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Tools it's a championship quarter by first leg. How about that?

Three away wins in four

Obviously plenty gets stuck into but we're going to start

Ramadrid against Bayern in terms of European royalty history and everything

There's no tie that that that tops this

I'd rather be low. I came into this under pressure. Mm-hmm

He lost two one, but I kind of feel that because of the way the game unfolded with Ramadrid coming back to to get a go back

Yes, I can have

With noir forced into some really big saves

Like it could have been a lot worse for him not just results wise, but just narrative wise

Yeah, yeah, definitely. I thought there's a lot of things that he did in this game tactically that worked to be fair

Even with Mbappe back in the team in in in that way

He even finished us up from the positioning of our very day that midfield three in behind

Bellingham coming on. I thought really had an impact positive impact on the game for Ramadrid and

And yeah, the fight that caught what wasn't there was a massive blow loon in his no noir is no caught what with caught

Why would I've been better?

But against them their hearts they had probably the best team in Europe right now with an incredible firepower

Could shoot up scored more goals as well, but but Ramadrid also should have scored more

Yeah, and let's be clear on this

I think what you noticed so much is at least what I thought was the contract we

Contrast we've said this before and all of other Ramadrid's ills since then has meant that we don't bring it up as much

But this really is a team that will score goals through individual

brilliance and individuals whether whether it's Vini in transition whether it's in Bappe in transition

That threat is always there it never actually goes away unless they're having a bad game you can't I think

Plan on nullifying them

You just have to make sure that at the other end you

Scored of goals manage the ball or whatever and that's why we were talking about fair like I thought

Sure buy and tune a lot about halftime, you know effectively because King goes over and just have yeah

Make the pitch big force them to chase you force them, you know manage that to go lead and see it out

Instead they were on the

They were in the back for it seems crazy narrative-wise. They want to one

Is it just something that is it like one thing that buy and aren't good at doing?

That's just something they don't do for stuff. That's not company style. That's noise is

DNA at all. That's not what he wants the team to do. He wants them to keep going

Scoring a third and to be fair. They were close to I think

Well, I don't think he's just individual for Ramadrid the goal is is a great

Movement from that right hand side with Valverde, Bellingham and Trent and delivery for Mbappé a lot of the

Chances that Mbappé had for example was great and brave ball movement from Ramadrid who I thought

Again with only with pittac in

Bellingham should have started it was not feeling enough to start but with Bellingham

He would have been even better from the start and pittac who's young and an experience and doesn't have the football IQ yet that Bellingham has for example

And you saw the difference when Bellingham came on

But there was some really good stuff on what they tried to do with the ball

Especially the half the last half hour and when Bayern gets a bit tired when their press is maybe not as efficient

They're still going for it all the time with the intensity but the changes that they make

The Serbs are not always as good as the starters and then they get tired naturally although this they run

Nine can more than Ramadrid as a team. That's an extra player on the pitch

Which is crazy really but I think that leaves us with a really interesting second leg to come for sure

Trends cross for was obviously you couldn't make that up

Is tremendous, but then flip side you could say he was at fault for

For the goal on the other end. So I guess this given takes it, but what about manual lawyer because I think last time he was here

He had a nightmare. There's two late Hoselle goals. Yeah

I'm not a lawyer guy not because I dislike him personally, but because you know, he's the historic Germany goalkeeper

But I have there's so much respect at 40 years with his job constantly kind of underthreads rumors about his future this and that

to come up and

He made three say's off of him buffet two of them. I thought were absolutely spectacular. Yeah

That's kind of like personal revenge after what happened before right? Yeah, maybe you're right

Yeah, he he was at four in the semifinal and the two hole where

One of them when he you know tries to play quickly and

Loans the ball forward and the last day and then he came back straight away. It should have done better there

It's funny because at the weekend the five again. It was not that great

But give him banabeo under the lights in the Champions League and it transformed himself

I think it's great when great players screw up and then are given a chance late in their career to kind of go and and make amends if you will

Lots of want to talk about from from Oli say

To go you back. I'm telling him too. We promised you Oli say we were giving you Oli say it's weird

Because kind of over the past sort of 10 15 years all these stats have come out by

And I feel like you know they get they had dropped in like every

Television ever every company has like a stats guy who drops things in there historically

Oli says three assists away from breaking the single season assist record

held by

You're on a guess

Still playing

In North America in North America mess here guys. Yes. I

Apparently I forget nobody tracks it. No, I think Oli says 28 and records 31

Oh, I thought it was 25 or maybe 25

It's probably just isn't a side for messy

It's crazy to think that he scores a budget but Jillian goals and also has the assist record

I can't verify this. I don't know like I trust it because the man on the television says so

Whatever

I look you can say oh, well, it's a lot easier to get a little to rock up all assists when you

When you play with

When you play with Harry Kane and Diaz is prolific and you play on a team that's very prolific. Yeah

I'm sure that's fine. Maybe if Oli say played for Burnley, he would not have this many assists

however

When you watch him play he is so fluid. He is so natural in what he does. He's so smart

ah

Athletically, he had one sprint

You know, we we we we rave. How fast and ballet is and then pop it short. He's not that

But he had one sprint. We just leaves everybody behind you don't expect that from essentially a number 10 type

He's a number 10 playing on the wing

He's he's not too footed not fully too footed, but his weak foot is better than most people's good foot

um

I kind of feel

Like you have a I almost feel like you know sliding doors. Remember they were they were chasing Florian votes

You know at some point

Verts Musiala Oli said you got a carl

They just have so many of these types of players who were chasing them

Yeah, I mean, I think he's got to another level now even the Oli said from Palace who was very good

Compared to this Oli said his version of Oli says

No, we're near

I think physically it's done a lot of work to to get better more powerful

quicker

More I think resilient as well in in contact and jeweled and things like that

Which you can see and I think the confidence also comes with the season that he's having because he's having not just the best season of his life

But one of the best seasons any biomeonic kind of wingers have ever had any kind of wingers

You know if you look at Lemine and that's it. There's two in that kind of on that planet in terms of that position right now

So it's pretty incredible

I think he's a is a is a is a winger not a ten that's playing white

And I've got been of an issue with Decheon playing him as a ten because I think when somebody is that good in one position

You should probably keep him in that position

But that's another debate for the summer and the welcome actually let's have a quick exciting in this debate because I think we aren't

I've seen showed together a while back and you were talking about

Friends up front and I was thinking to myself you were lining up you were mentioning who was playing where right

Anything he was in boppe through the middle like but but whichever way you had it and I'm like

Wow, he's like it felt like the way you described the it felt like almost everybody was playing in a position that they don't play in

At club level or maybe shouldn't be playing in a club level or isn't because

But it'd be king just just run me through the

Yeah, so buckle on the left then bail on the right and then only say as a ten behind in boppe right so

Then bele who's played through the middle yeah a lot and it makes sense because the man's two footed right

And boppe who since beginning of time we said he should be playing on the left

That's his best position. He sacrificed us around Madrid playing through the middle

So it's kind of interesting then he's he's made this kind of unorthodox if you want in some ways

But maybe it's he feels it's the best way to have all four

Yeah, he says it's about connections and things like that which I

I'm happy with you know, there's no problem of you know, all you say is that good he can play anywhere really but

I don't think that affrontative would play lamin as a ten. I don't you know, I mean

I think there's there are positions for some players where you think okay

This is it he's so so so so good

Almost the best in the world in this position while changing it but but you know, you know, why not?

There's also a lot of freedom within the french team

To go back to Elise, I yeah, I just think it's for some of somebody who's so

casual and nonchalant in the day-to-day life to then turn it in on in a game like this and okay

Carrey Rice is not very good

I expect many to start the second leg and that might give

Elise a bit more of a challenge certainly physically

On terms of pace, but yeah, it was a delight to watch. Yeah, I'm imagining with Elise is probably also a function of

He wants him to start

He doesn't want to have sort of a third midfielder midfielder type, right? He wants an attacking midfielder and

therefore

Well, so therefore you'd have to move somebody else to 10 right from from the front if you want all four to start right?

Yeah, yeah, I mean them better you could play essentially a bit like a PhD and him and then back they have that kind of

Which I think it look could be quite cool, but um

On

Aren't it you belling him or not about his fitness?

I mean, he's been back for a while now. He's been back training for a while. He didn't play

Over the international break. No, he should be very well rested. I always surprised then

Surely the logical thing to me would have been

Play him this past weekend

Have him start have him see how he feels. Yeah, if you're not sure that he can last you 90 minutes

Rather than bringing him on and we see he had he had an impact

Yeah, I think he came on with what like 20 minutes to go on the weekend. No, no, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's we

Is these are obviously medical decisions as well the sports signs people come into it as much as our below uh

But it doesn't seem to me to be good use of

Belling we could we could generally be in a situation where I don't know if he's going to start this weekend

But you don't want his first start to be the return lag, do you?

No, no, I think we start this weekend probably this the fact that

He probably would have had an hour in his legs

Against any opponents apart from

Byin and maybe PhD simply for

The intensity that they put in a game and you have to be literally 100 or 110 percent physically fit match their fit

Game fit to I think play against the team like that

Otherwise he shows too much otherwise was the point of starting in him and after after four five minutes

He has to come off

That's probably the reason why he didn't start in that game

But I fully expect him to start this weekend and then certainly more like even more importantly really in the second leg

Did when you look at our below as game plan for this especially in in in the first half when

they

I don't know the I was watching the scam like are they choosing to be reactive

You know take the sting out of Bayern and then hit them

Or do they just buy is buying leaving the no choice

No, no, and I think they were quite comfortable really in defending in the low block and defending the box

If you think if you think about it the two goals come from

Two balls that they lose by trying to play quickly that was part of the game plan to play quickly everything the gold kicks the free kicks

I mean the one of the gold comes from that free kick plane

Being played a bit too quickly by the way

um

To try to catch Bayern because their full backs are so high because you leave up a me cano and tar

One-on-one with vinyan and bapis

So if you move the ball quickly enough

Then you would get in the the buy-and-box very quickly and that's or in the bar in half very quickly

And that's where they in trouble

So the game plan was correct here. Yeah, I think I think there was a lot of good things that they did and again we go back on the

Know your performance

The so I think when they defend in the box they did quite well to be fair to a certain extent

The problem with buy-and-is that you lose the ball or you make one mistake and then they punish you because they're so good going forward

They're so quick Diaz or lisae

Cain

Gnabri i mean Gnabri was run. I know he's the probably the the least good of the top the front four that they have

Pay such a handful to defend against because he goes everywhere

He's got that freedom a bit like what them belly has for phg

He he's a runner. He's such a great runner. And actually, I think when he came off

You saw a bit of a difference from a buy-and-pone of you because nobody really was making the run that sometimes are just not

Served and they just runs for nothing but they unsettled a defense

And that was very good but from an up-and-up point of view

I think there was a lot of interesting things that he did and

Maybe they could have again being paid off a little bit better. Yeah, the only reason I I bring this up is that

I feel like there's something to be of the pit play to your strengths and

I think the issue. Yeah, of course sometimes you don't have any choice but play in a low block

It seemed to me at home

Playing in a low block when you have Trent and Kareta says your fullbacks

It didn't necessarily happen. I mean the

Trent was at fault for

The opening goal. Yeah, I mean it's

I feel like you're putting those guys in a situation where

They can hurt you where we're we're winger can take especially with those wide players, right?

Indias and and Elisa where they can take you on you make a mistake

I don't know I

I mean, I suppose he can say he

I would have wanted to see from Ramadred something more assertive early on to say everything is fine here. We're not playing with fear

Um, I think that would have been fine for a second leg performance

Yeah, obviously depending on the first leg result, you know, because you go back into the whole like me

I do a Sanico and 90 minutes a long time at the Bernabéu

But I feel like it kind of sent a message where they showed

By in a lot of respect and I just wonder psychologically how

This is going to impact them going

You know, I know it yeah, I think they do the same thing but they've been doing this

Kind of diamond midfield. It was Brian at the top of it

When in Bappé was injured we saw that against City when they used the whip really well with Valverde and Vinnie and really

Took apart the City defense in that way

Um, so they they've been doing that again. It's just against buy and it's you know

It's it's obviously the biggest game the most difficult game that you've had all season pretty much

So there had to be even better in certain phases of the games which they were not when they lost the ball and they consider

But again, I think when they defended their box they defended pretty well even the two fullbacks even the defense

Valverde helped a lot and it was almost a back five at times

And that worked. I think it can work again

In the second leg because they will do exactly the same. It's just will know you'll be as good as it was in the first leg

Can can can can remedy it be a bit more efficient in front of gold and instead of scoring just one

score three of the nanchor on target at the heart for example and the two xg that they had

And

Don't lose the ball in those key areas because otherwise they will finish you for sure

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All right enough Ramadred how about some quick hits instead oh god

Paris Saint-Germain roll to a tuna win over Liverpool in their quarter final

Jules you were there. Yeah, I consider him Liverpool didn't even attempt a shot on goal until early in the second half

And probably since your man created a ton of chances

Does this feel like an opportunity missed? Yeah, I don't know if I think opportunities

Maybe a bit strong they they played great they should have scored more goal show and if they had scored three or four of the tie would be

Yeah, exactly a nice not over and they would have to go to Liverpool next week

Um do the same thing again

But be a bit wary of the reaction that maybe Liverpool can do in six days and they would have to transform them

So massively because yesterday it was pathetic what Liverpool offered really from on the slot tactics to the players on the page to Von Dyke

Uh showing his burn on the first goal to

You know not tracking a runner on the second goal all of that all of that like basic error for a team that is the shadow of itself

So Liverpool might turn it around

Next week sure they have a chance because it's only 2-0 when he should have been 4-5

But I don't think PhD sees it as a

Misappointing they would have loved to score more sure

But I think they were very happy with the way they played

I looked at new normal man. This is face when he

Would he it what I think it was the second one of his two countertacks at the end where he just it

He just missed controls him with his week or four and he just says this look of disappointment in his face

Hey, I think it's three. It's pretty much over. I mean it's not unprecedented and stuff

At four as we know nobody's ever come back from four goes down except for once. Yeah, I don't want to mention that

That's triggering on things have chance, you know, but

Yeah, I don't know. I just still leaves you that uncertainty. Yeah, but Liverpool will have to win three nil

Which again is this need to nail and then it's extra time. Yeah, it's a different game

To see they will have to be really much better than what he just did and there was big decision from on the slot gap

It switched to a back three he dropped masala and didn't even bring him on as it said. Are you surprised?

All right, I'm into two minds about this you can do the same as before

And go out try to go toe to toe with them and then you get what you had against man city at the weekend

Where you know half an hour and then the bottom falls out and you get destroyed

So you do something different our Liverpool built for a back three or back five as it was no

They're absolutely not there's no changes. He's got you see he doesn't have any defenders left

Practically on the bench. It's it's risky, but

This looked to me like desperation

What I did not understand is you're getting battered you're only two no down you're getting battered

And you wait until 12 minutes from time against a team that is so much more energy than you do also because you played against men

City at the weekend and you played your strongest 11 whereas

Paris sensor men played on Friday, right?

Uh

And didn't play their best 11

Why wait so long why for the changes then you make a quadruple change and no masala now a sala obviously a billion

Issues, but why turn this into an issue as well. Why turn this into give people another further talking point and other further chattering point

Um, I don't understand that and he said well, no, but we were all defending and most salas better when he's fresh in an attack

I'm like, yeah, maybe he's fresh in an attack. Maybe you get to go on the counter

But this is writing off masala wait. Yeah, I

I don't know if that's if that's necessary to do in such an explicit way

Yeah, I mean, I've been saying for weeks now. I don't think Salash should start should you have come on maybe would have make a difference

I don't think so

but

Regardless it was stupid from slow to think that this could work

I agree with you on changing something but not to this not to a back five and not to come with zero shot on target

0.18 expected goes this I think it's an embarrassment for from a Liverpool football club point of view

This is not who you are really, but I just want to say I know slots gets playing for everything. It's his fault

This is happening. That's happening. The street of her moves is an open like let's burn slots. No, no

But yesterday, so we don't have to be drumming yesterday. He made a master. I was in a mistake that we never worked

But yeah, but how did he think that could work? It was from the beginning as soon as we saw the back five

It was very obvious that this would never work

Look at the game that van die Konate Gomez had they were all over the place because they had to follow their play

It was ridiculous and yeah

I especially liked Konate getting stuck out on the

Exactly. He was never going to work

Fabian Rees hasn't played since late January and according to reports and lekeep and others

Pi sent your mathematical staff has clued into play but he says he's still unwell. He has a boo-boo

Tools you're a medically adjacent more than me. This does not look good from me. This looks good

I don't know I'm not necessary from the outside. No exactly. I don't know there was a knock on his knee

And that thought it would not be too long and then clearly still in pain

With like you know, he's not feeling right completely right. They don't want to take an iris

The right is going to walk up coming up this summer

So I think he doesn't want to take an iris either which I can understand

But then why why go out and tell people he's clear to play that's the part I don't follow

It would they're just they're just quite honest in the the medical report that they have every week every week on who's injured

Who's not injured who is recovering or in rehab?

I think that was just part of just being honest in that way

To be fair, the air emery is playing a such an incredible level right now

I don't have any problem if Fabian wants to take another couple of weeks to come back as long as he comes back

Yeah, exactly

Liverpool find groups are planning a series of protest against a proposed ticket price increase gap

Yeah, so this is going to make people in the US just going to make their heads explode because

The price the ticket price increase

It's 3%

For for the first year and then whatever inflation is after that, right?

So it's not a big ticket price increase

But one thing we know is when this is why there's just different cultures in Europe and the US

They mean it you even talk about this in Europe and we're talking about increasing prices not on the corporates

But on the rank and file

People lose their minds

So if you're really increasing these tickets by 3% ask yourself Liverpool

Is this really worth it? Is it going to move your bottom line because this is not a huge part of your

Of your revenue base

Um, I'm not surprised is this reaction hopefully doesn't spill it over into more negativity that

Obsets the team and in their hunt for for top five finish

Barcelona followed home to let me go Madrid

Two now jules has changed very quickly at the end the first half when pao Kubarsi was sent off and Juliane

Alvar is delivered a gem of a free kick goal. Let's start with that correct decision

I yes, so we disagree on this I think because you think he's so red. I don't think that

Giovanni had any control of the ball whatsoever and the ball is behind him

How can this be a red card when the ball is behind the player but the boss

Behind them, but he knows where the ball is he can't control the ball. He doesn't need to control the ball

What the boss so the ball is not under control from him the ball is not his okay, so yeah, but the ball okay

So Kubarsi

runs into the back of his line, right?

Yeah, yeah, so semonica runs across without the ball

Well, semonica is running forward. The ball comes in. It's just behind him. It's behind him

He tries this he tries what looks like some sort of weird controlling backyard misses it completely

Yeah, as he does that Kubarsi runs into the back of him, right? Yeah, I just look at this this if Kubarsi doesn't touch him

The ball goes across

Simeone runs across and gets the ball. Yeah, the board is coming from his right hand side. Yeah

He's going on the right. He's gonna he's gonna turn and go to the left. There's nobody else there. So he can't score, right

We mean he can't score of course he can score. No, he doesn't have the ball

No, but he runs to the

Yeah, he's gonna go to the ball. He's gonna go cover the ball

Yeah, he's not but he can't cover the ball because Kubarsi's running to him and knocked him over. He doesn't have the ball

It doesn't matter. He doesn't matter. Of course he does when they don't have the but you can't because the matter

It's not a red card. It's not you're not denying him a goal scoring opportunity. That's that's where it is here

Is he gonna score?

He's not going to score. He doesn't have the ball. Exactly. He doesn't have control of the ball

So he can't it could this for me. It can't be it's a freaky. It's a yellow card

But it's not bad. It's not a dog show

Exactly for me because the board is behind him. He doesn't even have control. It doesn't even know where the board is

Oh, we disagree. Yeah, yeah, but I think you know, that's just the way I

We're gonna have a great amazing. I've been so critical of him. Yeah, yeah, so bad for so long

And then he comes up with stuff like this. Yeah, incredible

And for what is not a good season for him really when you know how good he is

And he's had those really bad patches of games where he didn't score. Sometimes he didn't even start

And yet he's in this game

Outstanding really outstanding not just the freaky but all the work that he did up front as just very special

Where do you stand on what flick was asking for the red cards?

For my favorite. I mean, we saw aston Villa and Tyrone Mings and Dibu Martinez being

Session of a penalty right for this and a year cards

I think you should have been the same it was keep the kickoff had been given the ball was in play

He took it with his hands. We're gonna disagree again because we also saw Arsenal against Bayern

Yeah, and that was not sanctioned the year before look

The referee I

I spoke to somebody who's familiar with referees and UEFA referees at the after the Arsenal Buying thing

It's just like the referee it's not about the whistle the referee decides when the game starts

Right, so it's in one thousand percent up to him. He can whistle

He can start and he said no the game actually hasn't started yet

So it's entirely the referees call

So I also think it's pretty chancy to go and complain about something stupid like this when you obviously know what the intent was

Now is there any consistency with the Mings call

Probably possibly I don't know what was the intent from Attatica Madrid's point of view

I didn't think it was obviously the waste time I would assume right so

I mean like

And penalty very clear like because then we do it again then then prove it stops the ball

Play it back to Mousseau

Stopped the ball and then the referee books him for time wasting but he doesn't award a penalty because they then that's a flick wanted

I don't know. I think he has there was a bit of a point that somewhere

God were you surprised about how the two managers

reacted to the sending of a halftime so I really was

And then I can see the logic from both of them

Um from flicks perspective. I saw okay. All right. This sucks where I go down

But you know what we're a better team. We beat them just last weekend

Let's go, you know, we're not going to be defensive. We'll still give them mean opportunities

Gotta take out Levantowski

But I'll put ballers in midfield keep the ball make them chase us and see if we can get a mistake

If not I'm confident that we can that we can beat them

And you know level everything because we're a better team

Instead, what does he do? He takes off paydry now paydry might have had a knock. I don't know

But I say that wait just make some sense and you send on gavi who's been injured forever in in his place

I then I realized that the second half it turned into it was crazy

They had like 65% possession and they kept going for it and going for it

I don't have a problem with attacking football, but guys it's first half you can play your attacking football in the second half

um

Equally from Simeone. I said you got to take the game to them. You you've got Eric Garcia and Gerard Martin at the back

You have Danny Olimore and Gavi in midfield. You should be overrunning them. You've got ballers

Now both can say they were vindicated

Because by said only in the end held I'd like you to just one shot. Yeah, Simeone can say

Oh, yeah, but that one shot by the only living sore loss and captivity was a goal. Yeah, so now we take a two goal lead

um

I think

So they both surprised me both no more about football than I do

It kind of worked out for both of them um

But yeah, I don't that's what makes this game fun, right? Yeah, you were surprised too, don't

That paid him off

For peddry he wanted Gavi to go and press Gavi press is much better than peddry

He knew that I would have a love that why are you pressing in the first half of a game when you've got the second

Let's go. I think I but they could have come back in that game at one. They're done definitely

But come back in the second leg

But why not come back in the first leg if you can because if you get it wrong because you've got

You're silly defend. You've got cancello. You got all these guys at the back wanting to be defending

And you lose three or four now, but he's also the style gap. You can't just change

I'm not playing to be defensive. I'm just saying he does what you kind of saying and you could fight for Simeone

Simeone again planned for this game was just to defend. I 11v 11 the park the best they defended

I think they had

Four or five touches in the Barça box in the whole first half

They had five touches in the second half. I 11v 10 that was the game plan

It kind of worked although I think at times they were a bit lucky

But they go home with the Tunnel lead and they should they should advance really

I'll next strike from the best on earth kaihoverts gave arsenal one no win away to sporting

Jules, they felt a bit cruel towards the home team. Yeah, I thought both are supporting and they're good team

We know they're good team. They they've they've been really really fun to watch this season in the champions league

They can do a bit of everything and quite well

If they have to defend deep if they have to attack in transition if they want to keep the ball

They've got really good players. They could do a lot of things

Huleman not starting not being there. He was suspended for the game was a massive blow because he's the guy in

Damage field and the captain that makes everything ticking

So he plays a massive role in his place. Yeah, yeah, which didn't do too badly, but it's not the same

So yes, it's a big cruel

Although I also have very good at being very efficient in the two boxes

Raya you forwards. It was a bit laborious at times show in the way they move the ball

But they also didn't want to take too many risks as we know and in the end that one moment of brilliance got them the goal and the win no

Bukayosaka in no way in or Tim burn didn't have so forced to have the real martinota guard either

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know you go down this route and you need a really good goalkeeper, which

They have yeah because sticking with us on gab you've been raving about David Raya all year

Remind us why he's not spain number one. Yeah, so if I should know when the champions of this year

They need to build the statute of David Raya because those saves were were incredible

Why is he not spain's number one? We see this happen all the time is like a guy goes abroad young you becomes really good

The elephant is a bit of a traditionalist with a nice Simone. I think there's a strong case to be made for drawing Garcia as well

That's how they view it

But when it comes to remaining calm and

Shotstopping. I mean, I think Raya is much better than than than when I see him on

John Garcia is different because of the defenders ahead of him. I think he's getting a raw deal. I think he's exceptional. Yeah

Joe's the first legs are over

You know what that means. Yeah, I'm to play the percentage games percentage to go through

Bayern against Ramadreid Bayern two one up

From the first leg. Yeah, we'll go 60 40 in this one

Because I think buying our outstanding, but they were so like like an NBA team

They also can leave themself very exposed and I think there's something there for Ramadreid to exploit it might not be enough

But I think 60 40 is fair

I mean a little lower 55 45 then Arsenal against

Sporting club the portugano. Yeah, Arsenal won all up from the first leg. I think it's

It's difficult not to see awesome going through at the Emirates

On Wednesday

I'll go 80 20. I think supporting a good team. They're much better at home than they are away from home too

As we saw for example against Bordeaux glimps

And Arsenal at home especially when they have the lead especially when they can control things even more than when they usually do

And they are

The best in the world really so I have to go for 80 20. I think so far. It's suspended for the second leg

I think that's a big blow for for sporting. I think

Arsenal's under backs actually kind of struggle to get a hold on him. I know Catamo

and

Got a lot of the attention. I thought that was problematic. It's timber going to be back. Don't know

Ben Wayne makes me really nervous too, so but still I was surprised when I'm going 85 15

Gabriolta now I get to come and treat Barcelona and that tweeted win away from home for athletes in the first leg

Yeah, so look one of the big themes for me that we're hearing from our colleagues

Especially sit low over and over again was just was getting angry at all the stereotypes that people are throwing out about

Grady dark arts super defensive Atlético Madrid and Barcelona and the Highline and look

And I think that's nonsense

I think there may be some relic of that left in there and obviously Barcelona and more attacking sides of the Madrid

But I don't trust that let you to go out there and simply park the bus for 90 minutes if they do that

I don't think they're going to advance

So I think this is going to be somewhat more open game if we see Luminium out

Did you see that the one of them when he beats like six players?

Might be at the weekend as well

My boy who JD who we did when we did well for a while then he got

Some point which by the way, there's some commentator on television

I don't I'm not going to name him because I don't know who he is

Kept calling him Rosary. I'm like bro

Watch our league of coverage learn to pronounce a name about whatever

Um

Yeah, I'm going to go Atlético Madrid

60% because it is two goals all black might be back

Uh, I got Atlético Madrid 60. I'll go lower than that

I'm not far from thing is still a 50-50 game

I think if I click you can win to need in Barcelona. I boss. I can win to need in Madrid

But I'll give it 55-45 because I still think that

El Cholo can park the bus and it could manage that lead so

And the fully on offer as scores goals

Exactly

And finally got Liverpool against PhD and that to nearly deficit from the first leg for Liverpool

Yeah, I said I feel so much better about this if I were a Paris Saint-Germain

If I'd gotten that third that is such a game changer

Can you see a situation where something happens a mistake Liverpool score early and then all of a sudden

It's the anfield roar and they push on and

He sends on sale a minute 88

Yeah falls over in the box converts the penalty goes to extra time

I then saffron of

Throws it into his own net

I the saffron of factor

And the anfield factor to me are the two reason and then the puffin of was fine. Yes, yeah

Was really challenged very much on target

But it's gonna be different and yeah in this return like

And that's why I obviously a star of Paris Saint-Germain has favorites

But I'm gonna go 65-35 because of anfield and because of saffron of yeah 60-40

I think he's is fine for pxg. Yeah, yeah, because I think I you're right

I think they would have to be better. They would have to rely they can't be that bad again shortly

So what crazy lineup could you choose this time?

What about a three two five loads genius idea which one next?

Ahmad yellow has endorsed Michael Carrick to get the Manchester United job on a permanent basis jewels

Obviously, what's he gonna say? No, I don't want Carrick to be here, right? So there's no good answer here, but in general

We can't escape

All the the solshar experience. No, I think United know this and

They're gonna go through the in these are proper interview process, right? Yeah, they have to yeah

Yes, they have to and Carrick will be part of that

He will have a chance to show his project like the other candidates

I the players like him a lot the fans like him because he's obviously a former great player of the club

Also because he's done a really good job since it took over

Ashton's just not enough for United to say okay, no problem

We give you a five-year contract especially with what happened before although Carrick is a better manager than Solshkar will ever be

There's no that about that

So you know on that

Okay, I get that

I would give it more to Carrick than to Solshkar ever but still I think there will be a process

But you know what I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of that process Carrick gets the job sure

But they would be a process. Yeah, no, I think I completely agree what I find interesting though about what's going on like

If United have like a wobble if they have a couple bad performances

I wonder if the whole like commentary at of ex-artional of ex-United players in the media who are so powerful

If they come out and they say oh well, but you know Carrick needs to know he's in charge at the players to follow him

Given the job now blah blah blah he's earned it like they did last time with Solshkar which yeah, which led to I think basically a couple wasted years

So United or if they all remember what happened before is I don't know let the string play out like Carrick be evaluated on his merits and take it from there

Let's rewind to Mondega Machia Paritano's cause late and Napoli be Milan 1-0

Yeah, I was very happy for him after the Bosnia situation

I think this pretty much knocks Milan out of the the title hunt. So I mean wherever

In there Napoli can still can still hope a little bit

Wasn't a great game a lot of that had to do again

I laid it away from home determined. Oh, I'm gonna keep it tight wait for something to happen now bro. Don't work that way

And so I think

If Napoli finish first or second, they will have fully earned it and it's a big star for them given

all the injuries they've had

Now sticking with Napoli and Daniel Conte means no words when talking about the daily job

Well, it's right that I be among the candidates if I were in charge. I'd put myself on the short list

Jules, what do you make of this? I looks to make up that he wants the job

You think go back there. We mentioned that already on Monday show

He did a very good job there when he was there the first time in the euros 2016 with a not really talented squads

I'll run this team. He did this thing at Napoli

You know winning the title and it's not easy to work there. There are entries all of that blah blah

He probably thinks right now. I can have I'm not saying that the Italian job is you know as rewarding as

Napoli or another club

But there's something interesting I think for him to do in terms of rebuilding in terms of bringing more momentum

reconnecting with the fans

Getting more success again, and I think he probably looks at it and think like yeah, I fancy this

Uh, here is funny is the job has been all sorts of inquests in the Italian media and stuff like that

And yeah, we talked about how blockages sort of

Young players come through they're actually pretty good

But then they don't make the jump into the first team with the same regularity as they do elsewhere

um

I said the stat where I think it's over the last five years

If you look at all the youth tournaments under 17 under 19 under under 20 uh, that's obviously the World Cup under 21

Italy have qualified for 25 tournaments

That's more than any other European country including England. It's just one more than England

Uh, it's three more than France. So the players are obviously kind of getting there the question of one of few as well

I think obviously also one of few

So it's a question of how do you make then the leap forward uh into into the first team

You mentioned the World Cup Genoa 2-0 and they move within the point of fourth place gab

Yeah, this is a solid win um, they gave up a stupid penalty late which which did get a cardio coming in coming on and saving it

They think with the forgotten man um

Jonathan David uh, getting the start of front. He played pretty well

Yeah, but it still hasn't scored for ages

I gave it like I think Spaletti kind of understands this dude's gonna be around next year

Yeah, and rather than going all old-school and millake or yielded this to the middle

um

But yeah, you've been wrapping this one up early west in McKenney scoring again. He's in phenomenal form

um

They need this top four finish jules

Sticky with you ve plenty of buzz surrounding a possible move for Alison

Liverpool recently exercises option year. Uh, he was due to be a free agent this summer. So now it's 2027

Yeah, is this does this makes sense if you you ve?

I think he there he would be available this summer for

You would think quite a small fee. I don't think he'll be anything extra. Let's put a number on it using the mic mignon scale

If you remember miking on a year left 20 million was 20 million chalsey chalsey ended up bidding a million last year

Like that. Yeah, which is so that's why they're doing so well with Robert Sanchez and your boy Philip. Yes

I think something like that for Alison between 15 and 20 would make sense

I think if you use it with the experience three years older than mignon as well

Yeah, yeah, it's a bit older but still you know as we saw with no earlier

We've got keeper. It's a little bit different in terms of longevity

I will definitely we like the Gregorio. There's no problem with him

But this would be an upgrade. I prefer pity him, but yes

You have to look at his fitness

Yeah, you have to look also if Brazil if he starts a Brazil and they win the World Cup under collect or do so really well

Might that then change the dynamic

At Liverpool as well. Might that change you know the opportunities available to Alison, but obviously

As far as

This is venture in Europe say Diaz where the magic began. Yeah

Yeah, first of all, I wouldn't spend that much in the goalkeeper

I would keep going down this line of

Get the team to improve incrementally, but hey

According to the collagen at least 9 primarily clip don't have phone of shot sponsors for next season after the new regulation

Banning bookmakers logos. Gabi's this a big deal. It's not a big deal. They will get them

Obviously, by the way, you can still have bookmakers as sponsors. It's just taking on this league

Yeah, and stuff like that on at the front. I think it's good if they did this. It's not something anti gambling. It's just something that

So many of these bookmakers were bookmakers that don't even operate in the UK. So their bookmakers that

Delegislation and the regulations surrounding them many of them is really really murky

There's some great rewarding out there from jossimons stuff like that

I don't want to say anything more in case these guys get litigious

But you can go and do your own research on some of these guys

Plus these stupid names. I mean man bet. I mean, well, what is that like like a

Grinder or something?

Or or or the bet Anna I bet Anna was a slightly different, but still it sounds funny to me

Um, it's not a big deal

The bookmaker that the clubs put out and I love it when they put out numbers out of context and they kind of

It does the opposite of what like who we we we the clubs have lost up to 80 million pounds

And I make yes, and then you get a new sponsor and then you make up most of it

And by the way losing 80 million pounds spread out among nine clubs. Yeah, not that much money

You know within the context of the game. So now I think it's not a big deal at all

That's your city's attempt to have their six point penalty for violating profit and sustainably rules was unsuccessful tools

And this is a team that won the primarily not that long ago won the FA Cup not that long ago

A possibility that they'll be in the third tier is very real. Yeah

Another relegation potentially for Leicester the currently 22nd in the championship five games to go

So it's not impossible, but

they

Are struggling they're struggling for form despite having a huge wage bill despite having still for some of those players

Premier League calibre players really is unbelievable that they might be in league one next season

And I don't know what would happen to this football club if they were

relegated again

And 10 years after winning the the Premier League as we say in the most incredible way

Being down to the 30 of English football now if you were a luster fan

Would you be angry at the Premier League and the FA and and lofable league in this case

For enforcing the regulations definitely not as the way your club had been run

You'd be angry at the chief executive and the owners

That they gave to players remember last season

I think in in the whole of Europe there were the 16th highest wage bill

16th highest wage bill in the championship see I would love these people

I'm assuming all these people except for the owners who don't talk

I've lost the club I've left the club now, right? Yeah, I would love for these people

I would love for the for the fans to I mean, maybe they do I don't know. I don't watch the championship

But I think these are the people should be held to count these are the people that really really hurt the club

Absolutely, they've got an amazing training run one of the best in the country and yet they'd be playing in league one potentially next season

Also back on Monday in Italy gab come over hell nil nil outing is there still fourth

But the lead of a fifth is just one point night gab

And the loss is to jet that they might not get to play in Europe anyway, even if they do qualify

Yeah, 132 million euros in losses last season

um

I would assume it's going to be the same if not higher this season

Maybe higher because they have to pay Sergio Roberto and more at that as well

um

Their owners seem very chilled out about this

Uh, they talk about how well, but we're not a football club

But it's a lifestyle brand and we make money from merchandising and this at that and like yeah, bro

But you still have a stadium that holds like barely 12,000 p-hats like how are you going to make this up?

um

I think what works in their favor and it's going to be the test is

If you haven't been in Europe for is is the so-called voluntary settlement

agreement which is if you haven't been in Europe for a long time

um

You can come out and say okay, look

This is our five-year plan. These are targets. We've exceeded them. Obviously at the beginning

But can we strike a deal where we promise to

Hit this target next year and that target the year after that and obviously the losses have to come down and blah blah blah

Um, they're very confident that they can do that

Maybe they can then can they stick to it? I don't know. I I know they they have like five PR companies working for them and they go on about George Clooney and Lake Cuomo guys

If you go to Cuomo game, you're not going to be sitting next to George Clooney most likely, right? Like I don't I really don't get this

I really don't understand the business model

Um, they say oh, but we do so well on social media and we we've got all this merch and people people visit Cuomo

I mean get you move visit Cuomo, but

It's Cuomo. I mean with all due respect like it's not Venice. Yeah, right?

Venice Venetia tried to do this not that long ago. Those are the crappy stadium. They're freaking Venice

They get like 50 times the tourists that Cuomo get. Yeah, I don't see people walking around with Cuomo merch. Yeah, it was cool

I mean, but extremely cool. I don't know how much money you make off the merch frankly, right? Um

So I don't know. I'll be really curious to see how this point points out

FIFA have opened an investigation on some of the Islamophobic singing in Spain's friendly against Egypt

There's a separate civil investigation too

Yeah, um, this is from a Catalan law enforcement because it is crack crime. Yeah, allegedly what happened there

This is inevitable, right? Yeah, we said as soon as we reported on it after that friendly match in Barcelona

Remember if you don't remember or if you haven't seen it

some

Part of the stadium spanish fans were jumping up and seeing the song like if you don't jump your Muslim

Which is obviously not on and not allowed in not just in the football stadium

Anyway, really so that's right and

Again, I don't know how you punish those people. I don't know where you go from that

But at least it's good that they're looking into it. That's usually yeah, I think what you want to see here is you want to

Identify people. I mean, you can know them though. Sorry. How does the Spanish FA, but yeah, but I

I would assume

Certainly in some countries you know who's bought tickets in that area. Yeah, you have cctv

um

I'm glad fee for taking this I

Taking this seriously this falls in the same category just as homophobic chanting as racist chanting

um, and as we said we praised the mean amount for coming out and saying like hey, you know, um

I wasn't jumping

The world has changed guys

Moria Laxicago is one of the major cities that will not be hosting games at the workup this summer and local newspaper

Long Kets has revealed why they put that guy. It gave me that question because yeah, I want to do the pronounce line

Yeah, yeah, I'll get and Moria

Well, it's interesting right because people wonder why don't the biggest cities go in hostess and and Montreal

Like Chicago in the US obviously major major cities a lot of football fans there

and

So they obtained some of the conditions and they argue and I don't I believe this is accurate

That every city had to subscribe or every stadium at the subscribe to to the same conditions and

In their case they would have had to put in a natural grass field

They would have had to introduce a temporary retractable roof over the Olympic stadium

Which by the way is municipally owned I believe

Um, they said you couldn't have any events there at all

Between April 19th and July 19th, which is the day after the World Cup uh final

You couldn't have any events at all in the city in the week before the World Cup final in the week after the World Cup

Very mind the World Cup final is not even that it played in a different country

Um, and this meant obviously they couldn't

Would have been a problem for the Canadian Grand Prix. There's a famous jazz festival in Montreal. I don't know. Jazz isn't my thing

Um, I think said we would have lost so much money on this. It's

And it's gonna be really interesting the other cities if if FIFA really did drive such a hard bargain. Yeah

Um, how do you think they're gonna make up the money? I mean, it's not you know if you're LA

Not such a big deal. You have other stadiums or if you're in New York or whatever

But for some of these others just really is a massive massive

massive imposition and

I think there's a whole financial side to this World Cup and this story's gonna run and run

Legendary Romanian manager Miselle Luchescu has passed away at 80 years of age. Jules tributes are pouring in

put his career and impact. Yeah, yeah really really sat there for Romanian football

But I think for World football as well. What a great servant to the game. He's been

Incredible. He was still the Romanian national team head coach during the right now

You know during the international break he fell ill and then things

After that got worse very very quickly

But it's been probably between the time they play because it was a decent play. It was a Romanian international for example and then coaching

Yes, you say Gabi died at 80. He would have spent 60 years on the football pitch maybe even more

Was successful everywhere he went from Romania to Turkey

To Russia and then to Ukraine where he really fell in love with the the country the football over there to the point I even

During the invasion of Donbass he stayed when he was the Shakhtar manager stayed and lived there

Stayed with his players stayed with the fans and everybody involved with our football club

An incredible guy really

The football was also very good as well as the trophy. I think that's why he will live behind

Yeah, you know he won the UEFA Cup of course, of course, then it's famously

It's fine. I think

He didn't really make he didn't really coach a big club in

And say in the West and in so called me if I live with one exception he went to Inter

Last three months didn't work out

Prior to that

What stands out for me is when he did come to the last he and obviously there was a iron curtain and all these things that made it more difficult

He chose to go to Italy

At the time in Sadia was the best league in the world and

He motivated it by saying in part

Art and culture and you know, there's more UNESCO world heritage sites here than anywhere else or whatever

And he bounced around all these smaller teams, but he really had an impact at peace at Brescia especially

I wonder how and he brought a type of football that was actually was was was very

Very attacking very much based about what do we do with the ball at a time when Italian football back then was mostly really reactive

Yeah, this is even before sacking. So

Just just a giant of the game who who marched as they say by by his own drummer

Yeah, the Bosnian ball boy was told Jizio Donaruma's notes before the penalty

Shooter in the Italian Bosnian Italian game the play of work up final. I don't know if you remember that but I said that he would auction them the notes for charity. Are you okay with this?

um

Sure, you do whatever you like with them. I mean you want that to what went through

I don't think the notes are the reason that Bosnian won the shootout

I also did some degree. I'm not being funny here. I'm all for

You know spate houseery and whatever. I don't think ball boy should get involved in this whether

It's the combinations final or this going and taking somebody's thing or with the nonsense that Hannah Hampton said about taking the water bottle

And then nobody that you really do it whatever it's just not it's not your place. Yeah

But hey whatever at least the money might go to charity. I wonder what kind of loser is going to actually going to go and

Put money into this you better off just making direct donation

Joseph brings us to an end

Yeah, but we're going to be coming back to you on Monday because there's a big big weekend ahead

Including but not limited to Manchester City's trip to face Chelsea exactly. Yeah, uh until then

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