Weekend Review: NunoBall on display as a Kane-less Spurs defeated a Kane-less Man City, exciting opening wins for Man United and Barcelona, Haaland (and Dortmund) look unplayable, and Jimmy Medranda wins the weekend
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🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Ryan is joined by Graham and Taylor to take a look at some of the biggest results from the weekend, including...
1) AFC Wimbledon has a home and Ryan is happy!
2) Spurs got a win for their new manager, while Manchester City looked like they needed a goal-scoring forward
3) Man United harken all the way back to 2008 in their win over Leeds
4) Reports of Barcelona's on-field demise may have been exaggerated, even if their positive financial reports from a few years ago may have been.
5) Erling Haaland and Dortmund demonstrate that possession isn't the most important stat when it comes to crushing your opponent.
5) Seattle reigns supreme as Portland concede 6 at home... two of which were so, so pretty!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. That's the sound of some |
| 0:07.8 | workplace pension providers paying their shareholders instead of you. At people's pension, |
| 0:12.8 | we don't have shareholders to pamper. That's why over the last five years, we've given |
| 0:17.4 | £100 million back to our members instead. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh, you've broken the cat flap again. |
| 0:25.9 | People's pension. Now that's a pension with purpose. |
| 0:29.7 | Visit people'spension.com.uk forward slash pays you. You. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our first weekend review of 2122. |
| 0:58.7 | It was a weekend in which we learned Man City need a man up top. |
| 1:02.3 | Man United looked like the cream of the crop. |
| 1:04.7 | Barser haven't had a post-messy drop. |
| 1:06.6 | Erling Harland cannot stop and Jimmy Madranda had a pretty good pop from a corner. |
| 1:11.8 | Joining me today is a man who's as comforting and reassuring as a Christian Politic opening day goal, Taylor Rockwell. Wow, that is, that's like the nicest thing I think you've ever said to me on this show. Hi, Ryan. Thanks for that. Now you're making me think, I have never said anything nice to you, Taylor. No, you've said nice things. That's just the nicest to compare me to a Christian Pulicit goal and the comfort that that does bring to the American fan base, which was once again very anxious about the future of Christian Polisic at Chelsea. He scores the goal, so at least that's good. Yeah, just remember this time last year, Tate, when Frank Lampard didn't know his name, I don't think. |
| 1:45.3 | So we've come a long way from that point, certainly. |
| 1:48.3 | That we have. |
| 1:49.0 | That we have. |
| 1:49.9 | A long way, indeed. |
| 1:51.9 | Also here today is a man who can dissect the game with the ease of Liverpool dissecting Norwich City whenever they play them. |
| 1:57.9 | Graham Rutherland. |
| 1:59.7 | Hi, Ryan. |
| 2:00.3 | How are you? |
| 3:07.6 | I'll take that as a compliment, given how easily Liverpool did slice open Norwich. I have deja vu with Norwich, with everyone binging them up before the start of the season. And then the season starts and, oh, right, okay, maybe they're going to be done there again. That's awkward. Yeah. Playing lots of open soccer, but have some work to do. It's the same report card that we saw issued the last time they were in the Premier League a little bit. But I think they've got a bit more about them, Graham, certainly. I've got a couple of notes I have from the weekend here. No draws in the opening week of Premier League action, which was fun. And Graham, I don't know if you're watching match of the day, but they did a graphic with Juergen Klopp and Daniel Farker on the same screen. And Klop doesn't have it. He's not wearing glasses at the moment. Yeah. And they looked like the same man. And I was really confused as to who. It's like this slightly beady German man. Which thing did you find more off-putting? That, Klop not wearing the glasses and the face comparison there, or a clean-shaven or relatively clean-shaven Gerard Piquet? Because that also seemed very strange to me. I wasn't really ready for that. Has anyone spotted Gerard Piqui's Instagram at the moment? It's all the same face, right? It's all selfies of the same expression for about the last month. |
| 3:11.8 | I'm not kidding. |
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