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then for Ted Def end of October and including the Hall game as well. We've got Palace away never to away, then three weeks off, then we're back for what feels like a big game at home to full them, and then obviously it's going to be City away and right that way, we're straight away. Forrest at home, however, on a Friday night is a chance to pick up points hopefully before Hall away. So, yeah. It kind of feels like these next six games are going to be big to away games on the bounce before the international break isn't ideal, obviously, we'll discuss Palace tonight and ever to the next week but you know what? I guess we've probably what I think we're part for the course showing encouraging signs. So far, I've been listening to too much talks, but I'm showing encouraging signs at the moment. I think with regards to where we are in the table, we've kept the three points per sort of the point per game average going. I did see things against United that I liked and kind of in the second half, I think Liverpool maybe not as much as I did at Old Trafford, but yeah, seen in positive signs, but now it feels like a time we need to step it up and pick up some points from these next kind of, certainly the next four games and then extended to the six games. So the end of October could be like a mini kind of chance to get some decent points on the board.
Hopefully so. We're here to give you the inside track against Palace on Saturday, not Sunday, as I've incorrectly said in my intro. So that happens when you do it off the top of your headset. And yeah, in terms of bits and pieces of news, there's not much to discuss. It is all eyes on Saturday. We need to shout out the guys who did the show on Wednesday, Tuesday night, Mikey and Craig, midweek blues available now, but other than that, Seb, I think we just need to shout out, we'll shout out the people in the chat first, even it's a AD crowd Chastomarket Legend evening, everybody, Salas Bart, not one of my favourite stames. You can tell us whether the stats bear that out, Seb later on, lots of restrictive views. I will be in one of those restrictive seats or cramps, facilities, but hoping for a positive result, evening to Phillip, he's with us, good eights of Michael and Brisbane, best show of the week. And I don't just mean because we have not lost the game. Anything's possible with this point, Michael, that's the beauty of us being on the pre-match, Neil, me and the boy not going Saturday. So we're bound to win. We will thank you later, Neil,
for that. If that definitely pans out, I appreciate you that. Good evening to the gods. Afternoon from beautiful day on a lake in Northern Ontario. Good even to Seagull, good even to Lin, Strykey, Crystal Palace Premier League income, hundreds of millions expenditure on away facilities, 50p, hello Crystal Palace fans, some honest feedback there on your away facilities, but have you done Salas Bart, you did it last time around Seb? Yeah, I only done it once, did it two years ago in that one, Neil DeFeed. I did have to say, yeah, it was run down and it was a bit crappy, but I kind of enjoyed it because it was the March time of the season, wasn't it? It did feel like a bit of a throwback, having gone to loads of the stadiums which are steeped in history, but were absolutely awful for atmosphere and stuff. And feels a great ground, but the atmosphere was crap and you know, it wasn't much better. We've done Man City, which was so quiet, the good, awful West Amalynpics stadium. So I did quite enjoy the fact that Salas Park was a bit of a throwback to kind of days gone by, I didn't mind that at all.
Walk through the streets of South East London as well, it's quite nice, and the ground just suddenly appears and a familiar setting if you're a fan of Ted Lasso as I am. Even to Emily, who was with us in the North Sound Lower last Friday, I know I could to see you Emily again and great to meet you as well, it's confidence there. I made the mistake there, but saying I'm not going to say certain cliches and phrases. I'm just not going to say them this week, I'm not even going to lose to it. So you can fill your boots in the chat, but the host is not going to say things that's going to embarrass him later on. Seagas confident, Norman talking about the defensive solidity set. We've probably talked about Daro, Shane, Jacob Greaves later on, so there's a spoiler ahead of that. Ali Kat, who on 4, 4, the real quiz starts now evening to David, lots of people here. Great to see everybody involved in the chat, we're dipping in out evening, sharing France, Bonjour, or Bonsoir, love it. So yeah, good to see you all. And as we mentioned
at the start of the season, the interest from the World Cup just is invited people to get more interested in the football club, certainly the Premier League. We need to shout out some people from further afield who will be gathering together to watch the game again. You start with the United States and I've got a shout out to our friends in Thailand. Yeah, Nashville tractor boy, finding one of the socials is doing it. It's another watch party, it's 9am local time in Nashville at the same place as the, I think it's the man you're not to game, was it the Sunderland game, which was the Folk Street lawn club in Nashville. So look like they had a great turnout a few weeks ago for the first game of the season. If you're in the Nashville area, get yourself down there at 9am and make sure you stick it all over the socials. If you ever could see what a great time you're having. There's a massive different teams having watched along us at the same time as well. So you can represent the football club there. There you go. Nashville, is that Nashville tractor boy? We hope so. It's actually at the Palestine match, Celest Park at March 2025. More on that later on, certainly, albeit not positive
sample to talk back on. And Thailand said, we've got, we had an email from Chris who's in the, I'm not a pretend that I know this particularly well, then the boy in Cannes province doing his best influence people away from Man City and Man United to support the town and Premier League games are very much available to watch there unlike town TV, it seems. So yeah, shout out to the crew over in Thailand and particularly to Chris who's, it sounds like he's missing curve bar, Isaacs being in Portman Road, but being in Thailand, it's not such a bad deal, Chris. But yeah, great to have you with us and thanks for letting us know. And if you're watching either the pods or the time game for the weekend ahead and want us to give a shout out or let people know what's going on where you are and you're part of the world, let us know, we'll gladly mention it. So let's, with ITFC women, let's do with ITFC women as well, Seb, a point up on last season, a draw against Nottingham Forest, really not the best of games, if I'm honest, neither team really deserved to win it,
really iffy goal for Forest, but what an equalizer for a done if you've seen it yet from Meg Horneby, Long Ranger, no saving that. So a really good point last minute drama we love on the road to Southampton, whether we're looking again to improve on the results from last season, didn't get points of Southampton if I remember right, certainly Portman, away from home, there's some marries they pumped us on the opening day. So looking for a bit of revenge, but Southampton, no mugs, but a fairly easy start, shall we say, Durham away, who are one of the possibilities for relegation this season. So yeah, going to be an interesting one, we will do at some point this week or next a show on top to just catching everything's up on ITFC women. So if you want that kind of content, do subscribe to top to, you can find out more by clicking the link in the description to join our membership. So Seb, I'm going to, this is a minefield for me in my intro, I should really just throw straight over to you, but I'm not, I'm going to risk it and say somewhere that I'm going
to regret. However, Palace, a team of comparable stature, maybe to us, maybe I don't know, further back-ups, maybe the bigger club, but in recent years, of course, Palace of, yeah, a tenured Premier League club of sustain themselves. Really great recruitment, no one to sell, I've gotten some good managers having maybe early on in there to spell in the Premier League, had some iffy ones, and started to get some trophies in the cabinet as well. So, asked a like for Palace and their fans have had a pretty good time of it, but it's a new manager situation, and as we know, teams that taste success that aren't in the big six tend to get their talent plundered, don't they? So it is a period of transition, I would say. What's your take on things at Celest Park? Yeah, I think that that term is fair. A period of transition has been in exceptional 12 months for them FA Cup victory in 2005, community shield, and I know everybody classes that as a trophy, but they won that in the opening of the Premier League season, and then obviously the Europa conference league last season as well. So an
incredible kind of three, sorry, I could go 12 months period for them, which means they now find themselves in the Europa League competing in that this summer, but obviously success does breed consequences, new reference to their policies, recruitment for years, has been absolutely spot on, they are a club that trades traditionally very well, they know when to sell, they sell and get excellent value for their assets, they then reinvest and look to develop again, and that's been their model certainly since they went back to the Premier League, and unfortunately for them, yeah, this success they've had over the last 12 months has again meant that the clubs higher up the food chain that we all have to kind of fight off, have kind of pounce this time and taking a few of their key assets. The recruitment perhaps doesn't maybe look as strong as it has done in recent years, but they do have this excellent habit of signing these kind of unknown players from Europe and further a field, and then turning them into key assets to sell on, so they'll be hoping they can do that. Again, I guess the complication is that's factored in with a new manager who's come in, there was some off field stuff last year, we'll discuss with regards to Glazner and his announcement about leaving, etc. So they kind of had six months or so to prepare for his eventual successor,
mixed art, so far I think it's fair to say, but comes to the next and track record. So they'll simply be hoping that they've got a factor in obviously the European campaign did hurt them last year, they won the trophy obviously, so phenomenal, but it did affect their league performance, there's no denying that. So I guess they've got a balance obviously, premier league's while we're being the absolute priority with a decent run in Europe, again this season whilst the new manager kind of embeds his ideas and his principles and his targets and these new players look to kind of get going. I mentioned he's been a mixed start, I think that's probably how he'd sum it up, they're sat 14th with three points, we all know the league table. At this stage means very, very little, the one-one game last time out against Fulham, that we'll discuss, and before that, they lost their previous two to Everton and to Man City, they've got the Man City game out the way early on as well. They are conceding, which is strange for a palace side because we'll discuss the last season and how they did, but they were, they are aside, there's been pretty good defensively over the last couple of campaigns, but they have conceded eight goals so far this season, which is the joint highest in the league along with Ipswich Town, so if you're looking for a bet on Saturday, for both teams to score, might be a good one when the fun stops stops. And yeah,
they're home for, they've only played one game so far, it was the Man City game, a 4-1 defeat on Friday night, a couple of weeks ago, no real disgrace to losing 4-1 to Man City, obviously. But interestingly, last season, their home form was pretty poor, they only took 21 points from the 19 games they played at Celhurst Park, just over 1.1 points per game, they were stronger on the road, only one, four games at home, did draw a lot, they did draw nine to be fair, but only one, four games at home last campaign, so it's not been a fortress or anywhere near as strong as they would want it to be, certainly now for over a season. Yeah, we're going to drill into the full-on game because that was one way you kind of want, sounds weird, you want both teams to lose and that one, don't you? There's this pack that we keep talking about that, above the promoter teams, can you drag more teams into it, but Palace got the win and then followed it up seven midweek against Borough, which we'll get onto as well, but they're still, you know, you talked about the exits, you talked about the transition, there are still qualities people are putting out in the chat, there are some players that are unavailable, so that's helpful, but you still got Henderson and Gold, you still got Wharton, you know,
Enquete is improving, is Neil, I like, is a tiring Mitchell down the left hand side, there's a real talent there, so we need to be on it on Saturday, do you want to get us onto the, kind of, do you want to talk about last season? Yeah, so last season they did have a drop-off year on year, they finished 16th with 45 points, six points clear of the relegation spot, six points clear of West Ham, so obviously weren't sucked into that too badly, defensively solid, as I mentioned earlier, 51 goals conceded with mid table tent in the leagues are pretty good, it was the attack that really let them down, they were the third lowest score in the division behind Wolves and Burnley, obviously both of whom got relegated, so Gold scoring has been a problem certainly for last season, we mentioned it was a drop, but you've got to take into account that Europa conference league win added 16 matches to their schedule, 16 midweek matches to their schedule because they had to qualify for it, I think they started in the qualifying range as well, so yeah, it was a bit messy obviously, it was a drop of four places and eight points year on year and it was the saga with the off field stuff I guess wasn't it, you know, Everich is a went
last summer, I guess as we mentioned, they are an excellent buying and selling club, they probably were anticipating his exit, but I guess it was the January stuff that might have kind of hurt them a little bit more, Glasner, well Mark Gay, he was kind of linked with Newcastle and Liverpool all summer state puts, he eventually went to Man City in the January and that kind of leg Glasner took an announcement that he didn't feel he was being backed a little bit and he said I'm going to go at the end of the season and I guess the potential was there that there were lots of rumours that he might have gone earlier and he did stick out until the end of the campaign, there was the John Fletmateda situation where a move to AC Milan seemed to be done but he failed a medical and that move fell through, he comes back, he's booed by the player palace fans but then becomes the hero by scoring the winning gold against Royal Valicano in the Europa conference league final so yeah a lot of off-field stuff last season which I guess kind of could have potentially got on top of them in the second half of the campaign, the league finish was what it was, it was lowest, I think they've had in certainly many many years, they're not really a side that's ever been sucked into a relegation
battle since getting promoted back in 2013, honestly, 2014, whatever it was now, they're traditionally a side that does do well, but that Europa conference league, the FA Cup win, the Community Shield victory, any of us would accept a drop off in a league performance if it may only got to taste those highs and see our club win silverware. Let's focus on the here and the now and then, it's been a good week in terms of two wins, at least one in the Premier League, one in the league cup, should we deal with Borough first step because the question that the chat will be asking how many changes, there are some familiar names but a bit of rotation there wasn't there? Yeah, eight changes, I think it was D'Zazzy, Quinter and Pino, I think were the three players that kept their place from the full-emgame. They won three-neil, which I think did flatter Palace a bit. Borough were pretty good by all accounts for the first half and hour, first half, I think a lot of the comments amongst the Palace fans online, on the forums where they kind of looked like a side that was still waiting to fully click, still waiting to gel, a phrase that we all love as town fans, obviously. So the three-neil certainly did flatter them a little bit. I guess if you want to look at a better reflection of how
the seasons gone, it's the full-emgame, I guess, at the weekend because it was a crazy game. It finished three-two to Palace. It was that Craven cottage, but it finished three-two to Palace, showed a bit of character to come back. They went one-neil down, gold disallowed for an offside, after the decision. Sorry, it was Commodore East Gordon, it wasn't there, it was this loud gold, lovely, not too dissimilar to the second, well the ball in behind us with the second of the ball, the finish was part of that, skip that. Well, he dinks the keeper for the third on Tuesday night, Commander, it looks like a classy player there, so he's good, but yeah, that one was like, that's a kneecap, isn't it, that he was offside from? Yeah, very, very close. He was a lovely outside of the boot, cross from Jeremy Pinto, or Jeremy Pino as well, one of the number 10. So unlucky there, but they do equalize eventually, but some of the goals and some of the kind of there is pinball, there is failed clearances, there is deflections, there's a lot of luck involved in a couple of their goals, as well as a big safety in Henderson as well, right, I think just before half time, Eddie and Ketia got their Eddie and Ketia, sorry, set out the goal for the equalizer,
stamped it through to Tyrick Mitchell, the left wingback he referenced earlier. The kind of goal that we always can see that, you know, it looks so like, out of nowhere, they're just cutting near post as well, it's like a proper hipstown goal to see that one, but nice, it goes high, it's neat, it goes higher than near post, so yeah, puts it past the thing is, but then I'm in the full of net, two one to full of four half time, so the first goal for full of came in behind palaces, left back space in there, gets the byline, pulls it across, deflected in from the edge there, from Josh King, the second goal comes down the palace right, so I think it's Chris Richards is dragged out a little bit and full of them go ahead just before half time, two one, and then there's this comedy equalizer from Tyrick Mitchell with his second goal on half time, sorry, I just have to half time, the shot deflects twice, keeper saves, full of defender clears it straight into Mitchell, who is almost falling over as he puts it into the net as well, so that's two two. I really rolls over the line. Yeah, I don't know how the play, I still can't look at other players and get it off the line either, so yeah, that's two two, and then left wingback Tyrick
Mitchell is replaced by left wingback Ben Chilwell, who again, more crap defending from full of he fires home after another poor attempted clearance just falls straight to him, so yeah, I think they got off the mark three two, it seemed to be a ridiculously open game, I'll give you the numbers now, but certainly a lot of luck involved in two, probably maybe even all of their goals, 36% possession, weren't bothered about having the ball, 1.96xg to 3.14 for full and full and creating the much better chances obviously, 10 shots, 5 on target, six big chances created however, 25 shots from full and so they can see the 25 shots in this game, only six on target from full and only two big chances, so I think they were fortunate to get their first one of the season, I think the three nil score line last night, or choosing I'm sorry against Barra in the lead cup, maybe flattened them a little bit as well. New men in the dugout, you mentioned Oliver Glastonis moved on, he's a ripped up forest, and the question again, they'll let me pose to you, is there's anything change from a tactical perspective, has he got a new philosophy that he's trying to
instill something different, PA Sages in the dugout? Very similar, he's 47 years old, he's coming from lawn where he had an excellent season last year in league, so he won the manager of the season in France, he secured a lawn there, Champions League football for any time, the fourth time in their history, did an incredible job, and he won the coup de France, I don't know if that's the lead cup or the FA Cup equivalent, but won that for them as well, and I guess it helps that palace knew that Glastonis was going in January because they're an awful lot of time to prepare things, he's a manager who tactically in terms of a formation does play the same style as Oliver Glastonis, a three at the back system, so from that point of view, you've not got a Ruben Amarim going into Man United where they've got to rip everything up and start again, there is continuity there, he was the interim manager of Leon from November 23 until June 24, signed a three year contract, but was sacked, and as I said, did an excellent job at lawn last season, playing career was only amateur level, so I didn't really do much in terms of amateur, in terms of his playing career, I just wonder if it's a bit of a difficult situation in some aspects for him to come into with
the player sales, they've got an issue with their altruism, their homestead fanatics, they are currently boycotting games because they believe the club isn't paying the due respect to the kind of proper football fans, they've done a statement saying that they believe that palace would like people to come to the game just to be entertained, whereas they want to see fans in the stand who are concerned by the result, want to help drive the team on and stuff, so the T-Fozen stuff that a few people would have saw 18 months ago in that March game might not be present, so he's got that going on, he's got the Ishmael Assas situation we'll discuss in a minute, we've already mentioned the John Filippe Matetta situation, we've mentioned the recruitment, he's got a lot on his plate, but certainly he's CV looks very good on I guess, being a relative continuity appointment for a tactical point of view, it should be pretty straightforward him to get his ideas across and then look to push them on. I don't know, I've been trying to remember in Gary O'Neill or join Strasbourg, but there's a one-all draw between Long and Strasbourg in late February, so one-all draw, so would you take a one-all draw on Saturday said? I'll come back to that later,
hold that thought, let's deal with a bit of both, let's deal with the history, do you want to do a bit of both start with, I always get the order wrong, so let's deal with that now, I'm going to hide the table. Yeah, let's make your squirm for the next four to five minutes or so, do you want to go for your hole in one, so see if you're new to the feature, I will give Rich five questions, getting progressively easier that will answer a player who's turned out for both town and palace, what's your hole in naught? Hole in naught, Lewis Price, wrong error, right, if you don't get this, I mean I can't really make this any easier for you, maybe let's be honest, so let's see how you go, signed by town for Β£100,000 in January 2006. Alan Lee. Wait, I thought yeah, I didn't, yeah, I've started to make a spreadsheet, because first of all I thought I might have given you Alan Lee in the past before and there was like Connor Wickham on there, but I thought he'll get that instantly because the clues are so straightforward, yeah, yeah, go he was Darren Ambrose, was my friend was David Wright, he was one, yeah, Pablo was on there, but yeah, I thought Alan Lee might be a, yeah, I thought you might get to two or three, but, so ready for this Neil says Kuchy, oh, he's real, oh Neil, he says Kuchy, wrong lady, oh drink it in, drink it in, for once,
smug face over here, Chris though, he got it right, Alan Lee, congratulations, and Lee says Alan Lee, cracking, siding, he absolutely was, isn't he, although not for palace, he was for us, not for palace, yeah, tainted his copybook by having a loan spun up the road didn't he, but yeah, and in terms of history, sir, it's a rare instance of positivity for us, isn't it? It is, yeah, and it's decided we've played a fair bit, which isn't normal compared to most primarily kind of size when we do this feature, 32 wins a town, 24 draws between the two and 29 palace wins last time we went there, March 2025, a one-nil defeat, Ishmael Assar with a goal with about 10 minutes or so to go, a thoughtful time and, yeah, it wasn't it, we like, we were properly in that game, yeah, and it was like one moment, wasn't it? Yeah, there was so many games that season where we did okay, we lacked the quality, I mean, but I remember the keeper, Henderson made a few good saves, I think, one from Delap and maybe one from Phyllagene, I want to say, but yeah, we were in the game for so long and then eventually just that moment of quality, the bigger boys kind of held us at arms length of most of the game before landing a punch on us, so very, very frustrating. The last
town winner, Celeste Park, 2-1 August 2010, underroking two games into that season, I think it was Grant Leibbitt and Carlos Edwards with the goals, and then, but involved in a couple of four goal kind of victories there as well, there's four one in January 2009, Owen Garvin, David Norris, Kevin Lisby and an own goal from Clint Hill and the one that everybody remembers, I think it was referenced in the start of the show and everyone's mentioning Shepkikuchi in the chat there, four, three in October 2003, that crazy run where we didn't win for the first four or five games of the season, then one seven or eight on the bounce, two nil down, three two up, Naleigh gets a couple, Palace equalized in the 88th minute, I think 20 Miller plays a crappy back pass, and then it's Tommy Miller who plays the ball over the top for Shepkikuchi running onto it in the 89th minute to chip the keeper and everybody there goes absolutely mad. Yeah, yeah, nice. Should we do with transfer business then in the summer, so we said, ins and outs, do you want to take this room? Yeah, so a few arrive also, they've had some premierly experienced, they've done their usual where they'll kind of recruit relative unknowns from European markets with a view to kind of
bigging them up and moving them on. Dwight McNeil came in with a straight swap obviously, that move fell through in January very later on in the window. I think Dwight McNeil's part was close to the post on socials. Yeah, about how it all fell, criticizing Steve Parish and stuff, so they've all made up obviously. That's a swap deal with your mate Brennan Johnson, he's gone up to Mersey's side, never really did much of Palace having left Spurs in the January window. Quintetimba, brother of Jury and Timba, the Arsenal player has joined for 17 million quid from Marseille, he obviously the manager will know the French market very well you would think, he's a central midfield player. So every gozo, 11 million quid from Salt Lake in the MLS and then Kalligley, 22 million quid right back from Union SG and then they've added the Premier League experience of Ben Chilwell, who will be Gary O'Neill, will know from Strasbourg, he was there on loan and the second half of the season, the game we just mentioned as well, so we are familiar to the Palace fans and the Palace set up. Axel Desazi, your mate has gone on loan from Chelsea for the season and Tommy Asu, the full back from Arsenal has got a one year deal they're having impressed in a trial on pre-season
and we mentioned the outs earlier obviously, Maxine Laquois is the big one, 51 million quid, to Chelsea, Brennan Johnson, I've mentioned has gone up to Mersey's side, Daniel Munoz, the right back excellent kind of wingback did really well for a couple of seasons, he's been sold for 20 million pounds to nothing and forrest but they'd already bought in Kalligley, I'm going to pronounce that different every time I say it by the way, Kalligley on the right wing to replace him already, so a bit of squad planning that, I'd imagine they knew that they were going to get rid of Munoz, they bought the, and I'm going to call him in earlier to pre-ember departure. So they've kept some big names, someone mentioned the chat, they have a good number of players at the World Cup, those England stars, you thought have been interested in Hen Missing and Wharton but they're still there aren't they? But there are situations on, we dealt with Mattetta, haven't we? SARS injured his knee for this one but he was linked with the departure, do you mention that? Yeah, so when Liverpool were sniffing around at the end of the window, desperate to get a right winger in, apparently they bid 40 million quid for Ismail Asar and because,
well, first of all, Pallis valued him higher than that, they went straight back and said, nope, we want 50 to 64 him, but more importantly, it was right at the end of the deadline, so it would have been very difficult for Pallis to get somebody in time, they had that deadline day drama with Malik Fafana who ended up at Sunderland in the end but it was it was amming and arring throughout the day where he was going to go, so I guess he would have been the option and then PSR has just come out and said that Ismail Asar needs a bit of time to get his head round the fact that, you know, if you're a young player, you've done well at Pallis for a couple years and a club the statue of Liverpool comes in for you, it's only natural, you're going to have your head turned and he's kind of, he needs a bit of time to adjust I think was the term that SARS used. He's come out today and said he'll be back in training on Monday, so that's helpful, it doesn't like neither Philip, John Philip, Matetta or Ismail Asar will be featuring at the weekend, which is good because they are big important players for them, but yeah, the big kind of takeaway is these top players who do unfortunately for Pallis get pinched every year, but it's their model and to be fair, they do normally ride it out and adjust pretty well. Yeah, I mean, the seller of the court basically
bankrolled all of their business, didn't it, and the sum of that's how it works now, isn't it? You got to be still now. Should we do a tactical pad, how they how SARS sets them up? Yeah, probably on the screen. So like I say, it's a continuity appointment from a formation point of view, it's still a three at the back system, which is exactly what Glasner played when he was in charge and it's what Glasner has taken with him to Forrest. We've mentioned the two full backs already, Mitchell, obviously got the two goals from the wide left position last weekend. Adam Watten, we'll talk about him in more detail, but it's a player that I really like. I'm surprised he's still there, to be honest, given the kind of names that have moved in the central midfield positions in the Premier League this summer, so I'm surprised that Timber came straight in alongside him away at full. And two narrow tens, so a bit like what McKenna played when he first came in with the likes of Selena and Chaplin behind a central striker. And then the central striker is really interesting because John Philip Matetta, Strand Louson, who we'll mention, they are a very different kind of profile to Eddie and Ketia. They are strong physical players who will hold the ball up and look to get the runners in and around them. And Ketia will look to kind of stretch the game more and that's actually how the first goal came about. He kind of pros the ball through to Mitchell who
rides on and gets his shot off. Move it forward to the average player positions. And you will see a very definitive box in the center of midfield around that center circle. You've got the two narrow tens and those two central midfielders that are sat there patrolling almost in a perfect box to kind of repel the the threat by Fulham and then look to break quickly and play the ball through. They love through balls. They are outside that is second-high in the league for through balls. They will look to try and break the lines. Jeremy Pino, the number 10 is top of the league for players with four through balls so far this season. So watch out for that. You'll see Tariq Mitchell, double goal scorer, average player positions just over the halfway line. Kaleely, I've pronounced it for a third time. Completely different. I'm sure slightly behind the other side on the right. But what's interesting is when I then move it forward again to where they touch the ball post, you'll see both fullbacks when they're in possession are way further back on the pitch. So we mentioned they're not a side that is that bothered about possession having the ball. They're happy for the opposition to take it. Kaleely, when they pick up the ball in those deeper positions, they then look
to break forward and carry the ball into the offensive areas. And I guess the other crucial thing is that the midfield four is kind of the same, but Adam Warton does drop deep to get on the ball. And one thing to look out for is those Connor Chaplin-esque left footed quick balls into the right hand channel. He loves doing that for the fullbacks to run on to. In terms of how they play, fifth lowest for pressing, that's interesting because at long they were something like second or third for pressing in the division. PSR likes to play a high pressing. Glasner did as well to be fair, I think. So I think that's just a case of the tactics not quite landing yet. They are, however, they're not great for pressing, but they are, however, second highest for high turnovers one and fourth highest for turnovers one leading to a shot. So although they're not pressing probably as much as SARS would like at the moment, when they've done it, they are pretty effective at having results from the from the press. They like to attack down the right. I mentioned those balls from Warton with his left foot into the right hand channel. 37% of attacks down that flank is the third highest in the league. It's not longbowl. They will look to get the ball quickly from front to back, but it's not longbowl.
It's kind of past, past, past, and move up the pitch quickly. It's not a side that launches it from front to back or anything. They are running very hard for their new manager, which is surprising because they're not pressing that much. Third highest for distance covered per match with 118 kilometers behind. I think only I think it's born with an arsenal. So excellent pressing. Sorry, excellent running stats so far this season. And I mentioned it earlier. It's the clinicalness up front. The clinicality if that's a word from those forward players. They are missing chances. They are joint highest for big chances. Mist. They've missed 10 big chances so far this season. That's clearly a problem for them. As I mentioned, they do not care about having the ball. 40% possession is the third lowest in the league. 83% passing accuracy is the is ninth. So I'm going to table for that once only 16 touches in the opposition box is the fourth fewest in the division. So again, issues around the attack. It tells the attacking as well. 10 shots taken per game is the fourth fewest five on target, fifth fewest. So they've got real issues at the top end of the park, not held by the injuries for the likes of a similar star and John Philip Matetta. And then really interestingly,
for a side that is known for the last couple years being pretty defensively resolute and pretty defensively sound. They've conceded 20 shots per game this season. Only new castle are ahead of them in the divisions. That's second highest in the division. I mentioned it was 25 shots conceded against full on which is which is crazy. Twenty so I've tacked 27 tackles per game is the highest in the divisions and 11 interception per games is also the highest. They do have a habit of shooting themselves in the foot. Third highest for errors leading to shots and they are the highest for errors leading to goals so far this season. They might give us a bit of a helping hand. A surprise down narrow that frontline was when we looked at the tactical pad said by the way, well we do expect the y-plays to bomb on. But those graphics were quite stark how they weren't getting too far forwards. So that'd be interesting. And I'm trying to just someone mentioned it in the chat. Is it leaving the threat comes from the flanks? Yeah. We're not good with fruble. Yeah, I'm a bit worried about that. So that's a good call out something that we need to be careful about in Ketia running in behind Diop and Greaves if
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stats on them, but they're only going to low key players that have impressed for you. Yeah, well, let me give you the stats for Adam Warton first. I think he's their best player. He should have gone to the World Cup in my opinion. I am surprised. He's still there when you look at the likes of Man United signing three centroid fielders, city signing centroid fielders as well. 57 touches per game. So he's not Bruno Fernandez, Dominic Slobazai levels of involvement, but four ball recoveries per game, 2.3 tackles per game and has 164% of his ground jewels and 100% of his aerial jewels. So yeah, he'll pick up the ball, look to dictate play and really kind of dictate the game from the middle of the pitch. The back three, it's landed the giants. I remember watching the it was a midweek game when they came to Portman Road in December. I think it was in the relegation season and just seeing the players walk out next to Razzos thinking, God, these are very, very big defenders. Axel Desarzi, you're made, he's kind of been put into the middle of the back three and they've moved Chris Riches out to the right. JD Canva, a young French player, he's kind of the more progressive one who carried the ball out of the back three, but the average height is six foot two. I think Desarzi's
six foot three, another two is six foot two. So land of the giants a little bit at the back. Canva is also second for progressive passes in their team as well, which because you're going to send back is impressive. Strike will be interesting because Stran Larsen, the former Wolves player who I'm replayed really well at Portman Road in the Wolves win towards the I think it was April time in the Premier League season last time. He scored twice against Barra in the week and I would suggest he is probably a better tactical fit because he's more of a matetta kind of player in regards to hold up play. Whereas in Keti as we mentioned, he's smaller and like. They got a really good Aradin, he's got a bit in the league. They haven't really looked to put crosses in. It's bizarre because the first five tanks, but it's more the kind of players coming in and getting involved. Yeah, they're crossing accuracy certainly is very poor. So I think Stran Larsen might well get the nod and start this one. And Keti hasn't scored yet this season. He got one assist. He stabbed the ball through. He's got a stab at him on the opening day before. Yeah, he should have done. Yeah, you're right. He's never really done as he kind of came through a Arsenal. Good pedigree. Got the number 14 shutter Arsenal. I think we might be linked with him at one point. Okay. Maybe when we
was much younger, 18 year old and Arsenal, Arsenal, maybe. We mentioned Tyrick Mitchell, Ben Benchill is the other threat there. Four goals from the left wingback position in the last two games for those two players. And then Dean Henderson obviously, there's a goalkeeper, very experienced, digging in international, came from and united. Not only best of season, he's four highs for saves per 90 with four, which is decent, but minus 1.45 in the goals prevented stats. They've got some absences. Charlie Riyad sent him back is out ACL. I think he's out certainly to the new year. We've mentioned already John Philip Matetta has a growing problem and Ismail Assar is having to adjust. I think he's got an injury there to be fair, but he's having to adjust to his transfer move falling down so they won't be featuring either, which is good because they are big, big players for them. Yes, indeed. Well, can he say more on palace before we move on? I think so. No, that's a good idea. That's your lot, folks. Feel free to nick that and use it as your own research if you wish. In terms of what's going on on the podcast mentioned as always, there were a pie to shoot with that was a one-stop badges. It shows this week midweek blues with Craig and Mikey still available.
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quiz. It was we said quite a lot on our shows. There's a few people in the chat talking about a back three, but we know that until very recently, at least that hasn't been trained. So do you see much fundamental change or do you see a few tweaks? I guess for me, there's three areas that are up for discussion aren't there. I guess you've got this this back four slash three configuration with a shout out at right back, which has kind of probably been the one of the biggest talking points for fans for the last week or so. I think left wing, there might be a conversation for Dyson Maida or for Jack Clarke, if it looked bright. I guess when he came on, so in a game, you you want to win. Do you perhaps want his threat or is he suited to coming off the game out of the bench, sorry, after Maida has kind of pressed relentlessly and run them a little bit into the ground. And then up front, I'm just thinking I've got a feeling Zion Fleming is going to start this one. Emerson, obviously went off on you know old Trafford was thankfully fit against Liverpool. I thought he did a couple of good things against Liverpool. I liked the way he wasn't you know, wasn't too
respectful and happy to kind of put one on Van Dyke at one point in second half. We're kind of knocked him down and then was a bit of a handful for Jacque, which resulted in the yellow card for the young French defender as well. So I think they're probably the three areas of the pitch which are up for debate. I don't think we'll see any changes to be honest. I think this four, two, three, one that we've seen Gary O'Neill play in this kind of more adventurous kind of style, the way we took the game to United in the in the first half of old Trafford after we kind of settled from the first 10 minutes or so. The way we attacked against Sunderland, I think that's the right approach for this kind of game. If we're going to city away, obviously it's not the case, but in a game where we're looking to pick up some points, I think that's the correct approach to do. So I think O'Shea will stay at right back for this game certainly. I guess the only thing you could do is just grieve drop out O'Shea goes to centre-off alongside D-Op and then Watar or O'Furlung or the natural choices to come in at right back, but we've only seen Furlung in the in the lead cup and a few minutes old Trafford. Watar has not played anything at all at right back so far. We've seen him at left back and in centre-off. It's coming out of the bench. Second half against Liverpool, isn't he? Yeah, it looked right. It looks a little bit pace
about him, I think it's all just quite nice to call out that as well. So I think it will still be O'Shea. I think it will still be D-Op and Greaves and Leaf Davis at the back. I think Sherpen will keep his place, but I really hope he has a big game on Saturday. centre-off in field will be Luke Hitch and Palacios. And then I think that as I said, I think Fleming will come in up top given given the size of Palaces back three and the fact that MSM is new to the league. I just think of player who loves the physical battle is kind of more premier league proven and tried and tested. I think it's my big game for him coming up top. I'd want Fatterwood down the right. I'd keep my Aida because I think as we mentioned their fullbacks do like to get forward so that might either leave space and then you've got Maida's pace and is relentless pressing which could obviously exploit opportunity for us down there. I mentioned full him going behind a couple of times in the wide positions behind the the palace fullback. So Maida and Fatterwood can do that and then you can bring on the likes of Jack Clarke to really kind of test them in the second half. And I'll see Julio and C. So, X Brighton will be up for it in the number 10 position. So yeah, I think I've got
the same 11 then just with Fleming up from Femisin. What do you think around those three conversation points? So the the back defensive configuration, left wing and the central striker? I don't think the back line changes. I agree with you. I think it's a lot of chat about O'Shea. I think maybe he would prefer to be sent to back but I think the more he plays there and the more he gains that understanding from Fatterwood, I'm just really important that they support one another don't they? And I think that just comes through familiarity and game time. So I think I think you stick with it if I'm honest and Sherpen of course I don't think there's any doubt you keep him in there. You need to learn doesn't he's a young star. He's a you know he's bright prospect and we've just got to learn our lessons from Murich just jettison Murich at the first opportunity. Just psychologically you just got to get behind them and but we got to create more seven and I think your sentiment pairing is fine. Thought Luke it was good plus. He says good there was a bit of
debate wasn't he or she's not going to be a good pair together. I guess one thought is whether there's a midfield three option there any speculation on that from you? Yeah I've seen that debate online. So I see Louis Florentine and Louis is the one who would come in and be the natural deeper line. Well I guess Luke and Placios both want to kind of move the ball and carry the ball forward and there's not a natural sitter I guess that's probably the debate but then if you're going to do that who are you taking out from those attacking options you're either going to have to drop in C so which won't happen because he's our best player and our most you know creative spark and probably one of our goal for it's or you've got to play him out of position wide left or wide right so I just can't see it happening because of the not from the start of a game if we're defending a lead then absolutely potentially we may see it but from a start I don't think you can sacrifice one of the attacking players for that for that configuration that said we might well see it at the likes of City away and field away etc but a game going to palace where you've identified a chance to to get a positive result I'd want us to certainly have in C so in the 10 and the two wide players which means there's simply no room to have that three-mancer from it filled from the
off I think made a stays in the team too I thought Clark was really good I thought Liverpool was definitely too much for Maida he just wasn't involved and I don't know whether that was a tactical or a systemic thing said obviously it's a tricky opponent anyway but you just didn't seem to be in the game but I think where palace I think there's much more opportunity I quite quite like the idea of galloping at their backline so I think Maida stays put there and I'm interested in your Fleming suggestion I still think Emerson's the main man I think Emerson starts only on just an inkling and the fact he was at the ITFC women game in the home and last week as well so he's in my good books for that so shout out Emerson for support the Wednesday yeah well let's know what you think in the chat there's there is a lot of debate about Osha I mean getting into the end of the opposite he can play there it's not it's not a case if he can't play
the position yeah it's not it's not his fault he's the one doing the job there I think he's our best defender I still do you know I think since that rexam away game where he was awful he became absolutely top draw for the remainder of the second of the second third the last third sorry of last season and it's not his fault he's the one being played out of position you know we don't have unlimited pot of money therefore if we'd wanted to we might well have upgraded the right back position and then look to do something else in the middle but I just think that O'Neal clearly likes the right foot left foot balance you know Jake agrees with Simon as well for a lot of money to you know with the high potential and that that left foot of his allows you to release someone like leaf Davis or dies in Maida very very quickly so yeah I think it's probably unless you're going to change it to a back three and obviously the other pull for tar we further back or play Watarah in the right wing back roll he's going to stay out on that right kind of position it's it's been shown up at times in the last couple of games but let's not forget who he's been up against you know it's man United away it's Liverpool at home they are very very difficult games and I personally don't
believe if for long I've been playing there if we're tar I've been playing there the result would have been much different to be honest that sometimes the level opposition is just simply far too good for you and it doesn't really matter who's playing in a certain position they have the skill set to well in certain cases we sort of absolutely bomb passed you and that's not necessarily his fault given he's playing out position but he kind of plays our captain he's our best defender as I've already said and it's just the way that only I want to fit him in the moment it'll be interesting what's interesting sorry which what will be interesting is after the international break we've got a three week international break haven't we yeah but then we don't have breaks yeah but we used to have a two week one in September and a two week one in October so it's kind of better it's kind of better overall but the one for you room 101 yeah but it would be interesting to see then because the leaf Davis set after the man United game we've barely practiced a back three back five or whatever you want to call it maybe with I guess the vast majority of the defensive unit will still be around I'll shame self we with the public of Ireland but I guess the vast majority will still be around that might be a chance for Gary Neil to practice a few things with an eye on the likes of Man City on the horizon to come stuff yeah there's the pool of the chat I share right back kind of
implant I could it yeah it's it's a difficult one we'll see how we go but I don't see it I don't see it changing and neither do you so yeah top one there's not a lot of confidence there from everyone else I mean God mentions to say we're not initially comfortable on the right side but set a wonderful thing and if we get what we go out of to and say you from most show that'd be great wouldn't it Neil it talks about Matt to see was a few people chatting about philogen as well we haven't really got much of an insight on their situations yet do we I guess the Arsenal I guess the I'm not see we feel well beyond the start of the first level at least at the moment I think yeah I guess the Arsenal game will give us a clue they might be involved in the bench they might let he get some minutes in the second half of the cup game next midweek I love Matt I see where but I just worry I think the Craig reference it on the midweek blue show I do just worry about his physicality in terms of you know he's his his his size as well and his pace and stuff so we'll well have to wait and see yeah he's the natural sitter who we saw so good so so good at times last season but it's very different in the Premier League with the physicality and power
of the central midfielders so it'll be interesting to see if him it sounded like he was closer than Taylor in the last pre-match press before the Liverpool game so it'll be interesting to see if one or both more maybe Jaden philogen as well make the bench against Arsenal in midweek and maybe look to get some minutes Neil mentioning plus you're having another full week got better as the game on last time around you can see his class he does a couple of easy passes when a straight in they that was quite frustrating where he was one and second off we took the ball through the middle of the field didn't he need to lay off to Fittower and got the pass rule but yeah that familiarity that understanding again there's you know it's new new surroundings new teammates languages etc but Neil's right he looks class doesn't he he does he's got that Sam Morsey spin as well down to a fine heart as he where he can kind of protect the ball spin his man and then look suddenly break up the pitch so yeah I thought I thought it was difficult day before my old traffic because the way the game was when he came on it was hard to tell what kind of player he was but yeah I thought he we I thought him and Luke itch were decent against Liverpool and we lost the game but I thought
they were both decent in that central midfield position I'll be really interesting to see what they can keep on doing and that they've had it a third of a week to build up this time together on the training field in its collins with us made it welcome good he says to a good player not too in his opinion and I agree with that not least because I need a favor from him in FBL colinber said that pressing and that intensity he does offer more than Jack Clark in that respect doesn't he? Yeah Jack Clark works hard fillaging works hard off the ball there were times last year with McKenna reference both there off the ball stuff as being very very good but my aid is a different level in terms of me and that explosive pace as well so I just wonder with my aid if he does stuff that I can't see because I'm not trained to a football kind of level is he doing stuff off the ball which is nullifying threats and stuff which is perhaps going a little bit unnoticed and therefore he's not getting the credit for it hasn't quite hit the ground running it's got himself in some good positions yes on two or three occasions and you do feel like a goal is coming maybe it will be on Saturday with hopefully that space in behind the right full back for palace yep a lot of love for
Luke itch as well Florentine to get minutes says Neil you'd be surprised if he doesn't get minutes on Tuesday yeah yeah I think you'll probably start on Tuesday but he'll be a bench option at best for Saturday and depending how the game is going if we're defending a lead don't be surprised to see him maybe thrown on for the last kind of 10 15 minutes to what's he the tent is it the octopus he's nicknamed because of his tentacle legs and the way you can yeah I'm sure I've read that somewhere the way you can yeah he uses his legs to make excellent excellent tackles yep I'll stop talking now that's fine google it folks the octopus you heard it first maybe we will finish with your predictions so do start getting no more in the chat we will get Seb's view on how the game is going to pan out and any mentions of regional supporter groups meeting up to watch the game either locally or abroad let us know in the chat we'll read as much stuff as we can but let me take you back in time Seb my new feet oh I've got to do bloody FPL don't I Seb won last week yes you do and you know why you won service because I sold
in Boimo for jerky what a stupid numpty I am have you made any changes this week you are nine points out of me on you so no I've made I've made that no changes no I've not even changed the substitute it's exactly the same so my I actually have to continue our deop and and see so what's the the guys on the weekend preview we'll talk about the bigger premier program this weekend Chelsea V hull has the feeling of like it could be a really pivotal moment where hulls really excellence start kind of completely unravels or if they get resolved like suddenly you see the crap yeah yeah but they're actually conceded is the highest in the divisions but last season they're actually had them getting relegated and they end up getting promoted the Premier League so yeah I think Chelsea I mean did you see that they were playing lead in the cup in midweek Chelsea six three there yeah put on all their incredible players and the likes of Palmer and Roderick Rogers got four assists and Palmer got a couple of goals and stuff so yeah I think this might well be the weekend where hulls excellent start of the season does perhaps start to stutter a little bit well I had
emotional reaction to jerkeys disappointment last week so I've replaced him I've used to be taking him out already I sold him for Morgan Rogers brilliant yeah I thought you you got a bit I've I've got Morgan Rogers so you won't gain anything yeah but I've got enough other players Liverpool got full them at home I've got a few Liverpool players who got votes and Suboslay were crap last week so I'm going to give them another week I've got I've got Emerson I've got Maida and Davis I have dropped Maida though and I'm now regretting that choice having now spoken about him I don't know can I change it after now no lock I've got a lock it in for you no locked him I have backed Emerson knowing that's why I want him to start I just feel like you'll get on the end of something but I'm now regretting Maida so I'm we'll see leaf Davis come on help me out mate town time machine yeah like so last time around kind of Tronna remember what the game was last time it was that Italian Reggie I love yeah yeah that I'm going to dry a pillow making his debut for a different game that was but yeah rushy but yeah so I'm going to take you
before we get on to it Seb there are there's a couple of I'm tried to find a game from this day which is the 10th of September as we record is into usually an international break weekend it's a grotty time in Ipsis town history at least modern history too there's a lot of there's actually a nil nil against crystal palace in 1996 I was going to talk to you about that but couldn't find anything relevant to talk about the 11th there are a couple of five gold shipped defeats against Bolton hit five against just remember that Christian Watton's debut was it five two oh five two yeah when yeah it came Vincent Young got subrued early on didn't he yeah remember that and well they can cook say that won't happen when Sam Maul's is in the team indeed yeah reading beats by five or five one on that day too but yeah not much to write home about so I had to go and find a win so let me take you to on this day on Saturday trying to find positivity and I'm two minutes out on my estimate I'm bloody hosting and I can make this work I at 852 I guess but
I'm going to take you back to 830 on September the 12th and the year is wrong the year is actually 2006 Ipsis town to Coventry City one can I get from you anything that you can maybe able to recall there from that was that early in the Jim Magilton era isn't it did Billy Clark playing score the Billy Clark burst onto the seam congratulations yeah he's he scored a goal that squirmed under who was in goal for Coventry Seb or yours do former a day for Marshall and he was in goal for Norris that day yeah who scored Ipsis town's first goal I will guess Nikki Forster a Loney Simon Walton and not that one Mark Noble Park Noble scored the opening goal for Ipsis town that night if you if you're young enough to not remember that Mark Noble once played for Ipsis town he scored against Coventry that night there's nothing particularly exciting about
Coventry's goal score I'm just looking through the teams fancy him to give me some names I mean it's from Coventry in 2007 no no no no okay good you want to say so that's either it's gonna be either supple or pricing goals yeah um the Barbarian Jason DeVos which isn't a la they're all still there on the Dan Harding so I got some of my vigilton Owen Garvin in midfield Simon Walton I know well we just mentioned yeah classy ex-Fullham midfielder and was playing oh um oh uh still one leg Winsky and we mentioned this guy up from a bit of a long long side John Macon Seb oh wow okay yeah two one that was um I was there that night I'm looking through that there is um stern John up from for for Coventry that's about exciting we support him that night good question yeah great question let's move on Billy Clark announced himself that night so yeah it was just two Coventry one from 12th of September 2006 so there you go a bit of town time machine to distract you whilst you
get your predictions in and here they come sir by well do you want to give me a score prediction or do you want to give me a I believe the match will pan out like this prediction I think there'll be goals as I mentioned both sides of conceited eight so far this season which is the joint heist in the league I'm gonna go for a Desmond I'm gonna go for a two-wheel draw um I'm not sure how the game's gonna pan out I mean they've scored six goals in their last two games but I think it's fair to say as we mentioned earlier that on both occasions a lot of those goals are they kind of flattered them all were the result of really poor defending and I can't see us clip it up I can't see us defending anywhere near as badly as full and did last weekend so I think two two a point on the road it will maintain the points per game kind of number that we're kind of trudding along at we've ever tend to come a week later I think I know there are a lot of change and they've lost a lot of star players but it's still a side kind of riddled with Premier League quality it's a very big defense in players like Tyrick Mitchell Ben Chilwell Chris Richards Adam Warton we've mentioned Eddie
Enquetier you've got you know some some some some proper Premier League kind of players there so yeah two-wheel draw and I think if you'd probably offered me a point now I'd probably accept it as a as a decent a decent result away from home so yeah it'll be interesting because it's a game which is gonna show us they're not what they were I don't think two years ago with regards to the players that are missing and obviously we're more advanced than we were two years ago so it'll be an interesting test this one I think something on the opening day you know the opening game of the season the partner was looking excellent everyone was really excited really up for it then you kind of get a bit bruised with the two juggernauts of man United and Liverpool this will be a really interesting game and I think it'll give us a really indication of where we are this season because there were so many of these games two years ago where like like the palace game in the March where we were okay like the quality couldn't get anything from the game I think if we want to stay out this year these the it's the middleing bunch of sides that we've got to start taking points off that we never did two years ago you can lose to your cities your arsonals your Chelsea doesn't really matter it's the Brighton's the Bournemouth the Brentford's the Leeds the Forests the Palaces
where you need to try and start picking up some points so yeah I think two two draw and then yeah it's a solid point away from home thanks sorry I said the longest ever answer to a school prediction show me your work in that in you which is great I'm just looking at the clock thinking two balls good and Terry agrees you the chat actually agrees you quite a lot said Colin two all but hopefully it's a two one he's saying to town see he's going for a two-neil town statement win but yeah Norman concurring with the two all so it feels like a lot of people kind of making yeah similar thoughts to you and they one all need to make I need a good performance to show we're making progress I think that's part of it after the last two so because those games you know it's the second half of united the first half against Liverpool just got to get out of our system no it was just yeah psychologically it needs to demonstrate you you're competitive aren't you and it is a team the palace that we we can possibly do that couldn't it yeah I think so I like I say it's that middleing bunch of teams we need to take some points off they're in transition
and yeah we go there in not in full confidence but there are still either even from that Liverpool game they're positive to take you know you two neil down after eight minutes if you decide then to meet you know if in this game two neil I probably would have said yes because the worry is it really gets away from me it becomes a five or a six or something you know so even in that game there are positives to take second half I know we didn't really test them but you know we've played a lot better in the second half as well so yeah I've seen encouraging signs in all three games and I think we can use that as a positivity going into this one 80's going for a two one he's going in C-Side he's picking up on your ex-Brighton narrative but he's going for two a lost but he hopes he's wrong that's fair enough and Maddie one one if we're lucky two all I think Fleming was score but I feel one all or two all says neil one all for neil will more this is first goal score a Trevor going one all lots of draw step Michael in Australia two ones a town leaf early on loving that grease and go Michael and then Jack Clarke to score another late winner 94th he's going for
a lovely working Phillips going for a two one streaky's going for a two one Nashville tractor boy two all as well hopeful for a three to that would be good value for you guys in Nashville Colin Fleming made a two all hopefully a two one no Lin going for that two one Shane going for a three two Higgie three one so there's confidence out there said I've got two one town fan two one us thank you it will be three on Palestine so it says the universe doesn't care goodness me two one for Rob solitude ill says ITSC dad Sherpen masterclass I feel like that's a point to end it on sebub I am I saying the our outro because I we did lose last week didn't we so yeah we normally flip it what do you want to I haven't done it I don't think since like the rex and defeat in the in the championship so it's it's your call what would you press buttons which might mean that I should do it okay that makes sense yeah I'll say goodbye to everybody see you next week for Everton enjoy palace away go and see rich think quite a lot the blue Monday guys are going actually I think Joe's there I think Craig's there Mikey will be there so
yeah penries there as well I think so if you see them go and say hello to them and yeah like I said a minute ago it's a really good chance to see how good we are how much we've progressed so a really interesting test let's go there in positivity and hopefully leave with a positive result indeed thank you seb as always for your hard work your research your insight as we always say pre-match show is here to give you that insight that you can pretend as your own so you're very welcome to do that don't blame us when someone correct you or fact check to you and don't forget the guys will be live Sunday night APM Ben Dave and Joe talking about the game after the fact so we'll look forward to seeing you there before you go please do give us that thumbs up that five star rating and that's it seb and we'll be back next week when we talk about Everton up in your neck there was right way so yeah the away games coming thick and fast and then stupid long international break so yeah leave nothing more for me to say but come on you blues you
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