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KC Current 10 Straight Unbeaten | Orlando Pride Reeling | 40K+ Watch Washington Spirit Beat Bay FC · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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OK, welcome to into the channel podcast primer about once
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football. I'm your host, Dino de
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suspicious and as always, I am joined by my Co host, Mr. Grant
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Angle. What's up, man?
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I'm feeling fantastic, buddy. It's good.
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Good to be back here with you. It's been a little while.
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We appreciate everybody's patience, but we had a couple
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things to do, so we needed to take care of those for a little
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bit. So thanks for bearing with us.
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Thanks for bearing with us for sure.
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A couple things to do. One in particular, welcome to do
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addition to the family This past weekend on a free transfer,
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Gabriella Elena joined us, little Gaby Porchillo, little
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Elena Lenari in the mix. You know, just a little offense
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defense, you know, in the naming conventions, didn't actually
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name them after those two players, but that's the name
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that we landed on. And she's doing great.
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Mom's doing great, and your boy's back podding.
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So you know what? What else I mean?
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I'm not sure I can ask for anything else man.
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I mean, look, the paternity leave at into the Channel is a
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generous policy, but we just can't keep you off the pitch,
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man. You know, I mean, I, I mean it,
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it is unpaid. So I, I live with that.
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But you know, we are, we are, we're scratching early up the,
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up the up the what, what is it? The pyramid, the football
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pyramid. So we'll see where we land.
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But yeah, man, let's get into it.
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Way, way, way too many days since we've potted.
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I think I missed 2 NWSL weekends.
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Funny story actually, I didn't see the the Seattle result from
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the week prior, the three three, just absolute barn burner until
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I started watching this week's games and I saw like like a like
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a like a replay of it. I apologize man, I I, I really
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wish we could have potted and I could have gotten your take for
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from from that just epic matchup.
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It was it was a pretty amazing matchup.
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The team was not thrilled with the results in the in the post
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match press conference, as you could imagine, nor should they
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have been. But, you know, I mean, you're
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going to have these kind of weird runs of form throughout a
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season, and I think we can kind of talk about how that trend is
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continuing. Yep, let's get into it week 1717
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weeks in. I can't believe we're we're here
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already. It hitting the the real real
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stretch run. A nice weekend of football would
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not not quite the rusty football that we saw the first couple
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weeks back from the long break. But Mr. Grant, angle where you
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want to get started. Let's get started with a
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celebratory beverage for your new addition.
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I appreciate that. For the football returning for
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the podcast returning. Cheers.
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Cheers to you. Cheers to the football.
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Cheers to the pod, cheers to the football, Cheers to Week 17.
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Is I don't know what this brewery, I don't know what their
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connection is, but the breweries in Portland, it's Deftones
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themed. So cheers to the Deftones for
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also returning, because however big the overlap is in the Venn
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diagram of people who are playing the clips album nonstop
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and the new Deftones album nonstop, I think there actually
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might be decent overlap in that Venn diagram.
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But your boy is squarely in there.
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I like it. Yeah.
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I'm, I'm probably more on the clips side of the Venn diagram.
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Sure, huge Deftones guy. But you know, I'm sympathetic.
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You know, I, I recognize, appreciate it.
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Yeah, I'm, I've got I've got clips and and Lord, going
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back-to-back in my rotation. I'm not sure there's a lot of a
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lot of us roaming around these streets either.
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Let's get into it, man. I want to talk a little Portland
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Mill KC Current to your boys experimenting with a, with, with
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some power rankings. I'm not sure how I'm going to
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unveil those or when I'm going to unveil those, but they're
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ruminating. And yeah, the KC Current, I
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think, I mean, like, like everybody else covered the
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sport. KC Current sit at the very top
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of my power rankings and they get a big grown up win.
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I'm not sure they got the signature win that I was pining
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for. Didn't get it versus Orlando,
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but this was a really, really big, kind of impressive win
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against against a tough squad on the road.
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I think they're a flying death machine, to be honest.
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I mean, Portland played pretty well, but Kansas City, they're,
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they're just at a spot right now where they could beat you a
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million different ways. It's nearly impossible to beat
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Lorena to score on her. I mean, she had a couple great
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saves in in this one. Timo Chewinga is in a is
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inevitable. And if you're going to let them
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score in the first minute, you're fighting Ivan Drago real
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like it's real scary hours real early in the match when you can
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see that early. Yeah, you're you're you're going
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into Drago S you're going into Moscow and just be like right
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right here, right here, Ivan, just plant one on me.
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I'm glad you mentioned Chewinga. Like, I think the, you know,
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every week I feel like I I pick up something new from her game.
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And I think this week the thing that kind of blew me away is
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just how often a ball gets kicked into an area and then
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there's just seemingly a cloud of dust, bodies kind of knocking
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against each other. And then Tamo Chowenga just
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exits the cloud of dust with the ball, like heading towards the
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goal. Like it's unbelievable how she's
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able to do that. And in the, in the goal that she
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scored on this one, it's an Ellie Wheeler ball over the top.
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You know, obviously Wheeler gets the Super early goal.
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But the other thing about Chewinga is she's always got
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defenders running sort of alongside her kind of in the
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frame. But if you really, really look
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closely, they have no impact on the play whatsoever. 8 times out
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of 10, they're, they're just doing everything they can just
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to keep pace running wise. And that was this one like, you
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know, like I think the, the, the announcing team kind of went
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like, oh, she finishes amid some traffic.
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You look closer and it's like everybody's like a foot and a
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half away. And it's like, she's really just
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kind of like running through a very thin lane, but doing it at
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such a high pace. And then she's able to just
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finish it. I mean like they're, they're
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just playing on another level right now.
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And even the times, it's such a great point by you, even the
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times where she does get kicked, like as she's running through
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there and there's, it's like you said, it's like a cartoonish
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cloud of dust and she emerges from it.
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I realize Malawi is roughly 3500 yards or 3500 miles, pardon me,
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away from Nigeria, But when you see a tough runner in the city
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of Kansas City, reminiscent of the Nigerian nightmare Christian
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Nikoye from the Kansas City Chiefs years ago.
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And that's just how I felt about that, where it's just like, you
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can't, you can't take her down. She's getting to her spot
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however she wants to. And then she has the touch and
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the intelligence to finish. I mean, what I mean, what can be
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said about her at this point other than she's making another
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run at A at her second consecutive MVP?
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Absolutely. Yeah, and probably in the
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driver's seat for that. You mentioned Lorena since 9:00
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clean sheets probably on pace to at least equal but probably
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surpass. Anamore has the record last
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season of 13 clean sheets of the season.
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Lorena just looks, I mean, off the chart like the one weak spot
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that they had last season to try to figure out a goalkeeper.
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Now they just maybe have the best goalkeeper or certainly
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playing it in that echelon. I thought another nice move from
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Blacco kind of stealing some minutes, you know, maybe or
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maybe some rest from Michelle Cooper and Davina and and
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getting some Nichelle Prince into the match who ate up
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minutes and on that Ellie Wheeler goal ate up a couple
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defenders. So kind of occupied Reyno Reyes
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and then also had Claire Hutton kind of leaning the wrong way
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for just a, you know, just just enough of a mix that Ellie
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Wheeler was able to sneak in back door.
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So I thought another mini stroke of brilliance from Vladco
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because now, like I mentioned, 17 weeks in, just nine matches
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to go, we're kind of hitting that home stretch.
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They're 12 points clear. I'm not sure how badly they need
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each each each of these single matches.
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So grabbing some minutes here and there, making sure that
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players are rested and ready for kind of the stretch run.
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I really like that move as well from Black.
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Go. I don't think I'm even at much
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risk of this being memeable. I feel like it was 2 weeks ago
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when we last talked about Kansas City being in the driver seat.
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Shields over it's done. They're not losing it, they're
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not giving it up. But I I feel no remorse about
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saying this. I don't think there are really
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any circumstances in which they don't win the Shield.
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So, you know, congratulations to the Kansas City current.
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I'll continue to watch their matches because they're
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entertaining. But I think that's done and
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dusted at this point. I totally agree with you.
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I think I think they could probably cruise to to the
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shield. And yeah, a lot of it is on the
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strength of their defense. I think one thing I saw in this
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match Portland, you know, obviously they were game, you
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know, they played tough, but Kansas City, once they commit to
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defense, they can almost like, you know, like whether they've
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got like a four three, you know, midfield or you know, midfield
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and back line, but they can switch 4334 just have players
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like kind of scoot up and down and like they're they're also
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overplaying pretty aggressively, which you saw kind of like a
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player like Hinasukita take advantage of the other way, like
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kind of like, oh, you're going to overplay and like I'll just
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kind of hit it back where you came from essentially.
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But for the most part, their their tenacity made it, you
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know, just like really, really hard for Portland to get
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anything going. And you know, when they're
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opportunistic and they can steal an early goal like Wheeler or
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or, you know, chewing goes, you know, she's going to
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breakthrough at some point. This team is just not not going
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to lose these kind of games. Yeah, you're totally right.
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And I think, you know, we'll talk a little bit more about
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Portland in the preview of their next match, though.
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But you saw how Portland responded when they lost that
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match coming out of the break. They lose to Washington Spirit.
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They came back with a great performance against Seattle Rain
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FC. Now they lose this match to
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Kansas City Current and I think that's bad news for Utah Royals
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coming up next week. Yeah, we'll get into that in the
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preview next episode here, but let's go ahead.
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This was a fun one. Obviously a little bit of a
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milestone for the league for sure.
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Bay FC2 Washington Spirit 3 from Oracle Park played in front of
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over 40,000 fans here in the Bay Area.
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Pretty awesome show. What do you need to know about
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this one? How about combined XG for the
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two teams 1.64 Combined real G for the two teams 5.00.
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Get there we go like real G Enterprise.
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Let's just get get the ball into the back of the net, give the
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people what they wanted, get everybody their their money's
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worth. Negative, Negative XG on that
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first, on that first Washington goal, right?
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And you know, I don't blame Silkowitz for it because she had
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to freeze. It looked like Hirschfeld was
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going to get a touch on it. And I thought they, I thought
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they explained that pretty well on the broadcast.
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So I don't blame Silkowitz for that.
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Now, I don't know this yet, but as it happened and I was like a
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tough one for Silkowitz. Of course you know me, I said.
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Tough, tough break for Silky on that one.
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Is her nickname Silky? Do people call her Silky in that
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locker room? Are you aware of this?
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I've heard, I've heard her referred to as Silky.
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Yeah, I think. I think Alyssa Milanson referred
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to her as Silky when when I asked Milanson if she was trying
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to send a message to MAS she loved, she didn't play.
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She didn't play any kind of ball with me.
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And Silky jumped in and was just like, yeah, of course she was
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trying to send a message. And then Milanson was like,
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yeah, Silky's got my back. I was like, yeah, that's right.
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Any who can't can't blame Silkwitz on that one.
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Weird, a weird ball in. I mean, but credit to Wiesner.
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Like you kind of like knuckled it and, you know, she's aiming
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for the back post and you put a little extra mustard on it.
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So that kind of curls back in. But, you know, that was that was
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kind of the story of this match. I would say the other the other
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message to defenses all over the league, Corey Bethune back, give
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her some space. Give her some space on top of
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the 18 like that. You're asking for trouble.
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She she had way too much real estate available to her on that
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goal and BF CS back line did it a second time after half and she
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almost scored again. I mean, she was what, like a
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foot off maybe? Yeah, and she was pissed.
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Like she was like, I definitely should have should have scored
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that one. I think this one had, you know,
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like the venue was so massive and like the event was so
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massive that the venue kind of overshadowed any singular
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player. But I think if you had to I, I
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say somebody. Bethune was awesome.
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She obviously gets the early goal.
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Kundanagi gets a goal to make it 3-1 after they they go down 3
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nil. Trinity Rodman involved in a
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goal, Kelly Hubbley involved in a goal one way, Kelly Hubbley
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involved in a goal the other way.
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Like it was just back and forth, everything kind of happening.
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But I wanted to talk a little bit about something that like, I
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can't I can't get past watching Trinity Rodman kind of be a
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little bit of a baby on the pitch and it be a little bit of
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a bummer. Like she had she kind of had
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that one play where she gets fouled and she just kind of like
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just kind of splays out on the floor.
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She's like, I've been fouled and I'm not going to kind of get up.
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You know, Kunanagi kind of gave it to her and she sort of, I
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don't know, like I just feel like she goes at the ref so
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hard. She does.
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And it's like, you're so good. You know, like, and I've said it
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before, I think it has an effect on their team.
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I think it does kind of derail them a little bit, you know,
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where they're just like, yeah, we are, we are kind of getting
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screwed here. And like, you know, it's it like
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she's such a big personality that I do feel like it boils all
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over a little bit and it just seems unnecessary.
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Like she, I don't think he's any.
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I don't think she's winning any calls by doing it.
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You know, I'm, I don't know, am I, am I weird about that?
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No, I don't think so. I mean, I think in you know, I
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it's probably the only way that they're really similar.
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But I know I've talked about like kind of the Luka Doncic
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principle of like you're this otherworldly player, but you're
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just hammering the refs throughout the match and it's
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just like I could it actually be working the other way where
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you're not only. It has to be.
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Like you're not going to, it's not going to help you get calls.
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But also, which is also kind of like a Chris Paul principle
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where it's just like, I'm not only not going to give you more
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calls, I'm going to be more of a jerk to you.
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Leave me alone please. Right.
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No, I think it's certainly not producing any results.
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And just because you could just see that it's sort of like when
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she feels like she's slighted, she's like she's not using it in
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any kind of strategic way. And add to that that that
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Rodman, most of this match playing on the left, you know,
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like not where we're used to seeing her with Cantore playing
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on the right. You know, obviously Trigger, I
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was not going to lose her place, But it's like, I don't know at
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this point. It's a weird situation to be
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especially with the spirit kind of coming on a little bit.
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This is a team early season wobble.
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We weren't really sure, OK, is this, we, we had high
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expectations, you know, maybe championship level expectations,
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especially for me specifically, they didn't look like they were
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meeting that that level necessarily.
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But now it kind of feels like they're they're they're right on
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the outskirts at worst. I'm sorry, I don't know.
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That was something I picked up on.
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I'm not sure if it it totally makes the difference, but I
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wanted to kind of raise the raise a flag on it.
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Yeah, I, I think it makes sense. I mean, she's obviously she's
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one of the leaders on the team. She did have some points 2 weeks
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ago in that Racing Louisville matchup.
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There were just some horrifying calls and decisions by the
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referee. And they were weird about the
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timing too. Like they ended the match, I
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thought too quickly. And Rodman was upset about it
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and I was, I was right there with her.
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And I mean, you know, I, I don't miss a lot of opportunities to
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talk about how shitty the refs are in the NWSL, but I do I, I
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take your point though, I think sometimes it ends up being a net
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negative. Yeah, so Washington gets the big
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win in this one. Had a funny closer because much
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like Alyssa Nair who got a big goal late in the match the
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weekend prior, Jordan Sukowitz actually got to look very late
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in this one to try to equalize a ball off Caprice Didasco.
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And it reminded me of a conversation I had with Jordan
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very briefly a couple weeks back.
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I didn't get to run it on the show, but kind of relevant here.
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So I want to go to it right now. You know, see, I'm sure you'd
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love to see a clean sheet, but what else will you be looking
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for outside of not allowing goals?
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Like what? What will you be looking for
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from your position as you know, an upgrade from last week to
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this week? I think the coolest part of my
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position specifically is, yeah, you are the last line of
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defense, but you're also the first line of attack.
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And that's something that I really find joy in this
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position. I think obviously your first and
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foremost job is to keep the ball out of the back of the net, but
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I think there's so many different parts of this position
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that I know I love about it. You have the defensive side, but
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you also have the attacking side looking to build in possession.
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How can you help the team attack and exploit like transition
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opportunities? So through every game I have a
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bunch of different things I look at and for me, I just try to get
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better each and every day. Just like 1%, one thing each
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game. Thank you, Jordan.
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Thank you. Trying to get 1% better each
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game. Would she be?
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Was she reading Pat Riley's book Let's go?
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I love that like kindred spirits with.
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Probably ghost riding it. Yeah, there you go.
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Kindred spirits was silky there. Yeah.
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I mean, you know, we're trying to be the first line, first line
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of attack, trying to be the last line of attack on that goal was
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a great save by Kingsbury to make.
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It had to be, had to be made. It was going to be the
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equalizer. So yeah, man, it it was a wild
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one. The atmosphere added to it.
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I thought the broadcast did a nice job of kind of like
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highlighting, you know, obviously that ballpark is
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incredible. Look is like one of my one of
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the ballparks that I have not seen that I still want to see.
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So all around it was a good show by the league and by these two
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squads. Yeah, no doubt.
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Yeah, like you mentioned, big win for Washington Spirit pay
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FCI don't know. They're going to need to sort
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something out. We'll get get into them a little
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bit more in the preview, but Long story short, I think we've
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got to see a little bit more evolution from that from that
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squad and some a little a little different to go to, but I want
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to scoot ahead. Couple teams that I don't know.
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I've caught my fancy this season, San Diego, NIL Racing
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Louisville. One big impressive win for the
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club that I think I guaranteed on this show when we were
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talking to the XOG guys, Evan and Eric, that the Racing
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Louisville would in fact make the playoffs and now it feels
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like they're absolutely cruising.
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I'm going to spoil a little bit of my power rankings.
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I've got Racing Louisville as my third best team in the NWSL.
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Wow, OK, that's bold. You're just knifing your guy
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Jonas in the back, huh? I mean, they got to, they got to
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start scoring goals. Like at, at some point I, I had
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in my notes a lot of these chances created and quote UN
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quote shot creating actions. They they've got to start
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creating some some goals, not just some shots or chances.
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Yeah, it's a weird thing. I mean, you know, they obviously
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what I mean they're they're tied for second with the most scored
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this season. But yeah, these last five on the
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spin, if you count the the last one before the break, 00120.
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So yeah, I mean. I'm questioning some numbers
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here. That sounds like three goals in
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five games. Yeah, thank you for that.
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A much more succinct way to say that, but yeah.
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And you know, you get that they get that 21 win over Bay, who
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was like, you know, kind of stuck near the bottom of the
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table. So yeah, I I think racing
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Louisville third best team in the league.
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You got me. You got me thinking on that one.
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I mean, the the Benda injury not great Portland Thorns a little
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wobbly. I think you can make they just,
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yeah. They just went to San Diego beat
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them. Yeah.
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I mean, you know, what are who are we talking about here?
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I mean, like, I think it seems. I don't know.
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I I see. But now, now I feel very I feel
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more emboldened. Yeah, maybe we bubble, bubble.
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I don't know. Washington.
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What's Washington doing? And you Jordan Bloomer 8 saves
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in this one. I thought she was awesome.
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You know, like, yeah, one in particular that save on Corley
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was, you know, very acrobatic and and a play that.
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I think at the beginning of the season that that was one that
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San Diego cashed, you know, and we're used to kind of seeing
20:16
that one go in and then the game kind of tilts the other
20:18
direction. But San Diego dominated, you
20:21
know, three times as many touches in Louisville's half as
20:25
the inverse, 2 1/2 times more touches in the final third,
20:28
twice as many box touches, twice as many shots.
20:32
But what kind of when it came down to it, like a lot of the
20:35
wave shots, to be honest, from distance, nothing too crazy
20:39
outside of that big quarley chance, nothing super duper
20:42
threatening. So I don't know.
20:44
Louisville just did a great job of Bend, but not breaking and
20:47
and you know, kind of keeping San Diego at Bay and another
20:51
another performance where San Diego kind of underwhelms
20:54
offensively. Yeah, it's a great point.
20:57
It takes a lot to beat Bloomer, who I think at least I have had
21:02
my eyes opened this season, like as it's going on.
21:05
I mean, she's she's really an excellent keeper.
21:07
So yeah, I like the way they play.
21:09
They're gritty. They got a little bit of edge to
21:11
them. Taylor Flint is just
21:12
consistently good every single match.
21:15
She's got to be working her way back into US women's national
21:17
team contention. I'm just going to keep beating
21:19
that drum. Sorry, real quick, Taylor Flint,
21:23
I, I was thinking through the process of like, where where is
21:27
she on my MVP ballot? Because when you watch her, she
21:32
just stops so many things and she moves the ball along in so
21:35
many ways. You know, she had that she had
21:37
that great strike when Webber laid a ball off to her that she
21:40
kind of almost put in. And it's like, fuck, she's like,
21:42
she's effective at every like every part of the fish.
21:44
She's like super dangerous and she just covers so much ground.
21:48
I mean, like, I don't know, to me, she's she's in my like top
21:50
five top 6 MVP ballot. I think she's been that
21:53
important. And if and if Louisville can
21:56
kind of crawl up into that top three, I I feel like super,
22:00
super earned for for a player like that.
22:03
I mean they'll need her to play like an MVP candidate if they if
22:06
they get into the top three I think it'll be super well
22:08
deserved. I I you're right though, where
22:10
would they be without her? If you just put a replacement
22:13
level center midfielder in her spot, I don't think they'd be
22:16
nearly as good. No, I I totally agree San Diego,
22:20
we'll see we'll see what they're able to they're able to put
22:22
together they they're heading your way, taking on the rain and
22:26
racing Louisville, they're heading home taking on Houston
22:29
dash and we'll see just kind of how how high Louisville can
22:33
climb. I think this was this was kind
22:35
of supposed to be a marquee matchup, you know, and, and San
22:38
Diego had to be a betting favorite in this one.
22:41
And they had success. But there's something about, and
22:45
I'm not, I'm not smart enough of, of a football brain to kind
22:48
of figure out what was going on here.
22:49
But Louisville felt in full control of the field position,
22:54
the tempo. It's like we.
22:55
Yeah. And like, you know, you look at
22:56
the possession numbers, 71% to 29 versus San Diego.
23:02
San Diego connects 89% of their passes to 75.
23:05
They dominated in both of those. They dominate, you know, like
23:08
where the ball is on the pitch. But it's almost like they let
23:11
you have it, but not in a, in a place that's 22.
23:13
It's like, almost like letting a toddler play, but you know,
23:15
you're not really letting them get into any kind of danger.
23:18
It's really trippy what they're able to do because it it, it
23:21
didn't feel like San Diego kind of had had any real chance to
23:25
kind of win that one. Yeah, I mean, they just, yeah,
23:31
they like they don't let you get into your super comfortable
23:35
spots, right. Like, you can, you can have the
23:38
ball on the outskirts of the danger area, but you're not
23:42
really. And we've seen the matches where
23:44
Bloomer has had to stand on her head and kind of get pelted with
23:47
shots. And, you know, they they can
23:49
draw or lose those matches, obviously, but Bloomer will keep
23:52
a minute. But if you're if you're stuck
23:55
shooting from distance at Bloomer, you're probably not
23:57
going to have much of a chance. Yeah, no.
23:59
And that's pretty much what it was all day.
24:02
And then you look at the shot distribution, you know,
24:04
obviously 22 shots on the day, but the three leading, you know,
24:08
shot accumulators, Kenza Dali with five, Kennedy Wesley with
24:13
three, Melanie Barcenas with three.
24:16
So not quite your sharp shooters who are, you know, I mean,
24:20
outside of Dali, Barcenas has been really good.
24:23
But you know, you have so many really good players that you'd
24:25
like, I don't know, you'd like maybe different players getting
24:28
the bulk of the shots there. But we'll see what they've got
24:31
this week against Seattle and we'll get into that once we hit
24:34
the preview later this week. But let's shift gears to a sad
24:38
1A real sad 1 Angel City one Orlando Pride nil sad from from
24:43
a lot of different angles. But I want to kick it to you.
24:46
Where do you want to get started with this one?
24:48
Hated it, hated watching it, didn't enjoy watching it.
24:52
Alyssa Thompson looks like Cowboy Bob Orton with that giant
24:55
arm cast. Looks like she when the referee
24:58
turns around, she's going to smash you over that skull with
25:01
it. No swimming for her.
25:04
Yeah, the the, you know, the, the overarching sadness, the
25:10
cloud in the air, the Barbara Benda injury, terrible.
25:15
I just Orlando looks, they just looked very beatable and they
25:19
looked really beatable and long stretches in this match and I
25:24
didn't like it. They looked beatable and they
25:28
also looked like they got bullied a little bit by Angel
25:32
City. You know, whether it was like,
25:34
you know, Madison Hammond or, you know, kind of Sarah Gordon
25:37
or, you know, Ceanus Jane kind of wanted to mix it up as well.
25:41
It just looked like, you know, and without Banda, this Orlando
25:46
side is this Orlando offense is just not really scary or
25:50
threatening. You know, it's it's like a
25:51
really big issue. Obviously the team also
25:54
announced the soon to be arrival of Jacqueline or Elizabeth
25:59
Jacqueline Novaye from tigris. That's exciting.
26:02
So let's let's kick that into gear player that can score and
26:06
also assist. But before we get there, I mean
26:08
that this Orlando offense just really, really looking looking
26:13
for answers, looking for solutions and I think you know,
26:15
a player like Simone Jackson comes in has some positive
26:18
moments. I thought Ali Watt had some
26:20
positive moments. You know, being a little bit
26:23
more of that featured attacker on offense, those are
26:27
encouraging. But you know, we're at the
26:29
point, you know, if it's the second or third match of the
26:31
season and we're kind of like having this conversation.
26:33
That's one thing 17 matches in and we're still sort of trying
26:37
to figure out what the midfield looks like, what the attack
26:39
looks like. Also got news today that Morgan
26:41
Gautraw will be moving on. I think are retiring from
26:44
Orlando was was the announcement and and maybe possibly heading
26:47
over to Newcastle. So we'll see what happened to,
26:51
you know, you know, best of luck to Morgan there, But that's
26:53
another, you know, just piece that's somewhere else and and
26:57
another challenge for for Seb Heinz and Hayley Carter to kind
27:01
of figure out exactly how to get out of this.
27:05
Yeah, and Elizabeth Ovallez is really going to help.
27:10
I think US women's national team fans probably remember absolute
27:15
laser of a goal she scored against them.
27:17
We've seen her do work for T Grace.
27:21
I mean, you know what, they announced it.
27:23
They announced her signing Thursday and then they played
27:26
later Thursday night. And just watching this match, I
27:30
was like, you couldn't get her on an earlier flight.
27:33
Like how like we, we couldn't have made this out of like, you
27:36
know, send, you know, send the PJ to go get her.
27:40
Was it the Wilf family or the the Wilfs or something?
27:43
The. Yeah, yeah, I think it.
27:45
I think it's the Wilfs, yeah. So but yeah, I mean the the
27:49
football gods giveth and they unfortunately do the other thing
27:53
as well. So Ovale can't get there fast
27:56
enough. I'll be interested to see what
27:58
her chemistry looks like with the other players, how she's
28:01
going to kind of fit into that wing rotation.
28:03
And then we'll see how she meshes meshes with Chalufia, who
28:08
I think you know, her and Simone Jackson.
28:10
They're going to have to provide something in the center of the
28:13
park or, you know, down, down that central channel rather in
28:17
the number 9 spot. So, you know, they're they're
28:19
going to have to try to find some offense and hopefully that
28:22
gives their defense a little time to breathe and kind of get
28:25
back to their dominating ways. Yeah, I think defensively
28:30
there's a lot to kind of like feel positive about.
28:34
There's still a little bit of like flux, especially the
28:36
outside backs, you know, whether it's Piquet or Abella or Corey
28:39
Dyke or O Yani or Alfa LA, like, you know, it's there.
28:43
There's still some, you know, moving parts like Sam's and
28:47
Nadan are seem to be like the the two constants among that
28:51
group. And yeah, you look at Orlando, I
28:54
mean, I really hope the the chemistry comes soon because you
28:57
look at the shot distribution in this one, Carson, you know, like
29:00
the leader in shots in this one for Orlando, there was a four
29:04
way tie between Carson Pickett, Allie Watt, Hayley Mccutchen and
29:09
Oyane Hernandez, who all led the team with two shots.
29:12
So not sure you know, the the eight shots in the matcher is
29:15
that's exactly how you want it distributed.
29:18
But to your point, I think Obaia ideally comes in and is able to,
29:22
you know, connect some more things.
29:23
I think Chalufia, I'm glad you brought her up.
29:25
I think she's been improving and coming on more and more, but
29:30
probably not at the rate where she's a player you can count on
29:34
down the stretch and definitely not in the play offs and
29:36
definitely not on the road in the play offs.
29:39
But you know, that's no knock on Hershey.
29:40
I think she is improving and she's a good player, but you
29:44
know, it's a lot to, it's a lot to ask when you know a player
29:47
like Banda, you know, just kind of gets zapped off the roster.
29:52
Yeah, it's tough. I mean, you know, it's hard to
29:54
for any team to lose their number 9, but we're talking
29:57
about one of the what, at worst, five best number nines in the
30:01
world. You're just not going to be able
30:02
to fully replace that. That's the way the that's the
30:05
way the sport works. No way, but I mean, you know, to
30:09
to Hayley Carter's credit and to that organization's credit,
30:11
nobody thought Banda was going to come in last year and do what
30:14
she did, you know, So who knows? I mean, maybe, maybe there's a
30:17
little bit more magic left in the bottle.
30:20
We'll see. But I want to scoot ahead here.
30:23
Maybe maybe AI mean if there was any game this weekend to have
30:28
our guy Mike Watson. How about Chicago stars 3 N
30:31
Carolina Courage 3? Let's fuck it, go.
30:34
That was a football game. I mean just that.
30:38
Was the second. That was the second-half of
30:39
football for Danielle. Let's go.
30:40
Let's let's zoom in a little a little further.
30:43
It absolutely was. I mean, if we want to talk about
30:47
the moments, I I just think the Tyler Lucy goal, I I'm not, I
30:53
can't even like what what minute was that?
30:55
That was around like the hour mark I want to say.
31:00
Just a little. Just a little gap wedge, just a
31:03
little. Just you got to get it over the
31:05
bunker, just to use the shoulders, a little chip, just
31:09
just get it right over the goalkeeper.
31:11
I loved it. Get a little grass on the way
31:13
in. Yeah, yeah.
31:13
Just slow things down a little, you know, a little texture, a
31:16
little texture to it. That was great.
31:19
But, you know, the story of the day, I mean, it's got to be
31:22
Lugemila. You know, I thought, you know,
31:24
this was another one where the courage, you know, to their
31:28
credit, they, they carve out A2 nil lead on the road against a
31:32
team that they probably feel like they need to beat.
31:35
And then Lou Jamila just breaks it open 76th minute.
31:39
And I think when she scores that first one, I knew it was 2 nil.
31:42
And she, you know, North Carolina has the game well in
31:44
hand. But I look at the clock and I'm
31:47
like, there's for how badly she beat that North Carolina
31:51
defense. I look at the clock, I'm like,
31:52
there's a lot of time left in this one.
31:55
And I'm like, if she just did that, there's really nothing
31:58
precluding her from, from doing that again and equalizing and,
32:02
and I, I, I even sold it. Short they were, I mean, early
32:07
in the season before the international break, Chicago was
32:10
the team that was coughing away Leeds regularly.
32:15
Now it would appear no lead is safe versus them.
32:18
And like they have they have taken that energy and you know,
32:22
they're they're roaring back in these matches.
32:25
You talked about the match, you know, previously against Seattle
32:28
rain, like they, they're unkillable right now.
32:32
And I just, you know, you got to look at LMSR and kind of what
32:35
she's been able to implement just in these like these few
32:37
weeks of taking charge. And I just like it, man.
32:41
I they just look different dude. I, I'm laughing because I
32:47
rewatched right, you know, like Chicago Courage and you know,
32:50
like sometimes like they, they usually will start to rewatch
32:54
like 10 minutes. They'll give you the, the 10
32:56
minutes prior to kick off. And there was an LMSR package
33:00
where she's talking and it looks like she's on a zoom and being
33:03
recorded. Did you see this?
33:04
You know what I'm talking about. No, I missed it.
33:07
So she's being recorded and she's just like, she's like does
33:11
Chicago like, you know, like, and she just sounds like a
33:15
version of like a little bit of Tupac and a little bit.
33:17
She's just so passionate about like Chicago and having be and
33:21
I'm just like, yeah, I'm sitting here in San Francisco.
33:23
I've been in Chicago like twice in my life.
33:24
I'm like, yeah, this is fucking Chicago.
33:27
I'm so fired up. So I'm like, oh, yeah, this is
33:30
this is, you know, like this is a a coach that I can see getting
33:35
a team kind of turned around considering like, you know, how
33:39
how rocky things were for for the Chicago side.
33:42
And I want to call out one player specifically that we've
33:45
talked about on the show last few weeks who probably wasn't my
33:49
favorite player last year. And just kind of with like a
33:51
player that was like she's this place is an annoying player.
33:54
Like I don't want to like, like I just was not into watching
33:56
this player. And I've completely done a 180.
33:59
Ali Schlagel is so good and she's so busy and so threatening
34:04
and so like, I don't know, I just love.
34:07
I, I I think I compared her to Alessia Russo like a few weeks
34:10
ago and that's kind of who she reminds me of just because she
34:12
just goes and goes and goes and goes.
34:14
The reason I bring her up is I feel like Schlagelbal started in
34:20
earnest like 3-4 weeks ago where it's just like, she's just going
34:23
to like outwork everybody. And I feel like it's had a
34:26
really positive effect. And you don't you don't know if
34:29
like that that player responded the most to like Ella Massar or
34:34
like, or what exactly is happening.
34:35
But it's clear that she turned a corner, You know, and be like,
34:39
I'm going to lead through just how hard I'm going to work.
34:42
And then it's clear that other players have followed suit, are
34:45
following suit. And now all of a sudden, to your
34:47
point, Chicago, not a team that you know is going to roll this
34:50
down and you're just like, all right, this is a dub.
34:52
Yeah, yeah, not at all. And I mean, she's she just wins
34:56
the ball, you know what I mean? Like with Schlegel, like I just
34:59
like you talk about her work rate.
35:01
She's great in the air. She has good timing.
35:04
Yeah. I, I, I, I like her toughness.
35:06
Only two goals this season, but it feels like she impacts the
35:08
match more than that, like, especially in these last few
35:12
weeks. So, yeah, I mean, there's
35:14
something to be said for a team that's kind of stuck at the
35:18
bottom of the table, you know, doesn't have any real playoff,
35:21
any real realistic playoff hopes at the at this point, but is
35:26
still willing to fight out there.
35:28
So again, shout, shout to LMSR, who I hope gets future
35:33
management. Nigeria looks, whether it's it's
35:36
in a blue collar city like Chicago or you know, any other
35:40
city around the world. I I hope she gets another
35:42
opportunity. The Chicago, Yeah, shout out to
35:46
Jaden Shaw, too. Really, really great to see
35:48
Jaden Shaw score a goal. Smile, enjoy football, even for
35:52
a couple minutes. So that that really felt good as
35:56
AUS massage team supporter Sam Staub, another player maybe on
36:00
the periphery of the national team. 2 assists in this one.
36:03
The Sam Staub return resurgence re emergence kind of continues.
36:07
Love to see that as well. But let's shift gears here to
36:11
your squad. Houston dash 1 Seattle rain one
36:16
I'm dying to hear. I mean, this is the Seattle
36:20
season's taken a a weird turn. The weird turn kind of
36:24
continues. I'm dying to hear what your
36:26
takeaways were from this one. So, you know, they come back
36:30
from international break, they get the two nil win over Angel
36:34
City feels good. Then you get the loss, big loss
36:38
against Portland Thorns on the road, you know, weird weather,
36:42
just get outplayed. Feels like the young players
36:45
kind of get lost in the in the gigantic rivalry.
36:49
You know, the atmosphere. Understandable then they you
36:53
know, they give away the three nil lead to Chicago, which some
36:57
you know, credit to Chicago, but you're up by three goals in the
37:00
second-half. You should win at home.
37:03
Well, you should absolutely win that match.
37:05
And they were just getting they were just getting diced like on
37:09
the wings against Chicago in those in in that match.
37:13
And then Houston dash, you go to Houston, who you and I have said
37:17
have been relatively frisky throughout the season.
37:20
Like Houston is not a pushover, despite them being near the
37:22
bottom of the table as well. And you know, Phoebe Mclernan
37:27
just has an absolute howler. Just, you know, just a complete
37:33
mix up of where she is on the field and where Yasmine Ryan is.
37:36
And Ryan is one of those players that if you if you dilly dally
37:41
with the ball or whatever you want to call it, you make a
37:43
silly mistake like that, she's going to pounce on it.
37:46
And then Ryan is such a a great athlete and such a genius
37:51
athlete that she pounces on it, but then has the patience to to
37:56
deke Dickey and then deke Mclernan again and then just
38:00
tuck it away. You know, terrible mistake by
38:03
Mclernan, but you know, they're able to get the recovery and
38:08
kind of squeak out, squeak out the draw.
38:11
I still think, you know, you got to be disappointed with it,
38:14
though. Like if you're in the race and
38:16
San Diego, Orlando and Portland, and I think, I think maybe one
38:20
of those matches happened after the fact.
38:22
But when those three teams lose in front of you, you got to be
38:27
kicking yourself that you only got to draw.
38:31
I think that's one way to look at it.
38:33
I think another way to look at it is Houston was a lot better
38:38
than Seattle on this day. You know, they notched probably
38:41
fair too. Yeah, I think they notched a lot
38:43
more shots. You know, they they were able to
38:46
penetrate deeper, you know, you know, better possession, you
38:50
know, the a super opportunistic with that goal, which is kind of
38:54
how they want to play. I think they probably would have
38:57
wanted a little bit more offensively, but you know, I
38:59
thought, you know, Seattle's a professional team defensively.
39:04
They're not just going to well, in this instance they did.
39:06
They did give one away, but you know, like they won't do that
39:12
often. They won't make a habit of it
39:13
for sure. But I thought I thought Houston
39:15
was better. I thought the the announcing
39:16
team brought up a good point, which was like, all right, let's
39:19
see what Houston can do playing from ahead.
39:23
You know, and I think, you know, relatively predictably, they do
39:27
give up the equalizer. I think relatively
39:29
unpredictably. Jordan Heitzma on the end of it,
39:32
but kind of a kind of a cool moment.
39:34
And and if you're a team that's, you know, got like bigger
39:37
aspirations and maybe just making the play offs, scratching
39:41
out a draw here against the Houston side that, you know, to
39:43
your point is maybe a little bit more than feisty.
39:46
I think you know, I'll, I'll, I want to pose one quick question
39:51
to you because there was 1 chunk of my power rankings that I
39:54
really struggled with. Apologies.
39:56
I keep going back to my power rankings well, but it occupied a
39:59
lot of my brain this week. I think there's a clear top six
40:05
KC, Washington, Louisville, Orlando, San Diego, and
40:11
Portland, right? 789 is where I think I've got
40:18
Seattle, Gotham, and Houston. All in the same kind of like 789
40:24
band, you know, and I'm not saying like, all right, this is
40:27
where they're going to finish at the end of the season, but this
40:29
is where I think these teams are at based on Seattle and Houston.
40:36
Do you still feel like Seattle is the better team?
40:38
Do you feel like it was like, you know, they left it on the
40:39
table? You feel like these teams are
40:41
relatively even or arrow point or arrows pointing up and arrows
40:45
pointing down. How do you how do you view these
40:47
two teams specifically in relation to each other?
40:51
You know, not all draws are created equal, and I think
40:54
that's kind of what, you know, if I could guess, like what's in
40:59
your head here, you know, the draw versus Chicago and then
41:02
this draw where they kind of get out where they do.
41:05
I think you're right. They do get outplayed for big
41:07
chunks of the match against Houston.
41:11
I think, you know, you can make a real argument that Seattle's
41:13
arrow is pointing down. I feel like it's still kind of
41:16
pointing sideways. Because the one thing, the thing
41:20
that's stuck in my head here is when do I get to see me official
41:25
play more minutes like that should like that's still in the
41:29
chamber. And then I'm not accusing
41:32
anybody at Seattle Rain Football Club of being dishonest.
41:37
Why isn't Lin Biandolo playing more If everybody keeps telling
41:41
me that she could go, she could play more minutes if if she
41:44
needed to, then why isn't she playing?
41:48
She's one of the, you know, like I understand she's like a little
41:52
up there in age, but you didn't sign her for her not to play.
41:58
I mean, yeah, that, that that's a little bit disappointing and I
42:01
think like it. It's been I think a few weeks
42:05
and correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a few weeks of Seattle
42:07
line UPS that look like they're missing bite or just like
42:10
leaving a lot of bite on the bench.
42:12
You know, I think we, we've seen fishel already.
42:14
We've seen bandola already this season offensively, you know
42:19
this Seattle put up the the worst XG performance of the
42:23
weekend, 0.36. Also the worst shot output.
42:27
Just five shots on the day. Heights have had two, three
42:32
players with one shot each. That's going to, it's going to
42:35
be tough to beat anybody. You're putting up five shots
42:37
and, you know, having that that little effectiveness getting the
42:42
ball up field. But I mean, I feel like, yeah, I
42:48
feel like it's tough to say, but I feel like Houston could be
42:53
approaching that same level where Seattle's AT.
42:57
And I think that probably says something about each team.
43:00
Maybe Houston on the ascent, Seattle backsliding a little bit
43:03
doesn't mean it's going to continue.
43:05
But I feel like if if this is going to be the lineup and the
43:08
offensive approach, I'm not sure how that I'm not sure how that
43:14
gets sorted. I think by the time we get to
43:15
the playoffs. Yeah, and you know, Jess
43:20
Fishlock is one year younger than me and you get 3 minutes of
43:25
her this match because she needed to rest because she's
43:27
getting, she's playing a lot of minutes.
43:29
And so you needed to rest. But look, to your point, the
43:33
attack doesn't look dangerous hardly at all without her on the
43:39
pitch. G so young, another player
43:42
toward the end of her career. I just doesn't provide the same
43:45
bite. I think you you put it perfectly
43:48
as Fishlock in in that kind of in those central areas or I
43:52
think, you know, think G spent some time out wide on this one.
43:55
I will say little silver lining, Maddie, Darlene and Sam Mezza
44:00
looked better than they had in the in the previous two weeks.
44:03
It felt like they were kind of in their own heads there for a
44:05
little while. It seemed like they started to
44:07
break out of that. And that was a big part of the
44:09
secret sauce earlier in the season was that Mezza and
44:12
Darlene were giving you great minutes.
44:15
And now we might also have to live with, you might have to
44:18
look at if you're talking about arrows again or if we're
44:20
thinking about like which direction the team's going.
44:23
You know, Mezza and Dalene, young players.
44:25
It's Dalene's first year in the league.
44:26
This is Mezza's first real year in the league.
44:30
All these matches again, these physical games against these
44:34
grown adult athletes that they're playing against, you
44:37
know, are they, are they going to wear down a little bit, you
44:40
know, as they kind of build up their adult strength?
44:44
Yeah, that's a great point. I mean it's it's like a team of
44:48
you know, vet veteran veterans and and a lot of young players,
44:52
you know, Jordan bug, another player that that didn't didn't
44:54
see any action in this one. But let's shift gears.
44:59
The final match up Week 17 Gotham FC nil, Utah Royals NIL
45:05
all right man, anything just went here before we get.
45:08
Out here, good game. Mandy McGlynn thought that was
45:11
that was entertaining, as entertaining as anything else
45:16
we're going to get out of this match.
45:17
Rose Lavelle looked fast. She looked like she had a lot of
45:20
energy out there. Had an explosive run on goal
45:22
early in the match. That Rose Lavelle thing where
45:24
she picks up the ball at at half field is like, OK, 50 yard run
45:27
here. Yeah.
45:30
Well, let's see, What else do we have?
45:32
Guatemalan striker Aisha Solorzano had that shot off the
45:36
crossbar from a nice free kick off of into the danger area by
45:41
Zoroa. That's all I got other than that
45:45
this is a sleepy boys podcast. That was a a sleepy time match
45:50
my good man. Real sleepy I think yeah Astaire
45:54
had some chances, not able to kind of catch and ultimately I
45:57
agree with you. The Mandy McGlynn game had the
45:59
highest rated fat mob score across all seven matchups where
46:02
she had Jordan Bloomberg was the only player that equaled her and
46:06
well deserved a bunch of big stops and had to face the Gotham
46:10
side that was able to register 44 touches in the box.
46:15
So that's no joke. And you know, when when Esther's
46:17
a part of that mix, when Roosevelt's a part of that mix,
46:20
you know, it's it's dangerous either way.
46:22
But you know, Gotham continues to kind of feel like a fringe
46:26
playoff team. And I think this is a very
46:28
fringe playoff team kind of performance.
46:30
Can't get a win against, I'll say a pesky Utah side.
46:34
I think there's a little a little a little bounce back
46:36
potential post Ali Sentinor trade.
46:38
I think Utah hasn't looked terrible, terrible or as
46:42
terrible as I think we we were afraid it could have gotten.
46:46
So I think a, a nil, nil, you know, for as underwhelming as as
46:50
that, that sounds probably the the right result for for these
46:53
two teams with, with where they're at and with the
46:55
performance that they put forward in this one.
46:58
Yeah, I yeah, I think if you're if you're Gotham, you hate it.
47:01
Obviously. I think you should feel like you
47:03
got to you got to beat Utah on that spot.
47:05
But I think you're right. That's probably why they're more
47:07
of a fringe playoff team than a team that I'm that I think other
47:11
squads would really be fearing in the play offs.
47:15
Yep, no doubt. All right, man, Week 17 in the
47:18
books. As mentioned, we'll be back
47:20
later this week with the Week 18 weekend preview.
47:23
I think we get, I think we get 4 Friday matches, a Saturday, a
47:26
Sunday and a Monday. So it's a, it's a kind of like a
47:29
fun, fun football weekend distribution.
47:32
And I haven't talked to you about this, but we're recording
47:35
this Wednesday. I'm sorry, Tuesday night Pacific
47:39
in the United States and about 6 hours time, 7 hours time our
47:43
beloved SK Bron takes on intid Nazi.
47:47
Oh, Nali, I've already put the put the bat signal out to some
47:50
of our friends in Norway trying to figure out a way to, to, to
47:52
watch this match. Well, we're going to do
47:54
everything we can over the next 6-7 hours.
47:57
Try to put that together. But as mentioned, we'll be back
47:59
later this week with the weekend preview for NW Cell week 18.
48:03
All right man, anything else you want to hit before we get out of
48:04
here? I think that's it.
48:07
Bronze on a heater. I think they've won their last
48:08
seven on the spin. Yeah, we have battalion.
48:12
Let's get this. Let's get this fucking done.
48:14
We are looking unstoppable right now.
48:17
Let's go. That's right, it's it's our
48:20
time. It's our time now.
48:21
All right, then this for another episode to the channel.
48:23
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48:42
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48:46
I appreciate you, bro. During a very tumultuous time
48:49
here in the Deceptius household, but also a very glorious time in
48:54
the Deceptius household. You're absolutely coerced.
48:58
That I can count on. I appreciate you bro.
49:00
Likewise, buddy, I'm extremely happy for you and the entire
49:04
family. I'm glad we could, we could fit
49:05
this in the schedule. I'll continue to complain about
49:09
my work schedule, about how busy my life is, just, you know,
49:14
because obviously I need people to feel terrible for me, but
49:18
I'll be alright, which I do. We got.
49:20
Yeah, thanks. We, you know, we got, we got the
49:22
football with us. That's all we can ask for
49:25
alongside all of you. Thank you guys for dropping
49:27
knowledge again. Thanks for being patient with
49:29
us. Patient with us.
49:30
Even though I don't think anybody was really asking for us
49:32
while we're gone. They're like, yeah, they'll come
49:34
back eventually. We usually have like a weird
49:36
hiatus like once per NWSL season, but the season rolls on
49:42
and the Champions League is coming back.
49:43
That's what I mean. I'm extremely excited about
49:45
that. So keep your eyeballs out for
49:48
whatever kind of preview episode we do as the qualification rolls
49:53
on. And enough rambling out of
49:55
Maine. We will see you all next time.