The Rondo - Matchday Player Previews

Odegaard shoots the ball like he's trying to hold LB and RB and FIFA, like he's trying to load the shot up

We got some big match days coming up, so we're going to hit him up with the match day matchups

Each matchup has a position to compare, and you're going to make a case defending your player

To start it off, Arsenal versus Chelsea, Martin Odegaard versus Cole Palmer

Who's the better player? Go on then, Chelsea fan. As a Chelsea fan, I feel like if I say Odegaard, that's so crazy

I have to say I have to say Palmer I have to back my boy I know he's got

not great form recently obviously missed a pen against Leicester which kind of just

adds to everything it's like the nail in the coffin it's like ah man

I missed a pen too and I'm not playing well it gets me like I'm trying to defend this guy and he's missing penalties

to be fair amazing save right amazing save like it was a good penalty

Tolka hit a ball man he could strike a ball I don't think Odegaard could strike a ball well

I tell people Odegaard shoots the ball like he's trying to hold LB and RB

and he's trying to load the shot up i'm like bro did you see his free kick yesterday against

it's like fam why is it taking you so long to load up a shot bro like by the time he loads it

someone just just blocks it so the funniest thing about that is that so bruno fernandez who i cannot

stand um takes like there's not much set up and he just pops one over the wall one nil and there's

that other guard thing right when arsenal spend like like ages literally in the deep they got the

yeah the whole thing and he was like yeah yeah yeah yeah and it just like whacked it yeah cassie

mero just heads it back out what the hell you think you're doing bro no but honestly um odegaard

is best is clear of palmer is best so we'll go odegaard i'll say this listen if you're looking

for a center attacking mid who could score goals just score goals and score goals you're looking

for col palmer if you're looking for somebody with the iq of the game who could take people in and out of the game who could also you know get the ball in small spaces play those small balls

or like those balls in between small spaces in between the lines, you're looking at a Martin Odegaard

But if you're looking for a goal scoring number 10, it's going to be Cole Palmer. I think it's funny though, because both teams are f without those players I know In my opinion Cole Palmer is a more dominant player I feel like Odegaard works really well in a system But if you relying on especially over the last I guess two seasons

Cole Palmer is just, I mean, as a Chelsea fan, we rely on this guy. Yeah, you need him

Like, clutch goals for us. Like, even if he's not getting the final assist. I mean, most of GA in the Prem last season

Yeah. Like, what else can I say? So now we got Antoine Griezmann versus Robert Novandoski

Antoine Griezmann, no question. I think Griezmann, we had a different segment just now or earlier when we talked about overhyped, underhyped

I think Antoine Griezmann is like the most underrated player in football of the last like 20 years

He is unbelievable. Put him in any team and he automatically makes them better

I think Lewandowski, don't get me wrong, should have won the Ballon d'Or that year. If not for COVID, they cancelled the whole thing, didn't they

But yeah, Griezmann for me. I feel like if Griezmann didn't have those Barca years, we're looking at one of the greatest French players of all time

But those Barca years, man, really slowed down his stats and his progress as a player

I'm glad he's back at Atletico doing his thing. But it's like, damn, man, what if that transfer at Barcelona actually worked

True. Get him to America, man. LAFC. I would love that. I mean, they're very different players because I feel like you can play Griezmann almost anywhere on the pitch

Yeah. He can play. You've seen him in a deep role for France in the center mid, right

I've never seen Lewandowski. Anywhere else but that nine spot. And I remember, this could be a misquote

I can't remember which player said this, but there was a Bayern player recently. I believe it was Sané who said he prefers playing with Kane in Griezmann because Kane is like he plays for the team

But Lewandowski plays for himself. Lewandowski's like, get me the ball and I'll score a goal

But Kane's like dropping deep and like linking up with everyone. And I feel like Griezmann has the ability that Kane has to drop deep and play for the team and like work for the system

where Lewandowski, if Barca's other attackers aren't having a good game, we're not going to really see anything from Lewandowski

in my opinion. That's interesting. And I was watching, because they had the Madrid derby didn they in the Champions League Griezmann I was watching that game and Griezmann playing like left mid and then sentiment and then everywhere he could play anything he unbelievable i just think his natural talent crazy and um i mean the the rumors the

pretty strong rumors are the mls move isn't it i'd love to lafc i'd love to see the griezmann and

m all e g i think it's perfect for this league i think both honestly at the end of the day i think

both griezmann and levendos are both going to go down to some of the most underrated forwards of

our generation next up Fiorentina versus Juventus Vlahovic versus Moise Keane I don't like Vlahovic

I'm going with Moise Keane just because he got dripped too at least he's doing it with drip

and I know and I know you guys seen that video of Moise Keane holding it up against Juventus at

the halfway line yeah that was cold and he just held the ball up okay yeah or um uh Moise Keane

just because I think he's coming into his own a little bit more and you know we were talking about

like highlight highlight reels and all of that right i watched vlahovic play like 90 minutes of

football recently he's rubbish he's rubbish i think a better comparison for moise keen would

have been uh kolomuani kolomuani's been playing way better than vlahovic yeah but also he he

tricked everyone didn't he 80 million to psg after a decent half season for frankfurt you saw what he

said though he said that like in paris there's a lot of pressure on him he didn't match up to the

expectations now he's at juventus he has more freedom and he's been providing goals man you

got player of the month for syria i'll have to go with moist keen i'm not too familiar with

blackfish's game but i remember when he was coming up though it was like this guy's gonna be the best

striker in the world and then i feel like there was just like a solid like year that i just didn't

even hear didn't hear anything man he just hasn't been scoring that much moving on then we got

atalanta versus inter milan adamola lookman versus marcus toram that's really tough i think it

depends what you're looking for if you're looking for a striker who could also come out to the left

and you know cut in and create damage as kind of like a winger number nine

you're looking for look man but if you're looking for a number nine that could just straight run the channels take center backs on

you're looking at a Marcus Turam okay put it this way I feel like you could put Turam into any team and i feel and he be what he is yeah exactly you know what you getting i think luckman has that like fit of magic about him and

because that sounds fun we'll go with luckman but it's like it's close i'll go with luckman i feel

like luckman is the kind of player that i like so maybe it's a bit biased flashy a little bit you

know like pacey take players on we saw i mean everyone's seen i guess he's proven that he's a

big game player just from that one big game oh my goodness the goals he scored weren't just like

oh he scored three goals one was a pen one was a tapping and then he scored a nice goal he scored

like he's banging out step overs yeah step overs to the left butt top bins oh my gosh incredible

big games crazy i still have nightmares about the semi-final the atalanta liverpool semi-final i was

like i was like yeah we're gonna smash these lot we'll be fine wrong jesus christ but it's crazy

Adam Olaukman has developed so much from his time. Remember at Fulham when he did that penalty where he chipped it

and the goalkeeper just grabbed it against West Ham? He's terrible at penalties. Even his manager said, like, I never want to take a penalty again

Listen, to recover from that, though, to have your manager tell you that, to score a great goal against Juventus this past weekend

Atalanta dismantled them 4-0. Yeah, battered them away from home. That's an incredible win

I also think Juve are rubbish this year. I don't think Juve has a great squad

I don't think any of the Serie A teams other than Inter Milan are really that outstanding to me

AC Milan have their moments. But they're in eighth, what, seventh place in Serie A right now

But they have moments where they look class, right? Like, you're watching them, and they're like

this team could be good. It's like Chelsea. It's like Chelsea. It's like this team has the players and the foundation

to be competing for, like, you know, Champions League football, at least, right

But, like, they're just losing these small games. against teams that we barely even know anything about

So y'all basically said that Joao Felix left Chelsea to go to the Italian Chelsea

Yes. Literally, yeah. Yes