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Episode 181: Matchday Preview: West Ham Away!
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Southampton – Apparently there are still football games to play this season.... we look ahead to one of them, our visit to the London Stadium!
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Saints Game Preview: Key Players and Challenges
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott. Once again, as always, joined by my good friend and wonderful co-host, Zach Ingo Finch. doing, mate?
00:00:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
You alright?
00:00:23
Zak
Mate, yeah, still getting, as you can probably hear, over this cult. And it's it's just annoying. so, so lazily. And I'm like, oh, it's the wedding. but like But the good thing is that we're watching Saints this weekend, right? So surely, surely that can do nothing but brighten our weekend.
00:00:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
it is Easter weekend. It is a long weekend, four whole days for saints to ruin.
00:00:40
Zak
is, oh, glory.
Simon Rusk's Press Conference Insights and Saints' Unpredictability
00:00:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
we, we have had a press conference. Uh, we know some team news. We know that Flynn downs is back and that can only be a good thing.
00:00:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
We know that tall pool might not be, and that, well, that might actually be upsetting, right? If we, if you think we'd say that at the start of the season.
00:01:04
Zak
our top goal scorer is what it is.
00:01:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Uh, Unfortunately, though, Zach, my biggest takeaway from the press conference, it happened about halfway through and I took it, i found it very hard focus. You know exactly how my brain works. that Once that thought's in my brain, it's gone.
00:01:21
Zak
yeah
00:01:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Simon Rusk went into detail a bit about his like philosophy on football and how he's going to treat these next seven games. And the problem with that was that he said he's going to do the next right thing but all the time.
00:01:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And now I think his entire football philosophy is based off a Frozen 2. Yeah,
00:01:46
Zak
Oh, tell me you're a dad without telling you're a dad, mate. Good Lord. Oh, yeah so great video' right that's so where we're at.
00:01:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah he's just Princess Anna. That's it. We're just going to save the snowman and and play the football. Do the next right thing.
00:02:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I really struggled to focus on the rest of the press conference after that.
00:02:08
Zak
Yeah, i know I know how you are at that point.
00:02:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
There was well some interesting bits. that There is some interesting bits that are going to come out after recording in the 10pm part as well.
00:02:16
Zak
Oh, good.
00:02:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I know that because the video stream is bad at cutting in time for the ten pm sort of vetoed, NDA'd part of the thing.
00:02:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so I heard George Reis Julian ask, what about Grombeck? And then the feed cut off. So I look forward to the answer to that question 10pm from the Echo
Speculation on Player Absence and Club's Transfer Decisions
00:02:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
tonight.
00:02:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
But...
00:02:40
Zak
I see...
00:02:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
hey
00:02:41
Zak
so either You're not a social media man. I don't even know why. but You are. just depends on what type. And it's certainly not watching what players do in their lives. At the moment, it's playing Balatra and Blueprints like the rest of the world. At least my world.
00:02:54
Zak
Which is infuriating. Because if I have to see another page of notes that my friends have put together of this ridiculous puzzle game, it's going to drive me insane. up But as somebody that does...
00:03:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
just nice distraction mate to be honest to be scribbling notes on this dumb puzzle game instead of worrying about Saints
00:03:08
Zak
is it's it's It's a glorious, very much a new thing, mate. But I go... I keep an eye, right? The the Daily GSPN Southampton Instagram page follows all the players because, you know, it's just good to keep an eye. He posts a lot, and he not a lot of those photos are A, in the country,
00:03:28
Zak
be on the training ground or see anything to do with Southampton. So I have a big feeling that he's either like basically just been given a leave of absence or what, like the fact that no one's talking about it as well.
00:03:39
Zak
was very, i don't know. I kind of forget, right? He had like a game and a half and then, and then we don't really consider him an option because again, apparently if it's, it's, it if still feels really weird to me.
00:03:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:50
Zak
And I know this is a bit of a tangent that isn't anything to do with the West Ham game, but it's still really weird to me that like how that whole transfer happened was, Why they brought in a player to play in the place of Matty Fernandez when they're never going to play a player other than Matty Fernandez.
00:04:05
Zak
Then they played him as a striker that like one time that didn't really do anything. we just haven't seen him since. It's like, it was like we replaced the Corne loan with a different loan. That's the same thing.
00:04:16
Zak
And I feel bad for the guy.
00:04:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:04:17
Zak
and Like I don't think he played bad.
00:04:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that it's a beautifully encapsulated vision of our recruitment decisions this season.
00:04:27
Zak
just like It's just a metaphor for
00:04:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right?
Strategy for West Ham Match: Winning vs. Youth Development
00:04:29
Zak
the whole thing, isn't it?
00:04:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
00:04:30
Zak
it
00:04:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
It didn't really benefit anyone. And no one really knows why, how, or what has happened. Yeah.
00:04:42
Zak
No, to lie, in the future years, Greg, what's going to happen is that either a pub quiz or one of these, like, Saints Twitter pages going to go did you know blah, bla blah paid for Sal Amden? And I'm going to remind you that Grombeck played. Oh, I completely forgot about him. Like whenever we talk about Stephen Corker or Elia, I've always pronounced that wrong.
00:05:04
Zak
The guy that like I remember because he scored two goals against Newcastle, what is the game? Like 11 years ago. and And that's all I remember. And that's fine. That's all need to realistically remember about it. But it is one of those things where, like, that is unfortunately what is likely me to happen. He's going to be a footnote in Southampton football club history.
00:05:22
Zak
At least he played.
00:05:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:23
Zak
I'm like the guy who was talking about the other day who came in Pochettino who never played a game for us. Which I think was fascinating. And, like, I think it's Safir Tadir, another one that, like, turned up and then got in a scrap with someone immediately and they went, absolutely not.
00:05:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Sounds about I'm conscious that we're six minutes into a match preview and I don't think we've mentioned West Ham yet.
00:05:41
Zak
Fungents.
00:05:46
Zak
Mate, at this point, you already said yesterday, it's a pre-pre-season.
00:05:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Pre-season friendly, yeah.
00:05:51
Zak
Pre-season's Fred Lee with West Ham.
00:05:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
How do you see it play playing out? Do you think that he means it and he's just going to try and win every game? Or is it do we need to take this as an opportunity to play some youth?
00:06:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Does Robinson get more minutes now?
00:06:05
Zak
He's already said he doesn't want to like put much too much pressure on the the young young guys, right? He doesn't want to say who's starting, say who potentially is going to get a game because that's a lot of unnecessary pressure and then everyone starts dissecting.
00:06:15
Zak
yeah We're part of that problem, to be clear. like can we At least be self-aware about it. Like, you know... I like to think that I have absolutely no bearing on what people who listen to us think realistically, but sometimes you also need to acknowledge that if we say a horrible thing about a player and they listen to that, they might be bummed out about it. So I totally get it.
00:06:37
Zak
But like I don't think that they will accept us just sort of half-arsing the rest of the season or treating it like a pre-season friendly until that points record is beaten.
00:06:50
Zak
So I think that he is probably true in what he's saying. He wants to win until we are no longer the worst Premier League team of all time. If anything, just to give the players and the fans the slightest boost.
00:07:04
Zak
Me
Season Struggles and James Ward-Prowse's Potential Impact
00:07:04
Zak
and you talk about Saints on a daily basis, mate. like When it comes to that thing, we've already we're already kind of jaded to the point we don't care about it. If you tune in every so often, if you're a Saints fan that kind of... I don't mean this in like a once a week you pay attention when the game's on. like that That's a totally fine way, probably a normal way to consume media, right?
00:07:23
Zak
You still look at that...
00:07:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know what you mean.
00:07:26
Zak
Not for me and you, yeah, to be clear, but for, you know, for the average average Joe out there, like, you know, football is sometimes a weekend thing. Maybe watch some of the games in the midweek. But there is still that record. And that is what they hear, because you're going to be watching punditry and you're going to be hearing them talk about that before every single game and talk about every single other game.
00:07:46
Zak
And that's that's basically all that's being really talked about now, other than Roy Keane mugging us off for our early renegation saying we should have just done better, which I'm like, oh, great. If it was that easy, we should have just stayed up, Greg.
00:07:57
Zak
Greg, did you know we just needed it to be better?
00:07:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah all we had to do was just get the points, you know?
00:08:01
Zak
Get a point.
00:08:02
Zak
Be better. Put more of an effort in. Apparently, it's that easy to stay the Premier League. Nothing to do with the £150 million pounds that Man the City can spend in January willy-nilly, but that's just me being bitter, let's face it.
00:08:13
Zak
So, yeah, I think that... To answer your actual question, I think that he he is definitely trying to win until we get past that record, which theoretically can be done.
00:08:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is this obvious chance to do that realistically?
00:08:24
Zak
Yes.
00:08:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm kind of in two minds about this, right? Because on one hand, West Ham 17th.
00:08:30
Zak
Yes.
00:08:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Basically in that 17th limbo, maybe they finish as high as 16th with a bit of run. Probably just finished 17th.
00:08:38
Zak
Yep.
00:08:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Arguably one of the weakest opposition we've got left in our fixture list apart from probably Leicester.
00:08:42
Zak
I'd say the only week the only weak opposition realistically got left.
00:08:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
But also, they gave Liverpool a good game last week.
00:08:49
Zak
We gave Liverpool good game at one point.
00:08:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Leave a league game for good game and lost 1-0. Yeah.
00:08:56
Zak
Yeah, but we did that thing. We collapsed over 15 minutes. You said that that's still a good performance, Greg, because we performed for 75. So I'd say Wolves, West Ham, two teams that no one really expects them to be where they are this season, right?
00:09:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:09:09
Zak
That's where I'm at. And, you know, they winning winning championships, they switch manager, the switch didn't really go well. Moyes is actually now doing better at Everton than West Ham are doing in general, which kind of sucks. They still haven't really found their feet. And unlike whenever you transition midway through a season, it either works out really well or it doesn't.
00:09:27
Zak
At the moment with Potter, it doesn't seem to be going quite the way they want it to go. so yeah, I think that if they're disheartened and downed, they They have more to lose in this situation than we do. We're already down at this point.
00:09:40
Zak
Everything realistically for us now is what you used to say at the beginning of the season, which is, oh, it's a free hit, isn't it? Where realistically, looking back at any of those games, any of them were a draw. we would have it wasn't a free hit. We should have fought for every single point.
00:09:53
Zak
But, things are roundabouts.
00:09:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:54
Zak
So, I think it's far more important for them. And I think that they are aware of that. And I think that that gives us a little bit more freedom. The flip side of it is that, like, I've said this a lot. You've said this a lot this season. We could also just go out and get batted 3-0 because Kuda scores a hat-trick or something.
00:10:09
Zak
Because that would also be a very saint thing to do. we give We give somebody an important win. Or like Spurs the other week, when they beat us... defeated us very well, right? And then we were like, and they were like, maybe this will get them going again.
00:10:21
Zak
And then they get beaten 4-2 next, like, game of Wolves. So we're just that team at the moment.
00:10:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:25
Zak
but That's where I'm at.
00:10:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just the team that breaks the streak. All right,
Predictions for Saints' Lineup and Strategy
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
going to come back and we're gonna I've got one more talking point before we hit predicted lineups. up First, a message from our partners at Bionique.
00:11:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, and we are back. Okay, I've got one one more thing I want to talk about before we get into predicted lineups.
00:11:22
Zak
Joe?
00:11:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know how we're suffering a lot. It's really Saints in general, but specifically this season. We're breaking records, breaking streaks of all of the negative varieties, right?
00:11:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I can't help but notice, yeah, I can't help but notice that a Mr.
00:11:36
Zak
For other teams,
00:11:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ward-Prowse has been becoming quite an essential part of West Ham's team under their new manager. Does he score free kick against us and break that record, Zach?
00:11:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that the script that's written?
00:11:56
Zak
Yeah, make it two. yeah make it too Why not?
00:12:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
if It's how it feels like that's going to play out, right? you're just going to break that record against us in the most heartbreaking of ways.
00:12:07
Zak
yeah so as so As I've said before, that that would make total sense. And the thing that we'll do is we'll ruin everyone's last day out of Gunnison-Parker-Everton by winning. That's genuinely how... but is probably but like Realistically, this is probably our best chance.
00:12:21
Zak
But also, we've already talked about the gulf between teams and the quality that can be brought on and off the benches of the various teams. And that will once again prove probably to be crucial tomorrow. And that would be 100% written in the stars that he scores a free kick or two against us, you know, just because...
00:12:37
Zak
It's just just, you know it.
00:12:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:12:40
Zak
that That is a feeling as a feeling that you get, Greg, that probably turns out to be quite accurate.
00:12:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:12:45
Zak
Because again, like hasn't scored a free kick since he left and scored free kick against us.
00:12:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
four Football is so frequently a follower of the poetry and the script writing and that that's one that feels so obviously written in the stars that it it almost feels like an inevitability.
00:13:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's really upsetting. so also his first game against us since he moved, right? Because...
00:13:09
Zak
um it say oh Was he on the bench for one of them? He was on the bench for Forrest or something, think.
00:13:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, so he we hadn't played... Because our West Ham game was Boxing Day. So he was still on loan at Forest then.
00:13:19
Zak
Yeah.
00:13:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
But he didn't go out on loan to Forest until right at the end.
00:13:20
Zak
Forrest.
00:13:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it was literally deadline day. And we had already played Forest at that point.
00:13:26
Zak
Yes, and then he wasn't able to...
00:13:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
because Forest was like our second game.
00:13:30
Zak
Maybe you're right.
00:13:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
so So this is our first game back against him.
00:13:32
Zak
That's not.
00:13:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's...
00:13:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that'd be fun. Look forward to that coming back up now.
00:13:43
Zak
But is it's kind of funny, isn't Like, goes to West Ham for the whole season of the Championship. Does all right there. Comes, then it goes on loan to Forest. Get set back from Forest after Forest started doing well. And I know that apparently he was a lovely chap around this dressing room.
00:13:58
Zak
And now he's at West Ham who are literally just above the relegation zone. just Just above the relegation zone. Yeah, I guess it's be careful you wish for all to try and break into the England squad.
00:14:11
Zak
But now almost seems impossible because there just seems to be so many players ahead. Yeah, you're right. It would be it would be poetry. It was the way that the cookie crumbles.
00:14:22
Zak
I could definitely see him getting in the goal against us, not celebrating us and then us clapping about it. I would be surprised if you see our fans celebrate his goal against us.
00:14:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I mean, at this point, this isn't right.
00:14:32
Zak
but That's where I'm at. At this point, we'll clap anything.
00:14:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:36
Zak
Just anything to bring us a bit of joy or spark back to you. And i know that I know that we might upset some people by having that making that joke. To be clear, I wouldn't be one of those people clapping, but I could see it happening because there's not a lot of joy left.
00:14:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:14:50
Zak
And as I've up said about before, right we have this weird, I say weird obsession. I don't know what if it's specifically just Saints related. This whole thing with just us being absolutely obsessed with our ex-players and ex-managers and ex-partners basically just add anyone who was on the shirt at some point, us go, maybe we should bring that person back.
00:15:07
Zak
Do you remember how long we were linked with Kevin Danso for? Like, he played for us like four five times and then like never played again. And yet for some reason, for two seasons, we were bringing him back. It's wild.
00:15:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:18
Zak
Obviously, James Ward-Prowse's, you know, connection to the club significantly deeper than that. But...
00:15:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes.
00:15:26
Zak
Yeah, it's still it's still still a bit of a weird one. And I still think people will be like, we should take him back. And it's like, does he make our team better? Maybe, you know, he's a Premier League player at this point.
00:15:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Probably, but... Yeah.
00:15:35
Zak
I think at the beginning of the season when we talked about it we both, we all kind of agreed not. I reckon now I'll take him back in a heartbeat with the state the team.
00:15:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Hmm.
00:15:45
Zak
Interesting.
00:15:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
does he get more or less goals than Yeah.
00:15:46
Zak
interesting
00:15:49
Zak
Well, if he could score if he could start scoring three kicks again, he would probably be our top goal scorer. Like, you genuinely remember the last time he went down, part of that is the fact that he scored a load of three kicks that season.
00:15:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:00
Zak
That's why he's
Planning for Next Season: Player Decisions and Future Needs
00:16:00
Zak
on the cusp for the record.
00:16:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. No, you're right. Okay. Well, let's let's try and stick back to our script and our format and go for some predicted lineups. Zach, how do you see us lining up tomorrow?
00:16:11
Zak
Well, there's going five the back again, isn't it? Why would it not be?
00:16:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ramsdale in goal.
00:16:15
Zak
Yeah.
00:16:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Save two penalties.
00:16:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Gotta be done, innit?
00:16:18
Zak
up
00:16:19
Zak
Now's the time to reintroduce Alex McCarthy.
00:16:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's the only reason.
00:16:23
Zak
it's not Let's not get all of the wages we can out of Ramsdale at this point.
00:16:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Give Lummers a chance. Why not?
00:16:28
Zak
No, thank you. Nicest possible way to love us. No, thank you. And then you're going have, what, Stephens, Harwood, Bellis, Bedrock, if they're all fit and ready to play.
00:16:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:38
Zak
And then maybe, yeah, Walker-Peters and probably Manning again, probably.
00:16:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Walker-Peters. Probably Manning. Yeah. seems to work.
00:16:44
Zak
Downs is back in now, so maybe Downs and going to trickle again. That makes more sense to me.
00:16:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
You'd have thought so.
00:16:50
Zak
And then obviously, Mati Fernandes, Paul if he's fit.
00:16:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:55
Zak
Maybe, maybe Solomar, maybe Dibbling.
00:17:00
Zak
That's it, that's the squad. any Any difference to that or you can't on the same page?
00:17:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
he
00:17:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right. Say Paul's not fit, what are we doing? Are sticking Cameron Archer in, give it a go? thing is I don't think you can play Cameron Archer and like Suleymane and Dibblin because that's three players who do similar things.
00:17:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
You need someone who's going to bring the ball down.
00:17:17
Zak
Ross Stewart
00:17:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Start him knowing that he's not going to make the game. Do you think he's fit enough for 60 minutes maybe?
00:17:24
Zak
start. Start him, take off him for Paul later if Paul's been up and about but not ready for 90.
00:17:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Or even, you know...
00:17:32
Zak
That's what I can see, just a like swap later.
00:17:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
you know bring on Joe Eribo at centre-back and stick Jack Stephens up top. go
00:17:39
Zak
Is there anyone from the youth that might be we getting another Jay Robinson appearance?
00:17:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I feel like he'll come off the bench, probably for more minutes than he got against whoever beat us last week.
00:17:44
Zak
Somebody else?
00:17:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Villa. Yeah.
00:17:52
Zak
To be fair, it's so hard to remember because it's everyone.
00:17:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah Yeah, he'll probably get probably get like 10-15 minutes i of thought, regard probably regardless of how the game's going, because yeah, because because that is not entirely relevant to our season, right?
00:17:56
Zak
They all blend into one after a while.
00:18:06
Zak
don't know. I think if they want to hold on to the lead, they would.
00:18:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like,
00:18:11
Zak
As I said, I think the points record still is. I think you can't help but... I feel like that has got to be... You remember, like, there's those videos of, like, Man City having all of, like, the trophies up and and, like, this is how many trophies we've won.
00:18:23
Zak
I feel like at this point, that's just there's just a printed-out poster in Comic Sans up in St Mary's that's just, like, get past this point's threshold.
00:18:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
But id like is I just don't think it matters as much as you think it does because we are already the fastest relegated team in Premier League history. So it's irrelevant now.
Match Score Predictions and Emotional Investment
00:18:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, it's completely irrelevant.
00:18:40
Zak
Because yeah basically it's the only thing left to fight for. Otherwise, we just may as well forfeit season.
00:18:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, it's pretty pre-season, mate. We're looking forward next year.
00:18:49
Zak
but it And I get that, but also, half of these players they're playing, why would you bother playing? If that's truly the case, what is the point of playing Kyle Walker-Peters?
00:18:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:59
Zak
So Gawara might still be here We don't know.
00:19:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Valid point.
00:19:01
Zak
There's rumours of him going.
00:19:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
philip
00:19:02
Zak
But you wouldn't you wouldn't bother playing Kyle Walker-Peters at right back because we're going to have to live without him unless we're trying to play your best players to try and get something out of game.
00:19:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. or Or playing players in positions you know you need replacements in next year because we haven't got anyone else that's good enough, right?
00:19:18
Zak
yeah But like it is one of those, because if not, like how how do you look at paying fans who've travelled in the eye and be like, yeah, we're just true it's just a joke, mate. We're just messing about.
00:19:30
Zak
See what sticks, throw some more stuff at the wall.
00:19:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, I can make that argument about the entire rest of the season.
00:19:34
Zak
You can make fuck
00:19:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
right yeah
00:19:37
Zak
that.
00:19:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right.
00:19:37
Zak
For a long time, there actually was something to play for. For a while. Maybe the first one or foot two.
00:19:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
All the way up until October. Right. We're going to come back with some score predictions and see how shocking they may or may not be. But first, a message from our partners at Zencastr.
00:19:56
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00:20:12
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If you're ready to tell your story, check out the link in the show description and learn more about Zencaster. Okay, we are back. Zach, as always, going to throw you under the bus for...
00:20:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
How are you seeing it playing out?
00:20:28
Zak
Oh, I predicted a win last time. That was stupid. house was That was me, just again, consistently underestimating Villa. Villa that performed a ridiculously good fight back against PSG in the week wasn't to me, but like,
00:20:42
Zak
so So yeah, as I said, we we actually have something, we have not as much pressure for them. But with not having as much pressure means that we have the opportunity to let our heads drop.
00:20:53
Zak
And as as the game goes on, it probably will. So I wouldn't be surprised if James Ward-Prowse scores maybe be two free kicks against us that have given away. stupidly after a long, hard, drawn-out first sort of 60 minutes.
00:21:08
Zak
Maybe we get something back. I'd love to see Ross Stewart put away a goal. Or Jay. That'd be really nice, like a nice debut goal. But I don't think that... I think we're going to be probably beaten still. But maybe let's go with a two one That is a narrower margin of victory than I'd expect.
00:21:25
Zak
We pick something back at the end, maybe.
00:21:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
well
00:21:28
Zak
Although we're historically bad at that too, so... Just a bit of a roll of the dice. But that's that's what I'm feeling at the moment. I don't want to go in there too excited like I did against Villa and then immediately regret my decision after five minutes of that game.
00:21:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, well, okay.
00:21:43
Zak
Bye-bye.
00:21:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look.
00:21:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
We know the deal. We know what's going to happen. James Will Proud is definitely scoring a free kick against us. It's written in the start. There's no dispute in it. So, we're going to win
00:21:58
Zak
Every time. How are we scoring three? in the house would have scored...
00:22:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
One of them is going to be an own goal. It's got to be done. It's got to be said.
00:22:06
Zak
Right, okay, okay, that that makes more sense, right?
00:22:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's going to be a West Ham own goal. And Tallpool is going to come on if he plays. He's going to come on off the bench and he's going to bundle one into the net.
00:22:17
Zak
yeah that's two.
00:22:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's going probably absolutely clatter their goalkeeper in the process.
00:22:21
Zak
Nice.
00:22:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Matty Fernandes is going to pop up with goal.
00:22:27
Zak
Mate, you should write bedtime stories. Honestly.
00:22:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:32
Zak
Oh,
00:22:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's it.
00:22:36
Zak
live in your world. I wish it was me.
00:22:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Well, look, I mean, with predictions like this, you can see why not really a better man anymore.
00:22:40
Zak
But, we'll see.
Engaging with Fans and Easter Weekend Wishes
00:22:48
Zak
Oh, mate. Yeah, no, you're right. You're right. oh Oh.
00:22:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
look picking football is an easy game when you're not emotionally invested but I'm just feeling it 3-1 it's going to happen and then the rest of the season well and truly is pre-pre-season right because this would be the record
00:23:04
Zak
but i but I will i would agree to you at that point. If we win this game or we beat the record one way or another, everything for the rest of the season will be pre-preseason. I look forward to seeing a starting XI that neither me or you will be able to guess entirely because the entire starting XI will be players that haven't played this season. That'll be exciting. and
00:23:25
Zak
But I guess we'll see. But yeah, what a lovely, lovely, you know, the sun will be shining. What a beautiful day.
00:23:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, look, it's Easter weekend. We can gorge ourselves with chocolate in misery. If it doesn't go that way, we can celebrate with a lovely roast dinner with you meet your meat of choice.
00:23:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
If it does, it's all good vibes. Four-day weekend. What more can we ask for? Listen, thank you very much for listening to us today on Good Friday.
00:23:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
We will be back on Monday with a review of that stunning victory at West Ham. Until then, let us know your score predictions in the comments and on the socials. We're on YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram, Blue Sky.
00:24:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
probably missed one. Facebook, YouTube.
00:24:12
Zak
Facebook. Hey, James.
00:24:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
There we go. All of the social medias that I am, you know, strongly competent in using. Definitely always me on there. Until Monday, day enjoy your long weekend and we will see you then.