match. Week 8, we're going to preview it folks, and some of
the big game 7 out of 10 games. Going ahead this weekend. So
let's focus on the big game on Saturday and the I'm coming to
you first Tottenham against Leicester. City can Spurs
bounce back
after that. Defeat to Sporting Lisbon and midweek
can Lester actually get a win in the season. The foxes are
struggling, but they've had some good battles against
person recent season. So what are you expecting from this
game?
Yeah, I mean it's
I don't think there's
Gonna be a ton of scoring chances for either side. Spurs a bit.
It's very safe. I think at the moment is probably the word
that I would use to describe. It's very controlled, it's very
measured from Antonio Conte. And I think that's probably by
Design and I we saw down the stretch of last season
Spurs playing from behind
in terms of the standings to get into the top four. They
inevitably inevitably got into the top four because Conte
I think took the reins off just a little bit more and let them be
more aggressive. I think, with him being
in charge from the start of the season,
In this time around,
he's got complete control over the entire season.
And so I think and what we have seen from him, whether he was
a Chelsea or whether it was back in Italy at multiple different
places winning winning, the title is,
his team's always start slowly on a game to game basis but
they pick up victories to be in a strong position of power in
the second half of the season, so that they can then dictate
how their games, how the season is played on their terms
because they are playing from ahead. And so,
It patience is so hard to have these days because it's
three Bad Games. Should the coach go? Should we get
somebody else at? But I really do think that if Spurs fans can
kind of stomach, some of the, you know, less thrilling
performances, not a ton of scoring chances, not a ton of
goals right now,
I think in the end it's going to work out fine.
It's just putting a lot of pressure
on Kane. On son, I'm cool Chef skin. Now we're charlatan as
well to almost individually single-handedly kind of win
games. For this team. It's going to be hard to watch.
I think in the short term but in the long term
it's going to turn out. Okay.
Yeah and I think for Lester's while they just going to try
and go back to basics be tight, they'll frustrate Tottenham. So
it's going to be interesting to see how patient they get it.
Nick is going to be interesting to see how patient fans of
Everton and West Ham are two when
it comes to two teens who had slow starts to the new season.
You think this is a weekend where both can really kick
start their campaigns I guess especially from an Everton
perspective and do you think that is
A possibility in a virgin's case. I think it's one of
the big swings or Autism in our Premier League preview at
the soccer dot. NBC sports.com,
their current land for straight draws and they've yet to win
this year. It's crazy. How a win can be unbeaten and five,
and we're on the way up and a loss is going to be like we're
still winless
and we got to sit through an international break. So I think
there is
some pressure on on Lampard there because of how big and
how
don't know how much it can flip a switch there for West Ham.
Don't know. I think they're good and it's just kind of
surprising that they're sitting where they're sitting, they've
added depth in the right places. They've missed some
guys Declan or I stayed
I really think they're a good team. That's just kind of
hasn't got the bounces to start the season while also dealing
with Europe. So
I for them kicking on is just a matter of maybe getting
a bouncer to because I really do think they're only danger is
getting too far away from that European picture, because
I have no fears about them whatsoever.
Yeah, me too. Some great news on is of the Selma so maybe
it's just the case that I'm just taking a little bit of
time to jail. Getting used to the system used to each other
but they'll be a mark in this one. David Moyes to try and get
a big win
to push them further up the table. But Everton, like
I said, very, very resilient team kind of
safety first, right? Like Andy was saying, earlier, bit with
Tottenham as well,
they are, especially if K Lu and not up top really
struggling to create a lot of chances, and then put the ones.
They do create a way. So
going to be a tight tense game there between Everton
and West Ham. That's for sure,
Andy walls against Man City. I mean, can only Harlem be
stopped if anyone could do it. I feel like wolves defensively
or a very solid sound team, but they also have Diego Kosta.
They signed on a free transfer
over the last week, which is a
with, by the way, an epic released video
with him with the actual wolves walking around
that was that was pretty cool
to see that. But what do we think about wolves this?
Season. But man city. I think you know, we all know what to
think of them at this point, right. Did you see what Diego
Costa said
about that video when they were filming? He was terrified. That
the walls are gonna jump up. Yeah, I get it, I did. Unless
you've ever interacted with a wolf in your, in your life
before
you might think that. Yeah, it's going to be tough for them
though. I think in this one, like what we're seeing from
City right now is not even the very best of what they can be.
It almost feels like
they are winning games in 10 or 15 minutes spurts. It's almost
Like they need to go behind or have a really, really clear-cut
scoring chance for the other side, to wake up to snap into
the game, and to kind of turn on that ruthlessness, that
we've seen them
now have with airlink Holland in the team and it was
a perfect example in the Champions League this week.
They go a goal behind and it's like, oh man,
you know, there are they really going to drop points here in
this? Like we did not expect this and then two goals in four
minutes. They just have an ability to flip the switch on.
And I think, also what we saw from pip3
The subs three attacking Subs, all at the same time, just
before the hour, mark right after conceding completely
change the game in the fact that there's 5 Subs available
this season, I we're seeing managers
the good ones at least really learn how not just try to use
it and try to do it, but learn how to affect games by doing
that and Peppa obviously, going to be the one of the Masters of
that
way. I can be really interesting to see how sit you
continue to rotate throughout all these competitions early in
the season. So so the games to keep an eye on Brentford,
Arsenal that Ivan Tony fresh from being named in the England
squad for the first time in his career.
Let's see how we can cause some problems for Arsenal, but
Arsenal, looking good early in the season, as we said over and
over again, Gabrielle Jesus and all the other cast of wonderful
young attackers. They have, that would be a great game for
the neutral, because Brentford always seem to
always seems to be gold in their games, mostly for them,
but some against them as well. So that's going to be
an exciting watch and Aston Villa against Southampton on
the Friday night, that is going to be intriguing to see Steven
Gerrard's. Team because he's under a little bit of pressure
there, good point against Man City, but they need a big win
in that game to kind of get rid of some of the doubts early in
the season that have crept in so
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