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PL Midseason Team Of The Year & Most Surprising Teams + NFL Championship Round Pt. 1
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- PL Midseason Team Of The Year
- Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth & Newcastle get their flowers
- NFL Championship Round: Eagles vs. Commanders, Chiefs vs. Bills
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Transcript
Introduction and Welcomes
00:00:11
Chino Onwuka
Hello and welcome to another episode of The Love of the Game podcast. It's your boy Chino, and I'm here with my family as always. Chuku, sail us up to the fam.
00:00:21
Chuku
what's up guys we're back here for another morning another banging episode glad to be with the boys hopefully we'll have a good episode so looking forward to it
00:00:30
Chino Onwuka
And Ameka, how are you? How's your, how's your week been?
00:00:33
Emeka
Hey, Wagwan, Wagwan. Who cares about the week? The best part of the week is here, and the best part of hopefully your week is here as well. Welcome
Weekly Sports Recap
00:00:40
Emeka
to the love of the game, baby.
00:00:40
Chino Onwuka
what Energy energy. Oh, yeah. I like that. We have a lot to live up to. All right. Well, we're going to get right into it. um um You know, it's been another good week of of sports, you know, at the end of the as we're wrapping up the last episode, I said we were hoping it'd be a ah ah good week. Lots to discuss. And it really was between everything that happened in the world of. First football, you know, between what happened in the prime Champions League, you know,
00:00:43
Chuku
love that
00:01:11
Chino Onwuka
a lot happened there. And then, you know, NFL playoffs, the divisional rounds, you know, some some good games, some good games. So, you know, we will discuss all that and more. But we made a promise to you guys, there were some topics we left off last week, which we are going to address
Premier League Team of the Season Discussion
00:01:29
Chino Onwuka
today. So we're going to start off with talking through our Premier League team of the season halfway point team of the season as well as give a shout a shout out throw some flowers to some some teams that we didn't expect to be where they are right now you might be thinking i'm talking about Manchester United and Tottenham we didn't expect them to be 17th place in 15th place or something close to that but nobody wants to talk about them right now we're talking about some teams that are doing better than what we expected so
00:02:05
Chino Onwuka
stay tuned for that. Well, we're going to start with our Premier League team of the season.
Goalkeeper of the Season Debate
00:02:10
Chino Onwuka
um think it's going to be an interesting discussion because, you know, we're not going to see a lot of the usual faces here this year. So the way we're going to do it is we're each going to go one by one and we're going to do it position by position, name our players, maybe a little bit of discussion debate, depending who knows, but that's how we will start. So, you know, we're going to try and have fairly realistic formations, you know, we're not going to put Holland in at keeper just to fit him in or something like that.
00:02:39
Chino Onwuka
so yeah he's got the frame for it, but you know, that's probably better people in his position.
00:02:40
Emeka
Hey, you never know. You never know. You got the high fork.
00:02:47
Chino Onwuka
Yeah. So we're going to start with goalkeeper. So, because this is the ones that I'm pretty confident in, I'm going to start first. I think it has to be for me, David Raya, my keeper.
00:03:00
Emeka
Interesting.
00:03:01
Chino Onwuka
For us, no, he between his short stopping with distribution, his ability to claim crosses. David Ryan is my keeper of the season. Some of the previous usuals, Edison has not had his best season. Allison has been injured. So David Ryan is my PL keeper for the season. And that guy, you seem to have views on that, but we'll go with you next.
00:03:27
Chuku
Bye.
00:03:27
Emeka
I want to say interesting because for the, I had Raya as my keeper for the longest period. Like I was like, you know, there's no, business there's been no standout keeper and everything you said I agree with. like This year he's been fantastic. Top five performer, like killing it. And I was going to pick it up until two days ago when I actually, I went and checked the, obviously look, I know it's not clean sheets, isn't the end all be all, but I checked the clean sheets.
00:03:53
Emeka
Leader board and riot wasn't first and I'm picking the guy who was first just because I feel like you know I need to reward the Easily biggest overachieving team of the season. So I'm giving the spot to match the cells not known for his goalkeeper lead the league in clean sheets I did not realize that I saw you know, I know it's gonna come when we do our defenders I'll explain why I did this because it came down to two guys girls two positions and I feel like I couldn't go Arsenal for both of them so I had to I had to give some flowers to not in a forest I tried to squeeze
00:04:30
Emeka
I try to squeeze one person at least from the team in there they deserve that and end up just being cells so shout out to Matt cells nine clean sheets leaves the league not enforced by far over achieving team of the year and I guess the little plug is two weeks ago one of the best performances I've seen from the keeper so give from flowers to Matt cells
00:04:50
Chino Onwuka
Fair enough, no, that's a good thing.
00:04:50
Chuku
the That was a good shot.
00:04:53
Chino Onwuka
He was probably the the second guy that put him out of position. So yeah, I thought about, and I don't want to give too much away, you know, trying to account for London Forest being third as well, you know, give them their flowers.
00:05:05
Chino Onwuka
But I mean, yeah, they must they have the most clean sheets, but just what I just think of. overall performance past because I've watched Arsenal a lot more than I've watched London Forest.
00:05:16
Chino Onwuka
I just think Raya has been outstanding. you know Shout out to Chuku.
00:05:23
Chino Onwuka
He's he'd been hyping up Raya since. i did I thought he was a good keeper. I didn't think he was that much of an upgrade, but Raya is, he's in my opinion, one of the best keepers in the world.
00:05:33
Chuku
He's clear.
00:05:35
Chino Onwuka
so yeah
00:05:36
Emeka
Absolutely, I fully agree.
00:05:37
Chuku
He's clear. hello I think we're on same when the same connection that, you know, I think you have easily, easily for me. David Ryan makes my team, team of the year so far.
00:05:48
Chuku
I mean, don't get me wrong. Sales was most definitely a close second. Like he has been like, I've been impressed. Like he has been really, really outstanding. I'm like, I've definitely been watching forest.
00:06:01
Chuku
you know, a lot, a lot. Not not not beginning of the season, but like definitely towards you know The last few weeks.
Left Back Position Analysis
00:06:08
Chuku
I've definitely been keeping my eye on them as clearly these look like a team that's not going anywhere anytime soon, so Sal's is definitely a good shout out and if not for the and Amazing performance I've seen from Raya and in terms of his overall play Sal's probably would have been my my second pick. But yeah, I think I'd end the day. I'm just gonna go with the
00:06:32
Chuku
Trusted and David Ray is definitely been my guy for team of the year. So that's my pick.
00:06:40
Chino Onwuka
You know, that sounds good. So now we're going to move on to left back and cuckoo sing as you just finished. We're going to start with you for left back.
00:06:49
Chuku
Loveback has been an interesting one. And I mean, I might shock some people with this selection, but if anyone has FPL or plays FPL,
00:06:59
Chuku
You're going to know that this, this particular guy I'm about to mention, he has been one of the, I won't say surprises, but like he's been definitely one of the nice deals of the year.
00:07:10
Chuku
And that's, um, American left back from, Fulham Robinson. Uh, he has been, shock.
00:07:15
Emeka
You said it was a shock.
00:07:16
Chino Onwuka
And you know, and you know, all respect, that's what happens as well.
00:07:20
Emeka
You said it was a shock. I said the opposite. To me, left back was the easiest choice of any person. Well, one of the easiest. Yeah. You said it was a shock. I was like looking weird.
00:07:28
Chuku
and what robson z says
00:07:29
Emeka
Yeah. And Robinson, to me, easiest.
00:07:31
Chuku
interesting
00:07:32
Emeka
I didn't even think about it.
00:07:34
Chuku
Okay That's crazy because that's been up there but vaio has been up there though he's he's been he's been impressive earlier especially i mean volume it's music to well look look look oh
00:07:34
Emeka
Robinson, like everything you said. Robinson, you just nailed it. Robinson is a star. o
00:07:43
Emeka
agree I don't wanna, I don't wanna, it's a positive podcast.
00:07:44
Chino Onwuka
people
00:07:52
Emeka
Yes, Guardial is garbage, but it's a positive podcast, so I'm not gonna slander Nastity too much. Guardial is legit garbage, but
00:07:59
Chino Onwuka
oh vo vo Okay, okay, I I ah just to understand Jeff first I was holding I was wondering with play
00:08:05
Chuku
What? What do you think I said?
00:08:08
Chino Onwuka
i want