Raya's Phenomenal Form & How To Shut Down Haaland | Champion's League Review

[@XQRobertz]

Raya's reflexes are top notch 👌 ❤

[@genever_lover]

he’s like a cat the way he twists midair! crazy to watch

[@tobycroxford6100]

And to think he was in non league for years

[@wherestheoptoutoptionmfs]

Micah - " because there's too much games" Gary - "perfectly said"

[@kd5973]

Konate is not surprising. He literally won 14/14 duels against Vini in the CL final. He’s just injury prone unfortunately so people forget how good he is.

[@JuT11]

Konate is a monster when he's on form to be honest, he's super quick, he's dominant in the air, and he's covering on the right side when Alexander Arnold's going forward so he's pretty much playing two positions at the same time

[@macurlyfries]

EA don’t forget

[@jimbojimbo6873]

Yeh world class talent bbc hes just injured too much

[@kieranobrien7342]

Absolutely agree

[@Kobble8]

With Arsenal, I agree with Gary. I feel like Arsenal were feeling out this new format, especially with the away game against the Europa League winners. It was a case of not losing really, and hopefully get some good chances to win. He’d set them up to be much more attacking in home games and games against lesser opponents.

[@discostoo]

RIP Gary Shaw, much missed here at the Villa.

[@petekadenz9465]

Interesting point about Saka’s role in defence as well as attack.

[@jeremymuir4332]

Raya: Saved the penalty. It wasn't a good penalty - silly run up which didn't disguise his intended direction at all and led to a shot which wasn't well-aimed at a corner. Any penalty save is good, this wasn't spectacular. The rebound though - to immediately bounce back up having stopped the spot kick and track the headed ball back down was phenomenal. Retegui absolutely should have scored, but Raya had all the work to do and managed it. I'd imagine that's a huge confidence boost to what is already acclaimed as the best back four in Britain.

[@glenellis3223]

Always good when a new video drops and im just about to deive to work. Something to listen to 😁

[@NoFrictionZone]

Too many teams in the CL now, it deludes the quality of the tournament. Champion's League should be that again, just Champions.

[@adamboow8299]

So you want it to be between madrid and City then??

[@The_Bit_Player]

Micah Richards has scored more goals against Aston Villa than Gary Lineker and Micah was playing for Aston Villa when he scored them.

[@finlayohara8659]

Could have spent more than 30 seconds talking about Celtic lads

[@BumFluffer1999]

Villa fans are touchy, sheesh 😂

[@rynabuns]

little brother syndrome 💀

[@sanjaypradhan6781]

European Cup Winners. Not touchy at all, just proud.

[@aze4964]

@@sanjaypradhan6781oh brother

[@danielstimson248]

Villa deserves too have a bit more spoken about them and I don't even support them.. its all about views sadly.. if the title mentioned the words villa it would not receive the same amount if it had arsenal in the title.. and that save by raya the best save in the world!! Pffft I make saves like that every week 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@disrupt_ist]

We are already seeing the consequences of a Champions league table with all teams included. We are going to see plenty of nil, nils between all the best teams and crazy high scores between underdogs playing each other. This long league table has so many psychological effects on teams. It's almost impossible to predict who will win games and qualify. I do think we are going to see a lot fewer goals this year.

[@mattsmith5421]

While they're changing the format they should also rename it and rewrite the anthem for the possibly upto fifth place league.

[@cgdimension]

Squad rotation Gary, Rodri isnt being rotated, which the reason the bought Phillips, but they didnt even do that

[@bilinguiyveganpingui]

New episode = Lunch time break sorted!

[@uthmaannamuthama5532]

With the amount of games being played now i think fifa ,uefa and respected leagues need to increase the amount of team players from 25 to 30 and increase subs to 7 to keep players fresh coz there is too much football

[@adamboow8299]

Yeah these super rich clubs that can spend what they want complain.. yet teams in the championship play 2 games every week sometimes 3 yet don't have the resources.. don't have the same quality on the bench.. yet they don't complain.. even though potentially at the end of the season could play a game that's worth more than the champions league final. Pathetic premadonnas

[@dazchild]

Would the players take a 40% pay cut for 40% less games....

[@TomBerishaj]

More importantly, why are the reserves standing up for the idea that they themselves shouldn't play more so Rodri doesn't have to play all of the games he is afraid to play in. For Christ's sake, they have squads of players.

[@loutboyxoxo]

As a Villa fan im disappointed. We had phenomenal performance on a really bad 3G pitch and you only talked about it for a couple minutes. You gave city 9mins for a goaless draw🤦🏽‍♂️ It is what it is tho👍🏼

[@StephenCarrIsBald]

That’s because Man City are a bigger club than you

[@loutboyxoxo]

​@@StephenCarrIsBaldyeah 115 times bigger👍🏼

[@brettriverboat9920]

@@StephenCarrIsBald City aren't even the biggest club in Manchester 😅😅

[@sanjaypradhan6781]

City are a modern, sports washed entity. No love for them at all world wide. Aston Villa, Liverpool, Man Utd, Forest are vintage

[@NoFrictionZone]

Isn't Micah their Ambassador? 😂

[@cymkriis5147]

Villa looked good ? any thoughts about them here ?

[@ulfanfinneriksen4643]

Lineker is right. If it was the old format both the Man City game and the Arsenal game would have been decided.

[@Jord95]

Still tryna get palmer in with Saka on the right, didn’t you learn in the summer?

[@jimbojimbo6873]

Meeks point on wingers is spot on Martinelli works like a dog

[@ulfanfinneriksen4643]

Ucl back to old format, club world cup can go, carabao cup can go, national league can go.

[@rjdjdjdj5623]

Why the national league?

[@NoFrictionZone]

That club WC is a joke!

[@em_si]

@@rjdjdjdj5623 Think they meant the Nations League instead

[@wobkgs]

Have another look ,he dived early ,guessed right. The header was straight at him.

[@stuartscott1679]

The header went to the other side of the goal he dived to the right and the head was to the left.

[@Joshgr98]

Less than 3min coverage for Villa yet ages spent on multiple 0-0 draws is laughable

[@phoenix2225]

Now u know which is a big club and which is a tiny one. Enjoy ur one year of European football … go gunners

[@kriissyy09ify]

@@phoenix2225 Villa have more European Cups than Arsenal.......

[@phoenix2225]

@@kriissyy09ify lol who cares about prehistoric times. Eben our parents weren’t born then

[@olumidesheriffadams7917]

I don't think we saw the same match cos @inter were lucky to get a point at the ethiahd

[@omegaman6494]

Aston Villa have won more UCLs than Arsenal and as many as Man City, their fans should be touchy lol

[@ifstar3]

They've never won the UCL?

[@omegaman6494]

@@ifstar3 And Arsenal never will, correct

[@denisfarrell164]

​@ifstar3 They won it against teams who were top of their league at the time!Not against 4th and sometimes 5th placed teams as it is now!

[@monkynut1]

If you want people to lose interest in a sport, subject or anything then just over expose them to it and after a short while they wont care about it. Its over exposure that will kill the sport. and thats not even going in to who even asked for all these extra games and tournements, other than the people selling it of course.

[@kd5973]

I think if you want to have so many international breaks that these federations insist on having, players should only be allowed to play one of the 2 games per break.

[@BumFluffer1999]

It's honestly FIFA's fault. WAY too many games in WAY too little time. The WC was only last January you know!! AND we had the Euros this year?! and you want MORE GAMES?! HOOWW GREEEDYYYY side note: found it hilarious how Gaz mentioned greed right after I sent this message lmfaoo

[@tuhin1264]

Is that Big meeks with beckham's sticky stuff ?

[@PaulTraces]

There is far too big a deal being made of this Raya save, his one against Villa was better. The strikers finish for Atalanta was absolutely awful which should be getting more attention.

[@leebosworth5828]

It’s becoming like the other sky pod with the other lot just talking about the big teams.

[@jjfreer]

Your not on the BBC here, Come on lads, Give us Villa Boys some air time... Look at the segment lengths on the video. Come one lads please? Bayern got longer than us for god sake.

[@jimmybloxham3434]

Think you would have got much longer if Shearer was there. Micah never saw the game so Gary had no one to bounce off of

[@Pooleski]

I will not have the argument of footballers playing to much football. I work as a firefighter and somedays due to emergencys you can get kept past your shift and nobody complains, why? Because we love our job. Same as any emergency service worker. We are paid far less and yet they are moaning when paid £100,000 a week? The only argument I can understand is the amount of family time they miss.

[@Kingdon616]

😴😴😴😴 This argument is always pointless to me, because at the end of the day footballers are entertainers, in the entertainment industry, musicians, movie stars, tv actors etc etc all get paid millions, because they have millions watching them and are the peak of their craft, the moment maybe tv channels start filming your shifts in work every Saturday maybe your pay will go up, but your issue should be with the government that pays you, nothing to do with footballers

[@themoreyouknow5784]

Firefighters have sooo many days off though

[@RudeVonMistelrom-os6un]

I think he is a better version of Barthez but still a shortay unfortunately.

[@daedralord1]

Peps anti football is starting to loose money. So many people are not tuning into the city games. City are the lowest viewed team in the league on tv.

[@fikayoolusola7250]

Am I the only one who noticed that even Micah's eyebrows are muscular?😂

[@janborysiak7979]

sticky richards 4.20 hahahahahah

[@steverichmond7142]

The whole thing was really boring apart from the save. Most of the games were designed to send you asleep. Preston v Fulham was a much better game.

[@ianpatterson123]

Normal working people often do 60 70 hours a week, 25 day’s holiday a year, and earn in a year what players get paid in a week., players and player pundits have lost all sense of reality living in the football bubble. If players played less would they also drop wages, I doubt it. Very disappointing for the way football is going.

[@virtualinsanity2457]

What’s worse is most premier league footballers are forced to retire at 30 odd as millionaires or go to Saudi so they can feed their kids.

[@geraldbutler5484]

Well said! If the Prima Donna’s have to play more games then train less. They don’t play on bog holes anymore, they have chefs and physios, they have 5 subs, they travel in style and comfort, etc. Give them a week as a builders labourer on a busy site and ask them to play in a Sunday morning game.

[@misterc5783]

This is the simpletons understanding of the issue.

[@thomasbergstrom1693]

In Sweden we have 40 hours of work per week by law, 70 hours sounds horrible!

[@slickrick2935]

60 70 hours stop been dramatic very rare people work that plus you get to go home to your family on a night playing in coming then playing away honestly people think footballers are robots there humans who need a life outside of it

[@Stuffthatsfunny1]

It's a really poor finish right down the middle

[@OfficialFingazMC]

How do I ask a question, I've got a banger, but I don't have any socials..?

[@Badonicus]

Get some socials

[@Salomessanctuary]

​@@Badonicus😅

[@Random__is__resistance]

Sign up to their news letter u ask questions there

[@OfficialFingazMC]

@@Random__is__resistance Nice one mate

[@neildean7515]

I love football, but now watch less football (Pick and choose) but recently i have noticed the quality of the football on TV has reduced. Its less entertaining there are also less “creative / Exciting” players compared to 10 years ago.. Sorry but this stage last night i did not even watch, 0-0, 4-0 and 5-0 do not interest me (i suspect managers and players will be the same). Now i will pick games rather watch all the time.. Champions league now is a joke until the last 8, then i will watch!!!! More football will kill viewing figures

[@HamzaWar-rd4ot]

Micah just said Arsenal allowed Atlanta to have the ball that’s outrageous, come on bro Atlanta is Europe champions, Arsenal won nothing big for more 20 years 😂😂

[@artemisiapile3648]

2 minutes on a 3-0 win, 9 minutes on a 0-0.

[@hazagiigazah]

Their love in for City is atrocious. The game was dreadful, inter completely snuffed them out and instead of talking about that for the 9 minutes they tried to make excuses for City. Shocking.

[@loutboyxoxo]

Villa fan here and I'm absolutely livid right now🤦🏽‍♂️ We had a fantastic performance man

[@kriissyy09ify]

​@loutboyxoxo you're livid because a podcast didn't talk about your team long enough? Do you not have more important stuff to be worried about?

[@SeanB-p1t]

Not Mourinhos way artetas way

[@ANGLORUSSIANCZ]

Fewer matches for players? End International football.

[@typhoontim125]

Not a mention of Celtic?🙄

[@gaddiator8322]

24mins in mate, spent 30 seconds on Celtic 😐

[@typhoontim125]

@@gaddiator8322 Ok, fair enough, I must have blinked 😋

[@kriissyy09ify]

I think Arsenal's mentality is holding them back. You do not settle for draws in the CL, because if you think Atalanta is a tough place to go, how you going to cope away to Madrid or Bayern? Same thing with them celebrating a draw at the Etihad last season, do Arsenal think they can win trophies by just drawing games? Celebrate a draw again this weekend and kiss the title goodbye, because wont drop enough points for you to catch them.

[@roncho807]

Thanks for your concern but mind your own business!!!

[@Chigz10]

They took 4 points off City last year, City couldn't beat them but somehow simpletons keep repeating this idea that they lost the title cos they drew at the Etihad like it's easy to just go there and smash City. They got a good point which kept them above City and gave them a better head to head record and they went and embraced their fans after, you're acting like they went crazy. Why didn't City do more than draw at home and lose away to Arsenal? Why are you holding Arsenal to such a higher standard that they have to beat everyone home and away or their mentality is holding them back? Atalanta is definitely a tough place to go and you don't need to win every game in the group stage

[@kriissyy09ify]

@Chigz10 4 points, amazing. Where did Arsenal finish last season again, below or above City? The point is you can't rely on other teams to take points off City, you need 6 points plain and simple. Klopp would have 3 PL titles right now if he done that. Arsenal will be in the same position if the fail to take 6 points off them. Why don't you understand this?

[@MomentofCorrection]

​@kriissyy09ify Arsenal lost the title due to games against Villa, Fulham, and Westham. They dropped 14 points. The City games isn't the main reason they lost. If they collected those 14 points or even half of that, they'd have been champions even if they lost home and away to City. Winning the league is a 38 games affair and not just 2 games.

[@Sdrawkcab_mi]

How many times did Klopp win against Pep at the Etihad? Zero. Something wrong with his mentality? Or is it just Arsenal that *have* to win there? We have the best away record in Europe this calender year, nothing wrong with the mentality you muppets 😅😅

[@Muttlythedog]

Alan is badly missed.

[@blairmeikle5192]

There will be Celtic fans that think they can win the whole tournament 😂

[@johnw4249]

Because we will

[@mkvideos8018]

Please there are other teams Not just city Liverpool and arsenal

[@hazagiigazah]

"it's one of the best saves I've seen live"... It was a good double save, but the penalty was dreadful and rather than head the ball where the keeper couldn't get at it the Atalanta player headed it straight at him. To say it was the best save seen live is a bit of an overstatement.

[@tyreece1094]

Read your own comment. One of. Not the best

[@hazagiigazah]

@@tyreece1094 still an overstatement when the ball was put right at the keeper again. It was a good save, but wasn't world class as it's being made out to be.

[@paulbruce4630]

Not one mention of celtic. This is getting beyond a fn joke.

[@T0FFII]

The save was sublime, but Pickford v Chelsea was better. The pace of both shots & the speed of his reactions. x

[@bigmaguire9714]

Villa fans want to be the centre of attention for beating a Young Boys team who are bottom of the Swiss Super League after 6 games

[@sanjaypradhan6781]

At least they won

[@Random__is__resistance]

Probably one of the worst Arsenal games i ever watched

[@BG_MKY]

It's like there being forced to speak about villa it's ok lads we all know you only like to speak about the traditional top 6

[@joehunt390]

Arsenals next step is Europe???? Can Micah please tell me what they have done in England???? Come second twice got knocked out of domestic cups early most seasons...... got a very lucky fa cup in his first season which was emery's team and extremely lucky with reffing decision I'm the final He still has it all to do in England before he worries about europe

[@tafarimccarthy3162]

Gary as big mik if you stop sweating after swearing on thursday. I love the podcast. I listen to the podcast while driving passengers. Through the airport.

[@DanielMccufde]

Imagine complaining about too many games, when the average working man works 40-50 hours a week to make ends meet. Overpaid and over privileged

[@joemakepeace6652]

he literally headed it straight at him

[@brettriverboat9920]

The reason why us Villa fans are miffed by this video is that we've not been in this competition for 40yrs, we've gone away on a plastic pitch and won 0-3 away with ease, typical anti-midlands bias by the London media and friends

[@Naren25]

It takes a truly special chip on your shoulder to complain about anti-Midlands bias in the comment section of a podcast hosted by a players from Birmingham and Leicester

[@toddcooper5077]

Onana did the same thing...

[@Samafterhours]

Footballers are becoming zombies , the fans are over-fed Not good for the industry

[@darrylclarkson1799]

Rubbish finish. Standard goalkeepers routine!!!!!

[@WolfAndersonIII]

I've heard ex women athletes are now ready to come after Micah from the 2012 Olympics, watch videos about him from that UK Squad, it's out there

[@joehunt390]

This nonsense about too many games..... as roy Keane says it's their job.... Try being a tradie working 8 + hrs 5 to 6 days a week then going to training 1 or 2 nights a week plus 20 games a season give or take that your paying upwards of 400 to play, while earning less than some of these guys make a week..... I can guarantee there would be millions of regular people happy to swap careers and play 80 games a season.......

[@romanoonamor7690]

It's a european competition, but here you are, talking only about the english clubs, a scottish club, and an english player

[@colincolin5696]

I love how Man City draw vs the best team in Italy and it’s “haaland ghosted” but when arsenal get smacked by Atalanta it’s “rayas amazing” 😅 the bias is hilarious

[@Vidilian]

How did they get smacked? Especially when you see what Atalanta did to Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen last season.

[@alexandergiles5916]

City had a harder fixture on paper but were at home. Whereas Arsenal had a tough away fixture.

[@F7HFL]

Thet got smacked 0-0?.. 🤔🤣

[@hazagiigazah]

@@colincolin5696 Raya made a double save, Haaland had 15 touches the whole game. There's no bias at all, they got both completely right

[@petekadenz9465]

It sounds like you are biased, which is why you think they are…

[@dky555]

Glad arsenals 7 at the back, 4 centre half formation is finally being highlighted. "So good defensively," yeah no sh¡t buddy. He's a season and a half away from sticking 11 players on the goal line and saying try your luck

[@RudeVonMistelrom-os6un]

Playing not to lose and got smooshed, oops rhythming accidentally!

[@CTOTHER]

Ok

[@nathanthompson8652]

Drew the same number of games as citeh so far this season.

[@JunacCRO]

Raya has been GK for arsenal how many years now and still his last name gets butchered. Its nor Reya,its Raya. There is no E in his name -.-

[@Redtrainers42]

Dreadful penalty, actually poor goalkeeping to give him chance for the rebound

[@VaishnavPandohee]

You guys talk as if VVD is a very good defender. Bro played only one and a half season at his best. Have a look at the amount of mistakes he makes with netherlands.

[@tonyhy-nielsen8520]

Tired of english fatigue excuse for poor Euros. Such bullshit

[@sabbyo]

There should be more points for a score draw

[@marktaylor6202]

Villa won't be brought up because of Micah on here, him and Lescott and others were a disgrace at our club, they put us in the Championship and nearly killed our club in 2016, his LAUGHTER and what he took out our club is abhorrent, he knows full what he did, he's not welcome at Villa Park, and he knows it

[@CTOTHER]

If you think those two are solely responsible for your demise, then you are delusional. “Nearly killed our club” LOL. You were flirting with relegation for about 4 or 5 seasons. Poor recruitment, poor managerial choices and lacklustre owners got you there.

[@NeilCampbell1]

In Brazil teams can play over 70 games a season e.g Flamengo in 2019 played 74! They don't moan, they love playing but hate training. How it should be. Europeans have it easy!

[@MrLewbaah]

Going well overboard on the raya save Jesus Christ 😂 How’s your man missed that 😂😂 he’s headed it back at raya with no pace on it. Good reflexes but every a half decent keeper should be saving that