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UWCL: Previewing Group C and Group D · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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OK, welcome to into the channel podcast premier about one's
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the show notes of this episode. I'm your host Dean Wood,
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suspicious and as always I am joined by my Co host Mr. Grant
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Engel for this part two of two. What is up man?
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I'm still feeling fantastic, buddy, because I enjoy talking
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about Groups A&B with you and now we get to talk about Groups
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C&D who have some teams that I think we're fairly interested
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in. Let's get to it, man.
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Hammer bees. And no, I'm just kidding.
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We're going to start with my squad here.
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Wednesday, 12:45 PM Eastern. Byron Munich takes on my Lady
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Gunners of North London, the Arsenal.
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Very excited about this one. I want to start with Byron.
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Well, I mean the revenge tour teams.
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This is my third of three. Bayern.
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I think for me, if you miss it, in Part 1, we talked about
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Wolfsburg, we talked about Real Madrid as our 2 revenge tour
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teams. For me, Bayern's the third.
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They were winners of Fran Bundesliga last season.
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They go in as the one seed. They get to bypass all the
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qualifying straight to the group stage bounce out of the group
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stage Group of life got that was not the group of life for Bayern
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Munich, unfortunately, but they are back and off to I think a
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pretty strong start domestically.
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Four wins 4 up four down plus fourteen goal differential and
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this team was also undefeated through the entire front
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Bundesliga season last year. That's quite quite a feat.
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You know it's different when you see Barcelona or Leon do it
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Bayern Munich in that league with that competition that that
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that's that's pretty big time 19 wins 3 draws.
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I'm I'm very conflicted. You know, on one hand, I'm a
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little as an Arsenal fan, I think we can go to Byron, get a
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result, maybe get a win. On the other hand, you see all
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those talented players, Clara Boule, Schuler, Georgia Stanway,
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who put a fucking absolute rocket in the net against Verda
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Bremen. Yep, Giovanna Damanovich for
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their fourth goal. She and she took the ball 65
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yards scorched inverted Bremen's right back blast one in as well.
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I mean, she's not going to go 65 against Arsenal, but this team
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is is pretty hardcore. And this was all with their
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captain Glottis Figas Dottier, earning herself a red card
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roughly around the 50th minute. So this is with 10.
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They were able to kind of hang for an inverted Bremen control
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the game intend and they'll be going into the script stage
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match. I think feeling pretty confident
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and also I think probably realistically a little pissed
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off about how things went last season in this tournament for.
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Them Bayern Munich is one of those clubs just in general, and
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you're a very Real Madrid like. Like we don't go into any
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tournament thinking that we're not supposed to win it.
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We don't go into any league season thinking that we're not
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supposed to win it. It is like their birthright to
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win football matches, to win football tournaments, to win
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football leagues. So I I think you're totally
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right. I think that they are looking
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for their revenge tour and obviously they all listen to
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this podcast. So they hear us talking about
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the Wolfsburg revenge tour and they're like, no, no, no, hold
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on a second. We were invincible last year in
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frown Bundesliga in Germany. So you're talking about somebody
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else's revenge tour just because we're a couple of Johnny come
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lately and we saw them get bounced in the group stage last
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year. So I I expect that anger to be
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there. Clara Bull, Leia Schuler, like
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you talked about Pernil harder just players who can score in
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bunches. I'm really excited to see them
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play. But hold, I'm not letting you
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get away with this. Do do not do not for a second
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poor mouth your arsenal who's looked absolutely dominating.
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We talked about BK hack and we love that squad.
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Shout out to their to their supporters.
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It's a bummer you guys aren't going to be on this Champions
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League journey with us. They cracked BK Hack and you
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don't score five goals on BK Hack and I don't care where the
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match is played. You could have played it on
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Mars. You could have played it in in
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Arizona in the heat. I don't think BK Hack and
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players are ever supposed to give up five goals.
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You guys look good. Good.
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Totally agreement. Well give up four goals, so no,
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Still waiting for somebody to hang 5 on that's.
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Right. That's right.
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But could add five. Felt felt like 5.
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Felt like 5. Absolutely.
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I'm not going to front the draw. Last Fridays draw came down to
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is also going to fall into Group C with Byron or Group D with
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Barcelona. Vigorous fist pump.
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When that C got unwrap, yeah, I was just like let's fucking go.
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So very excited to be in the Byron group.
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I think Arsenal's absolutely going to be at the very least at
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the level of Bayern. We're talking about the 2007 UAF
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Women's Champions League winners here in Arsenal.
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And that hacking match that you mentioned.
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You know, as an Arsenal fan, I'm kind of used to entering these,
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like, tough Champions League ties with some nerves.
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And like you, I'm just anticipating that we're going to
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be in the 70th, 80th minute and I'm just going to still be
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sweating it out. None of that against Hackett by
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halftime, 2 nil already. Like Hakken had to do a ton of
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work in that first match just to get that one goal.
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And that's kind of how they want to play.
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They want to play one nil, nil, nil type matches.
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So once it's 2 1/2 totally depressurized the situation.
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I love that Maniona Caldente got the second goal because this
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Arsenal team is starting to play and I got to I got to take the
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LA little bit on this one. Obviously Arsenal science Cafagi
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science Maniona Caldente. I thought Cafagi was going to be
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the gem of the class, but I feel like what Caldente is doing in
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terms of like controlling the tempo, extending her style to
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the rest of this team. Like you can see it like they're
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playing a little smarter, they're playing a little bit
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craftier, a little bit more strategic, little more patient.
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And Caldente is kind of like pulling the strings from from a
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position that you're not really used to seeing that from now,
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Kafaji still looks incredible. You know, today against Lester,
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she she put 2 defend 2 defenders on their ass and had a strike
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just blocked. The move was just so Philly that
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you just can't do anything but be thrilled about that player
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and having her on your team, the Beth Meade.
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So you know, Ali up to herself to before she smashes in for the
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third. I mean, I think this Arsenal
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team pretty much rolling. I think Alessia Russo has looked
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good. She had an assist in a win over
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Leicester to freedom Manem Manem also scored the fourth goal
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attack. And so Arsenal really is
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cooking. I kind of like that they're
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going to Byron for this first one.
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A little bit of a good position, not not the highest pressure
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position, yeah. Because like this is sort of the
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toughest match of the bunch. You're going to the one seed,
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you're going to their house. You know, a win there obviously
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puts you in the absolute driver's seat for the group.
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Even a draw there probably puts you at the very least, you know,
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1A1B in terms of the, you know, driver's seatedness.
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And I think their form has them in a place where they should be
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really confident going into this match.
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A. 100% I mean, I think you nailed it with Caldente and I
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like that you use the term they depressurized the situation.
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She's a depressurizer. She's he's been in these
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situations and then you think about too you like you named all
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those players freedom on them. Beth Mead, you got Kim little
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Seattle rain FC legend Kim little.
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Let's go running a round out there for you.
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Again, not to take anything away from Bayern Munich.
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This is an extremely winnable group for Arsenal.
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I would dare say I think you're the favorites to win this group.
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I think I agree with that. I couldn't find any betting
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lines to confirm it, but if I had to put a number on it, I got
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to imagine Arsenal's a slight favorite to take the group.
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Full agreement there. Let's shift gears though.
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Wednesday, 12:45 PM Eastern. Hammer be hosting Zinc Poulton.
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A fun, even ish type matchup. Different styles maybe at play
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here. What are you going to be looking
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for when these two teams? Lock up You talk about when you
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were watching the draw and you had a fist bump when Arsenal
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avoided Barcelona's group. Let me tell you a different
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story. When as I was watching the draw
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and it came down to a couple of clubs either being selected into
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the Group C or Group D and Hammerby's name was drawn.
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And let me tell you buddy, I was actively rooting for them to be
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drawn into your group. No, no disrespect to Volaringa.
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Far be it from me to underestimate a Norwegian team,
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especially in favor of a Swedish team.
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I'm not sure how the the fan politics work in those Nordic
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countries. I was actively rooting for
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Hammerby not to be in Manchester City's group.
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We'll, we'll talk about them later.
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I think Hammerby looks good, man.
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They look really tough. Their atmosphere in their
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stadium is super live. Their fans are incredible.
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They're in Stockholm, Sweden, which is a great, great city.
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Been there a few times. You know Julie Blackstad, she
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scored in both legs of their matches against Benfica, she
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scored in the 16th minute of each match.
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A little spooky there. Clockwork.
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Yeah, so apparently, like those first 16 minutes, that's Julie
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Blackstad time could think it. Tom Berg is definitely a player
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after our own hearts. She gets into a shoving match
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with Nicole, race low, who I gotta say, I would think is
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usually ill advised. Absolutely no back down from
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Tanberg, it looked like. I think you'll appreciate this
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reference as you're wearing the Miami Heat hoodie.
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Do you remember when Udonis Haslam and David West got into a
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shoving match? Yeah, the Pacers Heat series
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years and years ago. That kind of reminded me of that
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as I watched him get in that I went, oh, like I was, I had a
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little bit of hesitation. Yeah.
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I clutched the pearls like no, everybody calm down.
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I don't need to see a heavyweight fight right here.
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You know, between Blackstead, she's 23 out of Norway,
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Thunberg, she's 20 out of Sweden, Ellen Wongerheim, she's
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20 out of Sweden and Vilda Hassan, 27 from Norway.
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This is a Nordic 4 headed Voltron.
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That's just going to be tough for anybody to deal with.
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Those four, at least at the time of this recording, really at the
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time when I checked the stats before I had to before I went
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and covered an NWSL match, Those four combined to have 30, three
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goals and 14 assists just between them in Damos Fenskin
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this season. So I'll just say like I think
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this, obviously you have the big bad wolf lurking in this in this
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group. We'll talk about them in a bit.
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I think this is a battle between my Manchester City and Hammerby
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for that second spot and I think it's going to be a knock down,
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drag out. I I have faith in my squad.
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I think it's going to be very tough though.
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I guess that has to be attributed to Hammerbee style of
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play. Yeah.
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And physicality and kind of environment and like maybe a
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little bit of trauma from what we saw from the from the Swedish
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teams and the and the and the Nordic teams last Champions
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League group. Sage.
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Yeah, I would say certainly live.
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But you know, when I think about the city, we'll get to city in a
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little bit, but I just keep thinking that they push Chelsea
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to the absolute brain class season, right.
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So at the very least they're in the same ish ballpark.
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But from what we saw last season, that doesn't guarantee
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shit. It's got to get like, we were
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pumped watching Benfica beat this hammer beside in Stockholm
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only to go back to Lisbon and get blanked and get bullied,
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essentially knocked out before the group's EGB gets rolling.
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So this team is definitely not one to be taken lightly.
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And I think when you think about the same Bolton match, it's
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going to come down to whose style is this match being played
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under. So if you're saying Bolton
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coming into this one having to travel to Stockholm, like you
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already know what you're going to have to bring to the table to
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kind of stay in this match. This is a side got roughed up
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pretty good last group stage, but I do expect them to put
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together some better showings here this year.
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I think they've they've looked it in the qualifying phase.
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So I'm, I'm really looking forward to, to your take on what
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you think St. Polton could bring to this match
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up. I'm gonna crack a beer for our
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our pals St. Polton.
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I like the Champions of Austria. STP.
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They're A-Team after our heart as well.
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Good ol STP. Zero goals allowed in their 4
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Champions League qualifying matches.
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Zero goals allowed in their first four matches.
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The OFB Frown Bundesliga in Austria, Scott, as mentioned,
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Karina Schluter is a very good keeper.
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And I'm cracking this beer just out of deference to create a
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Schluter because I got ready. It'll take people a little
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behind the curtain here. I covered the Seattle Rain FC
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Bay FC football match in the Soto neighborhood of Seattle
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today. And I looked at my watch and it
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was like 56° and I was like, oh, better put on a little jacket
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over my hoodie as a scooter down there.
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I'll tell you something. Karina Schluter last year
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against Slavia Praha in the group stage, short sleeve
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goalkeeper shirt, 37°F. She's tough as hell.
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She faced 56 shots on target across the six group stage
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matches that she played last year and she was keeping STP in
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a lot of those matches except for the home leg when she played
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French giants Lyon. They hung seven goals on her in
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the second to last fixture. But other than that, I thought
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she really kind of kept them in some matches that they had no
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business being in. But STP, they only scored two
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goals last last Champions League group stage.
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So it was 2 for 14 against and if you think about that, seven
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in one match kind of really kind of skews that math.
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So they went out and they acquired 25 year old Czech
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midfielder Camila Dubkova. She has four goals in four
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matches in league play for STP at the time of this recording.
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She came over after six seasons in Syria.
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Femme Anil play 4 for Saswello, 2 for AC Milan.
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They're going to need to play that style a little bit.
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They're going to need to park the bus.
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They're going to need to play that defensive style like you
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talked about. They're going to go into
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Stockholm. It's going to be a crazy
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environment. They're going to need to try to
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calm the crowd, quiet the crowd. Maybe Schluter make some great
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saves, but I'm I'm excited to see because I think you're
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right, they look better than they looked last year and they
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dominate that league over in Austria.
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Now they have that little bit, they have that extra wave of
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experience from last year's Champions League and I think
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this could be a a sneaky great match to kind of start the Group
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D proceedings. Totally agree with you.
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I would love to see a Schluter match for sure.
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Love it. So that is something that we'll
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be keeping an eye on. I want to stay in Group D here
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and shift over to your squad, the Manchester City Sky Blade
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hosting the defending champs FC Barcelona.
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I'm going to go, I'm going to go opposite of you.
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We started talking about Group C and you started with Bayern
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Munich. I'm going to start with
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Manchester City. I'm going to be I'm going to be
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self involved. I'm going to be self indulgent.
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I like cruised, cruised into the group stage eight nil on
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aggregate over Perry FC. Giant killers no more.
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Get out of here. We slayed them handily.
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No disrespect to Perry FC. We love them as a team.
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We had them under pressure in the Dozy.
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God love her. We love her as a podcast.
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Totally. She made some questionable
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decisions in those two ties. I think she was under a lot of
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pressure. I think she was feeling it in
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those qualifiers. Two goals from Jess Park, two
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goals from Bunny Shaw, two goals from Chloe Kelly, and then Viv
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Midima and Mary Fowler both added a goal each.
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Chloe Kelly, I would go back to her.
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She looked fast. She looked decisive in that
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second leg versus Perry FC. I'm really curious to kind of
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see what happens. I'm going to throw this to you.
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Tell me if you think I'm crazy for this theory.
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When City signed Alba Fujino, I wondered aloud.
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We talked about it with our pals over at Shades of Blue.
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Watch that show immediately. Follow it on YouTube.
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Shades of Blue, the world's finest Manchester City Football
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Club podcast, if you're into that kind of thing.
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Cosign. I wondered aloud what's going to
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happen with Chloe Kelly in the rotation.
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Fujino has an audacity and audaciousness to her play.
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Is Chloe Kelly going to kind of look around and be like, OK,
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well, hemp Bunny, I feel like I'm kind of the fourth person
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left out of this mix in the in the final third, in the
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attacking third, if you will. She came in and looked great.
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And So what I want to posit to you, could we potentially have
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in Orlando Pride situation in the fine City of Manchester
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where all these players are going to realize, OK, maybe I'm
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not playing 90 in every match. Maybe I'm not playing 60.
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Maybe there are some matches where I I got to give you 35 or
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30. Could there be a culture of
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winning going on there? You talk about them pushing
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Chelsea where it's we're going to play our game, but we're
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going to play it in the context of the attack, in the context of
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the system. Or am I just getting vastly
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ahead of myself after just an 8 no win on aggregate over Perry
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FC? I mean, you're probably getting
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ahead of. No, I'm just getting, I think I,
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I, I like it and I agree with it.
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I think the Manchester City attack, it's almost like a lot
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like the men side. It's not just like for like
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these are players with different skill sets, different profiles
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and rewinding back to last year, look at those top teams,
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Chelsea, Leon, Barsa, PSG less much less.
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So sure, let's look at those just those top three.
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A lot of movement in those line UPS.
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Even when you got to the knockout stage football and it
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was a two match tie, you would see changes, adjustments,
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adjustments to the adjustment. So the fact that you have
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players like chess park, Chloe Kelly veteran like you know, Viv
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Medema, Buddy Shaw, hemp, Fujino, Mary Fowler, these are
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all different players with different makeups.
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You're going to have to show Barcelona something that you
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have haven't shown yet if you want to be able to compete in
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this matchup. You could like Fujino, you could
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put her anywhere. Just part feels like you could
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put her anywhere, you know, and she's going to be dangerous.
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So I like the versatility. I like having that extra talent
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and I like how different the makeups are for the for those
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attacking players. I think you're right.
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But you mentioned them. We got to talk about them.
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It's not a women's football podcast if we don't talk about
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them. The holders, the juggernauts,
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the team of destiny, Barcelona, Mappy Leona's back, she has
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played, did the full 90 in three of the four League F matches
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Barcelona has played so far. You know, she's going to be
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paired with some combination of maybe Ingrid Eggin and Marta
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Torreon, depending on what the look is.
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I'm guessing, depending on how they feel that day, depending on
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who they think might dominate that day.
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You know, you mentioned Barcelona won their match 10 to
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one over Granada. Previous to that, let's take out
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the 12:50. Previous to that, their first
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three matches. Eva Pazor brace plus an Esme
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Bruks goal in the second match. Karolina Graham Hansen gets a
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brace and then Putea scores a penalty in Game 2 and then away
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at Sevilla. Aitana Bone Mati scores the
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winner one nil at Sevilla, however.
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Do you want it man? Anyone can score at any time.
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Anyone can score a brace in any game.
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They are the most elite team in the world.
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The only team competing with them is in your hometown of
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Orlando, obviously Cosine, but they're not in this tournament.
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So Manchester City's gonna have to deal with Barcelona and Kyra
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Walsh will return. Feels like you can just go on
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forever England as a member of great lawyers at Barcelona.
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You just have to feel like, and I accused you of maybe poor
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mouthing Arsenal a bit. I don't mean to do that to
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Manchester City, but we are in the group with the team that I I
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would think is a significant favorite to win this tournament.
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I would quibble a little bit with significant.
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I would say that you could say they're the favorite for sure.
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Yeah. But somehow Barcelona felt maybe
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a little bit more overwhelming last season.
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I think I would be a little bit less surprised with kind of like
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the the teams that we've seen. And again, I'm not sure if this
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is, you know, some recency bias. You know, we watch this
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qualifying phase a little closer than we did last season.
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We know these teams a little bit better.
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We're a little bit more caught up with what's happening
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domestically with these 16 teams.
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So it could just be that. But one thing that we do know is
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that the women's game has been on this kind of like
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evolutionary fast track. You're just seeing new players
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bubble up, like new styles, new skills and yours.
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Oh, OK. I've never seen that before.
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You know, like, and I think we're watching pretty gorgeous.
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We're consuming a ton of women's football and all of a sudden
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we're eating like, God taster. I think this is the first thing
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that comes to mind. It doesn't feel like there are
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teams that are at the bottom of these groups.
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That are just sort of cannon fodder the same way that it felt
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last season. It's going to be interesting to
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see the goal differential and see if there's a big delta
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between Latin last year and this year.
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Because I that would be a bet that I would make.
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I think I would bet the margins are going to be a little bit
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thinner this season. Doesn't mean they're not the
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favorite, but I think it might be a little bit tougher.
20:24
I'm so glad you bring that up because I was actually thinking
20:27
about this comparison. In the 2023 World Cup, you had
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teams like Morocco bubble up and start to play well.
20:36
You had teams like Colombia shocked people and were able to
20:39
make it into the knockout stage. Portugal gave USAA hell of a
20:45
match. You know, the group stage.
20:47
And you think about the 2019 World Cup, you know, USA, they
20:50
were still in that tournament in 2019.
20:53
They had some gigantic margins of victory.
20:55
And that gap really seemed to close in the 2023 World Cup.
20:59
So I think that's a great point by you.
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I'm I'm really interested to see, are we going to see that
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kind of mirror image in the Champions League this year?
21:08
I got to expect it because we're just seeing it all over the
21:12
Olympics. Another one.
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I mean, I think you know, those those results totally up in the
21:16
balance. I mean, there was no predicting
21:19
it. France, home country, tons of
21:21
expectations. Spain, the reigning World Cup
21:24
champions, total flame out. And I think at the end of it,
21:28
the USA is holding the trophy. But it was a lot trickier than
21:31
than just that. I think, you know, it wasn't the
21:33
same 2015 or 2019 type situation.
21:36
So I'm sure you'll be watching that one closely.
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I will as well. That's that's my Wednesday, 3:00
21:42
PM sewn up, locked up. That's where I'll be at.
21:44
But there'll be another match up going down in that same time
21:47
slot. Group C following a hosting
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Juventus, another team flying, I think pretty high.
21:54
I love this match up. I think this is going to be one
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of the sneaky best match ups of the slate.
22:00
Different styles. I think it's going to be
22:02
physical up and down. I think we're going to get
22:05
goals. I think we're going to get a
22:07
couple of yellow cards, some hard fouls.
22:08
I think we're going to get pretty much anything a football
22:11
fan might want. This is the match, I think,
22:13
where you're going to see the full gamut of of what the sport
22:16
can deliver. I think that's a great point,
22:18
man. I mean, mixing kind of the
22:20
Norwegian style of football with the Italian style of football, I
22:24
think we're 100% in for physicality.
22:27
I think that goes without saying.
22:29
But these two teams, they can score.
22:31
They have attacking talent on each side.
22:33
Valeranga. We'll see if we start to attract
22:38
Valeranga supporters. You're on my shit list right now
22:41
and nothing against you guys. I don't know any of you, but I
22:45
mean, for anybody who's been following this podcast, this
22:47
obviously is an SK Braun podcast considering we became massive
22:53
supporters of them and we're welcomed in with open arms into
22:56
the Braun Battalion during last year's Champions League.
22:58
You guys just got to stop beating Braun, man.
23:00
I'm sick of it. I'm sick of watching it.
23:02
I don't like tuning in to these matches and going onto a website
23:06
and I have to hit Google Translate, switch to English so
23:09
I can make sure I navigate into the right place just to watch
23:11
you beat Braun. Tired of watching that.
23:14
But in all series business, Volaringa is a is a talented
23:17
squad that plays tough. They are a great side.
23:20
They are running away and hiding with top Syrian.
23:23
They're going to win that league.
23:25
They're likely going to win the Norwegian Cup.
23:27
That's what they defeated. SK Braun 31 Bron looked like
23:31
they started to get things going.
23:32
Caroline Holland scored the first one could have had a
23:34
brace. There were a lot of close calls
23:37
in that one that I think Bron probably, you know, call me
23:40
crazy. I think Bron could have won it.
23:42
But you know, maybe I'm a little biased, but but again,
23:45
seriously, Volleringa is tough. They're smart, they play
23:48
together, they could score. I'm really interested to see how
23:51
they match up against the Juventus team who I'm I'm high
23:54
on them also. Totally.
23:56
Yeah, we can keep it real vulnerable and go.
23:58
And they squeaked by Bron today, November 2nd.
24:01
Those two teams will lock up again in Bergen.
24:04
But yeah, as you mentioned, they're 11 points clear, six
24:06
matches left. Absolutely.
24:08
That's going to be tough. But yeah, Juventus, who you
24:11
brought up, I mean, this is a team tremendous pedigree as
24:14
well. Before Roma's two straight
24:15
titles, Juventus won five straight Syria Femoneal
24:20
championships. And this is a team that
24:22
absolutely punked PSG semifinalist from last year,
24:27
just bullied them 3:00 to 1:00 at home.
24:30
That in itself was a shocker. Yeah.
24:32
Then they go to Paris in front of an absolutely lit crowd, by
24:35
the way, who'd be props to them? I mean, total bops from the
24:38
crowd. I was tapping my feet.
24:39
I was just like, I'm into this shit.
24:40
Like, I don't know what they were saying, but I was with it.
24:43
Sure. Juventus didn't care. 2 to one
24:45
at PSG, get out of here, go home, it's over.
24:48
We talked about Juventus wide open style.
24:51
So, yeah, they're physical. They like to defend, but they
24:53
also like to get up and down. They've given up six goals
24:56
already in Syria feminine in just three matches.
24:59
That is 7th best in the league out of 10.
25:02
So they're they're letting they're they're letting them in
25:05
over there Juventus and Torino. So we will see what shape this
25:11
match takes on. But I do think Juventus,
25:14
obviously they're in the group with my Arsenal, Bayern Munich.
25:17
I think they're super live at Valorica.
25:19
I actually I'm not going to X them out either.
25:22
You know, so I'd obviously love to see Arsenal kind of cruise
25:25
through, but something tells me this Group C, there's going to
25:28
be some I think late into the group.
25:31
So I'm a little scared about this event aside.
25:33
Totally agree. I think, I'm not so sure about
25:36
Arsenal, but I think Bayern Munich again, man, this could be
25:40
this could be an all time silly take.
25:41
So we could just go ahead and bookmark this one.
25:44
For any maybe German supporters that we picked up doing our
25:47
episodes with the great Peter Weisey of bullynews.com, please
25:50
immediately follow our guy Weisey on Twitter, support his
25:53
work. He does absolutely phenomenal
25:55
stuff over there. Let's just go ahead and bookmark
25:58
me doubting Bayern Munich of all teams that that sounds like a
26:02
great strategy. I'm going to doubt Bayern Munich
26:05
in football matches. That what a good idea.
26:07
But I I will say I wouldn't be surprised if Bayern is going up
26:11
against Juventus and finds themselves in a real dogfight in
26:14
some of those matches. I would say those are probably
26:16
two of two of the matches I'm looking forward to most in this
26:19
group. Absolutely, and this match will
26:22
probably already be done by the time you see or hear this
26:25
episode. But Monday, 12:00 PM noon,
26:28
Juventus is going to take on Fiorentino.
26:30
Let me do it again. I call them Fiorentino.
26:32
Juventus is going to take on Fiorentina in an early season
26:35
top three clash. I think that one's going to tell
26:37
us a little bit as well. Yeah, that's going to be very,
26:40
very interesting. Only a matter of time.
26:43
We'll have to wait until Fiorentina actually makes the
26:47
Champions League in one of these upcoming years.
26:50
I look forward to the two people possibly who might get this
26:53
reference who listen to the podcast.
26:55
You're wearing the Miami Heat hoodie.
26:57
We can start making our Tony Fiorentino references when
27:01
talking about Fiorentino 2 for one here, Eric.
27:06
Not Vernon. Shout out to Tony Fiorentino.
27:12
You're our guy no matter what. Yeah.
27:16
League pass legend for somebody who's never lived in in the
27:19
state of Florida, I'm glad that you can get so much enjoyment
27:22
out of that. I've I know you've watched
27:23
several of his called games. Tremendous.
27:26
Yeah, The legend. How do I?
27:29
How do I? Even I didn't even get out of a
27:34
Tony field to get out of. This and Speaking of legends,
27:37
legendary runs quick programming reminder, we will be back later
27:41
this week with an NWSL Match Week 23 weekend preview where my
27:45
Orlando Pride, 22 straight and unbeaten, will take on the
27:48
Washington Spirit. Four more matches left to go in
27:50
the season. We're going to be previewing the
27:52
entire match Week 23 weekend and all of the NWSL action that will
27:56
be coming up later this week. If you missed Part 1 of this
27:58
episode, definitely go back and check that out.
28:00
We previewed Tuesday's Champions League matchups, groups, A&B, so
28:05
that's what's on deck for your boys.
28:07
Anything else you want to hit before we get out of here?
28:09
I think that's it. I mean, the more we look at
28:13
these teams now, obviously, like we say, this is a learning
28:16
podcast. There's more that's going to
28:17
come up as we as we watch these teams more.
28:20
We shouted out the great folks over at the zone in Part 1 of
28:23
this episode. It's going to be very nice to
28:25
watch all of these matches in high definition.
28:29
Not looking for sketchy YouTube streams not looking for YouTube
28:32
streams that show you the match and then a box pops up in the
28:35
middle of the of the the feed and says actually go to this
28:37
link and you can watch the full match there.
28:39
I. Hate those just.
28:41
Just watching on the zone, you know, I, you know, the game is
28:44
the game. I get they're trying to find the
28:45
loopholes for us, but it it'll be, it'll be nice to just open
28:49
up the Desone app, put on the match, watch it all the way
28:53
through. Here's some commentary in our
28:55
native language, which is is going to be nice for everybody
28:58
all across the world to be able to hear the commentary in their
29:00
native languages. So I think we hit most of the
29:04
pertinent stuff, but I'm also certain that we missed some
29:07
things. So please let us know in the
29:08
comments. Who did we miss as players?
29:10
What coaches do we need to talk about?
29:12
Oh, yeah. What funny videos and funny
29:14
moments do we need to look at from the past in these clubs?
29:18
You guys are always the best. You helped us out in the last
29:20
Women's Champions League tournament.
29:22
Please, we're asking you politely.
29:24
Can you help us out again? Let us know where the holes in
29:27
our game are so we're we're coachable so we can kind of
29:30
figure this out. Absolutely.
29:31
Definitely looking forward to that.
29:33
All right, man, I think we did it.
29:34
That's Part 2 in the books, 2 for one.
29:37
Eric, It's going to have a set up into the channel.
29:39
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And a big thank you to my coast as well, Mr. Grant Angle for I
29:58
don't know, man, whatever group he's in, that's the group of
30:01
life. That's all.
30:01
That's all I'm gonna say about that.
30:03
I appreciate you bro. Likewise, buddy, I look forward
30:05
to identifying the Group of Life with you.
30:07
I think we have 4 good candidates in this tournament.
30:10
We will be searching this out. It'll probably take us maybe
30:13
match week 3, maybe, maybe match week four.
30:16
I think we should start start to be able to determine who the
30:19
Group of life is. But let us know if you have
30:21
thoughts. I mean, we've already been kind
30:22
of chopping it up with folks on social media who you think the
30:25
group of life is, but we're almost there.
30:28
I agree with you, Dino. I think the Champions League, we
30:30
can say it is back back. The matches happened on October
30:34
8th, October 9th. Cannot wait for them.
30:36
Let us know what you guys are thinking in the meantime and we
30:39
will be back to talk to you about those very soon.