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Arsenal U Good?

• Season 2 • Episode 14

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Will:

Wrap it up. Professional. So this week's episode is sponsored by Ocean Buffet,

Christian:

Do you like? MSG is MSG like you.

Will:

do you like cook chairs at your buffet?

Christian:

Who doesn't, am I right?

Will:

Hey, you know we don't King Shame here. This is the Football Fellas

Christian:

If you didn't gather, if you didn't catch that by our intro, this.

Will:

sequ Nowhere. This is a soccer podcast. Is it, is it worth mentioning the season, I guess episode 59? T-B-D-T-B-D. We got two G's here. It's me, Williams Christian, how you

Christian:

I am tired. I am filled with MSG, but I'm here to talk fu.

Will:

Drill was a late scratch drill, was just like, I'm not fucking performing today. So he took the day off. So we're gonna, we're gonna hold it down for today. How's things

Christian:

Kind of crazy. He, he was, he was too busy for the pod today, but not busy enough to hit the waiver wires when he is already up in fantasy.

Will:

Hey, you're here, bro. If you wanna, if you, if you wanna wish failure upon him on, on the po, he can fix it in post if he really wants to.

Christian:

yes, I, I, I would, I would.

Will:

And to be clear, this is not fancy. European football, American football. But I think everyone's least favorite thing to talk about is someone else's fantasy football league. But hey, hey, it's hard time drill fucked up. He's not supervising.

Christian:

Is our pod now, baby?

Will:

is, you got the comeback on deck this weekend.

Christian:

Absolutely not

Will:

who's your big time performer?

Christian:

me, me. Just stressing, bro. If we can get points off of stressing and refreshes. Oof. I'm averaging like 10 refreshes a minute, bro. It's crazy.

Will:

Yeah,

Christian:

It's a high stat line

Will:

just, I need to keep myself busy on Sunday. But the fact that,

Christian:

better than me.

Will:

Things set up that might result in us watching more than I planned to. Tough, tough. Joe said, I wanna do OG RN. AKA watch football with the boys while sipping whiskey.

Christian:

That's Sunday.

Will:

You can catch that on our Patreon. Cool, cool, cool, cool Drill. Didn't leave us locations, but we still do have socials. We are the football fellows as we say. We have a website, football fellows.com. We paid for that shit, I think. I don't know. Shout Drell. He handles that admin. We also have socials Instagram, blue sky, where we ski. I love to say that as much as I can. Twitter and Gmail, all the football fellows skiing with my boys does not hit the same. We're all sending out the tweets on 1 1, 1 small screen. At

Christian:

Medium sized,

Will:

Keep us in line, medium size screen. Lo

Christian:

sized.

Will:

skeets, though we maximize the skeet length. Yeah. But yeah, this week, this week it feels like slightly less that we're covering even though it still feels like so much. I almost had several aneurysms this week. We're gonna go over match day fifth if 15. Match day 15, thank God. And then we're gonna go ahead and go over the Carrabelle Cup semi-finals. We have some, I'm sorry, quarter finals. We have some semi-final places set up. We'll give you a match, day 16 preview, and we'll ramble throughout all of it. Sounds good.

Christian:

We're gonna recover match day 16 match.

Will:

Fuck I trusted. Ah, no, we're gonna do last week, last week's episode. Again in reverse.

Christian:

Let's do it.

Will:

Okay, so this is cool. So let me update the dot'cause I definitely put general so just so that way I have, so when I update this next time, you wanna go ahead and give the scores. I'm gonna shut the fuck up for a second.

Christian:

Yeah, let's do it.

Will:

This happiest you've seen was me saying that. Oh, thank

Christian:

Chelsea gets Palmer back and beats Everton two zero, Liverpool, another two zero against Brighton. Burnley verse Fullham. Fullham takes it three, two. Arsenal takes three points with scoring without scoring a single goal. That's, that's, only, only a top tier team can get away with something like that. Man City, man City beats Crystal Palace. Three zero the Tricky Trees beat, disperse three zero. A few clean sheets out here this week. Sutherland Beat Newcastle one zero West Ham falls to the villains. Three. Two. Brentford comes away with one point with against the leads and man u with probably the game of the, of the week on a Monday, four four against the Sizzlin. Chas, what's up button?

Will:

Perfect. Another perfect read through. I like that. I love the siz and chilies at the end. Yeah, that Manchester United game was a barn born burner. Eight goals, eight different goal scores. No control, all anxiety, all stress. Manchester Unite might have been done up a little bit, but given how much fun it was just recapping and going through this game. Fair point for both. Fair point for both. So the United Strand remains

Christian:

Poor,

Will:

for lack of a better term.

Christian:

poor guy. I think this was probably like their best stretch. I think that they had a chance to,

Will:

it subconsciously. Yeah.

Christian:

I mean he,

Will:

I thought the villa game would be

Christian:

he's getting sponsors, so

Will:

He's making a career. Have other people suffering. So good for him. You

Christian:

I'm waiting for the day where a doctor's just dude, you need to cut it. Your neck, your neck vein is just under so much pressure from all this hair.

Will:

This man's a make, make a wish kid, and he's just praying to Manchester United please come through.

Christian:

This is my Makea wish.

Will:

Cena and Spider-Man walked through and he cries. He's just this is it. This is not a regular checkup. But yeah, I, I briefly touched on that, the last game of the week. But yeah, Chelsea, it, it's crazy this week, if I had to describe just how things went. High stress for Arsenal and everyone else just had a swimmingly good time. Top four, except for crystal palaces. Crystal Palace had a bad day at the office, but I think that score was harsher than what the game actually was. But what should we start with Arsenal?

Christian:

Oh, okay. Let's do it. Let's do it. It was pain.

Will:

You're, yeah. Yeah.

Christian:

It was pain. This game was what? I think on a Saturday.

Will:

Saturday. Yes.

Christian:

I don't even,

Will:

the 3:00 PM game too. It was later in the day. You thought things were gonna be chill.

Christian:

Yeah, yeah. It, it was not, I, I think I was falling asleep just because TI, information for the readers. I've been working twelves, I've, I've been working 60, 72 hour weeks. So when I got off work on Saturday, I was just like, I'm gonna take a nap and recap this later. But I was keeping track of it and I was just like, okay, thank God. And I remember posting in our group chat just guys, guys, what's going on? When they scored in the 90th minute and I was like, oh no, not like this. This is Will's fault. This is Will's fault. Last podcast. He said, not a problem. It was all problem. It was,

Will:

a problem.

Christian:

was. And then three minutes later, it was after the most stressful three minutes of my life. I was just like, bro, I was never worried, bro. This is, I like to feel alive sometimes and shut out Arsenal for letting me feel alive.

Will:

Yeah, definitely a personification of wolves season. Wolves, they, they looked okay. Honestly, all things considered, you're playing at the Emirates on the road. But Arsenal,

Christian:

failed to register, shot on target in the first half.

Will:

It, there just was no urgency it felt like, and I think this is the first time, despite everything that, ah, it felt like a little ping of concern. I'm just kind of like, Hey, yeah, it's December. A lot of fixtures, a lot of rotation, we got the points ugly. But I think this is also the madness. I've seen Arto this season after your game and Declan Rice, I think just stormed down the tunnel or whatnot. I use the most stress I've been all season. Even like the games we lost, like'cause against Liverpool or whatnot. I was like chalk it up as just kind of like, Hey, this is a winner goal here, good basis, but we just didn't look good in attack and we're dealing with a lot of injuries. But they got three

Christian:

Yeah,

Will:

They got three points

Christian:

it just.

Will:

but wolves had almost did the funniest thing. Yeah.

Christian:

A couple years ago, maybe even sometimes last season, where like Arsenal would just play down to their opponent. I was like, guys, you're better than this. Why? Why are we like go stooping down to a two point team? But here we are. Three points is never word.

Will:

I never worried. Never worried. But yeah, Chelsea Everton was a two oh affair. Cole Palmer scores in his first Stanford Bridge start in four months. Everton, they played, okay, not gonna lie. I thought they played, they just didn't really, they left a lot of their vegetables on the table. I'd say they, they didn't, they didn't get their nutrition.

Christian:

They left their vegetables on the table. I like it. I like it.

Will:

Ah, I can tell you don't, but I appreciate you. But yeah. So Everton they extend their winless record on the road against Chelsea the last time they won 1994.

Christian:

Good year. Good, good.

Will:

great

Christian:

It was one, one of the best years I think.

Will:

Hey, some of my best guys, I don't know who came out that year. Liverpool, Brighton Mosel is back. He,

Christian:

Real, real quick on the Everton. Few concerns on Everton there. Their, I think their top goal score of the season got foresaw off with injury, so that's something to look forward to as far as Everton,'cause I think they, they are having trouble scoring some goals. They're about even 18 negative one goal differential. But yeah, with losing their, their topical score is something to be concerned about going forward, especially when they play Arsenal in two, two days.

Will:

Depending on how you look at it, it was like, Hey, if I were gonna play Arsenal. This might be the time to do it. We haven't looked very convincing over the last, like three, four match days outside of UCL. We've looked good, but I think that pressure gets cranked up a little bit more.'cause on the flip side we'll get there. I think Manchester City might be in their best form of the year. Realistically

Christian:

Bro, three plus goals in the last four games. It's fucking Android, bro.

Will:

Yeah. Casual

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

But yeah, Liverpool, Bri Brighton we won't touch too much on it. Brighton tough day in front of goal. I thought they played, they had good value on the pitch, and if ended up a tie would've been okay. But most al's back hug, he scores a brace. He scored 46 seconds, in which at the time of scoring was the quickest goal. Of the Premier League season until 24 hours later, we will get there. But Liverpool in their last five, three wins and their five and and two draws, so finding a little bit of form in this December

Christian:

Shout out to Salahi. He got a, an assist after coming off the bench in the 26 minutes after the Gomez injury. He is now officially the, let me not fuck this up. He is the player with the most assist leader for a single club. So he has 188 goals in 89. Assists he just surpassed some, some, some, some scrub,

Will:

Ellen. Sure.

Christian:

Wayne Rooney.

Will:

Oh fuck

Christian:

Yeah, so it's with the same plug.

Will:

record. My fault. Yeah. No, it's just shout at him. You don't know what's gonna happen with acon going on next next

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

and, January window and all the noise around it, but. Hopefully, hopefully he has a place on

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

Obviously Moel, premier League legend when you think about their excellence over the last eight years, you think of

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

Hopefully positive. And if it's the last one, I'm glad he was able to get one more record for the road, but look forward to see how that unfolds as I get locked in my room in two weeks. Shit. So partner's gonna be really confused. We're like, what the fuck is this? I was just like Burnley Fullham. Fulham they find some, they find some road glory. They get three points. Finally, they needed that to stay above the allegation zone, and I think they're sitting at 17 points. Burnley, they scored their first open play goal since November 8th against Westham. They had a late goal to try to bring it close, but just not enough for Burnley today. A tough home loss kind of setting them. They're getting close to being me, being my firm oh, you're my second allegation team. A lot of football. But they're having a tough stretch over the last two months.

Christian:

Yeah. Burnley's definitely going on a, on a tough streak here. They've been struggling. We have seven, seven straight Premier League losses despite the fact that they, they're, they're pretty attack heavy. They got 16 shots in this game compared to Bern's four, but I'm sorry. Fullham got 16 shots to Bern's.

Will:

Yeah.

Christian:

So Burnley's definitely struggle here. But great game by Harry Wilson as well. I think he was mostly like a, a bench player last season. He got given more trust this year and he came away with one goal into assist in this game. He was involved in every single one of bulls goals.

Will:

Yeah. Yeah. I concur. You nailed it. You nailed. I was like, I don't have anything to add. Good shit. Christian crystal Palace, Manchester City, as we alluded to, Manchester City went three oh on the road Holland. He gets a brace on either end. Sandwiching who, who had the second goal? Was it Turkey? Or no, it was Foden fo. Sorry, I was getting my games fucked up. But yeah, clinical. Crystal Palace had some chances to hit woodwork a couple times, but just couldn't get a foothold back into this game in Manchester City. We were able to capitalize despite a worse xg in this one, but it was pretty calm for them, all things considered in the games group. How worried are we that Manchester City's back, or did they not leave? Huh?

Christian:

two points of us

Will:

Yeah.

Christian:

considering the fact that. We were about to be tied for three minutes.

Will:

Yeah,

Christian:

We were all, I, I looked at the table after, after the Wolf score and I was just like, no, not like this, like this.

Will:

one. Yeah. I'll never, so yeah, I was it, I was, I was working. But usually I'll run the games on the side or whatnot, but I think it was like blocked, blocked down in there. So I was like, oh, I'll just watch it tomorrow. I'll watch the replay. No problem. Turn off spoilers. I got that message from you guys and just cold dread down my back Immediately it was like, no, no, no, no, no. But by the time I pulled it up, they had gotten the ongo. But yeah, the game's all weird. A bunch of ols, but. Yeah, Manchester City, two points back in December. Rumors that this might be PEPs last season. Again, the athletic had some good coverage about it. Saying Enzo Meca would be Man City's ideal replacement for him. And Chelsea end, but. We'll see how that goes. Guardia has been rumored to be stepping down from there over the last two, three seasons and with the season to prove something. don't know. Not ideal, not ideal, but should definitely more interesting runup than I think this time last year. Last year. Liverpool is flying, so

Christian:

Yeah, Liverpool is definitely not flying. And shout out to Crystal Palace, despite the loss, they're still sitting at fifth on the table, so

Will:

yeah.

Christian:

breathing down their necks. They're, they're tied. Holy shit. 1, 2, 3, 4 teams including Sunderland. Shout out Sunderland tied with 26 points. So Crystal probably is just barely hanging onto that fifth spot. I think just'cause of gold differential. Yeah, gold differential.

Will:

Like with all the things going on with them though, it's just I think it was the best Crystal Palace squad I've ever seen. And that's like what the loss of some creation over the last couple years.

Christian:

yeah.

Will:

we're, you're, you're our dark horse. We're rooting for. But we'll see, we'll see how it goes. Oliver Glasner also rumored to maybe be out after the season refusing to move off Margay, so he might end up leaving on a free. In the summer rumored with some Spanish teams. We'll see how it goes though. We'll see how it goes. Nottingham Forest

Christian:

Oh, I got this one. I got this one. And I,

Will:

was gonna say Christian,

Christian:

I, I got que I put question marks and I'm just like, he's gonna fucking hate this. But moving on from the flacid forest. Now I couldn't think of a C word that encompasses a forest,

Will:

Yeah,

Christian:

know a tree that starts with C.

Will:

I was thinking canopy off the top of my head. Like it encompasses it but not, doesn't hit carry on.

Christian:

So I, but tagline for this with a lot of question marks, not my best work, I would say, but.

Will:

I like that you prefaced it. You've thought a lot about this, but we're still getting it off. I love that

Christian:

Yeah. Gas station pill to the rescue for the chugged cedars. Yeah,

Will:

You

Christian:

because they're not,

Will:

it was a, it, it was a long

Christian:

they're not freaky yet, ch.

Will:

Off the Rhino pill. Okay. Oh, oh, oh. Yeah. Okay. Wait. This isn't even my final format. Okay. I, I'll take it. I'll take it. They look pretty good against Spurs, though. Spurs. I feel like Spurs just do, do this sometimes where it's just like you start believing them a little bit and then they just put up a stinker of a

Christian:

have never believed in the other North London team.

Will:

Fair, fair,

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

There's been times where you can see the pieces and you're just like, oh, okay, I can see how this could work. They had a good start to fruit to start the season. Some of their underlying metrics. I think it was like the pod where you were like, yeah, they look pretty good. And I looked a little bit deeper and I was like, oh, they might look a little funny in the light. But yeah, already calls us like Thomas Frank might've lost his team. We'll see what's going on. But 0.3 xg in a game that you're chasing. They just, they just came in completely flat. And I feel like that's kinda like the spirit of story over the last two, three seasons.

Christian:

I mean they, this far into the season, they only have 22 points, which is like their worst start since oh 8, 0 9 season.

Will:

They, they matched last year, actually,

Christian:

This point season.

Will:

Yeah. Maybe they did. They did lose. So it might've been based

Christian:

Gotcha. Gotcha.

Will:

I think I saw something that Angen though. And Frank had the same amount of points. It might've been 14 match days. You might be right. Sorry.

Christian:

But real quick, can we talk about the Sango that was beautiful outside the foot? Hudson Dedo, I, I, I think Hudson Dedo got the assist on that one after just like moving into the box and just Nice little tap. It was just a beautiful, like three, three towed, three ah, I love goals like that

Will:

He would just say,

Christian:

pretty much.

Will:

I

Christian:

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what he said as he was kicking. He was like,

Will:

Gig. Yeah. But yeah, one of the goals of the week for sure Ingham forests, despite, all the bullshit going on around them, they get a, the solid win at home. Trying to carry some momentum sitting mid table. I don't have their exact position. I should probably pull

Christian:

oh, they're five points from the relegation zone, actually. So they're creating some separation there. They're they're sitting in 16th. Yeah. They're, they're, they're working on it. They're getting better. They're, they're breathing down the bees.

Will:

there's 16th with how many

Christian:

18.

Will:

18. Oh, okay. You're like eight points from like a uc or like that mid table, almost

Christian:

Yeah,

Will:

fourth in the package. They, they, you could cover some ground. They had a worse

Christian:

yeah, yeah.

Will:

we'll see how it

Christian:

Start

Will:

Mexican Twitter screamed, Christian, what, what was going on in this

Christian:

bro, it's, it's Sunland, bro. It is just, that's, that's, that's my new tractor boys, but a lot better.

Will:

A lot less fun to watch. This game was

Christian:

yeah, it was.

Will:

not gonna lie. Yeah. Point three to 0.2. Xg, Nick Mali, he scores a goal, wrong goal and that that was about it. He accidentally heads in a banger of a goal off of Mookie Corner to start the second half. It was a physical, I learned this week that it's called the wear Between Newcastle and Sunderland, so I'm learning

Christian:

It's been a lot. It's been about like a decade since the last time when they played this therapy in the Premier League. Since then, Sutherland has relegated under the championship and has made it all the way back. So shout out to Sutherland for making all those moves and, but yeah, very boring game. As far as if you're, if you're just looking for goals and goals and goals, they only had 11 shots on target. Oh, no. 11 total shots. I don't even think it's 11 shots on target. 11 total shots, which is the fewest so far this season.

Will:

Very physical game though. You could tell it meant something to the players on the pitch. I would not rewatch it. I did. I did my recap real quick. I was like, uncle sick. All right. Can't wait for the reverse fixture. The hottest team in the Premier League, fucking Aston V. You can't fucking stop him. They won't send an 11. Was it, this was the other game I alluded to. Mateo Friend and he scores the quickest goal of the season. As of 24 hours after AC thick, he scores 24 seconds into this one V will come back twice. Behind Morgan Rogers, he gets the second half brace. Villa Flying Westham, catfishing, Westham sitting in the relegation zone, Villa knocking on that door looking, also looking like they could be teasing for top of the table sitting in third currently after not being able to score for six weeks.

Christian:

Rogers had a pretty solid game. His outside the box goal was the one that sealed the victory, which is like in on par with just what we're expecting right now with Villa. They're. They have 25 goals with just 17 xg so far this season. They have 10 goals from outside the box, which is tops the Premier League. They're just saying And they're iwe?

Will:

Square root of

Christian:

pretty much.

Will:

It's stop, stop, stop.

Christian:

Yeah, pretty much. So their goals are just, they, they've had a lot of really good goals this season, and it's just I I, I think their, their manager was even just really happy of how they perform. It was like, yeah, they just, they're, they're deliberate. Delivering great performances. They're, they're just creating chances. And, yeah, solid Villa Villa, despite having less xg than their opponents once again.

Will:

Yeah, yeah. But yeah, 10 outta 30 points out of 33 Gained over the last couple weeks. Not bad. Not fucking bad. I'm not gonna lie, I didn't wanna dig too deep into this one. I was gonna lay this up to drill. But that leads brentford one, one. From what I could tell in my covers that I got leads played better and they had a tough, I think it was a tough draw for them giving up a goal weight. I think they might've deserved three points at the GE Tech. I was gonna lay that up to Jre, he's not here. So I'm just gonna say, good for Brett for, for splitting, but I'm worried

Christian:

worried for leads or brentford or both?

Will:

Brentford leads is about doing about what you expect. Obviously they need, they need all the points they can get, but I felt like leads based off like the coverage and like the recaps I watched might've deserve been more deserved for

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

on the road. So Brentford obviously a lot of reconfiguring, but you expect them to play at least part,

Christian:

leads have three games in a row. They have a three game on B streak so far. So they're just above relegation zone. I think they, yeah, there's 17 three points. I can't, okay. Yeah. They have 16 points, three points above Westham

Will:

Oh, fuck

Christian:

I.

Will:

No. I'm good, bro. I'm good. That's my fault. My fault.

Christian:

Shout out to Henderson for I think he become, became the oldest goal scorer this season, the Premier League with 36. And after he scored, he was just like, yeah, I don't really score that often. And he did Diego Jota celebration as an O to his former teammate. Shout out to Henderson on that. But yeah B'S looking a little funny in the light, as you would like to say. They've dropped 14 points from winning positions, so

Will:

Hmm.

Christian:

So can't hold onto that lead. And it's costing them, they're still, they're setting 15th, which I would say is bottom of the table ish.

Will:

Yep. Yeah, you're definitely lower end. It, their season's not completely cooked, but they're looking flat. Maybe there's an argument that they were trying to prep themselves for carrabelle as like maybe a realistic trophy target that didn't go well either. Yeah, we'll see what it looks like rest of the season for them, but just, yeah. Yeah. I guess we'll ask Jerre more about it next week possibly. Manchester United Burn Myth was a shit show as we, as we talked about. Anything else you wanna touch on with. This match day?

Christian:

No. Pretty, pretty straightforward. We, we did it again. We're just, we're, this is, we're just amazing.

Will:

Yeah. Shout to anyone still listening. Karabell Cup, Cardiff City, Chelsea. This was played on Tuesday. We're recording December 18th, 2025. Drills is gonna be upset that we didn't do that. Chelsea win one three. Gar Nacho hits a, hits a double. Pedro Nelo. He scores a goal as well. Sending Chelsea to the semi-finals to see the winner of Arsenal, crystal Palace playing next week. Cardiff City was able to equalize in the 75th minute and put some pressure on him, but just not enough in the Cinderella. Story ends in Cardiff. I believe they played, I don't know the name of their

Christian:

Yeah, artistry. They, they held their own, like you said, they were able to equalize in in the 75th minute. They were a fairly well organized team throughout, and even Chelsea after the match were just giving them props of just how well well formed they were.

Will:

Yeah, I, I don't think I have to cover on more, but I think this is like off fall, also off the tail end. Last week Mariska was just kind this has been the hardest 48 hours of like my at Chelsea or whatnot. This is after he picked up Super agent Jorge Menz as his agent. And then shortly after we get these man city rumors again. I don't know, something to watch. Sorry, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just trying to put, put a little soil, the water a little bit. Pray for Chelsea's downfall. Just kidding. Manchester City

Christian:

Or are we,

Will:

Huh?

Christian:

I said, or are we?

Will:

Or are we, I thought you said, where are we? I was like, we're on earth. Manchester City versus Brentford. Brentford loses two. Nothing to city. A city just rolls. Ran Cherokee. Does his best messy imp impress impression and scores a beautiful curled shot. And then s late, he ices a game deflected goal Bradford Couple chances made, just not able to find the back of the net and I guess it team like Manchester City, that is not good for your odds to win.

Christian:

Absolutely no. Yeah. When you're playing a team like Man City, any, you, you, you really have to play a tight game. You can't, you can't let small little mistakes like that'cause they'll end up costing you. City's just really good at capitalizing on, on, on stuff like that.

Will:

I'm just like, they can't maintain this through the new year. It's all good. It's all good. And then you're reigning, defending undefeated Carrabelle Cup champions. Fucked on Fullham. Did you, were you able to catch any of this

Christian:

I did not. I do see the 90th minute goal.

Will:

Yes sir. Fuck you fool. They said they were like shootout. Not today. Late goal from Louis Miley, their 19-year-old winner winger. Puts this one away full of em, a couple late chances. This the recap that I was able to see of that it was a topsy-turvy full of em was really going for it. This is like actually a lot more fun of a game just covering and doing a recap on than you expect from Newcastle Fullham given their league standing. But probably the game of this mad, this round of fixtures for me so far, but Newcastle United looking to carry on and. Win the Caribelle cup again, defend. We say we're not done yet. We might be done in the league, but we're not done here.

Christian:

We still got. We still got the, not the rele, but the plus one. What's the, what's a, what's a,

Will:

Quad,

Christian:

qua. The quabble.

Will:

the quadruple the

Christian:

The quabble

Will:

Yes, the,

Christian:

Arsenal's still alive. Damnit.

Will:

Hey, they're still alive. Arsal will be playing Crystal Palace in five days time on Tuesday. Might try to watch that one honestly as we start looking, if trophies are getting close, trophies are getting close, but so the semifinal dates have been drawn already given that Arsal and Crystal Palace got pushed back. Leg one. Chelsea is gonna have a home match against the Arsenal. Crystal Palace winner. And then Newcastle's gonna have a home fixture against Manchester City. City. Two leg ties home in a away. Honestly the bias ones are going through, but all these matchups should be super fucking fun to watch. So looking, I'm really, really looking forward to watching some Karabell Cup come the new year.

Christian:

Yeah, man, it's, it's getting good. It's getting good.

Will:

weird. You wanna give us that match? A 17 preview

Christian:

Oh, hell yeah. Oh fuck yeah, brother.

Will:

You got that gas station pill right now.

Christian:

Not yet.

Will:

Huh?

Christian:

Alright, let's see.

Will:

just hear it.

Christian:

Match A 17. We got Newcastle v, Chelsea, we got the Ches versus the bees.

Will:

Wrong. Wrong bitch.

Christian:

Oh, sorry. The cherries versus Burnley. I saw B Brentford. I can read Brighton versus Sunderland. We got Man city versus Westham. Ooh. That's who, who do you think is gonna be your catfish or, or second place?

Will:

I know where the smart money is. Where I'll go.

Christian:

If I was a betting man we got the wolves versus the bees. Ooh. It'd be really funny.

Will:

The funniest

Christian:

Oof.

Will:

drill's Christmas about to get ruined. Yeah.

Christian:

yeah. Poor guy. Poor guy. We got ham versus Liverpool. We got Everton V Arsenal, we got Leeds versus Crystal Palace. We got the villains versus Manchester United. And finally we got Fullham versus the, I was about to say cheeked up Cedars, but I think I like Chd Cedars better.

Will:

up Cedars what game are you looking forward to?

Christian:

All Arsenal games are a given, but I really wanna see the wolves versus Benford. Wolves played pretty solid against arsenal, or was it just Arsenal played really bad against the wolves, but despite that Benford like alluded to earlier is really good at giving up points. So who knows? Maybe the wolves can get their first win.

Will:

They need to find, they need to find some joy somewhere. Yeah. Rob Edwards. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting and maybe we'll cover like closer to the new year after. Just kind of like what direction do you go if you're wolves and you're sitting on two points and buried at the bottom of the table, do you try to get some investment in or you just go ahead and sell it out and just, take the season?

Christian:

Yeah, they're, they're, they're fucking far behind. It's gonna be tough for them to get anywhere. They're 11 points away from 18th. They're 14 points away out of to get out of the relegation zone. Their upcoming matches are against, oh my God. I just went on, on sofa score not sponsored but all I see is red. All I see is red. Their

Will:

Yeah,

Christian:

games oof, are against the Bees, Liverpool menu and Westham.

Will:

I'm just

Christian:

I think it's, I think they're done.

Will:

If they, if they can get Brentford, Manchester United has a chance to do the funniest thing. And then West Ham, hey, but you'd never, all it takes is the same thing they did last year. Obviously they're doing last year on hard to boat. They look pretty dead in the water and then they put, put together some results. Let's see if they can get one and see if they can try to make it interesting. But until then, they're still on panda fucking watch. I think if they lose this week, they'll match Southampton. That team that's had 11 points, they'll match the longest win list streak to start the season if they don't get this stuff this week. So no pressure history is calling. I'm looking forward. I'm looking forward to Aston V and Manchester United, which is. Me looking forward to what Manchester United game is. You don't hear that often, but Aston Villa riding hot 10 11, Manchester United, looking coherent. Last week's game was a banger. Let's see what happens. I think this was the toughest matchup in their run of five we talked about last week. But it's at Villa and honestly, Villa right now is a really fun watch. Can they maintain it? They're scoring b scoring bangers. The iWay ERs look to ride again.

Christian:

Put, uh uh, that's a Sunday game at 1130. That's gonna be a good one to watch during og RNS.

Will:

Oh yeah, that's what Joe Joe's showing up for. So yeah, we'll go ahead and hit that. Spurs also Liverpool. That could be fun depending what version of Spurs we get, depending what version of

Christian:

Oh,

Will:

we get

Christian:

there's, depending on what version of fun you get,

Will:

Oh

Christian:

yeah.

Will:

depending on what you're into as we reference a C chair to start the episode before. And then Newcastle, United, Chelsea, a couple carou cup contenders. There, that should be the first fun first game of the week, depending, Newcastle United, very top heavy right now with their goals going ish. Gordon

Christian:

Yeah,

Will:

pray for a third. Yeah.

Christian:

and Cole Palmer back. Chelsea's a different beast with Cole Palmer. So gonna be no.

Will:

is great, don't get me wrong, but God, English media does not hesitate to just fucking s slob all over a light-skinned Englishman. My God,

Christian:

I think light skin's giving him a few shades there.

Will:

I didn't wanna call him pasty, but here we are. Look at that Christian, another perfect

Christian:

Perfect.

Will:

believe it. 50. I studied a couple times. That's all according to the plan.

Christian:

Mm.

Will:

Christian, anything else you wanna shout out? I know we might be missing you next week, depending, or missing all of us next week, depending on our Christmas holiday schedule. Anything you wanna say to the millions and millions of fans

Christian:

Are we doing a pod Christmas Eve

Will:

I figured Monday would make sense, right?

Christian:

Monday? Maybe? I will not. I probably won't be available. I'll be traveling with the fam. But yeah. Thanks for all our listeners. It's been a, it's been a perfect, perfect year of potting with y'all. Shout out to all the countries that listen to us. Shout out to, I think we made it like top hundred sports podcasts sometime this year. Shout out. Shout out to that,

Will:

j's our numbers guy. I just show up. We're the talent. Yeah,

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

the numbers guy. And the talent. Yeah.

Christian:

Shout out to us. Shout out to the listeners. Shout out. Shout out to soccer. Shout out to everybody except the Spurs, man. It's all love out here.

Will:

I always expect it, but it always catches me by surprise. I'm not gonna lie.

Christian:

Gotta sneak it in when you least expect it. I didn't like that. Oh

Will:

fuck yeah. No. Oh no.

Christian:

And shout out to Pedro Gae, who I was bummed.

Will:

Waiting

Christian:

yeah, because I was bummed when he left Orlando City. No, OCSC. We had a lot of, a lot of amazing moments. And then yesterday out of nowhere, de just said, Hey, come here Pulpo. Let's do this. Which is, which is great.'cause de has a a, a pretty solid goalkeeper who's been pretty much like a bright spot of the last two years. There hasn't been many bite spots in the last few years to give him some good competition and, football has a lot of experience, a lot of leadership, and it's, I saw that news and I was like, holy fucking shit.

Will:

Christian was fucking Fabrizio Roman and it, he was, he dropped a woe bomb. I woke up and I just saw, I was just like, could it be. Yes, yes. I was just like, what the fuck's going on? Guy said to evil. I was

Christian:

So great.

Will:

pipeline. What are the fucking odds of that? Literally.

Christian:

Is going back to Gali in two years. Probably not. If he goes back, he's gonna go back to Boca,

Will:

Hmm.

Christian:

Boca Junior. But yeah, shout out to Ali. We also just signed you have no idea who he is, but Eno who was with us, he was a great goal scorer. He came back. He came back. Shout out to the Argentinian connection that we have in deport every once in a while,

Will:

And he wears number 17?

Christian:

but,

Will:

nope, seven, eight.

Christian:

I don't know what numbers he's wearing right now.

Will:

Oh, okay.

Christian:

Yeah,

Will:

feel

Christian:

but it used to be nine. I don't know if I don't know what the jersey number is gonna be this time around.

Will:

don't know his position, so I'm

Christian:

Oh, he's a nine?

Will:

this game, but, oh,

Christian:

he plays up top.

Will:

that well. That makes sense. I fucked that up. Thank you Christian. Thank you. Next week we're gonna go through match day. Fuck 17. Didn't edit that part of the doc after Christian reconfirmed. And if, if May, if I could get some participation, remember to remind everyone, we'll talk about some football things we were grateful for. Christian, I'll have you write in. So

Christian:

Some football things we were thankful for. Ba ba back. How, how, how many you looking? I, I'll give you a list. I'll give you a list.

Will:

That's all I need, and I'll, I'll try to read it in your cadence. a ton to him in there. Don't call him shit. I'll throw in some gas station pills just for, stocking stuffers, the use. But that being said, this has been the Football fellows. Thank you again for listening. And if we don't, if we're not here next week, Merry Christmas.

Christian:

Christmas and Happy New Year. Bye.

Will:

Bye.

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