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Juve Fall to Lyon, Napoli-Barcelona Draw, Juventus-Inter Preview (Ep. 44)

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Introduction & Impact of Coronavirus

00:00:01
Speaker
Welcome to the Seria show!
00:00:16
Speaker
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of The Sidious Show. I hope you are all doing very well. As always, I am joined by Nima and Chloe. Not much to talk about this last match day because really the only winner was the coronavirus. So, let's talk Europe because that seems to be the more popular talking point. I mean, from the last match day,
00:00:40
Speaker
Roma won, I guess that was really the only notable result with several of the matches in the league being cancelled due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. I mean obviously we feel sorry for anybody involved but you know but it was kind of an anti-climax having the rest of the matches cancelled. Fiorentina Milan was a kind of an interesting game, wasn't it? Like in terms of how that ended and the penalty and the controversy that followed there.
00:01:08
Speaker
I think I rather would have had the coronavirus and had to have been subjected to that match again. I thought that was...

Match Highlights & Controversies

00:01:15
Speaker
As far as aesthetics go, that was not exactly the best. No. It was really, yeah. And the one beautiful thing was correctly called off to handball when Ibrahimovic did that, which was absolutely gorgeous. But that goal was disallowed for handball.
00:01:30
Speaker
You know, we can't have too many complaints because that's the rules and the referees are supposed to apply the rules as they are. I think it's an idiotic rule because I don't think that's handball at all. But, you know, it is what it is. But the game wasn't pretty at all. And I was expecting a little bit more, especially from Fiorentina, to be honest.
00:01:51
Speaker
Yeah, they were good when they beat Milan 4-1 earlier in the season. That's on 0, so I thought it was going to be better. But I mean, Milan have improved since then to be fair, so probably a bit more of a difficult game. But Lazio's away game against Genoa was just crazy. That was such an entertaining game to watch. And it was nail-biting until the very end. And Ciro Immobule continues to score, and Lazio continued to win.
00:02:16
Speaker
albeit Genoa aren't exactly the best team in the world, but they look much, much better. And if they play like that, I don't think they'll be relegated.

Handling Cancellations: Closed Doors vs. Cancellations

00:02:24
Speaker
No, I think, I think bringing in Davide Nicola was a smart move. I mean, we all saw what he did with Crotoni a couple of years ago. And I think Genoa have looked much, much better since he's arrived.
00:02:36
Speaker
It was just really weird and I don't know how they're going to handle the calendar now because it just seems so weird to only cancel a handful of them where you have like we just saw today the Swiss League. They canceled all of the matches until I believe the middle of March.
00:02:52
Speaker
So I don't know how they're going to handle the calendar. I absolutely hate when you have a handful of clubs who have a match in hand. It just completely throws off the table and the perspective that you have in regards to the table. For sure. I don't understand why they just don't go forward with let's play the games behind closed doors, because that's what they're afraid of. I mean, instead of just canceling everything,
00:03:17
Speaker
Just say we have to play behind closed doors because we want to contain the spread of this virus.
00:03:23
Speaker
You know, I mean, I can understand why they don't want 80,000 or 50,000 or 20,000 people congregating when you have an issue this big. I completely understand that. I just think it's a little bit of an overreaction to just cancel everything. Yeah, I completely agree,

Juventus Under Sarri: Critique & Future

00:03:38
Speaker
Nima. All right. Now let's jump into Leon Juve. I mean, I complained about Fiorentina Milan aesthetics. Oh my God. Maurizio Sarri. Pal, it's essentially March now.
00:03:52
Speaker
but for your team to look like this and have i i mean if you compare i mean he it even took a while for his chelsea to understand the way he wants to play and post-match he goes out sky sport he's talking with fabio capello and capello
00:04:08
Speaker
essentially says, you know, your build-up play was incredibly slow. I was watching Real Madrid, Manchester City, and it felt like that match is being played at twice as speed as yours. How can you explain that? And Saturday essentially says, yeah, you're right. I don't know what it is. My guys can't understand that we have to move the ball fast.
00:04:30
Speaker
But pal, it's March. I mean, what do you mean they don't know how to play the ball fast by now? Well, I think, I agree with that assessment, but I think that in this particular case, I think he is to blame. I think he got it all wrong. And it seems like he doesn't seem to know how and when.
00:04:48
Speaker
to play which players in his midfield against what opposition. I'm a firm, firm advocate that when you play teams that park the bus, if you're Juventus and you're playing teams that park the bus and defend deep and shrink spaces, you cannot have Miralem Pjanic to play as Giorgista. It just doesn't work. He's too slow and he fiddles with the ball a little bit too much.
00:05:10
Speaker
But when you have Rodrigo Bentancourt, which they did in the second half, when you have Rodrigo Bentancourt and you have Aaron Ramsey and you have someone like Adrian Rabio, then you should play the 4-3-1-2 with Higuain and Ronaldo, with Dibala behind, not the 4-3-3, because Dibala cannot play in that system. He looks, I mean, we know that he's been in good form because we've seen how he's played so far this season. He does not know how to play in that system. He disappears. He looks, you know, he looks
00:05:37
Speaker
he looks like he's been like the past two years when we were thinking that maybe he's passed it or whatever. He just does not fit that system. So when they play the 4-3-1-2 and they have against teams that defend this deep and they have someone like Ben Fancourt who's quicker on the ball, who has a much more aggressive demeanor in how he plays, who moves the ball faster,
00:05:56
Speaker
then they can use the pace of their fullbacks and wingers, or in this case, if you play Quadrado as a wingback in Aleksandro, they can get them to the ball quicker, who can cross the ball into space for players to attack. When they play against teams that attack them and also leave space, then I think you should play Mira Lempjanic, because that gives him more time on the ball,
00:06:21
Speaker
fiddling with the ball doesn't hurt Ube as much and he's got the craft and vision to play into space. So I think this was a mistake by Sarri because he knew what he was going into and because this is how teams prepare and play against them every single week in the Serie A. So I think
00:06:38
Speaker
This is more an indictment of him in this particular case than you as a whole.

Napoli vs. Barcelona: Tactics & Gattuso's Future

00:06:43
Speaker
Chloe, what do you make of that? Part of me thinks, yeah, Nima, to an extent, I agree from an individual standpoint. I think there's some tinkering that needs to be done. There are obviously players who don't fit this system at all, but they're not even remotely close to the football of Saturday that we saw at Empoli, Napoli, Chelsea. For me, this almost feels like it goes beyond individuals.
00:07:08
Speaker
Yeah, I have to agree with you, John. I think that if you're looking at it closely, then Nima is correct in his assessment of the match in particular. But I think, sort of zooming out a little bit, that it's, I think that for eight years, these players have been playing a particular kind of football.
00:07:33
Speaker
And it's always been, especially in recent times with Allegri, it's been a slow, controlled build-up. And last season of the Champions League, we saw Uwe play and they looked like a team from the 1940s because the modern way of Liverpool and even Atalanta you can point to with the
00:07:57
Speaker
the pressing and the pace and the positive forward movement, that's the modern way now. I think that Sarri is trying to get his team in that way. We know he must be because that's how he played at Napoli and that's how he played at Empoli.
00:08:15
Speaker
And he said that the players did play like that. They did play with speed in training, which is quite interesting to me. And I think that when it came down to it, when it came down to the match, bear in mind that everyone says about UVA, oh, they'll come good in February, March. They're going to come good. When the Champions League knockouts come, they're going to be great. And then it came to the Champions League knockouts, and it's almost like the players
00:08:40
Speaker
were caught in two minds like um sari wants us to play this adventurous football but we feel safe for doing it the old way and they were sort of it seemed to me like they were trapped between two ideologies and that and that's why they kind of froze and why they look so awful um it it just that's a great point that's a great assessment
00:09:04
Speaker
you know when you've been playing that way for eight years and it's worked and you're always sort of even if it's subconsciously you're always going to want to fall back on that because it's what served you so well for all this time and this new approach is scary and maybe that's Sari's frustration that they can do it in training with no pressure
00:09:22
Speaker
But when it comes down to it and everybody's eyes are on them and you've got to win the Champions League because that's that's their stated aim that they kind of freeze up. And I don't know if that's my kind of theory of what happened versus Leon.
00:09:37
Speaker
Well, and here's the thing, too. I mean, we've had—even when Saturday was initially appointed, these are the similar—or these were the questions we were asking if they could adopt his way of playing. And you have to wonder if they could go back and do this all over again, if they would actually appoint him, because it—
00:09:57
Speaker
For the life of me, I just can't understand. You have a Ronaldo who you paid a lot of money for, you're obviously paying huge wages to, in the twilight of his career. It's very clear you have a very limited window of time here. Two, three, we could debate on the actual time frame, but I wouldn't say it's beyond three years. It just seems so bizarre that you would appoint Sadri
00:10:21
Speaker
knowing full well, it's almost like you're throwing away, not throwing away, but you're going to need a huge, huge time period to adapt to his way of playing. Listen, it's only one to zero. They're going back to Tore, you know, I would think that they could overcome this result fairly easily. In fact, I would probably give Leon only
00:10:44
Speaker
Maybe a 20% chance of actually progressing past Juve. But still, part of me just feels like this just is not working whatsoever. And it's almost as if they're better off just cutting ties. Nah, come on. Nah, I disagree. I think a lot of it hangs on what happens on this Sunday night against Unter at the Allianz Stadium.
00:11:09
Speaker
I mean, if they were to, because I think this was actually maybe the best thing that could have happened to them in the long run. This kind of performance where they didn't even get a shot on goal and they prefer this kind of wake up call, which kind of
00:11:24
Speaker
which kind of works as a kick in the backside of everyone because I think that now they're going to go into that game against Inter to make a point. And then they're going to continue making a point because everyone is angry. No one was happy. Cristiano Ronaldo was furious. Sarri was absolutely fuming. I mean, he said one of the funniest things I've ever heard, which I've never heard the event to say.

Europa League Prospects: Roma & Inter

00:11:43
Speaker
Juventus coach say which if you want to you can interpret it kind of thing when you want to after the game when he says that if this were the you know if this was the Serie A in Italy we would have had two penalties but in Europe they have a different yardstick and we have to adapt to it I mean that's that's kind of you know that's such a sadly thing to say but you can through that
00:12:05
Speaker
either way you want to. But he was furious. And I think that's a good thing for you. But I think you would need to be fuming to kind of get this wake up call. And I actually think that Inter are the ones that are going to pay for this at the Allianz Stadium, because a pissed off Juventus with a point to prove concentrated to the max. I don't think it matters if they play this game. Now, before the Lyon game, I would have said it was advantage Inter to play this game.
00:12:33
Speaker
behind closed doors, but now I don't think it matters if they play it in front of elephants, cows, people, empty. They're going to come out there and they're going to completely try to prove a point because they're angry. And that can't be good for anything. It's never good to play UVA the game after they've lost, never. They very rarely lose two in a row, do they? But I think if you think right back to when Max Allegri was fired in the summer,
00:12:59
Speaker
with four out of five possible Copper Italia wins and five out of five would league wins. There were only two possible reasons for getting rid of him. The first is that he couldn't get them over through that glass ceiling to win the Champions League and the second is that his football was boring as hell especially at the end. So
00:13:23
Speaker
It depends here for me whether if you're going to make that radical shift after all this time, because let's face it, Conte is not that dissimilar to Allegri in his approach. If you're going to make that shift, then there's going to be a period of pain and
00:13:42
Speaker
You know, nobody else has ever won eight titles in a row. They've got to either be brave enough to ride out the storm and see what happens afterwards. Is Sari really good enough?
00:13:56
Speaker
They've got to sack him and then, where do they go then? After they've made the move, the hardest thing was to make the move, to fire Allegri and bring in Sarri. Where do they go from there? I mean, even Guardiola didn't win his first league title at his first year in charge at Manchester City. And it's not as important for them because there's not the expectations that there is with Juve. But, you know, are they, my question is, are they brave enough to see this out and to give Sarri enough time to
00:14:26
Speaker
to give it a good go? I think they are. I think they are. I think Juve, this is Juve, they don't sack coaches. They look down on sacking coaches through, you know, they don't, that's not how they operate. And I think it would take something really, you know, like a seven nil loss to enter this weekend, like something like really out of the ordinary for them to sack Saudi, I think.
00:14:46
Speaker
Yeah, I wouldn't expect it, but part of me again wonders if, had they known there would have been this long of a period of adaptation, if they would look back on it and perhaps regret it a bit. But who knows? Anyway, Napoli in Barcelona. What did you two make of that one? Because that...
00:15:04
Speaker
Part of me thinks that Napoli may feel a bit hard done But then the other part of me thinks of it actually isn't a bad result I mean Barcelona it felt like out of the 90 minutes had the ball for 89 of them I mean the thing about that is I think you're absolutely right when you look at it But when you look at the game itself, I feel that it was a missed opportunity for Napoli
00:15:27
Speaker
a game where Barcelona were really, really poor. You know, Napoli's tactics were working, they were frustrating them, but they weren't able to capitalize on that chance, which I think is going to hurt them in the end, because especially at home, because at the San Paolo Stadium, they can beat, and they have beaten, everyone. And I think it's such a shame, because
00:15:53
Speaker
it really feels like a missed opportunity where they could have gotten the second goal or the advantage of 2-0 or 2-1 to go into the Camp Nou because it's going to be a completely different ballgame at the Camp Nou. That's a cauldron and Barcelona can demolish and have demolished most teams there. So my sensation is sure it's a good result but it still feels like a missed opportunity given how the game looked.
00:16:17
Speaker
I think I agree it was a missed opportunity but I mean tracking back to how poor Napoli were I mean I know that they did okay under Ancelotti in the Champions League and beat Liverpool etc but I mean considering their horrific season I read through some of the
00:16:35
Speaker
post-match comments from some of the Barca players and they were so annoyed, they were so annoyed that Napoli had basically put 11 men behind the ball and frustrated the hell out of them. Rakitic said so and so did Busquets and I think, I'm sorry but I think to be able to frustrate Barcelona and make their players annoyed like that is a victory in anybody's book and you know, Gattuzo
00:17:02
Speaker
is again proving that he's not just all about his grit and his determination and his ability to motivate. I think he is getting better and he's learning, you know, he's learning the skills and he's learning how to frustrate a team that have destroyed many, many other teams away from home in the Champions League. Now, in your mind, Chloe, has he done enough to warrant being handed the job beyond this season?
00:17:29
Speaker
I am certainly in the medium term. I think he's good for a rebuild job at any time. And maybe a little bit beyond that, perhaps if they want to be challenging for the title again, they need to bring in somebody else. But yeah, certainly for giving, he deserves to go next season for the work he's done.
00:17:52
Speaker
But I just got to say as a side note, there is nothing that I love more than listening to Barcelona and their players whinge after they've someone who's been frustrating them as if as if it's not fair. They play defensive football. Boo. It's like I absolutely love it. It's music to my ears. I just love to listen to them.
00:18:12
Speaker
cry like little babies went over this and they do it and they've done it for the past 30 40 years ever since it's as if playing defensively against them and to your own team strengths and to their to their weaknesses is like cheating and it's so hilarious to listen though it brings that it brings up the three-year-old in me you know I mean like it's like yeah you definitely can't be whining like that it's
00:18:36
Speaker
It's absurd. Europa League, we had Roma and Inter progress in the competition. Can either of them win this thing? I read this the other day. Since it became the Europa League, not a single Italian club has played in the final, which at first I didn't believe, but then I looked back and I go, oh, wow, that actually is...
00:19:00
Speaker
That actually is like, we'll remember earlier in the decade how many clubs would just punt it. I mean, and that's more or less why Italy lost so many points in that coefficient because as everybody remembers, Italy had earlier in the decade, you would guaranteed four places and then it went to three.
00:19:24
Speaker
Yeah, it's hard to believe that not a single Italian club has been to the final. Can either Inter or Roma do something in this competition? Yeah, we all know that Roma doesn't favor the Europa League, does he? I mean, he's obsessed with winning the league, so he's obviously going to play, he's reserve players. But the thing is that, you know, Inter's reserve players now are Christian Erikson and Alexei Sanchez. That's a pretty good reserve team to have.

Monchi's Legacy at Roma

00:19:49
Speaker
In my opinion, I think both Inter and Roma got the two teams that they absolutely shouldn't have gotten. I think Sevilla play like Roma, but better. Oh, come on. They barely progressed. I think Sevilla, Roma are going to struggle against Sevilla. And I think Inter are going to struggle like hell against Hetafe. Hetafe are a poor man's athletic Madrid.
00:20:15
Speaker
And that is going to be a one on away goes the clues were also part time football. Oh, come on. I think they have that pedigree and they're very bleak, don't they?
00:20:27
Speaker
It just kind of genes them on a little bit. Hold on, I have to make a note here. So if Roma don't progress past Sevilla, I'm going to put a moratorium on anybody and anybody who finds an article that's written like this, please send it to me. I urge you. If anybody writes something to the effect of, oh, look, Roma were knocked out by Sevilla, they were wrong. I'll let Monchi go.
00:20:52
Speaker
If anybody, I'm warning you now, if I don't care whether you're Italian, Spanish, Finnish, somebody link me to any journalist who writes this, and I will be happy to have a go at them. I'm going to be enjoying this. I'm going. Oh my God. If that happens... But you can already tell that they'd be desperate to make that link. You can already just feel it, can't you? I could come up with a list of war crimes that Monty made while at Roma.
00:21:22
Speaker
as to why he should have been sacked a year previously. I'm so tired of these simplistic hot takes that people make. I mean, Munchi was wrong for Roma. Does it mean that Munchi is utterly crap in everything he's done? Of course not. It's as if nuance and the ability to keep more than one thought in one's head is outlawed and punishable by death or torture. Like, no, stop it. Munchi's a great
00:21:51
Speaker
great director. He was just wrong at Roma. Both of those things are true. And these hot takes to try to sound intelligent by saying stupid shit like that, which is going to happen. We all know it's going to happen. In fact, because I know, because I find it as a, I have this perverted, I have this perverted urge of watching you get angry online. So I might actually write it myself under a pseudonym just to, just to piss you off. Cause I think it's fun when you're angry. And when you go off on it on Twitter, I do. And you know, I do.
00:22:21
Speaker
But no, I honestly think that it would be such a stupid link to make. I honestly do. It's ridiculous. I mean, Munchy has his history and his career and we saw what happened at Roma. Why can't we just say that it was a bad fit and move on? Yeah. Yes. Yes. And we don't do that.
00:22:39
Speaker
But in fairness, I think, I think what Monchi did at Aroma goes beyond sensibility because I can understand why there is so much vitriol and disdain for him if you are Aroma supporter because he did. I mean, again, in most countries, these would qualify as war crimes. I mean, you're just angry that he missed that he was spelled your name wrong.
00:23:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah, so backstory, for two seasons when he and I would speak, he spelled my name J-H-O-N, which I had never seen before. The only time I had seen that was in Narcos on Netflix in the first season. This is so funny. That bodyguard, what was his name? Limon? The bodyguard for Pablo Escobar. I think his real name was John, and he spelled it J-H-O-N.
00:23:36
Speaker
For for like the first six well for the first six months I was like is this guy is this guy an imbecile like my name is written It's at the top of whatsapp like it's not hard He has me saved in his phone because anytime I would call him or he would call me he would John I don't get it, but he constantly spelt it wrong. This will never be reached out to him This will never stop being funny
00:23:59
Speaker
Well, just about every Roma journalist reached out to him, myself included, and he doesn't want to give interviews, and rightly so. In fairness, he's going to get pillaged by Roma supporters in the press for the next couple of weeks before they meet. He is such a nice guy that there's a certain nickname that Roma supporters call him that I have yet to physically type out on my phone as much as I've been tempted to from a supporter standpoint, Mongo. Very harsh. Very, very harsh.
00:24:29
Speaker
And there's actually, well hold on, and I have to state this, there is some lady in Arizona of the United States who has a pet turtle named Mongo and she tweets out videos of this turtle named Mongo and people have replaced
00:24:49
Speaker
Monchi's face with this turtle's face and I have to admit some of it some of it is extremely funny albeit juvenile It is funny, but anyway, I do feel bad because he's going to get pillaged he's he's a lovely guy very very very sensitive Extremely sensitive so part of me actually feels bad with sensitive
00:25:14
Speaker
That's what I was gonna say of all the places to go. It's like Naples and Rome, stay away. Yeah, I mean, very, very, very sensitive.

Juventus vs Inter: Fanless Impact & Predictions

00:25:27
Speaker
I don't know if I've told this story, but he actually searches his name on Twitter if you don't tag him. Oh, you mean like Moji does? You mean like Moji does? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Moji, he searches his name on Twitter.
00:25:40
Speaker
Because I made a very small level criticism and he responded back like, oh, you think I'm an idiot now? I'm like, well, relax, pal. Like, don't search your name. That's like the worst thing you could ever do. Who does that? Who does that? A glutton for punishment. It's like, why? Yeah, exactly. You do not read the comment sections and you don't search your names. Like, nothing good can ever come from that. Like,
00:26:07
Speaker
self-preservation. We've gotten off the tracks here and that's my fault. So this weekend behind closed doors, thank you Coronavirus, we have Juve and Inter. So again, it's really weird not playing a match in front of fans because when you're watching it on the television, it's so bizarre to hear the managers yelling, the players yelling, the goalkeeper shouting instructions. So Nima, how do you feel about this one? I have to quote Capello here because he's like,
00:26:35
Speaker
I urge everyone to cut out the mics near Antonio Conte. Just imagine him shouting like a rabid insane dog for 90 minutes, cussing everyone and their mothers out live on TV like that. Like, you know, it's going to be horrible. And, you know, he's going to come off, you know, we know how he acts, but we can't hear him.
00:27:01
Speaker
So now we can hear him. Even if you don't think yourself lucky, it's no longer Spalletti, because then you really want to be in for something special. Yeah, but Spalletti, Spalletti, he's weird in a different way. Yeah, he's less vocal, isn't he? Yeah, his expressions are an absolute delight.
00:27:23
Speaker
But with Conte, he just looks like a rabid wild dog, like he's going to rip your arms off if you can get it. And he's pointing at seven different directions and no one understands what he's saying. I think that is going to be
00:27:41
Speaker
that's one aspect of it but the other is that you know this is going to be such an eerie experience. I mean it's Juve Inter for crying out loud. This is Konta's first game back at the Allianz Stadium and it's going to be dead quiet. You're not going to hear anything. It's going to be like so it's going to be
00:28:00
Speaker
That is so weird. I don't know. This is gonna be one for the ages. It's gonna be weird. Chloe, does the lack of supporters in the stadium favor one side versus another in your opinion?
00:28:12
Speaker
I could be really mean here and say UVA always sounds like there are no fans in a stadium but no. I actually had a UVA fan say that to me, saying there won't be much difference because it's been dead at the Allianzal season. I think it will be strange for both sides. Football without fans is not normal, is it? It's odd whichever way you look at it and
00:28:42
Speaker
It's a shame, but if that's what they think needs to happen to keep people virus free, then yeah. I think it absolutely, as I said before, I think it spoke to Inter's favour up until that game against Lyon, because now you were going to come out there with all cylinders firing, and I hope Inter
00:29:04
Speaker
approach this game with the maximum concentration because otherwise they're going to be ripped apart because Juventus are furious and it's not fun to play a Juve that's this angry. The only saving grace here is maybe if they can't contain that anger and transform it into what they usually do and that's a performance. If it turns into just rage and anger and
00:29:28
Speaker
and they kind of lose their marbles a little bit, then- Well, Conte could take advantage of that. Exactly, exactly. And that's- Because he knows how to play with aggression and he knows how to fire his pit. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. No, so I'm actually thinking-
00:29:45
Speaker
For me, the Yuva are going to win this. I thought Inter could win this before that game against Lyon. But after that, the Yuva that I expect to see on Sunday is going to be a Yuva that comes out flying out of the blocks. And that's never a good thing. That's never a good thing.
00:30:02
Speaker
Yeah, it's definitely going to be an odd one. And yeah, we'll have to see how it plays out and how the lack of supporters in the stands influences everything. But I want to ask you, but I just want to ask you, what do you what do you think about the Europa Lee? Just quickly, going back to that. Do you think intern you will intern Roma will go through or do you think?
00:30:20
Speaker
Just Roma, or what's your... No, I think they both go through. I think they both go through, yeah. I think they both do it. Because I think we're going to get to a point here with Roma where maybe Fonseca realizes that maybe that is the better path as opposed to fighting for fourth. I wonder if he'll get to that point where he just sees the Europa League as a more advantageous route to the Champions League. I just think they're going to be so motivated that

Conclusion: Upcoming Matches & Ongoing Disruptions

00:30:48
Speaker
that will certainly play a big part. Now, whether it affects them negatively or positively remains to be seen. But yeah, I do think they both go through. I do think they both go through, which would be great for Italy. For sure, for sure. All right, we'll be back next Wednesday, where hopefully the coronavirus is at least toned down a little bit. Again, I absolutely despise when they do this with the calendar, where they
00:31:12
Speaker
Postpones some matches and not the other because now the table looks different from a certain perspective versus another and I absolutely despise it So we will be back next Wednesday to discuss all of the matches and all of the action that happens at the weekend So as always everybody, thank you for listening and we will talk to you later. Bye. Bye