Ep 2.231: North London Postmortem, Spurs/Liverpool Preview + Orlando City's Spite-Fueled Success

Sam's Army

Samuel Army

Soccer, Sports

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

HEADLINES: Gregg and Gio bury the hatchet, is Julian Nagelsmann's Germany among the favorites for Euro24 and a battle of soccer's good guys as Stan Kroenke and Gianni Infantino square up

WHAT IF: if Norway had qualified for WC23, how far would they have needed to go in the tournament and how many goals would Haaland have needed to score in order to win the Balon d'Or over Messi?

PREMIER LEAGUE: what we learned about Spurs and Arsenal in the latest North London Daerby; where Chelsea fit among the pantheon of clubs that neutrals love to see struggle; is Newcastle's decimation of Sheffield Utd a symptom of a larger trend and a look at games coming up this weekend featuring a unanimous(!) prediction about Liverpool at Spurs on Saturday

ROUND THE WORLD: MLS Hit-It-N-Quit-It Minute is so back including an unexpectedly detailed discussion of what is driving Orlando City's silent-but-deadly late season push, a massssssive hot take about Houston vs Miami in this week's US Open Cup final and observations from Champions League's matchday 1

STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

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0:00.0	All right, boys and girls, welcome back to Sam's Army episode 2.231.
0:10.0	And we got a lot to talk about this week. We're going to start out with headlines when we talk in US men's national team.
0:16.0	Nagelsman and Kronki versus FIFA weekly, what if is Norway and Holland related.
0:22.0	Primarily, we got to talk a little bit about the North London Derby, of course.
0:26.0	Sheffield United's shellacking, and then of course Liverpool and Tottenham coming up this weekend.
0:31.0	So we'll take a look at that. We got a good panel for this discussion, by the way.
0:34.0	We'll get to that in a minute. Round the world, we got MLS hidden, quit it in a minute.
0:38.0	If the minute man is ready, willing, and able, which I think he was born that way.
0:43.0	US Open Cup finals preview, and then we'll maybe take some offer some thoughts on the Champions League match day number one.
0:51.0	And finally, Savage Time with Ivan Tony's best bets, and everyone's favorite segment, Goa's.
0:56.0	Now it is time to welcome in this week's distinguished, distinguished, very distinguished panel of beauties.
1:03.0	First up, we have the lovely, quaffed Tyler Terrence, who I think I'll speak for the group here,
1:10.0	and say that your presence and capacity to lose your shit at the drop of the hat has been sorely missed, is great to have you back.
1:17.0	What have you been up to?
1:20.0	Losing my shit elsewhere, just not here.
1:25.0	Have you been traveling a lot for work, or you just been, you know, lasing around the new New Jersey area, I guess is where you're at right now?
1:34.0	Well, a combination of the two. I had two NYCFC games in rapid succession, as well as a wedding up in Saratoga Springs.
1:40.0	So I've just been living in every commentator's dream, calling soccer, soccer games out in the middle of an outfield on a baseball stadium,
1:47.0	whether it be Yankees stadium or city field, depending on the night, and not looking at the game, looking at the monitor,
1:52.0	because the game's going on 400 feet away.
1:57.0	Fair enough, fair enough, it sounds like you've had quite a time.
2:01.0	Next up, we got Resident Tweedle for the week, Tommy McGunner.
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