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Draws, Drama, and Derbies (Episode #47)
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Vos, Motts, and Logs are back to break down all the action from Match Week 31, where Roma and Juve shared the points in a tense 1-1 draw that didn’t do much to help either side in the standings. Juve looked flat, and Roma couldn’t take full advantage at home.
Milan and Fiorentina delivered a wild 2-2 draw at San Siro, with both teams showing moments of quality but ultimately dropping points in a tight European race. In other news, Napoli and Inter were both held to draws by Bologna and Parma, while Lazio picked up a gritty 1-0 win over Atalanta.
Elsewhere, Genoa continued their push with a solid 1-0 win over Udinese, Monza handled Como 3-1, and Venezia and Lecce played out a hard-fought 1-1 draw. Cagliari and Empoli couldn’t break the deadlock, while Verona and Torino settled for a point each.
We also preview a stacked Match Week 32 slate, featuring Roma vs Lazio in the Derby della Capitale, plus big fixtures like Bologna vs Atalanta and Milan vs Udinese. And as always, we wrap things up with the CULPI picks!
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Transcript
00:00:07
Speaker
Ciao, ciao, my fellow paisanos. Welcome back to your favorite podcast, Calcio Culture. I am Mats here with both my co-hosts today, Vos and Loges.
00:00:20
Speaker
It has been a couple of weeks since our last episode. And let me tell you something, we have missed not only you, but Calcio and everything. How are we doing today,
00:00:32
Speaker
boys Mott's electric start. Electric start to bring us back. What's up, Paisans? Good to be back. We missed a ton. We've got a ton to cover today. We're excited to do it.
00:00:44
Speaker
Vos, what's going on? Yeah, three weeks off the bounce here. Luckily, we have an international breaks. only I think we only missed one match week, actually, which is pretty good. Maybe two. Not too shabby. I think one. I think was one.
00:00:55
Speaker
So not bad. There was some big news that we did miss, though. We missed a little bit of Italy, so we'll mention that. um And then kind of a weird match weekend overall. Monce, you had a good word for it, how you described it.
00:01:06
Speaker
The week of the draw in Calcio. the Of the draw. was They there were kind of exciting draws, though, I have to say. Like, it wasn't, like, shit games overall, for the most part.
00:01:19
Speaker
There was a couple really bad games, but... Well, before we jump in, Paisans, I keep forgetting to do this, but we're making it a trend. For those you who stayed to the end, you know where to find us. To those of you that don't, you're gonna find out right now.
00:01:33
Speaker
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00:01:49
Speaker
And subscribe. And obviously, you can find us on all your streaming services, Apple Pods and Spotify. But with that being said, Vose, what's the big news we missed?
00:02:02
Speaker
There's some pretty big news, and I don't know how Mats feels about it yet. Yeah, we'll we'll get into it straight away, i guess. Big news is in Juventus, and we'll talk about what they did this weekend. They played for Roma. They played that one to a 1-1 draw. But the big news that we missed was Thiago Mata got sacked.
00:02:18
Speaker
I think we were kind of divided slash, I don't know, as ah as a pod, kind of divided, kind of. i think it's... the It's a weird one because there was a huge group of people that said he should be fired.
00:02:31
Speaker
And there was a huge group of people that are are probably kind of what Maz has been saying. You have to give managers time. And I think Maz, you kind of got to the point where you were struggling to defend him. And i'll I'll let you talk to whether or not you agree with the stacking.
00:02:45
Speaker
But they were in fourth place, like, and they had a bad Copa Italia result. And then they had a bad Champions League result that just so happened to happen in a kind of like a two to three week window.
00:02:59
Speaker
Those things like by themselves, in my mind, not like fire worthy offenses. Fourth place in the league on like a brand new squad. I would like to see him play the rest of the season out. I mean,
00:03:12
Speaker
regardless of what Tudor does, that there's not enough time to get what you need out of the players. It's going to be really... You get a manager bump that keeps you in fourth place, then it's kind of what you're banking on, in my mind. Yeah, so ah they were they were one point out of fourth place. So right right in the race, and he... Modest came out and said, like, the objective was always fourth place, so firing me when I'm one point out with multiple games left is kind of abrupt, but...
00:03:39
Speaker
It's really, really tough. so yes, folks, the Champions League exit was awful. The Coppa Italia exit was even worse. And then pair that with the two games back-to-back Atalanta and Fiorentina, embarrassing losses.
00:03:55
Speaker
I think that's what kind of broke the camel's back. Now, I'm pretty, I still don't really know what to think because do I think Manta was doing ah bad job?
00:04:07
Speaker
No. Do I think he could have been doing a much better job? Yes. Do I think that he was playing a lot of guys out of position for reasons I don't know?
00:04:19
Speaker
Yes. Do I think he wasn't making substitutions early enough, reading the game, changing the game when needed? And when he was, he would make the wrong substitutions? Yes.
00:04:31
Speaker
Do I also think he's had a brand new squad with a whole lot of injuries that's hard to overcome? Yes. So it really can go either way. um i totally can see why Juventus sacked him because he, well, so let me let me actually just take a step back.
00:04:50
Speaker
The reason why I would be okay with him being sacked and why I could see where he's coming from is if he lost the locker room, which one big thing that was being talked about after he was sacked is that person team member came out and said that he's going to miss Mata. Thank you, Mata, for giving me my my first chance.
00:05:13
Speaker
And that was Mbangula. So it is kind of telling that no one else is in his corner. Maybe he did lose the locker room. I know there was a lot of reports that he did.
00:05:23
Speaker
Once you lose the locker room and it's divided, there's no coming back from that. it's hard to It's hard to rally the guys. So if that's the case, I understand it. I also understand the whole other aspect of, listen, he's got nine games left.
00:05:36
Speaker
We're one point out of four. Yet it's been a rocky road. But we all expected it to be a rocky road for Matta's first year in a brand new team. There have been ups. There have been very low downs.
00:05:49
Speaker
um So I don't, i to be to kind of sum this all up,
00:05:57
Speaker
I'm still torn on the decision. I would have liked to see him probably finish the last nine games because Tudor, is he a good manager? i don't know.
00:06:08
Speaker
Has he managed before? Yes. Did he have success with Lazio in the small stint of the nine games to get them into the European competition? Yeah, he did do that. He beat he actually beat Juventus on his first game against Allegri on Lazio. So he's been known to kind of give that manager bump resurgence in the and a small window to achieve the objective. But is he the man moving forward that's going to be the guy?
00:06:35
Speaker
i don't even think Juventus knows that because they've only offered him like, hey, you have the Champions League. If you get qualified for the Champions League, then you can manage the Club World Cup as well.
00:06:46
Speaker
But then after that, we're going to reevaluate. Now, he agreed to that. the The DNA that Tudor brings is one of the reasons why he was picked because he is a Juventini. He's played for Juventus for nine seasons. He's won three Scudettos.
00:06:58
Speaker
He sacrificed for the badge. He knows the badge. So i I can see why they went that route. But time will tell, really. I i honestly, genuinely, this is my genuine opinion, and I know I just explained a whole lot.
00:07:13
Speaker
I was kind of upset they sacked Mata. Tudor's first interview, I was kind of all in on Tudor because for all the reasons I just said, he basically said, we are this is not Juventus. There's a certain way you need to act.
00:07:25
Speaker
Go about your business at Juventus that we're not doing that I'm going to do. was one of the best interviews I've heard as a coach. So that made me fire it up. Seeing them play. Not there yet. Obviously, it's two games in. Hard to get his, implement his tactics, his his techniques in.
00:07:42
Speaker
So this time will tell. But I really would have liked to see Mata finish the season. But then that two door interview got me all fired up. So time will tell. One thing I will say, and I'll end it there.
00:07:54
Speaker
June to lead the way he handled it. He came out and he said, I'm ashamed of picking Tiago Mata. He fired him. He blamed everything on Mata. I think a lot of this is on June to lead. He's got to take the blame. Now he's also being in question, which I i do like El con who is the owner of Juventus is questioning him and his job is up for review as well.
00:08:12
Speaker
And so, yeah, that's that's kind of the the what's been happening in Turin in the black and white side. lot of turmoil, a lot of chaos. And that's that's kind of how it is broken down.
00:08:24
Speaker
Well, do you have an opinion on Matzah or I think want to talk about Jintali a little bit, but I'll let you go first. Well, I'll let you segue into it, but I think I said this when this all went down, that it didn't sit right with me, and mostly for the fact that we're nine games away the end of the season. And I really do think that's a really tough time to be sacking your manager, especially when you are still in contention for a Champions League spot.
00:08:49
Speaker
Motes' resume goes to show that he may need some time to get acquainted with his position. And that was the exact how it played out with Bologna.
00:09:00
Speaker
His second season was absolutely phenomenal. As we know, his first season was a bit average. And certainly the injuries never helped Mota. I mean, he was he was figuring out new lives week by week.
00:09:12
Speaker
The one thing that I come back to, though, is and this is definitely a newer development in Syria. I can't speak for pre-COVID Syria. I'm not entirely informed on that.
00:09:23
Speaker
But the amount of money that Syria teams are putting into their rosters these days, ah it I think is equating to management being like, you need to perform today. You need to perform yesterday.
00:09:36
Speaker
you need to get results yesterday. So the the leash on a lot of these managers coming in has been extremely short. We've seen that across the league. If you are not winning, if you're not getting three points out of every match when you spent a bajillion dollars in transfer windows, you're certainly not going to get the chance to continue.
00:09:52
Speaker
So, With the amount of money that Juve put into this roster, you have to think that there would have been a little bit more success. I think there's a little bit of a bias from the history of Juventus as well, where they're so used to just being the perennial powerhouse in this league and winning Spudetto's year in and year out and Copa Italia's year in and year out.
00:10:11
Speaker
This league is very different from those times. There's a lot there's a lot more talent. it's a little It's a lot more balanced. There's more teams in the mix these days. And so to say that if you are Juventus and you like in it's either Scudetto or Bust, I still i think that' it's a completely different era in this league.
00:10:27
Speaker
And so I do think it was a bit of a short-term, short-sighted firing on the Mota side. in the In the end, his management was very clear that it was getting pretty poor. And we saw that the last couple of matches that he was at the helm for.
00:10:42
Speaker
And so I think we can certainly put some blame on there. But the segue that I want to bring it to, and and most you can certainly touch on this, is that I do think he was a bit of a scapegoat. I do think that based on the money that they spent and the performances that they had out there, that this might have been a little bit of an inside job on Jun Deli's part.
00:11:02
Speaker
Yeah, I think definitely. they Yeah, it has to be, right? um and Just to wrap up on it, because I think this is part of getting to the Junetili piece of this and what Junetili was probably leaning on.
00:11:13
Speaker
This is how they played the entire season. Like they never got better, right? Like gay the very beginning the season, they were really good at holding the ball. They didn't concede a lot of goals and that kind of got worse, but they essentially played the same all season. There was no real thing we can point to to say they're getting better ah at this.
00:11:30
Speaker
They did the same thing kind of all year. So I think that's what Jun Jolie probably was leaning on to get to get this done and across the management um from a management perspective. But on Jun Jolie...
00:11:42
Speaker
He's looking for reasons to justify his own salvation is the way I'm going to state this at this point. This Mata thing happened. He said, oh, should I shouldn't have done this. It's Mata's fault. Meanwhile, when he first hired Mata, it was like the best thing ever. Everybody in Juve agreed. It was like the best thing ever.
00:11:57
Speaker
All the players he's brought in very much his and partially Mata's decision, primarily Junetoli. And then he comes out and last week and now says, oh, we need to get more Italian when in the summer you got rid of all of your Italian players who were good and then in the winter continue to do the same thing and moving out from Fagioli.
00:12:16
Speaker
And then even more so than that, your marquee signing of the summer was between Tunkuk Miners and Riccardo Calafiore. So if you're, if you're part of your goal is to make Juve more Italian, you would have gotten Calafiore in that situation.
00:12:32
Speaker
period. Cal Fiore would have gone. He would followed younger Mata there. So at this point, he's grasping at straws and just leaning on different things. And it's, it's kind of shameful to see how they've talked about Mata because none of the players have taken responsibility for this, right? Like all of these players,
00:12:50
Speaker
are good enough to get the result without a coach against Empoli. If you just threw all these guys out there, Copatalia against Empoli's C team, they they that's on them.
00:13:01
Speaker
I don't blame Matza for that result at all. like Your good players need to get that done. All of the elite teams... do that, right? Like they don't play great games sometimes, but their players are smart enough to win.
00:13:14
Speaker
Good, ugly wins. Yeah. They're good enough in the game. They're smart enough in the game and they have enough passion and just self-respect or respect your pride for the club, that sort of thing where they're not going to allow results like that to even occur.
00:13:27
Speaker
And this team isn't there yet. And i it's hard to say who it starts with, really, because I would say Locatelli, but Locatelli is actually, when you but you watch him play, he has pride for the badge, 100%.
00:13:40
Speaker
Cambiasso has said it out loud, but I don't really see it anymore. And like you go through the team, Chunko Miner is supposed to be the big leader. They brought him to be the big guy. He has no desire to do anything.
00:13:51
Speaker
And it's just who you point to. Mata was a guy. this it was an easy fire. Now, Juntali is kind of masked for a number another six months, maybe another year. And nobody's going to raise any questions around him.
00:14:03
Speaker
So I definitely agree that half the players don't have ah heart or pride on the pitch. And sometimes they do. But then they just lack the quality. Like I see Koop Miners when Konsei Sao scored the goal against Inter to get all three points.
00:14:23
Speaker
Coop Miners dropped to his knees and like started kissing the ground. like He has the passion. He just doesn't have... They put him and play him out of position, right? Locatelli has the the passion, but I don't think he's enough of a leader to rally the troops.
00:14:37
Speaker
And then you have your other marquee signing was Douglas Luiz. He went from never being injured to never... He can't stay healthy. So there's a bunch of different moving parts that I do think you need one true leader to unite everybody from the top down.
00:14:53
Speaker
I personally think that guy is those, that man is going to one of two people. And it's going to be either Alessandro Del Piero needs to stop doing his sideline reporting and come be the sporting director of Juventus. Or the second person is Chiellini, which has been a lot of rumblings.
00:15:10
Speaker
He's going to take a much larger role. in the front office of Juventus coming the next season, which I think those two guys can start righting the ship.
00:15:22
Speaker
I don't really, I'm very much out on Jun Toole. He did the same thing last season with Max Allegri, firing him like a day after he won the Copa Italia didn't really make any sense. Then blowing up on him. It's a pattern.
00:15:34
Speaker
He didn't, at the end of the day he didn't prove really much at Napoli besides buying Cavada. Like low key buying Cavada is what made Giuntali like this, like genius. And then Spaletti having a magical season. But we all saw Napoli after Spaletti lost. It was virtually the same team and they sucked.
00:15:54
Speaker
So I think a lot of it was Spaletti and Giuntali got a lot of credit for that. um But time will tell. We'll see where where they go from here with Tudor. They're going to continue with Tudor if they're going to let him ah manage the rest of the season and then hire somebody that gets fired. or There's a lot of rumblings that Conte could be hired again, which I think Conte could be that man as well, because that's what they're lacking. They're lacking what Napoli has in the passion, the fight, the pride, exactly like you said, Vos, and Conte is another guy who can create that in the locker room.
00:16:26
Speaker
I'd be shocked. I think that Conte's locked in for a little bit longer in Napoli. You know? I could be completely wrong. but What he's doing over there is incredible. Yeah, and you would think they get a little bit reinforcement over the summer.
00:16:40
Speaker
don't know. What's a snap? You would think. You would think, but maybe not. ah but first second Is this first game for Tudor second game? Second game for Tudor. First game was against Genoa. They did win won nothing Also, just just a note here, there has been a lot of rumblings that Juventus is going to finally decide.
00:16:58
Speaker
They might not make the Champions League. there's a chance. There's probably even less than a 50 chance if they're being six, four points between eighth and third place. So they are taking a step back and focusing on their assets, which are the players that they own.
00:17:16
Speaker
So Kolo Mouane barely seen the pitch. It's been all do sign under two door. Renato Vega has seen the pitch because Gatti went down and it's just out of necessity.
00:17:27
Speaker
But the rumblings have been that they're not going to buy Renato Vega or Randall Kolomuani come at the summer, which I'm very upset about because Kolomuani is miles better than Dusan Blaovic.
00:17:40
Speaker
Well, I think part of the, and this is like the one thing I would say for Tudor so far, because it's only two games and there's only so much you can take from a tactical perspective. He's kind of running similar to same formation. like He's running 3-4, 2-1.
00:17:53
Speaker
Kind of same players playing, like not not a ton of change. But Dusan Vlahovic is the main one. That's probably pressure from higher up saying you have to play him because we need sell him in the summer. I would be shocked to hear that anybody at Juve is saying like play him because he's going to be our striker next year. It's very much how do we move on from him.
00:18:14
Speaker
And that's also a whole difficult front now because I don't know how much they're going to get for him. like it's such a risk ahgmi Maybe. But so the so the reason why people were high on DeSan when Tudor came, because when Oseman was having his unreal season, 30 goals, whatever, however many it was, Napoli was running away with the league.
00:18:35
Speaker
Tudor went out on an interview and said, Listen, Oseman's good. He's having a great season. The best striker in that league is Vlaovic. So everyone was like, he's going to get that new manager bump, fresh energy. Tudor's been hyping him up psychologically to the press saying how good he is.
00:18:52
Speaker
And Doosan is a walking turnover. he He is as coordinated as a 13-year-old boy who's 6'4", who hasn't grown into his body yet. He cannot play. you cannot hold up the ball. He cannot play back to basket.
00:19:07
Speaker
He has no first touch. It's embarrassing. It's actually embarrassing. And no matter what manager you have him under, whether it's Pure Low, whether it's... Was he under Pure Low or am I bugging?
00:19:19
Speaker
I think we got him in the winter time when Pure Low was there. Actually, I don't know. I don't think he ever played with Ron, though. Yeah, you're right. He didn't play Ron, though. He took seven. So it was Allegri. It was...
00:19:31
Speaker
Maybe it's just a legacy. Montaume, Tudor, there's three. did you have any sorry? No. No, nah sorry. It was with was with Ronaldo as well. All I'm saying is that.
00:19:42
Speaker
But once again, we we talk about this all the time. We definitely lack opportunity and lack chances. So he's the type of guy that you need to give him good service to score. So at another team that doesn't lack as many opportunities in service, maybe he will do good, but he misses just point blank open shot. So.
00:20:02
Speaker
I'm moved on from him. I'm done with him. I hope he is not on the team in the summer. I don't even care if we sell him. We let him go for free. i don't care what happens. I just do not want to see him in a black and white jersey come next season.
00:20:16
Speaker
Now, with that said, I do think that Juve under Tudor, especially in this Roma game, showed a lot more than they have against Mata in just the fact that we went a first half with getting multiple shots on target.
00:20:31
Speaker
That in of itself is a win. right We were showing a lot of teeth. um I was watching listening to the game and I was listening to the halftime report and Garella, Logan's boy, pointed out that last the beginning part of the season when we played Roma was like the third or fourth game.
00:20:46
Speaker
We went 80 minutes without a shot on target. This game, we had four shots on target in the first half and we hit the crossbar. We were constantly pressing high pressure, getting the ball back. We had 90% possession.
00:21:00
Speaker
20 minutes into the game, we were wanting to score. we did we ended up scoring, getting getting a goal ah to to go into the halftime. And then the second half happened and we kind of did our normal sit back and let Roma grow into the game and Roma dominated in the second half.
00:21:15
Speaker
But there were promising things that I saw from this Juventus team. Locatelli also with a fucking screamer. From that area that you've always been saying you want him playing in, to be fair.
00:21:26
Speaker
i insideer i want I just want him higher up to pitch as well. Here's what I will say, and I've been screaming this. You need, as Locatelli scored a goal, it was a great goal. He played very well against Roma. He played very good well against Genoa.
00:21:41
Speaker
Drop him from the squad. I've been screaming this from the mountaintops. Coop Miners, they they tried to play him behind the striker in the 2-10 spots in the 3-4-2-1.
00:21:53
Speaker
I don't understand how come anybody at Juventus doesn't say, hey, Coop Miners last year in the Gasparini system played alongside Ederson.
00:22:06
Speaker
Behind the two number 10s. And was so good at that role. We have a player just like Ederson. In Kefren Taram.
00:22:17
Speaker
Why don't we lower Coop Miner's spot. Stop playing him at right wing. And just let him. And tell him do what you did last year. Go play like where like you're under Gasparini.
00:22:29
Speaker
And then you tell the other nine guys what to do. And and whether you want them to beat. I don't get that. I don't know how they haven't done it yet. Every time they play him as a number 10 or as a right winger, he can't do He doesn't know how to want to scheme it from the mountaintops.
00:22:44
Speaker
I mean, some of it has to come back to Coop, though. I mean, you that if you're that high quality of a player, you need to find ways to get yourself involved no matter where you are on the pitch. And I'm not saying that it's easy to play out of position, but i I would give it to Coop to figure it out.
00:22:58
Speaker
Some of it has been on him that he just absolutely disappears from games. I mean, just goes absolutely silent for forever. Now, I do agree, and i have been I have been agreeing with you the entire season, that yes, just put him where he was before. he was phenomenal in Atlanta.
00:23:12
Speaker
And if you put him in that part of the formation, he's bound to get on the ball. He's bound to be able to progress the ball, find the right pass, get creative, follow up the two tens, and maybe take a couple of long shots like he like he did all last season.
00:23:29
Speaker
that That part I kind of want to give a little bit less on the management, a little bit more to Coop. Just, I mean, figure it out. Formations are so fluid these days that you that you have a little bit of flexibility, especially with the quality of players on Juve.
00:23:43
Speaker
A lot of those guys play out position all the time. i mean Tim Weah off the left on a wingback position, McKinney playing where you wherever you put McKinney, he's going to excel. Yieldies can play ah play out why he can play in the middle. So if you even need to just change it up on the fly, on the pitch, so be it. Go do it.
00:24:00
Speaker
So that's a little bit on Kou. He's never, he hasn't found his form at all this season. I would hope that this summer he can turn it around and kind of find, find that, that not motivation, I would say, but just kind of get the yips out.
00:24:14
Speaker
I feel he's got the yips, but I think it's a little bit too late for this season for him to be turning anything around and Tudor's to have to do, have to do some miracle work to even get them back to form as to what they could be.
00:24:25
Speaker
Any final points on you, Ray? Before we talk about Jesse? One thing that I, and and what's his name? Talked about this and I agreed with him. Matteo said at least Tudor's not lying to the to the fans and saying like, oh, Coop Miners is as a fever.
00:24:40
Speaker
Coop Miners' his positioning is so good and See, even along the lines of Douglas Luiz, like when he gets his seven minutes, like you played so well, like Mata was doing that. Tudor straight up said like, yeah, listen, these guys aren't where they're supposed to be.
00:24:53
Speaker
There's some psychological work we have to do. We're working on that and we're going to get them back to where they are. So at least he's like admitting. Yeah. That's the liberty of being a manager nine games left to the season. You can literally say whatever you want because no one can hold it against you. Well, this is what I'll go... This did remind me of this.
00:25:11
Speaker
A lot of the stuff Monsa said was really fucking stupid. So bad. Like, he he made some really bad public statements, which I i don't think helped him. This thing about, like, oh, we're out of the Scudetto race when they...
00:25:24
Speaker
to Matt's point, did we think they were win? No, but they were like five or six points back. You can't come out and say, we're totally out of the race. You can't justify being like, our goal. You can't even come out and say our goal is to finish in fourth place at any point in time as the coach of Juventus.
00:25:41
Speaker
And he just like continued and continued to try to like justify why they're here rather than trying to make it of a, like a going forward point or something to build on. It was always like defensing, defending what he's doing.
00:25:54
Speaker
and he probably He probably thought he had a longer leash than he really did. i mean, I don't know what the conversations were behind the scenes. but You said it, Lopes. That's the issue coming from ah Bologna. like Juventus this season is looked at at having a terrible season.
00:26:10
Speaker
Bologna is looked at having a fantastic season. I get it. Their wage bills are different. The caliber of players are different. But at Bologna, you can have 13, 14 draws and it'd be a successful season. At Juventus, you have 13, 14 draws. That's not okay. um you got that And and he he should have known that going in, picking that job. That's who this that's what this fan fan base is they expect to win.
00:26:35
Speaker
But to Vos' point, him just saying dumb things, he had an exit interview with one of the Italian papers over the weekend. And he said... No, I don't. Fajoli's not a regret on selling Fajoli. We all know how good he's doing at Fiorentina. He's got like four assists in last three games.
00:26:51
Speaker
Keane wasn't a regret. Keane has more goals this season than Nico Gonzalez will score at his Juventus career, whether he plays 10 seasons or three seasons. Hoisin wasn't a regret.
00:27:03
Speaker
Sule wasn't a regret. But the one player that was a regret regret was Hans Nicolucci on Venezia, who's about to get relegated. So he does say some outlandish, crazy things that you don't really understand. And I do agree with that. but so he He needed to get better at at the media playing the media.
00:27:21
Speaker
and when one I mean, one last thing. he I'm not going to sit here and say that he had a short leash. and He didn didn't do anything differently. And to Juve's credit, they made a decision.
00:27:34
Speaker
and They gave him a long time. I'm not going to sit here and say this wasn't a long time. He had a long time and they made the decision. This is not what we want going forward. And did they have enough sample size to make that decision? would probably say yes.
00:27:46
Speaker
Although I probably would have stuck with him. But they didn't like the on-field product that he was building towards. building towardsrts I'm going to put it in quotes because he never really built on it. But I'm not going to sit here and say it was a it was a hasty decision. and my My only qualm with you saying that is that he there was just so many injuries.
00:28:10
Speaker
They never had a consistent lineup. But hold on. Hold on. you say that this isn't what they wanted to build on. This isn't what the Juve they wanted to see, but this wasn't the Juve team that he, that he wanted, right? This is, there was a lot of guys out of the lineup for the most, like a lot of the season that are stout players.
00:28:28
Speaker
you but but We, we cannot discount Bremers absence this entire season. And then on top of that, for June juli to go out and get Lloyd Kelly in the window to be, to help but bolster the defense like that.
00:28:38
Speaker
We can't, we can't just ignore the fact that that was net. That hole is never filled. Pierre Kouloulou is not, is not Bremmer. Lloyd Kelly is not Bremmer. ah Renato Vega, good, not Bremmer.
00:28:49
Speaker
So there's there's some things here that you just that at some point you can't compensate for. But i so I will agree that there were never any... advancements. There was never any improvements, no adjustments. It was like it was just the same product week in and week out as as you can see from from just the record and draw after to draw to draw at the beginning of the season and a couple of bad losses here towards the end of his tenure.
00:29:14
Speaker
But I do just want to say that again, not the U of a team that they had put together. i I just disagree. like Outside of Bremer, who hasn't been playing all year?
00:29:25
Speaker
Douglas Luiz has been injured all the time. Is Douglas Luiz better than Kefron, Taram, Locatelli, or Coop Miners? At his peak, he's for sure better than Locatelli. We can't even say that, though. He's never shown it in this league.
00:29:38
Speaker
two, three years in the Prem. This is the same conversation that you had when Milan in January got all these new players, so now they're going finish top four. It's not as simple as you just get guys that were good elsewhere and now they're good here.
00:29:50
Speaker
thank um Outside of Prem, Prem was a loss. But at the end of the day, he doesn't help you offensively. None of these center backs are good at progressing the ball, but that's not Bremer's strength either. Bremer's strength was in being a very good defender.
00:30:04
Speaker
So I think his loss was very minimal. And if you put into this, if you have Bremer this whole season, I don't think the result changes all that much. Maybe you don't get knocked out of the Champions League just yet, but they were never going to win the Champions League. they've They've been one of the best defensive teams all season.
00:30:20
Speaker
And I... I think that leaning on that just doesn't make sense to me because this team is pretty much at 100% outside of that. I mean, dude, with Bremer, when we had Bremer, we didn't let up a goal all until he was gone.
00:30:36
Speaker
Like we let up one goal or two goals in the champion league games. Like I, we weren't that good defensively without him. I think Logan might be, playing it up a little too much. i think you're downplaying it too much.
00:30:48
Speaker
there's like There's a um happy medium right in the middle and I think ah Bremer does, he plays a big factor, but we didn't, like, not to Logan's point, not only did the play on the field not progress, none of the players got better. They kind of regressed, so it was all going, trending downwards when you don't want that, you want to be trending upwards. So, i like I opened up with, it makes sense.
00:31:11
Speaker
Both ways could have made sense. I mean, flip side of things, wrong. I was going to say, and yeah, on the other side, another manager who came in midseason who's done an absolutely stupendous job in Ranieri.
00:31:23
Speaker
But first drop point in Serie A in, I think, since the beginning of his tenure. First drop point. then Their first game was a dollar. They won like six or seven games in a row with Ranieri at the helm. And this game was at home.
00:31:43
Speaker
they wanted A little bit of a disheveled Juve. Maybe they're looking ahead to the the Rome Derby. I don't know. was this their best Was this their best performance? I mean, they had chances to win this game, I will say.
00:31:55
Speaker
Cristante missed a really good chance. Shmordov had a couple good chances. Lulu made a great block on one. Tico Gordio made a save. the it it could have This was a very much they could have won. I think Juve also could have won. So I think a one-to-one draw spare.
00:32:10
Speaker
I think more so what I'm pointing to in this game, because at at the end of the day, Roma are kind of playing with house money here. And if they, if they finish in European spot, yes. Like now that they're here, that's their ultimate goal.
00:32:25
Speaker
But these are their first two games without Dybala. And at the beginning of the season, three months into the season, even probably up until this point under Ranieri, no Dybala for me always equals you're going to get played off the park. He has been that important.
00:32:41
Speaker
And this is the first time probably, maybe one or two other times, that they didn't have Dybala. to start or off the bench, and they were able to actually play well. And a lot of that comes down to Sule growing more. Like we point to somebody, Mata, not being able to get guys to grow.
00:32:57
Speaker
Sule has continued to get better and better. And I think just overall, all the players are feeling more confident there and are all playing towards the same thing. We talked about this probably about a month ago now. They know what they're supposed to do every game. It doesn't really change that much. They might have a more defensive stance or more offensive stance, but they're trying to do the same thing. No matter who the lineup is, it's more or less the same thing.
00:33:18
Speaker
Very similar player archetypes. So now this Dybala loss is far less hurtful than it would have been even a month or two ago Ranieri first got there.
00:33:29
Speaker
And for me, that's the biggest takeaway of this. Like you're, you're able to play against really good teams without arguably the best player that we've seen in Serie A in the last 20 years. Another, another interesting point out of this, at this Roma side for this game. And I don't think it comes as a ah surprise to us or to most anybody, but again, no Dybala.
00:33:49
Speaker
And in a game where you're 1-1, you're at home, this is ah this is a team that you're right next to on the table. And no Pellegrini. Pellegrini. Not even a sniff. Not even a sniff. He's not in form.
00:34:03
Speaker
But I'm just saying, I think it's interesting that you don't even you don't even give him a chance. You're captain, you're perennially best player outside of Dybala, and he doesn't even come on the pitch at all. I mean, I think I give credit to that to Ranieri. He tried to get Pellegrini in yeah he did multiple games, and Pellegrini has showed him time and time again he's not going to produce.
00:34:22
Speaker
And Ranieri's playing the guys that produce. I'll also... Take it a step further, Ranieri once again showed how he is a good manager of this game. Roma came out in the 3-4-2-1, and they were getting played off the park. They could not keep the ball in their own half or just keep possession, period.
00:34:40
Speaker
They did have a couple of chances to go up to tie 1-1, but Juventus were very much dominating the first half. He came out, subbed off Hummels, subbed on Shomer Ruddoff, who I'm not the biggest fan of. I don't think he's that good.
00:34:52
Speaker
Went to a 4-4-2. different game the second half. It was ah all Roma. He made the adjustment and it's not like he's doing groundbreaking things. He's tweaking the game just barely and even just simplifying it as we talked about before, playing players in their right position and playing the guys that are in form over the guys who have the brand name per se.
00:35:14
Speaker
And so I think Ranieri's done a great job and they are very, very I mean, they at Roma have a tough, tough schedule coming up, but they, this, they're in the best form every team in Europe.
00:35:28
Speaker
Number one, um number two, they haven't lost a game since like December 15th and in the Serie A. Number three, Ranieri, he just understands this team and understands how to get the most of his players. And number four, Paolo Dybala had a sick windbreaker on the Puccini part of the game that i even though I'm not a Robo fan, I kind of want to buy.
00:35:51
Speaker
But... Yeah, Roma, like they and they they have they're they are have very good players. Like Dovbic has some of – he is very good with his back-to-the-basket and hold-up play. Miles better than Doosan.
00:36:04
Speaker
He played in a great ball that could have been a goal by, i think, Cristante. can't remember who. But he's very solid. They've won 15 points on Dovbic's goals that he scored. So he's he scores timing or very important goals at the right time.
00:36:18
Speaker
And yeah, I think that these guys with all the momentum they have, I would be shocked if these guys do not make it at least into one of the five, one of the four champion leagues or the Europe, the yeah Europa League.
00:36:32
Speaker
I mean, and you said they have a hard schedule ahead. The next game, the Derby, playing Lazio, and I would say they're going to that game as the favorite, and Lazio is the team directly ahead of them. And, i mean, Lazio has been less than convincing the last couple of weeks. Granted, they had a good result at the weekend.
00:36:47
Speaker
But I'm going into that game fully expecting Roma to get three points out of it at this point. And once that happens and you're defending the lead, it's different from chasing. So you can kind of get played more.
00:36:58
Speaker
We don't need three points in some games. You play for one point kind of thing. The other thing that I really like about Ranieri that has continued to kind of come to light more is, like you said, Mats, he doesn't have these crazy tactics. It's not anything groundbreaking, but what he does is, and at the end of the day, what is managing?
00:37:15
Speaker
He puts players in the right place to have success and then gets the most out of them. And... For whatever reason, nobody did that before him. And now we're seeing him be able to rotate the squad, play guys in the right position and do well.
00:37:28
Speaker
And then to kind of come back to what Logan said about Pellegrini, would also throw Cristante in the mix there. They kind of lucked out with them playing bad, I think. Because now you go into the summer, you can move on from them. And a year ago, you couldn't even dreamed of doing that. Regardless, I think that one of the funny, the weird things about Pellegrini was Pellegrini was also good. But at the same time, you talk to some Roma fans and they were always like, Pellegrini wasn't that good. But they were kind of like hamstrung to him being their like talisman because he was the Roma guy.
00:38:01
Speaker
But he wasn't really like that next level player. And now you're at the point you have Katsili coming through and Manu Kone. be sort Presumably, that could be your your midfield pairing for 10 years because they complement each other so well.
00:38:16
Speaker
They can both probably play as a six eight ten They're both very dynamic players. Same thing with Baldansi. And that is another silver lining of the season that has kind of just ah occurred because of what happened.
00:38:28
Speaker
Because Cristante has been bad. Even Mancini is kind of in that boat now where you might move on from him. and it's just almost retiring going, going into the summer. Roma is going to be very, very interesting.
00:38:42
Speaker
And they're going to have a management decision to make. They're going to have a personnel decision to make. And I personally think Jagamata might be a very interesting appointment at this point. There's a couple other guys I would throw in the mix. I've said it a lot. I would still like to see at inters, each of these kind of lined up for it.
00:38:58
Speaker
But Mata would be very cool to me. And I think that could be a really good project for him because Epilogna had a pretty young team and we saw what he was able to do there. And i think Roma's kind of similar.
00:39:11
Speaker
i dont I think Roma's goingnna have but they're going to have the pick of the litter this summer. It's a great project for a lot of guys. I would be concerned with Monsa given what he did with Ube this season, especially to given what we just talked about with the development like the lack of development from a lot of players and the lack of willingness to play the younger guys, especially Amangula, who has shown it.
00:39:31
Speaker
on multiple occasions that he has the quality to be playing out there. So I would be, I'd be nervous to have Mota, but they're going to have, they're going be able to hire whoever they want. I feel like this is, especially if they're in a European spot, Europa, maybe even Champions League, which is crazy that we're even talking about Roma in a Champions League spot contention.
00:39:49
Speaker
But this is a, this is a great project, a great city, great fan base. And I think that they're going to have a I think next season, given a good window, if they have the funds is going to be really, really, really fun to watch.
00:40:01
Speaker
Yeah, they're going to have to fill some holes because, like Vos mentioned, some of those pillars of their their team, maybe it's time to move on from Hummels. I know it's only their year. He is retiring, though.
00:40:13
Speaker
Dybala, you'd never know what's going happen with him. But listen, this is a team that... If they had Ranieri to start the season, they're probably winning the Scudetto right now. like The season started in December. That's not a good They are a very good team. They haven't lost since December 15th.
00:40:32
Speaker
And he started like December 10th or whenever he started. and But they could very easily... had be way higher than what they are. And it's props to Ranieri for getting them to where they are.
00:40:45
Speaker
And also props to Ranieri for saying like, listen, like I know I'm doing a good job, but I'm not the guy moving forward. So it's got to be somebody else.
00:40:54
Speaker
I thought Bogues going to jump in here from a lot Well, I was just going to say good for good for Runieri go out in the sunset. But yeah, let's jump to let's jump to Milan. I don't I don't I'm not excited to talk about them, but we we do need to cover it.
00:41:08
Speaker
And here we are. So let's just get it over with. Let's just let's just ah let's just open the box. Kill the cat. Milan on the weekend, Fiorentino, they're playing at the San Siro. They go down once again in the first 20 minutes, down 2-0.
00:41:22
Speaker
They absolutely love playing from this position. It's their favorite scoreline. We give up an own goal off Cha. ah quick is A quick another ah goal there. I actually went to take a shower in the sixth minute, and I came out five minutes later to a 2-0 deficit.
00:41:38
Speaker
Absolutely devastating. And then interesting take here. We sub on Luka Jovic, who was the goal scorer against Napoli the week prior.
00:41:48
Speaker
um He ends up being one of the goal scorers as well in this game. But the interesting part about that was he was warming up with Santi Jimenez, who did not come on. I'm surprised. Santi Jimenez came on.
00:42:01
Speaker
Not at that point. I see i think you're a preference. They subbed off Musa, what, 20 minutes into the game? One of the worst. They had to, though. Ever seen. I've ever seen somebody put in on of on a soccer pitch.
00:42:14
Speaker
But that's we've been asking why he plays Musa so much. Well, and because he because Constance out loves the engine, I get that. But the quality just simply isn't there. And it's it's shown all through the season.
00:42:26
Speaker
It's someone we need to move on from. ah it was a good project. It was exciting. It was cool because he's American. But Moose is not the guy here. We brought in Banda, who Vos is a huge fan of. And I think that he should have gotten a lot more minutes. But in any case, yes, they sub off Moose to 23 minutes in.
00:42:41
Speaker
They bring on the other striker. I think the the other thing that I want to say about Milan, and there's there's not a lot of bright spots. I mean, the fact that it takes a 2-0 deficit for us to turn it on and and to wake up and to get into games like this is just incredibly, incredibly embarrassing.
00:42:58
Speaker
But the fact i want to just point out and give give him his flowers, Tammy Abraham is the boy. and Insane. He's the boy. He's the boy. and yeah has he' he's the boy i mean, that guy absolutely loves the badge, and he's been here for...
00:43:13
Speaker
maybe eight months. It's not even the bad dude. This is what he does everywhere. He goes. He is such a team player and they did not play into that strength the entire season. And now you see it when they play into it.
00:43:28
Speaker
Well, and in me he's again I again, saw for the first time we when we played Inter, not in the Copa, but the last glass fixture. And I mean, the guy was everywhere. He was playing defense. He was scoring goals. It was like, it was just incredible. His finishing has turned on last couple of games in the Copa leg.
00:43:45
Speaker
And in this game, great finishing, just knows where he is in the field. That's what happens with a striker in form. They don't even need to look at the goal. They just know where they are in the field. I said it about Cole Mawani when he first came to Ube.
00:43:55
Speaker
um But the really, the big bright spot there is that is that Tammy is just an absolute fucking dog. Love to see Jovic still putting out effort, even though he's been phased out of the squad for a couple months now.
00:44:07
Speaker
It's really sad to see that our big signing isn't coming through. We spend a lot of money and nothing comes to fruition. But the big thing for me... is that if we do not revamp our defense entirely next year, which we will have to given the fact that Kyle Walker's already talking about going back to Man City, Teo should be out the door. Tamori, Pavlovich, Shaw, Gabia.
00:44:30
Speaker
Although Gabia is kind of just our our guy. He's probably just going to stay. ah senator He's the new Roman Yoli. Like you're scared enough? I don't know though. but You caused the loss in the Champions League to then put you guys in the playoffs.
00:44:45
Speaker
I know, but that i mean you just you just take you know that Gabby is not that good, you just have him out there. Here's here's the crazy, talking about the events, I think every week when I watch the B-line game, I started texting in our group chat, that is the worst defending I've ever seen. like all every but It's all three almost always, you know, it's worse in every game.
00:45:04
Speaker
It's a different defender. Like it was Fablamic air points, then it was Shaw, and this one, Tomori, the Tomori defending on the first goal, Watch it if you haven't. it was I can't even fathom what he was thinking.
00:45:20
Speaker
he He let Kufiol and dribble by him, then started to make the tackle to block the cross that eventually went off Shaw, and then just pulled out of the tackle.
00:45:32
Speaker
It was mind-blowing. I have a lot of worries about Milan, but but a lot going into next season. I'm more scared for next season than I am for the rest of this season for them.
00:45:44
Speaker
But on the positive side of things, they are continuing to show that when they do dominate possession, they get goals. It just usually takes them 70 minutes to wake up or so.
00:45:57
Speaker
And that is on the players and on the management But that doesn't like that that isn't repeatable. They've been getting draws a lot through this. And at some point, those are going to fizzle out.
00:46:08
Speaker
They could be so much further down the table right now if it weren't for them squeaking out these late wins over and over and over. But I think in this game... Or ties. That's what I mean. Yeah, or ties.
00:46:20
Speaker
In my mind, it's literally a win when they tie right now, to be honest with you. and In this game, I think it was kind of the perfect storm where Fiorentina has done this time and time again this season. Well, they they'll go up two goals and they kind of forget or get caught in between.
00:46:34
Speaker
we defend deep? Do we attack? Do we counter? And that's something that Palladino is still going to need to work on because at 2-0, this game should have been completely done and dusted. And Fiorentina go on to win 3 or four nothing Milan were out of the game. Yeah.
00:46:48
Speaker
lot of words, though. i'm kind of It's kind of the opposite of Roma for me. Where in the summer, they're going to need a new manager. They're going to sell a lot of players. And then also, they need to bring in a lot of players. Because now you look at it, you said they need to upgrade their defense for sure.
00:47:01
Speaker
But presumably, is Leal going to be there? Big question marks around that. Even if he stays, big question marks around if he's your number one starter every game. um Question marks around striker, because everything I've seen from Santi Jimenez shows me that he's not a top-level striker.
00:47:15
Speaker
Terrible attitude. that That's my main thing with him. Terrible attitude. um You see like other players giving for the team. I mean, Tammy Abraham's a great example where he he gives everything.
00:47:26
Speaker
And then you go into the midfield. That's probably their strength. But even then, they probably need to add one more player. You only got two. And Chuck Wese coming off the bench is kind of like the third winger is probably having a better season than he's ever going to have.
00:47:42
Speaker
He's been really effective off the bench, I think, this season and games that he has played. So its you kind of go through the team and they almost need like seven or eight high quality players to compete next year.
00:47:55
Speaker
Well, we missed our window, which sucks because we like we had we had a summer transfer window and even subsequently a winter transfer window that if you looked at it on paper, was like, okay, this team is filled out. They have a deep bench.
00:48:09
Speaker
They can have a a full rotation and just none of it came to fruition. And the fact that Peo's attitude is absolutely god-awful garbage. Leao is the most inconsistent player in the entire world.
00:48:21
Speaker
And so those guys who had been who ah obviously been the leaders during our Scudetto run are now going to be on the outs. We have to completely revamp the left side. the The right side, who we thought was to replaced with Kyle Walker for at least another season, he's going to be going back to Man City.
00:48:36
Speaker
Our midfield, yes, stays intact if we keep Reinders, but Reinders going to have a ton of suitors and it's not looking like we're going be to keep them because we're not putting European ball. We don't have a striker. Santi Jimenez thinks that he's playing as a six for whatever reason. He's always on the top of our box.
00:48:51
Speaker
And so it's an absolute it's an absolute disaster. i mean, it's it's a disaster. it kind Honestly, i don't even have anything to say about Constanção because to me, he's just been checked out. I agree with that.
00:49:02
Speaker
I don't even know. i i haven't even really seen him in the news. like This is not the Constanção that we signed up for. And the fact that he's been so quiet and so removed, in my opinion, is just... yeah yeah I mean, it's just...
00:49:15
Speaker
all around horrible, horrible, horrible stuff. We have a lot of work to do. I think next season, ah because we're not going to, we don't even have the money to spend because we're not going to be in any tournaments. Maybe we make the Europa League we if we win the second leg of this Copa and get into the final. But...
00:49:31
Speaker
I know that our ownership is more so about the profits and great. We're like, I think Milan is the only cashflow positive team in Syria. So, but that doesn't mean shit.
00:49:41
Speaker
we We don't, we, we suck. I don't care that we're cashflow positive. if you need to, if you need to have the biggest deficit in the world, if you need to have the deficit of the U S economy right now to have a better team, just go and do it because like a Juve, the Milan bloodline great.
00:49:58
Speaker
probably the deepest in the league, I would say. even i would I would say it even surpasses Juve from the start of Syria in the fact that we just have nothing to build off. You mean Europe, not in Europe. Definitely in Europe, yeah.
00:50:11
Speaker
is just incredibly disheartening. But i'll I'll just leave it at that. I mean, the season's over for us. i and We have Copa to play for. I'm excited that we're going to see. We are, heads up, we are going to see second leg Copa at the San Siro.
00:50:26
Speaker
It's going to be sick. Coucho live. Check in. We'll be all over the socials. um But that's the last thing I'll say about Milan. i do want to talk about Fiorentina. I talked about Milan. Mons, you talk really quick. Then I have a one question for you guys.
00:50:39
Speaker
I think that Milan has to move on from Ibra, and they need to get a legit guy to move forward from. I i know there's rumors about Perattici. You mean you know we just got Apollo Maldini and Ricky Massaro?
00:50:51
Speaker
Yeah. Well, guys, there's rumors of Perattici being the next guy. I can tell you from the experience. Butchered that name. No, I didn't. Paratici?
00:51:02
Speaker
No, it's Paratici. I don't think that's true. I know. dr you do was He was on Juventus before. It's Paratici. He's not the guy forward. He's Paratici. He's not it. but but Here's Milan's issue. know Number one, you got to either move on from both Tio or Liao.
00:51:20
Speaker
If you don't move on from both, you got both. Both. You cannot have both. Bye-bye. You need to pick one. Bye-bye. you You need to pick one. You can't have both. Why? Why? What do you mean, why?
00:51:32
Speaker
Why can't sell both? No, you can't. you You can either move on from both or pick one of them. Having both is too much, okay? Number two, I'll put i'll even put Mignon in this bucket.
00:51:47
Speaker
They only have, I would say, two players, and it's Reinders and Pulisic, that you can put them on the pitch, and you know what they're going to give you um any given day.
00:52:00
Speaker
The other ten guys or eight guys, nine guys on the pitch, they can give you... the best, like an amazing game or getting subbed off 20 minutes in.
00:52:12
Speaker
And so they need to make a decision on those guys, all those guys in that bucket. Who can they get the amazing from more consistently than the dog shit performances?
00:52:24
Speaker
Keep those guys and then bring in more guys that you know, you're going to what you're going to get. Like Jao Felix, you don't know what you're going to get. Tammy Abraham, you do know you're going to get effort.
00:52:35
Speaker
You don't know what kind of performance you're going to get. Tamori, you don't know what you're going to get. Pavlovich, you don't know what you're going to get. Fafana, I'd even put, you don't know what you're going to get. Like, all these guys, you're like, they could go out and play an amazing game or they can go out and suck.
00:52:51
Speaker
So they need more consistency throughout because you look at Milan season, there's been no consistency. It's 20 minutes. We're nasty. The other 70, we suck two games in a row. We beat rail or re beat Real Madrid, but then we lose to Monza.
00:53:04
Speaker
Like there's no consistency and it's because of the the players that they have aren't consistent. So they need a guy. to go in and figure out who's got the Milanista DNA, who's got the the Grinka, and who are working who we're going to leave and who we're going to bring in that has the DNA. I think the first person that they got convinced to convince to stay because he says all the right things, he knows how to leave, is Kyle Walker.
00:53:29
Speaker
so So make sure he stays. Get out the Jiao Felixes. Get out Tio or Liao. Get all of them out. ah Even Mignon. Mignon is the reason why you guys got knocked out the Champions League.
00:53:40
Speaker
Him or Teo, he could easily save that goal from coming on the on the near post against Ferenor. That one or Teo getting a red card. So like your three best players, they can be they can be the best player in their position at any given day.
00:53:54
Speaker
And they can also be one of the most cancerous, inconsistent player on another given day. So you you got to move on from that. Well, that rant was a really good segue into my question because we talked about everything they need to do.
00:54:08
Speaker
Is this an attractive place for people anymore from a management, a manager perspective and a player perspective? Well, player perspective, yes. Why? Actually, I think now actually could be a rather attractive team with no European ball.
00:54:27
Speaker
I'm not saying for like, ah I don't think we'll sign any big names. I don't think we're going to attract any big names. I think this is an interesting opportunity for a lesser known guy or maybe some guy off of a couple of bad seasons to come in because you don't get up a lot of competition next year and the expectations are incredibly low.
00:54:46
Speaker
um From a management perspective, I don't this I would run so far away. I don't think that Cardinale has any idea how to run a club or at least the financials behind the club. you bre Ibra has a choke hold on everything and I don't think that he's the right guy.
00:55:01
Speaker
The fact that Paolo Maldini, the Paolo Maldini gets sacked from that spot just for one bad buy. i think says everything you need to know about being the management of this AC Milan team under Redbird Capital.
00:55:16
Speaker
So from a management perspective, no. I think you stay far away. From a player perspective, I think it could be interesting. To Monsa's point, If we can keep, if we can keep Reinders, Pulisic, if we can keep Kyle Walker, maybe Pef's leaving. So Kyle's not going to want to go back.
00:55:31
Speaker
KDB's already leaving so that, you know, maybe the writing's on the wall there. I think that that could be a good core. I don't hate the shout of getting rid of Mignon. I think it goes back to Vos's point of all time, just saying that there's always another goalie that you can buy. And if we can squeeze out some value out of Mignon, perfect, let's do it.
00:55:47
Speaker
But we're going to need every dollar. to give whoever's coming in from a management perspective the flexibility to institute what they want to do. And hopefully they do it in conjunction with a manager and they don't just do it one off.
00:55:58
Speaker
The best, what we need to do is have the manager in place before the window opens and yeah be coordinated from that standpoint. If a management comes in doesn't have a manager, I think the whole, it might as well just be the same season again.
00:56:11
Speaker
I'll keep it. My answer is short and sweet. I think a job like Juventus, a job like Inter, a job like Milan, there's so much history. There's so much ah lure there for whether you're a player or a manager that you want to be the guy to kind of bring them back to the glory days because you'll be like people like even Logues.
00:56:31
Speaker
yet When you think you hate somebody, then you realize how good they were Pioli. you're You're remembered for doing a great job and you're loved. Maybe not at the exact moment because the Italian fans and media is very cutthroat, but once you're gone and then you realize what you have like or you had, then you're loved again. so and If it's me, i I'm put in a position and I'm a manager, i would i would take the Milan job 100%. All right, cool.
00:56:58
Speaker
Jorantino? Anything interesting? Nothing new, I would say. Missing Robin Gozen's a lot. I think that that has a piece. I'd also say, Fiorentina, nothing new. And and very, very, this is that's a fact. Because too many times this season, they've lacked the concentration that an experienced team needs to see out the 2-0 lead.
00:57:18
Speaker
To go maybe even kill the game 3-0. um or kill it when it's two to one, make it three to one. There was a big lapse in concentration that Jovic's goal was literally pass back.
00:57:30
Speaker
and like It wasn't a Milan goal that was created, although Milan had a lot of chances. So did Fiorentina to win this game. At the end of the day, they drew, they tied, they didn't get all three points when they were up to nothing in the 10th minute.
00:57:43
Speaker
I know that's still a lot of time to play, but you got to win this game. I think that it's happened too many times under Paladino, and that's been his one knock is his consistency, the mental laps on the players.
00:57:55
Speaker
They are young, so he needs to stay on them. But listen, if Fiorentina didn't have all these mental lapses, they're easily in third place, ah right? Either in front of Atalanta at 58 or just below them.
00:58:06
Speaker
And so if you think about it, he's doing a great job, yes. But If you really take a step back, they're right where that where they were under Italiano. They're not doing much better than what they were last season.
00:58:17
Speaker
And we can't we can only scream praises about how how many goals Moise Keane has had, how look how good Gudmundsen has looked when he's playing. Italiano didn't have any of those guys last season, and he's doing this. So you really, if you're Palladino, I think he's doing a great job. I think there's a a lot to come from this Fiorentina side, especially next season when they buy Fagioli and if they're able to keep Keane and Gudmundsen. They got to buy some experience in the back, but they have a great midfielder, great mid and midfield three and great wingbacks. And so the their one knock is concentrate for 90 minutes, almost like Inter.
00:58:53
Speaker
right you very The way that you explain that, maras a question for me, though, is like, why are we putting Palladino on such a pedestal and you know having such a great season, quote-unquote, when Italiano did the exact same thing last year?
00:59:09
Speaker
They have a much better squad this year just from a player-on-player perspective. And they're just in the same spot but the same with maybe more inconsistency for that matter, just given the fact of the quality of player they have.
00:59:22
Speaker
How is Palladino in this incredible light when they're just in eighth place and they're only a couple points off of where Milan is right now and they're still they're still dropping really important points at this point in the season?
00:59:33
Speaker
Well, I think you you said a lot this year about Fiorentina. is It was kind of a... scramble of players, for lack of a better word, and kind of guys that had been around the league had kind of struggled.
00:59:46
Speaker
And then Fiorentina kind of just threw everybody together and built more or less kind of a brand new team. So I think part of it is Everybody is aware of that and have kind of allowed Palladino little bit more time to kind of build filled into it in a way.
01:00:03
Speaker
I think the other thing is that this team is super young and they're also not used to playing in such a ball. guess Taliano did play a ball dominant way. It is interesting that you say that, though. um i think I think a lot of it, too, comes down to.
01:00:18
Speaker
Italiano style of play can be extremely frustrating. And we haven't seen that from Bologna in quite a long time now because they've been the very exciting parts of Italiano ball.
01:00:30
Speaker
With Palladino, it's very rarely is it a bad wash. And I think that has a lot to do with it when you compare them to Tiago Mata. Very exciting attack-minded ball.
01:00:42
Speaker
they'll They'll counterattack when they can. They'll play ball-heavy when they can. um And throughout the season, we've seen progress. And progress means you're going to continue to get better. And I think Palladino being a young manager, there was an expectation that there might be a little bit of a drop-off this season. i think if they finish at this point, everybody's just okay with it.
01:01:04
Speaker
I would probably say that most would agree that the Italiano project have kind of run its course. They had more or less just been stable in this position for a really long time. So I think the fact that they're just at the same level, everybody's okay with.
01:01:19
Speaker
And one other thing I will point to is he's pretty much gotten the best out of every player that he's used apart from Colpani. So that's another thing that he can point to as my squad's young, I'm making everybody better.
01:01:31
Speaker
We're kind of integrating new player. The best Moise Keene's ever played in his career is under me. Goodminton has also been hurt for a lot of the season, I will say. And they are a dramatically different team with him on the pitch.
01:01:44
Speaker
So I think there's there's so much positive things that have happened. And the negative things have been in kind of microcosms where remember that like two months they were fucking terrible.
01:01:57
Speaker
And if that doesn't happen, they're easily in in a European spot. And that was always kind of learning moments, cor growth moments for both Palladino and the players. So that was kind of a long way of saying there's positive things that we can point to. Palladino is doing this well.
01:02:14
Speaker
I also think that there's an aspect of it that the season's still not over. Like there's still eight games left, nine games left. I forgot how much exactly. I think maybe seven now.
01:02:25
Speaker
And they are they are five, no, six points out of third. So it's a legitimate chance that they get top four. That paired with the fact that last year Fiorentina finished with 60 and they got 10 points in their last four games.
01:02:44
Speaker
And so, I mean, if he can, if if he equals 10 points in the last four games, they're at 62. That's more points than Italiano had last season. And with it being so close of a race this year, that 62 could go further than it did last year. I think that they'll end up with a lot more than 10 points in their last season.
01:03:05
Speaker
eight games or so but i do think that the reason why he's getting more praise than italiano did is because italiano's ceiling was 62 and i think that these guys this guy's floor this season is going to be 62 and that will go a little bit further than maybe it did for italiano the last two seasons which is unfortunate for him but uh i think that's why Also, yeah really just to like roll on what Mots are saying, to end the season, they have Parma, Cagliari, and Bolli. Then they play Roma, who's directly ahead of them.
01:03:35
Speaker
Then Venezia, Bologna, who they... ah And again, I'm saying these these are games they could win. like but They can beat Bologna and Roma on any given day. And then they finish it out against Udinese.
01:03:46
Speaker
So that's presumably four out of those six games you're going into as the favorite. And if you pick up all 12 points in that, you are definitely going to be in Europe up next year. And then on top of that, they're still in the Conference League.
01:03:57
Speaker
They're probably going to get to the final of that, potentially win it. So there's a lot of good things to point to. Yeah, I asked that question quite negatively, but I am a huge Shorantina fan. this This team is extremely exciting to watch. And obviously but the progression of Moise Keane, I think, is the brightest spot here. And it's certainly a huge point for Aladino's resume. Yeah.
01:04:21
Speaker
I think I've just rounded out shows the importance of taking the right steps as a manager in progressing your career and instead of getting lured away to those big name clubs, stopping maybe in a mid tier team and showing that you can do it again from a lower tier team to that mid tier team, doing it again and then making that bigger jump because you do have a little more leeway on a team like Fiorentina or Bologna when Motta was there.
01:04:48
Speaker
So I just think that you know we go we always talk about the managers and I know that there's always a big lore to go to the big teams, but in terms of longevity of career, it's so important to make that middle step that I think Paladino did the right thing here. Even on top of that, I would huge shout out to, I actually don't know who it is, but the management team in terms of the board at Fiorentina, like player selection, manager selection, just...
01:05:12
Speaker
Ludicrous. Drive a hard bargain. De Gea. De Gea was maybe the best goalie of the season. They i don't they just got him. Dodo. Dodo's a good grand sin like How the fuck did they get for Schoen? I'll tell you, dude, it's bullshit because they drive the hardest bargain. i when When they...
01:05:32
Speaker
go to Juve and ask for players. They are like, this is what we're paying. And this is it. If you don't want to pay it, then guess what? them on your team. Juve bend over to them. And then when Juve go to them, it's like, this is how much we want for the player.
01:05:46
Speaker
That's how much you're going to pay. and if you don't want to pay it, then guess what? You don't get them. And Juve bend over again. So they take advantage of Juve, but they they are great at scouting as well. But like, and and and I'll even go one one more.
01:06:01
Speaker
If you are a team within the Serie A, you don't want to buy let your player sell your your player to Juventus because for the last 50 years, Juventus has been plucking guys all over. You're such a victim. No, I'm not. You're such a victim, bro. So when you hear Juve's calling and you know that they have more money, you ask for more money. Juve calls for Gudmundsen. It was like, hey, if you want him, 30 mil.
01:06:26
Speaker
Juve said no. Fiorentina called, 18 mil all of a sudden. So there's there's an aspect of that. But they are they are good at bargaining. They drive a hard bargain and they buy players for a fair price and then they get the most out of them.
01:06:40
Speaker
All right, we got a lot to just roll through here, so we're not going to take a lot of time for an hour or ten in. Napoli played Bologna today. Two goals of the season almost? Two goals of the season almost. I don't think quite, but they were very good goals. Zombo Anguizio basically headed the ball for several times.
01:06:58
Speaker
I thought we got to like 60 yards to score, and then Endoy on a late goal. Not too late. 70s kind of minutes, right? With a nice backheel goal. Listen, though, not that I want to harp on this, but it really seems like this season of the Serie nobody wants to win the Scudetto.
01:07:17
Speaker
Everybody is trying to lose the Scudetto. Interties. Napoli then can take advantage. Guess what? Tie. Bologna could take advantage by jumping Atalanta to get third place.
01:07:30
Speaker
Tied. Juventus, I mean, draws all around. Nobody wants to win the Scudetto. I want to win the Scudetto, but my team doesn't want to win either.
01:07:40
Speaker
ah What I did really like about this game, just want to say really quickly, is I thought this showed kind of the best of both the teams. I thought from an Apple-y perspective, they played very Conte-style. No Billy Gilmore in this one, so it was more the traditional, what we kind of expect out of Conte, with McTominay and Zombo and Giza, and just kind of hard-nosed...
01:07:59
Speaker
grinding out every 50-50 ball kind of thing. And then on the reverse side, what I really love about it Italiano ball, what Bologna have done this this season is they can they play the same way in every game state.
01:08:10
Speaker
like when if they're If it's tied, they play the same way. If they're losing, they play the same way. If they're winning, they play the same way. And that consistency has allowed them to kind of get results from behind, get yeah results in games, period. And I just think it's interesting because like I actually don't think there's a lot of teams that do that.
01:08:25
Speaker
I think Napoli is a great example of that. Whatever the score is, Napoli kind of tweak how they're going to be playing the entire time. So i just thought that was an interesting piece about Italiano. This is a good grinded out game by an Napoli. No Bongiorno, no Alex Moret as well.
01:08:39
Speaker
You would maybe think that they're Bologna's favorites because of those missing pieces, but getting that 1-1 draw, although it wasn't what they wanted, still still a good result. Two backup goalies played in this game, and they both made insane saves. ah The other game, at Parma, Inter were up to nothing in the first half, and then choked it away. Parma came back, made it 2-2.
01:09:02
Speaker
Inter dropped points. Big points for Parma as well, i would say. my My takeaway from this game, and again, we're running out of time, but i just want to be quick, is again, it's just going to show that I don't know what Inzaghi's doing, but his subs and his lineups are a little bit questionable these days.
01:09:19
Speaker
and They've got a lot of games to prepare for. They've got a lot of big competitions. I get it. They came off the first leg of the Copa. They got Champions League this week, but they were playing the dogs and they didn't play Barella. Barella didn't even come on the pitch. I'm not sure if he was hurt or not, but he was suspended. Okay, so that makes way more sense.
01:09:35
Speaker
But even more so to that point we talked about it a couple of times this season, Bastoni out at halftime. Now, don't get me wrong. Interrupt 2-0 halftime against Parma, you should be, like, that game should be cleared out, not a problem.
01:09:50
Speaker
I mean, yeah I think even more, way more so than Fiorentina versus Milan. But then to give up two goals, I think one 10 minutes into the second half, I don't know if it's more shouts to Parma to...
01:10:02
Speaker
to not give up and to play with the big dogs or if it's on inter to be like, dude, like, what are you, what are you doing? There's like, they're, they're subs should be able to handle that. And to give up a two nil lead on this one is, is, is not something that you can do on a scoot at the winning key.
01:10:16
Speaker
I even say, listen, like I get it. Things happen in the game. You gave up two goals. The second goal was scored in the 69th minute. You have 20 minutes. to go win the game and you were miles better than them. I know once that team gets in a low block, parks the bus, it's really tough to break down.
01:10:33
Speaker
You got way better players than them. You got to win this game if you want to win the Scudetto, but nobody wants to win the Scudetto this season. And then the last thing, other thing I'll say is Marcus Terram's goal was...
01:10:45
Speaker
the luckiest thing I've ever seen in my life. He missed he swung and missed, basically chipped it up in the air, and then chip went in the net. And his dad was like, I'm not celebrating that. It was a terrible goal.
01:10:58
Speaker
Well, that's him too. Lazio went to Atalanta, won that game 1-0. Bad, bad drop for Atalanta. Lazio kind of needed you know game that been really shaky. Still no Tati Castellanos, which is kind of the big...
01:11:12
Speaker
issue but a 1-0 win at atalanta is one of the most difficult things you can do in the league atalanta has won i believe one game in the last five or six maybe four games it was against juventus it was an absolute thrashing for nothing kind of goes to show why hey maybe it made sense juventus moved on from tiago mana because the only team that they could beat was juventus that's that includes a draw against venezia law or who else is just not the best team that they've been playing either But also what I will say is another hiccup for Atalanta and Gasparini.
01:11:46
Speaker
More signs pointing that Lookman's going to be gone. Gasparini might be gone. There was a complication in this game where they were losing the game and he subbed off Lookman and Ederson. They both were piqued. pissed when they got subbed off at the end of the game gasparini went to the media and said there was a mistake in the substitution they misunderstood eddie ederson for ali al-alona lookman hey gasparini you're the manager you see the wrong number up why don't you just be like time out that's not the right sub
01:12:27
Speaker
This is the right sub. You didn't say anything. Is that true? Are you just kind of throwing your your guys under the bus again? um So a lot's going on in and Bergamo and Atalanta. And the way things are looking, they are projecting down.
01:12:42
Speaker
i think they end up falling out of top four. I'm surprised they're still in third at this point. And I think that's more of a function of other teams dropping points rather than they they they don't deserve to be there anymore.
01:12:53
Speaker
They have been way too inconsistent. Well, and more so even this game, they only had.5x teams. No, they were shit. Both teams were shit. I will say this is Ritegi. Ritegi had one really good chance. That was an insane save by Karnasaki.
01:13:09
Speaker
Yeah. But the point i was going to make here is... Both Tavares and Guigo, their two starting on the left side of their defense for Lazio, were both hurt in this game, mid-game.
01:13:21
Speaker
So for Atalanta to have basically their best players out there looking at Rategi, Quadrados, obviously, i I don't think you can say this is their best player, but he's been really in form. To not be able to take advantage of a but it really, really badly hurt back line, Romagnoli as well, is extremely disappointing.
01:13:41
Speaker
Yeah, it is. Last two games, Udinese at Genoa. Genoa won that one 1-0, kind of a classic Patrick Vieira. The salami. That takes result there. And then c I have lost to Monza. Is that right? I think I wrote this wrong.
01:13:55
Speaker
Oh, Colwell beat Monza. The little lads by the lake make me happy. They make me happy in Milan. Do not. Como is the place to be.
01:14:05
Speaker
Fabregas is not leaving. They got caboodles of money. They got Nico Paz, baby. This team is the real deal. You look for them to be top 10 next season. I'm calling it now. They also. there's been a lot a lot of rumors about como and we talked about this in the beginning of the season they have a rich owner they want to reload they want to buy players they want to be here for the long run so get ready for maybe people coming in uh this summer that are going to and kind of catapult them to play for a european spot next season maybe not champions league but maybe top 10 top 7
01:14:42
Speaker
um I also just want to give the flowers to that man again, who Logan's gives his flowers to Nico Paz, but we got it. Asen Diaw, he scores in every single game.
01:14:54
Speaker
He's 19 years old. He might be the fastest player in the league. He was a great addition in the winter window by Como. And if they can manage to keep him, I think him and Nico Paz, if can manage to keep both and then add some some veterans, some vets, they can make some noise next year.
01:15:12
Speaker
I don't know who their scouting is or who their player director is, but whoever it is should be getting looks from across the league. the his His player identification is outstanding.
01:15:25
Speaker
But is it, though, because it's really just like what me, my cousin Blake, and my cousin Ben do, and FM football manager, it's just go to Barcelona, go to Real Madrid... Scout their fucking Primavera system and then go get the best one.
01:15:39
Speaker
yeah say why Why doesn't everyone just do it then? They do do that. Everybody does. I promise you first and halt and get better and then we'll sell you to a team when when someone comes knocking. I mean, it's a goodro I'm down with it. I'm here for it.
01:15:52
Speaker
um That wraps up match week 31. um The things we got going on this week. Tomorrow. wait wait, wait, wait. Really quick, really quick. Three more games. Venezia, Lecce, 1-1 draw. Cagliari, Embley, 0-0 draw. Verona, Torino, 1-1 draw. The week of the draw.
01:16:06
Speaker
couple big points being dropped at the bottom of the table. In crunch time, you never know who's going to go down these days. Venezia might stay up. I've been saying it. I've been saying it. They get some points.
01:16:18
Speaker
And they're going to beat Monza this week. We need Monza this week. We want Lecce to go. Lecce needs to get out of there. Yeah, I don't think they are. Midweek, we got some European competitions.
01:16:33
Speaker
We got the first leg of Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League. We got Inter Milan going to Bayern Munich. Lazio going. These are hilarious team rooms. Lazio going to Bodo slash Glimpse.
01:16:44
Speaker
ah up yeah do You got a slash? The merger. The merger of Bodo. And then we got Fiorentina going Selji. selgie Seji.
01:16:55
Speaker
Seji. might That might be one of those teams, that those ah Eastern European teams. If they're at their way, watch out Fiorentina. They come to play in in the... Really quick, on Inter Bayern, how do you guys feel about that one? I i really like Inter in this one, and for a very odd reason, I would say.
01:17:16
Speaker
A Cherubi is going to body Harry Kane because Cherubi just has done this. He does do that. He does do that. Listen, dude, Bayern, people are the first to know I'm not the biggest supporter of any German soccer league or just German team.
01:17:30
Speaker
Bayern's been a fraud for the last two seasons. Their manager is Vincent Kompany. They hired him from fucking Burnley. he proved He got relegated and then he got promoted to Bayern. they They have Musiala, who's nasty. They have these electric players that are lightning in a bottle, but I don't think that this is... I think that Inter can take care of business here.
01:17:49
Speaker
i think Bayern's front line will give Inter a couple of problems. I do think that Inter has been looking ahead to this game, so I think they'll be prepared. and Bayern have a couple of key injuries. Musiala not playing. Alphonso Davies out for the season. So those are two big guys that are not going to be in the lineup for Bayern.
01:18:04
Speaker
I know that they have a very deep team. I'm not sure that they've been using guys. like where Where is Jao Pelinha these days? I have no idea. I think Inter do win this in two legs. Yeah, i feel I also just think Bayern kind of match up poorly against them because and i just think Bayern is going to... mean, Inter's midfield is is better Bayern's. I think Bayern's offense is going to play into Inter's defensive. Bayern wants to play a high line and Inter's one of the best counterattacking teams that Bayern has never seen because they don't play them. Yeah, and that whole that whole like peak in Zocchi ball is...
01:18:38
Speaker
Built for playing against really good teams, essentially. yeah When you can counter so fluidly like that, that's where you're going to see the best version of Inter, which we don't really see week in and week out of. thisity Because you play against the guys, teams that play low blocks. Yeah, exactly.
01:18:52
Speaker
But yeah, that's European competitions. And then at the weekend, we got Milan at Udinese, Monza at Venezia, Cagliari at Inter, Lecce, Juve, Bologna at Parma at Fiorentina, Genoa at Verona, Torino at Como, Roma, Derby,
01:19:07
Speaker
Empoli at Napoli. And then if you didn't hear us earlier, match week 33, we will be live in Italy for match week 33. We will be live, baby. to be sick.
01:19:18
Speaker
Yeah. A couple big games this week. We got Milano and Nesse right next to each other in the table, but that's not going matter. Some sucks. and you could pick But, I mean, most notably, Bologna-Atalanta going to be a huge game. i think that's going to be a gunfight. I mean, that's going to be goals galore. I hope that Bologna continues to play their attacking style that they have been, and I hope Atalanta matches that.
01:19:40
Speaker
Torino-Colmo. Really good matchup at the lake. Hopefully the little lads come out with that. And then obviously Stadio Olimpico, Lazio Roma. That's going to be huge. but it's be So much movement in the table with these matchups being that three versus four and six versus seven.
01:19:58
Speaker
And then to to also and throw Juventus in the mix. They're playing a very poor team. So it could be a good week for Juventus if they can capitalize and then Atalanta or Bologna draw or something like that. And then same with Fiorentina as well.
01:20:13
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playing They're playing a hot Parma, but these are games that both Juventus and Fiorentina need to win to make sure they put as much pressure as possible on the teams that are in the 3-6 range.
01:20:23
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And just watch out. Just watch out. We've got Venezia at home against dogshit Monza. three but aly emmp playing nappie And playing and Lecce playing Juve.
01:20:37
Speaker
Drake might be the happiest man alive after this weekend. Venezia might be close to getting out of a relegation zone in a couple of days. Just watch. Yeah, but they're not at home. Oh, they are at home.
01:20:49
Speaker
They're at home. They don't want play Venezia. You don't fucking say. ah Especially at the business end of the season. The business end of the season. What you want. ah But before we go. for Oh, oh, dude.
01:21:03
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I don't know where it went. Oh, here is. Colpi di Luna. go we're so rusted i'll go first i gotta i feel good about my leg i've got milan money line at udonese i've been dogging milan i think they're due to get a win and i almost hear cool data is there i also really just don't like Udinese at this point. I kind of think they're fake news. They really struggle to score goals.
01:21:31
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They kind of only get results when it's a 1-0 game. And I just, I feel like something's got to give at Milan at some point to where they have a complete performance. i could be I could be wrong because we haven't seen it too many times this year, but it has happened.
01:21:44
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And I just think we're coming to the point where we're due for one of those. And Udinese is playing for nothing. that's That's the other piece of this. Lorenzo Lucas playing to leave and that's about it.
01:21:56
Speaker
Minus biggest Lorenzo Luca hater of all time. I asked i think he gets a lot of headlines because of his his like what he looks like. And we've been in that situation with so many different players that people just say like, oh, he's huge and he's kind of athletic.
01:22:09
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He's good in FIFA. Theoretically, if you get him in like a manager road, that's not how things work. And just be careful. I can tell you just be careful. I can tell you this. He's got Juventus buying him for 30 mil. You've ran all over him and he's not getting goods.
01:22:24
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Just watch out, those though. Udinese, three straight losses. Are they really going go for four? Yeah, I do. but Motz? I don't really like my pick. The board was kind of tricky this this week.
01:22:37
Speaker
Nothing really jumped out at me. How are you not taking Bologna, Atalanta teams to score? Well, because I'm not, that's the trap leg. That's a square pick.
01:22:47
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So I'm picking Parma, Fiorentina. They both score goals. We know Parma lets in goals. We know Fiorentina has a cadence or a reputation to have mental lapses and allow goals.
01:23:00
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Keane's on the but in the best form of his life. Fajoli is dishing assist after assist. Dodo's good. um And Fiorentina, or not, if Parma have the counterattack, or Boney can score at any given time, so.
01:23:12
Speaker
Over two and a half goals. Parma versus Jorantina. Minus 116. Old reliable is my pick. And that rounds us out with the Salamis Genoa Moneyline.
01:23:26
Speaker
They are a away at Verona, but plus 165, the value is there. And you know the deal, Paisans. You bet all the legs singly.
01:23:37
Speaker
You bet the Colpi. You bet the singles again. And if you bet 100 bones... On the Colby de Luna this week, you'll be taking home $963. That is plus $863 on the Colby.
01:23:50
Speaker
And that is a wrap, Paisans. A beautiful episode, a great return to form. A little rusty on the buttons, Vos, but we'll work on it. Listen, you guys heard me say at the beginning episode, so you can't miss it now.
01:24:04
Speaker
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01:24:16
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01:24:27
Speaker
Good to be back, Paisanos. ah Sorry missed a week, but we did miss you. i know you guys missed us. um We will be in Italy next week, two weeks, don't remember when. But games we're going to see just to highlight them.
01:24:40
Speaker
Bologna, no, not Bologna, lied. Atalanta, Milan, and the San Siro. Then we're going to Parma. Juventus versus Parma at Parma. Then we're going back to Milan for the the Coppa Italia semifinal second leg Milan Derby.
01:24:56
Speaker
Inter versus Milan. Sick game. And we're going to Turin to watch Juventus versus Monza. Watch them play the worst team in the league. But that'll be fun. And then hopefully...
01:25:07
Speaker
Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully we can get the aroma at Inter game in the San Siro pending on when the schedule is going to be an exciting time. Very, very excited for it. Going to be sick.
01:25:17
Speaker
um Looking forward to it. We'll have some content to post when we get back. But yeah, anything to add, boys? No, we're shy. Sign off. Take a sweat. All right, boys. Paisanos, do not be Gagutz in Forza Calcio culture.
01:25:47
Speaker
Thank you.