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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gab, he's Jules. Great skies over West London, but it's okay because we're here to brighten things up because it's the Champions League. We're getting down to the business end. Plenty going on. Real Madrid, a huge, huge victory. Barcelona win too, but they concede too. Yeah, again. Manchester City up in the Arctic. Not good. Not good. But let's start with the game you were at. Yeah.
Marseille against Liverpool at the Velodrome. Mohamed Salah's return. Yeah. On the surface, Liverpool preying on Marseille mistakes, Marseille disappointing.
Yeah, far too comfortable for Liverpool, to be fair. I'm not sure exactly what Roberto deserved to try to do tactically in this game. I don't think the back five was a good idea at all. I'm not sure. his midfield worked either. And certainly every time Gravenberg was on the ball or McAllister or Wierz or Soboslai, it was just far too easy for them.
There was not enough pressure, not enough intensity from Marseille, despite the atmosphere being incredible at the Velodrome, as we expected, because it was a big game. Had Marseille won on Wednesday night, they would have qualified already, which is not the case now. They're going to go to Bruges next week under massive pressure. Did they get past...
Mr. Champions League, Hans Van Aken, he's going to give the Zerbi nightmares. Yeah, absolutely. So really, really bad night for Marseille.
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Chapter 2: What were the highlights of Liverpool's win over Marseille?
And really, I think more importantly, not really understood what they're trying to do. And after the game, the Zerbi said, well, it's a shame my players could not read the game. Because if they had read the game better, we would have been in a better position. I was like, hang on, you saw the game too. You could have said from the touchline, hey, let's go to a back four.
Let's make sure we've got an extra man in midfield, things like that. But he never created anything. He even played with a back five until the end, which was crazy.
It looked to me like what he was trying to do. And maybe I'm completely, I'm watching on television on one screen. You're there in person. But it looked to me like he was trying to out-football Liverpool. because even with the back five, obviously, this is wingbacks we're supposed to push up. But look, that's admirable if you want to do that. But I don't think, I mean, Liverpool will punish you.
They're organized. I don't know if he looked and said like, oh, look, Liverpool's recent run of form, not great, notwithstanding what Burnley, you know, the Burnley game at the weekend. And he really paid it. Is that reading correct? Because you would know better than me.
Yeah, no, no. I don't think they tried to outplay them because they didn't put any rhythm into the game either. They didn't keep the ball well. They... didn't create much apart from Greenwood on his own, whether it was a shot or then the cross he had for Traore in the second half and the ball he gave Aubameyang at the end.
There was a greedy chance too, no?
There was a greedy chance on the second phase of set-piece, but that was just a shot that I think Alisson made a good save, but not more than that. But in the game itself... it was very difficult for them to do anything. And I just, I'm just not sure really with all the options and there are different options.
You might not like Vermeer and you might not like Obama Young too much or Riley, those kinds of guys. But I think there was a lot of other things he could have done.
And maybe more importantly, the fact that he recognized himself that he didn't read the game properly, that he didn't change anything at halftime or even halfway through the first half when it clearly was obvious to see that they were going to struggle.
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Chapter 3: What tactical decisions did Marseille make against Liverpool?
So we can still use you, but this is a system for you, and it allows me to play my midfielders and keep control of that midfield and not tie everybody out, right? So this has to be the way forward.
If it's Salah or somebody else. Yeah, yeah, I think they'll try. If it's not Salah, then you've got different options tactically. It was interesting on Tuesday in his press conference, he said you would be mad not to use somebody who's scored 45 goals in the Champions League. So we kind of knew on Tuesday he was going to use him because he was going to start him.
Otherwise he would not have come up with that kind of statement. So he did. Again, I didn't think he was convincing from a Salah individual performance. So we see there's obviously the weekend and then next week against Carabao at home, which is the last game of the league phase for Liverpool, it probably will start him.
I wonder if you rotate him a little bit so he doesn't start at the weekend in the league, but he starts against Carabao in the Champions League next week. If you do that, maybe try either another system or another player like Gakpo or somebody else in his role from last night.
It'd be really interesting to see, but it was inevitable that once Salah would be back, we would talk about, it would be the Salah debate again. If he had not started last night, we would have said, wait, why didn't he start? Come on, why are you not sorry?
You really have to be mean to go and say that. Why didn't he start with you? No, no, no. He just came back from the Cup of Nations. It's entirely understandable why he wouldn't have started.
But he's clearly more understandable that he started because he started him. So it was more obvious for him to start than not start. I don't know. Because I would not have started him. Right. And I didn't think he was going to start until Tuesday. So I was like, okay. And I didn't think Slott would start him.
And I think you and Slott know about football. So that's why it surprised me that he's making a statement there.
Yeah.
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Chapter 4: How did Mohamed Salah perform in his return to the lineup?
I think it's good. I think they, in France, they're a little bit surprised because there's a penalty for Marseille if he doesn't play enough games. So it's a loan with a fee to pay. The fee will grow if he doesn't play the amount that Arsenal want of games. Andrea Berta, you got this one 100%.
From Arsenal's perspective, and you know I've argued this before, this makes so much sense. You're not just... getting him playing time, because it's obvious his pathway is blocked for now, but you've made a commitment to him until 2030. You're sending him to a high-quality team, and you've kind of insulated yourself against him not getting playing time.
I'm assuming there's probably a proviso in there if he gets injured or whatever, right? Yeah, sure, sure.
But Hendrick is the same as Lyon with Real Madrid. This is what happens when big club loan players to other big clubs, but not as big as them.
Yeah, it's not going to be a huge thing because the loan fee is presumably... It's 2 million euros, I think. Yeah, relatively small. So, I mean, it's not like it's going to go 2 million to 10 billion if he doesn't. Yeah, yeah. But I think it's a good signing. Queen and Timber... He's played in midfield as well as at the back.
He was out of contract in six months, four and a half million euros. I think it's a great signing for Marseille. Slot was very, very full of praises for him. Obviously, they worked together. He fell out with Robin van Persie, so he was always going to leave Feyenoord anyway. And I think it's a very smart move. Both of them, I think, are very smart moves from Marseille.
In the past, Marseille had some, let's say, unscrupulous owners. I'm thinking of Bernard Tepi. I'm going to make the stupidest dad joke here, but sorry. Can you imagine? They are twins, right? Can you imagine if somehow they concoct something so that actually they swap things around and he gets Urien?
And screws over Arsenal? Yes, yes, imagine that. Can you tell me a... I think you can, from memory. They are identical twins, obviously.
I've never seen them both together up close in the flesh, so I am not in a position to judge. But that would be pretty cool. All right, enough Liverpool. How about some quick hits instead? Let's go, Hogan. Real Madrid demolish Monaco at the Bernabeu 6-1. Kylian Mbappe backs two goals. The much booed Bellingham and the much booed Vini both scored. The latter, by the way, phenomenal finish. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What happened in Real Madrid's match against Monaco?
This is stupid. And the reason it's stupid is that films around football in particular... they'll look dumb because you can't recreate the scenes.
I mean, unless you're talking about football, maybe they won't show too much of the football itself, maybe all around the club and everything.
You can try to do that, but it's going to seem corny. The other problem with this is the whole nature about football is that it's tribal, right? So yes, if you make this, every Manchester United fan is going to watch it. but why would a Liverpool fan have an interest? It would have to be really, really good, right? Yeah, sure.
I look at it, I'm not saying the crown isn't divisive, but there's spiciness, there's history, whatever. I don't know. I don't think this is a great idea. I think the potential for, even if you're involved in the editorial process, the potential for doing something embarrassing and screwing this up
is pretty big the financial rewards are pretty small i don't think manchester united need more advertising everybody knows who you are i would genuinely i mean this is different from those like you know fly on the wall documentaries or whatever like completely different yeah um i would seriously warn against doing this but hey what do i know jules this brings us to an end yeah
But we got to come back on Monday. Arsenal against Manchester. Speaking of United. Yeah, exactly.
How about that?
Michael Carrick at the Emirates. Yes. So until then, love the game. Love your neighbor. Love yourself.
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