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Sansone, easily away from Luka.

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Sansone, that's a lovely ball in and brilliantly buried by Roberto Piccoli.

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It's his first let's-it goal, it's the equaliser here.

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And Udinese just can't get over the line when it comes to this first victory.

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Hello and welcome to Serie A Spotlight episode 97.

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I'm your host Jake, riding solo for this one as Matt has had to catch a flight to Australia

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to deal with a family emergency.

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He might have to stay there for a few weeks and I'll try to keep this show afloat without

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his very capable hands.

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I might have to actually call in some reinforcements to keep this show afloat.

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Feel free to send me your best wishes guys, I'm sure he'll be very happy to hear from

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you.

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But until then...

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That's right, fuck you Matt, this is my show now.

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My rules, goal of the week, Piccoli assisted by Sansone, what a fantastic dribble and cross

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that was by the substitute Sansone.

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I believe it was Luka who he beat, whipped the ball in and Piccoli just playing the off-site

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trap perfectly off the shoulder of the defender over their extensive foot and scores.

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Brilliant goal, that's my goal of the week.

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So the weekend is over guys, meaning that matchday nine has come to a conclusion.

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A very exciting weekend of football and I enjoyed watching many of the games.

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Now that the 12-30 games have started, the games are more spread out and we have more

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of an opportunity to keep an eye out on these teams, you know, without teams playing at

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the exact same times.

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It's more enjoyable like this in my opinion.

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But yeah, there weren't any crazy goals this weekend in my opinion.

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I'll put a poll down on Spotify so you can vote for your favorite goal this weekend.

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I'm sure Guvara Tskelja's will probably take the cake.

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It was a good goal, nothing crazy in my opinion, I was more impressed by Piccoli's goal and

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the substitutes linking up.

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But anyway, I think we should get into the action.

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The weekly rundown, Matt normally kills this, let's see how I do.

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Juventus beat Milan 1-0 at San Siro thanks to a deflected goal by Manuel Locatelli after

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Chau's red card early on in the game.

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Inter had to wait till late to beat Torino 3-0 away from home.

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Napoli smashed Helas Verona 3-1 away from home while Roma left it till late to beat Monza

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1-0 at the Olympics.

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Atalanta weren't having any of that Genoa are good stuff and beat them 2-0 at home.

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Fiorentina and Empoli faced off on a Tuscan derby which saw Empoli beating Fiorentina

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with a score of 2 goals to nil.

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Sasuolo continue to demonstrate how absolutely terrible their defenses as they lost 2-0 to

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Lazio at home, Bologna beat Frosinone 2-1 at home, with Deneza and Letria 4-1 to a 1-1

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draw while Salentan and Caleri also 4-2 a dramatic 2-2 draw.

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Well anyway guys we can kick things off of the Sun-0 where Juva beat Milan with a score

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of 1 goal to nil to hop to 3rd place in the table.

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This was heavily influenced by a Malik Chau red card which occurred in the 40th minute

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as he was in a 50-50 with Moise Keen which saw Keen to be honest who's really improved

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recently outmisling Chau dropping him to the floor essentially and Chau slipped really.

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And as Keen was breaking away Chau panicked and that's in that split second I'm not sure

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if he had realized that he was the last man but he pulled his shirt resulting in a very

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clear red card.

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But before we do get into the events of the game I want to go through the lineups for

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Milan it was a 4-2-3-1 formation with Miranda in goal for following the suspension of Manjane

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and the last minute injury of Sportiello, Florencia as the left back following the suspension

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of Teo Hernandez, Tomorri Chau and Calabria forming the back 4.

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As for the midfield 3 this consisted of Moosa, Adley and Reinders.

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Of course this can be seen as quite a makeshift midfield 3 considering that it consists of

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two new signings and a player who didn't feel charitable last season.

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This is all because of Kronich who was not fit enough to start following his injury,

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Benasser still out injured, Ruben Loftus-Triek was still out injured so purely didn't really

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have many options over there.

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Rafael Leaud was out on the left while Pulisic was out on the right with Giroud playing as

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the lone striker.

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It is also worth noting that Cio Cuesa picked up a last minute injury as well and was not

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able to feature for Milan this game.

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For Maxa Legri's Juventus it was a 3-5-2 formation with Cesney in goal, Gatti Bremer

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and Rugani at the back with Wehr out on the right, Costich out on the left, Robbio Locatelian-Mikenni

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in the middle with a striking partnership of Keene and Millic.

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You'll notice the absence of Danilo who was injured as well as the absence of Vlaovic

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and Keazza who were on the bench for this game as they've just returned from injury

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and were not quite fit enough to start.

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Now the game kicked off with Milan playing on the upper hand, front foot, taking the

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game to Juventus and really pushing for a goal and we did see an instance of sexy champagne

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football where Leaud kept stretching the game out wide, one-viewed, one-ing, Gatti basically

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and beating him pretty much every time early on.

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He had one moment where he took the ball down, knocked it all the way to the edge of the

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area, chopped back, Gatti is Leaud's dog and he's being walked at this point.

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Then Leaud just whips in a perfect ball to Giroud who controls it perfectly and strikes

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it but there was a massive, incredible fingertip save by Cesney over there to deny the Frenchman.

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Now after this of course there weren't really any clear cut chances but in the 40th minute

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was when Chow did get sent off as I described earlier.

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Now do I blame Chow?

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Yes, yes, sure, I do blame Chow.

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Does this change my perspective of him as a player?

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No, it doesn't to be honest with you and we've mentioned on this podcast before that Malik

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Chow for those people who watched him in Germany back in the day did have this kind of reputation

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to him.

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Massive talent, incredible defender, has mistakes in him and that's what he gets with young

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defenders, that's what he gets.

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It's part of the package deal.

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These guys don't have the experience to deal with situations like this well, that could

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have been the first time he ever faced a situation like that in a game.

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Next time he'll know better.

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I'm not gonna really slate him for it, it just sucks that Milan seem to be rotating their

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best players and seem to always be missing one of their big players in each game with

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all the yellow cards and red cards that they've got this season.

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They really do have a disciplinary issue right now and I think they lead the red card

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stats right now.

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They have three red cards, that's the most in the league.

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But anyway the game continued, Milan continued to press and to play on the front foot to

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be honest despite being a man down.

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They had Juventus pinned back and they were really attacking them and going for their

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throat.

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But in the 63rd minute former Milan youth player Manuel Locatelli struck the ball from a distance,

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deflected off Radicronica's foot and ended up in the back of the net.

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A very unfortunate goal for Milan at that point, especially you know, solving the wounds

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seeing Manuel Locatelli who had scored a very similar goal in 2016.

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Now get this guys.

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In 2016 Milan were very bad and came against a very good Juventus side.

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Their young midfielder who had just scored his first ever goal in Serie A the previous

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week against Sassuolo scored the winner of that game, Manuel Locatelli.

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Fast forward to 2023 and now it's a bad Juve side, some are calling this Juve side the worst

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that they've seen in their lifetime or since the del Neri days.

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Yeah, against a very good Milan side who made it to the Champions League semi-final who

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won this cadet not too long ago and Manuel Locatelli scores the winning goal.

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Sometimes these things just align.

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Now there are a few things I would like to point out about this game, the first one being

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of course so okay.

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You're a man down.

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Imagine this, you're a man down and you've got this Milan team and you're looking at this

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Milan team and you're thinking to yourself okay, we're a man down.

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We're going to continue to attack them, we're going to continue to play our football, we're

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going to try to bring this result home because we are better with 10 men than they are with

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11 men.

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Okay, fair enough, fair enough, go for it, go for it.

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But why are you keeping on Jiru in that case, in that situation?

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Guys, I don't want to be the guy that's always like hating on Jiru but you can't be a man

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down.

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You have to run twice the amount and you keep Jiru, your 37 year old striker on the pitch.

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It doesn't make any sense.

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And then who do you take out?

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Pulisic, who a few moments before had pressed like three men after losing the ball in a

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row and looked pretty much unfazed but the amount of running here had just done.

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He just doesn't make any sense taking out Pulisic and leaving Jiru on only to bring on Jovic

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later because he has the same characteristics as Jiru apparently according to Piolli.

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But that's the wrong decision.

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You've got Chouquette as a suspended, you've got Okofar not at his best, you're admitting

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Okofar is not at his best so you can't play right now.

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The guy who scored three goals.

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So who exactly is going to run for you over here?

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Who's going to run?

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You know, I mean Jovic, sure, he inserted himself in these 50-50s, he attacked the ball, okay,

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enough, yes, bring him on later on.

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But it was Jiru who had to go, I think.

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Now I don't know if Piolli's idea was, you know, try to get a knockdown on to layout,

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try to flick the ball off of Jiru on to layout to break away but there was too much pressure

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on layout to create without Pulisic on the pitch over there and I think that was a big

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mistake by Piolli personally.

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I mean, if you look at the timestamps of the match, it really paints a picture for you.

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So 40th minute, Chow, red card, 43rd minute, Pulisic out for Kalulu and then in the 60th

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minute it took out Jiru and brought on Jovic, only for the 79th minute to come and Piolli

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would be like, wow, we really need someone to run at them, we really need someone to

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offer some width and to try to stretch the game and he ended up bringing on the teenager

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Luca Romero.

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Like sure, okay, bring on Romero at the end but that could have been Pulisic the entire

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time, yeah, whatever.

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So another thing I want to discuss is how dramatic people have been about this fixture

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being a poor ad for Seria or whatever, like first of all, dude, who cares, dude, this

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is one game, one game that wasn't beautiful, like, are you sure, yeah, it's Juventus at

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the end of the day, okay, you have Juventus playing against a 10 man Milan, this is the

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ad you want to pick for Seria, what about Fiorinti and Anopoli, which was the best game

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of football I've seen all season, for example.

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There have been so many good games this season, there have been so many good games in Seria

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recently in general, like, and so many good performances from Italian teams who had Atalanta

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and the Champions League smashing, lots of scoring with their goalkeeper at the end of

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the Champions League match demonstrating a good ad, last season, two Italian teams and

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the Champions League semi-final, like why is everyone worried about this ad for Seria

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just because of a poor match?

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Okay, granted, these sides are both title contenders, but they came into this game with

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many missing important pieces.

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You have a team, Juventus always set up very pragmatically, they're known for setting up

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pragmatically, Atletico set up pragmatically as well in the league, does that mean that

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they're a bad ad for the league?

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No, they demonstrate something different and unique about the league, they show you both

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sides, right?

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You've got your Real Madrid, you've got your Barcelona, you've got your Atletico Madrid,

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you know?

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Seria is full of entertaining teams, you don't need to fucking look at this game as an ad.

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If you want an ad, look at Frosinona who've just come up and are playing beautiful, positive,

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offensive football and sit halfway up the table in the first season since they were

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back from Seria without any experienced players in their team.

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It's totally reactionary, totally dramatic and totally uncalled for in my opinion.

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Not anyway, I would like to praise Juventus who despite their futile starting 11, put

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up a very solid defensive display.

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It's never easy playing against the likes of Lea Ojuru, Polisik, no matter, even though

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it was only for 40 minutes they held their own very well and they do say that great defense

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is kind of in your leagues and Juve definitely do have a great defense as they only conceded

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six goals this season so far.

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So remember they play once a week, they are definitely title contenders.

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I do respect the style that Juve went for over here, Allegri thought to himself these

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guys have got more firepower than us, let's sit back, let's absorb and let's hit them

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on the counter, we'll exploit them the second an opportunity comes and that's exactly what

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they did.

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I know Juve fans are often frustrated with Allegri especially when he does this against

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the smaller teams he should probably be beating, comfortably that is.

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But yeah I thought he approached this game very well and it was absolutely hilarious

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seeing him at the end of the game when Juve were trying to play the ball in tight channels

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I believe it was Miretti, he got so pissed off that he removed his tie, he unbuttoned

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his shirt, he started getting naked dude.

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This is the exact same thing that Kevin Prince Boateng said recently in an interview that

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Deserby does, they worked together at Sa Swolo.

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Apparently Deserby would get so frustrated in training that they would just rip his pants

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off and I have no idea, I would love to speak to someone who studies the human mind and

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ask them why is it that when some people get pissed off especially Mediterranean people

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why do they start removing clothes, what's the connection over there please, if someone

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knows please do tell me, but yeah later on in an interview Allegri said they were a man

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down, we were risking it, we should have been playing like we were at the airport instead

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of playing in a very tight space with Leao ready to run in behind and punish us and he's

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absolutely right, yes and his tantrum worked because they definitely didn't concede the

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goal after that they had to come all three points as Juve are currently sitting third

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with 20 points while Milan sit in second with 21 points behind Inter who are first with

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22 points.

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Speaking of Inter, we should probably talk about their game against Torino away from

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home which resulted in a 3-0 victory against Ivan Urić's men who have not had a great

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time recently as they suffered their fourth consecutive game without scoring a single

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goal and their third defeat in the last four matches.

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Vlasić did try something new this game he lined up with 4-2-3-1 formation and when he

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usually plays 3 at the back formation this time he lined up with Vanja and Goud, Ricardo

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Rodriguez, Tamesi, Schuers and Bellanova at the back with Ritji and Linetti as a double

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pivot and Sek Vlasić and Lazaro playing behind Pellegri up front.

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For Inter it was business as usual with Summer in goal, Archeri B. Devry and Pavard at the

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back with Darmian out on the right, DeMarco on the left, Mikitaari in Shalanoglou and

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Barrella in the middle with a striking partnership of Lautaro Martinez and Thuram.

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The game started off with Inter looking pretty surprised at Urić's setup and they simply

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couldn't crack them early on.

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Torino showed resilience and they controlled the flanks and Inter had to rely on Summer

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actually to make two fantastic saves before Schuers, the centre back for Torino, suffered

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a terrible injury and was stretched off the pitch in tears.

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It turns out that he has done his cruciate ligament and will be out for a very long time

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so I do wish him a speedy recovery, he was playing absolutely phenomenally, the tackles

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he was pulling off were amazing and his awareness was just next level, he was having a very

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very good game Schuers, it's a shame that we won't be seeing him for a while and Torino

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will most certainly miss him.

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So this injury proved to be a turning point as this is when the goals came flying in,

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Inter made substitutions, they brought on Fratesi, Carlos Augusto and D'Amfri to exploit Torino's

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moment of defensive disorganisation with the injury and they broke the deadlock immediately

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as D'Amfri provided an assist for Thuram who scored his third Serie A goal.

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Lautaro Martinez then later on scored a goal from a corner, he has now scored 11 goals

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in the league so far along with one assist, that's absolutely mental considering the

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second highest score is Victor Rosimian with 6 goals so far.

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And the party did not stop there as a late challenge in the dying moments of the game

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led to a penalty for Inter which was converted by Hakka and Chala Noglu.

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Now you've got to give it to Inter, Torino by no means an easy opponent and they do tend

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to be Inter's kryptonite.

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In Zaghi, similarly to Allegri in the first game, exploited a moment of chaos, a moment

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of disorganisation for Torino's, they were trying to go put an injury, it just took

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nine minutes for them to score after Schuers was stretched off in tears.

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It is worth noting some talking points I have from the game, Nico Barella seems distracted

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lately, he doesn't quite seem himself, he's complaining even more than usual, he's constantly

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shouting at his teammates, his arms are fliggling I'm surprised he doesn't have massive biceps

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and triceps at this point because he's been waving his arms around like crazy, I'm not

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quite sure what's going on, Barella right now but he could definitely, definitely, definitely

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chill out and I'm sure his teammates would appreciate that because he must be an absolute

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nightmare to have as a teammate.

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Another point I would like to make is how effortlessly Pavard has just slipped into

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that back three, I guess a player of his quality and his experience wouldn't struggle in an

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organised side, he has good footballing IQ and he clearly understands the system and

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plays very, very well for them.

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Thuram might just be the signing of the season in Serie A so far, I think Pulisic, thank you

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for my shout as well considering he scored four goals but Thuram has really done it in

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big moments for Inter so far this season and he's linking up perfectly and he's proving

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to be a really good Lukaku replacement.

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So kudos to him, let's see if we can keep this up for the rest of the season.

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As for Torino, now we know that Eurydice is very disappointed, he was crying after a game

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recently because he hasn't quite got things to tick for Torino which is a real shame because

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he does care and he's clearly willing to experiment with the starting eleven and to get things

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ticking but the side is organised, right?

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Look at the team, it's organised, defensively it's sound, the passengers of play are good,

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the transition from defence to midfield is good, the problem is getting the ball in the

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box, the problem is creating goalscoring opportunities and this has been a problem with Torino for

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quite a while now.

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Duvan Zapata's injury of course does not help having to start with Pelé Agri up front

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who's never had a prolific season yet, doesn't give them much confidence and it was always

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going to take a moment of magic for Torino to score against Inter, especially looking

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at the players over here, maybe Vlasic could have done something.

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I think Dembasek got very close as well with the curling effort here.

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But anyway, going forward Eurydice really is struggling, I don't know if sacking him

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would be smart personally because I do think he's a fantastic coach and Torino have definitely

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improved by miles since he's taken over.

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But there is something missing and you can't look at this team anymore and say that it's

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not, there isn't potential, you know, because the team is very good, nowadays there's a

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lot of young talent, granted there aren't many prolific stars but he does have two strikers

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in Sanabria and Duvan Zapata who you should be able to get goals out of now granted, they're

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both injured.

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I believe Sanabria has just recovered and he came on this game in fact in the, let's

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just check that 74th minute so he's slowly slowly making his way back.

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I would give Eurydice the season, see how Torino finish and if there isn't any significant

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progress maybe yes it would be time to move on to someone else, especially with all the

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young talent that there is at the Torino side, you look at the likes of Riptree for example,

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you look at Bon Giorno, you look at Shure's, these guys are all amazing.

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So yeah, it would be smart to try to keep the trajectory upwards.

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As we mentioned, Inter sit in first place with 22 points while Torino sit down in 14th

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with 9 points.

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And on that note we can move on to the current champions of Italy, Napoli who took on Helas

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Verona at the Bentegodi Stadium.

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Now Verona historically are a tough nut the crack for Napoli, there were many tough fixtures

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and many bogey teams for the big seven this weekend.

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The score of this one was 3-1 sorry to Napoli away from home.

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Verona lined up with Montipo in goal, Amione, Davidovic and Manjani at the back in a 3-4-2-1

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formation, Dujgan Faroni out on the flanks with Serdar and Hongla in the middle, Folloroun

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Shaw and Engaunsch playing behind Jurec.

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You might be wondering who is this Serdar guy?

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Well Suat Serdar is a German 26 year old midfielder who has previously played for Hertha

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Berlin, Schalke and Mainz in Germany.

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As for Napoli it was their 4-3-3 formation with Meret in goal, Dealerin out on the right,

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Rahmani and Natan forming the center back duo with Mario Rui out on the left, Caustelo

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Botka and Zelinski in the middle with Politan out on the right, Kvartoskely out on the left

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and Raspadori replacing the injured Victor Ozimann up front.

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Now before we get into the game you might be wondering, is Garcia still the Napoli coach?

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Jake, last week you and Matt discussed the fact that he might be sacked and that they

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were looking at the likes of Gian Paolo.

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I think Dealerin just realized how stupid that is and how stupid that would have been

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bringing in Gian Paolo at this point in the season because of totally fucked them.

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I think moving forward with Garcia is the smartest thing to do right now, Dealerin just made

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his bed and now he's got to sleep in it.

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It was only ever going to be a downgrade.

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You were never going to hire a coach for a cheap price at least who was going to replicate

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Spalletti season last season.

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You had a great manager over there, you didn't invest in him and you lost him.

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You proved to be difficult, your ego proved to be too big and you lost a great manager.

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You've replaced him with a manager of a similar style, he plays the same formation quite frankly

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but quite differently when it comes to the details and now he's criticizing this manager

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that he's brought in for playing differently to the manager that he sacked himself.

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I think that this is the clownery of the highest level by ADL and he is the definition of a

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narcissist to be honest.

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Now the game actually started off with Hellas Verona on the front foot.

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They even forced Meret into two saves off of two corners in quick succession.

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I believe it was Davidovic and Mannyani who tested twice within a minute.

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Now starting with Raspadori up front was quite interesting as a choice for Rudy Garcia because

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it forced them to play the ball low and that is what they did under Spalletti and in fact

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there were many shades of Spalletti's influence at Napoli in this game.

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Because you know with Azimeni you can go long, you can play the ball over the top but with

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Raspadori you forced to play the ball low and to call for him to come for it essentially.

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You're not going to play him in behind, he's not the type of player who's going to be

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played in behind.

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He will come to you and play off the wingers.

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Raspadori went on to force Montipo into a diving save as well as lobbed the ball into

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the path of Poletano who volleyed it home to open up the scoring.

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Just before half time Poletano broke free on the break and played the ball to Gvarratskelia

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who shimmyed past Mannyani and guided him to the bottom corner with absolute ease and

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it only took to the 55th minute for him to do something similar again as he broke free

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once again and just guided it calmly past Montipo.

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Please note it was Poletano to play him through once again.

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Shimmy, what a player Gvarratskelia is.

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Helos Verona did get one back in the 60th minute as a ball over the top was completely

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misjudged by Rahmani who's just come back from injury.

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He went ahead the ball, missed it and ended up deflecting off the Lorenzo and falling

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into the path of Lazovic who just shot it into the back of the net.

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Maret was forced into some good saves after that and a bit of clumsy defending by Napoli

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did put them in danger at times but of course they had quite the safety net with the three

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goals they scored prior plus the fact that these goals didn't actually go in proved to

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be an easy victory for Napoli as the second tier stars rise above and prove that they can

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actually put in a shift and by second tier stars of course I mean not a Victor Rosiman

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because it's been all about Victor Rosiman in recent days, in recent months to be honest.

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Gvarratskelia seems to be at his best, he got married that week and scored two goals.

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What a week, what a week for him, must be must be great.

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Paulitano proved that he's a very good player still and that he might even deserve a spot in

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the starting 11 of the Italian national team because the way he plays when he's on is

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jaw dropping to be honest with you. Lobotko of course was very good for them Pivotal

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and the middle Caustes growing into it. Mario Rui, I prefer Mario Rui to Volevera even though

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he wasn't particularly brilliant this game, I still much prefer him.

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For Helas Verona, their team leaves quite a bit to be desired to be honest with you,

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especially in the offensive department. I think Jury which is a nice reference point is the

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players behind them not too sold on. Folloruncio is in fact owned by Napoli and has been out

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on alone for like six years and I think there's a reason for that to be honest. He is clearly

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talented but he hasn't made, he hasn't been a difference maker yet and I believe in his best

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season so far he scored about eight goals. In Gondjus also a player who's quite streaky on and off

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and yeah, Dujgan Faroni out wide to be honest that's probably their strength over there behind

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the defense because the defense is very very good especially when Heian is fit because Heian is a

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proper defender and he compliments Davidovic very well and I really enjoy watching Manjani

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Davidovic and Heian because they are all defenders with very different qualities making them just

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very entertaining to watch. I almost got to the end of this game without mentioning Gvarlat Skelya's

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new celebration of course it's like a rapid fire traditional bow and arrow kind of thing where he

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just I mean I think it's cool kind of overdone to be honest Zakanyi had the celebration for a while

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so please be more original come up with something better you know you can do better. This victory

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takes Napoli up to fourth place with 17 points while Helas Verona sit in 16th place with eight

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points and on that note we can move on to Roma one Monza Nyl a game that combines two elements from

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two games that we've already discussed one being a red card and one being a crazy manager let's get

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into it. So for Morinio's Roma it was a 3-5-2 formation with Rui Patricio and Goul a back three

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of Indica, Cristante and Mancini with Spinazol out on the left and Carrsdorp out on the right

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and a midfield three of Auer, Paredes and Bove Bellotti and Lukaku formed a striking duo up front.

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For Raphaele Palodino's Monza it was a 3-4-2-1 formation with DiGregorio and Goul, Calderola,

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Mari and D'Ambrosia at the back with Pereira out on the right, Kiryacopoulos out on the left,

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Pesina and Galleradini in the middle with Colpani and Maschine playing off the shoulders of Colombo.

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Now the game got off to a slow start pace wise mostly because of the heat it was a very hot

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day when the game was being played and Monza actually dominated the first half 54% ball possession

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even though they never really managed to create any danger for Roma. Roma were in their own half

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for pretty much the entire first half and even received a few jeers and whistles because of

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their laxie-daisical attitude. It was very interesting to see the way that Monza set up,

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because Monza liked to play man to man so he had the likes of Colombo and Cristante,

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Colpani and Paredes, Maschine on Mancini. The only player who was always free funnily enough was

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Indica, the new arrival and that's mostly because he's probably the worst at build up play from the

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lot so they would leave him free, cover everyone else and then press looking to force an error.

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Danilo D'Ambrosio really had an effect on the game for all the wrong reasons as he was booked in

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the 23rd minute and then booked again in the 41st minute. D'Ambrosio has had a new lease of

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life since leaving Inter and has felt like an important part of a project for probably the

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first time since joining Inter because he was a fringe player over there. But yeah, he looked

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over eager and he was injured so he must have been frustrated wanting to come back and really cement

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his place in this Monza team and really make a difference and help them out. But that over eager

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I think does come across sometimes as naive and overly aggressive because Bellotti knew exactly

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what he was doing when he put himself between D'Ambrosio and the ball in the 41st minute

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to get him that second yellow card. In the second half Roma pinned Monza back and we're

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trying to get a goal and we all know how uncomfortable Roma can be when they have to play on the front

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foot but Maurinho does have a clear philosophy when a team goes a man down you attack them and

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that is what they did they attacked them. However it was actually Monza who got close to scoring as

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Paladino brought on two fresh wingers in Carbone and Birindelli and used them as an outlet on the

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counter attack. The game became very tense, Lukaku hit the post, Azmune hit the post and then

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eventually in the 90th minute there was a scrap in the box and during the scramble Elshara

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who comes up and scores as the olympico erupts. Maurinho falls to his knees in celebration,

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gets up, starts yappayappayappan with his hand looking at Paladino who apparently had taunted

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him a while back saying that Maurinho's behavior is scandalous. Of course Maurinho never forgets

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and revenge is a dish best served freezing cold in Maurinho's case and yeah so first he told them

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basically you talk too much yappayappyapp and then he shushed him he sat down thinking that nothing

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was gonna happen the referee ran up to him and they gave him a red card to which Maurinho just

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got up and left. He must be so used to getting sent off and I wonder has there ever been a game

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where Maurinho wasn't sent off because I can't even remember one of those points the guy is always

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00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:39,200
in trouble always what a character what a character what a character so much fun to watch and this

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is what I mean about say being so so entertaining you know you've got the likes of Allegri and

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00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,640
Maurinho they always put on a show so if the football is boring you just watch them you know

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I'll never forget the first time I watched them Allegri properly live at the stadium I was at the

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olympic oh watching Juventus against Roma a game that I believe Roma won 3-1 if I remember correctly

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I remember I believe it was Lemina who scored for Juve I'm mistaken I think it was Lemina don't

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00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:16,720
quote me on this however I'm pretty sure that Derossi scored for Roma as well as Nangolan

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and someone else I can't remember right now but anyway I remember looking over to Allegri and just

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watching him I spent half the game I think watching Allegri because the guy is never happy

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00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:36,080
with anything he's always pointing and complaining and flailing his arms and looking at his assistant

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00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:43,120
and moaning and complaining you know man I honestly wonder is this a kind of persona he puts on at

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00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,920
work or is this his actual personality I wonder the same thing about Barella like if these guys

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00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,840
are playing a game of FIFA with their friends are they like are they like this the entire time

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00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:58,560
he's arguing with his wife this guy you see like this you know they're picking trying to pick a film

431
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:04,800
on Netflix is Allegri just gonna be like we always watch this we never watch that like bro easy man

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00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:10,800
relax relax the same with you more in your mind not everything needs to be a soap opera however it

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is absolutely entertaining and I wouldn't I wouldn't change it for the world thank you very much for

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being you guys it is worth noting that Elshara we broke down in tears after his goal and in an

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interview he said that he was very upset when his name came out in the recent betting scandal

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00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:37,840
as he feels clean and he has never actually taken part in any of these activities and he loves

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00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:42,400
football so much and that moment made him appreciate how much he actually loves football

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and yeah he broke down crying Barella's name had even had come out as well and he had

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00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:56,800
he had taken to Instagram to post and call out these journalists who have been naming players

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00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,680
so recklessly and power to him because it's absolutely ridiculous if these people aren't

441
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:06,720
involved for their names to be dragged through the mud for some clicks absolutely absolutely

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00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:16,080
shambolic there by the media but anyway to talk a little bit about this Monza performance I believe

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that they were playing very well I believe that the red card of course ruined their game and the

444
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:29,760
approach after the red card was also admirable I'm always impressed when I see the likes of

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00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:34,400
Masrin and Mota when you think about the fact that these guys have been with Monza since they were

446
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:40,640
in Serie A 3 that's third division football in Italy and they're still there and now they're

447
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:47,760
playing in Serie A even starting some games to be honest I'm always impressed with Colpani absolutely

448
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:54,080
brilliant player over there Kiri Akopolis very good these guys just play a brilliant brand of

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football and Paladino deserves all the respect in the world and all the praise in the world for

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00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:05,760
what he's done with this team as for Roma you know I mean they got it done they left it late

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00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:10,160
and they got it done they didn't look particularly inspiring but of course this is the way Morinio

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00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:17,280
likes to close out certain games you know they had their goals lost game now this game it was just

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a victory at the end of the day both games result in three points so yeah same weight

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00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:31,440
as for the standings Roma currently sit in seventh with 14 points while Monza sit in 11th

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with 12 points I must admit doing this podcast solo is absolutely exhausting I haven't stopped

456
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:43,440
talking I feel like my girlfriend the only difference being is that I'm talking about

457
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:52,400
football while she's talking about a whole lot of mundane nothing's that happened throughout the day

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00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:58,320
very regular things that happened throughout the day she feels the need to mention every single one

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of them my Tommy growled at 12 o'clock today I felt a fart coming three o'clock but it never

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actually happened I had a conversation with a person today I was hungry and then I

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had do you ever feel tired but not I don't need to worry about her hearing this she doesn't listen

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the next game we're gonna be discussing is at Alanta to Genoa nil at the Gawis stadium so for

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Gasperini's men it was a 3434 nation with carnessekian goals calvini Jim City Toloi at the back

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with rouggeri out on the left Zappacost out on the right with ederson and the rune in the middle

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lookman and the decay telare playing off the shoulders of skamakka for gilardino's men it was

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a 352 formation with leali and goal dragosin bani and vaskas at the back with sabelli on the right

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hops on the left malinovsky friend Rupan thorsby in the middle with ecobon and goodman's in up front

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now the game started off with both teams looking quite cautious in the first half genoa were playing

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man for man and were defending brilliantly to be honest against at alanta I have never seen

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00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:24,720
malinovsky give so give so much defensively for his team vaskas was absolutely bullying the

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gay telare he looked like his usual Milan self the gay telare over there while the only channel

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that seemed to be viable for atalanta was the left side with rouggeri and lookman bani seemed to have

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skamakka on lockdown and the only time skamakka actually did get the ball in the box yet is back

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towards goal so yeah he had to turn and shoot each time or lay it off each time bani did a pretty

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good job over there however things did eventually change as in the 68th minute the ball was played

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in by skamakka to lookman and sabelli who both attacked it at the same time sliding into the

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ball together however it was lookman who managed to swing while he was still on the ground and he

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hit the ball and directed it into the back of the net the goal was initially ruled out for a handball

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the referee ran to the var monitor it still looked like there were handballs over there more than

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one potentially to be honest ujana will have been really hard done by the season when it comes to var

481
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:46,080
and these handball calls first on policy and now this one um yeah controversial to say the least

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but atlanta lead one nil and then after this essentially took the 95th minute when atlanta

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were countering um pasalik played the ball to edderson while i forgot his name there was one

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00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:07,440
particular jenoa player who was all over the place voliaccio voliaccio was all over the

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place during this attack gm he's just going left right left right spinning in circles i'm surprised

486
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:19,760
and like collapse with with dizziness he was so exposed over there um but yeah um this saw

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edderson scoring back-to-back goals for the first time in his career and so yeah um very happy for

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00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:29,360
the brazilian he deserves that he's playing his best football since his salernetana days after a

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00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,680
quiet season last year atlanta.

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jenoa do continue to impress me however it must be said that they do miss retegui um having retegui

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in the box frees up the likes of goodmanson and the likes of ecoban to attack a little bit more freely

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puskas is currently an option that's coming off the bench and he doesn't seem to cut it

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it feels like everything he did was annoying his teammates um this game it seems like everything

494
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:02,800
he did was the wrong decision it was i believe it was ecoban who was giving him a real bullocking

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00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:07,360
until he was substituted and he must have been really relieved at that but that doesn't mean

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that his performance improved because more often than not he was ruining jenoa's link-up play

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and attacks. there is one point in the game actually i want to highlight um when skamakka

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received the ball from miran chouk who had just come in instead of dequei telar and he instantly

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00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:30,000
played this marvelous ball to skamakka who improvised brilliantly with a back heel flick

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forcing an incredible save by the jenoa goalkeeper leali um if you haven't seen that i do suggest you

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00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:43,120
go and see it because it was a very close one for skamakka a very very nifty finish it would have been

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the goal of the week for sure atalanta currently find themselves in sixth with 16 points while

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while jenoa sorry are in 15th with eight points the next game we're going to be covering is

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fiorintina nil ampoli two atus kinderby that caught everyone by surprise on a monday i do

505
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:09,520
feel like mondays are different the year on a monday is different there are more there's more

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00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:15,120
likely to be an upset on a monday than on a saturday for example i genuinely do believe that by the

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00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:20,240
way i'm a superstitious man for vincenzo ataliano's men it was a four two three one formation with

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00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:25,920
terra chano and goaler as my girlfriend calls him terrell chino like he's a bloody starbucks order

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parisi was out on the left coyote out on the right with melenco vilcana martinez quarta at the back

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duncan and arthur where the midfield double pivot with brekola out on the left nico guanzales out on

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00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:42,240
the right and banoventura playing behind in zolla for ampoli it was a four three two one formation

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00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:48,080
with barisha and golebo ahia out on the right kakace out on the left with luperto and valukovic

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at the back malek grassy and marin were in the middle with conchillir and cambia agi playing

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behind caputo interestingly enough the only player to have scored a goal for ampoli up until this

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00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:06,240
moment was baldanzi and he was benched by andrea zoli who likes to remind us that he has a massive

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set of balls now before we do get into the events of the game i would like to point out

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that martinez quarta is a center back okay for those of you who have tuned into fjernthina

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00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:29,520
the season you may have noticed martinez quarta dribbling in midfield or attempting bicycle kicks

519
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:36,080
in the boat in the box scoring goals smashing the crossbar the guy is a center back and he

520
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:42,800
seems to need reminding now all jokes aside yes he did have a mistake for leading up the second

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00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:48,800
goal especially um but he he has been absolutely amazing and i really like the way he joins the

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attack it's a nice little offensive secret for italiano ampoli set up this game to defend

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fjernthina very tightly and press them and press them and press them with a lot of energy very high

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00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:13,760
intensity pressing and they didn't leave any gaps and this was all thanks to the likes of cambia agi

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00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:22,560
and marlin and grussie and male they all pressed so intensely and they they really suffocated

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fjernthina and fjernthina found it very difficult to build up play from the back as they like to do

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00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:33,200
to be honest that's the the defining principle it's italiano's entire approach to football you

528
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:39,040
build play from the back you know and ampoli really made this difficult for them the first

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00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:48,000
goal for ampoli came through uh walukovic threw ball to drussie who crossed it to caputo who tapped

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it in very intelligently kind of semi-chipping the rushing goalkeeper brilliant goal brilliant goal

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00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:02,080
fjernthina did try to respond but they were quite wasteful to be honest with brekolo and

532
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:08,480
duncan and nico van zales and they were forced to shoot from a distance because ampoli kept it so

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00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:13,280
tight and they were pressing so intensely that inzola was practically invisible for example and

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00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:18,880
brekolo when he came on towards the end of the second half i think did more than inzola did in

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00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:26,560
the entire game simply because he got the ball he got the ball and he was allowed to turn and shoot

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00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:33,600
so so yeah that was um when ampoli were sitting a little bit deeper and pressing a little bit less

537
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:40,000
intently but ampoli in the second half did give fjernthina a false sense of security as they stopped

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pressing they eased off the pressing before all of a sudden coyote was pressed and he played a ball

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00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:54,240
to i believe yes it was martinez quarta who took a poor touch a panic touch wasn't expecting the

540
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:59,760
pass and he was dispossessed by kambiag who played the ball to jazi who had just come on

541
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who scored and shushed me personally because i am a person on this podcast who likes to make fun

542
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:14,160
of jazi and his lack of goals but the commentator was praising him it's always him he lives for

543
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:20,320
these big moments and manuel jazi is there shushing me looking me straight in the eyes

544
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:26,640
yeah i'm very happy for jazi though he deserved that goal and he looked absolutely ecstatic to get it

545
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:34,000
um and what a victory for ampoli what a massive victory for ampoli i must say that coyote was

546
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exploited the fullback he's very young and it is difficult to play on the upper hand you know

547
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:49,840
fjernthina have high standards and they play for for the win more often than not so having a player

548
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,840
like coyote who finds himself starting more often than not nowadays especially because of

549
00:48:53,840 --> 00:49:01,840
baragi's injury for example um yeah he he was kind of targeted on the press and he ends up playing

550
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:06,960
with a lot of pressure um and is limited in expressing himself because when it comes to

551
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:12,960
risk taking on that stage with that much pressure on you it's a little bit harder but yeah he's a

552
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:19,120
very promising fullback and i feel like he will improve in this environment and italiano is a

553
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:24,640
good coach for him nonetheless it will be challenging but he will he will get through it

554
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:36,880
but how can we conclude this match without talking about luperto luperto is a fantastic

555
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:42,000
centerback fantastic what a game he had this game he plays like a veteran of the game he plays

556
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:48,960
like a 34 year old despite being 27 years old um he was all over the place i don't think there was

557
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:55,040
a deal well he he lost he was brilliant really good reference point for the sam poli team offering

558
00:49:55,040 --> 00:50:02,000
them solidarity country larry as well country larry man had flashes of of brilliance and it

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00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:07,760
shows that lots of saw something in him because he had moments of and certain touches and flicks where

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00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:14,160
he really he looked really good and i hope he keeps this form up because there's no real

561
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:20,080
in between between this and what he sometimes gives us if you know what i mean um marin grassy

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maleh midfield three brilliant lots of pressing lots of panache um really enjoyed watching them

563
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and caputo getting a goal was also nice to see the veteran striker leading by example and a nice

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to see him and jossy doing the trademark beer drinking celebration together always fun to watch

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but alas furantina find themselves in fifth with 17 points they're gonna be

566
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disappointed because they could have shot themselves up to third ampoli on the other

567
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hand have escaped the relegation pool they are currently in 17th with seven points one point

568
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above udinez who sit in 18th the next game i'm gonna be addressing and notice i did not say

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covering i said addressing because i refused to get into the details of this game until sasuolo

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improve their defense it is a massive waste of time and every week i'm saying the exact same

571
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things now concili was in goal for sasuolo um pederson was out on the left tolyan was out on

572
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:28,080
the right with ferrari and ruan tressoldi at the back ratchage and the boloka where the midfield

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00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:32,320
double pivot with lauri and they on the left berardi on the right castillo on the whole

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and pinamonti up front for lazio it was a 4 3 3 with providelling goal lazzari on the right

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maricel from the left from an early and patrick in the middle as a center back duo with gwen duzy

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rovella and luce alberto as the three midfielders philly panderson was out on the right pedro was

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out on the left and castellanos started up front it started off nice and early for for lazio as

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luce alberto had two chances early on and he failed to hit the target in both opportunities

579
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:10,720
gwen duzy came close to scoring concili pulled off two miracles within 60 seconds to be honest

580
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:18,560
first on philly panderson's shot and then on romaniole's header as well the romaniole since

581
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the ball bounced and hit the crossbar lazio did not lose heart and they continued to press despite

582
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:30,000
all these missed opportunities the goal came in the 28th minute when ruan tresaldi made the mistake

583
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:35,600
in front of his own box and luce alberto snatched the ball from him castellanos carried it forward

584
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and passed it to anderson who blasted it past concili the second goal came in the 35th minute

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this time it was boloca who made the mistake on anderson's cross and advertedly setting up luce

586
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alberto who delicately chipped the ball over concili sasvolo watched without being able to do

587
00:52:51,760 --> 00:53:00,080
anything the second half was also golless there was one scare for lazio as providel was shown

588
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:07,440
a red card but the decision was overturned by var lazio could have made the three nil at the end

589
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:15,600
through vasino twice in actuality the first one was when he forced an excellent save from concili

590
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:23,280
and the second one was when he inexplicably missed an open goal but yes sasvolo have a lot of work

591
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:27,840
to do on the defense while lazio seemed to be gaining some momentum and climbing up the table

592
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:34,000
they currently find themselves in ninth with 13 points while sasvolo are in 13th with 10 points

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the next game we're going to be taking a look at is bolonia two frossinona one frossinona

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unfortunately left to the second half to get to really get a grip on the game and it was too late

595
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:54,160
for that as bolonia had already put two past them it was korupski and golfer teago motta's men

596
00:53:54,160 --> 00:54:00,000
in a 4 2 3 1 formation with liko john is out on the left and silvestri desilvestri out on the right

597
00:54:00,720 --> 00:54:05,520
calafiori and beo keama were at the back with alboucher and froyler as a double pivot salamakar

598
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:10,400
is at his first start for bolonia out on the left with orcellini on the right fergusson as a trequartista

599
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:17,600
and zerksi as the false nine for frossinona it was a 4 2 3 1 formation for osabio de francesco's men

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00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:23,440
to rati was in gold with ojono as the right back marquitzas the left back okoli and roman yoli

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were the center back duo with matzitelli and berencea as the double pivot sulle was out on

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the right garitano out on the left reiner was in the pocket playing behind kedira fergusson

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opened the scoring first and then desilvestri scored a second with a brilliant flying header

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after tirati punched the ball outwards in the second half for sonona for the back

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sulle converted the penalty and brought the score to 2 1 marquitzas had a missed opportunity

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to equalize for frossinona moments before the final whistle and matzitelli received the double

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yellow card leaving frossinona with 10 men balonia managed to hold the lead securing their eighth

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consecutive positive result in a row now the last two games we're going to be discussing are actually

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quite quite action packed and they were both spectacles to be honest two of the games i enjoyed

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the most this weekend udenes one let's share one is the first one for andrea sotel who has since been

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sacked for the reappointment of choffee it's getting a little bit boring now with udenes

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employing the same people to manage the club i do think that they are due a relegation because

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there are some clubs in syria b that have higher aspirations than udenes do at the moment and we

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look at the project at palermo and venezia and barry these are definitely more exciting than

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what's going on at udenes right now they've got a very young team and they've got they've got talented

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players you know and especially left-footed players and perera samard zid shatovan you know

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they've got lukka who i enjoy watching a lot um they've got a good team but they just seem so

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uninspired and the management doesn't want to invest at all their best signing was perera who

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was essentially redeemed he wanted to leave as a free agent no offers came in so he ended up renewing

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with udenes but anyway it was silvestri and goal kaba sale biol and pares at the back with kamar

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out on the left perera out on the right perera wallis and samard ziksh in the middle with tovan

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and success up front for roberta diversa's lecce roberto diversa sorry not roberta and that was a

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4-3-3 formation with falcon angle genre and gallows the full backs with bascarott on pongratrice

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as the center back duo kaba ramadani and uden were the midfield three with angvis and strefetza

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playing out wide while christavich played up front the first goal came through a penalty in the 49th

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minute converted by florian thovon to get his first goal in seria the 2018 world cup winner

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and in the 83rd minute our goal of the week nikola san sonne who had just come on um his name is

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actually nikola nikolo this time he dribbled lukka and crossed in a ball to find piccoli

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playing on the line who karate kicked the ball into the back of the net now um piccoli and

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christavich are players with two similar profiles um piccoli himself said that and he said that the

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difference being that christavich likes to come deep and collect the ball while piccoli likes to

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play on the line as we saw over here and try to score these clutch goals he said that coming on

633
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and scoring goals is his 40 and yeah that's it's what he's good at and i totally agree he's known

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for this in fact he has scored his ninth goal for four different seria teams now san sonne

635
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um got that crazy assist on his 200th seria appearance while this referee um had his first

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appearance in seria and he's a yellow card happy referee by reputation and he showed because he

637
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was giving out yellow cards left right and center at one point he booked pongratchage and

638
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basquerotto right after each other and there would have been a penalty in the 73rd minute

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um which is what led to the yellow card for pongratchage pulling perera on the counter

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and basquerotto for complaining um this was dropped but it was outside the box so vare

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actually couldn't intervene um and the word a free kick over there because it was not a penalty

642
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infringement um i thought kabo was quite selfish throughout the game shooting when he had teammates

643
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wide open i think selfishness with these lower teams is quite abundant um with players looking

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to make headlines and looking to make names for themselves maybe they don't care much about the

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club where they view the club as a stepping stone but i can't i can't stand this um this approach

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dorgo versus ebosale was a very interesting battle and festi coming on for

647
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sorry for ferreira um was an interesting substitution as festi brought a lot more

648
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pace and power to the game and was much more effective than the former now um i believe that

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our goal is in fact a fair result over here as no team really deserved to win this let's

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scoring their only shot on target and udinez approving that they are still quite a wasteful

651
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side udinez a sit in 18th with six points while let's sit in 10th with 13 points

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the last game i'm going to be addressing is salernetana to caliari two um

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costil was in goal for salernetana in their 4 3 2 1 formation this was philipp poinsaghi's

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first game in charge fun fact about costil is that he looks exactly like olivier jiru especially

655
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in his goalkeeper kit um philipp poinsaghi said that it's a hard reset at salernetana right now

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since he's coming he every player is essentially equal and ochoa didn't start this game because

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he arrived late from international duty and he had more of an opportunity to observe costil

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he played brother itch out on the left and matzaki out on the right with fosjuan gombar as the center

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back partnership with castanoss major and colibali as the midfield three cabral and kandreva playing

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behind boule idea for caliari claudio raniere opted for a 4 3 1 2 formation with scufa

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in goal natanandes as the right back out jello as the left back with dosenna and gold aniga at the

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back makumbu prati and deola with midfield three with mancozou playing behind oristanio and louvombo

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the first goal came through zito louvombo in the 79th minute up until this moment salernetana were

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salernetana were quite sluggish and especially major i didn't quite like the way major i played

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i felt like it was not very effective and there were so many missed opportunities for salernetana

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and they failed to really adapt to this new tactical setup by claudio raniere and they

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they really couldn't cope i think it's called them by surprise yeah but anyway major i seem to be

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playing a deep lying role castanos and quillibally were acting as box the box midfielders well cabral

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and kandreva were supporting the uh externally um they had a good first quarter of an hour

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especially down the right um major really seemed to slow play down and wasn't changing the

671
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dictating play sorry he wasn't dictating play as efficiently as he should have been

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and the counter attack for calia is always going to be a dangerous one with louvombo speed

673
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as long as he's on the pitch we've seen them struggle without him um thankfully for salernetana

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for the majority of the game fadzio was excellent and the sardinians were actually quite inaccurate

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as well themselves um not taking advantage of their opportunities either um in zagi tried to bring

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some unpredictability into the midfield when he introduced marty johnny in an advanced central

677
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position shifting to two deep playmakers but a technical error by marty ghani was actually

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what led to the first goal as he was dispossessed um the ball was played to louvombo by yakub yankto

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who did very well over here very very well um and louvombo scored as he always does

680
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:21,040
louvombo zito i absolutely love this play it plays with so much flair um and he's slowly

681
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becoming a fan favorite over there um particularly with his performance in the in the playoffs of

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seria b last season in zagi experimented after this even played with the three man defense at one

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point and eventually in the 86th minute he did get a goal through bulayedia after the senegal

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01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:47,840
man was played through by ikumweze and he finished perfectly it's so sad that they no longer sing the

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01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:55,280
bulayedia song at the stadium he is no longer a fan favorite they no longer celebrate him um because

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01:03:55,280 --> 01:04:00,880
of course he tried to force his way out it actually saddens me to watch diascore and that stadium

687
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:06,720
not go absolutely ballistic because it was one of the best things in the league um yeah but anyway

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01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:11,440
just two minutes after that nicole is viala scored one of our favorite players over here because he's

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he's so silky as a register he's so good um great great player nifty player um he scored in the 88th

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minute when shomorodov played him the ball and he finished with his head um brilliant celebration by

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01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:36,480
by nicole is viala i'm still trying to do that and i haven't quite understood how you get your hands

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01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:40,960
through that thing um over your eyes it's like one of those things we used to do at school and you'd

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tell your friends like hey can you do this and the answer was always no i can't in the 94th minute

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salernetana had the penalty which was converted expertly by bulayedia leaving the goalkeeper

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with absolutely no hope of saving it and a draw here was once again a fair result as both teams

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share the spoils now as to where they stand in the table salernetana sit in 19th with four

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points while kalyeri sit in 20th with three points this was the definition of a relegation six-pointer

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and that is why i put a bet on this game to finish in a draw as part of my bet slip which i won this

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weekend um but i must say leaving it to the 94th minute was not good for my chest but yeah i think

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it's time for our question segment welcome back to our question segment in order to drop a question

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or a hot take you can find us on twitter and instagram at say a spotlight i've only just

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realized that i didn't plug any socials um tiktok instagram youtube you know where it is remember

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to rate us five stars and if you do enjoy our content you can support it on patreon the link is

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in our bio it's 399 a month just one tier um you get added to a whatsapp group so you can talk to us

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on a daily basis um and all we do is talk football so that's pretty much it you just be supporting

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our content now the first question comes from genoa club toronto they ask refereeing and var

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mediocrity is it acceptable the answer is no it is not acceptable unfortunately we are fans of the

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italian league where var is not perfect yet but it's further ahead than what where it currently

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stands in england because some of the things that happen over there are shambolic remember that var

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is a year younger over there italy have actually had it for longer um genoa have suffered particularly

711
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serious offenses when it comes to var i think they've suffered more than any other team in

712
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seya this season when it comes to the controversial court calls made against them um in the melon

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game on this weekend against atalanta yes i think there need to be more angles i think the referee

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needs to be helped a little bit more in certain situations um i don't think it should be too

715
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difficult to introduce new to introduce all the angles in certain games i think certain stadiums need

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a a bit more work when it comes to the infrastructure and the camera setup because it can't be that the

717
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:21,360
referee doesn't have access to any certain angles and if that really is the situation i do agree with

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the idea that they stick to the on field decision because i don't like the idea that they're winging

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it because it looks bad from a weird angle if you know what i mean the next question comes from

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luca argentina he is our fellow patron great memer and good friend at this point and he asks will

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martinez stop scoring goals um at this rate i don't think so he seems to always have a dip

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earlier on in the season and my interfriends are always joking around saying he should save some

723
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:56,880
for his dip because he's scoring left right and center at the moment i don't know phil itadraut

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he usually historically tends to but this season he just has an an aura about him he's got the

725
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this aura of a leader of a great player um i don't i don't think he'll stop scoring this season i

726
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think he'll keep scoring pretty much relentlessly until the end of it he also asks does roma have

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a chance to be a top six contender this year i answer most definitely with jose morrinho at the

728
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helm they will definitely finish top six i would say um it's going to be tight but they do have the

729
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depth and the team is coming together and they're they're getting used to one another and the new

730
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boys are settling nicely and with roma lulu kaku in the form he's a new con right them off he also

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asks will philippo and zahgid truly fix salernitana i don't know i don't know i don't personally think

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so however and zahgid said it best himself he said that um he said criticize me all you want it

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doesn't make a difference to me um they told me that i couldn't even control a ball and i went on

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to score 300 goals yeah that's put points agi for you um in syria b he did do some good work in

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syria he's never quite cut it let's see um what he can do with salernitana the next question comes

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from a very good friend of mine steve calero shan abro he says 11 versus 11 between milan and uva

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who wins that game um milan can be quite wasteful and they do struggle to close out the game so i

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wouldn't confidently say that milan would have won that game if they were up if they had that extra

739
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man um however i do think that simply because of the nature of the substitutions that did put

740
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milan at a massive disadvantage i think 11 versus 11 milan would have just aged it maybe one nil

741
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i think it could have been a one little victory um there to to milan the next question comes from

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basco dot bakiam excuse me if i've massacred your name i think it's actually basco dot byram byram

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01:09:59,920 --> 01:10:06,720
i'm sorry about that he says will look aku rise to the occasion against inter or fuck it up um

744
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:11,040
yeah i mean look how with the type of guy he is you can tell he's gonna be wearing a hoodie he's

745
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:18,320
gonna be wearing boxing gloves on a treadmill in the dark at home listening to fucking weird tick

746
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:23,360
tock rap um boxing the air calling himself the king of rome probably nowadays i am pretty sure

747
01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:30,640
he's hyping himself up and i would bet that he scores against inter and i would bet that he

748
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:39,200
fucking celebrates like crazy um especially because the fans don't really like him anymore

749
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:44,720
quite frankly yes i'm curious to see how a lot our martinez reacts because he's publicly slated them

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in the media yeah i'd like to know what you guys think guys comment below um the next question

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01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:57,920
comes from our friend on tick tock leo messi of course that's his username bro you should tell

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01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:02,560
me your real name i'd like to i'd like to give you a shout out he says am i the only one who feels

753
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that um motas bologna is the next factor for finishing top four um top four might be a little

754
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bit of a stretch but i do think they can push for a conference league spot the way things are

755
01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:19,120
things are going they really look like a side that have figured out their their strengths and

756
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:24,480
their weaknesses a mota has that group ticking very well and zergs he's in the form of his life

757
01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:30,640
yeah they're they're a pretty complete team at the moment he also asks where will udenes

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i finish at the end of the season and will you ventus win the scudetto um i think udenes i will

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01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:47,920
finish between between 13th and 16th to be honest yes you're just outside the relegation pool i don't

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think they'll get relegated they have too much talent to get relegated i think they have many

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players who can make the difference and even if they're not tactically sound um yeah so i think

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i think they'll definitely stay up can you go in the scudetto most definitely as they don't concede

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goals they play once a week i think they can definitely win the scudetto if they keep their

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best players healthy but yes guys thank you very much for listening i have been your host jake i am

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usually not alone if this is your first time listening i'm usually joined by my blood brother

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matthew he's actually my biological brother he's two years younger than me um he's he happens to

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also be my best friend and my co-host and um yeah we miss him i miss him here i'm sure you guys

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01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:35,120
will miss him too as i continue to blob on for the coming weeks but yes let me know what you

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think guys drop a comment down below make sure to vote on our polls below reach out

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