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BOXING DAY - Liverpool vs Leicester Preview
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Karl Coppack joins Louie Easton on a special boxing day edition of Premier League action where top of the table Liverpool take on a struggling Leicester City side.
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Introduction and Christmas Special
00:00:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Liverpool Podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Louis Easton and joining me from his mother's bedroom with a biscuit and a cup of tea, Karl Kopak. How are you doing mate? How was your Christmas?
00:00:25
Karl
It's my first ever Christmas Day podcast.
00:00:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's mine as well.
00:00:28
Karl
i don I don't think I've ever done a podcast on Christmas Day ever.
00:00:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
What?
00:00:33
Karl
I've done a terrible podcast from my mum's bedroom. um ah But yeah, this is a definite first. but
00:00:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a first. Absolutely. um I'm recording with some new stuff as well for my recording, so I'm having a great time.
Unfulfilled Wishes & Humor
00:00:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And did any of your Christmas wishes come true?
00:00:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know you had quite a few yesterday on Jesse's podcast. Well, the one about Phil Collins definitely didn't come true. As far as I'm aware, he's still alive and kicking.
00:01:02
Karl
yeah but um i mean even i mean i put bear him I don't want anything bad to happen to Phil Collins, although I can tell you something off air, because even if does something does happen to Phil Collins, there will always be Phil Collins music.
00:01:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Just his music.
00:01:15
Karl
So I'm fighting a a losing battle and have been since literally since the mid 80s on this. um So that happened. There's no news on contracts yet. So that's not happened either. People are still eating croissants.
00:01:28
Karl
Still people are classing Yorkshire puddings as food. It's pastry there. You're kidding yourselves.
00:01:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah It goes with gravy and it goes very well with the Christmas dinner though.
00:01:35
Karl
ah
00:01:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
I do think so And it's a nightmare to cook as well I've heard I haven't tried it but I've seen many failed attempts
00:01:38
Karl
But it's big to cook. It's taken too much room to cook. Yeah.
Liverpool vs Leicester Preview
00:01:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Anyway, we'll talk about the match that's happening tonight as this podcast comes out. According on Christmas Day, you're listening to it on Boxing Day and tonight, Liverpool host Leicester City, 17th in the table, 8pm at Anfield. It does seem like a very one-sided affix.
00:02:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah um And do you have any hope for Leicester at all? ah jack And if so, how could Leicester surprise Liverpool? Is there any chance at all? The bookies are saying 1-16 for a Liverpool win, 12-1 for a draw and 22-1 for a Leicester win.
00:02:25
Karl
The logic of that is, of course, no, um but I was at the forest game. So, and on a slot, the forest is still in his head to this to this day.
00:02:35
Karl
he is ah He woke up this morning about Nottingham Forest before he started thinking about Christmas trees and an eggnog and things like that, or whatever they do.
00:02:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:43
Karl
ah he's He's like that. So, you can't take them for granted because they're a Premier League team. They're also one of the worst Premier League teams ever. um What gives me particularly encouragement is the fact that I've been saying this season that Wolves were Liverpool's worst opponent of the season. Couldn't play out the back. Tried to play out the back. Couldn't play out the back. Let's have another go. We've conceded again. And they battered Leicester on their own ground a few days ago. um So everything is lined up, including what happened at the Tottenham Stadium.
00:03:17
Karl
for a huge Liverpool win. um it's It's a strange fixture, this one, because I think that when we went to, I was at the the famous Boxing Day game on Leicester a few years ago, I was at that game, and um that was significant because Leicester unbelievably was second in the league, and we ran something like five points ahead of them with a win that night. And people were saying, right, this is it. So whoever thought, right, Boxing Day,
00:03:46
Karl
why not, why didn't I make the Tottenham game the Boxing Day game? I don't quite understand it. I'm i'm fine because I'm in Liverpool, I'm going to it.
00:03:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:03:52
Karl
But um it seems it seems a bit of a weird eight o'clock kickoff, unless they just literally, the the the people who come up with these things, I've just basically just thought, let's just have some random slaughter going on on a football pitch.
00:04:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ah, yeah.
00:04:06
Karl
Could literally be nine nil.
00:04:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:04:09
Karl
But I'm not, all
00:04:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the only game of that time as well. And it's on ah it's on TV. All of the games are on Boxing Day are
Liverpool's Defense Analysis
00:04:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
on Prime Video. That won't be happening much next season.
00:04:15
Karl
ah lot
00:04:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
and um Yeah. And it's the only 8pm one. And it, like you said, it does seem a little bit strange, especially considering, well, I know that it wasn't, it was obviously scheduled before Rude van Nistel really got the job, but Lester have come into this match conceding seven goals in the last two games and scoring none.
00:04:38
Karl
yeah against wolves
00:04:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Wolves was one of them and a struggling Newcastle United was the other one, scoring four.
00:04:41
Karl
but
00:04:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Granted, it was at St James's Park, but there is very little hope for Leicester in this game. But from a tactical point of view, where could Leicester get their goals against Liverpool?
00:04:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is there a weakness? Because many people are still saying, despite the six goals we scored, our defence still looked a bit shaky against Spurs, conceding three.
00:05:01
Karl
Yeah, against wolves.
00:05:09
Karl
I don't know about that because I think for the Tottenham game, it's a foul on Macales. He literally can't stand up because he's been fouled. I don't know. Yeah, it was looking a bit soft, but he also did have an extra man on him at the time.
00:05:22
Karl
So I'm not really massively convinced about that. And I think we knocked off
Strategies Against Liverpool
00:05:26
Karl
a bit. I think Van Dyke could be better for the Solanke goal.
00:05:31
Karl
Ideally, I want the Liverpool win plus Leicester City nil. I think it's what we all want here. We want a nice clean year.
00:05:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:39
Karl
and and know and go further ahead in the league, out if that's possible. ah But I think the way to beat Liverpool is exactly what Forest did. It's basically keep them up for as long as possible, get one, and absolutely pray that you can get over the line. I don't think there's a tactical thing to it, to be honest. I think it really is sort of try and get in Liverpool's heads. That's all you can do. Try and get the crowd against you. The Forest game was absolutely nuts for that. um and What Forrest did was they usually advantage the fact that Arna slots, Liverpool hadn't gone behind in a game.
00:06:11
Karl
Um, you know, didn't know what to do. And we were a mess because of that. Um, I think we know a bit more about that now because of Newcastle, you know, we know how to play ourselves. If we go again, we go behind, we know what to do about that now, but.
00:06:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
the film match as well, yeah.
00:06:25
Karl
And um I think that helps. I think the, and the I mean, technically on the pitch, I think we're stronger in every position. Hope Vardy can do some of the bodies now 45, whatever he is these days. I don't know. Um, but I don't, I don't, I don't see it.
00:06:39
Karl
And also the manager is very new, quite naive. I mean, they lost the walls. I keep coming back to the fact that they lost the bloody wolves who heavily.
00:06:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
they did lose to wolves and lost badly, badly. The the Leicester defence was an absolute joke, but very satisfying to see Connor Cody struggling in defence, considering the fact that he put on that Everton shirt.
00:06:52
Karl
Yeah. Well, what is. Yeah. And then, and then started bad mouthing us just
Leicester Fans & Team Challenges
00:07:02
Karl
a little bit, not badly, a little bit.
00:07:04
Karl
every now and
00:07:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Celebrating us after so against us after scoring a goal, granted it got disallowed, but I haven't forgotten.
00:07:11
Karl
no
00:07:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think a lot of Liverpool fans have forgotten. yeah um So yeah, hopefully he can be absolutely humiliated tonight. And Rud van Nistelroy, or should I say, Rud van Nistel saw as we remember him from his Manchester United days.
00:07:25
Karl
so yeah
00:07:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
This is his first top six encounter. don't ah We are still having to call it a top six, even though Manchester United are in the bottom half. um But yeah, it will be a huge, huge test.
00:07:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, for Revan, Mr. Roy, can that new manager bounce have its success? We'll go back to it as well. Uh, the shocking sacking of Steve Cooper early in the season. Did you think that was harsh at the time, Carl?
00:07:57
Karl
Yeah, because what are you supposed to do? Because you might get you back up next year for more money.
00:08:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
I, I, I, I tipped Leslie to get relegated. I just didn't think they had enough quality. And the fact that they're outside of the relegation zone to at this point, a lot of it is to do with him.
00:08:12
Karl
And there's plenty of... car I mean, Palace were in this this boat for years. all there And West Brom, of course, is the most famous one where if they came up, they immediately started planning for relegation because they know what's happening because they're in that little Enclave of clubs who are just a bit too good for the championship.
00:08:26
Karl
It happens in Norwich as well Just good for the championship.
00:08:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:30
Karl
There's no way no na it they're gonna be any good food for the Premier League and it's interesting how I was thinking about this before because because um I Live with a Ipswich friendly household ah My girlfriend's of Suffolk her kids the sports which they are viewing um They viewed this season as, my God, we're in the Premier League.
00:08:51
Karl
It's going to be fantastic. We're going to go to all these new grounds and it's going to be great. And we're going down, but we don't care. Whereas my brother-in-law lives in Leicester and all of his Leicester city mates aren't going to the game. Cause they said, who wants to watch the Michael get battered at Liverpool unboxing.
00:09:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ah, so annoying.
00:09:05
Karl
But there's a different, there's a different mindset to how, and they're both going to end up probably going down and do hope it switched style. But, um, because for a start, I can get tickets.
00:09:16
Karl
um but um And that's my priority for all things in life, but it's it's a different mindset. I think of It's really fun this really going about I would do is countrymen in the dog outs no
00:09:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, absolutely not. And we saw with the Manchester United results, when he had that short stint as United manager earlier this season, we were all sort of joking. It's like, oh, as soon as a lower down team has sacked their manager, he's going to be up for the job now, just because he's had a couple of good games.
00:09:48
Karl
Yeah.
Mo Salah's Performance Analysis
00:09:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
We were saying that as a joke. And when Steve Coop got set, it was like, ah, they'll get Van Nistelroy now. They actually got him. Well, I don't.
00:09:58
Karl
goalset Because you know simply plead because he isn't and it never works. And I've been reading things that ever he's already using is going to use his contact ah United to get some loan deals over the line in January.
00:10:11
Karl
May you have you seen Man United? Who are you going to borrow? Have you seen Man United?
00:10:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
uh it's yeah
00:10:17
Karl
So you want someone not quite enough to be in the first team at Man United? They're with you down at the bottom, mate.
00:10:26
Karl
But what I don't want them to wake up and think, actually, that lad who hates Phil Collins on that podcast has got a point. Let's not go for it. No, you carry on, mate.
00:10:37
Karl
Death by 1,000 cuts. You carry on.
00:10:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
a We're all loving that Manchester United downfall. Absolutely no sympathy from us here at Daily Liverpool. Anyway, we're going to take a short...
00:10:46
Karl
so
00:10:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, sorry, go on, Carl, just quickly before the break.
00:10:51
Karl
What an extraordinary size you're nice a lot because we're all really, really happy when they beat Man City and then we all laugh ourselves stupid when Bohm has actually patted them for the second time 3-0 at their own ground.
00:11:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh It's such a weird season, isn't it?
00:11:06
Karl
Well, the fact they're already calling Ruben Interim, I love the fact they're already calling him that.
00:11:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the weirdest season that we've seen in a long time.
00:11:14
Karl
He's only been there 10 minutes.
00:11:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah I love these online banter names. and Remember but my favourite one being when Lacazette was at Arsenal, Alexander lack of threats, they used to call him.
00:11:26
Karl
Bye.
00:11:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just, it's so good. Anyway, we're going to take a short break now as you find out what we do here at the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:11:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we're going to use this ah second part to talk a bit more tactically. Mohammed Saleh has had just a monumental season. He's got 15 goals and 11 assists in 16 Premier League appearances. um However, a lot of people are now saying that this is going to take a little bit of a downward spiral.
00:12:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
based on an Instagram post and car I don't know if you've heard about this but in recent years there's been this whole thing about Mo Salah celebrating Christmas on his Instagram posting a Christmas post and then he has a terrible second half of the season or just a less good second half of the season. um He's done the Christmas post it's on a ah million likes and a hundred thousand comments in an hour So this is a proper thing that everyone talks about in the football community.
00:12:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
just Can I just get your reaction to that?
00:12:56
Karl
ah Absolute nonsense.
00:12:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, we'll move on.
00:12:59
Karl
He also is as well. I've been thinking about this for about but the thing about his contracts, which I'm fairly sure is all done to be honest. um This people said, oh yeah, but he's getting he's getting old a bit.
00:13:13
Karl
Goals don't ever get old. And he brings goals, he brings assists.
00:13:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:13:18
Karl
And yes, he's going to be 30 blah, blah, blah, whatever by the end of his contract. But those goals don't ever get old. And you buy goals.
00:13:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
is just he has had it okay i'll ask you this question is this the best version of mo salah we've ever seen
00:13:34
Karl
I heard a podcast the other day when with this was asked and some said that they think it was, which was mad because he got like 40-odd goals in his first season. And it's just incredible that eight years later, wherever it is, he has the same, he has the same season pretty much. It's actually insane. I mean, its to such an extent, we were three goals up at Tottenham and I thought he hasn't started yet. And there's no way he's getting off this pitch. and Well, well, this defense is like this ah without being a bit annoyed with himself that he hasn't scored. It's just going to get a minimum of one.
00:14:09
Karl
and and And that's his attitude to everything. He's just, I say it all the time, he's not the best finisher of the club. But but my god, he puts them away when you need and then when he needs to be put away. I mean, they got the goals he got against um spares, arguably, I could have finished one of them. But um corner. All right, I would have got a corner from one of them. But um is it the best version of Mo Salah? Arguably, yes. And the fact that that's an argument is astonishing to me.
00:14:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
it's just yeah and because it's it's sort of in seller he hasn't really got versions he's just been the same ridiculous player uh bar one season ever since he's oh sorry what you cut out what did you say
00:14:50
Karl
I'll just do. i And I'll just take every single. but it's It's just like, he just, he goes in the pitch and thinking, I'll just do this. And that one, and that thing he does is just incredibly good and no one's worked out how to stop him. They put two men on him. You can't put two men on him because it means the other two lads on the forward line. I've got tons of room. You can't drop the six on him. That's no good because then you'll just drop it to midfield and they'll switch it and we'll do something with that. He's generational is absolutely generational.
00:15:20
Karl
And a I mean, by numbers, you've got to say, yes, I mean, Giggs got 100 goals, but he got it, but it took him 10 years.
00:15:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is he the best winger in the Premier League of all time?
00:15:32
Karl
And Moe's on 200 something for, you know, in all competitions, you've you've you've got to say about
00:15:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's already Liverpool's fourth all-time goal scorer.
00:15:41
Karl
Mark Gonzalez as an option. But, um but i' I'm going to say he's better than Mark Gonzalez ever was for Liverpool. And the fact that you're staring blankly at emphasizes that.
00:15:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Really? I know who he is, it's just I...
00:15:52
Karl
and but
00:15:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
was just a I had to think about who you meant for a second then.
00:15:54
Karl
if but um so
00:15:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
consul is I was a bit young for him.
00:16:00
Karl
He's better than a Sadie. Yeah, he's better than a Sadie. I'll say that.
00:16:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, Asama Assayidi. Oh my word, that's a throwback. What about Fabio Barini?
00:16:09
Karl
um go for stone
00:16:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Lazar Markovic?
00:16:12
Karl
big for last last
00:16:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Overtaken there maybe?
00:16:14
Karl
Jesus Christ. i'm I'm amazed he got this his shirt on when I've been injured. God, that man was weak.
00:16:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then we've got Suso as well, the man with the body of a 15-year-old teenager.
00:16:27
Karl
Alberto, all the greats.
00:16:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, ah the all-time great. But yeah, you mentioned Ryan Giggs. I don't think he'll ever catch him in assists, but to be fair, he did play until he was in his 40s.
00:16:39
Karl
Yeah.
00:16:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
And well, to be fair,
00:16:39
Karl
ah ah right And was incredibly good. So that's all right. that's fine but
00:16:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, so ahead of tonight's match with Leicester, he's going to cause some serious problems to ah such players as Yannick Vestigard, who really struggled against to Wolverhampton on the weekend.
00:16:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And Wolverhampton as well playing ah also tonight against Manchester United. Let's hope that they can get another result there and we can see the downward spiral of Manchester United continue. ah But that Leicester City defence, it's almost a question of how many, isn't it?
00:17:19
Karl
I'm always
Anfield's Intimidating Atmosphere
00:17:21
Karl
careful of this sort of talk, um because I'll take one nil. I will absolutely take one nil.
00:17:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
So would I.
00:17:28
Karl
But I think what's going to be in Leicester's head is firstly, we got batter by the Lads and Wolves. And if you've seen who's on this pitch with us now, and they're all fully quick, and they've moved the ball very quickly, and they're very good at what they do.
00:17:41
Karl
um Plus, and this is significant, Anfields will be drunk. as well. Eight o'clock, centre of Liverpool, come on, it's only going to go one way, isn't it?
00:17:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:52
Karl
That is going to be that place.
00:17:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:55
Karl
I'm on the cop tomorrow and I can't wait. and thats but you If you go a goal down there early on and the cop allowed and they're after it and we could go maybe another two points clear if something happens with the other games or anything anything like that, even if, even if you know, Arsenal and Chelsea win, then um
00:17:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Lucky you mate.
00:18:14
Karl
that That's an uncomfortable hour and a half you've got to look forward to as a Leicester City defender.
00:18:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the Anfield factor.
00:18:20
Karl
I want to take a time waste immediately because that's what I do.
00:18:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that that's probably how the match is going to go. Anyway, we'll take another short break now as you find out which software we use to record our podcasts here at the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:19:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you mentioned the fact that Anfield's going to be drunk and it's almost like the Cop sucks the ball into the back of the net sometimes.
00:19:20
Karl
Yeah.
00:19:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
You've heard so many players and managers talk about how terrifying it is to play at Anfield, how intimidating it is. um Even if
Game Atmosphere & Leicester Critique
00:19:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Liverpool concede early and Leicester just time waste for the entire match, you just have to think if they are kicking towards the Cop in the second half,
00:19:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
that it's going to be incredibly unlikely less to come away with anything.
00:19:47
Karl
Yeah, and it's going to be angry as well for for a couple of reasons. For a start, Leicester City fans are awful. um I've got no problem saying that at all. The poverty songs will be coming out because you know theyre they're trying to be Chelsea in the Midlands. And the um and the ah the manager's a Manchester United legend, and he really is a legend. And he's a fantastic footballer, but he's worn that shirt. So there's going to be no knocking off in the crowd. and No one's happened five minutes off.
00:20:11
Karl
um If we go a goal behind, I think they'll be just be pure rage. I don't even gonna go a goal behind I just don't want them to score. I want don't want less than to score mo I just love a clean sheet to sort of put all that to bed about You know, we we we knock off too much and the goals against Newcastle and but you know and then things like that I mean two of those goals were against the ten men so, you know, ah but I I just want that put away. I just want to end the year with a nice Liverpool X less than nil, a very, very angry stroke, funny stroke, drunken Anfield. I don't drink, so I'm not involved in any of that, but um ah ahs it's just boxing, like boxing day football is just always great, just always great. It's probably, it might be, it's arguably the best day in the footballing calendar along with third round day and opening day. But ah yeah, I think
00:21:00
Karl
There's not going to be any problem with the team itself getting up for this just because it's left the city, just because of what happened. Particularly Chelsea, Everton, what happened with that game, I don't think anyone's going to knock off and think, you know, ah we just we'll do this one at 75% because we've got West Ham in a few days. I don't think they'll think like that. I think it'll be a very, very varied lineup. You will see every single substitute. um But people are coming back at the right time now as well. So I think we're going to see Harvey at some point. Curtis is going to say, may even start, I don't know.
00:21:28
Karl
um But we're going to see a very, very, very lineup, I think. And Liverpool have to win this game.
00:21:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
absolutely, especially in this pivotal stage of the season, um the congested fixture lists. It's critical that we get points ah consistently throughout this period.
00:21:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I would just like to say ah Carl's views and opinions of the Leicester City fans are not shared throughout GSPM. If you are a Leicester City fan, I
00:21:54
Karl
ah um on that. No, they're not at all. And I, you know, my brother-in-law lives in Leicester, I know lots of his mates and things like that. But stop the poverty. And also, and I say this every single time I do a podcast about Leicester City, when you go to their ground, um to announce the team's coming out, they sayed the that they they sound the fox bugle. that That in real life means that the fox is going to be ripped to pieces. I don't think they've thought that through, as a welcome the boys onto the page. Hello, all the fox. What that says to me.
00:22:24
Karl
um
00:22:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah it's it's hypocritical if anything it but fifty it's not quite you'll never walk alone let's just didn't know that
00:22:27
Karl
Yeah, let's battle the foxes. Yeah, right. I'm all with that. That's fine. um
00:22:34
Karl
like No! Who wants to rip us to pieces by the throat? There we go. I've never thought that's what that is. No, they come yeah, they come out to... They come out to the the foxbu the butff fox bugle thing because here come the foxes. The foxes that are going to be killed in front of us right now.
00:22:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, it sums up their season, really. if they just speak Please, they're not in the rally game. Do you think Leicester are going to go down this season? I'll ask you that.
00:23:03
Karl
I think they're already down.
00:23:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're at 17th.
00:23:06
Karl
Yeah, that's nuts. That's really weird. I can't believe it's which you've got 12 points and they've won one game Tottenham, obviously.
00:23:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's hot.
00:23:14
Karl
um
00:23:15
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Yeah, of all teams as well. the Ipswich have won two, Southampton have only won one. one
00:23:20
Karl
but
00:23:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Southampton haven't won any of their last five. They've lost 13 out of 17, drew three.
00:23:25
Karl
Yeah.
00:23:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ipswich two wins, six draws, nine losses.
00:23:31
Karl
Lots of draws in the last minute. They've quite a few times.
00:23:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah but And when they played Leicester earlier this season, I thought they were incredibly unlucky. they wrongly Calvin Phillips was
00:23:41
Karl
Yeah, they were.
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00:23:43
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wrongly sent off.
00:23:44
Karl
Yeah, that's right.
00:23:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
um yeah Ipswich beat Wolves away. ah to one ah A couple of weeks ago, ah Wolf's had a man sent off in that match. ah But you think Lester are going to go down.
00:23:56
Karl
Yeah, i think I think they are. that that They're not strong enough. um I was genuinely surprised at the Wolves game, and Southampton are fairly awful too, but they've got that big lad who I'm really, really, really like. um Yeah.
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, Onuachi. He is huge and it's weird because his feet move so quickly.
00:24:08
Karl
ah
00:24:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not often you see someone ah so tall with such a low center of gravity.
00:24:17
Karl
Well, on Sunday, I caught them at the end of their game, and he he went into an attacker with Adama Traore, who is not small either. i mean
00:24:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, he's huge as well.
00:24:25
Karl
um I mean, but well at all, it looked like a child running next to him, but it was way too big. is up
00:24:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
is yeah i love I love these sort of players, like but you don't look to them because of their skill or anything. You just look to them because you just think, God, how how is he going to control the ball and move away?
00:24:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's like having a brick wall running at you.
00:24:48
Karl
Yeah, yeah.
00:24:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
And same with Traore, to be fair.
00:24:52
Karl
yeah and um I'll never forget, when I saw Kanatai's first game at Anfield, with my brother-in-law, who doesn't always remember people's names, and he just went, the size of him!
00:25:08
Karl
I mean, he's bigger than Virgil, and Virgil's bigger than everyone. So yeah, if you can, I think he's also a bit of a unit as well, but that latter side, I think, you know.
00:25:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:25:18
Karl
I think he might be just bigger than me.
00:25:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
six foot seven six foot eight i think he is something like that wow yeah that is that is something obviously he's doing something wrong uh we are going to end the podcast there it's been an absolute pleasure
00:25:20
Karl
I think he's bigger than me, but he's built as well. but But he's also not starting, I've noticed. I wasn't... um My problem with you is a collective, not on an individual basis.
00:25:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
OK, there we go. ah We do not generalise here at the Global Sports Podcast Network. We'll say that. Anyway, we are going to end the podcast there, Karl. It's been absolutely fantastic. I look forward to podcasting you with you again, hopefully when you're at home and not in your mother's bedroom, although it's been an interesting change, let's say that.
00:26:00
Karl
Yeah, like I like to podcast from various places around the world. so
00:26:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Lovely. Anyway, thank you very much for listening and I hope you enjoy the match.