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🇧🇷 BRAZIL Defeats USWNT 2-1 🇺🇸 LIVE RECAP with Bridie O'Toole, Busy Watching Women's Soccer · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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OK, welcome to Into the Channel podcast primarily by 1 Subba.
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I'm your host Demon Suspidas and we are joined by a very special
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guest today, but we're also joined by my Co host, Mr. Grant
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Angle. What's up, man?
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I'm feeling all right, buddy. Despite multiple footballing
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results today, I'm hanging in there, but I, I, you know what,
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I'm actually going to upgrade. I'm feeling fantastic because we
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have one of the absolute best in the game.
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Joining us today for this very special recap of USWNT versus
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Brazil. She is the host, founder, editor
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and chief chief executive officer of busy watching women's
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soccer. The one and only.
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It is very it is my honor and privilege to welcome to the
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Program Radio Tool. Thank you for having me back.
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Of course, thanks for being here.
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Welcome to the show, Chief Busy Officer.
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Let's go. Truly, I'm our accountant too,
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actually. Nice, it's.
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Like a 10 like A10 tool player. So obviously surprising result.
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We we could just kind of get started there.
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Brazil, 2US, WN T1 didn't have our big guns out there, but
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brightly, I want to go to you first.
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What, what do you? What's the first thing that that
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you're going to take away from this one, actually?
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My bed. We this is this is a terrible
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oversight on my terrible, terrible oversight.
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I realize I'm parched. We're halfway through.
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We're supposed to go live. We didn't go live.
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Apologies for that. Thankfully, it's it's it's an
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ungodly 107 AM on the East Coast here.
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So chances are you're probably not going to stay up for we're
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not going to stay up for live anyway.
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Either way, it'll be on your feet tomorrow.
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But before we, I don't know, before we move forward, Grant,
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can you help me out here on the on the festivities?
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I think it's time to crack some delicious beverages.
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Brighty partaking with us as well.
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She gets the show. Sounds fantastic.
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Look at that. That was in surround sound.
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Cheers to both of you. OK, I'll, I'll piggyback then.
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All right, Brady, first thing, you've had some time to think
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about it. You've had a sip of thinking
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juice. What do you think?
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First thing that comes to mind when you think of this football
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match. First time in the second-half
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were very different and I know it's probably down to the
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lineup, but it just felt like two different matches and I just
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kind of felt neutered in that. Second-half was a lot less
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potent. Yeah.
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I mean, it was absolutely. I mean just set me up right away
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for the sports cliche. A tale of two halves if you
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will. One of my favorite sayings.
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I mean you know, they come out and score in the in the 1st 34
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seconds, allowing me for another cliche.
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As you might imagine, I was standing up in my living room
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just repeating look at the wheels, look at the wheels, look
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at the wheels as Alyssa Thompson is sprinting up field.
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What? What was, I mean you talk about
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the line up, but why? Why was the attack like so?
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Why did it look so different in the first half compared to the
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second-half you think? In the first half, I was seeing
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a ton of space between the D and the forward line, and they're
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just getting the ball up incredibly fast.
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I mean, we can't understate the importance of Alyssa Thompson.
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I think the one thing that stood out most to me is who does she
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not have chemistry with? She was working really well with
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Hutton. She was working really well with
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Macario. She just makes everyone around
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her look better. And I think it was one of those
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changes it's, you know, noticeable quickly.
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That's a great. I'm total agreement with that.
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I've got, I think Alyssa Thompson very fast approaching.
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I mean, I think she's in the Sharpie zone for me in terms of
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like definitely for the roster. She's got to be there.
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And with Sophie Wilson, you know, sidelined, I think that's
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her spot now to lose. I mean, she's just such an
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electric player. And you know, you mentioned
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Brady, Claire Hutton, Macario in terms of the chemistry with
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Alyssa Thompson. I think Michelle Cooper on the
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other side is like the perfect counterweight because she just
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has so much gravity. She's just like kind of
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dominates the real estate out there.
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Like she really, you know, it's going to keep you on your heels
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as a defender. She's so strong, she's so fast
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and she's, I mean, she's got great skills.
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So it's kind of like the perfect, you know, counterpart
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for Alyssa Thompson on the other side, who can go anywhere, do
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anything, and has now unlocked scoring and facilitating.
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That's a good point about the balance, I think, especially
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because we're seeing Alyssa invert more and we're seeing
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Cooper do more of that traditional winger roll of
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serving the ball in. So that that balance at Harmony,
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I think, yeah, it's been working so good.
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I like the counterbalance too in terms and and Cooper is quick,
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don't get me wrong, but there were just multiple moments there
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where Cooper's physicality and she's just out there bullying
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defenders, just running them over.
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I think there there was a great moment in the first half where I
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want to say it would, it might have been Lauren who made before
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she was subbed off in the 36th minute.
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We'll talk about that. But I think it might have been
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Lauren who made a good defensive play and starts to move the ball
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up and Cooper just tackles her just because don't do that to me
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was essentially kind of what I thought Cooper was the message
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Cooper was sending there. And so when you have Macario and
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Cooper out there and I, I have in my notes, at one point it
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just looked like Macario looked like a combination of young
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Shaquille O'Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon.
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Where she with her hold up play is just, I'm going to back up
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into you and there's nothing you're going to be able to do to
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get around because I'm way stronger than you and my
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positioning is good. And then she takes the ball and
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she's going to beat you with her size, strength and intelligence.
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And then when you also have to account for Thompson zipping
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around out there making good passes, it's just the defense
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has to make a lot of decisions in a short amount of time.
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Yeah, for sure. And actually it's a really good
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technical point on the defending is you have to defend Thompson
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so differently to how you defend Macario.
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And the second that you interchange after you've been
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working one for 30 minutes, that's difficult to deal with.
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No doubt. What did you guys see from
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Macario? Because I think, I think this
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has been maybe her most active game in a while.
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You know, I thought, I thought she created a bunch of chances
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for herself, putting a lot of pressure on that Brazilian
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defense. I mean, to see Brazil in that
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back three, you know what, when they went back three last match,
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I was like, OK, that, that's that, that's a move.
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And now to go back three without Tarziani, I was like, OK, that's
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the, that's the, that's a good like 2 1/2 moves there.
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But I thought even still, Macario just made Brazil feel
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her presence pretty much the entire first half brightly.
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What did you see anything specifically that Macario kind
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of maybe introduced in this one that that kind of got you
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excited? I think managing the pace is
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difficult because you know, you have to manage her when she's at
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standstill, you have to manage her when she's running.
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And she does both of those things pretty well.
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The timing of the balls, I think just needs like a tiny, tiny bit
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of work. But a lot of them were still
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workable to the point where you know they're creating good
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chances. I think she's threatening, she's
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quick, she's quick decision maker.
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It's difficult to guard. For sure.
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And it, it just feels like and you know, we, we, we got robbed
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of those and and she got robbed of, of those like nearly two
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years after that devastating injury.
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It really feel like she played the full 90 against West Ham in
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that draw for Chelsea on March 30th.
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It just it does feel like we're getting back to full fitness,
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full form, like they just it felt like even a couple months
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ago when you know, I'm just going to I'm going to read some
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of these. Like she played the two the two
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matches against Celtic in the Champions League.
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She played 32 minutes and then 45 minutes.
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She played 35 minutes against United, 45 against Brighton, 61
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verse 20. Like it they, they were being
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really careful with her and for good reason.
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It just feels like if we, if I had to put a number on it.
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This is very scientific for me. I'm going to use my advanced
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medical degree from YouTube. I want to say she's at like 88
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1/2% back. Where is that?
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Is that too high, too low? Where do you think we're at?
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I might go a little bit higher. I think some of what I'm seeing
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is not necessarily a her issue. It's like a cohesion issue.
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She looks strong. She looks, you know, willing to
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get into difficult situation. She looks willing to run.
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I'm not seeing a lot of hesitancy in her play at all.
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Yeah. Yeah, I definitely agree with
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that. Probably the best in, in my
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opinion, probably the best she's looked physically, not
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necessarily impact on the match necessarily, but I don't know,
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she looked, she looked pretty much close to all the way back.
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Bradley, you alluded to a big difference between the first
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half and the second-half. Totally agree with you there.
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I think Brazil kind of dominated the second-half and just to kind
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of get on get on our guy Luke Wildman here.
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He had a quote late where he's like second-half hasn't lived up
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to the excitement of the first half or something of the sort.
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And I was like, well, not if you're watching Brazil, it's
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like they were, they were peppering shots and like
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Catalina and Angelina, they were doing a bunch of interesting
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stuff. Gio as well.
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I I thought they put a lot of pressure on that US defense and
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we're kind of like coming in from from different angles.
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What Brady, what, what do you think the biggest difference
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between the 1st and the second-half?
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Obviously we saw results wise the outcomes, how different
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those were, but what do you think was that play there?
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To me, I think the first half Brazil were were getting down
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the wings really quickly. They were able to move the ball
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to the wings, move through the wings really quickly.
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I don't think that necessarily changed in the second-half.
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I think that was still there, but I think the middle of the
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pitch opened up too. So I think it just became, I
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think they started playing balls in a little bit earlier and
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maybe relying on the cross a little bit less.
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It I I liked Luani's minutes. As soon as she came on, she.
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Was good. Brighty, can you tell me what
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what ran through your mind when Arthur Elias makes 2
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substitutions in the 36th minute?
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Well, what? What are you thinking at that
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point as a tactical evaluator of these matches?
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I wrote down on my notes. I feel very bad for writing this
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down, but coach must have very little faith in you if he's
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willing to make changes 3036 minutes in when you're tired and
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you scored. That's crazy.
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I mean, that was that was very bizarre.
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I mean you obviously, I think anybody watches football knows
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you rarely, rarely see that. I got to think it it was largely
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and we I mean we've obviously already talked about her, but
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they were just getting flam bayed by Alyssa Thompson and I
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think that he just realized like I got to make a change here
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because the other the next goal is coming soon if I don't.
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Yeah, I mean, it wasn't all long.
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I, I was going to I'm going to go the other way real quick.
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I like the quick substitutions, especially in a match like this.
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It's like, all right, well, we lost the first one.
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It's not quite like let's save face, but it's like, let's let's
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make sure we don't get beat with something basic over and over.
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And then now it's 3 nothing or three one or four one before I
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make a change. So I kind of like it a little
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bit counter counterintuitive. It kind of reminds me of
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baseball when they started trotting out.
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I don't watch baseball, but I from what I've heard, they they,
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they start pictures like two or three innings nowadays, the
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whole thing. I think that's the thing.
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Yeah, I agree. I mean, I think it was.
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I think it, I mean, I think it bared out.
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It was the right move. It's just so rare to see,
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especially a double substitution, no injuries
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involved. I mean, you know, a A gutsy move
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by Elias, to say the least. Tournament time, that's what you
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would have wanted to see, right? So right decision at the end of
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the day. You know, it's funny you
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mentioned tournament time in my notes.
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I'm like, OK, you know, and and I felt a little bit of this
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watching the first match up. Brazil's pretty close to the USI
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think. And I think on on Brazil's best
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day, like if they play at their best, even like their first
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team, our first team, I think Brazil could beat the US in a
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tournament on their best day. Like I think they're they're
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kind of at that level. I do appreciate though, on the
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other side, Emma Hayes and her openness to like competition,
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like we're getting a lot of players coming through the
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system and and getting minutes, a lot of different combinations
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that the downside is we don't really get to develop some
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chemistry. I had also my notes in the
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midfield. There didn't seem to be very
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much chemistry at all between Johannes Corbin, Albert and
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Claire Hutton. Like I think you Brighty, you
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mentioned this earlier, it was like if a midfielder had it,
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they were looking at field and it was kind of 1 pass.
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There wasn't really a lot of, you know, possession or chance
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to kind of build up any kind of rhythm there.
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Yeah, and it's funny, I would say I kind of felt like Hutton,
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Albert, Johannes individually had good games.
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I just don't think they were combining well, which is kind of
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odd. I'm not even sure if it's really
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possible, but I guess it is. Is there anything to I was
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wondering about this because I thought Johannes played pretty
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well. I mean, she she she played
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throughout the first half and was subbed at halftime.
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She had some giveaways early that I thought were not sloppy,
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but just like uncharacteristic. And but then she also had some
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great passes. Like she had one where she
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played Cooper way out into just miles of open space.
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She had, she had the like a smart look where she played
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Thompson a little wider and then it allowed Thompson to kind of
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go out there and cook the defender and get the ball into
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the middle. Is there any, is there anything
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to And I thought Hutton had some of the same where she had, she
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looked good in some spots and then she looked, you know, young
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or maybe inexperienced in some spots.
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Is that just going to happen when you are 17 and 19 years old
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and it's a team's second look at you in four days?
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It feels like that that might have something to do with kind
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of like the up and down nature of the match for those two.
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Yeah, absolutely. I think then, like Brazil,
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having a look at Lily definitely helps them get a better read on
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her film helps with that too. But I think especially if you're
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seeing some sort of weakness between those three and you're
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seeing them not gel, you can kind of sniff that out and start
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applying pressure to them individually.
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When you're seeing that, you know, there's a bit of a
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disconnect or maybe the spacing isn't right between them.
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Any sort of weakness. It's quick, quick to pounce on.
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What do you, what do you guys? I mean, like we've talked about
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this a lot that those attacking 4, you know, I feel like it's
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always a new combination. It, it, I think we walk away
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from each of these matches with some, some positives, some
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negatives, but somehow like more questions than we had.
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I, I feel like we're, we're sort of like just fumbling around
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with the lights off trying to figure out, OK, what, what's the
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right combination here? Did we learn?
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I mean, this is for both you guys.
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Did did we learn anything this evening with regard to, I mean,
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I I'm already out here with my Alyssa Thompson take, but are we
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any closer to figuring out what that front 4 should look like?
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I feel like I am in my heart, not like closer to figuring out
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what Emma Hayes wants, but I've, I've decided what I love
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watching. I mean, Alyssa Thompson has to
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be there. I'm I'm right with you with the
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Sharpie like permanent mark or whatever it takes, get it done.
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OK, so now let's. Let's see if we're.
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Yeah, that that's what I was going to say.
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And we're and we're living in a world right now where Mel
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Swanson and Sophie Wilson are not available.
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So. So who are the four?
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I love what I've seen from Macario.
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My one concern there would be I don't think anybody else can
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step in and do that role in exactly the same manner.
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And I think we have a little bit better like, like for like
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positional depth at the other positions.
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I heard what you said on Robin that last last episode, you did
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the same thing. You can't take away those
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defensive actions. It's too risky.
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So it's, it's really just Macario for me up there right
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now. Robin on the right, the 10.
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I just don't know. I could be ready to move on to
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Lily. I'm just not committed yet.
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That's I, I think that's one of the biggest one up in the air
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for me. I love it.
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OK, that's that's good. That's a good take.
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I like it. I mean, you know, Johannes is
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passing. You know her her ability to kind
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of like look up. She had a moment too, where she
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collected the ball like right outside of the attacking 18 and
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did one of those moves where like she pulled it into herself,
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but then immediately passed it back out to a runner.
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I I just that's like the kind of football that I love watching so
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much. Like she's such a genius out
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there at that 17 years old. I could see I could see why she
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why Emma Hayes wants to give her some run at the number 10.
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I think I still lean toward her being like a Rogery like figure
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as kind of like a a number six who can get up into the attack
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sometimes. But I I like where your head's
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at. Dino, do you want to do you want
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to give your four in this Mallory Swanson, Sophie Wilson
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less world that we live in. Yeah, I mean, I feel like I I
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think I agree. I think I agree with Brady.
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I think it's Alyssa Thompson, Trini, Rodman Macario at the
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9:00 almost by default. And I think I would also put
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Lily at the 10. What was cool about Lily tonight
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was like, I think the crowd, smart, smart football crowd
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tonight because I think they they were kind of oohing and
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awning. And you can hear the buzz like
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whenever she did get the ball and it was runners or movement
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and they're like, oh, what's going to happen?
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You can feel. And I'm just like, OK, here we
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go. Like definitely having a, you
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know, a also cultural moment in that building.
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So that was, that was exciting to see.
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But yeah, I think I'd put, I'd put Lily at 10 and I, I think
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I'd feel pretty kind of like, I feel like Lily in a, in a, in a
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small, not a smaller space, but at a more advanced position, you
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know, with, with those athletes. I think I was shocked to, not
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really shocked to learn, but the, the, the the moment on the
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telecast where they talked about Alyssa Townsend's track
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background, like it all kind of made sense for me at that
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moment. I'm like, oh, OK, yeah, that
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makes a ton of sense. She's so fast and she's so fluid
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and she's also kind of like slippery.
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She has that slippery attribute where it's just like you could
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be right there close to her and you just can't physically do
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anything. She's just going to slide past
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you. So I think those would
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definitely be my 4. OK, important sports cliche
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difference between slippery and shifty, 2 very different things.
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Just want to get that, just want to get that on the record.
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OK, I'm going to go. I still, I still like Macario at
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the tent. I like the way she plays at
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Chelsea. So I think I'm going to I'm
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going to put Macario at the 10:00 and then in this world
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that we're living in, Gimme Thompson on the left and I I
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still you know, she she wasn't a world beater today.
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She had a couple weird moments, especially near near the death.
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Give me sent Nora at the 9:00 because I just I was so
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impressed with the she believes cup was talking to our pal GOOG
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about it on on blue sky. I think sent Nora still has
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shown a little more even than Thompson, but like overall.
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So give me Thompson on the left. Sent Nora at the 9:00 and then
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Rodman. On the right wing with Macario
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kind of as your distributor. Hold up player at #10.
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Quick follow up there, Sentinor having shown more than Thompson,
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I, I'd be curious on Brady's take on that because I, I think
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I, I think I'm on the other side of that.
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I think at this point we've seen Thompson like really cook and
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it, it almost doesn't matter, you know, I'm not sure.
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I think Brady mentioned this point that almost doesn't matter
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who else is out there. She's facilitating, she's
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creating and she's making other players better.
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That's an interesting one. I, I think I would say we've,
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we've seen more from Alyssa, but it's been, it's been one note
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done better. We've seen seminar on the right
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wing, we've seen her on the left wing.
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We saw her at the 10 last match. I think she's looked best on the
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left wing. 10 was a little funky last time out, not perfect, but
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not terrible, kind of good starting point and the right
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wing I think was her first match.
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So you know, kind of a bit of a write off.
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So she's been asked to do more. I think her when she's getting
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those shots off and when she's, you know, able to play off those
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through balls, she's looking really good.
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It's just some of the sort of like I guess well roundedness,
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not not fully seeing yet. I.
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Think that makes. I think that makes sense.
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I want to talk about the defense real quick.
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You know, so great. Obviously the US kind of leaks
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that one goal at a somewhat comical fashion where Mickey Ode
21:58
and Giselle Thompson and I'm I think I'm blanking the I'm the
22:01
third player. My wasn't Sonnet Hutton.
22:05
They all bump kind of bump into each other.
22:07
It it ends in a in in just a great Caroline finish, a little
22:12
bit of a dazzler. And then obviously the US gives
22:16
up the the late 1 after I would say like a pretty sloppy last
22:22
10-15 minutes. A lot of shots from distance, a
22:24
lot of kind of like, you know, it's sort of like an LA Fitness
22:27
where people start just shooting hook shots because everybody's
22:30
tired and just like everybody's kind of collectively implicitly
22:32
decided this is the last game. Everybody's going to hold on
22:34
after this kind of had a little bit of that feel to it.
22:36
So I wasn't surprised to see Brazil kind of capitalize on
22:39
that. But defensively, I don't know.
22:43
How do we feel about the EU s s performance today?
22:47
I I thought Avery Patterson played pretty well.
22:51
I thought she handled herself really well.
22:53
She makes it nearly 70 minutes in the match and then gets that
22:57
wicked Shiner when she takes the ball off the off the right eye.
23:01
I mean, you could tell from jump that thing started swelling
23:05
immediately. So hopefully she's she's all
23:07
right, has a has a quick recovery there.
23:10
I thought she handled herself pretty well.
23:12
There were multiple situations where I I think it's the
23:15
elephant in the room that we should probably address.
23:18
Mandy McGlynn was making some questionable decisions back
23:22
there. And you know, you think about
23:26
like the build up play and Emma Hayes comments about Fallon,
23:31
Tellus, Joyce needing to get better at kind of playing with
23:36
the ball at her feet and building up from the back.
23:39
Brazil just wasn't going to allow them to do that.
23:42
And she kept making these passes.
23:44
And while she wasn't doing Sonnet, Mickey owner Hutton any
23:48
favors, they were just having a hard time dealing with it
23:51
themselves. So I thought it was it was up
23:54
and down from the defense as well.
23:56
It's one that really kind of made me rethink my perspective
23:59
on the last match because, you know, I look at everything
24:02
Tallest Joyce did and I'm saying, well, you know, did she
24:04
have opportunity she wasn't taking?
24:07
I couldn't really see them. I think that's more of a
24:08
reflection of me and my analysis and where I'm at.
24:11
But look at today and I'm like, I don't, I don't know what she
24:15
could have fixed. I don't know where the good
24:17
opportunities to play short are. Yeah.
24:21
Yeah, definitely kind of stall. Yes, decision making was a
24:24
little tough. The precision was a little
24:27
tough. And yeah, I think it in a
24:30
setting where the pressure was cranked up a little bit, maybe
24:32
like a like a knockout type setting could have been
24:34
definitely disastrous. But I mean, US loses anyway.
24:39
Did you know? I mean, where do we where do we
24:42
want to see this team go from here?
24:45
Riley, I think what what was there anything missing from from
24:47
this two match stint barring injury or like are there any big
24:52
adjustments that that you think are coming or that you'd be
24:55
excited to see? I have a hard time reading what
24:59
Emma Hayes is trying to pull information wise out of the
25:02
different groups. If I if it were just me, just
25:05
based on what I'm seeing on film, two things I'd want to
25:07
work on. Sort of midfield trio connection
25:10
we talked about a little bit earlier.
25:11
Getting those three sort of faced up, body language a little
25:16
bit better, positioning a little bit better so they can support
25:18
each other. My second thing would be
25:21
coordination with the defense, which I think was incredibly
25:24
hard tonight because they changed so much.
25:25
Patterson and Giselle Thompson switching.
25:29
We have Cook coming in halfway through, so it is a lot to deal
25:32
with. Oh, and McGlynn being newer as
25:34
well. But it was just a lot of things
25:38
where you could see someone stepping and, you know, either
25:40
not saying what they're doing or somebody else not understanding
25:43
where they are needing to be in response to that.
25:45
It was just a lot of the connection points weren't right.
25:49
Yeah, on on the second goal, the difference in the match,
25:53
Obviously, I I totally agree with you with regards to the
25:56
coordination because like I think there's a loose ball, you
25:59
know, opposite field. Sam Coffee kind of takes a whack
26:01
at it. She's facing the wrong
26:03
direction. The ball pops up in the air and
26:05
now the brake is on. And then you have sonnet and
26:08
done going two different, you know, they they both kind of go
26:11
at the ball at the wrong time and they just kind of like leave
26:14
cook a little bit on an island. Who I thought played pretty
26:17
well, I think, you know, Carrot Catalene got around her pretty
26:20
easily at one point. Grant, I know you have a lot of
26:23
a lot of cook experience, but I kind of liked her her profile in
26:27
the center of the defense there. I thought.
26:29
I thought she brought some presents.
26:32
But yeah, All in all, defensively looked, you know,
26:37
not In Sync, you know, not kind of like on the same page
26:40
tactically and kind of easy to to beat.
26:44
I'd be interested to see the stats, you know, once we have we
26:46
have some access to those, especially with regards to the
26:49
second-half where it felt like Brazil had a sometimes better
26:53
than decent opportunity roughly every 5 or 6 minutes.
26:58
Yeah, I totally agree. And we've mentioned Sharpies on
27:02
this on this podcast earlier. I want to shout out our guy
27:06
Sharpie Charlie from Shades of Blue podcast, The World's the
27:10
Universe's Greatest to Manchester City Football Club
27:12
podcast. He often I've heard him say that
27:16
if you ignore injuries, you ignore the greater context
27:19
around what we're watching and things are just going to be way
27:23
different in the back line when you don't have Germa and now you
27:26
lose Davidson. And then you also you kind of
27:28
think to, to your point, brighter.
27:30
You think about the the movement around, I think Giselle Thompson
27:34
is going to be a good player. She looks she looks good in the
27:36
she believes cup. There is a a fairly substantial
27:40
drop off between Emily Fox and Giselle Thompson as well.
27:43
So, you know, I, I easy to beat is a is a good way to describe
27:48
it. You know, I think there were a
27:49
lot of moments there where, you know, they were, you know, they,
27:53
they, there was just too much space for Brazil.
27:56
I wrote in my notes when Getoline scored that goal, I
27:59
said, you if there's one thing I know, don't give Getoline 6
28:03
yards of open space inside the 18 to let her take a shot.
28:07
And and Sonnet was stuck in like a kind of an impossible
28:10
decision. I think she probably could have
28:12
ran on to her a little more, but that's easy for me to say
28:15
sitting on my couch. But yeah, I think easy to beat
28:19
is right. And Brazil, they they weren't
28:22
going to let up. They were going to, they're
28:23
going to maximize every opportunity they had in the
28:26
press. And you know, as the as the dam
28:29
started to kind of crack near the end, I thought to to
28:33
Mcglinn's credit, I don't want to act like her game was all
28:35
bad. Despite those questionable
28:37
decisions. She made a couple good saves
28:39
there near the end, but it it just ended up being too much.
28:43
And then she's totally exposed. Seemed like Brazil had a little
28:46
more gas in the tank at the end too.
28:48
And they get the winner. And then they walk away happy.
28:51
Yeah, that Caroline Gold, by the way, so gorgeous.
28:55
I think I'm going to be watching that tomorrow is just something,
28:57
something so pretty. Yeah, yeah, we.
29:01
Use more of those in Manchester. Definitely pick picturesque.
29:07
I think the one thing I'm going to be looking for, and I kind of
29:10
want to go to each of you, you know, we'll get like some final
29:13
thoughts out here on on the match and just kind of like this
29:17
this April international break window.
29:19
The thing I'm going to be looking for I think next time
29:22
around is like, who are we running the offense through?
29:26
And I think we've talked about this with Spain.
29:29
We've talked about this with different teams, you know, on
29:31
the club side as well. When you're able to do that.
29:36
I mean, like, I feel like we have players that are all really
29:37
good at it and a ton of like really B + A minus type players
29:41
that were like, OK, this is who we're going to like run the
29:43
offense through. When there's so much turnover in
29:47
the line up. That's one thing.
29:49
But then I think even when there is some consistency, the attacks
29:53
like are look very different. And now we're trying this and
29:56
now we're trying that. And I think I think it really
29:57
barred itself out late in this match where we didn't really
30:00
have anything to go to. And now it's like Claire Hutton
30:02
from 20 yards out. And I think coffee had some some
30:06
stuff that she was just trying to do.
30:07
I'm I'm blanking on somebody else that took one from from
30:10
great distance. But I was like, this is a bum.
30:12
Is this still A11 match that I feel like we'd want to win?
30:17
And it's I don't want to say it's winnable, but I think we
30:20
were able to maybe put some together that's a little bit
30:22
more potent than what we're doing.
30:25
But I kind of want to see maybe more of an offensive identity.
30:28
And I'd be curious, you know, if, if there's any kind of
30:32
alignment on that concept. I think that's a great shout.
30:37
It's not something I thought about at all, but this game
30:40
looked so transitional, or at least the opportunities they
30:43
were creating were so transitional.
30:44
You go back a few opponents and they're actually passing around
30:48
the 18 and maintaining possession and the opponents
30:50
attacking 3rd. So I, I think that's what they
30:54
want to be doing. I'm not sure if they had a
30:57
different game plan for Brazil or they just weren't able to
31:00
execute that. And then gosh, I go back to the
31:02
Olympics and they're throwing crosses into the box.
31:04
It just changes constantly. I don't think there is a clear.
31:07
This is how we plan to work the ball up in the attacking 3rd and
31:11
finish on it. Now, Brady, you have to
31:15
understand we are on a podcast with the world.
31:19
The internet's greatest Lindsay Heaps hater, Dino de Cespedes.
31:23
Maybe that's not fair. OK, hold on.
31:25
Let me back up. Sorry, buddy, let me not.
31:27
Do you like that? But I said she had a game.
31:30
Last week. I kid, I kid.
31:34
I mean, you know, we haven't mentioned her much and it's not
31:38
like things got better when she came into this match, but there
31:42
maybe there is something to be said for some of the stability
31:46
that she brings when she is, you know, the starting #10 and
31:50
brings all that experience. I, I, I couldn't help but
31:54
wonder, you know, did they were they missing something without
31:58
her on the pitch? And, and some of that, some of
32:00
that chemistry, but I also think in on the other side of my
32:03
brain, I don't think you can really play heaps And Albert at
32:07
the same time. I think there's just too much
32:09
redundancy in their game, like the way Albert kind of charges
32:13
forward. And so, yeah, I just when you
32:18
think about that chemistry, you think about what Hayes is kind
32:21
of trying to figure out, you got to figure out you got to figure
32:25
it out with the younger players. I mean, Shaw comes on at
32:28
halftime. You didn't hear her name called
32:31
that much in the second-half. Didn't didn't really do a lot.
32:34
I feel like we're still like USA is still trying to figure out
32:38
where exactly to play Shaw on a consistent basis.
32:41
So you know, it's, it's, it's the experimental phase, but it's
32:46
not a terrible problem when you know, most of the players that
32:50
you're putting on the field are really good to sometimes great
32:54
players. So you know, you're just going
32:57
to lose some matches in this climate now, like there are too
33:00
many good players around the world.
33:01
You're playing in Brazil, they're well coached, they have
33:04
a ton of superstars. I just think, you know, I don't
33:07
think any of us are, are prone to, to panic on this podcast,
33:11
but it's just like be you got to figure out some chemistry at
33:15
some point and and you got to think that's coming in the next
33:18
like 6 months. Yeah, not a loss that I'm
33:21
worried about at all. I think you tried enough folks
33:23
out, you got to see enough things to got a ton of
33:26
information. Trust Emma Hayes is going to do
33:28
something good with that information.
33:31
Totally disagree. Rome is burning.
33:33
This is terrible. We've got to, you know, really
33:35
turn this thing inside out. No, let me just cool down.
33:39
The Brazil Fan mail. RIP, RIP this off.
33:45
All right, Bright, Brighty, thanks so much for joining us.
33:48
Anything else you want to hit before we get out of here?
33:50
No, thank you for having me. It's been a blast.
33:53
Can you let people know where to find you and all your
33:57
tremendously good work? Yeah, thank you for reminding me
34:00
to actually promote myself. You can find my work on YouTube
34:04
at Busy Watching Women's Soccer, where I cover US Women's
34:07
National Team and NWSL games and talk tactics and players.
34:12
Let's go. There we go, You would be a
34:15
fool. A fool, I say, to not watch
34:17
Brady's videos. Yeah, help me with my prep for
34:23
this one. So definitely appreciate your
34:25
great work there. So quick look ahead NWSL back
34:28
this weekend. Grant I I blue sky do about this
34:32
the ITC Darby Saturday. How did how did how did this
34:35
elude our our content calendar? That should be a fun one.
34:39
Yeah, I'm not sure how that happened.
34:41
I will. I will be in the building to
34:43
watch. Do I think Rain fans are going
34:48
to have a super good time watching this one?
34:50
I'm not so sure. Yeah, well, well, let's let's
34:53
leave that to the rain fans. You're an objective journalist
34:56
and then we're now you roll. Of course Champions League
34:58
returns Saturday, April 19th when my Arsenal host Lyon,
35:02
Sunday, April 20th when Barcelona host Chelsea will be
35:05
back to cover both of those. Grant at the top.
35:07
You mentioned multiple football results that went down today.
35:10
Now, I haven't seen the Arsenal men's match on the Champions
35:14
League side. So if, if it's any way possible
35:19
that they smashed Real Madrid today by, I don't know, three
35:23
goals to nil, don't tell, don't tell me.
35:26
I don't want it spoiled. I haven't seen it.
35:28
I mean, that would be an insane result.
35:29
There's no way that could happen.
35:31
But who knows? I'm going to sit down after this
35:33
and fire that thing up and and get get all caught up.
35:38
Yeah, that's I hope you enjoy watching that.
35:42
Awesome. Maybe goes good here before you
35:43
get out of here buddy. No, man, I think we've done it.
35:47
Yeah. If, if you are, if you think
35:49
that Rome is burning for US women's national team.
35:53
England lost 32 to Belgium today in the in Nations League play.
35:57
So you know, it it it could be worse.
36:02
You know, there's still some time, let's wait till the EUR
36:04
get here. I think they're still cruising
36:06
nations league wise. They should get through either
36:09
way. A lot of good football coming
36:10
up, but this has been another episode into the channel.
36:13
Thank you, thank you, thank you for hanging out.
36:14
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36:17
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36:39
of you. You know, USA lost tonight, but
36:42
I think I think we won as as a show as an extended show.
36:45
So Brady, you already know you're you're an extended member
36:47
of the ITCI don't know, knocking on the Hall of Fame door.
36:51
I'm not going to, you know, make any promises, but you know,
36:53
things are things are looking up.
36:55
As long as I can have the number 7 jersey, I'm happy.
36:57
Let's go. There we go.
36:59
I love that. I mean, I think in the last
37:02
show, we already named Brady into the channel's director of,
37:07
of tactics. So I mean, she's already fully
37:11
in the mix. And likewise, buddy, appreciate
37:15
you getting this together. We'll figure out the live stuff
37:17
another time. Brighty, thank you again for
37:19
rocking with us and thank you all for watching the show.
37:21
And we will see you all next time.