Happy New Year to all our listeners!! We are here with the 27th episode of this the 7th season - between games 19 and 20. We are going to review the state of the nation after those 19 league games and 6 champions league games. I’m Paul, joined by Enrique and Daz. We aren’t going to do much of a specific review of the Leeds game, although some of the themes we will talk about were very evident in the 0-0 draw.

Part one - Bad Points

• Dealing with adversity:

• Impact of the summer? 

• 4 late goals conceded

• Ability to hold onto 2 goal leads - last 10 minutes

• Officiating - penalties awarded

• Coaching:

• Defensive mistakes; set pieces

• Ability to score against the low block

• Awful’ said one pundit - how awful exactly?

• 3 defeats by 3 goals in successive games 

• Recruitment?

Part Two - Good Points:

• Created more xG than anyone apart from City.

• Hugo Ekitike was 3rd in the scoring list. A goal every 125 minutes. Till he seemed to become our only option.

• Top 4 is well within our grasp, 8 games unbeaten

• Champions League qualification - Inter and Real Madrid victories

• Florian Wirtz

And our Expectations…… 
We will be back next week with a review of the Fulham game. Thanks to Enrique and Daz for joining me, Paul. And most of all, thank you dear listener for joining us.If you enjoyed the pod, please share it with a friend. Follow us @FirstStateKopites on X  – we only tweet and retweet from sources we think are credible. Music is courtesy of Hypenotic – they are a Welsh electro-pop band – https://hyperfollow.com/hypenotic