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today. Hello

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and welcome to the 2 Robies

0:42

podcast, your destination for in-depth discussion

0:44

and analysis of the Premier

0:47

League. I'm Robbie Musfaux. This is Robbie

0:49

Earle. And of course, this is a

0:51

very special podcast and Nashville special. Of

0:53

course, we're away on our FanFest, our 10th FanFest this

0:56

season. And just a few numbers for you. FanFest

0:59

The Attendants, Saturday, nearly 9,000 people

1:01

is a one day record and a total of 15,624 people

1:04

is the highest ever two day attendance. So

1:09

we'll get to the big games. Yeah,

1:12

we've got a few fanstating with us as well. Very

1:14

nice of them. But let's start with Nashville. Let's start

1:16

with Nashville because this is my first visit to Nashville.

1:19

We had a Premier League concert on Friday night and met

1:22

a couple of local people and I said,

1:24

what can I expect? And they said,

1:26

this is a bit like Las Vegas.

1:28

It'll be lively. And they said they

1:31

will kill us with kindness. Let

1:33

me tell you, I've been killed because this town has been

1:35

really kind. I just just took

1:37

me by huge surprise. First time

1:40

here as well. I just couldn't

1:42

get over the energy and the amount of people.

1:44

This is just a regular a regular weekend in

1:46

Nashville. I mean, so many parties

1:48

in the bachelorette parties on the little bikes

1:50

going around and and so many pubs and

1:52

clubs. And the music, of course, is

1:55

the biggest surprise to me, given that you

1:57

walk down Broadway. Oh, there's a pub. There's

1:59

music. There's a band playing a

2:01

guy again and again and again and again on

2:03

different levels in different buildings So that side of

2:05

things is impressed me, but also the actual fan

2:08

fest and the people the fans. I feel like

2:11

Bigger better continue to think that yeah

2:14

It's such a it's such a nice experience for

2:16

us to come to these cities and see how

2:18

Americans have embraced a Premier League And it's a

2:21

newness as an enthusiasm and excitement about the fans

2:23

that we love. There's no animosity There's no nastiness

2:25

and it was evident here again. Yeah, so I

2:27

was really good. Yeah, really great great representation of

2:30

now let's get to the football my friend because it was

2:32

a It was

2:35

a big weekend and the big three teams all

2:37

played now who were vying for this title Let's

2:40

start with the early game crystal palace V

2:42

Manchester City now sell his place Paul can

2:44

be that good place to go Especially when

2:46

Manchester when crystal palace go one of the

2:48

couple minutes with the Mateta getting the goal

2:51

Well you talked about something Robin I

2:53

want you to explain why you said when

2:55

man city get in trouble they can find

2:57

a way to go through gears Yeah, I

2:59

almost feel like this game

3:01

on others and other of those big three

3:03

teams that I mean I don't know if this

3:05

is maybe over the top Rob. It's almost like the first

3:08

half of games They don't they

3:10

don't really come to play They'll

3:12

see what happens and maybe they go ahead Oftentimes

3:14

they can see the first goal on city in

3:16

second half But the second 45 minutes is when

3:18

they really come to play as if they're I'm

3:21

sure they're not Changing

3:23

their kind of mentality for 45 minute games,

3:25

but the second half of games you're right

3:27

they there's a noticeable increase in speed of

3:29

the feet of the players the ball moving

3:32

and and just the desire and The

3:34

intensity to get back in the game and they got the

3:36

quality to do it But when you say that is that

3:39

pep Guardiola at half-time getting into

3:41

these players and saying well Do you

3:43

think the group kind of polishes itself does Rodry

3:45

and De Bruyne and people like that get it?

3:48

I get the sense at times that it's pep

3:50

who reminds them of who they are and what

3:52

they're trying to change Do you think peps upset

3:54

that the yeah, I'm time. Yeah, I do and

3:57

I think that's why we see people go out

3:59

and we a whole different attitude, Rob. See

4:01

people trying a little bit harder, putting a little

4:03

bit more speed, they're passing picks up. Yeah, and

4:05

the big players step up. Earl and Harlan scores

4:07

a goal. Kevin Wibron, all of a sudden, plays

4:09

with more intensity, gets in behind, scores, creates a

4:11

goal. And they then show us, yeah, and then

4:13

we have this kind of comparison we make with

4:15

the other big sides out there. Yeah, we have

4:17

to, yeah. And we're trying to kind of gauge

4:19

how they look for the title, and

4:21

what fit all they're in and how fit they are.

4:23

They're pretty much, they haven't got many injuries as they

4:26

rarely do. Just before we

4:28

move on from them, anything different in your

4:30

four, one, see this game, and the ability

4:32

to win games easily. I feel like the

4:35

teams that win games the easiest are the

4:37

best teams. We'll get onto Liverpool. Oh,

4:40

how that went on. But again, anything different in terms

4:42

of how you feel about City? I know you've always

4:44

gone for them. I like the goal for Harlan, because

4:46

I think he's going to be important in the last

4:49

seven games. I like that Pep

4:51

can change things at half time, and I believe

4:53

at the start of the season, mine are still

4:56

winning. I still believe they'll do it this time.

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I changed to Man City given who they signed.

7:02

And I'm going to stick with that. But

7:04

it's going to be close,

7:06

isn't it? I think it's going to

7:08

be close. And at the Arsenal game,

7:10

the 3-0 performance at Brighton, when last

7:12

Sunday Liverpool struggled to beat Brighton, 2-1

7:14

at Anfield, Arsenal made it look easy.

7:16

Right now, the best balanced team in

7:18

the Premier League is Arsenal. They have

7:20

the best attack in scoring goals. They've

7:22

defensively, they've got the best of plenty

7:24

record. 14 clean sheets. When you watch

7:26

with your eyes what Arsenal do, the

7:28

opposition get very, very few looks at

7:30

their goal. Gabriel and

7:32

Saliba are the best centre of that... Fied up. They're

7:34

fired up every game. ...best centre of that partnership in

7:36

the league. Right now, if they'd

7:39

had experience, if they'd had a couple of

7:42

Premier League titles already, I think you'd be

7:44

saying Arsenal do it again. It's because they

7:46

haven't done it, Rob, in one year. Well,

7:48

well... It's the reason why we keep on going

7:50

there. Or maybe not. Maybe not.

7:52

I Totally agree with everything you just said. And The

7:54

numbers say at the top of the league the goal

7:56

difference. And I Remember some football scientists saying that, as

7:58

I've said, as you many times..., Goal

8:00

difference is actually a better indicator

8:02

of the quality of a team.

8:05

Goal. Difference because you play everybody house

8:07

and who scored most against certain eccentric

8:10

such a hassle to go? Difference is

8:12

way above, so that was a good

8:14

indicator for them as I could indicate

8:16

that there is still a pizza me

8:19

that doesn't know. What? I

8:21

know what. why is why we can cross

8:23

the line. Doesn't know when the defining moments

8:25

com because the last year's kind of memories

8:27

of history's that when those moments com they're

8:29

ready to take it in a domino. The

8:31

some people are happy to know the last

8:33

year that there was a big thing in

8:35

a in the English major have also been

8:37

policy and they pulled it out. I just

8:39

I don't think that we're quite ready to

8:41

smoke wasn't quite good enough. They won't quite

8:43

ready to would have a son away leaving

8:45

them. Adidas don't look ready. But. We

8:48

won't know it. and so in the last four

8:50

or five games when those moments com and that

8:52

behind made in any to go in the last

8:54

five or ten minutes can they do it for

8:56

something. Was gonna

8:59

be fascinating. We won't know until that

9:01

happens to people I think. give me

9:03

the reason and a candidate. One is

9:05

a manager think is Linda from last

9:07

year. I think he's more in control

9:09

of his own emotions. Any looks like

9:11

he's enjoying it and death when Rice's

9:13

existence. My. Second,

9:16

or I suppose security. and

9:19

a personality and and never say die attitude

9:21

that will help also go of of on.

9:24

Before move on yeah you know scored against

9:26

that I try habits I haven't scored against

9:28

that I might I have a smart guy

9:30

have you're not a my bring and off

9:32

because I was always and never saw this

9:34

is the right moves not in any might

9:36

be the man in mind that a man

9:38

to make a different school the goes when

9:40

I looked funny these is in poor mom

9:42

as he scored against Arsenal were were excellent

9:44

were really really good against brought out the

9:46

first you in the race when they're much

9:48

is on Saturday big as huge game on

9:50

Sunday Old Trafford months a crt be Liverpool

9:52

and Manchester United same not just. come off

9:54

the back of a full results against

9:56

chelsea liverpool team schooling for phone with

9:59

in assess I think we all felt

10:01

this is a pretty easy

10:03

Liverpool's straightforward win. It wasn't, was

10:05

it? No, not at all. It

10:08

always amazes me this game, and whenever you

10:10

think you've got a good sense or gut

10:12

feeling about a game, you're often wrong. And

10:15

you've got a credit to Man United, and you gave credit

10:17

to XN Hard on our show, Rob, about how the team

10:19

kind of fight. And to be fair, I said it half

10:21

time. It was when you won Neil Dowell. Yeah, I remember

10:23

that. This team's come from behind many, many times before. It

10:26

was a brilliant game of football, wildly entertaining. The

10:28

technical, analytical part of me saying,

10:30

was it really great? You had the mistake,

10:32

you had the lunge at the end there,

10:34

the marking for the first goal with the

10:36

volleys from inside the box and the set

10:38

piece and Luis Diaz there. But

10:43

it was great entertainment, and fair play to both teams.

10:45

I talked about Kobi Maynu and his goal, the real

10:47

bit of quality in the game. Let

10:49

me ask you a question. I think

10:51

a game like that, we've seen lots of those in

10:53

Man United. It's not a typical game for Liverpool and

10:55

Jurgen Klopp. So the way that Eric Zenharg sets up

10:58

his team, it invites

11:00

that crazy end-to-end, I

11:02

mean, dare I say it, like a schoolboy, a

11:04

kid's playground where we all rush forward and try

11:06

and score, and then they all rush the other

11:08

way and try and score. Was

11:11

Liverpool invited into that, and

11:13

should have they known better, and take that risk?

11:15

Well, possibly. But I thought it was one of

11:17

them games where Liverpool, I think, had 15 shots

11:20

in the first half, Rob. Yeah. It

11:23

didn't take them. It didn't take them. It didn't

11:25

take them. It didn't take them. I

11:28

didn't think Mo Salah was on this game. I thought

11:30

Munez was on one of those where... And

11:32

Luis Diaz gets the goal, but

11:34

Liverpool's strength and Liverpool's kind of

11:36

point of differences, when they're

11:38

at it, that front three are going to score goals.

11:41

They're going to score a ton of goals and they're

11:43

going to outscore people. Today, Rob, they were off and

11:46

if they're just a little bit off that front

11:48

three, something's going to hurt for them.

11:51

An interesting quote that we got handed after the game, Jurgen

11:53

Klopp, we didn't have time to run the interviews afterwards, and

11:55

he's saying... He's

11:57

asked here about Manchester United when they play

11:59

Arsenal. that Old Trafford next May, May the

12:01

11th, it's Man United versus Arsenal

12:04

and he basically said yeah probably if we're

12:06

still around then of course it'd be great

12:08

if Man United can

12:10

be Arsenal. But Arsenal is a good football team,

12:12

if they, Man United, play like

12:14

they did today, they, Arsenal

12:18

will win the game. I'm 100% sure of that. So

12:21

in that he's basically saying that Man United, they

12:23

were kind of open and if they're

12:26

open like that against Arsenal, Arsenal win the... They

12:30

might not allow that craziness to happen and the

12:32

lack of any midfield, it just went from end

12:34

to end. So you don't think Arsenal will let

12:36

that happen? No. And all

12:38

of a sudden Rob, it becomes advantage of Arsenal.

12:41

I mean it was advantage Liverpool at this weekend, there

12:43

were two points clear and we said if they win

12:45

out it's their title. We have to say the same

12:47

now as Arsenal. It's so tight Rob, it's so tight.

12:49

If they win out, if they win out. It's

12:52

one point, yeah if they win out. If they win out. So

12:55

we've got to go seven games, we've got to

12:57

get 21 points which would be 9 points. They've

12:59

got Tottenham, they've got their bitter rivals Tottenham. Is

13:01

that away from home I think Arsenal? First to

13:03

play, I think. I feel like they've got a

13:05

tougher run in the Man City, no question. And

13:08

the last thing I think, and it's my little favour, nobody

13:10

else believes me, but I do think the Champions League games

13:12

for these two top teams at the moment, that

13:14

could have an impact Rob. And I think, I mean... Why

13:17

does nobody agree with... We've seen

13:19

teams after Champions League struggle, they're tired, they've travelled,

13:21

they've had a big game against a Bayern Munich

13:23

or Real Madrid. So you see it's a factor.

13:25

It's Arsenal's time to go for the title. It's

13:28

Arsenal. It's Arsenal. It's Arsenal in Bangor,

13:30

the great Arsenal manger. Listen mate, we

13:32

had a brilliant weekend. That man who

13:34

stayed out with us. Congratulations, thank you.

13:37

What have we can do? We've had a

13:39

united entity, the local chance of going on

13:41

to win a title. A sitting Arsenal coach

13:44

wins, but the true winner has to be Nashville

13:46

mate. Marvellous. What a marvellous

13:48

he hopes he'll kill this with kindness. We'll

13:51

be back in Atruc Kambuk, but for now I'm early. He's

13:53

mostly together with two Robbie's fans to watch him. Yes, and

13:55

then you say, say how. I'm

13:58

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