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00:16welcome to another episode of five aside on being sports and we got to start off talking about the
00:22uefa champions league we are in some very exciting moments as we have just started off
00:26with the first legs of the quarterfinal matchups first up we got to discuss my team real madrid
00:31who today unfortunately did take the l one to two against bayern munich fellas crazy crazy open game
00:38could have been nine to ten but ends up one to two thoughts on this matchup unstoppable man it's
00:43yeah unstoppable harry kane's harry kane's first game unstoppable it's just scored five that's my
00:48take i'll say as a real madrid fan it was super concerning in terms of the giveaways the chances
00:55that happened because especially it's funny i was walking we're walking over the studio watching
00:59the game on my phone there's so many times byron had a 2v1 or a 3v2 where they just had
01:04to make the
01:04right pass and it just went a little too wide to alice or alice pinned it in with too much
01:09fizz when
01:09he could have just nicely laid it off the set pieces byron could have had like seven but the fact
01:14it's
01:142-1 and a lot of it is the reason of also manuel neuer who had a phenomenal game and
01:18forced mbappe to
01:20look how hard it was for him to score the ball had to get saved hit the crossbar go past
01:23the line
01:24i still have some hope for real madrid because it's only two to one but if we're going about
01:28betting odds or favorites of what you think is going to happen byron surely should win but i'm
01:33still holding out some hope madrid showed some heart coming back when it was two nil down that's
01:36not easy to win at the brin about boy yeah byron i agree with you musy like byron just looks
01:41like
01:42unstoppable at this point louis diaz is tearing it up alice is tearing up honestly i think i said this
01:48to you while we were watching the game too i feel like byron week in and week out is kind
01:52of used to
01:52not needing to be full throttle like finishing all their chances clinically because we saw over
01:58the weekend they went down to freiburg 2-0 came back 1-3-2 in the last 10 minutes of
02:02the game
02:03so like they're used to just flipping a switch but with a team like real madrid it's like you
02:07got to put them away so i'm curious to see in the second leg if they just put them away
02:11or if they
02:11play with their food like they did today for sure quick uh quick picks for the second leg
02:17everybody going byron byron 2-0 byron 2-0 yeah
02:23that's all i'm gonna say you got the kid behind you too bro you know what's going on
02:27that's what new narratives are being built come on man there's a bunch of haters here bro listen
02:34you know what i mean byron you have to fall somehow come on we'll see definitely the big heavyweight
02:39matchup but on the other side of the bracket we do have arsenal versus sporting not nearly as an
02:43exciting game not nearly as big names but arsenal did get the one nil victory a 91st minute goal from
02:49kai havertz thoughts on arsenal getting this w especially after recently crashing out caribou
02:54cup final fa cup versus i believe it was southampton yeah um so it was a big result for arsenal
02:59i'd say
02:59i mean yeah i think arsenal needed to just have a game where they were reassured and that everything
03:04felt okay and to be fair saka wasn't playing as they wasn't playing i believe timber wasn't playing either
03:10so you're missing some key players key players who have been playing really well in the
03:13champions league so if you're able to just get that first leg and then they play the emirates in
03:17the second i think arsenal should comfortably put it away comfortably is a little bit much
03:24they've been clinical at the emirates they've been amazing at the emirates saying as i witnessed with
03:29my own two eyes maximiliano arajo smashed the ball from probably like 20 25 yards out and it hit the
03:37crossbar an inch below it would have been one zero in the first half and it would have been a
03:41different
03:41game so yeah i mean football is a game of margins one zero arsenal got the win it is what
03:46it is but
03:47i'm not putting sport into bed just yet i think that could still cause an upset yeah especially back
03:53home in london i don't know the pressure is getting west you feel me like that the emirates is going
03:59to
03:59feel like a cook a pressure cooker yeah and sporting we saw what they did to uh uh uh butto
04:05glint yeah
04:06yeah it's when they scored unbelievable and they came with venom butto glimps arsenal they're not the
04:12same but i'm just yeah and it's the mentality that they're gonna come back yeah i think it's possible
04:17but i'll probably go with arsenal for this one if sporting score first is their game i agree you know
04:23as
04:23you guys are brought up the fact is the emirates it's obviously a fortress but the pressure from
04:28the fans has been on this team to be able to do and carry on so i don't know it's
04:32it's arsenals to
04:33lose in a certain type of way yeah yeah hey i mean if you want to see sporting keep balling
04:37out tune in
04:38exclusively on being sports absolutely then moving on we have to talk about psg the title holders getting
04:46the win in the first leg versus liverpool do we really think that they can repeat at this point
04:51i don't know it's there's only a handful of teams who repeat and the level that they've been at real
04:56madrid you know to repeat and super rare super rare so exactly exactly so i mean i don't know i
05:03think
05:04liverpool is a tough opponent you can't really back them out they they've won off of like really
05:08you know last minute gritty games so they know like they know they're capable of like winning when
05:13it matters you're talking about from last year yeah from last year so i think they can and even the
05:17galatasaray the galatasaray right like i didn't think they were going to win that i think they were
05:20out um but they figured out a way to to you know turn around so i i wouldn't count out
05:25liverpool
05:25but and the first game first leg is at an anfield but i have to give it to psg i
05:30think it's going to
05:30be like a three two and then they'll comfortably put it away okay yeah gotcha gotcha no for sure
05:36all right and then we got to talk about blastly barca versus atleti atleti with a shocking victory over
05:41barcelona for me i think they have a legit chance at winning their first ever champions league
05:48you saw what they did in the copa del rey with a 4-0 victory over barca now they almost
05:51choked it away
05:52with 3-0 in copa del rey but winning that first leg i think they have a legit chance if
05:58it's not
05:58going to happen from this time and potentially simione's last season i don't know what it's going
06:02to happen i think it's a testament to honestly the relations in the camp you know there's a conference
06:06press conference recently where diego simione brought up how griezmann is like a friend to him
06:10and he's basically saying listen we have five champions league you know matches left hopefully
06:13you know let's have fun and so they're having fun like that and looking ahead almost looking back on
06:18what this moment is they can accomplish anything moving on we have to talk about league on because
06:24what did i say what happened last week in the promotional show i said the as monaco to win and
06:28for loren balagan would score and he did and did y'all see the chip shot that he executed into
06:33the
06:34side net come on beautiful goal what did buffy do come on literally as you point at the guy that
06:39is
06:39now six straight league on games with a goal from balagan and against major competition and wins
06:46paris psg leon and marseille which now has them all the way um within the top four there's only three
06:52points actually separating third place and seventh place in league so one we have a super exciting race
06:57for those final european positions but back to balagan like what do we think about the form that he's in
07:02and can he really lead this u.n spence national team no he's he's warming up as the summer comes
07:06out yeah
07:07it's a fact so it's perfect timing um it's also good to see the types of goals it's one-on
07:10-one
07:11with the yeah you know shows a lot of composure you know variety of finishes yeah so yeah i mean
07:16i
07:16think it's important to knowing that ajumann just got injured as well unfortunately missed the whole
07:21thing so the pressure is you know a little bit even more so on balagan because now somebody that
07:26might have been his backup or may have been even competing for that starting position yep it's gone and
07:31so it's like yo can you actually carry the number nine role for us like that's the question for
07:36balagan i think he can yeah i think for me he's the guaranteed starter at the nine for sure as
07:41long
07:41as pochettino goes with a normal front three because he did play pulisic false line against
07:45portugal um shout out ricardo pepe who just won the dutch title his third um he's been very good
07:50playing for psv in the dutch league but i don't think he's at the form of balagan and balagan also
07:54balling out even in the champions league as well i think he definitely should be our starting nine um
07:58and i think we should start with a nine i don't think we should do pull a stitch false line
08:01so
08:01i think ball again can lead us in a very meaningful way and probably our best striker since
08:06at least 2014 right we missed 2018 and we didn't have a proper nine like this in 2019 so yeah
08:11probably
08:12since josie yeah so i'm feeling pretty good about him um and then yeah just to talk once again about
08:16the league on table only three points between third place and seventh place any thoughts on how this
08:21might shape up for the top four i don't know i think i think monocle gonna get up there man
08:25the way
08:25they're playing beating all the teams ahead of them i think monaco is going to sneak in there i
08:29believe it i i'm honestly the most surprising thing about this leon they went from 13 straight wins
08:33to nine games without a win i believe it's crazy it's the record right now and i mean it's not
08:37that
08:38they haven't been playing well or it's not that there's individual issues it's just they haven't
08:41been able to piece it together and this close i don't know i i think it's monaco's spot that last
08:47champions league spot to get obviously huge shout out to to lens for the the season they've compiled
08:52together but i don't know the form that monaco's in and they only have to focus on uh um on
08:58the
08:59domestic league the domestic yeah there's there's nothing else for them they have to they have to
09:02take it yeah that brings up my next point too what do you think turkia needs to do and they're
09:06in the
09:06turkish super league to retain that talent and start growing upon the kind of stars that they have
09:11because there's every time i talk about ultimate it's like where is he going to go next but who says
09:15he
09:15can't stay there and be in the turkish league so i mean yeah i think it's continue what they're doing
09:18obviously it's good that galatasaray and fenerbahce are great but it's the teams below those yeah you
09:23know they're continuing to be you know to continue to succeed to continue to push that top to the
09:27higher level and just the academies are great we're seeing the prospects are the glare um among many
09:33others you know this um but there's even yeah there's even great glue yeah there's even there's
09:39great uh turkish players who are playing in the league still so i think it's a good combination i think
09:44any good national team needs a combination of players who play in that league but also across to you
09:48know get a full comprehensive look of like what you know good play style so i guess we'll see but
09:54i think turkey's in the right position it just needs to be more competitive across the league
09:57yeah for sure speaking of competition we are once again heading into a world cup year just last week
10:02we heard about the final 48 teams that are going to be taking place in the world cup what's amazing
10:07for africa is that they have a record 10 nations in this expanded format of course that didn't come with
10:13some controversy with the likes of ganado gotuso thinking about oh why should this team be able to be
10:18here when europe should have even more than this 16 which is also record for europe that they have
10:22in the world cup but i'm curious your thoughts on the expanded format and kind of the allocation by
10:27region and specifically africa do we think 10 is a proper representation could it have been even more
10:33how do we feel kind about africa with the 10 teams that they're about to send into this 48 team
10:37world cup
10:3810 is unprecedented it's 10 and it's it's 10 from parts all over africa you have sub-saharan you have
10:43the
10:43north you have the west of the south um and i think it's great i think we saw this afcon
10:47and the world
10:48get to see how you know how far african football has come at an international level more players who
10:53are playing in their domestic leagues you know all these different nations happening through the
10:56diasporas so at the end of the day it's the culmination of everything that has evolved and
11:01become great about african football all going to be shown at the world stage yep so at the end of
11:05the day it doesn't matter which you know country goes the furthest obviously there's new rivalries that have
11:09come up there's new individual stars but this is it's africa's world cup and you know the only way
11:15the only thing you can do is to go even farther than you did last time said new history
11:20it's a beautiful range of countries you know there's definitely countries that have previously
11:23gone very far that are still being represented of course you know with ghana like some morocco as well
11:28um but even countries who for the first time yeah being able to show themselves of course big up cape
11:32bird so no that's gonna be really exciting and so it's gonna be exciting how you know the
11:36communities out here in the u.s show yes for the countries for sure and who's going the farthest
11:40real quick for africa early predictions we're going to keep talking about this senegaric
11:46senegaric
11:52we'll talk to you next time this is five time to be in sports appreciate y'all
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