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S3 Ep8 - Trinity FC 3 - Brooklyn 0 · Pegasus

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: There is a striker in Fair Park, and Jasmine is her name.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, H A M I D.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: H A M I D, H A M I D, and Jasmine is her name.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yes! All right.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: This is a Pegasus post match after Dallas Trinity beats Brooklyn Football Club, three goals to nil.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um we are on the Jasmine song tonight.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: She got the third.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: We've got a win.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm so happy.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, saving a little hope for a day like today, and uh and it just paid off.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Jesse Madsen.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: As mostly usual, tonight I've got such a great guest.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um they are back.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they you last you heard from them, they uh Dick gave us an update in the preseason.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: We've got Alex back.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, good to see you, Jesse.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh man, I we were talking about it before before we started recording it.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's such a relief, right?
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know, draw two losses.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: The vibe is relief.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: The vibe is relief.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um we were so up, and then like we're here in cold beer.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: So set the scene, we're here in cold beer company, as usual.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: And it really is a sense, normally you've you normally, or the way it would work, right, if this is a movie.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: This is the movie and you're like making the thing, everyone's piling into the bar, and it's like, what give me any song to sing, give me anything to drink, give me any person to hug, give me anything to jump to, anything to like just get, but like there's just like a weight lifted, I feel like.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: And it's also super hot.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_01: Man, talk about super hot.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we we lowered the temperature a little bit, but then cranked up the humidity at the cotton bowl.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: Once again, absolutely no air blowing.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I feel way worse for the players that than I do for us.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um we got the finally got the drink break.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we did finally get a hydration break.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: But but yeah, there is this sense of just relief that we not only it's the first win of the season, of the sprint season.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's the first time that we've really seen the vision of this club and the players on the pitch kind of mesh together.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: We were talking about this earlier, Jesse, of where, you know, the first three matches we laid into the possession game, and you saw it a lot in the first half of every match where, you know, we're doing a 70-30, 65-35.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: And against the worst team in the league, we we chose to have more of like a what was it, like 55-45 style possession game.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: We did.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: We still controlled it, but it was way more methodical in that control and being willing to take the counters more aggressively than we have in the past.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we find a we found a dial, the like a dial, the the right dial of of control and expression like early on.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: We were, you know, uh when we wanted to uh kind of pick up the tempo, they were able to do it.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: When they saw the space and behind, they were really trying to get at it and really exploit it.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: And that's how the two goals came early, and they kind of came kind of like run one right after another.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: But I think that no, I think you're right.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: It was like we weren't going for this full-on dominating, you know, just just pen them in.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Allow Brooklyn to be real comfortable, right?
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: That was the thing, like a problem for the last three games, was like we were kept allowing the opponent to be real comfortable and get set in their defense.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: Set in their defense and and all and keep us at arm's length.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: But no, like we were we were combining the the the short pass game.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: We invited them a lot on early.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: We almost let one in real early from from from playing out the back.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it could have the whole match could have played out way differently.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, that that was terrifying.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: That was terrifying that early, you know, we were playing out the back, we were playing out the back, and we end up almost like almost putting it in our own net, but it's it didn't, it felt like we were about to put it in our own net.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: But but even if we had done that, our opponent was just not up for it tonight.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like to a player, to the tactics, everything.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, you're talking step.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: What was it?
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: Three goals for Trinity, uh, three yellow cards that should have been way more for Brooklyn.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I got a town, but they had so many yellow cards, they couldn't play with us, and that that was a good thing.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: We were a step ahead the entire match.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_01: And and it really showed on the pitch of just taking uh what I would say is like going away from a possession for possession's sake game and really turning it into what what we've heard Lee Wen talk about, which is a control game.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: We controlled not just the ball, but we controlled the pace of the game for all 90 minutes.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: And and being able to control that pace is so much more important than actually having the ball at your feet at any given moment.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's so much fun to get the reward, and we got the reward.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's so much fun, but there's also just relief, and we got it.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: That first goal um it kind of it's not that I don't want to say like came out of nothing.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: It came out of like a pretty good that that really good sequence of having the ball and like really being a sure in what we're gonna do.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: To me, the goal was set up in a little and let's like start with the changes in the lineup.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: There wasn't really there wasn't much change in the lineup, but it was some shifting around, moving around.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: We saw Jasmine on the uh starting wide right, and well not starting right wide, playing the whole game at wide right.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: It felt like normally she was through the middle.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: It felt like we were playing more of a four up front style game instead of having the false nine.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we like rearranged that front four, I think, and that we were able to like really exploit Brooklyn, and that's how the that goal game came where like we got it out wide right to Jasmine.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: No one can run with her out out there.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: No one can run with her generally, but that was a really I think a really important change for tonight.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: Not that Jasmine Hamida is out of her depth or shouldn't be through the middle, but that change.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: She plays better on the wing.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm say better, but like I think we profited more of what she can do fully tonight more than any other match because she moved to the right.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we want to bring her back to the middle for some else, but it really worked tonight.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, I mean, and absolutely until we have Ally Cook back, like we need somebody playing uh a more traditional striker role, especially as we get get up against tougher opponents.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: But um, like you said, you know, um we had uh Gamaro finally get her first goal in in Trinity.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh she kind of recovered the ball off of a weird pass and just beautifully laid it in where the keeper was never gonna get it.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: About 20 minutes later, we had Seven get her first goal.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh first goal of her career.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, second.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's right.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: Second goal.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um but still just fantastic work in the first half hour, in the in the first half of the first uh of the first half.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: And then it just turns into the getting Jamie Sh Jamie Shepherd on the assist for the seven, for seven's goal.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: I I I've been a little skeptical on Jamie Shepherd in that in the midfield.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: We've seen her mostly in that midfield too.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: She I think she's I think she's um I think she's been if we were gonna say like a weaker link in what we've been doing, I think she has been, but it wasn't tonight at all.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like she should have got the assist on that seven goal, and um it was good for her.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, like you said, that 30 minutes of work, we were getting all the reward, something we weren't getting in the last three games, is getting the reward for what we were doing.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I think it was finding the balance, like you said, of not just controlling, but knowing when to when to dictate the play and to pick the tempo up and to and to move the move the ball quickly through the through the lines and through the thirds and like get it into a dangerous area.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: You you talk about tempo, and I think that that's probably the biggest thing that I noticed tonight compared to the first part of the season is it really felt like Dallas just kind of would be able to take the ball and do exactly what they wanted with it at any given moment.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so, yes, there were times that we played the slow midfield game, right?
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but playing the slow midfield game was always for the end goal of getting into the box.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so there was never what I felt like we saw, especially in the first in the first few games, of like, okay, we're playing the slow midfield game, but we're building to nothing, and then we peter out, and then we end up just allowing a uh a nasty counter on the back end, right?
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I think a big part of that was um Beckman tonight.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's talk about her first because you know, she's got this role where she's got duties on the in going the other way, so she's kind of nominally part of our back four as the right back.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: But she's she tucks in and she's kind of showing showing in the midfield, you know, when when when one of our midfielders are pushing on, she's filling in and there's a lot of rotation happening.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: She did all the dirty work tonight, right?
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know, every single time that Brooklyn looked like they might start settling in with possession, you had Beckman just go in and poke her foot in and get the ball back in in Dallas' possession.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um it it was a really beautiful thing to see of like, you know, she she wasn't fully around the pitch, like just up and up and down uh the wings, but anytime the ball was anywhere near where she was going to be, she was gonna find her foot on that ball.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: So versatile, like whatever the moment needed, she she would could do tonight.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I think we've saw that in the I think we've saw that in her as a player, Chris Abeckman, in the prior three games, but we just weren't getting the reward for it.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just it kind of makes you feel and want to talk about her more because you get the re we all get the reward and get the all the good uh you know, the good result and everything.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: But but yeah, like she was so critical in I kept thinking like Brooklyn thinks they're about to get this thing, they're about to get this ball from us.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: And sh whatever the whenever the ball came in her area, maybe the pass from Sydney Cheesman, maybe the pass, maybe the pass from Sophie Braun wasn't on point, maybe from her partner inside, Jamie Shepard or Sophia Sidani.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the pass wasn't just right, but she was constantly just keeping like I kept thinking like Brooklyn is like this cat, right?
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: We've got the ball in the string.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it was just like, nope, every you know, like tonight.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: You're not getting it tonight, you're not gonna win this one.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's gonna be.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we're gonna then turn this around because you just tried, we're gonna beat you in behind now.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: And Chris Beckman for me is just like all over up and down.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: And and I think Beckman's also a good emphasis on the physicality that Dallas played tonight, you know.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: I think we've always lauded this club in the first two seasons of being a clean team, right?
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: A team that plays the game the right way.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: Brooklyn's never been that we'll will rush that to the side.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: But on top of playing a clean game, um, our players also just are more physically imposing than they have been in the first two seasons, especially in the midfield.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's being physical, like what we saw with Brooklyn, and then there's being like physical in your technique.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: And our girl our there was a gravity.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, our girls have got all the technique.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: So it's about, you know, your balance and like how you're getting your ball body and like every single time, even though we're we're typically a smaller, we're typically out, you know, we're not the we aren't the most physical, but we've got the technique, and then but but they're not afraid, right?
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: They're not shying away.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um and yeah, Krista Beckman for me, um, we can talk about like who else?
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um I like Cam.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: So Cam through the middle, we normally saw her out wide.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: So many hockey assists tonight, like are things that would lead into an assist that just didn't quite make it in.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: And she had her match met, she met met her match tonight with their number six, yeah, who was just like all over, like fouling all over the place.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, I think she should have been off around like 60 minutes because she's just barging through, and we're turning her, we're turning her around, and she's getting real desperate, and Cam was integral to all that.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Cam was winning headers against uh uh another player that's six inches taller than her, like so Cam, and then just the front the back to front tempo.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: That's what we were missing these fret last three games is like that tempo of like knowing when to take up to to have the possession, but knowing then like okay, this is the where one where we're gonna find the space in behind.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I think we just found it tonight.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: Annika Gomero, like we let's go back to her because she's so young, she's such such a promising talent from Bay FC.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: Bay FC, I think.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that that sounds correct.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: From Seattle, I don't think.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: From Bay FC.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: I think the the biggest thing with Gamero, and if I didn't talk about it on the podcast, I talked about it in in the preseason leading into the season.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's that, you know, I think she was our last signing onto the team and has already made herself a starter, which goes to show the level of talent that she has.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: But when she gets into that final third, especially when she gets into the box, she she has the tendency to be a little do a little too much with the ball before she takes a strike.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: And tonight she didn't do that.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: And and I think it goes to show that sometimes that kiss mentality, the keep it simp, keep keep it simple, stupid mentality is like so important.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: And it's a hard thing to unlearn from your college days of where you're dominating the game and then you get into a professional league, and it's like I don't have time to get fancy with the ball right now.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: I just need to shoot it.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: And she did that tonight.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: So many times she has such a she has such as such a high ceiling, I think.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like what she can be as a player, as a winger, like a pure winger.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I wanna be, I wanna like you know, I wanna be on that field.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's all right.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um I wanna be on the I w I wanna be like, you can do it, you can do this.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like so many times she's isolated on that on that Brooklyn defender tonight, and there is it's not over you may have said overcomplicate.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: I think I see something like an indecision where this defender is cannot live with her.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: And so many times where she's kind of waiting, you know, for a defender to do something where it's just for someone to bite, yeah.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: She's she's got the pace, she's got the move, and it's just like you just need to like be assured and do it.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: And but it was just so good for her to get the goal, and she's such a great outball.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um It was just good for her to get the reward.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so like a great first half.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: The second half starts.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Brooklyn makes one change.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: We have a we have a little trouble, I think.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: We're we we're we f where the balance we were finding in the first half was helping us.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: We weren't really finding, we weren't profiting from the balance in the second half, but I couldn't really figure out why.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: I think we were trying to play like kind of some loose balls in behind where the where Brooklyn's keeper, we kept kind of just putting it in the keeper's hands, right?
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: We kept trying to play a ball into seven and behind a space, but it kind of you know it would run to the keeper, and then you know it's better.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: It was better.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: We're not we weren't under pressure in our own box, like a little bit like we had in the first half, but like it was better to lose that ball up there, but we weren't it was a little worried because by not making it three, now it sounds greedy, but by not making it three, their changes came.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: Their changes came first, and then we had we struggled a little bit after they made their changes, I think.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um they grew into the game a little bit, and there was to me, I felt there was a little bit of if we allow one here, we could be in a little trouble.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I think you saw mid-game adjustments from both clubs, and they both did what they wanted, right?
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Brooklyn was responding to the way that we played in the first half, and we uh decided to not not do a full on park the bus, right?
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we decided, you know what, if we're going to give up possession, we're gonna give up possession in the final third, and we're gonna continue to get the ball in the final third.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: And if it doesn't amount to a goal, then that's okay.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_01: We'll we'll live with that.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be a little bit less set in our place, we're gonna be a little bit more free-flowing, like you said.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: But I think that that was a tactical decision, understanding the level at play that you're going against, and knowing that Brooklyn's unlikely to be able to respond.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and we ran a clean sheet.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: They weren't able to respond.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: I just think there was a there was a probably pro I think about a 20-minute period in that second half for me.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: It was like they do their subs, we do some subs at the same time, like right at 64, 65.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: And it didn't quite work for us as much as it worked for them.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like our possession game.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: I think I think it's kind of natural.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: First of all, like you're putting our subs into what we want to do is really technical, really like rhythm-based, and the subs are coming in, and it messes with the rhythm.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: It messes with the rhythm, and they are also playing with because we can't sub everyone, right?
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: They're also playing with a lot of players with now 60-70 minutes on their legs.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um we're not able to like relieve a lot of pressure right away.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: And we're playing in early September, right?
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: So like, you know, the players that normally would have a lot of stamina right now, they're playing in the tail end of the heat of summer.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Four matches into a lot of their legs were uh, you know, like Sophia Sedeño, like a lot of these players, a lot of these players, this is like their this is their first pro level.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: Now four matches in a row.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I think that there was like 20 minutes where there wasn't there wasn't like a lot of peril for me, but but I couldn't I was I was just worried that this thing that we had, right?
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: These two goals, two goals to nil, that we've seen this before, and we allow something in.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: We we're we're we're not grabbing it, right?
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: We allow one in, and then I I don't know.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's you're scarred by what's came before.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: You're well and trust me, like I I could see the threat building, and if they got the right chance and they got it on target, that they could really hurt us, they could get they can make it 2-1, and then we've seen it before where late on they can get a now they're in a shout, in within a shout, and they'd be happy with a draw.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: But, but, but, but we finally get some joy with Jasmine, the free.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: We do, we do.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: And it's 88.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's not finally at 88.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: So we have this rocky 20 minutes or 20, 25 minutes, and it finally comes with Jasmine, and it's such a well-taken goal.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's such a it's such a center forwards goal, even though she didn't start on the uh and center forward.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's exactly the type of goal after she missed a pen last week, right?
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: To have this confidence to run down the field, beat a player, and then beat the keeper.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: And not just that, but for me as well, it was a welcomed and long-awaited uh assist from Sidney Cheesman.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: Cheesman, as a defender, you know, I think naturally a midfielder, but playing defender to start all of this season.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: She's got such a range of passing.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: She does.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: And that through for her was, I think, probably one of the most beautiful through balls I've seen in this league.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, just perfectly on target, perfectly on mark, got Jasmine in stride.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: Jasmine got to keep the ball going for the final third, and then just sink it in with nobody around her.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: No, like there was no one catching her.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: The ball, the ball to removed like two, three defenders, and then Jasmine did the rest.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: There was no catching up with her, like, at all.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: The ball and Jasmine, they were away.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: And it was just a relief.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: The third is game over.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: Because they get the one, it's two-one, it can be a little dicey.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: Some people call that the worst uh the worst uh the worst score line in in football is a two-one lead.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um and they uh they call it like two's nil, and the two-nil is because you can the opponent can make it two one, and then it's like, well, yeah, now it's right for you now.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and and we've seen that, right?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: Not at 2-0, but we but we saw it at 1-0 at the first match of the season, right?
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: We we were up one nil, we felt like we had possession the entire match, and then at the 90th plus five.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Something ridiculous like that, we we lose.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: Or I we draw, you know.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: And and it feels like a loss when you do that.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it would have been devastating tonight.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: But to get the third was such a relief.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: Well and and that's after Brooklyn, I mean, honestly speaking, got two balls in the back of the net that they got called offside for.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know?
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, those are things that they were the right calls.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: They they were the right right play at that time.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: But, you know, a bad call that we've seen plenty of times.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad you reminded me of those because that's part of the peril of that 20 minutes where we were like, we're like, it might have been coming, but yeah, you're right.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was the idea sometimes that can be like the worst feeling because it feels like a goal is going in or coming in, even though it doesn't count.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's illegal.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: You can't be offside and score a goal.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: You can't be, but that ball still hits the back of the net, and you're like, oh my god, what is about to happen here?
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, um But yeah, just making it 3-0 is such a relief and such a well-taken goal.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: Jasmine and, you know.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: And again, I think, you know, I I think about it this way, right?
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Where coming into this game, we were rated as the second worst team in the league, um, putting air quotes in.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't think you put air quotes in.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think we were actually there.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: But at the same time, you know, Brooklyn is a league of their own when it comes to bad.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: And being able to go in.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um I said that I wouldn't feel happy until 4-0.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm happy with 3-0.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I I think I heard some people prior to the match being happy with a shutout.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: That was not gonna work for me.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: I said at the White Rock that 4-0 is what I wanted.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: I know the sentiment of I want a shutout, but the shutout still leaves the possibility of we've got a draw here tonight.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: You've got to score a goal to win, and we needed a fucking win tonight.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: We we and we got the win, right?
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: And not only was it a win, but it was commanding the entire way through.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that if we can take the lessons learned from the first three games of the season and make them work in the rest of this season, we can be the team battling for fourth place.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: We can we can even possibly lock in fourth place.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: I think everyone talks about this.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: The top three spots in the league are pretty much accounted for at this point.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: But I think that we we can seriously be a team to take pride in three seasons, three playoff appearances.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh all we need to do is to it sounds silly, right?
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: But all we need to do is to continue what we did tonight.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and and hopefully this is, you know, I don't want to get too carried away.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gett I I I don't want to get too carried away.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: The only reason I'm not getting too carried away is because I think there was a sense of relief.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: I was ready to get carried away, but it really is just a relief and a let off to get the reward tonight and get the win and set aside the opponent, and you can only play what's in front of you, and we did.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um what I hope is, and and kudos, and we talked about all the players and that were so good tonight.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: We were what what I hope this is the start of is of this virtuous circle, right?
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: For the players, for the club, for the supporters.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: We get it's to claw something back where there's something positive.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_00: There we can build something positive with this and and go forward.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not thinking too far ahead.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's something like to get, you know, yeah, the goal would be to get back into fourth.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's always the goal here.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: You want to get in the playoffs.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: But my goal really here is like tonight was just to get the start of a virtuous circle happening.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: And you can't do any better than 3-0 at home against against Brooklyn tonight.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Jesse, do you have the stat in front of you?
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: I do not.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: When was the last time we got a win at home?
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: It felt like almost a year ago.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um well, it would have been in fall.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: It would have been um well, at home.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: It would have been the the season uh the end of the season against Fort Lauderdale.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's true, yeah.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: So not quite as much of a drought as I felt like.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: No, but it's still it's still the fifth in like in like w one year.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: One full year.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: The fifth.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: This is the fifth in like one full year win home win.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_01: So let's let's get a few more.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_01: The only you know, I say that, but then we've only got one more home game before it's three straight away.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: Then we have our friendly for the uh State Fair Classical.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: We still don't know who we're gonna play, and I wish we'd know, but you know, I I think I've heard it's a Mexican uh Liga Mexic Mexico team.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: I've heard I've also heard that the holdup is on the other team.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, probably.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um so I'm looking forward to that.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, it's just about like so we've got one more home match.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's like a really good to me.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: That's the That's a momentum builder.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so if if you're trying to keep this virtuous circle going, it's do the business next week.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: Because we're gonna be away in the league.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: And it's gonna be, you know, we all know it's gonna be hard.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it's always hard.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's what that's that's just what we're gonna do.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um but let's make it as easy on ourselves as we can.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: And let's enjoy it.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: I think tonight was so here's another good thing, and we'll close it off pretty soon here.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: A key thing was the players were enjoying the football.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you saw smiles on faces, you saw laughs that you haven't seen.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like it it it was And I think that what they needed was a reward, right?
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: You need the reward to get the joy.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: It can't always be we're just gonna, you know, we're gonna we don't live in a t episode of Ted Lasso.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_00: So you actually really need the get to get the reward from the thing, and they got it tonight, and they were enjoying it.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: And it it feeds back.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: We're enjoying it too.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: So absolutely, you know, um, I think that getting the win is so crucial, not for the club, not just for the club, but for everyone.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: And so let's keep it up.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: Let's do it again next week.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: Let's do it.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: And then let's go from there.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let's keep going.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: Save some hope.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: Keep building this virtuous circle.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's not Ted Lasso, but we can still believe.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: We c we can, but it's not.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're not in that.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: We're we don't live in it.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: And we gotta work for it.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I think we do, and we just keep it going, and and we'll see you next week, Pegasus Busman.