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NWSL Week 4: ITC Derby | Seattle Reign v Orlando Pride | KC Current | Alyssa Thompson & Angel City · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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OK, welcome to to the channel podcast primarily about women's
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football. I am your host Dean of
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Desuspitus and as always I am joined by my Co host Mr. Grant
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Angle. What is up man?
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Hello friends, who's time once again for the time honored
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tradition, A tradition unlike any other the ITC Darby, let's
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go. I'm feeling I'm feeling
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fantastic buddy. Good to see you.
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Good to good to know that you are safely in your new home,
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newish home. Still some some moving about to
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do, but I'm glad to be on the pod with you again.
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Yeah, man, Likewise West Coast, best coast.
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I'm here for all of it, you know, recording a late hour for
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you, but normal hour for me. We'll, we'll get that ironed out
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at some point. Also recording from the Boys
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podcast. Yeah.
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ITC After Dark. You know how we do.
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You know, the recording from a undisclosed Airbnb in the lovely
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Bay Area. So very excited about that.
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But yeah, a lot of good football.
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The ITC Derby. I mean, you know, I usually ask
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you where you want to get started.
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I'll just go through the formality of it.
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Where do you want to get started, Mr. Grant Angle.
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I It's still the ITC Derby because Orlando Pride is
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obviously the club of your heart.
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We'll see how how long that lasts.
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I mean, obviously we got we we've got a lot of you know,
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we've got a lot of pals down there now because of your great
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work. A lot of knowers of ball down
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there. Obviously add Astra chief among
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them. So it's not like we're going to
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stop paying attention to the best team in the league,
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arguably the best team in the world, but I digress.
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Let's just get it started. Seattle rain nil.
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Orlando Pride one still closer than I would have expected.
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Yeah, I think, I think a pretty good showing, some stuff to be
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excited about. If you're Seattle, you were the
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you were in the building. Absolutely was.
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All right, my guy was in the building, so we'll get we'll get
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that vantage point from there. I want to start actually maybe
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with one of those bright spots, Maddie.
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Darlene jumped off the screen. This one ends up with Fat Mob's
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highest rating. The numbers kind of off the
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charts. Three shots, three shots on
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target, three blocks. How about 9 tackles for the
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youngin? What a performance.
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I'm interested to hear from you. And then maybe, maybe we do a
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little bit of celebrating. Cheers to to the young star if
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we can, but I'm in. I'm very interested to hear from
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you what the Magdalene experience was like in the
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building. Yeah, let's get the, let's get
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the cheers out of the way. I think that's a good, I think
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that's a good call by you. It's a celebration.
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Unlike any other. Absolutely.
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Cheers to you. Yeah, I put in my notes super
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early that Maddie Darlene had the unfortunate circumstance of
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having to check former Reign player, now Orlando Pride, very
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important player, Ali Watt. And there were a couple times
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early where Ali Watt was doing Ali Watt things.
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And I was like, oh boy, Darlene might be in for a kind of
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welcome to the NWSL type of match here if she's going to be
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BBQ chicken and Watts just going to cook her.
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But after a couple like shaky spots, she really got her
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footing and was able to get back on defense.
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And like you mentioned, 9 tackles needed all nine of them.
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And I I thought the the rookie held up pretty well.
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Yeah, I thought she responded really well too.
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Like I bet her energy was cranked up, you know, in those
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moments, you know, she you talked about Ally Wok going her,
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she went at Corey Dyke, ITC Hall of Famer, quick work of Corey
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Dyke. And then I think Watt got her
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again a little bit later after that.
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So it was it was great battles back and forth.
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Great to see a young player kind of elevate.
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I I thought her best game of the season.
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You know, I'm obviously not watching as closely as you are,
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but you know, like you mentioned, she goes up against
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that Orlando Pride buzz saw. Really funny graphic from our
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friends at Ion that said Orlando was 30 and 0 in scoring first
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this season. And I just thought to myself,
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they're 30 and 0 when they breathe in oxygen and breathe
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out carbon dioxide or when they tie their shoes or when it
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doesn't really, you could put any, any qualifier there.
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And they're 30 and 0 when any of that happens this season.
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So I, I definitely got the kick out of that.
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This Orlando Pride team, though, not a super overwhelming
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performance that I thought, you know, you kind of set the stage
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a little bit for, for maybe a potential drubbing.
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That's definitely not what we saw.
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But great teams definitely find a way to, you know, keep control
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of the game, keep opponents at Bay, even if even though, even
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if they're not kind of trouncing the other side kind of feels
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like they're in control. But with that said, Seattle, a
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lot of good chances and a lot of good.
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I don't know a lot of good bright spots along the way over
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that 90 plus. Yeah, 100%.
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I mean, and we'll talk about the post game comments after from
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Maddie Dalene, Sam Meza and Laura Harvey.
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But yeah, I thought they were. There were good stretches of the
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match where Seattle probably had the better of things.
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I mean, I know you and I have talked about it before.
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You obviously love a good fight sports comparison.
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We we've started kind of looking at, you know, breaking each half
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down into 15 minute increments and thinking about scoring them
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as though they were boxing matches.
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I thought the first 15 minutes you could call it 10-9 for
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Seattle rain. I think some judges might have
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had the 2nd 15 minutes as 10/9 for the rain.
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Some might have had it for 10/9 Orlando, but at worst it was it
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was 11. And then obviously you get the
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bend a goal there and I'm totally blanking.
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I feel like a total dope here. Yeah, obviously it's Summer
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Yates. Summer Yates has the assistant
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is immediately helped off with the injury.
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But when Yates gets down, gets down the field, she just sends
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it a perfect cross. It was kind of building.
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That's why I wonder that goal scored in the 41st minute.
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It felt like that was building a little bit in like that kind of
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2nd 15. And Orlando probably was
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starting to pick up some steam. And that's just the kind of goal
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where the superior team, the double holders score right
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before half. And I won't lie, there was a
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part of me that thought, OK, that was that was a good first
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half by the rain. But this is where the more
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dominant team scores right before half, floats into the
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locker room and comes back out and then really starts to just
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kind of get you in that headlock and start giving you a noogie
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like big sister would to little sister.
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It just didn't happen that way. Yeah, I, I think Seattle was
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kind of up for it. I think Orlando was doing
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something interesting leading up to the goal, which was just
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putting dangerous balls as close to the as close to the net and
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the post as possible. They they had the couple corners
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that were just like, let's just kick it in that area and see if
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one of our, you know, one of our tuffies can get on the end of it
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and smash it and smash it in. And then it ends up being a
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similar type played not off a corner or a free kick, but you
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know, same angle as a corner. Summary.
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Yates kind of sneaks in and all band has got to do is kind of
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open up her, her boot to kind of like redirect it into the net.
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Really bummed to see Yates go down.
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Hopefully it's something too serious.
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Angelina comes in, though, and immediately looks like a total
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live wire. No, no, no rest versus rust.
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You know, after Angelina's very busy international break.
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She looked really good in this one.
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And it really kind of got me thinking, you know, obviously we
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we talked about Orlando's, you know, one goal on the road
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against a tough Seattle defense. So you would hope for more in
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that instance. It really kind of got me
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thinking, OK, Adriana. We've talked a little bit about
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her moving on. I think if you're thinking about
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Marta as that primary attacking midfielder, you think about the
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workload, there's just going to be days where the touches maybe
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won't be there or the, you know, the endurance won't be there.
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The, the, the, the potential for special Marta moments will
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always be there. But I do think that Orlando is
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still kind of looking for that key attacking midfielder type
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player that is sort of in that best 11 or second team, best 11
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type mix to really make sure that they can compete
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offensively with some of the league's best teams.
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And that's kind of where my head is starting to think about, OK,
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Angelina, is this a type of player at this point in her
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career where she could kind of like step, step up into that
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echelon? I think she certainly looks like
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she can do it. I mean, 25 years old, feeling
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good in the situation around her, playing with Permit,
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playing with players she is familiar with.
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She's getting more familiar with you.
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You're right. I mean, she stepped right onto
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the pitch and immediately hit a rocket that Claudia Dickey
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needed to tip over the crossbar. And you know, I was talking
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about it. As with the aforementioned Ad
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Astra, our good pal on on Twitter or on Sorry, Yikes,
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talking to Ad Astra on Blue Sky. We don't do Twitter anymore.
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Nobody should really. And I, you know, then knowing
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me, obviously sometimes the pessimism can can creep in.
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I was like, oh boy, are we in for the Angelina revenge game
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here? You know, it didn't, it didn't
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turn out that way. But we've talked about her
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blinding skill. She just kind of needs to do
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that a little more consistently. You know, you're not always
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going to play that way. Like we've talked about that
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with like a player like Mary Fowler, but you know, she
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certainly has it in her game. I wouldn't be shocked if by
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week, you know, by match week 14 or 15, we're looking at it like,
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is Angelina on the fringe of possibly the best 11 or so or
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somewhere in that ballpark. Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
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I think there's definitely space for somebody to move into that,
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you know, sort of like hierarchy within the team and and grab
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that spot. One player that I think has he's
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continuing to grab that spot this season and a Morehouse.
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I thought the player of the match for Orlando some he
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stepped up huge in spots and I think my favorite part about
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Morehouse, GFC had big, big time save late in that one and the
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Orlando defense obviously also came up with some big time
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blocks. Emily Sam's, Carson Pickett late
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as well. But Morehouse just doesn't get
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beat by, you know, in basketball or, you know, like you say, OK,
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you don't want to get beat by any foolishness.
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You know, it's like don't let them beat you with like some
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something ridiculous, right? So she doesn't get beat with
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anything easy or anything silly. Like if you beat her, you really
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got to beat her with some some real high high quality skill.
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And that's kind of what I love about her game.
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She's just rock, rock, rock solid.
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Absolutely from a shot stopping perspective.
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And we're, we're already 3 clean sheets in, you know, in, in her
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pursuit of her record 13 from last season.
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Her stated goal coming into this year was to surpass that well on
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her way three out of four clean sheets.
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Really good game from Anna Morehouse.
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Would you see, would you see from that Orlando defense,
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especially as Seattle kind of start to crank that up?
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Because Seattle did get chances in the second-half.
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So in the post game press conference, I asked Laura
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Harvey, Seattle Rain FC manager, specifically about that because,
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you know, and I framed the question just to to keep it a
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buck with her. I I just said, look, Nadonna and
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Sam's are probably the best center back pairing in the
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league and you guys were able to generate some chances in the
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middle of the field even. I mean, you know, the Darlene
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chance comes from, I think it was Montesir who forced to turn
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over and then it falls to Biendolo and she plays Darlene
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straight in one-on-one with Morehouse, who made that great
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kick save that you mentioned. But there are a couple other
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passes that they they're playing through the middle of the field,
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which they were never capable of doing in the 2024 NWSL season,
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that the rain just did not have that in their arsenal last
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season. So when I asked her about it,
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Laura Harvey said, you know, she she obviously meant like
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cosigned, like, yeah, they're they're a great center.
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Back to O now, Laura Harvey, as competitive as she is, stopped
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short of calling them maybe the best center back pairing in the
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league. I don't know if she's, you know,
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out here tossing around compliments to opponents that
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way, but she did say they're a very good center back pairing.
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And that what they she wanted to see from Mondesir or Mercado or
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some of the other wing players was can we get those two
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separated? So they're not like forming this
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impenetrable wall, you know, at the top of the 18 in the center
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of the in the center of the park or the center of the field
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rather. And I thought that I thought
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that was interesting. And she said that they were able
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to do that to kind of get them get them separated a little bit.
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But she said specifically, and this is what I thought was very
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interesting. Let me let me pull this up here.
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OK. So obviously Laura Harvey is
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English, Anna Morehouse also English.
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And I I think we've talked about it before.
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You know, when you interviewed Anna Morehouse, she was somewhat
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guarded about, you know, kind of what she said.
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And I'm guessing it's because she grew up in a country where
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football is the major sport and when athletes say things to the
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media, it gets picked apart 900 different ways and can be used
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against them. Well, here's what here's what
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Laura Harvey said specifically about Anna Morehouse.
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Quote, I've heard a lot of negative things said about their
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goalkeeper referring to Morehouse.
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And today she stood on her head to get them the win.
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End Quote. And I just thought it was
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interesting because when you talk to Anna Morehouse, she was
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very clearly lobbying and saying, one of my goals is not
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only to set the clean sheets record, but to make the the EUR
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roster for the Lionesses. And I just think that, you know,
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we we've talked about her being one of the better goalkeepers in
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the league. I thought she showed that again
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in this one. And you know, if she doesn't
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make that Darlene, that save against Darlene, it for sure it
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more than likely cost them two points.
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And you never know what happens if rain notches a goal right
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there. It could have cost them all
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three. Absolutely.
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Yeah, I have my notes point saving save for sure.
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What was your total, total cosign on on the importance of
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Morehouse and probably her case for being on that English squad.
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The last one I want to ask you about Lindby and Dolo comes on
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in halftime, I thought had some really nice moments distributing
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deep, you know, with her back to the goal, you know, just kind of
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real vet shit out there offensively.
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What? What did you see you know from
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your vantage point there? I thought the attack immediately
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looked better when she was on the field.
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Obviously making your debut for the rain.
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Yep, you're right. She kind of had to come back in
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to to get the ball at times. I mean, on that, on that play
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where she played Dollene and she was almost like in like a bit of
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a false nine position when she when she passes Dollene in, but
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she has the ability to to, you know, kind of to back down a
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defender and receive the ball and play make there were
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questions. I mean, she hasn't played number
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9 I think in in years, you know, obviously operating out out on
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the wing more for Gotham more recently.
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And I think back with the courage as well.
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But she I mean, she's too smart. Like you can just put her in
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pretty much any attacking position on the field and she's
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going to look good. So even with even with the
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layoff, even with kind of the the nagging injuries that she's
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been dealing with, I thought she looked good in this match.
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And it made me very optimistic as to what she's going to look
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like because, you know, there's no G so young in this match.
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She played for Korea and has to had to come back off
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international duty. Jess Fishlock has an injury.
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So it's wasn't just international duty.
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I think Laura Harvey said she might be a little longer.
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But this was a match against the reigning double winners with no
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Fishlock, no G and Len Biendolo for 45 minutes, and they still
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look pretty damn good. Yeah, no argument there.
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I think definitely going to be room to grow and and I think by
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the nature of the roster, there's going to be some
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opportunity for Biendolo to kind of turn back the clock a little
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bit. I think she'll have she'll get
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opportunities in different spots and at different positions
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probably. And it would be a surprise to
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see her put up numbers and and however many minutes she's able
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to kind of like log the season. Let's go ahead though.
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I want to talk about you know, we're 4-4 weeks into the season.
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My biggest take away, you know, we we talked about, you know,
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maybe was there going to be a top three up top a top four
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looking looking like a hard top two up there.
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You know, we talked about one of the sides of Orlando pride, the
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other team Kansas City current. So both these teams on 12 points
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after four matches, Orlando's plus ten goal differential
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Kansas City's +9 the next best there is +3.
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I think it is the Washington spirit and 3rd there.
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So these two teams well out ahead the only teams that are
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perfect on the season winless and draw this Kansas City
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current offensively. We already know what they're
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about offensively to being you know, had herself a game.
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You know it's it's nice when you can mis hit a shot still put in
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the back of the net low Levanta follows that up with an
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unsavable penalty kick. Some fun stats here.
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Kansas City 23.8 shot creating actions per 90 minutes.
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Imagine. Imagine facing that and who's on
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the end of those shots are absolute superstars.
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That's just nasty. Debina first in the league in
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that category 5.9 Three shot creating actions per 91.03 Goal
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creating actions per 90. Michelle Cooper, 5th in in shock
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grading actions and 7th did goal grading action.
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So two players well, well, well up near the top of that
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category. And that's not to speak of Tema
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Chuenga. It was a threat pretty much
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every second that she's touching a blade of grass out there.
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But the defense, you kind of called this out.
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What what's, what's your take in terms of like defensively, what
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the current's been able to do? I think it's why they're kicking
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the shit out of teams right now. And I mean, you know, you put it
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in the notes, so you put it in our Google doc to take people
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behind the curtain here that Kansas City has 23.8 shot
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creating actions per 90. That that didn't even compute in
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my mind to like looking at the doc.
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I didn't even put that together until you said it.
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And then I had to like, stare at it.
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But like, wait, is that really the number?
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That's incredible. So, OK, so yeah, you got to deal
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with that, like you said, Debina.
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Michelle Cooper, Temwan Chewinga, Lola Bonta, you got to
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you have to deal with all that. But their defense is is
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significantly improved, especially compared to the early
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part of last season. So they notched their third
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clean sheet in a row this season and obviously their third of the
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season when they got their third when Kansas City current.
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Registered their third clean sheet in the 2024 NWSL season.
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That was match week 11. So they're on a pretty good pace
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here by by getting their third by match week four.
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And the only goal they allowed was in that opener and that was
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when they were already ahead 3 nil and Moultrie snuck in a goal
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like shortly after halftime. So the game was pretty much, you
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know, already covered at that point anyway.
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And, you know, I, I think the addition of Alana Cook, she's
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fit in nicely. I think she has some history
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with Vlatco, who I think gave her a look on the national team
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and when Vlatco was Reign's manager a year ago.
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I, I, I know somebody in the, in the comments will correct me if
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I'm wrong. I think they may have overlapped
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a little bit with the rain. Might I might be right on that,
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but we would be remiss if we did not say and yes, the defense is
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better. Ilana Cook has been a good
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addition. Lorena and goal.
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She's fucking awesome. Like immediately one of the
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better goalkeepers in the league.
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So I know we talked about Morehouse and you know on Katrin
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Berger, you already know what time it is, Caitlin Sheridan.
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But Aubrey Kingsbury, Lorena has immediately catapulted into that
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discussion. Yep, Yep, impossible to keep her
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out for sure. I I the my favorite status
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probably I look back at the Kansas City current, they were
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letting in roughly one in four shots on target last season,
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which is not terrible. I think it's kind of like right,
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right in the zone this year. One goal from 13 shots on
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target. There we go.
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So one one of four to one of 13. Obviously, I don't think they
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will be able to uphold that rate, but I mean that there you
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go, right? That that kind of shows right
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there what they've been able to do.
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They're allowing the second fewest shots per match, third
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fewest shots on target per match.
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So I think defensively, they're pretty much shutting you down at
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every checkpoint. Not too many shots, not not too
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many shots on target. If you do kind of squeeze in
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through Lorena, to your point, absolute prick wall back there.
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And I mean, I got to probably take the LA little bit.
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I think heading into the season, I was thinking, OK, the pride of
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the spirit are maybe, you know, the the top 2 and it's looking
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like it could be the current. The current might be in that one
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a position or or I think at at the very least they're playing
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Orlando to a 1010 round to kind of rewind back to to our boxing
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analogy. Yeah, I mean, they're definitely
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in the mix. I mean, you know, Washington
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Spirit doesn't have nearly their whole team yet.
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So I mean, obviously we got to we got to make sure and and wait
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around. I think we're we're still
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probably rocking with a, a, a three team race, although maybe
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some Angel City fans might tell us to, to look around and wake
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up. We we can maybe talk about them
23:04
later. I don't, I don't think they are
23:11
in the class of Orlando Pride, Kansas City Current or
23:15
Washington Spirit quite yet. I mean, you know, results could
23:19
change my mind. But you know, I think, I think
23:22
we, we know what the rosters look like here.
23:25
But yeah, Lorraine is Lorraine is a monster.
23:27
I, I, I referenced Alana Cook. I think it's important to point
23:30
out that Kayla Sharples and Ellie Wheeler have played every
23:33
minute of every match on the back line.
23:35
Alana Cooks only only missed 15 minutes of the available time.
23:40
And then the continued growth and excellence of Claire Hutton,
23:42
who's she's played about 300 minutes herself and is a great
23:46
young player who is playing right in front of that back
23:50
line, can help push the ball up field, can help RIP the ball off
23:54
players before they even get to that back line or help with
23:56
double teams and then can pass the ball forward.
24:00
So they have a good mix. And if I told you that Vladko
24:06
Andonovsky is going to coach A-Team that's going to have a
24:09
tough defense, a great goalkeeper and then some
24:13
superlative attacking talent, that that would be a good recipe
24:17
for him. He would say, yeah, man, that's
24:20
what I was hoping for with the US women's national team.
24:23
And then maybe some timeline stuff didn't work out.
24:26
And maybe he made some some iffy decisions in that time.
24:29
But you know, he's still, we talked about his possible
24:32
revenge tour last year in the NWSL.
24:34
Maybe we were a year early. Very possible you know, it made
24:38
for a great documentary so you know, give it to like it was a
24:41
show man. Think of the impressions.
24:44
Absolutely. I want to talk a little bit
24:45
about a team you mentioned as as the other team that hasn't lost.
24:52
So it kind of alluded to a little bit earlier, but you
24:54
know, we talked to maybe about the top 4, Orlando, KC,
24:57
Washington in the 4th place slot in the standings, the
25:02
aforementioned Angel City, undefeated, one of three sides
25:05
undefeated. They've got two wins, 2 draws on
25:07
the season, sixth in shots, first in shots on target, 21
25:12
through 4 matches. So they're putting them up.
25:15
And I think my favorite observation here, Alyssa
25:19
Thompson, still just 20 years old.
25:20
We talked about that 2023 World Cup.
25:22
I kind of feel like for a young player, and it's not like she
25:27
played that poorly in that World Cup, but I think there was a lot
25:30
of expectations, a lot of excitement.
25:32
The whole team played poorly or, you know, just the the the
25:34
collection of the team, I would say performed poorly.
25:38
I think that that stink kind of stuck to Alyssa Thompson
25:42
unfairly in kind of a big way. Either way, you know, we're
25:46
almost two years removed from that and she's balling like you
25:49
look at where she's at. 11 shots in the season, 5 on target,
25:53
excuse me, 5 on 5 on target, three goals.
25:58
I think I'm kind of ready to say in the MVP, but conversation for
26:03
me. Well, let's talk.
26:04
Oh, let's go. All right, I like it.
26:08
Yeah. I mean, look, she, she's 20
26:11
years old, so it's like she, she obviously has a, a long runway.
26:19
You, me and Brady talked about it the post match of the, of the
26:23
second Brazil fixture during the international window.
26:28
And you know, I'm, I still, there's something about, you
26:32
know, Sentinor has like, to me, Sentinor has like a little bit
26:36
longer of a resume, a little bit longer of a track record, like
26:40
we're talking like national team stuff.
26:42
But if Alyssa Thompson just continues to play like this in
26:47
in in club play, and then, you know, she was obviously on a on
26:51
a heater for those two matches versus Brazil, you know, it's
26:57
going to be impossible to ignore in the MVP conversation.
27:01
Those are the kind of bold takes that people come to the into the
27:04
Channel podcast for. And I appreciate you for doing
27:07
it, but it's not like the numbers don't don't back it up.
27:10
So, you know, I'll be here to monitor the situation with you.
27:14
Yeah, and, and I'm and I'm I, I know it kind of feels a little
27:17
hot Takey, but I'm definitely not hot taking this one.
27:21
I really do think, you know, if I had to put a take chip down,
27:24
you're talking top three. When we get to the end of the
27:26
season, Angel City is already kind of well, well
27:30
outperforming. It's super early, but you know,
27:32
the the season's only 26 matches.
27:35
So I think I did the math here. We're at like 15% of the way
27:38
through the season. So it's not nothing 15.3
27:41
something something and this is a 20 year old player still
27:46
ascending that we've seen excel now in the NWSL last season for
27:50
the US international team during the breaks and heading into the
27:53
season. So I don't think there's any
27:55
reason to believe a young player on the ascend.
27:58
I don't think there's no reason this won't continue.
28:01
She looks great athletically, she looks super healthy and
28:05
she's putting together real performances.
28:07
And I think most importantly, she's got the team playing well.
28:10
You know, I think you, you know, we see a lot, you know, teams
28:13
that have, you know, productive players, but they just can't
28:16
can't have get it together. She seems to be able to put
28:18
together, you know, put things together kind of like connect
28:21
some dots with with that offense and you know, the results are
28:25
coming for that side. So it's I think it's pretty
28:27
exciting for Angel City and I feel I feel really, really nice
28:31
getting way out ahead early on this one.
28:33
Alyssa Thompson in the MVP conversation.
28:35
Wouldn't be surprised if she finishes top three come the end
28:37
of the season. Let's go.
28:40
I mean, that's just fucking fantastic.
28:43
Good for you for getting on that on that early.
28:46
Yeah. And you know what, we we still,
28:48
I know I mention her probably I want to say on our NWSL shows
28:53
maybe once every eight shows since her injury.
28:58
But you know, I am one of the world's foremost June Endo
29:01
stockholders. And so she's going to come back
29:04
and she's going to, you know, it's going to take her a little
29:06
bit because that it was a devastating injury.
29:08
But you know, you get a little extra help in that midfield,
29:11
somebody else who can, who can kind of, you know, place them
29:14
through balls, win the ball in the midfield, act as another
29:18
connector. You know, we, as we've said
29:22
multiple times, we hope Sydney LaRue is, is working through
29:25
what she needs to do and then starts feeling, feeling better.
29:28
Soon you get another established #9 in there to at least get in
29:31
the rotation, you know, But we could see where, where Angel
29:35
City lands on the table as the season progresses.
29:39
And if they're going to be high up there, it's it's going to be
29:43
largely in part to the way Alyssa Thompson plays.
29:45
And that probably puts you in the MVP mix.
29:49
I like it. We'll keep track on that.
29:51
All right, so we've talked about a few teams with arrows pointing
29:54
up, maybe multiple arrows pointing up.
29:57
I want to switch gears and take a quick look at the team that
30:01
are going to be getting a much closer look at here as as the
30:05
season progresses. Bay FC, what what's been your
30:08
read? I think you know, the Arrow's
30:10
been pointing in every direction.
30:11
I think so far this season, not a great showing This past week.
30:15
They give Chicago their first result of the season.
30:18
What do you what do you see kind of happening at Bay FC right
30:21
now? Yeah.
30:24
All right. So I'm going to try to not do
30:27
the thing that I have made fun of sports talking heads for for
30:35
years, which is they make a prediction, their prediction is
30:40
wrong, and then they just start crushing everybody on that team.
30:46
It's one of the funniest things. I mean, you could probably think
30:49
of 11 dude in particular who's very rich and very famous and
30:55
would would swing on grown men athletes if he could, as he's
31:00
been one to tell us, which I would then posit the follow up
31:03
question then what do you think would happen?
31:04
But anyway, I digress. So.
31:08
Maybe run for office? Yeah, exactly.
31:11
You're right. You know, write it to the White
31:13
House because surely things can't get any worse.
31:17
No, wait, They can. They can get worse, and they
31:19
likely will. But again, another digression.
31:21
Sorry. OK, So yes, I thought they.
31:26
Well delivered by you. Thanks.
31:30
So I, I thought Bay FC was going to be good and it was just
31:34
really evident, especially in this match against Chicago.
31:39
And you know, our pal, friend of the show, Arsenal legend, 3rd
31:43
place World Cup medal holder, Champions League winner Leanne
31:46
Sanderson said it during the broadcast.
31:49
They're they don't get the ball to Oshwala and Kundanagi nearly
31:53
enough. It's, it's so frustrating to
31:57
watch them play. And some of the blame has to go
32:01
to them because that's just, that's just fair play.
32:03
Like there are 11 players on the field.
32:04
Sometimes you got to go up and get the ball, you got to move,
32:07
but they're just not getting any kind of service from the
32:10
midfield. It has to like, it's only doll
32:13
camper passes over the top it feels like and you just got to
32:16
be able to put together some better offense than that.
32:19
And I, I would say that's my #1 frustration with, with watching
32:23
them so far this early season. It's I, I had the reason I, I
32:27
chuckled that the doll camper, but because I, I noticed the
32:30
same thing and I'm like, OK, most of Bay FC is playing this
32:34
like slow, methodical, you know, 3 yards in a cloud of dust
32:38
offense. Like let's just the Caterpillar
32:41
the ball up the field, which is like the worst thing you want to
32:43
do when you have Kundanagi and Ashwala like, and then you have
32:46
Dalkemper like playing like US women's national team ball where
32:49
it's just like, get it, RIP it. And like, let's see what it's
32:52
just like. There just seems to be no
32:54
cohesion with the offense. And like when you, when you
32:57
work, work the ball up the field so slowly, you're totally
33:01
neutralizing both those players. And I think I I would be a
33:05
little careful not to necessarily buck it Kundanagi
33:08
than Oshwala. Oshwala has one shot in 200
33:13
minutes this season, right? That's, that's a huge problem.
33:17
That's. Come on.
33:18
That's sort of like a bigger problem like that that I think
33:21
we could look at Oshwala and be like, OK, what what's going on
33:23
here? Like why?
33:25
Why are the opportunities? Where where is where's your
33:27
positioning? Where's the spacing?
33:28
Why are the opportunities not necessarily coming?
33:31
Kundanagi, she's got ten shots on the season 4 on target, no
33:35
goals. I think a little bit of a
33:36
different issue for Kundanagi, but either way the offense is
33:40
not serving those players in any kind of way.
33:45
No, that's, that's perfectly said.
33:48
And I'm glad you point out the difference between Oshwala and
33:50
Kundanagi. I think you can make the
33:51
argument too, that that Kundanagi out on the wing, you
33:55
know, played some dangerous passes in, in that red in that
33:58
game against Chicago and has in other parts and, you know, the
34:03
previous games as well. So, yeah, I, I, I think
34:06
Kundanagi is, is playing well. But if you have Oshwala and
34:10
Kunanagi and combined they have as many goals and assists as you
34:15
and I do, then that's, that's something is going very, very
34:19
wrong. I.
34:21
Mean you're not cooking right now, so I mean you can't really.
34:24
To be fair. Sternly.
34:26
Yeah, to be fair, another quick start here.
34:30
They Bay of CS got four goals in the season.
34:32
Only one of those is assisted last year, 20 assists on 29
34:37
goals. So huge different there.
34:39
I think the offense is just not connecting in any kind of way.
34:42
Shots are down the season, shots on target also down the season
34:45
for Bey and Ludmila. You know, I'm glad glad you
34:49
mentioned her and and with Chicago because she really put
34:53
it on them. She was tough, tough, tough to
34:54
handle. She gave Doll Kemper problems.
34:56
She gave that whole back line problems and that that that
35:01
Chicago side was a team that kind of hadn't been able to put,
35:06
I mean, like look very clearly in the driver's seat for that
35:09
14th, for that 14th spot. And they handled Bay, I think,
35:13
pretty easily. Yeah, I mean, they had no
35:17
answers for Lewd Mila, who was just frying them for long
35:22
stretches. Jimmy's Joseph, I thought played
35:25
really well as well. Absolutely.
35:28
Yeah. I just, you know, I, I, I, I
35:31
blue skied out there into the universe that that I know
35:34
Ludmila and Jamice Joseph and Ali Schlegel are good players.
35:39
They looked like world beaters at times against Bay FC.
35:43
And so here I'm going to do the thing I said I wasn't going to
35:46
do the thing. I'm not going to threaten.
35:47
I'm not going to threaten to fight anybody, but I'm going to
35:50
do a sports media thing here. I just want to say like, if you
35:54
have Kununaji and Oshwala, I understand there are some
35:58
there's some issues with with other parts of of the squad, but
36:03
you, those two superstars haven't scored a goal.
36:06
They haven't notched an assist. You're 15% of the way through
36:10
the season. And then a month ago they were
36:13
public allegations of a quote, toxic culture at the club.
36:18
Then at some point somebody needs to look around and be
36:20
like, where's the problem here? And it could be in the manager's
36:26
seat and I know we're in where it's the early spring and the
36:29
weather starting to to get warm, maybe that maybe Albertine
36:33
Montoya's seat might start getting a little hot here.
36:39
Yeah, I think I mean I'm I'm going to be excited to get a
36:42
little closer to the seat, this team and see, you know, from a
36:46
different perspective what's going on.
36:47
Everything seems to be good like the vibe seemed to be good.
36:51
The brand, the leadership, the story, you know, the, the, the
36:56
artwork, the design, like sort of like the, you know, and I'm
36:59
kind of seeing stuff here too, community stuff, like everything
37:03
seems to be on the up and up except for maybe what's
37:06
happening on the field. And to your point, you know,
37:09
that story where there's probably a lot still yet to be
37:12
reported on that, but I think we'll see.
37:15
I mean, I'll continue to well, or I'll start to, you know, kind
37:18
of like keep my finger on what's going on here and absolutely
37:21
report back. Want to hit a couple other quick
37:25
notes. I think it, you know, 4 weeks in
37:27
is a good time to do a little bit of reflecting.
37:30
We kind of hit on a few of these teams.
37:32
The last team I wanted to hit and then I'll kind of kick it to
37:34
you to see if you've got any From a surprise standpoint, the
37:39
Portland Thorns 6th place in the standings, just three goals so
37:43
far, but five points. Let's go 1-2 and one for the
37:47
Thorns. League best 62 shots, league
37:50
worst shot on target rate of 27.4.
37:53
So they're putting them up, but they're not really getting them,
37:56
getting them on frame. Third worst goals per shot, but
37:59
some pretty decent results. They lose away to KC two
38:03
straight draws at home, one to Angel City and one to the
38:05
courage. And then they go to Utah and get
38:08
a big win. It's been pretty interesting to
38:11
see Portland without kind of the tip of the spear, find ways to
38:15
kind of scratch out results and and sort of hold on, like kind
38:19
of, you know, see make make the season a bit interesting.
38:25
Yeah, that's totally fair. I think they've they've made the
38:28
beginning of this season pretty interesting, man.
38:32
I just, you know, I'll raise my hand and I know I've talked
38:34
about the Portland Thorns. They're one of the greatest
38:36
clubs in the history of this league.
38:38
They have a pedigree. They have an organizational
38:42
structure that has worked incredibly well for them over
38:46
the lifespan of the NWSLI. Just if this can't be
38:51
sustainable, I don't mean to be negative guy.
38:53
I mean, you know, like, you know, you pointed out a lack of
38:58
goals, but they're still getting the points.
39:00
Three goals scored, but five points, 121 win, 2 draws, one
39:04
loss. I just I I just can't see this
39:08
continuing, man, like you're not going to be able to put together
39:12
points and results with, with duct tape and and gorilla glue
39:16
for for that long, I don't think, not in this league.
39:19
But you know, we'll, we'll see how it plays out and, and shout
39:22
to them for for being scrappy, but man, it doesn't seem
39:25
sustainable. Yeah, we'll definitely keep an
39:28
eye on it. So I want to give a quick shout
39:29
because I think both of us had Portland probably out of the
39:33
playoff, but definitely in that bottom, bottom tier.
39:36
Anything else any before we said anything else?
39:38
You want to hit NWS, otherwise I think catch your eye in a big
39:41
way. You know, I'll tell you, I mean,
39:45
the team that they defeated, the Utah Royals, another team that I
39:49
was pretty high on going into the year, I got to tell you, Amy
39:52
Rodriguez is coach of the year candidacy.
39:54
Candidacy is in grave danger for all day Rod.
40:02
In All in all seriousness, for anybody who who's not locked
40:06
into every single episode, and obviously all of you are, but
40:08
maybe there's like one or two new listeners.
40:10
I was I was a dope and and mentioned Amy Rodriguez instead
40:15
of Jimmy Coonratz as as Utah's manager in the season preview.
40:19
I don't know if Jimmy Coonratz's seat is getting warm.
40:24
I would expect not to. You should give him some time.
40:27
But yeah, Utah just looks disjointed.
40:30
The offense doesn't look like it has any kind of real purpose out
40:33
there. But, you know, 4, four matches
40:37
in, you know, we'll kind of, we'll kind of see how Centinor
40:41
grows into, grows into a leadership role to kind of lead
40:45
them. But you know, 15% is like, it's
40:48
enough to be like, OK, I think I, I see some stuff, but for me
40:52
it's not. It's still too early to start
40:55
drawing out broad conclusions and and which will allow me to
40:59
stick to some of in my early opinions and say, hold on a
41:01
minute, I need some more data. Funny how that works out.
41:04
Yeah. Definitely well shout out to
41:07
Amy. I hope she can get it together.
41:09
Amy and them girls. I'm just kidding.
41:13
I think that's the last time we'll go back to that that all
41:15
day, Roger. Quick look ahead.
41:18
Champions League returns this weekend, some Saturday action,
41:22
some Sunday action Arsenal whole CEO and on Saturday the James.
41:26
Barcelona host Chelsea on Sunday April 20th, very excited about
41:31
that. You already know your boys will
41:32
be back with probably recaps. I'm not sure if we'll we'll get
41:36
into preview but who knows. Keep it locked, make sure you're
41:39
subscribed. Great, great, great chance a
41:41
preview might drop so definitely keep it posted.
41:45
Anything we need to know about our four European semi finalists
41:50
in action in recent action here. Let's do a quick round up over
41:54
the weekend. Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid
41:56
by a a a Hardy 6 nil. It was 2 nil at halftime, you
42:06
know, putting up a touchdown there.
42:08
Atletico Madrid's third in the table.
42:11
It was 2 nil at halftime, the first goal was scored a flying
42:16
back heel by Patri, and then just the second goal was just a
42:19
regular back heel by beto Ualo. They're just all ridiculous.
42:24
Atletico's defense is not a bullshit defense.
42:27
They allowed six in this one to Barcelona prior to the match
42:31
started. They're the only team who had
42:33
allowed only 15 goals throughout the season with Barcelona.
42:38
So they had they had conceded the same number of goals.
42:41
And Barcelona said, OK, let's change that.
42:43
Let's make that number look a little more cosmetic in our
42:46
favor. So now Atletico's LED in 21 and
42:50
Barcelona's only let in 15. So that that's pretty much how
42:52
Barcelona gets down. There you go.
42:55
So they're, they're ready. I would say that's probably a
43:00
fair assessment. Chelsea moving on their opponent
43:04
Chelsea, they snuck past Liverpool 21 in the FA Cup semi
43:07
final. A lot closer than I expected.
43:12
You know, they needed an Aggie Beaver Jones header in
43:15
second-half stoppage time to get the win.
43:18
Aaron Cuthbert scored the first goal on A1 timer in first half
43:21
stoppage time. So they were, you know, doing
43:23
their homework last minute on the bus before they walked into
43:27
school. I think there were multiple
43:29
chances like Chelsea probably could have scored more, but so
43:32
could have Liverpool. Like this could have been a real
43:35
it was already a pretty intriguing match.
43:38
It could have been even Wilder than it than it ended up being.
43:42
Yeah, it's going, it's going to be an exciting final.
43:48
I'm I'm probably playing, I'm definitely playing catch up on
43:51
all the European action. Obviously talked about the the
43:54
move and I think I was in NWSL mode leading heading into
43:58
Champions League weekend. So I am not super caught up on
44:02
Lyon and actually not super got up on Arsenal, although I know
44:06
they got a match in the docket set up for this weekend.
44:09
I'm sorry for this week. Yeah, exactly.
44:11
Well, you didn't miss anything with your gooners buddy, because
44:13
they take on Leicester City on Tuesday, so they did not play.
44:17
They haven't played since before international break.
44:20
They were hoping for an uneventful ish international
44:24
break, but Chloe Kelly picked up some kind of foot injury during
44:28
England training and was sent home.
44:31
And then Daphne von Damselar injured her ankle for the
44:34
Netherlands in their first fixture of the international
44:36
break versus Austria and she was sent home.
44:40
But von Damselar told De Telegraph, which I'm guessing is
44:45
a Dutch newspaper of some kind or maybe news channel, that she
44:48
can walk on it, that she can walk on her ankle.
44:50
So she doesn't suspect the injury to be serious.
44:54
I haven't seen any updates on Chloe Kelly.
44:56
So we'll kind of see what, what that foot injury looks like.
45:00
It's just good, you know, if you if you tweak something, just go
45:03
home on international break just during the league season.
45:06
You know, we're not talking about a World Cup.
45:08
We're not talking about a Euro yet.
45:10
Just, you know, rest up for the Champions League.
45:13
And so I would be, I mean, just from the initial reports and
45:17
this is with no, the reports that I read, this is no
45:20
reporting by me. I'd be surprised if you see
45:23
Kelly play against Leicester City tomorrow.
45:25
Like what What would be the point of that?
45:27
Unless he was like absolutely a full go.
45:30
But yeah, your gooners are going to take on Leon, which I'm
45:35
pretty excited about. Before, before I tell you what
45:37
Leon did, where, how what's your, what's your confidence
45:42
level? Can we get a one to 10 level of
45:45
confidence going up against the French giants?
45:50
Playing at home, I mean, I think the I, I would love, I would
46:01
love to at least get a draw here.
46:04
You know, it's, it's early prediction wise.
46:06
I I'm kind of feeling like 1-1 would be as good as we can hope
46:10
for with that juggernaut from France and that defense and
46:15
those the injuries that you mentioned, if they don't have
46:17
Von Domslar, that's definitely going to hurt.
46:20
And I think Kelly has been a player that is been in a really
46:24
good change of pace, really smart player, really good
46:26
facilitator. And obviously we we know what
46:28
she could do from a finishing standpoint.
46:30
So those two injuries would definitely hurt if those players
46:33
were unavailable, I think. Yeah, I mean, I would be, I'd be
46:39
really surprised if Arsenal won. I'd be happy with the draw.
46:43
And I just don't want to get him, you know, like if you, if
46:46
you take the draw back to Leon, at least you can talk yourself
46:49
into, OK, anything can happen at this point.
46:53
Yeah, but I think a draw would would would be a great result.
46:58
Based on where? We're at right now.
47:00
Yeah, totally agree. And you know, Leon, I mean Leon
47:04
is just absolutely stacked. But you mentioned could you get
47:07
as Arsenal, could you get a draw first, Leon?
47:10
Well, let me tell you, buddy, Perry FC did this past weekend.
47:14
Hell of a match. I'm telling you, man, Perry FC
47:19
anytime and you know, they're off and on the zone anytime.
47:23
Perry FC, PSG and Leon, one of those, any of those three teams,
47:28
any combination of those three teams are playing on the zone.
47:31
It's absolutely appointment television for me.
47:34
And well, maybe not even appointment television 'cause I
47:36
think they played super early in the morning here on the West
47:39
Coast. But I was, I was able to avoid
47:41
all spoilers. It's a little, you know, weird
47:45
detour into my viewing habits. I avoided all spoilers and then
47:49
I will watch it like at night. So I will make it like a prime
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time match. I don't know what's going on but
47:56
I Perry FC and Leon, they played at night in France.
47:59
So I'm watching a a match that had happened like 13 hours
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earlier, but it's under the lights and it's night and I'm
48:06
having a couple beers, enjoying myself watching it.
48:08
The Leon was in a dog fight pretty much from Jump Street.
48:12
Perry FC went right at him, was attacking him on the wings.
48:16
Lyon had Ellie Carpenter out there, they had Spava out there.
48:19
They brought Basha in later. Like it wasn't, you know, it
48:23
wasn't the JV team for Lyon that was out there playing.
48:25
But Perry FC played bravely. You know, they they went right
48:29
at them. That I will say there was no
48:32
Wendy Renar and they brought on Tarsiane later.
48:36
But you know, there were there were pieces there with just, you
48:40
know, physical play and an aggressive style that I think if
48:46
you're Renee Slagers and Arsenal, you kind of look at
48:49
that and go, OK, it's not, you know, we're not a Derby match.
48:52
We're not a rivalry game the way Perry FC and Leonas, but there
48:57
might be some takeaways there and and how we might want to
49:00
attack them. Yeah, I like that.
49:03
And I do like slagers to be able to pick up some different
49:07
wrinkles from a, from a result like that.
49:09
So, you know, could be, could be some, I don't know, arrow sort
49:15
of turning its way a little upward for me.
49:18
Maybe. I'm feeling 510% more optimistic
49:21
than I was after learning about the, the Perry FC Leon results.
49:25
So I appreciate you catching me up with that.
49:28
Anything else you want to hit before we get out of here?
49:30
I mean we, I've decided I'm I'm determined to play the game from
49:35
now on. So who scored first in the in
49:37
the best 4 clubs in the world? This week's winner Leon Damaris
49:43
Eggarola scored in the 15th minute.
49:46
Leon takes the crown this week. Barcelona Patri's like flying
49:52
back heel in the 17th minute. That's second place and because
49:57
of the Seattle rain, F CS defense.
49:58
And then Claudia Dickey, Orlando Pride takes home third, scoring
50:02
in the 41st minute. Obviously Barbara Benda.
50:06
And then Chelsea, like I mentioned, scoring in stoppage
50:11
time in the first half. Aaron Cuthbert 45 + 2.
50:15
So in the race, no, no single minute scores, which is usually
50:20
a little, which I mean usually doesn't happen it feels like
50:23
with Leon and Barcelona, but they faced some pretty stiff
50:26
competition this week. Interesting.
50:28
All right, so we'll keep tracking it, Leon out to the
50:31
early lead since then, we'll definitely keep an eye on
50:36
another part of our look ahead. End of yourself match Week 5
50:38
right around the corner. Some good ones in match Week 5
50:42
as well that we're going to get Challenge Cup rematch, Orlando
50:44
Pride hosting the Washington Spirit again, your Seattle rain
50:48
host of Portland thorns. So you can, you know, take all
50:52
those pent up negative feelings that I I saw seeping out of you
50:56
as I was talking about Portland and all of all of their all of
51:00
their wins this season. And you could, I don't know,
51:03
channel that into some some energy in the press box.
51:05
If you're going to be in the building for that one.
51:08
That should be a good one and a pretty good match week 5 slate
51:11
top to bottom. So I'll be excited to talk about
51:13
that with you as well. I will absolutely be in the
51:17
building for the Cascadia Darby now, but when I'm in the press
51:21
box, no negative feelings whatsoever.
51:23
Purely professional, my Goodman. Yeah, see, there was a test
51:27
passed with flying colors. I appreciate you.
51:29
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51:30
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The vibes here are always good. I appreciate you bro.
51:59
Likewise, buddy and you know I had to get one more last last
52:03
Braun the the the fighting soldiers, the battalion in
52:07
Bergen, Norway off to a three win 0 draw zero loss start.
52:12
They notched A4 nil victory this past weekend.
52:16
Our pals Frederick and Alexandra or Alexander, pardon me, sent
52:22
us, sent us some highlights over on Blue Sky.
52:25
Anybody seriously? Like if you can find the
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highlights or follow the Brown Battalion on Blue Sky, go ahead
52:31
and do it. One of the best football club in
52:33
the world if you ask me. We'll see them later in the UAE
52:37
for Women's Champions League coming up after after this one
52:40
they're qualified for next season.
52:42
So just shout out to the battalion for reaching out to us
52:44
on blue sky. It's good to see more of them
52:46
kind of migrate over there as well.
52:47
Let's. Go awesome.
52:52
All right, man, I think we've done it.
52:53
I will. Let's get out of here, man.
52:55
It's the sleep. It's the sleepy boy show.
52:57
I'm all over the place, staying up late.
52:59
I don't know how you've been doing it all these weeks.
53:03
I mean, yeah, I, I, I took for granted the, the time zone
53:07
difference and how, how much easier things were on me as
53:10
opposed to what you were dealing with back East.
53:13
All good man. I appreciate it.
53:15
We're getting it done. We'll get the times.
53:17
We'll we'll get the time situated.
53:18
Just a just a matter of time, for lack of a better word.
53:22
But you already know. I appreciate you bro.
53:25
All right. Likewise man, thanks everybody
53:26
for watching and we will see you all next time.