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Sep 22, 2026
Match Week 5 Recap & Look Ahead To The International Break
Match Week 5 Recap & Look Ahead To The International Break
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0:01
What up, everybody? Welcome back to the Well Struck podcast, the football podcast brought to you by Soccer People. I'm your host Kevin. With me as always, the straw that stirs our collective drinks, Mr. Dexter Remy.
0:17
Hello, podcast friends. Good evening, sir. How are you? Good, good, good, my brothers. And certainly not to be left out, the crown prince confidently stating an opinion that he's just made up, Mr. Sean Stafford.
0:31
[laughs] You did write- [laughs] You did write something just today. Nice. [laughs] That was, that was good. Little Reggie Jackson reference and then... [laughs] That was good. I appreciate that. I love it.
0:40
[laughs] I've been working on it. Guys, welcome, welcome to my favorite hour and a half to hour and 45 minutes of the week. That's a fact. I'm very excited to get started. All right, boys, week five is in the books.
0:50
We are now at the precipice. No, nay, firmly over the edge of the first international break. Um, it's funny, they keep billing it as a, a three week break, but really we only have two weekends without games, which is
1:08
much better. [laughs] They kept saying- Mm-hmm... three weeks and I was like, "Are we really gonna go three Saturdays without any Premier League football?" But it's only two Saturdays. Uh- So how's that three weeks?...
1:18
and two weekends without Premier. [laughs] That math doesn't work. That makes no sense. It's this whole week. Well, it's this whole week, the following week, and the week after, and then there's games on the 10th.
1:26
Ah, no. See, no- So... I, I consider the break to be weekends without Premier League. I know. So- It's, it's some, it's some g- It's Premier League math. Well, you know what? I'm happily surprised then. Well, we had a,
1:40
a more interesting, uh, weekend. Yeah. Far fewer draws for a change, which was nice. Games were pretty interesting. Um,
1:50
saw some big wins, saw some little wins, saw some teams get off the schneid, uh, which brings us to game one, Nottingham Forest versus Coventry. Forest nil, Coventry, the Sky Blues, first goal, first
2:08
victory in 25 years. Well, not victory. First Premier League victory in 25 years. One-nothing Coventry. Sean, tell us about it. All right. So this was... The reason I wanted to focus in on this game was
2:21
this was make or break for Frank Lampard, I think, with the now apparently two week break, not three week break, but whichever it was.
2:28
A big break like that being a, a downright embarrassment maybe in my mind put his job on the line, but apparently hearing from the, uh, chairman of the board or whatever the hell it is they have over there, uh, fully on board, you know, telling Coventry fans, "Hey, you know, don't panic, don't panic.
2:44
I think we're gonna be all right." And as the announcers pointed out in this game, even in their five-nothing loss, the team, all the fans stayed till the end of the game and cheering on.
2:53
So, I think it's a bit of they're excited to be back in the Prem and they're happy. This was a huge win though.
2:58
So, I mean, right off the bat- Well, I mean, absolutely because Frank Lampard did get the dreaded vote of confidence, which we all know directly precedes a firing in 98% of the cases.
3:11
[laughs] I, I honestly, I think if, if Coventry were not a promotion team, if this was a, I don't know, Wolves a few years ago, like a team that'd been struggling but had been up for a few years, I think he'd be gone.
3:23
But it's because, you know, they haven't been here in, you know, a couple decades, [laughs] I think they're like- Mm-hmm... "All right. Let's, let's roll with him." But... And he made, definitely made some changes.
3:30
Uh, they said coming right out of the bat they kind of were starting in a back four, but kind of morphed into a back five at times when they didn't have the ball, which, probably smart.
3:38
Let's be a little more defensively minded this game. Let's not, you know, get our doors blown off.
3:43
And even right off the bat they had, uh, Rudoni had a real good chance in the third minute, put it over the top of the bar. But at least they were, they were pressuring.
3:51
Forest then for the rest, most of the rest of the first half kind of took control but didn't... I mean, there were a lot of shots, but there weren't a lot of kind of threatening shots, uh, you know.
4:00
So, if you're Coventry, you can live with that. Like, they had their, they had a couple chances here and there. Nothing, uh, nothing too crazy. Uh, what are my notes going on here? Yeah.
4:08
Like they had- Like I said, good first 10 minutes and then Forest kind of countered back. Um- Yeah, they did have a, a stat... Forest's chance in the, yeah, the 18th minute, probably should've put one away.
4:15
Uh, Adoid missed one. Uh, but definitely a much more composed and professional kind of performance from Coventry. Uh, and then 35th minute though, they, a, a great cross. Delap, you know, Delap has a shot.
4:31
Good another miss for Coventry. Coventry gets out of that one good. You get to the break. Well, they had, they had their one...
4:36
They did put one almost in on that offsides, but I like that they're, they were pressing Forest. They were kind of getting in behind a little bit. Even if you're offsides, it gives us something to think about.
4:46
They go to the half, they come out of half, and first, until they scored the goal, like, what, 50, uh, 55th minute, it was all Coventry. Coventry came out making a statement and- Mm.
4:58
Y- the goal of that guy's goal, was it, uh, what was his name? De, De Silva. De Silva. Mm-hmm. Do you know when he last scored a goal? His last goal. Has he score, has he scored a senior goal before?
5:11
He scored for Bristol versus Stoke in 2022. Sh- How that man took a ball from the keeper like that, a brilliant first touch, looks the keeper away and buries it, and somehow that guy hasn't scored in four years?
5:25
[laughs] Like- That's crazy... you definitely could've fooled me. Um- That's that Chelsea pedigree, baby. [laughs] But you know, then, then Coventry- De Sil- De Silva was not Chelsea? Yeah, he's a Chelsea...
5:35
[laughs] Oh, okay. I mean, that first touch he had was immaculate. That thing was a thing of beauty. Yeah. Let me tell you. Beats, beats behind the defender,
5:44
and, uh, got it in front of him enough, but not enough for the goalie to come out and steal it from him, and then just a clinical finish. It was... I was impressed. It was a, it, a very impressive.
5:53
It, it, it felt like, to, to say it this way, like being a cornerback and thinking the q- the cornerback can't ca- hit that receiver. Like- Exactly. You're like, "Come on." You've got the guy running full speed.
6:06
Yeah, that's not going off my head. Oh, crap. There it was. You know what I'm s- And, yeah... You know what I'm saying? Yeah, totally. It was... That's what it felt like. I saw that twice this week. I saw it
6:15
w- with Da Silva, and I saw it in the freaking Brighton game with United in the Carabao Cup with, uh, Heaven. But, um- Yeah... but, uh, but I mean, you could see it.
6:23
It, it felt like that guy Munoz, the defender, thought, "He ain't gonna catch him there." Yeah, no. He's like, "No chance he controls this." Yeah, yeah, he ain't gonna catch him. Uh, said, "I'm screwed. I'm screwed."
6:32
Yeah. It w- it was too late. At, by that point- And-... it was too late. You know what I mean? Yeah, beautiful. And then the, uh, 76th minute, a beautiful clearance off the line.
6:39
Co- it was all coming up Coventry, and then it looked like disaster. It looks like Guendouzi, v- I dunno, trips over his own defend- you know, his fellow defender. Falls flat on his face. Kinda tries to head the ball.
6:52
Igor Jesus puts it in. You know, Forest, uh, Forest Stadium goes wild, until dreaded VAR. Now, this is another instance of, I'll say, according to their rules, they got it right. I just don't like the rules.
7:10
Because Guendouzi, like, yes, he vaguely steps on your foot. He, he takes 12 steps before he falls down. [laughs] Like, my man runs half a marathon and then eventually falls down.
7:22
Like, like everyone's like, "Oh, he was off balance." It's like, y- you know what, though? You stayed up. Like, if... And again, that also goes against my own personal policy of stay up through challenges.
7:32
But you know what? One of those, fall down. Fall down right away. If a guy steps on your foot, fall down. So- He went down-... gets waved off. Coventry goes wild...
7:39
he went down about as fast as I did in Dizzy Bat this summer. Exa- [laughs] You had to be there for that. It was fun. Okay. Uh, but no. So big, big win. This is Coventry's first Premier League win
7:52
since the Twin Towers were still standing. Kevin had just turned- Oof... 18 years old in April of 2001. Mm. So it's been a while. Much play to them, and I think, honestly, I, I still think they're going down.
8:07
Um, but I don't... W- with this performance, if they can keep, you know, a semblance of this, I don't think they're gonna be an embarrassment. We're not looking at, like, a Derby County. I mean- Mm...
8:16
we're gonna look at... Look, they're gonna be bad. I'll still probably pick them for 20th. But I think they could maybe have some, you know, interesting games here along the way. If they're- Well-...
8:25
gonna do kind of, be defensive-minded like this. Just totally forgot I was 18 when I graduated high school. I was like, "No, I was 17. What are you talking about, 18?" No, man. I know the math. You were 18. So was I. Oh.
8:37
I, I can maths. I can math the math. [laughs] No, you definitely couldn't. I remember that. That was not your good class. [laughs] Hey. Hush. [laughs] All right. Well- Um-... I mean, big ups to Frank...
8:49
shout, you know what? It's, a shout to the Coventry fans. They were really good in, in the, the, the visiting, the traveling fans. They really, they were entertaining- I mean-... to listen to and hear.
8:59
You know, they were losing their minds... Co- Coventry are the football equivalent of that meme with the turtle. Just the, "What is this place?" Right now.
9:07
[laughs] They're, they're, they're just, they're just happy to be here, man. It is- Yeah, that's a fact. We, they, they... I, I had to give them respect for the way they were losing their minds, man. Yeah.
9:16
But it was good. Apparently they have a, they have a great chant that is, "Coventry, we have an accent that's rare, that's rare. If you want a cathedral, we have one to spare."
9:24
'Cause apparently there are two giant cathedrals in Coventry. [laughs] [laughs] Which, such a funny thing to do a chant about. Like, it's very- That's funny... hyper-specific. But no, good for them.
9:32
And they, you know, happy for them.
9:33
Like, to see a team you've rooted for, who's been, you know, ass for two and a half decades, to finally get back up here, get that win, especially after getting, you know, embarrassed for four straight games.
9:45
Proud of them. Proud of them and proud of Frank. He really- Yeah, I, yeah. I was impressed. He ha- he marshaled them a bit. I think he, he must have read them a riot act a little bit.
9:51
Like, "Hey guys, we gotta play some goddamn defense. I know I love scoring goals, but we gotta play some defense." Yeah. I mean, there, there were Coventry fans in the stands
10:00
who are grown adults who have never seen Coventry win a Premier League game. Mm. Mm, mm. Um, so good, good shout for them and a great week, great, great Saturday out for them. Yeah.
10:12
And, you know, obviously Super Frank's a legend in my, in my eyes. So any time he's doing well, I'm super happy. Um, are they gonna stay up? No. [laughs] No. Nah. Probably not at this point.
10:26
I mean, it's unlikely that Tottenham continue to be as Spursy as, as they've been. [laughs] Um- D- d- don't threaten them with a good time. Uh, I, I mean, just for the, the, the sheer
10:40
comical nature of it, I would love to see Spurs go down. [laughs] Nothing to do with being a rival of Chelsea. Just the sh- just sheer comedy would be hilarious. But, but yeah, I,
10:53
I don't see th- three worse teams throughout the division. I think Fulham's a better team, um, and, and will come good. I think Tottenham is a far better team. Uh, I just, I, I fail to see how they're going to
11:11
get enough points to survive. Um, but maybe they go on a run, you know? Maybe, maybe they'll prove me wrong. I would, I would love to see it, 'cause I did, going into this,
11:20
uh, this season, obviously, pick them to stay up. Um, but maybe they get, you know, they get Hojbjerg right back after the break. He comes in, he starts scoring Premier League goals.
11:29
They look like a much more fear- formidable team. Frank Lampard sorts out the defense a bit, and they stop shipping handfuls of goals a week. They gotta... They, they're in with a shot. I, I don't,
11:41
I don't think it'll happen, but I'm not gonna rule it out. 19th for me. 19th is their high water. Like, that is [laughs] that, I mean, maybe like- So, so just-... five points-... not rock bottom. Okay. Yeah, yeah.
11:55
Yeah, maybe five points out of, uh, you know, like, like... But, you know, couple weeks ago it's already over, and Coventry's looking at, uh- Mm-hmm... you know, their, uh, like," Yep, you know what?
12:06
Who, who, who we playing in the championship next year? Let's go." I think we're gonna see, um- I think we're gonna see safety be a lot higher this year.
12:15
I think the, the points required for safety are gonna be a lot closer to that 45-point mark that used to be sort of like the threshold of like, "You'll be safe." Um, teams have been safe the last couple years with what?
12:25
Like 22 points or 28 points or something like that. Um, so I think we're gonna- Yeah, you can't count on... I wouldn't count on that. I think the, the, the parity top to bottom in the league is so, so much better now
12:38
that even the bottom team will not be as shit as the bottom teams the last two seasons when they were looking like they were gonna rival Derby County's record. Um, so. Yeah. Yeah. So we-
12:56
we'll, we'll put a pin in that one. We'll see, you know, check back in on Coventry in, you know, maybe five weeks since we have three weeks off. Um, so [laughs] see where- Yeah. [laughs]... see where they're at then.
13:06
I mean, look it, they, they're playing Newcastle, Spurs, which they might have a shot. Who knows? Six-pointer. Relegation six-pointer early. Let's go. But then everybody else is tough. I mean, it's the Prem.
13:17
Like, you know- Yeah... 90% of your games are gonna be tough. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that's one of those things. But then they'll, they'll probably... They'll go to the Etihad and beat City 2-nil or something.
13:25
Like, it'll be- I'm sure just to make sure... it'll be ridiculous. Makes it, make Arsenal fans happy, of course. That... Uh, so. All right. What do we got? Well- What's, it's, it's game two... we move.
13:33
Game two- Speaking of... is Brighton 3, Arsenal nil pois. The big goose egg for The Gunners. Ooh. Their perfect start to the season is over. Their longest run of wins since The Invincibles is over.
13:51
Um, and I- Are you sure they made four of... Oh, wait, was that counting last year also? Yeah, it's nine straight wins in, in Arsenal. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I was about to say, "Four? Good God, what the fuck?"
13:59
[laughs] No, it's not. It's nine straight. I, I will not lie- It, which is very impressive... uh, it was a, "You're a hater." Yep, you know what? I am and I was super goddamn happy watching this game. I was ecstatic.
14:09
Um, so yeah. So, and it wasn't, it, it wasn't even as close as 3-nil, I'm gonna be perfectly honest. Right from the start, Brighton were all- They were on it... over Arsenal. And the, the first thing that struck me was
14:26
I see exactly what Xavi Alonso did, and why he didn't try to possess the ball and play through, and play through this team, because they will absolutely press you into the ground.
14:38
Every single opportunity, Arsenal played out from the back, and Brighton had five players up the field and just, like, pressing them as soon as possible, with two players on each outlet somehow.
14:50
Like, it looked like they were playing with 15 people against Arsenal's 11. It was crazy. Um, but yeah, Brighton on top immediately. Six minutes in, uh, Castillejos, uh, puts one on frame.
15:04
David Raya has to, uh, uh, tip it a- you know, tip it across the boop, tip it behind. Um, and then after that, kinda settled down. Arsenal did come into the game. They had a couple opportunities.
15:19
Um, nothing overly dangerous. Um, but they, it looked like, it looked like they caught their breath and they were going to go on and do what Arsenal do, which is just suffocate the game until the team basically gives up.
15:36
Uh, but on 30, 31 minutes, my man Pascal Gross, given just the absolute freedom of the AmEx by, by Gabriel, uh, Calafiori, and Ezra Konsa, just each one of them looking at the other one like, "You want him?
15:54
You gonna go? You gonna go? You gonna go?" Um, top of the box. Lets one go near post. David Raya, no chance. Tucks it just inside. Beautiful goal. And all I can say is Ballon d'Or, maybe?
16:09
[laughs] Well, I will say this though. Let me jump in and say this though. D- Pascal Gross did exactly what he was supposed to do when you're wide open and it looks like you're almost doing a practice turn.
16:22
You know what I'm saying? Yep. And it looked- Those two guys, no one wanted to step to him It looked like Gab- He just turned around and took a shot.
16:27
Like, Gabriel was, like, it's, it reeked of Gabriel being like, "I know how many, uh, like, contested dribbles. I've never been beaten on the dribble." And he was worried about that stat.
16:38
Like, "I'm not gonna step up to this guy 'cause if he goes around me, that's a minus one on me." So he, he just, like, he's only 20 yards out and you dropped, like, five yards off of him. My man, this is not Peewee.
16:48
And- Like, that guy's gonna shoot from there. They, they both- And he's gonna do damage... they both backed up and then did the, that, that forward lunge with their hands behind their back. Yeah. That's what...
16:57
You know what I mean? [laughs] Ridi- it was ridiculous. It- It was, it's wild because you watch... Like, it's not only that Gabriel is backing up or, and, or, or, you know, not attacking the player in space. He's,
17:12
he puts his arm up to, like, like, point Calafiori off to, like, the overlapping run, which isn't being made. There's nobody- There, there's no one over there... really making a hard run.
17:22
The, um, I forget who was on the right wing. Um, it wasn't Ya- uh, Yakulj at that point. Um, but, like, there, there is one player on the right. It might've been, uh, Ferdi, um, at that point.
17:35
So he, like, points him off, but then he also starts to go towards that run. Yeah, it was, it was bird's eye. So, like, that's why he's dropping off, 'cause he's like, "Go left, and then I'm gonna go left too."
17:45
So then Konsa starts stepping over, and then Gabriel kind of stops his run, does the turn, and then Konsa can't actually get over to defend the shot.
17:54
Um, you could see Ezra Konsa shoot him just the, the biggest, like, "What the... Were you th- were you doing?" look. Um, and I gotta say, Gabriel is, he is getting found out without Saliba at his side.
18:08
He got found out at the World Cup. He is getting absolutely found out at the beginning of this, uh, season. Maybe it's not just Saliba. Maybe he's just out of form, but he looks nothing-...
18:22
like the player he was the last two seasons. Absolutely not I, I just, honestly, at this poi- I don't wanna hear his name brought up with the great center backs of all times.
18:30
You know, the Rio Ferdinands, the John Terrys, the, you know, even Virgil Van Dijk. Like, like Van Dijk, who I'm saying looks like he's having a down year, still looks more impactful than Gabriel. He just looks...
18:43
He looks like a guy who, when everything is going great with the team around him, can be dominating. But if you're relying on just him, he, he's, he's not that guy. He's not that guy.
18:55
Like, yes, when Saliba's there, Saliba's great also. You have two great ones. You can, you know... You both look better by comparison.
19:02
But when he's not there and I need you to do it, my man, I need you to step up and do this, I watch you backing off and, you know, twice, on both of the long goals. Backing off- He-...
19:13
a guy who was trying to shoot He looks scared to do something, uh, for the, in the sake of like, "Well, if I do it and I fail, then it's my fault. But if I do nothing, then it's not my fault 'cause I didn't try."
19:27
Like, he, he looks, he looks like he's having a brain crap. Like, he's not sure what to do. At least in this game. He just, he didn't, he was never in the right spot.
19:38
Um, didn't press when he needed to press, didn't drop off when he needed to drop off. Um, it was a shocking performance from him. I don't expect him to, to be that bad ev- every game.
19:50
Um, but was absolutely shocking and somewhat fun to see, because I'm so sick of his antics outside of being a good defender. Um, a- as you alluded to, Sean, that was, you know, my point as well.
20:02
Like, every time I see him go down because he gets, you know, a, a stiff breeze, and he's- Uh, this one, this game was ludicrous. That attacker lightly touched him with a finger.
20:16
He flew on the ground like he'd been cleaned out by Roy Keane or, uh, you know, Vinnie Jones or something. [laughs] And- Yeah... the ref, and look, I'll give credit to the ref for not calling a foul.
20:28
But my man, reach into your pocket and call a dive. That's simulation. That is attempting to get a guy booked. [laughs] Like, attempting to get a penalty. Like, what are you doing?
20:37
Don't, don't let him get away with that nonsense. At least have a talk to him. Like, he didn't do anything. The- And we've seen this game after game from him. That's his... And Arteta loves it. Arteta coaches this,
20:47
and I've had enough of it. The only f- like, the only funny thing that, or the only, I guess, argument to that is, um, Yassine Ayari. Why are you even touching him? Why are you reaching out to touch him in the back?
21:00
Like, I don't- Maybe that's every player. I- I don't understand what atta- why attackers do this, why they, why they put any physical contact on the defender when he's running backwards towards his own goal.
21:12
As soon as you touch him, he's going down. Like- It, it, it- He- It's as if they've never played soccer before in their lives. I'm like, I would summon help immediately And then we turn around like, "What do you mean?"
21:20
Like, "What do you mean?" That's the call every single time. [laughs] It- It's like-... drives me, it drives me nuts. It... Here's the thing. Footballers, not exactly known for their brains.
21:29
They are known [laughs] for their foot skills. All their stuff is down in their feet, which about as far away from your brain as it could possibly be. Yeah.
21:38
But anyway, so we move on after that, um, lovely Pascal Gro- uh, Gros goal to Arsenal's really f- first and kinda on- you know, uh, only chance of, of the afternoon. Um, Odegaard
21:56
kinda dwells on the ball. Uh, they ha- they have the overload. He takes far too much time to make a decision. Finally takes a shot. Ball deflects to, to Bukayo Saka, who
22:08
kinda off balance, kinda falling down on his off foot. G- you know, clips it very lightly to Bart Verbruggen. That was their only attempt, and it wouldn't have even gone...
22:17
Doesn't even go down as attempt on goal because it would've been offside anyway. Um, but that, that's basically the width and breadth of what Arsenal accomplished as an attacking force in, uh, in that first half.
22:29
And it's even funnier because 15 seconds after that attempt, um, Brighton go down the other end. Uh, Castillejos, again, edge of the box. Nobody within
22:45
four yards of him, maybe three, w- if we'll be kind. Um, just, "Go ahead. Go ahead, mate. Hit it." Ha- Have a- And he hits it perfectly on the, inside- A- again-...
22:57
the other post Enough time to turn and just really g- aim and no one stepped into him. Yes. But- No one put a body on him. He's cozy. He's like, "Yeah, I'm in, we're in practice here. This is warm-ups." Yeah.
23:10
"All right, let me, let me take a rip-" Yeah... "at the far corner." And he, he struck it perfect. Yeah. Hit it, like, it just shows, like, the difference for me between a professional
23:21
and anyone at any, you know, any level that I've ever played at, is you don't have to, you, you don't have to wallop it. He didn't have to leather that ball. What was more important was the placement.
23:34
Like, he hit it along the ground just inside the f- inside the far post. He didn't turn, he didn't try to hit the absolute tits off the ball and take the, you know, take the net off the back of the frame.
23:46
Um, which I think anybody, any one of the three of us here, given that circumstance, seeing that amount of time and space, would've- Yeah...
23:55
hit the ball literally as hard as we could and probably sent it out of the Amex. Mm-hmm. Um, so Brighton went, Brighton go into the half, 2-0 up. Seagulls are, are just, they're enjoying their lovely
24:13
afternoon out. Come back from the break, Brighton's still on top. Uh, 10 minutes in, they get a corner. Their new, uh, central defensive midfielder, who they will undoubtedly sell for $190 million in-
24:29
In a year and a half, uh, Kemah Andrus rises higher than everyone else, heads home at the far post. 3-0 at that point, game's done and dusted. David Raya wanted a foul. Um, there is- He...
24:43
The, the Brighton player is standing there. Raya runs into the Arsenal defender who is standing next to the Brighton player. The Brighton player doesn't take a...
24:52
And by the way, the schadenfreude of Raya being like, "Ugh, he got in my way and crowded me." Like, homeboy, did you watch your team last year? Did you? Yeah. Did you? And that's another one.
25:03
Where, where is, where's Gabriel? Where's Gabriel? However Gabriel [laughs] how is it pronounced? C-U-N-A- Gabriel... Gabriel. But that was a basically a free header from six yards.
25:13
I mean, that dude, there, there was nobody. There was nobody around him. I, I guess I know he's tall, but he wasn't being harried by anyone.
25:19
It was just like, "All right, I guess I'll just knock this straight into the net. Thanks, guys. Enjoy. Boop." But- There's just... There's something truly beautiful about a
25:30
6'2" plus central defensive midfielder who's got his shirt tucked in that just says, "I'ma fuck your entire day up." Like, you got your Rodri, you got this guy, this, you know, Kemah Andrus.
25:42
Like, there's just something about a central defender with his shirt tucked in, usually wearing black boots, no frills, full shin pads, 'cause he is, he's- Yeah, don't mess with those guys... he's coming for blood.
25:54
Don't mess with those guys. If their shirt's tucked in, you... That, that man's, that man's at work. That man is at work. Mm-hmm. I was, like, watching...
26:01
So when Brighton came out, like you said, they were pressing like maniacs. And my, my one concern was, and I think I texted you, I was like, "What's their cardio routine like?" Because this is gonna be a difficult...
26:14
Like, that's a difficult game to play. But apparently their manager knows, "Hey, man, we do wind sprints when, when [laughs] no one's, uh, looking." Because they kept it up all game.
26:22
And my man, he d- he didn't quite win my most impressed, only because of what happened later, but Diego Gomez was a goddamn monster. That guy was all over the field. He was fucking shit up in the midfield left and right.
26:34
He was making Arsenal's day just a, miserable, just making it miserable. Odegaard wanted no part of this game. Didn't they... Did Zubimendi come on at some point? They made some subs. I don't...
26:44
Oh, they brought on Jörgensen. That's right. [laughs] I forgot about him. He came on. Yeah. But nobody wanted any part of that game. And Brighton, Brighton was on it. They were there for it. They were amped, hyped.
26:54
And again, this is something Arsenal hasn't had to deal with in a long time. When you're the champs, you're gonna get everybody's best shot. Mm-hmm. Everyone's excited to play you.
27:02
This is no longer, "Ooh, second place Arsenal. Just wait till they bottle it." Like, "Hey, you want it? Now we're coming for you.
27:09
We're coming for the Kings, and you're gonna get everybody's best punch, and you better be ready for it." And this game, they, they got off the bus not ready. I don't know what was going on, but they did not look...
27:19
They were not prepared for what was given to them. Yeah. You, you can't even bring the adage of everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth. They didn't even need to get punched in the mouth.
27:27
They showed up, they showed up like, like this was a foregone conclusion. Like they were going into the break five wins out of five, no questions asked. And Brighton said, "Hold on, friend.
27:39
Like, we, we've got something to say about this." Um, and just, uh, just they just, they dog walked them all afternoon. They were all over, uh, Arsenal. There's
27:54
really not much you can say other than Brighton were the far better team. Absolutely deserved winners. It doesn't really... You know, in the grand scheme of things, does it, does it mean Brighton's a title contender?
28:06
I don't think so. Um, I think it does further cement for me Brighton's credentials as a Champions League contender. I think they're, you know, gonna be a top four, uh, contender.
28:18
The thing you wor- or at least that I worry about with Brighton is, what happens if a team does beat the press? If you've got six guys- I mean-... inside their 18 pressing their goaltender with the ball.
28:29
Goaltender, what am I watching, NHL? [laughs] They're pressing their goalkeeper. I mean, he's a goaltender. He tends the goal. Get your, get your tendies in, mate. Um.
28:38
Um, like, what if he goes long over the top of everybody and you have a striker who can actually hold the ball up, um, which Havertz couldn't do on, on the day? Um, so- Nah, I mean, like, you're talking like, uh...
28:48
When they play, when they play City, I mean, if it was a Pep City, that's when Pep goes, "All right. Cool. Remember how we used to play out of the back every single time? F that.
28:57
Lump it to that big ass Norwegian up front. He's gonna hold onto it, and then Shirky and everyone else and Doku are gonna come follow, you know, come off."
29:03
Honestly, even like a team like Forest who has, you know, is it Chris Wood? They, they... You know, any of these teams with a big actual striker who can hold the ball up might give Brighton some, you know, some trouble.
29:13
Mm-hmm. But- Yeah, but Chelsea didn't too... I mean- Chelsea doesn't have a big tall striker. Yeah. They have João Pedro, and we didn't either. Yeah, but if you just... Honestly, if people are gonna realize...
29:19
And obviously the Brighton coach is smart enough. He's gonna know... You know, they'll realize if teams are beating the press, I'm sure they have a second option.
29:26
But, you know, for teams that are stubborn and never play a different way, looking at you Mikel Arteta, Brighton's gonna smoke you every time. Like, if you want...
29:34
If you insist on playing your way and never changing, cool. Now we know how to game plan for you. And they're gonna see that.
29:41
The teams that are capable of doing it, he's gonna see it a few more times, and they're gonna have to prove that, you know, they can play up to Havertz or they can play to Captain Jeans, you know?
29:49
And see, see what happens. [laughs] It's, it's Captain Dockers, okay? Captain Do- [laughs] Captain Levi? [laughs] It's Captain Dockers. Um, but the...
29:57
You know, I guess the last bit from this game, Brighton had chances to make it four or even five. Matt O'Riley- Mm-hmm... easily should have put the ball away, um- Mm-hmm...
30:05
went through, uh, put it right into, um, David Raya. Uh, Pascal Stroeke or Strujk, uh, headed just wide, uh, off a corner, you know, a couple minutes prior to that. Um, but then
30:21
for some reason, the only thing anybody wants to talk about from this game, uh, is Declan Rice not getting red carded for-... walking three yards- Kicking a guy... walking three yards- He's kicking a guy...
30:33
over the pitch and just lumping a guy in the shins for no reason. Um, ProRef came out and said that, uh, it was petulant, not violent.
30:44
Um, and I just, I don't understand what you call walking over to a player who's walking away from you and kicking them in the leg. Whether you made a lot of contact or not- But, but Kevin, he got pushed... he got pushed.
30:57
He got pushed I, I'll tell you why. He got pushed I'll tell you why... the thing that happens 100,000 times a game. He got pushed. I know, but you know, you know why they didn't do anything?
31:04
It was the end of the game, that's why. Exactly. They gave him the yellow. I, I cut the ref- 'Cause if, if that happened early in the game, he would've been out of there... I, I hope so. I, I, I do hope that.
31:12
I think the ref knew he was about to blow the full-time whistle anyway and just figured, "I will deal with this situation by ending the game."
31:21
But again, that's, that's what I was saying, I don't know, last week or the week before about, like, these refs who have this inde- this decision of, like, "Well, I don't wanna get involved.
31:30
I don't wanna impact the game by, you know, giving an early yellow or a second yellow or a red." Like, they, they, they have this idea that, like, "If I do nothing, I'm not impacting the game."
31:41
It's like, well, you have impacted the game because you didn't apply the laws of the game properly, so that individual is now on the pitch when they shouldn't have been. So you have impacted the game by doing nothing.
31:53
Um, you know, in, in the words of the, uh, the great Canadian poet Geddy Lee, "Even if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." Like, doing nothing is still doing something.
32:07
Um, and- Well, I'll say this too, man. Let me say this too. Look, if old man Jakulej did that in the middle of the game, I'm all with it. I'm all with it.
32:17
If you bumped him like that in the middle of the game, you, he, you gotta let him know something. You gotta let him know something. They put him in the- At the end of the game, that's a sucker move.
32:26
I would've told him about himself. I would have kicked him in the shin, you know what I mean? [laughs] I would've said a few words for pushing me- That's fair... at the very end of the game for no reason.
32:35
But- I don't-... I would've kicked him in the shin... I don't think it's a sucker move because I think Declan Rice runs his mouth a lot Oh, you just... All right. You don't like Declan Rice. I know that for a fact.
32:42
[laughs] I actually, I don't dislike Declan Rice. I think he's over-hyped. Um- He talks a lot. He talks a lot of- But he does talk a lot of shit lately. Uh- Uh-huh...
32:51
and even more now that he's a Premier League champion, and I think he just needs to wind his neck in a little bit. He's- And he feels like, "Yeah, you can't touch me" type of thing. I just... Yeah. All right.
32:59
Declan Rice at West Ham, loved the guy, was begging for him to come back to Chelsea. Mm. Um, this Declan Rice, like this year, he just, he just seems so full of himself. Um, and you can see it.
33:14
Like, on the pitch, he, like... West Ham Declan Rice would've, would've taken that bump from Jaku- Jakulej and would've been like, "Yep, I would've done the same thing." And they probably would've swapped shirts.
33:24
But, but this Declan Rice has a lot on him right now. No, I would've told him something. I wouldn't have touched him. But I'd be like, "Yo, dude, don't touch me, man. You got it. You got it. Why you touching me for?"
33:31
I would've said something to his face. Oh, yeah, yeah. But- But walk up to him like a man. Get, get up in his face. Don't headbutt him. Yeah, I would've said, "Look, why you touching me for, man? You got it."
33:37
Yeah, just be, be- "You got it. It's 3-0. Why you pushing me?" You know what I mean? But then again, Jakulej- But I wouldn't have kicked him in the shins... Jakulej could've just been like, "What? I bumped you?"
33:46
You 50-year-old looking motherfucker. Like, that dude looks like he's 1,000 years old. [laughs] Are you, are you sure I bumped you? Because I, I don't- Yeah, he could've, he could've said all that...
33:52
I, I don't recall that... but, but I would, I would've said something to him... because I'm 90 years old, Fran Helmus... but if, if, if Jakulej, if he did that in the 30th minute, good, Jakulej.
33:59
You gotta let him know something. Let him know, you know what I mean? Yeah. Just bump him in the back, just, just for no reason. Just do it. Make sure he knows. But the thing is, that- This dude does not know-...
34:06
that bump happens literally- 1,000 times a game... 30 times a game- Oh, yeah... easily. Totally. So, like, to just... But to walk over and lump a guy in the shins for it and then claim that,
34:18
"Well, you only really tripped him." It's like, you still walked over and attacked him. And where was the ball? The ball was 10 meters away. That was lame. Oh, I know.
34:25
What he did was, was lame- Oh, it tripped him, right? Yeah... and, and it was lame. I mean- Yeah We move on... but the ref, the ref looked at it and said, "All right, we're literally at the end of the game."
34:33
Yeah, I'm, I'm blowing this whistle. I'm end- Yeah... I'm ending this game. Let's not do this. Yeah, yeah. He's like- Let's not need it... "We're at the end of the game. We're, we're not gonna let this go any further."
34:39
That's what it basically is. I guess more so my point is I would've liked to hear from KMI to be like, "Yeah, actually, that was a missed call. He should've been sent off."
34:47
Like, but to, like, to back up that it wasn't a red card, I think is just like- And to say it was petulant. Like, what the hell does that mean? No, no, k- it was petulant. Yeah. It's also a red card. Yes, it was.
34:57
And it was violent- You're gonna take it as a personal matter... 'cause he walked over and kicked somebody. [laughs] Whatever. So. Anyway, yay. Sorry, Swift.
35:03
You can listen to the rest of the podcast now if you skipped ahead. We can- Shout out to, shout out to Schar. Shout out to Schar Swift, man... [laughs] We're done making fun of Arsenal. You guy- Shout out to Swift...
35:10
you guys are the champs. Enjoy. But- Enjoy They had a- Only- It was a bad one. They just caught a bad one, man. I don't know. They'll, they'll get it. Honestly, I haven't seen them play that bad in three years.
35:18
And they won't play that bad again, but- Yeah... it was enjoyable. They'll, they'll be fine the rest of the way. They, like... And Brighton will do that to other teams. Brighton will make other teams- Oh, yeah...
35:27
look that, that shitty. Yeah, that's the other thing, too. We, we basically said last week we like this group. They're, they're a fun group to watch. And what did, have they done since then? They beat United- And-...
35:37
in the Carabao, came back from 2-0. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They, they- And then they beat, then they beat the champs 3-0, so they're a team- Yeah... that's entertaining to watch. Right now they're must-see TV.
35:46
They're not happy about it, but, you know. Yeah, yeah. Right now they're must-see TV. You can't... Like, if Brighton's on, guys- No doubt. No doubt... you must go watch them because- This, this-...
35:53
they're gonna be entertaining... you know, this Custola's kid, um, and there's some other things that we'll talk about with this team later. I'll go, I'm gonna bring up in a little bit. But- Yeah.
36:00
Custolas is 19 years old. Uh. You reali- Sweet... the kid is 19. He's only getting a, like- That guy's 19? Oh my God, this is an old football team. I, I didn't even know that. I thought he was 20-something years old.
36:11
Good God. He's 19 years old. Wow. He's getting a- All these, all these footballers, man... he's really only getting a run because they sold Danny Welbeck and Jorginho Rutter was, was hurt. So they- Mm. He's all they got.
36:24
But kid is 19. He is, he is just full of the confidence that comes with being 19. [laughs] Uh- Mm... just young, dumb. Uh, I, I read that somebody th- a r- a lip reader, um-
36:40
S-, uh, thought that he turned to the Arsenal fans after he scored and he said, "Who's fucking you? It's me." [laughs] Which if that's what he said is- I, I-... fucking hilarious. [laughs] I, I, I saw the F.
36:53
I did see the F. I, I did see him s- I did see it, the F come out when he did score. Who's- Yeah... who's fucking you? It's me.
37:00
Now, that is a- Like, well, he's Greek, so he might've been saying some, some gibberish none of us even know. Like, [laughs] there is the, there is that possibility. But that's hilarious.
37:07
Yeah, it's unlikely he, it's unlikely he shouted in English or speaks English that well, but, um, I, I choose to believe that that's what he said, because that is like some- That's awesome. [laughs]...
37:14
PDW level, like, [laughs] who do you think you are? I am. I am. [laughs] Beautiful. That is tremendous. That's what... I love it.
37:21
Um, uh- [laughs] The, the last thing from this game, which I think Arsenal fans are, you know, all up in arms about, if you bring up the Declan Rice should've been sent off, they're like, "Well, what about Kadioglu?
37:32
Should've got a second yellow for diving." Like... There was contact. There, there was contact. He g- I think he goes down thinking he's going to be fouled. Yeah, I mean, he went down for contact.
37:42
And then, and then realizes there really wasn't a lot of contact. The dude gets up faster than I've ever seen a human pop up off the turf. And, like, clearly is like, "Don't look at me ref. I, like, I didn't do anything.
37:56
It wasn't a foul." Like, he didn't, he didn't ask for it. Like, I don't, I don't see any ref in any competition is gonna give a second yellow for that. I don't think it's a dive.
38:05
I think sometimes people fall over- Mm-hmm... 'cause they're expecting contact. The contact doesn't come, but their sort of
38:13
movement was already geared towards, like, "I'm going to get this contact, so I'm going to fall down." Um, I, I don't think it was an intentional dive.
38:20
He didn't, like I said, he didn't look at the ref to, to ask for a penalty, to ask for a call. If he had been sent off, I think that would've been incredibly harsh. That's harsh. That would've been...
38:28
I'm like, was he trying to sell the contact a little bit? But like you said, he didn't appeal. He didn't throw his hands up. And he jumped right back up and was like, "All right, let me..."
38:35
[laughs] Jumped back up- "Ah, didn't work"... and started pressing the ball. Yeah. Like, "Let's go." That's what I did. All right. So, you know, hey, you give, you, y- he gave it a half. That's, that's a half dive.
38:42
Like, that should be, like, half a yellow card [laughs] if possible. Like, I'm gonna give you an orange. Yeah. Like- Look, man, just stop the acting and get hit. Yeah, like, don't do that again. Get knocked down, get up.
38:48
You know, like, the ref was like, "Ah, you jumped right back up. Don't do that again." Stop. Like, come on. Get hit, get up, and move. Keep on playing, man. Yeah. Just, jeez. But anyway. Anyway.
38:55
Brighton, very impressive. Arsenal, very unimpressive on the day. They'll be better the rest of the way. Mm-hmm.
39:03
Sean, as you said, they haven't played that poorly in probably three years, and they probably won't play that poorly again.
39:09
Um- I think honestly since Brighton did it to them like three years ago at the, uh, the at, at, uh, the Emirates. Yeah, and ended, ended that title challenge. Yeah. So, so we move on to game three
39:21
of, or, or at least our game three of, of the week, and that is back down to London for Fulham versus Man United. Fulham, one. Manchester United, one. Manchester United did score both goals in this game.
39:36
[laughs] They did. Yeah, they did. Yeah, yeah. Didn't they, Dex? Yeah. You know, um, [laughs] you know, if this was, uh, City or something, I'd have been like, "Yo, I'll take the draw. [laughs] I'll take that draw."
39:51
You know? If it was Arsenal, I'd be like, "I'll take the draw." Here, most of, most of us in Manchester United land are like, "This feels like we lost, man. This feels like we lost." But you know what?
40:01
We're gonna have to accept this because of how we've been playing. Um, uh, listless behavior. I mean, I, I look at some of our moments where we, we d- I mean, there was, there was chances.
40:12
I mean, Licha Martinez h- uh, had a nice shot that got saved. It stopped the crowd from booing him. This is early in the, in the game. It stopped the crowd from booing him.
40:22
Um, 'cause they were booing him every time he touched the ball until he, he took that shot, and then everybody got quiet on him. And then that's b- until, you know, what happened, what's coming up.
40:30
Um, you know, Cunha played great and aggressive cutbacks, you know. Unfortunately, nothing happened out of it, um, when I look at some of these things here. Um, a good run from Dalot to, to Bruno. Bruno dummies it.
40:43
Rashford, weak finish. I mean, so the, the movement was there. It's just on defense there was no energy, no attack, no intensity, no urgency. Not like a team like everybody's flying, doing the dirt.
40:54
Somebody's doing the dirt to help. Th- there was just nothing there going on at all. Um, Luke Shaw came back. My man, Luke Shaw. Look, man, the dude served this team well. But Josh King was, was, was on him.
41:08
R- Josh King o- had him by a step all the time, but Luke i- is great going forward, you know what I mean? But, um, he survived Josh King at least, you know? But there, there were a couple- It was...
41:18
Yeah, Josh King, Josh King and Oscar Bobb just doubling up on that side. Oh, those, those two, man. Both of them. But yeah. Yeah. They were just...
41:24
I s- but yeah, but Josh K- there was a couple times Josh King was open, just got the s- Lamins saved it. Lamins was doing all right until the own, the own goal. [laughs] Actually. Oh, man.
41:36
And- We gotta- G- We, we, I know we're gonna talk about it, but what the [laughs] fuck was he doing? No, that's the thing. See, that's the question. The question is w- uh, most goalkeepers would've pounced on the ball.
41:46
[laughs] You know what I mean? But now, if you look at it, yes, it hit him in, in the knee. But still, they would've been all scrambling to hold onto the ball. I...
41:55
It, it hit him in the knee, b- and poor Licha is standing there like just, [laughs] there's nothing you can do. I don't know what to say. There was nothing to do. It just- You know what I mean?
42:04
It, it looked for all the world like Seny Lamins was gonna dive on the ball, and it would've been like, "Phew. That was, that was close, mate." Mm-hmm. And then
42:16
right as he goes to dive, he just, i- i- his brain turns off and he just has this moment of like, "No, I need to kick this." Like- I know... he clearly decided that
42:26
he was afraid that that would be a deliberate back pass from, from Licha and figured he had to kick it. Mm-hmm.
42:33
And it's, he's, like, already leaning this way, and then he has to do this crazy, like, contortion to- Mm-hmm... you know, to get his legs around. It was just, it was never gonna happen. I just- Yeah.
42:43
And that, it, that, you know, I look at- You know what, you know what it is? He's a- Uh-huh... what? A 22-year-old goalkeeper. That's what it is. Yeah, yeah. That's what it is.
42:50
And, you know, I, you look at the build-up beforehand, um, they, they stopped a, a, you know, um, a, a, an attack basically, uh, Josh King.
43:01
And M- Mainoo gets the ball and he kicks it to Cunha, and Cunha gets mugged by [laughs] Calvin Bassey. Like, literally mugged, no call, and that caused the whole thing, you know? And it...
43:17
Was it a bad pass from Mainoo, or just the fact that Cunha couldn't handle Bassey, man? Bassey just completely overpowered him. Yeah. You know what I mean? It, it was just rough to watch. You know, he's- He, he def-...
43:27
raising his hands in the air, but it just, there was nothing to do, you know? He took Cunha's lunch money for sure. It was, it was- It was, it was tough.
43:34
And you can see, when you look at the replay, like, it, you see, they, when you look at it from Mainoo's face, you see Mainoo kind of just go, "Ugh."
43:41
Like, not even mad at, at, at him, himself, mad at, like, at how he got r- totally manhandled off the ball. Right. You know? Um- Right, like you gotta- So-... be stronger than that. Yeah, it, it was simple as that.
43:52
And then, you know, but I mean, Cunha had some, I mean, he had a goal that was... It, it, it got off of Afena-Gyan's foot really, but I count it as Cunha took the most of the force of the shot. And he- I think that-...
44:03
had a little shot like that before, but it got saved. But, um- I think that went down on his goal though, right? Like- Yeah, it went down as his- It was on frame. Yeah... 'cause it was, it was mostly him.
44:10
It was just him. It was just, you know. Yeah. It, and, um, and he had a shot like that early in the, in the game from the left. Hello, everybody's like, the, all of Manchester United there is like, "He's on the left.
44:22
Wow, wonder how, wh- why he should be playing [laughs] regularly than the false nine." Everybody's wondering, like, "Hmm. He's shooting from the left, he's scoring from the left." Yeah. "I wonder where he should play."
44:33
Yeah. Um- No, but let's continue to play him centrally, because he's totally not better in the left-hand channel. Yeah. So it, it just, yeah, it, it...
44:41
With this break, you know, uh, Carrick got a lot of figuring out to do. Sesko's got a, a, um, his shin injury, and I think he got called up for, for Slovenia to play in the international.
44:53
He should pull out of it, I hope, you know? 'Cause what you gonna do? You, you sit on the bench? Everyone's pulling out. [laughs] You know? Yeah, you know, they, they are, right?
45:00
Rashford's out, uh, I think Mainoo's not playing. Palmer pulled out. Um- Yeah... Joao Pedro pulled out, although J- Joao Pedro didn't play that last game either. Mm. So he is legitimately hurt. But, like,
45:13
it's a useless international. No... I think every, every club hates this break, every pro, I think, hates this break. They'd much rather spend the time not traveling all over the world- Mm-hmm...
45:25
um, to play meaningless games. But yeah, they... Cunha won't pull out because he, he loves playing for Brazil, but he probably should. Yeah. Yeah.
45:35
Um, and just stick around and work with Carrick, but Carrick has a job on his hand. I- He, he's gotta figure out what's going on-... very worried about him...
45:44
because, um, he's gonna have to figure out what's going on, because as far as that front, uh, Sesko, we really need big boy to be playing. That's one.
45:54
Rashford is still a threat, but he, but move him, move him, you know what I mean? Move him. Um- I th- I think, I think Rashford needs to be your super sub. I don't think... I, I don't,
46:04
I don't think he has earned a starting bid at this point. He came on, was it the first game or second game, he came on as a sub and he played great, and it's like, "Yeah, why wasn't this guy starting?"
46:14
And then since then, he's been mediocre at best. He shows moments, and that's kind of always been Rashford's thing though, is he has moments. The problem- Yeah, well-...
46:24
is those, problem is those moments used to produce three goals. Now those moments produce- Yes, um, because-... zero goals...
46:29
I mean, one, one ti- he, I mean, one of the best plays where, where he had a good shot on goal just, it didn't go anywhere. It just didn't go anywhere. Um- Oh, yeah...
46:38
another time I think he shot over the, the goal, you know? Uh- That was- So- I give him that. That wa- that was definitely a hard, uh, opportunity. The ball spinning, you know- You saw that one... try- Yeah...
46:47
yeah, trying to volley it out of the air. A- and Mbeumo kind of- That one's-... bounced off of Mbeumo, yeah... that one- Yeah...
46:51
that one's tough, but you would, you would like a player of Rashford's ability to be able to get over the top and side-foot that at least on frame. Yeah. Not put it, you know- Yeah...
47:01
30 yards over the top of the goal, but, um, I think what you, what you have to take away is you didn't lose, you know?
47:07
It wasn't a great game- Well, no, we a- look, the, well, us in Manchester United land, we have to say, "Look, we didn't lose. It's better than-" Exactly. "We got some points." I mean, g- how do you love this?
47:17
We're three points above Tottenham, and Tottenham's in last place, [laughs] right? Just, just, just think about that. Not ideal. [laughs] Right? Not ideal. The- The crazy thing though is- Yeah, I mean-... if you look-
47:29
And we're playing them in Octo- October 10th. That's who we're playing. We're playing Tottenham. You know what I mean? The, the, I think the scary thing is Tottenham look like a better team right now.
47:38
I, y- that's a fact. Like, you watch Tottenham- And I w- I was gonna say that too... and you're just like, "Oh, if, if these guys click, they're gonna be dangerous." You look at United and you're like, "I..."
47:48
They're not even, they're not even snapping, let alone clicking. Like, they're- Not, not at all... they- There's no... This is not the... Nobody wants to do the dirt.
47:56
Nobody wants to- United, yeah, United look like 11 blokes who turned up at the park on Sunday and were like, "Okay, we'll play a team." Who, who don't know each other. Yeah.
48:04
And so when the other team's coming, they're just standing around waiting for something to happen. No one's, no one's going towards anybody. No one's trying to break up anything, giving them all this time.
48:13
And you give some kid like Josh King enough time, if, he'll do something. Yeah. You know? Which I think you have to put that on, on the manager. Like, the team looks like they don't know what they're doing on the pitch.
48:24
There's no connections, there's no fluidity. That's- Mm-hmm... you, for me, you gotta lay that squarely at the feet of Michael Carrick.
48:31
He got by on- Well, yeah, so, well, you know, some people think- He got by on vibes and Class of '92 f- Yeah... last season. He's not gonna, he's not gonna get by on that- No... this whole season.
48:40
And you know, um, some people are, are, are saying or trying to say that he wanted them to play that way, like, just walking. No, we d- that's not United, man. I'm sorry. And he knows better. He knows better.
48:52
You know what I mean? He may not have tactics, but his, he's absolutely not just gonna go out there and tell them, "Oh, just, you know, just have a stroll." Like- No, no.
49:00
I mean- The one thing he's gonna tell them to do is, is bomb down the pitch, put crosses in, attack, attack, attack. T- That's what he knows... that's United. Once we get the ball, we're all moving together.
49:09
I, I, I just don't, it's hard to watch this kind of pass back kind of thing. This the, which started to me with V- Louis van Gaal, but that's a whole different story. [laughs] But [laughs] that started back then.
49:19
But, but you know, the funny thing is Acuna, who said straight up in the, the... He was frustrated. I was like, "Good." Acuna was frustrated. He didn't sound happy. You need that. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
49:28
You need somebody to be fired up about- Yeah... not winning. Yeah. And I was like, "Good, that's the attitude I wanna see." You know? This guy's like, you know.
49:35
I mean, I barely understood what he was saying, but the point was my man was not hap- happy. [laughs] The, the i- Shout out to Acuna... the, the, you didn't need the, uh, the words. The context was, was clear.
49:46
It was clear. It was clear. But I mean- So... as b- as poor as U- as poorly as United played, I still think they were unlucky not to win that game.
49:56
Uh, uh, look- Like, you hit the po- you hit the post twice in the first 30 minutes. Look, i- if- You sh-...
50:01
Lisandro Martinez scored that, that curling little thing he did with the left foot, it, it would've just, it would've went nuts. Yeah, Lisandro, uh- 'Cause they were booing him. Yeah.
50:10
Yeah, Acuna hit the post after he rounded, um, Monkey Pit. He- I mean- Yeah... Affengruber. Right. [laughs] Or Monkey Pit. Um, he had a great, and he had two great- I, I just, I love, I love his name.
50:21
[laughs] Like how- Yeah... how is your name Monkey Pit? [laughs] Like, what is happening? Look, he, he, he had a great cutback pass to, uh, Bruno, and Bruno j- it just went wide of the post.
50:30
It would've been a wonderful, um, goal, you know? So I mean, the, the, it's there. You could see it's there. It's just, you know... And, uh- I would say, I mean, this is f- Again, the important thing is you didn't lose.
50:42
Yeah. You didn't lose, but Fulham- You came away with a point... uh, if I'm Fulham, I'm st- I'm starting to get a little worried about Fulham. Josh King is, uh, covering up a whole lot of warts. Like- Mm-hmm...
50:53
that dude up front is doing work, and- Yeah, he's doing bits... he's not got a lot of help. Not a lot of help going on up there. Like- Yeah... that dude- Those two guys...
51:01
is so goddamn good, for you to like, you know, not be in this game. Like, when you have that guy, like, what the hell else is going on? What are we doing here guys?
51:06
Like, like early in the game, like I'm gonna say like the 5th minute when he got the ball, he just kinda dribbled in like a big circle. You heard everybody like, "Yeah."
51:14
And he, you could, like he was just testing the waters. Yeah. He had a bad- "Let's see what I can do on that." He had a bad miss th- th- th- in this game, right?
51:20
He had one that came back to him, and he kinda just like flubbed it on goal, where I was like- Oh, the, there was- I remember I text, I was like, "Dex, you got lucky on that one 'cause normally-" Oh, yeah. Yeah...
51:27
"that dude is banging that." There was one, he was, he was wide open. Wide open. And- Yep... and I was just like, "Ugh." You know? Um- Yeah. He's a- But yeah. Early in the game, I was like... Go ahead.
51:36
I was gonna say, he's an electric player. He- Yeah... uh, he is- No, no doubt... covering, covering all manners of sins 'cause your ma- your, um, your, your two guys from Real Madrid are,
51:46
after that first game against Chelsea, they have been anonymous. Garcia and Palacios. Uh-huh. Like, I, I know they're young. It takes a while to adapt, uh, to the Premier League, but they've got nothing, nothing going.
51:58
Mm. And without Josh King, they'd be probably bottom of the league, honestly. Uh, they're near the bottom of the league. [laughs] Like this is- Yeah, maybe bottom... it's not going great right now. Mm. Yeah. So,
52:13
but- Well, that's that- Yeah... basically. Yep, there goes my, there goes my, my pick for the title. Should we do the rest of the games or we wanna- United, another draw.
52:19
[laughs] Sorry, Dex, but I put the tie badge on them. [laughs] Pretty goddamn hard this year. Yeah. Uh, look, man, I'm just hoping for top four now. That's all I'm hoping for now. [laughs] Top four again.
52:29
You better get the top half. Let's go top half. It hurts. Seri- seriously. [laughs] Uh, you're right. You just- We're three points above T- Tottenham, who's at the bottom of the, of the table.
52:38
Right now, just look for 45 points so you can be safe [laughs] and then worry about Europe after. Seriously. And see, and that, that's the nature of English football. You're already out of it.
52:47
You, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like, you like, it's like unless you win the next 15 games with point, three point, you're out. Yeah. You know? Yep, yep.
52:56
Yeah, five games in, you're not- So you gotta go on, like, an eight game undefeated run then to be, like, close to back in it... you're not relegated at this point. Mm.
53:01
And you're not out of Europe at this point, obviously. But you're out of the title race. Like- That's what I'm saying... Chelsea's out of the title race. Like- Like, if you're not in the top six- Yeah...
53:09
right now, you're probably out of the title race. Uh, it, it's two teams. It, this- Yeah... this year's two teams. This is a two horse race.
53:14
It, it, it is, it's, uh, seriously, it's like the only, for you, us and Chelsea, we gotta hope for, uh- Third and fourth. [laughs]... Arsenal and Man City to go deep into Champions League. Yeah.
53:24
We are actually hoping for them to go deep in the Champions League. Yeah, so they rest their players during their league games. So... Yeah, yeah. [laughs] You know what I mean?
53:30
[laughs] That's who we gotta, that's what we gotta hope, to wear them down. Yeah. You know? It's crazy. But- Yeah. Again, uh, you know, as, as a Chelsea fan, if, if we are- Fourth...
53:40
if we are comp- I'm looking for fourth. Get that. Yeah. If we're c- if we're competing at the business end, you know, for third, fourth, I'll be fine with that at this point. Mm. Um,
53:50
it's, [laughs] it's, it's been a tough early season. I am- Mm... filled with dread at this point. Um- So should we touch on the brief, uh, how Chelsea got waxed fucking 3-0? They thought the game- Yeah, let's see...
54:01
was on Saturday, it seemed. Yeah, let's do the rest of the games. [laughs] That's funny though. I, uh, when you said that earlier, it made me laugh too. [laughs] They thought it was played on Saturday.
54:09
Uh- Holy shit, they did not know- The-... that game was going on... the, the- Dude, jeez... other West London derby, Brentford 3, Chelsea nil. You know what's, uh, wild? Chelsea haven't left London yet.
54:21
[laughs] Oh, that's- Mm. [laughs] That's not great. They've played Brighton at home, they've played, um, Fulham at home. They've played Brentford away.
54:32
They've played Arsenal away, and I can't think of the fifth game right now, but I, like, I'm pretty sure they, they've not, uh, they've not left London at this point. Um, which is wild. But
54:46
oh, God, the, they, there's nothing to say other than Chelsea didn't turn up. They, they walked- It was disgusting. It was- They walked out there. Brentford said, "Okay, beat us."
54:55
Chelsea didn't score within the first 90 seconds, and we're like, "Ah, we give up." Yeah. "It's not, it's not our day, guys." Let, you know. Yeah.
55:02
As ba- as, as much as Brighton overwhelmed Arsenal, that's about as much as Brentford overwhelmed Chelsea. It was... We had no ideas. We had nothing.
55:10
And again, you know, the f- if Joao Pedro is that important, we got a real goddamn problem. Like, if you- Danny We- Danny Welbeck was invisible. Could not... Like, he's not a bad player- And Danny Welbeck is old as I am.
55:21
I feel bad for him... but he's such, he's such a different player than Joao Pedro. Yeah, it's... Yeah. It- Um, and Jabi needs to find a solution. Like, there's injuries, there's gonna be injuries.
55:32
Moises Caicedo still hasn't played a minute. Um, you'd ha- he had to rest Lavia, he had to rest Reece James because these guys are perennially hurt. Always hurt, yeah. Um,
55:42
so that just shows, like, this team doesn't have the depth. Valentin Barco didn't play poorly, but there's... There, there was no midfield, and Brentford just...
55:54
They be- they, they put money down on themselves and they said, "We think we can stop you from scoring, and we know we will score because everyone scores against you."
56:03
[laughs] And that, I think, is the scariest thing- Mm... right now, is that I think everyone in this division looks at Chelsea and says, "We can score against them." That's tough, man.
56:13
Um- Even Spurs looks at Chelsea and says, "We can score against them." Oh, them. I...
56:16
You know how happy I was that Spurs scored in that game, 'cause it's like, thank God, they're not gonna break their streak eventually against us. [laughs] Like, good, get it in there.
56:23
Get a goal so I'm not, we don't have to be, Chelsea have to be the ones [laughs] who freaking get scored on by them. Yeah. We'll do that. So yep, uh, Spurs 2, Villa 3. Ah. Oh, man.
56:34
[laughs] Just- You know, but you, you, you- How many- Go ahead. Go ahead, Dex. Go ahead, man. No, I will say you are right. They are getting better. Th- I think one of the best plays they had was the offside goal.
56:46
Um- [laughs] Oh, yeah... Tonali. Oh, they were so happy, and then soon as they did the replay I was like, "Oh, no." I think it was horrible to watch on TV, but- I was like, "Oh, no." But Tonali made such a pass.
56:55
The pass Tonali made to Andy Robertson on that was spectacular. Yeah. Like I said, okay, th- I can see it's there, but it's just not there. Yeah. You know? It's just, it's just too bad old man Andy Robertson was,
57:08
I don't know- Mm... 90 centimeters [laughs] offside. Like, it was, it was tight, too, but, um- It was just, just not there. But I give them credit. Like- Honestly, the, the- They were down 3-0...
57:18
the Spurs team kind of... Oh, sorry. Yeah, the, the Spurs team kind of reminds me of, like, of Timo Werner. Like, if Timo Werner was an entire team. Working hard. [laughs] Getting a lot done. They did play like Spurs.
57:29
Yeah. Getting a lot done. Like, "Hey, everything looks great." The final product, non-fucking-existent.
57:34
[laughs] Just, when we get to winning time, and the ability to like, "Hey, let's put this one in the net," Timo's like, "Nah, I'm good." Yeah. "I'm gonna knock this shit somewhere else."
57:43
Spur- Spurs are that, that lad at the office who's like, "No, sorry, too busy. No, sorry, I'm too busy," but actually doesn't get any work done. They're just- Yeah...
57:50
they, they walk around looking like they're doing a lot and, and putting in all the effort to, to be busy, but achieving nothing. Um, and De Zerbi, [laughs] De Zerbi's, um, post-game, he looks cooked.
58:07
The man looks- Mm. Mm... absolutely fried. Just thinking, "What the... did I sign up for? Someone please get me out of here as soon as humanly possible." Um,
58:20
i- he is just hoping Michael Carrick [laughs] gets fired at, at United so he can go there. To take that job. [laughs] Oh, Lord. He is just not having it. Like...
58:29
And then I think today he came out and was talki- like, saying Dom Solanke is just, um, not physically, not physically fit enough. And then he, like, spun it like, oh, because he's coming off an injury.
58:40
But it's just like, he's just, he's throwing his team under the bus. He's throwing the, um, the sporting hierarchy under the bus. Like, he is... He's in late stage De Zerbi collapse already. Mm.
58:54
And he's only six months into the job. So, I don't think he lasts the season. It, it's gonna take some serious turnaround for him to last the season. Mm. Um, but the signs are there.
59:06
But, like, does Spurs wanna pay another manager? Like, do they wanna pay? Like, can they afford to pay another manager at this point? Like, they- They got that NF- they got that NFL money. They're fine.
59:14
They have payment- Um, one bright thing for Tottenham, one guy that they signed did score. P- Paul Van Heck. Young Paul Van Heck, at least he scored- Yeah... a nice header. The Brit- the Brighton fella?
59:24
There was at least- The Brighton fella? Yeah. [laughs] Yeah. He's a good defender. Um- Yeah... he's not gonna save their season, but he's a good defender. Yeah. No, but, uh...
59:32
But yeah, [laughs] Spurs man, gotta get it together. Uh, but yeah, I give them credit. They were... They easily could've gone down 3-0 and just mailed it in and just,
59:45
you know, Cary Elwes in the first Saw movie, just like, "I'll take my paycheck and go home." Like, [laughs] "We're done with this. Um, no, no need to try." But they kept going. They plugged away. They got two goals.
59:54
They, they made it interesting. Um, from a Villa point of view, I think they really could've used a 3-0 win. That would've been, you know, big time wind in their sails. But- Yeah... could as well.
1:00:10
They, they took their foot off the gas. They were like, "This is a, this, this thing's donezo." After Buendia scored what I'm now gonna call the dunk goal. Like, he, he just dunked that from the top of the key there.
1:00:19
Beautiful. I mean, just crushed it in. I thi- I think they thought Spurs were gonna roll over, and they kinda got surprised by two goals.
1:00:26
But I mean, the second one was at, like, the 98th minute of eight minutes of stoppage time, so. Yeah. It, it was never really in danger. Like yeah, again, you would love to see that shown out, but you know what? Move on.
1:00:38
You, you got your three points. Get out of there. Spurs are losers again. And you know. Yeah. It's not that it was in doubt, but you, like, if you're a Spurs fan, you're clinging to any bit of hope.
1:00:48
They kept going till the end, you know? Mm. And if you're a, a Villa fan, you're just, you're used to looking at, you know, the dark side of life because you're from Birmingham or possibly Dudley.
1:01:01
Um- And 3-2 looks a lot worse than 3-0 or even 3-1. Yeah, especially with the big- Moving on, Everton one... Go ahead. [laughs] No, no, no, es- especially with the big break.
1:01:13
Like, if you go, if you get shut out and you have no goals for the first five games, that's a long two, three weeks, however long the hell it is. So yeah, moral- morale, you know, for morale, good job.
1:01:23
And I think, I bet in the long run, I honestly, I think they'll be okay. They'll be... They won't be 17th this year, they'll probably be 14th or 13th or something. They'll, they'll be all right. They'll score some goals.
1:01:34
I hope they're 17th again. Let's just- It'll be fun... just clarity's sake. [laughs] Uh, moving on. Everton one, Ipswich nil. Ipswich ended with 10 men because in this game he- It was a, a dive...
1:01:45
a dude gets sent off for a dive, but it was also the clearest dive I've ever seen. It was a, it was egregious.
1:01:49
It was a horrible dive, man He reached, he reached his arm out towards the defender, touched the defender, and then dove on the ground. It was- And the ref- And the ref was-... listen... staring at him.
1:01:58
Staring right at him. Like, "Come on, man." They gotta cut this out, man. They gotta cut this nonsense out, I'm telling you. That, that's a, that's one of the ones where the ref goes, "What do you want me to do?"
1:02:08
I, I gotta call this, man. I gotta. It's like, "You, you're right. I'll take, I'll, I'll take my red card over here." Like, he, he knew it. Like, as soon as, as soon as he turned around, he knew he was gone.
1:02:21
Like, it just like... [laughs] It's hilarious. Yeah. Like, that's one of the worst dives I've seen in the last year. Like, it was just like- It was shit... "What?"
1:02:31
I was even, even at 10 men- "Who, who did you think you were fooling?" [laughs] Even with 10 men, Ipswich- You gotta cut it out, man... Ipswich still played hard. They, they played hard through, through the whistle.
1:02:40
You know, couldn't get the equalizer. I would expect a little more from Everton. Uh, Jack Grealish kind of, you know, still doing Jack Grealish stuff where he's, you know, not doing all that much.
1:02:50
Um- La- late stage Jack Grealish. Yeah. You know, look, Jack Grealish still my number one, uh, player I'd wanna get a beer with, and by a, I mean probably 400. But, you know.
1:02:59
Yeah, that's not such a thing as a beer with Jack Grealish. Yeah. A beer is a keg. [laughs] Yeah, but he's, you know... It, it's like I almost like...
1:03:07
It's weird, I would like to see him on a slightly better team, like not City where they don't really need him, but like, I feel like he needs to like- Villa... yeah, he... Go home, man. Yeah, he should be on Villa, true.
1:03:16
Yeah, he should be on Villa. Go back to Villa, be the- Go home... be a 10-minute player. That's maybe, about 10 minutes a game. Like impact sub. Like just, just give me 10 minutes. Yeah. He's...
1:03:25
Jack Grealish is Season 2 Jame- Jamie Tartt. [laughs] He's, he's now, he's now lovable but slightly shit. [laughs] So we'll see.
1:03:36
That, that was- We'll see if he becomes Season 3 Jamie Tartt, where he's lovable and good again. I gotta admit, that's one of the best character arcs of all time.
1:03:42
You started out bagging your sister and throwing a kid out of a, a tower, and then by the end I'm rooting for you. Good acting. Great job, buddy. Great job. [laughs] What? Do you mean Jamie Lannister?
1:03:55
I'm thinking Jamie Lannister. And that's why I'm laughing. To me- Honestly, you know what? They, they both, they both kinda work I was like, "When did Jamie Tartt fuck his sister?" I was like, "What?"
1:04:01
My, I, I, I don't know where I blanked out of that, but honestly they both work. Both descriptions work. I was like, "What?" Like... Did you not, you guys- That's the other Jamie...
1:04:09
you didn't see the secret episodes of Ted Lasso. You didn't see the secret episodes that I did. [laughs] Man, you got the director's cut. I am stupid. Oh, man.
1:04:18
Honestly though, Jamie Lannister as well, redeemable character. That's, both great character arcs. Good job. Oh, let's not even go to the games though the way they screwed him up, man.
1:04:24
And they, and they both recovered in poop heads at points. [laughs] They screwed up his character arc horribly. Oh, man. Let's not go there. Oh, I'm so stupid. Oh.
1:04:32
He said bagging his sister and I was like- I was like, "What?" "When did Jamie Tartt bag his-" I was like, "Wait a second. Not that Jamie." But also- I heard, I also heard Jamie had blacked out...
1:04:38
also the air of believability. I was like, "He might have done that." [laughs] Uh, anyways. Okay, moving on. Newcastle 2, Hull 1. Watch Game of Thrones too, people. It's good. [laughs] The first seasons, they're good.
1:04:52
Uh, Newcastle stormed out of the gates. Uh, went up 2-nil and then just basically decided to take the rest of the game off. Um, Hull City is gonna be a tough out. Even when they lose, they- Mm-hmm... fight hard.
1:05:05
Ali McBurnie is probably my new favorite player. He's useless, but also the guy I want on my squad no matter what. Um- I, thank you. I was about to say, this man has not scored yet.
1:05:16
[laughs] That was- He, he's Timo Peter Crouch. He's Timo Peter Crou- Peter Crouch. That's, that's what I'm calling him. The, the man, the man hasn't scored a thing yet. But, um... He's, he's P- he's Peter Crouch at home.
1:05:28
[laughs] Yeah, but honestly, to go, to go to Newcastle and make them fight like that, yeah, the Hull is not gonna be fun to play this whole season. They're, they're just not gonna be fun.
1:05:39
Hull could, Hull could've come, come away with a point here. They had their opportunities. That, that- Mm-hmm... could've been 2-2. Absolutely. Uh, Newcastle needs to watch themselves.
1:05:46
They are not as good as they think they are. Um, um- Yeah. But, you know, I give them- That's all I'll say about that...
1:05:54
you score two goals in six minutes, everyone's gonna kinda be like, "Oh, this game's gonna be a wash." Um, moving on. Bournemouth nil, Liverpool one. Uh, Andoni Iraola is still the
1:06:08
one of two managers to win at the, um, the Vitality Arena in 2026. The other person is Mikel Arteta. Um- Boo... unfortunately for Bournemouth fans, Iraola is no longer their manager. [laughs] Um. Mm-hmm.
1:06:26
Bournemouth are f-, again, fun team. Marco Rose has got them playing fun football but, like, they just need to finish. Like, like- Yeah... they, they were all over Liverpool in the first 25 minutes. True.
1:06:38
Wasn't an, wasn't an easy game. Um, Evan Neilson had that really nice back heel flick that Allison saved at the, at the near post. Mm-hmm. Yep.
1:06:45
Um, or at least the homeless person who was pretending to be Allison, because what the hell is going on with these fans? I don't know what's going on, big man. I don't know what's going on, man, at all.
1:06:51
That was a great, that was a great save though. Great save. That was a great reaction save. I'll give it to him. It was. It really was.
1:06:57
Um, every game- Just why does Allison, why does Allison look like he just, he went to India and has just, you know, been living with a guru for six months.
1:07:06
[laughs] Like- No, he's grabbing his surfboard, he's in Malibu and he's about to jump into the waves. Like, come on, dude. Hello.
1:07:12
Um, well, l- let me throw in my, my 10 cents, which is, today's Isak's birthday, by the way. It is his birthday today. Oh, is it? Yeah. Was it, uh, 28? T- uh, 27, something like that. Jesus.
1:07:24
And he's on a redemption tour. The man's going on a redemption tour right now, okay? I mean, he hardly could've gotten much worse, so. I know. He played like trash in the World Cup.
1:07:36
Came back, booed at Newcastle, where he went over there, and now he's on a tear. Like, like you do. [laughs] Yeah. Now he's on a tear.
1:07:45
Great goal, but, but- I, I will say, yeah, a goal like that, like, everyone's gonna go, "Oh, it's a tap in. It's a..." It's like, you know what, though? Great goal scorers get themselves in position to get easy goals.
1:07:56
Yeah. Haaland has a billion of those tap ins, because he worked hard and got to the spot that he needed to be, where he's supposed to be. There's too many strikers who- Right...
1:08:05
they're making runs to places they don't need to be. Like, my man, get in front of the goal. Get, get to the spot. And you know what? You get there enough, good things happen.
1:08:12
The ball falls right to your feet, and any one of the three of us- Yeah... could've put that in. Not Gus. Absolutely. Please, listen, but. But what, what, what you, what you gotta watch, though- Nope... is Gakpo before.
1:08:22
Gakpo fighting- Yes... his way up the right, [laughs] like pa- Gosh... fighting by two guys- Oh, that was bad... to get that pass. Oh, that was amazing. It was amazing. Great play by Cody Gakpo. Yeah.
1:08:30
Cody, Cody, Cody Gakpo has really, uh, changed the narrative around him for me. Like, I thought he was incredibly overrated last season. Um, I d- I just didn't see what he brought to a team.
1:08:42
He has been, since the World Cup, he is... He's been a different player. Um- Mm-hmm... that was a, that was a beautiful move down the right wing. Just, I will not be denied.
1:08:54
Like, that was 100% just a fellow who's like, "I'm, this is happening. Like, and, and you will not stop me. I want it more than you do." Um. Mm-hmm. And yeah, like you said, Isak, right place, right time.
1:09:05
Like, he easily could've been at the back post thinking Gakpo's gonna loop that in, and then he's not there for the tap in. Um, and you could call a tap in as being maybe a little unfair to him.
1:09:17
I don't think that was- Oh... that easy, uh- Yeah... on the finish. He's, he's [laughs] five yards out with, like- Yeah... you put that in. Like, he's a guy who- Yeah, but the ball's boun- you know, ball's bouncing.
1:09:25
Yeah, yeah, no. Look, I think it- You've gotta make the right contact with it. I've- He's in the Premier League. You gotta put, you- We've all seen plenty of top tier players- Yeah... miss that.
1:09:33
You should make that, though.
1:09:34
But I, I will say, this is a, and again, with, uh, Gakpo, who's been a kind of, bit of a relev- a revelation this season, it, it's gotta be said, and, you know, maybe he stayed a year too long,
1:09:45
Mo Salah was doing squadoos over there. Mo Salah doesn't make that run anymore. He doesn't beat two guys down, down the wing like that anymore, and that's why he's out in, what is he, Saudi Arabia now?
1:09:55
Like- No, he's in Turkey... big. Turkey. Turkey? Well, that, well, good, good, he's had a redo. Just scored, he just scored a hat trick- [laughs]... uh, for Trabzonspor.
1:10:02
Uh, but like, again, that's not taking anything away from his career, but, you know, he wasn't that guy anymore, and last year he wasn't that guy.
1:10:08
He, you know, we make fun of, like, how much Arteta makes Saka run back, you know, and play defense. That's why he tires him out, and Salah never did it. It's like, s- also at this point, Salah couldn't do it.
1:10:16
Salah couldn't do anything like that. He's like, "My man, I'm, I'm a Ronaldo this shit. I'm gonna stand up here and you guys get me the ball, and hopefully I do something." Yeah.
1:10:25
And to have Gakpo, you know, Gakpo over there now, that's a, you know, a big guy, a strong guy, a young guy. It's a whole different dynamic. Yeah. Yeah. Although, I think my favorite moment from this game, um,
1:10:37
uh, Liverpool got a, a free kick just over that, just on their side of the halfway. In the second half. They took it quickly, just pas- like, goes right past Tyler Adams, and
1:10:49
Tyler Adams took what I can only, uh, call as umbrage to the fact that they played a, a quick free kick. Tracks all the way back and just absolutely Troy Palumalu sticks one on, uh, Milos Kerkez in the box.
1:11:03
Oh, shoulder to shoulder, right? Ball roll. Oh, that was beautiful. Yeah, shoulder to shoulder. Just, just plants him. Kerkez is like- And glares at him, too... K- Kerkez is, like, rubbing his arm.
1:11:11
Fucking Tyler Adams stared at him like the man owed him money from two years ago when they were on- Oh... like, on the team together. Like, [laughs] the glare he shot that guy. Kerkez is like...
1:11:21
[laughs] Oh, it was beautiful. And the, the announcers mentioned it, too. They were like, "Oh, Kerkez seems..." He's like... And they're like, "Now, that's just straight shoulder to shoulder.
1:11:28
Like, that's, that's a man doing work right there." Like, he came in and he just put his shoulder right into him. And you know, you know what made me happy? I was like, "Yes." That looked like- I know. I know.
1:11:39
[laughs] That looked like the last, the last training session before Kerkez was sold. He left one high on Tyler Adams. [laughs] And, and Tyler had not forgotten. [laughs] He's like, "All right." Yeah, I'm getting...
1:11:51
I owe you one, buddy. Jot that down. Like, he just planted him, and just, just, oh. He... If the rest of, uh, the US team could bring that attitude but also his ability, we'd be possible world champions.
1:12:08
[laughs] Like- That'd be nice... we, we have a lot of that attitude, but not a lot of his ability. He is such a player. Uh, as an American fan, like- Mm. Absolutely just [smacks kiss]
1:12:21
b- pro- probably the best player we've ever produced, in my opinion. Yeah, I love him. He's- And, and he's in- He's tough... New York boy... we, we need more tough guys. New York Red Bull product.
1:12:32
That's, that's our locals. Oh, nice. Nice. So, um, but yeah, I mean, generally speaking, that game was pretty mediocre. I, Bournemouth started well. Liverpool still look, they look gettable. Like, Liverpool- [laughs]...
1:12:46
still seem like they're gonna be, you know- Yeah, that was a battle. That wasn't an easy game. That wasn't an easy game at all. No, Bournemouth's not a, they're not, they're not an easy out. Um. Right.
1:12:54
And you gotta give Liverpool credit for getting across the line. I think they had one chance. They scored it, really. Um, but three points is three points. They're, um, you know, up in- Mm... fourth now, I think, so.
1:13:05
Uh, you know who Liverpool's reminding me of, weirdly? Like, Arsenal two years ago. Like, it's gonna be an ugly, scrappy game.
1:13:13
We've got some guys with talent up front who could do a couple things, but for the most part, i- there are a lot of- You're not gonna want... Just catch the highlights of this game. Like, just catch the highlights.
1:13:23
There's gonna be a lot of knocking the ball around with no one actually doing anything. But they're gonna get wins. If they, if they can copy that, I'm sure they'll be happy with that. Hmm. Yeah.
1:13:34
All right, let's move on. Leeds nil, Palace- [dog howling] Sorry. Yeah, it's all day. Fox- Yeah, get it. Foxhound. [laughs] Hey, hey, Foxhound's mother has just come home. Aww. [dog howling] [laughs] Yeah, she's happy.
1:13:48
[laughs] Um, yeah. Leeds nil, Palace nil. So, uh, of course, in our predictor I, I picked this game to be 3-2 because both of these teams score goals. I think I picked something similar.
1:14:02
[laughs] So, so abso- Of course... absolutely the... it would end up being the most drab nil-nil. There's really nothing to even talk about from this game. Um- I, to- That-...
1:14:11
not to lie, I didn't wa- I didn't watch a single minute of this. [laughs] Like, I was gonna go back and catch the highlights, and I went, "Nah, nil-nil. Who cares?" There's nothing. Nil, there, there was nothing.
1:14:20
It, I, like- I was, I had it on while we were talking [laughs] but I- [laughs]... I, it was a bit drab. Nothing, nothing happened. It was useless. Yeah. Uh, and then, uh, last game
1:14:33
on our, on our docket here, uh, City 5, Sunderland 3. There we go. There we go. This game could've ended 6-6. What a... Like, what a game. Just, like- Mm. Just absolutely entertaining from a neutral's perspective.
1:14:48
Two teams who just like, "Fuck it. Who needs defense?" [laughs] Like, let's just- Mm-hmm... let's just go for it. Yeah. Uh, De Bruyne got- I, I gotta say... Oh, sorry. Sorry.
1:14:59
I was gonna say, uh, I gotta say, your, your former boy Enzo Fernandez, I don't like that dude- [laughs]... but I gotta get, he earned his money. That's good. The man's earned his money. [laughs] All right?
1:15:09
He's worth it. I don't like him. I don't like him. [laughs] But he earned his money. Yeah. No, I don't like him either, and I'm- Yeah... I'm happy he's gone. He is a great player. He's always been a great player.
1:15:18
Um- Mm... I just don't like him as an individual, and I'm happy- Me neither... I'd rather fail without him than succeed with him. Um- Uh-huh. That was a great fi-kick, freekick, though.
1:15:28
[laughs] That was a beauty, freekick. It was. I give, uh, I respect the kick. I respect him earning his money. He's fitting in with them fine. They're all happy-go-lucky, jumping around like, you know. So
1:15:38
I give him that. But go ahead and finish up, Kev. Um, yeah, no, he, he said, "You're gonna put two small guys on the wall? All right. Fuck it. I'm gonna go over 'em." Mm. Um- Yeah... you know, great freekick.
1:15:50
Uh, Haaland finally scores against... I get... Not finally, now he's too many opportunities. But Haaland scores against Sunderland. Oh, finally against Sunderland. Yeah, he hadn't scored against them.
1:15:57
Yeah, they only had, they only had two other opportunities, so it's not like- That, that's-... he played against them many times... two more than he nor- than he needs usually.
1:16:03
Um, so he now has completed the set of scoring, you know, against all 25 Premier League teams that he's faced. Um- [laughs] The guy's a monster. It's just, it's just out of control. Something else, man. Something else.
1:16:14
Uh, but a word for Brian Brobbey. Oh, yeah. That dude, that dude is scary. So- I, I do not want to run into him when he's- You know-... in a bad mood.
1:16:25
[laughs] You know, the first time I f- I paid attention to him was the Sweden-Holland World Cup game, where, uh, an announcer said he's built like a linebacker. And this was an English guy saying that.
1:16:36
I don't know if he really knew. [laughs] But somebody told him to say that. But he looks like that. Dude's got beef. Dude's got some beef. No, he, he's built like a fullback. He's not tall enough to be a linebacker.
1:16:46
Yeah, well, again, British guy. He doesn't [laughs] use as, as much as he knew. But you know what? Give, give some credit here to Brobbey.
1:16:53
He is now, uh, the owner, obviously, of a Premier League hat trick, which, uh, our 27-year-old, uh, star boy, greatest player in the entire world, uh, [laughs] at Arsenal, does not have. Not a single, single one.
1:17:05
And my man Brobbey- Well, Premier League hat trick. As I said, Premier League. Yeah. I said Premier League hat trick. Okay. I apologize.
1:17:10
We're not, we're not counting, uh, consolation games in the goddamn World Cup that nobody played defense in. Mm-hmm. Consolation game, yeah. Premier League hat trick. And because this was my most impressive.
1:17:19
A combination of Sunderland and Brobbey just not going away. Like, you went to the Etihad, you're d- you know, you're outmanned against... Everyone's outmanned against City, but to go down t- to down a goal twice.
1:17:32
Three times. And to come b- well, but they came back twice. They didn't tie it the third time. They, they went down- That's right... 3-2, then 4-2.
1:17:38
Um, to, you know, to show fight, and even then to come back and make it 4-3, and definitely put some worry. You know, definitely put a lot of worry into City. I was impressed. They...
1:17:47
You know, normally you think of Sunderland as, "We've gotta be tight at the back and not give anything away. And let's make sure everything is, uh, is good." And they were like, "Nah, let's score some goals.
1:17:57
Let's go out there and get something." And, uh, and good goals too. They were, you know, they well-worked. Nothing cheap. And I was a... That was my most impressed, uh, most impressive of the week.
1:18:07
I was, I was going to pick Sunderland for my most impressive for the week, uh, but then the news came out today that Granit Xhaka, um, faked his vaccine status to play during the COVID. [laughs] Oh, come...
1:18:18
Why'd you let me pick them then? You- Um, so, so they are no longer my, my, my most impressive. [laughs] But Dexter, most... Who's your most impressive for the weekend?
1:18:26
Uh, uh, and no, not, not anything against from you brothers. I love you guys, but Brentford. Keith Andrews, man. Damn. I, again, I, I said this a, a couple of weeks back, few weeks back, I gotta give it up.
1:18:39
The man's got this team playing. They're undefeated. Still, they haven't lost, you know? I swear. They, they hired their set piece coach, and I was like, "Well, that's destined to fail."
1:18:48
[laughs] And I don't know if I've ever been so wrong. Like, I've, I failed to, um, to understand how...
1:19:00
And this may sound like I'm short-shrifting Keith Andrews, um, but I failed to, uh, like, I failed to account for how important Brentford's structure is and Brentford's process is. Mm-hmm.
1:19:15
Similar to Brighton, where i- the p- the individual really doesn't matter, like, to, to a certain level. Like, whomever they put in, in the manager's seat... doesn't really matter.
1:19:26
Like, the, like, it's gonna be the right person because they've done their due diligence. Mm. They've done the data modeling. They know that this person likely will succeed. Brentford is at that level, uh, of, um,
1:19:41
just well-run club. Like, you really cannot, cannot take a, like a single thing away from them. They are up there as one of the, the best run clubs, not only in the Premier League, but I think in sports. Mm.
1:19:56
I put Brighton and Brentford up there with the best run clubs in all of sports, all inclusive.
1:20:03
Um, and obviously the narrative, uh, on the internet this whole week has been the, uh, the Premier League Bermuda Triangle as they're calling it. [laughs] The Bs.
1:20:11
Which is, which is, yeah, Brentford, uh, Brentford, Bournemouth, and Brighton. It's like these three clubs will not win the title, but they will absolutely decide where the title goes. [laughs] Yep.
1:20:20
Um- Oh, that's, that's pretty g- yeah... and it's, it's kind of hilarious. Like, this Bren- tiny little Brentford team nobody heard about before they, you know, bef- be- from more than six years ago, um, are just...
1:20:39
They're just doing their thing and, like- Mm... they, they're not gonna go away, honestly. Like, unless that club is sold or,
1:20:49
like, there are major changes at the, the upper echelon, the decision-makers of that club, Brentford aren't going away. Same thing with Brighton.
1:20:56
Um, I don't think the same thing with Bournemouth, uh, because Bournemouth have already gone down and come back up- Mm... in the last, uh, decade. Um, and I don't see those other two clubs doing that.
1:21:06
Bournemouth still has a bit more of a yo-yo, uh, situation. But Brentford and Brighton are just absolutely two best run sporting organizations. Mm-hmm. And if you want to run a successful team,
1:21:23
call Tony Bloom and ask him what he does. That's it. You'll be fine. Um, uh, what we're doing most impressive, right? Mm-hmm. Right? That's where we're at.
1:21:39
My most impressive was, was Manchester City. Like- Yeah. I think-... five goals against a very difficult Sunderland team. Doesn't matter who they brought on, they were scoring. Mm. Like, it's just that
1:21:54
it was a statement win of, like, "We will not back down." Like, "We are going to be a factor in this title." Um,
1:22:05
and I just, I was just impressed, like Mor-, you know, Maresca putting what is essentially a new team together, taking over from the greatest living manager of all time, and I will put him above Sir Alex Ferguson.
1:22:17
I'm sorry, Dexter. Um, but I think Pep Guardiola is a better pound for pound manager than Sir Alex Ferguson. Um, usually that's destined to fail. And, Enzo Maresca, at least for four games, he's not getting it.
1:22:34
I, I, I'll, I'll give him even with Sir Alex. I'll say he's even with Sir Alex. [laughs] I'll give him that. You know what? Coming, coming from a United fan, that's the highest praise anyone could give.
1:22:43
That's, that's all he gonna get. That's all he gonna get. [laughs] But, um, yeah. Neither is better than Mourinho. [laughs] Oh, Lord.
1:22:51
Man, Mourinho deserved a better chance with us, but we, we ain't gonna go there right now. We ain't gonna go there. [laughs] He deserved a way better chance, and I blame ownership. But anyway.
1:23:00
All right, least impressive. Dexter, least impressed for the week. Oh. [laughs] Guess who? Manchester United playing against Fulham. That's- Oh, you s- you stole mine. [laughs] Yeah. [laughs] Least impressive.
1:23:12
Y- y- we gotta get it together in, in this break, man. We gotta get it together. You know, simple as that. But that was least impressive. [laughs] All right, Sean, least impressive? I have to... I, I was gonna...
1:23:25
Ah, I, you know what? I may even go in that game. Yeah, you know what? I'm gonna pick Lamens. I'm gonna pick the United goalie. Y- what are you doing, man? Get on the ball. Fair. Get on the ball.
1:23:34
Your team needs a huge win, and you're out there spazzing out like I'm playing in goal. Like, come on, man. Like, ugh, ugh. With a, with a...
1:23:42
[laughs] So that was my least impressive with an honorable no- an honorable mention to, uh, [laughs] I mean, we made fun of him enough, but Arsenal. [laughs] Just get out of here. Gab- you know what?
1:23:50
Actually, I'll change my take. Least impressed moment, Gabriel falling down when a guy breathed on him- [laughs]... i- in front of everyone, and throwing his hands up.
1:23:59
Grab- grabbing the ball as well, so y- you coulda had two yellows right there if you really wanted.
1:24:05
And then being astonished that he didn't get the call, or David Raya complaining that he was blocked by his own defender. You know what? Fuck it. I'm changing it to just Arsenal, least impressive for their whining.
1:24:14
[laughs] Uh, my least impressive is maybe a bit odd because they, they did win, but Liverpool. I just was very unimpressed by everything they did. Um,
1:24:28
I thought Bournemouth were largely the better team on the day and were unlucky, um, not to, not to at least get something from that game.
1:24:38
Like, Florian Wirtz continues to look like just an absolute shadow of the player he was at Leverkusen. Um, outside of Cody Gakpo, I just, I sh- I don't, I don't see a team that I'm impressed by. Um-
1:24:57
Mm.... Milos Kerkez, I think they spent far too much money on him based off of one good season, uh, at Bournemouth. One good cross, right? [laughs] That one great cross he hit. They were like, "Ooh, we love that."
1:25:09
It's like, my man, he's supposed to play defense. You would've thought that- Which he can't...
1:25:12
you would've thought that Areola coming in, hi- you know, the coach who kind of made him, who built him, would, like, kind of kickstart him back in, and he just, he doesn't look any better than he did last season. Um,
1:25:25
like I said, Florian Wirtz does not look up for it. Um- Isak is coming around, but I'm still... I still don't think he's the Isak that he was for Newcastle. Um, yeah, I just was very unimpressed overall.
1:25:43
I'll just throw one thing in there. Um, on that goal, it was Gakpo to Wirtz with the flick to Isak. Just wanna make sure that was clear, so people who listen be like, "Yo, bro."
1:25:53
Yeah, I still don't, I still, I still don't think he's up for it. I said, no, no, I just- Again, he's just one thing... I just wanna make sure that's clear for the listeners, for our, our listening friends.
1:26:00
Just so they don't go- Yeah, right... "Man, you forgot that," you know? We, we do actually watch these games. We do watch these. Yeah.
1:26:05
Look- Just in case there's any Liverpool friends out there like, "Nah, man, don't say that." Yeah. "He did that," you know? So. Look, talent will always be talent. Y- like, the- You'll have your moment.
1:26:14
The native gifts- Yeah, there'll always be moments... don't go away. It's just he looks lost in that team. Mm. Um, uh, yeah, so. All right. All right. Let's move on to a new section. Uh,
1:26:31
Premier League Predictor results. Dexter, you- Oh... uh, failed to do any picks this week. I didn't do them Because- I, I forgot to do them. I'll do them next week. Ah, it happens. Don't worry. Yeah. Uh, but we had, uh,
1:26:42
Mr. Sean Stafford. He went, uh, zero wins, seven losses, three draws. Tremendous. Um. [laughs] Not to- uh, barely outdone by yours truly with zero wins, six losses, and four draws. Um, so just, just one point difference.
1:27:00
[laughs] But getting, getting his, uh, second win of, of the season with two wins, four losses, four draws, Mr. Sean Swift. Uh- Sean Swift, man...
1:27:12
I don't know, I don't know how he has given himself admin access to the app that I built. [laughs] But he's clearly changing his scores afterwards. He found a way, man. He found a way, man.
1:27:19
'Cause there's no way he's this good. [laughs] Sean Swift, man.
1:27:23
Um, absolutely annihilated us, but, um, yeah, if you're listening and you're not Sean Swift, uh, or one of the three of us, you should go to playfantasypredictor.com and play the predictor against us.
1:27:36
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1:27:53
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1:28:01
Just click the link. Just, hey, you gotta- It's always, it's always in the comments. Hey, hey, man, we're just trying to, you know, we're just trying to do stuff here. [laughs] That's all. Um- I'm trying to help out.
1:28:09
I'm trying to pretend like I'm a professional. [laughs] Definitely pretending. Ah, I'm definitely not a professional.
1:28:14
Looking ahead to game, game week six, uh, we're not gonna talk about it this week because we have two, maybe three weeks, depending on how you do math. Right. [laughs] Off.
1:28:25
Um, but we will be back next week, um, regardless of the fact that there's no Premier League to talk about. Uh, we're gonna
1:28:33
regale you with our opinions on, uh, the most impressive and least impressive of the season so far, uh, not just- Mm... of the week. Um, we'll talk about the managers that are in trouble.
1:28:44
We'll talk about the surprise packages. Um, maybe we'll talk about kits. Who knows? Mm. It's gonna be fun. Just fun stuff. So come back next week. Right. We'll be here.
1:28:54
And we'll be here the week after because we got nothing better to do, honestly. Yeah. Um- It gives, it gives- Our kids are all asleep. I mean, maybe not- Exactly... Dexter's, but his kids are- Yeah...
1:29:02
20, so they're, they're allowed to be asleep. [laughs] They're allowed to be asleep because it's not their bedtime. They're good. Yeah, yeah. Um, one last thing. To... listen, listen to us run through the list of...
1:29:10
This, this is everybody who's unbeaten: Manchester City, Brentford, Leeds, Liverpool, and Everton. Shocking some of these people are out. Everton is like, how- Shocking... how is Everton up there unbeaten?
1:29:19
Shocking, shocking, shocking. That's wild. That's one. And the other thing that was interesting, after I saw the J.
1:29:24
Silva goal, I was like, "How many defenders," even though he's like a left back, left wing back, he's a defender. Yeah, yeah. No, he's a left back, yeah. 16 defenders have scored for the season so far.
1:29:36
11 of them- Dang... are in the top 10. Ugh. Wow. Brighton, three defenders for Brighton. They, they get forward, man. Yeah. Yeah.
1:29:44
I, I thought about that because after I saw Lewis Hall score, I was like, "If you got defenders who can score, you gonna do all right. You gonna be okay." Yeah. You know? You'll be okay.
1:29:53
Brighton- Defenders who can score, Chelsea, so I guess- Don't even talk to me. Don't even talk. [laughs] Don't, don't even look my direction. Well. Yeah. Um- Anyway... and then to, uh, to finish up, we'll hit Wrexham.
1:30:09
Damn near killed them. Hmm. Uh, drop down to the championship to talk about our good friends Wrexham. Uh, finally got their first home win. Phil Parkinson's got the boys off the schneid there.
1:30:20
Um- Against Southampton, right? Yes. Was that, wasn't that the cheaters from last year? Yes. [laughs] Scumbags. Denied them a spot- Yeah. In the, in the playoffs... that is, that is still, that is still so messed up.
1:30:31
You let them, you let them go in and then said, "Nah, we'll just kick you out of this game." Like, no, screw that, man. Oh, man. Get them, let them finish the- At least it holds up... that's nonsense.
1:30:40
Um- Ugh, I'm gonna be so mad... but yeah, so they're, they're up to 14th. Um, not great. Yeah, but there's a million games left. But the thing about the championship though- A million games in the championship...
1:30:51
is those places change so quickly. And you, we could look at this, uh, in four weeks or five weeks, um, obviously, 'cause we need more time than the international break, uh, and Wrexham will be up to seventh somehow.
1:31:03
Um- Mm... but interestingly enough, actually, uh, West Ham no longer at the top of the table for the first time in the season. Really? And, and another Welsh team, uh, not the- What's up there?...
1:31:14
money bags Wrexham, but Swansea- Oh, Swansea's back... are at the top. Oh, wow. Yeah. Wow. So we'll see. Maybe the Swans will come back up. Maybe it'll be- That'd be wild...
1:31:24
maybe it, maybe it'll be a double, a double Welsh, uh- Double Welsh... double Welsh promotion. That's too much. We can't have, can't have too many Welsh. That's nonsense. Hey, maybe, maybe Cardiff will c- will come.
1:31:31
Maybe we'll get just-[laughs] All the Welsh teams Just three Welsh teams. How great would that be? Just, just all the Welsh teams. They're all taking trips to Wales this year, Prem. Get ready. [laughs] Cym- Cymru.
1:31:40
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1:31:55
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1:33:15
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