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Hello and welcome to The Guardian Football Weekly, a weekend of decent games that confirmed a lot of what we already know.

Arsenal keep getting the job done, city look ominous, and Aston Villa are going to win every game for the rest of time. Also giving us a chance to talk about Morgan Rogers versus Bellingham yet again. Newcast and Chelsea are inconsistent even in the same game. There's a brace here enough to offset that own goal last week for Nick Volta-Marda, Brackett's probably not. Then to Spurs, who lose at home again. Nine men and Liverpool still tried to give them something.

Javi Simmons with a silly red, but surprised about Romero. He's just not that kind of player. Dominic Calvert Lewin can't stop scoring and wolves are very sad. Elsewhere, Afcon begins and Wilfred Nancy gets a win. We'll do all that, answer your questions, and that's the day's Guardian Football week clean on the panel today barry glend

denning welcome hi max hello down bardell hi max and welcome seb hutchinson hi max so let's start at st james's

park probably the the most fun game of the weekend there are a few to choose from newcastle to

chelsea two two for volta mater brilliant free kick for reese james is that brilliant first touch the most fun game of the weekend. There are a few to choose from Newcastle to Chelsea, two,

two for Voltaemada, brilliant free kick for Reese James. Is that brilliant first touch from

Jow Pedro before he went on and scored? Some controversial refereeing decisions,

which will take part of this pod, I imagine. Barry, we were discussing yesterday. Do two

Nick Volta mater goals? I mean, he needed something after the Derby catastrophe,

but do they exercise the demons of last week?

I don't think so.

I think the commentator, or maybe the co-coms,

mentioned redemption for Volta Mada after his first,

and I'm thinking, nah, he's got to do more than that,

to redeem himself from scoring the only goal against his own team in a time weird derby.

And he did do more, he scored a second, but crucially he missed a third, a sitter,

which would have, you'd imagine, put the game beyond Chelsea.

It was 2-0 at the time.

He had another chance not as easy that he'd also missed.

So I think he has gone some way towards redeeming himself.

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