Estadio Metropolitano de Madrid

Came back against Newcastle, ended last season, played nine minutes.

Then his next game was away at the Metropolitano, played 22 minutes.

Nothing really happened.

Fulham, title race, goal and assist, four key passes, two big chances.

I'm Alexis Nunes, alongside Stevie Nicol and Casey Keller.

We're gonna kick things off in La Liga because today at the Metropolitano it was El Gran Derby, Atlético Madrid getting a 2-1 win over Real Madrid.

It was quite the feisty derby as expected.

The turning point of the game came when Dean Houston pulled down João Félix inside the box.

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... or, um, uh, João Félix.

My profess- When you come to here to the, to the Metropolitano, again, this atmosphere-

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Before we get into all that, though, we have a game against Osasuna to talk about.

Yesterday's a fantastic display at the Metropolitano.

It led you back home for the first time in forever, four straight games away from the Metropolitano, and they respond with a dominant win over Osasuna.

Ricky, what are your general takeaways from the Osasuna game? And then we'll just dive

into it.

And obviously, without goals, without conceding goals, for me, is one of the most important things from yesterday.

Two times we kept the... without goals I mean from the opposite team so for me it was like the perfect game just to send a message to Real Madrid the days before the derby for me was like you have to win you won you have to play well.

And you have to say to Real Madrid, hey, maybe it's not our best start, but maybe you don't have to get asleep because if you get asleep and you come here to the Metropolitano, we're going to smash you as we did the season before.

Claro que sí, pues vamos entonces a revisar qué es lo que ha estado a-aconteciendo.

El equipo del Barcelona y el bicampeón París Saint-Germain, hablando de la Champions League, son los equipos favoritos a ser campeones de esta Champions, que va a terminar el próximo cinco de junio del 2027 en el Estadio Metropolitano, la casa del Atlético de Madrid, donde se llevará a cabo la final el cinco de junio del 2027.

Ambos, ah, pues equipos, al igual que el Arsenal y el Bayern de Múnich, son otrot-- otros dos que según los expertos creen de que son los máximos candidatos.

En goleo, se lo pudiera llevar Kylian Mbappé, que va a estar peleando, ¿no? Kylian Mbappé, del equipo del Real Madrid, que anota el día de hoy uno de los goles de la victoria del Real Madrid.

And I think it goes back to back in the last season when Myles was introduced into the team.

It was actually that Atletico Madrid away game at the Metropolitano.

And that was when we... effectively changed with Declan Rice deeper.

And it was Zubmendi on that night.

Him, despite us having our preferences in terms of what's the best way to unlock Declan Rice's complete skill set, that's a player of the season every single year since he's came to the club, for the club.

And I think I agree with you in terms of right now on the right-hand side, quarterback style way of, you know, receiving that wide right centre-back facing play, a lot of touches on the ball.

Very similar to last season, but more on the left up until, as I mentioned, the Atletico Madrid away game at the Metropolitano.

And we talk about Declan Rice contingency and we said many times looking at priorities in the summer, we need somebody physical who can allow us to not have the anxiety when Declan Rice is not in the team from a running standpoint.

They've managed to pick up points where you would have thought they never would have got it.

I think, like you say, it's been a bit of a hard return back to school for Malaga going away to both the Metropolitano and the Bernabeu.

But ultimately, I think teams like Levante are a lot more towards Malaga's level to take on.

I would put Elche in that category as well, and probably a handful of other clubs too, as far as that's concerned.

But the actual noise, I was there for the Newcastle game, I think it was.

Was it Newcastle last season? But I remember walking away from there and walking away from the Metropolitano after the Barcelona game last season.

And on both occasions, I thought, I don't think I've experienced a stadium noise quite to those levels.

They were both absolutely amazing atmospheres.