Gab & Juls Show: Are Arsenal really the best team in the league?

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I'm Gab, he's dual blue skies over West London.

Not so much for football reasons, more meteorological reasons.

Just what a weekend.

There's so many great goals, so much excitement.

Yandell and they're for life.

The classic are in Germany.

The grand derby.

Luminium else, Patrick.

Monocona is past.

I am overwhelmed.

There's probably something I'm forgetting.

But we're going to start with the Premier League.

We're going to start in North London.

Arsenal beating Chelsea 2-1.

They remain five points clear.

They played an extra game over Manchester City.

And of course the head to head is coming up.

It doesn't matter how you get the game done.

As a neutral, this was not a fun watch.

Especially for neutral likes me who does not like Royal Rumbles at every corner kick.

Yeah, it was a big old school fight.

It's really a massive battle physically, especially between two teams.

They are very, very good physically to start with, both of them.

Who are very good on set pieces as well.

And when there's not much between the two teams,

where the two tactics, the two game plans kind of cancel each other out,

then I guess you can win it on a set piece.

You can win it on small margins.

We've repeated that so much this season.

But that was the case of it.

I like the game plan from Chelsea.

I like what Rossignor tried to do and did.

The fact that they outplayed in terms of passes only and possession.

Arsenal at the Emirates is not an easy thing to do.

And I know in the end of the day, they didn't win.

But I much prefer that than what we saw in the second leg of the League of semi-final.

For example, every single day.

Because I think there's a lot of things that worked really well from Chelsea point of view.

In the end, the character of the Arsenal showed the strength that they showed as well.

And the pressure, because they had to respond to city who won the day before,

I think was really good as well.

You say it's not an easy thing to do.

It's a lot easier when Arsenal basically decide at home that they're going to just rely on being tighter.

They're not maybe watching Martin Odegard unavailable to the weight he's paid of late.

But it seems to me like their game plan was like, right, you have the ball.

We're going to defend. We'll be comfortable.

We'll hit you on the counter.

I think Chelsea made them play like that.

It was never the game plan for Arsenal to lead the boat to Chelsea at the Emirates.

So they were just bad on the ball?

Yeah, yeah.

Why?

Their pass of curiosity is not very good for this game.

Yeah, I think Chelsea had a really good game plan.

I don't know. I see as they shooting from the halfway line when I see like searching balls.

I guess I was so put off by this game because I don't like all the grabbing and stuff on corners.

And this is both teams.

And look, I'm not blaming Rossini Odegard on any way, shape or form.

You do what the referee allows.

But at some point, this is not entertaining.

I would go so far say, it's not really football when you've got, when you have, for example,

Declan Rice on, on Jarrell Hato.

Again, not Rice's fault. The referee allows this stuff.

Yeah.

But you have this guy in a bare hug.

And on top of that, which is even more annoying, they realize it because they go and they check to see if the ball comes.

They check to see if the ball comes off his arm like, oh, no, it couldn't, couldn't be an intentional handball because he was having contact with the Chelsea.

But he's having contact.

He was bare hugging him, which I, unless the laws of the game have changed, should be a foul.

If you choose to call them and they, they're deciding and look, they're being consistent on which is the most important thing.

Yeah.

But it's garbage to watch. It really is garbage.

And the same applies, of course, at the other end.

Again, I'm not saying that Arsenal were being unfair here.

It's just, they have to look at this. The highlights are all set pieces and.

Yeah.

But I mean, you, they're on the timber goal, for example, there's a, I mean, on, on all the corners or the wide free kicks.

If it's just Chelsea one, the Arsenal players, which is grabbing and everything.

And the other way, the same way.

So you give the penalty each time for each team. It's not even, because I think everybody does it.

So you don't give it for anybody because everybody does it.

Right.

Which is you don't give it for everybody.

Yeah.

And by the way, I would say everybody does it in this game.

So you want them to be consistent within the context of the game.

Yeah.

There's other team that we've seen other games this weekend when people weren't defending like that.

And referees weren't letting things slide. So I, I don't know.

I think at some point, this is something you need to look at.

It's not just the argument, oh, Arsenal are good at set pieces because they can see down in set pieces as well.

I don't want to get started in Robert Sanchez.

My one or netto, frankly, but my concern though is.

I think Arsenal need to have another gear, the gear that we saw earlier in the season.

And you're saying Chelsea didn't allow them to play that way.

Fine, they're not playing Chelsea every week.

Lucky for them.

Yeah.

You think they can step it up?

Yeah.

I mean, we praised them against players the week before for the way they play against the team.

I get that.

I bought them.

So a gear against who?

What a gear for in what game?

What context?

I would have, like you said, they won't play Chelsea.

No.

I don't want to get my home was a little draw, the city game I home was a one-one draw.

They were tight, good.

They were tight games.

They was not merged in the Liverpool or the Arsenal city game either.

I think when I look back over the recent results, except for the Brentford game,

I think this was the most disappointing performance.

And it worked.

And what that says about Arsenal and their resilience, I could be pretty important.

All right, Joe.

Let's.

I don't want to keep talking about the set pieces or about the grabbing and fouling.

But it's also the two best teams in what?

Not just in the country, probably amongst even in the big five leagues.

They are the best or not far from the best.

And actually Chelsea haven't scored much less goals on set pieces than Arsenal this season.

So in a way.

OK.

But I'm not saying that some set pieces are bad.

No, no, basically she's strength for both of them.

So it's a bit normal in a way that a game like this with so much a stake.

So this is not like a cup game or a second leg of the Ural first leg with the result, et cetera.

I mean, everybody who thought this was going to be a sexy, super open, super entertaining game.

Well, I mean, come on.

You don't watch those teams then.

If you think that was going to be the case, it was always going to be like this.

I've seen Arsenal play very good football under Michel Arten.

No, no, no, no.

I have such not a point.

A game like this against a team like Chelsea.

And a team like Chelsea against a team like Arsenal aware from home.

It was always going to be like this.

I don't know why people seem surprised.

I am as surprised to say I'm just a little disappointed and I might be a little bit concerned as well.

Because when I was thinking about the episodes that kind of ended up going Arsenal's way,

there's another one which I was surprised to make more of them talk about more was the William Saliba on Jalpedra.

To me, that's which one, the one where he's by the, he's, he's, he's almost at the byline.

I need basically manhandles him out.

That to me seems pretty clear cut.

Well, like for a red card, sweat red.

Or a penalty more like in the box.

Yeah.

Oh, I can't remember this.

But between that, between the David Raya, again, it to make some sense.

And we talked about it.

I said it earlier in the season.

I think it was that ridiculous save he made off of Muhammad Salah.

I think like in like September where I said, wow, you know, this could be the difference with your national way in the title.

Not knowing what's going to happen later.

We're talking about this off air.

When your keeper has to make as many big saves either you're not having a good day or your opponent are having a very good day.

Yeah.

But those are also episodes.

In the same way that netto red card.

I think is an episode.

I don't expect netto who.

Okay.

He's not that old, but by Chelsea standards.

He's.

He's venerable.

Bro, did you not notice that you just got booked and make a title about that?

That thing about him not knowing.

It's not true because when you see the first yellow given, he's right in front of him.

He sees the real cast.

That makes it worse.

He cannot not know that he's on.

That makes it worse, right?

Yeah, but I don't know whether I think about him not knowing that he was on the booking.

I was making a joke on him.

Why did people suggest that he didn't know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yesterday we talked about it on the FC show as well.

Yeah, that was it.

And then he says, this is my first foul.

He says it's a referee for the second yellow.

It doesn't matter if it's your first or your tenth or your 20th.

It's actually that was his second foul.

So I know two fouls is not too many and you two yellows.

The first one for descent.

So arguably not for a foul.

But a foul like this.

Whether it's your first one or your tenth one or your hundredth one.

He's a yellow anyway.

Regardless of who you are, what kind of game, what kind of time it is in the game.

This is it.

You should have known that it was silly and stupid from him.

And it's the ninth red card for Chelsea in all competitions this season.

Seven in the Premier League.

It's not acceptable.

So those seven red cards should Chelsea.

Chelsea had just five teams ahead of Chelsea in the table.

Combined, those five teams have less than half as many cards.

Red cards at Chelsea's.

And it got two points because you can't get sent off.

And it's a red card for your team, but you were winning and you still win.

But when you are winning and you end up not winning after the red card,

this is where it's a massive, massive problem.

That said, post-red card.

And Arteta said he was disappointed about this after.

I look at the second half stats and Chelsea stole most of the possession.

You're playing 11 against 10 for 20 minutes per century time.

And I'm sorry.

You can, you know, again, we can say Arsenal were missing missitting classes.

But those are good Arsenal players that are out there.

I can't remember if he can copy or came off or stuff.

But when I look at this and I say,

other than he can copy and Gabrielle to something not that they're bad.

But everybody else should be really comfortable on the ball.

Everybody else who's out there, right?

Yeah.

The Alchemy was out at that point.

Yeah.

How do you not keep the ball against 10 men and make them chase you around?

Yeah, I think about.

I think Chelsea obviously went for it.

And when you take risk like Chelsea did,

which led to, as they could have scored,

it's the good side by Sanchez.

When you take more risk and you go for it,

and I think there's also probably psychologically,

from an Arsenal point of view,

what happened at Wolves and those last minutes.

It was super tense.

You could feel it.

There's that pressure.

You know you need to see the game out and grind it out really and win.

And it's, I don't think that's easy to do.

There's also some tightness.

Obviously, even with, you know, like fresh legs,

if you want, like, no guard and habits.

It's, and Martinelli.

But still, I don't think it's easy.

Those kind of games to see out.

Because again, Chelsea, I think,

a good team.

Joe Pedro is such a great player, I think.

And so it was never going to be even lavia coming on.

The guy hasn't played, he's played like,

I don't know, to start off the car by game and nothing since or something like that.

And yet, he brings something.

There's a bit more physicality.

There's a bit more energy and you go again.

And Guy Sido, I mean, I don't know why he's eating for breakfast,

but it's unbelievable.

And that's what I think it's,

it was never going to be again an easy end of the game.

I'm going to be accepting a lot of you as an excuse for personal lives.

No excuse.

It's not even explanation.

It's not explanation.

The guy came on and brought energy to this Chelsea team that needed it at that time.

I'm very well rested.

I don't share your excitement about Chelsea.

I think.

I don't think it was a good game plan.

I'm not a, no, no.

The game plan was fine.

Just the execution wall.

Who was the better team?

Sorry.

Who was the better team?

Who deserve to win?

Awesome.

I probably Chelsea, when you factor in the Raya Saves.

And.

But equally, I don't think this was necessarily the kind of performance that he wanted.

I saw Andres Santos again.

And then I realized and we've had this discussion about eating two people.

This comes down to, and I'm not blaming Rochinho because he doesn't,

he hasn't had time to work with the team.

But he's inherited the same poorly put together side that's there before.

A fun top of that.

I, somebody at Chelsea clearly loves Jarelle Hato or is related to him or something.

Because obviously, Cucurea, I'm not a huge fan of.

Like I say, he is orders of magnitude better than Hato and can do much more.

And I think his absence made a difference in this game.

So when he put this, yes.

I say those phenomenal.

He always is.

When you're relegating Col Palmer out wide and he used to come inside and find space and he's not fully fit.

That takes a big dampener out of the team as well.

I think you'll be a harsh.

I think you're harsh on Hato.

Saka didn't exist in this game.

I think you're harsh on Andres Santos.

Arsenal in midfield.

Which is the strength.

Even with the other guy in the state didn't exist in that midfield.

That's why Chelsea had most of the ball more passes.

Yeah, you could look at Sanchez and the risk that he takes.

Although the passing accuracy from Sanchez.

Sanchez on long boards and short boards is the same as Raya.

Is Raya a good goalkeeper with the ball at his feet?

Yes.

Is the same passing accuracy yesterday.

Exactly the same one.

From Raya to Sanchez.

So for all the people saying Sanchez can play with his feet.

Like on the FC show yesterday.

Sanchez this.

And I know you messed up.

It's because you had the final.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's passing a time to play long towards Joe Pedro.

To play long towards Palmer.

To play long towards him.

So I thought the.

The system asymmetric called that 433 worked really well.

I think you're very hard.

I thought it was a really good game plan from Brazil.

And in the end, they didn't win.

So I understand if you try something that doesn't win.

I'm talking about his players.

I'm not.

I don't.

Yeah.

But I'm not.

Understand.

Did the job he was asked to do?

How to.

Again, how to.

I'm sorry.

Did the job he was asked to do?

There was nothing from Saka in the whole game.

And that was that was his.

His job was keep Saka quiet.

He did.

I don't know what more you want it from him.

I know.

I think philosophically, my difference is.

To me, Saka not having a bigger influence on this game.

Has to do with the sort of service he was getting from his teammates.

And our title game plan more than Hato doing some sort of phenomenal.

Some sort of phenomenal job on it.

Yeah.

There was no one situations between Saka and Hato for sure.

But then, but then again, Hato is part of the plan that made that midfield from Arsenal and the performing.

The board getting not getting that well to throw Saka.

That was part of it.

I think a bigger.

More impressive, if you want.

Sort of notch in Rosemary Bell.

Is the fact that this was SARS first start.

And I know obviously he's workers in the floor, but you're still you're being thrown in there.

Yeah.

This is your first game to Arsenal away.

New teammates.

Was he perfect?

No.

But he kept things together.

Yeah.

Are you mentioned?

I mentioned Robert Sages before.

I have to ask.

So when I saw his reaction, like most people.

I mean, you were there.

I don't.

So you must have seen the replay.

I don't know if you start to see the replay later or when you go home, but.

I saw.

All right.

I'm like, they did it again.

They're fouling.

They're fouling Sanchez.

And I watched the replay.

I mean, what is your problem?

I don't know.

Maybe you thought because you could not see what was behind him and he felt the push.

He thought, okay.

He felt the hand on his.

No.

It must have been an Arsenal player or something.

The hand reaches out.

But bro, you're six five two hundred pounds of muscle.

Like, this isn't even the Gabrielle thing.

Like, yeah.

And maybe the problem from Chelsea's defensive said, peace, which is a problem.

Burnley scored one should have scored two.

Arsenal two again yesterday.

All of that.

Maybe it's because more than the structure and how you can defend and all of that is that he's.

Really, really no good on set.

Peace.

I think I, you know, coming out for the ball and stuff.

Maybe that's part of the reason, you know.

All right.

Okay.

So.

If I did you a Google Gemini.

Summary of what you said.

Arsenal weren't great, but that's because Chelsea were good.

Yeah.

So that's a starting point.

What does it mean for the rest of the season?

In the sense that.

Looking at Arsenal schedule, were they still good enough?

You still feel confident enough about.

Given that other than the big city game.

A lot of the tougher matches have they've already played them.

Yeah, they weren't in the last nine games that they have now.

There's no teams in top six, for example, when, you know,

when city have to go to Chelsea, for example, when.

Which isn't necessarily great thing because.

Basically, you don't want to play teams that are fighting for their lives.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're paying West Ham.

Yeah.

Yeah, sure.

I agree with you on that.

But it's still, it's still not.

Team that's good as the city Liverpool, Chelsea, all of that.

And I think, like Nathan always says, it's just about winning right now.

And I think our, our title would say that to his players.

I think Guadrilla would say that to his players.

The struggling at first half of the leads on Saturday.

They found a way of scoring of winning.

The second half was better.

But the first half was not good from city.

It doesn't matter so much.

You go and you win.

If you can play well and score three by half time, sure.

Of course, do it.

It's better.

But so I think all that kind of, all the nervey ending that we saw yesterday,

if you're an Astro fans, there will be again a brighten on Wednesday.

And that to play.

Okay, after that is FA Cup.

Then you go again after that with Champions League and again.

And that's the thing.

They are where they want it to be.

You want to have the lead.

It's five points with the game more.

But still it's five points.

You want to be in all the competitions.

Great.

But that will be exhausting.

That will be mentally tiring as well.

And, and you'll have nervey moments.

But it's part of the right.

Sorry.

Inter Milan last season.

Coming within a week of a trouble.

Right where they want it to be.

It's right where they want it to be.

It's right where everything going.

For the court report to us some points.

Yeah, I take your point about it.

It's all about waiting.

I think that's certainly the messaging.

I think that has to come from a coach to the players.

As a coach though.

And performing still matters.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If you have certain things and look, there's more.

In fact, we'll talk about city later.

But like when you don't take a shot on goal for the first 40 minutes.

Against these United despite having 76% of all.

It's not all about winning.

It's you got to sit down and figure out what do we do wrong?

Yeah, but you find a way to find a way.

So that's great.

But again, they are focused on about it.

Gab.

Like Artita and awesome about these Chelsea game already.

Yeah, I don't.

I don't know.

I don't think you want to forget about it.

I think you want to learn lessons from it.

Well, I know.

And appreciating that playing Chelsea at home in these circumstances

with also, as you mentioned, the needle that came before in the League Cup

and whatever is a specific sector of circumstances.

That's why you move on very quickly from it.

Maybe you can just pretend it's not there and say, how?

The next game against Brighton will be a completely different.

Why?

So Chelsea is done.

You've won.

That's it.

I don't even think I might be wrong.

And if you know, let me know.

There's no video analysis of this game from yesterday between now and the Brighton game.

So they won't even look at it again, which is very unusual.

But I really think at this stage now, it's about recovery analysis.

So you always do video analysis after the game.

Yeah.

No, in this game, I would be pretty sure there won't be any.

You've won.

You move.

I don't think I'm into players.

I would assume Arteta's now with the player in the match.

With the players.

But no, but I'm saying is they may point things out to Arteta and to her senior and say, hey.

This is what happened here.

No, no, I took Arteta's out with the players.

Yeah, no, no, that's fine.

But that's not fine.

They do it after every game.

I don't guarantee you that.

No, after these games.

Okay, but this does, which was all I'm saying is it doesn't mean Arteta can't learn anything from this game.

I know.

I know.

I think he has to learn certain things from this game.

Learn what worked.

Learn what didn't work.

And learn how to approach this the rest of the season.

Because I don't think they're going to have too many games like this in this in the circumstance.

Yeah.

So this idea that it's only about winning at this stage.

It's now.

You don't want to put too much stuff in the player's head.

And like you said, 48 hours between games, whatever.

But there are going to be tweaks for everything.

You can't, I mean, you can't have this attitude.

Yeah, that's because of who you playing next, not because of who you've just played.

And that's what I mean.

Right now, it's just, and it's really all about you don't want to play well and draw points.

100%.

So playing well winning.

Sure, it will help you.

No problem.

But Brighton, you know exactly what Brighton are going to offer and coming at you.

And you have to be ready for that regardless of who you played before.

If you won or you didn't win, it doesn't matter so much.

And that's the beauty of it.

That's what you want to be there.

This is much better than them being 15 points away.

It's not for them.

But for us as like, you know, analysis wise and everything.

This is great because it's going to be tense both for city.

Okay.

Against forest at home on Tuesday.

Maybe not so much.

We see but but still and for us on Wednesday and then game after game after game.

That's I think very exciting.

It is exciting.

I still believe that if you play well, you have a greater chance of winning.

Sure.

And playing well doesn't necessarily mean playing pretty.

Yeah.

It's been having the right having the right game plan and executing it properly.

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All right enough arsenal.

How about some quick hits instead?

Go go.

Barcelona demolish.

Be a real 4-1.

Is a real Madrid kickoff in a few hours at home to Hitafi.

I mean your mouth is pretty good.

We can point out all the faults from Barcelona.

Can we just celebrate the second goal?

Absolutely.

The second goal.

Although I like the third a lot.

Because there's literally two millimeters to put the ballway does.

Between the post and the goalkeeper's fingers.

The third youngest ever player to score a hard streak in La Liga.

The other two are in the 30s.

So they don't really count.

Let's be honest.

I don't know what to say anymore.

It was really interesting to hear him talk after the game about going through the injury

and playing while not being 100% and how much he didn't enjoy his football.

And I know it's very obvious and it's a bit of a cliché.

But a lot of players play through pain.

And it's not, it can't be nice.

And especially for him considering the way he plays in his game to not be fully fair.

It must have been quite frustrated.

Nice, clearly bagged, which is I think worrying for everybody who's going to face him all those left bags.

And left center bags.

But that was an incredible.

That should be a warning sign, by the way.

If he comes out publicly and he says about playing through pain and how he's not enjoying it.

Already the minutes he's logging at 18 are a ton.

You need to take this into account.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

But what a pleasure to watch.

And let me remind you, as we say, playing tonight.

And we're speaking about them.

The development of finishes junior racism case.

Yeah, there's a couple of things going on.

It is Johnny Fantino, if he's a president, going back to the Pristiani situation.

He said that, you know, if you cover your mouth when speaking to an opponent and your opponent chooses you,

then that's evidence against you, which is, which is freaking obvious.

But I'm glad that he came out and he said it.

Pristiani said, well, I covered my mouth because that's what players do.

Every player does it.

I mean, no, no, no, no, no, they really don't.

I don't know what football.

No, but you see it occasionally.

Yeah.

But in this context, I don't know, he's a moron.

Benfica banned five fans who racially abused Vini.

This was after the incident, not before the incident should be stated.

Good for them.

They didn't have to do this.

I mean, you know, morally, maybe they should have had to do this.

But I think we want to see clubs take taking proactive steps.

And even Justin Marinho, who was so crucified by everyone for some of the really dumb things he said afterwards.

But he came out and he basically said that if Pristiani is found guilty, he's never going to play for Benfica again, as long as Marinho is there.

That's significant.

Yeah, it's too late for me.

I mean, after what he said on the night of the game, this is far too late.

We like, what, 10 days more than 10 days after that first leg.

And he comes out.

He had plenty of opportunities before.

I think it was what he said was really unacceptable, really damaging.

He lost a lot of credit, I think.

And yeah, you said that.

But that's exactly the end.

That's why he should have said on the night of the game, not now.

So you're not as, you don't subscribe to the better leg than never.

No, definitely not.

No, in this case.

No facial.

More around Madrid.

Looks like Killian Embape will be out for three weeks, which means no Manchester City.

Yeah, he had more extra last week.

They're really hoping he could be back for the second leg.

The first leg is definitely out of question.

Since you're medically adjacent.

Yeah, it's this is left knee where he had pain before.

They had first extra on December 7th, where they could see there was a bit of a tear on the ligament,

which you thought, okay, you can still play on it.

You won't be 100% to go back to Lamine, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you want to play?

You wanted to play at that time.

Remember, you could have equaled or beaten Christianos record on the most goals of a calendar year.

So he went for a push.

You may think it's a good thing.

No, a good thing.

It doesn't matter so much.

After that, he was still in pain.

I think the club and Arbelloise especially still wanted him to play.

I think he also, what everybody always wants to play, but he got to a point where you need the rest and the rest happens now.

It's maybe not the great timing in terms of the Champions League and City.

I get that.

But I think there was even a time when they thought about surgery.

So let's see.

I think they're going to have special treatment all week here and see how he feels next Monday.

And see if maybe this is working.

And like I said, maybe he can come back for the second.

France fans all want this out of the way well before June.

Absolutely, man.

Completely.

Inter bounce back from the bottle, glimmed the bar call and stay 10 points clear at the top of Serie A

with a 2-0 win against Genoa, Gav, Fenedi Marco, who we love on this show is an absolute bowler.

Yes, so I'm going to wheel out some stats for you.

First of all, he scored a ridiculous goal.

You're the techers guy.

Absolutely.

That's pretty good.

Yes.

But he's capable of that.

We know that.

All right.

That is some finish.

So he has, he leads to the analysis this season.

He has 14 assists.

It's incredible.

And yes, six goals.

That's 20 goal involvements.

Now, if you take penalties.

So in goal involvement, which is goals plus assists.

He's six in Europe or sevens.

If you take not, if you take penalties out of the mix.

Yeah.

Okay.

Digestandings, right?

Kane, Erling Holland, and Michael Alisei have 26.

Yeah.

Luis Diaz is 23.

And by the way, those buying guys you do that with an extra.

Exactly.

You're going up the score, right?

Yeah.

And the Minimaal has 21.

He just pulls ahead of him with his hat trick.

Beyond that, he has 20.

He is ahead even of one Killian and Bapet once you take the penalties out.

Yeah, yeah.

That is incredible.

He's still a defender.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, I don't know.

That's special.

Especially Marco.

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I can't believe we've waited until now, but let's talk Classica.

Buy and be Borussia Dortmund away.

Three, two, thanks to a late Yosra Kimics strike.

Jewels to quote Animal House.

It wasn't over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

But I fear it may be now.

You're not making up 11 points in 10 games without a head-to-head clash,

because that would violate the Marcochi principle.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, I mean, it's done.

And to be fair, Bayern have been so impressive.

And, okay, I know they dropped points against Union or Hamburg,

they lost to Augsburg and all of that, okay.

But there's still been so good so much better than Dortmund

who hadn't lost in between those two.

They're Classica, by the way.

And who caused them problems in this game?

They shot the backscore the first goal.

And after that, I thought the...

The penalty?

Yeah, exactly.

But also I thought Dortmund played well.

I thought all around in a game where they had to go and try

to put them in the pressure and be intense.

And it was a really good watch on Saturday.

In the end, there's still more quality for Bayern.

Yeah, you know.

It was...

I don't think there's a debate on who deserve to win again.

I think it's a deserved win for Bayern.

And I said that's the title done.

I think there is a debate of where Bayern are, though.

Maybe, yeah, sure.

For Dortmund, after suffering, you know, the way they did in midweek,

Bayern well rested.

I think Bayern had played like two games in the last four weeks,

right?

Two midweeks.

Sorry.

Yeah.

Basically, let me turn around.

Dortmund played.

I played an extra two midweek games, obviously, right?

It takes a lot out of them.

They have injuries and whatever else.

To allow them to go and kind of set the tempo of this game

and to effectively control this game,

to play the way they wanted to.

That's not encouraging from Bayern.

No.

The defensive issues are still there.

And they don't finish their chances.

So, I don't know.

I, the reason I bring all these up, Joseph,

everybody seems to agree, right?

Bayern, Arsenal and CDR, not above everybody else in the Champions League.

But Bayern and our other team who can get a lot better,

who needs to get a lot better.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sorry.

Guess who does have a head-to-head clash?

Man City.

Who will play Arsenal at the HDR?

We know that next month in April.

And with the one-year win away at least on Saturday and the game in hand,

they have against Christian Palas, they control their own destiny,

as they face Arsenal next month.

You're going to tell me that winning is all that matters.

And with no early Holland, you're going away to Leeds.

Leeds played in a million miles an hour,

put them to the short.

Yeah.

Again, numbers.

At minute 40, the XG were 1.27 to zero.

That's incredible, isn't it?

And Manchester City had 76% possession.

This tells me that they just have the ball,

and they're not taking any shots.

They can't do anything with it.

Yeah.

Maybe because Ryan Cherky is the only creative player they have on the pitch.

And thankfully, he's on the pitch,

because remember, he dropped them before.

Yeah.

And that chances again, Leeds the chances again at the end as well.

I mean, as it's City in the second half, he has to sort this out.

I know.

He has to sort this out.

Benjamin Cesco pops up with another match winning goal,

as Manchester United come from behind to beat Christian Palas 2-1,

and moving to third place.

Jules, were you impressed?

Or are you going to cry about that?

Max sens la croix, red card, post penalty incident,

like someone we know?

Yeah, Frank LeBuff was not impressed at all by that decision.

He didn't think he was a foul even.

Oh, I was going to say all of the glassner.

Oh, all of the glassner.

Maybe.

I didn't see really what we were going to say.

I think it's really soft.

And I think Kunia is very smart.

I think La Croix is maybe a bit naive.

Certainly, once you get into the box,

because there's no doubt the foul starts outside of the box.

It's Chris Kavanaugh, who's a table referee.

We know that.

I mean, I know Val was there this time,

unlike in the Africa, when he had a shocker,

the shocker of the season from a referee point of view.

But United didn't play for the first 40 minutes or so.

We're obviously much better than in the second half.

And even the end of the first half,

when they were 11 against 10, it was obviously easier.

I'm glad for Cesco, 78, 4 and 5 now.

Bruno, I was standing too.

And United, who were 11 points behind Villa,

when Carrick took over, Anna, above them, in gold difference.

Which I don't believe in.

But I will tell you this.

What does what I do wander?

And one quick question to you is,

can you carry, and Buma, plus Cesco, plus Kunia, plus Bruno,

with Manu behind you?

Is this viable or is it going to have to make a tough association?

They've done it now for seven games.

No, no, no.

But you Cesco came off the bench.

It's just Cesco's first start.

But then it's Ahmad on the right hand side.

I think, and Buma can work as hard defensively as Ahmad.

So he's Cesco.

I think Cesco, I think, and Buma could work as a nine in some games.

I think for this game, Cesco, being a starter, made a lot of sense.

And the way it took him off, I think, in the 68 minute or something like that,

shows that he's going to start as well in mid-week again.

Watch the end of the ethanol city gap.

You may come from two goals down, with 12 minutes to go,

to snatch a 3-3 draw at Roma.

This was the comeback.

They could not manage in mid-week in the Champions League.

Yeah, this was pretty huge.

Because, at that point, 3-1 down.

There are seven points out of the Champions League places.

Seven points out of fourth place.

On the back of the Galatasaray aborted comeback.

And they turned it around.

Jeremy Bogas scoring a guy who, as we know,

basically was quitting football.

He wasn't playing football in November and December.

And then Federico got the coming on.

And deep and injury time to get the 3-3 draw.

I don't think Roma played badly.

And I think in Pizzili and Cone, midfield Cone,

check out his pass for the second goal.

Ridiculous pass.

They were really good platform.

I thought this was entertaining.

We saw some great goals.

Chico can say so.

Yeah.

But I think you usually take a lot of heart from this pettino.

Also, channeling is inner-diggered.

You're not great.

They have to stop considering so many goals.

Because it's 3-2.

There was 2 against Lads-0.

3 against Atalanta.

5 against Atalanta.

But the reaction.

The reaction, I think.

Yeah, so true.

Grudgingly gave Spaletti credit.

Spidey Barcola scores the only goal

as Paris Saint-Germain stayed top of Ligant

and they win 1-0 at Le Havre.

Tools, you were very hard on your boys in midweek.

Are you going to be mean about that finishing in the scheme

given that they had 3.64 expected goals?

They missed another penalty.

This time it's due.

We've had Vitinia missing one.

Obviously against Monaco.

We've had them belly missing one against Newcastle.

They can't score.

It's like Farad's scale.

You take the penalty.

That's probably the next one on the list as well.

Barcola playing as a nine,

which was partly disappointing at times,

but also very good.

Very good.

It was a headed goal.

Yeah.

But not the most traditional header.

Let's put it that way.

But still.

And in the end, yeah, I think it was a good win.

They were happy.

King Lee was very good.

Yeah, except when he missed the goal.

But more agile.

That goalkeeper.

That was not familiar with.

Paris won a win.

Paris won a win.

Liverpool beat up West Ham.

5-2 to consolidate fourth place.

God, this was an unusual game.

It was.

West Ham ended up with the higher expected goals.

Liverpool without Florian.

Of course, scoring three set peace goals.

Everybody going to town.

I think Anfield has a new enemy.

Somebody who's about as popular as Christian Perslow

or Tom Hicks, perhaps.

And that is one Aaron Briggs.

He was the set peace coach.

You remember left on New Year's Eve.

Everybody going to town on the statistic that.

Since he left.

Since slot and his staff.

Giovanni Broncos or whatnot.

Started looking after the set pieces themselves.

They haven't conceded any.

And they scored seven before that.

They conceded the most in the league.

So yeah, it's as simple as that.

Yeah.

I'd be more worried about how Liverpool played.

That was not a good performance.

More well for Tadam Hotspur.

They lose 2-1 at Fulham.

And Igor Tudor goes in 2-footed on the referee.

Somebody named Thomas Bramal.

Yeah, it was.

I can understand to those frustration really.

There's definitely a push from road.

And Gussin in the air as well on the Fulham first goal.

And I think he's asking for consistency, which is fair.

Because the week before in the Northern Norby.

That's the push from Colomani on Gabriel that was given.

This time was not given.

So I understand his frustration.

And the ban is coming.

Igor.

So you can explain why you can say the referee is terrible.

You can say he made a mistake.

You can say he's incompetent.

You cannot say.

Oh, he was biased for the home team.

Yeah.

I cannot say that.

That forgets you in trouble.

But where from that?

Because I think even if that goal doesn't go in, Fulham has so much better than Spurs.

Spurs where I chose for the first hour.

This would have been 4-0 down.

He goes with a back 4.

When we know how much of a back 3 guy is.

I mean, he was born in a back 3.

Literally in Croatia at the hospital.

All his life is either playing in a back 3 or coached a back 3.

And yet second game in charge.

It changes when he's got defenders available to make a back 3.

I'm not really sure what that meant.

What he tried to do.

The only explanation I can think of is maybe.

And I go on a limb to defend him here.

He had, I think he was, he said 17 days since it was appointed, right?

Yeah.

And then he only played the one game that the North London Derby.

Maybe they spent a whole bunch of time practicing before 4-2.

You didn't look like it on the pitch.

No, he spent a lot of time doing blip tests.

That's for sure every day.

Last week to make them fitter.

And I didn't even think they were fitter in this game at all.

So I'm not sure what they're doing.

But it's not working.

It's no wins in 10-9 in the Premier League.

The good news is the three teams below.

They all lost.

The three teams above all lost.

Exactly.

I've made this weekend and confirmed a number of twigs

to the lows of the game which will come into force this summer.

I'm going to add the World Cup.

Gav, can you please give us a roundup?

Yeah.

So let's start with the ones that we were kind of expecting.

VAR will be able to intervene on corner kicks

and crucial on second yellows that lead to a red.

This is going to be left down to competition organizers.

So we will definitely see this at the World Cup.

Yeah.

Other competitions will kind of decide on their own.

We're both in favor of this, right?

Yeah, yeah.

The other stuff, I don't know, kind of seems to be,

seems to be designed for a TV audience, but whatever.

So in the same way, we see goalkeepers who avoid time wasting.

The referee can give them an eight-second countdown.

You see them start counting.

Yeah.

And if they don't, then it's a corner kick, which, by the way,

I think we've seen enforced like once or twice this season or more than that.

Now it's the same thing on throwings except they'll have a five-second countdown.

Again, I don't know if we're actually going to see this happen.

I don't know.

Most throwings don't take five seconds.

Yesterday, we saw something interesting in the Arsenal World Chelsea game.

He and Capri took a throw in in the second half.

And as you know, they always do it like from where the throwing should have been taken.

He moved like 20 yards up.

Right.

And the referee gave the throwing back to Chelsea.

Which I think is also something I would have liked to see in the rules.

I think the five seconds is a good thing.

But also, please stop.

Like, the bodies are placed.

That's why you should take the throw in not 20 yards up on that edge line.

It's like the, or do they have to get the spray can out like they do for.

Yeah, exactly.

You're literally taught to do that every turn.

Yeah.

Just walk forward.

And that's it.

Yeah, I'd like to see more cards for this.

Yeah.

Because this is, you know, plain and simple cheating.

Another one is if you're substituted from the minute your number goes up on the board.

You have 10 seconds to get off the pitch.

Obviously, you can get off the pitch on the other side of walking around.

If you don't, the sub that's waiting to come on for you has to wait a whole minute before coming on.

Yeah.

I think this is frankly kind of stupid.

And I don't think we're really ever going to have this because I can't see the referee suddenly starting to count.

Unless you make it somebody else's job to start counting.

Maybe the fourth official, which I don't think that part has been clarified.

And by the way, and this is the same reason I'm against.

Sinbings and stuff like that.

All that's going to happen.

If you need that guy on the pitch, you're just going to see a team go on lockdown for 60 seconds.

It's not, it's not going to move the needle either way.

The other one, which I think is more controversial is if you get treatment on the pitch or if play as the stop because you get injured, you must and then you go off the pitch.

You have to stay off for at least one minute.

Now, the thing in behind this is if your injury is serious enough that play actually stops, then surely you'll be getting treatment off the pitch for more than a minute.

However, I don't know.

I mean, again, you're closer to being a doctor than I am.

Some injuries, maybe you don't, maybe you can't come off that quickly or come back that quickly, right?

Yeah, maybe.

I think it's more to avoid and I know that will take away obviously the incidents where there's a proper injury and yet the guy feels like he needs to hurry up and get treatment very quickly to go back on or not even.

But it's to avoid those tactical breaks really where the guy goes down is not really injured.

But then suddenly he comes back after 10 seconds on the pitch and you think, okay, well, they broke the play, they won the pressure.

He did this on purpose, all of that.

I don't know if it's a good idea. I don't know if he's going to wait again.

Who is going to count the minute?

Yeah.

The fourth referee is going to have this thing and after six seconds, okay, you can go back on.

I'm assuming this has been all I think all these things have been trialed somewhere at some level.

But there's a big difference in trialing them in front of 60,000 people in a stadium and hundreds of millions watching around the world.

It's just a different level of pressurative context.

But look, at least they've been proactive, right?

Yeah, exactly. That's right.

Guess who scored his first league go away from home in La Liga since opening day.

Julian Alvarez also his first goal from open play in La Liga since November.

And it was a big one as they took three points in injury time against Soviedo.

Yeah, massive, especially considering Villarea lost Barcelona as we said before and Betis as well.

It was huge win in a game where they didn't play great.

Those are substitutions from El Trolo.

Yes, resting, yes, seven.

Resting because they're only four in a lap from the first leg against Soviedo.

I know, but even us to think that there might be a remontada, I think you probably want everybody to be super fit and super ready.

And for Alvarez to come off the bench and score in the 94th minute, the winner is good.

I don't know if he's enough for to call it redemption.

Let's see if that if he can follow it up and get a few more goals and consistent because he had been obviously really bad in the last few weeks and months.

But that would cheer him up for sure.

Yeah, I'm glad he's cheered up if I'm, you know, who should be less curious to me on it.

I know the problem with rotation and substitution if you have the depth.

And certainly on paper, they definitely have the depth to do it.

But some coaches just aren't good at it and some players don't respond on the right way.

And when he rotates so much, we've seen this timing again.

Yeah.

It's not because the guys who come in are worse than the starters because it mixes it up and whatever.

It's just simple. I don't know if it breaks the rhythm or whatever.

Oviedo are bottom of La Liga.

Yeah.

And yeah, Santa Castorla and Co.

Yeah.

Shout out to Santa.

They absolutely put them to the shore.

They deserve to win this game.

Milan's 10 points behind Inter in Serie Aiding into the Dabby as they win to the Cremonaise.

They got the goalscamer late as well.

Yeah, there's only going to be one narrative here if Pablo Rich scored in the 90th minute and La Llan in the fourth minute.

And Milan still had 3.6 for expected goals, which is bad finishing.

And it is La L squandered a bunch of chances.

That's just the kind of play he is.

He's not necessarily that kind of clinical goal scored.

And if Pulisic also has an off day as he did, which can happen sometimes, then you're going to struggle.

Cremonaise are not good, but I don't think Milan are good either.

And I think the fact that on what would worry me here is, like, I'm not going to fault them for the XG.

I'm going to fault them for the fact that it's still all countertax and individuals or wait for a moderate to do something.

The man is 40 years old.

He is not your future.

You should have systems of play in place that you can actually create better chances and maybe even finish your chances.

But anyway, the Darby's up next so they can cut the gap to 7 points.

This was way, way back on Friday, but it was big Jules.

Aston Villa fought two nailer wolves, one winning five for Unai Emri.

But we told you all through the season we've said that form was unsustainable considering the expected goals, the data, or the stats that we had.

Yes, they won games, but they were lucky to win games against...

I was going to mention the big games like City and Arsenal, but not even those.

In a lot of games, they didn't deserve really to win and they had nothing backing up those wins.

And now, well, this is it.

You can't win if you don't produce anything like they did in this game where they were second best, really.

Not strong enough defensively, not good enough creatively with the ball.

I think it plays the same place also because it's going injuries, but because it doesn't have really many other options.

People start to get tired, you lose games, you lose that third place, you see the teams behind you, catching up.

You know how important Champions League is, not just financially for this club, but also because there's nowhere Rogers doesn't want to play Champions League football.

If somebody has office Champions League football, he would want to leave and you risk losing your best place for that as well.

So it was a horrendous weekend for them.

Yeah, what we should point out, too, is that when people say, oh, financial penalties make no difference and so on.

No, I think they do the reason part of the reason they're in the situation is that they overspend.

They had to sign that settle agreement with UEFA.

If they break profit and sustainability rules again, they get a European ban.

And so this is why you're seeing Tammy Abraham and Daniel Malin leaving and stuff like that in the summer.

That's the reality of where they are.

Yeah, sometimes football gives us moments that pull out pull out.

Sorry, tell me about Romelu Lukaku is calling the let winner Verona this weekend.

So he comes on.

Napoli playing in Verona again.

Billion guys out.

He comes on towards the end.

Of course, the winner is six minutes of injury time.

It's a win.

It's true one.

Is it deserved?

Yeah, probably.

But it was about what happened afterwards.

So happy.

He talked about how before being reunited with Antonio Conte in Napoli, he said, I was dead inside.

And then he started talking about his father with whom, you know, he kind of had an up and down relationship when he was younger.

Kind of posting all these pictures of him and his dad on Instagram.

His father had been a footballer for DR Congo.

I certainly don't know if it was DR Congo.

Or maybe it was that year.

And he just breaks down crying.

And to see this giant of a man show this emotion, this vulnerability.

I thought it was completely humbling.

Yeah.

To anybody watched.

And you know, on the football side, Conte's and also like, basically Conte's is dead.

So I'm not comparing the two.

But the way he spoke about Conte too.

You realize some managers are just bosses.

They're very good bosses.

And others really just pushed that emotional relationship to the max.

And I think it's great news for Napoli that he's back.

And let's see if he can.

I mean, I think he will keep them in the top three.

Yeah.

Marseille, aren't dead at all.

It's just a flesh wound.

Jules, Pierre, Emory, Aubamean scores twice to turn around late against Leon in the old.

It's an incredible game.

If you watched it, it was really wonderful viewing.

I mean, I think the Leon players and Paulo Fonseca would wonder this morning how they didn't at least got a point in this game.

They were five points clear of Marseille in third, Marseille in fourth with Lille and Nis.

By the way, Lille and Ren, sorry, winning behind to be level on point with Marseille.

So draw would have been still great for Leon to keep that five points gap.

And in the end, I think there's a fall on Moton, probably on the winning goal too.

And Fonseca was really angry with the referee for it.

Don't get another band, Paulo.

And that's exactly what he said.

He said like, last time I got nine months banned.

So I'm not going to say anything.

And Leon, to be fair, they only have themselves to blame because they had enough chances to put this game to bed before.

Edrick coming so close.

And he's been great because he was everywhere.

He should have scored. There was a couple of us. He should have had.

There's a goal. This allowed for Tolisso for an offside.

We don't have semi-automatic offside in front.

Didn't look offside to me, even after VR and TV and called the offside.

So I can see the frustration from a Leon point of view.

Back to Chelsea Gabby, UFA's European club landscape report says

that Chelsea made pre-tax losses of 407 million euros in 2425.

The second highest in history.

So for those keeping track at home in US dollars, that's nearly half a billion dollars.

For those who think it pounds, it's like 360 million odd pounds.

We need to bear in mind that these are overall losses.

So unless you get exemptions for spending on the youth team, blah, blah, blah.

They're not necessarily PSR losses.

It doesn't mean that they've lost just from a business perspective, you know,

a bully, a bali, clear lake and stuff. These guys aren't made of money.

They've lost 600 million euros over three seasons, which is,

what's about 10 times what you're actually allowed to spend, again,

from a PSR perspective, which it doesn't include certain things.

Well, poking away those rules is, this is the second highest loss ever recorded.

The highest Barcelona, remember this?

During COVID, 2021, 555 million.

That was a crazy messy contract.

Remember La Porta started moving the levers and stuff to balance the books.

I don't see how it's possible.

I don't, the pension funds and stuff who give the money to these private equity guys

who then put the money into the club.

What kind of return?

Because again, let's remind people.

This isn't badatic bali and Todd Bowley sitting on a pile of their own money, right?

They run these funds.

Well, see people, but they raise money from different sources.

I don't know how this is sustainable with the impact is just from a cash perspective.

Letting alone, leaving aside PSR, we're, of course, Chelsea are already under settlement

with UEFA for breaching last year.

So, yeah, not good there.

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More wild stuff, Jules.

Burnley battle back from three goals down to draw three, three with Brentford.

Only to then concede an injury time goal, which sends them to defeat.

Your pal, Scott Parker, who you rate is one of the best managers in the Premier League.

Yeah, of course.

Not amused with VAR.

No, and I can understand it again.

I mean, three goals down.

You think this is over just before the break.

They get a lucky one back and on goal back.

And then they come back his own.

And they come back to three, three, then they score the fourth goal that is disallowed by VAR.

And at three, three, they go behind four, three.

And then they score what they think is the equalizer and bonds.

And I think this one is rightly ruled out because it looks like really controlled.

God, the ball comes, he doesn't do it on purpose, but you can't do that.

No, exactly.

You cannot score with your arm.

I don't know why he's getting...

Yeah.

You get so red face and you always have all three and two, right?

Yeah.

But you can see, when you come back from three years down and the booths from your own fans to three, three.

And then you think you're in the lead and then you go back behind again and then you think you're recognized.

It's probably too much for your heart and your brain.

Yeah, I understand the emotion in the moment.

I understand why you would attack VAR for that.

Because you know what?

The Ashley Barnes thing?

The referee saw it.

So even if there's no VAR, the referee says, oh, I have to make a decision.

It's more than likely he disallowed the goal because not being allowed to score with your arm.

That is part of the laws of football which predate VAR.

Yeah, exactly.

God, we know you don't like life sick, but even you have to admit that Yan Jomande is pretty exciting.

He's...

We mentioned him last week as well.

Yeah.

I mean, honestly, like, he's close to unplayable.

Yeah.

Like, as exciting...

I mean, he's different from Luminiuma.

Yeah.

But the excitement and anticipation when he gets the ball.

I think he's probably faster than Luminiuma.

Yeah.

He seems more too footed than Luminiuma.

I'm not saying he's better than Luminiuma.

Yeah.

No, no, no, no.

But I'm assuming he's going to be one of the centerpieces this summer of the transfer window.

So, yeah.

They want to go down against Hamburg.

Absolutely.

By the typical life sick thing.

Okay.

Boom, boom, boom.

Billion chances.

They missed the penalty.

They want to go down.

Nope.

And no slight.

They still had a zillion XG.

And then Rommel and Mr. Penelty laid on.

Rommel, I think, scored earlier in the game as well.

This guy, 19 years old, Yan Jomande.

It's...

Yes.

Not to be confused with the center back.

Nope.

At sporting, by the way.

It is that a two-go lead slip against Sevilla in El Grand Derby.

Chose.

I kind of feel like this is where they threw away any remaining top four ambitions with that.

Late chance from...

From Abde.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was a great game.

First half.

All bet is lovely.

Finish by Antony.

Antony, sorry.

And then probably even one of the...

What, your head kick?

Yeah, it's a nice finish.

It's a good...

It's not particularly difficult.

No, it's not difficult.

I think the hard work was done by Abde in setting him up.

Or with beating the players.

Yeah, yeah.

That second goal is brilliant as well collectively.

And then you think there's no way back for a civil team that has been...

It's been tough for them this season.

And yet, Alexis Sanchez and all people, Greg, had a really good...

And then the end is crazy.

Because they come back to 2-2.

The end is crazy with the post.

Massive chance as well for Sevilla to win it at the end.

I think they would be happy with the draw away from home.

I bet it's...

But yeah, you're right for Betis.

They've had those kind of opportunities before and let them slip.

The Premier League is introducing something called Premier League Plus.

A bit like League 1 Plus.

You see?

We are Pioneer.

We are Pioneer.

We launched initially in Singapore.

Why is it?

It's important because the Premier League now is saying we're going to copy everything about League 1.

Thank you very much.

Clearly.

That's right.

They're going to get whoever the CEO of Sky is to go and...

To go and acquire Manchester United and not spend...

I'm just kidding.

No.

So basically this is what you're talking about direct to consumer, right?

DTC.

And the idea is just likely going past, right?

You want to watch it.

They have a local partner in Singapore.

They want to see people sign up for it.

Because the uncomfortable truth is that, well, League's always talking really good games.

He says, oh, let's cut out the middleman.

Let's cut out the media companies.

The reality clubs want guaranteed money.

And if you have to go and sell the stuff yourself, the money is not guaranteed.

Now, the Premier League hugely popular Singapore, a really good kind of testing ground for this.

They're teaming up with a local broadcaster.

But it's really just kind of like a pass through situation.

And they're going to see...

They're going to see if it works.

They're going to see what the actual sign up is.

I think everybody's going to be watching.

The reality is a lot of TV companies,

live sports rights, are lost leaders for them.

They don't make money off them.

So we could see an evolution of the model, with, of course, as you said.

Ligon is as pioneers.

Thank you very much.

Newcastle lose at home to Everton, three, two, jewels.

Maybe playing so many regulars against Carabag wasn't such a great idea.

Five defeats and six in the league.

Thanks, also, to be fair, for that incredible Jordan Pickford save laid on.

No, absolutely.

But still, I thought it was disappointing from Newcastle at home against Everton.

Eddie Howard trying things again.

I don't think Volta Maddie has a 10 behind gold.

And I'm not saying Volta Maddie complies a 10.

That's probably more better for him.

We're turning play.

No, no, that's probably better for him.

I don't think he works behind.

Sorry, sorry.

Behind a 9 like Gordon.

We know he doesn't work as a 9.

And then if he doesn't work as a 10 either, what do you do with it?

Yeah, no, that's a good one.

Just put him as a 10.

I think he can work as a 10, but not with Gordon as your 9.

That's the thing.

And not in a game like this either.

He took him off after 56 minutes.

And maybe that was to get him rested for the midweek game.

I don't think so.

I would think that Volta Maddie might even be on the bench in midweek.

I'm just not working the 13th in the table.

I told you, why did you have to go and play these guys against Careback?

That's what I don't understand.

Even if it didn't have been a bit more maybe sharper.

I'm not sure they know exactly what to do.

I think it's really boring.

Liverpool's latest financial accounts show that their wedge bid rose to 428 million pounds,

surprising, surpassing, sorry, much the city at the highest in the Premier League right now.

God, that's before even you factor the big transfer windows that they had in the summer.

Yeah.

And look, some of that had to do with Mahamad Salah and Virgil Van Dyke signing the New Geo.

Some of that had to do with some of the bonuses that they had to pay out.

Because they want the title obviously.

And of course, they still made a profit of 8 million.

So I think that's significant.

But I think it does give you for a club that's so careful with their money.

And now you begin to understand remember the whole family wants brigade right about Salah a year ago.

Yeah, where are you guys now, right?

Yeah, you still want to pay Salah what he wants.

I mean, you should be thankful that they were disciplined and they said two years, right?

Would you want three years of Salah at like one and a half times whatever they gave her now?

Yeah.

So I think it's a really interesting situation that Liverpool find themselves in.

Because of course, as we told you a billion times, they're going to have to spend.

I think I'm a defender this summer.

Come what may or commit a ton more money to Konate, which I don't think it's happening.

It's already February now, bro.

Like, you know, the ESAC things still up in the air.

And you have all that amortization from the summer that you spent.

Yeah.

Do you have assets you can move for money?

Like the way, you know, at least you got 10 million back plus his wages for train Alexander Arnold.

I'm not so sure there's too many guys that you can move on that you want to move on.

Yeah.

Even my boy Harvey Elliott, who I thought was an asset that could be moved up could be monetized.

Yeah.

Clearly this guy's not getting a game anywhere.

So yeah, it's a tricky situation.

It shows you what important it is for them to finish, finish in the Champions League spaces.

And, you know, make some cash in the Champions League.

Lionel Messi bags two goals as Inter Miami come from two down to score four times in the second half.

En route to a four to win over Orlando City.

Yeah.

Some kind of Florida Derby.

Yeah.

I think you somehow escaped the ban after that.

He did, of course, after he wanted to confront the referee or what it looks like on the video that we saw.

After that heavy, three-nil defeat in the leg against the layFC.

I mean, the fact that he considered two goals again and the way they played in our first half was worrying again.

And maybe it's not surprising because one Messi is not fully fit.

And yeah, he's still that good in the second half is not fully fit.

Two, when you lose Albert and Busquets like they did in the in between the two seasons.

But never going to be the same anyway.

So, I guess you win, Orlando, who are trying to sign onto an agreement.

Obviously, not very good either.

And his two defeats in two for them.

But at least from the Champions.

It's the first win.

That's the most important.

And then you go again.

I'm a less his explanation, by the way, for not banning him.

Was that he's by far the biggest star we have here.

So I'm just kidding.

Just kidding.

No, they said apparently like he didn't actually enter the referendum.

No, you could see his while I stopped him before he didn't enter the restricted area, whatever.

I just wonder if somebody else had done it.

I don't know.

Who knows?

If I held crisis talks this weekend after Israel and the United States attacked Iran who replied with military actions across the

Gulf and elsewhere.

We sure you've seen all the footage and that.

Yeah, football is obviously relevant when people are being killed.

But Iran's main team have, of course, qualified for the World Cup this summer.

And the women's team are competing at the Asian Cup in Australia, too.

Yeah.

So there's inevitably it's that people are suffering.

People are dying.

People are in danger throughout these countries, which in Qatar, in Saudi and Dubai.

However, let alone Iran and Israel.

And now today Lebanon as well.

However, there's a football dimension to this.

I think FIFA's attitude is, let's see how this shakes out.

Iran FA saying, well, we're not going to come to the World Cup.

I think the important thing to remember here is the Iranian national team.

The men's team, because it has, you know, a hundred year head start over the women's team, but the women's team increasingly, too.

They really represent, they really are a political symbols.

Others have tried to make them political, but they really represent Iranians everywhere, whichever way, however way they feel about the regime, the diaspora around the world.

And I just pray that there is a way to have them at the World Cup.

And for the women who are involved in the Asian Cup in Australia as well, they shouldn't have to answer political questions beyond the obvious.

Somebody asked them when they pointed out, oh, but, you know, they didn't translate her answer in Farsi.

Like, let her play football.

She's not there to give you an opinion about what's happening back home.

So we wait and we see and we hope that this is over quickly with the maximum justice and minimum bloodshed.

Joe, this brings us to an end.

Yeah.

But we got to come back in Thursday.

We got one of the midweek Premier League rounds.

We have the Copa Italia.

We have the Copa de Rey.

Can Barcelona engineer come back?

How about that?

Right. So we're going to be back on Thursday.

Until then, love the game.

Love your neighbor.

Love yourself.

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