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🇳🇴 Norway Takes Group A | 🇨🇭 Switzerland Eliminates Iceland | UEFA WOMEN'S EURO 2025 Group A 🏆 DAY 5 · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  OK, welcome to Into the Channel podcast, primarily about one's
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  football. I'm your host, Dino de Suspicus,
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  and as always, I'm joined by my coast Mr. Grant Angle.
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  What is up man? I'm feeling fantastic buddy.
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  Mission accomplished. We can get into everything that
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  needs to happen and what happened today.
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  We made it. We made it and I'm ready to talk
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  about it. We're through.
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  Absolutely. What is Yeah, I'm losing my
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  loses track of time. This is show 5, show 5 of 12 in
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  the in the old 12 nights of UEFA Women's EUR 2025 group stage
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  coverage. Sleepy boys.
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  You know, real sleepy. That's right.
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  We're going to make it happen. Group A back in action.
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  Got some machinations, got some. You know, some things were
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  clinched today. Some ball was played, some goals
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  were scored. Ton of football, ton of
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  excitement. Mr. Graham Angle, what do you
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  want to get started today? Let's do chronological today my
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  good man. And whilst doing that will crack
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  the beers, but I might as well just say it.
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  Norway 2. Finland 1.
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  Norway wins Group A. Cheers to Norway, cheers to
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  Group A. Damn right.
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  Cheers to all the Norway supporters out there.
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  Cheers to all our pals who were celebrating but also had some
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  opinions on the way the match went through the course of that
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  celebration. Some of it didn't even feel very
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  celebratory to be honest from some of the comments I saw on
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  Blue Sky. What?
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  What did you take away from from this match scoreboard?
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  Damn right no. No, I think my, my biggest, I
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  had a bunch of takeaways. I mean, my, my #1 take away a a
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  little bit of what you talked about at the the first Nori
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  match, You know, like this notion of, yeah, like we know
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  that they don't play great as a team chemistry, not fully there.
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  They don't look like Barcelona out there, but they do have
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  great players capable of doing great things that that create
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  great impact. And and that doesn't necessarily
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  make them a great team. And maybe that's OK because I
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  think like what we're seeing in this tournament is the teams
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  with that are having success are able to kind of like lock down
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  defensively, bend, but but don't break essentially.
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  And then can you can, your can can players, not even your big
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  players, but can can players come through in these highest
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  leverage moments. We'll talk about Switzerland
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  later and what they were to what they were able to do late in
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  that match. But maybe maybe it's OK that
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  they they look a little disjointed and they just have
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  great players that come through in the biggest moments.
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  I think it is OK. It certainly feels OK today.
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  I mean, they, they won the group, they had two matches
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  played and. We won the.
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  Group. Yeah, we won the group.
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  You think? God damn right we did.
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  US, LeBron. Battalion supporters all over
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  Norway. Yeah, we're we're here, man 2 I
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  like. And bonus points for
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  inefficiency. We don't even have to score all
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  the goals in every game we have the opponent score goals for us.
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  I mean this. This strategy seems to be
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  working out pretty well so far. Love it.
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  Yeah, CGH is the the OGO G2 straight O GS created.
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  That's why why don't we have that stack OG created to kind of
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  like close that loop. CGH opens the proceedings in
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  this one essentially creates an own goal with where we're, you
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  know, like just her, her drive to get to the end line
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  constantly and like the defenses around the world inability to
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  stop her from being able to do that.
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  And then, you know, she just whips another one in, creates
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  problems. One one thing about the what
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  she's doing that the angle what she's doing, she loves to whip
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  it in like low and hard and just kind of tantalize the keeper.
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  It's like, hey, this cross, you could reach this cross, you
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  could get to it. And then she just kind of like,
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  you know, like baits the keeper into just reaching out for it.
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  And then like, at at that point, it's just trouble.
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  Like she just knows exactly how to put the ball in and then
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  basically start that the domino effect of put that whole, you
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  know, like defense on your heels.
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  Absolutely right. I mean, it creates a scenario
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  where it's always pretty much just a tap in for teammates.
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  Just get your foot on the end of it and it's going to be a bullet
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  past the keeper. But you're 100% right.
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  You hit anytime you make the keeper think more and more in
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  those like fast twitch scenarios, you're doing the
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  right thing as an attacking player.
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  Let's just let's just go right to my game notes here.
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  Obviously that goal is scored in the third minute.
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  Happens almost instantaneously, it feels like after the whistle
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  from my notes. All caps, of course.
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  Well, well, well, looks like the sleeping Giants awake, just as
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  your guy predicted. Then I go, you know, I detail
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  the goal and all that and then the notes.
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  Not as happy the next 20 minutes of the match.
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  I would say straight into the into the realm of annoyance at
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  times for those next 20 minutes. But I will say, and you know,
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  Foot Mob has that cool graphic of like, you know, who has the
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  ball, like where, you know, it's color-coded and it shows like
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  who's taking control of the match.
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  I think they it'll it only marked from like the 23rd minute
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  to like the 28th minute or something like that.
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  But I felt like minutes 20 through 30 more broadly, Norway
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  was kind of able to wrestle back some control of it, you know,
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  make some moves in there. And it it kind of started with
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  and you know, we're going to talk about her a lot because
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  she's one of the best players in the world.
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  She's the best player on this team every time she steps on the
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  field, maybe until they play Spain later down the road.
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  She'll be the best player on the pitch in a lot of these cases.
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  But in that 20 minute to 30 mark, another thing I put from
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  my notes, what do you know? Good things happen when CGH has
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  the ball in the attacking half of the field, which was part of
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  my frustration for those next 20 minutes after the goal was
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  anytime CGH was able to get the ball, it was only in like
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  desperation because Finland was pressing the hell out of them.
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  Yeah. I mean, Norway was just very
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  unimaginative, like what? They're just spacing and
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  movement. And I think what we're seeing is
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  it in this tournament is these teams have committed to defense,
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  you know, and it's like, like, at the very least, if we don't
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  let them score, we're still alive, you know, and a lot of
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  teams are taking that attacked. I think the only massive score
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  line we saw was Maine. Everything else has been one or
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  two goals in terms of difference.
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  And these teams are I think are a lot closer together, probably
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  all 16 than I was anticipating. I thought we were going to see a
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  lot more, you know, 3 Nils, 4 ones, you know, like kind of
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  more, you know, spread between it.
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  But I think very competitive kind of all the way through.
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  And I think Finland, you know, all jokes aside, I think you
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  could really make the case that Norway, after having scored so
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  early, maybe messed with them a little bit mentally, You know, a
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  couple straight weeks. We could talk about the men and
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  Blazers, but you know, they had the the score too early, kind of
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  like joke. I think that that that
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  definitely hit because I think Norway would have benefited from
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  20 minutes, 25 minutes of like nil, nil football and like
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  having to figure some stuff out. It felt like once the goal
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  happened, the offense kind of just really got clogged up.
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  And then Finland got a little, you know, shot in the arm.
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  And then you just you look at the stats from the the whole
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  match. I think many of them and not
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  just won by Finland, kind of dominated by Finland.
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  So I thought, I thought they were really great.
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  But CGH, she gets a bunch of touches in the opposition box
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  and I love that. I don't know if I don't know and
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  I'm curious on your take on this as a resident Norway expert.
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  The graphic to start the games, it keeps showing CG is kind of
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  like in the center of the park, you know?
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  I know it sort of could just be how the lineups are reported.
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  I kind of remember her playing in different spots in the first
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  match, like kind of like all over the field a little bit
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  more. In this match, it felt like she
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  just kind of floated back to, you know, her normal right hand
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  spot freedom on him floated back more into the center of the park
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  and then Tegerberg and and modem in the middle right and, you
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  know, and CGH on the outside. 100% that's how I was
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  experiencing it too. That's a good question.
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  I don't know if that's just how it's reported.
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  That's how it's listed on on foot Mob as well.
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  But you're right. I mean, she operates the best on
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  the right hand side. She seemed to be doing that
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  through long stretches of the match.
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  Obviously great players like this, you know, they weave in
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  and out and they do some they have some movement to to vary
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  the looks. But yeah, she she was dominating
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  on the right wing. And that equalizer, I think that
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  was one of the that was one of the times where CGH was like,
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  not all the like, not all the way out on the right wing, but
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  she was on the right hand side. And she gives that little touch
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  to try to play the ball in. And it's directly to Sumeman,
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  Evelina Sumeman from Tottenham, who then just plays it right
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  into una siren from West Ham, who's in way too much space on
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  her own, passes it into una Savenius from Rosengaard, who's
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  also in way too much space. And she, you know, does her part
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  and and has a good finish to beat the keeper there a Fisker
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  strands. So like the the reason I bring
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  that up to your to your CGH on the wing point is there were a
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  lot of times where she just didn't have enough support.
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  Like I mentioned earlier that, like I I said, I think the
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  phrase I used was Finland was pressing the hell out of Norway.
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  Norway was giving the ball away way too carelessly too, like
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  they weren't coping with the press nearly as well as as
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  players that talented should. And you know that they they seem
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  to do better after this after the second-half and they started
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  to make some make some changes. But to to your first point, yes
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  CGH seem to be better on the wing, but Norway needs to to
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  tighten it up just in the in the center of the park.
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  I definitely agree with that and I think Boa Risa probably could
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  be a little bit more effective there.
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  And I think another another issue is that it sort of feels
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  like CGH go right in Manam ETA Hegeberg, like none of them
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  really seem that interested in helping get the ball up field.
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  They all most of them seem sort of seem to be like, all right,
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  let's all right, you guys get it up here and then we're up here
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  and then we'll make it happen. But yeah, I think a lot of
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  things didn't look great today, but I mean, they they held
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  tough. They obviously they give up the
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  goal. That Unasiran touch that you
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  mentioned, you know, where she just kind of opens up.
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  I mean, like that was pretty brilliant to just to move it
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  along and it looks kind of like a billiard shot, like the angle,
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  just like the Bang Bang, like the perfect, like perfect cut to
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  get it up the pitch. And then Sebenius just sticks
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  it. And then I loved that CJ kind of
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  amped up the let me get my touches like that.
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  We're going to win because I'm going to get my touches in this
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  match. That was a a stark difference
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  between this one and the first one.
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  And you know, to her credit, you know, it's weird because she
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  doesn't look like the most graceful out there, but it's so
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  effective. You know, she's just like like
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  the the the runs are chopping like her fakes are like very
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  like hardcore and and she's very creative and like, you know,
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  like whatever she's doing, she does it with real Thunder and
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  then comes through huge light in this one.
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  Yeah, And I mean, you think about, you know, two of the best
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  right wings in the world. There are obviously other
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  players in the conversation, but you think about some of the
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  similar similarities between her and Trinity Rodman, a player we
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  talk about often on this podcast in our NWSL coverage on the
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  right wing, can pass at great speed, can beat you to the end
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  line, can shoot from anywhere. Like you're just not going to
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  have a lot of defenders who can cope with her in in very many
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  situations. And so, yeah, obviously she gets
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  that goal. That was definitely not a cross.
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  Obviously a shot totally on purpose, sneaks it over the
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  line. Before that shot, though, I
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  like, I started to like a lot more of what Norway was able to
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  do. It wasn't as consistent as some
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  people would want to see. But obviously you bring on the
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  wunderkind senior Galp set from Braun, the offense immediately
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  starts to look better. Gaupside comes on starts playing
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  with aggression. She had a touch in like the 54th
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  minute to control a long pass. She was waved off.
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  It was waved off her offside. But that first touch was just
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  delightful. And Leanne Sanderson, friend of
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  the show, of course, noticed it immediately owing and eyeing
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  over it on on on the on the broadcast.
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  I like the and you got to figure out somewhere to put freedom on
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  them on the field. I mean I wouldn't mind her being
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  more center of the park, but if you I like the idea of Gaupset
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  in that left wing and then right and right behind her, that
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  seemed to be pretty effective. Yeah, and that could solve the
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  like, let's move the ball along issue that they they could be
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  having. But I totally agree with you.
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  I thought Gaupset was awesome. You could just see her
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  physicality, but also her movement.
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  Her touch on that play was great.
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  I mean just barely offside by a smidge, but basically fit in the
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  the the coolest part is just like I'm seeing gapset fit in
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  with those players like, you know, and like, you know, we've
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  we're just we've been pining for gapset minutes for so long and
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  like it just seems like they want to kind of keep going with
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  the vets, which makes some sense.
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  Obviously like, you know, the seeing her on the pitch, it's
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  like, oh, this player definitely belongs, definitely fits with
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  these players of a different generation and of a different,
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  you know, just kind of like point in their career paths.
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  Yeah, totally. And I mean the thing about her
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  and that we raved about her when we first watched her 2 Champions
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  Leagues ago, she plays beyond her years in terms of confidence
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  and intelligence and and physicality also.
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  I mean, so she just has a lot of a lot of characteristics that I
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  like you, you get it to your point, Like you get it as a
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  manager, like you want to play your experienced players, but
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  also you have a youngster out there who can hold their own.
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  And it's gotten has Champions League experience now too.
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  So it's just like, I don't know, I I understand maybe some
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  hesitation, but the proof was in the pudding today.
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  Like she was on the field and she was one of the better
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  players on the field in a performance that probably not
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  that many people were happy about.
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  She was a bright spot. Totally, totally agree.
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  I want to talk really quickly about Finland because I thought
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  again, they played really great. I thought they stroked together
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  passes and and I mean, like you look at some of the stats here
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  where they 84% of their pass is completed as a team.
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  It's a monster number and they controlled the possession.
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  They looked crisper. They out shot Norway in this
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  one. And it's so funny because when
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  I, when I think about the preview, I had talked about and
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  obviously Finland, they, they're going to have to take on
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  Switzerland basically for the second spot in the knockouts.
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  And, and I, when I was talking about the preview, I was like, I
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  think Iceland could be a team could be knocking on the door.
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  It's going to maybe come down to them versus Switzerland.
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  Maybe they might get their heart broken down the line.
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  And now that scenario maybe totally applies to Finland
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  because now Finland will have to play Switzerland, the host
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  country. And Switzerland has the goal
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  differential advantage. So Finland has to win that game
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  to be able to advance and very fitting, you know, sort of like
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  a a not, you know, a youngish football in country that wants
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  to like, you know, take a step up Now you got to go to the host
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  country, win a match to close out the group stage.
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  And if you're, if you're a knockout stage quarter final
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  type Team Finland, you know this is how you do it.
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  Yeah, and it's just, it's just winning.
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  You're in because of the first tiebreaker is points against the
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  team that you're tied with. So if you're Switzerland, you
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  can settle for a win or a draw and if you're Finland, you got
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  to get the result. And and you're right, man, like
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  I've liked watching this team in both matches.
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  Cuevisto Suminen and Siren, I think have been really good to
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  excellent in both matches. And Kovenen, the goalkeeper,
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  she's really good man, like I like I've really enjoyed
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  watching her play. 23 years old at out of your garden.
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  Am I crazy? That's frown Bundesliga.
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  No, no, that's Thomas Fenskin. Sorry, apologies, Apologies to
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  our pals up there they. Got they got a big one coming up
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  against hacking opens I think opens the season out this night
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  so. Let's go Might have.
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  To clock into that one. Yeah, we gotta get, I mean, you
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  know, somebody just pick up the rights of Domus Fenskin so I'm
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  not out of here making a fool out of myself and and saying
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  that a team plays in a different league.
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  But yeah, I mean, Finland to your to your point, scrappy.
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  Good. They play together, you know,
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  not just not just like the cliches of what you say about an
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  underdog either. Like they literally they have
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  good connectivity as they move, move the ball around the field.
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  I I've enjoyed watching them play.
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  Yeah, they're sharp. I mean, they outplayed Norway
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  for a bunch of, you know, a bunch of this match.
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  And I think they've got a real shot to to go take on
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  Switzerland and beat beat them. But Speaking of that, that that
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  host country and that big win that they got today, how about
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  little Switzerland 2 Iceland, Nil.
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  Where do you go? Where do you start with this
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  one? We can agree that Switzerland is
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  going to be better than the number 23 ranked FIFA team here
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  in pretty short order, right? I think so I, I, I didn't think
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  so much about it today, but you know, I have been thinking about
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  the, the World Cup experience watching Switzerland just two
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  years ago and that feeling like a completely different team.
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  I haven't gone through the exercise and looking just roster
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  for roster who's how much turnover there's been, but it
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  just feels feels totally different now.
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  Switzerland feels more like a A-Team chock full of prospects,
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  kind of young and up and coming developing an identity.
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  Like all of a sudden now it's like we're about wide open.
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  You know, they're like they're just wide open in the open
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  field, just running open space. Like let's space every the whole
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  the whole match out and let's go up and down.
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  I think, I think you got to be really excited if you're a fan
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  of this team. For sure.
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  And, you know, I'll do the exercise quickly and please, you
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  know, for our pals, correct me if I if I'm missing anybody in
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  the comments, but Iman Benny, who threw a lot of points to
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  this match, looked like the most explosive player on the field in
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  a match where Sydney Sheridan live is on the field as well.
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  You know, Benny is 18 years old and she signed with Manchester
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  City Football Club, a pretty good club if you ask me, in
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  June. I'm extremely excited to watch
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  her her play in the WSL next season.
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  So she's 18 shirt and Libe is 19, Wandeler is 19 and Pilgrim
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  is 22. So just consider not even one
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  eyebrow raised, both eyebrows raised, because I think we might
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  be looking at the formation of a real contender in the next 5 to
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  10 years. Interesting contender.
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  Obviously there, there's some, there's a couple exits to to
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  kind of get get through to get all the way up to that point.
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  But I can definitely see it because the attack is there.
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  They play pretty tough, you know, and I think they've got
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  some good leadership between Leavalti, you know, Noel Moritz,
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  Reutzeler is kind of in their mid 20s.
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  You can also add Voloto, 21 years old plays for Hammerby,
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  who I thought was really good today as well.
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  Just kind of connecting, kind of making trouble in the midfield,
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  just like really good mix of just being active defensively
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  and offensively. So really good young nucleus.
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  I like, I love the take actually, I think, I think they
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  could get up to that point for sure.
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  Yeah, and it you know, it's going to take some time and you
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  know, I don't I shouldn't live out leave out Livia Peng, 23,
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  goalkeeper at Verti Bremen. You know, I thought she's
• 19:48
  handles herself pretty well in these two matches as well.
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  So I mean, just look at the explosivity of Sheridan Leib.
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  I mean, you and I watched her at Barcelona and you know, this
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  isn't a unique take. Like anybody who watched her at
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  Barcelona and said the ceiling is probably a Bolland door.
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  Like honestly, I know it's tough to it's it's tough to put that
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  on a 19 year old, but we have eyes and we've watched football
• 20:09
  before. Like that's how she plays.
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  So I mean, if you have that player and you have this other.
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  Talent around her kind of spread across the field.
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  I, I do know Vaulti is later in her career.
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  It's a good point about Roy Tiller, who's still in her mid
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  20s. So the timelines can, you know,
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  kind of be kind of overlap a little bit, but Vaulti adds to
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  the culture of like, what the federation does and like,
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  teaching these players how to be professional.
• 20:35
  She's a Champions League winner, of course.
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  So it's just like, you just have like, a lot of institutional
• 20:39
  knowledge. I haven't even mentioned Seattle
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  Reign FC player, former Barcelona player, Champions
• 20:44
  League winner herself, Anna Maria, Sterner Gorsuch.
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  So, you know, they have like, this great kind of wealth of
• 20:51
  knowledge at the top, and it's going to funnel down into these
• 20:54
  great young players. And so I'm buying as much
• 20:56
  Switzerland stock from with Swiss bank accounts as I
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  possibly can. It's totally legit.
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  Nobody asks any questions. Like it?
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  I'll cut that part out. No, I'm just kidding.
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  I, I love the take. I, I'm very, I'm very excited
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  for you as well to be looking at bidet on, on, on Manchester City
• 21:16
  and, you know, just imagining what that could look like.
• 21:18
  Shirt and Lib. It was, it was wild because, you
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  know, you mentioned her age, 19 years old.
• 21:23
  I I shared that shirt and Lib graphic, you know, in our
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  preview where she's just 99 on everything pretty much over the
• 21:30
  past 12 months. And what was really funny was on
• 21:34
  the telecast, I think Leanne was kind of getting on her JP as
• 21:37
  well, was like, you know, like, yeah, maybe a little selfish
• 21:39
  stair. She's got, she's got, you know,
• 21:41
  young players. She's got to learn how to move
• 21:42
  the ball along, just kind of like start passing, finding out
• 21:45
  these opportunities, you know, as she progresses in her career.
• 21:48
  Turns out it only took like, I don't know, 18 or 20 minutes for
• 21:51
  her career to progress and her to figure out, oh, I can just
• 21:54
  distribute. And now, you know, just seeing
• 21:56
  the growth in front of our eyes and just seeing her move, move
• 21:59
  the ball along, utilize that that movement and that
• 22:03
  positioning. She's so big and she's so like
• 22:06
  when she's running at you, what you can't do anything but
• 22:09
  backpedal furiously and look around and point and like just
• 22:13
  be, you know, she just really can kind of just disorient to
• 22:16
  you with, with, with the, with the runs, the angles and, and
• 22:20
  the ferocity of what she's able to do.
• 22:22
  And now she's able to add a little bit of vision to it, a
• 22:24
  little bit distribution to it that opened up this whole match.
• 22:28
  The pass was an absolute Peach. It's, it's weighted perfectly,
• 22:33
  you know, right into the path of, of Reutler, You know, she
• 22:36
  waited. You know, the pass was weighted
• 22:39
  WEIGHT and she but she waited, WAITED.
• 22:46
  She waited long enough to actually serve the pass in there
• 22:49
  at the right angle. Yeah, clearly.
• 22:51
  I mean, she has, she has a genius brain.
• 22:53
  I I remember, I can't, I, I don't know what season it was,
• 22:56
  but it was later in Kobe Bryant's career where he had a
• 23:00
  game where he had like 18 assists or something.
• 23:02
  And I don't know. I can't remember if it was one
• 23:04
  of the ones where he was like doing a thing of like, fine, you
• 23:06
  don't want me to shoot so much, I'll just pass.
• 23:08
  But then like, there were pundits afterwards, like, man,
• 23:11
  he's a good passer. I was like, yes, yeah, Kobe,
• 23:14
  imagine that. Kobe Bryant is good at passing a
• 23:17
  basketball too. He's good at multiple things in
• 23:19
  the basketball court. Who could have seen this coming?
• 23:21
  And, you know, I don't think Della Camera or Leanne were like
• 23:25
  too hard on Sheridan live because there were some moments,
• 23:27
  and we've seen that Barcelona too, where she'll line up and
• 23:29
  fire. It's like, you could you
• 23:31
  probably could have passed that. But it seems like she has that
• 23:35
  in her locker to to quote our pal.
• 23:39
  And so, I mean, yeah, she I just the Sky's the limit for her,
• 23:42
  man. She could end up being the best
• 23:44
  player in the world in in five years.
• 23:46
  Love it. My my question.
• 23:49
  Waited waited. Are we a homophone podcast?
• 23:52
  Wow, look at that. Back to the match, this one,
• 23:56
  obviously lose this one, whoever lost this one, it's it's pretty
• 23:59
  much a wrap. So these two teams playing for
• 24:01
  their lives, Switzerland, I mean, in a match that wasn't I
• 24:05
  don't want to say it was a very fun match because it was very up
• 24:08
  and down. I think we've seen we've seen
• 24:10
  nil Nils go into the 70s look a lot different than this.
• 24:14
  I think this one was very fun. Both teams very live, you know,
• 24:18
  happy to pull the trigger to your shirt and beetle point
• 24:21
  where, you know, she kind of takes that RIP a little bit
• 24:22
  early. I think a lot of that was going
• 24:24
  around a lot of hitting of the woodwork.
• 24:27
  So this one was definitely exciting, but you know, the host
• 24:29
  country basically out outlasts Iceland gets that that that
• 24:33
  Reuter goal, it kind of opens things up.
• 24:35
  And then the Pilgrim goal, obviously a moment, a fun
• 24:39
  moment, a great goal from for a young player.
• 24:42
  But I I mentioned it earlier, the goal differential
• 24:46
  ramifications of that one massive because now, you know,
• 24:50
  Switzerland can can get through with a draw versus Finland.
• 24:54
  So that goal, I mean maybe could put them through to the
• 24:58
  quarterfinals depending on the results of Switzerland, Finland
• 25:01
  here in match day three. Yeah, and I think that's what I
• 25:04
  think that's what enables or creates the conditions for this
• 25:08
  match to be must see TV. Like it's going to be an
• 25:11
  absolute banger. I'll be interested to see with
• 25:14
  like some of those younger players, It doesn't look like
• 25:17
  Shirton, Leib, Wandler, Pilgrim or Benny lack any confidence.
• 25:21
  But when the rubber meets the road and shit gets really real
• 25:25
  in like a a match for your tournament at that point, we'll
• 25:29
  see how they how they look, if they if it's a bit cagey at
• 25:31
  first or what. But I can't wait for it man.
• 25:34
  I think it's going to be an absolute banger.
• 25:36
  Same. I made the case after match day
• 25:38
  one that I was like, I think, I think Finland might might have
• 25:40
  looked the best after the first, you know, round of matches.
• 25:45
  And now after the first two rounds of matches, I might still
• 25:47
  be on the Finland. This is like the best of of all
• 25:50
  four teams. And they might end up being on
• 25:52
  the outside looking in just from, you know, just the, the,
• 25:56
  the brutality of the group stage mathematics.
• 25:59
  We'll definitely be locked into this team.
• 26:00
  I think Finland is the better side.
• 26:03
  But you know, much like what we saw of Finland, Norway, Finland,
• 26:06
  I thought was better today and is not able to get it done.
• 26:11
  So, you know, it's all going to come down to to how the match
• 26:14
  shakes out. But epic, epic match.
• 26:17
  I mean, just exactly what you want for that, for that quarter
• 26:20
  final spot, two teams relatively in the same atmosphere.
• 26:24
  A a match up that has a lot of intrigue to it for sure.
• 26:27
  I'm very excited for that one. No doubt July 10th Thursday noon
• 26:32
  out here on the in the Pacific Time zone.
• 26:36
  Very excited for it should be should be a banger.
• 26:38
  I think I might have to yeah, I definitely will.
• 26:41
  I'll have to watch that one after work.
• 26:42
  I don't even think I'll be able to like keep it on in the
• 26:44
  background. So I'll be on full no spoilers
• 26:46
  mode, but I will be locked in What?
• 26:49
  One more quick point about this before we get out of here so we
• 26:52
  can agree Finland. Wait, wait, wait, Mr. Graningo,
• 26:55
  anything else you want to hit before we get?
• 26:57
  Out here. OK, yeah, thanks.
• 26:58
  Let's just speed through that, yes, So we we can agree.
• 27:02
  Finland, a good team that's looked good.
• 27:05
  Switzerland, a good team that's looked good.
• 27:08
  I think Finland, it kind of does.
• 27:10
  I don't know. For me, they're half a notch
• 27:11
  ahead of Switzerland. Yeah, I think it's real close
• 27:13
  between Finland and Switzerland. Half A notch sounds about right.
• 27:17
  Probably somewhere in that ballpark.
• 27:18
  I just want to make sure we're on the same page that both of
• 27:21
  those teams were good. I'm glad you pointed out.
• 27:23
  Obviously Switzerland has a bit of that built in, you know, that
• 27:26
  that home field advantage. And so now that I know we're on
• 27:29
  level terms that both Finland and Switzerland are good.
• 27:32
  Norway beat them both. So you know what I just I just
• 27:35
  want to say to for the all the hand wringing on social media
• 27:40
  and play that well, they're big spots.
• 27:42
  Beat them, then somebody beat them then.
• 27:44
  So we'll we'll see. I am.
• 27:46
  There's a little part of my brain that's worried about the
• 27:48
  John's daughter throw insurance against that Norway defense.
• 27:52
  We'll see how that works. I'll need to circle back because
• 27:54
  I think one of our pals from Norway said that on Blue Sky and
• 27:57
  I couldn't find it before the show.
• 27:59
  So I'll circle back, make sure I credit the right person, but
• 28:01
  they're spot on about that. Doesn't matter though, as you
• 28:04
  said at the top of this broadcast scoreboard, Norway
• 28:06
  wins the group. Just as I predicted.
• 28:08
  Just as I think we both predicted on this podcast in the
• 28:11
  preview show I. Predicted you on that.
• 28:13
  Yeah, so let's go. I mean, you know, I get the hand
• 28:16
  wringing. Not everything can look perfect
• 28:18
  all the time. Let let the team build this
• 28:20
  chemistry. Let's get let's get rolling as
• 28:22
  the tournament moves on. Love it, love it.
• 28:24
  Yeah, I think we both predicted Norway, Switzerland out of this
• 28:26
  group, so we could go 2 for two. And you know, now that they've
• 28:31
  clinched and they've got a third group stage match against
• 28:33
  Iceland, feels like a Gobset game.
• 28:37
  Should be, I mean, you know, get her, get her an hour out there,
• 28:40
  get her 75 minutes out there warmed up for the for the
• 28:43
  knockout stage to see you who should be playing between likely
• 28:47
  Italy, Belgium or Portugal, depending on how that shakes out
• 28:51
  in Group B. And let's go, let's go from
• 28:53
  there. I can't wait to see that.
• 28:56
  All right. Episode calendar 12 days of UAFL
• 29:00
  Women's EUR 2025 Group stage football coverage plows ahead. 5
• 29:05
  down 7 to go. My math is not quite good enough
• 29:08
  to to convert 5 twelfths to decimals, but Group B back in
• 29:13
  action tomorrow Spain versus Belgium in the in the early
• 29:15
  slot, Portugal versus Italy in the later slot, Portugal versus
• 29:19
  Italy that I mean monster quarterfinal knockout stage
• 29:23
  ramifications tied to that one as well.
• 29:25
  I've already asked you if there's anything else you
• 29:27
  wouldn't hit before you out of here, but we hit it but I'll ask
• 29:30
  you again, maybe I don't know something could have sprung up
• 29:32
  in the last minute and a half. I think this one hit.
• 29:35
  Quick math here, 41.7% of the way through the 12 days.
• 29:41
  Almost almost a halfway if if if my math is mathing after
• 29:45
  tomorrow. Learning podcast, math podcast,
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  homophone podcast. I mean, we're just the tentacles
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  And a big thank you to my coast as well, Mr. Grant Engel for,
• 30:14
  you know, always being the group, the group winner within
• 30:17
  this group. I appreciate you, bro.
• 30:19
  You drop the hammer, you let us know and you're on point as per
• 30:23
  usual. So I appreciate you bro.
• 30:26
  Well, likewise, buddy, we obviously we win and lose as a
• 30:28
  team. So we've won Group A that might
• 30:31
  be that might be good as we go through the groups.
• 30:33
  I think I like the sound of that.
• 30:35
  So we into the channels one group AI think we can agree on
• 30:39
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