Arsenal beat Chelsea to maintain perfect start as Maitland-Niles rescues Everton

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1:20From downtown London, it's the exciting Totally Football Show Live rounding up match day three.

1:31There's club class at the Emirates as Arsenal continue to fly thanks to Martin and Kai while they enjoy their complimentary toiletries. Elsewhere, team with terrible windows see off the glazes. Everton 2, Man United 2. Chickens are coming home to roost at the cottage and there's poultry returns too for the still-goalless Spurs. That January transfer window can't come soon enough. We round up all the highs and lows in tonight's Totally Football Show. And here we are in the studio. Hey, you caught me unaware. It's Sunday night. We're ready to round up the latest set of Premier League fixtures. Who do we have in the studio?

2:09Why? Matt Davis-Adams. Lovely to see you. Hello, James. It's been a while. It has been a while. It's been the off-season. Off-season because, you know, things. Daniel Story's here. Good evening. In London. In person. Nice one. And so, checks notes, Arsenal win. Yeah, Adrian Clarke. Yeah, of course I'm here. I would have come otherwise. Of course you would. It's an old and tired joke, frankly, from last season. Everybody's here because everybody was here for the game in London this afternoon as Arsenal took on Chelsea. The whiff of a challenge about Chelsea this season after the start they've made.

2:53Arsenal the champions, of course, with an emphatic response. We'll be getting your thoughts, but broadly speaking, any hot takes you want to spit out straight away? It's difficult to find a hot take from the game, really, because Arsenal won, I think, and the game took a probably different pattern than it would have done had Morgan Rodgers not scored so early on. But yeah, Arsenal look like a team who've been playing for their manager for six years, and Chelsea look like a team who've got some potential, but plenty of work to do. Okay. There had been some talk about whether Arsenal were not as strong up front.

3:24Martinelli has left, Gabriel Jesus has left, but they look pretty strong today. Good, didn't they? Yeah, I think they played with the swagger of champions. I genuinely think that Arsenal will be more exciting this season. If that had happened last year, that particularly going behind, it might have put the spooks on the team and they might not have responded in the way that they did. And then once Arsenal got the lead, I feel like at times last season, they might have not panicked, but got anxious much, much earlier and didn't really see much anxiety. I just saw a lot of confidence from Arsenal.

4:01And yeah, I was chuffed to bits with the performance. I actually thought it was a great game. And Chelsea deserve a lot of credit for making it a great game. Yeah, absolutely. What a response to that early game, Daniel, from Arsenal. I read that there were nine shots on target, mostly for Arsenal, in the opening 25 minutes in response to that Morgan Rodgers goal, which was the first of them. That is the second most ever recorded in the opening 25 minutes of a Premier League game.

4:27Matt Davies-Adams: It felt like that. I defy you to name me the two teams involved in the most. Yeah, I was going to say, like West Brom, Man U, when it was 5-0 or something mad like that. You know what? You're not that far off. Let me just scroll down to the actual answer. What's with the Red team? 7-3. 7-4. It was a game from 2011. Finished, I think, 3-0. 3-0. It was West Ham against Sunderland. So I was quite far off, wasn't I? I remember that game. Was there 11 inside the first? There were 11 for 35 minutes, indeed. So this was a quieter affair, but, you know, still pretty good. What I really enjoyed about it, after last season's Big Six, fixtures were generally pretty cagey and tepid and won by the odd goal or the odd set-piece goal.

5:08Matt Davies-Adams: I like that Xabi Alonso has come in, and rather than protect his weaknesses, He's gone, our front three's really good. Let's just throw everything at the strengths and hope that's enough. Made for a brilliant first 25 minutes. It really did. But complete end-to-end. Chelsea play every minute, like there's five minutes to go and they need a goal, which is brilliant for the neutral. And actually, I was impressed that Arsenal won effectively on Chelsea's terms. They beat Chelsea at their own game, which becomes, because they won it, a statement for the rest of the season, I think. There you go. Arsenal remain on top.

5:39Chelsea fourth now with 270 minutes of the season already played maybe it's time to take a look at where people are in fact we are so by the way hello to you if you're joining us on YouTube on our live Sunday night roundup lots of people writing in we put out a question on the YouTube to say which team do you think which Premier League club is going to make the biggest movement between their current position after three games and where they'll be at the end of the season A lot of people saying Hull. Don't know. What would your answer be? I mean, Hull is the obvious one, isn't it? Poor. Top of my head.

6:20Spurs? In which direction? Well, the only way is up, isn't it? I don't know about that. Yeah, we've said that for two seasons, haven't we? But surely. I mean, surely. I mean, they can have a disappointing season and finish a lot higher than where they are now, right? So that would probably be my shout. Right, okay. Forrest, I would say. I think Forrest yeah there's not a lot wrong with Forrest they're a solid team they're going to win a lot of games and keep a lot of clean sheets I think they'll be just fine it has to be Everton every year they start off struggling then end up safe without a sweat what do you think Daniel?

6:58Matt Davies-Adams: my first thought was Aston Villa on the basis they haven't scored a goal yet and we presume when some of those players come back that they will improve I do worry about the chance creation and we'll talk about that in a bit maybe. But yeah, I think Villa will finish much higher than they are. Okay. We'll get on to Villa, who drew goallessly with Hull this weekend. But let's check on all the results from match day three of this Premier League season. He said switching off his page with all the results on. And that was an unfortunate bit of timing, wasn't it? And that's not the code for my laptop either.

7:32So off the top of my head, on Friday night, you had Liverpool beating Ipswich 2-0. I'm just trying to get these in the same order that they are on the graphic. So then on the Saturday, well, the first game was the 2-2 between Newcastle and Bournemouth. Newcastle's second 2-2 of the season. 1-1 it was between Brentford and Sunderland. A lot of draws this weekend. Brighton and Leeds, that finished all square as well. Fulham, they got beaten 3-2 by Crystal Palace. They stay pointless, as do Coventry, who themselves lost 1-0 to Manchester City. It was goalless between Forest and Spurs, although Tottenham picked up their first point of the season and no goals neither between Hull and Villa.

8:16Sunday, a lot more lively, what with the 2-2 at the Hill Dickinson between Everton and Man United and the thrilling match of the Emirates. 2-1 for Arsenal against Chelsea. All right, then, let's jump back in to Arsenal and their champions' performance against the Chelsea. Well, another early goal from Chelsea, which was a perfect start for them and probably for the neutral as well, Matt. I think so, yeah. Obviously, I wasn't particularly neutral in it, but it definitely felt that that brought Arsenal out and changed the way that they attacked the game more. It's this common theme of Chelsea scoring early goals in games is really interesting.

8:51It's happened in all three of them now, but almost like it did against Fulham, it kind of set them back a little bit because it provoked a response from the opponent and Chelsea didn't really know how to deal with it. And it's always easy to look at players who aren't available and say what a difference they would have made. But a lot of this game had me thinking, if Moises Caicedo was in midfield, there'd be a lot more control here. As opposed to Rhys James and Romeo Lavia, one of whom is desperately trying to stay fit. And the other one is being repurposed as a central midfielder. So that felt big.

9:20But Arsenal were unlucky not to score before they did. And they absolutely battered Chelsea for half an hour before they got the equaliser. So, you know, it was coming from the moment that Roger scored. But what a goal from Rodgers. Underrated technique to do that so early in the game. Obviously, a nice bit of narrative there with him having almost joined Arsenal in the summer or been close to joining Arsenal. But yeah, I mean, there's no doubt that Arsenal thoroughly merited their equaliser. Obviously, nearly had it with the one that was disallowed. Konza offside and Calafiore put it in. I think Martínez will be really disappointed with the goal that he conceded.

9:56Maybe it would have been different if he hadn't been kicked in the head a few minutes earlier, but even so. I would ask you, Adrian, about that as well. Kai Havertz with the equaliser. Yeah. But should Martinez have done better? Yeah, I think so. He was a bit slow getting down, wasn't he? I was going to say, because Sky did a lovely job of mirroring the replays from behind the goal of both Raya conceding the opener to Morgan Rodgers and Emi Martinez to Kai Havertz. And in both cases, because they cut it back to the near post, the goalkeeper assumes they're going for the other one and already shifted across and can't shift back in time.

10:27And yeah, no, I'm not going to be overly critical of the goalkeeper. I thought it was just good play from Kai Havertz. I thought he was great. I thought he was absolutely terrific in the game. Little nutmeg. There was one little feather-touch nutmeg that went through. That was absolutely gorgeous. Are we talking about the feint for the go-ahead? Well, I wasn't, but that was probably the best assist of the season. But he'll never get the assist for it because he just let the ball run to Erlego. But I thought Kai Havertz was absolute class in the game. I think for the goal, he was still fuming at himself for turning down the shot a couple of minutes before where Zollis got down the left, pulled it back.

11:07And all he had to do was sweep it left footed first time. And he went for a fancy little flick to Odegaard. And I think he was raging at himself. So the next time he got the ball, he literally just thought, you know, I'm just going to run and shoot. And, you know, we've seen it a thousand times where you go through the legs of a defender, it catches the keeper. So, yeah, that was that was a big moment. and then yeah if you allow me to continue to the winner that was a good goal with Zolles feeding it in Havertz just letting it go and Erdogan running off that Chelsea midfield that Matt's referencing that for me is the difference that's why Chelsea are playing basketball football they don't really have a midfield at the moment they don't have a proper midfield so they sort of they just miss it out get the ball up to the front guys as early as they can wreak havoc and we'll take our medicine going the other way and he runs off Rhys James and that for me is the big moment of the game and it was a good finish.

12:00And this is the big change with Verdegaard. Last season, he wouldn't have made that run. He would have held back. But he's determined, I think, to up the old goal count this year. Well, he's already doubled his goal count from last season with two goals so far this campaign. What else are you loving about Arsenal this season, Daniel? David Raya with a fine save, but that was their last time around. Konza, another of the new signings.

12:26Matt Davies-Adams: There was a sort of breakout moment for Konza when he tackled Morgan Rodgers' second half and got about three quarters of a goal celebration, basically, from the Emirates. I mean, I have to say, I think Havertz has been the best player in the Premier League so far in the first three games of the season. He's almost playing that... Oh, I don't know. The Villa game, he wasn't very good. He was offside about ten times. He's playing this sort of Thomas Muller, round-oiter, kind of, wherever you are, I will be there role. And I have to say that the dummy in the first half that didn't work to Odegaard, I don't think Havertz when he hasn't got confidence, I don't think he then dummies the second one, I think he thinks I can't risk getting groaned at again but it was a perfect dummy, they weren't expecting it, plays Odegaard in, I thought he was phenomenal today, just like dropping into space and you see the difference I don't want it to then transform into criticism of Jokeres but you see the difference when Jokeres comes on and he's running the channels and the touches are a bit heavy, it's night and day in terms of how Arsenal play.

13:23Matt Davies-Adams: And you talk about Odegaard's runs and Solis' directness. It just works so much better with Havertz there, doesn't it? Arsenal are going to be taking on Napoli away at the Maradona on Wednesday in the Champions League. After that, they are on the road again at Sunderland. That's next Saturday in the Premier League. Chelsea, meanwhile, will be hosting Leeds in the Carabao Cup, Matt. Big game, that. On Wednesday night. And then they face another of the teams above them in the Premier League, Hull. Yes. Yeah, that's right. Third v fourth. But the Leeds game is huge for Chelsea because they're only in three competitions this season.

13:56And if they lose to Arsenal on the Sunday and then get knocked out and Chelsea leads a huge rivalry, then they get knocked out of the Carabao Cup in their second round in the competition. Then all of a sudden it looks a bit like we've really got to beat Hull on Saturday. Otherwise, it all gets a bit aggy around SW6. Good Lord. What does Xavi Alonso take from today's performance? What's the status of Caicedo, for example, in terms of his availability? Well, one thing I've learned about Xavi Alonso is that he gives absolutely nothing away with regards to injuries of players. So we'll have no idea on that one.

14:29Levi Colwell was on the bench as well today. Whether that was because of form or fitness, we'll never know. But I think if he's looking for positives, they defended better than they did against Brighton last week, that's for sure. and had their final ball or final action been better on a number of occasions, and that's something that you can impact, then they might well have got something out of the game. I've done all the games that Chelsea played at Arsenal in recent years and they've been battered in all of them. They've been nowhere near them. There's been a country mile between them in terms of the quality and that wasn't the case today.

14:58So that's a positive for him to take. If he's that good friends with Mikel Arteta, you should probably ring him beforehand and say, what are you wearing, mate? Because he had exactly the same time. But yeah, other than that, there's positives to take, but you won a good result against Leeds now. I thought Chelsea were good. They carried a real threat. This is one of those games, if anyone hasn't seen the game and they're looking at the stats, they'd think, oh, Arsenal won this easy. It was a walkover. The stats, the XG was 2.11 for Arsenal, 0.35 for Chelsea. 0.35 XG is miserable. But it didn't feel like that, did it?

15:30It felt like they created some really, they had some great efforts on goals. So yeah, sometimes you can just dismiss stats. That was a decent Chelsea performance. That João Pedro chance you're referring there, no? Neto. Oh, it's Neto, sorry. I keep calling them the wrong Pedros on commentary. You're very kind to put it that way. Anyway, there you go. Well, for now, Arsenal have kept their neighbours at distance and maintained their share of the lead in the Premier League, although Man City are ahead on goal score. We'll get on to what City got up to this weekend, but they've got the derby next weekend, Man City.

16:06Man United, how convincing, strobe unconvincing were they earlier on this afternoon when they went to the Hill Dickinson against an Everton team coming off a challenging week off field and came away with a 2-2 draw. Twice they were ahead United, but they only take a point for their efforts.

16:28Matt Davies-Adams: Yeah, they're kind of this weird mix of slightly more passive than I thought in possession. and then, but really reacting when they concede. So against Ipswich, they conceded obviously and then suddenly brought this fire for about 20 minutes and then went passive again. Here, they scored the beginning of the second half, good goal, and then just went passive again. And it just allows teams into games. That wasn't really happening last season. There was an opportunity, as you referenced, to really turn the screw at Hill Dickinson because the fans are, you know, on the, well, David Moyes sounds like he's on the point of mutiny, never mind supporters.

17:08Matt Davies-Adams: And if they had have turned that screw, I think they'd have won the game with comfort. But they just look a bit passive. I don't think Carrick's changes worked again. I don't think he made the right call. He brought Dorgo on at left wing. It just doesn't work for me. He brought off Luke Shaw for Maz Wai at the end, and then they looked a bit disorganised on the edge of the box because they changed defenders. Yeah, the table doesn't look bad, but United have conceded a lot of shots. I think there's only three teams that have conceded more shots on target than them and they played two promoted clubs and a supposed crisis club.

17:43Matt Davies-Adams: So yeah, City next weekend. Everton outshot them today. Everton, the challenging part, the most challenging part of their week, apart from the owners apparently looking to move on, there was the transfer window and the end of it and the way that they missed out on supposedly all the targets, been left with about 18 senior players no right back, only one forward. And yet it was the signings that saved them. I do think, this sounds slightly conspiracy theorist, but I do think there was an element of Moyes' oh God, everything's wrong, that just was a sort of seize mentality thing. Because you look at the bench and actually, other than missing a striker, it's got the Championship's best player last season in Hayden Hackney.

18:23Matt Davies-Adams: Missing a striker is quite a big thing. Yeah, but it's got Grealish on there. There was, as you say, there was Maitland-Nazio who came on and scored a fantastic goal. There was Tyler Diblett. There's enough on that bench. There's just not a striker. And they will suffer this season for only having Tiano Barry. And they will suffer this season more, I think, for only having Mikhelenko as their only left back. Because he's serviceable at best, but not great. But outside of that, they can be quite fun. And they scored really, really good goals today. Brilliant goals today. You've seen the goals, I think, man.

18:52I have, yeah. Tyreek Georges was nice. But Maitland-Niles was a proper get-you-out-your-seat moment, wasn't it? And I love that the obvious thing is hitting to the opposite corner, isn't it? But he just swept it into that sort of near. And I love it when a goalkeeper goes down on one knee and reaches an arm out as if to kind of just sort of acknowledge the beauty of it as it whistles past. So Ian Wright was suggesting on the match coverage that his intention had actually been the other corner, but he just missed it. No chance.

19:21Matt Davies-Adams: Right, he has forgotten more about football than I'll ever know, but I disagree with him vehemently. Well, possibly problems ahead then for Everton with the issues with the striker. But for today, they had enough to counter Man United with a brilliant set of comebacks there. Absolutely fantastic. They go to Spurs next Saturday. Always a quick shout for James Tarkovsky as well, who had another statue earning of a performance at the back. This is why I talk about the season mentality. There was a lot of that. You know, Branthwaite gave it the big kind of gladiator celebration when he blocked a cross.

20:01Matt Davies-Adams: Pickford does that as a matter of course when he's taking goal kicks. So there was a lot of that from him. In the centre of midfield, they were celebrating tackles. James Garner celebrated. So I do think that, you know, perhaps Moyes has gone into the dressing room and said, look, I've said all this to the media, but we're still good enough here. We can still bruise noses. They can still finish top 12 with that squad, I think. Yeah. It's not a crisis. It's definitely not a crisis. Yeah, there were big holes there at full-back. They should have strengthened. Stryker as well. But, yeah, he's got enough to work with to have an OK season.

20:32But I suppose the Everton fans are fed up with just middling season.

20:36Matt Davies-Adams: I get their frustration, 100%. Yeah. All right. Well, let's see. Let's see. As mentioned, they've got Spurs next Saturday. Everton are actually the last team that Tottenham Hotspur have managed to score a Premier League goal against. So, there you go. Anyway, as mentioned, next for Man United in the league, They've got Champions League midweek against competition debutants and Mr Loverman callback Sabah from Azerbaijan. That's at Old Trafford on Thursday. But then it's Man City. And yes, I'm segwaying because next up we're getting on to Enzo Mareska's side.

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23:59Ooh, Jamie Vardy, 10 years ago, was a reigning Premier League champion, Adrian. This weekend, he signed for Burnley. The Clarets, who you recall were relegated from the Premier League last season, are currently winless and bottom of the championship and have turned to Vardy, who will turn 40, actually, in January, to save them. Vardy's recent record includes taking Cremonese down last season in Serie A and ending what was left of Mike Dean's credibility on a recent podcast.

24:29Matt Davies-Adams: I think, in Vardy's offence, Mike Dean did most of that himself. Yeah, he was voluntary. But good signing for Burnley. Good signing. Yeah. Like, why not? I mean, they just sold Zian Fleming to Ipswich, and that was obviously a little bit of a blow. So, yeah, they've dipped into the sort of free transfer market. I mean, I think Fardy Stick could still do a bit. I'd see. Yeah, I'd see. Leicester, meanwhile, 10 years ago were Premier League champions. This weekend they were losing 4-0 at home to Oxford in League One and they got Russell Martin in charge. Too isolated, possibly? I mean, I don't know.

25:08The stats say they had 63 possession and played over 500 passes. but lost 4-0. They've had one win in five so far.

25:17Matt Davies-Adams: Anyway. I heard an interview with him after the game in which he said he was asked about having honest conversations after losing. He said, well, I've been misquoted there. I didn't really mean honest conversations and then proceeded to say, we will be having some honest conversations this week after losing 4-0 to Auckland. The question is whether Leicester can afford financially to do anything about it because he gave him a three-year contract. Just get on with it. Yeah, just, he's not, that bad a manager. He's having a hard time. But I think Leicester have the players and a coach that can get them towards the top of the league while I do.

25:51Don't do it. Don't push that sack button. Okay. We did an extra on Leicester's Premier League winning season. Totally extra. If you enjoy those kind of retro-flavoured podcasts, you might like to know that we had a new one out last Saturday talking about Andy Cole with Daniel amongst our line-up.

26:09Matt Davies-Adams: That's been very kind to me. Andy Mitten was on the show and was very, very good at Andy Cole, wasn't he? He was. He was. 187 goals Andy Cole scored in the Premier League. Only one of them was a penalty. He scored 41 goals in one season, but did the streets forget? That's the kind of... I trained with Andy Cole as a kid at Arsenal when I was a teenager. No, time to talk about that now. You should have been on the show and said to me, Adrian. He was very good, trust me. Yeah, Arsenal missed a trick. As I say, many thanks if you're following us on YouTube live. Hello there. Nick Hambling says It was Bristol City who handed out Burnley's latest defeat.

26:43Yu Hirakawa with a fantastic injury at a time winner. There you go. Lots of people talking about United, by the way. United played decent in the first half. Lackadaisical on the board during the match. Allowed Everton to get back in. Says, take a fanatic. Him again. Nick Hambling again. Says, is there a certain irony that Moyes is probably objectively a better manager than Carrick? Ooh. Carrick was... In a word, yes or no? Moyes better than Carrick? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's like 20 years more experienced.

27:13Matt Davies-Adams: Definitively, improvably, yes. Oh, OK. All right, then. Man City, just a 1-0. Oh, and some shaky moments early on, particularly that Donnarumma moment of disattention. But it was a 1-0 win for Enzo Mariska's side, which makes it three wins out of three for him at the start of his tenure as City boss. there were starts for Enzo Fernandes and Ilman and Jai there was Elliot Anderson doing Elliot Anderson things painful I know but the most passes by an English player in a Premier League game ever is that right? 1-4-3 he had more successful passes than Coventry which is obviously a funny stat but yeah like it lends a little bit of weight to the fact that he could be their new sort of Rodri style conductor I mean he's not Rodri he won't be Rodri No, but he's a good player.

28:09Matt Davies-Adams: That talk of flop from the Community Shield was quite a long time ago now, doesn't he? He's already looked to have settled in and he's doing... He's a good player. Yeah, but Cov had some chances, didn't they? They did, didn't they? And Aaron E with that one-on-one and the one at the end as well where Donnarumma made a good save from Sims. So I think it's one of those where Coventry look at the league table and feel pretty miserable. Yes. But they shouldn't because they actually acquitted themselves pretty well in this game. They shouldn't feel miserable. A lot of people are very worried for Coventry.

28:35They shouldn't beat themselves up because I think they showed signs of real promise in this game. They've got Brighton at home and Forest away as their next two games. There's points there for them. And, you know, there is precedent for newly promoted team goes to Etihad, has glorious defeat, changes their season round. If you look back to Leeds last season, obviously not quite the same thing. It was interesting, you mentioned Njai and Enzo Fernandes. I forget Enzo Fernandes, both started. He's a bit tumour. Yeah, yeah, well. Having watched the highlights of the game, I was like, this is quite Enzo Maresca.

29:10It's effective, but it's pretty boring. And then I saw Erling Haaland say about Njai, the way he dribbles past players, just gliding through. It was amazing to see. And Enzo Maresca said about him and Njai, he needs to understand how to move. Most of the time he was moving the wrong way, wrong position. He needs to learn and for sure he's going to learn. Man City awaits Porto in the Champions League on Tuesday. We're going to do a big roundup of, well, a roundup of the upcoming Premier League. sorry, upcoming Champions League fixtures in our European show, which will be with you on Tuesday, just in time, talking about the Champions League and all the big games that have been happening in Europe this weekend.

29:48Huge ones. Bayern getting held, PSG getting beat. They haven't won a single game so far this season. And also the extraordinary Inter-Napoli match on Saturday. Anyway, tune in for that or indeed download it as is kind of more appropriate. Anyway, City, as I say, Porto and the Champions League on Tuesday, then Old Trafford next Saturday for the Manchester Derby. What's going to happen there, Daniel?

30:12Matt Davies-Adams: I cannot wait for that game because until now, Carrick has basically followed the Solskjaer path in which he's been brilliant at getting them up for, not just kind of emotionally, but tactically as well, up for those biggest games and playing as an underdog. If he does that again, it'll be really interesting to see Amoreska respond and how he deals with that. and so Fernandez will get booked that's what's going to happen okay all right ooh Nottingham Forest nil Tottenham nil I'm guessing Dan and Matt you both saw this yeah Spurs or Forest what do you want to talk about Forest or Spurs I mean Spurs is the biggest story isn't it other than the refereeing thing which is I mean slightly tedious but very annoying if you support Forest I think okay so no shot this was the Necco Williams goal which was called back because possibly, I don't know if there was an angle that showed this clearly, possibly he might have handled it as opposed to bravely putting his head in.

31:09Yeah, it was just guesswork, wasn't it, from the VAR? And the problem with it is that, as Oliver Glasner said after the game, the idea this season was that VAR was going to have a far lighter touch and this was like first season VAR getting involved. And one of the things that's made the start of the Premier League season more enjoyable for me than last season was the fact that there had been far less delays, these rules to restart throw-ins and goal kicks really helps people get this up a bit. It's absolutely good. Yeah, and the lighter touch of Vara's meant that we're not hanging around for ages to reach a decision which is based on a guess rather than fact.

31:42So, yeah, obviously, I can't really look at it neutrally. It should have stood. I'm neutral. It should have stood. Like, I just think... Well, you own Arsene. Well, no. And I did tip up for us. But, yeah, no, I think it should have stood. I mean, Tonali gets out of jail because Tonali doesn't track Gibbs White at the start. so that's really bad midfield play. Then when the ball deflects, he's got the chance, he completely miskicks it. And then he kicks Nico Williams in the face and effectively gives away what I think could have been a penalty on the goal line. So that was before the goal and Nico Williams, no?

32:17In the moment, at the moment where Nico Williams allegedly handballs it, he kicks him in the face. Oh, did he? Because before that, Nico Williams had been stretched out in the box about a minute before this with, I think, a blow to the head. So it was especially courageous of him. in a couple of seconds from Tonali and he somehow got away with it. So, you know, he's very lucky.

32:36Matt Davies-Adams: It was a very nil-nil game vibes-wise, we should say. I mean, Spurs, we talked about their transfer activity. Marmouche missed chances. They didn't have a shot on target. They should have had four or five shots on target. They had enough chances for it. On that, no shots on target in a Premier League game for the first time since April 2022. It's the first time they've gone through the first three matches of the season without scoring a goal since 1974. This is a kind of epically bad beginning to this campaign. But like with Leicester and Russell Martin, they're stuck with Roberto Deserbi, aren't they?

33:12Because they've given him so much money to spend and they're paying him so much money to be their manager that you've got to make it work. It'll click eventually. There's too many good players there. He is a good manager. They just need to get to know each other, James. Yeah? Yeah. How long do you give it? How long do you think it'll take? I think by October time, they'll be up the league. They'll be in the top half. Yeah, I don't see this as being another calamity season for Spurs. There are too many good players there. Okay. Yeah. Excellent. Including Mikhailo Mudrik, who actually came on in the 74th minute, making his first competitive appearance since he scored in Chelsea's 2-0 win over Heidenheim in the Conference League in 2024.

33:54Also, Savio started. Throw that in. So, yeah, lots of players. Oh my, my, moosh. A disappointing game, but better to come, one hopes. Only 10 touches in the box from Forrest. That was bad. Yeah, I mean, Arsenal had about 50 today inside Chelsea's box. 10 at home to anybody, I think, is disappointing.

34:19Matt Davies-Adams: In the Premier League, they've only beaten Burnley at home in 2026, which is kind of mad from 21. Yeah, that was their whole MO of staying in the Premier League. But this is Glasner, right? It takes him ages to get settled and get his team winning games. They'll sort it, I'm pretty sure. Maybe. And Donny Iraola's getting a little bit settled with Liverpool. They got their first win of their campaign, 2-0 away to Ipswich. That was on Friday. Oh, what was interesting about that was Gakpo and Isaac combining for both goals. What a good thing that they hadn't just shipped Cody Gakpo to Manchester City or other places.

34:58It's been an interesting week for Liverpool's transfers and people responsible for Liverpool's transfers because on Saturday, Richard Hughes suddenly resigned as the man in charge of all that kind of thing.

35:10Matt Davies-Adams: Yeah, I think that was expected and we do expect him to go to Al-Hilal. I think Liverpool knew that was coming. It was more a question of when and obviously the end of a transfer window in which lots of supporters think maybe we should have signed an extra midfielder or defender is as good a time as any for that to happen, I suppose. Or before the transfer. Yeah, I mean, that would have been nice for everybody. It didn't feel like he gave 100 % to that last transfer window. I mean, you look at the Liverpool bench and there were loads of holes. Where's the backup to various players? It's not a great squad.

35:43But the Gakpo pass, the two passes were fab. And actually, I want to give your Iola credit. I watched the game against Forest. Frimpong was dreadful. And he was strong. And he said, no, you're out. And he brought in Araujo, who really is more of a centre-back. And he came in and did a really good job. So I think that that decision solidified Liverpool big time.

36:07Matt Davies-Adams: That allowing the right winger to stay high up. I mean, it's obviously what Arsenal have done with Ben White as well. That solidity at right back, it doesn't have to be an overlapping right back every time, does it? Especially if they cannot defend like Fim Poncai. no Iriola hasn't been defeated in the Premier League since the 3rd of January which is pretty good really blimey I didn't know that a lot of draws a lot of draws a lot of draws yeah Liverpool host Atletico Madrid in the Champions League with some big games this midweek yeah I'm going to Anfield for that I cannot wait yeah it does feel like the biggest one of the round he says biased because he's going but right no but that was the game at Anfield you know back in 2020 that was the Covid before Covid that was the Covid super spread game wasn't it yeah it was oh but they've had them since it was a match day one fixture last season I completely forgot about this do you know what the score was I was there so no I was going to say 2-0 Liverpool 3-2 Liverpool in stoppage time I was genuinely there so that's a great word before I forget Bradley Barclay obviously came on instantly became the fastest player in the Premier League this season yeah just under 36 kilometres I did it was him sprinting off the bend to the right wing that did that I mean yeah so he's just a rapido isn't he he is yeah is that enough for Adrian well we'll find out it was enough to keep him in and around the PSG side for a long time and they are the two time European champions European champions so he's not a bad player alright well as I mentioned we are going to be proving all the key Champions League fixtures in our European edition, which is out on Tuesday.

37:52One other little thing to mention for now, which is that if you're an NFL fan, got any NFL fans here? Yes. There we go.

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38:38It says, can I say it's tragic for the Premier League. Man City isn't going to have a drop-off after losing Pep. I don't know. I think it's early days for that.

38:47Matt Davies-Adams: It's very early days. Very early days. The last thing a football club like Manchester City want would be Pride before a four, wouldn't it? Oof. All right then. Anyway, what else before we get on to the rest of the Premier League this weekend? Well, WSL got underway, Matt. Ooh, London City Lionesses began their campaign with a victory against Man United, wasn't it? Making loads of noise. Yeah, they kicked off the season on Friday night. 2-1 they won. Was that at Bromley? Yeah, that's their stadium. Yes, Hazelaine, yeah. They didn't field an English player, which is very rare in the WSL, but they've obviously got lots of stardust with Alexia Piteas et al.

39:27But I would suggest that result might be just as much about Manchester United being chronically underfunded and that it would be about London City winning. I was doing Chelsea-Aston Villa yesterday, which was very Chelsea of last season, took the lead, had loads of chances, didn't get a second goal, considered a silly equaliser. So, yeah, maybe a bit of pressure on Sonia von Pastel if she doesn't pick up fairly soon.

39:49Matt Davies-Adams: Shout out to Daniel van der Donk for her goal for London City Lionesses, which is one of those kind of cross comes across and you flick it from the outside and back in. But when they hit the post and go in, they look beautiful. It's superb. Very nice. Very nice. Back to the Premier League, where Saturday's standout matches came on Tyneside and the banks of the Thames, courtesy of Fulham and Crystal Palace, and that Newcastle-Bourmouth clash. Fulham against Crystal Palace was kind of built up, largely by us on Thursday, as the whoever loses this is in a World of Trouble game. So is Alvaro Arboloha in said World of Trouble?

40:29Yes, I think so. Really? But he's got to know his players. Maybe, but he just... Lots of his players anyway, though, aren't they?

40:37Matt Davies-Adams: Yeah, most of them are from his agency. They should know. But he looks like he can't organise a defence. I've got it on my notes here. Arbeloa looks tense. Yes. Like he's trying to look really cool, right? I mean, he does look cool. He's a handsome, suave guy, right? He's got a tremendous beard. But he just looks on edge. And to be on edge this early, he's not a good sign. I can understand him being on edge. By the way, for me, he looks... Oh, I see. You've got to cut the part of a manager's MO. Players pick out, they smell fear. In my notes, it says Pierre Sarge is very avuncular. In my notes, it says Alvaro Abelot looks like Stewie from Succession.

41:19Niche reference. Not bad. Yeah, same jacket.

41:22Matt Davies-Adams: Shout out to Gonzalo Garcia, who... Normally you wouldn't call it a mistake to fail to clear a shot off the line, but when you managed to slip and nutmeg yourself, and I saw his partner who had been on Instagram and kind of told the story of them coming over to England and doing the whole journey. It was a really nice piece of work. And then she was obviously at the game this weekend. She just had to sort of do a post saying, yeah, not a great start, to be honest, that appearance of the line. He's pretty annoyed about it. It was slapstick defending all the way through. It also looks really easy.

42:00Matt Davies-Adams: I mean, this is very basic tactics chat, but there just looks to be massive spaces between all of the defenders and the midfielders. So I saw it against Chelsea on the opening Monday. It's really easy to create chances with them. Chelsea did it after 45 seconds. On the subject of whether Fulham are in trouble and are below her, only in 1951 and 2020 had Fulham lost each of their first three games in a top-flight campaign, and they were relegated on both those previous occasions. Before the international break, their next two Premier League fixtures are against Liverpool and Man United. So it's not an easy run of games.

42:36Crystal Palace, meanwhile, who get their first win under Pierre Sarge, the man in charge, courtesy of the left-backs. Yeah. Tyrett Mitchell with a brace and then Bill Chilwell. Yeah, the second one was a bit fluky. Obviously, it came off the one that we just referenced there with the thing. But no, I mean, yeah, it's amazing to see two left-backs score three goals in the same game. I think that Fulham, when we looked at our belowers Fulham early on in the season, All of the talk is about how high the fullbacks go. And, you know, and Robinson loves to push on, doesn't he? And I just think that that was part of it, you know, in terms of holes down the side of the centre-backs.

43:18So tactically, he's got a few things to sort out, hasn't he? But he's got a good youngster in his own team, in Josh King, hasn't he? He's had a good start to the season. But for Palace, they needed this. They needed this big time. And I think it's going to be a challenging season for them. but yeah, they'll be feeling fantastic now, won't they? But right fixture at the right time, I think, for Palace. It was nice to have that 3-2 on the Saturday as well, to line things up a bit. Newcastle-Bournemouth was fun as well. Another busy afternoon on Tyneside.

43:51Matt Davies-Adams: What would you take from this, Daniel? Harley Barnes being the closest thing we've got to Ian Robin. My favourite type of colour. Yeah. Oh, it was a beaut. Because it's a great piece of skill, but it is the sort of thing that I think, if I tried that a hundred times I might be able to do that once and I never ever think that with any other goal and you just sort of you see that space yawning open There must be a reason that full backs are not able to just show him down that side but let him do that because it's the only way he scores goals and he does it time and time and time again What's the reason Adrian?

44:27Well you do show them down the line but sometimes if a player is too quick and too well balanced, they just fake to go down the line and shift it inside. It's very difficult. If you set up differently and showed them inside, Harvey Barnes would probably go, okay, I'll just stroll in there. So it's not as easy to stop as you'd imagine, but it's all about Harvey Barnes' balance and unsettling the defender. And he's very, very good at it. He's a proper winger. And I actually would go as far as to say Harvey Barnes is one of the most underrated players in the Premier League. No one talks about Harvey Barnes.

45:02No one thinks Harvey Barnes is an amazing Premier League player, but he comes up with a lot of good moments. If I was a full-back, I would not want to mark him. He's outstanding in his field. He's Barnes-storming. I was thinking I'm going to tell you. Yeah, there we go. Ooh, Bournemouth, the first team in Premier League history, just scored the opening goal in their first three games of the season and not win any of them. They were 2-0 up after half an hour in this. So on one hand, it was a good comeback from Newcastle. On the other hand, though, they were outshot by the Cherries 13-3 on shots at halftime.

45:38Matt Davies-Adams: Yeah, they should have been three at halftime and then it's done. They've faced 61 shots in three matches so far this season, Newcastle. And they scored with the last four shots on target as well. Right. So the numbers are suggesting that there are going to be tough times ahead? I think, as we've said, because of having nine new Premier League managers, is I think there's going to be an acclimatisation period and you'd rather have five points on the board through that acclimatisation than 0 or 1, which is probably on the bounce. They were really good against Liverpool and they were fortunate enough to win that game.

46:09Matt Davies-Adams: So I think you have two toss-ups. Yes, they probably are a little bit lucky on Saturday, but there does seem to be... I suspect that kind of direct play, Langrind behind foot might well work better away from home as well, which is what we saw at Tottenham. So I think they're going to have to learn to deal with having the ball at home. Yes. Crazy stat on Match of the Day. Not really a stat, more of a fact, but that this was the first time they'd met in the Premier League without Eddie Howe in one of the dugouts. When they mentioned who the... Sorry, that's a different game I'm thinking of. I think perhaps...

46:39Oh, no, it was... Harry Redknapp. They said who the managers were last time they faced each other, Newcastle and Bournemouth. And it wasn't Eddie Howe, right? When it was... Yeah, when it wasn't those two... So Harry Redknapp was in charge of Bournemouth? Harry Redknapp was in charge of Bournemouth? Jim Smith also? No. I can't think of the Newcastle one. Perhaps you know they're at home. Do let us know as soon as you can. We'll move on to Hull-Aston Villa in the meantime. Hull still undefeated, still yet to concede a goal. They are only the third promoted side to the top flight to keep clean sheets in the first three games of a Premier League season ever.

47:19Charnathletic in 98-99. And Huddersfield Town, forgotten that, in 2017-2018. Seven points from the first three games. How excited should they be about this? Well, I've got a little table here. And there have been one, two, three, four, five. They are the sixth side to have seven points after, at least seven points after the first three games. Have the other ones fared? So early doors, like the early days of the Premier League, actually pretty well. Blackburn ended up fourth that season. They had seven points. Nottingham Forest, 94-95. ended up third. Since then, it's been pain. Well, Portsmouth, 2304, ended up 13th, but Huddersfield and Bolton both ended up down in 16th.

48:03To be fair, though, I say pain. That's fine for Huddersfield. And Hull started like this back in the day, didn't they? The Giovanni team and all those guys. When we do this after the rehearsal, then, I'm going to go, it's good news. The table says it's good news. Well, you mentioned those two teams. Sharpen went down and Huddersfield stayed up of the teams who kept clean sheets in their first three games. I mean, I watched this game and they could easily have lost it because McGinn and Buendia both spurned excellent chances. But then Olly McBurney, who you mentioned Jamie Vardy earlier, he is the 2026 Premier League.

48:36Jamie Vardy is Olly McBurney. He's got exactly the same energy. Yes, but he should have scored as a clock struck night. They got away with it a bit, but yeah, they're going to have to find a bit more attacking punch, aren't they? But they must feel whole, like they're never going to concede again. Because the playoffs last year. Clean sheets against Millwall, both games to get through. Clean sheet in the final against Middlesbrough. And then they've got three clean sheets at the start of this season. So, Gajikirovic is the nullifier. Right. This guy knows how to stop teams. He's brilliant at it.

49:12And he wasn't always like this, was he, Matt? Obviously, we do a lot of stuff on what the EFL. and Hull were the team that used to give up stacks of chances so what happened to them? they deliberately became boring ok yeah and it's worked for them they've just gone five at the back

49:28Matt Davies-Adams: come and break us down it's also it's almost like they've got so used to having lots of shots against them that they're not that bothered when it happens and they're like well they can almost like psychologically just you know Buendia misses a chance and they're like well don't worry about it we'll go again it's to Jukovic's credit that he's doing the same thing as he finished last season but with a completely different set of players. And the amount of signings that they've made, I think that's really impressive. And he says a new deal this week, Akirovic. A new two-year deal. So often we see teams, and Hull have been one of them in the past, do really well at the start of the season and fall off dramatically.

49:59Is there anything about this side that suggests that they are not going to do that?

50:04Matt Davies-Adams: It's a team that everybody, myself included, predicted to finish bottom of the Premier League. So there may well be a... I don't know what the reverse of cream rising to the top is, but you know what I mean. they may well fall to their natural position which will be a lot further down the table but if you've accumulated enough goodwill and enough points to ride it through the mood around the club is phenomenal at the moment and those home games it's a good atmosphere Villa were kind of pushed in the first half as much as they have been yeah, why not? Why not? You need to score goals to win games and that's right Like Balloumi I think he's got that creativity cutting in from the wing But yes, Bernie is basically the only guaranteed source of goals.

50:46Matt Davies-Adams: If you're not in the relegation name to conjure with. Well, yes, we had what the AFL episode called Bulumi down with a feather when he started. He hit the bar joint post. And he is, as we talked about Harvey Barnes being Arjen Robben, he's the Arjen Robben version of Arjen Robben because it's his left foot that he whips around. Oh, nice. Okay. Villa, meanwhile, did have a shot on target in this game, one. which is their first of the season. They've got Bruges in the Champions League on Tuesday. And then they're home to Forrest. Yeah, it was Dr. Forrest, obviously. So I can't say too much jinx-wise.

51:23Matt Davies-Adams: But my worry at the start of the season was about chance creation. And it still is. Ross Barkley is the only player who's created more than two chances for them in the first three games. He's created six, but he only played 800-odd minutes last season. It can't be Ross Barkley creating all the chances. I know they've got Mbaye and Manzambi to come back. But even then, Gone Actual isn't it. There's a lot to ask. It does just look like every player that they've replaced is slightly worse than the one that's left, which is a problem.

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54:47If you're hungry to hear about Brighton Leeds, I know I am. It finished 1-1, Leeds opening the scoring. Brighton responding with their giant new centre-back, Luka Vuskovic, 6 '4". he does score quite a few goals record show he got 6 in the Bundesliga last season for Hamburg not bad eh oof quite the weapon Leeds though Adam Crafton was commenting on this game said their second half display was like England's against Argentina too soon first half display was pretty good though was it really good? Leeds yeah brilliant actually battered battered bright I think Leeds a really good team.

55:27Matt Davies-Adams: Top nine. Whereas Brighton, not a great start to the season for them. No. Well, since the Villa Tonking. Yeah. They've looked very open since then. Yeah. Villa Tonking was nice though. Yeah, I don't know. I just, yeah, I thought they were pretty flat in this game and obviously gave up a lot of chances against Chelsea. I wonder if they're going to be one of the teams like I thought maybe Palace would be that might find the addition of whatever it's going to be, 16 to 18 more games playing every Thursday night. might really drag their Premier League form down as the season goes on, potentially, yeah.

55:59Matt Davies-Adams: That's early for the Matt Davies-Adams. This is the team that's going to be... There's a big might in there, Daniel. It's fairly incommittal with a drag down rather than anything specific. Don't know how you feel about Brentford and Sunderland. Perhaps very positive. The two teams shared a point apiece Saturday. And I read that since the start of last season, no team has earned more points from losing positions in the Premier League than Sunderland. Got a bit of spirit, haven't they? Is that a stat? I mean, there are a lot of stats. Too many, some would say. But is that a stat that gives you a real reading as to the character of it?

56:35Yeah. Of course it does. And to the manager. Because the manager is able to look at the game and improve it and make little tweaks and stuff. So, yeah, Reggie Libris is very good. I mean, in this game, actually, Sunderland should have won it. Brentford, this was a great point for Brentford because they were terrible in the first half. It's not very often Brentford are terrible. Like they, you know, pretty consistent under Keith Andrews, but they were way off it and maybe should have been out of sight. But yeah, in the end, Sunderland's spirit sort of got them back in. I thought there was a slightly bit of a dodgy goal disallowed though for Brentford.

57:10I mean, did any of you think that the goalie had that under control was the Jadon Anthony goal?

57:15Matt Davies-Adams: Yeah, I thought it was another one of those kind of touch and go and therefore you probably anger people both ways. But yeah, I did think it was a bit harsh. Mark Holmes, referring back to our Fulham chat, suggests they should appoint Thomas Frank were there to be an opening on the managerial setup in the future. That's a tap-in, isn't it? Yeah. Do you know what? This season's going to be really interesting for that because this feels like the first full season where the age of the firefighter has got... Nobody's going to appoint Sean Dyche is what I'm saying. So who is that next? Uber Eats, mate.

57:48Matt Davies-Adams: That is very true, yeah, or Paddy Pat, yeah, one of those, yeah. But, yeah, so Frank is seen as that next cab off the rank, I know, West London, et cetera, et cetera. But, yeah, to me now, clubs are more taking risks with younger managers from abroad. Like Alvaro Abelard. Yeah, and it goes really well every time. That's the main thing. Yeah, indeed so. Crikey, well, we whizzed through match day three. I don't know if there's anything else you want to add that we haven't touched on I was just going to add at a very selfish point of view I was at Huddersfield on Saturday and I'm doing a well I was shadowing there US billionaire owner for the multi-billionaire owner Kevin Nagel is he nice?

58:37Matt Davies-Adams: yeah he's really nice he's quite yeah he's a a man who is really wants Huddersfield Town to be really really good which is why it's quite fun to shadow okay and what why what led to his involvement with Huddersfield Town uh well he is one of I think 31 in of the 92 clubs now have either significant or majority U.S. ownership so it's a it's a deal it's things it's something they want to do he owns Sacramento uh soccer club in U.S. he also was a Sacramento Kings NBA investor so like he is a sports guy but the whole point is that I'm doing this series this season where we tell go behind the scenes at Huddersfield for a season and tell kind of what happens on a regular day at a football club okay so like how did set piece coaches come up with their routines how does a footballer pass a medical what happens on their first day at club things like that what how many days have you spent with Huddersfield so far I've been to three games and I've spent four days up there already okay on top of yeah and what's been the most surprising thing for you so far uh i mean i find the whole like i hope everybody else does as much as me that's the basic tagline for the project but i find the whole thing fascinating getting to spend time with football supporters see the 90 minutes and extrapolate opinions on on everything else based on that so the signings it's all about the 90 minutes and what happens right so spending like time in the club offices and seeing how they operate to me is incredibly fascinating if that's not the case for everybody we've got a problem okay but if you if you would like to know more about that in the eye kind of when are you doing the yeah so there'll be about well between probably 15 to 20 features all season the first one will be out this week with the shadowing kevin nagle excellent excellent of course that's your 95 almost matt in the inside the club inside the offices down at cobham i'll be interested to read see what the comparisons are yeah between league one and the premier league but with american owners with lofty ambitions.

1:00:37So, yeah. Bound by something at least. And of course, Adrian, who lived the game. Lived the game. Yeah, still live and breathe it. Absolutely. I'm a lucky man. When's your next What the EFL? Well, Friday. That's our new start time is Friday, isn't it? Excellent. Yeah. So, previewing the weekend. All right. Yeah. It's all good. I look forward to that. Many thanks for coming in today. Thank you. Many thanks to you as well, Daniel. Matthew. Nice to be back. Many thanks as well to producers Jay and Charlie. We, of course, saw our next Totally Football Show, as mentioned, is the Euro edition out on Tuesday.

1:01:15Then we'll have an extra on Wednesday morning on account of Tuesday night Champions League action. So perhaps you'll join us for some of that. For now, I hope you've enjoyed our presentation and you'll be with us again soon from all of us here. Let's go bye.

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