Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show weekend review episode. My name is Taylor Rockwell. I remembered to introduce the show and weekend review episode my name is taylor rockwell i remembered

to introduce the show and myself all that remains is to introduce my co-host a man who never

over celebrates regardless of if it's the first goal or the 13th goal it's mr ryan bailey hello ryan

greetings tete how are you on this fine mond? I'm awake, so that's a start.

That's one thing, yeah, that's important. Yeah, this is the earliest we've ever recorded the weekend review, which is not that big a video. It's not like we're recording it at 5 a.m. It's just normally we record around 11. Today it's 9 a.m. And I think that makes me slightly sharper, slightly more alert and ready to go. I hope at least, we'll find out if that ends up being the case.

Maybe we should just be like professional soccer players and only work between like 9 and 11 a.m. every day. I mean, that's the dream. I would be okay with that, except that then I would have to run a lot and then I would be out of shape and then I would like sweat and pant and look bad and be red-faced all the time. I don't know. I don't know if I need that in my life, Ryan.

Yeah, let's not do that. Okay. Let's instead talk about all the action that was from this past weekend. To do so, in honor of Ramululukaku scoring for Inter Milan, we're going to go back to the Ramululukaku thumbs-up, thumbs-down system of evaluating the weekend. We had some people point out on Reddit that that was a

fun, sort of lighthearted way to approach the weekend review. Are we calling the La Cacu

Index? Yes, that's exactly what it is. It's an official thing. We're going to get it

registered. It's a whole system we're working on. But we're going to be talking about lots of

different games. Mostly, well, actually, I should say all from Europe. No Major League Soccer on today's show. But a lot of games on the continent. And then a lot of Premier League soccer because there was lots going on in the Premier League. Ryan, let's start with maybe the big one from yesterday. At least I think it was the big one. Chelsea won, Liverpool 2. Who is thumbs up? Who is thumbs down for you? I'm going to say thumbs down to Chelsea's back line and they're defending, Tatea. I think that's probably fair. And it's especially fair when you say it with that tone. Oh, well, thank you very much. Yeah, obviously, we know that Chelsea's backline is a little bit leaky at the moment. We know, well, what gets me is, I think I've made this point before on this show how Chelsea fans are very down on last season. Oh, you know, Sari was terrible. It was terrible to watch. So boring. We never achieved anything. Then you go, hang on. You finish in the top four. You got to the League Cup final. You won the Europa League. Sari delivered a lot.

And let's look at Sari's first five games in the Premier League. Five wins and a draw.

Let in, I think, three goals, maybe four. That's not quite the same record as Frank Lampard has managed.

13 goals conceded in six games. That's over two per match for the math fans out there.

And particularly the issue here is set pieces, isn't it?

We're both Liverpool goals here coming from set pieces,

which is obviously a big organizational issue.

So as fun as it is and as wonderful it is to have Super Frankie back in the ranks,

this team, in my opinion, is a long way from being Big Six material, and a lot of

that is down to the defending. And the other part, I'd say, is down to not being clinical. We can talk

about it later, though. Yeah, I don't disagree with pretty much anything you said. Because, yes,

the set pieces you always want to do everything you can to defend properly

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