Midweek round-up and are we past 'peak' manager?

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3:55Ryan Hunn: So, yeah, go sign up. Patreon.com forward slash stadio. I think that's all the admin. So let's get into the show today. Quick roundup. Lots of football this week. Lots. I don't even know where you want to begin. Do you know what? I think because we trailed, we talked about Bayern, Freiburg and the Frauenbundesliga. Bayern, they made a statement there. Okay, look, they defeated Freiburg 4-0 but what I want everyone to look at if they get a chance is the depth of Bayern's bench. you've got Pernilla Harder and Leina Obedorf coming off the bench Julia Gwynn is right there too like that's just the bench so then if Freiburg get defeated like they did and they had a great start to the season I hope that start continues it's just the depth man like to Bayern as well that's a huge result for them but also they need to be going deep in the Champions League with that amount of assets there what they've got but yeah they're handling business Can I shout out Union because they beat Carl Zeissiena to secure their first away Bundesliga victory.

4:56Ryan Hunn: Three points behind Bayern. And they actually host Freiburg, not this weekend, next weekend. So yeah, the Fran-Bundesliga this season I think is going to be really, really good. Really intriguing. Can I shout out some La Liga stuff? Absolutely. Well, actually, no, before we do La Liga stuff, Europa League was back this week. And just a quick shout out for Forrest. Two all the way at Betis, but their first European game for 29 years. And they should have been out of sight, probably. for Betis actually yeah you consider like what Forrest brought to the table and actually yeah Forrest started really really well should have been look should have been two or three clear but Betis pulling them back later on a goal from Anthony and they did so well to hang in there hang tough obviously Betis now competing at a high level having been in the Conference League final and beaten by Chelsea so I'm excited to see how they get on elsewhere in the Europa League oh Rangers Belgian Hell continues it's like a Dante's Inferno Belgian Hell sounds like a cool new craft beer.

5:52Belgian Hell, yeah. I drink that. Losing 1-0 to Genk, who are not doing that well in the Belgian first division. So yeah, bad result for Rangers. Elsewhere, Nice-Roma was intriguing. Good week for Roma. 2-1 win for them in Nice, following up their win in the Derby.

6:08Ryan Hunn: Very surprised she didn't just go, the food. The food. Oh my God. Food and wine, Nice-Roma. Can I just say, always welcome to send food and wine samples. Any other results from Europa League that jumped out to you? I think all from standard. The Stuttgart result was good against Satovico, 2-1 at home. Brand equalising against Lille and their late Olivier Giroud goal secured the win for Lille. Dinamo Zagreb beating Fenerbahce actually was one because Domenico Tedesco's start hasn't been incredible. He won his first game, that one where the first game, which was against Trabsonspor, when Onana got man of the match.

6:49Ryan Hunn: and was heroic and was down to 10 men but I think that's the only game that Tedesco has won since he's gone to Fenerbahce so it's not exactly been like a they haven't had a mega new manager bounce but this initial run of like when Champions League comes back and Europa League comes back sometimes it's just a bit like there's so many games but I want to shout out some La Liga stuff if possible yeah sure Oviedo Barcelona hell of a game Oviedo took the lead Reina's goal is absolutely beautiful Eric Garcia levelled it for Barcelona and then a Lewandowski header and an Araujo header from a Marcus Rashford corner.

7:23Yeah.

7:25Ryan Hunn: Rashford doing bits. Rashford watched all the podcasts. Yes, he saw the memes. He saw all the podcasts. Just on that, we didn't really touch about Marcus Rashford getting benched for being a bit late for something last week. The reaction to it is very because it's Marcus Rashford, right? And I'm not letting him off the hook here. I'm just saying I think it was a minor infringement that got blown up into something so ridiculous. I like I just look the thing I love about the Barcelona dressing room and the amount of brilliant forwards there is that like as our friend Maioa says the market regulates itself because you have so much you have so much talent there that you know that if you half step you're going to lose your place to Firmin Lopez or Rafinha or whoever like there's a ton of great players he'll be back in the mix and he'll be fine Barcelona the fact that he comes straight back into starting XI when when they could move they could very much move Rafinha back there and had Ferran Torres on the right or really prefer Torres back in the wide left and have Lewandowski central.

8:22I think...

8:22Ryan Hunn: Lewandowski came on in this game. I've said this. I think Hansi Flick sees a huge future for Marcus Rashford. I don't think he's always as candid about it as he could be, but I think he looks at Rashford and goes, you are the future of something really exciting. I still believe that. Bad news for Barcelona, another Gavi injury. Awful, yeah. Out for five months with a meniscus injury after, obviously, he had that ACL injury as well. The thing I would say about him is that like he can play such a range of positions. Gavi could play like right wing if he wanted to. I think he's actually played on the flanks for Spain.

9:00Yeah. He can play on the wings. He can play as an attacking mid. He can play as a DM. So look it's the Mark Bernal thing. It's just get your rest and get ready because they're going to need you at the end of the season. They don't you could argue actually the one thing that I would say for Gavi is the good news is they don't really need him yet. But I think

9:17Ryan Hunn: they'll come a time and they will. Go to Madrid for the derby. Atleti against Raya. Julien Alvarez hat-trick. Yes. Wow. Do you know what's wild, right? Because Atleti have had such a weird start to the season. I think they had their worst start to a La Liga season under Simeone before this game. They'd only been behind in the league, including this game. They've only been behind in the league for seven minutes this season. Which is wild. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that actually is quite, That's quite revealing because it says something about their ability to close stuff out. The thing with Atleti before, they were demoralizing because they would be lethal in the end of games.

10:02You'd have no chance. It was almost not worth attacking. But in this case, there's more of a fragility. I mean, that's to be expected. It's hard to sustain that level of intensity for too long. I suppose the big news here is Travarian's goal on the stroke of half time to beat Oblak from there like to attempt it's almost disrespectful it's almost disrespectful to let Fly from there against Oblak but that goal was

10:26Ryan Hunn: I think that's why he the audacity of it it's shocking yeah it's shocking do you know what I think he was beaten on audacity that's what it was it's like David and Goliath isn't it really you you're having a pop at me really

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