1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,400 Cross to the far post, Giroud! And Olivier Giroud moves on to 51 French goals, 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,600 soaring level with the great Thierry Autry. 3 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:20,720 Hello and welcome to Serie A Spotlight Season 2 Episode 15, we're your hosts Jake and Matt, 4 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:26,800 and this is our World Cup special where we'll also be talking about the most important thing in life, 5 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:33,200 the Serie A. It is currently the 1st of December, we would have liked to record this episode after 6 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:38,880 the round of 16 participants had been settled, but I am off to Africa and that will not be possible. 7 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:44,240 Exactly, unfortunately he's off to Africa. Yes, it's gonna be an absolute blast, you have two 8 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,640 weeks without me, in those two weeks I'm hoping that Matt takes care of the content and we'll be 9 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:56,720 dishing out podcast episodes, at least two episodes, right bro? Look, look, you guys are gonna need to 10 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:01,920 wake me up, okay? Because Jake's out for two weeks and I'm gonna want to sleep for two weeks, 11 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:08,320 but I'm gonna have to get my shit together and dish out some content. DM, Serie A Spotlight, 12 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:16,560 tweet us out, whatever, hashtag Matt please. Matt please, okay? And that will hopefully wake him up 13 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,720 and make him know that the people are expecting something out of him. No, I hope the listeners 14 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,960 know that I love doing this more than anything else and that it won't be a problem to get some 15 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:30,000 content from me. Just finding the right people to join me maybe. Yeah, I mean I'm sure there are 16 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,760 a few people listening right now who would love to be on, maybe Cesco? Cesco's in Rome though. 17 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:42,240 Ah, I see. He is, maybe he's coming down in December. You work with a couple of Seya heads, no? 18 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:47,360 No, they're all Prem heads man, they're all Prem heads. Well, you'll find someone. Yeah. 19 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaking, while we're on the topic of holidays bro, you went to Florence recently. 20 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,680 I did. I couldn't help but notice through key stories that you had ramen a few days into your 21 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:04,400 Florence experience. What the fuck's going on bro? Are you uncultured? Who the fuck goes to Florence 22 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:10,320 and eats ramen? You know that when I go to Italy I have cornetto and cappuccino for breakfast, 23 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:19,120 I then have pasta, pizza, espresso, red wine, that's the way I do it. Fact of the matter. When 24 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,600 you're not eating ramen. No, the fact of the matter is in Florence, one of the most beautiful 25 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:31,680 places I have been to by the way, there are a lot and a lot of expats, a lot of tourists, and a lot 26 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:38,800 of the restaurants in the main areas are tourist traps. So, Key's fucking carbonara had truffle in 27 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:46,160 it for example. Ah, kaskifo. The crust on my pizza was a little bit thick like and maybe the mozzarella 28 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:52,080 wasn't as runny as it should be. So, we felt a bit robbed. We were looking up authentic restaurants 29 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:56,640 and every time we went it was still a fucking tourist trap. I'm sure we could have been like 30 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:01,360 on the left side of the river, it would have been better for example. So, we took matters into our 31 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,440 own hands and we're like look, I mean this won't be authentic anyway but at least we'll have had 32 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:10,640 some ramen while we're here. So, we got some ramen, it was really nice and yes we made quite a 33 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:16,880 funny video out of it. Nice, that's good to hear bro. I particularly love this story you told me before 34 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:22,560 of your wine tasting experience. Perhaps if you get through that before we get to the football. 35 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:30,560 Yes, so it wasn't exactly a wine tour that we went on but we did stop in Chianti. So, what me and Key 36 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,480 do when we go on holidays rather than renting a car since we'll only use it for one day is we get 37 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:40,720 this bus that takes us around some really cool spots like places we'd go with the car. And this 38 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:46,640 one took us to San Gimignano, a beautiful little fortified city. It took us to Siena and it took 39 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,640 us to Chianti. Chianti is my favorite wine so obviously I was enjoying myself. This guy was 40 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,720 pouring us wine and serving us like salami and shit and we're just yelling out ratings, 41 00:03:54,720 --> 00:04:01,520 we're getting drunk with all the people with us. Now, a lot of them were American and there's a 42 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:06,560 large percentage of the population of Florence being American because there are a lot of expats 43 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:10,400 kind of want to retire. There are a lot of American people want to retire in a romantic city such as 44 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:15,120 Florence. Just as there is a large percentage of people who are from America and listen to say a 45 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:21,520 spotlight right so thread carefully. I have absolutely no problem with Americans. I love the USA, 46 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:28,000 come on USA! Loud drinkers, they get very loud but so do the Mediterranean so no problems there. 47 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:33,120 So yeah we're enjoying ourselves a lot of Americans and there are also 10 people that were of Asian 48 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:38,320 descent over there and I do this thing when I see people from different places of the earth. I try 49 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:43,440 to guess where they're from, where they live, what they do, who they are and obviously I try to get 50 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:47,360 their nationality and I was looking at the Asian people and I was saying is this a game you play 51 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:53,520 to yourself or just with myself just with myself I say okay that guy there he's he's Japanese 52 00:04:53,520 --> 00:05:00,160 that woman is is South Korean and that kid is Chinese okay okay I think I think I've got this. 53 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:06,400 We're obviously drinking and we all start introducing ourselves and every single one of 54 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:14,400 these Asian people were from Seattle Washington. Seattle Washington, New York, Los Angeles, there 55 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:20,560 was the guy from Los Angeles didn't speak a word of English like I'm from Los Angeles like okay 56 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:27,520 that's interesting. Yeah I mean you know immigrants and then they they raise their kids to be basically 57 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:32,400 they sound American they are American you know it's it's a very you spend enough time in a place 58 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:38,400 and you and you identify with that place then yeah. So yes we're gonna go through the say our 59 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,440 players participating in the World Cup and how they have performed thus far if you notice from 60 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:48,800 our intro of course we highlighted the great Olivier Giroud's second goal against Australia 61 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:56,240 that was his 51st goal for France he has equaled Thierry Henry's record and has become the joint 62 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:00,960 top scorer for the French national team with 51 goals what do you think bro? So everyone here knows 63 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:06,240 how much we love Giroud you know he's my fucking luck screen for crying out loud it's funny though 64 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:10,800 that when I speak to French people they don't really at least the ones I spoke to don't really 65 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:16,320 value Giroud. The ones I speak to don't rate him either they call him a go-kart that's the oh man I've heard 66 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:24,720 that before and I'm telling no Benzema no Griezmann no Mbappe look fact of the matter is this guy 67 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:32,240 blossomed late for club and country he started playing for France in 2011 exactly and he managed 68 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:39,760 to get 51 goals tied with Thierry Henry he claimed a god for the French football fans which he is but 69 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:46,000 ladies and gentlemen Olivier Giroud goes down with history alongside this man they both won the 70 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:54,720 world cup yeah for France exactly 116 games is what it took Olivier Giroud to score 51 goals that's 71 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:00,320 that's a very good return and it's crazy when you consider that he didn't score a single goal in the 72 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:06,880 2018 world cup yeah that's that's true yeah he could he'd be ahead of him had he scored at least 73 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:13,840 one exactly but yeah that's the utility striker he is the selfless legend Olivier Giroud yes sir 74 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:19,440 so we've obviously bro we've had some beautiful moments in this world cup so far you know the 75 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:28,400 Saudi Arabia's and the Senegal's the Cameroon's the Japan's so on so forth alongside that brother 76 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:35,040 we've had some very funny moments some hilarious moments so many to choose from but you are kind 77 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:41,600 enough to make a compilation of your favorites yes sir so here that goes I'm not gonna say that I'm 78 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:50,320 looking better than him which is true but today I feel gay excuse me what is missing 79 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,360 guys sorry you're live on sky news do reaction to the win we lost sorry reaction to the loss 80 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:07,440 and apologies reaction to the loss uh shit apologies for the language do you know Hansi Flick sorry do 81 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:12,000 you know Hansi Flick Hansi Flick what is this German coach 82 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:30,000 they're too good bro let's just run you through them quickly in case you did not recognize what 83 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,800 those were and the first one is the infamous Pierce Morgan interview with Cristiano Ronaldo 84 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,760 where he publicly states that he's not going to say that he's better looking than Wayne Rooney 85 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:48,640 but then he does I mean sure fair enough you know much better than you know more humble probably 86 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:56,640 not the next one was in Funtino saying that he feels a little bit gay he felt many things bro to 87 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:02,720 be honest he felt Arab he felt African he felt African he felt many things and he also compared 88 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:07,840 the plight of being an immigrant worker in conditions that could actually kill you to being 89 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:15,360 born with freckles and Funtino is clearly a man who has been through many hardships and you can 90 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,080 tell when you see him on your television screen sitting on a custom-made sofa watching all the 91 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:26,160 fucking world cup games you know Madonna that was so funny man he looked like an evil born villain 92 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:30,480 he's an evil born villain bro and he always has a different sofa for every match it's hilarious 93 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:37,440 the next one one of my favorites where is missy where is missy that has to be honestly one of my 94 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,920 favorite moments in football history for Saudi Arabia to beat Argentina who are hailed to be one 95 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:48,000 of the favorites to win the world cup Saudi Arabia one of the worst teams quite frankly one player 96 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:54,480 will go down in memory forever he'll go down in history Aldo Sarri what a player what a fucking 97 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:59,040 finish on him it's a real shame Saudi Arabia couldn't get it done and we're very disappointing 98 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:03,520 against Mexico they played well in their second game but couldn't quite replicate that performance 99 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:08,400 against Mexico maybe the pressure was too much the Mexicans were hungry as well brother they 100 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:13,280 had to get goals yeah they had all their people you know the circuit the pride that Mexicans have 101 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:19,200 of course of course and obviously Poland infamously going through because they had two lesser yellow 102 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:24,160 cards than Mexico so heartbreaking and they have one of the best goalkeepers out there at the moment 103 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:32,240 I believe yes yeah the next clip was a couple of Wales fans being Wales fans the interviewer 104 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:37,600 asks them what do you think about the win the one of them says we lost and then he says how do you 105 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:43,040 think it went and then the guy says shit and then he says apologize for the language it's fucking 106 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:48,160 hilarious I mean that's what you get you interview someone whose team just lost you don't know who 107 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,040 you're interviewing they would have had a few drinks but they wouldn't have had a few they 108 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:56,960 probably have had some before yeah maybe do you know Hansi Flick it was a was another fun one a 109 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:03,520 question asked to Takuma Asano Hansi Flick of course is the German manager Takuma Asano is the 110 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:09,040 Japanese player who scored the winning goal against Germany he did not know what that word was that 111 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:15,840 word was indeed the name of the German manager so disrespectful the man should know who Hansi Flick 112 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:21,600 yeah I mean he spent so long preparing he didn't understand the pronunciation but whatever the next 113 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:26,960 one was Nagatomo saying bravo something he learned during his inter games anything Nagatomo does will 114 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:32,400 end up on this podcast exactly I can't believe he still plays man Nagatomo yeah hey I couldn't when 115 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:37,440 I saw him I was like whoa and he has red hair now trying to understand Infantino's struggle 116 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:45,680 the final clip we had over there was the Italian commentator announcing South Korea's lineup 117 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:51,760 uh they had their goalkeeper was called Kim and their entire back four consisted of Kim Kim Kim 118 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:57,120 and Kim that was a fun one very fun I saw people saying that that uh the commentator is gonna have 119 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:04,000 such a hard time no he's not someone at the back gets it that's Kim there we go plays it laterally 120 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,920 plays the ball to Kim someone scores off a corner you're not sure who it is it's Kim 121 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:14,080 have a good chance of getting it right now does this Kim start for league leaders Napoli 122 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:20,880 or does he play in the Chinese Super League doesn't matter he's Kim exactly yes before obviously we 123 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:26,640 get into the World Cup stuff this is primarily a serial podcast and there's something that needs 124 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:34,560 to be discussed urgently okay there's some drama involving Juventus what's going on brother so 125 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:42,400 basically I'm sure you guys heard but Anjeli Vice President Pavel Nedved and CEO Maurizio Arrivabene 126 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:50,560 are among 15 15 members of Juve who could face a trial for alleged false accounting and irregularities 127 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:58,880 in player transfers with arrest warrants rumored to be prepared former director of sport Paratici 128 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:04,000 who left the club to take over Tottenham in the Premier League last year is also part of this 129 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:11,440 list because of his involvement from 2018 so this timeline starts around the start of the pandemic 130 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:17,360 basically um Juve said that 23 players agreed to reduce their salary for four months to help 131 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:20,960 the club through the financial crisis that pretty much everyone was going through 132 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:28,720 Juve a bit more than most because they had just signed Cristiano Ronaldo for 116 million and paid 133 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:36,720 him 31 million annually so that left the club absolutely financially screwed prosecutors claim 134 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:44,080 that all the players only gave up one month of their salary as opposed to the four that Juve said 135 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:51,200 they did because of that um there's basically a misbalance in their books this could lead Juve to 136 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:56,080 face a serious penalty which could include point deduction which they had already faced 16 years 137 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:02,000 ago during the cultural police scandal I thought they were just relegated it was it was like a 138 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:09,360 such a significant point deduction that had got them relegated I believe I remember 70 points 139 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:15,760 deduction yeah I remember Milan had gotten like minus 15 points and Inter had won the league 140 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:21,600 because the two teams above them one of them got relegated and the other one got a 15 point deduction 141 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:27,840 yeah that was for fixing matches indirectly through yellow cards accumulated in matches other than 142 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:37,200 you guys yeah this this is uh on the other hand a classic case of a misbalance in books you're 143 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,240 invoicing something you're reporting something else you're hiding another thing and in this case 144 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:48,960 they were hiding that the the money that they were sending to their players so they didn't meet the 145 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:54,640 financial regularities and they were pretending to meet the financial regularities so that is a big 146 00:14:54,640 --> 00:15:00,880 case the entire board decided to resign over that the likes of fucking Agnelli and Nedved resigned 147 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:06,720 for Juve just as as soon as things started looking good for Juve this season yeah man 148 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:11,920 um terrible timing for them they had just picked up momentum they hadn't conceded a goal 149 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,840 in ages they had they were on a winning streak you know their players were just coming back from 150 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:21,200 injury and now they have to deal with this drama bro how is this going to develop it's it's not 151 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:27,520 looking good man and i know that we've seen um in certain times where we thought penalties should 152 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:34,240 have been harsher than they were for certain things even that Juve had done but this time i 153 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:42,640 think it's worse yeah this is actually very very serious legal blood exactly arrest warrants are 154 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:49,360 rumored to be prepared now rumored to exactly they are prepared now the the thing is Juve had 155 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:55,280 been investigated a couple of years ago maybe two years ago and due to some inflated prices that 156 00:15:55,280 --> 00:16:02,720 was the accusation this had to do with the Audero deal to San Pedro yes the Storaro deal to Genoa 157 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:08,400 the Arthur and Pianich swap involving 70 million like Arthur and Pianich said not even 70 million 158 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:15,440 combined brother let alone fucking individually but anyway um the problem is those accusations 159 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:21,520 were dropped formally because the FA couldn't actually prove the value of a player exactly 160 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:25,920 because it's subjective and it depends on the market exactly but yeah that's where 161 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:31,120 Juve find themselves now it's a bit more serious than that it is actually you know 162 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:38,480 screwing with finances and that's obviously something we all know um any football league 163 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:44,080 is very strict with their regulations you need to keep in line with and yeah you are suffering 164 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:48,800 because of that and i'm excited to see what's gonna come of it a point deduction allegation 165 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,840 let's see perhaps nothing perhaps the individuals get charged um this is interesting as well you 166 00:16:53,840 --> 00:17:01,040 have I have opened a formal investigation into you over the potential financial fair play breaches 167 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:09,040 and the club licensing breaches as well um La Liga have pushed for this to happen yeah even though 168 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:16,160 they have Barcelona who in my opinion is even more blatant than yes yes agree whatever so yeah 169 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:21,760 we'll see we'll see about you and we'll see how they react coming into the season after this yeah 170 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:29,600 good luck to you good luck to you Del Piero is rumored as well to be apparently closer than ever 171 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:35,120 to taking on a role at Juventus he put a whole post on instagram post saying that in a time like 172 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:41,840 this it's the most important time to support Juventus when they're demonstrating blatant 173 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:47,600 corruption that's when you should applaud for Juventus the hardest all right well done bravo 174 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:54,240 Del Piero well done that here legend he had stayed with you when they were down in seria 175 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,840 and it's true though the fans do need to come together these times can be divisive they can 176 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:04,640 be hard but remember this isn't the problem of the club this is the problem of the individuals 177 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,600 who are running the club at the end of the day exactly exactly i'd be interested to see what 178 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,520 happens with Anieli and Ferrari Ferrari did something as well i know you don't give a shit 179 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:19,360 but Anieli owns Ferrari and what happened nothing so far nothing nothing but Ferrari i thought 180 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:25,840 someone stepped down from ferrari that was mattia benotto okay he's the ceo he looks after the 181 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:30,560 entire operation basically he used to be a mechanic for michael schumacher and he got promoted to to 182 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:40,800 that role cool um i'm bored that's such a good story michael schumacher is a mechanic he wants 183 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:48,480 seven world titles yeah i'm bored let's get to the world cup brother yes this is what this episode 184 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:54,720 is for guys yes sir shall we run through quickly the players who are currently featuring at the 185 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:59,520 world cup who play in seria on sedef yeah i won't say quickly because it's the entire premise of 186 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,680 this episode but yeah we can we can run through them let's do it bro so first of all there are 187 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:11,840 three teams in seria who do not have a single player featuring in this world cup who are these 188 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:20,080 three teams brother okay so it could either be two things it could either be teams that have 189 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:27,920 mostly italian players in their team or the newly or the newly promoted teams i would say 190 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:34,400 they monza are a mix of both yeah monza are one of them monza don't have a single player featuring 191 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,800 in the world cup which means by the way they're training as a unit right now and you know full 192 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:45,840 team doing full drills they might be good after the break now i want to say obviously cremones 193 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:53,280 and and and letcher are easy choices but i also feel that empoli don't have many so one of them's 194 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:59,440 gotta go and i don't know which one but cremonez they have 195 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:09,840 obviously the center back what's umtiti isn't at the world cup he wasn't he's with letcher 196 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:16,960 oh sorry sorry i meant letcher um i would have to say the other team is letcher yes so there's 197 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:22,400 monza there's letcher and then probably i said them yes there those are the three teams that do 198 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:27,600 not have any cremones or what aphanadrian they have aphanadrian indeed and they've got vasquez 199 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:32,160 playing for mexico ah vasquez okay now there are three teams from the ceiba who have players 200 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:37,520 featuring in the ceiba who are they oh from ceiba i couldn't tell you i was just listening to our 201 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:44,880 podcast to our last episode in the car and i heard matias bring one up an australian gentleman yes 202 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:51,040 sir um i forgot his name oh oh i know one of them is glick yes one of them is glick glick plays for 203 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:56,160 benevento of course it's benevento barry and brescia barry have chedira of morocco while 204 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:02,640 brescia have karachic of austria karachic i knew he had an itch in his name yes sir so let's go so 205 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:09,520 atalanta have one two three four players featuring for them in the world cup um i hope i do not have 206 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:19,280 to count them out loud manually so yes atalanta have pasalic melee darun and coupe miners at the 207 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:25,360 world cup and pasalic of course representing croatia mailer representing denmark darun and 208 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:30,640 coupe miners representing the netherlands balania have got arbiter representing switzerland and 209 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:36,000 skorupski representing poland even though he does not start kremener of course as we discussed have 210 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:42,000 vasquez who plays with mexico and afanadrian who plays with gana fiorantina have zurkovski 211 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:48,560 featuring for poland melinkovic and jovich for serbia amrabat for morocco and of course nico 212 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:55,520 gonzalez originally had been called up by argentina but was withdrawn by the end of it did not end up 213 00:21:55,520 --> 00:22:01,280 going and due to injury but it had been addressed by italiano that he was mentally unavailable 214 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:08,560 exactly as well inter have brosevich had onana have lukaku at the world cup of course um unlimitedly 215 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,880 they're representing actually brosevich of course is representing croatia onana is representing 216 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:18,400 cameroon lukaku is representing belgium devry and dumfries with the netherlands lautaro martinez 217 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:24,800 and korea representing argentina juventus have danilo and alexandro as well as bremer representing 218 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:31,360 brazil mckenny for the usa rabio for france schezny and milik for poland kostich and vlaović for 219 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:37,280 serbia paredes and dimaria for argentina juventus are actually the team that have the most players 220 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:43,680 featuring at the world cup in this area just worldwide yes sir let's see how many of these 221 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:52,000 guys take under the table deals lots of you have milinkovic salvage featuring for serbia and vecino 222 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:58,400 or vecino rather featuring for uruguay milan have simone kier with demmark dest at the usa 223 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:04,960 teo hernandez and jirou for france decay talara for belgium leao for portugal and balotora for 224 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:10,640 senegal nopoly have got anguissa representing cameroon zelinski with poland olivera uruguay 225 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:18,720 kim jaymin with south korea and chucky lozano representing mexico roma have samovski representing 226 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:25,120 poland vinya representing uruguay rui patricio for portugal debala for argentina by salernetana 227 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:30,960 have piantec representing poland dia representing senegal and bron representing tunisia sam doria 228 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:38,000 have beresinski with poland jurečić with serbia and sabiri with morocco sasualo only have erlich 229 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,200 at the world cup he's representing croatia spezia have ampadu with wales cubier with poland 230 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:48,400 terino have quite a few as well they've got vlasic with croatia ricardo rodriguez with switzerland 231 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:55,200 lukec radonjic and vanja milinkovic salvage with serbia udeneza have a bossa with cameroon and 232 00:23:55,200 --> 00:24:00,880 verona have rustic with australia hongla with cameroon and lazovic and ilic with serbia 233 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:07,440 now of course i need to address also the seriaberg players we're we're we've already discussed the 234 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:13,360 benevento of glick with poland barry have cedira with morocco and breccia have karajic with 235 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:18,880 australia now brother let's start off by discussing the most successful outings from these guys from 236 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:25,600 this extensive group and list of players let's start off with france who have theo hernandez 237 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:32,880 rabio and olivier giroux they all played brilliantly to be honest they probably all started 238 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:39,040 because other people were out injured yeah that's it i mean all of them yeah all of them literally 239 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:45,200 there's pogba i guess we have started instead of rabio probably benzema instead of giroux and of 240 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:51,280 course theo hernandez brother instead of him he got injured that's why he came apparently as a left 241 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:56,320 back there was much better it's daft in my opinion how can he not start theo hernandez you know giroux 242 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:00,640 okay i get it you start benzema fine fine fair enough even rabio at the moment is hard to bench 243 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:06,160 i think he would have started anyway maybe there has what two assists man yeah he's been he's been 244 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:11,280 super he really changed the game against australia when he came on and he's been superb throughout 245 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:17,280 and giroux of course has been old reliable you know it's so funny to see like it's been 25 minutes 246 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:26,640 and olivier giroux has only had one touch or three touches wait man just wait yeah great give him a 247 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:31,040 ball in the box come on but yeah anyway enough about that we praise this guy way too much 248 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:38,000 rabio of course has continued his zinedine rabio form yeah and he carried that into the world cup 249 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,480 and he has been instrumental for france and midfield yeah especially in the first game man 250 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:48,560 he said himself even got himself a goal he did yeah he looked incredible next up shall we discuss 251 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:56,160 schezney schezney has saved two penalties one of them on messi especially fucking incredible save 252 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:01,200 it's the same old confidence schezney shrugging off you know no problem no problem he said to the 253 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:06,000 argentina players as they were taunting him while messi was stepping up to take the penalty and he 254 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,160 went on to save it we've seen him trash talk players before and he often comes out on top doesn't he 255 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:16,720 yes no he's a he's a monster from the spot he's a fucking monster it doesn't matter what round of 256 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,920 form he's going through he's always magnificent from the spot that's true and i don't know 257 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:27,600 psychologically he has it down he's a professional psychological player i'm just looking at him you 258 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:32,320 wouldn't think the guy's a shithouse you know what i mean then you watch that video back when he was 259 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:39,360 so so it happened again he's a shithouse you know he loves it he's brilliant he's got the mentality 260 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:46,720 um amrabat bro for me running the show for morocco honest in the middle they're through 261 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:52,960 morocco we know yes so are poland by the way yeah amrabat kept up the momentum from the league he 262 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:59,840 broke down play brilliantly he also influenced the transitional play fantastically it's it's like 263 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:05,040 you're watching him at fiorentino literally yes he plays in the same way same old amrabat like i 264 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:10,400 i would say that he's one of the best in his position if not you know in it i don't think 265 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:15,840 in italy man i don't think there's a player who's both as capable as breaking down play and 266 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:21,360 you know keeping the play ticking as well as he is ben nasser is fucking brilliant and probably yes 267 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:27,360 technically ben nasser is better than amrabat but then amrabat has a physicality that ben nasser 268 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:32,880 makes up for with his aggression but you know it's not quite the same i mean when you're that big 269 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,840 and that athletic at the same time it's a massive asset for anything yeah i mean physically he's 270 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:43,840 morbid for it what i prefer about ben nasser is is the manner in which he can get around yeah and 271 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:51,120 the shift how he shifts exactly he's faster in the transition than amrabat with with ben nasser you 272 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:56,480 concentrate a little bit more on the output yeah and then amrabat you concentrate a bit more on 273 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:01,840 breaking down play i like them both it depends on what system the team plays in though now that 274 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:10,240 was a bark they probably didn't even hear it sabiri scored a free kick sabiri scored a fantastic free 275 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:16,160 kick yeah sabir you have a fluke with the goalkeeper to be honest he went near post he caught him off 276 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:22,480 guard he fucked him up that was brilliant by sabiri man we've seen that sabiri can create 277 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,160 things out of nothing we've seen that he has moments of brilliance he has an interesting 278 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:32,640 ceiling this guy i imagine him playing with a with a good seiya team in the future yeah man he he's 279 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:38,080 definitely got something very very special man very special the way he can hit a ball and and his 280 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:45,200 intelligence when it comes to that he's brilliant i think his ceiling is very high yeah and morocco 281 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:50,480 have been brilliant of course their defensive record was was very good and these guys proving 282 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:56,160 to be instrumental for the side medhi benatia was not there interesting no weird seeing morocco 283 00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:04,960 without the the moroccan gunman now bro was not starting due to the massive respect portugal have 284 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:09,920 for ronaldo he came off the bench he switched up the gears and he scored a few minutes in he came 285 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:16,000 to the second game but not was not as successful um the rumor is that ronaldo won't be starting 286 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,520 the next portugal game apparently didn't even show up the training or something i saw something 287 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:24,560 about him we'll see what's going on with him apparently got a massive offer from a team in 288 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:30,640 saudi arabia al nasser al nasser yeah he's gonna be making something like 175 million a year bro i 289 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:39,680 saw 500 million in two years there have been many figures thrown around the smaller the paper 290 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:45,920 typically the higher the figure that's the way these things go um but yes so maybe that has 291 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:51,360 something to do with it but yes if those rumors are true um leão will indeed be starting for 292 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:57,280 portugal in their next and i think i mean we know how leão operates to give leão a full game at 293 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:02,480 some point he's gonna do one of the things that he does like he impresses he gets you on the edge 294 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,960 of your seat that's why he attracts so much attention overseas reese james is saying he's 295 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:12,960 one of the toughest opponents exactly it's and it's crazy to see because if you come on 296 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,000 and you score right after on the first match you'd think you'd be given more time in the second 297 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:22,560 match if that's what you can do in five let's see what you can do in 15 you know what i mean well 298 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:28,240 it certainly hasn't been the case because his playtime is still not what it should be i think 299 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:33,440 he should start yeah personally or at least come on in the fucking 60th if you're not gonna start 300 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:40,800 for sure of course he should definitely start um vanja milinkovic salvage bro is a caged giant 301 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,240 serbia must keep him in chains in the dressing room man like to stop him from just clubbing 302 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:52,640 everywhere he truly is a fantastic and formidable site man he is six foot eight 303 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:59,120 fucking agile you know pulls off incredible saves he's been really good man he's been solid 304 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:04,000 commands the area hoofs balls upfield and switches up play he's been a top player he's really 305 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,680 improved yeah the last few seasons for sure for sure one thing we're seeing is he's using his 306 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:15,040 size to his advantage better like it seems like you know when donna roma used to stand between 307 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:21,120 the sticks during a penalty he's kind of taken that like he's making himself big he's really 308 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:27,120 utilizing that height and and to command his area as well he's a beast in the entire box we saw him 309 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:32,560 for argentina he stood in the middle of the box during one of the during one of the corners 310 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:39,440 messy went for a goal and if you have never seen it google vanja milinkovic salvage free kick 311 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:46,400 okay the guy has taken free kicks for torino in the past and there's one of them where he 312 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:52,240 struck the post almost fucking scoring thunders free kick it's crazy to see he's such a cool player 313 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:57,120 yeah and we've seen him take penalties and penalties shootouts as well he's an entertaining one man 314 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:03,920 so those were the top performers in my opinion honorable mentions a few players have scored dia 315 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:10,080 has scored for cameroon granted it was a gift to him there was a defensive area but um i liked dia i 316 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:15,680 i think his movement has been good and if senegal actually play him the ball more yeah um he would 317 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:20,960 be more successful no he's been good as well it's not just obviously the output he plays well with 318 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:26,720 the team you know what i mean exactly sergiem linkovic salvage scored for serbia but has been 319 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:33,840 deployed out wide as a left winger and that does not in my opinion suit him very well this stoic 320 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:40,160 of which whatever the fuck his name is the manager i'm sorry i'm sure he knows the team better than 321 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:45,680 i do but the lineup that he plays for example really doesn't utilize the player that the players 322 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:51,200 that he has their full potential like not starting vlovich is another one and there are these fucking 323 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:58,480 rumors going around that he's fucking the sub goalkeepers woman yeah and apparently he's being 324 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:05,440 punished by not starting it's crazy man crazy mitrovich is starting ahead of him mitrovich has 325 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:10,320 to be fair quite a few goals in the camera yeah so yeah but they have love do you believe the 326 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:15,680 rumor i put a poll recently was quite 50 50 for the majority of time i'm not sure because these 327 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:23,760 things obviously happen in football it happens even out of football he might have done it i don't know 328 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,880 but that's not the reason as to why he's starting the game or not starting the game i would say 329 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:34,640 look i don't think he did it but there's an expression no where there's smoke there's fire 330 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,400 and there's a hell of a lot of smoke baby 331 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:46,720 yeah um we've seen lozano with mexico he was quite ferocious wasn't he he asserted himself a lot he 332 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:51,760 was very active i think he would have hoped that he had a slightly more successful camp mexico it 333 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:56,640 took a while to to turn it up to be honest in the last game they looked amazingly in saudi arabia 334 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,880 yeah and the fact the commentator was saying like where has this mexico side been and it's true 335 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:06,800 and they played you do it they looked like they could they could do it yeah i i mean when you're 336 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,760 in that bad position that you're in in the last game like your best side comes out you know what 337 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:18,800 i mean i think the best way to judge the team's capabilities is over the three matches so i really 338 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:23,120 don't think mexico did enough but obviously they were fired up in the last one and they wanted to 339 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:29,040 get the result bron has been reliable with tunisia they were unfortunate not to qualify after beating 340 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:34,640 france's reserve team um padu looked his usual hustling self with whales he always impresses me 341 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:42,880 on padu um ricardo rodriguez was his usual leader self at um of course switzerland um i was not 342 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:47,040 impressed by switzerland whatsoever this world cup bro i thought they turned up to most games 343 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:52,000 with a defensive approach and that is unforgivable you have to go for it in a world cup game and i 344 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,800 think when you look at the success smaller teams than switzerland have had i think switzerland will 345 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:02,480 be kicking themselves for taking that approach for sure man karacic was dependable for australia 346 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:09,280 um breccia's man made it through to the round of 16 he's the 26 year old fullback of course bro australia 347 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:16,480 uh that was like the sucker rules baby the least one i was expecting man the least one i was 348 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:21,520 expecting but they once again look like a unit man they look good man defensively they're sound 349 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:26,800 they look as a good team they have absolute like like really not many players i would say stand out 350 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:33,200 a bunch of a league players and a bunch of scottish premier league players like mui in the middle 351 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:40,320 ah exactly exactly they're a fun side to watch man i'm really impressed by the international 352 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,800 teams because i always thought that like ah these guys don't train much together so it's not on the 353 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:51,280 same level as um as club football because clubs football they go through longer periods training 354 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,520 with each other but it's it's like they play together all the time some of these teams the 355 00:35:55,520 --> 00:36:00,000 smaller teams was like you'd rather be playing in the world cup for australia than playing in the 356 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,640 a league you know what i mean so they really that that's what they look forward to all the time i 357 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:10,480 just think that it's such a high stakes stage that like they try their very best and they're hyper 358 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:16,560 away every second there's no there's no time to get distracted and you need to execute every move 359 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:22,720 perfectly you're punished if you fuck up um yeah and i think that that you know makes them play 360 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:29,280 more safely and more focused uh-huh and it is true they they do perform well together bro some 361 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:34,160 of these teams have been quite intricate however many fans have been saying that um this has been 362 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:42,080 a low quality world cup low quality world cup maybe if we're talking about leaky defenses like 363 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:48,560 probably if you look at the fact that costa rica yeah like the the biggest teams are losing to the 364 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,640 smallest teams maybe that's the point they're trying to make everyone's on a level playing 365 00:36:52,640 --> 00:37:00,160 field no one really stands out but uh everyone everyone stands a chance exactly i don't think 366 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:04,080 it's it's low quality at all i think even the likes of of england i was discussing with my 367 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:08,080 colleagues today i was telling them what a versatile team england have man they have so 368 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:13,520 many direct replacements for everyone and they have weapons everywhere like imagine deserby was 369 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:21,200 england's coach literally they would win every trophy like literally the euros the world cup 370 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:26,080 all england it'll come home team it'll come home if deserby was the england manager it'll come home 371 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:31,440 and then and then there's there's the likes of brazil argentina france have looked really good 372 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,080 together as well spain looked really good but now they just fucking lost to japan so that's what 373 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:41,360 we're talking about you know what i mean exactly when it comes to terrible outings bro i have a 374 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:46,080 few players over here i think melinkovic with serbia has been terrible and he's been a high 375 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:50,800 ability on the back when it comes to the defensive line man he's often keeping people on side and 376 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:56,800 then raising his hand like you know offside like you're keeping him on brought back he plays in 377 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:03,200 italy in italy with fiorantina with italianos fiorantina but yeah he's looked a little bit 378 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,640 lethargic and one step behind quite frankly and serbia in general have not looked very good bro i 379 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:13,040 was expecting more from them it's a bit of a shame i think even we'll see how they do in their last 380 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:19,520 game it's interesting because when you look at the 2018 world cup they also had a fantastic team on 381 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:24,560 paper a really really good team remember a colleague of mine i used to work at a restaurant 382 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,760 and a colleague and serbian his name was vukasin and he was telling me bro we have one of the best 383 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:35,440 teams there and i'm like i know i believe you but they were terrible and they got knocked out in the 384 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:42,400 in the groups and then after that in the qualifiers for the 2022 world cup they topped 385 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:48,480 portugal yeah in the group they were the best team there and then they turn up to the actress 386 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,640 it's almost like they're scared of the big stage it's true i mean there's a lot of pressure i mean 387 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:57,120 you have a whole nation watching you newspapers go berserk with expectations it's it's not easy 388 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:04,000 otherwise and i think it might have a few hotheads in it not not hotheads maybe some egos yes i would 389 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:09,680 say because again these are star players man every single one of them but all of them want to be 390 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:16,160 the big player of serbia you know what i mean yeah that's true that's a very good point thank you 391 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:25,200 oh nana played one game and got sent home here the tactical disagreement with the manager he insisted 392 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:32,320 on being deployed as a ball player i.e a sweeper keeper aliu sisse disagreed with him of course 393 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:37,760 and sent him home apparently you know onana was really adamant yeah i don't think it was just like 394 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:45,120 hey i want to be a sweeper keeper fuck off go home get the fuck out i really don't think that was the 395 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:51,600 case i think onana was rebelling and like i won't play if you're not going to deploy me at a 396 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,280 sweeper keeper i'm a sweeper keeper i want to be a sweeper keeper have you ever heard of simone 397 00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:00,080 enzog you know i'll wait to the game go swap someone else go keeper i'm tired of keeper i want to play 398 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,560 i mean you're in the world you're in the world copier manager is telling you listen 399 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:11,760 focus on the box focus on the box he's the boss exactly you have to do what the boss says man 400 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:18,960 exactly the boss was in your situation he played in the world cup with senegal exactly lao taro 401 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:24,640 bro he was hearty harshly done by offside calls during the first game for us you know but still 402 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:29,280 has failed to score i was expecting him to have kind of a breakout at this world cup yeah i thought 403 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:35,440 he'd be when you look at the talent around him feeding him and him being such a great finisher 404 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:40,880 yeah i was expecting more from him does this go to the conversation we have all the time about him 405 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:47,280 maybe he's only really good enough to up front or maybe he's simply not used to the being the this 406 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:53,840 old man up front with with inter he's always been deployed with a second striker exactly yeah it's 407 00:40:53,840 --> 00:41:00,480 true that's um that's fair enough he alongside a target man a big guy up front he performs very 408 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:05,120 well exactly which is why we saw him do so well with look up a couple of seasons ago as you 409 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:11,200 mentioned um vlovic shag the goalkeeper's wife and has built his injuries for that reason um the most 410 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:17,440 latest the most recent one for us was uh lukaku's disaster clause for belgium their most recent game 411 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:22,880 their last game of the world cup bro what did you make of that lukaku performance it's one of the 412 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:28,560 worst striking performances ever seen because you have four chances that are all deemed bad misses 413 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:34,560 i guess the one where the ball was counted into his shin i guess you can say he didn't have time 414 00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:39,520 to react and he's a big stocky striker so he wouldn't expect them to score that but the other 415 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:48,160 three oh my god the header absolutely open goal just just to put it in he had one it was a a long 416 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:54,640 ball a long cross whipped in perfectly past the goalkeeper past all the defenders he's there 417 00:41:54,640 --> 00:42:00,080 and he chests it into the goalkeeper instead of being agile and mobile enough to volley it and 418 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:07,360 he saw it coming from a mile away like man yeah it was a horrendous display but to be fair to 419 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:12,800 lukaku this was his first game back properly in like seven months you know he's rusty he's shaking 420 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:17,840 off the rust and he was featuring for chelsea he came back for entry scored he got injured again 421 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:25,440 he's far from fully fit of course and i think mentally he's he's not close to being optimal at 422 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:31,760 all no but exactly you could see all that man yeah you could see all of it in him and the belgium's 423 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:37,520 golden generation had a lot of pressure to perform this was their last dance there was the brouhain 424 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:42,560 who publicly came out and said like we're we're getting old man we're tired are you are you 425 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:47,840 kidding me in croatia are old and tired as well but they're still fucking killing it a stupid 426 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:54,880 comment to make what belgium don't play well now for the same reason that they didn't 427 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:59,520 play well back when they were all physically in their prime yeah except they're a bit worse now 428 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:04,800 because yes they're a little bit older right i see that i see that the fact that they still rely on 429 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:12,000 vertongen and and alder wild at the back is what eden and thorgens still in your team after what 430 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:17,840 eden has been through recently sure you bring him to the world cup but maybe don't start him 431 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:25,360 yeah don't start strikers everywhere they're playing mertens carrasco lucaku thorgan hazard 432 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:32,400 eden hazard all these players so attacking might relax that's true relax and yes the person in 433 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:38,160 charge has plenty of time to relax as martinez has been sacked by belgium so no no he wasn't 434 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:43,840 he wasn't sacked he he decided before the world cup that he was gonna leave he's been at the end 435 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:51,200 though serious spotlight you read it here he decided before the world cup i'm gonna 436 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:56,080 leave belgium after this is my last good i mean he wasn't too sad in my opinion he wasted an 437 00:43:56,080 --> 00:44:01,200 entire generation of footballing talent i'm sorry it's true what the fuck get sacked 438 00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:07,840 yeah bro i mean now you look at belgium's team and that's true none of them none of 439 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:13,920 none of them are in their prime vizel is still there kurt was in his prime what was the best guy 440 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:22,400 ever been madonna and the bruin is still the bruin yeah but i didn't see anything from him 441 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:30,480 oh i mean he played all those balls to the cockle bro fair enough yeah um cdk as well had a bit of 442 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:35,200 a mare but of course that was expected um you know there's a lot of pressure on the kid right now 443 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:39,840 i liked sergio in your desk bro with the usa he was instrumental going for it and their offensive 444 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:46,000 play but he's a key part of it and come on usa the grave you made it man you made it through 445 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:53,440 no i'm glad i'm happy for the us of a and i'm happy for a desk as well he does see more himself 446 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:59,760 with them obviously the guy is still adapting to not your normal league man a very tactical 447 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:04,480 league where you have to be very very disciplined with every step that you make and he has some more 448 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:09,680 freedom with the u.s and and he's good on the ball man he's good at attacking he's strong man he can 449 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:14,320 get back quick as well he looks good solid looks very good and the usa look very good too they have 450 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:18,160 players who all play in europe they're a great team and they have players from villaria they've 451 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:24,560 players from chelsea milan they have uventos they have players from every arsenal yeah it's just 452 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:30,960 funny to see bro that when whenever england play all right like england played the usa they played 453 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:39,360 this talented usating england are so overrated that the odds are always mental i played a usa or draw 454 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:46,000 in a group stage match and the odds were 2.5 usa or draw i put 30 euro on it i want 455 00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:51,840 i would not have pleased that i'm not gonna die what are you talking about bro the england are 456 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:58,240 really good at like lurking outside the area and then no one plays it to cain i guess cain leaves 457 00:45:58,240 --> 00:46:03,440 the box and then creates something because cain is a fantastic player like he's a great playmaker as 458 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:09,200 well and he creates everything for them and and to be honest i do think that they're a bunch of 459 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:17,360 100 million euro men who i personally wouldn't pay 100 million euro for maybe i wouldn't pay 460 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:22,800 100 million euro for most of their players bro but the fact of the matter in my opinion they have 461 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:28,320 such a talented group of players and so many of them the fact that you have to choose between 462 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:35,200 players like foden grilish rashford sancho two of them or one of them starts and the others are bench 463 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:40,720 but they're all having a tough time but then like rashford comes in and he does that for example we 464 00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:44,960 know grilish is capable of coming in and doing something cain is capable of doing something and 465 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:50,000 and then you look at the midfield have calvin phillips on the bench for example they have very 466 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:56,560 very talented group of players i love their goalkeeper pickford is a shit house and uh 467 00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:02,480 shesney from wish i think they're a very talented bunch i think it says a lot about usa that they 468 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:07,440 manage to hold them of course i mean they're a talented bunch the usa are also a talented bunch 469 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,520 yes i think i think as in world separate them i think i think england 470 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:19,520 and will progress obviously way further than you and then the us 471 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:31,280 hadn't heard that one in a while we are back with the question segment for this episode we kind of 472 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:37,520 miss i miss the question segment i miss it too but you know the episodes are long enough the 473 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:42,800 way they are like i don't want to make them too long yeah i do miss it though we should do it 474 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:49,120 every now and then why not yes let's let's engage so thank you very much those who have sent in 475 00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:53,280 your questions we're going to be going through them to drop us a question for future episodes 476 00:47:53,280 --> 00:48:00,480 you can follow us on seo spotlight on instagram or twitter and follow our tiktok as well our tiktok is 477 00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:10,720 pretty pretty good pretty nifty our first hot take comes from luca at acm legend 22 on twitter 478 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:14,800 ravella would start for this current uv aside had they not loaned him out 479 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:27,600 i mean interesting because without injuries yeah it's pretty stacked over there yes but 480 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:32,400 with injuries you would have started within within with injuries it'd be consistent right now 481 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:38,160 consistently in the team yeah and he's very very good he could do them a fucking service yeah yeah 482 00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:42,480 i think we even though we're speaking about our tops and flops we rated him pretty highly man he's 483 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:48,720 been having a great season really good at making this team everyone's a newbie he's a newbie himself 484 00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:54,640 and he's making the entire team gel himself from midfield he's doing great um he's developing very 485 00:48:54,640 --> 00:49:01,120 nicely too he also asks simone bastoni is the best bastoni in the league he didn't ask it he said it 486 00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:07,440 actually simona bastoni is the best bastoni in the league what do you think you know what bro 487 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:14,560 yes i think i think if you had to look at who influences his side more who is more pivotal to 488 00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:22,480 his team simona bastoni is more pivotal to specia than than alessandro bastoni is to winter who is 489 00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:27,440 the better player on paper alessandro bastoni was the highest seeding alessandro bastoni but 490 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:34,160 simona bastoni of course is very fun to watch yeah i think i think if you were to look at both of them 491 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:40,000 i think alessandro devoted to that center back position and as a center back he's the better 492 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:46,880 player yes yeah um however simone is very instrumental he's very versatile like you're 493 00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:52,320 saying he's very fun to watch as well on certain days especially this season so far i have every 494 00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:59,600 reason to believe that simona bastoni is the best bastoni in the league but i think overall you have 495 00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:03,440 you just have to give it to alessandro the versatility point is a good one 496 00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:11,680 insta flin 325 on instagram flingerman our friend has asked us who will win the 497 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:18,480 best derby the best derby being the netherlands against the united states of america that's such 498 00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:29,040 a good game man that's they're quite similar um i i i would say the u.s yeah same i i don't like the 499 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:34,320 tactical setup of the netherlands at all i don't like what louis van ghal has been doing with them 500 00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:39,120 they're very defensive he doesn't make the most out of their offensive players he's got memphis 501 00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:45,120 the pie up there you know like like he's barely utilizing him they've got dumfries who's been 502 00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:49,120 forced to defend hasn't looked that good to be honest i haven't enjoyed watching them just like 503 00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:54,480 i haven't enjoyed watching switzerland poland and all these these other teams the u.s on the other 504 00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:58,880 hand is a team that i've been enjoying watching quite a bit and i think they might have what it 505 00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:05,920 takes man if they go out and play that fucking fun to watch football that they do and the dutch are 506 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:11,200 just very conservative and not exciting and not explosive going forward i think the u.s might 507 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:16,080 actually get something done here yeah the netherlands probably appear to be more street smart so we'll 508 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:20,960 see if the usa will be naive since they don't have much experience on this stage i have been 509 00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:25,840 impressed by the netherlands cody gackpollo he has looked very very good yeah i think he's 510 00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:34,720 the only player definitely the only player this this world cup so far um to score in every single 511 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:40,960 fixture to score in all three fixtures three fixtures of the group stage has he scored in 512 00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:48,240 all three i think he scored two three holy shit that's crazy our boy pablo pablo dot dns asks who 513 00:51:48,240 --> 00:51:54,080 are your favorites that you hope will go far in the world cup i have been saying this since day 514 00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:59,200 one for me it's argentina when argentina lost to saudi arabia i said argentina for me argentina 515 00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:03,840 won this world cup i like them as a unit i like them as a collective i think they all want to give 516 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:09,760 it the messy literally not in the sexual way i think that um they have the fans behind them i 517 00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:15,760 i think it's it's such a special team yes current argentina i think they'll go all the way i i agree 518 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:21,520 i think argentina will go all the way still i'm remaining loyal to my original opinion and now 519 00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:27,280 the path is looking decent for them it is it is it's looking okay um however that being said i'm 520 00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:33,280 really enjoying morocco and when when it comes to a more fun rather than prediction i'm really 521 00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:38,320 really rooting for morocco yeah i would like an underdog i have to be honest as well morocco 522 00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:43,440 serbia would be a nice one imagine imagine as in like i'm rooting overall for serbia but the 523 00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:50,160 story of morocco is brilliant yeah same um i would have to say i would like more smaller nations to 524 00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:56,560 win in this time but i do think argentina will our boy czesko czesko underscore 11 on instagram the 525 00:52:56,560 --> 00:53:02,320 roma fan he asks have you guys ever kissed and made eye contact for 20 seconds plus after a meal on 526 00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:13,200 go bro we do it even if milan don't score exactly we do it at kickoff at the first water break 527 00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:17,760 halftime second water break then the final whistle exactly because we don't even look at the screen 528 00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:25,520 it's like when you go to the cinema with a girl when you're 17 like yeah and you can't open your 529 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:31,120 eyes while you're doing that no no you have to feel it in the moment exactly although sometimes 530 00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:37,120 i do open my eyes to look at you so my guy never caught you 531 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:48,560 fuck you jesco i love the fuck what the fuck is that question bro come on man ask us about the 532 00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:58,000 roman how wank they are why tammy abraham or bellotti aren't fucking scored brilliant question 533 00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:03,200 i enjoyed it thank you bro and thank you very much for listening to this episode of say 534 00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:08,720 a spotlight guys once again you can follow us on our socials at say a spotlight do reach out please 535 00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:14,080 remember to bother matthew if he does 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