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Introduction to the Podcast
00:00:13
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Welcome everybody, it is Sunday evening, 30th November. Tomorrow, by the way, it's December. That's how it works around here. You get to the last end of the one month and you go straight into the next one. Welcome to everybody who makes the Daily Premier League part of their daily routine. My name's Ken Davis.
00:00:28
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That there, sitting in somebody's bathroom somewhere, is
Nick's Drive Experience from London to Newcastle
00:00:33
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Nick Britton. are you doing, Nick?
00:00:37
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I'm not sitting in his bathroom. I'm doing very own thing, but I've had a long drive today. i was in London yesterday. and then I've driven to Newcastle today. So I'm currently in Newcastle.
00:00:48
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That's a long drive. In Britain terms, probably doesn't mean anything in the US, but in Britain, if you drive from from London to Newcastle, what was it, a five and a half hour drive? No, mean, in all. the To be fair, we stopped at home and done for an hour. Right. And the whole thing took about seven hours or so, which at the time it took us when I was in the States to drive from Providence to Rochester. Yeah. I've stayed New York, so I'm used to it. It's just around the corner in America, but here it feels like the other side of the world.
Analysis of Premier League Week 13 Results
00:01:17
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Well, Premier League Week 13 is literally, literally just drawn to a close. It's marked by early leads being pegged back at the death. And I'm only talking here about the Prediction League.
00:01:32
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ah Because after four games, Nick's like 3-1 up. And then... Then it all falls apart. All the wheels fell off the trolley bus and we eventually finished 4-4.
00:01:45
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Well, but it's not too bad for you. It's devastating for me. if i do i mean i unbe in too so that's okay that is true. got it a good a good little mini starting. I'll tell you what, there were some amazing goals for any ladies.
00:02:04
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What was your pick of the goals before get into? What was the one that you saw and you thought, oh, my God? thought the best goal the weekend was Harry Wilson. Yeah, I agree. Division. I mean, bearing my time out, just earlier in the day, not one in from the half-way. nine Yes. That takes some beating, I thought Harry Wilson was better.
00:02:23
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The way he curled it in from the sideline, from what was from that angle, must have been 35 yards away. Yeah, from the touchdown. Yeah, absolutely. The vision division and the execution was absolutely outstanding, wasn't it?
00:02:36
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And Vicario well clearly did feel a bit of an idiot. Terrible clearance. Anyway, he got booed off. He got a lot of stick from the Spurs fans. Nice to see Spurs becoming the Spurs that we all knew they were.
00:02:50
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It scared me for a minute. Anyway, let's go through
Brentford vs Burnley: Thrilling Conclusion
00:02:55
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it quick. ah Brentford against Burnley. It was always a bit of I mean, you had this one as a Well, in fact, we both had it as a clear home win.
00:03:03
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And so it proved. 3-1 to barr Brentford. ah Interesting... It all happened, didn't it? It all happened in the last 15 minutes. Yeah. So, 80 minutes is 0-0. Then, Brentford score.
00:03:14
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Then, Burnley score. Then, Brentford score again. Then, Brentford score again. All happened in the last few minutes of the game. Yeah, Thiago back on... on so Did you see that weird penalty thing? I think it was the Burnley guy. You kind of had a chance on goal and then went down to earn a penalty when actually he was far... And he got booked for simulation. He was far better off staying on his feet and knocking it in.
00:03:41
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It's the modern ill, I'm afraid. One of the great ills of the modern game is that... Why would you have great shooting opportunity to find a penalty? And such a diamond plan. It's absolutely ridiculous. So anyway, so it all backfired. Burnley go on. Sorry, Brentford go on to win 3-1. They're in 10th. They're up to 10th place. Well done, Brentford. Burnley very much in the mire now in 19th place.
00:04:10
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Here's a game that we never really, well, let's say for the first 20 minutes was going to plan and then
Man City's Chaotic Victory over Leeds
00:04:16
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didn't. Man City against Leeds. Ends up 3-2. Very chaotic game.
00:04:23
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Very early goal in less than a minute. Nice goal by Foden. Great guard he's finished by Foden. Foden had a great game, by the way. He looks in good form. ah And then then it all starts to go a bit weird. Good.
00:04:40
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beginning of what wasnt quite frankly can twelve for weekends watch i see dton good I'm sick of it. You're not alone there, mate. Everybody around the country is crying at the moment about that.
00:04:54
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um ah triple I triple pointed it. We all did. We all did, Nick. And you just didn't get it. But then when was watching it, reason my phone scored his goals was because they used to have three men on hold all time. Yeah.
00:05:09
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And that just creates suspense. So it was a very weird day because Man City were just walking around in such control the first half. And then a leader looked done for. mean, they looked obviously dreadful. Then they made two substitutions at heart side.
00:05:23
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And totally changed the game. Changed the formation. Changed the game. And could got point of it in the end. Yeah, I think they should. I mean, obviously, another a late winner by Foden. He looks really sharp in tight areas. And Foden's doing his World Cup chances. The world are good at the moment. He so looks like he's back to the player he was, really.
00:05:44
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Yeah, I think so. fix so Interestingly, David Farquhar struck upon one of my little hobby horses after the game where he criticised Donald Rue for going down in order that Pep Guardiola could have a tactical timeout. It's something that we watched a lot at Dalby because Zetterstrom, our goalkeeper, does this quite a lot. He does. Not so much this season, he did that last season.
00:06:08
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There's clearly nothing wrong with him. And he goes down going, oh, my ankle hurts or something. And then what you see is every alpha player running towards the bench for two or three minute tactical timeouts. It's as simple as that. Yeah, it's an interesting one. It was unsportsmanlike and I tend to agree with you.
00:06:29
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Yeah, I think that's true. i think they're probably going to clamp down on that. ah Just like they clamp down on all the time that goalkeepers are creeping the ball for. We've never heard about that ever again, have we?
00:06:41
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You did see it. Yeah, you see the referee counting down their hand in the air. Yeah, do the hand in the air thing, but... I think it's worth it. Has there been single instance, though, of a corner being given? Yeah, one or two. One or two. We've got many. I can't think any. I think I saw couple... Yeah, Gibraltar from Burnley got done on a one.
00:07:04
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There's been a couple since, but I was watching it quite closely in games... over the weekend and What's the referee got to zero? Rather than blowing his whistle straight away, he's still allowing one or two extra zippers. I know. I know. I'm completely unconvinced by it, but I think it'll get he'll be forgotten about it in two or three years.
Fulham's Triumph over Spurs
00:07:23
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Right. What a water comeback for Sunderland. Sunderland, three. Bournemouth, two. Two down very early. Very, very cheap penalties to give away. Second was a very soft goal, really, at near post.
00:07:39
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And then... And it took the Trumble and turn around? Yeah, brilliant. Brilliant. I mean, first through, let's go about Tyler Adams. Yeah. Yeah, what a chip.
00:07:50
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Over Robin Roos. What a great hit that was. But yeah, there was no sense. At half an hour, with that the Sun were going to get back in. No. And then it was basically stupid. It was. It was. It gave them everything they needed.
00:08:07
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And once it was 2-2, which is just our time.
00:08:13
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there's probably like a I think so. And that's where I think that's where the Sunderland crowd, that's where where's where you know all all of the kind of cauldron atmosphere that you get at Sunderland really starts to come to the fore. As you say, it was pretty clear pretty early on that if there was going to be a win, it was going to be Sunderland. But what a remarkable... The season carries on in its remarkable...
00:08:38
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form for Sunderland. They've been outstanding this year.
00:08:43
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Oh yeah, they think it's a great game. It's great game, a very open game. Yeah, great advert. A like a Championship game where two teams just attacking each other and Bournemouth just be absolutely kicking themselves. Yeah, they should. They'll be gutted. Well, if the two goals is called, they're crazy. very good chances.
00:09:02
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Yeah, they did. And... um we've got two We've got two teams who who are playing at the top of the form, absolutely the top of the game. Definitely both going for the win and made for great, great entertaining spectacle, really. So well done, both of those teams, actually.
00:09:19
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And this was sure this was one I wasn't expecting. Everton-Newcastle. I think we both had that. Yeah.
00:09:30
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Did we both have that down as ah as a home win? I
Newcastle's Unexpected Win against Everton
00:09:33
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had it as a draw, actually. You had it as a home win. great finish. Yeah, great finish. Pickford looked really sloppy.
00:09:45
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so forward like and it chuck disar they good gowell i love bob love chip lots ah great finish yeah great finish complicated letters pickford looked really sloppy I mean, Pickford had a fantastic game last weekend, didn't he? He was absolutely outstanding.
00:10:03
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So, obviously, I swap him, put him into my fantasy league, and he had... Yeah, well, thanks for your support, man. ah and But he was flapping at everything, wasn't he?
00:10:17
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was. He's been my goal since the start of season, so I had him in my goal yesterday as well. Yeah, just very, very weird. Weird performance. Newcastle can't win lot, but... They can't play away. They can't score goals away. They just run right.
00:10:31
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they They looked like they could score whenever they wanted really yesterday. Volta Marder's back. His confidence. So I took him out obviously before the game.
00:10:42
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Swapped him with Watkins. Oh mate, that's a bad swap that is. Holly Watkins at home against Wolves. He didn't even play did he?
00:10:55
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I hope he didn't. I think he got thinking got dropps it might hold but think but only started again It a bad move. It was just a bad move. I'm not proud of it.
00:11:06
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Neither should you. But a great win. Great, didn't you? Do you reckon that's going to kickstart Newcastle's season, which has been really up and down, hasn't Well, home and away, really. hope so.
00:11:18
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I expect to see them in the top, not sort of wandering around the top. That's what expect to see them. So I hope so. for people are going to can do it.
00:11:31
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Well, it's not many points between 13th and 7th or 6th or 7th. So they're up to 13th now. Everton at 14th. it was a very it was an impressive performance by Newcastle. I don't know what got into them, but it was a very different performance to the other ones we've seen away from home.
00:11:48
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That's an absolute gimme, isn't it? Yeah.
00:11:55
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that's an absolute gimme isn't it ah Right. Okay. Final game of Saturday. ah
Chelsea vs Arsenal: Holding Strong with 10 Men
00:12:03
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Spurs, who was just mentioned, against Fulham. Fulham 1-2-1.
00:12:09
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Extraordinarily sloppy. ah Two down after six minutes. Really sloppy for the first. Vicario had a brainstorm for the second.
00:12:21
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Harry Wilson scores an absolutely magnificent goal. Could have been three within 20, could have been four within about 24. Fulham absolutely battered them in the first half.
00:12:34
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sometimes you felt some nets are avoidful unely come clay on road this evening e they have one at allll on the road this season
00:12:47
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First half was really bad for Spurs. Better second half. I mean, it couldn't be any worse, to be honest. And they did push. They obviously got a goal back. but And Fulham's defence held strong. um It's a great, great win for Fulham. They must be absolutely delighted with that.
00:13:03
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Yeah, very much so. And when we talk about Fulham, there another team that don't expect to be while you're out. the lower part of the table, I think they're another team that should be somewhere between A and 12th. They're a good side.
00:13:16
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I was noting, I wonder, mate, these things don't normally end well. Where Thomas Frank afterwards was criticising the Spurs fans who were blowing the car in it. He was. Saying, they can't be true fans.
00:13:35
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That's a dangerous road to travel when you start doing that. I know. I've got a feeling that in the season of wheels falling off teams catastrophically, I've got a feeling the wheels might end up falling off Spurs pretty catastrophically.
00:13:50
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It was horrible yesterday. is that They did looked terrible.
00:13:55
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Yeah. And no worse than they've looked in the last few weeks. I don't whether it's Tom Stryke. I don't know whether it's the players.
00:14:06
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They just poor up front though, don't they? They don't look massive threat up front. Proper number nine. Proper number nine. That's what they need.
00:14:20
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no no and they won't do it until they bring in strike a drop strike another one proper number nine proper number nine that's what they need Right. Okay. So that was Saturday. And as we know, as Thomas Frank knows,
Crystal Palace vs Man United: A Unique Penalty Scenario
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So in my happy life where I like things to be even and organized and orderly, it was really nice. There was five games on Saturday. There was five games on Sunday. And when we come to those five games on Sunday right now, By the way, if you want to get in contact with us, and we encourage you to do so, you can email email us at dailypremierleagepodcast at gmail.com. We will read them and laugh.
00:15:42
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No. Right. ah So, ah i don't say that out loud. No, we won't. We'll read them out. That's a terrible thing say. Absolutely unnecessary. No, we won't. We'll read the good ones out.
00:15:55
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We do get some laughable ones. Right. So, first game of the day, Palace against United. Right.
00:16:03
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Palace had lots of chances early on. ah e Interesting penalty. Double touch. You don't get a double touch very often. I haven't had double touch since 1987. I'm not even going there.
00:16:18
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was very much going too hard to. Since half Palace great, maybe not even wonderful. The second half, Palace wonderful, maybe not even great.
00:16:30
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Yeah. Yeah, they they really turned it on their head, didn't they, second half. and don't know why. I mean, look, Pryce missed two very presentable chances in the first half, and KFCH should not been caught by Nick Shaw and should have scored that goal. And Mottetta missed a pretty straightforward one at And yeah, he got a penalty.
00:16:50
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If you haven't seen he won a penalty and scored. And the referee ruled that he had touched it with his standing foot accidentally before his shooting foot.
00:17:02
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And the rules are, because... it wins in and gets to retake it if he missed it or the saves in it he doesn't get to retake it isn't that isn't that a weird ruling in the sense of what's it whether it goes in or not got anything to do with or he touches the ball accidentally it's all about advantage to the defending team because something That's good brilliant. Pull it to William Punditry again from Nick Britton there because of a reason.
00:17:38
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Yeah. Come on, you're a ref. It's an accident. Yeah. know the law. telling you what the reason is. There's no reasoning. There's absolutely no logic to it. If it goes there, you don't want to cableise the attacking team for...
00:18:00
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the ah No, no, no, no, no. Can you just talk about this for the next 12 minutes? It'd be brilliant. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:11
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who be yeah of the bus buttons overber pitch is will be most power short finished then most of mouth very de yeah right is deep emphasis as should be saying both most although we are each of you better about was yeah He should. And i I thought the palace wall for the second was absolutely was was dreadful. sense Completely disintegrated. He just laid it off. It was quite obvious what was going to happen. He just laid it off you know two yards from Mount. Whoever it was took a free kick.
00:18:44
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Bruno. what No, it wasn't. Who was it? Sorry, I thought he was laid off too. But anyway... the The wall disintegrated like it wasn't there. They all jumped in different directions. Absolutely went through thin air and should have been saved, but won't ended up going in.
00:19:00
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So, well done, United, up to seventh. Yeah, so it's Fernandes. Fernandes. That's right. He was just kind shitting the animal's fight, but not enough to get it through the wall.
00:19:14
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And I think he hadn't gone through wall. still think Anderson should be I agree. I agree, agree, agree on both points. So... So Palace down to ninth. Palace's season is is is slipping away a little bit. Man United up to seventh.
00:19:27
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Here is the game that we all put our mortgage on. Villa Wolves. Absolutely guaranteed home win.
00:19:39
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ah It was a pretty even game. Wolves definitely had chances first half. They were much better at than they normally are and have been and they pressured Villa all over the pitch they didn't allow them any time they didn't allow them any space and you know Owen Hawkins didn't score a goalie oh no Strand Larson nearly did he obviously denied by an offside there was a player impeding standing right front of the keeper and he was clearly an offside but love Wolves did look decent definitely in the game could have gone either way and
00:20:21
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But a great goal by Kamara to win it for Villa. Absolutely nailed it into the yeah postage stamp of the top right-hand corner. So it was a fitting goal to win that. Villa up to fourth, remarkably, after their start the season. wolves Wolves all at sea, but they can take credit from that game. They can take something from that game, can't they?
00:20:46
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they can but unfortunately still lost and i think it's one of those where you put all my effort and then you still it's still it's really discouraging similarly though we'll look at that and go that was a game that could go away and we found a way to work we just found a way with it yeah now it's a lucky degree Yeah, it's interesting you raise that about Wolves, that they're not playing badly, but they've lost again.
00:21:12
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Same for Leeds. Leeds kind of do well, but find ways of losing. And they seem to be losing when they're playing well, which is not a great place to be because you're definitely going to lose if you play badly then.
00:21:27
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So that was Villers-Volves. Forest... ah reverted to tight rather against Brighton. Brighton, again, you know they we mentioned on the podcast on Friday, another one of the real gems of the season really is Brighton's form. Brighton were on top all the way through. They had lots and lots and lots of chances. Nice goal by De Kuiper, a very neat finish.
00:21:54
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um Then a bit of a mistake at the back from Forrest and 2-0, game over. But Forrest looked pretty woeful.
00:22:04
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And I'm very excited, again, this weekend games have turned a lot of expectations, or just a lot of paranormal on its head. And you look and go, I didn't quite expect that.
00:22:16
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And had this game down as a draw, so I think Brian would take a watch, but I didn't have it down as Forest being kind of an apostatolian type Forest where you're not really doing a great deal and they're conceding to your goals.
00:22:30
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and Yeah, think you could right about that. I had it down as Forest win. I thought Forest were going to go on a bit of run, to be honest, get themselves into mid-table.
00:22:43
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yeah i think you could be right about that it was it was i added down as a forest when i thought forests were gonna I thought forests were going to go in a bit of a run to be honest and get themselves into midtable ah and didn't see that performance coming, in but that performance is, you're right, it's coming after a hard week, two big games. But still, they really didn't show up and bright and Brighton were fo by far the better team.
00:23:07
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00:24:39
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00:25:57
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They did. it was a pretty low key first half. West Ham didn't really create any chances, didn't, weren't really very threatening. Very neat finish, I have say about Alexander Isaac, his first, obviously, for Liverpool. Then, Paqueta just takes you upon himself to talk himself into a second yellow card when it was absolutely unnecessary. That is probably one of the most idiotic things I've seen, well, in a long time on the football pitch.
00:26:29
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two yellow cards to the tent in space of a few seconds and he would not... The Liverpool players were pulling him away.
00:26:42
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They thought he would lay about 10 yards from the referee and he's, OK, he's part now and he still went back for more. I know. Went back for more and the referee said, right, if you're fine, Mike, get off the bench. Absolutely criminal, wasn't it?
00:26:56
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In West Ham's position well. Yeah. And he's one of the top players. He's one of the top players, him and Bowie. They need him. I was so disappointed with West Ham today. That was a great potter type West Ham performance. I thought they would come to Liverpool.
00:27:15
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They're a little good little run. Liverpool are very vulnerable at the moment. thought they would come throw the kitchen sink and give it a real go. And they were meek. They submissive. They'd never really got out of the traps. It was a very, very disappointing divorce.
00:27:30
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Yeah, it was. And they had a free hit, really, at at Liverpool. If they'd really gone at them and they'd lost 3-1, no one would have complained. It was just the way they just... do There were really no threat. Of course, losing Paqueta doesn't help. Bowen had a chance to make it 1-1 that Bowen sometimes would convert.
00:27:49
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And he does often. There's lot shots. There's a lot shots. know, I think yeah some of the skill with Bowen, I think it might have hit the target.
00:27:59
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Then Gakpo goes and finishes off things right at the end and it's ah it's a clear 2-0 victory for Liverpool. West Ham still floundering in 17th, Liverpool up to 8th.
00:28:11
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Yeah, it's interesting sort because after a lot of pressure to do so, he's got to finally run the changes. Sour found himself on a bench. Gomez's been at right back. Yeah. and The team looked lot better.
00:28:24
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It did, but the opposition was so poor, it's difficult it's difficult really to judge whether this is what were the performance levels were really like by Liverpool. But you know it's a clean sheet. It's a clean sheet. When was the last time Liverpool had a clean sheet?
00:28:38
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Indeed. I haven't said before, it was very, very finish from his app. And wonder, does that give a bit of confidence to start scoring from all those? Yeah, it was a really clever, clever finish.
00:28:50
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hit it early, hit it near post and keep it up no chance. And hit it, he timed it so beautifully.
00:28:59
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Yeah, he did. the kings poor down down irishish yeah so i spell change that drop it that bag Yeah, very good. And then the big one, the big one, we've just finished the weekend off with Chelsea against Arsenal. Finished 1-1.
00:29:18
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Caicedo, automatic red for a tackle that, having seen it now a couple of times, is a definite red. ah Chelsea still played very positively. i thought What I was impressed with Chelsea is that they did that didn't really change their game plan. They they did still go at Arsenal and they got the breakthrough.
00:29:35
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ah Arsenal got a pretty immediate equaliser and they had a few chances towards the end Arsenal. Chelsea clung on. I thought Chelsea did a pretty good job today, actually, against, ah obviously, ah a very rampant Arsenal team.
00:29:49
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um And actually, you know, if anybody needed any proof that Chelsea are actually the real deal, I think we've got to got got a bit of proof today. Yes.
00:30:03
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It was a blood thunder game with a lot of fouls, a lot of yellow cards, I've also met across Ceele, as you mentioned, lots of stoppages, stop-star, stop-star.
00:30:19
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He never really got into a flow of a game football. It wasn't a classic. It was not a classic. No.
00:30:29
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But I think when you think, right, okay, one-all, who's going to be the happy manager? I think they're probably both going to be happy with that. think you're right. Chelsea did well to get a point in the face over the hour and ten men.
00:30:43
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Arsenal is a real potential banana skin, so if you can't win, don't lose, as the old maximum goes. And they would have preferred three, I think they'll probably see it as a couple of points lost, it's not a disaster by any stretch of the imagination.
00:30:59
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What is interesting again, I'll ask you this question, Arsenal have failed to beat Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea, they're three teams who realistically It should be challenging them on Liverpool, but the other two are potentially.
00:31:14
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Does that give the rest of the league a bit of hope that Arsenal are as good as everybody says they are? No, not really. i think i think Arsenal are absolutely dominant against their lesser teams. They're absolutely ruthless against teams you know from fourth downwards.
00:31:32
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and they're not bad against their absolute rivals. I think the secret to Arsenal is their ruthlessness against the other teams, and I don't think Man City come close to that, ah but no one else really does.
00:31:48
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And I think ultimately Arsenal, i mean, they lead by five now. It's been cut to five points. I just think that ruthlessness will continue. I just can't see him dropping many points against teams outside the top three, in all honesty.
00:32:04
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Yeah. Yeah. here to about that o yeah also so dis <unk> as that still to come back real jesus was on the bench yeah it maybe yeah you i think you i think you put your finger on it i think both both both both coaches will be pretty pleased with actually you with the outcome without given the circumstances of the game so that was game week thirteen never fails to deliver ah this I mean, the point of it is we do this every week and there's 10 games.
00:32:39
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We average four correct results. Four. Well, no, it doesn't say much about us our punditry skills, but what it does say is that this league is completely unpredictable.
00:32:53
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Completely unpredictable. Apart from a couple of obvious games, it's completely unpredictable, which gives it its amazingness, if there's such a word. He does.
00:33:04
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Every week we actually, offer the season board a best season with without one time I Premier League. agree. And not just because we're doing this. Though that has been the cherry on the ice and the cake, and I'm sure the Premier League would say that.
00:33:17
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I think most the players who obviously do listen some to this go, yeah, I'm going to try extra hard today, just see if I can get all of these podcasts. I think so. Or they'll have a favourite, won't they? Kaiseido will either be rooting for you or rooting for me. So I would imagine, because I had Chelsea as a home win, Caicedo probably follows you and said, out what can I do that is actually going to give a little bit of an edge to Nick? Because it all goes down to this game.
00:33:46
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And think he said, you know what, I'm going to have myself sent off. And then Nick's got a chance of ah of getting of Arsenal winning and therefore he'll win the prediction league 5-4. I do appreciate it.
00:34:01
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Thank you, Moses. We appreciate you listening. And we appreciate what you do as well. So brilliant. That's the end of that. Thank you for joining me, Nick, from the bathroom. You can pull the chain now or whatever you do. ah Push the button or whatever. And we will we' catch up again soon. But thanks, everybody. And thanks for listening. And we'll see you again very, very soon.
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