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Real Madrid and Arsenal Advance to the UWCL QFs (Live!) · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  OK, I think I think we'll eventually get to this.
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  Welcome to Into the Channel podcast for our middle valve
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  host football. I'm your host, Dean de Sespicos
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  and as always, I'm joined by my very patient Co host, Mr. Grant
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  Angle. What is up man?
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  I'm feeling fantastic, buddy. The UEFA Women's Champions
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  League back again for a second week and I'm always patient.
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  Yeah, we're trying to go live. Whether it works or not, we'll
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  see. We'll get the, I mean, look,
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  we're, we're progressing through the tournament just like other
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  teams. We're just so good that we can
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  work out these things whilst still progressing.
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  That's right. Yeah.
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  You know, not quite a debutante, but, you know, we're still,
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  we're still alive, still in the mix.
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  Looks like we're mostly live. I think a good a good afternoon
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  in football. Some some wild weather.
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  I'm glad we we we were indoors for all of it.
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  Mr. Grand Engel, where you want to get started?
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  Let's get started with a beverage to celebrate the
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  return. I know it's only been a week
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  this time but still I miss it when it's gone.
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  Let's do this. Cheers to you.
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  Cheers to the football. Cheers to you, cheers to the
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  football. What do you say we take a look
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  at these matches in chronological order per custom.
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  I love. It.
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  Let's talk about Real Madrid 2 Perry FC nil Real Madrid
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  advancing 52-ON aggregate. Yeah, this one, I mean, I
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  mentioned, I mentioned the weather, the wind, the
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  windiness. This one was wacky from the
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  start. I think there was a lot of just
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  weird motions, you know, the ball behind the goalkeeper,
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  insurance and outs and the, you know, just a lot of back and
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  forth. Really good goalkeeping play in
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  the first half kept this one nil nil and shout out to Real Madrid
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  for for keeping it interesting. I think you know the the end
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  aggregate scoreline probably not indicative of how close this
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  matchup was, but a really entertaining first half.
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  Not sure that the the the level of football was super high.
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  Maybe defensively you can make a case, but good back and forth
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  chances for both teams. I think Madrid probably, you
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  know, should have walked away with with some more goals but
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  event, you know, we, we end up with a very compelling first
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  half and a second-half that was really entertaining.
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  Yeah, totally agree with that. I think Real Madrid when maybe
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  the Madrid Estas won't love this part, but Madrid did their part
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  to keep the game close. They didn't finish in some spots
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  where they probably could have. They didn't take advantage of
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  some opportunities that they probably should have.
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  We get let's, I mean we, you got to start the bidding with the
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  red card on Greg Evol 4 minutes into the match, a clear red red
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  card. One of my first thoughts I I
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  think the announcer pointed it out too.
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  In live action, rare to see a player pull the arm, pull the
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  right arm of their opponent, and then still have enough time to
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  work their way to the other side and then pull the left arm of
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  their opponent. I mean, you know, no, no arm
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  left unpulled. I think that's kind of like
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  defensive, you know, fast. Number one we got that's that's
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  foundational right there. I thought the ball was amazing.
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  Amazing. I think, yeah, I thought
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  feathers were great on that one. I thought it was going to be a
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  clear goal. I mean, as soon as as soon as
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  the ball gets kicked, I'm like, oh, here we go.
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  This is, you know, they're going to they're going to crack the
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  the seal on it. And what's wild is, you know,
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  great ball gets to the red card very early.
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  Your first instinct is to be like, you know, like, OK, that's
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  it. You know, this this one's a
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  wrap. And then my second instinct was,
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  was that maybe a smart play, you know, especially considering
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  like the the win and the weather, the goals were going to
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  be, you know, like at a premium and the foul outside the box.
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  So, you know, ends up in a free kick.
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  You know, the free kick gets stuffed anyway.
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  You know, you don't want to play with 10.
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  But the flip side is if you go down that early in that weather,
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  maybe, I don't know, maybe it's a maybe it's a wrap earlier.
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  I love this. I mean this might be one of the
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  greatest takes I've ever heard in my life.
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  Could the could the 4th minute red card have been useful
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  strategically? I mean, you know, to grave a
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  balls credit, as you said, didn't allow a goal, now denied
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  an obvious goal scoring opportunity dog.
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  So always a fan of that. But yeah, I mean, I, I
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  definitely sided landed on the first side where I was like, oh
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  boy, they're in huge trouble. And look where it got me.
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  I was a fool. They they managed to to stave
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  off Real Madrid for the entire first half.
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  Yep, turns out not so obvious. Maybe a heady play.
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  I don't know, Maybe we're rewriting the strategy books
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  here. But you know, Pierre Izzi comes
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  back the other way, Picar gets a chance and Misa had a save.
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  You know, we talked about this one that we we kind of joke
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  about it because it ends 52 in aggregate.
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  But that save that Misa has on Picard, you know, like when it's
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  still 32 early in the first half, a diving save low into the
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  I think was low into the left, just a a huge play kind of like
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  against it. Like it in those moments when
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  the the chances are going to be few and far between, you're
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  looking for your goalkeeper to stay super duper sharp.
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  And that was a moment where that chance came out of absolute
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  nowhere. And if that goes in and it's 3
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  three, it's pretty different because I think even with the
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  red card pre FC was doing some pretty interesting stuff.
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  And I think a lot of it is is dependent on, you know, how
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  versatile their attackers and midfielders are.
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  Like they can go from a 423 to a 432, you know, to kind of make
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  up for it with Mateo kind of sliding up and back the mocha
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  deck, the same thing. So I thought they were still
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  pretty dangerous for most of it. Yeah, you're totally right.
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  And I mean, yeah, I'm just trying to think of the math.
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  What I think you are right about the 432, Yeah.
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  Like once you're out there dealing with, you know, 10
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  players on the pitch, they they just realized it's, it feels so
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  easy to say like watching these matches and when a team goes
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  down, a player of like, OK, your only chances, you got to take
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  your chances as efficiently as possible, usually in transition,
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  you know, maybe force a turnover, figure something out
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  like that. But then you got to stay compact
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  and then you got to play defense.
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  Way easier to say than it is to actually accomplish, especially
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  when you're up, you know, against the Champions League
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  opponent like that. But Perry FC was was able to do
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  it and you know, I I I think from Misa's past, which, you
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  know, creates the red card. I don't know how you mark that
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  in the into the channel record book.
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  It's not quite an assist. It's an assisted red card by
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  Misa who like forces grave of all into the mistake to get the
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  red card on on feller. But I digress.
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  I I was just at half time. I was like, I can't believe this
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  match is 00 and I think things could get interesting in the
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  second-half and that just speaks a lot.
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  Even though it didn't end up that way, I think that says a
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  lot about Perry F CS Heart. I mean, they were, they were
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  tough all the way through, you know, and I thought defensively,
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  you know, I, I just love what, how compact they were getting.
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  You know, they have to take off. I know they bring on Deja Davis.
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  I'm blanking on who they have to take off.
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  They took off. Garbino.
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  Garbino, yeah, Who had a shot? Who had a shot in the 1st 10
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  minutes? Who logged a shot in that first
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  portion of the match? So that was tough, But
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  defensively I thought they played very compact.
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  Selena will seen, you know, a huge workload.
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  You know, she just had a tendency today to be pretty much
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  physically overmatched and all of these matchups, you know, she
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  looks like the smaller slider player, but she's always kind of
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  like up under the you know, the attacker and you know, just, you
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  know, like in in, you know, touch tight to quote, to quote
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  the legend. And you know, like you just kind
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  of feel for the pre FC Time Team as you watch them down the
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  stretch, just start to physically wear down 10 players
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  on the road, you know, like midweek weather conditions, you
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  know, like it really was a slog. But to their credit, you know,
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  they they were really, really tough still trying to score all
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  the way all the way to the end. For sure.
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  And like in, in the second-half, kind of like what around that
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  like 50 minute mark, Yeah, 'cause Feller gets the goal in
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  the 54th, around the 50th mark. I was like, oh boy.
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  In my notes I have, is the dam starting to break here?
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  Because like, you could start to see, and understandably so,
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  Perry FC was physically and mentally exhausted, like trying
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  to stay locked in and like keep that defensive shape and try to
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  take your chances. And you're, you're doing like
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  additional calculations at that point as a footballer on the
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  field of like, oh, is this the, is this the opportunity or
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  should I hang back to not leave ourselves too exposed?
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  You could see that start to wear on them and when you start to
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  get tired both mentally and physically.
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  Eva Navarro not a great sight to see on the other side because
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  she was cooking. I mean, you know, I I can't
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  believe what she was doing down the stretch and it you know, I'm
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  not to simplify it, but the first half was a lot of at the
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  neon. One side was out for blood
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  early, like just super duper hungry Kaiseto, you know,
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  through the center of the park or pretty much whatever
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  direction she wanted to go. And then I think kind of like
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  when they wanted to go somewhere else, Evan Navarro on that right
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  hand side whipping and crosses was just just what the doctor
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  ordered right at that point. You you think it was like body
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  blow, body blow on that left hand side.
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  And then it was like what what exactly what previously didn't
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  see coming, You know, great crossing and feller, you know,
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  like you see you see players miss that one all the time.
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  You know, especially on the volley, flying in, the ball,
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  flying in, everybody flying in and military credit sticks it
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  and, you know, pretty much changes the whole changes pretty
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  much everything kind of, you know, kind of flips it.
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  You know, it really depressurizes that situation in
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  a huge way. Yeah, and so Navarro gets the
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  assist on the Feller goal, which I think you're right, you know,
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  a good touch. Yeah, you're right in front.
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  Feels like a tap in. You got to make contact.
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  You got to fight through the contact from your opponent to
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  score it. A nice goal by Feller.
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  Great. Even better pass by Navarro.
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  And then speaking, I mentioned the Into the Channel record
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  book. Got to be an assist or even a
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  goal. I think you on an own goal.
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  Do you just give Evan Navarro Evan Navarro pardon me, the goal
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  on that. What is, you know, officially in
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  some other official record book the the less official than the
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  ITC record book An own goal by Ndongala.
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  I mean, I put a goal in the right and I love 2 personal
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  record book because the last player to touch it makes it
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  happen. You know, You know, without her.
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  And it's, it's like, it's all the different ways that Evan
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  Navarro can can tip the scales. You know, it just kind of like
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  right there on display. And then it really kind of got
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  me thinking, I want to get ahead of myself, but I don't know that
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  Barcelona match up, you know, you know, Madrid's got a lot of
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  players I can slice through there.
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  And if they could put five or six of those into the mixer, I
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  don't know could, could, could make things pretty interesting.
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  How interesting. We were talking about a pre
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  show. I think I don't know if I'm
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  going to up, I don't know if I'm going to up the ante on my pre
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  show take, but I think they've got a puncher's chance versus
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  Barcelona, Meaning if they won, I if they won in advanced, I
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  would be surprised, but it it wouldn't seem like the
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  impossible. I feel like you would need and I
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  was thinking about this, you know, during the match, you kind
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  of need all those players to give you 180 minutes of a, you
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  know, a level football, right, And it's like they can do it.
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  They're all great, but you know, they're all great players.
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  They all have very high ceilings.
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  You know, if and, and Barcelona, you know, there's some flux
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  there. They still look great.
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  You know, they're they're still producing at the absolute top,
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  top level. They're still probably the best
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  team in the world. Maybe you know, probably about
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  it, but I don't know. I think this was going to be
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  competitive, and I think we see this in other sports too.
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  When there's some familiarity between the two sides, it does
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  tend to bring those results a little bit closer together.
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  I think it can, but in my in my ongoing quest to really, really,
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  truly be the Barcelona guy on the show, and I know it's a
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  tough job. It's hard to cheer for
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  Barcelona, plucky underdogs as they are.
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  I don't know, man. Like the big bad wolf is coming
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  to town for Real Madrid. And, you know, yeah, we've had
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  the the crazy result last season.
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  I mean, you know, there was a there was a weird no call there
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  and, you know, like some controversy in Real Madrid
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  beating Barcelona last year. But I just think, I mean, it's
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  gonna man, it's such a gigantic uphill battle.
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  I think puncher's chance is fine, but it's like you the the
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  puncher has to your point, I, I think you nailed it.
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  Sorry, I'm I'm filibustering here.
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  The puncher has to land A1 in a 1.5 million shot.
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  I think like it's not a one in a million shot.
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  It's slightly more than more than that.
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  I mean, Barcelona, you know, in their last five matches,
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  eighteen goals for one against, you know, they destroy ibar over
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  the weekend, 4 nil. I know you know, we're not
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  talking about Ibar like they're world beaters, but we're talking
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  about Barcelona here kind of ramping up themselves.
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  Who were their their goal scores verse Ibar, Eva Paillor, Claudia
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  Pina, Patrick Guillarro and Irene Paredes.
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  So, you know, they got a lot of good players.
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  Yeah, those are good players. I mean, you know, and I'm
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  probably getting colored by some of the things that we're seeing
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  in some of the other leagues, you know, and I'm thinking
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  about, you know, like a Chelsea here where it's like, you know,
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  OK, when even if you're the biggest club, the biggest
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  baddest club, if you don't take steps forward, you know, and and
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  other clubs, you know, as a as a function of them chasing are
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  going to take steps forward. What does that mean?
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  You know, I'm not sure that it means that Madrid's going to get
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  past Barcelona. Probably not.
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  Wouldn't that definitely wouldn't bet on it.
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  I don't think that Madrid necessarily looked great, you
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  know, against pre FC, but I think my head goes to brief.
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  If he's going to, you know, make it ugly, it's going to be a bit
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  of a slugfest. I'm not going to really hold
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  that against Real Madrid. They'll get the first one.
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  I believe they'll get the first one at home.
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  So we're going to learn a ton there.
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  But I think there's I think they're going to be, you know
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  what I feel very confident saying this tie is going to be
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  close. You know, like even at the end
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  of it, I think it's going to be within, you know, two or three
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  goals Max. I don't think it's going to be a
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  5-6 goal, you know, just overwhelming.
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  I think that's fair and I think depending on like what it looks
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  like the a three goal difference on aggregate, there are
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  different types of three goal differences on aggregate, right?
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  So I guess we, we have that to parse to.
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  I, I won't, I won't dive too far into that, but I could see it.
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  I don't know, man. I I do wonder if once the dam
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  breaks, to use that analogy again, it can get real, real
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  scary against Barcelona pretty quickly.
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  I'll, I'll say one more thing because I think the way Real
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  Madrid's attack is constructed is different than let's say,
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  like a Bayern, right, where Bayern is going to like, you
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  know, really dissect you and work, work, work their way up
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  the pitch. Madrid could like grab and go,
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  you know, and I think, you know, whether it's out to me on one
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  side, you know, fell air I thought was great today.
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  But Linda Kay said, oh, we've talked a ton about this player.
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  I'm not, you know, Linda Kaiser is not the best player, you
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  know, in traffic, you know, and she's not the best player in
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  full Sprint with the ball at her feet, but she's definitely the
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  best player in the world in traffic with the ball at her
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  feet. At full Sprint like that, you
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  just cannot get anywhere near her.
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  And it's like she consistently, it doesn't matter who's there.
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  She just she treats everybody like a traffic cone and just
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  runs right through wherever she wants to go.
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  It's an unbelievable skill and I think that that that attack, how
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  fast it is and how quick it can counter and how quick it could
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  take advantage of a lot of open space, I think poses a pretty
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  compelling case. I think that's totally fair.
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  And I mean, you know, like in this match you you talked about
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  Athanaya like trying to take her chances being playing really
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  aggressive. Quick sidebar, on a scale of
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  zero to 10, zero being I'm completely happy, I'm very
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  satisfied with the way things went today.
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  To 10 being I'm absolutely furious with the way I played
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  today. Where do you think Ateneya del
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  Castillo is right now? Or maybe like 45 minutes post
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  match in that window. 45 minutes 10. 100% it's a 10.
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  She had to be absolutely furious, like.
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  She she had. Two goals on the table.
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  Yeah, And she came out fired up. She came out just so fired up,
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  you know? And I thought she, you know, she
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  was like, right, Linda, it's going to be you and me.
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  Like I'm going to be here for all of it.
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  You know, you just put the ball out there, we'll go get it.
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  But you know, I thought it like it's great to have a player like
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  that that can take chances, that can put real pressure on the
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  defense. And then you see what happens on
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  the other side. You know, like I said, it's it's
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  just chip away, chip away, chip away.
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  And then Navarro just kind of breaks your back the other way.
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  I do want to talk about the second match up.
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  Arsenal advances over Lubin 3 one win today, 7/1 on aggregate.
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  Your boy. I was close, man.
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  You know, I don't usually root for Arsenal to give up a goal,
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  but I I had 7-2 in my you know, I had, I had the clip fired up.
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  I, you know, I was. I was ready.
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  Dude, it was an outstanding call by you and it somehow it splits
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  the difference on our podcast because what I said 6 nil on
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  aggregate and like there is a point where they're up 55 nil on
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  aggregate. And I was like, we're going to
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  get there When, especially when the goal comes in the 22nd
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  minute, I was like, play it out, play some defense, get your Subs
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  in. You'll not show them another
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  one. We're there.
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  I'm going to be 100% right. Yeah, a real, real professional
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  analysis by us. Just rooting for our picks and
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  our predictions. Of course, full, full,
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  responsible, fully responsible there.
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  Arsenal moves on. The thing I want to talk about
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  is Arsenal's first half, because I, I kind of lauded what they
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  did last week, which was play really tight, close to the vest,
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  don't give, don't give them any room to breathe.
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  I think they had like one, one shot in this one.
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  Louvin's got, I think they racked up 6 or so shots in the
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  first half or five shots. They outshot Arsenal in the
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  first half for sure. And I think equal shots on
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  target. And obviously the scoreline is,
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  was what it was at that point. I didn't, I didn't like how, you
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  know, how much room Louvin had to kind of operate.
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  You know, I wasn't so worried about scoring goals.
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  I think, you know, some of the, the, the discourse at half
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  times, oh, can we score a goal? You know, the scoreline is not
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  big enough. Can we?
• 19:38
  And I'm like, that's, that's stupid.
• 19:39
  You know, Russo gets one in the 90th.
• 19:41
  You know, if they get another one in the 93rd, like, does that
• 19:43
  make it? I don't think it makes a
• 19:45
  difference at all. I would have liked to see,
• 19:46
  though, probably that continuation of that same level
• 19:49
  of kind of suffocating, frustrating kind of defense.
• 19:54
  But instead, Lubin kind of was not going to go out without a
• 19:57
  fight. I think it's the story of their
• 20:00
  tournament. They they punched above their
• 20:03
  weight class throughout the vast majority of of matches that they
• 20:07
  played in. You know, it awesome to see
• 20:11
  Sarah Pushtai get a goal in this spot, you know, at Borehamwood,
• 20:17
  another Champions League goal, I want to say her third of the
• 20:20
  tournament maybe. And you know, she, I thought
• 20:25
  Darian Jinx did a good job in the studio of the Paramount Plus
• 20:29
  post match. I I saw a little bit of it and
• 20:32
  Darian Jinx said that, you know, you know, pointed out the same
• 20:36
  thing that she arrived. Pushchai was like very clearly
• 20:41
  the best player for OH Louvin and, you know, deserves a lot of
• 20:44
  plaudits there. Yeah, I mean, they had a they
• 20:48
  had a few players that play played well.
• 20:50
  I thought Everett's played well. You know, Merchants goes out
• 20:52
  with the injury. Johnson, who we talked about Sen
• 20:55
  Java like big stops, but that's a champsy goalie right there for
• 20:59
  sure. They there's, they deserve a ton
• 21:03
  of, you know, just applause and, and appreciation because we've
• 21:08
  seen teams show up to this tournament and get absolutely
• 21:12
  rolled, you know, and I think teams with some pedigree with,
• 21:15
  with some brand behind them, with, with a little bit of money
• 21:17
  behind them, even, especially in this even even in this season.
• 21:21
  So to see Lewin come in and shout out to the our guy, the
• 21:25
  commentator on this one, Seb Hutchinson, who I I thought did
• 21:28
  a great job. Oh yeah.
• 21:30
  But I I got to give him a little Flack because he said there
• 21:32
  wasn't anybody out here. All right.
• 21:34
  I think he said everybody had Louvin predicted pre tournament
• 21:37
  at the very bottom of the field. But I'm here to tell said no, no
• 21:42
  problem. That was one of us.
• 21:44
  That was one of us out here. That put Louvin in the top 12 in
• 21:48
  the knockout stage and here we are.
• 21:49
  But outside of that, tremendous job by Hutchinson today.
• 21:54
  Yeah, tremendous job by you, Seth Hutchinson, sneaky
• 21:57
  contender for one of my favorite commentators in the tournament,
• 21:59
  no doubt. Yeah.
• 22:01
  I mean, you were you were on Louvin from the start.
• 22:03
  I think you could tell, you know, they were able to play
• 22:06
  tough in the midfield when they needed to.
• 22:09
  Obviously they, they understood they needed to, you know, sit
• 22:13
  back, play, you know, play defensive football, low block
• 22:18
  football, but they they also weren't afraid to take their
• 22:22
  chances. Again, it's another one of those
• 22:23
  things that we like understanding how difficult it
• 22:26
  must be for them under like seeing the team sheets, seeing
• 22:30
  the, the names on the back of those jerseys, you know, looking
• 22:33
  at the Crest on the front of the jerseys, understanding that
• 22:35
  you're probably out that you are thoroughly outgunned in, in in
• 22:39
  many of these matches and still playing the way they did.
• 22:43
  I one of the first things like after Arsenal pulled ahead and I
• 22:47
  was like, OK, you know, I'm going to.
• 22:49
  This is though, just the way it's going to be.
• 22:51
  I look forward to seeing Louvin again.
• 22:53
  I put that in my notes like two different times.
• 22:55
  I because I forgot about it the first time.
• 22:56
  I was like, we're going to see them again and I look forward to
• 22:58
  it. Definitely look forward to it
• 23:01
  and they'll be back for sure. I know they're, I think they're,
• 23:03
  they're kind of like pushing and pulling in the Belgian Super
• 23:06
  League. And I also added the Belgian
• 23:07
  Super League to our list of leagues that we're kind of
• 23:10
  keeping an eye on in our spreadsheets.
• 23:12
  So apologies for that, but I feel like we're at the point
• 23:14
  where we need to do that. Switching gears, I'll talk about
• 23:17
  Arsenal on the attacking side, things are very different minus
• 23:22
  Olivia Smith. I think this team really kind of
• 23:24
  maybe unlock something, you know, with that player at the 9
• 23:28
  and without Smith, even with Russo up there, just kind of
• 23:31
  took on a different feel. And there was for sure some
• 23:34
  frustration because I was like, well, it was a, you know, a
• 23:38
  little give and take because I was like, man, we can't really
• 23:41
  do anything offensively except have Caitlin Ford just running,
• 23:44
  you know, faster and harder than everybody.
• 23:45
  That's I guess that's what we have.
• 23:47
  And then in the second-half, we that that turned into, you know,
• 23:51
  a chance and a penalty kick for Arsenal.
• 23:53
  So we turned it into something, even though that was pretty much
• 23:56
  just the one thing that was that was going well for Arsenal
• 23:59
  today. I think so.
• 24:01
  I mean, you always have the the ability for Russo to kind of
• 24:05
  just hit that laser too or hit that that like kind of sneaky
• 24:10
  awkward shot when she's able to turn it on there, she puts the
• 24:13
  ball onto her onto her left and hits it near post.
• 24:17
  I mean, Russo, what I mean, she is at absolute worst one of the
• 24:28
  6 best number nines in the world.
• 24:30
  I was. Going to say 6.
• 24:32
  Yeah, I was going to say 6. I'm saying she's in she's she's
• 24:35
  clearly top ten. It'd be insulting to be just to
• 24:38
  just not like insulting, but it would it would be too low to be
• 24:40
  like, guys, she's a top 10, number 9.
• 24:42
  I think she's like she's right there near the top half if not
• 24:47
  in the top half. Yeah, and I think, you know,
• 24:50
  she's also not a true 9. You know, she's like kind of
• 24:52
  nine and a half. She's she's a playmaker, you
• 24:54
  know? You know, she's not really kind
• 24:56
  of like that, that smashing aerial threat necessarily, you
• 25:00
  know, not she had good speed, but not blazing speed, you know,
• 25:04
  so but what she's good at, it's like, damn, she's good.
• 25:07
  You know, she could take the ball, you know, and like it's
• 25:10
  almost like she it's almost like a step back, you know, because
• 25:12
  she could kind of like in and then bring it back out, give us
• 25:15
  give space, and then she she knows where the ball's going to
• 25:19
  be and how to strike it. I thought the the the finish
• 25:23
  today was incredible. But when the an Alessia Russo
• 25:27
  goals like they have like nothing, there's not nobody that
• 25:29
  can really do what she does like that.
• 25:31
  And she's so consistent, so good, such a weapon.
• 25:35
  But I think, you know, sliding her back a little bit takes, you
• 25:38
  know, creates some some play making and it gives you a second
• 25:42
  look and and her work rate, we've talked about it.
• 25:44
  She just does not quit. So it's like she'll she'll get
• 25:48
  busy in the middle of the park. She'll get busy, you know, up,
• 25:50
  up, you know, when you're in the 18 and like everywhere in
• 25:52
  between if you give her that space.
• 25:55
  So I'm I'm really curious to see how Slager's figures it out.
• 26:00
  Yeah, and I think she has the ability to, I mean, look, she's
• 26:03
  already she's already lifted the trophy once.
• 26:05
  So I I continue to to be very, very optimistic about your
• 26:11
  Gunners chances in this tournament.
• 26:13
  I think they're peaking at the right time.
• 26:15
  You know, they have the, the weird situation with the, the,
• 26:21
  the postponed match, you know, over the weekend.
• 26:26
  So then they, they basically just played, you know, they,
• 26:29
  they played Louvin last week and then Louvin this week.
• 26:31
  Didn't have to worry about the WSL.
• 26:33
  Now it was probably weird to like get prepared for the
• 26:35
  Brighton match and then it gets postponed because of the
• 26:38
  waterlogged field down at Brighton.
• 26:41
  Probably, probably a lot of discussion we can set aside for
• 26:44
  another podcast on how that happens exactly.
• 26:47
  But now we now we set up for absolute cinema, a London Derby,
• 26:55
  the Reds versus the Blues, Football as many probably
• 26:59
  believe it should be. I I mean, this is this is
• 27:06
  definitely like pay-per-view paper.
• 27:08
  This is going to be the best, you know, semifinal match up.
• 27:10
  I think, you know, apologies to Barcelona and Madrid.
• 27:15
  I think these teams, the gap between them has closed quite a
• 27:19
  bit. You know, when I was talking to
• 27:20
  Leanne, I was making the case I'm like, oh, all right, Arsenal
• 27:22
  is not really scared of Chelsea anymore.
• 27:24
  You know, Mariona, you know, Roll, we, we come out there and
• 27:27
  Mariona has a, a case to be the best player on the, on, on the
• 27:29
  pitch, pretty much of an on any pitch on, on a lot of days,
• 27:33
  maybe not every day. And then you watch what Lauren
• 27:36
  James does last weekend, come on.
• 27:38
  And you're just like, OK, Lauren James has a ceiling that reaches
• 27:43
  pretty high. I mean, I think she's an
• 27:46
  absolutely incredible player. And we talked about it.
• 27:48
  The real challenge from Bob Pastor is going to be putting
• 27:53
  forth a game plan where A, they're not the the clear slam
• 27:56
  dunk favorites and B, what do you do with all those
• 28:00
  personalities? You know, we talked about like
• 28:02
  the, the behemoth problem at Chelsea.
• 28:03
  You know, I'm not going to name names, but they have some big
• 28:06
  players, some big name players that aren't playing necessarily
• 28:10
  at the level. It's not really easy to move
• 28:12
  players like that around. Just like they're 2021 year old,
• 28:16
  22 year old players. Like these are players with 10
• 28:18
  year big names, you know, big resumes.
• 28:22
  And that's that's not easy to do.
• 28:23
  But Bon Pester is going to have to figure out how to do it
• 28:26
  because the way they look now, they don't look like we can
• 28:30
  compete for the Champions League title kind of squad.
• 28:32
  Doesn't mean they can't get there because we know what they
• 28:35
  have, you know, in in their arsenal, no pun intended.
• 28:38
  But how do you see that matchup? I'm glad we're getting to this
• 28:44
  part because this is exciting now.
• 28:45
  It's obviously part of the build up.
• 28:47
  We want to see the actual match play out.
• 28:49
  So Chelsea in the lead up to this, this London Derby, you
• 28:55
  know UEFA Women's Champions League match on February 22nd
• 29:00
  they played Manchester United in the FA Cup round of 16.
• 29:03
  Then on March 18th they are home versus Brighton in the Women's
• 29:07
  Super League. I think I'll need some education
• 29:11
  from some of our pals. They have a match scheduled at
• 29:14
  London City Lionesses on March 22nd.
• 29:17
  I haven't seen a totally a fully released schedule for when
• 29:25
  they're going to play, but I think that that WSL match March
• 29:27
  22nd, that might be postponed for them to play the the very
• 29:33
  close fixture against Arsenal. So let's just say at bare
• 29:37
  minimum, they're they're playing United in the FA Cup around a 16
• 29:42
  and they are and they're playing Brighton.
• 29:45
  Our pal Jess in the chat says, yes, that's a Sunday afternoon
• 29:48
  match. So I think that means it would
• 29:50
  be postponed. Correct me if I'm wrong there,
• 29:52
  Jess, and thanks for hanging out with us.
• 29:55
  I I think if you are Chelsea, I think you hit the nail on the
• 29:59
  head, Dino. You can get ready.
• 30:02
  You can with your players with that Lauren James performance
• 30:06
  versus Liverpool. You can be totally you can get
• 30:10
  right. It would be crazy not to get
• 30:13
  right, but Arsenal can beat you and they can beat you in two
• 30:19
  matches in a row. I think so I think it's it's
• 30:23
  going to be a heavyweight bout. I, you know, I like to react.
• 30:26
  Sometimes I get a little caught up in the moment.
• 30:28
  That two nil win over Liverpool, I thought it was pretty gutsy.
• 30:32
  I think maybe some Chelsea supporters would think, ah, we
• 30:35
  should beat Liverpool by more than that.
• 30:36
  It should come easier than that. Liverpool had some chances but
• 30:39
  maybe you need some tough wins just to get the confidence back.
• 30:45
  I like it and I I'm jealous of the take that even if Chelsea
• 30:49
  plays well, Arsenal could beat them because that goes both
• 30:53
  ways. Arsenal could play well, Chelsea
• 30:55
  could beat them. That wasn't always true.
• 30:57
  That's that's the main difference.
• 30:58
  I think this is a, a new thing for this year that Chelsea could
• 31:01
  play well and still get beat, you know, by, by this Arsenal
• 31:04
  team. But you look at kind of like
• 31:07
  what happened in that Liverpool match, you know, XG 1.5 to .5
• 31:12
  shots 13 to 8, not crazy there 5:00 to 2:00 on target, you
• 31:17
  know, touches in the opposition half.
• 31:20
  Chelsea had 182, Liverpool had 152.
• 31:23
  So it's like this was a like a pretty even ish match kind of in
• 31:28
  the balance, even though, you know, Chelsea was was in control
• 31:31
  most of it. And Lauren James wasn't going to
• 31:33
  let anything happen other than Chelsea walking away with three
• 31:35
  points. But I think my my larger cases,
• 31:40
  there's going to be spots on the pitch, you know, where, where
• 31:44
  Arsenal has advantages. I think mostly around speed and
• 31:47
  athleticism. Chelsea is just going to have to
• 31:49
  figure out where their advantages are, you know, and,
• 31:52
  and how to kind of like keep those under wraps a little bit
• 31:55
  and have those kind of peeking once they get to that, that
• 31:58
  March. Date I think so.
• 32:01
  I mean, in that Liverpool match, it it was AI encountered a great
• 32:07
  juxtaposition where I went back and read and and watched some
• 32:12
  highlights, rewatched some highlights.
• 32:14
  But there was a point where Ellie Carpenter is streaking
• 32:17
  down the right hand side. And because I'm an obnoxious
• 32:21
  man, male sports fan, I'm just going wheels, wheels, wheels as
• 32:27
  as carpenters right down the field.
• 32:29
  And when I listen back to the announcer, says Ellie Carpenter
• 32:32
  showing off her pace. And I was like, yeah, that's a
• 32:34
  much more eloquent, nice way to describe what's happening there.
• 32:38
  But like, yeah, if you're thinking about like speed,
• 32:41
  physicality and some like pure skill in some spots, I think you
• 32:46
  probably give the nod to Chelsea.
• 32:48
  But in terms of, and this is crazy, talking about a team
• 32:52
  that's won the league so many times in a row, but for Arsenal
• 32:56
  playing with some championship medal right now, playing with
• 32:59
  toughness right now, you probably give the edge to them a
• 33:03
  little bit. I mean, I think mentality wise,
• 33:06
  they're much stronger, you know, and I think like those bump past
• 33:08
  our comments that we kind of, you know, raked over the goals
• 33:11
  like a bunch of times. Those are sticky, you know,
• 33:15
  those those those will stay in your head somewhere, even if not
• 33:18
  at the forefront. So I think that that didn't do
• 33:21
  do her team any favors, but it's still a lot of time to to sort
• 33:25
  things out. But I think based on where we're
• 33:28
  at now, considering the leaps that Smith has taken, you know,
• 33:34
  like, and I just don't know, like what like that player is
• 33:37
  such a matchup problem. And and again, it allows Russo
• 33:42
  to stay on the pitch and move a little back or just kind of like
• 33:45
  just move pieces around within the flow of the match.
• 33:48
  You know, and I think we saw we saw Chloe Kelly, Caitlin forward
• 33:50
  last week switching sides and just, you know, spitting, you
• 33:54
  know, Louvin into, you know, into into the into the mixer.
• 33:56
  But well, I mean, it's going to be extremely compelling either
• 34:01
  way. But I think I would give Arsenal
• 34:02
  the nod and I think right now, I mean, if they're still weeks
• 34:06
  away, but I I would pick them right now to advance over
• 34:09
  Chelsea. I like it.
• 34:11
  I expect nothing else from you and I would be actually, I'd be
• 34:14
  angry with you if you pick the other way.
• 34:16
  You can't. You can't be wearing an Arsenal
• 34:18
  hat right now and then come out here and pick Chelsea Football
• 34:21
  Club, our pal, the legend Carlo Wilson in the in the chat saying
• 34:27
  Chelsea need to get their stuff together.
• 34:29
  Absolutely. You say never lied, Carlo and
• 34:33
  just letting us know that the second leg is scheduled for
• 34:36
  April fools, which I think is right.
• 34:38
  I'm I'm looking at the at the Champions League website right
• 34:42
  now. So it looks like April first
• 34:44
  second leg probably at the at the bridge.
• 34:48
  Yes, just just says at the bridge on April Fool's Day.
• 34:52
  What could go wrong for us? I'm not sure.
• 34:58
  I'm not sure a whole lot, to be honest.
• 35:00
  You know, just a bump in the road.
• 35:03
  Apologies to and I know, I know Carl is a Chelsea guy, Abdul,
• 35:06
  another Chelsea guy. Apologies, Abdul.
• 35:09
  I respect your take, you know, and I, I respect you, you know,
• 35:13
  repping, repping, repping hard, doing it in a proud way.
• 35:16
  But yeah, I think y'all are in trouble.
• 35:19
  Couple couple matches, couple matches tomorrow, I want to
• 35:22
  quickly kind of fly over 'cause, you know, athletes, the Man
• 35:27
  United will see if they can make it close.
• 35:29
  But UVA and Wolfsburg, I think that was going to be an absolute
• 35:32
  banger. A funny note from this past
• 35:34
  weekend, UVA went nil, nil against Lazio and Wolfsburg went
• 35:40
  one one against Essen. I believe both of those teams
• 35:44
  were playing at home and and got to draw down to some lesser
• 35:49
  competition. So it's pretty clear that both
• 35:51
  these teams are are really, really loading up for what what
• 35:55
  happened last week in the Champions League and what's
• 35:56
  coming up tomorrow in the Champions League.
• 35:57
  So I cannot wait for that match up, but I want to kind of like
• 36:01
  get some predictions from you. What do you expecting tomorrow
• 36:04
  these two? Oh boy, wow, putting me on the
• 36:08
  spot. I was already prepared to talk
• 36:10
  about that hopefully before those two matches were played
• 36:15
  that I would hope that somebody on a television broadcast in
• 36:18
  Italy and somebody on a television broadcast in in
• 36:20
  Germany, both simultaneously said, look ahead game talk.
• 36:26
  And I just just giving us one of the great sports cliches of, you
• 36:30
  know, what is a trap game, classical looking.
• 36:36
  You never want to fall into the trap game.
• 36:39
  As far as tomorrow. Look, I think I've been the
• 36:42
  Athletico Madrid guy for several weeks.
• 36:46
  It's over and that's fine. It's it's a great result.
• 36:50
  United at home. I think they're going to put it
• 36:52
  away. I think that they have the
• 36:54
  opportunity to kind of go out there and show like, you know,
• 36:59
  this isn't a cute story. We're here to contend this year.
• 37:01
  And, you know, I don't think they have to be devastated if
• 37:04
  they don't make it out of the next round.
• 37:06
  But like, I think that they should say, OK, we're in a class
• 37:10
  above Atletico Madrid and I think United will do that.
• 37:13
  And then for Wolfsburg, Juventus, I've been picking them
• 37:16
  the whole time. I I think I picked them in the
• 37:18
  Can I pause? You real quick.
• 37:21
  Can I pause you real quick? Because, you know, as you were,
• 37:25
  as you were talking, I couldn't help but think about United,
• 37:30
  what they did versus London City Lions this weekend.
• 37:33
  They get the win, but you know, they were down one nil.
• 37:37
  They get out exceeding this when they get out shot out, shot on
• 37:40
  target, you know, and they're at home, you know, and I think we
• 37:45
  we talked about kind of like the wear and tear of the Champions.
• 37:49
  Again, it really does put a strain on you.
• 37:51
  Now they reloaded in a big way. A, that's good.
• 37:55
  A lot of talent in the door, but B chemistry, where is that at?
• 38:00
  Are you going to be able to put together in time?
• 38:03
  I know it's a big scoreline. I know it's three nil and I know
• 38:06
  I'd let these coming in on the road and I know they're under
• 38:09
  manned and and you know, shout out to MLS too, who was who was
• 38:12
  in the comments last week dropping real knowledge inside
• 38:15
  stuff you know about league F and and some of that let these
• 38:19
  background. So shout out to MLS, but I'm not
• 38:23
  going to I'm not going to say that this one's a total wrap,
• 38:27
  even though it sounds extremely silly considering it's three
• 38:30
  goals. I'm I'm just not going to do it.
• 38:32
  I mean, I want to see I want to see if United should do it
• 38:36
  absolutely, but I want to see it.
• 38:38
  You know, I think it's it's kind of like a checkpoint, right?
• 38:41
  Madrid was the better team versus pre FC and at every at
• 38:45
  every stop, they did what they needed to do.
• 38:47
  We need to stop here. We need to go here, we need to
• 38:49
  make a play here. And they did, you know, they,
• 38:51
  they, they saw it through to the end.
• 38:53
  Now United is halfway there. Can they see it through?
• 38:57
  They, they should be able to, but I'm not going to say that
• 38:59
  it's done. I don't think it's done.
• 39:01
  Am I crazy? I think so three nil is a three
• 39:05
  nil away and see now this is a great this is such a veteran
• 39:09
  move by you did. Now you're you, you're taking or
• 39:12
  you're at least chopping away at my mantle of the Atletico Madrid
• 39:16
  guy because why? Why should I believe in three
• 39:18
  nil now? You raised some compelling
• 39:20
  points, but man, I mean, Luani comes back, so that could be a
• 39:25
  thing as well. So that could be super helpful
• 39:26
  for for Atletico. Shout out to Jess Anna Sandberg
• 39:31
  for United out four to six weeks.
• 39:33
  Yeah. And not like sees see her take
• 39:35
  that injury. She's she's been playing pretty
• 39:37
  well. And I don't think Jansen, I
• 39:40
  don't think Dominique Jansen played versus Lindsay Lionesses.
• 39:43
  I'm not sure if she'll be back, but I don't know.
• 39:46
  I'm I'm going to be I'm going to be watching.
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  I mean, I think before the Lindsay Lioness this match, I I
• 39:51
  I think I was more resigned to OK, this is just I was kind of
• 39:55
  like half watch. But now I think I think I'm
• 39:57
  going to be I think I'm going to be locked in.
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  But I cut you off there. I think we're I think we're
• 40:02
  going to talk a little. Do you have anything more on
• 40:04
  United or you want to go UVA Wolfsburg?
• 40:06
  No, United is going to advance it and it's yeah, it's totally
• 40:09
  fine. And yeah, Dominique Hansen, she
• 40:12
  got in as the second-half sub around like the 60th in that
• 40:15
  match. But yeah, I, I think, you know,
• 40:19
  great effort for Matt Letty. They're going to build from
• 40:20
  this. They're they're going to be
• 40:21
  totally fine. But as our pal Carlos says in
• 40:24
  The Jets, take a fork in Matt Letty.
• 40:25
  They are done. I think that's probably about
• 40:29
  right As far as Juventus in Wolfsburg goes.
• 40:34
  You know, I picked Wolfsburg to advance.
• 40:36
  Did I feel awesome about the draw that they got at home?
• 40:39
  Not really. Anytime you go down to nil and
• 40:42
  scratch out and draw at home, like yes, there are positive
• 40:45
  feelings like we were able to come back.
• 40:47
  We were able to to to level the score, but also what's it going
• 40:53
  to look like when you go on the road?
• 40:54
  But I'm not backing away. I'm going to say Wolfsburg 2,
• 40:58
  Juventus 1. They find a way, they get tough.
• 41:01
  Let's get a Eustine Jelen goal in this match.
• 41:04
  You know, SK Braun alumna. Let's let's get after it
• 41:09
  tomorrow. Yeah, Jelen was having some
• 41:13
  impact late in late in the match last week, so I could definitely
• 41:16
  see it. We're going to see if that
• 41:18
  Wolfsburg attack can travel. I just can't help.
• 41:24
  I don't know, man. I can't help but feel.
• 41:26
  I still remember that Leo match where Wolfsburg just came out
• 41:31
  and just laid an absolute egg. And it's like, I hate to see
• 41:35
  that because in a match like this, and I'm not going to
• 41:40
  compare Leon Juventus, but even the Leon's waiting for whoever
• 41:43
  wins this, this, this tie. But when you put forth a real
• 41:47
  performance against the Leon in a match that you're probably not
• 41:50
  going to win, but it's, you know, it's, it's a 3 two or two
• 41:52
  one or, you know, 1. You know, like you really push
• 41:55
  them, you carry that that confidence into a match like
• 41:58
  this. But just the fact that they got
• 42:00
  completely waxed, you know, in that matchup, they're going to
• 42:03
  show up in this one. And you know, they they'll
• 42:06
  they'll be riding some momentum, you know, having come back from
• 42:09
  222 nil. But you were down to nil to
• 42:11
  begin with at home in Champions League knockout football.
• 42:14
  So it's like you really had to scratch just to get back to even
• 42:18
  I I just think this is going to be a classic textbook one nil.
• 42:24
  Juventus. Yeah, you know, a header late.
• 42:27
  You know, a frustrated Byron. I'm I'm not I'm sorry,
• 42:30
  frustrated Wolfsburg, you know, some Subs, you know, trying to
• 42:34
  trying to put some together a lot of like kind of scrambling
• 42:37
  late and ultimately not able to breakthrough it.
• 42:39
  And I like you May 1 nil and I like you may to advance.
• 42:44
  Understandable. You've been consistent with
• 42:45
  them. You were.
• 42:46
  You were higher on them at the beginning of the tournament than
• 42:49
  I was. You've been more correct about
• 42:51
  them throughout the tournament than I was.
• 42:53
  So, yeah, I'm not going to lie. Like you.
• 42:56
  Like you. You pointed out earlier, yes,
• 42:57
  we're rooting for our predictions.
• 43:00
  I mean, why else are you watching sports unless you're
• 43:02
  doing that? But yeah, you.
• 43:05
  You, I, I'm not going to act like I'm going into this with No
• 43:08
  Fear, but I'm going to trust the judgement that I, that I, that I
• 43:12
  put out there. And, you know, sometimes that's
• 43:14
  worked out for me. Sometimes not so much.
• 43:18
  Either way, it's going to be a great day of football, a lot of
• 43:21
  fun. We'll we'll know who our final
• 43:23
  eight are. We're going to have our
• 43:24
  matchups. We could do some previewing.
• 43:26
  We could crush some tape. Very excited to get past this
• 43:29
  stage into the quarterfinal stage.
• 43:31
  Is there anything else you want to hit before we get out of
• 43:34
  here? Obviously, senior gallops at the
• 43:37
  Lynx, the young Norwegian phenomenon.
• 43:40
  You see that goal she scored against Aston Villa over the
• 43:42
  weekend? I saw it a lot of times, buddy.
• 43:46
  Let's go. I love the and how about our guy
• 43:50
  Martin? Martin Hoe, 77 to 3, Tottenham
• 43:53
  or Aston Villa? I wasn't sure if that was a a
• 43:56
  Colts, Jaguars first quarter score liner.
• 43:58
  I don't know what I was looking at, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 44:03
  Football soccer game for sure, not a not an AFC North football
• 44:06
  game. Anywho, quick episode calendar.
• 44:09
  We'll be back tomorrow. Not sure if it's going to be
• 44:11
  live. It might be a little bit after
• 44:13
  the fact, but we will be back tomorrow to talk about
• 44:15
  tomorrow's matchups and just take a deep breath.
• 44:18
  Just just a big exhale after a great knockout stage.
• 44:23
  I think the group stage and the knockout stage I think a big
• 44:26
  success. There was a little bit, there
• 44:27
  wasn't quite hubbub about it, but there were some murmurs, you
• 44:30
  know, we weren't if hubbubs here, there were murmurs.
• 44:33
  We were at the murmur level, you know, with the changes.
• 44:35
  But I think the changes have been pretty.
• 44:36
  Good. I like them.
• 44:37
  I I think the league phase is pretty cool.
• 44:40
  I do miss kind of like the reverse fixture, like the pivot
• 44:43
  fixture where you have a home and home against some team in
• 44:45
  your group. I thought that was cool.
• 44:47
  But I overall I think the league phase structure is is pretty
• 44:51
  awesome. So I think I'm with you.
• 44:53
  I'm buying in UEFA. You've done it again.
• 44:58
  You haven't failed. You haven't failed terribly.
• 45:01
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• 45:53
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