36:49,600
entertainment. They don't give you much technique, much skill and so on so forth, but they're never

983
01:36:49,600 --> 01:36:55,280
shy of their efforts. I was particularly impressed by Davidovic, no one had more touches than him,

984
01:36:55,280 --> 01:37:00,320
this game 78 touches. He has played in midfield before in his career, which explains why he's

985
01:37:00,320 --> 01:37:04,800
so capable on the ball. His balls over the top to Jürich to knock down to Bonazzoli could be

986
01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:09,120
super useful this season. I really like Jürich up front, I really like Davidovic at the back.

987
01:37:09,120 --> 01:37:15,680
It's an easy way of setting something up. Long ball to Jürich, he'll win it in the air and knock

988
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:21,760
down, goal. When I watched Milan against Verona at San Siro last game of the season, last season,

989
01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:28,800
Monty Paul's goal kicks were the easiest thing in the world because simply straight to Jürich

990
01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:34,480
and that's where Verona were having most of their success. Exactly, just hoofed the ball to Slathan

991
01:37:34,480 --> 01:37:42,720
from Wish. I think they have some decent options here on the bench Verona this season because

992
01:37:42,720 --> 01:37:49,920
okay, they've got in Gonjumbu, Land, follow, follow, follow, follow up front and then on the bench,

993
01:37:49,920 --> 01:37:57,280
Bonazzoli, Saponara and Jürich. All great players to bring on when they need a goal and perhaps

994
01:37:57,280 --> 01:38:01,840
they could even consider starting with two up top men. Yeah, they actually have more depth,

995
01:38:01,840 --> 01:38:04,800
they improved a little bit. It was hard to get worse to be honest with last season.

996
01:38:06,080 --> 01:38:09,040
One more thing I want to talk about, say, Empoli had a few good sequences but they couldn't

997
01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:13,440
finish off their moves. I feel like Caputo was isolated from most of the game and the runners

998
01:38:13,440 --> 01:38:20,720
in behind failed to convert and draw in particular. Okay, so that was that. Empoli, Nil Verona won.

999
01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:27,040
I think it's also worth mentioning that Lazovic wasn't in the team and neither was Farahani.

1000
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:35,760
Yes, Fianreling transfer speculation. Yes, the final game we're going to be covering is Torino,

1001
01:38:35,760 --> 01:38:41,680
Nil, Kalyari, Nil. Kalyari now haven't lost in eight of their last nine matches against Torino

1002
01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:47,760
in Serie A. Coming into this game, Kalyari had won both of their last two away games against Torino.

1003
01:38:47,760 --> 01:38:53,840
The Granata were missing them by Sek and Gigi with Nemanja Radonjic and David Zima not at 100%

1004
01:38:53,840 --> 01:39:00,240
either but both featuring as substitutes. The Sardinians returned to the top flight after a

1005
01:39:00,240 --> 01:39:06,560
last gap promotion playoff with well against Bari and coach Claudio Ranieri will be forced to do

1006
01:39:06,560 --> 01:39:13,840
without Lapadoula, Rog and Mancozu for several months. There was a change of system to triad the

1007
01:39:13,840 --> 01:39:20,560
back for this game. New signings Shomorra the Vandyankto featured off the bench. It was a 3-4-2-1

1008
01:39:20,560 --> 01:39:25,920
formation for Torino with Vandyanko and the backline of Rodriguez, Bonjorno and Schurz,

1009
01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:30,880
Foy Vodá out on the left and Raul Bellanova new signing out on the right with Richie and

1010
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:35,760
Illich in the middle, Karamo on the left, Vlasic on the right and Toni Sanabria up top.

1011
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:44,960
It was a 3-4-3 formation for Claudio Ranieri's men with Radonjic in goal and center back Trident

1012
01:39:44,960 --> 01:39:51,440
of Goldenega, Dosena and Aubart, Zappa out on the right, Atzi out on the left and Makambu and

1013
01:39:51,440 --> 01:39:57,280
Sulemana playing as the midfield too, Nandes out on the right, Lovumbo out on the left and

1014
01:39:57,280 --> 01:40:03,920
Oristano up front. In the third minute, Radonjic did extremely well to get down and deny a close

1015
01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:10,480
range Sanabria volley following an accurate corner kick. In the 15th minute, Oristano played a ball

1016
01:40:10,480 --> 01:40:15,360
down the flank to Nandes who managed to beat Bonjorno who lost his footing, Nandes cut the ball

1017
01:40:15,360 --> 01:40:21,440
inside and attempted a brilliant curling strike into the top corner but Vandyankovic-Savic

1018
01:40:21,440 --> 01:40:28,080
produced a breathtaking save, tipping the ball wide as he fully extended himself, go watch it guys,

1019
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:33,840
he's such a specimen this Vandyankovic-Savic that save, it was damn well near impossible,

1020
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:38,480
there's not much more Nandes could have done with that strike. He struck it perfectly. Yeah,

1021
01:40:38,480 --> 01:40:43,760
absolutely, absolutely, like to me maybe Mike Manjan might have not saved that,

1022
01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:48,640
just strengths and strengths in different areas. Super, super save and to be honest with

1023
01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:53,600
two fantastic goal keeping this place here. Yes, yes, absolutely, absolutely. Two minutes later,

1024
01:40:53,600 --> 01:40:57,920
Shurs headed just wide after a good corner kick by Richie, he should have done better, he was

1025
01:40:57,920 --> 01:41:03,840
unmarked but the ball came at him quite unexpectedly. Obert had a great loss, the challenge to deny

1026
01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:10,080
Radonnić broke through the defence with his pace after coming on, Pavoletti and Jankto both had

1027
01:41:10,080 --> 01:41:15,600
chances but neither got the job done and in the 91st minute Radonnić released an insanely powerful

1028
01:41:15,600 --> 01:41:20,320
strike from distance but Radonnić did well to put his body behind the ball and using his chest to

1029
01:41:20,320 --> 01:41:29,360
keep the powerful strike out. I mean, yeah, I was hoping for Enes Elametti, Senio Pavoletti,

1030
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:35,360
yeah, same here but unfortunately, like you said, it was two great goal keeping performances and I

1031
01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:43,280
think both teams, well, Torino would have hoped to get off with a victory, however Kalyari were

1032
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:48,800
set up very well, I feel like Kalyari had a very good and mature display over here.

1033
01:41:50,000 --> 01:41:54,240
Like I said, much like Lecce, Kalyari did well to defend effectively and stay in the game,

1034
01:41:54,240 --> 01:42:00,240
even giving Torino some frights towards latter stages of the match. Yeah, for sure, bro. I was

1035
01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:05,520
surprised by Kalyari, they had a very thin squad with their injuries but they played up to par.

1036
01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:10,720
Ranieri's men getting a very valuable point. I think Torino seemed to struggle to find any

1037
01:42:10,720 --> 01:42:16,320
clear cut shots and they seemed uncomfortable adapting to Kalyari's setup. Now, Kalyari are

1038
01:42:16,320 --> 01:42:21,120
quite unorthodox, they are quite unorthodox, they are on an orthodox side and they have Ranieri who

1039
01:42:21,120 --> 01:42:27,280
is the tinker man naturally. They usually play a 4-4-2, I mean who the hell plays a 4-4-2 nowadays

1040
01:42:27,280 --> 01:42:32,000
so it's quite a rigid formation and it can be very tough to break down, particularly when you're a

1041
01:42:32,000 --> 01:42:39,360
team that struggles to score goals like Torino and Tony Sanabria has been the second option but

1042
01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:45,280
they're saving grace for season after season now and it's just wild that they, like, okay, it's not

1043
01:42:45,280 --> 01:42:49,760
because he doesn't deserve a starting role but it's just how can you settle for someone who's been

1044
01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:55,120
playing second fiddle for so long and not by a competitive striker to compete with them? You know

1045
01:42:55,120 --> 01:43:00,320
what I mean? Like why is Pelé Gris the second option for them up front? I have absolutely no

1046
01:43:00,320 --> 01:43:04,800
answer for that. I know for a fact that it's not because of Yurich, I don't think it's Yurich's

1047
01:43:04,800 --> 01:43:12,800
decision to have that setup but the owners. Yes. But because they've brought in players,

1048
01:43:12,800 --> 01:43:18,560
they brought in Bellanova, they brought in Richela's season, what's stopping them from buying a fucking

1049
01:43:18,560 --> 01:43:24,640
striker? They lost Bellotti. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It's very interesting but I feel like

1050
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:32,080
this is a very, very difficult case study because in order to predict how their seasons are gonna go

1051
01:43:32,080 --> 01:43:36,640
and what the teams look like because Torino just looked slightly uncomfortable and had no clear cut

1052
01:43:36,640 --> 01:43:44,800
chances. Kaliari were set up to stop Torino and to defend and then get them on the counter in that

1053
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:52,480
3-4-3 formation. I think it's tough to tell you guys what we expect out of these so I don't want to

1054
01:43:52,480 --> 01:43:57,920
go into too much more information about these sides. We'll wait and see what happens in the next

1055
01:43:57,920 --> 01:44:11,440
fixtures. On to the question segment, baby. Welcome back to our question segment, guys.

1056
01:44:11,440 --> 01:44:18,560
Of course, patrons will be getting priority for the questions to become a Patreon. Sorry,

1057
01:44:18,560 --> 01:44:22,960
I keep fucking that up. The link is in our bio. You can find it on Instagram, Twitter,

1058
01:44:22,960 --> 01:44:28,560
wherever. So the first question comes from Patreon Mattias. It's not a question, it's actually a

1059
01:44:28,560 --> 01:44:33,120
hot take. He says, Lecture is gonna be good for the first third of the season then the other teams

1060
01:44:33,120 --> 01:44:38,400
are gonna figure them out and they will still get relegated. Kind of similar to what happened to them

1061
01:44:38,400 --> 01:44:43,280
last season minus the relegation part. They had a very, very strong start. They were very strong

1062
01:44:43,280 --> 01:44:49,040
from set pieces and then kind of once people got over that, they got over the strefetza movement,

1063
01:44:49,040 --> 01:44:53,440
they got over the physicality of Basquerotta and Umtiti. They kind of got figured out and they

1064
01:44:53,440 --> 01:44:57,280
were being blown out of the water, not blown out of the water because they barely conceded

1065
01:44:57,280 --> 01:45:02,000
more than two goals in any match, but they were losing out quite a bit and we do

1066
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:07,840
both have them getting relegated this season. Yes, we do. I think with a greater sample size,

1067
01:45:07,840 --> 01:45:11,520
people will figure out how to cut the supply. We'll see. Hopefully they can prove us all wrong

1068
01:45:11,520 --> 01:45:15,680
because they're a lovely thing to watch. Yeah, they're a lovely team and they managed to do what

1069
01:45:15,680 --> 01:45:20,400
they did against lots of interesting second place last year. So we could very much be wrong over

1070
01:45:20,400 --> 01:45:27,920
here still early days. Oh boy, Alan. Hello. Hello. As top three performers from the new signings,

1071
01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:32,160
obviously reactionary and too early, but fun. If you have any good examples for bottom three,

1072
01:45:32,160 --> 01:45:37,360
it's fun too, but it might be difficult. I do have top three on bottom three. Okay. I've got top three

1073
01:45:37,360 --> 01:45:44,560
performers. I've got Pulisic. I've got Alhamdkvist. Yes. Does Kambiaz account?

1074
01:45:45,680 --> 01:45:52,240
Well, yes, I guess. Returning from alone. Sure, I'll put Kambiaz. I'm going to agree with you in

1075
01:45:52,240 --> 01:45:58,080
the Pulisic Alhamdkvist and I'm going to say to Johnny Reinders. I know it sounds biased, but

1076
01:45:58,640 --> 01:46:02,720
definitely Reinders. Yeah, they had such a spectacular performance. 100%

1077
01:46:02,720 --> 01:46:08,000
past succession, the most distance covered and kept on going for the full 90 minutes. Amazing.

1078
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:15,200
Bottom three of the matchday, Caprilek, Causté and Kamada for me. I didn't prefer a bottom three.

1079
01:46:17,440 --> 01:46:23,920
Sorry, Alan. There you go, Alan. He's let you down. Okay, let's go. Kiaran Bray. Wait, you know

1080
01:46:23,920 --> 01:46:30,320
what I'm going to do with right now though, because what the hell am I? I would say Kamada,

1081
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:37,280
the K-Telare might be the positive ones as well. Kamada didn't have a great game.

1082
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Caprilek as well, I agree. And the last one, to be fair, I think you're in the nail on the head,

1083
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I can't not say Ka Yusuke. I cannot say Ka Prilek. Kamada is the one that can be replaced, but he

1084
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just didn't. He stood out like a sore thumb for Lazio because they play Sari's system and they

1085
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all know each other and he was the only new boy in the starting 11. So it has to be those, I agree.

1086
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Yes, Kiaran Brady says rank each team's goalkeeper in different tiers, S, A, B, C, D and F tiers.

1087
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Ah, like the TikTok filter thing. Yeah, exactly. So I think since we are quite pressed for time,

1088
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what we should do is look at the tier, say who we said and not discuss. Yes, rapid fire. So S,

1089
01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:33,520
I have one guy in S, one in S. Yes, same. Okay. A, I've got Cesney, Providell, Summer and Meret.

1090
01:47:33,520 --> 01:47:39,600
I've got two, Cesney and Summer. Okay. Summer, obviously, there's a lot more to see. Okay.

1091
01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:46,960
B, I've got Terraciano, Vania, D Grigorio, Skorupski, Rui, Ochoa and Falcone, all in B.

1092
01:47:46,960 --> 01:47:51,120
B, I have Meret, Providell, Skorupski, Vania and D Grigorio.

1093
01:47:51,120 --> 01:47:59,920
C, I've got Kranio, Musso, Radunovic, Montepo and Silvestri. C, I have Patricio, Musso, Terraciano,

1094
01:47:59,920 --> 01:48:06,320
Ochoa, Falcone and Montepo. I see what you do, Patricio, respect. D, I've got Capri,

1095
01:48:06,320 --> 01:48:13,840
Latterati and Martinez. D, I've got Silvestri, Radunovic and Kranio. Okay, okay, fair enough.

1096
01:48:13,840 --> 01:48:21,680
I feel like discussing, but we'll have to see for another day, bro. Dennis says, Tiani Reigns.

1097
01:48:21,680 --> 01:48:25,280
Wait, wait, F, bro. I don't have F. You don't have F? I don't have F.

1098
01:48:25,280 --> 01:48:29,120
I put Martinez, Terraciano and Capri, the newly promoted ones, which obviously there's

1099
01:48:29,120 --> 01:48:34,000
a lot to see from them, but my case study is limited, so those are mine.

1100
01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:39,200
I particularly, I disagree with you with Radunovic. I think Radunovic is quite good. I would put him

1101
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at C. Yes, but we saw him in Serie A, but last year, so I didn't want to overestimate. Fair enough,

1102
01:48:45,520 --> 01:48:51,600
fair enough. Dennis says, Tiani Reinders will make people forget that Tonali existed.

1103
01:48:53,440 --> 01:48:58,320
I think quality-wise he can, and that's definitely what he means, but we can't forget our fucking

1104
01:48:58,320 --> 01:49:01,600
little baby boy, you know what I mean? Tonali won the league with Milan, right?

1105
01:49:01,600 --> 01:49:09,440
And there's a pivotal point, Sandro, Sandro Merita. Exactly. People won't be forgetting about Tonali

1106
01:49:09,440 --> 01:49:14,080
anytime soon, especially even if it's not for his performance, it's for the fact that he funded

1107
01:49:14,080 --> 01:49:19,120
this incredible mark on it. Yes, yes. So, yes, but I do think Reinders will come very good.

1108
01:49:19,120 --> 01:49:24,560
Yes, I think what it means is that Reinders will probably do better for Milan, and if he wins the

1109
01:49:24,560 --> 01:49:29,600
trophies, then yes. Exactly, yes. If he goes on to win fucking lots of silver, people will fuck Tonali.

1110
01:49:29,600 --> 01:49:36,800
Exactly. He also said CDK 25 combined goals and assists at Atalanta. Like, are you talking about

1111
01:49:36,800 --> 01:49:44,080
this season, combined goals and assists? No. No, not 25, definitely not. He also says Zanio

1112
01:49:44,080 --> 01:49:50,320
was the most handsome Italian player. You're wrong. Okay, who do you think it is? Italian,

1113
01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:58,240
just Italian. Giorginio. Giorginio. Handsome fuck like. We asked the girls, and they told us that

1114
01:49:58,240 --> 01:50:01,120
they're all clapped. He said Zalewski.

1115
01:50:06,400 --> 01:50:13,840
Fucking hell. Who have they say? Giorginio, they mentioned Pellegrini. I don't know. I think

1116
01:50:13,840 --> 01:50:18,560
like they typically rave about Barella as well. Tall guy with light eyes. There's Meret as well.

1117
01:50:18,560 --> 01:50:23,840
Meret is a good looking guy. Saponara is the best for sure. Saponara is the best looking out of the

1118
01:50:23,840 --> 01:50:32,240
lot, definitely. Okay. Milan underscore 0793 says or asks who will be challenging for the title

1119
01:50:32,240 --> 01:50:43,840
this season? The whole episode, last episode. Yove Milan Inter Napoli. Yove Milan Napoli.

1120
01:50:43,840 --> 01:50:50,880
Okay, no inter. Ah, wait, no. Yove Milan Napoli sounds right. Yove Milan Napoli. Inter

1121
01:50:50,880 --> 01:50:59,040
court. Don't get me wrong. I'm just. I remember that I had them in fifth. Andrea says as an

1122
01:50:59,040 --> 01:51:03,840
Inter fan, I hate to say this, but it looks like our not which will be a better signing than Thuram.

1123
01:51:04,640 --> 01:51:11,040
Short term. I agree with you. I mean, yes, he's probably right in the sense that like Zeko was a

1124
01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:15,040
magnificent signing and you would have never guessed it. I think stylistically, an out of which

1125
01:51:15,040 --> 01:51:19,680
fits more. Thuram is a bit more of an investment, got him in on a free and he needs to get used to

1126
01:51:19,680 --> 01:51:26,240
the system. Exactly. Tom Doran, Inter are cooking with their business right now. That's a sick name.

1127
01:51:26,240 --> 01:51:32,800
Tom Doran. Tom Doran. Tom Doran. Tommy D. Tommy D baby. In a place to be. Inter are cooking with

1128
01:51:32,800 --> 01:51:37,120
their business. They're moving well. It's a shame that they didn't manage to get the Samaritan deal

1129
01:51:37,120 --> 01:51:43,440
through for a petty amount of commission, essentially. And I feel like they have been a

1130
01:51:43,440 --> 01:51:48,880
little bit rigid with their negotiation saying that Inter don't participate in auctions.

1131
01:51:48,880 --> 01:51:53,120
For example, letting Skamakka go to Atlanta. I think that would be a fantastic signing. Yes,

1132
01:51:53,120 --> 01:52:01,120
definitely. But Inter are at the moment a bunch of bro keys. Yes. It's literally the case. I think

1133
01:52:01,120 --> 01:52:08,240
when it comes to a team that is limited with their funds, making it work in the past three,

1134
01:52:08,240 --> 01:52:15,440
Mercati, Inter are the team that have done that. Yeah, definitely. Agreed. So that's it guys. Thank

1135
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you very much for listening. As always, drop us a follow, drop us a DM comment on the Spotify

1136
01:52:20,640 --> 01:52:24,160
comment section. That's always fun for us to see. You know, we'll get a little email that

1137
01:52:24,160 --> 01:52:28,080
tells us someone has commented on your Spotify and then we get to see it and get to approve it.

1138
01:52:28,080 --> 01:52:33,200
It's a fun little thing for us. Yeah. Drop us a DM. We like to talk about football. Talk to us

1139
01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:39,120
about football. Just a couple of dudes. You know what I mean? Like say, yeah, you know, yeah. And

1140
01:52:39,120 --> 01:52:47,120
then you might teach that we've got some fucking monster brains in the group chat on the series,

1141
01:52:47,120 --> 01:52:51,440
the series, but like patron group chat that are teaching us so much about football.

1142
01:52:53,040 --> 01:53:02,800
Mattias, Allen, Santi, Tonna, Andy, as well, Theo, all of them, bro, all even Chesco,

1143
01:53:02,800 --> 01:53:11,680
all the absolute taco that honestly all their bone colleges, chem, the bone only to the mint

1144
01:53:11,680 --> 01:53:20,400
off as well. Yes, all of them. Jamie as well. What? Jamie is a patron. Jamie green. Of course.

1145
01:53:20,400 --> 01:53:26,480
Of course. Yes. Hey, Jamie. This is the headby joining our Fanta culture. But yes, thank you

1146
01:53:26,480 --> 01:53:33,200
very much. Guys, we'll be at the same place at the same time next week, matchday two. Every week

1147
01:53:33,200 --> 01:53:57,280
is going to be so fun, bro. We'll see you all next week, guys.