Hey, L cheaters. Welcome to the iOS cheating podcast. My name is Josh. I'm here with Brandon. Brandon. How are you? Josh, I am on the team sheet this week. Talk to me about your feelings

when you learned that Holland was not going to be on the city team sheet. Now, the tweets go out,

sort of like side eye, who's your vice, who's first on your bench. Yeah. Now, I was surprised to look at your team.

And surprise is not quite the right word, but tell me how strategic it was to put the

vice on Julian Alvarez for you.

Well, it was kind of, I mean, it wasn't a great decision in the end.

I mean, it looks worse because Sala gets two

attacking returns after the 80th minute, right, of the of the palace match. I mean, I thought,

I thought that might be kind of a cagey match, which it was until the red card. And my thinking

was that I wanted whoever was going to be the forward in the in the Man City match.

Then of course, but I just, maybe I just got a little too cute.

It wasn't, you know, honestly, it's a shame because I had a really good game week and I'm up.

And it's sort of colored by the fact that I got, I mean, this is just how this is how the Premier League is, right?

You're not, there's absolutely no requirement to release any injury news or tell anybody how, what the health levels of any of your players. And so every week, you kind of just have no idea who's going to be healthy or not. And so that is, you know, it was a bit of a bummer. And I think, I honestly just thought howlum was going to play, to be quite honest with you. I just thought even if he didn't start, he would come off the bench. And the fact that he just didn't travel at all was a bit of a surprise for me, especially considering they lost the villa match, right? And so I probably just didn't put as much thought into it as I should have. and so, you know, I got an assist from Alvarez. And the end, it cost me eight points, which is not the end of the world. I finished on, I think, 55 points on the game week. I'm up. I'm up for the third week in a row, I think. And I'm at, yeah, I'm at 1.3 million. I was at 1.9, 1.93 going into game week 13. So in three game weeks, I've gained more than 600,000 spots. So that feels good. You know, it feels like it's three green errors in a row. I've basically chopped off like a third of my overall rank. And so, you know, another example, we sort of talk about it all the time, but it's nice to see it in action, right? That you're only ever a couple of game weeks away from like a massive jump, right, in terms of overall rank. I mean, it's 600,000 spots. It's not, you know, it's not nothing, right? I mean, even if there's a handful of dead teams in there. In theory, there are other people who are trying as hard as you, right? And you're able to, to, to jump over them. So, um, so, yeah, I feel pretty, pretty good about that. Now, Sun has been, um, really the star. And the fact that his ownership remains kind of surprisingly low, I think, has been really helpful, right? Just the, he's just, it's been so consistently strong.

I mean, getting 10 points away to Man City, 17 in the Newcastle match today. Like the, I mean, that one couldn't have worked out better, right? Because it gets the 17 points and then get subbed off in the 90th minute. And then 91st Spurs just concede a goal out of nothing right just like total just kind of shaggy goal um so that that knocks poro off of four points and so yeah i mean i think it you know i feel

feel okay about my game week in general um i think uh you know the palmer transfer did not work out sadly um uh huang uh blanked lsel i got lacelles

off my bench for holland for minus one so that was fun uh fabian sharb zero um oh the okay uh jedi anthony

robinson that is like the one really good transfer i've made this season. I've started him three times. And in those three matches, I've gotten two clean cheats and an assist. I'm spread across those three matches. And he keeps getting subbed early too, which is like the dream, right? They're up, you know, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0. I mean, they're just absolutely destroying people right now um and we got a question from our patreon supporter shane who asked so what black magic

did brandon conjure up for fulham to become peak real madrid and who's his next target of course

flashback to the always cheating hot take pod when i thought oh fulham will be the lowest scoring premier league side for the rest of the season and now they've scored five goals in the last two matches and if you look at the last fours it's an insane number of goals and it's like that is leading to this incredible tight organization and the midfield and the

defense is very strong. Leno remains stout. My theory, Josh, is that Fulham really took

that Liverpool three, four results personally, like Michael Jordan last dance style. And they are

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