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ARSENAL WIN 2025 UWCL 🏆 Arsenal 1 Barcelona 0 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  OK, welcome to a very special Arsenal won the fucking
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  Champions League edition of Into the Channel, a podcast primarily
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  about women's football. I am your host Dino De
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  Suspicious and as always I am joined by my Co host Mr. Grant
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  Angle. Not on mute.
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  What is up man? Ready to go, ready, ready for
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  the final, ready to cover the final.
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  But usually I say I'm feeling fantastic, but something tells
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  me it's still as happy as I am for you.
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  There's no fantastic feeling that I could I could have That's
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  even approaching how you must be feeling right now.
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  I mean, like, if you zoom out for roll the tape, what kind of
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  score line do I envision? And I got to tell you, buddy,
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  you know, yes, this when I talk about the stars aligning right
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  down to the point of our guy Chris Sharples on the call
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  coming on with us. I mean, these legends of the
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  game in the some of them in the twilight of their career, think
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  about Kim little Mariana Caldente.
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  You think about the the storybook notion of Mariana
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  telling your teammates. I'm going to see you in the
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  final and now here we are. Everything that they've gone
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  through to get here and I just feel like we're on the cusp of a
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  historic sports upset. So give me let's go.
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  Arsenal 1, Barcelona nil and we just basically get Buster
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  Douglas over Mike Tyson too. That's just, that's just
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  absolutely wonderful. That's perfect.
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  OK, so I mean, yeah, let's just start there.
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  Not only did I get a historic, I mean, well, well, let me rewind
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  back a bit. I think the biggest upset for
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  sure, the biggest upset for a championship that I've ever
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  rooted for, and maybe the biggest upset that I've ever
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  rooted for. I mean, just I cannot believe
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  when you think about the stakes, the odds kind of like where and
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  then the prediction, like the prediction just took it like
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  right around the 2030 minute mark.
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  I'm like, Oh my, this thing might be live.
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  It's one nil to the arsenal might be live.
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  But you know, obviously by my energy level, we're hours
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  removed from the final and I'm still absolutely buzzing.
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  The adrenaline's still pumping. I want to kick it right back to
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  you. Mighty on a style.
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  What what was your what was your your big zoom out on the final.
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  We talked about Arsenal's grittiness and toughness in the
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  build up to get here and you know, you know, coming back
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  against against hacking, even in the qualifying stage, taking the
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  loss on the chin to Byron, getting their get back in the in
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  match day six. We'll talk about that too,
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  because that was referenced during this match.
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  You know, coming back from against Real Madrid, against
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  Leon, no comeback necessary here, but the toughness was
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  cranked up to 11 I felt throughout the entire match.
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  Absolutely. And let's let's cheers to that
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  toughness. Damn right.
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  I mean, shout out to our pal Gretchen Little, who always got
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  who is a a great friend of the pod comments on YouTube
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  mentioned that we should perhaps consider switching to tequila If
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  your prediction came right. Gretchen, that's a little
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  intense. I like your spirit.
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  I like where your head's at, but I did I was I was concerned for
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  my health and safety, especially if where we'd be drinking
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  tequila since the victory. So, but in spirit, we still got
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  the beers. Absolutely.
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  Cheers to you, Gretchen. Great comment.
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  Great call. I when I when I saw the comment,
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  I was like, yeah, we're not going to have to worry about
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  that. I'm not going to have to pick up
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  some tequila or champion or anything like that.
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  But here we are Arsenal, champions of Europe.
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  Unbelievable. So much to talk about in this
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  match. I mean, I think, like all jokes
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  aside, a perfect storm of, you know, slightly off day for
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  Barcelona Arsenal, killer game plan, killer execution and an
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  upset for the ages. I mean, like I said, so many
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  different places we can start when when we think about the
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  game. Mr. Granagle, where do you want
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  to get started? We got to do the final Champions
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  League episode of the season. Well, I guess not really,
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  because we will be joined by the voice of the final, who we'll
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  talk about in this episode, because that was a championship
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  level performance, not just on the pitch by your Arsenal, but
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  also by Chris Sharples and Courtney Sweetman, Kirk and
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  Leanne. I mean, come on, we'll talk
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  about that later. Sorry, getting sidetracked
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  already. Where?
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  Where should we start? We should start from the
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  beginning. Let's talk about this match in
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  chronological order. I love it.
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  And actually, before we get to the chronology, because it's
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  funny you mentioned Leanne, I texted Leanne
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  OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG and then she hasn't written back
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  because she's probably partying with the, the the gang at
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  Arsenal and probably just reeks of champagne.
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  And you know, they're, they're probably still going even though
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  it's, it's well into to Sunday over there.
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  I wouldn't blame them, but I think your I think your message
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  was appropriate. That about that largely sums it
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  up, but we'll get into some of the finer points on on this
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  podcast. 100% yeah. And, and on that note, super,
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  super glad we decided not to do a live show after the final
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  because I was a blubbering mess from from U2's beautiful day
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  through North London forever. I think that was like a 8 to 12
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  minutes. What is time, really?
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  Who knows it it could have been 45 seconds, but it felt like an
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  8 to 12 minute stretch of just emotional, you know, lack lack
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  of the total lack of emotional control.
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  I was just a wreck. You know, there was, there was,
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  there were tears, there was adrenaline, there were nerves.
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  I was doing jumping jacks here, flipping out.
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  But let's put that off to the side, back to the game.
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  Sorry about that. No good.
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  I mean, that's, that's how it should feel, man.
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  Your team just won the goddamn Champions League.
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  Let's go. I mean, this is what we're this
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  is what we're here for. So I mean, when, when the match
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  kicked off, you know, Leanne, I, I'm guessing I didn't see it on
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  WhatsApp. Obviously she was very busy.
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  She didn't let us know how the match was going to go. 10
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  minutes in. It's all right, Leanne, you're
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  still our pal, you're still a legend.
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  But I felt in those first 10 minutes, and I think Courtney
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  Sweep and Kirk mentioned it too. It's just like, I know it's only
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  10 minutes of the match, but I think there is plenty of reason
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  to be like, OK, Arsenal's going to play physical.
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  They're not going to be afraid to try to push the ball down
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  field. They're going to try to maintain
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  some sense of calm when Barcelona is pressing them.
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  And I, I thought the, I thought the opening was promising.
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  I'm really curious where your head was at.
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  Totally agree about the promising opening.
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  And sometimes you see this when a team is overmatched where
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  they're like, you know what, we're going to play our game.
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  We're going to be out on the front foot and we don't care.
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  And then it's 3, nothing like within 18 minutes.
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  And there goes that plan. But I think this one was a
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  little bit of the opposite. Like there wasn't so much like
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  overplaying, like we're going to make a point to show you that
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  we're here to just play at every point.
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  They just were there, you know, they were smothering.
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  They weren't giving Barcelona a ton of space on the ball and
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  they were just approaching duels like with full force, whether it
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  was like McCabe versus CGH, Caitlin Ford versus Battier.
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  Russo and Perez were into it big time.
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  You know, Rofo and Fox. They they didn't, they weren't
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  really like heads up, heads up. But I think they they kind of
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  switched, you know, going up the field, up the field, down the
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  field, up the field, down the field, a great, you know, just
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  kind of battle, you know, on that side of the pitch as well.
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  But pretty early on, you start to see, OK, within these duels,
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  Arsenal's winning some of them or most of them.
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  And I think the one that really stuck out to me was Battier,
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  because we talked about Battier in the preview.
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  And I'm like, this is a player that it can be a game wrecker.
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  And you saw her like unleash a couple in the second-half when
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  they really needed it. And she was really good.
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  But to see Ford go at her, like just straight at her and have
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  success and I'm like, oh, wow, this is this is a real battle.
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  I was really taken back by that. And I think that was that was
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  the first little inkling that we might be on to something.
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  Yeah, totally agree. They kept Battier busy and yeah,
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  she did unleash a couple. We can talk later about the
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  strategy of how many 25 to 30 yard shots you need your right
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  back taking like if like that might be that might say
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  something about the functionality of your attack at
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  that point. But you're spot on.
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  I thought another moment in the eighth minute where Chloe Kelly
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  just decided to smash into Claudia Pina.
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  Kelly gets back on on defense and was like, we're here.
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  It's a final and it's not like, you know, but it's not like
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  Claudia Pina doesn't play tough as hell as an attacking player.
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  I thought that was that felt like a message.
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  Yeah, absolutely. And I think they were just,
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  that's just kind of how they wanted to play.
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  Kim Little also wanted to mix it up.
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  We talked in the preview about just the midfields and and that
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  battle and I think Arsenal on the Arsenal side, Manam Mariona,
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  they were they were both really good.
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  You look at Kim Little though, I mean, she was on another level
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  probably like, you know, one of the her best game of the game
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  game of the season. She I think she called it like
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  the the career achievement of her life winning this match.
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  So I mean, it's just it's hard to even wrap your head around
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  like a performance like this. But some of the numbers 25 of 25
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  on passes under 30 yards for Kim Little like that's just
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  ridiculous. Short and medium didn't miss
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  one. She recovered 10 loose balls in
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  the match. Most by any player on the pitch
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  was just kind of all over the place.
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  And I think I was I was talking about this before the show.
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  Just the fact that Arsenal's midfield was able to get be
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  effective in the midfield, but also get forward, make their
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  presence felt kind of like mix up the attack, keep Barcelona,
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  you know, at least interested defensively and challenged them.
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  That was another thing Leanne said.
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  Like, you know, a a lot of times offenses don't even get to that
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  back line to get tripped up into midfield.
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  So I thought Arsenal probably even definitely in that first
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  half, probably edged out Barcelona's midfield, which is a
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  huge shock. Your Howard Letterman scorecard
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  in the in the first half, I thought that was a prescient
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  well, I thought it was I thought it was accurate and it ended up
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  being prescient in terms of things to come later in the
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  match in terms of like some of the things Arsenal is doing now.
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  Obviously Barcelona's kind of started to turn the screws crank
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  it up in the in the second-half. But I thought your, I thought
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  your quick look on that scoring A2 to 1 Arsenal.
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  If for if for anybody who's just picking up the show, Dino is a,
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  a, a experienced fight sports watcher and participant.
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  I believe other than I think there's some boxing in that
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  background. And so and, and so Dino will
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  score by 15 minute increments, score them boxing style.
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  And you had a 21 arsenal. And I thought that was, I
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  thought that was correct in the first half.
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  Yeah, and I think the, it's funny, we we were on a lot of
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  stuff from that preview, but you had brought up Barcelona at the
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  end of the first half. What would that look like now?
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  They got going a little bit. They had a super sleepy first
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  half an hour. I just couldn't believe how
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  ineffective they were. Started to turn it up, turn it
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  up a little bit in that last 15 minutes of the first half.
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  But there was 1 moment that just kind of stuck with me.
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  I talked a little bit about like winning those opening duels
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  early and not being, you know, very encouraging from an Arsenal
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  standpoint. The 37th minute, Caroline Graham
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  Hanson has the ball. You know where she's where she
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  likes it up the pitch on the right hand side.
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  She's kind of cutting back in and I'm like, OK, I'm at I'm at
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  the edge of my seat. This is like, OK, this is CGH.
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  She's going to let one RIP here or she's going to find somebody
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  back door for a tap in. This is dangerous.
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  And Graham Hanson is at the edge of the box just inside the box
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  kind of fishing for a foul like dipping in, dip out, dipping in,
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  dip out. And I'm like, yo, 37 minutes.
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  And this is where where Barcelona's offense is at when
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  you've got one of the best, most fearsome attacking players in
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  the world trying to draw a cheapie at like just inside the
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  box, like this is what we're doing.
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  And then freedom on him comes back less than a minute later,
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  the other the other way and just smashes 1.
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  Katakoi has to elevate, get a paw on it and and smack it over
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  the bar. But that that 3738 minute mark,
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  those two sequences or those two events back-to-back, I was like,
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  at that point, I'm like fully fucking locked in.
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  I'm like, not, not only is not only is the, the Champions
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  League live, but your boys prediction.
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  I mean, come on. Like we're, we couldn't, we
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  could have been trending in a better direction at that point.
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  I mean, you know, let's let's spend as much of this podcast as
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  possible patting ourselves on the back.
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  And I mean that seriously. And you know what, what was my
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  final score prediction? That's not important.
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  What I do Remember Me saying in the in the previous.
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  You said Arsenal would get one. Yeah, I did.
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  I certainly did say that. And I also said that I thought
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  that there was something to a team like Arsenal gaining
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  belief, the snowball rolling downhill of them keeping it
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  close. I I, you know, did I did it feel
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  like there was like an avalanche after after the first half?
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  No, because Barcelona came back, you know, on a tear.
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  But it was very obvious from from jump street.
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  But then I'm glad you point out that that late exchange between
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  Monoman and CGH that Arsenal had full right to say we can
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  absolutely win this. Thing.
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  Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
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  I mean, I think they were in it. We didn't really even talk about
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  the the the near own goal from Paretas right around the 2122
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  minute mark because you sandwiched that in in there.
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  And it's like now you've got right the early duels that look
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  good. You know, like Barcelona had a
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  chance like right around the 10 minute mark, close call.
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  Van Damslar did a did an OK job kind of punching it out.
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  And then what I loved about that sequence was the ball ends up at
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  Leah Williams's Williamson's feet in, in a highly, highly
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  dangerous area with Barcelona attackers.
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  And she just coolly was like step, step, step.
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  And then, you know, just get the ball out of there And no, no, no
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  sweat, no panic, no, no misstep. Just super clean, super calm
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  football in a very high pressure situation.
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  So I thought that was incredible.
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  Yeah, you're totally right. And that that was the thing that
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  we had talked about too, was is Arsenal going to be able to
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  sustain the press? And in that like nervy moment
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  where, I think, you know, McCabe plays it back and Von Dom Solar,
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  like has to play it out. And then it's ping ponging
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  around. And it's just like they they
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  were able to one touch it to each other back and forth, back
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  and forth until they were able to get it out to Fox and space
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  who would then drive forward as the release valve.
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  And like T, like we've talked about so many times, teams, a
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  lot of times cannot do that against Barcelona because one of
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  those passes gets picked off. One of the one touches is errant
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  and it falls into the path of whatever spin the roulette wheel
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  of whatever, whatever, you know, clinical finisher on Barcelona
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  gets their gets their foot to it.
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  And Arsenal avoided that with calmness and skill.
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  And having Williamson and Little and Fox out there is a big role
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  in how you they can do that. Yeah.
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  Yeah. And I think just played really,
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  really good smart football. That was the other thing that we
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  that we talked about was like, can this team play clean?
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  You know, can they, you know, I don't think they have to do
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  anything spectacular. And and that's, and that
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  basically ended up being how they won, like very clinical
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  defensively, closing down the space.
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  You know, one thing I noticed is Barcelona, and this was more
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  prevalent in the second-half, but Barcelona loves to kind of
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  like get the ball in a dangerous area and do those quick 2-3
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  touches to like really disorient you.
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  It's like, all right, is it here, here, here, here, But then
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  back that way, you know, and Arsenal was so close on them.
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  Lori Lindsay was probably losing her shit because like, touch
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  tight was just the the flavor. Of the hour.
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  Everybody, I mean, couldn't get any touch tighter.
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  So they were they were there. And when Barcelona tries these,
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  these quick, you know, kind of tap, tap, tap, like there was
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  just too many, too many cleats in the mix, you know, and like,
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  every, every, every time it happened, the ball is just
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  squirting out the other way because Arsenal is able to get a
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  toe on it. And that was just enough to
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  disrupt the machine. And I think as the game
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  progresses, you know, Barcelona just never really got into
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  rhythm. Like one of the shocking stats.
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  I'm going to read you a list of players and I want you to tell
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  me what you think they had in common.
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  Alexi Poutais, Salma Padiuello, Frida, Lina, Rolfo, Esme, Brooks
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  and Patri. If I tell you that all of those
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  players. Had one thing in common, I think
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  I, I think I know and I and I think it's why for them it's a
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  disaster. Did any of them have a shot on
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  goal? None of them had a shot.
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  Good Lord. Zero shots attempted.
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  That's. Fucking tough.
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  That is tough. And then you look at who got the
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  shots. I you know, and it's weird.
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  You, you, you just wonder what went what went wrong for
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  Barcelona, because it's like Aitana leads the team with six
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  shots in the match. And it's like, was she trying to
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  like recreate the playbook from like Leo last year or the
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  Chelsea second leg where it's like, right, let let Aitana get
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  us on the board in the fifty 60th minute and then let's let's
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  slam the door late in the match. Like the the the way Alexia did
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  last year in the final. That didn't come to come to
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  pass, even though she did test Von Damsar, CGH and Pina four
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  shots each. And then it's Battier with
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  three, Eva Pyor with two and Irene Perez with one.
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  That's the whole. So it's like you look at you
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  look for at first glance, 20 shots.
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  Barcelona got busy. But then when you look at that
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  distribution very weird. Like, how do you play 30, almost
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  30 plus minutes and no, no shots, Alexia, no shots.
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  Like, I'm not that that that couldn't have been what they
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  were coming into the match looking for.
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  I think it speaks to what you were talking about with, you
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  know, little Caldente and Manam. They were playing physical out
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  there. They were.
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  It felt like all three of them were box to box midfielders.
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  They were ready. They were just going to leave it
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  all out there. You know, even in the heat like
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  that, the announcers were describing the conditions were
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  tough out there and Emily Fox just on that end to, you know,
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  Pina wasn't a giant factor. I'm so glad you brought up that
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  there was a lot of Rofo versus Fox.
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  Like as they're going back and forth, it felt like Fox was
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  winning the majority of those matchups too.
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  It felt like there was a lot of trying to run the offense
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  through Rofo and it was just kind of careening out unto the
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  fringes of the real danger area that just wasn't working out for
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  for Barcelona. I mean just.
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  I mean, how, how do you describe what a massive defensive
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  performance this was by your Gunners?
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  It's just it's, it's for the history books.
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  Yeah, I mean, it was no, no way to.
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  I mean, just confident, crisp defending, good team defending.
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  Like I think there, there was never really a spot where, you
• 20:35
  know, there was a lot of like ball chasing, yeah, a couple
• 20:37
  spots, you know, a couple times. Barcelona, you see everybody
• 20:40
  kind of go in the wrong way. I mean on the goal.
• 20:41
  Let's talk about the goal, the Cena blackstatus goal.
• 20:43
  This is how it didn't happen to Arsenal at all today.
• 20:48
  But you know, and we're kind of jumping around a little bit, but
• 20:51
  slagers makes some big time Subs to get both Beth Meade and Cena
• 20:56
  blackstatus into the match. And like the, the, the chess on
• 21:02
  this is, is wild because you, you can even think about like
• 21:07
  there was that period where it was like, OK, Alessia Russo at
• 21:09
  the 10, you know, can, can that be a thing for Arsenal So that
• 21:13
  black sands could have more minutes?
• 21:15
  Turns out it couldn't, right. But it was something that they
• 21:19
  they went to today in the Champions League final.
• 21:23
  Like let's, let's, let's do it today.
• 21:25
  We, we, we logged enough minutes doing it.
• 21:27
  We we kind of like, you know, we, we we have a sort of an
• 21:30
  approach, you know, so it's not completely cold and it's not
• 21:34
  completely overcooked where they know what to do, you know, and
• 21:38
  on the goal, you know, Mariona, it starts with the Mariona
• 21:41
  corner ball knocks around, finds its way back to Mariona.
• 21:44
  She gets it to Beth Mead. And then the Barcelona defense
• 21:48
  is reacting to Russo and Ford, who they've been chasing all
• 21:52
  day. And you know, the the flow of
• 21:55
  the offense is going left. Beth Mead, you know, taps it
• 21:58
  left, you know, drawing Barryuelo closer to her away
• 22:01
  from, you know, black standing. So that's who that's who was
• 22:05
  marking Blacksteinius was Barriello.
• 22:07
  And then Perez, you know, takes a step to get in the way of the
• 22:12
  Mead strike away from Blacksteinius.
• 22:14
  It's like everybody's going left and Stena just pirouettes,
• 22:18
  right. It's just a beautiful,
• 22:20
  beautiful, simple move. The finish, just kind of what
• 22:24
  you would expect. And I mentioned in my notes that
• 22:27
  Blacksteinius is she's been offside all season and just the
• 22:30
  perfect, perfect timing at the perfect moment, unbelievable
• 22:34
  finish from a, from a player that, to be honest, really
• 22:37
  needed, needed this moment in this jersey.
• 22:42
  That's totally understandable. I'm so glad you mentioned like
• 22:45
  that last sequence. So it comes off of a corner.
• 22:48
  It ends up then being a recycle when Mariona's out on the wing
• 22:52
  and then she plays the ball in the Mead and that exact moment
• 22:55
  you're talking about where mead's on it, the defense starts
• 22:58
  to shade and and black Stenius turns and you can just like when
• 23:02
  her shoulders get square, like to almost like to the to the
• 23:06
  sideline to the far sideline means like, OK, you're available
• 23:10
  for the pass and plays her right in.
• 23:12
  It was just the timing, also the patience, the execution. 10 out
• 23:17
  of 10 on all three. Yeah, it was so, so cool to see.
• 23:20
  And I think that actually leads me to a fun segment that I like
• 23:25
  to call Card Corner. Come on.
• 23:29
  Let's go. Real quick, so this is one of my
• 23:34
  faves and I'll tell you why it's one of my faves.
• 23:36
  This is a steena Blaxenius rookie card from top scrum and
• 23:40
  it's the lime green edition number to 99.
• 23:43
  There's only 99 of these in this in this variety and and
• 23:47
  obviously I had a a rough, you know, it's been a up and down
• 23:50
  season, you know, between Steena and I, but now this is now one
• 23:54
  of my favorite cards of all time.
• 23:56
  There we go, just that. Quickly, Yeah, as it should be.
• 23:59
  Funny how things change. And I mean, we got to say, well,
• 24:03
  we'll wait for the thank you card in the mail.
• 24:06
  It's got to be on its way to San Francisco here pretty soon.
• 24:09
  But I mean, pretty sure Renee Slager's watches the show and
• 24:13
  her you suggest putting Black Stenius in the match later in
• 24:17
  the match in our preview episode.
• 24:20
  I mean, don't think that didn't cross my mind as as everything
• 24:23
  was happening I was like holy shit, Dino is right about a lot
• 24:27
  of things right now. Yeah, I mean, you know, and I
• 24:32
  was a little bummed when I'm, I'm just going to be honest.
• 24:35
  I pulled the curtain back. I think what's when it when it
• 24:38
  went into halftime, nil, nil. I'm like Arsenal's waiting this
• 24:41
  one and it's going to be 1 nil. I I started cutting the clip.
• 24:44
  I took the clip of my prediction.
• 24:46
  I started cutting that clip right around the 80 minute mark.
• 24:48
  I'm like, this thing's a wrap and I'll and I'll tell you why
• 24:51
  from a football standpoint at halftime, I think I might have
• 24:55
  posted this on blue sky. They put it on blue sky or in my
• 24:57
  notes. I mentioned when these matches
• 25:02
  usually happen for a Barcelona and the second-half rolls
• 25:06
  around, look out because you usually get a really angry, a
• 25:10
  really pissed off Barcelona and they're going to come at you as
• 25:14
  hard as they can. And they're just going to
• 25:16
  basically make up for whatever they missed out on from the
• 25:19
  first half. And, and to start the
• 25:21
  second-half. I I, I, I just very shorthand
• 25:26
  Pina strike the pina looper that hits the the crossbar that von
• 25:32
  I'm sorry, just stares out dead to right with just just watches
• 25:36
  it. No shot.
• 25:37
  The Itana back heel from like the six yard box, which is
• 25:40
  usually a goal. Battier screamer, Beaumonti low
• 25:44
  strike at 60. Battier from distance, Rolfo de
• 25:48
  Pyor who skies it and she was kind of right in front of the
• 25:52
  goal. And then Alexi de Pyor again,
• 25:54
  she has a header like in the 70s early second-half.
• 25:57
  Like that was basically Barcelona's best punch in, in my
• 26:01
  view. Like I was like, this is
• 26:02
  everything they had. And I think as the as the
• 26:06
  second-half wore on, I was like, that was it like, you know,
• 26:11
  anything can happen. But we got through the hardest
• 26:14
  part. We got through that first 15
• 26:15
  minutes in the second-half when they were just like, let's end
• 26:18
  this game. Let's let's get 2, let's get 3.
• 26:20
  Let's kind of like, you know, just what they did to Frankfurt,
• 26:24
  you know, last year in the group stage, it was just like, I think
• 26:26
  they were down one nil and then like 3, three goals I think in
• 26:29
  the first time in the second-half.
• 26:32
  That was definitely live. But credit to Arsenal, like they
• 26:36
  just were exactly where they needed to be.
• 26:40
  They gave everything they could defensively.
• 26:41
  I mean, I think this was a master class.
• 26:43
  Like every single player, you know, there's not a single
• 26:47
  player that got minutes that that didn't make my notes.
• 26:51
  You know, from a defensive standpoint, I'm just like, wow,
• 26:53
  this this player really went at this matchup.
• 26:56
  All these matchups that on paper look like real disadvantages and
• 27:00
  Arsenal just kind of made made so many of those duels in their
• 27:03
  favor today. Yeah, 100%.
• 27:06
  Can we talk about corner kicks a little bit?
• 27:08
  Let's go. OK.
• 27:11
  Because I'm, I'm glad you talked about that first 15 minutes
• 27:14
  possibly being Barcelona's best punch there was.
• 27:18
  There was one of those moments where I'm I, it brings me great
• 27:22
  joy when I say something and then a second or two or a moment
• 27:27
  or two later and a broadcaster I respect says something very
• 27:31
  similar. I'm like, OK, I'm, I'm at least
• 27:34
  sort of on the right track here. I kind of understand what I'm
• 27:37
  looking at. So the first two corner.
• 27:40
  So Barcelona had 10 corner kicks in this match.
• 27:44
  The Gunners had one. Wait, I have that right, right?
• 27:51
  Do I have that right thought I had?
• 27:52
  That I believe so. I think that's it.
• 27:55
  Live Fact Check. On the go ahead, I'll I'll Fact
• 27:57
  Check. Yeah, 12 to two, pardon me, 12
• 28:03
  to 2. So there is a run in there.
• 28:06
  Where? So the first two corners.
• 28:08
  First of all, one thing that's surprising, Barcelona only has
• 28:11
  one corner in the 1st 30 minutes and it was in the 15th minute.
• 28:16
  Mappy sends it back post. It looked like von Domschler
• 28:19
  like lost it in the sun for a second but then punched it away
• 28:22
  from a dangerous area. It was a dangerous corner.
• 28:25
  Then in the 34th, another one. Nothing doing there.
• 28:29
  But then the next 12345 corner kicks spanning from the 38th
• 28:36
  minute to the 70th minute are all short corners between Bone
• 28:41
  Mati and Moppi. And we've talked about it where
• 28:46
  that has been deadly for some opponents because it's just it's
• 28:52
  bone. Matee plays it to Moppy and then
• 28:54
  Moppy's either going to whip in a vicious cross of her own, like
• 28:58
  from a little like, you know, from like 10 yards in from where
• 29:01
  she would take a corner kick. Or she'll just give it to the
• 29:03
  two time Balandor winner who's now streaking into the box who
• 29:06
  can either cross it or kill you with a shot.
• 29:09
  And Arsenal was just playing super physical, holding their
• 29:14
  line, staying in front of the of the players who are available.
• 29:19
  And the thing that why I brought up the me saying something was
• 29:23
  by the time the 123 fourth one comes along.
• 29:28
  And so they had two corners back-to-back, one in the 60th
• 29:30
  minute and one in the 61st. And this is this is the fourth
• 29:34
  time in a row they do it. Boma T plays it short to Mappy
• 29:37
  again. And I say, but jeez, we're doing
• 29:40
  them all short now. Chris Sharples points out.
• 29:44
  Short again from Barcelona, short corner again from
• 29:46
  Barcelona. And I was like, OK, like at
• 29:50
  least I'm not crazy here. And that was the one that ended
• 29:53
  up with a, with a Battier 30 yard shot attempt that goes over
• 29:57
  the crossbar. And I just think Arsenal's
• 30:01
  physicality and the numbers they were able to keep in the box
• 30:04
  like we were talking about, while still being able to get
• 30:07
  forward and play them all up to the midfielder.
• 30:09
  Play it out to an outlet that started to push the range where
• 30:14
  Barcelona was shooting from further and further away from
• 30:18
  the net. And you're giving Van Dams, von
• 30:20
  Damsel are like some easy, some easier shots to stop.
• 30:26
  You know, even with some of the superior of talent taking those
• 30:29
  those long shots. Yeah, no, that's so they on the
• 30:32
  money, I think. Yeah, Van Dams are 5 saves on
• 30:35
  the day. And how I was thinking about the
• 30:38
  defense. Usually when you see Barcelona
• 30:43
  in the final third, every pass that they connect on makes them
• 30:48
  more dangerous, like kind of like increases the XG because
• 30:52
  like you're you're it's, it's always like in basketball, like
• 30:54
  you're rotating and it's like every every pass you're just you
• 30:58
  just fall further and further behind because you just keep
• 31:00
  rotating and they just keep connecting.
• 31:02
  And now you're just chasing and chasing.
• 31:04
  And the gap is widening in this match, the longer that Barcelona
• 31:08
  held it, the, the, the, the shorter that the smaller the
• 31:13
  window got because Arsenal was so tenacious defensively.
• 31:18
  And it was like, OK, well, you're not going to take that
• 31:19
  chance. Chance is over.
• 31:22
  And it's like, I, I just was, I was like, what, who, who am I
• 31:26
  watching here? What team is this?
• 31:28
  I mean, I just couldn't agree more. 70th minute.
• 31:32
  This is another corner. This is the This is the last one
• 31:34
  of the run of short corners. Here are my notes.
• 31:36
  Bone Matisse Short 1/2 with Moppy Itana drives it into the
• 31:40
  box, but it's right into traffic, so neither beta Ualo
• 31:43
  nor CGH have a shot. It's just like the windows were
• 31:47
  just slamming shut on them faster than you ever see the
• 31:52
  window slam shut on Barcelona. Yeah, and, and I think it's one
• 31:57
  of the things too where you you just wonder is a team and you
• 32:02
  never really know, right, Because like there's so many
• 32:05
  different variables. You have Champions League is one
• 32:07
  way. You know, there's like club,
• 32:10
  club football, which is like a completely different way.
• 32:13
  And it's fair to say this Barcelona team having to play
• 32:18
  from behind and it's like they were playing from behind for a
• 32:20
  very long time. But strategically, you know,
• 32:24
  like watching on the pitch, they were playing from behind like
• 32:28
  they weren't they weren't really outside of that 15 minutes,
• 32:34
  maybe 18 minutes beginning the second-half, they didn't they
• 32:37
  weren't really getting closer to scoring.
• 32:39
  That was that one window where it's like, OK, now they're and
• 32:42
  it wasn't really anything tactical.
• 32:44
  It was like, all right, everybody lock in and try really
• 32:48
  hard. And if you have a look, kick it
• 32:50
  really hard. Like there wasn't any anything
• 32:53
  that was like, OK, well, let's go with Cali or let's go ahead
• 32:56
  McCabe or let's like overload, you know, Fox's or like there,
• 32:59
  there just wasn't anything that really changed from Barcelona
• 33:03
  standpoint. So I it was so it was so surreal
• 33:07
  feeling more and more confident as the match went on, because
• 33:10
  it's a that that was just not what I would have expected when
• 33:15
  from a talent standpoint, you would imagine that Arsenal's
• 33:18
  probably over matched in this Barcelona side, but just not not
• 33:21
  the way it played out. The longer it went like, the
• 33:23
  further the game slipped away from the Champs.
• 33:27
  I think it's fair to say, and Leanne had pointed out like you
• 33:30
  have to have sort of a bad game from Barcelona to like to like
• 33:35
  increase your chances. I think it, but that's all I
• 33:39
  think it was in this case. I think it was sort of a bad
• 33:43
  game by Barcelona. Now I think I think some of our
• 33:48
  Barsa supporting pals on the Internet are likely going to
• 33:52
  tell us like that was an awful performance by Barcelona.
• 33:55
  I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I don't know.
• 33:57
  I'm not going to put words in your guy's mouth.
• 33:58
  I mean, you know, please let me know what you think.
• 34:02
  I don't think I don't think it was awful awful.
• 34:05
  It wasn't it wasn't anywhere near their best.
• 34:08
  I I think that's totally accurate.
• 34:10
  I but I don't think it was an outright bad game.
• 34:14
  I think they lost a close game to an opponent who was up for
• 34:18
  it. Who who?
• 34:18
  Also, nobody has the talent as Barcelona.
• 34:21
  But when I started to really think about it as we were
• 34:24
  getting deeper and deeper, I was like, well shit.
• 34:26
  I mean, Caitlin Ford is awesome, like Kim, Kim Little's very
• 34:31
  good. Mariona, you already know what
• 34:33
  time it is. She is.
• 34:33
  She's built for this match like, you know, freedom on them.
• 34:38
  Alessia Russo was was out there causing causing problems.
• 34:41
  Like they have big game players too and they're not to the level
• 34:44
  of Barcelona. But the gap wasn't wasn't big
• 34:47
  enough to where Barcelona could have even an average performance
• 34:52
  and still beat them. Yeah, no, no, no, they, they
• 34:55
  Barcelona need to actually show up today and play.
• 34:58
  And that didn't totally work out.
• 34:59
  I was kind of chuckling when you were talking about a Barcelona
• 35:02
  supporters because this never happens to us, you know,
• 35:04
  thankfully, because people are nice to us, I guess on the
• 35:09
  Internet. But for the for I think the
• 35:11
  first time in the history of the show, we lost 4 subscribers
• 35:14
  today without posting anything. I have to imagine those are
• 35:21
  those are some of those Barcelona friends.
• 35:23
  Come back. I'm not going to be a jerk about
• 35:25
  it. We're the best team in Europe.
• 35:28
  We're the Arsenal, we're the defending champs.
• 35:30
  You'll get another shot next year.
• 35:32
  Let's put that off to the side. We want you to come back,
• 35:35
  resubscribe. We won't rub it in, I promise.
• 35:39
  All right, back, back, back to the analysis.
• 35:41
  Back to the very serious hardcore analysis.
• 35:44
  That's that's funny. Yeah.
• 35:46
  I mean, no, no, you guys are always like we always say, we've
• 35:48
  carved out the a corner of smart, kind people on the
• 35:51
  Internet. We're not going to come out.
• 35:52
  Yeah, like, I, I didn't think Dino was going to come out here
• 35:55
  and trash Barcelona. So, yeah, come on back.
• 35:58
  It's it's a safe space. We can all we can all kick it in
• 36:01
  and enjoy the sport together, no matter the no matter the
• 36:06
  results. I mean, you know, look what
• 36:08
  happened to my team, although I will say I mean my team capable
• 36:12
  of beating Barcelona 2 to nothing and not just one to
• 36:14
  nothing. The topic for another show.
• 36:18
  Oh, here we go. You know what?
• 36:20
  You know what I was thinking about ITC on quite the
• 36:23
  championship tear. Here we got Arsenal, Champions
• 36:26
  of Europe, Orlando Pride, our Orlando Pride Double holders,
• 36:31
  The Ohio State University, my Philadelphia Eagles.
• 36:37
  I mean, this. We've got some teams on the
• 36:39
  mountaintop here. Oh, that's exciting.
• 36:41
  Yeah, almost had a we had. Well, the Cavs could have made
• 36:45
  it interesting, but talk about that one later.
• 36:48
  I I hope we don't. All right.
• 36:51
  I hope you won't see you next year.
• 36:53
  See you in October, Cleveland, it's almost next year, almost
• 36:59
  next year. So I mean tremendous result.
• 37:00
  Anything else? I know.
• 37:03
  Well, let me see. I had one, one last thing here.
• 37:05
  Yeah, I guess the one thing I wanted to hit before we get out
• 37:08
  of here, Renee, Slagers, those Subs, you know, like, you know,
• 37:14
  I, I I kind of got into it a little bit earlier with Russo
• 37:19
  moving down to the 10 and Arsenal, having had a little bit
• 37:22
  of experience with that this season.
• 37:24
  So it wasn't completely cold, but real.
• 37:27
  Kind of like courage there from Slagers too, to keep Russo on,
• 37:32
  you know, and, and have black cities alongside her.
• 37:34
  And I think we we kind of cracked that case a little bit
• 37:36
  mid season where it's like, I think maybe the best bet is that
• 37:40
  they play together. And then when you think about
• 37:42
  the flip side where OK. And and one last note on Segars,
• 37:47
  Leanne also talked about Beth Mead and it was like, and it was
• 37:50
  so great to see Beth Mead involved in that final goal
• 37:52
  because like you could tell like in Leanne's voice, she was like,
• 37:55
  that sucks for Beth. She was like, all right, kind of
• 37:57
  lost her spot. Now it's Jamsy and it's final.
• 38:00
  So, so cool to kind of like have that loop closed.
• 38:02
  But on the other side, Barcelona, you know, we we all
• 38:06
  were on the Pina train. Pina needs to start.
• 38:09
  She was on an absolute tear. But I will say not having
• 38:13
  Baddiello in that spot, having Pina instead, and I think she
• 38:17
  got four shots off in the match looked dangerous.
• 38:20
  Obviously hit the crossbar in the second-half, but it they did
• 38:24
  look a little bit out of sorts not having Baddiello in that
• 38:28
  normal spot, not having Esme Bruce in that normal left back
• 38:32
  spot. I thought Rolfo was was pretty
• 38:35
  effective, one of their most effective offensive players
• 38:37
  probably outside of Itana early for sure.
• 38:40
  But I thought those two changes were enough to kind of kind of
• 38:45
  throw a little bit of a monkey wrench into it, especially
• 38:47
  considering the fact that both of them were on the left hand
• 38:49
  side. So now you're trying to, you
• 38:53
  know, Meshpina and Rolfo and I'm not sure how many minutes those
• 38:57
  two have logged together. And I think, I think there was
• 38:59
  some real after effects as a result of those those two
• 39:04
  changes. Yeah, yeah, very clearly.
• 39:09
  I mean, they were able to. Mead is going to possess a level
• 39:14
  of calmness in those spots and Black standing as I I reference
• 39:19
  it all the time. She cost City the title last
• 39:23
  season because she soared 2 at the death to to bury Manchester
• 39:29
  City and and you know, have Chelsea kind of walk to it in
• 39:32
  the end, Like they were just, they were ready to come on and
• 39:38
  it happened within 7 minutes of them stepping on the pitch.
• 39:41
  And it was, it was the right lever to pull.
• 39:44
  Renee Slagers is 36 years old. She's two years older than Kim
• 39:48
  Little. Like I think, I think Chris may
• 39:52
  have mentioned it during the broadcast.
• 39:53
  She looked like, you know, she looked like one of the
• 39:55
  substitutes walking out of the tunnel, like she looked like she
• 39:57
  could give you 30 minutes if if you needed her to.
• 40:01
  Like I, you know, I don't know, we can we can talk about, you
• 40:05
  know, long, long tail stuff or, you know, stuff in the future,
• 40:09
  but that's a pretty good start to the coaching career, I'd say.
• 40:13
  I'd say, you know, nothing against Jonas, eight of all, but
• 40:17
  the move worked. It worked out and maybe credit
• 40:20
  to him for resigning. We but we also don't know if it
• 40:22
  was one of those like. I let me just resign and we
• 40:26
  could get out of here. But I digress, man.
• 40:30
  I she pulled the levers and the team was so ready to play, so
• 40:36
  obviously ready to play. Like I know it's easy for
• 40:38
  pundits to say that you can't you can't beat Barcelona any
• 40:43
  other way. So they they very clearly had a
• 40:46
  great plan. And you know, that's largely in
• 40:49
  part to Slagers totally executed.
• 40:54
  Yeah, just really spirited and really hard to wrap your head
• 40:59
  around the fact that this is the same team that we watched early
• 41:03
  in the year, the same team that got just completely mushed by
• 41:06
  Bayern in the group stage. And, you know, they had their
• 41:10
  hands full with both Real Madrid and Lyon in the knockout stages.
• 41:16
  But yeah, unbelievable sequence of events.
• 41:19
  And yeah, we've got a new a new Champions League champion.
• 41:25
  Anything else you want to hit match wise before we get out
• 41:27
  here? I want to give you a list of
• 41:31
  every English footballer who's won the European Championship
• 41:38
  and the Champions League. Their names are Alessia Russo,
• 41:43
  lots of Woben Moy, Chloe Kelly, Leah Williamson and Beth Mead.
• 41:51
  Let's go. That's it.
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  That's the full list because no England men's team has ever won
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  the European Championship. So that's that had that can only
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  be the entire list. They're legends forever.
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  It's it's an incredible accomplishment to do it over the
• 42:08
  most dominant team in the world at the time.
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  I mean, we witnessed something today that is going to live on
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  forever. Yeah.
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  Yeah, no, absolutely. And I think I definitely felt a
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  wash of gratitude for just being able to cover the, you know,
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  cover the this team, cover this tournament, do the show, you
• 42:30
  know, do the show with you. It's like, honestly, bro, I will
• 42:34
  never forget Arsenal winning the jammers.
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  Like for a a million different reasons.
• 42:43
  I'll just never forget it. And it like a very pinnacle
• 42:45
  moment for our show. And I cannot wait to talk to
• 42:48
  Chris Sharples about the final and, and his experience there
• 42:53
  and pretty much be right back to it when the, when the tournament
• 42:58
  rolls around later this year. What is tournament?
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  What a year? I, I, I'm still, I'm in utter
• 43:04
  shock. I spent the, the, the grand
• 43:06
  majority of today in absolute shock.
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  I'm glad I'm, I'm glad we were able to push the start time way
• 43:13
  into the night just to give me a chance to cool off just a little
• 43:16
  bit. But yeah, man, what what?
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  I mean, tremendous, tremendous day.
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  And yeah, I know it's a little early, but you know, I
• 43:25
  appreciate you let you know. I appreciate you bro.
• 43:27
  Yeah, likewise, buddy. I mean, yeah, just incredible
• 43:31
  scenes and we got to give the shout out.
• 43:34
  I did it a little bit, but the broadcast team on Dezone was
• 43:39
  just fantastic today and to see our pal Leanne Sanderson get
• 43:45
  that where the players are coming up to her after the match
• 43:49
  and treating her like the OG that she is and like showing
• 43:53
  that respect and that like that there is she delivered and and
• 43:58
  shout out to to our pal GOOG again, Big X, the hug on on blue
• 44:04
  sky who Leanne rolled like a 45 second to one minute monologue
• 44:11
  about Arsene Wenger. And I can't remember the the
• 44:15
  former chairman. I don't know if he's still the
• 44:17
  chairman of Arsenal, but the people who were involved in
• 44:21
  putting resources behind Arsenal women's football club and making
• 44:26
  sure that it's a real legit program and leading the way in
• 44:31
  women's football. And she, she, she delivered that
• 44:35
  and, you know, said perfectly, she, she did it great.
• 44:42
  And it was, it was important that she did it.
• 44:45
  And I would, I would say she's one, she's the only person in
• 44:49
  the world who could have delivered that as well as she
• 44:53
  could as well as she did, because she's a great
• 44:55
  broadcaster. But because she has first hand
• 44:57
  knowledge of it as somebody who went through went went through
• 45:01
  the youth development system and and basically was is ingrained
• 45:07
  in the fabric of that club, it was just fantastic to watch.
• 45:11
  Yeah, no, no, she's the absolute best.
• 45:13
  And I think it obviously somebody who takes a lot of
• 45:16
  pride in being the last English team, you know, to to win the
• 45:20
  Champions League. But you could see that like that
• 45:23
  was dwarfed by, you know, the elation behind this club kind of
• 45:29
  reaching the mountain top again. And, you know, I I'm sure she
• 45:32
  took a lot of pride in that, as is a lot of the the supporters,
• 45:36
  pretty much every, every support.
• 45:37
  Today was a great day for the club for sure.
• 45:41
  Yeah, I don't know, man. But like I I've lost for words.
• 45:47
  It's weird because I have a show where I have to use words, but I
• 45:50
  feel like at this point I've kind of ran out of them.
• 45:53
  But let me let me just drop a couple last couple Nuggets.
• 45:57
  New segment called Stuff to Buy. You know, we've got our link
• 46:00
  tree shop. I created a quick Arsenal
• 46:02
  collection with a bunch of very cool Arsenal goodies.
• 46:05
  If you see anything in there that you like and you purchase
• 46:08
  it via our link tree, your boys earn a small Commission, which
• 46:12
  definitely helps keeps, definitely helps keep the show,
• 46:15
  you know, kind of move in, keeps the the beer flowing.
• 46:17
  So we always appreciate that. And we also launched memberships
• 46:21
  which include fun custom digital goodies, shout outs on the show,
• 46:24
  priority replies from your boys both in the comments and on the
• 46:27
  show. And coming soon, our first ever
• 46:29
  members only pregame show. Maybe we could do that versus
• 46:31
  Canada July 2nd, maybe US women's actual team apologies on
• 46:35
  two straight weeks or maybe three straight weeks live
• 46:38
  producing while we're while we're recording.
• 46:40
  So forgive me, but yeah, sure. Just some ideas.
• 46:43
  Dude, your team won the Champions League.
• 46:45
  Just keep throwing out ideas, man.
• 46:46
  What am I going to? What am I going to do?
• 46:47
  I'm not going to raid on your parade.
• 46:49
  I appreciate that that leads us right into episode calendar.
• 46:56
  As mentioned a few a few times already, later this week, 2025
• 47:00
  UAF Women's Champions League play by play announcer for the
• 47:04
  zone, Chris Sharples joining us for the second straight year.
• 47:07
  Cannot wait to welcome Chris Sharples back to the show.
• 47:10
  And then next weekend, US Women's national team in action
• 47:14
  versus the People's Republic of China.
• 47:17
  We will have some coverage around that as well.
• 47:21
  All right, my good man, another Champions League season almost
• 47:25
  done. We've got one more Champions
• 47:27
  League episode in the chamber, but anything else you want to
• 47:29
  hit before we get out of here? I think we did it, man.
• 47:33
  I mean, I think there's some stuff we left on the table, but
• 47:37
  we had we got to talk to Chris about a lot of things.
• 47:40
  And you know, who better to ask than the guy who was calling the
• 47:43
  action there himself, the voice of the UEFA Women's Champions
• 47:47
  League? I would, I would venture to say
• 47:50
  so, yeah, I think, I think we did it today.
• 47:52
  I'm just so I'm happy for you, buddy.
• 47:54
  I'm I'm glad it it went this way.
• 47:56
  I mean, it's in, it's an unbelievable result.
• 48:00
  Like I, I felt like I, I came into the show telling myself I
• 48:04
  can't use the word unbelievable 70 times.
• 48:07
  So I think I, I think I was able to contain myself for the, for
• 48:13
  the first part of the show, but in these last two minutes, I'm
• 48:15
  just going to say it again. That was fucking unbelievable.
• 48:20
  Yeah, unreal. I I honestly, I will never
• 48:22
  forget it for I for as long as I live, I will not forget this day
• 48:25
  and kind of what that was like watching that transpire.
• 48:29
  And with that said, it's been over said of into the channel.
• 48:32
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• 48:33
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• 48:36
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• 48:52
  well. Mr. Granting go for riding along
• 48:55
  this Champions League season. You know, we we saw the great
• 48:59
  Kim Little and Leah Williamson lift the trophy at the same
• 49:02
  time. I'm not sure who's who in this
• 49:04
  scenario, but I know you're you're one of them and I'm the
• 49:07
  other one. My, my definitely my my running
• 49:10
  mate in this. And you know, what can we say?
• 49:13
  Or our our second year raising the trophy.
• 49:16
  Another successful Champions League in the books.
• 49:18
  Couldn't do it without you, bro. I appreciate you.
• 49:21
  Likewise, buddy, again, you know, so happy for you, happy
• 49:24
  for our other pals who are Arsenal supporters.
• 49:28
  And you know what, for all our pals who are Chelsea supporters
• 49:31
  who had a lot of hate going on, well, I don't think Dino's going
• 49:35
  to be very forgiving. I think Dino will take it easy
• 49:38
  on the Barcelona supporters. I think the Chelsea supporters
• 49:40
  might be might be in trouble for the next few weeks at least.
• 49:47
  I mean, they're a small, plucky club, You know, I'm not going
• 49:49
  to, I'm not going to pick on them.
• 49:51
  You know they're doing their best.
• 49:54
  Sure. Just out here trying to make it
• 49:56
  same as we are and then we couldn't do it without you guys.
• 49:59
  Thank you all for rocking with us and we will see you all next
• 50:02
  time.