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

In this episode of the Squeaky Bum Time Podcast, host Laurent Courtines delves into the latest developments in the Premier League and the Champions League.

In Part 1, we’ll discuss the exciting match between Arsenal and Manchester City. City activated their Champions League superpower to break down a defiant Arsenal and win 3-1, taking the top spot in the Premier League. We’ll analyze the key moments of the game and what it means for both teams’ seasons.

In Part 2, we’ll take a look at Chelsea’s loss in Dortmund. The Blues stumbled in the Champions League against Borussia Dortmund, with Karim Adeyemi scoring a wonder goal. We’ll talk about what went wrong for Chelsea and what they need to do to bounce back.

In Part 3, we’ll discuss Spurs’ lackluster performance in Milan. Tottenham struggled to create chances in the San Siro against AC Milan, ending in a 1-0 draw. We’ll analyze their lack of creativity in attack and how they can improve going forward.

In Part 4, we’ll give you the latest on the Champions League action, including Scott Parker’s Bruges folly v Benfica We’ll also take a look at the other standout games from the midweek fixtures and preview the upcoming second legs.

In Part 5, we’ll preview the upcoming game between Liverpool and Newcastle. The Reds will face the Magpies on Saturday, and we’ll discuss the implications of this match for both teams. Additionally, we’ll talk about the celebration of Bobby Robson’s 90th birthday.

In Part 6, we’ll give you the latest news on Liverpool’s UEFA enquiry. The club received its verdict on the chaotic scenes outside Stade de France last summer, and we’ll break down what it means for Liverpool’s future.

In Part 7, we’ll preview the rest of the weekend’s Premier League fixtures. We’ll cover all the important games, including Manchester United’s AMAZING 2-2 Draw v Barcelona at the Nou Camp

TIME STAMPS

00:00 Intro and show topics

01:05 City v Arsenal – what was it like for City fans

03:55 The Takehiro Tomiyasu Error – KDB a legend.

05:45 Ederson is in decline

08:10 A tale of Two-boxes. Haaland/KDB v Nketiah/Xhaka

12:50 Reuben Dias is the heartbeat of City

15:20 Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Chelsea #UCL

19:15 AC Milan 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur #UCL

23:10 Can I rant about Neymar?

26:00 Return to the Premier League – Arsenal CANNOT LOSE TO VILLA

27:40 Newcastle United v Liverpool – UEFA report exonerates the scousers in Paris

31:00 Sir Bobby Robson’s 90th Birthday. A biography.

33:40 Remaining Premier League Fixtures

34:50 Barcelona 2-2 Manchester United – bias coverage of the Aristocracy #europaleague

38:00 Europa League is awesome. You should try and win it.

41:20 Final Notes on the big weekend fixtures

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Transcript

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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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oh we'll get to that right away but first some housekeeping uh please like

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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

29:37

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

41:37

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

42:07

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

42:35

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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all right I'm tired and I'm done

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