Como FC Stuns Manchester United in Champions League Rise

Let's start at the beginning. We were talking about one of the teams that we thought would be a dark horse in the competition. And it is the case. Como FC dilapidating Manchester United that is no longer an elite team in Europe. It was a team of a lot, unfortunately. The history and the pedigree of Manchester United is being forgotten by the players. I read a stat that said that Manchester United is running around seven kilometers less than other teams that pretty much having one less player because that's the average of a player on Premier League it's about seven kilometers and five miles or so so Manchester United losing to nothing to take away from Como they play excellent this game they did and just to before we get into this game and and what they have ahead it's like just to put it into perspective for people we've talked about this before i i want people to understand the magnitude of what's happening for a small club like como we love to watch this kind of stuff happen this is a club that was playing in italy's second division not a long time ago literally a few years ago and now they're here eating major european clubs clubs with a huge pedigree like manchester united sure this is not the manchester that you and i kind of grew up hating or loving whatever nonetheless them making it to the top tier of Italian football a feat in itself qualifying for Champions League and now sitting in a pretty good spot at the Champions League, okay we're only three match days in, there's still a long road to go in this new format that they're running with now but doing better than Inter who lost their last match, doing better than Rome, doing better Napoli let me throw you a bone right there Yeah, yeah. And share the table. Como, ninth place, right outside of the teams that qualified directly and get seeded into the next round. Just below Barcelona, Arsenal, Stuttgart, Betis, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Aston Villa, and Paris Saint-Germain. This is the elite of European soccer, and they're knocking at the door. And with Barca, look, Barca was win, win, lose. Como is win, lose, win. So they have the same record in terms of wins and losses. okay they're down all differential and things like that so that's a team totally they're all without a Rafinha without a Lamine Yamal they're running on straight up like I don't know what they're putting in the box to grow Manchester City 10th place dominating yes good good performances but at the same time it seems like the more they win and the more they perform the more the rest of the teams feel like they need to be heavily punished for the financial crime that they're being accused of yeah So that's a big distraction for the team. But it seems that it's fueling the performance of Manchester City because they look really strong on this matchday number three. Yeah, no, definitely. They're looking strong and they got the momentum behind them. It's fascinating to see. There's two other teams that have been surprising to me too that are kind of in this tier of squads that are like, obviously everyone's heard of, but they're not a household name. And that's Aston Villa and Stuttgart, which have been playing absolutely amazing. I mean, we'll get to PSG, right? Yeah, we'll get to the PSGs and the Barcelonas and the Madrids, the Liverpools, Arsenal's playing great. But Aston Villa has been playing with this magic that I haven't seen a team play with in a long time. And same with Stuttgart. Stuttgart's being led by Ermedin Demirovic, who is a Bosnian, a German-born Bosnian player. He played for the Bosnian team in the World Cup, helped them get out to the knockout stage, helped them make a name for themselves on the world stage. uh he's actually uh tied with Harry Kane and Erling Haaland for most goals right now so he's carrying Stuttgart on his back so look we're early on in this thing we're just three games in we have the usual suspects like PSG absolutely killing did you watch the Barca PSG game oh my lord