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Danimota!
Carvallo!
Capolavoro Assoluto!
2-0 for Ilmonza!
What a goal!
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Seria Spotlight.
This is episode 117 and we are hosts Matt
and Jake here to discuss all the happenings of matchday 28.
Yes, an action packed matchday with more relegations,
six pointers and more battles between very good sides.
And in more important news, we're on YouTube and we've got video.
Yes, yes.
So far, it's the cheapest setup possible.
It's my iPhone and it's his girlfriend's ring light.
But hopefully through further investments and less holidays
to watch pointless Seria R matches, no such thing by the way,
we'll be able to invest further and give you guys some better production.
But until then, please be patient with us.
Yeah, we'll have a few things in the pipeline like the wall behind us
will eventually be covered with pictures of niche football players.
Basically, we're talking the simian wankwos of this world,
the musky gulls of this world, if you know, you know.
I can't wait until you publish that musky gull one.
It's my favorite one, the beard is kind of the musky gull.
This guy's looking up quite a story on him.
One of those that that never quite took it to the next level,
albeit he was insane.
Goal of the week, the easiest one.
By far, definitely.
Danny Mota, I mean, what a good what a way to score.
He's it's his year, man.
Danny Mota, he's really stepped it up a notch.
Last season was his first in Syria with Monza.
He had been with them all the way since Syria, the lower leagues.
And he stayed there along with Jose Masha.
And he's really adapted well to Syria.
He's been he's a starter for this team.
If not a starter, he pretty much plays every single game.
Yeah. And what a goal that was, man. That was next level.
He's dangerous, man.
He operates on the left, but he's a bit closer to goal.
And he cuts inside and works his magic in that way.
Got a goal against Milan, got the spectacular goal as well.
Blatantly nicked Leo's celebration.
Blatantly nicked it.
Leo, he did it against Napoli, and it was it was amazing.
That celebration was amazing because Napoli were running away with it.
And he was just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was amazing, but Mota nicked it.
Fuck it. Respect to him.
At least he's being consistent with it.
It was a worthy celebration for the moment, of course, after a goal like that.
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Some honorable mentions nowhere near the caliber of that goal.
But La Padula had an excellent goal.
It's even cooler because it's La Padula with his shirt tucked in, you know.
Super cool goal.
Sanabria channeled his inner love on the
La Padula with Salernitana's high line of Fazio and Manolas shooting them in the bottom.
It's a strange arrangement.
I don't get it.
Strange as fucking arrangement.
I don't get it.
It's like, let's play the big boys to counter La Padula,
but we'll play a high line at the same time.
Tony Sanabria, his first touch of the game was a Ravushata goal.
Yeah.
What ruined it is that Merit got a got a touch to it.
And sometimes you just want to see the ball cleanly hit the back of the net, right?
This was Mota's goal from which?
Yeah, exactly.
Cope Miners, the free kick routine, a Dutchman and a free kick routine.
Those who know will know, obviously, Netherlands, Argentina.
If you know, you know, if you know, you know,
spectacular goal as well.
I was watching it with with Bren, a friend of mine, Ben Bren.
I know Ben or Bren.
No, his name is Brendan, but some people call him Ben and some people call him
Bren depends on my mood.
Like, what I was telling him, why the hell isn't Cope Miners standing over this one?
And he's like, what?
Cope Miners typically takes on all of a sudden he plays the the lateral ball and boom,
Cope Miners smashes it.
Did you resist the urge to tell him?
Told you.
I told you.
I never, never resist the urge to tell someone I told them.
So when it comes to football and I have a point, I'm all like,
maybe you see what I told you before like how it happened.
Your end, the last minute equalizer for Rome,
Rome have a tendency that their center back score amazing goals.
Earlier this year, there was Hoyssen.
Last year, there was Mancini against you.
Well, Interesco was over at our Esco from outside the area.
It was mental.
And now you're in there with this with this great goal.
Is that a rocket into the top corner and dying moments?
Lots of kick of the game.
You said, yeah, crazy.
I'm not sure if I'm not sure they kicked off and like pass the ball to three
times, but it was past the 94th minute and there were four minutes.
The mood was set.
Yes.
Let's just say that.
Yes, that was a brilliant game.
Can't wait to discuss it.
European updates.
Yes, we have a few.
Yeah, lots of you have gone home.
So lots of you have gone home.
And I think I'm not sure I think we already mentioned that to you guys.
But Napoli have now been sent home after losing three one to Barça last night
away from home and they're losing to an ill got one back.
It seemed like they had a chance, but these kids of Barça, they're crazy.
La Masia is really honestly.
They had Gavi, they had Pedri and they had Deong all out.
Everyone, everyone fucking injured.
It's not like they chose to go out with the kids, man.
But they did a great job, especially towards the end of the game.
They really managed to pick up that momentum and kill the game.
Tonight.
So yesterday, when you're watching this is Atletico versus Inter.
I wrote you well on my notes for some reason, hence the.
But Inter won that first game one nil.
So we'll see what happens.
You guys know and we don't, which is hilarious.
Yeah, we'll if we're still recording by the time it'll happen,
we will give live updates and reactions.
But obviously for a coefficient sake, we do hope that Inter make it to the final
and then lose.
It depends on the rough against man.
Yeah, I'm all for Italian victories.
Tomorrow night, Slavia Prague versus Milan for all you Europeans.
This game is happening quite early in Maltese time.
It's happening at 6.45 p.m.
So Italian time is the same so on so forth.
English time would be 7.45.
So keep an eye out for that.
There's also at Atlanta, obviously Milan won that first game for two.
Atalanta sporting tomorrow as well.
First game finished one one Brighton Roma.
Roma don't even need to turn up.
They won the first game for nil.
How about you?
You're right.
And fear and Brighton know the revelation.
Pep Guardiola saying they're the best team in the world last year.
OK, dog.
And Fiorentina versus Maccabi Haifa.
The first game was a 4-3 victory for Maccabi Haifa.
For for sorry for fear.
For fear and they wish.
Yeah, they go close.
It took goals from all sorts of people.
All right.
Towards the end of the game.
I think Barak got the winners.
Like Barak got the winner.
The winner in age.
Beltran scored and Zola scored.
Yeah, all the people who haven't been scoring.
Yeah, that's what scoring this game.
They turned up, they turned up.
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But let's get to the round off because we do babble quite a bit in the intro zone to a man.
Fuck it.
New listeners zone out a major thing.
Yeah.
And we'll start off with Bologna and Nill inter one over history.
We've seen that Bologna have typically given inter a tough game, but in this game, it did
happen to be what I saw an encounter between Mota and in Zaghi, two very clear style of
play and this time in Zaghi managed to shut down Mota style of play and subsequently enter
one that game.
They've lost Zergs for a month.
Yeah, they've lost Zergs for a month.
That is devastating for them.
Juventus two at Atlanta, two Atlanta had opened the scoring.
You've sealed the comeback to one, but Atlanta managed to get one quite late on in the game.
Milan one and Polly Nill.
It was a tough game for Milan, but a deflected policy strike managed to get them over the
line.
It's about winning at the moment and not how you win.
Fiorentina two Roma two Roma equalizing with the last kick of the game.
Fiorentina having an excellent first half in particular, just an excellent game in general
to be honest.
They looked much improved.
Lazio one Odeneze two for what was the shock of this matchday.
If you watched those five minutes in this game, you pretty much fucking watch the whole
game.
The rest was lots you're trying and not my exact.
Sorry he's been sacked.
That's the headline.
No, no, no, sorry.
Resign.
He resigned.
Absolutely.
He's had enough.
Apparently he basically kind of asked the players to a certain extent, like, do you want me to
stay?
No one said no, but no one said yes.
No one asked him, should I leave?
No one else is like, should I stay?
No one answered either.
So he's like, okay, then that's enough.
And now they're considering who are the two names.
One of them was Miroslav Klose, which would be crazy.
Like all four just to see Klose on the side.
And the other one was an attractive name.
And it was, I can't remember who it is right now.
I think I have it written later on though.
So we'll mention it later on.
Yeah, we'll get to that.
Napoli won Torino 1.
And it was the other game.
That's where Tony Sanabria scored with his first kick of the game being the overhead
kick.
Interesting fact is that Napoli, under their new management, remain undefeated.
It doesn't mean that their score lines have been too flattering.
But they're undefeated.
In the league.
In the league, yeah, because they just lost to Barca naturally.
Salieri for Salernetana, two in a relegation dogfight.
Salernetana absolutely suck at relegation dogfights, bro.
They look better against the top teams where they're super pragmatic.
Absolutely.
And this is the first time Sabatini's come out and said, basically, we're done.
He apologized.
He said that the signings he made in January were a failure, basically, and they didn't
have the impact that he had hoped they would have had.
And he basically urged the fans to stay with the team until they were pretty much confirming
what we all know.
Salernetana are going down this year and they're probably, they definitely won't be a miracle
this year.
They just passed it, man.
Yeah, well, it doesn't seem like they've got it in them.
It seems like everything they do, every call they make is the wrong one at this point.
But never count Salernetana out, right?
And we've learned that two years ago.
So it ain't over until the fat lady sings.
Let's read Nile Verona one had some drama, bro.
It really fucking.
What's with Henri and the managers?
Bro, they're just always hitting.
Who was it last season?
Not last season, the one before.
His manager had started screaming in his face.
Ah, Zanetti.
Zanetti, yeah, Zanetti.
Yeah.
Back at, was it, Venetia?
Yeah, at Venetia.
He said, Polk, what are you fucking shaking him and hitting him?
And now he was headbutted by Daversa.
I was headbutted by Daversa.
Daversa spoke out what it is like, look, apologies.
But I didn't headbutt him.
We went face to face.
I didn't headbutt him.
He didn't headbutt me.
There was just some, some force going on.
He's been sacked.
But shout out to Letcher because they took immediate action.
They're like, this is, this is shit.
You can't do that.
And they immediately sacked him.
The fanbase weren't too happy with him to start with.
And now they've got Gotti.
Got it.
And the former Odinesa man, not such an experienced manager.
He's a very buy the book.
New manager.
He only got his debut managing a team for Odinesa in 2019.
So still a lot to learn.
He's got this permanent face.
That's true.
Got Gotti, hello?
Yeah.
Literally Gotti.
Sasualo one, Frozino and Nile in another relegations.
Six point.
I absolutely adore these relegations.
Six pointers.
And finally, Sasualo getting a victory over here to help them out of her so slightly.
And Genoa two, Monsatri.
We put this down here because it's essentially a battle for 11th, right?
Bragging rights because Monsar are the most successful debut team in Syria.
And perhaps Genoa want to make that title from them this season, but it doesn't look
like they're going to do so.
Monsar.
Monsar good.
They've got their own days.
They've got their off days, but they're pretty damn good, man.
Yeah.
Shall we get straight into it?
Yes.
I believe the first game is yours, brother.
Yes.
The first game that we will be taking a look at is Bologna Inter.
And Bologna Inter finished 1-0 to the OASide, which happened to be Inter.
This was quite a spectacle of a football game.
And with two sides, with very interesting approaches to football.
I'm coming at the head.
This is Matthew alluded to in the intro.
The previous encounter was actually in the Coppa Italia where Bologna knocked Inter out
with a scoreline of 2-1.
But in the league earlier this season, they came 2-2.
So Bologna have been giving Inter problems.
And since 2022, when Inter had beaten them 6-1, they hadn't beaten them in the next three
games.
Yeah.
Thank you, Rado.
So Bologna's formation was the 4-1, 4-1, or what is it sideways?
2-7-2, brother.
2-7-2.
I'm reading it incorrectly.
We've got Sperubski in goal, Poshbo, Kemal Dukumi, and Christensen at the back with
Froyler playing in the pocket behind the midfield, or in front of the defense rather.
Odgaard, Abishur, Ferguson, and Salamakers were the midfield forward.
Josh was the RxE up front.
For Inter it was a 3-5-2 formation at Janssomer in goal, Bastoni, Al-Cherbian, Bissec were
at the back.
With Carlos Auguston, the left of Darmeon on the right, with Mikitar, Insha'Allah, Noglo,
and Barilla in the middle, with Sanchez and Thuram playing up front.
The missing players from this game were Saumauro, Carlson, Quadrado, and Sensi.
Everyone else was actually available, with Inter looking to rest some players.
Might as well.
They've got the advantage at the top.
They've got these guys hungry to make a difference, and it's always the replacements that win
it for Inter.
Literally.
It's uncanny how successful they've been with their depth.
In fact, Inter did dominate the first half, Bologna were pressing very aggressively and
bravely, and Inter were slipping in behind, and they were quite dangerous.
It was quite naive, to be honest, by not that much to approach the game that way, and it
could have been worse for them, to be honest.
But they remained calm.
They made a few individual errors, for example, Christiansen losing the ball, and they almost
conceded immediately, but they remained into the game.
Eventually, in the 37th minute, though Bologna did crack, as this is just what Inter do nowadays.
Bastogna advances, he's the left centre-back, he crosses it in, to the right centre-back,
Bissec, who also advanced, who dunked the ball into the back of the net.
Such a cool head throw.
Brilliant header.
He was like, levitating off the ground, and he headed it downwards.
Smacked it into the back of the net.
Such a sweet hit.
Bissec said that this goal wasn't something that they had practiced on the training ground,
and in Zerg, he confirmed this, and said basically that he owes this Inter team many dinners
because of the work they've been putting on the pitch.
In the second half, Bologna upped their game.
Inter didn't take a single shot on target, and they kept trying to kill momentum, and
they took more of a street-smart approach.
It's very difficult when you go behind to Inter, you pretty much stand no chance to
get back into the game.
Zergs, he had a good opportunity at the end of the game, where he faked a pass and glided
inwards coming 1v1 against the goalkeeper, but the turn was so quick and swift that he
couldn't really tee up the shot properly, and it was actually quite central, and the
goalkeeper saved it without any problems, to be honest.
So Bro, quite a few things we can discuss this game, to be honest.
Let's start by discussing Bissec as a defender.
He hadn't played in a while.
I feel like he was featuring regularly, then kind of wasn't utilized as much anymore for
a while.
He's called upon again, and just like a glove, he fit right in again, and he made all the
difference this game.
Look, when comes to Bissec, his profile is very good for Atri at the back, right?
Because he's got size, he's physical, and he is allowed to go forward more, because
Darmian and Atri are capable of filling in that space when he's going forward.
I don't want to get carried away and over-hype him, because we know we've seen Malik Chow,
for example, have a fantastic debut season, and then fall short a little bit in the future.
He's post-injury to be honest.
Post-injury, yeah, but who knows what can happen with Bissec, but he's so well-rounded.
The fact that at 23 years old, as a centre-back, he can be scoring these fantastic goals that
veteran players score, it's a great sign.
It's improvised.
It wasn't even training ground routine, he was just completely improvised by him, so
he's very intelligent as well.
And bro, his technical ability is so good for a centre-back.
There was one game a few months ago, I forgot who it was again, but they kept playing him
the ball by the line.
They kept beating players, man.
They'd press him to players, and he'd knock it past them, and just play it back, coolly
composed, such a good player.
No, he is fantastic, and what a coop it was by Inter, right?
I was like, who the hell is this guy?
That's what Marotta gives you, eh?
Yeah, precisely.
Yeah, Inter have only conceded an impressive five in their last ten games, despite changing
the backline every single game pretty much.
So again, it just goes to show that their depth has really worked out.
On the other hand, Bologna showed that they can pretty much give anyone in the league
a game the better the opponent, the more they live up to the occasion.
They conceded an avoidable goal, but didn't concede much when pushing for a winner.
In fact, in the second half, Inter had no shots on target, so that's pretty impressive
by Bologna.
This is hard to do, especially when you consider that Inter are a counter-attacking weapon.
You know, there are a lot more than that as a football team, but one of the things that
they definitely are is a counter-attacking threat, man.
Yeah, in fact, I mean, Bologna were allowed opportunities.
I mean, not clear cut opportunities.
They had 19 strikes and 60% ball possession.
Only three of those 19 were on target, so you could consider most of them to be like
half chances.
Five of them came from Xerxes, two of them from Ferguson, three from Stefan Posh.
Yeah, they were allowed possession, but it's so hard to penetrate Inter with the work they
do off the ball, right?
Absolutely.
Because not only if Bologna lose the ball while attacking, they severely risk conceding,
which is a bizarre thing to think about, because like, okay, we fuck up this chance.
Fuck it, we'll get another one.
You know what I mean?
But if they fuck up that chance, there's a high likelihood that Inter are going to smack
them on the break with a quick and fluid transition and put the ball into the back of the net.
They are absolutely devastatingly deadly.
With that being said, Inter haven't been tested much this season, right?
I mean, they were tested by, because they're so much better than everyone else, naturally,
they were tested by Bologna in the 2-2 draw.
They lost to Sasvalo, which is their only lost this season.
Do you think that this Bologna team is the team that tested the most this season?
Absolutely.
They knocked them out of the cup.
They held them in the first game.
This game, they lost through very fine margin.
But it's a bit bizarre to think so.
It is.
I mean, coming into the season, I would have been totally bizarre to imagine Bologna up
there hanging out with the now eight sisters, competing for that fourth spot.
They've lost Xerxes.
Let's see how they cope without him, because he is such a unique player.
And for what Motta wants from his side, he is literally the perfect fit.
So we'll see.
There is Van Huidonk.
Yeah.
He was an option to replace him.
I also wouldn't be surprised if it's like a false nine system with Ferguson.
Yes, Ferguson can.
That could be something.
Because essentially what he looks for in a striker is someone that comes in quite deep
and plays the ball.
And I think Ferguson...
Mobile, technically.
Yeah, I think Ferguson would be quite ideal for that.
Absolutely, yes.
Thuram did go off.
I think he suffered quite a knock.
I haven't really heard anything about it.
Not sure if he's injured.
I don't think so.
Usually no news is good news.
The stuff would be all over.
The Milan group chat especially.
Yes, bro.
But when it just comes to depth, one more thing I'm going to mention before we can move on
is that Sanchez and Carlos Augusto, two other players who came in to replace two very, very
important players in Di Marco and Lautaro Martinez.
They're two most important players, that's it.
Yeah, boy did they put in a shift, man.
Carlos Augusto is a horse.
Like a Pongriff.
Nene.
A way more of a horse than Pongriff.
Pongriff is a donkey.
Carlos Augusto.
And Alexis Sanchez, man.
At one point, Vidal had come out and said, how is Alexis Sanchez not playing at this
inter-site?
He's better than Miquetarian, to which everyone said like pipe down.
But to a certain extent, Miquetarian is fantastic for the system, right?
Because he's a great counter-attacking player, very intelligent, reads the game well.
But Alexis Sanchez isn't far off.
And Prime Alexis Sanchez is a better player than Miquetarian, in my opinion.
Ah, Prime Alexis Sanchez, bro, like was competing with Prime Eden Hazard in the Premier League.
He is, bro, still, he's still good.
I know I've been saying this on the podcast a lot, but I think it needs to be mentioned.
Man, Sanchez is still a utility player, a good one.
Technically he's great.
What I want to see is him playing more 90 minutes to see how he holds up across 90 minutes.
If he has it in him, because I don't think he does, the type of player he's become nowadays.
Exactly.
That's my only curiosity, because there's absolutely no debate that he's got great
close ball control, he's got great technique, he's got good vision, he's got good shooting.
You know, he's a very well-rounded player.
But it would be interesting.
Sorry, just to correct myself, he did give him 90 minutes here, so we actually played
90 minutes.
I'll go and re-watch the tape to see if he was actually running at the end of his standing
here.
Because he just strikes me as someone that enjoys a Malbro red on the beach.
You know what I mean?
There's a beer and a Malbro red.
Yeah, absolutely.
Inter are in first with 75 points.
It's all green for Inter.
Their record is ridiculous.
Not troll football, troll football is it?
That like page that posts stupid memes.
I guess.
They posted like their loss, or out of context football one or the other.
They posted the last few games of Inter at the last.
I don't know how many just all win, win, win, win, win, win, win, win, win.
It's crazy man.
It's gaining recognition.
You know, when they're bloody good side this season.
On the other hand, Bologna are down in fourth, or up in fourth rather, let's be positive
with 51 points, 3 points ahead of Roma in fifth.
It would be interesting to see this Inter go head to head with some of the greatest
teams that have won Serie A, right?
At least in the last decade.
So we put them up against 2014, 2015, Juve.
We put them up against Napoli of last season, put them up against Milan of two years ago.
I think they would smack the shit out of them.
But it would be interesting because I genuinely believe that this Inter side is one of the
greatest that has graced Serie A.
In recent history.
In recent history, absolutely.
No, you're not going to compare it to Milan of the 80s, for example.
But the record speaks for itself.
They are about, they can very much break the record to become the team that has had the
best season in Serie A history.
Now you tell me, okay, but in the 80s and the 90s and the early 2000s, every team had
a legend.
Every team was fantastic.
The standard was higher.
But regardless, this team is about to become no matter what one of the most successful
teams.
This is a very graced Serie A.
Next game, Juve 2, Atalanta 2.
Juve are coming off a 2-1 loss to Napoli, whilst Atalanta were coming off a 2-1 home loss to
Bologna.
Now, after this game, Atalanta are windless in four Serie A matches where they had two
draws and two losses.
The previous encounter between these two sides was an ill-nilled draw.
Two top teams struggling for form.
Juve dropped down to third place behind Milan after just one win in seven matches, whilst
Atalanta sank down to sixth after failing to win their last four.
Vladovic was suspended with Rabio Alcara's Perian and the Shilio injured.
McKenny returned to the midfield after dislocating his shoulder.
3-4-1 formation for Juve with Vojciak Czeszny and Golan, a backline of Danilo, Bremer and
Gatti.
Iling Jr. started out on the left with Cambiasso out on the right, some young legs over there,
Miretti and Locatelli in the middle, Chiesa and McKenny playing behind Millexing, McKenny
showing his versatility playing closer to Golan and actually having a great game.
Also a 3-4-2-1 formation for Atalanta with Karnasecki in goal and a backline of Jim City,
Hien and Scalvini.
Zappa cost Andrew Jerry out on the flanks with Edison and Pasalic in the double pivot,
with the K-Telar and Cope minors playing behind Scamacca back in the team.
On the 35th minute, Cope minors opened the scoring, it was a free kick routine which
saw Pasalic play a horizontal pass to Cope minors who struck the ball first time into
the top-near corner.
Like I said earlier, I was wondering why he wasn't standing over the set piece but he
did this really good thing where because it was positioned for a cross, all the Juve
players tracked back in order to win the header from a potential cross but he hung back, no
one picked him up, he was in acres of space and he just smashed the ball into the back
of the net.
65th minute Juve got one back through Campiaso, it was a great passage of attacking play which
ended with Campiaso toe poking the ball past Karnasecki following a great through pass
by McKenny, some great vision there by the American and 5 minutes later Juve made the
2-1 through Arcadius Millick.
It was Illing Juniors cross which was cleverly delivered and chested down by McKenny, laying
it off perfectly to Millick who struck a powerful volley into the back of the net following a
touch by Karnasecki, Juve lead and another assist by McKenny, McKenny bagging 2 assists
over there.
4 minutes later however Atalanta equalized through once again their own Cope minors,
Jim City who took a more offensive role after his calvini was substituted played a great
through pass to Cope minors who finished past Cesni without problem in order to make it
2-2.
The game of moments really, there were moments where I thought that Atalanta looked the stronger
team, there were moments where I thought that Juve looked the stronger team.
One interesting fact that I came across was that Atalanta are unbeaten at the Allianz
since 2018.
Ah, wow, that's crazy so with the good Atalanta side, this record has actually remained like
that Cope Atalanta side.
Exactly.
I have no idea.
Yeah and obviously Juve and their slight dip period.
Another interesting fact is that now actually in the opening, I believe this is Madrid 28,
yes Madrid 28, in 28 matches last year Juve were one point greater than they are now which
opens up the debate.
No, did Juve improve since last season?
Did Juve get worse from last season?
It's an interesting topic of conversation because it's not as simple as looking at the
points, right?
But then it kind of is because if you're not progressing then what the hell are you doing?
I think they, I think they're the same.
Right?
It's like sometimes you're like, even a big improvement or a big drop off, I think it's
the same Juve aside to be honest with you.
I think if anything they might have improved their style of play when it comes to going
forward, like Vladovic is better, you know they've got yield days nowadays, they're finding
more goals, they're scoring more goals, I believe.
They're not as tight I believe.
But then defensively they're conceding more, right?
Yeah, they were much more solid last season defensively, that's for sure.
But yes, I have no big difference I think from season to season.
For example, we had to argue Milan last season, definitely they've improved.
Absolutely.
Sometimes it's clearer than other times.
What did you make of McKenney in this more offensive role?
Man, McKenney has just impressed me so much man.
I didn't think that he had this level of play in his locker, especially seeing him in his
first season with Juve and all that getting relegated over there coming back, I thought
they were going to ship him out and we'd never see him again.
But he's been very good man.
His technique is super as well.
His industry is hard working.
You think he's given enough credit, McKenney.
Especially like this season everyone's still talking about Rabi or everyone's talking
about Vladovic.
But McKenney has been consistently, I would say, one of Juve's best players.
That leads me to believe that maybe bro, some of these American players aren't given enough
credit because it's like go play your American football or go play your baseball kind of
thing.
I don't think so man.
I've spoken to many Juve fans who praise McKenney and have hailed him to be one of the
better players this season as I've spoken to many Milan fans who say that Pulisic has
put layout to shame this season, becoming the star of Milan.
I think people don't have a problem with American football players as long as they perform to
the level that the fans want of course.
I think yes, if they flop, they are made fun of more viciously.
The fact that they're American.
Damn it guys, coach is right.
Ask me to get them soccer ball.
I love to be careful because like 70% of our listeners are American.
And that's what I'm going to say.
Americans are some of the best people to talk football with.
I love talking football with Americans.
They're so passionate as well.
Shout out Boston.
Shout out Philly baby.
Come on.
Yeah, I don't think that the stigma is very much there especially you have Americans
in every league right now.
The USA national team is full of players who play in Europe.
They've definitely increased their level.
Yeah I think so.
It's been a long time coming since the Donovan days.
London Donovan, Clint Dempsey as well back in the day.
Who was our goalkeeper?
Was it Tim Howard?
Tim Howard.
Yes, he had the record for the most amount of saves in a World Cup.
In a single World Cup game.
Yeah, the crazy amount of saves bro.
Do you remember the number roughly?
I think I want to say seven but it doesn't sound that crazy man.
Why is that seven?
Like I've seen no Chowa nine every single week.
Who has said the first Mexican goalkeeper in Europe to concede 1000 goals at club level?
Something like that.
Shout out Mexico.
Cielik scored his first goal in five months ending his drought.
Five months is crazy.
Last season there was a point where they were playing him alongside Vladovic up front when
he as I was injured, shocker.
But he was very good last season.
It's crazy when five months without a goal but this would be good for his confidence.
He's a good striker man.
He is a very good finisher.
One of those natural finishers.
He can pretty much give him the ball high, low and he'll find a way to get it in.
He's opportunistic as well.
I just don't think it's been his season and the fact that Vladovic has popped off so aggressively
doesn't help him at all.
To be honest Millik couldn't really find his footing either when Vladovic was quite quiet.
He wasn't doing well at the time.
But I think Millik is definitely deployed as a striker.
Definitely.
Just to hop over to the Bergamo side of the conversation.
Cope Miners.
That was an addition.
It was.
They wanted him.
United wanted him.
United have taken a liking to Atalanta.
It seems like they finally found out these guys know what they're doing.
Actually they had signed someone before.
It was a Tourette.
Trourette.
I make that mistake too much for my own good.
Careful bro.
But yes my am surprised there's shopping there.
They've been ripped off.
Why?
Because they spent what was it 40 million on?
On Hojland.
No.
On the one you just mentioned.
They had spent like 40 million on him or something just for him to be playing with the reserves
for a while.
With the kids.
Hojland to be honest is doing very well.
They love him at United bro.
He's a good player.
I mean even the type of person he is.
The way he carries himself.
He's humble.
He's down to earth.
He's kind of bashful to a certain extent.
He makes you like him.
He makes you support him.
His gold celebrations like they're so not rehearsed.
Bro just fucking freaks out.
No idea what he's doing.
Yeah there was one in particular.
He scored in the last minute for United and he lost his absolute nut bro.
It was amazing.
Rob video you can imitate it.
Oh yeah I mean what am I going to do with style here?
High four I got Rob video.
Yeah man.
I just my heart's broken looking at my high five.
Yeah.
But yeah he's got 10 goals this season man.
Cope minus.
10 goals and three assists.
Where does he rank?
Best midfielder in Serie A?
The best one at the moment.
Yes but quite a bit to be honest.
I can't even think of someone to drive.
Just to draw names out there.
Shalano Glorabio.
Yeah.
Luis Alberto.
Dip.
Yeah.
Ben Nasser.
Ben Nasser has been consistent this season.
Barella.
Barella as well had a bit of a bad start.
Pellegrini.
Pellegrini has just come back now after disappearing on their Mourinho.
Yes, I think his real rivals would be Rabio and Shalano Blu.
And I think he's the best one because he's the most versatile.
He's so intelligent.
Yeah, I would say it's him shortly followed by Shalano Blu.
One season in the Prem.
It behaves as one of the best midfielder in the world.
I would say one season in the Prem.
One season in the Prem is all it will fucking take bro.
I can't believe we got this guy from Atlanta.
That was the worst English accent I have ever.
That was amazing.
That was the slightest, bro.
That was not English in the slightest.
Thank you for listening.
But now just to get into this game a bit more as a whole.
Interesting to watch two teams that are kind of they're both top teams going through a
tough time right now.
It was tough to predict how this game was going to go.
It's also good to mention that Juve were missing a few personnel.
Was this more of a disappointment for Juve that they couldn't get it over the line or
for Atalanta?
I think it would be for Juve, especially with the record in place that you said they haven't
beaten Atalanta at home since 2018.
That's quite a disappointment in itself.
The fact that they wouldn't have wanted to give up that second spot.
They've been leapfrogged by Milan.
But on the other hand it's more detrimental for Atalanta who would like to qualify for
Champions League and who need three points quite badly at the moment.
Juve have naturally gone down to third now which sucks for them.
They were quite wasteful man without Vladovic on the pitch.
Last game Vladovic was wasteful.
They were very wasteful in this game that had 18 shots and an XG of 1.32 whereas Atalanta
was 0.48.
So there you go, that's pretty much enough said.
What comes to the standings as I said earlier Juventus down in third just one point behind
Milan while Atalanta down in sixth on 47 points, one behind Roma in fifth.
Speaking of Milan they took on Empoli after an interesting game midweek against, help
me.
Slavia Prague.
Slavia Prague, thank you every time I look at it on my phone.
It's Xgnia Prague.
Slavia Prague.
It's not usually the case that Milan scored four at San Siro and the fans are moaning.
But rightfully so because Slavia Prague got a red card and Milan conceded two goals against
a ten man Slavia Prague.
And the problem is we've seen how hostile certain atmospheres can be.
We saw Milan going away to Wren and you see that stadium absolutely popping everyone jumping
and they were 3-0 down.
They came out, they scored early, they gave Milan a really good game.
Slavia Prague are known for their hostile home atmosphere.
Absolutely man.
You also remember the game against Red Star Belligrade when Stankovic was the coach, two
draws and Milan managed to get through because of their away goal rule back then.
But he had a totally hostile atmosphere and Milan are a team that's easily impressed I
feel like.
They're a team that when they go out into a place like this into unfamiliar territory
takes them a while to adjust and as it stands right now they get one goal, one early goal.
They're back into the tie and they can fucking take everything home.
So Milan pretty much were on their fire because of their leaky defense and then they came
against Ampoli over here and they won 1-0 and maintained a clean sheet and didn't really
concede much apart from one opportunity at the end but we'll get to it very soon.
So for Milan it was the 4-2-3-1 formation with Manjan in goal, Calabrian on the right and
Theo Hernandez on the left with Chow and Tomori as a centre-back partnership.
Welcome back bro.
Aha, did this back forward.
It's just nice to see them all next to each other for once.
For now.
Reinders and Benacer were in the midfield double pivot with Pulisic, Loftus Csik and
Oka 4 playing behind Luka Jovic.
For Ampoli it was 3-4-2-1 formation with Capri Langol, Lopeto Valukovic and Ismaili
at the back with Petzella on the left, Giozzi on the right, Malahand Fazzini in the middle
with Zirkovs, Kambiari playing behind, Bayen Young.
They're banking on that or wall of their legs.
For sure.
Yeah, but Milan started well and they piled the pressure on Ampoli.
The intensity dropped off after a while from Milan's end and it gave Ampoli a weird sense
of security right to a certain extent and then Milan in the 41st minute surprised them with
an incisive attack.
Pulisic eventually capitalized on Oka 4's cutback, scoring in the 41st minute as I mentioned,
with a deflected strike to score his 8th goal of the season in Serie A. This deflected
off Lopeto and it looked like the slowest goal I've ever seen in my life.
It took a deflection road and just passed Capri Le into the back of the net.
Ampoli were reluctant to commit too many players forward.
They probably wanted to stay into the game until the end and they limited their clear
cutting chances in the opening 25 minutes of the second half.
Ruben Loftus-Crick attempted to extend Milan's lead with a fierce long range strike, but
Capri Le saved that very well.
And then Destro at the end threatened a dramatic leveler when he was completely unmarked in
the box.
The number 9 of Ampoli completely unmarked in the box is a former player.
We haven't seen this guy in ages.
Destro.
Where's he been?
And suddenly he's there unmarked in the Milan box.
But he crashed it against the upright, I believe, and it was offside anyway.
But like, come on.
But I remember looking at each other and saying, my God, Destro is going to get one against
Milan.
And that just goes to show how Nicola was right not to commit too many men forward early on
in the second half.
Because he scored that, boom, it's a point against Milan.
You know, that's what I mean sometimes, man.
The Milan defending, you know, they switch off.
And these teams only need one moment.
It's like everyone's got a chance of scoring against Milan.
Like if Milan go under pressure for 15 minutes, they really, really risk conceding a goal,
man.
15 minutes of pressure is all it takes.
It's true.
They really crack on their pressure when you see people start looking around at each other,
you know.
And it's like a massive part of that has to be the lack of that staple back for now.
Obviously it's not exactly Milan's fault, right?
Because there were all those injuries.
And also another factor of that is the lack of a defensive midfielder, a crusher, a Kessie
that drops back and forms part of almost virtually a back five at times.
Yeah.
The defense has no protection from the midfield.
That's absolutely right.
Zero.
Yeah.
Zero.
But to give credit to Benasseh, because he comes back and he wins the ball back and carries
it forward brilliantly.
But like as almost a box-to-box, you know.
It's not the same physical imposition, I guess, that Kessie used to have, for example.
He was the perfect player for Milan.
Literally.
Yeah.
It also has to be said, of course, as you mentioned, injuries have affected this Milan
back line.
You know, Tomori's only just come back and he's by far Milan's best defender.
One of the best defenders in the league, I would say.
Malik Chow has come back from injury where he wasn't confident, had a shocker, which
probably shocked his confidence down even more.
But thankfully for Milan, the injury trajectory is not looking too bad.
You know, you have Leo and Florence, who weren't available this game because of an accumulation
of yellow cards.
Pobega is the only injured one, and he's coming back soon.
So Milan should be full team and ready to go on this crazy Europa League run, am I right?
And I'll bet you five euros, someone gets injured in the Europa League tomorrow night.
Someone's probably injured right now, as we speak right now, someone's on the floor.
The only one unavailable for him, it was Grassy, by the way, who is quite a decent player,
nothing to really write home about.
Yes, but what was important for Milan to do this game was to get the three points and
a clean sheet would have been the cherry on the icing on the cake, and they got that
as well.
So, in reality, there isn't anything to complain about from this game.
Yeah, no, totally agreed.
Like I said earlier, I mean, at this point, it's about getting the three points.
It really doesn't have to be sexy, man.
You do what you have to do to get those three points, and Poliara team, that at the moment
they had this revitalisation under Davide Nikola.
They dropped the ball in the last game, which in my opinion would only make them more hungry
to go to Milan and grab a point over there.
And after they went and go down, they knocked, they threatened, but Milan showed an element
of composure and managed to get the ball over the line, and subsequently, obviously, bypassing
Juve.
For me, a standout player, and I was really happy to see him play well, man, was no Aukofo.
I think Aukofo was a very, very good man along that offensive line.
Not to mention, I think Benacer was back to his best against his ex-team as well.
For example, he was the team that actually gave him a platform in the top league.
So yeah, good things from Milan, good things from Empoli as well.
I would show that they're quite a tough nut to crack, as it took a weird deflected shot
to get Milan over the line against them.
I have no idea how it went down as Poli6 goes.
Because it was on target.
Sure, it was going straight to Caprile, bro.
Without any power.
Caprile, yeah.
Caprile was so sweet with Luperto after it went in.
He could have really yelled.
He called himself like about to yell, and then he just looked at him and was like, ah, I
can't see what happened.
Nothing to do with their Luperto.
We know you're good.
In fact, I love you in front of me all the time.
But that was just unlucky.
Yes, Milan are in second.
They have leapfrog Juventus.
They're on 59 points.
Still fucking so many points behind.
Yeah.
Milan are under investigation.
Ah, yes, God Almighty.
Christ on a bike.
Okay.
Breaking news.
Something about the sale from Elliot Threadbird.
Something dodgy.
Some people saying that Elliot might still technically own Milan, but they own Lil.
So there's a weird conflict of interest when it comes to, I don't even know, man.
Some irregularities that are under investigation.
Forlani has come out and said, don't worry, this was a very high, high priced.
No, it was a very, we're talking high numbers, basically in the transaction.
You know, it was what I remember Milan sold for.
I don't know.
I can't remember.
That's a ridiculous number, ridiculous figure.
So for Lonnie said, of course, there are going to be certain things that they would
want to look at.
But I can assure you that everything that was done was done legally.
Of course, he said that.
I read it and I'm there sitting there going like, all right, I'm going to go down.
Like, what the fuck am I doing?
Obviously, he's going to say that.
I'm freaking out.
This is the last thing that we need right now.
That is the effect of living in more.
The government say this for like, okay.
Sorry.
Wait a minute.
Wait, what?
But yeah, it's just frightening because obviously they start talking about a European
band.
They start talking about point deductions.
Obviously, because we've seen that happen last season, we're going to remain consistent
and give updates without obviously getting too much in the things that in our opinion
ruins the game.
This off field politics.
We saw you well last year go through one of the most frustrating and almost unfair
because the players are informed.
Listen, we're docked 15 points, 15 minutes before playing Empoli.
Monza?
No, Empoli, I think.
They lost like four something, bro.
There were two times, two things.
One with the first original punishment and then with the timing was shit for both of
them.
One was before the Monza game, the other one was before the Empoli.
Because then they are taking them back.
They're like, not the way.
They really respect you for fans, man.
Because loads.
But no, actually, you know what, man?
Nine years of winning the league.
It's just pure ecstasy compared to the agony of one season.
It's suck, but nine years of winning the league.
I mean, I must have gotten boring for them, man.
You know, the rest of say, yeah, they win the league and then they hardly qualify for
champions league.
Look at me last season and Napoli this season.
Can I fucking say something?
Yeah, that's your podcast.
You've under investigation, they get ducked the point.
Here we go.
Milan under investigation now.
Milan finally managed to like balance their books after being in debt for ages and everyone's
keeping an eye on Milan because they can't pay players certain amounts because they don't
have the income from the stadium because they they're significantly in debt after the Chinese
ownership.
Go look at Inter for a second.
Like just page.
Just go to page 100 out of the 1000 of pages of the and then like see if you find anything.
Because if we're if we're doing Zangman is like known to be bankrupt.
We're talking about financially regularity source.
Have a look.
I am not one to conspire.
I'm not into conspiracies.
In fact, I will refrain from commenting, but many people are using the term Marat Ali nowadays
and that's all I'm going to say.
Some people are.
Whatever, we're not going to.
I think Marat is the guy holding them together.
By the way, I think he's the guy keeping them afloat, stopping them from having to make
big sales.
You know, like, like I think Marat Ali's in there might be in the shitter.
But yeah, it'll be a long time from now because when everything's going well, everyone's happy.
Yeah, just to be clear and just to be very inter are obviously miles miles ahead of any
other Italian team in the league.
They're miles ahead of fucking many of the teams that are considered to be the best in
the world, right?
Inter are a super fucking advanced team and it would be a shame, right?
To see them suffer the consequences of politics as well.
So just to make that clear that we're not out here.
It's just something you don't want to see in the game.
I mean, you want to be rewarded for what you do on the pitch, not what happens with the
fucking lawyers and the accountants and all that crap.
That's that's behind the scenes.
That is the reason the reason people watch football is to stay away from the stuff.
I have politics.
I have not counted.
Okay, kid about an accountant.
I've not watched kid about an accountant about a lawyer about anything like that.
Bro has no friends.
Anyway, Fiorentina to Roma to this is a really fun game to watch fun because, you know, to
attacking sides.
And yet putting once again down here that they're Rossi to the test.
Fiorentina were coming off a Nile, a way to Torino.
I saw my were coming off a four one away win over Monza.
The previous encounter was a one one draw with Rome at home.
Both teams were fresh from European victories on Thursday as Fiorentina beat Maccabi Haifa
for a three and Roma got their fingers like this, you know, got brightened and they just
absolutely like that, bro.
That's exactly that's exactly what Roma did to brighten for.
I don't think so because that's like the standard feel good.
This was a foreign little thumping.
I think it was more like, you know, this is that's exactly what happened.
For those of you that don't know what we're doing, go check us out on YouTube.
Bellotti faced his, I would say former club, but it's his current club, isn't it?
Because he's out on loan.
Beltran was suspended and Kwame injured.
Martinez, Quartland, Arthur, Mailo returned to the squad.
Christensen set out a ban with Abraham, the only one left on the treatment table.
Intriguingly, Roma switched to a three five two formation or a three four two one rather
for this game with Svilare in goal on the back line of Mancini, Llorente and Indica.
Angel Ligno out on the right with El Sharaoui out on the left.
Paredes and Cristante in the pivot with the ball and Awar playing behind Lukaku.
There's a four two three one formation for Italianos men with Terraciano on goal and
the back line of Biraghi, Ranieri, Milenko with Ciancaiode.
Mandragor and Lopez in the double pivot with Sotil and Gonzalez on the wings and Bonaventura
playing behind Bellotti.
Now the 18th minute, Fiorentina opened the scoring through Ranieri.
It was Lopez's cross that was flicked on by Nico and headed in by Ranieri quite well.
In the thirty third minute, Didi R made his first substitution of the game of very early
substitution, thirty three minutes in with Huysin entering for Mancini who was booked
in the sixth minute.
After the game, the Rossi explained that he felt that the Italian was being baited into
receiving a second yellow obviously because everyone Fiorentina must at least have half
a brain cell right so that's exactly what you do after Mancini has been booked.
One minute later in the thirty fourth minute Sotil's header hit the post after a square
header by Bellotti putting him on a plate.
In the thirty eighth minute, Paredes had to clear the ball off the line after an attempt
at the far post by Bellotti.
At this point Bellotti is just like he wants to get that Rualo del Leggole, Fiorentina
at this point, they're really really attacking Roma.
The first half was all Fiorentina so the Rossi entered the second half in his more familiar
4-3-3 formation.
As a result Roma looked more dangerous from the get-go with Cristante forcing Terra Cianon
to a crucial save in the 52nd minute and in the 57th minute Roma made it 1-1.
It was Angelinius' cross that took a bubble off a defender but still landed to Alwar
who scored with a looping header into the top corner.
In the sixty eighth minute Fiorentina managed to make it to 1-1 through Mandragora.
It was Biraghi's cross that was headed down cleverly by Bellotti to Mandragora just in
front of Gold who chested it and poked his body past the onrushing Zvilar.
In the 78th minute Fiorentina hoped to make it 3-1 after Bellotti won a penalty for Fiorentina
after being brought down by Paredes when beating him beautifully on the turn.
Biraghi's penalty was saved well by Zvilar further adding to Fiorentina's shite form
from the penalty spot.
That's good, no one can get one for that.
Literally bro.
Literally.
Fiorentina still thought they could get the job done, you know it's the 90th minute,
four minutes of at the time, 91st, they're fine, 92nd, they're fine, 93rd, they're fine,
94th.
Ball goes out for a corner kick I believe it was.
Pellegrini's cross was, no actually it was a free kick apologies, Pellegrini's cross
was headed by Indica to the far post where Fiorentina smacked a bullet volley in off the
crossbar with virtually the last kick of the game equalising and it was absolute scenes
in Florence for Roma over there ending the game 2-2.
Absolutely amazing ending to a great game brother.
Yeah, got a lot of late goal.
I wouldn't say it was totally deserved by Roma, I feel like Fiorentina were all over
them and they had the better chances as well but this is just a testimony to the Rossi
side that doesn't give up and just seems so difficult to bend over.
Yeah, Fiorentina missed some fucking chances bro.
They failed to capitalise from Bellotti's volley that was cleared off the line by Paredes,
Mandragora actually scored offside as well which is something I forgot to mention, they
missed the penalty as well.
Still the same issue for Roma which is unfortunately because they managed to get two goals in this
game right but they should have had more is the whole point of this.
In fact, their ex-Gioferre is 2.13.
I really liked what Bellotti had to offer to be honest and to be honest usually bro these
guys struggle to even create, they struggle to get that ex-Gioferre up because they don't
create opportunities.
The way they set up for this game they were creating so many opportunities.
Bellotti, look I write my notes in quite some depth right, this is all I wrote for
El fucking Gallo.
El fucking Gallo bro.
He's good, people forget what he's all about.
He's a good striker.
So smart bro, he's so smart.
Did you see what he did to Paredes when he won the penalty bro?
He was just like oh oh and he just turns past him and Paredes is like fuck this and he trips
him like what can I do man.
But the reason Mancini was subbed out early was because of Bellotti.
He was beating him in every 50-50 every deal.
And going down of course and taking on a player like Mancini is hard man.
He beat up a pair of balls and they got Mancini because that guy is a fierce competitor and
he's the captain and for him to be subbed out early in the first half just goes to show
how well Bellotti was actually doing.
And how De Rossi noticed that Bellotti has literally got underneath Mancini's skin and
if I leave him out there he's going to get sent off.
He's going to get my defender sent off.
I think what Bellotti really manages to offer to Fiorentina is basically this, if your striker
can't score at least make sure that he is making other people's score and the amount
of times he was putting his teammates on a plate going to the far post and guiding his
headers, guiding his volleys into the center of the box and putting the ball on a plate
for his teammates.
He was just constantly creating chances man which is something, what did we always say
about Fiorentina, that they are not a creative team, that they lacked that creativity to
create chances and Gallo has come in now and against Roma against such a strong team against
his former team which let's keep in mind that he would have wanted to perform extremely
well in this game but he had a magnificent performance man, magnificent.
Absolutely and I do think that his industry plays a big part in this because if you look
at the strikers since Vladovic who have come in and flopped, you look at Lukajovic, you
look at Beltran and you look at Inzola and you look at Cabral.
Cabral maybe is the only exception over here but these guys aren't going to go out there
and just put their heads down and run and grind everything out for you.
They're not that type of striker and I feel like that's what this Fiorentina needs.
They need someone who's going to challenge these defenders, who's going to push them,
who's going to force them to make quick decisions, maybe the wrong decisions so that the players
behind the strikers who are very capable, Nico Gonzalez, one of the two Roma and Dragora,
they can all smack it.
It frees up a lot of space for them, it creates a lot of channels for them to run into.
So I think Balotti was a cool signing and I do hope he stays there but imagine him under
the Rossi on the other hand.
But there's Lukaku, yes, yes, yes, yes, it's true.
But happy this has happened, he's doing very well.
Well, Lukaku's off to Saudi Arabia next year, I'll bet you, what do you want?
Leave it, I'm not doing it.
He's so off to Saudi Arabia, Lukaku next year.
We did the Uva game and I didn't praise Cambioso so I'm going to praise him now.
Okay.
Cambioso is very good.
Yeah.
He is so two-footed.
I didn't even know which was the stronger foot.
I was like, wait a minute.
I don't know which is the stronger foot.
I don't know, whose left is right.
Tell us.
I would say he's left-footed primarily.
Look at that, I have absolutely no idea because he plays on the left, he plays on the right.
I think he might be left-footed, but to me, Cambioso, if Italy started a 343 or 352 formation,
he might be my starting wingback for the Italian national team.
Foot both.
Both?
What is this?
It could be, bro.
He's both-footed.
I know someone, we're playing a fiver side, I'm like, bro, which is your stronger foot?
He's like both.
What a fucking wankery answer.
Just tell me.
If I had to strap you to a chair and get a chain saw and say I'm going to rev up one
of your feet, one of your legs, choose one, bro, no, it doesn't matter.
But then I made him shoot a ball with his right and shoot a ball with his left.
It was the exact same fucking thing.
Bro, it's Cambioso.
Literally.
Apparently, he just spent a season playing with his left leg.
He used to play with his right leg, he just spent a season with his left leg.
I don't think he just started using it.
Everyone's like, you're terrible, there's no man I'm playing with my left.
It's true, I tell you, I got used to it.
He must have been fucking god-awful, man.
Zvilar, huh?
Look, look at my hand.
The next one?
Yes, Zvilar.
Zvilar, an upgrade from Rui Patricio, in my opinion, at least in the little kind of
case study that we have of Zvilar's performances.
He has made, what did we say about Rui Patricio?
It was, we haven't seen him pull off great saves.
What have we seen Zvilar do?
Pull off great saves.
And stopped the penalty as well in this.
Biragi, okay, he didn't go for the most exciting penalty.
He barely even ran up to take the penalty.
But great save, none of the Zvilar.
He waited until he committed, you know.
But he's been showing us great things.
Yeah, formerly with Anderlecht and Benfica, only 24 years old, and is a Serbian.
So he actually would be competing with Vanya Belinkovic-Sovish for this start.
He had a fantastic game.
He had another fantastic game.
Two good keepers.
Two fantastic game as well.
Two good keepers, huh?
Just one more comment, Daniela DeRosti's halftime switch to a 4-3-3 formation is when, you know,
Roma managed to get back into the game.
I don't mind managers trying something new and adapting to maybe the team in front of
them, but this was weird.
I don't know what he was looking to achieve by putting Angelinho as a right wing back,
Daniel Sharawi as a left wing back.
It just seemed a little bit odd and Roma didn't look good at all in the first half as a result
of that.
So it's just that decision making going into the game where he had time to consider and
think about it, I just found it to be quite weird, man.
I assume the approach would be to neutralize Fiorentina's attacking prowess early on.
Maybe he knew that they were going to come out gun-ho.
It didn't really work.
He would have hoped that his team are a bit more used to Atria at the back formation
after Fiorentina, under Mourinho.
But apparently, fucking not.
But this was an excellent game, very thrilling from a neutral perspective.
Who doesn't love a last minute equalizer?
Fiorentina probably.
Roma are in fifth on 48 points, which might just be enough for Champions League if the
coefficient remains as it is.
Even though Italian teams are dropping like flies, Napoleon lats you out in a week.
That's fine.
I think Italy is still first by some distance.
Whereas Fiorentina in eighth on 43 points, you said it's become the eighth sister.
That's it, it's the ninth sister's, bro.
There's Fiorentina lats you on Napoleon, atalanta, Roma, Bologna, Juve, Milan, Inter.
That's a top nine if I've ever seen one, man.
Yeah, absolutely.
And also shout out to Ranieri, who has five goals in all competitions this season, and
has benched Martinez-Quarton.
Amazing.
Very well.
Top stuff.
Yeah, Lazio hosted Udinese and lost 2-1.
Yes, the previous encounter of this game was a 2-1 win the other way around for Lazio.
The lineups, we're talking Providellingol, who had a tragic, tragic game.
Not because of his performance, but poor, poor Providellingol will get into it very soon.
Lazzari was on the right, Hisai was on the left, Hila and Romaniolli were the centre-back
partnership.
I am so impressed by Mario Hila by the way.
Vecino, I have a habit of pulling out my talking points while I'm reading the lineup.
Vecino, Cataldi and Luis Alberto were in the middle with Philippa Anderson out on the right,
Zacani out on the left and Chiro immobile up front.
Okoya was in goal for Udinese as he tends to be lately.
New empires, Gianetti and Ferreira were at the back with Camara on the left, Ferreira
on the right, Payero, Zarraga and Lovereach in the middle, Zarraga coming in to replace
Wallace.
Lorenzo Lucca was up front with the ever impressive Florian Thauvin.
You remember Gianetti from season 2 of Love is Blind?
Was she the Italian girl?
Yeah, Gianetti, Peretti, Canary.
Yeah, I remember.
We had a really, really vanilla boyfriend.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Damon, I believe as they were.
And she was insane.
She was all about self-destructing, bro.
She was like, I was going great with him, I can't wait till I fucking self-destruct.
I go nuts.
Everything's perfect right now.
Maybe too perfect.
This is the trash our girlfriends make us watch and we pretend we don't like it when we sit
there and we don't stop watching.
No, there's the game, babe.
Don't worry, we'll put it on the iPad.
So she's with him.
So Lazio dominated for the first half.
Udinesa did grow into the game and they were actually the more dangerous side and lost
15 minutes of the first half.
And they also had the better chances with Gianetti, speaking of, and forcing Providil
into a very good save off ahead.
It was one of those saves where he jumps up and falls backwards and knocks it over the
bar, you know, a fantastic save.
He was having a good game too, but he's self-destructed later.
Love Ridge got close with a rocket that powered into Providil.
Zacani was lively and Luca displayed very good hold up play in the first half.
I say this every single freaking episode.
He said, look, I thought it sounded like you said Luca.
It could be.
I said, look, look, look holds the play up so well, man.
And even his flick on his technical ability, big fan of the play.
They played to his strengths, which is good to see because you often see a striker like
him just being utilized in the wrong way.
And then he really liked him.
Same.
And the second half.
So Udenes had come out with the same momentum that they had ended the first half with.
Look up with Udenes in front when he deflected Camaras cross shot past Providil.
Two minutes later, Zacani went feral and deflected the ball into the back of the net of Gianetti.
I believe he wanted to cross it there.
It was most definitely across.
Definitely not his goal.
And then two minutes after that, Zarraga, who came into replace Wallace as I've mentioned,
plays the ball perfectly into the corner from outside the box throughout all this.
Of course, Udenes would go down to 10 men with new repairs, getting a red card.
And Providil would go up at the end of the game for a corner.
The commentator is like, Oh, Providil is going to upscore the winner in the Champions League
earlier this season.
Like really excited.
I forgot who his I think was Tati Castellanios.
He collided with him and you get to see this shot of Providil's ankle just twisting terribly
to the point that he was stood on his ankle on the little ball.
He was stood on it and he goes down on the ground.
Everyone's around him, you know, at one point the camera gets an angle that's really close
and you can literally hear him.
He was an agony, bro.
Like he's screaming.
Poor guy, man.
He's so frustrated.
I can't believe these idiots, they can't score against Udenes.
To the point that I have to go up at the end and then my fucking stupid striker who would
score a single goal twisted my bloody ankle.
Bro, Udenes are mental.
And it's not even twisted his ankle.
It's quite a bad injury.
I don't know what it is to be quite on.
I don't know the severity of it.
You could keep going and I'll check.
Yeah, which just goes to show, by the way, that Immobil who seemed to have been finding
his groove again.
He had been praising his movement over here, saying that he's still kind of maybe he's
coming back to form.
You know, it really, it was the case for a while, but now he's been so wasteful lately.
Man, he's baramunic.
He missed a massive opportunity.
He missed more good chances against Udenes.
He's just becoming so wasteful and he always seems to be one step behind.
And it just isn't working for him, man.
And Castellanios, his replacement seems to be better suited for a two striker formation,
I think, the way he plays.
I think so.
Because he's also kind of a support striker.
You know, he's quite technical, knocks the ball off well to his teammates.
He's not that killer.
He's not that guy you want as your main number nine.
I think Lazio might be better off, man, playing a 4-3-3 with Philip Anderson as the false
knight.
Like they did last year and they finished second, bro.
Your best football they've played, man.
Very true.
I don't know why they keep making the same substitutions that clearly aren't working.
And maybe the argument is sure, but last year Pedro was much better than he is now, but
fucking play Isaacson.
You know, he brought on Pedro to replace Luis Alberto at one point, playing him in midfield.
My God.
Quite interesting.
To me, when I look at this Lazio team, we've often spoken about their in transition, right?
Because they lost some key pieces and they're just trying to kind of put blasters until
the entire team is kind of reshuffled.
I think they have a significant weakness in every area of the pitch.
Honestly, if you look at their defense, probably the wing backs in Isai and Lazari.
If you look at the midfield, a lot of the times, bro, it's most of them having a nightmare
of a game.
Luis Alberto has not been good the past five, six games.
He's been struggling.
And the thing is, he's next to people that he's not familiar with.
Now in this case, sure, there was Cataldi and Vecino.
Cool, you know, like that.
It's nothing great.
But another day.
But another day, he's got Kamada, who is not familiar with that.
He's got Guendouzi, who is not familiar with that.
When it comes to Alberto, he needs players to do the running for him.
But in the midfield especially, which these guys don't really do.
And then in attack, it's like immobile, like you said, he's a step behind.
And Anderson, it depends, bro.
It depends on the fucking...
Good juggler, Mr. Head.
It depends on the weatherman.
That's how you know how he's going to play.
Which weatherman?
It depends on the particular weatherman that's presenting that day.
That Mexican one, you know the one?
That's...
Oh, bro.
What was it?
The Colombian one?
No, the Mexican one, Waila.
Waila.
It suits you, bro.
Honestly, I think that the best thing that you can do is commit to a project that sees
them, flip these players, make some money, and invest in a young team that can grow together
over the course of four or five years, build familiarity over there, concede for the time
being and say, fuck it, let's aim for conferences, aim for Europa when we can, aim for champions.
But it is important to think of sustainability because the squad is not sustainable.
Zakanye ain't no spring chicken, he's pushing 30, I believe.
Luis Alberto as well, immobile, he's past 30 now.
And their key players are all aging and everyone around them isn't too impressive.
So I would literally say that commit, get some young people on board, promote some people
and try to see out like a five-year plan similar to what Milan did, man.
And it clearly worked out for Milan.
They've lost a manager who was way better than a manager they probably deserved because
Lotito is stingy, quite frankly.
And they know how to choose their managers.
They do.
So they always have a great manager.
But Lotito must be so difficult to work with, man.
And we've seen it.
We've seen it time and time again with different managers.
And I'm sorry he's out now.
I have the note here for the replacement alongside Closer being rumored.
It's Brocky, Christian Brocky.
Can you, that is that.
PTSD, PTSD.
That's crazy.
That's just bad vibes from us Milan fans.
We'll see.
Of course, this should probably be an interim option.
We'll see.
Maybe they can go for a lost minute with 10 games to go.
European push, maybe with Closer at the helm.
They might give him a chance at that.
Or else maybe they have someone waiting in the pipeline to have a full preseason.
I highly doubt that we'll see because it was a resignation at the end of the day.
So I highly doubt there's a plan.
So they're just going to have to find someone to fill that hole.
Surrey is staying till the end of the season.
Is he not?
No, he's not.
He's not.
He's done.
He wasn't even coaching this game.
He was in the stands, of course.
I ended up for it because he was suspended.
But yeah, it was quite foreshadowing not seeing him there, you know.
At one point towards the end, you see the assistant manager going, but three minutes,
but three minutes.
Go get them.
Are you joking right now?
You're that desperate.
Three minutes ago with a goal against the denies.
To be honest, Surrey, fantastic manager and he can still do it.
And I know he started his coaching career quite late because he spent the majority of
his life as a banker, right?
But he's 65.
That's why he smokes.
He's 65.
You should think about relaxing a bit.
But I think these are the type of people, bro.
You know, those like, you know, those like workers, those people who've been working
since they were like 11 years old.
And they work and work.
And work and work and work and work.
And then they retire and a month later they die.
You might be like, they need something, you know, they need something to keep them going.
Like if they stop, they're done for.
But yeah, you need a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
So they have caretaker manager Giovanni Martuschiello or Martuschi.
He's been placed as the interim assistant manager who has been placed as the interim
manager.
I was at three minutes, three minutes.
Back to the football, by the way, there are a few more things I want to mention about
Lorenzo Lucca for example.
Back to the football.
What the hell were we talking about?
The politics.
Bro, Lucca.
He I saw aside of him that I hadn't really seen before.
Kind of annoying, an annoying opponent.
He's talking to the referee or talking to his opponent, so he's chatting, always falling
over, milking everything, you know, rolling on the floor, really frustrating the opposition,
really taking up a lot of time, really taking all the energy from the referee and sucking
it out of him quite frankly.
And that is quite useful, especially for a side that's battling relegation.
They've got a good player over there.
And you know, typically I bitch am on about players like that, but it is a very important
quality to have, man, and an annoying player to face, like, okay, annoying with the referee
is one thing, but annoying to the defenders and to the players around you.
That's fucking brilliant.
It's a great asset to have to your game.
Seven goals and three assists for Lucca.
In his first season, we had a bet about Lucas goals, I think.
Did we?
I think so.
You're sure it was long enough to listen?
It was with me and not one of your other co-hosts.
Yeah, I think it was with you.
We're never going to find it though.
Those are episodes that are like two hours long and we'll never find it.
Davis came out at one point towards the end for Udenes when they really needed to press
and Lotzio actually started the play before they could make their substitution to Choffee's
despair.
He was absolutely fuming about that.
But they brought on Davis, this guy who apparently came from Spurs charged onto the pitch and
just the first thing he did was he sprinted towards the ball.
Like they played it all the way from the right to the left.
Lotzio and this guy sprinted from the halfway line all the way to the first defender and
tracked them all back as they were passing it around.
He was just charging like a rabid bull.
I thought that was interesting as well.
I thought it was a useful substitution to make when you're winning and you need to
maintain and bring them on to the press.
Game plan very well executed by Udenes.
Absolutely, man.
And they were executed.
Their team is pretty good.
We've always said this.
They have technically gifted players, their defenders are tough, their full backs have
three lungs each.
They're wild.
They're a pretty good team, man.
Yeah, they struggled and I can't quite put my finger on why they struggled.
But maybe this is a turning point.
I mean, they had to rely on different people to get them the goals.
In fact, when you look at them, they haven't lost as many games as the rest of their rivals.
They've drawn a lot.
That's probably because they haven't been as productive because Beto left, granted
Lukka is putting up similar numbers.
That was our bet.
We were talking about Beto and Lukka.
Can Lukka have the same impact Beto had, remember?
And his first season.
I don't know if it was a bet, bro.
I don't think we're out here betting.
I owe you five Euro, Verona don't come dead last.
And they're so not going to come dead last.
I remind that I'm very, very, very mad.
She's sharing.
I have no idea.
And you know, man, they're just a solid team.
They're here to stay, I think, with Udenes.
I don't think they're going down anytime soon, despite the fact that they're getting
slightly weaker and weaker and weaker and weaker every season.
They currently sit in 13th.
They've gone up.
They're on 27 points.
Mixed form in their last five.
They have two draws, two wins and a loss, which isn't bad at all.
On the other hand, Lazio have four losses in their last five games.
Lazio, it's pretty, pretty bad.
They're down in ninth with 40 points.
Still, of course, European prospects for them, but they are not doing well at all.
And Sarri was probably right to resign.
Things had gone a little bit stale for him at Lazio.
Four losses in their last five is beyond worrying like.
Beyond concerning.
But next game, brother, Napoli one, Torino one, Napoli coming off a 2-1 win over Uwe,
Torino coming off a nil-nil home draw to Fiorentina.
The last time they played, I don't know what the result was because I have a mistake on
my notes.
Can you check that for me?
I have a previous encounter, Gen 1, Inter 1, excellent.
Napoli were without Caillouste and Engong due to injury, but well-accounted back Rahmani
into the matchday squad.
Torino had to do without Urech on the touchline, who served the second game of his two-match
ban after threatening to slit the other manager's throat.
The previous encounter, sorry to interrupt you by whacking your leg, it was a bit annoying.
They beat them, Torino beat Napoli 3-0 in the previous encounter.
The previous encounter, I remember that.
I remember that was a long ago.
Sanabria, Vlasic, Bonjourno.
My God.
Boom, boom, boom.
My God.
Richie was also suspended after his red card while Ilic Lovato shores and Tame is missed
out through injury.
4-3-3 for Napoli, Meret in goal and a backline of Rui, Jesus, Ostegard and Di Lorenzo, a
midfielder of Ziellinski, Lobotka and Aguissa, with Gvarn and Polita on a flanking Victor
Rosimen, 3-4-1-2 for Torino with Vania in goal and a backline of Gigi, Bonjourno and
Mazina, Bellanova and Rodriguez out on the flanks with Linnetti and Ginetis playing behind
Vlasic, who was playing behind Pelegri and Zapata.
You looked at me like I did something wrong, bro.
I don't know, did I?
Right now.
I thought I said something wrong.
Bro, Zin is in.
In the 14th minute, Vania Milinkovic-Savic denied Guevara in a 1v1 scenario after a swift counter
attack following a misplaced pass by Linnetti, that was the first great save of the game
by Vania.
In the 28th minute, Mered got down extremely well to deny a low bullet by Duván, and
the 43rd minute, the third great save of the match, and the second by Torino's Vania,
as he denied Guevara's flying header by scrambling to the far post.
In the 61st minute, Napoli opened the scoring through Guevara's Scalia as he carried the
ball forward and played it to Rui, who returned a brilliant early cross to the Georgian who
slid in and knocked the ball past Vania at the near post.
Just three minutes later, however, Sanabria scored an overhead kick with his first touch
of the game from close range.
Brilliant slam dunk goal over there.
Napoli continued to threaten after this, but Vania was on top form, denying an Aussie-Man
volley, a Juan Jesus header, a long-range Guevara strike.
Guevara also got close with a knuckleball from outside the area, which just skimmed
the roof of the net, but that was pretty much the game.
So Napoli remain unbeaten under Calzona with two wins and two draws in four matches, 10
scored and four conceded.
They do look better going forward, but they have conceded in every single game they played
so far.
Yes, definitely a side that will concede goals.
They were up against the best of the rest in Torino, who as we mentioned are tight at
the back and have the possibility of scoring goals through Duvan Zapata, and that absolute
demon they have on the right, Raul Bellanova, especially nowadays, just feeding him.
But I do think that overall, play-wise, this is a positive for Napoli, and I do think that
they need to maintain this kind of approach and not change it up too much.
I don't know, man, would you risk it and keep this guy on for a while, try to get back what
Spalletti had to do, do you think you should go for an esteemed coach?
Keep him until the end of the season, hope he does well.
What kind of profile would you go for, if you were ideal?
I'm not too sure to be honest, it depends who is on the market, and it depends what
kind of signings they make in the summer, because probably with Ossimen leaving, he probably
will leave.
That's quite foretelling.
Can you reach that?
Can you reach that on the left?
The Ossimen bobblehead.
This happened earlier while we were setting up, and it's quite foreshadowing.
So these are Ossimen's legs, right?
I was putting them right here, and that's the rest of them, man.
Look what a shame.
Look at that.
What an idiot, eh?
I have one at home, I should bring it.
Oh, don't worry, I'll glue it.
I'm all about glue now.
We have the same bobbleheads.
You're not a negative.
Let's keep them here.
This must be frustrating for people that aren't watching on YouTube, haha, you should watch
on YouTube.
Not a hat, it's tough to say, because if you were to ask me now, I would say probably a
pressing attacking manager.
Like, sorry?
Someone, ooh, bring him back, baby, bring him back.
And with a Gagin press style, you know, that could bring a lot to the table, but I'm unsure,
because we don't know what pairs are going to stick around.
They're going to be without Ziellinsky.
They're probably going to be without Ossimen as well.
So going to be very interesting to see, but to be completely honest, I'm not entirely
sure who I would go for.
Guevara is playing pretty fucking well on their couch, so on.
He's playing super, man.
Again, he's happy again, man.
He's playing really well.
He's the leader of this team.
At one point, it was like he was the kind of, I'm not good with superhero terminology,
bro, but Batman had Robin, was it?
Yes.
Okay.
Before it was the case that...
You're beyond the Graham Pollard, is for it, but...
Before it was Ossimen as Batman, right?
And Guevara was Robin.
That was the case last season for me, at least, because Ossimen was on play.
Granted, Guevara had a fantastic season, but Ossimen was the main guy up front.
The terrifying person everyone was terrified of.
Nowadays, it's like Ossimen has taken a backseat.
I don't know if it's because he's already got, like, mentally he's out of there or not,
but Guevara seems to be Batman this season, basically, is what I'm trying to say.
He was out at Afqon to be completely honest, but when he came back, he got off to a good
start.
He's a contender for Player of the Month, to be completely honest.
Obviously, he's being totally outshined this season by other strikers, especially Lautarro
Martinez and probably Duzan Vladovic as well.
So still, despite being away at Afqon, a significant decrease from his form last year.
Aha.
I think part of it is his frustration with the club, the fact that he wants out.
In fact, that he feels as though after winning them the league last year, being the protagonist
in that team one, because obviously Robin was pretty fucking strong last year, Guevara.
He feels as though he was the player that managed to get them over the line, the superstar.
He remained loyal his day at Napoli for another season, and they betrayed him through the TikTok
video and so on and so forth, and perhaps mistreating him a little bit.
And now, I think, followed by a bit of rough form, he's fed up and a way out seems like
a decent move for him.
Yes, it must be very frustrating for Napoli fans to hear the two best players, at least
now Guevara has said I'm staying here, but they have both flirted with potential departures
and other clubs and other leagues.
Did you see, before we forget to mention it, De Laurentis walking onto the pitch while
Poletano was talking to Skye, and he took him by the hand and pulled him away, turned
to the reporter and started shouting at him and scolding him, pointing his finger in his
face, telling him we don't talk to Skye, you are not worthy journalists to talk to, you've
got an agenda, blah, blah, blah, essentially, and he's pulled Poletano like a kid, by his
hand.
It was hilarious.
I really don't like him, I really don't fucking like ADL.
Like who does he think he is?
Like we don't talk to Skye.
Do you think he's a film writer and the owner of a prestigious football club?
I mean, yes, and his profile is what it is, and he got a lot of success to Napoli, he
made them the team that they are today, but just his theatrics like this, I'm not a massive
fan of like, I'm also not a massive fan of players giving press conferences or speaking
to reporters at halftime.
At halftime, but sometimes they're encouraged by the club.
Clearly not the case this time, Poletano was there like, I go close, do you see what I
did there on the left?
I find it weird, I find it weird speaking before halftime, but anyway, Vanya had a spectacular
game over here, he had seven saves, four of them were really, really good to say the least
against a team that once they start attacking, it's hard to stop them.
We saw them put six past the likes of Sasvolo, not over eight Sasvolo, but the teams don't
typically put six past them.
But he was very much the factor that was capable of getting this team one point.
I remember the last time Torino won this game, Buon Giorno had done a spectacular job at
keeping Gossima quiet and again, he did a good job over there again in this game, but
the protagonist for Torino absolutely had to be Vanya Milinkovic-Savic.
Absolutely, Vanya Milinkovic-Savic is a player who has quite an impressive CV.
He was actually a Manchester United for a while in his career.
He was at Spal, he was at Ascoli, I swear to God, he was a Manchester United on loan
in 2014, 2015, played for Ascoli, Standard Lige, Spal, yeah.
So yes, he's been known to be a good goalkeeper for a while, he's only 27 years old, despite
his monstrous appearance.
I would take him to war with me.
I was going to war with Vanya, you're coming with me, bro.
Absolutely, I'm taking him to St. Patrick's with a Sunday.
If Milan had to moneyball someone, you know the whole moneyball approach where you sell
a player for an exorbitant price and then you bring in three, four players who are just
as good to strengthen the team basically, if Milan were to sell money on, I wouldn't
be opposed to bringing in someone like Vanya Milinkovic-Savic.
Ideally it would be the Gregorio, but Vanya is a cute second.
Vanya is the type of player man where you have a heated game, he's a shit talker, he's
a taunter, he'll keep that defense together, he's big, he's imposing control.
He'll take up free kick, bro, he'll take up energy.
Guys, if you have never seen it, Google Milinkovic-Savic free kick, Vanya Milinkovic-Savic free
kick, at one point, I don't know if it was Mazzarri, I don't know who was the manager,
to be honest, I can't remember.
But they had a free kick and say, quite a bit out, quite a way out.
Outside, what was it, how many yards out would you say?
25, 30 yards out, I think 30.
And Vanya steps up, Vanya, the goalkeeper, and just smacks it into the crossbar, smacks
it, bro.
Madonna, that's a portiere attacante.
That's a portiere attacante where we've seen one, not about Vanya.
Napoleon 7th on 44 points, when it comes to their pursuit for Europe, say top four, there
are currently seven points behind Bologna, four points behind Roma, if fifth place is
going to offer Italian teams Champions League, so they're still not completely out of it
either.
Torino on the other hand are in 11th on 38 points and they actually have fallen behind
Monza on 39.
Yes, Calieri took on Salernitana in the game I was the most excited for to watch this weekend.
It was literally so, Salernitana couldn't do it against Tenman Odineza, we would hope
they would do it against Calieri who were their relegation rivals, quite frankly.
Salernitana had to win, it was a must win game.
The game before was a 2-2 draw, as they should be competitive between these sides.
Now Calieri started with a 4-4 1-1 formation with Skoufet in goal, Zappa as the right back
and Augello as the left back with Yerimin and Dossan as the centre back partnership.
Nandes was out on the right with Youngto out on the left, Deoland, Macombour in the middle
with Gaitano playing behind La Padula.
For Salernitana it was Ochoa in goal and a 4-3-1-2 formation with Brother Rich and Zanoli as the
full backs, Fazio and Manon as the centre back partnership with Castanos, Maggiore and Cullibali
as the midfield 3, Visman and Ciorna were up front with Candrava playing as the trecuartista
behind them.
Are they trying all this new stuff?
All this new shit.
Why did you change it so much?
So yes, I think the entire point of starting with Fazio and Manolas would be to overpower
La Padula, right?
Because Paavoletti of course was out, as was Petania.
In fact there was quite a long injury list, Lovumbo was out, Mancozou, Paavoletti, Petania
and Solamana for Kaliari, whereas for Salernitana Boateng, Gionber and Pirazzi were out at the
back.
He started with Fazio and Manolas anyway to give himself kind of a height advantage against
La Padula, but he played a high line.
Salernitana played a very, very fucking high line, which didn't make any sense at all.
In fact it only took 12 minutes for La Padula to get the ball, given to him by Zappa.
He dribbled everyone, including the goalkeeper, he basically walked it into the back of the
net, what a goal by La Padula.
He dribbled the keeper and then he dribbled the last man that was behind the goalkeeper
as well.
He just tapped it in really clumsily at the end.
La Padula is an absolute hero, must be said.
He has only scored, this was only his second goal I believe in Seiya this season, but in
Seiya B last season it was a big factor of course to get them promoted, right?
And the playoff he was, the king, you know, the La Padula.
You know that shit, love it.
In the 40th minute of course Kalyari would expose Salernitana's high line once again,
this time it was Nate Hernandez sprinting forward and looping the ball with the perfect
amount of weight on it to Gaitano, who finished Cooley to extend his goal scoring form what
a lone spell this has been for Gaitano.
Now to think that now Gaitano and Followeru show out, right?
In the 51st minute was Eldor Shomorodov starting to score, everyone and their mother was scoring.
Eldor Shomorodov hadn't scored in ages and his last goal actually came against Salernitana
as well.
And yes, this would be 3-0 in the 51st minute of course now Salernitana are pissed.
Kastanoss managed to get one back, thanks to his unholy assist, Majora scored the header
from a Kandreva corner, there's suddenly 3-2, you know they managed to have a good spell,
everything, oh my god game one, Kansalernitana do it, but then once again Kaliari exposed
the high line, look at this by the way, look at this substitution, okay?
56th minute Kastanoss goal, 58th minute Majora goal, they're back in it, 65th minute Simi
and Wangkwo won instead of Vismann, who's looking lively, Vismann has been decent, you
know as a player.
Why would you bring on Simi who's known to be kind of more of a defensive striker?
You play Simi if you want to press, if you want to play a tight 4-4-2, you know kind
of like, he's not the player who's going to get you goals.
It's always interesting to see a substitution that counters the momentum that the team apparently
have, right?
Like you're doing well, give them a minute, they're doing well, let them figure it out,
maybe they'll come back.
And then in the 66th minute the Tinker man, Tinker the bed brought on three new men and
in the 76th minute Eldor Shomorodov absolutely humiliated Fazio.
Fazio will never play football again after that.
It was hard to watch, the ball hit him in the face and then he was dribbled twice and
then Shomorodov chipped Ochoa and then went round him and tapped it into the back of the
net.
Yeah, he chipped Ochoa, it was a rebound.
But he attempted to chip him, he kind of managed because Ochoa got chipped.
But I could literally hear Fazio wheezing when he was just like, he was like going left,
going right.
Yeah, he couldn't do anything.
To the right Shomorodov was significantly struggled in the area.
They ran rampant man and this was a massive victory for Kaliari who have pretty much,
not okay they haven't confirmed safety definitely not far from it.
Absolutely not.
No, no, like 10 games to go of course.
But they have got some breathing room, you know, they've jumped the likes of Sasvolo
for Sonona, Empoli and Lecce with this victory.
They're up to 15th.
So a massive victory for them while Salernitan are down and as I mentioned in the intro Sabatini
has pretty much admitted that the January signings did not have the impact that he
wishes they had and that he wants the fans to stay with the team until the end of the
season.
Yeah, I'm pretty much confirming that they're over.
So now it's just going to be the kids for Salernitan for the rest of the season probably.
Bro, keep in mind all it takes is Kaliari to lose a game and one of these...
No Kaliari aren't out at all, don't get me wrong.
They've just got some breathing room.
It's crazy to go from 19th to 15th.
Undefeated in four.
Yeah.
Two draws, two wins.
That's all it takes man, a good run.
Too late for Salernitan of course but the others it could be anyone.
Could be absolutely anyone and that's what's so crazy about the league this season.
If it's not tight at the top it's definitely tight at the bottom.
I heard that after I said it.
Haha, yeah.
Hello.
So that's pretty much it for this game man.
When it comes to wonderful mentions performance wise man I thought Deola had a pretty decent
game in the middle even though I'm a man who doesn't really enjoy Deola as a player.
He had some really good passes.
Gaitan of course has been really good.
Lapadoula really stepped up, Nandes stepped up a lot.
I thought the defence was pretty good with Yerimin and Dossin I think they're doing pretty
well.
When it comes to Salernitan others, much to say, this Chouana guy looks pretty exciting.
Kastanos is a bit frustrating as a player granted he scored but he demands the ball
a lot.
He's a bit selfish.
Him and Kandreva seem to have a thing where they play together and they exclude the others.
Haha.
Yeah, not a good performance by Salernitan whatsoever and Leverani said if the players
were going out there and weren't doing what I told them to do I would resign.
That's what he said.
Genius.
He's basically saying they were being my every instruction so I'm not going to resign.
So they're losing because I'm shit as well.
Exactly.
At least he's honest.
They're getting absolutely merked in relegations six pointers man.
They go merked against Empoli, they go merked against Kaliarino.
And it's like Empoli beat them under Davide Nikola and they were on a high.
Now they lost to Kaliarino and Kaliari were on a high.
Okay, name the last time Salernitan were on a high this season.
They simply haven't been.
They haven't been ever.
The best that they were was under Pippo and Zargi.
Yeah.
They were losing every game.
That was the sexiest they've ever had.
They would have ever been this season, frustrating stuff.
I feel so bad for Salernitan fans because they're some of the best fans in the league.
But now it's all about Kaliari baby.
Okay, now back to basics.
Very cool bro.
Do you remember that was?
Justin Timberlake bro.
Was it Justin?
I was going to say he was really just the one time.
No, it was Justin Timberlake.
The one time he tried Rapinole.
Oh, it was Robby Williams.
The one time he tried Rapinole.
I have.
I don't know.
Okay, now back to basics.
Representant.
They divided that down his pie when you whip your hair.
What's that song called?
That's not sexy.
Back is it, man.
Whatever.
Right.
Okay, now back to basics.
We'll see.
Okay, now back to basics.
Let's channel Verona one, the other relegation six pointer.
I have bro.
Really, one of the most interesting segues we've had on this podcast.
Robby Williams, Rudebox.
Rudebox.
What a.
Wow.
That was a weird segue for Robby Williams.
Yeah.
Wow.
And now he's doing cat adverts.
It's great to be a cat.
I don't know.
Back to this Rob Williams doing cat commercials.
Please let you know.
Verona one and the other relegation six pointer.
Now despite the fierce ongoing relegation dogfight and seriat the moment in which this
match was obviously of great importance, the headlines were focused on the post match
brawl between the two teams which resulted in lecture manager, the versa head butting
Verona striker, Thomas on three.
Both were red carded and diverse.
I was immediately sacked as a result of this replaced by former Odineza man, Gotti lecture.
We're coming off a one one away draw to frozen on it was Verona were coming off a one nil
win over Saswolo.
The previous encounter between these two teams resulted in a two to draw.
Other results this weekend put even more pressure on the two teams in this relegation dogfight.
The hosts have lost Kaba for the rest of the season with a tour in ACL while Hellas had
Davidovic suspended.
It was a 4 3 3 formation for Lecce with Falco and Engol and a backline of Jean Dre, Pongra
Cic, Basquerotto and Gallo and midfield three of Gonzalez, Ramadani and Udon with Banda
and Alcvest flanking Kristovic.
A 4 2 3 1 formation for Hellas with Monte Po and Goul and a backline of Ciaccia, Maniani,
Coppola and Cabal.
Duda and Serdar in the double pivot or as we say Erda Duda, Suslov, Lazovic and Falerovich
are playing behind Tiani Nuslin.
Now in the 16th minute Follow Runshaw opened the scoring, Follow Runshaw's low strike
from outside the area took a heavy deflection off of Basquerotto guiding the ball into the
bottom corner.
Keep it together Jay.
He caught me off guard.
You're not going to explain it Erda Duda.
I've told them before it was the first time I was saying Duda means Willy.
They don't know what Erda means.
Erda means to suck right so Serdar and Duda it's interesting to put them in a double
pivot here say.
Lecce thought they had a lifeline when they were awarded a penalty in the 23rd minute
after Maniani's handball deflected Lamek Banda's shot.
However the decision was overturned following a VAR review determining that Maniani's arms
were close to his body and there was little he could do to avoid the contact.
In the 28th minute Udhan's ferocious cross was heading forward and required a touch onto
the crossbar by Montepoit to deny the Frenchman.
In the 31st minute Lecce hit the crossbar for a second time as Anquist's looping
Thierry Agira bounce off the crossbar.
I'm like Anquist had a looping tyre what did I write over there?
I thought it was 111.
De Marcon Griezmann scored.
In the 43rd minute Montepoit pulled off an excellent save to deny Kristoffic's header
but at the end of the game not a comfortable win at all for Verona after Lecce were threatening
so much but Verona did manage to get it over the line.
There was a tense finale at the end it ended in a dramatic altercation as Lecce's manager
d'Aversa headbutted Thomas Henri resulting in the red card.
This is what he had to say.
I came into contact head to head with Henri but I did not hit the Veronese player with
a headbutt nor did I receive one from him.
It was a physical contact, a bad example, an unsportsmanlike image resulting from great
tension and adrenaline which however must not and do not want to be my excuses or mitigating
factors.
He said a whole lot of nothing.
I said I didn't do it, he didn't do it.
Ah passion.
Sometimes it happens but it shouldn't.
Exactly.
Do you think if a manager does that there should be a zero bullshit policy?
Well it depends on the manager.
I think for Lecce at this point it was more an excuse to get them out of there because
it hasn't been good in a while.
He's walking with his laces on.
I think it depends on the manager.
I highly doubt you're going to have Pep Guardiola and you're going to sack him because he
goes head to head with another player.
I think it very much depends on the situation and on the club.
Well needless to say they did sack him and they've appointed Gotti who holds two degrees.
He has two degrees Gotti.
He has one in pedagogy.
Yes this is just a fun fact.
He's got two degrees.
One in pedagogy and the other in sports sciences.
A very different profile compared to the previous coach, Daversa.
Has experience working with you teams at Milan and Regina.
He began his coaching career in November 2019 with Odineze where he was sacked after one
win in 13.
So it is a gamble going for Gotti.
That word you said is the method and practice of teaching especially as an academic subject
or theatrical concept.
Pedagogy.
Yeah.
So look it up.
He's going to educate these motherfuckers.
And win one game in 13 and get sacked.
What do you make of that appointment like Gotti?
Conservative appointment.
Someone who will tighten things up at the back.
The idea for Lecce right now is to just scrape survival and Gotti is a guy who has quite
a lot of experience in relegation battles.
I think compared to the profiles who are available Gotti is one of the better ones.
You know he's a Daneze.
It was quite tough at one point before it went tits up towards the end.
So I don't think it's too bad.
Especially when it's so last minute right your coach had butt someone.
Who's available.
Yakinie.
No, not Yakinie.
Simplici.
No, not Simplici.
I reckon that no.
You know that being in contact with someone that have someone on the radar.
You know I think that especially you know the fans haven't been happy with Deverza for
a while.
I guess he would have been in the pipeline for quite some time.
Potenge.
Folleroon Shaw got his fourth goal of the season from Napoli.
He really has been a sensation.
Is it only his fourth?
He scored more.
I think they were all fucking insane.
This one took a deflection but still decent goal.
Michael, he made the cover.
If you didn't recognise him because he came a bit weird.
He has a very difficult face to draw Folleroon Shaw.
He has been fantastic and he's been hustling for a while now.
It had come to a point this season where watching him I was like this guy is still hustling
trying to.
It feels like they're trying to make it when they're at that level.
You know when you're at like a hell of a run and you're on loan from Napoli and you've
been out on loan for like nine seasons you know season after season you're out on loan.
I would say he's finally making it Folleroon Shaw.
He's really really really stepped the top.
He's got two options after this right.
He'd be utilised at Napoli to a degree coming off the bench so on so forth but he could
take a small step up go to a team like Torino.
I could imagine at Bologna as well if they make a few sales for example he could go to
Bologna.
Torino, Bologna, Monza these are teams that he can join and then potentially even start
and be very effective.
He's a good player Folleroon Shaw and you know trained at Napoli as well.
To Mike they call him.
That's exactly what they call him.
There were some goal keeping heroics.
Montepo, who I highly rate as you all know, played a pivotal role in this win.
He made crucial saves in this game particularly that fingertip save to the Nij-Kristovic setter
at the end of the first half.
But this wasn't such an exciting game.
It seemed to die down towards the second half.
I thought that perhaps I wouldn't have been incredibly disappointed if it had been a draw
because I don't think that Verona did so much more than let Che to get themselves a victory
but when you have a player like Michael Folleroon Shaw who can change the tide of the game and
there's a game changer then absolutely power to Verona and they managed to get a victory
over there which marks their second victory in a row and in their last six they've only
lost two.
They won two and they drew two as well.
They currently find themselves in fourteenth on twenty six points whilst let Che find themselves
in sixteenth on twenty five points.
Good to note that Verona in their last two relegation six pointers they won both of them.
Last one over Saswalo and this one over let Che.
Absolutely.
Is this the last game?
No you have one more.
I have one more.
So there is Saswalo one, Frostenone, Nyl another relegation six pointer.
The previous encounter was actually a four two victory for Frostenone over Saswalo so
they could have done the double over here coming in best.
Concili was in goal for Saswalo unfortunately for them in their four two three one formation.
Pedersen was out on the right with Dujg out on the left with Erlich and Ferrari as a centre
back duo.
Raczic and Thordzwet formed the double pivot with Lauriente and Bayrami playing on the
flanks with Pinamonti up front and Greg Ward the frel playing behind him.
There you go it's Bayrami instead of Berardi we were wondering how would he go about it.
Ballardini would handle this.
Ballardini ball.
Yeah.
Ballardini balls.
That's a good episode title.
Stefan Ohterati was in goal for Verona in their four three three formation with Valerian
Zorte as the full backs.
Ramaniole and Ocoli as the centre backs with Bresciani, Niberince and Mazzatelli in midfield.
Gediamis on the left, Suley on the right and Kedira up front.
So Saswalo played a waiting game and they created very little at the start of the game.
Frostenone on the other hand were wasteful and it was quite a KGF fair.
Thordzwet broke the deadlock in the 58th minute after giving away a penalty that was overturned
by Var.
Literally 57th minute he gives away the penalty, it's overturned by Var, 58th minute he scores.
It took till the 90th minute for the next big piece of action to happen and this was
when a penalty was awarded to Frostenone and Kyo George stepped up to take it and he missed.
He missed the target.
He missed the bloody target.
So yes Frostenone will be regretting that.
The Francesco was bitter after the game and in the interview he said, it feels like I'm
giving the same interviews over and over again.
This is literally a quote.
The team created chances and at the first shot we conceded a goal.
After a potential penalty we conceded a goal with the first ball.
We had an excellent initial half hour.
We should have capitalised more.
In the end the penalty would have rewarded our effort and what we deserved but instead
we're here biting our hands.
Saswalo played a waiting game and created very little but they scored.
We should have been better at converting and credit to them.
The result is what matters.
On the other hand Balardini humble and cool after victory.
So there was a scrappy game at the beginning.
We were tense and then we relieved some pressure on our minds and legs.
It wasn't a beautiful game but we got what we missed against Verona.
We have the means to overcome difficulties and with a clear mind you need to know what
to do along with dealing with the weight of the moment.
We're getting used to it.
The team wanted to take more responsibility especially without Barardi who is our best
player.
We're thinking about Sunday.
It's a shame we do not have Thord's Wettendoi but we still have a group of boys who will
give the role and will compensate for this too.
Of course it's easy to be humble in victory.
Being humble in defeat is way more difficult than with the French crossings.
We deserve the point.
An interesting thought.
Okay, Kyle George was devastated after missing the penalty.
Would you if you are a side who is okay you're the coach of a side and your side is relegation
threatened.
You're frozen on as coach.
You've got a penalty in the 91st minute.
What do you think about a lony taking the penalty?
Does it make a difference?
I think the why would it make a difference?
I think the person that can hit them best and the person that has been hitting them
best should take it.
Why shouldn't a lony take it?
I tend to agree with you.
This was a conversation I saw online.
The whole logic behind it was that maybe a player who's on loan doesn't really understand
the weight of the penalty.
Maybe for him it's more of a personal accolade for him to score rather than keeping the
thing.
It's almost better that he doesn't feel that pressure knowing stepping up to take it.
That's a good counterpoint actually as well.
Yes, I mean he's a striker right?
Even when he was going to take a penalty it should be him.
But the fact that he failed to hit the target was just devastating.
Biting your hand definitely.
I mean when was the last time Saas Oolo got a clean sheet bro.
I can't remember.
He took the ballardini to come in and Frosinon aren't a team that they're easy to shut out.
They're definitely difficult to keep out because they're not offensive.
They have devastated teams Frosinon.
They're with their attacking play.
And they have devastated Saas Oolo earlier this season.
Four-two.
So yeah, this was a pretty good performance by Saas Oolo.
Pretty street smart.
I do tend to agree with DeFrancisco that a draw would have or could have been fair.
But of course Saas Oolo did what they had to do.
And that Ratchage guy who despite not hitting the ground running since joining has had a
goal and an assist in his past two games.
So that's nice for him as well.
Three points is exactly what Saas Oolo needed over here.
Exactly after so many losses in a row.
Now they are 19th with 23 points.
Just two points off of Empoli in 17th.
While on the other hand Frosinon are above Saas Oolo.
Look how important this victory was bro.
With 24 points, just one point above Saas Oolo.
This was massive.
This was a six-pointer by definition.
Huge man, huge.
We should at some point bite the bullet and who we believe is going to get really good.
Religated this season to our listeners.
What do you mean?
Like who we think is going to get really good.
Who are your bottom three?
I have said but I am changing my mind every week.
Yeah that's the thing.
The thing is I had Helas Verona to go down originally.
But now you look at them their goal difference has really improved and that's a good indicator.
Yeah true.
The goal difference is a good indicator for telling who's going to go down.
So I think Helas Verona will do just enough to be fine.
I am not even going to make a prediction because you're scared.
Because I'm scared.
Got you.
Are you ready to make a prediction right now?
Shall we?
Yes.
Do it.
Who's going down bro?
Salernetana, Frosinone and it's between Lecce and Calieri now.
I'm going to say Lecce.
You know if that happens I think that's the prediction I did at the beginning of the season.
Really?
I think those are the three teams.
I said Salernetana, Frosinone and Lecce.
I think so but I had Salernetana on 18th.
So that doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
We'll see.
By the way we should revisit that towards the end of the season.
See what we had said.
We shouldn't.
I had you put in the lead.
Final game we're going to be covering is the race to 10th if you all care about that.
It's Genoa 2-Monza 3.
Genoa coming off a 2-1 loss to Inter.
That was a controversial penalty just to remind you.
Monza coming off a 4-1 home loss to Roma.
The previous encounter was a 1-0 victory to Monza.
So Monza doing the double over Genoa.
Vasquez sat out a ban with injured Haps, Anchei and Matturo.
While Gianluca Caprari and Vignato did not make the trip but it saw return from suspension.
This match saw a goal of the year contender through a Cizercic volley by Danny Muota which
was our goal of the week and the biggest thing that happened in this match.
3-5-2 formation for Genoa with Martinez in gold.
Very impressive Martinez with a backline of De Winter, Bani and Voliacco.
Cia Zabelli on the left, Messias on the right and Stuttman, Badel and Frendrup.
You guessed it with Aguian Goodman up front.
4-2-3-1 formation with 4-Monza with Di Gregorio in gold.
Birindelli, Itzo, Mari and Carboni at the back with Bondo and Acpa Acpro in the double
pivot.
Colpani, Pesina and Muota playing behind Jurich.
We're seeing Pesina in a more offensive role over here, stop playing with us, remember
we're going to make me laugh.
This nursing him back to hell bro.
In the 7th minute, Monsa opened the scoring through Pesina.
At the far post Colpani guided a square headed to Pesina who nodded into the empty net.
In the 18th minute they made it through Danny Muota who scored a phenomenal goal.
It was a scissor kick volley.
Colpani's cross found a totally unmarked Danny Muota just inside the area who won Lystaf
a phenomenal scissor kick volley leaving Martinez helpless.
An absolutely sensational goal.
In the 26th minute Colpani channeled his inner Ronaldinho as he skipped past three players
with immense technique before unleashing a curling theory Algira which struck the cross
bar slight touch from the keeper.
So at the end of the day that could also go down as a remarkable save.
In the 52nd minute Goodminton got one back for Genoa.
His initial penalty was saved by Di Gregorio but he managed to knock in the rebound.
So he's on the 6th.
The penalty was awarded after VAR spotted a handball by Mari.
His arm seemed close to his body but he used it to help guide the ball back to the keeper.
In the 67th minute Vittinia scored to make it 2-2.
Retegui dispossessed Acpa Acpro deep into Monsa's half as Vittinia collected the ball,
charged forward, created space for himself and curled the ball past Di Gregorio.
Exceptionally well for his first goal.
In the 70th minute Genoa threatened as Di Gregorio parried a long range Malinovsky strike
which was destined to be rebounded in by Badel but Mota got a crucial touch.
In the 79th minute winner for Monsa through Daniele Maldini.
It was a great passage of play by Monsa which ended with Valentin Carbone's shot being saved
by Martinez and Maldini bagging in the rebound.
So this was a mid-table battle.
I wouldn't over here it says it was a crucial encounter in the mid-table battle.
But it's interesting when you see games like this because it finally allows teams like
this to be super competitive.
Of course they're going to be competitive, of course they're going to want to beat the
Leches, they're going to want to beat the Milan's, they're going to want to beat everyone.
But it's like against like.
Exactly.
How often do you see these teams go up?
Because Serie A is very much the season, the relegation battle goes all the way up to
13th.
From 13th to 20th it's the relegation battle so far.
The race for Europe is from, let's say from first obviously, I mean just because of that,
down to ninth.
They're battling for Europe.
Those three in the middle, Torino, Monsa, Genoa.
Up till 11th the race for Europe in reality because if lots you are in it, Monsa are only
one point behind and then Torino are one point behind them.
So there's really no real mid table in the season's edition of Serie A.
It's crazy man.
It's as Genoa are the one mid table team banging the middle who seem to be safe from relegation
but can't really make that European push.
So they're just perfectly mid table while everyone else is technically still within
the running.
This game had some spectacular goals, remarkable goals, not only obviously Dani Muatas but Pesina
had a good goal over there, Vittigna had a very good goal and actually want to talk
about Vittigna a bit.
So the centre forward turns 24 in March and made a move from Braga to Marseille only a
year ago for 32 million euros which is a club record signing for Marseille.
After a disappointing spell consisting of many a missed chance and just six goals in
43 games, he is now on loan at Genoa with an option to buy for 25 million.
Skysport which would also be I think a probably a record signing for Genoa.
I highly doubt they've ever spent more than that especially knowing their past.
Skysport literally Skysport Italia claim that part of the negotiations for Vittigna
also include completing the Malinovsky sale for 7 million.
So what they're doing over here is to make back their 32 million because they bought
a guy for 32 million, busted the bank and he was shite for them.
It's like let's make a double deal.
We sell, we get our 32 million back by selling you Malinovsky and by selling you Vittigna.
Not a bad idea.
Now it's an option to buy but apparently there might be some hidden clauses that if
he reaches certain milestones for the team then it's triggered automatically.
So if he scores for example.
Three goals for the team.
Then it gets triggered automatically because he's been vital for the team or maybe something
different because if he scores 10 they might want them back.
It's usually appearance based as well.
This was an exciting affair definitely between two sides who were definitely up for it.
One question I have for you bro you asked me to be serious so I'm going to be serious
and ask you do you know what Acpa, Acpro and Bondos first names are?
Acpa, Acpro is Acpa.
No I don't know.
So Acpa, Acpro's first name is Jean Daniel.
Jean Daniel, Acpa, Acpro and Bondos first name is Warren.
Would have never guessed right.
Talk about names of no match.
Jean Daniel is the most sexy vanilla name I've ever heard of my life.
Jean Daniel.
Doing the attendance in class here.
Mike, John, Peter, Jean Daniel.
Well a lot of John's in Malt.
Jean Paul, Jean Pierre, Jean Carl, Jean Mark, Jean Luca.
That's like Jean Luca.
Crazy names.
Madden and Ambrose back to.
Aha.
No I mean that's pretty much it.
It's good to see Pessina is proving to be quite an all-rounder in that midfield right
I tend to prefer him in a more like double pivot midfield.
I don't think he's too refined in front of goal to be operating so close to goal but
he's also quite explosive so seeing him behind the striker which is where we saw him play
for Italy when he came on in the Euros and scored for example.
It's also good to see him over there and that's the great thing about having such well-rounded
players right.
Maldini coming on and getting a goal is cool.
Did you see what Maldini and Colombo said about Zlatan?
No it's Zlatan.
For those of you that don't know Zlatan went up to Maldini and Colombo I believe at half
time.
I think before the game.
Or before the game.
Before the game of Monsa against Milan.
I told them look at you guys we sent you out on loan so you play and you're both on the
bench.
Fucking ridiculous and then he just walks off.
Maldini assists and Colombo scores right and Milan lose four to fire them up.
And Maldini was speaking about it and it just sucks hearing Maldini speak about the club
like I'm sure he doesn't mean harm.
I'm sure he's just saying what happened.
But it's kind of shit talk at the same time and it's just a bit painful.
It's a bit of a banter.
Nothing from Maldini but what can you do?
George seems to be settling a bit.
Settling a little bit he hasn't yet scored I believe.
But they're utilizing him perhaps in the same way that Odinez are utilizing Lucca.
He plays often with his back towards goal and thankfully behind him it's not like there's
no talent there's called Pani Pessina Mota.
Lucca can do a lot more with the ball than George can.
Yes absolutely.
George is there you know that fucking net that you tossed the ball to and it bounces back.
That's how he plays.
That's George.
A brick wall.
Yeah it's not about finding George.
It's about George finding called Pani Pessina Mota.
But in area situations George is still one of the most threatening in the league.
Yeah absolutely.
In the air.
Absolutely.
He's a striker that no defender would want to go against to be honest with you.
Bro you're done with this?
Yes.
I've prepared some individual accolades for the week.
For example top distance covered we've got two Bologna men who've covered the most distance
this matchday.
They came in the match against Inter.
Bologna actually covered like three kilometers more than Inter did.
So they're Froyler and Ferguson.
The top sprinter who clocked 35.46 kilometers per hour was Pontus Almvist.
I'm shortly followed by Shamoradov.
Interesting.
Top assist we've got Colpani and McKenny who have two weeks.
That's not an interesting one.
Let's move to another interesting one here.
Top passes complete we've got Evan and Dica who was ever present in that game against
Fiorentina he had 89 passes completed shortly followed by Benacer with 88.
Top key passes there is top two are Benacer and Raspadori tied with five.
Top balls played forward is also Ismail Benacer fantastic game followed by Froyler.
Top touches in the penalty area Christovic and Ozzyman had the most with 14.
Top dribbling Zakhani with six he was very inspired in that game.
And these are just fun to read to be honest with you.
I encourage you guys after I imagine just to educate yourselves a bit on how players
are playing and who was effective and who wasn't head over to the Serial website.
Documenti.
Exactly down at the bottom and you can see all these statistics as well.
Gvićak Varatskeli for example had the most attempts this match day with eight.
Who had the most saves?
The most saves Vanya Milinkovic with seven.
Top recoveries Danilo with 12.
12 recoveries is crazy.
And then second Bremer with 10.
This is you as a defense man against Atalanta were you missing?
Top attempts on target Shamoradov and Guevara Shamoradov man leave it to Salernetana to
make the ball and one percent of everything.
But yeah and then top scoring chance is apparently Benacer and McKenny and Raspadori all tied
with five.
But anyway that's it for this episode I believe thank you for making it this far if you've
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