The Overlap

This weekend, we were reminded of the importance of getting back to basics (à la Atlético Madrid). This weekend's game of the week in England was the definition of a chess match, with two new managers in Ten Hag and Potter piecing together a fascinating tactical performance. Rheon also explains how on Earth the Miguel Almiron story has led to Almiron's best season in top flight football while Jesse Marsch is hanging on by a thread at Leeds. Over in La Liga, Real Madrid completed their bi-annual win against Sevilla, but it wasn't as comfortable as it looked on paper. Lastly, we had to talk about Fede Valverde and some of the insane refereeing decisions in Spain.

This past weekend saw big teams win and big teams lose. That's about as clear cut as it gets. From our game of the weekend in England, Liverpool vs City, and El Clasico in La Liga, we had our hands full trying to wrap our heads around how Liverpool managed to beat City and how Barcelona looked so poor. Outside of the big games, we go over a wild Chelsea/Kepa performance, how we should all be thinking about Nottingham Forest, Atletico entering a good run of form, and Sevilla's continued disappointment.

This week on the podcast, we discuss a major match up in England with Arsenal beating Liverpool at home while City, Chelsea, and Newcastle continue to impress. In fact, Newcastle gets some well deserved praise from Rheon this week as well. Over in La Liga, we spend some more time in Spain given we haven't reviewed it too much in the last 2 weeks. We go over Barcelona's recent woes post-international break and whether their strong run before it was all smoke and mirrors. We recorded this before the Inter Milan game in mid-week, but a lot of what we talk about is related both to our thoughts before the game and the upcoming Clasico.

On this week's episode, we go over two very big games from England this past weekend along with our thoughts on the USMNT's final games before the World Cup! Our game of the weekend was TECHNICALLY the Manchester Derby, for a variety of reasons we go over, but the North London Derby also get its fair share in the spotlight. Lastly, we go over some highs and lows from the weekend in England (cc Liverpool and Brighton)!

The Champions League is BACK! On this week's episode, we review the major games from Matchweek 1 in Europe's biggest competition, including Napoli vs Liverpool and PSG vs Juventus. We also go over everything from this past weekend in La Liga, with our game of the weekend being Villareal vs Real Betis! Meanwhile, Rheon learns how to pronounce a certain Georgian winger from Napoli's name. Honestly, we struggled through pronouncing a ton of things this week.

Much to our surprise, Thomas Tuchel was let go on Wednesday after the team's 1-0 loss at Dynamo Zagreb. In our second-EVER emergency pod, we go over what led to this situation, if Tuchel should've been sacked, and how his successor, Graham Potter, will do! Spoiler: we don't really know everything.

On this week's pod, we spend some time reviewing our games of the weekend, as always, and discussing Arsenal's first loss of the season, Sevilla's continued woes, and some of the VAR decisions in the Premier League. If you've listened to us enough, you know we don't really spend a lot of time on VAR, but this weekend was exceptionally controversial. 

In La Liga, almost all of the Top 4 contenders played each other, making it one of the best scheduled weekends in recent memory. We review why Barcelona ultimately found success against Sevilla, where this Valencia team and Yunus Musah could go under Gattuso, and Cadiz's miserable start to the season after staying up on the last day of last season. Enjoy!

Lights, Camera, Action...or something to that effect. We're back with a brand new VIDEO podcast! We spent a majority of this week's episode focusing on just the Premier League since so much happened this past weekend, but we'll be back with this video format covering La Liga very soon as well.

This week, we go over our game of the week (Liverpool vs United), our surprises and disappoints from around the League (cc Chelsea), and what we're looking forward to in next week's set of games!

In a weekend that saw two of the top managers in world football battle it out in a respectable version of fisticuffs, we review the on-field (and some off-field) dramatics that went down across England and Spain. Chelsea and Spurs drew formidably on Sunday while Rheon shares his ~unique~ surprises and disappoints from the Premier League. Over in La Liga, we go over the match of the weekend (Sevilla vs Osasuna) while discussing Atletico's big win, Barcelona's area for improvement, and which fixture next weekend you should have your eye on.

From London, England, it's the first weekend of the 2022-2023 Premier League season, with La Liga set to kick off next weekend! In the first week back into European football, we review our game of the weekend: West Ham vs Manchester City. We also go into detail around what disappointed and surprised us most across this weekend along with one area we're looking forward to seeing on the 2nd matchday.

*Apologies in advance for any audio issues on this one*