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Sam Hackett

Sep 21, 2026

5:14
What did you make of the off-the-ball work yesterday and everyone fighting for each other as well?
5:17
I think defensively, we just look so much better, don't we? It's three clean sheets in a row.
5:21
But for me, the most important thing is it's three games in a row where we've conceded, I think, less than 0.75 xG.
5:27
And that's just a good measure of those clean sheets will keep coming if we keep playing like that.
5:32
It's not like...
5:33
We've given Alisson loads to do and he's been the reason we've kept clean sheets.
5:37
We've kept three clean sheets because structurally we're looking so much better defensively.

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30:00
I think it was another example of that right-footed right winger that we
21:22
Someone said that he's like a sports car with his handbrake on.
21:25
That is literally what he is.
21:27
At one point, there was a pass to Munoz, and he'd have been clean through, and he just passed it five yards to the side, and you're like...
21:33
I mean, it's probably a confidence issue.
21:35
But one thing with the midfield for me was how easy they just got through.
21:38
It was three passes and they were in our box.
21:41
Exactly the same as at Newcastle as well.
23:20
really well since Klopp?
3:33
So do you think we're going to capitalise on that? We should.
3:38
I think, like you said, it's doom and gloom at Fulham, but for me, I'm so excited to be back on the ground and going again.
3:43
It's the feeling that we didn't have last season.
3:45
At the end, it felt like a chore.
3:46
It's like, oh, do I have to go again? Surely there's something else I can do or an excuse I can have.
3:51
But now it's like...
3:53
so excited just to go back and watch and we feel like we're learning more about the team every week because it's a new manager style of football there's new players coming in who we're learning about and I think we are in terms of how I know the Anfield rap or John Gibbons was doing last season like a Premier League vibes table I think we're near the top in terms of how we're feeling about our start to the season, I think they're near the bottom.

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10:42
to have them.
5:20
games and not get three points out of one
5:21
then again if you look at the first three fixtures the first one was obviously the toughest but I would have had this as a potential banana to get a promoted team on a Friday night they're going to be up for it under the lights you want your home games at night really not your away games and especially a team who Like you said, they haven't had the worst start to their Premier League campaign.
5:40
It's not going to be straightforward at all.
5:42
And I think the results actually didn't reflect how they played against United.
5:45
I don't think they were that bad at all.
5:47
So I think it's going to be tough, but you've got to fancy us.
5:49
And hopefully that first win is only a few days away.

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16:23
So, the options, as it stands, Gakpo, Munoz, Rio, and our brand new signing, Brady Barcola.
4:02
But I definitely think there's positives to take with certain players and certain performances and even more so the fight, because that was very paramount throughout the game.
4:13
And I think when we were going to the game last season, I remember at the end, we just didn't want to be there.
4:17
It was boring.
4:18
When we were losing games, it was boring.
4:20
This feels like when we're not picking up results, we're not picking them up more in the style we did under the clock, where you know you're going to get your value for money.
4:28
And I think in the first two games of the season...
4:31
Both teams' shots and XG has been like XG over 1.5 for both teams.

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JimmyHOST
11:40
Whereas if you're playing against the back four and he can quietly occupy both centre-backs and he gets a goal a game,
17:16
I just don't think them
17:17
two...
17:18
I'd be surprised if we see them two sitting together, grabbing Birch and Sobers like that.
17:23
I would genuinely be surprised.
17:25
That could come back to bite me, but I just think, like I said, and the main point was there, the one that you acknowledge in terms of the way they move with the ball and the way they...
17:34
They're both just so attacking-minded about the way they go about the business.
17:38
They're...

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29:10
in and around that squad starting certain games coming off the bench to use as you said Jimmy like his dynamism and coming in different ways I think on the right there's a few obviously we've bid for Minter who I like the look of in Bayern as well I don't seriously think we're going to sign all three of them though do you? I think it's reliant on Gapo I think so I'll ask you this question do you think Chiesa is a viable option in the attack?

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