Liverpool's HUMILIATING loss to Real Madrid: What went WRONG? Plus the Premier League Preview.

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

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the chop Sports channel of the premiere streaming Network we are recording this on Thursday February 23rd I am your host

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Laurent courteans in this episode Liverpool collapse

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City our listless and United approve their medal in the Europa League but

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first what is going on with English teams

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what's going on with English teams we have a weird situation here where the

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English teams Chelsea in Europe Chelsea Manchester United Manchester City

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Liverpool Spurs are having a hard time the

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dominance that we've been so told uh is going on in Europe isn't showing up

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and a lot of the arguments for oh the English Premier League is too strong or

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oh the English Premier League has all the players are just

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um there are great players and great teams all around Europe

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there are great managers and just because The Narrative of money changes

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and breaks everything is generally true

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that does not translate on the pitch there's pressure there's Freedom there's

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injury there's how much is this amazing League the Premier League actually

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taxing does the pressure from being in the wealthiest league in the world affect you does it damage you are you

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able to perform at your best when you are supposed to be the best league in the world

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I think fundamentally these are these moments where institutions come in

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um I think about teams and clubs and leagues and where they are in their

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growth I don't think the Premier League thinks of itself or English football in

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general thinks of itself confidently as though it belongs in Europe some clubs

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do I think Liverpool as an institution I mean I'm not saying this or clop or

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whatever Liverpool carries itself and we're going to talk about it running into the immovable object of the most

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confident club uh carries itself as though it has a divine right to be part

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of Europe um and Manchester United we saw today did play

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as though they felt the moment Rising to the occasion and I got moved by that but

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in general I don't really buy this narrative that money wins everything now you could say

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oh Laurent you're just a Manchester City fan you have all the money in the world but actually my team is an example of

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money not buying everything um it doesn't work you do have to have history you have to have cohesion you

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have to have all the parts in place to win in Europe you need history you need

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players you need coaching you need your ground you need your fans it's all of it

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together and that's why we see so few teams breaking through it's the same

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teams it's the teams with confidence it's the teams with sense of belonging

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sense of levels you must be this way you must play this high that that survive

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tough European games and tough European Knights because when you're empty inside and you're empty and you don't have a

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gear you've got to start feeling the pressure you've got to be like that

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Champions League music I'm at this club for this reason to win this game

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everything about my season is for this right now and not every Club has that and I don't

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think the premier league has it um if we look through the last few years

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especially I think the Europa League is a good example Real Madrid is still winning champions

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leagues the Europa League has been won by Spanish teams in general

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um there's something about Europe that English teams have a hard time with and

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even with all the money that is in place there's some thing

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institutionally about English football that does not translate to European

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success and I think we're seeing it again um you know it may be just a blip of

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games but to see Chelsea stumbled one nil to Dortmund

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against the yellow wall to see City go into a hostile environment in Leipzig

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now Leipzig don't have History either but in Germany and find it hard to see Real Madrid come in to anfield

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and really boss a game at a level that hasn't been seen in history is another

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one and then we see even in even down the line Benfica the feeding Club Bruges away now is Club Bruges a great team no

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but Benfica has history or inter at home pulling it out against Porto so these

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these teams carry something there is a an expectation and a belief and a need to win these games

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win these games and I'm going to bring it all back

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together so let's recap let all this leg of the round of 16 in the Champions

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League we have Bayern on a one goal lead uh beat PSG last week it

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AC Milan B Tottenham Benfica beat Club Bruges Dortmund have a one goal lead

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against Chelsea at home Real Madrid five Liverpool 2 Napoli to enter great

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for nil city 1-1 as they go to Germany and Porto behind on inter one nil the second legs

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will be next week but we should go to Liverpool

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so what happened this is a Monumental event

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um for the uninitiated Liverpool went up 2-0

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uh for 20 minutes they looked like themselves they had come off

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a 20 minutes where they look like themselves against Newcastle not so much in the second half

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but the power and strength and know-how and now of

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Real Madrid that they would keep playing that they had Modric that they had been

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there before all the scars all the energy everything that they could possibly bring to bear

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um they did and Real Madrid was able to that

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goals get themselves back in the game relatively quickly so

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um first goal was amazing from um from Darwin Nunez a flick from Salah

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early on a beautiful goal then Sala got another one on a howler by

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um by courtois playing out from the back he bangs off his chest then off his knee Solace there anfield is rocking you

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cannot imagine how loud it was and and that institutional strength of this is

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anfield this is Liverpool this is what we do even in our bad Seasons hearkening

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back to some of the mid-: 2000

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get the tickets will be there um but in this case

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Liverpool just couldn't control how the events would have would unfold after

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Salah got his goal then Vinnie Jr an amazing player comes down the wing

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he scores an amazing tic tacky ball of course on Alexander Arnold's side that's

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not important fires it in then and bizarre era from Allison who I had

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already called the best goalkeeper of the league on 36 so this game goes in 2-2

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beautifully tied I think Liverpool were shaken but still in this game at 2-2

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everything seemed okay but then

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for Liverpool I think the goal that killed them was the military goal so

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there's a foul on the edge of the box and Liverpool are lining up it's a it's an odd place for a free kick Modric is

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on the outside of the box but towards the byline and he and milital just have

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a connection military Town runs across the front of the goal on the six yard

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box and Modric just plays a really nice flat ball right to Miller towel's head

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and he bangs it in no one picks him up no one goes with him all the

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body shape of Liverpool is off they're not really looking at the ball they're not really prepared and that goal

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completely deflates anfield to a place that I've not heard it that way it just went quiet it

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went sad it went to a place I mean as a city fan I fear anfield because I don't have

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anything like that I can't I can't go to any memories of City

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pulling something out against uh against

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uh Liverpool when you're at anfield you feel all of it and Real Madrid just

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didn't they had calm they had cool they had Modric they had kamavinga

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and they just played it very cool and and then

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uh fedes Fernandez feder Fernandez oh I got his name wrong um let me just make sure I get his name

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right because he was so so good yeah valve sorry Valverde Modric and camavinga just

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bossed this game entirely I think Alaba going off and nacho coming on really

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locked up um the joy that Liverpool were having and

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after that third goal Liverpool died it was like a funeral and then

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the the power of the mid of the Madrid Midfield just started picking things up and it just started going boom boom boom

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boom boom uh and then late goals a goal by Benzema on 55 and 67 really good

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goals really easy stuff and Liverpool were dead um just kind of

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a sad State of Affairs for what we had I think there was there was hope that

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Liverpool Liverpool's problems they've had defensively

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with Joe Gomez and Trent Alexander Arnold would not translate into the

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Champions League that the issues they've been having in the league and the power

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the powerlessness of the Midfield would not translate to the Champions League that they could lift themselves up and

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find this thing again that they could find fabinho again and find Jordan Henderson again and that energy in the

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Midfield would come back and they would be able to press and do all the things that they've been able to do but

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the same things um that have plagued Liverpool all year plagued them still they can't press from

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the front and defend the Midfield can't get around the park to disrupt things in the flow

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and they still play The High Line assuming that all the things they used to do would still get done

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and so they just got cut to pieces and Benzema is the best finisher in the world and in his later years has been

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shown to be one of the best players of all time he's up there he's in the group and it was a really good performance by

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Real Madrid and I should talk about them a lot more but I'm not as familiar obviously because I don't watch them

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every day I know that in the league they're just doing okay but for an institution like Real Madrid

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the champions league is their season it is what they measure themselves against and as we saw last season when

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they came back again and again and again against Chelsea against PSG against City

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against Liverpool and cortos stood on his head in the final

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they have an Institutional strength that is beyond

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anfield they do not accept losing it is not allowed

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when you put on that madrista shirt that white shirt of DeStefano

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a Figo of Raul of Cristiano

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of of Zidane of all the players who've come before of Roberto Sanchez of all of

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them that have come before you feel the weight of every one of those trophies and if you can't match it

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you're not on the squad that you just get bent you disappear but if you can you carry that strength with you and the

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ghosts are with you as opposed to against you so the ghost of anfield versus the ghost of Real

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Madrid clash and it was real Madrid that came out on top now none of this is

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none of this is it's not it's not that it's not real it's just that these things are they come out in the wash and

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whatever great you have to have talent you have to be there you have to be a great coach but I think at these levels of football where these teams are really

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good you get exposed for your biggest weaknesses and basitic being 18 years

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old and trying to be in the Midfield of the biggest game in the world going against Luca Modric he started he lost

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control of the game a little bit Gomez lost control of the game a little bit and the moments just were bigger than

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them in in this game and I think this is the end of Liverpool as

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klopp's first wave these games happen on occasion uh I

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think of I think of uh PSG getting killed by

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Barcelona and that being the end when when Neymar was still good and they just got slaughtered uh the

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I don't know it has it has a name um and then Barcelona getting killed by Liverpool on the comeback and that just

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meant Messi's time was done they were done or or Bayern getting killed and and

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pep being like I can't with this team so there are things that happen in Europe that your team has seminal moments that

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they can't come back from and I think for Liverpool this is it this is the end of this group and I don't think anyone

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can pretend that it's not uh it's not to say everything that Liverpool has done doesn't matter or that they're done or

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clock needs to be fired but this group this version of Liverpool

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with I'd say let's call it the Jordan Henderson version of Liverpool maybe even Van Dyke has to change as well is

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over and um they have to look very hard in the mirror and see where they want to go

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see if they can't compete and see if they can be a part of an of a rebuild uh

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klopp has not done that before many managers have it this isn't a knock-on clop

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um it's just it's really hard to go again and go to the studs and back up again

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um City have done it sort of but it was already being done and they sort of

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reloaded there's like the first half of peps group and now this is the back half and we're trying to redo it again so

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that's where they are uh Liverpool just take it on the chin and have

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the worst loss in Champions League at anfield ever

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and that's just a fact like they gave up five goals and uh Madrid fans were doing Oles

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that happened that's real and so they they're hurting this is one of those moments of do you need to suffer in this

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case Liverpool have done their suffering in one this is now okay we can't around we're done we need to start again

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so that's where Liverpool are um and it does sort of take me into my

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themes around where English teams are because City

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also Drew in a game against Leipzig and this was a little bit different I don't

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think City are necessarily in trouble the way that um

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City aren't in trouble the way that the way that Liverpool are but they're they state they're having the same problems

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over and over again in this game City completely control the first half to the point that you're just like oh they're

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bossing this game they've got it under control Riyad mahrez fire City ahead in the first half and it's it's an easy

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game City doing that weird thing with Bernardo Silva as a fullback again but a

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little bit different it's um it's Diaz okay akanji

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yeah still no oh and Kyle Walker so Kyle it is a regular back four sorry I didn't

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see how the formation was weirder so it's a regular back four and you know but no de bruyne uh de

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bruyne had a tough game on the weekend Rod uh Bernardo was in the role of bossing this thing and running around

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and he did everything he was supposed to this game's narrative was why don't City play in Ireland Holland it's another

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referendum another moment of just like what are City doing why don't they ha

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they have a it's like we have a nuke and we don't use it so all through the first

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60 55 minutes of the game City we're in complete control of this

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game I don't even think I'm just looking here um Leipzig did not take their first shot

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on target until the end of the first half

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and then all of the second half is really Leipzig

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until they get their goal and then they shut it down again um the thing is you could see it again

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what I talked same sort of thing that I talked about with the Nottingham Forest game

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Leipzig bring on Fresh legs um it's of course is Guardiola on a

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header on 70. they bring in on Cuckoo and Hendrix and you could see Leipzig

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getting control of the game and all the city fans are just like pep do something play the ball to Holland do anything

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that's not nothing and again City don't make any subs and the fresh legs of

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Leipzig and the lift that they're getting from these new players on the pitch City just don't respond to it and

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pep comes back with the same thing oh we played great we had control of the game yada yada the same thing

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um from a city fan perspective we just see our team not reacting to energy

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being lifted up uh not reacting to you know it's is it is Pep tinkering not

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reacting to erling Holland it seems everyone on city is afraid to play the

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ball to Holland it's as though there's two competing things inside the mind of

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Manchester City one is we've got to control these games and we saw that first half City completely control this

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game not even a kick for um for Leipzig

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second half they lose a little bit of control but then don't react to that loss of

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control by attacking they sort of keep trying to get control of the game again but

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they're they've lost some legs and we don't see the ball into Holland so as a

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city fan you're just like where is the attacking impetus it's not there where is it so all these players on the bench

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we see we've got Calvin Phillips Julian Alvarez Phil

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foden Cole Palmer Rico Lewis amazing players that just don't come on they can

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change a game and they don't there's barely a ball played to Holland uh if I look at his

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stats he does not he takes one shot and

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only has 21 touches and it was a good shot he was the actually number one in

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expected goals for City I know that's not true Riyad mahrez obviously he scored a goal so he gets that half a

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half a point for a goal but City didn't even create anything they weren't really even trying for the my

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proverbial favorite stat of uh shot creating actions they're very low they didn't really do much the number

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all the passes were in the back it was slow um and as you go from front to back

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there's less and less touches uh gundogan had opportunities to to play in

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Holland he doesn't even pick his head up Roger I mean sorry Bernardo Silva doesn't even put a Paul forward and it's

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unfortunate because you know City should have won this game and didn't and now there's a little bit of that

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stagnation again a little bit of that doubt creeping into the team and peps

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again having to list lift this team up um it seems that the only player who

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defies pep is kdb but when he defies him too much or it doesn't work

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um he gets benched like as though he's tired so he had a seven shot game none

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of them on target didn't score a goal and then he gets benched in a Champions League he did look exhausted by the way

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at the end of the Nottingham Forest game but he seems to be the only one who's got the guts enough

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to play balls into Holland for fear that they may not work another thing here

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and I hate VAR and I'm not really interested in what happened uh on it but

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City had a on the goal by Garfield

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he jumps on top of Ruben Diaz okay fine he uses him as a pogo stick okay fine I

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don't want that penalty to be I don't want that goal to be chopped off and then on the 92nd minute a final cross

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before the whistle's blown there's a clear handball um that's just not called

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it just is uh the player bats the ball with his hands and it's just not called

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they don't go to VAR so I don't want those calls so VAR you know I'm anti-var

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it's just one of these things where you're just like oh if it's there

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at least look at it at least tell me what the reason is but

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city did not lose draw this game because of VAR they drew this game because there

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is something about this team that can't Square the concept of control

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and playing in Holland that just can't jibe that when he runs forward they

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don't play the ball to him so they they'd rather keep the ball circulated play the fence with the ball then play

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in Holland lose the ball and have counter attacks I can't explain it it's bizarre I hate it

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uh I don't know how I don't have a better way to put it uh but you know and

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then we should go to what was the game of the day

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um I have to say that and and I don't want to admit it but

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Manchester United played Barcelona at Old Trafford uh

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first half was tough for United they had a hard time um ten hog went again with um

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with um uh Vault Vegas up front uh that didn't quite work again

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but city did get the get the win 2-1 on aggregate uh

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down in the first half on a not dubious penalty if you watch it uh Bruno does pull uh the defender the player's arm uh

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Robert Lewandowski looks completely nervous almost misses the penalty but then does end up getting it done then on

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the second half after the changes uh off comes off comes Val Anthony comes on

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changes how United play they just become much more attacking with impetus and

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power and strength and energy and speed exploiting the weaknesses of Barcelona

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and Fred and casemiro just stuff the

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Midfield of Barcelona in their pockets they're full of running they're full of energy old trafford's lifted up on

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Fred's amazing goal then on 73 Anthony scores one because he comes on for Vegas

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from the wing and the place erupts I can talk about it and get goosebumps and I

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know uh Christian I'm not supposed to get excited about other teams but I love football and I love to hear what what

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what drives me and what makes me happy about football is the energy that the

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fans give I feel that Humanity that in unison that Joy of 60

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000 people all feeling it at the same time you can't help but get swept up in it uh it's a little bit like Nuremberg

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to me you know when you're at Old Trafford you know they might be something fishy but you do get lifted up

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and you do feel it and you do sense the moment and you do especially with at Old Trafford

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especially with these Legacy clubs like Barcelona and and and and Liverpool and

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Real Madrid and and Bayern Munich and and and AC Milan and Inter and these

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clubs that that have history it does matter I'm not naive you can feel it and the momentum can go

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against you and Barcelona did start to Will um but again like Real Madrid they did

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pick themselves up they were able to get back into the fight and and there was a

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moment right at the end where um

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Lewandowski had a shot and it was saved off the line so I mean Varane was

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immense um early in the game you know Barcelona created chances they're gonna

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they're gonna Rue not winning this thing and they're going to talk about the chances they had that they didn't take

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but for Barcelona you know they

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they just don't they're not Dynamic enough and don't have the legs in these games

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to lift themselves up to to win a game like this so

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I'm trying to find the box score of this game oh here we go uh sorry about that it's just a little bit funky on the old

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FB ref because I get that nerd on uh it says the XG was the same I don't

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necessarily buy it but if I look at the first half there was some really big

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opportunities uh that the hey has saved I'm just trying to find the right one

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at least the one at the end doesn't even show up this is this might

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not be the right game this might be the other game anyway United win it was amazing uh very good

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very strong performance and again this is more about feelings this is more about two big clubs who lift themselves

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up and and have a level of passion and and lift that other clubs

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don't have uh I loved what ten Hogg did he went for it takes off wambasaka who

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is defending for his life brings on garnacho takes off our horse on 45 brings on Anthony and all that young

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legs and energy is what drives United forward because you know this is these

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are the things that and and Dalo coming on for um for wambasaka and just sort of

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changing things up um these are the things that lift up a team these are the things that make

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things happen it's the youth this is what Alex Ferguson always talked about is you've if you have young players they

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have a different thing they they elevate a crowd and I think um ten hog being from iax he knows that

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intrinsically they've been a team that has lived on young players they mix it up but fundamentally

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it's a side that um lives off its Youth and and that energy of its crowd so uh

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just an amazing game a lot of energy a lot of positivity I know John uh John

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Santana was living was on over the moon with this and just a great performance and just just another moment for United

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to sort of feel good about where they are now

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they're in the Europa League they're not in the big dance they're in

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the little dance but they was two big boys in the little dance so uh this was an odd game and an odd heavyweight

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matchup in the Lesser division so I do have to get my digs in this is the Europa League you're not uh you're not

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so badass uh you're in your league but I want to call out two players casemiro and Fred just fantastic

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just so good just kicking the out of people taking the ball off people Just Energy and moving the team forward

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casemiro's got to be the signing of the season for any club just a great player and Varan as well just that Real Madrid

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DNA in these players in the context of another strong Club they understand these moments and these nights they've

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been playing for these games their whole lives so just an amazing performance and I probably said the same thing over and over again but just great energy just

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what you love football for frankly two big teams on a European night with good

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fans uh just really good stuff exciting and United move on

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I should probably go through the rest of the Europa League scores just because it's a weird competition I talked about

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the um the previous scores Europa League has way too many

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games Salzburg one nilove Aroma Barcelona two two that was like IX they'll know Union Berlin that was the

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previous thing oh we were all these were all second legs so PSV takes out

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Sevier do they I can't even tell uh sporting go past michiland labor cusin

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beat Monaco on penalties um uvae go past na uh Roma Pass red bees

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Red Bull Salzburg and the Great and Powerful Union Berlin take out Mighty IX

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shakhtar Don yes oh good for you but sad stodd renz loses on penalties on a last

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minute shank shot by an 18 year old and United passed through um

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against Barcelona so friends

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we now leave Europe for now return to the friendly confines of the

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Premier League and uh just want to go through the schedule just to get everybody back on

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side because we had this exciting European nights but we have this league that we're all in that we have to get

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back to Meanwhile in the Premier League um we have to pick up back where we were

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and uh we have a game on Friday tomorrow Fulham V wolves you know Fulham

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pushing for European places good stuff there very exciting and we move through

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that game and then we're going to talk about a new friend a new old friend returning to the Premier League then we

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have Newcastle versus Brighton that's a Saturday early game Leicester versus Arsenal away at the king power Everton

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and the mighty fighting dices take on the wound licking Aston Villa after they

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lose to um Arsenal West Ham Nottingham Forest I don't think that West Ham thought this

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was a relegation six pointer Forest don't have to win this game West Ham do Forest not great on the road we'll see

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what happens and the Great and Powerful Leeds United with their new manager Javi Gracia take

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on Southampton born with play Manchester City this is a recipe for City

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getting healthy and kicking the out of somebody please then Palace play Liverpool at home Palace secretly

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terrible this is might be just what Liverpool need then Chelsea on Sunday played

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play Tottenham at Tottenham Chelsea we talked about earlier in the last episode while do they need a win than City

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host Brentford and we have more midweek makeup games but that will take us

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through the week's matchups I'm gonna go on to Javi Gracia last scene as manager

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of Watford there are many many many uh Watford managers

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um he was good uh when he was the manager

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of leads I actually liked him quite a lot of of um

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Watford and I think that they made a mistake in letting him go uh he's a good coach I think he's

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a 442 coach uh and he's gonna probably be a little bit more

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structured you know these Spanish coaches they are very good that he's gonna bring he's more

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he's more unai Emery than bielsa

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a good coach a capable coach again the Premier League just is the

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place that good coaches go and he will try and whip

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he will try and whip um

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leads into shape his previous job he was in Saudi Arabia at al-saad and he had

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after Watford went to Valencia Valencia being a club that's really in bad shape he spent a season in Valencia

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um you know a lot of draws didn't really do much he was doing really well in al-assad so

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but he's a good good manager he was the manager of Watford when they were runner-ups

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to city in the FA Cup and famously lost 6-0 uh and then they only gave him like

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a handful of games to print the next season and farm right away uh right he

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was sacked in September of that season so

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and then he sort of was and Valencia had an okay season finished 14th and was

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dismissed but he's a decent coach um not a guy who's won any trophies but

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any clubs been coaching since: 2007

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got a steady hand probably a bit of a firefighter we'll get uh we'll get leads defending and hopefully you know it's

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got 430 matches 15-year career just gets coaching and he'll be fine for leads

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it's not a sexy appointment He's like the eighth Choice appointment for leads but leads

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just need a coach they need something to get themselves moving again there's plenty of time there's plenty of games

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you know we know someone's gonna go down we just don't know who it is uh you know

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I think about Southampton playing leads Southampton had that amazing win against Chelsea uh with uh James Ward price but

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at Ellen Road this is about his must win a game for leads as they've had since

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the last must win game last season but uh we'll see where that goes oh I do actually have to mention I made a

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mistake here Brighton and Newcastle are not playing Newcastle is not sorry Newcastle is not

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playing Brighton Manchester United are not playing Brentford they have the League Cup Final so we have the first

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trophy of the domestic season Newcastle versus Man United on Sunday at Wembley

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sorry about that folks just got a little bit uh ahead of my skis there uh I think

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I like this as a Newcastle opportunity after United put so much effort on that

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Thursday night Newcastle should be rested yes they're missing something but how's

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how's United supposed to get up after this Thursday game so I think United

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would have been favorites especially the way ten hog has been coaching especially the way the team has been going uh I did

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see rashford pull up a little bit I don't think he was injured but you know they had been running hard those are

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intense night games and we'll see what level this this Thursday game does

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make it a more even match up for Newcastle and we know that jordy's will come out and force for The League Cup

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Final so apologies there I did seem to miss that game so the League Cup Final coming in

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for Newcastle versus Man United on Sunday um but that's really it I don't think

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I've got too many other things that I need to hit on uh was feeling a little bit tired a little bit jaded for this

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episode but yeah League Cup Final Sunday uh big games reset for Liverpool and

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City needing to get back in action and get themselves back together let's just

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make sure we're aware of what the standings are and where we are in the league right now

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um Arsenal on top Five Points clear of Manchester city is

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that no two points clear of Manchester City Arsenal have a game in hand United

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three points behind city city will now have an extra game United will have to

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make up that game then there's a gap of seven points to Tottenham in fourth then New Castle on 41 Fulham

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on 38 in six three points behind them is Brighton on 35. Liverpool also on 35

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exactly tied with Brighton so just to give you a sense Brighton and Liverpool

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are in exactly the same space even on XG they're close together so uh XG

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difference for Brighton is nine and a half XG difference for Liverpool is plus eight but Brighton don't have a nine nil

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in that group so Brighton have actually been better than Liverpool then Brentford unbeaten in seventh on 35 three teams

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tied on 35 Liverpool Brighton and Brentford then a little Gap Four Points

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to Chelsea and 10th who are desperate for a win the poor Grand Potter experience is not going well then you

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have 10 hog coming in just a few months before yes he had a preseason but doing so well uh Aston Villa

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in 11th on 28th Crystal Palace on 26 how they're staying there I don't understand but uh Nottingham Forest in 13th safe

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for now for six points above the red allegation Zone Leicester on 24 wolves on 23

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Everton on 21 Bournemouth on 21 West Ham on 20 leads on 19 and Southampton on 18.

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so the relegation battle is still really really close uh really really

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close not anyone Cut Loose uh again I keep saying that West Ham shouldn't go

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down and they are plus two in XG which is shocking

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um but they are where they are because they have not scored the goals you would

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expect them to amazing amazing stuff but that takes us into the weekend

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