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A UWCL Draft 🏆 Most Intriguing UEFA Women's Champions League MD 1 Matches · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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Hello. OK, welcome to Into Channel
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podcast premiered by 1 so far. I'm your host Dean with the
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Suspers. And as always, I'm joined by my
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Co host Mr. Grant Engel. What's up, man?
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I'm feeling all right, buddy. You know, trying to just make it
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through the week, but I had a bright spot today when, in the
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middle of a very busy day, I got the bat signal from the leader
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of the show, the man himself, Dino de Cespedes, letting me
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know we had a draft this evening.
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It's time to draft, time to fire up the cameras, the mics, get
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everything plugged in properly. In my case, do about a minute
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and a half of research. So you know, I, I know
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historically I probably have the edge from a draft standpoint.
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So this is going to be a real opportunity, man, for you to
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kind of make up some ground. I don't know what you mean.
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I feel like I win every draft we do.
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All right. Well, I, I, yeah, I suppose.
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He agrees with me but but I feel that way.
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You know, and this is where the, the, the personal part of the
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ITC personal record book, you know, really hurts me because
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nothing's published. It's just sitting behind me on
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an under shelf collecting some dust.
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Anyway, where do I get started man?
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In our in our pre show discussion, I think we discussed
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two things. One is that there's a match that
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we might as well both have on our big board as number one.
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And two, maybe we didn't mention this over over text, but let's
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just get started with the brewski before we talk about
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that first match. Let's go.
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You did that. There we go.
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There it is. All right, we're locked.
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Cheers to you, buddy. We're locked in.
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It's going to be a good Champions League.
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Hell yeah, I'm ready. I'm sued already.
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Yeah, I can really use these two weeks.
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You know, I'm not quite ready for our full mega preview, which
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definitely make sure you subscribe because that's
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definitely coming down the Pike fast and furious.
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But I am ready for this very impromptu shotgun style draft.
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I think you alluded to it. There's a big one, the defending
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champions, Arsenal taking on another show favorite, Leon and
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I, I mean, what a way to to kick off the tournament.
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So this one is excluded from the draft.
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We're going to kind of put this one off to the side.
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There's nine matches, so this allows us to go four and four,
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you know, with the remainder. But what was your initial take
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when you saw that this one is going to kick things off?
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I mean that October 7th slate is a banger, but this obviously
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feels like the centerpiece. And you know, in an array of
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four great matches, obviously, you mentioned you have the
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holders Arsenal versus the most dominant team in the history of
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the tournament. Lyon won this tournament 8
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times. Arsenal cut that lead down to
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six historically. So only six more to match Lyon.
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But I don't know if they got Chloe Kelly.
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So they might they might get there.
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Who knows by the time she retires.
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I will say little wrinkle here and everybody take a take a
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drink because I'm going to do it.
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Arsenal has to play Manchester City Football Club 3 days before
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they play Lyon. And obviously I'm going to
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mention Manchester City as many times as I can because they're
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not appearing in the tournament. So I'm going to find a way to to
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to squeeze them in. But I say all that to say
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Arsenal just rest everybody versus City in the WSL match,
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especially Chloe Kelly. You can't be too careful.
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You know that that that Chloe Kelly revenge match.
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I mean, I don't. Want to if she.
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If there's anything left in the tank, if there's any, if there's
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anywhere that you can dig down deep and and pull out a little
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some extra things that that that can definitely get ugly.
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But for your sake, for my Co host sake, I don't want to see
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that, even though I I do root for, you know, that team in red
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versus that team in the Carolina blue.
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Let's kick off the draft. So I think we'll just go well,
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we didn't decide on who was going to go first.
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I I feel like we've never flipped a coin.
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You want to flip a coin? Do you have a?
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Do you have a coin? I do.
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I do I Oh. Wow.
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So I weirdly found like this quarter that's like dated 1967
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and I just put it on my desk and I'm like, I don't know what I'm
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going to do with it, but I'm like, this is a really old
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quarter and turns out this is what I'm going to do with it.
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I'm going to flip it our our Champions League most
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anticipated matchups draft. So make a call and I'll flip
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this bad boy, right? Tails.
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Sorry man, it is Boomsky Teds. Sorry.
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I was OK and I was told tales. Never fails.
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God damn it didn't usually steer me wrong in Madden.
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I hear that. OK, well, I got the first pick.
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Little bit of a curveball. I'm going to go, damn, I'm going
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to betray my board. I'm going to go with the the the
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third match up that I have on my board just because I love this
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match up. Give me Real Madrid versus Roma.
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I'm not sure when this one happens, but I love these two
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teams. I love Real Madrid.
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I wasn't sure about Roman qualifying.
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And I was like, I'm not sure if like, you know, these teams, you
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know, once you've tasted a little bit of like,
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disappointment, you know, like, do you really want to kind of
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fight through the qualify, do the whole thing again?
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But to Roma's credit, they came back and, you know, fought their
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way in. And Real Madrid, I think they
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continue to ascend. So I think this is going to be a
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very, very juicy matchup. I'm I'm super excited for this
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one. I had this one ranked three on
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my board. I love it.
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Yeah, Las Blancas, they bounced back nicely after their early
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league loss to Atletico Madrid, who we'll discuss later.
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They bounced back with two wins over on track Frankfurt and the
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qualifiers, and then two league wins.
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Alba Redondo has a goal and an assists in their last three
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appearances, which included two starts.
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I am very excited to see them take on Roma.
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Roma opens up the Syriaf and McNeil season at home versus
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Parma on October 4th, then takes on Real Madrid four days later.
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That match is October 8th. Sorry.
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The the match between Real Madrid and Roma on October 8th
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at 9:45 AM Pacific Time. Also known as the Lords time
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zone. I love that.
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Let's go early morning. Let's get the ball rolling all
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right, man. You're up third pick in the
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draft. I'm just going to go ahead and
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take Barcelona versus Bayern Munich.
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Ever heard of them? So Barcelona.
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Barcelona has played four Liga F matches.
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They have a goal differential of plus 24.
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That's 25 goals for one against. Claudia Pina has two starts.
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She has played 199 minutes. She leads the team with six
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goals. Did she get 2 hat tricks or was
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it like a four and two or? I think there's a spread out.
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I think they're a little, they're a little spread out, if
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memory serves. Yeah.
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And obviously, you know, they're matched up against Bayern
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Munich. Bayern is currently level on
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points with Wolfsburg there, but they're sitting at the top of
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the league in frown Bundesliga because they have a superior
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goal differential. Bayern Munich's top goal scorers
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are old pal Vanessa Giel and Lena Oberdaw.
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It's three goal, three goals each.
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Clara Well, I've got I already put butchered it.
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Sorry, sorry if I see. Clara Bull.
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Clara Bull has chipped in 4 assists and European champion
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Georgia Sandman has three assists.
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And I'm going to just leave. I'm just going to leave this
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with the question, a question I will be wondering as the
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tournament plays out. We've already seen her do some
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spectacular things. Will 20 year old Japanese
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international Momoka Tanakawa take her full star turn in this
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tournament? I'll be very interested to see
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it. Oh my gosh, what a moment that
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could be. Just like opening up in the
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tournament against against Barcelona, we had MLS architect
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pocket pop to the comments on our last episode and we were got
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to chatting a little bit about this potential revenge season
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for Barcelona. You know, like, you know, upset.
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There's something about like, you know, this happens to in the
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NBA when the MVP doesn't win the championship and they may come
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back the next year. Like really, really salty
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because they had to raise the trophy knowing that they didn't
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their teammates didn't didn't reach that same finish line
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outside of the F, but could make for a really, really, I don't
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know like motivated extra motivated Barcelona.
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I'd be really excited to see that.
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But 4th pick in the draft, I got to go with this 1-2
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heavyweights. Give me Wolfsburg, PSG.
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Obviously we we missed PSG last year.
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Wolfsburg really good appearance last year after missing the year
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prior. So these are two teams that
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probably feel a little bit flat about how they each exited the
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last couple of Champions League tournaments.
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And these are teams with big, you know, big brands, you know,
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big aspirations. So it's going to be really cool
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to see them go at it in the first matchup.
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I feel like this is a sort of a true toss up.
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Germany's second second best, right against France's second
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best. One of these, one of the matches
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I think we're going to not quite.
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Is it too early for this to be a measuring stick match?
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I think it sort of could be maybe?
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It could be. I have my questions about PSG.
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I mean, our pal, the great intrepid reporter, the
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trailblazer herself, a seal to Filey who covers French football
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as well as anybody in the history of the planet Earth, has
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pointed out that Perry's Angerman often treats their
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women's team as a money making machine where they develop good
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players and immediately sell them off.
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I mean, we've seen them lose it just in the past two seasons,
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Sandy Baltimore, Tabitha Chuenga and Marie Antoinette Katoto.
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So I'll be interested to see what their attack looks like.
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I mean, they still have Rome Luchter, they have Nigerian
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attacker Jennifer Echiqueni. And of course, in goal between
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the post the legend herself, Mary fucking Herbs.
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Let's go. Absolute legend.
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I'm going to be excited to see Mary Herbs back.
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Well, I'm not sure. Back in the Champions League,
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I'm sure. Have you seen?
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I haven't seen Mary Herbs in Champions League.
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I'm sure she's made neither have I.
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If yeah, if she hasn't made any appearance, apologies, but this
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will be my maiden voyage with Mary fucking Herbs in the
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Champions League. Very excited.
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All right, you're up. 5th pick. All right.
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You've shocked me with both of these because I thought for sure
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both times you started going, I thought without a shadow of a
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doubt you were going to pick who Ventus versus Benfica, who I
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will be, who I will be taking here.
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Interest this. I had them 6th on my board so
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actually you're going to be surprised by my next big too.
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OK, I believe it. OK.
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I had Wolfsburg, PSG 6th on my board, so I think we're all over
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the place here. OK, different interests here.
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Regular season again for Siria Femenil in Italy, that starts on
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October 4th. For who?
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Juventus, who then has to turn around and play on October 7th
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versus Benfica. Disappointing Champions League
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last year for for who? Ventus.
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They only beat Valarenga on the bookends of the group stage and
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then kind of got clocked in the other four matches.
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I think they were pretty competitive against your Gunners
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in one of those matches, I think it was a one nil loss if I
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remember correctly, but they lost all four matches.
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They had to play against Byron and Arsenal and I'm just very,
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very pleased to see our Portuguese pals Benfica back in
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this tournament and make another run in the in the UEFA Women's
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Champions League. But it'll be a very different
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squad from the one we saw in the 2324 Champions League.
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No Kika of Nazareth, no Mimi Aladou, no Jessica Silva.
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You know, I'm looking forward to to making some new friends.
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I am as. Well, because I think the, the
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read that we've had on Benfica the last couple years is like,
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OK, this team, you could a lot of raw talent.
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And I think over the last couple years, whether it's watching
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Benfica or Sporting CP or Portugal, you know, like we've
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seen some evolution just since we've been covering the sport
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the last two, 2 1/2 years. So I'm really excited to see
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Benfica, you know, making making a return appearance here.
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My next pick, give me FC Twente and Chelsea.
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I think excited to see Chelsea. We talked about it last episode.
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A great representation of American players to be excited
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about Germa Macario and the newly signed Alyssa Thompson and
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just Chelsea's just, you know, bit essentially the cream, the
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cream of the crop in the WSL. And they're very, you know,
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they're on the upper upper echelon of of European football.
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Then they must be Speaking of salty.
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They must be extremely salty that it was that team in North
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London that got to raise that Champions Trophy before before
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Chelsea did. And, you know, between the
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roster, the talent, both pastor, you know, like the elusive
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champion, it's going to be really interesting to see if
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that pressure builds to a point where it becomes a hindrance or
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if it just starts to feel like, hey, this team is kind of
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destined to reach at least a semifinal, maybe the final.
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And then on the other side, FC Twente, I thought really good
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showing last year. They played tough.
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You know, they got rocked in a couple matches.
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But you know, they showed up and physically they looked, you
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know, the part like they can hold up.
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So I I don't know, another year of kind of seasoning and, you
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know, growing and evolution of that club and and that roster.
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It could be a really fun match. But I think we're, you know,
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we're in the bottom half of the draft.
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So these these matchups aren't aren't perfect, but that one I I
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did have circled. That's one I'm absolutely going
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to watch. I'm absolutely excited to see
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what transpires there. I like.
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It we're totally aligned here. Twente is sitting atop area to
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Busy Brown FC-20. Chelsea FC was fifth on my big
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board. Also 20 is level on points, but
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they're one goal ahead of Ajax on goal differential in league
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play. 20 is a bunch of Dutch talent on the squad, Jamie
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Ravensburg and has three goals in two league matches.
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And what do you know, everybody take another drink because
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former Manchester City Football Club player Jill Roared is on
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the squad and in league play, she has she has three assists
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already on the young year. So good job, Jill.
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You managed to leave Manchester City in order to play Champions
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League football again. Thank you, Gareth Taylor.
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Appreciate you, buddy. And I'm glad you I'm glad you
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talked about Chelsea's roster here because I just want to I
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just want like point this out here.
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So they have Ellie Carpenter. And who's this?
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Oh, this, this player, Sam Kerr, she's Australian too, so she's
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back. She has a goal.
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She's played 38 minutes so far in league play.
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I'll be interested to see how she ramps up.
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But so they have Carpenter and Kerr from Australia, they have
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Livia Peng from Switzerland. She's obviously not going to
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going to play much in goal. But then they have Nuskin from
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Germany. Then they have all the English
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talent, Charles Walsh, Hampton Bright, Beaver Jones.
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They have Jean Francois and Baltimore from France, They have
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Himano from Japan, They have Vika Kaptine from the
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Netherlands, They have girl writing from Norway, Aaron
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Cuthbert from Scotland, Johanna Written Kannerud and Nathalie
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Bjorn from Sweden. And then Alyssa Thompson,
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Katarina Macario and Naomi Germa from the US of A.
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That's my friend, is an international All Star team,
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Yeah. Shout out to get well soon my
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Ramirez, one of my favourite Cafe Thetas from Colombia.
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Great call. I don't know, man, I think I
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don't like Chelsea, but I don't want to see them play about.
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I want to see I want to see them hit their absolute ceiling and
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see their best against somebody else's best.
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I don't think we I think we got a little short changed on that
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last year. All right, so I took 20 Europe,
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right, 3, three match up slides. I am up and buddy, we're leaving
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on the southern train. Give me S, give me STP.
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Our old pals from Austria, St. Polton playing Atletico Madrid.
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Saint Polton's currently sitting second on the OFB frown
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Bundesliga table in Austria. Their level on points, but
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there's there's six goals behind Land house.
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Everything's coming up Land house apparently, so we'll kind
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of see. You know, got to tell you.
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Not sure where to find OFB frowned.
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Bundesliga matches on television?
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I'm working on that, but 22 year old German forward Sarah Matner
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Trambleau, we've seen her play multiple times before in this
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tournament. I like her, she's good.
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I think we should keep keep an eye on her.
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And also, how about another familiar name?
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What about lewd Mila Ludmila Marafkova, the 27 year old
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Slovakian midfielder who has two goals on the young season for
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STP? Looking forward to to watching
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her play as well. Oh, that's.
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Wonderful. Yeah, I think took me for a loop
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there. I mean, STP at LED the 7th on my
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big board. What I like about this matchup,
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you get the big club, probably bigger budget probably coming
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from, you know, I don't know, maybe who I'm not.
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Maybe I should stay on the economics conversation.
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I don't know. But.
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A club from a bigger league, let's say against a club that's
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got a lot of champions experience, you know, they
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they've clocked a lot of minutes, they faced a lot of
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huge clubs. You know, I think probably, you
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know, you stack them up. I mean, I think SC PS faced
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tougher, bigger clubs over their last few years just from the
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Champions League exposure. Then I'd let the ass.
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So you know, I think it's really it's going to be really
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interesting what what this matchup looks like.
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If you know league FS third third best versus STP with all
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that experience, I think I think it could be some fireworks.
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I love it. No, it's great take by you,
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Atleti, you know, getting there, you know, getting their
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experience versus Barcelona and Real Madrid.
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But then it's a great point by St. you know, by you that STP is
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has just actual Champions League experience.
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I do want to say, you know, I mentioned lewd Mila Madhav Kova
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earlier. The Slovakian midfielder Atleti
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does have a talented actual Brazilian 22 year old forward
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Luani, who had four goals and four assists in 1000 minutes
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played last year in League of F, but already has three goals and
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two assists in 196 minutes this season.
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And I think we talked about it a few weeks ago.
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I liked the look of Atleti. Now, obviously I saw them beat
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Real Madrid early in the season. I, I watched that match on the
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zone, but I, I like they play physical, they run up and down
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the wings. I'm just I'm too excited to see
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that how they look in the Champions League format.
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Yeah, no doubt. I think there's something about,
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you know, these matchups where there's like a great distance,
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you know, and there's just a lot of differences between the two.
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You know, the countries are different, the languages like
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you know, like even the the physical profiles and the play
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like I just love that's that's one of the best parts of the
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tournament is like when we get to see like a real mix up here.
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Absolutely I'm. Going to stick to.
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My board, I almost didn't stick to my board, but I'm going to
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stick to my board. It's my pick, right?
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Yes, it is. OK, 8th pick.
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I'm going to take Manchester United.
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OK, good. Thank.
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You following. I, you know, I wasn't going to
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do like that. I really.
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OK, I was. I'm furiously Googling like, you
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know how to pronounce Leuven. I think it's Leuven Leuven, but
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Leuven Leuven. Yeah, I did a little.
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I did a little YouTube research earlier.
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Let's go. Shout out to you.
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Yeah, give me Manchester United Valeringa.
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So a little bit disappointed, obviously that Manchester United
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is here and SK Bron isn't here. But we we talked about, you
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know, the Europa Cup ramifications of being able to
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get get to a little while watch the little Bron football still
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with with some stakes, which we like.
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But this is another another matchup of a big club with
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budget have had their issues. You know, obviously, like, you
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know, act acting like a big club.
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But in theory a big club facing, you know, this Avalaranga side
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that that has some fresh Champions League experience, can
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play tough, can't play physical. They're not going to get bullied
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by this Manchester United side. I think I think it represents an
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interesting matchup, But on the same token, it is a little tough
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to be like, all right, well, how much different?
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Is Manchester United volaring it going to be then?
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Manchester United? You know SK Braun was.
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It does kind of feel like it could take on the same kind of
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feel, but it is football. Weird shit happens.
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I'm going to be excited to watch what United looks like.
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I love a lot of those players. Shout out to one of the friends
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of the show at Reaper 2004 who stopped by and gave us some shit
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for our our our Braun take. Appears to be a United fans got
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a nice United logo as a as a thumbnail.
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Talk about that one later. But shout out to Reaper.
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Yeah, absolutely. Shout out to Reaper.
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Not not a jerk while giving us some shit and gloating.
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Totally appreciate that. That's that's part of the fun.
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And this congratulations to you guys.
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Begrudgingly. Yeah.
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So I mean, like you said, it's great.
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It's great to see a big club like Valerie to play a small
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club like Manchester United in this kind of tournament.
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And but all jokes aside, Manchester United man Melvin
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Millard, she has four goals already in the young WSL season.
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She had a brace in 14 minutes versus Leicester and then
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figured, well, I could probably be a little more efficient and
21:24
then had a brace in 3 minutes versus London City.
21:27
Lionesses come on. And then they go back and then
21:31
scratch out a draw versus your Arsenal.
21:33
So a good start to the seat to the league season.
21:36
You know, I realized I just kind of listed off a bunch of the
21:38
roster for Chelsea. But so they have Melvin Millard,
21:42
they have my Aleticia, Ella Tune, Jess Park, J Rivier,
21:46
Elizabeth Turlin and not a Miyazawa, Fallon, Telus, Joyce
21:49
and goal. A lot of good players on the
21:51
team, Frieda, Lena, Rolfo, they got they got players over there.
21:54
I mean it, this is just, I'm calling this the salt in the
21:58
wound match because not only is it Manchester United where it
22:02
should have been Braun, but they're playing a Norwegian team
22:05
that should be Braun. So it's all just it's all just a
22:09
big kicking dirt in my eye. But that's fine.
22:12
The the wrong Norwegian team is led by their two goal scorers,
22:17
Oleg Tevenden and Karina Shevik, who we got to watch in last
22:21
year's Champions League. They have a combined players we
22:23
really like though. Yeah, players we.
22:25
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No disrespect to the Volleringa
22:28
supporters out there, but this is an SK Brown podcast.
22:31
They have a combined sixteen goals and six assists in top
22:34
Syrian. So yeah, I'm interested to see
22:36
it. I'll be rooting for Manchester
22:38
United to lose because I'm a Manchester City supporter.
22:41
But they're they're good, man. So you got you got me.
22:45
Yeah, I I admit you're good. You're in the Champions League,
22:49
you're doing well in WSLII, concede that you are very good.
22:55
They're in their spot. For sure no doubt didn't have an
22:58
easy Rd. we'll say to to get to the dance, but one one last
23:02
match up on the board. Do the honors.
23:04
Please close us out, Perry. FC versus oh Luvin Perry FC,
23:11
another French squad that just looks very different from when
23:14
we saw them in the 2324 Woman's Champions League.
23:18
They're led by 24 year old forward Lorena Azzaro, who has
23:22
two goals and two matches in the young Premier League season.
23:24
She came over from Strasbourg. But I'm, I'm, I'm very anxious
23:28
to see Louvin. They are debutantes.
23:30
I believe they might be the only debutantes in this league phase.
23:33
If I remember my, my reading correctly, they're also the
23:37
first Belgian team to qualify for this tournament.
23:40
They stunned Rosengaard in the second qualifying round.
23:44
And here they are. You know, they're mostly Belgian
23:46
players. And I just think this is another
23:48
opportunity. Like I always say, this is
23:50
another opportunity to learn a lot.
23:52
And that is why the UEFA Women's Champions League is a
23:54
celebration of life. Yeah, no doubt.
23:57
And. Belgium, kind of, you know, I
24:00
think they exceeded expectations in the EUR.
24:03
They were scrappy. Yeah, I think I had.
24:05
Them like way way down, but they were fun to watch interesting
24:09
you know playing style unique playing style so I think this
24:13
one could be fun I I I was excited to see you know Louvin
24:16
in the qualifying I wasn't able to track down their match but a
24:19
Perry FC matchup I think is going to be pretty tasty yeah
24:22
it. Should be interesting to say the
24:24
least. And, you know, you just, I just
24:26
want to see like what these, you know what Perry Zaman and Perry
24:30
FC, I just want to see what they, what they look like, like,
24:33
you know, they, they play these Premier League matches on the
24:35
zone and I and I watch them, I watch them when I can.
24:38
I'm not going to act like I'm, I'm locked in watching every
24:40
single match, but the zone knows where the bread is buttered and
24:44
they're showing Lyon matches and let's just say we also have a
24:48
rooting interest in Lyon. So I'm watching those matches.
24:51
So when Perry FC and PSG play Lyon, I'll definitely be locked
24:56
in watching those. But this gives us more
24:58
opportunities to kind of watch them in in a great European
25:01
competition, the greatest European competition, Pardon me,
25:05
absolutely. Yeah, I think I'm excited.
25:07
Clara Matteo, I was I was screwing through the roster.
25:10
Clara Matteo still active, 27 years old, I think with some
25:13
stuff to prove, you know, talking about the EUR I think
25:16
had a little bit of like an underwhelming EUR And I think
25:20
another show favorite Selena Uhho seen defender who's now 24.
25:25
I think she was she was a young 23.
25:28
She was a young 21 back where you know, we were watching very
25:31
the first time around. But we'll see her evolution of
25:34
her game. And they play a really tough,
25:37
fun brand of football. It's like they're sort of not
25:40
PSG. So they've got to play, you
25:42
know, not like PSG. It's like it's it's always a
25:44
fun, you know, not quite paper, rock, scissors, but a clash of
25:49
styles whenever it is PSG, Perry FC or or Leon and, you know,
25:53
those teams get kind of like mixed up in the Scrabble bag.
25:56
But I think we did it. Can I just?
25:59
Let you know one more thing. Let's go.
26:02
Bonus pick. Hammer B versus SK Braun in the
26:05
UEFA Women's Europa Cup. The Swedish club Hammer B is led
26:08
by 20 year old 21 year old Swede Ellen Wongerheim.
26:11
She has fourteen goals and five assists in the league season.
26:14
They're also led by Julie Blochstadt, who we know is a
26:16
good player. 10 goals, 4 assists.
26:18
They're tough, they'll follow you anywhere on the pitch.
26:21
They're sitting at top of the Damos fencing, but they're
26:23
running into a buzz saw. SK Braun led by the 20 year old
26:26
Wonder Kid senior Goffs at eight goals, 4 assists in top Serian
26:29
veteran Amelie Eichlund has knocked in six goals in one
26:32
assist. They lost dynamic striker Anna I
26:35
am in April with an ACL injury. Get well soon Anna.
26:38
She had eighteen goals in the league last year and they
26:41
absolutely would have beat United if they had her in this
26:44
UA for Women's Champions League qualifying, but that's beside
26:46
the point. Let's fucking go Bron, let's go
26:49
Battalion. We will be rooting you on
26:51
October 7th when you go to Sweden in what should just be a
26:55
hellified matchup. Now wait for.
26:57
That and somebody please, please find a way to stream this.
27:01
Find a way. Hit your boys with.
27:03
The link find a way. Yeah, yeah.
27:05
Let us know. We'll stream it live on our
27:07
channel. Sure.
27:08
OK. Like.
27:09
Let us go, we'll make it happen. Get a hold of 1600 people
27:12
watching it. Have you seen that guy who
27:17
watches Manchester United men's matches?
27:20
He's this blonde guy with glasses and he's just having the
27:24
worst time watching Manchester United Men's Manchester.
27:27
I'll send you some clips. He is hilarious.
27:31
Unintentionally, often. The dude is fucking super funny,
27:35
and it's mostly me laughing at his pain.
27:38
Yeah, first I was. Like, why would I want to watch
27:39
this? And then you're like, he's
27:40
having the worst. I was like the worst.
27:44
Send that on over all right, man, I got some clips for you.
27:49
This been another episode, another draft episode of into
27:52
the channel. Thank you for watching,
27:53
listening, hanging out. If you enjoyed the show or loved
27:56
ones football as much as you boys do, make sure you're
27:58
kicking with us each and every single week.
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Like subscribe, follow YouTube, Spotify, Apple podcast where you
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28:10
And a big thank you my coach, Mr. Grant Engel for Bruce Wayne
28:14
Batman bat signal doesn't like who I needed today was my draft
28:19
counterpart and my guy brought it.
28:21
I appreciate you, bro. I'm I'm I'm ready for this
28:24
tournament and I think this episode puts us well on our way.
28:28
We're definitely on. Our way, buddy, and the feeling
28:30
is mutual. We got, like you said, we got
28:32
the full preview coming where you can dive in, talk about some
28:34
of the other some of the other players obviously where we will
28:37
be looking to find European players who played at some
28:42
random colleges in the United States of America.
28:45
So we can shout that out. And you know what, I always love
28:48
doing a draft episode with you. We were actually working the we
28:52
for people just like who may not have ever caught this.
28:55
Dino and I, we worked at a startup years ago in Brooklyn
28:59
and it was around the time where that terrible Drake song came
29:02
out where he start. I think the song might be called
29:05
Draft Day and the two people, well, he shouts out at the
29:08
beginning of that show, at the beginning of that song, I think
29:10
he says draft day, Johnny Manziel.
29:13
And then maybe in the second verse, he says draft day, Andrew
29:16
Wiggins, now NBA champion Andrew Wiggins.
29:19
I'll just tell you. Maybe the song didn't age great
29:23
you. Know the draft's a crapshoot,
29:26
man. You know he.
29:28
Doesn't. Get to throw the dart, the first
29:30
pick and the 22nd pick wherever, whenever Johnny Football was
29:33
taken and it's an absolute crapshoot.
29:37
But. We both crushed this one.
29:38
There's, I mean home runs all around.
29:42
I mean, I'm happy with with where I landed.
29:45
You know, I, I've got a bunch of fun matchups, a bunch of teams
29:48
that I want to watch. I don't think I reached for
29:50
anything in the draft. I don't know.
29:52
We don't have to put it to a pole, but we could.
29:56
I mean, sure, we could again, just to watch me get my head
30:00
kicked in, but that's fine. Whatever you want to do, man.
30:02
I don't know. Depends on how big the show is
30:04
in Austria. Maybe We got a lot of Saint
30:06
Poland fans who are still rocking with us from the first
30:10
for the last two Champions Leagues.
30:11
Yeah, Austria. Belgium, yeah, you're out here
30:13
collecting these new markets out there.
30:15
I appreciate that. It's a good strategy.
30:17
All right. I appreciate you bro.
30:19
Likewise, buddy. Thanks for everybody who tuned
30:22
in. Thanks for everybody for always
30:23
dropping knowledge in the comments.
30:26
Again, you know, we don't know some of these teams so well.
30:28
If you are in some of these other countries and you're like,
30:30
hold on a minute, you forgot about this player.
30:32
They play in our domestic league.
30:33
Like let us know please. We are thirsty for the
30:36
knowledge. Thanks for rocking with us and
30:38
we will see you all next time.