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Liverpool Was On A Break!

• Season 1 • Episode 23

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Will:

I'm gonna hit the Drizzy Drake. I'm gonna juice those numbers, bro. And then I'm gonna, and then I'm gonna sue y'all. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. God damn right. Ha ha ha ha

Christian:

I'm not saying it was y'all, I'm saying it was the industry.

Will:

I'm just saying, I've seen it used in my favor before and it didn't work out this time and I wonder why. Episode 23, football fellas!

Christian:

Really? What?

Will:

ha ha ha. Doing great.

Jerrell:

back to normal except for Liverpool and Everton, not playing

Will:

blessed. Storm Dada.

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

to look it up. I literally looked it up before the episode because I was like, I don't want to say Daraga or whatever, so I looked up the pronunciation, but if it's still wrong for any reason, I don't read,

Jerrell:

is it, is it like a hurricane or

Will:

It, it was like a 60

Jerrell:

is it?

Will:

mile per hour winds

Jerrell:

Okay.

Will:

know, like a depression out here, but, you know, Florida has the

Christian:

Ah, okay.

Will:

other places don't know. We have all that and more in this week's episode. What, what are we doing this week, Darrell?

Jerrell:

I'll get that weather report for any of that for the next, next match day. We're going to talk about match day 15. We're going to go through the UCL kind of. Gleam over it because games concluded today for match day six, I believe,

Will:

Yes, sir.

Jerrell:

we'll do our winners and losers and we're going to check in on our power rankings from the preseason and see how we're doing. There's been. moves, big moves in the rankings and a few surprises. So we'll get into that as well. And then the close out, we will preview match day 16 and tell you what, what what matches we're excited for. Christian, do you want to run down the results from

Christian:

Let's do it, let's do it. As soon as I get there. The

Will:

love to do it. I'm so excited, but you're going to wait. Build the moment a little bit. Meanwhile, I'm going to go ahead and plug the socials. Get that out now. So I don't just word vomit later. Follow us football fellas on most socials. That's Instagram. That's X. That's patreon only fans. We're all there.

Christian:

OnlyFans is crazy.

Will:

already here, share it with anyone. Why Christian is we got to get that content out. Stop being shy. Outside of that, you can also email us at the football fellows at gmail. com. We're doing weekly pickums every week where, you know, you, we just kind of see who, who, who has the best knowledge for the week. Who gets lucky. If you like to gamble, you beat the pod. We'll shout you out on the pod and Christian will do. 50 push ups for you. Send you a cameo video of him doing 50 push ups.

Christian:

It's gonna be like a weeks long cameo video.

Jerrell:

just kind of like, I feel like it's closing my eyes and throwing darts at a dartboard when it comes to these pickups.

Will:

It really is just, just feel something because, you know, the season's been pretty chaotic

Christian:

Ah, five.

Will:

We'll, we'll go over. Krishni, you ready for that? You ready, you ready to hit those results or you need me to stall a little bit

Christian:

No, no, no, no, you're good, bro. I've been ready. I've been ready.

Will:

off, king.

Christian:

All right, as spoke on earlier, Everton and Liverpool got postponed due to Darragh, Darragh, Darragh, however you pronounce it.

Will:

don.

Christian:

Dial on, dial on, dial on, dial on. Followed by Aston Villa versus the Saints 1 0. Brentford vs. Newcastle. Brentford came away with 4 2. Crystal Palace vs. Man City tied at 2 2. Man U vs. the Tricky Trees. With the Freaky Forest coming out victors, 3 2. We got Fulham vs. Arsenal tied 1 1. The fucking heartbreak of The week my tractor boys my tractor boys lost with

Jerrell:

And I think that's a pen to you

Will:

I think it's every week.

Christian:

this week this week hurt Tractor boys fell 2 1 to the Cherries Leicester City and Brighton tied at 2 2 the Spurs Lost to Chelsea 3 to 4 and West Ham United finally Got a win versus Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Jerrell:

Go wolves.

Christian:

The wolves lost. Shut

Jerrell:

wolves.

Will:

I'm just glad that my catfish had a good time this week. You know,

Jerrell:

there you go. Mine did not. In UCL news all our premier league teams won except for Man City. They dropped. They lost 2 0. I think they played, I know this one Juventus. So they did not win today, but

Will:

up, Dave.

Christian:

up.

Jerrell:

Liverpool, Liverpool wins to remain undefeated. They're 6 0. Arsenal won in a very convincing manner against Monaco. And Aston Villa played, who the fuck did they play? Leipzig, who have been struggling in this tournament. But Aston Villa pulls away 3

Will:

Ask the Villa with a nice little bounce back week. Yeah. Getting back to back dubs after we were talking about their struggles over the last few weeks, so good for them. Damn. Damn.

Jerrell:

I'm not, I'm not in that locker room, but Ashtonville is sitting fifth and UCL Arsenal's third. Liverpool's one of course, unbeaten, only team unbeaten in the tournament. And Man City's sitting 22nd at 2 2 2. And not really a team you'd think would be outside of the playoffs on the verge of getting eliminated, but here they are. Maybe they can get another win. Real Madrid managed to get a win today

Christian:

fun.

Jerrell:

well

Will:

Yeah, yesterday.

Jerrell:

a buffer.

Will:

Yeah, Real Madrid and Barcelona representing La Liga both played fun games. Real Madrid rematch of their Super Cup at the start of the season. have changed from when Mbappe scored that first goal to now, but La Liga is heating up they're, those teams are pretty much tied. Barcelona late comeback against Dortmund today. Two goals from Ferlan Torres to push them through fending off a good assy brace in Dortmund. So those are fun games. The Juventus Man City is fun. I want to get into that Inter Leverkusen. I'm going to try to find time before this weekend's activities to watch that because that game was also left late, but UCL is UCL ing know if you guys had a chance to look. At the standings for it, but pretty much all that intrigue. I think PSG with their win, they're sitting 24th and with two games left, then are they 25th after results today? So

Jerrell:

First team out.

Will:

with two games left. I mean, I think there may be the team that, you know, pay attention to, but over two games, you expect them to qualify in some shape and then. Madrid obviously picking up their

Christian:

Needed points. Yeah.

Will:

Yeah, but once again, I'm rooting for any of those teams to drop just based off just kind of like, you know, any personal bias. But I'm kind of just I wonder who will be the first team in the the structure. I know one thing we talked about with the UCL format is just like, They have all these games, but it feels set up in a way where it's harder to drop out than anything right now. Yeah, PSG as Jerel said and then Man City right now, they're only a point above them, so I mean, it's getting a little tricky at the bottom, but I wonder if any of the teams we Any teams you don't expect to drop end up out of the group stage.

Jerrell:

It's about to come down to goal differential.

Will:

Yeah, we'll see. I have to follow up on those matchups, but Yeah, UCL, UCLing, but those last two matchdays should be fun.

Jerrell:

All right. All

Christian:

When are the last two match days?

Jerrell:

I think they finished in January,

Will:

yeah, I'm pretty sure it's January and then the playoff round is in February, mid February. I think it's back to back leagues,

Christian:

any surprises on the current table?

Jerrell:

not too familiar with most of these teams To really comment

Will:

I'd say shoutout Bruges. I think Bruges was able to get a big win. I have to pull back up who they just played. They got a win over Sporting. Sporting, they've been losing a couple games since they lost Amarim. As Christian last game, it looks like they'll qualify. But Club Bruges right now, they're sitting with 10 points. So they would qualify as well off the strength of those three points they came out of the drop. But I mean biggest surprise is just kind of like relative to where you expect them So real madrid sitting with nine points. They were able to get a much needed win as christian. Mentioned briefly in the background man city, their stumbles following them. They're two two and two currently on stage and then psg is really the biggest one right now where they're two one and three and not score I mean six goals scored six allowed so they're playing pretty even but it's definitely Definitely not you you kind of expect PSG to be qualifying crashing out last year in the semis Obviously Mbappe left but a lot of investment a lot of resources there we'll see and a good coach as well, but I'd say those are my biggest surprises

Christian:

a little surprised. I'm, I'm pretty surprised with breasts. That's seventh place right now. Breasts is currently sitting, I think like halfway in the French table. They're, I think they're sitting like ninth or 10th in the French table. Below PSG, Marseille and Monaco. So seeing breasts at seven, it's could be life changing, you know, but seeing breasts at seven currently on the table, it's pretty surprising.

Will:

Yeah, yeah for sure Did you guys see the clip of was it Thierry Henry and like the

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

Yeah every week It's my favorite thing That's my favorite thing. Michael Richards, he, he need, pay him more. He, he's

Christian:

He's funny as fuck. Yeah.

Will:

yeah but yeah, Breast, Breast, definitely a big big surprise.

Christian:

Yeah. It came out on top.

Will:

Yeah, but can't, but we will, we'll add to our chest later in the season. But yeah, do we want to jump into winners and losers?

Jerrell:

Do

Will:

You know, pending a result, Drell, Drell's more excited than the last, than the last two weeks. Winner this week, Drell finishes top of the pickems and then Christian off tie break with the goal differential. I do find it funny how you and your partner sandwiched me in my goal, in my goal bets, but they cleared through nine games. So Christian's gonna go second and then I will be going last. Jarrell, set it off.

Jerrell:

Yeah. So my winner is going to be Brentford remaining on being at home. Huge easy, easy winner for

Will:

Easy dub.

Jerrell:

four to to result against Newcastle. Who? Who? A little bit inconsistent. You play a Liverpool close and then you've conceded four goals to Brentford. I mean, they did concede three to Liverpool as well, but Brentford's my winner for, remaining the, I believe that the only unbeaten team at home. So far this season, is that

Christian:

I believe so. They have the best home record. In the premier league on the contrary, I think they've only been able to pick up one point in seven away trips.

Jerrell:

Oh yeah, no, the, the hive does not

Will:

Hive, Hive doesn't travel

Christian:

yeah.

Jerrell:

But when you come into the hive You're not you're

Christian:

Yeah, I think they just dropped two points like yeah, you're correct. I think they only dropped two points so far at home

Jerrell:

Yeah, so Brentford my winner this week.

Will:

yeah. Christian, how about you?

Christian:

All right. My winner is gonna be John Duran Shout out to him because he's had a hell of a few days He got his first official start last week and he was responsible for the only goal that took down the Saints For like I said first sip of official star. He's known as a super sub he's scored the one zero after a defensive mistake from outside the box and cool little stat line here. He is second behind phil foden for the most goals from outside the box since the start of last season so shout out to duron and not only that in Yesterday's game. He came in as a super sub and he was able to bag a second half goal to lead three two to lead the villains to a three two victory over leipzig Thanks to second half goals from Duran and Ross Barkley.

Jerrell:

Nice.

Will:

Pace Merchant. He's taking advantage of tired players. He can't do it for a 90. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. My winner of the week Nottingham Forest. Nottingham Forest, they get a big win. Out at Old Trafford against Manchester United on the road. Huge result for a team that's not historically a team you expect to be competing with a power six team. Between this game, beating Liverpool, also at Anfield earlier in the season, they're going to be my winner for the week because that is the historic result for the club.

Jerrell:

All right

Christian:

Fun fact about the tricky trees. It was Chris Wood made scored a goal and it was his birthday on December 7th. So he got a birthday goal.

Will:

birthday, Chris Wood. Okay, nice.

Jerrell:

is you love to see it popping off on your birthday getting gingles

Will:

Chris would like a tree in this bitch.

Christian:

That was good.

Will:

Thanks, bud. Needed

Christian:

That was good.

Will:

Drow. Drow. Damn,

Jerrell:

week is going to be Rico Lewis. Although he did tie the game in Man City and Crystal Palace, he gets a red carded. I believe 16 minutes later and dashes any hopes of Man City, even like winning that game. Big hero play to. Tie it, but so good when you're going to get, when you're going to get a red card later on and just shoot, shoot your team's chances in the foot. So sorry, Rico Lewis, you made my loser list this week.

Will:

fuck you Rico. heard it here first. That's crazy. Go ahead, Christian. How about your loser for the week?

Christian:

My loser for the week is going to be the pair of cleats that Cucurellas I had on for the first 17 minutes of the game.

Will:

Man was getting

Christian:

Yeah. Chelsea ended up winning, but they did go early on a 2 0. They were losing 2 0 early on due to two mistakes by Kugurela as he slipped. And then he was just like, Fuck, it's not me, it's the cleats. Switch the cleats. And I think in the 17th minute, he was able to lay off an assist for the first Chelsea goal. Loser of the week is going to be his cleats for the first 17 minutes.

Will:

Nice. Hehehe. No bueno.

Christian:

cleats.

Jerrell:

No, shout out the brand

Will:

Please no bueno.

Jerrell:

Nike.

Will:

My losers for the week, I'm gonna cheat a little bit it's gonna be anyone I guess, Ties? I wanted to put my winner as Liverpool because they didn't play this week and you had to feel good about the results with City. Arsenal dropping points again. Chelsea I was gonna put as a loser too, but then they had to come back but not fuck it my loser for the Week anyone who's not Liverpool Because they are sitting right now, game in hand, 4 points clear of Chelsea. They're 9 point, they're 6 points clear of Arsenal. And 8 points clear of City. So if they get a, get a win, they're looking at still sitting on 7 points up, 9 up on Arsenal. And now it's double digits on City if they get their next result, it looks like. My, my loser is the league. Because I'm, every, week by week, I'm getting more and more pessimistic.

Jerrell:

Even when Liverpool doesn't play, they still win.

Will:

bro, it fucking hurt.

Christian:

Yeah, right now that table is not looking good for another. So half over half of the, the league to go, but fuck man.

Jerrell:

Yeah. Are we, are we overreacting to that or? I just felt like it was just going to talk about a lot. I get it. It's a, it's a big point lead, but I'm just like, we're not halfway. We're not halfway yet.

Will:

With Arsenal Lens, I guess, it's just kind of like, you know, these little things happen, and it's, I feel like week by week, it's becoming more and more prevalent, where it's just this little margin here, a little margin there. Chelsea's has been flying I

Christian:

yeah,

Will:

honestly thought about cutting them out, but it sounded really stupid for my losers to be everyone in top 4 except the top 2. So I mean, Chelsea's been flying Liverpool is just, they've been playing, they've found different ways to win, so I mean, I just need, I need them to regress a little bit and see them drop some points so I can feel good right now, they're just fucking winning everywhere, so it's just a little pessimism. Maybe

Jerrell:

Salah scores again and UCL on the pen to get Liverpool. There's sixth one of the

Will:

yeah

Jerrell:

in that regard as well. Also, they pay Mo Salah? Did he sign that

Will:

They offered him a contract, but nothing's finalized, but they apparently he scored enough goals where they finally put something out there, but we'll see

Christian:

that's crazy. They didn't try to reach that number earlier. Like he's, he's still playing fucking flawlessly.

Will:

Week by week the price keeps going up.

Christian:

Yeah,

Will:

like wherever he ends up so

Jerrell:

And I think he's now leading goal scoring in the premier

Will:

I heard orlando city opened up a right wing

Christian:

no. Yeah.

Jerrell:

They do what?

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

orlando said he opened up a right wing. So I

Christian:

we've got the funds for it? I'll pitch in. I have, I'll make a piggy bank.

Will:

right? MLS, they'll, we'll just all pay for it, and just offer him ownership of a team leader, maybe? I don't know, man. I mean

Jerrell:

I think Orlando, Orlando city always gets the Brazilian talent.

Will:

If you squint your eyes,

Christian:

Copy it.

Will:

Gavi, Gavi, Gavi.

Jerrell:

Martin belly

Will:

But yeah, Liverpool put that out. I think I feel like, I don't think I've heard anything about trans I'm gonna start locking in on transters probably like after Christmas. But

Christian:

Oh yeah. You're going to have the junior window, man. You're going to coffee. Coke. Let me know, bro.

Will:

What was that

Christian:

Okay.

Will:

one? Sponsored by

Christian:

You're gonna

Jerrell:

espresso.

Christian:

of January.

Will:

But yeah, can't wait for that, but it'll be fun. But yeah, yeah, so that was this week's winners and losers.

Jerrell:

I'm actually kind of getting into the matches. I'm kind of surprised that crystal palace. I mean, they were on the verge of winning that

Will:

Crystal palaces will be my winner.

Christian:

Tweaking, yeah.

Jerrell:

they were on the verge of winning that game and putting it away. Very surprising results, a split points of man city, even though man city is struggling. You didn't think they'd be in a place where they were like, yep, we're going to get one point against a team that's on the bubble of being relegated.

Will:

palace never trailed palace starting to come, come alive a little bit more over the last couple of weeks, putting some results together. So yeah, exciting to see, honestly, I think I think we all thought they'd be way better than they have been. So I think that's a big result for them for sure.

Christian:

Yeah.

Jerrell:

every time we say a team has momentum though, they, they go the other way with it. So

Will:

They keep getting got it. Yeah.

Christian:

You know who has momentum? No. So

Will:

Oh yeah!

Christian:

much

Will:

fault,

Christian:

momentum.

Will:

My fault, bro.

Jerrell:

momentum.

Will:

for, not the right momentum, but yeah, we're praying, we're praying for them. They're still above Southampton,

Christian:

it's gonna be 17th.

Jerrell:

Yeah, is that game scheduled? Is the, is the makeup game scheduled?

Will:

I, I haven't looked to where it's been, I don't, I don't think it is. Yeah, honestly,

Jerrell:

and I was just like, nothing here. I don't know when they're going to decide to play

Will:

I know the schedule gets really fucking wonky usually second half in the season between all the cup games and European games and just games being moved around and shit, so you know, the storm was like a good little preface, so I could figure out just alright, so for the sake of the pickems, Drell just cleared by two, so it didn't really matter, but for the sake of the pickems, I have to keep track of these games, so you know, end of season results, when I make my, my comeback late, yeah we'll, we'll see how it goes.

Jerrell:

Just put it on the, just the one, just put it on whatever match week it lands on.

Will:

I mean, that's an idea. Yeah, I'll figure it out. It's cool.

Christian:

Also, shout out to Munoz on that. He scored in the fourth minute on that Crystal Palace game. Just looking at the stats now. Apparently since he debuted in the Premier League in February, only Two other players have more goal involvements among defenders than than Munoz currently has seven and he scored in the last matches. So shout out to Munoz. But yeah, man said he's falling apart and I love it. I love it. It

Jerrell:

Yeah. Yeah. Losing in UCL as well. When was their last win in

Christian:

was so long ago.

Jerrell:

It's

Christian:

So long.

Will:

me two seconds and I got you.

Christian:

I'm sure they're bandwagon fans. I've already found a new team at this point

Will:

We're very impartial. Oh, oh, it's, it's, it's, it's actually uglier than I thought. the f

Jerrell:

since their last

Will:

Did they not win in November? That's fucking crazy. We did talk about Oh no, they beat Forest! They beat Forest on the 4th. I was just like, they just beat someone.

Jerrell:

Oh,

Will:

Yeah, they beat Forest at the Etihad. Besides that, then it's the 8th. One win in their last 11th? sounds fucking insane. If you told me coming into the season, it's just yo, if you give me 10, I'll pay it and I'll give you great odds. That city drops 10 out of 11. I would have taken the bet, but you know,

Jerrell:

sitting fourth on the table,

Will:

all they're doing is shoring up the Rodri importance after you guys rolling door, obviously

Jerrell:

Yeah, yeah.

Will:

it's told you guys, come on guys.

Christian:

Deserved it.

Will:

You see how important he is? Yeah, so of that, I mean, Spurs did the, the most Spursy thing at home

Christian:

Yeah

Will:

week, you know,

Jerrell:

didn't they get their midfielders get re injured again? I forget who it was. There's a guy who's coming back from injury for the Spurs and then I think he got hurt again in that game.

Will:

I, I did not catch that. I'm not going to lie, but up three, one at home. I, and I never, I'm not a journalist, I swear.

Christian:

Oh, damn, they had three injury subs against chelsea. That's tough

Will:

they, they've had, they've had a lot of

Christian:

Including brennan johnson. No Yeah,

Jerrell:

What is his name? Romero. He, I think he just got back from injury then he got injured again against Chelsea. And I think they lost another guy. I'll have to double check it, but it wasn't helping taught him that that their players were getting hurt. Like you said, three, three injury subs.

Christian:

a pretty big piece for tottenham. Romero's a he plays well at the club level. He plays well at the international level. So being without romero, that's It's not a good sign for him For Tottenham's future.

Will:

I mean, the way they lost it, two pens that Palmer was able to put away for a brace. And then Jadon Sancho got a goal early in the game. But you're up 3 1 and you really fall apart over the last 30 minutes. At home, it's not what you want to see. And Ange Bostakoglou, he's Sounds a lot more downtrodden than he did at the start of the season when he said he wins things. Usually by a second here, so we'll see how that goes.

Christian:

Yeah.

Jerrell:

just very up and down season for Tottenham. 11th now on the table Like we've talked about before the point Spread is so close like they'll sit seventh and then they'll drop to 11th and then it's just just what happens but on them They've lost their past two games. They've only won one one game in five. They've lost three and five so it's Been a rough stretch for them.

Will:

points out of European placement right now.

Jerrell:

Yeah. I mean, it can still be done that everything between, second place all the way down to, you can argue 14th, it's a very wide open. There's a lot, there could be a lot of sliding if somebody can string winds together. And so far like outside of Chelsea and Liverpool, you can argue our arsenal now got it back on track, but nobody's really a momentum wave at all. They're just gonna, it's like when, when draw lose across the board

Will:

Yeah,

Jerrell:

the way

Will:

5 10 on the table, all separated by 2 points, with City only 2 points over that shitshow and 4 points above is Arsenal right now, right now, all these teams are closer to that, to mid table than fucking Liverpool right now,

Christian:

yeah,

Jerrell:

So it's, it will be an interesting December into January and then transfer windows is going to pop off.

Will:

Yeah, I think some teams are gonna see they need some reinforcement Chelsea probably still continuing trying to offload some players, seeing what they can get. I think Arsenal needs to be in for an attacker of sorts, someone to just kinda add another wrinkle into their, their attacks.

Christian:

we need someone so we can stop relying so much on, on set pieces.

Will:

If it's not broke, but yeah, them not being able to get a second goal despite all the pressure they put on Fulham. Shout out Fulham for that result. That was, that was like a great result after they gave up the goal to Saliba in the 52nd from a corner piece that could easily see just like where you give up another one. Martinelli tough offsides had that goal disallowed late to Saka. But I mean, yeah, you know for your aspirations where you want to be arsenal should not be Should not be chasing a goal So they didn't need to be a little bit more decisive and gain the results earlier and making these teams chase you so we'll see

Jerrell:

Let's just city getting the draw against Brighton brain, of course, one of those top 10

Will:

Yes, sir.

Jerrell:

been flirting with the top,

Will:

It was a

Jerrell:

lesser city, promoted this year and sitting 16th,

Will:

party. Yes, sir

Jerrell:

looking a little safe, five, five points clear of the of relegation. So let's just city finding ways to win, especially after getting rid of their manager. So the past two games, they've, they've collected four points. And good to see you've already liked.

Christian:

Do a loose drop.

Jerrell:

still be able to score because I think he's been kind of MIA For most of the season.

Will:

Man, you know, they're they're they're riding the ascendancy, you know, it's a very competitive league and god damn it He's old, so he's 37, so

Jerrell:

for sure but for them to be sitting 16th approaching the halfway mark It's really good for

Will:

For sure.

Jerrell:

I can't say the same for

Christian:

Hey man, hey, hey, hey,

Jerrell:

and then

Christian:

hey.

Jerrell:

arrived. So

Will:

The, the manner they lost with the two goals

Christian:

After the 87th minute, it hurt so much,

Will:

90 plus 5, yeah. How, how much did it hurt

Christian:

so much,

Will:

I feel,

Jerrell:

heartbreaking losses. So it's hard, but they're also not scoring. I think they have 14

Christian:

It's also the second time the Cherries have come back after the 87th minute, this season.

Jerrell:

Cherries are cherries are like the cardiac cherries. I don't, I don't know. You can never put them away.

Will:

like Thumb and Burnmyth are like our biggest overachievers right now of the season, out of everyone.

Jerrell:

are burnt, man. Yeah. Speaking of cherries, they're on there. They've collected nine points in three, three matches. So they're. Kind of they had hiccup in the middle and then they're right back on it. They're winning again. They're sitting eighth. So They weren't that high in our power rankings earlier, but Cherries are top 10 Brent Brentford's top 10 as well.

Will:

buzz.

Jerrell:

Very buzz buzz. Any other matches you guys saw that you want to talk about?

Will:

Someone's screaming. Someone's screaming. It's just like you never talk about my team!

Jerrell:

talk about United, talk about Forest.

Will:

they

Christian:

I think we talked about every single game.

Will:

in some scope or

Christian:

Yeah. Yes.

Jerrell:

Go wolves

Will:

Jared Bowen for West Ham getting a win. home on the back end of Mikkel Antonio had a bad car accident. Older player who looks like, you know, I mean, obviously his concern probably isn't playing football currently after, but it was a bad crash. Gerald, I know you linked it in. So just glad that he's okay. I think the recovery time is probably, you're looking at a year. So we'll see, but West Ham able to bounce back, get a win and Lopetegui keeps his job for another week. Almost

Jerrell:

All right. You guys want to jump over to the power ranking to see how, how we are. We're almost at the halfway point match day 15, I think three more matches and we're technically halfway and the

Will:

Yeah.

Jerrell:

round robin starts

Will:

34 yeah, yeah yeah, just kind of update on, you know, power ranks and just kind of noting some trends I mean, we've talked about it kind of already as we see Nottingham Forest continuing to just surprise some key wins. They've gone up since Matt Day 7 on the table 5 spaces. Burn Myth as well doing the same. Besides that, a lot of teams just kind of hovering and At least in a positive sense, just kind of hovering within the same spaces. We've seen Brentford move up two spaces, bus, bus Chelsea, they're up to as well, you know, they're able to sustain the momentum that they've been following most of the season. In Liverpool, even though they, they maintained their first place, they're extended kind of their lead at the top of the table since last time we saw them. So those are kind of like some positive notes that I saw on that, but. Not in him for us. We had them on average. We were expecting them to finish 17th right now. They're sitting, I don't know, I think 18th and they're sitting at 5th of the table. Fuck. I mean, awesome for them, but we fucked that up boys.

Jerrell:

trees are tricky, man. It was really

Christian:

It has to be that defense because sitting sitting at fifth with only 19 goals scored for the season is It's a little interesting. The only other teams that have 19 or or less are newcastle and manu and they're 12 and 13

Will:

Yeah, usually goal differential gives you an idea of teams playing, but Freaky Forest, a plus one goal differential on the season sitting 5th. Looking a little funny in the light, maybe, but hey, I'm just glad to be at the

Christian:

I'll put it in a light. Yeah

Jerrell:

Tottenham has a plus 12 goal differential at 11th.

Will:

is maddening. One of these are not like the others. Yeah, Tottenham's been playing at the level of a top four team in, in, in periods of time. But they, more losses than wins this season is Tottenham. I mean.

Jerrell:

when they feel like it. They

Will:

Chelsea

Jerrell:

why don't you ask me later? Not looking great.

Will:

so much better this season than I think even like the most optimistic of expectations could have placed. I mean, with all the turnover and volatility that was going on there, we were kind of down on them coming into the season. And just kind of like, they were looking like a joke off the field, honestly. But them being able to be standing there, Sitting at second at this period of the season two points above Arsenal. Arsenal, who's like our title favorites, a little bit biased there, but where are you expecting them to be? Sitting on top of City. Yeah, shout out to them. What a quick turnaround and what a great job by Enzo Maresca.

Jerrell:

Chelsea is, is, I mean, are the differences between match day seven and 15? Like they're not big outside of Bournemouth and Nottingham. They've made the biggest jumps. Newcastle also making the fall,

Will:

Oh yeah, Newcastle fucking up. Newcastle's fucking up. Yeah. Haha.

Jerrell:

Chelsea at six. They're sitting second.

Christian:

We only got three From our original power rankings as far as the average goes. There's only three teams. We we have right so far villa Ipswich and southampton. That's crazy.

Will:

You know, I mean it

Jerrell:

negative one's

Will:

Yeah, yeah, and like all those points are

Christian:

That's only one of

Will:

honestly, it's just kind of like what is it? So united they're down six spots newcastle united down five spots, which newcastle's done that over the last two months one or two I'm gonna give us the points for, but also Nottingham Forest fucking things up for us. How are we supposed to be right when we, you know, meet up on, on weekdays, you know what I mean? But there,

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

it's gonna be, I can't wait to kind of revisit this in two months and see just kind of like, where they're at on the table. Because yeah, I mean, you look at that goal differential and a lot of tight, tight results not taking anything away from them, but it's just kind of like, a plus one goal differential doesn't inspire just oh, you're outclassing, outplaying a lot of teams, but hey, fuck it, top of the table.

Jerrell:

doing it. You're doing

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

I'm doing my job, dammit. Yeah.

Jerrell:

And three points, just three points, no

Will:

Hey, three points. That's three points. Yes, sir.

Christian:

And then you got

Jerrell:

it's

Christian:

and then you got the January transfer window. See if any big signings can make a big impact on any of these teams. This could all look completely different.

Will:

What team do you think could benefit most? And could, you can kind of see them stabilizing a little more with maybe one or two investments. I won't ask you who, cause that's a lot to put on the spot currently. Cause who's available. I'll get that for you soon. But which team do you think kind of like needs a move to try to get something?

Jerrell:

on the bubble on the bubble?

Christian:

I think we talked about it earlier as far as Arsenal. We just need a true nine. We get a true nine, start finishing, making more goals. That's not set pieces. We can start winning some games because we've been jumping a lot of points. We got what five draws this season that shouldn't have been draws.

Jerrell:

I think Brighton could, if they could. I don't know who's going to go for

Will:

They do have some money. Yeah. From other selling.

Jerrell:

Brighton has to go get somebody. But I mean, Brighton is sitting in a good spot and, they could seriously make a push that fifth spot for Europa league, or I don't know. I don't know if they're the team that can get into the top four. We'll see how man city pans out. I think. Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal. They're, they're pretty locked We'll see for next year's

Will:

I just knocked on wood, yeah?

Jerrell:

City. Yeah. Man, city might be in a little bit of trouble. They like they're struggling in just all competitions. And I think if Brighton can get, I don't know in what area they would need improvement on, but if they can splash some splash some cash, they might be able to to finish higher than. Most people would have expected them

Will:

Yeah, I think I've heard rumblings were like cities probably looking to be in on some players as well to try to strengthen out Their midfield a little bit to help with all the injuries. They've been dealing with no Roger and whatnot But yeah, Bryden's good shout, Burnman's good shout Fulham probably still has some money left over from like the Paulinho signing and whatnot They've had were able to bring their players in early and kind of assimilate them and you know positive 23 points through 15 match days is Not bad for a full on team that I think came up two years ago, after being relegated three years ago yeah, we'll see

Jerrell:

Yeah. Can Newcastle do anything to help them help themselves? Is this just Newcastle, this is the team we're going to get. Can, are they one or two pieces away from like pushing up the table or new Newcastle's hit, hit a ceiling?

Will:

mean I Their their biggest knock is just typically their goal like where are the goals coming from is like kind of the biggest thing we've seen from them this season when gmod is being like One of the bigger bigger creators and with anthony gordon and whatnot there, but i'm just kind of like They kind of played a style of game that like, I've mentioned at LetEco before is who they remind me of in a sense where it's just like they play very narrow margins because there's not a lot of goal scoring so I mean ideally maybe you can get in an attacker and someone to kind of you know put a little bit more like punch into their game so that you know maybe they front foot I mean you saw them get front foot against Arsenal a couple weeks ago and we saw how that ended up so I mean see Defense, probably about where I want, you, you, you expect it to be, but they need to, they need to find, find some goals somewhere.

Jerrell:

Yeah,

Will:

Cause it can't just be Isak and, yeah.

Jerrell:

anybody for you christian? They why are you looking over the table? You're like,

Will:

TRACTOR BOYS!

Christian:

Yeah, I just need to check the voice to drop all that farm.

Jerrell:

they have the money

Christian:

Yeah.

Jerrell:

anybody? Ed sharon To those tour dollars

Christian:

I

Jerrell:

Get this club going

Christian:

can't really think of any, any, anyone honestly, or like any specific needs that a team needs right now.

Will:

I wonder if Palace is able to splash something to kind of, I mean obviously, I mentioned Olise they're still recovering, not having him for a long time, but I wonder if they bring something just to try to strengthen them, staying above the relegation line, cause four points up right now on Ipswich and Wolves, but you know, we three weeks ago. Yeah that so much can change

Jerrell:

There were seven points

Will:

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I wonder I don't know if we're gonna find any joy for Southampton this season Unfortunately, they're sitting at 5 through 15 games. So

Jerrell:

Yeah, that's a little tough and they're kind of don't know. It's There's always one,

Will:

we we got them, right?

Jerrell:

we did get them right. And we have, I, I think we got Ipswich right so far.

Will:

Yeah, we we've nailed Ipswich, for the time being they've dropped one but

Christian:

I don't worry, boys, they're going to go up.

Will:

Nothing but up. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'm about to play. The divide album right after this pod

Jerrell:

just, just, just the Spotify

Will:

Yeah, yeah, hey cut the check anything else you guys want to point out, power rankings, trend wise we see in the premier league currently

Jerrell:

trend-wise? Mm, just ups and downs. Just across the board. the top three, they've, they've stayed steady. They've, they've stayed stabilized, but every, everybody under Arsenal has just been like, not momentum, doesn't exist in that world.

Will:

People are fucking with their sticks

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

and knives. Yeah

Jerrell:

maybe Bournemouth has momentum

Will:

I

Jerrell:

else,

Christian:

I think it has been apart from Liverpool. Bermuda has definitely been the most consistent and at least the last month there's,

Will:

Yeah, so

Jerrell:

It's been, it's been a really wonky, but it keeps the table

Will:

not

Jerrell:

and it

Will:

don't don't don't forget about forest forest has had it like a great great string as well. But yeah, I

Jerrell:

three and five like it, it was looking bleak for a while. Yes, they're still sitting fifth, but like they haven't, it's, I don't know.

Will:

feel you I feel you

Jerrell:

just kind of

Will:

Run of forms a little way.

Jerrell:

I

Will:

Yeah

Jerrell:

run of form has been

Will:

so All in all I refuse to make any predictions because I refuse to be wrong later. So

Christian:

yeah, there's like barely any form I'm, I'm looking at the last five games for each of the, for each of these teams and it's just non con they're not consistent.

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

Liverpool and Chelsea are

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

Liverpool and Chelsea have been yeah All right, cool. Dro, you want to give us the match day 16 preview?

Jerrell:

match day 16 arsenal versus everton liverpool versus fulham versus leicester city the wolves versus ip switch nottingham forest versus aston villa brighton versus crystal palace man city versus man united in the derby chelsea versus brentford I guess that's a derby too. Southampton versus Tottenham and Bournemouth versus West Ham.

Will:

just immediately, Spurs has the chance to do the funniest thing next week.

Jerrell:

Fucking drop points to

Will:

Southampton's about to double up season total pretty much.

Jerrell:

takes all three points, they'll still be in last place.

Will:

You got to start somewhere, bro. They have a reverse fixture. Damn. Jesus Christ, Dro. Damn. me spice up bottom of the You got to start somewhere, bro. Damn.

Jerrell:

do, but they still, they're in a hole.

Christian:

We already know what my, my game of the week is.

Will:

go ahead

Jerrell:

They're like the only team that if they win, they don't move on the table.

Christian:

It's going to be the tractor boys, tractor boys versus the Wolves. That, that's, that's, that's doable. We can, we can work with that. We can work with that.

Will:

it in my head or had we once been like can a wolf beat a tractor or something did we do that in one? of the episodes

Christian:

we did, but

Will:

Okay

Jerrell:

that

Christian:

outside.

Jerrell:

That was about bees and

Will:

Okay,

Christian:

put it past us though.

Will:

after

Jerrell:

Maybe.

Will:

to beat a wolf I

Jerrell:

I don't know. I can't tell you

Will:

Was asking Christian on that one because he said I wouldn't put it past

Christian:

I wouldn't put it past us.

Will:

How dumb are

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

It's just like anything is possible Anything is possible with the KG meme, yeah

Jerrell:

Derby will be kind of funny.

Will:

Yeah, right

Jerrell:

Struggling city, struggling United. I don't know. It's not, it's not my, it's not the best Derby

Will:

that That FA cup final rematch Again community shield rematch again. So yeah rubber match since we started, covering, you know I think our first preview was the FA cup final and then our we did the thing I mean you guys have any favorite I already put my pickums in I don't know if you guys saw but um I I think I I think i'm winning city You

Jerrell:

Just didn't, didn't think too hard about it. Just got it in.

Will:

I was just kind of like, usually I'm just kind of like, I, I just know I won't do it Friday, and I'm scared I'd forget Thursday. Yeah.

Christian:

Oh, that's true. Cause we are going to be, Friday's going to be a busy day for us.

Will:

Busy bees. Yeah, so I, I, I got, I got city by default at the Etsy head,

Jerrell:

oh, okay. Maybe, maybe they split the points. Who knows?

Will:

But, I think he just heard bees and he had, he had something to say.

Jerrell:

Oh yeah. You know, Brentford and Chelsea is about to be a banger. I think that one's at

Will:

at Sanford Bridge. Yeah, yeah.

Jerrell:

Stanford bridge.

Will:

Brentford. Yeah. It's like they're krypton.

Jerrell:

win this

Will:

They're yeah. Their road form is like kryptonite for them. There's we have to leave the G tech. Oh, oh, it's scary out here. Yeah.

Jerrell:

they don't, they don't have to travel very far, but you know, bees don't travel very far from the hive. So

Christian:

That's the villa for his game. It looks

Jerrell:

I got to be able to make it back,

Christian:

Saturday at 1230.

Will:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Villa Villa pretty much forest is occupying where Villa wants to be for the finished fourth last year. Villa's coming off two games during the week. So they're gonna have to deal with the fact, you know, the same thing, right?

Jerrell:

same team.

Will:

Yeah. Damn. But.

Jerrell:

seven, four, four, four has a plus one villas, zero, both have 25 points. It's that was a, that's a funny match. I hope it ends in a draw.

Will:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Villa Villa is slightly underachieving, but I don't even want to say underachieving. That's not fair, but just obviously dealing, dealing with Europe, we're kind of seeing their struggles a little bit more two wins over the last a few days big for them. But now you're dealing with fatigue as you head over to play on the road at Nottingham, Nottingham's home stadium. I mean, Nottingham Forest, can they keep the vibe going keep the ride going? They've been having a shaky road of results despite them climbing the table.

Jerrell:

Saints about to get lost in the forest.

Will:

Villains.

Jerrell:

nothing.

Will:

Villains. You said Saints. That's Southampton. Yeah, I do that shit all the time.

Jerrell:

know why. I don't know why I think Ashtonville is the

Will:

It's cool, bro. I said Seagulls

Jerrell:

Change the fucking

Will:

last week and

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

our Instagram chat. I was just like, why didn't you just stop me there? I read it like two hours later. I was just like, oh, I'm a dumbass.

Christian:

Yeah. You said it's so quick and you said it with your chest. And I was like, I'll let it slide.

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

Bro, I'd be

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

sometimes. You know, I get a little excited and shit. Everton with some downtime. Do you think there's any chance they can get some joy in the Emirates?

Christian:

No, no.

Will:

All right. Word to Molly. Molly Bushel. Yeah. This is true.

Jerrell:

her know.

Will:

Hey, I say with my chest, Molly, matter of fact, wrote me that toffee to where your grandma stay. yeah, should be a fun and should be a fun game. Match of the week is going to be that Burnmouth West Ham United matchup. Does my catfish keep catfishing?

Jerrell:

Fulham draw Liverpool or sneak out a

Will:

Folks, we're getting some sneaky results,

Christian:

I'd be nice.

Will:

pray. A tough result, would be a tough result at Anfield, but you know, they're gonna, they're gonna do their best. But I wouldn't bet on it. I would not put the house on it at

Christian:

You know what? I would put the house on

Jerrell:

going to be my

Christian:

switch.

Will:

Oh, easy, Christian. Every week, just, you know, keep,

Jerrell:

relegation

Will:

it. Yeah, I could, yeah.

Jerrell:

like the wolves have more upside than if switch does. I'm

Will:

Whoa.

Jerrell:

yeah, sorry.

Will:

The worst thing these teams can do is draw. Cause, you know, if you, you, you want, this is where you need to get your points. So that, that's actually like high key, an interesting matchup, even though it's the, you know, some relegation spots, because it's gonna send some ripples down for the rest of the season as well. They're playing, At, in Molyneux, so we'll see.

Jerrell:

All right. Interesting matchups. We, you know, every, every match has a story to it. But outside of that, did you guys hear about that rough that got fired

Will:

Oh yeah, that man had, I don't know who he fucked up with, but you know, don't let people record you saying stupid shit, bro. I, we alluded to it like a couple weeks ago on the pod, but that man, the fact that it took the Premier League like this long to be like, Oh yeah, he, he actually really breached the contract, there's some other stuff that came out Who did he cross, who is he getting blackmailed by That man, that man's done ed up. But also the fact that the review took so long. I have no hope for Var the rest of the season.

Jerrell:

process? I don't know. Yeah, that, that was kind of funny.

Christian:

What did they say? What did they say? What did he say about club?

Jerrell:

don't know, I don't know word

Christian:

He disliked the German manager because he was arrogant and accused me of lying after one game.

Will:

did he answer your own question?

Christian:

Yeah, I'm just reading the article.

Will:

I love you.

Jerrell:

Okay.

Will:

This man said it was rhetorical. He said, have you,

Jerrell:

answer that.

Will:

never been with an independent podcast host? Have you? I find my own answers. So yeah, crazy. So as crazy. This is not me shading Christian, but did you hear the old ref in La Ligo, who apparently his it's like his parrot, would knew how to say Oh fuck Barsa. Like pretty much something along those lines. If you were just like, wait, what the

Christian:

Yeah

Will:

That's just fu Yo, La

Christian:

That's just funny, bro.

Will:

funny to me, bro. Every, every, every week something comes out like between Tebas and Justin Media and like whatever. It's just La Liga is just funny. Just enjoy

Christian:

That just

Will:

Just

Christian:

it just

Will:

it.

Christian:

tells me never to own a parrot, bro

Will:

Everything your parent says can and will be used against you in a court of law, yeah.

Christian:

It's like your honor he my client never said that his parrot did

Will:

Heh. parent said after the suspect was shot I mean the victim was shot, but Let that coochie breathe. I've crashed the fuck out. I'd be like, Oh no. Oh man. Yeah. That's a whole other, yeah.

Christian:

In other news mcdonald's.

Will:

Oh yeah. They're, they're getting review bombed

Christian:

Yeah, I saw that

Will:

my favorite conspiracy is that the kid actually wasn't the shooter and he's just trying to take the martyr role. Deep web shit,

Christian:

what do they even have on him? No, but the the that ceo

Will:

Apparently he had the relative Hey, it's fine. We don't have to do it. That's It's not that kind of pod.

Jerrell:

This is a football podcast.

Will:

Football is life, though. Thus, life

Jerrell:

You're

Will:

is football. But yeah, it's cool. It's cool. Very, very America centric. Just, wild times. I feel like we're not shocked by anything that happens on a day to day.

Jerrell:

no, no, no.

Christian:

getting murdered is the first time i've seen america united on the same cause Okay,

Will:

Everyone, everyone's just out here Oh no. It ever just kind of like, wait no, it's fine. I mean, we can do it. I don't care, but it's

Jerrell:

same cause like in a while. Cause I don't know. I thought we all got united on nine 11 too. So

Christian:

let's, let's bring it back up, let's bring it back up, let's bring it back up.

Will:

I don't know.

Jerrell:

years. Yeah.

Will:

Hmm. We, we were all, you know, that's fine actually. As long as it's go further into America, just but we didn't treat parts of America great after and scapegoated parts, but yeah, you're right. What's the song? Play us out on, I'm proud to be an American. She was like, absolutely not.

Jerrell:

All right, any final shout outs, guys?

Will:

I think those were the shoutouts, right?

Jerrell:

I think our international listeners don't want to hear American

Will:

Hey, listen, Helsinki! You knew what the fuck this was. Okay? Don't try to Don't be here, minute 50, talking about ugh, ugh, too political, too woke. No, fuck outta here. Helsinki, you've been ride or die for two weeks now. Okay? Fuck off. You're stuck with us! You're stuck with us! way I'm stuck with you guys. Thank you again for doing this pod with me, guys. I fucking love you all.

Jerrell:

Yeah, no problem. Next week we'll be back for episode 24. That'll be our Kobe Bryant

Will:

Oh fuck, the Covey episode's amazing.

Jerrell:

Yeah. But we'll do that probably next Wednesday, next Thursday, whenever we decide to do it, but it'll be within the week and then episode will

Christian:

The episode will be up next week, that's all y'all need to know.

Will:

Assuming, I, assuming I survive this unlimited drink package this weekend.

Jerrell:

Yeah, y'all

Will:

We can tell you about the origins of a blackout party.

Jerrell:

watching him from afar with my sunglasses on.

Will:

You piece of shit. I'm gonna drop you from that balcony.

Jerrell:

right, see you guys later. Bye.

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