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🚨 USWNT ROSTER DROP 🚨 Emma Hayes, Lynn Biyendolo, Emily Sonnett, Naomi Girma, Alyssa Thompson, Ally Sentnor · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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OK, welcome to into channel podcast premiere about 1
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football. I'm your hosting of the
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suspicious and as always I'm joined by my Co host, Mr. Grant
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Engel. What is up man?
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I'm feeling all right, buddy. We got a we got a bit of news
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today and not your normal run-of-the-mill horrifying news
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that we get on pretty much every other topic in the world.
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We actually got some good news from the United States women's
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national team. Yeah, something, something to
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look forward to, something to get excited about, something to
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be hopeful about, and most importantly, something to break
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down on This episode of Into the Channel, it's fucking go where
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where do you want to get started?
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Let's get started with a frosty beverage.
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I think a roster announcement is a good excuse to enjoy one and
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talk about some football. Catalyst, you may call it.
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Nice. I like that and cheers to you.
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Cheers to the football. What do you say we talk about
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this roster as I think is becoming a tradition by now by
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position group and then maybe we talk a little who we want to see
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as as our starting 11 in the first match?
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I like it. I like it, yeah.
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I think what what? Before we get there, did you
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have any high level takeaways on the roster?
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I like this one too. I I like the way Emma Hayes is
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picking these. I like that she did prepare for
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her overwhelming positivity from me, which I know I'm usually a
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fountain of. I I like that she announced and
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said, hey, it's going to be pretty much all NWSL players
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like a week or so ago. I like that she that she picked
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mostly NWSL players to give some of the the players player over
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in Europe a break, give them like some semblance of a real
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offseason. And I just I like this mix once
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again. I know every time we talk about
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it, we're like, OK, how much more rotating is she going to
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do? And every time, quite a bit.
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Quite a bit, but then also some consistency.
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I, I went and I and I kind of mapped out our last ten matches.
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You know, kind of who's who's where who's kind of trending up,
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who's trending down a good amount of carryover.
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When you look at the last few rosters, it, it does kind of
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feel like the rosters sort of like the, the core of it starts
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to kind of take shape, kind of start to figure out, OK, who's
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going to be here, who's not going to be here.
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And we're starting to see I think less and less, you know,
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experimental selections kind of like out in the periphery.
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It does feel like a core is kind of developing.
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I think the fact that, you know, kind of triple espresso still
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remains sidelined. You know, it, it's still a
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little bit of like a little bit of a mind Bender.
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But when you look at who's who's been logging the minutes, who's
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been scoring the goals, who's been kind of like filling these
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units back to front, pretty good amount of consistency.
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And then one quick note on the the kind of news.
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So Jeff Kasu from ESPN had a story a few days ago talking
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about the players, as you mentioned, that played in Europe
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not being included in the squad. I don't want to say that that
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story was disingenuous, you know, but I think 1 positive
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byproduct from Hayes is it allows you to say, OK, Mercario,
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Lindsay, Heaps, Corbin, Albert, you know, there's no pressure to
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kind of like have those players on this roster now, you know,
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'cause even when you look at it, Mercario, I have it here,
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started five straight matches for U.S.
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National team, six out of the last seven at the 9, you know,
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and Heaps, you know, appeared at nine of the US national team's
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last ten matches. So taking those players off the
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table gives them a rest That's great.
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But the the byproduct is MA is now kind of like it kind of
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depressurizes that situation, allows her to be a little bit
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more experimental with those line UPS.
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Hit us with the hey, look over here, look at this thing I'm
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doing. And then really it's just like,
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well, I also would just want to do some other stuff.
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All right, I like that. I think that I think that plays
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that that makes a lot of sense. So let's do a thing.
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Let's go. As you mentioned, I want to I
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want to key in on the two most intriguing players of each group
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of the four groups that were announced, how they were, how
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they were announced, forwards, midfielders, defenders and the
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keepers. We can start in any direction.
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You know how we do on the I-2CI kick it to you and you tell me
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what, what, what order we're going to go and, and how this is
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actually going to shake out. So what are we doing here?
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OK, I say, let's start with the goalkeepers.
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I mean, typically what we've done we've, we've usually gone
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from goalkeepers forward. I will also say, did I, did I
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pick my players like 2 from each position group as the most
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intriguing? Or did I just pick the two that
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I wanted to talk about? And now I'm going to retrofit
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them as what I say I think is most intriguing.
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Maybe. But I'm a selfish man and I just
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was like, I want to talk about this player and that's kind of
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what I did. So I digress.
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What do you say we, we only have three keepers?
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What do you say we talk about them first?
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I like it. Let's go.
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So of the, the last from the last 10 US Super session
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matches, the only keeper of the three that's, that's an
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appearance there was Mandy McGlynn.
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So I want to start there. So McGlynn I think has really
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good numbers, advanced numbers. When you look at it, we know
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what's happening in Utah, kind of how messy it is there.
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I I think when I, when I look at the goalkeepers, obviously know
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PTJ who falls under the, the European umbrella, I think we
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know what Emma Hayes is looking for.
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You know, like more playing out at the back.
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You know, she wants the shot stopping, but you know, she,
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she, she wants the goalkeeper to be part of the offense
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essentially. Is that, is that the kind of
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take away when you look at this group?
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You know, obviously I want, I want to hear your, your take on
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on Dickie amongst, you know, the, the keeper group and kind
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of like what role you think she might play.
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But but what do you think Emma Hayes is going for with this
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group of three? I think she's definitely just
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trying to figure out what she has in the pool still.
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I mean, obviously you mentioned like Mcglinn has got some time.
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She's leading the NWSL right now with 44 saves.
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Great. But also, do you want to have 44
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saves through 12 matches played? I don't know, maybe not.
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Let's say it seems a little high.
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Your defense isn't doing her any favors.
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She's allowed 25 goals, but she's been just left hanging out
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to dry by that defense. That leaves your safe percentage
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at 65.2%. I do not believe that is top ten
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in the league and you know, there are 14 teams in the
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league, so that's tough, but I don't think you know, I don't
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think that's on her. So I I like the pick of McGlynn
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to show like, hey, you're still in the mix here.
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I you're you're having a rough go with your club team, but
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you're I can tell you're still playing well.
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So I think that, you know, by giving the other two keepers
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some a shot here, I think the other two keepers will play in
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this stretch of matches. But I think McGlynn, you know
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what they're they're going to have three matches, four
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matches. This is how informed I am.
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So it looks like 2 versus Ireland, one on the 26th, one on
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the 29th of June and then that big July 2nd match up versus
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Canada. OK.
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All right. So I don't know.
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I think it's going to be interesting.
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Will we see all three? Maybe not.
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And we've seen Emma Hayes do this before where she'll bring
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somebody new on, just get him into camp, not give him a cap.
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I do think we will see Claudia Dickey though in one of these
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three matches. I agree with that 'cause I mean,
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Dickey was in camp last time, didn't get any minutes, so
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probably fits that bill of cake. You know, got got that first
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camp under their belt and now be ready to go.
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When you look at the post shot XG, actually let's look at per
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90. You look at per 90, Dickey's
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third on that list. McGlynn is 8th on that list. 17
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keepers qualify. The weird one is Angelina
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Anderson, who's way down in 14th, one of maybe 7-6 or seven
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keepers that has a negative post shot XG.
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So it looks like she's kind of missing the mark there.
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But you can see that in terms of like distribution, sort of like
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launching the ball, she's kind of sort of in the top three or
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four of just kind of like getting the ball out of there
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and getting it up field, kind of moving things along.
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So Angelina Anderson probably does fall in sort of in that
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same Claudia Dickey track. Like first camp.
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I might not expect to see any minutes.
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But yeah, I I could totally agree with you.
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I could see McGlynn and Dicky maybe split in the duty here.
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Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. Anderson, she's #3 in the league
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with 37 saves, but she's allowed 23 goals.
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Oddly, extremely close to McGlynn and save percentage
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65.5. So, you know, their defense not
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exactly doing them a ton of favors, but I like that.
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I mean, obviously McGlynn was going to be there, but I like
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Emma Hayes taking a look at Anderson.
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Yeah, I guess she's looking at players that have been busy this
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season. So.
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All right, So do we want to go back to Fred or do we want to?
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It sounded like you were going to throw, throw us a curveball,
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curveball there. Do we want to go to the
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defenders now? Yeah, let's do defenders, let's
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do, let's, let's pick our two. I like it.
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OK, so I'll run through the list top to bottom real quick again.
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And this is sorted in terms of how many appearances these
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players have made over the US Men's National Team's last ten
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matches. So Emily Sonnet, 7 appearances.
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Tara McKeon, 6 appearances and that is 6 of the last 7, so
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Mcewan's been busy there. Germa has made 5, Avery
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Patterson four of the last 10, including four straight, Emily
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Sam's with three, Giselle Thompson with three, Kerry
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Abella with one and Jordan Bug, Lily Reel, Izzy Rodriguez.
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We'll see them kind of kind of breakthrough here ideally over
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these over these three matches. So I'll kick it back to you.
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Most intriguing or most? Most?
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Let's talk about this player worthy.
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However, I don't know if we actually decided on the
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framework, but where do you want to start here with the
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defenders? Well, let's just say I'm very
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intrigued by Get ready to be surprised. 18 year old Seattle
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Rain FC stand out. Jordan Bug, obviously fresh off
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the late equalizer versus Chicago Red Stars in match week
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12. I mean, she plays with
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incredible poise. She's shown flashes of great
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speed when she needs it. It feels like it's, it's all
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kind of coming together for her getting this call up.
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She's obviously experienced in the youth national team.
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And then something that I just feel like kind of gets that at
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least I have glossed over that I have, I haven't talked enough
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about when she was a junior and senior in high school in San
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Diego, CA and she was playing for her club team out there.
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She would also train occasionally with the San Diego
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Wave where she was under the tutelage of Naomi Germa.
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And I think you can see some of the similarities.
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I, I talk about poise with her every single time.
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And you know, she's, she's obviously talked about that as a
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great learning experience. I just, I am very, very, very
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interested to see are we going to get that center back pairing
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of Germa and Bug and I think that could be awfully good.
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Wow, that would be interesting. Would love to see some bug
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minutes. I think when I was talking about
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it up top at the, you know, like I, I guess I was going into this
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window maybe with the feel that Emma Hayes has been doing a ton
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of tinkering. Then when you look at it, you
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kind of you can kind of really start to see some patterns
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developing. I would be ecstatic if we saw
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some bug in Germa minutes or just some bug minutes.
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A bug start would be really awesome just to kind of
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benchmark see where a player like this is at.
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So I thought it was interesting. I read off that defender room
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and then I also tabulated the stats for that group within an
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NWSL for the season. So obviously Germa not in the
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NWSL. So that gives us 24689 players.
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So of these nine players now these again, these are
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defenders, they cumulatively have logged six goals this
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season and 10 assists, which I thought was interesting, you
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know, and I think it, it kind of also tips Emma hands Emma
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Hayes's hands a little bit in terms of kind of like what she's
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looking for. So background, you look at
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McKeon and she's got 2 assists this year.
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Giselle Thompson has four, Izzy Rodriguez has three, Lily Real
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has one. Abella, we know what she can do,
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you know, from, from, from that outside position.
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So I think I, I, I feel like I'm starting to really get a handle
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for, for MAS and what she's looking for.
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The player that I, I think I'm intrigued by.
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For me it's Carrie Abella because I thought she looked
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like U.S. National team player in her last
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outing. Physically she was up for it.
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She was hungry, you know, she was just in the mix.
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Like she covered a lot of ground and she was active at a lot of
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different spots on the field. I think a player like that, if
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you're Emma Hayes, you're probably looking at a player
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like that with that skill set be like, Oh my God, if I could just
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unlock this or just kind of connect this to a couple more
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pieces in the midfield and maybe upfield, we could really, really
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have something. And I think, you know, no
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Crystal done, no Emily Fox, Emma Hayes is going to be a lot.
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You should be doing a lot of looking and learning in terms of
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like what what can happen on the outside with with regards to
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this group of defenders. I think that's a great goal and
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I think it it also has to account for something that she
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plays on the best team in the league last year, one of the
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best teams in the world last year and it's carrying over into
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this year. And so she's used to high level,
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high leverage, physical football.
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And I, I got to imagine that Emma Hayes, obviously, like, I
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think you're spot on. She likes Abella's ability to
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move up and down the pitch and and be a connector, but she also
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knows she's not going to shy away from anything.
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And I just think your your point at the top was so good is that
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she is one of those players who who comes in for her first
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couple national team caps or her first cap and immediately looked
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like she belonged. And I got to think that part of
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that is because of what Seb Hines has cooking down there in
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Orlando. Yeah, absolutely.
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And I think my, my other default, let's let's continue
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with the snake order. I was going to jump in with my
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second defender, but I I want to go back to you.
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Do you do you have a second defender that that's leaving you
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intrigued? Yeah, I mean, again, I'm just
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going to go no surprise here. Terra Mickey own remains one of
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my favorite players in the league.
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I love her game. 25 year old Washington spirit #4 in the
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league in blocks with 22. She's tied for sixth in a
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percentage of dribblers tackled. She's #4 in the league in
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interceptions with 23. She's tied for seventh with 65
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clearances. Got that dog in her.
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I just love, I just love the way she plays.
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I just love the way she plays center back.
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She obviously has the attacking history in her background.
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She can do everything and I and I think Emma Hayes likes her
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too. Yeah, absolutely.
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A super versatile and like I mentioned, appeared at her six
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appearances in the in the US last 10 have all come in their
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last seven matches. So she's been somewhat of a
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staple back there. So I think if you're Jordan Bug,
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it'll it'll take a little bit of a extra exertion, I think to
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kind of like claw away some minutes from Ikeon potentially.
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I'm going to go my second defender, the ITC Hall of Famer,
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Emily Sonnet. So Speaking of these appearances
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and, and you know, we, we, we joke about being sharpied in
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Emily Sonnet. She might be like etched into
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the white board with, with some sort of like chisel.
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You know, I mean, I like 7 appearances in the US as last
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10. You almost kind of feel like,
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OK, well, we're kind of ready to turn the page.
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But you talk about a a player born to play in that kit, you
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know, that style of football, just put her out there and one
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less thing to worry about. And I'll I don't think I'll ever
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be able to fully wrap my head around how players and not
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saying that she's, you know, Sonic hasn't looked, you know,
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solid for Gotham, but how things could look so different club and
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country, even just within the same, you know, it just kind of
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could pink, you know, like big bong back and forth.
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But yeah, for me, I'm going to be watching Sonnet.
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I want to see how Sonnet's able to compete with these young
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players, if she's still able to win the minutes.
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And then on the flip side, could one of these young kind of like
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centre back of the future types kind of come in and say, well,
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now I'm in the driver's seat for this position and we'll, we'll
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have Sonnet, you know, maybe as a backup or utility type player.
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Yep, and even if she is I I would have no doubt that her
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team mates will still love her, that she'll still show love to
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her team mates. And I know it's a cliche, but I
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know as a man, you know, a fan of the Miami Heat, I know you
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believe in this. She's a culture setter.
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Like if you think this is like you throw around, like anybody
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can throw around the term culture, but it it just really
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means like, you know how, how your team behaves, right?
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Like what's acceptable, like you know how how your organization
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operates and she knows all about it.
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And she's part of, like you said, part of the fabric etched
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into the whiteboard. You haven't write some.
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I know you have. You've written something on a
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whiteboard and then it's just like left up there for like
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months because it's like part of like some kind of long term
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goal. And then when you finally erase
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it, you can still see the very light outline of it in in 2050.
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You'll still see in that very light outline.
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Emily, Son. Oh, that's wonderful.
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Yeah, I totally believe that. Well, I mean ITC Hall of Famer
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for a reason. Let's shift up field though, to
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the midfield. I'll go top to bottom here and
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I'll do the same thing. Last 10 appearances.
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Sam Coffee, nine straight in US as last 10.
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So talk about a staple. Coffee's right there.
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Claire Hutton, 3 in the last 10. Three appearances in the last
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10. Rose Lavelle 3 appearances in
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the last 10. None in the last seven though,
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so we'll be welcoming Rose Lavelle back into the mix.
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Olivia Moultrie, who's appeared in two straight for the USA,
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Craig Bethune and Sam Meza to round out the midfield.
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Mr. Grand Angle, who in this midfield's got you intrigued?
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So we just talked about Emily Sonnet.
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She's a World Cup winner 2019. Let's talk about the only other
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World Cup World Cup winner on this roster.
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And that is, of course, Rose Lavelle, 30 years old out of
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Cincinnati, OH, battling through injuries through some of her
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career, obviously, and especially this last year or so.
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But again, you know, another another culture center, another
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winner, a person who like knows what it takes to be on this
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team. She played 17 minutes versus
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Kansas City Current on June 7th. She played 11 minutes versus
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Utah Royals on June 13th. That's all she's played in so
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far in this NWSL season. But we also saw and obviously
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these are two different players in two totally different parts
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of their career. But we talked about it before
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the match first, People's Republic of China that we're
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like, ah, well, she, Emma Hayes probably won't start Michelle
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Cooper because she's just like coming coming off an injury.
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And then she did. So I'll be interested to see if
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Labelle's able to get out there. 110 caps, 24 goals, 24 assists
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for the US Women's National team.
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I know I say this every couple months when we talk about her.
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US Women's national team supporters will never forget
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that she was just an absolute baller in that 2019 World Cup on
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a, on a team full of all time legends.
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She had multiple stretches throughout those games where she
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was the most, she looked like the most dangerous player on the
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field. And I think the thing I love
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about this the most is that it this, it feels like a signal
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from Emma Hayes to say, I know you've had a long layoff.
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I know you're coming back off this injury.
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You cannot be forgotten on this team.
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You're always at like you're 30 years old, you're still, you
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know, in that athletic prime window.
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You're always in the mix for this squad.
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I totally agree with that. And you know, I I raised my hand
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too in in in terms of being like, well, the age situation,
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what are we looking at? Like, what's it going to look
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like? But there is something to Emma
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Hayes choosing Rose Lavelle. Obviously all the pedigree, you
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know, that you could ever want in a player for sure, but only
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28 minutes this season, like you mentioned.
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That's odd. You know, like that to me says
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something that to me says, Hey, Rose, we're starting to sort of
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like solidify this thing, you know, kind of like the
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tinkering, the experimentation. You know, we're sort of like out
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of that right now. And now we're now we're in
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building mode. Now we're trying to build some
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foundational stuff. We know that, you know, we know
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how far back your story goes. And I know you've logged 28
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minutes, but I need you here to be a part of this.
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I was really taken aback by that selection.
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But on the flip side, made perfect sense.
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You know, we've been talking about the 10, what that's going
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to look like, what the attack's going to look like.
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And, you know, I'll kind of circle back to that point from
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earlier. I think Bicario and Heaps out of
21:19
the mix, Johannes out of the mix.
21:23
It sort of feels like the field is a little bit more open.
21:25
I don't know, does that make sense?
21:27
Like now we're going to see a little bit more movement, a
21:29
little bit more unpredictability.
21:30
We're going to see some new combinations.
21:34
I think Emma Hayes definitely took that that European decision
21:37
that, you know, to her advantage.
21:38
I had Roosevelt on my list too of, you know, 2 most intriguing
21:43
players. So we're, we're definitely on
21:44
the same page. I kind of would, I would have
21:46
went with Rose first. Who's who's your second player
21:49
though? I'm going again, going totally
21:52
off the board here. Seattle Rain FC midfielder Sam
21:56
has a 23 year old. 23 year old out of Dallas, TX has been an
22:03
impact player. Who an all?
22:05
Brett Musburger. You like that?
22:08
I love it. I appreciate it.
22:12
Just been an impact player in the NWSL so far.
22:16
I think she's pretty easily been Seattle Reign's best midfielder
22:20
this season. I think you can make an argument
22:22
that she, pound for pound, has maybe been their best player on
22:25
the squad. She's been unbelievably
22:27
disruptive in the midfield. 42 tackles, that's good for third
22:30
in the league. Number 4IN tackles one with 26,
22:36
she's #3 in blocks with 23, and she's tied for 8th with 19
22:39
interceptions. I have discussed it with my pal,
22:43
friend of the show Van Crisp from the great Seattle Rain FC
22:47
podcast The Cooler Guild, which you should immediately subscribe
22:50
to, especially if you're a Seattle Rain FC supporter.
22:53
That Meza just makes so many plays throughout the course of a
22:56
game and just Van and I will just kind of glance at each
22:59
other and be like, there she is again.
23:01
Like we just didn't like we knew she was a good prospect.
23:04
I think a lot of people knew that.
23:05
You know, she went she went down to the USL last year, comes back
23:10
up and she's just looked like she absolutely belongs in the
23:15
NWSL after getting like no time last year.
23:18
It's just it's it's a it's a great story.
23:21
And I know Laura Harvey's been extremely complimentary ever
23:23
too. I think she's talked about her
23:25
being in the mixes. It's one of the Reign's best
23:26
players during a surprise season so far.
23:30
Well, I mean she's crushing a lot of those like hustle stats,
23:34
you know, like the blocks, the interceptions and just kind of
23:36
like just reckon that midfield. And I think again, you know, I I
23:40
I'm a little bit stuck in this obsession of like what trying to
23:44
get in MA his head. What is she trying to do?
23:45
What is she trying to build? And I think I'm I'm taking up
23:48
all these little bread crumbs as like proper hints, you know, and
23:53
I think amaze is a great one because you can see how she
23:56
plays. You know, almost I don't know,
23:59
like you know, no, no lebanta on this list, but I think a little
24:02
bit of the same kind of energy, sort of like pinball Y nature of
24:06
you know, just you feel that player.
24:09
So I was super pumped to see maize on the list.
24:12
For me though, I mean, I've been on the Olivia Moultrie bandwagon
24:17
pretty much since early in the season, just kind of watching
24:19
talk about a Wrecking Ball and a player, you know, one goal, one
24:24
assist so far on the season for Moultrie, but leading the
24:26
league. 58 shot creating actions, that's 12 ahead of 2nd
24:31
place. Vanessa.
24:32
Dina Bernardo's got 46. I mean, hard to wrap your head
24:36
around that. Five goal creating actions.
24:38
That's good for 8th. Coffee's also got 5.
24:43
So, you know, creating a ton, I thought played really well in
24:47
her last stint for the US with his national team.
24:49
And again, this is a player that has appeared in two straight
24:53
under Emma Hayes. And what's wild is the previous
24:58
8, Jaden Shaw appeared in all 8. And then so it's like Jaden Shaw
25:05
eight straight appearances. We don't see Jaden Shaw in the
25:08
last two. We don't see Moultrie in those
25:10
first eight and we see Moultrie in these last two.
25:13
I'm not sure if it was like a straight like for like.
25:16
But what I do know is, you know, Moultrie's in Shaw not on this
25:20
roster, you know, seeing time with the with the U20 threes.
25:22
But I think Moultrie, I'm really, really excited.
25:25
Again, No heaps. I think we're going to, I think
25:27
we're going to see a lot of Moultrie minutes, a lot of
25:29
Moultrie opportunities and I'm very excited to see what she's
25:32
able to do with them. Yeah, totally agree.
25:36
You talk about like the energy that this that this roster looks
25:39
like it could play with with this group.
25:42
She could be a core piece of that.
25:44
And I mean, I already talked about my 2 midfielders.
25:47
So this player obviously wasn't my list, wasn't on my list for
25:51
this show. Oh my.
25:52
God, I don't know. I'm obviously I, I, I was going
25:55
to cheat. I was going to cheat too.
25:59
You know, go ahead. I mean, I believe this podcast,
26:01
but I would like to thank me specifically.
26:03
I'm one of the world's foremost holders of Kroy Bethune's stock.
26:07
I think that Moultrie and Bethune could, could do some
26:11
things in the midfield. I, I do wonder about size and
26:13
defense, but Moultrie's been known to, you know, stick her
26:16
nose on in on the defensive end too.
26:18
So you're talking about energy and passing and goal creating
26:21
actions. Think those two could could be
26:23
on to something. Bethune's another one, you know,
26:27
a player that it's like you can't really look at, you know,
26:29
where where he's been at and be like, OK, well, you know, 'cause
26:32
even in end of yourself look looks solid so far.
26:34
But Washington's kind of sputtered and, you know, Bethune
26:38
hasn't really like blown the doors off the the few minutes
26:40
that she's gotten. But Bethune, much like Lavelle
26:44
has that that air of I'm going to need you and I'm definitely
26:48
going to need you in two years. And you know, I can already kind
26:51
of project that out. And let's start this.
26:53
Let's start, let's start building right now because I
26:56
know I know kind of where I want to take this thing.
26:59
Not saying that that either those players is locked in, but
27:02
I feel like Emma Hayes is like sort of doing more of that live,
27:05
live environment type training. But putting this together, I'm
27:08
really dying to see what the rosters look like in terms of
27:12
like who's starting and and then how she handles those three
27:15
matches in terms of like the rotations and how she starts and
27:18
how she finishes. Yeah, no doubt it's going to be
27:21
interesting and we'll end up being surprised.
27:24
I mean, even though we, we came pretty close when we picked the
27:28
the starting 11 for the first match in the last window, I, I
27:32
thought we, we ended up like getting like 8 of the 11 or
27:35
something like that. Like, especially between the two
27:37
of us, we might have like 9 of the 11.
27:39
Yeah. But yeah, I mean, there will be
27:42
some surprises in there that will go, oh, is that the idea?
27:46
And she's always good for at least one or two of those.
27:49
Let's go to field the forwards. Who wants to?
27:53
I feel like you should go first. Let's we keep, let's keep the
27:55
rhythm. All right, that's fair.
27:58
Again, I think anybody who's been watching, it's not fair.
28:00
I mean, you know, it's a yeah, it's not a company.
28:06
We're not keeping score. And even if we were, you would
28:10
still somehow win the poll. I don't know, like not somehow
28:13
you would deservedly win it. I'm just, yeah, born loser in
28:16
those somehow. Anyway, anybody who's been
28:19
watching the show the last few weeks is not going to be
28:22
surprised. I'm going to talk about Michelle
28:23
Cooper, 22 years old, born in Detroit, Roc City, making
28:29
another appearance. I think she is just an absolute
28:33
no doubter to make all these rosters for the foreseeable
28:38
future. Right now she's leading the
28:39
league, the NWSL that is in goals per 90 with .88 goals per
28:47
9088 hundredths. However, however we want to say
28:51
that I'm not sure we'll work that out in post.
28:54
Now, obviously some of that is is is like aided, I guess, aided
28:59
if you would say by the fact that she's only played in seven
29:02
matches. But that doesn't change the fact
29:04
that she's maximized your time and scored four goals in those
29:07
seven appearances. She's also added two assists.
29:10
And so our pals over at FB ref calculate her goals plus assists
29:14
per 90 at 1.32 best in the league with her teammate Temwa
29:18
Chewinga in second with .95 and her other teammate Debina in 6th
29:24
with .77. Turns out Kansas City current
29:27
pretty good. They create a lot of goals, lot
29:30
of actions that create a lot of goals.
29:32
Yeah. And they're leading the league
29:33
and kind of kind of running away with things so far.
29:36
So Cooper, you know, this is another player, you know, 6
29:40
appearances in the last 7 for the USA.
29:42
Like you mentioned, she she can score, she can assist.
29:46
You know, we talked about last show.
29:47
You know, she puts the crosses in with with great ferocity.
29:52
She can also cut in and and kind of like get busy there.
29:55
So I love that pic of Cooper. I'm going to go with the player
29:58
that I know we're not competing, but I'm going to.
30:05
Doesn't sound like it, doesn't feel like it now.
30:09
I'm going to take, I'm going to take Lin Biendolo and I'll tell
30:14
you why. Look at you.
30:16
I want to read off some NWL stats, so I don't want I want to
30:19
look at three players here. Ali Sentnor, 1036 minutes in the
30:24
NWSL, one goal, one assist. Yasmine Ryan, a few less
30:30
minutes, 900 minutes, one goal, one assist.
30:34
Lynn Biendolo, 631 minutes and she's got two goals and one
30:39
assist out producing both those other players.
30:42
The rain are 4, two and three over that stretch.
30:46
So playing winning football, and we've talked about Biendola kind
30:50
of like unlocking some of the distribution.
30:53
I do feel like Emma Hayes is looking for that.
30:56
And then I also kind of feel like Biendola maybe has an
31:00
outside shot at being the US as #9 in two years, when you get to
31:06
the World Cup, I think there's something about what she's able
31:10
to do. And I'm not saying she's the
31:12
best at it, but she just might be the right fit for what we're
31:17
trying to make happen. And when you look at some of
31:19
these dynamic players out on the wings, your Coopers, your
31:22
Thompsons, maybe your Sentinors out there, maybe Ms. Seers
31:26
Biendolo in the middle is like, that's a really nice piece.
31:30
Macario's good too. But to me, Biendolo's a little
31:33
bit more of a natural finisher and more natural goal scorer.
31:37
So I feel like all things can. I don't know.
31:38
I'm not saying that it's going to happen.
31:39
I'm not saying that I think it will happen, but I feel like
31:42
there's an outside chance that when we get there, Biendola's
31:46
the starter. I love it.
31:47
Oh, it's great take. I mean, I I think she'll
31:50
certainly be the number 9 at maybe not certainly, but I think
31:53
it's very likely that she'll be the number 9 in one or two of
31:58
these matches at least. I think I kind of see her
32:03
drifting there. I mean, she's playing, you know,
32:05
that kind of nine roll more for Seattle rain and you know, she's
32:09
not a World Cup winner, but she's a gold medalist.
32:13
She's the all time leading scorer in the history of the
32:14
NWSL. She's tied for the lead in all
32:17
time assists in the league. She's I mean, I, I I don't even
32:21
know if I can count them all. She's at least three or four
32:24
time NWSL champion and I think at least three Shields.
32:27
She's one of the greatest. Like, I think she has a real
32:30
argument for her. Yeah.
32:31
And she just has an argument for I know Marta's the greatest
32:34
player, whoever lived. But if you want to talk about
32:36
the the greatest player in the history of the NWSL,
32:38
specifically with those accomplishments, she has to be
32:41
in that in that conversation. I've I've been meaning to pitch
32:43
that topic to you. We'll see how this progresses
32:46
and how she like, boosts her stats with the ring.
32:49
But yeah, I think she's she's a no doubter for this, for this
32:54
team. And then you just kind of have
32:55
that triumvirate of your three, like really experienced players
33:00
of Biendolo, Sonnet and Lavelle. And then you still have Germa
33:05
kind of hanging around there who's got a lot of experience
33:08
and a lot of cash, even though she's not as as far along in her
33:10
career. So just makes sense to have her
33:12
on the on the squad. Yeah, you get to kind of like
33:15
coffee. I think is is creeping up into
33:17
that mix too of just great call, rock solid foundational pieces
33:20
in there. All right, so you went with
33:25
Cooper, I went with Biendolo. You got one more pick.
33:29
Yes, your Seattle rain homerism shows again by you taking Len
33:33
Biendolo, but you mentioned her. I couldn't have you have all of
33:38
them that's. Fair.
33:40
I thought about trying to do a thing and being like I'm just
33:42
going to pick every every rain player, but I was like OK,
33:44
maybe, maybe chill. So I appreciate.
33:47
It I almost took I almost took a Bello and Sam so.
33:50
That would be, yeah, that would be excellent.
33:54
No, no Bay FC players for you to take.
33:57
You know, Alyssa Milanson robbed, robbed.
34:00
You know, I asked her to put MAS on on notice.
34:03
I gave her, gave her a little airspace and you know, she, she
34:07
was too graceful to to kind of really drop the hammer.
34:09
But Silkowitz came over the top. Legendary did.
34:13
That was outstanding. Great question by you and got
34:15
two really good answers. So of course, obviously we're
34:19
doing our journalism out here. But my my other forward who you
34:24
mentioned in the build up when talking about Biendello, I'm
34:27
gonna talk about Ally Centnor. She is suffering through just an
34:31
abysmal season with Utah Royals right now.
34:34
Now she has managed to be top ten in shots, shots on target,
34:39
shot creating actions and fouls drawn.
34:42
But as you mentioned, one assist, one goal in the league
34:45
this year. Now, on the bright side, in her,
34:49
what, 9 appearances for the US women's national team, she has
34:53
four goals and one assist. She puts on the Stars and
34:56
Stripes and she comes to ball out.
34:58
She's gonna RIP shots from outside the 18.
35:01
And I think that I wouldn't be surprised if we see her floating
35:06
around in that in attacking areas.
35:08
And I think she might be trying to get some of that Utah Royals
35:11
frustration out on the football and see if she could put one up
35:15
or 90. I I would definitely love, love
35:18
to see it. Yeah, you mentioned the, the,
35:21
the issues in Utah. She's actually logged yeah 9
35:24
appearances in the last 10 for the US substantial team, by far
35:29
the most of any any of the players in the forward room.
35:32
I think it's a great pick. I'm very excited about Allie
35:34
Centenora. I want to I want to get into it
35:37
in a minute because I want to actually put together just do
35:41
put together a quick 11:00. We, we could kind of combine,
35:44
join forces and figure out who, how we want to do this.
35:47
But I, I want to get to that point and then I'll, I'll save
35:48
my Sentinor notes for that because I think that the key to
35:51
Sentinor is, like you mentioned, when you put a rounder, what,
35:56
what does the attack look like? And then where, where do you
35:58
have Sentinor slotted? My pick, though, I mean, you
36:03
know, talk about obvious. So let's go MVP on the on the
36:07
MVP shortlist. Give me a list of Thompson five
36:10
goals, 2 assists in the NWSL, seven goal contributions.
36:14
If my, my very deep math is correct, she's got 19
36:20
appearances for US, Ms. national team, but just a single goal.
36:24
So I think what I'll be looking for is can Thompson really
36:29
breakthrough? You know, and, and I, I, I think
36:32
we've seen the chemistry. I think we've seen the flashes
36:34
in a really big way and we've seen some of the development of
36:38
her game at Angel City. But now it's like, well, what?
36:42
What does the next step look like?
36:44
You know, like, what is the what is the post triple espresso
36:48
like? Like how do these players not
36:52
kind of close the book on it? Because that was like a great,
36:55
you know, moment in time. But how do they kind of turn the
36:57
page because it is like a shadow that's still kind of looming.
37:01
It would be interesting to see. What if Sentinel gets cooking?
37:04
What if Alyssa gets cooking? And now there's a different
37:08
buzz, a new kind of buzz? Because I think that there's
37:11
something about the attack that could really benefit from that.
37:14
Yeah, I mean, like like you've talked about, she's been on an
37:16
absolute heater in the NWSL. It it, it was surprising.
37:20
I was looking at those stats too that that you expertly compiled.
37:23
Thank you for doing that of these of these last national
37:27
team matches and to see that she only has one goal in those what
37:31
was it 1919 total appearances. Obviously some what 23 World Cup
37:36
is in there too. So you know, I'm I'm I was a
37:39
little surprised to see that. But you know, the the
37:43
international game is is just different than club football.
37:46
We obviously know that, but she obviously the, the shiftiness,
37:50
the skills, the brilliance, you know, I, I, her game is still
37:54
going to translate on the international level.
37:57
It's just going to be interesting to see like you,
37:59
like you mentioned, what's that mix going to have to be to
38:02
figure out how to truly unlock her?
38:06
Let's let's go to that. So I want to put together quick
38:10
starting 11. Yeah.
38:11
And not really like a like more like a theoretical starting 11.
38:15
So not like, well, if we're going out versus Ireland, you
38:18
know, let's light them up. You know, it's like, let's just
38:20
let's just pick our favorite 11 of what we would do if we were
38:23
starting in a big match coming up like a big match, high
38:25
stakes. Like a friendly against the
38:27
Republic of Ireland? No.
38:29
OK, something. Different than that harder
38:33
stakes than that maybe like a like a euro team draft between
38:38
the two Co host of the ITC. So yeah, something that that
38:41
like, you know, knock down, drag out.
38:44
All right. Do you want to go back to front?
38:46
Front to back? Build out from the keeper,
38:48
European style football. He just got to know how to do it
38:51
and and you know that I think that's how we should do it.
38:53
All right, yeah, defense with championships.
38:56
All right, I'm, I'm I, I would start McGlynn here.
39:00
All right, I'm going to go with Claudia Dickey.
39:04
OK? I think, I think my club form is
39:06
let's, let's, let's each to our own.
39:08
Like I like it OK. Yeah.
39:11
Oh, then do you want to do a Twitter poll?
39:13
Sure, people can vote and you'll win.
39:18
All right, I'll try to word it so that you win.
39:21
I'm trying to keep it. Take the teammate.
39:24
Yeah. All right, let's keep this.
39:29
You know what? This is recorded so I don't have
39:31
to actually type this into my computer.
39:32
I've got the glitch. Yeah, you've got the key.
39:36
All right. Defensively, how do you want to
39:38
do this? All right, I'll you go first.
39:40
All right, so back four how, yeah, how about we pick our like
39:43
groups, like obviously we can't draft because we're going to
39:46
have some overlap here so. Yeah, yeah.
39:47
We're not going to drop. I'll do my back 4 left to right.
39:51
I'm going Abello, Germa, Bug Patterson.
39:57
Oh shit, yeah. We got like, no, no, we all very
39:59
little overlap. We can think of 1.
40:03
So no, actually I've got Avery Patterson on the left, I've got
40:07
Avery Patterson and Giselle Thompson on my left and right.
40:10
And I'm probably, I'm probably switching, switching up sides
40:12
here. But I think those players on the
40:14
wings get the initial looks just 'cause I don't know, I think
40:18
there's something, something about that that I think is going
40:20
to make some sense. And then with the centre backs,
40:23
I could see Sonnet and McKeon, I could see things getting started
40:27
with those two players at centre back.
40:29
Germa, I thought it was weird that, you know, like didn't,
40:32
wasn't included in the European, you know, qualifier.
40:37
And then like the Kassouf's article was just like, Oh yeah,
40:40
yeah, Germa's not, not included. Yeah, everybody except Germa.
40:42
So it's kind of like, OK. And I know she didn't play that
40:45
much and it was kind of weird. But I mean, if that's kind of
40:48
making me think that Hayes wants to see something from Germa, not
40:51
that, you know, she needs to see something, but maybe there's
40:54
something that you maybe it's a pairing or grouping or I don't
40:57
know, there could be something there.
40:59
Sure. I think that's I think that's
41:01
possible. And maybe maybe you're seeing
41:04
the three-dimensional chess board.
41:07
I honestly just think it might be she has she sat out some time
41:11
for Chelsea. So she's not completely cooked
41:14
like Emily Fox is after, you know, a Champions League winning
41:18
run as she had, as you might, as you may have heard.
41:22
So yeah, I don't know, there could be some, some 3D chess
41:25
there. So yeah, we'll see.
41:27
I'm excited to see Germa play. I just if and for me, maybe it's
41:30
just my caveman brain too, where I'm just like, wait, Germa's on
41:33
the roster. She should start.
41:36
Yeah, a simple man. Yeah, we'll see.
41:38
We'll see who who gets those nods.
41:42
How about the midfield? I kind of want to go first with
41:44
the midfield. Please go.
41:46
It's basically my torture chamber.
41:48
Coffee, Moultrie. And then give me a little Claire
41:51
Hutton. Add it to the mix there.
41:54
Love it. Yeah, Dynamic, great passers.
41:58
You know, I love the style that Hutton plays with.
41:59
I say it every time I talk about her.
42:01
Between between Hutton and Moultrie, that is an awful lot
42:06
of style from two young players who are not scared, who are
42:09
young players who will go out there and style on you while
42:13
they play. I don't think they're going to
42:14
care about the venue or what uniform they're wearing.
42:17
And then they're balanced out by just the the metronome that is
42:21
Sam Coffey. So I love that as a three are.
42:24
So are you playing it? You're playing a 433 or what are
42:29
you looking at here? Good question.
42:34
I was actually looking at a 434 which is a told the whole other
42:38
problem. You know what, that's going to
42:40
be tricky to run out there. Oh, do we need to?
42:43
Keep her. You're allowed to do that.
42:46
Well, let me, Let me, let me. Oh, yeah.
42:50
All right, I'll stick with it. Give me Mulcher at the 10.
42:53
So I'll I'll just do 4231 and then Mulcher will be my 10.
42:58
OK, I like that. OK, yeah, 'cause I'm doing a
43:01
4231 also. I think last time you and I, we
43:03
had like more like 1990s. I think there was like a 442 and
43:07
a 433 out there. But now we're back, we're back
43:10
to the 4231. So yeah, give me as my 2 holding
43:15
midfielders, give me Claire Hutton and Sam Coffey because I
43:18
just, I like the aggressiveness, I like the toughness and the
43:22
passing ability. I I like those two as a as a
43:26
holding midfielder combo all. Right.
43:29
So we're locked in there. Got the, got those same 2.
43:33
So then I'll, I'll put my three across.
43:34
I'll keep Moultrie in the middle.
43:37
And then I guess I have. Yeah, I guess it's got to be
43:43
Alyssa Thompson on the left and Cooper on the right.
43:46
Right. Yeah, it's got to be.
43:50
It would have been weird if you didn't have Thompson on the
43:52
left. I was like, wait a minute, is he
43:53
going to throw me the ultimate curveball here?
43:56
Well. You know, 'cause I mean, I'm
43:58
going to just kind of lump these in.
44:00
I kind of had thought about then then at at the 9, it's either
44:04
set nor Biendolo. And that's an interesting 1.
44:07
And I think, I mean, I think for me like tomorrow if I'm playing
44:12
this game tomorrow I think I play Biendolo.
44:15
Yeah, I think it's fair. So that's my line, yeah.
44:20
Biendolo, Thompson, Moultrie Cooper.
44:23
Those are my front 4. All right, so I'll give you my
44:26
front four and now I'm going to throw the curveball on the left.
44:31
Give me Ali Centnor, no disrespect to Alyssa Thompson,
44:36
who is, as you've pointed out, is making in an MVP case for
44:40
herself and is playing great. I just want to see Centinor out
44:45
there with some players who can distribute and take some of the
44:48
load off her and allow her to kind of float into space and
44:51
maybe pick up some rebounds and fire away.
44:55
In that case, my #10 again, prepare to be completely
45:00
shocked. Kroybothun has to be I could not
45:03
look myself in the mirror as the again, once again, the foremost
45:07
owner of Croix Bethune stock on the Internet.
45:11
And then obviously Michelle Cooper on the right.
45:14
And then give me Lin Biendolo up top at the 9.
45:19
Alyssa Thompson coming off the bench as a super sub.
45:23
But I like the speed, I like the power, I like the passing, I
45:26
like the ability. You could honestly, I'm gonna
45:30
sound, I'm this might sound a little, I don't know how you
45:32
could tell me how crazy this sounds, but you could, you could
45:35
flip. Well, this part's not crazy.
45:37
You can obviously flip Centinor and Biendolo.
45:39
You could play Biendolo out on the wing.
45:41
You could put Centinor up top. I think you could put Biendolo
45:45
on the left. You could put Bethune up top and
45:47
play Centinor in the attacking middle.
45:50
So you know, this is how I would coach the team.
45:52
Just me pointing at and pointing all over different directions.
45:55
I think you do a lot of movement to to surprise teams.
45:59
I'm I'm just laughing because of my 434.
46:03
Yeah, I had Biondolo Sentinor, Gufrid Thompson, my front 4.
46:07
There we go. And I had the same kind of
46:10
thought. I'm like, all right, well,
46:11
Biondolo, I mean, she's playing. I, I, you know, I, I, I kind of
46:15
like, it's like a weird overlap for like Centinor Biendola to
46:18
kind of like switch spots. But for whatever reason, those
46:22
two can kind of do that because they could kind of be effective.
46:26
You know, back to the goal facing the goal coming up,
46:29
coming, you know, coming in, coming out.
46:31
That would be super interesting. And I think I think we might be
46:33
getting to that stage of the Emmy Hayes experience.
46:36
Like now we're going to start to see some like some real
46:39
chemistry stuff on the pitch, you know, and stuff that we
46:42
could get excited about rather than being like, oh, this this
46:45
one player did this one awesome thing or did 2 awesome things.
46:49
Now it's like sort of like the same triple espresso analogy,
46:52
maybe spread out midfield defense or who knows, up the
46:56
left or the right, or maybe it's the Thompson sisters.
46:58
I mean, could be a lot to, to kind of clock in on.
47:02
I'm also laughing because I'm checking the clock right. 50
47:04
minutes we're just never going to be able to do.
47:07
Show No, there's no. Such thing as 1/2.
47:09
Hour show, Certainly not 1/2 hour show that.
47:12
I think we're barely the existence of a 35 minute show.
47:16
Emma Hayes keeps picking super interesting rosters.
47:18
What are we supposed to do about it?
47:20
Yeah, just too much. Intrigue, I mean, just just
47:23
stacked it up all night this evening.
47:27
All right, man, I I know that we wanted to talk about end episode
47:31
players at the Euros because EUR kind of right around the corner.
47:35
You want to knock that really quickly or you want to kick that
47:37
into the future. Wow, it could be.
47:39
It could be a. Classic radio tease and say
47:42
TuneIn next time where we talk about NWSL players playing in
47:46
the EUR. Now, not every team in the EUR
47:49
have have named their full rosters.
47:52
We have some of them. I'm OK with waiting.
47:55
Like like you said, we've gone, we've gone 50 minutes.
47:57
We have a EUR preview coming. Who knows, could be a little
48:01
mini show that we do outside of like the full EUR preview.
48:05
I don't know if we can figure it out, but if if you're if you're
48:08
good, if it's time for time to end this this week's edition of
48:13
Sleepy Boys Football weekly. I'm I'm good with it.
48:17
All right, man, let's get sleepy.
48:19
All right, we'll, we'll kick into the next episode.
48:23
Speaking of next episode's episode calendar, one more end
48:26
of Cell weekend before the EUR kick off.
48:28
We'll be kicking off our coverage right around the corner
48:31
here. Mega preview.
48:32
I mean, let's see next week, following week.
48:35
Well, the determine kicks off July 2nd.
48:37
So suffice it to say 2-3 days before that, a mega preview will
48:41
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48:54
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48:57
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48:59
those in the show. So this episode, all right, man,
49:02
I think we did it. We, we kind of took a
49:04
roundabout, you know, took, we meandered a little bit, but we
49:08
got it done. Is there anything else you want
49:10
to hit before we get out of here?
49:12
No, I think that was it. I mean.
49:13
We were into the channel we're we're we're running this way and
49:16
then we were switching and then going the other way.
49:18
It was it was a total, you know, just the manager on the side
49:21
going yo you that way. You that like that's that's how
49:25
the show goes sometimes, especially when we get a great
49:27
roster drop with a lot of exciting young players, like you
49:30
said, players who are established players who are new,
49:33
who look like they're going to fit perfectly.
49:35
I mean, what else could you want in this beautiful distraction
49:38
called football? I, I think we, I think we got it
49:41
all now. Now all that's left is to
49:43
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49:46
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49:49
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50:23
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50:27
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50:35
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