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FA Cup, UCL and Oh Hey Liverpool/Everton Finally Happened

• Season 1 • Episode 28

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Will:

Oh, you said take it. Welcome, football fellas. Episode 28, VentiOcho for your head top. I'm joined by Jerrel and Christian. Gentlemen, I've never doxxed on pod. In real life, for sure. I give addresses to all my friends. How you guys doing today?

Jerrell:

Pretty good, pretty good.

Christian:

pretty alright, pretty alright.

Jerrell:

Alright, you want to talk about it?

Christian:

I've just been throbbing headache all day.

Jerrell:

Oh, I'm sorry.

Christian:

We're good, we're good. You know

Will:

Fresh cut though.

Christian:

Thanks bro. Football. Let's do

Will:

Football, we had plenty of that this weekend, so Premier League, we're We're taking a little break, kinda sorta, we dipped our toes back in, we're recording February 12th. Evening Eastern time, so fixtures finished up for that Everton Liverpool rewatch, we'll into that. Plenty of FA Cup fixtures, I couldn't keep track of them all through the week, so Jarrell did that for me, thank you Jarrell. And, the first ever guys, Knockout playoff phase legs. pretty sure I fucked that up, but they fucked it up

Jerrell:

Two of them!

Will:

that's not my fault. Branded better. So first legs done there, and then after that we'll also dive into matchday 25, and we'll probably ramble into whatever else hits our minds. Sounds good

Jerrell:

Yeah, there's

Will:

probably hear me

Jerrell:

other football news out there. Oh, no.

Will:

Yeah. Yeah, some Arsenal news, so before

Jerrell:

Alright.

Will:

into anything guys, You want a cup or anything? Or Drell? Drell's Let me at him. Give me the

Jerrell:

Oh, give it to me! I want to thank, I want to thank our listeners getting us to 100 episode downloads. It's a big milestone for that, for us, and we really appreciate that.

Will:

We really do. Cause once again, As I've said, In our first take, No one asked for this podcast. The fact that our listeners in France and Japan are holding it down, We appreciate y'all. Calling.

Jerrell:

I don't, I don't know if they want to do that, but

Will:

No one wants to do it, But the overlords demand it.

Jerrell:

All right, so let's jump into some FA Cup action. All right. Here we go. Man United beat Leicester City in a Premier League matchup 2 1. And United seems only focused on repeating in their FA Cup. It's good to know that they're doing well there. Man City beat Leighton Orient 2 1. Not familiar with Leighton's game, but they are now out of the FA Cup. Unfortunately.

Will:

cut from midfield, caught the

Jerrell:

Oh shit.

Will:

shot. We're up 1 0 and then Man City just kinda eked it out.

Jerrell:

Ah, unfortunate. Ipswich Tractor Boys sends last year's FA Cup finalists Coventry Packing 4 1 victory. Big win for Ipswich.

Christian:

Easy win for Ipswitch.

Jerrell:

Southampton can't get anything going for them in the Premier League or the FA Cup where they fall into the third place championship side, barely League one Zero and only in the FA cup where the cherries greater than the toffees. But to us, the toffees always come out on top. Fullham takes down Wiggin Athletic two. One top of league, one Table, Birmingham falls short to Newcastle. Three two.

Will:

No, no, no, no, hold up, wait, real quick. Jarrell, I need you to read it verbatim how you put it on the doc.

Jerrell:

Oh, yeah, I'll go back to it. Foleham proved to be more athletic than Wigan Athletic, winning 2 1 in that match. Yeah,

Will:

me this time. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Usually I read it, I was like, Daryl, we need to start a dialogue. Carry on, sorry Daryl, you're doing great.

Jerrell:

Birmingham lose to Newcastle 3 2. The goals fly over the Blues to the next round, 2 1 victory. Rovers blanked by the Wolves. Wolves. Surging forward in the FA Cup. Bottom of the championship table Plymouth beat top of the table Liverpool 1 0. That was unexpected. That pilgrims are loud.

Will:

We called our shot, boys. I'm smoking on that, on that fucking Reds pack.

Jerrell:

Aston Villa beat Spurs 2 1 Palace Dispatch League 0 and Nottingham Forest survived extra city of penalties. Game was 2 2. They won a penalty 4 2. Yeah, the Plymouth. I thought Christian showed his Super Bowl party in a Plymouth jersey. I was like, yo, that's crazy. It was not. I wasn't like paying attention. I was just like, bro, what? You had that?

Christian:

You don't have a Plymouth jersey bro, you're not a

Jerrell:

Nah, man. Nah, because they beat Brentford in the previous round. How could I support such a club?

Christian:

That's fair. That's fair. No, I was wearing my Deportivo Cali jersey who just got sued by a former player for unpaid wages and

Jerrell:

Oh boy, I

Christian:

love my team, hate our directors.

Will:

Nah, just call it, call it deferred. And, blame COVID. Fuck it.

Christian:

Fuckin pay him some coffee beans. Yeah,

Will:

Will they take that? Is that fine?

Christian:

that, no.

Will:

I don't know what the Colombian currency in The forex, it looks like over there,

Christian:

yeah.

Jerrell:

want to get too much into illegal narcotics, but I think it was the Colombian president. The Colombian president recently was like

Christian:

segue.

Jerrell:

shouldn't be any sanctions on Cocaine and it should be sold in grocery stores like wine. I heard that on a radio show a couple days ago

Christian:

mentioned something about whiskey being worse than cocaine.

Jerrell:

Yeah, stuff like that. He's trying to justify it being legal,

Christian:

I'm not too informed on Colombian because I'm too depressed about American politics. So I can't be double depressed, it's too much,

Jerrell:

but just, just throwing that out there.

Will:

Wait till the day that motherfuckers find a way where it's just Oh, we can control this resource and make money off of it? Okay. Okay. I think it's legal. I don't know. Motherfuckers are still doing bids for carrying weed on them. And now that it's legal, people are making money off it. It's not a big deal. I don't know. Coke is crazy though. Coke is crazy.

Christian:

And that segment was sponsored by D. A. R. E. Do not do drugs, kids.

Jerrell:

That fake up field is slimming down. We're down to our last 16. Do I know how to math?

Will:

I don't think so.

Jerrell:

Help me. Do the math for me. I thought it was 16.

Will:

Are you missing games?

Jerrell:

That was all the games from FA Cup.

Will:

Huh.

Jerrell:

Hang on, I'm looking up the next round, the fifth round.

Will:

We're, we're, we're, we're to the next round of the FA Cup. Let's,

Jerrell:

We are. Then we're down to our 16. This is round to 16 right here. A couple of premier teams still alive. Aston Villa, Man United, Fulham, Nottingham Forest, Ipswich Town, Crystal Palace, Newcastle, Brighton, Burnmouth, Wolves, and Man City are the only, that's the majority of them, but.

Will:

like, what are you expecting to roll? It's

Jerrell:

Oh, I expected Arsenal to be here!

Will:

You, you obviously haven't been paying attention the last couple of years cause that's not what we do around here,

Jerrell:

the priority.

Will:

Plymouth obviously the biggest shocker is still there. But outside of that a couple, of teams still there. Christian is showing.

Christian:

pilgrim's jersey. Not mad at it.

Jerrell:

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, they're not that. They're not bad.

Will:

You'll see it on the YouTube. We'll have the photo on the link for this week's episode. But yeah, probably Plymouth, obviously the biggest shocker. We'll see how much deeper their run goes. Who do you guys have as favorites currently going into? City's still there, obviously. Fuck, is it City? Villa, probably. Newcastle, whatnot.

Jerrell:

Come on for the FA Cup defending champs, Man United.

Will:

Man United, that'd be something. That'd be, that'd be something. That's all I got for you.

Christian:

point?

Will:

Yeah, a

Jerrell:

last time.

Will:

a dub, a trophy's

Jerrell:

Trophy is trophy.

Will:

They celebrated by extending Tenhog like four more months, so Tenhog, who's rumored to be talked about for the Feyenoord position skipping ahead. Feyenoord, they fired their coach 24 hours before their UCL tie today.

Jerrell:

Jesus Christ, did not know that.

Will:

yeah, yeah

Christian:

today too.

Will:

Knowledge darts. Yep. It was a beautiful strike that that got him up But yeah, I mean outside of city cities obviously been on a bit of a wobble. They don't look like the usual city You think for us even if like maybe they don't even if they stagnate over the rest of the season Does this mean the most of them?

Christian:

Yeah, I think forest winning this it will be a big one for For for their club. They don't have to worry about like aston villa and man city They don't have to worry about the extra schedule when it comes to Champions League. I'm pretty sure Manny doesn't have anything going on for them either. If we take away the congested schedule, it would be nice to see the trees lift the trophy.

Jerrell:

definitely for sure. Other teams in there that could also challenge that spot, even Newcastle, to be honest. They always hang around and they got beat up last year when they were in the Champions League, I believe. Scheduled congestion, but now they, they have released the bonds of the UCL and can now fully focus on the FA Cup and their domestic league.

Will:

But at the same time it's always like a little bit of a crapshoot to end of the day we'll see how it goes. It'll be fun as like gonna start seeing more top flight teams kind of playing against each other. So hopefully the fixtures are more exciting as teams like vision clarifies throughout the year other news which we forgot to put in the doc that was after last week's recording Liverpool did beat Spurs as well. I think they ended up winning the tie for one. I think they went like 400 at home so Spurs really looking like it's They're not going to win any trophies under Antropostokoglou and I think he's they're stuck between supporting him and, and or moving on from him because the results are plummeting. Obviously they're dealing with injuries and knocks, but Spurs fans tough, tough to be a little bit more so this year than most years.

Christian:

Didn't the Spurs

Jerrell:

Shame.

Christian:

somebody in this FA cup fixture

Will:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They Carabao

Jerrell:

Below.

Will:

on with Villa. So no trophies this year. It's looking

Christian:

another injury. Let me see.

Will:

Christian looks at that. We're

Jerrell:

yeah, the FA

Will:

prepared.

Jerrell:

couple continue March 1st.

Christian:

Yeah, no, that was Aston Villa. I lost somebody. There was an injury in that game, but it wasn't Tottenham.

Will:

Who was it?

Christian:

It was,

Will:

He went 90 percent of the way and

Jerrell:

I need names.

Will:

I was like, whoa.

Jerrell:

Hopefully

Christian:

Lamar Bugarde for Aston Villa got injured. Mm hmm.

Jerrell:

speedy recovery. What was that?

Will:

What else we have Premier League wise this week's row, we had that Everton Liverpool game earlier.

Jerrell:

One second. I'm still here, but I'll be right back.

Will:

Okay. So do you think he's gonna cut this in post so we have free reign? Oh shit, let's talk about La Liga because that shit's heating up like a motherfucker. Did you guys get hoed?

Christian:

Oh,

Will:

so I no, did you see the did you see the penalty they gave, gave at Let It Go?

Christian:

I did not see it, I read and, I read or I heard during the Champions League game that Madrid put filed a complaint against the referees.

Will:

Yeah. I think the week, so it's, I think it's definitely one of those where I you might've, honestly, cause I think I didn't get to see exactly when it happened. I saw the clip when you slow it down and do a VAR check, it looks like ChuaMeni stepped on at Let It Go player. I think the original call was Was not a penalty and then they sent it to VAR and it was like if it were called it'd be soft But the fact that they went to VAR to do it super soft So I have to rewatch that game, but I was excited just because Barcelona got their win So La Liga 24 games through with 14 games left. We're looking at Real Madrid at 50 points Atletico Madrid 49 So your call last week Who's gonna win Christian? Madrid. Really panned out you called that and then Barcelona at 48 And then Bilbao is at 44 points So that top end of that table Jarrell's not here parents are gone. Oh shit. He's back. It's six

Jerrell:

No, I'm here.

Will:

into

Jerrell:

I was hearing athletic athletic coach. I was just like, oh, okay.

Christian:

You a hater.

Will:

we weren't sure

Jerrell:

I'm fine.

Will:

edit it we should carry on or whatnot I was like, oh, let's dabble into our other secret

Jerrell:

No, you're fine. My headset died, not my microphone, oh.

Will:

Oh, I was worried something was going on at the house because last night I heard it was like, huh? but

Jerrell:

cause my headset died and I was like, why can't I hear myself?

Will:

but yeah, six points separating the top four in La Liga. Copa del Rey also heating up. I think it's going to end up being in the semifinals. Real Sociedad. Real versus Real Madrid. Sociedad versus Madrid. And we got a lady. Just fun. La Liga, if you're not watching this year, pretty fucking fun. But we're back. We're back. Because we're not a La Liga broadcast.

Jerrell:

I was the La Liga corner of the podcast

Will:

Yeah, Jarrell was away, but we had Everton Liverpool today. The,

Jerrell:

and our makeup game at Goodison Park. The last Derby game at Goodison Park.

Will:

the last Merseyside, yeah. They're, those

Jerrell:

the, the

Will:

mile away. Wild.

Jerrell:

oldest, the oldest Premier League stadium.

Christian:

Any of you got a chance to watch the game today?

Jerrell:

Yes. I saw an hour of it.

Christian:

Ooh, I had to go. I was

Will:

Dots.

Jerrell:

I missed all the goals except for Mo Salah's.

Will:

I saw that he had another decisive goal. I was like, this motherfucker's

Jerrell:

Yeah, no. And the thing is, is that there was an announcer. I, you could call it a curse. If you're Everton, you could call it a blessing if you're Liverpool, but they're like, Mo Salah has been pretty quiet this game. And usually he's the one who puts them ahead and sure, sure enough, two minutes later, he strikes and scores and puts a Liverpool up to one. I was like I think this one just ended, but then my free trial to the game canceled and I missed the ending. So I think I got to the 88th minute and then I went out and I was just like.

Will:

you

Jerrell:

Damn.

Will:

What, what was it on? Was it not on? Don't we'll talk. It's fine. We don't have to talk about logistics of watching games in the U. S. where we're spoiled versus, er,

Jerrell:

Go Pirates.

Christian:

football team

Jerrell:

But yeah, so Everton manages to steal points in the 90 plus 8 minute. I did see the goal later, Will, you sent it and it was a hell of a goal to

Christian:

What the fu I still

Jerrell:

bring that game level.

Christian:

that thing. From that angle, that, that pass on the sideline, it went, just took it looked like a gust of wind just came out of nowhere

Will:

The Liverpool defender's

Jerrell:

think he put his leg up.

Will:

fast. Yeah, that's why I was just like, yeah, his His twitch in his calf went up because he popped that bitch up, dropped, and then the cross comes through just dropped And it was just like a

Christian:

yeah, that

Will:

messy goal.

Jerrell:

Yeah, I had to watch it twice because I was just like, Wait, what just happened? How'd the ball even stay inbound?

Christian:

but, and for the ball to still be able to hit the ground before anybody else touches it, it's crazy.

Will:

It was it was a perfectly placed pass and a great finish top net so I've

Jerrell:

Yeah, Everton definitely wants

Christian:

it

Will:

rubber

Jerrell:

to Liverpool's title charge.

Christian:

Good.

Jerrell:

getting the draw is huge but 7 points clear of Arsenal. With

Will:

So

Jerrell:

about arsenal in a second

Christian:

We

Jerrell:

and

Christian:

so that brings it down to four. Bang! There's hope

Jerrell:

we'll play them one more time with after that, like

Will:

May

Jerrell:

to go in this season, but yeah, But that's what happens. That's what happens. Do you guys want to talk about it? Yeah.

Will:

up this morning And I was like, whoa, great night of sleep And I scrolled through my phone, right? I was like, oh, okay, let me make sure, check my notifications And I swipe through, cause I'm just like, oh, this is nothing, nothing And as I'm swiping over my athletic notifications All I read is, Kai Havertz out for season And I was like, what? I'm still

Jerrell:

How?

Will:

There's, there's, I was like, there's no Dubai went crazy this year. Dubai

Jerrell:

Oh yeah.

Will:

team together this year. We didn't touch down last week just because it was close, but Martinelli got picked up a hamstring injury. He's probably out for at least a month. We're already thinking oh fuck, no left wing there. Raheem Sterling, here you come. And then Kai Havertz. He's out for the season, he's gonna need hamstring surgery, so they're hoping to get him back for the start of next season. which means that our front line I hope you speak teenager because we have Ethan Noineri. Sterling and Leandro Trossard, who's probably playing more of a false nine for us. And all the other options are just either 21, 22 year old youth players who haven't really played top level and or free agents. Carlos Vela got mentioned by some sites as someone's he's a free agent, know? So seven points did feel nice cause like the league's alive, but The roar of just man, we should have done some business last summer

Jerrell:

right.

Will:

January to get

Jerrell:

The teenagers are going to mog all over Leicester City on Saturday. Yeah. Oh boy. Christian, how you feel about it? Oh there's nobody.

Will:

injection or whatnot. We're also playing really fucking well in the Champions League, or at least through the first group phase. Yeah, I don't know, Raheem Sterling, we, we haven't seen the best of him in two seasons. He hasn't really made a mark in in the Gunners jersey. He's had a great season coming off the bench and whatnot, but he hasn't had any consistent burn like week to week as a starter. And Leandro Trossard, he started this season wanting more playing time. He's gonna get it, but as more of a nine maybe? I don't know, man. I'm dealing with a lot right now. But Liverpool did drop points, and they've dropped points in back to back they've lost games in back to back games, or lost points, whatever. Negative results the last two games, so there's a chance. But if we end up closing that gap and not winning this year, I'm, it, the nine talk is gonna come back, or the four talk's gonna come back, and I'm depressed, so I'm done rambling now. I'm gonna cry.

Christian:

Not great. I'm trying to see who we have left and it's just like, all right, who's in the stands that can potentially play a nine. But yeah, just between the three that he already mentioned, we have Throsar, Sterling, Nonary. It's, it's going to be tough. Cause yeah, we start them, who, who's our subs? Who's the subs if something like that happens? We, we need, we need something. Do we have any lonies out there that we can just recall?

Jerrell:

Arsenal's on an island. It's going to be, it's going to be interesting. It's oh Leicester City. There's going to be a test. Um, hopefully, hopefully we defend extremely well.

Will:

respectfully, they

Jerrell:

They shouldn't be, they shouldn't be, but.

Will:

season, or two months, pretty much. No offense, Foxes fans.

Jerrell:

But no Martinelli, no Havertz, no Saka, no Jesus.

Will:

You think we can play Kalifiori as a nine? I,

Christian:

Might as Them.

Will:

Fuckin I think I saw like people were like the Kearnan Tierney Tierney Arc is gonna go full circle because he's lonely looking like he's gonna be headed out in the summer. They're like, instead of having him in left back, we're about to have him play in right back. Left wing and just cross all day is the only hope, but not ideal in February. So Sokka, hopefully back in March Martinelli, hopefully back in March to bolster, but like the next four or five weeks,

Jerrell:

that's going to be really hard. Yeah. Is there an international break in the meantime?

Will:

end of March.

Jerrell:

Oof. End of March.

Will:

in about a month. So in between that, we're going to have our first UCL fixtures and we're going to have every game in the league. We have to win bright side though. Care about an FA cup cooked, right? Boys? No

Jerrell:

Very,

Will:

I don't know. Is that good or bad? I don't even fucking know. Depression,

Jerrell:

it's not great. It is.

Christian:

have

Jerrell:

It's not,

Christian:

Let's see. looking at, I'm still looking at our roster right now. We have a 20 year old Charles Sago Jr. Who plays for the Arsenal U21.

Jerrell:

can he ball?

Will:

he's a winger slash like, like wide mid midfielder, but he, like you think people were complaining about habits, inability to finish. You're gonna put a kid out there to play against top league in the world, center backs or whatnot. It, it's

Christian:

He's

Will:

you. You're right.

Jerrell:

It's, it's going to be,

Will:

Be

Jerrell:

going to be

Will:

You're right, Chief. You're right. It'll probably be fine. We'll touch more on the preview. It's cool.

Jerrell:

Yeah. I think that was everything on Premier League though, right? Just Everton makeup game and Arsenal's injury. Bug is the best way I could put it

Will:

only other Premier League team we're gonna touch on is gonna be as we do our UCL roundup. We got

Jerrell:

to do our knockouts

Will:

of action, so

Jerrell:

fascinating. Do you want to walk us? Oh, it

Will:

know he He was hype about a result. I was very confused because you sent messages in the group chat with no thing. I was just like, is this meme I sent you a one off? I don't, what do you mean? Go ahead, Christian.

Christian:

Alright, so for the first ever UCL Knockout Playoff first leg of the new UCL

Will:

We really got to work on it. Yeah, we really got to work on it.

Christian:

Champions Games. The previous games, they started it on Tuesday. We had PSG beat the fuck out of Brest 3 0. This is not in the order. That I was expecting.

Jerrell:

was in the order that was given to me.

Will:

Ous, Ousmane Dembele has been

Jerrell:

I do owe you a, I do owe you a,

Will:

a

Jerrell:

I do owe you a score here.

Christian:

PSG beating Brest 3 0, we got Juventus beating PSV 2 1 by a fucking banger by Weston McKinney for the first goal. I'm cutting in early, but I don't know if you guys got a chance to see that that banger of a goal. That shit was just fucking crazy.

Will:

Describe it to me in vivid detail.

Christian:

It was off the corner and then Wesson McKinney from the top of the box just volleyed it. Just power, just fucking I have all the power in the world put his laces right through it and went

Jerrell:

We used his infinity gauntlet foot.

Will:

that ball that went to 2's face yesterday?

Christian:

Yeah, just like that one. I think one of the pundits, I forgot his, his name. He said it was a star spangled banger of a goal.

Will:

That's good.

Christian:

shit, good

Will:

good.

Christian:

it was pretty solid. Real Madrid does a la Madrid things and comes back from behind to win, 3 2. Borussia Dortmund beat Sporting CP 3 0. I think we all got that one wrong last week. I think we all went for the, for the Portuguese teams.

Will:

I definitely said Dortmund.

Christian:

I don't recall.

Will:

I literally said I liked their yellow stadium because

Jerrell:

I wrote it back. He did say that though.

Will:

yeah, I literally, I literally said that. I was just kind of like, speak for yourself champ.

Christian:

no, bro. Run it back. It's another listen.

Jerrell:

No, he said that

Will:

No, I'll run it back. It's fine. I said I'd do it last week. I forgot to have everyone

Jerrell:

I'm just going to put it at the start of the episode.

Christian:

we got Club Brugge beat Atalanta 2 1. I'm pretty sure we got that one wrong

Will:

Yeah, shoutout, shoutout to Brugge. Brugge with a huge result, played, played solid for about 60 minutes against Man City last week or week and a half, last matchday. And they got a huge result. It is at home in Belgium, so they still have to go to Atlanta, but this is

Jerrell:

That penalty was that penalty was wonky.

Will:

Yeah, I'm gonna have to take a look at it. I didn't get a chance to see it, but I saw that you put in the notes that it was a, it was a little sus. It was like in the 94th of,

Jerrell:

Yeah. The defender had the ball extended his arm and kind of like hit. The guy in the face in the penalty box. And they're just like, yep, that's a penalty. I was like, interesting.

Christian:

Hair first, folks. Drell's pro hitting people in the face.

Will:

Gerald, not a fan of the Belgium.

Jerrell:

no, I didn't say that.

Christian:

Let's see, Benfica beat Monaco 1 0. Bayern Munich beat 2 1, beat Celtic 2 1.

Will:

Celtic fucking putting

Jerrell:

Celtic,

Will:

against Bayern. They almost had a goal in the first, the first minute of the game early on. That was, it was disallowed for a half foot offsides. Byron went up 2 0 Daichi Kamada was able to get a late goal so to give him a chance in the return leg in the Allianz. But they played a lot better than I thought they would considering just the differences in stature and just financial resources for those teams. Shout out to them for being able to they were testing Byron for sure and frustrating, comfortable off the ball and their counters were, were strong against Byron. Maybe a roadmap for a team going forward. Not saying they're necessarily dead, but Allianz is going to be a different beast.

Christian:

yeah, it's, it's definitely like Celtic needed to win at home this time around. They got a goal in garbage time. After I think Kane got a brace, right? game,

Will:

Yeah, his first goal was great. He was getting defended really well, but he just got some space scored

Jerrell:

Celtic left them uncovered on the corner after

Will:

but I think who scored the first goal I don't think it was I don't think kane got the brace. Give me two seconds Michael elise had the fucking banger because he just kind of what what shot from wide near post top net It was disgusting but my michael elise right before half and that was a commentator's curse as far as i'm concerned because You Right before he scored that fucking banger. Commentary through Paramount's coverage was pretty much just coming into the game, they would have taken a 0 0. THEY'RE NOT GONNA GET IT! 1 0 ELISE! was insane, bro, but, Oh, Elise, what a goal. It was an amazing goal to watch live. It was crazy.

Christian:

Yeah. It's unfortunate for Celtic. They, they, they got lined up against Spain and I don't know, like you said, it's going to be tough winning that away

Will:

was

Christian:

against

Will:

It was either that or City, so they were kinda in a, Fuck it, we're gonna go out on our shield type deal in 2 1. You'll take that result against that team.

Christian:

Yes, sir. And then we got our final game. We got fair nude beating AC Milan one.

Will:

that one wrong.

Jerrell:

they fired their manager.

Will:

Yep. They said, they said, Fuck the chaos, fuck everything, today we ball. And they did. They

Jerrell:

Oh, oh, they,

Will:

I think we all got that one wrong. I was told Captain America

Jerrell:

yeah,

Will:

And,

Jerrell:

there's a documentary on them now too.

Will:

Are you fucking kidding me?

Jerrell:

I wish I was.

Christian:

Yeah, I think it's on Amazon. I think Amazon's just doing random ass documentaries because they're also doing a Tony Cruz documentary,

Will:

They said they need content. You're paying for it?

Christian:

I have

Jerrell:

There's a, there's a soundbite from Pulisic where he's just I want to be the, the best soccer player in the world. I'm like, interesting. So more power to them. USA, USA,

Christian:

I'll give him the best player in USA.

Will:

I'm gonna come back to it, probably by default, but it doesn't make me feel good.

Christian:

Yeah, yeah, youth soccer system's in the USA. It's money based, so you can't really develop talent in the USA like you can overseas, but that's a topic for a different conversation.

Jerrell:

that's for the off season.

Will:

I've been waiting to die on that hill.

Jerrell:

And that was our UCL knockout playoff first leg roundup. That's a mouthful working title. We'll shop it.

Will:

they're gonna shop in the offseason, hopefully. Out of all these results No ties going into it. Who do you think's most likely, to flip the way the tie's going?

Jerrell:

Do what now? I'm sorry. What was the question?

Will:

flip the way the tie's going, so when that says, Christian said Madrid, so you think they're getting cooked? It's at the

Jerrell:

I can't, I can't sit at home.

Christian:

no. No, Majit's gonna

Will:

yeah

Christian:

a

Will:

more of the first half of that game first 15 minutes, it seemed like Madrid was just gonna get a goal, didn't, Man City hit a great,

Christian:

was fucking boring.

Will:

hit a, they, they, they were controlling and getting chances, they just weren't really finishing anything. I think Mbappe had a look also first half as well, where it was off a great layoff from Vinny off of a Trevella pass. Saved wide, but First goal Erling Haaland had a huge goal early on Madrid were able to tie it up did you guys see Mbappe's goal, by any chance? Yeah,

Christian:

Off

Will:

yeah, that shit was, that shit was ugly as fuck, But a goal's a goal, it was great. And then yeah, I don't know.

Christian:

I'm

Will:

Yeah, but Really at the end of the game I don't know what the fuck ederson was thinking coming off of the line in that situation then he just lofted it up in a bell and go late. He did the whole celebration song and dance as man city They're running out of trophies to win It's fa cup and they look like they're gonna crash out maybe before round to 16 headed to the brandon bale But it was a fun topsy turvy game up and down. It literally felt like um inverse of

Christian:

them a trophy.

Will:

It looked like an inverse of the last time they met because madrid did end up, you know succeeding in that I think it was like a quarter but man city was controlling. A lot of that time madrid was able to eke it out on pens late but Also shout that like they did a nice piece on pep gordiola and carl angeletti two of the greatest coaches I'd say of this generation of coaches and just how their styles like more control and static and game needs to be played a different way. Ancelotti and how he's always just very pragmatist, just Hey, I'm trying to get the best out of my pieces. Given the pieces I have and just the diverting pathways and

Jerrell:

And my pizzas are real Madrid.

Will:

Ancelotti Pretty much if he loses this tie, they're talking about he's probably cooked out of the job And meanwhile man city probably having their worst season in eight years Rip pep pep's not going anywhere unless he decides to great piece on the athletic if you get a chance to look at it

Jerrell:

if a real Madrid crash out of UCL knockout, it's a little, it's canned. Is that what you said?

Will:

season, but they're gonna probably move off of him. Yeah madrid.

Jerrell:

Interesting.

Will:

they don't fuck around You

Christian:

They

Will:

They're looking at Xabi Alonso as well, but it's also I mean as someone who just watches the team is just yeah I mean he did the job last year, but No, coming into the season you guys needed that investment in your back line and not getting it And that mean I mean we say all that in their top of the table in La Liga, but You know just it's just tough to get results and draws so but Madrid's always ready for the next thing, almost, it feels but, yeah, Ancelotti. Five UCLs with Madrid in. Hot seat, just on a week to week if things aren't

Jerrell:

Jesus

Will:

it should.

Jerrell:

Christ

Christian:

Yeah, I do want to give a shout out to Asensio like you mentioned, our backline has been nothing but injuries and injuries and injuries and injuries Raul Asensio is somebody that came in from,

Will:

Does he have a weird case?

Christian:

what?

Will:

Carry on, carry on, it's fine.

Christian:

22 years old. He's always been pretty much on the bench. Ancelotti doesn't favor him, but he's left up to no, He has, he's nobody else, but I don't know if you guys watched the full game or all the sense. You played a really good game Made decisive tackles sliding tackles inside the box that fucking make me clench, but it was still spot on tackles So yeah, shout out to a sense here. You also mentioned earlier that the the last goal was Edison's fault I don't think so much that one. I mean it was a tough one. It was it was a wonky play for Man City Just because of how the play developed Vinny's just too fast. You got to close up that angle and shout out to Bellingham for tracking, tracking behind Vinny to pretty much run cleanup. It was a second goal that looked pretty tough. I forgot who shot it initially, but Edison, instead of palming or punching the ball away, he decided to stop it with his chest. And that's what led to the second goal by the second, I forgot who scored the second goal actually. But yeah, that's what led to the second goal. It was just like an off decision by Ederson to just stop it with his chest. Ah, Brahim. made the second goal and refused to celebrate because he was a youngster for Man City at one point. it was a great game. Madrid did Madrid things and came back at the end to, to win it.

Jerrell:

mic drop.

Will:

Nah, I just meant more from just Man City was playing without a lot of their usual control, but, even then, I don't think it was necessary for him to come so high off of his line. And also early on, There was offsides, but he also almost got eked out. It had a, it was a pench out pretty much where if there wasn't an offsides, Vinny almost dribbled around him, took ankles in. It's just not thatterson you're used to seeing in the Premier League and in past competitions. And you can see just like the lack of stability going on from midfield down with that Man City team honestly. But, but yeah.

Christian:

Oh, another thing, Guardiola, we know he's good. I didn't realize how fucking fast he was. That man was keeping up with Vinny on some and Vinny and and, and Boppy on some of those runs. I was I was pretty impressed at

Will:

Motherfucker came in as a center back, they pushed him as a left back, and then they had him covering Vinny right back. Makes no sense,

Christian:

Yeah, and he's young as shit too. He's only he's only 23.

Will:

Yeah, his price went down 20 mil when he got done up by Messi, but he was like, like a world renowned talent. So when he went to fucking Man City last summer, I was just like, Why, why did, what, they can't keep getting away with it, right? But, it's fine.

Jerrell:

All right. That, yep. That was the Champions League. Any, anything else to add or any other games you guys wanna talk about?

Will:

is anyone flipping the result?

Jerrell:

Oh

Will:

Madrid

Jerrell:

it go the other way, uh, Hey,

Will:

anyone have a chance to come back?

Jerrell:

Monaco,

Will:

had to pick a team? At At Atlanta, maybe?

Jerrell:

Atlanta could come back. There's some obvious ones, right? Like the 9th seed going against the 24th seed. That makes the most sense that they flip it back. Very ambitious.

Will:

also deep? If I'm not mistaken? I I don't know. I don't

Jerrell:

They are, but a 3 0 lead on aggregate is It can be done, but it's just tough.

Will:

I only trust the seating so much since there's like probably like what how many points separating like top from bottom? I guess six

Jerrell:

Yeah. AC Milan might be able to

Will:

And

Jerrell:

flip the script. So

Will:

rail madrid also close enough that it's going to be a game that you probably Probably gonna watch right christian. I'm assuming

Christian:

Yes, sir.

Will:

All right, so

Jerrell:

I don't know if I believe in this man city. I don't, I don't think I believe in this man city to, to move on. I think they're, they're done in around of 16

Will:

seen

Jerrell:

or

Will:

happen. We'll

Jerrell:

this route, whatever we want to call this round. I don't even, it's not the round of 16,

Will:

The knockout phase of the UCL Swiss Matchday 25 Give it to me, anyone!

Jerrell:

Ah, I think it falls to you. Will.

Will:

Oh shit, I'm up. Give it to me, myself. Matchday 25 preview coming this week. We're gonna have Bryden versus Chelsea. That's a rematch of their FA Cup tie? Nope, that was Crystal. Yeah?

Jerrell:

Yeah. Yeah. Brian, Brian and Chelsea. Yeah.

Will:

Look at that. I almost got my goals mixed up. I was like, Oh no, it's Crystal. We're going to have Leicester City Arsenal. Arsenal on the road. We'll see what that front line looks like this week. Aston Villa vs. Ipswich. Christian, how do we feel?

Christian:

We just we just hit a 4 1 victory We needed that high after after losing to the lowly Saints.

Will:

Okay.

Christian:

I'm feeling good I said Bill is probably tired, they're they haven't worked on their chemistry with their new front three So I'm feeling if switch if so, shall I die baby?

Jerrell:

I'm switched till you die. Heh,

Will:

you heard it here first. So then

Jerrell:

I think that's Ed Sheeran's song.

Will:

Versus Nottingham Forest as well coming up this week. Both of those teams win their FA Cup ties this week Man City versus Newcastle should be a fun game played at the Etihad. Man City Let's see if they find some stability. Newcastle Let's see if they can maintain what's been a more positive goal record over the last couple weeks versus the start of their season Southampton Saints vs. Burnmuth. Southampton looking to keep their EPL win streak alive this coming week. West Ham United vs. Brentford. Jarrell

Jerrell:

Yeah,

Will:

is the hive traveling.

Jerrell:

the hive struggles to travel, but God, I hope they can beat West Ham. Bees should be able to pop some bubbles.

Will:

Pop some buffles. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. Crystal Palace vs. Everton coming up. And then we're gonna have Liverpool. Let's see if they drop some more points playing against Wolves. We'll see. I can dream. And then we have the, I don't, I don't give a fuck game or the, I don't know what's going to happen game. Better thing that happened. Spurs vs Manchester United. No you suck, no we suck. We'll see how this goes

Jerrell:

This game has huge implications between 13th and 14th place.

Will:

Hmm.

Jerrell:

Isn't it crazy that

Will:

our match to

Jerrell:

Tottenham has a plus 11 goal differential at 14th?

Will:

I'm convinced that if they had half the injuries they had, they'd be around 8 at least. And that is our Match Day 25 preview. Which games are we looking forward to seeing this week, boys? Fellas?

Jerrell:

I'll take the shitter. I'll take the Spurs Man United.

Will:

That's not

Jerrell:

Nah, that game is not going to be fun at all. I don't even want to watch that one.

Christian:

in the morning

Jerrell:

Yeah, wake up early. Oh

Will:

something light.

Christian:

fellas

Will:

Just bright and early, guys. Just be ready for it.

Jerrell:

boy, it's on Saturday, right?

Christian:

Yeah,

Will:

Yes.

Christian:

game of the week.

Jerrell:

It's gonna be a long day.

Christian:

Oh Brian. Chelsea is the first game of the week. That's on fat on friday

Jerrell:

nice.

Will:

to me.

Jerrell:

Man City, Newcastle will be interesting. As, as much as we talked about Man City now, since they're fall and everything, like they still have interesting matchups against top level teams. So they're always worth tuning into either to watch them collapse or, or do well,

Will:

fallen severely to two points outside of fourth.

Jerrell:

Yes. I

Will:

they're

Jerrell:

mean, hey, that's it.

Will:

yeah. Outside the

Jerrell:

up, they've given up on the on winning the league. So

Will:

Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough. Nottingham 4 is crazy. 10 points out, or treat, it's Freaky Fours.

Jerrell:

what about you? What, what matches are you excited for

Will:

I want to peep the Villa Ipswich game. Just to see if there's any shocks there. Brighton Chelsea should be interesting as well. He was on a little bit of a goal drought, but Nico Jackson is going to be out for the next couple weeks. Chelsea does have the pieces to try to You know, fill the void at least from a goal

Jerrell:

next man up?

Will:

Chelsea's been like on a little bit of a slide So we're gonna see that that recap against a Brighton team. That's also been over the time so excited for that one and then West Ham should be a fun game as well against Brentford with Graham Potter doing things But yeah, I probably, probably somewhere between there. Fulham, Nottingham should also be fun as well, considering Nottingham's here every week. It's just are they going to maintain it? And then Fulham as well, having a good season as well. Drowned out by some other teams that have moved vertical at the table.

Jerrell:

I can't wait for the wolves upset this week.

Will:

I need it. I need it because our front line is, there's some holes there. There's

Jerrell:

Oh, yeah.

Will:

team.

Christian:

in this house

Will:

Indeed. It's fine. I cried about it earlier. You're right. But yeah, any game right now that Liverpool drops points has huge implications. But pretty much anyone trying to win right now, whether it's Nottingham or Arsenal, just need to win out. Just win every game,

Jerrell:

Keep winning. Just don't stop winning. Yeah. All right. And that was our match day

Will:

how that goes.

Jerrell:

25 preview. All right. We're coming to a close on this episode. Any shout outs, guys

Christian:

You guys

Jerrell:

shouting us out?

Christian:

for being here 20 for the 28th time.

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

Probably more, considering the cuts, right?

Christian:

Probably 28th 62 weeks

Will:

And that being said, we always do it out of, at a different time every week. I'm going to plug the socials guys. Follow us at the football fellows on blue sky. I'm going to set it up before this episode comes out. Football fellows at gmail. com. If you want to send us an email, talk to us, tell, tell us, do you want to see more content of Christian without a shirt, whatever you need? And also the football fellows on instagram. com. Don't ask about the website. I'm fucking tired of it. Okay. So And also you guys. Shout out to y'all.

Jerrell:

Business inquiries at thefootballfellas at gmail. com. Cut the check.

Will:

O. C. Layla's, we know you're listening.

Jerrell:

All right guys, we'll do it again next week. Are we doing pickems? Are we doing pickems?

Christian:

Interns been slagging a little bit.

Jerrell:

Okay. Okay. And interns,

Will:

want it,

Jerrell:

interns started spring break early. That's fine. That's fine.

Will:

Y'all took me out of my rhythm when we went on our January international break.

Christian:

Yes.

Will:

yeah.

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Christian:

won international

Jerrell:

What a break. What a break.

Will:

But, yeah. I might drop it in the group chat tomorrow. I might put it on social tomorrow. I might not. I don't know.

Jerrell:

Look, Japan, Japan wants to know.

Will:

send me, send me an email to the football fellows@gmail.com saying you need it, and I'll go ahead and get that set up for you. If not, by worse next week for sure.

Jerrell:

Alrighty then, you heard it here first, maybe. But we'll see you guys next week.

Will:

Definitely. Maybe

Jerrell:

FootballFellas out.

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