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Arsenal Eliminate Chelsea | Bayern Hold Off Man United | FULL UWCL RECAPS 🏆 · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  Hey, welcome to Into the Channel podcast.
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  I remember about one's football. I'm your host Dino de Suspicious
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  and as always I am joined by my Co host Mr. Grant Engel.
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  What is up man? I'm feeling fantastic buddy.
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  Couple of great matches of football play today.
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  Just ho hum. No controversy, nothing to
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  really discuss. We'll talk about the play on the
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  field and talk about the what we might expect in the next round,
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  maybe a little bit. Yeah, I mean, feels good to kind
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  of have a hit this point. We've got two of our semi
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  finalists having punched their ticket, a little bit of March
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  Madness across the pond. Very exciting.
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  And the matches were good. Like I think, I think this round
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  last year was a real snoozer. I think by the time we get to
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  the second leg, like a lot of the drama had been, you know,
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  just completely evaporated. But to take basically these two
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  matches down to the wire for both of them.
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  I I mean, what a what a day of football.
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  Yeah, absolutely fantastic. Yeah.
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  Ready to get into it with you? Let's go right where?
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  Where do you want to get started?
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  No, let's get started with a beverage before we even get to
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  the football. What an idea.
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  What an idea. Cheers to you.
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  Cheers to the football. Cheers to you, cheers to the
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  football. So where do we really, really
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  want to get started, though, if we're going to talk about this?
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  Let's do chronological, my good man.
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  Bayern Munich 2 Manchester United won the German powerhouse
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  advances 53-ON aggregate. But what was that?
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  What was the score of the the match though?
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  Did you have that right? You did have that right.
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  And if you listen to our last episode, our guy had it 21
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  Bayern. Look at that, you.
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  Didn't have to watch the game, just checked out the preview and
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  one of us will have nailed it. There it is.
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  You already know. So Congrats to you, but yeah,
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  apologies, I didn't mean to derail you.
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  Totally shocked me. And even when you said our guy
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  had it, I was like, is he talking about me or him?
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  Mike Watts? Yeah.
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  I didn't know Mike dropped a prediction in there.
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  Oh, we know. We never would.
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  I will say though, Manchester United, man, you know, I've used
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  the phrase they've beaten the respect out of me in this
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  tournament. I like that they came out in
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  attack mode early. Now, granted, they knew they had
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  to right? But like, I like their effort.
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  I like their spirit in the in the first part of the match,
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  like the first like 15 or 20 minutes.
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  I thought obviously they get the goal in the 11th, but I I just
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  like their attitude. Am I just saying football things
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  right now or did any of that jump out to you?
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  No, totally. And I, and I, I kind of just
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  remember thinking during the match, I'm like, damn, I want to
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  talk to Mark Skinner. Like at some point I, I need to
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  talk to that guy to kind of like hear from him how this is
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  happening because of the team really does feel like they've
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  developed a new DNA, you know, like, you know, and I, I always
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  think that flashpoint moment was when, you know, they had those
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  stories about the working conditions and the prey, all all
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  their, all their setup. And then Mary herbs goes to PSG
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  and it's like, you know, Russo had left a little bit earlier.
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  So right, all of it. I think from there I'm just
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  like, oh, man, I you know, we don't we kind of lost one like a
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  like a team that really could have, you know, been up in the
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  mix. And I think they just skirt like
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  skirted right back on track. And I think a really, really
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  exciting team exceeded expectations.
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  Even, like, watching them through, you know, like, get to
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  this point, like, I feel like at every point they outperformed
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  what we were expecting. And I kind of find I found
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  myself a little bit, you know, kind of rooting for them today.
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  Well, you would all right, that's a bridge too far for me,
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  obviously, but it's understandable.
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  I I get why people like them so much.
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  I mean, look, you know, setting up setting up some of that early
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  pressure. You know Miyazawa down the right
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  wing, She plays it in the middle from Millar, forcing
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  Mahmoudovich into like a really great save like early and then
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  not long after that, Millar forces the error between
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  Makmoudovich and Jill to create the goal.
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  Outstanding call by future friend of the program Gary Tap
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  House, who I think we got to get on the show.
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  This dude's an excellent announcer.
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  Gary Tap House AKA Gary Trap House as as we know him on this
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  program, but when he he just shouts out defensive calamity by
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  for pardon me, he shouts out much better than I try to
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  deliver it there. He says quote defensive calamity
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  for Bayern and you don't say that often.
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  End Quote. And thank God I don't try to say
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  it often because I butchered it twice.
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  Calamity a good word for. It it was a calamity.
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  I mean, I love that, that, you know, we, we mentioned Miller on
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  the show last week kind of having the razzle dazzle, but
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  missing the last kind of like piece to, to get the ball to.
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  And I love that today she was just like, oh, I'm the last
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  piece. You know, I'll do the rise of
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  dazzle and I'll do the last piece part because she went 3
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  rounds with Mimudovich. You mentioned it the fifth
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  minute, the 11th minute where she gets Cedar.
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  She, she busted the whole defense off that gaff.
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  And then the 14 minute and 32nd mark, she blast that third one.
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  And I kind of felt at that moment I'm like, it's weird
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  because it was like like 3 and 5 minute successions.
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  And at the end of it, it's in that little mini battle session,
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  it's, it ends up to 1 Byron because Mimudovich gets that
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  second stop, you know? And it was like, man, you know,
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  like it's going to be a tough matchup.
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  It ends up being a total tale of two halves as well because
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  United looked really good in the first half.
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  The two shots that Byron did put together the first half were
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  absolute dribblers, like 0 threat whatsoever and United
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  looked, you know, sharp and the stats were pretty close.
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  Like you kind of look at it. So in the first half, United
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  completes 84% of their passes, that drops to 67 in the
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  second-half, 45% possession, that drops to 24.
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  In the second-half, shots six to three, that drops to 13 to 1 and
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  bought Byron's favor in the second-half.
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  So I mean really it, it was hard to really recognize that United
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  team from the first half once we go into the second-half.
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  Felt like, and I don't think it's total, you know,
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  revisionist history or kind of like playing the result, but
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  they looked a little leggy in the second-half.
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  Bayern was able to hold the ball a lot better.
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  And you could like coming right out of halftime.
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  Bayern was holding the ball better in the half.
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  They forced PTJ into a great save relatively early in those
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  proceedings. And second-half, I think we
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  might just have to call that Linda Dalmont time because she
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  was cooking. Give myself a little pat on the
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  back here too. In the 35th minute I had posted
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  feels like Dahlman and her fast twitch decision making in the
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  midfield is something Byron will really need today.
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  And I I posted on the 35th because it looked like the
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  attack was like a little basic, a little vanilla, a little, you
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  know, and and and United was a kind of up for it.
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  So they weren't really going to get, and I think even early in
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  the second-half, you know, Byron was pushing up further, but they
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  were hitting a lot of dead ends and even in the final third.
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  So I thought United held up really, really well from that
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  standpoint that and I just kind of felt like Dahlman, you know,
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  she just has a lot of different moves to go to.
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  You know, she's kind of like a pitcher that has like 4 or five
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  pitches. She got some spice to her game.
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  And then that crack that she takes late in the match, you
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  know, like, I mean, it's like not a very Bayern type strike,
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  but the the perfect strike for that moment.
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  And it was a deserved goal. Who, you know, they were, they
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  were mounting the pressure. Obviously they get, you know,
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  they got the header goal from Vigos Todiere moments earlier.
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  But I, you know, going to to my notes on this one, you dominate.
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  I thought she had been the best player on the pitch.
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  And so she, I feel like it was a deserved goal for her.
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  And I'm glad you talked about like her different moves and the
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  way she was playing. One of the things that I put in
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  my notes is was that she was dribbling with conviction when
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  she was going up the field like she was.
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  She knew her moves were working today and she was going to
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  employ as many of them as she could.
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  She that reminds me, I've got it in my notes, too.
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  The the 76th minute, she put a really committed move on, on
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  Nelson right at the top of the box.
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  And that was the one where she ends up getting it to Julia
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  Kvin, who takes that strike where the the ball disappears.
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  You're not like they go in like, you know, like just because of
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  where the camera angle was like, and you know, then ends up and
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  it was weird because the ball disappears and then they're
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  like, oh, handball. And I'm like, what the I just
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  see like 3 but replays that put it together.
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  But that comes off a Linda Dahlman action, you know, like a
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  sick move to like open up that space and and really get Glenn
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  going. And and I think I'm pretty I'm
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  not sure if the header happens right off of that.
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  It's a few minutes later, but they had totally had to cook.
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  And actually the header comes off of Dalmont to Tanakawa in
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  the in the 80th, you know, off off of that action that begins a
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  corner that becomes the biggest DOE tier goal.
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  It felt like throughout the match too, even when United was
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  was playing well in the first half, you could tell Byron
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  really liked the aerial attack. I think it's at some point in
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  the in the middle of the first half, or it might have been, may
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  have been creeping into the second-half, might have been
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  early in the second-half where I was just kind of sitting there
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  and I was just like, why? Like 40% of Byron's attack is,
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  hey, Vanessa, she'll get in the middle of the 18 and we're going
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  to try to play you an aerial ball, which is, but you know,
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  I'm not going to say that's a bad strategy.
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  She's a monster athlete with, you know, a ton of vertical
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  leap. But for Vigo Sotir to score
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  that, it just felt like Bayern, not only did they like their
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  chances in the aerial attack, but just in set pieces in
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  general, it seemed like they were playing with a lot of
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  confidence. Yeah, I mean that that was where
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  their advantage was going to be for sure.
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  And but it it just reminds me of that, the heartbreaking moment
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  right before the Dalman goal. It's Vigo Sotir again, the
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  header, you know, cleared off by Millard and then just blasted
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  right back in and she's just like, what the fuck?
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  Is a great clearance. For her, yeah, I mean, she was
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  everywhere that, you know, she really, you know, left it all
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  out there. You know, the player, the for
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  sure the signature player in the United side that I remember
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  wants to give Georgia Stanley a quick shout out to led the
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  match. 115 touches in total, 16 passes into the final third I
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  thought showed great control was really involved in moving things
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  along in the second-half and just you know, taking the ball
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  to places to kind of like just free up a little bit extra space
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  to kind of keep things moving and just frustrate United
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  further and further. And then the last final note,
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  all this going down without Clara Bull, who was ruled out
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  for several weeks on March 4th with that calf injury.
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  So hopefully we expect her back in this next round, but that's a
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  player that I think could take it up a little as we start to
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  think about what could be looming in the semifinal here.
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  They're gonna need her now I've spent.
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  We'll see who's waiting for. Her to move yeah you know I I
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  and I have spent a lot of this tournament saying like hey, I
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  think multiple teams can win this and that's just not me and
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  I can say this honestly I say we owe we owe the audience honesty.
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  I'm not trying to be a coward on this and like, you know say not
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  commit to a single team yes. Do I think Barcelona will win
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  the title? I do.
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  I picked them at at the beginning of the tournament.
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  Yeah. I was thinking about this more.
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  I was like, oh, man, I did pick Barcelona to win this thing.
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  I got to check the tape to make it official.
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  But I like, I had a vision and I was like, wait a minute.
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  I did make a pick. Well, we were talking about this
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  last week for anybody to watch last week's episode.
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  I'm sure all of you did. That's really troubled you,
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  clearly. It did because I was just like,
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  wait a minute, I know we picked like you and I did a preview
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  podcast of a tournament and didn't pick winners.
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  That just didn't make sense to me.
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  I was like, of course we did. But I still think I think
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  Arsenal is super live like and I, and I know I'm a, a bigger
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  Leone believer than you at this moment, but I think Leone is
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  still alive. And obviously I think
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  Barcelona's the favorite. I think Bayern has a huge uphill
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  battle to fight against Barcelona.
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  We'll see. They'll need you, LeBron to to
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  have a shot or pardon. Me Clara Bull.
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  Clara Bull. Yeah, I think the the real
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  question is going to be, and I think Jose Barcala got got a
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  little confused shout outs today in the on the podcast, former
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  head coach at Servet who's now leading things at Byron.
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  The real question for me is going to be can Byron played not
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  like Byron for a match or two or for 1/2, you know, can they, you
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  know, can they do something that we don't see coming?
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  Because I kind of feel like too often, you know, you just kind
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  of know what to expect. And you know, I, I mentioned
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  when I, I mean, my prediction, I'm like, all right, but I don't
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  see Byron really kind of totally throttling, you know, United,
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  but I see them kind of overwhelming them.
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  And that just didn't happen in the first half for sure.
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  You know, they kind of either took it easy or kind of played
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  down a little bit. But then that second-half you
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  really kind of see like, you know, they're hungry.
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  They, they really just want to finish it and they get sharper
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  and sharper because that first 5-10 minutes I'm like, all
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  right, well, they're, they're not getting around.
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  They're, they're possessing, they're, they're in the right
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  part of the pitch, but none of this seems threatening.
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  And then they just start to kind of like, it's just starts to
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  scaffold and you know, the avalanche starts to build.
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  So it's like, what's the next level on that?
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  You know, and what's the level after that?
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  Because that's what they're going to need if it's Barcelona.
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  No doubt. And I, it's a great point by
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  you. And when you ask like, what can
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  they do that seems unbired? Like what could they possibly do
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  to surprise an opponent like Barcelona?
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  I mean, you think about, you know, OK, you, you might want
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  some tanakawa magic. Barcelona's going to be looking
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  for that. You want some Julia Gavin
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  setting up the play and and getting down the wing.
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  Barcelona's going to be expecting that, you know what I
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  mean? So it's like you got to find
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  something. Harder.
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  Yeah, yeah. Like you got you.
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  Like you're going to try to take advantage of something.
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  And I think what it's going to take is, you know, kind of, and
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  we've said it, like player rankings per match are not
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  everything. You know, there are different
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  websites that do a lot of stuff. We obviously appreciate our pals
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  over at Fat Mop. There wasn't a player for Bayern
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  who had a a fat mob score less than 7 point O in this match.
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  I think that's you know, and this might be a little trite
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  even, but they're going to need something pretty close to that
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  against Barcelona, like and and by that I just mean all 11
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  players are going to have to play pretty well.
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  So from somewhere to very well to their absolute best.
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  Yeah, and I think, you know, we we've we've shined a, you know,
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  a very positive light on both Gio and Vivos dote for good
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  reason, because both of them were involved in a lot of good
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  offense and great defense, suffocating defense on the
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  stretch. But in that first half, oh boy,
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  they were spaces and gaps and lanes.
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  And, you know, lots of, you know, it was a field day a
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  little bit out there to the point where I was like, damn,
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  they're going to have to maybe make an adjustment there because
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  I don't know, they can't just let you know, Mahler keep keep
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  doing that. And then it also felt like Rolfo
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  playing her way into the match. I thought just parked to they
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  were just kind of getting closer to your point.
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  I'm like, I wasn't sure if they panicked in that second-half
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  because it seemed pretty sudden or if they just ran out of gas.
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  Both of, you know, probably that second one, maybe a little bit
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  more probable. But yeah, you know, nothing but
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  props to to this run that they put together.
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  But Byron, I think I think there's another level.
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  I'm not sure they're going to hit it, but I don't think this
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  this doesn't feel like Byron sealing, you know, the bull
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  injury notwithstanding. Yeah, it's it's just it's so
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  difficult to hit the next gear against the best team in the
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  world. So I think that's going to be
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  and you know, let's all brace ourselves and we'll we'll do it
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  some on this podcast too, because it is a data point.
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  But if we want to place bets over under, you know, 95 1/2
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  times that we're going to hear in the preview of the semi
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  final, over under 95 1/2 mentions of the 71 drubbing that
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  Barcelona gave out to Bayern Munich on match day one of the
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  league phase. I think I'll take the over.
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  Putais in the 4th minute, Pyor in the 12th minute, Bruce in the
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  27th minute, then PETA Ualo at 45 + 1.
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  You know it. Bull scored in the 32nd, but it
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  was 41 at half. And it was, and I remember too,
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  when we talked about a lot of people were like, oh, Byron
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  looks terrible. What's wrong with Byron?
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  And then we came on our show and we're like, Barcelona looks
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  great. And then like, I don't even
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  think, I don't even think Byron looked that hideous out there.
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  It was just they were getting worked.
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  Yeah, and it was so early, too. It's like, you know, that was a
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  long time ago by this point. I think for me, October of the
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  season and now these teams, I mentioned it on the on the look
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  ahead show. It's like you start to see where
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  the holes are in these teams. And I think we're going to see
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  where the holes are on Byron side as well in this next round.
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  But I think they're somewhat live.
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  Let's see let's see what they're able to do at home in that first
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  leg. It's.
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  Good. It's going to be interesting.
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  Oh, yeah, With that said, let's move ahead to another team that
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  maybe had a little trouble getting going against the best
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  team in, well, maybe sort of. Chelsea 1, Arsenal nil.
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  Arsenal move on, three to two on aggregate.
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  Another, another banger of a match.
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  This one had fireworks, you know, I mean, in both
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  directions. Chelsea's maybe a little bit
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  brighter, a little bit scarier. But I'm very interested in your
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  take. Too little, too late.
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  Look, we'll we'll get to the officiating stuff.
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  I mean, Sonia Bompastore has definitely said plenty for
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  anybody in the general vicinity of that football match about the
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  officiating stuff. And it look, I'm not trying to
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  mock her like it's not nothing. I understand that.
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  But Chelsea was not good enough over 2 legs to advance.
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  Now, I liked their game today. I thought they they looked like
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  they, especially in the first half, they were able to hold the
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  ball. But even then Arsenal's defense
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  didn't. Like we talked about it last
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  time, Arsenal's defense just doesn't let you do your shit
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  like they like. They just, they block your
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  shots, they get in the way, they muck up your passes and even if
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  you are controlling the ball a little bit, they're not letting
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  you do it in the spaces that you want to do it in.
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  Yeah. And I think this kind of
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  continued to be, you know, my but you know, the analysis that
• 19:46
  I couldn't Unsee with Chelsea, you know, like they're just so
• 19:50
  used to flipping the switch and being like, we're going to
• 19:54
  overwhelm you right now and we're going to get goals, like
• 19:56
  not goal goals. Like you know, and I think you
• 19:59
  know, I'll share this kind of because it was the the loudest
• 20:03
  that I've reacted to a play. You know, with my fan cap on,
• 20:09
  let's say, you know, so let's take, you know, some of the
• 20:11
  Caseido bangers out of it. But in the 53rd minute, when Sam
• 20:16
  Kerr's got the ball, you know, driving, you know, and she's got
• 20:19
  Fox behind her and Woben Moy on the other side and Von Domsler
• 20:23
  ahead of her. Fox kind of his pesky, you know,
• 20:26
  Woben moist pesky, you know, and then curb find space blasted and
• 20:32
  Von Domsler big enough, well positioned enough strong and it
• 20:37
  got the paw on it, you know, the strong paw on it and then it and
• 20:40
  then puts it over and bro, the the scream that I let out in my
• 20:45
  house because to me I was just like you're not scoring just
• 20:49
  because you want to score, you know, which is how it was that's
• 20:53
  always how it was. We want to score we're going to
• 20:55
  score, you know, and it was like that was like we that was
• 20:58
  Chelsea saying we're going to score.
• 20:59
  Sam Curry is going to score right now and Arsenal is like
• 21:03
  not happening. And I think at that point, I was
• 21:06
  like, Arsenal's advancing. Like I, it was like, it happened
• 21:10
  that quickly. I was like, I knew at that
• 21:12
  moment I was like, we're advancing.
• 21:14
  I love that. I mean, we also knew it last
• 21:18
  week speaking, you know, as another shout to to what you
• 21:20
  would mention about us being soothsayers.
• 21:24
  Obviously don't worry about any of the predictions we get wrong.
• 21:26
  Those aren't important. It's a great call by you.
• 21:29
  I I circled that play too. And it's I'm not trying to be,
• 21:35
  I'm not trying to be a jerk here or anything too.
• 21:37
  But like pre injury Sam Kerr probably scores that.
• 21:40
  Like I know if Fox is fast, she has wheels.
• 21:43
  She had to have wheels to get back to, to help woman Moy with
• 21:47
  with Kerr. But like, you know, and maybe a
• 21:50
  fully, maybe a fully fit post injury 32 year old Sam Kerr
• 21:55
  could score that, but she just wasn't going to score that
• 21:57
  today. And I think that's, and that's
• 21:59
  why I agree largely with with your point, is that like
• 22:03
  Arsenal's defense, they swarm you.
• 22:07
  And like even in a even in a situation like that where it's
• 22:10
  over the top, it's Sam Kerr, one of the greatest players, whoever
• 22:14
  lived, they still find a way to get 2 to the ball.
• 22:17
  And then Von Damslar can still make an acrobatic safe.
• 22:21
  Yeah, no, absolutely. Jean Claude von Damslar.
• 22:24
  That was also my notes. The I love that the, the there's
• 22:27
  like a nasty, nasty streak to to kind of arsenal.
• 22:32
  And you saw it a little bit when, when Taylor Heinz comes in
• 22:35
  and I think there was like maybe there was like 4 or 5 minutes
• 22:37
  left or maybe a couple minutes before stoppage time and she's
• 22:40
  yelling. She's like corner, corner,
• 22:41
  corner. And then they just want to go
• 22:43
  there. And then you see, you see, like
• 22:45
  Russo, like Sprint out, want to be there.
• 22:47
  Became kind of wants to go about God be there.
• 22:49
  And like before Caitlin Ford wants to be there and they just
• 22:52
  want to be there and elbow and nudge it and like just be like,
• 22:55
  no, no, no, like, you know, we want to just we're we're really
• 22:58
  enjoying this. It's not an exercise in killing
• 23:01
  a couple more seconds. It's like we're going to bask
• 23:03
  you. And you know, the chippiness was
• 23:06
  was certainly in the air and you could see it in both directions
• 23:10
  for sure. Gets ugly down the stretch in a
• 23:13
  moment where where I agree with you.
• 23:16
  Yeah, OK. It's a card.
• 23:17
  It's a red card. Should be a suspension.
• 23:20
  Easy. Yeah. 0 impact on the match.
• 23:23
  What, you know, like you're talking the dying embers, like
• 23:28
  would nothing's going to happen at all.
• 23:29
  You know, like we're really arguing about whether McCabe
• 23:32
  should should be eligible for for this next match or two.
• 23:37
  And it's an American player. So it's but really had no impact
• 23:41
  whatsoever on the match. And I didn't think the
• 23:43
  officiating was that bad outside of that.
• 23:45
  Did you see anything that was like, you know, too problematic?
• 23:48
  No, no, I mean, and you know, I think we both got usually fall
• 23:53
  into the camp of let him play like, you know, we're not
• 23:56
  usually out here asking for for cards, but I I have made it very
• 24:03
  clear. I feel like we're in the same
• 24:05
  boat on this one, like men's or woman's game.
• 24:08
  I've mentioned like, you know, I got no love for Cucarella for
• 24:13
  Chelsea in the men's game, but when people have pulled his hair
• 24:16
  in the past, I've always said that's a chicken shit move.
• 24:19
  You deserve a red card for that. And I feel the same way in in in
• 24:22
  the woman's game, obviously. So yeah, it was an obvious red
• 24:24
  card on McCabe. I understand Alyssa Thompson
• 24:28
  Sanger. I understand Sonia about boom
• 24:30
  past Torres anger, but to your point, it's the last 90 seconds
• 24:34
  of the match. Like, yeah, you know, weird
• 24:36
  stuff happens. And if it's 11 V 10 and 90
• 24:39
  seconds left, they could have got another goal to equalize on
• 24:42
  aggregate and all that stuff. But like the the bottom line,
• 24:46
  what you win the game on the field and they had their
• 24:50
  opportunities. How many times do we see shots
• 24:52
  hit the post LJ, you know, ripped an incredible shot.
• 24:56
  I think Berman is going to and I feel I, I genuinely have empathy
• 25:01
  for for Berman on that because that the LJ rocket that gets
• 25:06
  saved. That's a tapping for Berman and
• 25:09
  she just finds the post on it. And I, you know, I, I think a, a
• 25:14
  part of that is thinking, I got a thread of needle cuz Von Dom
• 25:18
  Solar is on one today. She was, I mean, she was close.
• 25:21
  She wasn't too far, you know, away from that.
• 25:23
  And you know, Berman's a young player, you know, that's a, you
• 25:26
  know, a defender from primarily, you know, or further away from
• 25:30
  goal for sure. She's. 19.
• 25:33
  And and she's a good player, you know, like a definitely and you
• 25:36
  could look at I mean the post got rocked a bunch of times, you
• 25:40
  know, and I think L you know, LJ shout out to LJ too.
• 25:44
  I mean, Lucy Bronze led the match with 87 touches, second in
• 25:47
  the match, Lauren James with 8080 touches and Chelsea, You
• 25:53
  know that that that was the deathiest death lineup I think
• 25:56
  they could put out in terms of that front 4.
• 25:59
  You got Kerr, you got LJ, Alyssa Thompson, and then Newskin in
• 26:03
  the middle. Newskin gets the goal.
• 26:05
  You know Von OnStar was awesome today but nearly gets
• 26:07
  decapitated. You know, with 90 + 90 + 4 with
• 26:10
  that that that might be the hardest I've ever seen the ball
• 26:12
  hit. Like that new skin shot.
• 26:14
  I mean, I cannot believe how hard she had it.
• 26:17
  Drilled it and needed to and you could you could tell, you could
• 26:21
  see the frustration. You know, they got close.
• 26:25
  And what I talked about with Chelsea in league play when they
• 26:29
  had that draw versus London City before, you know, their their
• 26:32
  opening loss to Arsenal, I was like, well, if the offense can
• 26:36
  create enough chances, then they just got to start making them.
• 26:41
  And they're still just kind of having a rough time converting
• 26:43
  them at any kind of real efficient rate.
• 26:46
  Yeah, I mean, you know the but they they did get looks.
• 26:49
  Thompson had looks early. The news can look early.
• 26:52
  I mean, and and the IT didn't, it carried all the way through
• 26:56
  the match. They had chances all the way
• 26:57
  through. I mean, they were live, but
• 26:59
  they're just not, you know, they're just not steps better,
• 27:04
  you know, than the other teams anymore.
• 27:05
  They're kind of like in the mix. And then you can think about
• 27:08
  right, well, my Ramirez, IE Beaver Jones, like there's a lot
• 27:11
  of players that that are, you know, unavailable, you know, but
• 27:16
  I'm not sure. I think if you're a Chelsea
• 27:18
  supporter, it might be time for you to kind of like thinking
• 27:23
  about what the new direction could look like, would look
• 27:25
  like, you know, and I know there there's a lot of talk about
• 27:28
  players kind of like moving, moving on foot out the door.
• 27:32
  But I think it's interesting to see and we'll we'll see what
• 27:34
  what happens with Wolfsburg tomorrow.
• 27:37
  But that's a team that I feel like in their rebuild, they're
• 27:42
  like a little bit ahead, you know, because like they they the
• 27:44
  dip went a little deeper and now there may be a little bit on the
• 27:47
  ascent. And it feels like Chelsea maybe,
• 27:51
  you know, could, could kind of follow that track and figure out
• 27:54
  who their new core could be, You know, because I think, you know,
• 27:57
  you know, you pay all that money for Gurman.
• 27:58
  Gurman doesn't play. They're just seems to be a lot
• 28:01
  of uncertainty about who's who should be where and and who the
• 28:05
  but they have no clue who the best 11 is and who the most
• 28:09
  effective 11 would be. You know, playing together.
• 28:13
  I don't think they have any clue who that is just because they're
• 28:17
  incredibly deep. A lot of big players, a lot of
• 28:19
  big names, a lot of things to manage if you're bone past or
• 28:21
  but I don't know, maybe time for a step back and I don't know, a
• 28:24
  little bit of a rethink there. It's it's a great.
• 28:26
  Shout by you. I mean, when when CBS showed the
• 28:30
  lineup and it was Bronze and Buchanan as the center backs,
• 28:36
  you know, I've made my thoughts about the country we live in
• 28:40
  very clear. But as an American, I was like,
• 28:42
  oh boy, I don't like that you're playing at you're playing
• 28:45
  playing a super important game. And Naomi Gurbin's down on the
• 28:48
  field. And I'm not saying I don't like
• 28:51
  it from Bone Pastor's perspective.
• 28:53
  I'm saying I don't like it from Germa's perspective that that's,
• 28:58
  that's a tough pill to swallow when you have largely been
• 29:01
  considered the best center back in the world following the 2024
• 29:05
  Olympics. And now we're here.
• 29:09
  I I think you know. That's been something that has
• 29:12
  been, you know, helpful for me to not have been in the sport
• 29:16
  that long because, you know, like for me, I've seen kind of
• 29:20
  players because I came in and, you know, like you, you study
• 29:23
  up, you know, a few years ago, I'm studying up after who are
• 29:25
  these players, you know, and then you kind of see how
• 29:28
  quickly, not that it, you know, an injury could derail
• 29:32
  something, a change of scenery could derail something, you
• 29:35
  know, coach moves on, you know, like you're just like, damn,
• 29:37
  it's a big drop off. Like when you it goes from you
• 29:40
  being informed to like not informed.
• 29:42
  And sometimes it takes a lot to kind of figure out how to get.
• 29:45
  It right again, but. For me, I, I had the, I'm
• 29:50
  thankful, like I'm, I'm able to not get too tied to like, you
• 29:54
  know, where, what, what players look like a few years ago
• 29:57
  because I'm just like locking in.
• 29:58
  I'm just like, you know, this is not, and it's not a grandma
• 30:01
  problem. You know, like I, like I said,
• 30:03
  it's a they don't have, they don't, I don't think they have
• 30:05
  any clue of, of how to assemble a team, you know, to, to beat an
• 30:10
  Arsenal and then next week beat a Leon and then next week beat
• 30:13
  a, you know, like they're, they're way far from that.
• 30:15
  Yeah. And I think that speaks to, I
• 30:19
  mean, I guess this is the step back here.
• 30:22
  Like we talked about it last year when they got absolutely
• 30:26
  housed by Barcelona. Neither match was competitive.
• 30:29
  And what that was, those were the semis.
• 30:32
  Now we're in the quarterfinals. And yeah, they made the second
• 30:36
  match close. But I think, correct me if I'm
• 30:39
  wrong, but I, I feel like we're largely on the same page that
• 30:41
  they weren't good enough over 2 legs.
• 30:43
  And now they're playing with the holders, they're playing
• 30:45
  Arsenal. But I guess maybe this is the
• 30:49
  real step back here. And then they got to kind of
• 30:52
  assess things and look at the rebuild and figure out, you
• 30:55
  know, you pay that all that money for Germa.
• 30:57
  And I'll say, you know, one of my favorite football sayings
• 31:01
  form is temporary classes forever.
• 31:03
  Yeah, I I know Germa has it has it in her.
• 31:08
  So like they got to figure out like, OK, let's get her right.
• 31:11
  Let's, you know, totally healthy in the right position for the
• 31:14
  for the next Champions League. But as I say that you got to
• 31:18
  qualify for the next Champions League too.
• 31:20
  So you got some, you got some matches to win in the meantime.
• 31:25
  Yeah, I mean, they, they. Certainly got the talent, you
• 31:27
  know, and it's just going to be about if they can, they put it
• 31:29
  together and what shape is United going to be in down the
• 31:32
  stretch? Because you know, you could.
• 31:34
  You could see the fumes coming, coming off the back of their
• 31:36
  jerseys, yeah. So, all right, so Arsenal's.
• 31:41
  Through United's through tomorrow, what's the what's the
• 31:45
  schedule look like? We already know it's it's
• 31:48
  Barcelona first, right? Barcelona hosting Madrid.
• 31:50
  Do I get that right? I believe that to be.
• 31:52
  True, yes, check you check Barcelona versus Real Madrid at
• 31:58
  camp. New shout out to our to our good
• 32:01
  pal Blau Grana Blood. Incredible podcast.
• 32:05
  Dude just has knowledge on knowledge on knowledge.
• 32:08
  You should immediately check out his show Blau Grana Blood BLUD
• 32:14
  on on YouTube alerting me that this match was on Camp New or at
• 32:20
  Camp New. Pardon me.
• 32:23
  So it should be an incredible atmosphere.
• 32:24
  I think he said they already sold more than 50,000 tickets.
• 32:27
  So it should just be absolutely, it should be a party over there.
• 32:32
  I'm not sure I like that should. I like that.
• 32:35
  I mean, it's a celebration. They're already up 62-ON
• 32:37
  aggregate. I think they're in good shape.
• 32:39
  Yeah, they're probably feeling fine.
• 32:41
  Yeah. All right, 9:45 Pacific, that
• 32:45
  one going down and then noon Pacific.
• 32:48
  This one I'll be slightly more locked in for let's say Leon
• 32:52
  hosting Wolfsburg to close at our quarterfinals.
• 32:55
  And by this time tomorrow, we will have our semifinalists
• 33:00
  start doing their homework, you know, start, start putting our
• 33:03
  little, you know, our, our, our pins or XS and OS or whiteboard,
• 33:06
  Get everything fired up and then start, you know, just the scene
• 33:09
  with the, the Apple 2 E kicks off.
• 33:13
  I'm very psyched to see it. So all right, so tomorrow I have
• 33:16
  massive work project, big meeting tomorrow that I'm
• 33:20
  working on so I'll be full. No spoilers for the day, but I
• 33:24
  purposely did not schedule any evening meetings, so I will have
• 33:29
  three plus hours available to watch both matches back-to-back
• 33:33
  marathon style. So if you're available, shoot,
• 33:36
  you know, send the bad signal. We'll do another recording
• 33:39
  tomorrow night if that works, but if not, then we'll, we'll
• 33:43
  record maybe the next day or I don't know, the day after that.
• 33:46
  I mean, we appreciate all you guys who rock with the show for
• 33:49
  still watching us on our weird schedule.
• 33:51
  You know, the day jobs are in the in the family commitments
• 33:54
  are are very important. But yeah, I think I should be
• 33:58
  able to watch both matches post to my big meeting and if you're
• 34:02
  ready to talk about them, buddy, I'll be here.
• 34:05
  I appreciate that. Bro and if I could give you a
• 34:07
  word of advice, little sciatica update.
• 34:10
  So let's go. I mentioned, you know, I had
• 34:13
  strenuous hike last week. Too much energy, you know, too
• 34:17
  much, too much pent up. I needed to need to burn some
• 34:19
  off crazy. Hike and then come back.
• 34:23
  And I thought, you know, it was probably just the length of time
• 34:26
  that I was sitting. And then today, obviously, you
• 34:29
  know, I'm still recovering a little bit from the sciatica.
• 34:32
  You know, I try. To, you know, settle in.
• 34:34
  For, for Bayern and United, no crazy hike.
• 34:36
  I'm just like, you know, find my spot.
• 34:39
  And then I, I sit down and I'm like, oh man, I can feel the
• 34:42
  pain having returned slightly. This is not a good position.
• 34:46
  And then I look down and I'm literally sitting at the edge of
• 34:49
  my seat. So what happened last week was I
• 34:52
  probably spent 4 1/2 or five hours at the edge of my seat
• 34:56
  with very minimal breaks, you know, with just the the
• 35:00
  circulation, like completely cutting off all the wrong parts
• 35:04
  of my leg. Yeah.
• 35:05
  So, you know, I think I found the culprit.
• 35:08
  That's what I'm saying. Excellent.
• 35:10
  And. You know, I don't know how much
• 35:12
  we we can discuss this on the show.
• 35:14
  I mean, you did also tell me that you sit sometimes with one
• 35:17
  leg under you while you're sitting.
• 35:20
  I think you said you describe it.
• 35:21
  You sometimes you sit as like a teenager, like you're sitting
• 35:23
  crisscross applesauce, things like this, like you're picking
• 35:26
  odd posh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 35:29
  Yeah, no, we definitely should not talk about that on the show.
• 35:31
  OK, good. Well, we'll cut it out.
• 35:33
  We'll fix it in post. I'm just, I don't care.
• 35:38
  And for everybody, I don't know how many people truly get this
• 35:42
  reference, but I was alerted to this basically Dino sitting like
• 35:45
  Drew Barrymore on the couch of her talk show and just different
• 35:49
  odd postures at different times. But look, I'm glad you're you're
• 35:55
  finding you found the culprit. You know, I I mean, I do this
• 35:59
  show. This is just turned into old man
• 36:01
  corner at this point. I have AI like a pillow in the
• 36:05
  small of my back when I'm sitting.
• 36:07
  I'm literally doing this show right now with one.
• 36:09
  I think that's always, always nice to, to help with the, with
• 36:12
  the back issues. So yeah, you know, we're, we're
• 36:15
  powering through, man. We're getting it done.
• 36:18
  Yeah. Shout out to Biofreeze.
• 36:19
  You know we're we're available we're here we're out of here
• 36:22
  there's this DMS are open all right, man, anything else go
• 36:26
  ahead before we get out of here of.
• 36:28
  Course there is. I got one thing.
• 36:30
  Let me just pull it up here on the Evernote, just to make sure
• 36:33
  I don't butcher anything. Let's see.
• 36:36
  Of course, the computer's buffering.
• 36:38
  So we just got to let that happen.
• 36:42
  But where would we? Be without an SK Bron update and
• 36:48
  you might ask yourself, Grant this was a UEFA Women's
• 36:51
  Champions League take. Not so.
• 36:53
  Also midweek matches in top Syrian SK Bron.
• 36:58
  For. Bodo glimped 1 Another win for
• 37:02
  Braun. They're still at the top of the
• 37:03
  table from some midweek action. They get goals from Joanna
• 37:07
  Tonella, Diligio Zomers, Lauren Davidson, Caroline Hoagland.
• 37:12
  You know the P names you've heard on this program before.
• 37:15
  One of the OGS. They have 7 points from.
• 37:18
  Three matches and a + 8 goal differential are old pals.
• 37:22
  Valaranga from from Champions League pass.
• 37:25
  They're sitting in second on the table with six points, 6 points
• 37:28
  from three matches and a + 4 goal differential.
• 37:31
  The March to next year's Champions League continues for
• 37:35
  our pals over in wonderful Bergen, Norway.
• 37:38
  I love it and they also. Got a little mention from our
• 37:41
  guy dropouts today on the on the telecast things that might have
• 37:44
  been the last, I don't know, maybe United Rd. loss, I don't
• 37:47
  know. I couldn't remember
• 37:48
  specifically, but they got a shout.
• 37:50
  I was pumped. I was, I was the most pumped
• 37:51
  when they got a shout. There was an announcer who
• 37:53
  shouted at. During a Wolfsburg match, they
• 37:55
  mentioned that Jelen came from Braun.
• 37:59
  Oh, that was a. Separate one.
• 38:00
  Then because I definitely heard it today.
• 38:03
  Telecast, that was. That was 1.
• 38:05
  USWT roster gets announced. Shout out to Davidson, who makes
• 38:09
  the roster and the Sam's one of the defenders.
• 38:12
  I think she was in question. And there was one more than one
• 38:15
  to mention, Jamice Joseph. Great to see her.
• 38:19
  Maybe that forward room is maybe, you know, sort of carving
• 38:22
  out that that that spot more permanently.
• 38:26
  But yeah, I like it. Like the roster or some of the
• 38:28
  players that we we just kind of finished watching Emily Fox,
• 38:31
  Alyssa Thompson, to name a couple.
• 38:33
  But yeah, excited for those those three dates in April
• 38:36
  coming up versus Japan and the rumblings are beginning, you
• 38:40
  know, in terms of like what the roster is going to look like and
• 38:42
  and what Emma Hayes and and the camp is trying to get from these
• 38:47
  three these three big match ups for his Japan.
• 38:50
  Congratulations to. Goalkeeper Jane Campbell made it
• 38:53
  back in the camp. I will.
• 38:56
  I will say, I mean, obviously she's there with Dickie and and
• 38:59
  Fallon Telus choice, Claudia Dickey from Seattle Raid
• 39:01
  Football Club. Fallon Telus choice, obviously
• 39:03
  from the aforementioned Manchester United Football Club.
• 39:07
  Jane Campbell plays for the Houston Dash.
• 39:09
  She has 10 international caps. Before this, however, the
• 39:14
  campaign continues. Jordan Silkowitz, Bay FC
• 39:18
  Football Club Bay Football Club goalkeeper Jordan Silkowitz
• 39:22
  Silky for USWNT. Does she make the U-23?
• 39:29
  Or are. We are we are we putting.
• 39:31
  Out a call for her to. I mean, I want Silkie to be.
• 39:36
  On the real rock, Yeah, I think so.
• 39:39
  And. I'm she's probably, she's older
• 39:40
  than 20, she might have been aged out of 23.
• 39:42
  I was just going to say she isn't.
• 39:43
  She like 25? Yeah, I think, yeah.
• 39:46
  She snuck in I think last year or a couple dates.
• 39:49
  Either way, let's go. What are we doing?
• 39:51
  Let's get silky some I mean, there's still time, but we're
• 39:57
  these are these are big matches, but I'm I'm happy for for
• 39:59
  Campbell, obviously Claudia Dickey PTJ.
• 40:03
  I'm not sure that there's a wrong answer there, but I love
• 40:06
  the squad. Mostly European midfield.
• 40:09
  Going to be a big test, could be 3 big tests, but very, very
• 40:12
  excited and I love that Japan's coming off off that huge cup.
• 40:16
  And then the success continues for players like Tonkawa and
• 40:20
  others around the world for sure.
• 40:23
  Yeah, definitely going to be interesting.
• 40:25
  I'll be, I'll be interested to see if Mina Tanaka get some get
• 40:30
  some run. Obviously, you know, wasn't a
• 40:32
  huge participant in the Asian Cup, but we'll see how that
• 40:36
  goes. And, you know, we went this
• 40:38
  whole time and apologies if I missed it.
• 40:40
  Sophia Wilson's going to play, so that's cool.
• 40:43
  You like to see that in the Stars and Stripes.
• 40:45
  Let's go more espresso. To go around very excited about
• 40:49
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  my coast as well. Mr. Grant Angle for being being
• 41:30
  one of the champion of champions during this Champions League
• 41:33
  run. I appreciate you, bro.
• 41:34
  And you know, I think, you know, injuries notwithstanding, I know
• 41:37
  you, you had a rough week yourself.
• 41:39
  I think we're going to we're going to make the we're going to
• 41:41
  reach the finish line. That's that's not a question.
• 41:43
  It's just going to be a matter of of how high we lift the
• 41:46
  trophy this year and none of it possible without you.
• 41:49
  So I appreciate you bro. Likewise, buddy.
• 41:52
  Yeah, I had. A little little scooter accident
• 41:54
  myself. 40 year old man injuring himself falling off the scooter
• 41:58
  first time. 500 plus miles on a lime scooter or bike.
• 42:02
  Finally took a spill. 0 out of 10 would not recommend.
• 42:07
  However, two days after the fact, feeling good, feeling
• 42:11
  limber again, a lot of stretching, fair gunning, you
• 42:14
  know, doing the whole thing, feeling fine.
• 42:16
  Look, we, we serious athletes take their recovery seriously.
• 42:22
  And so you're, you're analyzing your posture.
• 42:25
  I'm out here doing my stretches as well.
• 42:27
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• 42:31
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• 42:34
  know, hey, I got to get right today.
• 42:35
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• 42:40
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