00:00Let's start at the beginning.
00:02We were talking about one of the teams that we thought that would be a dark horse in the competition.
00:07And it is the case, Como FC dilapidating Manchester United that is no longer an elite team in Europe.
00:18It was un equipo del montón, unfortunately.
00:21The history and the pedigree of Manchester United is being forgotten by the players.
00:28I read a stat that said that Manchester United is running around seven kilometers less than other teams.
00:36That's pretty much having one less player because that's the average of a player on Premier League.
00:40It's about seven kilometers and five miles or so.
00:44So Manchester United losing to Como, but nothing to take away from Como.
00:48They played excellent this game.
00:51They did.
00:52And just to, before we get into this game and what they have ahead, it's like, just to put it
00:57into perspective for people.
00:58We've talked about this before.
01:00I want people to understand the magnitude of what's happening for a small club like Como.
01:05We love to watch this kind of stuff happen.
01:07This is a club that was playing in Italy's second division not a long time ago, literally a few years
01:14ago.
01:14And now they're here beating major European clubs, clubs with a huge pedigree like Manchester United.
01:21Sure, this is not the Manchester that you and I kind of grew up watching, hating or loving, whatever.
01:30Nonetheless, them making it to the top tier of Italian football, a feat in itself.
01:37Yes.
01:37Qualifying for Champions League and now sitting in a pretty good spot at the Champions League.
01:43Okay, we're only three match days in.
01:45There's still a long road to go in this new format that they're running with now.
01:49But doing better than Inter, who lost their last match.
01:52Doing better than Rome.
01:54Doing better.
01:55You know what?
01:56Napoli.
01:56Let me throw you a bone right there.
01:59Yeah, yeah.
02:00And share the table.
02:02Como, ninth place, right outside of the teams that qualify directly and get seeded into the next round.
02:09Just below Barcelona, Arsenal, Stuttgart, Betis, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Aston Villa, and Paris Saint-Germain.
02:16This is the elite of European soccer and they're knocking at the door.
02:21And with Barça, look, Barça was win-win-lose.
02:24Como is win-lose-win.
02:27So they have the same record in terms of wins and losses.
02:29Okay, they're down goal differential and things like that.
02:32Same.
02:32And that's a team.
02:33Yeah, look at this.
02:33Totally, they're all without a Rafinha, without a Lamin-Yamal.
02:36They're running on straight up, like, I don't know what they're putting in the pasta, bro.
02:42Manchester City, 10th place.
02:45Dominating, yes.
02:46Good, good performances.
02:48But at the same time, it seems like the more they win and the more they perform,
02:53the more the rest of the teams feel like they need to be heavily punished for the financial crime that
02:58they're being accused of.
03:00Yeah.
03:01So that's a big distraction for the team.
03:03But it seems that it's fueling the performance of Manchester City because they look really strong on this match, the
03:09number three.
03:10Yeah, no, definitely.
03:12They're looking strong and they got, like, the momentum behind them.
03:17It's fascinating to see.
03:18There's two other teams that have been surprising to me, too, that are kind of in this tier of squads
03:23that are, like,
03:24obviously everyone's heard of, but they're not a household name.
03:27And that's Aston Villa and Stuttgart, which have been playing absolutely amazing.
03:31And we'll get to PSG, right?
03:34Yeah, we'll get to the PSGs and the Barcelonas and the Madrids, the Liverpools, Arsenal's playing great.
03:41But Aston Villa has been playing with this magic that I haven't seen a team play with in a long
03:47time.
03:47And same with Stuttgart.
03:48Stuttgart's being led by Ermedin Demirovic, who is a Bosnian, a German-born Bosnian player.
03:55He played for the Bosnian team in the World Cup, helped them get out to the knockout stage,
03:59helped them make a name for themselves on the world stage.
04:02He's actually tied with Harry Kane and Erling Haaland for most goals right now.
04:07So he's carrying Stuttgart on his back.
04:09So, look, we're early on in this thing.
04:11We're just three games in.
04:12We have the usual suspects, like PSG absolutely killing.
04:15Did you watch the Barca PSG game?
04:17Oh, my Lord.
