The best of Goals on Sunday – 9th December
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What are the highlights from the latest Premier League matches?
Hi there, welcome to the Goals on Sunday podcast. Joining Cami and me this week are the one and only Dimitar Berbatov. We'll look back at a superb Saturday and ahead to an epic title race. Plus, we speak to Dimi about his ambitions to become a manager, his thoughts on the modern-day striker and why Spurs have got to hang on to Mauricio Pochettino. Enjoy the podcast.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. For me, goals are like art, you know. You need to score special goals.
He just keeps on coming up with the goals and keeps on coming up with the goals.
What are Dimitar Berbatov's thoughts on becoming a football manager?
Fantastic to have Dimitar Berbatov with us. Good morning. Good morning. How are you?
Thank you for having me. I'm good, I'm good. Watching this, it's a bit sad because, you know, it's in the past, but you get good memories out of it.
Great memories and some stunning goals in there as well.
How does Berbatov view the evolution of modern strikers?
Yeah, that's what I say over there in the beginning.
You need to score good, great goals, if you can, of course, if you can. But I always try to do that and most of the time it's happening.
So do you miss it when you see stuff like that? Of course.
How can you not miss it? You play football for 20 years and then it goes like this and all of a sudden you don't do it anymore. It misses. It's a big miss but you try to look forward to a new beginning, new stuff and from time to time you watch it and think, yeah, it was good.
When you look at the teams now, who are at the top of the Premier League, all doing high press, would you have been comfortable with that?
Well, I'll be probably someone in the middle screaming to my teammates, go press, and I'll be anticipating the ball where the player is going to pass it. Because for me, you need to be quick in your brain, first and foremost. Even if you're slower than your teammates, you still can press if you know how to think and anticipate where the opposition is going to pass the ball. you can easily move it to one direction and try to anticipate the ball to be there. You need to be clever, actually.
So you don't... Because there is that sense that... I mean, we've looked at a lot of strikers having changed. I mean, look at Aguero as a great example of a striker who's changed dramatically with Pep Guardiola making him turn into that sort of hustle, that sort of pressing striker.
Yeah, but sometimes it depends on the coach as well. And some players need good coaches, good managers, to tell them where they are doing the small mistakes that can turn them from good players to great players, you know? And if you're in a team that needs to high-press, then you need to do it, otherwise you don't play, probably.
Well, you see Unai Emery has left Mesut Ozil out of the team because he wants to press and he doesn't feel that with him in the team they can press as much as he wants them to.
Yeah, you know, and this is... Because Ozil is a great player. And sometimes you're thinking, OK, is the football they're playing, you know, affecting this great guy, this great player, because he's not playing now. And how do you fix that? Because he still remains a good and great player. Creatively, he's very quick in his brain, passing, scoring goals. But when you don't fit your system or your coach... What do you do then? I mean, you don't play, but how is that good for football? I mean, I like watching him because he's this kind of a player that watch there and give pass the other direction. You know, I like that. But as you say, football changes. You need to obey what your manager says.
Do you think Ozil could do that? Do you think if United sits him down, could he become that sort of player?
Yeah, but because it's not difficult. As I told you, and I wasn't joking, if you're smart and you're quick in your brain, you still can press and help in pressing of the opposition. It's not as difficult as that. And actually you're pressing for... what, five, six seconds, max seven, high press, you know, that's it. So I don't think it's a big of a problem.
You've most recently been playing out in India, the Kerala Blasters, the end of last season.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the highlights from the latest Premier League matches?
0:00–0:59
2
What are Dimitar Berbatov's thoughts on becoming a football manager?
0:59–1:13
3
How does Berbatov view the evolution of modern strikers?
1:13–7:14
4
What does Berbatov think about high pressing in football?
7:14–10:49
5
How does Berbatov assess the current Premier League title race?
10:49–28:56
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