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Serie A Match Week #9 Review & Match Week #10 Preview (Episode #28)
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Welcome back to Calcio Culture! This week, Vos, Motts, and Logs are ready to tackle the latest buzz in Italian football, including notable wins, standout players, and intriguing storylines.
The episode kicks off with Quick Shouts, where the hosts discuss this year's Balon d’Or and the Ten Hag’s exit from Manchester United. Red Bull is eyeing a takeover of Torino, and there are whispers about Totti potentially joining Como. Plus, Balotelli's rumored move to Genoa adds to the excitement!
In their Match Week 9 Reviews, the highlight was the dramatic 4-4 draw between Juventus and Inter Milan. Questions arise about penalties and Juventus lineup selection from Thiago Motta, with Yildiz making an impression from the bench. Meanwhile, Roma faced a tough defeat against Fiorentina, losing 1-5, with Dybala and Manu Kone standing out amidst a questioning of Roma’s mentality. Fiorentina is on fire, boasting 13 goals in their last three matches while conceding just 2.
The crew also reviews other matches: Cagliari fell 0-2 to Udinese, while Como lost a close 0-1 battle to Torino, showcasing Ricci's strong performance. Lecce narrowly lost to Napoli 0-1, and Verona was on the receiving end of a 1-6 thrashing from Atalanta, with Retegui shining as the top scorer. Empoli and Parma played to a 1-1 stalemate, and Genoa lost 0-3 to Lazio, where Pedro continued his scoring streak, and Tavares contributed with 2 assists. Venezia and Monza ended in a thrilling 2-2 draw, while the clash between Milan and Bologna was postponed.
Looking ahead to Match Week 10, the hosts preview exciting fixtures, including Napoli’s visit to Milan as both teams face a challenging stretch. Other notable matchups include Torino @ Roma, Verona @ Lecce, Bologna @ Cagliari, Udinese @ Venezia, Inter @ Empoli, Monza @ Atalanta, Parma @ Juve, Fiorentina @ Genoa, and Lazio @ Como.
To wrap up, they share their Culpi di Luna picks for Tuesday and Wednesday's fixtures.
Join Vos, Motts, and Logs for expert insights, bold predictions, and lively discussions on Italian football. Don’t forget to subscribe and let us know your thoughts @calcioculturefc!
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Transcript
00:00:06
Speaker
Paisanos, welcome back to Caucho Culture. Match week nine, done. We got match week 10, midweek, and then we got match week 11 going into the weekend. We have a ton of stuff to talk about, a lot of news in the world of football this week. And as always, you got your hosts here, Vos and my co-hosts, Logues and Monts. Paisanos.
00:00:32
Speaker
He's bone. Heck, the game is calling myself Conanthe, one game a week low because Conanthe's playing more games than I'm recording episodes these days, so. the case Happy to be here. It feels like it's been a fucking month since I've been around. I'm looking forward to a stellar episode. Ciao to all my Paisano's out there. Love Calcho and we got Calcho every single day till Friday. Then we skip a day and we got a Saturday, Sunday. We absolutely love it and we got a great episode for you guys coming. Multiple Copies! Multiple Copies!
00:01:09
Speaker
A little pre-seed to that. Yeah, Matt spoiled spoiled the surprise there. That was such a spoiler. I spoiled it last week when I told him that we'll have poop every single day. Yeah, that is true that it is true. But to bring you guys through what we're doing today, we're reviewing match week number nine. A lot of interesting stuff happened this weekend. And then we're also going to be previewing the midweek match week, which is match week number 10. And then as Matt's just ruined it, we're going to give you a couple of colpis. But we'll explain that when we get there.
00:01:34
Speaker
Before everything, we got quick shouts and Matz is going to kick it off because it's it's a serious topic, so Loges is not kicking it off. Since when does Matz kick this off in my presence? Quick shouts, quick shout.
00:01:48
Speaker
and school quick found We had some crazy news break today. Obviously, today is the day that the Ballon d'Or is and will be and has been announced. But before it was announced,
00:02:01
Speaker
We had some news break that some people didn't feel like attending because they didn't think that they were going to win. Rael Madrid, Vinicius Jr., Jude Bellingham, Carlo Ancelotti all decided to not go to the Ballon d'Or ceremony party poopers. I don't think Danny Carva Hall went. I don't think any Rael Madrid players went is what it was. No Rael Madrid went. No Tony Clings. People know Muddy. Carva Hall sure went to support his one teammate, Rodgeri, and two his rehab teammate, Rodgeri.
00:02:32
Speaker
Um, which that brings us to the second quick shout. ah we women hold hold long Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. There's a lot of, there's a lot of like news noise behind this. I don't know if you guys heard. Apparently city is the one that leaked to this news to Ram Madrid. Now that is an interesting little tidbit because why is Man City breaking that kind of news to Ram Madrid?
00:02:57
Speaker
Why is anybody breaking the news? It's a fucking award show. It starts to find out in the red. Well, I agree, but you may wonder, and ah I don't know how Man City got hold of this news, but in any case, that makes you think, okay, what what is Man City gaining from telling Real Madrid that they shouldn't show up to this award show? I don't know, but that makes me think that they're in cahoots. Now, why would they be in cahoots?
00:03:21
Speaker
The Super League is on the verge of existence. You heard it here first. I think that's a stretch. we should' have just Listen though, I would love the Super League. That would mean that the teams in the Serie A would be on the same playing field as the Premier League teams. You all have the same amount of money and a lot of more people would be going to Milan or U of A because we would have more money. I also am down for no Super League because I love the Serie A in Calcio.
00:03:50
Speaker
I hate it. I like it the story the way it is. I'm not here for Super League. Do we actually announce who won the Ballon d'Or? Mont? You know what I'm saying? I didn't say it. Logan cut me off. That was going to be the second quick shout within the first quick shout of the Ballon d'Or ceremony.
00:04:05
Speaker
Uh, Rodri has won the Ballon d'Or. I have said that for a long, long time that this is his year. I've said it pre euros that Spain's going to win. Roger's going to get a player of the tournament. City's going to win everything. Rodri's going to get the Ballon d'Or. Rodri's going to get the Ballon d'Or. I said it again. I said it. I said it a year ago. I said it. I said it. I said it finally came through. I think he deserves it. I think yes, Venetius is great, but Roger's probably should have won it last year and they always fuck things up So they're just making up for last year's and giving it to him this year. I agree with that when me and Logs that are bound or ranking we We forgot Roger II and i I was not on that episode I think it makes a lot of sense like at the end of the day if you if you take this as
00:04:53
Speaker
who did the most for their teams. Rodri played almost every possible game, and every game that he played in, they won, basically, whether it was for Spain or for City. If you just go off of, like, pure points gained in games he played in, I'm sure Rodri is, like, the number one guy on that list and deserves to win. I strongly disagree with this decision by the, uh, one of the voting class of the Ballandores. You look at the list.
00:05:23
Speaker
Rodri first, Vinicius second, Jude third, Danny Carver Hall fourth. So that's three that's three of the top four coming from Real Madrid. Carlo Incelotti won coach of the year. Real Madrid won team of the year, of which no one went up to get the trophy because no one was at the ceremony. And then you look at who's the best player and the most productive player for Real when they won the league by double digits, they won the Champions League.
00:05:51
Speaker
And what I will say is, again, voting is supposed to discount international play. It's not supposed to take it into such strong consideration. So I don't know how in the world anybody came to a decision that Vinnie didn't deserve this. I would even say that Jude had a shout over Roger just from his contributions for Real. And again, you it goes back to how many trophies did Citi win? How many trophies did Real win?
00:06:20
Speaker
I think they won the same amount. Did City win another tournament? Yeah, they won the FA Cup and then the, or no, you never won the FA Cup. You talked about the FA Cup. You know, they didn't won the FA Cup anyways. No, man, you got a trophy. They won two trophies. That's what the fuck it's too easily. Yeah, it's not. But Citi won the treble last year and they didn't have anybody that won the Ballon d'Or. So clearly it's some biasness. They do some rewarding of players that they prefer. I think Rojo should have won it. I think he deservedly won it. And yeah.
00:06:53
Speaker
Unless he won it last year, shouldn't it? i would say Yeah, exactly. Roger or Holland should have won it last year. I mean, here's at the end of the day, Vinicius had like 40 goal contributions. That's that's sense ban it's not a Ballon d'Or winning season for a forward at the end of the day.
00:07:11
Speaker
Messi and Ronaldo have just goals. I'm and i saying we're going to screw it all up. I know. I'm not saying goals. I'm saying goals and assists. Contribute. I understand. Lutaro only had like 42. I think that is going to be what is kind of normal now. We're not going to see guys like Messi and Ronaldo or Lewandowski putting up like 50 goals every game unless maybe Harry Kane and German and Bayern Munich does it because they score a lot.
00:07:41
Speaker
But I really, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. Hopefully I am. I mean, Lameen Yamal is starting to put up some crazy numbers. But over the last couple of years, it hasn't been like those crazy stats that Ronaldo and Messi used to, that we were used to seeing them put up. And I think Roger, he plays in one of the most position, important positions on the field. He controls every game. He didn't lose a game in the eth he had for like 365 days. Spain didn't lose a game in the Euros. Like he wins.
00:08:08
Speaker
Almost every game that he plays in, he controls every game. I think it makes sense. And he scores massive goals, very consistently. Well, in any case, definitely some Fugaz. Yeah, I mean, we're on the scenes, but what I think would be what be good for the Ballon d'Or is I wish that the voting like body had to release like a write-up for the top five. Like, here's how we came to this decision, because then I think it would clear up a lot of this, like, how did we get here? Just make the voting public. Just make it completely public. Who cares? it's
00:08:39
Speaker
it And that's how they do it for the AP poll for rankings here in the US. They do that for MVP voting in multiple leagues here in the US. Why would you just make them entirely public? i don't listen Where's the accountability? Because then they can't they can't give it to the people that they want. So the people have been saying that the Ballon d'Or has been ranked for a long time. It's not a shock that some people are not happy with the results, right? it's not That's not a shock. What I think is a shock is Lataro Martinez finishing in seventh overall. the one or There's a couple representatives on this list of the Serie A. He was the highest one finishing in the top 10. I think he easily should have been minimum fourth. I think car but you guys he gets it over Carva Hall. He gets it over Holland last year and I think he gets it over Mbappe in my opinion. What are your guys' thoughts on seventh and where he should have finished and yet?
00:09:35
Speaker
No, I certainly agree with that. That was my next qualm with this list is, I mean, those who already think had him at three in our list, great that we forgot Rojo, but it's a trouble. We forgot the inevitable winner, but Lutaro had an absolute fucking season. I mean, Serie A, Culpitalia, led the league in goals, and MVP for this the league, MVP for his team, played well for Argentina, Argentina won Copa. I mean, this guy had... Most Copa's in Copa.
00:10:04
Speaker
and This guy accolades on top of accolades and the fact that Kylian Mbappe got it over him because he's the wonder kid of the world. I mean, it's just, I think this is a really bad look overall for the Ballon d'Or going forward. I mean, this award used to be like the ah end all be all between Messi, Ronaldo, Messi, Ronaldo, Messi, Ronaldo. and It meant something like people winning it over those two was insane. Now we just have a free for all with no reasoning behind it. So it's unfortunate.
00:10:34
Speaker
other look minute 14 is also which you still know how we get up that high hatchet during the finals of the Europa League on Mataro this is my only other thing I want to talk about here is I think Mott's hit the nail on the head he definitely deserved to be at least four I would say I don't know, dude. To break into two and three is tough. But, I mean, Jude Bellingham scored 19 goals in La Liga. That's insanity. As a makeshift footwork. Yeah, that's insanity. But, I don't know. It's not off. Everything that Latara won in a much more competitive league, I would say, too, and the fact that he was able to produce all that in Syria was really outstanding. It is very much
00:11:19
Speaker
people looking down on Syria, that he's in seventh, period. He ease b was much better than Mbappe and Hollande last year, and I don't think it was close. Holland, for sure, and oh, yeah, even... about Holland didn't even have a good year last year. Yeah, it didn't. It's just sinful. Even Le Mignon Mall, I think, it but was we should have been higher than Mbappe and Hollande, in my opinion. He was so great the second half of the year.
00:11:42
Speaker
Yeah, so you got one more thing you want to talk about? Yeah, I just have one last qualm. I got a lot of qualms with this today, but Ballon d'Or's kind of on my shit list in general. But I will say... Emmy Martinez and is not that good. yeah He is not the best keeper in the world. He got it for but you yu the award again. He's not that good. He's just show he's a show-off. On Aston Villa, he makes bonehead mistakes. He's no better than Donny Rune's at PSG, and it's a travesty that he got this again. I do think that there was a lot of injuries for a lot of the top keepers. You look at Courtois, Allison hasn't played consistently for a very long turn.
00:12:19
Speaker
So I can see why he's in the conversation, especially given the spotlight that he's in for Argentina. But he's really not that good. Okay, so I agree with your point of a lot of the main men goalkeepers were injured this past year. If you don't think it should have been him, who do you think should have won it?
00:12:42
Speaker
but if we're going completely off of skill. And I can't even say, I want to say Mike Guillen's, but he was also her. So to begin, it's all these guys are her. Donnie Ruse is definitely not the best goalkeeper in the world. I will never say that. I will never admit it. But then like, do you look at Edison who had a really bad season? No.
00:13:00
Speaker
do you look at it just sounds like it's kind of like me i think you i think tert stgan has a show but barcelona had a terrible season and so what what what you're saying right now kind of is reminding me of that one magical year milan won thecuatto under pioli when like it shouldn't happen but like And to her losing games, Juventus were a dumpster fire. Napoli couldn't figure out what their left hand and their right hand was. And then Milan just kind of took advantage of that. And that's kind of what Emi did this year with a lot of injuries, a lot of guys being out, some poor play, went to on goals that you expect to be a lot better. So yeah, the only that that i the only guy that played enough that could I defend, it does kind of suck because I agree. You he you shouldn't. He is not the best nor.
00:13:45
Speaker
There were people better than him throughout the year that didn't play enough, though. And the only guy that really could have challenged him was Cobell from Dormant, and he had a really bad piece of the year and went through ups and downs throughout the year. He was just good in some big spotlight games. He also didn't play for Switzerland, right? Wasn't it Sommer? It's definitely. Yeah, it was Jan Sommer. He's got to be a long guy. So, Cobell didn't play for his national team either, so that's a huge part of it, too.
00:14:12
Speaker
And so this is not a, but that was great talk, but this is not a all league podcast. So let's get back to the quick shouts. We have one more. That's not in Italy. And then we will bring this back to couch show. Logs. I know you love a quick shout so much. Where are we going?
00:14:28
Speaker
We're going to Manchester, mate. We're going to Manchester. Eric Tanha, an ETH, IEX legend is officially sacked two and a half years into his man yield job. He has been dismissed. I don't think we need to talk about this too much because I think anybody kind of knows what's going on here. I think it's more of a question of who they're going to bring in.
00:14:51
Speaker
ah He didn't deserve to be there anymore. Very simply. I don't think anybody would disagree. It was just a matter of when he was going to get fired. Like the ship had sailed. It looks like they're not going to hire the sporting Lisbon coach and Anna Rim, who actually Liverpool ultimately decided not to go forward with for a number of reasons. And I was talking to one of my friends today who was a Manchester United fan, and he kind of has done a lot of like the legwork on reading some of this stuff.
00:15:15
Speaker
And I asked him that, why like why would you guys get Anarim if he wasn't good enough for Liverpool? And his point was that Anarim plays a back three, and he wanted to have that be played all the way down to the youth level, and Liverpool weren't ready to do that, which I respect and I think is the right decision for a top club. I don't i don't think you should be teaching three-man defense necessarily as a top Premier League club.
00:15:37
Speaker
So it'll be interesting. I don't think Ennerham is the best decision. I don't even know if Thomas Frank is the best decision, but that that seems to be where it's trending. telling is about ahead months max ofeggre it it did green that right and I just want someone else to suffer through that guy's but that guy's playing style. Although, United have suffered a lot. a lot So they shouldn't do that because he will that would just put them back even further. But I think it would be funny.
00:16:09
Speaker
My only thing here is I certainly it was time. I mean, there was time very a couple of weeks ago at that point. But what I want to I want to say is that good on me and you for not jumping ship immediately. This first season was a very good, very rocky second season, a lot of ups and downs. So I'm glad I'm just happy to see that an organization was willing to stick with the guy that they put a ton of money into from the start, even though he at time after time and transfer after transfer, he just got it wrong every single time. I think he I think he spent 500 mil in the time that he was a United manager around then, around there. And he bought like six of the players that he had at that IX team that made the quarterfinals just thinking like, just get me another one of them. And I don't know, I can return to that for him. It just didn't work out. Tough, tough show. And in any case, enough of the non-Italian news. Yeah. Well, I just want to shout out one thing. Higher Edin Terzic, if you know anything about soccer, Manchester United.
00:17:08
Speaker
And I haven't seen it anywhere, but I think they should do it. And let's move on to Analyn. Let's go to Analyn. Get on the jet. Torino in the news. Not because of their play on the field, but their back office is putting in work.
00:17:26
Speaker
Red Bull, the organization behind Leipzig and Salzburg, amongst others, is looking to purchase their first Italian team. Lads, what do we think about that? Not their first Italian team, I don't think. Don't they have another one in in the lower league? I could be wrong, but in the top flight, yes, it would be. Interesting enough, I actually did some digging on Torino. This was extremely just ironic. It just happened to be this way.
00:17:49
Speaker
Their valuation was only 200 million, which I thought was very, very low because I think it's actually a pretty famous club, especially in Italy. And I think that there's nothing stopping them from becoming like a very powerful club and continuing to develop the Turin rivalry because I think a lot of people in Turin are really supportive of this club and the UVA is more the global brand. And a lot of people in Turin who live there are Turino fans.
00:18:13
Speaker
And if we can get that rivalry to, like, as level of a playing field as enter an ACR, that could make things very interesting. And it it would be a very long runway, obviously, to get there. But the way that Red Bull systems work, it's kind of just plug and play guys and you can go from there. So they could, if this does happen, Torino are going to get a lot better very quickly.
00:18:35
Speaker
I think that's a big jump for them to to make as big of a rivalry as Milan Inter. It's a big rivalry in Torino and in Italy, obviously. like You were spot on. A lot of people in Torino support them over Juventus. But in terms of like club recognition globally, Torino have a long way to go to catch up to both Milan and Inter, which obviously everybody knows. But i like you said, I think it would be great for them because The Red Bull system, no matter where they are, whether it's Germany or wherever there are, whoever those teams are, are very, very known for young guys, hungry guys, developing players, making them into some talent and then they sell them off, make a lot of money.
00:19:19
Speaker
Torino needs to do that because for the most part they're gonna either have young or older veterans or young players because it's not really a prime time destination. They're not really in the Champions League all that much. So in order for them to be successful, they need to make a profit on younger players developing them and we know that the Red Bull system can do that. So I would love for this to happen to Torino and I would love to see the transformation that happens if this goes through with Torino.
00:19:47
Speaker
This is really exciting, from my opinion. I mean, I think Red Bull has a great system, not only on the field, but just in the back office and the way they do business. They've they've been very successful in a lot of their ah acquisitions, aside from their minority stake in Leeds, which obviously hasn't panned out just yet. But we could see Leeds back up in the prem.
00:20:06
Speaker
in a couple of years. But even more from that, like having such a big name move into Syria and to make that investment, I think, is also huge. Again, we're just it's it's momentum. Syria is grabbing such a huge momentum from the private equity side, from from guys like the Red Bulls. I think this is a really great look for Syria that's that's showing that we're worth the investment, that the league is worth the investment.
00:20:28
Speaker
And any amount of of cash injection here is super helpful. And just to jump on top of what I'm about to say, their young development is just insane. So this would be a great move for Torino. We'd be happy to see it. And it would be very interesting for the league. But even more so than that, two huge Italian names in the news. We talked about this a couple of episodes ago. Mario Balotelli.
00:20:53
Speaker
is here we go official. He has signed with Genoa. They signed on their new number nine. I believe he's wearing the number 45, but we are going to see Super Mario back in the top flight, which is great for Syria. it might It's interesting news. I don't know if it's going to help the situation in Genoa. This team is not very good at the end of the day, and I i don't even think that Balotelli is going to get enough service to do anything. like what Is 35-year-old Balotelli athletic? like That was part of the reason he was so good, right? He was athletic and was like this ruthless kind of finisher that on any given day might be the worst player that you've ever seen play soccer in the top level.
00:21:41
Speaker
I don't know how that's going to translate to a struggling Genoa team with an older Balotelli. They're going to sell some jerseys maybe? Yeah. They'll probably get some viewers. Yeah. I would still just roll Pinamonti out there because I think that's your best bet. But I don't know. This may have been the only possible way they could add a guy. It's a very weird one for me. If you're battling relegation, I just feel like there would have been a better option than this.
00:22:09
Speaker
Yeah, I think that this is classic Syria going to the ah old, let's go sign an older veteran Italian who knows the league, even though volatility doesn't really know the league and has done something in his career and won't work out and might be a dumpster, might lead to them being a dumpster fire. Whereas if Genoa were serious about improving off of what they had last year, even though they did sell their two goals, Horace, they would have done some scouting, looked for young Italian players that they could develop that are hungry, that can prove themselves. Right. Because you go a couple of things. Don't go bala tell you bala tell his way. He's going to be like, I don't need to prove myself. I am who I am. I'm older. I've already had my career. People know who I am. I don't need this. Right. You've got a younger guy who doesn't have a name.
00:23:05
Speaker
Things don't go his way. He's going to have to work harder. He's going to have to be hungry in order for people to learn his name and and to make another move. Right. And we talked about this the last episode or two episodes ago. Emply have done a great job of it. They found young Italian players. Nobody know who the fuck these guys were. And they are putting it together where Genoa is taking a more traditional Syria approach. Older Italian player that has already had his career and it probably will not help them. But like yeah good for the lead probably just or like good for the next two to three games for general have filled some seeds for the anticipation of him Definitely, i it's just like so Short sighted in like not it's nothing more than a gimmick. I don't think it that we might be looking too far into it But it's just it's a gimmick, but i I wouldn't call it anything more than that.
00:23:59
Speaker
You think? I do. it's ah Because again, what team is really looking to make a change with free agents in the middle of the season? Like the transfer window's not open, so it's not like they can't go get a real target. It's just they this guy was like, I'm bored, put me on the bench, play me a couple good. It's also, that's on Genoa. The transfer window is too long, right? it's It goes into like four games of the season and to set into ah September.
00:24:28
Speaker
You have literally June, July, August, like you have three, four months to scout players. You have the whole last year to realize, like, hey, Goodman, Sin and Rotegia are playing pretty well. We aren't the biggest club. Some club is probably going to come with an offer that we are probably going to accept. You need to know that and have the people in place and the infrastructure in the front office to scout and then recruit and then have these replacements and not go after Balotelli at this point to put a bandaid on her. girl Like the other teams that are down here, Callery, like add Picoli and find this guy, Zito Levombo. And those guys are making a massive difference for that team. Monza, Kep Gieric, who like was like a role player, but is now massive. like you got Komo, got Patrick Cuchroni, who's one of the best players in the league right now. Nico Paz. Nico Paz. Like there's all these guys that you can get. Come on. Yeah, bomers Bonnie and Dennis Mann.
00:25:22
Speaker
you have been like You're in the Serie A, you have to prepare better than this. like How is your first option? Pinamonti's not playing well. like We're getting Balotelli. I would have liked to see them go after Gio Simeone. Somebody like that who isn't really going to be in the... Not the best player, but is going to get you some good games. and he's not going to play like Gio doesn't really play Annapale now anymore. He's not good enough.
00:25:45
Speaker
And there's guys like that you can get if you want. And this was just such poor planning coming into the season. It's just disappointing. i I agree with the Gio. I think that they still should have looked for younger, but Gio would have done it exactly what Rotegi did last year and get you eight goals. At nothing else, that is replacing one of your best players, and he's going to do the exact same thing, probably nothing less, nothing more, which is still a better- To be fair, they were they I don't think they were planning to sell Rotegi.
00:26:16
Speaker
I mean, I think that they were... And dan mo adam and and lay it's only bought him because... And that's true. And it's true. I think that Juventus had interest in... Juventus had interest in Rotegi. Like, you had to know that... He's getting... He got... He made the Euro squad. He was getting international minutes in the Euros. You have to know one of these clubs is coming. Whether it's this year or next, you have to know.
00:26:41
Speaker
Right, but i but my point B is I think that was only three or four days before the end of the window, and they had made certain moves. They got ready alone. They brought in Pia Montney. They had Rhett Malinowski. I mean, I'm just naming names straight up. Martin Thornsby is good. They brought in Bergenori Koffee, who, if you didn't see him this weekend, you should have fucking watched. He was disgusting. So, again, they had the Coney De Winter. I mean, they had some guys that around him that, if they hadn't sold Ritegi, I think they're in a much better spot now.
00:27:09
Speaker
They fumbled the bag by only selling them for 25 mil and now they're they're scrambling. And just to bring it back to like the Emily method, Emily just signed like seven or eight guys and they didn't know who was going to be good is basically what happened and just started rolling them out there and some of them worked. Like you can just do that. You can just Verona last season sold nine of their starters and they just rolled out other young guys and they stayed up and they're an exciting team.
00:27:37
Speaker
So there's better ways to go about it. And I think that Como is a team that originally showed us both two different sides. right They showed us one, we're going to go after the old vets like Rafa Varan, Alberto Moreno. And then they also showed us we're going to go get younger guys that are hungry and want to prove themselves like Nico Paz. And now we see that Como is in the news about another even older Italian, even more ah more of a brand name.
00:28:05
Speaker
And we gave him a quick shout two or three episodes ago. It was some team in Italy called Francesco Totti to see if he would come back and play. No one knew who it was. It now came out that it was Como. So Como was kind of playing both sides here where it's like, hey, let's get young guys and let's get old veterans. This one is a gimmick.
00:28:26
Speaker
If they actually signed in, this one is a gimmick because their three best players are already forward. Like Niko Paz is kind of like a second striker. Patrick Catroni is one of the best strikers in the league right now. Strouffette is more of a winger. Then you also have Balotti, who is probably better than Francesco Dottie is right now. like This is fully a gimmick. He's going to be sitting on the sidelines and This is not going to happen. He would be a mascot. He would be a mascot, which would be terrible. If you're just going to talk to you, you cannot be a mascot. This is going to go check on the bench. It'll be sweet.
00:29:02
Speaker
Long, like long quick shots today. We got one more. We have to do the classic check-in of the Colby. there um Colby went poorly for myself and Mott. Mott said roll on Moneyline, which was never even close. Napoli minus one and a half was definitely possible.
00:29:22
Speaker
Didn't hit. And then Loges had the bet of the century at the Emply double chance, which was just a good, well thought out bet. No. It was deep odds. It was minus 165. So I can't say that it was like some brain buster. But it was also, we've talked about it before that we're not taking the double chances. And you went ahead and took the double chance. To be fair, my original bet was Emply plus a half. So I did not take two bets. What's the difference between Emply plus a half and double chance?
00:29:52
Speaker
why we I have only had one side of the bat in my original thing, so. All right. We're done with quick shots. This is obviously going to be a very long episode. We're 30 minutes in and just getting through our quick shots. We have reviews and previews and c Colpis still left in the holster. So we're going to get into match week number nine and what happened this weekend. And we got to start with the Derby d'Italia UVA at inter I'm going to just hand this over to Matz because this was a really weird game. I don't know how it happened, but it ended up being 4-4. And I think the bad parts of both teams were very much exposed in this game. And if they both don't grow from this,
00:30:36
Speaker
they're going to be terrible in Europe. That that was my takeaway. I think Juventus can walk away more satisfied than Inter at the very least in this game. But before we even get into like the breakdown of the game, 4-4 in a Derby Day Italia is crazy. These games are usually Maybe one to one because no team wants to overplay their hand. So four to four was nuts But let's let's start from the beginning, right? So we saw the lineups come out. It was pretty similar from Inzaghi, right you had the normal 11 although we finally played dumb freeze which dumb freeze played really well and And then the one change or the two changes were for the injured guys would be Zelensky was playing that Hakan role and DeVry was playing in that Achebe role. So pretty straightforward from Inzagi. I didn't think anything was crazy. Then you went and you looked at the Juventus lineup and Tiago Mata just said, fuck it. I mean, I know he had a lot of injuries, a lot of injuries, but he was like, fuck it. Let's just let's just see what happens here.
00:31:36
Speaker
through wea at the left wing first start at left wing for wea all season although he played well and then he had in the midfield fajoli mckinney and locatelli which there i don't love the offensive side those three give to you mckinney can go forward yes and he did end up getting an assist in this game but there's not really a true number 10 there or or offensive midfielder And then the other big question mark I think everyone thought of this lineup that Mona came out was Danilo and Nogati, especially after the performance Danilo performed or put out and during the Champions League. So those were my initial thoughts on the lineups. Do you guys have any thoughts on the lineups? No, I think you nailed it. Let's just go through a little bit of what happened in the game and then let's go back and talk about
00:32:26
Speaker
our points, big takeaways, because it wasn't an oddly like a fast start to the game. Very surprising fast start. I mean, we had three goals in 20 minutes, right? Three goals in 30 minutes or something like that. It was ridiculous. Yeah. inter started Inter started off one nothing and then UVA scored two and then there was two penalties in a row. art Well, Inter got the first penalty, but let's let's talk about the PKs. Okay. The first PK that Juventus gave up was once again, Danilo gave up another PK like he did against in the Champions League.
00:33:01
Speaker
You cannot just see a ball in the 18-yard line and swing your foot and think that you're just going to clear it. If the ball is inside the box, you need to be the first to go and attack the ball because all every striker or every forward is thinking, I got to go get the ball that's in the box. So as a center back, if you're just going to swing your foot and leave it out there, you're asking for a PK and he knew it immediately.
00:33:24
Speaker
immediately when he hit Marcus Tromm's foot, he was like, that's obviously a PK. So that was terrible on Danilo. Then Juventus ended up scoring twice. So they took the lead and then enters on the counter attack and Kalulu just straight up kicks, dumb freezing in the butt. So that was a PK. What I want to talk about, about that play and what no one in CBS said at all, not even brought it up once to have a conversation is A player is lined up offsides, and then that team but puts a ball in, and it is deflected off of a yeah off of the opposing team. So the defense deflects it. Is that player now on sides? Because that is exactly what happened on the Dumfries and the Kalulu penalty kick. Dumfries lined up offsides. A player, I think, dumb
00:34:19
Speaker
I think Barela went to cross it in, Wayah slid, deflected it, and it went straight into Dumfries and then Kalulu, not really recognizing that Dumfries was there, kicked him in the back. But I don't know if it wasn't because he wasn wasn't recognizing that he was there. I think he thought, hey, he's in an offsides position, so he cannot go play this ball. And they immediately gave the PK and everyone said that's a clear PK because if you see the foul, it is a foul, right? He kicks him in the ass.
00:34:47
Speaker
But I want to talk about how that offsides worked. Well, this is what I what I was texting you guys about, like instantly, because if that if so, say instead of crossing it, which is what Burella was trying to do, if Burella shoots that ball and it gets deflected and ends up at Dumfrey's feet, they'll call that offsides. So yes, what what the difference? Yeah, I don't I don't know. And there could be some written Because I don't know i know that' her know that if Juventus have the ball and dumb freezes off sides and Juventus is passing it back to their goalie and dumb freeze intercepts that he's not off sides because yeah we played that pass. Wayo was not playing a pass backwards. He was trying to block it. It got deflected and ended up going in dumb freezes area.
00:35:35
Speaker
So I don't, at my biggest thing, I'm not mad that the PK was given because it was a foul. What I'm mad about is how that wasn't even brought up in a topic of conversation. There was no rule analyst or any, no commentator, the the halftime grella, Marco, Poppy, nobody brought that up. And it was so clear as day how offsides he was. The second it happened, me and Vos texted immediately at the same time. He's clearly offsides, it's not a PK.
00:36:04
Speaker
Immediately. It literally came in at the same time. Immediately. I quit the send and got the message from Mott. And I get it was such an egregious, such a bad foul by Kalulu. It was like a 10-year-old who would make that tackle. But to not have that conversation is terrible. You have to either educate the viewer, because I think I know soccer and I think he's offside. So tell me why I'm wrong. At least have the conversation.
00:36:32
Speaker
or I agree. And that that dad moment was very significant because then that brings it to two to two. And then what happens is they kind of crumbled a little bit and went down four to two. And then Ken on Yieldy's came on and changed the game. Two goals in 20 minutes. I mean.
00:36:49
Speaker
in there. He's announcing himself. ah He had kind of been quiet for a while. You've been taking a lot of heat. You've been taking a lot of heat from the Italian media. And we talked about this last episode, how he's taking heat. He's 19. You have to give him some time. Like, he's not this guy's not messy, where messy is going to score a goal and an assistant every single game, give him some time. And he showed that, hey, listen, i'm I am 19, but I can play against the biggest clubs in the world and get results. Mona brought him on late. He used him as a super sub and he provided two goals. And i the first goal, he took it from the halfway line all the way down. Dumfries thought he was going to cut onto his right because that's what he always does. And he said, nah, I'm taking it with my left.
00:37:33
Speaker
Yann Sommer had no chance at the first goal. First goal was was a pure class goal. Second goal Yann Sommer probably should have saved. He had a lot of time in the box. Dumfries took too long to close him down. But great, great, great game from Yield. This is kind of reassuring the Juventus fans that I deserve this number 10 jersey, which he was doing in the beginning of the season.
00:37:54
Speaker
The other takeaway, the other young kid who played extremely well for Juventus was Konsei São. He was cooking on the right-hand side, absolutely frying anybody that went in front of him, creating all kinds of havoc, a ton of ton of different opportunities, got the assist to the way of goal and then created or put the ball in for a cross to then have it land on Yoda's feet to square goal.
00:38:20
Speaker
So great games from Yildiz in Kansang Sao, Mckenny with the great assist, and then I thought Juan Cabal also played very, very well. you can deal with. And then I wanted to get your two opinion on Deegregoria because obviously it was two PKs, right? Those are tough to stop. Got his hand on one of them. And then when it was four to two, Inter had a lot of chances, he was making some good saves. But it's four to two right now. So what are you guys what are you guys thoughts on how he played? I thought he was fine, Mike.
00:38:52
Speaker
There wasn't a ton he could do about the goals, right? Like, it's not like... Like, when we compare him to the his opposite in this game, Yann Summer, Yann Summer has done a lot of bad things this year. And Digregorio is a guy we're going to expect to continue to grow in steel gain for Juventus, and Yann Summer's doing the opposite for Inter.
00:39:11
Speaker
So, and it's weird. like i I can't imagine what it's like to be a goalie who's barely facing any shots. And then all of a sudden you're facing a ton against Inter Milan. Very strange situation to be him. I'm not going to read anything at a degradorial, regardless of what happens this entire year. He's a great goalie, phenomenal with his feet. He's going to be a great goalie. And i I still don't think he did anything wrong in this game.
00:39:34
Speaker
And I think the opposite, I think he played well. He kept them in the game in the second half. Two PKs, like it's a crapshoot whether you're going to say that or not. So that's got to be discounted. So I think he made a ton of great saves. He made more saves in this game than he has all season just out of necessity. And he certainly kept them in the second half. There were a couple, I mean for the first, I don't know, 15 minutes of that second half, Inter had the ball and UVA's 18 the entire time.
00:39:59
Speaker
whether it was from quarters or just hanging outside the box, obviously led to the goal eventually. But um I think DeGiororio simply played like great in the second half. My other takes for this game include Coast and Sow. I think that was that was the biggest flashy player that i could I was taking out of the second half there.
00:40:18
Speaker
might What my initial thought on Colton Sow was, he's kind of what people thought Anthony would be, except he actually is dangerous with the skill moves that he's using, with the with the dribbling skill that he has. Anthony just fucking dances like a fairy all over the field. Colton Sow is actually dangerous, and I know he only got one statistical assist.
00:40:41
Speaker
Like Matt said, I think he deserves two regardless. And he played synomially off that side. It makes me think that they're not going to miss Niko Gonzalez as much.
00:40:52
Speaker
They certainly will, but it's definitely nice to know that he has the confidence and the skill to go out there and really add some value, especially against a great team like Inter. um Obviously, we talked about Yieldiz. I don't need to cover that anymore, but what I will say from that perspective is they took out Pavard in the 60th minute, 65th minute. Sixty-third. And Bisic came in. Yieldiz caught them.
00:41:16
Speaker
but i mean Both goals were from his side. You hate to see that out of him, especially because he's had he's been looking rather rather good this year. Still a very young player, but tough that he that both the goals came from his zones. And so I think overall, my whole take from this game is Inter might be a little in trouble.
00:41:41
Speaker
just from a mental standpoint, not even not even from a talent standpoint, really. Obviously, a couple of injuries here and there, but we've been preaching the fact that they're so deep on the bench side that you should be able to come in and overcome those those kinds of obstacles. And they had it. They had it in the back. You weren't... Yeah, we're going to talk about intro, but I just want to wrap up on you before we like get into intro, because i I agree with you. There's a lot of talk about that. Do you really just inter interrupt my monologue like that?
00:42:07
Speaker
Yeah, we and we're not done with Yuvei. That was hourly now is the hard. to Because on Yuvei Matsu, I think this is a good game to take a step back in and look at Tiago Matsu, because at one point in this game, they were down four or two, and in a Derby de Italia, that is... That's a big deal, right? Like, you've got to stay in these games. And they were very much... This is a game they probably should have lost to what Logan was talking about there. If you go down four to two to enter, you you are probably going to lose. And they kind of got bailed out with Yieldies. And we look at some of the subs that are not the subs, the starting lineup, particularly with the Neelo.
00:42:44
Speaker
way it did work out, which I thought he was, to your point, was spectacular in this game. So where are you at with him? Because it was, we can't score, but we're defending well. And this game was the polar opposite of that. What happened?
00:42:56
Speaker
Yeah, so I'm good with Moda. Yes, it was 4-2 at one point, but there were, I totally disagree with one PK. So that very much should have been 2-2 going into the halftime or around that, around there. i Listen, the choices in terms of the lineup, he's kind of got his hands tied with the amount of guys we have injured. So he's got to just play who's healthy, right? Douglas Louise is out, Kukmein is out, and Nico Gonzalez is out, Milik is out, Bremer is out. So you got to play who's healthy.
00:43:25
Speaker
My biggest takeaway is, number one, we had the lead in a in a Derby Day Italian in Milan. That's great, right? We came to play. Number two, once again, we have showed so tremendous character in another game, just like we did against Leipzig.
00:43:45
Speaker
With Allegri, you go down four to two, you're fucked. You are not scoring two goals and tying it up four to four. With Mata, we always have a chance to get a point with Mata because he understands you got to score goals to get points and he's normally much more Organized offensively listen, I think now we're starting to see how how important Bremer was because since he's been gone We've allowed like six goals and we allowed one all season But I'm i'm in a good spot with Mata. We are we're going to be fine defensively
00:44:23
Speaker
You see the character and the heart and the mentality of this Juventus team, which we can now switch into Inter because Logan was spot on the head that this is a mentality thing with Inter. It used to be a mentality thing with Juve not being able to come back. Now it's a mentality thing with Inter that I want to let Logan talk about. What do you think that mentality is? What do you think that issue is with Inter?
00:44:47
Speaker
but Now I had a question about Yule. Oh, okay. What's the question about Yule? Well, mike my thing is, how do you feel about Dusan being taken off in the 77th when you're down one goal? That's your bet and that's your best goal scorer, in theory, in Matza takes him off. I mean, obviously, he's not going to lay every 90 every game, but think it's tough in that and my position, why why do you why are you taking off Dusan? Super tough. Listen, Dusan has played every single game for the full 90 besides one.
00:45:16
Speaker
I didn't love the sub just because without him, we have just immediately stopped crossing the ball because our our number nine is in in Bangula, who's not tall and yo, this is not physical at all. So I didn't necessarily love that. But I think that got or that doesn't really matter because the yo, this sub works so so well. And once again, modern knows we got more games coming up. We're playing again on Wednesday. I got to get my guys rested. Doosan.
00:45:45
Speaker
We have no one else to play this position besides Doosan. So listen, when I saw the substitute, I was like, fuck, like we are now fucked if a ball, if a good ball comes in the middle because we don't have a number nine, but Yield is made up for it on the left. So did I love it? No. Did I understand it? Yes. I thought you saw this was one of Doosan's better games. Yeah, he played well. This was the most complete performance I think we've seen from him in terms of the desire off the ball which is a lot of the time that's obviously the whole can't finish is still it gets still an issue but he he contributed in other areas which we don't see from him a ton of the time also saturday deuson's first goal in a uventis jersey in the sans zero uh which is pretty crazy because he's played like three years now but going back takeaways for me uventis
00:46:33
Speaker
I like it because you saw their mentality. They came, they they were on the front foot from the start of the game. Things happen. People made mistakes. They battled back. They show that they have kalinka. They show that they are never out in any game under Mata. Where Inter, it's kind of the opposite. They don't know, in my opinion, this year, they don't know how to finish a game off. Lopes. Inter's mentality. I know you weren't wanting to talk about it.
00:47:00
Speaker
No, I just think that they're soft. I think it's a matter of being soft this year, and they don't have that killer instinct that they showed time and time again last year. You're up 4-2. I think they made the right subs, bringing on a fresh center back they brought on for Tezi, who can obviously drop it a little bit further, from my opinion. that That's what he's he's used to playing. I know he's been more of a 10 as of late, but can certainly drop back in.
00:47:24
Speaker
So it's not it's not a sub but question. It's not a tactics question. I think it's a straight mentality. These guys just don't have it. And I think that's what it's been the whole problem the whole season. It's not something tangible.
00:47:35
Speaker
Again, it's not a tactic. they it's It's not a personality. It's just I think it's all mental game that they have gotten comfortable being top dog. And I think a lot of other teams are gunning for them. And that home that hunger to be inter is overwhelming these guys from just feeling like they can make you win without even really true. Well, i i I agree that it is some mentality, but I disagree and that I do think it is partially tactical because What we've seen from them every game this season is they cannot close the game. And that's because they're no longer willing to be a ball dominant team. And last year, what made them so good is they were lethal on the counter and then they would also hold the ball to close the game out as good as they were defensively. They could go into their shell and defend for large periods, but they were willing to be on the ball to defend. And they aren't willing to do that for whatever reason. I don't know what happened.
00:48:33
Speaker
But it seems that it had to be in Zaghi that says, if we have the lead, we're going into a low block now. And that wasn't Inter last year. And I i don't know why they've gotten away from that, because the only guy that's not in the team is Hakan Chanelobu. And as good as he is,
00:48:50
Speaker
That doesn't stop you from holding the ball. Just not having it. like You can still do it. I actually thought Zelensky was very good in that deep-lying role. It was night and day compared to Barela. So I think they they still have the pieces to do this. I don't know why they're not. Is it because a cheruby's not there? it Maybe, but like i i I don't know what's causing that because this is what's going to stop them from going deep in Europe. Because when you just sit back and defend against very good teams, this is exactly what happens.
00:49:19
Speaker
You have a 4-2 win and then in a flash, it's gone. And that is how great teams win games. They get the lead on you and they yeah they defend by attacking or by holding the ball. Because if you don't have the ball, you can't score and then you can't win. And I don't know why they've gone away from that.
00:49:36
Speaker
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. And what I'll also add in terms of, I think that it's mentality, right? Because last year, if Inter have a three to one lead, or even a two to one lead, or a four to two lead, you are not tying that game, you're not coming back, they're killing that game off, whether that is another goal, or you're not going to have the ball at any point in time, we're going to have it.
00:50:00
Speaker
This time, they don't have that that killer mentality. They've allowed multiple goals in the 80th minute, which I've said before. I think that is concentration. They've allowed way more goals than last year. I think that is tactical. They're not as good as as recovering people's spots, how they play that fluid soccer. They're not recognizing it or they're just not as compact because con sei sao When it was ah Bastoni was out of position, Mecatarian was playing Konsi Sao's position and that was not, was not I mean Konsi Sao put him in a blender. It was the easiest thing for Konsi Sao to get by Mecatarian where it should have been Bastoni and then he just pass it to Wea. So I think that there might not be there might not be recognizing that people are leaving their spots or maybe they're putting too many men forward so they're allowing more counter-attacks and being more open.
00:50:50
Speaker
But i maybe it's their age. I know that they're like the oldest team. that Their average age is like 30. So because of all the games they played last year and how deep and into Europe they went two years ago, now they played a lot of minutes and their they're theyre they're tired. I don't know what it is. I think it's a little bit of concentration, a little bit of mentality, and a little bit of tactical errors that they're making. And for whatever it is, Inter cannot put 90 minutes together other than that game against Atlanta.
00:51:19
Speaker
Well, the the interesting thing about that Makatarian thing that that does go overlooked on what Hakan did well is, he had picked up this ability to defend very well over the last two years, and we had never really seen that from him. And with Makatarian, you obviously lose that. And I actually thought he was really good in this game from an off offensive standpoint. He scored a great goal. But even more than that, which is making things happen, I was calling for him to be benched before the year started, like calling for new blood. It plays Olinsky there. Completely-ish shut me up. he's He's been great all year. But you do lose that, because Olinsky doesn't have any bite. And Hakan has somehow picked up bite. And it makes a difference on that left side, which we have said time and time again. When DeMarco's up and Bastoni is slightly out of position, that's the area to expose them. Granted, Yieldy's cooked basic bites on the other side.
00:52:05
Speaker
But it's a problem for Inzagi to figure out and we've been saying it again and again and again. You're going to build your legacy. It starts this year or else you're just going to be another coach in time. And he has a problem to fix and it's very apparent.
00:52:18
Speaker
Yeah. And that's why I think that if you are Juventus, you can walk away more satisfied than Inter because Inter had this game by the throat. They were up four to two in the 70th minute. You have 20 minutes to not let them score two goals. And that's exactly what they let Juventus do. And you were home when you're, I know Juventus is a big club, but when you are a big club in your home, you need to win those games. If you drop points, that's not looked at as a good result for a team like Inter.
00:52:44
Speaker
And Juventus came back, they showed Grinka, they showed Hart, they showed that mentality again, like I said. So that's why I think that they slightly got the edge. But four goals, allowing four goals is not not good. What do you think Gonzagi can do, Lokes, to turn around this mentality thing? Because i I think this game is kind of personified through Lothara and Martinez, who I thought was very quiet and didn't really do a whole bunch for me everywhere. And that this is a guy last year in games like this who would take over the game.
00:53:11
Speaker
I saw a lot of frustration of Lutaro, especially towards the end of the game there. He's definitely hungry, but there's not. And you're not even seeing it at Burella. Burella usually is their emotional you know an engine, not even just physically, but emotionally. And I'm not even seeing that out of him this year. So maybe it's an all players meeting. I don't think Inzagi is really the one that's going to fire him up, per se. But something internally, I think that needs to come from the players, needs to change.
00:53:39
Speaker
They just need a reset. I think we said it the other day. I mean losing to Milan in the 89th minute to me isn't really a slap in the nuts, but someone needs to do it. I think this 4-2 loss might have done it. I think this losing, tying a 4-2 game, 4-4 was a bigger loss.
00:54:02
Speaker
mentally then losing to ac the milan dirt no west heard i i ah hundred i the first time they lost in six matches i a hundred percent will stand by that They had this in the bag. This was a bigger mental loss than losing the Milan Derby. That Montz has always been saying that Inzaki doesn't rotate the squad. And because mentally of that, is there not enough competition than on the team to drive players to losing to get better or be better AC. or beat out like a guy behind them? Could that be a piece of it? I don't know. It's so weird. It's very weird. And they can go from what they were last year to this.
00:54:43
Speaker
it It really doesn't make a lot of sense. It's very weird. We all we also said that the stretchy games was going to be telling and I think it show you a lot about the the cracks the weaknesses that inter has going on. So again, is this is history games a wake up call. Hopefully a good team will come out of this stronger and we'll make adjustments. But we'll we'll see because from what I'm.
00:55:06
Speaker
What this has told me is that this is not interim last year. we've been We've been saying it and predicting it and talking about it, how they're simply not going to run away with the league again. They are not even remotely close to that form. Matz has been saying it. I actually said this the other day, that Matz has not gone enough love for his Napoli shouts. um and And I've been saying that about interim. I said they we're not actually and also on the inter society. So again, we need I we me Needs to reassess how I look at this inter team and that they're not Undefeatable they they aren't broken. Oh, they're certainly not they're losing so here we're going games one last question that I just thought about and then we'll go on to another team that's broken and battered that we all really liked coming into the air if this continues
00:55:57
Speaker
can they sack in Zagi at the end of the year, even if they finish top five? I think they can. I mean, yeah they only extended her kind his contract till 2026. So it's not like they're committed him committed to him for the long haul. And they definitely were coming into this season with the expectations of Champions League final, Champions League win, Scudetto win like multiple trophies. I think really the only thing that can save him if he doesn't finish first in the Serie A is his performance in Europe.
00:56:30
Speaker
which if they continue to play like this, he's not going to go far again in Europe. If this is their trend all season, certainly can sack them. They're playing like a fourth place team, which for Inter, that's an absolute failure. Yeah, I agree. And I also think from a like coming into the season, they were best positioned to be successful this year compared to all the other like noise that was going on around the league. So much change, so much turnover everywhere besides Inter.
00:56:59
Speaker
Yeah, just crazy. But going on to another team, we're all super head on that are now in the dumpster. The fire is growing. I don't even know what else to talk about with them. Roma went to Fiorentina and got their teeth kicked in five to one. Maybe not giving enough love to Fiorentina how I'm saying that, because I think they're probably a top five team in the league right now with how they're playing a lot of players in form. In this game, Moise Keane scored another two goals, which is so great to see. We talked about him coming into the air and the other notable one Eduardo Bove on loan from Roma.
00:57:33
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also netting a goal and this is in a game where we saw Brian Christante pulled in the 30th minute we saw a bunch of midfielders for Roma not playing well and you have a guy going on loan scoring against you who's been great all year for Fiorentina and Roma did come out apparently and said they are not going to sack Ivan Yurich I don't know what the timeline is on that But they they are sticking to him. And there is nothing new to take away from this Roma game, other than Manu Kone and Paulo de Bala are good players. like that That's it. It's still the exact same team. I don't think that's new news. Even worse defensively. like I think they were worse defensively than they've even been. Obviously it was five to one, so yeah.
00:58:17
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red card. But it just seems that the belief in mentality is fully gone at this point and nobody feels good. Yeah. I mean, I said that last game when they were walking off the field, that nobody looked like they gave a shit besides Palo de Bala because Palo de Bala has been there, has done that, has won in this league, knows what it takes, knows the effort that you need to give on the pitch in order to win games. And I'm not saying that no one in the Roma team does because they've they have players that do like Pellegrini, Idi Mancini, Christante. These guys have been around this league, have have gotten results in this league, have finished high in this league, have gone deep in European tournaments for whatever reason.
00:59:04
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they don't look like any of them wanted to play and that could be because everybody was so dead behind Durosy and then they sacked Durosy and people didn't know why they sacked him and then now Ivan Yurich comes in he doesn't have a tactical plan offensively his tactical plan is probably just let my kind of stars figured out themselves in Diballa, Pellegrini, Soule and Dovbic but they clearly have showed that they need some tactical guidance and can't necessarily create on their own until they kind of get informed. So that's when you kind of need to look to your manager to have them help, to have him help them be put in positions to succeed until they start to get in their normal form. And then they can start doing the things that we know that they're capable of, like Dubala scoring from 25 yards out, Pellegrini with the free kick goals and Dobic scoring 29 goals in La Liga. But with all of it not
01:00:00
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happening or not going to plan in Europe, not having a plan and all the turmoil that happened during the season and all the the new faces brought in. There is just so much moving parts. I didn't even mention how the owners are buying a new club in Everton. There's so much going on that I don't think their players are being able doing a good job of zoning it all out, focusing on the game, on the task at hand, getting the results.
01:00:28
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there The noise is in their locker room. I'm sure they're hearing everything. I'm sure they don't know about their like, there's just so much going on that it's now it's affecting the play on the field and it does not look like it is getting any better anytime soon. And I asked you guys this question before I asked you guys that last week, when is it going to get to the point where Roma is that are they going to finish even top six?
01:00:53
Speaker
Up six, it doesn't look like, but i the the real big problem here is there's zero accountability out of this team. You start from the top and you look at Ivan, yearss it you're a switch. Again, this isn't his team. He just kind of adopted this. He got thrown into this for all. It wasn't his window. These are guys that he's just now just being forced to use. So he's like, all right, well, this is not my team. This is not my squad. I'm just make makeshift for me. I'm doing my best. So the east he's got his out. Then you look at it from a player standpoint,
01:01:21
Speaker
And you have guys like Pellegrini and Mancini who lead this team in the locker room. Even Brian, like even brian I would throw in that mess. Well, Brian, I was going to say a whole other thing, but from a Pellegrini and Mancini standpoint, like these guys are playing like dog shit, and they're usually the ones who if everyone else is playing poorly, at least they'll keep them in the game. Then you have Cristante, who literally fought De Rossi out of this team. Tried to fight this guy in the locker room, and and he now now he's out there playing like dog shit.
01:01:51
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one bright spot is it obviously Dybala another bright spot which you don't want to see is like your your shiny star in a situation like this but sphelar has been great i know obviously five goals is not good don't think you're wrong that's not the reasoning but he's had a bunch of really good matches for them ah thus far and so i think just again from a county billy standpoint Angelillo's new, Armoso's new, Dolbyk is brand new, all these guys came in, they just they're these this isn't their team yet, they don't have an allegiance yet, and it's just really sad to see that that's translating into the field and into the play. I just, into the play and into the field, I just like, you look at the, if you were to just look at the result, like like click on something, you would see 5-1, Roma got a red card, okay, obviously they were playing down 10 men.
01:02:39
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Roma got a red card in a 65th minute. It was a four to one. And then they only, they didn't, they let up one goal and it was a Mateus, it was a Hummel's own goal. So it wasn't like, Oh, they had this man advantage for 60 minutes and Fiorentina just outnumbered them. It was, there was 11 on 11 and it was four to one. And then they got a red card and.
01:03:03
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There wasn't like, yes, Kone scored, but there wasn't even a chance that for Roma, that I was like, oh shit. You know, like there wasn't anything. Yeah, no, that Kone goal was just a pure moment of brilliance, great strike for Manu Kone. And he was kind of due because he'd been doing that every game. It just wasn't going in the net. And there was just no sign that they're going to generate offense. It's the same thing every week. Like at no point do they look scary, like that they're going to, they never get the ball in the box.
01:03:28
Speaker
to create an opportunity. All their opportunities are shots from distance that are kind of half chances. Or it's like a one like a like a ah like like you just said like a play of brilliance from one player like like Dobic went on that run where he's he got the ball from like 30 yards out took on two men scored. Kone's deep goal. Cristante's crazy deflection goal against Venezia. It's like they're not consistently scoring in specific ways. It's just like moments of brilliance by players that aren't going to give you that game in and game out, which is not going to lead to results. But now they don't even got the defense, at least with De Rossi. And you would think with Yurich, you had the defense
01:04:12
Speaker
uh kind of ironed out I mean now they're just they still five four goals against Florentina I know they're flying high but you gotta you cannot let Florentina score four I mean if you if you just like go through the table right now and like I it takes me so long to get to a team that I feel like Roman can beat like I think Kalyuri is in there in 14th. I would back Como against them right now. ah that big but the thing is they did beat they beat ue three nothing but since then it's been tide roma or tide manza lost to milan lost to firrantina ah barely beat fineia by a bio ninety minute goal on a corner kick so it's no there's no consistency there's it's just it's just like
01:05:02
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ah that you're playing football, football and I just like throw the ball up and pray that something good happens for us, every game for Roma. And they're not even throwing the ball up, to that's the thing. like There's no like risk-taking or like doing something to try to generate the chance to just, oh, we're just going to have dumb possession the entire game when we do have possession. And because it's Man You Day, I was thinking about this a lot.
01:05:26
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And I think there are a lot of similar things that happened at Man U, which we're now seeing at Roma, obviously with the whole manager's circus that's been going on. But my main takeaway from this is that what Jose Mourinho did with Roma, got them to the European final two years in a row, one, one of them.
01:05:47
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Do we need to reevaluate how good these players were? Jose Mourinho finished in second place with Manchester United and said it was the best thing he ever did. It was what he achieved at Roma, overachieving with these players. And we are only seeing them in coming into the season saying, oh, they can be this good because of what Jose did. And we look back at the Manchester United and we saw this was not very good.
01:06:09
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and yet he was able to do that and now we look back. Oh, he finished second with them. they They can't even come close to that anymore. They're so bad. Is this the same thing, the same story over again now? and this Very simply, these players aren't good enough and they overachieved very briefly.
01:06:23
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I don't think they overachieved because I think that a lot of these guys have been good for a long time and it's not just been in one system or another. It's been across multiple years. What I will say though is that the key players are just playing horribly and they're all play horribly at the same time. I get like Matz went on for There's so much noise around them and they're not, they're not able to adjust it to then to ignore it. It's getting into their heads and they're, they're letting it show in the field. A lot of these guys are trying to make transitions that they maybe just weren't used to. Obviously the biggest starting dope, but hasn't been the guy that they needed to finish off the, the attack. But I'll, I mean, I want you to go back to Pelaviri Menchi. Like those are your stout, those are your crying time guys. And they're not playing well. I've always said that Menchi is not that good.
01:07:15
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but he's been, you know he's been a he was a stout defender for the last season. So is it a timing thing that they're all just playing horribly at the same time? That's what I'm gonna lean on. But I will, so I'm not going to go as far to say that Reno didn't have anything to do with it because Marino has shown that he's a phenomenal coach, especially with when he did a menu. I'm sure that had an effect on this team being able to manage three different tournaments, three different games at the same time. So between the turmoil, the timing, and a little bit of the the coaching from then on, sure, are these players not that good? and I don't think that's the case.
01:07:52
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I think these players are fully capable of finishing a top four, going to a Europa League final, winning a Europa League. um I mean, these they don't have, they're not scrubs. Like I said, Dobrik had 29 goals last year. Was it a different style of play? Yes, but 29 goals is 29 goals. Dabala has been a Serie A MVP before.
01:08:16
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Pellegrini as is a very good player. We'd like know that, right? Sule was a good player last year. He scored like seven, eight goals last year and four or five assists. So I don't think it's a player thing. Kone is good obviously.
01:08:33
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And they got humos is a veteran player who's won everywhere he's been. It was in the Champions League final last year. Hermoso was great for athletic home injury that was in a defensive system that never let anyone goes in and has but gone deep in European tournaments. So I don't there's a lot of different things. I think it's mentality. I think the manager needs to be able to have this players focus on one goal zone out the the noise. You know who's really good at doing that is Conte Conte is really good at.
01:09:03
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Do not focus on the outside noise. only only matt What only matters is what's happening in this locker room. Focus, focus, focus, and get results. Roma don't have any of that right now. On the other side of things, Paladino got things fucking rolling in Florence right now. Mats, what's the stat the last three games?
01:09:25
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Last three games in the Syria quarantine have 13 goals, four and two goals conceded. That is a lot of goals in three games and not that many goals that they're letting up.
01:09:38
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And this is my, like, in my big thing of Fiorentina, like, great comparison to well-length. On paper, these players are inferior to the Roma team, but at this point, they literally do not have somebody that is out of form. Everybody is playing great. Everybody has clear instructions. We talked about Kolpani wasn't getting on the board. He got two last week, and then in this week played a huge part in this game, although he didn't end up on the score sheet.
01:10:05
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Adley is playing out of his fucking mind all of a sudden and it's just pulling strings from deep and you just go through the seams. Everybody is playing so well and they are amazing to watch because of how attack minded they are.
01:10:20
Speaker
Fiorentina is my ex-wife and is now my galore. I lived there in 2018. I got my jersey. I got my kit in the closet. I fell in love with my with the second lovers. You fall in love with two people. You always go with the second.
01:10:37
Speaker
That was AC Milan. They drive me fucking nuts, so I had to go back to my ex-wife, maker Mike Gomorrah. I love this Fiorentina team. When you look at top, the bottom, the good invention. We got another Gomorrah announcement. i This is what you said, the Gomorrah announcement. Fiorentina is Mike Gomorrah. It's been clear. But the one thing I will say that I think this makes them almost like the sweethearts of the league.
01:11:02
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is that you go top to bottom, this this squad is filled with underdogs. Absolutely filled with it. They've got a ginormous chip on their shoulder. We'll start with Palladino. I'm sure that he was in the running for a lot of these managerial openings.
01:11:17
Speaker
that it were went around allowed run the league, you had Bologna, you had AC Milan, you had Juventus, everyone probably overlooked him. And they literally, Fiorentina just replaced some guy that went to a better better team in Bologna who's obviously not playing that well. So Paladino, chip on his shore, he didn't get the big job looks. He's doing a phenomenal job with the IOLA. And then you go look at the players. Moise Kean.
01:11:41
Speaker
outcast from UVA. Bunch of really bad years, he's absolutely running right now. And Wardo Bove, playing against his former team, they revamped their midfield, said that we don't need him anymore. He comes to Fiorentina, he's been a a great addition to that midfield. Yassine Adly couldn't stand AC Milan either with his RBQs. He's bawling out. Vos and I were hot on Yassine. He's a great player. The Gryphonister.
01:12:07
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He said the crypt. The fact that we didn't, we couldn't bring the best out of him was just an absolute travesty. Robin Gozins has no knees and he's playing phenomenally from his team. Dotted the hayah. Run out of town by the man you're faithful. He's playing phenomenally. Andrei Kalpani.
01:12:25
Speaker
led Monzo for an entire season. He finally got his look. He's now playing well. He's backing business. If they get them in sync going, again, coming from a bottom tier team now getting the spotlight. this Again, this team is just full of players with a chip on their shoulder. They're playing for the the kit. They love playing for fewer teener. The fans are loving it. The atmosphere in the stadium this past game was phenomenal.
01:12:50
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that the ceiling for this team has gotten huge. Yeah, that's but that is my my question now to you guys. Who is Fiorentina facing right now that they don't feel like they can win? i I literally think that they can beat any team in the league on any given day with how they're playing. And realistically, the only teams you're you're really scared of then are Napoli and Inter. And I think they theyes match up pretty well to Inter right now. I don't think any anybody's scared of Inter anymore, yeah off of what they've done in the last ten nine games. But yeah, Fiorentina can beat anybody, right? I mean, I'm looking at their last five games,
01:13:28
Speaker
three wins in a row in their last three, but in the last five, it's four wins, one draw, 20 goals for, or on the season, 20 goes for nine goals again. So not really conceding that much. They're scoring a lot of goals. Everyone knows how hard it is to beat them in Florence as well.
01:13:45
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So they, they should look at any team and say, I mean, that's culture though. I think every team can be any team on any given day. But I think if you weren't Tina can now look at this and see how the table is shaping up and how they're playing stacking up against every team and say, Hey.
01:14:02
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top four isn't is a realistic shout here that could be our goal right with with Italiano we typically finish in six seven however we typically don't score we are always struggling to score with palette with Italiano Paladino's kind of unlocked the key Moisey-Keene scoring goals. When Grummancy comes back, we know he will be scoring goals, getting goals from his midfielders. So now with the firepower and the finishing that they have, you got to think, hey, we finished seven, two years in a row. With these goals, five, four, we can do we is what we can finish. Plus the European deep in the competency because they play teams that I've never heard of once in my life.
01:14:45
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i Yeah, so you go first and then there's a couple things that are going to wrap up on. No, my only thing here is that they they certainly should believe that they have a spot in this top four. They they should be 100% in the running. If they don't get European ball next year, that would be a failure, in my opinion. But the only team that if I'm fewer team that I'm afraid to go up against right now is Lazio and they already beat them.
01:15:07
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Yeah, that was gonna be my point. In the big games they've played this year, they beat Milan, they beat Lazio, they beat Roma, and they lost three to two at Atlanta. Like, those are your big games and you... played phenomenally, like getting three wins out of those is ridiculous. And I think in the the conference league this year, they should be thinking we're going to win the competition. I think if they don't win it with how they're playing, it will be a massive disappointment for this team. And they should be gunning for it because they have every all the teams that they're playing, they are better than and they should absolutely be gunning for this competition.
01:15:43
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And I do hope they break into top five, because that'd be very interesting. And they have no reason not to with how things stand. But that wraps up the big previews of match week nine. We got a couple of the games just take you through. Kaluri lost to Udenaze in Udene, 2-0. Udenaze, a good result for that team. They're getting back on track. On Friday, we saw Como go to Torino. Great 1-0 game. Torino ended up winning this one.
01:16:06
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on a flute goal at the end of the game. It was kind of a, over it was a game that deserved a draw. Both teams played phenomenally. It was an absolute battle. And I thought Ricci was another guy just again showing up, proving that he's capable of going to that next level. So it'd be interesting to see what happens with him in the summer. Lecce went to Napoli. Napoli once again, just doing enough. One nothing, getting it done. Conte ball at its finest. That's what we're going to expect from them all year.
01:16:33
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Verona went to Atalanta and things did not go their way. Six to one Mateo Verteggi continuing to grow the lead as top goal scorer netted another one in this game. Genoa went to Lazio. Three nothing Lazio. Another team absolutely rolling. Nuno Tavares not just two more assists. Pedro continuing to score. I think he came off the benches again in this one and scored. That guy literally cannot stop scoring.
01:16:59
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In a battle of the relegation candidates, Venezia went to Monza. Both teams dropping points, two to two. Somebody's got to win those games. Those are big ones for these teams. In the last game that was not played, Milan at Bologna postponed. I hate that it was postponed. Field flooded. They wouldn't play at a neutral location. I don't know i don't know how that works, but I fucking hate it.
01:17:20
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any of Any other big news on Raspberry 9 before we move on to the the previews here at 10? Just that Milan had two red card players that are going to be suspended for a future game, but that's it. Into the game we're about to talk about? Into the game we're about to talk about. Yeah.
01:17:38
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Alright, match week number 10, previews. We're previewing one game heavy here. And this game is tomorrow. Napoli at Milan. On the back of match week nine, with the Inter and Juve dropping points, Napoli are now four points clear.
01:17:54
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which is where Conte loves to thrive. And we would probably expect him now to start grinding out just those results that he needs. And this is where he incrementally is going to increase that lead. This is a massive game massive game for Milan with a game in hand and a massive game for Napoli to maybe extend that lead if they can pull one on Milan who have not been very consistent.
01:18:16
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I think this is a tough draw for Napoli or and ah Milan, sorry, because of the way that we know Kante plays and is going to play. We've seen that Milan has success and has been able to beat teams when they say, hey, we're going to sit in our low block and play on the counter. That's what Kante does. Kante allowed Empoli to have more possession than Napoli.
01:18:40
Speaker
So if you think that they're going to go out, change their kind of is going to go out, change his style of play and have the ball more than Milan, you're wrong. So Napoli is going to sit deep. We've seen that Milan struggle to break down a team that sits low. Liao struggles to do that as well. He's much better in space. It's really just going to probably be cannon police, save them, get them a result because I think that Napoli is going to be sitting low, extremely hard to break down, hitting on the counter with Kavada and Lukaku. And also, that a before I pass it to Loges, I'm interested to see what Christian Polisic can do being on the same side as Bonjorno, because we have seen Bonjorno delete humans when he on the left-hand side, and that's obviously or the opponent's right-hand side, Napoli's left-hand side for defensively,
01:19:35
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to just delete them. However, that also makes me think we have seen DiLorenzo struggle very heavily against players with Liao's skill set. So, Bongiorno could delete plissage, but Liao has an opportunity to kind of exploit DiLorenzo and his bad defense like Lomini Mal did for Spain against Italy. Niko Williams. Yes, Niko, my bad.
01:20:04
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I'm weirdly optimistic coming from the AC side. And as I've been thinking about it, as Mats has been speaking, we had a great game against Club Bruise last week, a three to one win and Champions League. Unfortunate that we had the Bologna games postponed because then the red cards obviously moved to this game. That means no Teo, that means no Tijani Reiners,
01:20:29
Speaker
that We're looking at a lineup where Pool of Stitch is going to play the 10, so that actually might play in our favor because he's not going to be lined up against Bonjour to. We're going to have Chuck Waze on that side, and maybe we just haven't run around. Let me check it with his head cut off and just kind of see Bonjour of Busy per se. The other thing that i'm I'm not happy about, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but David A. Calabria has been hurt.
01:20:54
Speaker
And he only shows up for two games a year. And it's when they play Napoli, and it's when he goes up against Kavar Zhekliar. So we do have Emerson Royale drawn out there. I think that's going to be horrendous to watch. But I'm optimistic because I.
01:21:14
Speaker
feel like AC plays their best and has their best results when it looks the most dire. And on paper, this game looks like a fucking murder. This, from from the top level i disclaimer, I already took Napoli Moneyline.
01:21:32
Speaker
I think Napoli could run away with this, but some part of me just feels like NEC could show up here. Aaron Lee Shaw is supposed to come back tomorrow to start. He's to play with Pavlovich. I think, in theory, that should be strong enough to keep- Why would you not go Gabby? Why would you not go Gabby? He's been playing so well. too yeah ah that So that's going to be the back two, which I think plays in our and AC moment's favor as well because that's two really strong players going up against Lukaku. I don't think Tamori stands a chance there. I definitely don't think Gabbia stands a chance against Lukaku in those situations. So we give up a little bit of speed just to make sure that the physicality doesn't overwhelm us.
01:22:13
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But I'm not going to be surprised tomorrow to see Poetsich come through with another goal. Maybe Liao wakes up a little bit. He has one or at least creates one. We have Loftus cheat playing. Morata's back. We don't have Tammy. He's probably not going to play.
01:22:29
Speaker
but we do have Okafor who's due for a goal here, no drillvish. So every, I mean, I keep saying all these negatives, AC's in a bad spot here, but again, that's what, that's when we play our best soccer. I think that, you know, we could at least come out with a draw here, but again, I already bet on Napoli, so. You can't. I'm playing both sides. I'm hedging. You cannot, you cannot be saying, I hope you come out with a draw if you're in the San Siro.
01:22:52
Speaker
But I'm just saying, based on the fact that we have two red cards to two of our best players and all the injuries that we have, i this is not going to be our best lineup. And at least my hope is that we play some young guys. Camarda came in last week, played against Bruges. He should have, that goal should have been the best cell you've ever seen. So hopefully we play some young guys and we see, you know,
01:23:13
Speaker
This is me just being hopeful. I'm not even mad. I won't even be mad tomorrow. I'm just hopeful. I think how you're foreseeing this game now is very far from what it's going to be. I think Napoli are going to win, yes. But I think this is going to be 1-0 or 2-0. This is going to be a very content performance. What we've seen every single game from Milan this year is when they have the ball a lot,
01:23:37
Speaker
they fucking suck and they need that transition period to create their opportunities to score. And then the Bruges game is the best example of that. That game was very open and all of their goals kind of came out of that like half like turnovers in the midfield countering very quickly. Conte is just simply not going to allow that to happen.
01:23:55
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period. Like, it's going to be kick the ball up to Kavirat Skelia and Lukaku and let them go to work. I think Lukaku is going to eat Shaw alive if he plays because he's such an experience and we kind of get away from him being intelligent because he's not like clever with the ball really, but he's a smart runner and he's a smart guy in terms of backing into you. And Kavirat Skelia is just going to fucking destroy Emerson out there. I mean, there is going to be so much room to run on that left-hand side for Kavirat Skelia with how Milan line up every every game.
01:24:24
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Emerson kind of tucks in like pretty heavily now a lot of the time and Kavada is just gonna be 1v1 with him and that's going to be a Massive problem and on the defensive side of things they know what they're doing. They are not gonna allow a goal in this game I I don't see a way Milan score unless layout does something crazy because I don't think pool stitches even they're just gonna foul him like they're not gonna give him a chance to do anything and This Napoli team is now just so disciplined and the defensive side of things that as long as they get a goal, you're dead. They're just going to strangle you and that's it. And I don't see a way Milan break that down because they don't have the guys to do it.
01:25:03
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Yeah, I mean, for in terms of statistics of this game, Napoli and the season goals four have six, three in Milan also have six teams. Napoli goes allowed five, Milan nine. Napoli in their last five games have one draw and then they won four in a row. Milan have four wins and one loss in their last five. so both teams pretty close in terms of on uh inform. Annapolis obviously more um compact in the back which we've known and I just think Kavada can i expose that defense on that left flank no matter who you trot out there. But one
01:25:39
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One last thing I want to say is let this time this game last year, Polisic would have been a non-factor. This season, everyone's talking about how good he is. He could be the best Serie I MVP, got so many goal contributions since he's joined. This is a game and he's he's been doing it in the big games. He's been showing up, showed up against Inter, showed up against Florentino when it was needed, even though they lost that game. Can he continue to do it? He's got to continue to show up.
01:26:09
Speaker
because we kind of know Liao is not going to. So very big game for me, for Polisic, to see what happens, see what he can do. And for Napoli, this is the first of a very hard run of games where I think everybody's going to be rooting for whoever Napoli is playing against in terms of other clubs in Serie A. Because somebody needs to pull points off of Napoli over these next couple of games in running through with their playing. Milan this week, then Atalanta, then Inter, then Roma, then Torino, then Lazio, then Udinese. That's everybody that they're competing against.
01:26:46
Speaker
Somebody is just going to get much easier after that. I mean, I know you want to over over there them, but then they have genuine. Vanessa is sure somewhat easier than Fiorentina, Verona, Adalanta, Gentes, Roma. So it's it's going to get tough for them. And if somebody doesn't pull a win off, like people did the other like when Napoli is away from home, these teams need to beat them or Conte is going to win the league. period Yeah, like kid he wants to draw when he's away from home and he'll take a win when he can get it.
01:27:15
Speaker
And it's going to be on the other teams to bring it to them. We saw you've a not capable of doing that and Conte got exactly what he wanted out of that game, which was just a snooze fest. They'll take their point and they'll leave and we're going to see a lot of that over the next couple of weeks, I think.
01:27:29
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Any other points guys? Are we running through the other games? Run through them quick. We're going to do more previews on Wednesday, obviously of the Thursday, Friday games because and reviews of the Tuesday, Wednesday games, but just run through them and we'll break them down in more detail on Wednesday. Wednesday is going to be busy again. So we got Torino at Roma. That's going to be a fun one. Verona at Lece. Should be one for Verona. Bologna at Caliuri. Udenese at Venetia. Inter at Empoli. Interesting game to watch. Monza at Atalanta. Parma at Juventus. Fiorentina at Genoa in Lazio. Going to the lake.
01:28:05
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to play the little ads by the lake. And so like I said, we'll do the reviews of Tuesday, Wednesday games on Wednesday. We'll do the previews of Thursday, Friday games in possibly the weekend games on Wednesday. Pack, packed packcked episodes, obviously, because we've got a lot of Calco. But we do have one, two more segments.
01:28:24
Speaker
cor pluna I think everybody's demoralized by the Colpi now. Nobody looked too excited there. We're giving you two Colpis this week, guys, because we got games on two three games on Tuesday, three games on Wednesday. We're doing a full Tuesday Colpi, which means somebody has to post this tonight, I'm just realizing. And then we're also doing a Wednesday Colpi. We're going to bring it through that right now. Starting Tuesday Colpi. Logs, you got the hot hand. What do you got?
01:28:52
Speaker
We have Verona Moneyline. This one stuck out to me because I think Leche's dog shit and even though they're at Leche, Verona plus 250 Moneyline, I mean that is a value if I've ever seen it, I had to take.
01:29:08
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i' What i'm gonna I've decided to do is because I usually give a long explanation about how I love my pick and that clearly doesn't work. So I'm not going to give any explanation at all and just say I'm going under two and a half in the Bologna Calgary game.
01:29:23
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I'm going wildcard, Kaverid, Skelly at any time goal scorer, Napoli at Milan coming in at plus five fifty. We had no slump busters on the Tuesday of Colpea. So it's going to be coming in at plus thirty seven thirty three. Very fat Colpea. Very fat Colpea. Very fat Colpea. And that brings us to the Wednesday Colpea and Logues with the hot hands. What do you got?
01:29:47
Speaker
Well, my hot hand's just taking another guy with a hot foot, because we're going Mateo or Tegi anytime goal score, plus 350. He's the second hottest player in the league, Mahurin Pulisic at the moment, and I don't think that stops anytime soon. Adilance is a role. I would say hottest. I think he's hottest. Yeah, he's pretty hot. I mean, are we talking attractiveness or a form? I think if you average out attractiveness and form, Pulisic takes it by a mile.
01:30:17
Speaker
Oh, okay. My pick, Emply Draw. I just said it. I'll say it again. No explanation. Hate it, though. Disgusting pick. Who are they playing? Why don't you tell everybody who they're playing? so They're playing Inter. They're playing Inter. And it's at Emply, though. But the last pick that I did that I said was disgusting, and that's why I'm picking it, ended up being Tarantino 1 5-1.
01:30:38
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And that comes in a plus 360, which re leaves my pick with the only sensible pick for the Wednesday games. Atlanta minus one and a half at home against Monza. That's coming in at minus 114. That one should be good. I feel really good about it. That brings this Colby to plus 34, 35.
01:30:58
Speaker
Heavy hitting colpis this week, and as always, Matt's just betting UVA Moneyline, so. Weekday, weekday. Yeah, I bet UVA Moneyline, even against Inter $100, they lost $100. Very sad. I'll bet it again, and they will win against Parma. I just want to put the numbers out there for all the Paisons. Just make it so clear that if you put $100 on each of these colpis, when they hit, you're taken home.
01:31:27
Speaker
over $7,000. We're making money this week. Do not miss out. Let me just say one thing for the Paisanos. If you have some real stones, you'll parlay ah all of them, all six legs. You'll do all six of these legs in one bet. I'm going to do it, so it's going to happen. But we are done, guys. Sorry we went a little long today. There's a ton to talk about. Ballon d'Or always gets the blood flowing.
01:31:57
Speaker
And Calcho is in full swing. There's a fuck load of games on. There's not gonna be a lot of work done at our real jobs. It's our part-time job. It's not even a job. We just do this fucking fun. But that's it for us. We're gonna be back here on Wednesday. Gonna have a ton to talk about. That one's gonna be a long episode too. We got previews. We got reviews. We got more Cold Peace coming your way. Everything, all the Paisano's, Logs. Not from Logs. One game a week. So Logs, you can go ahead and sign us off here with your little spiel.
01:32:24
Speaker
Well guys, you know where to find us, and because of that one game a week, you know where to find me. I need the interaction. I get lonely every, only doing this every seven days is ah is quite the lonely road. You can find me, you can find us all on all the socials, X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok. Tell us what you think about the Ballon d'Or. Tell us about the legs for the Colpis this week. You got four opportunities to tell us what you got, get involved.
01:32:53
Speaker
Get in the socials. I can't wait to see you there. And you can always listen to us on all your favorite streaming sites. That is Apple pods and Spotify. Come on, take us away. Paisanos, we're happy to be taking you on this ride of Calcho every single day besides Friday for the rest of the week. Do not be a Gaguts and Forza Calcho culture.