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ITC LIVE! UWCL Quarterfinal Draw AFTER SHOW | UEFA Women's Champions League QF Matchups Announced · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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Hey Carlos in the house and Hola to P3 Macia sounds like a
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person. Hey, welcome to the to the
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Channel podcast primarily about women's football.
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I am hosting the suspicious and as always I am joined by my Co
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host Mr. Grant Angle. What is up man?
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I'm feeling fantastic, buddy. We have A Champions League draw,
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we know who's going to play each other.
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The UEFA Women's Champions League quarterfinals.
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I think that's pretty exciting. Buddy, let's well, I mean, I
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feel like we waited forever for this.
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It was slightly anticlimactic. I mean, I think it was like the
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shortest telling. Not a lot of, I mean, you take
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what you texted me, not a lot of pomp, no circumstance.
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I think you, you totally nailed it.
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I was kind of hoping for a lot more.
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We did get Leanne on the coverage, so that was great.
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Of course, just kind of breaking it down, she had somebody else
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mentioned that she was part of the 2007 Champions League
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Arsenal side. That that one, she she for the
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first time I think in the history of commentating, she was
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the one that mentioned it out of the gate.
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But yeah, I thought I thought they did a really great job
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covering it. Good explanations.
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I had a great, you know, I love machinations.
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So I think I was fully able to wrap my head around what
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happened. What were your biggest takeaways
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from what we learned this morning?
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It was just funny to see right out of the gate, Real Madrid,
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Arsenal draw each other and I thought, wow, this is now
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officially the Dino Darby, your two squads.
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I was very excited about that. I think it's going to, I think
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it's going to be a great match up too.
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I think that was one right away where I was like, oh, those are
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going to be two physical matches right away.
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Wait a minute. We have Champions League
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football. In the US and a but we're on
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European time today, baby, and it's Friday.
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You know what? It's Friday.
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Sometimes you take a day off, do the right thing, use your PTO.
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You earn your PTO in the United States of America, obviously.
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Well, you're in it everywhere, but especially in the USA where
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so many things are not great for labor, workforce, working class
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folks. I encourage everybody use your
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PTO on Fridays where you have something to celebrate.
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So cheers to you. Cheers to you my good man, and
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to the Champions League. Absolutely.
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I mean Arsenal, Real Madrid, I mean, I OK, wait, don't let me
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get ahead of myself. Let's start.
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We're already here. We're already here.
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We're already here. OK, OK.
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I mean, they're the first, they're the first match up
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drawn. I got to know where was your
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head at? Buddy, your boy was happy.
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I think we talked about, it's funny because we talked about
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the betting odds. Real Madrid, the eighth longest
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odds for any team in Champions League to win the whole thing.
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So, you know, a little deduction, you can kind of say
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maybe Real Madrid is the team that you want to draw.
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Arsenal ends up in the top half of the bracket with Lyon.
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And if you remember my power rankings from last episode, I
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had Chelsea and Barcelona won two, Lyon slightly behind in
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3rd. So if you follow that logic,
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drawing Real Madrid, potentially drawing Lyon in the following
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round is maybe the best possible mathematical draw. 8 good teams.
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You know it's going to be tough either way, but I think a really
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great draw for my Gunners. Yeah, I I think that's about as
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as much as you could ask for. I, I do know you, we even with
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your affinity for Real Madrid, I had a feeling you'd be pretty
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happy with that say though, I mean, you have this affinity for
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Real Madrid because they are really good.
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I I look forward to watching Albert Redondo kind of match up
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against that back line of Arsenal.
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I think that's going to be interesting to see.
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I always think about, I know I've mentioned it like when Real
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Madrid play Chelsea now you know, the Real Madrid players
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when they see Lucy Bronze, they're they're very clearly
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seeing red. They'll be literally seeing red
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when they play Arsenal, but they're going to be looking at
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Mariona be like, I remember you. I don't like playing against
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you. Yeah, yeah, hopefully no swift
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kicks to the shin. My girl Mariona, we got Vespa
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here. Cheers to Vespa.
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I think he's appreciate it. Real Madrid, we talked also last
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episode about the variance, like about they can come out and and
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especially Arsenal, who, you know, within matches, like I
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think they always kind of figure it out, but they do tend to kind
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of wobble. We saw them in the League Cup
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yesterday against City kind of come out a little bit flat.
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I think maybe got outplayed, especially by City's offense.
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And then I think City was able to kind of like hunker down a
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little bit better defensively. But Real Madrid is the type of
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team that I think can put something on Arsenal.
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You rewind back to the the big Bayern Munich win to open up the
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group stage kind of caught Arsenal off guard a little bit.
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I think there's a real risk for that again this time around.
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But the point about the variance is you might get a really good
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Real Madrid, you might get a really kind of mediocre, you
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know, kind of like not not doing a whole lot Real Madrid.
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And I think getting into deep waters with a team like Arsenal,
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this is I think the most definitely the most toss up
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match up of the four. It's going to be tricky.
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It's going to be tricky that I think there's some stuff that's
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going to give Arsenal problems, especially Real Madrid's attack.
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You know, we've talked about the senior Bruins, Linda Kaisto, and
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then I think what we saw City do to Arsenal yesterday I think
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could give an, you know, could give Arsenal fans a little
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pause, but I think it's going to be a great match up.
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Yeah, for sure. I mean player to watch it.
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I'm not exactly breaking news here though, but I I think about
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Caroline Weir. I think if she is able to kind
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of dictate the pace, kind of dictate the terms a little bit
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against Arsenal, I think that would be a a gigantic key.
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And if she is kind of playing off a Ola Carmona, then I I
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think they'll be, they'll be super.
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I mean, they're super live no matter what.
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But I think, I think your gooners are in for a real
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challenger. Yeah, I think players to watch.
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I think a player like Alba Redondo could give Arsenal
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problems. I think a player like Athenaea
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with her speed could give Arsenal problems.
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I think we saw yesterday Mary Fowler just attacked this and
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and Arsenal was playing Steph Gatley kind of way up the field.
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So that meant that on the Mary Fowler goal, she's way past
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Catley and she's running at Wubenoy at pace.
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You know, I think if if that ends up becoming what the match
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up looks like, you got Athenaea Qaiseto dancing.
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You know, Brune just kind of like taking advantage of every
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possibility in front of goal that she can.
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Caroline Weir creating them. I mean, midfield, I think
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Arsenal got the advantage, but Real Madrid definitely in spots
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and moments can really hurt you. For sure, Athenaea is a great
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call out. I I you speak, you spoke of
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betting odds earlier. I do wonder what are the betting
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odds that Ateneya and Emily Fox just engage in a wrestling match
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on the pitch. I I would take, I would take
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that bet because I think that I could foresee a very physical
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match up there. Yeah, yeah, I might have to pull
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Katie McCabe over a little bit just for some for some backup.
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Let's shift gears, though. I want to talk about the Champs.
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I think Barcelona is the other side that got a really, really
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nice break, You know, when you think about how the bracket
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shakes out. So they will get Wolfsburg to
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start on their side of the bracket, Chelsea, Manchester
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City. They obviously had the success
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against Manchester City coming back and making up for that
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opening loss. They got past Chelsea last year
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in the seventh. They got past everybody.
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We were kidding. But I think the fact that they
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won't potentially meet a Lyon or an Arsenal until the final and
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they get Wolfsburg to open, I think I think a pretty good draw
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for Barcelona. Yeah, I think they're, you know,
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they're not like you said, they got past everybody three of the
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last four years. They're not scared of anybody.
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They're arguably the best team in the world.
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But yeah, I think they they should be pretty happy with
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Wolfsburg. Rematch from the 23 Champions
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League final. They won that one three to two.
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Patri had a brace, one of the goal scorers for Wolfsburg in
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that match, Eva Pajor, who was just on an absolute tear.
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I've been meaning to say this since we did our best 11.
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I don't think I, I realize I'm rewinding quite a bit.
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The big miss I had was I had Evapyor all over my notes.
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It was like, make sure you mention her because she's just
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absolutely crushing it. And I don't think I mentioned
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her the best 11, which was foolish by me.
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If if we want to jump right to players to watch for Barcelona,
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I want to see what Pyor does throughout this entire knockout
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stage. I think she has nineteen goals
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across the Champions League and League F this season.
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And so she's just absolutely devastating teams right now.
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Yeah. And I think that back line, that
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Wolfsburg back line is a really good, really good unit to kind
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of maybe try to get things on track.
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Yeah, I think that's that's the match up from the Barcelona
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standpoint. That's the match of them
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watching the closest because I think Barcelona's attack all the
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way back to the midfield, specifically against that
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Wolfsburg backline, I think they have a big, big, big advantage.
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When you flip the field, though, I think offensively, I think,
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you know, you look at Pop, you look at, you know, Svenya who
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you LeBron, those are players you Lebron's going to be tricky
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I think to to contend with. I think we've seen Barcelona not
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really not really struggle, but have to kind of like work up a
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sweat to defend some of these more creative attackers.
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The player that I'm going to be interested in, especially if she
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comes on as a sub because we saw her wreck AS Roma and their
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hopes of their champs in hopes and dreams.
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Spandis Jane, Jones, Dotier. I think a player like that kind
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of like running and attacking and kind of like finding some
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space, especially if the ball is spending most of the time on the
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Barcelona's attacking side of the field, running the counter,
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getting Spandis Jane space. I think could be really could be
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really interesting, could be really dangerous for Parsa.
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I don't think it means a whole lot because Wolfsburg obviously
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the short, short straw in this one, having to face the Champs.
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But does Wolfsburg have I mean, I don't know, you know that
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attack pretty well as well. Do they have any chance against
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Barcelona? I think they you got to say they
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have a chance. I mean, they're Wolfsburg.
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They're what, they're three 2 * 2 time winners of this
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championship. Wow.
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Let me This is why we always record the show.
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They're two time winners of the UFO Women's Champions League
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and, and four time runner up Dio.
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Edit that out in post, please. Yeah, forget it.
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And yeah, I mean, we had some, we had some good comments in
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here. So Alex in the chat says
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Wolfsburg might upset Barcelona before they before they dream to
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meet Chelsea based on a couple of Alex's comments.
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Shout out to you, Alex. Sounds like you're a pretty big
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Chelsea supporter. We'll get to the city match up
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later, buddy. Yeah, I think you know
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Wolfsburg. They can score, obviously.
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I don't even think we've said the name Lenneth Biernstein yet.
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She has twelve goals across the Champions League in front
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Bundesliga right now. Alex Pop still has 9 Jones.
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Don't hear. I think that's a great call out
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by you. Great size.
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I think she's about 5 foot 9510 somewhere in that ballpark could
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give the Barcelona backline some trouble.
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I I'll be interested to see how how they execute set pieces
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against Barcelona. Barcelona obviously incredibly
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disciplined, incredibly smart, good positioning, a lot of
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strength on that team. But if Wolfsburg can kind of
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utilize some of that size, I think they will, you know,
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they'll give themselves the best chance.
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But as we know, as established on this podcast last episode,
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I'm the Barcelona guy. So I I obviously still think
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Barcelona's going to win. Yep, totally.
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Yeah, I think on the Barcelona side, I'll also be watching kind
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of like what they do defensively.
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Seems like there's just almost every every every line up, every
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match up that I think there's some some movement, some line up
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changes along the back. I don't think Wilson is going to
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give them too much trouble, but I don't know.
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We'll see what kind of what what they settled into line up wise
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in League F and Champs League this season. 21 wins, 2 losses,
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no draws for Barcelona. That's a pretty interesting
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stat. We'll see if they're able to
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kind of like, you know, keep the momentum going and then take
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things into the semifinal where they will face either Chelsea or
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Manchester City. All right, I'm going to bring
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I'm going to bring it back to our guy Alex here just to just
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for the record, it's so over for CIT.
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It nice, nice call out there CIT EH4 losses versus Chelsea in 10
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days. We will be there.
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All right, Alex, we'll we'll see.
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We we will see Yeah, shout out to you, man.
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That's that's why we're here yeah.
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I mean, do I feel great about my Manchester City Sky Blues
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playing Chelsea? No, I don't I'll be honest about
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that. We're all friends here, but you
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know, you, you got to be, you got to be great teams to advance
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in the Champions League. So it's going to be it's going
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to be telling to see if you if you ever dip your toe into
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Manchester City football club social media like on Blue Sky,
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people have a lot of thoughts about Gareth Taylor.
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I have some thoughts about Gareth Taylor myself.
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And if they just get absolutely waxed in these two fixtures.
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And let's say, you know, to Alex's point, if it's four
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losses versus Chelsea, let's say they get smashed in in the
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League Cup and they get smashed in these in these semi in these
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quarterfinals. Pardon me, I don't know, man, do
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you do you got to got to look around and say, do we not have
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enough good players? I don't know, it seems like we
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have a lot of good players. What's the What's the issue
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here? Yeah, I think defensively
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there's still some question marks.
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I think they played a little bit more spirited football yesterday
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against Arsenal. But yeah, Gareth Taylor
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probably, I mean, seems like a seems like a nice enough guy,
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but I think he's kind of at that stage where the organization's
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just kind of waiting for the bad look.
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You know, whether it's a couple, couple bad losses or, you know,
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everybody at full strength, some expectations and a huge let
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down. And then that becomes the
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inciting incident for kind of moving on from that coach.
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But I, I, I still think City, if they're able to get to full
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strength, the familiar, the familiarity, Chelsea, you know,
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you know, that team pushed that team last year, you know, in a,
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in a title race, I think it is a little bit of an advantage, you
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know, kind of like knowing that side.
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There's some quite you know, we're winding back to Arsenal,
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Real Madrid. They've never played before in
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the, in the Champions League or according to the the the
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telecast this morning on the zone.
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They've never played each other in the Champs league.
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So that gives me a little bit of a little tiny cause for concern.
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It's like, OK, well, what are we going to be?
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Are we going to know what to expect?
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Chelsea, City, I don't think there's going to be much, you
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know, goal differential between the two.
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I think it's going to be pretty tight.
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I think it's going to be pretty physical.
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It's probably going to come down to the health of City.
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Can they get as many players back as they can?
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They seem to kind of be figuring some stuff out offensively.
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It's just tricky. Like, you go, you got Fowler.
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Fujino was incredible yesterday. Her footwork, I mean, she's got
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Manny Pacquiao feet out there. Like there's just no keeping up
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with her. Fowler.
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I think we've been waiting for the, you know, we've been
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waiting for the Mary Fowler game.
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And I think that huge moment after missing the Piquet, I
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mean, you're a city. You're a city follower.
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What was What was your Mary Fowler experience from
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yesterday? I think that's what I was most
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encouraged by was that she got the PK blocked.
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It was not a great, I mean, I, I understand the strategy.
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You know, she wanted, she thought she could go straight
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down the middle with power and you know, catch catch Van Damsel
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are guessing didn't work. But the fact that she came right
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back and was still playing with confidence in the run of play,
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that's what I want to see. I think what, what you and I
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talk about with her is that her skill set, her ability to shoot
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from range is so dynamic that when you, when that is your
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greatest skill, it can't be a super consistent skill 'cause
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you just can't lean on that like every single game, 50-60 plus
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minutes per match. It's just not going to, you
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know, it just doesn't really work out like that.
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But the fact that she still had it in her to push forward, get
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the ball onto her left foot for that, for that winner and to do
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it right at the death like that. I thought that was a, that was a
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great sign. And you know, you're right, her
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and Fujino were outstanding. I, this is, again, I'm not
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exactly, you know, breaking ground with this, with this
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analysis. So you mentioned it comes down
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to cities health. If they're going to have a
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chance, pardon me, if they're going to have a chance at
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upsetting Chelsea, it's got to be Viv Midima who comes through
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for him. I mean, like she just has to be
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the all time great player that she is if if they're going to
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get through these two ties. I agree with that.
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I don't know that. I mean, we saw Viv like kind of
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run the break yesterday for the first goal to Fowler just kind
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of like dissect the middle of the just straight down the
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middle of the park. I feel like City maybe needs a
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little bit more of that. It's almost like the Nicola
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Yokich, you know, corollary. It's like just get Viv the ball
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in a central area and give her all of the options.
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She can go, she can pass, she can run.
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And I think that's something that hasn't totally been
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utilized. It was interesting also to watch
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Carolyn, you know, such a great player, slowly, kind of like
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getting into the offense, slowly developing some chemistry, but
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you still get the feeling there's so much more to go.
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Yeah, I'm so glad you pointed that out.
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There were multiple moments in that match where Carolyn was
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just like, OK, I'm going to be in my bag here.
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I'm going to try to get past these defenders.
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And sometimes it was working and sometimes it wasn't working,
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which, you know, you're going to expect a competitive game of
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football. But just the fact that she had
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the confidence to be like, OK, I, I think I'm figuring out how
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to do this within the context of the offense, within the context
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of the attack. I thought that was really
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encouraging. So, yeah, I'm excited to see
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that. And shout out to Buddy Shaw, who
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who took who did not appear in the game.
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She was a victim of racial abuse.
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I think it was in the last, in the last match.
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We got to get that shit out of football.
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I know everybody is our, you know, we, we have a lot of great
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pals who watch this show, like minded folks, you know, whatever
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it takes, banning fans, whether it's fines to the club with the
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club has to suffer some kind of consequence.
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I know that could be a controversial opinion at times,
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but we just got to get that shit out there out of here, man.
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We we cannot deal with this as a polite society.
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So shout out to buddy Shaw. Sorry that she had to go through
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that, but you know, as she kind of works her way back in, City's
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going to need her as well. Yeah, 100%.
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And I think the timing is working out pretty well with her
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kind of like working her way back in and total cosign on just
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I don't know, the assholes in the in the audience that, you
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know, like I think somebody mentioned that you can't really
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even call them fans just with with behavior that that's that's
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that despicable. If you would do attend the game
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and somebody next to you is doing something like that, just
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punch them in the face. I mean, I think that's there we
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go do and then, like, you know, kind of sort out the
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consequences afterwards. But you know, you did something
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good for the world. I want to talk a little,
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Chelsea. Sure.
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Last episode, I put Chelsea at the top of my power rankings.
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I still kind of, I still believe that.
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I don't necessarily feel like that makes them my pick to win
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it all. I'm still kind of like noodling
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between those big three. But I think right now, I think
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they're they're top of the table.
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We heard we heard from our buddy, our buddy Dan also on
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that, who had some, some interesting Chelsea takes.
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But I think the key to Chelsea is going to be and, and Dan, Dan
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mentioned this to us, JRK girl writing something really going
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on that it has kind of, I don't know, the deck has been
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shuffled. So to the point where I think
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they they're they're not really getting anywhere near the Max of
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what they could be getting from those two players, Ken Rude and
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girl Wrighton big questions about how Kara Walsh is going to
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fit in, where she's going to fit in Germa.
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I think the backlines are playing interesting about a
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player with with that price tag has got to be sharpied in.
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We'll see. I I think totally reasonable to
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think that Germa will be mostly all the way up to speed by the
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time Champions League rolls out, by the time Champions League
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quarterfinals roll around, do you have which, what match ups?
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I mean, you know, obviously from a defensive standpoint, cities
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had their troubles. Are there any players
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specifically any pairings of players, any groups that you're
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like, hey, I think this could be a problem for us?
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Yeah, I mean, let's see here with with the way the defense
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has been playing and and our pal Dan kind of putting it out there
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into the world. These could be, you know, if
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you're if you're trying to focus on the middle of the field and
21:43
Yui Hasegawa is going to have her hands full with Kat Macario
21:46
and possibly Myra Ramirez. What if it becomes a girl
21:50
writing game? I, I, I want to point out that
21:52
girl writing has nine goals across her WSL play and
21:57
Champions League play that leads Chelsea in this 2425 campaign.
22:02
And written counterroot has has four assists, which actually
22:06
leads the team, which I was a little surprised that that low
22:09
of a number of assists would lead the team during during this
22:11
campaign. Now they do.
22:12
Chelsea still does have seven players who have at least two
22:15
assists. But I, I'm going to look at
22:18
those wings. Alejandre and and Wahhabi played
22:23
better against Arsenal in the League Cup semi final.
22:26
I thought Naomi Lazelle, her presence, she looked better,
22:29
like she's kind of coming back off the injury.
22:33
Her impact was very obvious on you know what, on what City's
22:39
defense looks like. But I I would be concerned with
22:43
the wings and and kind of how how city is going to cope with
22:48
that. I mean, knock is still very much
22:52
getting up to speed in the WSL. So we got to give her time.
22:56
I mean, she just signed with the team.
22:59
But this is my very long winded way of saying I'm afraid
23:02
Chelsea's going to score a lot of goals.
23:04
I think that's my biggest concern.
23:05
I, I, I get what you're saying about how city could keep it
23:08
close. We have obviously dynamic
23:11
players, Fujino, Midima Fowler, you know, park Roared and
23:17
although I would like Roared to start scoring these good looks
23:21
that she has, that would be extremely helpful if the ball
23:24
would go in the net. But so you know how it goes
23:26
sometimes, like sometimes your shot feels good.
23:28
Like if we're talking about like pick up basketball, everything
23:30
feels good on the shot and then the ball's just not going in.
23:33
Hopefully Rod can kind of get that going.
23:35
But we, I think we we're going to have to try to keep up with
23:38
them scoring. Yeah, great call on Rod.
23:44
Couple really good looks in both of the Arsenal matchups.
23:46
Wasn't a good cash in, but she's a great player and hopefully
23:50
it's just a matter of time. But you don't get a ton of time
23:53
from here on out in the Champions League.
23:55
There's only five matches left at the maximum.
23:59
Watching Steen of Laxtenius continue to just run, terrorize,
24:04
have, you know, defenders chasing her.
24:07
If Bon Pastor sends Myra Ramirez out there with Kat Macario
24:12
behind her and Ramirez just able to gallop, that could also be a
24:16
long day, You know, just trying to keep up.
24:20
It just kind of felt like there was one where Alessandra
24:24
yesterday looks at Blackstenius. The the past kind of comes over
24:29
the top and then she just lets Blackstenius run onto it.
24:33
And then kind of she, it's almost like she saw another
24:37
defender there next to Blackstenius.
24:39
She's like, OK, well, yeah, there's an invisible defender
24:42
there watching. I'm like, whoa, what are you
24:43
doing? Like, it's not that she didn't
24:45
see her. She looked at her, let her run
24:47
and then was like, oh, better, you know, better see if I could,
24:50
you know, kind of chase her here.
24:51
So I think definitely a lot to work out.
24:53
Totally agree with you on Lazelle, too.
24:55
I think my point about City's defense and their athleticism
24:59
and their kind of toughness, Lazelle is like a great player
25:03
for that. She's like super spirited.
25:04
She plays tough, looks to be like a pretty great athlete, so
25:09
probably a player that maybe is is earning herself some more
25:12
minutes. So how do you feel?
25:17
Do you feel like Sidney's got a shot here?
25:20
Obviously the the first ones at home.
25:23
How do you see the tie shaken out?
25:26
Life is short, man. I, I, I try not to.
25:28
I try not to be too much of AI mean you you've known me long
25:33
enough to where sometimes fatalism can be a little bit in
25:36
my nature. But in my in my career choice in
25:40
in my just maturation as an adult, I am I have become less
25:46
fatalist, less pessimistic over time, even though, you know,
25:51
recent events in in in the world and United States culture would
25:55
might, you know, might try to make be trying to convince me
25:59
otherwise to be less pessimistic.
26:00
Doesn't matter. Yeah, we got a chance.
26:02
I mean, you know, if if you if you are roll, if you're rolling
26:05
the ball out of the field and you have Bunny Shaw and Viv meet
26:09
him on your team, you have a chance to score enough goals to
26:12
win. So yeah, we absolutely have a
26:15
chance. I'm looking forward to it.
26:16
I'm I'm looking forward to seeing what the League Cup final
26:18
looks like. You know what, Chelsea Blues Not
26:22
scared of you. We'll see how it goes.
26:23
Yeah. Am I?
26:23
Am I do? Am I concerned you're going to
26:26
score a lot of goals? Sure.
26:27
But if you know nothing, nothing's stopping us from
26:30
winning A5 to four match or a four to three match.
26:32
Even though I really don't want to go that way.
26:34
That's fine. We still have a chance.
26:36
I'm not giving up hope. I love it.
26:39
That's there you go, that's the spirit.
26:42
Let's talk about the last matchup, Leon, Bayern Munich and
26:46
shout out to our guy. Where are we at here?
26:48
Shout out to our guy Carlo Wilson who says shout out
26:52
Latrobe PA. Also, you already know what time
26:54
it is Carlo. Let's fucking go.
26:55
Always big Chelsea fan here, but I believe Leon will win it all.
27:00
How do you feel? About wow.
27:03
I mean, yeah, sure. They're they're live.
27:05
Is I always say that I I always say this about Real Madrid and
27:10
the men's on the men's side, is there a Champions League being
27:13
played? Yes.
27:15
Could Real Madrid on the men's side win?
27:18
Yes. Is there a women's Champions
27:19
League being played? Yes.
27:20
Could Lyon win? Yes.
27:22
What are they eight time champions in this tournament 5
27:25
consecutive from 2016 to 2023 time runner up, including last
27:29
year. You know, do they have the do
27:32
they have the firepower to score?
27:34
I don't know. Let's take a look between
27:36
between the Premier League and the Champions League this year.
27:39
Melchi du Mornay has thirteen goals, Lindsay Horan has 12
27:42
Cadidatu DNE has 10. Vanessa Jiel, Daniella Vander
27:46
Donk and Tabitha Chowinga each have six goals.
27:49
So yeah, this team can score, score, score.
27:53
But I know this is one of your favorite parts about the team.
27:56
They can shut you down on defense, too.
27:58
A. 100% yeah. And I think there was some talk
28:03
about Tarsiani specifically who they just signed and the talk
28:07
was like 21 years old, kind of kind of bring her along slowly.
28:11
They signed her to a multi year deal and I think it's sort of a
28:15
little bit of a long term plan to replace Wendy Renar.
28:18
So I think she's going to be there, you know, in the mix.
28:22
But I think I think that that unit is so strong.
28:25
And then, you know, out on the outside, Ellie Carpenter, Sophie
28:29
Svava, couple of Ferraris out there, able to kind of get up
28:32
and back, you know, as fast as you know, they feel like it
28:35
basically. And then Jill and Renar in the
28:38
center are monsters. So I think the, the, the key
28:42
really to me remains their defense.
28:46
And, and if they're going to win, it's going to be 1 nil, 2
28:50
nil, 21, like those types of affairs.
28:52
Even though they've got the firepower, I think they kind of
28:54
want to be able to squeeze the life out of the game a little
28:57
bit and know that they're going to get chances on the other end.
29:02
I think Du Mornay offensively is a real key for them.
29:05
You just kind of forget how young, how young she's still.
29:08
I think she's still 21 years old, but just the best kind of
29:12
explosive creative. She's got the precision to kind
29:17
of put the ball on the back of the net and just totally
29:20
unafraid. And then you think about a
29:21
player like Amel Majri who you can bring off the bench.
29:24
It had it had a burger as well. So I think pedigree wise, it's
29:28
all there. It's just going to be a matter
29:30
of can they shake off a little bit of the the bad juju of of
29:35
being on the wrong end of these Barcelona matchups.
29:38
Yeah, totally, totally understandable.
29:41
I would say our P3 Maja in the in the chat mentions Preneil
29:45
Harder being a key for Bayern Munich.
29:47
Yeah, 32 year old strikers, you know, kicked off the Champions
29:51
League group stage with the Hattie against Jared Gooners.
29:55
You know, if if they can get some some solid, you know, some
29:59
even just like real threats from Harder in the final third and
30:04
maybe create some havoc for that Leon backline.
30:07
It's just man, that's such a tall order to like, what are you
30:10
Like how many times have we seen Wendy Renar really looked
30:14
panicked back there? Maybe the only time is just that
30:18
one time CGH put her in the spin cycle and last year's Champions
30:22
League final. Other than that, she is as as
30:24
cool headed as anybody else. But yeah, I, you know, with Stan
30:29
way out, that's an absolute, you know, disaster for Bayern.
30:35
They they're going to have to find a way to, you know, they
30:40
they'll I think they'll be able to hold the ball.
30:42
You know, I don't think they necessarily let me backtrack on
30:44
that. I don't think they'll
30:44
necessarily have to find a way to hold the ball because Leon
30:48
will be comfortable sitting back, playing defense and then
30:52
just crushing you on the counter.
30:54
I think the the goal for Byron might be, you know, let's hold
30:57
the ball. Let's try to control the pace of
30:58
the game and not get crushed on that counter.
31:02
Easier said than done, yes, but is it a game plan they might try
31:05
to try to employ? I'm anxious to see it.
31:09
Yeah, 100% the the Stanway, the Stanway injury totally
31:15
devastating and I agree with you there.
31:16
I really hoping that she's got a quick recovery ahead of her.
31:22
That midfield a little bit thin, you know that you got to kind of
31:25
lead on Zadrazils, the Hitler, maybe Clara Bull drops back a
31:29
little bit. And we've seen Bayern struggle
31:35
to put the ball on the back of the net on plays that are not
31:37
set pieces. So I think that could be a key
31:40
offensively for them. Let's try to hold the ball and
31:42
shut her in some some fouls and then give ourselves some chances
31:45
here. But ultimately, and I'm glad you
31:48
also brought her pretty harder. She had a great, great quote on
31:51
the live on the on the draw show when asked who she'd want to
31:57
face. You know, we're in the US where
31:58
it's like, who do you want to face?
31:59
The answer is always like, Oh yeah, I just wanted to go out,
32:02
play a great game, focus on my prepper, You know, it doesn't
32:04
really matter. So when it went pretty hard, I
32:06
was asked who she wants to face. Here's her quote.
32:10
I don't know who I would like to face.
32:11
I think it's 3 great teams will be difficult no matter who we
32:14
get. Pause.
32:16
But it would be fun to go back to Chelsea and play in front of
32:19
the fans there. Barcelona might be the most
32:22
difficult. So yeah, let's say Chelsea or
32:24
Lyon. How about that?
32:27
Let's go good for her, man. There is something about this.
32:30
I know we we talk about we tried not to lean way too far into it,
32:34
but there is something about that German honesty.
32:37
And maybe that's just kind of rubbing off on perneal harder
32:40
considering she's Danish. So please don't come for me,
32:43
everybody. I know she's Danish.
32:45
I'm she plays for a German side. Maybe, I don't know, maybe
32:47
Danish people are just outwardly honest as well.
32:50
Or maybe it's just depends on who you are as an individual
32:52
person. Who knows?
32:53
I'm rambling at this point. We're live, but I love that.
32:57
I love that attitude. Yeah, like she she's she knows
33:00
who she would like to play. And now she gets Lyon and we get
33:03
to see how she how she plays. Let me real quick in the chat,
33:07
our pal Blade Runner. I didn't know Blade.
33:09
I didn't know you're from Norwich.
33:11
That's super red. Thanks for thanks for hopping on
33:13
with us. Always great to hear from you
33:15
buddy. Let's go, yeah.
33:17
Love Blade Runner. Appreciate the YouTube comments
33:20
as well, Blade. Absolutely.
33:23
All right, let's make some predictions.
33:26
I wanna let's fill out a bracket.
33:27
You wanna fill out a bracket? Sure, let's go.
33:31
OK. Yeah, I mean, you're gonna make,
33:33
you're gonna make me do a thing here, but that's fine.
33:36
Listen, these aren't official predictions.
33:37
These are live show. Nobody's watching.
33:40
Let's go. All right, let's go.
33:42
Barcelona, Wolfsburg. What do you got?
33:46
Barcelona, no disrespect to Wolfsburg, I think it'll be, I
33:49
think the, the, the match in Germany will be relatively
33:52
close, will be close. You know, I'm not going to
33:55
disrespect Wolfsburg. They're a great club.
33:57
They they have great players, but Barcelona's going to get
33:59
through. All right, I agree with you
34:01
there. Chelsea City.
34:03
I think I would, I mean I, I, I think Chelsea is top of my power
34:06
ranking. So I would I would put them
34:08
through unless you have an unless you have an objection.
34:12
Oh, is this, Is this a group bracket?
34:14
We're not doing our own separate brackets.
34:18
We could do our separate brackets.
34:19
We'll separate brackets, right? Because we've got the ITC
34:23
personal record book here, right?
34:25
I'm ready to go. I can't prepare.
34:29
Look, man, do you want, do I? You know, I like manager, you
34:34
know, you know, I like manager stylistic clashes.
34:38
I like manager matchups. So, but I'm going to go
34:41
completely against that because, yeah, who would I pick as a
34:44
manager between Sonia Bone Pastor and Gareth Taylor?
34:47
I think we know the answer to that question.
34:50
But I'm not picking against Manchester City, giving
34:52
Manchester City to get through. They get off the side, they
34:55
figure out the defense, Lazio continues to get more healthy.
34:58
We score goals, we're getting past Chelsea.
35:00
It's happening. Sorry, Alex.
35:02
You can laugh at me when that doesn't happen.
35:05
And I saw P3 Maja's comment earlier, a Barcelona supporter
35:09
telling me that they'll be there when City gets knocked out.
35:12
I appreciate that. Also, I think P3 told me don't
35:15
cry when city gets knocked out. I'm not promising that maybe I
35:18
will cry. P3, it's fine if I do.
35:21
Don't worry about me. We could.
35:22
Yeah, help you out, right? Sure, 25, let's second go.
35:28
All right, I'm taking Chelsea. I appreciate your your
35:30
enthusiasm. That's fine, OK.
35:34
Let's just Scroll down the bracket here.
35:36
Arsenal, Real Madrid, I've got to take Arsenal.
35:39
I mean, I think, you know, I am a little nervy about that first
35:46
one, especially if they give up some early goals.
35:49
But I don't know, I think the the couple back-to-back to back
35:52
matches against a reeling Manchester City.
35:55
Renee Slager's obviously taking the permanent job.
35:58
You know, it's so wild, like we've now circled all the way
36:02
back around to the point where, again, Arsenal cannot figure out
36:08
the Stena Blacksteinius, Alessia Russo split or positioning or
36:13
share of the ball or share of the field or who goes where or
36:15
how do the minutes get split up. I think we had it for a minute.
36:19
It could just be that Stena was a tough, a tough assignment for
36:24
City's defense. And maybe we see Alessia back,
36:26
you know, in the in that #9 spot.
36:29
But assuming they can get that worked out, I feel like Arsenal
36:34
should should advance relatively comfortably.
36:39
I think I think, you know, it's not so much.
36:41
I don't think it'll be too much in contention late.
36:44
I think Real Madrid puts up a major fight at home.
36:48
But if Arsenal is able to stay close heading back to north
36:51
London, I think they'll they'll have enough to get.
36:53
Through. OK.
36:56
All right. Let's see some wheels turning.
36:59
Yeah, I mean, not that, not that close.
37:01
That's the I feel like that's pretty bold from you.
37:06
Give me Real Madrid. Oh, we're going to.
37:10
Are you taking them? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll take
37:13
them. Yeah.
37:18
I, I mean, I like we're so much. Kaiseto's an absolute nightmare.
37:23
Her. I think her speed might give
37:25
your back line some, some real difficulty.
37:27
I mean, considering she her speed literally gives every
37:30
human being alive difficulty. It seems like I like the make
37:34
up. I like the grit.
37:36
I, I mean, you know, I, I never shut up about Olga Carmona.
37:39
So, you know, I like the leadership there.
37:42
Yeah, I think I'm and and this is a Champions League match, so
37:47
I should probably pick the Spanish team over the English
37:49
team in most cases. So I'm going to do that.
37:52
And also just for some quick some quick housekeeping, P3 just
37:56
just mentioned that the the don't cry comment was directed
38:00
toward Chelsea fans, not City fans.
38:01
Thank you for that, P3. I wasn't going to take offense
38:03
if you told me not to cry, but I think we all know no matter what
38:08
happens, no disrespect to the Chelsea players are obviously
38:10
their alleged manager. Chelsea supporters probably will
38:13
cry. And no offense to you, Alex,
38:15
you're our guy. Yeah, of course.
38:19
Yeah, Alex, Carlo, you guys are the best.
38:21
But yeah, so if, if Chelsea loses, you know what?
38:24
You're free to cry too, though, if if you want.
38:26
It's totally understandable. We're we are we.
38:29
We don't judge on this podcast. Yeah, we're we're neither.
38:32
I mean, we're not anti cry. I don't know whether we're pro
38:35
cry, but we're we're we're cry agnostic.
38:37
If we cry, that's not biggie. Let's all right, so we've
38:42
already got two dissenting opinions on our bracket.
38:45
So I I love the way this is shaping out last match up.
38:49
I feel like the Stanway injury really fucked this match up.
38:53
This was a real bummer. I think I have to I mean, Leon
38:56
Byron got the toughest draw of the bunch.
38:58
I think they would have. I don't think that was a good
39:00
answer at once. Stanway goes down,
39:02
unfortunately. I think Leon kind of like it's
39:05
through that Leon. Well, here's a take.
39:08
I think Leon clears the first round this quarterfinal round
39:13
with the biggest goal differential with the least
39:15
amount of sweat broken. Yeah, good take.
39:18
I love that. Yeah.
39:20
And I totally agree. I think, you know, obviously the
39:22
stand way injury is what it is, but Leon just looks like an
39:26
absolute juggernaut right now because they are, I mean, you
39:28
know, they're one A1, like historical, whatever you want to
39:33
look at juggernaut of the sport of Europe.
39:36
They're just, it's just too much for Bayern Munich to overcome.
39:41
Yeah, I believe it. Good to see them get here,
39:45
though, after the last year, they kind of crapped out so
39:47
early. So I think this was a a step in
39:51
the right direction for Bayern. But we talked about it too at
39:54
the end of the group stage, not winning the not winning.
39:59
The group really crushed up. It's the difference between
40:03
facing Real Madrid and then having to go face Leo and, you
40:07
know, to kind of get through. And now as the two seed, you
40:10
know, you'd have to, you'd have to beat Lyon, maybe Arsenal and
40:13
then maybe Barcelona in the final.
40:15
So it, it is really punishing to not win your group, right?
40:19
So we've got our semifinals, I've got Barcelona, Chelsea,
40:21
Arsenal, Lyon. I went full chalk there.
40:24
No biggie. You've got Barcelona, you've got
40:27
Barcelona, City, Real Madrid and Lyon.
40:30
So let's kind of finish, let's close out this bracket and let's
40:33
let's award a quarterfinals draw way, way, way too early
40:37
Champion. I'll go to you first.
40:39
Barcelona City in the long-awaited rematch,
40:43
long-awaited group stage rematch.
40:44
Who do you got? The rubber match, if you will,
40:46
if you like a good sports cliche.
40:48
I don't. I don't know if they use that.
40:49
I don't know if they use that over in Europe.
40:51
The rubber match, I think typically a baseball
40:53
terminology, folks who might might not be familiar.
40:56
It's when one team wins the first, the other team wins the
40:59
2nd and then the third kind of breaks the tie.
41:01
Even with this sky blue, you know, just my general sky blue
41:07
love. You know, you got it.
41:10
You got to pick with your head at times.
41:12
Also, I mean, Barcelona, I, I do believe they're the best team in
41:16
this tournament. I, I, I think they'll get past
41:19
city. We, we saw what happened.
41:20
Now, obviously, I don't think Mitimo was available in the
41:23
second fixture and she was huge in the first match when city was
41:27
able to pull that off at home. But you know what, no matter
41:31
what happens to this semi final we saw because of the draw,
41:34
Barcelona's going to be at home in this semi final.
41:38
And I just think that's going to be too much for City to
41:40
overcome. So give me give me Barcelona and
41:43
also shout out to Gretchen, who said she's here for it.
41:45
When I cry on the pod, when Chelsea move on, you're the
41:48
you're the best Gretchen, you, you might get your wish.
41:51
Who knows, We'll see. Definitely not getting edited
41:56
out if if we get to that point. All right, Barcelona, Chelsea on
42:00
my side of the bracket. I've got to do it, I mean.
42:06
Guys can do it. Yes, do it.
42:10
It's I mean, and shout out to our guy or gal MLS.
42:13
I'm not even sure. I think it's a guy who who did
42:17
echo some of my kind of like some of my trepidation around,
42:21
you know, picking Barcelona and seeing some of the cracks going
42:24
in. I just feel like it's really, I
42:27
mean, obviously when you talk to you talk about Leon winning
42:29
eight in like what was 8 and 11 years, something crazy like
42:33
that, and five straight. Barcelona's not going to win
42:36
every single Champions League from now to the end of time.
42:39
I think at some point the runs going to end.
42:43
These teams were close last year, you know?
42:46
Yeah. And and like, that's the lens
42:48
that I'm looking at this through.
42:50
How much better did Chelsea get? Chelsea definitely made changes.
42:54
You know, it wasn't just a we're we're only adding, you know,
42:57
there's a managerial change. They have some injuries, some
43:02
stuff in flux. But you look at like, you know,
43:04
stuff players that we might have forgotten about, Sandy
43:06
Baltimore, in addition to obviously Kerma, Kira Walsh and
43:10
then some of the other moves, Vika Kaptan, another player that
43:14
is kind of growing into that role, you know, in the midfield.
43:17
I think it's going to get some chance to be able to learn from
43:18
like just the most elite of elite players.
43:22
And then Barcelona, as good as they looked last year, as great,
43:26
as unbeatable as they looked last year, they look almost as
43:30
unbeatable but not as unbeatable.
43:33
So that's fair. I'm not saying that they're that
43:36
Chelsea's necessarily hands down better, but they're going to
43:40
have to play again. And there's in the back of their
43:43
minds, I think there's going to be a lot of, you know,
43:46
understanding that that Chelsea pushed this Barcelona team to
43:49
the brink last year, had some bad luck with the red card, you
43:53
know, some some other stuff. And it really took to the last
43:57
2025 minutes until that tie was decided.
44:00
I just feel like Chelsea puts it together, is able to get it
44:04
done, is able to get over the hump.
44:06
Maybe Kyra Walsh steps into that dressing room.
44:08
He's got some some secret sauce, some secret salsa.
44:12
Which is going to be. Another you know, sprinkle on
44:14
Sonia's game plan. Give me Chelsea to advance to
44:16
the. Champion, look at you.
44:19
Oh, it's fantastic. You had to do it.
44:22
You have good reasons. It's I think it's all it's all
44:24
absolutely valid. If Chelsea is able to get past
44:28
Manchester City, I think you know, it's a, it's a valid, it's
44:32
a valid pick. All right, awesome.
44:35
I've got them in the finals. You've got them going home in a
44:38
few weeks. Let's click and go right bottom
44:40
of the bracket, Real Madrid versus Leon.
44:46
I think, you know, if, if you're Real Madrid, you feel great
44:52
about making the semis. And again, I, I realize, you
44:55
know, I, I don't, I don't mean to just like totally repeat
44:58
myself. There's just there's just so
45:00
much quality in Leon's side that I think we could also be
45:06
witnessing some 2014 San Antonio Spurs shot to our pal CTX, who's
45:13
always, always rocking with us, Big San Antonio Spurs supporter,
45:18
where you lose in the final and then you're just on a revenge
45:21
shore. Leon certainly appears to be on
45:24
that revenge tour right now with the way they're just destroying
45:27
everybody. I think I think Madrid will will
45:30
try to muck it up those try to make it as physical as possible.
45:34
But yeah, give me, give me Lyon to advance to the final.
45:38
Yeah, I agree with that. Thinking about that potential
45:41
match up specifically and speaking to the the variants of
45:45
Real Madrid, I could kind of see Real Madrid maybe shocking Lyon
45:49
at home 22 nil, maybe more maybe like, I don't know, something
45:54
crazy. Three, you know, like I don't
45:55
know the same way that city shocked Barcelona to open the
45:58
group stage and then just getting waxed when they hit to
46:01
like losing like 5:00 to 1:00. And then we're just like, oh, we
46:04
I can't believe we thought Real Madrid could get through.
46:06
They have that kind of like high ceiling, low floor as the the
46:11
quarterfinals. Arsenal, Lyon got to make a pick
46:13
here. I got to go with Leon.
46:16
I think Leon, I think they can win the whole thing.
46:19
I don't think Arsenal could win the whole thing.
46:23
I feel like they're ceiling is maybe sneaking into the final.
46:28
I don't, I don't think there's any way that Byron gets past
46:31
Leon. So it's going to be Leon waiting
46:33
for them in the next round. And you know, my Gunners I think
46:37
are outgunned, no pun intended, in that match up.
46:39
So give me Leon. Yeah, give me that Leon Chelsea
46:43
final. All right, I love it.
46:47
The Sonya Bone Pastor match, if you will.
46:50
Let's go, Sonya Bowl. All right?
46:53
And you've got Barsa Leon just in our, in our fake bracket.
46:57
These aren't official picks. We're just kind of off the cuff.
46:59
We're we're, we'll do it live. We'll do it live.
47:03
Give me a a a title winning pick based on our wacky bracket here
47:07
and then give me a score line. This is what you call
47:12
vindication, my good man. As I've mentioned on the podcast
47:17
before, I was silly. I was, I, I, you know, I was
47:21
maybe a bit foolish, but really not that foolish because, like,
47:24
how how foolish can you be if you pick Leon to win a football
47:26
match, especially in the Champions League?
47:29
But I picked Leon to beat Barcelona.
47:31
Yeah, right. I picked Leon to beat Barcelona
47:34
in last year's Champions League final.
47:37
Fool me once, Shame on you. Fool me twice.
47:44
Yeah. Whatever the George W Bush quote
47:46
is, he's an idiot. Can't get fooled.
47:48
Yeah. Won't get fooled again.
47:51
Yeah, but fool me twice. Shame on me.
47:53
I won't get fooled again. Even though I have no intention
47:56
of quoting Georgia Vivos again. He's an idiot.
47:58
We don't. We don't rock with that guy.
48:00
At any rate, I'm taking Barcelona to win it all over
48:03
Chelsea. You know, whether it's one nil
48:06
or two one or something like that.
48:08
I just think Barcelona's going to get back.
48:10
No, no, no. Oh, no.
48:12
This course. Prediction.
48:14
Oh, OK. Yeah, give me two to one. 2:00
48:19
to 1:00. Love it.
48:20
Thanks for not letting me sit on the fence there.
48:22
I know you and Leanne Sanderson not allowing anybody to ever sit
48:26
on the fence. We don't play, all right, so I'm
48:30
going to take, yeah, I can't believe I'm doing this, but at
48:34
that same score line, I'm going to take Chelsea 2 to one or
48:37
Leon. It'd be a heartbreaking outcome.
48:42
You know, there is there is there is the added benefit in
48:45
the Sonia bowl of Sonia knowing those players, knowing that
48:48
system, knowing you know, a couple things that might be she
48:51
might be able to exploit, especially within a one game
48:54
sample. So that would actually be a
48:55
great, great break for Chelsea if they do draw Leone, even
48:59
though Leone are absolutely loaded.
49:00
That came it's as toss up as 5050 as it gets.
49:04
Would be an incredible final. And then you would have Chelsea
49:09
coming off in my wacky bracket, getting past Barcelona, so
49:13
they'll have kind of slayed the dragon there and maybe would
49:16
have just had one more to finish the job.
49:18
So I've got Chelsea over Leone, 2:00 to 1:00.
49:19
You got Barcelona Leone 2 to one.
49:22
Let me let me amend that. I don't want us to both to be
49:25
two to one. I I want to stick with, I think
49:27
a final score. Let me say one no sorry to I
49:34
like it. Sorry to call the late audible,
49:35
but it's it's so hard to score in these finals and that
49:38
Barcelona match could have finished one nil.
49:41
It was on track to finish one nil until Alexia had the the
49:44
monumental, historic, amazing goal as called by our pal Chris
49:48
Sharples. Written in the stars as as our
49:51
guy said. Yeah, love that.
49:53
And then he came on our show and called her the Queen in a very
49:56
differential way, which just stuck with me.
49:58
I'm just like him. Yeah, there's just.
50:01
There's just the one Alexia and then MLS in our YouTube
50:04
comments. Predicted had a super spicy take
50:10
that he thought Alexia gets her third Balandor before Aitana
50:14
does, which I loved. Great job, I love Alex.
50:19
Anything else you want to hit before we get out of here?
50:21
We did it live. I think we, I think we did a
50:24
thing live. I mean, Carlo, P3, Sasholo,
50:27
Alex, Gretchen, I mean, handle. Thank you.
50:33
Yeah, you guys are. You guys are seriously the best,
50:35
the nicest people on the Internet.
50:37
We we appreciate you tolerating our foolishness, chopping it up
50:40
with us, giving us the, you know, some background, some
50:43
education on the sport, you know, listening to our, our I,
50:46
our thoughts and ideas. You guys are just seriously very
50:49
kind. It's hard to find nice people on
50:51
the Internet and you guys are the absolute best.
50:54
Yeah, 100%. I'm just laughing, Sacholo.
50:56
It's the final City versus Arsenal just for us.
50:59
I appreciate that. That would be incredible.
51:02
On the telecast they said first time a country had three
51:05
representatives in the wave of the Women's Champions League
51:07
quarter final. So I don't know, who knows,
51:09
could be, could be England's moment, could be the WS, LS
51:12
moment. Really excited to track that as
51:14
well. Anything on it?
51:19
I think no, no, it's all right. No, I think we.
51:23
Edit it out and you know, it'd be super clean.
51:24
We just go. Nobody would know the nobody
51:27
would be the wiser. But.
51:28
Yeah, we've, we've, we've removed the curtain, we've
51:31
pulled back the curtain for people to be like, Oh yeah, they
51:33
really do kind of edit those shows quite a bit.
51:35
Yes, that is how it works. But credit, you know, let me
51:39
just say real quick. Before, sorry, real quick, good.
51:41
In the last episode, it was funny because I was like, we're
51:44
talking to we're talking about the Luca trade.
51:46
And I was like, all right, you know, like it's OK, we could
51:48
talk Luca. We're about an hour in.
51:50
And then when I look at the edit, we were an hour in during
51:53
recording, but at the edit point we're at like 41, 41 minutes.
51:57
It's like a really funny editing quirk.
51:59
Sorry, I didn't mean to derail. No, no, that, that that makes
52:02
sense. Yeah, the, there is stuff that
52:05
gets left on the cutting room floor, no doubt.
52:08
But that just opens the door for me to credit you, my good man.
52:11
And just. I'm just going to pull back the
52:12
curtain even further. Dino is the master editor of
52:15
this program. Makes me not sound like even
52:19
more of a rambling Jackass at points.
52:22
So, I mean, you know, shout out to our guy.
52:24
Round of applause. Thank you for always doing the
52:26
the editing, although I think we kept this this live show pretty
52:28
tight. I would say so, yeah.
52:31
Nothing too embarrassing here. All right, man, I think we did
52:34
it. Spin the episode into the
52:35
channel, live episode into the channel.
52:37
So I can go and try to see if we could do more of this as we
52:40
proceed to the future. Thank you for hanging out.
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53:03
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