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🇩🇪 Germany Reeling as Sweden Takes Group C | Salute Poland, Denmark | UEFA WOMEN'S EURO 2025 MD11 · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  OK, welcome to into the general podcast.
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  Per mail about 1 So bye. I'm your host, Dino de
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  Suspicious and as always, I am joined by Mike host Mr. Grant
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  Angle. What's up, man?
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  I'm feeling fantastic, buddy. A little unprepared.
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  I got to remove the beer from the koozie as we're doing the
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  intro, but that's OK. We're already 10 days down in
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  this tournament, 10 consecutive shows.
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  This is starting the 11th consecutive show of of 12.
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  Not great with percentages, but I want to say that's got to be
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  somewhere around like the 88% mark somewhere, maybe around 90.
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  I think, I think that puts US 90 plus, I think 9192 range.
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  Yeah. Day 1010 of 12 in the books.
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  Good day of no day 11. Oh my God. 92% just did the
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  math. Case in point, running on fumes
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  here. Day 11 but let's let's get to
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  it, man. Good day of football.
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  Lots to talk about. One match of some consequence,
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  but let's get to it. Where are we going?
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  To get started, I think we must start in the obvious place.
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  It was a big stakes for Group C, Group Charlie, if you will, and
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  it was definitely eventful. Let's go with Sweden for Germany
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  one. I mean the first thing first.
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  Well, it's coupled. One of them is the score line,
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  obviously a massive score line and we'll get to kind of how we
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  got to 4:00 to 1:00. But the other thing is the line
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  up, you know, we talked about it yesterday.
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  What would the line up look like?
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  You know, I kind of put forward the idea from a game theory
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  standpoint. Maybe you don't want to play all
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  your your best players because one scenario that I talked about
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  was you could play all your best players against Sweden and get
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  your ass kicked and then you have to go into the
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  quarterfinals under those circumstances.
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  And that's exactly what happened it.
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  Is, but now do you get, it's a weird thing to say.
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  Do you get a little bit bailed out by the early red card to be
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  like, hey, yeah, we did play all our players.
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  Yeah, we did get our asses kicked, but it's a freak red
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  card in the 35th minute. You know, how are you going to,
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  how are you going to play under those circumstances?
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  I don't think you get any relief at all really.
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  You know, it's kind of one of those things where, you know,
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  like sometimes where there's a boxing match and something
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  nefarious happens and maybe there's a punch, like way after
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  the bell or whatever, and the punch ends up landing.
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  The guy gets knocked out or girl, and it was illegal.
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  There's a disqualification, but the person did actually get
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  knocked out. And that does stick with you.
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  So I think, you know, like the parallel is, yeah, you could say
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  it, but you know, they were down to 1.
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  You know, they just decided that defense kind of wasn't important
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  today. And maybe they had in their head
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  that Sweden, all Sweden needed was a draw.
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  And maybe they anticipated Sweden playing for that draw,
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  but they looked totally unprepared from from a defensive
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  standpoint for sure. And now they have to deal with
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  basically having played, you know, their their whole starting
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  unit and entering the quarterfinals with basically
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  that that taste in their mouth, that kind of having put their
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  first team forward. And then that's the result that
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  they're walking away with. OK, I think that's fair.
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  I want to I want to extend this a little bit.
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  I know you're the Germany guy. You picked him to win this
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  tournament, and you were already feeling a little uneasy after,
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  you know, round two of these group stage matches.
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  What if you're Germany? And maybe This is why I never
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  made it far in athletics. But could we crank up this
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  excuse in the excuse machine of hey, that second goal, that was
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  a freak weirdo goal with a weird bounce?
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  Like I mean we we probably shouldn't even have been down to
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  1 to begin with. No, to be no man.
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  I mean, like, you know, it's it's 18 year old Smela Homberg
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  who ushers her way in, powers the ball away in, you know,
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  like, you know, drives the whatever verb terminology you
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  want to use muscles the ball into into the back of the net,
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  you know, just off sheer will, you know, and I thought that
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  that goal was perfectly emblematic of of what the the
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  match looked like to that .1 team really wanted it.
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  One team sort of wanted it. You know, I thought Sweden
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  wanted the game. They wanted to send a message
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  and Germany wanted to play a little offense, didn't really
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  want to play defense at all. And the third goal, you know,
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  you talked about the Vomser red card, which was, which was
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  pretty devastating because I think Vomser's been really,
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  really exciting as a player kind of stepping in.
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  You know, obviously, you know, great save on that play.
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  All, all but very illegal, Highly illegal.
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  She saved. Yeah, sure.
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  But the the the the other point is the penalty kick.
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  Friedland and Rolfo, you know, where you have Katrinberger, you
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  know, kind of like delaying it, you know, turning your back to
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  the play, kind of, you know, just playing little mind games.
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  And Rolfo is just the whistle, step up, bang, like, you know,
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  no, like no pomp and circumstance, just a run up and
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  just cracked it. I feel like Ketchenberger is
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  still kind of bouncing, you know, settling into play in the
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  balls already. Like Pastor.
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  It just was super emblematic of like the attitude that Sweden
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  brought to this one. I think that's fair.
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  OK, I tried. I tried to give you some outs.
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  I tried to give you some off ramps on why you could still
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  have some confidence in in Germany, but you're right.
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  And I'll say, like in my professional life, I often tell
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  the union members I work with, look, if I screw something up,
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  I'm going to be 100% accountable to you guys.
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  If we have expectations of each other when we're like organizing
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  events or like trying to get things done.
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  So I'll be accountable to you. You know, I expect you guys to
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  be accountable to me. We're accountable to each other.
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  I'm not going to be a Dick about it, but let's let's be honest
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  with each other. So it did hurt my heart a little
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  bit to try to really ratchet up the excuse machine for Germany.
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  But I appreciate your sturdy, yes, on that, that you weren't
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  going to make excuses for him. The I just can't believe Cena
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  Blaxenius was that wide open. Can we just talk about that for
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  a second? On the first goal, Like you're
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  up one nil. You get a good goal from you,
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  LeBron, you're Germany. You look real good in those
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  first 7 minutes. And yeah, we should.
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  I'm dying a thirst over here. Why was Cena Blaxenius?
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  You mentioned Cena Blaxenius. And I immediately was like,
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  let's celebrate, OK? Yeah, I mean, Cena Blaxenius,
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  this immediate grounds for a celebration in this household
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  for sure. I'm rocking my understandable
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  sweater as a, you know, obviously, of course.
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  Cheers. Cheers to Tina.
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  Cheers to the football. Cheers to quenching thirst.
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  Absolutely. I I mean when she receives the
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  pass, I think it was from Aslani.
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  I want to say I think so. Yeah, I was.
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  Like it took me like I my brain had to compute.
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  I was like, is she offside? But she was so clearly not even
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  close to offside. Like I had to think about it for
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  like a half second and then be like, Nope, just completely
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  alone in the center of the field.
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  Yeah, that was wild to see. And that's the one thing you
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  can't let Blaxenius do, you know, is have space and have
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  time. You know, the book on black
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  Xenius, you want to crowd her. You want to kind of like, make
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  her look comfortable, get off her spot.
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  You know, we saw what she was able to do in the Champions
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  League final when she's able to pivot, turn, find a little
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  space. And this was she had a ton of
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  space and a ton of time and great finish.
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  You know, you're used to seeing Blaxenius.
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  I don't want to say it's 5050. She's a good finisher.
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  But that one was clinical. You know, zero chance for for
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  Beargard to stop it and a great response.
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  You know, after falling down one nil.
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  That was the other thing. You know, you get up there, the
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  early goal to bronze and it seemed like, I don't want to say
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  that was part of Sweden's game plan, but they seemed completely
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  unfazed, like nothing changed. They still were like, we're
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  going to defend, we're going to let you enjoy some possession
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  because we know what we want to do.
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  We're not going to panic, you know, just because you have the
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  ball in the final third and you know, you're facing the, you
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  know, the goal. So I thought really, really
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  great response from Sweden. But that was the story of the
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  day. They showed up super, super
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  ready to play. It would be an insane level of
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  rope. A dope to use another boxing
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  term if I may try if they allowed Germany to score first.
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  But you're totally right though. I mean they were absolutely
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  unfazed possession in the first half.
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  And honestly, like if we're going to be looking at stats in
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  this match, I think we're pretty much looking at at least from my
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  perspective. I'm curious your your thoughts
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  there. But I'm just looking at the
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  first half stats like it's pretty you're in a rough spot
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  down a player against Sweden. And your pal Christian Book said
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  pretty much the same post match. But yeah, I mean, it was Germany
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  53, Sweden 47. I don't think it was much
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  different than that before the red card.
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  But yeah, I mean, 7 total shots, four of them on target and four
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  big chances created by Sweden, according to our pals at Fatlop,
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  just in that first half alone. So you're totally right.
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  And it was up and down. I mean, you know, Germany had
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  their chances too, but Sweden just looks.
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  Can you say they looked more confident?
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  It's kind of what it what came across to me.
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  They look more confident. I think I it's, it's reminded me
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  of the celebration after the first goal, the Black City
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  School where it was like very like, all right, you know, we,
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  we got that one. Let's like, like, let's keep it
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  up. You know, job's not done a lot
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  of work to do. I really do key in on these
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  cellies kind of piece together, you know, what the vibes are
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  like and kind of like game situation, how things are
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  feeling. But I think it it does also, you
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  know, start defensively with Sweden.
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  I think we've seen them put forward really, really good, you
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  know, defensive performances. And in this one they it was a
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  little bend, but don't break, you know, like they Germany had
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  I think two or three chances like even before EU LeBron goal.
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  But I I kind of like what Sweden was doing from a positioning
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  standpoint. I think they were pretty
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  patient. I think they're figuring stuff
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  out with that attack and the defense I think is good enough
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  to kind of carry them. You know, you put them in the
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  final, I think their defence is is good enough to kind of carry
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  them there. The flip side, you look at
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  Germany defensively, I think a lot of questions, the Vomser,
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  you know, suspension that's going to come with that red
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  card, an absolute nightmare for that team, you know, because
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  Vomser was having a good game in this one as well.
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  Yeah, and Vomser looked good when she kind of got thrust in
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  the position to take over for Julia Given in the first match.
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  We both talked about Vomser in the second match as well.
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  So now you're down, you're #1 and #2 right back.
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  And let's just do a quick recap here.
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  You know, Germany now finishing second in Group C.
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  They're going to have to go on and play the winners of Group D
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  That will, I mean, I guess it's hard to say.
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  There's a lot to play for tomorrow.
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  But if if France avoids losing to Netherlands, they're going to
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  win the group. And let me tell you something,
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  if you're down, you're #1 and #2 right back, the last team in the
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  world you want to see is Spain, because Spain is always the
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  answer to that question. But the second to last team I
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  think you might want to see in the world might be France,
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  because let's think about who they could be running out there.
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  On the left side, you have Melvin Millard, who's looked
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  good in spots, but more notably a player by the name of Sandy
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  Baltimore who could just destroy your right back or whoever you
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  put back there. But then you think about that's
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  the Basha side also. And then you think about earlier
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  in this group stage, how good Sakina Karshawi looked operating
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  in that side of the field. So if you're Germany and you,
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  you know, match up against France, you know, you're right
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  back is going to have to really hold up in that scenario.
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  I got some ideas, but I'm, I'm curious kind of what you're
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  thinking that's going to look like for Germany.
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  Baltimore is just terrifying thinking about Baltimore going
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  at at that spot defensively. The problem with Germany is
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  they're not seeing any success in the center of the park on
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  offense. So it's pretty much their entire
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  offense is pretty much Clara Boule on one side and you LeBron
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  on the other. And that central channel, you
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  know, this match, they tried Fry, Gang, Schuler, you know,
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  they're trying to make that work.
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  It was Dahlman before that, and then it's Nuskin Sands behind
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  them and that that part, that part of their their their whole
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  vibe is kind of breaking down. I feel like their only shot
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  might be to maybe drop a player deeper and just kind of add an
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  extra body defensively and try to play that kind of match.
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  I think the other thing that they didn't do today versus
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  Sweden was try to string together past.
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  I thought I thought Jen Beatty like, you know, on the telecast
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  was like, I think they got to go a little quicker, you know, try
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  to hit on the counter, catch Sweden, you know, sleeping a
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  little bit. And I I didn't totally agree
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  with that because they've got skilled players.
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  They've they've got players that can hold and move the ball and
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  you know, they can score in a four on five situation.
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  They just can't, you know, they've got the skill to do
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  that. I like them a little bit less to
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  kind of go over the top and like kind of catch you off guard.
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  But I think defensively they're going to have to, you know, just
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  pack it in really because they they they're not really finding
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  success in the central channel on offense.
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  So you might as well just kind of shut it down and and really
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  try to win a one NIL game ultimately if you're if you're
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  playing that that high-powered France offense.
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  Yeah, I wonder if it's a Dolman game instead of Fry Gang or I
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  wonder. I mean, you know, after the red
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  card, you know, they brought in Cindy Lohman.
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  I don't think she made a ton of difference though.
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  But I mean, obviously she was in a rough spot thinking about that
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  right back spot. I want to go back to that real
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  quick. So it also put your guy
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  Christian Burkett, he had to make a tactical decision at
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  halftime and that was taking off Rebecca Kanak because she's on a
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  she was on a yellow card. And so if she would have got
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  another yellow and got suspended for, you know, because I mean,
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  her yellow wasn't in this match, but it's the two yellow card
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  accumulation, if she would have got another yellow card after
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  halftime, it would have been just catastrophic.
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  Like you cannot lose that many defenders going into the
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  quarterfinals. So he had to take her off.
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  He brought on Katherine Hendrick from Wolfsburg, you know, 33
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  year old defender and she seemed to be occupying that right hand
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  side. By no means is she a bad option,
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  but I was looking through FB ref our our pals over there, the
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  great stats keeping website. And you know, she's mostly she's
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  mostly playing center back over at at Wolfsburg.
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  And the last time where I saw she was picking up appearances
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  as a right back were the 20/22/23 season for Wolfsburg
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  where she mixed in six appearances at right back
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  between the Champions League and frown Bundesliga.
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  Another option you have, you have Sophia Kleinhern.
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  She had 20 plus appearances at right back in 22 in the 2223
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  season, also for Eintracht Frankfurt.
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  And those 20 plus appearances that was between the Champions
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  League, found Bundesliga and even a couple matches for
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  Germany sprinkled in there. So you know, she might be an
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  option. Linder has played some right
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  back. She played I think she was
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  listed at right back around like four or five times in the 2425
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  season. But she's your left back for
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  Germany. So I don't think, I don't think
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  you should move her her over there.
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  So let me you know, I'm following along with with kind
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  of where you're at. I don't think this team's got a
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  shot and I don't care if it's France or England, they're done.
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  They're absolutely done. I think offensively they can't
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  hurt you through the centre. Like it's pretty much just
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  bronze or you know, Clara Bull on the other side.
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  But we we talked about Shuler, the limitations there.
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  Honestly, it doesn't matter if it's Dahman.
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  I think Fry Gang had an awesome season, obviously in town
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  Bundesiga, but I don't think that's her position either.
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  You know, like like putting her in the 10.
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  That's not naturally where where she goes.
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  So I I think this team is sort of cooked.
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  If you can sort of like protect against, you know, the the the
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  attack from the wings. I just don't think Germany can
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  hurt you. And then the defensive issues,
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  even still, like all those names that you mentioned, huge
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  limitations with all of them. Henrich, like we saw her really,
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  really struggle at Wolfsburg at center back, you know, so you,
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  you put her here like there's some cog in the system that's
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  not really working to the point where we can really envision
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  this team. Even for me reaching the
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  semifinals, I just can't see this team beating another
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  knockout team in the tournament. All right, so you're full.
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  You're fully out. OK, I'm on the record.
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  I'm out. All right, Well, I'm so you
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  know, I'm sorry it ended this way.
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  I will say there is that there was that one Leia Schuler volley
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  that was just wide of the right post, like in those in those
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  first 10 minutes that that I literally stood up off my couch
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  because that would have been a super sick goal.
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  And you always wonder. Yeah.
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  And like you always wonder like, what if that goes in though?
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  Does it change like her confidence?
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  Does it change how she's playing like moving moving forward?
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  Like I sometimes, you know, number nines, they can be
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  streaky that way. So I'm a little surprised that
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  you're that you're completely out.
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  But it you know, it's not without merit.
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  I mean, they were to your point, they look like they were in a
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  little bit of trouble. Even if you could qualify the
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  second goal by Homburg as unlucky.
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  Well, they were still under duress in the in that point.
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  So I think I I think I understand your pessimism.
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  Yeah, I mean you. You let Homburg drive all the
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  way to that point, you know, it's like, you know, you let
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  Steena blacks Indians drive all the way to that point
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  undefended, just a one on nobody yet, you know, just like, let's
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  see, you know, it's like AI mean, right.
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  It would be more difficult. Yeah.
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  It would have been more difficult if there was if there
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  was a couple codes out there for.
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  But yeah, I, I don't think, I don't think Germany can can
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  really hurt you. And I, I really do think that
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  the confidence, you know, you mentioned the confidence of what
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  happens if the Schuler goes in. I think the confidence of this
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  this side has to be wrecked. You know, like they know just as
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  good as we know, they weren't anywhere near the level of where
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  they needed to be to be able to compete in that match.
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  And they played their first team and now they're going to be
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  playing the Group D winner. So something's going to come out
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  of tomorrow's football. Flying really high, just being
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  like, OK, wow, that that group of life, like we cleared all of
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  it. And, you know, there there's the
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  added, you know, cost. Essentially.
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  Germany now plays in that Saturday matchup.
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  They're in the last slot of the quarterfinals, which means if
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  they were to take it to the final, now that's truncated, you
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  know, they would have either played on Saturday or they would
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  have played on Thursday. So now Sweden plays Thursday,
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  Germany plays Saturday. So if they're going to make a
• 18:42
  run to the final, that's kind of like 2 less days of of rest down
• 18:46
  the stretch here, even though they get a little bit more rest
• 18:49
  on the front end. But ultimately, I don't think
• 18:51
  it's going to matter. I think that Group D winner is
• 18:53
  going to come in flying high and then really be able to put a
• 18:56
  hurt on that Germany team. I could definitely see it
• 18:58
  happening. And you know, so if let's say
• 19:02
  Netherlands beats France and England beats Wales, and let's
• 19:08
  say Netherlands does not beat France by seven goals, they, you
• 19:13
  know, they don't beat him by a touchdown.
• 19:15
  OK then. OK.
• 19:17
  Then then, then England wins the group and who does your, you
• 19:23
  know, kind of makeshift right back?
• 19:25
  And you know, again, yeah, like no disrespect to Catherine
• 19:28
  Hendrick, but like, you know, she's not, she's not getting a
• 19:31
  ton of time at right back. Who who does she match up
• 19:34
  against? Lauren Hemp, who let's just say
• 19:37
  will probably go out there in attack mode because I'm pretty
• 19:39
  sure Lauren Hemp lives her entire life in attack mode.
• 19:42
  And you know, if I'm Serena Wiegmann in that spot, I'd be
• 19:46
  like, hey, LJ, how can you drift over to that side a little bit
• 19:49
  and just, you know, make some stuff happen, maybe play some 1
• 19:51
  twos with Lauren Hemp and just kind of see what happens there.
• 19:54
  So yeah, you know, they, they could be in trouble, whether
• 19:56
  it's France or England. I do when you talk about them
• 20:00
  being cooked, them not having a ton of confidence.
• 20:02
  I want to get to this quote. I didn't see all of his quotes,
• 20:05
  so Full disclosure on that. But here, here is one that I
• 20:08
  picked up. I think this one, I saw this on
• 20:12
  the BBC, Christian Wough, Germany manager said quote.
• 20:17
  The red card was decisive after the penalty and with one player
• 20:21
  less on the pitch, it was clear that we could not come back
• 20:24
  against this Swedish team in the second-half, changing the
• 20:27
  system, I imagined we could get another chance or two, but with
• 20:31
  one player less and the quality of this Swedish team, it was
• 20:34
  almost impossible to fight them. End Quote.
• 20:38
  I don't think that. I don't think that inspires a
• 20:41
  ton of confidence either. That's so lame.
• 20:44
  That's so lame. Get this fucking guy out of
• 20:47
  here. I did not think you would like
• 20:50
  that quote. What?
• 20:52
  I mean, like, you know, I mean, obviously perhaps the Sweden's
• 20:57
  defense, they were tough and they've been tough in this
• 20:59
  tournament. But this is not the first team
• 21:01
  to get a red card. I mean, I'm sorry, Like the red
• 21:05
  card does not excuse just getting, you know, shellacked
• 21:08
  and putting up basically the worst defeat in the history of
• 21:12
  German football at this tournament.
• 21:14
  You know, like it's it's just simply not an excuse.
• 21:17
  Down 31, down two goals, I would have wanted to see, you know,
• 21:22
  and I and I knew Germany was cooked just by how they were
• 21:24
  playing, just how they responded to getting smacked, you know,
• 21:28
  with even with that second goal, by the time the third goal goes
• 21:30
  in, you know, it's a total wrap. And and now, you know, hearing
• 21:33
  the the quote from, from VOC, like you can understand why why
• 21:38
  that's considered permitting permeating through the dressing
• 21:40
  room. But that's an absolutely an
• 21:43
  opportunity. Like it's a perfect opportunity.
• 21:45
  We talked about this when when I was mentioning what, what, what
• 21:48
  are the line UPS going to look like?
• 21:49
  It's an opportunity to go work stuff out and you're down 31.
• 21:53
  It doesn't really matter. You've already clinched.
• 21:55
  Go out there and try to make stuff happen, like try new
• 21:58
  things, try to connect stuff. See if you can get more than a
• 22:02
  chance or two in, I don't know, 60 minutes of football with, I
• 22:05
  don't know, the German national team like that's.
• 22:09
  Sure. That's unacceptable.
• 22:11
  That's absolutely unacceptable like to go from that to then
• 22:16
  going down another goal and not really getting super close and
• 22:20
  just kind of almost getting pushed further and further out.
• 22:22
  I I looked at one stat that drove me nuts.
• 22:25
  So for Germany touches in the opposition box today, Clara Bull
• 22:31
  7 you LeBron 6. The next person on that list for
• 22:34
  Germany is Sarai Linder with two like come on, man, this is a
• 22:39
  team with nu skin. This is a team with sense.
• 22:41
  This is a team with fry gang. Like, I mean, this is a team
• 22:44
  with Schuler. Like how does Schuler not have
• 22:46
  more than two touches? And yeah, but like, I don't know
• 22:49
  what what's going on there, but to again, to me, this team's
• 22:52
  just got no shot. This is just not not the year
• 22:54
  for this German side. Understandable and something
• 22:58
  told me I I wasn't sure if you saw that quote or not.
• 23:01
  I was like, I don't think Dino's going to like the implications
• 23:05
  of this, of this quote. And let me just let me just go
• 23:07
  back. I did not pull that quote from
• 23:09
  the BBC. It is from the Guardian from an
• 23:11
  article written by Susan Rack. My apologies on that.
• 23:15
  We care about care about accuracy here and you know,
• 23:18
  accountability plays. So my bad on on that.
• 23:22
  It's going to be interesting to see and I think Group D now it
• 23:26
  makes me wonder, I think England was already pulling real, real
• 23:30
  hard for the Netherlands so England could win the group.
• 23:33
  And now with a wounded Germany on the other side, I think
• 23:37
  English fans, they're going to be rooting for Orange even even
• 23:43
  more against France to see if they might be able to to pull
• 23:46
  off. I mean, based on form from last
• 23:49
  match in upset. But really, I'm not going to
• 23:51
  pretend like Netherlands or some plucky underdog even against
• 23:55
  France. Yeah, I, I think actually
• 23:57
  finishing second group does have that benefit.
• 24:00
  I mean, if it's me, I I would rather play on Thursday than
• 24:03
  Saturday just because you don't have to compress so many
• 24:08
  knockout stage games. You know, you're basically have
• 24:10
  to compress them into two fewer days if you end up playing
• 24:14
  Saturday versus Thursday. So if you do finish as the
• 24:16
  runner up tomorrow, that is a benefit for sure.
• 24:20
  I like where your heads at on that because it's funny, because
• 24:23
  I was, I was thinking like when when John Strong in the American
• 24:26
  broadcast was describing it, I was like, Oh, you get shorter
• 24:30
  rest if you were the Group C winner.
• 24:33
  Like I, I thought that was like a little bit of a bummer for
• 24:35
  Sweden. It's like, like, look at us, we
• 24:37
  won Group C. Now we have 2 days fewer rest
• 24:40
  for our next match, which could either be against the European
• 24:44
  title holders or possibly France or Netherlands.
• 24:48
  But it makes sense. I'm glad you you kind of
• 24:50
  illuminated that for me that you want, you want the rest for the
• 24:55
  semi final and the final. So that all makes sense.
• 24:58
  Yeah, for sure. And and that that was another
• 25:00
  missed opportunity for for Verk and Germany was a chance to kind
• 25:03
  of rest, rest some players in this one and you know, see what
• 25:07
  you got down the bench. And yeah, they didn't do any of
• 25:09
  that and ended up in in a little bit of a lose, lose situation.
• 25:11
  But some more football was played today.
• 25:13
  Want to talk a little bit about that one?
• 25:15
  Denmark 2, Poland three. We got some moments in this one,
• 25:19
  which I thought was nice. No real stakes, a bunch of
• 25:22
  cardio. Yeah, I think if you're Denmark,
• 25:24
  you got to be disappointed. Again, another team that was in
• 25:27
  almost all these matches, competitive in almost all these
• 25:30
  matches, but kind of goes home pretty much empty handed.
• 25:33
  And then Poland got to feel great for Poland, the
• 25:35
  debutantes. What what was the experience?
• 25:38
  You know, the Pyor goal That that, that check that one off
• 25:41
  the list. What was the experience kind of
• 25:43
  watching? Well, let's start with Poland
• 25:44
  first. I want to, yeah.
• 25:47
  All right. Speaking of accountability, let
• 25:49
  me just say there's there's accountability, but then there's
• 25:52
  also just considering some context around things.
• 25:55
  So did I predict that Poland would score their first European
• 26:01
  Championship goal? Yes, I did.
• 26:04
  I predicted that. And they did.
• 26:05
  They did so in this match. Now, did I predict it would come
• 26:09
  from Evapai or I did, so I got that one wrong.
• 26:13
  It was scored by Padilla on a nice finish.
• 26:18
  OK, so I got that one wrong. But then I predicted that Pyro
• 26:23
  would score the goal between 25 and 35 and Pyro scored at 20.
• 26:27
  So like little horseshoes, kind of like where it's like that's
• 26:31
  that's close. It's you know, so let me just
• 26:35
  say accountability for getting those predictions wrong.
• 26:39
  But aside from getting everything wrong in in my
• 26:42
  prediction, I came kind of close to getting it right.
• 26:46
  No, I think you nailed it. I mean, much closer than me
• 26:48
  talking about talking about horseshoes.
• 26:50
  I mean, I had Portland winning an extra time, so there you go.
• 26:55
  You definitely bested me there. But yeah, shout out to you.
• 26:58
  Seeing the pyro moment was great.
• 27:00
  Seeing the Pedilla moment and the Poland moment was great too.
• 27:02
  Just getting that first goal. It really, I mean, I hate to,
• 27:07
  you know, kind of we're we're in the middle.
• 27:09
  We're in the midst of an amazing tournament, but it did get me
• 27:11
  excited about what would that be 2029 euros just because I'm
• 27:16
  like, oh shit, we're now we're going to have like if if Poland
• 27:19
  and Belgium and some of these fun teams kind of take another
• 27:22
  step up and you know, kind of kind of fill in some of that
• 27:25
  those talent gaps, kind of like the way Switzerland did a little
• 27:28
  bit with that, with that next generation, that next
• 27:31
  tournament's going to be a real banger.
• 27:33
  Because I think I want to say even in Nations League a couple
• 27:36
  years ago, it felt a little lopsided, but I feel like things
• 27:41
  feel pretty balanced. These games are all pretty
• 27:43
  competitive, even when you know, some of the big dogs are
• 27:46
  participating. But I don't know, got me excited
• 27:50
  about looking, looking ahead and great day for Poland, great day
• 27:54
  for Eva Payor and they get the win.
• 27:56
  That's super exciting. Yeah, I mean, it's great to not
• 28:00
  just get your first goal in in the euro, but to actually get
• 28:05
  your first points out of a euro to get your first result and to
• 28:08
  have your legendary player have a priori get the goal in there
• 28:12
  wearing the captain's armband. She's 28.
• 28:14
  So yeah, in in four years she'll be 32 for this tournament.
• 28:19
  She'll still, you know, I'm sure she'll be even more revered and
• 28:23
  that time and assuming Arsenal and Manchester City don't win
• 28:26
  all the Champions Leagues for the next 4 years, she might have
• 28:30
  a Champions League trophy on her on her shelf, you know, TBD
• 28:34
  there. But yeah, awesome for Poland.
• 28:37
  I think Denmark had had some of their moments, like you said,
• 28:41
  they were in a lot of these games.
• 28:42
  I just would have loved to see more from senior Brune
• 28:45
  personally, because we're like, we've enjoyed watching her so
• 28:48
  much in the Champions League. It was cool to see her get her
• 28:50
  goal and like she almost looked kind of like relieved and like
• 28:54
  had a celly like after it where she was just like, this is more
• 28:58
  like it. Like, you know that.
• 29:00
  I mean, you know, she she's a goal scorer.
• 29:03
  I I wish we had seen it from her earlier, But like that's that's
• 29:06
  tournament football. Not every team's going to
• 29:08
  advance. Yeah.
• 29:10
  And I think Denmark still has to kind of figure out what they're
• 29:14
  doing up top. You know, they had that was
• 29:16
  their their one area where they had a bunch of a little bit of a
• 29:19
  log jam between like pretty harder and Emily Bangs guard
• 29:22
  and, you know, just kind of scrapping for minutes a little
• 29:24
  bit. But you know, senior Bruin,
• 29:26
  another player 27 years old, Real Madrid, who who will
• 29:29
  absolutely be be back for sure. Great to see her get the goal a
• 29:33
  little bit before that. Yeah, Thompson 59th minute gets
• 29:36
  her goal. I thought Thompson, I think, had
• 29:39
  played really, really well. I'm interested to see if
• 29:43
  Thompson is able to bring some of that momentum back to the end
• 29:45
  of USL because that was one of the players to highlight.
• 29:48
  And I think she she basically delivered again for a Denmark
• 29:52
  side that I don't think played poorly.
• 29:55
  You know, I don't think Denmark's going to go back and
• 29:56
  be like, oh, man, like back to the drawing board.
• 29:58
  Like, what do we do? You know, this is a team on its
• 30:01
  journey, you know, and, and it just so happens that there's 16
• 30:04
  really good teams in the field and some teams are just going to
• 30:08
  go home sort of empty handed. You take myself off mute there.
• 30:15
  Yeah, absolutely. And you know, I yeah, it's hard
• 30:22
  to say, right? Because like, yeah, Perneal
• 30:23
  harder. She's 32.
• 30:25
  She has to play. She's still, I mean, she's still
• 30:27
  awesome, right? Like you see it at Bayern, you
• 30:30
  could see it at points in this tournament.
• 30:34
  You know what I and sorry, I was muted there.
• 30:36
  I was trying to make sure I could, I could just do the the
• 30:39
  quick googles. I wanted to see if I could look
• 30:41
  a little more at his history. But I have, I've contained
• 30:45
  myself long enough during this tournament.
• 30:48
  Obviously, Andre, Andre Yeglerts, I should probably not
• 30:55
  stumble over his name. Denmark manager, appointed
• 30:58
  Manchester City Football Club manager coming into this next
• 31:02
  season. So there was some stuff that I
• 31:05
  was like trying to assess. But you know, it's not like
• 31:07
  we've watched a ton of Denmark matches.
• 31:09
  But like you said, they were in it.
• 31:11
  They were in a lot of these matches that they play or the
• 31:14
  three matches that they played. So we'll see.
• 31:17
  I'll be I'll be monitoring that situation closely, let's just
• 31:21
  say. Nice.
• 31:23
  Yeah, No, that that's fair. And I think Sidney Loman too,
• 31:26
  right? Was that announced that she's
• 31:28
  she's headed to city? I don't know.
• 31:30
  Are you breaking news to me right now?
• 31:32
  Oh, no. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
• 31:34
  I saw that. Yeah.
• 31:35
  Yeah, she's in. So that'll that'll.
• 31:37
  Be I'm still so yeah. 25 years old, that's a that's a good
• 31:41
  signing too. A fun signing.
• 31:43
  Yeah, I like that. I'm still so psyched about the
• 31:45
  Iman Beni signing that it's just like I've been blinded by that.
• 31:49
  But yeah, let's let's go. Sid Loman.
• 31:52
  We're we're we're playing on the, you know, we're playing
• 31:54
  football. Let's let's get City back to
• 31:57
  this Champions League. I'm with it.
• 31:59
  All right, quick episode calendar, Group D close out
• 32:02
  tomorrow. That's going to be show 12 of
• 32:04
  12. This will show 11 of 1211 down,
• 32:07
  one to go. We've I think we've officially
• 32:11
  cleaned our spot in the quarterfinals.
• 32:12
  So Congrats to us. Congrats to you as well
• 32:15
  tomorrow. So football going to be played,
• 32:17
  France versus Netherlands in that 12:00 PM Pacific slot
• 32:21
  happening concurrently, England versus Wales.
• 32:24
  When those two acts are said done, we'll know all of our
• 32:27
  eight teams, we'll know all of the match ups, all the
• 32:29
  machinations, and we will be back Wednesday after the first
• 32:34
  quarterfinals match happens to break that one down.
• 32:38
  So definitely keep it locked for sure.
• 32:40
  And yeah, 11 of 12 sleepy boys feeling real sleepy, you know,
• 32:45
  just wheeze into the finish line here.
• 32:48
  So we, we appreciate everybody stick for sticking around for
• 32:52
  that. Anything else you want to hit
• 32:53
  before we get out of here? I think we've done it, my good
• 32:56
  man. We're going to get our our last
• 32:58
  second wind for tomorrow's show. Our 12th wind.
• 33:03
  Please. Yes, exactly.
• 33:05
  Our 12th wind. Let's say let's do the live
• 33:09
  production here. You want to watch France,
• 33:12
  Netherlands and and I'll watch England, Wales tomorrow.
• 33:15
  I think that makes sense. OK, deal.
• 33:19
  You. You twisted my arm.
• 33:20
  I'll watch the Lionesses play. Word all right man, this has
• 33:24
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• 33:25
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• 33:47
  It doesn't matter what happens tomorrow.
• 33:49
  I mean, group of like all the groups.
• 33:51
  We win all the groups. He wins all the groups.
• 33:53
  We win all the groups together. I appreciate you bro.
• 33:55
  It's been a great run. One more one more show in our
• 33:59
  epic 12 shows and 12 group stage match days and couldn't do it
• 34:04
  with anybody else. I appreciate you bro.
• 34:06
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• 34:10
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• 34:14
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• 34:16
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• 34:19
  like we couldn't do the show without you guys.
• 34:20
  Of course we appreciate all the knowledge.
• 34:21
  You're always kicking to us. And yeah, we get one more 12th
• 34:25
  wind. You know, the can we say the
• 34:28
  supporters of the show? We couldn't even say that the
• 34:30
  supporters of the show. We like, we can't do like a
• 34:32
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• 34:35
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• 34:38
  at this point. So absolutely.
• 34:40
  Yeah, we're doing, we're doing this as a team, as you said, all
• 34:43
  of us. We've won all the groups.
• 34:44
  We're onto the knockout stage after tomorrow.
• 34:47
  But let's just see how this shakes out because we could get
• 34:49
  some incredible football, I guess tomorrow.
• 34:52
  But you know, today, for everybody who's listening after
• 34:55
  this thing gets published. So after that long winded
• 34:57
  nonsensical ramblings where 11 shows in, what do you expect me
• 35:01
  to do? We will see you all next time.