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  • so after Westerns are being one.

  • Last night, it was imperative.

  • Leeds United followed suit and got the victory.

  • Today it was a narrow win, Harry, But you boys did it.

  • Yes, of course, they're well.

  • They had that little bit of a dry spell over the last couple of weeks.

  • But again, it's not easy going up to Middlesbrough, even though they're having a difficult time.

  • So again, it was a solid performance for them.

  • And, like I said, I think that have been happy to get out of there with the three points I was interested to hear last night on the seven, Billet said.

  • When I talked about the gap, that's opening up and obviously the question was posed him.

  • How how covered are you now?

  • He said.

  • Look, Liverpool got 22 point lead.

  • They don't talk about the gap.

  • They refused to talk about it, so I'm certainly not gonna talk about with a six point gap.

  • The gap was 11 points at one point about two months ago.

  • They have the top two of 11 points clear and everyone said it donut dusted.

  • It's over and then that gap went down to like two points.

  • Now it's back to say I still think I've always said he finished above leads.

  • You'll get promoted.

  • I do think leads and West Bomb will finish in the top of those top two positions.

  • They are the most consistent.

  • They are the best teams in the championship.

  • Fulham Brentford Forests are decent teams, but they're not the top two on you rolling out more twists and turns and it's a championship.

  • Yeah, I put it this point with with looking at 13 games together.

  • 13.

  • Yeah, the only problem with Leeds, Leeds or under the most pressure in the championship.

  • They're not under the pressure that West Brahmin under the pressure after what happened last season, on how the fans that we know of Ellen Rose like, normally back in the day.

  • But the noise there, the antis every time that they play, it's absolutely relentless.

  • And then the fans like driving the team to the ER, and I think sometimes the team could be a little bit kind of get frazzled by it because the pressure they're under, they want to be also to stay as well.

  • If they don't go up, it's a good chance he might be going and what Mr Leeds, if he leaves and once the lead is a club, if they don't go up so that the pressure on this season is far more than it was last season because of what happened last season and I think they're doing people criticize them, said the chances they miss.

  • I still think there's a very good team and they will get promoted.

  • You didn't play tonight.

  • He was injured.

  • A lot of talk about Calvin Phillips potential England call up.

  • Is he good enough?

  • Hello again.

  • I think he's performing day in, day out and I think that's all you want from a manager looking at players to be able to see if they can perform at international level.

  • We're talking about again a holding midfielder, right that is dominating his position that is allowing their Attackers toe.

  • To go out there and be a bit free and maybe not always come back because they got that defending midfielder just helping them out.

  • I mean, his range of passing, you know, he's he's touches, you can play that short pass, but it can also play them longboards into the opposition half, which is fantastic.

  • So what courses?

  • Trust asset Harry, What's is, you know?

  • Well, I think it's just these.

  • The one thing about Coven is is I think he's just bringing that little bit more maturity.

  • It's got that little bit of still between his teeth and I think that again.

  • It's just given that shine Tea leaves to be upto like the Attackers to go that little bit more forward.

  • But it's all come from the ulcer because he was basically playing.

  • It was young, it was raw, it was aggressive.

  • So a lot of games.

  • But he went kind of making tackles that you should have made, played in a two.

  • He also went in there and he raised the bar tactically and he said to Calvin Phillips, You're the man who can play this position, the most important position in my team and clearly that confidence wise, we're to give him a lift but clearly be also saw something in him and that's what we've seen from Caliphate here.

  • Stepped up the levels that he's getting to now and you said about his best asset is because he can do everything that holding midfield fruit midfield plan Nisa do physically and he reads the game so clearly built is working very hard so he can understand the tactics of playing that position because it's pivotal to have the team place.

  • So it is very young as well.

  • It's not something that position is so much responsibility, someone so young to be playing it so consistently.

  • I don't think it matters what is in the championship or not.

  • If you're good enough, I think I've seen this regatta.

  • Southgate Ages in materials Well, if you're good enough, I'll give you a chance.

  • I think deserves a chance if you're fairly confident of the top two is set playoff place.

  • Oh, here we go all the best.

  • With that, I'd say, Probably full of Branford and Forest.

  • After that, you're looking at Preston or in their black bitter in there.

  • Milwall.

  • We're not out of its ones, you know.

  • That's that's the interesting thing is probably that final playoff place.

  • But look how Look how condensed it's just created the bottom as well.

  • We could have won a couple against, you know, we're not sure who's gonna go down.

  • Tell me through Lewton Beating Brentford Champion way come from championship because that's that's the beauty of this land.

  • You look at Barnes.

  • I've been really impressed with what you see him in the lead time.

  • You think that there must be a poor team, they're not poor team.

  • They're just not as good as other teams in this division.

  • But on that day, and the results have been getting recently, we could have won back to back games.

  • So there's no poor teams in this league, so Middlesbrough stoke a lot.

  • Big clubs are gonna be really worried about what's happening below them.

  • Because teams now when the pressure's on, is starting to win games, which we wouldn't have expected.

  • It seems in the relegation zone, Lewton winning games as well.

  • I mean, the left it late that Mitrovich once again hanging, hanging on to him was it was a master stroke, wasn't it?

  • Well, again, way just said they're in the break there.

  • Meanwhile, scored is one of these that will score upto 30 goals.

  • I mean, just missed a penalty, mister.

  • I'm gonna say is mental tried to that?

  • So his ability to be able to switch focus and wait for that opportunity to score again is they're not ghosts in that old story is a natural goalscorer.

  • Everyone can miss one.

  • I didn't I didn't say I just said he's a natural law school.

  • We'll return to that That that that that's a show on its own that well, that's a whole show.

  • Always return to that at a later day.

  • But when you look at the championship right now, who do you fear for going the other way again?

  • You go about a modern thing.

  • You'd say, Well, it has to be balanced.

  • It has to be Luton has to be with.

  • But then Stoker, in a couple of games, medals were on a good run.

  • Now they slip right back down again.

  • So you could is so tight that you trample it, that you just you just guessing you really are guessing.

  • Huddersfield beat Bristol City against us that you do.

  • Anybody can be anybody.

  • That's the craziest league, and I think, just get a league table.

  • It doesn't mean that seems at the top are are absolutely brilliant teams, the bottom of terrible.

  • There's a very similar lot of teams in the championship.

  • That's why the table is so tight.

  • So to predict it now, that's just yet.

  • This.

  • You shouldn't be doing that because it will go to the last couple of games.

  • You win six points.

  • The last two games can get you up.

  • Is the beauty of that divisions?

  • Well, funerary, the fact that you play twice a week, so if you have a bad result on the Saturday you've only got wait three or four days before you got the chance to put it right?

  • Yeah, and I think that's a positive thing for four players because you can go on great runs and then you can go from bad runs.

  • But the one thing, even when we played a little with Benitez easel, he always said, There's always another game to correct it.

  • And the one thing is, it's You have to wait a week or 10 days, like on an international break where if you lose a game and it's a poor game, you gotta wait so long to you and then you're going over and it runs it down.

  • But you have a bad performance.

  • Four days.

  • You can put it right in correct and said that it's one of the toughest leagues in the world.

  • The championship so I definitely think it will go down.

  • And that's why the cultures that don't get, like, 11 Village and Bill so they don't get to kind of too high when they win games are too low in the losing because again, it's a long, hard season and there's another game coming up in three days so we can put it right.

  • So it's not the end of the world and it doesn't mean we will be as if we win the game as well.

  • So it's the coaches have to keep a level head standard.

  • Coach's mantra is one game at a time.

  • It take each game at a time because of the relentless nature of the championship.

  • Can you not afford to do that?

  • Do you have to think ahead to the second game in the way e.

  • I think you do in terms of how physical you are, Onda again, whether you have enjoyed a lot that they don't have the squad's, they don't of the quality of the strength in depth that they probably the starting 11 is going to be playing as regulars.

  • But you're not gonna rotate because you haven't got the players to do that.

  • You try and you tend to see that.

  • You tend to know 10 of the 11 players in virtually every championship team because that's what the cultures will do.

  • So it is hard for the players when you're playing that relentless type of game, but also game after game.

  • It is very tough.

  • So it is a really tough league right across the board from from individual games to the course of the season.

  • It's really tough for coaches and players because, well, when teams start to get towards that, you start thinking yourself.

  • Are they ready for the princely?

  • Have they got enough?

  • That leap from the championship to the Premier League?

  • I actually have to get there.

  • I mean, nobody just nobody would have predicted.

  • What?

  • Sheffield United.

  • Oh, have you seen them in the You seem in the championship.

  • I expect him to finished top 10.

  • Jeff.

  • They they were, except not to have done.

  • Would you?

  • Have you been surprised?

  • They've done as well as they have yet to get into maybe a Champions League spot?

  • Yes, but I have said if they have finished in the top 10 hours that we've been surprised you're open, you know, if you if you watch them play last season and that if they can say that with a cut of additions like Walls did take that into the look, look what Wolves have done again.

  • They kept the bulk of what was in the championship, added the quality players in certain positions.

  • It is possible Wolves and Chef tonight to show what you can achieve with it.

  • With basically championship team, I feel the certain teams in the championship, certain teams in the Premier Li there.

  • Really no, no, it is not that different.

  • You and I just think it's just about some results.

  • And Andi take my half head off to Sheffield United because they've come up.

  • They're stuck to that.

  • They're wise and and they've had a fantastic season.

  • I mean, it will be next season now because everyone will know exactly how Shuffle United will play.

  • What can they do?

  • And this was the thing about Wolves.

  • Even all surprised of Wolf's off this year because what they did last year, well, everyone figure them out, but they've changed up a little bit, boring some players, and so they stuck to their guns in the crypt forward as well.

  • But a difference between the years.

  • The future.

  • The bottom six in the Premier League top six in the championship played a mini league with those 12 teams.

  • I would think a championship team will probably win it.

  • Police state, West German leads to win that many leagues, and that shows how close everything is.

  • But I think it's a different ball game in the championship to the probably because I think a lot of people are trying to stay in the Premier League and being very defenses were in the champion.

  • You want to go out there and we're here.

so after Westerns are being one.

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