Chapter 1: 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.
Chapter 2: 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.
Chapter 3: 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.
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Chapter 4: What does Berbatov think about high pressing in football?
Well, you played against Messi, of course, in that Barcelona tie for United, so you knew what he was like.
Tell us, in your words, how good he is. I saw his two goals yesterday from free kicks. He just makes the game look so easy. It's good to watch him because he's calm on the ball, quick. He doesn't panic easily. He doesn't look for fouls. He's just standing on his feet. Low centre of gravity helps him do all his tricks around the ball with the players. And Mo Salah actually has this...
Most of this quality, maybe not at the same level as Messi, but the same quality as him. And the left foot, obviously, he's favoring the left foot, and actually one of the goals where the guy was stepping in his leg, you know? If you're clever enough as a defender, if you're chasing in the position like this, You need to know that Mo Salah is favoring his left foot.
So Akia was in the position where he's pushing him to the left foot. And you run behind him, you need to tell your defender, go right, cover him, and I'll be coming back so I can cover you. And then we are two against one. You know, easy to defend it like that. But sometimes, obviously, it's not happening, as I said.
But if you're a clever, intelligent defender, you know how to at least try to make it harder for players like this, not try to kick him in the back. It's ugly and it's not looking good.
Well done to Liverpool. And we should mention James Milner, 500 Premier League appearances now as well, which is some tally, isn't it? So congratulations to him as well.
And that's a big result because Bournemouth have been in fantastic form.
Really, really good result, not least because it puts them top of the league. The story of the day, of course, came in the tea time kicker. Having seen Liverpool go top city, he needed to win at Stamford Bridge to go back above them. Chelsea, though, had other ideas. We've just got a minute, I think, Cam, haven't we?
We have indeed. Well, they had so much possession in the first half in Manchester City, they couldn't convert any of their chances. That was on his left foot.
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Chapter 5: How does Berbatov assess the current Premier League title race?
Games like this have results.
So well done, Chelsea. Yeah, absolutely. Fantastic result. Is it just that Manchester City have let themselves down or is Chelsea very good?
Chelsea look great. You were in three, I think, title races. You won two of them and lost the one by just a point, I think, in the end. So what does that result for Chelsea do for winning those points and also taking away that sheen of invincibility to the City side do for the rest of the teams in and around Chelsea?
If I remember correctly, Sarri told the press that they are out of the Champions League race, one or two games before or something, after they lost last time against Wolverhampton. But at the same time, they are winning against Man City, so now... What happened? They are all of a sudden back into the title race? Was it like a trick to release the pressure from the players?
Or fool someone like Man City or someone else? And you see how they performed. They were good. They were good against Man City, OK? And they fully deserved to win because when you do mistakes, you get punished. Chelsea have great players. And now they are back into the race and I think they have a good chance because they have great players in their team.
Eight points off the top, eight points off the lead, but there's only 16 games in today. the season, isn't it?
Yeah, here we go. And you see Man City is going to lose again. You know, I'm sure about that. But Chelsea, they need to continue in this form. But in this league, it's unpredictable because Chelsea lost against Wolverhampton. Yeah. You go there, you lose. And it's so interesting because everything can happen. And I don't know who is in the third position. Spurs, here we go.
Why don't they have a chance also?
Yeah, undoubtedly. They're six points off the lead at the moment.
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