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29:57Barcelona had a big chance to take another step closer to La Liga's title when they took on Espanyol. It was a game that would finish 4-1, a game where we saw Laminemal and Pedri start and play the whole 90 minutes, but it was Ferran Torres who scored the opening two goals in the ninth and the 25th minute. There would be a goal for Paul Lozano for Espanyol, but Barcelona sought out with one from Laminemal in the 87th and another from substitute Marcus Rashford in the 89th for all three points to Barcelona. But let's get some of the reaction after the game with Gemma Soler. Yes, you are with Ferran Torres after a very important win.

30:36Brace from you. Congratulations on your goals and on this very important win. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Very important win in the derby after the draw yesterday of Real Madrid. We knew that it was a very important game. We started the game very well with two goals and then the atmosphere was really amazing and we got the free put. Talking about the Champions League, you look very sharp today in the final third. Do you think on Tuesday you will get clinical scoring and you will be able to do the comeback? Yeah, we believe we are going to give everything from the first minute. And yeah, we have to score goals, to be very focused on the final third and I think it's possible.

31:28So let's focus on La Liga first of all. Luis Garcia joining us was watching along with us today. Is that it then? Is La Liga done and dusted its Barcelona's Luis? I would say 75%. There's still so many games to play. There are Champions League games in between. And a lot of things can happen. But definitely nine points gap by the way that Barcelona is playing at the moment. By the moment that Real Madrid is going through at this stage, I think that it's enough to say that Barcelona is almost touching that trophy of La Liga. I'm not going to go to the amount of points that they need to get or the amount of games that Real Madrid needs to win.

32:10But definitely just for the way, the momentum that both of the teams are going through at this stage, it showed me that Barcelona, even though they don't go through in the Champions League or whatever happens in the next couple of weeks, they look strong, they look solid, they have that idea. And they can be exposed at some times, but definitely the amount of power that they got up front, the amount of creativity, the amount of players in the middle of the park who can provide good football shows that this Barcelona is stronger at the moment. And with that, Gabi will be enough to get the trophy.

32:42There was a question of priorities today for Hansi Flick, Craig, because we know that they knew with those points today, they could pretty much put it out of sight in La Liga, but they do have that big game. Yeah, and Arbelo was making changes yesterday with midweek in mind. And Hansi Flick was picking the side today to win this game. albeit it got a little tight in the second half because it wasn't really a contest in the first half but we talked about this before the game we didn't expect Luminium Al to play a full game we didn't expect Pedro to even start because he went off in midweek and he was just nursing maybe a little bit of tightness but a lot of the big players played now don't get me wrong they're like Danny Olmo and Kinsella and Koundé De Jong's been out but some guys that were starters recently Lewandowski were on the bench but he made his intent clear.

33:32He wanted to nail this down. Ideally, they wanted to get that third goal to go 3-0 and then make even more changes but it didn't quite pan out that way. But he wanted to get this job done, almost cement the Liga title and then worry about midweek and how he's going to approach that. Now, the big surprise was that, as I said, two of the stars played 90-plus minutes but what he did get today, we know that Rufina's out for midweek, We know Pau Kubarcy is suspended, but there's a lot of players backing available, including Ferran Torres is not back, but he's backing a little bit of form, backing a bit of confidence.

34:08Frankie de Jong is back on the field, Gavi is back on the field, Pedri played a whole game, surprisingly, so he must be fit. So there's a lot of players to select for Hansi Flick in midweek, but he's got a big job selecting what the centre-half partnership is going to be. is it Lewandowski with that penalty box finishing style or is it Ferran Torres with the movement, is Frankie De Jong fit and sharp enough to come in and start a game of this magnitude but he's got a lot of experience so there's a lot of things for Hansi Flick to think about but as I was saying to you in the live show in a good way he's got a lot of choices even though he's got a couple of players missing he's got a lot of choices and if he gets it right in midweek I think they've got a real chance of coming back in this one, but they're going to have to defensively play well.

34:59Did he learn anything new today, Luis, from what he saw in terms of what his selection could be against Atleti midweek? Not really. I mean, I think that the team is going to be very clear. It's not going to change much from what we saw in the first game against Barcelona. You could see today by the picks Simeone did against Sevilla, leaving most of the 11 starters on the bench, waiting and rested. I think he used in the second half a few minutes on Lokman and no much more. The rest of the players have been rested, not even warm-up. I saw Antoine Griezmann, Juliano on the bench waiting to the end of the game.

35:36So I think the Simeone's got very clear that he's going to stick with the same team, try to put exactly the same game with waves of pressure on Barcelona, playing at home, sometimes with the crowd. You know that you tend to show your presence, to try to dominate that sometimes. But definitely knowing that you cannot give much space to this Barcelona today. We saw another Barcelona with intention, with players that they move from position in the middle of the park. Gabi getting involved means that he doesn't have only the possession, but the strength he brings, the energy he brings. He's a leader into the pitch.

36:14And even though there is not going to be Rafinha on the left side, Raspoch, when he's been involved, is looking good, it looks sharp, it looks determined to go forward and to try to score goals. So I think there's plenty of options from both sides, but definitely Simeone has got the 11 very, very clear and he's going to stay with it. Ferran Torres, Lewandowski, have you got a selection yourself up top for Barcelona this week, Luis? Yeah, I think that for me, I would start with Lewandowski. He's a player who's got a lot of experience. is going to have a good work inside the box, try to stick with the two centre-backs, try to give a little bit of work to the defence.

36:56It's a player that with his strengths can put in danger and allowing the players on the wide areas to run in behind. So I think I would say that for a dominated performance from Barcelona, having the ball, that's what I expect. Having Lewandowski up front, I think it will be a fantastic start. And then if you manage to score a goal or two goals, the Atletico Madrid need for something else that needs to go in the contact. You always got the option of Ferran Torres that, as he shows today, is in a good form, is confident, is being doing like this, like, OK, I'm OK, I'm OK. So, yeah, two very good options for Hansi Flick.

37:33Hopefully they can do the job. Sorry, it might be Lewandowski because if Atleti do the, I think you said last week, when they're caught between a rock and a hard place, Do we defend this 2-0 or do we try and make a game of it and kill it off? They usually defer back to the, I think we're going to defend a little bit deeper. And then you saw that ball from Laminya Mal to Ferran Torres. It was into space for him to run on to. They might not be, certainly early on, they might not be that space because Atleti could defend deep. But if Basso were to get a couple of goals and Simeone's side have to come out later in the game, then that's maybe the time for Ferran Torres to come on and run into that space.

38:12So there's so many different ways this game can go. I was just thinking that. It's funny because I would have gone the complete opposite of what you two guys were saying. I would go with the legs to start with because Atletico absolutely are going to hold their position and hold the line. They're not going to be gung-ho and try and go and win this game. And so I think if you use the legs of Ferran Torres to begin with to close them and squeeze them because Barcelona want to stand on the half. The back four wants to be on the halfway line. That means that you can squeeze them early and in their own area.

38:47And I think if you've got the legs of Ferran Torres to do that, and you get a goal, then you can bring Lewandowski on. I've got it completely the other way around. I was the same earlier, but Luis convinced me. Luis convinced me that it's going to be Lewandowski, which I kind of think it will be. but at least Ferran Torres has put his hand back up today because he has been out of form and he's not a bad player at all. He's a very good player. He's been a great player for Hansi Flick in the last 18 months but he's hit a bit of a wall but he's came in today in a game that wasn't the toughest of games but he still scored a couple of goals.

39:25Could have had a hat-trick, was narrowly offside while Eric Garcia was. So he's put his hand back up to say, listen, don't rule me out of starting me in the big games. Yeah, we didn't get too many clues from Athleti today. Luis mentioned them, so let's see how they fared against Sevilla. Struggling Sevilla in the bottom three coming into this game. Diego Simeone made wholesale changes, put some Cantoranos in, some of the youngsters. In the fifth minute, one of those youngsters, Dani Martinez, would give up a penalty for a foul on Isaac Romero. Yeah, he just gets caught unawares that Romero is there.

39:58Romero nips in front of him, doesn't see him, kicks out. And it's actually a simple decision. As soon as the referee sees the replay, Akar Adams, Farsi Villa would step up to take the penalty. Keeper's a little unlucky, this one. Just goes a little bit low. 35th minute, Javier Bonillard, one of the youngsters, on his debut would get the leveller for Atleti. You can't tell, can you? Look at him. He's absolutely out it. I mean, it's a lovely little piece of play here. good run in behind nice little ball dunk dink to the far post and that is a real cool header into the far corner yeah there's excitement about this player Simeone definitely got his trust in him but before the half was through Nemanja Goodell put Sevilla back ahead yeah I don't know how maybe one of the youngsters marking him just out muscled brushed him off and then had a free header and that sealed the deal it did and all eyes for Athletic on the game in the Champions League.

41:01But as for Sevilla, it pulls them out of the bottom three where they had found themselves after Elche had beaten Valencia ahead of that game. Sevilla as it stands now in 15th spot. But we must turn our attentions to what is coming up next. Atleti against Barca. Atleti leading the tie 2-0 and bringing it back to the Metropolitano. There are favourites going into it. But what does Hansi Flick, the Barca coach, think? Here he is. For me it's not like That we need a miracle We need just Our perfect game So this is And this is We are able to do this I think in the In the game On Wednesday We were the better team We controlled also In the second half I know also that It's a fantastic team From Atletico But we also have Have a great team The perfect game It sounds easy He is right He is right They're 2-0 down.

41:54It's not great. Man sent off in the first game. You know, it wasn't their night. But they're not down 4-5-0. So it's not... He's absolutely right. It's not... You're not... There must be a lot of belief in that Barcelona camp that they can come back. Because, listen, they are a better side than Atletico Madrid. The league table will tell you that. But can they cut out the mistakes? Can they stop Antoine? Have they got a plan for Antoine Griezmann who, as Luis was talking about, is perfect for him at his age. He's got a full rest today. All the players got a rest. I mean, if Simeone could have played the kick man and the bus driver, he would have done and rested absolutely everybody.

42:38But he's got his second best, he's rested his first 11. But from Barcelona's perspective, they've got to stop Julian Alvarez, they've got to stop Griezmann poking those balls through. They've got to find a way to do that and they have to be clinical in the final third to put them under pressure. I actually think they've got a lot of great games. Bayern against Real Madrid. We've got PSG away at Liverpool and Sporting Arsenal. I actually think this game could be the most exciting. Because we've seen it before with these two teams. Because you know Atleti are going to sit in but they're probably going to be breached by this Barca side.

43:18Then they're going to have to come out. And Basa don't know how to play a dull game. So I really think this game is going to ebb and flow. I don't think it's going to be simple for Atleti. I think there's going to be a lot of goals. And Basa are just banking on, outscoring Atleti to get through. Because I can't see them keeping a clean sheet. I think it's going to be a great night. It could also be over in about 15 minutes. If they lose an early goal, Basa Lona. That's the thing. You don't know what's going to happen in this game. It could turn out what you're talking about. But then you know they can score multiple goals a second in a game.

43:51To go one behind and then you've got to get 41. Well, there were four behind in the Copa del Rey semi, albeit they went home in the second leg, scored three, probably could have scored more. But they went out without a plan. No, I know. But they went out. That's the problem. They have to figure out a way. You have to learn from the previous times you've gone to these grounds and lost multiple goals, which they have. And say, how did that happen? But you just said it, though. I don't think they know any other way. How can we play the high line a bit better? How can we play that a bit better? What do we do with Antoine Griezmann when he drops into these spaces?

44:24What's our plan for that? You can't just keep doing the same things at these grounds and these big games and giving yourself a mountain to climb. If somehow they can stop Atleti, particularly in the first half an hour, and give themselves that front foot football, I think we've got a real game in our hands here. You've just asked them questions that I don't think they've got an answer for. What plan? What plan? We've not seen a plan from Barcelona in terms of defending. Well, maybe Frankie de Jong... For two seasons. Maybe Frankie de Jong will come in, although not fully fit, and be more aware of Antoine Griezmann.

45:03Not quite a man-marking role, but just more aware of that defensive role. Maybe. All the cards are in Barcelona's hands, good and bad. Because if they defend well, they can win this game. no question but if they don't then they'll lose I mean I think I think it's it's really down to what Barcelona does in this game I think we know exactly what we're going to get from Atleti Madrid Barcelona we don't know so we've got plenty of time to continue previewing it over the coming days but this is the last we're going to hear from Luis Garcia who may I remind you played for both clubs ahead of this game what's your prediction for it Luis?

45:40It's a top prediction can I go for it with a draw? They're going to go through both right? It's a difficult call. I think the guys are totally right. If Barcelona doesn't address the situation of the defence, that high line is going to kill them. Atletico Madrid is going to be waiting for those runs. We saw it with Juliano Simeone on the right side. In the Copa del Rey, it was a total disaster. In the Champions League, it was the one who provoked that send-off of Cubarci, making a fantastic diagonal through the middle. So those are the runs that Atletico Madrid is going to be waiting for in 90 minutes for one because one of them is going to put Barcelona away and them going through.

46:21So Barcelona can score three goals easily. I can see that. We saw that they dominated. They gave them one less man. But can they not concede? That's the big problem because even against Espanyol today in a not very demanding game, they allowed Espanyol to score a goal and they could have even scored a couple more. So, yeah, I think that right now, a favorite is Atletico Madrid playing at home. I will get 60-40 for Atletico Madrid. Yeah, we look forward to it. We will be right back here on ESPN FC, looking back on that game. And, of course, ahead to it before it is played. But more La Liga on the way for you, coming up on Sunday, a whole slate of action.

46:58And it all rounds off on Monday with Levante against Getafe. That's how things look right now.

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48:47Yes, and I think Julian Nagelsmann who had some terrible weeks in Germany where he has been saying so many stupid things and I can't remember everything he said about Unda, we've said about Manuel Neuer and so on. But he got Muziala going again because, I mean, the plan is to get Wirtz and Muziala to be the magic ones in the team. Lennart Karl coming on from the bench. So they needed that. And I think it was funny because Goretzka, they won't give him another contract. He's going to leave Bayern in the summer. They beat his 54-year-old record with over 101 goals. And the guy who scored 102nd was Goretzka.

49:26And I saw Uli Hoene said before the game, we would love to see Harry Kane or someone doing it. I think it was a bit funny that it was Goretzka doing it. They've had a fantastic season, Bayern, scoring goals for fun. They are 12 points ahead. I think in the theory they can win next round, the whole Bundesliga. But we know the standards at Bayern is all about... Bundesliga is the bread and butter. That's what they need to win. And then a double is an OK season, but it's all about the Champions League. And they've got themselves a great base from that first against Real Madrid. And it's for them to lose.

50:07But again, it's not over to the fat lady who's arriving. And she's in Munich, but I don't think she will be on the stage. She sings, I heard. Yeah, exactly. I know Manuel Neuer had to make a lot of good saves, Jan, in the first leg from breaks and from killing Mbappe on the counter and so forth. But Bayern showed in that first leg that they really can play, can't they? Yes, they can and they should have won more in Madrid. But as you were saying, Mbappe winning, you always feel they can win it. a man of the match being the goalkeeper just shows you that although Bayern was so much dominant they should have had a penalty at the end there all this year should have had that but all those kind of things but Manuel Neuer isn't that good because Jule Nagelsmann tells us he's not that good so we won't bring him to the World Cup anyway so yeah sorry I shouldn't start with Jule Nagelsmann again we'll have more chance to do that when we're coming closer to the World Cup yeah you've got to be in your bonnet there Jan we'll definitely push you on that a little bit later.

51:13Let's get you more Bundesliga action. I did mention we'd show you what happened with Dortmund who were hosting Leverkusen today and we're taking it to the 42nd minute when we saw the first of the goals and this is Robert Andrić stealing the ball and then sending it into the back of the net. Wow. Yeah, he seems to catch the goalkeeper napping here. I mean, the goalkeeper doesn't even make a move to get across his goal to save that. It's almost like he couldn't see. And then we take it to the 82nd minute to Seiru Giresi looks to try and get the leveller for Dortmund. It was unlucky there, really unlucky.

51:46Angles against them, everything's against them. Catches it really well. And that would be that. Leverkusen with the 1-0 win. It sends them closer to the top four. Archirin Tut and Patrick Aubameyelo are at the game for us today. They caught up with Aleix Garcia afterwards. If you make the Champions League, you've got a lovely necklace on today. Is there a little present you're getting for yourself to say, well done for coming through this season? We will see, we will see. I think now my son, I think he is the most important and maybe he will buy something big for him. What does he like? I don't know, it's one month and a half.

52:21He doesn't know. You don't know yet? I don't know, but I don't know. We want to, of course, to be in the first four. It's very important for us, for our club. I think we are in good shape now with these two wins in a row, but yeah, we need to keep going. More Bundesliga coming up on Sunday. As always, you can catch these games on ESPN+. And that's all we've got time for on the latest edition of ESPN FC. But Extra Time is on the way. Jan will be joining us to answer your questions. And Craig and Stevie are sticking around. Why not? We'll see you over there on Extra Time.

53:03Welcome into the latest edition of Extra Time. It's been a long day for some of us. Some of us, me and Craig Steve is here with us, Jan's here as well From his parents' house But you know it was exciting Because after the Barca game After the Barca-Espanol game We got to see Atletico Madrid's C team play Against Sevilla Well we didn't really, we watched the Masters Golf, Atletico Madrid B team, or golf Yep, good golf is on at the moment as well. All right, 38 back passes to Raya. Tactics from Arteta or fear of attacking?

53:46What's going on? Fear? Sorry, Jan, when are you? No, no, no. I don't know if the question is more a statement, but I think that is a consequence of the minds of the Arsenal players at the moment. There is insecurity. What do you do when you have the insecurity? You do back passes. You do too many passes among your back four. And we were talking about it at the show when your greatest weapon were set pieces, not working anymore. Central players out of form. You have injuries to some key players, Saka, Martin Urdegaard, they're out. The defenders doesn't look like this was the greatest pair of artists.

54:27since Lennon McCartney back there that sent their halves from Arsenal and it's not working at the moment. What do you do? You go for alibi. You just do alibi passes back to your goalkeepers. This is just the consequences of the state of mind of Arsenal right now. Yeah, we do need to start putting Beatles references on the bingo card for ESPN FC whenever Jan Agafjartoft is on. Yeah, exactly. Craig, does Arteta have to resign if Arsenal don't win any trophies this season? Oh, I bet I'm just great. Well he doesn't have to resign, he doesn't have to do anything. But he'll come in for a lot of questions for sure.

55:06And I think it'll be around the way that they've gone from being one of the more attractive, well certainly capable of playing attractive football and front foot football and pressurising teams to almost sitting off and doubting themselves and being negative and relying on their set pieces and that. I think, yeah, I mean, there'll be a lot of eyes on him. If they win nothing this year, there'll be a lot of eyes on him. Now, do I think the board will sack him if that happens? I don't think so. No. I don't think so. But next year might be a different scenario if they chuck this one. If they chuck all this season away, then I think he starts next season.

55:52But if it's not going well, he's in Arnley slot territory. I don't think so. I will just say straight away, I don't think so. I don't think the board will do it, but I think the environment in and around the club will take him out. Because if they... In the summer? In the summer, I'm not saying... I'm with you. I think they see this as a long-term plan. I think they will analyze this and see, well, we've done a step forward. But I think that the pressure, the environment, the Arsenal fans, the media, at the end of the day, there will only be one outcome that he will leave or he has to leave his position.

56:30Although, and we said that in the show as well, that I think that for them to lose this title, I still think they can turn this around. But as John and Paul would have said, help. If the long term plans to win the Premier League, right, and they don't win it this year, give me one reason why he would win it next year. He's had, this would be what, his third, sixth season. This would really be, yeah, but his third genuine attempt. Because they had two good seasons that kind of just fell apart, you know, at the end. And they were given some leeway. And he was given some leeway. You know, beef the squad up.

57:12got the striker got a bunch of defenders that have come in got Eze got Madweki to cover Saka and all these sort of stuff you know, to Stevie's point would they allow I think it's unlikely they're going to throw this away but not impossible are Arsenal going to give them a fourth chance a fourth bite of the cherry there's not a positive reason why they would if I'm in charge and I make the decision I'm asking you and I'm asking you right tell me why you are going to win the league next year considering the position you were in this year we gave you all the tools you needed you got yourself in a position and you couldn't follow it through why is that is that you is it the players is it us you couldn't come up with an answer you couldn't come up with a genuine reason why the reason is not the manager and that you couldn't come up with the excuse So why do you keep them?

58:11You couldn't come up with one of the excuses because Liverpool are out of the equation and they were going to be the team. And you can't sit in front of your board and say, well, unfortunately Man City were just a juggernaut. Which they once were. Now they're not. They're a good side, capable of doing some good stuff, but not the team they were. So you can't sit there and say, well, they have more than us. And we just came up short because he's got more to work with. Guardiola that's not the case has to be one of the bus on probably three different occasions during the season they've got themselves in a position where we've kind of sat here and went absolutely this is theirs to lose and then they go and give results away but then City drop points all of a sudden they're back in another great spot then they do the same thing and then what have they done today?

59:00exactly the same thing I think it's one of the bus for them that game's at the Etihad isn't it? the City-Arsenal game right If he employs the same tactics that he did previously at the Etihad in the league games, or more importantly the tactics he employed in the Carabao Cup final, and they lose, he is going to get absolutely slaughter-roasted. Because they cannot go up to the Etihad and set off in that soft manner like they did in the Cup final and allow Mancetti to basically do what they want. I mean, Arsenal never get out of their own half for periods. It was embarrassing. it was embarrassing if he goes up there and does that and it's going to be so interesting to see what way he's going to go about it is he going to go up there with that changing mindset that Jan was talking about of listen we've got to get out of this we've got to get out of the mire here or is he going to go up there all worried which I think at the moment looks like the way they're going to go oh they're up more worried about what's going to happen than what they can do to Man City it's funny isn't it because Because we all would like to be in the position of Arsenal because they are leading.

1:00:09And this is not the best Manchester City team we've seen the last four or five years. But they're still around. But you still got the feeling now that City is in a better place. And that's do something with the head of the players. And I'm 100 % sure that Manchester City will beat Arsenal in one week. But I'm not 100 % sure that it will win at Stamford Bridge tomorrow. Okay. Yeah, that's the big one. Yeah. That could change the whole conversation. All right, Stevie, during the seasons that you won the league with Liverpool, did your teams ever get any criticism of the style of football you played, even though it was successful?

1:00:46No. No. No. Nobody cares if you win. Nobody cares if you win. And nobody will care when Arsenal are lifting the trophy at the end of the season that they've had this period where they have been horrible to watch. That'll all be forgotten. As soon as you lift that trophy, nobody gives a stuff how you play. And so when you keep winning, regardless, it's immaterial. It's only when you start losing and then you're horrible to watch. Then everybody jumps on you. For Stevie, do you have any confidence after the Fulham match? Now that PSG are coming off. I felt quite confident coming in today. I thought I was...

1:01:28Does it change anything? No. No? No. Do you have any confidence at all for a turnaround? No. Well, is that then? Well, you've got to be realistic. You've got to sit down and go, Rick, what reason are we going to beat PSG? Tell me why we're going to beat PSG. Anfield, miracle, floodlights, history. I said this last week. If you look back to all those great Anfield nights, The common denominator amongst them all is Liverpool actually had a really good team at the time. You know, think of the team that beat Barcelona. That was a great team. You know, if you want to go back to the 70s, St Etienne, with David Fairclough scoring in the last minute.

1:02:16Yeah. But it was a great team. This is not a good team. And that's why, regardless of how loud and raucous and all the rest of it Anfield will be, because it will be to start when you don't have the actual basics to take advantage of that and you're playing against right now PSG and Bayern are the only two teams right now that you're saying I want nothing to do with them so unfortunately I can't come up with any reason why Liverpool will go through Jan will Haaland lose out on the golden boot to Igor Thiago he's only one goal ahead of as of now? You know that Alan Holland has lost his form and then answered with a hat-trick against Liverpool.

1:03:06I still think Alan will do it, but Thiago, wow, what a season they've had. And we know goal-getters. Goal-getters don't say that there's something wrong with a dry pitch. Goal-getters just get goals and they are looking at the list. If you ask Alan Holland after the game against Chelsea, no, no, no, this is all about the team and I don't care who scores but he cares he will love to have that goal scoring title and and you have to say a big big respect to Thiago the season they've had because we have to be be honest it's harder to score goals for Brentford and Manchester City. Jan who's been the best signing by Bayern the past few seasons Kane Diaz Olise or hiring company as their manager?

1:03:55Wow, that is a tough one because we know that company has done a fantastic job where there was six to seven choice. Remember all the guys they tried to get before him. Kane, expensive. We knew what we would get. Diaz has had a fantastic time there after he came and we thought maybe end of his career. And I would say Olise. I mean, he is fantastic. And there is a reason now why he's the most wanted player. Real Madrid want him. They all want him. Apparently, he doesn't have a clause in his contract. So he's stuck to Bayern. But let's see what's happening. And Craig will probably vote for him at the Ballon d 'Or if they win the Champions League.

1:04:39So I will say it's a great, great signing for them. Because, yes, we knew him as a good player in the Premier League. but he has turned into a brilliant player in the Bundesliga for Bayern. Craig, voting in the Ballon d 'Or. No chance of that. You don't give a stuff about the Ballon d 'Or, do you? I think it was a little tongue-in-cheek. Going back to you, Lise, just slightly off the subject, that was a big call at the end of that game, wasn't it? Yeah. And it might be a big call. And Yanni alluded to it tonight. Yanni alluded to it on the Live FC show. that we've talked about it for a few days on and off.

1:05:21It's absolutely bonkers that everybody had eyes on that, from the VAR to the referees, and nobody thought it was even worth a look. It was one of the most obvious penalties I think I've seen for a long time. It's basically a guy chesting a ball down to have a strike at goal and being barged, literally barged, in the middle of the back by Carreras the fullback. So, I mean, 3-1 to 2-1 is, you know, do you do the math? We will do the math. And it was Michael Alise, so that was the segue. Go on. How many goals is that? Six. OK. I'm not a master at maths, but we do have to let you go to the Masters and watch what you're going to watch tonight.

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