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Fri 4th Oct: CROSSOVER - Brighton X Spurs
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We go head-to-head with the Daily Brighton podcast to preview Sunday’s exciting Premier League clash between Spurs and the Seagulls. We've got team news, a tactical breakdown, where the game could be won or lost and of course, score predictions. Enjoy!
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Introduction and Podcast Crossover
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there as well.
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Speaker
sports podcast network Hello and welcome to the Daily Brighton podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. It's a crossover day today and not only is there one Joe,
00:00:24
Speaker
yourself. Yours truly. There's also another Joe. Introduce yourself, please. Yeah. So it's double Joe time, isn't it? Yeah. I'm Joe. I'm Joe Forrester from the, uh, from the daily Tottenham pod. And yeah, looking forward to this as much as I'm looking forward to the game, I think it's going to be bonkers. Yeah, no, it's going to be an absolutely ridiculous game. Sunday. I want to say it's a two o'clock kickoff. It might be half four. I'm not sure. There's weird kickoff times. Yeah. I think there's like four games on on Sunday as well this week.
Tottenham's Improved Performance
00:00:50
Speaker
So It's on at some point. You'd be able to watch it at some point, somewhere. So we have a crossover. um In the first segment, we are going to be talking about the season so far for both teams. um In the second segment, we're going to be talking a little bit about tactics and sort of how you should expect us to line up. And then in our final segment, we are going to be talking about where the game will be won and lost. Joe.
00:01:19
Speaker
It's been a bit of a mental season yeah so far, but you have won five on the bouts at all competitions, I'm pretty sure. If you include the game last night. So how's the season gone? How has it gone so far?
00:01:32
Speaker
Yeah, real mixed bag. um Started really quite poorly. I think a lot of frustration from Spurs fans. like I think, obviously, the the big caveat is you've got to say that like this is so much better than the football was under Conte Mourinho just in like over a year into Angie's reign. And you do really have to remind yourself of that. Be like as frustrating as it can be at times, it's a lot better to watch. And ultimately, you want to be entertained watching your football team. So that's kind of the main thing. um I started the season and I think the real feeling amongst first fans was that ah we were over playing a lot. So huge amounts of possession, really, really massively um dominating the ball. So 65, 70, 75 percent possession. um Even like when we played Arsenal, 65 percent possession in that game. But a complete failure to A, to take our chances. So the finishing was lacking. And also a lot of two, three, four, five touches in the box. Let the chance fiddle out. Let the fizzle out. Let the defense reset.
Tactical Adjustments for Tottenham
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Speaker
And it, yeah, it kind of felt, it felt like, it felt frustrating possession for, for no real reason. And we lost to Arsenal, which as much as I hate to say it, there's no shame in that these days. um No, yeah, true. Michael Artero has essentially turned Arsenal into peak Mourinho Chelsea. Just very, very physical and set pieces. is that thing There is a ah tinge of Sean Dyche in there somewhere. Mate, he's Sean Dyche in a cashmere jumper. That's basically what Michael Artero is. but But since that defeat, which I think was a bit of a low point, Brennan Johnson getting caned on social media, really horrible stuff from fans, just really abusing him, telling me he's useless, all that kind of thing, to the extent that he deactivated his social accounts. Since then, Spurs, as you say, won five on the spin in all competitions, a couple of Europa League games in there um as well. Obviously, the game against Coventry as well in the League Cup and two Premier League games.
00:03:27
Speaker
And um it's, do you know what? Everything's roses. Brennan Johnson can't miss at the moment. Like he looks absolutely lethal in front of goal. Fair play to him because it could have gone either way. And he really silenced those kind of Twitter trolls and stuff. And it's so it's all roses at the moment. And we'll get into it later. But actually, the big change has been from we're still dominating the ball. But actually, there's been a few tactical shifts and players slightly tweaking their positions and also Spurs are slightly more counter-attacking team in the last few games. And it's reached its rewards.
00:03:56
Speaker
100%. Well, ah ah one thing I saw a comment about on that is that last season, obviously, if I remember rightly, at the start of the season, you were top of the league after
Brighton's Injury Challenges
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Speaker
ah ah X amount of games. Yeah, first 10 games, we were steamrolling everyone. Yeah, yeah. So you and that was it was all it was all roses then and it was all sort of like our big and he says May and he plays good football. It's all good. and ah To be honest, this is not going to be a ah very... ah I don't have any hate towards Tottenham whatsoever. I actually find them really interesting to play. in Last season, they some of the best... The Game Against Chelsea was unbelievable. yeah um I think there might have been a Game Against Man City in there as well, which was really good.
00:04:39
Speaker
um but yeah you went to Arsenal I remember at the start of that season and you almost like sort of played them off the park but yeah you drew didn't I think you might have drew true yeah was it maybe two all yeah I think um and yeah I just think that like I thought that from there it was going to be a sort of like a okay this might be actually Tottenham's time now um but it never it didn't really materialise. I think it was one of those things it's kind of your classic sort of new manager thing like he came in it was such a different style that I think a lot of coaches in the Premier League found it hard to work Spurs out. um
00:05:21
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things collapsed in that Chelsea game. So I think for one, I think I'm right saying we lost. um And in that game, Madison got injured, Udoghi and Romero both got sent off. yeah And it was just vanny Van de Ven got injured as well. It was just chaos and it completely pulled our season apart. um What I hope is different this year is we started badly.
00:05:42
Speaker
And then it kind of, it it was fixed. So hopefully we kind of got that little blip out of the way. I don't expect to keep winning every game, but
Brighton Fans' Opinions on New Manager
00:05:50
Speaker
I certainly, yeah we look like such a moral, I think the word word is effective. We look at such a more effective team in the last few games, taking our chances better, more one, two touch football, moving the ball a little bit quicker. And I think that's the problem. That was the problem with Ange, like that possession for possession's sake. And hopefully, hopefully these tweaks have worked.
00:06:09
Speaker
ah hundred percent Well, you were mentioning roses and I'm going to spoil this parade and say that it's currently no roses for Brighton at the moment. There is zero roses, there is only dead plants. That's sort of what's going on at the moment.
00:06:25
Speaker
um we havent We've won one in five, I'm pretty sure. um And I think but we've we've had a couple of injuries and it's not been anywhere near as bad as some of the other teams, but I think the biggest issue is that it is basically our two best players who are injured now. So Van Hecke, I read from a Brighton newspaper that apparently he's out for six weeks, which will take it to after international break and et cetera. And Jar Pedro has like a high ankle sprain, which was very random and sort of come out of nowhere. But it was from the tackle from Morgan Gibbs White, which he got sent off for sort of on a controversial um bit of controversy.
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um So we are missing those two players and we were very uninspiring against Chelsea. we were We could have easily conceded seven against Chelsea, maybe more. We got very lucky. They had like two goals this lab. They hit the woodwork like two, three times.
00:07:23
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um And I think our fans are a little bit ah sort of in a crisis mode at the moment. I think it's a bit early yeah um to be in that crisis mode, but we do have a very hard run of fixtures coming up. I think we played maybe three or four out of like the traditional big six um in the next sort of like eight to 10 games. And I think although we have proved that we've been quite hard to beat until we played Chelsea, which they proved is actually going to be, quite it could be quite easy to beat us. I think that we're trying to establish a style of play, but then all of the key components of that style of play have been sort of like in and out of the squad. Yeah. So you haven't really been able to gel that together with the actual spine of your team that you want to sort of go through the season with. And I think that is i'm
Tactical Approaches of Both Teams
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shaking up our fans a little bit.
00:08:22
Speaker
This is thing, it it's ah just a new manager though, isn't it? And it's kind of like, ah and this is this is my question, I suppose, because it's another new manager, relative, not unknown, but maybe unknown to people in the UK, a bit like Deserby was. yeah And kind of still that kind of very attacking style of play. But that that's what interests me, like kind of where where are the Brighton fans? Like, now what's the opinions amongst the fan bases? They're kind of an appetite. So like, let's be patient. Are people kind of going, oh, maybe this guy's too young. He's not right for us. Where are people?
00:08:49
Speaker
I think I think the start of the season has given him a bit of a grace period in terms of but because there's always going to be fans that are going to be like sack him now. It's too young and like you have like both of the extremes where it's like he could probably like we we could have been in like loads of before the window, loads of um of our fans were saying about how we'd be happy to stay up. That is ridiculous. Yeah. That is outrageous. like Why would that ever be a thing? after the progress of the last few years. Yeah, yeah. That would be that's just so negative. So you have those fans and you have fans that are just going to be like, yeah, just sack him now and get someone else. And I think you need to find that middle ground where it's like he started off well, so he's given himself. He's got sort of the fans and the media off his back because they're going to go in on him straight away for his age as soon as anything goes wrong. And now it's when he is how he navigates the tough periods that is going to sort of prove whether he can last in this league.
00:09:45
Speaker
um Oh, sorry, go on, mate. No, as I was just to say, ill I'll be massively. I obviously don't want to see it, but if we were to go and lose like in our next five, let's just say for playing devil's Africa, I'd love to see sort of how that reaction changes like in the fan base. And if they're sort of just like, OK, no, we don't need to. We don't need a manager this young anymore. Or are we going to stick with him and then see how he can like navigate this time? Because there's some games in there that we're not expected to win. So, yeah.
00:10:15
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That's where we're at. That's i think where a lot of managers kind of really like make their kind of really make their money. iss like it's all It's all well and good to kind of like implement a system when you've got your first team. yeah It's when you're suddenly putting these people, essentially, like playing people out of position or like bringing people in off the bench, like backups and kind of secondary backups, and all that sort of thing. means like that Yeah, that's interesting. It's a bit of a shame for him that it's happened early because he could have done with a bit more time to to bed in, but like broadly speaking, do you think he's the right guy for the job? um i think I think if he can, once he gets, because there's us there's the defence is missing, we're missing defenders, like central defenders, we're missing central defenders, he's got enough talent from defence upwards, up the pitch to be able to, he could compete on more than one front with the amount of talent that he's got in the team.
00:11:06
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So like he could compete for the European place in the Premier League, but he could also go on a cup run very easily because some of the talent that is sat on the bench or some of some of the players that we haven't even seen yet, Matt O'Reilly, for example, brija ah Brian as well, who's just come in, um who's really exciting. We haven't seen him at all yet. So these players the that have come in here, I think,
00:11:29
Speaker
I think that he could he could. He has the he definitely has the the right mindset of wanting to play attacking football. This is a sort out at the back and I think he'll be fine. OK.
Tottenham's Counter-attacking Style
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00:12:37
Speaker
And we are back daily Brighton podcast, X Tottenham Hotspur podcast, Joe, Joe tactics time. So um like I'll let you lead this, I'll let you lead this um segment. I love that. I love that. Like tactics time with the Joe's. Yeah. So I mean, I think everybody, from a Spurs point of view, everybody kind of knows how we're going to set up and that is ridiculously high line. Just kind of for like Brian Fazzie don't watch loads of Spurs. What essentially Tottenham tend to do is try and dominate the ball and
00:13:12
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sit on, essentially you get the two centre backs, so Vanneven and Romero, who essentially sit on the halfway line. And then generally speaking, in the defensive midfielder normally, Bissouma will drop back and kind of make that a three. um That still doesn't really feel like three centre backs because you've got three players stood on the halfway line. It's still yeah crazy to watch. You do get more used to it, but you might, the Bryant fans might watch it on Sunday and be like, what on earth are they all doing? And then you tend to get your full backs actually, so Poirot and a doggy, although a doggy's injured for this game.
00:13:41
Speaker
tend to be the most advanced players on the pitch. That's kind of, that's the basis of the, of the set up. Where Spurs have kind of found a bit of success in the last um five games is there's been a slight switch in terms of where players are on the pitch. So James Madison was kind of finding himself occupying probably quite similar spaces to, to sun kind of trying to build up attacks. And it was all a little bit confused and sort of Simon Kulesevsky and Madison were drifting around the same area sort of on the edge of
Brighton's Defensive Considerations
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the box. Madison has kind of been dropped back a little bit, probably 20 yards further back in the pitch, kind of playing a sort of a quarterback role, um and kind of distributing from deep. Obviously, he's got a fantastic range of passing and finds himself under less pressure from opposition there, so it's more time to pick a pass. He's played really well there. um The other big shift, and this has probably been the big revelation, has been Dejan Kulesevsky playing attacking midfield
00:14:36
Speaker
Mate, unbelievable. I've been watching him, mate. He's cooking because I never thought he was suitable for that wing. I don't think he was fast enough. I don't think he could beat a man. yeah But his his technical ability is out like outstanding. He's also so young and he's built as well. He must be like easily six foot tall. Yeah, he's he's an absolute union. And this is the thing, and it makes it quite different and quite a unique play in the Premier League these days, because someone very physical with great feet who wants to run at people, but playing in that kind of number eight role, which is all about normally passing and creating. So it's quite interesting. I think opposition defences are funny, quite hard to deal with. And he actually gave a really interesting interview last week and said, like, Oh, like, obviously, people have always played me on the wing, because I've been at Spurs, I've been at UVA with tons of good players and whatever. And I've got quite good feet and stuff, but I've always seen myself as a number eight and I kind of like to play through the middle as attacking midfield. And actually last night was really interesting against Farron Veras in the Europa League because he was brought on, he was played up front, didn't really do much, then he got pulled back into midfield and immediately it was just beast mode and was just dominating, completely dominating centre halves and stuff.
00:15:47
Speaker
and personnel wise, that's been, that's been really interesting spurs, they've been really effective. I'd say the other thing is, um and just switched to a more counter attacking style. So in the Premier League last year, we got nine goals in total from counter attacks, which puts 13th in the Premier League, we've already scored five from counter attacks this season. Yeah, we scored the most counter attacking goals in the league. Now, that's not to say that we're sitting back and hitting people on the counter. But that's talking about turnovers basically and yeah winning the ball in your own half because we are very high pressing. Classic example would be Van de Ven's assist against Manchester United. Unbelievable. Yeah and I mean I know i know he ran 75 yards and nobody challenged him. That's the United issue. Yeah 100% yeah that's not his fault. Yeah exactly they may, I think he probably couldn't believe it. they They
Predictions and Player Match-ups
00:16:40
Speaker
made us look great like as well as we played. But that's been a real difference trying to kind of
00:16:46
Speaker
sit back a little bit more and win that ball a bit deeper and then spring. um yeah we've had We've had loads and loads ah of um of good results with that. 100%, 100%. I'm curious now because um the high line was discussed maybe across, we had a ah rant from Jamie G, I'm shouting you out here mate. We had a rant from Jamie G that lasted but more than one podcast.
00:17:12
Speaker
yeah you You know someone's angry when you've got to take a break. Yeah, so we we we double filmed and he he started at the end segment, which is then spilled through into the segment afterwards.
00:17:26
Speaker
And it is all about High Line. We spoke about it in depth on Tuesday's episode, I want to say. And we said that the High Line for us is all good and well if we have the right players in there.
00:17:44
Speaker
And yeah with Adam Webster, we didn't. um it Since that podcast, Herzler has come out and said, none of the goals we conceded were from the high line. See, this is something that I think is OK. In theory, it's true. But also, if you actually obviously look at what happened in the game,
00:18:05
Speaker
hindsight, you could have conceded like eight, seven, eight from if the chances were put away from the high line. Yeah. um Van Hecke isn't fit, and he's not going to be fit until for a while. So the the thing is, are we going to, one, are we going to deploy the high line again? Are we going to, we were saying just drop it 10.
00:18:27
Speaker
maximum 15, just to be a bit safer to yeah like sort of um accommodate for the plays that we are going to play. But is Adam Webster going to play? Is it going to be Igor? I'm hearing a lot about ah but um potentially Wiffer or Belieber even playing in there, which would make more sense if you wanted to play the line higher because Belieber definitely has a lot of um a lot of pace.
00:18:50
Speaker
um But yeah, the the style that we're sort of improving that we're sort of implementing under Herzler is we like to um set a lot of um pressing traps out wide. And that is all good and well if the play is predominantly coming down those wings. But against Chelsea, they were just sort of getting the ball into midfield and then the ball straight over, ignore the pressing completely.
00:19:15
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and they were in and nick we said about Nicholas Jackson before the game even happened we said Nicholas Jackson has an amazing movement and they have players that can find him so I feel like you could struggle a lot if if they they do just start whipping the ball over. And then Cole Palmer said after the game, he was like, our tactic was literally to just put the ball in behind and and see what happens. yeah yeah We do like the high line. We also like to have possession, but we have also said that sometimes possession for possession's sake
00:19:46
Speaker
isn't necessarily the best thing in the world. Yeah. Against Ipswich and against Nottingham Forest, we had a ton of possession, but we ended up drawing both of those games. And we seem to obviously we're not going to be playing against a low block, but we are not very good against a low block.
Key Players' Impact
00:20:00
Speaker
So on the positive side, I feel like there's chances there. um yeah We obviously spoke prior to this and we said it could be a bit of a basketball game. That's what I'd like. I mean, um I mean, I wouldn't because I'm a Tottenham fan and obviously what you like if it's going to be four, three, you want to be on the right side of that. But there's part you think it could potentially be quite fun. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. I think that there's there's going to be chances galore as much as I think that I think you have good defenders, like really good defenders sort of across the part. But ah the way that you play just doesn't like accommodate defensive style. So it's like you don't really you know, it's not harmonious with the way you play and keeping clean sheets. So that's it. like Yeah.
00:20:42
Speaker
Yeah, I think both teams are in a weird place. You can't judge how good the defence is by how many goals it concedes because that metric is never going to look very good against an Arsenal. Yeah. Like we said with old Michael Diesch. They're always going to be top of the of the kind of defensive stats in terms of goals conceded. But I feel like it's weird like listening to you talk then it feels like you're talking about the problems that Spurs fans have had with Ange and kind of his thing has always been like, I know you don't want to see the high line and we are going to concede goals, but this is the way that the players learn the system. And as long as it's getting better, over time, that's all that matters. And there's no other way to do it apart from just keep drilling them and drilling them and accept that it's not always going to go our way, but it will go our way more and more and more.
00:21:31
Speaker
But I think particularly in the days of Twitter and fan rants and all that kind of thing. yeah And did you say Adam Webster as well has deleted his socials? I think, I think, you know, I don't know if he's got it back by now. But what's happened to Brendan Johnson as well, because you get, you get this tiny minority of idiots, but annoyingly, they're the ones who get the retweets in the comments and the algorithm pushes you. Because what the players don't realize is 99.9% of fans are like,
00:21:53
Speaker
but Like I've got no problem with you, mate. Like keep doing your thing. I hope you to be a fool yeah like but you just get these idiots who just that's their whole life. um hundredson Yeah, I don't know. I think like it sounds to me like Hertzler's kind of trying to try to push this system and he's like, well, this is what we stick with no matter what. If that's the case and it's too high lines, then it will just be an insane game on Sunday. But you're right, especially with some injuries like that. I feel like Brighton might say a little bit deeper to be slightly more pragmatic. I think so, yeah. I do think i do think we need to, um because I feel like the chances are going to come anyway. So why would you risk just getting like a seed in five where you could sort of just shore it up a little bit more at the back and then just spring on the counter? I think is just a it's just a it's just a better
00:22:40
Speaker
like sort of philosophy. ah you could Chelsea are of are similar to Spurs, in in the not in the style of play, but just sort of in the fact that I feel like you can get at Chelsea the same way I feel like you can get at Spurs, but also at the same time Spurs can roll you over, so can Chelsea.
00:22:56
Speaker
So this is the pick. Yeah, Tottenham are so susceptible to conceding, but obviously the gamble is you kind of hope to be two, three goals up and it takes the wind at your opposition sales. If that doesn't work, we can see that's when we start to get in trouble. Yeah. It's ah it's very, it's very clock-like, I feel like. It's very like heavy metal, old-school clock. Yeah. it's Bonkers Fun Football,
Brighton's Lineup Changes
00:23:20
Speaker
basically. Yeah. Anyway, speaking about Bonkers Fun Football, we are going to go to our next ad and then when we are back, we're going to be talking about some key players and where the game will be won and lost. So we're going to let you hear from GSPN and pass Joe and we will return.
00:23:39
Speaker
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00:24:09
Speaker
And we are back. You just heard from what sounded like a very depressed ah depressed past Joe during that ad read. I don't know what was happening in that day. Yeah, that's that had been a long day. Yeah, that had been a very long day. I must have just come back from work, to be honest. um So in our final a segment, we're going to be talking about some key players where the game will be won and lost. So, Joe.
00:24:32
Speaker
Do you know what, right? Yeah, I think obviously mentioned it. um Madison has been great in that kind of new role. Kula Sevsky is just absolutely bossing it kind of in that attacking the field role. But Brennan Johnson is in red hot form. Brennan Johnson has scored five goals in five games. Also worth bearing in mind that during that time, he's hit the woodwork twice. So that could have very easily be seven. He's in in absolutely red hot form. um Spurs will look to get the ball to Madison for him to create. Kula Sevsky will drive at the defence.
00:25:02
Speaker
the fullbacks will overlap. like i mean Pedro Poirot is a huge attacking outlet for us. In terms of who's missing, Destiny the Dog is injured um and won't feature. So you'd probably expect Jed Spence to go in there at left back um because that requires Pace and and bless Ben Davis. He's been a great servant to Spurs, but he Pace isn't his thing.
00:25:23
Speaker
No. But for old Ben. um And then Sonny's still injured as well. And we don't think he's going to play on Sunday. Also, Wilson Odeber, new signing from Burnley is injured as well, which means um your favorite of mine, Timo Werner.
00:25:40
Speaker
if if you Yeah, we were talking about this off air. If you want if you want to see someone, basically, if if a goal was getting through on goal, if that counted as a goal, Timo Verner would be the most prolific striker in world history. But sadly, you are you are actually supposed to score as well. um So yeah, Verner will be on the left-hand side. And yeah, I imagine that front three obviously will be made up of ah Dominic Solanke, who's buzzing after his after his England call-up, how do you think Brighton will line up? um I think it will, I definitely think there will be a couple of changes. I reckon it will be, um obviously for Bragan, and then I think the back four will be Cadiogli, because I don't think you can put him in the fur in the team for of his first start and then drop him, like instantly, because I actually didn't watch the challenge again, I've only seen the highlights, but I think that he was, ah
00:26:37
Speaker
he was lacking a little bit in terms of his
Final Thoughts and Listener Engagement
00:26:40
Speaker
performance. um And then I think it would be, I am curious when he sticks with Webster, but I think he might go with ah Igor and Dunk, and then I think he'll potentially put Jack Hincherwood back and left back, which has been a bit of a ah controversial talking point on our pods because we're not sure whether he is good enough.
00:27:02
Speaker
um But in the midfield, this is where I think so we're going to have Belieber and Wiffer and Belieber is going to be responsible solely for stopping Kolozewski. Right. And then also doing the exact same thing on the other end, because he is actually considering how young he is, he has the potential to get us another cheeky hundred of fifteen million.
00:27:24
Speaker
And I would enjoy that very much. So well, this is the thing, actually, because we um we did a special pod this week at Daily Tottenham about the potential of kind of Amanda Staveley investing in in spurs and all that sort of thing. And there's loads of moral questions around that and that sort of thing. But we kind of said, like look, if there is investment, where do you want it to go? And we were just saying, you want to be Brighton, you just pump that kind of money into a scouting network.
00:27:47
Speaker
And so you're finding the best players, selling them on at much like massively inflated rates from what you bought them to. that yeah That's the sustainable model, hundred percent I think, but not but that's sadly not what most football fans don't want to do. I think that's where Spurs fans are feeling hopeful about this weekend, though, that that Brighton injury list is looking pretty long. Yeah, no, it's not it's not great. I mean, Matt O'Reilly's out, Van Hecke's out, Joao Pedro's out.
00:28:10
Speaker
Sonny March might be coming back though, which is which is good because he's been injured for ages. So Sonny March might be making some sort of appearance. I doubt it so highly, but he might be. this Let's just be positive and maybe he could appear in the last 15 minutes or something like that.
00:28:26
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ah But I think Minthe will come in um in the attack just to sort of exploit the gaps left in behind because he's absolutely rapid. um He's actually been playing really badly recently. um But I think it would be well back, Ruta, Minthe and Metoma as the front four. Which is so, it sounds so good on paper. Yeah. But like, um yeah, i think I think that that's probably how we're lined up. I ah do think that if we can, if they're firing,
00:28:55
Speaker
then there's all the charts that we can win the game. But the defense is where the game will be one loss, because it doesn't matter how if they're firing or not, because if the defense is going to be conceding 10 to 15 chances, that get you we're just going to get punished. So you have you literally one of the one of the best better finishing strikers in the league up front. And like we've just gone from Nicholas Jackson running in behind, of course, that's terror to Dominic Solanke, who runs the channels and does all of that stuff, but he could finish as well.
00:29:24
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so Yeah, it's kind of terrifying. I think Spurs fans look at that front floor as well and look at in particular someone like Matoma who I really like and kind of look at that kind of ability to create and get in behind that really high line and think like yeah that that is potentially where where Spurs can be hurt and as as always with Tottenham You just got to rely on Mickey van der Vens pace um to save the day. And that that is the defensive game plan. So like i but I'd like to say I'm confident. I've got no idea which way I think it's going to go. To be honest, I do think there'll be goals. though I think there'll be goals. A hundred percent. Well, can can I get a score prediction if it's possible?
00:30:00
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It could be high. I have to go for Spurs because that's the point. We're a Tottenham fan podcast. I want to say 3-2 Spurs. I was literally going to go 3-2 Brighton. There we go, see? I do think there's going to be a lot of goals, to be honest. And if there's not, I think that's when there'll be a meltdown.
00:30:24
Speaker
Both the Joes are the same prediction. Yeah, exactly. Especially not with the same person. Apparently there's rumours in the Global Sports Podcast that we look the same as well. You've never seen us in the same room together. Same. It's like Batman and Bruce Wayne. The people that are watching our podcast are thinking, what are they all about? Just like, yeah, we can see you, lads. Yeah, we can see you. We know what you're doing.
00:30:50
Speaker
It has been an absolute pleasure having you on, mate. Loved it. Thank you. No problem at all. So um all of our social media, we want to know everything about what you have to say. So all of where you think the game will be won and lost, we want to see that in all of our social media comments and on the Spotify comments um because I verify every single comment. So it doesn't matter if it's hate, I will verify it anyway so people can see it.
00:31:13
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um I will have all of Tottenham social media and where you can find them in the show notes when this goes live. And thank you for listening. of It's always a pleasure doing these pods. So Joe, thank you very much for your time. Thanks, mate. And we will see you next week. ah Yes, next week.
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