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00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Brighton podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. to Today i am joined by the general Jamie G, mate. How are you?
00:00:23
Jamie
Oh, well, what amazing weekend and very good after it. Just another week, another win against our bitter foes, Chelsea.
00:00:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
And just as Jamie alluded to, We have beaten the mighty Chelsea again, or maybe the not so mighty Chelsea. We've dumped them out of the cup and we have just dumped three goals on their head top as well. So things we absolutely love to see. We are going to be reacting to it today. Three nil win on Friday night.
00:00:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Matoma with, ah I mean, we're going touch on it, but ah unbelievable. And Minte with have two goals as well.
00:01:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
But first, in the first segment, I just want to a little bit about sort of like a little bit of tactical change um and how that's sort of affected this sort of recent run bar the 7-0.
00:01:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
In the second segment, going to talk a little bit about some players who have maybe potentially turned their form around. And in the final segment, we are going to be speaking about the Matoma goal and um some of the comments made by Maresca and maybe that light and a little bit of a fire under the boys.
00:01:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Gera, how did you find the game, mate?
00:01:42
Jamie
well can we play you every week can we play you every week yeah no i don't think so we don't get a chance to say it often so i haven't really practiced that stuff
00:01:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that the right tone for that chant? I laughing? Yeah. and my lot failure yeah
00:01:58
Jamie
it but I did hear the fans on the TV talk about it and like charn it to the Chelsea fans when they're in the stadium and I found it so funny but yeah I mean can we play them every week because we are making light work of them that's for damn sure it was such a comfortable win um but I'm not even joking I'm not even saying that I never thought they looked like scoring and in fact I think they didn't have a shot on target so that
00:02:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
I have got the stats next to me and they did not have a shot on target confirmed.
00:02:28
Jamie
They didn't have a shot on target. It didn't feel like it. And yeah, I think they just created nothing. and All the balls that they kind of, all the chances that they created were perfect for Adam Webster and Van Hecker. They were just balls into the box.
00:02:43
Jamie
So like chip balls, crosses, easy to defend. Like, honestly, they did not look creative at all. As soon as you mark Cole Palmer out the game, they're toast.
00:02:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, 100%. And you know what? I feel like Cole Palmer might be on a little bit of fraud watch at the moment because he's not...
00:03:03
Jamie
is
00:03:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
<unk>s I feel like he's not... i Don't get me wrong, I don't watch Chelsea every week. um I couldn't think of it if it was actually. But um he just doesn't seem like the same player that he was last year.
00:03:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So, I mean...
00:03:18
Jamie
Well, it's certainly not against us.
00:03:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
there is no but you know what I mean? like It is good for us anyway that he's sort of in a bit of a rut in form anyway.
00:03:26
Jamie
Hmm.
00:03:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
um to I'm saying that with no stats to back it up, by the way. i just feel like when I've seen him play, just hasn't looked great. um But what do want to sort of go on to a little bit here is potentially the reason why you're saying all these things. And we have seen a change in formation.
00:03:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we were sort of not arguing, but we were sort of debating how it works because neither of us are tacticals, by the way. But we were sort of debating how it works. And Obviously, on paper, it's a 5-4-1, allegedly.
00:04:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
and But obviously, that modern football is very much now. um You don't play the same formation when you're defending than you do when you have the ball sort of thing.
00:04:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:04:13
Jamie
Mm-hmm.
00:04:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, ah just want to touch on it quickly because ah feel like it's made a massive difference. We spoke about when we actually lost to Chelsea earlier in the season, we spoke about how the line needed to drop.
00:04:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
It seems like that's been a thing. Five at the back with Minter and Lamptey as the wing backs and a lot more compact. So how have you, what do you sort of take from what you've seen from the new sort of system?
00:04:41
Jamie
Well, yeah, um like we like you said, we said from time for time and time and time after but time time after each other that we needed to sometimes change the way we play. We can't be naive and just keep playing this high line.
00:04:57
Jamie
So I feel like Herzler has listened or has kind of acknowledged that himself. And he has gone to this like deep line, let's be hard to break down Let's be hard let's be a hard team to break down.
00:05:11
Jamie
And I think that all comes from the Nottingham Forest result. I think that result was such a wake-up call to Ertzler, how wrong he got it. And the ability for him to change, he actually needs a lot of credit because fans, and pretty sure fans are still out there calling for his head, which is crazy, as we've said many a time.
00:05:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes.
00:05:31
Jamie
the top he just and You can tell he's a good manager. He's a thirty one managing in the Premier League. And his ability to adapt that we've seen so often this season.
00:05:42
Jamie
Sure, sometimes his risk-taking, like the Nottingham Forest game where he played Pedro and Ruta and all our attackers against that. took That was pure ignorance.
00:05:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:52
Jamie
And then he's quickly learned.
00:05:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, definitely.
00:05:54
Jamie
Although he said after the game, I'll do it again. ah think we all know from what he's just been putting on and playing...
00:06:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:06:01
Jamie
Recently, he would not do it again. He regrets that decision.
00:06:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:06:05
Jamie
He knows, oh, we need to be much more compact here because our defenders are not good enough to play this high line. Like, especially when Dunk is in, Adam Webster's filling in now.
00:06:16
Jamie
um Like, they aren't good enough to play this high line where ah balls are just constantly played in behind. So he's gone for this much more compact five at the back when we're defending. That's what we were debating earlier, wasn't it? We were debating because Minter has basically got a new role now. He's playing as a right wing back. He's taking the da Sanchos, ah madawayki the the... Who did he have this game?
00:06:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Neto, Sancho, Manueke, Tariq George.
00:06:44
Jamie
Leto. Yeah. And, like, he's pocketing.
00:06:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
All these players.
00:06:49
Jamie
Sorry, George. yeah
00:06:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:51
Jamie
Yeah, so like any he's doing a really good job because we've said for time, his best attribute or one of his best attributes that maybe isn't pace is defensive work.
00:06:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:02
Jamie
He is unbelievable defender. I think Herzler then looked at that and probably went, That's like a secret weapon that you can, let's find a way to have him defending more positions.
00:07:13
Jamie
And let's be really resolute at the back. And it's kind of paid off the last two games anyway.
00:07:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
100% mate and like to be fair with Mente's position actually think that I could be wrong here but I feel like he might have actually played there a couple of times for Feyenoord I'm not sure if that's actually 100% correct I feel like I've seen it somewhere and I just thought say it because I feel like I have seen that he did play there at times but um Yeah, we did say about his defensive acumen and stuff like that. And you i think I do think you're so right about um the fact that we don't really have the personality playing high line.
00:07:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
And obviously, like, the stats sort of back what, like, how we how the game went and how we have changed. Because we actually had quite a lot of possession average-wise throughout most of this season.
00:08:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
We had 30% Friday.
00:08:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. um friday
00:08:04
Jamie
Yeah.
00:08:05
Jamie
yeah
00:08:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
um 30% without winning 3-0 and without the other the opposite team having a shot on target is almost the perfect way to sort of be like, this is going to work.
00:08:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he's obviously touched on the adaptability side of Herzler. And I feel like when he said, i wouldn't, I wouldn't like change anything. I feel like he meant if you were to like rewind that game, he'd do the same thing again. But then going forward, he has actually learned.
00:08:32
Jamie
yeah
00:08:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we spoke, I don't know if this, if these, podcast even went out because this might have just been sort of like the preseason when we were like practicing with each other sort of thing yes we practiced with each other before um we actually started this season but like we spoke about um how do we think it's gonna go with hers and i said that i think it was me that said it it might have been me or bless but we said that he's gonna go for a tough period
00:08:44
Jamie
Mm-hmm.
00:08:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's about how he adapts to that tough period as to whether his time in the Premier League is going to be a long, prosperous career. And that could be at Brighton for X amount of years. It could be anywhere.
00:09:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, he's young and he's probably going to, like, just by maths, he's probably going to be managing other five teams before the end of his career, whatever.
00:09:17
Jamie
yeah yeah yeah
00:09:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But, like, I do you think it is, a good, it's such a good sign for a young manager to be able to adapt in the hardest league in the world. um Anyone could, actually saw a podcast clip about, it was Olejna and he was on, maybe he was, maybe even on a Twitch stream.
00:09:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he was talking about like how this, there's a, this league, anyone could beat anyone. And like, you need to always constantly sort of be on your toes as to what's going on.
00:09:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I mean, It is a very good sign that he's done that. I'd like to now, for him to sort of make that, try and make the push for Conference League and then basically see where we're at by the end of um by the end of the season and then get a whole, get another window where you can address the, now that you've seen it for a season, you can address sort of all the bits that you want.
00:10:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then I'm curious see how he then goes into the following season. Does he change it up again? Does he sort of now build the team around this set or you what mean?
00:10:23
Jamie
Yeah. Mm-hmm. yeah
00:10:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Anyway, though we are going to go for a short short break. We're going to hear from our new sponsors. New, brand new. we Brand new sponsors, Bionic. And then we are going to talk about um some of the, let's say, fringe players and how well they've been doing. So we will see you after this short break.
00:11:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
And you know what? I've actually not heard that ad read before, so i didn't even know whether it was going to end. But as you can tell, it wasn't me that time. But we are back. Segment two.
00:11:29
Jamie
yeah
00:11:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Gera, a couple of players stood out to you this game. ah Tell me. Tell me more.
00:11:38
Jamie
Well, I've alluded to him already. I'll start with the brace, ah the brace getter, and that is Yankou Miminta.
00:11:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:11:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm.
00:11:46
Jamie
I think this, we spoke about the formation, the how we defend with a five, but we we attack with a 4-2-4. And I think the only reason that works is the energy that Minter brings.
00:12:00
Jamie
like And the pace. So he is not only locking up the winger for the other team, um giving Veltman some respite, but when we're on the the attack, he's the one that's also like sprinting forward for the counter-attack.
00:12:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:15
Jamie
And...
00:12:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Always free as well.
00:12:16
Jamie
always empty. Because he's just got so the pace in behind. He's got the kind of awareness to find the space out wide. Players don't really want to get close to him. Like, Kukurea had an absolute nightmare, and I loved seeing every single minute of it.
00:12:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, 100%, yeah.
00:12:34
Jamie
It was a dream.
00:12:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
but hundred percent 100%.
00:12:36
Jamie
Like, he got put into, like, Minta was just giving him hell, and was turning him inside out.
00:12:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know exactly what you were going to say, then. Can't say that on here.
00:12:45
Jamie
He just
00:12:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:47
Jamie
yes
00:12:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
can'll say that man
00:12:49
Jamie
No, I had to restrain myself.
00:12:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:12:54
Jamie
But yeah, oh just what a performance. I mean, he got his two goals as well to kind of cap off such a brilliant performance. And oh i'll just let's allude to the two goals that he scored.
00:13:06
Jamie
I mean, the first one, the composure is what I really like see.
00:13:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:11
Jamie
When the ball gets played in by Ruta, then it gets...
00:13:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Both goals, to be fair.
00:13:16
Jamie
Saved out by Jorgensen whatever his name is. ah ah You kind of think, oh I kind of thought chances kind of gone there because Danny Welbeck then turned his back to goal.
00:13:28
Jamie
That was a bit of like a mess of like who was going to get on the end of it. He passes it to Minter. Minter's like composed enough in that situation where he's like about three yards from goal to not just smash it, take it round Kukurea who's dived to the floor.
00:13:44
Jamie
and then beat the men on the line, like actually place it, and also like kind of smash it. ah
00:13:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah he definitely did not place that he just hit it 100% yeah
00:13:49
Jamie
And that was... He just hit it, but...
00:13:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:13:54
Jamie
Three people on the line, and he's managed to find a gap. So yeah, that's why kind of said smash it and place it-ish.
00:13:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah he would have got a pen anyway because Kukarela is actually slight up with him and not is nowhere near the ball so yeah but yeah the second the second one is the same basically
00:14:01
Jamie
you love Yeah. And not got the ball. Yeah. And then... a Yeah, ah so that was...
00:14:13
Jamie
The second one was Jadon Sancho's controller disconnected and Yankouba Minta spotted it.
00:14:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
to yeah
00:14:23
Jamie
Jadon Sancho, have you seen the memes as well? He was doing the chill guy as he watched Minta score. It was actually hilarious. He's just standing there with his hands in his pockets going, ah that's probably on me.
00:14:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
hello
00:14:34
Jamie
He probably wouldn't think that.
00:14:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
that to be fair mate that's just what he's about isn't it really he's a very lazy footballer yeah but yeah no that's I think that that goal is what we all expected from him when he signed um
00:14:38
Jamie
ah he's He's useless. Mm-hmm.
00:14:47
Jamie
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:14:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Getting literally to the byline, cutting in, putting it away. I've seen it in so many clips of his goals at the final.
00:14:56
Jamie
he
00:14:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, I mean, that is exactly what we come to, well, not come to expect, but like that's exactly what we expected. I do want to point out one thing. This is very off topic, but I don't know. i have not seen any rumours about him moving, by the way.
00:15:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
he was pointed at the Badger saying, I'm staying. I'm thinking, brother, no one said you're leaving, mate. You've literally just signed.
00:15:22
Jamie
Is
00:15:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
You've been here for like six months, mate. What is going on? He's pointing at the badge and just going, yeah, one of them, like, just point.
00:15:27
Jamie
there a different... Yeah. Is there a different podcast to us that's making up rumours? Because we all wanted to play.
00:15:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:15:36
Jamie
That was not one of the players that we had on our get rid of list, is it?
00:15:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. No, not at all. No, not at all. Not at all. And, I mean, he's added another facet to, like, his whole thing now that he can sort of play and wing back as well.
00:15:47
Jamie
Hmm.
00:15:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. um who What other players...
00:15:49
Jamie
Maybe...
00:15:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, sorry, go on.
00:15:51
Jamie
I was going to say, maybe he's playing with that chip on his shoulder. Maybe i say ah that's a kind of good thing, that he's, like, showing that passion.
00:15:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, definitely, yeah.
00:15:58
Jamie
Like, you could see it after the second goal.
00:15:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:01
Jamie
Like, he was really, like, giving it all.
00:16:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he was... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:16:06
Jamie
He was...
00:16:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
He looked fuming, actually, low-key.
00:16:07
Jamie
it
00:16:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm not going to lie.
00:16:08
Jamie
Yeah, literally looked livid when he was diving to the floor, fist bumping, screaming at himself.
00:16:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:16:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah
00:16:15
Jamie
um
00:16:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:16:16
Jamie
But yeah, like that's what you kind of want to see, that chip on his shoulder where he's actually going to now start performing. um But yeah, the other player, and I've been critical of him.
00:16:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
We need to make apologies mate. We need to make apologies feel.
00:16:29
Jamie
Yeah. um I've been critical of him. I've said he might not even be good enough for the championship at points this season.
00:16:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
It
00:16:37
Jamie
He's proving me wrong. I'm glad he's another player playing with a chip on his shoulder. Maybe he's listened, taken my advice because he knows what a well-rounded defender I am.
00:16:47
Jamie
And, you know, it's Adam Webster.
00:16:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
was very good.
00:16:50
Jamie
He was sensational today. Sensational. What performance.
00:16:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah was very good
00:16:55
Jamie
I say today.
00:16:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was very good.
00:16:56
Jamie
It was Friday.
00:16:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was, yeah, it was on Friday.
00:16:57
Jamie
um But... Yeah.
00:16:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's Monday, brother.
00:16:59
Jamie
Oh, brilliant. Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
For his time travelling right now.
00:17:02
Jamie
don't get in see
00:17:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, he was, he's actually class. And you know what? He's been good for a couple games now. Both of them, actually. And when you're sort of, kind this is a run-in now, isn't Is it a run-in? Or is it like 10 games a minute that's a run-in?
00:17:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know.
00:17:17
Jamie
yeah
00:17:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it's, we're two thirds of the way through the season. And this is exactly what we need is to have, like because Minté and Webster for a long period of time this season have been fringe players and when you have injuries you need your fringe players to step up and this is exactly exactly what I've been waiting for this is perfect this because like now you need to make it hot when a fringe player comes in and starts performing all of the players so like now I'm expecting because of Ruta I'm expecting Jao Pedro to pull his finger out
00:17:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm expecting, um i don't even know who plays in Minto's position. i mean, there's hella man that play there. But like, I'm expecting, yeah, like, I mean, Callioglu doesn't count because he actually was doing bits, to be fair.
00:17:59
Jamie
Yeah, about 400 of them.
00:18:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
But like, anyone who's sort of looking for that position, i want them to now pull their finger out. Dunk, sort it out, mate, because we, I was putting Webster and Dunk in the same category of ass. And now, I mean, Dunk needs to surely, and with the new lad as well,
00:18:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you know what I mean?
00:18:24
Jamie
Yeah.
00:18:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah, it is very good. Igor's...
00:18:27
Jamie
And where's Eagle? What's happened to Eagle? Is he injured?
00:18:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, he's done out. See, the rest of the season, that was ages ago.
00:18:33
Jamie
How was it?
00:18:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
that was That was before...
00:18:34
Jamie
How did miss that?
00:18:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was before the January window. Maybe, like, a little bit before the January window, I think, he got injured. Yeah,
00:18:41
Jamie
Did we ever a speak about that? Yeah. might have missed that completely.
00:18:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I think we've touched on it, saying, like...
00:18:47
Jamie
I think, um yeah, I just might have forgotten.
00:18:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think... Yeah. I feel like I remember saying Igor's done.
00:18:50
Jamie
yeah
00:18:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, it's done out now. Yeah. So I think that forced our hand in the in January window.
00:18:56
Jamie
Oh yeah, you are right. I've just checked. Yeah, you are right.
00:19:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
when When did he get injured?
00:19:02
Jamie
Early June 2025 is when he's next back, apparently. um
00:19:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Lord have mercy.
00:19:08
Jamie
And yeah, January 4th was his last game against Arsenal.
00:19:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
OK, so I was i was close. was close. Was that? Oh, that was on my birthday when we were watching it in Winchester.
00:19:20
Jamie
Oh, yeah. Well, that's why.
00:19:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:19:21
Jamie
That's why.
00:19:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah we didn't notice because we were hammered okay fair enough
00:19:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
we literally all watched that game together as well blesses doesn't blesses doesn't know who igor is now dude that's so funny um
00:19:33
Jamie
Yeah. Lessons definitely doesn't know. like Like... Yeah. That day is for him.
00:19:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh that's so um Yeah, is there anyone else other than Minten Webster, do you think? Mm-hmm.
00:19:46
Jamie
its
00:19:52
Jamie
Well, we've got to give it to... I've got to give a shout-out to... Well, there are two players, actually, we'll give a shout-out. One is the guy that got two assists. Obviously, that's ah Danny Welbeck.
00:20:05
Jamie
But I want to give it to both of them because him and Ruta, the link-up play is back.
00:20:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:12
Jamie
You know how we called it for to like a couple of weeks ago, I think we said they need to find a way to like link up again.
00:20:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:19
Jamie
I think it might be me and Bless before a preview podcast of I think maybe even the Forest game or the game before that. We said ah need to start seeing Ruta, Pedro and Welbeck start linking up again.
00:20:31
Jamie
This game was the one where I went, Finally. Like, the Minter goal, that one started from like a little flick around the corner.
00:20:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
The first one.
00:20:43
Jamie
ah yeah well up We'll go with, yeah, that one then. That was like a...
00:20:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:48
Jamie
him Yeah, both Minters goals.
00:20:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's like a one-two with Welbeck and then he's and then he's like carried the ball.
00:20:52
Jamie
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:20:54
Jamie
That first one was like the him stepping in front of someone, playing it to Welbeck, getting it laid off, then taking on a couple of man, Ruter, drilling it across goal. And then the second Minter goal was like a ball from Verbruggen.
00:21:07
Jamie
He flicks it around the corner, knowing Welbeck must have eyes on the back of his head because he knows Welbeck's going be there.
00:21:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
00:21:14
Jamie
And then Welbeck lays it back off to him.
00:21:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:16
Jamie
He then spreads it wide. And like that just happened so many times. Ruta is coming on leaps and bounds this season. And like to your point earlier of saying like these fringe players need to start performing, he has stepped up to the plate towards the back end of the season.
00:21:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, definitely.
00:21:33
Jamie
and
00:21:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's a very, very good player to watch.
00:21:36
Jamie
Mm-hmm.
00:21:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
He actually... actually reminds me a little bit of... um Like Roberto Firmino in a way.
00:21:43
Jamie
Mm-hmm.
00:21:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Like the play style, he's not, he's a lot more athletic than Firmino is or was. I'm saying he's not, he's not dead, but like he still plays, but like he plays the Saudis.
00:21:51
Jamie
Yeah.
00:21:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
But like, I feel like that sort of link up play with people being able to, because Firmino could dribble, he could pass to an extent.
00:21:58
Jamie
Yeah.
00:22:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like he sort of, he had that link up play, obviously. I mean, he was playing with, they had the maddest front three, but like, but like, I feel like Rutter can sort of be that sort of type of player.
00:22:08
Jamie
Yeah. yeah
00:22:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's a very, he's a very flamboyant force nine, I feel like in a way, um because like when he plays off the right, he's never really on the right ever.
00:22:26
Jamie
No, yeah, yeah.
00:22:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
you what mean? Like, it cause he started on the right in this, in this game, but he sort of just occupied.
00:22:29
Jamie
Whoops.
00:22:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I said about him occupying really awkward spaces for defenders. Because it just disjoints the defensive line. And you don't really know who's supposed to be picking him up because he's just gone walkabout and he's just in random areas.
00:22:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I feel like that is it a massive... ah system He's just been so good. he is so good and he's so good to watch.
00:22:50
Jamie
Hmm.
00:22:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's hilarious as well. Like when Minte scored, he literally just collapsed on the floor for no reason. Like, it's just so funny. And like, he gets it, which I've said to him before as well. He just gets it. And I feel like that is exactly what you need.
00:23:04
Jamie
and crazy still only 22 like it is he does not play like he's 22 he eve plays like a because he's a big guy plays literally like a man he muscles people off the ball like just so many aspects of his game is brilliant brilliant
00:23:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Exactly, yeah.
00:23:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Can't tackle to save his life, though. It's hilarious.
00:23:22
Jamie
But I still want
00:23:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
But love it, though.
00:23:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it has the work, Ray, but can't tackle to save his life. um i just want to give a cut i'm not even going touch on his performance but apart from the assist but i'm just gonna say for braggen well done for getting out of that slump because he made a great save i feel like maybe towards the end i don't know he even counted as a save i saw he's flicked it like onto the like yeah he's done satin it was crazy um but yeah after this break we are going to talk about the uh final segment um
00:23:24
Jamie
I
00:23:34
Jamie
still want to.
00:23:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
which is going to be a short segment where we're going to talk about the Matoma goal and we're to talk about a so certain salty Chelsea manager. So we will um come back off this ad.
00:24:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we are back, Jamie G, the general, and your boy Joe Richardson for the final segment. And I'm just going to go straight in. What a goal.
00:24:41
Jamie
honestly,
00:24:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Outrageous.
00:24:44
Jamie
might be the goal of the season. Like, that is what that is the saying.
00:24:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hang it in the Louvre. Is that what they say? Yeah, that's the one, yeah.
00:24:50
Jamie
oh Can I just say when this happened, I wrote it in our group chat, and i want all the props to this.
00:25:00
Jamie
I said, up like, months ago, was on a random one.
00:25:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
You did actually, you confirmed. Yeah, it was so relevant to really what we were talking about as well.
00:25:07
Jamie
On just a random Yeah, but I just having what and this was when he was putting up stinker after stinker after stinker. I went, but doesn't he not have?
00:25:18
Jamie
And I said this months ago, does Mitoma not have the best touch when it's coming, dropping from the sky?
00:25:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Over his shoulder, yeah.
00:25:28
Jamie
In world football. Like, in world football.
00:25:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:25:33
Jamie
Like, i Jamie Carragher said on commentary, that was the best touch he's ever seen. Like, and he was trying to really not say, like, that was Messi-esque, that was, like, Maradona, that was, like...
00:25:45
Jamie
And then he really tried saying that's not the best touch I've ever seen because he said that was, like... a pretty mad statement, but he couldn't hold back from saying that was the best touch ever seen.
00:25:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:56
Jamie
um not like that is the best touch I've ever seen. It's come from 70 yards over his shoulder.
00:26:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
like Maybe a little bit more, to be fair.
00:26:03
Jamie
He's watching it. Yeah. He's just watching it. Chalibur's on him as well. Like he's like, yeah, like contact.
00:26:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're next to each other. ah
00:26:12
Jamie
yeah On him.
00:26:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:13
Jamie
Yeah. ill put you boy
00:26:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, no, but no, he was he was. They were genuinely so running side by side, yeah.
00:26:16
Jamie
yeah
00:26:18
Jamie
side by side, holding his arm, and he's just had the ability to go onto his foot, then and drop it dead, then cut in, like, within all one movement.
00:26:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, Chalibur could not believe what he's seeing right now, not going to lie.
00:26:30
Jamie
How he's done that...
00:26:33
Jamie
Yeah. like
00:26:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
When he come back to Chelsea, he was not thinking, I'll have to deal with this nonsense, mate.
00:26:37
Jamie
teacher yeah When he came back to Chelsea, he was not thinking he was going to be on like a highlight reel of all time.
00:26:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:45
Jamie
you know You know those goals, like the Bergkamp one where he flicks over that defender's edge.
00:26:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:51
Jamie
that's That's his legacy. The guy who ever got done.
00:26:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, the... The touch is very... It reminds me a little bit of, like, Riyad Mahrez. He was really good at that. like
00:27:01
Jamie
He was, yeah.
00:27:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
But he would always take it down on the side of his foot, on his left foot. Obviously, he was on the other side. He'd always take it, but it was always... Because, obviously, he's massively technical, isn't he, Riyad Mahrez?
00:27:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, like, he just had that sort of ability to do that. Very Berbatov way, like, where Giroud...
00:27:19
Jamie
Yeah.
00:27:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, Drew has a class first touch. What I even questioning it?
00:27:24
Jamie
Yeah, yeah.
00:27:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
But like, it is very even Suarez against Newcastle when he's chested it down and then rounded the keeper. Do you remember that one? Yeah. Like Colachini maybe was the centre half.
00:27:32
Jamie
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
00:27:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And like, it's just, it's such a hard skill because like when the ball's coming out, I'm going to sound like I have played at the Premier League.
00:27:38
Jamie
think I'm going to buy it.
00:27:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
I haven't. But like, just from experience, it when the when the ball's up so high, your foot can't... You can't just put your foot in the place where the ball's going to be because it's just going to bounce off your foot, isn't it?
00:27:56
Jamie
mm-hmm
00:27:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because you you can't meet the ball... And you can't leave your foot there because it's going to hit it.
00:28:02
Jamie
no
00:28:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
You have to meet the ball and then like you have to be in the right place. Your foot needs to be in the right place. And then you need to like bring your foot down to the floor at the right sort of like level to be able to stop the ball.
00:28:16
Jamie
Yeah.
00:28:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
And even then it can still roll a little bit ahead. It could whatever. Stopping it dead is insane.
00:28:23
Jamie
Hmm.
00:28:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
And like it's come from so far. Like you have all of this, like that's in the park, not what I'm talking about. But like you have all the fans there. You have a Premier League calibre, barely, defender like running after you.
00:28:32
Jamie
Yeah.
00:28:35
Jamie
it
00:28:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And like, it is just insane. And also like, it's the next steps. It's like he already knew in his head, like what he's going to do next as soon as he touches the ball down, which is mad because I'd just be concentrating on getting the ball down in the first place, let alone cutting in and then girding and scoring.
00:28:52
Jamie
yeah Yeah, I think um my question was going to be, do you think he's going to win goal of the season?
00:28:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, it's just insane, mate. I reckon that will be... I reckon they'll put that up for Golden Season.
00:29:04
Jamie
and ah This is where I'm actually at. That kind of goal that we saw Matomas score is so rare.
00:29:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Puskas.
00:29:11
Jamie
like you like You see bangers all the time. like I see pole drivers.
00:29:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:16
Jamie
I've seen it from Belieba this season. Twice.
00:29:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, four times, LAUGHTER
00:29:19
Jamie
Like, yeah where he just absolutely rocket launches it to like the top bit.
00:29:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:25
Jamie
I think that kind of goal that Mitoma scored is better in the sense that it's rarer. Like, we all see...
00:29:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
think it's harder, to be honest.
00:29:34
Jamie
It's hard, exactly, yeah. Like, it's... You all see, like, anyone can have a shot. At that level, anyone can have, like, a shot that goes top bins, and it's an absolute rocket.
00:29:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:29:44
Jamie
Whereas, and I think so few players... And I think Carragher was right on commentary. There are so few players that you are talking about the rounds of... Berbatov, probably, could do that.
00:29:56
Jamie
Messi could do that. And, like, yeah, like, Mahrez is a good shout. like, there's...
00:30:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Berbatov can't do that at that pace though.
00:30:03
Jamie
Yeah, Burbatov wouldn't be running onto it.
00:30:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, but Berbatov's not running anywhere.
00:30:06
Jamie
Burbatov would be more like stand still, like touch that.
00:30:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Yeah, Giroud couldn't run onto that. Mahrez, it was, to be fair, he could do it while running. Like, even Sane maybe in his prime, I guess, maybe.
00:30:19
Jamie
Yeah. Like, it's so rare, like these level of players...
00:30:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
But like, yeah.
00:30:24
Jamie
like That's how good that goal was. And, i mean, 90 million euros. After that goal, I mean, i think we should start up in the price. I know, I'm very quick at changing my mind, if you haven't noticed, for the listeners at home.
00:30:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
150 he's like
00:30:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
tripled
00:30:40
Jamie
A couple weeks ago, I said he wasn't worth 45 after an absolute stinker on. And now I'm saying please, saudi arabia
00:30:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
of fifty he's like tripled it
00:30:52
Jamie
yeah
00:30:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And, I mean, I touched on it a little bit at the start, but if there's anything that's going to make Mareska more angry than he already was, he's going to be holding free and watching his team have no shots on target. um I don't know the exact thing that he said, but he essentially was commenting on Herzlach saying, do you know what he said exactly?
00:31:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because I can't exactly remember. It was very salty.
00:31:20
Jamie
very, it was very,
00:31:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was very like, He didn't want to give him any credit for what he's done so far and all that stuff.
00:31:25
Jamie
yeah
00:31:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:31:28
Jamie
he he was awesome He was asked to comment on what he thinks of Herzler and he said, ah don't want to comment on that manager.
00:31:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Which... Go on.
00:31:35
Jamie
All I can tell you is Zerbi was a great manager, though. It's like, where's that come from?
00:31:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. Where is this beef come from?
00:31:44
Jamie
where Why has he started beef? Like, where's the beef?
00:31:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Why... Why... Why have you started beefing someone who...
00:31:49
Jamie
Random.
00:31:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
You were managing in the Championship last season.
00:31:53
Jamie
yeah
00:31:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then he was managing in Bundesliga 2 last season. So... Where has this... Like, where have you crossed... Are you, like, really good mates with De Zerbi or something? Is that what's going...
00:32:02
Jamie
Apparently one looks at it.
00:32:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, because...
00:32:05
Jamie
I guess they're both Italian.
00:32:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's...
00:32:07
Jamie
Maybe that's the way he feels. Are they both Italian? Is Moresca Italian?
00:32:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think so.
00:32:11
Jamie
I'm guessing so.
00:32:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I believe so, yeah.
00:32:13
Jamie
Enzo is his name.
00:32:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. So... ah don It is very random, but I will say there should be more of it.
00:32:22
Jamie
Yes. Let's...
00:32:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
If you're salty, mate, then fair enough.
00:32:26
Jamie
If...
00:32:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
But... but the Yeah, it does.
00:32:27
Jamie
It just adds to our kind of rivalry with Chelsea now. This modern rivalry that we've got with them, where they keep buying all our players.
00:32:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
It does, actually. Hmm. yeah
00:32:35
Jamie
Oh, sorry. Keep buying all our players and then losing to us, which They keep buying the crap as well.
00:32:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:32:42
Jamie
Also, can I just say, we might have upgraded with Belieber over Saicedo. i mean...
00:32:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah think i mean i I think that he has a much bigger upside anyway.
00:32:49
Jamie
Yeah.
00:32:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
be fair, um I'm going to come up with something outrageous.
00:32:53
Jamie
you'll You'll hear my hot take. This is a good way to tune in for Wednesday pod. You'll hear my hot take.
00:33:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
but If I think hard enough, I'm going to come up with something outrageous.
00:33:05
Jamie
and So am I.
00:33:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But yeah, no, it is is just so random. And I do wonder if it did, because obviously the players know he said that, didn't they? So, like, I wonder if it also has lit up a little bit of a fire as well. But you can't really make those comments after a loss.
00:33:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or was it even before the cup game?
00:33:26
Jamie
Nah, I think it was between...
00:33:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
After?
00:33:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. I reckon Herzl has said a madness to him.
00:33:29
Jamie
think it was yeah years between both games.
00:33:34
Jamie
Yeah.
00:33:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Said something about him being bold. Something like that.
00:33:37
Jamie
Yeah.
00:33:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bold people don't like it if you say stuff about him being bold.
00:33:40
Jamie
Yeah.
00:33:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
and But yeah, I think that, you what, long may it continue, mate, however long Mareska's even there because they literally love going through managers. um But 3-0 win, Southampton away next, I believe.
00:33:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
um So we currently sit, this is I'm actually going to do this after every single review pod now. We're currently sitting 10th in ten for the table and we are two points behind eight And four points behind seventh.
00:34:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, and i mean six points behind sixth.
00:34:16
Jamie
Yes.
00:34:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
And fifth. So, i mean, there is absolutely nothing to say that we can't make a little ah li push. There's still 13 games left.
00:34:30
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00:34:41
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00:34:55
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Jamie G, you have sign-off message for the people?
00:34:59
Jamie
Up the seagulls.
00:35:01
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Love that for you. Up the Seagulls indeed. And we will see you on a wildcard Wednesday coming up soon. so join us for that one. Farewell. Be safe, love, prosperity and guidance.
00:35:16
Jamie
Peace.