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🚨 SK BRANN v MANCHESTER UNITED | A UWCL QUALIFIER PREVIEW! · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  OK, welcome to Into the channel podcast premiere about ones
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  football. I'm rehost Dino de suspicious
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  and as always, I'm joined by my Co host Mr. Grant Angle.
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  What's up, man? Buddy, I'm feeling fantastic.
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  It is the most wonderful time of the year.
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  I'm not talking about the holiday season, what about the
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  UEFA Women's Champions League? I mean, we're not all the way,
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  all the way there yet, but we got some big matches coming up
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  that I think you and I need to discuss expeditiously.
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  Let's go, but give me a second. Yep, the oven's preheating,
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  we're getting ready, some balls are getting kicked around,
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  there's some stretching happening.
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  We're doing some research, we've got some takes ruminating.
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  We're not going to get into the full blown Champions League
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  preview. Obviously 99 teams are playing
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  for a spot in not the group stage, but whatever replace the
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  group stage, this weird round Robin thing that they've got
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  going on, which now will will include eighteen teams.
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  So nine teams are in and nine teams are going to battle it
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  out. First leg coming up here on
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  Thursday, September 11th, second leg next Thursday, September
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  18th. And there is one team in
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  particular, my good man, that I want to talk to you about, and
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  that is. Goddamn.
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  Our beloved who are we talking about?
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  Let them know. You're goddamn right it's SK
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  Bron from beautiful Bergen, Norway.
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  I can't wait to discuss this. I'm so excited.
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  I'm actually I'm warm in this hoodie.
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  Can you just give me like one second here?
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  Yeah, no doubt. All right, my apologies there.
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  So now I'm ready. Let's discuss.
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  Let's discuss the UEFA Women's Champions League in the mighty
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  SK Bron. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  That is incredibly sharp. What a kid.
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  Appreciate that. Unbelievable.
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  You are so ready. I'm sure as everybody knows
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  watching this broadcast, this is the 2009, 2010 away kit for SK
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  Braun. Now the men's side.
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  Yes, it turns out men do play football as well, but it's able
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  to pluck this baby off the off the old Internet.
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  Shout out to Eric Huzel. Klep.
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  Who's Klepp? Pardon me, Obviously, I'm a
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  lifelong bronze fan. Yeah.
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  Shout out to the Who's 20. Shout out to the Who's 25 goals
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  in two seasons, 2009, 2010. Let's go.
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  Yeah, had had to be done. Unbelievable, unbelievable shout
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  out to you. Very bummed I didn't.
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  I didn't wear my jersey, but I feel like I've gotten I've
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  gotten some reps out of it, you know, so I'm going to save it.
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  I'm going to save it. You know, we know that bronze
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  tournament. It's got some real legs to it.
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  So there's no rush. I don't need to kind of, you
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  know, as my mom says, haste makes waste.
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  We're going to leave, leave that baby in in the closet for one of
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  for one of the big matches. This is just, I don't know what
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  was a sparring session a little warm up.
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  Who who, who does our beloved SK Bron have on the docket?
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  Well, it'll. Be taken on Manchester United.
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  But this is not a Manchester United podcast.
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  This is all about SK Bron. Let's go, you know.
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  Made their way, making their way into this third qualifying
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  round, defeating Inter Milan 21-A Valiant come from behind
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  victory, gave up an early goal almost immediately, got it back,
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  then gets the winner later on. You know what, if there's one
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  thing that we like about our pals in Norway, that we like
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  about SK Bron as a whole. Heart of a lion?
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  Absolutely. I mean, I think that intra Milan
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  squad, I'm kind of pulling it up here because they've got a real
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  squad. When I was looking at who they
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  trotted out there, Tessa Wooler, Lena Mcgool.
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  Tessa Wooler didn't play in that in that match against Braun, but
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  Olivia Skoo played for Rosengard, Bruner Sturtier in
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  goal, Villemsdoltier, who scored against the US, you know, for
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  Iceland, she's the one that put Inter up.
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  And let's not gloss over that. This play, this game was played
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  in Milan on the road. Bron had to go into their house
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  and come from behind. They get it done.
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  Zomer's scores in the 13th and then the 56th minute.
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  One of the patron Saints of the End of the Channel podcast,
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  Senior Gapsa. You got damn right.
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  What can't she do? Power, finesse, speed, grace,
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  every everything that you want in a player.
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  Obviously you know for for. I'm going to guess most of the
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  people watching this who who have tuned in specifically for
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  this episode, you've probably been rocking with us for a
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  little while. You may even be located in
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  Bergen, Norway itself. So obviously we love and
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  appreciate all you guys. But for anybody else who's just
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  tuning in, like wait a minute, what's happening here?
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  These two American guys started really enjoying SK Bron in the
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  202324 Champions League when they just came out and were
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  super spicy in in a group against Lyon and like we started
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  to really follow them even before they played Leon.
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  Then they played Leon in Bergen, get a draw out of it in like an
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  an incredible match. Get it.
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  I think it was Galpstead who got the equalizer in that match.
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  And so we've been fans ever since.
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  So, so that's why all this is happening for anybody who might
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  be not clued into that just. Yeah, I wanted to talk a little
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  bit about that Sidney Gobsett goal, just because you mentioned
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  it. Tremendous power to her game and
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  the touch that she gets on that one to like, it was like the
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  power and the finesse in one play because she kind of like
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  chests it down in traffic. Super duper soft touch.
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  And then she whips around super violently just just like cracks
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  into the net. I was like, that's senior
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  Gobsett right there. That's what I want to see as we
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  go on into this tournament. She's got eleven goals this year
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  in top Syrian, leading our beloved SK Bron and I want to
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  call it one one other player from Scotland, Lauren Davidson,
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  who scored against Braga 1, you know, in A1 no win.
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  And that's basically how Braun got here.
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  They get the win versus Inter, the win versus Braga.
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  Lauren Davidson also leads SK Braun and assists with eight.
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  Well, she Co leads senior Gobset.
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  I mean, what, what can't she do? Also 8 assists for senior
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  Gobset. So I I, I don't know, man, I'm
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  just pumped. I don't know, like my my mind's
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  in a million different places. I can't believe we're here
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  already. Just a couple days.
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  Well now we're about a day and a half away from from football
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  kicking off more properly. With this match specifically, is
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  there anything you're going to be looking for?
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  I want to be looking for Lauren Davidson because she has a knack
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  for scoring big goals. She scored a stoppage time goal
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  versus Rangers on the final day of the 2223 Scottish woman's
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  Premier League season to clinch the title for her Glasgow City
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  squad. I, I screwed up a squad and I
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  can't do. But yeah, I want to, you know, I
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  want to see this this team get out and run.
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  Obviously we have a hard time watching full top Syrian matches
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  over here. So, you know, we're piercing
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  these together with highlights. I think it's worth pointing out
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  they are in a top Syrian league title race versus our old pals
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  Valarenga, who were in last year's Champions League.
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  Last season in the 2024 Top Syrian, Braun went zero wins, 0
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  draws, 3 losses versus Valarenga in in league play.
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  They play in that league. They play each other three times
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  and they had a -5 goal differential already, though
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  this year as they sit atop the table, they're sitting at two
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  wins, 0 draws, 0 losses verse Ball Loringa with a + 4 goal
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  differential. They can get out and run.
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  They look maybe a wee bit vulnerable on defense at times,
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  but who cares about that? Because we're in this.
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  We're in the business of scoring goals.
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  That's what we're here to do. Yes, I'm, I'm with that.
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  And I think I mean, defensively it's going to be interesting
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  because Manchester United, Elizabeth Turlin on that side, I
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  mean, she's cooking. If you look at the 2 Champions
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  League qualifying matches and the opener in WSO, she's got
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  five goals in those three matches.
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  Melvin Millar has had two goals to United's tally.
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  They look OK, but as mentioned, you know, they're probably going
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  to be up against it and the first tie is in Bergen.
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  So, I mean, you know, like, let's put off to the side how
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  Manchester United is going to get to Bergen and how they're
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  going to get back. You know what, that's something
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  to be discussed for sure. Whether they'll be flown or
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  maybe maybe there's there'll be some horse and carriages or
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  maybe they'll be forced to walk and go on some sort of long
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  ferry ride. We're not sure.
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  But either way, doesn't matter how they're going to get there.
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  They're going to be for a long a long evening of of punishing
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  football, I think. And I think if they if they get
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  a little bit unlucky with the weather too, I mean, I think
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  it's still kind of a nice time of year, but you know that that
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  can always be a factor. How can Manchester United prep
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  themselves for the intensity and the toughness?
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  Because I think even when you watch that Intermatch that that
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  that Brown defense was all like they were really intense.
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  I think they got they got inter off guard a little bit.
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  I think there there could be a little bit of that coming on
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  Thursday as well for Manchester United.
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  Yeah, I mean, you mentioned it, you never know with Manchester
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  United's bum ass ownership, they might have to hang glide there.
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  So I mean that could be the toughness that they need to show
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  just to get to Bergen, Norway. I I do think it's probably
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  important to to point out a couple things.
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  First thing being that Elizabeth Turland, Norwegian watched her
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  play in the EUR. One thing that we do know about
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  the Braun Battalion, the life force behind SK Braun, the one
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  of the the greatest, not one of what am I talking about, the
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  greatest supportive group in the history of planet Earth.
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  They're going to Boo the shit out of Elizabeth Turley every
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  time she gets the ball, and we love that about it.
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  There's nothing malicious about it.
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  They're just going to Boo a fellow Norwegian who's playing
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  on the other team. So there's that that United is
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  going to have to contend with. And, you know, I think people
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  are going to be surprised by this because I think people
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  know, you know, my allegiances in in the in the Women's Super
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  League, in the English Premier League, on the men's side of
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  football lie with Manchester City Football Club.
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  They're my first, my first footballing love.
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  So I think it's important for me to mention this.
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  Do you know what I like about this Manchester United side?
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  No. Not a God damn thing.
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  I cannot wait for SK Braun to, figuratively speaking, cave
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  their heads in and knock them out of the Champions League.
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  They don't deserve to be there. Braun deserves to be there.
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  I can't wait for it. I mean, I think that this is
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  this is where we've been leading to.
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  We had to sit on the sidelines as Braun supporters last year,
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  you know, but as you know, the the into the channel Braun
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  Battalion honorary members that we are, that was that was a
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  tough 12 months. You know.
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  Didn't like it? Arsenal.
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  Arsenal winning the Champions League?
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  Soften the blow. Sure, that helps.
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  Helps for you, yes. Now we're back now.
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  Oh, and you're missing your Manchester City that you
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  mentioned. Not, not in this, in this
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  tournament, this competition. So now you're invited.
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  Your heart just must be pulsating.
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  Yeah, what what else do I got, buddy?
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  I mean, this is this is it for me.
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  So you know, when the draw happened, I, I woke up, I had an
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  alarm set for the draw, which happened at 3:00 AM Pacific Time
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  a few weeks back. I woke up to 55.
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  I watched the draw shake out. I think it was the Austrian team
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  was one of the first ones drawn. I was like, what would have
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  liked to play them? And then Braun draws draws
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  united. And there was a split second
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  where I was like, wow, isn't that funny how that works out?
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  And then it was just pure excitement because now I get to
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  live even more Manchester United suffering.
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  I love, I cannot wait. All right, man, anything else
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  you want to hit? Anything else we need to hit
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  before we get into this match up?
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  I know we're going to be back after the first leg with some
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  proper recaps. I'm not sure if we're going to,
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  you know, bang through all nine match ups, but we'll definitely
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  get into it. We're going to cover the teams
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  that we feel like have some legs.
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  You know, some of our old friends I think are are in the
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  mix here trying to work their way into that final 18.
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  So we will be back after like one, but anything else you want
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  to hit before we wrap up this SK Bron Manchester United preview
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  I. Believe that was comprehensive
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  enough. Just as comprehensive as SK
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  Bron's victory will be over those sheisty Red Devils from
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  the wrong side of Manchester. You know, I mean, I wouldn't put
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  it past Bron to to just give them an ass whooping and then
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  put them on a plane back to Manchester themselves.
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  Yeah, we'll show your broke ass club owner how to actually
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  operate a real football club. Oh yeah, all right, man, I
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  cannot wait. All right, man, I think we did
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  it. There's been another mini
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  episode been to the channel. Thank you for watching,
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  listening, hanging out. If you enjoyed the show or love
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  us and fall as much as you boys do, make sure you can go with us
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  socials except one and showing us this episode.
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  Thank you for rocking with us again with this mini episode and
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  thank you to my coaches as well, Mr. Grant Engel for bringing.
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  I mean, I'm not sure if if you get labeled a fashion icon very
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  often, but I, I like what you've done here from a fashion
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  standpoint, You know, like just letting everybody know what this
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  show is about, what you're about, what we're about.
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  And for that, and for many other reasons, I appreciate you bro.
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  Likewise, buddy, thank you for the kind words.
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  You know, I had to, you know, I scoured the Internet.
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  I knew Bron had black jerseys somewhere.
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  Even then, this is probably the most color I've worn in several
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  months. But you know what?
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  Sometimes you got to do it for the team.
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  You got to do it for the show. And that's why we appreciate all
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  of you for rocking with the show.
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  It's not possible without you. Please drop some more knowledge
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  in the comments. Help me with the pronunciations
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  of these names. I can't believe I butchered
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  Eric. Who's Klep in the opener of the
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  show? Please forgive me for that.
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  He's an assistant coach for men's bronze team.
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  Bronze men's team right now, as a matter of fact.
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  So who's Klep? The legend?
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  Shout out to him. Hopefully, hopefully that that
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  goal scoring mantra, that goal scoring energy continues on the
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  women's side and we will see you all next time.
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  Shout out to the who's.