Manchester United WINS EFL Cup, Chelsea STRUGGLES Continue PLUS the Premier League Roundup

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Laurent fortins in this episode Manchester United win their first trophy under 10 hog Chelsea continue to sputter

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let's get to it okay um the football this weekend I didn't

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really love I thought it was a little bit weak and a little bit uh odd and I wanted to take a little bit of a moment

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here to just discuss some of the some of the weird stuff that goes on with football in terms of money and

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who's allowed to win the really the politics of Glory I think this weekend with the efl Cup Final of Newcastle and

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Manchester United we have two ends of the spectrum we have the venerable

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Manchester United earning its trophy made money because it got big in a

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moment uh in the 60s with um George Best In Color you have winning

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you have Liverpool and this is the arist an aristocratic Club within football and

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however they make their money they're allowed to uh the way the way United are

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dealt with is different than other clubs they are grandfathered in if you will

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um regardless there is a sense of ickiness under the glazers not because

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not because they're bad or United are ill begotten but because they take

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profit from the team there is a constant struggle within this term called modern

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football of Commerce for commerce's sake of

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football being a commercial Enterprise designed to make money it is not a great

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business uh you can find this out in a million places but it is a good business

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in terms of its power its meaning and what it does right like for an owner

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you're not investing in Manchester United to get rich but you're investing in Manchester

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United to get favor and power within its ecosystem of

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being I own Manchester United if you're doing it for the money you're a fool so you have Manchester United on

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one side and you have Newcastle on the other a club that is large within the

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context of England because of where it is it's isolated in the Northeast and

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when it came to prominence and football came to prominence it was the only

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big Club in the north when the league began and it has it holds a place in

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people's hearts around what it means and what it is so Newcastle and United represent these two sides of football

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and now Newcastle has now been bought by the

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Sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia the pif I'm not sure what

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that stands for but we have this conflict and one of the things that I think about is like who is

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allowed to be rich who's allowed to be wealthy who's allowed to partake in the

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power of football there's a constant struggle and it's different in every country

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around what is an okay way to win and who's

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allowed to get money and who's not allowed to get money and whether yours

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or it will be gotten or ours are ill begotten and then there's this concept of modern football which is essentially

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the idea of commercialism versus pre-modern football or traditional

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football where it's for the working class and it's about your old stadium dad smoke piss beer no

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women violence I don't know in this period of pre-modern football is better I'm not

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sure I guess as an American coming into it for the for the folks who are out of

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the UK especially The Fan Hub folks how do you reconcile these two pieces of

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football the the Commerce mixed with the tradition and and how do you square the idea of

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Glory meaning you need to spend money and win and buy players for the

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positions that are weak and where does that money come from and the idea of oh my owner is this

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Sovereign wealth fund or billionaire who maybe is a hedge fund manager or is a

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leveraged buyout guy who destroys companies puts them back together sells them on so he can buy a football club

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like why is one version of capitalism less worse than the other one now I'm

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wearing this as a city hat I'm wearing this as an American with a Keith Herring shirt all these things all add up

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together but I I'm so fascinated by it and I wonder what it all means especially in the context of this

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amazing game that just happened that will go to right now so love to hear

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everyone's thoughts about um their feeling about wealth and money and football and what it all means it's

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all so bizarre how you get different feelings about it so anyway let us go to

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the actual efl cup uh trophy uh event a great

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event for the Newcastle fans who got to see their Club in a final which is great

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uh Newcastle hadn't I've only been I think in five finals in 60 years and

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they get a day out in Wembley the numbers are out there were about 120 000

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people who came from the northeast or at least are of Geordie descent I don't know how that works you know England is

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so Regional There's an actual accent for the people from that City and they're called jordy's um interesting I don't know what it

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means and um this game started out okay for Newcastle they looked good uh Loris

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carius was not a problem that was the first narrative that came through which was oh ken uh carius bounce back after

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he got concussed by Sergio Ramos and then stayed in a game and of course gave up goals uh early on in this game I

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thought it was pretty even for the first five to ten minutes

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looked like you know both teams are in it and then on the half hour mark on an

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amazing Cross by Shaw I will say Bruno gamerish giving me the foul outside the box to

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show was a bit of it like yo dude what are you doing that's dangerous and boom there's the cross from Shaw onto

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casimiro's head It could only be casimiro who's been the Catalyst for United season and then five minutes

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later a few minutes later um rashford scored as well assisted by

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veg horse which was nice it was nice to see veg horse he's kind of this weird mascot of the team now uh for City for

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United and really once it was two nil it really was over uh second half

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Newcastle really didn't do much and we now have this new sort of defensive

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triangle of dehea lisandra Martinez veran and casemiro

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who just stopped everything at source at this point where

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this was such a controlled performance by United and I'll ask United fans

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have you seen this before I mean United have historically

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especially um over the last few years and while they're in the wilderness been unable to

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control games and this game was control uh I think ten hog really showed

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you know what I want to win this game I'm not messing about took out dallow at halftime on comes

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Juan basaka savitzer for Fred mctominay for veg horse on 70. so it's like we're

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not messing around we're going for the win uh isak came on for long staff

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for Newcastle I mean Callum Wilson really did nothing you know it just wasn't there for them but I think this

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is more about United more about 10 hog he's just a good coach I hate it because

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United are they're there they've got the juice the machine is rolling they've

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guys who were in the wilderness are now back like wambasaka was out of this club and he's

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back I thought losing Ericsson would be a catastrophe but no Fred's in there

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with with casemiro playing the role and they've changed the way their play they

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have a they have ways to play now they have an offensive group with Dalo they've unlocked Shaw who by the way

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side note Jose Mourinho you are a Luke Shaw has been if not the best

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defender both ways attacking and defending fullback that United has had for at

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least five or six years he's an incredible player he's been great and uh he played center back for you guys like

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give respect to Luke Shaw been a great United player and now he has his first trophy so I as much as I as a city fan I

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want United To Burn It To The Ground I'm also can take my city hat off and go for a lot of guys that have made the

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commitment to United and had it been really bad under Mourinho and under uh

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rangic and under Olay and all these coaches that have come in and lost Seasons you know I think of Fred and

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dejea who's been here a long time Fernandez who is like what am I coming into rashford who's come up with the team dallow who's been in here for a

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while Luke Shaw Lindelof these guys Maguire just taking so much for all

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of them to be able to have their first trophy I think it's it's it's nice you could see there was a

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relief there was a joy that came through United and that's fair play to them and and good for them and you know I'm not a

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complete sociopathic you know they deserved it they won

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but the Newcastle side this is all gravy I think that they're a year early it

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seems like they're pressing and attacking ways of getting turnovers and turning teams over and scoring that way

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in their impregnable defense is kind of missing when it doesn't have Pope

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um the goal from rashford was on a deflection by Char or botman I'm not

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sure that went over court carius so it wasn't at fault it was just kind of flicked over trip a was fantastic Dan

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Byrne was fantastic their their group was fantastic they're just not able to to find another gear right they've gone

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as good as they can they've pushed themselves into a final for Newcastle this is the beginning

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um they haven't done the Splashy robinho buy they've spent a bunch isak was a big

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spin but they're not really ready for these moments yet um the one thing I really love about

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football is you've got to suffer and this is the first moment that Newcastle are

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suffering uh in terms of this new group like the fans have suffered under Mike Ashley I understand it and that's why

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there was such exuberance one of the great things was the the jordy's just not leaving they're down to nothing

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they're not creating anything Martinez veran and casimira are snuffing out

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everything that they bring and the Jordy stayed till the end they've got the 300 400 mile trip back

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home and they cheered their team until the end and so no one can begrudge uh Newcastle for

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this moment uh they just need another shot and they're going to start rolling the dice right every year there's going

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to be three trophies that are up for grabs if not four one Europe and three League two two Cup competitions in the

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league uh four trophies for 20 teams uh in England every year well I mean

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technically the FA Cup and the AFL cup can go to more teams but uh 20 teams

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competing for those trophies and I think Newcastle will be one of them and so this is the first step nice for Eddie

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Howe he'd never been in a final I mean yes he he won promotion in lower divisions but he hasn't won anything

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before so this is a big moment for him and uh I'm happy for them and I really enjoyed that

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um so that's our first trophy of the year of course narrative is now United on for trouble

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but hold your horses United you're not winning a trouble you're not winning the league you could win the

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Europa League you might win the FA Cup take it easy you're not winning the

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league you're not doing anything on the story um United will will put this in their pocket and let hopefully they kick on

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this is very reminiscent of Mourinho whose first season in the league won the won the efl cup and pep who's first

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season of The League he won the efl cup it's this new thing when you're a foreign manager uh in charge of a big

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team to win because it's there no other country has it it's a weird thing that only only England has so bizarre

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um so we move on to the actual football

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league and we have to go to the sorry state

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of uh of Chelsea I mean I don't even know what to say anymore

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this game was just brutal and boring and

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didn't really have much going for it uh more from Chelsea still havert's

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Raheem Sterling back in the side ziach who was supposed to be sold Felix and his Karate Kid haircut along with

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loftus-cheek and Ruby Fernandez Kula Bali came back in he's been terrible I don't even know why he plays Silva

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started and went off along with Reese James and bran chilwell which you'd expect something to be created along

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with keppa still not much coming from Chelsea first half pretty even

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um Chelsea had the first three shots Kane didn't uh only one on target

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in the first half but Chelsea had four shots to tottenham's three they had a

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little bit more of the value of those shots so Felix Xiao Felix probably had the best chance on a ball over the top

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from um from from Kai haverts who laid it off to

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him so not much there so first half very normal very spursy uh

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the only talking point really was the um the

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sort of fight late in the second half there was some confusion uh late in the

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second half Ty Hakim zh acks down richarlison richarlison pops

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sorry havert's hacks down richarlison Z etch is up in his face return lesson

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pops up pushes The Edge there's a card shown to haverts then there's a little

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bit of a kerfuffle Emerson Royale comes and barges zetch in

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the back and then ziatch mushes him in the face neck the Z etch hand to the face of real

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gets him a straight red after some review after some fighting the thing that was

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weird was you couldn't tell if ziatch had gotten a yellow and then it got changed to a red so he had gotten

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nothing the haverts had gotten the yellow and then they repealed zh's red for

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yellow it was a hand to a face it was a little bit tricky you've seen them given

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uh on the call um Grand lasso was just like this has to be

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a straight red it was a hand to a face it's a red okay whatever Chelsea get

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away with it they should feel happy that they got away with it uh they go in at halftime nil nil no problem

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ho ho come out let's go play that's not what happens

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Spurs one of the better second half teams in the league I believe they're minus six in the first half plus 14 in

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the second so nerds get your nerd ruler out we're gonna start talking XG uh the

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XG for this game was really low uh on a bad clearance on a shot sorry so the

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goal comes from Skip it's on a shot um

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by Emerson that saved that bounces around

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Fernandez clears it towards sorry Kappa doesn't grab it he saves it and it kind

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of dribbles off him Fernandez thinking he's helping him out clears it but he clears it directly to Zhao Felix who

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doesn't come up with it and then it's passed into Skip and he smashes it home for a really good goal but just the .02

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XG gold so not one you'd expect kepa got his hand on it then not so much and then

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late in the game um on 82 Harry Kane finishes off Chelsea

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now what are Chelsea doing Chelsea don't

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create anything Chelsea don't create anything

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they just don't they just don't create enough good

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chances and that's why whenever you hear someone say it it's really annoying they need a striker they need a striker they

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need a striker no they don't they have all the strikers in the world they have guys who can finish they're

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all over the place they're no different than what city we're without Aguero okay

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they have as good players okay

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they don't create enough out of the Midfield none of those players plays balls in behind none that's been

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Chelsea's problem for three years they never replaced the creativity that

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Hazard gave them on the wing Hazard was a one-man destructive crew yes I know

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they won the Champions League they won that Champions League by hook or by crook by people contributing but in

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terms of a regular offensive Creator who made things go

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they were getting it by committee they do not have that player who can create

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opportunities all the time I think under two goal it looked like Rhys James and

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then you'd see it from chilwell but they've been unreliable and the team has not been reliably able to create enough

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opportunities for their less than ideal

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plus XG Strikers when I say plus XG Strikers I mean they score more than

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they would than you would expect they don't have anything that they'd score more than you would expect right now Chelsea are weighing and negative in the

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last 14 games they've generated I believe the number is 17 expected goals

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and only scored six that is bad either they're not getting good

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opportunities or they're not getting enough opportunities and the ones they are getting they're pressing and not scoring so Chelsea have not scored at

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all they are awful they've scored six goals in their last 14 games something

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crazy number like that and that's on Grand Potter um

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you guys know how I feel about them I've been covering this over and over again

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Potter he's not doing enough

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he's not doing enough uh I was listening to the totally

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football show and um Sasha gorioff a writer for the guardian

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um polish guy but lives in England he said something to the effect of

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Potter is a normal nice guy and Chelsea can't have normal managers

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it's not a club for a normal person you've got to be a little crazy a little irrational and a little bit weird to be

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let's even go further back the Renaissance comes under Gianluca viale a larger than life personality then you

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have hollett who's also a larger than life personality then you go on to

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um you go on to Ranieri who's got a little bit bada bing bada boom personality then it's on to

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Mourinho and HUD Inc and avram Grant and enchiladi and all these people that are

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bigger than Life personalities especially Mourinho especially tuko especially kante these are irrational

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people Mad Men uh people who believe and

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are irrational they're not normal and I think Potter is more of a traditional British bureaucrat he's Tut

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Tut we follow the directions we have the manual we've written it up this is how we're gonna play and I don't think that

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that works at Chelsea that might be the problem it might be that he doesn't have

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enough behind his words and the team is not responding to it again this is one of

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these things that I really love about English football and football in general is the institutions hold knowledge you

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can't be a real Madrid manager without cojones you know Manchester United there is a

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United Way that no one can describe but there is a way right and somehow

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um Olay was doing it Mourinho wasn't kante isn't right for United but ten hog

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is I don't know what it means but apparently Gary Neville can tell me but I got it when he was saying it so

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Chelsea have a way and I don't think Grand Potter is that way yet he may be

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there long enough to change the institution but I think right now Chelsea's institutional juice is firing

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managers defensive first and really about

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results and he's not giving delivering that uh I will I don't want to give short

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shift to Spurs This is the big one to Darby this is a big deal for Spurs they have a tremendously hard time against

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Chelsea historically um although they have one

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actually Chelsea have won the last three four

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Chelsea have dominated have dominated this uh thing Chelsea had

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one until this this until this last one Chelsea had won one two three four five

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six seven eight nine in a row with a draw

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so the last 11 matches uh Chelsea had been nine one and one not great so the

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I'm sure uh Mike would know exactly exactly uh which which day that was and

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where it was and how it happened so what an amazing amazing feat for Spurs a big

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day for them to win and get the victory uh this is about Harry Kane

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standing alone in goals for the club um you know same stuff sun coming off

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the bench um the coach what's his name I'm gonna get it here not Antonio Conte but his

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his understudy is driving the team forward I think they're getting weirdly like a new manager bounce without

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changing their manager so they've won three or four on a trot and are playing well and uh you know they're in the top

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four fight because I think Spurs is slipping and there's a little bit of a gap between them and so

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um we see what happens there we move on to the revolution that is not in its

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best period uh Liverpool draw nil nil at Patrick vieira's Crystal Palace

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what a terrible game this was just boring football I mean

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just not great not great not much to talk about here I think the interesting

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thing was pop just going Milner Henderson Teta in

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the Midfield the back four was the was the traditional clock back for with um

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TAA Matt tip Van Dyke and Robertson but up

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front it was gakpo and Salah and jota so everything was normal except the Midfield

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it was like a let's not have any creativity in this Midfield and not really even have the legs so it didn't

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get anything out of the first half really not much going on uh still some

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mistakes here and there uh Salah took the first shot of the game and they did

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create most of the uh initial items there was one mateta was really close

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hit the bar uh had a couple shots off the woodwork especially late in the

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first half on a turnover by Trent Alexander Arnold there was never really a moment here for

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um or Liverpool a couple half chances here or there Vieira was really happy with

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this draw nil nil the revolution is now in the terror period for uh klopp and

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Liverpool they just have to accept that this is where they are um you know after the five five two

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against Real Madrid you'd hope there was a bigger reaction

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but there wasn't and I think you know Manny and BJ and the and Alex and the

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rest of the Liverpool boys you're just gonna have to accept that this is where your team is this was a mid-table drab

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they'll nil draw and I'm not sure where Liverpool goes from here I think it's really about

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consolidation making sure you know who's who and accepting that some version of

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Liverpool doesn't exist anymore and is gone and now you have a new one

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um on the palace side you know they're still sputtering they

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haven't won a game and I mean it feels like ages at this point for uh Crystal

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Palace let me just look the last time they won a game Crystal Palace was I don't think they've won this year yet so

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I'm just gonna checking right now clicking through you're hearing me click uh we'll get to it in a second uh

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come on give me my information uh yeah I I'm pretty sure they haven't won this year they're on like five draws in a row

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or something ridiculous like that for Palace and I think that they miss they missed a drive of of Gallagher who's now

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I think been found out a little bit at Chelsea he just kind of as a runner

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um but they still need a striker they still don't have zaha they're not really finding oh I had I had clipped it yeah

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so yeah their last win literally was on New

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Year's Eve two nil away to Bournemouth then they lost three in a row and they have drawn

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one two three four five of their last six so they're picking up points they're

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not getting in the relegation Zone but just remember three draws equals one win I know that sounds stupid but I think I

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would have rather had two wins and four losses than these five draws I know that

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sounds crazy but the points are more valuable you want to take get your saber metrics here a draw is only worth one a

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win is worth three don't play for draws go for the win

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foreign so maybe maybe Vieira is thinking about the invincibles how they drew their way

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to immortality but that team Drew 14 times maybe the maybe Viera took a

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little bit of that from uh his boy uh Wenger and he's just like well I haven't lost we haven't won either so let's go

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get a win uh they're just not scoring they haven't had zaha I still like them

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I still like their crowd I still love Vieira being um a Caribbean Frenchman and his team is

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all players of African descent I just it just goes to show the value of

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representation right like if you have more African descent managers you're gonna

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have more African players in your league just makes sense people pick people who they look like uh I love it it makes me

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so happy that that team represents its neighborhood because um uh Croydon is an

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immigrant area uh an African descent area in South South London it's not

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really London croydon's a little bit outside of the bounds but still cool I still love it I think it's so cool

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whenever I see it and then I think of Anderson Jackie manderson just being back there him and goyita just being

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like yo we're with the boys we're making it happen uh but yeah Palace can you just get a

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win please um on to the top of the league both

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Arsenal and um Manchester City Arsenal's game was a one

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nil against Leicester and they controlled this game from end to end just they gave up nothing and I

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say nothing the x g was Zero for Lester

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they had one shot and it wasn't on target they just couldn't create anything and Arsenal just completely

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controlled this game they get a goal in the second half from Martinelli good stuff they had a goal disallowed

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trossard plays false nine otherwise everything is the same just knowing Katya trossard playing uh in the false

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nine I mean kethia comes on later but yeah this was an easy game for Arsenal

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controlled professional strong not a problem they got their goal

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they got to sing one nil to the Arsenal and I mean when I say that Lester were

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abject they were abject only one shot

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creating action the whole game just nothing they had one shot from

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dewsbury Hall and that was it so I mean not a great game to watch uh and that

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shot came from dewsbury Hall on the 72nd minute and then there wasn't another shot in the game from 72 on so Arsenal

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just bossed this game they check another box for Arsenal where they are now is every week that they can take over the

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schedule becomes less and less points for other teams to catch up to them so

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they all look like Champions they had their blip City had their shot and lost

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that stupid game that we lost uh the one nil and that's just where it is right

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now uh Chelsea I mean sorry Manchester City will have to take this title from

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Arsenal still staying Five Points behind um still working their way around uh for

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Lester I do have to say it's not a shock that James Madison didn't play when James

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Madison doesn't play Lester don't win they don't create anything they have nothing I'm not sure if that's an

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indictment on Brendan Rogers or whatever but uh it's pretty sad to see Lester a

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team that I think most of us had some juice into just kind of sputter and kind

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of float through games this was a really bad home performance anyone who's a fox

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fan should be angry this is at home at the king power you do nothing

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that Stadium used to be loud and weird and have the clappers and now they have the clap

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now respect the Arsenal they get where they need to go uh my boys

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play against Bournemouth Manchester City just kill they just kill Bournemouth uh I had been

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talking a lot of positivity about Gary O'Neill but this was this was pathetic uh City just go in

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there Alvarez on 15 hauling on 29 fodenum 45 and then a known goal uh by

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mepum um just really bad uh there was no fight there was no

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energy this game was flat the second half was laughable although Bournemouth

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did get a goal but that was only after City basically pulled all their players uh on 60

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Phillips sorry Phillips came in on 55 Sergio Gomez for ilgar basically they

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called off the dogs and uh from there you know it just was kind of normal I

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mean we even had a Maximo Peron uh citing the 17 year old from Argentina

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uh sorry he's 20. this is his first appearance for Manchester City at 19

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years old he was playing earlier this year in Argentina and so he gets some

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burn for City just out of the blue so yes they do get a goal

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um and that'll be the only downside to this was Bournemouth getting a goal and City not getting a clean sheet but this

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is nice for City to get extra goals to do some damage to um

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you know really be where they are the other one to call out Phil phone was fantastic in this game a

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goal and an assist uh 11 shot creating actions just terrorizing

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and it's good for City to have more players rounding into form City are at

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their best when they are Relentless when one group of players starts they're not

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there another one comes on and changes the game and uh that is when they are

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most dangerous right when it's not just waiting for de bruyne but there's a constant chain of there's no breathing

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you're under the Kosh and under attack all the time and City aren't slow so

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having fodin and grealish and mahrez and all of the Winger combinations getting

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together and Alvarez scoring goals just gets the machine going again and so hopefully City have played well over the

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last three games uh two of them were draws uh and then one one win here so

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the the Nottingham Forest game Nottingham were battered uh the the the

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Red Bull game City completely dominated the first half just weren't able to finish chances second half they tired

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and I you know I talked about it the last show but then in this one the goals went in so the shots went in and that's

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what happens with City they are always they they always have the same process and it looks bad when the shots don't go

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in uh but when the shots Go in all of a sudden they've still created 10 shots Five On Target and just a brush form of

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society for Bournemouth you know these games City can be got at and if you play this

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passive and you lose you kind of feel like a dick for not trying harder so

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they went five four one never really came out never really tried

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um I mean I guess for Bournemouth these aren't the games that they're gonna try and stay up to win but it's

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disappointing to see Bournemouth be this bad and this poor in this game uh I

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still think they're in the relegation Zone um seriously and for City we're still there

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still ticking points forward so you know we've got to get our machine going for

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the destruction of uh of of Arsenal uh this is a moment though Arsenal do play

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their game in hand on Wednesday against Everton they lost this game in the

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reverse fixture but now this is at the Emirates Everton coming off a poor result we're going to go through

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the relegation battle uh Everton lose to um Aston Villa they don't really

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do much really nice goal from Emmy bendia late Ali Watkins converts a

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penalty that uh agrees to Ghana gay takes down mcginn um Onana had a really good chance early

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hit it off right off Martinez so you know they're still looking for goals

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um Everton they just don't have any in the side my friend and your uh be

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careful of your wives friend Mr uh Neil mopay just has not scored one goal all

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year just doesn't do enough for this team Dwight McNeil kept trying to create

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shots uh Neil mope took a bunch McNeil created eight took to Onana Decorah

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everyone tried but they just don't have enough again up front to get those goals

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they're trying to get that one goal uh Everton and then they'll lock it down but in this case Watkins on 63 converts

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the penalty and then buendia on a hammer shot from again

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gets it done and you know the unai emery Revolution we knew it we knew it was going to happen Aston Villa tick on move

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on they're getting some consistency of the lineup Konza Mings cash they get

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mcginn back Luka Dean is back you know they have Watkins on five games in a row setting the record for Aston Villa goal

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scored in consecutive games five in a row we've always liked Watkins he's a hard worker he's a good Striker I think

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before Jesus went to Arsenal I thought that Watkins might be the player that they go after but maybe he's not tip six

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quality but I really like Watkins he's in that he's in that um

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Callum Wilson Watkins uh uh Dominic Calvert Lewin these are professional

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Premier League level scorers but just not quite Champions League level scorers

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so uh maybe on good teams they can show up but Aston Villa get it done and then

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um uh the tricky trees our friends from forest have one of the really their

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shittiest second halves uh second half this game is cruising along looks very Wes hammy West Ham are

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attacking and look good and they're hanging in there first half nothing really goes on pretty quiet

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um I mean it's mostly uh West Ham but then in the second half I mean Danny ings had a really good

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chance in her first half but off Target on a on a 0.3 shot just seemed to scuff it but then second half the floodgates

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open and we find Old Forest ings on 70 ings on 73 rice on 68 and then Mikhail

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Antonio to finish it off on 85. they just put four past for us one two three four all late in the second half Forrest

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just had no answer they still can't score on the road they still can't win on the road Forest on the road away from

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home are just not the same and uh David Moyes was genuinely pleased I think he

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really was on the schneid and really in trouble it doesn't make any sense I keep telling you this West Ham team is too

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good to go down they're too good to go down what they need to do is attack uh this defensive mindset that they have

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doesn't suit them they're too good to be this bad uh Bowen really pulling the strings in this game creating the most

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shots on the team of the front players but they're getting it from everywhere paquetta and Bowen

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both creating chances along with Declan rice uh just feels like they may have

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gotten off the Schneider maybe West Ham can start putting things together and getting out of their relegation zone are other friends in the relation Zone uh

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Leeds and Javi Garcia Take on Southampton at home get the win thank

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God Leeds needed this badly off a corner uh junior ferpo just Glides in and then

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my friend Mr bazuna just completely misses their save this is why they're going down bazuna misses a save

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that he should have saved and he completely doesn't uh this was up and down all over the place but bazuna just

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really Yaks the shot uh that ferpo puts in his first goal in the Premier League

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uh he's over the moon but the thing that was different about this was once

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um once leads got their goal they shut it down they took Bamford off they brought raqqa on they took uh you know

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they they really shifted it out and tried to see the game out and didn't about trying to find more goals

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they sat deep they knew that that Southampton couldn't really create anymore and once they got their goal

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they basically stopped attacking and were like okay we got this we're done let's see this thing out uh they and

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then Southampton didn't create anything uh so they get their bump Southampton but then they lose again

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Reuben celes is now permanent manager of Southampton had a weird interview in the

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end I don't know where we want to go with that all right this was a weird

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schedule not a normal schedule because um because of the League Cup Final and

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we missed some games so just to recap there were only a handful of games leads defeat Southampton West Ham defeat

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Forest fournill Everton lose at home to Villa uh nil 2 uh Lester gets destroyed by

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Arsenal one nil by doing nothing then City got us out go to Bournemouth win

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4-1 Palace nil nil holding the revolution to its terrible period and

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then Tottenham get their first win in 10 against Chelsea to nil but we have

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upcoming matches wowie wow Arsenal on Wednesday at home play Everton that's a

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makeup game if they win that game they will go

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Five Points clear they currently have a two-point lead on Manchester City with a

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game in hand and Liverpool go to sorry wolves come to Liverpool this last time

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they met wolves one three nil this that was a terrible performance by Liverpool

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um they've these are the games if they want to finish in the top four Liverpool must must defeat Wolves at home must

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anything less than three points is a cat is catastrophic uh and then we go

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into the rest of the week I believe

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that that's all I have and I will end the show

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