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UWCL POSTGAME: Bayern München 1 Barcelona 1 | Recap Analysis Breakdown Bayern Munich v Barca · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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Oh hey, welcome to Into the Channel podcast, primarily about
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1 football. I'm your host Dino de Suspitas
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and as always I'm joined by my Co host Mr. Grant Engel.
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What is up man? I'm feeling fantastic, buddy.
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That was an excellent game of football.
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Somebody even call it a Kraken game of football that we saw
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today. Absolutely.
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And that game of football we're talking about, of course, is
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Bayern Munich versus Barcelona in leg one of the UEFA Women's
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Champions League semifinal. Pretty much exactly how we
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predicted it, right? That's right, we did say that
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Bayern Munich would score one goal.
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Nailed it. So hopefully everybody hopped on
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that old bandwagon. No, in all seriousness, Byron,
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where do we get started? Before I before I go ahead and
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get started, where do you want to get started?
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Let's get started with a beverage to celebrate the
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Champions League return. Thank.
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You thank you for getting us on track.
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It's all right. Cheers to you.
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Cheers to football. Cheers to you, cheers to the
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football, cheers to just big stakes football matches,
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energized crowds, players playing up to the moment.
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I mean, come on man, how is this?
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How is it not the best sport in the world?
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Finding the draw Cheers to find the draw.
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Absolutely. Yeah, unbelievable day of
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football. I mean, when Barcelona gets off
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to that kind of start, and it was and it was wild because
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Barcelona got off to a really good start.
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Then Perdio Harda gets that chance 6 minutes, 7th minute,
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right before the goal, maybe a minute before the goal.
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And then I mean, we had both predicted 41 Barcelona and in
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the eighth minute when they unleash, you know, basically 4
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perfect actions in a row, like bot three's like step into that
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zone, that pass that basically spun Julie Gamin into a circle,
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Esme Bruce like her ball that kind of like had Figas doe tier
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like lost also just he was just like covering near post.
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And then after the ball goes in, she's like look around like,
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what the fuck was that crazy? I mean, and then Pyre's touch,
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who's got, I don't know, Vanessa Gio, like right on her hip,
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doesn't matter whatsoever. She's like, are you going to be
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here? You going to touch the ball over
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here? That's a goal.
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Doesn't matter. Like I know usually you're in
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good defensive position, but for me not much less so.
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Is anybody in good defensive position versus Eva Pywer when
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she's cooking like this? I mean, you're totally right.
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The the Patri brutes connection there where and the I thought
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the announced team did a really good job of of highlighting it.
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But like brutes starts to veer off like wide on the wing.
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And so Gavin is like, OK, I'm going to chase you out there.
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And then Patri just knows I'm playing this one straight
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through inside Brooks is, you know, a lightning strike, which
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he cuts in and then really gets on a horse to to run.
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And then she plays it in the pyre, like you said.
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I immediately thought of it's become a meme.
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But you know, I remember watching it on on linear
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television as a child, Ralph Wiggum sitting in the back of a
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hijacked school bus, chuckling and saying I'm in danger.
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And that's how exactly I felt about Bayern Munich in that
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moment. They found a way to turn it
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around, man. I, you know, I loved what they
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were doing offensively, which is not something we usually see.
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They were not afraid to hold the ball a little bit.
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They weren't afraid to, you know, take a couple touches,
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take a couple yards, you know, not rush.
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And we see it so often, especially when a team goes down
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to Barcelona, one nil. It's it's scrambled, but it
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doesn't matter when it is like it's like you could feel the
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panic, you know, just had to start to ratchet up.
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But Byron kept it super cool. And actually I thought Barcelona
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started to get a little bit of frustrated.
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You know, they you're the Vicky Lopez yellow card early after
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like they're in a good position. They're like, oh, this, this is
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going to be our second one right here.
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Like I don't 1560 minutes. And then, you know, Byron gets a
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gets a foot in, knocks it away and then there's some
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frustration. You get a Vicky Lopez yellow.
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CGH had a foul up the right hand side.
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I'm trying to think it might have been on Dalman, but kind of
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uncharacteristic. Like once Barcelona couldn't do
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more than that 8th minute goal. I kind of felt like they were, I
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don't know, they they got a little antsy.
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And it happened a little fast, too.
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It's a great shout by you especially.
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I mean, obviously the Vicky Lopez yellow card like just a
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couple minutes before that bull had helped Bayern kind of like
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escape a little, a little bit of danger.
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You know, she plays it up to harder for some hold up play and
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harder draws the foul. And then just moments later,
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Vicky Lopez, she earned that yellow card on Bull.
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And then, you know, they're they're, you know, sometimes I
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think you know what, we we might be psycho analyzing players in
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real time. You know, it's a lot of fast
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twitch decision making. But I do wonder if there was
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anything mentioned in the game plan of don't let Clara Bull
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start cooking, like be physical with her, jockey her around
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because you know, you, you just see how eminently dangerous she
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is when she starts to build some confidence.
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And she even with the hard foul that she was able to do that.
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And exactly what you said, if you're going to try to play with
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Barcelona, you know, you're going to give up a lot of
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possession to them. But when you're on the ball, be
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brave on the ball. And I felt like Bayern Munich
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was able to do that. Yeah, and Cloud both
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specifically was aggressive, you know, and and and we're not also
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we're also not used to seeing attackers go at Barcelona
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defenders be in a one-on-one situation and win.
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And I thought bull today versus Battier, not used to seeing
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that. But you know, got around her,
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you know, muscled her out of the way a couple times.
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And I was just like, wow, this is they need to send another
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another defender out there. Barcelona.
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I think in that first half, especially over the last 15
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minutes of the first half, once Byron like really got into the
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game and start to rack up a couple opportunities, they kind
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of survived that first half off sheer like one-on-one good
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defending because they didn't really have answers.
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They didn't really there wasn't any adjustments that really
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cooled Byron off. It was just like, oh, a
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Barcelona defenders going to be stout in this moment, stop the
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chance and and and I think they just wanted to get to halftime,
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which they ended up doing one nil.
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Good on them. Yeah, totally.
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And I think, you know, once it, it was around like the 22nd or
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23rd minute where, you know, after that, like around from the
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15 minute mark to like the 22nd or 23rd, it became noticeable to
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me that I was like lot of time spent in the middle of the park,
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like in the middle third. I know, you know, we talk about
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the defensive 3rd, we talk about the attacking third.
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What about that chunky middle 3rd that that, you know, rarely
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gets recognized? And if you're Bayern Munich in
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that spot, you know, playing as an underdog, as rare it is as it
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is for a, you know, a, a Titan of a club like Bayern Munich to
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be an underdog, you have to think that they were pretty
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psyched about playing several minutes at a time in the middle
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of the park. It just lowers the opportunity
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for for Barstow to start tagging on more goals.
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I'm so glad you brought this up and you know, it's it's a zoom
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out stat for the whole for the whole match because I I looked
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at, you know, some of the differences between the seven
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one first one and the 11 this one and some funny similarities.
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So both matches featured 91% pass completion from Barcelona.
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Just a computer of the football season.
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That's amazing. 612 completed last time, 619 completed today.
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But to your point about the middle third of the pitch, in
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the first matchup, Barcelona turned 281 touches in bar and
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Byron's half into 53 box touches, roughly 5.3 touches in
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their half for every box touch. That's not great.
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You know, that's that's cookie Today it goes from 5.3 to 10.6.
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They needed 10.6 touches in Bayern's half to get one box
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touch. You know, So I think like
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Bayern, you can kind of see where they wanted to lock down.
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When you look at the aggregate number, it wasn't a huge
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difference. 53 first time around 42 today.
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But I mean, Barcelona just had more of the ball with more
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possession, you know, more, more opportunities and I think just
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much less clinical and motivate had a good game.
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I think Byron defensively just much, much more, much more
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responsible, you know, and I think it made me recontextualize
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that first goal and I was like, oh, wow.
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Like it went from being like, Byers got no chance, like
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Barcelona's going to hang 4, maybe 5, maybe 6.
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To me thinking, wow, Barcelona had to be perfect on four
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straight moments to get that that that goal.
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And what does that mean? That's such a great call by you
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is I mean by the middle of the first half, it was very clear
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that Francisca KET was showing up to play some football today.
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She's good. There were a lot of moments
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where it it almost looked like both of the left backs.
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It was like, wait, who's the best player on the pitch today?
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Is it Esme Brutes or Francisca KET?
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KET looked great and then Vigos doter and Jill looks great too.
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And even though, you know, again, I'll I'll give the
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disclaimer, you know, player ratings aren't everything.
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Every a bunch of different sites have it, etcetera, etcetera,
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etcetera, But we all we you know, we always check out stats
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from our pals over at fat mob. Check them out, by the way.
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I mean, if you're watching this pod, you probably know, but
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FOTMOB, they they have great football stats for all kinds of
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every league, all all that good stuff.
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You know, Julia Gavin is the lowest rated of the back four
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and yeah, she was having a hard time dealing with brutes and she
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was who all was she dealing with on that side?
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Yeah, it was Pina and and brutes a lot, but she was just holding
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her own in the in that situation with Bruce playing like a
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supernova. But I think the what what KET
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and the two center backs, Rio, Estonia and Jill were able to do
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were they didn't really create allow after that perfect set up
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from Barsa. They they weren't allowing any
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more big chances. And you know, according to our
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pals at fat mob on the stats, even the the Pyrer goal wasn't a
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big chance because it it had to be a perfect, you know, flying
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touch on the outside of the right booty to even guide it in
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there. So it was a herculean defensive
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effort by Bayern Munich. I felt, yeah, I think Bayern did
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a really good job kind of like scrambling to the ball before it
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got into the 18. You know, I think they did that
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kind of over and over. And I think if you if you reap
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for you replay some of those second-half chances.
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Like there was a key, like all of a sudden there's a lot of
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chances from outside the 18, you know, because that's kind of all
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there. There was leftover.
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But Byron just did a great job going from being like very
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disciplined defensively, everybody in their spot,
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everybody on their line to all right, the balls here boom, like
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converge and like just extinguish it immediately.
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And you know, to their credit, they were able to get to the
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ball and get to the Barcelona attack before you know, they're
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able to start knocking it around and get you on your heads.
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Because like once they have attackers committed, once they
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get to four or five or six up in that box area, you're already
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kind of cooked. You can't it's too much to to
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cover. But like when they're at one or
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two or three, you can kind of get away with it if you feel
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like you could win. I thought Tenakawa was great
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today, like you could see her ball skills, you know, like
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getting utilized on defense. She had super quick feet, great
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positioning, just like all like she was always like in the mix,
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you know, just causing trouble for for that Barsa attack.
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I think it's a great call by you.
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So Tanakawa, 10 defensive contributions, 5 tackles, 2
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blocks, 2 clearances, 2 headed clearances, an interception, 5
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recoveries. And you know, there there was a
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note that I jotted down. I was like, you know, Tanakawa
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really kind of playing a lot in the defensive third here, You
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know, how's that going to, you know, how much time can you
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spend backed up against your own goal?
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But she held up to it and she was able to be additive as a
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defensive focus player in this match when obviously, you know,
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we think about her great skill on the attacking side, But
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that's what the moment called for.
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And then and they were just trying to pick their spots, you
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know, as, as, as a team, that is again, I know it's crazy to say,
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but I, I feel like all the knowers of ball who watch this
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understand it, even with Bayern Munich being at a, a pretty
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significant talent disadvantage. I would I would agree with that
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across the board, but you know, and it's kind of measuring sick
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match. You can kind of see that certain
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players are above certain other players on the other team and
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just kind of like, OK, like, you know, that we're learning stuff
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here, seeing everybody, you know, on the pitch at the same
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time. We're talking about Tanakawa.
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She finds Francisca Kett 42nd minute for that banger that
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almost came close. Got that boy had to stretch all
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the way out her entire 5 foot 7 frame to stop it.
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And then like a minute later, a ball goes into the mixer and
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she's got it. She's got to elevate snatch it
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amidst Lotus Figuesto tears Hanakawa and Purdue harder
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behind her. So things were getting
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treacherous at the end of that first half bar.
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So I think dust Themselves Off comes out in the second-half,
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looks really sharp again. SP Brooks, probably the player
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of the match, hits the post there, knocks around, hits
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Mimudovich in the back of the head and somehow doesn't find
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its way into the into the goal π or has a has a chance to at 57
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ahead or kind of going away from goal.
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And that one was, was interesting because I'm like,
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oh, that was a look. But if now I feel like the
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chance of getting further and further away from goal, you
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know, and, and that's always something I pick up on to.
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What was your read on the second-half?
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I think you're spot on. I thought Chris Woodingham did a
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good job of kind of referencing near the end of the first half.
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Maybe Bayern doesn't want this first half to end because then,
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you know, you go back into the locker room, it's 15 minutes,
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you get a little cold. Everybody on Barcelona, all the
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all the genius supercomputer footballing brains kind of put
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their heads together like, OK, maybe we should try this, this
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and this. Obviously Bayern's not has no
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shortage of those type of players themselves.
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I think that's one of those things where it's like the first
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five to 10 minutes coming out of the half, like we have to be
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absolutely locked in and not, you know, I know it's a cliche,
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but it's just like, you know, those are that's a super
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important period of the match where you have to have to kind
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of figure it out and getting a little bit of luck when that
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brute shot hits the post, then bounces off.
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It felt like it on the second replay, it looked like it was
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kind of like the top of Mamrudovic's head.
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And you can kind of see, like, the surprise look on her face,
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like, oh boy, like, that's weird.
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So that can't be good. Yeah, exactly.
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And and it worked out. And so like you need, and we've
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talked about it, like the margin for error is so small against
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Barcelona. You need that little bit of that
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little bit of luck. But then you also at right
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around like the 60th, right around the the hour mark,
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Barcelona's threatening again. And there's Vanessa Giel, Super
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athlete, big time clearance off the line.
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Yeah, she was huge. She played huge and you just
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need that right. And I think like, and it was
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really funny because I I jotted in my notes.
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That's that piece or free kick or, you know, that whole thing
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was clearly an advantage for Bayern.
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I think when they were taking free kicks and set and set
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pieces, they were more dangerous defending them.
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They were more dangerous too. And what are we used to with
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Barcelona? We're used to seeing, you know,
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not only like the dazzling goal, the missile, but also the Irene
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Peretas header. Every now, you know, every every
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3-4 weeks, you know, ball goes in and then Peretas just skies
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over everybody and, you know, make the, you know, adds a third
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or fourth goal and, you know, set pieces.
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Just what it was clear they weren't going to get anything
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today on Byron. And I think Jill is a part of
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really both offensively and defensively is is is a game
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record there. And how many times do we see
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with some of those set pieces? I, I hope I'm not butchering
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this. I think it was CGH and Mappy.
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Maybe it was a different player with Mappy out there, but it's a
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it's a free kick from as you're facing goal from the left hand
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side and CGH runs over the ball and then Mappy takes it.
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And how many times have we seen opposing teams just be like, oh
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boy, I don't know who like who's got and who like we don't know
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what to do. And you're right, like Byron was
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able to cut and neutralize how dangerous Barcelona is on the
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set pieces. But if we're talking about the
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second-half, how about that that movement, that transitional
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build up by Bayern Munich and the well deserved goal by
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Francisca? KET, as I've already alluded to,
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I think, you know, don't stop me if if you disagree, but I felt
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like KET was probably Bayern's best player, arguably the best
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player of the match. I think probably it goes to
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brute brutes by a little bit, but that goal got me out of my
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seat. Man, that was that was
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absolutely fantastic. Yeah, I mean what was great was
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she had the close call earlier. She had been having a good game.
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We love when the players calibrating and pretty harder
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obviously involved in that one up the left hand side.
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I want to shout out to Linda Dalman.
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You know, you mentioned genius players and Jesus, you know what
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Dalman does on that one to drag Mafi into basically into the
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action closer to pretty harder, you know, just real rubber out
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action. And then that, you know, just
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kind of clear the space. You know, backside for Cat was
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awesome. And then when you see Cat run
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onto it, you're just like, OK, this is a real this is a real
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chance. This is a chance.
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And then she just tattoos it. Smashed it.
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Let's go. So good.
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It was just like better than than.
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That was hope before as a finish and place goes crazy really
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great. And then the roller coaster ride
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of Francisca's cat Francisca Cat's semi final good news.
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Absolutely, directly from my notes after the goal, the
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equalizer in the 71st minute or I have it charted as the 71st
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minute. OK, yeah, I was a little, I was
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a little behind five up as at the 69th minute.
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But after shortly after that, I immediately write my notes.
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If you're buying, you got to do everything you can to hold up
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for the next 20 minutes because you know, the Calvary is coming.
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And then the substitutes come on in the 72nd minute.
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And then my next entry into my notes is, and here comes the
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Cavalry. Cavalry, pardon me, Beto, Uelo
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and Kika on for Pina and CGH. And yeah, I I felt like the
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roller coaster, not just for Francisca KET, but that's kind
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of where a little bit of the roller coaster started for
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Byron. And they needed to find a way to
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hold up for those 10 minutes. And then at the 80 minute mark,
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let's talk about it. The hair pull looked
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inadvertent. It's still a hair pull.
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It's still a red card. I'm no, I'm no tactical expert,
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but playing against Barcelona with 10 players, that doesn't
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seem great. Doesn't seem great but the first
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place my mind was went was if cat can't play next week.
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That's a bummer man. And you know, and I and the
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other thing that I was thinking about in the first half, I mean,
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I love I love Vicky Lopez as a player and you know, the Vicky's
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future, etcetera. But, you know, wasn't really
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able to get fully into this one. Had a couple nice moments, but
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you know, just kind of got stymied a little bit by what
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Byron was doing, you know, but you know, no, no fault of her
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own. But I couldn't help but think if
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Beaumati is in there, Beaumati probably unlocks this Byron
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defense at some point in the first half, right.
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So I had already had that knocking around my head and then
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Cat has such a good game and I'm just like, oh, cat can't play,
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that's the next leg and put my teeth in there.
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I'm just like, oh God. It's not great.
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Pulls the rug out for about for my excitement just a little bit.
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Yeah, I mean, it'll it'll be extremely tough.
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Chris Whittingham, you know, mentioned it.
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Could the two time defending Bondor winner return for the
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next match? I mean, you know, I, I always
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kind of keep an eye out for like, if she does return,
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because I, I do. And you and I, I think I've had
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this conversation about basketball players too, where
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it's like, Oh yeah. And then this player's coming
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back off of injury. It's like, yeah, but they're not
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going to be exactly the same player.
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Like Apex conditioning, like feeling great, looking exactly
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themselves. Like you come back.
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Yeah. And you can you can do some
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stuff, but you're not going to be 100%.
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However, as I always in quick dimension, they still have two
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other balloon doors on the field and Alexia Pateas, the queen as
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as our pal Chris Sharples says. But yeah, I think the the KET
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red card, it's a deserved red card.
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I don't think he was intentional.
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But the rule is the rule. And I'm glad the rule exists.
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I think it should exist in case those judgement calls, you know,
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could get a little murky. But all that to say, it's going
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to be a huge uphill climb at camp.
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No, next week for Bayern. But let's not, let's not gloss
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over it too much. This is a massive result for
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Bayern Munich. Huge result and and I think, I
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don't know, I'm not I think they're still alive.
22:34
Sure. I mean, I think, I think it's,
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you know, we're going to, we're going to learn a lot about, you
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know, the distance between the two.
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But I mean, and, and a lot of thoughts kind of, you know,
22:48
flashed through my mind. I kind of, I was like, did I,
22:51
did I apply the fraud alert tag to the wrong, you know, European
22:54
champion potentially like what are we?
22:56
I know, but it's like they didn't look, I mean, well, our
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expectation, our expectation was one thing, 4 to 1 and what we
23:05
saw was 1 to 1. And it wasn't one of those one
23:07
to ones that easily could have been 4:00 to 1:00.
23:10
It was the one to one that easily could have been 2 to one,
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right? Like it wasn't.
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It was pretty close. That's fair.
23:16
I like that. Yeah, I think that.
23:21
I think that's fair. I I.
23:22
Think, well, how how live do you think Byron is in the second?
23:25
Like, like on his real terms, you know, like, but I don't want
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to put a number out of out of 10.
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How many times has Bayern advanced?
23:33
Oh, out of 10, you say? Let me think of these in in some
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terms that I might be familiar with that I might consider from
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time to time, like in terms of winning the match.
23:46
I don't know. I'll I'll try I'll try to do
23:47
some quick googles here to figure out.
23:49
But to win, I got to think Bayern's probably like plus 650
23:57
+ 700. Like, they got it, but they
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still got to be pretty substantial dogs away.
24:04
So that would be, you know, OK, let's say 600, it's roughly, you
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know, 1 1/2 or 1 and 1 2/3 out of 10.
24:15
I think it's probably more like 2 maybe 2 1/2 times a day.
24:19
I think it's a little bit more likely that they that they can
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squeeze by just because I mean, I don't know, man, where do you
24:28
when I started to think about the set piece situation, because
24:31
now I think that's off the table.
24:34
I don't think Barcelona's going to score off a set piece against
24:38
Biden. You know, like, so let's take
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that off the table. And Barcelona is also not really
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going to slice and dice them with a 10/11/12 pass.
24:51
Just, you know, death strike. We're just everybody's just in a
24:54
lurch, right? I think Byron's too solid, solid
24:57
defensively. They're going to get beat how
24:59
they got beat today, which is where Vin is lost and Vegas
25:03
deltier is lost on the same play.
25:05
And then Jill is a step behind Pyor, right?
25:08
So it's a you got three players winning in a very few, you know,
25:12
in a, in a snap of a finger, right?
25:14
So it's going to have to be that.
25:16
I think it's going to have to be that, right?
25:18
And then you're then you're counting on confine score.
25:20
Probably not, but they might, you know, so I think I don't
25:24
know. I'm I'm kind of open to it if
25:25
it's if it's if it's a one, if it's if it's in the ones like I
25:30
think it remains very live and the players like bull players
25:35
like, you know, even Dalmon, I think.
25:37
Sure. Such a high IQ player and we've
25:39
seen her like explode in a moment, in a big moment after
25:44
having not the most, you know, jaw-dropping game.
25:49
They, it's, it's a great call by you.
25:51
And Tanakawa could just detonate at some moment, like, yeah.
25:55
So I, I will say they're live. And if, if I did see him at
26:00
something like +700 or something, like, could it be
26:03
worth a sprinkle? Maybe.
26:04
I mean, we'll discuss it, you know, 7 to 1, you know, bet
26:09
$100, win $700.00 for our folks who aren't degenerates like us
26:14
who like to like to gamble occasionally, but we gamble
26:16
responsibly always. Whoever, whoever bet on that 4
26:21
to 1 score line, you bet $100, you lost 100.
26:24
Dollars that's right that's how those odds work out I I'm dying
26:29
to know what the draw was for this because that.
26:32
Had to be exactly. I will say though, when you IIA
26:39
100% understand where you're coming from on like you know,
26:43
especially with Byron's physicality, their size in a lot
26:47
of different spots. Could you take a Barcelona set
26:51
piece goal off the board? I I 100% understand where you're
26:55
coming from, but sometimes you just get those Mapi Leone lasers
26:59
that are in the top corner and it's just like, I don't know
27:02
what what what keeper is going to save that.
27:04
So I. Almost got 1 today.
27:06
Exactly. So it's just kind of like, you
27:08
know, I wouldn't completely rule that out, but I I'm with you in
27:12
the sense that I love the way Bayern played on set pieces.
27:16
I thought and Barcelona adjusted to this early, but I thought
27:21
pretty harder early trying to split the double team right up
27:25
the gut. Montpello and Perez on, you
27:27
know, like one-on-one side and 1:00 on the other and just
27:29
trying to see if I if you know we can catch them slipping a
27:32
little. I thought that was interesting
27:33
too. So Byron very, very their
27:37
attack, a little bit of that. I was kind of a little bit
27:39
impressed by that. I think, you know, it didn't
27:42
look like the same notes getting hit over and over.
27:45
But I mean, Barcelona is still hugely in the driver's seat,
27:49
especially if you know, they get the the the the line of breaks
27:53
with the Boma T potentially working our way back and then
27:57
Cat, we'll keep an eye on that. But do you have a prediction for
28:01
that second leg? I was just going to ask, do we,
28:03
are we going to do predictions now or are we going to do a
28:06
preview episode later in the week and to do predictions for
28:09
both matches coming up? I mean, thank you to all of our
28:13
pals who, who, who checked out the last preview and did some,
28:17
did some good numbers. I, I felt like you guys are
28:20
dropping ball knowledge and in the comments as well.
28:24
Should, should we give it a couple days and and maybe you
28:27
know, then we might get some bone with T information in terms
28:30
of availability, maybe see if some gambling lines pop up.
28:34
I don't know. We'll see what happens.
28:38
Now let's make a prediction. Give me 3 two Barcelona.
28:41
All right. No, I reserve, I reserve the
28:45
right to to kind of like track back here.
28:49
I'm not no, I don't I don't actually think 32, but I'm I'm
28:51
not it's in all seriousness and I and I reserve again, I reserve
28:55
the right to to to update this during in our official preview.
29:00
But if I had to make a pick today, I think I would go 21
29:05
Barcelona, 22 nil Barcelona. Highly contested Byron unable to
29:12
breakthrough but super live all the way down the stretch into
29:15
the second-half and into the championship rounds.
29:18
I think I'd, I think I'd go to two nil Barcelona.
29:20
OK, I really like where your heads at because if I had to
29:24
pick today, I would say 31 Barcelona that I just I just
29:30
think it can't know they're going to be too much.
29:32
The crowd's going to be in it. Obviously I do, you know, I have
29:36
some optimism that that Boma T will be back based on no
29:40
reporting again, we don't have any sources over there.
29:44
But if Chris Whittingham floats it on the air, Witty has some
29:48
sources. So he he put he put a little
29:51
smoke out there. I was like, OK, I see where
29:54
you're at, Witty. I know you're talking to these
29:55
coaches. Definitely shout out to
29:58
Whittingham and I I didn't mention this last time.
30:01
Shout out to our guy Chris Sharples too.
30:03
You you dropped the a limited fake.
30:06
I don't know if it's a limited fake Sharples or a limited fake
30:08
me doing Sharples, but you definitely dropped one.
30:10
But shout out to our guy Sharples.
30:12
But with that said, Whittingham and Darren Jenkins on the call
30:15
today. I thought I found a little
30:16
chemistry. I think we're we're at the end
30:19
of the tournament, but finally that the the paramount plus, you
30:23
know, maybe haven't had sorted they they might be Peaky at the
30:26
right time, we'll say. Definitely good.
30:28
I if I could give one critique, could our could our friends at
30:32
at at at Paramount plus or Cbsi know you're watching this.
30:37
I know you monitor closely so you can help develop your topics
30:41
for your shows. Can just when you when you do
30:44
the replay when your boys in no spoilers mode and I have to go
30:48
back and watch the full replay. You do a good job of not putting
30:52
spoilers right out there on front on the Paramount plus app.
30:55
I appreciate you for that, but then I go to watch the replay
30:59
and it's that just starts as the match is kicking off.
31:03
Hit me with the 2 lineup cards just for for each team.
31:08
Just give me the graphic of what what's the formation?
31:11
Give me the names because you know I'll let people behind the
31:14
curtain here. I like to take a little photo of
31:16
it because I can't go to fight mob because I do well, I'm in no
31:19
spoiler. So I don't want to see the
31:20
score. I don't want to see any of that,
31:21
so just give us the line of cards and then get into the
31:24
match action. I'm you're welcome for the
31:27
producing advice. It's good producing advice or
31:30
production advice. I probably shouldn't say
31:32
producing. That's why you should take my
31:34
advice though. It's good advice either way.
31:39
Yeah, just grammar be damned. Any who?
31:41
All right, We made predictions. We talked about the match.
31:45
We'll be up in 7:00-ish hours to catch Arsenal.
31:50
Did you locking horns with Leon in our in the in the other semi
31:53
final match up. It's just the best time of year.
31:55
Cannot wait. I can't believe we get these
31:57
eight or nine days right at this time of year.
32:00
Get us ready for the for the final.
32:02
I had another thought too might be getting ahead of myself.
32:05
But and maybe we'll save this for tomorrow.
32:07
But what word here? So I'll I'll unleash it.
32:10
Let's go. What do we do?
32:12
Because now Barcelona little bit little wounded right.
32:15
What do we do if Arsenal win back-to-back Champions League
32:18
titles and in neither season win the WSL title?
32:23
It'd be pretty interesting, huh? I mean, I think if your Arsenal,
32:29
you still kind of look up and go, well, what do you got to
32:33
say? Like if, if like we beat
32:35
Barcelona in like big matches to lift, you know, an extremely
32:39
important trophy. I think Arsenal then lays claim
32:43
and says, hey, you remember how you always talk about Barcelona,
32:46
Chelsea, Lyon being the the three best clubs in the world?
32:49
How about you get the other team from London out of here?
32:51
We're the best club in the world.
32:53
Yeah, but I think, and you still kind of have it in the back of
32:58
your head, right? Of course.
32:59
You're like, you know, you're saying that that wasn't messy.
33:01
You're just like, damn, it's weird, you know?
33:03
Yeah, it's like, but I don't know.
33:05
That was a funny, funny thought exercise.
33:07
All right, man, I think we covered this match inside and
33:10
out very thoroughly. Is there anything else you want
33:12
to hit for you out here? I think that's about it.
33:18
Yeah, the, the better ualo shot that went 1,000,000 miles over
33:22
the bar from just outside the six, like near the death.
33:25
Like that could have been like a a gigantic moment, but it didn't
33:28
happen. And that's football.
33:30
So, you know, we, we leave 11 and now bars has to take care of
33:33
business at camp. No, man, I'm looking forward to
33:37
it. But before we even get there, I
33:39
don't want to jump ahead. Let's watch this Arsenal Lyon
33:41
tomorrow, buddy. That's going to be good stuff.
33:43
Let's go, let's watch Arsenal Lyon tomorrow and let's do it
33:46
again tomorrow. Let's circle back, fire up the
33:48
mics, break it, break another one down.
33:51
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33:54
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