Fernandes on fire for United as Chelsea show title credentials?

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1:34From downtown London, it's Totally Football Show with our Sunday night roundup.

1:45Week two, Bruno Starrs, cheeky Fernandos and a very, very good hat-trick as Man United put five past Ipswich. Cole Palmer's Chelsea and Cherokee's City put the pressure on Arsenal with four goals apiece against Brighton and Palace. And Spurs, their bid to not finish 17th this season on track, currently got last place nailed down. It's Sunday 30th August, and after a significant VAR-esque delay, we're here with our Sunday Night Live roundup. Woo! I'm so excited because we've got a Ranchito reunion going on in the studio. Tom Williams is here. Howdy, James. Howdy to you too. it's a return for Tim Spears as well.

2:30Hello, James. In your big branded Los Angeles hat as well. Well, I had this in LA Reunion, so I thought I'd bring my big LA hat. All right. And it wouldn't be an LA Reunion or a Van Noyze one without Felipe Cardenas. What is happening? Thank you. I should have worn my LA Dodgers hat and you should have worn your LA Dodgers jersey. I am. I am. It's on. It's happening. Felipe Cardenas is not here in the studio. lucky chap he's over in lovely atlanta georgia how's atlanta felipe atlanta georgia yes home of hip-hop it's beautiful here though the i think the summer is starting to end it's almost fall and fall is a lovely season here in in the south so yeah if you haven't come to atlanta before come visit you'll love it it's a great city all right excellent go and see some football as well oh yeah there's plenty to do here every sport you can watch any sport you want all right how's the new season going there in i mean in mls mls season is back after the world cup um i guess the latest headline is that leonel messi scored four goals last night made it look very easy um and and yeah there's a whole fiasco around inter miami they don't you know leonel messi's just hiring his friends as coaches and it's just what it is it's sort of interesting that he's still here doing what he does.

3:51Excellent. Excellent. Well, he did look pretty phenomenal last night. We're going to talk about Premier League week two, though. Might touch on some of the transfers as well, because, of course, Tim, the transfer market's going to close on Tuesday evening. What time on Tuesday evening, UK time? 11 p.m. 11 p.m.? Yes. All the way to 11. Yeah. What is it? Slam shut. Someone always tries to put their foot in the door to get a couple of deals. it'll be a 2am sort of finish oh yeah yeah okay but it's good fun there have been some major moves not confirmed perhaps that have been going on today this Cody Gakpo Liverpool to City thing which seems to be happening also Spurs signing a player that's new and then Manjai from Everton with Richarlison and some money going the other way potentially although Richarlison's been linked on the internet with Atletico Madrid today I don't know how sort of solid that is, but they do feel like sort of a match made in heaven.

4:54Yeah. So, Charleston, Atletico Madrid. Yeah, a little bit. Charleston, Diego Simeone. Just imagine. Yeah. I'm struggling with that one. Felipe? I don't know about that. And especially, and if you're Julian Alvarez and you're like, I just, I want out of here, but they don't let you leave. And then they're like, but we're going to bring in another striker anyway. Or Rashadison. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how. I feel like Simeone just doesn't know what he wants to do at the ninth position. if he's considering Richarlison. All right. They don't feel like great financials for Everton, by the way. If they do get Richarlison for 35, and N 'Jai in this mad market goes for 60 to Spurs.

5:34That's low. I think so. Yeah, I would agree. Although some people say that N 'Jai, although he looks great, doesn't actually produce the numbers in the final third. I think that's probably fair. I mean, he's brilliant to watch. Every time you watch Everton, he's invariably the player who stands out the most because he's so good. He's such a fantastic dribbler and carrier of the ball. But his stats are pretty underwhelming. And Tottenham appear to have already cornered the market in attacking players who look good on paper but aren't. And yeah, I guess they figured they needed one more. I will quickly counter that and say, if you're laying chances on a plate for Beto and Barry, last season's Barry, no, not Barry 2.0, then that's going to happen.

6:18All right. Okay. Oh, many thanks to everyone who's joining us for the live experience and indeed put up with a significant delay because technology to the start of the show. We'd ask for your suggestions for best transfer of the season, of this summer transfer market. Hackney in at Everton for less than 20 million looks great businesses. Billy Zakiri. Lots of people like Laughing Man mentioning Konstantinos Solakis, or I should be Solakis, as I like to call him, who looks like a steal at 20 million after only two games. So, so true. Having that wonderful start with Hull. Callum says, although he's only young, I think Ayub Bouadi is going to go down as a great piece of business.

7:04And Ben Young, one more just for now, but keep on flying in, says Nico Gonzalez is a plug-and-play top-quality midfielder who would fit into most teams' first XI. Decent shouts. Yeah, all very decent shouts. Tim, you're going to do a piece, no doubt, trawling through these comments, of who won the transfer market type thing come 11.05 on Tuesday evening. Yeah, we did this for the first time a year ago, ranking every transfer in the Premier League of the entire windows, 155 of them last year, and putting them, you know. 155? Yeah, from worst to best. I think it's probably going to be more this year.

7:42Yes, back by unpopular demand. I mean, the great thing about it was that everyone just agreed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the comments, just thumbs up one after the other. I didn't read the comments. That was the assumption that I made. Incredible. How does he do it? Okay. Felipe, what's your favourite transfer so far? I mean, not to sound biased, I think we'll get to my feelings about Aston Villa at some point on the show, but I still think Johan Manzabi is a really, really good signing. I know he came in injured, but we saw what he can do at the World Cup. He's a young player, very dynamic, certainly the type of winger and attacking player that Villa needs.

8:20So I'm still excited about him. I think he's a great signing. Excellent. Excellent. All right. Well, it has been Sunday afternoon with an absolutely terrific match at Old Trafford Man United. Bouncing back from their week one defeat to Hull with a thumping win over, was thumping perhaps a little bit fortuitous win over Ipswich. Let's get into that game. And first of all, a quick run through of the results so far this weekend. On Friday, Man City won 4-1 at Sellers Park against Crystal Palace. Ryan Scherke starting the game and starring with a spectacular brace in that. Erling Holland with a pair of goals as well.

8:57He's now got 10 goals in six appearances against the Eagles. Ooh. Saturday saw Liverpool draw 2-2 again, this time at home to Forest. A late, late James Tarkovsky strike earned Everton a point away at Bournemouth. Hull got their second straight win with a late goal at Coventry. And Newcastle won 2-0 at Spurs. Spurs, you recall, top of the spending charts. £300 million plus spent, bottom of the Premier League table and yet to score a goal. Sunday in the two o 'clock, Chelsea continued their hugely entertaining start. They had that 3-2 win at Fulham on Monday, 4-3 this Sunday at home to Brighton.

9:34There were no goals and no shots on target for Fulham as they lost 1-0 away to Sunderland. At Ellen Road, Leeds drew 1-1 with Brentford with one of the goals of the weekend from Kevin Sharder. And as mentioned, Man United 5-2 winners at home to Ipswich. Bruno Fernandes, how many did he end up with? Four? Three and one assist. Three and one assist. Villa Arsenal is on Monday night. We've got lots to talk about from all of that. We're going to begin at Old Trafford. Man United 5, Ipswich 2, Brennan Fernandes with a hat trick. Tim, how back are United? It's a good question. Sort of at 1-0 down, you could really feel the pressure, like the rain clouds which eventually came.

10:30you could see them sort of looming over over Carrick's head because having lost to Hull you know 2-0 the week before so then it'd be 1-0 down to Ipswich the question box would really sort of be raised about Carrick however they come back and win 5-2 but in this sort of like bizarre mad cap kind of will never be repeated kind of way so it's hard to judge because their first four goals one was from a Gerrard-esque slip which lets them in for 1-0 One was from an utterly mad decision, which we'll get into in a second. One was a penalty. And then the fourth goal was a block and two deflections before it forced to Fernandes.

11:07They were all like sort of slapstick sort of goals. But United went off for the opportunity by Ipswich because they were offered the opportunity. Hull last week, very disciplined, really sort of ground out that victory. Ipswich, a little bit, they're fun, but a little bit too attack-minded and a little bit too open. But once offered that opportunity by it, they looked electric with Fernandes sort of pulling the strings and Buma and Rashford and Cunha sort of running off him. It looked pretty exciting and pretty enthralling. But until things settle down and we know how good or bad X-Wich are, you know, how good or bad man United are, it's difficult to judge whether they're back, Jimbo.

11:43It doesn't quite answer your question. So they're sort of back for now, but with a little asterisk. OK, but it's significantly better than last week and probably significantly better than the first half performance. So they were very much involved in that as well. Tell us about the, I can't remember quite how you described it, but the bizarre, extraordinary, et cetera, Harry Maguire goal. So it's one all and United have sort of started to step things up. Mbumo's just missed, well, one of the worst misses of the entire season. He's missed from a two-yard open goal on the volley. And you wonder if it's going to be sort of one of those afternoons.

12:18But then it was a very sort of 1990s Old Trafford decision. but VAR still sort of lets it through. Maguire blocks the ball just outside the box with one or both of his hands, sort of puts his hands up like that. His arm? Yeah, but it's a very clear handball either way. But then the ball sort of drops at his feet. He takes a couple of touches, has a shot and scores. Looks like obvious handball. He still celebrates. I'm like, why are you celebrating? This is going to be ruled out. However, because the shot of Maguire's was so bad because it was heading off target, it was deflected in for an own goal.

12:54So the rule then becomes, because he didn't score the goal himself, the handball is irrelevant because time continued after his handball. So normally goal scorer scores, immediately after a handball is ruled out, but this time he didn't score the goal. Okay. The Athletic keeps a referee expert in a cupboard, I think, and they open the cupboard to check. And I think the refereeing experts said that They thought even if it hadn't been an own goal, it would have stood because there was still ample time for Ipswich to intervene before he got the shot away and that it was an accidental handball. I'm not so sure.

13:33I'm not so sure. Does anybody else have... It's insanity. Just to rule a goal out because the shot was bad, effectively, doesn't feel like a very sort of water-type process. Right, to let a goal stand. To not rule it out. Yeah, well... When the rule was tweaked, which was, what, a year ago, a couple of years ago, to mean that if the handball was committed by a player other than the goal scorer, the goal would be allowed to stand. It opened the door to peculiar situations such as this one. Every time they tweak it, it seems to open up a whole new can of handball worms. had that goal not been given do you think it would have a material impact on the destination of the three points?

14:20No, probably not. Not the way that Fernandes was playing not the way that Ipswich were defending. I think it was the first goal. Right. OK. Like the United equaliser which was a complete fluke and as Tim was saying reminiscent of the Steven Gerrard slip at that point Ipswich and not only a goal up with five minutes to play until halftime, but they'd been threatening. Prior to opening the scoring, Julio Enciso runs through in that counter-attack and shoots straight at Senna Lamans, and they were on the attack. They had almost all their players in the penalty area when Marcelino Nunez slips over.

14:59And without that, it was hard to see United equalising, because they hadn't made that many chances. That's the moment that changes the entire game, and then you get the double whammy of the Maguire business. And yeah, from that point on, I don't think there was any way back. Okay. A couple other things I wanted to mention. One, the Bruno Fernandes attempt from within his own half. So the guy scores a hat trick and kind of like Pelé, you end up talking about something that he didn't score, which is this shot from the halfway line. Yeah, right from one of the kickoffs. Amazing sort of improvisation.

15:33And also another amazing thing he did was the assist for Mbumo's goal. So it's like gorgeous, like sand wedge pass over the top. And for all that we're talking about, Bruno Fernandes, a hat trick, looks like he could be the man for this season. The way that he's always, I guess he's been being for a while, but you felt that if they could sort the team out, he could really come into an ascendancy. Maybe this is the year, but for all that we're talking about him, Kobe Mainu, how important was he today? Yeah, I think with the ball, he played very well. Well, he was responsible for the pass through to Matthias Cunha in the build-up to United's third goal on the hour.

16:14Cunha gets in behind Jacob Grieves, who's just scored the own goal. Grieves scythes him down. Fernandes makes it 3-1 from the penalty spot. And, you know, that was the moment when United put the game to bed. And he did some really interesting things with the board. You saw the occasions of, you know, quick passing combinations, little triangles with him and Telemans and Bruno Fernandes. I think without the ball is the issue. And Ipswich's danger man throughout today was in CISO, operating in that number 10 role just off Emerson. And United really struggled to shut him down. And I think that the configuration of the midfield remains an issue.

16:50We know that if you put Bruno Fernandes in the number 10 role and he feels he has the confidence to attack, he can do incredible things. He did it the whole way through last season. He did it today. But the Tielemans-Menu double pivot, But is it, you know, kind of, does it have a kind of a destructive enough component to prevent players like Nciso from wreaking havoc? It'd be interesting to see how Carlos Baleba fits into all that. And yes, and not to point the finger directly at Manu, but I think the freedom that Nciso enjoyed suggests that that's something that Michael Carrick might need to look at again.

17:23Nothing new. Two years ago, Gary O 'Neill's first match as Wolves manager was away at Old Trafford. and he selected runners from sort of midfield and attacking midfield and just ran at United because of his yawning gaps in front of the defence. Same thing today, really. But Ipswich, just to warn them, they did look really fun. Like Tom mentions in Cesar, who was great, but also like Fatou and Maeda, either side, and Emerson up front. He's basically playing four attackers. But they were just a little bit too fun. Too fun. So it's like Neil Warnock would say, you know, you need to enjoy it, but by being disciplined.

17:57And they just weren't. Like a Tory backbencher, enjoy it by being disciplined. Indeed. Felipe, by the way, while we're rabbiting on, if you wanted to throw something in, just wave your hand because you're a long way away there. I'll do that next time. I do have one thing to say about Manchester United. I agree that Bruno Fernandes, world-class, what a performance today. It's hilarious that he tries to score from Hatfield on the tallest goalkeeper in the history of the Premier League. He had it covered, trust me. That's not going in. But I do feel like for Man United to be good, Bruno Fernandes has to be excellent all the time.

18:35There's almost too much responsibility on him, and he's great. But Tom is right. I feel like that midfield, Tealmans, is a great addition, but they don't have somebody who's really covering space, who's really eating up the pitch, and can take on the other team's most dangerous player. You know, if they fill that role, I think this team can be better. But that's something that I saw in the midfield. Off the ball, the Tom's point, they weren't as pacey. They weren't as intense when they were in possession. All right. They were 5-2 winners, though, against Ipswich, or what turned out to be a very rain-sodden afternoon at Old Trafford.

19:12Just to mention quickly, Ipswich's first goal was absolute beauty and kind of got, you know, almost forgotten about by the end of the game because so many things happened. but Fatou, who, as Tim said, had an absolutely brilliant game, had Luke Shaw on toast all afternoon, nutmegs him out on the right flank, drives to the byline, cuts the ball back, and then Leaf Davis, this really impossibly difficult volley, you know, the ball spitting up at him off the greasy surface and adjust his body brilliantly, side foot half volley in off the crossbar, and yeah, a lovely start to what turned out to be a pretty dismal afternoon in the end.

19:51I thought he was one to watch this season. He enjoyed or produced more take-ons than any player in England last year when he was in Leicester's terrible relegated team from the Championship. I think they got him for£20 million, Ipswich. So he's one to watch, I would say, Jim. He might be on your best transfer list as well. Hey, let's move on to some of Sunday's other action. How about at Stamford Bridge where Chelsea took on Brighton? They've got a terrific record there on the King's Road. But not today they didn't. 4-3 they lost against Chelsea. Tim, you watched this one. How back are Chelsea?

20:27Chelsea are fun. Aren't they? Exclamation mark. Yeah. That's 13 goals in their two games so far. Right. 3-2 at Fulham, 4-3 here. But in a very interesting way because Chelsea had 24, well, I've seen conflicting reports, either 25 or 26 % possession. Not a lot of possession. They're lowest in any match for 15 years, Chelsea. Yeah. Not only that, they only completed 146 passes in the entire game, which is the lowest figure home or away that's ever been recorded for a Chelsea match. It's a new direction. It's a counter-revolution, if you will. Yeah, when you imagine that often midfielders can hit sort of 90, 100 passes a game if a team's dominated possession, that is such a low figure.

21:12That number, I cannot believe it, but they say it's true. I can't believe it either, but we're just going to have to go with it. And yeah, well, they only had 38 % possession at Fulham, so this isn't just a one-off game to sort of counter Brighton's passing game. And much like with the Fulham game, this was a match that could have gone another way. Fulham had their chances on Monday. There were chances galore. There were huge opportunities. The Gomez miss in this match for Brighton. But you're right, they are incredibly fun to watch, and that's partly because their front three is clearly having so much fun themselves.

21:47They did have fun. You can really see the freedom that Rodgers and Palmer have been given and then Pedro Neto came in today at wing-back. I don't think he's ever played wing-back in his career. He did a bit in pre-season but this is the first time from the start. He was on one flank and Hayto was on the other and I mean Neto's one of the best pure counter-attackers in the league. That's just what he's very good. Very low centre of gravity, quick acceleration, gets the ball out his feet and can burst into the opposition half and that worked really well. He probably had one of his best games in a Chelsea shirt actually.

22:15And the third goal just sort of epitomised everything Chelsea were doing because they weren't even pressing Brighton. It was really unusual. They were just sort of letting Brighton have the ball and waiting for that misplaced pass and then they pounce and they go and it's Rodgers just outside his own box. He does a lovely little swivelly sashay type thing and then releases Hayto down the left. A few touches later, he's at the other box, drives it across for Ja Pedro. Great finish, 3-0. But they were always vulnerable. Brighton were always in the game it wasn't a 4-3 game they scored with their last touch of the match Brighton, otherwise sort of Chelsea were always slightly in control but they're going to be fun because the defence looks pretty weak as Emiliano Martinez was saying after the game basically the defence needs to be better he said we need to be better at the back basically and there he was making his debut and he announced in the morning and plays in the afternoon that's got to be a shout for signing of the summer I think, at the feed 7.5 million that's like a 1997 goalkeeper price how about Gabriel Jesus for 8.6 million how 90s is that that's £100 ,000 more than it costs Liverpool to sign Stan Collymore from Nottingham Forest in the summer of 1996 which is the British transfer record kids if you can believe it incredible incredible so yeah so new goalkeeper in yeah Robert Sanchez He's not in the squad, which doesn't look great for him.

23:42Not great for him. Possibly a move on the way before Tuesday. Felipe, do come in. I was about to wish us some stuff about how worried Arsenal should be about Chelsea. But tell us your thoughts. 9.95, sorry. Collie Moore. Yeah, well, first of all, I want to address a comment in our chat from Brass Mustache, who is asking, is Felipe real? So, yes, I'm not AI. I'm not an AI robot on the show. I'm an actual human being. So yes, yes, brass mustache. I am real. What's good looking Felipe is. He has to reassure people he's not AI. Felipe, you're on a beach and you see a turtle lying on its back. It's flipping, trying to get itself back upright.

24:28How do you feel? Oh, man, I feel heartbroken. I want to help that turtle, honestly. Yeah, yeah. sorry I'm being a little bit obscure sorry I want to talk about Emi Martinez I mean if you're Xavi Alonso you're a new manager you're at Chelsea the spotlight's there you have all these attacking weapons you've spent a ton of money and yet you're not sure how you're going to do one of the one of the positions that you want to be sure of is goalkeeper and I mean that and Martinez Debo Martinez I think that could to Tom's point that could be one of the signings of the transfer window, a World Cup winner, a proven goalkeeper in the Premier League.

25:09And yeah, they concede three goals today. But if you watch the game and if you go back to week one, two, we're talking about this off the air, the defending so far has not been great. But again, it's because there's so many elite attackers in this league. But Chelsea, if they figure out just how to defend capably and in certain patches of the game and they know they have Emi Martinez in the back, like this team is going to be very good in my opinion they have all the attacking pieces they just cannot go they can't win games for three every weekend but a huge signing for xavi alonso right and xavi alonso is just starting with the the team if this is the way the early results are going then yeah you know there's time to get everything else sorted out yeah especially with the amount of training time they're going to have yeah no european football and i think we have to give chelsea a bit of credit because we've all mercilessly taken the mickey out of them for their woeful and hilarious recruitment for many years now but they've they've they've addressed two things which we've criticized them about and for a long time one the goalkeeper and two lack of experience that's what they've done this summer so um so yeah they look they look like they're going to be once another one to watch Jimbo right one to watch certainly next Sunday because 4 30 who are they going to be playing apparently Arsenal Arsenal so how worried not just next Sunday but in terms of the title how worried should Arsenal be about Chelsea?

26:31I suspect Arsenal probably aren't enormously worried about Chelsea because to win the league you need to be able to attack and defend and so far we've seen lots of evidence that Chelsea can do one but not the other but I mean if Alonso can sort the defence out and we are only two games into the season, that attack looks genuinely frightening slash mouth-watering, depending on your perspective. My sense is that Chelsea will probably be up there. I still think Arsenal have just got a relatively decent-sized margin over the opposition at the moment. Portshot45, I think, is a Chelsea supporter, and he says, Arsenal will batter us.

27:17There you go. Felipe? Yeah, I mean, Tom is right. I don't think Arsenal is looking at Chelsea and thinking, oh boy, this is the team that we really need to be up against. Chelsea can be attacked. They're going to concede goals. And Arsenal are just a collection. They're like the perfect collection of players. at each position, every player on that team knows what they have to do. Every player is technical enough to overperform in their positions. And if they're playing a team that's going to attack them, like Chelsea, if there's one team in the Premier League that trusts their defense, it's Arsenal.

27:55So I think that's a game that Arsenal, not that they're looking past it, but it's not a huge concern for them. All right. We shall see. We shall see. Brighton, last Sunday, they were 4-0 up after 31 minutes. This time around, they were 3-0 down after 32. How life can change so very, very quickly, Tim. Also, they put four goals past Tromso in the Conference League on Thursday. Anyway, would you be unduly concerned if you were Fabian Hurtz-Selar over this game? No, maybe, because, you know, Villa capitulated last week, so that wasn't really a sort of a bright and amazing kind of game either. for Bruggan made a really obvious made a shocking mistake for 1-0 which sort of set the tone right at the start they were just a bit too open really they were just a bit too naive they were sort of leaving 3-on-3 at the back and Chelsea just exploited it so they're obviously just going to have to get used to the Thursday Sunday thing they're not used to it and I'm not sure they've got the squad for it but they'll be fine missing a lot of players today as well thank you Tom yeah Jack Hinshelwoods Jorginho Rutter Minter not involved Mitoma's still out.

29:03So it wasn't peak Brighton. Indeed not. Very good. The other Sunday games, sort of a 1-1 draw between Leeds and Brentford, featuring one of the goals of the weekend. Eh, Felipe? Oh, what a goal. What a goal. The German, Kevin Schade, who was a menace in the first half against Leeds, just a very tricky player. Brentford were so good in the first 25 minutes, first 45 minutes, honestly. If you haven't watched Brentford or you don't watch them on a weekly basis, they are very purposeful in everything that they do. I felt when the game started, it was almost like long ball after long ball. And then that turned into just sort of a mental game against Leeds to make the Leeds defense backpedal any time Brentford were in possession.

29:59And then, you know, listen, Kevin Shade is a player that, like I said, all over that final third could not was it was really unplayable in that half. And then the goal is a wonderful goal. You know, it's it's it's so I don't know if he'll ever score a goal like that ever again. But he clearly meant to do what he was doing, a fizzed cross into the six yard box where he's standing. and he just dips his toe. He puts his toe, points it to the ground, and knows that it's going to spin off in a very unique way towards that back post, and it did, and it was a wonderful goal. It was a well-deserved lead for Brentford, who I thought were really good in that first 45 minutes.

30:37How come they didn't win then? They ran out of gas. They pressed so hard, honestly. They were relentless in that first 45 minutes. Leads were chasing shadows. You could hear it at Ellen Road. The crowd was just moaning and really not impressed with what the team was doing once they had possession. And again, that central midfield for Brentford just completely dominated Leeds. Leeds had no answer for it. But then again, this is what happens when you're at home. I'm sure the Leeds players were given a stern talking to. They come out. They're in front of their home fans. There's some substitutions in the midfield that Harry Wilson and Tanaka I thought were good additions in that central midfield because they had no control in the first half.

31:21And they just had more energy, leads. I think it was a deserved draw, but Brentford clearly the better team. Okay. And you were impressed once again with Sangare, who was such a star last week. He's very good. He's very good. I saw a clip the other day of Wayne Rooney talking about Mamadou Sangare saying, like, how does a player like this not land with Manchester United? The type of player that we were just talking about, that that is the midfield player that Man United probably needs. And he was, again, excellent against Leeds United, a left-footed, tall, lanky, athletic central midfielder. I love that profile.

31:59So polished on the ball. And he wins every second ball. And he can really cover a lot of ground. But he's also just very highly technical, plays two-touch. So he was really good in that first half. I think, again, in the second half, they got a little bit overrun. But still, he was a top player, one of the top performers on the day. One of the top transfers, Tim, for your article. Stick that one in. I've written it down. Yeah, OK. Keep telling people to watch Ligue 1. Ligue 1. They just don't listen. There you go, Wayne Rooney. Watch some French football.

32:31Brentford were ahead. Dominic Cavett-Lewin with the equaliser for Leeds. Tom, the other game Sunday at two o 'clock was Sunderland-Fulham. Sum this one up for us. Yeah, not much to write home about. So Sunderland deserved victors. And Sunderland haven't really changed since last season. It's the same group of players. It's the same coach. They had one summer signing in the starting 11, the right back, Tom Amunier. And they play the same kind of football. They press very aggressively. Granat Xhaka just runs the show when they have possession. They're always looking for that ball into the feet of Brian Brobby.

33:05And yeah, they had the best of pretty much the entire game. but it took a couple of substitutions with about 25 minutes remaining to tip the game in their favour. And as it turned out, it was two of the players who came on, Habib Diara and Wilson Isidor, who combined for the winner. Diara gets in down the right, plays in a low cross. And Bernd Leno in goal for Fulham, kind of suddenly curiously stretched for it with his feet rather than his gloved hands. And he missed it and Isidor taps it in. Fulham are interesting. I didn't catch their game against Chelsea on Monday. This was the first time I'd seen them.

33:44And Alvaro Arbeloa is obviously trying to turn them into a very different kind of team. This big possession focus. The centre-backs go wide when they have possession. The full-backs take up really aggressive high positions on the flanks. Josh King, who scored against Chelsea, was brilliant today in that number 10 role. Sunderland just couldn't get close to him. but sadly it didn't really amount to much. They didn't have a single shot on target. No shots on target. Obviously, Gonzalo Garcia has come in from Real Madrid. He was also on target against Chelsea. You know, great to open his account on the opening day but yeah, they do look a little bit light in attack and yeah, that's two defeats in two games now.

34:27Indeed it is. All right. That was Sunday's action. Next up, let's get on to the other games. Your cities, your Spurs, your Liverpools.

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36:04Yep, City with the win Friday night and a big one as well. Spurs, not so much on... What was that game? Saturday? The Spurs game was Saturday, wasn't it? Saturday, tea time. Liverpool was the lunchtime of game. We'll come into that in a second. But City, first of all, because unlike some teams, like Chelsea, they very much do dominate possession. 72 % they had against Palace. and Ryan Cherky, who'd come on to rescue them in their opening game with a couple of assists, started this one and finished with aplomb. A couple of brilliant goals. Tom and I were having quite a heated debate, quite bitter it became actually, about how good...

36:43It was physical. Yeah. Ryan Cherky's first goal was. What's the debate? Well, all right. Just roll up our sleeves and get at it once again. So I think it essentially boils down to this. We both love the build-up, but Tom doesn't like toe pokes. Yeah, obviously the dribble is sensational, but just before he shoots, Chris Richards, I think it is, tries to tackle him and kind of bumps him and kind of affects his stride pattern. So he looks a little bit stumbly. It didn't strike me that he was fully in control of the ball at that point, but he realises that if he just pokes his foot out, he can just tow the ball into the bottom corner, which he did.

37:25He puts it around the other side of the play. I have an aversion to toe pokes, which is my own thing that I have to live with. It was a great goal. What also, I loved it, but I didn't love the fact that he blanked Paul Phil Foden, who went up begging for a bit of approval for his assist, and he just looked past him and then turned his head the other way and looked past him again. Anyway, that's just Ryan Cherky, I guess. He was doing some plastering, wasn't he? He was doing some stuff. He was doing that. I told you you should pick me and now I've scored. I'm not going to celebrate because I'm in a bit of a marred still.

37:55And to underline it, he scored another worldie. Another nice, another very good goal that was slightly deflected. Tough crowd. A hard man to please. Tom is a hard man to please. There's no bigger Ryan Shecky fan in this room, nay, in this city than I. But, you know, I mean, he was asked about the first goal and he was like, oh yeah. I should say, Tom spent Saturday on match of Zidane, which is, of course, the French Premier League roundup, and it is called Match of the Day. And on that show, naturally, they were discussing Ryan Shecky's performance and indeed had an interview with the great man himself in which he said.

38:31Yeah, so this was the post-match interview that he gave after the game on Friday. And I mean, in a similar vein to what he told Sky Sports, he told us at Canar Plus that he sensed that Mareska was thinking of taking him off, potentially at half time or shortly after. And so we said to him, don't take me off. Give me 10 minutes, honestly, and I'll sort the game out. And it took him nine minutes to score the second goal. When did he do that in the first half? He was easing his way in. Yeah. All right. Fair enough. What a player, by the way. And he only cost City 35 million as part of Lyon's fire sale last season.

39:13Extraordinary. Yeah. We only had one year left on his contract. But yeah, I mean, when you look at some of the prices being spent in this window, that does feel like a bit of a steal. Would you build your team around him? Because you kind of have to, don't you? Felipe? Yeah, I mean, he's a wonderful player. I mean, he's one skillful players in the Premier League. And, you know, I think he comes with some baggage, clearly. I'm sure he was thinking that he kept, he probably kept looking over at the touchline to make sure Maresca didn't like transform into Didier Deschamps. and it was just going to take him off the field and not play him.

39:48But I, of course, would build around Shirky. I mean, the thing is he is, for some people, he might be considered like a luxury player. You know, like is he the type of player that you can really excel in modern football? He's proving that he can, obviously. But is he a 90-minute player? Is he a box-to-box player? That's where this sport is going. It's getting faster, more vertical. I think he has a bit of throwback number 10 qualities which is what I really love about the player but I mean a great performance from him and I think he's one of those reasons why I was watching that game, I watched it closely and I'm like how do people, again full respect to Arsenal but the fact that when I'm watching City the way that they play against Palace Palace is not great but I don't know how you can just hand over the Premier League title to Arsenal I think City is going to be very good.

40:44It was interesting. After the game, Enzo Mareska was asked about Schalke's performance. And the first thing he said was, I was so impressed by all the work he did off the ball. And that was the only thing he really wanted to talk about in relation to Schalke. And this is something that has been an issue with Schalke throughout his career. I spoke to someone who worked with him at Lyon about a year ago. and they were saying that they basically realised that in order to allow Xerchi to play the kind of football he wants to play in his preferred number 10 position, you basically need three other midfielders who are going to do the dog work.

41:21And it took Pep Guardiola quite a long time last season to find a system that he was happy with. It was basically the League Cup final when they beat Arsenal that he settled on a way of getting Xerchi into the starting 11. Enzo Moresca is now at the start of that process himself and yeah clearly when you can get Schiacki on the pitch and when the opposition are as feeble as Palace were he's capable of doing incredible things but there are still those caveats Yeah Tom says feeble it's worth highlighting I mean they had 28 % possession Palace 0.5 xG and one shot on target I know it's City but that's not great for your first time game of the season Sounds like Chelsea's stats but go on Yeah it does yeah but like I don't know you look at that team and you look at like Gay and Lacroix were the senior defenders last year now it's Chris Richards and JD Canvo who's very good but he's 20 years old with Tommy Yasu supporting them at centre back instead of Mateta up front with Ismail Assar in support it's Jürgen Strand-Larsen with Nketiah in support with Pina who's very sort of hit and miss and then they're losing Munoz at wing back you've got McNeil and Gessand as you're attacking bench options I just see I see issues everywhere with Palace they've got Fulham away next week the two of the pointless teams so far and they could both really need with both could really do with a point at least couldn't they Alright let's talk about another pointless team currently the one at the opposite end of the table to Man City and that is Spurs who last weekend of course lost at Brentford this time around they were at home lost to a Newcastle side who sold off three of their best players this summer Spurs by contrast have been buying, well, a wealth, a new side indeed for the team, but 2-0 they lose.

43:13We'll talk about Spurs in a second because, first of all, what a start for Newcastle. Did any of us see this coming? You saw this coming. Oh, I saw this coming. No, sorry, I thought you were going to say that any of us see this. And I'd already put my hand up and then I heard the coming. No, I don't think any of us saw this coming. But I think what we have seen from Newcastle in their first two games I also feel like it's perhaps suited them that they've played two big clubs in their first two fixtures, Liverpool and Spurs, teams who want the ball and who've come on to them. Because I think there is potential for Newcastle to become a really outstanding counterattacking team.

43:51We saw that in the opening game against Liverpool with the manner of the goals they scored. And we saw that again against Tottenham on Saturday evening. they have the players to just breeze through opposition teams very quickly. Antonio Lange has made a great start to the season having gone an entirely campaign without finding the net last season. And they're doing the Thierry Henry celebration at Spurs. It's pretty cold, yeah. And it was Nico Gonzalez making his Newcastle debut who was at the origin of the goal. booms this lovely diagonal pass out to the right wing. Amar Dedic, the new right back, nods the ball down and then Ilangas spins his marker, curls the ball in.

44:38And who did his marker happen to be? Sandro Tonali, who departs shortly afterwards with Newcastle fans' catcalls in his ears. I mean, Newcastle only had two shots on target. The other one was Johan Wisser's second goal. Walter Marder knocks down a corner and Wisser hooks it in. acrobatically but you know that was all it that was all it took so yeah I mean I wonder whether Newcastle will be able to replicate this type of performance against opposition who who don't come on to them and attack them but I mean extremely encouraging when you think about the doom and gloom that there was around the club after the departures or you know so many key players and quite a stark contrast a very stark contrast for those two players Alanga and Visser their form in these opening two games against last season.

45:26Not only says a lot for the new guy, but also a little bit for the last manager, I think, and just sort of, you know, adds to the impression, which, you know, I thought he was sort of gone a bit stale there last season. I'm not just saying it now. And I think it sort of adds to the feeling that Newcastle fans had that his time had come and gone, thanks, but see you later. Because both those players were atrocious last season. And, you know, we all said whiffy recruitment. Well, maybe it was the management. Oof. Maybe. All right. Spurs. Spurs. Dublin's Fair City says, Spurs looked the better team until Newcastle scored.

46:00Had quite a few chances to score in the game. I think they will climb the table quickly. Huh. I kind of take issue slightly with the use of the word quickly. Felipe, did you see Spurs-Newcastle? I watched it, yeah. And I agree. I think, again, we were talking offline. Perhaps it's not as bad as it appears. The problem is when you look at the table, they're in last place. It looks horrendous to start. Look at the table, Felipe. Look at the table. Tottenham is at the bottom. And also the fact that the way they lost this game, it's more about how they lost the game. Two goals in 10 minutes tells you everything about how it can fall apart for a team like Tottenham.

46:49And so, again, I think this is a snowball potential situation for Tottenham where the bad vibes continue, but the pieces are there. You expect this team to get a lot better. I think there's questions about De Zerbe. There are always questions about De Zerbe, about whether or not he is the right manager for a top club in England. You know, can his tactics come through in a long season? Can he keep a team in the Champions League spots? I mean, there's so many questions about Tottenham, despite them showing quality at times against Newcastle. And as you say, there's the history, the history of the Tottenham, which weighs on this club.

47:29Full credit to the stadium PA pre-game, before this opening home match of the season, who decided to counter the bad vibes by launching on, I don't know why I'm laughing, by launching on this extraordinary soliloquy. We've spent and we've spent, we're back, we're going places. He boomed to the crowd there at the stadium. We're huge. I mean, you can argue they might be going places. And what those places are. In any context, we are huge. We are huge. He does this all the time. And there's a clip which often does the rounds of an Arsenal game when Arsenal are going for the title. And he's like, they're nervous.

48:06They're coming here. We've got this, lads, and all this kind of stuff. But he's been doing it for a few years. And he really does whip the crowd up. He's really good at it. he's obviously pre-prepared impassioned speech right down the face of the camera it gets everyone going no doubt about that I think the fans like him and it's but obviously but it looks stupid and they lose at home every week yeah well and on that there's been a stat going around which is not quite true but it's very nearly true the actual correct version of it is that they have lost 49 league games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium when did they move to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium?

48:4318, 17 19, wasn't it? 49 games they've lost at home in the league That is only one fewer than Arsenal have lost at the Emirates Arsenal, who moved into the Emirates 13 years before Spurs entered their new stadium Yeah, they're the gift that keeps on giving We have to point out, Spurs fans will be shouting at their screen slash whatever they're listening or watching this on Taking their headphones out, shouting at them putting them back in. That's what they'll be doing and they'll be saying, look guys, we had Tell at left wing and Poirot at right wing. This may never happen again. This was a makeshift attack.

49:22I would counter that and say I'd rather have seen Mikey Moore start or maybe Solanke in the middle and Marmouche on the left because it was just a very vertical attack. Everyone was vertical either playing the ball vertically or dribbling. You had Fernandes in the 10, he doesn't play there. I just wonder as a slight aside, they spent all this money and brought all this, but does Zerbi not want to take what they had, which wasn't bad, add a few players and coach them? I thought that was his whole thing. He makes players better. Are they not just trying to change too much here? I saw some small green shoots of recovery for Spurs.

49:55In the first off in particular, there were a couple of sequences where they were trying to build the play up from the back. They managed to play their way through Newcastle's press and in four or five passes, they got to the edge of the Newcastle box. That is what the Zerbi ball looks like. We saw it at Brighton. It took him time to coach that into his players at Brighton. He will need that time at Tottenham and arguably even more time because he's got so many new players to work with who are unfamiliar to each other and unfamiliar with his football. But I think there is a guiding line. There are principles that he's trying to impart.

50:33I suspect Tottenham will probably have a pretty wretched first half of the season. But if De Zerbi's given enough time, I can see them at some point, you know, clicking and, you know, finishing mid-table or maybe top 10. I think he gets sacked, honestly. Really? I think everything that you're saying, Tom, is spot on. The question is, how much patience is there going to be for this coach, for any manager at this point under Tottenham that starts 0-2 and has all these issues and all these players and all the money spent and the type of intricate tactics that have to work in order for his teams to play well?

51:17I would not be surprised if he's one of the first managers to go and then Tottenham is going to have to figure it out. They'll probably throw anything at Marisa Pochettino again and try to get him back. Highest paid manager in the world, I think. Certainly in the Premier League. I think the stat was in the world. But, ooh, Moschling04 says Villa have won more at Tottenham Stadium than Spurs over the last 12 months. Can't confirm that. But it could be. Sounds true. Sounds true. Anyway, Spurs will be at Forest next Saturday. Probably with new players as well. although as Roberto De Zobis says you can't buy mentality you can coach it though I think can't you?

51:59Anyway that's a question for another day because we need to talk about Liverpool's clash with Forrest which happened Saturday lunchtime so this is two 2-2 draws in a row for Liverpool because Andoni Arreola's there and he's such a mensch and he did have a slow start with Bournemouth, but then it all came so very, very good. I was kind of feeling, well, maybe we just give him the benefit of the doubt, leave Liverpool for a month or two and then check back in and everything will be fine. But, Tom, I think you were saying to me, no, there are serious issues in this team that he can't get around with his coaching.

52:37I mean, we know why Irola has got the job. We saw what he did with Bournemouth. If he can do what he did at Bournemouth at Liverpool, he will be a success. and there's certainly a great desire, I think, at Liverpool to see the sort of football that he was hired to bring to Anfield. But I think an issue they have is, and we saw this against Newcastle on the opening weekend, we saw this again against Forrest, it's too easy to attack them. It's too easy to get through their midfield and get running at their defence. You know, Forrest's opening goal yesterday, big booming ball from Matt Sells. And, you know, Liverpool's back, Forrest's back.

53:11And in fact, Liverpool's defensive line, as the ball is sailing through the air, was all over the place. Virgil van Dijk, who should be the guy who's kind of, you know, showing his teammates what the line is, is kind of five yards in front of every other player and then spends the rest of the game doing his kind of endlessly backing off thing. I think van Dijk, I mean, you know, we've talked about his declining form quite a lot on the pod. But I think that could be problematic for what Irola is trying to achieve because so much of it depends on having a defence that is comfortable playing in a high line.

53:48I don't think Van Dijk is comfortable playing that far from his goal anymore. And I think there's the thing, you know, I get the impression that him kind of backing up, retreating endlessly from attacking players because he's so afraid of being dribbled past. He doesn't back himself anymore in the way he used to be able to, to outpace every opposition forward that he might come up against. And you're bedding in a brand new centre-back alongside him in Jeremy Jacquet. So I think, yeah, I think that's an issue. And, yeah, I mean, it could make it a lot harder for Irohola to try and introduce the football he's trying to introduce because that high line and that, you know, that very compact way of moving up and down the pitch together is so key.

54:30there were some positives to Liverpool Victor Munoz was one of them came on against Newcastle won the penalty started against Forest very bright ends up scoring in the equaliser from a lovely Florian Wurz pass he was pretty lively as well so there are encouraging signs but defensively they're still big issues It feels a bit of a concern though if you have a player like that rescuing the team in the first two weeks he can't do that I imagine every week Tim, sorry You have to say they're easy to attack and the manager's got to take, I know he's only new, but he's got to take his share of the blame because they've only got two defensive-minded players on the pitch, really.

55:07You've got Frimpong and Kerkes, two really attacking full-backs. Your midfield two is Sabozlay and McAllister. That doesn't exactly scream, you know, defensive stability. Gravenberg was on the bench. I'm not sure why. So it's fine spending 120 million on French attackers, but it's the, I don't know why I said French. No, no, no. But, you know, it's misplaced, I think. French. Fancy men. Yeah, fancy dance. What about selling Cody Gakpo to City? Does that make sense for Liverpool? Does it make sense for City? Felipe. I'm sure Julian Alarez is like, what? How does he get to go? You know, I mean, it probably makes a lot of sense for City.

55:48City has never been shy about just adding more quality to their side, spending more money, getting as many players, as many good players as possible. Gakpo is a very good player. You sort of do wonder if Isak and Gakpo were ever compatible at Liverpool. Perhaps now we know the answer to that. But yeah, it will be a big move. I wonder where Tim will put it in his ranking if it goes down. But it is certainly newsworthy. Gakpo did assist Isak in this game. So I don't know. It feels a curious move. I think one issue. I mean, Bradley Bakola is coming in from PSG. He can play on the right. His preferred position is on the left.

56:32Liverpool have just got too many players who want to play in that role. And almost no one who's happy to play on the right. Gakpo ends up playing there against Forest and sets up the goal. But that is not a position that he will enjoy playing in. So, yeah, I guess making sure that there are opportunities for Rio and Gamoa is probably a big factor in this as well. You've got a superstar player coming in who plays in that role, but as well, you've got this monumentally exciting teenager who's shown that he can perform at this level coming up as well. So I guess, you know, there's just, there's no need for a massive stockpiling of that particular kind of player.

57:14All right, fair enough. Forrest, who scored twice, of course, had the lead twice in this game. Let's see, the second time had Lim de Lappe playing a key role in this with a throw-in, as is the family tradition. Not a long one, but a quick one. Who got the first goal for them? Oh, that was in Doi with his first goal since the opening weekend of last season. But we should, we mentioned Victor Munoz scoring the equaliser for Anfield, but that was one of the goals of this weekend, was it not? Do you remember? He threw in his spins. Yeah, it was a very nice little spin and shot. Apparently, he didn't complete any of his five dribbles.

57:57Oh, really? A shocking statistic. But he looked pretty punchy. Yeah, he's going to add something. All right. Are we as outraged as Andoni Arreola about the boards that are used to signal the egress and ingress of players to a Premier League pitch? It's just a bit of a weird sort of analogue type thing in a digital world where, you know, you've got goal line technology, you know, that can measure things within like a millimetre and semi-automated offside among similar lines. And you're having to input substitutions one by one. So the way you put them, is it like when you adjust the clock on your oven that you have to go through 24 hours to get...

58:34Wind it all the way around again. You have to go all the way around. I believe it's something like that. It feels that way. Because it does take a while. Two or three minutes to get, according to your eye, Ola. But anyway... And apparently they weren't working. That was the problem. There was some kind of fault. I mean, as a side note, great to have a brand new kind of controversy. I can't imagine, I'm sure they must have done at some point, but the fourth official's board being the issue, being the main talking point, and now it's had its moment in the sun. And it continues because Graham Scott, the athletics refereeing expert, former referee himself, has tweeted recently to say this saga continues, there is breaking news.

59:08He's looked into it. He says, I've got the quote here, subs boards are not fit for purpose. Each number has to be entered manually, and they only count up one at a time. Entering number 38 on its own could take several seconds. And there are six numbers to plug in here. But there's more since then. Graham Scott has tweeted in the last hour. Oh, really? Oh, my God. And he says the row rumbles on. The Premier League has pointed out to me that clubs are responsible for inputting the numbers, not the fourth official. So why was the fourth official doing that yesterday? And why did Nero Yolo blame him?

59:41Actually, the clubs have to go over there and put the numbers into the board and then give it to the fourth official. According to the Premier League via Graham Scott, Wow. This could blow wide open. Guess we're going to have to keep an eye on Boardgate. Let's next catch up on, oh, I think only two other games that have taken place so far this weekend. Stick around for those.

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1:02:49There'll be loads of chat about all of that and transfer stuff. Yeah. We had Raphael Honigstein in last Friday? Yeah. And we recorded a special Totally Extra on a game which took place 25 years ago on Monday. 1st of September. Do you know what that was, Tim? 25 years ago? 2001. 21st of September, 2001. Little game in Munich. Svenja and Eriksson. How was it? It was 5-1. Or 5-1, as I say. But anyway, yeah, it was Sven and England's great day there in Bavaria. And, yeah, we had a little look back at that with Rafa and Duncan. It was great fun. Lovely stuff. Wolves are second in the championship Tim waiting an hour it's the main business of the day how many rounds are you in?

1:03:46three rounds Charlton the top Nathan Jones Charlton Nathan Jones redemption arc so there you go we won't jinx it by saying too much about that but nice to see them there potentially in line for Well, it's West Ham Wolves Tuesday night. There's a lack of sort of Premier League or Champions League matches. So if people want to dip into the championship to see Nuno, under fire Nuno, West Ham winless, take on Wolves on Tuesday night, then yeah, I'd advise you to do so. Let's talk about something happier like Hull and their amazing start to the season. It's two straight wins now. The latest one came Saturday afternoon.

1:04:27Could see if Liam Miller's goal came off the bench and grabbed three points. for the Tigers away at Coventry. They are only the fourth promoted team in Premier League history to win their first two games. Can you name the other three? Newcastle? I mean, I don't know, actually, because the only one I've got written down is Hull, because they did it before. But it's not. I would have said Phil Brown's Hull, but no, not Phil Brown's Hull. Mike Phelan's Hull. Mike Phelan's Hull, yeah. I've forgotten about the existence in some Mike Phelan's Hull. So, I mean, shame on me. Never. Yeah. Konstantinos Solakis.

1:05:13Big thumbs up. Oh, sorry. I thought you were still reading comments. No. No, no. The Hull goalkeeper. Yeah, yeah. Got you. Excellent. Frank Lampard's commentary still waiting for their first point and their first goal. They face Man City next weekend. Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. Oh, one thing about this game. It was Coventry's first match back in the top flight in 25 years. There were empty seats all over the place. Did people not know? I don't know. Curious, though. I mean, it's something you so rarely see in a Premier League match. Yeah, I don't understand. Traditionally, they've always fallen a little bit short at the what's-a-majigger, the Rico Arena slash whatever it's called now.

1:05:56And they've obviously had sort of stadium moves over the years and maybe a lot of fans have sort of left the club in protest at previous ownership, et cetera. But towards the end of last season, they were selling out week after week when they were getting promoted. So I don't understand. The commentator on whatever I was watching it on suggested it's because it's still the holiday season. But I'm not sure about that. Is that a fair excuse? There is apparently disquiet over ticket prices and some kind of ticket sale or ticket exchange platform. So it was a protest? I don't know if it was a protest, but there have been rumblings.

1:06:30but I mean still after 25 years away anyway. I think they know the reality. I think they know Coventry City probably the fans know what this season is going to be like. It's going to be a quick drop back to the championship. I don't think Frank Lampard I don't think Frank Lampard will ever have the success that he had as a player as a manager in this league. It's just too difficult for him. I mean that would be a very high bar. He was such a successful player. However I do know to your point that he, in his last 19 games as a Premier League manager, how many has he won? I'll guess four. Four for Philippe?

1:07:15One. One is correct. It is one in 19. But, you know. But their recruitment looks really bad. You know, they got Awaniyi from Forest. He's like their fourth choice striker. They got Lowne Chuauna from Burnley who I thought were really poor last season. They've got Ethan Pinnock from Brentford. They're just signing cast-offs, basically. You look at Ipswich's exciting recruitment. You look at what Sunderland did last year. Coventry was sort of way off that level. Lampard said they just weren't attacking with the aggression they did last season. But that just invites mid - and low-range Premier League teams just to have a low block against them.

1:07:51Early doors, though. Let's see. Bournemouth drew 1-1 with Everton. how it would be a question I guess that Bournemouth must have been asking themselves ever since that game finished around five o 'clock on Saturday because they were all over the Toffees and yet somehow James Tarkovsky leapt up at the, well, in time added on to snatch a point. I mean, Bournemouth were largely in control throughout Everton were playing on the counter-attack and then Bournemouth scored their goal from the counter-attack shortly before half-time Really nicely worked goal, comparable to the goal that they scored at Manchester City in the opening weekend.

1:08:30And then it was Ryan playing the ball wide to Evan Nielsen. On this occasion, he picked that Alex Scott on the edge of the box and he drilled a shot bottom left. And then Bournemouth were in control second half and kind of managed to shut the game down, but didn't go on and get the second goal and weren't all that threatening themselves. And then they basically, you know, there was a tangle in Everton corner. There's a couple of players, it was Marcus Tavernier and someone else who both went for the same ball. Ball lands the Tarkovsky who momentarily transforms into like peak Dixie Dean and scores the sweetest little half-volley on the turn.

1:09:06And yeah, Everton snatch a point to remain unbeaten and yeah, more frustration for the Cherries. There you go. Alex Scott with the other goal. That might well be his final appearance for Bournemouth. Chelsea maybe, is this right Tim? In for him if Enzo Fernandes hits to Manchester City? I thought the Enzo Fernandes deadline was missed. Well, the Chelsea deadline was missed. Well, I guess there's a lot of things that could happen. I'm not saying they should, but they could happen between now and 11 o 'clock on Tuesday evening. A lot of things concerning Everton as well. We'll see how everybody shapes up when they line up again in a week's time, but that is the state of play on this Sunday with one game to go in match day two.

1:09:59Arsenal's clash with Aston Villa, which should be a lot of fun. Felipe, what are you up to this week? Well, I'm looking forward to Aston Villa, Arsenal, obviously, as far as what I have to do this week. I don't know yet, Jim. It's still sort of a strange time. I feel like I'm still in post-World cup mode i still expect to be doing something related to to international football but uh it's been fun it's been good to to get back into the prem and and obviously i'm very excited about the villa arsenal game charlie our producer charlie is there he reminded me that i was at the game last year okay uh at villa park when me when ds scored in the 91 95th minute so I was there and that essentially solidified my fandom for Brass and Villa so yeah Villa till I die I guess is the new is my new catchphrase all right excellent and it is a good catchphrase as well and you're not concerned about the absolutely rubbish start that they made last week yes I'm very I'm very concerned yes I'm very concerned and I'm concerned with the timing of this game now they've made several signings the signings in a matter of days the number of signs that Aston Villa has made has been pretty, I don't know if the award is impressive because you just have to wait to see how these players are going to fit in.

1:11:23I'm very excited about Ibrahim Mbaye. I think he's a very good player, a young player. They need those types of players in the squad. I'm not that excited about Nicholas Jackson potentially leading the line against Arsenal. But Unai Emery has something that other managers don't. And he has a formula for beating Arsenal. that sometimes he finds. And I think that's what Villa fans are probably hoping happens. Okay. We'll find out on Monday evening. Super. I hope you enjoy the game, Felipe. I hope you're a Villa fan for many, many years to come as well. Tim, thank you for being with us. Look forward to catching up with you again soon.

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