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Episode 17 | London Derby Aftermath
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Can Liam Rosenior turn Chelsea’s tactical promise into points, and is Michael Carrick the permanent answer at Old Trafford? This week, we’re shifting our focus to the blue half of London and the red side of Manchester following a dramatic weekend of Premier League action. We break down Chelsea’s narrow 2-1 defeat at the Emirates, exploring how Rosenior’s bold 4-3-3 setup and Cole Palmer’s central movement nearly stifled the league leaders before set-piece frailties and a costly Pedro Neto red card derailed the comeback. We then head to Old Trafford to analyze Manchester United’s gritty 2-1 turnaround against Crystal Palace, where Carrick’s "unbeatables" extended their streak to 10 games. We discuss the impact of Benjamin Sesko’s red-hot scoring form, Bruno Fernandes’ veteran leadership under pressure, and whether the controversial VAR decision against Maxence Lacroix was the slice of luck United needed to climb into the top three. Whether you're debating if Chelsea’s "process" is finally clicking or wondering if Carrick has already done enough to secure the job full-time, we’ve got the deep-dive analysis you need. Subscribe now, rate us five stars on Spotify to support the show, and follow us on socials to join the debate!
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Introduction of Hosts
00:00:36
Speaker
Yo, don't cry, don't beg. Welcome to another episode of the Don't Blame the Ref podcast. You got me in the red corner, actually in Old Trafford today, right now, collecting my three points.
00:00:48
Speaker
You got me, Dom. And then in my Queen background, you got me, Iran, unfortunately representing Chelsea. He got kicked out of the Emirates today. Oh, man, fam.
00:01:04
Speaker
oh fab Yeah, it's it' a mad one. It's a mad one still. Yeah, so obviously there's only one place to start right now. Obviously, as you can see my energy is a bit up. Three points, finally got that first place spot. But we have to start the big big game of the weekend, Super Sunday, the London Derby, the two biggest clubs in London.
Chelsea vs Arsenal: Performance Analysis
00:01:27
Speaker
a different red corner versus the blue corner. So, E-Man, talk me through it, man. What happened? What happened, bro?
00:01:39
Speaker
Anyway, it's...
00:01:44
Speaker
You know what? Like, the logical person in me knew this is what's going happen. And... yeah
00:01:55
Speaker
But it still doesn't make it any better. Like, just because I knew it was going happen, it doesn't mean I'm going to be calm and composed when it does happen. And...
00:02:06
Speaker
yeah To be fair, the performance wasn't too bad. Um, the lineup was okay. I was worried about the young left back called Hato and, um,
00:02:19
Speaker
I just don't think, I think he's he's just quite error ever prone. um And apart from that, I was wondering what version of Palmer were going to get today and what version of Kaiseda we're going to get today.
00:02:37
Speaker
So it is, It is what it is. I wanted to see if we could play with bravery. I wanted to see if we could show some guts.
00:02:51
Speaker
um And to be honest, I got that for about 20 minutes, if that. Maybe 10 minutes. The rest of it, pretty lacklustre. Lacking intensity, lacking quality.
00:03:04
Speaker
um And that's not just from Chelsea, that's from Arsenal as well. From a neutral's point of view, that's a hope it's a horrible watch. Absolutely horrible watch. But um
00:03:17
Speaker
focusing just on Chelsea, it's yeah it was just this it was just a little bit disappointing.
Exploiting Weaknesses: Tactical Insights
00:03:24
Speaker
Very disappointing.
00:03:28
Speaker
Yeah, so i I think, like you mentioned, the first 20 minutes, I think you guys, but kind of it it was kind of more of a fiercely contested battle, I'd say. It felt like a big game at the start.
00:03:43
Speaker
But as Arsenal kind of grew into it a bit more, you guys whimpered a bit. And there wasn't really a lot of quality in this game. Like you said, palm the quality was going to have to come from Palmer on your end. Mm-hmm.
00:03:58
Speaker
reach James, maybe a good delivery here and there.
00:04:03
Speaker
Joe Pedro has been in good form, so maybe might have been able to do something, but apart from that, nothing really. so So, look, let's let's let's give each team a summary, yeah?
00:04:16
Speaker
If, you know, Chelsea's weaknesses are defending set pieces, yeah? So, Arsenal are obviously going to you know, try and utilise that. In open play, our weakness will probably be down our left back side and um if you can get in and around Caicedo in the midfield too you can probably have some joy dribbling through those two um if you've got players in Centroiers that can do that um our front line press is not good um so if you have one of the centre backs or full backs driving through them through our first line of press you'll be pretty successful and you'll create overloads on the pitch so that those are Chelsea's weaknesses from From an Arsenal point of view, their weaknesses or what I would have targeted was, um you know, focusing a lot of my attention on transition and trying to catch Arsenal in transition because they like to invert their full backs, overlap their full backs. So the space are out wide. um um
00:05:12
Speaker
The problem is they've got one of the best wide defending centre backs in world. like in the league, in the world probably. And they and they they they defend those transitions really well. um The problem is we just didn't get enough opportunity to have our wide players, whether it was, you know, Palmer or Neto or whoever was making that running behind. Jaal Pedro did it quite a few ah times on the on the on the right or left wing running those channels. But we just didn't get those opportunities enough because every time we regain the ball, just a...
00:05:44
Speaker
Horrible pass. Horrible pass. There's one Enzo gets it. Breakdown. I think
Chelsea's Tactical Struggles & Goalkeeper Issues
00:05:51
Speaker
we we do one or two passes. Enzo free as a bird. Zero pressure, Dom.
00:05:55
Speaker
Zero pressure. Neto running in behind Henk Appiah. So much space for Enzo to aim at. Somehow it goes wide right and comes off the pitch.
00:06:07
Speaker
That's just not... I'm sorry, that's just not good enough for this for this level... For this level and for this... um And, you know, I'll accept mistakes. I'll accept mistakes. But from when um for men most of the game you guys are avoiding passing forward, i just and then when you do pass forward, you're showing that quality...
00:06:28
Speaker
you might as well just keep passing forward so that you can get it right eventually. Like, what are we doing? What are we doing? And this thing where we like to overplay in our back three, back four, whatever, with the goalkeeper, Sanchez can't do it.
00:06:42
Speaker
Sanchez can't do it. Why are bothering? Why are we bothering? He starts getting nervous. He starts, once he makes one mistake, his head's gone. So why are we bothering? And just to be clear, just to be clear,
00:06:58
Speaker
Sanchez gets gets really bad stick because all the good that he does never gets noticed. And there are some great moments where he holds onto the pool and he plays a great line-breaking pass.
00:07:09
Speaker
The point I'm trying to make is those medium to long passes isn't Sanchez's issue. It's the short passes into midfield and the hesitation on the ball that just puts him in horrible situations. So it's it's moments where, all right, cool, he's got the ball. Ball come back to him. He'll hold on to it. He'll bait the press. That's what he wants to do. He wants to bait the press, let the person come in, and then hopefully gaps open up, yeah?
00:07:34
Speaker
Now, somebody might curve a run and block his first pass in lane to centre-back. And then um ka one of the midfielders, he's looking for one of the midfielders to drop in. But if they don't drop in, hit it long.
00:07:48
Speaker
If they're not dropping in, it means they don't want eat Just kick it long. Whether it's on the pitch or directly to someone, high, long, give it someone to, give give someone a chance to to battle or whatever, whatever, get the boys off the pitch.
00:08:03
Speaker
It's too much. Or other opportunities where he's passing to a player who hasn't even got an open body position to face the play. They've they're literally got their back to play, getting pressed from their back, and he's trying to give it to the centre-backs or full-backs to their feet. Stop it, guys. Stop it.
00:08:21
Speaker
Stop it. Stop it. I know that all too well, bro, with our last goalkeeper. That's O'Nana's specialty. like he would the The thing that O'Nana does, jail it wasn't even hesitancy of nervousness. It's just that he just wanted to be the star of the show. So he would just take extra touches for no reason. And by the time he plays the ball, it's not even like, like you said, the person showing for the ball in a position where they want to advance play. It's just like, I'm going to give it to him. That's a completed pass. By then, it's too late.
00:08:51
Speaker
It's too late. in In that scenario, when you're doing this build-up from the back and inviting pressure in that way, you have to just make a decision very quickly. You see a lot of goalkeepers give the ball away easily because it it's tough. Players move fast. Presses are very well-organised and all that kind of stuff. But what like about our goalkeeper now, he just kicks it long, bro.
Possession vs. Performance: Chelsea's Dilemma
00:09:13
Speaker
It's honestly like...
00:09:15
Speaker
it doesn't even matter we have a target man up front. I'm not going to be the person to give the ball away. I'm not going to do that. So, yeah, that's what it is. Bro, these guys...
00:09:29
Speaker
In general play, we were fine. We were okay. You know, we weren't... ah still see if I still see a few moments where we're a little bit too easy to play through. You know, Saka's ripping up Hato for fun and they're getting, you know,
00:09:45
Speaker
long-range opportunities on the edge of the box, which, you know, any on any if if some of the players get those right, they can fly in the top corner. So we're giving them quite a few half chances in the first half. And so that that side of things is frustrating. But, you know, we're not giving them any clear, clear opportunities. So...
00:10:04
Speaker
It's just really disappointing what we did on the ball. Spending way too much. We've got 60% possession today. spending and And I guarantee you most of that is the centre-backs and midfielders like and goalkeeper.
00:10:16
Speaker
We're spending way too much time with the ball over there. Guys, what at the end of the game, don't these men want to feel like, you know what, I put in work today. We put that goalkeeper under work today. We slapped bare goal shots on target. Don't they want to feel like that?
00:10:33
Speaker
Don't they want to feel like they've done something dot done something and laid a glove on these guys? Nah, I'd go home, especially as a manager, I'd go home and say, nah, that was dead.
00:10:44
Speaker
That was dead. Nine shots, three on target, 60% possession. What was she doing all game? What was she doing all game? and And there was quite a few opportunities where we're getting the ball.
00:10:55
Speaker
you know they're not Neto's not driving at him, you know. um Palmer's not passing forward. Engels are not passing forward. There was only like a few chances in transition where Palmer had the opportunity to actually do something where he was running through the middle, but his final pass always was just the wrong... but the the His final pass was always the wrong decision because he kept giving it to Nettle.
00:11:21
Speaker
Nettle was losing the ball. And this is the thing, the Palmer of old... slaps that. Whether it goes in or not not, I don't care. He he hits the shot.
00:11:34
Speaker
And the maybe, I don't know, maybe the manager of sports psychologist whoever has got to start talking to him about the effects of having shots on target. Like when you get the opportunity, let it off. Let it off because you get that corner momentum. You get that safe shot momentum. Your team starts to believe. You believe, you believe, you believe. And it it it fills everybody with energy and adrenaline. Like people underestimate the the psychological effect of a shot on target, peppering and the opposition with a shot when you have a chance. It puts the opponent it puts the opponent on the back foot and it makes them nervous.
00:12:12
Speaker
But when you... when you Yeah, go on. No, just saying, when you don't have shots, what are Arsenal scared of? They're scared of mine Sure.
00:12:23
Speaker
Yeah, and even um when it comes to long shots as being a weapon in your team's arsenal, it's... like You have to look at the goalkeeper who you're playing against. Ray isn't the best at dealing with long shots. He's not.
00:12:37
Speaker
we ah We've packed him in a couple of times our ourselves. like he's He's not the best. And also as well, you get the opportunity of rebounded goals, like just defensive mishaps, corner you get more corners, you get like you just have them under more pressure rather than just passing ball around, oh, bad cross. Anyway, back to the goal... With all the analysts and money were spending on all these seven, eight, nine coaches on the bench, you think not one of them could have said, you know what? Ryan's got the worst one of the worst saves percentage for shots outside the box. Hey, you man, let it off.
00:13:13
Speaker
Let it off. Surely, surely that's what you're going to say. Surely, somebody, somebody's going to say, you man, just shoot shoot shoot, shoot,
Game Management & Set-Piece Critique
00:13:23
Speaker
shoot, shoot. I don't care where you are. Shoot, shoot, shoot.
00:13:28
Speaker
It's just black just stuff like that. and Anyway, just full like of it feels like a first half wasted because they come in the second half now and you know the energy's changed. the The intentions change. You're passing forward more. We're putting Arsenal on the back foot. We're creating chances. You're whipping balls into the box.
00:13:46
Speaker
None of that in the first half. None of that. and I don't know. Maybe it's by design. But for me, all this game management stuff and trying to take it easy the first half, then go hard in the second half. I don't know if it was intentional or not. But for me, all that is dead.
00:14:03
Speaker
All that is dead. Like, yeah. I want to leave a game with no regrets. No regrets. But as a Chelsea player, I know they're leaving that game with regrets. Whether or not they lost or won, I know they're regretting the performance. I know they are.
00:14:17
Speaker
And I know none of them like that. like You come come in there, three shots on target in 90 minutes. That's dead. And i'm not saying in ah also, in they're top of the league, but I'm going to say it. They're not that good.
00:14:32
Speaker
They're that good. Their man are not that good. to be to be standing off them like this. They're not that good. it's It's that simple. They're good enough. They're like they're defensively solid, whatever, whatever. Set pieces, they're great, whatever.
00:14:45
Speaker
But when we've got the when we've got the ball, we can hurt them. And it's disappointing we didn't try hard enough. And talking talking about set pieces, bro, like we can't even really get into the goals because all the goals were, it's just like, bro...
00:15:00
Speaker
what what is What is this, man? Is this what um the best teams in England can produce? Just corners and the Bulls just bouncing around and hitting off people. like Don't get me wrong, the deliveries are way better than what they were before. But come on, man. This is is actually pathetic. No one wants to stand up and do anything. like None of these... Creative players. What was Eze doing today? What were all these guys doing? Palmer was poor. Sakai, yeah, he beat Hato a couple of times. But, bro, it's just boring. It's dead. But is this is this is what Arsenal big six game looks like. no They set up well defensively and then it's just...
00:15:42
Speaker
crash bang wallop into the goal and then that's how they got their first goal. That's how you got your first goal and then that's how they got their third goal. It's just like, it's perfect in my opinion. Yeah, to be fair, think us old heads, we tried to be like, oh, you know, football was better back in my day. But let's be honest, you know, big games back in the day, same thing. Jose. Yeah, but it wasn't great. Same thing. It wasn't great. You know, it was don't lose first.
00:16:10
Speaker
You know, it was. I think what the main thing about those games back in the day was we had more players of quality back in the day, man. Our teams were littered with quality. So you're getting moments. You're getting big moments. I always remember on your end the hazard goal against Liverpool when he was on the right-hand side. No one in your team is going to do that. No one's going to do that.
00:16:35
Speaker
There's a bag of room for the And the man that would try that, I don't want them trying that. Like, I don't... Neto, like, don't even try that, bro.
00:16:48
Speaker
And you're right, man. so just a lack of real proper intent to go and hurt the opponent. Like proper, just, and maybe the intent is there. Maybe the quality just not there.
00:17:03
Speaker
um So, yeah. And and and perfect example. Oh
00:17:14
Speaker
oh my God.
Individual Player Analysis: Neto's Impact
00:17:24
Speaker
can we keep that maybe i have to bleep that one maybe have to bleep that one i don't know if we can keep that i don't know actually that might be the pod title that might be actually no i might get flagged don't i'll think about it yeah yeah yeah let's let's bleep that one bro please i'll bleep it i don't know what time what time well you have to bleep this one i got a job i have got a job I wasn't thinking. Cool, go, go. I get it.
00:18:00
Speaker
i have hope my goodness. Oh my God. My head is so Especially what's going on right now. Especially what's going on right now. My head is so hot. My head is so hot.
00:18:14
Speaker
Alright, cool. You're crazy. cool crazy Neto. Yeah. This brother. Like, cool.
00:18:27
Speaker
Dead game. Zero out of 12 crosses completed, yeah? Standard for him. Standard. Man could go three games and zero crosses completed. In 2025, how is that possible?
00:18:41
Speaker
In 2025, Chelsea have players that can go zero for 12 crosses. crosses And do it three games on the bounce. Wow. Wow.
00:18:51
Speaker
And the guy will go score hat-trick versus hole and then put his hands behind his ears and go, yeah, are you guys saying now? Versus hole.
00:19:03
Speaker
Yeah, hat-trick, man. Come on, man. He put his fingers in his ears. I can't hear you. That's his level. That's his level, man. Versus hole.
00:19:15
Speaker
The ego doesn't match the talent. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to say. That smells an other winger as well. ah that's that's ah That's gone natural all over as well. Yeah, but he came on east the time he he came he came on and put a a dangerous cross that almost went in.
00:19:32
Speaker
What did Neto do? like And then, perfect example of Neto, yo. Number one, manager, in as soon as I heard it, i was like, yeah, this is this is not good. Putting Palmer on the left side 10 rather than the right side 10 to accommodate Neto to put him on the right, where we know Neto plays absolutely crap on the right.
00:19:54
Speaker
Yeah? Cool. So it that's it that's the manager's mistake. But nobody else, not the players, that's him. Neto's shift needs to be left wing back. That's what he needs to be doing. Left wing back shifts to go and defend Saka.
00:20:07
Speaker
That's the only job my man should have. And then going up on counters, that's it. Doing roadrunner behind, runs in behind. don't even want the ball to feet, I want the balls in behind.
00:20:19
Speaker
That should be his job. So cool, you've put him on the right, yeah? He's got it. I think it's ah it's just a passing to his feet. i don't know who it is. Netsuke Caselo, whoever, Santos, they played it to Nero's feet. He's out on the far right.
00:20:34
Speaker
One touch, two touch. Rhys James starts to break the overlap. Just pass it to him. He's already got the momentum on the player that is defending Neto 1v1, Hincapié. There's nobody tracking um things run.
00:20:51
Speaker
Rhys James will then have the opportunity to cross it first time. Just pass it. Takes another touch, goes inside. Does a Beyblade spin. Bebe's spin to try and pass it to Rhys James. It's too late because you've you've you wasted the opportunity. Does another Bebe's spin to try and pass it into the middle. It's too late because the play the play in the middle that was free is gone.
00:21:14
Speaker
It's he's being marked by an Arsenal player now. And then he he has to pass it back. He almost loses the ball, by the way. Almost loses the ball because he's taken too long on the ball. And then he has to pass it back.
00:21:26
Speaker
It's a black hole. It's a black hole. Neto, my bro, please try to play two to three touches sometimes. Please, please, please, please.
00:21:36
Speaker
Only take more touches when you have more space. less touch Less space, less touches.
00:21:44
Speaker
Well, you know, all he actually wants to do is just get down the line and just kick and run. And even, let's speak about Neto and seeing as well on him, yeah. When did he get his first yellow? Because I missed that. i'm I missed that. Yeah. missed that too. I didn't even see that. Did he actually get a first yellow? did did anyone Does anyone have footage of it?
00:22:06
Speaker
So there is footage. He got the first yellow, but then some people are claiming that e he didn't know that he got the first yellow.
Disciplinary Problems & Team Dynamics
00:22:13
Speaker
Was it like a dissent thing or something? because Yeah, yeah. hes he's He said something and then the ref gave me yellow.
00:22:21
Speaker
I think he knew he was on the yellow because when he got sent off, he wasn't disputing um he with a dispute in that. He was just trying to say it was his first foul. So he wasn't disputed that he wasn't on the yellow. um Oh, he was trying to say, oh, it's my first foul after. Yeah, yeah. Technically, it's his first foul. So he's saying, oh, don't book me.
00:22:40
Speaker
Outwages, outrageous. And, you know, as a coach, yeah, just giving an example of my experience, yeah, There are certain personality traits that are common among certain players and so in certain positions. yeah um i love the players that can play multiple positions because they're usually the most unselfish kind of players. yeah um Now attackers are notoriously selfish and attackers notoriously will make it look like they're working hard and do one defensive action. And if that fails, they will either do a foul
00:23:16
Speaker
or complain at somebody else, or fall on the floor like they are. Yeah? That's attackers in a nutshell for you. And especially in academy, you'll see it. Yeah? Yeah.
00:23:28
Speaker
The guy just didn't want to keep running. He was being lazy. he just didn't he didn He just didn't want to keep running. He was being lazy. Just keep going. with All he had to do was just stick with him. Just keep going. Even and even if Martinelli gets past you, then...
00:23:42
Speaker
He got past you. Just keep going. Martin Lennie has got no moves. Just keep going. He's got no moves. He ain't one-out in you. Like, just keep going. ain't got two steps. He can't dunk me. And just stay goal side. That's it.
00:23:59
Speaker
That's it. yeah and he was being lazy. He was being lazy. He didn't want to keep defending. He just fouled him. and Can we just quickly um talk about the Chelsea disciplinary record? How many is that? Is that 10 red cards this season? Or is it nine?
00:24:17
Speaker
It's nine plus one for the manager, I think. Yeah, so what how how do you get this out of your team? Because at this point, it's getting ridiculous. It's causing you to loot drop points for no reason, though.
00:24:29
Speaker
Because without all that, you probably have maybe, even if you only have like and an extra four points, that's going to make a big difference in this top four race. It's getting really tight in that area, so...
00:24:41
Speaker
You can't really be affording to, oh, I just got a red card. Now he's missing the next game. I mean, you've got enough players to compensate for that, but it's just throwing your team under the bus for no reason. I think ah think it's tough because it's different people every time.
00:24:57
Speaker
If it's the same person, yeah i'll just drop the purs I'll just drop that guy. be like It's just yeah, you can't keep customers' games. But it's literally a different person every single time. Would you say it's a culture thing then? Or is it just bad luck? Is it just bad, like, just dumb tackles everyone's game? No, so some of them are. So look, Jao Pedro's in the Champions League was on the red card, yeah? um There's a couple I could go back to and go, that's a bit harsh, yeah? Mm-hmm.
00:25:26
Speaker
so Some of them are just really dumb. They're just really dumb. Dumb. It's dumb. It's dumbness. So look at the decision making on um the goalkeeper when Bremmer goes through on goal, leaves his leg in and and then he... This is like how long into the game? Five minutes? Ten minutes? um the first The first leg versus Manchester United. um Then look at the other one where it was a similar thing. Santos has a terrible tackle. tellop the The attacker's running across Chaliba. Chaliba should just leave the guy and let him score. It's still early in the game. He clips him.
00:26:04
Speaker
Now we're first half again. We're one man down. is It's dumbness. And mean I think the way...
00:26:13
Speaker
I think it's just conversation. It's just conversation. Like, I can't think of any creative way to try and get that out the team. You just introduce, like, mad fines into a team, like, docking wages or, like, punishments on the pitch. Like, just something. But as much as everybody says that, yeah? So you're not the first to say that.
00:26:33
Speaker
Here's the other side of the coin. If you start in in um introducing those things, you start to make the players more hesitant and you dayto day go less um they go less into their tackles. They'll think twice before going into the tackles. You don't want that at this level.
00:26:51
Speaker
and But the thing is, cool, I get that. And I think that's more... important when it comes to... um Well, for for me, you can start off as aggressive ah aggressive and aggressive as you need to, but if you're on the yellow, you should be careful anyway.
00:27:13
Speaker
The issue is is your players are getting yellows and then they're just... brain fart and then that's it game done game done so you should you should really be more cautious on the yellow but if it's situations like even Caicedo versus um in the reverse fixture early on in the season that's just a terrible tackle You can't legislate for that. You do all the training, all the whatever. like He just went in on a stupid challenge, maybe because he was being overaggressive. So maybe maybe you guys do just need like a everyone calm down. now Let's get through a game with 11 players and try to win the game on a different note. cause that's two how How can you play both fixtures against this team in the league and you've had a red card in both games?
00:27:59
Speaker
what What is that? Do you know what you know the truth is, bro? Just have better quality. because Look at today. How did that red card happen?
00:28:11
Speaker
it's a It's a crack cross by Neto, hits the first man, then he has to go run on counter attack and then he chooses to trick the player. Just have better quality.
00:28:22
Speaker
um Look at Fafana's red card, second yellow last week. Poor quality on the ball, not just from him, but from two players. We lose the ball twice. Fafana has to think he's in a position where feels he has to stop the counter-attack.
00:28:38
Speaker
Just have better quality. Just have better quality.
Manchester United vs Crystal Palace: Preview & Challenges
00:28:42
Speaker
That's always the best solution, to be fair. if we If we have better quality on the ball, we are in those scenarios less.
00:28:50
Speaker
So yeah it's it's up to them. It's up to them. They they haven't shown the quality and and that's why we're under trouble. We're in trouble a lot of the time. So, um yeah, good luck to them. Let's um let's move on to United. um my final My final word on them is just...
00:29:09
Speaker
Yeah, really, really look like we're struggling physically. i don't think we... Two points from your last nine as well. So is your form's really going downhill as well. So... Boy, it's looking looking bad. And after that financial report that came out um earlier this week,
00:29:30
Speaker
you guys need Champions League football, you know, you better not miss out. Your club might liquid it. Bro, I don't even care. Bro, I don't even care. I don't even care. Because then they mom they might put themselves in this position.
00:29:41
Speaker
Like, who told them to spend, like, madmen like this? they put They literally put the club in this position. I'd rather go into administration and duck us some points and get these owners out of here, mate. Honestly, get them out.
00:29:57
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Moving on to Manchester United versus Crystal Palace in the reverse fixture, United won 2-1. um It was a good comeback, decent performance. And it was actually... um It was actually a game i was, this game was actually a game I was looking forward to. I did think, I think it would have been, I always thought it would be tough for Palace because they've just played on Thursday. Um, but I, I felt like they had something for you. Um,
00:30:31
Speaker
Now you United set up in their normal 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1. And it was good to see Benjamin Szczesko start a game after he has scored some last-minute goals. And he's really starting to show himself.
00:30:48
Speaker
He's deserved a start, definitely. And also as well, um I do think Ahmad needed to be dropped as well. Not because he's the only player who's been bad, but I feel like... The other two in terms of Konya and Mbwemo, they're least contributing with goals and assists. They're at least doing something. Ahmad's kind of like just floating through games, not really contributing. He's still working hard.
00:31:10
Speaker
Don't get me wrong, he always does that. He always um tracks back. you He always puts in the miles. But recently, he just hasn't been that good. So it makes sense for Cesc to get a start, especially in a game like this. We're home.
00:31:22
Speaker
Palace are a bit rocky. there's There's a lot going on in the club right now. So I'm not... um I'm happy Sesko started because now there shouldn't be further hesitation going forward to like just starting him. He's in good form, just starting playing.
00:31:38
Speaker
So yeah, that's what think. It was good to
Manchester United's Performance & Tactical Adjustments
00:31:42
Speaker
see. It was good to see. um I think the first, what was your feeling of the first half? Because I felt that it was, yeah, it was, again, another strange start to a game where it just doesn't really look like you guys are on it.
00:31:59
Speaker
the The juice is gone, man. The juice is gone. A new manager bounce has officially washed off us now. Now he's getting to see the quality of the team. Yeah, now now we're seeing the players in their default settings and how they're actually responding to tough situations because that first half was terrible. It was West Ham all over again.
00:32:20
Speaker
It was West Ham all over again. Couldn't string any passes together. The only thing we even really created, that he... major opportunity. I think that was one header with Casemiro. But apart from that, kind of disgusting for first half, especially being the home team as well. And we're the ones in good form. We're the ones who have a week off and we're going into games and we're starting slowly. I don't understand why we start so slowly. We have no reason to start.
00:32:48
Speaker
um slowly it doesn't matter now now it's like it doesn't matter what the iteration of the team is but I think like the key component that's missing from our team is Martinez man like without Martinez we cannot build up we can't do anything and i and I'm just watching I'm like guys come come on, like, no one else wants to take any initiative. Like, do you, like, you tell me no one else can pass forward apart from our centre-back. I think he's got to drop Manu in there, like, proper deep, like, part back three sort of thing. Just to fix this,
00:33:24
Speaker
and but the bottom But the problem but becomes you put Maino in it to to punch the pass forward, but then who's going to receive on a half turn and get you forward? Not to say, you know, you've got Fernandes who could drop in, Umbuemo, Cuña. So you've got a few attacking options that could drop in and receive on a half turn and drive you forward. So I do think it might, feel I feel like it would give you something because Casimo tries, but he's more of a recycler and he does punch it through when he can. But for example, Casimo can probably do it with... just his passing whereas Maynud can do it with his dribbling and passing so it's feel like this is exactly why we need this is exactly why we need the midfield reinforcement like for me I've really rated Casemiro over the last like couple of months now even not even weeks it's been ah it's been a few months where he's been actually really good so big rated that but you can see his limitations man imagine having a
00:34:17
Speaker
um what Beléber's supposed to be. like He hasn't been good form this season, but he can dribble out of pressure or he can pass forward. It's two-dimensional. With Casemiro, it's kind of like, if his passing's not on today, hey man, we'll get ready for a stink fest, man. And even the issue is with us, when our key players are having bad games, the worst players become worse. like They go to the worst. Diego Dallot,
00:34:45
Speaker
That first half. Oh, Mike. There was a period yeah in that first half, yeah, where he gave the ball away four times in a row. I wanted to jump through my tv i wanted to jump through my TV.
00:34:57
Speaker
And just grips him up like, bro, what are you doing? What are you doing? Wake up. Wake up. Honestly, wake up. he when when he When he's bad, he stinks.
00:35:10
Speaker
It's not even like, there's no in between. Because he just... You can't tell me there isn't a wing back in the academy. Someone you could just plug in and say, yo, young boy, when you get it, whip it. There must be somebody. This is what mean. There's so much obvious reinvestment that we can do in this squad. Obviously, if you speak to people within our fan base, there's some people who have sentimental attachments to some of these players. People are like, no, Dalo, he was so good on the 10 hug, we can't get rid of him.
00:35:41
Speaker
get rid of that guy, man. I don't care. can give me one good game and then one... He can give me like a four out ten. Then he can give me a one out ten. Then he give me a six out ten. Then a seven out of ten. Then one out ten. I don't need that.
00:35:54
Speaker
Get rid of these guys. We need to improve the base level of our team so that when we are in moments like that where teams are on top of us, we don't have players playing against us. He was actively playing against us.
00:36:07
Speaker
tily the whips the whip and you whips it The whips into the back post, yeah, were killing me, man. Just scammed every time. Another person. Lenny Uro again. Another slow start, bro. He was just giving the ball away, like, every time.
00:36:24
Speaker
He tried to keep... He kept doing this thing where he kept trying to clip the ball into the middle. And it was just going to Crystal Palace. I'm... I don't understand the idea behind it. like what's a and we just do It feels like we're just doing stuff.
00:36:38
Speaker
We're just problem solving on the pitch. There's no real thought behind what we're doing. we just kind of That's why it was so dependent on Martinez because he's doing that himself. He's just doing the whole build-up by himself. no one has to instruct him what to do because he's actually a smart football player.
00:36:54
Speaker
Everyone else is just like, bro, they need help. They need help. But then could you be, could you think, could it be a ah coaching thing where, he's not quite, or the team, the coaching team aren't quite getting the players in the right zones to now create those easy passing options for people like Dalo, who really shouldn't be trying to do 50-yard diags and, hey, yo, big man, just keep it simple. But is it because he doesn't have the option to keep it simple? Are people not moving around him? You know when you know someone's bad, like people should adjust for that bad player just to keep it simple for him. They need to actually understand the text, bro. But I think it is that. I think it's honestly that because...
00:37:40
Speaker
I think we've underestimated how important Martinez is to build up. And it's just kind of been automatic. No one's really been having to anything. Just pass the ball around, give it to Martinez. Martinez brings the ball forward and he's doing it for us. Then we're doing switch of plays to each fullback who's further up on the field. But when it comes to leaving players to their own devices, there's some players you cannot do that with. And that was one of them.
00:38:07
Speaker
So now that... Martinez is not there. This coaching staff, the Carrick, um ah whoever his backup staff, his assistant staff, I can't remember any names, Holland and all them. Now you actually need to get back into the jungle and actually coach now.
00:38:25
Speaker
Now you need to legislate for this because we can't keep having slow starts. We got Newcastle away um next. hey, they'll come punch you up if you're not careful.
00:38:36
Speaker
They'll come punch you Even in their current form, if you're not careful, yeah yeah they'll give you a proper, proper sweat. Yeah, just lost to Everton, but even that Everton game, I don't think we were particularly great.
00:38:47
Speaker
i don't I don't think we were that great. but so yeah is is our Our performances are sliding. We're still picking up points, which is important at this stage of the season, but you can't ignore what's happening.
00:39:01
Speaker
And Where Carrick needs to step up and make the adjustments, this is your audition. You actually are auditioning for the job. So if you want it, these are things that need to be ironed out. None none of the other candidates are getting the chance to audition with the current set of players.
00:39:19
Speaker
You have them. So literally, if they do give you the job, you can literally walk into the board and say, yeah, this is what doesn't work. I need this, this, and this. But it's up to you, man. You want me to get the solution or not?
00:39:32
Speaker
I think you caught life with the red. Like, I think you you started the second half well, but I think you caught life with the red, yeah man. You caught life with the red. I wouldn't have... I think either way, it probably should have been the red. I don't know if it should have been a penny.
00:39:49
Speaker
That's what would say. Because the initial contact was outside the box and Konya just dropped in the box. So...
Key Players: Bruno Fernandes' Influence
00:39:55
Speaker
So yeah, they they always say if the contact follows into the box, then... But literally, the freeze frame they showed was his finger literally coming off his his shoulder. Yeah, as soon as he got into the box.
00:40:08
Speaker
As soon as he got into the box. But the freeze frame showed his finger touching him. If you go into the next frame, the guy's foot is still on the line, but he's his finger's off him. So it's kind of like...
00:40:21
Speaker
How would you do that? um But look, Kunio again, yeah? That was the only good thing he did all game. That was the... What guy, man. Hey, fair enough, man. What a guy.
00:40:36
Speaker
He's... I don't... I feel like I complain about him every week, but this is what you pay for. When you buy a player of that profile... It's... No, i actually, no. Let me take that back. You don't pay for him to be rubbish. You pay for him to give you moments.
00:40:52
Speaker
And o I would say that's more of a Bruno moment because that pass is ridiculous, bro. Like, that whole second half was just Bruno. Bruno was just saying, we're winning this game, bro. Yep. You know what's making me laugh about Bruno was that he would try something that didn't make sense and then it would work. So he's like, oh, I can do i what want today then. And then he just does another mad thing and then another mad thing. Like, there was... There was a playing time where... So he does the pass with Kunio, wins the penalty. And then later on in the game, the ball's been played over the top. And he just... i can't even describe what he does. He kicks it over his head, back to Ahmed, perfectly into his path. And Ahmed gets a shot off. And I'm like... Your brain is just like...
00:41:39
Speaker
It's just so it's somewhat as a um hamster run on the wheel. And as soon as he starts doing crazy stuff, he just starts going even faster. He's just he just constantly just going mad. But that second half, I think he was he was clearly the best player on the pitch that second half. That's his three points.
00:41:57
Speaker
Yeah, I think it... The thing that separates these these top guys and and the rest of us is like, it's just their ability to do good things consistently. Like, if I'm going to put in a free kick, it's going to be of quality and it's going to be consistent. The next one's going to be of quality. Again, the next corner is going to be of quality. My next pass is going to be of quality. Everything's just, there's more more often than not, it's of quality. And,
00:42:24
Speaker
In the Chelsea team, in the United team, we just don't have enough of those guys that can do things of quality consistently. And that's why our teams have such high, drastic changes in in performance, man. Because you don't have players that can do things consistently.
00:42:43
Speaker
Yeah, and I think the main difference from the second half to the first half is what I complained about in the last game with Bruno not being involved enough in the game. If you watch that second half again, what was happening? was Every time Casemiro got the ball, he was passing it to Bruno. Like he was fizzing it into Bruno. Bruno had probably tripled them out touches that he had in the last couple games or whatever. Because Casemiro was just firing it into him, in between the lines, playing the ball over the top. Switch of plays, just where's Bruno? As soon as Casemiro gets it, where's Bruno? like Because he's the guy who's going to make stuff tick. And I think...
00:43:25
Speaker
As long as Carrick and everyone else saw that, we're going to see that a lot more often over these next couple of games because you can't have someone like that on the pitch and not involve him. If the ball's constantly going to Konya, instead, he's just going to dribble, dribble, lose the ball. Dribble, dribble, lose the ball. And Bwemo is touches inconsistent. At least Bruno, if he's going to get in those dangerous areas...
00:43:47
Speaker
More times than not, he's going to try the right thing. Whether it comes off or not, that's a completely different thing. Even his assists for the Sesko goal. like That's just... That ball is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. He gets...
00:44:02
Speaker
yeah you know so so You know, sometimes when you coach, you tell players, um it's the movement that makes the pass. Usually, that's what I tell players. Your movement makes the pass because you need to move to then, you know, tell where the other person, you know, where you want it. But sometimes when guys are just that good, my pass is going to force you to make your movement, bro. It forced Cesc to,
00:44:30
Speaker
to get in front of his man. He wasn't like a loop to over. He had to, Sesco had to attack the ball. If he didn't attack it, i' said then the defender clears it. And it's just, it's just a good ball. And this is my thing about Sesco, right? Or the last couple of games where then Brembo's been starting or Konya's been starting up top. You need different avenues of attack.
00:44:49
Speaker
You can't just constantly pass, pass, pass, and then nothing. Pass, pass, pass, pass, and then nothing. The ball's out wide. You've got a 6.5 striker. He's good in the air. Just cross it, man. like stop Let's stop being stupid. Just cross it.
00:45:03
Speaker
And he got his goal. like Even Cescola, that first half, didn't really have much of an impact. But think, generically, we were bad as a team. But as soon as Bruno started getting the ball more, as soon as... um Konya was getting into the game a bit more.
00:45:19
Speaker
Sesko started getting into the game. He had a um chance. The ball dropped to him. It shot. It was blocked. But I just want him to keep building confidence because that's going to drag us all the way through to the end of the season. It's on him.
Tactical Changes & Team Structure
00:45:35
Speaker
It's definitely. Zetsky ain't going to do nothing, bro. Come on, let's be honest. And another key key thing about the Bruno thing, I know we'll keep going on about it, but...
00:45:46
Speaker
is freedom to just go anywhere on the pitch. Like, wherever he's... Players like that, you just say, yo, bro, when you see the space, you go take it. Wherever it is, left, right, up, down, everybody else will defend around you.
00:45:58
Speaker
Just go do what you want. Like, I saw him... I think it was a line pass from your left back or whoever to the the left wing area. And thought, Cunha's about to get on a ball. No, it was Bruno.
00:46:10
Speaker
didn't even know where Cunha was. And the thing is, he whipped it. Then literally 30 seconds later, Bruno's on the right. He's whipped. I think he dead i think he i think that's the Sesco goal, maybe. Then he whips it in from the right. like Yeah, yeah. He's got a mad engine.
00:46:28
Speaker
yeah that's the thing the issue with bruno right when he's been he's always done does that he's always it depends on how it manifests within the game sometimes you you describe it as oh he's everywhere other times he's vacating space but when under different regimes when you play with too much space in in between your players if bruno's running away That means teams can just run through us. They have just run through it, run through it. But the way Carrick's got us set up, a lot play a lot more players are closer together. Bruno's able to do that and it's not having a negative effect on the team. And what you spoke about earlier in terms of attackers when...
00:47:12
Speaker
They do one defensive action. If it doesn't pay off, then they just don't do it anymore. Bruno's the compet complete opposite. He doesn't stop. 90 minutes. He's running, running, running. He's pressing. He's the first man starting to press. He's running down the goalkeeper. He did that like four or five times a day. Obviously, it's easier to do it when there's 10 men on the other side, but he's he's been like that. If there's one thing about Bruno that can say, he is very tenacious. He wants to get the ball. He never hides. He does his defensive work. He he's wants the ball. He wants to just be involved in the game.
00:47:47
Speaker
He can't let 90 minutes go past and he doesn't have his fingerprints on the game, whether it's good or bad. So big up to him. I think if I had to highlight any other players, I think Masrari was good when he came on.
00:48:00
Speaker
ah think he, um, Shaw was struggling to deal with, um, Munoz, he didn't know whether to go with him or stay back. it was just He was getting ran through, so it was kind of a blessing in disguise that he actually
League Position & Future Challenges
00:48:13
Speaker
got injured. I don't know how bad the injury is, but knowing Luke Shaw, we might not see him for the rest of the season. And that's his World Cup done, so who knows? Nah, he'll make sure he's back for World Cup. He went to the last World Cup half fit. So, who know who knows? And then um I will say, Kobe...
00:48:34
Speaker
maybe not one of his best performances, but even the base level of Kobe, he's not giving the ball away unnecessarily. He's just fine. It's just, he wasn't as influential in the game as I would like him to be. He needs to start putting his fingerprints on the game the same way Bruno does. He needs to show for the ball more, ask for the ball in tighter spaces, get involved. Don't just cruise past.
00:48:58
Speaker
Now, now that you're in the team, Don't just think you can get comfortable. You have to keep doing more. You're one of our better midfielders in terms of tight spaces, dribbling, all of those attributes. We don't really have anyone else you can do that. So you have to do more. But um yeah yeah, so for us, we're in good run of form.
00:49:21
Speaker
Third, finally. So just keep going. Keep going. Next game, Newcastle, pick up another three points and just keep going, man. That's all I can hope for.
00:49:33
Speaker
Yeah. a It's shame. It's a shame. so no um How far back were you? for Four points behind you, six points behind you? It's crazy.
00:49:44
Speaker
Yeah, live Liverpool are three points behind us. if If we didn't pick up them three points, we would be tied. So... it's It's tight in that area. So we just have my days.
Imagining the Impact of Past Chelsea Players
00:49:54
Speaker
Wednesday we've got Villa.
00:49:55
Speaker
We have to win. Yeah, yeah. You guys have got tough games, bro. We have to beat Villa. Tough, tough, tough games. Oh my God. oh That man has a... That man, they're not even playing well.
00:50:10
Speaker
But watch, we're going to make a meal of it. ah And then even Liverpool, they've got um they've got Wolves next. then And then Tottenham.
00:50:23
Speaker
So that's six points, bro. points. Yeah, they've they've got they've got a favourable run coming up. But um yeah, think that's enough for us Man United. i'm um'm in ah I'm still in good spirits.
00:50:39
Speaker
Keeping it going. and You promised me that you were going to stop Arsenal and you didn't. You're a liar, bro. You're a liar. Chelsea are liars. You promised me I was going to get something from that game. We're just not good, man.
00:50:52
Speaker
We're just not good. So, um what's the next segment? So, for... It's getting a bit late, but we'll try to give you a quick one for this week. but um So, my idea was, right now, our teams are seriously seriously in need of some improvement.
00:51:14
Speaker
But, obviously, we can do the typical thing of, ah who would you sign this summer? But, wanted to do something a little bit different. So, I just wanted to ask you, what three players in their prime who have already played for Chelsea would you sign back to fix your team, essentially, or to take them up to the next level? Obviously, you've got your legends of the club, like just the typical best players.
00:51:38
Speaker
But who what positions do you actually think need that injection of world-class quality?
00:51:47
Speaker
So initially when you asked me this off camera, I said John Terry, Lampard, Jogba. Yeah. i didn't really I didn't really think about it.
00:52:00
Speaker
But now that I've thought about it, it has to be Hazard.
00:52:08
Speaker
Because that left wing... yeah, it has to be Hazard. That left wing is dire. Absolutely dire. My gosh. yeah So it has to be Hazard.
00:52:21
Speaker
um In midfield, it could be either Essien or Lampard. I think we need Essien more. And before people start saying, oh, we've got Kaiseido...
00:52:34
Speaker
If I speak on Caicedo, people think I'm not a Chelsea fan. If I speak on Caicedo, they'll think I'm not a Chelsea fan. But that guy's defensive actions is so poor for the level of player he should be.
00:52:47
Speaker
His defensive actions are so poor. So I think we need Anessian or Makalele.
00:52:58
Speaker
I like Balak's height as well, but he's more of Lampard-like,
00:53:08
Speaker
Okay, I'm going to go with... It's just because I don't like Enzo. I'm going to go with Lampard. I don't like Enzo, so I'm going to go with Lampard. So Lampard would play your, like, 8-10 sort of thing. Yeah, yeah. Santos and Caicedo. Ah, even that. an issue. There's not enough legs in there, bro. This is what I'm saying. right, no, scratch it, scratch it. I can't even remember if McAlelly was fast, you know.
00:53:38
Speaker
think if we watch some of our old legends back, I think we'll be very shocked, you know.
00:53:45
Speaker
I've got a player that you might want, but... What are you saying? I'll just get Kante back, bruv. Get rid of Enzo. Get rid of Enzo and play Kante. Do you know how big of an effect that would have on your team?
00:54:00
Speaker
Nah, bruv, I forgot. i take look I'm forgetting all my best players, man. go Hazard, I'm so cooked, I'm forgetting all the best guys. Hazard, Kante, and it has to be Jonte.
00:54:13
Speaker
Just someone to just grab everybody by neck. was expecting you. I needed you. I knew you were going to say centre back. It had to be. It had to be. had to be. Grab everybody by the neck and say, what are you doing? Wake up. Wake up.
00:54:27
Speaker
Because I know Jonte will do that. But then the problem is, I'd love Petr Cech back as well. But I'm going to go with John Terry. John Terry, the centre-back is a bigger issue than the goalkeeper, honestly. So quickly to run for your line-up, it would be Sanchez, Rich James, John Terry.
Enhancing Manchester United with Past Legends
00:54:44
Speaker
Who's your second centre-back?
00:54:47
Speaker
Colwell like a fit Colwell or Fafana Fafana Jesus is Lord or Chalabar Chalabar it'll be Fafana John Terry needs some legs around Fafana then Kukurela Jesus a midfield three of Kaiseido Kante and Palmer
00:55:12
Speaker
no left wing no no no Kante Santos and Kaiseido
00:55:19
Speaker
Okay, fair enough. um Remember what I said? I mean i need workhorse in the middle. Stop all these fancy pants that stop for this fancy passing left and right. the Workhorses. Then left wing Hazard, right wing Palmer, up top, Pedro.
00:55:38
Speaker
Yeah, I'll go with that. No, Esteval. you ah you' Nah, forget that kid. He's not ready. He's not ready. Not yet. Fair, fair, fair. So for me, the way I tried to think about it is like, what positions are screaming? but then I had an issue because some of the positions, actually haven't had good players in those positions for ages. me For me, I straight away went to right back and I'm going through my Rolodex and I'm thinking, don't Gary Neville.
00:56:12
Speaker
It'll have to be Valencia. It'll have to be Valencia. Raphael. na don No. Don't know Shea. Wes Brown. Please. Please. Please. i don't know if forgetting someone, but no. Dalo has to stay. As much as I don't want him to stay, stays. No, Valencia is probably not the most important. There's Nah. Valencia... I'm not doing nostalgia, bro. Valencia is rubbish, bro. Valencia is rubbish. No, I'm not doing that. Okay, so for me, fought midfield. Please, please, please.
00:56:48
Speaker
Midfield. Two of them might have to be midfielders. I'm not even going lie. In this team right now, I might just go...
00:56:58
Speaker
do we have any athletic mutual? Nah. I might just go keen and flipping goals, bro. Just bring me those. Keen scores a brutal.
00:57:09
Speaker
Keen scores a brutal. Oh, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, obviously, I could say, oh, yeah, Cristiano Ronaldo. Rooney's my favourite United player as well, isn't it? Like,
00:57:21
Speaker
But he's like a, he's a supporting striker, 10, like, where do I put him? Because Bruno has to stay. Bruno's not important enough to miss. I can't say Bruno. I can't say Bruno.
00:57:34
Speaker
No, listen, listen, listen, this said listen. Let's never forget the season where Rooney played up top, one man up, yeah? 36 goals. 36 goals. Rooney could do what he wanted.
00:57:47
Speaker
He could do what he wanted. And he did what was best for the team. Let's not throw dirt on Rooney's name. none ah yeah you Remember that. Remember that. Rooney is my goal. But you're trying to say that he's a... so No. when When it was time to jug, Rooney was there to be a shooter. Yes or no? The only reason why I'm saying that yeah is because...
00:58:11
Speaker
That position right now isn't ah the problem position for me. So I'm thinking like, hard okay bro, we don't have a left winger. We don't have a left winger. We actually don't. We don't have one.
00:58:23
Speaker
Bro. So then I'm thinking, all right, cool. Do I just stick Ronaldo out on left winger? Let's just get cracking. Do you know crazy that team would be? Young. Young Ronaldo. But I had a different idea.
00:58:36
Speaker
Let's go back. Let's go back, back, back. Oh, my God. How far? We've got for five striker. Yeah. Give me Ryan gigs.
00:58:48
Speaker
Do you know what would look like? That would look like space jam, bro. Bro, the crosses on the left. you remember that? Oh, my God. I said, myin kill me Giggsie.
00:59:00
Speaker
Give me Giggsie, bro. Give me Giggsie. Obviously, without doing the obvious names, the Ronaldos, the Reinos, bro, give me Ryan Giggs. Sesko, if you want crosses, you will see crosses. You will see them.
00:59:15
Speaker
You wouldn't go to Sennavac. Huh? You wouldn't go Sennavac. I think those positions are way more important. Just fix that. I can deal with a Martinez and someone else and blah blah, blah, blah, blah. If you have to deal with them, man, over there, plus a Keane and Scholesman.
00:59:36
Speaker
So I know people would disagree, but this is how the team would line up. would be Le Mendes, Dalot, Yuck. um Then it would be...
00:59:47
Speaker
I think has to be Maguire. Lenny Uro, I'm not too... Maguire is still... Do I... Oh.
00:59:57
Speaker
You know what? You've got Ferdinand chilling there. I've done too much. Just put Kino Ferdinand gigs. That's it. gigs that's the yeah yeah That's it. that's all I can't do Maguire. That's disgusting. I caught from that's um almost almost killed myself right there. Yeah, Dalot, Rio, please. Rio, please. Martinez, Luke Shaw, Yuck, again.
01:00:26
Speaker
discuss like You see how much improvement our teams need? And then midfield, it would be Keane, Kobe, Bruno. o Left wing, Giggs, right wing, Emberma or Ahmad, whichever one wants to play. i don't care.
01:00:42
Speaker
And then Seska up top. That would be my team.
01:00:48
Speaker
And on that bombshell, you can see that both our teams need a new spine. Yeah, bro. Oh, my God. No, but that midfield was really... No, flipping Keane, Scholes and Bruno. Do you know what kind of chaos that would be?
01:01:04
Speaker
Yeah, forget that. Anyway, let's move on to our last segment. Don't blame the ref. ah This is a segment where we ho in a refereeing decision that happened. Can I just finish off? Yeah. Can I just finish off? Sorry, bro. Sorry, bro. Our teams are so dead, man. Oh, God.
01:01:25
Speaker
We are so dead, bro. Like, even trouble when even when we had Hazard, yeah, and we we would we were surrounded Hazard with dross. Absolute dross. Willian. lisaa At least I had... No, but now, bro, I'm looking back. give you I'm begging for Willian.
01:01:42
Speaker
I'm actually begging for Willian. Because these men, like, they're not... Willian was ten times the player then, Manor. And the only reason why I was i was talking bad on Willian's name is because he wasn't Hazard.
01:01:55
Speaker
I was comparing him to Hazard. But he was a perfectly serviceable player. Oh, my God. And then Kante... I've seen Chelsea fans compare Kayser to Kante.
01:02:09
Speaker
What? Are you guys bugging? Are you bugging? You guys have actually had like some unicorns, like some players that we probably haven't seen a while. Hazard and Kante are that. like don't Don't even think about it. Even Jogba. Jogba was that.
01:02:24
Speaker
When was the last time we saw Jogba-type striker?
Chelsea's Disciplinary Issues & Team Performance
01:02:28
Speaker
Not with... Physically. Yeah, yeah. Battering, man. Tech off the charts. Like, just... Nah. Not like that. Even Harlan, they like that. Harlan, they like that. Nah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, they don't exist, man. But yeah.
01:02:44
Speaker
Alright, cool saying. Bro, I could have picked six players, bro. I could have put six players. would have placed the whole squad. Forget it. I would have placed squad. What? There's not a single person. like Palmer, don't get wrong. He's a good player or whatever. But Hazard is ten times a player, Palmer is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What we talking about? What are we talking about? Alright. Yeah, don't blame the ref. What have you got?
01:03:11
Speaker
Ah... Chelsea Football Club. Oh my goodness.
01:03:18
Speaker
Chelsea Football Club. I just come over here every week to complain. It's actually like, do I have anything positive to say? have nothing positive to say.
01:03:30
Speaker
I have nothing. There's no positivity, nothing. All right, Neto.
01:03:40
Speaker
Don't blame the ref because you're a very stupid individual. To do that kind of tackle when you've got a yellow card, and he knew he was on the yellow card, is utterly brain dead. It is so brain dead. Like the so the Sanchez one against you, man.
01:03:58
Speaker
Yeah, we can say it's brain dead, but, yeah you know, bo gets he's literally got a split second to think about it. Neto had the whole hundred metres to think about it, bro.
01:04:09
Speaker
And he still decided to hang him down. The guy was out on the left wing. So for me, that is No threat. No threat. No threat at the moment. It was Martinelli, bro. What the hell was he going to do?
01:04:21
Speaker
What the was he going to do? That was the single worst red card we have received. Out of all the nine. That is the worst. That is the worst. Because you are just so dumb.
01:04:34
Speaker
Like...
01:04:38
Speaker
All right, man. I think it's time. Neto, I'm so sorry. don't even want to be mean, but my bro, it's time. It's time. This summer we'll have Yeah, it's going to be a big shake-up. Especially if you, man, don't get Champions League football, I think you guys are selling at half the squad.
01:04:55
Speaker
I think it's going to be a fire. So I think we've got all the out the window. Go ahead. We'd be better off putting Cobham into the team and just freestyling it. because Because I'd rather not i'd rather ah i'd rather not get Champions League and play Cobham.
01:05:12
Speaker
If we're not going to get Champions League, we might just play Cobham. You know how in um American sports, that teams tank. I feel like next season, your your team's going to tank. You've just got to sell all your assets and just, listen, we're going to be meaty, man. We're not going to get relegated anything, but we're just going to be meaty.
01:05:27
Speaker
And then the season after, you'll go sign some players. but yeah Yeah. What's your deal playing the ref, man, man? So for me, obviously, nettle. But it's just Chelsea in general, bro. like Nine red cards, bro. It's not a conspiracy. It's not a conspiracy. You man are just stupid, bro. Barely plays with just some foolishness. like it's just the ones in the press The ones in the prem, I think we've deserved every single one.
01:05:53
Speaker
Maybe one. Maybe that's your one. We've deserved every single one. don't blame don't yeah Chelsea Football Club, don't blame the ref. And the other London club, the North London one, the white one, listen, you're not going to get relegated, bro. You can't blame no refs. You can't blame anyone. This is your organisation.
01:06:13
Speaker
I'm hearing rumours that my man might get sacked, you know. If he don't if's game win... Two games. Listen, they're proper in relegation. like if If he loses his next game, which is against Liverpool, which he's probably going to lose. Well, it's against Liverpool.
01:06:27
Speaker
Now, Liverpool have got Wolves. they They're playing... They want five games coming up. who If he goes his first five games without picking up a win, they have to sack him. They need a new manager bounce.
01:06:39
Speaker
No, they need one. How can you sack the caretaker? They cannot get relegated. If they get relegated, they're on big trouble. They have the highest season ticket of, or is it matchday ticket of anyone in Europe right now? Anyone. They have this big, luxurious stadium and you're telling me you're going to end up in your championship.
01:07:01
Speaker
Do you know many players probably have clauses in their contracts um to to um get them out like after? That means Kudus is gone. Kulishevsky's gone. Madison's gone. Dominic Solanke's gone. um Xavi Simmonds. You think Xavi Simmonds is playing in the championship?
01:07:17
Speaker
He's gone. Romero's gone. It's the whole squad is done. Like, yeah. You, man,
North London Club's Relegation Concerns
01:07:25
Speaker
don't blame the ref. Blame your owners and blame...
01:07:28
Speaker
your players who aren't stepping up, your players are ignoring their managers. Has Jed Spence done another tweet of the penitentiary since? Silence. was the last one you saw? Silence. Your captain's getting sent off and talked to you. Silence. But that is a mess over there. Yeah. Anyway, those two clubs, man.
01:07:46
Speaker
It's a mess. Don't blame the ref, man. How can the caretaker manager go into an interview and he's already talking like Conte phase eight?
01:07:57
Speaker
Because he was in there and looked at the squad and probably he probably tried to rally them up and like... i know i know just And my Players probably had their headphones on, Manda when they were looking were looking at their feet. Like, Manamu have got their shoes on the wrong feet. He's got his right foot in his left boot. Like, he's just like, bro, that's just nothing. He's got a shirt on backwards. Like, it's just, it's all mad over there, bro. Like, that if they actually got relegated, I swear,
01:08:31
Speaker
They have to do a documentary. There needs to be, from now, there needs to be a Netflix camera following that club. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I need to see that. I need to see footage. That would be prime time TV. Europa League champions getting relegated.
01:08:47
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I need that. I didn't know I needed that, but I need that. Yeah, that one, that might that might save the season, man. That might be the... If Arsenal win and Tottenham get relegated, do you know how...
01:09:00
Speaker
Oh, that's going to be the, that summer, actually want to be there. I want to be there. I don't care. Even if Arsenal win, I want to be there because there will be riots in North London.
01:09:13
Speaker
There will be riots in North London, bro, again. but yeah, anyway, thanks for listening, guys. We made some promises last week about the video. Yeah, don't worry about that. i Don't worry about that. I'm just going to stop talking about it. When you see it, you see it. and like That's it. what Let's focus the now. Forget the past. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't worry about the future.
01:09:36
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