Episode #228 – Premier League and Champions League action galore! Man City on top, Liverpool’s verdict, and Man United’s thrilling draw with Barcelona

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hello and welcome to the squeaky bum Time Podcast presented exclusively on

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the chop Sports channel of the premiere streaming Network we're recording this on Thursday February 16th I am your host

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Laurent Cortes in this episode Manchester United's Europa League

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Thriller with farsa will catch up on our Champions League friends Chelsea and Spurs and discuss the big upcoming

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fixtures but first with top of the league we're top of the

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league Manchester City Waits up of the league

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Manchester City we did it we're back we are back uh what a weird season for me

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how did I experience this game so as you know City played midweek their first time meeting uh Arsenal uh in the league

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at the Emirates uh this was a replay from the Queen's death so we had to deal

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with you know replays that have been floating around all season everywhere uh that we deal with so what was this game

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like for me one I was happy to see the weird formation that pep played with Bernardo Silva at left back I thought

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why not it worked versus Aston Villa let's try it again but this was a different kettle of fish different

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kettle of fish for um for City so what does that mean uh

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Bernardo Silva was playing left back they played three at the back with with uh all that but you know Saka is not uh

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is not Ramsay and the wings for arsenal were really good and this was a really

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good Arsenal performance first half they really came out and pushed City back

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caused problems and Katya had a chance early um city had a chances as well but this

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was not a normal City performance it was a good performance I thought city grew

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into the game but Arsenal put a lot of pressure on city

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um this was not fluid easy fun time City but city was strong I thought City

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defended well I thought they were cohesive um but the Bernardo Silva left back

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thing was not working uh Saka really took it to

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um took it to took it to us and I pressed the wrong

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three on one game that I was looking at uh took it to city and it was it was difficult and you know there was a lot

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of pressing and the ball was not and City didn't have good passing accuracy a lot of long balls very

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uncity-like a lot of this game was long balls deep balls from couldn't City

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couldn't play out uh I thought like you know Eddie Edison launched 10 goal kicks

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which is a lot didn't do his normal passing didn't do any sweeper work just kicked everything long and didn't really

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uh have a chance and everything early was was from Arsenal and Katya Shaka and

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Katya again twice the headered one on 22 was really really scary and up until

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that point that first quarter of the game Arsenal one on top and um from there the

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first mistake happened so city were pressing a long ball goes

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up to uh Holland he he fights and wins The Duel sort of it goes off of of

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um off Saliba but then it goes to tomiyasu and he's pressed by grealish so

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he doesn't have any time to turn and his pass does not reach ramsdale but all this time that that process is happening

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de bruyne is on it and he picks up the pass it never makes

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it to ramsdale and de bruyne with and I mean I have to say as much as it's a

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mistake by tomiasu it's incredible by De bruyne he's way out three quarters just

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flips it nice lifted ball right into the goal and sit here up one nil a bit it

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against the Run of play um how did I feel I felt amazing

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uh city um you know had to play a different way had to have a gut check had to fight for

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every ball had to really not play the way they wanted to I mean this was the

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lowest um possession for any City game under pep ever 37 so that just gives you a

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sense that you know city did not play the way they wanted to uh Arsenal

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had the ball a big piece in this game and I'm sure Arsenal fans were gutted to

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when they heard this was that Thomas party did not play um almost they have not dropped points with Thomas

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parte in the side uh anytime they've lost it's because party is not on a team so it's no party no party for Arsenal uh

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this was a georginio game but he wasn't a problem so after the first half Arsenal could have felt good about it

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um they did get a penalty that I don't know what Edison's doing there's a secret among City fans and and you may

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not know this but we know it ederson is not as good as he was in fact he's been

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in Decline for three years he makes mistakes he doesn't say things it's

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weird it's weird and you're not allowed as a city fan to really Hammer Edison because he kicks a long ball every once

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in a while that makes you feel like oh uh he's on top of things he's a problem

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he gives up the penalty to inquettia at first I thought oh what the I've never seen that uh Manny brought out the

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real book from our WhatsApp group uh and I was like okay sure I had just never seen someone get clattered get a shot on

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target I mean I was more excited that that we cleared the ball off the line then then the penalty was a little bit

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of confusion at first but uh there was a a goal mouth scramble that got things

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off the line okay probably a little bit too much explaining here second half City much

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much much better uh on 60 akanji comes on for Riyad mahrez and City go back to

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a normal back four and from then on it's It's All City I don't think that in the

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second half Arsenal had three shots late and if you remember it was Odegaard white and quetzia from

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basically all of the second half Arsenal had no shots on target

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uh they had no shots on target the whole game but they only had three shots in the whole second half uh City's goals

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were really really good uh this the next two after the de bruyne goal greelish on

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an amazing move a little bit of a mistake but a really

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just a fantastic passing move from De bruyne from a run by

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a run by oh that's the third goal this was sort of across the back

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gundagon lets it Go grealish fires it in I did not feel good about it I did not feel good about gorilla shooting but

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he's finally got the rub of the green and it goes in and then the erling Holland goal is just fantastic uh from

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De bruyne and gundagon both setting it up gundagon with the Run de bruyne with

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the cross and then ilki gundagon lets it run it's and it goes to hauling on a

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touch finish really really good and City are up 3-1 in 82 and it's over from

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there um just really really good stuff from City and this was a tale of two boxes

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where you know City have Holland and de bruyne

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and for Arsenal it was Eddie and Katia and

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Jacques being afraid to shoot and Odegaard trying to make a difference but not really getting there there was no

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Martinelli he kind of vanished one ball dropped to tomiyasu hit he just couldn't quite get over it this is all in the

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first half and you know we had and Saka was terrorizing for for

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Bernardo and Bernardo could have gotten sent off uh he was fouling he didn't know what to do he's playing wrong the

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wrong places but this was more about Arsenal Arsenal

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being there this reminded me kind of of like a city performance where they're there they play well

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John Stones makes a mistake uh somebody makes a mistake ottomendi makes a mistake and they lose a game that they

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should have won so I think for Arsenal they'll feel like hey we played right

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with City and just lost this game because we were sloppy we were nervous we made mistakes

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um and then for City this was like we know what it feels like to be in this

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game we've been at anfield for Champions League games and lost we've been through

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14 in a row with with Liverpool behind us going game for Game

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for game for Game for game for Game all the way to the end 98 points having the

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being behind in the last game of the season having to find the energy to win the game to pull it out

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um I mean that happened last season but that also happened in the Brighton season uh in when when

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um when we had 98 and then to be centurions and push and try and go for those points so these are games that

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have happened we've lost uh you know we've had to come back against Real Madrid or or written down a

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goal to Dortmund we've had big big big games that we've had to handle and this is really

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Arsenal's first big game uh the north London Darby

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obviously made a difference United made a difference all those were sort of building to this moment and now Arsenal

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are in a sense in a wobble they've got one point from their last three games one out of nine that's eight drop points

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that's why city were eight behind and now they're not uh and so their level on

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points Arsenal have a game in hand um for Arsenal this is a moment this is

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I'm gonna say it this is an early squeaky bum time for them they've really

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got to get themselves back on track desperately get the next game has to be

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a win um this morning game they play Aston Villa and it just has to be a win

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there's nothing else it can be everything points that Arsenal needs to

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pull this out and then I think Arsenal fans are probably thinking what's wrong with us what's wrong with us

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I don't think there's anything wrong um I just think it's hard to win the Premier League

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especially as a first time team it's hard to run the same players out of over and over again running them out running

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them out tell me ask who was a strange Choice when Ben White had been in the same back four for almost every game

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and I just think when when we hear things like teams are tired

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I don't necessarily think it's literal tiredness I think it's more

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can you mentally be sharp can you mentally bring yourself up

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and consistently play when things are against you when you're pushing when you

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have game after game after game and now we're gonna find out about ourselves I think you know it was all fun and

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games it was all kind of like oh isn't this cute isn't this nice I really did think they were gone because of the not

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because of the way arsenal were playing but because the way city were playing I still don't know if City having them a

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push but I think the thank you Premier League the galvanizing of City around

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the no one likes us and we don't care booing the Premier League Anthem and you know everyone hates us and I think pep

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has used that to pull the team together um I think they were going to probably pull together anyway I think um another

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one that I just think about all the time is you know most people don't see this guy

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because he's just a guy to them but Ruben Diaz for city is just a man among

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men among boys he's our leader he makes tackles he gives zero he has the

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crown from Vincent company that was passed to him from Richard Dunn I know don't ask Richard Dunn was a leader

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um uh and you know just having having that leadership in defense that yelling

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that vocal player that guy who gets stuck in when I see a kenji's good and

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and laporte's good and John Stones is good but what Diaz does that they don't

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do is he tackles people he's able and has the

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skill to actually put a foot in and not get out of position and not get fouls

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called or penalties he just is a real Defender unlike those guys who are more luxury Defenders they want to shuttle

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you and and they sort of defeat you with class whereas Diaz doesn't have that he's physical and

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will attack you so City's next game is Nottingham Forest

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not easy I'm not saying it's easy but for um for Arsenal they have the early game

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against Aston Villa they have to find a way to win this is like Arsenal fans

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tell me how you're feeling how are you doing how are you viewing this I know that there's a oh you shouldn't feel

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worried you did great you went toe-to-toe with City uh you know arteta said as much hey I'm very proud of my

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team for us to beat them they have to be we have to be at our highest level uh you know trying to and then he he said

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he loves them more sure you love them more but you have to win it's now about winning grinding out

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results finding a way maybe Gabrielle needs a rest don't panic

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get yourself together pull yourself together have a good performance and defeat Aston Villa that is not gonna be

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easy Aston Villa are good unai Emery is a good coach so we're going to find out really where

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Arsenal is right away this next game becomes the biggest game I know it sounds like this

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this was a big game no no no but wait there's more this next game is the

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biggest game and speaking of big games we've got to get into our friends in the Champions

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League we'll talk Chelsea and Spurs up next uh first Spurs sorry first Chelsea

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they go to Dortmund into the yellow wall into this the what the hell is the name

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of their goddamn Stadium they have a crazy stadium name I want to say it correctly if I can find it

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um I cannot find it okay start vest Fallen something like that the yellow walls there tifos are there

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and Chelsea again fail to

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put stats sorry fail to finish their chances again they put up good stats

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they win the XG battle they play a lot better but Dortmund with the super speed

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of adiemi off a corner on 63 literally a

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one-man fast break the only player back is Enzo Fernandez and he dusts his ass as he's trying to keep up with

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him and then he's able to finish Kappa did make it easier by coming far out I

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don't know if he made a mistake maybe he stays back he wanted to be active he wanted to run onto the ball maybe he's

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just trying to get some support for uh Enzo Fernandez but again

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a lot of play a lot of banging things off walls a lot of you know I mean eight

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shots on target 21 shots all the possession just unable signal eduna Park

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sorry I didn't get it right um just unable to get off the schneid and

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this is Chelsea season right here they're not going to win the league they're not in the FA Cup they're not in

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the uh League Cup this champions league is all they have and listen the Champions League can be won when you're

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not good uh Chelsea are talented there's no reason this team can't figure it out

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I do wonder what Potter does he seems to now be getting into this

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thing where Chelsea is playing like Brighton where

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they can't score goals but they failure to deceive they look great uh this shouldn't be happening

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Chelsea have the players I wonder if they recall Lukaku I want to see haverts out of the side can we put someone else

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up there give someone else a try uh maybe Modric can play up there anything

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they just can't score goals uh Jiao Felix is not a striker

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sorry they hit the post twice you know it's not for lack of trying like this

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was weirdly Chelsea's best performance but they were not good and they go to

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they bring um Borussia Dortmund back home to Stanford Bridge next week in two weeks

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time to see if they can't pull this out but they haven't scored two goals in

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months I mean Chelsea have not scored two goals in

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ages let's just look back nil won against West Ham nil nil against

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Fulham nil nil against um Chelsea one goal against Palace one goal against

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Fulham and a loss FA Cup third round nil Manchester City

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so we're going back into January January 5th one goal they literally have scored

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one two two I mean like three goals in a month

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and a half I mean it's not looking good for them they haven't scored two goals since Dynamo Zagreb before the World Cup

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and they have to score two goals against Dortmund without giving up any yeesh

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I worry for you Chelsea you've got to find a way to score got to find a way to

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score uh and we go on to our friends at um

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uh Tottenham just another bad performance they just

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give up a goal to Brahim Diaz early and they just huff and puff and get nothing

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done they you know no no Hoiberg no no Bettencourt

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which is huge they still run Dyer and Romero out there Frasier Foster God love him he's a giant piece of wood he can't

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do anything the kulashevski bringing back you thought the attack would come back he's not done anything hinman's son

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is still having a hard time then Juma and richarlison got on I don't

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know what to do for Spurs there's season like I said a while ago was kind of petering out I think the kante

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at being sick his friend dying he now has to go back to Italy for rest I don't think his heart's in it I don't know

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what where Spurs go from here they're kind of listless and insipid it feels

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very late pochettino um there's something going on with Spurs

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even though so you get the sense that you know you had kante really galvanized the team

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the back half of last season to get them into the Champions League an incredible performance I can't say it enough and

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then you had sunny and Kane really connecting and you know the big thing

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you can see this year Kane doesn't have any assists he has like two you know why his son's not scoring anything and teams

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have figured out that if you stop Kane as a supply line he's going to get his goals because they're talented players

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but no supply line he's not making his teammates better because they're not moving things along and I wonder if the

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if this kante thing he burning out early you know Eric Dyer still being back

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there they've got to replace him he's awful Romero's been bad the whole thing just has a bad Vibe of this constant

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desire to defend not being able to defend and now not really being dynamic

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in attack where they're just they're just in the classic case of like I think of um basketball stuff where

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you either want to be terrible or you want to be great you don't want to be in the middle and I feel like right now Spurs are in the middle they're kind of

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sitting slowly slipping the out of the Champions League places you know probably finish

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in the top six but it's not been a dynamic season where

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you can hang your hat on something you know no basuma that Midfield that you thought was there wasn't there I thought

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skipping and SAR did well but it's skipping star they're both sort of holding midfielders they need some

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dynamism they need Enzo Fernandez they need Bruno gamarash where's the lat they haven't had anybody since Erickson

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they've never replaced Erickson and they've tried and dumbbell a and they tried LA salso and they keep trying and

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they do have they do have somebody in in bethan core but he's out for the season now so I I wonder how that works I am

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worried for Spurs at this point you know where do they go what do they do um you know they it's they're only down

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one goal which is fine you know they could have a big game at home it's just so they're so inconsistent like I can't

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I watch this and I think about it I'm like how the did City lose to this team I don't understand it we just have

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a voodoo against them so hopefully they they pull themselves together listen when it comes to the Champions League I want English teams to do well I want

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them to move forward I want them to find things I want them to you know do good stuff I do want to talk about one thing

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that's English that I don't uh really care about and that's um Club bruga I didn't know that Scott

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Parker ended up there he's terrible how the is he stuck in Bruges that weirdo anyway I wonder if

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Enzo Fernandez is like maybe I shouldn't have left Benfica Benfica is going to get through to the to the quarterfinals

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of the Champions League because they drew Bruges uh so that's a little bit weird and then

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can I just rant about Neymar so Bayern beat PSG at home PSG showed

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nothing they have Messi and Neymar and they're terrible and the anything the only thing that happened was

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um what's it called mbappe came on for the last half hour and once he was on they

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completely transformed and almost one thing and almost pulled level if if not for an offside

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Neymar is the most overrated World football player ever he's not won anything

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I mean he won the Champions League with Messi in 2014. he was supposed to win at PSG

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he's in this cupcake League now he's just getting older and fatter and he's in this like Hazard mode where he thinks

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he's still good he's not good he's not as good as he thinks he is sorry he is good but he just doesn't

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work hard he looks bloated he's got the classic you know you don't want I mean

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it's not fair but this sort of narrative around the Brazilian Superstar who

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parties too much was it Ronaldinho probably so he's going down the Ronaldinho path not Brazilian sorry

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because my beloved fernandinho played till he was 38 and lots of great

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um Brazilian players have stuck around for a long time tago Silva respect but he's going down the flash uh player

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and he's just burning out and all those kicks all that flicks and tricks he can't get by people anymore

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and I wonder if his time at PSG is ending but someone has to have guts

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and just be like I'm done with you uh there was some Bizarro like if this

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happens burn down the house Bizarro rumor that Neymar was gonna go to Chelsea if that happens it has to be on

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a free uh I don't think that's a good idea at all because he's cooked he's 31

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he's broken his ankles seven times I hate him and I can't wait for PSG to be out of the Champions League

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Messi won the World Cup he doesn't need the Champions League anymore what do you like to be in the final sure but you

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know who cares about him he's done um

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so we talked Champions League let's go into uh and then sorry next week the

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rest of the English teams do play in the Champions League sorry about that just a little housekeeping here next week we

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will see Liverpool Real Madrid and City play

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um Leipzig with Napoli the favorites right now playing and trick Frankfurt and trick

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Frankfurt great atmosphere so we'll see what happens with those teams as we move

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on through the season but we return to the Premier League

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and we V we visit our friends big games this weekend the first one of the day Aston Villa

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Arsenal massive what's on the line here Arsenal have to show that they have the

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hutzpah to lift themselves off the deck they're gonna go to Villa Park and they've got

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to win three points that's it they've got to throw it all out there because

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their underlying numbers don't say they're as good as they are so cities do you know Arsenal have been a good story

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they've been lucky not lucky sorry they've been great but it's starting to

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run out of gas and I think if they lose it'll really start to pour off so um the

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XG difference you know my underlying number machine is that uh City are plus

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29 Arsenal are plus 19. they have scored six more goals than it expected and

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kept out one more goal than they'd expect that's plus seven difference City are plus

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seven as well but cities have given up way more goals uh than they should so

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their defense is a little bit leaky this actually comes down to ederson has been bad he hasn't saved any shots but we're

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plus 11 on goals but most of that comes from Holland most of that comes from the

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six nil against uh Forest so it's a little bit Hollow uh I wouldn't say that

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City or this is not the best version of City we know from that game at 36 but

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yeah Villa is gonna be tough for Arsenal other big games

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Liverpool versus Newcastle on Saturday um this game

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is an interesting test for Liverpool they just got their little bit of news

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that they were not to blame for the UEFA problems

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okay they weren't to blame this time Heisel uh no I'm kidding around I tease

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the Liverpool fans because they're so persecuted in such a small little Club they need everything they can it was sad

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last year's Champions League final there was a lot of crowd problems the UEFA and

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France really tried to throw Liverpool under the bus they thought it was an easy

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target but Liverpool to be fair that organizers are organized and have had to

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deal with this kind of for a long time and they wouldn't stand for it they wouldn't stand for the slander the French just tried to blame Liverpool

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fans because they've Europeans have been blaming Liverpool fans for things for 30 years so they tried to put a pin

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it on him and with a and the French authorities actually it up I think this was more about you know

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France not planning well enough because they took it on uh it was moved from St Petersburg the final and so just didn't

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work out the way they were supposed to and it was a train strike what whatever Liverpool are Vindicated but what they

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really want if Liverpool are going to get their season on track they are

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10 points behind Newcastle for fourth can they make up 10 points

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maybe it's positive things have been done before it's not that amazing of a group in front of them uh Tottenham are

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slipping United Newcastle are you know they still only have one loss but they can't score goals anymore uh and

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Liverpool looked like they had something in the merseyside Darby uh you know

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Massachusetts in the Midfield and you know and Salah scoring a goal and a break and Darwin Nunez running and

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passing that looked more liverpool-y and then you see Jonathan firmino coming off the bench and you start to you start to

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you know you cover your eyes and you're like that looked a little bit like Liverpool uh I think this game against

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um against Newcastle away will be a big test for them they may see a mirror image of themselves

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uh in a team that create by pressing without a most solid to finish it off so

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we'll see what happens here I mean Newcastle are very very good and they're a very good defensive team their problem

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is they can't score uh and they've been getting draws and draws and draws and draws and draws uh they had a 1-1 with

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Bournemouth I mean away sure but still at home against Liverpool this is a test for Eddie Howe

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I like this game I think it's a fun game I think it's an interesting game uh I'm gonna look forward to it so we'll see

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where we are there and uh and that's a really fun one I do want to bring up one

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thing that's super interesting about that might twist the atmosphere of this New Castle game

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um and give a little bit of my little history stories so this would be the 90th birthday of Sir Bobby Robson who's

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Bobby Robson Bobby Robson was an English coach well-loved

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uh if if there was an opposite of Brian Clough it would be Robson uh Bobby

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Robson was like a kind-hearted sweet man who always had time for the press and

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was quoted and he really lifted in the mid 2000s he lifted Newcastle into the

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Champions League places after they had been sort of sputtering under um under

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root hollett and sort of at getting the end of Shira Shira was at the end under

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the last few years with Bobby Robson but Shira just sort of got lifted up by

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Robson and Robson was just well loved by the club he was from Durham which is in the north uh he famously coached England

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in in Italian 90 so he kind of had that first moment of hey is England back so

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England is back and um the jordies love him uh he died sadly of cancer and you

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know there's he's just one of these guys that when you learn about football he's a name that comes up because

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football is about moments and it's about people and it's about characters and

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um Robson is one of those characters who held the team up his big seasons were 2001 2002 2003 and four then he kind of

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kind of leaves the team somewhere in 2005 and then they kind of sputter and

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within three seasons they get relegated which is just Bonkers uh the that they

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would end up getting relegated but you know he had he had Newcastle really buzz it uh they had about five years there in

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the Middle where there wasn't much going on they had early in the Premier League they were there and then the Robinson period is another period for them and

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now this could be their next period where they're kind of back in it you know there are clubs that are loved by

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all fans and I think um Newcastle or that club and Bobby robson's half of the reason for that so

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that'll be the cauldron that Liverpool go into um when they face

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Newcastle um

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I think it's time to talk about this uh well I know there's a couple more games that I should cover I want to cover the cover the rest of the matches and then

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we'll then we'll talk then we'll talk United um and their new camp game so uh rest of

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the fixtures for this weekend let us Kick It Off early game like I

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said Arsenal versus

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Arsenal versus Aston Villa then all the Saturday fixtures a bunch

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the whole league this is a great League past that Brighton versus Fulham Forest versus City at the city ground

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Chelsea versus Southampton if Chelsea can't score against Southampton I will punch him in the face the massive

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six-pointer Everton verse leads come on leads uh no this will be tough this will

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be a game that Everton have looked on the schedule and said we need three from here lead still without a coach uh sorry

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Jesse Marsh not taking the Southampton job not taking myself then wolves versus Bournemouth at

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molyneux Brentford Crystal Palace in the London Derby against two teams that we both love the aforementioned Newcastle

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game on Saturday and then Sunday Manchester United faced Leicester city at Old Trafford and

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Spurs take on West Ham at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

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um I'm gonna go to United so they had their Europa League game

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today uh I I was enamored with the way the game was covered they were playing Barcelona at the new camp a great game

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end-to-end fun stuff uh but it was two

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heavy weights two aristocratic teams going head to head as football should be

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uh I noticed I noticed all those things um because

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there's no mention of Barcelona going bankrupt Barcelona

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paying off referees no mention of protests for sit

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for United no mention of sancho being a 100 million dollar bust no mention of any of those things and the reason why I

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bring that up even though it was a great game it'll get to it is there is a double standard between the way teams

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that have lots of fans on Drive clicks are covered and the way teams that are the bad guys are covered my team is a

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bad guy and when you are not the team that's cool you notice it and so the way

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this team is covered really gives you that feeling of just like you know what you guys so that's all I'm saying

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um barcel took the lead in this game in this the second half as well they all the goals first half was also incredible

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lots of slick Chris passing lots of fun up and down football lots of incidents

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Alonzo 150 then rashford on 52 really the rashford goal is just like he rifles

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it near Corner really fantastic then kunde there's a cross that goes in off

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of him so United are up 2-1 but then rafina on a cross come shot that's an

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amazing Cross by raffinia that almost flicks off of um almost flicks off of Lewandowski but

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does not go in this was a great game it was up and down both teams with eight shots

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Barca with eight on target great saves on both ends um especially on a few rafinho was just

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firing from everywhere but firing laser beams uh what a fun player I had forgotten about him I had forgotten he

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got the barsa in the you know whatever uh veg horse had a chance on goal when he was on his own at ter stegen saved it

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was just it did have a different energy and I understand that and that's great but it's unfair for people like me whose

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teams are not these teams that just get on and they these teams get a pass you know it's kind of anyway

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this was an amazing game uh very classic game very up and down and I think United

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will feel a little bit hard done there was a foul that I can't find the footage for I tried to look through the game uh

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controversially on rashford where they were called Nothing uh could have been a penalty but they

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said it was outside of the box so they called nothing no review because it's not in a box so no VAR on regular fouls

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they just played on so there was a lot of beef with the referee on that play

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um but you know all in all just a Thursday night classic uh for that's what Europe is for and

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that's why when people on the Europa League they shouldn't because

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it's a major tournament it is the legacy of both the

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uh fairs Cup and the Cup winners cup it is

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a venerated trophy it's winning in Europe it's not nothing

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it's a big deal so um when you're in it you should try and win it I can't stand

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this idea that this trophy is less than another the Europa League counts man if city were Had a Bad season and

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they were a neopa league and they somehow won it I'll be over the moon because I know that it's real I know

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that it's hard I think the thing that's diminished it is the idea that you drop into it from finishing third in your

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group from the champions league and that part makes it a little sucky because it's just like a little bit of the dregs

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of It kind of sort of like the NIT feeling to it where you don't make the NCAA tournament so you get to be in this

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one but once you get over that part it's a really good tournament the games can

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be really really good and you get much more variety in the clubs you get to

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learn more about different teams it's unusual to see barsa play Real Madrid play play Man City in this but if I

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showed you the other matchups you'd be like oh that's a weird game PSV Sevilla Nance verse Juventus that was 1-1

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um iax versus Union Berlin what a classic even though it was nil nil RB Salzburg versus Jose Jose mourinho's

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Roma shakhtar vs Reds you know sporting vs Michelin leverkus in Monaco these are

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you know I mean that Monaco game had five goals so it's a very up and down kind of you get fun games and some for

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some lower league teams like Michelin this this of this tournament means everything to them

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um and I think that's kind of what the conference Europa League is too we take it for granted as big clubs in big

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leagues but I think for other teams and other clubs and you're not big five

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leagues your leagues six to ten this means everything this is a huge deal for

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someone like stadren a team with lots of History this would be an achievement to win or Union Berlin coming from the

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second division very communist you know not communist um fan owned team with a

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lot of ownership they would love to win this tournament ah it would be incredible so

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the Barcelona um Man United game we pick it back up in

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let's see when it when do they replay it two weeks no not two weeks

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yeah next week next Thursday we pick it up next Thursday is that right anyway I can't

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think uh at Old Trafford it should be a banger so United in for European Knights

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we'll see how Old Trafford behaves uh massive game for them they've got to be

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enjoying it and really loving it uh and really feeling good about where their team is and what's happening for them

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as it's going um just looking through my notes trying to

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make sure I haven't missed anything here we talked about the the previews of all the games we talked about where things

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are we talked about how things are going uh who needs games remember the big

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games here Everton leads is a massive game but in that relegation fight and then Tottenham

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trying to pull themselves back together against West Ham I did want to cover the

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United Lester game that is not a game for United to sleep on Lester are back baby Lester are back

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they've scored four goals in their last two games and we'll see how they go head to head I would not

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think I mean that Thursday Sunday that shit's real so United really need to

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find their legs if they want to stay in this challenge listen are united a title contender

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no they would say that they aren't but crazy has happened and you've gotta

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be there so for United you've got to stay on the shoulder of city and Arsenal

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to really be right next to them in case one of them you know maybe Arsenal really slip fall

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down places maybe they you know lose four of their next ten which could happen very easily

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I mean I doubt it I mean things things have happened and you have a chance to really be on the shoulder with

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Manchester City and then you have a real old school 2011 Aguero race where you

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can push you know leagues are not one in the head-to-heads leagues are one beating

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Lester beating Brentford beating Bournemouth beating leads beating Fulham you'd only there's only

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so many points in your big matchups it's when you got to beat the shitty team so

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United can kind of back into it if they just put the their foot on the metal uh

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their foot on the gas to try and beat anyone that they should be based on name alone so interesting week coming up

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