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Napoli Top Serie A, Dusan Vlahovic & Lautaro BACK, Alvaro Morata Inspires AC Milan, Lazio Fly & Much More (Ep. 458)
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From Antonio Conte leading his Napoli to top of the Serie A, Dusan Vlahovic and Lautaro Martinez end goal droughts as Juventus and Inter Milan back to winning ways, Alvaro Morata inspires AC Milan to 5 minute goal explosion at the San Siro, to Lazio new signings continue to impress away to Torino, lucky Roma come back from behind against Venezia, unlucky Atalanta fail to beat Bologna, and preview of all Italian teams matches in the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League, as well as Baggio, Premface and Serie Ass of the week and much, much more when Nima and Carlo break down all the main talking points from Match Day 6 of the 2024/2025 Serie A season.
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Napoli's Rise to the Top
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Welcome to the Italian football podcast. Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Italian football podcast. I'm Carlo Garganese joined as always by Nima Tovalli. On today's show we will react to the weekend Serie A action with Napoli now being top of Serie A after yet another victory. Juventus and Dusan Vlawic end their goal droughts with ah with a 3-0 win a over Genoa.
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Inter respond to the Derby loss by beating Udenezi with Blautaro Martinez returning among the goals Milan follow up their Derby win with another impressive victory 3-0 over Lecce Atalanta endue another difficult week but Lazio enjoy the perfect week as their new signings all shine Roma meanwhile get out of jail against Venezia We will also preview this week's Champions League matches, Champions League match day two and we'll have our usual Badgeo, Prem Face and Celia Ass of the week.
Serie A Highlights and Predictions
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00:02:32
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Well, it's looking rather ominous, isn't it, Nemo? It is. um And what I find the most interesting is Antonio Conte playing some 4x4 version, which he started a again which he started against Juva unexpectedly.
00:02:53
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ah And and it's some it's very interesting, like his formation starts off with a back four, come kind of transitions um to to a back three, of course, like most most formations do. But it's very, very interesting to see that he's going with the with a back three, even though he didn't need to, because they were already winning games with a back three.
00:03:15
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um but the way that they managed to or continue ah to put out impressive performances and they're able to you know revert to a back three because I mean let's remember when Mazzocchi and Spinazzola came on um they they kind of played a 3-4-2-1 and that is very interesting because for for for many things that Antonio Oconte has been criticized for is that maybe sometimes you remember when he was at Inter that famous exchange
00:03:46
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with Skye about what's plan B and he said I'm not going to tell you and he was evident he had no plan B. But here he does have a plan B. He has a plan A and he has a plan B and he's he's implementing both and they both work.
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um And Napoli look really, really solid. um And I can't say I'm surprised because in our Serie A preview I had, I had a three horse race between Juve Inter and Napoli. And I think this is going to go down to the wire. um I still don't think Milan are going to be involved as we head into the new year or after the new year when we're in February, March. I think it's these three teams. And Napoli are with one game that they play every week.
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despite injuries, um will have a squad that is deep enough to to handle that. Um, but I mean, you know, it's still very, very early days. You know, I always like to reference that all the famous quote from Lee Beback in 97, 98, 98, 99, where he was talking about how, well, the Serie A doesn't really start until match day 10 and onwards. These are all preliminary rounds. And he's kind of right about that, but what you can deduce from these preliminary rounds is is certain where we're headed. And when I see between Napoli in first and Inter in fourth, two points separating them, Napoli and Juventus impress the most.
00:05:15
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um Juventus barely concede shots that are long goals. Napoli are scoring and look very solid. Milan and Inter started off, well, we've got to be honest, they started off rather poorly. They still have defensive issues, although Milan have not conceded for the against this last weekend against Lecho and Inter conceded too, but still managed to win and turn the page.
00:05:36
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um It is it is interesting. It's going to be a tight setting out. I don't think anyone's going to run away with it. Like I said, I think we're going to have a three horse race between Milan weoppoly and and Napoli are going to be in in the wire. And it's a toss up for me between who not between out of Napoli and Milan.
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ah sorry yeah now we eat enough We do have a segment on that right asking if we think it's going to win, so let's just park that for now. But if we talk about just this this game um itself, i mean I think that it was a dominant performance from from Napoli, apart from a little bit in the in the the second half when Monza kind of had a good little period, apart from that.
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it was It was a very easy win. ah Great goal from Polytowner. Not good defending. The 1-2 with Lukaku. Good finish from Koala for the second goal. um I think Lukaku has gone a little bit off the boil the last few weeks. but he's he's he Conte said this after the game that even when he isn't playing well under Conte, he's always contributing to the team. Last week i of he didn't play well against Juventus, he got dominated by Bremmer, but he was still chasing back, ah winning the ball, occupying defenders, and and you know he got the did the one-two at Politano as well for that goal.
00:06:48
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And, um, but I think, um, Tom and they played well ah in this game. He's very, very involved contest, but very glowingly of him before the game, saying that he has a lot of goals in him and that he thinks that he' he's going to get quite a few goals. And if you watch in this game, even though he didn't score, you can see why he's saying that. I mean, he wasn't far off, was he?
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Well, no, he was getting into the goal-scoring opposition and he had a header that just went wide. yeah He had another good chance, which he probably should have done better with, but he's he's getting in the positions. But he's also got different ways of scoring. lock He's very, very good in the air. and He's got a good shot. um he's ah He's a pretty good finisher. and yeah Like Conte says, he has goals in him, so he's going to he's going to contribute goals.
00:07:27
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And, you know, I think, like as you said, the the fact that that Napoli are also a little bit more adaptable now so that than the usual Antonio Conte where he kind of had one way of playing with a back three. And now, you know, he
Juventus: Defense and Tactics
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has two systems. But the thing is, he's playing his cultural reticare.
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but he's doing it with two formations. And that's something that we've never really seen him kind of do. I mean, in the last six months, they were switching the transition between a three, five, two to a four, two, four when attacking, but that's transition. Here, he can start off from a back four, transition to a three, four, two, one whilst attacking, transition to a four, two, four. he can it's It's very, very fluid, and it's looking very fluid very early on, which everyone else in the city has should be worried about.
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usually contest teams hit form. They start off good, but then there's a little bit of rust, i and then they tend to hit the form of February March onwards. Here, it just looks good from day one, um and everything just seems to fall in place. it's There's not that that kind of rustiness when when when in transition and and when trying to, everyone, to to to find their roles.
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And one thing that I did notice is it was very important for Kvara to score because I think he's going to be the main goal scorer, even though they've got Lukaku. I'm not too worried about him falling off. I think the main person who's going to score is Kvara. He's going to make sure that he finds himself centrally in good goal scoring positions with a lot of time and space to finish. And it was important for Kvara to get that goal.
00:09:17
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Yeah, yeah, he's going to be, I think he's going to have a great season as as we said before. Monza though, you have to worry about them. I mean, they're in the relegation zone. They still have no wins this season, I believe. and Yeah, no wins. One of only two teams that haven't won in Serie A this season. Cali is the other.
00:09:36
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although they they play on Monday evening so they could still they could still get a win but yeah it's it does look a little bit concerning also for Nesta and as well we were worried a bit about him before the season like he was a bit of a not a strange choice but a little bit obviously there's the relationship there from Milan between Galiani and Nesta and that obviously played a part in his appointment as well and they just yeah they they they look a little bit short at the moment. They don't look like they can really hurt opponents. and Even when they got the draw against Inso, which was a great result, they that was like their only shot of the whole game. you know they They just don't look like they can threaten opponents. No, they don't. or They look very, very they They look a bit strange when they're trying to build up. It doesn't feel natural when they play. It feels very fragmented, everything. um They don't feel like a cohesive unit. They feel like three different compartments trying to work together. um And when that happens, usually I worry for Nesta. I wonder if we by the time we're recording this pod next week, if he's still with the job.
00:10:47
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um Or at the very latest after the international break. I really wonder that because it's not it's not just a result It's how they're losing as well and they look just they just didn't have a prayer in this game And they obviously they shouldn't have a prayer. It's an happily away, but they shouldn't look this bad and I I really think that Nesta could be next on the chopping board and Yeah, I mean, they've got Roman next, but then after that they have two relegation opponents against where they got after they they've got Verona away and then they.
00:11:22
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have an Etsy at home. So I think maybe those two, he might get the chance with those two. And if those, if he doesn't get at least a win in one of those two games, then I think we could, we could potentially see him getting, getting replaced. And let me the thing is that I'm not so sure he's got that much time because there's only one game left before the international break. yeah they but They could make that decision. I think they could make that decision then. I don't think they're going to wait it Or if they did, it would be very un-Gagliani-like in the sense that he usually gets these decisions right, in the sense that he knows the timing of changing. And I don't i think it would be very weird to give him the international break and then after Verona. Do you know what I mean? like It's is one of those things where you want to be proactive rather than the reactive.
00:12:05
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possibly, but then they do have obviously the relationship from Milan, which might buy him a little bit more time. Yeah. So we'll see. Let's move on to Juventus though, who who end their, their, their sequence of draws, sequence of goalers draws and they end their goal draw out five and a half hours without scoring. And in the first half of this game against general, which was just played behind closed doors because of all the the awful trouble in the Coppa Italia, between the Coppa Italia match in in midweek between Genno and Sampdora at the Derby. um they It looked like more of the same in the first half. Check this is XG out for the first half. 0.04 XG in the first half. i mean Allegri must have been grinning. what Well,
00:12:51
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I mean, and I just want to say that I think that Cristiano Giuntoli went into App Store and he pressed, he went into the Allegri app and he updated it and got Allegri 2.0 in Tiago Mota. And there's nothing wrong with that, because that's in the sense that they are very, very solid Juve. You can make fun of their, or they expect it goes in the first half, which was an absolute joke for both teams.
00:13:17
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But if you still look throughout the game, Juve barely concede anything. And he builds from the back. And again in the Serie A, that will pay dividends. That's just how this league is. If you have a stable, solid defense and you don't concede anything,
00:13:34
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with the quality you have up front that you ever absolutely do have. And I don't want to say that Tiago Mota is Allegri because he's not. He absolutely has an attacking identity, a far more modern approach, hence Allegri 2.0. So this is this is hilarious to me. that everyone who hated Allegri are essentially watching the updated Allegri app. This is Allegri 2.0. Well, I'll be honest, I don't like the comparisons between the two. I think there's there's there's no comparison at all other than than other than the they're both good defensively. I think they're completely different coaches. I don't get the comparison or I think it's ridiculous. but
00:14:14
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I mean, what was the pragmatism is there the the way that he the both are very pragmatic. I mean, if you were to put a face on pragmatism in football, it would be Max Allegri in the last 20 years. He doesn't mess about it. It's not about formations or who it's about getting it. There's pragmatism in not wanting to concede, but I mean, it'd be like comparing our tetta to Allegri. Like you just wouldn't do it. I mean, our tetta is I don't think you can compare? Arteta and Mota are very similar managers. they' They're both ridiculously pragmatic. and They don't overcommit. They don't overthrow men forward too much. They like to keep the ball and protect it that way. I think they're very similar. I think Arteta and Mota are very, very similar managers in that sense. But I mean i just don't i don't get the comparison. I don't think tactically in the final third they are. I think maybe defensively in the defensive phase they are. But I think Arteta is far more pep than Tiago Mota is pep.
00:15:08
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Thiago Motta for me is more much more much more careful in the sense that he likes to work his way into games. um And that is where I kind of see more comparisons to Allegri, but it it is kind of funny. that you know And that's why I say that, you know, ju half ingest that I juntily went into App Store and hit update on the Allegri app.
00:15:32
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um I mean, Juventus' defence, this defensive record this season is actually is bordering on the insane now six games, zero goals conceded, which is a new record in the three points era in Serie A to go six games without a goal. But it's like you said, it's not even that they haven't conceded, they barely conceded a shot, a chance in those six games. In general, it was the first shot of any kind. I noted this down, so I was watching it.
00:15:58
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Genoa's first shot of any kind on or off target was in the 80th minute. I mean that that just tells you everything doesn't it? I mean at that point the the game was over because you know it was there were two nil up but it was just you know playing off the last 10 minutes and and and and if you concede your first shot like that in the 80th minute is like that's mad.
00:16:20
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Yeah, it was. But I mean, at halftime, and I was thinking about like, what, what I was going to say about this game, it was a little bit concerned with more than concern in few minutes, because like I said, naught point naught for XG in the first half, dominating possession and territory, but, but creating nothing at all, kind of too sterile in in possession.
00:16:40
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trying to create that perfect chance, kind of taking too long to work the ball up the pitch and making it too easy for the opponents to to kind of get into defence. But that was what I was going to ask you. This is what I mean when I say that Thiago Mota's Juve reminds me of the old Juve, the old Juve that used to lull opponents to sleep.
00:17:00
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and when they fell asleep BAM strike and before the opponent understood what happened they're like how the hell are we two goals down when we've barely do you know what I mean like this kind of lulling your opponents to sleep like an anaconda, like a boa constrictor, slowly suffocating your opponent to death before they understand what happened, you know, boiling a frog slowly to death. That's what you want to do under Mota so far.
00:17:31
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Yeah, very patient. I mean, i agree very difficult a one, because obviously the penalties change the game in this. I mean, Juventus' second half was great. It was they created lots of opportunities, and not just the the three goals they scored, but you know, they could have scored other goals as well. Wlawicz missed an easy chance to get his hat trick and and there are there were other opportunities, so they did play well. But, you know, it was the penalty that was a mistake from from De Winter and that that opened up this game. So it's always difficult to know would the the first half have continued if they hadn't oh of ah that penalty. It's difficult to say, but what we can say is that Juventus were excellent in the in the in the second half and we saw Wlawovic answering the critics. I mean, he has been hammered this season, rightfully so. He's he's really been bad.
00:18:18
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and especially in the last four games where where he's gone goalless and you know he put his penalty away well but the second goal was was the Vlovich we want to see it was a it was a lethal finish it was the Fiorencina Vlovich like he he you know he he he went on to the the fantastic free ball from coop miners and he buried it i mean that was lethal that was a lethal finish and he was um Yeah, he he he was, I mean, that you saw the gesture for the for the celebration for the second goal, kind of with his hands, as if to kind of silence the those that are talking too much. And you could... Yeah, but that to me is just so... it's i When players do that, it's like... Homie, it's Genoa away. It's not the Champions League final. You want to know and us that for that you want to do that to me, then do you know do that after you've scored six goals in a row. You've you've won important youve you've done it in important games, but a brace away against Genoa behind closed doors.
00:19:17
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um Well, no, I agree. I think and i think this i think that's true, and because you know we need to see the consistency. though There's no good Vlaovic having one game like this every you know six games. He's got to do this consistently if he's going to, like we've said for the last few weeks, if Juventus are going to realistically challenge and try and win the Scudetto, they're going to need Vlaovic to be like like this. you know consistently pretty much every every game and you know so this this was this was good but like we're let's not get carried away we need to see this consistently now exactly see if you can put a run together now without a doubt and that's the that's the key takeaway here is that you for me the key takeaways are this you ever continue to not concede and win even when
00:20:07
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when Vlawic isn't at his best. Vlawic has scored four goals, if I'm not mistaken, in six games, even though he's been criticized. So there's more to get and all the ready, there's more to capitalize on from Juve, but there's still top amongst the top. They haven't conceded a goal. They barely concede chances.
00:20:31
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and so It should be noted though that those four goals have come in two games, two of them yeah penaltyal they have absolutely limit penalties. you know so is you know is is opposite said But that's what I mean, there's more to get but it's still like statistically it's looking good.
00:20:44
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and there's there's um that's what bodes Well for Juve is, if we're to talk about, you know, to build up towards a segment about who wins the Scurrito. From from a Juve perspective, if you're winning, barely conceding, and you still have lots of question marks, but that's good. That's good. I mean, I thought Coop Miners put in a great performance and he was very good. He should have had a goal.
00:21:10
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he yeah he stopp Yeah, he should have done. He missed virtually an open goal, but I thought he was brilliant against PSV and in the the first match day of the Champions League, and I thought he was brilliant in this game. He was he was i mean his his assist for Vlawicz's second goal. That that pass was was brilliant absolutely brilliant. i mean if you If you watch it,
00:21:28
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He frees the frame and see how he dissected the general middle of the general team. I mean, it was it was brilliant He did a lovely amazing his his his his understanding and awareness of those around him and space I think it's brilliant. Keep my miss his dummy you see his dummy for console sales goal and he's a leader as well like if you watch him and A little bit like Jorginho does, the way that he instructs his players, his teammates, where to move. he He beckons them, you stand there, you go there, come on everybody, let's push up. you know he he's he's He's a leader and he's only just joined and I think you need players like that. and But the other player that I want to praise is Fajoli because we've also been very critical of him.
00:22:15
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because i don't think he's had a particularly good start this season certainly he was brilliant in this game he was a metronome everything went through him ninety eight touches in this game and he was very he was very very good in this game so let's see if he can if he can build on that and also conse cell he come back because he's he's been off he's been out injured He came back on and I thought it's very impressive cameo from him. He got his first goal for Juventus He did some some brilliant play on the right where he beat his man to set up that that open goal Chance for coop miners that that that we and he's just very lively He's I think he's the kind of player that might actually be more useful as a bench player for Juventus He's somebody that can come on and just ignite and liven up the game especially closed games and
00:22:59
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he eliminates his man, he can beat his man. And especially with kind of like, you know, we talked about the careful nature of of modest football and how they try not to over commit when you've got a player that can beat his man, that's how you create the overloads when teams are set up to defend in a very comfortably like position around the field you get someone like Concy Sal that can beat his man someone else has to shift over that creates the space and then you can create chances and i think i think that Concy Sal off the bench we we might see
00:23:33
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more useful off the bench rather than starting. That's just my impression. No, I agree with you. He gets into the game. He's a good weapon to have off the bench. He's a good weapon to have off the bench and he's very direct when he comes on. Some players just don't overcomplicate things.
00:23:55
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he doesn't over complicate things at all and he just goes straight towards goal he does what he's supposed to do without much fuss isn't it like it just feels very simple when he plays direct play yeah yeah a very direct player so no he's a good weapon for you but i have off the bench no yeah i like him i do like him um but yeah no i think it's it's it's positive for Juventus i think it's it hasn't been stated how impressive it is that Motta already has Juventus the style of play.
00:24:26
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has been revolutionized from allegory. I mean, if we consider three years of allegory terrible with no patterns of play, no possession, to to change that mindset and that style of play just so quickly, you know, we're we're at six games into the season and we're already seeing, you' okay, it's sterile at times, but if you look at the way that Juventus have changed their game to dominating, because often they had 66% possession in this game, you see the patterns, you see the movements of the ball,
00:24:54
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You know the way that he's changed that and he's got everyone into that with so many new players as well I do think that is very impressive to to to have done that so so quickly and it and you know to have everyone on board I think it's it's remarkable really and so if you imagine that now and what it's going to be like, you know Six months into the season rather than six weeks. I think it's impressive having said that though general we do have to talk about because it was a general team that was quote They weren't really at home and they were gutted. I mean, their team is gutted, already was gutted through losing Rettigy and Goodmason. Malinowski out for the season with that horror injury. I mean, Ekuban was out as well, Macias was out. And I have to be honest with you, as much as I think Giulardino, I think he's a wonderful young manager and he's got a big future ahead of him.
00:25:43
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I worry for Genoa this season. I'm looking at their team and and I'm wondering where's the goals going to come from? Where's the quality in this team? they they they just i'm I'm a bit worried for them. I am. I am worried for Genoa this season at the moment.
00:26:00
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no um too I don't like what this is where this is going. At all. um And the fact that Malinowski is out, Lelos Fretegi, and goodness under the beginning. he was This was not supposed to happen. you know their Their fans are not happy about this at all.
00:26:17
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um and and they are rightfully pissed because they were they were led to believe that they were going to have a good season and this and that's why they sold so many pre-season and now of course losing a game against Sampdoria as well.
00:26:34
Speaker
on the back of losing to Venezia. And and and you know of course they drew Roma and they've drawn Inter, they beat Monza, but they've also lost to Verona. I'm worried about them too. And I hope that, I don't see this as ah as faltering on Gilardino's doorstep. I think it was more a poor managerial, ah poor directorial possible. Oh, no doubt about that. What is Gilardino supposed to do with this deal?
00:27:01
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you know i mean in that numberm more to roma they got battered in that game and and that that was just pure will getting a luck but i'm sorry but when i look at their attack Pinamonte, Vitinia, Ecuban, Ankeia, Acornero, Ecator.
00:27:18
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not one from no
Inter's Strategic Growth
00:27:20
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i think it's ah it's ah it's a it's an attack that's really ah relegation attack there's this field it in any of the midfield i mean what what you want from it No, I agree. I think they're going to struggle badly. I really do. I think it's going to be a very, very difficult season for them. Very difficult. um Let's move on to Inter now, who react to that derby loss with ah with a very dominant win here, created so many chances in in in this game. But the big talking point is that Lautaro is back. Two goals, brilliant finish for that. but that
00:27:58
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for that. ah The second goal, wasn't it, was the that was the really great one. The first one was a bit bizarre one, but yeah, brilliant, brilliant performance from Lautaro and a very, very impressive ah response to the Derby loss. Well, there this is a very interesting game in the sense that I look at, you know, when I was watching this and I tweeted this out, it felt like Inzaghi 2.0, you know, Inzaghi Season 2, when Inter created lots, where a little bit were were poor defensively.
00:28:33
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um And that season, Inter would have lost it. If this game was played two years ago, Inter would have lost this game. But they didn't. even Because when when all the needs are pushed back, when all the needs are created and equalized against the run of play,
00:28:49
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Inter are now um mean a team that has matured mentally, that they they don't get stressed out about these things. They continue doing what they're supposed to do, especially in the attacking phase, and they grind teams down. um And that's precisely what happened. They scored 2-1. OK, it was a very lucky shit goal for Alotaro, but that's just the kind of jamming goal scorer needs in order to get back into form. And and he showed that with his second goal.
00:29:18
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um and they created lots of chances and they didn't it didn't sit on the mentally that they conceded, the that they had created and against the run of play with Nese equalised. Instead they just kept on going and that to me is growth and that's the biggest positive because Laotaro getting back to goal scoring form is hardly a surprise. It was going to happen sooner or later. um And it's important for him and Inter that he gets goal scoring. But for me, the biggest talking point is that the mental growth that we can see from Inter this season, because it would in any way is difficult is is a difficult um game Inter. Again, if this game was played two seasons ago, like it was,
00:30:05
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Icte would have lost, like they did. They went a goal up and then they lost. Inzaghi was immediately under fire. Here they turned the page, very controlled, very calmly, despite suffering in this game. And the second biggest positive is Davide Fratezi.
00:30:24
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It's not just that he scored the goal. It's not just that he was a threat going forward. I was very impressed by the way how he he he actually looks like he's trying to working on improving his passing, which is very interesting. I thought his passing was really good this game. Yeah, I actually had a look at his pass success rate. just I just love doing it before it says. I'm sort of like, I got some of his terrible status like before. And I think it was, it was in the nineties anyway. So that is, that's brilliant. fors fancy that It is brilliant. And it, it, it, it again shows that Inzaghi believes in Fratesi, but he also knows how to put him in a position to succeed.
00:31:15
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And in this game, Fratizzi, for me, was the man of the match, more than Lautaro. Can I just stop you on Fratizzi? I have a question for you, right? Is it any coincidence that Fratizzi plays this well when Barella is out? Because I know this question has been asked, i know and I know you've got a bit irritated by this question in the parts, but I do wonder, can Fratizzi and Barella play together? Well, can Fratizzi play it his best when Barella is in the team?
00:31:39
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I absolutely think he can. And the reason for that is because I think Barilla is so like, he can play in so many different roles in midfield that I don't see him, them those two, hampering each other. The the issue is not if Ratesi and Barilla can play together. The issue is what doing to do when Chala Noglu is having a bad day.
00:32:04
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or I'm not just thinking of Inter here either, by the way. I have my eyes on Italy as well. I think they have played together and done so pretty well for Italy, if I remember correctly. I think they have played together. One of the early games that Spalletti was in charge. um But regardless, I think the the key to get Inter's midfield to tick is that you need to have Chala Nogli, even when he's having a bad day like he did against Woudinese, because he was not good. Inter's midfield ticked pretty well. um The problem is,
00:32:34
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what happens when Chala Nogla is not there who because Aslani right now is just not at the level that he has to be after almost two, three years, I think, which is a different problem. But yeah, I did think about that. And I think that, yeah, I think they can play together simply because Barrella's versatility. And I would love to see them play together as well. I think the issue is maybe this. When Francesi and Barrella play together, one or both of them, but at least one of them,
00:33:04
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alters their game slightly and as a result they and and maybe they haven't quite altered their way alter their game in a way to get the best out of them or get the best out of both of them and and as a result that's affected the team or the midfield as a whole and maybe that's why it hasn't quite consistently paid off when the when the two of them are played together and maybe the managers haven't found the way over at Spalletti but there has been the odd game like you said for a tea but definitely not consistently as we saw in the Euros and and then and same for Inter maybe that's why in Zag he hasn't really trusted them together. That could partly be it but also I think it's got to do with the fact that when Barilla
00:33:41
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When Barilla plays on the right or it depends on who plays on the left or right if you play fratissi on the left next to DeMarco There's going to be some issues there because DeMarco has defensive deficiencies Say equal, you know similarly when Dumfries plays on the right you have, you know Barilla's game is hampered because he has to think and run and play for two So I think that's the issue. Okay. So if you play Darmian, you can play fratissi on the right that's fine because Darmian is such an intelligent player and especially in the defensive phase, that he kind of makes up for that. And of course, you've got Charla Noglo there. So if that were to happen, then you have to play Barella on the left, because as defensive deficiencies goes, DiMarco has less defensive deficiencies than Denzel Dunfries does. So I think if they play together, it would have to be a situation where Barella plays on the left. Yeah, I would agree with that. I would agree with that. As long as Darmian plays. I think that's what it is more than anything else. But
00:34:37
Speaker
It was very important for Inter to win without Barilla. It was very important for Inter to win, like I said, despite Chalanoglu having a bad game, making mistakes, despite Inter making mistakes, we usually don't. yeah I think that's the only negative for me in this game is that Inter was so dominant, so much to the better team, creating so many more chances in the years, yet they still somehow concede two goals and two sloppy goals as well. So, I mean, that's the... That's the ne biggest issue. And quite bizarre actually, because you think Inter go from that incredible
00:35:10
Speaker
Defensive master class against man city and then the next two games they concede really well It is a weird is not cheap chances as well. Yeah, it's too weird right because when they played at Atlanta and smashed them um They didn't concede they won for nil city nil nil, but when it comes to um Playing against, you know woody near there or Monsa Genoa Then they concede one, two goals each time. The Milan game is a different one. I think the Derby has its own kind of ecosystem almost.
00:35:49
Speaker
but those Those are weird, but I still maintain that. I think we're we're seeing a a difficult preseason where the players Because what I see from everyone is improvement, even though it's not where it needs to be But I do see improvement. I see improvement from cello noble. I see improvement from Lautaro I think the mark was probably been in this consistently together with Darmee I'm best player this season so far to go, you know to ramen few games, but overall consistently I think the mark when Darmee and have been the best so far um
00:36:21
Speaker
Even Miketarian took steps forward in this game, which we were, you know, there were questions of, is he you know physically finished? Well, he played 90 minutes and he was pretty decent. um You know, Acherbi was good in in in in the middle. ah Bastoni looked better, and but still he they took him off and they rested him. So, I still think it's more, right now, my money is more on the, you know, resting the team in into form than Inzagi has to do, and it seems like he's doing that. But I mean, you know, now Inter have Servena Serget at home and Torino at home.
00:36:56
Speaker
they should win in the Champions League fairly easily. And then you've got a tricky game because you don't really know you Torino to me are an enigma this season. They they can hurt anyone um going forward, but equally they can concede. yeah it's It's really difficult to understand where they are. They are outperforming. I think that's a good game for Inter. The only other thing I want to note on Inter is I've noticed that they concede on a lot of goals of
00:37:28
Speaker
crosses from the right into the box and then headers. So we saw in the next goal against Monza, the equalizer, we saw Gabia, obviously the Darby. And then again, Cabacelli is that cross from the right player moves across his marker to get the header. Yeah. That might just be a coincidence. But no, what yeah it is. But it happens once, twice, thrice. it's And also there's something about Jan Sommer that is starting to worry me.
00:37:55
Speaker
I'm getting very much Sami Handanovic vibes, ball watching. I don't like it at all. I hope it's just a coincidence. But this is, I feel in so far this season, it's very Handanovic before Handanovic turned into a meme. Like that's the area that it reminds me of. And it really, really, really, really concerns me.
00:38:25
Speaker
into which but then again into did spend money on a goalkeeper this summer so they kind of have you know ensured themselves to that if summer were to have were to completely fall off a cliff like and anovich did this time around they actually have invested money for that in that in in the event that should happen but so i wouldn't be surprised if we go into match day eight nine ten and martinez starts in goal that's just something to keep an eye on i'm not saying that we're there but i'm just saying it's starting to we've been here before we think that yeah the difference of course is a quick quick quick quick note on udonese is this is this is a theme of seria so far this season it's how many teams
00:39:10
Speaker
have completely revolutionized their style from changing from offensive to defensive, or more, from defensive to offensive. And Udenezer, along with Torino, along with Juventus, are another example of that, because they've gone from being a team that's quite defensive and cautious and sometimes a bit dreary in recent seasons, to a team that's also ridiculously open.
00:39:33
Speaker
this season actually quite very exciting and to to watch and um so that that that is that's good it's good for the neutral but Lorenzo Luca I didn't want to give a shout out to him I don't know why he didn't start this game because he's on fantastic form he scored again and third Serie A goal of the season five and seven in all competitions and when we did an an interview early this month with Maduka Okoye who by the way gifted into the first poll and I think he'll admit that himself. we When we had him on our on our pod and and we interviewed him he actually singled out Luca and said that he basically deserves the Italy national team and and basically said that he is the future of the Italy national team. Well if he continues like this he'll definitely be in the squad that's for sure because he's he's been he's not just being this kind of petania
00:40:20
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You know, you know, Boreal or long balls header Italian young color. He's actually doing things with his feet. He's actually providing to be very useful as a striker in as a whole. And that second goal, look you know, that there was lots of work for him to do.
00:40:40
Speaker
when Chalanoglu made that or went into made that mistake and Chalanoglu missed a tackle which I'm very grateful for that he missed that that he didn't barge kick down Luca because that's a straight red card if it is. So, you know, it's rather concede a goal in that situation and take a red card. But Luca looks, looks very fired up for this. Yeah, he's got an interesting one to follow. He's always seems to make an impact as well. Let's move on to Milan who certainly started to make an impact now. Same team, same formation as the Inter game, the 4-4-2 and another win, another
00:41:18
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Another convincing win. Three Serie A wins in a row now. And Fonseca has gone from the brink of the sack to putting on ah or on on a run now. And... Three wins in a row in the Serie A. Yeah, three wins in a row in the Serie A, sorry, because they did lose to Liverpool in champion's league. But kind of strange first half, because the first, like, until they scored Milan, let's say we're actually probably the better team and met Milan had barely created a chance. But as soon as Morata scored,
00:41:46
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you know, the it was just the floodgates open. and Yeah, I mean, five goals in five minutes. Yeah, exactly. I mean, five goals in three minutes. um It's ah that's what I mean, it's like Milano team, like I said, I don't think the reason why I don't think they're going to be you know challenging for the title this season is that I still think that there's they're not mature enough. They're not ready. They're a bit of a like they're a moody team in the sense that, like you said, they the floodgates open.
00:42:16
Speaker
Equally, who knows what would have happened if lectured scored. Do you know what I mean? Like in the sense that it's not, it doesn't feel it still feels very much work in progress. And if they score a goal and just by sheer enthusiasm, they score two more. um And they were at home, buoyed on by their home crowd after a Derby win.
00:42:36
Speaker
for, you know, putting an end to all that six in a row nonsense that from their perspective. So they they are a very, like, it's it's very moody in the sense that if it goes well, then by sharing enthusiasm alone, they go off and score two, three more within a space of five minutes. And then, of course, let you don't have the quality of firepower to come back from three goals down in five minutes. um But it's um but it was very, it was very interesting because it was especially I think the first two goals were just individual brilliance. I think Tails' goal was that stack's individual class. um That finish, you know that that the ball from Liao, um the finish, is all is all just but that's just that's just sheer quality.
00:43:25
Speaker
um from from the you know the difference in quality of when Theo is in ah in form or when he enjoys his football, that's the quality he he has on an individual level to score goals like that. We've seen him do it in in in in different in other games as well throughout his Milan career.
00:43:42
Speaker
um I thought it was it was very interesting to see Pulisic score again and he's now scored four goals in four games um and he's well he's a top goal scorer and it's kind of interesting because again it goes to show what what i so what we what i what I kind of thought was going to happen that Morata is going to be the guy who unlocks the others if you know what I mean because of his movement because of his um intelligence and and before the opening goal. you know If I'm not mistaken, Tammy hit the woodwork, didn't she? and then Morata scores. You know, it's like they attack in waves and Morata is the key master to when those waves are unlocked. um And it's very, very interesting to see. And he's very, very important for them. Morata is very important. New look, shaved head, which whichie he did for, I think, for for awareness, cancer, cancer awareness, actually. um But he's, yeah, he had ah he's had a good good weekend because there were reports
00:44:50
Speaker
i don't know how true this is but there's reports that he's reconciled with his wife um as well and he celebrated with his kids at the side of the pitch because she flew over with the kids from Madrid and and and then he scored and and and he got 35 minutes rest as well ahead of the the champions league as well and Milan managed to rest players ahead of that by Lebakouz in game so it's very positive there um i think Tetio and Liao obviously combined um with for the for the Teo goal which was which is positive again and Pudasic like you said another goal, fourth goal of the season. He's got two assists as well. um I saw a stat, I haven't checked, double checked myself, but I saw a stat floating around that he has the most goal contributions in Serie A since he joined, you know, out of everyone, you know, between goals and assists. So, I mean, that is, that's very, very impressive. And it shows what, you know, it proves what I've said is that he has been Milan's most consistent player since joining. I'm not saying the best player, but most consistent. He's the player, but like,
00:45:50
Speaker
What I've said about Liao and Teo is they're not necessarily players you can always rely on. You're playing a game and can we rely on Teo and Liao today? Well, I'm not sure. you know They could turn it on, but they could also not you know have one of those games where they're off it. Whereas Pudasic, you kind of know what you're going to get from him all the time. And even if he has a bad game, you know he's go to what he's going to bring as a team player.
00:46:13
Speaker
And I think that also, just on the team point, I think that's also why we've seen a bit of a change. It's not just down to the formation. I think what we're seeing is we're seeing Milan now have more... Fonseca has introduced more team players like Abraham and Morata, both up front, together. They are team players. They work so hard, they run, they press. And when you add that to Pudasic,
00:46:37
Speaker
And you add that to, I mean, for Fana definitely works hard. And then you add that to Gappia, who, as I've said, is more of a ah reliable player who kind of just holds his position. You know what you're going to get from him, in addition to, and in in in in whereas the other players, like I've said, like Teo, Liao, kind of more individualists. Milan maybe had too many of those in the team, whereas now they've got a sprinkling of team players and some individuals. And I think that is working better. make It's making Milan more of a team. I agree with that. I think that's kind of why maybe... I think that was the the you know now that we've had some a few weeks of distance to what happened at the cooling break against Lazio.
00:47:29
Speaker
um Maybe that that that is kind of what it was, wasn't it? It was a little bit of a wake-up call to tell Andlya or maybe more the latter that this is a team and you need to carry your own weight within the team, regardless of how brilliant you are. Which is why I think also when you do that to the star players, you win the respect of everyone in the dressing room if you handle it correctly. And I think we can say safely now that he did handle it correctly from Seika.
00:47:56
Speaker
otherwise Milan wouldn't have turned on. The Milan players wouldn't have turned up like they have against meeting third, against Lece, against Venezia. Fonseca has also said to them, by the way, that they are working on Liao defensive plays to make him better, to make him work harder defensively and to be more useful out of possession.
00:48:21
Speaker
but so and um but And the fact that he's actually doing it as well. Matt suggests that Fonseca's got, he's he's not at odds with the stars of his team. He's not at odds, but whatever problems they've had, the team is actually united behind him, which is the most important thing.
00:48:37
Speaker
Um, regardless of results, you need to have unity in a group before you can have anything else. Yeah. No, they're definitely working harder. They're definitely moving. They're both definitely running more. Um, they're not, as that unit they're not good. Exactly. that You didn't see, especially like the likes of Leo kind of lazy, kind of not moving just, you know, off the ball and defensive phases. Like we, you are seeing more of that from, from much, you know, before they were playing there.
00:49:03
Speaker
the first won some Moogers Gay game and they weren't making it all. Now they're losing that game. it's No but seriously but I gotta say though I find some of the comments in Italian media recently about Liao to be quite childish and silly um especially from Milan journalists and people who cover Milan, it's getting a bit... and what was it No, I saw what was it one guy said about giving, think you know, Fonseca decided to give the captain's armband to Liao as one, as a teacher would do to a misbehaving child in a classroom just to keep him quiet. And I feel that is ridiculous.
00:49:48
Speaker
I don't think he has done anything to warrant that level of criticism now at this point. And it's starting to, it's starting to annoy me. I don't know. But it's getting to, it's getting sound as Pogba levels now. All right. Yeah, I get that. Well, I think that there's a time and a place. I think he absolutely deserved all the criticism after what happened with the cooling break and some of his actions with the Kanyo and when you group that all together. But now that Milan have gone on this run, I mean, I think if you're doing it now, then you have a bit of an agenda. Well, exactly what I mean. It's getting sound as Pogba. If he throws in a stinker against Leverkusen and then Milan lose, you know, then all by all means, criticise him. But don't do it. Do you know what I mean now? Yeah. And it's not like he was he wasn't bad against Lecce. OK, he didn't have the best against Inter. Teo was brilliant against Inter. But I just don't like where we're going off on these irrelevant tangents and trying to
00:50:51
Speaker
invent problems. I mean, Leo's been there for how many years? Five years now? Six years? I mean, how long has he been there? yeah It's not weird that he gets to wear the captain's armband in a game. That's actually pretty consistent with how all Italian teams work in terms of who's been their latest and who who's been there the most and gets to carry the arm. Do you know what I mean? He is a leader at Milan. This is what he has to be a leader at Milan. Of course he's a leader at Milan. He's been there long enough. He's he's a star player at Milan. Why wouldn't he be a leader? Do you know what I mean? Like it's getting it's getting child. I don't like it when it turns into these this this like I said soundness Pogba level of pettiness and childishness. It annoys me.
00:51:37
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. um So let's now look at the the top of the table because we're six games into the season and after everything that has happened, Napoli losing that first game 3-0 at Verona and everyone asking questions and then Inter having a few negative results, losing the Derby,
00:51:56
Speaker
Juventus going five and a half hours without scoring at one point and Milan being in in such a crisis at one point that Fonseca was on the brink of the sack before the Milan Derby. After all of that, all those apparent problems. The top four teams in Serie A, who are they? Napoli, Inter, Juventus and Milan. As we said, they would be. as i said All separated by two points. So, you know, it's ah is's kind
Title Contenders and Challenges
00:52:24
Speaker
of as expected. um I mean, from what we have seen
00:52:27
Speaker
at this early stage, from the first six weeks of the season, who do you have your Scudetto money on now, Nemer? I still have the same Scudetto winners I had before the season began, and that's Juventus. For the simple reason that this is a league that you win by conceding the least. And when Juventus don't concede barely shots, let alone goals, then then I think the the money the writing's on the wall. And then I also look at Inter and Milan, who are working themselves, they're in good form, they concede far too much. They have seven goals conceded between them in six games. um There are evident problems defensively for both of these teams, obviously for various different reasons and various different ah kinds of issues, but they're there.
00:53:20
Speaker
whilst Napoli and Juve look very, very solid and Juve look ridiculously solid for it to be this early on. So if I, you know, I have no reason to change my preseason prediction at all. I still think it's Juve in the Monopoly, separated by three to four points.
00:53:39
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's a very hard one to call. I mean, still really too early. I mean, these are these are ridiculously early predictions we're making here. But I think you can make a case for all four, but the only one I'd be comfortable in in ruling out is Milan, and because I think that they are I think there's less guarantees from from Milan than there are with the other three. um I think the other three, you can you there's guarantees with all of them. Juventus, they look so good defensively. They look structurally very, very good already. And they look like they you know they're going to control games and that's going to make it difficult for opponents. With Napoli,
00:54:22
Speaker
there is the Conte factor, of course, and that they're out of Europe, they're playing once a week, which Conte said himself, by the way, after the the win against Monza, he said that that's an undoubted advantage for for us. He then actually played down Napoli's title hopes, and which he does. What a surprise. which What a surprise. He said, look, he says that the advantage for us is we're playing once a week. That's a huge advantage. He admitted that, but he said the disadvantage is that not by not playing in Europe, that shows that there's a you know there's a gap in quality. We have to make up 40 points. he is the master at doing this, isn't he? Like even from the outside when it looks like, is he mentally ill? Why is he doing crazy shit like that? I remember in there when after the Borussia Dortmund game when they were two and a half half time and he's like,
00:55:07
Speaker
Well, what do you expect from us? We bought players from Sasolo and Caliari. Yeah, Stefano Sensi, Enigolo Barrella. Like, do you know what I mean? He always does this. One thing he always does, always does, is when he joins a new club, he references the number of points that were behind the title winners the season before. He does that every time. He did that at Juventus, he did that at Chelsea, and he did that at Inter as well. Everywhere. He says, that's too much of a big gap. You can't expect to You're expecting me, poor little me, to do all of this on my own. You can't close a 15-point or 20-point gap in one year. It's impossible. Then he wins the league with your mental stress. Yeah, he goes with about 25 points to spare. I do think that, listen, that is a huge, huge factor because these players are overplayed. Players are exhausted and tired already because they haven't had a rest for years in the summer.
00:56:02
Speaker
And then you're going to go you're going into this ridiculously long season, extended Champions League. We expect Juventus and Milan still should as well, to qualify, to get into the knockout stages, we play in so to February, hopefully, later, March, April, we hope, as well. You know, that that all those games is going to take the toll. It's going to take the toll. And we know that content teams in February, March are always, that's when they really show.
00:56:32
Speaker
You know, he grills them in the summer because he builds them long term and he keeps them going throughout the season yeah There's no messing about with this guy. ah He doesn't know that's why so that's why Napoli are there and then inter I mean listen objectively on paper into have the best team They have the best and the the deepest squad. They have a great manager, you know, so on pay And they that the they're the they're the champions. and They have the most experience out of all the teams. So, you know, they are for me, they are still the favorites. But as I said, I think you can make a case um for for for for all three of them. and Well, for all four of them, really. But yeah i would but if you mean if i was if I have to rule one out, I'd probably rule out Milan. Look, I'd rule out Milan for the simple reason. Like I said, I feel still feel it's too much of a work in progress. um I think maybe
00:57:17
Speaker
one year if if this continues this run of form and Milan continue to impress and continue to win and continue to grow gradually and you know the then then maybe in a year's time we could talk about them as a Scudetto favorite even, who knows. But right now I feel compared to the other three, they're still a little bit too far behind in their development, whilst, for various reasons of course, whilst with Juve Inter and Milan, with Juve Inter and Napoli, for very, very, very different differing reasons.
00:57:52
Speaker
they It's too close to call. But if you're asking me what I think, um i stand I still stand by what I said before the season. I still think that Juve are the favorites and will win because of the fact that they spent the most, it was the most active. They built something from scratch again, which creates enthusiasm. They have a coach who understands how to behave at Juve. They have a coach who understands that you win this area by being solid defensively and they have a coach and who knows how to get the best out of them. I think with Juventus, Juventus lacked the experience of of Napoli and Inter and that's also important. that could that That could count against them maybe late in the season if they are you know in the hunt.
00:58:39
Speaker
I do think that the events do need and i said this i need love it they need a striker to be to show some consistency and we just haven't had that with love it if they are otherwise they are going to.
00:58:53
Speaker
they're going to struggle to to school to score the goals. And you can't go 1-0, 1-0 the whole way through the season. Eventually you know eventually that that that you know that it catches up with you. You can't you can't have the second lowest XG in Serie A, which Juventus had before before this weekend, and be challenging up at the top and do that for a whole season. bit nuly it just, it it it ends up playing out into reality. um So that's why Juventus need Vlawovic to start showing some consistency. Otherwise, Juventus are going to draw too many games. and But so that that's what they need. I agree 100%. And for Inter, for me, to in order to see Inter repeating Escoretto, the Escoretto, you know, retain the Escoretto title, what I need to see from Inter
00:59:49
Speaker
is defensive solidity that we saw last season when Inter were a unit in both phases. They're a unit in attack but they're not a unit in defense and that is worrying. It's been better, they're improving consistently, slowly, slowly, but they need to start showing that kind of, for example, one way that this shows itself is the sheer number of goals that inter-concede in the last 15 minutes. Last season, they barely conceded in the last 15 minutes. So far, they've conceded, I think, six goals in the last 15 minutes out of the seven. And that is a concern. A team that concedes goals late on is not a team that wins championships. That's just how it is.
01:00:36
Speaker
um because you can't always count on scoring four or five goals every single game um in order for it to not matter that you can see it later on. So what I want to see from Intel in order to see them winning, or I think what they need to do in order to retain their title, they need to find whatever it is that is bothering them. Is it a physical issue still? Well, then that will disappear with time. But is it also a structural issue?
01:01:04
Speaker
these late goals they concede from that they concede is ah is a problem atinta and they need to sort that out in order for them to be to be to win the league. it's It's really that simple. There's always going to be things for for all teams that you need to to play out and to come together or to avoid. yeah And the same comes with you know always, how far do you go in Europe? ah How many injuries do you
Atalanta's Struggles
01:01:28
Speaker
get? you know if If you lose key players for for an extended period of time, then that's going to affect your your title change. you know If Inter were to lose Daltaro for five months, or if Napoli were to lose Lukaku, or Juventus were to lose Koopmeiners, do you know what I mean? so these These are all things that that you know that are ah impossible to call. I understand what you're saying. Of course, injuries play into it, but what I'm talking about is structural weaknesses. Juventus have a Vlauwitsch thing, or a Douglas-Louis thing.
01:01:58
Speaker
We're still the jury still out on that. Milan have a maturity thing. you know our Where are Milan in the Fonseca project? Napoli have, you know Juventus have also a lack of experience, but then you have Napoli, and we know that Naples is a very volatile environment, if and Conte is a very volatile human person. you know if If one or two results go badly, how does he handle it?
01:02:23
Speaker
um within the The biggest negative or structural question mark, I should say rather, I have, is conceding late goals, conceding generally, but above all, conceding goals in the last 15 minutes. A team that wins championships does not concede goals that late, consistently. Obviously, it might just be formed on both of those things. there Let's move on and quickly round up the other the other games. So first of all, Atalanta, Bologna Atalanta, 1-1,
01:02:54
Speaker
very bad week for Atalanta. They just avoided it being a disastrous week with a brilliant 90th minute equalizer from Samosic. But they lost 3-2 at home to Kormo in an awful performance. Awful, awful. As bad as I've seen Atalanta deservedly lost. And then they draw 1-1 here against but in the game which they they deserve to win. They hit the woodwork twice and they had lots and lots of chances. And yeah, Atalanta just seemed a little bit luck is against them um at the moment this season I think when you look at some of the results but also obviously the injuries and and everything the difficult summer that they've had um but it's been a difficult starts the season they've got two wins in eight in in all competitions it's just yeah it's not it's so yeah it's not not great at Atalanta right now
01:03:45
Speaker
No, but we also seen an Atalanta side suddenly hit form and just smash everyone and smack every everyone left, right and center when they hit form. I again, I do agree with you, especially this game. They were so unlucky. They deserve to win. I don't know how Bologna managed to get a point from this game.
01:04:04
Speaker
um by any in any normal game where you have some sort of normal fallout from the chances you create, they would have won this game easily ah because they created more than enough chances to to to to win. i mean I'm sorry, but if i'm looking at if we're talking about XG, Bologna had an XG of overall of 0.1 and Ataranta had an XG of 2.0.
01:04:33
Speaker
and this game ends 1-1. It's like, where are we? You know? So, I mean, this is maximum bad luck, but they didn't lose. And I think that was the most important thing that they scored a late equalizer, and they can build on from that. But yeah, they they they're not exactly they're they're not they're They're not lucky to put it back. I've noticed a ah big weakness with Atalanta in which i'm I'm actually very critical of their summer transfer market. And that is, I think they've left themselves short in two key positions. They're centre midfield and they're centre forward. they
01:05:11
Speaker
They have no alternative to reticate at centre forward, like as a natural striker. He's the only striker they have because obviously Skamaka done his ACL is going to miss pretty much the whole season and they also got rid of some other attacking players.
01:05:26
Speaker
and they have no they have no replacement. He's been overplayed so far this season and he had a very very bad game against Cormor. He was horrible against Cormor and I'd probably would put that down to just being overplayed and he was actually rested for this game.
01:05:42
Speaker
I am so that they're they've they've got no alternative to recipe, which is a problem. And they have no an even bigger problem. They have no alternative to Edison at center midfield, who basically, for me, has to play every game for Atlanta. Otherwise, they are vulnerable. ah sentiment I think they're already vulnerable because because the defense, which is been horrendous so far, they've considered so many goals, that Deron, who is the only other really, for me, acceptable sentiment fielder next to Edison, um ends up being drafted back in playing at the back. It means that Edison is partnered by someone who's not really naturally suited. I mean, I don't think Pasalic or even Samacic or or um I don't think either of these are really natural two-man sentiment fielders. I think they're more advanced.
01:06:32
Speaker
centre midfielders for me um or a midfield three kind of player um but you know that's if Edison plays every game he can't play every game even though he is a machine he's going to get tired and he's actually had a bit of a slow start to the season generally as well, and Edison.
01:06:49
Speaker
Um, so they're sure if Edison doesn't play every game, which he can't do, you can't play 60 games a season. Um, I think they're short. They're, they're, they're one man short in, in the striker position and they're one man short, uh, at cent midfield. And I think that is causing them already causing the problems and it's going to cause them more problems as the season goes, as the season goes on. So I think that they, I think that they've, they've, they've, they've not done well in the summer market in those two positions. They've left themselves short. And I think, I think that's a problem.
01:07:17
Speaker
I think they left themselves short in midfield, centre material for short, as a replacement for Kukminers. I don't think there's any doubt about that. I see more an issue of a central defence. I think um s Scalvini's injury and not really replacing him properly is what's more causing the problems and in midfield, because that means, like you said, Deron has to be there.
01:07:43
Speaker
and that gives them imbalance further up the pitch. I think in attack, Lukman, De Kettler, Zagnolo, Rettegi, whatever, I still they think they have options there. I think they're more decimated. Well, I think in defence they have the numbers, like they have enough players. i don't I don't think they have enough, I don't think they have like the actual, but my point is I don't think they have the actual natural number nine and the natural semi-fielders they need.
01:08:09
Speaker
But in defence, they have the numbers. I think the the issue is, which is probably what you're saying is, ah the quality do they have the quality in defence so far? It yeah looks like they don't. I mean, the play but they have they did bring players in. They brought in Godfrey from Everton. They brought in Kosanu from Bialevakus. And they haven't really played much so far. So we'll see, you know, if they do when they start playing regularly, whether they end up being
Bologna, Roma, and Lazio's Prospects
01:08:32
Speaker
being good enough. But certainly right now, yeah, the defence has been been terrible. I mean look how many goals they've conceded and it's mad. The only game they actually really played well defensively and was was against Arsenal really weirdly enough. Arsenal didn't really create anything in that game at all so every other game they've been been so well I guess they were unlucky in this game but they've been so wide open generally and this season.
01:08:58
Speaker
and But Bologna, I mean at least Bologna have started to get some positive results now. Too many draws but some the results are getting a bit better for Bologna. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think that they were lucky in this game. And I think Italiano doesn't perhaps use this as, well, maybe I deserved a bit of luck. But look, I've got to say, I'm pretty surprised by Bologna. They've only lost one game. And that was against Napoli. Other than that, OK. They've only won one game as well, though. Sorry? They've only won one game. Well, that's what I mean.
01:09:35
Speaker
they they've I expected them to lose more games, um you know, um so I think they've overall done pretty all right. I mean, they've drawn one, they've drawn, where well, in the Champions League one, and they've drawn four times in the Serie A, they've won once in the... I have to say one thing though, they've had a they've the games that they that they they've had this season, they've they've had a quite easy start to the season. yeah If you look at their game, so... Yeah. Yeah. And the game against Napoli and against Atalanta they deserve to lose as well. so They were lucky, I'm sorry. Now the actual hell you managed to not lose when you got an XG of 0.1 over 90 minutes against 2.0. I mean, that is just go and buy yourself a lottery ticket, mate. It's clearly your week. Absolutely. Well, I tell you who also got lucky and got out of jail is Roma.
01:10:25
Speaker
Roma against Venezia, they're losing 1-0 in this game and Venezia should have finished them off. Odistanio missed a 1-1 at 1-0 and they also had another disallowed goal ah for offside. Roma were were really bad in this game, they they were opened up so easily, so easily, like just cut open by, by let you know, but at the Venezia team which is on paper is a Serie B team.
01:10:49
Speaker
and But they managed to turn it around. I mean, Djuric made some some tactical changes. He went to a back four um for the in the second half, and that kind of turned the game around. and But they were lucky. I mean, Cristante's equalizer. I mean, wow, that's just one of the luckiest goals you'll ever see. I mean, it's a bit, do you know what cold it reminds me of? Do you remember?
01:11:09
Speaker
Andreas Bremer for for jerk West Germany. It was tingling in the World Cup. Yeah, it was like that, wasn't it? you like Huge kind of loop in deflection in the centre of the goal, though, over the over the goalkeeper. I don't know whether he could have moved a bit better to that. No, Venizia more than created enough to win this game, um but they didn't because they didn't have the finishes. They were unable to capitalise.
01:11:33
Speaker
despite only having 31% ball position overall which is very interesting. Horace Daniel was actually quite good in this game but his finishing like so his finishing let him down and but yeah Roman were bad in this game and but so they they managed to get the win and they showed good kind of fighting spirit, which I guess you're always going to get with, with, um, with a manager like, like Urich, that's for sure. And Pazili, I think that's the biggest positive to come out. Pazili scores the header to win it, but he also went close a couple of other times with the headers as well. And he, um, the Urich was very, very complimentary of Pazili after the game. He's only 19 and he says he's made of the right stuff. Like he, he's, he obviously feels like mentally, this is a, this is a player that's got it.
01:12:16
Speaker
you know and Another Rome-born, Rome-raised lad comes you know who's played for Italy all the way from under 18 to under 21 comes through at Roma. it's um and And now he's going to be given a better contract to to keep him at the club. i mean You know, we talk about Roma, we talk about Italian youth not getting a chance, but at Roma is just pumping them out, and aren't they? I mean, it's just, it feels like every every season we're talking about two, three youngsters at Roma who are all doing really well and are growing and showing showing you know promise.
01:12:53
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. It's like we said, we had a question on the Q and&A episode, didn't we, last week, about, you know, what is it, which regions in Italy produce the best players? And it's incredible, really, Rome, especially from Roma, they the players that they seem to keep churning out. And let's hope that Pizzilli is the next ah top so player to come from Rome. Also in Rome, excuse me,
01:13:15
Speaker
Lazio, excellent week, fantastic week for Lazio. Convincing wins over for Dino Okeev and Torino. I have to say, I was critical of Atalanta's market. Lazio's summer market has been so far probably the best in Serie A if you look at how their summer signings have performed.
01:13:38
Speaker
Brilliant. I mean, Boulaidea has four goals now already. Nuno Tavares has been an absolute monster at left back. He's got fourth assist, which is the, he set a new record for, I think, consecutive assists for a new signing in Serie A. I believe that's the record.
01:13:57
Speaker
brilliant. Dele Bachery, who didn't play in this game against Torino, but he was great in the Europa League win over Dina Mokiev. And Baroni has said that he he has the talent to become a really big player, um monster of ah of a player, physically, absolutely, like players bouncing off him. But, but yeah, I really I like the look, I think he's got potential there. And Nozlin, I do like him. And he came on and scored his first goal for that series. Well, I mean, that's just four of them. But some they they new sign-ins of, I mean, brilliant market. It looks like they've had. And Castrovili is still still kind of, they're yet to see him. Yeah, sure. Now, what they did sign was
01:14:42
Speaker
They brought in a coach and they brought players to him and ah at a kind of low cost level, which, you know, he's always been good at this reboot, hasn't he, Lottito? The problems, is as I always say, is taking that next step forward. But I think it's still too soon to say. But one thing I will say about this Lazio is it's rock and roll and in that part of Rome. There's not, you know, gone are the days of Sarin Zaghi and so on. This is just you know let's have you know let's go out there and rock and roll there's going to be goals flying left right and center we're going to concede too well we might score four we might concede four but we're going to score three four five i said i mean it's all over the place 12 goals scored 10 conceded in six games i mean that is just mad um i think i think they're the after at the lanta who who in total have 23 goals in their games latsy of 22
01:15:40
Speaker
um it's it's It's absolutely. I'm enjoying watching Lazio. Yeah, me too. It's fun. I haven't enjoyed watching Lazio for quite a long time. because Even when they had that magical midfield. It was just a team that I don't know. I just didn't resonate to. ah I don't know, but now I really like them. Nice rock and roll. it's it's you know like let's you know they They give people value for their money when they want when when they play teams. it's it's not You know, it's entertaining to put it mildly. um and And it's, again, and you know they like like I said, 22 goals in six games that they played in. you know but took Score 12, conceded 10. Only Atalanta, one more goal, have have ah have have ah are more goal guarantee than...
01:16:27
Speaker
the Latour and it's it's interesting. no it's it's let's you um that i mean I'm really, really, really, really looking forward. I'm i'm quite confident now, you know, we we said we gave our prediction six games into the season. and I'm pretty confident Latour now for that seventh place. I think now you compare them to to to kind of like who else could get that final European.
01:16:48
Speaker
automatic European spot, let's say, I think that they are, I think they look, they're my pick now. I'm pretty, I mean, they were before the season as well, and but now I'm i'm pretty confident about that. I'm just annoyed that the Rome Derby isn't until after the new year, because I i want i want to watch this. A Roma that concedes chances and Lazio that can seize chances but scores lots of goals and Aroma that scores goals. I mean, that that game could be one for the ages.
01:17:25
Speaker
that roamed up anything like God knows how that could finish. No, for sure. And I think it's impressive. Bull idea playing this well, having basically not played for a year after I like bull idea. I know I do as well. I think he's I think I really like him. I think and he's actually quite adaptable because he's been playing as a striker, but also playing a little bit deeper as well behind.
01:17:48
Speaker
the the main guy Castellanos, who didn't actually play very well in this game, but yeah. Yeah, very, very positive for Lazio. And the other Serie A results, Como 3, Verona 2, great week for Como, two wins in a row, six goals, created so many chances in in in in these games. And they are, yeah, Fabregas is an interesting one. that they he has one foot He has a philosophy, he sticks with it. And they play they play good football. And Patrick Bertrani, I mean,
01:18:16
Speaker
What is going on there? is top joints ups score to score with so aen what what What year is this? nima is it what but like What is going on? up night Look, it's it's funny, isn't it? If you look at the top goals, you've got Pulisic, Taram, Katroni, Retegi and Vlaovec all on four goals.
01:18:35
Speaker
You've got Lautaro on 2, you've got Tovane, Kvara on 3, Castellanos on 3, Che Adams on 3, Santiago Castro, Bologna on 3, Lorenzo Luca on 3, Boulaye on 3. It's lots of goal scorers. Tovane has been playing like 2014 to van as well so far this season for the days he's rolled rolling back the years um yeah very very interesting and emply neil furantina neil not so not so interesting but that's another thing emply so love i mean uh yeah unbeaten two goals conceded only
01:19:13
Speaker
yeah it's mad second best defensive defense yeah in seria yeah daverza is doing fantastically and if you look at his attack and he's got a sposito colombo pelegri it's like we have to praise them as well because they are one of the few clubs in seria that actually play itallians regularly and give young itallians a chance it's the young itallians that they weren't were kind of written off elsewhere as well, like Colombo. That's what I mean. this well this is like a This is like a football manager's save from three, four years ago. Esposito, Colombo, Pellegri. Like, it's just like... They're going along and buying the kind of minus 10 talents, you know, players that are ah tipped for for for a big potential.
European Competitions Preview
01:19:58
Speaker
Right. and Just before we finish off with Badgier, Pronfés and Cédias of the week, Champions League fixtures this week
01:20:05
Speaker
We have Levakusan versus Milan on Tuesday. We actually did a ah full preview of that game. You can check that out on our YouTube page. Inter against Red Star. On Wednesday, we have Shattar Atalanta, Leipzig Juventus, and, excuse me, Liverpool Bologna, and then also in Europa League.
01:20:23
Speaker
Lazio Niss, Elfsburg Aroma and then we have the beginning of the conference league. Fiorentina are back playing against TNS. So having played an art academy, Puskas Academy, they're now playing a furniture store, TNS.
01:20:39
Speaker
it seems hum see to play They've played a furniture store, they've played an art academy, now they're playing what essentially sounds like a celebrity gossip column. like you see you next tms The Diggs team of TMZ. i mean it's just what well Exciting times in Florence. um yeah so one yeah so so yeah we took We discussed about Milan. Inter, they've got to win that game and and you'd you'd you'd expect them to it's a beat Redstar at home. Atlanta, that's a good team to play because Shapta will be playing in neutral.
01:21:15
Speaker
territory and I watched them against Bologna. They didn't seem to look like they had too much. so At Atlanta you think we'll go there and and win that game. Leipzig Juventus, tough game for Juventus and Leipzig are are unbeaten this season in in the Bundesliga. So that's ah that's going to be a tough one. And then Bologna, of course, away at Anfield, going to be very, very tough to to expect anything and but but a convincing win for Liverpool.
Football Humor and Controversies
01:21:43
Speaker
Okay, let's finish off with Badjo Primface and Celia S of the Week. So Badjo, right, these are, I mean, they're not really Badjos, but I just, I just love them. And the first one was this Lialto Gol. Did you see this video that they did? It's hilarious. Absolute genius. It really is genius. It's it's it's kind of an animated animation of of Lele Adani who is well known in Italy as being a huge critic of Motta. I mean, you compare me to Lele Adani, sorry, not of Motta, of Allegri. A huge critic of Motta is Lele Adani and you have often compare me to him. So they did an an animated mock-up of Lele Adani doing an exorcism on Thiago Motta to rid himself of Max Allegri's spirit.
01:22:38
Speaker
You have to watch this, guys. It is is genius. It's absolutely... yet It's also quite scary to watch. It's quite disturbing to watch. It's allegory, maxa lego, or Tiago Motta kind of um tied to a bed. And Adani is the priest.
01:22:56
Speaker
and he's trying to exercise the spirit of allegory and kind of motto space is turning in half turning into to allegory during it and they're trying to get his spirit out and it's just it's actually quite disturbing to watch but also just hilarious at the time I mean whoever came up with this idea genius They are funny. I'm I lovely after all. I mean, did you see I mean, it's basically it's an interest to you venting on a Milanista who just have fun with the Syrian. Did you see their Milan fans after they won the Derby, the video they did there? Well, the Milan fan of the group took out went into his closet and took out his his
01:23:42
Speaker
his Milan jersey that had been dusting like it was cobwebs on it. He dusted it off and he reactivated on all social media platforms. They are really funny. They are really, really funny. The songs they do as well. Now, I think they're hilarious. I think they're absolutely hilarious. What they do is brilliant. And the Tiago Mota, the moon,
01:24:09
Speaker
comes out and he it's like a werewolf for the spirit of allegly takes over ti it's just Oh it's too much. It was genius. It was absolutely brilliant. um The other badger that we've got have is Jose Mourinho. I love this. nice I love that. this I absolutely love this is the kind of thing i would love him. This is the kind of thing I would do. Just just so you may, I would do this in a game. If I was a manager, oh this is exactly the kind of thing I would do. So basically, Benabachi had a goal kind of controversially disallowed for off-site by VAR. And the Benabachi team in Mourinho seemed to believe that
01:24:44
Speaker
the VAR had made the wrong decision that it was actually on site. And so what they did is, Mourinho, because obviously at games, the the TV doesn't show, um or in the stadium, certainly in the te in a stadium, that they don't show kind of referee decisions, do they? Because they don't like to incite inside the crowd. um and But what Mourinho did is Mourinho wanted to make a point. So what he did was he placed his laptop in front of the being sports television cameras so that it could be seen on TV, but the actual, the offside call to show that it was
01:25:23
Speaker
according to Mourinho was incorrect, showing that Ed and Zeko was actually onside in the game. Brilliant. And the referee, they spotted it and the referee booked Mourinho for it. I love him. this is I absolutely love him. Like when he does these things. This is vintage Mourinho. Like Mourinho in Turkey is just the best thing that could happen.
01:25:48
Speaker
in the world of football like because it is just it's prime time. it's yeah He's crazy. Turkish football is batshit. It's comedy, pure comedy. And of course Galatasaray after they won the Derby, did you see i mean the way that they like Turkish football is absolutely bonkers and it's very very funny and Mourinho going in there is just too good to be true. no she Their fans are are absolutely insane as well. I know that because I used to live with with two Turks and they are mad. Primface of the week.
01:26:27
Speaker
Michael Richards and Jamie Carragher play in a quiz on CBS where they ah have to guess which country certain European opponents are from and the proud ignorance on show was was something to to to to behold that that the ignorance of being proud to not know the answer and to get the answer wrong. It was it was like, and ah you know as we say, it was like the Chris Rock.
01:27:00
Speaker
You know, never been so proud to not know the answer to your question. I don't know that. I don't know that shit. Yeah, no, I've never seen two people so happy about being to being so to being stupid. to being like for So there's some of the some of the builders they've got, Ferrence Varos are from Turkey, apparently. Kalabaga from Georgia.
01:27:24
Speaker
and Bodo Glimter from Finland. wine And they were laughing historical hysterically at being wrong. I mean historically stupid. Historically stupid. um i mean yeah i just like is is I don't mean to be a snob, but like you are we first of all I find it incredible that two former professional footballers who would have played all over Europe, would have played in all of these countries,
01:27:48
Speaker
Like you should know I mean they probably would have played against some of these teams ah you know I find I find that incredible for starters but secondly like you're getting paid big money to be on CBS and your your broadcasting European Games Champions League Europa League whatever.
01:28:04
Speaker
And you know you're supposed to do your research at least and know where these these these teams are from. You're literally paid to do a job, do your bloody job properly. yeah Seriously. take your take your be Be respectful to your audience and take the job seriously. But unfortunately, this is something we see in sports media in particular. it's It's not about doing a job. It's about, oh, look at me and my mates in front of the camera. And it's a bit, it's very,
01:28:33
Speaker
Pathetic, really. it's It's a shame because it's I think it's insulting to the viewer. I really do. I'm all for having a bit of fun. and i think that's you know Having fun is different, but not preparing. I think in some senses that that is actually quite endearing about CBS. that that There is that banter, there is that chemistry, which is good, but this was this is embarrassing. and also the the thing I don't like about CBS is it's just so staged like it's scripted. It's so much of it is scripted and it's so obvious like you see so many things happen where it's so like they've they've they've written out the show it's just not natural and that you know that comes across as disingenuous.
01:29:16
Speaker
You know, it's like you're watching a, like a film ora or, or, or do you know, do you know what I mean? It's, it's, uh, and, and this, I mean, to, to, to, to be proud of being wrong, you know, it's just, it's just, and I like, by the way, I like Michael Richards. I think he's, he's one of the, I love think he's one a really good like guy, but this is, you know, this is just embarrassing. yeah <unk> My, my, I have a serious ass and a, um, bad job of the week, uh, kind of both in one.
01:29:44
Speaker
My Badger of the Week is Romeo La Villa, the Belgian footballer, ah from a place for Chelsea, if I'm not mistaken, and and Cole Palmer scored a hat-trick.
01:30:00
Speaker
And he log goes, you know, sorry for those. Yeah, but he scored a hat trick. Hatty, as real fat would call it, because when you're 45 years old, you talk like that, apparently. Regardless, trying to sound like he's 13. Anyway, um he wrote on the match ball that.
01:30:18
Speaker
um That Cole Palmer got, you're a mid player, regardless, which I think is hilarious. But the city, as of the week, Esportitalias, or Milan des Marco Varini, who saw this, posted it and used Google Translate and wrote, Lavia on Cole Palmer's ball, you're still just a midfielder. He interpreted you're a mid-player regardless as you're just a midfielder. And the comments, comments
01:30:59
Speaker
Just you can just imagine Italian football Twitter, i love which is completely unhinged. What they did to this is one of the funniest things I've seen on social media ever. I love it it's like it. It reminds me of of the of the the island. the The island was the under twenty one team or the under nineteen team. They recently had a game against remember with the country. Now, was it Latvia?
01:31:28
Speaker
And in the in the match program before the game, for some reason, the editors, the writers they in the match program, but they were when they were printing out the squad of the of the of the upper opposition team, they used Google Translate to translate their names of the players for some weird reason. And some of the players' names on the match program, so people that went to watch the match, bought the match program, had a look at the the team that Ireland were playing, and they had like some of the names were like,
01:31:58
Speaker
like John the Elder and Peter the Shit. and like
01:32:06
Speaker
You're a midfielder regardless. It's just hilarious. is I died. And it's like, that that is to me, that's Sarriassa of the Week. And it's like, english not even like bad English. We're talking non-existent English. That's fantastic. so That's great. A more serious Sarriassa of the Week though. Genoa fans who vandalized the shrines here.
01:32:26
Speaker
So Jenluca Vialli at the Coppertalia Derby. I mean, just what what what possesses somebody to do something like that? I mean, complete arseholes. Arseholes. It's the second second time in a week we've had fans doing this, that it had the Napoli fans that ruined the minute silence for forum for Toto Scilacci during the Napoli Juventus fan. Napoli Juventus shouting out Munet to him. I mean, just, yeah. Asses. That's where, there was a lot of trouble in that game, is what in that that Genoa derby, ah that derby between Sampdora and Genoa. 30 injured, which was yeah really, really horrible what to see.
01:33:03
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01:34:51
Speaker
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