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OK. Welcome to Into the Channel
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podcast part mail about one supply.
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I'm your host, Dean of the suspicious and as always, I'm
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joined by my coast Mr. Grant Angle.
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What is up man? I'm feeling fantastic buddy.
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It's almost time to kick off the second leg.
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Very important second leg. Let's go.
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I mean, come on, man, we're here.
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I can. I can feel the tournament right
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around the corner. Let's just get there with the
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right teams making it to the league phase.
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So we're talking Champions League today.
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I think this is the third round, second leg for those scoring at
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home. And we've basically got it's 18
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teams fighting for 9 spots, nine teams already in, so 9 big
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matchups. We're not going to cover all
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nine. Some of them I couldn't even
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catch highlights for. We'll talk about that later.
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I mean, the the the zone sized hole in my heart is just growing
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by the day. I can't wait for for the
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coverage to kick back out. I hope they're still covering
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it. But there was one big match up,
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a monster match up. I want to talk about it and
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we'll hit we'll hit some of the other the highlights from from
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qualifying. But Mr. Grant angle lot of
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places we can start 9 to be specific.
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Where? Where do you want to get
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started? I mean, there's really only one
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place we can get started in our hearts, my good man.
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Let's start with a beverage. That's right.
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I think we're synced up there. Cheers.
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Those cheers to you, cheers to the football, but most
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importantly, cheers to Braun and the Braun Battalion getting it
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done. One nil victory over Manchester
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United Football Club. I mean, I want to say, OK,
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there's so many different places I can start.
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Obviously they get the big win. That's that's first and foremost
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the one that really knocked me on my heels.
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I'm not sure if you saw this. They opened up that that part of
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the telecast with an interview with Mark Skinner, skipper from
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Manchester United, who had this to say, quote, I still think you
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have to win both legs. I think you have to win both
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legs because that obviously guarantees you're through.
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And he goes on to say we'll be respecting our opponent, but not
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too much. End Quote.
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And I listened to both of those that I said, first of all, we
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need to win both legs. I was like, excuse me, like,
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let's try to score, kind of stay in this match because they're
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they're staring down a juggernaut that's First off.
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And then second one, we're going to respect our opponent.
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First of all, when you tell your team we're going to respect our
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opponent, that already sets the stage that there's already like
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maybe the players are looking ahead and like you should even
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have to say that that's First off.
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But then so then do the okey doke and come like pull the rug
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out from under yourself and be like, but not too much.
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It's like what Kind of like you're, you're sending 2
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messages, also sending no messages and then you went out
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there and you didn't get it done.
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Skinner. I yeah, what is this guy Yogi
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Berra over there? What kind of quotes are these?
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What are you, what are you talking about?
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You got to like, I sort of understand the yeah, we want to
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win both legs, Like, I get that. But saying like we got to win
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both legs, Like, no, actually, that's not how the rules dictate
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it. And you're totally right when
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you feel compelled to say we're going to respect our opponent,
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that means that you and your players have been walking around
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saying something to the effect of we know we should beat this
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team, but we have to play our best.
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Like you see, coaches, managers, athletes say that kind of stuff
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all the time. Well, you know, unfortunately
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for you, Manchester United, we've been watching the
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Champions League the past couple years.
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I'm like, act like we're long time historians.
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You know, your absence has been noted.
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So you haven't been around in this tournament for the last two
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years. And in our maiden voyage
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covering this tournament, we saw Braun in it two years ago making
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the knockout stage. So where you been?
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Red Devils? You haven't been around these
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last two years and you might not make it through this year
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either. You know, United, they came out
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pretty tough. Obviously they they've got a ton
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of talent. They got chances.
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I think you know, I was joking earlier, but most of them did go
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through Ella tune and it was it was it's funny.
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I I I like the players. I like a lot of the players.
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You know, united just park. It must have been.
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I don't know what was the just just park experience seeing park
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in that in that red jersey that stung me.
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I can't imagine what you went through.
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I. Didn't like it.
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I don't. I don't like it at all.
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I don't, I don't want to see her play for them.
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You know, some of the moves she was making, I was like, yeah,
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OK, that's the player I remember.
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But then also there were long spurts where I didn't have to
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worry about her wearing that shirt because there's just times
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where she's kind of invisible out there.
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So you know why I thought they were?
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I thought they were fine. I mean watching it on MUTV.
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You got, you know, once. The yeah, once, once the
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frustration started to set in with them, they're like crying
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for fouls and all this stuff. And it's just like, you guys are
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just, you know, they, they created some chances, but it
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wasn't like super overwhelming. So what it was 99 shots to 5
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total, six shots on target to three shots on target, both of
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those in favor of United and eight corners to three corners
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in favor of United. But all three of bronze corners
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were pretty dangerous, Gallup said, serving him in there.
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And like, even in in the first minute when Braun was able to
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get the ball immediately down the field, PTJ needed to have a
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double fisted punch like right on her post.
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Like it was it was sketch. There were sketchy moments in
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there for United. And so I, I do think that
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people, you know, pointing to the time of possession and
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looking at that shot disparity might think that Braun got away
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with 1 here. United didn't really ever look
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like finishing in this one. But next one played well.
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She did have one moment where she kind of spilled one that I
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that I would have liked to see her hold.
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But you know, this, this was not like some kind of weird tragedy
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where where United was way the better team and and ended up
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losing. They deserved to lose the match.
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And what the flip side of that? Braun deserved to win it.
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Totally agree with that. Yeah, I think even the 4th, 4th
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minute, right. My first note was a senior
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Gaupset splits the double team and out of Miyazawa Mila Tisier,
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just like their traffic cones. And I think like I start just
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cackling maniacally. I was just like, Oh my God, this
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is incredible. And then I went right back to
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the Skinner quote. I was like, yeah, we're going to
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respect them, but not too much like Gaupset like I mean, is
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just like carving, carving up, you know, that that defensive
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midfield. But yeah, I agree with you late
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United got chances. But the thing that I liked about
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Braun defensively is the chances outside of 1 Ella tune chance.
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I think late in the match, like in the 70s or 80s, they got
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worse and worse. You know, like it it once once
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you got past the 1st 1520 and United didn't score, you're just
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kind of I'm not sure we're going to crack it.
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So you got make it happen at any point.
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But it got less and less likely as the match went on.
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And then there was one other moment right before halftime
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when I'm not sure if it was a corner.
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I think it was maybe a short corner that ended in a cross
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into Stenovich, who had a free header, puts it wide.
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But I think that was the first one.
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I was like, oh, OK, there's something there that looked
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really good. And that ends up being a very
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close reflection of of the play that they end up scoring on
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later down the road. Yeah, man, and I, and I think
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it's a great point by you on United's chances not being
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overly dangerous. Says the match went on.
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You know, I, I mentioned Bron's keeper Penangstwen, she made
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some good saves and then a lot of the other saves she made were
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pretty routine because United was just not getting around on
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it. They weren't placing it very
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well. They're just kind of handing the
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ball back over to our side. On the on the flip side, Bron,
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they had to be strategic with their chances, but I didn't feel
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like them playing out from the back was overly sketchy.
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Like there's not enough of a talent disparity here.
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Even from AWSL side to a top Syrian side.
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There's not there's not nearly the talent difference that you
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would see. Like, you know, teams look like
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they have when they play against Chelsea or Arsenal.
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So bronze able to play out of the back.
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They're able to get out of trouble in some of those moments
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where like, you know, maybe they, they turn the ball over,
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they're able to win it back relatively quickly in some spots
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and then they're able to get forward.
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So I, I thought Brown looked really good and they looked good
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at home. And I think they can do this,
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man. I mean, obviously like, you
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know, you already know, like what I'm rooting for, but just
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watching the football, I think they have better than a 50%
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chance of taking of going to Manchester and just closing this
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thing out. Well, you know what, I I think
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you have to win both legs. I mean, you have to win both
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legs because that obviously guarantees you.
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Insightful. Thank you.
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Yeah, yeah. No thanks, Mark.
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Put that one together myself. I love the some, you know, as a
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as a copywriter or as some somebody with some, some
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copywriting reps in in my background.
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I love the signage quote, your Trafford is getting old and
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quote that was just flashing in the middle of the game.
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Red runs deeper and brown also excellent.
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I just I just loved all of the vibe and I think I mean what a
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freaking shocker. United's not ready.
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You know, this is this is the same team that forced their
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team, their their players to buy flights home from Hammerby in
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Sweden or force them to take, you know, I think a multi leg
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flight, you know, from a place not very far away and then on
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the way to Braun, you know, the team just forgets their boots.
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Just no boots, just that we need those.
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Sure. So that'll actually let let
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let's rephrase it. If you want to get through,
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you've got to win both matches. You've also got to win both
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matches and you got to bring your bag of boots.
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That's right. And you know, maybe that was,
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maybe that was part of the issue.
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Maybe the boots that were lost, those were the finishing boots.
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And so they didn't bring those. And now all they had was the
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easy shot on goal boots that were easy to save by Penang
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Stewart. I'm not exactly sure what
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happened. I do want to reserve because I
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guess I think the reporting was they did charter to Norway for
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this match. The only thing that I wonder is
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how do you lose? I think it was like 13 of their
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players match boots. How does that happen?
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And I just, I want to believe with no evidence, no testimony
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to prove this. So this is just wild, reckless
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of speculation by me is maybe somebody even in the private
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airport, maybe a bronze supporter.
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Just thought I'll just throw these on the other conveyor
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belt. We'll just see how the team see
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how the team does, you know, a little home, home pitch
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advantage. No consider gets united I could
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have seen the the bag just being like Manchester United boots.
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Please do not lose. Very important for game versus
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SK broad. Please do not lose.
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And then that one just going missing or, you know, maybe I
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had some some questionable, you know, contraband in there and
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they had to flag it and they had to go either way.
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Manchester United don't get it done.
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Huge surprise. We'll see these two teams lock
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up again on Thursday, September 18th for a spot in that group
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stage. I'm going to put you a little
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bit on the spot. Oh, yeah.
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Please go. Well, I'm not sure how you're
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going to put me on the spot, but I will tell you, unlike Mark
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Skinner, I truly have the key for how Braun can advance.
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So I'm not sure if that's how you're going to put me on the
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spot or not, but I'll tell you this.
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And it's just as insightful as what old Skinner had to say for
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himself. We just got to score one goal.
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I think if we score our goal, I think we get through.
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Yeah. Because you know, obviously
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unlike Skin Dog, we can, we can go through with A11 draw and I
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and I think the defense can hold.
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And so if we just get one, I think we'll be all right.
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Yeah, it doesn't it it goes it runs counter to my got to win
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both legs. But you know, I I suppose that
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that that would make it make it work last quick couple funny
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notes. You mentioned the MUTV
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announcers. I do get a chance to grab their
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name. But the funniest moment to me
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was on on the rewatch, you know, knowing what was going to happen
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in the 68th minute, you know, sirs were saying that Manchester
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United were turning the screw. Like it was like a minute later.
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It's like they they, you know, just tossed it away.
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And those are the funny moment where they were, you know, I
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think play by play was asking the color commentators like, oh,
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you know, well, was that a foul? She's like, Nah, I like to let
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them play, you know, and then like I think a minute later was
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when when they, they went into a whole diatribe about no, that's
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a huge foul that could have been called.
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They they pined for Vara few times like 3 or 4 times and and
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they really were cranking up the they were turning the screw on
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on calling for VAR as the second-half were on for sure.
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Dude, you know that's one way to get under my skin.
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There is no, there is no reason for us to ever call for VARI
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mean, you know, NWSL this weekend.
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There were a couple situations where I just had to be like, get
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this out of my life. I just, I can't do it anymore
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with this VARI. I'll, I'll cut the tangent off
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there. I'm sure the, the MUTV
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announcers are very nice people and knowledgeable football
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minds. But when you find yourself
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calling for more VAR, you got to get out of here with that
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you're, you're, you're desperate and at the end of your rope at
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that point. So that's what that's what Bron
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obviously did to the folks at Manchester United.
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And I look forward to them doing it again. 11 last, you know,
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kick to the Manchester United shin as we as we get out of
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here, your boy plunked down 10 bucks for the MUTV membership.
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I was sold a false bill of goods.
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I was told that I'd be able to get to watch this match on MUTV.
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It's quite possible that if I were in the UKI would be able to
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do this but paid the 10 bucks, wasn't able to watch the match,
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wasn't able to watch the match replay.
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So I went ahead and did what it's supposed to do.
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Emailed customer service last week and their reply, they
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haven't replied. So I'm just sitting here they've
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got my 10 bucks and fuck those guys.
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And even if they do show it, I'm not going to watch it on their
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platform. But what are you going to do?
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I mean it like not surprised. Wow.
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Yeah, you're brave. You know, you got more
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dedication than me because I, I honestly do not know what the
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scenario would have to be for me to give my money to Manchester
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United. I understand yeah, total dodo
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moved by me. I mean, I I just I guess I had
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to watch the broad any any way I was going to be able to watch
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the broad match. I was just going to turn over
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every leaf just so happy to turn over that one.
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But you know, I'm not too big to to to admit that I maybe went
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down the wrong path. But again, you know, no refund,
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no response from customer service.
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So we move on. Hopefully Braun moves on as
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well. Let's let's move on.
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I I went and hit a couple matches.
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That's fair. Where we at?
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20 minutes? That's here.
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We got it. That's probably enough.
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Yeah, we did it. I want to talk a little.
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This one was a big one, man. The second one on the list.
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I track Frankfurt one Real Madrid. 2.
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Real Madrid, the road team comes in, handles business.
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What'd you think when you saw this swirling?
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They looked fast. I mean, the Madrid was able to
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put a decent amount of pressure on.
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I tracked Frankfurt had him under duress relatively early,
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within the 1st 10 minutes. The the Angledahl goal comes at
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at 13 minute. In the 13th minute, pardon me,
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it really ends up being created by just a rocket of a shot by
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Linda Kaiseto that hits the crossbar.
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Hell yeah. And then Angledahl was able to
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collect a, what was ended up being a bad clearance by
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Frankfurt. Angledahl collects it and gets
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it past their German goalkeeper Lena Altenberg.
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I, I liked the look of Madrid. They had a league loss to
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Atletico Madrid like 2 weeks ago that I think we'll we'll end up
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talking about because we're going to talk about Atleti.
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But I thought Rail was able to kind of bounce back first.
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Frankfurt, I think they're going to have something to say in this
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tournament. I agree with you.
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I think something about the league of F isn't that just
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league F, You know, like Copa arena, Like there's the battling
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with Barcelona, I think has kind of like really hardened this
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team. You know, obviously Real Madrid
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remember a couple years back the big flame out and then a real
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kind of like real retribution last year, kind of like getting
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through and just really showing up for the tournament.
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And now I think this this Frankfurt matchup felt like a
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match that the old Real Madrid would have just kind of shown up
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and maybe no showed or hung on to a draw, you know, but like to
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go in there and really like, go ahead 2 nil, you know, and kind
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of hold off. You know, a Frankfurt side
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that's got the Fry gang and Yomi like, like real threatening
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players and had a great season last year.
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Bundesliga to go there and get it done, I think was huge.
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And, you know, it is Real Madrid.
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So it it does always stick in my head like, well, yeah, they're
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going back home and yeah, they're in the driver's seat.
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But you know, we've seen this team kind of fumble the bag a
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little bit. I don't think that's not what
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I'm expecting here. But it it it does still linger
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in the back of my. Head I think that's fair.
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I mean, they made some important changes.
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You know, they bring on Merla Frums, who, you know, Once Upon
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a time played for Frankfurt before she had that run with
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Wolfsburg. I love that addition for them.
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I've seen her make some acrobatic saves already early in
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League of F, I think they got a look at last year as OK, we're
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we're turning the page on the on the 2324 Champions League flame
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out. They had a couple matches last
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year where they just got battered by Barcelona.
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We're like, are they ever going to come come back from this?
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Then they get that the controversial win over Barcelona
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late in the league season with some controversial calls.
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But it felt like they a little bit of the monkey off their back
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in in that sense. So if they truly want to talk
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about turning a corner, then they have to take care of
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business at home. And as much as I like as much as
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I like entre, I interact Frankfurt, pardon me, it's a
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it's a real uphill battle for them to get this done in Spain.
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And they got a they had a little bit of luck because senior Brune
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had a chance in like the 87th minute on a header that hit off
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the post. That could have put them in
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pretty much night, night mode. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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And I think at the NAN, this one wasn't wasn't heard from in in
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too big a way. So I think, you know, they they
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are still looming, you know, that Real Madrid side.
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But I wouldn't close the door on this one in any way, shape or
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form. I think Frankfurt's still super
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dangerous. It's only one goal.
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You know, we've we've seen much, much crazier happen.
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But this is, you know, right up there in terms of matches that
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will be locked in on come Thursday.
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I want to scoot ahead though. Somewhat of a heartbreaker here,
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An ITC favorite Roma 1 Sporting CP2 in this one.
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Lucia de Guliomo opens score in 23rd minute to put Roma up one
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and then stoppage time. We got to get all the way to
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stoppage time, to get to the collapse and then basically
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having this game flipped completely on its head.
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Gutsy performance from Sporting. I thought, you know, even even
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with Roma kind of having the chances early, I liked that
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Sporting was able to kind of try to push them away from the goal.
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Roma had their chances to extend the lead after they got that
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Digiuliano goal on the 23rd, but they they could barely get
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anything on target, let alone punch it in that Roma had
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eighteen shots and only three on target.
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And I thought Sporting did a nice job kind of forcing them
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into some of those and some of them were just bad misses.
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And and Karna Chau, I think I'm pronounced Thelma.
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Probably just go with Thelma. I, I think, you know, she looked
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dangerous out there and you know, she ends up getting
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getting the dagger at 90 + 7 and and they win it in Rome.
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So now you get to go back to Portugal.
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And this is another one where I think it's super live that Roma
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could obviously win on the road, but you're going to.
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What I really want to see more than anything is Sporting's
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absolute best punch versus Roma's best punch.
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And then you kind of see where it goes from there.
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Yeah, I, I, I obviously you hate to see a team like Roma finish a
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match like that, but I think it was much, much more sport ECP
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going grabbing this result more so than Roma fumbling it away.
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Even on that last goal, they game planned that that free kick
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for it. It looked like it was like a
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kick from like 21 yards out, you know, like, you know, in a World
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Cup final, like they and this was a a like a dead bowl, like
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near the the halfway line way out to the left sideline.
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So not usually a situation where you see a lot of strategizing
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and, you know, putting heads together and they ran a sick
21:55
play. It was like a give and go that
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went away and then went back and then looped, you know, like a
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like a just a ball up the sideline genius.
22:04
You know, and and like Leanne, I was like to say, oh, you hate to
22:06
get, you know, beat with one or two passes.
22:08
I mean, they went the half the field in one or two passes and
22:12
the ball's in the back of the net.
22:13
So shout out to Sporting. I totally agree with you.
22:15
They didn't give up and tactically they had stuff for
22:18
Roma and AS Roma started to fade down the stretch, they were
22:21
there to kind of grab that result.
22:23
Yeah, man. So I mean, you know, we
22:25
obviously enjoyed cheering for Ben Figa Sporting comes out
22:29
there in the 352 typical Portuguese style of football.
22:33
I just love to see it. And you know, we we've talked
22:36
about Portugal with their footballing history and their
22:39
footballing culture. You just need to overlay that on
22:43
top of some real investment into their clubs.
22:47
And you could you got to think that they'll have something to
22:49
say in these tournaments. I mean, they they tip, they tend
22:52
to punch above their weight class on the men's side of the
22:55
Champions League or the Europa League, those kind of European
22:58
competitions. So I look, I look forward to it,
23:01
man. I mean, I could only get my
23:02
mitts on the highlights of this one, but hopefully able to watch
23:07
the full match because I think the second leg could be an
23:08
absolute banger. Yeah, no doubt.
23:10
I can't wait for this one as well.
23:12
Any other matches you want to hit?
23:14
I know we've we've had, we've got some familiar names on the
23:17
on the list that we've got some teams that I think we feel
23:20
pretty good are probably going to advance.
23:21
So Valarenga, they hang 3 on Fed and Kvatos they had Hungarian
23:27
side I believe. So they got a goal from Karina
23:29
Shevik and then FC Twente they go to Katowice.
23:33
I think GKS team out of Poland, they went four nil.
23:36
We probably expect them to advance.
23:37
Same. I think Bolton got a three one
23:39
win. And anything else caught your
23:41
eye? You know from from this first
23:43
leg of the third round of Women's Chevis qualifying.
23:46
So I mentioned Atletico Madrid earlier Luani is on one right
23:52
now. She's playing with a ton of
23:53
confidence. They ended up drawing BK hack
23:56
and this was another one that I could not find the full match,
23:59
which is just a tragedy and a travesty.
24:03
It's a it's a, it's a crime against humanity.
24:05
This is that I'm not able to watch this entire match because
24:08
I, I, I, I really want to see it because Madrid looks good in
24:12
Liga F right now. I mentioned earlier they have
24:14
that win, that 21 win over Real Madrid just a short time ago.
24:19
They're at three wins, 0 draw, 0 losses and a + 10 goal
24:23
differential sit on 2nd in the Liga F table.
24:26
Luani is tied for third with three goals.
24:30
On the young season, she is behind Aitana Bone Mati, Eva
24:35
Payor, she's tied with Claudia Pina and just ahead of Kika
24:39
Nazareth and CGH. So a lot of Barcelona goal
24:43
scorers in that top five Ish region there, but there's Luani
24:47
sitting tied for third. So I was able to watch the full
24:51
match between Atletico and Real because that was on our pals
24:54
over at The Zone on their streaming platform and they just
24:58
look confident, man. They're able to get the ball
25:01
down the wings played into the middle, pretty scrappy on
25:05
defense. So as much as we like BK hack
25:08
and I, you know, they're able to go into Sweden and get that
25:12
draw. Now the match goes to Spain.
25:15
I think it's I think that's going to be another one that
25:18
hopefully we're able to get our eyeballs on for the full match,
25:21
because I think it's going to be a knock down drag out.
25:23
I mean, that could be another one that's either A1 nil or a
25:26
nil, nil or a 11. And when we're looking at extra
25:30
time? Yeah, I think, you know, for
25:31
any, for any new audience members or any kind of anybody
25:35
kind of going on their on their initial Champions League
25:37
journey, I think it's important to kind of note that it, it
25:40
could be a little disorienting to kind of hear us be like, oh,
25:43
Manchester United, yeah, SK Brown's got them, you know, OK,
25:46
BBK hacking Atletico Madrid. Can this team keep up?
25:50
Of course they can keep up. You know, like we've seen this
25:53
team go to Stamford Bridge and get a draw.
25:55
We've seen this team go to Real Madrid and, you know, beat them,
25:59
you know, and I think sweep them maybe a couple couple seasons
26:01
ago. So and we've seen this team make
26:03
the quarterfinals, you know, so I think like anything's on the
26:07
table. Hakkin gets a goal in this one
26:09
from 18 year old Felicia Schroeder, who feels like she's
26:12
been playing forever, is already kind of like a pro's pro.
26:16
The stakes are so high to be able to get into the group
26:18
stage. And you know, we saw Arsenal
26:21
last season have to earn their way into the group stage.
26:25
You know, not nothing too nervy, but they had to they had to
26:28
scrap to get through. They had they had work to do
26:30
just to get to the group stage. So these are good teams going at
26:34
it, even though they're they're competing.
26:36
This is another not quite a coin flip match.
26:39
I think I'd let the should advance, but I will be, I'll
26:45
I'll say I'll be 0%, but surprised if Hakkin comes out of
26:48
this because again, they've got the tournament experience.
26:51
They they've been in this tournament, they've been through
26:53
this tournament, they've faced and they've beaten bigger teams
26:57
than this, you know, So they're not gonna go into this match,
27:00
you know, with any kind of wide eyes or or, you know, like that.
27:03
They're gonna be fully ready and this is absolutely going to be a
27:06
battle. No doubt, and I don't know, I
27:09
can't remember. I think during the last sleepy
27:12
Boy Champions League podcast that we did, I don't think we
27:14
got into hacking. I just want to say a quick note
27:17
about Felicia. Felicia Schroeder, BK Hackin has
27:21
competed in 17 matches in Domel's Fenskin League play.
27:25
Felicia Schroeder has 24 goals. Needless to say, that's leading
27:31
the league. She is 10 goals ahead of our old
27:34
pal Ellen Vongerheim from from Hammerbee.
27:37
I mean, just an absolute monster season.
27:40
And if you think she's just scoring out there, she's tied
27:43
for third with another 8 assists.
27:45
She's just been a machine out there in in Thomas Fenske.
27:50
I'll I'll do it for you. Hey, Felicia.
27:53
You know, Seattle's kind of nice this time of year.
27:55
I don't know if there you go. There it is.
27:57
Thank you, my good man. Yeah, it was somebody like if we
28:01
could just, yeah, if, if Seattle Rain FC could start getting some
28:04
goals, that would be that would be good, I think.
28:08
But this is a Champions League show.
28:11
Absolutely right. One, one other couple.
28:13
What are the result here? Real quick, Perry FC nil and
28:16
they were home against Austria. Veen, I'm going to go with Veen
28:20
nil, nil on that one. So now Perry FC has got to go to
28:23
Austria, put something on the board if they if they want any
28:26
chance of getting through again, nothing is give me in this
28:30
tournament. And you know, these, these
28:32
venues are tricky. You know, it's off schedule,
28:35
you're playing on a Thursday. It's weird.
28:38
You don't know anybody. These pitches are weird.
28:40
I mean, I, I, I don't think Perry FCS ever logged a single
28:43
minute on Austria Veen's home pitch.
28:46
I, I got to imagine none of those pairs I have.
28:49
So it, it gets funky, man. And, and if you can catch any of
28:52
this action on Thursday, do yourself a favor.
28:54
I don't think you can go wrong with any any of these nine
28:56
matches. Yeah, I mean, you know, this is,
28:59
this is the joy of the Champions League.
29:00
I mean, and if you could watch our our pals over at Sank
29:03
Poulton STP, if you will. I mean, they play a pretty
29:08
entertaining brand of football. I think especially compared to
29:10
like 2 years ago. We've kind of seen some of their
29:13
some of their growth. So yeah, this is the the UEFA
29:16
Women's Champions League is is a celebration of life no matter
29:19
what match you're going to watch.
29:21
But I mean, preferably you're going to watch Bron beat
29:24
Manchester United, but you can't go wrong with any of the
29:26
matches, as you said. We're back, man.
29:29
Year three, you know, again, we're not, we're not Ogs, but
29:32
we're not, we're not debutantes either.
29:34
I mean, I think, I think we've earned our place here and I
29:36
think we did it, man. I think we're ready for Leg 2.
29:38
Anything else you want to hit before you get out here?
29:40
I think that's it. I'd say that's comprehensive
29:42
enough. Once we get into the league
29:44
phase, me and Dino, we're going to probably go through.
29:46
I mean, not probably. Me and Dino will go through way
29:49
more matches, dig more into like who's on each team, their
29:54
history, all that fun stuff. All the great kind of stories
29:57
that you get with all of these big rosters across across the
30:01
world or all across Europe, but stories from players from across
30:05
the world. It's one of the joys of covering
30:07
this this wonderful tournament that I in, in my view is just
30:10
the best tournament slash league in all the sports.
30:14
Let's go. Yeah.
30:15
I mean, you're you're on record multiple times.
30:18
What that take for sure. And you mentioned players.
30:20
We're going to try to hear from as many players as we can,
30:23
coaches as we can. You already know that you hear
30:25
from the voices of the game when you rock with the ITC Chris
30:28
Sharples, Leanne Sanderson, Jack Chiatley, Mike Watts, you know,
30:32
to take your pick. We love talking to the voice of
30:35
the game for sure, but we're doing a thing.
30:37
We launched Patreon link is in the the description of our bio
30:40
and basically any player coach voice interview that we run,
30:45
you'll have early access as a Patreon member.
30:48
Head over to Patreon, get signed up and as we start to roll out
30:52
these player coach voice interviews, like I said, get
30:55
them a few days early and really just like you said, revel in in
30:58
this tournament. Enjoy it with us.
31:01
Go on this journey because I think it it runs all the way
31:03
from now through May and it's just the best.
31:05
I agree with man, it's the best time of the football year.
31:08
It truly is. I mean, there's there's drama,
31:10
there are surprises, there are twists.
31:13
There are some things that are obvious that you're like, oh,
31:15
that should have like I should have seen that coming.
31:17
Or the occasional run where me and Dino predict exact scores
31:22
for like a week straight. I mean, the ITC, we offer a lot,
31:27
but it is obviously all because of you guys and and we
31:30
appreciate you falling along with us, yeah.
31:32
Arsenal 1 Barcelona nil still still up in the rafters for your
31:35
boys. It's off camera, but it's up
31:37
there. It's up there.
31:39
All right, man, I think we did it.
31:40
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31:41
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32:03
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32:05
We're here, we're ready. The strength and conditioning is
32:08
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32:12
less sleepy. We'll see.
32:13
You know, it's still early, but I mean, again, the copilot of
32:17
this Champions League coverage and, and it just feels like the
32:20
engine's humming and we're we're we're just getting ready for
32:22
takeoff and I'm excited and I appreciate you, bro.
32:24
Likewise, buddy. Yeah, Debbie, Tons.
32:26
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32:29
we are still relatively young. And I might as well just do it
32:32
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32:35
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32:37
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