Hello and welcome back to serie a spotlight season 2 episode 34 with your host Jake and
mint coming in to replace Matthew for the fourth time for the third time I believe fourth I think
bro I think this might be the fourth yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
so your fourth time in a row thank you very much for for being here to replace Matthew my brother
who is currently in Australia for those listening for the first time our goal of the week was
Tomaso Pobega's strike against Bologna from outside the area to the post and ricocheted
then over there you can hear Mauro Suma's commentary it's always fucking amazing it's always
hilarious yeah he's literally elated that's the word for it runner-up bro well like we spoke about
before I think it's Marcus Antonio that 70-yard charge was was a thing of I actually liked
Venena's goal as well it was a nice it was a nice first shot I'd pick either of those two if
Pobega hadn't scored yeah if there wasn't that confusion in the Lazio second goal that would be
the goal that's a very nice goal that's a very nice goal but you know at the end like the balls
ricocheting and then somehow Philipp Anderson gets the ball and then slots at home yeah but yeah our
bet this week was an L a loss you can roast me now all I'm gonna say is that you could have taken
my advice twice and you would have gotten more money than the best you placed but your your advice
was given to me in a half serious manner listen I'm a half serious person so you take what you get
and in this world I gave you a bet which by the way for all the for all the people listening was
lots you win and Kremlin is a win and that could have probably led you to about 40 euros but Jake
said so I said fuck it would the Nasa win or draw against Roman they lost three in it I mean what
were you thinking I mean I was thinking that want to lose your money wrong wrong I had the ball and
time you like money with the Nasa like to show up against big teams I love throwing money away
okay clearly more in you proved you wrong he did he did and the top four race is getting juicier
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anything and I believe we have to be careful and we don't need to be rude to people but at the same
time let's have a bit of fun shall we Matthew is gonna have an aneurysm so it so let's start
with the big news before we get into the Champions League Conference League and the Europa League
roundup then we get to the say action is gonna be an action packed episode guys it is seeming
increasingly likely that Juventus will see the 15-point penalty removed pending a new trial today
that took place in front of the collegio de garantia and it lost it over three hours today on the 19th
of April and the verdict was expected today but it couldn't take up to five days to be delivered
yeah the weird thing about this whole uva thing was the fact that 11 clubs and 59 individuals
were initially taken to the FIGC and these included the likes of Napoli, Sampdoria, Genoa,
Empoli, Parma, Pisa, Pescara, Novara, Chievo and Pro Vercelli and these guys were all cleared on
April the 15th because the court found that it was impossible to independently ascertain the value
of a player however the Bianconeri were docked 15 points in January for artificially inflating
transfer fees to boost capital gains of course this is because of the likes of Audero, Portanova,
Orsalini and some of the other guys right the author and pianist yeah so this is why I kind of
understand why Juventus fans feel like they're always ostracized because stuff like this
I mean how can how can they get penalized where it's clear that other other teams are doing
exactly that okay it can be to a lesser degree but so what everything's relative then no so but
if Pisa buy a player for I don't know 450k it still might be way too inflated for the price or
celebrate you know what I mean so like of course when you see uva selling them for millions you're
gonna be like you're gonna find it's questionable but so many clubs do this and and I mean like
how can they how can they get how can they get blamed and others just get pushed through you
know then I don't then I understand why they always feel the way they feel you know as a club like
like like the leagues are to get them kind of thing yeah um it's shit man I think I think it's
just bad it is bad for the game it is especially at revoking points in the middle of a season this
seems stupid especially in situations like this where it's not even clear like you know yes yes
the game against Monza the loss against Monza for for uva was probably mostly because of the shock
that the players were on so it influences the league you know of course it does the prosecutor
general of sport confessed that the reasoning behind the 15 points penalty has a lack of clarity
in the motivation that must be appreciated and evaluated by a new judgment so yeah it's looking
even more likely that uva will get these points back they might get them back they might be taken
away again they in the next trial they might combine this with the whole scandal that happened
during covid where Kelleen acted as a middleman between the management and players in order to
basically take their payments under the table in order to not pay tax while the club declares that
the players will not be paid for four months so we'll we'll see what happens many many possible
outcomes over here but it's looking likely that uva will get their 15 points back I do I do really
hope they do I think it's um I think I just think it's the fairest solution yeah okay fair enough no
no no it's it is fair especially when you look at the fact that Napoli had that whole Victor
Ozyman thing where they sent two young players the other way with for a combined fee of 20 million
they were never heard of again and these players actually came out and said that they never actually
stepped foot in france and they never played for a little in their life they never went to a training
session so you know this thing shady shit yeah shady shit um Napoli won Milan won they have gone
through they have gone through yes um I was very happy first time since 2007 dude yeah yeah that
is a long time as well so long ago bro I looked completely different as well my my hair on my
face and head was upside down back then you had hair I had hair no on your head yeah and you had
no beard so it was a crazy match bro that included two and I was a virgin two missed
penalties two missed penalties by Gvarackeli Anjuru Leao taking on three players and assisting
Ozyman scoring late to add to the drama it was a fantastic match I feel like Milan controlled
the game out of possession um what are your takes on the game bro very quickly before we get into
the same um like we spoke about a bit before the game before our podcast sorry uh I'd like to just
I think the main point I'm gonna say is that it was a game of fine margins and um a lot of things
happened in the game I mean for sure that Milan were the better side overall they were the better
side in the first and second game they deserved to go through I think this is all clear and I don't
and I must have been arguing that I just feel like there may be a little bit too much confidence at
the moment with this Milan team and perhaps the the overall support of the club um I just feel
like you know let's just keep the feet on the ground you know it's it's only the quarterfinals
what have you heard in what sense like why do you think that I'm just talking about our inner circle
we have a lot of Milan fans and everyone is is rather confident or too confident I feel like
Milan fans are are being particularly cocky with this victory because of the footage that came out
on the day of the draw of Napoli fans actually celebrating drawing Milan in fact right now that's
I mean but listen let's put it in hindsight they had Milan they had Inter which were they probably
they would probably celebrate equally yeah then they had they had City and Real Bayern no offense
no of course but so I mean but you know you're gonna take that personally sure sure no I get why
I get why but I also don't blame Milan fans for it oh for Napoli fans for reacting in the way they
reacted probably they felt like okay this is a decent matchup for us something that they've
something they know something they can deal with it's nothing foreign yeah you know little did they
know they know yes my takeaway from this game was that we're seeing this Milan side that has
previously struggled in Europe we've seen them get eliminated by Atletico we've seen them not
manage to get the ball over the line against Porto we've seen them lose to United that was depressing
bro we've seen we've seen this Milan side struggle so much against against these teams you know in
Europe and now it seems that they've got a bit of street smarts to them you know their game management
has definitely improved there are a few characters in there that act as leaders there are a few
players with great experience like Kier and Manon he was phenomenal yeah Kier was phenomenal last
super if I had to choose he's my man of the match you're my man of the match was Davide Calabria
fair enough monstrous performance man yes but the way Kier managed to hold Oshiman until the very
end yeah I think was even more important personally yeah personally could be could be I thought
Gavritsky looked really lively and I thought that Calabria had a tough matchup against him who was
he was in the mood Agvara he was he wasn't that he decided to miss a very important penalty yeah
yeah two bad penalties as well by the way two bad penalties I mean the one was better but not by
much I think the only reason Juru missed was because he took like 20 minutes to shoot yes
and I don't know what the fuck he was thinking man really it was really confusing dude he took
like six or seven seconds really I took a moment and the run-up was really slow I don't know it
felt way too way too laissez faire I know he's French but nonchalant come on come on let's get
some panache out there yes sir up the up the ante as they say Spalletti has demonstrated that he's
a massive massive sore loser he's way through the first half when there was when there was a
throw-in which was given to Mera and it was actually an opportunity he sees Spalletti
throw the water then he goes and you hear this thumping sound against the bench
boom that guy's mad that that when Milan are defending as well as they were and you look at
the bench and you see their manager who's 20 points clear in the league just losing his mind
there you know you've got these guys where you want them yes at the end of the game he said
Spalletti said that there were certain decisions that favored Milan he's like perhaps it's because
of their pedigree in the competition now before he was obviously talking about that challenge by
layout right the listen the 50-50 penalty the penalty the penalty chance you mean where where
with the penalty which was not given exactly the layout it was a 50-50 I think he did clip the
player before I think it's a penalty yes I thought so because the ball does deviate especially if you
slow it down that's a penalty and because the penalty which was given for Milan was pretty
similar arguably it was a bit harder like the challenge was harder in general he was nowhere
near the ball did not get nowhere near it was late but it was a similar challenge and this one okay
layout does get the ball but he definitely gets the player first that's clear what I have to say to
Spalletti is that there were also many decisions that didn't go Milan's way for example the two
penalty calls in the first leg that were completely ignored as well as the fact that during Giroud's
penalty you can clearly see Juan Jesus encroaching entering the box early basically and then he
clears the ball away when the keeper saves it now that is if a player encroaches and then clears
the ball it should be a retake but you know these are things that happen in a football game you
can't fucking blame these isolated incidents and make bold fucking statements like this and and
you know I think he's taking the loss I think he's more mad about the fact that his players got
injured and it is through it they also lost Rachmani as well towards the end yeah you know I feel like
that really got to him you know I feel like that I think I think it's more the fact that
he couldn't get get it over you know against Milan I think he wanted to beat Milan in Europe you know
I think it's a good thing we would like to see a rematch next season if Milan go if Milan do
qualify let's let's hope so what else is happening in Europe as we sit here we are currently watching
Inter play the second leg against Benfica they are currently 1-1 and Barella scored a fantastic
opening goal and Benfica equalized long way to go for Benfica of course but it's looking likely
that Inter will make it through to the next round first half is almost over Juventus beat Sporting
1-0 thanks to a goal by your boy dude my boy Gatti everyone's been shitting on me I heard
I heard you on that podcast bro I got the top what the fuck are you talking and this guy's gonna
get into the semi-finals of the Europa League if all things are going through so what do you say
to these people bro to these haters you know what I say man you can hate all you want but you're
gonna be kissing these balls baby there we go there we go kiss him and you told me earlier
something interesting about that part of your body today well last night to be to be accurate
it was one of those nights where you're sleeping and this is one little motherfucking mosquito
he's always around man pesking around flying by telling you good morning when it's two in the
morning and he's just just flying by all night keeping you awake and at the point of course
luckily I managed to sleep I just gave up until the mosquito you win and he won he won the battle
twice actually because in the morning I woke up and had this rather aching pain in my balls I was
like what the hell is this and I came to realize after I got up and fully was fully aware
this mosquito fucking pierced and sucked blood out of my testicle there we go and my ball was
so sensitive the whole day every time I moved even a centimeter I just felt this aching pain
there we go so I hope I hope I hope the mosquito likes my thumb though this mosquito has more more
how am I gonna how am I gonna phrase can you just can you just say it completely raw oh sure
this mosquito has more shots on target than Lukaku has all season from open play oh my god
I didn't think you were going in that direction you have to bring it back to football right now bro
um also Fiorentina beat Lech for one there was an Ikona Jonathan Ikona won their goal no I don't
know who these guys are playing against for Jonathan Ikona to score a wonder goal but whatever
polish team yeah brother we have a phone call to make I don't know if you recall oh no before
the season started when Skamaka moved to yeah to West Ham we had a conversation recorded an episode
with Santi and and Santi made the bold statement that Skamaka would not score six goals for West
Ham and believe this is this is a smaller x don't do it yeah I can't I can't bear the pain oh we're
doing it yeah I'm sure he has a lot to say he has a folder on his computer called the Skamaka notes
so we'll see I hope he just bounced it I think he will I think he's waiting for this
hi Jake hello hello how are you I'm good I'm good yes very good bro we're on the pod I'm with Mintov
hi Andrew hello hello is this a good time yes it's fine there my dog is happy that's fine that's
fine so what do you have to say to Mintov dude I don't know what does Mintov have to say to me
yeah that's my question he's currently rubbing his eyes this is torture you know that this is
absolute three three thank you thank you but in the in the prem right it's three in the prem
listen listen okay I'm sorry to say that David Moyes is a murderer all right a murderer of
careers he is a murderer of careers of young fabulous okay very cool Italian boys no no
listen Moyes definitely has a big role to play and I won't say that I like I would say I'm a bit
lucky as I would that call but but I do I did think that he wouldn't be as good as everyone
thought he would be and and even like even the games he played in like he never looks really good
and like I'm just I don't know me I just feel that finally I'm right and you can just you know
kiss his ass I have to kiss his ass yeah so the next episode together next year I have to kiss his
ass there we go we record another one you better wash your ass I've been waiting for this day like
since the day I said it like I've literally had I was checking West Ham games even like
even if I didn't even care were you checking West Ham games because it's close to HLCR in the league
yeah but you were you were spot on you were spot on and you got quite quite a few
critics on social media as well this guy watches ice skating was one of my favorite comments
on social media and on and even for example I like training like I went I went in one day to a game
I went in one day to a game and they just like they were like listening to the video like all
at the same time so that I hear they put on the speaker and I'm like and I'm like time will tell
guys time will tell but now now you're a you're a legend and yes exactly I also wanted that guy
about the ice skating I found the video and I commented and I said I can't remember what I said
I just like gloated or something yeah that's great bro that is that is fabulous thank you very much
for picking up we'll record another one soon yes with lots of pleasure and I'll make more calls
fantastic fantastic thank you very much have a very good evening Andrew Sont
ladies and gentlemen Andrew Sont Fornier diplomat coach lover lover handsome handsome bold bold
bold bold as well bold and bold bold and bold legend now I think we have we have 10 games to
cover still there we go so I'll start all right okay so the first game we're gonna cover guys is
Napoli nil Hellas Verona nil the napolitans were unable to unhinge the defense of Hellas Verona but
smile at finally having seen Victor Ozzyman again and this was of course in the lead up to the
Champions League game so they must have been very relieved and he came on and looked quite sharp too
so they must have been happy there this match was number 60 in seya between Napoli and Verona 32
wins for Napoli 13 for Verona and 15 draws now an interesting stat over here that you would have
probably never guessed is that Kevin lasagna loves a game against Napoli you know he has scored four
goals against Napoli and say against no team has he scored more in the competition he's also scored
four against Benevento he also scored against Napoli in the reverse fixture now when it comes
to the lineups there was some turnover for Napoli in view of the Champions League clash against Milan
of course they rested players like Varadzkelia Lobotka Rahmani and of course the recently injured
Victor Ozzyman for Luciano Spalletti's men it was a 4-3-3 with Maretengold Olivera as the left back
Juan Jesus and Minjay Kim at the back and Di Lorenzo as the right back a midfield trio of
Elmas Demme and Anguissa so Lozano on the wing along with Poletano on the other side and Raspadouri
up front again Raspadouri not really in a put in a situation to succeed right over here as the sole
number nine in a 4-3-3 I mean you're putting him into a you're putting him into a team where
it's definitely the second squad almost and I mean and you're expecting him to to to perform
as though it's the first team almost you know there's a lot of pressure on him to to
to do what he's what he was brought in to do and I feel like um
it is a little harsh but he is also not been he's not been good enough yeah I don't know whether
it's the club I don't know whether it's the pressure or or a bit of both um but I feel like
it's a very it's a pity I definitely think that Skamaka as a player is more talented than
Raspadouri is about to say um but I don't think Raspadouri is is a player who should not be in
this league and should not be scoring yeah quite quite the opposite so for me it pains me even
though I'm sad he left my the club I like I like to to follow in Italy which is a swallow um I also
don't like to see him down in the dump down in the dumpster so um but he's not been good enough and
and even even when he plays it's it's um it's just lackluster yeah it's not bad sort of like
outright terrible but it's it's just like you know in a in a logical world Raspadouri goes to
Atalanta and Skamaka goes to Napoli oh my because imagine Raspadouri playing off the shoulder of
like Hoyland or Duván Zapata that's where he wants to look that's where you want or Lookman as
well you know how he is Gasprinje gives everyone 30 minutes he'd just be one of those guys I'd love
to see that I'd love to see him at Atalanta I just I would like to see him at a decently sized club
even Fiorentina yeah Fiorentina another one play with a soul striker so it would be a bit weird
yes um Hellas Verona lined up the three four one two for their defensive master class over here
with Monte Pogon goal Davidovic, Hien and Cech Carini at the back Hien bro what a defender huh
Hien Faroni was on the right with the Pauli on the left in the middle there was Abdelgaard and
Tameza with Duda playing as the treco artista behind Lasagna and Geich. Now Napoli started well
and dominated the play but they they didn't concede much at all bar the occasional set piece
or long-range effort Napoli tried to mostly attack down the wings using their speed particularly
Poletano down Poletano's side as well very creative player who was in good form before his injury I
think his season's over now yes looked like he fractured or broke something in his foot right
I don't know whether it's a break I think it's definitely a really bad spring I think it was a
ligament actually oh could be too but I think he rolled over his ankle really bad. Hellas Verona
scored an own goal early on but was ruled offside as a Napoli man was standing in an offside position
interfering with play Hellas Verona shut up shot well they did not actually concede much at all
the three centre backs and the double pivot were excellent Ozyman's entrance towards the end of
the game did change the balance of the game a little bit as his runs were dangerous he created
enough space for himself to smash the crossbar late on and in the 90th minute the best chance of
the game came as Serial Ngonj found himself running from the halfway line towards the opposition box
completely one-on-one with the goalkeeper and he fails to hit the target and a half-assed finish
half-assed attempt what the fuck was going on I feel like he just used all his energy to get there
and then he was just he was just it's like it's like when you're playing it's like when you're
playing UFC yeah and you're just beating up this guy you're like trying to break his guards and
you've used all your stamina and when you actually have the right opportunity to punch him yeah it's
just like it's like when you have when you have a dream yeah and you're trying to punch on your
dream you just feel you just feel like you're a fucking rubber I almost feel like he was caught
in between two minds whether to dink it over the keeper or to go low and hard it kind of did something
in between yeah so many ideas yeah too much time to think dude that is a problem sometimes it is
Serial Ngonj oh yes he definitely Ngonj'd himself into the dressing room yes Ngonj should become a
verb to miss a very good opportunity oh dude you really Ngonj'd that oh my god can we can we do this
from now on on the pod sure he really Ngonj'd it he definitely Ngonj'd it so Napoli had a whopping 80
percent ball position this game holy cow yeah um which got me wondering right okay so Hellas Verona
are bottom three teams in Serie A this season right Napoli had a massive match against
um Milan and the Champions League coming up yes you look at Milan Milan rested 10 players from
the starting 11 against Bologna against Bologna a team that can actually do danger and Milan don't
even have the league guaranteed at all right yes why did Napoli field a few starters and why did
they feel the need to bring some of their core players on towards the end what's the point is
it because the fans are paying money to see these players?
I don't think that's that's the reason I feel like they just wanted to see the season
I feel oh I might I might I might sound I might sound retarded here there we go another one
I'm sorry I'm sorry guys if this all comes out naturally
I just feel like I feel like they really thought they could um they could best mean on at home
and I feel as though they wanted to get this win get as close as get as close as the win in the
league as possible early on for the last few games of the Champions League semis final but in what
world would you do that?
When you're down 1-0 in the Champions League quarterfinals?
I mean why why else would you bring these players on if not if not if not to see this it might have
something to do with the fact that the stadium is constantly sold out nowadays and people aren't
playing aren't paying money to watch Raspadori, Lozano, Poletano you know these guys are well
Poletano is actually a starter you know they're playing in the Champions League quarterfinals
you know they're paying to watch Victorosimen, Gvaratskelia, Lobotka
sure I mean but this is not a game you go on you're super excited you're playing against
Verona yeah you know I mean I don't know I feel that's a bit it is it is weird definitely weird
I feel like they just needed to see this wanted a win just so that you know in the last six games
they're safe yeah because all they need is three more wins and they've won the league
yeah I've counted the points now they need three wins
damn okay um Di Lorenzo bro yes is a fantastic leader right he was the one who got closest to
scoring prior Ozimans attempt it's it's crazy how a player like Di Lorenzo who isn't the best
offensively right he's not he doesn't have this crazy output but when the going gets stuff
he's the guy who inserts himself you know he's the guy taking these shots attacking the area
running into the box yeah so I just want to highlight him as a leader what a player I feel
he's a brilliant player he's he's improved so much over the years and I feel like
he's a brilliant captain and I think that he's definitely going to be the captain for years to
come at this team yeah um I like he's he's not really a cunt as well I think he's a he's a
he's not there are con tier players yeah I like him I think he's a good defender and I feel like
he's never he's never you know um not not not slouching um sulking sulking yeah that's the
word he's never sulking and he's a motivator and I love seeing players like this because
when I play sports whenever I am like it's nice to have a player like that you know constantly
supporting you because then you know you lose together at the end of the day and it's so
shit when you have a player like with all due respect Barella you know whining and complaining
and moaning half the time it's like dude shut up I feel like there are a few Italian fullbacks who
are like molded in the same in the same cauldron you know like uh di Lorenzo Calabria um Decilio
Darmian these guys are just all kind of like you know they're good going forward they're better
defensively they're cool you know they're composed they're professional they look lovely you know
these guys it's yeah they were made in the same lab probably probably they were man no um yes I
think um when we refer to the table of course we are not going to take it for granted that you
did get their points back we're gonna actually read it out how it stands at the moment live
okay so do you ever learn to add your standings no I forget every time but I've become very good
at buying time um Napoli are in first with 75 points still of course while Hellas Verona sit
in 18th with 23 points three points off of Spezia in 17th yeah and I feel like I feel like Spezia
are digressing as the season goes on and Verona are improving yes I think they're improving
and Verona are improving yes as a club as a team as well they are but yes um they look way better
than they were looking you know different the first half of the of the season yes at the point
they improved when they had the legion and they go rid of them and they dipped again um it's just a
shame that a bit of a resurgence again yeah lately they have been playing it a bit better it's true
so they're feeling the pressure well it's it's you know some teams succumb to it and falter and some
teams are are are up for the challenge Cremones is another one the double pivot was fantastic this
game centerbacks were great for Hellas Verona let's see if they can keep it up your game brother
my game was Spezia nil latio three for this game we see a low a team in the lower part of the of
the league against um arguably the second best team in the league and then that that point as
we keep mentioning keeps being reinforced more and more as the season goes on but we'll have
some more talking points after we speak about form lineups and the game itself we see Spezia
coming in with one win three draws and one loss two lot shows three wins one draw and one loss
very interesting we have lots here with absolute dominance in this head-to-head where lots of one
six games against Spezia and nothing else they are basically they are basically in vulnerable against
this team um some interesting stats to keep in mind lots you have kept clean siege clean sheets
in their last four serie away games last time they've kept five was in 1998 under Sven Gorn Ericsson
oh my god um so yeah they managed to get five now with this win um and and one of the one other
point i'd like to mention Spezia have considered six goals in two home games against Lazo and Serie A
and average of three per match only not only do they have a higher average of goals conceded at
home to this competition which is 3.3 so i think statistics were really on point in this game
spot on and these are the kind of bets we should be placing yeah so next next time listen to me
bitch okay um as for as for lineups and as for some changes we see that immobile was finally back in
the starting lineup which meant that Philippe Anderson could go back to his natural right-wing
position we see Cataldi coming in midfield for Vecino and Patrick was back as a center back
on the other hand we have Borabja and Esposito back in the squad for the first time in over
five games rather than back in the squad back in the starting lineup sorry um and other than that
you had a normal team so to speak um who who the fuck is this guy that's Viznitsky dude oh right
so we're gonna go over to go we're gonna go over we're gonna go over the starting lineups because
i gave Jake um a look of distraught yeah trying to pronounce this guy's name um anyways i'll go
over them right now we have Dragoski in goal we have Amir Viznitsky, Ampadu and Nicolao in defense
we have Egdal Esposito and Borabja in midfield with Gassi and Zola and Werder finalizing the attack
on the other hand we have Immobile, Zakani and Philippe Anderson in attack we have Luis Alberto
Cataldi and Milinkovic Savic in midfield with Haisal, Romagnoli, Patrick and Marozic in defense
Providel is in goal. I find it funny how you read the lineups like a book you go from goalkeeper
to strikers and you go strikers to goalkeepers. I just feel like it just it just helps me to not
make any fuck up. By the way guys both teams were running a 4-3-3 formation as for some highlights
in the game we see that Spezza came super close to scoring in the first two minutes when Egdal
smacked the crossbar from a shot in the box and Zola came inches close to scoring from one of his
headers but then unfortunately Lazio were given a penalty by Philippe Anderson's foul. Ampadu
kind of got the ball here he got a yellow card as well was this a harsh call i feel it was a
little bit harsh on him but because in my opinion as we're just speaking about rough challenges in
the Champions League he really gets the ball yeah that i felt really bad for him i i thought he got
the ball and even the commentator was like what a challenge ampadu and he was in every point he's
like no go fuck yourself exactly and well that's what happened they got the penalty and Mr. Immobile
stepped up to take it and slotted it into the back of the net 1-0. In the 52nd minute 2-0 for Lazio
where Luis Alberto starts the run from the middle of the pitch he plays the ball to Philippe Anderson
who then flicks the ball into Immobile who's right outside the box mind you then there is some
impressive tiki takka football where Immobile is passing back to Philippe Anderson and then he's
getting the ball back then laying it off to Luis Alberto on the byline he squares it back to Anderson
and with some luckiness involved the ball rebounds and he's finally on 1v1 against
Dragoski and scores from close range what a goal what a goal if you'd like to see a really well
well really well planned a methodical goal and you can tell that this has been been done in training
guys go and watch this goal really nice really nice one peak sorry boy that's what it's all about
it's really it was lovely then shortly well not shortly after some some moments later
I read cards from Ampadu again it felt like he was really unlucky Ampadu goes to clear the ball
but he also decides to clear Zakani as well I was really surprised that kind of didn't take off and
start to um fly off the pitch to be honest with you Ampadu absolutely kicked the shit out of the
ball and Zakani but he didn't get the ball first so it wasn't like um I felt bad for him it was
just a howler of a game for the lad and then to finalize the the the result 0-3 8th and 9th minute
Mandini with one Maldini for Spitzer whips in a free kick which is easily cleared by Lazio
Marcos Antonio picks up the loose ball he begins charging on his own he basically creates a
counter attack out of nothing he passes everyone in Spetsa's defense to then be 1v1 against Zrkowski
dribbles past him to slot the ball into the back of the net that was a 60 plus yard charge 3-0
shades of this
yes it was it was a it was a goal of the sorts um so yeah a dominant display by Lazio yet again
the more we see them the better they get it seems like um Sardibol is in full effect you think?
It is bro these guys have really been jelling and they've been together for even longer than
Sardinia's been there you look at for example the Mellinkovic-Savage and Moble Luis Alberto
partnership even Cataldi has been there for ages these guys have been together for so long and they
got used to a particular style of football with three at the back before Sardinia came in so it
was going to take these guys some time to adapt and it seems that they're doing it very well last
year we saw glimpses but never this consistent I remember you guys used to complain like it was so
inconsistent I remember you and Matt always talked about Sardinia ball but sometimes it's Sardinia
ball sometimes it's no ball you know it was like a on and off kind of thing it's terrorist ball
sometimes yes but um but of course it was expected no this is a system you need to learn yes and I
think they are definitely learning it and I feel like they aren't at their final level yet either
to be honest with you I feel that they are worse with a mobile end the starting level it looks like
it man and with that being said now that unfortunately immobile was in a car accident luckily yes he is
totally fine guys so not to worry but he is most likely injured for some time again did you know
what he crashed into right he perhaps crashed into a tram tram I think I think he was apparently a
spectator posted a video saying it was immobilist fought I wouldn't blame him because um by the way
immobile engorged in this game he absolutely missed the easiest chance I've ever seen this guy have
to take he was literally literally a meter away from the ball the ball ends up in his feet after
a cross from Philipp Anderson and he managed to miss kick it yeah he should have used his other
foot he should have used he should have used his cock yeah anything anything literally anything
any boy anybody part just not your hands hopefully but he managed to fuck that up so I think he was
so he was so shocked at his at his performance that probably crashed into the tram because of that
um so anyways honestly Philipp Anderson falls nine Pedro on one side Zacon you on the other is a
gorgeous gorgeous sure but I understand why sorry did this he wanted to give he wanted to give him
up and at some time I wanted to give him some confidence bring it back into the squad fan
favorite as well I mean he scored the fan favorite but he was yes just yet again proving the point
why we why we both think he has been the top of the flop of the season yeah um with that being said
final point before we go over the standings um now the mobile is out and it's looking more and more
likely that he may slowly be um sidelined um not for this season I mean just in general we're
speaking in general terms very very layman terms here and so don't take this for for the gospel um
who would you like to see them bring in as a striker Skamaka it was very quick answer imagine
that oh he's going to become available Skamaka I'm pretty sure I mean he won't be staying at
west end yeah um I thought about Korea walking Korea coming back to not a bad not a bad show
it kind of plays like Philipp Anderson what about Enzo La Enzo La would be good Enzo La would be
good I'm not sure if I don't think you know what I'm gonna say unfortunately not technical enough
I was more worried about the racism in Lazio no being a bit of a fascist club yeah um and you know
bringing in I mean well that guy said who was a fan favorite true so so maybe it won't be too bad
I actually think he'd work very well there I think he's a he's a yeah I think he's a he's a
destroyer you know he goes in his scores and I think they need they need a player like that
so whoever it's going to be is going to be playing champions league football so this is a good club
to go to right now I think I think um I really like to keep guys keep your eyes open if you have
any ideas as well in terms of who you like to see or who you think you know um Lazio may poach you
know let us know it could be interesting I love talking about transfer it's probably one of my most
one of my favorite topics topics in general football wise it's always speculating always
it's always fun it's always fun it's always fun um so yeah just to round out this game we have
Lazio ending up this game week in second place with 61 points Spezia still in 17th with 26
things are looking a little bit gloomy just gonna say that so Spezia put on your big boy pants
definitely another point by the way yeah go for it is that this 433 system of sari would suit
raspadoori way more than the 433 that he's currently playing at Napoli yes because um
I feel like the the the wingers on Lazio's team are way more supportive yes and I feel like that's
exactly what raspadoori needs he can't be the sole man up front yeah yeah he needs someone to
lay it off to yes or someone to pretend he's gonna lay it off to or to receive the ball from or to
make runs alongside each other yeah he's been compared by the way to like a mini aguerra and
I really don't see it I don't think he's I don't see that man I thought I see him more um
so I don't it's unique it isn't he's quite I don't I don't see him as anything in particular to be
honest yeah um yeah so Bologna won Milan won yes um Milan rested 10 players for the Champions League
quarterfinal return leg against Napoli they won that so there will be no regrets over here
Bologna have not won any of their last 15 Serie A matches against Milan they have drawn three
times and lost 12 times only against Juventus do Bologna currently have a longer winless streak
in the competition with four draws and 17 losses yes and there was a period in time where Milan
looked to have Bologna figured out but that was of course before this whole rejuvenation
under Thiago Mota and Milan were fortunate enough that Orsolini was out for this one as Bologna
lined up in a 4-3-3 formation with Skorupski in goal Keiakopoulos on the left and the fabulous
fantastic posh on the right Lukumi and Saumar over the centre back do over here Dominguez
Schouten and Ferguson were the midfield trio with Moussa Barrow out on the left wing
Arbisheur on the right wing and Sansone as the lone striker for Milan it was a 4-2-3-1
formation with Manon in goal the only starter over here Florenzi as the right back Balotour as the
left back Malik Dschau and Kalulu as the centre back duo with Pobega and Vranx as the double pivot
Salamakers was out on the right Rebic on the left Origi as the striker and Decatelare as the
treco artista I can see mint of dancing because he doesn't rate those two guys
I mean dude you know me I supported do you rate them I do not
I take you learning or reggae yes I have a massive problem with origi because I just say but
Decatelare isn't looking but Decatelare at least is young right Decatelare is the type of player
where again you look at Liao's first season you can't ban Asser's first season you cannot
you look at no but this guy has had nothing man he's had nothing Jake I'm sorry but Asser
looked dreadful in his first few games from you like I was getting a yellow card every game
game games not first few 20 games dude this guy's been playing for half a season now okay he's done
nothing dude sorry today he has been utterly useless this is his first to him this is he's a
young guy 20 years old whatever first time at in a top division in a foreign country playing football
for an elite team that's actually doing well sold out stadiums every week massive expectations
record-breaking transfer fee whatever there's a lot of pressure on this kid's shoulders and you
know what I'm not as disappointed in him as I am in origi because origi is meant to be kind of a
finished product that you get he comes in his profession like he gets the job done finished
finished product let me tell you he's totally finished you keep shitting on Lukaku but he's
the guy it's rice I would much rather have Lukaku than origi on my bench oh definitely bro on the
bench though I'm starting Oliggi I would I would start even me even though I yeah so let's quickly
run through the game 35 seconds in Bologna shocked Milan as Posh thundered down the right and fed the
ball to Sansone who scored it's a son so and appears now for like three games a season now
is the time where he's popped out of nowhere I love how he comes in the most important that's
true when Arnautovic has decided to um self-improve his career um but where is Arnautovic right now
and Arnautovic by the way it's been so long since we've seen him he's out he might you know no
confrey won't be playing for the rest of the season or forever no I mean he'll find out the club I'm
thinking he'll step up no bro it's done I'm telling you from now it's done from what I read
what from what I've read all the time I know it's which is kind of they're just too far apart
Arnautovic believes he's better than who plays but Mota has reiterated so many times so he's
not injured no he's not injured oh Mota has I mean he's injured but yeah I feel like this is the
Pogba thing where I'm injured but I feel like I feel like um I feel like Mota just just just
definitely it all depends on training yeah I'd actually if I if I was a player I'd love a coach
like that yeah who comes to training who trains hard who's there I'm gonna play even if we fucking
lose I don't care yeah and we'll see what happens kind of thing and bro I don't know I really
respect it I like I like Zergze as well a lot he's been he has he has he has promise he's super
technical he does this in the 40th minute Pobega took matters into his own hands as he was frustrated
and tired of seeing Rebic, Origi and Decatela shit the bed he just thundered in a long-range
rocket off the post what a goal you can hear Mauro Suma in the intro to this episode losing
his mind and singing Tommy P baby Tommy P now Milan were unlucky with a few penalty calls
as usual particularly a stomp on Rebic by Suma, Rebic was unlucky not to score on a few opportunities
particularly you know everyone says oh Rebic, Origi, Rebic, Origi I don't mind these Rebic
performances he works very hard he gives his all yes that doesn't bother me and and to be honest
he's not even that bad you know granted sometimes looks like he's playing in Timbs you know like
Timberlands the shoes yeah but um yes he didn't bother me as much as Origi did this game yeah
Origi just can't I mean he's not what's what's his main strength Origi um miss his shots miss his
shots but seriously as if you're studying his profile his opportunism I think that he's not
he's not bad on the ball ish he's always late no no but when he does have the ball he's not like
he's not like those kind of players like where he you know they're almost stumbling over their own
feet so he's technical he is has technique but it's just he doesn't show anything it's out of sync
though yeah he doesn't show anything he's late to everything even if you put a ball in the box he's
late to it another point about um is he does look scared you look at his body language everyone's
saying right now the newspapers are all saying the same thing he looks like a guy who's terrified to
make a mistake and you look at his pass accuracy for example it's 100 100 percent pass accuracy for
a for a playmaker for a trek white star just means that we're not no risks the safe thing constant no
wonder you have Pobega thundering them in from miles out you know you have to play these through
balls you have to try to pick out your your teammates in that role you look at the likes of
i don't know louis alberto he's not gonna finish a game with 100 percent fucking pass accuracy
definitely not he'll attempt five audacious balls one of them will come off and it'll be a fantastic
assist you know or a good scoring opportunity but anyway yeah um yes
balonia held up well without their main goal scorers um orsolini and um are not which of course
were out the old field players they fielded this game have scored nine serial goals all season only
so so yeah this is a good result for them um jirou has renewed his contract for one season
he signed it today 3.5 million per season one year i mean fair enough fair enough i would have done
that too i mean probably it's probably something like the amount of money they'll be getting for
going to the semis or you get more than that no there's more there's more there's more there's
i sold like 50 something million i don't know it's probably with this money anticipated they're
including this get the money give it a layoff now musa barrow a few statistics um musa barrow has
been involved in the most goals in april 2023 in say uh he's got four one goal and three assists
the gambian striker could take part in a goal and at least could have taken part in a goal
uh at least three matches in a row in the competition for the first time since october 2021
did he he did not he did not get the assist so yeah he had a good opportunity there now in europe's
top five leagues leo is one of only five players born after 1999 with more than 20 goals and more
than 10 assists in the last two seasons the others are saca holland venutius junior and the drb so
he's in good company there he is in definitely good company that's a that's a top tier talent
right there now um one thing that i i wanted to discuss before we move on um it's is this a good
result for milan uh no it's not in my opinion i mean i mean it's good damage limitation because
you came back and at least you you you scraped it as well but um you cannot be afforded to be
dropping any points right now that's it that's the situation especially with uva okay bologna aren't
a bad team so let's not let's not let's not just diss them and say oh yeah no no this is a strong
bologna side but sorry um then again you did play 10 different players so in a sense in a sense
it's not bad but it's still not what you should be looking you should be looking to win man yeah
i mean uh okay i'm not gonna say that milan can't win the champions league you can everything's
possible um i'm not gonna i'm not gonna say such silly things but not qualifying would set me
long back but dude there's a big chance of that i mean you forget their points back you have a
few more games like this you know and then you're then you're twiddling your thumbs yeah you know
now that's the thing right hindsight so milan actually went through in the quarter to the
semi-final of the championship i'm hoping that will be a massive morale boost but you look at
the direct competitors let's say it's for one spot inter are also going through and they're also
getting their morale boost so you look at roma roma are led by jose morinio who in these moments
is the guy you want to rile up a group of of warriors you know that roma have roma are looking
solid you could enter right now by the way they've scored two one the crowd is elated
popping right now i'm missing a little love today you are like my word of the day
elated and engaged i've been going to leave in elated there we go um yes so honestly from purely
his point of view not a bad not a bad but you're gonna say not a bad result you know but but no
because because you look at it milan totally dominated this game and bar the gold injury
looked like they were in danger of conceding anything and you know he set these players out
up to succeed and and you see you you watch the chances that were missed again it's the same
inter discussion now where they they dominate the game but they just can't get it over the line i
mean both teams are really suffering right now yeah it's it's hard it's hard to put down because
they're playing shit yeah you can't say oh god they're playing terrible football you know um
um you know like some other teams where they're just outright playing bad yeah but they just
just can't do it just can't do it it's just like um you know there's this want to make a girl come
but it's can't do it man there we go and that's the perfect perfect segue to your game brother
it is because we've just been talking about inter and milan and the next game is inter versus monza
inter at home at the sun zero but they are yet to grab a win there in a while monza with a one
nil win their worst home record in history yes it is it's it's it's it's i will tell you a fun
fact yes please um so to go over some of the form we have the head the head-to-head fixtures
between inter and monza they've only played each other twice with inter winning once and drawing
another time inter come into this fixture with one win two draws and two losses as in comparison
with monza with one win three draws and one loss arguably a little bit better in form as well um
some things to mention before we go over the starting lineups um inter
where inter hasn't had a striker score from open play since march 5th against lecce a striker in
open play oh my god we're in the middle of april i had to check in saria mind you okay okay still
of course that's a lot of game weeks who was it march 5th martin is working martin is quite
against lecce okay the the shots from outside the box would curdle it oh yeah um another point um
maybe we can leave this for later on it's about yeah let's leave it for later on try to remind me
otherwise we'll just we'll just um you might as well get out of the way okay um are inter missing
hakan this is my point are they missing hakan in the middle he came on later on in the game but he
came on late came on in seven minutes i believe or are there deeper issues i mean there definitely
are other issues not it's not like this is just a one small problem but i feel like i feel like
hakan has been maybe one of the better midfielders this one of the better maybe you know a bit a bit
un not unmentioned like unsung unsung in the sense that they may be they may really need him yeah
yeah at least in the league honestly no i mean yes bro they they do miss him in this team
um granted they had the whole the champions league in mind yes yes yes yes yes by the way
yes we'll get into the deeper issues later on because i do i do i do have two other points
as well so anyway we'll go over that when it comes um as for the lineups we have korea coming in for
martinez for inter and we have aslani coming in for brozovich otherwise it's a rather standard
formation on the other end for monza we have mota danimota coming in for petania we have
kolpani coming in for caperari and rovella coming in for machin um to go over the lineups themselves
we have inter in a 352 with onana in goal with armeon devry bastoni as the center backs we have
dumfries borelli aslani miketarian and gozens in midfield lucaco and korea up front on the other
hand we have danimota as a striker for monza we have kolpani and sensi as midfielders while
attacking midfielders rather carlos carlos agusta rovella rovella pessina and truria in midfield
carl di rola mari and itso at the back with de gragoreo in goal for the game itself we have
inter starting the game superbly in my opinion they were playing really good football they were
attacking with intent dumfries and lucaco getting very close to scoring within the first five minutes
of the game both having had the chances which nearly converted into a goal korea nearly scored
some a neat one two with lucaco in the box he smashed a shot from the left hand side of the
area towards goal but de gragoreo saved rather well um in the second half we then have inter coming
against strong coming out strongly and almost scoring when archerby managed to find space yes
you heard that right archerby in attack finding space to cross the ball into monza's central box
with the with the ball floating in lucaco managed to get ahead of his man headed towards goal but
the gargoyle managed to save it rather well the gargoyle is a nice little nickname for de gragoreo
i really hope and find the culture they give him a gargoyle cartoon anyway um unfortunately for all
the chances that inter were creating they were not able to convert and as the score line intended
uh indicates indicates rather excuse me um english isn't my first language um i don't know what is
in the 78th minute swag yes swag is your first language i i just speak gibberish to him and oh
my god after inter were bossing the second half with majority with the for the majority sorry
um monza went a corner um which then which seemed to be rather the only chances they had to score
that was the only time where they looked threatening jerea whips in a fiery cross
in the middle of the box barrella who was marking calderola i will remind you barrella
who is five foot seven trying to mark a giant okay failed to do so shock horror calderola rises up
to the occasion and smacks the ball into the top corner one zero inter then came agonizingly
agonizingly close to scoring uh minutes from the end with two chances both headed attempts on goal
by martyres but both failed to convert yes so this is this is an interesting one because inter lost
out over here to um berlusconi and galliani who are who are like milan legends right and you look
at the guys who actually stopped them from getting the the victory their inter youth products you look
at de gregoire young goal was a member of inter's academy and calderola who scored the winner was
actually also a member of of inter's academy so so it's even even more it's salt in the wounds
right so it is it definitely they definitely weren't happy with this one um as i also made
some comments about this which we speak about soon um inter have had bad games this season that
is that is definitely easy to be said um but i wouldn't label this a poor performance um
overall not a poor performance a poor result right or is that but they didn't take their chances and
this has been this has been same old song same old song but this this this game in particular
was was shocking if you look at the stats even if you were interested and have some free time go
over them please don't do this whilst you're driving don't be knobheads um we have entered with
57 percent ball position to 43 to monza inter with 25 goal attempts on target to monza seven six
shots on goal on target basically um and two to monza we have um five corners to inter's to five
five corners for inter to monza's two and then we have monza with 16 free kicks to inter's eight
we see that statistics the statistics wise inter were were good they were just all over monza but
it has failed to to get that finishing product um zanetti has labeled the performances as of late
unacceptable and quite rightly so but what's the issue that's that's the question and are the
performances unacceptable because when i watch enter when i watch these games i don't see a side
that's struggling i see a side that's struggling to score it's almost like the problem is psychological
but they're the instructions that are their demands are they're meeting them you know they're
putting themselves in these positions to succeed and you know i mean i'll late late calderola
header against you after you've been squandering chances my point is that you expect to concede goals
you can't expect you can't expect not to consider any goals and they've been rather good defensive
in this season but you have to score some goals that's it that's it i mean uh zack was missing
martin is missing lucas was missing korea is missing i mean sorry can you blame the coach
yeah is it is it fair to blame the coach and marco parolo the former latio midfielder has made a very
good point recently in a podcast he said that um when you look at inter domestically and you look
at them in cup tournaments they look like two completely different sides you know you look at
inter in the champions league they play incredible football they score they're passionate they're
hard working industries they look different you know and it's the same thing in the copa so what's
going on in the league now his theory is that the players are perhaps thinking about themselves
nowadays that they they want to be recognized on the international stage so they put in the
performances in the champions league they want to win these trophies maybe they understand that
they're not going to win seia maybe they understand that champions league qualification isn't even
that important considering the club situation the fact that they're willing to sell the fact
that's an aging squad the fact that um there's going to be a change in ownership the fact that
the manager is going to be sacked most likely um joaquin korea has just scored the third goal
for this is another thing we're talking about korea what's he done all season nothing
so you absolutely nothing here he is curling it in wanking wanking around absolutely wanking
around you know something else i wanted to mention is why are inter so obsessed with headed goals
when all these players zerka martinez lukaku um korea they can all shoot yeah what's what's
this opposition with trying to cross the ball it's a it's a inzaghi's 352 right okay man but
but you have to work with what you've got as well agreed agreed but we know that he's very
yes systematic and stubborn i mean you look at this you know they're through in the champions
league this guy isn't even giving the youngsters a goal he's bringing on the the seasoned players
but he needs he needs korea and lukaku to score i mean ideally now he gets lukaku to get a goal
um to just to give everyone some confidence but yeah i mean scoring in a packed sun zero will
give you confidence like korea right there that's a really nice it's an injection of adrenaline right
um one final thing you want to hear from something funny yes please in the last five haven't been
enough in the last five games um can you guess inter's form when the last five like imagine
imagine this is this is like the the season has just started where would inter be in the last
five games the form table the form table yes in the last five last five i saw in the last eight
they were like just guess eight or something just in the last five just guess 12 19 19
oh my god oh my god only lecture is worse to round out this game inter end this week with
in fifth with 51 points monza and this week in 13th with 38 yes so um this whole you know
um dr jackal and mr height situation that's going on with um with inter right now in the champions
league and the league is actually the reason why this episode cover art is what it is it's meant to
be enzagi smiling on one side and enzagi looking in horror on the other side and it just looks like
it just looks like he's very uncomfortable he is man it's like he's it's like he's um he's getting
the best blow to be very good in his life here we go again but then he's also getting
fucked in the ass as well so it's it's uh it's a double-edged no it's not even a double-edged
at all my friend it is just um a tale of two sides there we go sure
you are absolutely unhinged is this like are you preparing me for your final episode like is it
gonna be a crazy one like are you just gonna come on i just screaming scream the entire time
okay so far only positive feedback from our listeners about you apparently so
listen i come here with a plan to destroy this thing
i just tried to fuck up our podcast and somehow it's working god damn it people are texting like
oh this mint of guys really funny dude it's like yeah that's another dynamic you guys need better
taste honestly he's roasting his own fans so i love you guys i love you guys roma cool three
with the names and nil that was a very good bet my friend thank you
you want to know what the reverse fix of your result was this season yeah
i don't know with the news at 21 with the news of four nil oh my lord this was when
odinese were on the rampage oh yeah they were just fucking everyone up top three for a while
yeah yeah just go see how long the season is odinese won four nil against roma on the first leg
and have not won both seasonal matches against roma and seria since 1997 1998 so it's been
that long the the two forwards who have played the most games in seria this season without finding
the net faced each other this game isaac's success for odinese with 28 appearances and andrea bellotti
for roma with 23 appearances oh they must have been nice to feel good about themselves yeah did
they exchange shirts that would have been good so for roma it was a three four to one formation
with rui patricio in goal lorenzo smalling and mancini were at the back with stefan el sharaoui
out on the left wing and the turkish international in chelic on the right wing and when alderman
cristante with the midfield double pivot with pellegrini and bove playing behind bellotti as
a lone striker for odinese it was silvestri in goal in the three five two formation with rodrigo
becau bijole and newin perez as the center back partnerships and azibi was on the right and
ludogia on the left with lovrich wallace and samardzic in the middle with isaac's success
and pereira up front now in the 37th minute the ball hit pereira's hand in the box and this
resulted in a penalty to roma pellegrini wanted to take the penalty but moreno said no
chrisante stepped up he crashed he crashed he smashed the post and the ball fell to bove who
controlled it and tapped it in he took off in celebration was unfortunate enough to be slapped
about six times in the face by the maniac mancini now in the 55th minute el gallo bellotti played
one of those through balls we saw in his later years at torino perfectly through to pellegrini
who finished expertly shortly after that mancini actually handled the ball in the area and the
penalty was awarded pereira stepped up to take it but rui patricio saved it immaculately the game
could have changed over here could have been 2-1 with 20 minutes to go but of course that was not
the case and then in the 91st minute a player who we didn't even think we would see this game tammy
abraham returned to scoring ways as he headed in spinazzola's cross now bro um what did you make
of this game in general what was this i meant of this entire time has been just eating pizza like
go on wait a second let me let me hit you with the stat while you swallow roma have won eight
games without conceding a goal in say in 2023 no team has more wins but a clean sheet in this
period napoli also with eight you've and latio follow up with seven on the other hand the
jala rossi have not won any of the last nine top flight games in which they have conceded at least
one goal wow okay um well as for the game itself i think that i think that um apart from milan being
so street smart i think roma are by definition by definition as street smart as them and they
definitely they definitely seem to also really follow the mission that that morena has has
brought to the to the team and it's working for them rather well and um they just even now that
they're scoring goals and they definitely not the most exciting attacking team in the league um
there is such a strong defensive unit though i keep repeating that and i think i'm gonna
keep repeating it till i go off this pod and they just they just believe they can't concede
yeah and they they it's one of morena's main principles there's a show that matt and i often
talk about on this podcast um all or nothing all or nothing spurs have you have you heard of it
yeah it's it's fucking fantastic bro you look at um you see morena the way he talks to players you
see the way he handles people there's a conversation that's actually that was actually viral you've
probably seen it conversation he had with deli alley it's so powerful his man management is
incredible dude and one of his main principles one of his main footballing philosophies is that you
cannot concede you can't concede that's that's the main thing for any good team you can't concede
goals and it's so different to what we're used to it's so different to what we're used to and he
really transmits that this place players hate conceding goals look at look at the look at the
players when they concede of roma they fucking hate it they hate it they absolutely hate it
probably they get howled training i suppose yeah that's the reason why their way is conditioning
them but this was um also by the way the best rui patricio performance i've seen in a long time
dude in a long long time he really did um and it was a good penalty yeah yes it was by pereira
pellegrini also had a good game and um i think that it's probably due to the fact that the bala
was out and he could have taken a more advanced role because pellegrini thrives in an advanced
road he does and the bala does hinder him a little bit but he has to adapt the bala only makes the
team better yes i agree yeah um and the bala by the way has been involved in 17 goals against
sudanese and say uh 10 goals and seven assists since 2005 only francesco totti with 20 goals
against parma and dominico berardi with 18 goals against milan have been involved in more goals
against a single opponent in the competition so the bala really missed out here at the stat pad
a little bit he did he did next time buddy yeah so this was not pereira's day as we discussed he
gave away a penalty and he missed his at a crucial time when it rains it pours which it does man it's
sure bloody hell does like everyone has everyone has his games you know i mean you you you complimented
them you were you put them as your top of the season so i mean you know it's it is gonna happen
you're not gonna have brilliant performances every game you know it's just um you know you have to
uh take it on the chin and you know move on i had i had a terrible performance in my last 10 ball
game i played like ass but what am i gonna do about it go back to training and i hopefully
you know pick up where i where i left off and try to improve and these guys are professionals
prayer as a professional um so i'm sure that next next match we're gonna see him bounce back
yes the polar opposite this was time abraham's entire situation over here a game he wasn't even
meant to feature in due to injury he came on no one was expecting to see him there was nothing
expected of him um roma had a tunnel lead so he was literally playing without any pressure and this
was the perfect moment for him to increase his confidence a little bit to boost his confidence
and he actually managed to score a header without any pressure so nice little confidence boost for
him so we'll see if towards the end of the season he can actually carry this roma side on his
shoulders because up front they are lacking they're quite the bala dependent they are they are uh and
set piece reliant they're not too looked better though bellotti that ball that ball was better
so interesting to see what's gonna happen um perhaps perhaps this also opens up some avenues
for him as well yeah um so yeah oh denise are one of those teams right now who don't really have
anything to play for just players trying to shine or draw attention at the moment they're not going
to get relegated they're not going to get europe they're just straight vibing so these are the the
weird teams right now that um yeah it's it's not the worst thing to play them at the moment no
but yeah um let's go to the table yes sir roma currently sit in third with 56 points
while odin has a sit in 12th with 39 points uh the previous game we discussed was in termons i
believe we forgot to say where they were so i mentioned them i don't forget my friend you did
oh yes okay don't you don't you dare do that to me you're up my brother dirty this is the game
you've been you've had this game open for the past 15 minutes dude well can you blame me no i can't
for those of you who don't know for those of you who live under a rock um mintoff over here is a
swallow fan i am i didn't even know they existed personally until i met them at mintoff that's
that's it that's a big fib right there that's a thing you know everything about seria football
and you know about this walla yeah it's made i just i just gave you the magnifying glass that i have
as well to to observe them with the yeah with the pink eye the glasses that i use and you were like
and you were like jake let's go to the mape let's watch them against inter it'll be fun i'm like
okay and we went we had our little green kits on me matt and mintoff very cute their photos you can
you can see them on our instagram yes um we went and we were the only so swallow fans in the stadium
or in our sector we're in our sector in our sector definitely yes and it was so it was so bad that
that we weren't even we didn't have to deal with any hostility everyone found that he lays that
there were three so swallow fans and this thing they found this cute yeah they were constantly
take the piss like like when when ice cream they were like our patients they made that triple whammy
they brought on zekov they brought on who was i think it was it was demarco okay and they and
then they mark across the board to fucking zekov and zekov in scores in 30 seconds i was like are
you fucking kidding that was that was a fun game that was a fucking crazy game i've got to go watch
another game yeah and you mentioned the quiver yes i was gonna say lately lately things are growing
the quiver nord in saswala is looking a little bit more supportive yes they're more a bit more
lively there's a few people actually jumping up and down for once yeah there are a few people in
the stands there are people in the stands so maybe maybe performances are finally waking up to the
fact that there are so swallow fans out there but they just have been sleeping rather and i feel like
it's been an overall top season for for saswala but now things are looking on the up
usually it's the usually it's the reverse usually they start really well and then they
slowly trickle down and this is sort of happening in reverse this time which is interesting because
um things are still up for grabs for this club and and with all things considered they're doing
well with the munitions that they have so yeah nice to see them grow and i'm happy to see that
and i hope it does keep happening because i do like the club and i would love to see them
grow from strength to strength to mention this game in particular saswala did in fact beat uva
one nil as for form it was even steven as they say saswala entered this game with three wins one draw
and one loss to uva's three wins one draw and one loss very even what's not so even is the head to
head between these two clubs saswala have only won one engagement against uva to uva seven and two
draws extremely one-sided between the two um however history isn't always the main protagonist
as we often know in football and uh if we check the if we check the last 10 games between um both
sides we see you know if we check the the form table as jake rightly put it before we see uva
sit in third place to saswala in fourth in the last 10 matches by the way and the last 50 matches
we see uva sitting in fourth to saswala in sixth by the way so um saswala ever since the world cup
have been looking pretty darn strong how is it looking in the last 30 matches in the last 30
matches plus saswala are a tent man you you're trying to dick me around about the table and you
don't know any time any club yeah you're the one checking all the time i have i have to check bro
i don't memorize i know my shit it changes very quickly it changes every week exactly that's what's
very quick it's quick bro life is short life is short life is fast do you live do you live in the
fast lane i live love and love dude oh my and what's going on i just scoring goals like it's no
tomorrow everyone's scoring right now yes defenders go keepers referees and yellow cards yeah david
neres always looks like he just ripped the bong he does look either i think i think it does partake
in the summer anyways um as for formations itself some some lineup changes we see that
bayrami came in for the injured berardi we also see milik back in the squad for back in the starting
11 instead of keen we see perrin in exchange for chesney and barbieri never heard of this guy
coming in for quadrado as for the lineups themselves we have saswala and a 4-3-3 formation
with concili in goal we have rogerio tresol the elish and tolian in defense matthews henrik lopez
fratezi and in midfield lorionte penamonte and bayrami up front as on the opposing side we
have uvenet 352 formation we have vlakhovic and milik as the strikers barbieri fagioli pareades
rabio and costage in midfield gatti bremer and danilo in defense with perrin in goal
to go over some some other points right before we go over the game there's some interesting stats
that in this game in particular there were a lot of eyes on concili
especially after his howlers last weekend so there was a lot of pressure on him to perform
with berardi being out so so often this season and having a bit of a flaky season due to injuries
it's good to see the team instead of adapting and figuring out how to utilize wins and play
games without him and i think the fact that they have lorionte on the opposing flank really helps
them lose the dependency that they have they've had for so many years it's always been down the
right flank that they have to build things so i feel like that's easier now now that's much
better situation for the swallow for two factors one it's much harder for opposing clubs to create
a plan where you contain two wingers i don't think there's a formation where you're going to
adequately do adequately do that to full effect and two it also helps you to be less dependent
on one hand on one flank and create more creative outlets overall in your game so it's very nice to
see that although it's not nice to see berardi having a bit of a torrid time of things being
injured so often i mean he's my favorite player by far so that doesn't make me happy but overall
as a club it's still good to see and i i i think whenever berardi is in the stands and he always
goes no no matter what if he's injured or if he's he's been shot he's always you know really really
animated in the stands and and and look it's good to see it's becoming what the italians call a
bandiera for for sasuolo kind of like an icon uh figurehead you know kind of like dinatale was
a kind of dinesia i like that i like that i respect honestly these are the types of people
after they retire you love them the article i'm so happy i have a signed shirt of his bro you have
a signed berardi i have a signed charade berd that dude i have it at home i have to hang it again
i have a signed caputo shirt as well but i might spill a spill beer over that one
one of the things to mention is that um mr rabio could be breaking some uva statuses uva records
here he's currently on eight goals this season with eight games left to play he with one goal
he could equal pavet pavelnetved marquise cadira and arturo vedal's nine goals in seasons to be
the highest scoring midfielder oh my god if he scores on the final year of his contract
yeah such a predicament and if he scores um and if he scores um two more he would be the all-time
leading midfielder for eventos in one season by the way there we go do you redeem rabio i
would if his demands are astronomical um if they get champions dig i definitely would i don't see
that i don't see the point why wouldn't you know the second he signs that contract he's going to be
backed as usual self but then you sell him for for quite a bit more money then yeah so so i mean i
think that you were still better you've been selling this guy for 30 35 million which won't
be bad it's 28 i mean you could you could make some money off him yeah uh for the game itself
we have sasualo um coming closest to the goal to a goal in the first 20 minutes where maxim lopez
plays a pass to bayrami down the left flank who then tees himself up to smack a volley towards
goal which is then well saved by perrin it's relatively first for a quiet first up apart
from that we then see in the second half sasualo come back out to to to try and bite at uh eventos
the fair comes on early on in the second half he then comes inches away from scoring his second
goal the season after bayrami crosses the ball towards the frenchman and he manages to head the
ball into into the goal but perrin with this goal line stop almost almost the ball is almost going
into the goal already he manages to claw it out of his own goal and keep the score level however
you were do and um you were duke end up conceding in the 63rd minute when bayrami whips in another
corner which is cleared only as far as fagioli who then mistaken mistakenly plays the ball to
the frel who controls the ball down and fires a low shot into the goal um you can definitely see
fagioli rather um sad when he's subbed off at his blatant mistake unfortunately and the leg is hilarious
by the way you know he's he's no nonsense manager like fagioli made that mistake and he subbed him out
immediately immediately he did immediately he burst out crying on the bench i felt really bad
it was a console of it and it was like some uva player trying to like cheer him up i don't know
it was it was uh the the third goalkeeper i never played the pinzolio pinzolio that guy who's
sometimes bald and sometimes has a full head of hair can you give me your secrets please
please so i think it's turkey okay i need some money for that um concili managed to make amends
for last week's howlers by keeping out a brilliant header from rabio from which was basically going
going in there was no there was no doubt about it and concili became spiderman and saved it and
kept it out sasualo managed to defensively um keep this game in their in their pocket and see it for
a 1-0 victory um some points to to go over um a couple of one two two speculative points and then
one one rather um more of a fact we'll go we started with that one as as well i have been
looking better arguably as the as the game games have been going on this season they they they
definitely look better they they lived better than uva i think no one can deny it so swallow came
close to scoring two three four chances uva only had a few really serious chances to score
um sasualo still remain the robin hoods of the league yes um but they've also been more clinical
when facing smaller clubs as well so they're still the robin hood but they've also looked a bit better
against smaller clubs too so in my opinion this is a collective better um season rather than last
year because it seems like they're learning they're adapting and they're improving as to just beating
bigger clubs last year and faltering against small ones um is there any chance for them to have a
conference league push they are sitting in 10th with 40 points with atalanta i believe in that
conference league spot with 48 49 49 um it's tough and i don't see it happening at all looking at
the teams that currently sit in front of sasualo i think they have more of a chance you look at the
form for example ferrantina and bolonni aron it's remarkable you look at the fact that uva are going
to fly up that puts inter and atalanta in contention for that for that spot it's not
looking promising for sasualo to get you this year but you know another mid table high mid table
finish um will only mean that they they can actually continue to um develop the project that
they have going on with dionisi you know they can bring in a few players like you know granted that
teams teams in the mid table region and lower and say are always tasked with this extremely daunting
task to kind of build a team without actually keeping your best players to build it around you
know what i mean like like you look at for example empoli right you look at the fact that they have
okay parisi and baldanzi who would be great to build a team around if they could hold on to those
two guys and actually but they can't that's the thing and it's the same thing with with sasualo
can they hold on to laurenta for example i don't know i don't know maybe hot property maybe this
season they can but next season unless they get unless they get europe they won't be getting
it won't be sitting there are a few players that they have managed to hold on to that are very good
fratezi who it's they've barely maxim lopez is a fantastic register one of the best in the league
you look at the byram is not looking bad byram is not looking bad either um but again byram he was
brought in he was brought in damage limitation exactly while losing the likes of traore
raspadori um skamaka you know so like yeah yeah okay with that being said if if sasualo do have
a good finish they said let's say they finish ninth or eighth um and they managed to keep the
squad as it is with one or two reinforcements or rather than rather than asking that question
what would be a fantastic reinforcement for them to to to to look into acquiring
for in what position that's my question oh um it can be a place can be a player i think the first
thing that sasualo need to do is sort out that problem they have at the back so i'm thinking
you know the likes of imagine sasualo can land someone like stefan posh that would be massive
uh the problem is that he's he's a player who's on par the one on a team of the same level so
he's probably gonna upgrade um so you have to look at the bottom the bottom toilet basquerotto
would be a fantastic sign that would be great um holy mother of god you know that would be
lovely it would be amazing again granted they have a good goalkeeper out on loan so swallow but um
um assigning like vicario oh would be incredible um i don't know even even something like in zola
would be so good for you you think it's more defensive that they should focus on at the moment
rather than their story yes i i think that this has been a problem that hasn't really been addressed
by sasuala for a long time particularly those fullbacks you know rogerio antole and i mean it
feels like my entire life i've been watching i'd love to see them sign you a new fullback jesus
christ man yeah um parisi would be a great a great option as well because parisi would totally fit
the steam market so going forward mark not market some sorry um the the guy from saratana fucking
matzocki matzocki thank you yes mark it's ours already as a swallow player yes he was
okay um i don't know if there's anything else you'd like to add or we should move on to the
monday night madness as for standings here we have you visiting in seventh with 44 points and
sasuala in tenth with 40 monday night madness ferentina won atalanta won atalanta had won five
of their previous eight serial matches against ferentina with one draw and two losses after
having never managed to beat the viola in the previous 13 games in the top flight with four
draws and nine losses so atalanta basically had the moment where they improved this is with papa
gomez elige and whatever and they had ferentina completely figured out but now it's like the
tide has changed a little bit ferentina won their last serial home match against atalanta but they
haven't recorded two wins in a row against them at the franquis since 2015 since then six matches
so two wins two draws and two losses both managers had late injury scratches sofia namra but for
ferentina and adamola lookman for atalanta for ferentina it was a 4 1 4 1 formation for vincenzo
italiano with terra chano in goal terzic as the left back with martinez quartal milenkovic as the
centre backs and dodo out on the right mandragora was playing in front of the defense nico gonzalez
was out on the left with jonathan icona out on the right barack and castro verli played behind
cabral for gasperini's atalanta it was a 3 4 1 2 formation with sportiello in goal toloy jim city
and scalvini at the back with joaquin maile out on the right and zapakosta on the left edison
darunacupiners were in the middle with hojland and duván zapata as the striking partnership
now in the 37th minute mailer rampaged into the box catching defenders of guard and thundered the
goal in that took a slight deflection there was a yellow card for the celebration mailer was tapping
his nose for the celebration and the referee was having none of that he obviously guida thought it
was a cocaine reference so he gave him a yellow card weird weird why would you tap your nose after
scoring a goal i don't know that's it it was already a weird celebration i think sometimes
just to take the to take the um the yellow card and just be this cheeky be cheeky little buggers
yeah yeah shithousery yes in the 56th minute toloy handled the ball in the box there was a long
var check very long over here cabral stepped up took an authoritative penalty and got things all
level christiano baragui came on and his first touch as a substitute was a free kick that he
banged off the upright there were great chances for both teams particularly for rentina sportiello
had a massive save on a bona ventura header now some observations i made from the game
duván zapata has never looked so immobile in his life especially when you watch him play next to
hoyland rasmus hoyland who doesn't stop running he's so full of life and energy it's spright
full of sprite yeah and then you look at duván zapata right now now who isn't looking particularly
fit um has he looked for this season no not really muriel came on and looked even worse
these two are such jokes muriel didn't get anything off this game everything failed for him and you
see him at the end trying to explain himself to do one's apart and do one's apart as actually
clearly judging him when you know pot calling the kettle black but yeah these two guys have to go
next year they do either they're done i think this level is the ambitions that atalanta are
showing are too much for this type of player especially when they have the likes of i don't
know bogga lookman and hoyland who are doing so well um what are okay so first of all freandina
were dominant atalanta would have never had a game like this two seasons ago they were so pinned back
and freandina actually did dictate the tempo of this game what are your thoughts on castrovilli
castrovilli is a player that receives very high praise he's kind of that fantasista libero free
role you don't really give him a position he kind of flows and reads the game himself do you rate
him highly i used to really like him two seasons ago um back when when freandina were a very
different team um back when they even had vlachovic still um i i i think he has a lot of promise i feel
like i feel like he needs he still needs a bit of time to figure himself out as well as a player
but he is much improved and i feel like it's nice to see he's come back into the team because there
was a time where he also had health had like a heart problem and they were wondering if he's
gonna play football ever again um and then he then he was out of sorts really so um
um i'm sorry what your dog is distracting me quite he's snoring some but they won't hear him
because of the noise can see i hope at least um but yeah they the the mean he he's looking good
i think that he's he's one to watch next year i don't think he's national team standard no i agree
but but he is a promising little talent yes yes um ederson i can't help but feel that ederson has
improved for atalanta and this kind of uh defensive box-to-box role he's doing quite well he carries
the ball very well um and my last point before we move on to the next game is about sport yellow
is sport yellow too good to be a substitute goalkeeper next season apparently milan have
been after him for a while they're looking to get him in instead of um tatarusano now is
but is sport yellow too good i think he would because he could be a starter it would be a
bit of a waste in my opinion um probably you can find cheaper alternatives for a start for a second
goalkeeper for milan in my honest um opinion but um i mean it would definitely be a nice thing to
have yeah as a second goalkeeper to bring in sports especially with money on his track record
yes seeing a couple of games this year so so you know you're kind of telling sports leader listen
you have two months where you're going to be playing um so it could be something to consider
yeah i think it would would definitely be something to interest milan atalanta currently sit in sixth
with 49 points while ferentina sit in ninth with 42 points i it is getting pretty darn hot up there
so take off all your clothes in the next fixture we have torino against
salernitana this game ended one one we what's this the the maroon derby what the
fuck is that color they they just i don't know it's like a brownish red it's like a um yeah
it's not maroon it's burgundy burgundy the burgundy derby the burgundy derby that sounds cool actually
in english at least there we go now don't think going can you can you whilst i speak about this
can you take any translate and tell us what it is sure um as for the form we have torino coming
into this game with two wins one draw and two losses as opposed to salernitana with zero wins
five draws and zero losses we also have the head-to-head fixtures between the two we have
torino besting salernitana in this case with five wins to salernitana three and two draws keeping
the sides we also have some interesting stats for you here salernitana have drawn each of their five
elite games only three sides have drawn six or more games consecutively in serea since the start
of the last decade spall six in 2018 kiavo six in 2018 and genoa seven in 2022 um salernitana are
now draw with kiavo and spall with six draws in a row um salernitana have also lost only 12 of their
29 games in serea this term they have never done so so well at this stage in any of their competitions
history they are currently in 15th position if they were to stay here until the end of the season
it would equal their best finish in the top division which was back in 1998 1999 where they
also finished 15th the translation is il derby borgognone sounds a bit lame
can you can you get it can you get a snippet of that please sure bro nice
just whenever salernitana and torino play you can play this exactly as for key changes in
the formations for both clubs we have radonjic or miranchuk whichever you want to say coming in
exchange for vlasic we have gg coming in for sure in torino's defense castanets is back in the squad
and vilena replacing kulie bali who is injured for salernitana to speak about the game itself
the game started rather evenly arguably salernitana looked a bit more eager than torino at the start
they looked sharper and were coming close to scoring and boy did they score in the ninth
minute with a lovely goal that was really badly executed there khanjeva was stemming down the
left flank and he went out wide to open up space for his teammates he then plays a low ball to
piyotec who controls the ball well and then plays a great layoff pass to vilena the flying dutchman
comes in and scores a louis alberto as a goal what a beauty top corner i really like i just called
him the flying dutchman on the fly there you freaking go percy van percy you have you have been
flying dutchman out of this that was a legendary goal that was a legendary goal yes khanjeva then
finds space again in the middle of the pitch he then charges towards goal he rattles a low shot
towards um towards malinkovic savage with an awkward deflection it it lies it it um it finds
itself into piyotec's path rather who really should have scored and manage manages to only
hit the post radonijic comes very very close to scoring at the end of the first half he charges
down the left hand flank he then moves to the byline he hits a shot towards goal it deflects
off gum gumber which then hits the crossbar and goes out for a corner second half 1 1 57th minute
tolino were looking better in the second half overall they were looking dangerous whenever
they received the ball um and in this case voivoda had then received the ball in the middle of the
park he then tried to play a through ball into sanabria but it was blocked by gumber but only as
far as meranchuk the russian who was then on the edge of the area looks around to see his options
he then starts to push the ball forward three sarenetana players try to press him to get the
ball off the um the pesky russian and to their dismay he instead of shoots plays a cheeky ball
into sanabria unmarked in the middle of the box fires a shot into the back of the net for his
team radonijic almost scored again after they had just come draw he cracked a shot towards goal but
onana oshawa sorry was was matched him well in that regard and saved it with relative relative ease
radonijic um was constantly a threat towards till the end of the game um and was definitely
considered to be the man of the match overall as he was a serious threat whenever he received the
ball and always looked like he could have scored very unlucky to not have scored in this game he
looked uh he looked eager to grab one for uh for his goal tally um so randana have now managed to
to to get another draw 16 in a row now they look to be rather safe in italy suso has now seen
susa sorry has now seemed to have created a solid force one which is hard to beat but one which is
not managing to seal games as well so it's a bit of an awkward situation that they are in um if you
ask me but um overall i think they should be happy relatively with the situation yes um that they
find themselves i think the the objective for salernitana the season was survive now have a
have a better season than you did last year um let's remember last season they looked worse than
like you look at san pedoria now yes they looked worse they were terrible yeah they were like
concede because of the goals like it was nothing it's not five five draws in a row so yeah six
six draws in a row that's mad so um a bit of speculation from my end if san and i were to
manage to grab six more points till the end of the campaign they would be safe for yes i think 36
points is enough right so i don't believe so um should torina be happy with this result and the
overall performance this season um you know torina have these are the gains where you feel like
turner should be winning well they were winning at the beginning of the season and now that they've
now they've slowed down a little bit but they don't look bad yeah they don't look bad they've
lost velocity has slowed down miranchuk isn't scoring so now breast scoring in exchange but
so we'll speak about him in a minute so the first positive sign that torino showed after losing
bellotti and plateauing and fighting relegation for so long was bringing in ivan yurich and having
yurich there uh is is already a massive thing now other than that now the problem was always
is in personnel no for torino they never actually quite invested but you look at them now they have
a few very interesting talents and the young one young which is important for yurich richie illich
miranchuk yes single you know these guys are all hot talents who are good morning karamo these guys
are a great foundation and you can build a team around them a solid team and i think the torino
will only continue to improve yes and they do need a striker we've been screaming about this for so
long since bellotti left they just haven't had a striker and they need one you know sanabria sure
he's good um but he's more of an impact player you know you bring him on he'll he'll put in a
shift but he has tangos and he stepped up but he's not the guy you would want because his his career
highs have never been higher than this you know or much higher than this you want someone who can
potentially put 20 in for if you want if you want to be at that level you know and you have players
to service them because you've got players out wide who are capable of crossing you've got the
likes of miranchuk illich and richie who can also play you through you know it's a striker and this
is the missing piece and and i've felt this for a while yes i agree with you and i um it's just sad
because i know when they get a new striker i think that's an outbreak will then end up leaving i don't
think he would maybe i don't think he'd be playing second fiddle if you ask me he's 27 years old he
definitely has um time he does to to really establish himself but i don't know i think he
could actually compete you know even if you bring in a new striker maybe maybe um so yeah torino and
this game week in 11th with 39 points san retana and this game in 15th with 30 the next game on my
agenda is cremoneza one empoli nil cremoneza and empoli have met only once and say uh doing so in
the reverse fixture this season with empoli winning two nil the goals were scored by kombiagui and
parisi cremoneza had won their last league match three two against sampdoria they have achieved
two wins in a row and say uh for the first time since march 1996 when they managed victories
against latio and padova so cremoneza making history over here despite their dreadful season
um yeah cremoneza had conceded goals in each of the previous seven seria home games the last time
they had they had a longer run in the competition was may 1992 10 in a row but of course they did
not concede this match so that run is over 4312 for david aballardini's cremoneza with carnez
secki in goal valeri out on the left and ser nicola on the right with vasquez and lacoste
lacosvili at the back castagnetti meta and pickle were the midfield three with galdemez playing
behind desers and tzaju for empoli it was the impressive perizan in goal with ebwehi on the
right and parisi on the left luperto and de winter were the center back duo midfield three of bandinelli
marlin and fazini with baldanzi playing in the pocket and caputo and piccoli playing
up front piccoli has not yet managed a goal for empoli now the action started early when ser nicola
played a perfect ball to desers who controlled and finished right in front of the keeper he finished
between the goalkeeper's legs his first goal since that late brace against sasualo do you remember
that one i do unfortunately now bro in the 90th minute someone hit the post do you do you know
you know the guy calieri well back oh steve takes some fantasy football every year loves to do it
yeah um he had a nice little back heel that hit the the post at the end of the game but other than
that cremonezza shut up shop very well and they didn't really suffer this game they conceded long
range attempts but they were mostly off target so nice to see cremonezza doing well here about
lardini magic he scored early and you shithouse your way to victory interesting stat over here
about the man who you have assigned the shirt of and francesco caputo has scored three goals
in 30 games so far this season only in 2010 2011 has he netted fewer goals in a single
seya campaign when he scored just one goal in 12 appearances for barry so yeah um another fun little
statistic over here cremonezza's serial desers has been involved involved in more goals for them in
seya this season eight goals eight involvements sorry with six goals and two assists after the
assist to provide in the last game against sampler the forward could be involved in the or became
involved in a goal in successive games in the competition for the first time since october 2022
where he scored goals against napoli and spezia so serial desers is another deployable player
over here for cremonezza he might be good for one of the teams that's newly promoted you bring him
in i don't think no i don't think i don't yeah he could definitely he could definitely make some
work for a for a for a crowd he could definitely i mean he could even play for serenità or he could
play for um you know um veron or spezia these are all teams would use him and these are all teams who
could probably find some some improvement as well yeah you know he's not a bad player i'm not sure
he'd start for the likes of spezia and serenità considering the options they have well the options
that they have right now do you really think that they are staying this season that's right i would
be shocked but but salernitana when they make moves in the market they tend to go for the audacious
they tried to bring in um what's his name diego costa um not a few seasons ago they brought in
ochoa they've brought in the likes of conjurava piontec they make these interesting moves yes so
i think they could do better than this is fair point that is a good point the great escape eight
eight games left bro cremonezza i mean i mentioned this last week yes and i feel like
something has changed do the business in in cremonezza they're playing a bit no they're
playing a bit more no nonsense yeah and and they're enjoying it they're celebrating they're a bit
happy man yeah i think baliardini has just told them fuck it enjoy let us just try and if we manage
we'll have fucking the best time of our lives and if we don't i'm proud of you yeah and um you know
it's been fun yeah um you know
it's tough it's tough i mean i mean i mean
um you only need a few wins though because spezia aren't looking good anymore they're not and and
they're the team i think that they they're targeting i think verona get out of this the way that verona
have been playing they creep out of the situation that they're in slowly but you think spezia and i
think and i think spezia might fall with the way things are going right now um but for all for all
we know spezia wake up again cremonezza go back to shitting the house um and keep an eye on lecture
as well who haven't won a game and what feels like forever um with 28 points over there i don't know
i still think it's special though i mean insula has slowed down now i think he's he's done his
goals for the season he might grab one or two more but that was the main hope and you know you can't
you can't bank on a striker the whole season to to save your ass you know um that's my opinion
um but we'll see we will see we'll see it's gonna be good it is gonna be good yeah okay um again
torrid time for zanetti to manage the sample inside they're gonna be raided absolutely raided
the likes of baldanzi and parisi will be the first to go the likes of fazini and an interesting young
talent over there will probably go marrin as well as hot property oh yeah um yeah so let's let's
see what what they can do over here i personally really like paulo zanetti and i do hope he stays
um at ampoli next season but yeah so standings ampoli currently sit in 14th with 32 points
while where the fuck are they at the bottom bro oh shit them
um welcome on his sit in 19th with 19 points yeah i do this thing where i blank out yes yeah it's
okay man i helped you out there thank you bro so how many games do i have left we have um it's our
last game last game shall we we shall i mean even don't know what he cares about this game but i
care bro this was one of the most fun games of the weekend i hope you're being sarcastic i'm not bro
it was a great great game okay jake um so we have lecce versus samdoria in a one one draw we have
some we have the form of the teams basically for samdoria we they are coming into this game with
one win one draw and three losses to lecce with zero wins zero draws and five losses the worst
team form wise in the league right now um we have samdoria with arguably pretty decent head to head
against lecce with six wins three draws and one loss against this club we also have one key stats
for you guys since apparently you guys like this stuff we have lecce with 287 and samdoria with 293
fewer attempts well i've absolutely fucked this haven't i yeah had fewer shots than eddie or any
other serie outside the season while they also have had the two lowest expected goals goal totals in
the competition with lecce with 23.7 and samdoria with 26.1 so you're basically having misfiring
teams with um with also a team with team with also two clubs which um have low expectations in terms
of goals as well so yeah unfortunately i've really fucked that stuff up it's getting late
and the man's a little bit tired but um you know how did you feel when was your turn to read in
class i used to fucking hate it especially in multis nowadays i used to fucking despise it english
teaching philosophy goes against it completely in no situation in your life unless unless you're
giving a presentation or you're in parliament or you're a fucking notary you know you don't often
have to read out loud ever nowadays it's just all right i'm gonna give you 45 seconds read the text
that's that's what this day time you know yeah yeah that's nice it's a nicer system i think i
used to i used to stutter and stumble quite a bit as i have sometimes in this in this podcast um as
for the lineups there are no changes for both teams so it seems like both managers here are happy
to field what they believe are their best 11 we have falcone and for lecce in goal with garlom
titi basquerotta and jaundre in defense oda huelmund and blin in midfield streffetz as we say
and di francesco to round out the attack gabriadini is coming in as a striker for some
durianetry in a 3421 formation with the durichich and lummers up as the attacking attacking
midfielders laris winx rincón and augella in midfield zano linduitink and amione in defense
ra valia in goal um as for a few of the stats for a few of the highlights of this game which there
weren't all too many um lecce were all over some durian the first 25 minutes absolutely bossing
the game there was some very brave goalkeeping by ra valia on a chaotic action in the box when he
came out to di francesco's one-on-one and then a very good reaction save to cc as well but then
lecce managed to break the deadlock in the 35th minute when cc broke free of his man meeting
gabriel streffetz as boll in behind before unleashing a perfectly executed half volley
into the back of the net the forwards goal was lecce's second in their last six games
following a very frustrating spell in front of goal start again please look listen dude
about the boycott if you keep this up okay
um you see this guy expects me to come in here do do my own job and then write write these
little unpaid labor unpaid labor i actually have to pay to have to buy my own food to come here
i offered you pasta you said i don't eat that crap so you wrote it in the pencil
you got this little bitch didn't you
fucking hell i'm gonna shut my mouth and just continue reading these fucking highlights
fuck lecce stankovic stankovic uh fuck me um stankovic had a scorpion kick in the
57th minute just to show us all that he still has the skills to pay the bills in the 57th minute
however the equalizer came when mr. hesay um pepe say grabbed his goal
um he broke behind before audaciously audaciously dinking the ball to an unrushing
vladimir i didn't even know his name was vladimir vladimir of alcona to level things in the 75th
minute lovely i didn't even know that's his first name vladimir vladimir what the fuck
vladimir vladimir of alcona to level things up in the 75th minute really nice chip by by
by jesse there you know hasay radriguez broke out at real medrid i'm sure you remember i did but then
he kind of died became a reggaeton singer and now he's back playing football interesting i mean i
guess you realized that um it's probably better at playing football yeah but yeah um overall
that was it in terms of of highlights for this game i've really streamlined this because i'm i
am actually rather tad so i apologize um all i'll say is that um nicola ravalio was definitely
the man at the match in this game he had another astounding performance and um he has really shown
up when when big boots when yeah they require quite a big boost to fill for for our daros injury
um i'd say that this this draw is definitely more in favor of lecce than it is for sam doria um i
think really now the the coffin is sealed yeah you know um i know that you you have a thing for
some though you kind of like them um but uh it's curtains i'd say yeah it's not looking good this
was a game they have to win and it's against the team that has been on pretty bad form lately
and the team is about the team they had to win as well that was another one they lost so it's only
fucking gonna get harder for them um a few points i'd like to mention from the games that gallo
looked painfully i've reached this game um yes i left the back who does look quite good sometimes
but mostly because of his work ethic um when it comes to the actual talent the actual skill
he does struggle especially with his output i'm a big fan of odin in the middle he's pretty decent
yeah he's a hard worker yeah yeah and he's quite technical as well bronzales of course coming on
always as well um along with banda and maleh as well who's continually breaking out yeah um and
streffetz of course is as always um good performance by him i wasn't impressed at all by harry winks
has to be said um i find it weird when gabi adini plays behind the striker i don't know why anyone
would ever play gabi adini anywhere apart from that number nine role we even saw stankovic trying
him out on the wing at the point which was fucking weird but anyway yes that's basically it um standings
standings we have sam doya remaining in dead last position with 16 points and then we've got
lecce in 16th with 26 points 28 points sorry so thank you very much for listening guys if you've
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i doubt you have but you never know i mean uh two hours uh two hours is quite a lot of rambling two
hours especially out of um shithouse random in in in between yeah um there was a bit of that today
you know i have kids who listen to the podcast i know dm me i'm sorry kids tell telling me like
as as mintov would say they can eat my ass haha is this the the example you'd like to said bro
to be honest with you and i think we can end with this and this is this feels like um a sentence
that i don't even know where it's gonna go um examples are set to be things that you don't
want them to be examples are set to be things that you don't want them to be examples are set
to be things they don't want them to be can you elaborate i'm really struggling
examples are set to be things that you don't want them to be jake yeah in life yeah you
you do things you you you you perform actions you you go through experiences and you um
um things happen yeah uh and um sometimes you do them on purpose you do them as a way to prove to
people that um this is the kind of actions you do not want to do because um you take it for you take
it for the teams of this so you're a sacrificial lamb i am i i feel like i i'm there to enlighten
people on the do's and don'ts in life and i'm definitely the don'ts and um i feel like this is um
another example of such a case so um so kids don't eat us unless you um you like eating us
and and if you're gonna eat us make sure that um make sure you've taken a shower yeah so it's
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