The Overlap

The World Cup is here!! Well, in a few days - BUT - we're bringing you an overview of our thoughts ahead of a tournament that's been clouded by horrible controversy, our thoughts on the USMNT and their ceiling, and what our favorites, dark horses, and potential upsets look like!

With only one more matchday in Europe's Top 5 Leagues left before the World Cup preparations begin, we take a look at some maaaaaaajor games in the Premier League and a VERY exciting Seville Derby as our games of the weekend! We discuss what Chelsea need to do to compete at the highest level again, if Arsenal can continue their run of form post-World Cup, and what Liverpool's win means for both th...

This weekend, we were reminded of the importance of getting back to basics (à la Atlético Madrid). This weekend's game of the week in England was the definition of a chess match, with two new managers in Ten Hag and Potter piecing together a fascinating tactical performance. Rheon also explains how on Earth the Miguel Almiron story has led to Almiron's best season in top flight football while Jess...

This past weekend saw big teams win and big teams lose. That's about as clear cut as it gets. From our game of the weekend in England, Liverpool vs City, and El Clasico in La Liga, we had our hands full trying to wrap our heads around how Liverpool managed to beat City and how Barcelona looked so poor. Outside of the big games, we go over a wild Chelsea/Kepa performance, how we should all be think...

This week on the podcast, we discuss a major match up in England with Arsenal beating Liverpool at home while City, Chelsea, and Newcastle continue to impress. In fact, Newcastle gets some well deserved praise from Rheon this week as well. Over in La Liga, we spend some more time in Spain given we haven't reviewed it too much in the last 2 weeks. We go over Barcelona's recent woes post-internation...

On this week's episode, we go over two very big games from England this past weekend along with our thoughts on the USMNT's final games before the World Cup! Our game of the weekend was TECHNICALLY the Manchester Derby, for a variety of reasons we go over, but the North London Derby also get its fair share in the spotlight. Lastly, we go over some highs and lows from the weekend in England (cc Liv...

The Champions League is BACK! On this week's episode, we review the major games from Matchweek 1 in Europe's biggest competition, including Napoli vs Liverpool and PSG vs Juventus. We also go over everything from this past weekend in La Liga, with our game of the weekend being Villareal vs Real Betis! Meanwhile, Rheon learns how to pronounce a certain Georgian winger from Napoli's name. Honestly,...

Much to our surprise, Thomas Tuchel was let go on Wednesday after the team's 1-0 loss at Dynamo Zagreb. In our second-EVER emergency pod, we go over what led to this situation, if Tuchel should've been sacked, and how his successor, Graham Potter, will do! Spoiler: we don't really know everything.

On this week's pod, we spend some time reviewing our games of the weekend, as always, and discussing Arsenal's first loss of the season, Sevilla's continued woes, and some of the VAR decisions in the Premier League. If you've listened to us enough, you know we don't really spend a lot of time on VAR, but this weekend was exceptionally controversial.  In La Liga, almost all of the Top 4 conten...

Lights, Camera, Action...or something to that effect. We're back with a brand new VIDEO podcast! We spent a majority of this week's episode focusing on just the Premier League since so much happened this past weekend, but we'll be back with this video format covering La Liga very soon as well. This week, we go over our game of the week (Liverpool vs United), our surprises and disappoints from arou...

In a weekend that saw two of the top managers in world football battle it out in a respectable version of fisticuffs, we review the on-field (and some off-field) dramatics that went down across England and Spain. Chelsea and Spurs drew formidably on Sunday while Rheon shares his ~unique~ surprises and disappoints from the Premier League. Over in La Liga, we go over the match of the weekend (Sevill...

From London, England, it's the first weekend of the 2022-2023 Premier League season, with La Liga set to kick off next weekend! In the first week back into European football, we review our game of the weekend: West Ham vs Manchester City. We also go into detail around what disappointed and surprised us most across this weekend along with one area we're looking forward to seeing on the 2nd matchday...

It feels like just yesterday the European season was ending and we were looking towards summer transfer news, the Women's Euros, and many more shenanigans. But, here we are, a few days before the start of the Premier League campaign and we're already reviewing our Top 4 predictions, relegation predictions, and our potential surprise outcomes from this season. On this week's episode, we go into det...

On this week's episode, we get into an early look at the Premier League and La Liga seasons! We go into detail as to which teams will surprise/disappoint us the most, player signings we're most excited for, and managers we're most excited for as well. We'll be back next week talking about Top 4 and relegation predictions!

We're back! We took a few weeks off because, well...there wasn't really that much to talk about (sorry, not sorry) - until now! On this week's episode, we talk about the group stages in the Women's Euros, which has seen the largest attendance in a European game ever. We go over our favorite teams so far, our favorites, and stand out players. We also recap some of the biggest transfer moves in Engl...

If you managed to make it through the first 5-10 minutes of this week's episode, we applaud you. We slowly but surely began losing our minds in the beginning, BUT we managed to get back on track and focus on everything international football as well as transfer news from around Europe. From the Finalissima, to the USMNT, Barcelona's potential exits, and Darwin Nunez's blockbuster move to Liverpool...

The club season is now officially over as we recap the Champions League Final on this week's episode! Between Rheon losing money on his bets as well as Real Madrid wildly overperforming in terms of literally every metric, the game was nothing short of...confusing? We try to make sense of all the pre-match chaos, the successes and failures of each team during the game, and what the result means for...

It's the penultimate episode of the season! With all of Europe's Top 5 leagues wrapped up now, we review the last weekend of games in the Premier League, the Women's Champions League Final, and, of course, one of the world's longest transfer sagas - Kylian Mbappé to...PSG? With City officially being crowned Premier League champions, we discuss how the final day almost got away from them, what this...

On the penultimate (kind of) episode of the season, we review the major headlines in England with the title race, Top 4, and relegation! City and Liverpool are going to battle it out on the final matchday to determine who gets to be crowned champion, Arsenal and Spurs swap spots, and Leeds are teetering on the edge of relegation. We also review the takeaways of the FA Cup Final, which saw Chelsea...

With 3 games to go across many of Europe's major leagues, we're coming down to the wire in the Premier League and Serie A Top 4 races as well as relegation across England & Spain. On this week's episode, we recap the big games from England, including a quick preview of the North London Derby. We also review the significance of the Madrid Derby (or lack there of?), what this season meant to Sev...

Real Madrid were behind from 1:32 in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal, until 90:50 in the second leg. From there, the magic of the Bernabéu set in. Additionally, at one point in the second leg tie between Villarreal and Liverpool, the Yellow Submarines were up 2-0. This Champions League campaign will go down as one of the greatest ever. We cover all of the second leg semi-final deta...

On the second pod of the week, we review both Champions League semifinal games! With CIty's exciting win over Real Madrid and Liverpool's dominant performance against Villarreal, next week's second legs are bound to be entertaining. 

On the first of two episodes this week, we're in the home stretch of the Premier League season! We go over the top 4 race in England, whether Arsenal or Spurs are in the driver seat, and the relegation battle after Burnley's win and Everton's loss in the Merseyside derby. We also shift focus to La Liga, recapping the Copa Del Rey final and what might be leading to Barcelona's recent woes. Lastly,...

On this week's *slightly delayed* episode, we go over the battle for the Premier League winner between City and Liverpool, the Top 4 race for Arsenal and Spurs (sorry United fans), and the relegation battle. We also touch on the game of the weekend in Spain, Sevilla vs Real Madrid at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, which saw Real Madrid effectively win the league + the relegation battle in La Liga!

In the second pod of the week, we delve into the results from the Champions League quarterfinals, which saw City, Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Villarreal (!!!) go through to the semifinals. We decided that this week would be a good a time as ever to not only review each tie in detail, but also get into a spirited debate about how some of these teams (*cough Atletico cough*) played over two legs, an...