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UWCL POST-MATCH RECAPS! | 12 Feb 2026 | Wolfsburg v Juventus | Atlético Madrid v Manchester United · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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OK. Welcome to Into the Channel
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podcast primarily about 1 football.
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I am your host Dina de Suspicious and as always I'm
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joined by my Co host Mr. Grant Engel.
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What is up man? I'm feeling fantastic buddy.
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Day two of the knockout phase under our belts.
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I thought it was very interesting.
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Maybe not all the results I wanted, but I'm ready to talk
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about them with you. Yeah, very interesting.
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Day two of the knockout phase. Your boys still alive, you know,
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still in the mix, still in the bracket, not yet eliminated.
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So I'm excited to get into it. Good football where you want to
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get started. Let's get started with a
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beverage. We'll celebrate the way for
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Women's Champions League being all the way back.
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You're waist deep. Knockout stage.
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Knockout phase. Cheers to you.
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Cheers of the football. Cheers to you.
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Cheers of the football. I, I have had a bad habit of
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calling this like the route, the round of 16.
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Like I was like thinking that. And then like as I was labeling
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things like round of 16, I was like, oh, I think there are,
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there are 12 teams left. What am I doing here?
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This is just the knockout phase. Just get my shit together.
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I had to I had to undo some of your copy work on the on one of
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our previous thumbs. Yeah, it was like, yeah, it was
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on the thumbnail. Like after I'd said to you I had
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like 2 references around a 16. I was like, that's not right.
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I don't think so. You know I'm math.
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Math, not my strong suit. No, we sorted it out and now
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we're we're closer, we're getting closer to 8, which is
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prime, prime, prime time. I think we're things are
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definitely, definitely heating up.
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We had two big games on Thursday, couldn't get to them.
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I was at BF CS media day, a lot of fun there.
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I mean, by far the story of the day of Claire Hudden.
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I think to be I talked to probably 11 or 12 players, I'll
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say 9 or 10 of them brought up Claire Hudden.
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Most of them, you know, like unprompted and not not just in
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my one-on-one conversations, but a lot of media folks were there
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asking questions and you get to hear all the conversations and
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everybody just had couldn't, could not wait to talk to get
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their. Claire Hutton takes off.
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That's awesome. Pretty wild to see.
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And then and then she kind of closed the show with Alyssa
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Milan's. I was the last couple interviews
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before new head coach Emma Coates took the stage.
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That was a really, really fun day.
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But I was having to juggle that with all the Champions, the
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action. But glad to say I crushed all my
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tape. You know, I got my Rosillo on, I
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got my notes. I'm ready to go.
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I've got my stats. I mean, I don't know, I'm ready
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to kind of get started. But what what was what was your
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experience watching the matches? Where where do you want to get
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started? Let's do.
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Chronological because I it, it's kind of fed into the viewing
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experience, the live viewing experience while you while you
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were there, you know, being an intrepid reporter, I was parked
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in front of the television. Make sure I could watch every
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moment of these matches. So let's start with the morning
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match morning out here in in the best time zone, Pacific Time
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zone Wolfsburg versus Juventus 22, just your casual
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run-of-the-mill draw right we. We we joked last week there was
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a lot of different pathways to 3/2.
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This was a this was a particularly painful one to 2/2
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for Juventus and probably a pretty jovial 1 or at least a
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jovial finish if if you're a Wolfsburg supporter.
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But I mean, in a lot of ways, I mean, I think that I keep
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thinking about the, the, the initial opinion that I had was
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just like, this is a total toss up kind of matchup.
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You know, I think I, I, I was slightly shading toward
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Juventus. So I was kind of pumped when I
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saw them going to kind of get out to that, that lead.
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But it makes total sense that this is kind of where we landed.
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But inside the match, if we want to kind of zoom in, what what
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did you see in this one? Capeta was an absolute beast.
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I mean they get off to the very hot start, Carbonell plays in
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the great corner, Capeta with a with a brilliant header opens up
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the scoring. You know it what, in the first
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like 6 minutes I think it was, and in my notes I just very
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quickly wrote down, Dino was right about Juventus.
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Like all the stuff that you had talked about, like their ability
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to be aggressive but still be smart, still stay compact on
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defense. They showcased a lot of that
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stuff really, really early in the match, I felt like.
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Yeah, I mean, I, I, I was really into the this thing that they
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were doing defensively just kind of going morphing from like it
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was, I don't think I've ever seen this, but like a 343 to
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like a 442, which would require like two people changing lines.
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But it was like it's so seamless and the way they move, it just
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looks like, I don't know, like an octopus or some some sort of
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like, you know, like a pop, you know, bad animal with a
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amorphous limbs that are just some somehow on the same
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frequency and doing the same things.
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But what I I will say, obviously, you know, you events
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comes out, you know, gets off to the the great start.
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You can look at it two ways. 1 you could say, hey, they didn't
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manage a ton of shots. They got out shot in a big, big
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way. You can also look at the other
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video from the other perspective and say, you know, they forced
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Wolfsburg on on the day into kind of like, you know, poor ish
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quality shots for most of the match.
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And they were supremely efficient with the chances that
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they had that they've that they got in this one.
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And that's not really a fluke. This is kind of how they play
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like when they when they, when they play to the level with
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these big teams, they're not matching them shot for shot.
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You know, they're really, really picking their spot, almost like,
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you know, a boxer looking for the perfect moment to like land
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a counter punch is like it's just kind of how they play and
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they've just figured out the recipe and they're using it to
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to pretty good success. But maybe, you know, who knows,
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maybe we might be at the limit of of kind of like how far they
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can take it. I think it's a great point
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because it it ends up being a little bit of a dangerous game
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of, you know, we're always going to try to beat you on the
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counter or we're going to wait for these very few spots.
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And you almost have to be efficient, you know, in the
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middle of the first half, you know, I I jot in my notes like
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Wolfsburg was just leaving some really key opportunities on the
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table. And I thought part of that is
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Juventus's defense. They were they're forcing them
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into that. And other times, you know, they
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were just not making good plays on the on the Wolfsburg side.
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Like I, I don't think you could leave this match thinking
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anything else. Then that was a disappointing
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Berenstein performance. She like she she had a couple
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opportunities where it's just like, you got to be able to get
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to the ball there or, you know, maybe have a little more
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anticipation, maybe put your foot through it a little better.
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And I was just, and like, I was left kind of as the match was
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progressing, it was either going to be, you know, Wolfsburg is
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going to be really regretful about everything that they left
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on the table, or as time goes on in the match, maybe they'll
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start to cash in some of those opportunities and catch up.
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I mean, I got to push back a little bit on on Beard's time
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because in in a lot of those spots, she's just out in space
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with not a lot of options, right?
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And Juventus, you know, how they play like they're they're going
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to squeeze you, you know, like whatever, whatever window you
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had for a couple seconds is, it's just that it's a couple
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seconds. So there were a few times where
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beer Stein and beer and Stein's out on the break and it's like,
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you know, if you get it out out to her wide, somebody or some
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folks have to fill that space to give her some options.
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And there was a couple times it was just by herself.
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And it's like right now she's got to take a shot That's like a
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very, very low, low quality shot.
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So I don't think you know, her team was helping her.
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I will say I kind of jot in my nose.
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I know you LeBron has moved on, but that that player type was
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really missed today. And you could think about Korra
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Zakai too, who up that left hand side was as as we kind of all
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season provided dynamism, kind of electricity, speed, you know,
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creativity and a player that probably, you know, being inside
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would have been happy to see kind of like streaking up the
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left hand side, you know, on some of those opportunities.
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But you know, instead, you know, it's some Alex Pop, which is in
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her, you know, Lakers era LeBron phase of her career, you know,
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Endemond good energy. But I think a few times in the
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first half, like one or two touches too many, like she's
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out, you know, and she's flying, She's making you know, and
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there's Oh, OK, kind of like it gets extinguished by her own
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kind of like over eagerness. But I think offensively,
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Wolfsburg, it was a little clunky, you know, and, and
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against the defense, like Juventus, they're going to make
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you, they're going to make you look clunky if you're not really
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firing on all cylinders. I think that's fair.
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And, you know, sometimes, you know, I do get focused on like
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some of these individual moments.
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There was a there was a a couple minutes stretch where I'm trying
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to remember the exact play, but it was somewhere around the 70th
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minute, obviously before the game completely turns, but where
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Bierenstein just completely whiffs on a chance, just like
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foot misses the ball. She's in the box.
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You know, if she if she gets through it, it's probably a
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goal. And then on, on a corner kick,
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she has an errant touch that I was like, man, like I, I, it'd
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be really great if you were putting these on goal.
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But as I'm alluding to, you know, things, things got real
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different there in the final 10 minutes of the match.
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I, you know, I will say and you know, I, I, I want to kind of
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hit my notes here real quick because very early on in the
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match I write, yeah, when I mentioned that the brand Zikai
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point, I put, I put, you know, Wolfberg needs to be able to
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threaten every blade of grass, you know, and this was like in
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the first half. I think in the second-half, they
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figured that out because they did a lot better connecting
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passes. The passes covered more ground.
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They were just like moving UVA left to right.
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Like basically they were just they would happy go all the way
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left and then come all the way back around right and really,
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really, really stretch them out. And that's when we start to see
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more of those chances. You know, Endemon, I thought I
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think had a chance. She put one over the bar.
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I think Lena Latvine when she came in was super additive.
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You know, like, it really kind of gave Juventus problems.
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And I think they also looked at Juventus also looked a little
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leggy. You know, I think that by that
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point, really, I think Wilsberg kind of solved it.
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I'm going to be really interested to see next week if
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Wilsberg continues that. Like, let's stretch them out.
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Let's spread like, you know, like, let's spread it.
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Let's spread ourselves out. We know we can connect these
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passes and let's just make them chase us for as long as we can
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because like they, they did really, really good playing.
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Keep away those last 2025. Minutes.
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Yeah, I think that's, I think it's something worth worrying
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about if you're a Ventus supporter.
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I also think that now you have to, it has to creep in here.
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All right, So they get that first goal right.
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And I, I throw in my notes, Houvey coughed up a three goal
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lead to Leon in the league phase.
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And then I wrote immediately after that Wolfsburg is not
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Lyon. But maybe that thought can creep
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into the heads of the players on both sides.
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And what do you know of a few minutes later, corner kick in a
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good area and, and Sarah Linder just destroys it into the top
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corner. And you could just see the look
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on, on the, on the Houvey players, they were gutted by
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that. It was just like, again, we we
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let this get away from us. Yeah, I mean the ones, I mean,
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obviously devastating, like I mean seconds left in the match,
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hate to have it happen that way, but the windsilver lining, you
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know, a goal at the last second here or the first second, the
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next match doesn't really make a difference is all kind of gets
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rolled into the aggregate anyway.
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We didn't drop points today if you're on the UVA side, but it's
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got to be really debilitating. But you know, if you wanted to
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be practical about it, both teams scored, you know, kind of
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like off a corner, you know, off like, you know, some, some some
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action, the a weird kind of handball.
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And then you look at UVA's second goal there, there was
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kind of like some some football God, you know, blessings on that
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one to Emily Vangsuard kind of knocks it in, gets gets shot
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into the air. So it's not like UVA was
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dominating this one. Two goals should have been 4-5.
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You know, like it was two goals of what was it, 5-6 chances on
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the day. It wasn't.
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Four shots on goal, yeah. Four shots on goal, nine shots.
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I'm sorry, five shots total, 4 on target, 4 from inside the
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box. So you got to be ecstatic with
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two goals there. And you know, you don't want to
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give up those those two, but you know, you're, you're going to
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Wolfsburg and you know, I think if you, if you would offer them
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a two 2 draw going into it, I'm not sure they would have turned
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that down. It's such a classic, you know, 2
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legged tie kind of thing is like, yeah, all right, we we
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left with a draw in our away match.
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Now we get to win or we have the opportunity to move on in the
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tournament at home. But just the way it happened,
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it's it's hard to divorce yourself from the from the gross
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nature of the way it ends in a draw.
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If you're on The Who they side. And I think if you're on the
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Wolfsburg side, you know, I was on Wolfsburg ahead of this.
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I thought they were going to win the match at home.
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I don't I don't feel more confident that they got the two
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back in the end. I just, I like, I think who they
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really had a good plan to slow them down and muck up their
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attack in a way that's going to make it difficult for them.
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I, I don't see any reason why I should be more like I'm
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probably, I'm going to stay the course.
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Like I think I predicted Wolfsburg before.
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I guess there's no running away from it now, but I definitely I
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don't feel more confident going into it.
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Yeah, I'm, I'm going to stick with my UVA to advance
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prediction, which I think I think it feels pretty solid
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about. And, you know, we saw three of
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the four Rd. teams win and then this one, you know, like this, I
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think this was the 8-9 matchup. It's going to it's going to turn
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out, you know, not being nothing that UVA gets to play the second
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leg at home, You know, and now it's 22.
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They're headed back home. Because I like I said, I I
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thought they did look a little leggy down the stretch.
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You know, that that press, that defense that looked really tough
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to crack early. You know, there were a lot more
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space to operate, you know, that last 1520 minutes in the match.
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So, you know, without the travel, you know, at home in the
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evening, you know, not sure what the what the the weekend
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schedule is for these these two teams.
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I should look into that. But I wouldn't be surprised if
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if you've a puts together a game plan to kind of like shut, shut
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down the water on Wolfsburg on that Wolfsburg offense, because
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I think, I think they they knew what to do, but maybe I'm not
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sure they were they were able to kind of take it all the way to
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the finish line. But it's going to be super,
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super riveting. You can, but just to be clear,
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you're sticking with your your Wolfsburg prediction to advance.
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Take integrity, my good man, I, I'm not, I'm not going to back
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off the the prediction. I think I, I think they'll,
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they'll have to find a way that you know that like I said, I'm
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not brimming with confidence, but maybe you're on to something
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with, with some of this, these tired legs.
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Juventus plays Lazio, Juventus will be at home.
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They will play them on Sunday, February 15th.
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Then they lock back up with Wolfsburg on Thursday.
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OK. And then is Wolfsburg in action?
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Let's see. Let's take a look.
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So Lazio on Sunday. Wolfsburg's got Essen also on
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Sunday. At home for Wolfsburg.
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So they got a home match and then they travel on down to
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Italy. All right, so we'll see, you
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know, we'll see if if that has any kind of effect, but either
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way, I think he's I feel very confident that that these two
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teams being pretty evenly matched, you know, trying to
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trying to wrestle a prediction out of Leanne.
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You know, from this from this matchup, specifically this this
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was a this was a really fun one. Can't wait till to for further
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for the rematch or the re rematch, right, I'm not sure.
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Did they play in the group stage?
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They might not have. Yeah, I don't think so.
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Anywho, moving on these two teams definitely played in the
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group stage. So the this was the rematch and
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gearing up for the rematch in this one Atletico Madrid your
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Atletico Madrid against nobody's Manchester.
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Let me shout out our guy Reaper who just keeps I don't know,
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he's he keeps harassing us, but you know, shout out to him.
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He's got some high energy and shout out to Abdul too, who who
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had to swoop in and let us know that Chelsea is not dead yet.
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And he he'll be, he'll be waiting for Arsenal once we get
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to the round of eight. But yeah, a couple Ogs.
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I want to give both of them a quick mention here.
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But of course, Manchester United, Atletico Madrid, where
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you want to get started. Manchester United is just
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better, man. And I think if we were talking
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about like steps and where these clubs are in their, in their
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footballing journey, what Manchester United is probably a
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step and a half above Atleti, maybe a step in 3/4.
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Terrible, terrible giveaway by Boa Risa early in the match, as
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about as early as you can get in the match.
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I understood the idea of what she was going for there.
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Got to get that pass. You know, I'm going to go out on
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Limitville. The Boa Risa knows this, but you
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got to get that Passover Millard if you're going to try it and
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she did not. Millar just plays Turland right
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in there. Turlin out maneuvers what felt
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like 3 athletic defenders and it's a great shot to score one
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NIL United 2 minutes in the match and let me tell you, I was
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not amused. Yeah, but play plays Turlin in
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there. A little bit of an
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understatement. I mean, Mallard hit.
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I mean, you don't really, you don't often see the hesi, but
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definitely hit The hesi just goes like, Oh my God, no, I'm
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not going to. Oh yes, I did.
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It's a really cool, really cool rhythmic moment from a good from
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a great player. And yeah, man, like thinking
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about that, that Boris A giveaway it, it made me think of
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a couple things. One, we talked about Arsenal
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earlier in the week and just kind of like how much respect
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they showed Louvin. You know, it's like, let's not
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give him let's not give him any. You know, like if we just play
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this straight up, we should go in the half up one nil, 2 nil,
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three nil, something super duper positive.
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I'd let he didn't take that, didn't take that that attack
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loosey goosey from the jump and Millar makes them pay.
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And Turlin, you know, we we talked about that too in the
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preview, like those those those front attacking players also
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mentioned, you know, Freeland and Rafael.
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We didn't talk about Alan Wangerheim, who played really
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well in this one. But and Leia Schuler was the
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other player that I mentioned. But getting the the chemistry
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right, which they're still there still seems to be some time.
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You know, you mentioned like one and three quarter levels maybe
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ahead of athletic. It also feels like maybe there's
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a still some room for growth for United because they they they
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added some players who are playing well, but it doesn't
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seem like the, the, the cohesion is fully, fully all the way
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there. So it does feel like maybe
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they're there's still a little bit extra room to grow maybe for
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this team. Yeah, no doubt.
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Schuler didn't even appear in this match, like so you know,
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they got to get her more online. Yeah, they've they've just made
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a lot of good moves with their roster in the last couple
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windows. You know, Leanne talked about
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all the turnover. Like obviously Mary Irps leaves,
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Alessia Russo leaves a few a couple years back, like it
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looked like they were going to hit a a real downswing.
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And you know, maybe they did for a little bit, like they take a
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little step back. But like there, there appears to
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be on the women's side of the, of this club, some semblance of
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a plan that actually seems to be a good plan.
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And the, and the players that they're accumulating and the way
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they're playing. And I just felt like even when
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Atleti started to kind of grow into the game more and play some
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of that more possessive style that we had talked about in the
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preview, Manchester United was ready for that too.
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Like you could tell that they would have gone into the game to
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your point about like taking your opponent seriously.
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Like United very clearly thought they were better, but they
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needed to stick to some defensive principles because
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they knew they could they could be had if they if they let off
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the gas and they just didn't. Yeah, I think special shout out
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to obviously man of the TCA is is you know, going to be great
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play, play a specific brand of ball.
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I thought Dominique Jansen, who who's kind of had some, you
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know, some some less than great moments, I'll say, you know,
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decision making wise, you know, just in some spots here and
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there. I don't want to say has let them
21:58
down, but has missed the mark. I thought was awesome in this
22:01
game. You can see her IQ shine in a in
22:03
a big way. And then Jade Rivier, who was
22:06
just not afraid of anything wanted all of it going into
22:10
everybody super twitchy can kind of like you know, is happy to.
22:16
I, I love players that, you know, it's not just, OK, Ball's
22:19
coming to me, let me move it along.
22:21
It's like, ball's coming to me. What are my options here?
22:24
You know, because she'll take it and just dart and then not dart
22:28
like, you know, just because there's space, she'll dart
22:30
knowing that I'm going to, you know, like almost like Isaiah
22:32
Thomas, I'm going to step into the lane here and I'm just going
22:36
to free up a bunch of space for, you know, whoever's out here on
22:39
the wing or back into the middle.
22:42
I really, really like what they were doing.
22:44
And then Ziggy Otiomo and and out of Miyazawa again, like
22:50
those two midfielders just to being able to initiate like they
22:54
they've really got it's they're they're a tough team.
22:57
They're a tough offensive team to play.
22:58
Once they've got the ball, if they have a couple seconds to
23:01
look up and make some decisions, they can really put you on your
23:04
heels. A. 100% and if it's not Miyazawa
23:07
or Ziggyati on the ball, oh, here's here's your break in the
23:10
midfield. Jess Park has the ball, so it's
23:13
just like, and then they're and then they're going to cycle in
23:16
Schuler like we talked about like and you know, and, and
23:20
we've, I, I mentioned her before, you know, playing in
23:24
Turland and you rightly said she did more than that.
23:27
Another Melvin Millar match, 2 assists, one goal.
23:32
It's completely unbeatable out there at times.
23:36
You know, the move she made to open up the space to score her
23:40
goal, Really unfortunate to see Loris go down with the injury
23:44
there. And you know, we, I don't want
23:47
to make light of the injury or anything, but it's just like she
23:50
put a move on her to where she, you know, Loris has to has to
23:56
make the big step to try to get over there.
23:58
And I'm pretty sure she got injured trying, just trying to
24:01
keep up with that move by Millar.
24:05
Yeah, I mean, you you obviously you hate to to see that that
24:08
kind of injury and you know, the tournament to kind of end and
24:11
not kind of space, but the move was filthy and then the the the
24:16
the touch and the finish was just ice cold.
24:19
It's just that's some serious serial killer shit from Alart.
24:22
And then before you know, her goal, her, I'm sorry, maybe I'm
24:29
not sure if this was before the final goal, but that she had she
24:33
put a move where it was just like she skated past the
24:36
defender, like up the left. I think it was like in the 80s.
24:39
And I'm like, how does she have this much energy to and kind of
24:43
creativity was like, oh, I'm going to run at you right now
24:45
and you're there. I'm I shouldn't be able to get
24:47
by, but I'm going to get by. Did like a little, you know,
24:50
kind of like inside out, skipped over the top and I was just
24:53
like, what a freaking play. She's having a like an amazing
24:56
match today. Yeah, 25 years old.
24:59
She looks like she's going to rapidly ascend up on like the
25:05
the bet. Certainly the best attackers in
25:06
the WSL. You want to see how she looks
25:08
for France? I think she'll she'll rock it up
25:11
the rankings as one of the best wingers in the world.
25:14
Yeah, and I think, you know, came to United obviously from
25:19
Lyon and there was a little bit of like, oh, OK, this player
25:21
didn't really, you know, like we've seen that story a bunch of
25:25
times. You know, you go from like sort
25:27
of like this pinnacle club to like a, you know, club next
25:30
level down. And a lot of times that's that's
25:33
a stop along the way to, you know, out, you know, they're in
25:36
the wrong direction. But to see Millar like land here
25:39
and just be like, you know, now, I mean, United's building stuff
25:43
around Millar, what she could do.
25:46
It's it's really, really excellent to see.
25:48
I mean, they had an awesome game.
25:50
Yeah, and it on the Atlantic side that first half was not
25:55
enjoyable. They, you know, they, like I
25:57
said, they started to grow into the game a little bit.
25:59
Manchester United was able to to handle it, but Jensen and
26:03
Sariegi just didn't give Atleti anything in the first half.
26:08
They each had one touch in the attacking 18 in that first 45
26:14
minutes and Bartel Fiamma and Bola Risa had 0 touches in the
26:20
attacking 18 in that first half. And it it pretty quickly dawned
26:24
on me that if they're not going to get Fiama into dangerous
26:30
areas or if she's not going to be able to get the ball in any
26:33
kind of like real space, then there are.
26:35
Then they were pretty much drawing dead from that point on.
26:40
Yeah, and you know, the other thing we talked about a lot is
26:42
calibration, you know, so Fiama is one thing, Fiama only, not
26:45
just three shots, only one other player on the side, Rosa, What?
26:49
I mean, had two shots, yeah. And then you have seven players
26:53
each with one shot. Kind of tough to, you know, to
26:57
to like is it get get into any kind of rhythm, you know, to
27:00
start to chip away at at A at a smart defense like United.
27:05
It just kind of was not at let these day.
27:07
To their credit, you know, again, last 2025 minutes, he
27:11
started to put some stuff together and they had a couple
27:14
close calls. It was a dribbler that they came
27:16
close. PTJ called into action a couple
27:19
times down the stretch, but once you start to see like one or two
27:24
get parried away to the all canal, now it's definitely it's
27:27
definitely, definitely not the day and they're they're
27:30
absolutely looking uphill having to play the second leg in
27:33
Manchester. Yeah, PTJ had AI, it looked
27:38
like. And now the commentator Jonathan
27:42
Pierce, who I believe is a fairly legendary commentator.
27:48
Have you ever seen, quick sidebar, have you ever seen the
27:50
video of Eric Cantona, the dude who played for Manchester
27:54
United, where he jumps into the front row in a match and kicks a
27:57
fan who was apparently like yelling racial slurs at players
28:01
on the field? This happened in 1995.
28:05
Jonathan Pierce was on the call for that match.
28:08
And it's like, it's like a, it's like a crazy thing.
28:11
Anyway, I digress, but Jonathan Pierce, I think he's, he's done
28:14
a wonderful job calling multiple of these Women's Champions
28:17
League matches this year. But he had pointed out even he
28:21
was having a hard time determining on that Bola Risa
28:25
free kick in the second-half if PTJ got a glove on it before it
28:29
hits the underside of the bar. I think from like the third or
28:33
fourth angle that they showed, I think Pierce was like maybe she,
28:37
I think she did get a touch on it.
28:38
It looked like she maybe grazed her fingertips to to get it off
28:42
the bar. Yeah, yeah, I think she did get,
28:45
I think she did get a touch on it.
28:47
It definitely looked like it on that last angle.
28:49
But I'm glad you bring bring up Pierce.
28:52
I just meant he used the the phrase sticky wickets at one
28:55
point. I'm like that.
28:55
Let's go to my notes. Oh yeah, dude, it's awesome.
28:58
And then and then he just kind of went off on a tangent about
29:02
the rain on the plane in Spain. And he was just like.
29:04
Yeah, I was. Like, I mean, stay at the stove,
29:11
Pierce. I mean, do you think crank it
29:13
up? Yeah, got yeah, he hit, he hit
29:16
us, he hit us with like 4 rhyming words and then waited
29:21
like another bar. And then it had one more rhyme
29:24
at the end and I was just like, OK, that was on purpose.
29:26
Nicely done. Yeah, so, you know, he's he's a
29:28
pro's pro, great voice, you know, for the call and yeah,
29:34
sneaky, sneaky favorite to be my favorite commentator of this
29:41
tournament. Interesting.
29:44
I mean that that's always like the actual tournament within the
29:48
tournament for for those in the know, like you know who we've
29:51
got power ranked highest. We're not going to go into the
29:57
the Paramount versus Disney ESPN situation that we're we're we're
30:01
saddled with here in these United States of America, one of
30:05
the one of the few problems that that we're sorting through over
30:07
here, but. Can I just say in the CBS
30:11
commercial, so I've the both games were broadcast on CBS
30:15
Sports Network, so I was watching them on YouTube TVI
30:17
didn't have to go over to Paramount to watch.
30:19
So I thought that was cool. In the promo, our guy friend of
30:24
the show, multiple time into the channel, guest Chris Sharples
30:29
written in the stars, his voice in the promo.
30:31
And I'm just like, hey CBS, what are we doing?
30:35
He got my guy's voice on there. I haven't heard him call a
30:38
single one of these matches yet. Where are we at?
30:40
I don't know. I mean, what are we?
30:42
I'm not sure what we're doing. I hope they cleared that.
30:45
I hope, I hope our guy's getting, you know, I hope
30:48
everything's getting squared away.
30:49
Couple checks. Back in his way.
30:51
Yeah, let's go. Oh my goodness, yeah.
30:54
Shout out to Sharples, our guy for sure.
30:56
Always. Anything else from the from this
30:59
one that we should? I mean, it, it it seems like
31:03
United's going to cruise. I do want to do a thing here
31:05
real quick. Let's let's assume that United
31:08
advances they will get Oh my God, did I lose this?
31:13
I did. They're going to get buying,
31:15
right? I believe that is true.
31:21
Yeah, because I think UV is going to get Lyon or something
31:26
to get Chelsea. Double check.
31:29
Any Check, check check check sticky wickets?
31:34
So yeah, they'll get. You guys going to get Lyon?
31:37
I mean United, Bayern, that's that's action, that's that's
31:46
going to be interesting. And UVA Lyon, I mean, obviously
31:51
they had to draw. I mean you've is drawing super
31:55
sure. I mean Leon would really have to
31:57
kind of underperform that wouldn't that would the first
31:59
match of that one could be could be fun.
32:02
But I think if we're really thinking about which of these
32:04
underdogs could advance, I think United and Bayern, United's got
32:09
more than a bunch of chance. I would I would say versus
32:10
Bayern. I think that's fair.
32:15
Yeah. What?
32:15
And so Leon, they mashed Wolfsburg in the league phase.
32:20
Do I remember that correctly? I feel like that's a thing that.
32:23
Yeah, it was like 5-2 or five one or.
32:26
Yeah. So 3:00 to 3:00 to 1 Leon, but I
32:34
think. That was the one where I think
32:36
Wolfsburg managed like one shot or two shots.
32:39
It was, it was something really pathetic.
32:40
It was not competitive. 31 doesn't even really do it
32:44
justice, if I if I remember correctly.
32:45
I think you're right on that. Yeah.
32:48
So I think I think United has a there won't be a gigantic
32:53
underdog versus Bayern. So, you know, just two, just two
32:57
plucky little clubs. Manchester United versus Bayern
33:00
Munich playing a game of football.
33:03
Let's let's hope they can sort it out in time, right?
33:05
Well, next week's action should be exciting.
33:08
Wednesday and the early slot. Real Madrid for Sparrier seat
33:11
and the late slot on Wednesday. Arsenal for Zoech live in early
33:14
on Thursday UV versus Wolfsburg and then to close things out
33:18
Thursday, February 19th, 12:00 PM Pacific, Manchester United
33:22
versus. At Letito Madrid.
33:27
We're going to be going. We're we're on for live shows
33:30
next week. Apologies.
33:31
We hit the button to go live earlier this week.
33:35
We didn't actually go live. We recorded a show unedited and
33:38
been published it so sort of live.
33:41
But we didn't actually do the do the thing thing.
33:43
We didn't do the thing that you were asking Real Madrid to go
33:46
out and do. All I ask is for people to do
33:48
the thing and we we failed to do it.
33:51
Shout out to our guy A Boy named Blue on YouTube who left a
33:54
comment on the unpublished. Was that?
33:57
Carlo. Oh, was it Carlo or Blue?
34:02
Oh boy, getting my Chelsea. Mixed up now I'm up in the air.
34:06
All right, well. Shout out to both.
34:07
They're both. I mean, they're, they're both
34:08
legends. I mean, what are we talking
34:10
about here? But yeah, who just left a
34:13
comment, Hey, is this my free one way?
34:15
I was like, is this happening or is anybody else here or
34:18
something like that? Yeah, we just don't know how to
34:20
do technology sometimes. Picture poor Carla or Blue, I'm
34:24
not sure. Just an empty room.
34:25
Looking around. I was like, is anyone else here?
34:28
Am I at the right place? So apologies.
34:30
Apologies. It's it's us, not you.
34:32
Yeah, we couldn't figure it out. But I I can assure you will get
34:35
things sorted before the Champions League returns.
34:37
Yeah, we left you hanging, pal. That, that's our bad.
34:40
We're, you know, we're still sorting things out.
34:43
So we'll, we'll, we'll give the live shows a go this coming week
34:48
and we'll make it happen. Yeah, in the live arena you
34:52
could say we're still debutantes.
34:55
I think so. I mean pretty close.
34:57
Yeah, yeah. We've only, we've done a
35:00
handful. That's all right.
35:03
Anything else you want to do before we get out here?
35:04
I think that's it, my good man. That's that's a good start.
35:08
But as every commentator or as many commentators always say,
35:13
it's only halftime. They got another 90 to go for
35:16
all these clubs. Can't wait.
35:19
Let's let's get through this stage, let's dust ourselves off
35:23
for the quarterfinals and make sure that we're ready.
35:26
Next week's going to be a, a very fun week of shows.
35:28
I, I want to squeeze something in Maybe this weekend.
35:31
There's been a lot of NWSL news. Like I mentioned, I was up AF CS
35:34
media day. There's going to some of these
35:37
teams are going to be in action as mentioned too on Sunday, two
35:40
of our, our teams that we talked about today will be in action.
35:43
So it might be worth, I don't know, just just dropping in, you
35:47
know, dipping our little toe and see, see what, see what the
35:49
water's like, see what the temperature, do a little
35:51
temperature check before these teams and kind of roll back out
35:54
next week. But either way, 2 live shows
35:57
coming your way next week. So definitely, definitely keep
35:59
it locked. Absolutely, we'll be there.
36:03
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