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UWCL: Barcelona vs. Manchester City & Arsenal vs. Bayern Munich · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  OK, welcome to into the Channel podcast, primarily about 1
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  the show notes of this episode. I am your host Dino de Suspides
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  and as always, I'm joined by my Co host Mr. Grant Angle.
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  What is up man? I'm feeling all right, buddy.
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  I'm ready to talk about Group D, Group Delta if you're into that
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  kind of thing and even Group C, Group Charlie if you if you want
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  to talk that way. So I'm ready to get into this
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  man. We got, we only have a couple
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  matches with some real stakes, but absolute bangers, absolute
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  elite clubs. Excited to talk about it with
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  you. Copy Where do you want to get
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  started? Nicely done, my good man.
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  Let's start in Catalonia. Barcelona versus Manchester
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  City, a rematch of when Manchester City was good at
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  football and they defeated Barcelona 2 nil in the in the
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  opening match of the group stage.
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  I exaggerate. Manchester City is still, I
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  believe, quite good at football but everybody's hurt and I I
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  would like to hear your thoughts on this before we get into my
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  doom and gloom. I don't not think it's
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  warranted. Obviously, the injuries hurt.
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  Watching them today without Alex Greenwood, pretty painful
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  defensively. I'm not used to seeing just, you
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  know, runners having a field day out there, like, kind of like
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  literally just wherever they wanted to go.
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  Yeah. But some good news, Gareth
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  Taylor told BBC Sport. And I quote, I think it's not as
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  serious as everyone feared, obviously with Alex being
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  stretchered off. We're still awaiting
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  conversation with the consultant just to find out exactly what
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  the time frame looks like. Alex is good.
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  I saw her on Friday and she was feeling a little bit sore,
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  obviously, but she's fine. End Quote.
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  So I think that's pretty encouraging.
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  Yeah. But a lot of injuries across the
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  board, depth we talked about in Part 1 kind of rears its ugly
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  head. But what are the vibes like out
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  in the PNW with regards to this team right now?
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  You know, as a young man, I watched the original Star Wars
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  trilogy dozens of times each. Each episode there's a little
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  bit of a dork, I guess he could probably argue.
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  And there was a rhetorical crutch that they would use.
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  The different main characters used to cross the different
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  movies before something would happen.
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  And it was. I got a bad feeling about this.
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  And I got to be honest with you, man.
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  If you are missing Bunny Shaw, who's not going to return until
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  after the Christmas break, Gareth Taylor said there's no
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  Lauren Hemp, there's no Viv Medema.
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  I check fairly regularly to see what exactly her injury might
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  be. Very sparse details on what the
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  Hell's going on there. So no Bunny Shaw, no Lauren
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  Hemp, no Viv Medema, no Alex Greenwood.
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  Now. Amen.
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  We have some good young players. Lily Murphy obviously looks
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  good. Laura Blinkilda looks good.
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  She's 21. Jess Park is 23.
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  I talk about Lily Murphy. She's a teenager.
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  So you're going to go to Barcelona and try not to lose by
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  two. And I I do not say this to
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  dismiss or disparage my Sky Blues.
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  Barcelona could beat a lot of teams on a good day of theirs, 3
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  or 4 to nothing. And so I think this is real,
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  real rough waters for Manchester City and I think they're on
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  shaky ground of of falling and losing the group to Barcelona.
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  I think I agree with you and the thing that I'm interested in to
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  get your opinion on, we talked about this too with Leona
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  Wilsberg. I mean, their match has no
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  stakes. If you're Manchester City, if
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  you're Garrett Taylor, you have to come in here and see what you
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  could do. Is a nil nil possible?
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  Is a 11 possible? There are pathways to kind of
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  still win this group for City. But if you are Gareth Taylor,
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  you have to imagine that no matter how the seeding breaks
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  out, if you're going to go deep in this tournament with
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  aspirations of maybe getting to the final or winning this
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  tournament, you have to imagine you're going to see Barcelona at
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  some point in the bracket. There's only eight teams.
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  You know, they're going to be there.
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  So what do you do? You know, maybe you don't want
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  to risk maybe more injuries. The season's been, I think, a
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  little bit of a slog. You know, it's Sunday.
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  City played this morning. Now they're they'll be back in
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  action Wednesday, like you mentioned, travelling, you know,
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  into the continent to the Champions, arguably the second
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  best team in the world going to their house.
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  Nicely done. You know, mentally you don't
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  really want to get rolled in that one.
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  Worst case scenario, I don't know, A5 or a, you know, a six.
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  I mean, if Barcelona really gets cooking and defensively, you
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  know, that City backline loses some of that confidence, that's
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  not something that you want to go into the quarterfinals with.
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  How do you think Gareth Taylor kind of balances that?
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  I think it's so tricky because we've seen when teams really try
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  to park the bus, like completely park the bus against Barcelona,
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  then it's just target practice for those players.
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  So if you try, if you're city like if you he were to roll out
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  and I don't think he'll do this, but if he were to roll out like
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  a 541 formation and one of those typical like, OK, we're going
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  straight underdog football, we're going to try to just block
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  everything we can. I think Barcelona's too smart
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  and they're too good at passing and their runs are too creative
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  for you to really sustain that because if you allow them to
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  take 33 shots and 17 of them are are on target.
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  You've talked about their numbers for the past two years
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  now. If they get 17 shots on target,
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  they might score five of them. I think you got to go out there
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  and try to play your game slightly adjusted of look, we're
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  going to play the 4231, but we're going to try to push
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  players out wide. We're going to try to keep the
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  ball out of the danger area. When Karolina Graham Hansen
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  tries to cut inside, Don't let her do that, man, because she'll
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  because once she gets rolling, they just turn into sharks and
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  there's blood in the water and now everybody's going to pile
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  on. I'm telling you, man, I I hate
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  to be a negative Nelly here. So, OK, wait.
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  Let me recharge. Let me recharge.
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  Yeah. OK, Fujino magic.
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  Maybe we lose 2 to one. We can make it happen.
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  That's about as confident as I'm going to get on this one.
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  Yeah, I hear that. I mean, if I had to make a
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  prediction, we'll we'll save for the for the end segment here.
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  But I think we're on the same wavelength.
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  And yeah, just closing your eyes and picturing Graham Hanson
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  cutting across. They're attacking players are so
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  dangerous that if you're a defender, you cannot help but
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  look at Graham Hanson darting across and that's what kind of
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  creates all those angles behind and around and just kind of
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  threw the other way. I mean, they're they're dazzling
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  offensive players that can pretty much do anything.
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  So you see defenses fall to that trap all the time.
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  And that's a great call out too. If you give up too many shots on
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  target, the ball spends too much time in the wrong third of the
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  field. I mean, whether it's Battery or
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  Pina or Beaumati or Alexia, like they're just loaded with
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  players. Kier Walsh, you know, took a RIP
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  last week against Hammerby that that was close.
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  So they're just loaded with players that that are willing to
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  do that. It could get away from City for
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  sure. What do you think about
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  prediction wise? OK, we're back.
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  I'm not going to do it. I'm not picking against him.
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  I'm not picking against him. I like it.
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  I like it. 2 to one Barcelona and it's going to be a Fujino
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  goal that bails us out and keeps us out of all the tiebreaker
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  nonsense. Love it wow there you go city
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  going through it's the one seed. I'm going to go the other way.
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  Hate to do it to you, buddy, that's but I'm going to say 3
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  nil Barcelona, I think it's just a big sister, little sister kind
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  of situation. Doesn't doom city in the
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  quarterfinals. It's a result that's at least
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  respectable, especially considering the injuries.
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  And then both these teams kind of head into the knockout stage,
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  You know, on a on a somewhat positive note, I would say, but
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  I mean, I think you just look at Barcelona, looking at their
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  lineup against Hammerbee, the left hand side, you had Esme
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  Brooks, Claudia Bina, Fridolina, Rolfo.
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  So it's just like, oof, that's there's no relief on that left
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  hand side. And then you go to the right
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  hand side, Ona Battier, Aitana and CGH.
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  Yeah, there we go. Oh.
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  Sure. So no matter where you look,
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  it's terrifying and I think Barcelona gets it done not with
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  ease, but I think they kind of clear the bar.
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  That's fair and I was wondering if we should talk about this
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  when we talked in our last episode, which everybody should
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  watch when we to discuss Chelsea playing Real Madrid in Madrid.
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  This sets up multiple different nightmare scenarios if you're
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  Real Madrid. So let's just say City does pull
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  this out and they stay first in the group and Real Madrid does
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  not beat Chelsea and Madrid draws Barcelona in the first
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  knockout round. Or if something even Dumber
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  happens and Real Madrid beats, Chelsea wins, and then
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  Manchester City keeps Barcelona at Bay and Barcelona is the
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  second place team, and then Real Madrid still draws 'cause
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  Barcelona. It would just be as dumb as it
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  gets and I can't put it past the football gods to somehow make
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  that happen. That would be awful.
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  And then you know, the 2nd place team hosts the opening match, so
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  Madrid would have to go to Barcelona.
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  Oh my God, come on. The quarterfinals, that would
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  just be awful. But you know, we all, it's
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  probably just going to end up being Arsenal and that'll be how
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  my turn to it. Maybe tell you about that one
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  later. All right, so we made our
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  prediction. Speaking of Arsenal, let's shift
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  gears. Group C, Arsenal, Bayard,
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  Munich. This one's in the late slot.
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  Actually, let me rewind a little bit.
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  Shout out to Group D Zeng Polton, they'll be taking on
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  Hammer B to close the book on match day six.
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  We won't be previewing that one. Keep it moving.
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  Stakes is high. That's how we want to keep it
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  here at the ITC Group C Bayern Munich ahead in the group by one
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  point. So basically it's win and you go
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  in as the one seed. If you're Arsenal, Bayern
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  Munich, all they've got to do is draw and they'll retain the one
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  seed. I don't know my, this one might
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  be a little bit too close to my heart, man.
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  What? What?
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  Where's your head at? This is what football's all
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  about, man. Two big clubs head to head with
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  real stakes to determine some seeding.
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  Obviously, you know, two big clubs in a final is really what
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  football's all about, but you understand what I'm trying to
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  get at here. 2 Two big clubs with a lot of great players, big
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  stakes. You obviously want to finish at
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  the top of your group, especially again, if you think
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  you know, Man City might somehow hold on and Barcelona is
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  floating there as a two seed and they're coming out of their
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  group. I mean, Bayern Munich has looked
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  really good. Arsenal has turned things around
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  in the Renee Slagers era. So absent any real analysis
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  here, let me just say I'm going to be super locked into this
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  match because I think it's going to be an absolute banger.
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  These look like two of the best. I don't know, at worst 6-7 teams
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  in Europe right now. I want to zoom into Arsenal real
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  quick. I mentioned this a few weeks
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  back that I thought the answer to the Stena, Baxenia, Celestia
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  Russo question was they both need to be playing.
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  And I think we've seen a lot more of that.
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  I don't know, Baxenia, I think to me it's like A1C, Alessia
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  Russo's like a 1B. So I think, but I think together
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  they they bring different skill sets and I think they play
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  pretty well off each other. Alessia Russo right now is on
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  Absolute fire, scoring at will, different kind of ways.
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  I think against Valarenga, her work rate was off the charts.
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  I mean, she was in 5th gear pretty much from jump. 0%
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  surprise that she grabs the brace in that one.
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  And it's just kind of like right place, right time.
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  She scored again today against Liverpool.
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  And the other player that I just I need to call out Mariana
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  Caldente, the incredible a little bit.
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  I would I'll say a little bit overshadowed in Barcelona with
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  all those great players, but seeing her on this Arsenal side,
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  it feels like the pitch is bigger and she's just got more
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  space and more room and she just loves to play ball.
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  Like wherever the ball is, offense, defense, she just wants
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  to be near it and she knows what to do as soon as she wins it
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  back. I mean, it's, she's definitely,
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  I mean, you know, she's a great player, but even still exceeded
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  my, my expectations in a huge way as an Arsenal fan.
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  Yeah, I mean, she's been fantastic.
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  And I think what's what's really funny about Barcelona and like
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  the powerhouse that they've been, I think you're right.
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  Like when we were covering the Champions League last season, it
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  felt like Caldente didn't quite fit over the course of 46
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  matches for Barcelona in the 2324 season, Mariona still had
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  twenty goals in that span. And it's still, but it's still,
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  I'm I'm totally with you. Like it still didn't feel like
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  quite right when we were watching her play it through her
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  career. Career what?
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  She had double digit goals 123455 times over there.
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  Her 123456789 years at Barcelona.
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  In the first two years of those, she only had like 3 or 4
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  appearances. But in this Arsenal system, it
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  does feel like there might be less superlative talent around
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  her. Like, you know, she doesn't have
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  Itana and Alexia out there with her.
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  But like you said, like maybe Russo's like a 1B and you know,
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  Manam is like A1, C or 1D or like however you want to how you
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  want to look at her, like Black Stadius is in that mix too.
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  But then you just have some space for Caldente to roam and
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  then just kind of express herself freely in different
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  areas of the pitch. And it feels like that's kind of
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  what's made the difference for her this year.
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  I'm glad you mentioned freedom on them.
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  Unbelievable form as well. Yep, dynamite in her boot.
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  Like every, every time she kicks the ball it just looks like it's
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  shot of a cannon. Yep, Renee Slager, so you
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  mentioned as well. Eight wins, one draw, unbeaten
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  in her first nine matches. Her predecessor you on side of
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  all four wins, 2 draws and three losses.
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  So pretty much night and day between those two and final
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  shout out on the Arsenal side. 18 year old Katie Reid first set
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  a big time minutes spelling Emily Fox probably needed a good
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  amount of a break. 67 minutes for Reid, 90.1% pass completion
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  rate two shots. She let one RIP early.
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  I think it was the first real chance of the match.
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  That was exciting. She's got England U 19
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  experience on her resume. But I want to talk a little bit
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  about Byron because I agree with you.
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  They're absolutely cooking right now, per Neil Harder, I think
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  has cooled off a little bit. But I think in her place, Klaat
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  Abu has actually just kind of stepped into into that role and
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  pretty much is an offense in and of herself.
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  Yeah, I think. Bayern continues to roll on.
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  It's just danger all over the pitch.
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  Leia Schuler, per Neil Harder, Loman say Hitler, Georgia
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  Stanway is like racking up goals, you know, I think she has
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  five in this season across all competitions.
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  And then you still from the defensive end, you still have
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  Vigo's, which I guess means means Vigos daughter.
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  So I guess I mean, if if we're going by that naming convention.
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  I'll check in with Audi. Yeah, we'll send Julie a note,
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  see if we have our our Icelandic names correct here.
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  But no, on the serious note though, I just think if you're
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  Bayern Munich and you're and you're kind of looking at this
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  match, you say, OK, we're going into London.
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  We should be a slight underdog in this situation, especially
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  now that Arsenal has kind of turned it around.
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  But we're Bayern Munich. We're never an underdog to
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  anybody. I think they're going to come
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  out there thinking, hey, we whipped you 5 two in that first
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  match. We don't care if if you have a
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  new manager, we're going to try to do it again.
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  Yeah, and I think they're definitely informed to do it.
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  I think Julie, given another player that could give Arsenal
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  problems. And when you're talking about
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  Mariona, you think about the left back, right back situation.
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  You've got Katie McCabe, you've got Emily Fox.
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  Those are also players that kind of tilt the field depending on
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  where they kind of want to move. That gives Mariona those great
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  options. Rewinding back though to that
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  first match up, I rewatched that one this week, Arsenal
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  definitely wins the first half. Oh yeah, there there are three
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  or four minutes away from going into halftime, one nil at Byron
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  that I think would have definitely just changed the
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  entire vibe there. Caldente gets to go right around
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  the 30 minute mark. I believe that was her first
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  Arsenal goal. If not, it was very, very early
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  in in the Arsenal career. And then the player mentioned
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  glottis Perla Vegas doter skies over Steena blocks Stenius on
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  that free kick to steal one before halftime goes into
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  halftime 11. Sidney Loman gets an early goal
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  in the second-half. And then 13 minutes and 42
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  seconds. I mean, when I think about my
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  best 13 minutes, 42 seconds in my entire life doesn't come
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  anywhere near what Perneal Harder did to Arsenal in those
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  in that same period of time. Three goals just completely
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  broke the game wide open. Probably cost the manager his
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  job. Yeah, but this game, I think was
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  closer than we might remember. It definitely felt closer than
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  5. Two wheels totally come off at
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  the end. Not sure what that means because
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  I think, you know, Byron definitely was the better team
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  by a by a good amount that day. But I think you know not not all
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  doom and gloom. Yeah, you definitely you it
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  definitely shouldn't be doom and gloom.
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  You guys have just like you said, it has been night and day
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  in the Slagers administration after I'd of all was out of
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  there. So the defense looks more
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  organized. I know that was a big thing that
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  you were like frankly you seem kind of shocked about when it
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  was happening in the five two loss, just how disorganized the
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  defense was. That seems to have changed I've
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  been waiting to unleash this take or this question on you for
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  weeks now. I think I finally got the window
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  open. Let's go Renee Slager's 35 year
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  old Dutch manager Arsenal obviously not afraid to have a
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  non-english manager in their club.
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  You know you go back in their history, men's and women's
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  football. I ask you this question though,
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  do you think Slaggers has done a good enough job to hold on to
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  this job when if your Arsenal and let's just say you had a an
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  itch for an English manager and you could just let's try to go
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  out and poach Seb Heinz. You know, I mean, I'm not, I'm
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  going to be honest, I don't know the full economics of these
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  deals. I'm not sure we any of us know
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  like kind of like what the what the differences are.
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  That's true. But Seb Heinz would be walking
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  away from like a really great organization.
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  And that's something I've seen first hand.
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  A-Team that's absolutely loaded, might be the best team in the
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  world. We saw some numbers today that
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  reported that the NWSL Championship did more than
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  double the viewership from the MLS Cup on FOX, 967 K to 427 K.
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  So the league is definitely growing.
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  I think the pie is absolutely growing.
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  It would be a wild step, you know, back into England for
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  Heinz for sure. But I think if your Arsenal
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  Slager has led the team, you know, so wonderfully.
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  Yeah, You know, we talked about when we were talking to Leanne
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  Sanderson about the Aida ball situation.
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  The talk to that point had been about the talent level at
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  Arsenal. Oh my God, they've got so many
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  great players. They're not able to do very much
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  with it. Probably the managers fault.
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  I think we've seen Slagers almost get more than the than
• 18:20
  the talent because I think there's been some shakeups here
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  and they just seem to be playing really well.
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  All those defensive issues completely evaporated.
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  It's going to be a huge test against Byron, but I'm not sure
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  you can give the job to somebody that's not Slagers at this
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  point. I think you're spot on.
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  I, I only wanted to put you in a, in a logical pretzel to see
• 18:39
  if you to see, to test your loyalty between the Orlando side
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  and your beloved Arsenal. You pass the test with flying
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  colours. I, I, you know, I think you're
• 18:48
  obviously right here, like Slagers has just been great.
• 18:51
  It's always beware of the interim manager, right?
• 18:54
  But like in this case, you're just spot on.
• 18:56
  There's a real difference in the way the team plays, the way the
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  players have been used since she took over.
• 19:03
  I think she'll stay, obviously making it progressing out of the
• 19:07
  group stage, step one big feather in her cap right there
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  and then we'll see how it shakes out in the draw or if she can
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  get this victory and win a group over Bayern Munich.
• 19:17
  It would be real hard for ownership to not give her the
• 19:20
  give her the permanent tag. Totally agree with you there.
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  Speaking of winning, this group got a prediction.
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  Yeah, I think, I think your team gets it done at home.
• 19:28
  I think they're going to win the match of let's go one nil
• 19:32
  because it's definitely going to be tight.
• 19:33
  It's definitely going to be nervy.
• 19:34
  I know I talked a lot about Byron's offense, but I think
• 19:37
  that defense holds up. It's going to feel a little like
• 19:40
  a final and so I I feel like those often and one NIL.
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  Yeah, I'm going to go to 1 Arsenal.
• 19:45
  I agree with your points for sure.
• 19:47
  I think this Byron side, it's going to be tough to kind of
• 19:49
  hold them all the way down, especially with Bull, like when
• 19:52
  she's on and moving and going, it's just everybody else is
• 19:55
  chasing her. Yeah.
• 19:56
  All right, man, Anything else you want to hit before we?
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  Get out of here. I think we've done it.
• 19:59
  I think these groups have been properly or these big matches
• 20:02
  have been properly previewed but never feared her all all of our
• 20:04
  pals over in Europe. Hopefully you didn't just turn
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  off the show when we didn't preview the other the other
• 20:10
  squads. We will be doing the full
• 20:12
  rundown and the farewell to all these great clubs that we've
• 20:15
  watched throughout these stages in our Match Day 6 recap in our.
• 20:19
  Basically our group stage recap, so there's still more to say
• 20:22
  about all these awesome clubs and great players. 100% well
• 20:25
  said. Thanks for adding that back in.
• 20:26
  Appreciate it. Quick programming reminder, next
• 20:29
  week we'll be circling back with our best Elevens 2024.
• 20:32
  I already got the ball rolling on that.
• 20:34
  Very excited to see where you land with your picks and
• 20:36
  February 7th live on YouTube after the UEFA Women's Sanford's
• 20:39
  League quarterfinals draw, your boys will be out here live.
• 20:43
  Make sure you're subscribed, make sure you're following, add
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• 20:48
  once we know those quarterfinal matchups.
• 20:50
  All right, man, I think we did it to spit another episode of
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  into the channel. Sincere thank you.
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  of this episode. And a big thank you to my coast
• 21:09
  as well. Mr. Grant angle for I don't
• 21:12
  know, choosing to be one of the ITC cohost Co creators rather
• 21:16
  than managing that Arsenal side which I'm sure you know.
• 21:19
  This phone might have rung once or twice.
• 21:20
  I appreciate you bro. Likewise, buddy, you know, when
• 21:23
  we do get that opportunity and we end up working in the in the
• 21:27
  football operations of some club, we'll bid farewell to all
• 21:31
  of our great pals and obviously we'll be bringing a lot of you
• 21:33
  onto staff because we couldn't do this without you.
• 21:36
  So thank you for rocking with us.
• 21:38
  Thank you for always dropping knowledge in the comments and we
• 21:40
  will see you guys after match day 6.