Good counter attack now from Sasuolo is on the cards, Luka Danderea sprinting in the box,
floats this one at the far post, oh my! What a goal from Gheorgios Kyriakopoulos!
Hello and welcome to Serious Spotlight Season 2 Episode 11 where your host Matt and Jake
back once again with the Renegade Master. Back once again to bring you all the details of
matchday 10 in Syria. Lame. I know, Renegade Master is way cooler. Thank you. How are you bro?
I'm okay man, had a bit of a long one yourself? They're always long man, they're always long,
the traffic's bad, the weather is getting cold. I'm in my Fiorentina full track suit at the moment,
I like being disappointed so I wear Fiorentina merch. It's very cool to be honest this track suit.
Thankfully now midweek we have football thanks to the Coppa Italia, we currently have
Udinese Monza one in the background and that's very entertaining to be honest so far. Exactly,
we're just hoping for Monza to get tired out so that they'll be exhausted for the Berlusconi derby
this weekend. As you guys heard from the intro, our goal of the week was Gheorgios Kyriakopoulos'
gorgeous far post volley into the top corner against Atalanta, not an easy stage to get a
goal but what a goal he scored. What a goal bro and the build-up lead towards the goal,
as well as team play was amazing there, we always talk about their intricate play,
this was a great example of it and Kyriakopoulos' strike was the cherry on the cake. 100%, there
were some honourable mentions as well, particularly there was Lautaro Martinez's goal against Salernitana,
that was really cool. Barella's goal against Salernitana was amazing as well. That's true
and there was also Moussa Barros but goalkeeper could have done much better than he did in that
goal so maybe we won't count that one. Say us spotlight shits my brother, we're back to losing.
Inter won, we predicted that correctly, Roma and Sampdoria saw under four goals, we predicted that
correctly but unfortunately for us Udinese El Lazio failed to produce a single goal,
it ended 0-0 and we bet that there would be over one goal. I mean these games normally when you
put two very attacking sides against each other, it's true they're normally low scoring, like you
put Napoli Atalanta against each other, I remember I believe two seasons ago, I could remember that
they came like 4-2 and it was a crazy encounter, normally these would be 1-0s, 0-0s. Yeah cagey
right, they're both being cautious of each other. Yes, however I did kind of think okay if these
guys are gonna draw it's gonna be at least a 1-1. Yeah I thought it would be a 2-1 to be honest with
you, 2-1 going literally either way but then I kind of became optimistic and started to feel the
pressure when Giro Móbala walked off in the 24th minute and I was like alright this is cursed, this is done.
That's exactly what we needed no? That's Lazio's, like 60% of Lazio's goals come through him, that's
an accurate stat but it probably is. Yeah and we'll talk a bit about his injury because
apparently he's out in 2023 and Lazio have got a couple of tough fixtures till then so we could
see their season taking a bit of a drastic turn over there. Guys don't forget to give us a
follow on TikTok and Instagram and Twitter as well at Seria Spotlight to stay up to date with our
snips, our slips, our nips, everything, our lips, every single thing that ends with ips, you'll be
keeping an eye on it. The Gran Gala del Cultura Awards 2022 was an event that happened. It sounds
so lame, it's like when you put so many bombastic words in one phrase it's just overkill. Exactly
and the Gran Gala del Cultura Awards, super lame but not as lame as what Vlávac was wearing.
He wore the type of suit that you wear when you have a really unexpected funeral.
You put together your school trousers, your dad's blazer like. Horrible, he was dressed
horribly honestly. Really bad, he's a tall guy with good hair, he could do much better than that
man. Yeah I mean look around and everyone looked amazing. Look at Léo man, just two trophies baby.
Let's get into the awards basically. Best player of course Rafael Léo won that one, I think that's
fair enough of course. Milan won the league so it had to be one of their players, that's the way
these things typically go and Léo was the standout performer. 14th best player in the world according
to the Ballon d'Or award. Best goalkeeper Mike Manon, the 24th best player in the world according
to the Ballon d'Or awards. Who would have thought. Best team Milan, best coach Pioli, this is kind of,
these are obvious awards. It's like I'd be so frustrated if I got out of bed to go, imagine I
was like, I don't know man, screen yard, I went to this event. It's so frustrating. Yeah everyone Milan
like. Now listen to this bro, best referee Daniele Orzato. I don't pay attention too much to who's
officiating the games, their track record, all I know is that there's a slight agenda against Orzato
because he is literally a Juventino. That was leaked unfortunately for him. However this season I have
been noticing more and more Orzato's capability of letting the game flow. Yeah that's true, that's
true, he does let it flow a little bit more than he used to. Yeah so I'll give him that, well done
to Orzato. Best young player in Serie B was Federico Agatti who was with Frosinone and then snatched up
by Juve. He went from Serie C to Serie B to Serie A on three seasons. Yeah that's a 10 million move
to Juve so essentially he has to be at least as good as Gavarad Scalia. Yeah wow that's a good one
actually. Best goals, Theo Hernandez. We were there man. We saw that with our very eyes, I was screaming
but yeah fortunately he didn't. Yeah I was getting ready to take my shirt off and to
rip your shoulder to shreds. Best women's players Lisa Boatin and the best goal by a female was
Martina Rosucci. Now Serie A top 11, Manon Di Lorenzo, Tomori Bremer, Theo Hernandez. Do you agree
with the backline? Yeah there's no complaints, it's a little bit odd to see Di Lorenzo on the
right back spot because obviously unremarkable is the word I would use to describe his season.
However and then I couldn't think of a safer choice you know that Calabria had a few dips in
form here and there and then otherwise you know you're not going to have Dumfries there, you're
not going to have Quadrado there so yeah I'll take Di Lorenzo as well. Yeah I guess so. To be
honest the others after last season no debate. Yeah. Milinkovic, Savic, Brozovic and Barela
in midfield. I agree with Savic, I agree with Brozovic. Barela is a fair shout I think maybe
Tonali or Pasalic. Like I think you look at the numbers and Barela has to be there. Now one thing
that isn't being pointed out about his numbers is that he literally had around nine assists after
the opening 15 games. So the bulk of his numbers were in the first quarter of the season so
he did have moments where he wasn't that present in games, he often looked very frustrated in
himself. Barela there's no denying the guy's talent, he probably does deserve to be there but
I don't think you can have best 11 in Serie A without having Tonali in it. That sounds obviously
a little bit biased because of the Milan agenda but the guy literally scored in the final minute
against Lazio in what essentially went down to win Milan the league and he was there making those
blocks, making those tackles, making those assists, making those goals consistently for Milan throughout
the season and there weren't any dips and then you think the start was slow as opposed to Barela who
was pretty much present throughout and consistent throughout. Tonali had a bit of a poor start and
I guess that's what gives Barela the edge at the end of the day. I don't really have any complaints
with this to be honest. No no complaints, to be honest I can't argue with Barela being there but I
can argue about Tonali not being there. Fair enough. Liao, Immobile and Vlaović up front, this is a 4-3-3
with Vlaović on the wing, the Grand Gala del Cultura Awards ladies and gentlemen. Now if this
were a team set up to win the Champions League, to win Serie A, like what the fuck are you doing?
Because essentially Berardi should be there, his numbers were crazy. It's crazy how Berardi is in
there. But then again, oh what a goal, I agree with you, Monza just scored a flyer, was that?
That was a deflection though. Was it? Yeah. Okay. Like Berardi should be there because he
carried Sasuolo because of his numbers, he has the most impressive goal to a cestre show I saw last
season. That being said, you can't not have Immobile because he's the top scorer. Vlaović at his
breakout season, he was ridiculous at Fiorentina and he was the second top scorer and then Liao
was the MVP so he literally has to be there. My shout would be instead of Vlaović, maybe Berardi
because in the second half of the season after he joined Juve, sure he had a good start but then he
dipped. Yeah, there was a bit of a dip. So maybe that, but again I can't complain, it's just some
food for thought which I'm sure they took into consideration. The Gran Gala del Cultura Awards
2022, very entertaining, thank you very much for happening. Now shall we get into our 10 games?
Don't mind if I didly do, so in this episode we're going to be covering Napoli 3, Bologna 2,
Mota's men looking perhaps a little bit better than they had before, Atalanta 2, Sasuolo 1,
that beautiful goal by Kiriakopoulos at the far corner, Verona 1, Milan 2, perhaps tighter than
we expected, we also saw two own goals taking place in that match so it was a little bit clutch,
Lazio 0, Udinese 0, thank you very much for fucking our bets, guys but one of the more
impressive 0-0 draws that you'll see, Torino 0, Juve 1 in the derby della Mole,
Roma 1, Sampdoria 0, a true classic result there for Roma, Inter 2, Salernitana 0,
couple good goals there by Inter, Pletche 1, Fiorentina 1, at this point a great result for
Fiorentina, Empoli 1, Monza 0, Empoli ending Monza's win streak in a relegation 6-pointer,
Spezia 2, Cremona Z2 has to take the cake as the most entertaining game that we saw this matchday,
another relegation 6-pointer, thoughts on this week bro, last week rather. All around bro,
very entertaining week of football, like organizing which games to go through first,
yeah like the pecking order was a real task man, like I don't think we've ever put Inter so
so low, yeah they're one two three four five six, the seventh game that we're covering,
because we try to go according to the table, so Napoli Bologna is first because Napoli are
currently first, Atalanta is a swallow, second of course because Atalanta are high up, Milan are high
up so they're third, then there's Lazio D'Onesio because they're both quite high up, then it's
between Roma, Juve and Inter, so Juve has had the derby so we'll put that higher up, so yeah it was
just entertaining all around, a bunch of great games and by the time we got to the bottom was like
two amazing relegation 6-pointers. Yeah this was probably so I just some you know behind the scenes
for you guys, prep takes a lot, it takes a lot of time, we occasionally prepare for two days before
the podcast, watching highlights, taking notes, analytics so on so forth, articles and normally
it's always fun obviously consuming as much culture as you can, but there does come a point
where you're on the last match that you're covering and you're like, can I just finish,
like let me just relax, I had none of that last week, I was enjoying preparation throughout, I
loved watching all the goals, I loved watching all the highlights, reading about the games,
so many interesting things happening behind the scenes, I think we should just get into it man
because there's so much we have to say. Let's go, Napoli 3, Bologna 2. Now prior to this,
Napoli had won each of their previous four Serie A matches against Bologna and they even kept three
clean sheets in the process and I believe those matches were all against Mihailović, this time
Mota was at the helm for Bologna and they actually managed to score two away to Napoli who are one
of the best teams in Europe right now. In Napoli's previous nine matches at home against Bologna and
Serie A before this of course, there were seven wins for Napoli and only two for Bologna, there
hasn't been a draw between these two teams since I won one draw on January the 16th 2012,
yeah, Aqua Fresca and Cavani scored that, very nice, good memories. A couple of good Cavani
throwbacks recently, I'm enjoying them. Yeah, I love Cavani. Napoli lined up with Maret in goal,
Mario Rui on the left, Juan Jesus and Min Jae Kim as the center back duo and Di Lorenzo on the right,
Zelinski, Lobotka and Indonbele were in the midfield, Gvarackelia was on the left,
Poletan on the right and Raspadoori up front while Ozyman makes his comeback slowly.
Skorupski was in goal for Bologna, Posch on the right and Cambiasso on the left, of course we have
Thiago Mota over here, he's changing up that back line constantly, we've got Bonifazi and
Lukumi at the back, Ferguson, Medel and Dominguez in the middle, Arbisher and Barrow out wide with
Xerxzi up front. Just when you thought you couldn't put a finger on this Bologna team and on their
starting lineup, things just keep on changing so consistently. Yeah, Posch, Ferguson, what's this?
Hey, Xerxzi starting up front. The crown. Super. So the game started off and in Napoli's last game
I remember covering it, I started off by saying that a marauding run by Rahmani saw him smacking
the crossbar, this time it was Mario Rui who hit the crossbar from the get-go. Okay. Crazy. They
always start so aggressively. It took to the 41st minute for us to see the first goal, it was by
Joshua Xerxzi, it was a nice through ball by Dominguez who seems to be having his breakout
season this year to Cambiasso who squared it to Xerxzi, this was his first goal for Bologna in his
first start. And Cambiasso had actually two assists this match, he played an amazing game, he's
currently owned by Juventus on loan. Also a point about Xerxzi is Drake and I watched him last season
and were like okay didn't really see much of the ball but man flows, the man has good movement of
the ball so keep an eye on Xerxzi next time round. It was in the 45th minute that Napoli managed to
equalize Poletano with a corner kick, it fell to Gary Medel who fumbled it and it came to Juan
Jesus who scored, he was only starting because Rahmani was out and what a game for him to be honest.
In the second half Gvaratzkelia went on one of his more roding runs out wide, he fired it into the
keeper who saved it into the path of Lozano who had just entered the fray and tapped it home. Three
and a half minutes was the time he was on the pitch for before scoring this goal. Yep there was that
unfortunate slip for Skorupski there as well. Very unfortunate, I always think of you now bro whenever
Skorupski plays or does anything to be honest. Two minutes later there was a long range shot by
Moussa Barrow obviously, let's be real he never actually does anything, he just shoots from anywhere he is.
The man's been gassed since the African Cup of Nations like yeah that's how he plays with Gambia,
they just give him the ball and he shoots. This time it rocketed into the bottom corner,
Mered got a touch on it but to be honest he should have done much better. It was an awful touch that he got to it man.
Really didn't put his body behind the ball, he went over the ball which is
yeah not very good for a young up-and-coming goalkeeper. It was in the 69th minute that
Napoli managed to find a winner thanks to a lovely through ball by Gvaratzkelia the man who does it all
to Viktor Ozymen who slotted it home. Now Viktor Ozymen bro back from Nigeria he scored in the
Champions League, scored in the Serie A return, he's finding his form again. Three very dangerous
strikers up front Napoli at the moment. Yeah I can't believe that there are certain people saying
oh he's gonna need to fight for his place again. No he's not, he's not. He's much better physically.
Raspadori and Madonna and Simeone and Madonna Simeone are two excellent strikers. They're two
starting strikers, they both deserve to be in teams within the starting 11 like they were last
season but none of them compare to Ozymen. Ozymen is top two in the league and top something in the
world. I don't want to make an audacious claim but he's top 10 strikers in the world Ozymen?
Yeah top 10 strikers in the world. Perhaps, perhaps. I would say. You could easily make an argument for it.
Yeah. This wasn't the last action of the game of course as this was only the 69th minute shortly
after Zylinski slapped the crossbar, Lozano missed a good chance and at the end of the game Bologna
actually had a chance to equalize at the end but Zerkzy could not connect to a cross from a corner.
Maret had come out terribly, the ball went to the far post but there was no one there to tap it in,
that would have been 3-3 and what a game that would have been. Yeah, yeah and it would have been cool to
see obviously Napoli drop points but it would have been even cooler to see Thiago Mata starting to get
some points at Bologna. Napoli brother, they played the ball 555 times this game, they had 89 pass
accuracy and this was the highest, these were the highest passing stats of this matchday. It's probably
because Ndombele was slotted into that midfield brother. That must be it. Well he did have a total
of 47 passes. Yeah that's pretty good actually. That's average. How many did Lobotka have? 61 for Lobotka
and 44 for Zylinski. There we go, this was bro another assist for Mario Rui. What a season he's
having, I can't remember the last one like this he's had. Well last season he had a very good
season as well. But not when it comes to goal contributions, not this much, not this many.
I need to check the stat but last season we really started to see him, like we started
towards the end, where we started saying like look the man's got a sweet left foot like
and he really does. Mario Rui. Yeah let's see his contributions last season if we can. Yes sir,
so last season he had 6 assists. That's very good man. This year he's already on four though,
that's crazy. In nine games he got six in 34 games last season. You also, in 3 000 minutes,
in 752 minutes he's got four this season. Spalletti is very good at training his players to be
effective from dead ball situations. We know that on the left hand side of the pitch, Mario Rui being
a left footed player he is preferred due to the out swinging corners, the out swinging crosses so
on so forth and probably the movement of certain strikers and certain players has improved on their
Spalletti. So that could be part and parcel with why he's getting so many more assists.
Very good point. Thank you. So we mentioned Ozzy Men coming back, Lozano bro is another player I
wanted to highlight. Lozano is the type of player nowadays you bring him off the bench and he's
always going to take minimum two shots. Yeah. He's been one of the best super subs in the league at
the moment in my opinion. What do you think? He's an incredibly active player on and off the ball,
he's very very direct. I think when you look at the difference between him and Pauletano,
because the point I was originally going to make is that, who do you start? You know what I mean?
Pauletano, Lozano, they're very different players. It's like you're talking about Messias and Salamakers
for Milan. But the difference is that Pauletano is the kind of guy who would link up with play
and create chances perhaps more effectively than Lozano. But Lozano would move off the ball like
Ozzy Men. He'd get into space and use his space to get into the final third. And you bring him on
towards the end of a game like 75th minute when everyone's tired, you have some poor fucking left
wing back who's been running up and down someone like Campiasso who got two assists through the
game, he's busting his ass. And you take out Pauletano and you bring on Lozano. Fuck that man.
Imagine running for 70 minutes and they bring on Lozano.
Lozano would probably slot into most teams that right wing position.
That's totally true right now.
Let's shift the focus a little bit to Bologna over here, who were good.
Matta's approach was commendable this game. Campiasso was inspired of course and they just
looked more fluid than they have in recent times. Much more fluid.
A listener of ours, Luca Albertini, not Albertini, Albarani, sorry, excuse me.
Albarani.
Yes, Luca Albarani.
He's as good looking as Albertini, the way Luca.
With the chain as well, that's a cool guy.
You're goddamn right, cool guy.
He sent us a few voice notes about how Bologna are doing at the moment, about the situation with
Matta and we thought it would be quite insightful for you guys to hear them too and to get our
reaction to them as well as we go along. Shall we?
Yep.
Yo guys, what's up? Firstly, congrats for your page or podcast.
Thanks.
Because you're talking about Serie A in a nice way and you're bringing nice contents and I think
Serie A doesn't get a lot of attention outside of Italy but it should get more attention and
the small attention that it gets usually it's by bad content but you know what you're talking about
and I think you're on point on everything you say. So this first audio was for congratulations.
Second one, I'm going to speak a bit about Bologna.
I love you.
We played the first one to flex a little bit. Thank you, Luca.
Yeah, and for what it's regards the actual Bologna FC situation, I think the season started in a very
bad way after a few games. All the stadium, all the supporters, we always, since the beginning,
felt this bad mood going around and Mijailović, our last coach, was sent out in a very bad timing,
let's say, because as a Bologna supporter we knew that unfortunately for what he passed he couldn't
like do his job at 100 percent so it was a decision you needed to take but you needed to
take him out before the starting of the season and not after like five games as they did and so they
had to find a new coach with Thiago Mota and since he arrived he only made poor decisions.
Literally what we've been saying.
Mijailović again, they should have sacked him at the beginning of the season. That's where it was
heading, I know they gave him a chance but like last season was the chance, was the like the season
that they owed him because he stuck by them when he was unwell. They didn't actually owe him anything
this year. It would have been better for them to sack him in pre-season. Yeah for sure and I think
Senisa would have agreed with them. I find it weird how long they hung on. Now I'm not gonna sit here
and act like teams shouldn't be applauded for taking a humanitarian approach and for being
loyal and good people. However for the benefit of the team I think giving them a pre-season
under new management especially when they knew what Senisa's situation is and how his
how poor his health is unfortunately it would have done the team much better to give them a full
pre-season under this new system because now suddenly these 11 players, these 11 individuals
of Bologna need to adapt to a Tiago Motta system of all systems a Tiago Motta system. A very modern
and a very different system. True true and only know you love him when you let him go bro. Facts.
Since the first game against Empoli of his career in Bologna we all felt that he's not
making us perform well because he's changing a lot of players every game changing the position of
where the players are playing and he's putting a lot of confusion I think in all the players like
he's changing up the defense the four back I think every game he changed them with Empoli
the first game with Juventus now with Napoli he changed them like every game he has changed
the four backs and obviously you don't give consistency and that's the first thing you want
for for a back four so I can't agree with him more over here unfortunately for Motta he didn't have
a pre-season to figure out which players are his type of players you know so he's trying to figure
everything out during league games right now which is a great thing for the Bologna fans especially
who must have palpitations every time that lineup comes out exactly Gary Medel on the bench Gary
Medel in defense Gary Medel in midfield like what's Posh playing who the hell is Posh?
I think Bologna fans are going to need to be patient with this I get the frustration 100
percent but I think like you said and you said well they didn't have a pre-season under Motta so
Motta's figuring it out so I think right now Bologna's kind of goal shouldn't be fucking
top 10 pushing Europe their goal should be to survive and I think if they focus on that and
they look to grow under Motta and then they could really hope for a better finish next year potentially
looking towards that top 10. I don't see a bright future for Bologna
the only good thing was the last game against Napoli I don't know if you guys saw it but I think
we had a pretty good game and we deserved at least one point but yeah playing in Napoli now that is
the best football team as of now in the Serie A it's obviously tough and we didn't need to win
those kind of games but we need to get back on track and in the air we are feeling a lot of
pressure all the Bologna supporters for the game that we have this Sunday because we are playing
at home against Lecce and we already lost too many points at home with small teams because we tied
with Verona we tied with Salernitana we lost with Empoli and we really need to get back on track
winning games we need these three points. Luca thank you very much for your voice notes man we
really appreciate it we're happy to have you on board quite frankly a Bologna fan you know
that's great that's another common thing to be honest with for English speaking fans. Exactly
and we're obviously hard cores of the entire league we love every single team the majority of
of the teams so we're really looking to connect with people that have expertise on these niche
teams like Bologna like Verona like Sampdoria so on so forth so if you know anyone bring them along
as well thank you very much brother by the way fantastic English you complemented our podcast
we're going to complement your knowledge and your English really good and also Jake and I were
lucky enough to be in Bologna last year to watch us us all again with Luke Mintoff and David
fantastic city fantastic city really young and pure man lots of like the nightlife is great you
go out everyone's just hanging out in groups you know drinking everyone looks amazing story time
story time quick one so we we were we'd be drinking we'd be smoking we'd be drinking we'd
be smoking in the heart of Bologna all the students in the world because there's obviously
Bologna University there we're fucked up we're drinking in public and we're smoking and these
girls came up to us asking us for a lighter and obviously we gave them the lighter we're having
a drink with them and they ask us what are you guys doing here I always said we're here for the
sasualo game and they're like oh my god you play for sasualo and we're like yes
yes so they went to summon all of their friends their friends came came up all running like girls
and guys the girls were like looking at each other and looking at us the guys look at us for like five
seconds and go no you're not no you don't like what are you doing and then the girl just looked
at me straight into my face stuck her finger out in my face her middle finger was rubbing against
my nose so she goes fuck you fuck you and she walked away she took it really personally really bad man
yeah that was funny that was the fact that people thought for a second that we were professional
football players is something that I'll forever smile about that's hilarious like like my routine
is nothing close to that nothing close but anyway I later on asked him about um
Mihailovic no not Mihailovic sorry about Bologna's chances of survival and relegation if there are any
talks any whispers of relegation amongst Bologna fans and he said of course they have started
he believes it's too early but um but yeah there are there are whispers from some areas yeah when
you only get one win in 10 games there are obviously those whispers it starts to become a reality
with every passing game so they do need to act now and it was a good sign this game against Napoli
hopefully they can grow from there and to be honest he mentioned all the changes being made
yes it's frustrating yes it's confusing it's fucked up um but this version I liked against Napoli I
liked this version of Bologna so onwards and upwards homies. Napoli are currently in first
with 26 points as Bologna are in 17th with seven points. The next game we're going to be covering
is Atalanta 2-1 so Atalanta were coming off a 2-2 draw to Odineze which saw them no
longer tied on points with leaders Napoli while Sassuolo were coming off a 2-1 home loss to Inter
and Atalanta coming into this game well no actually Atalanta have now won each of their
last six area home matches against Sassuolo but they had lost their last meeting against the
Nero Verde at the Mappe 2-1 last April that's when Sassuolo were riding high and Atalanta were riding
low. So when it comes to the lineups Atalanta missed Musso, Zappacosta, Toloj and Zapata plus
the suspended Hans Harteberg and obviously Palomino still don't forget about Palomino
they therefore lined up with their classic 3-4-1-2 formation with Sportiel Longos,
Calvini, Demiral and Ocoli forming the back line. Mele on one side Sopi on the other,
Sopi with the double assist and Derun and Kupminers in the middle with Pasalic ahead of them,
Muriel and Lukman up front. When it comes to Sassuolo they welcomed back Berardi and Traore
to the bench after a lengthy layoff but Mulder and Defrel were still sidelined and they also just lost
summer signing Lauriente to a knee problem at the last minute. They therefore lined up with their
4-3-3 with Concilie in goal, Tollian, Ehrlich, Ferrari and Rogeria at the back, Frattesi, Lopez
and Torres Vett in the middle with D'Andrea, Kyriakopoulos and Penamonti up front. So when
it comes to the play by play Sassuolo opened the scoring in the 40th minute with that gorgeous
Kyriakopoulos volley at the far post. Muriel by the way, Muriel's reaction said it all, he looked
okay that was a fucking top goal like that's something he would be proud of which says a lot.
It was a good cross by D'Andrea who replaced Berardi and Muldon and Lauriente. The 18 year old
he'd be fucking stoked with that. In the 46th minute, now the 46th minute at the end of the
first half right so just five minutes later there was a low and hard cross by Kupeminer that was
pired away by Concilie and while he was grounded Lukman squared the ball to Pasalic who finished
into an empty net his first goal of the season for the Croatian. So they went into half time,
it's 1-1 Atalanta come out and they just you know get a goal straight off the bat in the 46th minute
again. Pasalic broke down play in Sassuolo's area, found Sopina dangerous area who played Lukman
through with a perfectly weighted pass. Lukman fainted past Ehrlich and finished into the top
corner for his fourth goal of the season. That my friend was a contender as well. That was a
steasy goal. That was a fucking super finish and just he still had so much to do and the fact that
that's his fourth goal of the season for Lukman who was such a flop in the prem is obviously a
good sign for him and his career. There was also later on in the game a super tiradjira from distance
by Berardi that rattled the woodwork. Sassuolo stayed in it man, Sassuolo stayed in this game.
Obviously Atalanta nowadays they let the team have the ball quite a bit there, the opposition had the
ball quite a bit so that could be a reason why but 11 attempts for Sassuolo, they didn't make it easy
for Atalanta. Yeah certainly not they gave them one hell of a game it has to be said. Yeah and
to think that only 17,772 people were at this game you would think that that'd be for sure it'd be
more but at the end of the day this was in the Atalanta stadium but yes bro one hell of a game.
Good game, very entertaining, a couple of points that I want to go through as I mentioned earlier
Sopi had two assists during this game now he only passed the ball 27 times with 22 being accurate
and five into a dangerous area so he is being utilized pretty high up the field man Sopi.
At points he was finding space on the edge of the area as well like for the the assist on the second
goal he was basically like just outside the box symmetrical to the penalty spot and he's a very
clever player he sees the runs. He sees the runs a lot and one thing I have to realize as well about
these wingbacks is bear in mind a couple of seasons ago Atalanta were literally known for
their wingbacks and for their hard working wingbacks there was a prime Hattaber and there was a prime
Gossens as well back back then. It seems as though now their wingbacks are really conserving their
energy they're not going up and down and up and down and up and down I think if we were to look
at their distance covered if we were to compare Mela's distance covered to Gossens' distance covered
last year or Hans Hattaber or Hattaber to Sopi I guess one thing Gasprini knows how to do is how
to utilize his players and he's always had such a fantastic understanding of his team. Definitely bro
he can transform any player as long as it isn't Jeremy Boga. Exactly he's still trying to put a
finger on that one. I don't want to get into too much detail about how Atalanta performed in this
game because it was literally textbook what we've been talking about all season and I don't want to
be that guy repeating to repeat myself too much. However they are now unbeaten in their first 10
matches it's an all-time best start for them. Do you think this is something special we could be
seeing with Atalanta or is it a remake of what they did in 17, 18, 19, 20? So this is definitely
different to what they did before because they're approaching it with their minds instead of with
their passion with their brute force you know what I mean. Buffon actually came out recently and said
that he thinks that Atalanta will win the league. Now they play once a week and if they keep this
up then they might be contenders. But look when it comes to Buffon I knew Sarabah would be tough
for him but I didn't think it turned to drugs and alcohol so early. They have every chance,
they have every chance. Do we see them maintaining consistency for the remaining 28 fixtures? It's
tough to say from early on it looks like they're going to be able to avoid those extra injuries by
working less. Their squad is still thick, they still have a lot of quality over there so they
have every opportunity to. I just think that a lot of teams are better than them. On paper yes. A
lot of teams I mean I still think that Inter on their day could be better than Atalanta. I think
there's a world this season where Inter will recover to a point where they're stronger than
Atalanta. I think there's a world where obviously Milan will and I think that Napoli are stronger
than them as well. I think Atalanta are fourth somewhere there. So yes Atalanta man have been
flirting with this whole Scudetto thing for a while now. People have been giving them shots
for a while. I myself had said I think two seasons ago that they could win the league, they have what
it takes and when I said that they were playing on three fronts, the Coppa Italia, the league and the
Champions League. Now that they only have one competition, now could be the time. They have a
deep squad that the only problem that they might face is an injury crisis at the back in defense.
That would fuck them because that's the area where they're probably not as deep as the rest.
And bear in mind there's also the World Cup so even if they do remain conservative and their
players don't pick up many knocks and say yeah just watch Pasalic get fucked up while representing
Croatia or Mela with Denmark. These are things that can happen. Moving on to Sassuolo,
when it comes to them they still had a good game against Atalanta. I think a few teams are capable
of bringing it to Atalanta the way they did, finding that goal early on as well. They were
unfortunate because they got stunned with a late first half goal and an early second half goal so
there was literally that 46th minute curse in the second goal and then the one that they conceded
obviously they got exposed when trying to play the ball from the back and Pasalic picked it up over
there. That is an area where they had improved significantly on this season and it was such a
shame to see them drop points because of that this season after they grew so much in that area.
I know and it's the clean sheets bro that we have discussed right? They had figured out how to build
from the back, how to not lose the ball clumsily as they were doing before. The lapses of concentration
at the back seemed to have decreased for a while but at the end of the day this is a team that out
of 10 games has won three, drawn three and lost four so they still have quite a bit of improving
to do especially if they want to even contend for that conference league spot at one point down the
line. Right now I think it's very difficult for them. Exactly and you know looking at those
stats even coming into this game they were on three wins, three draws, three losses and then
you look at Atalanta's record they were coming into this with six wins and three draws. You'd
never think that they'd even contest to get anything out of the game but they were very offensive,
it's just Atalanta obviously way more dangerous going forward, it's that quality they have over
Sasuolo. Atalanta are in second on 24 points, just two points off of Napoli while Sasuolo are in ninth
on 12 points. The next game we're going to be discussing is Verona 1-Milan 2 prior to this game.
Milan had won five of their previous seven Serie A matches against Hellas Verona with two draws
including each of their previous three so that's four in a row for Milan against Verona. The
Bentagodi is also the place where Milan have actually lost the league before in the past
and it's also the place where Sandro Tonali scored a birthday brace last season. Yeah I remember that.
Remember that? The birthday brace. That was a throwback. By the way guys crazy scenes in
the Coppa Italia, Monza are beating Udinese 3-2. This is a Wednesday night and this is what we're
blessed with. Late December back in 63. Udinese just got the 2-1 by the way, Monza just scored
two in two minutes, Petania just scored. Oi! Oi! Sorry I mean Ronaldo Alphenomeno scored, look at
that. That's a goal. Ronaldo Alphenomeno when he was 36 that's how he's built. So Verona Milan
before the start of the game it was released that Doig the Scottish fullback was injured.
You mean Doig? Doig he suffered a knock and was therefore replaced by De Pauli. Let's get into
the lineups. Monte Paul was in goal for Verona, Gunther, Mannyani and Hien at the back. De Pauli
out on the left, Farani on the right and Tamez and Villoso in the middle. Verdi and Hrstic playing
behind Henri. Tatarasanu in goal for Milan with Kalulu on the right, Gabi and Tomori as a centre
back duo with the Hernandez on the left, the double pivot of Tanali and Kroenich. So Giroud up front
with Adli behind him flanked by Diaz and Leão. Now this was meant to be Tatarasanu's last game
in goal. Mannyan was back but he has actually injured his other calf this time and will be out
for another chunk of the season. I think he'll be out for another three games I think. Something
like that still early I'm not sure. Yeah I think there's still some tests that they need to run to
tell us exactly how many match days it'll be. That's what I read. Yeah but that's a shame.
Piole actually spoke out against Tatarasanu's presence in the box. He said that we're out of
quarantine now Tatarasanu you can actually leave your line. Did he say that? He said that. He said
that and Tomori straight up said that Milan are better with Mannyan in goal. So he's definitely
lacking confidence right now Tatarasanu even though he hasn't actually experienced a loss
since he's been with Milan. Now let's get into the game. In the ninth minute one of Rafael Leão's
marauding runs saw the 14th best player in the world cross the ball into Miguel Veloso with the
deflected it and was extremely frustrated with himself. In the 19th minute pretty much the same
thing happened on the other end of the pitch it was Gunther's shot which was deflected off of
Gabia and into the back of the net. Gunther makes up for the own goal he scored against Milan last
season on his 100th game for Verona. This was his 100th game for Verona so power to Gunther. But it's
bullshit that that's not a Gabia on goal. But you know what the thing is since it was a shot on target
that's the rule it was a goal it was his goal. Yeah it was straight into Tatar though. Yeah it does
seem weird when it takes such a wicked deflection like that and it's given as a goal to the
striker or defender in this case. But yes that's the difference right imagine it was a brief
deflection then where do you draw the line it's a gray area. Exactly. Okay there was a big miss
by Giroud on a layout pass it looked like it was going in it looked like it was going to be another
peak Olivier Giroud and Olivier Giroud classic over there but it went just wide I thought it was going
in personally. Shortly after that Piccoli smashed the header into the crossbar it's quite a quite
a good game to be honest with you. Verona really showed up for it and this was their first game
without Cioffi. Yeah you know this was their first game with Milan banter era legend Salvatore
Bocchetti at the helm who was still playing last season like isn't that crazy how they went for him
like is he really the best. Did I know that he retired? No I didn't even know that he retired
and then suddenly he's managing. He must have done his like uf license part-time while playing.
Yeah there was a great through ball in the 81st minute by Ante Rebic to Tonali who directed it
and Tonali bro has become a little bit of a hero in these in these situations hasn't he? He has
this kind of passion in him this desire this hunger this grinta no this winning mentality almost
he's built for the big stage for these moments. Yeah he's a big game player and I don't mean big
game it doesn't need to be in the derby it doesn't need to be against Juve or Roma or Napoli
I mean when the going gets tough you can rely on someone like Tonali. I feel like Milan are very
lucky to have him and and Ben Nasser particularly in that double pivot I believe they're two people
you'd look out for when you're tight on possession you know you could give it to them when they're
tight in possession and they'll do something with it and then off the ball their work ethic is
ridiculous the runs that they make particularly Tonali and the dirty work they do going back to
win the ball back and turn defense into attack is great a great balance it doesn't need to be
a Ben Nasser and a Kessy it doesn't need to be a ball player and a fucking tackler you could have
two people with great balance like Tonali and Ben Nasser and you're sorted. Yes they are anti-press
you know those two especially Ben Nasser. Yeah. Now in the 83rd minute Rafael Leo was replaced by
Malik Chao. Malik Chao is one of Milan's signings of the summer a young man who came on and had a
fantastic game quite frankly he had two heroic blocks one of the line and one that was that
could have easily gone in he was incredible this game one of the heroes of the game for me. I'm
fucking pumped about this guy man I'm fucking pumped about him those two blocks that he made were
unbelievable unbelievable the fact that the man reminds me of Virgil as in here we go
he seems like a like a tall strong defender that's got some pace on him he has a good slight tackle
to him clearly he's very nimble he's very mobile and then he's very strong he seems like
he's he's got great balance to him as a defender and he's still very young man how old is he? He's
21 years old yeah he's 21 years old 21 years old from Germany from Germany I'd like to see more of
him he could potentially be a pick above Gabia if Piole keeps on seeing what he's seeing. Yes
he's definitely one of those players that's been brought in that just has a better frame than the
local boys produce them a lot exactly it's like if you're comparing at the end of the day Roman
Ioli to Tomori yeah for example or Cutrone to Leo you remember how devastated we were losing
losing a young guy that came up through the ranks for this unknown guy what the hell yeah
yeah it's true bro but let's let's let's get into the the feedback here yeah Verona looked
exciting no under Bocchetti bro they looked much better than they have this season yes yes they
looked they looked good they looked dangerous do they tend to look dangerous against Milan yes
is the answer they always seem to bring it against Milan yeah and this was no different than to
two own goals in the first 20 minutes essentially yeah it was a it was a mess it was a mess of a
match very exciting so Origi got some minutes where he played 45 minutes and Adli had had his
first start for Milan what did he make of these two guys um so I'm still waiting on Adli I'm I'm
patient I have time I'm willing to wait on Adli this is his first season first full season rather
at Milan he's been loaned out and he was on loan at Bordeaux last season we saw great glimpses of
him in pre-season he's still a very young guy this was a good time to utilize him it was a good time
to utilize him good time to give him it's good that he's got a start to his name now that can build
some confidence for him it allowed Brahim to shift out wide where he's simply been better in my
opinion he's been better on that right hand side yes so I liked Adli over there he wasn't as involved
as I would have liked um but he had a decent performance he there were no fucka there were
no fuck-ups it was a clean normal performance in pre-season I saw that his forward passing
like his turn and then playing the ball to Giroud through or finding Leawardias on the wings um was
very effective in pre-season it's not something I saw against Verona in the match but I also
understand that it's his first start needs to grow into the league so on so forth Origi
he had some more time and we got to see some more of him and we got to see a little bit more of that
menace side to him where Milan were struggling to get a goal and they were draw and the man was
shooting from distance he was carrying the ball forward I'm fine with that but I would really
like him to spot the passes more yes yes yes I mean it's kind of something you want at the end
of the day in a striker to to want to score goals to be hungry for a goal but you can't ignore your
teammates who are open quite frankly and this isn't the first time he's done it it's quite
frustrating to watch but I genuinely believe that when Origi gets his first goal he's going to keep
scoring I'm a firm believer of that until now I would rather see Rebic in that attacking role
but I also understand that Origi needs to get as many minutes as possible to get to find that first
goal yes to find to find that goal once he gets that goal Rocketman there we go bro um oddly yes
I tend to agree with you he had a normal game yeah um I think he has a very high ceiling he
he has impressed me the pre-season he was amazing last season with Bordeaux he was incredible to be
honest he was their standout performer in my opinion so it's it's interesting to see him
slotting in finally and it's nice to see Piolli giving balance to these youngsters and these
new arrivals for sure man for sure I agree and at the end of the day I mean look obviously you look
at the score line and you're like okay Milan would normally win a game like this under a larger
margin but when you consider the injuries that Milan have when you consider the player the
rotation that happened in this match when you consider that Milan were coming off a devastating
double loss against Chelsea and it's another victory for Milan I mean we always say that teams
that win the league win the games where it doesn't look like they're gonna win and we're watching
this game once the 80th minute came Jake and I were like right okay it's over it's on we're here in
the 80th minute again and then 81st Mr. Reliable Sandro Tonali comes in and scores a goal so a
lot of character by Milan they had to show toughness they were playing against Verona who are dogs
dogs they haven't been great this season but they just lost their manager they have this new fucking
young guy on board and we're fucking they really wanted to go for their throats man yeah and they
did but Milan coped well and they got the full three points yes sir um apparently by the way
Salvatore Bocchetti is from Scuola Gasperini whatever the fuck that means okay yeah I don't
know I guess he follows his approach maybe he was uh under him protégé yeah I guess so
protégé very interesting and what does that even mean nowadays is he conservative is he offensive like
is he 90 he's a genius that's it bro Salvatore Bocchetti is a genius exactly okay so yes um good
win by Milan um during a time where it could be seen as a bit of a crisis five nil an aggregate
Chelsea there's a good way to bounce back against a team with a new coach 100 Milan are currently
in third with 23 points while Hellas Verona are in 18th with five points the next game we're going
to be covering is Lazio nil Udinese nil so this was a head-to-head for a third place between two
teams in fine form and the Bianco Celeste emerged with their fifth consecutive Serie A clean sheet
this time it was in a nil-nil draw and not a 4-0 victory so Lazio were coming off a hat-trick of
four nil victories on the trot most recently away to Fiorentina they also drew nil-nil midweek at
home against Sturmgrat in a group of only five pointers every single team is on five points
that's fucking I've never seen anything like it and Lazio also just to suck their dicks a little
bit more they won their last four Serie A matches with an aggregate score of 14 nil there we go
that's mad and that includes this until we bet on them there we go fucking hell man they score four
in every game we place a bet that there would be over one goal in this game they come nil-nil
it's Lazio Udinese for fuck's sake yeah exactly I mean fuck it we adapt we adapt Udinese were coming
off a two-two draw against Atalanta before that they won six in a row so for Lazio it was their
4-3-3 formation Providel in goal with Marisic, Romagnoli, Ciazzale and Lazari at the back
Vecino, Cataldi and Serguei in the midfield with Zaccani and Anderson flanking Immobile
Sottel side lined up with a 3-5-2 with Silvestre in goal and the back line of Becca,
Ubijo and Neu in Paris who bagged two in this game by the way in the Coppa Italia against Monza
but anyway Pereira out wide with Udoggi on the other side, Mackengo, Wallace and Samaricic in
the midfield with De La Feu and Beato up front so this was a nil-nil but it doesn't mean that it
didn't have much action going on in the opening minutes Samaricic thumped the crossbar it was
after 13 minutes with a ferocious strike then another one of his shots was charged down on
the counter by Ciazzale good reaction there by him, moments later there was a serious blow for
Lazio when Immobile suddenly pulled up with a muscular strain and he limped off and he looked
distraught it has now come out that he's going to be out until 2023 so he's going to miss a whole
list of important games for Lazio and it might be quite concerning for them I'll get into that more
soon, moments later Silvestre saved Anderson's one-on-one with his leg and then he denied Serguei
header after and then swinging cross by Anderson superbly too really really good saves there by
Silvestre a man that has been super reliable for Ruedineza as of late, moments later sorry not
moments later in the second half and then Ciazzale fumbled a free header after an Alberto corner
this was a clear header for Ciazzale it was Alberto's first touch of the game from a corner
straight to Ciazzale, Ciazzale really should have done better it was a a pussy attempt I'm going to
say it the way it is toxic masculinity fucking pussy attempt and then later on in the match now
the 74th minute Dellefeu whacked the crossbar with a half volley from a tight angle so it was a very
very entertaining 0-0 draw they exist funnily enough now Ruedineza hit the post twice Silvestre
produced two solid saves was a draw a fair result at the end of the day? Look a draw was fair no
um maybe maybe you think that Ruedineza had better chances no but but I do think it was a fair result
I thought that Ruedineza tended their their attacks were more intense on Lazio than Lazio's were
intense on Ruedineza, Lazio tried to break on the counter many a time in fact so yeah I think a
draw 0-0 is a fair result I agree I believe it is a fair result I think like you said Ruedineza's
chances were um but oh I made I made a mistake Dellefeu wasn't in the 74th minute it was in like
the 86th or something that he that he hit the post um that being said I think Ruedineza had the
better chances with them obviously whacking the wood work twice and and getting a total of 12 shots
away with two on goal um however in the second half Lazio took a bit more of a dominant approach
and they looked to control possession more and they did that but Ruedineza were still capable of
bursting and burst they did in that case for example when Dellefeu hit the post and so yeah
I think a draw is quite a fair result as well um what as if we needed any further proof bro of
Lazio's capability of keeping clean sheets they are first in Serie A with six clean sheets and
they also have become the second team not to concede against Ruedineza this season you know
who were first who Salernitana oh there we go wow it's Salernitana and Lazio the kings of the clean
sheets nice who would have thought right that um Silvestri and Seppe were the guys to go for
on fantasy football the one credit goalkeeper but yeah um Lazio did grow into this game but I'm
curious to see how they line up without Immobile this might be a time a good opportunity for a
country Larry man it it might be um it it also what worries me is that they don't have a direct
replacement no they really don't it could be Pedro as a false nine as a false nine that's nice
however it is a totally different system and then completely yes a totally different but
Immobile does come quite deep to collect the ball and help with the link that's true that's
I think Pedro and Pedro's a quality player you know he might be past it physically but
but um he's definitely still got the the brains to do some damage for sure his close ball control
is still some of the most impressive that I that I've seen man um I followed him closely when he
was at Barcelona and mama mia the guy has just been he's been as good as he is now for a very
very long time Pedro he's been at this level for for longer than you can think he was a teen at
barca doing what he's doing and on the note of Immobile the games that he's going to be missing
just to show how grievous situation so firstly it's 40 to 45 days that he'll be missing right
um he misses atalanta mity land salernetana fire north roma monza juve so juve atalanta roma
there's the europa league there's atalanta man wow okay roma juve shit okay they might be in trouble
here lots you know yeah um they're gonna need to find a new a different source for their for their
goals and Milenkovich's main man is no longer there so we'll see what they can do yep now
Udinese let's move a bit to Udinese now despite failing to score against Lazio's brilliant
defensive system Udinese still threatened significantly they whacked the post twice
um this is a team who Lazio are very intimidating to play against at the moment few teams have gone
up against them and gave them this much of a tough time obviously with the exception of Napoli who
got the better of Lazio but they really brought it to them Udinese it's like they they live
fearlessly they were in Rome playing this game and it looked like they were backed by 50 000 fans
the way they were playing what do you think nowadays Udinese play with this confidence that
they're a top side yeah you see them the way they are on the ball it's just like let's get the ball
forward come on like let's let's do this you know they have this certain they have no hesitance no
hesitation yeah when it comes to attacking and yes it's very fun to see they've had an insanely
difficult fixture list at the start of the season they've played the vast majority of the big team
i have them i have them right here please they've now faced off against Lazio, Atalanta, Inter,
Roma, Fiorentina, Milan and Sassuolo and they managed 14 points in the process out of a possible
18 if you had to ask Udinese fans at the beginning of the season if they take 10 points from those
games you'd have probably taken them seven man seven that's crazy good like and now we'll see
if they manage to actually overcome the smaller teams with the with the low block and you know
that's when these types of teams typically slip up we've seen Sassuolo for example in the past
capable of beating the teams in the top seven yeah and then dropping points to the teams in
the other end of the table let's see what Udinese can do if they can keep their heads on their
shoulders and you know continue to replicate this form yeah bear in mind that Udinese's only loss
was against the champions in the opening match of the season yes Lazio fifth place on 21 points
level on points with Udinese in sixth place also on 21 points the derby della mole torino nil
juventus won you have actually only lost one of their last 33 say matches against torino broke
they've won 24 and they've drawn eight their last loss came in april 2015 there were goals from
matteo d'armian and fabio qualiella for torino and andrea perlo for juventus what yeah two one
that's a crazy one yes torino's last clean sheet against juventus in seia was back
in 2008 when they were under claudio ranieri since then the bianconeri have scored 41 goals
in 23 games in this fixture jesus christ and this is kind of one quadrados playground bro this game
he's been involved in 11 goals against torino and seia three goals and eight assists this is a record
for him in the competition yeah the against a direct opponent only candreva and cassano have
a better record oh candreva has 11 contributions against ferrantina and cassano has nine against
udinese jesus okay so let's get into this quadrado hates torino yes torino lined up with their titan
van jammer linkovic salvage between the sticks ricardo rodriguez at the back with shures and gg
lazaro on the left aina on the right with lenetti and lukec in the middle vlasic up front flanked
by radonjic and miranchuk cesny was in goal for juventus with danilo bremer and sandro at the back
quadrado on the right costa on the left with rabio locatelli and mckenny in the middle
with the striking partnership of moyskine and vlavic the game started out with juventus
leading the charge vlavic had a one-on-one situation which was saved by vanja melinkovic salvage
the play was quite a long one the sequence in fact vanja had three saves in a row essentially
not crazy difficult the last two but still he did he did very well on them if he wasn't as big as he
is he might have struggled with a few of them yeah maybe but thankfully he is he's massive i think
he's the tallest player in the league for sure man for sure there was another save by vanja
melinkovic salvage on a locatelli long-range shot it was a bounce shot from a distance great save
by vanja melinkovic salvage and then after that was torino's turn to attack where cesny saw
cesny made rather two great saves there was a fantastic opportunity for moyskine to score a
goal but he missed it detrimentally this might be i think juve's worst performer at the moment moyskine
he's been for the past two seasons yeah he's been terrible to be honest with you more good saves by
vanja melinkovic salvage this time on a on a vlavic header the goal came in the 74th minute
there was a corner by quadrado which was headed by danilo into the part of vlavic who slid and
guided it into the back of the net and that essentially is what separated these two teams
on this matchday yeah quite frankly my opinion bro it was quite an even game um i thought that
the main difference between these teams is that juve have vlavic and torino barely have a striker
my my the point that i was going to make is that torino have the same problem that juve did in the
beginning of last season the fact that they lost jornalda and jornalda wasn't replaced until vlavic
joined in january now are torino gonna coop someone in january that could give them a bit of a
structure up front that could play with his back towards goal that could play in the box that could
just have any traits of a target man a goal scorer because that's what they're lacking at the end of
the day torino are an even rich team they are capable of playing the ball they're capable of
defending we know that we know that but we also know that seria is known for its tight defenses
yes in order to score against tight against these tight defenses it's not enough to have miranchuk
and radonjic feeding someone who isn't a natural goal scorer i believe that torino need that guy
i thought that pelegri might be that guy he might grow to be that guy he's too young those two yeah
it would make sense even if they get a matthew de strove sorts that could sort them out for
for us anyone at this point anyone like imagine are now to reach on torino exactly exactly they
need they need someone up front it's a little cement their system i think i totally agree with
you bro um you know that this was uva's second away goal of the season no way no way yes check
it out it's crazy mad this was their second away goal of the season um another funny stat about uva
um costage had five key passes against torino the rest of the uva team had six
it just goes to show man it just there's no real system there's no real plan i mean
you could say okay the system is clearly give the ball to costage but yeah i guess that's the
system give the ball to costage oh my god so uva's other only away goal the season was against
fiorentina yes sir and i won one draw another stat bro another funny one yes for the final
40 minutes of the game uva played with one natural natural center oh my god my vowel
one natural center back for the final fighting manads no for the final 40 minutes or so uva
played with one natural center back in a three-man defense and that was bonucci when they brought
him on right yes well even bro here they they started with danilo and sandro yes and it turns
out by the way bremer is injured so that's a bummer for them that's a massive bummer they might have
to especially since i don't know when anyone was planning to say it but i'm gonna say it i'm gonna
be the first one to come out and say it bonucci is a bit shit man yes he's not quite the same with
them without kellini is that and and he's also maybe age so on so forth is catching up with him
a bit he's still for example one of those center backs that can really play the ball out yes of
course but what's the point of being a fucking defender that can play the ball out well if you're
in an allegory system it's true um on the counter maybe but the most concerning thing about them is
how players just breeze yes yes yes it's crazy you know it's crazy how they breeze past him so
easily but this might be a blessing in this guy this guy's um the bremer injury you know gotti
might come in and actually um impress and maybe cement his role at the back imagine him and bremer
that would be a nice partnership yeah agreed i really like how a few of these torino players
are really good bro like like sure is at the back has been so lit man he scored a goal in the coppa
tale he's solid he's good on the ball you know comfortable on the ball he's solid defensively he's
a bit of a tight and he's he's quite good i enjoy sure as i particularly enjoy torino's back three
especially ricardo rodriguez for example who's really grown into the role of a center back in
a three-man defense on the left side it's yeah and he has real captain captainship traits like that i
that i enjoy watching on the whenever i watch torino gg of course has also been fantastic no
the defense isn't one of the things that that they would be complaining about for sure bro um
on the torino front richie had his first start in the coppa italia since match day three he's been
out injured yeah so um he was there they won four nil over citadella that was a very strong win for
them they looked quite good to be honest and rodogne even scored a fantastic goal pellegrino
found the goal so maybe that could be the confidence boost that torino need when it comes
to scoring goals could very well be man you won't see them winning four nil anytime soon in seria
um so the fact that they grabbed one in coppa could only do good things to their confidence
yes two more things i'd like to point out first of all the quadrado man is a little bit washed up
nowadays like he's he's declined so quickly like he was good last season he was top yeah and all of
a sudden now the decline is so visible like this was a difficult game for him he really struggled
you know i said last season i'm like one day quadrado is just gonna dip like yeah i i said
it in season one of the of the pod when we're when we're saying how the fuck is quadrado still good
he's fucking 34 years old it's true and it's happened finally he's just he's just dipped a
bit man and i don't think he'll ever quite be the same i noticed that you notice that players are
dipping where every kind of half opportunity they have to score they take a shot even if there's a
better position to give a pass elsewhere like you see it with ronaldo nowadays because he wants to
keep up those numbers and quadrado is like yeah maybe if i score like i'll still be the the guy
you know what i mean he gets he gets really greedy at times he does he does man he has he has had
opportunities to square it and he shoots against milan as well there we go and there's also a
thing bro amongst the uva fan phase called the hashtag doosan face have you heard of it no it's
basically uh they they throw this hashtag out they tweet it when uh doosan vlavic's face looks
extremely frustrated undone and it's tweeted relentlessly during uva games um this time the
73rd minute when uva managed to score uh the doosan phase completely changed though it has
to be said the bursts of emotion you can see in his expression they change you know it was actually
nice to see um because he's been so frustrated his service has been lacking he went from a team
where he was the main man up front and everyone was just serving him the ball everyone worked for him
to a system where he's pretty much isolated most of the time so that must be frustrating
it's really interesting looking at uva because normally look at certain teams and you say one
thing that they are missing is a standout player it's a player that can get a goal out of nothing
for milan it's leo for intert slav taro martinez um thing for napoli it's osim and cavarad they
have a bunch of them um thing is with uva is they have that guy in vlavic but they don't treat him
like one true they treat him like he's like he's palovski like he's any one of those 11 players
it's like he's a number in that true that team should be working for him that's a good point
they should be totally 100 the way lancio work for a mob exactly the team should be built around
him but now it's good for uva to see that kiaz and pogbar back in training yes that's a great
sign for them um who knows they might go on an undefeated run like they did towards the stretch
of the end of last season um it's a little bit of a stretch right now i'm not sure that it's
it's looking quite bad for them but we'll see if they manage to recover uva tend to and it wouldn't
surprise me if they somehow start to get their shit together yeah it's tough to think that they
won't be within top six top seven right yeah yeah yeah for sure okay so let's go um i don't know if
you have any other points you want to make no that i think i think i've got it nailed down
yeah it was a very entertaining um there will be of course you can see the the celebrations at the
end for uva meant a lot to them they regrouped in the middle you know they were having a bit of a
a moment you know of motivation um we'll see where this takes them uva are currently eighth with 16
points while torino are 11th with 11 points the next game we're going to be covering is sambdoria
nil roma one classic literally the classic result for for roma um a third consecutive
seira victory would put roma clear in fourth place leapfrogging lazio and odinese so although
it's a game against sambdoria pressure was on for moreno's men some were coming off a one one draw
away to bolonia and obviously under new management we all know that they have uh dean stankovic now
who faced off against jose morinio so now jose morinio has faced off against diago motta and
serianti is also faced off against stankovic two of the guys that were pivotal in the in the treble
win in in 2010 this chapter of moreno's biography is going to be called the reunion 100 the special
reunion um roma coming off a two one win against lecce and they also drew one one in the europa
league against betis and everywhere i saw that every news outlet wrote roma held betis roma held
betis yeah roma were the underdogs there yeah betis are very good and they beat roma and lasfix
churches probably why now paula debala chelic kumbulla weinaldum and da bro were injured for
roma um rock bottom sambdoria missed morio harry winx and manuel deluca having picked up a point
on the debut of new coach dean stankovic um here now facing his mentor jose morinio so for sambdoria
442 aude rongold with a back line of augello coli ferrari and berezinski midfield four of jurichich
villar rincon and laris with caputo and gabiadini up front for roma it was a three four one two with
patricio on goal mancini smalling and the baniers at the back zalevski and el sharawi on the flanks
with maddy camara um cristante and pellegrini in midfield with bellotti and abraham up front now
although um zaniolo was suspended in the europa league and he was therefore well rested for this
match he was still benched in favor of the new double striker partnership of bellotti and abraham
up front so that's interesting to see will we see more of that yada yada yeah and it was also
interesting to see camara in the team those for those of you who don't know who maddy camara is
he's a 25 year old ghanian professional footballer who plays at center midfield and he's on loan from
olympiacos i thought it was a ballerina he's perhaps more known for his efforts on the defensive end
of the pitch but nonetheless can contribute a lot going forward too and the statistics back that
apasiz had 22 goals and 14 assists in 232 appearances to date now let's get into the game so the only
goal of the game came in the ninth minute for roma and it was a penalty so alex ferrari
alex ferrari's handball denied tammi's cross and was vared a penalty was then awarded and although
out there tracked pellegrini's penalty there was no way he'd stop the top corner strike it was
pellegrini's 200th appearance for roma a beautiful landmark for him and good to see him getting a goal
over there there was some controversy on 63 minutes when el chara we used his outstretched
arm to deflect a cross heading to valerio verre just outside the penalty area but because it was
offside var could not intervene but the referee missed what should have been a free kick and a
yellow card and then stankovic was booked for his protests shocking you know he saw that kind of
manager that was going to get suspended every couple of games yeah i think that stankovic
that type of guy as well that type of manager that many of sambdoria's goals will come at the
beginning of the second half because of the team talk you know what i mean it's true and i thought
that they'd come out a bit stronger than they did in the second half sambdoria but roma have just
become such experts at like yeah killing the game yeah killing the game without needing the second
goal and now sambdoria threatened a little bit in this game but obviously roma did what roma do
and zaniolo came on he missed two chances and two very good chances but credit to him for creating
the second one he won the ball back dribbled past an opponent however when he's clean through on goal
i note is that he tends to do this thing where he doesn't help himself when it comes to positioning
himself in front of goal he tends to move into tighter angles he'll have space to work with
but he moves on to the right hand side at the end of the day he's playing it safe but he's
not playing it efficiently exactly exactly it's like i'll definitely beat him if i go out wide
but then when you get the shot away at that tight angle where the keeper's literally got the entire
post cover just by standing there and coming off his line a little bit you know what that might be
as well that might be i don't want to get my legs close to his i've been injured twice double acl
fair enough you know that might have that effect because i remember zaniolo back in the day
fearless fearless completely fearless now and now you know he has a bit of a block and to be honest
it's wise man he don't want to relapse fair enough but he's also young and it sucks man yeah
poor guy and he also then scored but it was offside so yeah he's he's still i think i would love to
have a conversation with zaniolo i would love to sit down with him and just all he'll talk about
are women bro you think so you think he's a perv like for sure yes yeah it makes you think zaniolo
is apparently he has a porno what yeah man zaniolo has a porn film google zaniolo porno it's an
amateur one from one angle like it's shit but he has a porn did he film it himself or is someone
it's just on a camera on like a bedside table okay okay this is interesting you're gonna check it out
talking midweek episode next week live reaction to zaniolo's porn 2.12 zaniolo's porno
it's zaniolo's massive now all right my play by play is over so let's get to the talking points
so the only goal was scored by a penalty funnily enough it was taken by pellegrini on his 200th
appearance was that a nice gesture from his teammates from morinio or is tammy officially
of penalty duty do you think um pellegrini has taken penalties before hasn't he i think it's just
who's in the who's in the on better form maybe who takes the penalties um abraham i think right now
if abraham shot john lennon john lennon will be 82 today
honestly bro abraham i don't know what happened to him he's a shadow of the player he was lost
he's nowhere near you know what happened they ate it tammy i told my barber to take him on
fanta calcio i told him take tammy bro he's on penalties second full season in seria he's
gonna do bits under morinio with the ball i said oh for sure for sure i do took him as well i did
take him there are um quite a few penalty takers um on this roma side you know there's bellotti
abraham pellegrini they can all hit a penalty yeah so um i wouldn't be surprised if whoever's
feeling better on the day they agree amongst themselves who wants takes them although bellotti
scares me a bit from the spot i mean he scored quite a few for it for it he's also missed a few
for italy that's true he's also missed a few on the big stage yeah um roma with their seventh
three points of the season which is great but boy do they get tested against every single opponent
they face huh it always seems like they're in trouble at some point it's true they get away
with three points but there's always like roma fans must age a bit watching them man they must
age a bit some got eight shots away against them roma had 70 percent ball possession for some
madonna madonna like it's just every 90 minutes for a roma fan must be a little bit scary yeah so
to say definitely um special shout out to the rock and i'm not talking about duane the rock
johnson but i'm talking about brian the rock cristante um four aerial duels one by him three
tackles now moreno's shifted that midfield double pivot quite a bit three man midfield two man
midfield two holding midfielders one box to box one holding a register he's tried a lot of things
what's the common factor in everything he tries christian brian cristante man's a staple in the
team yeah he's the the favorite of every coach he has played for you know he's the radic crunich
the italian crunich yeah he's um the who was it for united back in the day o'Shea o'Shea who played
everywhere even goalkeeper o'Shea yeah he played everywhere he played everywhere cristante is kind
of that guy he's mr reliable no and i did like him in this double pivot alongside kamara who's
way more mobile than matthew yeah i think matthew and cristante are not mobile enough together
quite frankly yeah i think i think it's you know you bring on matthew alongside cristante if you
need to fucking hang on and it's the 85th minute you know what i mean i and for the aerial prowess
if you if you need a goal of course i also enjoyed hanging out with cristante at higher secondary
doing computing he's so looks like a guy that does physics and computing at higher like yeah
and wears trackies every day to school it's true and a purple hoodie like drives a golf he's so
that's that's brian cristante for you man 2012 he was really into top man yeah
that top man man um some seem motive motivated some seemed motivated under stankovic but
obviously tough gig for them to play roma and they're literally rock bottom and his first task is to
play roma but i think as well some did look a little bit better they had their team ticking
a little bit what did you make of their performance in this match were they allowed to play or did they
play i think it was a combination to be honest roma don't mind giving up the ball of course
but we did see a few different movements from them this game and they certainly looked quite
fluid at times but i do think that this side needs a little bit of tweaking still there's hardly any
mobility in the forward line and they have jurek on the left who isn't the fastest of course
they have caputo up front they have gabiardini up front they've got rincone and galar in the middle
there is south white who's okay but like this isn't a very fast side so stankovic is going to
have to see what he does because you know teams can attack sambdori and not worry about the counter
because they're not going to break away i think you put the best manager in the world with this
team and he'll struggle genuinely i think you look at that starting 11 and and each player's traits
you think you put fucking gasperini there and he's still gonna have a bit of a mare
okay yeah it's true there aren't many options this is a team whose owner was arrested for
fraudulent bankruptcy yeah this of course i'm talking about massimo ferrero fucking playboy
fun fact about this if you don't know this guy it's a guy with the white hair and the scarf always
looks coked up when he's on tv he was actually at this game bro he did some time in prison he did
some time in prison and of course he's out he probably has too much money to be in prison
in his day and age he um he was at the game and apparently stewart's really had to scramble in
order to prevent problems from from happening because he hadn't stepped foot in the studio
louis ferrero's and over a year quite frankly and of course the fans are not um happy to have him
there um apparently some fans don't like him they don't like him bro of course he wasn't investing
you know in the fraudulent bankruptcy yeah like um they were chanting you're not getting out of here
to him oh my god yes exactly and a few chants that um were quite
quite naughty yes give us one i can't i didn't actually hear them but i'm reading an article
right now and it says amongst other messages that can't be published here yeah so his mom's a who
and a bit of this and a bit of that yeah um uh-huh at the end of the day he's like you said he the
samdoria team turned to shit under his watch and he is a criminal at the end of the day he's a
corrupt criminal um i don't like him is he entertaining yes he's a character isn't he he's
a character um but but yeah probably you know fans are screaming for you to leave like that then
that's a sign yeah so yes the samdoria team the story the arc of the samdoria team screams
relegation in the near future it does and it's been saying that from last season they were very very
lucky last season to have a semi-decent start to get a couple of points um and that is essentially
what ended up keeping them afloat this time after 10 games they have no wins they have three draws
and seven losses the most alongside verona they're on three points rock rock rock bottom and in their
last six matches they lost five and drew one while srama fourth place champions league 22 points
they're one ahead of their rivals latia ando de neza and they're one behind milan so good start
for them solid very good especially considering their injuries exactly well done mu the next
game we're going to be covering is inter to salernitana nil inter back to winning ways
last season inter won both matches against salernitana by a five nil score line jesus so um
10 nil on aggregate um this was they became the first team to win against a single opponent by a
four plus margin in two consecutive matches in the same season since themselves inter in 1999
against letchia yeah they they won with a five plus goal margin as well back then um inter have
gone without a draw in seria for the most games among sides in the league this season the narod
zuri have not played out a draw in their last 19 games their longest such streak since the beginning
of the 1950s jesus don't draw they win or they lose that's an interesting one to remember when
we're betting my friend yes win or draw doesn't exist we go for outrights exactly um salernitana
happened to be the favorite opponents of martinez who scored four goals against them into matches
last season and zeko who has been also directly involved in four goals against salernitana mad
now let's get into it um the lineups we have onana in goal for inter that seems to be becoming the
norm screen yard devry and the cherubi at the back with dimarco and dumfries on the flanks
mickie tarian and barella in the middle with chalano glue auditioning for the register all this time
zeko and martinez up front um lukaku has just recovered from injury and i wonder if we'll be
seeing him instead of zeko in the near future probably sepe was in goal for salernitana um
gomber danilulich and pirrola at the back with kandreva and matsocki out wide kulebali vilhena
and costanos in the middle with dia and piontek up front not a bad not a bad salernitana side not
a bad salernitana side struggling with a few injuries from what it seems in the back three
lovato and radovanovich bro yes um you're absolutely right a bit of a defensive crisis for
salernitana over there so the most interesting thing about the first 10 minutes of the smash was
matsocki struggling to get the captain's armband on um he just keeps coming off for him he's just
fiddling with it every time the camera pans out and he's fixing his armband so yeah not what a
bird in a how annoying yeah it must be annoying right to wear such a weighty symbol on your arm
all the time it's like having your sock halfway down your foot like and you're just trying to walk
so it was the 14th minute that saw inter open up the scoring it was an amazing long range strike
by lautaro martinez um who scored four of course against salernitana last season as we said he
continued that trend over here yeah great form he's currently on doing great things against barcelona
as well um inter spent the rest of the first half pretty much just testing sepe yeah had a decent
game i mean could have done a bit better on the slout arrow goal but overall i think made up for
it pretty pretty well um salernitana got closest at the start of the second half um they actually
forced on anna into a few saves it felt as though they could do something over there but it was not
the case um inzaghi's substitutions actually did did the trick i think down the line to to cement
this um but before the substitutions actually happened in the 58th minute a long ball from the
register haka inshallah no glue a wonderful long ball fell to nicola barrella who took a fantastic
first touch to beat his man another touch to make sure he beat him and then just smacked it into the
goal past sepe what a fucking goal it was an incredible what a goal amazing and if you notice
this game bro um not a single inter player got a yellow card looks like no one wanted to be
substituted literally well what uh uh-huh i mean we've spoken about this enough in the past just
what a quirk like what uh what a way they however it is it is a good way to discipline your players
as well like if they could avoid getting yellow cards it's obviously a better thing for the team
having better discipline and however and then when the going gets tough and you you know you make a
tackle that you need to make and that risks you being substituted in case of the red card
and that's where you start losing your common sense to stick to this system that you've created
definitely my brother and this was an impressive win by inter against a side which is no means an
easy side to play against absolutely not they came off two games against barcelona with sasuolo
in the middle it could have left them exhausted it could have left them drained could have left
them complacent but it didn't they scored early they held on they pretty much dominated over all
this game yeah and at no point did we think that they were in any genuine trouble nope salernitana
seemed to struggle to complete certain sequences inter set up quite well i mean at the end of the
day two brilliant goals over there not much salernitana could do about it yeah i mean there
there's sequences that probably struggling with a with a five man midfield three central midfielders
and then you've got someone like lao taro who does drift back a little bit when they're defending
it's very difficult to play the ball around against inter unless it's in your own half
you know what i mean it's very difficult to to play the ball and they play with quite high press
as well they're a tough side to face for sure man they're definitely not an easy side um lao
taro and zeko had a field day they had five attempts each three of zekos were actually on
target it was quite quite a a good match for both of those guys yeah to be a striker against salernitana
who have two injuries in their back three must be fun especially for someone with a track record
like lao taro for sure have you heard the dumfries story depends which one the one of his first day
at inter on the training field so he had his first training session with inter and apparently
denzel dumfries is a serious man a very professional who's very serious about his
work he doesn't want to fuck around he just wants to go out he wants to impress he wants to play his
football right he showed up to the inter training ground he had his bag you know he
opened up his bag pulled out his shoes and realized he had packed two left shoes that's
that's a true story that's a true story he told he said that his first day at inter was a bit of a
drama and a nightmare for that reason imagine how embarrassing that's the equivalent of like
wearing the wrong uniform going without your bag to school i have done that i can't just imagine
like they're all in the dressing rooms like getting ready for a training whatever he
did he don't freeze walking and probably dressed nicely he unzips his bag they're just here
no no no fuck what happened denzel
well see you see the same guy that that like said we we in a in an interview yes not we we he said
something in french something in spanish i something in spanish yeah they asked him a question if he's
improving his his his italian and he replied in french and yeah
yeah um look how cool is back so inter should look more dangerous but apparently reports have
come out that they are totally surprised by his uh physical decline well by the fact that he's
a chungus exactly now i'm not sure if they are saying this simply because you know they they
don't afford to renew him quite frankly they don't afford to make they're trying to bring his price
down hey yes or if he's actually genuinely physically physically declined for me the
lookalike i saw at the beginning of the season at inter is not the same lookalike that was
terrorizing the league when inter won the scudetto yeah i think his his stint in london could have had
a a significantly bad effect on his mental health to the point that i mean he wasn't playing at at
chelsea probably wasn't the hardest trainer when he was unhappy and trying to find a way out in
this first opening matches for chelsea um when people struggle mentally perhaps they
neglect certain cardio perhaps they overeat a little bit so on so forth then he went back to
winter he's finally happy got off the mark early um i believe he scored on his debut as well against
lecce it was insane um and then he got injured again and obviously when you're injured you don't
move around much and he just keeps on putting on this mask that doesn't help him it doesn't help
him at all yes um you made a good point there bro happy body happy mind romello lucaco remember
that my friend exactly i wish wish him well like now that now that milan don't have romanioli
i'm willing to have an on-form lucaco as as long as he's happy yes um inter are currently in seventh
place with 18 points while salernitana are in 12th place with 10 points oh the battle for the
conference league the next game we're going to be covering is let's share one fiorantina one so
lecture we're coming off a two one loss against roma was fiorantina we're coming off a four nil
home loss against lazio but also coming off a midweek five one win against hearts i can't put
my mind around this fiorantina team so fiorantina lost two on the bounce in seia and sat only two
points above lettre going in this going into the stadio via del mare so yeah that's who
fiorantina are competing with this time round so sofiana mrabat was suspended with ricardo satel
and gaitano castrovilli injured while the hosts had martin huelmand sitting out a ban so for
lettre it was a 4-3-3 with falcone between the sticks gallo umtiti fuck congracic and basquerotto
playing in the midfield it was gonzalez blin and askelson with banda sise and strefetza completing
the front line for fiorantina it was their 4-4-1-1 with taracan on goal dodo martinez igor and biragi
forming the back line and gonzalez played out on the right with kwame on the left mandragora barak
and bonaventura in midfield with jovich up front now for the play by play luca jovich was forced
off the field in just over six minutes um fucking pussy fiorantina had the ball in the net on 38
minutes when falcone punched jacomo bonaventura's cross it bounced off fedrico basquerotta's head
and fell kindly for arthur cabral whose header from close range went into the back of the net
but it was disallowed by var due to bonaventura's earlier offside so chaos to start things off um
instead lettre took the lead moments later um juan gonzalez robbed dodo at the corner flag and pulled
back from the byline for sise to get in front of martinez cuarta and tapped the ball in from six
yards one nil lettre ahead and cabral scored again a few seconds later but that goal didn't
count either as the ball had gone out of play before antonin barak managed to pull it back so
two disallowed goals for cabral the second that he gets an opportunity to disallowed goals
fiorantina did equalize at the dawn of the second half nico gonzalez knocking down a long ball
cabral dinking it over the top from the edge of the area and cuame getting there before basquerotta
to head in off the upright beautiful headed goal um by cuame otherwise later on fiorantina did kind
of manage to get into the game a little bit more than before lettre kind of dominated the first
half streffetza was unbelievable and in the second half fiorantina started looking like favorites over
there so much so that gallo managed to get two yellow cards in two minutes out of sheer frustration
the second yellow card being for a rugby tackle on jonathan icone so it was really entertaining
seeing those two yellow cards in two minutes like always causes such controversy and but the game
ended one one lettre fiorantina and sise had two great headed opportunities and with the ball played
just a millimeter to ahead of him on both occasions he'd have gotten there they've gotten there well
he has the height for it he has the the lengthy body for it use fifa terms um but he just gets there
a tenth of a second too late so the ball would go wide um if lettre managed to perfect that they
will have a serious weapon to their arsenal for sure with streffetza playing those balls in streffetza
and banda on the other side streffetza by the way for a five foot six man incredibly strong
yes incredibly so good center of gravity he was out muscly he out muscled igor
at a point and igor is a fucking dog bro thank igor is a dog and streffetza is just there like
pushing him away with his fucking ass he has that hazard physique that bottom heavy parachute
there's a video of a cartoon bouncing the ball on the ground with his ass
that's like hazard at his real Madrid presentation it's amazing
it's amazing that's streffetza basically in Serie A this season literally um but yeah lettre were
incredible in this one they did look like the better team for the first half um until Fiorentina
started like panicking in the 70th minute and one thing about Fiorentina that we can't fault them
for is that they have players to bring on in the offensive part of the pitch to make a difference
so 70th minute onwards Fiorentina are going to give you a tough time no matter what it's just
the fact that unless they're panicking they cannot patiently build the ball up from the back it's
true they signed Barak to sort out the fact that they lack creativity hasn't really brought it has
he man I mean there's still an adaptation period no but I think it was a smart buy from them um I
think the problem once again remains in the striking department to be honest you know Jovic
went out injured this game it's going terribly for him every single week it gets worse for him
for Jovic every week it gets worse Cabral came on he had a good moment he got an assist this game
yeah so um and two offside goals yeah hopefully he can start getting his shit together too um I've
been super impressed by Kwame though for me he's the standout performer for Fiorentina this season
by a landslide very highly improved he started slow man and he vanished last year I didn't see
him at all I completely forgot he was a player I remember him with his general days two seasons
ago I think three seasons ago his breakout season but then he had an injury and he disappeared
signed by Fiorentina everyone forgot under the radar completely and he's back and he's putting
in these crazy performances playing as a striker or out wide yeah and you know you think when you
look at the players they have up front and out wide you wouldn't think that they need a player
like Kwame who could play both roles well because they have enough to choose from but Kwame is
looking to be that guy that they look for when they need something and the fact he's starting
he's starting games now it's good to see Nico starting some games well Nico's the kind of
motherfucker that'll grow into it he'll get the rhythm he's an animal he's a fighter Nico Gonzales
is a guarantee for the second part of the season he'll start knocking them in 100% but otherwise
man Fiorentina have looked incredibly mid-tier this season that's the best way to put it they
look like a team that'll come 10th to 12th like yes there isn't a big difference between
Fiorentina and Torino for example yeah right now exactly I mean Fiorentina 10 points 13th in the
table level on points with Monza and Salernetana exactly there we go like they haven't been
impressive yeah and and what kind of because Go will score yeah it's awful Salernetana have
scored 12 certain no it's fine we keep on saying that it's the creativity it's the strikers but
notice how in any part of the field Fiorentina never come out on top whether it's in a defensive
situation a midfield situation attacking situation they're always second to the ball they just simply
don't look convincing anywhere I would not put a cent on Fiorentina to earn points this season
it could have gone the complete like their moves on the market were were fine man bringing in Jovovich
and Barac that's decent maybe a defender with a felt Dodo was a good signing as well yeah granted
yes it's who they lost but you wouldn't expect them to do worse than last season you expect them
to do fucking better bro or the same on paper exactly or the same the competition I think has
continued to improve and them competing on three fronts has actually proven to be a burden for them
the conference league is something that they're not doing particularly well in first of all
and they're finding it hard to find a balance with their players yeah and and it's going to be
interesting to see what happens with Italiano because he is the kind of manager that you
should give the benefit of the doubt to and give time to but when you set your bar so high in the
opening season then you better be prepared to back it up in the second one man and you have to do
whatever it takes to get something out of these guys you set the bar too high brother and and that
might be that might be a downfall with Fiorentina otherwise Lecce much like Ramonese they look good
in every game but they normally fail to get points and this was a case where Lecce were capable of
getting points and some might argue that they could have even killed the game earlier on in
the first half especially with one of those CSA strikes but yes to move on to the table
Fiorentina are in 13th they're on 10 points as we've already mentioned 10 points in 10 matches
is shit and Lecce in 16th on eight points they're three points from the drop the drop obviously
which includes Verona, Cremona and Samp. The next game we're going to be talking about is technically
on paper a relegation six pointer that's whether you consider Monza to be relegation candidates
or not but I think it would be fair to call it that yeah Empoli won Monza nil now these guys met
in Seyarbe in 2020-2021 and they drew both their league matches Monza's last win against the
Toskens was back on the 19th September 1999 what it was a one-nil victory in Seyarbe yes
Jesus I thought they would have played each other more in Seyarbe in recent history like that's
super interesting yeah John Luca Caprari brother has scored three goals in six Seyar matches
against Empoli and prior to this game of course three of his last four goals came away from home
including his only goal in the 2022-2023 season against San Padorio yes let's just get into it
in goal for Empoli there was Vicario the ever impressive Vicario 100% with Parisi out wide
and Stajanovic on the right Luperto and De Winter at the back Bandonelli Henderson and Huss were
the midfield three with Baldanzi between them and Destro and Satriano up front the Gregorio was in
goal for Monza with Santos Mari and Caldi Rolade at the back Churia and Augusto were out wide with
Ravel Lanzense in the middle Pessin and Caprari were flanking Gitkiere I just have to say because
coming into this I was prepared to talk a bit about Gitkiere and how I like his activity in
Monza's team particularly after seeing the way how static Petania is but Petania just got a goal
midweek so it's going to be interesting seeing him slotting back in the league and what a goal he was in the Coppa
Italia of course Monza actually beat Udinese 3-2 to come out of the Coppa Italia Petania came on and
looked so much slimmer so much more mobile it's true so effective man it's true the goal he scored
was a thing of beauty the technique he displayed there to beat the to get around the players and
even he had a few moments where he forced a shot from a tight angle like from a split second opening
he looks really sharp and I think he can get a couple of goals and like imagine him in this team
yeah you know Ravel Lanzense in midfield Pessin and Caprari let's see if it was obviously this
performance against Udinese or if it's going to be something that's going to come with consistency
this is a guy who was training technically at the highest level with Napoli last week with Napoli he
was with Atalanta he was with Milan even when he was at SPAL he was at the height of his career
he's had a super career um obviously at Napoli third fiddle essentially second no second fiddle
well there was Mertens as well he was he only stayed because he scored an important goal in
SPAL it was like you're not going you're fucking staying like okay passion there was a massive
miss to open up this game by Satriano who was played in super well by Luperreta it was similar
to the Chalanoglu assist on Barella through ball like that Satriano had time and I think he just
overthought it he was there he was like what am I gonna do everyone's watching so should I take another
touch oh shit I touched it again I think I had to shoot and then boom squares and like just shoots
it into the goalkeeper like terrible finish terrible terrible terrible but it was a great save by
Di Gregorio on the other hand yeah I can't take anything away from the goalkeeper so one on one
good save exactly in the 11th minute though Di Gregorio could not keep out Haas's shot he pulled
off an amazing save on an Empoli header the ball was deflected goal words once again and Di Gregorio
pulls off an insane reflex save this guy's a cat bro but there of course the third attempt it was
Nicolas Haas and he managed to score this time yeah how can you not love watching Empoli how can
you not root for them just as Suswallow have their epic song whenever they score you know I get
knocked down and Cella V for Fiorentina exactly Empoli have this gem every single time they score
here's Destro
no it sounds like they asked a bunch of Italian kids studying English as a foreign language in
Malta to pick their song like yeah and they just all chose that they were like this was the one
that they played in born native yeah exactly so yes that was entertaining Monza's best chance in
the first half came through a Gitgeir free kick which went wide so that tells you a lot about how
Monza played in the first half Carlos Augusto started off the second half with a long range
strike which also went just wide that was quite close and Empoli missed a great opportunity where
they had a numerical advantage there was a one-two with Satriana it was blocked off the line by the
Monza center back Vicario had a great save on a spilled ball at the far post on Gitgeir it was
quite action packed to be honest at the end of the game there was a fight that broke out which saw
Nicola Ravella getting sent off yeah and yeah Empoli managed to hang on despite maybe going
too hard for the draw if he liked towards the end for the to secure the victory sorry like they
risked getting another one won you know what I mean it's true it's true but they they won and
that's going to give them they would have been they would have been dying for a win yes it's not
easy for for Empoli to get a win man it's true nowadays but yes fucking win and a great result
dude for them you know I'm gonna start doing this thing on the podcast for every really good
performance that Vicario has because I've exhausted the listeners talking to Vicario I'm talking
about Vicario because I do it every week literally so just every time Vicario has a good performance
all I'm gonna do is give him a kiss I'm just gonna give him a kiss you don't need to hear me
saying how good he is and how Empoli would be a different team without him I'm just gonna give him
a kiss like you'll know what's up for any new listeners adapt yes and we're not gonna address
it huh you're just gonna I'm gonna be like fucking right bro fucking right it was a cagey affair of
course bro lots of attempts two brilliant goalkeepers on display over here um there we go
thank you very much De Gregorio bro showing why he has benched Craniot this guy bro wow
what a player um Empoli build out of the back brilliantly right but they they risk a lot and
and sometimes I'm watching I'm like Madonna you know those kind of slow passes past the oncoming
midfielder like just to play it out of the back like they play it to the register like and you
see the players just rushing him pressing like oh my god he's gonna lose it but yes they they do
well to play out of those situations perhaps risking it a little bit too much and they do
well to get into offensive situations as well I think that Destra at times can be a little bit
too selfish as always these strikers that believe that they're a bit bigger than their teams like
good luck getting them to pass and that takes that counts Origi as well Origi I think thinks he's
something right no the origi came in with Milan won't because I have champions league experience
none of these guys do I scored in the final and I scored against Barca he's honestly yes whatever
Destra is too selfish and Satriano bro in my opinion needs to believe in himself more
lacking confidence and it's weird because he scored I I find it weird um yes he scored
great like um as in he has scored but my thing with Satriano is I'm not quite sure
what he's good at I mean he's a bud with Raspadoori my friend you know what I mean yeah
he's I can't put my finger on it he's an opportunistic striker who can get
he can drive kind of well as well and he can create opportunities with like a touch and shoot
you know what I mean kind of that type of striker doesn't have physicality in his arse and yeah
yeah the thing is I haven't really seen much from Satriano to to kind of impress me but I also know
that since he was in bear as well I wouldn't have seen much of him obviously and inter fans um do
rate him quite highly from what I from what I've heard they obviously have have high standards
but yes this result sees my god Empoli in 10th and Monza in 14th with 10 points Empoli of course
have 11 points excuse that brain lag it's okay brother we all forgive you the final game we're
going to be covering is what was one of the best games this weekend so I really you mentioned maybe
Empoli Monza's relegation six pointer this my friend is relegation six pointer by definition
Spezia 2 Cremoneza 2 and the visitors still looking for their first win in Serie A so and
against Spezia it's something they probably would have fucking died for and that showed to
their performance they were very persistent Cremoneza had Radu and Kirikis out injured so
exciting stuff Italy under 21 international Marco Carinesecki got the Serie A debut in goal someone
we're talking about finally a lot in the build up to this season of of Serie A I'm wondering if he
would get a place in goal for one of the top 20 teams he hasn't exactly but he's there he was
benched by Radu okay but he got his opportunity he's still very young very very young very young
Spezia were feeling the pressure too missing Simone Bastoni Kovalevko and Reka but at least
for them Christophe returned from injury and Spezia lined up with a 4-3-3 formation Jarkowski
in goal Nicolao Caldara Ampadu and Amian forming the back line Agudelo Kiwior and Borabja in the
midfield with Giasi and Holm flanking in Zola for Cremoneza 4-2-3-1 Carinesecki in goal with
Sir Nicola Bianchetti Lachoskvili and Valeri at the back and Maita and Castagnetti in the midfield
with Zanimakia, Pickel and Ocareyka ahead of them with Dessers up front so it only took two minutes
for Cremoneza to open the scoring through Cyril Dessers it was a corner that wasn't cleared
effectively Lachoskvili was given too much time and space at the near post to squirm the finish
under the goalkeeper and Cyril Dessers made sure practically on the line the goal could have
essentially gone to Lachoskvili but it was traveling way too slowly for Dessers to take any
risk so he was there making sure for his teammate what a nice guy. Spezia equalized when Paolo
Bianchetti's weak clearance fell straight to Enzola to smash into the roof of the net from the edge
of the area always good to see Enzola on target and just a couple of minutes later Kiwior's corner
kick into the box prompted a scramble with Holm prodding it into the back of the net through a sea
of legs essentially. In the second half Cremoneza equalized after the restart when Leonardo San
Nicola whipped across from the right onto the head of Pickel at the back stick Pickel headed in
no problem whatsoever. Charles Pickel Charles mother I've also heard what a name I've heard
commentators calling him Pickel. Pickel? No I refuse. Pickel is cool but it's kind of like
what but like Mikel with a P like Gerard Pickel with an L. That's weird like Charles Pickel there
we go. Charles Pickel not Charles Pickel. I'm telling you we should make an 11 of the funniest
names. Charles Pickel and Kevin Lazania are in there for sure. 100% okay 100. Aquafresca.
Yeah Aquafresca is a classic huh? It is a classic. There's a huge save by Karin Niseki now there were
a couple of good saves even from Dragovski but on the topic of Karin Niseki I had to point out that
he did have quite a decent match and there was a square ball which found Maldini that should have
been an empty goal for Maldini it was a sweaty pass so to say. We've just lost listeners. Karin Niseki
was there he was there he didn't need to pull anything spectacular out but his positioning was
perfect he stopped what should have been an empty goal for Maldini so that my friend is the move of
an experienced goalkeeper and he's a very young goalkeeper so there you go. Now like I said by
definition this is a true relegation dogfight both teams not giving a fuck just wanting to score
attacking each other's throats and you could see that with 15 attempts for Spezia 24 for Cremonezza
with only four on target how Cremonezza is that huh? Yeah that's them just trying but not quite
being good enough for them. Yeah yeah and it was a good opportunity for them to get their first
win and they didn't manage do you think they would have deserved a win over here? I think they
deserved one to be honest with you and they created so many chances and they just couldn't
make the most of them you know what I mean they managed to get a goal early on perhaps they could
have played it a little bit safer to avoid that Nzola situation that came shortly after. They did
well to get back into the game however going down to Spezia's is not always an easy thing to recover
from they park the bus pretty well. Yeah definitely. But yeah basically that's it I think that
this at the end of the day was a bit of a lucky result for Spezia. I wouldn't go so far to
say lucky because they too had had their chances and it's interesting seeing just like looking at
the timeline of the event so the early goal for Cremonezza and when your team goes down by
two minutes you'd never expect that by the 22nd you're one ahead of them already so really good
reaction by Spezia that's impressive having in the 19th and then the 22nd you're two one up you
were losing one and then the second. And that's also Cremonezza not recovering from the goal huh?
That's true that's true and then 52nd minute the fact that now after the 22nd minute they were down
and it took until the 52nd all that time later they managed to get a goal and then they are so
they keep fighting and fighting looking for that third and they just can't get it. I think it was
a good team talk as well I mean getting a goal in the 52nd is literally an inspired goal. Exactly.
Too bad that that didn't continue until the 19th because then there were just the game was
interrupted by many substitutions many yellow cards you know the classic. Yeah yeah do you think
Spezia are relegation candidates I mean they are eh? Yes yes yes they are. Okay Spezia are in 15th
on nine points Cremonezza in 19th on four. Guys if you've made it this far thank you very much
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