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And then it's turned in! Lorenzo Pellegrini proves that he can still lead this side,

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lead Roma in the big matches and produce the biggest of goal!

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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Seria Spotlight, this is episode 105 and we are

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your hosts Matt and Jake and here it is Merry Christmas! We're late and we didn't for sure

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have a Christmas on the last one so we apologize for that and it wasn't Christmas yet. No way but I

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guess you're right actually, we can't anticipate when we're gonna record during the busy holidays plus

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you know that you and I we both don't really like planning right? No we hate planning. We're very

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sporadic in fact if you notice three seasons of Seria Spotlight and the release date of each episode

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is different every week. Well come on we stick to Tuesday, Wednesday when it comes to recording

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as early as we can I guess. It will be Monday and Thursday I would say. Well Merry Christmas to

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all of you listening, have a happy new year just so that we can anticipate that and not be not

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be late again. Thank you for sticking around this year and we look forward to dishing out content

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for you throughout 2024. Yes stay tuned keep those eyes keep those eyes keep those eyes nice and

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peeled. Yes nice I spice. Yes also we didn't have a break this year so apologies that this episode

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is significantly late because you will be listening to this on Friday the day of some other Seria

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fixtures but it'll serve as a nice reminder of what happened while you know you were missing

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football because you're having lunch here dinner there drinks there so consider this a nice reminder.

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It'll get you in the zone. Seria or during Christmas time is not something we're used to I usually

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there's a break. Yeah yeah a bit weird yes our goal of the week came from Pellegrini.

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You know? Vendication thy name is Lorenzo. What did you say? It had been a while a long time coming

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for Pellegrini had fallen out of favor he was at one point one of Italy's best midfielders

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and Roma's captain at one point he lost the armband he lost the starting spot and he became

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more of a kind of rotation player coming off the bench in all his games. Well he had been injured

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for a while. He did he has struggled with injuries in his career but this was a nice confidence boost

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form scoring on the on the volley like that. We had a few close contenders for second place

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Barrella, Gildiz and Ilitch I thought scored fantastic goals do you think Ilitch's goal was

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intentional? No you could literally see him looking inside the box and seeing how he's gonna ping it

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now I don't care I thought it was a magnificent goal nonetheless I don't care what you were trying

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to do the ball left your foot and hit the back of the net the keeper was rooted to the spot

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it was beautiful. I do think that when it comes to team play Barrella's goal was was

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extraordinary. It was incredible. He played the ball to Arnautovic himself Arnautovic at his back

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towards goal that give and go is delicious that backheel by Arnautovic back to Barrella

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rounds the keeper then Gildiz as well on his debut I believe. Yes his first start for Juventus Montella

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Vincenzo Montella yes Vincenzo Montella you remember him at Fiorentina and at Milan gave him

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a few starts for Turkey actually Gildiz has been quite instrumental for this for the

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Turkey national team so it's clear to see why the guy is so calm under pressure floating between

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three players and then finishing so calmly and intelligently at the near post and that was a

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very mature goal. Yeah Juve have got a bunch of talented young wingers don't they know so they're

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probably returning next year to Juve I don't think they need me anymore bro. Yeah I don't think they

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need Allegri anymore. Go for a proactive approach you've got the talent definitely. So don't forget

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there you go. All right very good guys. Before we get into the round down I believe we should update

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our listeners bro a little bit on what's been going on in the Coppa Italia and what is next.

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So the round of 16 of the Coppa Italia has commenced. Lots of your beating general 1-0 to go

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through. Fiorentina and Parma drew 2-0 but Fiorentina absolutely demolished them on penalties

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4-1. Napoli lost to Frazzinone. Those who were listening to our last episode with a

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further live reaction to seeing that score on our phones. Frazzinone smashed them 4-0 after

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De Laurenti said that it's not fair that Frazzinone get to compete in Serie A with all those big name

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clubs. That's a nice revenge by Frazzinone. And Bologna beat Inter away from home 2-1

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to advance to the quarterfinals. Now that leaves Milan they need to face Calieri,

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Atlanta need to face Sassuolo, Roma need to face Cremonesi and Juve need to face Salernitano.

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And then we can move on to the quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia. Yep and then we've got the

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latter stages of the Coppa Italia which are always so fun to tune into midweek.

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As for the rundown in order of the games that we're going to be covering to cover matchday 17,

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we'll start things off with the very violent Derby del Sol where Roma got away against Napoli

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with a 2-0 victory. Not many people know it's a Derby but it's essentially the center of Italy

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against the south of Italy. We make Derbies out of nothing in Italy. Inter 2 let's you a nil

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Inter maintaining that 4 point advantage over Juve. However Juve did get past Frazzinone away

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from home with the score of 2-1 with their momentarily just one point behind Inter. Salernitano 2,

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Milan 2, Pippon Zaghi's return to face his former side ended with an upset for Milan and a good

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result for Salernitano. A rare Mike Mandian mistake made that possible for Salernitano.

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Bologna 1, Atalanta nil was it against the run of play perhaps but big teams win games that

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perhaps they don't deserve to win. Monza nil Fiorentina 1 another goal keeping error over here

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by this time by DeGregoria another uncharacteristical error gave Fiorentina the lead through a Beltran

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goal and Polinil Lazio 2 clean victory over there by Lazio away from home. Sasuolo 1, Genoa 2.

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I found this stat recently at sets that Sasuolo have conceded in every single game that they've

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played so far. Caleb Ecuban scored a goal here for Genoa getting his first of the season. Verona

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2, Kaliari nil, Kaliari were doing well until they got a red card and Torino 1, Odinesa 1.

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That was where Illich went across the ball but the ball hit the back of the net.

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Brilliant run down bro, sporadic national amazing. I think we can jump in and start with the Derby

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del Sole. Yes, del La Sole or del Sole. I'm pretty sure it's del Sole. Okay, okay, let's just call it

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Roman Napoli. And Roman Napoli actually ended 2 nil to Roma who are much stronger at home than

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they are away from home. Of course, this is a historical thing with Roma considering the nature

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of the Olympic and the nature of their fan base and their songs, you know, it always gives them

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that extra push. Yeah. For absentees, of course, Roma were missing Abraham award, debala, cumbula

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and smalling the usual suspects quite frankly. While Napoli were missing Elmas, Lindstrom and

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Oliveira to injury. Elmas, of course, has recently been confirmed to believing he's going to Leipzig

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in Germany. Yeah, that makes Zelensky also who might be leaving in January heading to winter.

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These are talking points for later, of course. So let's go through the lineups because this was

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quite the clash of the Titans, okay, the underperforming Titans. Rui Patricio was in goal for

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Roma while Mancini, Lorente and Indica were at the back. Christensen was on the right and Zelensky

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on the left with Christante, Paredes and Bové in the middle. Lukaku and Bellotti started up front

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together. This Roma side was basically designed to go to war. Yeah. That's a day played players

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who will literally make it a nightmare for Napoli physically and mentally. Yeah. Now, Napoli on the

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other hand lined up with a 4-3-3 formation with Meret and Goul, Mario Rui out on the left,

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a dealer in the right with Juan Jesus and the Rahmani at the back. Zelensky, Lobotka and

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Anguissa were in midfield with Gvardskeli out on the left, Ozim and up front and Poletano out on

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the right. So yes, as I mentioned, you could see this match on the emet to be battled between

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two struggling sides coming into the game. Napoli were two points ahead of Roma in sixth.

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Roma proved to be the more streetwise team dictating the tempo of the match and frustrating

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their opponents to the point of expulsion. And they started from the get-go. You get to see in

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the 30th minute, Mourinho grabbed the face of Gvardskeli, a lot of seasons MVP and shot Basta,

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Basta, Basta grabbed his face when Klosso and we literally got into his head like early on in the

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first half and that pretty much set the tone for the entire game. Napoli were shown two red cards

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at the end of the game out of sheer frustration, one to Poletano and one to Victor Ozim and

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yeah, let's just go through a quick summary of how things played through. So Roma started off

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on the front foot, surprisingly enough, showcasing relentless pressure. I was particularly impressed

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with Bovet throughout the whole game, but particularly his start. He struck the post and

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then forced Meret into a great save after Bellotti had put it on a plate for him. That was a good

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save because that was a tap in for Bovet. Napoli struggled to create in the first half in general,

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their best chance came through an Oziman bicycle kick from a corner that led to the path of

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Anguissa, but the Cameroonian failed to connect with it. Napoli started the second half with

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improved attacking intent through Zelinski and Gvardskeli, but really failed to trouble Rui

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Patricio significantly. The first red card was shown to a very frustrated Matteo Poletano for

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violent conduct after having his shirt pulled by Zelinski on a counterattack and he decided to kick

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him. He lunged at him, it wasn't a crazy kick, it didn't hurt him or anything, but the fact that he

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lashed out at his opponent meant a major red card. Pellegrini scored a sensational volley just 10

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minutes later, this would be the 76th minute after a sequence of blocked and miss hit shots.

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In the 83rd minute Lukaku attempted to chip Meret after being played through brilliantly by

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Christante, but Meret pulled off another great save and 10 minutes after the opener,

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Oziman was shown his second yellow card for a clumsy challenge to be honest.

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The Roma man did make a bit of a meal out of it, but it was still a second yellow,

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not a straight red. Roma had clearly managed to get under Napoli's skin in typical Morinio

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fashion. Lukaku linked up with Indica at the end, it wasn't all that pretty by Indica, but he got

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the ball to Lukaku who fainted, took another touch and sealed the deal in the 96th minute

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while Napoli's eight remaining outfield players were trying to find an equalizer. Bro, what a game.

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Amazing game, amazing game. This is a classic Roma victory, it's not often that we see Roma beat

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other teams in the top seven, but when they do, this is exactly how they do it, they go to war.

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If there's one thing Morinio likes to do, you see him as well in the Europa League final,

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for example, the second he's not a favorite in the game, that's the style of play he likes to take.

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He knows that his team possibly performs better when it's a scrap, when it's a scrap a lot of

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these players come out to play, and I think Napoli play worse when it's a scrap, and as

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champions, perhaps a bruised ego at the moment, they could get frustrated, and that's exactly

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what they did, they frustrated them. You see Morinio in the beginning, like you said, going

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straight to the MVP and getting in his head, and that led to, you know, all right, Roma got a bunch

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of yellow cards themselves, but Napoli lost this game, and now they're missing Polita on Victor

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Rossiman for the next game, so Roma have done some serious, serious damage to Napoli over here.

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Absolutely, and I was particularly impressed by the approach of Roma, you know, just fielding

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as many physical players as possible, you know, you look at that midfield, it's rough, and Bellotti

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and Lukaku up front, they're going to do a lot of pressing for you, you know, but an interesting

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statistic I saw was that Roma had 19 fouls, while Napoli had 12. Roma had seven yellow cards,

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Napoli had four, yet Roma finished with 11 men and two goals, while Napoli finished with nine men

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and zero goals, so that's just, that's just tactical fouls versus frustrated fouls. It was

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all part of the game plan, and it just goes to show because Roma are just as frustrated as a side

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as Napoli are, with the way things are going this season, but this game, Roma showed that they have

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a certain level of maturity that perhaps the defending champions don't have, and as you mentioned,

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they've got a bruised ego at the moment, so maybe they weren't willing to scrap it out with

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Roma the same way that Roma were willing to do so. Yeah, I think so, and as well, Roma just have

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continuity on their side at the moment, no? You look at Napoli, there's their second manager,

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the season, third manager in six months when you win the game, when you look at it,

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that way, after the highs of last season, now they're facing a reality where look, the competition

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has increased, you've got Juve, you've got Inter, you've got all these guys that have really stepped

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up this season, and they're in a spot where they're weaker, and this was essentially, if you look at,

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I believe a couple of matchdays ago, these teams are essentially fighting for that fourth spot,

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so the derby they saw this year carries a bit more importance to it than it has previously,

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and Roma went prepared, they went prepared, they're like, this means a lot, we need that fourth spot,

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they haven't gotten Champions League under Morinio yet since he's been there,

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this is his third fucking season, there's no fucking around, we're gonna get a game like this,

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we're gonna throw our bodies on the line, we're gonna press the oblivion, I was, it's almost a

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blessing in disguise that, I might say something crazy here, that the ball was out of this game,

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not because Bellotti has more quality or because he plays better, but for the press, Bellotti is

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excellent at pressing, it doesn't stop running El Gallo. Yeah, the way things panned out, yes,

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it could be deemed that way, of course, it's just fortunate for them that they managed to get that

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red card, because I don't think that they could have scored had it not been for the red card,

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and in fact that's when they capitalized and when they really started to get close, like granted,

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Bovet hit the post early on, and then Bellotti set up also in the first half, but you know how it

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gets with Morinio in the second half, especially he tends to settle for a draw, but yes bro,

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absolutely, I was very impressed with Bovet at this game, he won most of his duels, be them on

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the ground, be them in the air, he showed solid defensive attributes, while also good offensive

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flair as well, I was very impressed by him. Yeah, he was pretty much everywhere man, he had just

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some statistics for you over here, he had a 75% pass success rate, he had 39 touches of the ball,

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but I don't think most of his good performance could be deemed by when he had possession of the

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ball, because he was so good off the ball. Yeah, absolutely, he had a very intelligent player,

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he's only 21 years old, he's been playing with Roma for his entire life since his youth career,

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he's already got 47 appearances and two goals, so good on you, Eduardo Bovet.

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I thought Mario Rui was bad. Ah, not his best game at all, it's almost, he's at a bit of an

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awkward point in his career, Mario Rui, he was doing so well on their spalletti and I feel like

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the attacking liberty and the freedom to cross and to attack and to advance with midfield coverage

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was was suiting him really well, but the more defensive responsibility you give to Mario Rui,

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the worse he's going to perform. I mean, he was so good for the past few seasons and think about

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it, for the past few seasons he had had Kim Min Jae lost season before that, he had Kullibadi

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covering for him, so he almost afforded to go forward and be that Dimarko style left back,

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but now the second that he goes up with Juan Jesus and Rahmani starting alongside each other,

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that's not a solid defense, you know what I mean, so the second he goes up they're left exposed

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and it's almost like he's unsure of his responsibilities, should I be going forward,

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should I be staying back, he was often caught in no man's land, I genuinely believe that for the system

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Oliveira is probably a better fit than a flat four at the back. Yeah, probably, what you get with

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Mario Rui and then is the the corners, set pieces, the crossing prowess, he has a very good understanding

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with Victor Rosiman of course, but just not the way they're lining up, that flat back four barely

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advances, okay yeah so for me it was a clear, a clearly deserved victory for Roma, yeah I think

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so, they did what they had to do, although it's not a sexy way to win a game the way that they did

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it, that's what Roma had to do and that's what they did, but it's different you know, we often see

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teams blow other teams out of the water or we see teams scrap, but this was a psychological battle

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that Roma fought and they won it and it worked to a team, it was a master class, and it's not like

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they lost a bunch of players due to suspension over there because not all the other ones, it's the

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losers that are facing the the suspensions, so they're going to be weakened for the next game,

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they racked up a couple of yellows but there are worse things in the world, absolutely, yeah

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and Morinio's master class is the reason we have chosen him for our episode artwork, if you're

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wondering where those come from, I draw those myself and you can buy them from the shop, if

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you're a patron they're free, you can download all of them, and if you're not they only cost three

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euros, so feel free to go and get yourself a nice desktop background or a print, you know, yeah

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okay I should be back, sorry if you guys couldn't hear me too clearly, there was a bit of a technical

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issue with my mic, not quite sure what happened but hopefully it won't persist, yeah, one thing I

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wanted to talk about brother is Napoli's moves in the January transfer, because it's slightly,

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it looks like they don't have a plan and they're just offloading anyone that they can, so Elmas

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is off to Leipzig, and Zelinski is probably off to winter, they're gonna try to push to make it

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happen in January, they being in there of course, but you should be, I highly doubt that they'd be

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mad to let them go to enter in January, I mean well firstly they need to pay because this contract

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won't be up, and what's all what happened with the Samaritan's deal for example, we know in

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turn that they can't do it, it'll be bizarre if they manage to pull that off, and claims of bankruptcy

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being imminent for in there, it's like 181 million or something, this news comes out every year,

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they always manage to wiggle out of it, I'm not quite sure about the details of it of course, but

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we'll stay tuned, tuned, we'll read and we'll try to share as much knowledge as possible with you guys.

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It's weird that like Zelinski and Elmas, because they're the only two players they have playing that

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role, like the Trek War Testa role, yeah kind of a free role right, even though Elmas was deployed

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as a kind of vice-guvara for a lot, it's not really his natural position, you know, absolutely yes,

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and Inter really could use some midfield reinforcement, so Zelinski would be quite nice for that,

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he'd fit nicely, incredibly there I think, even though he's not been great this season,

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no, no, he kind of does this vanishing acting games at that, Zannoli the substitute right back

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of the Lorenzo's off to Genoa and loan a very good coup for Genoa, but he was a loan last year,

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who was your loan at last year's loan? Zannoli was, I want to say Sampdoria, he was their only

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shining light, remember? Yes, yes at the latter stage, I'd just say I'd got enough goals I believe as well.

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And I believe there was one incredible assist, we're like saying that the only positive right now

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in the Sampdoria side is Zannoli, Farone should be coming in to replace him if all goes as planned.

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That's good, that's good, and then Farone should get the fuck out of there, get out of that Sampdoria.

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The sinking ship, instead of leading the team as he was and has been the captain this entire time.

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I got a gentle reminder on TikTok about how it was Farone who cleared the wall off the line with

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his hand in the derby, in the relegation playoff, and then in Zolaam, it's the penalty Montepo

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saved, that was fucking nuts. Incredible man, he sunk them on his own with that, and then in Zolaam

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it's the penalty of course, I went to Fjörentina. What a leader. There is also, ah yes, so Ozzyman

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might be going to Afkorn, do you think they should buy a striker as well? They've got Diego

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Semion, I feel like they're in decent hands with him, he's a good striker, Raspador if he wants to

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play there, he's looked really really good this year, I don't think that'd be a desperate need for

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one no. Yeah, the problem is the offensive plan, right, I mean Semion and Raspador might not thrive

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as there's no system to feed Semion for example, but as we mentioned and highlighted every single

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episode that relies a lot on individual effort for Napoli to actually create attacks, so maybe it's

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not ideal for Semion who thrived when he had the entire Hellas Varana squad feeding him, the entire

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team was playing for him. So we'll see what happens there, they'll definitely miss Ozzyman

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because he's a type of striker who can make something out of nothing very quickly. Yeah,

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when it comes to Roma by the way, they're looking at names to replace in Dika during Afkorn,

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in Dika nowadays represents the Ivory Coast, he used to represent France, Bonochi and Demiral

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are the names being mentioned, I think that one is clearly better than the other. Yeah, Demiral,

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of course. I mean they're both not incredibly solid, Demiral's good but he's inconsistent with

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his fitness and he's currently playing in Saudi, which makes you worse. When you're playing in

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a league of lower quality, it makes you a worse player. But is it even a league of lower quality

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at this point when you look at the players who are playing? Yes, there are five, six teams,

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let's say five teams that have a couple of superstars, you know, their training facilities

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are still what they are, their other oppositions, remember there are 15 other teams, they're still

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what they are. No, of course, of course, absolutely, it is lower quality football. However, he hasn't

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been there for very long, so it's not like he's been there for three years, you know,

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he'll let himself go, he's only been there for I think it's less than a season. But yeah, I think

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Demiral could be a good card for Mourinho to whip out, Bonochi's leadership skills of course could

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be useful as well. We'll see what route they go down. Both of them have their pros and their

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cons, right? Demiral of course, his fitness being the main, the main con. But yeah, bro, I think

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that's it. When it comes to the standings, Roma are currently in sixth with 28 points, while

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Napoli are in seventh with 27 points as Roma leapfrog their rivals. Yes, sir, Inter to let Chenille,

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we should speak about that now. So Inter responded to you as earlier when against Fosnall,

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and maintaining the four point gap at the top. Inter were aiming to forget the midweek elimination

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from Coppa Italia against Bologna after losing 2-1 after extra time. Letcher had Anquist injured,

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Pongratric was doubtful, but he started the match. Injured or suspended players were Inter

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included Lautaro Martinez, which is probably the biggest loss they could have in their team.

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D'Amfri's DeMarco and Quadrado, so Cardo's Augusto started on the left and Arnautovic

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started alongside Rammu. We were discussing in the earlier episode who should start.

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Is it going to be Arnautovic or Sanchez? Arnautovic or Sanchez, but Arnautovic clearly was

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preferred over here. In the tenth minute, Miketarian set up Arnautovic nicely with a square pass into

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the box, but Arnautovic was denied by Falco and F from just 6 yards out, should have done better.

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Inter had a stunning passage of attacking play in the 21st minute with slick and sexy football

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being showcased outside the opposition area, but unfortunately for them, Arnautovic's finishing

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touch straight just wide, another miss for Arnautovic over there. In the 40th minute,

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Bissex volley from Chalenoğlu's accurate cross stuck the woodwork, but then just two minutes later,

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this time the Chalenoğlu Bissex combination ended with a goal. The centre back heading

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in an in-swinger free kick cross from Chalenoğlu. In the 58th minute, just after half time,

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referee Matteo Marcenaro awarded a bizarre penalty to Lecce, which was quickly shot down by VAR,

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which showcased no handball by Augusto and at the ball, just struck his back. There was absolutely

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zero contact with the arm, which was by the way against the body, so I really don't know what

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Matteo Marcenaro saw over there, and I don't know why he had to go to the VAR screen to confirm

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that there was no contact, because I'm sure through this walkie talkie fucking system that they have,

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they could have said, listen, like, you're wrong, like, you really don't know what to see.

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Yeah, that was quite a clear mistake, it's true, I don't know why they didn't just give the instructions

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from above, he was being like, hey listen, I didn't touch his hand. I guess because the referee made

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the call, he'll have to revert it himself. Yep, perhaps, perhaps. It's not like an offside, you know,

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where there's the whole mathematics and the whole line behind it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, in case he's

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corrupt. In the 77th minute, Inter sealed the deal with a great team goal, Barella played the

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ball forward to Arnauto, which with his back towards goal, backheeled the ball back to Barella,

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who made a very clever run and finished cleanly by rounding the keeper. The team celebrated

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with Arnauto, which for his sublime assist after a tough day at the office for the veteran striker,

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who's yet to open his account despite various opportunities in this match. In the 83rd minute

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let's show him down to 10 men, when Lamek Banda was shown a red card for descent, a straight red card,

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so I can only imagine what he said. And in the 87th minute Falco Arnauto produced two miraculous

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saves, the first to deny Pavarra at the far post and the second from a follow-up attempt by Aslani

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from some serious distance with the keeper tipping the ball over the bar. Good win for Inter. Solid,

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Solid, absolutely solid. And they just showed everyone that they don't even need Lautaro Martinez

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as the bomber of the league. They had a severely misfiring Arnauto, which up front, and they still

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managed to get their job done. And not only did they get their job done, but that misfiring Arnauto,

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which also fucking managed to play one of the most beautiful assists I've seen this season.

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Not to mention, Jan Bisek having kind of like a Malik Chow emergence into the league,

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had to have shown that he's extremely competent on the ball. We highlighted how good he is and

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how skilled he is at keeping possession of how press resistant he is in the last episode.

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This match we hit the crossbar, I believe, and then he scored the goal right off the

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court. Yeah, that's it. Do you think? The technique on that header, eh? Weird. Weird,

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worked. It worked. He like almost jumped up and like closed his body into a ball and hit it back.

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Or like, his head upwards, you know? Sergio Ramos has a brilliant one like that when he was young

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against Barca, and the A-class court, he came 3-3 when Messi scored the hat-trick. Which version

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of Ramos is this? Slickback lizard Ramos? Right back Ramos with long hair and the white headband.

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The lizard Ramos. The fucking maniac. Is Bisek a potential starter when Inter are fully fit at

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the back? Honestly, man, yes. Yes. So you look at, you've got Bastoni, Archébi, Bisek, you have

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De Vrij, who's out, I think Bisek can comfortably bench De Vrij. Nowadays, yes. Nowadays, yes.

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De Vrij, three seasons ago, was top. He was the shit. He was incredible. But it's been quite the

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regression since then. I think Bisek is on the up and this would be wise, actually,

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take it for more playing time ahead of De Vrij. Other than that, you know, I mean,

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yes, that's the man he has to this place. So I think you can totally do it.

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Pretty much. Probably starting alongside Bastoni and Archébi. Yeah. I think.

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Darmion as well would be a candidate for that centre-back position. But to be honest, Darmion is

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just a squad player that he can pop into fit any hole. They don't need rotation anyway. So

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Darmion would still be playing everywhere. These were the substitute full-backs as well for

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Inter. Wing-backs rather. Yeah. So Gustav and Darmion did a fantastic job. I think so. I think so.

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Arnautovic's performance. So you said how Inter, they don't even need a Lauter-Romey team as to

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win a game. I think they would have won it so much more easily if he was on the pitch

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because he just seemed, he seems like someone that's been playing in Saudi. Arnautovic,

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he seems a step behind. He's not getting any younger. He's not getting any younger. No,

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but you see, for example, what Zeco is capable of doing for Inter. The thing is, when you have

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veteran players like this, so Arnautovic is 34 years old, last season he started the season with

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a bank for Bologna scored plenty of goals. Then he got injured and he kept getting injured almost

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towards the end of the season and he was poached by Inter. So now he finds himself in his first

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season at Inter at 34 years old. The problem is when it comes to players at that age, there's no

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time to settle. There's no period of adjustment you brought in and you need to have an immediate

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impact. We forget that Arnautovic needs to settle into this Inter side. He needs to get used to

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the way they play. That's a totally different system to what he was used to at Bologna. So

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is it, my question on my point is, is it fair to criticize veteran players harsher or more harshly,

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rather? I think that as a veteran league player who's been at Bologna before, sure you need time

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to settle, but what you get when you invest in a player that has proven himself in a league

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is that the adjustment period should be shorter. Now obviously he's not starting many games because

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there's Turram and Lautaro who are untouchable. He was out for around six months last season,

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I believe it or his cruciate ligament last year at Bologna. I think that was the extent of it.

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I know he had a serious injury, not sure if that was the one, but fucking it.

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He had a tough injury for sure. I don't think it's a matter of him getting used to the system

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because he seemed to be at the right place at the right time and his link-up play and his

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hold-up play was good. It's just about his finishing was off. It could be a matter of

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confidence, it could be a matter of misfortune, it could be many things. And it was like the

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whole thing of the game, given out of which his first goal and everyone celebrating with him for

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the assistant, it must suck to be the player when that's the case. It's all about you not being able

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to score. He seemed visibly frustrated, yelling at himself and hitting himself on the head.

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Like it was like Dobby and Harry Potter. Yeah, CDK is the fucking CEO of that. Even if he gets

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like an assistant a goal in a game, like everyone's just like celebrating with him, like he's playing

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well. Well, he's gonna have his opportunities to get a goal and I'm sure our and out of which

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is not gonna be the kind of guy to struggle too much to get a goal in the future. If you want,

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we can discuss Jelinski to winter again. I don't think there's any need to do that.

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Yes, you will fit in nicely over there considering Fratese doesn't seem to have settled as well as

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he would have hoped Fratese. Mentor from the group chat said that maybe interview him as too selfish.

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When I watched Fratese, so I get that he can be that kind of player, but from watching him at

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Inter he didn't seem that way to me. Obviously in Zagis, he's things differently to to Jake and Matt

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from Seria spotlight, you know, but I didn't see him to be that way. I think it's more of a question

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of where does he fit into this team because Zelinski to me, direct replacement for Miketarian.

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Bangon fucking medzala is the is the word the exactly medzala. The half winger. Exactly. So

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he'll definitely slot in perfectly over there. Fratese is more a replacement for Barella.

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Yeah, that's the way I see it. Box the box midfielder and quite tidy up front if they need to push

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him up further. I feel like Fratese is literally a budget Barella man. And he's always got goals.

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He's a hard worker. He's 24 years old. He's got time on his side and he's got a very good player

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to mentor him. Yeah. So I don't think he's out of favor. I think it's just a question of where.

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We also saw, by the way, this game, we saw a trial and ogle giving the ball away a lot in

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the final third in his half. And that's I don't know if it happened last week as well. And we

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addressed it or we spoke about it off the board. He was no, we discussed how he's not as press

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resistant. Absolutely. Number six. And he was dispossessed in the last match by

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Rovella. And then Rovella had that chance. Yeah, that puts him in my opinion,

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a tier below Lobotka and Ben-Assar when it comes to that six position. Shala noglou has

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strengths that Ben-Assar and Lobotka do not have. But as a six on my team, I know who I would want

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personally. Do you know how many times Shala noglou lost possession in this game? 15 times.

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15 times. There we go. That's not what you want from your anchor. Perhaps not.

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Perhaps not. It was a bit of a scrappy game, of course. By the end, they had to make use of the

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players, the rotation players, moving on to lecture a little bit. Barna does a naughty boy.

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And we've highlighted that Barna's a naughty boy over here. And he's got a toad. He's got a toad and

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fucking referees often forgive him because he's often picked on because of his height, five foot

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three. Yeah. So quite often he'll get out muscles, get frustrated, he'll lash out and referees close

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and I, you know, because they go, well, that must be frustrating. He's so much smaller. It's the opposite.

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You know, for example, what Frank Kessie used to experience at Milan being so big and like in a 50-50,

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the player like, oh, the second he's hit like a yellow card to Kessie. It's like, come on, dude.

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There was a shoulder to shoulder. He's just very strong. So, so yeah, Banda probably deserved

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this red card as well as probably deserving many more this season alone. I mean, probably man. Yeah,

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but Banda, he, so he's got attitude problems. And the thing that annoys me is that he really

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lets it affect his performance. Like when he's pissed off, he looks like, you know, when you

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hit someone a bit too hard and a five aside, and then they get the point, they start dribbling

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and they kick the ball really hard. They shoot the ball really hard. Like they're throwing a little

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time. They play with anger. They play with anger. But Banda does that. He doesn't have a,

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he does it like in the worst way possible. It's not like Barardi where he gets pissed off and you

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can see it in his face and then everything he tries to do, he tries to make it work. With Banda

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just lashing out, kicking randomly, flailing his arms. It's reckless. You know, it can really,

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really cost your team. Also, bro, not sold on Roberto Piccoli. I'm not sure he should be starting

394
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over at Kristovic. The positions Piccoli's finding himself in where he just teased and power shots

395
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from out of the box. I would love to see Kristovic with his back towards goal in those situations

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because he's a very smart player, smarter than Piccoli. I want to know what happened.

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The dry spell, right? I mean dry spell and Piccoli started scoring, so he's getting the

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trance he deserves to be fair. Yeah, and I mean, to be fair, he's been scoring. It's just,

399
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obviously, if we were to judge from on his performance against Inter, then let's look at

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the team's performance and not just how Piccoli failed to score. Remember that this guy probably,

401
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there's some clause in his contract since he's on loan from Atalanta, which states that he needs

402
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to play a certain amount of minutes, right? Yeah, yeah, that's a fair point. But if you just look

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at how he performed this game, granted he was a striker for Electric against Inter. Let's keep

404
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that in mind. But he was on the pitch for 73 minutes. He touched the ball 16 times. He played

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eight passes and failed four of them. He had five ground duels. He didn't win any of them. He won

406
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one out of three aerial duels and he lost possession 11 times. Atalanta had 16 touches. That's wild.

407
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You know, that's not a good performance at all. It's not a good performance at all, but he's,

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he's, they played with a lone striker with strefets out on one side, banned out on the other. They're

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like the two shortest players in Serie A and then Piccoli in the middle between fucking Acherebi

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Bastoni and Bissec just getting fucking boom every, every single time that he gets the ball. Like

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he was set up for failure in this game. Probably Christovic would have had a nightmare in this

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game as well. I think Christopher should have been better because his movement is better. You just

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need to hold the ball up and wait. Piccoli has the habit of turning and shooting and I can't

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understand that. Christovic is amazing at holding the ball up. I think Christovic is a, is a better

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striker, but we'll see who gets more minutes in the future. I am hoping it's Christovic.

416
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Shout out Pongrejuic by the way, who was uncertain for the game and had a pretty fucking solid game.

417
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Yeah, he played the entire game and he was doubtful. He wasn't supposed to play. I'm not quite sure

418
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what's wrong with him, but. Did you hear what Basquirotto said before the game in the dressing

419
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room? No. He said, um, it's nothing funny. I just hype, you know, he was like, um, I played

420
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in the lower tiers and I worked my way up for games like this, but he said that I'm like no one

421
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reacted. God. I just said it and looked down. Why is this about you, bro? Like the guy was

422
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journaling out loud. Like, like nice try, you know, the players around them don't even speak Italian.

423
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Yeah, I mean, let's try and 12th on 20 points, not, not too shabby. Um, but okay. 12th on 20

424
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points is only six points away from 18th place. Uh, Calieri, well, seven points ahead of 18th

425
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place Calieri, which is not a distant margin. Interferst 44 points, four points ahead of you there.

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I think we should talk about Frosina, bro. Frosi one, you've a two. Right. Frosi, of course,

427
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being frozen on it for those of you who don't understand humor. Um, first of all, of course,

428
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we're missing quite a few players, Abraham, which is still out in dread. Yes, the 17 year old wonder

429
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kid out on the wing was not available. Um, collage or Kali, I'm not sure he's Albanian. Please, if

430
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there's anyone who knows how to pronounce that DM me, I mean, man, I is Albanian. Yes, but as a

431
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man, I remember that whole thing. Bro. Market, some, but Satelli, Iona and Reiner were all out

432
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for frozen on all important players, mostly all important players. Um, and they did miss them.

433
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In fact, and KSI was out for Juventus, the shillio, fudge, early, keen and Pogba, of course,

434
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the usual suspect speaking of naughty, naughty boys. Um, as to the lineups, it was a three, four,

435
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two, one for frozen on it. Interestingly enough with coyote Georgia starting up front against

436
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his former team. And there are also actually a few former team. My ass is still owned by you.

437
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These guys are all owned by you. We're on loan at frozen on it as Berentia,

438
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Sule and coyote Georgia. I think the best performer of the lot was probably Sule, but not

439
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:53,360
nothing crazy. This game. Yeah. And for you, it was a three, five, two with milk and yield is up

440
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front yield is getting his first start for Juventus at 18 years old is the young Turkish talent that's

441
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been favored by Vincenzo Montella at the Turkish national team as mentioned earlier. Also interestingly

442
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:14,640
enough, um, gutty was benched for Alexander for this game. Okay. So the match began with a stunning

443
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display of prowess by the young talent yield is who scored an early goal for Juventus after

444
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:25,920
it. Rati gave possession away because of his first touch. It was poor. Yeah. Um,

445
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to Rati has made quite a few mistakes recently. Yeah, he can't stop making mistakes at the moment.

446
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:35,600
To Rati yield is slipped through three men casually and hammered into the near post. However,

447
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frozen on it responded valiantly, um, leveling the score through bias early in the second half.

448
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Funnily enough, bias only came on because Leroy had fallen injured. Monterey easy played him through

449
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:54,400
brilliantly and bias finished expertly, um, giving equalizing for frozen on it. Harui's curling

450
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strike was well saved by Shezny and about the 70th minute on McKenny's volley rattled the crossbar

451
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:05,200
shortly after it was like a standing scissor kick it out. I am the game's pivotal moment came as

452
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Vladovic, um, making a significant impact after being introduced, sealed the victory for Juventus

453
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with a superb header after frozen on it decided not to press McKenny out wide. Um, I don't know

454
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what the hell that was. That was amateur bro. That was, that was so bad. You have a professional

455
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football player out on the wing and you give him that much space. Like the guy's been playing as a

456
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wingback like granted, he's not the most technically gifted player in the world, but you, you close him

457
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down there. I mean, when you have that much time and space, you could make an average player look

458
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real fucking good, man. And not saying McKenny's an average player, but as well, you said he was

459
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playing as a right wingback. Yeah. So maybe he could whooping across close him down, man. Jesus

460
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:52,000
Christ. There's this fucking Vladovic lurking in the box. Absolutely. Um, he was correct.

461
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He wasn't actually playing as a right wingback this game, but he has recently. Yes. Yes. Yes.

462
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But as in because he often plays as a right wing back, he could obviously deliver across like

463
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:06,400
yeah, absolutely. Um, he's been fucking fantastic. By the way, the season mechanic really has been,

464
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I think that he's, he's really, um, come a long way since his first season at UVA.

465
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Um, who's even loaned out to leads that for a while like, so this is, this is a very good trajectory

466
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he's on. Vladovic nearly made it at a brace in the second half only to be denied by Vaar. He was

467
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in an obviously offside position. Um, you were able to hang on and confirm all three points.

468
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So yeah, funnily enough, in the offside goal, by the way, um, Tarrati was beaten at his near post.

469
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Um, what do you think man? Do you keep playing him? Tarrati. Yeah. Depends on who the hell do

470
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they have on the bench? It's Michele Cerafolini who has had five appearances for Fiorintina,

471
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was loaned out to the likes of Cossenza, Biscoglia, Biscoglia, Regina, Regina, sorry,

472
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Regina had 19 appearances for Regina, but this guy, that's it. He's never had more than 19 appearances

473
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for a team in a season and it was for Regina. So, so I don't know how ready he is. I mean,

474
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24 years old, so by the way, Cerafolini, he's not even experienced. What fucking wait till January

475
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:29,520
and sign up, Berisha of sorts, you know what I mean? Maybe. Yeah, there are plenty of good

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keepers in Syria. Maybe try, try bringing Kranjo on a loan, for example, that, that'll be good to

477
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:40,240
get to get him some minutes. I'm starting to think that Kranjo will only ever play when he's out on

478
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a loan because the second he's owned by someone, he never gets a fucking minute. Poor guy. But he's

479
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:51,360
he's having a nightmare right now to Rati. It's like every match that he's playing. First is stop

480
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passing the ball back to him. Jesus for the love of God. And secondly, just keep someone on the

481
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near post. Tarrati started off the season playing very well. He, well, not start of the season,

482
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last season he played very well and the season was all right from the get go. He became very

483
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:13,600
confident. He went out and said that he's a he's an Inter fan and that he's often seen with the

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Curvan or and hasn't had a good game since. So I don't know if that's a coincidence or not.

485
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,760
Yes, he's also let's not forget that to Rati is on loan from Saswalo. So loaning in another goalkeeper

486
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might prove from Saswalo. Another clots for them. Yeah. But of course for his age, of course,

487
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:40,080
he's a very talented goalkeeper. 22 years old is actually like 14 years old and goalkeeping

488
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:49,760
years. So it's not been easy for him at all. Yeah. Sheznia on the other hand, incredible,

489
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:56,400
incredible shot stopper. Yeah, I mean, it's no secret. I think people forget that this is the

490
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same Sheznia that played in the World Cup last year and saved Messi's penalty. You know what I

491
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:08,560
mean? All the that because that gave him a lot of fame among the mainstream. But yeah, great

492
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:16,160
goalkeeper was wearing a hat. It was really cool. For each check personally, if I were a goalkeeper

493
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and it was sunny address where sunglasses were a cool pair of Ray Banz or the Morpheus sunglasses

494
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was shape. Would you go? I think I'd go big tinted and round. Oh, kind of morphys but bigger.

495
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I'd wear like those sporty American ones like the people go jogging in. Yeah, that was a

496
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:46,320
hero dynamic. Yep. Those are fucking cool, man. But you have to be a loser to wear hat. But anyway.

497
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For a musta and I was having a nightmare because the second we used to play another team and not

498
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:56,240
being a training, I was that I was to get panic attacks and I used to concede seven like that's

499
00:49:56,240 --> 00:50:00,160
something that used to happen. And once I was wearing a hat and the ball bounced off my hat

500
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and went in in comical fashion. Like the ball was looping over me. I was running back like with

501
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I was running backwards essentially and looking up and when I looked up the ball hit my cap and

502
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went into the back of the neck. Damn. How did you react? I mean, slam your hat to the ground and like

503
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:24,560
no, bro, I'm taking it. I was super fucking anxious like as if I would make it about me.

504
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:31,360
Just stand there. Hope no one realized. Let's put where your hat lower over your eyes. Okay.

505
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I wanted to make a point as well. Yes, yes, yes, yes, this is it, bro. So last week,

506
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you've conceded three minutes into the second half against Genoa. This week, they conceded

507
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six minutes into the second half against Fresno and an improvement.

508
00:50:48,240 --> 00:50:52,720
Massive improvement. It seems to happen against newly promoted teams.

509
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They need to wake up on that second half. Yeah, I honestly genuinely it might be

510
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:02,160
a lapse in concentration like absolutely, man. Honestly, might be exactly for a team to hit you

511
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,600
so early on in the second half. It has to be that, you know, it takes your wife to settle back into

512
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the game. That needs to be addressed by a legary, of course, but thankfully, thankfully for them,

513
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they got it done this game. Yeah. I'm not going to tell you went off injured again. He's on the

514
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map this season. And Nicolusi came in and pinging the few balls upon entry. He looked pretty good

515
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:24,400
at least giving me with some hope that he will be back at his best. That is however a role that

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they should focus on filling in in January. I think that's the that's the difference between

517
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:36,800
that. That's what's stopping you from taking that next step. A real anchor in that midfield.

518
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:42,080
Yep. Imagine this team with Benocera Lobotka. I know we always mention those two because they're

519
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:46,880
literally the best two examples we could give. There was a point. Maxim Lopez was on the right

520
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:51,120
trajectory. Now he joined Fjord and he hasn't quite hit the ground running. Hey man, back in his day

521
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:56,160
when he was like killing it, that's a swallow. Great, great shout for the side. Even Torreira,

522
00:51:56,160 --> 00:52:00,640
man. Where the hell is Torreira now? Torreira had gone back to Arsenal and then I don't know where

523
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:05,200
he ended up after. He disappeared off the face of the earth. After that, yeah. Remo motherfucking

524
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:10,880
Froyler is another six who really didn't hit it off in the prem because sometimes they don't

525
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:20,240
understand football. So yeah, he's back at Bologna. Yeah. As far as this game goes, I think we're

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done. I want to highlight how poor Rabiot's pass accuracy was this game upon his return from

527
00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:34,960
suspension. At 68% accurate passes. He completed 25 out of 37 passes. Not his best game. No,

528
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:43,280
no. Perhaps not. I just also want to mention, Frosinone, I don't think they're safe. Like

529
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obviously no one is safe and that kind of thing from relegation. But yes, they're expressive.

530
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:55,040
Yes, they're dangerous. They're explosive. They're terrible defensively though, bro.

531
00:52:55,040 --> 00:53:02,000
They are very, very bad defensively. It's not good at all. And they're bad when they're not in the

532
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:07,920
game anymore. Like not when they're not in the game. When they concede and they're down, they

533
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:14,640
don't have that courage or experience to rise up and fucking get back in the game. You know what

534
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:20,640
I mean? Like Kaliaridu. They do need experience as we mentioned in the last episode, but they need

535
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,080
to bring in a few reinforcements in January because they have 19 points. And remember,

536
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:29,120
teams have been relegated with 30 points. So it's still early on and they're still not safe,

537
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:34,320
of course. And it's often teams who lack experience get relegated and throw back to Venetia.

538
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:43,120
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Standings. So as for now, Frosinone are fine. They're in 14th with 19 points.

539
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:51,120
While Juventus find themselves in second with 40 points behind Inter.

540
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:58,640
Yeah. Salernetana to Milan 2. The return of Peponzagi that is another Inzagi that's really

541
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:04,400
sticking it to Milan this season. All the Inzagi are just taking it in turns on Milan.

542
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:11,120
Yeah, just to fuck Milan. Milan had a strong start in 11. They had a lot of players back from

543
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injury. They started their preferred 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1, however you want to look at it,

544
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:22,800
with the midfield 3 of Ben-Nasser, Reinders and Loftus-Chic, which is like the dream scenario

545
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:29,200
for Milan this season. The attacking trident of Leao, Polisic and Giroux. And the defense,

546
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:36,320
obviously, yeah. Tomoria alongside Kier. Kier obviously not being the preferred choice, but

547
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:42,080
he can do a decent job over there. Salernetana on the other hand, just a couple of injuries for

548
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:48,320
them in Maggiore and Ochoa. So they had Costil in goal, naturally. I wonder if he took that

549
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:53,840
selfie with Giroux after the game. I think it don't be Giroux. The official Milan account actually

550
00:54:53,840 --> 00:55:00,000
tweeted a video of Costil warming up, then it pans to Giroux warming up, and they're doing the

551
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:04,800
exact same things. It's hilarious. Like one touches the left-eye road, the other one touches the left

552
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:10,320
eye road. So funny. The Milan were coming off a very convincing 3-in-1 victory against Monza,

553
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:16,800
where they had started with a 3 at the back, but it wasn't the case in this match. They decided to

554
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:21,200
opt for the 4 at the back formation. Salernetana on the other hand, they were coming off a

555
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:28,720
devastating 4-1 loss to Atalanta. In the sixth minute, Brother Rich Smith's hit shot proved to

556
00:55:28,720 --> 00:55:33,520
be a dangerous cross, and they almost opened the scoring, but Manjane denied him, quite comfortably,

557
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:39,200
to be honest. In the 15th minute, Milan actually took the lead, as Reinders found Liao in the box.

558
00:55:40,240 --> 00:55:45,680
Then Rafa crossed the ball, and it was deflected, and it fell to Tomori, who headed in for the opening

559
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:50,800
goal. He had a failed knee-slide celebration. Yeah, that needs to be addressed, though. Is it any

560
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:56,400
coincidence that he went off injured after? I don't know, man. That was the same thing as

561
00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:01,360
Oka 4 last week, and you see Oka 4 celebrating, and he seems to pull up, and I see Tomori

562
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:08,000
attempting a knee-slide in Salerno. Are you mad? You pointed out that you thought he was

563
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:16,000
joking. I thought he was mocking the claim that Oka 4 injured himself celebrating, but it turns

564
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:21,360
out, yes, he tried the knee-slide, and he might have hurt himself like that. Yeah, I don't know.

565
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:28,000
When you go to knee-slide, and the ground is really dry, so you end up busting your knees and

566
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:33,920
f**king flying. Well, that's what happened to Tomori. In the 29th minute, Ben-Assar almost scored

567
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:38,320
a known goal after mish-heading and attacking cross-by-Kondreva, forcing Mike into a good save.

568
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:43,760
Welcome back, Ben-Assar. In the 40th minute, Kastanos almost equalized, sliding into connect

569
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:48,800
with a Kondreva cross-butt manjanda knight and well. Two minutes later, Salernitana equalized

570
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:54,560
with Fasios, header from Kondreva's corner, exploiting Milan's struggles at defending set pieces.

571
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:59,200
In the 68th minute, Salernitana took a shock lead as Tomori went down with a muscle injury,

572
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:03,600
and Manjana-Mistret Kondreva's strike from distance letting it slip through his gloves and into the

573
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:09,360
near post. Florenzi came on for Tomori to take on left back, with Teos slipping in at centre back,

574
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:15,600
since Simik had already come on from 4K at half-time. In the 82nd minute, Jovic, subbed in

575
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:22,320
for Ben-Assar, had two chances but Kostil denied his header and his follow-up shot, and then in

576
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:27,840
the 98th minute Jovic redeemed himself, volleying in Jeroz' knockdown to salvage a point for Milan.

577
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:34,160
There's so much to talk about, so so much to talk about, but Milan at full strength,

578
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:40,000
failing to get three points against last placed Salernitana, I think this fucking confirms

579
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:50,240
how bad the situation is in Milan at the moment. Because the approach wasn't terrible by Milan,

580
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:58,720
and statistically the performance wasn't bad, Milan were by far the super-year team. Now,

581
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:06,800
what bothers me is the lack of reaction when certain things happen on the pitch. What bothers me

582
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:15,440
is how you have a player like Rafael Leao, who is absolutely insane and unplayable on the break

583
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:21,680
and driving to the buy line and cutting back or crossing in or you know doing what he does best,

584
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:30,400
and then you have a player like that who for some reason has the liberty to shoot from anywhere he

585
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:38,000
wants to fucking try dribble down the middle. I can't understand it, I can't understand the lack

586
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:44,240
of discipline and this isn't only Leao, it's fucking everyone from Reinders, we've been saying it all

587
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:50,240
season from the to, I don't know, man Ruben Loftus-Streak, I don't know what happened to him after

588
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:56,480
that PSG game, he was a fucking war tank, he seems to be playing with a knock or something, I don't

589
00:58:56,480 --> 00:59:01,200
know what it is, I think he's just one of those players that's either fully fit and brilliant,

590
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:05,840
and because of the effort he puts in when he's fully fit and brilliant, he plays with a knock

591
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:10,480
for like five games after, you know what I mean, that's his profile and that's what Milan knew they

592
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:16,560
were getting when they signed them. The injury crisis at the back is just ridiculous at this

593
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:23,680
moment, like Milan had to recall Gabia back from Villarreal, like are you serious, you know,

594
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:28,480
come on is it that fucking badly, how is this happening, you know, now apparently the physiotherapist

595
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:33,280
might get sacked, like come on, of course man, something needs to be done, something is obviously

596
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:40,000
broken over here, something isn't functional, that's just my opinion in a nutshell, man, plus not to

597
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:45,840
mention that it was unfortunate for Milan as well, he had one on characters, Mike Manjane mistake

598
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:52,960
at the New York Post, like Kondreva, fucking in 2017, I tweeted bro, I tweeted, Kondreva scares me

599
00:59:52,960 --> 01:00:00,480
as a player, he won't hit a single cross all game, but then he'll score from 50 yards out, he's an

600
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:06,640
unpredictable donkey, that was my tweet in 2017, last week I retweeted it, I'm like this is an

601
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:12,320
eternal tweet, this is the eternal reality of Kondreva, Kondreva can just fucking have it from

602
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:17,360
anywhere and I don't know if it's fortune, maybe he was born with the ability to turn anything,

603
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:22,880
he touches into gold, but that's just crazy how he beat Mike Manjane from there, man. Yeah, I think

604
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:28,720
I pretty much mirror what you're saying in Milan lost this game because of a lack of

605
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:34,400
tactical discipline and the lack of structure that there is within the team and that can only come

606
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:42,800
from one place in my opinion, which is purely losing the dressing room, I think Leao with

607
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:48,240
fucking three men open in front of him, he cuts inside and goes for a shot in the manner which

608
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:55,360
he doesn't and shooting and passing are his fucking worst qualities, Leao is good at one thing,

609
01:00:55,920 --> 01:01:03,280
get the ball, run, cut it back, if you want run into a good position and go for a goal, sure, but

610
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:12,640
his judgment in certain positions is god awful, god awful, his shooting is terrible.

611
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:20,960
Long range shooting specifically. Yeah, Loftus Cheek, disappointing performance by him, Reinder's

612
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:28,240
similar to Leao in the sense that look up, look at your teammates and try pick a pass,

613
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:34,400
you don't have to try score every single game, it just seems like it's and this is what happens

614
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:39,520
when you make so many signings and you put 11 new signings pretty much next to each other,

615
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:48,320
is there's individualism in football, the way you win a match is by winning the midfield

616
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:54,720
battle, it's you have to dominate the center of the pitch and then you need to focus on the

617
01:01:54,720 --> 01:02:01,360
wide players, Milan cannot dominate games with Ben Nasser, Reinder's and Loftus Cheek still

618
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:06,560
fucking getting used to each other, Reinder's and Loftus Cheek looked like they fucking,

619
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:11,200
like they were a match made in heaven in the opening matches of the season,

620
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:17,440
Khrunich was doing a good job but obviously now he's fallen out of favor and then it was Adli

621
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:22,880
and then it was Musa, then it was Adli again, it was Musa again and now Ben Nasser is back in,

622
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:29,280
that is the instability that is in the in the center of Milan's pitch, Milan aren't going to win

623
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:34,080
the league from Leaou running down the wing cutting it back and Jirou tapping in or winning a penalty

624
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:39,920
and Jirou scoring the penalty, that's not how you win a league, Milan need to address this situation

625
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:46,160
that is a lack of tactical discipline and essentially a midfield that is constantly

626
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:49,680
getting run over because that's what that midfield is doing, it's getting run over,

627
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:56,000
let me talk about something that I noticed in the game which was the set pieces in this match,

628
01:02:56,000 --> 01:03:02,880
both for Milan offensively and defensively, so offensively Milan have a new system,

629
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:06,960
so you'll notice that Milan have been a bit more successful, fucking,

630
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:16,560
masha'Allah from set pieces and a large part of that has to do with Leaou being placed at the

631
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:23,120
far post for free kicks and for corners, he's taking on a bit of a dragous in role where

632
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:28,240
he's not great at heading the ball towards goal but he's tall, you could ping the ball to him and

633
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:33,680
he could head it into a more dangerous area, right, this worked in Milan's match against

634
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:40,240
Monsa where Simic scored thanks to Leaou's contribution, that was the same system,

635
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:48,800
so that is what Milan are doing offensively, defensively, so Kier was man marking Fazio

636
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:54,960
in each and every Salernetana set piece, he was occasionally even being double marked,

637
01:03:54,960 --> 01:04:00,880
right, by Kier and left his cheek, so it's not a matter of Milan not respecting Fazio's ability

638
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:07,120
in the air because they respected it a lot, what Salernetana did was they picked this up and they

639
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:15,040
placed blockers between Kier and Fazio, so they put two players between them creating distance

640
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:21,520
between them allowing Fazio the liberty to move freely, he didn't have Kier holding him down or

641
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:26,240
Kier putting pressure on him, if you look at the goal that's literally what happens, Kier was far

642
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:30,960
away from him trying to catch up to him and then left his cheek, tried to intervene to no avail

643
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:36,080
and he got the goal over there, so Salernetana over there they were really smart and they managed to

644
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:43,440
fuck Milan through a little tactical adjustment, brilliant observations of course, I also want to

645
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:51,760
highlight the lack of urgency man, quite simply like Milan are starting off games pretty well,

646
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:55,120
you know you remember the curse of the first half, Milan wouldn't score in the first half,

647
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:58,240
that was the whole thing, the first half would always be wasted, now Milan are getting early

648
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:02,800
goals, but then the problems they're not fucking reacting when the other team equalizes, like

649
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:08,800
or they're hanging onto that slender lead and missing many chances being wasteful and allowing

650
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:16,640
the team back into the game, the Napoli game, the Verona game, so many man, yes I think it's just

651
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:24,000
an inability to react, an inability, a lack of communication between the players and the management

652
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:30,640
we've seen, we've heard the players what they said, we didn't know whether to attack, we didn't

653
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:36,320
know whether to press to push up, to hold back, you know we have players saying this about the

654
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:42,960
manager, that's miserability, in this case for example okay granted you're one one in the first

655
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:50,320
half, you go out in the second half react, you know, you're full fucking squad, you're the full team

656
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:57,280
offensively, you have no one missing, it's been Milan have been plagued with injuries for so long,

657
01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:02,240
you know, yeah the other shocking statistic, there was nothing man and not to mention sorry

658
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:07,120
one more thing, these individual areas that are costing goals, the same it was Manjan, Adli not

659
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:10,960
tracking back and that one goal and then the other would chouquets and not tracking back, you have

660
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:17,440
all these fucking individual areas, it's too much, yeah, what's yours dad? Across all teams, Milan

661
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:25,120
are fifth highest for shots against, both in total and per 90 minutes, so in total Milan have conceded

662
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:34,800
229 shots in the opening 17 matches of the season and per 90, they average 12 shots conceded,

663
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:42,400
every single game a team shoots at least 12 times against well an average of not at least, okay there

664
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:46,720
are the injuries in the fence or the injuries in midfield at the start of the season, there's the

665
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:51,120
fact that Milan don't have a fucking holding midfielder, but there's the fact that they don't

666
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:58,640
close these players down, that's the fact and the misbalance in the midfield

667
01:06:59,920 --> 01:07:06,000
from fucking preparation in the summer, there's no defensive player in midfield and the only one

668
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:11,440
that there is, Kronich is off the fucking turkey, to Fenerbahce, what a league by the way, the

669
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:21,280
Turkish league, but yes man I feel like it's taken a bit of a depressing turn, yes I have, I feel

670
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:30,720
like these are important points though, Tomori will be out for two months after an MRI highlighted

671
01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:40,640
puns helped me, a myotendinous lesion of the right femoral bicep, in other words a serious muscle

672
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:46,400
injury, he's looking at a minimum of two months out due to the severity of the problem now,

673
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:54,240
Cia and Kalulu are also out for the foreseeable future, Gabya has returned from his loan at

674
01:07:54,240 --> 01:08:04,080
VIA Real which is just sad, now Milan have been linked with Jakub Kibir and Clement Langley,

675
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:18,960
I like Kibir, he's at Arsenal right? Is he playing? I don't know, I think he's in and out,

676
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:24,320
I know Langley hasn't really been playing for us in Villa, that's a really good sign but who knows

677
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:29,680
it might prove to be a coup, maybe I mean any reinforcements we'll do at the back at the moment

678
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:43,440
and bring an update on Nick Bonucci from Rome, back at Milan, honestly I'd rather see Patrick

679
01:08:43,440 --> 01:08:51,840
Starr playing as a centre back than Bonucci, Milan del Gho from the arm, there's also Juan Miranda

680
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:57,120
from Betis which is a left back option where Milan are in desperate need for a backup for

681
01:08:57,120 --> 01:09:05,120
Teo Hernandez and then they're also interested in Seru, let me try this, Seru Gurasi, Seru

682
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:14,640
Gurasi is a 27 year old french 6 foot 2 striker who plays at Stuttgart, he's currently got 17 goals

683
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:20,320
in 14 matches, I also heard that Milan, listen to this, Milan weren't interested in getting

684
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:26,880
another striker because Jovic has been so good, Jovic is injured now, honestly this is a good one,

685
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:33,040
because how many times do the management, do they not learn, like you've got Jovic he hit

686
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:40,960
good form but the other guy is 37 years old, so like you know, I like by another striker you

687
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:48,400
should have three, like Okafor is barely fucking, he struggles so much with injuries and then you

688
01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:55,360
have Jovic okay, he's had four good weeks but don't forget the rest, yeah, Straderik what if he goes

689
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:59,280
back to that form, you know, bring in another striker, Milan clearly need a striker, but anyway,

690
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:07,440
yes please, yeah, but I mean that is the shambolic state that Milan are at the moment, naturally

691
01:10:07,440 --> 01:10:13,040
the next point I'm going to bring up is Piori, it almost seems done that he's not going to be Milan's

692
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:21,840
manager next season, we've heard four names which are such an upgrade for Milan and where they want

693
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:30,480
to be, stylistic updates, stylistically they are upgrades, but when it comes to achievements,

694
01:10:30,480 --> 01:10:35,280
they're all downgrades, well apart from one of them, but the rest are downgrades, I mean there's

695
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:42,320
Motta, okay, like you're saying from an achievement perspective it's hard to beat Piori since he won

696
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:49,040
the Scudetto at Milan, but Contel is the only one that would be an upgrade from that perspective,

697
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:54,960
but there's Motta, Deserbi and Contel, was there another one, there's a fourth one,

698
01:10:54,960 --> 01:11:01,280
I believe those were the names I've seen so, ah, about it, about as an interim, no,

699
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:09,440
I don't think at any point Milan suck Piori and employ about it because there are two ways that

700
01:11:09,440 --> 01:11:15,200
can go, one is he actually gives the bare minimum which would be a fourth place finish or an Europa

701
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:19,520
League fucking victory and for some reason they redeem Abate and then we're stuck, Milan are stuck

702
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:25,520
with Abate, we're for the foreseeable future which isn't exactly a good thing, granted I don't think

703
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:29,520
he's a terrible manager, he's a bad manager, I have no opinion of him as a manager because it's too

704
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:36,320
early to call, but ex players tend to be the most under qualified employees, yeah, that there are

705
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:44,320
when it comes to management, Contel would arrive, he would win the league within two seasons,

706
01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:51,440
probably immediately, win the league, but the problem is how he'll leave the club, you know,

707
01:11:51,440 --> 01:11:56,960
I think that Contel has shown that his strategy involves a lot of complaining, a lot of

708
01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:02,720
pushing and nagging for what he wants, what he wants is often short term, he doesn't really care

709
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:08,000
about developing youth, he cares about immediate results and he'll bring in players who are

710
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:12,000
fucking towards the end of their careers and he'll push for them to the point of developing

711
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:20,720
up an uninflated contract, you know, and it's not exactly ideal, he is the best candidate and he is

712
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:27,920
the only upgrade in theory from the coaches we've mentioned, however I would love the Zerbi or Mata,

713
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:33,120
literally I don't want to, yeah I would definitely love the Zerbi or Mata, those are the two ideals

714
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:40,560
because as well they're young progressive managers, you know, more suited for Milan style, you get

715
01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:47,760
that Gaghan press, you know, you get rapid counter attacking football as well, that's the dream,

716
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:53,920
that's the dream, Contel though just to not disagree with you on one thing, the way he leaves

717
01:12:53,920 --> 01:13:02,800
clubs, when he left Juve, Juve won six more scud at the NRO with or five, I don't know,

718
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:10,000
without Leagri and when he left Inter and they got in Zaghi, they've also seen success,

719
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:17,200
so it's not like this is gonna set Milan back, this decision will set Milan back ages, it actually

720
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:23,920
might give Milan some pull power, it might get Milan some, it is against Milan's values, no,

721
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:32,800
but what Milan's values are causing is inexperience within the same squad, you look at the way that

722
01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:37,840
Milan lined up and you look at the way Milan are lining up, it's a bunch of players that have never

723
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:44,480
played in Serie A before or else they're players that are still at Milan, no signings from the same

724
01:13:44,480 --> 01:13:52,720
league and so on so forth, so that philosophy does need tweaking, you can't just keep signing players

725
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:58,560
like that, you do need some experience and if Contel comes in and says, this one we're gonna

726
01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:04,640
sign a 30 year old midfielder or a 30 year old right wing back who used to be a striker or a

727
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:11,760
left winger two seasons ago, fuck it, fuck it, there are stages that you need to go through

728
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:17,280
in football to get back to the top and maybe this is one of them. Your point on the post

729
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:31,200
Conte era at Juve and at Inter is a very fair one, yes, good job, however Milan's history as well

730
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:38,480
another point against Conte is that Milan are always expected to do well in Europe, no?

731
01:14:39,440 --> 01:14:45,520
Yeah Conte doesn't do well in Europe at all, he's a domestic coach and I feel like since Milan

732
01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:51,440
overachieved and had an incredible season where they won the league, I don't feel like they're in a

733
01:14:51,440 --> 01:14:56,800
rush particularly to win the league again, I don't think they're desperate for a league when what I'm

734
01:14:56,800 --> 01:15:06,720
saying is I think they do afford to take a less, take more of a risk with the coaching selection

735
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:12,080
and bring in someone like Motta or Deserbi and give them what they want, these two coaches

736
01:15:12,080 --> 01:15:16,480
especially Deserbi, they haven't had players of the quality that there are at Milan right now

737
01:15:16,480 --> 01:15:20,640
and I like Deserbi because you know like Kevin Prince Boateng said you're not going to take the

738
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:26,880
piss with Deserbi, no, no, no, he is still such disciplined, he will fund such expressive football

739
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:32,720
man, he will fucking pull his pants down and scream in your face man, that's what he does,

740
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:36,960
so good luck not passing when there's that guy on the touch tonight and then Motta I feel like if

741
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:43,040
you give Motta a project for fucking five years he'll make a travel winning team, you know what I mean

742
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:47,680
so promising, I really like the way that Bologna can be pragmatic as well, not just beautifully

743
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:53,200
expressive but you know bringing Motta, bringing Xerxes as well, oh for sure 100%, bringing anyone

744
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:59,040
bringing Xerxes, bro I think we should really move on because we're fucking well over an hour in

745
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:08,640
and we're on game three is it? No, yes, no, game four, game four, okay next game you're sorry

746
01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:15,760
Milan are in third on 33 points, there are seven points behind Juve who are in second and they're

747
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:23,680
only two points ahead of Bologna in fourth and three points ahead of Fiorentina in fifth, here we go

748
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:30,240
Armila gonna make champions league, Salerno and Tyler dead last on nine points and one of those

749
01:16:30,240 --> 01:16:36,400
points came in this game, fuck this man, next, speaking of Thiago Motta speaking of Xerxes

750
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:44,320
speaking of fuck this, it's Bologna one, Atalanta nil, yes, for Bologna they were missing Saumauro

751
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:49,520
and Carlson, don't think that'd be too bothered, for Atalanta they were missing Palomino, Toloi

752
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:56,880
of course El Bilal, Toure and Vorliki, remember Vorliki we mentioned them once, I've never

753
01:16:56,880 --> 01:17:02,880
actually seen him play, but I have absolutely no recollection, come on we mentioned them once on

754
01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:07,920
the on the point and we laughed at his name, it could be Vorliki, I'm pretty sure it's perhaps

755
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:17,760
Vorliki, I prefer Vorliki, Skorupski was in goal for Bologna, the return of Skorupski after

756
01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:26,320
Ravallia, it was fucking fantastic, the opportunity he got he really really took it man, he was so

757
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:33,200
good, he even saved a lot of our penalty, yeah the interesting change over here in the Bologna 11

758
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:40,240
was that they started with John Lecoumi as the as the left back to provide a bit more defensive

759
01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:45,120
stability, yeah because you know you know we all know how Atalanta can be, they can overpower you,

760
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:50,880
that Froyle and Moro in the middle and Doi out on the right Salamacchus on the left Ferguson

761
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:56,560
and Zergsy playing up front, of course for Atalanta it was a 3-4-1-2 formation, huge

762
01:17:56,560 --> 01:18:02,240
wills of this time starting with Lecoumin and Decay Talara up front with Rue Gerry and Hatteber

763
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:08,640
out on the wings and Karnasekki in goal, yeah now this was this was kind of a chess match,

764
01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:13,680
that has to be said Atalanta dictated most of the play and occupied most of the possession,

765
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:18,800
Bologna seemed to want to hit on the counter attack, the game was decided by Lewis Ferguson's

766
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:24,960
late header in the 86th minute and Bologna climbed to fourth position defying Atalanta as

767
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:32,160
attempts in a game characterized by strategic maneuvering and scarce goal scoring opportunities.

768
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:41,440
Now both teams engaged in calculated passes and phases of play in the first half, there were

769
01:18:41,440 --> 01:18:47,840
sporadic attempts from Salamacchus and Lukman, Lukman and Kupminers failed to hit the target

770
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:54,640
with their opportunities and Skorupski did extremely well to save Ederson's 1v1, he also did very well

771
01:18:54,640 --> 01:19:01,680
to kind of come out and distract Lukman who failed to hit the target in a 1v1 so despite not saving

772
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:05,840
that Lukman opportunity when he was 1v1 he made himself big enough for Lukman to hit the target

773
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:14,560
so that counts as a save you know, yeah the second half witnessed early changes we saw Fabian replacing

774
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:19,280
Moro and immediately taking a shot off target it was quite a good opportunity to be honest

775
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:24,080
and Atalanta tried to mount the pressure with opportunities from Kupminers, Lukman and Decay

776
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:28,880
but they all failed to convert it was painful Lukman just couldn't hit the target, Decay didn't

777
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:33,600
have enough sting in his step Kupminers just kept getting unlucky with his header looping over

778
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:39,040
and then he had a ball coming in he would have just had to tap it in but out of nowhere Froyler

779
01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:44,240
the ex Atalanta man slides in and just gets the slightest touch on the ball to stop it from going

780
01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:53,040
to Kupminers yeah Bologna's offensive sparks emerged when Xerxes whenever Xerxes got the ball

781
01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:56,800
basically there was a point he got the ball you know he just glides left then he moves right

782
01:19:56,800 --> 01:20:02,000
then he glides forward you know he set up Fabian incredibly who missed a crucial chance yeah um

783
01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:06,880
yeah then there were tactical substitutions Muriel and Skamaka came on for Atalanta

784
01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:10,880
or Solini and Abousheh came on for Bologna and then the breakthrough arrived of course in the

785
01:20:10,880 --> 01:20:18,800
86 minute courtesy of a trademark fantastic incredible Orsulini corner absolutely bro

786
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:23,040
that's a hilarious thing by the way that story you said when you were preparing and everyone's

787
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:29,520
like oh this fantastic Orsulini corner like how fantastic is everyone saying like superb

788
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:37,440
how can corner by Orsulini how good can it be man it's a corner you know it was fun I

789
01:20:37,440 --> 01:20:41,680
I didn't even I hadn't even watched the highlights that I told you Jay comes to this apparently

790
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:48,480
there's a spectacular corner where they were like oh that's a corner you know and then this

791
01:20:48,480 --> 01:20:54,560
time it was another fucking incredible corner to find Ferguson's head who netted the goal he was

792
01:20:54,560 --> 01:21:01,840
marked by Scalvini by the way yeah yeah yeah interesting to to to know it uh-huh no no Scalvini

793
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:08,080
as much as obviously we rave about him especially me because of his style of play and what he's

794
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:15,440
capable of doing moving forward remember he's a 19 year old guy playing as a as a center back

795
01:21:15,440 --> 01:21:23,040
and that still needs to brush up a lot defensively of course this has a lot of work to do defensively

796
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:28,080
but he shows great promise yeah he's lucky it's uh he's he's the perfect center back for a three at

797
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:34,240
the back I feel and perfect within his age and within his capabilities naturally there was a

798
01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:41,120
moment man he got the ball um on the opponent's byline the way he kept it in he looked like a

799
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:46,720
fucking winger or something yeah he's so technically and he's good man he's really really good especially

800
01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:52,960
going forward kind of reminds me of the Bastoni mode you know when it comes to advancing it's like

801
01:21:53,760 --> 01:21:59,760
the worst back three defensively that you could have because it always be in the opposition box

802
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:06,640
would consist of Bastoni Martinez Cuarta and and Scalvini yeah they would never defend you know

803
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:14,240
it's true it's true he's buying the mode in Italy had had contact taken over Italy

804
01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:22,880
um he'd have Scalvini and Bastoni on rotation probably for sure there are two perfect center

805
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:29,520
backs for for that system man you I don't feel like you could play them both though no unless you

806
01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:36,640
you change it up you know one of them stays back yeah you know maybe Bastoni is quite good from

807
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:42,000
playing balls from deep well Scalvini is very good at holding up a play on the other yeah yeah

808
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:47,600
but anyways more about the history was made bro this game um Ferguson's match winning header

809
01:22:49,120 --> 01:22:57,760
made him the highest ever goal scoring scott in Serie A oh wow okay yeah he's now scored 11 goals

810
01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:07,280
in Italy's top flight overtaking Dennis Law's record set at Torino in 1961 1961 okay go Lewis

811
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:12,800
go Lewis it's your birthday it's your birthday yo no it's very good for scottish football as well

812
01:23:12,800 --> 01:23:18,400
that they have players playing very well in Italy of course we saw Josh Doig um Hickey was playing

813
01:23:18,400 --> 01:23:27,680
very well at Bologna I imagine Hickey still at Bologna but yeah um when it comes to this game

814
01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:33,840
of course I did some digging by the way on Xerxes to see what his contract situations like because

815
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:39,280
nice because he was obviously owned by by Munich and initially loaned out right but then he was

816
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:46,720
actually bought right by by Bologna however there are conflicting reports there's build in Germany

817
01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:54,720
the newspaper they claim that Bayern have a 20 to 25 million buyback clause while Gadzetta de los

818
01:23:54,720 --> 01:24:04,000
sport claim that um he has a 40 they have a 40 million euro buyback clause either way he's so

819
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:11,520
gonna fucking end up at Bayern Munich a man yeah vice-cain um they also have however very important

820
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:17,760
to know there's a 50 percent resale clause as well so if a massive offer comes in they might push for

821
01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:24,720
it you know would they rather me uh fair enough so they could make 20 million for if they sell if

822
01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:30,800
if someone buys him for 40 million Bologna by the way got him for 8 million crazy man so good business

823
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:36,400
yeah very good business um John LeCoumin who started as a left back for Bologna a bit of information

824
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:44,080
on him um he's been at Bologna since 2022 he has 32 appearances he's a Colombian international

825
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:49,520
he's six foot one and he's 25 years old that's John LeCoumin thank you very much brother for that no

826
01:24:49,520 --> 01:24:54,640
problem well Ferguson the spotlight was on him earlier on it's 24 years old okay um he started

827
01:24:54,640 --> 01:25:01,360
his career with Hamilton Academica moved to Aberdeen where he played 132 games and scored 27

828
01:25:01,360 --> 01:25:07,600
goals and moved to Bologna in 2022 he's been featuring for the scottish scottish international

829
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:12,240
team since 2021 and has played 10 games for them so it's definitely uphill in his career from here

830
01:25:12,240 --> 01:25:18,960
loose Ferguson and I expect international recognition for him yeah yeah okay but yes this is but we sorry

831
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:26,000
sorry please let's we forget Calafiori it's just 21 years old absolutely and Calafiori

832
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:32,320
don't forget um Roma could use a player like him yeah um but I think of course Mota managed to

833
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:37,040
bring something out of this player that possibly he didn't even know existed exactly converting him

834
01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:43,120
into a center back but yes as I mentioned earlier Mota has this this ability to win games like a

835
01:25:44,160 --> 01:25:50,400
like a seasoned top team he makes his team look like a cool calm experienced team where they can

836
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:55,120
get hit to all game but then they'll sucker punch you at the end of the game and that will be enough

837
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:59,840
for them to win it you know man this is this is a shot's on goal Bologna sorry to interrupt you again

838
01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:05,840
I'm horrible I'm gonna punch you in the face one one shot on goal for Bologna this game that's what

839
01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:11,840
it takes that that that's like this doesn't even piss me off like when a team never doesn't deserve to

840
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:18,160
win when it's a tight game like that um probably at Al-Anta where where the more convincing team

841
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:22,880
in the game and Bologna get to get away with a victory over there that's a fucking team that's

842
01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:26,880
fighting for Europe man that's a team that's fighting for you there's a game you don't deserve

843
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:34,720
win it anyway absolutely man yeah and this is a great maturity yeah this is a piping hot at Al-Anta

844
01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:44,080
by the way yeah because thank you so much Christ headphone users be with you because they beat Milan

845
01:26:44,080 --> 01:26:49,040
3 2 and then they beat Salah and Etana 4 1 and obviously there was that midweek where they beat

846
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:55,840
the Rakov 4 nil as well yeah so it's not like it's an out of sorts at Al-Anta it's a strong

847
01:26:55,840 --> 01:27:01,520
at Al-Anta team that they beat absolutely absolutely man um pardon by the way we must

848
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:07,280
sound terrible right now we've been sick Christmas time everyone in the world has been so have you

849
01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:13,680
seen this conspiracy yeah the cough the cough people in New York have the cough and and people in

850
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:19,120
fucking Malta have the cough what's funny is that I never noticed that coughs were different I saw

851
01:27:19,120 --> 01:27:26,400
there was a cough it's like once I went to a festival I had zigged the amount of dust there was

852
01:27:27,040 --> 01:27:31,520
a fucking bathroom in the morning I'd be taking my shower everyone around me

853
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:38,080
coughing and spitting it was like I was in a fucking god I don't even know man it's like I was at war

854
01:27:38,080 --> 01:27:45,680
I'll see you somewhere in that shower yeah having too good a time oh jeez but no what we're talking

855
01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:51,920
about um Bologna are in fourth with 31 points while Al-Anta are in eighth with 26 months

856
01:27:52,480 --> 01:28:00,480
Monza nil Fiorentina won some notable absentees for both teams Nico Gonzalez, Giacomo B-blah

857
01:28:00,480 --> 01:28:06,560
Jesus let me start that again Nico Gonzalez, Giacomo Bonaventura, Lucas Martinez, Quarta,

858
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:14,000
Gretao Castrovilli and Dodo all out for Fiorentina while Andrea Carboni, Gianluca Caprari and Papugomes

859
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:14,040
Gretao Castrovilli and Dodo all out for Fiorentina while Andrea Carboni Gianluca Caprari and Papugomes

860
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:31,560
Gretao Castrovilli and Dodo all out for Fiorentina while Andrea Carboni Gianluca Caprari and Papugomes naturally for Monza a lot of injuries so I am going to go through the lineup for Fiorentina

861
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:20,400
naturally for Monza a lot of injuries so I am going to go through the lineup for Fiorentina

862
01:28:14,040 --> 01:28:20,360
naturally for Monza a lot of injuries so I am going to go through the lineup for Fiorentina

863
01:28:31,560 --> 01:28:58,560
and Papugomes naturally for Monza a lot of injuries so I am going to go through the lineup for Fiorentina

864
01:28:58,560 --> 01:29:27,560
and Papugomes naturally for Monza a lot of injuries so I am going to go through the lineup for Fiorentina

865
01:29:27,560 --> 01:29:56,560
and Papugomes naturally for Monza a lot of injuries so I am going to go through the lineup for Fiorentina

866
01:29:56,560 --> 01:30:25,560
and Papugomes naturally for Monza a lot of injuries so I am going to go through the lineup for Fiorentina

867
01:30:25,560 --> 01:30:54,560
and Papugomes naturally for Monza a lot of injuries so I am going to go through the lineup for Fiorentina

868
01:30:54,560 --> 01:31:01,640
top scorer who was forced into playing the pass. In the second half, Colombo and Turia

869
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:09,520
came on for Monza and in Zola replaced Beltran for fear and Tina. That will fix absolutely

870
01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:14,840
everything. In the 48 minute Turia is in Swinging Dangerous Cross found Kiryakopolis

871
01:31:14,840 --> 01:31:19,920
who missed the target after arriving late. But after that there wasn't anything notable

872
01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:27,480
that I found to include in the run down. Technically this is a 1-0 victory for fear and Tina who

873
01:31:27,480 --> 01:31:36,480
got a goal very early on and they managed to maintain the result. I think that personally

874
01:31:36,480 --> 01:31:42,920
Monza played a very good game defensively and it did take that one uncharacteristically

875
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:46,120
error to give fear and Tina the opportunity to score.

876
01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:50,120
Yes and Monza seemed to have lost a little bit of their sting haven't they recently?

877
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:55,840
They've not been on a good run of form by their standards. I feel like Colpani's form

878
01:31:55,840 --> 01:32:02,120
has kind of dipped as well and it's just not quite ticking for them going together. I can't

879
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:07,440
quite place what the problem is. I noticed that this was a five at the back start for

880
01:32:07,440 --> 01:32:08,440
Monza.

881
01:32:08,440 --> 01:32:11,440
Yeah, well, three-five to be honest.

882
01:32:11,440 --> 01:32:16,320
They're very defensive minded players. They're not the quickest when you see Pereira and

883
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:19,360
Kiryakopolis. They're not the type that are going to bomb up and down always.

884
01:32:19,360 --> 01:32:24,880
That's right, but Kiryakopolis had two opportunities to score. He was bombing forward.

885
01:32:24,880 --> 01:32:31,280
Yes, naturally he will always, but even if you look at the heat map it's mostly in this

886
01:32:31,280 --> 01:32:32,280
half.

887
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:33,280
Yeah, that's true.

888
01:32:33,280 --> 01:32:36,880
And the same thing with Pereira. He was barely on the ball to be honest, but when he was

889
01:32:36,880 --> 01:32:43,800
at that halfway line. But yeah, they do need to sort themselves out. On the other hand,

890
01:32:43,800 --> 01:32:47,800
Fiorentina got a moment of luck, took it and managed to hold on.

891
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:56,520
Yeah, pretty much. A lot of injuries for Fiorentina, which obviously influenced the slightly weaker

892
01:32:56,520 --> 01:33:02,600
performance that Fiorentina had over here and why they didn't play that sexier brand

893
01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:09,360
of football they typically used to playing, albeit they haven't really done that all season.

894
01:33:09,360 --> 01:33:14,960
But I was really hoping that Monza would take advantage of that and just let loose a little

895
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:20,360
bit more, attack a little bit more, have a bit more bite. They attempted to do that in

896
01:33:20,360 --> 01:33:26,720
the second half by changing the formation to a 3-4-3, bringing on Colombo and Churia.

897
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:31,600
But Fiorentina did well defensively. They did well to maintain the 1-0.

898
01:33:31,600 --> 01:33:39,360
Yeah, absolutely. I don't know if Monza will make any moves in the market and I wonder honestly

899
01:33:39,360 --> 01:33:43,800
coming into the season what their ambitions were. Do they want to finish mid-table or

900
01:33:43,800 --> 01:33:48,440
do they want to push for Europe? How on track are they with their ambitions? That's something

901
01:33:48,440 --> 01:33:55,640
I'm curious to know. And I guess the way Palladino will speak in the coming months will reveal

902
01:33:55,640 --> 01:33:59,840
that. And we'll see what happens to him at the end of the season as well because he's

903
01:33:59,840 --> 01:34:03,280
a very good manager. Yeah, he is. And he has been playing a nice

904
01:34:03,280 --> 01:34:11,360
brand of football. However, this loss marks Monza's sixth in Serie A this season. Naturally,

905
01:34:11,360 --> 01:34:19,440
let's forget this is their second season in Serie A. Ever. And they're doing alright.

906
01:34:19,440 --> 01:34:24,320
They're doing fine. And keep in mind that last season they managed to finish quite high

907
01:34:24,320 --> 01:34:29,200
up when they had that dreadful start to the season. They were in the opening seven matches.

908
01:34:29,200 --> 01:34:32,640
We were saying they're potentially the worst team in the league at the moment. We said

909
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:39,240
that they'd pick up so on and so forth. But they've had a better start than they did then.

910
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:47,240
So they could aim for top ten. Absolutely. That's because Berlusconi had decided to stick

911
01:34:47,240 --> 01:34:53,080
with the manager who promoted them, who got them promoted through the playoffs. I can't

912
01:34:53,080 --> 01:34:56,280
quite remember his name at the moment. No, not even me.

913
01:34:56,280 --> 01:35:00,440
However, then Palladino took over as an interim manager and proved to be a very good candidate

914
01:35:00,440 --> 01:35:03,800
to remain. And he has stayed and Monza are building something beautiful. So let's not

915
01:35:03,800 --> 01:35:09,320
let that distract us. Yep. Well said, Monza are in eleventh on

916
01:35:09,320 --> 01:35:15,160
twenty-one points, while Sfjörntina are in fifth on thirty points, just one point behind

917
01:35:15,160 --> 01:35:22,000
Bologna. L'Otzja took on Empoli away from home and won two nil. And this was a pivotal

918
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:27,760
away victory for them because they were on a two month winless streak on the road.

919
01:35:27,760 --> 01:35:34,240
L'Otzja. Whoa. They were missing. Well, not they were missing. Two key players fell injured

920
01:35:34,240 --> 01:35:38,720
during the game in Mobile and Luis Alberto. And this obviously affected the continuity

921
01:35:38,720 --> 01:35:43,520
of the game, but they managed to prevail and to do well, of course. So Empoli were missing

922
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:49,280
their hitman Kaputa up front, while L'Otzja were missing Lazzari and Roman Uoli coming

923
01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:55,760
into this game. It was a 4-3-3 against a 4-3-3. And L'Otzja started the game quite assertively

924
01:35:55,760 --> 01:36:00,640
and Gwendouzi broke the deadlock just nine minutes in capitalizing on a chaotic goal

925
01:36:00,640 --> 01:36:07,200
mouth scramble, which involved Luis Alberto shot being cleared off the line by L'Opeto.

926
01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:11,960
Okay, then L'Otzja on the mobile fell injured in the twenty-second and twenty-fifth minute,

927
01:36:11,960 --> 01:36:18,000
leading to substitutions. They brought on, well, Sardari brought on Kamada and Castellanias.

928
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:22,000
I was going to call Kamada, Kamada. It happens to me so much, bro.

929
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:28,000
It's thrown an R there. I want to talk about both these Kamada and Castellanias, not because

930
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:33,120
they did anything, but because of two observations. I'll mention them later on. So Empoli seized

931
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:37,680
the chance to mount the comeback, pressuring L'Otzja's defense, but provided incredible

932
01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:40,560
saves and stopped them from equalizing. He was a wall this game.

933
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:44,880
Yeah, Sofa score gave him an 8.9 rating for a goalkeeper.

934
01:36:44,880 --> 01:36:48,640
He was incredible. So second half as Heroics continued.

935
01:36:48,640 --> 01:36:53,200
He denied Kambi Aghi, Maldini, Fazini. By the way, I did not know Maldini was this good.

936
01:36:53,200 --> 01:36:59,280
Maldini had a very good game. He had a very good game. It's very involved in this game.

937
01:36:59,280 --> 01:37:05,440
The second goal came in the sixty-seventh minute through Mathias Zakanny and it took his third

938
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:11,520
attempt, third rebound to score. And if you just watched Kamada on the line,

939
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:18,240
you can see that he doesn't even smile, he doesn't even blink, he doesn't even react when

940
01:37:18,240 --> 01:37:24,400
Zakanny scores that goal. It's fucking weird. It's weird.

941
01:37:25,920 --> 01:37:31,280
Not even a yes. Yeah, nothing. Nothing. Fuck. No reaction. No reaction.

942
01:37:31,280 --> 01:37:36,720
Zero. Super, super strange. Almost like that multi-stick talker that eats really spicy food.

943
01:37:36,720 --> 01:37:45,360
No reaction. No reaction. No reaction. No reaction. Kamada. That's Kamada. No reaction to Zakanny's goal.

944
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:50,240
And yes, I wanted to highlight Castellani, because at the end of the game, he missed the one on one

945
01:37:50,240 --> 01:37:56,640
and he fucking ruined the opportunity to make a pun that Castellani scored at the Castellani.

946
01:37:56,640 --> 01:38:01,600
Oh my god. I didn't manage to do it. He needs to wait another entire season.

947
01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:06,960
So yes, expertly done by Lazio. I think that Providell deserves a heap of praise over here,

948
01:38:06,960 --> 01:38:13,680
because he was absolutely fantastic. You look at Spalletti's job right now with Italy.

949
01:38:13,680 --> 01:38:19,440
He's got to choose between Di Gregorio, Vicario, Donnarumma and Providell. He can only call up

950
01:38:19,440 --> 01:38:25,680
three. Who's he calling up? Say them again. Donnarumma, Providell, Vicario, Di Gregorio.

951
01:38:25,680 --> 01:38:34,880
He will call up. Meret and Meret and Meret. What he will do, Meret, no. He's not that good this

952
01:38:34,880 --> 01:38:41,280
season. Spalletti knows him from Napoli. But fuck that. This isn't a friend business.

953
01:38:42,160 --> 01:38:47,440
He's going to call up Donnarumma, Vicario, Providell. I think he should call up Donnarumma,

954
01:38:47,440 --> 01:38:53,120
Vicario, Di Gregorio. That's what I think. But he'll call up Providell.

955
01:38:53,120 --> 01:38:59,760
He'll call up Meret. For sure he'll call up Meret. Of course, of course. God forbid. Meret

956
01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:06,080
really hasn't been special this season. I mean, he's been okay. He's been nowhere on the other

957
01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:13,360
ones levels. Nowhere, nowhere near. But yeah, I still think he'll call him up. But yeah. As per

958
01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:20,880
the standings. Let's give him a sec guys, don't worry. Ampolis hit the 19th with 12 points,

959
01:39:20,880 --> 01:39:28,880
while Lazio hit the 9th with 24 points. Sasuolo won Genoa 2. Can we call this a

960
01:39:28,880 --> 01:39:36,160
relegation battle? Yeah, you can. I guess. Why not? Genoa secured a crucial comeback in this game,

961
01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:41,840
winning 2-1. Sasuolo faced defensive issues, continuing their trend of conceding in every

962
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:47,600
match this season. Sasuolo haven't kept a clean sheet this season.

963
01:39:47,600 --> 01:39:55,520
Genoa's Retegui, Messias and Kutlu were unavailable, while Sasuolo missed Berardi,

964
01:39:55,520 --> 01:40:03,040
Defrel, Viti, Rakic, Augustine Alvarez and Pedro Obyang. Castillo started in place of Berardi,

965
01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:08,400
and Ecoban started in place of Retegui. In the 28th minute, Pinamonte opened the

966
01:40:08,400 --> 01:40:13,440
scoring against his former team after a counterattack led by Lauri Ante. The French man did

967
01:40:13,440 --> 01:40:18,960
very well to break away, but almost fucked it at the end due to a soft pass to Pinamonte,

968
01:40:18,960 --> 01:40:23,920
putting the striker on their backs of pressure from Genoa's backtracking defenders. Pinamonte

969
01:40:23,920 --> 01:40:30,800
did well, although Dragosin did manage to get a significant touch. By the way, Sasuolo have some

970
01:40:30,800 --> 01:40:40,080
new fans. They took a bunch of school kids out, which is such a smart thing to do. It's a great

971
01:40:40,080 --> 01:40:45,200
thing to do their first cultural experience, because Sasuolo really secures a couple of fans

972
01:40:45,200 --> 01:40:52,160
for the future, but it was Hileis. You see Milan's fans with the kurva fucking chanting like a bunch

973
01:40:52,160 --> 01:40:57,920
of army men, and you see when Sasuolo scored, yeah, just a bunch of kids celebrating.

974
01:40:57,920 --> 01:41:02,480
They have the players celebrating, and the fans to the crowd, and their children are green-hot.

975
01:41:02,480 --> 01:41:10,640
They were losing their minds, understand? It was fucking funny, man, go on, watch it, guys.

976
01:41:10,640 --> 01:41:14,880
It's like what you don't expect to see, like with the camera, fans of the fans, and their children.

977
01:41:14,880 --> 01:41:20,080
I do think it's a good idea to get some kids involved. In the 44th minute,

978
01:41:20,080 --> 01:41:24,800
Martinez denied Henrique brilliantly following a square pass by Lauri Ante from the byline.

979
01:41:24,800 --> 01:41:30,000
In the 55th minute, Concili denied Goodman's in a 1v1 scenario, great save by Concili.

980
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:34,640
In the 63rd minute, Goodman scored from the spot following

981
01:41:35,280 --> 01:41:41,680
VAR spotting a clumsy, early handball in the box. His hand was up when the cross was coming in,

982
01:41:41,680 --> 01:41:48,000
so he essentially punched the ball in the nice one, early. Possibly early, who knows?

983
01:41:49,280 --> 01:41:56,000
I don't care. I don't care if it's early or early. Do you care if it's simic or simic? Yes,

984
01:41:56,000 --> 01:42:04,880
and it's simic. Thank you, Lana. So with with early or early, do you care? Bro,

985
01:42:04,880 --> 01:42:13,840
have you seen him play? In any of the three Saswolo centrebacks, Ruan, Ehrlich, and Ferrari,

986
01:42:14,560 --> 01:42:22,800
I don't care. I don't even want to talk about Saswolo's defense. I don't because it's not even like

987
01:42:22,800 --> 01:42:29,920
they keep a man onside by accident or fucking, I don't know, they fail to make a tackle or they

988
01:42:29,920 --> 01:42:38,000
make a genuine mistake. But they're all like just clumsy, stupid fuck ups every time. I don't know

989
01:42:38,000 --> 01:42:42,720
how anyone stands it. I don't know how Mintoff hasn't stopped supporting Saswolo because it's

990
01:42:42,720 --> 01:42:48,720
ridiculous. It's an illness. It's ingrained in them. Everyone that they get as a centreback is

991
01:42:48,720 --> 01:42:54,400
fucking up and fucking up and fucking up. You put your hand up like that across this coming in.

992
01:42:54,400 --> 01:42:59,920
What is this, bro? Season one, I had made a joke, what is this? Pallon water. It was one of them.

993
01:42:59,920 --> 01:43:04,880
Like, bro, it's the same shit. It's the same shit all the time with them. Dionysio must be the next

994
01:43:04,880 --> 01:43:12,160
manager out. Yes, let me just finish the play by play 86 minutes. Ekuban banged in the winner

995
01:43:12,160 --> 01:43:16,720
after beating Ehrlich to the ball in a counterattack and finishing powerfully into the bottom corner.

996
01:43:16,720 --> 01:43:21,600
That's his first goal in 90s matches. I'm so happy for him. Ekuban has been good.

997
01:43:21,600 --> 01:43:27,120
It's his first goal since Barry. Not done, man. He scored against Barry in a 4-3 victory last season.

998
01:43:27,120 --> 01:43:34,720
Not done, no. Yeah, his first goal in 19 matches, literally. But he assisted Goodminton in the last

999
01:43:34,720 --> 01:43:39,760
game and he scored an important winner over here. It's obviously rare for a newly promoted team to

1000
01:43:39,760 --> 01:43:46,160
get three points in the season, so Ekuban should be happy with that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

1001
01:43:46,160 --> 01:43:51,840
Now they have Inter next. So let's see if Khaled can keep it up. Yeah, yeah. Are Saswolo regressing

1002
01:43:51,840 --> 01:43:56,800
the same way Verona were regressing a couple of seasons ago? That's very interesting. I think

1003
01:43:56,800 --> 01:44:01,040
they're investing more, granted. It's nothing spectacular, but they are bringing in players.

1004
01:44:01,040 --> 01:44:06,320
Hellas Verona didn't really make any investments and now news has come out that they're facing

1005
01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:10,000
bankruptcy. It's not looking good for them at all. They were selling and selling and selling,

1006
01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:14,480
just weakening and weakening and weakening. Saswolo, granted, are not as strong as they once were.

1007
01:44:14,480 --> 01:44:19,440
But the players they have are young and do have a good markup value. The worst thing that could

1008
01:44:19,440 --> 01:44:24,400
happen to Saswolo right now is relegation and they have to sell these fucking players that they

1009
01:44:24,400 --> 01:44:30,480
invested in for a cheat. Exactly. Honestly, they need to see what they're going to do. I think

1010
01:44:30,480 --> 01:44:35,920
they need a new manager. I do think that they need a new manager. Will that save them? I think

1011
01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:41,440
they have a good enough team to be saved the same way Verona had a good team two seasons ago though.

1012
01:44:41,440 --> 01:44:46,720
And then you look at this squad that they have and it's unrecognizable. And I do think that

1013
01:44:46,720 --> 01:44:51,680
that could really happen with Saswolo. They could fall off and fall off and fall off. And it's

1014
01:44:51,680 --> 01:44:58,240
not like they're an incredibly marketed team with a lot of appeal for people to join. So I think

1015
01:44:58,240 --> 01:45:04,560
Saswolo are regressing into a Serie B team again, slowly, slowly. Sorry if you've mentioned

1016
01:45:04,560 --> 01:45:12,000
the Serdee. What was Baraday? Injured, flu. Flu. In January. Convenient. Very convenient.

1017
01:45:13,600 --> 01:45:20,400
Pinamonte the season has been better. Thumbs up and smiley face. He's actually been himself

1018
01:45:20,400 --> 01:45:26,160
for Saswolo. He has been a bright point for them. And Genoa props to their counter attacking

1019
01:45:26,160 --> 01:45:30,240
football man. On the break they are fucking dangerous. They could hold their own. They hit

1020
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:38,160
you on the break and they could get you. Saswolo are in 15th place on 16 points. There are three

1021
01:45:38,160 --> 01:45:44,720
points ahead of 18th place Kalyari while Genoa are in 13th place on 19 points.

1022
01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:52,400
Yeah. Hellas Verona beat Kalyari Tunel. I was not expecting that. I know right. Verona of course

1023
01:45:52,400 --> 01:46:00,560
were missing Farani, Rustic and Serda while Kalyari were missing Rogosho Mordov and Capradossi.

1024
01:46:01,200 --> 01:46:05,520
Basically look this is how the game went. I'm going to give you the raw version.

1025
01:46:06,560 --> 01:46:12,960
So the game started and Kalyari were all over them. They were wasteful but they were dominant.

1026
01:46:12,960 --> 01:46:18,400
They were all over Hellas Verona and the game was only looking to go one way. In the 51st minute

1027
01:46:18,400 --> 01:46:26,480
Makumbu gets his second yellow card and is sent off. In the 53rd minute just two minutes later

1028
01:46:26,480 --> 01:46:33,200
Cyril and Gonsh hits on the break and scores. At this point in the 59th minute

1029
01:46:33,200 --> 01:46:41,200
Ranieri decides to bring on Lovumbo to try to do something. But because of the fact that he benches

1030
01:46:41,200 --> 01:46:45,200
Lovumbo to start the game. We actually praised this decision. You bring him on when everyone

1031
01:46:45,200 --> 01:46:52,160
started and he's even better than he would genuinely be. In this game it showed that he was wasted.

1032
01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:56,640
Because had you started off the game when Kalyari were piling up that pressure and he had a player

1033
01:46:56,640 --> 01:47:01,680
like Zito Lovumbo over there you would have got a goal and the first half for sure. But the problem

1034
01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:05,280
is in the second half you got a red card and then you brought him on. So it's a waste. It's a waste.

1035
01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:09,040
You're playing a man down and then your best player has come on and has to do the running

1036
01:47:09,040 --> 01:47:15,680
for two people. So it's actually an advantage. I'm not a massive fan of keeping tricks up your

1037
01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:21,760
sleeve and doing this and that. I think in a game against Verona maybe you do that against Inter

1038
01:47:21,760 --> 01:47:28,800
for example. Keep something up your sleeve and then shock because you need to do something special

1039
01:47:28,800 --> 01:47:35,200
against the bigger teams. But against Verona you get a goal in the first half courtesy of Zito

1040
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:40,240
Lovumbo or you get a couple of goals in the first half and that's game one. I think he just wanted

1041
01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:46,800
to introduce a gear in the second half that Helas Verona literally didn't have. Fair enough. But

1042
01:47:46,800 --> 01:47:53,680
yeah it bit him in the ass definitely. It was impressive how Kalyari started the game though

1043
01:47:53,680 --> 01:47:57,840
all they were lacking was the goal. They were playing really well. And Vard, they did actually

1044
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:04,480
score but Vard is allowed for offside. It was goal Daniga. Yeah. Jürich and then eventually

1045
01:48:04,480 --> 01:48:10,480
later on Mr. Heder was well saved by Skoufet who looks like Kranjo. I would say that. And then

1046
01:48:10,480 --> 01:48:15,760
later on Umbula did really well driving down the wing. He chopped inside, played the ball to

1047
01:48:15,760 --> 01:48:22,160
Jürich who calmly placed it into the bottom corner for Helas Verona to beat Kalyari to near.

1048
01:48:22,160 --> 01:48:27,840
Yeah big win for Verona man. Verona were in need of this and then a relegation six-pointer.

1049
01:48:27,840 --> 01:48:33,360
You're kidding me man. Super important victory for them. Yes and they currently find themselves

1050
01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:40,560
in 16th with 14 points while Kalyari are down 18th with 13 points. The relegation battle

1051
01:48:40,560 --> 01:48:47,920
has intensified and in January we'll get a clear idea of what's gonna happen. Yep yep. Torino won

1052
01:48:47,920 --> 01:48:55,120
Udines won. Torino had Bellanova, Linnetti, Inguesson and Schurz out injured Udines. I feel

1053
01:48:55,120 --> 01:49:00,080
like they've had the same fucking seven players out injured for the entire season. Bujol, Brenner,

1054
01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:07,760
Davis, Delafeuille, Bosse and Semedo. Payero naturally suspended after he got a red card in the

1055
01:49:07,760 --> 01:49:17,200
last match against Aswolo in the 2-2 draw. Early attempts Torino initiated several attacks early

1056
01:49:17,200 --> 01:49:24,720
on. They started the game off way stronger than Udines. This Zapata Sanabria thing up front is

1057
01:49:24,720 --> 01:49:29,920
proving to be super effective. I think it gives Torino some flair and it gives them a lot of

1058
01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:36,240
muscle up front and yeah it's working pretty well. Sylvester made a crucial save on Vlasic's

1059
01:49:36,240 --> 01:49:40,720
attempt in the 4th minute. There were chances for both teams throughout the match but both teams

1060
01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:45,040
struggled to break through each other's lines of defense. Illich had some shots from distance but

1061
01:49:45,040 --> 01:49:52,160
nothing to write home about. Udines took a shock lead through substitute Zaraga in the 80th minute

1062
01:49:52,160 --> 01:49:57,360
capitalizing on a defensive lapse. Zaraga's cushioned volley of Ferreira's cross went through

1063
01:49:57,360 --> 01:50:02,240
the gloves of Vania and into the back of the net. Could keep her down better? My opinion, yes,

1064
01:50:03,040 --> 01:50:07,360
I don't think it should go down as an error as certain articles said it was when it's that

1065
01:50:07,360 --> 01:50:15,840
fucking close to the goal. You can't ask for much. In a twist of fate, Illich's T-Rocross

1066
01:50:15,840 --> 01:50:21,120
looped over Sylvester in the 88th minute leading to Torino's late equalizer. The goal, although

1067
01:50:21,120 --> 01:50:27,200
possibly unintentional, secured a deserved draw for Torino, throughout this game I do think that

1068
01:50:27,200 --> 01:50:35,120
Torino were significantly better than Udines and I think they deserved much more from this game.

1069
01:50:36,400 --> 01:50:42,160
It's just that finishing touch sometimes despite having those two strikers up front for them

1070
01:50:42,880 --> 01:50:50,320
isn't there for Torino. Like they dominated possession, 65% ball possession. But to be

1071
01:50:50,320 --> 01:50:55,600
honest man, props to Udines's defense. They had a very good game. It's a combination of two things,

1072
01:50:55,600 --> 01:51:00,320
right? It's the same problem that Torino have faced all season, which Udines admitted to the

1073
01:51:00,320 --> 01:51:04,320
fact that there's a missing piece and his side can't seem to get the goals they need to close

1074
01:51:04,320 --> 01:51:10,400
games out. And on the other hand, Udines proved to be such a compact side and so were they getting

1075
01:51:10,400 --> 01:51:14,160
draws man. So it was never going to be. This had draw written all over it from the beginning.

1076
01:51:14,160 --> 01:51:20,320
Yeah, Torino, Udines, you probably put a draw on that knowing you and your...

1077
01:51:20,320 --> 01:51:21,600
Yeah, you know me, bro.

1078
01:51:21,600 --> 01:51:30,000
You know me, baby. You know how it is. Yeah. But honestly, props to the defense of Udines with

1079
01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:36,160
Joao Ferreira, New Empires and Thomas Christensen. They did put in a very solid performance over

1080
01:51:36,160 --> 01:51:42,960
there. They weren't giving Duván Zapata in any space, time or anything. They were on him like

1081
01:51:42,960 --> 01:51:48,560
the plague. Dude, one point I wanted to make about Udines. I think they should go for a 4-3-3

1082
01:51:48,560 --> 01:51:55,520
manager. They have so many technically gifted players. They've got Lorenzo, look up frontman.

1083
01:51:55,520 --> 01:52:01,920
You've got the likes of Ferreira, Samard Zitsch. You know, honestly, I think it could work.

1084
01:52:01,920 --> 01:52:06,880
I think it could work. Yeah, it seems like, aha. You're probably right. I agree with you there.

1085
01:52:06,880 --> 01:52:13,760
4-3-3 Ferreira out on the right. I'm not quite sure that half as a left winger.

1086
01:52:13,760 --> 01:52:22,240
That's you. Well, they will eventually have Duván. They have many technical gifted players.

1087
01:52:22,240 --> 01:52:27,280
They even have Papundis. Simone Papundis. Papundis. Very great. Put them out there. Why not?

1088
01:52:28,160 --> 01:52:31,840
Many of the likes of, you know, you can easily find three midfielders over here.

1089
01:52:31,840 --> 01:52:37,360
Yeah, but I think what Udines I want to do over here with this 3 at the back, this isn't an

1090
01:52:37,360 --> 01:52:44,000
inter 3 at the back. You know what I mean? This is fucking defensive city with three center backs.

1091
01:52:45,040 --> 01:52:48,160
We don't want to do anything. We just want to play in Serie A.

1092
01:52:49,280 --> 01:52:53,760
Exactly. That's where the Neusers are right now. How crazy when you think about it, man.

1093
01:52:53,760 --> 01:52:59,520
A year ago, today, they had that start to the season that they did and now they find themselves in

1094
01:52:59,520 --> 01:53:04,720
this situation. They're all a fur, bro. My God, literally, bro. It's they're all a fur. So important.

1095
01:53:04,720 --> 01:53:08,960
It can be so good when he's fit. I just wonder if he'll ever be the same again.

1096
01:53:08,960 --> 01:53:12,480
I mean, at that age, following all those injuries, how does that affect now?

1097
01:53:12,480 --> 01:53:15,200
He's not even that old, but he must be 34, you know.

1098
01:53:15,200 --> 01:53:18,480
He's weak from his injuries. What the fuck? He said it himself.

1099
01:53:18,480 --> 01:53:24,960
He's 29. Yeah, he's not old, bro. He just has a terrible injury record, man.

1100
01:53:26,160 --> 01:53:28,480
And that's crazy. And it's really hindering his career.

1101
01:53:28,480 --> 01:53:35,520
They're struggling with the Neusers. I mean, they're in 17th, bro, on 14 points, one point above

1102
01:53:35,520 --> 01:53:42,800
Calliari in 18th. Hot dog. Hot, hot, diggity dog. They're going to need to rack up some points

1103
01:53:42,800 --> 01:53:48,960
if they want to survive the season. There are some new contenders for relegation that they

1104
01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:52,560
weren't last year, this year. And Sasvala under the Neuse.

1105
01:53:52,560 --> 01:53:57,920
You mean how? Sasvala under the Neuse. I don't think either of them would get promoted.

1106
01:53:57,920 --> 01:54:02,400
How demoted, sorry, relegated rather. I thought you said Eir Minnau, because he had a point.

1107
01:54:04,240 --> 01:54:10,160
Eir Minnau, to gas you up as your hype man. No, I don't think either of them would get

1108
01:54:10,160 --> 01:54:15,920
relegated. I keep saying promoted. But they're contenders. So think about how Verona became

1109
01:54:15,920 --> 01:54:21,520
contenders for relegation over the past two seasons. No, the teams are regressing. You're

1110
01:54:21,520 --> 01:54:28,720
absolutely right. You're Spathon. They're worsening every year and Sasvala, for example, considering

1111
01:54:28,720 --> 01:54:37,600
their economic power because they have sold players for very high prices. Scamaca, Raspidori,

1112
01:54:37,600 --> 01:54:42,960
Poletano, it's endless. This is endless of players. There are many we're forgetting as well, Fratese.

1113
01:54:44,960 --> 01:54:51,040
So yeah, it's just the lack of reinvestment or rather reinvesting a little bit too much in young

1114
01:54:51,040 --> 01:54:57,440
talent, maybe. Not addressing the defensive issues. Yep, I think you're absolutely right over there

1115
01:54:57,440 --> 01:55:02,160
and a couple of teams are falling victim to that. You know what we did? Forget the mention.

1116
01:55:03,360 --> 01:55:09,600
That fucking Ricardo Sopanar started the game of football. Ah, yes, he started the game for Verona.

1117
01:55:09,600 --> 01:55:18,000
He started and he was all right. Ngong and Duda were, to be honest, statistically much better

1118
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:22,400
than him. I didn't really do much, but it's a good start for Sopanar. Let's get going.

1119
01:55:22,400 --> 01:55:26,960
Let's get going. Yeah, he just needs more playing time. How does he supposed to perform when he

1120
01:55:26,960 --> 01:55:35,200
hasn't even been on the pitch this season? Torino are in 10th on 24th place. That's so Torino.

1121
01:55:36,240 --> 01:55:43,440
Odener is at 17th on 14 points. Yep, new relegation contenders. Yes, guys, we have been

1122
01:55:43,440 --> 01:55:48,480
saying a spotlight. Thank you very much for listening, as always. If you've made it this far,

1123
01:55:48,480 --> 01:55:54,480
especially, remember to do what you have to do. Like create a chat. Exactly. And we will see you

1124
01:55:54,480 --> 01:55:59,120
all probably in a few days time for a listener. Yep, for the listener questions. Yeah, we'll do

1125
01:55:59,120 --> 01:56:05,040
that with that very soon. In the meantime, if you're going out for New Year's Eve and I see one of

1126
01:56:05,040 --> 01:56:11,360
you driving, shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. That's how people die. Okay, who do you think

1127
01:56:11,360 --> 01:56:15,680
you are? Balotelli, Nyanga? You're not Balotelli, you're not Nyang. Nyang is playing in Turkey,

1128
01:56:15,680 --> 01:56:20,480
by the way. Really? Yes. All right, how's he doing? I mean, our football manager kicked my ass.

1129
01:56:21,840 --> 01:56:27,520
That was a good real life. But anyway, yes, guys, stay safe throughout this very fun period,

1130
01:56:27,520 --> 01:56:32,640
enjoy it, and don't be too crazy. Love you all. We'll see you soon. All the best.

1131
01:56:32,640 --> 01:56:41,840
This is Serie A Spotlight. If you like Serie A or have ever liked it in the past, it's a good

1132
01:56:41,840 --> 01:56:46,160
opportunity for you to listen once a week and you'll get filled in. In the football weekend,

1133
01:56:46,160 --> 01:56:51,440
that's like the main dish. But then a few days later, you drop your episode and that's like the

1134
01:56:51,440 --> 01:56:57,600
dessert. And the dessert is just perfect. It's good, okay? It makes it feel like we're all sitting

1135
01:56:57,600 --> 01:57:03,920
in a room together, just be assing with each other. The atmosphere is fantastic. I promise

1136
01:57:03,920 --> 01:57:13,200
nobody will ask you to send boob pics. I love how you go into so much detail and show so much

1137
01:57:13,200 --> 01:57:22,000
passion towards each and every team. Literally, no team is left undiscussed. When I listen to you,

1138
01:57:22,000 --> 01:57:30,000
it's like I'm talking to you in a pub. It's like I'm chatting to a friend and you're chatting to me.