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Ederson, right side, the square, and they score 7!

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Hello and welcome to, say, a spotlight season 2 episode 21, we are your hosts Jake and Matt.

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Good to be back and bringing you another episode.

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As you guys heard from our intro, our goal of the week was Ederson's strike against his former team in Salernetana.

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That was the 6th goal out of 8 that took place for Atalanta against Salernetana with 10 goals being the total tally in that match.

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What a goal that was, what a game that was, we'll talk about that very soon my brother.

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Our bet this week, say, a spotlight slips was a Milan outright win and a Roma win or draw.

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Perhaps it was a little bit audacious of us to bet that Milan would outright beat Lecce,

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considering that they've been struggling and have looked like quite the formidable side.

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But yes, another loss on the slips baby, we'll be back next week.

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Yes sir, we'll be back and probably disappointed again to say the least.

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Don't forget guys, if you want to keep track of our bets and just track of us in general,

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make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok at SerialSpotlight.

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Don't forget to give us a follow and a rating wherever you're listening, be it Spotify, be it Google Play or Apple Podcasts.

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Wherever we are, we hope to see you guys.

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Yes, excuse my voice by the way guys, this episode is going to be a little bit raspy.

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I didn't have a voice on Friday and Saturday, I got a throat infection, I couldn't even speak.

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I couldn't even breathe or swallow, man, I'm telling you.

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You're a nightmare when you're sick.

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Bro, I get so sick.

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You never get.

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I get man flu.

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No, you never get sick.

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You always get fucked up.

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Like why can't you never have a cold?

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It needs to be a throat infection.

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Why can't you have gastric, you'd have an infection in your fucking, what was it, kidneys?

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Or cyst on your head and stuff like that.

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You're fucking weird, man.

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I'm fucked, when I'm older, it's going to be something way worse.

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I had a spit bucket for two days, dude.

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Yeah, the spit bucket for two days.

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So I wouldn't have to go through the pain of swallowing, I was just spitting into a bucket.

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Fucking respect, bro.

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You do what you have to do.

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And then at one point I just fucking puked it with my spit, I couldn't take it anymore.

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I went to spit it and there's a site of it, I just puked right into it.

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Bro, that was fucking disgusting.

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You were communicating with us through what I was doing.

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You were typing on Google Translate and just hitting play.

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Literally typing on Google Translate, hitting play, like get me water.

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And then I think it was yesterday or the day before that you got your voice back

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and you had so much to say.

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You just wouldn't shut the fuck up after two days of pure radio silence.

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If you guys have never met Jake, no, he's quite a chatterbox.

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Both of us are, which is why we essentially have a fucking podcast together.

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He doesn't stop.

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Because he spent two days not speaking, he spent 24 hours, bro.

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Every topic under the sun.

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I had 48 hours of points to make.

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I watched Milan Lettre in pure silence alone with Sarah sleep next to me like a serial killer, bro.

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Just glaring at the TV.

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I can't breathe, I can't fucking speak, nothing.

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It was amazing.

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It was amazing.

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It was amazing.

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It was an amazing sight, I guess.

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Yeah, we did have a very good week of Football Man.

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I mean, not many close encounters that took place.

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Obviously there was Kremaneze Monza that was quite tight.

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There was Empoli Sampdoria that was very tight.

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Torino Spezia.

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But I mean, we had a 5-1, we had an 8-2.

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We had a couple of 2-0s here and there as well.

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So I feel like things are really starting to take shape now and we can kind of see

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what teams are suffering, what teams are going to progress this season.

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I think, yeah, matchday, I think we're on matchday 18 now.

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Matchday 18.

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I think now is the time we start seeing that like if you're going to do well,

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you need to get your shit together now.

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I think in a couple of matchdays times, it'll be too late.

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And I think we're starting to see that.

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We're starting to see shape being taken in the standings.

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Yeah, I think so.

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Like for example, you know, like with Deniz's start.

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Yeah.

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We got to see what it really was.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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Fair enough, fair point.

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So let's go through the happenings of this matchday.

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So on Friday night, there was Napoli-Uventos, which was much anticipated.

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We're all here saying who could Napoli get their second defeat of the season?

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Juve are on hot form.

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They've been really, you know, they've been a really well-structured team

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getting three points in every match.

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Napoli-Cruz passed Juve 5-1, the most embarrassing scoreline we've seen for Juve in the past few years.

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After that, it was Lecce 2-Milan, 2-Milan pulling back from behind to equalise.

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They had 20 minutes to get a victory and they did not manage to do that.

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Inter scored in the third minute against Verona.

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Then there were no more goals in the game as they won 1-0.

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Roma beat Fiorentina 2-0, a masterclass by Debala in that match.

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Atalanta 8.

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Salernitana 2.

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Crazy, just crazy.

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And as a result of that, Davide Nicola was immediately sacked after the match.

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It seemed like they were trying to find every reason to sack him after they survived because of him

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and they became the team that they are because of him.

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But that did lead to him getting sacked.

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Sasuolo 0-2, no big surprises over there.

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Odinese 1-2, stylistically a great match between these two Bologna coming out the better team.

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Torino 0-1, quite a big upset over there.

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Cromineze 2-0, Monza 3-0, Alvini was sacked after this match as well.

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It was a brilliant attacking display by Monza.

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They made a few subs that kind of got them off the train for a while over there.

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Empoli 1-0, San Vadoria 0-1 in a very tight and entertaining display with a lot of last-minute drama.

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What did you make, bro?

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We're blessed to get the opportunity to watch most of the games this weekend.

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We were very, very chill.

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And impressive stuff all around, man.

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It was a great match, man.

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Lots of entertaining games all around.

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In fact, I don't think there were many boring ones at all.

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Inter-Varona, granted, won the lonely and they only scored in the third minute

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and they kind of just kept it for the rest of the game.

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But there was a lot of stress for Inter at that game, like towards the end.

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It became quite stressful the fact that they didn't add to their advantage.

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Spezia managed to hold the one that lead against Torino.

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It was a very brave performance.

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No, no, it was a great match there overall.

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Agreed, man. Agreed.

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I think without further ado, we could head into it.

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Shall I start? Shall we do it that way?

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Sure. Okay.

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So we'll start with obviously the Friday night match, the biggest match that we had this weekend.

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It was Napoli 5-1.

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So for Napoli, it was their 4-3-3 formation.

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They had Alex Maret in goal and what a performance it was by him.

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They had Di Lorenzo out on right back, Mario Rui out on left back with Minje and Rahmani forming the back two.

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Zieliński, Lobotka and Anguissa in the midfield, potentially the best midfield in the league this season.

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Kwaratskelia out on the left, Poletano out on the right and Viktor Ossimen up front.

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For Juve, it was a 3-5-2 formation with Cezny in goal and a backline of Danilo, Bremer and Sandro.

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They had Chiesa getting his first start in a while.

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He played out on the right.

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Kostic played out on the left and it was McKennie, Locatelli and Rabiot in midfield with Millec and Di Maria playing up front.

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So in the 14th minute, Ossimen scored.

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He headed in rebound after Chiesna saved Kwaratskelia's bicycle kick that made it 1-0.

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Mask off immediately.

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In the 20th minute, Di Maria hit the crossbar from distance after a brilliant attempt,

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making it seem like this was going to be quite a close encounter.

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However, in the 38th minute, Kwaratskelia scored, the Georgians slotted into the bottom corner after a square ball by Viktor Ossimen.

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Bremer initially failed to deal with a long ball to the Nigerian and subsequently that is why his rating is so low in this match.

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He wasn't exactly on the top of his form in this game.

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In the 41st minute, Di Maria pulled one back for Juve.

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He finished cleanly into the bottom corner after a Millec layoff.

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Kim was caught wrong-footed in the build-up and Di Maria made the most of it.

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In the 47th minute, still in the first half, there was an incredible save by Alex Mered to deny a Rahmani own goal.

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He kept his side still in the lead heading into half-time.

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You'd think Allegri would have had a word with his team and his team would have come out a stronger team essentially,

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but in the 54th minute, there was a low out-swinging corner to Rahmani from Kwaratskelia

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and he finished on a powerful half-volley keeper absolutely rooted to the spot.

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A rare goal you would see by Rahmani over there.

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In the 64th minute, Ossimen got his second of the night and a fourth for Napoli.

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He headed in after a great cross by Kwaratskelia.

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Bremer initially lost the ball to Mario Rui in defence and there's another Bremer error over there, very uncharacteristic of him.

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In the 71st minute and then Elmas just killed all hopes that Juve had.

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He received the ball in space. He cut him past Kostic and his finish was deflected in by the sliding Alex Sandro.

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Napoli 5, Juve 1. Obviously, I don't think either of us expected that, bro.

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No, and to be honest, it looked like it was going to be one-sided from the get-go.

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Napoli started much better than Juve.

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It was only when Di Maria equalised that Juve managed to get some momentum and I thought,

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okay, this might be a comeback for Juve over here, but that didn't last very long at all

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because even before the first half even ended, they managed to get another one back.

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Yeah.

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Napoli.

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Yeah.

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They had the opportunity over here to trim Napoli's lead from 7 to 4.

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Yeah.

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They would have announced themselves as like serious Scudetto contenders, but that did not happen.

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They got absolutely annihilated and Napoli tore them a new one quite quickly.

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This was Juve's worst loss in any competition in 30 years, bro.

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Oh my God.

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And the last time they had a loss this bad, this calibre, it was a 5-1 loss away to Pescara in 1993

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and ironically enough, Allegri scored two goals against Juve for Pescara that game.

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How do you find that shit, man?

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It's so good.

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So good, man.

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It's just such a coincidence, right?

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Yeah.

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I think one strange thing about this game, well, it's not exactly strange.

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I think one thing we couldn't really put our finger on about Juve is that obviously they

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dictated the play in most of their games and most of their one-nil victories.

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It's because they hung onto possession for as long as they can.

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And when they didn't have possession, they gathered everyone behind the ball in the park,

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the bus system, so to say, and they didn't let anyone get even close to their box, essentially.

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Napoli over here where you don't need to give Napoli space for Napoli to have space.

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They created their space.

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They attacked directly.

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Every time they got the ball, they were going for a goal like they wanted to score every

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single time they got the ball.

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The midfield are worlds apart.

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I think you compare the midfield of Zieliński, Lobotka and Anguissa to McKennie, Locatelli

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and Rabiot, worlds apart, absolute worlds apart.

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And I think that is essentially where Juve lost the game in the midfield.

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It was highly dominated by Napoli.

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And then just that front three up against Juve's defense, which has been the best defense

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in the league so far.

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They had conceded seven goals in the opening 18 matches.

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They conceded five in a single game.

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That's almost as many goals as they had conceded the season before, all of the season, actually.

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Do you think Juve have a problem with their defense and it just hasn't been exposed enough?

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Or do you think Napoli are just out of this world?

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I think that what went wrong with Napoli over here, sorry with Juve over here, the antibiotics.

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So obviously when you have Kézer available, you play him.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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If he's at your disposal, he's saying, play me coach, play me, you're going to play him.

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Now sure, fair enough, but you're going to play him as a right wing back.

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He has played as a right wing back before at Fiorentina, not magnificently.

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No.

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You don't want a player of that caliber once again with that offensive potential to waste

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so much of his energy on defensive duties.

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It's the same thing with Mbappe.

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You don't ask Mbappe to track back all the time, lay out.

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You see him walking around a lot.

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If you get him to make three of their amazing runs, a half, you have three good goalscoring

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opportunities.

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Agreed.

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Now he played, Allegri deployed, Kézer is a fullback over here.

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Against who?

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Against Guaratzkelia.

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Probably top two wingers in the league at the moment.

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In fact, it was not only Kézer, it was also Kostas, because of their offensive prowess,

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they often found themselves exposed with Guaratzkelia and Poletano going in behind.

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What does that mean?

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Dani Lobremer Sandro all of a sudden stretches the back three to try to contain it.

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And then you have the likes of Zilinski, Osemen, Poletano, and all these fucking guys running

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in behind you.

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It was just a recipe for a disaster.

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I think Allegri set them up for failure over here.

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I think so as well.

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And not only because Kézer is out on the right, so on and so forth.

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I think, look, Kézer out as a right wingback is definitely not the way that Allegri wants

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to play the team moving forward.

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And we can argue that this is a case of the injuries that they have, and maybe they needed

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someone who could run back and forth and back and forth for a full 90 minutes.

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And in that case, that man is Kézer.

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But again, he's not a right wingback, and that's not where his strengths lie.

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He needs to be played as close to goal as possible because that's where he is dangerous

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100%.

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I think Juve are addicted to this two up front system.

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And I think had they reshuffled it to a 4-3-3, they would have been a way more well balanced

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team.

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They could have had Kostichat left back.

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They could have had Danilo out at right back and had Bremer and Sandro, for example, as

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the two center backs.

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Then they would have had Kézer as a right winger going forward, DeMaria as a left winger

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going forward, and Millic up front.

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I don't get it.

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Sure.

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But then Allegri risks the criticism of it going tits up and everything going wrong,

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right?

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And everyone saying, oh, you've just won eight in a row without conceding with a 3-5-2 formation,

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you're going to change it against Napoli?

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Yeah, but then he deployed Kézer as a right wingback to maintain that.

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And halfway through the game, he changed to a 4-2-3-1, they scored like three more.

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No, two more, two more.

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But yeah, this was a fucking fireworks display over here.

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Yeah.

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I think it's more good for Napoli than it is bad Juve.

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I think personally that Juve are going to get back and keep on winning games 1-0.

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Yeah, that'll be fine.

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This is just a...

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They played against one of the most modern football teams in the world at the moment.

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By the way, guys, Napoli are currently playing in the Coppa Italia and their kit is a San

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Valentino special kit and it's disgusting.

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I'm going to throw up.

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They've got these lips right above their junk, dude.

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It's gross.

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It's terrible.

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And Balladini's first game in charge.

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Look at that.

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Oh my God, he's already been appointed.

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Wow.

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Congratulations.

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Oh, look, Spalletti.

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Did you see that moment he had with Allegri?

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Oh my God, man.

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That was hilarious.

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I think Allegri saw him from the corner of his eye and tried to ignore him to not shake

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his hand because of the pregame beef where basically Allegri was playing the, you know,

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we're not set up to beat teams of this caliber kind of card.

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And Spalletti basically said you're set up to win the league and the Champions League,

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dude, with the signings you made.

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And he's probably right.

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But Spalletti is about to do that, I feel, man.

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I didn't like that with the fucking team he created, man.

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I genuinely think, bro.

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I genuinely think that Napoli look like fucking Real Madrid here, man.

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I'm not talking about Real Madrid this year.

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I'm talking about fucking Real Madrid.

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Like, you know what I mean?

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They look fucking good, bro.

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And I can't stress enough those three players to me that stand out, head and shoulders above

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the rest, Kvaratskaya, obviously, Ossimen, obviously, and Lobotka.

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I think because you look at the additions that they made and the additions that they

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made were Kim Minjae and Kvaratskaya.

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Lobotka came in to replace Fabian Ruiz.

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Got two so-calleds and fattened and put him on the bench.

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Literally.

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He was fattened on the bench for a while, Lobotka.

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He came in.

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We've previously seen him line up in a kind of alongside them when they're not fielding

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their best squad, Napoli last season, and they always look good together.

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Yeah.

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But Lobotka has come in and he's just this guy is honestly one of the best registrars

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in the league.

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Yeah.

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I think it's him and Benassir.

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I think it is him and Benassir.

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This season, I think it's him.

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Benassir has been quality, but Lobotka has just been on a different level.

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Now, obviously, he has the movement of his teammates up front.

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He has a certain understanding with his teammates.

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He's surrounded by two other midfielders rather than the single midfielder, which is Tonali

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in Benassir's case.

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But he's an artist, man.

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He's an artist, Lobotka, and he should get all the shirt sales in the world because he

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is a star in that team, an absolute star in that team.

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But he's an unsung star, you know?

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Yeah.

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Like so.

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But at Scalia and Ozymen, obviously, sell more shirts.

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Yeah.

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Alex Maret had a good game.

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He is a much improved goalkeeper to the goalkeeper we saw last year.

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It's no wonder Napoli didn't bring in Keiler Navas and they didn't bring in any of these

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guys that they were rumored to bring in.

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He had a spectacular performance over here.

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He had one of the saves of the season when Rahmani almost turned the ball into his own

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net and he got down in the 47th minute, still laser focused, acrobatically got down and

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palm the ball away.

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I heard something about him having a new goalkeeper coach, and that is part of the reason as to

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why he improved so much.

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And apparently Spalletti was the guy that appointed this guy.

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I mean, I wouldn't be surprised, man.

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Spalletti is a very good man, manager, particularly.

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And he deals really well with situations like this where you have kind of a good goalkeeper

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or a good player who's underperforming.

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Give them Spalletti, he'll bring the best out of them.

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He's a very good man, I think it takes us what it takes to do that.

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I wanted to mention as well, bro, Juve have only scored six goals away from home in Serie

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A this season.

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Six goals all season away from home only.

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Wow.

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They do the majority of their scoring.

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At home, like us.

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How many times this year have you scored away from home, bro?

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Why am I answering?

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Like, what am I thinking?

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How about that?

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Four or five?

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I much prefer to score at home as well.

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It's good here.

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It's nice here.

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The bed's comfy.

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Well, I mean, regarding that stat that you brought up, there's also a point to be made

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that they've missed Vlachovic for so long.

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Yeah, they've missed many starters, to be honest.

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So I wouldn't be surprised if they're set up to play on the counter during these away

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games.

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Yeah, for sure.

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I mean, there's no need to mention the list.

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I think we're all very aware of the list of injuries that they've had.

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It was also interesting just not to see the Marettis playing this game, the Fagioli.

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There's an interesting case to be made about McKennie starting.

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A very interesting case to be made because he hasn't been great.

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Exactly.

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And it put all of the creative pressure on Locatelli.

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So you have Rabiot, Locatelli, and then you have McKennie, when you could have easily

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put in Maretti or Fagioli, granted the game of this caliber maybe you don't want to throw

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in your youth, but they're on better form than McKennie right now.

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They both look better.

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100%.

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No, I agree.

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I don't think the midfield was well, not well balanced because I mean, it's perfectly balanced

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when you think that Locatelli plays between the defense and the midfield.

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You have McKennie, that's more box to box and Rabiot, that's more offensive, but there's

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a bit of a lack of creativity over there.

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Rabiot obviously has that magical...

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He's a box to box, ideally.

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As well, as well.

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I wouldn't say he's the attacking outlet either.

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They really missed having someone who could play that final ball over there.

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And then that put a lot of pressure on Di Maria.

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Di Maria was doing a lot of work over there and he got the goal and he hit the post as

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well and he was the one creating.

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Chiesa was wasted way out on the right.

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I barely saw him all game.

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Kostič the same, he really couldn't get involved in the game because they were just getting

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ground over constantly.

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And there was no excitement by Juve.

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There was no spark whatsoever and they just got absolutely, absolutely battered by the

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Snopoli team.

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Allegri praised Snopoli in the post-match interview.

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He said there's no need to be depressed.

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Just like there's no need to get ahead of ourselves after eight consecutive wins.

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It's a defeat and we move on.

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It was Mourinho who initially said he'd rather lose one game 5-0 than five games 1-0.

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And that's the essential point that Allegri could be making over here as well.

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It's the same thing in principle.

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He also blamed himself and Juve for having less energy than Napoli, a very vague thing

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to say.

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Juve still have, ironically after this game, the best defence in the league with 12 goals

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conceded, second to Napoli who have 14 goals conceded.

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So they've just conceded five and they still have the best defence in the league.

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That's very impressive.

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It's very impressive.

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We'll see how they recover.

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Considering Allegri's point about having less energy than Napoli, I mean, Napoli, it's like

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their own performance enhancers.

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The energy that they have and how they're constantly attacking and defending and running

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up and down and running into spaces and finding that pass and just the confidence that they

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have in every single 50-50 is ridiculous.

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I don't think there's a side in the world that has Napoli's energy this season to be

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fair to Allegri.

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They're like the football equivalent of Jeremy Fragrance at the moment.

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Bang on.

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Bang on.

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Napoli are obviously still in first and they now lead Milan by nine points, whereas Juve

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are in third, just one point behind Milan on 37 points.

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The next game we're going to be covering is Lecce 2-Milan 2.

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Lecce lined up with their 4-3-3 formation.

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Falcone was in goal, Petzella on the left, Jean Drey on the right, with Umtiti and Basqueroz

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as the centre-back pairing.

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Gonzalez, Hülmend and Blin played in the middle with Di Francesco on the left, Streffetza

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on the right and Colombo up front.

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The Milan loney.

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Tatarasano was in goal for Milan with their 4-2-3-1 formation.

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Calabria was on the right, Theo Hernandez on the left with Tomori and Calullo as the

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centre-back duo.

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A double midfield pivot of Pobega and Benassir due to Tanali's suspension.

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Salah Makars was on the right, Lea on the left and Diaz playing off the shoulder of

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Olivier Giroud.

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Are you sure Calullo and Calabria were playing man?

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Yeah, I mean, Calullo was definitely there because he was responsible for both goals.

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It's like there was absolutely on that side of the defence, it's like there was no one.

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You see five ledger players running and Calabria and Calullo sprinting back.

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They opened Milan up so many times.

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Wave after the first half, I thought it was going to be a disaster.

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At one point Milan should have been like 4-0 down.

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100%.

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It was a joke.

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It was a joke.

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It all started in the third minute when Theo Hernandez knocked the ball into his own net

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with his shoulder after a Di Francesco cross as he tracked back.

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The attack was initiated after a terrible short pass by Calullo at the back.

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In the 23rd minute, Basquerotto headed in as Hulman's cross found him unmarked as Calullo

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failed to challenge the beast to a header.

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In the 57th minute Milan got one back, Leao slot the ball into the near corner from a

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tight angle moments after Falcone had denied Olivier Giroud.

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And in the 70th minute Calabria scored, it was Pobega's ball into the box that was headed

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by Giroud towards Calabria who slotted it in with his own header.

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That means Milan had over 20 minutes to get the winner.

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In fact at this point I thought Milan are going to do it.

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I was very confident so much so that I started tending to errands around the house while

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the game was on.

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I was like okay now we can get one.

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Finally the game is back to normal, we're back to square one, we have 20 minutes to

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find the goal.

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The errands must have been really urgent.

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We're getting ready to go out to dinner at that point.

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So I thought in the last 20 minutes that's where Milan are very dangerous.

464
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:28,200
Not exactly when they need a goal late on but when the stakes are high Milan are very

465
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,920
powerful and I thought that something was going to happen over there.

466
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,800
I was very disappointed that they managed to do virtually nothing in the last 20 minutes

467
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,120
of the game and especially after scoring two in quick succession like that and the momentum

468
00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:42,360
in Milan's favour I did expect them to get the winner man.

469
00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:48,600
It's true, especially with the substitutions Milan are meant to strengthen their team while

470
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,920
Lefthuja are meant to weaken their team.

471
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,880
But in reality the way this Lefthuja team was set up, by the way I'm a massive fan, I know

472
00:26:54,880 --> 00:27:02,280
I've said this a million times of this Baroni-Lefthuja team, everything is so methodological, everything

473
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,040
is so thought out like well planned.

474
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,040
It's amazing.

475
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:11,440
And the fact that he leaves players like Banda, Gallo and Malle on the bench.

476
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:16,680
He can actually keep up with the changes as the game goes on.

477
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,800
Great great team over here, great little team.

478
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,760
I also want to highlight Basquerotto, I've done some reading on him and I want to address

479
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:29,340
this titan at the back for Lefthuja.

480
00:27:29,340 --> 00:27:33,200
So Basquerotto is first of all very versatile, he can play as a right back, he can play as

481
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,240
a centre back, he can play anywhere in defence to be honest.

482
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:40,440
He's six foot tall, he's a bodybuilder essentially.

483
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:41,440
Look at him, he's shredded.

484
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,800
He has abs that Cristiano Ronaldo would be jealous of.

485
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,800
And the first time I noticed how shredded he was was when he scored against Atalanta

486
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,920
and he flexed his muscles to the crowd and I was like Jesus Christ that's not a normal

487
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:53,920
arm.

488
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,840
He did that in this game as well, he did like a proper bodybuilder pose.

489
00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,200
Yeah exactly, he did the sideways one.

490
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,440
My god.

491
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:06,640
And apparently according to his teammates he only eats chicken and rice.

492
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,760
Now please note this guy is Italian.

493
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:13,320
So they tell him like please please let's go out, let's have a good piece of steak or

494
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,000
a good plate of pasta and he's like no chicken and rice.

495
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,480
And like dessert, the word dessert isn't even in his vocabulary.

496
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,240
I mean respect to him man.

497
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:25,720
He's honestly built like the incredible Holocaust.

498
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,560
He scored two goals, a season one against Atalanta and one against Milan.

499
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:34,880
He wears the number six on his back under the name Basquerotta, not to represent himself

500
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,920
but to represent the Basquerotta family.

501
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,520
There's six people, there's his mother, his father and his four brothers.

502
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,560
Very nice little gesture over there.

503
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:49,000
His centre-back partner and World Cup winner Sam Wellum Titti hailed Basquerotta to be

504
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,040
one of the best defenders in the league.

505
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,000
This season he has been, he really has been one of the best defenders in the league.

506
00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:00,760
Incredibly versatile, he's obviously naturally a right-back, he was placed as a centre-back

507
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:07,040
early on in the campaign when Lecce were really struggling in the defensive region with injuries.

508
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:13,880
I remember we had that clip that we posted on Instagram as well where Basquerotta and

509
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:19,320
a defensive midfielder, Blin I believe it was, started as the two centre-backs against

510
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,880
Inter and Inter won one-nil with our last fucking second goal and we're saying what

511
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,680
a shift these two guys put in.

512
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:32,400
Like he's been fantastic, he's been super, he can really play the ball for, holy shit,

513
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,880
Cremonezza just scored against Napoli in the Coppa and I'm sorry I got incredibly sidetracked.

514
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,280
It's Piquel with the goal.

515
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,280
Exciting stuff.

516
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,360
But yeah, very well-rounded defender, he's very mature and he's very explosive as well.

517
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:50,240
This is his first season in Serie A, quite late at 26 but he most definitely deserves

518
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,880
it for his hard work and humility.

519
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:57,680
And I think he'll go down as a Lecce legend one day unless obviously he gets a move upwards.

520
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,040
I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a big money move.

521
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,000
Big money move isn't for Lecce's standards, big money move.

522
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,560
Or for himself rather, get a better salary.

523
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,280
But yeah, Lecce have a good thing going over here.

524
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,840
Milan, bro, how will Milan recover from this?

525
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:17,120
There's the Supercoppa Italiana on Wednesday night, that's tomorrow.

526
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:24,080
The last time Milan and Inter went head-to-head in the trophy was in 2011 and Milan won it.

527
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,840
I was watching clips today about that.

528
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,440
I believe it was 2-1.

529
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,240
Milan brought it back from behind.

530
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:37,360
It was a Wesley Snyder free kick that opened the scoring and Boateng got the winner in

531
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,880
that game because that happened.

532
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,080
To answer your question, how do Milan recover?

533
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:51,400
It's very interesting because I think purely it's going to need to, number one, take a

534
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:56,600
bit of responsibility and make the necessary changes in order for Milan to turn things

535
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:57,600
around.

536
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:03,840
So for example, how come in this match there was such a massive gap between Calhulu and

537
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,440
Calabria throughout the entire match?

538
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,800
Lecce constantly had a very easy avenue to attack down from.

539
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:15,760
Di Francesco looked like Mbappe down that wing because he was constantly in bags of

540
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:16,760
space.

541
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,080
There was no pressure by Calabria, no pressure by Calhulu.

542
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,440
Calhulu was essentially a cone in that match and I mean no disrespect to them.

543
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,920
I love them to bits, but they really struggled over there.

544
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:31,280
I think the distribution from defense to midfield was poor.

545
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:36,760
We saw Benassé coming very deep to collect the ball and that kept Milan on the back foot.

546
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:41,520
It kept them very low when they were trying to build the ball up from the back.

547
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,280
I think over there we need to see a bit more of a ball playing midfielder in certain scenarios.

548
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:51,360
You brought up the point that Kier should be given a shout in certain matches.

549
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:52,360
Exactly.

550
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:53,360
What did I say?

551
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,360
Midfielder.

552
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:55,360
A ball playing midfielder.

553
00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:00,080
Benassé center back baby.

554
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:04,640
I think maybe seeing Kier play a couple of games over there and obviously not to throw

555
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,320
Calhulu under the bus because he's been doing a brilliant job as center back.

556
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:13,200
But that was something that was very concerning in the past two games.

557
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:14,200
It's true.

558
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,200
It's true.

559
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,160
In fact, there were talks of purely considering starting Kier on Wednesday.

560
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,880
In fact, I think that would be wise against him right now.

561
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,640
You have a young player in a poor run of form.

562
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,040
Give him a rest during the final.

563
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,040
Play him again in the league.

564
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,040
See how he does.

565
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,440
It's not the end of the world if you bench a young player in a final.

566
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,600
No, it's definitely not the end of the world.

567
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:38,160
It's very dependent on who interplay as well because if they're playing Korea and Lautaro,

568
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,640
for example, you'd probably want someone more pacey than Kier.

569
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,240
For example, you might want Calhulu to play over there.

570
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,600
So obviously we could sit here and criticize Paulie for whatever decision he makes over

571
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:49,600
there.

572
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,440
It's not a tough task when you have someone like Calhulu who had such a poor performance

573
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:59,120
in the last game and you have essentially a versatile, you have players like Gabia and

574
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:00,120
Kier.

575
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,760
I thought you did something really weird.

576
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:07,200
You have people like Gabia and Kier who are dying for minutes and are chaining their asses

577
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,720
off for minutes.

578
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,680
And it's tough to say because you want to know the opposition starting 11 before you

579
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,720
make yours, no?

580
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,680
Fair enough.

581
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,720
And I think they will leave it until tomorrow.

582
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:20,720
You know, decision to be.

583
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:21,720
I'm not sure.

584
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:27,640
Do you think right now, Tuesday night, Paulie's mind's made up?

585
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:28,640
I would think so.

586
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:29,640
I'd like to think so.

587
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,920
I think his mind's made up.

588
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,360
We'll see what he does.

589
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,320
And there's also the shout of rotation.

590
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:36,320
Like it wouldn't be a match.

591
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:37,520
There's not going to be any rotation.

592
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:42,880
No, but if he plays Kier, there could be the excuse of we need to save our players for

593
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,280
the league, so on and so forth.

594
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,040
Yeah, but it's a trophy, man.

595
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,280
One game that gives you a trophy.

596
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,440
You know, everyone wants to win this.

597
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,040
Even though people say, oh, it's just the Super Cup.

598
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:58,320
We all know how, like Milan fans know how they felt when they beat Juve in the Super

599
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,280
Cup when Pasalic scored the winning penalty.

600
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,040
It was Donnarumma saved the ball last penalty.

601
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,040
That was mad.

602
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,440
That was a crazy game.

603
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,440
Yeah.

604
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:08,440
Yes, I don't know.

605
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:13,600
I feel like Milan, they do this thing where they rush all their maneuvers too early on,

606
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,560
almost as though it's the 80th minute from the get go.

607
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:21,240
Piole pointed that out after the Torino game in the build up to the Lettre game.

608
00:34:21,240 --> 00:34:23,200
And it still happened against Lettre.

609
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,120
Theo Hernandez had the worst performance I've ever seen by him ever.

610
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,720
I can't believe it took us this long actually to discuss it.

611
00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:32,160
The own goal, I think the own goal confused him.

612
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,320
And especially in the first half, he was dreadful, man.

613
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:36,320
Listen to these.

614
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,400
So he played 45 minutes.

615
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,720
He was subbed at halftime.

616
00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:41,720
He blocked one shot.

617
00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:43,960
He had two tackles out of four attempted.

618
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,640
He scored one own goal.

619
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,680
He had four ground duels.

620
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:49,680
He won two of them.

621
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,440
He lost possession 14 times.

622
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,600
He had one foul, 41 touches, 61% accurate passes.

623
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,760
One key pass, okay, not bad.

624
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,520
Six long balls, three of them accurate and one shot blocked.

625
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:02,520
My God, man.

626
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,520
It's the 14 shots.

627
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:09,680
No, sorry, 14 times possession lost.

628
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,960
And the passing accuracy, 61%, like Jesus Christ.

629
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,280
And obviously it's for that reason that he was subbed off at halftime.

630
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,320
I think when Milan need a goal, you'd keep Theo Hernandez on and not replace him with

631
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:21,480
Sergio Nio Dest.

632
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,680
Who played quite well.

633
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:24,680
He was decent.

634
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:25,680
He was decent Dest.

635
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,560
I don't mind him out on the left.

636
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,000
I don't mind him in general post-World Cup.

637
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,760
I think his World Cup was good and it gave him confidence.

638
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:34,760
Fair enough, man.

639
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:35,760
Fair enough.

640
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,200
What did you make of Pobega in this game?

641
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:43,000
Because we're in a Milan chat and everyone in that Milan chat, anytime Pobega makes a

642
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,440
slight error, then they shit on him.

643
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:47,440
Yes.

644
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:48,440
Essentially.

645
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:49,440
Him and Tata Rossano are scapegoated.

646
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:50,440
It used to be Brahim.

647
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:55,120
And Tata, I've seen him being blamed for this loss.

648
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:56,120
And I saw him get beat.

649
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,360
And I saw him wear a tunnel down and someone was like, you know, fucking Tata Rossano.

650
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:00,360
What the hell?

651
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:05,840
What the hell can he do when he has 10 men in front of him and no one's putting in a

652
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:06,840
shift?

653
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:07,840
Like what the hell do you expect Tata Rossano to do?

654
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,480
I mean, he's made his mistakes, but not every goal you can see this is for.

655
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:13,480
Exactly.

656
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:18,080
Pobega, for me, had a decent performance, man.

657
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,280
It wasn't the worst performance I've seen.

658
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,320
He was instrumental in both Milan goals.

659
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:26,320
That he was.

660
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:27,320
Coming back into it.

661
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,440
And in the first half, it's just like, I don't even count the performance because everyone

662
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:31,440
was shit.

663
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,440
That's true.

664
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:33,440
That's true.

665
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,720
And he did have one of the few attempts that Milan had in the first half as well.

666
00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:40,320
He took a snapshot on the turn, could have curled in on his day.

667
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:41,320
Why the fuck not?

668
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:49,920
I often see Pobega playing quite high up the pitch because he's got a rocket in his pocket.

669
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,440
I do, however, think that that's not his place to be.

670
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:57,960
And I think his place should be, he can't link up play going forward.

671
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:58,960
That's not his strong point.

672
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,480
Yeah, the flick on season.

673
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:01,480
It's not his thing.

674
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:02,480
Exactly.

675
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:07,600
So I think it should be utilized further down and maybe you'd hope that like Brahim would

676
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:12,520
be a little bit more active in, which he was to be honest, in going forward and tracking

677
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:17,520
back and filling in that hole in the midfield essentially.

678
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,840
I think Pobega's link up play wasn't great at all in this match.

679
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:26,560
And I think the main thing we could take home from this is how important Tonali is to Milan.

680
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,160
The way he moves the ball around him and Benassir playing together.

681
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:35,560
It's like just having the best midfielder in the world, having those two together.

682
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:41,560
And Pobega disrupted a lot of that play with his decision making, with certain passes,

683
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,080
his output, so on, so forth.

684
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:48,520
However, and then this wall bites me in the ass because he was involved in the two goals.

685
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:49,520
Yes, that's the thing.

686
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,280
But he didn't help Milan when it came to controlling the match, is my point.

687
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:57,720
Yeah, he's not the Tonali type player.

688
00:37:57,720 --> 00:37:58,720
It's true.

689
00:37:58,720 --> 00:37:59,720
No.

690
00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:05,120
But again, 23 years old, super versatile, can be played in the hole.

691
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,800
Like where the others played to a different style though, not for as quick like link up.

692
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:13,680
But yes, I think there's a bright future for Tommy P. I'm not sure if it's at Milan, but

693
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:14,680
we'll see.

694
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,240
The management seem very happy with him.

695
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:17,240
Agreed.

696
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:26,360
Milan currently sit in second with 38 points, while Sletje sit in 14th with 20 points.

697
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:30,780
The next game we're going to be covering is Inter 1-0 Verona.

698
00:38:30,780 --> 00:38:35,080
So Inter started in their 3-5-2 formation with Onana and goal, and the back line of

699
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,400
Bastoni, Acerbi and Skriniar.

700
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,040
They had De Marca out on the left with Darmian out on the right.

701
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:44,240
They had Mkhitaryan, Chalano-Blue and Gagliardini as the three midfielders.

702
00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:47,280
Barela was rested and Brozo still injured.

703
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,520
Tlautaro Martinez and Zerko up front with Lukaku injured.

704
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:57,520
Verona fielded a 3-4-2-1 formation with Monte-Pao between the sticks, Davidovich, Heane and

705
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:02,440
Cecharini at the back, De Pauli out on the right with Faroni still injured, Doeg out

706
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:09,480
on the left and a midfield two of Tamez and Ilic, Kalon and Lazović behind Juric.

707
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,920
So the only goal, as we mentioned earlier in this game, came from Tlautaro Martinez

708
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,060
in the third minute of the match.

709
00:39:16,060 --> 00:39:20,920
He slotted the ball past five defenders and into the bottom corner from just inside the

710
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:21,920
area.

711
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,000
Very good finish by the Argentine over there.

712
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,560
He did think he got the second of the night and made it 2 for Inter in the 62nd minute

713
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:34,420
but his goal was disallowed after his tussle with Davidovich was deemed a foul.

714
00:39:34,420 --> 00:39:39,520
The finish was once again super clean as he chipped the out coming Monte-Pao.

715
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:46,160
So Inter scored early and looked to slow down the tempo and control the game from then on.

716
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:50,440
Their plan worked, they came away with three points but how convincing did they look against

717
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:51,440
Verona?

718
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:56,920
I mean, they had a game plan, clearly.

719
00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:01,760
You can see Onana was trying to play the ball out quickly to attack on the counter and then

720
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,680
you see the likes of Skriniar telling him, slow it down, slow it down.

721
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:10,480
In fact there were quite a few disagreements between Onana and Skriniar in particular who

722
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,160
clearly had different ideas on how to play the game.

723
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:15,720
Onana doesn't agree with anyone.

724
00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:20,640
No, apparently he has personality issues.

725
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,680
What drinks and drives?

726
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,840
What was it again?

727
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,160
Something like that.

728
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:34,160
But Inter dominated the game, 56% ball possession, they were unlucky not to double their lead

729
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:40,880
and it almost cost them at the end but it was a stressful end to the game for Inter

730
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:47,040
fans but in reality they never really looked troubled by this Verona.

731
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:48,040
Absolutely not.

732
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:52,080
I have to give credit where it's due and I have to give a shout out to Acheerbi over

733
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:56,600
here because Inter's defence did not look good at all in the beginning of the season

734
00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:07,200
and it seems like when they made the direct swap of Dev Rai out for Acheerbi, Acheerbi

735
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,240
has really gotten his shit together and he's gelled, with his experience he's really gelled

736
00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:16,880
this back three together and that's another former Lazio player under Simone and Zaghi's

737
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:22,280
system he knows how this guy operates and being a bit of a captain in that back three

738
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:23,280
as well man.

739
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:27,280
Especially when they play with a low line Acheerbi is super.

740
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:32,320
Bastoni was back to his best this game, that's what I did notice, he was very very good.

741
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:37,840
Bastoni's had a good couple of games, after the World Cup he's been brilliant.

742
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:44,720
Gagliardini had a decent game and he spoke after the game and he said I have to be honest,

743
00:41:44,720 --> 00:41:49,640
I feel like I've grown in the past few years, I'm 28 years old now, I need to play, I need

744
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:50,640
to feel important.

745
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,840
He said that the team selection doesn't really make sense to him, it's not really logical,

746
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,880
it's just kind of name based, the fact that he's never considered, he feels like he should

747
00:41:58,880 --> 00:41:59,880
be.

748
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:03,200
So we'll see, he said he'll see what happens next season.

749
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:09,440
I think he's wrong, I think players are played over him because they're more talented than

750
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,160
him and they fit the system more than him.

751
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:19,960
I don't think it's because they have another name, a name that is different to his, but

752
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,400
I mean I was going to say that's the spirit but no it's not, you need to train, how are

753
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:24,680
they to be better than these guys?

754
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,600
No he's been an exemplary professional for all these years, no I think they're...

755
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,120
I mean he has been but to me that comment's a bit weird man.

756
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:37,040
It is a strange one but probably he's like I'm leaving next year, fuck them, time to

757
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,280
hear my side of the story.

758
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:44,320
Well he did have a good game, Gagliardini, and obviously I wasn't expecting it from him.

759
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:49,600
Firstly those significant changes to Inter's team, I mean Virtri, Cialnoglu is the only

760
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,920
midfielder that normally starts in that team and he was playing in the Registrar role,

761
00:42:53,920 --> 00:43:00,200
in Brozovic's role, so it was a much different looking Inter team and Gagliardini was good,

762
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:05,720
he was very mature, he was patient on the ball, his tackling was good as well, so shout

763
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:09,200
out to him man, shout out to him.

764
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:17,400
Inter have conceded four goals at home this season only and they conceded 20 away from

765
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,600
home this season, what the hell?

766
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:25,600
It seems to be a fear of crowds, you know, foreign crowds.

767
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,880
After Covid.

768
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:31,720
Maybe that's the case, no but this is something common, teams tend to struggle away from home

769
00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:35,960
and that's still the case, you know, people say because nowadays with the way you can

770
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:42,280
travel and how easy life has become home and the way games don't really make a difference

771
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:46,080
anymore, that's not the case at all of course.

772
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,000
Playing away from home is extremely difficult, no matter who you're playing against, you

773
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:54,440
could be going fucking Croatia, you could be going to Finland, you know, you could be

774
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:59,120
going anywhere, it's going to be a difficult game and even in Italy itself, travelling

775
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:03,720
around, it's always difficult to play in a stadium that isn't yours, the pitch can be

776
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:09,400
slightly different, you know, slight differences can change everything, make you feel really

777
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,400
weak and put you off, like for the first half, in fact you see Milan half the time in away

778
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,480
games, first half, nothing, nothing is done.

779
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,320
Could be that, that could be a different dimension in the pitch that throws them off completely.

780
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,880
100% man, 100%.

781
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:28,120
Inter have had a very mixed time returning from the World Cup, they obviously in the

782
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:33,200
first match they handed Napoli their first and only loss of the season, 1-0.

783
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:38,840
They then had a 2-0 lead against Monza and Monza brought it back to 2-2, a game which

784
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:45,600
they ended up drawing and they scraped past Parma in the Coppa and now they scraped past

785
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:53,820
Verona, one goal to nil, amateur display but they didn't also, they didn't really seem

786
00:44:53,820 --> 00:44:59,440
very convincing, they didn't seem dangerous, they just beat Verona who have really been

787
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,700
struggling this season.

788
00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:09,360
But look, it's, we say this often, it's three points, it's a clean sheet and they rested

789
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,200
many of their key players before a final.

790
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:19,960
So they won compared to Milan, you know, their competitors in the final.

791
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:24,200
Milan are going to arrive way more fatigued, way more distracted, Inter are going to arrive

792
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:25,200
with more confidence.

793
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:30,360
Yes sir, a Milan derby in Saudi Arabia, I don't know if we've ever seen that before,

794
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:34,360
but we're very, very excited to see what's going to happen over there.

795
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:40,920
At the moment it is Inter who sit in fourth place on 37 points, 11 with Juve and 3 ahead

796
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,560
of Lazio, Atalanta and Roma.

797
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:50,280
Why is Verona sitting 18th on 9 points and they're still 7 points behind Sassuolo in

798
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:51,280
17th.

799
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:57,240
The next game we're going to be covering is Roma 2 Fiorentina nil.

800
00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:03,240
Roma lined up with their 3-4-1-2 formation with Rui Patricio in goal, Kumbulla smalling

801
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:09,160
a Mancini at the back, Kumbulla was replacing the suspended Ibanez, Zalefsky played on the

802
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:13,920
left, Kčelic on the right, Kristante and Bove in the middle, Pellegrini played behind Abraham

803
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,600
and Debala.

804
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,040
It's pronounced Bove.

805
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,680
Bove, yeah.

806
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:22,160
I'm joking, alright guys.

807
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,160
Don't take that seriously.

808
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:28,880
Fiorentina lined up with their 4-2-3-1 formation with Terracciano in goal, Dodo on the right,

809
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:33,720
Biragi on the left, Igor and Milenkovic as the centre back duo, Duncan and Amrabat in

810
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:40,680
the middle, Ikona on the right, Kwame on the left and Bonaventura behind Jovic.

811
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:46,720
In the 23rd minute the game was pretty much over for Fiorentina as Dodo got a red card.

812
00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:51,760
Yeah, I think his name couldn't be more accurate as the Dodo bird was extinct due to its lack

813
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:57,280
of intelligence, launched unnecessarily into a challenge which earned him a second yellow

814
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:58,640
card of the match.

815
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,280
What an absolute idiot, no?

816
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,760
Bro, honestly it was so reckless, so rash.

817
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,480
You can tell these players, but when this happens they'd be so into the game.

818
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:11,720
They'd be so gassed, so much adrenaline, really playing the occasion, he's at the Olympiago,

819
00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:15,440
the whole Roma, Roma, Roma, he was probably dying to go.

820
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,560
Gas, 23 minutes he gets two yellows.

821
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:19,280
Poor guy, you can't help but feel for him.

822
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,280
But it was a dumb move.

823
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:28,800
Yeah, it was a stupid decision to commit to a sliding tackle for that kind of challenge.

824
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,480
Like in no way was a sliding tackle a good idea over there.

825
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:36,680
He should have stood his ground and just tried to nick the ball over there, but he overcommitted

826
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,520
to it out of pure excitement probably.

827
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:44,480
You're right bro, the last Dodo bird was killed in 1681, but the last Dodo footballer was

828
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,480
sent off in 2023.

829
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,480
Fantastic, fantastic.

830
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:50,480
Sorry Dodo.

831
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:54,440
In the 40th minute, Debala opened up the scoring.

832
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,240
It was Tammy Abraham who chested the ball to Debala.

833
00:47:57,240 --> 00:47:59,920
It was a long ball from the back, it was amazing.

834
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:04,320
Who unleashed a volley which deflected off Melenkovic ever so slightly and crept under

835
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:05,320
Terracciano.

836
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,800
It was a great, great goal.

837
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,120
Well you keep on saying that that was a great goal.

838
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:11,120
You know what I saw?

839
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:12,120
Obviously it was good play.

840
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:13,120
You saw a lot of bullshit.

841
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:14,120
Very, very good play.

842
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:18,120
And Debala connected on the volley.

843
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,400
Well sure, but I saw a whole lot of bullshit.

844
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:27,080
The ball essentially rolled down the middle and it went underneath the keeper because

845
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:28,560
of the deflection it took.

846
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,640
Everyone was like, oh what a goal.

847
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,000
It was sensational.

848
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:38,080
I'm expecting to look at the screen and see a ball fly into the top corner, keeper clattered

849
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:39,080
into the bro's.

850
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:40,840
Bro, that goal was sensational.

851
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:46,160
The long ball, Tammy chested it so well towards Debala as well.

852
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:50,320
You can hear the off his chest, you know, like perfectly he laid it off to him.

853
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,520
And then Debala just connected so sweetly.

854
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:58,360
Granted, took a deflection, it slowed down a bit and then Terracciano went right under

855
00:48:58,360 --> 00:48:59,360
him and all that.

856
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:00,360
But you know, you have to appreciate the move.

857
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,000
The fact that the move led to a goal, beautiful goal.

858
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,760
The build up was great.

859
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,400
Yes, the build up to the goal was great.

860
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:09,400
I agree.

861
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:10,400
It was underwhelming.

862
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:11,800
But it was an under, exactly.

863
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,440
I was very disappointed with the finish.

864
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:19,000
In the 82nd minute there was a brilliant ball by Cristante de Tammy Abraham who squared

865
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:24,080
the ball to Debala, finished into an empty net and just pointed straight to Tammy telling

866
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:25,080
him like you're the man.

867
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:26,400
This is because of you.

868
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,540
And to be honest, this is how you build up your confidence as a striker.

869
00:49:29,540 --> 00:49:32,000
One late goal against Milan, you know, from a corner scrappy.

870
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,400
He doesn't even know how it happened.

871
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:37,600
Like you know, it just fell to him and he hit it falling backwards, scored.

872
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:44,080
Had a few nice moments where he rounded a few players to hear the Olympian going, oh,

873
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:49,320
you know, a few nice touches like for a six foot five player, he's got quite good technique.

874
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,320
Now this game to assists, you know, he's winning the fans back, man.

875
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:53,320
He's getting his confidence.

876
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,320
Debala is saying like he's the man, he's the man.

877
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,240
He'll be back, Tammy.

878
00:49:57,240 --> 00:50:02,000
How did Roma ever cope without Debala in their team?

879
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,080
How did they do anything last season without Debala?

880
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,280
It seems like he's been there for so long.

881
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,400
The performances that he puts in for this team.

882
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,760
He's getting Tammy ticking now as well.

883
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,960
Mourinho has recently been asked as well.

884
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:15,920
This is a really funny Mourinho piece.

885
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:21,720
They asked him why doesn't your team perform well when Debala isn't on the pitch?

886
00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:25,040
He's like, you want to know?

887
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,160
You want to know?

888
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:32,040
After this interview, we'll go out to the back and I will tell you, but not in front

889
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:33,040
of the cameras.

890
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:34,040
So I'm like Mourinho agrees.

891
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:35,040
You know what I mean?

892
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:36,040
No, no, he's right.

893
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:41,760
Debala is the type of difference maker.

894
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,520
He said that if you're lucky, you have won Debala on your team.

895
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:56,520
He said in the modern game, a few of these teams have 11 Debalas.

896
00:50:56,520 --> 00:51:00,280
Guys the Mourinho impression is something we've been doing.

897
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,360
We've been watching all or nothing spurs.

898
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,920
Mourinho and it's amazing.

899
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:05,920
Just fun to watch.

900
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:06,920
Man, it's excellent.

901
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:07,920
It's excellent.

902
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:09,440
It's so much fun to watch.

903
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:13,320
If you're somewhat intrigued by Mourinho, which you should be, if you're a football

904
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:19,600
fan, you should be 100%.

905
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,560
You should be intrigued by this man.

906
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,680
Watch spurs all or nothing.

907
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:25,360
Spurs till I die, whatever the hell it's called.

908
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,440
You get to see so much of him.

909
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,560
And one thing that really impressed me, I'm straying off topic.

910
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:30,560
I know, but it's Mourinho.

911
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:31,560
Fuck it.

912
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,720
Was his team was down.

913
00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:38,760
So spurs were down to one in the Champions League group stage and they needed a win to

914
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:39,760
progress.

915
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:43,160
I believe it was against Olympiacos.

916
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,160
Something like that.

917
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,280
They got a late goal.

918
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:52,720
They got a late goal and they all went in and Dele Alli was smashing shit and everyone

919
00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:54,440
was smashing shit.

920
00:51:54,440 --> 00:52:02,080
Everyone was smashing shit and Mourinho just walks in and he goes, calm, calm, everyone

921
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:03,080
calm down.

922
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,600
And then he started taking the piss over.

923
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,960
Why you go, ooh, ooh, ooh, ball comes in panic.

924
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:09,960
Panic, panic, panic.

925
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:10,960
He's just breathing his play.

926
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:11,960
He's just taking them to shit.

927
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:12,960
I liked it.

928
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:13,960
It's good.

929
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:19,200
No, I mean, had they not scored that goal in the first half to make it to one, he would

930
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,480
have been a different approach completely.

931
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:24,360
But yes, he's a fantastic, fantastic manager, Mourinho.

932
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:25,360
11th.

933
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,320
And a great, great character.

934
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:28,320
Definitely.

935
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:31,120
But yes, Debala is the difference maker over here.

936
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,640
I have no idea how they got things done before him.

937
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:39,880
But yeah, man, this was a very comfortable win for Roma thanks to once again, Dodo.

938
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:40,880
Yeah.

939
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:41,880
Thank you very much, Dodo.

940
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:43,080
I think it would have been a different game.

941
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,320
I think Fiorentina have looked decent recently.

942
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:51,440
They had Amr Abat in the team as well, which was obviously going to improve stuff for them.

943
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,040
But again, a clumsy decision.

944
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:58,080
Normally Roma aren't known to be a very attacking, high attacking team, but they allowed them

945
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,040
to be because of the red card.

946
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,560
And we got to see Roma at full flow, at least because of that.

947
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:03,560
Yeah, true.

948
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,440
This is how they would play ideally.

949
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:12,360
Roma sit seventh with 34 points, while Fiorentina sit tenth with 23 points.

950
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:17,720
The next game we're going to be covering and Lord, please help me with this is Atalanta

951
00:53:17,720 --> 00:53:21,040
8, Salernitana 2.

952
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:27,560
So Atalanta started in a 3-4-3 formation with Mussongol and the back line of Scalvini, Palomino

953
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:28,560
and Toloi.

954
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,720
They had Ruggeri out on the left and Zappacosta out on the right.

955
00:53:31,720 --> 00:53:34,920
Amitfield 2 of their own and Koopminers.

956
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:39,920
They had Bogha out on the left, Lukman out on the right and Huelund up front.

957
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:44,640
For Salernitana, it was a 3-4-1-2 formation with Ochoa in goal.

958
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:48,040
A back line of Lovato, Fazio and Pirola.

959
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:52,520
They had Candreva on the right, Broderich on the left and Amitfield 3 of Cullibaly,

960
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:58,360
Caviglia and Villana just behind the strikers with Piontek and Dia up front.

961
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,880
So in the fourth minute, Bogha opened the scoring.

962
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:04,760
He cut in and took on three defenders, whilst his shot from distance took a significant

963
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:08,280
deflection and headed into the back of the net that made it 1-0.

964
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:12,120
Dia pulled one back shortly after to make it 1-1 in the 10th minute.

965
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:16,680
It was a long ball by Ochoa that was flicked on by the head of Piontek to Dia who slotted

966
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,080
in between the legs of Mussongol.

967
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:26,520
In the 20th minute, Lukman only just slotted in a penalty which was awarded after VAR noticed

968
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:31,880
that Fazio's foul on Hoyland was just inside the area that made it 2-1.

969
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:36,720
Two minutes later, Scalvini got his name to the scoresheet making it 3-1.

970
00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:41,280
The youngster headed in a Coupe Miners corner when he was totally unmarked.

971
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,580
The 37th minute, Coupe Miners made it 4-1.

972
00:54:44,580 --> 00:54:49,020
His penalty was saved by Ochoa but he slotted in the rebound shortly after.

973
00:54:49,020 --> 00:54:53,220
The penalty was once again given away by Fazio on Hoyland.

974
00:54:53,220 --> 00:54:57,120
In the 40th minute, it was Hoyland's turn and he made it 5-1.

975
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:01,360
Lovato failed to intercept a ball on the halfway line which Hoyland carried all the way to

976
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,080
the opposition area and finished brilliantly.

977
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,200
Kind of looked like Avlaović or Aronosymen over there.

978
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:10,680
He looked very very good to carry the ball forward and finish in the way that he did.

979
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:14,760
54th minute in the second half, Lukman made it 6-1.

980
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:19,180
Lukman striked from the edge of the area, took a slight deflection of Pirola and flew

981
00:55:19,180 --> 00:55:21,760
into the top corner making it 6-1.

982
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:27,080
In the 56th minute, just two minutes later, Caviglia pulled one back.

983
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,640
Dia pulled the ball back to Caviglia who placed the ball into the bottom corner from just

984
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,860
outside the area making it 6-2.

985
00:55:33,860 --> 00:55:38,800
In the 61st minute, Ederson scored with an unstoppable drive from distance into the top

986
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,400
corner against his former team that was our goal of the week.

987
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:48,400
And in the 85th minute, Zortje made it 8-2 after Duvan Zapata found Zortje finishing

988
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:53,080
to the bottom corner from a tight angle making it 8-2.

989
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,320
Say something whilst I take a bit of a break.

990
00:55:55,320 --> 00:56:02,000
So David and Nicola, the miracle man who miraculously saved Salernitana from relegation last season,

991
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:09,480
I believe they were on a record of only three wins, four draws and double digits in defeats.

992
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:15,480
I can't remember right now but yes, everyone had them out.

993
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,760
David and Nicola came in and he saved them and this season they're nine points clear

994
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:19,920
of the relegation pool.

995
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:25,080
Right now they're establishing themselves as a decent side with an identity in Italy,

996
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:26,080
right?

997
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:31,120
But of course he was sacked after this result as it is uncommon in Italy for defeats of

998
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:34,560
this nature to go unpunished.

999
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:40,840
You get embarrassed, the board takes revenge on the man who was responsible for that embarrassment.

1000
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:42,800
That's the way it works in Italy.

1001
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:48,960
And in fact in the Premier League we see scorelines like this and they just keep going.

1002
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:49,960
It's normal.

1003
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:56,800
Especially a team that currently sits mid-table-ish.

1004
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:02,320
When last season they were bottom of, they were out, dead and out for so long and now

1005
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,560
they've just sacked the manager just because of a result.

1006
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:11,360
For me it seems a little bit narrow-minded, a little bit stupid, impulsive.

1007
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:17,240
Because the only thing they can do is take two comparisons, Salernitana with David and

1008
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:22,760
Nicola and Salernitana with the two managers they had before that last season.

1009
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:28,000
Tell me which side was the better side, the side with David and Nicola.

1010
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:33,800
There aren't a significant amount of players or a system in place, so on and so forth that

1011
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,240
allows this team to thrive.

1012
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:39,240
It is literally the manager that made them thrive.

1013
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:44,800
It is this manager that turned things around and made them somewhat of a mid-table team,

1014
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:50,320
bottom-tier mid-table, but a much better team than they were.

1015
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:53,320
They now have a bit of respect.

1016
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:54,320
People are joining the team.

1017
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:58,400
We see the likes of Ochoa, the likes of Candreva joining the team.

1018
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,280
Piontek, Dira, Nigerol, it's hot property.

1019
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:04,720
Yeah, okay, they're in Salerno, so people are going to want to go there, but people

1020
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:07,480
are going to want to play good football and not get embarrassed.

1021
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:11,960
Now they've been finding reasons to sack him.

1022
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:15,480
Even in the beginning of the season when results weren't going their way, there was a certain

1023
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:19,200
period even though they got off to a flying start, man.

1024
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:25,840
There were shots that he was going to get the sack and an 8-2 score line put them on

1025
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:30,440
the verge, not put them on the verge, it got them to finally sack him.

1026
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:34,760
Ahead of the derby against Napoli as well.

1027
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,880
How are the players going to feel, do the players agree with this decision, do they

1028
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:39,680
disagree with this decision?

1029
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:43,400
That I'd be interested to find out, but I doubt they would agree with it when he made

1030
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:45,280
the change that he did.

1031
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:47,520
He's done miracles for this team.

1032
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:49,800
Unfortunately this is common for Davide Nicola.

1033
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:54,040
He also pulled off a miracle in Croton and was only there for one year.

1034
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:59,120
The most he's ever managed a club for, the longest stretch of time, was a two-year period.

1035
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:06,000
So he's kind of a fix-it manager, which is unfortunate because I thought he was building

1036
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,560
something solid over here, but now we'll see who they bring in.

1037
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:15,440
They're probably bringing in like D'Aversa or someone like that, uninspiring, supporting

1038
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:16,440
with worse and worse.

1039
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:17,440
Exactly.

1040
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:18,440
We'll see.

1041
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,480
With that point about the managers, to be honest, Piole didn't exactly have a great

1042
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:26,740
resume managing the likes of Inter and Fiorentina when they were weaker sides and he turned

1043
00:59:26,740 --> 00:59:28,480
Milan to a Scudetto winning team.

1044
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:32,600
So as long as the manager fits the squad and he gets them ticking, then I think that's

1045
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:33,960
enough man.

1046
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:37,520
I also have to add that I felt terrible for Ochoa.

1047
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:38,840
He looked like he was having a nightmare.

1048
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,240
He pulled five saves off.

1049
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,040
He saved the second penalty.

1050
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:45,040
They scored the rebound.

1051
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:50,400
He tracked the first penalty and just over it.

1052
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,920
He touched, he got a hand to the ball and it went just under him.

1053
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,640
It was very frustrating for him.

1054
00:59:54,640 --> 01:00:00,560
Fosio gave away both penalties so I just imagined Ochoa going to the dressing room and seeing

1055
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:05,160
Fosio on Lovato playing a game of FIFA or something.

1056
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:08,160
Bring me the playtation.

1057
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:09,160
Disconnected.

1058
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:12,160
Bring me the playtation.

1059
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,920
Right here.

1060
01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:15,920
It's uncanny.

1061
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:16,920
It's uncanny.

1062
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:19,880
Bring me the playtation.

1063
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:24,000
But I think the person who should have been sacked for this performance was Fosio.

1064
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:30,040
And in fact, Fosio got injured and they're going to need to send their back to replacement.

1065
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,280
They haven't even signed the manager but they're linked to Omar Koli.

1066
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:34,760
Okay, okay.

1067
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:36,760
That would be a good signing for Sallernetahana.

1068
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:38,240
They have pull man.

1069
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:39,240
They have full power.

1070
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:42,000
Yeah, everyone wants to live in fucking Sallernetahana.

1071
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:46,400
And they have a very, very, very strong fan base over there.

1072
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,960
A fan base like no other man.

1073
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:49,960
Sallernetahana.

1074
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:54,120
A bunch of shirtless unemployed men.

1075
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:55,960
No, no, I'm kidding.

1076
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:56,960
But they're great fans.

1077
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:58,920
They have great songs like Unchained.

1078
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:02,440
It's always a great vibe in Sallerno.

1079
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,240
But yes, dude, this was extremely lopsided.

1080
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:10,640
Sallernetahana just couldn't keep up with the attacking prowess of Atalanta.

1081
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:13,120
They looked a little bit one-dimensional this game.

1082
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:14,120
It is true.

1083
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:15,120
It has to be said.

1084
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:16,480
It was always the same system.

1085
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:17,480
They kept trying it.

1086
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:21,680
They kept failing and they kept getting exposed and exploited.

1087
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:22,680
I don't know.

1088
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:27,880
I think I guess Davide Nicola should have just parked the bus to minimize damage and

1089
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:28,880
keep his job.

1090
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:34,240
Like, you know, letting eight goals in, I guess, especially when you're 11 against 11.

1091
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:36,240
It's not great, is it?

1092
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:40,400
Massive, massive shout out to Gasperini's Atalanta.

1093
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,840
What a fucking performance by them has to be said.

1094
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:46,600
Sallernetahana hasn't an easy side to face and they managed to score.

1095
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:48,200
Eight goals against them.

1096
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:51,120
We've criticized Atalanta for their output this year.

1097
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:54,200
Obviously, they've taken a bit more of a pragmatic approach.

1098
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:55,520
We all know that.

1099
01:01:55,520 --> 01:02:00,960
However, they have lacked a certain amount of pace moving forward.

1100
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:07,000
They lacked the danger men that they had in Muriel, Duván Zapata, Papo Gómez, Gossens,

1101
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:10,280
so on and so forth in the past, Malinowski as well.

1102
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:11,280
Off to Marseille.

1103
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:13,480
Off to Marseille now.

1104
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:23,280
But they have now found Boga in good form and Luckmann in good form.

1105
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:27,840
And those two on the flanks are very, very quick.

1106
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:30,000
They're very, very direct.

1107
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:31,040
Boga likes to cut in.

1108
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:33,600
Luckmann likes to play very close to goal.

1109
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:38,360
And having Hoylind up front, that is some great balance over their brother.

1110
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:39,360
It really is.

1111
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:42,560
And finally, they're playing Boga on the wing.

1112
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:45,080
And he's looking really disciplined.

1113
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:48,040
That's something that he's always lacked.

1114
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:52,760
So it's nice to see that things are finally working out for him.

1115
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:56,520
Erling Hoylind now.

1116
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,000
What a player.

1117
01:02:58,000 --> 01:02:59,000
He's 19 years old.

1118
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,000
He's very good.

1119
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:01,000
He's so strong.

1120
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:06,640
I'm telling you, man, that goal that he scored where he carried the ball upfield, wow.

1121
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:08,400
He scores in so many different ways.

1122
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:12,800
So they have a 19-year-old really impressive talent at the back with Scalvini.

1123
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:18,400
They have a 20-year-old impressive fullback with Ruggeri, who does a lot of running and

1124
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:19,400
a lot of hard work.

1125
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:23,240
They have a 19-year-old Hoylind up front who's scoring for fun at the moment.

1126
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,760
Atalanta is just a factory for a talent man.

1127
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:31,520
And it's crazy how a team with three teenagers, just off the top of my head, can absolutely

1128
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:38,720
decimate a squad with experienced players such as Fazio, Ochoa, Candreva, Piontek.

1129
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:41,680
It's crazy how they tore them apart.

1130
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:44,000
100%, man, 100%.

1131
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:45,760
The midfield was also very good.

1132
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:48,040
Cope Miners, as usual.

1133
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:49,520
What a fucking player over there.

1134
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:53,160
I feel like a player that often goes under the radar because of the type of player that

1135
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:54,160
he is, is De Hoon.

1136
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:55,960
But what a fantastic player.

1137
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:58,280
He's been for years, huh?

1138
01:03:58,280 --> 01:03:59,600
For years with Atalanta.

1139
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:01,280
This guy has been very solid.

1140
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:04,520
Palomino, again, what a performance by him.

1141
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:05,520
What a defender.

1142
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:08,080
One of the greatest we have in Italy at the moment.

1143
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:11,460
For Atalanta, it's heaps of praise at the moment.

1144
01:04:11,460 --> 01:04:13,340
We saw their former selves.

1145
01:04:13,340 --> 01:04:17,240
We saw them, you know, how they were two seasons ago.

1146
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:20,520
Just attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack,

1147
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:21,520
attack, attack.

1148
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:25,000
Obviously Salernitana, where left exposed a lot.

1149
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:27,280
You had Lovato with errors leading to goals.

1150
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:29,520
We had Fazio with errors leading to goals.

1151
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:31,480
We had penalties as well.

1152
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:33,240
Massive gaps in the defense.

1153
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:35,080
But Atalanta managed to exploit that.

1154
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:38,440
And let me tell you what, it's very difficult to score eight goals in a game, even if you're

1155
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:40,320
playing fucking nine year olds, man.

1156
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:41,320
It's true, man.

1157
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:42,800
It takes a lot.

1158
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:48,920
These guys scored their first goals ever for Atalanta, who was Zortea, Boga and Ederson.

1159
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:56,080
Ederson, fun fact, scored his last Serie A goal for Salernitana against Atalanta.

1160
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:57,760
And now he's scored his first goal for Atalanta.

1161
01:04:57,760 --> 01:04:58,760
Incredible.

1162
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:00,120
He's a little bit like Claudel and X now.

1163
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:03,160
So many romantic stories in Italy.

1164
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:10,320
I do think that Bia, Bia my God, Bia is about to get a big money mover.

1165
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:16,840
Bia, even the fact that he had a decent World Cup, that'll put him on the radar for a lot

1166
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:17,840
of teams.

1167
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:25,000
I think, for example, the likes of Fiorentina wouldn't mind having him as a reserve for

1168
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:26,000
Jovic, for example.

1169
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:29,640
I don't even think Milan would mind picking him up at this point.

1170
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:30,640
Definitely, man.

1171
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:31,640
He's a very good player.

1172
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:34,560
He's a very good player and people shouldn't overlook him.

1173
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:36,080
They shouldn't overlook him.

1174
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:39,440
So this brings Atalanta up to sixth place.

1175
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:42,400
They're level on points with Lazio and Inter.

1176
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:45,840
Keep in mind, Inter are in fourth, Lazio in fifth.

1177
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:51,880
And they're only three points behind Juventus and four points behind Milan.

1178
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:55,120
So still time to turn things around for Atalanta.

1179
01:05:55,120 --> 01:06:00,520
This was a start and that brings their goal difference up to a positive 14.

1180
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:06,720
On the other hand, Salernitana in 16th on 18 points level with Spezia and two clear

1181
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:09,080
of Sassuolo.

1182
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaking of Sassuolo, the next game we're going to be covering is Sassuolo, Nil Lazio

1183
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:15,040
2.

1184
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:20,800
Sassuolo lined up with their 4-2-3-1 formation with Pagolo in goal to replace the injured

1185
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:25,760
Consigli, Rogerio on the left, Tholian on the right with Erlic and Rouan at the back,

1186
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:30,480
Obiang and Frattesi as the double pivot with Lauriente on the left, Berardi on the right

1187
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:36,120
and Traore playing behind Alvarez who replaced the injured Pinamonti.

1188
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:40,760
Providel was in goal for Lazio as they played their 4-3-3 formation, Hisaio on the right,

1189
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:45,300
Kcassale and Romagnoli at the back with Marosic on the left, Cataldi was the regista with

1190
01:06:45,300 --> 01:06:48,640
Luis Alberto and Milinkovic alongside him.

1191
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:53,000
Anderson was on the right, Zaccani on the left and Immobile up front who got injured

1192
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,160
I believe 30 minutes in, something like that.

1193
01:06:55,160 --> 01:07:01,720
Yeah 15 minutes in, Immobile was injured and will miss the Milan game.

1194
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:06,640
So yes it was 15 minutes in where Immobile was replaced by Pedro, he was clutching his

1195
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:10,000
hamstring which has already caused him to miss four games this season.

1196
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:16,000
I'm sure all those Fanta, L'Anatole who took Immobile are freaking out right now.

1197
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:21,600
There's someone I think the Milan group chat mentioned, it's someone that spent 660 credits

1198
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:23,840
to get Immobile out of 1000.

1199
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:27,680
It's crazy man.

1200
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:33,200
In the 46th minute Zaccani scored from the spot after VAR spotted the most obvious handball

1201
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:40,160
ever in history by Trollian who reached his arms out like a newborn frothing for some

1202
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:46,160
fresh meat.

1203
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:52,360
I'm gonna give some context.

1204
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:55,520
So I write the goal descriptions right?

1205
01:07:55,520 --> 01:08:04,600
Jake does the stats and sometimes I like tossing something in to throw Jake off.

1206
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:08,100
And this is what he wrote, I'm gonna read it again from the get go.

1207
01:08:08,100 --> 01:08:12,800
So in the 46th minute Zaccani scored from the spot after VAR spotted the most obvious

1208
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:18,960
handball ever in history by Trollian who reached his arms out like a newborn frothing for some

1209
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:26,880
fresh milky from Mami Boomi.

1210
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:32,200
It's so true bro he's reaching out like a toddler.

1211
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:34,640
What an idiot.

1212
01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:36,640
I hate covering such swallows this season.

1213
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:38,480
I can't stand them this year.

1214
01:08:38,480 --> 01:08:44,240
It's the same thing, what else am I meant to say apart from, ah so Swallow played a

1215
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:49,400
decent game, they played this Lazio's level especially in the first half but two individual

1216
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:53,000
errors one from Ruan and one from Trollian cost them the game.

1217
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,600
It's just that every game but with different names.

1218
01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:56,600
Exactly.

1219
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:57,600
Fucking hell man.

1220
01:08:57,600 --> 01:08:59,600
And if it's not them it's Ferrari.

1221
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:02,400
Ferrari with two mistakes in two matches as well.

1222
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:07,400
Algeria gets his fair share as well, you know what I mean come on dude.

1223
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:14,000
But anyway in the 93rd minute Philipp Anderson scored what confirmed the game.

1224
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:19,080
Ruan was very slow to clear an oncoming ball which was snatched by Philipp Anderson who

1225
01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:21,160
finished rounding Pagolo.

1226
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:25,000
Exactly, Ponsili obviously out injured.

1227
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,680
Yes exactly I don't know if he could have done much about that.

1228
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:29,920
Philipp Anderson is the best shit player I've ever seen.

1229
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:34,760
He's a really good shit player.

1230
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:38,960
Now these are two teams, Sasuolo and Lazio guys who have not had a good start to the

1231
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:39,960
year.

1232
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:43,400
You look at Lazio for example they lost to Lecce after leading 1-0.

1233
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:46,080
They drew to Ample after leading 2-0 late on.

1234
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:50,960
Sarri was furious, he underlined the squad's mental drops in matches as something that

1235
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:52,600
he wanted to see resolved.

1236
01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:57,120
You look at Sasuolo, they had 2-2-1 losses, one to Sampdoria, shouldn't have happened,

1237
01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:58,960
one to Fiorentina, fair enough.

1238
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:05,520
But now they have another 2-0 loss, well 2-0 loss this time even worse to Lazio.

1239
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:11,920
I was interested to see what Dionisi had to say about the team and he said this basically.

1240
01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:15,920
We didn't experience what we were experiencing this year last year.

1241
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:19,960
We even complicated our lives on our own.

1242
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,400
Everything depends on the home game against Sampdoria.

1243
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:28,480
We have to bring out more personalities, not find excuses and assume responsibility.

1244
01:10:28,480 --> 01:10:32,040
The kids aren't scared and they have to continue not to be.

1245
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:37,400
He was also asked about the decision to take out Loriente who was one of the most dangerous

1246
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:41,400
players and he said that he only took him out because there's a player who's just as

1247
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:46,280
capable in Sadie, I believe that's how it's pronounced.

1248
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:48,720
But things did not go well for him again.

1249
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:52,880
So he's addressing the poor fortune, he's saying that we have to assume responsibility,

1250
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:54,240
you know he's doing well.

1251
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:57,960
I think he's a man walking on a thin thread right now, Dionisi.

1252
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:05,560
I think the results need to come as soon as next week and that's the only way he'll keep

1253
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:08,760
his job because right now they're just free falling.

1254
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:13,720
It does seem like he's the next manager out which is a shame because we all had high hopes

1255
01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:15,840
for him at Sassuolo.

1256
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,160
I still like him as a manager.

1257
01:11:18,160 --> 01:11:24,120
I think he's a bit cursed with the squad he has in front of him and just the system in

1258
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:28,960
which Sassuolo has run that Mintov highlighted, that you highlighted, so on so forth.

1259
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:32,060
It's a very, very tough team to manage.

1260
01:11:32,060 --> 01:11:37,440
It was masked by a bunch of stars that managed to get everything ticking but yeah it's not

1261
01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:39,520
looking good for Sassuolo at all.

1262
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:44,920
They have to start investing the money more intelligently, more maturely, they have to

1263
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:52,040
sort out that defense, they have to sort out well, the concentration as well.

1264
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:56,520
They need professionals, they need professionals, it's as simple as that.

1265
01:11:56,520 --> 01:12:00,400
It's true, I mean you look at the statistics and even just watch the first half, Sassuolo

1266
01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:02,720
played to Lazio's level, it is true.

1267
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:03,720
In the first half, yes.

1268
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:04,720
In the first half, yes.

1269
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:07,120
It's just the mistakes man, the first half, yes.

1270
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:10,120
It's true, the second half they were worse.

1271
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:14,160
But yeah, we might as well conclude this one.

1272
01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:15,680
I mean I don't have anything else to add.

1273
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:23,760
Sassuolo have fallen to 17th with 16 points while Lazio are in 5th with 34 points.

1274
01:12:23,760 --> 01:12:28,280
Yes sir, the next game we're going to be covering is Odinese 1-Bologna 2.

1275
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:31,960
Stylistically this was one of the matches I was looking forward to the most man I would

1276
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:32,960
say.

1277
01:12:32,960 --> 01:12:38,120
So Odinese lined up in their 3-5-2 formation, Silvestri in goal, Neuen peres, Bijole and

1278
01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:42,800
Bacau at the back, Odoggi out on the left, Pereira out on the right, Mackengo, Wallace

1279
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:46,400
and Lovric in the midfield with Sakses and Beato up front.

1280
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:51,040
Every single player there wins their 1v1 in physicality.

1281
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:52,040
It's true.

1282
01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:57,160
This is a tank of a team, he just went all out strength for this one.

1283
01:12:57,160 --> 01:12:58,160
Yeah, 100%.

1284
01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:03,000
It feels like when Odinese aren't performing too well we just say how strong they are.

1285
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:07,240
That's the thing though, I mean you look at the way it's true, they were playing before,

1286
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:10,040
they were popping in some hard Zildjian De Olefeo of course.

1287
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:13,640
De Olefeo was meant to start this game but apparently he's rumoured to be going to Aston

1288
01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:15,680
Villa.

1289
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:20,800
So I think they just took a physical approach to this game, they're like we'll win on the

1290
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:23,040
pitch with our biceps.

1291
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:28,400
Bologna are quite a physical team as well, maybe not in their stature but in their play

1292
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:30,120
style I would say.

1293
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:34,400
They lined up in a 4-3-3 formation, Arnautovic was still out over there, they started with

1294
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:39,320
Skorupski in goal, Posz and Likojans has the two full backs with Samoura and Lukumi as

1295
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:44,480
the two centre backs, it was Ferguson shouting and Morrow in midfield with Orsolini out on

1296
01:13:44,480 --> 01:13:48,720
the right, Abesheur out on the left and Sansone up front.

1297
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:52,920
So in the 9th minute Beato opened, the scoring was an early low cross by success, that was

1298
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:57,200
the first time on the half volley by Beato into the top corner.

1299
01:13:57,200 --> 01:14:02,000
In the 14th minute Beato slid in and finished after a square ball by Bacow but Bacow was

1300
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:10,360
off by the slightest of margins and was called by VAR, it was very very tight.

1301
01:14:10,360 --> 01:14:16,180
The player in fact, the defender that was marking Bacow had his arm around him but since

1302
01:14:16,180 --> 01:14:23,920
the arm doesn't count and the shoulder counts, he was offside for that reason but technically

1303
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:28,360
his arm was keeping him onside but obviously the arm needs to be chopped out in that scenario.

1304
01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:31,680
It was literally a millimetre, one of the closest calls I've seen in Serie A.

1305
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:32,680
Harsh.

1306
01:14:32,680 --> 01:14:33,680
Very harsh.

1307
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:34,680
But fair.

1308
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:40,920
46th minute, again, consistency you know, and it's okay if they're all harsh as long

1309
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:41,920
as it's consistent.

1310
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:42,920
Exactly.

1311
01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:47,080
46th minute still in the first half, it was a brilliant team goal for Bologna which was

1312
01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:52,420
cancelled after a VAR check due to Sansone, the finisher, being caught offside.

1313
01:14:52,420 --> 01:14:55,520
So two goals cancelled in the first half.

1314
01:14:55,520 --> 01:15:00,880
In the 58th minute, I don't know if you guys can hear but my dog is behind me snoring,

1315
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:03,560
probably won't hear him because we edited this podcast.

1316
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:09,560
So every time we talk about our dog, we're like, dude we can't hear anything.

1317
01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:12,120
But I hope you guys don't is the point.

1318
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:17,040
58th minute, Sansone scored a legitimate goal this time after he controlled the ball with

1319
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:21,520
his back towards goal and struck the ball on the turn and on the bounce on the half

1320
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:23,240
volley and into the bottom corner.

1321
01:15:23,240 --> 01:15:26,880
It was a brilliant, brilliant goal by Sansone over there.

1322
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:32,840
88th minute, Posch scored, shout and flicked on a corner to the oncoming Posch who headed

1323
01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:35,520
in with no problem whatsoever.

1324
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:41,160
In the 83rd minute, I felt the need to highlight this success missed an open goal after a deflected

1325
01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:44,680
shot put him in a great position with Skorupski grounded.

1326
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:50,240
What a miss by Isaac's success who could have given Odinese a very, very well needed point

1327
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:51,420
over there.

1328
01:15:51,420 --> 01:15:52,420
But he didn't.

1329
01:15:52,420 --> 01:15:58,600
It was a brave performance by Bologna who played in a historically difficult stadium

1330
01:15:58,600 --> 01:15:59,600
for them.

1331
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:04,240
Odinese were unbeaten in nine of their last 10 Serie A meetings against Bologna.

1332
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:10,440
They won four and drew five with their own defeat coming back in September 2018, which

1333
01:16:10,440 --> 01:16:13,040
was a 2-1 defeat at the Dallara.

1334
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:14,040
Yeah.

1335
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:19,040
Again, they would have sealed the game with Odinese if they got that second goal.

1336
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:21,960
They were unlucky and Bologna grew into the game.

1337
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:22,960
Yeah.

1338
01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:27,960
They grew into the game and I think that Bologna fans right now can be ecstatic.

1339
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:31,640
They should be ecstatic and they clearly are.

1340
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:34,080
A brave, courageous display.

1341
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:35,760
Yet another one.

1342
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,200
Their ambitions right now, let's say coming into the season, Bologna aimed for a 10th

1343
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:40,200
place finish.

1344
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:44,440
At a point they were like, there's no way we'd be lucky to survive relegation, they

1345
01:16:44,440 --> 01:16:45,440
were saying.

1346
01:16:45,440 --> 01:16:46,440
Exactly.

1347
01:16:46,440 --> 01:16:48,280
It's looking likely again that they'd be on the left side of the standings.

1348
01:16:48,280 --> 01:16:49,280
Yeah.

1349
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:52,240
They were just one point behind Fiorentina who are in 10th, you know what I mean?

1350
01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:56,880
And one point behind Torino who are in 9th and just three points behind Odinese who are

1351
01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:57,880
in 8th.

1352
01:16:57,880 --> 01:16:59,720
Bologna really managed to turn things around.

1353
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:04,060
We're seeing a bit of a similar situation to how Verona were last season.

1354
01:17:04,060 --> 01:17:09,040
They started off terribly with a certain manager, they made one change and then suddenly they're

1355
01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:11,000
shooting for a top 10 over there.

1356
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:13,400
They're a very, very good side.

1357
01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:16,200
This Bologna team, they're better than Odinese at the moment.

1358
01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:17,200
It's as simple as that.

1359
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:18,200
I think so, yes.

1360
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:23,680
They put in a better performance, it was quite tight but they got it done.

1361
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:27,240
So if you're wondering by the way what my co-host Matthew looks like, he looks like

1362
01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:28,240
Sansone.

1363
01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:29,680
That's the vibe, that's the aesthetic.

1364
01:17:29,680 --> 01:17:30,680
You think?

1365
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:31,680
Yeah man.

1366
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:32,680
I'm gonna need to Google Sansone.

1367
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:34,800
I know what he looks like but I just have to see him in front of me.

1368
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:37,320
This is the mustache and the hair, bro.

1369
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:38,320
Let's have a look.

1370
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:43,720
Alright, so I got a photo of him from what seems to be 2007.

1371
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:44,720
I guess...

1372
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:46,440
That's the vibe now.

1373
01:17:46,440 --> 01:17:48,480
I guess, the hair is a bit different.

1374
01:17:48,480 --> 01:17:51,040
Yeah, the hair is a bit different but that's the vibe, no?

1375
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:52,520
I guess, I'll take that.

1376
01:17:52,520 --> 01:17:56,120
Yeah, and then I look like either Saponar or Amrabat.

1377
01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:57,480
Or Amrabat, one of them.

1378
01:17:57,480 --> 01:17:58,480
Or both basically.

1379
01:17:58,480 --> 01:18:02,440
Yeah, their love child.

1380
01:18:02,440 --> 01:18:04,160
But yeah, Odinese, Bologna.

1381
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:06,000
The stats were very even.

1382
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:12,880
You know, we had 51% ball possession to Odinese, 20 goal attempts for Odinese, 15 for Bologna

1383
01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:15,640
and 4 shots on goal for Odinese.

1384
01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:19,760
And 2 for Bologna and they both went in.

1385
01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:21,000
Power to Bologna.

1386
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:22,800
I hope they keep climbing, man.

1387
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:28,200
Yep, Bologna are in fact in 11th place like I mentioned earlier.

1388
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:30,240
One second because I lost the table.

1389
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:37,400
Yep, they're in 11th place on 22 points level on points with Empoli and 1 clear of Monza.

1390
01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:43,160
While Sudinese are in 8th place on 25 points, just 2 ahead of Torino and Fiorentina.

1391
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:48,280
I just want to highlight quickly, just the point I want to make, that second goal by

1392
01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:55,440
Bologna is a perfect example on how to get a set piece working against a team that is

1393
01:18:55,440 --> 01:18:57,200
much bigger and stronger than you.

1394
01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:58,200
100%.

1395
01:18:58,200 --> 01:18:59,480
Fantastic low block.

1396
01:18:59,480 --> 01:19:03,920
Play it to the near post, flick onto the back runner in behind, goal.

1397
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,000
And that was so smart by Bologna.

1398
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:13,080
Yes, there's this wonderful page that Bologna have that breaks down this play beautifully.

1399
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:14,080
What's the website called?

1400
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:15,080
Bolognasportsnews.it.

1401
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:21,960
Bolognasportsnews.it, like Drake said you can translate the page and some really good

1402
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:24,600
insight on very particular plays over there.

1403
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:27,840
So look it up and enjoy it guys.

1404
01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaking of heroic performances, Torino nil, Spezia 1 is the next game we're going to be

1405
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:35,040
covering.

1406
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:37,840
Spezia the only team in the bottom 5 that can do that, man.

1407
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:41,200
Man oh man oh man dude, the Spezia team right now.

1408
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:43,480
I'm telling you they're winning me over bro.

1409
01:19:43,480 --> 01:19:44,480
Are they?

1410
01:19:44,480 --> 01:19:46,960
They're winning me over dude.

1411
01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:54,360
The likes of Agudelo, Ampadu, Jazi and Zola, these guys spit blood for their team.

1412
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:59,920
They don't stop man and this was a heroic performance again.

1413
01:19:59,920 --> 01:20:00,960
Let's get into it.

1414
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:05,520
So Torino lined up with a 3-4-2-1 formation, the usual.

1415
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:07,640
The spear right?

1416
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:16,080
So they had Vanja Miljkovic-Savic in goal with Bonjorno, Schuurs and Gigi at the back,

1417
01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:20,840
Voivoda on the left, Singo out on the right with Ricci and Lukic in the middle and Vlasic

1418
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:24,080
and Mirancuk playing off Sanabria.

1419
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:29,720
Spezia played a 3-5-2 with Dragovski in goal, Amjank Aldar and Nicola with the back, with

1420
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:34,520
Holm and Reka out wide and Agudelo, Ampadu and Borabiya in the middle.

1421
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:37,080
Jazi and Zola played together up front.

1422
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:38,080
No way.

1423
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:41,680
In the 28th minute, Zola scored the penalty.

1424
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:46,320
Miljkovic-Savic got very close but couldn't stop and Zola's perfectly struck penalty to

1425
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:47,600
the right.

1426
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:53,680
It was awarded and the yellow card was brandished to Gigi after he blocked the strike with his

1427
01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:54,680
hand.

1428
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:56,720
So similar to a Tolyan situation there.

1429
01:20:56,720 --> 01:21:01,240
Yeah but to be honest, it wasn't that clear.

1430
01:21:01,240 --> 01:21:05,560
Gigi was clearly putting his arm towards his body but I think that rule doesn't matter

1431
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:09,240
anymore if your arm is going towards your body and it's still extended in an unnatural

1432
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:11,600
position it's still a handball.

1433
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:18,280
Exactly and initially it looked like it hit his tricep which was against his body but

1434
01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:22,320
it actually went through his tricep and it hit a stray hand bro.

1435
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:29,080
It hit a stray flopping hand essentially whereas there's no need to speak about the Tolyan

1436
01:21:29,080 --> 01:21:32,320
one because his arms were extended outwards like an idiot.

1437
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:33,320
Mommy milky.

1438
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:34,320
Mommy milky.

1439
01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:40,320
In the 66th minute, Gjazi almost made it too but his powerful shot from inside the air

1440
01:21:40,320 --> 01:21:43,200
rattled across the board to the point that I thought they were going to need to replace

1441
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:45,200
the goal post.

1442
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:47,080
It rattled so aggressively.

1443
01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:48,880
He shot that with all his might.

1444
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:51,400
He just once I go over the board.

1445
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:56,400
And then the 93rd minute, Dragovski produced a great save after a header from Gigi.

1446
01:21:56,400 --> 01:22:02,640
So again like Dragovski, heroic, everyone heroic dude over here.

1447
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:07,720
And that's what they've become, a team of heroes, a squadron of warriors, a pack of

1448
01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:08,720
wolves.

1449
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:16,560
You heard that, that was Spezia.

1450
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:20,320
When you see Torino nil Spezia 1 you expect absolute shithousery no?

1451
01:22:20,320 --> 01:22:21,320
Yes.

1452
01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:22,320
But that's not how this game went.

1453
01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:23,320
No.

1454
01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:24,800
Not at all, not at all, not at all.

1455
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:27,560
Granted Spezia had 33% ball position.

1456
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:29,440
But because they were picking their moments.

1457
01:22:29,440 --> 01:22:33,040
Exactly, and it's because Torino are a side that dominates the game.

1458
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:36,040
Yeah, even against Milan.

1459
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:37,040
Yes.

1460
01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:39,520
They have five shots on target man.

1461
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:41,000
Torino had four just to compare.

1462
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:44,600
They took more shots on target than Torino and their shots were of better quality as

1463
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:47,000
well in my opinion.

1464
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:48,600
They were fucking fighting man.

1465
01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:51,440
They picked their moments and they played the ball around.

1466
01:22:51,440 --> 01:22:53,080
They have these little patterns that they play.

1467
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:55,400
I really like Gotti in charge over here.

1468
01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:57,360
It's almost like Gotti's gone under the radar now.

1469
01:22:57,360 --> 01:22:59,800
He has less pressure than he had on him at Udinese.

1470
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:02,640
He definitely has less pressure.

1471
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:04,680
He did get off to a slightly slow start.

1472
01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:09,640
We saw Spezia really flirting with that bottom three over there, but they have a healthy

1473
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:10,640
gap now man.

1474
01:23:10,640 --> 01:23:12,120
They do, they do.

1475
01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:13,760
And they have decent options over there.

1476
01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:15,760
João Moutinho can come on.

1477
01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:18,760
Apparently Pato told João Moutinho to go to Italy.

1478
01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:19,760
Okay, fair enough.

1479
01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:21,800
He had a good split in Italy Pato.

1480
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:24,520
Zurkowski came off the bench, Ekdal came off the bench.

1481
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:25,520
These are decent options.

1482
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:29,800
As for Spezia, I'm telling you, I have quite a unit at the moment.

1483
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:32,040
Someone we shouldn't bet against at the moment.

1484
01:23:32,040 --> 01:23:33,040
That's true.

1485
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:34,720
Who is their next match against?

1486
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:36,000
That's something I would love to know.

1487
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,400
And I'm going to find out right this second.

1488
01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:40,960
It only takes me a five, a four, a three, a two, a one.

1489
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:43,960
They're away against Atalanta and then after that they're home against Roma.

1490
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:47,000
So these two games will be very telling for Spezia.

1491
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:49,400
They picked up points where they needed to pick them up.

1492
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:51,840
Two losses wouldn't even be that bad for them right now.

1493
01:23:51,840 --> 01:23:52,840
Yeah, that's true.

1494
01:23:52,840 --> 01:23:56,400
That's the importance of picking up points when you need to man.

1495
01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:57,400
Exactly.

1496
01:23:57,400 --> 01:24:00,000
Like probably right now a draw against Torino, they would have been like, all right, we'll

1497
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:01,000
take that.

1498
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:02,960
But they actually went on and won it.

1499
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:03,960
Yeah.

1500
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:04,960
Yeah.

1501
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:08,720
Great win for Spezia, like I said, the only bottom five team that could go and beat Torino

1502
01:24:08,720 --> 01:24:10,160
like that.

1503
01:24:10,160 --> 01:24:17,240
They currently sit in 15th with 18 points, while Torino sit in ninth with 23 points.

1504
01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:20,840
The next game we're going to be covering was a Serie A bear match last year.

1505
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:23,280
It was Cremonaese 2, Monza 3.

1506
01:24:23,280 --> 01:24:27,640
So for Cremonaese, it was a 3-4-2-1 formation with Karinasecki in goal and a back line of

1507
01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:30,280
Qualiata, Bianchetti and Ferrari.

1508
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:34,160
They had Valeri out on the left and Guglione out on the right with Mete and Piccoli in the

1509
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:35,160
midfield.

1510
01:24:35,160 --> 01:24:40,240
Okereke out on the left, Sajou out on the right and Dessers up front.

1511
01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:41,240
Pardon me.

1512
01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:46,640
For Monza, it was also a 3-4-2-1 formation, Di Gregorio on goal, a back line of Itzo,

1513
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:52,320
Amari and Kaldiralla, Birindelli out on the right and Carlos Augusto out on the left with

1514
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:54,640
Pessina and Maschin in the double pivot.

1515
01:24:54,640 --> 01:25:00,000
Churia out on the right, Caprari out on the left with Petania, the king with his back

1516
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:01,000
towards goal.

1517
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:02,000
Petania playing up front.

1518
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:05,000
He's a unit, eh, Petania?

1519
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:10,400
I'm telling you, he's the type of guy you'd want to spearhead the team of this caliber.

1520
01:25:10,400 --> 01:25:14,320
You know, like who else would you rather have up front on a team that you've just been promoted

1521
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:15,320
to lead the line?

1522
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:16,320
Good point.

1523
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:18,240
He's got a lot of space, but he has way better players around him.

1524
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:19,240
Good point.

1525
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:24,680
He's got two mobile attacking players playing off him in Churia and Caprari who can do all

1526
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:26,840
the running for him.

1527
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:31,120
He's got Birindelli and Augusto playing out wide who can cross the ball into him and Pessina

1528
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:35,360
and Maschin playing in the middle or Sensi who can also ping him a good ball.

1529
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:36,360
Exactly.

1530
01:25:36,360 --> 01:25:37,840
I'm telling you right now, Monza look really nice.

1531
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:38,840
They look good.

1532
01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:42,120
100% and they were attacking so well in the first half.

1533
01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:43,360
Let me get into it.

1534
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:48,000
In the seventh minute, Churia opened the scoring, he tapped in after some brilliant one touch

1535
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:53,120
football in the opposition area, which ended in Petania squaring the ball to him as Churia

1536
01:25:53,120 --> 01:25:55,760
finished into what was virtually an empty net.

1537
01:25:55,760 --> 01:26:01,520
A few moments later in the 15th minute, there was a penalty and Caprari sent Karneseki the

1538
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:02,520
wrong way.

1539
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:08,240
The penalty was awarded after VAR caught a foul by Guglione on Itso, making it 2-0.

1540
01:26:08,240 --> 01:26:12,680
In the 51st minute, Di Gregorio got the save of the season so far.

1541
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:16,000
He dropped down to deny a great Piquel header.

1542
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:18,120
What a goalkeeper keeps on proving it.

1543
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:21,560
Time after time Di Gregorio is the real deal.

1544
01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:26,960
In the 54th minute, Caprari scored his second of the match and Monza's third.

1545
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:31,140
It was another beautiful attack by Monza, fast, accurate and creative.

1546
01:26:31,140 --> 01:26:35,280
The attack ended with Caprari finishing cleanly after Petania pulled the ball back for him

1547
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:40,280
to get his second assist of the match and Caprari's second goal of the match.

1548
01:26:40,280 --> 01:26:41,800
Monza then made a couple of changes.

1549
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:43,480
Cremonezza made a couple of changes.

1550
01:26:43,480 --> 01:26:44,480
Monza were settling.

1551
01:26:44,480 --> 01:26:46,680
Cremonezza wanted something out of the match.

1552
01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:51,320
In the 67th minute, Cioffani pulled one back as he headed in after a Valeri cross.

1553
01:26:51,320 --> 01:26:56,240
And the 82nd minute, Dessert scored after a very long ball over the top fell to him

1554
01:26:56,240 --> 01:27:01,120
and he managed to squeeze it in on the half volley from a very tight angle.

1555
01:27:01,120 --> 01:27:02,960
Brilliant first half by Monza.

1556
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:06,000
Even the beginning of the second half, it was the changes that slowed them down.

1557
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:08,600
But wow, a lot to be impressed by, man.

1558
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:10,600
Definitely, bro.

1559
01:27:10,600 --> 01:27:15,840
Monza, with the help of a few master strokes from the legendary sporting director Adriano

1560
01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:23,320
Galliani, have risen from the tired, depleting testicles of Silvio Berlusconi.

1561
01:27:23,320 --> 01:27:30,040
Up his dusty urethra and out an impressive volume, drenching Serie A with their dazzling

1562
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:32,960
play and cult hero type players.

1563
01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:38,880
So essentially, Monza are an artificial cum shot.

1564
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:40,880
That's what they represent, man.

1565
01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:43,000
They represent Berlusconi.

1566
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:44,880
Monza are old money, baby.

1567
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:46,720
Monza are old money.

1568
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:48,200
That's what I like about them.

1569
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:50,880
Look at the squad they managed to build with that old money.

1570
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:53,400
Itso at the back, very underrated.

1571
01:27:53,400 --> 01:27:55,440
He was even underrated.

1572
01:27:55,440 --> 01:28:00,440
At Torino, he's a very versatile defender that gets involved going up front a lot.

1573
01:28:00,440 --> 01:28:03,040
And you often see him straying out wide as well.

1574
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:04,760
Pessina in the midfield.

1575
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:06,240
Wow, what a player.

1576
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:08,240
Maschin goes totally under the radar.

1577
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:09,240
He wasn't even playing.

1578
01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:10,240
He wasn't even playing.

1579
01:28:10,240 --> 01:28:11,240
I'm happy he's playing now.

1580
01:28:11,240 --> 01:28:12,240
He looks really good.

1581
01:28:12,240 --> 01:28:13,240
He's so fucking good.

1582
01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:15,400
He's a seven for a reason, before they were in.

1583
01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:16,400
Exactly.

1584
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:17,960
Carlos Augusto.

1585
01:28:17,960 --> 01:28:20,440
And then there's no need to say anything about Caprari.

1586
01:28:20,440 --> 01:28:22,360
He's a fucking star.

1587
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:25,080
And then Petania up front just to glue everything together.

1588
01:28:25,080 --> 01:28:28,000
And they're still missing the likes of Rovella, for example.

1589
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:30,000
No, this team is amazing.

1590
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:31,000
Sensi.

1591
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:32,000
Sensi.

1592
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:33,120
And they're picking it up.

1593
01:28:33,120 --> 01:28:38,960
They are where we expected them to be in our earlier prediction of the league table.

1594
01:28:38,960 --> 01:28:41,120
I think I had them in 11th or 12th.

1595
01:28:41,120 --> 01:28:44,720
Haha, Matt is so stupid.

1596
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:45,720
13th.

1597
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:46,720
13th.

1598
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:50,880
One point behind Bologna and Empoli.

1599
01:28:50,880 --> 01:28:53,520
Two points behind Fiorentina and Torino.

1600
01:28:53,520 --> 01:28:54,520
They're good.

1601
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:56,200
They look good.

1602
01:28:56,200 --> 01:29:01,560
But it has to be said that their substitutions really weakened them this game.

1603
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:04,760
And they almost allowed Cremona to equalise.

1604
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:09,080
Towards the end there, it was a massive de Gregorio save that actually kept them in it.

1605
01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:13,160
So yeah, they were flirting a little bit with an upset over there.

1606
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:18,880
They have those injuries, so they don't have a lot of depth in their squad at the minute.

1607
01:29:18,880 --> 01:29:20,840
Imagine they brought on Rovella, for example.

1608
01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:26,600
It's true, they do have injuries, but they have a capably deep squad.

1609
01:29:26,600 --> 01:29:27,600
They're capable again.

1610
01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:31,720
Their offensive manoeuvres, as we highlighted, are so varied.

1611
01:29:31,720 --> 01:29:34,800
They can cross out wide, they can play it cleanly through the middle, like they can

1612
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:38,480
try to flick it off of Petania, long ball from the back.

1613
01:29:38,480 --> 01:29:40,040
They're a very good side.

1614
01:29:40,040 --> 01:29:43,000
And I'm surprised with the manager, Palladino.

1615
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:46,600
He's really done well as the caretaker manager.

1616
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:49,320
That's what he was initially after the sacking of Strappa.

1617
01:29:49,320 --> 01:29:50,320
Exactly.

1618
01:29:50,320 --> 01:29:52,480
I think he has a good future ahead of him, man.

1619
01:29:52,480 --> 01:29:53,480
He does.

1620
01:29:53,480 --> 01:29:54,480
That guy.

1621
01:29:54,480 --> 01:29:55,480
Definitely.

1622
01:29:55,480 --> 01:29:56,480
He does.

1623
01:29:56,480 --> 01:29:57,480
So yeah, great to see here.

1624
01:29:57,480 --> 01:30:00,720
I'm going to highlight Di Gregorio one more time, because genuinely it was the save of

1625
01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:01,720
the season so far.

1626
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:02,720
You know the one I'm referring to.

1627
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:03,720
I know the one.

1628
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:04,720
He dropped down.

1629
01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:05,720
No really.

1630
01:30:05,720 --> 01:30:06,720
Bro.

1631
01:30:06,720 --> 01:30:12,040
Like, you know they say the greatest save was Gordon Banks on Pele.

1632
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:13,040
I believe.

1633
01:30:13,040 --> 01:30:14,920
Okay, that was obviously better.

1634
01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:19,160
I don't want to sound like a sensation list, but it was similar.

1635
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:20,720
It was that kind of save, guys.

1636
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:21,720
You should look it up.

1637
01:30:21,720 --> 01:30:23,720
What a fucking save by Di Gregorio.

1638
01:30:23,720 --> 01:30:24,720
Bonzo?

1639
01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:28,960
Yes, Cremones are still struggling over here.

1640
01:30:28,960 --> 01:30:33,840
They always fucking put in a shift, but they never managed to get away with anything.

1641
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:38,480
One of the two teams in Europe's top five without a victory, Cremones.

1642
01:30:38,480 --> 01:30:41,240
And they play much better than the other team.

1643
01:30:41,240 --> 01:30:46,080
The other team, I can't even pronounce the name, is Elche, La Liga.

1644
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:47,080
Elche.

1645
01:30:47,080 --> 01:30:48,080
Elche.

1646
01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:50,440
But they're terrible in La Liga.

1647
01:30:50,440 --> 01:30:51,440
They're a horrible team.

1648
01:30:51,440 --> 01:30:55,080
I remember Elche a couple of years ago, they're obviously a much different team now.

1649
01:30:55,080 --> 01:30:59,160
Like they're shit this year apparently, but Cremones, it's surprising because they play

1650
01:30:59,160 --> 01:31:01,280
some good football, the poor guys, quality football.

1651
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:02,280
They do, man.

1652
01:31:02,280 --> 01:31:04,960
Right now we're watching them drawing away against Napoli.

1653
01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:05,960
Just so you guys know.

1654
01:31:05,960 --> 01:31:08,560
Yeah, they're giving them two extra times at the Coppa Italia.

1655
01:31:08,560 --> 01:31:15,240
But Cremones are lost with seven points, still winless, while Monza are 13th with 21 points.

1656
01:31:15,240 --> 01:31:16,960
Yes sir, Europe.

1657
01:31:16,960 --> 01:31:22,200
The last game we're going to be covering is Empoli 1-Sampdoria nil.

1658
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:27,600
Empoli lined up with a 4-3-1-2 formation with Vicario on goal, Parisi, Loperto, Ismaelie

1659
01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:33,560
and Ebuwehi at the back, Bandinelli, Mardin and Akpro as the midfield three with Baldanzi,

1660
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:37,400
Caputo and Satriano.

1661
01:31:37,400 --> 01:31:41,800
Sampdoria played their 3-4-1-2 formation without their own goal, Nuiting, Camione and Colli

1662
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:46,080
at the back with Leris on the right, Augel on the left, Juricic and Viera in the middle

1663
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:51,920
with Viera in the pocket and Lammeres and Gabiardini up front.

1664
01:31:51,920 --> 01:31:57,000
Now in the 55th minute Mardin's corner found Ebuwehi at the near post who towered over

1665
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:00,660
a sea of shirts and headed the ball into the back of the net, without their own coming

1666
01:32:00,660 --> 01:32:05,000
out to collect it rather, hopefully, perhaps a little bit recklessly.

1667
01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:08,620
It was very crowded, there was no way he was getting to that.

1668
01:32:08,620 --> 01:32:12,200
So it's the 100th minute of the game.

1669
01:32:12,200 --> 01:32:15,080
Sampdoria sit the 19th with 9 points.

1670
01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:17,080
They're playing against Tempoli, right?

1671
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:18,080
They're losing 1-0.

1672
01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:20,680
Audero's up, everyone's up.

1673
01:32:20,680 --> 01:32:26,000
They have bodies in the box, they need to equalise.

1674
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:30,960
Cross comes in, whatever confusion, Audero manages to contribute somehow.

1675
01:32:30,960 --> 01:32:34,040
He fucking chipped it into the part of the striker.

1676
01:32:34,040 --> 01:32:37,520
And then Colli gets a goal.

1677
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:41,720
Scenes, everyone freaking out, celebrating, they manage to get a crucial point in the

1678
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:42,720
relegation, escape.

1679
01:32:42,720 --> 01:32:45,320
That's it, that's all you hear.

1680
01:32:45,320 --> 01:32:51,800
Then all of a sudden drama, you know when the camera pans to the referee and everyone's

1681
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:55,880
like staring and looking around, people are trying to talk to him but his fingers are

1682
01:32:55,880 --> 01:32:59,040
on his ear so you can tell he's not listening to anyone.

1683
01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:05,360
He goes to the bar board, the monitor, and he's taking a look, the very calm is back

1684
01:33:05,360 --> 01:33:07,160
and he cancels the goal.

1685
01:33:07,160 --> 01:33:11,720
Apparently, not apparently, now we know why, to the referee's logic.

1686
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:17,880
Gabi Addimi handled the ball in the box but it was while he was being fouled from the

1687
01:33:17,880 --> 01:33:21,840
back by Luperto.

1688
01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:28,600
So in reality, according to a professional ex-referee, I forgot who it was, but he was

1689
01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:34,320
speaking on Sky and he said that if anything you go to the bar board, you see okay, the

1690
01:33:34,320 --> 01:33:39,120
hand interfered with play of your team, granted you can't allow the goal but you give a penalty

1691
01:33:39,120 --> 01:33:41,200
because he was fouled.

1692
01:33:41,200 --> 01:33:47,120
But that wasn't the case at all and Stankovic charged onto the pitch with his arms wide

1693
01:33:47,120 --> 01:33:49,840
open, we're playing for our lives.

1694
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:54,000
Saying that to the referee, you don't blame him, you don't blame the guy.

1695
01:33:54,000 --> 01:34:00,040
And apparently the fighting and the brawling continued in the tunnel and one of Sampdoria's

1696
01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:04,840
coaching staff was sent off and all that was massive drama towards the end of the game.

1697
01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:09,640
I'm upset for Sampdoria, I do like Empoli but I am upset for Sampdoria.

1698
01:34:09,640 --> 01:34:14,000
So obviously because of the situation, getting an equaliser in the 100th minute, all the

1699
01:34:14,000 --> 01:34:19,680
emotions are going to be high, just like when Juve conceded against Real Madrid from a penalty

1700
01:34:19,680 --> 01:34:25,300
and Buffon told the referee that he has a trash can for a heart for example.

1701
01:34:25,300 --> 01:34:31,760
But the same thing essentially happened here when both calls were correct in my opinion.

1702
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:39,480
So the referee clearly did not deem the challenge by Luperto on Gabbiadini as a foul, because

1703
01:34:39,480 --> 01:34:41,920
had it been a foul, he would have given the penalty.

1704
01:34:41,920 --> 01:34:46,400
Because then there was the handball, so advantage is over, so it's a penalty.

1705
01:34:46,400 --> 01:34:50,440
Obviously since he didn't deem it a foul, then it's just a handball.

1706
01:34:50,440 --> 01:34:55,440
And it's obviously harsh because Gabbiadini definitely didn't go to ground for nothing.

1707
01:34:55,440 --> 01:34:57,520
But was it enough to be a penalty?

1708
01:34:57,520 --> 01:34:59,480
I thought it was bro.

1709
01:34:59,480 --> 01:35:03,040
His backwards towards goal who was on the edge of the area, there were a bunch of bodies

1710
01:35:03,040 --> 01:35:08,920
behind him inside of the area that basically didn't put Gabbiadini in a goal scoring position.

1711
01:35:08,920 --> 01:35:14,360
I feel like Luperto was closer to the ball than Gabbiadini.

1712
01:35:14,360 --> 01:35:19,120
Gabbiadini stretched his leg out to get to the ball, which caused him to collide with

1713
01:35:19,120 --> 01:35:20,120
Luperto.

1714
01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:25,880
I don't feel like Luperto did anything wrong in that situation to bring him down.

1715
01:35:25,880 --> 01:35:28,000
The man before the ball?

1716
01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:33,880
But I don't think the ball was Gabbiadini's to take.

1717
01:35:33,880 --> 01:35:39,680
I feel like Gabbiadini put himself in a situation where you know how it is, you stretch your

1718
01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:42,640
leg out and you purposely get caught.

1719
01:35:42,640 --> 01:35:46,720
That's the why street smart strikers way of getting a penalty.

1720
01:35:46,720 --> 01:35:49,480
It's cheap perhaps, but it's fair.

1721
01:35:49,480 --> 01:35:52,440
You got clipped and you got a penalty.

1722
01:35:52,440 --> 01:36:03,840
Now to be completely fair, the camera angles that I saw were in portrait with the front

1723
01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:07,240
of Gabbiadini and the front of Luperto.

1724
01:36:07,240 --> 01:36:09,600
So I didn't see any clips going on.

1725
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:15,640
I just saw two men colliding and Gabbiadini already being slightly off balance.

1726
01:36:15,640 --> 01:36:18,480
So that's why I don't think that it was a foul.

1727
01:36:18,480 --> 01:36:22,760
Now if there was a clip, if there was a trip, so on so forth, then in that case perhaps

1728
01:36:22,760 --> 01:36:26,480
then yes it should have been a penalty, but I didn't see that.

1729
01:36:26,480 --> 01:36:34,600
We'll go and look at it more, we'll post it on our stories as well.

1730
01:36:34,600 --> 01:36:38,600
The Dazen guy, the guy on Dazen, not Sky by the way, so I got two things wrong.

1731
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:42,680
I didn't know the referee's name and I said he was on Sky, he was on Dazen.

1732
01:36:42,680 --> 01:36:45,960
It was Luca Marelli by the way.

1733
01:36:45,960 --> 01:36:46,960
Luca Madonna.

1734
01:36:46,960 --> 01:36:49,960
Luca Allal Madonna.

1735
01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:52,240
Luca Madoffi.

1736
01:36:52,240 --> 01:37:00,680
He said Samp's goal should have been disallowed, but they deserve the penalty kick anyway.

1737
01:37:00,680 --> 01:37:01,680
Interesting.

1738
01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:04,400
Ebuehie got his first Serie A goal.

1739
01:37:04,400 --> 01:37:05,400
I like Ebuehie a lot.

1740
01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:09,680
He was one of Venezia's men when they were in Serie A.

1741
01:37:09,680 --> 01:37:15,320
Venezia could be going down to Serie A too, so we really were lucky to see them in Serie

1742
01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:16,320
A.

1743
01:37:16,320 --> 01:37:17,320
Definitely man, definitely.

1744
01:37:17,320 --> 01:37:21,000
They could have all the nice kids in the world, but unfortunately they are significantly struggling

1745
01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:22,480
and they still do have one of the better teams.

1746
01:37:22,480 --> 01:37:25,520
They have good investors, they have American owners, so I don't know how the hell they're

1747
01:37:25,520 --> 01:37:26,520
doing so badly.

1748
01:37:26,520 --> 01:37:30,240
But yes, this was a cagey, cagey, cagey game guys.

1749
01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:37,200
It was 50-50 ball possession, 16 shots each, like 5 shots on target for Empoli, 7 for Sampdoria.

1750
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:39,880
I really think Sampdoria deserved something from this game.

1751
01:37:39,880 --> 01:37:44,080
100% and even coming into this game I did think that Sampdoria were going to get something

1752
01:37:44,080 --> 01:37:45,080
out of it.

1753
01:37:45,080 --> 01:37:46,200
I didn't know if it was going to be 3 points.

1754
01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:50,320
I thought they'd be very motivated and that their goal would have been 3 points.

1755
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:53,920
They've looked a much improved side, man.

1756
01:37:53,920 --> 01:37:58,400
They look really good and they'll be disappointed to take nothing out of a game against Empoli.

1757
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:01,720
But Empoli once again held their own and they managed to get away with 3 points.

1758
01:38:01,720 --> 01:38:08,000
A bit of a miracle at the end obviously as we discussed, but massive kudos to Empoli

1759
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:10,760
and Sampdoria's story isn't over yet this season.

1760
01:38:10,760 --> 01:38:13,720
They're going to fight as much as they can for survival, man.

1761
01:38:13,720 --> 01:38:15,440
Yep, so that's it guys.

1762
01:38:15,440 --> 01:38:16,440
That's it from us.

1763
01:38:16,440 --> 01:38:17,600
Thank you very much for listening.

1764
01:38:17,600 --> 01:38:22,200
One second, because one thing we didn't really address that we only addressed in the intro

1765
01:38:22,200 --> 01:38:24,240
after the Cremones M1 ZAMACH.

1766
01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:28,600
Zapata to Everton, because that might happen.

1767
01:38:28,600 --> 01:38:29,600
That's interesting.

1768
01:38:29,600 --> 01:38:32,720
But no, Alvini was sacked.

1769
01:38:32,720 --> 01:38:35,320
Ah, fuck yes, you're right.

1770
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:37,000
We forgot to talk about that.

1771
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:46,440
Alvini was sacked and perhaps yes, you know, you hate to see it, but fair, you know.

1772
01:38:46,440 --> 01:38:47,440
That's a fair one.

1773
01:38:47,440 --> 01:38:49,560
When you look at Davide and Nicola, that's not a fair one.

1774
01:38:49,560 --> 01:38:52,040
Like they still haven't won a game.

1775
01:38:52,040 --> 01:38:53,040
It is what it is.

1776
01:38:53,040 --> 01:38:55,000
They haven't won a single game yet.

1777
01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:56,600
And now he's been replaced, no?

1778
01:38:56,600 --> 01:39:02,080
He has been replaced and it was Ballardini, the relegation expert who has come in to take

1779
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:03,440
his place, the coolest man in the league.

1780
01:39:03,440 --> 01:39:05,840
You see these guys always with his beanie, with his glasses on.

1781
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:08,000
He's a really cool old dude.

1782
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:12,640
He tends to take a very pragmatic approach in his football and his style of play.

1783
01:39:12,640 --> 01:39:14,000
Yeah, he's the military man.

1784
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:16,800
What do you mean the military man?

1785
01:39:16,800 --> 01:39:20,960
Didn't he line them up like, no, that was...

1786
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:22,560
Who the hell was that?

1787
01:39:22,560 --> 01:39:23,560
I think Mazzarri.

1788
01:39:23,560 --> 01:39:24,560
Mazzarri, Mazzarri.

1789
01:39:24,560 --> 01:39:31,920
He has them jog like back and forth, like in files and he stands there like a sergeant

1790
01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:32,920
or something.

1791
01:39:32,920 --> 01:39:36,160
But yeah, so we have Ballardini back, coolest guy in the league.

1792
01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:38,560
He definitely won't be there for more than a year.

1793
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:39,560
No.

1794
01:39:39,560 --> 01:39:40,880
Caretaker manager.

1795
01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:41,880
But we'll see.

1796
01:39:41,880 --> 01:39:42,880
We'll see what he manages to do with Cremona.

1797
01:39:42,880 --> 01:39:47,040
So currently he has them, as you mentioned, going to extra time against Napoli in the

1798
01:39:47,040 --> 01:39:48,040
Coppa Italia.

1799
01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:49,040
Exactly.

1800
01:39:49,040 --> 01:39:52,640
One other thing we have to say is obviously where Empoli and Sampdoria stand in the table

1801
01:39:52,640 --> 01:39:53,640
and it's actually Sampdoria.

1802
01:39:53,640 --> 01:39:56,000
I tried to win this way too quickly.

1803
01:39:56,000 --> 01:39:57,960
You just really want to watch Love Island, man.

1804
01:39:57,960 --> 01:39:59,960
No, I want to watch the rest of this game.

1805
01:39:59,960 --> 01:40:04,960
Matthew's like, dude, let's try finish recording before 10 o'clock so we can watch Love Island.

1806
01:40:04,960 --> 01:40:07,960
I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about?

1807
01:40:07,960 --> 01:40:08,960
There's Napoli-Cremona.

1808
01:40:08,960 --> 01:40:14,840
Day one and the thrill is like Empoli-Sampdoria in the 100th minute.

1809
01:40:14,840 --> 01:40:16,440
I mean, who is it?

1810
01:40:16,440 --> 01:40:18,280
That guy that has three girls after whatever.

1811
01:40:18,280 --> 01:40:19,880
This isn't a fucking Love Island podcast.

1812
01:40:19,880 --> 01:40:21,200
We'll start one.

1813
01:40:21,200 --> 01:40:26,040
OK, Sampdoria are in 19th on nine points level with Verona.

1814
01:40:26,040 --> 01:40:30,160
Guys, these guys, as much as we still want to see them in Serie A and we have high hopes

1815
01:40:30,160 --> 01:40:35,280
that we will next year, they are far behind Sassuolo.

1816
01:40:35,280 --> 01:40:37,000
They're far behind safety.

1817
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:39,320
Still seven points for them to gain.

1818
01:40:39,320 --> 01:40:44,720
Thankfully for them, there's about 33 points to be played for.

1819
01:40:44,720 --> 01:40:51,800
So Sampdoria 19th on nine points level with Verona, whilst Empoli are in 12th place on

1820
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:57,520
22 points level with Bologna and just one behind Fiorentina and Torino.

1821
01:40:57,520 --> 01:41:00,680
Guys, it's been a pleasure as always.

1822
01:41:00,680 --> 01:41:05,480
Do make sure to give us a follow on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter to stay up to date and

1823
01:41:05,480 --> 01:41:08,560
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1824
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:10,560
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1825
01:41:10,560 --> 01:41:11,560
We love you all.

1826
01:41:11,560 --> 01:41:12,880
Thank you so much for listening to us.

1827
01:41:12,880 --> 01:41:15,560
As always, we've been Serie A Spotlight.

1828
01:41:15,560 --> 01:41:35,960
We'll see you guys next week.