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🇺🇸 USWNT 2 🇧🇷 BRAZIL 0 | ⚽️ Trinity Rodman ⚽️ Lindsey Heaps · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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Oh hey, welcome to you Into the Channel podcast primarily about
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1 football. I am your host, Dean of the
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Suspects and as always, I am joined by my host, Mr. Grant
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Angle. What is up man?
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Feeling all right, buddy? It's an away match for your boy
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today as anybody who might watch the program as opposed to listen
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to it might see from this background.
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I'm in a hotel in an undisclosed location.
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But I'll I'll give everybody a hint.
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I did watch LeBron James and Luca Dodgers play basketball
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yesterday. So I'll give you one hint.
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But somehow because of of prior scheduled events, I did not go
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live to the to the US Women's national team match.
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But I have watched it and we could talk about it.
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I'm ready to talk about it. Yeah.
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I'm also checking in from an undisclosed retirement community
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in Central Florida. Let's go.
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My dad's office. Shout out to my dad for letting
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me rock out in here. But yeah, big win for the US.
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Well, not big win, but a solid win, I'll say for the US. 2,
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nothing over Brazil in an Olympic gold medal match
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rematch. I think a good amount to talk
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about in this one. Where do you want to get
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started? Let's get started with a frosty
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beverage, because in honor, not only in honor of the football,
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if I may be so bold, you can go ahead and crack if you need.
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Sure. Yeah, I'm ready.
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Sounds delicious. Cheers if I may be.
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Cheers to you if I may be so bold.
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I do want to crack these beers, not only in honor of the
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football, but in honor of us. The only women's football
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podcast dangerous enough to do a post match live show 8 hours
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after the match has ended because of, you know, work the
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the aforementioned scheduled work events of the weekend.
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Yeah, no, I hear that. I'm not apologizing.
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I've got a lot of stuff going on cross country move.
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We're on the I mean, we're both we're both away this week.
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How about that? That is why we're still we're
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still getting it done on the road.
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So cheers to us, actually think a little little little sippy
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sipped in honor of your boys. Yeah, I, I'm, I'm with it.
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I mean, if we if we're both away, is it technically a
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neutral site podcast? Probably 2 neutral sites
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actually, but who's to say? Let's get into it football wise.
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You know, I, I want to talk about the line UPS because we,
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we kind of got on Emma Hayes for, you know, the last showing
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and sort of like the hodgepodge nature of the line ups for those
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three, those three matches back-to-back to back.
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This one, I thought she nailed the line up.
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I was super excited to see who was in there.
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Couple minor quibbles in addition to maybe some, some
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brainstorming type things. I want to kind of kick your way
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when we get to that point. But what do you think when you
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saw the 11 that Emma Hayes trotted out there?
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So the shadow executive producer of this program, who you know,
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gets frequent messages or frequent shout outs on this on
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this show, told me an hour before the match was like, OK,
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she knew that I was at this conference was like, OK, I'm
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just going to send you the line up, but no spoilers.
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You watch it after you get done with the, you know, with the
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conference programming. But I want you to Mull over
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these line UPS. So she sends me US as line up
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and for obvious reasons as as also mentioned prior on this
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program, the shadow EP loves Fallon Tellus.
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Joyce was excited to see her in the lineup.
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But I'm totally with you. I thought Emma Hayes did a lot
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with the situation that she's kind of been handed here with,
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you know, Tina Davidson's really, really unfortunate
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injury. No, Naomi Germa.
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I still really liked the 11 and when I looked at it, kind of
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thinking about how it would play out in the field, I was I was
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intrigued right off the bat. Yeah, same.
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You know, obviously, definitely shout out to Tuna Davidson. 2
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days ago we got the news torn ACL.
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Davidson was on this roster, so she was sort of like in the mix,
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probably expected to play in these couple matches.
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Definitely, you know, kind of defensive, defensive cornerstone
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status for this team, you know, based on where where she's been
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at. Let's see where are we looking
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at. Yeah, so for Davidson, 67 caps
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and as mentioned, you know, was on the roster.
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But yeah, the starting line up, I kind of liked where where that
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was at. The one point that I was worried
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about was it it kind of ended up being more like A4123 with Sam
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coffee in the one spot. And I think we'll get into some
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of the match ups. But that immediately created
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some some pretty decent openings because I think you had Haran,
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sorry, you had heaps up the field a little bit.
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Centinor was also kind of like technically in in one of those
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midfield spots was was kind of floating a little bit
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defensively, which left coffee a little bit on an island.
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And then I think you saw some some really solid early chances
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from Brazil, in particular, Angelina Ludmila was kind of
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like getting into some dangerous areas.
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They they just had touches deep into the into the US third,
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which I thought was a little bit of a byproduct of the formation.
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But props to M Hayes in the defense.
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They held up pretty well, you know, able to kind of like, you
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know, withstand a little bit of early offense from Brazil and
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then kind of turn the tables really early in the match.
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Couple of world champions, a couple of vets that who we
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talked about in the She Believes Cup final versus Japan.
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Emily Sonnet and Crystal Dunn did not have a good match
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against Japan in that final. And particularly in my view in
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this game, Crystal Dunn looked really good.
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Like she is clearly kind of getting getting back into form.
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She like stoned Ludmila on one-on-one particular chance,
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like in the, you know, on the on the right wing.
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And so, yeah, I just I like the the look of Dunn.
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So I I'm totally with you there. It it the defense absolutely
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deserves a big shout when you when you kind of don't really
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have a traditional double pivot to defensive midfielder kind of
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look, I thought the back four held up really well and Tara
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McKeown had a moment to that. I made note of where she took
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the ball from, you know, their defensive 18 and just drove it
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up to midfield and you know, it obviously everybody talks about
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Tara Mckeown's pass as as an attacking player.
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She just has that inner game where she can, she really trusts
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herself to to dribble the ball forward, not give it up, not,
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you know, create a disadvantage for her side.
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And so I I thought the the entire four of the backline
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played pretty well. Yeah, I totally agree there.
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Crystal Dunn involved in the build up for the first goal.
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And I think we have to talk about Alyssa Thompson.
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So, you know, obviously it's funny.
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I mean, we talked about on the show for sure that triple
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espresso felt so locked in like, oh, this is going to be a multi
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year, you know, sort of like all right, sharpened in and you
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know, we'll figure out what slots in around them.
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You know, obviously, you know, Sophie Wilson.
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Oh my gosh, is that right? It's late, yes.
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Yeah, that's one of these. Sophie Wilson out of Commission
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for a little bit here in Mal Swanson still question mark
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there. Alyssa Thompson slowly working,
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slowly inching closer to the the Sharpie on your boys desk.
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Yeah, I I think she's definitely at that level for sure the
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offensive player of the first half for the USA and Crystal
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Dunn obviously involved in the build up as well to kind of get
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the goal. But I thought Thompson was
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unbelievable. I mean, she was obviously
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involved in the goal, gets the ball, you know, slides a slick
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ball up ahead to true Rodman. Awesome finish outside of the
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boot for Rodman. Great to see her score.
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But then like Fast forward a little bit, 20 the 22nd or 23rd
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minute, Lorena has to take a one of those fake shoulder injury
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timeouts where it's like nothing even happens.
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But you know, my shoulder hurt in a situation just like I need
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everybody to catch your breath almost single handedly based on
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what Alyssa Thompson was doing to that Brazil defense.
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I mean, she it was an absolute menace.
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It was great to see her so active, so creative and so
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effective. I think it it shows, I totally
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agree with you on the on that. I think it shows Alyssa Thompson
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got put in a pretty rough spot in the 2023 World Cup, you know,
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kind of coming in out of high school.
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You know, obviously it's been some time with the youth
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national team, if if memory serves, kind of in the build up
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there. But like this past, we're going
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on a year now where maybe closer to a year.
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I guess it was like middle of the NWSL season last year where
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Thompson started to get onto a real heater where like that
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potential that she flashed as a youth player is really starting
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to come to fruition. Her passing, you use the perfect
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word for it. Her passing is slick.
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Like she is like she was playing Trinity Rodman into into super
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dangerous areas. Obviously you saw it on the goal
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and and and Rodman, you know, to no, nobody's surprise talked
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about it perfectly in the halftime interview going in
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where where Rodman was just like, look, when when I'm on the
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weak side, I have a lot of space to get on the defenders back
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shoulder and I'm getting played in there.
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And I think she nodded. She may have nodded to Thompson
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specifically, maybe just for the goal, but I, I can't totally
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remember the quote off the top of my head, but you know,
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everybody could see it on there. And aside from maybe some
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players we can, we will be definitely talking about later.
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Alyssa Thompson might be one of the most perfect players on the
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roster to play your attacking forwards in, you know, behind
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space like that. Yeah, I mean, she's pretty
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fearless. I mean that one of the matchups
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of of today was Thompson versus Tarsiani and I think just seeing
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the size difference was, you know, it's you get a kick out of
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just seeing them go at it. But what a great match up those
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two. Like it was, it seemed like it
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was pretty much all day. Trinity Rodman versus Yasmine,
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that was another really good one.
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Angelina, who I mentioned earlier versus coffee or just
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kind of like in that general, you know, defensive midfield
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space, whoever was there, I thought that the battles were
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were were very frothy today. You know, Gio Kieros, who plays
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for Atletico Madrid, not going to lie, probably my first, you
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know, the deep dive in, you know, into her game.
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She was awesome, you know, and seeing her go out done and saw
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on it. That was a great match up as
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well. Lorena, Lorena versus the the US
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attack. I mean 10 saves.
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What a match for her. I was really surprised checking
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out the the the stats, the high level stats shots 16 to 15 for
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the USA shots on target 12 to six for the USAI mean they were
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clinical today. 75% of their shots were on target.
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You can see, you know the benefit of that, but Brazil
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super live on the other side. So I mean, this was a great a
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great battle. A couple bounces go go the other
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way at you feel like it might it could have been two nil the
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other way or two one the other way.
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I, I, I thought, I think the score line a little bit
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deceiving in this one, kind of like when you take a closer
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look. I think that's totally fair.
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I mean, there was absolutely 100% late in the game a missed
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penalty where I coffee fouled. I want to say Adriana, I think
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maybe it was. But yeah, like Brazil definitely
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could add a penalty there. But to your larger point, you
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know, a couple of things go a different way and the game could
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have been closer earlier. I'm glad you.
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Mentioned Ludmila hits the woodwork like right after
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halftime. Right.
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And yeah. Like yeah, there was a few.
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Yeah, yeah, That's a great call. Yeah, the lewd Miller shot off
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the crossbar, that was a laser. There was another saved by
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Fallon Tellus Joyce where she just had to get a paw up and
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just, like, punch it over that it looked like it would have
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been a goal, which, I mean, we referenced her earlier.
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We referenced the shadow executive producers excitement
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about Fallon Tellus Joyce. Let me give you some hard
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hitting analysis about PTJ buddy, because I thought it
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multiple times during this match.
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As a goalkeeper. Yeah, as a goalkeeper, Buddy.
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I mean, definitely in the conversation, definitely in that
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that started starting keeper conversation for sure was cool
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to see like this match be the one where it's like, OK, PTJ
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we're going to we're going to see what she's got and I think
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she faced pretty tough. You know, competition mentioned
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six shots on target from Brazil, couple screamers and yeah, like,
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I think I I think the one you're the referencing Gio had one that
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went over the bar after a sick move I think in the 50s.
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I mean, you know, she she she had to be on and I think it it
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watching tell us Joyce early in the match, she kind of had that,
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you know, like over over exertion, like there was like a
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simple shot that you she kind of like, you know, well, it kind of
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like over handles a little bit. You could kind of sense sense
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the you know, the the adrenaline pumping and then totally settled
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into the match. Felt totally comfortable or
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looked totally comfortable out there and had a great game.
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You know, I think definitely in the mix.
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Not ready to say yet that she's in the driver's seat, but the
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the job is maybe kind of up for grabs and if she's as good an
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option, I think as anyone that we have I I.
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Totally agree. And I know like it's a funny
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thing on the show, you know, especially when we talk about
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your your Gunners, that sometimes maybe some people
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think that you can swing a little wildly from side to side.
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I don't know if you've ever thought of that or yeah, right,
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we've never noticed. But I don't know, man, maybe
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this can be my turn. I don't know.
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I feel like she should be the goalkeeper, man.
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I mean, I'll tell you what I loved there was a corner kick.
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I want to say it was first half where she gets a punch on it and
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she has to like go around an attacker to get the punch and
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she used that massive wingspan of her, that super long right
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arm to get around the player and get a good enough punch on it to
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get it outside of the 18. Yep, and I it's just like that
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is a skill, the agility to get out there, the kind of slip, the
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the slipperiness to like get around the player and then this
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the you know, the natural length to to punch it out there, man,
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she can high point the ball. They did mention on the
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broadcast that Emma Hayes thinks she needs to play with the ball
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a little better at her feet. Totally fair comment.
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Heard that that affects her distribution as a goalkeeper.
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But in in terms of shot stopping and the physical skill set to do
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the job, I think I'm I'm leaning real, real, real heavy.
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I think she should just be the goalkeeper.
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I'll just I'll I'll get off the fence.
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I'm just going to say it. I think the job, she should be
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in the driver's seat for the job.
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I like it, yeah. It feels like we're getting to a
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point where because it feels like Hayes is cycling a new
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keeper in pretty much every match.
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It feels like, you know, and even within the camps there's
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there's a lot of like turnover. We, we should be definitely
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reaching a point where there starts to become some stability
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and, you know, if a, if a player, whoever that it might
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be, gets that job and maybe loses that job or kind of like
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the, you know, becomes like a little bit by committee down
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there. But we, I want to start seeing
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some kind of some consistency and I'm really interested to see
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when these teams lock up again on Tuesday, what those line UPS
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look like. Because I, I, I thought, you
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know, he's definitely figured something out here.
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I, I, I wanted to run a thought experiment by you because I was
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thinking about I'm kind of jumping around a little bit
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here, but sure. Kat Macario at the 9 I'm not
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sure. I'm not sure that's where we're
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at. Like I'm not sure.
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I'm not really sure that that's going to be a thing thing, you
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know, like kind of for the future.
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So I just was like playing around in my head.
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I'm like, OK, I know Trinity Rodman like is sort of like
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locked in on the right. She's basically our CGH.
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But if you see the the the finish that she had early,
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that's kind of like right up the center of the park.
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I'm not saying that that we would do this, but in you know,
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as I'm taking a shower after the game, I'm just that, you know,
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I'm hitting the shower. I'm thinking through, I'm like,
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OK, what if Rodman was at the 9? You put Centnor not in the
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midfield, but up in that Rodman spot, and then you drop Macario
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and then you drop heaps a little bit to kind of help out a little
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bit more defensively. Because I thought Centnor had a
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couple moments, but it did feel like she was too far away from
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the action to really, really have an impact.
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And it kind of would would have been interested to see her more
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upfield. And then Macario, I thought
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played pretty well, almost like more in the midfield, like
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controlling the ball and like kind of like using your
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physicality wasn't super effective up field.
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So still some stuff to work out for Emma Hayes, But I I do kind
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of want to see maybe a little bit of consistency.
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And then the last bit I went ahead about the line up.
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I was shocked man, to see no Lily Johannes in the starting
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line up. Yes.
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Well, I think that that bared itself out later in the match.
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Let me let me let me touch on the the you know, the flirting
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with Rodman at the at the number 9 spot.
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I can see it. She has the skills to do it.
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I do wonder if you would lose something in her incredible
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ability. I know I, I talk about this a
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lot, but Rodman's athletic character to get back and help
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on defense from that wing position like I, that is one of
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my absolute favorite parts of her game.
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And so if you, if you push her to the 9, you won't lose that
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completely. It's not like you have to be
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stapled to the number 9 position on, on the field, But I, I do
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wonder if you lose a little bit of that, you know, in certain
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spots, you would have to lose some of it and in spots for sure
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if you wanted to kind of occupy that space.
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And I think where your head's AT and you know, we've talked about
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this and I, I largely agree with you.
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What we have right now is a little bit of a log jam in that
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number 10 spot because Lindsay Heaps, if she is healthy and on
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the roster, Emma Hayes is going to put the captain's armband on
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her and she's going to put and she's going to play her at the
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number 10 spot. And I think you and I kind of
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watching this and with absolutely no consequence to
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what we say or what what we would say the lineup would be,
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would be honestly, if somebody asked us and if if Emma Hayes
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was like, OK, Grant, Dino, you guys got to run the team, then
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we would start Macario at the 10 and we would probably play
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Centinor at 9 and Heaps would come off the bench.
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But that's just not going to happen while Heaps is still fit
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and in and in, you know, good enough for him to play.
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So I absolutely see where your head's AT and Rodman getting
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into the middle of the park. That's I mean, we it'd be
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foolish not to have that look happen multiple times in the
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match. But I I'm going to place my bet
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right now. If we don't see Macario start at
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the 9 in the in the next match, I think that will go to Ashley
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Hatch. I think she'll as opposed to
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coming off the bench. I think they'll probably put her
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there. And then we'll see if, if you
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know, if they want to give heaps rest and they play Macario 10 or
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if it's just another, you know, stamp in Sharpie heaps at at the
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10 on Tuesday. Yeah, definitely going to be
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tracking to see what that looks like.
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I wrote in my notes that I'm like, I kind of feel like we're
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past the oh, am I still getting her sea legs?
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You know, like now I kind of want to see a little bit more
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consistency within the line UPS. Like, you know, just development
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like, hey, this is generally the first team and everybody kind of
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understands it. And here's here are the the
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folks that are kind of like knocking on the door to that and
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then kind of adjust accordingly. I, I would be a little bit
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disappointed if I know it's a short turn around.
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If we see like a completely different line up, which we
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probably will, but I think just the the the selfish part of our
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brain is like God, I want to see I want to see more and I want to
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see an adjustments to this line up.
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So we'll see how how that goes. But quick note on heaps.
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I thought heaps was really good in this one.
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You know, I know she takes a lot of shit for me for sure on this
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show, but on on the goal, she kind of like does like she she
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zooms past Alyssa Thompson, you know, and like kind of overlaps,
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runs up the left hand sideline and then pulls Tarsian way out
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there. You know, Tarsian takes like two
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or three steps in heaps his direction just to kind of
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respect that. And then that ends up opening up
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a a great, you know, great little space for for Rodman to
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kind of cut up the middle of the field.
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The penalty kick. I mean, let's go.
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That's probably she's not going to hit her, You know, many that
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are better than that one. Unbelievable.
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Absolute screamer. Lorena guesses the right way.
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Nowhere near that one. You know it it, it basically
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chips some paint off the the inside of the post, you know, as
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it kind of scrapes by. The sound on it on the telecast
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was also pretty awesome. Just, I don't know, not a sound
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that you're used to hearing. I thought you had a really good
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game. That was that was Barry Bonds
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for older guys like you, for older folks like me and you,
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that was Barry Bonds smashing 1 into the Bay.
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It's it's it's Shohei Otani and the sound of a baseball coming
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off his bat. She absolutely murdered that
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ball. And I think it was funny.
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It was funny to think about too, in the context of she had that
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penalty blocked in the Champions League quarterfinal against
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Bayern. I think that was the second leg.
22:36
Yeah, because it was at the end of the first half and the second
22:38
leg to to keep it 1 nil, Byron. And it wasn't even, and I know
22:44
you and I make this reference a lot.
22:46
It wasn't even a Roy Jones junior y'all must have forgot
22:49
type moment because Lindsay Heaps wasn't going to let you
22:52
forget at any time. Like OK, yeah, I had one penalty
22:55
block blocked. She is an elite penalty taker
22:58
and has been for years. And I mean, she just absolutely
23:01
smoked that one. Yeah, thunderous.
23:04
Yeah, for sure. We talked a little bit earlier
23:07
about Lily Johannes. Not in the starting line.
23:09
Let's go. So yeah, let's talk.
23:11
About it you. Know Alyssa Thompson, my player,
23:15
my offensive player of the first half.
23:18
I think you'd make a case that Dunn was a defensive player of
23:21
the first half. I thought Dunn was awesome.
23:23
Obviously, you know, I, I totally agree with you.
23:25
Great, great form. But in the second-half, the
23:28
offensive player in the second-half of the USA,
23:31
absolutely. Lily Johannes I, I, I went back
23:33
because I had to count this. You know, I'd love to do this.
23:36
So I time stamped when the ref blows his whistle after the
23:41
Johannes sub through when the penalty's committed.
23:46
How about two minutes and 37 seconds?
23:49
There we go. From and she had to play even
23:52
before the penalty where she slid a ball through.
23:55
And like Macario and Alyssa Thompson were, were both, you
23:58
know, sort of like we, they were both in danger areas and Lily's
24:01
like, let me just put the ball up there.
24:02
One of them would get to it. Macario got to it.
24:04
Alyssa Thompson ends up putting a pretty tepid strike on it.
24:07
I I think she was just shocked. She was like, I can't believe
24:09
I'm this close to the goal. Go ahead.
24:14
I, I, I had it in my notes. Johannes plays the ball through
24:18
and it's such a genius pass. And I, I'm not like faulting
24:21
Alyssa Thompson for this. I don't think Alyssa Thompson
24:24
expected a ball to be that good. And that's why Macario had kind
24:27
of had to run onto it. And then Thompson eventually
24:29
takes the shot, but she hit the, the pass was so genius that
24:34
Thompson was like, oh man, why didn't I think of that?
24:36
Like, like, holy crap. I I mean she comes on and the
24:40
midfield immediately looks significantly better.
24:45
I mean, she was great. I mean, the, the, the, the balls
24:48
that she was playing were just, there's nobody on the pitch
24:52
that's able to do that same thing.
24:55
I, I went back and I watched it live in English with, with our
25:02
friends Julie Foudy and, and Luke Wowman.
25:04
I went back and, and caught some highlights in Espanol with our
25:07
guy Andres Cantor. And he had a great call.
25:11
When, when Johannes puts the ball up field where you knew she
25:15
was going to do it, where she's got Cooper running up the right
25:18
hand side, you're just like, OK, Cooper's, Cooper's running in
25:21
space. You, you know, this ball's
25:23
coming. Let's just sit back and watch
25:24
it. Johannes puts a perfect ball
25:27
into space that Cooper ends up running onto.
25:31
And Andres Cantor's call is as follows.
25:34
Quote Latienne Johannes que pelo tapuso, which loosely translate
25:41
to what a ball she put into the channel.
25:44
I had the last bit about into the channel at the end, but I
25:47
you know, you know what? You know what our guy is going
25:50
for. Of course, none of these
25:54
translations are around the money, but great call from
25:56
Cantor on that one. And it's it's just great when
26:00
when when a play gets him going. And yeah, Johannes was awesome.
26:04
And you know, just reaffirms your point about not only does
26:09
she need to be sharpened into each and every roster going
26:12
forward, I'm not sure how you keep a player like that out of
26:14
the starting lineup. I mean, she is like, we've
26:19
talked about her so many times. We've talked about her since
26:21
last year's Champions League. Like there's just, we're running
26:26
out of ways to talk about how like wise beyond her footballing
26:30
years, she is like on the field, her poise, her calmness, her
26:35
skill, you know, just her, her and her general intelligence on
26:40
the field that I, I wrote in my notes.
26:43
Like even though we're running out of ways to to kind of like
26:47
describe it, it's just so evident every time she's on the
26:51
pitch that like, just watch for yourself.
26:54
Just she hit so many perfect passes.
26:57
She had so many moments where it was just like, OK, defense did
27:01
not see that coming like she is. And there was a moment too.
27:06
Let me I had it in my notes. Who was it?
27:09
She put, she put somebody in the spin cycle at one point where,
27:15
Oh yeah, she twists Angelina into like a couple knots before
27:18
playing a 12 and she she overcooked the, the the second
27:22
pass to coffee and it goes out for for a goal kick.
27:25
But now we're starting to see something.
27:28
And you know, obviously we we always say not a lot of options
27:32
to catch edit of Izzy Brown in in the Netherlands.
27:36
But now she's Johannes looked at least in this match.
27:40
She was hitting a gear of OK, I'm clearly on a heater right
27:43
now. I'm going to I'm in attack mode
27:46
full on. And that is like another level
27:48
in the in the maturity of her game that should have other
27:53
teams terrified. Yeah, absolutely.
27:56
Yeah, I think, I think we're, we're we're traversing the point
28:01
where it's like, OK, Lily, come in the game and keep the offence
28:05
moving. You know, you, you know what to
28:08
do. We're like, you have a general
28:09
idea of what to do or what we're trying to do.
28:11
And now we're getting to the point where it's like, OK, let's
28:14
see what you could do, Lily. Like, you know, like if the the
28:17
canvas is fairly blank, whatever you see out there, try to make
28:21
it happen. And I think we're seeing her
28:23
play a little bit mentally out-of-the-box, a little bit
28:26
more creative, a little bit more brave, you know, time in terms
28:29
of what she's trying to do and having like her passes and her
28:34
service, you know, inspire some of the attackers to be like, OK,
28:39
well, I, I got to go over there and grab that, you know, like,
28:41
oh, or like now, you know, if Lily gets to this, I know she's
28:45
going to turn, you know, she'll have the vision and there could
28:48
be a ball coming my way. It's kind of like what we saw in
28:49
that Michelle Cooper play. All in all, I think a really
28:54
solid performance against a pretty live Brazil side.
28:58
You know, you, I, I like to see the, the, the opposing sides
29:03
like really, you know, really kind of like give 110%, not like
29:07
just kind of really show up and make it a little bit of a walk.
29:12
This one, this one was very competitive.
29:15
Got chippy in spots for sure. Telus choice, as you mentioned,
29:19
was tested. Very excited to see these teams
29:23
run it back on Tuesday. And I, like I said, I'm going to
29:25
be locked into the line UPS. Is there anything specific that
29:28
you're going to be looking out for when they run it back?
29:32
Yeah, I think I want to see, I mean, obviously I want to see
29:36
Johannes in the starting lineup. We didn't see much of Yasmine
29:40
Ryan today. What?
29:42
Yeah, I mean, with 7 minutes of stoppage time, she ended up
29:44
playing like 13 minutes or something, something in that
29:46
ballpark. I think.
29:49
You know, I mentioned, well, like if I had to guess, like
29:52
we'll probably see Hatch at the 9.
29:55
I wouldn't put it past Emma Hayes to play Jaden Shaw at the
29:58
9. You know what I look like?
30:00
I think I understand. I understand your point of, you
30:06
know, well, let's let's start to set some concrete line UPS.
30:10
But you know, when we think about it, like in this, in this
30:12
build up to the World Cup, they're not going to have Sophie
30:16
Wilson for a little while. They're not.
30:17
It doesn't look like they're going to have Mallory Swanson
30:19
for a while. So I don't think they're I don't
30:23
think there is an end insight for the experimentation.
30:27
And I know I've brought her up a couple times, but the shadow
30:29
executive producer also texted me.
30:32
And once I told her I'd watched the game after, you know, we
30:36
were out of the no spoiler zone, she had texted me and said, am I
30:40
crazy or is this team just getting really, really deep,
30:45
like even deep by US women's national team standards?
30:49
Like look at the players they brought in Johannes Cooper,
30:52
Shaw, Hatch, Ryan and then Patterson.
30:55
Congratulations to Avery Patterson for for getting your
30:57
first cap. Really cool moment that the
30:59
broadcast caught also of Emma Hayes.
31:02
Did you did you see that part where Hayes says to Patterson,
31:07
what would your 10 year old self tell you right now?
31:09
And Patterson said, have fun. And she said, OK, go do that
31:12
then congratulations. And like, I mean, Hayes
31:16
obviously, like people have talked about her player
31:18
management style and how players love her.
31:20
I think it's evident from, you know, just the way she
31:23
ingratiated herself right away. Emily Sam's Giselle Thompson and
31:28
Claire Hutton did not appear today.
31:32
So I mean, we're that's Claire Hutton.
31:34
We're talking about another fantastic teenager, defensive
31:37
midfielder type who didn't even see the field.
31:39
So you know, if if we could see something where you know, I
31:43
would, you know, if Sam Coffee needs needs a break, if we could
31:47
see the Johannes Hutton pairing back there as a 66, I'd like to
31:51
see that. And then, you know, like you
31:53
said earlier, I'm interested to see what they do with the 9:00.
31:56
I'm going to guess it's either Hatch or Shaw.
31:59
Yeah, I can see that. Shot, shot could be interesting
32:00
for sure. Yeah, I mean, I take your point.
32:02
I mean, it's still a long time until the the World Cup swings
32:06
back around. I'm being a little bit greedy.
32:08
I kind of want to just see more of what we got and, and kind of
32:11
have some of that chemistry get developed.
32:14
But you know, to my earlier point, where we were at in the
32:17
Olympics, where we're at, where we were at in the World Cup
32:20
prior to that, so much overlap, so much turnover feels like
32:24
different squads. I I think what what by the time
32:26
27 rolls around, could be some players that are are maybe not
32:31
even on on the radar, not even in this roster that could have
32:34
an impact once 27 rows were on. I think that wouldn't be the
32:38
biggest surprise one. Do a quick look ahead here.
32:41
So we we talked about the rematch Tuesday, April 8th USA
32:45
Brazil PayPal Park, San Jose 10:30 PM Eastern late start on
32:49
that one. But that gives your boys a
32:51
little bit of a chance to go live maybe with a within it with
32:55
a quicker turn around that we did did this evening.
32:58
So we will go live post game for that one with a special guest.
33:03
Can we announce this? Yeah, that's.
33:05
Absolutely announced so people actually watch the show.
33:08
Let's go all. Right.
33:09
Yeah, yeah, hopefully. So brighty O'Toole busy watching
33:13
women's soccer, The legend making, I think, her third
33:17
appearance on the ICC. That's what's going to be
33:19
awesome, her first live appearance.
33:21
Going to have a blast with Brady.
33:23
Hopefully it's a good match with a ton to talk about.
33:26
NWSL that returns Friday, April 11th, full weekend slate, we'll
33:30
be back with match 4, Match week 4 recaps probably early next
33:35
week, we'll see. And then Champions League that
33:38
returns Saturday, April 19th, Arsenal host Sunday, April 20th,
33:42
Barcelona host Chelsea. Can't wait to get that back in
33:46
our lives, so make sure. Wait what?
33:48
What time's the city? Match.
33:50
Oh fuck, nevermind. Sorry.
33:52
God damn it. Sorry man.
33:54
Yeah, that's, that's a bummer. Well, it'll still be in action,
33:58
but, you know, there's always, there's always next year's
34:00
champions to. Oh, sorry.
34:02
All right. You took it too far, you know.
34:05
It's live you. Caught me off guard, you know.
34:07
What are you going to do either way?
34:09
Make sure you're locked in. Tut A tut a good football coming
34:12
up. Anything else you want to hit
34:13
before we get out of here? I think we've done it, my good
34:16
man. I appreciate the patience.
34:18
Thanks for rock with me. And yeah, I was, I was gonna
34:20
mention like, OK, let's let's talk to Brady and see if we can
34:23
do the post match for Tuesdays match.
34:25
Let's see if we can do it at 5:00 AM Pacific Time.
34:28
But no, I, the Dino is correct. We will we will go live much
34:32
earlier after the match. Make sure you check it out.
34:34
I mean, we've talked about Brady multiple times on this program.
34:37
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35:27
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Thank. You for staying up late to do
35:31
this. I appreciate the patience and
35:33
now because you know, as anybody does at A at a professional
35:37
conference like this, I'm about to go all axle rose and destroy
35:41
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35:45
and fall asleep immediately. Either one, who's to say?
35:49
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35:50
Keep you guessing, All right. Thank you guys for rocking with
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