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Matsuki, Faraskylia sets himself!

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He is top class and it is no coincidence that his return from suspension coincides with

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Napoli regaining their attacking threats.

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Skrrr, skrrr, check it and welcome back to another episode of Seria R Spotlight.

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This is episode 112 and we are hosts Matt and Jake.

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Here to talk to you guys about matchday 23.

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What a matchday, we had a run in of giants, Chiara described this game as two tops trying to fuck each other.

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Amazing, yes a very artistic girlfriend I have.

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It's pretty much summed it up though but then we had one top that was way more dominant than the other, of course that top being inter, right?

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An actual packed matchday but to be honest it didn't get much better than Friday.

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I mean Friday was absolute magic that let your Fiorentina game, that would be the real upset of this matchday.

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I wouldn't say there were other upsets, Frazzinone got close to doing one over Milan but that let your Fiorentina were leading until the 89th minute dog.

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Let your god equalizer in the 90th winner in the 90 second, nothing quite like that.

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Of course Atalanta turned up the heat against Lazio.

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They are so good bro, Atalanta are looking so good and let me tell you what bro, so firstly obviously CDK wow.

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Because that was the best I've ever seen CDK play ever, ever like.

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But Miran Csuk talk.

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Silky Russian.

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Miran Csuk, he's got that magic.

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He's got the magic in him.

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It's true, he's got that beautiful singing voice by the way.

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He's got that boom boom boom.

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Miran Csuk is highly, highly technical and he's a super flair player.

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So like he can turn it on and just spin before the defender can even turn.

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He just turns.

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Problem is when Cope is back in the team then there's no spot for him unfortunately.

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It's hard to have a problem with Gasperini.

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He was literally getting the ball in the box consistently and that's what a player like that does when he gets the ball in the box.

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But anyway, we're jumping the gun a little bit.

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We are, goal of the week.

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Yes, we went with Gvaratskelya.

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It had been a while, last season was full of Gvaratskelya goals of the week.

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Of course and this one was kind of similar to his goal against Monza last season.

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Even the commentary was very similar.

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The commentary for that goal was he is Gvaratskelya, steadies himself.

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What an absolute screamer!

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And this was setting himself and he goes on to scream.

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That technique he has the way he slouches forward.

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You know how coaches say they don't lean back.

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He's the CEO of leaning forward.

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He leans forward and he just gives it that spin and he angles it perfectly into the top corner.

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It's a beautiful, beautiful shooting technique he has.

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Long distance top corner.

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What more would you want from a goal?

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Close contender, I would say Mandragora, struck up delicious.

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Strike on the bounce from way out, hit it low hard into the bottom corner.

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That was an amazing goal.

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Pasalic had a great, it was a great passage of play by Atalanta, the classic cross to the far post

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that was headed towards Pasalic who did great to chest the ball and volley it in acrobatically.

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And obviously the Volpato, curler.

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We've got a new trademark celebration here for Volpato.

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An interesting one, I'm not quite sure what he's doing.

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I'm not sure if it's one horn on the right only or if it's an antenna or if it's like some terminator.

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If it's a horn it makes sense because he's Roman.

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He is a Roman gentleman.

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But it's on the side of his head.

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For those of you who haven't seen it, he kind of puts his thumb, okay, so he extends his pinky and puts his stick thumb out.

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It's like, you know, when you're telling people like, either the wa-ah, rightly said,

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or else when you're telling people let's get drinks, let's get fucked up.

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That kind of thing you do with your hand.

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It's a Caputo celebration.

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Caputo celebration, but on his head, on the side of his head.

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It's weird.

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I don't know man.

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Maybe it's like a reindeer with one antler.

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I don't know.

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But how funny, I can't hear the word reindeer.

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The first thing I think of is either reindeer or rhinos.

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Yeah, that's how polluted my mind is.

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Yeah, and plus, let's just say that in summer we struggle sometimes to come up with concepts for content, right?

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I don't know, maybe some big project in the future throughout the summer period that maybe would require travel, that maybe would require a videographer, maybe, you know, I don't know.

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And flight tickets to a certain part of Southern Italy.

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Yeah, or Central Italy, there are a few interesting ones, but let's all get ahead of ourselves.

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We are to sit around, baby.

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We shall be.

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Yes, we shall.

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So I'll jump into the rundown, of course.

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The rundown, brother, is this your first time on the podcast?

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Yes, as you can tell, both of us have had a long day, but you know what, man, you had a long day, you don't feel like...

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Wow, wow, wow, bitch on the baby, wow, wow, wow, but yeah, this is probably going to be a bit of a short one because we're both fucking exhausted life, right?

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But anyways, we'll kick things off with the Derby d'Italia, where Inter beat Juventus one goal to Nile due to a singular, gutty, own goal.

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We knew that there weren't going to be many goals in this game, and it was just one doing for Inter.

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Frozinone against Milan, Milan had to come back to beat Frozinone, and it was 3-2.

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The final result, including goals by Gabia, Lukajovic, and even Giroud for Milan.

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Napoli 2-1, that's where you'll find our goal of the week, and also an engange goal against his former club, but it did go down as an own goal due to a significant deflection.

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Atalanta 3-1.

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Atalanta once again looking magnificent, and CDK was absolutely everywhere, anywhere, anything, all at once, or whatever the fuck that movie is called.

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Roma 4, Calieri, Nile.

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Mama Mia, did Roma look good in this game?

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Did they look solid?

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Now you can run over Calieri, but their free-flowing attacking football looked so, so, so good that it almost reminded me of Spalletti's Napoli without getting too carried away.

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The thing is, oh wait, no, I'm going to start discussing it over here.

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The problem with the run here is 4-4-2, it's not to be underestimated, you know?

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In the run down.

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It's literally called a run down.

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Lettche 3, Fiorentina 2 in what was the upset of the week, and a real, real comeback there by Lettche.

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Those were the both Fiorentina.

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You know, Lettche were losing the game in the 89th minute, and to come back like that as one of the minnowsides is unbelievable.

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Bologna 4, Sasuolo 2, this is the most Sasuolo scoreline ever.

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Both teams had a very good game, but Bologna just showing that bit more class than their...

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A heated derby.

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Yeah, it is actually a heated derby, of course, because they are both in Bologna.

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However, Sasuolo, they are based in Bologna, however their stadium is in Modena, which is probably why they don't have that many supporters.

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The last three games, we will just brush through towards the latter stages of this episode, because they were all nil nils.

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None of these guys got the memo that, you know, it was a free flowing scoring contest this week, because it was Odines and Nil, Monza and Nil,

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Torino and Nil, Salernet and Anil, and Empolli and Nil, Genoa and Nil.

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So I think we should start off with the obvious game, bro, the clash of the Titans, Inter won Juve and Nil, the derby d'Italia.

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And what a derby d'Italia it was, because Inter winning would put them four points clear, which would...

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And they also have a game in hand against Atalanta, so Juve would fall, would have fallen, and in fact did fall a little bit behind in the Scudetto race because of this loss.

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Jens Sommer was in goal for Inter as they lined up their usual 3-5-2 formation, and I think this was pretty much their strongest 11, there was Povard,

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Alcerbi and Bastoni at the back, with Darmian out on the right and DiMarco on the left, Barela, Cialano, Glomiketarian in the middle with Thuram and Martinez up front.

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For Juve it was also a pretty strong 11, 3-5-2 as well, with Schezny in goal, Danilo Bremer and Gatti at the back,

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Kostich was out on the left, Kambiasso was out on the right, with Rob Jolo-Katelli and Mckeni in the middle, with a striker partnership of Vlavic and Yildiz.

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So can I start debating something with you from now?

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Shouldn't Chiesa be in their strongest 11?

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So it's not that question because I understand that maybe Form plays a significant factor, and Yildiz is peak fitness and Chiesa is kind of like glass.

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Like when you have him, like okay he is gonna get injured, we all know that, but it's almost like he's preserved all the time for a big occasion.

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Hello? What's the derby d'Italia? Is it not a big occasion? Was he not 100% still? Is he ever 100%?

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That's a good question, I don't think he's been 100% in a while.

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I think that's the type of play he is. When he's at 100% he's Italy, EUROs, at that time they won it. That is his full strength.

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But that's it, right? The EUROs was how many games at most?

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Exactly.

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Like fewer than 10 games. And you can get him on a stretch of form where he does well, but utilizing him that way throughout the season,

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starting him game in game out with the way this guy plays, he's bound to injure himself.

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Absolutely.

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So I don't think that what Alegris is doing is terrible, bringing him on as a gear shift, introducing that fifth gear into the game later on.

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He's basically utilizing him the same way Ranieri utilizes Lovimbosito.

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And it's a shame.

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It's a shame because we want to see more of him, but at the end of the day you start Chiesa, he gets injured.

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That's what happens, he takes a knock, he's always playing with a slight knock. There's always something.

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But I'm all for Kenan.

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Kenan Hild is baby 18 years old, and for the first time I think he did look 18 years old this game.

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Perhaps.

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This was his first real big challenge, I think.

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And you know, he's up against Inter.

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Inter, one of the best defenses, if not THE best defense in Europe.

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It's up there, it's definitely up there. It's not a stretch.

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I know there are some listeners that maybe are tuning in that aren't too attuned with Serie A or maybe they view Serie A as a lesser league,

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but do not sleep on this Inter setup because they are very solid off the ball and they are incredibly effective on the ball as well.

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So yeah, I would say they have one of the best defenses in Europe, if not THE best.

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Absolutely, for sure. They've made the Champions League final loss season and cities struggled with the score against them.

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So yeah, very good defense.

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Juve faced their second loss in seven derby d'Italia league meetings.

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So in reality this wasn't very straightforward for Inter and historically, Juve do well in this fixture.

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Okay, so despite Inter's early possession dominance, they struggled to break through Juve's defense in the first half.

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Okay, 80% ball possession for Inter in the opening 10 minutes, by the way.

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Very, very interesting stat over there because I remember the game starting off pretty end to end for a bit.

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But I just Inter piled it up, man. I'm watching it back, Inter just fucking piled it up on the line.

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And it was in the second half where Juve came out with a little bit more momentum but we'll get to that eventually.

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Isn't that what Juventus do? It's what they're notorious for doing.

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No, you take the ball, we'll chill off it and then we'll hit you on the break.

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Absolutely. Shalom Oglu had a defense splitting pass that created a threatening chance.

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It was an absolute laser. The referee had to duck out of the way and it came to DeMarco who played the ball through Ram.

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And I think the ball wasn't as ideal as it should have been. It was kind of behind the man.

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It allowed Gleason Bremer. I always call him Gielsen. That's the thing I've been doing since season.

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This is actually Gleason Bremer.

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Bremer's crucial attacker denied Throm, of course. What a defender he is, man. Bremer. He's incredible.

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And I'm telling you, Juve have a few miracle workers back there in this game that really showed Shesney being, of course, the god amongst men over there.

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Juve, okay, were stuck in their own half. They found their rare opportunity through McKenney setting up Vlaovic who missed a golden chance.

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His first touch was too heavy and he couldn't even take the shot on, to be honest. He just ran it out of play.

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Unlike Vlaovic, we've seen his first touch has been very good.

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His first touch was usually one of the best things about Vlaovic.

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Last season against Tampoli, he had two goals. The ball came over the top and basically glued itself to his foot.

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This time, of course, the pressure was mounting and he flunked it.

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It reminded me of Giroux's touch. Last season against Inter and Sumo and Giroux! Giroux! Giroux!

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The turning point came just before half time when Pavard's miss-hit bicycle kick led the chaos in the box.

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Federico Gatti, an advertid, he chested the ball into his own net. Of course, Turam was there to pounce. Had he not done that?

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Pavard is a naughty little minx, isn't he?

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He's been so sound defensively. That was expecting him to be a bit more of an attacking outlet for Inter,

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particularly with the way they use their wing backs. We've seen Pavard excel as a right wing back, particularly for France when they won the World Cup.

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I was expecting to see him in more threatening situations. There he is in the box with his backwards goal.

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Bro Bro goes for a bicycle kick. I would hardly call it miss-hit.

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I don't think he meant to strike it. He meant to put the ball in a dangerous situation. He meant to guide the ball, I believe.

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He went for the assist bicycle kick. I'm not sure he might have gone for goal.

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The technique was there. The strike wasn't exactly 100%, but it led to a goal, so I'm sure he'll take that.

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Of course, Turam did not claim the goal he celebrated anyway.

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After the break, as I mentioned earlier, Juve came out with a different approach. They managed to out-shoot Inter 10-6,

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but somehow, Summer was never really called into action. Do you remember Summer making any saves this game?

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No, in fact, Matarazzi poked fun at that. I don't know if that's a point that you're going to bring up.

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No, but thank you for reminding me. Please go for it.

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I'm totally stealing it. There was a stat that said the amount of fans, the amount of inter spectators that there were in the stadium.

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Matarazzi posted that stat, the amount of support that there were, plus Young Summer, because he was one of the spectators.

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It's the screen that says the total spectators of the stadium.

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Plus, Young Summer. Brilliant. What a shithouse. Brilliant.

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Summer was never really called into action, basically. Inter had their opportunities, they had chances through Dimarko and Chalanoglu,

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with Chalanoglu striking the post with a wonderful volley.

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Dimarko was lively, but he wasn't quite accurate in this game.

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He was quite wayward with his cross-event and his shooting and everything. Something was off.

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I don't know if the occasion got to him a little bit.

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Of course, Cesney had saves on Thuron, Barela and Darnadovic, that were absolutely phenomenal, particularly.

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The Barela one was amazing. It was a tight angle, granted, for Barela, but he was one-on-one.

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He struck the ball venomously. Cesney got down and saved it really well.

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And the one on Arnautovic was just super. He made himself so big, charging out.

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To the point that it looks like a bad miss the first time you see it, and then you watch it over and over and you realise that

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Cesney rushed out so quickly that Arnautovic didn't really have much to do.

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Yeah, it was a proper goal.

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He shot him to the space and Cesney's hand was there. There was nothing equal to that.

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Inter maintained their impressive defensive record beyond the 76th minute, securing a sixth successive home league victory.

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On the flip side, Juve's 19 match on beaten streak came to an end, a massive disappointment for Juventus.

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And the mood at the end of the game was really telling.

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Juve were pretty disappointed and Inter were over the mood.

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Obviously, we know how competitive these two sides are, and we know that there was a lot of shit talking between both parties before this game,

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including the managers throwing subtle jabs, well not so subtle jabs at each other.

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So there's a lot of pride on the line in a derby like this, and obviously people coming into this were deeming it as a decider.

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Now, I know it's too early to consider this game as a decider, especially with Milan being so close to Juventus now.

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But yeah, with all that pressure on the line, naturally the mood is gonna be horrible for Juve.

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Yeah, absolutely man. And again, it's not looking good because you need Inter to lose three games, two games and draw one,

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but you need to win them all, and that is fucking difficult.

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Champions League is gonna kick off like in a week or two.

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I believe today week there are matches, Champions League matches.

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Inter are gonna play, Juve are not gonna play.

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So that might cause a little stir, you know, Inter can drop some points over there, will they?

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It definitely increases the chances.

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Yeah, yes, but the point is that Juve need to win every game.

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They don't get far from that.

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Juve were just on a 19-match undefeated run, and they won most of those games.

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Juve can remain consistent so long as they don't have to play Inter.

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Or Rampoli. Or is a swallow.

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Yeah, just those.

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Of course, yes, it's very tight. Anything can happen.

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One poor round of form for Inter or an injury crisis for Inter could really topple the season round, to be honest.

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So I would definitely say it's too early to count Juve out of the title race or even Milan for that matter,

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but it is looking likely that it's gonna be Inter's year.

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And Inter, man, they just seem like they're another level to these teams.

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They beat me, they smash Milan every time they play them.

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They beat Juve over here, if Juve didn't have incredible Voicec, Czesne, and Golo, there would have been a 3-0 victory for them.

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Absolutely. What I think is, this team is so strong, kind of like the Napoli of last season, Spalletti's Napoli,

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that most of the reason they beat teams like Juve, beat teams like Milan, the top 7 teams,

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is because these teams are so scared of playing them.

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And what I mean by scared is, so Juve hung back, for example, because, you know, they're a counter-attacking side.

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Inter love having the ball. Inter adore being on the ball.

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What happens when Juve get the ball and they break forward?

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They are mortified of losing the ball because Inter on the break are fucking unstoppable.

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They are devastating on the break.

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So that fear kind of kicks in and it doesn't allow you to be that confident person that tries something special on the ball.

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It doesn't allow you to get into that flow state because you overthink everything.

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Because this is a risky pass and Mkhitaryan can intercept it or Marella can intercept it.

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And when one of those intercepts your pass and you've got one player out of position, you are going to be exposed.

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So I think Inter, because they are so good, they instantly have an advantage by literally not doing anything,

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because you put any side up against Inter and they instantly become worse, man.

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Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

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One interesting thing is that Charlie Al-Kharaz featured this game despite having only trained for one day.

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Now, for those of you who don't know who Shale Al-Kharaz is, he's a midfielder who was signed by Juve on loan from Southampton.

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And they have an option to buy him of 51 million.

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Are you calling him Charlie?

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Isn't it Charlie Al-Kharaz?

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Yeah, I've got Carlos here, bro.

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You've got Carlos?

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Yeah.

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So Carlos is his name. His name is Carlos Jonas Al-Kharaz-Duran, but his nickname is Shale.

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Or Charlie, one of them.

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Probably a strategic nickname considering the tennis star at the moment, Carlos Al-Kharaz.

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Yeah, in fact, googling him has proven to be quite difficult.

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He was at the Rossing Club, he's from Argentina, of course he's 21 years old. With Rossing, he had 38 games and scored 4 goals.

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With Southampton, he had 41 games and scored 7 goals and now he's been shipped to Juventus.

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Quite the career trajectory for Rossing Club, Southampton, Juve.

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Yeah, and what did you say the buyout clause was?

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51 million.

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51 million?

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Jesus Christ, man.

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Who is bro?

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This game happened on your birthday.

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Yes, it did, and I didn't get any birthday presents from it.

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You got a PlayStation 5.

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From you, from this game.

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Not from just me, to be clear, I'm not sourcing out here.

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From Matthew and everyone he knows.

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Yeah, you've finished this game, bro, with one shot on target that came in the 72nd minute.

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And that one shot was a weak shot of the left foot of Lavish from outside the box with an ex-UG of 0.07.

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So safe to say that Juve didn't really threaten, despite always looking in the game.

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That's what Allegri's Juve gives you. They're always in the game.

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Even if they don't shoot, they're not going to concede, they're not going to go too behind, they're not going to go too down.

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I noticed this when watching the game, and I was almost getting infuriated because at times it didn't look like Juve were looking for a goal.

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Inter would have the ball, and Juve would have all 11 players behind the ball.

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So it's a problem of urgency.

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Yeah, it was like Christ fucking pressed them, do something.

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But they're piling all men back, they definitely don't want to concede another goal, and that is their priority.

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Yes, I feel the need, bro, before we move on to praise Hakan Chalanoglu, who has really stepped up.

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Honestly, he was insane in this game.

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He was pretty much flawless, man, pinging balls over the top long passes, tackling hard.

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His work ethic was one of the things I enjoyed most about Chalanoglu at Milan, and it's one of the things that I thought was invaluable about his game.

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And something that most Czech artists actually do not offer, that defensive hustle.

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And every time I defended Chalanoglu with my peers, I always said, ah, his defensive work rate, you know, what he gives to the team, what he contributes defensively is irreplaceable.

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And, you know, I was mocked quite frankly because your Czech artist is not meant to do that.

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He's meant to create chances and score goals, and that's something that Chalanoglu was never consistent at doing at Milan.

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But Enzagi has reinvented him, he's playing him deeper, he's got more time on the ball, he's got more time to ping these perfect passes, more room to ping these passes, and he has really transitioned into one of Europe's finest midfielder.

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Agreed, agreed, and a very versatile one at that moment because he can play as a Czech artist, he can play as a regista, and let me tell you what, bro, as a box-to-box midfielder, he definitely has the qualities to play there as well.

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Yeah, absolutely man. When it comes to the table, of course, we've got first place and second place with a point discrepancy of four with Inter in first and Juve in second, Inter have a game in hand.

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Yep, remember that game in hand shan't just be considered a guaranteed three points because this is a match that they're playing against Atalanta, who are obviously a very tough side to play against, they've looked immense,

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and also if you look at Inter's running throughout that period, so they play against Salernitana at home on the 16th of February.

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Four days later, they play against Atletico Madrid at home, five days after that they play Lecce away, and then three days after that they play Atalanta at home, and then just five days after that they play Genoa at home.

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At least they get to stay at home quite a bit throughout that period, which is good for them, and they can probably afford to rest some players against Lecce.

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Ah, of course, their substitutes have proven to be dependable.

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Yeah, everyone, all of them. So yeah, I'm just curious to see what will happen to them if they experience three semi long term injuries, just like the other teams, you know, Juve, Milan, Atalanta, these teams have all suffered, yeah, Lazio as well, with serious injuries,

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and it seems that Inter have been quite unfazed, and it seems that Inter are quite unfazed by injuries overall. They really don't struggle, I don't know if that's a matter of just medics and management and workload management, or if it's just a matter of luck to be on the side.

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Yeah, like how is Barella not injury prone, you know what I mean, the way he rolls around.

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Yeah, right. But anyway, that's enough about that fixture. Let's jump to Frazzinone, two Milan three. This was a very, very feisty encounter. I really enjoyed watching this game.

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Obviously, you know, as a Milan fan, I didn't enjoy it so much at the same time, but it was, from a neutral perspective, very enjoyable.

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So Milan were coming off a 2-2 home draw to Bologna, Frazzinone coming off a 1-1 away draw to Helas Verona, the previous encounter between the two sides was a 3-1 victory for Milan at home.

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Now, the Rossoneri were coming off a dramatic 2-2 draw with Bologna, which saw both Giroux and Theo missing penalties in case anyone forgot.

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Tomori, Calulu, Chiaopo, Bega, Caldara and Chiquese remain unavailable, while the Canarini, Miss Bonifazi, Oiono, Marvin Cooney, Gedhiemi, Sorteia, Kallai, Luzwardi, Baez and Marquitza.

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So yeah, these are the kinds of injuries that other teams face. This game saw the team that has scored the most first half goals in Serie A this season,

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Jarmilan with 24, Tecon decide that concede that the most goals in the opening 45 minutes this term, Frazzinone with 20.

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Damn, you did your homework, huh?

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Yeah, sirsiria.com.

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Documents, stats.

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So it was a 4-2-3-1 formation for Frazzinone with Turati and Goul and a backline, listen to this, a backline of Brescianini, Romaniolli, Occholi and Gelli.

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Brescianini and Gelli as the wing backs, very interesting.

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Berencea and Mazzatelli in the double pivot with Harui on the left, second, right and Sule behind Kyo George.

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For Milan it was also a 4-2-3-1 with Mike Manjani in goal and a backline of Calabria, Kier, Gabia and Hernandez, Reinders and Adli in the pivot,

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Pully second right, Laia on the left, Loftus Tric playing behind Giroux, this is the same exact starting 11 for the past four matches.

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Yeah.

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Now in the 16th minute Giroux opened the scoring for Milan, Laiao Anlishtan early in swinging across to the far post that was met by Giroux,

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heading into the near corner, beating the scrambling Turati at his near post.

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Good start for Milan.

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In the 20th minute though, Sek forced a great save from Manjani after striking from long range, forcing the French goalkeeper to tip the ball over the bar.

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Just three minutes later in the 23rd after threatening, Frazzinone equalized through a penalty by Soulet.

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The penalty was awarded to Frazzinone after a cross met the stray arm of Laiao.

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Soulet converted very well despite Manjani going the right way.

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There was a debate about the penalty because it was very short distance from when the ball left the player's foot to striking the arm of Laiao,

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but at the end of the day it was an infringement so the penalty was awarded.

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In the 64th minute, Mazzatelli made it 2-1 for Frazzinone and not against the run of play because Frazzinone were the better side at this point.

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Mazzatelli squeezed the ball in from a very tight angle, just bubbling over the extended leg of Manjani.

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The first time you watched that you'd think it went through his legs.

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Soulet got himself a great assist here through a very well-weighted through pass.

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I do think Manjani should perhaps be doing better in that scenario.

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Yes, and it's not really a hot take, is it anymore?

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Manjani needs to improve at the near post.

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Simple as. We've seen it. We've seen him scramble it.

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Exactly. There's enough evidence of this.

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Especially if his demands are actually what they are reported to be, with the reported figure of 8 million a season contract request.

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That's too much, bro. You need to be pretty much flawless to be the highest earner as a goalkeeper on a team like Milan.

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Layout doesn't even make 8 million a season. He's a game changer.

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I granted, okay, Manjani has also been a game changer, of course, but you can't win a game unless you score a goal.

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I'm not sure about the goalkeeper being the highest earner ever, to be honest.

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I'm not sure that's a sustainable model.

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Yeah, absolutely. I agreed. Especially when he's leaking in goals at the near post.

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Now Manjani is a fantastic goalkeeper, but he's not going through the best spell at the moment, even with his error against Salernitana.

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And a few errors around that as well.

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However, in the 72nd minute, Gabbia got the equalizer for Milan, which made every Milan fan so, so happy after he returned in January.

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Giroud was once again available at the far post, as he received a cross from Adli.

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And the veteran striker squared his header to the part of Gabbia, who slam dunked the ball into the back of the net with a flying header.

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Thank you for saying that, because this game wasn't mine to prepare.

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And when we're watching this, I told Mati, I can't wait to describe this goal as a slam dunk on the podcast, because that's what it was.

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Giroud, man, that instinct to play the ball across goal.

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How many times have we said, this player should have squared it across the face of goal in that situation,

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but he went for goal and said Giroud, at least, was mindful enough to square it.

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And that's what you get.

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We often complain about having a 37-year-old striker, but that's what that experience does tend to get you.

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In the 81st minute, Milan got their winner through who else?

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Luca Fak in Jovic once again.

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Now, Benacer did very well to win the ball off of a Frosinone defender,

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why is the defender did horribly to lose the ball?

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Benacer crossed the ball to Jovic, Roman Jolian Valeri made an absolute fucking mess of things.

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I can't even describe what happened.

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I'm sorry, the ball ping-ponged between them, one of them lost his footing.

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Smash-thick to each other.

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The other started running away and the ball bounced off his back,

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and it fell perfectly to Jovic, who finished into the bottom corner with his first touch of the game.

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Bro, so Milan are out here scraping wins, bro.

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Milan are scraping wins.

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What was the difficulty in this match?

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So, Frosinone are always the side that are going to cause you problems, right?

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I guess.

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They're a side that...

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Coming to a degree?

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Coming to a degree.

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They press high and they force mistakes to a certain extent.

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00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Their lineup of Sek, Sule and Haroui, you've got a nice combination of aggressive pressers and technically gifted players.

391
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,000
You look at them, but Sek is going to press you to oblivion.

392
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:45,000
You look at Sule, he's going to press you and he's also got that technical flair as well, same as Haroui.

393
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,000
Kyle George as well, more of a pressing forward than anything else,

394
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,000
more of a presence to literally press and disrupt the back line.

395
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,000
And Milan's back line at the moment is a little bit fragile, isn't it?

396
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,000
We all know this.

397
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,000
And we have Theo Hernandez, who's kind of...

398
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,000
Not kind of, he's definitely an unorthodox left back.

399
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:09,000
His position can vary, you often see him up beyond the halfway line, right?

400
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:14,000
Gabbia has just returned and he's been pretty solid to be honest, but then he has Kier, right, as well,

401
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,000
who's a little bit older nowadays.

402
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,000
So Milan's defense is there to be fucked with.

403
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,000
And Frosinone definitely fucked with it, man.

404
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:28,000
And they fucked with it and they gave Milan the scare of their lives, man.

405
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:33,000
I did think that Milan would only get better as the game progressed,

406
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:38,000
because one thing Milan have that Frosinone don't have is quality of the bench.

407
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,000
And how many seasons that we see where Milan didn't have quality of the bench?

408
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:51,000
That's actually quite nice, you know, bringing on Benacer, Okofor, Jovic, Florenti and Moussa is pretty fucking good.

409
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,000
It's excellent.

410
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,000
It's great.

411
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000
It's excellent.

412
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000
That's not to mention obviously the youngsters that Milan have, in case any of those guys aren't available.

413
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Simic, Jimenez, Barthazaghi, all good.

414
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Notice I didn't say Filippo Tera, Tchano's name because I'm angry at him.

415
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000
We're fighting.

416
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000
We're fighting.

417
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,000
We're not talking right now.

418
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Yeah, so I think that thankfully purely substitutions have really been working.

419
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Jovic coming on, I don't know, and people often say that, oh, CDK, CDK last year, what the hell on their purely purely couldn't get them going.

420
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,000
You know, purely ruins players, they don't get the best out of them.

421
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,000
Imagine Leal under another manager.

422
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:35,000
Dude, you look at the numbers that some of these guys have this season, like Giroud and Jovic.

423
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000
They haven't had these numbers in a while.

424
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,000
No, come on.

425
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:48,000
It's very harsh to criticize purely over what he got out of CDK's first fucking season in Italy after joining from the Belgian League.

426
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,000
And I have a point to make about that.

427
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Maldini, we're sorry.

428
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
We're sorry.

429
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000
Because he's great.

430
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,000
He got sacked because of CDK, bro.

431
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000
From today to tomorrow.

432
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000
They fired him.

433
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000
They're like, look, we gave you 35 millies.

434
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,000
We gave you 35 bags and you fucked them by signing this nerd.

435
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000
No, no.

436
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000
He's not a nerd at all now, bro.

437
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
He's a fucking lion.

438
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000
He's a total nerd, bro.

439
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000
He's a total nerd, man.

440
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:26,000
He's a dwee, but you see it, you know, but I like when he's playing well.

441
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,000
He gets this nerdy confidence that I find sweet.

442
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Yeah, but funny to see how CDK got Maldini fired and then went and he's killing it at Atlanta and might actually qualify them for the Champions League.

443
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,000
He is, as they say in Italian, assassin.

444
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,000
Yeah, yeah.

445
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000
And come on, purely develops players.

446
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
He does, he does develop players.

447
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,000
There's no two ways of looking at it.

448
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:55,000
The two case studies that are mentioned to kind of shit on purely CDK, who's an anomaly because you look at the chances he missed.

449
00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:00,000
It's not like purely didn't put him in positions to succeed. He missed so many one on one and easy chances at the point.

450
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:08,000
At the point, I remember one chance towards the end of the season when everyone was just done and emotionally exhausted with CDK.

451
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,000
He had, he missed an opportunity and the crowd laughed.

452
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
I had never heard that in a football game.

453
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:15,000
Madonna, man.

454
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Where the crowd, you hear like, like you're watching two and a half, man, you know?

455
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Like that actually happened with CDK.

456
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,000
The other case study is Brahim Diaz, who purely developed.

457
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Brahim Diaz is a pupil of purely.

458
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000
He spent three seasons with him.

459
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:40,000
Tomori, Theo Hernandez, these guys, okay, they came to Milan somewhat developed but underperforming, no?

460
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,000
And he gets the best out of these guys.

461
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,000
They were far from the men they were today. Even Leo, as he said.

462
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:51,000
Leo, when he arrived, I was like, get this guy out because he was being played as a striker.

463
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:57,000
And he was like, Leo was still kind of raw to a degree. His style is raw.

464
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:05,000
And he was, he had that touch and like the lack of certain qualities of a nine.

465
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
And he was playing as a striker.

466
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,000
I get this guy out, but purely found his position.

467
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,000
He worked on him and he has cultivated a great fucking left-winger.

468
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Absolutely.

469
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Look, I think many people are confused nowadays with their stance on purely.

470
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:29,000
I don't think it's ludicrous or ridiculous or uncalled for to say that Milan should go for a new manager at the end of the season.

471
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:40,000
However, it's important to acknowledge purely's success at Milan and the fact that purely took Milan out of the fucking ashes and back into the sky, bro.

472
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,000
Because this team, this team were low below low.

473
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000
And he hasn't dipped.

474
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,000
He hasn't dipped. Statistically.

475
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Well, I don't have it on me.

476
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:59,000
No, basically Milan have the same points at the same stage of the season then they did when they won the league.

477
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Exactly.

478
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,000
The difference is that that you were no longer shit and then they are no longer throwing away games.

479
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,000
That's the fucking difference.

480
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Everyone's getting better. So Milan want to get better.

481
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,000
So sure, they want to change their culture, want to upgrade, but purely has not dipped.

482
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,000
Yeah, that's a very good point.

483
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:24,000
Last season was a little bit of a dip, of course, if it weren't for Juve bending the rules, Milan wouldn't have qualified for the Champions League, but fortunately for us at least.

484
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Juve bent the rules.

485
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,000
If you're a Juve fan listening, unfortunately.

486
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:37,000
And we empathize because there's nothing worse for a football fan to go through and some political bullshit that sees your team punished.

487
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000
Messing with your team, man.

488
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,000
Yeah, okay, Luca.

489
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,000
I want to talk a bit about Leo.

490
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:49,000
A lot of people will say, you know, he's on a dry spell.

491
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000
He had a great fucking game.

492
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,000
He was so good, man.

493
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,000
He was so good.

494
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,000
And you know what?

495
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Fuck you.

496
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,000
He was so good against Bologna as well.

497
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,000
He's doing what he does best.

498
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Unfortunately, when it comes to remember that stat, we're dreaded out a few episodes ago where we compared the Wingers who have.

499
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Yeah, but it's Leo with Farah.

500
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Exactly, so exactly Leo.

501
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:19,000
Guevara and Keza play closer to goal, while Leo was more of an XA kind of guy, an expected assist kind of guy.

502
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Leo, as I'm tired of saying, excels at taking the ball to the byline and finding a teammate or cutting inside and placing it into the bottom corner without having to put himself in a complicated position to shoot.

503
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000
Because in those situations, he does not thrive.

504
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:39,000
I've never seen Leo score a curler from out of the area, for example, like Guevara did.

505
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:47,000
However, I've never seen Guevara take the ball and obliterate three men and take it to the byline and just look like he's a totally different species to them.

506
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,000
He's more of a close kind of quarters.

507
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,000
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

508
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,000
But yes, Leo has his strengths and he's playing to them.

509
00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:00,000
I regret taking him on Fanta College, well, definitely, because he's not really that prolific goal scoring in the 20s.

510
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,000
And you spent on him, bro.

511
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000
Yeah, man, 300 and something credits.

512
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:05,000
Like 370 credits.

513
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Out of a thousand.

514
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,000
Yeah.

515
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,000
PSG are like, they want him.

516
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:18,000
PSG are losing in Bappe, right?

517
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,000
So they're looking to fill in that left wing slot.

518
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:34,000
Now, apparently, according to sources that aren't so reliable, Leo considers the five year mark of his time as Milan as time to move on.

519
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,000
That's what certain reports are saying.

520
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Again, reports that are not so reliable.

521
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:45,000
However, apparently doesn't seem too interested in the French League, probably because the French League is shit.

522
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:50,000
And he's interested more in the Premier League and La Liga.

523
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,000
Which is a good thing.

524
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:56,000
Because I think Real Madrid are set.

525
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,000
Real are set.

526
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Barcelona aren't as attractive a destination as they once were.

527
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,000
I mean, they would.

528
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,000
But their sponsors Spotify, Betle, I would love that.

529
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

530
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:11,000
They'd be like, oh my God, when worlds collide, you know, my rocker, you know.

531
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:17,000
Yeah, look, ideally, he doesn't leave.

532
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,000
It does. It's 175 million.

533
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,000
That's his clause.

534
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:23,000
Smacarouni is well.

535
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,000
That's pretty good, man.

536
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:33,000
If he leaves, hopefully Milan will will reinvest and solidify and really fix the holes that there are in the team.

537
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:40,000
However, it is difficult to replace a player like Leo because I think I would safely say that unless you bring in a Bappe, you cannot.

538
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,000
In Bappe or Vigny, you can't replace Leo otherwise.

539
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,000
Yeah.

540
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:52,000
He's stopped through with those guys when it comes to your ability on the ball, when it comes to that just ability to just terrorize that left flank.

541
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:53,000
Not many people can do it.

542
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,000
He has authority on that.

543
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,000
You know, who's really coming through.

544
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:04,000
I can use the fastest player that I have ever seen in my fucking life, Mudric of Chelsea.

545
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,000
He's starting to play better.

546
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,000
That's going against more than the fucking bastard.

547
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:14,000
It's a second season in the Prem now and things are a little bit more settled, I guess.

548
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,000
He's a youngster now, Mudric.

549
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,000
How old is he?

550
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:18,000
23.

551
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,000
I think he might be even younger.

552
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,000
Let me just fact check.

553
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,000
I don't know why.

554
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:27,000
I had to fact check Mudric's age on a Serial Art podcast.

555
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:28,000
I got it, bro.

556
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,000
23 years old.

557
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,000
Never doubt yourself.

558
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,000
Yeah.

559
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,000
Yeah.

560
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,000
That's a couple more points and then we'll move on.

561
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:40,000
I think Milan's worst performers in this game and a big reason as to why Milan struggled in this game

562
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,000
were Reindersen love to streak.

563
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,000
I think Reindersen love to streak left a lot to be desired.

564
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,000
They've each been insane for Milan this season.

565
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:55,000
However, this was a bit of an off game for them, particularly when it comes to, you know, losing the ball

566
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,000
because there was a very high amount of press on them.

567
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:04,000
And this is something purely said about Milan, which is Milan's style of playing.

568
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,000
Because no one knows what Milan's style of play is.

569
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,000
In case you can't put your finger on it.

570
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,000
Milan have a controlling style of play.

571
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,000
Milan like to have the ball.

572
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,000
You there don't.

573
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,000
Roma didn't.

574
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,000
Milan love having the ball.

575
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,000
What happens when Milan don't have the ball?

576
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:25,000
When Milan don't have the ball, they are bad.

577
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,000
And purely said, we cannot be a good team of the ball.

578
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,000
I don't know what he means by that.

579
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,000
I doubt we can be a good team of the ball.

580
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,000
But that is what Frazzinone managed to do.

581
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,000
They managed to win the ball of Milan and attack Milan.

582
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,000
Yeah, yeah.

583
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:43,000
I mean, probably the lack of physical presence in midfield, apart from love to streak,

584
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,000
was playing in the pocket behind the striker.

585
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:51,000
And the fact that you have two, that you have an aging centre back and a plug centre back.

586
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,000
That's it, right?

587
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:54,000
That's it of the ball.

588
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,000
You are definitely going to struggle.

589
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,000
One thing I want to mention, bro, before we do move on is the heat map.

590
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:02,000
If you have time, go on sofa score guys and open the heat map of Milan from this game.

591
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,000
And you'll notice a 262 formation.

592
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:10,000
You'll notice that Gabia and Kier sit alone, as the bottom two, of course.

593
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:14,000
And that love to streak plays slightly left of the centre circle,

594
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:21,000
while Benaz, sorry, Adli and Reinders both played close together in that centre circle.

595
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,000
Theo was out on the left, and Calabria out on the right.

596
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:29,000
And playing right next to Calabria, playing off of him, was Pulisic,

597
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,000
in a slightly deeper position.

598
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:36,000
Giroux was the most advanced number nine, and Leo out on the left as an advanced ten in space.

599
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,000
And it's...

600
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:46,000
This is kind of like what transitions into that weird formation that we always address,

601
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,000
now where you have a front line of five or whatever.

602
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:54,000
But yeah, this game I thought that the system was pretty promising at least.

603
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,000
Yeah, it was okay.

604
00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:03,000
Obviously shout out to Frazzinone for putting up an amazing fight against the top quality team.

605
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:08,000
Shout out to Gabia, amazing stuff, getting his second goal for Milan after his return in,

606
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:13,000
well, his first goal since his return, but his second goal ever for Milan.

607
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,000
And Lukajovic, one of the... I love clutch players.

608
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,000
And Jovic is just that clutch player.

609
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,000
He's won me over, bro.

610
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,000
And if you go back a few episodes, you'll hear me shitting on him.

611
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:25,000
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

612
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,000
But he's amazing. I love him. I love Jovic.

613
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,000
I love him so much, like, kind of thing.

614
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:36,000
The thing about Jovic that I like, man, is you take him out of the box and you see what type of player he is.

615
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:41,000
You put him in the box like Fiorantina did and you just work to feed him all day.

616
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,000
You're not going to see what type of player he is, man.

617
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:48,000
You take him out of the box and you try to include him in some fluid build-up play,

618
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,000
then you'll see the real Jovic, man, and he is a joy to watch, honestly.

619
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:56,000
But you know what? Jiru, starter, Jovic coming on and doing what he does.

620
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,000
That is the best way Milan can set up.

621
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,000
It's hard to work with that with the numbers, man, that Jiru is on it.

622
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,000
He has 11 goals and 8 assists this season.

623
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,000
Are you meant to?

624
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:12,000
He's great. Jake, I always tell you, Jiru is the perfect striker for Milan.

625
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,000
He's the perfect striker for Milan.

626
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,000
And now, at least there's that depth and there's a competitor.

627
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:21,000
That's what Milan needed. That's what Jiru needed,

628
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,000
because he can't be the sole striker.

629
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,000
But yeah.

630
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,000
Milan, third place, 49 points.

631
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,000
Now, just 4 points behind Juve.

632
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,000
Milan are going to be keeping the pressure up on Juve over there.

633
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:39,000
That is their goal and obviously get us close to Inter as they come.

634
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,000
But it has been a good run for Milan.

635
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:49,000
You look at Frozenone, on the other hand, they are on 23 points in 23 matches in 14th place.

636
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:56,000
And flirting with that relegation zone, they are only 5 points above Calieri in 18th.

637
00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaking of relegation zone, Helos Verona took on Napoli at the Maradona.

638
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,000
That's what I mean.

639
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,000
And lost to one.

640
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,000
Not without a lack of trying though.

641
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:12,000
So Gualini was in goal for Napoli in the 4-3-3 formation,

642
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,000
the part-time goalkeeper, full-time rapper.

643
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,000
Di Lorenzo was out on the right.

644
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:22,000
Mario Rui was out on the left with a centre-back partnership of Rahmani and Juan Jesus.

645
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:28,000
And Guisla Lobotka and Caustere were the midfield 3 with Poletano, Simeone and Guardschia leading the charge.

646
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:35,000
As you'll notice, Guardschia and Caustere are back from injury after getting an accumulation of yellow cards.

647
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,000
In a rather silly way. Back from suspension.

648
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,000
Back from suspension, yes. You said back from injury.

649
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,000
That's fine. Yeah, suspension.

650
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,000
Montepo was in goal for Helos Verona.

651
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,000
The octopus.

652
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,000
Who played the 4-3-1 formation.

653
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,000
Chachua was out on the right. Yes, bless you.

654
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:01,000
Cabal was out on the left and Davidovic and Coppola formed the defensive partnership.

655
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:05,000
Serdar and Duda were in the midfield too.

656
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,000
It's funny because you know how we say Duda means penis in Maltese.

657
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,000
Serda without the S. What is it, did you say?

658
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,000
It means suck.

659
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:19,000
Erda. Erda. Erda Duda means suck-a-willy.

660
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:25,000
So, Erda Duda was the midfield double pivot with Lazovic out on the left and Folloruncio out on the right

661
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:29,000
with Soslov playing behind new boy Tiani Noslin.

662
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,000
Now, by the way brother, am I gassed?

663
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:40,000
Not for Tiani Noslin, but for Karol Zviderski, by the way, who's joined from the MLS.

664
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,000
He's a type of striker who scored wherever he's been.

665
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:47,000
He's got 20 goals for the Polish national team and he's been snapped up by Helos Verona.

666
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:51,000
If any of you have your repair auction on FantaCulture, I do recommend this guy.

667
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:56,000
I think he'll get maybe, you know, 4 or 5 goals at the end of the season for Helos Verona.

668
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:01,000
We'll see. But yeah, I'm definitely more excited for him than I am about Tiani Noslin.

669
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:10,000
So, Napoli came off a game where they only took one shot on target.

670
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:19,000
And this game was a completely different story because Gwad Skjellir from the get-go started testing the goalkeeper from all sorts of different angles.

671
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:23,000
It was all him. He challenged Montepo on multiple occasions.

672
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:30,000
He got a strong claim for a penalty in the first half as well, which to be honest, I think should have maybe been looked at.

673
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:37,000
Verona were quiet in the first half, but Lazović squandered chance just before half-time. It was quite a bad one.

674
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:42,000
Verona started the second half strongly with Koppola and Lazović creating opportunities.

675
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:47,000
Simeon's attempt was well saved by Montepo, keeping Napoli fans anxious.

676
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:54,000
Verona took the lead with an unexpected breakthrough as Koppola's shoulder connected with Soslov's free kick.

677
00:52:54,000 --> 00:53:00,000
It was a weird goal. At first I thought he scored with his arm, then I thought he scored with his back, then I noticed he scored with his shoulder.

678
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,000
He was going for a header.

679
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,000
Yeah, full on, full on.

680
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,000
The boy from Verona!

681
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Koppola. I love when commentators get gasped for young players.

682
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:19,000
Napoli swiftly responded. This time it was, of course, Iruolo del Lecce that was exercised.

683
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:24,000
Cyril Ngongj, or as they started calling him today, nowadays, sorry, Ngongge.

684
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:31,000
They just switched up on us. Before they were calling him Ngongj, so we called him Ngongj, though they're calling him Ngongj.

685
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,000
And I'm kind of married to Ngongj.

686
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,000
I like Ngongj.

687
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:36,000
I like Ngongj.

688
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,000
Cyril Ngongj.

689
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,000
But you know, Ngongj, a completely different dude here.

690
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,000
Ngongj.

691
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:51,000
This goal eventually did go down as a Davidovic own goal, so it's not quite Ngongj's first goal for Napoli yet.

692
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,000
Do you think it's fair for that to go down as an own goal?

693
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,000
No, I don't think so. I think this could have been Ngongj's goal.

694
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:02,000
It was helped over the line. I believe it was going in.

695
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,000
Yeah, it was going on target, right?

696
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,000
Yeah. I thought it was a bit harsh.

697
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,000
Yeah, it's always random when they decide that.

698
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:12,000
The Xerxay one was probably going off target, so I get it like.

699
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,000
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

700
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:20,000
Just before in Ngongj's equalizer, there was a fantastic double save by Montepo on Lindström and Matsuki.

701
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,000
Lindström really changed the game around when he came on. He was brilliant.

702
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,000
It was so good.

703
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:30,000
Simeone missed a one-on-one from a tight angle shortly after and attempted to chip Montepo on the rebound,

704
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,000
but fails to challenge the goalkeeper or hit the target.

705
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:42,000
Gwadzkelia then delivered his moment of magic with a stunning curler, securing three crucial points for Napoli in the European race.

706
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:48,000
For Verona, of course, the loss extends their winless away streak to 11 matches, keeping them in the relegation zone.

707
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:53,000
The match showcased Napoli's resilience and Gwadzkelia's impact as one of the best players in the league,

708
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:59,000
while Verona will, of course, regret the missed opportunities they had that could have shifted their fortunes.

709
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:08,000
For me, apart from Gwadzkelia really stamping his authority and letting us know that Napoli can't do shit without him,

710
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:17,000
Lindström looked super promising to me and I think having Lindström and Ngongj offers Napoli some good solutions off the bench.

711
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:18,000
Yeah, I think so. I think so.

712
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:24,000
That was the first time we saw him really insert himself in the manner in which he did,

713
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,000
but he was very, very involved. He was always on the ball, man.

714
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:34,000
And you know what, even Madzocchi, when he came on, was quite involved getting in those dangerous areas as Napoli were attacking.

715
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,000
He's a good little player to bring on over there.

716
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:43,000
A guy I would like to highlight, and you know me, I love a good goalkeeper, man.

717
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,000
I thought Montepo was phenomenal in this game.

718
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:50,000
Montepo, last season, he was the keeper with the most saves in the league.

719
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:56,000
And okay, it's probably because Verona conceded a lot of shots, but he has, and I've always said,

720
00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:01,000
he is a very good keeper. He is one of the good ones in the league.

721
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:07,000
Now, of course, sometimes he makes the odd error, but I really, really like Lorenzo Montepo.

722
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:11,000
Then you should ask him out, man. You never know. Maybe the feeling is mutual.

723
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:15,000
Sentimental DM or something. He's only a year older than me.

724
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,000
I really, really like you.

725
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:21,000
Really, Lorenzo, I really fucking like you, man.

726
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,000
Those eyes, the trim.

727
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,000
The hands. God, the hands.

728
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:38,000
Napoli are in seventh in the league with 35 points.

729
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:44,000
They're one point off of Bologna in sixth, while Hellas Verona are actually in 17th.

730
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:50,000
Of course, Caliari did not get anything against Roma, and they conceded four goals.

731
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:54,000
So they're now down in 18th. Verona are in 17th with 18 points.

732
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,000
So, Scott, what I said about them being in the relegation,

733
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,000
who they are currently out of it. Thanks to God, difference.

734
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:04,000
Yeah. Let's do Atalanta three Lazio one.

735
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:07,000
Atalanta were coming off a two-nil victory against Odineza,

736
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:11,000
whilst Lazio were coming off a very boring nil-nil home draw to Napoli,

737
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,000
which you made reference to as well.

738
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:17,000
The previous encounter was a three-two home victory for Lazio.

739
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:21,000
Now, this was, in fact, a head-to-head encounter for fourth place,

740
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:25,000
though both teams also have a game in hand.

741
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:30,000
Coke miners, Sheehan and Palomino were injured with Lukman at the African Cup of Nations.

742
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,000
The visitors had a mobile back from a ban,

743
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:38,000
but Miss Zacani, Patrick and the suspended Danilo Cataldi.

744
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:44,000
Atalanta have won 37 of their 111 matches against Lazio in Serie A.

745
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:49,000
Only against Bologna have they achieved more successes in their history in the top flight.

746
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:55,000
Lazio were, however, imbued in five of their last six matches against Atalanta in Serie A,

747
00:57:55,000 --> 00:58:01,000
after having failed to win any of their previous seven matches against Ladea in the competition.

748
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:07,000
Now, it was a three-four-one-two formation for Atalanta with Karnezeki in goal

749
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,000
and a backline of Kolasinac, Jim City and Scalvini.

750
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:15,000
Rogeri was on the left, Holm was on the right and Dehoun and Edison formed the midfield too,

751
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:19,000
with Pasalic playing just behind Miran, Csuk and Decay-Telare.

752
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:27,000
4-3-3 for Sarri Zlatio, Providell in goal and a backline of Lazari, Gila, Romanioly and Barisic,

753
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,000
a midfield three of Gwendouzi, Rovella and Alberto,

754
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:35,000
and a front three of Isaksen, Castellanios and Felipe Anderson.

755
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:40,000
Now, Kolasinac got very close to opening the scoring in the fourteenth minute,

756
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:45,000
after his header following Amaranth Choukros forced a good stop from Ivan Providell,

757
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,000
and then the scoring was opened in the fifteenth minute by Pasalic.

758
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:53,000
And Cdk's cross to Scalvini was intelligently redirected to Pasalic,

759
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,000
who controlled the ball on his chest and volleyed the ball into the back of the net

760
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:03,000
in an acrobatic manner, great build-up, great finish, that is what football is all about.

761
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:08,000
In the forty-second minute, Cdk won and converted a penalty,

762
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:14,000
he sent Providell the wrong way from the spot and the penalty was awarded after a handball by Marisic.

763
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:19,000
Still in the first half in the forty-sixth minute, Atalanta almost made it three before the break,

764
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:24,000
as Holmes' header hit the crossbar following another brilliant cross by Miran Chouk.

765
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:29,000
Again, Atalanta almost made it three in the sixtieth minute after another great attacking move,

766
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:33,000
which ended with a brilliant save by Providell denying Miran Chouk a simple finish

767
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:37,000
after a great and powerful square ball by Pasalic.

768
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:41,000
In the seventy-fifth minute, Cdk got his second of the night,

769
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,000
can we call him a wonder kid from now on, Cdk?

770
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,000
I guess so. Wonder kid? Would he be a kid?

771
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:52,000
He's young, Cdk. But he's a young buck.

772
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:56,000
No, he's twenty-two years old, yeah. He could be a wonder kid.

773
00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:01,000
He cut into the box from a white position and surprised everyone, including if I'm Providell,

774
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:05,000
by opting for an early low strike into the near corner.

775
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:10,000
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant stuff there by Charles de K. Tlaere, who was on fire in this game.

776
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:15,000
In the eighty-third minute, Ciro and Mbola converted a penalty after winning it.

777
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:20,000
I'm in order to get a consolation goal, essentially, for Lazio.

778
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:24,000
Jim City giving that one away over there.

779
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:30,000
Yeah, Jim City, yeah, that ruthless, silly kick by Jim City.

780
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:35,000
Very silly to really affect his rating on my Fanta culture negatively.

781
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,000
Yeah, of course.

782
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:42,000
Cdk has the spirit. Look at the heat map.

783
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,000
Look at them all the way up there in the box.

784
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,000
17th. That's crazy.

785
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,000
You look at the midfield, it's completely flat, pretty much,

786
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:54,000
and then Miran Csuk is just connecting, play to Cdk.

787
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:58,000
That's why then you have Barat Jim City literally as the last man.

788
01:00:58,000 --> 01:00:59,000
That's such a cool system.

789
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,000
And then you look at Lazio.

790
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:06,000
Lazio literally tried to attack through the middle with Castellanios and Philippa Anderson

791
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:09,000
playing together, trying to charge down the middle.

792
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:13,000
And of course, they were pretty much pinned back as the highest player was in the center circle.

793
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:17,000
The highest pushing player, his average position was the center circle.

794
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:21,000
I guess that typically be why there were Zacanis on the pitch, I guess so.

795
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:27,000
Yes, I think what they did here is they tried to attack Atalanta down the middle

796
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,000
simply because they're so strong out wide at the moment and overloading those flanks.

797
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,000
They're so good at that.

798
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:40,000
I thought Atalanta absolutely destroyed Lazio.

799
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:46,000
I thought they were better in every single fucking area and every single duel.

800
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:52,000
I think that Lazio are a bit of a step behind this season.

801
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,000
I agree, yes.

802
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,000
Atalanta looked like a well-oiled machine.

803
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:04,000
They looked so, so, so organized and so ruthless, against Lazio, literally pinning them back

804
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:07,000
and forcing them to do nothing all game.

805
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:11,000
They had one shot on target and I'm pretty sure that was the penalty, no?

806
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,000
Perhaps, probably.

807
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:18,000
While you look at Atalanta, they had 19 shots, they were peppering the goal.

808
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:20,000
Five of them on target, of course.

809
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:23,000
But five on target and three goals is impressive in itself.

810
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:24,000
For sure, for sure.

811
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:27,000
I think obviously we have to talk about Decay Tolarre.

812
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:31,000
I know we mentioned him, I think three times already in this podcast,

813
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:35,000
but fuck it, he is the star of the week, CTK.

814
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:42,000
Just a brilliant all-round performance and I think maybe this is his position.

815
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:46,000
We've often spoken about the system that he's playing in,

816
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,000
suiting his playstyle more.

817
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:54,000
I think, so at Milan he was often played as an attacking midfielder,

818
01:02:54,000 --> 01:03:01,000
as a trequartista rather, and sometimes popped in as a lone striker, sometimes.

819
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:09,000
And I think at two up top and CTK being one of them, that must be his best position

820
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:13,000
because he can drift slightly wide while still having the technical ability

821
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:17,000
to play in the tight spaces and to link up play in the middle of the pitch.

822
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:22,000
And because he's got very smart teammates, he's always got someone to pick out, man.

823
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:27,000
Yeah, fair to say, of course.

824
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:31,000
Seeing as the success he's found in his career has come literally from that position.

825
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:35,000
I believe he was a striker at Bruges when he was bought,

826
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:41,000
because that was one of the things people used to say when he would play as a trequartista for Milan,

827
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,000
that that wasn't his position at Bruges.

828
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:49,000
Yeah, who would have thought he would play him in his position and he would do better.

829
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,000
When in Bruges, right?

830
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:52,000
When in Bruges.

831
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,000
Yes, I'm totally impressed by this guy.

832
01:03:54,000 --> 01:04:02,000
However, as a striker, your mental strength is very important.

833
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:07,000
And CTK has proven that when it's not going his way, it's devastating.

834
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,000
Now, I don't know if that's because he was 21 years older.

835
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:12,000
I don't know if that's something that we'll be seeing throughout his career,

836
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:16,000
but I really do hope that's something he overcomes, because as a striker,

837
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,000
if you're going to make it all the way to the top, being ruthless

838
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:24,000
will be the difference between becoming Benzema or becoming Higuain.

839
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:25,000
You know what I mean?

840
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:29,000
Like, they were on a similar level at their best, Higuain and Benzema.

841
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:37,000
Higuain just had that confidence block, that issue, when it came to finishing,

842
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,000
especially in big moments and big games.

843
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:42,000
It's a momentum game with strikers like that.

844
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:45,000
It's either penalty, it goes a season or it's fucking three.

845
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:46,000
Absolutely.

846
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,000
Imagine in a world.

847
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:57,000
So obviously, Atalanta have the option to buy CDK for 25 million, correct?

848
01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:01,000
Now imagine Atalanta are like, you know what?

849
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:07,000
He's been great, 25 million is a lot of money, and would rather invest it elsewhere.

850
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:14,000
Let's imagine a world where Atalanta would not extend or not exercise their option to buy CDK.

851
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,000
And he ends up back at Milan.

852
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:19,000
Who's that?

853
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:23,000
Conte, come in, 352, CDK up top.

854
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:24,000
Boom.

855
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:34,000
That sounds nice, but I'm pretty sure Atalanta have already made it very clear that they're going to exercise the option.

856
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:38,000
It's 25 million for them, it's looking like a steal right now.

857
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:39,000
Yeah.

858
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:45,000
Imagine Lea or Leafs, you know, he goes to PSG and Milan get shards back and they're up for a 352 on their Conte.

859
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:47,000
Oh no, I don't know, just, you know.

860
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,000
That sounds weird.

861
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:53,000
I'm feeling a bit sick, bro, to be honest with you right now.

862
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:56,000
Conte has already shard the K-tile.

863
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:57,000
And Lea or God?

864
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:02,000
No, no, crazy stuff, crazy stuff.

865
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:11,000
Miran Truc is a player I really want to highlight because as you said, he links play to the attacking end seamlessly.

866
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:19,000
It's weird, this comparison that I'm about to make, but on the ball, with the ball at his feet,

867
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:24,000
his style and his technique reminds me so much of Modric.

868
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,000
I'm not even kidding you.

869
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:29,000
Is it the close ball control and the ability to shift?

870
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:34,000
Exactly, exactly, very well put, and it's also the inability to lose the ball.

871
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:39,000
I draw that comparison and I'm not kidding around.

872
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:42,000
Except when he loses the ball, Miran Truc doesn't even move, you know.

873
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:45,000
Modric will go running for it like this.

874
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:51,000
No, Modric is a harder working player, but obviously not drawing comparison between Ballon d'Or,

875
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:57,000
winning fucking Luca Modric, World Cup finalist Luca Modric and Miran Truc.

876
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:04,000
But the technique, I really see similarity.

877
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:10,000
I mean, it's fine to say that they look similar.

878
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:18,000
It reminds you of it, you know, I mean, there were moments where people would say that Gurkhaf reminded them of fucking Kaka.

879
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:19,000
You remember that shit?

880
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:26,000
Gurkhaf's nowhere near Kaka, but maybe certain movement reminded people of a certain player.

881
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:27,000
That's perfectly fine.

882
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,000
Lea reminds people of Thierry Henry.

883
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:34,000
Lea was a long way to go before he's at the level Thierry Henry was, but there's something there.

884
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:35,000
Thank you for standing up for me.

885
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:36,000
You're welcome.

886
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:40,000
On our podcast, brother, I suddenly feel much more confident doing this.

887
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:41,000
That's great, man.

888
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:44,000
Don't worry, I'll deal with the hate.

889
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:51,000
But Miran Truc is amazing and they are stacked in that area.

890
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:57,000
And I just, I find it weird that they let him go to Torino last season for a season long loan, like,

891
01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:01,000
because they had also removed Malinovsky that season.

892
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:07,000
And I feel like, I don't know, man, maybe if they had Miran Truc, they would have had a fucking better season last season.

893
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,000
They could have definitely used him.

894
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:16,000
But one thing about Miran Truc was he's never been this consistent ever since coming back from consistent playing time at Torino.

895
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:18,000
His Torino spell was very successful.

896
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:21,000
You know, he scored, he scored four goals over there.

897
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:22,000
He had a really good season.

898
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:23,000
He played 29 games.

899
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,000
He was, he was very good for them consistent.

900
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:35,000
I think that was the first time since his Moscow days, his locomotive Moscow days, that he actually had a full season being an important player.

901
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,000
At Atlanta, it was always a fringe player.

902
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:39,000
You know, he spent two years kind of on and off.

903
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:44,000
But yeah, nice to see that he's developed and he's 28 years old.

904
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:46,000
He's not as young as you would think he is.

905
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:49,000
Well, he ain't no spring chicken at 28 years old.

906
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:50,000
Definitely not.

907
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:53,000
And it is complicated when you send out a guy on loan at 27.

908
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:56,000
But I think this is one of those cases where it worked out well.

909
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:58,000
You know what?

910
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:01,000
Nana Mer told me at lunch the other day, bro.

911
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:03,000
She's like, I don't believe what she told me.

912
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:09,000
She was like, how are you going to be Matt?

913
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,000
My birthday is at the end of February.

914
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:13,000
It's my lucky birthday in exactly 20 days.

915
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,000
I thought I'm going to be 27.

916
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:18,000
She's like 27.

917
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:21,000
Like you are not a teenager.

918
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,000
Like don't think you're a teenager anymore.

919
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,000
I'm like, thanks, Nana.

920
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,000
You fucking bitch.

921
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:31,000
Very nice of you to say what are you?

922
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,000
74, relax.

923
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:37,000
Why were you acting in a rascally way?

924
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:38,000
You were there.

925
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:39,000
I was fine.

926
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,000
I was sitting down eating my avocado toast.

927
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,000
Don't act like no teenager.

928
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:47,000
This is like a way past your prime.

929
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:50,000
But anyway, enough about Nana Mer.

930
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:57,000
Before we discuss Lattio and where perhaps they are struggling a little bit,

931
01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:03,000
I do want to point out a very sad, some sad news that we've heard.

932
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:07,000
Muriel apparently linked to a move to Amoraga.

933
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:08,000
He's gone.

934
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:09,000
He's gone.

935
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:10,000
He's gone.

936
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:11,000
He's gone.

937
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,000
He's gone.

938
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:13,000
He's gone.

939
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:14,000
He's gone.

940
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:15,000
Amoraga.

941
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:16,000
He's off to America.

942
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:17,000
Lewis Muriel in America.

943
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:18,000
Yes.

944
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:24,000
I mean, Muriel has never been the epitome of peak footballing fitness, you know,

945
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:26,000
and peak physical level.

946
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:31,000
He's a player who we kind of knew that wouldn't have longevity to his name.

947
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:40,000
Yeah, and I think maybe a season or two in the MLS followed by a return to Colombia

948
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:44,000
to play for his boyhood club or something of the sort.

949
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:48,000
He can hang up his boots, he's had a good career.

950
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:52,000
At least he was very highly rated on Seria Spotlight.

951
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:54,000
Absolutely, one of our favorites.

952
01:10:54,000 --> 01:11:00,000
You know how we said that you can draw comparison through a play style?

953
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,000
Here it comes.

954
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:05,000
Three, two, one, El Fenomeno.

955
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,000
Yes, El Fenomeno.

956
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:09,000
Yes, absolutely.

957
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:14,000
And this isn't only us, you know, I mean, of course, this is a comparison that has been

958
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:16,000
made many times by many people.

959
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:20,000
It's the way he moves, the way he rounds the goalkeeper, the way he moves, the way he

960
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:26,500
like a ballet dancer, the way he bounces the fucking, he does this bounce shot thing

961
01:11:26,500 --> 01:11:28,000
of the ground, you know, is it?

962
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:30,000
He does make that booty pop as well, bro.

963
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:31,000
He does, man.

964
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:32,000
He does make that booty pop.

965
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:33,000
He's thick.

966
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:34,000
He's thick.

967
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:35,000
Muriel was incredible.

968
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:39,000
Just a small kind of note on Lazio.

969
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:46,000
They're in a massive transition phase and it's no wonder that they do tend to struggle

970
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:47,000
in these scenarios.

971
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:53,000
You look at this team, this is very different to the squad that they had last year, bro.

972
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:57,000
Okay, Profidel was there, Lazari Romagnoli, Marisic, Alberto Anderson.

973
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:00,000
The rest are a different dog.

974
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:01,000
They've got Gila.

975
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:05,000
They're midfielders, Guendusi and Rovela alongside Luis Alberto.

976
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:11,000
They've got Isaacson and Tati Castellanos again and I know I've exhausted this point.

977
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:18,000
But they lost Sergei, who was their guy, their star, their fucking star.

978
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:23,000
And Ciro Mopile is not the player that he used to be.

979
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:29,000
He's showing, perhaps finally showing his age and he's looking like Italy's a Mopile

980
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:32,000
and Lazio's heroic immobilia.

981
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:40,000
And remember all the stats of how many goals these two players have scored in combinations,

982
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:48,000
like assisting each other, finishing off each other's assists, so on and so forth.

983
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:55,000
And we know that Lazio last season and the season before, they were very attacking side

984
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:59,000
getting you all of these goals because they were capable of utilizing those two players

985
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:06,000
as their main outlet and if not, there's Anderson and if not, there's Acani and if not, there's Luis Alberto

986
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:12,000
and there's always Mopile being a poacher inside the box and they had their ways to get goals.

987
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:22,000
Now Tati Castellanos, Isaacson to his right and Guendusi, Rovela behind him, it's not bad

988
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:27,000
but it's a transition. It's a transitional season for Lazio.

989
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:29,000
Which sucks.

990
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:34,000
It sucks because they don't have any guarantees that Sarri will be there next season.

991
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:39,000
Philip Anderson is apparently joining Juve, he'll be going as a free agent.

992
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:46,000
Luis Alberto is approaching the latter stages of his career and he's 31 years old.

993
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:50,000
A move is now or never for him if he wants to have a new experience.

994
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:53,000
I'm surprised he hasn't mentioned it yet.

995
01:13:53,000 --> 01:14:02,000
Yeah, honestly. You risk the transitional year being just a wasted year and next year being the transitional year.

996
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:06,000
It would be hard to keep this group together without European football.

997
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:11,000
So let's hope they get their shit together and that they start to play more consistently

998
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:18,000
and get these wins up because honestly it's going to be difficult for them to maintain consistency going into next season.

999
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:22,000
They had a point where they seemed to have things figured out.

1000
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:27,000
They recovered and they went on the streak but now it seems...

1001
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:33,000
No, look, they'll fight for Europa. They'll fight for Champions League

1002
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:36,000
but they'll probably make Europa or a conference.

1003
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:40,000
They're still in the mix but it's just...

1004
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:46,000
Before the draw to Napoli and the loss in this, they were doing quite well.

1005
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:48,000
They were on a winning streak.

1006
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:50,000
One, two, three, four, five game winning streak.

1007
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:55,000
Let's say Roma with Denese, Frosenana and Ampoly.

1008
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:57,000
Roma was in the Coppa.

1009
01:14:57,000 --> 01:14:59,000
Yes, exactly.

1010
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:02,000
Brother, Ayn Maiden said it best.

1011
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:03,000
What's that?

1012
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:08,000
So understand the wasted times always searching for those wasted years.

1013
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:13,000
Lazio find themselves in ninth on 34 points

1014
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:18,000
whilst Atalanta find themselves in fourth on 39 points.

1015
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:26,000
They have a game in hand and if they win that then there'll still be a bunch of points behind Milan but game in hand.

1016
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:27,000
Delicious.

1017
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:29,000
Roma took on Calieri.

1018
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:33,000
It's against Inter so take that claim that they might win it lightly.

1019
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:39,000
Roma took on Calieri at home and smashed them for zero brother.

1020
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:45,000
It's safe to say that they absolutely annihilated them.

1021
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:53,000
I can't use the adjectives that I want to use to describe what Roma did to Calieri.

1022
01:15:53,000 --> 01:16:01,000
Let's just say that the Calieri players must have taken a very long shower after this game.

1023
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:12,000
I think they performed Roma performed every possible form of assault on Calieri, every single one.

1024
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:19,000
And this is interesting and there are scenes, there are scenes Roma, it could have gone terribly wrong.

1025
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:25,000
This is the important thing about bringing in a new man when the fixed share list is kind of easy.

1026
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:32,000
Not easy, just less demanding because Mazzari came in and the games he had to take on ahead of him.

1027
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:36,000
That's a baptism of fire I've ever seen one in my life.

1028
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:41,000
But Roma came in, they had to play three teams or bottom tier.

1029
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:45,000
So that was good for him to get some confidence in the team as well.

1030
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:49,000
The way they're playing these guys, counter attacking force.

1031
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:57,000
The commentator came in to the game and was like, to be honest, Roma draw points over here, I'm really not going to be surprised.

1032
01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:05,000
I watched their game against Salerno Tarn and I thought they were awful, especially this Elsharao guy.

1033
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:13,000
The commentator, I thought you were saying me because I played money on a fucking Calieri or draw and both teams scored.

1034
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:21,000
The commentator couldn't believe what he was seeing, he was like, why is Elsharao good? Why are Roma doing this?

1035
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:23,000
Why do they look so good?

1036
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:28,000
Honestly, I haven't seen Elsharao play like this since he was a freaking teenager.

1037
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:34,000
But since he had that very, very, very spiky Mohawk that you could chop a tree down with.

1038
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:40,000
They got to be glued Mohawk with the line, how many times I've asked for that in my life.

1039
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:48,000
So Lorenzo's lineups, I was going to go straight into the action.

1040
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:52,000
Don't forget Jesse Pinkman as the left back for Roma.

1041
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:58,000
Don't worry brother, of course. For Roma it was a 4-3-3 formation with Rui Patercio and Goat.

1042
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:04,000
Cars door upon the right, Jesse Pinkman on the left with Mancini and Lorente at the back of you wondering who they are.

1043
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:11,000
Jesse Pinkman, that's their new boy Angelino. Angelino. He's got the little whoop whoop whoop on the end.

1044
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,000
Like Gilar de Nio.

1045
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:20,000
Two seasons ago I was 84. What happened? I lose a leg or something? I lose a leg or what?

1046
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:28,000
Angelino brother, first of all he wears the number 69 on his kit. So respect automatically.

1047
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:31,000
Yes, definitely. Him and Drangovsky, ballers.

1048
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:38,000
Second of all, I've been a fan of this guy. Seeing him sporadically in the Champions League with Leipzig,

1049
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:43,000
I've always thought Angelino was a good hard working, industrious, skillful...

1050
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:48,000
Much like Jesse Pinkman. He's a great fullback.

1051
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:53,000
He showed that in his first game to be honest. He demonstrated it immediately.

1052
01:18:53,000 --> 01:19:00,000
Pellegrini, Paredes and Cristante were in the midfield with DiBala, Lukaku and Dari Sharawi playing up front in his 4-3-3 system.

1053
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:08,000
Ranieri went to the 3-5-2 formation, starting with Skoufé and Goul, Obert, Mina and Dossena at the back.

1054
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:17,000
Did I know Mina was at Calieri when this game started? No. I found out during the line-up.

1055
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:19,000
So I was like, there's Yeri Mina.

1056
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:23,000
I found out because his bar on my Fanta culture went to green and it's never green.

1057
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:27,000
I'm like, what the hell, Fiorintina are starting Mina? I went to check and it's like Mina, Calieri.

1058
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:35,000
He got beaten in the air by Huys in this game. We can see why he's been sent out on loan.

1059
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:44,000
Atzi was out on the left, Zappa on the right, Nandes, Pratian, Makumbu were in the middle with Lapadula and Petania as the not-so-formidable striking partnership.

1060
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:50,000
Lorenzo Pellegrini's early goal set the tone after Petania spilled the ball into his path after a corner,

1061
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:54,000
followed by Angelino whipping in a delicious ball to Cristante who struck the post.

1062
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:58,000
The ballers well worked effort on the penalty conversion after the break.

1063
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:04,000
Maitre was 3-0 for Roma and then teenage Redine Huyson who's currently on loan from Juventus,

1064
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:08,000
added to the tally with a towering header from Paredes' corner.

1065
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:13,000
Calieri are on a 16-game winless away run and they struggle to make an impact.

1066
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:16,000
They miss their chances and var over turn the penalty.

1067
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:21,000
The baller had opportunities for a hat-trick while Lukaku's efforts were denied.

1068
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:26,000
The result places Calieri back into the relegation zone after the heaviest defeat of the season

1069
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:31,000
while Roma and Beton in the last 9 hit the head-encounters rise to 5th.

1070
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:39,000
So I hate to say this, I have their kit, I really like them, I love Sardinia,

1071
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:45,000
I love the current setup of the team, I love Ranieri,

1072
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:51,000
Calieri through no fault of their setup, of their management or whatever,

1073
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:57,000
they are very very very limited when it comes to quality players.

1074
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,000
Very limited when it comes to quality players.

1075
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:05,000
Especially because Lovumbo's been away at Afqon, because with Lovumbo on the side,

1076
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,000
especially coming on in the second half.

1077
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:09,000
They could be pragmatic and then breakthrough.

1078
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:10,000
Exactly.

1079
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:18,000
And you know what man, having Lovumbo and Viola, and ok, Makhumbu, let's include Makhumbu as well,

1080
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:22,000
it gives you a little bit of quality, just a splash, a dollop of quality.

1081
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:26,000
Or Estanio's out in Jets, Shamoradov is out in Jets, so is Rogue.

1082
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:34,000
Yeah, it's not really going well for them, but I don't understand this idea of playing Lapadoula and Beton

1083
01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:36,000
together up front against Roma.

1084
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:41,000
What's the plan here, go for a more mobile team, go for a counter attacking team,

1085
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:45,000
we're playing two essentially target men, two target men up front.

1086
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:47,000
That's exactly what they're doing.

1087
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:52,000
Yeah, and in fact when Lovumbo eventually did come on, I know that you can't really,

1088
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:56,000
they couldn't have given him more time in this game, because he'd just come back from Afqon.

1089
01:21:56,000 --> 01:22:00,000
And you would have thought, by the way, he came back from Ibiza, bro, he came back blonde.

1090
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:06,000
But he looks as good as ever after his experience with Angola.

1091
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:12,000
It makes me love the decision to get this hair dyed, it's like go to the African cup of nations,

1092
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:21,000
and then before I go to continue to play for Kalyari, I'll get a quick, I'll just get my hair dyed, blonde,

1093
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:23,000
and then go back.

1094
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:27,000
Unless you really wanted to stand out at the tournament, I'm sure he had it for the tournament.

1095
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:29,000
Ah, perhaps.

1096
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:31,000
For sure.

1097
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:38,000
Roma's next game will be very telling as it is against Inter, so we'll see what Daros is made of.

1098
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:43,000
Let's see if he's really got that spunk, or if he's just been bullying kids in the playground.

1099
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:47,000
Kalyari, of course, are in a little bit of a tough situation right now.

1100
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:51,000
We'll see how they can do to recover.

1101
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:58,000
The relegation battle is getting tighter and tighter, and I am seriously concerned about some of these teams that I love,

1102
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:02,000
because I'm looking down there and I'm like, these guys aren't all terrible, you know what I mean?

1103
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:08,000
Like, Hellas Verona are the ones who've really moved many of their good players on,

1104
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:10,000
so you think that they're automatically candidates.

1105
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:13,000
You think that Odineza and Saswolo are simply out of pedigree,

1106
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:17,000
and because of the fact that they've been in Serie A for so long, and they have so many quality players,

1107
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:19,000
you think they're safe.

1108
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:21,000
That doesn't leave many teams to get relegated, man.

1109
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:24,000
You look at Leccia and Monza as well, they've been playing well.

1110
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:29,000
Genoa have been playing well, that literally leaves, let's say Verona, and then two of Kalyari and Polly and Salernitana,

1111
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:32,000
and then Polly have been playing much better than the other two.

1112
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:34,000
So perhaps Kalyari and Salernitana.

1113
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:40,000
I'm not going to say anyone is safe, but I wouldn't count Genoa and Monza as part of the conversation.

1114
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:44,000
I think 13th down, they are all part of the conversation.

1115
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,000
Absolutely, yes.

1116
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:50,000
I'm talking Verona, Odineza, Saswolo, Frozano and Leccia, all part of the conversation.

1117
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:55,000
34 points, you're safe, and Genoa and Monza are on 29.

1118
01:23:55,000 --> 01:24:01,000
And Polly got relegated with 34 points once upon a time, and a piece of cherry wood, something like that.

1119
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:04,000
Okay, let's say high 30s, you're usually safe.

1120
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:10,000
Okay, so that's literally fucking 10 more points for Genoa and Monza, they're fine.

1121
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:12,000
But yeah, they can definitely do that.

1122
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:16,000
As per the standings, Genoa, Genoa.

1123
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,000
Not Genoa, we're just talking about Genoa.

1124
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:26,000
Kalyari are in 18th with 18 points, while Roma have clients to 5th with 38 points.

1125
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:35,000
Leccia 3-Fiorintina 2, finally, probably the best game of matchday 23, brother.

1126
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:36,000
What a game it was.

1127
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,000
What a game, a Friday night thriller.

1128
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:41,000
Mm-mm-mm, brother, and where we thrilled.

1129
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:47,000
Leccia were coming off a 2-1 loss to Genoa, while Sforintina were coming off a 1-0 home loss to Inter.

1130
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:55,000
The previous encounter was a 2 draw between these two sides, so Sforintina have failed to beat Leccia this season.

1131
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:56,000
How funny is that?

1132
01:24:56,000 --> 01:25:05,000
No significant injuries for either side, but breaking news, in case we haven't mentioned it, Strafetza to Komo Dan.

1133
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:08,000
He is no longer part of the Leccia team.

1134
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:10,000
The guy was a staple for them.

1135
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:22,000
He will be remembered in Leccia, especially for his season last season, where Leccia had just come back up and he was shaken at Boody and dribbling those players.

1136
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,000
He looked really good.

1137
01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:28,000
It was a 4-2-3-1 formation for Leccia.

1138
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:34,000
It was Falcone in goal and a backline of Gallo, Basquiro, Topangracic and Gendry.

1139
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:41,000
It was Blyn and Kaba as the double pivot with Banda on the left, Anquist on the right and Udon playing behind Christovic.

1140
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:49,000
There's also a 4-2-3-1 for Fiorentina, Terra Ciano in goal and a backline of Farooni, Martinez, Ranieri and Biragi.

1141
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:52,000
When I say Martinez, not sure it's Martinez-Quarta.

1142
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:59,000
Maxime Lopes started in the double pivot alongside Duncan.

1143
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:06,000
Inzola was on the right, Sotil was on the left and Bonaventura played behind Beltran.

1144
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:15,000
Now, Chaos ensued in the 10th minute as Kaba struck the post with a powerful header and Terra Ciano denied a follow-up attempt by Anquist.

1145
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:20,000
In the 17th minute, Leccia opened the scoring through an Udon free kick.

1146
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:30,000
It was a very close-range free kick that went through the wall and into the bottom corner, slugged goal, but the wall was absolutely atrocious.

1147
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:35,000
It was Sotil who moved his lower body out of the way for some fucking unknown reason.

1148
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:44,000
Bonaventura didn't stand too far behind, he kind of went a bit to the left, but it was all Sotil, the way he raised his knees up to his chest and turned to the side.

1149
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:47,000
He jumped up and did a split midair.

1150
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:55,000
I'm going to be honest, I'm going to be so straight to the point. If you're a pussy, you can't be in a wall.

1151
01:26:55,000 --> 01:27:01,000
Because if you're going to jump quickly, give me five players in the league who should never be in the wall.

1152
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:06,000
By God, last season's have been so much easier because the first two that came...

1153
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:09,000
So, Banda, he's like what, 5-1?

1154
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:13,000
Yeah, it's 5-3 and I agree Banda should never be in the wall.

1155
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:16,000
Sotil, clearly, should never be in a wall again.

1156
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:18,000
Should CDK be in the wall?

1157
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:21,000
I think CDK can be in a wall. He's tall, he's tall.

1158
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:23,000
But is he brave? That's the question.

1159
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:28,000
Probably not. We've seen him roar. It's not the most intimidating thing ever.

1160
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:32,000
Who should be in a wall? I like this question.

1161
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:39,000
I'm going to say Debala and Kiesa because if they jump too high, they risk injury.

1162
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:41,000
The both of them.

1163
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:43,000
I have a dream wall, bro.

1164
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:46,000
You have a dream wall? I haven't said my fifth one.

1165
01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:48,000
Well, to be honest with you, I don't have my fifth one yet.

1166
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:52,000
Simeon Wanguo, Luka, Yerimina, Bascarotta.

1167
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:55,000
My God, my formidable wall.

1168
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:58,000
The great wall of Serie A.

1169
01:27:58,000 --> 01:28:02,000
That is a great wall, to be honest.

1170
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:04,000
And then Vanya and Gord.

1171
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:06,000
Oh my God, Vanya should be in the wall.

1172
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:09,000
I can't think of a fifth one.

1173
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:14,000
But I'm going to go for Barella because he also gets hurt very frequently.

1174
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:19,000
And if he gets hit by a ball, then he might spend 10 minutes rolling around on the floor.

1175
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:24,000
I wouldn't want my most, in ideal, an ideal, an ideal.

1176
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:32,000
My most ideal wall would be like Guendouzi and Xerxie and all these Afro having players.

1177
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:37,000
The ball flies through them out of the fucking bushes.

1178
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:40,000
Well, that was Udon opening the scoring in the 17th minute.

1179
01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:45,000
And it's good to mention that before this, Lecce had hit the post, as I mentioned earlier,

1180
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:47,000
but went off a bit of a tangent.

1181
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:51,000
Moment later, the 26th minute was all Lecce at this point.

1182
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:57,000
They were at it again when Kristovic hit the post when striking on the turn after a quick counter-attack.

1183
01:28:57,000 --> 01:29:01,000
So Lecce entered the second half with a 1-0 advantage.

1184
01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:07,000
However, in the 50th minute, Mandragora managed to get an equaliser for Fiorintina.

1185
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:10,000
The substitute came on along with Bellotti to try and find a goal,

1186
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:14,000
but it was the midfielder that managed after striking on the bounce from outside the area

1187
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:16,000
after collecting a defensive clearance.

1188
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:22,000
It was a magnificent, powerful, low strike that was a contender for a goal of the week.

1189
01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:27,000
In the 63rd minute, Banda failed to score past Terraciano when cleaned through on goal.

1190
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:32,000
He found himself in such a position after Milenko, which failed to control the ball at the back,

1191
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:38,000
totally fumbled it and obviously couldn't catch up with Banda once he got hold of the ball.

1192
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:43,000
67th minute, Beltran made it 2-1 for Fiorintina.

1193
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:50,000
The Argentine intercepted a horribly dangerous pass by Falcone.

1194
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:54,000
And just one touch and he guides it into the back of the net.

1195
01:29:54,000 --> 01:30:00,000
Horrible stuff by the keeper, just never played that kind of pass.

1196
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:06,000
Dreadful stuff, but great, great press by Beltran over there to put pressure on the keeper

1197
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:09,000
and to force the error out of him.

1198
01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:13,000
Bellotti almost opened his account for Fiorintina in the 87th minute,

1199
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:18,000
only for his very Bellotti-esque volley to strike the woodwork.

1200
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:23,000
Bellotti-esque volley is a very scrappy, hard-working volley that ends up being quite dangerous.

1201
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:26,000
If you watch Bellotti, then you know exactly what I mean.

1202
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:29,000
Kind of volley that your mouth is wide open while you're doing it.

1203
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:35,000
Like the form isn't great, but he should have never gotten to it, but he got to it.

1204
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:39,000
You're hunched over, you know, kind of leg in the air, I know exactly what you mean.

1205
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:41,000
Bellotti always looks uncomfortable, doesn't he?

1206
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:42,000
He does.

1207
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:44,000
He always looks like he's freezing, bro.

1208
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:46,000
He always looks like he's freezing.

1209
01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:49,000
That's an interesting lipo, yes, I see it.

1210
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:54,000
Thank you, 98th minute, let's check at an equalizer, it's fucking Piccoli.

1211
01:30:54,000 --> 01:31:00,000
It was a free kick cross by Sansone that was meant to be headed away by Insola,

1212
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:08,000
but instead, perfectly guided to Piccoli who rose the highest and headed in very well.

1213
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:13,000
I've never seen anything like that, like Insola.

1214
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:20,000
Like I've never seen someone try to clear a ball and he puts it on a plate for someone else.

1215
01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:25,000
It's just next level, I bet you, Fiorintino fans kind of wish that Insola had gone to Afgan.

1216
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:28,000
Yeah, well, bro, so true.

1217
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:31,000
I don't know why I get the feeling that Insola will end up in Turkey.

1218
01:31:31,000 --> 01:31:32,000
I think he'll like it.

1219
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:34,000
He's got that vibe about him.

1220
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:36,000
Roberto Piccoli is on five goals this season.

1221
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:37,000
Yes, he is.

1222
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:42,000
I have an argument to make with you about how he should be starting out of Kristovic.

1223
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:45,000
90 second minute.

1224
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:52,000
You'd think that Lecce are busy celebrating their equalizer to get a great point against Fiorintino

1225
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:57,000
where they expect it to get nothing but absolute scenes.

1226
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:00,000
Scenes, Dorgo with the winner.

1227
01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:05,000
He smashed the ball into the top corner after Terraciano saved Kristovic strike well.

1228
01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:07,000
Two goals in two minutes.

1229
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:12,000
He's off celebrating, going crazy with the fans, immaculate stuff.

1230
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:18,000
I really didn't think Lecce would get anything out of this game, but they got away with all three points.

1231
01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:20,000
What did you make of it, bro?

1232
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:24,000
Why did Fiorintino struggle so much in this game?

1233
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:29,000
So, Lecce came into this game ready.

1234
01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:38,000
They were totally ready to take on Fiorintino and to really push for something more than perhaps draw this game.

1235
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:46,000
I really liked the approach with the high aggressive press and it turns out that the substitutes were bang on as well

1236
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:48,000
by what's his name?

1237
01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:50,000
His name escapes me right now, brother.

1238
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:51,000
Letras manager.

1239
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:53,000
Yes, Daversa.

1240
01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:55,000
You did nothing.

1241
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:59,000
They scored in the 90th and the 92nd minutes to get the winners.

1242
01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:06,000
That winning goal can be simply a case of Fiorintino losing focus after conceding a goal in the 90th minute.

1243
01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:08,000
They're like, damn, we've thrown the lead.

1244
01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:14,000
And then while they're thinking, damn, we got nothing out of this game because Patrick Dorgo is scoring the winner.

1245
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:19,000
So, yeah, I think that's pretty much what happened.

1246
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:26,000
Yeah, and also you look at the form of Fiorintino at the moment, they haven't been doing great.

1247
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:34,000
Let's be real, they had every opportunity to be in fifth because Roma were slipping up, Bologna were slipping up,

1248
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:42,000
Napoli were slipping up, Lazio keep slipping up, but they have failed to remain consistent and get wins when they needed wins.

1249
01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:48,000
If you look at their past four games, they don't have a single win, bro, in their past four games and they have three losses and one draw.

1250
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:52,000
And I think a large part of that comes for two reasons.

1251
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:55,000
Number one, I feel like they're struggling a lot defensively.

1252
01:33:55,000 --> 01:34:00,000
I think if you put pressure on Fiorintino, chances are you're going to score against them.

1253
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:03,000
Secondly, they sit, well, there are three things.

1254
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:11,000
Okay. Secondly, I don't feel like they properly control games and games kind of escape them a little bit.

1255
01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:23,000
Now, I don't quite know why that is, but it's there, it doesn't seem like the game is ever in their control and they're always catching up to it.

1256
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:27,000
Third point is they suck at scoring goals.

1257
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:31,000
They are not a creative team by any way.

1258
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:36,000
Beltran and Dinsola are not the strikers that they want.

1259
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:42,000
Now they brought in Bellotti and he came in off the bench, you know, just until he settles.

1260
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:47,000
Nico came in off the bench because he's coming back from injury.

1261
01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:50,000
And just at the moment, it's all going south for them.

1262
01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:55,000
And all they needed was to come up against a highly motivated Lecce team who are battling relegation.

1263
01:34:55,000 --> 01:35:00,000
And they know that every, every point is crucial and they were fearless against Fiorintino.

1264
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:03,000
They really, really took the game to them, bro.

1265
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:14,000
Yes, I think Bellotti is the type of profile that actually fits this Fiorintino better than, this Fiorintino side better than Beltran or Dinsola do.

1266
01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:18,000
I like what Bellotti can do in link-up play.

1267
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:27,000
I like the type of, like towards the latter part of his season, at his tenner, sorry, his tenure at Torino.

1268
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:32,000
He was playing balls from deep, you know, deep, forward balls.

1269
01:35:32,000 --> 01:35:35,000
Like, through balls, defence cutting balls.

1270
01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:39,000
It just goes to show, you know, there's a lot more to his skill set than we've seen at Roma.

1271
01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:49,000
And I think this could be a good environment for him where he's competing with two strikers who, one of them, Zola, is just offering nothing in play.

1272
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:53,000
And it's assisting the other team and scoring penalties, you know.

1273
01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:59,000
And then you have Lucas Beltran who granted his goals, are coming through very hard work

1274
01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:03,000
and very high levels of awareness.

1275
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:13,000
He's a hustler, but it's not been easy for him at all and he has struggled to settle into this Fiorintino side.

1276
01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:19,000
So I think that number nine position is there for the taking, and I think Bellotti is a good candidate for it.

1277
01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:26,000
Yeah, I think so. How much would they be kicking themselves that they let Jovic go on a one-year contract with Milan?

1278
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:36,000
Probably not too much, because we saw the way he was playing at Fiorintino and he was very frustrating to watch.

1279
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:41,000
It was over one season, bro, and he was also very good for them in Europe. Don't forget that.

1280
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:43,000
In the conference stick he was a monster for them.

1281
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:47,000
Yeah, they might be kicking themselves, they probably are kicking themselves, let's be real.

1282
01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:57,000
But Fiorintino like to put strikers in the box and feed them, and Jovic is not that guy.

1283
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:06,000
No, I mean you're absolutely right. But let's move towards Lecce a little bit.

1284
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:11,000
We've often, well, we haven't really often debated it, but you are a fan of Kristovic.

1285
01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:18,000
And the fact that obviously Kristovic does tend to create chances where chances aren't there to be created.

1286
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:24,000
He'll have a strike from distance, give you a good shot on the turn.

1287
01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:32,000
What is obviously really struggling for goals, he got one recently, but let's not pretend that that wasn't a crazy own goal.

1288
01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:35,000
Let's not pretend that was the case.

1289
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:42,000
Pickoli, to me, looks more certain to grab a goal.

1290
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:47,000
When Pickoli is playing, he's simply grabbing goals and Kristovic is not.

1291
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:49,000
So I can't help but be more towards Pickoli.

1292
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:57,000
It's a matter of form, towards the beginning of the season, no one would have ever dreamt of displacing Kristovic for Pickoli.

1293
01:37:57,000 --> 01:38:06,000
But it turns out that their form is working in parallel ways, which is actually a very good thing for Lecce, because they always have one firing.

1294
01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:08,000
Like last year with Cece and Colombo.

1295
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:13,000
Exactly, literally, literally, literally. That could be a way in managing their men, that could be intentional.

1296
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:14,000
Who knows, we're not there.

1297
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:18,000
Oh, Kristovic has more goals. Kristovic has five, Pickoli has four.

1298
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:26,000
Kristovic started the season super well, man, and he was looking like a natural striker, and now it's clearly a problem of confidence.

1299
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:32,000
And he has improved. This game, he got quite close to scoring. The goal on the rebound was his shot.

1300
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:39,000
Yes, but I find that Pickoli is more intelligent when it comes to his positioning as a number nine.

1301
01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:46,000
I feel like he finds himself in goalscoring opportunities more often than Kristovic.

1302
01:38:46,000 --> 01:38:50,000
I'm not so sure I agree with that. I like Kristovic as a...

1303
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:56,000
I love Kristovic as a fox in the box. I think his movement is more...

1304
01:38:56,000 --> 01:38:59,000
Some fox, he is. Some fucking fox.

1305
01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:04,000
But you know what, man, this is a good problem for Lecce to have, because they're both 23 years old.

1306
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:10,000
They're both scoring and say, you know what, they have two potential good sales over there.

1307
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:17,000
Yeah, apparently Lecce have a certain Salvatore Sulla as one of their coaches.

1308
01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:22,000
And apparently since his arrival, the team has been performing much better.

1309
01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:32,000
So I don't know enough about Salvatore Sulla, what he's doing, and why he's making Lecce better, but Salvatore...

1310
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:36,000
You're listening. Good on you, man.

1311
01:39:36,000 --> 01:39:37,000
Keep it up, man.

1312
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:38,000
Keep it up.

1313
01:39:38,000 --> 01:39:44,000
Fioridina find themselves down in eighth. That's how fragile your position is in this league.

1314
01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:53,000
In eighth place on 34 points, whilst Lecce, massive step in the right direction for them, they're in 13th on 24 points.

1315
01:39:53,000 --> 01:40:00,000
Some breathing space now. Six points ahead of 18th place Kalyarian, 17th place Verona.

1316
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:07,000
The Emilia Clarke from Game of Thrones Derby. Bologna 4, Sa Swolo 2.

1317
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:09,000
You don't get that reference because...

1318
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:10,000
Of course I don't.

1319
01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:12,000
You've never watched Game of Thrones.

1320
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:14,000
I never watched.

1321
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:16,000
You've never been disappointed by the worst ending I've ever seen in my life.

1322
01:40:16,000 --> 01:40:21,000
Really? I remember you couldn't stop talking about it.

1323
01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:25,000
Because Game of Thrones is incredible, bro.

1324
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:29,000
It's just a journey up until the final season.

1325
01:40:29,000 --> 01:40:33,000
And it's an incredible journey. It takes you through a range of emotions.

1326
01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:34,000
You sound like a mother.

1327
01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:37,000
It's fucking incredible, man. It's incredible, honestly.

1328
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:43,000
And you never know what's gonna happen, bro. You can't get emotionally attached to anyone because they'll just fucking kill them off.

1329
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:45,000
It's a crazy good show.

1330
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:53,000
But then the last season was just rushed because apparently they had a contract to make some Disney film Star Wars or something.

1331
01:40:53,000 --> 01:40:54,000
Yon, bro.

1332
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:55,000
Yon.

1333
01:40:55,000 --> 01:40:56,000
Yon, it was fucking...

1334
01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:58,000
I can't win that, basically.

1335
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:01,000
I can never watch Game of Thrones because of my fucking pride, man.

1336
01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:03,000
Because my ex-girlfriend was always like,

1337
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:07,000
I can't believe you never watch Game of Thrones. It's an egg. It's an egg that never watch Game of Thrones.

1338
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:09,000
It's like the greatest of all time.

1339
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:11,000
You're not hipster, man. Not watch it.

1340
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:13,000
I'm like, let's watch it then. Let's fucking watch it.

1341
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:15,000
Watch season one.

1342
01:41:15,000 --> 01:41:17,000
Oh, sorry. Every watched episode one.

1343
01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:20,000
Thought it was amazing. I thought it was great.

1344
01:41:20,000 --> 01:41:27,000
And there was this kid who climbed the tower to try spy on this girl that he fancied.

1345
01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:30,000
And there was her brother fucking her.

1346
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:33,000
There's an incest scene.

1347
01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:42,000
And the brother sees the kid climbing and he just fucking punches him in the face and sends him flying down this castle.

1348
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:46,000
And it ended and I was like, holy shit, oh my god.

1349
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:49,000
And I was like, you know what? I'm never gonna continue this ever again.

1350
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:53,000
And I was like, we have to watch episode two right now.

1351
01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:57,000
And she's like, no, no. I don't feel like I have a headache.

1352
01:41:57,000 --> 01:42:01,000
And I'm like, can we please watch episode two? I really need to know if this kid is dead or not.

1353
01:42:01,000 --> 01:42:03,000
So he's not dead.

1354
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:09,000
You just, you, what? Like how can, what are you doing?

1355
01:42:09,000 --> 01:42:13,000
What if I told you that that kid becomes the most powerful person in the world?

1356
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:15,000
And he's a piece of shit, no?

1357
01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:17,000
Piece of shit? No, he's not a piece of shit.

1358
01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:19,000
There's some king piece of shit.

1359
01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:21,000
Bran, I believe was his name.

1360
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:24,000
But anyway, man, what the fuck are we talking about?

1361
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:28,000
Bologna for is a swallow to score.

1362
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:33,000
Rupski was in gold posh was at the back with Boca, Macalafuri and Christensen for Bologna.

1363
01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:39,000
Abysse, Froyler and Ferguson were in the middle with Fabian, Zergs and Urbanski playing up front.

1364
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:41,000
He said, score up ski brother.

1365
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:45,000
It's skirupski skirupski.

1366
01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:48,000
We had a terrible mistake as well. It's like one to pull.

1367
01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:51,000
Yes, not multiple Falco on it.

1368
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:54,000
I also confused that.

1369
01:42:54,000 --> 01:42:56,000
They came up at the same time.

1370
01:42:56,000 --> 01:42:59,000
And Falco on it. They were two up and coming goalkeeper.

1371
01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:01,000
Falcone better.

1372
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:09,000
Conceali was in goal for Saswolo with a back four of Josh Doig, Matthea Viti, Martin Ehrlich and Pedersen with Lippani and towards

1373
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:12,000
playing as the midfield to Christian Volpato.

1374
01:43:12,000 --> 01:43:15,000
I'm on loan from Rome actually bought from Rome.

1375
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:17,000
Yes, right.

1376
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:21,000
And by Rami was playing behind Andrea Pinamonti.

1377
01:43:21,000 --> 01:43:28,000
Now Bologna showcased a lot of resilience this game overcoming a goal deficit twice for a remarkable victory.

1378
01:43:28,000 --> 01:43:34,000
Key moments included towards Wetz early strike which was a gift from Skorupski who played the ball directly at him.

1379
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:42,000
Zergs is deflected equalizer of Viti and Volpato's curler to end the half to one.

1380
01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:44,000
And that Volpato goal was incredible.

1381
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:45,000
Yes, very nice.

1382
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:46,000
The technique was really nice.

1383
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:53,000
Zergs' shot was also good. I thought it was a fantastic goal from the get go but it took a massive difference.

1384
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:56,000
They gave me the 10 and they took it away. It was crazy.

1385
01:43:56,000 --> 01:43:57,000
One of those.

1386
01:43:57,000 --> 01:44:02,000
In the second half Fabian scored a lovely header. I really like this player. He's on loan from Inter.

1387
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:04,000
Smart in it.

1388
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:09,000
He's got good positional awareness and a good finish on him as well.

1389
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:11,000
He finds himself in front of goal. He's scoring.

1390
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:15,000
And it's not very common with young players.

1391
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:17,000
Young players such as himself.

1392
01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:20,000
And he plays quite deep. He plays him in the pivot sometimes.

1393
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:23,000
He's a versatile midfielder Fabian.

1394
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:31,000
Mata's substitutions including Salah Mackers and Orsallini played a pivotal role while Ferguson's late curler into the far corner secured the victory.

1395
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:37,000
Salah Mackers got his first goal for Bologna shortly after after a clumsy dribble and a well-placed finish.

1396
01:44:37,000 --> 01:44:41,000
He celebrated doing like one. That's my first one.

1397
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:43,000
That's the first one. I hope you're counting.

1398
01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:45,000
I'm counting. I'm counting.

1399
01:44:45,000 --> 01:44:48,000
That's the name of this episode. One.

1400
01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:51,000
Next time his scores will name it two.

1401
01:44:54,000 --> 01:44:57,000
Oh my God. And the audience is Salah Mackers holding a one.

1402
01:44:57,000 --> 01:44:58,000
No, I don't have time for that.

1403
01:44:58,000 --> 01:45:00,000
That would be Hillez.

1404
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:01,000
Absolutely Hillez.

1405
01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:03,000
Bologna's unbeaten home streak.

1406
01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:06,000
He's got ten games elevating them to fifth in Serie A.

1407
01:45:06,000 --> 01:45:11,000
While Saswala faced concerns with seven defeats in nine matches.

1408
01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:17,000
This game, granted, Saswala brought it and they really did their best to take something home from this one.

1409
01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:21,000
But Bologna absolutely dominated the possession.

1410
01:45:21,000 --> 01:45:25,000
When it came to shots on goals, Saswala actually had more.

1411
01:45:25,000 --> 01:45:28,000
So it was quite a balanced game in the shooting department.

1412
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:31,000
But of course, possession-wise, it was all Bologna.

1413
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:37,000
I think they had a bit too much spunk for Saswala to handle, especially in the later part of the game.

1414
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:45,000
Because the winning goal came in the 83rd minute and then right after that, the lapsing concentration, of course, in the 86th minute, in the fourth goal.

1415
01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:47,000
You've been saying...

1416
01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:49,000
You think I'm going to stop saying spunk?

1417
01:45:51,000 --> 01:45:56,000
You literally just said that. Much spunk for Saswala to handle.

1418
01:45:56,000 --> 01:45:57,000
Yeah, much spunk, man.

1419
01:45:57,000 --> 01:45:59,000
Like how much spunk did they have, bro?

1420
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:01,000
They didn't stop, man.

1421
01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:13,000
But yeah, that was quite a good victory for Bologna, who are on the right trajectory again after a bit of a lapse in form.

1422
01:46:13,000 --> 01:46:19,000
Looking at the standings right now, that fourth spot is up for grabs.

1423
01:46:19,000 --> 01:46:22,000
But Atalanta are definitely looking to be the more consistent side.

1424
01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:27,000
Roma are obviously shooting their way up there, but they're playing in there next time.

1425
01:46:27,000 --> 01:46:29,000
We don't know what's going to happen.

1426
01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:34,000
They've had good fixtures for now, and we don't know how the Rossi will cope against certain other teams.

1427
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:40,000
We've seen, for example, certain spells in the Salernitana game where Salernitana looked like the better coached team.

1428
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:41,000
Yeah, absolutely.

1429
01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:47,000
Now, probably another Moody side, but it seems like they've accepted the fact that there are three at the back team at the moment,

1430
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:52,000
and they're actually getting the results they want with that granted, not in the prettiest way possible.

1431
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:57,000
Fiorintina a little bit Moody at the moment, inconsistent, Lazio inconsistent.

1432
01:46:57,000 --> 01:46:59,000
So there's a lot of inconsistency in the league.

1433
01:46:59,000 --> 01:47:07,000
But one thing that we saw, brother, is the new competitors for Champions League Europa,

1434
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:18,000
which are Fiorintina and Bologna, went through a spell where they reminded us perhaps why they are not consistent competitors,

1435
01:47:18,000 --> 01:47:23,000
and why they are not part of the top seven discussion.

1436
01:47:23,000 --> 01:47:29,000
They went through that spell, and you know what, perhaps they will go through another spell like that.

1437
01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:37,000
Let us not get carried away with a streak or a run-off form, because sometimes teams look unstoppable, and then...

1438
01:47:37,000 --> 01:47:40,000
The thing that excited me about Bologna was their tactical flexibility,

1439
01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:48,000
but we always address the fact that two injuries, or one injury, could ruin them, and their chances for a serious European push.

1440
01:47:48,000 --> 01:47:56,000
The season has long grown with 22 games in, there are a total of what, 38 games?

1441
01:47:56,000 --> 01:48:00,000
With 23 games in, but some teams 22.

1442
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:09,000
So yeah, season has long, we'll see, I think, time will most definitely tell who the more consistent ones are.

1443
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:15,000
And I'm a bit concerned about Sa Swallow, when it comes to where they're finding themselves in the table.

1444
01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:18,000
Because they see the 41 goals.

1445
01:48:18,000 --> 01:48:24,000
They are one point ahead of 18th place Caliari, and one point ahead of 17th place Verona.

1446
01:48:24,000 --> 01:48:29,000
Oh my goy, yeah Verona, Caliari and Empoli, each on 18 points.

1447
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:37,000
If one of them win, or one of them draw, we can see Udineze or Sa Swallow in the relegation zone next week.

1448
01:48:37,000 --> 01:48:41,000
Yeah, because only Salernetana have lost more games than Sa Swallow.

1449
01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:46,000
And that's what's crazy about that.

1450
01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:48,000
Caliari and Empoli and Verona have actually lost the same amount of games as Sa Swallow with 13.

1451
01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:52,000
Brother, we could record the entire podcast just looking at this table.

1452
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:54,000
That's not a bad idea.

1453
01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:56,000
Now we had three nil nils.

1454
01:48:56,000 --> 01:48:59,000
Yes, we have 10 minutes left, so we have good time to...

1455
01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:01,000
So much for a quick one.

1456
01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:03,000
This is supposed to be an hour.

1457
01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:07,000
This is the Fennec Quickie, alright? You're never gonna get one.

1458
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:16,000
Tarina were all over Salernetana, but of course the usual problem with Tarina not being able to score or convert their chances.

1459
01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:21,000
They had an exugy of 0.95 to put into consideration, which means they should have scored one goal.

1460
01:49:21,000 --> 01:49:24,000
Salernetana had an exugy of 0.10.

1461
01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:28,000
I can't remember them having a proper shot on target.

1462
01:49:28,000 --> 01:49:36,000
What we did see was Jaron Boateng, his debut at the back, and he did look like a proper leader.

1463
01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:40,000
At the end of the game, high-fiving everyone. Come on, boys, you know all that shit.

1464
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:44,000
He'll be a useful player for them.

1465
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:46,000
Come on, boys, you know all that shit.

1466
01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:49,000
You had the other two nil nils, anything of note in those?

1467
01:49:49,000 --> 01:49:59,000
Well, I had the Udinez Monza game, which basically, to be honest, saw Udinez deserve the victory over there.

1468
01:49:59,000 --> 01:50:08,000
If you look at the statistics, it does not take a rocket scientist to see that Udinez had probably deserved more out of this game.

1469
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So it was Monza at the line of possession with 53%.

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Udinez had 21 shots, six of which were on target, eight off target, seven blocked.

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When you look at Monza's attempts, they had three shots to one target.

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The exegy for Monza was 0.11, whilst it was 0.9 for Udinez.

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So they were almost expected to score the game, scoring this game.

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I thought Udinez looked good in this game, had it not been for the great Michele Di Gregorio, who had a superb game.

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We could have seen Udinez get one of their few victories this season.

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Di Gregorio had six saves in this game.

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Luca played well, Thuvan played well, Sandy Love-Rich looked good as well.

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It was overall, I was quite surprised by the performance of Udinez considering where they find themselves in the table.

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As for the other game, which is Empoli against Genoa, this was possibly the liveliest one and one that could have gone either way.

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There was a notable moment that came in the 90-second minute, which was descending off on their winter, on loan from Muver,

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but obviously that didn't have much of an impact on the outcome of the game.

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Very even affair, you see Empoli with 48% ball possession to Genoa's 52% ball possession.

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One thing you will see over here is the increased confidence of this Empoli team putting up a fight against Alberto Gelardino's Genoa.

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They were not scared to bring the game to them knowing the certain assets that their opponents have.

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Goodman, Sinritegui, Malinovsky, Spence nowadays who looked fucking good in this game to be honest.

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But they were threatening that 15 shots, 4 of which were on target to Genoa's 10 shots were 2 on target.

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And again, man, it's all about the press of Davide Nikola side and it's all about the durability of his teams.

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Man, and it's also crazy just to see how a simple change in formation has changed the way that this team looked so drastically.

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They were looking so flat, so boring, they weren't creative at all with their 4 at the back formation.

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Now just a simple switch to the 3-4-2-1 formation.

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You have Zorkovsky and Kambiagi playing behind Cherry and wow, man, they look way more creative and way more dynamic for that.

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Genoa struggled to penetrate this unit of a team who when they're defending, they defend as a team and when they attack,

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they send a couple fellows to attack up there themselves.

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But it was a very entertaining affair, I couldn't tell you who I think deserved to win this game, romantically I would say Empoli, but it was a very even affair.

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Fair enough, brother.

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