Welcome to the Total Soccer Show weekend review.

The Merseyside Derby was called off by a storm as Chelsea gained on Liverpool with more excellent form.

Yes, Spurs v. Chelsea had us on the edge of our seat, but there would have been fewer goals if Couturella had the right cleats.

Elsewhere, Man City drop points and Brentford scored

four while Man United lost a game and a sporting director once more. In Italy, Napoli's title chances

slightly hit the rocks and Juventus drew a game of soccer in the shock of all shocks. In Spain,

it was a good weekend for Bellingham and Mbapy and a last-minute equalizer left

Barcelona unhappy. My name's Ryan Bailey. Join me today, Power Trio time. It's Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe.

Hey, Ryan, right as we started, I realized that it's very cold in here. So I was unfurling my new

MLS blanket that they shipped. I don't know if you guys are aware of this.

They ship out random items that no one wants to media folks before events like MLS Cup

and All Star.

And actually, I've got to be honest, they got me suckered in with the blanket because I'm cold.

And now I'm using my MLS blanket.

Of course, you needed the blanket for MLS Cup in Checks Notes. L.A., California, of course. Yeah, who can understand the reasoning and decision making that goes on here? I cannot. Graham Rutherland's here. Hello, Graham. Did you hear that, Graham? MLS shipping out items to media members. Did you hear that? Makes you think, doesn't it? I mean, Joe's a journalist with a capital J now in press conferences and photo bombing. I saw Joe in so many videos from MLS Cup. In the dressing room, I saw one with, who is it? It was the Diego Fugendez with a cigar and Joe's basically puffing on that cigar with him he's so close to Diego Fugendez

I was like Joe's actually put in the hard yards not like

not like us Ryan we're yeah we're barely media members at this point

fair enough yeah that explains it there was once upon a time I guess at least

one of us was you. That was.

If you, was it me?

Maybe.

Anyway.

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