This goal was scored by Fabio Cannavaro for Inter against Regina into 2003-04 season hitting
the top corner from some serious distance.
It was a fantastic strike, we'll be uploading the video on TikTok so make sure you check
that out.
Bro, the only defender to ever win the Ballon d'Or and he's 5'9".
There's hope for you in this world.
I'm gonna win a Ballon d'Or from center back.
You might not but you can.
I can.
Thank you.
You know sometimes when I feel odd about being 5'9", I look up celebrities that are 5'9' and
I feel slightly better about myself.
Who's 5'9"?
Connor McGregor is actually 5'9'.
And Tom Cruise is like 5'8", 5'7".
So those are a couple of guys that are my height slash shorter.
But Fabio Cannavaro, what a fucking guy.
It's funny that we uploaded a goal from his Inter days which is probably the team he is
least associated with out of the teams where he's played.
In fact he spent most of his career in Italy, he started out as a youth with Napoli and
he was promoted to their senior squad in 1991.
He had spent 4 years at Napoli and he played 58 games and even managed to score his first
professional goal which was against Milan in San Siro.
Yeah I bet he remembers that one.
It was all going swimmingly for Cannavaro bro at Napoli until you know the post Maradona
era really hit Napoli hard and they were desperate for funds and were forced to sell Cannavaro
to Parma where he stayed until 2002 actually.
He played 212 games for Parma and scored 5 goals with them bro.
Yep Parma and then on the other hand would be the team that Cannavaro is associated with
the most.
Some people might think that it's Juve but that's because they're probably our age.
He is in fact a Parma legend.
He became a regular starter there, he earned the captain's armband and he even won the
Coppa Italia and his only European trophy which was the UEFA Cup back when Parma were
a powerhouse and Giugio Buffon was there as well.
He was also named in the Serie A team of the season and he was the defender of the year
on one occasion as well.
He made his senior debut with Italy too when he was playing with Parma and in 1996 Parma
finished second behind Juve and Serie A qualifying for the CL actually so Cannavaro actually
played in the Champions League with Parma.
My god, my god.
And then when they qualified for the Champions League they played the group stages, they
came second in the group stages behind Borussia Dortmund who were the champions at that time
and they actually eliminated because back then only first would go through.
So someone's been around for quite some time.
Yeah, that's true.
He moved to Inter for 23 million in 2002.
23 million was a lot for a defender back then.
A lot in 2002, 23 million is a fucked up for a defender.
He didn't enjoy his time at Inter bro.
He was often played out of position.
He struggled with injury and particularly that thigh injury.
He's since spoken quite negatively about his spell at Inter in comparison to Juve and
Parma of course.
In fact, he had only spent two seasons there and he moved to Juve in 2004.
The deal had involved the exchange of the reserve keeper at the time who was Fabio Ancarini.
He left for Inter and both players were priced at 10 million so we could call that a bit
of a barter.
At Juve obviously he was united with former Parma teammate Gigi Buffon.
Yeah, it was all going well for him once again but he seems to be at the right place at the
wrong time.
Napoli first being forced to sell and then of course Juve in 2006 suffering, well suffering,
being punished for the Calciopoli incident.
They were relegated to Serie A.
He therefore moved to Real Madrid where he lifted the Ballon d'Or for his efforts with
Italy in 2006 in the World Cup where they actually won it and he lifted it as captain.
It was that summer of 2006 where everyone was aware of Calciopoli and it was the investigations
going on.
Everyone's waiting for the news to see what's going to happen to Juve.
In the meantime, Cannavaro was playing his heart out in the World Cup for Italy.
They lifted the trophy and in the meantime was also negotiating a move away from that
mess and he joined Real Madrid as well.
He lifted the Ballon d'Or with Real Madrid but it was due to his efforts for Italy and
Juventus as well.
Yeah definitely.
A mere 7 million is what Real Madrid paid taking advantage of Juve's desperate need
to make fans and players forcing their way out.
Probably the cheapest Ballon d'Or player in history, 7 million.
He also wore Zidane's number 5 shirt at Real Madrid.
I remember that.
He eventually went on to leave Real Madrid in 2009.
He was given a standing ovation by the fans on his final match of the Bernabeu.
This will be the last time he was probably celebrated as a player in a top league at
least because then he rejoined Juve on a free where his relationship with the fans had already
been a little bit fragile as many fans viewed him as a traitor due to the fact that he
left to Madrid as they were relegated.
When he did rejoin Juve, a fun fact is that they played Real in 2009 in the Peace Cup
in summer in pre-season and Cannavaro scored and it was I believe Ronaldo's second game
for Real or one of his first three games because Ronaldo's first one was against Shamrock Rovers
and winning that got them to the final of this.
It was something like that.
And he scored on his return and he didn't celebrate so that was quite sweet and probably
gave Juve fans a reason to hate him even more.
Things went from bad to worse for Cannavaro of course with Juventus as in a UEFA Europa
League tie against Fulham, Juve had won the first leg 3-1 and were winning 1-0 at Craven
Cottage in London and early in the first half Cannavaro accumulated two yellow cards.
Reduced to 10 men, Juve collapsed and lost 4-1 and were eliminated on aggregate.
Cannavaro enraged supporters with his sending off and his role in the team's elimination.
And it wasn't only in the UEFA Cup where Cannavaro struggled, he was part of a Juventus
team that finished 7th in the league that season with Cannavaro starting and it was
in fact their worst finish in a decade.
He was deemed unreliable by the fans and his contract wasn't renewed.
Napoli didn't even want to sign Cannavaro despite Cannavaro publicly declaring his desire
to join them and he ended up playing for Alakhli in 2010 for just one season before retiring.
Yeah, not a very glamourous end to his career but of course it was a very glistening career
for him.
He won pretty much, he didn't win everything but he won some of the best things you can
win as a football player.
And the man literally lifted the World Cup and the Ballon d'Or in two seasons.
He played for Real Madrid, he played for Juve.
The man shouldn't really have any complaints over there.
Champions League would have been nice for him.
Of course but he played with Juve for the major league.
That was never going to happen.
In fact his only European trophy came with Parma despite playing for Inter and Juve.
So we spoke a bit about a couple of controversies when it comes to Cannavaro.
He's certainly been no stranger to them.
Do you remember that thing the night before the 1999 UEFA Cup final?
A video had come out of him being injected with a substance in his arm.
I remember bro, I was only 4 years old, I was watching the video.
No come on, the news bro.
I did look into it.
It turned out to be neoten.
Excuse my pronunciation.
Let me call Joe Rogan for a second.
Apparently it's something you can inject into your body.
It's used for cardiac surgery to protect the heart during periods of stress basically.
It helps produce muscle energy apparently.
It's not on the band's substance list though and Cannavaro therefore got away uncharged.
It was however then in 2009 that Cannavaro failed another drug test.
This time with Juve.
But it was claimed it was medication given due to a severe allergic reaction to a wasp
sting.
How interesting.
Due to the urgency of the situation Cannavaro could not request permission before taking
this medication and the charges were eventually dropped.
The most recent one came in February 2015.
Cannavaro and his wife Daniela along with his brother Paolo were handed quite a few
month long prison sentences.
It was actually 10 months for Cannavaro, 4 months for his wife and 6 months for his brother
because they breached orders and entered Fabio's residence after it had been seized by the
authorities in 2009.
That was because of some fucking tax evasion.
All three have appealed and will have their sentences suspended until the final judgement
has been made and apparently it has not been made yet.
Oh my god.
Well a bit of preference for the World Cup winner.
I don't think I'd give a shout out to his brother Paolo because Napoli did want Paolo
and you know he's a legend at Napoli.
Yes he actually has 238 appearances for them.
He actually left though in 1999 along with his brother.
They both went to Parma but then the difference being that Paolo actually did go back to Napoli
where he spent between 2006 to 2014 over there before moving to Sassuolo and eventually retiring
in 2017.
Ah not too long ago man and I remember having Cannavaro in the league but I remember him
with Napoli.
I can't really recall him at Sassuolo.
Well Fabio and then on the other hand has had a shift in career as he's shifted to
management.
He's had stints with OK.
Bear with me.
He's had stints at Guangzhou, Al Nasser, Tianjin Qunzhan and China.
I know that one.
That's a bit easier.
But yeah I highly rate Fabio Cannavaro as a great defender.
One of my favorite Italian defenders in history.
I'm not going to compare him to the likes of Maldini and Nesta for example but he was
definitely an elegant center back and an absolute thief man.
The man really knew how to tackle.
He did.
He was a very good defender.
Of course he had a lot of grinta.
He was very aggressive and he really made up for his height with his massive balls.
Pretty much with his massive helium balls.
He used to jump really high.
I remember him jumping really high and I remember he didn't used to mind a little swing of the
elbow when he went up for these headers.
These pre-vardies.
Must have been quite a nightmare for any striker that played against Italy who had Cannavaro
and Matarazzi as the back two.
Can you imagine?
For the first time Fabio Cannavaro has done this Salzburg check and individuals hold up
an highlight back as standard attackers at strikeback.
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Seiya Spotlight where you're hosting Jake
and Matt and Andiamo Berlino Beppe Ashbyn and they fucking went all the way, 2006 and now
once again incredible scenes.
You could hear through that commentary piece the work of Fabio Carnivore, he was amazing
that tour. That double tackle was absurd to say the least. You know what else is absurd
bro? You beating me in the prediction series? No, episode 37. Episode 37, woo! With 3 games
to go, season 1 is going to be 40 episodes long, well probably we'll come out with a
rounded up season 1 of Seiya Spotlight so it's called 41 episodes, something of the
sort. It's really cool bro that we have a log, we can go back in the future like when
we're 50 years old and listen to the podcast and see how that season in 2022 went, that's
pretty cool. It is cool, it is cool, probably the world would have fucking ended by there
because we live in a world of viruses and wars. We'd be speaking Russian by then. I
mean in fact, but yes guys if you want to have a log of us talking football don't forget
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That would be grand guys, thank you very much. Shall we quickly run through the prediction
series? Okay, okay let's address the prediction series, of course you beat me. 12-7, I'm now
one behind with three matches to go. Yes, this is as tight as the league bro. It is
as tight as the league, I have a lot of supporters behind me. There's Flynn, there's Gabriel.
I don't have a single person who has told me come on bro you've got this. Why would
anyone tell you that shit? To be honest bro, I'm kind of like right now, it pains me to
say it but I'm kind of like Juve when they were on that 9-league run, I was destroying
you at the point bro, I was absolutely annihilating you. If you go back a few episodes. You were
beating me 4 or 5-0 bro. I think possibly even 6. No, shut it please. It was like 4
or 5 and I remember I had to call you something weird for a while. What was it again? The
Oracle. The Oracle. But bro let's just say I have something special if I do take it home,
I have a little announcement I would like to make but let's save that for if I do win
the prediction series. I was trying to give everyone a hard one. That's what I'm doing,
I'm trying to get people to tune in bro. I respect, Jake's got a surprise for us guys.
Matt you asked me three times. But anyway please. Yep, so just like last week we are
going to be reading out the results with Jake beatboxing in the background. Am I actually
going to do that again? I would like you to bro. I would like you to. I just had a whistle
every now and then. That's going to throw me off, I might think it's half time. Sure,
come on let's do this. Let's go. Okay, so Milan managed to stay ahead of Inter after
beating Fiorentina 1-0 with a layout goal in the 80th minute. Inter did manage to get
back to winning ways beating Udinese away from home with the score of 2-1. Napoli redeemed
themselves beating Suswala 6-1 at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona. Juve once again boring
but managed to get past Venezia with 2 goals to 1. Roma and Bologna were held at a 0-0
stalemate. Spezia gave Lazio the game of their lives but Lazio got away with a 4-3 away victory.
Atalanta and Salernitana ended 1-1 thanks to a late passage goal. Caliari were defeated
at home, Verona away winning 2-1. Empoli lost at home to Torino with the score of 3-1 and
the Derby della Lanterna finished with a victory for Sampdoria 1-0 with a late penalty miss
for Crisito. Oh yes. You see that's quite enjoyable bro, I would enjoy listening to
that. One day we're going to get like, I like the podcast but that fucking beatboxing part
of it. Just skip, skip, skip, skip, skip. But things are finally taking shape in Serie A,
we have the four Champions League teams qualified, ready of course, Milan, Inter, Napoli and
Juventus will be featuring in the Champions League. Of course Roma, Lazio, Fiorentina and
Atalanta continue to battle it out for the Europa League. Swat spot as Verona linger
in the background. The relegation pool is still a complete mystery right now, you know, so
it's still very exciting guys. Yep. Tomorrow, by the time you're listening maybe it would
have already happened, there's Salernitana-Venezia. It's a massive one. It's gonna be massive.
That's a relegation six-pointer if I've ever fucking seen one. I can't wait to watch it
man. Yeah same, 6 o'clock right after work. We should just record a fucking episode dedicated
to that game man. A live watch. A live viewing. But anyway. It's actually not a bad one. It's
not and we should look into that for next season. But anyway, shall we get down bro
to it? Sure, I'll kick this one off. So the first game we're going to be covering is Milan
1, Fiorentina 0. So we all remember the reverse fixture. It was Fiorentina for Milan 3. There
was that Ibra do Pietà, there were a couple of goals for Vlavic as well as Saponara, Scremer
with Tatarasano on goal of course for Milan. Milan have officially won two consecutive
home games for the first time in 2022. Quite a surprising one bro considering they've been
undefeated for so long. That's true. Fiorentina were coming off a 4-0 home loss to Udinese
and a 2-1 away loss to Salernitana. So a bit of a dip in form here for La Viola in their
quest for European football. Milan on the other hand are coming off an impressive away
victory against Lazio with a score of 2-1 and are unbeaten in their last 13 Serie A games
now. So regarding the play by play, it was just the one goal in the 82nd minute by Leao.
Terracciano really had no passing options and his long pass ended up falling straight
to Leao who took advantage of a disorganised Fiorentina defence to say the least, who watched
as Leao finished into the near corner where probably Terracciano could have done better
to keep it out as well. He committed really early and the ball literally went straight
into his path but he underrated obviously. What did you make of this game bro?
So I think that Milan had a lot of control on the game but risked really fucking everything
up. There was that opportunity by Cabral when Mike literally saved Milan. What a save by
Milan. That was an incredible reaction save. But you know I think that right now the offensive
line of Milan really leaves a lot to be desired. You just look at the statistics for example
you look at the possession held for example you see Leao had the most from Milan's forwards
with 2.1% possession. You compare that to for example Saponara he had 3.3%, Nico Gonzalez
had 4.5% of possession. Diaz 1.1%, Messias 0.9%. So Messias wasn't involved in the game
at all. I can't even remember a single situation where Messias did something.
I genuinely forgot that Messias played bro he was unremarkable. Giroud 1.5% again it's
not enough you know what I mean. They really struggled to contain, to hold the ball, to
fucking create opportunities to do anything with it to be honest.
And it's still inevitable that Milan have most of the work in the team that needs to
be done is in the final third with the striker, the right winger and the attacking midfielder.
These are three obvious changes that need to be addressed by Milan's board as they
will be addressed in the summer market. So obviously Milan still struggling to get goals.
But if there's one thing that I noticed is Milan were much more patient to get that goal.
It was the 70th minute, the 80th minute and Milan weren't kicking the ball up directly
to Zlatan and pressing and going all out. They were patient, they were playing the ball
around, overlapping, changing of play from one side to another. It was patient, this
is a young side that is experienced in being in this situation.
Definitely that's the point I was about to make. How many times have Milan found themselves
in this situation? The 80th minute they need a goal, being rash, being impulsive, trying
to make the headlines and all that. And I think finally there's a little bit of calmness,
a little bit of serenity, a bit of belief in it. They believe that they can do it. Be
it the Tonali moment, be it a while back that moment in Portugal, remember in the Europa
League fucking playoff against that penalty shootout, the never ending one. Remember that
many of these guys were there. Many of these guys remember that. There have been many character
molding moments and this is a young team and there will continue to be more moments like
this. If this group can stay together, it will be very promising.
Oh 100%, 100%. Now this group that you're talking about have only managed to score 61
goals this season. This is the same amount as Verona and it's less than Atalanta, Lazio,
Inter and Napoli. On the other hand, Milan have only conceded 30, so half of that, which
is second best to Inter who have conceded 29. Could this be a repeat of that Capello
season? You know what I'm talking about when I say that Capello season.
That Capello season was incredible. Milan conceded 15 goals in a season, just 15 goals, scoring
only 36, 36 in 34 games.
That was the crazy part.
That's the crazy part. You win a league by scoring 36 goals in 34 games, that explains
it. You've conceded only 15. That was prime Maldini and prime Borelli of course.
Milan won the trap music that year as well, fun fact.
I don't think we'll be seeing Milan win the Champions League next season. But yeah, we
might be seeing something similar to those numbers with regards to goals conceded. I
mean that back line is only going to improve together over time. It'll be interesting to
see what happens with Kalulu, with Botman coming in, whether Kalulu will be taking that
right back slot ahead of Calabria so that Milan can have another captain on the bench,
whether Romagnoli is going to stay because he suddenly loves the club after he realises
that Lazio are broke.
He realises that Milan's offer is actually more than Lazio's who might actually stay.
There's a lot of news right now, everything needs to be taken with a pinch of salt of
course. I'm not even entirely sure about the Botman thing, everyone's talking about Botman,
Botman, Botman.
It sounds like Botman's confirmed, everyone's talking like Botman's confirmed.
I don't think Botman's confirmed.
Everyone talks as though Botman and Renato Sanchez have arrived, when in reality we don't
even know who Milan's owners are going to be next season. So the budget might be more,
the priorities might be elsewhere, like Milan might have a different sporting director,
probably not, that probably won't be the case, but basically we don't know.
Exactly, Elon Musk might buy Milan, you know what I mean, we literally never know.
So we spoke a little bit about Milan here, obviously we don't want to get too much into
are Milan going to win the league, are Milan going to do this, are Milan going to do that.
Milan have three tough games left, it is away to Verona, at home to Atalanta and away to
Sassuolo. Today week me and Jake would be what, three days away from, four days away
from going up to Milan to watch the game, so both very excited here, but let's talk
Fiorentina a little bit in the meantime.
Fiorentina bro, played decently, much better, a good reaction compared to their 4-0 defeat
to Udinese.
I mean it's hard to be worse than that.
I thought that Amr Abat put in a very good shift, I really like Amr Abat as a player,
and I even think, if Milan are looking for a Vais Kessy, because again Renato Sanchez,
everyone talks about Renato Sanchez, he's not a Vais Kessy, you know what I mean, Amr
Abat would be a decent Vais Kessy.
I would never start Amr Abat, I don't think Amr Abat would start for Milan, but having
him on the bench is a good option off the bench, someone to bring up when you need someone
to stop play and crush a couple of guys, but I don't think it would be a long term solution
to Milan's defensive midfield problem.
Perhaps not, he would be a good player, like a rotational player to kind of challenge for
a starting spot, he's 25 years old so he could actually continue to develop.
I thought Saponaro of course was pretty good as always, and of course I thought that Igor
was pretty good.
Yeah, Igor has been fucking solid for FIERETTINE as well, it's a surprise.
It is, everyone, all these Fanta culture players, everyone took Milenkovic, everyone took Quarta,
but the guy was Igor the entire time.
He's been great, he's been involved in some attacks as well, he's been solid defensively,
he's got a good pair of legs on him as well for backtracking, not that he needed to backtrack
much with Giroud, but he definitely marked Giroud well, he marked Giroud well enough,
and Giroud had a decent game when it comes to knocking the ball down here and there as
well, so it's no easy task.
Before we move on, I want to highlight one more Milan player.
Is it Zinedine Kronic?
Yes, Zinedine Kronic.
I love Kronic.
I'm gonna go to the game holding up a sign asking Kronic for his shirt, man.
I adore the man, I adore the man, he's a fucking warrior.
He comes on and you see after 20 seconds he's full of fucking mud, you know what I mean?
He's a hustler, man, and I adore that, and he's technically gifted as fuck as well, so
shout out to Zinedine Kronic if he's listening.
Honestly, there aren't many players on this team that look like, how am I gonna word this?
I think this means a lot to Kronic, man, and you can see it, he gets so emotional when
Milan take the lead, so visibly emotional, way more than many other players.
It's true, man, it's true.
And it means a lot to him, it means a lot to him, and you can tell by the way he plays,
he's hungry, he wants to give everything, he wants to win.
He's probably a sore loser, and that's probably what it is, man, the winning mentality.
I'm not sure if it's because he's a Milanista or whatever, that's what everyone's saying,
but I'm sure that's a little bit romantic.
But yes, big fan of the guy, leaves his fucking heart on the pitch, blood, sweat, tears, everything,
man.
Great, great player, great example, great professional.
As a squad player, I do hope that he stays for a long time.
100%.
You want a defensive midfielder, you want an attacking midfielder, you want a box to
box, you want a winger, Kronic's your boy.
You want a dead ball specialist, Kronic's your boy.
He's just an all-rounder, man, and really, really happy to have him at Milan, and hope
he'll be there for a while.
Milan first, 77 points, two points ahead of Inter with three to go, Fiorentina down in
seventh.
On 56 points, they're three, behind Roma in fifth.
The next game we're going to be covering is Udinese 1-2, the reverse fixture ended 2-0
to Inter who were at home over there.
Udinese were coming off a 4-0 away victory in Florence, as we brushed up on earlier,
while Inter were coming off a 2-1 away loss to Bologna, the one that shocked the world,
the one that got Milan fans believing.
Fun fact about this head-to-head is that Udinese actually haven't beaten Inter in nine matches,
seven losses and two draws over there.
The game kicked off, of course, 12 minutes in Paris, which scores a header at the near
post after a DiMarco corner.
It was a routine that Inter have utilized time and time again, be it Kshalanoglu taking
the corner, be it DiMarco, it could be anyone.
They have that routine, they have that drill nailed.
In the 38th minute, a penalty was awarded after a var check.
There was a soft call on Zekko who made a meal out of the slightest contact from Mari
inside the box.
Of course, slowed down, looking at the images over there, it does look like a penalty and
according to the rules that is a penalty.
Of course, I find it funny how these guys, these tough guys, athletes, top athletes hit
the ground.
A professional move by Zekko, of course, if that were my striker winning that for me,
I'd be over the moon.
Good work by him.
That's it, but yeah, it is one of those cases where you slow it down.
You know what I mean?
There was contact, obviously there normally is contact, but is the contact significant?
Was he coming in with force?
And I don't think he was.
In reality, he could have easily stayed on his feet and everyone knows that.
In the 39th minute, of course, due to the penalty that was awarded, Lautaro stepped
up to hit it.
It was saved by Silvestri, but it fell back to Lautaro who scored the rebound with his
head and ran off in celebration even though he had been having a bit of a stinker and
actually missed the penalty in the first place.
There was a bit of confusion because it was thought that the ball struck the post and
according to the rules, if you take a penalty, it hits the post, you can't score the rebound.
Exactly, it can only take one touch.
Exactly, because that would be two touches.
But on its way back, I believe, to Lautaro, it hit the arm of Silvestri and then Lautaro
headed it in, so no issue whatsoever.
Yeah, no issue whatsoever.
In the 72nd minute, Pusetto scored after a venomous Deo Lefebvre free kick was saved
well by Handanovic only to fall into the path of Destiny Udodji who squared it to Pusetto
who made no mistake to slot it home.
That would prove to only be a consolation goal.
In the 80th minute, there was a Varchek for Inter, but it cancelled out a goal that had
been scored by Sanchez, I believe it was, who was in an offside position.
So bro, thoughts on the game?
So I thought Inter did well enough to beat Anudinese's side that have been inspired.
They went two goals ahead pretty early on in the 39th minute.
They were already two goals up.
And that shows basically the importance of a team like Inter, a team like Napoli as well,
nailing their dead ball situations because at the end of the day, they managed to get
a goal from a corner and from the rebound of a penalty.
This has to be something that was taught to them by Conte, no?
Probably.
Because they really improved their set pieces when Conte was at the helm and I feel like
that's something they kept on.
Bringing in Shalanoglu of course did actually help them improve overall this season, but
as we saw this game, it can be anyone taking the set pieces and they'll succeed.
I'm sorry, I was vomiting in my own mouth.
Inter, bro, need to face Empoli at home now.
Then the Coppa Italia final against Juve midweek.
Four days after that they have Calieri away and then they face Sampdoria at the Meazza
for the final match of the season.
That's a more significant, that's a way easier run than Milan's, right?
On paper in theory.
Is it safe to say that or is it controversial?
No, it doesn't take a genius to make that claim, no offence.
But it is definitely an easier run and so they have Empoli who have been struggling
like alright they got that win over and now Empoli but that was more, you know, meret.
Aside from that, after Empoli they're facing Calieri who are battling relegation but normally
a team that's battling relegation you'd be scared to play them because they're inspired
and they want to get those victories, they need to get those victories but Calieri actually
look shit, like they look really bad.
And then their last game against Sampdoria, if Sampdoria mathematically stay up by the
time the last game comes about then it's an easy win for Inter.
The only thing that gives me as a Milan fan a slight element of hope is their midweek
final against Juve because they are simply going to want to win that and they're going
to go out all guns blazing to win that.
Probably and there will have to be some rotation considering that that game is 4 days after
the Calieri away game.
Bro would you rather play against a team that has nothing to play for and can play without
pressure or would you rather play against a team that has a lot of pressure piling up
on it and is facing relegation potentially?
It's controversial but I would say I'd play against a team with no pressure.
A team with pressure is simply going to be more hungry and I know with nerves come with
the hunger as well but it's part and parcel, I guess you need to weigh out the pros and
cons.
If an uninspired team is playing then there's less of a chance that they're going to be
dangerous and you know they might be a bit sloppy as well because we're playing football
and we have nothing to play for.
I just look at Udinese who have nothing to play for and have just been killing it and
I'm like wow I do not want to play against these guys.
Then you look at the polar opposite in Empoli who have nothing to play for and they've just
been losing.
And then on the other end there's Venezia who are playing with a lot of pressure and
crumbling.
Then you have Salah and Etanah who are playing with a lot of pressure and killing it so it
very much depends on the group of people, on the manager, everything.
Speaking of the manager when it comes to Udinese, it's going to be interesting to see what happens
with him.
Obviously, Cioffi is their interim manager and he stepped in midway through the season.
What happens next season because they've looked fucking good now.
They have looked good but they have to also understand that next season they're not going
to be safe from the get go so there's going to be a bit of pressure, there are going to
be expectations.
It depends on what their ambitions are.
If their ambitions are to survive and be a mid-table team, Cioffi has proven that he
can do that.
He's a young manager, maybe they do want to take a point to them, maybe he's earned it.
This has been a pretty solid Udinese side, probably one of the better ones I remember
in recent history.
Of course the best one I remember was back when Milan won the league and Udinese finished
third I think.
That was a very good side.
But yes, I think that Cioffi has earned a new contract personally.
I agree with you.
So unless a fantastic opportunity comes by that can't be passed, I would stay with Cioffi
personally.
I would agree.
Now if I rub my crystal ball a little bit higher to see what's going to happen, they'll
keep Cioffi.
Probably the first half of the season will be a slightly different story and they'll
get the sack halfway through and they'll bring in someone else.
I wouldn't be surprised if that'll be the case at all.
But the man has earned another season and I would offer him a two year contract if I
was in charge of Udinese.
Or move him to Watford, they don't care.
Maybe, we'll see what happens there.
Inter-Bro are second with 75 points, two points of first, while Udinese are 12th with 43 points.
The next game is definitely the most surprising outcome we've had in the entire week.
I said this game would end in a 2-2 draw, but same as me, I said 2-2 draw as well, but
it was Napoli 6, Sassuolo 1, which was just a mental encounter.
So the reverse fixture was a 2-2 draw with Sassuolo at home in Modena.
Napoli were coming off a 3-2 away loss against Empoli, which clearly pissed them off.
While Sassuolo are now on a 3 match losing streak after a 1-0 away loss to Caliari, a
2-1 home loss to Juve and now a 6-1 away loss to Napoli.
Coming into this match, Napoli had been winless in their last three against Sassuolo.
So in the second minute, Ozymen hit the post after Kirikes had a terrible back pass which
put Ozymen clean through on goal.
He rounded the keeper, but could only hit the post.
Speaking of, Jake randomly got an Ozymen kit because his mother-in-law was in Naples, just
asked him what he wanted and he said an Ozymen kit.
She got him an Ozymen kit.
She told me what do you want and to take the piss.
Now saying this was the equivalent of saying a Ferrari, because I told her literally, I
worded it an original Victor Ozymen kit.
It was obviously a joke, like it's like 100 euros, I don't expect her to get me that,
but she did, surprisingly.
So now I am the owner of a Victor Ozymen kit and quite frankly I'm not sure what to do
with it, but anyway.
I am the owner of perfume.
So consider yourself lucky.
In the seventh minute, shortly after, Koulibaly scored a header.
After Insinia gave an outswinging cross from a corner, Koulibaly jumped in and headed into
the bottom corner.
In the fifteenth minute, Ozymen scored a header.
It was another Insinia corner, this time it was in-swinging.
It fell perfectly to Ozymen who headed it in off the crossbar.
Kirikes was marking him, just wanted to make a note over there.
As we can already see, the set-piece routines working wonders.
It's 15 minutes and they're 3-0 up, literally because of corners.
Literally, and Kirikes.
In the nineteenth minute, Lopez made an uncharacteristical error and he lost the ball due to Mertens
high press.
Mertens found Ozymen, whose ball across the face of goal was finished into an empty net
by the Mexican Chucky Lozano.
Two minutes later, in the twenty-first minute, this is fucking chaos bro, at this point they're
already 3-0 up and now two minutes later, Mertens twisted and turned in the area after
some nice play by Napoli and went on to cut in and finished into the near post from an
acute angle.
He caught everyone off guard with that finish and after 21 minutes, Napoli were 4-0 up.
What was Sasuolo's response?
They sub out to Juričić for Henrique in the twenty-fifth.
In the fifty-fourth, after the break, Mertens plays Fabian Thrun, who was at the byline.
Fabian played it back with his first touch as Mertens curled it in past Consiglie and
he beat Consiglie and Ferrari who was rooted to the line.
In the eightieth minute, even Rahmani managed to get a goal, he slotted it home into an
empty net after some ping-pong passing by Napoli.
Di Lorenzo laughed as he realized who the scorer was.
Di Lorenzo was like, everyone's getting a goal.
Except for him.
In the eighty-seventh minute, Maxime Lopez got a consolation, Sasuolo overcomplicated
a rather simple situation, but Lopez did well to hold the ball patiently as Ospina flopped
around and eventually after three passes, Lopez got the consolation.
So I'm gonna ask you what you thought about this game now, bro.
Quite frankly, shambolic by Sasuolo, an absolutely subpar performance.
I've never seen them that bad.
Never since coming up from Behr.
They looked like they were indifferent to what was happening as well.
Just one yellow card during the first four goals that went in, show some grit.
And it was of course Maxime Lopez, the guy who probably deserves to be elsewhere.
Now look what they're saying about Scamacca, about Berardi.
Of course, Berardi is an exception, but you know, Raspadori, Scamacca and Frattesi, for
example, everyone reads them so highly and they're so sought after.
When in reality, the guys that actually do show a lot of professionalism in my opinion
are Maxime Lopez and Berardi.
Those two are definitely the most professional.
They've got some experience as well.
And they get pissed off losing, man.
And that's not something that can be said about all these players.
Of course, these are the elites, these are the guys, like I said, that bring experience
to the squad.
I mean, the other guys that you're mentioning, sure, they're fantastic players, but they're
young hotheads at the end of the day.
You know what I mean?
Dionisi obviously wasn't too happy with this performance.
This is quite a long quote, but basically said after such a result, it is not easy to
talk.
Today, it is hard to find something that went the right way.
I am responsible, we did not enter the field well, two goals from a corner kick and a few
minutes after the 3-0 goal.
It would be easy to find the guilty at this moment, but if the team did not do what they
should, the fault is of those who train it.
So here he's clearly blaming himself.
Against Juve, we spent a lot and received compliments.
Napoli came from the bad defeat against Empoli and today had a thousand reasons to perform.
We need to improve on dead balls, we need to be more physical and start dueling.
The boys are demoralized, but maybe we can have new motivations to face these last league
matches.
So he's even saying that because of this performance, the next three matches are gonna be shit.
That's what we say when you have nothing to play for, sometimes you have this like weird
existential crisis where you start wondering what's the point, why dude?
He's saying himself, hopefully we can find new motivation for the last three games of
the season.
What the fuck?
It's embarrassing that he even has to say that.
Your paycheck should be enough.
But we've addressed the Soswalo players before, we have addressed their professionalism to
a certain extent.
They perform well when there is something to perform well for, but this certainly wasn't
the case.
It seemed like, you know how Napoli are, when Napoli start firing at you and they're so
dominant and so attacking and they're suffocating, that teams find it very hard to adapt, especially
when they concede two from the get-go and in the first couple of minutes your center
back's putting Victor Ozymenki in the wall.
Clean through on goal, just playing him through.
Exactly.
So it was a terrible night for Soswalo, but a great night for Napoli who managed to prove
a point all too late, but they did manage to prove a point.
They need a disaster to win the league.
They would need Inter and Milan to lose pretty much the game.
They need two tragedies to win the league.
Can I just say as well, by the way bro, it's not easy for Dionisi to go in front of the
fucking press after a 6-1 loss and take full responsibility for it.
At that point I'm sure that it wasn't entirely his fault.
I'm sure there were individual errors, we saw them, there were individual errors and
marking in the corner and all that, but he kept his cool, he put his pride aside, he
took the blame, that's a very mature thing to do.
From a young manager that's very good.
He probably gave them a very hard time in the dressing room, I'm sure everyone heard
him screaming, but obviously in front of the pundits and in front of the journalists he
put a good front on, took full blame.
It's your turn to vomit in your mouth man.
This wine is dope.
And hopefully that will motivate his players, as he's saying his players are demoralised,
but him taking full responsibility at least shows that there is a sense of unity between
the club and the manager.
Yes sir, do you think Napoli will be able to hold on to Viktor Ozyman, a very modern
striker, a very young, explosive striker, can do everything on his own pretty much?
Napoli heavily sought after from the Premier League, Milan are rumoured to be interested
in him, this Invest Corp thing goes through, of course Pinch of Salt.
I'll take him man, Jesus Christ.
I think he still has something to prove at Napoli, I think he's been great this season,
but obviously he broke his face, so he was out for a while, last season he was out as
well because he was a naughty naughty boy, so I think he owes Napoli a full season.
I think he does, that's a very good point, he's had two seasons that were interrupted,
we haven't seen what Viktor Ozyman can do in a full season uninterrupted, uninjured,
you know, controversial.
It's not like he's injured a bro, there have been weird occurrences.
Dislocated shoulder, that's complicated due to a lack of treatment or mistreatment rather,
head to head with Scrinio, Covid, these weird things.
Obviously he was injured for it, but I think he owes the club a full season, I think he
should be in those top 3 top scorers with Napoli next season, if he has a good season
obviously and then yeah, he should go to Milan in my opinion after that, what do you think?
That would be fantastic, I have to admit, right?
If Napoli do want to cash in on someone to make some bank, you know what I mean?
I think Fabian Ruiz is the guy.
Fabian Ruiz is the guy?
I'm not sure how much he would go for Fabian Ruiz.
I think Fabian could easily go for 30 million.
Yeah I think 30 million, I think somewhere around that region and he's off, but he'll
probably play out his contract, that's what these players are doing nowadays.
God bless you and God bless America.
You're that African-American baseball player.
I'm not sure I get the quotation.
No.
Is it Money Boy?
When Biden met the Pope and he literally told him to his face, he's like you're that African-American
baseball player.
You are taking the place.
I swear he said fucking worse dog.
I got hairy legs.
They turn blonde in the summer and kids like jumping on my legs.
But yes, that is Joe Biden.
So a fun fact for you guys before we move on to the next couple of games is that we
were watching Real Madrid against City today and Real obviously had a tremendous comeback
and they're through to the Champions League final.
But in the intro of the game, basically it was mentioned that Maradona's Hand of God
shirt has been auctioned off for 7.1 million euros bro.
Crazy.
That's fucking crazy though man.
It's mental.
Of course the original that had been worn.
But yes, that's a ridiculous amount of money.
My god I've spent what?
80 euro on a kit?
It's probably the most I've spent.
Safe to say that the guy who bought it most probably is not an Englishman.
So anyways Napoli in third place on 70 points.
They're 7 points under Milan and just one above Juve now.
Lasvalo on the other hand are in 11th on 46 points.
Next up we've got Juve 2, Venezia 1.
The reverse fixture of course ended in that infamous Venezia 1 Juve 1 draw.
Zanetti was sacked last week and we forgot to address it.
Well that's fucking shit of us.
It is bro.
They currently have their caretaker manager in charge who goes by the name of Soncin.
He actually played with them a while back and he's also 5-9 bro.
Another reason for you to have hope in this one.
5-9 we're talking average height in Molotov.
Juve were coming off a 2-1 away win to Sassuolo while Venezia extend their losing streak to
9 after the 3-1 home loss to Atalanta.
A 9 match losing streak is fucking horrendous man.
It is it really is.
Juve have won 10 of their last 12 home games against Venezia for our fun fact.
In the play by play of course the 4th minute Pellegrini struck the post after Caldara's
poor clearance fell straight to the young Italian who struck it from a distance into
the frame of the Venezia goal.
In the 7th minute Bonnuntri on his birthday.
Happy birthday birthday boy.
So the youngster Miretti started this game 18 year old Miretti and he was in charge of
set pieces which I found bizarre but he's really good at them.
He delivered a really nice deep free kick at the far post which was headed centrally
to Bonnuntri by delict and Bonnuntri actually managed to head it into the back of the net
goal happy birthday.
In the 35th minute Vakka went out injured and was replaced by Fior Delino who's quite
a tiny little player.
In the 71st minute Aramu got an equalizer after Ampadu played the ball in the air to
Perez who chested the ball down to Aramu who struck the ball on a half volley it was insane
from a distance into the bottom corner.
Insane goal.
Incredible goal.
And in the 76th minute of course it was a birthday double baby.
Happy birthday Bonnuntri boy.
Bonnuntri once again scored once again it was a Miretti set piece it was a corner this
time his corner was chested down by Danilo and to Bonnuntri who slid in and scored.
Happy.
So bro.
You've looked like shit again no?
Quite frankly.
Agreed.
But is this what we should expect from them just results results results?
I mean it's what we expected of them from the beginning of the campaign the difference
is from the beginning of the campaign they weren't getting results results results and
they weren't playing nice football either.
I don't think there has been a period where Juve were playing attractive football and
getting good results.
I think Juve have been managing to scrape through for the second half of the campaign
I would say since they got that double signing of Vlachovic and Zakaria and it hasn't improved
their football from from an entertainment standpoint it's just helped them get more
results.
They're gonna keep looking like shit you know if they keep playing under Allegri they're
gonna keep looking like shit.
Most likely.
Last week we spoke a little bit about Allegri we spoke about how considering you know the
expectations coming into the season considering the salary he's on that they should have probably
been fighting for the league to be honest points wise they're not too far off the recovery
in the second half of the season was pretty good right it was it was miraculous quite
frankly.
And quite frankly wouldn't be surprised if he stays on wouldn't be surprised if he if
he sacked because it depends on what they prioritize right.
It depends on what opportunities come around I think.
They tried to get out of the Allegri era they tried with Sarri and then they tried with
a young progressive manager in Pirlo and then they realized that for the time being they're
gonna need another couple of seasons with Allegri to kind of stabilize the team before
they move on to a different project.
I think Allegri's got another season in him and then after that I think Juve will look
for something a bit more entertaining and a bit more Juve to say the least.
Interesting.
And Vlaović bro.
Uh huh.
What do you think we talk about this often this is another game without the goal for
him.
Uh huh it's not simply because he's not getting into situations where he can score where he
can utilize his abilities.
You see him bro when he's off the ball his movement off the ball is perfect.
He doesn't slot into one run then he gets into another then he gets into another then
he gets into another and it's always a delayed pass it's always a safe option and then it's
scrappy goals.
It's a weird Bonucci-Dopietta you know what I mean.
You're right his movement does look good and probably the fact that he is in the area allows
players like Bonucci to maybe go a little bit more unmarked than they normally would.
You know they call him 007 bro.
Zero goals zero assists seven games.
My god no then that's actually you'd need to expect more from a striker from that standpoint
that's the same point I had made about Tammy.
Halfway through the season as well but just having him there just having a number nine
has made a massive difference for you having someone that can hold the ball up and having
someone can ping the ball too from the back or Bonucci can ping the ball too from the
back that has made a massive difference for them but he's not going to be bagging loads
of goals for you there under Allegri.
Too little too late right for Venezia sacking Zanetti.
Oh yes it should I would say it should have come a while ago.
I think so too right as they started free falling in the second half of the season I
think it would have been wise to maybe move on from him a little bit earlier.
Of course definitely not with three games to go.
No three games to go like what's the point of that.
Just just to prove a point they're saying like all right dude it's your it's your bad
like.
Of course considering how everything started out for you congratulations to them on qualifying
for the Champions League of course they can take this as a victory with all things considered
you know Ronaldo leaving last minute and all that stuff.
Next year I'm sure they'll be looking to improve their situation and we'll see what they do.
In the summer period as well man that's going to be interesting.
It is definitely is.
So Juve are currently fourth mathematically qualified with 69 points one point behind
Napoli they might even sneak into 30.
Venezia are lost with 22 points six points from safety with a game in hand versus Salernitana
so imagine they win that game in hand it'll be three points from safety with three games
to go.
That's tight tight tight.
So yeah baby.
The next game we're going to be covering is a 0-0 draw in Rome between Roma and Bologna.
So the previous encounter was actually a victory for Bologna it was 1-0 at home.
Roma were coming off a 3-1 away loss to Inter and a midweek 1-1 draw to Leicester in the
Conference League semi-final while Bologna are coming off a 2-1 home win against Inter.
Bologna are now unbeaten in six matches.
Roma have gone goalless twice this season against Bologna for the first time since February
of 1977.
Before this Roma had scored in 30 consecutive games against the Amelians.
Very interesting.
So obviously there are no goals to bring to you from this match but there were some spectacular
saves particularly from Bologna's goalkeeper in Skorupski.
He really did a great job in keeping Bologna in this match and it was quite a tight affair.
I would say Bologna once again roasted the occasion and at least they did what they had
to do to get that point.
What were your thoughts?
Yeah they played for the draw to be honest.
In Mourinho's post-match comments he said that the team that wanted to win didn't do
enough of course implying that Roma wanted to win of course to keep their Champions League
hopes alive and the team that didn't want to win did just enough and the referee allowed
them to do so.
Yeah that was part of the rant.
Yeah Mourinho blames everyone.
He blamed his players, he blamed Bologna, he blamed his substitutions, he brought on
four subs, he made a quadruple change, he said that they didn't do enough.
He blamed the Leicester game midweek, he blamed the referees of course saying that they just
allowed Bologna to slow down the tempo over and over again.
So it's just funny seeing how this guy operates.
And he singled out his players.
Firstly went on to say that Leicester made 9 changes in their Premier League game on
the same day.
He said the four players I introduced didn't have the impact I expected, Tamián Zalefsky
didn't play well enough, Karsdorpp and Pellegrini did some things.
They did some things.
In the dressing room man.
I want to highlight bro as well that Skorupsky is really developing into a fucking good goalkeeper
man.
I've always rated him as a good keeper but I always thought he was a little bit clumsy
at times but I think he's really maturing and improving overall and I think he's climbed
into my list of potentially top 5 keepers in the league.
He's been insane.
He was shit in the beginning of the season and Bologna fans wanted him out and then you
remember there was that group of Bologna fans that were defending him saying you're one
of us, you're one of us about Skorupsky.
So he did have a slow start to the campaign but he's been on for a while now.
He's been fucking fantastic.
He's been really really good.
Even when Bologna were struggling he was there and consistently there and I don't think
they'll be replacing him anytime soon unless he gets a big offer from a bigger team man.
Yeah man definitely.
And only 30 years old, he's just turned 30.
Young for a goalkeeper in Italy.
On the topic of Mourinho we mentioned that he went on that run.
They also went on to ask him about Zaniolo and he replied with you're obsessed with Zaniolo
aren't you?
You, the media, the referees, you're all obsessed with Zaniolo.
He laughed and walked off.
Cheers Mourinho.
Thanks for the clarity dude.
What can I say about that?
The reason they asked him that was because Zaniolo played his first 90 minutes in a long
time.
In reality they weren't really slandering Zaniolo.
They were more asking like ah I see back leg but you know it's true the media does focus
a lot on Zaniolo.
Especially with transfer rumors and stuff recently as well.
That was probably an appropriate reaction by Mourinho there.
Fair enough.
You've got to give the man praise where it's due.
But yeah I don't think Roma did enough.
I think it's part and parcel with what we've said before about Roma struggling to get goals
from open play.
If you come against a side like Bologna that aren't going to give you that, aren't going
to give you those opportunities then you're simply not going to get the goals.
And they literally did what they had to do to get the point and I think Roma would be
disappointed with their performance here.
Yeah for sure.
Kevin Bonifazi came in and he got the job done.
Medell sent her back like her back was fine like he's been playing quite well recently.
Salmaura had a good shift too shouting in front of the fans.
You know they were solid Bologna.
They were solid and they did the job.
They're still managing to get shit done and they are now 6 matches unbeaten.
So Roma are in 5th on 59 points.
There's no chance for Champions League.
They are level with Lazio and they are 3 points ahead of Fiorentina and Atalanta.
Bologna are in 13th on 43 points.
The next game we're going to be covering is Spezia 3 Lazio 4.
So sit back and enjoy.
The reverse fixture was actually even harder to cover.
It was a Lazio 6 Spezia 1 spanking with an immobile hat trick.
Yeah that was match day 2 and we were creaming about Sarri's Lazio.
We Sarribo!
Lazio were coming off the 2-1 home loss to Milan while Spezia were coming off a 2-1 away
loss to Torino.
They are now on a 3 match losing streak.
Lazio have won each of their last 4 Serie A matches against Spezia with both sides finding
the net in each game.
Well entertaining stuff.
In the 9th minute Spezia opened the scoring thanks to Amian.
Verde's ball into the box was headed high by Hirstoff to Amian who headed it downwards
and passed Strakosha.
The goal was scored by the same man who got a red card in the reverse fixture.
In the 33rd minute Immobiles scored the penalty.
Nicolaou handled the ball in the box basically leaving the referee with no option but to
award the penalty.
Immobiles stepped up and smashed the ball into the roof of the net sending Providel
the wrong way.
In the 35th minute Kevin Agudelo got one as Cataldi's back pass was too powerful for
Patrick whose touch was too heavy and was therefore tackled by the pitbull Kevin Agudelo
who drove the whole way and shipped the out coming goalkeeper.
In the 54th minute Providel scored an own goal after Zakhanis shot hit the post and
bounced in off the goalkeeper.
And then right after in the 56th minute Verde hit a free kick perfectly onto the head of
Hirstoff who scored his first ever Serie A goal.
In the 66th minute Lazio equalized through Sergei Mlinkovic-Savage a surging ball into
the box towards SMS was fumbled by Reka and Mlinkovic-Savage of course took full advantage
dragging the ball with his right and finishing with his left.
In the 80th minute Zakhani almost got the winner but the post was his best friend this
game or rather worst enemy because he kept striking it.
Tight angle on the left he shot hit the right post very similar this time there wasn't
Providel to guide it into the back of the net.
In the 90th minute the unlikeliest of goals and the unlikeliest of goal scorers Archery
B got the winner for Lazio.
Luis Alberto gave a through ball to Immobile, Immobile forced Providel into a save the ball
fell to Luis Alberto who tried to shoot he miss hit the ball completely and it bounced
to Archery B who out stepped it over the goalkeeper and into the back of the net even past the
defender that was on the line it was the perfect height and everything.
Now if you watch this Archery B literally kicks the ball towards the sideline at least that's
the way his body was positioned you know I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but
what a goal and who else but the controversial man himself was falling out of the fans who
was accused of laughing after the goal after his error against Milan sorry and that gave
them the winner at the end but yeah crazy game bro thoughts.
So firstly I'm actually happy that Archery B managed to get a 90th minute winner for
Lazio obviously it hasn't been the easiest of seasons for him so it's good to see that
I think this was end to end stuff and as entertaining as it gets but it's not a good sign for Lazio
when you concede three goals to Spezia I think it's not a good sign for anyone when they
concede three goals against Spezia like we know Lazio have always been great going forward
so it's nothing to write home about that they got four past them you know Immobile, fucking
Luis Alberto, Milinkovic Savic, Anderson and all these guys Pedro as well as Akanyi.
Sorry as the manager.
Sorry as the manager they're obviously going to be getting these goals and they managed
to get a victory in the 90th minute in dramatic fashion but come on Spezia shouldn't be dragging
Lazio through the mud the way that they did man Spezia gave them such a tough time.
It's true Lazio looked extremely vulnerable as well at the back and they looked vulnerable
on the break and Spezia really managed to do some damage at times especially on set
pieces as well man you know Lazio really defended poorly on set pieces but anyway Lazio you
can't take anything away from how they dominated the game though they had 71% ball possession
so man they had nine shots on goal compared to Spezia's three shots on goal that all
found the back of the net.
I would choose Spezia in this case that 100% conversion rate you know what I mean it reminds
us of the games against Milan and Napoli that they both wanted.
That's true that's true but ah man like I could criticize Lazio pretty heavily for this
performance obviously it shows great character that they were in that situation and they
were down and they managed to get the victory in the way that they did but I think it's
back to the drawing board see what went wrong and you know there's definitely improvements
that need to be made from the defensive midfield role to literally the four of their defenders.
Now it's just come out bro that Sarri's renewal is not a guarantee.
Not renewal sorry Sarri stay.
It might not go on like okay.
Because apparently Lotito might not be able to give him the tools that he requires to
make this a competitive team that can play his style effectively.
Now why the fuck did they get him in the first place if they're not going to give him the
tools for Sarri ball?
Maybe Lotito thinks that the tools are already there you know and to be honest with you the
players aren't bad but investment needs to be made.
Personally personally personally they have a player who's in his prime right now who
would go for a ridiculous amount of money you know for Sergei Milyankovitch Savvich
you could easily get 80 million euros you know what I mean.
Honestly sell him fuck it bite the bullet and just improve give Sarri what he wants
and see what he can do like it's worth it it's worth the risk I think you know.
Yeah I mean yeah I'll never I'll never be in a situation where I say take take a player
over a manager so I would definitely encourage them to to see what they can do with the funds
of players like Milyankovitch Savvich for a longer term project under Sarri.
I mean SMS isn't going to be there for his entire career either I mean he's being linked
to Juve.
The Premier League.
He's being linked to the Premier League as well but apparently pinch of salt he wants
to stay in Italy but I just don't see the point of getting a manager like Sarri on board
who you know it's going to take two seasons to get the best out of him because he needs
to get the players he needs on board and you're not giving him that opportunity.
I mean Chelsea have done it Juve have done it and now potentially Lazio will do it like
exactly give him give him two seasons three seasons that's you know at Napoli we saw the
best and then at Empoli when he actually had some time over there.
Spezia there's also a rumor about them about Mata potentially leaving for a new adventure
and Pirlo taking the helm.
Okay I mean sure.
Yeah why not.
I mean he's a top four manager for Juve.
Yeah he's a you know he won a trophy with them.
I mean the Coppa or the Super Cup was it?
He won the Super Cup and the Coppa two trophies in the season.
Okay well you know we saw what they might actually do with Mata this season was a you
know somewhat of a new inexperienced manager.
Pirlo could potentially help them improve I don't see them getting relegated under Pirlo
man to be to be fair it could be a good move for them and a good move for Pirlo to get
some experience as well.
It could be especially with their transfer ban lifted you know they'll be able to bring
some players in for the first time and even with fees like Adrian's you know the Spezia
team has been the same for so long.
That would be exciting actually to see to see Pirlo at Spezia, see Pirlo on a place
in an environment without pressure where he can really express himself and we can see
what he's all about you know without the pressure of you are conceding Juve I didn't win that
game is Pirlo good enough is he overrated was he only a good player can players be coaches
you know all that stuff.
And it's gonna be interesting as well to see Mata if he goes to a bigger club how he's
gonna fare over there because he's obviously done a good job with Spezia as good as probably
as he could have done and it'll be interesting to see what he could do with better players
to his arsenal basically.
Yeah we'll see how that develops.
Lazio are currently in sixth with 59 points same amount as Roma two points ahead of Fiorentina
and Atalanta of course as Spezia are in 16th with 33 points seven points from the drop.
The next game we're gonna be covering is the Monday night game between Atalanta and Salernitana
in Bergamo that ended in a 1-1 draw.
So the previous encounter was a 1-0 away victory for Atalanta.
Atalanta were coming off a 4-4 midweek draw to Torino while Salernitana were coming off
a 2-1 home win against Fiorentina which had marked three victories in a row for the side
from Salerno now it's four matches in a row unbeaten.
Coming into this game Salernitana and Atalanta had only managed one combined goal in their
last three encounters and that was the Duvan Zapata goal in the reverse fixture.
So in the 27th minute a long ball by Madzocchi found Juric on the side of the area who headed
the ball square to Ederson who flew in and finished on the flying volley.
In the 88th minute a wonderful disguised long pass by Malinovski found Pasilic who squeezed
it in from a tight angle there was a Varchek in place to see if the man was offside but
he timed his run to perfection and what a ball it was by Malinovski.
Now for 88 minutes Salernitana were out of the relegation pool for the first time this
season.
Yeah absolutely fucking incredible man like the David and Nicola miracle when he arrived
everyone was talking about that Crotona miracle of course.
We laughed at it.
But we exactly that's the thing everyone was mocking it almost because they were like as
if that's gonna happen again because it seemed so far-fetched but the fact is that Genoa
and Venezia and even Caliari have remained so shit have been so consistently poor that
it allowed Salernitana with three wins and a draw to be pretty much in contention for
salvation and they're the hottest team in the relegation pool right now.
100% they look much better than Caliari for example I mean they just managed to get a
point against Atalanta now Atalanta sure they've been shit Atalanta as well in comparison to
the rest of the seven sisters or the top ten as well even the top ten but there's still
a side that come against Spezia and they win they come against Caliari and they win second
they come against one of these sides they expose them to shit but they didn't manage
to do that with Salernitana they didn't manage at all Salernitana got an early goal and they
held in for 88 minutes bro wow.
They did they did bro they had they had the body controlled moments as you said they had
38 percent ball possession but had nine shots on goal to Atalanta's five so in reality
they did in their own way dominate this game you know they did have control of this game
for in their own way you know as a team that has just come up with wants to dominate the
game exactly and I would agree with you there man now Atalanta looked well they were they
were fighting for a point against Salernitana where you know which which goes to show how
far Salernitana have come now there are three matches left four matches left for Salernitana
this is suddenly suddenly looking incredibly possible for them and and it'll be good to
have their fans for another season and say yeah for sure for sure and can you imagine
like if they pull this off the scenes and their stadium my god I want to say as well
bro this ederson guy looks really good first of all he's giving me junior messias at crothone
vibes the way he's like that like Brazilian kind of flair I'm not even sure if he's Brazilian
but with name ederson I would assume he's Brazilian looking at him he looks totally
Brazilian so let's I'm not even gonna fact check it the Brazilian ederson exactly jurek
has the best header in the league do you agree with me um I don't know about the best header
in the league but he can definitely utilize his height he can 100% utilize his height
and using him as that kind of dummy on the side of the area to square balls two players
like ederson who are gonna be diving in that's not a bad system man you know corner to the
far post he's there free kick to the far post he's there to the center he's there and he
can head it towards goal no he's been he's been utilized well definitely much better
than they utilized simi yeah in the first half of the season man remember simi yeah
but simi is kind of a different player he's tall as well but he doesn't have that like
he's not as dominant in the air simi actually can take the ball down pretty well he can
turn pretty well he can hold up play well but he's actually not that good of a header
you know what I mean yeah yeah no I get what you mean totally he's more that kind of guy
that you know I'd recommend him more for his control in the air and his volleys and his
poaching ability look at his goals they're all poaching efforts with his feet you know
he barely scores with his head even though he's 6-6 which is mental yeah facts facts
so there's definitely still a lot of work for atalanta to do if they want to get back
to the top 4 next season there have been a lot of rumors about gasperini's future as
well it seems like it's rumor season it is I mean the season's about to end summer's
coming up now of course the classic rumors are coming out that gasperini's future will
be determined by the milan game of course we can witness his downfall imagine oh stop
imagine no this is how the cycle started now the milan cycle the 5-0 loss to atalanta and
gasperini dancing imagine it ends with a milan victory over atalanta and gasperini getting
sacked just like touch every single piece of wood there is in the room I do not want
to talk about milan atalanta in fact can we please now this is a man who's won down in
the prediction series can we skip the prediction series for that one like there's no way I'm
predicting that yeah I hate predicting I hate making predictions about milan man I'm superstitious
and I'm fucking but anyway in fact I'm always a little bit negative when it comes to milan
the predictions because I hate saying that milan are not going to win comfortably yeah
I'm always moping when milan play because it makes milan play better atalanta are in
8th there are two points behind roma and lazio and leveled with Fiorentina salenitana 18th
two points behind caliari but have that game in hand against venezia the next game we're
going to be covering is caliari 1 verona 2 caliari sacked mazzari bro yep and they released
a social media post that basically says walter mazzari has been sacked and they released
another one right after saying that walter mazzari stuff has also been sacked but this
time they thanked them for their service but they did not thank mazzari of course which
is fucking hilarious how petty can you be yeah they probably knew what was coming man
because it turns out he signed a deal with the club in september which stated that if
caliari were to get rid of him when the team were outside of the relegation zone then he
would be entitled to two more years of employment however it's now looking like the club are
going to choose to pay him off to ensure that he is no longer on their books probably but
what a hilarious turn of events man to be honest with you they're they're really desperate
right now because they're looking at that game in hand by salenitana and they're shitting
their pants right now they're like we need a change something needs to happen like fuck
it we'll have this guy on our payroll until 2024 we'll pay him off whatever we just need
to get out of the situation they just need a new injection for these three games man
yeah and and i mean clearly this guy isn't the one you know yeah maybe he's not the one
but you know who is the one bro alessandro agostini the primavera coach because he's
gonna be he's gonna be fucking leading the line for um from the bench for caliari oh my god how
interesting he is 42 years old he was previously a player that played for helas veron he's actually
featured for caliari too he started his youth career at ferentina and has also played for ampoli
you know classic journeyman and so yeah yeah wishing him the best of luck in this encounter
yeah but anyway caliari coming into this game were coming off a one nil away lost to genoa
while verona were coming off a one one draw to some doria verona are now unbeaten and they're
lost seven games against caliari whoa what was the reverse fixture for this one uh nil nil okay
cool so in the eighth minute simione showed some great strength down the right hand side to out
muscle dalbera and lavato as he played the ball low and hard into the box to barack who finished
past cronio simione has been showing some good work ethic recently this was great play down the
right hand side from him you can really see who his father is hey hey kate abaldi hit the crossbar
on a very tight angle later on and in the 44th minute caprari scored a long ball by illich fell
to caprari who cut into the box and finished low and hard into the bottom corner in the
57th minute joao pedro scored a free kick on the keeper's side into the top right corner yeah but
hey what a goal what a goal what a goal but of course caliari did not have enough in their
locker to actually get anything out of this game and are currently threatened by the ravaging
salernitana that are lingering below them literally literally now it's not that caliari
aren't hungry because they're playing their asses off they are just a certain
lack of quality it just doesn't tick you know what i mean caliari don't tick man which is surprising
man we've we've discussed this before but you know you look at the individuals on this team they
great they're good but they play like individuals at times man yeah yeah i mean we're looking at a
lineup over here have cronio on goal they've got altare and lovato at the back who i i rate them
i rate them both basically then they have golden ega who's all right i rate bella nova highly down
the right-hand side it's his first full season to be honest as well yeah yeah yeah marion is
obviously a good player they've always had nandez out for a while and then joao pedro and kata
balde are two somewhat established strikers definitely at least joao pedro definitely is
so this isn't normally a side that you would see get relegated you could even compare it to the
verona side and say this is going to be a good game if you knew nothing about football and just
about players true you you make a good point like this is a team maybe they won't beat verona maybe
losing the verona is okay but the fact that they are so low in the table is astonishing quite
frankly and the fact that it's happening year after year lately you know it's become a trend
caliari being so far down in the table shows that there's probably a problem at the top you know
they're not addressing certain situations short-term fixes loan deals bringing in old players who just
wants to go to sardinia and live on the beach and enjoy the nice weather you know like godin godin
was there exactly what's his name caseres as well caseres as well uh-huh um but but you know like
like you're saying it's definitely a problem at the top and seeing teams like geno and caliari
potentially going down i'm sorry to say this because i really like both teams but it's fucking
you know it's deserved it's deserved that these two sides get relegated and then seeing teams from
bear coming up and staying up is what we want to see at the end of the day in the beginning of the
season we were getting questions asking us what are this area gonna do to stop the three teams
that get promoted going down inevitably going down and here we are in a situation like this
we're in a situation where the two teams that deserve to be punished in the league are being
punished you know genoa and caliari the two disappointing ones in the transfer market the
two ones with the short-term solutions quick fixes um some doya are always are also there with their
quick fixes and their lack of activity in the transfer market but they seem to be getting
away with it for now yeah so we'll see we'll see how that progresses down the years so what was
that that that lippy said i know that lippy said that that tonalia has been the best player in the
league so so far which is obviously debatable but tonalia has has grown significantly but he also
said that tudor is the best performing manager this season do you agree with that considering how
di francesco started um tudor is definitely in the list of most impressive managers this season
um i would not say that he's the best the season the most impressive i would say that he's third
probably well potentially fourth let me explain so if touchwood milan win the league that would make
purely the best manager of the season for sure because he would have won it through against all
odds with all these injuries and problems and controversial calls and whatever he would have
won the league right then there's of course with those two players leaving on a free crazy like
if inter win the league okay granted you can say inzaghi of course because no one expected
inter to win the league you know but you had contest foundation laid out for him he's with
the defending champions so in reality it's not that impressive you know what i mean um italiano
100 billion percent one of my favorite managers in the league absolutely transformed them and i
would say third would be nikola if he manages to survive oh yeah yep and you know what there
are managers like urich who are a good shout as well he completely transformed torino as well
there are a couple of look i rate italian managers a lot man and italian managers i saw recently have
been the most successful managers in europe yeah as well that makes sense yeah 100 percent the
tactics of say so of course um as we've mentioned before calieri sits 17th with 28 points while
verona sit 9th with 52 points that my dude is straight facts so the next game we're going to
be covering is empoli 1 torino 3 so the reverse fixture was a 2-2 draw between these sides empoli
were coming off a 3-2 home victory over anapoli while storino were coming off that midweek 4-4
away draw to atalanta empoli and torino have faced each other 20 times in seria 9 draws 4 wins for
torino and 7 for empoli empoli had been unbeaten at home to torino in the past nine games in seria
a so this obviously broke that torino curse so for the play-by-play pinamonti missed a big chance as
he chipped the oncoming berisha but failed to hit the target and at the beginning of the second half
in the 52nd in the 56th minute rather zorkovsky found the net it was a shot from distance into
the bottom corner berisha got a hand to it but failed to keep it out it was one of those dragging
shots in the 60th minute just four minutes later there was a red card for very after a varcek his
studs were up it was a late challenge on pelle egri and it was rightly awarded in the 78th minute
it was the start of gallo's show there was a penalty awarded after a varcek the keeper tracked
the penalty very well but there was too much power and too much precision on bellotti's strike he did
a quick gallo away a hamoru you know he picked up the ball did one of those and like he just
continued with a quick hand on forehead and just run away like no exactly in the 85th minute
stojanovic's handball in the area after a richie shot got torino their second penalty and stojanovic's
second yellow card so he got sent off and torino got awarded another penalty bellotti stepped up
and there was the exact same outcome he went the same side with the same power keeper tracked it but
again too much power and too much precision what a penalty by gallo in the 96th minute gallo got his
hat trick brekola did well to pull the ball back from the byline to gallo who finished sliding in
so let's instantly address the gallo hat trick yes please i have something i would like to say about
this of course so this is bellotti reminding everyone that he's still a prolific striker and
say yeah that can still score goals and be useful for many teams we saw that roma have been interested
in him we saw that milan have been interested in him and we have seen that atalanta have been
interested in him i think that an ideal destination for him would be actually atalanta or roma right
now possibly i would even say roma just go to roma and fucking be like tammy's sub tammy needs a sub
player right now shomorodov has not been good enough quite frankly and i think having bellotti
to rotate with abraham would be really good and even playing them together yeah i was i was going
to say moreno's been utilizing that two up front he's been playing zaniolo up front and zaniolo's
been linked with a move away he might definitely be a good coup for roma but it's interesting that
you say roma and atalanta when they both have strikers and milan definitely need a striker so
is what you're saying that bellotti doesn't have what it takes to be the leading striker of a league
challenging team if bellotti goes to milan i don't think he should be the lead striker and and i
think that invest corp or eliot any of them would not allow that to happen especially after the
season that milan have had you know i think that it's about time that they get someone prolific
up front quite frankly invest a little bit heavily on a striker i'm not opposed to milan getting
bellotti you know how i feel about him but bellotti isn't a player that you can go into the champions
league with and he'll turn the game around for you know what i mean bellotti is a player you get to
cement that top four spot in the league you know what i mean he's a player that you get he's going
to score against the lower sides the minnow sides he's going to perform domestically and he's going
to guarantee you the cl qualification for the next year that's how you utilize bellotti so it'd be
good for example for roma if they have european football one day for example they qualify for the
champions league next season hopefully they can play bellotti in the league and rest time for the
champions league for example exactly exactly i mean even the way that that bellotti plays he is
great as an injection isn't he yeah i mean he comes on he shows grit he's great at holding the
ball up it'd be great in a situation where you need a goal and it'd be great in a situation where
you need to hold the results it's true it's he's great in those scenarios so it would be good to
see him slightly rotated i think we'd see the best of him if he were in that position i think that
unfortunately his best days are slightly behind him in the sense that he's not going to have
another season that's going to put his price up to 80 million i simply don't market value wise
you're absolutely right yeah but but it will be a move away i mean his contract he's running down
his contract and it'll be interesting to see there's also a move to canada potentially on
the cards to join to join insinia you will see 28 years old bellotti yeah yeah still still you know
he's in his prime and he's been plagued by injuries throughout his prime that's like 24 in serie i
exactly so torino are keeping up the momentum bro they're they're on a good run and they have been
for a while over here they had a slight dip not a slight dip that a significant dip midway through
the season where they kind of proved that they weren't top 10 top 10 worthy and that veron and
sasuala were better sides essentially but if they show continuity under urich i'm sure we'll be
seeing a top 10 side next season potentially i think so too i think they will sneak into the top
10 next year they definitely have what it takes yeah two red cards for empoli from sheer frustration
and and lack of discipline i would say um again obviously empoli are coming off an
inspiring victory over napoli but how significant is that when you look at empoli's form in the
second half of the season i don't think it's that significant no it's not um of course that's going
to be one of the highlights of this season if not the highlight you know just looking at pinamonte
running with all the fucking the whole squad running onto the pitch and he's taking it takes
off a shirt he's running between them you know the scenes were immaculate and it's probably going to
be their moment of the season but again they could the hangover was instant you know yeah boom reality
check once again torino got off the bench hat trick you know exactly like you're fragile you're clumsy
you're mentally you you're not there and you made a point earlier on in the pod that said that
because empoli survived they should keep andrea adzoli for another season do you think that's
still the case or do you think they need you know someone a bit more progressive perhaps in reality
i think that in andrea adzoli's contract there's written that survival is your objective right
most most likely let's be i mean they did finish first in the league but that was under dionisi
and seriabeu but so yes i think that if he achieves the goal of the season the aim then
you should remain on board yeah i think it's only fair i don't think so i think like if you
if you reassess halfway through the season and you see like all right we're in this position
let's monetize this what are we gonna do what's the secondary goal what's the secondary target
and you know you barely register a win you get you get one win in the second half of the campaign
then i think you're signing up for a shit season next season because your team is playing shit
and i think if your team is playing shit then you need a new manager and i think they need it it's
andrea adzoli's second stint at empoli you know they lost they lost dionisi after getting promotion
to to seria i think a new manager might be on the cards for them and he has been complaining about
the the squad you see you remember the blanket and yeah yeah i took it completely the wrong way
i remember as well maybe that's all he needs a few more tools i wonder what they'll do to be honest
the second half of the season has been has definitely been worrying and the owners will
definitely have a think about it but once again we'll wait and we'll see yeah we'll wait and we
will see so torino are actually in 10th place after sasuala dropped you know points in three
matches on the trot a total of nine points that were dropped they're on 47 points empoli on the
other hand are 14th on 37 points yes sir the next game we're going to be covering is the derby della
lanterna the derby of genoa sampdoria against genoa which ended 1-0 to sampdoria the reverse
fixture was a 3-1 away victory to sampdoria that was when genoa looked really bad yeah yeah at the
beginning of the season when they just got thumped by inter fornil they were losing everything exactly
sampdoria were coming off a 1-1 away draw against varona which was a good result for them yeah
genoa were coming off a dramatic 1-0 win over cali so both teams were coming into this relatively
inspired probably cali or genoa more than sampdoria yeah this was the 78th edition of the derby della
lanterna 31 wins for sampdoria on this fixture 18 wins for genoa and 28 draws this could be the
last derby della lanterna for a while unless potentially we see it in serba next year who
knows yeah who knows who the fuck knows or unless they both survive who knows not us in the 25th
minute abdel hamid sabiri scored a goal finally bro finally we've been talking about this guy
for a while he works so hard he presses so hard he finally got a goal and this is definitely one
that he'll remember because he's gonna go down as a hero for getting the winning goal in the derby
della lanterna yeah okay it was in the 25th minute across from how jello out wide made its way into
the center of the area and sabiri came sliding in to convert his first and only goal of the season
in the 38th minutes terraro went out injured for portanova and in the 46th minute criuscieto
entered the fray in the stead of vasquez now this is particularly noteworthy because of what happens
later on in the 96th minute where a varcek confirmed a penalty for genoa there was a handball
in the box by alex ferrari criuscieto stepped up um criuscieto is known to be a rigorista a penalty
specialist he had like five in the first few games of the season all converted all converted you know
and i actually told you yeah as he was stepping up the table literally said like criuscieto has
one penalty missing him a season and this is it that's the thing because i follow him closely on
fantasy football actually um he misses a penalty he's a very good penalty taker but he always
misses one a season i was like he hasn't missed one this season this probably the last one they're
gonna get he just looked nervous he did look nervous so nervous he was feeling the pressure of
the moment he stepped up and his effort was well saved by odaro and he was inconsolable after
criuscieto who was crying he was putting his shirt over his face his teammates were rivals were coming
up to him telling him it's all right bro like you're off to america you're gonna make money
you don't need to worry about this but i just think he was like hyper aware that that was probably
his last moment in a genoa shirt and he's been there for so long bro recently i posted a clip of
on tiktok of fucking what was it again
and uh shit
can't remember you can't do it bro you can't you can't who was it was it was a back three
basically there was a back three ah the derby della lanterna the og one and in defense there
was tiago motta alongside criuscieto and someone else you can't do it do do do it
oh you're rich yes okay 2009 bro you did it yeah wow
2009 and criuscieto was playing alongside two men who are managing right now that's actually crazy
that's a good find by you well done thank you very very much brother thoughts did samtoria
deserve all three points um it's tough to say in the derby della lanterna i feel like whoever gets
away with the victory deserves the victory in this case because they simply rose to the occasion and
they got the job done now obviously it was unlucky that criuscieto missed the penalty
it's a fantastic save by audaro i just think that all around samtoria this season although they've
been fucking abysmal they have been better than genoa and they got the better of them twice and
there should be no excuses over there for genoa yes it's safe to say that that genoa is blue and
white at the moment um poor genoa um this is what they get for not cleaning their their gift shop
because when i went in it was absolutely fucking disgusting there were cobwebs on the fucking
ceiling there was like fucking smegma on the stairs like disgusting bro the first episode i
think you mentioned i walked in i walked in and the guy at the desk barked at me i walked in and
i went like what the fuck i'm like where the fuck am i like i understand that you guys just lost
no no i wasn't in a meal like it i actually went to buy a goran pandev kit ah you're saying at the
gift shop without the match no no the gifts are the guys all right all right but yes bro um let's
conclude that over here genoa are 19th with 25 points three points from safety while samtoria
are 15 to 33.7 from the drop
welcome back to our questions segment to drop a question you can follow us on twitter or instagram
we post every week taking your questions and or what it takes you can actually just say something
that you believe and we'll tell you we agree with you or not quite frankly if we don't agree with
you we'll make fun of you yeah lots and we'll call you names and stuff exactly so our first
question about three questions not too much comes from jack underscore motivates our boy
our fucking boy he's off the fucking bali soon a year in bali or something than a year in australia
he's so the type bro he is literally the type he says seria be the best league ever
the greatest season of all time oh definitely the greatest season man what a season it's been
it's so it's going to be interesting to see leche in seria once again there's monza that are
basically there they're battling it out with cremo nese and i'm really excited to see how the
how the playoffs are going to go with either monza or cremo nese and there's pisa brecha
benevento we're seeing some some teams that have had a couple of spells in seria some new names as
well and just go through the points for a second bro dude askoli are on 62 points in seventh
benevento on 63 points in sixth brecha on fifth with 63 points pisa on fourth with 64 points
cremo nese in third with 66 points monza in second with 67 points and lechia in first with 68 points
literally just one point above each other that's fucking crazy it is it's crazy i can't wait for
the playoffs the playoffs are going to be massive honestly honestly can't wait either but yes jack
100 percent this has been the best seria beurre campaign in a while unfortunately though managed
to tune in as much as we would like obviously because we'd be watching seria but but the
playoffs are we're booked out for them 100 oh my god seria beurre playoff segment we do it we do it
so our next question comes from your boy ciasco ciasco what up this guy i i like him a lot as a
person but he's a roma fan in malta which is very rare and he's named after francesco totti
which is fair enough he's a guy named ciasco and he supports roma so that makes total sense
yeah fair enough shout out shout out so i feel sorry for you he says who disappointed you this
season and who performed you know who exceeded your expectations now actually we're talking about
teams players let's i i took the angle of players i did take the angle of players um i would start
off obviously with with a bit of bias i would say the players that exceeded my expectations
there are three in particular and they were all in a milan shirt four in particular actually and
they were all in a milan shirt okay so number one is magic mike manon 100 after losing donna
romana free who would have thought that this guy was gonna come in and just be the best goalkeeper
in the fucking world but he was so hyped at lil as well bro like you remember i was showing you
videos but we were watching videos and i remember saying this guy keeps the ball in play he spills
he spills a lot he leaves the ball in the attacker's path and he hasn't shown us an ounce of that and i
mean the fact that he is a quarterback for milan it's not only a goalkeeper he's a fucking quarterback
for milan the balls that he pings he is essential to this squad and he's proved his importance of
the bat i'd say the second one that has impressed me tremendously out of nowhere is pier calulo
losing here roman yoli of form gabias philly is going to sam doria and then he's not
but calulo stepped in and he's been one of the best centerbacks in the league this season
number three tonali one of the best center midfielders in the league it seemed like in
the beginning of the campaign i'm like all right tonali is looking confident he's just looked
confident throughout he hasn't dropped the ball there was slight criticism when he was being
overplayed but shut the fuck up like and he's literally been one of the best performers
overall this season and then leo was not expecting him to carry the way that he has been when it comes
to moving the ball forward which is where milan kind of lack he gets the ball into the box like
there's no tomorrow and he's provided spectacular moments i'm not surprised that he's had certain
dips in in form and concentration but i am surprised that his fucking runs of good form have lasted as
long as they have yeah bro i have to agree with you when it comes to milan calulo tonali and leo
all exceeded my expectations other notable mentions from the league i would say perisic has
i did not expect him to have such a good season so consistent over the board you know so he's a
fantastic player quite frankly tamir abraham tamir abraham exceeded my expectations i didn't think
he'd like get 20 goals you know what i mean um and also geovanni simione bro 100 percent as well as
um there was another one i had in mind as a as a manager david and nicola 100 exceeded my expectations
ah and pedro bro oh wow and pedro i didn't think pedro would do this well to be honest with you
but he but he's he's done fucking well very very well he really has and the players that have you
know disappointed disappointed us simi disappointed the fuck out of me i'd say yes i did nothing
really did i think i think it's a safe bet to say that in synia has had been a bit disappointing he
picked up funnily enough after his move to toronto was done he seemed to pick up slightly and he was
contributing but i think overall as a season and in synia struggled a little bit other players that
have kind of disappointed show more of show more of i expected way more from show more of what the
hell is this but that's that's probably us i think i think we had a high decent i general though you
know and he's the we were people even pundits they were saying that he's the perfect more in your
player you know he's tall he's technical he's quite quick he's a good finisher but he hasn't
shown that at all at roma fair enough fair enough um other players bakayoko 100 and there's a bunch
i could mention from milan but unfortunately didn't feature enough for me to call them
disappointing um i would also say that i would say that a couple of atalanta players have been
disappointing man and i will say that the the front two in muriel has been quite disappointing
obviously i'm not gonna blame illichich whatsoever for being out as long as he has but i would also
say that zapata he he was out for a long time this season and he came back he was rushed back
in and he was injured so no fault of his own but i can't help but be a bit disappointed fair enough
fair enough bugga also disappointed me it has to be said he he was a 20 million euro signing and
typically atalanta don't make big signings they make small signings and they explode so i thought
you know they get a 20 million he's gonna explode even harder no that's so that was not that was not
the case at all then again coupe miners pasalic definitely surprised me yes coupe miners
particularly yes 100 but yeah bro we could make an entire 11 out of out of both on on instagram
if you'd like so it'd be quite a fun exercise and zolot disappointing as well musabaro disappointing
as well there's so many man oh man and let me tell you what there is a shout for two of those goal
keepers hand down of itch and chesney but they both picked it up they both but one of them will
make it into it i won't say probably we'll we'll do something we'll take this to social media
somehow yeah good question good question very very good now our final question comes from
at rado inter on twitter thank you very much for your question i wish i could read your name but i
do not understand hey that looks pretty difficult yeah but thank you very much for tuning in if you
are he asks will the bala's possible move to inter affect on current milanese squad whose place
is under risk and will it have negative influence on the team now yes so the ball has been rumored
to be leaving eventus and going to inter apparently the martio did deny that anything has been agreed
but of course he's gonna do that because they're not gonna actually say yes it was made official
on gadzetta it was when and gadzetta aren't known for their for nailing transfers basically
it was picked up them by iftv and then like puberty sport posted and they credited iftv
and you know iftv don't normally break news but they rather relay so i found it a bit funny that
they put them that they credited them yeah as a new source yeah um but interesting definitely
interesting he'll he'll bring good spells and he'll bring bad spells to say the least i don't think
he'll disrupt the squad at all i think he'll bring actually a ton of quality and if you put
him up front with um you know you play him like in his palermo days as a striker literally as a
striker you get him in that rotation you offload sanchez me because his salary is high so you have
you know correa and zeko lautaro the balla yeah and and but i've been hearing that lautaro because
in terrap have these financial woes might be on his way he might be on his way out as well as
considering as well as down freeze considering that everything with a pinch of salt as always
and considering that they can make do with zeko and that they bring the best out of players like
zeko i could see it happening i could definitely see the balla starting up front as a secondary
striker alongside someone like zeko or maybe a new signing over there as well and now will it affect
them having players like chala noglu and debala both in the team that can both tend to be streaky
that that's where i would get a bit concerned for inter because they're adopting these players that
that you know have poor spells and then they have great spells but when they have these great spells
obviously phenomena but they're molded into a system that's effective more often than not
you know this 352 of nzagi the question is will they fit the system will they excel in the system
okay so on paper the balla no right in a 352 but no as an attacking midfielder as a striker it could
work it could work as a striker why not and granted if he's streaky you know you add depth man
that's it that's it and i like you look at inter at the start of the season when they still had
sensi on board you know they they could they had the like for like change for so many players in
that midfield now that's kind of gone in the midfield but you know their depth has always
been one of their strong points and i do feel like it will continue to be one of their strong
points with or without the balla yeah yep and i mean they're getting a versatile player as well
someone that can play out wide that can play attacking midfield like that can play in a
striker's role as well and i'm definitely slightly slightly jealous because the bala when he's on he
can be one of the greatest players in the league but then again i do anticipate that he will you
know be injured a lot yeah and that might cause the team to struggle especially if they don't have
a backup for him um but but yeah that's that's pretty much that's pretty much my take on under
the bala situation yes sir i i gave mine too i think we can pretty much conclude yeah i think
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