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[Music] hello and welcome back to S Spotlight with your host Jake and mat you know what time it [Music] is I can’t tell you guys enough how much you’ve been my internal monologue when thinking about football for the last year amazing we get to record while drinking some wine Jake and I will have a very speci soft spot for us we love we love them stop zooming in on that leg face bro going you exposing me because you’re going to make me [Music] break hello and welcome back to another episode of Sy Spotlight this is episode 154 I’m with your host Jake and Matt and we’re going to be covering all the events of match day 17 in Sera a with our new format yes our new format should I just get into that immediately we’re no longer going to do a game by game rundown because we’re always tight for time at the end we get carried away with some of the games um and it also doesn’t really allow us to sit back and have more conversational um stuff for you guys it’s more presenting so what we want to do with this format is less presenting um and more discussion we still go through the rundown and we’ll actually add some more information to the rundown some more conversation to the rundown as well well but we will be talking about bigger picture things we’ll talk about the title race we’ll talk about the relegation battle we’ll talk about the Roman teams so on so forth yes um every time we post one of our specials that are always more conversational people react um positively positively and we thought why not give it a go see see how it goes um obviously you don’t need to worry we’ll still be focusing a lot on the smaller teams because that is our passion over here that is us that’s s Spotlight yes we’ve just come back from our holiday of course we missed um inter six lat yil which was quite crazy we missed Shay Adams scoring from half pitch we missed Milan wearing really cool kits in a nil nil board dra to Genoa we were watching get in a really weird restaurant actually a very strange restaurant yes with the guy from the bar with this guy came up to us but i’ had never seen him or met him before he went hi I’m the guy from the bar he was our waiter like I’m the guy from the bar obviously English not being his first language but that was just hilarious um and we also missed the first ever Indonesian goal in Ser this absolute [ __ ] J it says against you vender two2 draw absolute [ __ ] and we missed the dogs walking out for the Milan Verona game yes but that’s right now so oh no we didn’t miss it we haven’t missed it yet yeah but and we won’t now cuz you mentioned it exactly um thank you very much to our patrons um the patron list has gone has become quite long as well so from now on we have a new incentive we’re going to have our patron of the week okay um this will of course encourage more um engagement not that we need more engagement in the chat but but I think it would be it would be quite interesting um shall we give our first patron of the week bro award our first patron of the week award is going to go to my Nemesis Peter and it’s for creating his own Customs s Spotlight merch with our artwork and it looks insane so Peter you are our patron of the week thank you very much brother and we we love that you’re um sporting and advertising us uh wherever you’re going um and then we also have a runner up no have a run there an honorable mention to um Alan Alan of course who broke down the for L interview that happened a while back that came out recently and he broke it down in new chat um we’re not going to get into it too much over here saved us a 40 minute video so thank you very the Americanization of of AC Milan exactly and if you guys are new here um and you don’t have $3.99 a month to spare and become a patron and join the fantasy league and get to chat in the chat with us um at least do give us a five star rating wherever you’re getting your podcast follow us on Instagram Tik Tok Twitter and subscribe to us on YouTube DM us we love engaging with you guys um so do get in touch with us if you have any questions or if you just want a little culture chat yes and the winner of our fantasy league will win a free kit exactly of their choice of their choice yes you can an official kit you can pick Milan you can pick Veneta you can pick Lua and if you can’t order it and deliver it to you we’ll just send you the money okay exactly exactly so shall we exchange our gifts ah fantasy update yes sorry um we’ve got a new name brother Jake is so excited yes I’m getting a gift bro of course I’m excited um Joey D is in first place and once again he’s changed his name to something brilliant Johnny Bravo Johnny Bravo that’s absolutely brilliant Renegades are in second while Peter is in third exactly so if you guys missed it why are you and Jay giving each other gifts basically every occasion every Christmas every birthday Jake and I get each other football kits with a player name at the back just some uh player that either have been admiring some team we’ve been admiring um I’ve gotten Jak saponara kit at fantina and the past jig’s gotten me an insia kit for Napoli because people know that those are two players that will have a strong liking to um last year I got you a cop miners Atalanta kit then we’ve got so many Niche ones over here yeah you got me a scalvini one so last year it was two atlantas we had um a feeling that we’re getting each other the same kid this year um you guys know because we told you in the last episode while the other person was covering their ears our girlfriends no they said it’s not the same kid but I don’t trust them that’s do our rock paper scissors um and the winner gets the kit first sure okay Rock Paper Scissors Shoot Rock Paper Scissors Shoot this is going to be the rest of the I get the kit first oh my God so I assume none of neither of us have wrapped it right no bro the FedEx piece of paper mine in a box so switch over to YouTube guys for this part I’ll try my best to do some commentary in case is handing Matthew the Box exactly so okay I I’m holding a box right now should I do a prediction hey yeah prediction prediction maybe like Nikas Com or some [ __ ] that’s a nice guess that’s a nice guess open it in front of the camera oh yes SC it what do you see what do you see I see black I see green Green Oh there’s pink way who is it no way it’s a mean kit and let’s see who’s at the back oh rers and it’s long sleeve rers [ __ ] love I was going to get you the new the Vintage one for the 125th anniversary but it has no name it only has the it only has the number at the back no bro this is [ __ ] brilliant thank you so much man no and rers you couldn’t have gone wrong with rers of course he’s Bing out and thank you very much problem since I bought it he hasn’t stopped scoring as well I’m going to take this off immediately the fen way that’s and I’m going to put this on so my my guess was incorrect I’m put this bad boy on so BR second while he gets it on hopefully it fits you well there we go at that I can’t believe I have a reinder skit man this is insane there we go it’s a nice one H it’s a nice it’s an amazing kid bro it’s an amazing one that looks that looks respect and I mentioned to you I’m like once just randomly I go wow reinder 14 long sleeves that’s why cuz I remember you specifically saying reer 14 long sleeve like right it has to be that then oh this is insane bro thank you thank you so much pleasure pleasure please what’s your prediction what do I guess it bro I’m going to predict Leno Lua okay all right here we are fed Xbox right there all right I’m opening it up it’s a par Mar kit no way [Laughter] okay okay Dennis man St man no it’s an bunny bro this is amazing this is amazing dude that looks insane it’s so cool manaz it’s really really cool 98 is actually a dope number it’s really really cool man the Manion for people who don’t follow football like why is that guy got man bro it’s hilarious I showed key and she’s like turn it around let me it properly like his man r at the back this amazing bro I I don’t have a pet so thank you exactly exactly and they’re they’re Timeless team so they are absolute instant classic oh and the espresso as well delicious look at this man I love it a I love my kit there we go bro who did it best oh my God bro it’s sick it’s sick it’s sick I was so happy with it me let’s [ __ ] go let’s go show to do exactly shall we get into the rundown now the rundown yes let me have a sip of this all right I we just did that like open GI cool Milan took on Verona away from home and they edged a narrow Victory thanks to a bit of brilliance by fana and reinders in the 56th minute the only moment the only good moment honestly um fana played like this defense splitting ball perfectly down the middle and reers finished it off perfectly and apparently that was Michael Jordan’s celebration it’s what he’s been doing when he did against Real I told yo look what a [ __ ] house he’s doing the celebration um apparently I don’t know um lovely finish what a natur amazing finish amazing finish and again reinders in that number 10 role um obviously we saw terano start alongside fafan and the holding Midfield role which added quite a bit of stability to the team um and in place of obviously the injured pul isick Le went off injured early as well Ruben LOF cheek is injured I think reinder is over there because of how good he is close to goal um in a fona system is probably the way to go I don’t know if the guy should be terano um but to me he had quite a solid show I was going to say Teran on the pivot against um his former team when where apparently he didn’t quite get on with his teammates as well I think he put on a he put on a pretty good display I agree um he didn’t stand out which is didn’t make exactly many terrible mistakes in that position to be honest if you don’t notice the player but you’re dominating position it’s a good sign yeah um yes as you mentioned of course Milam were missing many offensive weapons and pul and Morata for example Leo had to leave the pitch in the first half as a precaution to an injury which isn’t serious thank God but it is um important to mention that Milan had six Defenders playing when Le went off jenez Chia gabia Royale terano and Theo yes it was quite slow and uninspired as a performance but I think the important thing here was to get the three points and Milan did it especially after a nil nil draw to Gena um it’s it’s the the three points were important the thing is it it doesn’t quite inspire you the way these three points were gained or earned because it was a moment of Brilliance that an individual moment a piece of Vision by fana wasn’t like a team maneuver that that led to the goal or something like that you know it was more of a moment of improvisation I feel uhhuh however it is like um it’s good to see that it’s not a a goal that required 20 passes in the buildup to try split open the team it’s good that Milan have those two players that that can just with with two simple touches it’s in the back of the net it’s very disappointing because Verona they they’re always cut open through the middle we know that that’s where Verona struggle you see the way teams score past them the way that inter put all those goals past them just by running through the middle um Mila managed it once in the game they only saw an opportunity for it once faf is always trying these passes out of six he pulls three off let’s say has a 50% you never know where the pass is going to go um but when he pulls it off like that and when you have Reyers in that position because the strikers have been struggling so much for Milan um Abraham and Morata Jesus Christ they cannot score a goal to save their lives so reers came and clutch over there absolutely and we always knew who was going to be him right if it’s going to be someone to save Milan in that game who was going to be him the form he’s on is absolutely spectacular um I wonder if the substitution played a part um in the goal um of course davidovic was replaced in the 46th minute because he had um a yellow card and Dan Dan luk was brought on Dan L Dan danich Dan L no but it’s not really H it’s I so yes that guy um he came on and um there was a little bit of a gap left it was only 10 minutes after he came on the mean scor so maybe they exploited the fact that he was still finding his rhythm perhaps um yeah but yeah three points will take them absolutely and then after that there’s also um there was also Torino nil bologna too um it’s it’s bolognia are really sneaking up on people right now they’re they’re continuing this Stampede that they’re currently on that is really going under the radar and over here dinga got his first Sera goal a few second after coming on for Castro um po also find the net against his former employers that’s his second goal in the league and third in all competitions Torino on the other hand they continue to struggle they failed to test the the goalkeeper in any way shape or form they got zero shots on Target in this game van was also incredible um because um he saved a penalty in this game he Saed cast penalty um and he was just insane throughout he is um on the verge of a big move Van van it has to happen now cuz he’s been good for what three seasons now for a season he was more like a a fun player kind of this cult um cult hero in Torino you know for sah fans to enjoy but nowadays he’s just a dominant he’s hit a new level and and it’s there’s always this breakthrough keeper every season in Sera last year obviously it was Vicario and he got an incredible move to Spurs I’m hoping this guy stays in Syria and and serbians do typically tend to enjoy pursuing a career um in Ser you see a lot of Serbian players fitting into Italy and and enjoying the lifestyle of of Italy so hopefully he does get to stay there if not I mean there are a bunch of teams in the world that that could really use a keeper like Vana firstly he his salary demands must not be crazy because he’s been making a Torino salary his entire profession a KIRO salary a Cairo salary this entire time but he’s honestly bro if you put him on the biggest stages we’ll get to see him like imagine seeing him in the Champions League that would be great I think that’s where he belongs in the Euros I can’t believe for example he was he was benched yeah like I don’t think that will be happening again with the van I don’t think so um I think also there’s a gap in this maybe not a gap but he could um get a napoi move perhaps that would be a club that would really suit him and the fans would take him with open arms he totally fits their culture when you have loud towering formidable goalkeeper someone with balls is always going to fit into Napoli some ball is always going to fit into Napoli and Van has the biggest balls in in all of Syria for he is a a 6 fo8 Bal goalkeeper with a huge beard who he doesn’t even scream he looks like a serial killer he looks like a serial killer um and on he takes free kicks he takes free kicks he actually does take free kicks and he doesn’t do it anymore but he’s taking free kicks in Sian taking any free kicks for con that’s for sure um just to go back a little bit we did mention that Torino didn’t get a a single shot on target apart from the penalty I believe was on Target because it was it was saved by Van but this is the third game in a rower Torino failed to score past bologna um and funly enough they have a great record at home against them uh they have 34 wins 22 draws and 10 losses so this recent history doesn’t exactly showcase what obviously there was a grande Torino back in the day when Bonia were still up and coming yeah um let’s let’s continue I’ll do the summaries you do the stats let’s stick to that cuz um you might not um align with the way I wrote certain things sure let’s go so we have Genoa 1 Napoli 2 um Napoli started off actually quite well this game and they found the net through angua on the 15th minute and they got another one through rahmani in the 23rd really making the most out of their set piece routines um Gena piled the pressure and we’re the better team in the second half um by quite some margin to be honest and they managed to get one back through pinamonti in the 51st minute despite their push con um and his men did what they do best they won ugly and I mean that in the most flattering way possible by the when I say winning ugly it’s it’s a good thing to Wi yeah I I mean if you look at the way juu won those nine in a row they had and they had alre they were the CEOs of winning ugly and speaking of that K has now become the first s manager in history to have picked up 35 points in 17 matches in the opening 17 matches with three different Sera teams um quite a random stat in that sense but but it’s um showing how high profile the manager is um and this was also vieira’s first loss in his opening five games for Genoa he has one win three draws and one loss um actually if you look at the last three managers that have joined Genoa halfway through a season or that didn’t start the season he’s actually fourth um and blessen even has a better record because he drew his opening five matches I remember that he wouldn’t stop drawing Bless but at least we saw we saw Vieira pick up a win yeah and they’re they’re coming into their groove this Genoa side and Vieira has exceeded expectations you know and the gilardino sack seemed a bit harsh in my opinion but but it’s going well so far so far you you can’t you can’t criticize exactly four unbeaten out of five games is a good record i’ still rather they had Gardino but you can’t hate exactly but you can’t and and vitina has really found himself in this left wing group yes I I think I think um he struggled because people were asking too much of him playing as n man like as a as as like a 9.5 he was playing playing as what Laro Martinez is um yes to be honest he wasn’t doing great but we see his um his strong suit is even when he his moments of Brilliance all come out wide and I like how he’s playing out wide but he has that Liberty to obviously cut inside and play Closer to the striker so just about understanding vitina a bit more and hopefully viira understands him a bit more than Gardino did yeah because jardino essentially wanted him to be goodmon exactly I’m also enjoying this trend of smaller teams picking up fullbacks from Big teams and playing them as Wingers yes bro attacking Wingers exactly all the all theas um there was leure against Lao and that was a 2-1 victory for Lazio but boy did Le make them sweat it was dramatic at the end of the first half Gilbert got sent off for handling the ball off the line at at first glance I just thought it was a rocket and it happened to hit his arm so I thought that was harsh but then you slow it down and you literally see him extending his arm it’s almost in instinctive know that you do that I think it is instinctive I I think whether it’s intentional or not if it’s on the line it’s on the line you’re off like goodby the arm off would it have gone in exactly if yes red card Zak of course being on my fantasy football team decided to give the penalty to Castellanos who stepped up and converted um despite being down to 10 men in the second half leer came out inspired they came out growling the fans were on their back John PA man yeah and they got themselves an equalizer through a fantastic goal by T morente of course doru tried a longdistance strike that was deflected and T morente was like you know what I’ll have one he had a from a while out and it ended up going in it was a beautiful goal was it our goal of the week it was our goal our goal of the week which we forgot to mention there we go goal of so newe to this after two weeks morente what a goal and that’s his first ever backto back goal in Syria it’s only second ever goal in interesting Le tried to hold on but they faltered in the 87th minute through um the unlikeliest of Heroes in Adam marusic the servant of the club who’s been there for Seven Seasons now um scored yeah a very similar goal from quite far from slightly outside the area but was on the volley kind of one of those lame volleys that’s like front from front you know you kick forward instead of like angling your leg but what a goal that was and what a servant Mar has been to the club H obviously lzo were coming off that 60 huge defeat um to inter um and drawing to a 10 man Le ahead of the games that they have they have Atalanta coming up and then they have the Roma Derby coming up Mand Derby de la Capal so they needed a win and and marsic was that guy to get it for them and a way to Le a Le that that have the newly appointed jum PA have been on a good run with him as well it’s complicated even historically coming into this game leche had won all three of their last home League games against latio it’s a tough gig man there every time Lao out of the past three games when they visited leer they lost that’s crazy so this this game was Lao would know what a what a tough game it was under the took again 87th uh minute random winner by Adam marsic which was very very well needed for them absolutely it was it was quite a grind even when they went down to to 10 man absolutely um difficult game for them so Roma smashed Parma 5 nil now coming into this game they were quite close in the standings um I I don’t have it exactly but I’ll tell you very soon but they did blow them out of the water um their High Press forced a lot of errors and was too much for Parma to handle um Angelino and Salam makers were playing out wide and they played very well stretching Parma wide open Paredes dictated the tempo in the game um while also recovering possession well flanked by Corner who’s just incredible and do bck seems to have found his confidence and was linking up well with his teammates very positive signs for Roma even the Defenders looked Sol this well they’re actually just one point apart from each other Pama W 15 points Roma R 16 points um so it it it was a like like you look at Parma now after that loss they’re down in 16th Place so imagine if Parma won that game and roma lost that game um it was absolutely do or die for Roma and what what I see um Ranieri really doing is it’s a really good balance between the new talent that they have just signed and and the old reliables um like for example that the fact that he’s starting El sharawi over Sole and just to have that familiarity and dybala over there as well to to help a new striker in dock up front um it’s a really good balance that that he’s implementing and his rotation has been quite strong as well I’m enjoying Hummels as well um as a center back Lefay had a good game um in this game and actually Roma the record against Parma is incredible they haven’t lost to them at home since April 1997 yeah uh um they they played really well Roman and I think at this point it’s just run are trying to find out what his best 11 is um you look at the three center backs I think a back three suits ROM a lot you look at manini H Inda I think they they all do a little bit better in a back three um you look at Salam makers he’s been the the turning point I think he’s been the the real like addition to this team cuz he brought he brought passion he technique yeah fearlessness he plays with fearlessness and it allows El sharawi to play Closer to goal and Ranieri of course highlighted the importance of dybala he said Mourinho even said how important dybala is the team is different with dybala and dybala had a had a fantastic game over here in fact I think dybala now he’s like top five or top five um amount of goals scored by Argentinian players and Sera um I believe he might even be I know there’s CR must be there but is he there iard actually didn’t have lot of I don’t think so but he did score so many for but there there must be yeah dybala is definitely ahead of aardi let me just put it that way okay yeah when it comes to Parma they completely fell apart um Roma were too much for them to handle they searched them wide and exploited the gaps in their defense M it was the high press man the high press of R absolutely disrupted the [ __ ] out and I think this was an important um victory for R especially in the manner they got because they really have to separate themselves from the teams that they’re around right now you know they’re like we’re not on the same level as these guys let’s blow them out of the water let’s show the world that we are not a relegation team despite our our current standings I really enjoy it as well I spoke about the balance like even Paredes starting alongside Corner Paredes is is very very good I think he’s uh very very very important to Roma being able to control the game he’s the a good register he’s the he’s the only one he’s the only register that they have the the only player that that can do that so play him absolutely theu and boy has he been playing him moving on Vena beat Keri 21 um they were the only relegation side actually to get a single point and they got three of them so this was a massive week for vanet they’re one of the winners of this week’s match still one before the last but a massive step in the right direction for them yeah it was their first win since October 30th um Keri came out and initially dominated possession but struggled to create significant threats vaneta broke the deadlock in the 39th minute through zampano following a brilliant run by oristano who’s really enjoying life at the moment and the four I think he’s on loan from inter he finally no sorry his first ever Ser go that was for for oriso for zampano sorry who celebrated like Conor McGregor and what did you say I said it’s his first ser goal right but he the first time he celebrated like McGregor I mean McGregor we just found out that he’s a rapist now you celebrate like McGregor Ramos celebrated like McGregor after he beat Jose Aldo you know and it was oh this upcomer it’s amazing don’t celebrate like him after he’s just been charged for rape like maybe Choose Your Heroes wisely Z next up he’s going to celebrate like Diddy I think yeah vaneta dominated the second half and stanovich made some great saves to keep them into it and this would be a recurring theme for the game stankovich has been doing really well since taking over over there yeah um oristano scored a lovely goal but it was called off because Poo’s peel was a his heel sorry not his banana peel was a millimeter offside and ridiculous it’s it was an invisible offside to the naked eye it wasn’t offside wasn’t they’re coming for you bro [ __ ] they um should did on the it was it was a ridiculous goal to cancel I think I know the technology is there but like if you can’t even see the body part over the line highlighted in red then I think it’s said it on the group he said the offside rule is there to discard of any significant advantage or not even significant any advantage that the striker has over the defender positionally you’re telling me poalo over there had an advantage you’re telling me that that impedance or whatever of his [ __ ] heel made a difference in how the ball hit the back of the net definitely not what [ __ ] it’s it’s it’s ridiculous and and this is where V gets too much I agree with v that it should be there um to make sure that there’s Law and Order In the game and that there isn’t a a situation like Chelsea Barca and and stuff like that in that Champions League semifinals or whatever it was but they’re they’re using they they’re overusing it in the sense the second you start zooming into pixels come on someone’s over the pixels need to be completely even if there’s a pixel ahead of the other it’s [ __ ] that that’s [ __ ] man agreed yes it is [ __ ] and um thankfully it did not cost them the game exactly because that would have been very unfair as zco doubled the lead for vaneta with the clumsiest solo goal I’ve ever seen in my life falling halfway through the run and on his way down he like sneak shot the ball into the bottom corner P the keeper keeper didn’t see it coming at all um lovely clumsy solo goal was I love it man I love goals like that there was a was it guedes was it a player guedes that was with Valencia he has a mental one where he’s just falling the entire time but he’s dribbling players like Costa had one like that once bro it’s gues he looks like Costa and they had captured Costa but it wasn’t gues I think his name I remember though me thinking it was Costa exactly and you’re telling me that it was gues jiru had one as well of course the painting that was that was a lot smoother van K if you look back in history as well between these two sides um veneeta had beaten sorry after losing their first Sia meeting with Kari in November 1966 Veneta have since gone unbeaten in the next eight matches against the sardinians in the competition where they won four and Drew four which is already the record for consec consecutive games without a defeat against a single opponent in the top flight so they Kryptonite exactly vet are the team that just always [ __ ] Kari they brought on petti he scored Asti s pavetti yes but it was not enough for ker who kept the pressure but couldn’t and penetrate again I’m happy for vaneta the Francesco has grown as a coach I think since even since last season you can see that um defensively this team is much better than his froon side was he’s trying to balance it cuz that froa side at the start of the season was just scoring so many goals yeah um but the thing is fora used to do this as well last season they used to randomly win a game in good fashion even against the mid-table team so I won’t be too quick to say um but even there their performances bro haven’t been they haven’t been getting destroyed you know V have improved they’ve really improved from the opening 10 games of the season to the second 10 games of the Season there’s been a m the worst team in the league when it comes to individuals but you look at all their granted they got okay they lost 3-0 to Bologna but the other games are all a one goal margin and they lost 2 N to Atlanta okay um but other than that yeah it’s just 2-1 loss here 22 draw there ah they haven’t been getting demolish the problem is that they’ve been losing to the smaller sides is um very worrying like they lost to Lea they lost to um Roma they they drew to Monza exactly they um where was the genua one I saw genua here no they beat genua okay good they they’ve been ah they’ve been kind of they’re not down and out that’s the good thing no no and and no teams are really down and out that that’s the good thing about the relegation battle which we’ll be discussing in further depth later on later on in this episode after the rundown yes um Atalanta 3 empol 2 I was not expecting I I love empol and I really like what empol are doing it’s no secret but I wasn’t expecting this game to be that tight huh absolutely and they edged it in fact um it was a very dramatic Clash um this was Atlanta’s 11th consecutive League Victory Tempo actually struck first through Columbo the a day specialist as they’re calling him it’s his fourth goal of the Season all coming away from home um the kar equalized before lukman gave Atalanta um a 2-1 halftime lead and then GM City in the second half fouled Grassi in the Box esposos stepped up and scored from the spot um but then dear of course secured the win with a lovely late goal solo goal yeah um this result propelled Atalanta to the top of the league with 40 points R we did go off injured this game the first half because of a muscle injury and there’s no real update on it yeah muscular he’ll probably missed the the Lao game they’re saying well before Shel is the Lao game but again we’ve seen the no Ry no problem because everyone’s a striker in this uh plan no r no problems because teams would be preparing for R yeah yeah yeah yeah absolutely um but I mean even if they play the kar Punta at this point they they’ve got three players lukman the kar and RI their numbers are [ __ ] ridiculous this season um so they’re definitely not down and doubt because they lost and also skak guys is recovering slowly slowly um and also Atalanta have remain top of the table for at least two match days in a row for the first time well three match days in a row now for the first time in Syria a history um so could this be the season is this the season believe me all of you asked us this so so we’ll get into that later Monza 1 Juventus 2 um you’ve ended the four match Sera draw streak um mckenny who was playing left back opened the scoring in the 14th minute assisted by Coupe miners who had a pretty good game this game Monza did equalize in the 22nd minute through none other than bend Deli who scored the left footed goal I say none other then because Bend deli’s father of course played for Juventus niik Gonzalez restored ju lead in the 39th minute finishing off a collective move involving Savon mcken and locatelli despite several chances missed in the second half you’ve held on to secure the win moving them up to sixth in the standings and later on after this game Nesta it was announced that Nesta has been sacked it’s sad e it’s sad that that um a legend like Nesta and his first Sera ass stint um it’s gone this way for him um to be honest I don’t think there was well there wasn’t confidence in Nesta from the start by Monza if you look at his contract um it was one season and the only way that he’ll be able to get another season an additional one season on his contract is if Monza don’t get relegated so monza’s instant priority after being a mid-table team since being promoted to Sera ah this season they started thinking of relegation but they’ve always that’s always been the the objective in theory and then it’s like let’s see how how high we can finish cuz that was the main objective as well when they asked yes I I and I get you but if you finish 11th 12th one season and then the next season you finish the same place you’re like this is where we belong let’s let’s either try to push or try to maintain this now I get you sometimes [ __ ] happens in football financials all this complicated [ __ ] you try to [ __ ] questions on about the funds like his family’s in charge I don’t know what they’re willing to invest but they chose a manager that suited their low expectations of the season because like we’re going to get you for a season if we serve survive thanks to you will extend you for another season I think they could have gone for look our priority is not to get relegated let’s find someone that could help us achieve that goal over a 4-year plan a 5year plan a three-year plan something like that but instead they went for this approach um they’re looking at bti they’re looking at bti yes and bti um salvator bti Milan fans will remember him from the One season he had with Milan I believe it was one season at least in the banter era he played as well for hell as Verona of course he is a duil citizen Italian and Russian he was two doors under I wonder what his political beliefs are he was um yes he did work as too’s assistant coach after being promoted from the youth team um he actually became the youngest ever first team manager for half a season when managing H Verona 35 years old absolutely incredible to be managing Ina 35 years old he’s highly rated apparently even um H Verona where looking to bring him back to replace Zanetti but but yeah he’s been on the radar like bti people teams must really rate him highly because he’s constantly he has fantastic leadership qualities from okay so we’ll see um he’s the main candidate apparently for the job um our listener Daniel who’s a UA fan on Instagram said um Monza really drew the line at not being able to draw to us yeah so seems to be the case yeah well two seasons ago when Monza had just come up to Sera and they had removed I forgot the name of the coach that took them up to S initially is on their study um what’s his name I Str stro stoa stroppa um so after Paladino took over stroppa their first win ever in Sera history lest we forget was by beating juu it was the whole birth of the pulman det trya that was that was offered by for those who don’t who don’t understand what pman DET trya means Bus full of who is basically um pardon my language what I’m translating here um there’s actually a video of bercon in the in the locker room like B what will you do if your team beats you V Milan and they know something sick is coming like so obviously Berlusconi um entertained it and that season actually Monza beat you twice then last season juu beat Monza twice and now the season for now jua have the upper hand but let’s see if if Monza can bring it back to level terms yeah we’ll see um Fiorentina took on UDA last night at home and they lost they lost man they took the lead initially through I love the sud as a team they’re really good man run has set up a very good team and they’re they’re young they’re organized they’re fiery every player gives his all defensively as well they’ve got a player who’s in my opinion when fit one of the best right Wingers in the league in toan man the problem is his Fitness right he plays half the games in a season but he takes to another level when he’s aable you spoke about van being on the verge of a big move Luka’s on the verge of a big move and I didn’t get you I didn’t [ __ ] get you AA a kit because I will get you a Milan kit one day bro there we go talk dirty to me bro um yes um Keen scored the penalty early on and then eventually um Ranieri made a mistake a terrible mistake giving the ball away and the ball was played to looka who only needs one chance you know an interesting stat picoli has about 16 big misses this season Lua has zero he hasn’t missed a big chance you know they don’t get many chances he’s the star of the show at the at the end of the game when Oda were defending their lead he was the the best center back of the match he cleared three corners away on his own of course he did man his blood is 6’6 or 6′ 7 however tall he is sign me upen his technique for his height is really good he links up really well with play he drops deep I I love Lorenzo Luka and then of course um thuon would get the winner um as he absolutely destroyed gon’s out wide looking like PR Prime suso bro and he curled it and pass the goalkeeper in the closeup it it reminds me of how much acting goes into beating your man in football because the way you know how he he cut out and then he pretended like he was going to cut back in only to send goson to the supermarket and he kept cutting out like when he was pretending to to cut back in even his facial expression his body language and everything there’s so much acting like that that goes into it absolutely you have to be convincing right yeah fantin actually had a lot on the line over here and they failed to make it 20 undefeated at the Frankie in a row their last loss at the Frankie was last season to Milan in the first half of the season ever since then they’ve been undefeated at the Frank they failed to make it 20 in our over here they’re in a weird place Fiorentina at the moment they just lost to bolog obviously we’ll get into this later on as well they just lost to Bologna that whole B situation he was at the stadium it was beautiful he was so emotional last week Paladino mom died he couldn’t even be there for the game they’ve been really unlucky fantina when it comes to these um off field issues um throw back to a story as well dying in the hotel room they’ got certain players that haven’t [ __ ] hit the ground running yet as well goodon uhuh Goodmanson it’s just a weird situation with Goodmanson the his court case seemed to have been settled it’s only a formality that it isn’t but um he was back on the pitch he was he scored a hatrick and now he’s not even starting and he’s being brought on sorry yes a double and then a goal in in the previous game or in the next game so he’s got three goals I but but now he seems to have vanished again and again woodmon is a player who the entire fantina team will operate around goodmon like you give him a free role in the middle and you you play around him you play three not around him sorry through him yeah yeah he can do it all good men absolutely but we’ll get into this later on as well yes and then inter of course took on KO at home and they won 2-0 thanks to um his second goal for the club actually Carlos austo scor the hiter after a lovely trog glue corner and the hair transplant a lovely hair transplant he looks really good beautiful hair transplant and then um tham scored at the end as well a lovely goal where he took on his man and just smashed it in the um near post top Corner shades of R9 with that goal he has a goal just like that inter were very frustrating this game and they were getting really impatient with each other the players um things weren’t really ticking they were quite wasteful and KO actually played their game Como can be a tough side to face and and the big teams tend to struggle against K interestingly enough um as they grow as a team it it it seems like the way that Fabregas wants them to play is very very Advanced and it seems to work against the top teams it’s the bottom teams that will go man for man that that make K really um struggle um even though one of K’s only two victories was against Atalanta uhuh that’s the thing right um they they shock you they attack you man that that Atalanta Victory came at a weird time for Atalanta though they had a lot of inj they got two wins in our over there they beat Atalanta and then they beat Verona if I’m not mistaken yes exactly but um there are certain teams who attack very well and who press very well who have managed to tear KO apart particularly Napoli for example Lao put past so when things go terribly wrong when things go wrong they go terribly wrong even you managed a 3-0 victory over them yeah shall we get into our main so that’s so that’s the rundown let let’s jump to the the title race a little bit because this is obviously I mean it’s no secret it is the tightest title race we’ve had in a while obviously if we look three years ago between Milan and Inter it went down to the final day that was lit um but what we’re looking at over here in my opinion if we were to look at how many teams are going to be fighting for it this year this year it’s a three horse race in my opinion can someone run away with it um Christmas moving forward so on so forth maybe I just don’t see that happening because each of these three teams have their own unique advantages of of course I’m talking about Atalanta I’m talking about Napoli and I’m talking about inter and it feels like Napoli are two points behind first and suddenly they’re being written off completely ah so I’ve seen um what’s his name Patrick Kenji right um on Twitter said that um don’t let it be said or or be portrayed that Napoli are the favorites for the scudetto um just because they play once a week um he said that when you look at the snapi side they’re one of the only teams that compared to Atalanta and Inter they’re the only team that has that doesn’t go into halftime with a lead very often he says that they struggle to win um while the others can win in a convincing way and that in reality they are not favorites for the scudetto I don’t think he’s saying anything wrong um I think that when it comes to the favorites of the for the scudetto was always going to be inter inter are the favorites right I mean it’s inter’s title to win mhm Napoli just like Atalanta are the dark horses yeah they’re the ones that no one expected to be there they’re the ones who have a unique Advantage compared to the other teams and the fact that they only play once a week because that is an advantage it’s a it’s a unique Advantage they don’t have certain luxuries that other teams have like Squad depth they don’t have the depth that other teams have like inter and Atalanta of course their depth isn’t bad they they’ve got a few tricks up their sleeve in NYS for example uhhuh but um but yes I think that they a cont team that wins ugly can continue to do so for the whole season that’s that’s their whole thing you know Unity grinding us against the world and I do I I do think that they they will go on and win it man I I said this at the start and I’m not going to change my prediction you know I think that when when you’re a team and you’re United like that when you’ve got one competition on your mind you you do have an advantage yeah I I think that um of course inter are the favorites inter have a squad that are a lot of them are two time area winners a lot of them are Laro Martinez is barela is Demarco is of course um Champions League finalists as well um they’ve had the same manager for three four seasons they’re great at knockout competitions they they’ve got a deep Squad um they’re definitely the best team team they have the best team if you look for the past 5 years inter they’re the top team in Sera Napoli their unique Advantage is like like you said they’re playing one time a week um Kendrick of course said that um they struggle to win but it it’s they struggle to win they’ve got 12 wins this season um Atalanta are the only team that have more wins 13 of course inter played two games less so far and well one game less but they’re on 11 wins so that if if they win that they’ll they’ll be equal to Napoli so I don’t think they struggle to win games I think their manner of winning games is CTO muso the same way that you were back in the day and the same way inter we under con it’s a cont system a cont system isn’t going to blow teams out of the bloody water exactly they only got three more goals than Parma for example doesn’t matter if you if you’re defending so soundly it doesn’t matter and and then their record against the top teams I mean they beat so they lost 3-0 to Atalanta um they beat so that’s devastating for them a loss at home 3-0 to Atalanta they drew away to inter um they beat Milan how much did they come against juuve that’s what I want to know as well I believe they drew nil nil to ju they drew nil nil to ju um so the record against the top teams isn’t even bad barring the lost to they lost to latio and they lost to Atalanta so I don’t think you can disregard them U just because it’s contest first season or because they don’t win games by a 34 goal margin if you win a game one nil and you do that consistently for an entire season versus if you win if you have a 70% win rate but you win those games 5- nil it doesn’t make a difference it’s a more consistent team you have to look at they’ve scored 26 goals compared to Atalanta and inter’s 42 M right but then they’ve conceded fewer they’ve only conceded ConEd 12 goals this season Napoli and while in have conceded 15 and Atlanta have conceded 19 so that is their unique Advantage right the fact that they’re so sound defensively but I do think in have grown into the season season and they’re going to have to be near Flawless napol if they want to go all the way and same goes for Atalanta um one interesting thing that I saw bro is Frank tweeted he said if Atalanta perform as they usually perform after Christmas the scudetto is their cuz it’s true atanta after Christmas they they just win win win win typically the start of the Season where they where they struggle it’s true absolutely so maybe that’s their unique advantage and and and keep in mind um the previous winners in Sera a well if you look at for example Napoli two seasons ago uh when they won the league they they went quite deep into the Champions League you know what I mean they they made the quarterfinals and then they they lost to Milan um inter I believe last season got eliminated in the round of 16 to Atletico if I’m not mistaken it’s possible for teams to have a run in Europe and also win the bloody League Of course um which is an advantage what worries me about Atalanta is their direct record against inter they can’t beat Inter so if it comes down to three points that head-to-head Clash is going to be of key importance between inter and Atalanta and smacked Atlanta earlier this season they made atanta look look look like [ __ ] um so that’s where inter really um get the advantage over them yes um yeah there’s a sense of belief in all three teams MH They’re all playing very well they’re all locked in I think um of the three perhaps if if you have to put them in the order of favorites inter first Atlanta second Napoli third I think it goes like that and don’t count out juu I know many people have counted out juu um but the fact that they haven’t lost a game yet they have 10 draws granted but they’re still there you know they’re they’re nine points off they can easily sneak into this title race their players are coming back from injury what MTA hasn’t um seen from his players yet is not what he hasn’t seen what he hasn’t been able to see is continuity he hasn’t been able to field the same 11 regularly the optimal 11 because they had so many injuries they’ve been butchered by injuries January is coming up they can strengthen their team and if they go on a run mhm no if they go they continue to not lose and just start winning they’re right there you know you’re telling me these guys aren’t going to slip up we’ve seen right now um three teams at the top who have all slipped up you know inter have four draws Napoli and Atlanta have three losses they’re 12 points behind which is a lot at this stage it’s it’s a big gap that that they have to nine points behind they’re nine points behind nine points be behind nine points behind okay they’re not they’re not out of it completely no don’t don’t count them out they can still technically what youa can do um is go on a winning streak and they can they can potentially end the season as undefeated champions in that can they could still get a gold title the same way arson venger and Arsenal they obviously have their their FA say their flaws their shortcomings the fact that um they they haven’t they crisis ongoing right now as well it’s all been damaged limitation from M so far we saw at the start of the season they were winning games 3-0 you know with the full team and start with with with bologna it was his first 15 games were experimentation which he’s still which he’s still doing and he’s had to continue experimenting the only reason he doesn’t have his nail down starting 11 and his nail down system is because of the disruptions with the injuries you know Nico Gonzalez coming back might give them a new Avenue up front because he’s been deployed by m as a false n m and he’s a very good false n because incredible false n he can also act as a Target man um’s good in the air he’s got a good header for his height he’s got one of the best um headers on him in the league when it comes to for example um when compared to for example Laro it’s quite similar um Laro is isn’t the tallest player in the world but he’s dominant there Nico Gonzalez kind of has that that thing about him as well so so it could be a completely new Avenue um for for you however with with that being said so yes with that being said though um and going back to to what Kendrick alluded to as well um Atalanta and Inter are the teams that can score goals um because Napoli um their one Nils can bite them in the ass you with their Striker situation with vlahovic and how sustainable is that in the case that I’m just going to say it vavich has been [ __ ] he’s been pure ass um and and Napoli are in a similar situation with Lukaku where he can be [ __ ] he can be ass and so can his but the difference is Lukaku and then is pretty effective pretty much effective almost every game Laro isn’t always but if we’re talking about teams that can score goals no inter and Atalanta absolutely like like they do illegal things to everyone else no team in Europe’s top five has more goals from their wing backs or full backs than inter with down and then I I mean just if you look at the amount of top scorers atanta have it’s ridiculous right you have cdk who’s on double figure goals and and he has a great amount of assists as well um RI who’s the top scorer in the league and he has four assists as well and then there’s um lman of course who has a bunch of goals and a bunch of assists like individually these two teams they are the ones like that could go in the deepest European runs in the Champions League they’re the ones that can fight until the very end napoi are there because of their their consistency and their one game a week absolutely they’ve got three players on 10 plus goal contributions you know cdk 10 lman 13 RI 15 and then they’ve got theun on four pasalich on four zanol on four zapak cost on four bellanova on four ederson three zaric three brini to rerry to quad to and their goals come from everywhere like this was pretty much um an entire team starting bar the goalkeeper of course and again the yes they did lose R to injury but if they play a counterattacking system bro where they have Bloody cdk and lman up front a they terrorize yeah um good for them that skaka is coming back because um of course ri’s injury could be quite a stretch of its muscular it could be uh two weeks it could be two months so so that’s good for them the fact that they’re so flexible so yes I’m I’m enjoying this title race um hopefully um Milan can become no it’s too late for 26 points right if we if we move down the table a little bit um and we look at Milan and Juve they’re both going through something very very similar and that is um tiate fi koni they’re asking them the fans have been everywhere they see the players every they see the teams being chanted in the stadium at Milan’s 10 25th um anniversary where Maldini wasn’t present get your balls out play with balls I was players now I wasn’t sure what it meant Titi foron of course my Italian isn’t great I know tra means to shoot in the direct translation so you thought they were asking them to to come basic no so so I was like hell is this so I went I open my translator I I write it and I just see get your balls out I’m what is that what they’re chanting so that is why the cover of this episode is chanting um M being like what the [ __ ] so what did they say but yes it’s basically it translates to show symbols yeah you know um play with passion play for the the badge and I think it’s more relevant to Milan than it might be for Juve because ju’s um approach to the game has been cautious trying not to concede trying not to lose amidst their crisis where they have four Outfield players on the bench there’s much they can do yeah when you watch um Milan play um many players seem indifferent as we always say like the arandes for example Leo had the whole thing at the start even though he’s come into it um we’ve seen a lot of pedestrian play a lot of Passenger so I think it’s a very appropriate chant I think um yeah keep chanting it why not it’s not I don’t think it’s disrespectful to to tell the players to play for the badge no absolutely not it’s the that is the responsibility of the players to do that on a weekly basis it’s their bloody job they have to give it the all if we go to work and we don’t give it our all for an entire year we might lose our job we might get a salary cut whatever um and and it it’s a good thing that it’s it’s interesting because the fans are are going they’re blaming the players it’s not the sole blame but we’re looking at two teams over here who have gone through drastic change all right you have uve who have gone through change because they employed MTA and they brought in a bunch of new players whereas before they had the whole they had the the nine scudetto era um where they had Alle and con and then they they said you know what time to start a new pay Alle out bringing s let’s let’s try play Modern football that didn’t work go for Piro that didn’t work bring back allegri three years back to square one except without the titles and now they’re taking a step and they got M so they’re still in this huge transitional era that was stalled for around five six years so it’s a huge transitional era it was stalled to mention just just because I’m sure there are listeners screaming this the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo so all this because it totally ruined their finances and not necessarily the signing of Ronaldo the fact that Co hit when Ronaldo was signed so yes it ended up not making any sense because they didn’t have the then they got they got they got Jun they got M this is a longterm project it’s it’s a long-term project um but now they’ve been hit by this injury crisis but it’s this whole thing because they’re in an in between phase I think juuva fans had the wrong idea of what M’s going to bring to the table I think when they got M because they were so fed up of playing this defensive football it’s like yes we got M Bologna’s M we’re going to score loads of goals vlahovic is going to finally show us what what he showed us at fantina you’re wrong roasted you’re wrong but look at look at B you’re wrong random person at the gymm random person in your car but look at no honestly look at Bologna’s numbers last year what was their strong suit they didn’t [ __ ] concede goals they were the best team defensively in the leag they the most balanced team in the leag exactly it’s like a gilardino system a MTA system that balance where you attack and you don’t leave yourself vulnerable but you’re capable of getting goals but they haven’t quite yet found their system because of the disruption of injuries and the fact that they don’t have a replacement for [ __ ] Susan vich Ah that’s that’s the the main thing because when you look at Bologna’s um 11 the main difference between that 11 and you 11 right now is the the profile of the striker mhm you know um that’s why I said niik Gonzalez might be a revelation for them because he he can get between the lines he can link up he’s quite skillful he can take on a man he can hold the ball while VAV which is more of a striker you can use to kind of play in behind yeah um or to just use as a Target man you know like yeah or Ure but but yeah I think like this they can they can get more of what MTA wants because most of their goals came through Players um switching position remember that there was salamak xery they would overlap um would join join the Midfield they were all mobile you know the players vich is quite rigid as a player and it’s not his fault you know I mean we have a question about Vish so we’ll discuss it later on but um but yeah I think you will only get better the the worst part of the season is over AB absolutely absolutely they’ll get better and then we look at Milan whose situation is similar because Milan were coming off the banter ERA with Pei who in the span of five years not only got them out of the banter era he got them back into Champions League so they’ve been a consistent Champions League team they won the scudetto they came second last season as well um with a brand new all while improving the finances of the club dramatically and after the young hung Le era exactly exactly which was the the the Pinnacle of the banter era now what Milan have is a new manager in fona um and a new board they have new owners new everything through redb bird um redb bird clearly and from the information that Alan was kind enough to send us and from the interviews that we saw as well we don’t know if these interviews they happened a while back they were only released recently um due to Fan protests no the Harvard released some documents that a report that fani had had commented on or something like that from what I’ve understood um yeah yeah you’re going to continue um and clearly the goal over here is to um increase Milan’s Revenue to to balance the books to make Milan profitable to somewhat americanize and franchise the Milan brand to make it an appealing brand so on so forth and it just seems like when it comes to decision making they’re a little bit off um they hired Zlatan who’s supposed to be the main motivator um without a sporting director and it seems like forani is making the calls when it comes to the players to to sign something something is happening there because players are renewing renewing um but one key problem was the hiring of fona and that fona doesn’t have the same man management skills that P had because with Pei no [ __ ] player was complaining in the last season jiru and Calabria said we didn’t know whether to defend or attack against Napoli over there had a bit of a boiling point after 5 years it’s expected um they had high expectations they had just brought in pulic and all these guys um but fona from the start what it seems that he has a divided dressing room people that are all in people that are all out and people that are um they don’t know where they stand with him and I think that it might not not even be about fona it might be about the situation at Milan it’s essentially a political situation because the firing of Maldini disrupted an entire ecosystem that’s what started all that’s what started everything and I’m sure that’s that’s mainly why the and Leo were protesting and I remember Leo even taking to his Instagram stories with what the [ __ ] you know yeah um so so yes many questionable decisions um hiring fona was one that to be honest it was the the first of many it set the tone for the decisions that they were going to be making because the manager if you want to be a team that competes is the most important thing uh you you go for a high caliber if you’re going to invest in the team you invest in a manager and then you you had the enough players to to actually do have a decent season if you just got a better manager but whatever they went for f algorithm whatever okay um potentially because he’s a little bit easier maybe a bit of a yes man you know um quite an exciting style attractive you can you can build a brand around it you know you have marketable players attractive football whatever um then you have Salam makers in your team and you have kalulu two players who are totally Deployable totally fine who contributed to Milan winning the league who played an important parts and and salers has just come on come off a great season at bologna his growth just [ __ ] improved so quickly you know he he had a really good season at bologna and he’s having a another good season now at Roma since his return um kalulu and tomori conceded two goals in the last nine nine games was it of of that season when Milan won the league and suddenly you’re going to sell them for dirt cheap and you’re going to bring in two Replacements who aren’t even better man no Abraham and [ __ ] yes and chuk BR chuk in in the salamak position honestly I’d rather have salers you’re bringing Emerson roale over Kulu are you serious 20 million on each are you [ __ ] no it’s bad business at the end and and you look at um I mean the the only player that was signed last transfer market I’m correct me if I’m wrong that that has really left a mark on this team is Fana because he is the player that that Milan needed Striker wise Milan lost ziru what the hell did they do giving yage the nine and extending him that was that was another weird extended him they lose zery they’re like no cuz we’re going to pay the agent and the agency commission um extend your V give him the nine and then drop him then drop him what the hell are you doing and then you bring in Morata and Tammy Abraham which profile wise we’re going to talk about profiles hardworking players technically gifted with the ball at their feet that play with their back towards go drop deep and bring the Wingers in nice man they profile wise they really fit they can’t shoot a [ __ ] ball though man they can’t shoot a ball I can make 10 compilation of their misses this season bro it’s incomplete because then they don’t have the the profiles in Midfield who can enter the box and score those goals when Morata drops deep there’s no Tre artista you know we’re seeing liberali having to play now there are obvious gaps in the team but we know he’s injury prone so why didn’t we why didn’t me sign another midfielder yeah you know but yes um all these problems and despite these problems there are positives as you alluded to Manan is close to signing an extension Reyers is close to signing an extension all these players are rumored to be close to signing an extension there were more I can’t remember the as well yeah I mean as well even despite all that’s happening zo Zoe’s pregnant I’m sure I’m sure that has a massive part of it 100 he’s probably like we’re going to leave I’m really happy and she’s like [ __ ] my ass me and the kids exactly Morata fine exactly so so despite all this there are positives the interview of fani basically spoke about Milan as um kind of a a brand exactly and and how he he mentioned that there in American Sports the biggest brands aren’t always the ones who win where in Italy the culture is trophies you have to win trophies I think for him the objective is finishing in the top four growing the brand and pushing in the Champions League Of course cuz that’s the international stage you need to find the balance and I’m happy that the fans are protesting because he’s in it for the long run for Lani for sure he’s not going to sell the club anytime soon despite them telling him to sell the club hopefully he listens hopefully a sporting director must be if you want to focus on growing the brand focus on growing the brand just employ someone to look after the [ __ ] football someone Zlatan not [ __ ] Zlatan employ aun of sorts man Mar of sorts someone that can help you get the results because if you grow a brand in Italy but you have an entire fan base hating you they not doing [ __ ] like congrats you’re growing the brand the brand isn’t what people care about just one more question before we move on first one statement and one question um of course the super cup is coming up and it’s coming up soon January where Milan will face juu so we have the two umam it’s a tournament no nowadays yeah yeah there’s the semi-finals and the and and the and the final yeah as it was last year in Saudi and so we’re going to have 22 men with their balls out supposedly with with three Spectators in Riad wasn’t there that whole thing last season they were super disappointed the Arabs they were like who the hell are the where are Milan where are the fans like exactly um how much of the responsibility is down to the players we’re talking about the politics we’re talking about the managers how much of the responsibility is it for for the players to say [ __ ] this [ __ ] that let’s go in and give it our 12 I think when it comes to vav’s attitude when being substituted and his attitude in general the way he carries himself that’s on him I think cazo running into the opposition players in the 90th minute and losing the ball is on him I think Theo um having a stroll in the park when Milan desperately need a goal to win is on him as well um you can see a starkk contrast between the players who are fighting for the for the Victory and the players who aren’t and I think there are certain individuals who need to get their act together and this message mostly goes to to them yeah and just a plea from my end um and and I think I speak for most fans is players when you’re playing for Milan when you’re playing for juu play for the badge don’t play for the manager you don’t have to play for the manager the managers come and go the club lives on forever you come and go the club stays on forever play for the badge and the fans will love you even more ex exactly one one more question bro okay why doesn’t fona just a thought move himz to the right and play him as an inverted fullback cuz you can’t he will he will you’re not going to PCH ta for him and his that’s not going to happen that’s like Bening Leo for Rocka you know you’re not going to do that like you do it you do it for a bit but then you go back your best player the player who is rumored to be worth over 50 million I think that’s the way to do it himz played three different positions in the last game he’s really good man you know what you get lack of balance because you like having the right back that’s more conservative you like having the left back that’s more he puts in a shift defensively he does bro I’m I’m all for it and I think if there’s one thing I can’t criticize F SEC for is he tries it bro he’ll do it he might have but he pushed for the signing of Emerson Royale Legend really good for for talent you have so we’ll we’ll see if um if he’s proud essentially because if he’s proud he’ll keep playing because in my opinion C he he he’ll do it for sure he’ll do it I’ll bet so he’s been he’s been quite experiment experimental a bit lower down or higher up in the table um well a bit higher up in the table we have bologna and Fiorentina there that’s a kind of battle that that’s going on they just had a head-to-head that bologna took advantage of the the disarray that Fiorentina the the mental kind of struggle that they’re going through right now obviously Paladino had his very serious off field it’s tough to call it a distraction but for for football it’s it’s it’s a distraction in that sense there was the destruction of b um who was on the bench last game not called up to the squad but nice to see him happy yes yes yes um whereas on the other hand so so fantina had that spell spells and go but you can’t deny fortina’s quality we know what they’re pushing for they’re pushing for Champions League um bologna seemed to not be doing that but then time passes you’re like [ __ ] me man they’re they’re on they’ve been on some run bolog they hadone they had one big loss I believe it was to Lao and they lost 3-0 and after that win after win after win yeah they lost stre and then they smacked Veta to get their confidence up and they beat them 3-0 then they beat Monza 4-0 and they drew to UA as everyone else does and yeah they’ve been on a run ever since so eight games six wins one loss one draw since the postponed Milan game let’s talk about the situation that happened in the bologa fantina game first so of course this was a return to his former team for Italiano right he was managing fantina and um he had a little bit of a tasteless celebration at the end of the game where he went absolutely mental at the Victory and he was clapping and jumping and applauding the fans and the fantina board came out and said um that it was disrespectful and he showed them what kind of man he was um and in an interview Italiano went on to say I do that every game I don’t see what the problem is I wanton like I mean if if he doesn’t get what the problem is I mean it’s it’s no secret in football you show respect to your former teams but I think for managers it’s a bit different um is it though it is a bit different you have have the likes of MTA who is um an inter Legend who will take the U job players hold back on they respectful they’re applauded and most of the time when a manager returns to a previous Stadium they’re applauded yeah it’s very difficult to get the fans against you Italiano’s not going to be applauded ever again he got it was such a weird decision because he was successful exactly exactly why would he provoke his fans I guess he must have had a falling out or something there must be something behind the scenes that weren’t um provoke them like that to rub salt in their wounds after all they’ve been through this season is just literally it’s just tasteless it is tasteless it’s it’s it’s hella tasteless and you know we we um disagreed when there was the whole Zol thing against against ra I’m very much like show respect to your former employers um sometimes you have to stick it to them and that’s if there was something behind the scenes that that we’re not aware of but it’s so good being the bigger man sometimes man and and and it shows even more character it shows even more balls when you’re the bigger man than when you start [ __ ] celebrating like a mad man cuz you beat your former um employers uhhuh what do you think about um fantina situation so they are in fifth right now with 31 points they have um a game in Hand of course against inter yes do you think that this is the start of a downward trajectory or were they just overachieving and now they’ve hit a few I don’t think they were overachieving um I think they started off the season quite slowly quite cautiously um and then they went on a bit of a a run and now they went through a tight fixture list a because obviously they’re playing in Europe they’re playing in the COA um and and playing and playing in the league they have certain players that haven’t hit it off yet the thing happened with B the thing happened with their manager Paladino yeah they had the gig against LK in the conference league as well they edged it man 7 n and now they L they lost they lost to they got knocked out of the COA against empoli and they lost to bologna so they’re they’re going through a tough time I still think that they can improve and this is after even throughout their their great spell I still thought they that they can improve once Goodmanson gets going once or if colpani gets going that is already going to be a significant Improvement um I think right now it’s it’s more mental than it is what the team can do badino is an excellent manager they have an excellent team he is he brings the best out of these players um and I think I I I think I I don’t think this is a downward spiral for them they will continue to fight for Champions League until the end it’s it’s it’s very competitive what do you think I think they were very unlucky this game um against UDA I think that it was quite an undeserved loss I think a draw would have been the fair result even if you look at their XG it was over two and ozes wasn’t even one so to lose 21 with those ex G it’s very telling right there were quite a few big chances missed um you look at Kean Kean missed a he missed two chances that could have given them the lead and then one before his goal as well um yeah I think they’ve just been they’ve been pretty unlucky they were pretty unlucky this game but that won’t loss you know the the important thing is that the players recover they continue um to do well in fact I have um yes I have some notes over here um fantina have gone through no no no no no where did I put it I found a a stat I think maybe in our in our question maybe in the list in their questions if so I’ll I’ll mention it later on okay don’t worry about it okay I think they have a lot of POS firstly I think it’s how they get out of this situation that will Define a lot um because during a teams will all have a tough spell [ __ ] even when Napoli won the league even when inter won the league when Milan won the league they all had tough spells but it’s how you get out of the tough spell right and we’ll really see the character of the team of this new team because it’s it’s still very fresh with fantina with Goodmanson Keen colpani Paladino you know it’s a very kuto at the back it’s a very very new team so it’s how they recover from the situation together as a team that’s going to build that comaraderie that’s going to build that they have a lot of Great Signs Keen has been incredible for them DEA has been incredible kuto has been insane so there’s a lot of positives for you reminded me of the stat um I believe it was that Keane is the fastest player to hit in the world in the the F player in the world in the world um he’s the fastest player to hit 10 goals I believe in a single season season in and thus 10 since since Gardino for feno damn 10 goals 10 gites huh [ __ ] assists that’s the luy those are the numbers got 10 goals 10 gites at least he’s consistent with the gitty we’ve seen pic hit it we’ve seen Leo hit it but not enough we need to gitty more absolutely um on the other hand and then bologna it’s like the opposite of fantina because now they found their identity um and they found their xery replacement it was all the the discussion about bringing in someone tall good in the air someone like dinga he got his first goal amazing whatever whoop the [ __ ] do um Castro is their Zer replacement Castro is the guy that is dropping in deep and playing defense splitting balls the same way Zerg used to do Castro is the future he he he really has taken them to the next level and it is not solely down to him but the way that he’s been embracing that side of his game has really propelled bologna onto a new level because it’s allowing indoi to get all these goals that he’s getting it’s allowing this new Dominguez guy to find space and to break into the box and score goard as well has been thriving odard has been thriving as well four goal in the pivot POA playing in an Italiano system once again and him knowing the manager and manager knowing him has really added that stability to allow what’s his name in in the Freer to allow Freer to play these passes and it allows POA to be that box to box to be that Crusher to put in the the late run into the box and they’ve just become this team that that clicks it’s like Motas bologna of last season they have a team that clicks now it’s true it took some time um the important thing is that they weren’t really losing at the start of the season but now everyone’s growing into it Ferguson’s back from injuring he’s slowly being reintegrated dinga came on and scored he got his first goal his confidence is going to be high he might start playing a bit better now Holm has been um very good he had a very slow start of the Season he was nowhere to be seen and we even mentioned that Des sylvestri was being favored over him just three weeks ago and now Holm hasn’t stopped playing and he’s playing really well I believe he’s on two assists already yeah um odg guard as well as is playing very well and he’s even got a celebration that we see every time we go on the highlights now we know his base no his golf golf swing celebration Miranda Miranda’s playing very well offensive fullback as well and then man their most important player in my opinion B B has been their defense has been solid it their defense has been Sol can ping a long ball yeah he can he’s very solid defensively he’s he’s very good man uhhuh yeah so I think o if you had to say bologna fantina who finishes higher I think I’d still say fantina a funny way so how would you say like this no um who finishes higher bolognia or fantina bolognia so now I think we can jump to the Roman teams after that very bold prediction from you um Roman and Lazio another two teams that are in like opposite spectrums right now um of course laia having the much better season um they’re in the top three um Roma basically were relegation candidates up until their 5-nil Victory against Parma um and correction in the top four in the top four sorry um but lzo have just started to obviously their streak came to an end they just lost 6 n to inter and then they scraped a 2-1 Victory um away against help come on brother you can do this you say as you to come the game yourself um it was last yesterday bro it was LE against leche um and now they both have tough games coming up basically yes so first of all let’s start off with Roma um so rier once again seems to be kind of figuring out what works for him M um he seems to have found his mold Sally out wide angelinho out wide to make use of his offensive prowess because he’s he’s better suited as a full as a wing back I think than um a third Center back in my opinion um Paredes as the dictator from the movie Sasha Baron um a three man backline and do Vic with with bodies around him cuz he’s quite a good support Striker coms out big man he played really well this game so so I think when it comes to Roma um this is the first positive sign because not only did they win but they won in a way that they probably forgot with it feels like the Roma fans so very convincing to be honest very solid looking um and many bright Sparks with dybala playing well even though you know it’s always rumored where’s D Bala going to be is the coach being made to not play the D Bala will dybala be sold in January and he comes up with a performance like this right before Christmas um salamak is coming back and hitting the ground running good signs for them and they already had Corner who’s a 4 class in in that team I think as well he’s very good ah no it’s it’s like I said earlier um it it feels like with Mourinho they had it one very particular way and then with d Roi they had it another very particular way then with Urich again the Morino kind of system with the players not mat stylistically that whole thing but ranieri’s coming in and he’s kind of merged the two systems into a balanced system with a mixture he’s made the players fit in like Pelini and christante who were almost scapegoats for out of the team out of the team um [ __ ] seniority [ __ ] this and that we’re going to have El sharawi we’re going to have dybala and then the midfield for the Pure Balance for a team that wants to play dominant possession based football as well we’re going to have Paredes and we’re gonna have K or we’re gonna have LEF or anyone that comes in over there that can partner Paredes in that way um so he’s really mixed the the the new era of Roma and the old era of Roma like I would have never guessed that El sharawi will be playing in this team um but he’s done he’s done a great job at that and and I think the way that the team lined up against distract you way when I move my hand yeah CU you hit the table tap the table [ __ ] guy oh my God it’s true he he found a way to kind of play the players who weren’t meant to fit be for the system but now he has the test because now he has Milan then he has Lazio then he has bologna he has those three games coming up so he’s either going to stick to this team that got him success against Parma or not now we’re going to find out if this is the team I think I think he um the fact that he didn’t even make any sub substitutions this game was a very telling sign and the fact like he didn’t make any subs in I believe he didn’t make any subs man if I’m not mistaken I might be saying something absolutely ridiculous but I don’t recall Roma making a sub when watching let me take a quick look which is crazy when you bounding a team like that you think he wants to try out some new players but let’s let’s confirm that yes no substitutions made which basically means like get to know each other no M keep going let’s build confidence we’re scoring let’s keep scoring let’s let’s find let’s find new ways of playing to each other’s strengths which is a very good sign in my opinion bizarre especially when you have other players who could benefit from some playing time on the bench like of Pelini for example could do with some confidence LEF is a player who could have been introduced as well baldanzi is a player as well defitely the most out of all but I think this was um rier saying that this is my team yeah go out there and work on your confidence uhuh L on the other hand they were super high on confidence man then they lost [ __ ] 6 nil to inter and then they had to grind to beat 10 man leche and they’re of course still on top in the Europa League standings um but now after this spell of [ __ ] um they need to face Atalanta and then they have the their Bella Capal how will the this lack of confidence affect them in those big games or is a big game enough to motivate you so hila got injured against in yeah and he was substituted by jigo mhm who is still getting used to the League scored a goal okay whatever but against C you have to be you have to know the league you have to be Flawless you have to know how to defend the Italian way right and he was so bad that they they them out again you know they brought them in in the 28 subed them out in the 46 and they had to use a makeshift Center back in marus and this pretty much um contributed to inter’s dominance their domination of Lazio um you look at the starting 11 of course it’s very offensive so Baron took full responsibility for going this G gho kind of 11 that he’s been going I think that losing 6 n once is better than losing one n twice 6 n losing 6 n once is better than losing one n twice you know I mean especially if he bounce back that’s the important thing losing 6 at home at the Olympic on front of it’s absolutely terrible it sucks that’s like but you’re losing three points at the end of the day so the important thing is that it didn’t affect them mentally and Baroni clearly has a strong team because they had all the challenges in the world against Lea granted they were down a man but then they scored and you know humiliation comes to mind imagine we draw to 10 man let what it’s going to look like under Jon Pao they’ve been quite a good team um so the important thing for them is they they manag to to bounce back and I think for their goals of this season um it’s not too much of a setback because again like you said they dropped three points against inter now of course it’s humiliating and they’ll go through um a negative spell due to that cuz it’s embarrassing bro you lose six nil at home um it’s the worst case scenario like six past you and you don’t score a single goal it’s [ __ ] Beyond embarrassing and like to a degree I’d rather lose one nil twice than lose 60 at home bro it depends because usually 6 nil has repercussions the following games usually are also losses because of the the psychological Factor um what are lao’s goals this season to me the way the way that I see it is top four and a run in Europa I think lao’s goals going into the season their objectives would be to qualify for European football I don’t think it was necessarily top four at this point it must be a target for them there you know I might as well try to maintain it um so yeah I think that paired with Iran in Europe would be a very successful uhuh a successful season and do they need any reinforcements in in January I think they need a midfielder and the center back M they need a center back for sure um speaking of center backs you saw romanoli after the last game against leka romanoli does this thing instead of taking off his T-shirt after a game he takes off his shorts he’s been doing it since mil what the [ __ ] are you doing but he was wearing a Christmas hat the kit his underwear and that’s it and walking around you know parading the the pitch so weird take your shirt off man why that’s what bothering you just don’t take your [ __ ] pants off but that’s weird man it’s weird weird it’s it’s it must be Italian I remember gatuso doing it but gatuso did it in a cool way in a Viking Way Roman Roman does it it’s weird he’s all gatuso yeah you you know it’s it’s it’s it’s weird it is weird I mean I I thought it was weird when I looked at my TV the first thing I said was that’s weird so the relegation battle I think we can move on one sec I think they need a midfielder as well H because their only replacement for both these guys at this point is De bashiru and they’re attacking midfielder as a striker so I I wouldn’t mind if um they bring in some reinforcements in Midfield to help out go do Zandra and de bashiru um fair enough let me just take a quick look at their bench to see ah cuz crail not really reliable ah another midfielder wouldn’t be bad yeah absolutely I think of that to make Center back is the urgent call I think but um but yeah exactly I think that’s it so moving on to relegation so venet first of all are off the bottom spot for the first time since early November huge win against Kari for them huge win ma day ma day 17 so vaneta as we mentioned in the intro um the only team to get points M and they they did it by beating ker um 2-1 in a relegation six-pointer and last week Match Day 16 we had quite a few victories from the bottom teams and quite a few positive results so K Kom beating Roma 2 nil leche beating Monza 21 at home um Verona beating Parma 3-2 away from home massive for Zanetti and genano and venetsia holding Milan and ju so that was um that’s that’s just very telling as to what the relegation battle looks like this year because it’s it can go anyway and I don’t even think Monza will get relegated personally and they’re lost H let’s not go to PR let’s not make any predictions but I get you I think I agree whatever Shar um let’s just you mentioned the results that means that monz are currently in last place on 10 points veneeta one before the last 13th Kari the last relegation battle in 18th Place on 14 points above them in 17th 16th and 15th are Verona Kom and Parma all on 15 points then in 14th and 13th we have Lea and Genoa both on 16 points there is no team that is obviously you who relegated there are no teams that are obviously obviously relegated one thing that we see which is a trend with relegate with delegation candidates is how quickly they take a positive turn after employing a new manager the only question is how sustainable will it be will it go on like um um it really worked for Lea last season when they got Gotti it it’s they they remained consistent but like when Parma got blessing it was good for a while when Jan sorry got blessing it was good for a while and then they um they didn’t improve basically so we’ve seen Jano and leche improving on their new management in fact they’re 13th and 14th they’re the only two teams on 16 points over here and now Monza sacked Nesta um so we’ll see how that shakes things up for Monza with a new manager because I assume with monza’s team we’re going to see a huge improvement from them I think Nesta was limiting them a lot um and Parma play Kari next so that’s another six pointer coming up that’s really going to shake things up the crazy thing about this is how quickly it shifts and it turns and it changes you know and each team has unique advantages for example um Genoa have the um have one of the worst the worst sides in the bottom in the bottom six what is it seven I think now inj right now due to injuries of course um and that is their their big problem compared to the other teams as well that they have serious injuries um and recurring injuries as well but they have for example the advantage of Home support um along with ker who also have a similar advantage in the fact that their stadium is a fortress and it’s very difficult to play against them over there um Lea have a new manager who usually is slow to warm up to he’s a reserved introvert who doesn’t communicate much and usually his style takes a while to implement they’ve hit the ground running with him and the idea the assumption is that it will only get better as they learn his principles of football so it should be the other way around they should have had a slow start to life with John Paulo but somehow it worked the other way around um same goes with genua you know instant results K have players yeah they have a better team than most of these same with same with Monza but Parma have good starters yeah their depth isn’t that much and the fact for example that they lost Bernay is is massive for it’s really affected them negatively and same goes by the way for Le losing gpar that is a ginormous injury I can’t tell you how important an injury is enough especially when the guy replacing him is Gabby Jean and the only thing I know about Gabby Jean say it but say it is that he is not my lover and the kid is not my son [ __ ] facts Bro [ __ ] Gabby Dre I don’t know much about Gabby that’s L the only thing know the only thing I prepared about Gabby jeene is a joke he’s 24 years old he is French he’s a Defender who the number 19 and he was um signed on a free from an you know what’s uh positive for Monza despite them being in last place and not having a win in their last six they have the best goal difference out of these teams that’s because because they actually weren’t playing badly on their Nessa was just the the fact that they couldn’t get results man that’s it and the fact that as well man certain players like Maldini couldn’t find their groove man when it comes to especially the final third under Jill under sorry Nesta hopefully the new manager can can get the best out of these players because they do have a few very creative players mon absolutely but yes this is that’s my favorite part of of the of each season and end of the end of the episode not much more to add over here let’s [ __ ] in see Bros yes let’s see and I think this season it has um relegation play out written all over oh 100 oh my God we go watch it there’s there’s yeah I’m totally in for that yes so shall we move on to our listener questions let’s brother let’s a few of course we will be prioritizing um our patrons shout out to Steve who asked if this could be atalanta’s year we discussed it um early on in the episode so we won’t be doing that Tano Batman choko loo the patron with the coolest Name Behind Andrew Batman um asked us how about your Ser most frustrating 11 not necessarily the worst players or under performance but the players that are are liable to drive you nuts as a fan or a coach think the likes of the or zsky he said let’s say you can’t put more than two players from each team and then he also added I oh God I did I forgot to read that part he also added I would have Jeremy Manz in my all time 11 absolutely agree I would have every Striker who were the nine for for me between enagi anduk P Andre Silva lapadula L Adriano Destro Torres M and po yeah uhhuh um I think I need to make a change because I have three from the same team and the current nine is your by the way you have three from two three I have four from the same team really this could Milan 11 fact in fact swap out mil players let me just read it as it is [ __ ] it okay shall we what formation did you go for I went for 3 three same here so we can do a position each keeper I went proel provel is a good one who did you go Manan man just best Keeper in the league best Keeper in the league love him amazing but the injuries yeah yeah they that that is the the frustration point is he’s so good but then he gets injured and sometimes has spells where he doesn’t know what the near post is or or he’s a little bit theatrical as well he frustrates me as well when you need him to whoop out a long ball quickly but he’s enjoying the camera time a little bit um he’s a superstar Manan he’s excellent he’s an eagle he he deserves to be looked at but I think he knows it a bit too much at times and he’s theatrical as hell uh proel is a little bit APR I think that’s it that’s the only and Moody yes he’s Moody so when go all the Enders Nal go Defenders okay zki tomori t zki tomori t so we have two similar ones I put chelik T Danilo Danilo as an honorable mention but that’s a that’s a [ __ ] and frustrating zki I think chelik is more frustrating than than but chelik I don’t actually expect much from him zki you look at how he plays for Poland and you look how he plays for r or the fact like he’ll beat a man like well with a burst of pace and then cross it over the crossbar you know like very frustrating Theo of course it’s um it’s very obvious is frustrating because I don’t know red cards red cards those are his goals and assists like red cards and goals and tomori because we’ve seen him play amazingly and be very solid but he also gets this random Rush of Blood to his head where he leaves his position in 10 minutes against ATL or he just runs out of his position totally exposing it like and they just play through ball into the gapy left yeah and leaving them oneon-one okay Midfield three you go I go Gano Musa Pelini Gano Musa Pelini that’s good I went one of them is weird chus Ruben LOF chus is a good shout actually know I’m going to replace M with chus nice um poega just because he has that Rush of Blood to the Head his red card most recently and he often for Milan he had these games where he couldn’t pick out a single pass bro he is frustrating Italiano’s really playing him to strengths and then I have Morrow because of his stupid [ __ ] face man it frustrates me so much he he has the face man of someone that pisses me off like and I don’t even know what he’s good at all I know is that he he he’s annoying like man he’s always complaining to the re he always has this going on like [ __ ] Mor [ __ ] him you put pel you said who was no I didn’t Mora chus okay okay yeah I mean I can’t tell you they’re not frustrating because they um front three Eon picol Bon picol B I have christovich christovich is an honorable mention for me as well vich and Tammy fair enough those are the ones I have my is a more functional uhuh Tammy is I like him with his back towards go it’s just in front of gold that he’s [ __ ] the problem with christovich and vavich is that all they have they have no back towards goal and they finishing [ __ ] like picoli 16 big chances missed and can be very frustrating in the link up doesn’t spot a pass even if the player is labeled and two goals in two games of my f most recently on my bench losing with the game very frustrating nowhere near the player he was and B of course b b yeah yes Robert asks do you think Lua would be a good fit at Milan he filled the jaru hole could be a realistic Target for you guys yes he is the perfect Milan mold I think right now bring him in please bring him in bring him in but of course they’re going to go for someone from the [ __ ] French league or exactly they’re going to bring in luuk Joe D question does Roberto deserve D Vera deserve a shot at a bigger club like Roma given his work at empol this year uh this is the thing like Baroni got it you know and he’s been doing excellently but my thing is before we saw D Vera succeed this much we’ve seen him fail a lot that’s the thing yeah um and I think just if I were Torino or someone like that um I’d say I need to see another season from this guy before I sign him um but clearly clearly with a group of players that suit him um and for the right team if the team fits his profile then he can go for it this year um because you see what he did with empol he has intelligent players he has hardworking young Italian players and if you put him at someone like I don’t know Torino with Richie and these guys he could potentially do a good job but again it it could very much just be a soil where he has a good first half to the season then second half is a disaster so another season and then yes that’s exactly what I said in fact um I said I I think he should stay there and continue to prove his worth um if the club lets go of the lonies and refuses to strengthen then a draw at Torino Monza could be a Mini upgrade for him um we’ve already seen him do good things at Parma Parma of course when they um got relegated down to Sera D he took them from Ser Tre mhm to Sera right and then he was eventually sacked and rehired without sufficient results in 2022 he was sacked by Sor after collecting 20 points in 22 League games um he had a good start at Le but it went stale eventually and then he he headbutted Tom hry and got sacked um you you made the comparison to Baroni Baroni was doing very good things at leer yeah as well before before doing good things at Verona true so I think he need some more job at Torino or Monza could be very good for him if um if empol refused to strengthen basically but he’s doing well and I think it will he’ll waren U he’ll be deserving of a of an upgrade if he has another good season like this yeah um I found the funny by the way did you see on dazen they were having some daon sorry they were having a few um technical issues and the camera caught um caught him saying while he was being interviewed I’m going to cancel my subscription Versa and then Joey D hit us with a hot take he said this year’s Milan is more talented than the 2022 team that won theet yes yes um s is just more competitive today versus three years ago he says yes in many aspects Milan are a much better especially depthwise they’re a much better mil had zero depth when they won the league they didn’t have depth um only place I would say Milan were better Striker jiru and jiru was the guy mhm I think he’s better than Morata he’s better than tamy obviously better than Kamara in that sense for right now um and I really liked Milan’s Midfield I know that R is is working out very well but the balance of bener kessi tonali was mental it’s all about kessie because if right now Milan had kessie playing alongside fana and reers in the ho that would be incredible because kessie is a one man double pivot bring him back honestly bring him he was so the Moment of clarity the post bring it back Clarity um yes however um I’m not sure if it’s because s is more competitive this season cuz if you look at L at that season you know inter only lost four games that year and granted they drew nine but that was the difference between Milan and Inter Milan won one more game that inter Drew you know game exactly and the head to heads 86 points for Milan 84 for inter 79 for Napoli um say yeah probably when it comes to the whole picture is more competitive this season yes absolutely and even more teams fighting for higher level achievements yeah um so yes I would say that um probably the steams is better overall than the sceta winning team yeah so before you go gav gavy burkeman on Instagram says chogo is the best ball striker in Europe there’s nothing he can’t do with a football I think with kdb struggling to play struggling with Fitness with like Messi and Cruz in the latter stages of their careers maybe you can say that chalano is one of the best ball Strikers in Europe of course or Strikers of the ball rather but my question for you gavi is is chalano even the best striker of the ball at inter because federo DeMarco can whip in and dirty bro and I’m sure that if you do a Crossbar Challenge DeMarco will give him a good round for his money and to whip a ball um soorry what what’s the exact terminology to Str a ball to strike a ball okay so shooting I guess so yeah shooting passing doing just being able to be accurate with the ball and strike powerfully as well guess so Arsenal they have this massively High success rate from Corners which are taken by [ __ ] Dean rice rice can hit pretty well Corners even his long range shots believable man thein rice um I think chlu he’s he’s up there man he’s is definitely top three yeah we’ve seen some wild free kicks from but yeah it doesn’t really score many free kicks anymore he had scored mental one when he joined Milan he stopped yes but it could also be said that nowadays inter have setpiece routines that he he can’t really just take a from far out you know they have their they have their principles mhm no definitely one of the best ball Strikers um in in World football yeah Adam cower on in Stam asks what FM saves if any are you guys doing personally I haven’t I really didn’t get into it this year I don’t really have time hey man and if I have time I’d rather just sit back and play a game of FIFA because it’s like super engaging but I we were [ __ ] animals with FM man yeah I would totally take charge of Sal on FM bring them back up you it’s so good that you have an iPad because that bro it’s easy to whip it out and do that it’s not like the desktop version the desktop laptop it takes up too much of my time bro the emails man so many emails I want the malti league in it there’s a you can get it every year like it’s totally available okay um h m UFC on Twitter thank you for the shout outs um this guy’s a legend he says as for yes yes thank you now I remembered who you were speaking about ask for someone doesn’t watch the Lesser teams as often as you guys but still tries to stay in the loop through the podcast would who would you give your midseason unsung hero underrated player underrated team and underrated manager so far so I think we can start with unsung hero I’ve put three over here unsung hero I’ll go h Martin donon for for Atalanta versatile plays he fits into the defensive areas um when Atalanta have an injury crime at the back obviously scalvini has been out a while for them kach sometimes struggles with Fitness um so he fits in a lot over there and they have been significantly better with him in Midfield in Midfield he is the metronome for them he controls everything and his work rate is exemplary we’re talking about in that role as a captain as a leader you can’t get it better than their own barely scores barely gets assists but he is the center of of of gasparini project he’s Irreplaceable and he’s hilarious on social media yes um I also have mikitarian you know him well you’re a United fan he um is very very good in the center system and he we we speak very highly of him all the time he is a very intelligent player he knows how to use his energy he’s very hardworking will gets stuck in in a slight tackle as well to win the ball back he’s often unsung because of the likes of Charon Ogo and Bar then gend at L is having a very good season as well as rll but rll is highly rated in Italy soend I put and then because he mentioned the The Minnow sides ah then he says H um unsung hero at a minow side at a so to point out two teams CU if we’re talking about unsung or um just two Mino sites to to point out this season um to me we have to talk about Odin and we have to talk about because over the past two seasons these guys were relegation candidates um and they’re not relegation candidates um they’re both playing incredible football empol have one of the best defensive records in the league Odin really take it to every team they’re ninth they’re in Ninth Place um and over there the the people that come to mind obviously are empol manager D Vera who has changed it he has a young Italian team um not much Sera experience but wow you think they’re a very exp experienced team with the way that they’re playing and his success um would not be the same if he didn’t have the center back ismy yes and he didn’t have Esposito Esposito has been a revelation and just give Esposito the ball and let him cookut fsin has been out for a while he’s been linked to fantina now as well um so not that much to say about him un some hero as well for empol bro Jai man oh he works tirelessly he gave that really clever throw in the last game to the goal as well yeah he’s um he’s a Workhorse he’s versatile yes and then odz obviously you have to mention run and everything run has been doing but yaka yes and Lorenzo Luca and tuon yaka Bol statistically wins the most headers in the leag M like and he’s a center back so you can imagine how pivoted that is um and he gets goals mhhm um Thon one of the most gifted players on the ball that there is in the league and what’s his position I don’t know cuz [ __ ] second Striker attacking Midfield right winger left Winger he can do them all and he puts in a shift in in all of them I’ve seen him in Midfield as well um and he’s their Captain took the number 10 so a lot of weight on his shoulders looka the most underrated striker in the league 6′ six or 6 fo s incredibly you think that he’s just like just has a great header of the ball but super technically gifted and smart you see him you see him dictating the play of the ball telling his teammates where to pass you know he’s very vocal um young man and just and he know went to get a smart yellow card as well he’s a a smart foul like he’s very good and you can tell he’s come up from Sera B man because he has a lot of dirty elements to his game which are very important his previous employers are ax so you can imagine what he’s learned from there man um yes exactly um you know Anda have as many wins as Milan and ju right now um empol of course don’t score much but they’ve conceded the same amount as Atalanta and roma have lost two more games than them so that just puts everything into perspective yes um shout out to B and hila as well for underrated players yes but we can move on um Arthur at better call Keenan on Twitter asks what is your honest opinion about vovi at Juventus this season ass honestly like ass because there’s Strikers are good at at one of two things typically you you rarely find such a well-rounded Striker that they’re great at all these things you’ve got the earling Hollands who are bad with the ball at their feet but then if you give them half a chance the ball’s in the net um and then you have Strikers like Lukaku like Laro um like all of these guys who were great with the ball at their feet in front of go they can be wildly inconsistent but they’re great with the ball at their feet um a good example of someone that can do it both funny enough is Luka to say bluntly there’s Morata and tamy who are good at one of those things for example um vlov who’s supposed to be the guy who don’t play him the ball outside of the area play him the ball inside the area on the break play him through dead ball situations that’s where he’s supposed to be good and MTA because he likes a striker like zeri is trying to involve laic more outside the box playing the ball his back towards goal and he struggled significantly over there but then what happens when he gets a chance most of the times he fumbles it and what does he do when he gets a goal shushes over celebrates grabs his balls gets overly cocky which shows to me a bad attitude there’s obviously a lot of pressure on Lage um coming from the fact that he has to adapt to A system that he isn’t exactly comfortable in the fact that he makes 20 sorry 12 million euros a season making him the highest paid player in Syria um that puts too much pressure on him and the F well no it’s it’s true it’s true po bastard it’s true coach I think you’re paying me too much it’s putting pressure on me right now let’s go down to n there’s a lot of pressure on him and he’s not handling it well and he’s very frustrating and he’s frustrated quite frankly and I think um he needs he needs competition in that role because he he can’t keep he can’t keep playing regularly like this he needs some time to calm down and to to find himself and to be honest for M to kind of figure out how to utilize him well because it’s not only his problem h no he’s not being utilized his strengths like granted you have your system but this player is very good at certain things and you’re not exploiting M but how long are we going to use that excuse for because it was the same thing under allegri we used to say he’s not being played to at some point if you’re a star player if you’re a player that someone brings in for 60 million and you make 12 million a season in Sera for you then sometimes you need to [ __ ] shoot the ball from 30 yards out and it goes top bins and you carry your team not YZ is doing that you know what I mean Nico Gonzalez is is is doing it I think um with allegri he had the problem of being isolated all the time and now with M he has the problem of having to drop to deep so essentially it’s true that two managers didn’t get the best out of him I would sell him in summer I would as well I mean I’m sure I’m sure that’s idea make you’d make 40 million if you were to sell him at this point yeah leelo an X at Le logician as these names are incredible any young or new player to the league who we/ I should be paying attention to who don’t play for a top team so um an bunny yes of Parma Striker very good Castro of Bologna very good as well um course we talk about them all time Patrick dorgo for Le very very good Michael kyota fantina very good Bellion at Verona is a very good um midfielder as well very good regista I don’t means by top team but Castro 100% at at bologna he’s at this moment in time their their best player he’s defining their system for them kuto kuta is an absolute dog of a center back he’s really good I also enjoy prati of ker he’s got a bright future he’s very young he’s um a register as well there are lots of young talents in Italy absolutely the expositors yes particularly um a lot and a lot of young Talent at empo of the espositos TJ hearon on Instagram asks which of the 27 esposo Brothers do you think will have the better overall career with them all having a good season I still think the empol esposo is the the best one yes but I really have high expectations for Franchesco Pio man the the register no he has nine goals one assist this Seas he’s a center for sorry I mix up all their names I can’t tell you who’s who man he’s 19 years old playing for spia as their top scorer um he also no nothing I thought he scored in the cup as well but he hasn’t um nine goals one assist this season for them um he hasn’t even started all of the G how old is he how old is he he’s he was born in 2005 he’s 19 years old so that’s that’s excellent but then again if you look at the expositors they all done this is area B um I think the most technically gifted if you want to give the ball to someone and let him cook um it’s the exposit on SI right now but is a little young G man and then you have the other Esposito um who plays as a regista and I think when it comes to having a system player he could be very good because the espoon say at the moment has a lot of flare and is a little bit wild you know he’s he’s a dribbler that type of player but when it comes to having a player who fits in a system the regista spos is is very good I think think but if you want to judge a player it’s it’s where they’re playing right now and what they’re doing now I think with with Sebastiano being so pivotal in M police system which is they’re surprising everyone in S I think he has to take it at the moment po po will be snapped up by a s team next year but nine goals may even if he ends the season with nine goals in Sera B hadd Be snapped up that’s true where should caresi be placed in the National setup asks Frank on X at fitba Focus FC I had never read his handle before fit fit ba Focus FC yeah Frank’s the man uhuh I love frank now the interesting thing about caresi is he’s a young goalkeeper right young exciting prospect them was playing um in Sera b as well you know came up from the ranks mhm he’s 24 years old which is very young donaruma the experienced veteran goalkeeper of Italy is 25 yeah so that’s so donaruma has [ __ ] an entire generation of goalkeepers including and there are there are a lot there’s D Gregorio you’ve got Vicario you’ve got all these guys merett to a certain extent is quite good as well provel provel yeah so so donaruma is the Undisputed starter at the moment simply because of the fact that he has experience at the highest level from the age of 16 not to mention he’s won the Euros as well and has a lot of Champions League and just a lot of experience overall he’s one penalty shootouts himself that’s the guy you have to play right for me Vicario doesn’t smell that I love Vicario but he gets nowhere near man for me carnesi has to be there though and he has to be there potentially as the second because because when it comes to um mistakes and having man D Gregorio I mean granted it’s pin but he doesn’t play every single game for ju you know what I mean and he is this is only his second ever season in Sia you know it’s his third his third Monza Monza but he had one season Monza now no he they had gotten crano and then he B yes yes yes yes okay whatever but it’s a beautiful problem to have but but I think Cari just because of his age and he’s the starting keeper of Atalanta who our first day exact mer should be nowhere there nowhere there so it should be donaruma Cari and then one of the Gregor or Vicario viio and then vicario’s good because he’s in the Premier League faces a different kind of opposition it’s true it’s true and yeah he he would know a different always has to be it always has to be the debate of of if Don because these are what substitutes are if donaruma [ __ ] breaks his leg or or who who do you want to go in instead of him who is that guy that you want cuz at the play Cari in part of me the Gregorio and then just to go back on everything we said but vario M yeah um is rer is a possible heir to Modric at Real Madrid no he’s the possible heir to Frank Reichard at Milan that’s that’s he’s the heir to Piro he’s the heir to seor he’s the heir to everyone um but he is it it’s he he’s he’s incredibly similar to Modric in the sense that he’s almost incapable of losing the ball um the the range that he has of passes is incredible he’s uh they funnny enough they both wore the number 14 Modric then upgraded to the to the 10 obviously um oh was modri 19 tiny detail but he he he has a very similar play style to to Modric so possibly I just hope that he’ll be the heir to one of the Legends at Milan uh if he is um it’s way too early for Madrid to make a move on him they would want someone who does it on the international the stage for for longer so he would need to have good performances in the Champions League for at least another season or two before Real Madrid come knocking so yeah um I could totally see him if he continues this trajectory but hopefully he stays at Milan he seems very happy at mil he’s willing to take a 3 million a year salary are you crazy Legend man thank you so much for the kid bro no player would have wanted more no problem bro hopefully he doesn’t leave um Frank also asks why does in zagi not get heavily linked to many bigger jobs outside of Italy compared to other managers it’s quite dumb man so it must be said that first of all I think United were considering him at one point um however he does have a point because a player sorry a manager who has found the success that en zag has found with both laio and Inter should have a lot of international he shown it on the on the European stage as well finalists I’ve been thinking play better than City in the final I’ve been thinking about it and I think it’s the fact that he relies on a 352 which is kind of out of fashion nowadays in the Premier League for example um and then the these beautiful styles of football you know they don’t really operate with a 352 you know usually see a 433 or a 424 or these kind of things I think that’s one of the reasons maybe the fact that he is an inverted commas a one trick pony it’s a very good trick but I think that puts some clubs off maybe the fact that he is an old school dis disciplinarian the fact that he focuses on the team’s structure and defense not on making individuals giving individuals the freedom to express themselves so what happens you go to a team like United and you put in zagi there you’ve got players they want to buy someone for milon exactly they want to buy players for 100 million you know and it’s like let him play his game why are you into the system that’s it that’s what I think is it’s a good point also I just think Ser is overlooked simple as that it’s a massive part of it one of the top teams goes for Simone and zagi of inter everyone’s be like what the hell are you doing perhaps the Prem they they don’t really look at Sera I feel like like United sign obviously hyand there’s been a trend of scouting Talent from the area you look at Arsenal they took kala Fury they took Tommy a few seasons ago it’s true it’s true but I I don’t know I I do feel like they they Overlook ital like even in historically the Italian managers in the Prem they’ve always had success cont had had success over there Ranieri had success over there that doesn’t seem they they don’t take too many yeah desby that’s true it’s true and they take the flashy ones like the flamboyant football pep style you know I also think that there would be offers that we don’t hear about and I think en zagi is very happy in Italy and he’s very happy at inter have a I don’t know what it is but inter have pull and they keep their players man yeah yeah they have a good project um marota is of course the best sporting director in Italy um good project of course not not necessarily financially they they’re made made a point about that and he said they won the league and went bankrupt and they took balancing no you’re not bro you’re in debt like you’re in Zang went bankrupt to be fair but yeah um our last question and hot take comes from Paul our boy Paul on Instagram Paul he says listener question do you believe that fantina can finish in the top four due to their performances lately I think they won’t finish top four I think even if the few games even if the past few games they won them or whatever I I wouldn’t have thought that they’re going to go an entire season I think there are three teams that are guaranteed top four and none of them are ju Milan yes ex so so that fourth spot is that fourth spot I think is between ju bolog MH God knows but yeah I don’t think it’ll be F they champions league if there are five spots they can get champions league but there’s there’s ltio as mil aren’t going to make Champions League Milan aren’t going to make Champions League we’ll see um apparently it’s very important to forani we’ll see hot take Paul’s hot take Reyers is currently the best midfielder in SE I think it’s a little bit premature to say he’s the best he’s maybe on the best form but the best midfielder form wise he’s the best midfielder in the league at the moment forse I think longevity wise barel has been the best midfielder in the league for the past three seasons yes yes even four exactly I I agree brother very good I think that’s that and I think our new format is longer than our old for but with the the kids with the kids but let us know what you think about the new format guys it allowed us remember it allowed us to take your questions it allowed us to talk a bit about the bigger picture whil you still get the full rundown without us trying to fill in time with certain points that we make over games let’s think of the area as the 39 game League rather than these individual little games that are played throughout I feel like this allows us to talk about the bigger picture and the league as a whole and then you guys can obviously um engage with us more through this format let us 3 38 games um but yeah that’s it for this episode we’ll be back next week with the same format judging from the feedback that you give us your feedback is very important to us so do let us know be um as up front as as you want what did you think of this episode um and we’ll take it from there but let us know Merry [ __ ] Christmas to all of you if you celebrate and if you don’t exactly happy Hanukkah all of all of those things uh don’t drink and 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