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Will 0:05

We're gonna start,

Christian 0:06

Hey,

Will 0:07

uh, Hey, go ahead, Christian. Actually, welcome back. Wait. We're, it's a two man. We, but we, we subbed in this

Christian 0:12

welcome, welcome, welcome back Will fellas, everybody. How you guys doing today? How's the, how's? How's the vibe?

Will 0:21

doing well, feeling blessed, hydrated.

Christian 0:24

Oh, hell yeah. Hold up. Lemme take a little sippy sip. Alright, boom. Welcome, all. Welcome. The few, the, all of them. Uh, this is Football Fellows. My name is, and I'm here with William, uh, government, last name redacted.

Will 0:41

Hmm

Christian 0:44

Yeah, football fellas, follow us on socials. We have football fellas. Just about on everything on Twitter, as will Alexis say, come ski at us. We'll take the skeets all day. Every single day. Uh, we're on blue sky and so, uh, we have a website. We have a website and we have a Gmail. So, you know, send us stuff, let us know for the PO box if you wanna send up some goodies. Uh, network is struggling. That's unfortunate. Let's see. This is probably fine. This is probably fine.

Will 1:10

This is probably fun. This is probably fun. This is probably fun

Christian 1:12

How you doing, bro? How was, how was this weekend? We had a, a lot of football going on. Uh, none of the Premier League, but you know, football is life. A lot of football going on. How you doing,

Will 1:22

you know we had the FA cup this weekend. Yeah, we're recording March 11th. 2026. Daylight savings time in the States has me fucked up'cause the sun's still up outside.

Christian 1:31

bro?

Will 1:32

shortly after the second day of our leg one matchup. So,

Christian 1:37

yeah.

Will 1:38

we don't have new locations re's in charge of that. He's not in, he couldn't make it this week. Um, but we'll be covering FA Cup, those first legs of the you, the Champions League bracket, and a little preview for match to eight 30. Sounds good, Christian.

Christian 1:52

preview. Preview. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. But yeah, uh, fuck. Daylight savings time. Um, it's so dark outside. I like to go for little runs after my job, um, after I'm finished running. But it's hot as fuck'cause Florida, Florida and sun is hot.

Will 2:06

oh. I was like, was like, it's not hard. So tough. It's not, the sun's out though. It's safer, you know,

Christian 2:13

It's safer. Also, I like to run with the dog and I don't wanna run with her like at 5:00 PM when the sun is still blaring.

Will 2:19

No, that makes sense. That makes

Christian 2:20

Yeah,

Will 2:21

You just have to a

Christian 2:21

gotta take care of the palsy.

Will 2:24

I understand the policy cerebral. Um, how have you been Christian? You know, we're glad to have you back. It's been a few weeks. How, how's, how's life been and how's, uh,

Christian 2:34

I have a broken rib.

Will 2:35

up with in this?

Christian 2:36

I have a broken rib.

Will 2:38

oh fuck

Christian 2:39

Yeah.

Will 2:39

started ing

Christian 2:40

Yeah. Starting with bad news. Dad's not here. We can do whatever we want. We can talk about whatever we want. Oh yeah. But yeah, the, the rib, the ribs not great. It hurts to sit up. It hurts to stand up. It hurts to be a lot, but, you know, bruised ribs take a while to heal. So I'm just, you know, out here on the healing journey of bruised ribs.

Will 3:02

you got that young man recovery journey in front of you, bro. You got this. Don't worry about it.

Christian 3:07

Young man. We're all young men. Mm-hmm. Nothing hurts.

Will 3:11

to someone, right? I was doing my insurance today and I thought it was hilarious'cause I was going over, um,

Christian 3:18

Oh.

Will 3:19

Speaking of young men and they're like it, I was like enrolling or whatever and like, yeah. Coverage at this provider for me, age 18 to 120. And I thought that was hilarious.'cause I imagine someone being 121 and being like, you can't see anyone just die. Yeah.

Christian 3:35

think the oldest person in the States is win four.

Will 3:39

1 24.

Christian 3:40

Yeah, no insurance. He's shit out. Luck, man. Can't get a

Will 3:43

mean, like what, what work would you do at that point? Right. It's fine.

Christian 3:49

podcast.

Will 3:50

fine that that triple digits, uh, recreational soccer league we're enjoying

Christian 3:56

yeah.

Will 3:56

2096 is going Finn to go crazy, bro.

Christian 3:59

Crazy. Um, anyways, to remind our followers, we are a football podcast. I know the first four minutes of this podcast or this introduction does not let you think that we're a football podcast, but best believe we do be footballing. I I did say the name.

Will 4:16

That

Christian 4:16

We are fellas and we do football

Will 4:18

fellows. We finna talk about these things at some point.

Christian 4:21

Hell.

Will 4:22

the network is struggling. We're covering all of our bases as far as I'm concerned. Catch Krishan only fans. Shirtless chest bungling. That's actually how he cracked the around

Christian 4:31

I can't chest bongo. I actually tried. I can't chest bongos.

Will 4:36

No. Yeah, the

Christian 4:37

It's tough.

Will 4:38

a very, I hoarded revenue stream for the pobo,

Christian 4:41

Yeah, no,

Will 4:43

you get up and be in pain broke my heart a little bit,

Christian 4:45

yeah. No, it's, it's'cause like, you know, it's not the chest bongo per se, it's the. It's the body roll that comes with the chest bongos. I can't body roll. The body roll hurts the chest.

Will 4:57

you're gonna have to hit the more full body roll, you know, just the torso stays

Christian 5:01

i,

Will 5:01

but the bottom half.

Christian 5:02

I just tried it.

Will 5:04

Yeah.

Christian 5:04

you want me to shara it up in here?

Will 5:07

I didn't say that. Did not say that.

Christian 5:09

It hurts. I.

Will 5:10

we had FA cup this weekend. Cool. Um, um, so starting from Friday, um, we had one match on Friday, um, three matches Saturday, three Sunday, there's eight in total. Fuck it. Um, going through. So first match, we were hoping for a recap of the last match day's result. Um, Liverpool gets their look back in the FA cup. Um, they beat Wolver Hampton three one in what was an end-to-end. Second half performance. It was tied to half. Um, Liverpool scored three and answered wolves. They got one late, but it was just really just a constellation at the end. So pretty, pretty straightforward win on this one.

Christian 5:48

Yeah, definitely got their lick bag. I don't know what happened with Bulls, the last three Premier League, um, weeks, but they've definitely been on a roll. They tied against Arsenal, they beat, uh, Liverpool and they also beat.

Will 6:01

They got six points last week. Yeah.

Christian 6:03

Who else did they beat?

Will 6:05

be Val, they'd be

Christian 6:06

Aston Villa. Yeah. So they,

Will 6:07

Yep.

Christian 6:08

definitely punched above their weight class and they ended up coming out with seven points after three matches. That's pretty solid. Um, you know, it's, it's hard to maintain that run, especially when you're going up against, uh,

Will 6:19

just rotated for the league, that's all.

Christian 6:21

yeah, yeah, for sure. For.

Will 6:24

they, they, they, they, they, they kept going for three straight this week. So, um, but well result, we kind of expected really at the end of the day as Liverpool kind of ease on through. Um, getting a small measure of revenge, um, from their Premier League fixture against them. So, uh, yeah. Liverpool on, uh, Arsal and Mansfield Town. This was an interesting seven 30 wake up for me. Uh, Mansfield Town. Very game, very game. Um, it felt like they have like, control of the mat. Uh, arsenal was heavily rotated. I think they had like 10 players. Um. That started in this one that didn't start in their UCL, um, game midweek, but Mansfield Town able to get 18 attempts, um, five shots on goal. Um, they had, they played a really solid game actually against'em, I think, if I remember correctly. Um, they were the first team this season to have, uh, let me actually look that up real quick before I lies fake news, but I believe that they were one of the few teams to break two xg against Arsenal this season.

Christian 7:24

That's crazy. Um, they did have some people sitting on the bench. We did get some good teenagers. We got them some playing time. And Marley Summon and Max Doman. Starting for Arsenal. Um,

Will 7:34

Yep.

Christian 7:35

so yeah, it's, it's a good game. I mean, you're playing Mansfield Town and, and it's, it allows you to rotate some players. Yoko de stayed on the bench. He was an unused sub, uh, AKA didn't enter into the 77th minute. Um, shout out to ak. I had some four big saves along, um, in that game. So it was definitely interesting seeing like the status updates and it was like goal in Arsenal, Mansfield. Five man field. I was just like, whoa. Wait a second.

Will 8:02

a misplayed, pass backwards, if I remember correctly, will Evans is able to capitalize. He I think going into it had a dream of either playing, playing for Arsenal or something like that. So being able to score against him, it was like a special moment. I think his kid was there too. Um, he got the game decider. He subbed around the 61st and five minutes later got the win. But this was tight.

Christian 8:22

Yeah.

Will 8:23

confirmed it per XG philosophy, um, first team to break two xg against Arsenal this season. So go

Christian 8:30

Yeah, we did pick up two knocks.

Will 8:31

got got, honestly.

Christian 8:33

Yeah, we did unfortunately pick up two knocks. I think, uh, Rosa and Ka Fiori left the game with small injuries. Um, do we know the status of those? I feel like I haven't heard Kari's name in, in quite some time.

Will 8:44

He is been in and out of the lineup, but I think they were trying to get him back into business, but I don't believe he played midweek, so I'd probably have to look up a status update on that.

Christian 8:53

We've been playing incap, uh, where Ka Fiori usually plays.

Will 8:56

been playing really well. Yeah,

Christian 8:58

Yeah. Um, also, I'm just reading a quote from Arteta, um, when he was asked about the two injuries and, um, I don't think I've ever heard this word before. Both of them, they had little niggles.

Will 9:13

You never heard niggle before?

Christian 9:15

never heard of nickel.

Will 9:16

Hmm.

Christian 9:19

I feel like I need to pronounce that correctly.

Will 9:23

No Niggle is correct. That that's, that's a real word. Can't confirm.

Christian 9:26

Yeah. Nice.

Will 9:27

up a little Yeah. Niggle. Yeah.

Christian 9:31

Uh, so yeah,

Will 9:32

you laugh? Say it in your favorite accent, bro.

Christian 9:35

ab,

Will 9:35

moving for

Christian 9:36

I can't laugh. I have a bruised rib. It hurts.

Will 9:38

fair enough. Um, Chelsea Rexam also met in, um, a fifth round matchup. Um, Rexam took Chelsea to extra time. Um, they took the lead twice, couldn't hold onto it. Um, OCO gives up a, in the 40th man to equalize for Chelsea, um, early on. Josh, uh, Ong, he's I equalizes, um, in the 82nd minute and then after a red for George Dobson, the 90, the third minute of injury time before extra time. Um, Chelsea are able to run rampant in extra time. They get a early go from Gar Nacho Lake, go from drop Pedro, who's on an amazing form and they move on. Rex him almost still with a fairytale moment, um, for them from as they work to come into the Premier League.

Christian 10:19

Yeah, it was crazy. It was a three, two going into extra time, and it w it all came down to Avar decision. Um, I think this is the first round in the FA cup where VAR is introduced. Um, there was a cl uh, cleanup header at the back post that would've made it three three after 113 minutes. Um, but I think, uh, BARR took that away from them, and that's what led to the four two defeat after job breaker is 120 fifth, 120 fifth minute, um, goal. So yeah, fairy tale ending coming to a close that, I mean, they played fairly well.

Will 10:53

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, um, when just looking at the sheer amount of shots they were able to play against Aima, against Chelsea, I think it speaks to a little bit of, uh, Chelsea probably rotating and also Chelsea's just kind of like back line troubles they've had throughout the season. We'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment, but, um, still a good run for Rexi as they're kind of working to come into Premier League and a great result for Chelsea as they look to find silverware somewhere, um, throughout the season.

Christian 11:15

Yeah. Um, moving.

Will 11:18

yes, sir. Go ahead.

Christian 11:19

Moving on. We got third tier port veil shock Premier League Sunderland to reach FA Cup quarterfinals.

Will 11:25

Not the order. I opened that. Carry on. Sorry. I had to find, I have like 37 tabs open. I was like, Jesus Christ.

Christian 11:31

Jesus Christ.

Will 11:31

This was one of the upsets. Carry on.

Christian 11:34

Oh, I definitely skipped a few Saturday matches. That's on me. Um,

Will 11:37

no, you're good. You're good. There's, we have no set order. I was just like,

Christian 11:41

out here.

Will 11:43

Wild

Christian 11:45

But yeah, no, this was a pretty interesting, uh, match, like I said, third, third tier, uh, team beating, uh, a Premier League, Sunland. You know, we're big Sunland fans here with the Mexican Twitter out here supporting the, the cats. Um,

Will 11:59

we've had to shout out Mexican sweater every week just for you.

Christian 12:02

hell yeah. Uh, it's the first time in 72 years that the Stoke on Trent Club have reached the last eight of the competition, and just the second time in their history, they've reached the stage as if it was a famous victory. So, huge win for Port Vale. Um, yeah, it, it was a electrifying, it was a pretty nice game. It was a pretty nice game. One zero win. I, I love it when, uh, you have like low scoring games, but it's still pretty fun to watch.

Will 12:27

Yeah, I mean game till, um, when you're looking at a underland, but surely a lot of that is also just games script. Port Vale pretty much executed the underdog way of doing it. It's just like you nip Nbb the early goal and then you know, you hunker down and see if there's an opportunity for you to grab another one. So a huge result for them. Um, yeah, quarters, fifth round and Sunderland, they continue on a little bit of a wobble they've been facing over the last few weeks, so. Um, they'll look to get right, um, little less competitions to worry about as they just kind of focus on finishing up their season strong.

Christian 12:57

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Uh, let's see. Next up we got Man, city versus Newcastle. Uh, Marusa, second half show sends City to the Quarters. Um, I think this was probably the best, uh, the best matchup going into this, this round. Um, man City was able to clear away three goals against Newcastle. Um, and yeah, and, and no, no, not much to say. I mean, it was, it was a pretty solid bowl.

Will 13:21

my catfish derby. That's crazy. But yeah, I'm fair.

Christian 13:24

Your catfish.

Will 13:26

We will get there. Um, yeah, Marmo with the brace, second half. Um, Newcastle continue to struggle against Man City, um, through and through. So, uh, city or through, um, to the round of eight. And then Newcastle goes back to the drawing board after being knocked outta the Cara about Cup by, um, man City as well.

Christian 13:46

Yeah, man. City still remain alive for four trophies this season. Um, hopefully they get none. Uh, Newcastle's only claim the silverware. Newcastle's only claim to silverware, um, is through the Champions League, I believe. And unfortunately,

Will 14:02

the league. They're, they're still, they're still, they're still not eliminated technically. I should track that. Actually.

Christian 14:08

Newcastle.

Will 14:08

track when. Yeah. Mathematically, they're not eliminated.

Christian 14:14

Yeah. Whew. I mean they hosted, uh, Newcastle hosted Barcelona, which we'll touch upon a little bit later in the Barcelona corner.

Will 14:24

Mm-hmm. The bar sub barrio, if you will. Um, we also had Fullham, south Hampton

Christian 14:32

like

Will 14:32

Heartbreaker in this

Christian 14:34

Am I right?

Will 14:35

Wait, what?

Christian 14:36

Varrio. VVAR. Varrio. Varrio

Will 14:40

Um, you wanna talk about 2017 Handballs against bio or?

Christian 14:45

Varrio. You. You see what I did there? Varrio.

Will 14:47

I see what you're trying to do. Alright, anyway, um, Fullham Southampton ends one oh to Southampton. After a late Ross Stewart Penalty sends Fullham home, um, stoppage time penalty is the, is the only kind of thing to decide. This game. Fulham gets upset and the saint. Um, freshly, um, sent down to the championship are able to move onto the quarters. Um, not much that I have to report on this one, if I'm being honest. When I was doing my dive through Fulham, um, being the more, uh, forward foot team, they ended up taking 24 shots, um, not able to find a goal and they get, got late off a late penalty. Um, so tough, tough crash out for Phil, him. Um, great result for Southampton.

Christian 15:33

Yeah, shout out to the Saints. They were able to make something out of it. They're currently sitting seventh in the championship. They're out of possible promotion. Um, just one spot out of possible promotion. Actually, they're right behind Rxo. That'd be crazy if Rxo four years in a row or they're five years in a row that they get all the way up to the Premier League. Um, promotion after promotion, after promotion. That's.

Will 15:58

Uh, s. Yeah, yeah, that's, uh, that's what they're hoping for. But we'll see, we'll see, um, where the ceiling is for them. Um, I take it back also, self-correction real quick. Newcastle is mathematically eliminated from winning the league. That's my bad. they can 28 points back. They can only finish with, um, 27 moren. So yeah, they are eliminated, faded, fucking faded. Um, we also had, we have two more leads in Orange City 3.0 to leed. Pretty straightforward. No surprises in this one. Um, as leads are able to kind of end to end it, um, they reached the FA Cup quarter finals for the first time in 23 years. Penitas?

Christian 16:35

Shout out to them. And we did have one more game. Uh, we had Wes Ham winning in penalties to,

Will 16:42

This is why Darrell's, this is why

Christian 16:44

yeah,

Will 16:44

me.

Christian 16:44

he didn't wanna talk about it. He didn't wanna talk about it. I usually don't follow up with Brentford games because we have a brentford, uh, um, correspond. Um, but yeah,

Will 16:57

No, that works.

Christian 16:58

uh, that's all I got.

Will 17:00

But yeah, me and drill talked about it last week. I was just like the catfish. Um, might be able to surprise you. As you know, both teams trade braces for Brentford scores two. Uh, Westham, they scored two from Gerard Bowen. Um, it goes extra time, it goes penalty and westham shock brentford, um, to make it to the quarter finals as my catfish keeps all trying. Like, Hey bro, that death and rice jersey's coming home. But, um, all things considered stats wise, most of this look did look fairly even. Um, so maybe we'll hear more from draw next week, or maybe we'll just bury this. Maybe we'll just bury this. Um, and that was the fa cut matchup. So we have, um, quarter final draw took place. Um, already. Um, so we already have next week's match. Um, the next matchups to be played April 4th and fifth set. So Southampton Arsenal, um, will be one tie, Chelsea, port Vale, another tie man, city, Liverpool. This is the tie of the round, um, will be played as well, as well as Westham versus leads. Um, anything sticking out for you? Um, any upsets on the cards for you?

Christian 18:06

Obviously it's gonna be the man city, Liverpool. That's gonna be the game of the week right there. Um, I'm excited for your catfish to see what they do with leads United. Uh,

Will 18:15

excited.

Christian 18:17

can't get too excited and no, and I'm out. I'm out here, uh, rooting for Port Vale. They. They are the clear underdogs in this entire matchup. There's eight teams left and third tier for Vail is one of them. So that'd be pretty cool. Chelsea has been playing pretty solid. They have good young, fast players. Um, it's gonna be tough for them to, uh, get past that, but, you know, let's go Port Veil. I, I love rooting for the underdog whenever they're not against my team.

Will 18:46

Yeah, single, single leg ties, so, you know, anything could happen. So you, if you're able to get a goal early and maybe that gives you the platform, we'll see what happens. But, um, I'm sure we'll touch on that probably a little bit more in about what, two, three weeks? Um, when we get ready for our preview for that.

Christian 19:02

Oh, we'll be in.

Will 19:06

oh, that, that day? Yes. Okay. I was just like, huh. Um, we also have the Champions League Christian. Beautiful. Um, so first slide seven. There it is.

Christian 19:23

You had to wait for the, for the

Will 19:25

I wasn't sure if it was coming, so that's my fault, huh? I'll cover the first four if you wanna take the last four. Um, glad to say Liverpool ends in a one oh shock defeat for Liverpool ebitda. Has a weird, weird, bad, no good day. Um, he, he had a bad se sequence leading to the legal of the game, scored by omen. Um, as gala, they are able to take a one oh lead, um, headed into leg two. Byron Munich beat the shit at Lanta as it looks like all the Ella teams will be gone. Michael Elisa had a fantastic game, um, at Ko Madrid, Tanya Hot Spur, and five two as Anton Kinski is subbed in the 17th minute after. Um, a myriad of, uh,

Christian 20:12

Uh, that was.

Will 20:13

errors leading to two goals, and looked cooked, um, pretty much 17 minutes into this. Um, a lot of commentary in regards to, um, taking'em out in the 17th minute. Um, of what was, I forgot who it was. Um, I believe he's saying just like you might've killed his career. Um, 22-year-old, he was bought in for his ball handling. at Leco Madrid, just, just feasted early. Um, we're up four oh in the 22nd minute. Um, sprayers are able to bring it, cut it to three, but it's a long, long road up for them when they head back to the hot spur.

Christian 20:50

Yeah. That, that was tough, man. How do you sub someone off all in in the fifth, in the fifth minute? Yeah. Two of them were his fault, but at that point, I mean, yes, there's two legs. You want to at least try to save any more potential goals, which I mean, they failed in doing in the long run, but you can't just take someone out in the 15th minute like that. Um, it, it's tough'cause it wasn't like it, they, it was. They were outplay for those three goals. The, uh, two of them were his, his fault. But now you, that's how you confidence. Uh, a lot times you, you mentally can't back from that.

Will 21:25

I mean, it's tough, right? Because you also have Igor Udder. His job is just to keep them up really, and just kind of, he said that he was trying to protect the player at that point, but I don't know. It, it gives a little bit of a, the, where it's just kinda like, uh, he, it might take him, take a lot for him to be kind of removed from, you know, this performance, especially young 22-year-old keeper you bought in for ball handling. You could tell, I mean, he was there, there's some slippage for sure, but just the mishits killing him. So I think it was an idea to staunch the bleeding, but even the reaction when he pulled him off, just not acknowledging him or anything, it's, um, point out is poor man management, but just tough result all around. Um, but all could be forgiven if they're able to kind of turn something around next week at, um, the Hot Spur stadium. So we'll see. Um, and then Newcastle Barcelona ends one, one very topsy-turvy game. Newcastle United played a very complete game. Um, they were able to get a goal in the 86th minute, and then Barcelona kind of, um, late, were able to get a penalty. Danny Omo taken down the box, um, by like a tired challenge ends one, one. Um, Christian, since you were talking about the Varrio, did you see the play or were you just talking shit?

Christian 22:35

I did not see the play. Wait,

Will 22:37

Yeah,

Christian 22:37

wait. I think I did see the play that that was soft. That was soft. I saw a quick glimpse of it. I saw a quick glimpse of it. I'm, I'm pretty sure that was soft and I'm sticking to it.

Will 22:51

Okay. I'm still mad that from the classical last year that you guys won when you and Drew, I think I wasn't in for it. You guys were like, oh, obvious handball when it bounced off. Belling ham's head hit a bar, stools, defender's thing straight through. You guys were like clear, obvious handballs, like there's no reaction that can be given, but I thought it was just a clean foul. Um, I'd have an argument that Newcastle played better and might have deserved a better result, but it looked like he was taking down the bucks. Um, but regardless of what, I'll let you watch that and we can discuss that at some point. Um, Newcastle, um, it ends one, one very

Christian 23:28

Uh, he flopped.

Will 23:31

he got

Christian 23:31

He flopped. He got tripped by a blade of grass. I need another angle.

Will 23:38

He put, he put his leg in front of his leg.

Christian 23:43

I'm sticking to the script. It's trash. It was a flop.

Will 23:47

Okay. Well, it's one, one headed back to Barcelona next week, so I, I don't, I don't know. I You go ahead and handle the next four.

Christian 23:55

Sounds good to start off with. PSG. Chelsea, this was a pretty fast game. What's up?

Will 24:02

No, I like that you just kind of random part of the doc. I was like, okay. Okay.

Christian 24:08

Oh, because the doc just tells me like what we're gonna talk about and then like I do my own notes based on in different order.

Will 24:15

You're good. Cook cooking.

Christian 24:17

Uh, let's see. PSG as Chelsea was actually a pretty fun game. I was able to catch a bits and pieces of it today. Um, PSG is just so fast, so fast. Um, oh, VAR, I can't even say his name. Um,

Will 24:33

Covar Scalia

Christian 24:35

VAR Scalia. He's just, he's so quick with it. He's able to cut in, in and out. Uh, his last goal to make it. I think he was the one that made it, the fi the final goal or the three two goal? I don't remember exactly, but it was just like,

Will 24:47

last two.

Christian 24:47

yeah, it was just like a quick cross and then just like, yeah, he's, he's just such a solid player. Um, two late goals from him gave us a holder sizable cushion to take London next week. Oh, did my mic cut off?

Will 24:59

No, you're here.

Christian 25:00

All right, cool. Cool, cool, cool. Sounds good. I thought it did cut cutoff. Um, but yeah, it was just all around. A lot of girls scored. I don't think Chelsea's gonna have. Them to come back from a three goal deficit. Uh, but yeah, uh, that was a pretty solid game. I'm gonna save.

Will 25:16

played the really well too, actually.'cause I'm just like for, they were matching a bit for a bit. The vinia goal, I think

Christian 25:22

Yeah.

Will 25:23

you know, basic thing is like the back breaker, but it was a misplay, um, misplayed from the back, um, played by their goalkeeper. They subbed out Robert Sanchez for the goalkeeper that they started today. As I'm stalling for time, as I look for his name, Jorgenson, miss Hit a Pass, gets hit by Vinia, trying to get back to it. And then from there, VAR Scalia, he scored, his first goal was a banger. I didn't get to see the second goal at that point, but it really felt like all momentum'cause Shelly was banging goal for goal back on them. They had one disallowed to equalize. Three. Three. But it kind of reminded me of like a few years back, Bara, when they kind of like were beginning like this phase of the rebuild. Like when Chavy was there, when they played, they played Byron Munich really well for about 50 minutes. And then you kind of saw the wheels fall off about and they couldn't maintain the logo. And that's kind of like the vibe Chelsea gives me.'cause they have talent, they have midfield players, their back line's a little wobbly. on a given day, when they hit their levels, I feel like they can match teams. But there's also just like that kinda, can you maintain it? Are you gonna make mistakes? And more often than not, this season, we've been seeing mistakes. And then that will, that's what I felt killed them in Paris. I

Christian 26:38

Killed them. Sorry, I was reading something else, but yes, I agree with your assessment.

Will 26:44

indeed.

Christian 26:49

Uh, moving onto Arsenal versus, uh, Baron Le Houston. This is, uh, unfortunately we got a tie on here. Um, let's see where they played at. Did they play, they play in Germany, which is, you know, solid for us. We get the, the Away Go does the Champions league this year. Uh, they did a

Will 27:08

No wiggles.

Christian 27:09

away aways, right?

Will 27:10

They're away with aways.

Christian 27:12

Aw, I kind of like aways. I, I get it, but you know, I feel like you know that home field. Vibe just gives you that extra stuff. But uh,

Will 27:20

playing on away goals and then having the second leg hey, if I score one, then the other team has to score two. If we go to extra time is just a little too prohibitive in my eyes. I feel like the extra 30 minutes at home honestly is also like a added boost, but like being like, oh, if I score one goal now this other team has to score too.

Christian 27:40

yeah,

Will 27:40

I kind of prefer it this way

Christian 27:42

it makes it for a more thrilling, matchup, more attack.

Will 27:45

It gives it extra steps. I think it just. Yeah, I don't know,

Christian 27:49

Yeah.

Will 27:49

I think it turns into just kind of like, well, I have my first leg at home, park the bus and then the next leg, whatever, oh, if I score two goals, the other, the other team has to beat me. Pretty

Christian 28:02

Yeah.

Will 28:02

think it's a little too much for me personally, but I, yeah, I mean, huge, huge late penalty in this one. Um, pretty straightforward, I believe. I don't remember the, um. Senator Back Beck's name off the top of my head. F Kai Haard scores against his, um, youth club. Um, yes sir. Um, to equalize it late. Um, really mirroring, kind of like that Barcelona, Newcastle game. Barcelona. Never felt like they hit the levels. We know they can by our lever. Houston played a very good game, um, and it looked like they were gonna kind of have a platform to put some pressure on Arsenal, but late goal, um, leaves it one, one headed to the EM Emirate. So arsenal's gonna have to step it up a notch. Um, as they're in the midst of their, um, championship, uh, race in the EPO, but Lever Houston has a chance to do something. It'll just be tough at the Emirates.

Christian 28:52

Yeah. Battle, uh, reds, I think, uh, both teams were reds, but yeah, Martinelli, the first half was pretty tight. Um, for both teams, I think the clear, the clearest shot came from Martinelli who struck the bar, um, and.

Will 29:05

foot Clanked the bar. Yeah.

Christian 29:07

And then Arsenal got caught flat footed right off the, um, right off the, um, second half whistle. Um, they were able to score off on the 42nd minute, 40 sec six minutes. Uh, but yeah, it, it's gonna be interesting. Arsenal's. Arsenal's doing it, man. Arsenal's doing it. And it's hurting. It's hurting

Will 29:28

What's her dude?

Christian 29:29

the, they're choking will. They're choking. I don't wanna say it out loud. I wanna put that.

Will 29:34

how is, how, so how is a one one away result against a team in Germany that's won the league within the last three years? How is it choking to, to tie them? I think

Christian 29:46

Oh,

Will 29:46

a conversation about levels, but I wouldn't call it choking.'cause you tied right.

Christian 29:51

they're choking will. They're choking.

Will 29:54

Oh, okay. Well, to a team that actually looks like, um, it

Christian 29:59

Seven, there's seven points. There's seven points ahead of Man City in the Premier League as well. It, it, it should be easier. It's getting too tight. It's getting too tight for comfort.

Will 30:10

We, we just extended the lead.

Christian 30:13

Uh, we have one game on top of Man city and the rest of the.

Will 30:16

just, we just extended the lead. two points for a while and five points with a game in hand and now it's seven'cause they tied,

Christian 30:25

With a game in hand, so it could be four.

Will 30:28

but it was five and it

Christian 30:29

I just wanna lift the trophy. Will

Will 30:31

I just need you to stop being so negative.

Christian 30:33

No,

Will 30:35

We're the same

Christian 30:36

what have you done for me?

Will 30:37

verbatim. The last eight things we're on. We have a chance to win Carrabelle Cup. We're headed to the quarterfinals with the very manageable of a matchup in the FA cup. You've been leading the Champions League, you haven't lost yet throughout all of it, and your seven points clear game in hand, headed down the final stretch. I, yes, there, is there a conversation that it could look easier and could be more free folding and, you know, we don't have to like cross our fingers and pray, you know, to hold on against a 10 man Chelsea, uh, for an example, for sure, but all things considered that it is not a guarantee, but we're in a position to leave here with something, you know,

Christian 31:20

Get some silverware. That'd be great.

Will 31:23

that that's, we're still on course for it, so I can't say we're joking yet.

Christian 31:27

We were on chorus last year until the last game.

Will 31:31

That. This ain't that and that ain't this. And no, we weren't on course until the last game, last season, Liverpool ran with that. That was probably dead by December. Care about we lost to Newcastle UCL. We lost in the semis to the eventual champs, whatever. And then FA cup, I think we just folded early. I think we roll. I think we lost the Liverpool, if I remember. I could be wrong though. You know.

Christian 31:54

Uh, moving on to my favorite game photo glimpse.

Will 32:01

No, we're not finishing with Real Madrid. Fuck you. Real Madrid, man. City ends three, oh,

Christian 32:08

As shit,

Will 32:09

the best for the last

Christian 32:10

wasn't necessarily the best for last. It was the last game that ended.

Will 32:14

scored

Christian 32:15

It was the

Will 32:16

hat

Christian 32:17

that ended.

Will 32:17

the first hat. You've been skipping around all pod. This is why we need, we need, we need Dad back.

Christian 32:23

You definitely said take on the last four,

Will 32:26

Verde

Christian 32:27

on the last four. That's crazy.

Will 32:29

beautiful hat trick in the first half. I would you say it was a oh, it was a flop blade of grass. So this is my turn. It is my turn. Eddie Fe Verde though. Um, very impressive First half hat trick, um, giving Royal Madrid the platform to it looks like Move on. yeah. All the goals came from like relative. Almost just like a counter out of nowhere and just some Val Verde magic is the forgotten player who knew that not playing him in right bat could be sick. It could be

Christian 33:03

Go. Go figure. No, Valez has been a solid player ever since we got him. He has endless lungs, man has samina for the rest of his life. He, he'll be 87 years old, running with the best of them, man does not stop running and it's great. I don't, uh, did you, were you able to catch three goals?

Will 33:20

Yeah.

Christian 33:21

The third goal? The third goal was fucking nice. It was the assist from, I believe it was Raheem, with the little over the top, um, catching defenders off guard by Verde with the little toe tap to get it past the, the crossing defender. And then just to finish all the way in the bottom left corner. It was a beautiful goal by VA Verde. Um, second half was a little bit more tense. Um, I unfortunately was working, so I was just capturing glimpses on the side, but it was a lot of defensive, um, moves. From Madrid, COIs had a pretty solid game. Um, yeah, just all around Solid shout out to, he really saved us in, in the first half with those three goals and just the endless fucking sprint that he has is, is, is amazing. And shout out to Raheem for having the, the, the Heim get to assist. I know he got one, I forget if he got both assists, but the one where Bra, I, I think Raheem got the second assist where he, he was just. It looked like he was clearing the ball, but he looked back, oh no, that, I'm sorry. That was Raheem passing it to Vinny for the penalty where he saw Vinny take the, the sprint ahead and just drop it only where he can get it. And then Vinny um, almost got killed by Donna Roma on a real penalty. And then he, he missed the penalty'cause uh, yeah.

Will 34:40

I was gonna say Donna Ruma did a good job, uh, making it safe to give man city, uh, an idea, a chance may be headed back to that Theod, but this looks like it's set up in a comfortable way for real Madrid to be able to kind of hang back and focus on counter attacks to try to bury the, um, bury this in the second lake. So, um, yeah, solid. Great game for Madrid. All things considered, you do a lot of the work early and um, the onus is now on man city as they're juggling that. Um, they need to get a result on the weekend in the league before having to turn around back on Tuesday and play real Madrid. So, um. Tough seven days. It looks like co coming forward for Man City. We'll see if they're able to create any type of magic or if Madrid will move on. As I keep on saying, I was just like, mm-hmm. I, yep. Madrid doesn't look like the best team in the thing. Oh fuck, I can hear the bullshit already. Here it comes. The other team you're talking about,

Christian 35:31

It. Photo glint. Shout out to. Swedish team, I believe. Shout out to

Will 35:35

Norwegian

Christian 35:36

Norwegian team. Shout out to the Norwegian team. I wanna fact check that

Will 35:43

Okay, cool. Bodo Glip, um, huge result. They got their first gold at all of a penalty and then they just keep bringing it to, um, they keep on bringing it to sport. Include de Portugal,

Christian 35:54

it norian.

Will 35:55

stadium. Mm-hmm. In Bodo, Glip, Norway. These things are all different to us, um, but. I can't even call it like it's an upset based off the teams, but they kind of bossed this one

Christian 36:14

They've been bossing the entire thing. They've won nine of the 11 Champion League game. They're definitely putting up numbers. They're. They, they have been scoring in every single game, like good, good goals, like their front three are, are amazing. Um, they have been lacking a little bit defensively, but they've been able to putting away this time against sporting, uh, sporting, um, clean sheet, clean sheet against sporting. Uh, that was, it was just a fun, it was just a fun game. All their goals were pretty solid. They're, they're just a fun team to watch right now.

Will 36:47

And it's like a thing where it's just like, it's not, maybe not an upset from obviously, you know, they're doing something right. Um, and they've been able to play quality, as you said, throughout the UCL, obviously winning their Norwegian league, but also just honestly the disparity and resources you expect between these teams. So, um, what a run. They're halfway there. They still have work to do. They're gonna be headed to Portugal for the next leg, um, on Tuesday. But, uh, they put themselves in a really good position. They've now. they upset, uh, enter last round, um, handled them really well. They're looking to take care of Portugal instead of give'em a chance to see, um, whoever comes out of that lever queues and arsenal thing. So there's no easy knocks for them. So every result is just extra bonus. Um, but yeah, this is what a run, um, from us kind of learning about them in the Europa last year. Like. More at length than, um, outside of just like, Hey, I recognize their name, to now having a chance to make a quarter final run in the Champions League. Huge, huge, huge, huge,

Christian 37:42

Yeah.

Will 37:43

words, can't be begin to explain it.

Christian 37:45

Uh, great on form players. Casper, ho, ho ho. Oh, HO with a slash gh.

Will 37:52

I'm leaving it to you dog.

Christian 37:54

Casper. I'm gonna say ho because Sounds fun. Uh, shout out to Casper Ho. Uh, he has his fifth goal in his fifth consecutive Champions League game, so they're definitely on form. They're, they're just a goal scoring machine at this point, and it's fun to watch.

Will 38:09

Yeah. So, uh, those legs will kick right back off. So next week we'll come back and cover the back legs. So games that were played today, Wednesday, March 11th, will be played on Tuesday, March 17th. All those Tuesday games will be played Wednesday, March 18th. So, um, should have that episode out around this time next week. Um, out of all the games there. Um, and obviously some of them are one, one or whatnot. Do you see any of the ties being flipped or going a certain way, um, that you want to call?

Christian 38:38

I would say the easy one would be Liverpool and Galatasaray. Uh, with just a one zero goal advantage. I don't think gala, tare, um, will be able to hold off Liverpool.

Will 38:47

Mm-hmm.

Christian 38:48

does have a lot of attack. Pros, prowess. Prowess. Um, so I don't, I don't see, I.

Will 38:54

Yeah.

Christian 38:54

A world where they don't flip, especially since the second is going to be at home, I believe, for Liverpool. Um,

Will 39:02

Mm-hmm. It's possible. But Galatis, right. Definitely looked really shaky in the light against NTUs in their last tie when they

Christian 39:08

yeah.

Will 39:09

they were clear, like three goals. So

Christian 39:11

Yeah. So I, I think that's gonna be a good flip. I don't think Chelsea was gonna be able to flip that against PPSG man City Mag. Yeah.

Will 39:19

even if they kept it three, two, you keep it interesting, right. But yeah.

Christian 39:24

Uh, man. City Madrid. I mean, Madrid hasn't been great this year. We've lost to a few. Uh,

Will 39:32

You guys should, you guys should be fine.

Christian 39:35

uh,

Will 39:35

like

Christian 39:36

I remember when Man City should have been fine. And then Madrid, Madrid them. Yeah, I remember Pepper Farms remembers, but you know, it's always gonna be, despite the, the score is always gonna be an interesting game when you got like two, uh, big powerhouses playing like that.

Will 39:51

Do you remember the one time Man City did? Man City, y'all? And then Madrid didn't Madrid them, so I

Christian 39:57

I blocked

Will 39:58

same thing

Christian 39:58

those out from my memory.

Will 39:59

I was in Madrid there and Maria was like, yo, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill. I was just like, what? no. He was just like, you're gonna get your ass whooped in Madrid. I was like, with a smile on my face.

Christian 40:09

Uh, if I was there, I would've fudge you to the wolves.

Will 40:13

what wolves you mean the wolf?

Christian 40:16

Um, let's see.

Will 40:17

they, they do the, the, yeah, it's fine. Um, the, the new ca, the new I, either of those New Castle Barcelona, lever Cube, and Arsenal games. I will be, get to stress watch both of my favorite teams of the champion. He's like, because it's like, you know, hey, yeah, you get the home advantage, but you as an underdog gave yourself a platform to do something. Ideally, both of these games would be one oh, for the home teams headed into the next tide to really get put that pressure on, but. And anyone can get got, we see on a week to week, um, in the EPL. So I mean,

Christian 40:50

Oh no.

Will 40:50

either of those teams can get their that first goal and put that pressure on, um, a get while on the road, um, something could be hap something could happen, but very elementary, I guess, coverage. That first goal is gonna be, I imported

Christian 41:02

Yeah,

Will 41:03

mark my words,

Christian 41:04

I'm looking at the chart, uh, the chart now. Arsenal the bracket. Now Arsenal will get photo in that next round in the quarters.

Will 41:17

Knock on Jesus. Assuming we had, we, you know, don't leave anything on

Christian 41:24

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Five minutes ago. He is like, ah bro, you gotta be positive. Here I am being positive, saying Arsenal's going to the next round

Will 41:32

not

Christian 41:32

and now you're talking. That's crazy.

Will 41:35

There's levels to this shit.'cause I'm just saying, hey,

Christian 41:37

Bro boss the wall every time.

Will 41:39

choking. I'm just like, one, one isn't choking, like,

Christian 41:43

And now I'm saying we're gonna be Lever Houston at home, bro. Yeah,

Will 41:46

oh God, Darrell, I if when you were, when you edit this, can you please clip that? Because now I have to say it. Leverkusen has a chance to do the funniest thing. I fucking hate you, bro. I fucking hate you so

Christian 42:00

man wants me to be positive. Here I am being positive.

Will 42:03

Uh, it is just your way of being positive is like borderline arrogance where it's like, oh, we're through, we're through. I'm just like, wait, no, no, no, no, no.

Christian 42:13

Too much. Too much. Too much.

Will 42:16

But we'll see. We'll see. I think all the ties should, uh, should be fun outside of the ones that are relatively cooked, um, even in the three gold ties, man City just doesn't strike me as a team. Obviously they have weapons that can like really force. like kind of force the pace to do it, but hey, we'll see. Right. Um, but PSG, Chelsea, it was still a fun matchup to watch, but yeah, those two, those two ties outside of the buyer at Atlanta. Obviously at Atlanta, you know, rest in peace. Um, I think every other ties on the table that includes the Spurs one because I've seen Spurs play well, so we'll see what happens then. Lety look a little funny sometimes game to game, so we'll see how that goes. So, but Champions League fun shit,

Christian 42:53

I can't give, I can't give a chance to tan like that. That was Tan has aren't they like? Right now.

Will 43:01

They they are. Yep.

Christian 43:04

Yeah.

Will 43:04

like a point clear, I think. Mm-hmm. They're in a relegation battle. They can't rotate. Mm-hmm. I feel like at this point they're gonna rotate for next week, which is sad, but they're, we, we've talked about them at length over the last like month or so, but, you know, batter by injuries and issues with like, kind of like down organizationally in between coaches, it's. It's, it's everything's set up for shit to kind of just fall out from under them. And you hope that you could get something together for the UCL and then you miss it two passes. Um, starting your backup keeper.

Christian 43:35

Yeah.

Will 43:36

yeah. Yeah. It's one of those things in hindsight where it's like, it's easy to say, well, he got that wrong, but just tough all around. So, yeah. Oh, wait. Oh, I'm at the wrong part of the doc. We have a match. Eight 30 preview. I thought I forgot to put the preview there. You wanna do it? Should I do it? How do you wanna do it?

Christian 43:55

I can do it real quick. Uh, so we do have Premier League football this upcoming weekend. Finally. Match day 30. We're getting close to the end fellas. Uh, we got Ley v. Mout. We got Sunland.

Will 44:09

Breathing heavy.

Christian 44:11

Yeah, we got Sutherland v Brighton. We have Arsenal v Molly bushels and her toffees. Uh, we got Chelsea v Newcastle West Ham v Mann City. We got Crystal Palace V leads. Mann Manu against the villains, the tricky trees, freaky forests, freaky trees. Full. We got Liverpool verse Tottenham hot spur, and we got the bees versus the wolves. What you looking forward to Will.

Will 44:40

Um, couple of those relegation teams, right? Because West Ham, um, they have a chance to do the funniest thing against man city, um, but also Fulham. They've been on a little bit of wall wobble. Nine ham Forest has a chance to jump, um, ahead in the table and then spurs. It doesn't look like it gets any better. They're on the road at Anfield. Um, there's a version of this conversation we have next week where Spurs are in the relegation. Um, which, yeah, we keep on talking about. It just doesn't seem real now. Shit's getting very much real. Um, but I'd say those are the big ones. Arsenal Everson is always, um, a tough clash as well. And then, um, kind of the strategies for Chelsea and Newcastle as well. Um, midweek, um, they're. Chelsea, obviously they have a higher hill up, um, to face, but Newcastle also is gonna turn around and have to face Barcelona in the camp new. So seeing how, each of those teams reacts, um, to having to rotate and balance those ties will be interesting to me.

Christian 45:38

Yeah, Liverpool tournament's gonna be an interesting game considering the fact that both teams have to turn around and get, uh, uh, champions League games right after that. It's gonna be interesting. Um, I don't want. For, I don't want forests to get relegated because I'm really happy saying tricky trees and freaky forest. It's just something fun to say on a weekly basis. Um,

Will 45:58

valid

Christian 46:00

yeah. Um, and then we have the wolves to see if they can continue their impressive Premier League run.

Will 46:05

three straight. Here it comes.

Christian 46:07

Great. Let's see if they can make that 10 points in four weeks, that'd be pretty solid for them.

Will 46:12

And then also we have that top of the table clash that, uh, Manu Villa, right.

Christian 46:18

I refuse to believe menus at the top of the table.

Will 46:21

Third,

Christian 46:22

I know they are, but I refuse to believe that

Will 46:24

it doesn't feel really right.

Christian 46:26

it, and it feels wrong.

Will 46:30

Yeah. But both of those teams tied at 51 points menu up on goal difference as their six goals clear. So bank result, um, in terms of Europe as, uh, Chelsea, Liverpool, they're saying three points back of those third and fourth place spots. So, um, huge games all around this weekend.

Christian 46:44

Yeah, it's gonna be another fun weekend of football. Just like we just had another fun perfect podcast.

Will 46:54

Ooh, Another perfect pod, another perfect po. Uh, next week we'll go over those UCL round two matchups. We'll have our match date 30 review. We'll be looking at match date 31. And then, oh yeah, we're gonna have our karabell final, um, preview as well as we get ready for that preview.

Christian 47:14

So much soccer. So much,

Will 47:16

much soccer all the time, but a chance for silverware in 11 days. Christian, this is what you've been wanting, right?

Christian 47:21

yes.

Will 47:22

Uh, anything anything you'd like to add on at this time? Christian,

Christian 47:29

Um, shout out to Orlando City for parting ways. Well, not, not a shout out. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but Orlando,

Will 47:35

Celebrating job loss.

Christian 47:37

Orlando City, parting Ways with Oscar Paja. I mean, we had pretty solid weeks, uh, years with them. A lot of good years where we almost made it. Never forget, never forget that penalty situation that we lived in, um, was like six years ago where

Will 47:52

Yeah.

Christian 47:54

Blocked the penalty after some fuckery. Yeah. So shout to Oscar. He, he gave us hope. He, we, he wasn't able, no, he gave us silverware. We won the

Will 48:06

Uh,

Christian 48:06

US

Will 48:06

Hunt Trophy.

Christian 48:07

Open, I believe.

Will 48:07

Yeah. That was a fun summer. Yeah.

Christian 48:09

Yeah. We, he got a silverware, you know, the only silverware in Orlando, uh, city history. So shout outs to him. Um, a quick shout out to Ali for firing their coach Bring back, because what the fuck's going on there? Um, it, it's a shit show and we're just trying not to get relegated and

Will 48:29

That's all we can do, right? That's all any of us can do. Hey, stay promoted.

Christian 48:32

yeah.

Will 48:33

not to get relegated.

Christian 48:35

Um, but that's all I got. Shout out to all you guys for listening to us. Just talk shit on a weekly basis.

Will 48:42

Yeah. Thank you everyone for joining us and we will be back next week.

Christian 48:48

Audios.

Will 48:50

I hit the wrong button for stop.