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S3 Ep9 - Trinity FC 2 - DC 1 · Pegasus

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Handball, handball, whatcha gonna do?
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: So here we are.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Cold beer coming.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: My hot was my mic was too hot.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: After Dallas Trinity wins 2-1.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, probably could have been a 4-0 win.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: It was a really what I loved about this, it was a really great win against a very good team.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: But to set the scene, we're at Cold Beer Company.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: As always, after a match, tons of fellow supporters here, and just having a good time, celebrating.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: A really, really good win.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: Great, really great win.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: It had really everything in it.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: Missed calls, great play, great shots.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_01: It really had everything.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_01: This match had everything.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: This is like the club.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: This is like the club, Stefan's club.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: This match had everything.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: It had a handball that wasn't a handball.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: It had handballs that were handballs, but there was a goal, but it was called out for us.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: It had a penalty that was not called for us.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: It had us holding on to a two-goal lead.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_01: It had, I mean, this one had it all, and it was just so enjoyable.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm just so glad we're able to pull it out.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: And it's so hot.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_01: This first run of games have been so hot.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm so glad that the people who came out to the match were able to that that they did come out.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of reasons not to these days to choose to do something else.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, all we can do is enjoy it and everyone do their part.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: And everyone, I feel like everyone did their part tonight, except for maybe the referees.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: But we overcame that.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe we'll come on to that later.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I mean I think I think the thing about this, like, you know, we we we have a great win last week against Brooklyn.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, one of the comments that I heard several times from a lot of different folks was well, it's Brooklyn.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: But at the same time, like, you can lose against Brooklyn.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: Just ask Jacksonville, which they did earlier today.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I understand that Brooklyn's not the best team in the league, but we had a very, very solid performance against them, a very solid win.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: And we did exactly what we needed to do tonight, which was to build on that, to take that momentum and continue it forward.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: It was real, I think this was probably I think we might look back on this season and look at this win as being one of the more important moments for the team this season, just because we're going into a long stretch of away matches.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: And had we drew had we drawn or lost this match, which both those things were very possible going in, um, you know, we just wouldn't have had that feeling and the swagger that we're gonna need to take on the road.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: Feeling swagger and just getting the points on the board.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, the there's all that context about coming into the match.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: But we can only like last week, we only can play the ones that are in front of us.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: And this week having DC in front of us was obviously a step up, a chat a bigger challenge in Brooklyn.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: But they were coming into the night, they're third.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um I think they had two wins tonight coming into the no wait, uh I don't know, it doesn't matter.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, they were on seven points, we're sitting on four.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it's not it's not Carolina, it's not beating Jacksonville, but you know, it'll do for now.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: And it was enjoyable.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: So we're like, let's get right into it.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: Like I was so the lineup, I was surprised of a player that they announced this week.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: I think she's only like 17 years old.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, she's gonna be able to do that.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: They like announced her on Thursday or Friday, and you don't expect to see a player come in, but there she was on the starting 11.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um in the back line, partnering with Sophie Braun.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: And she played the whole she played the whole match, didn't she?
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: She played all 90.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: She played the full 90.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: So that's just like incredible.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like, think about that, like her debut for the club.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um and I think her professional debut, I think.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: I think so too.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: And to have a win, and it but but but I was so back to the original point, like that lineup comes, it's like wow, this new player is starting in the back line.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: How is that gonna work?
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_01: Are we serious about trying to get these three points?
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: And turns out I'm an idiot and they're better than me.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, I think it's good to question.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: We also had Knox uh making an appearance in midfield, and that was really unexpected.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, Sidney Cheesman's been such a great player uh this first part of the season, and so seeing her just start on the bench, it was a little bit surprising.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: It might might be because of how much she's played so far.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: I mean but I but I will say, like, you know, our number four on the pitch tonight, yeah, you know, I I thought she did a really nice job in defense.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think one of the things we were missing was kind of that push forward that Sheesman offers uh with some of her passing.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um but I think that was also exacerbated by the fact that DC Powers midfield, like they really did a great job of like shutting down the middle of the pitch, making it extremely hard for us to weave our way through that.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: We spent a lot of time passing back to our keeper, and they spent a lot of time with a really solid press.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_00: And and more than anything, like the effort, the work rate that they were putting in to try to win the ball back.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: That said, this was a 60-40 game.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: We had 60% of the possession.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, once again, a very solid control of the match, and you can kind of see what the coaching staff wants from this team in the sense that if we have the ball most of the time, it limits their ability to score.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: They came into this with a 1.75 goals uh per match.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: We were at 1.25, and we really, really limited their ability to be on the ball and make anything happen.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, all like lots of credit to DC Power.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: I think um a lot of graphics have them as like a 4-1-4-1, but they were they were really like it always seemed like they had like about five in the midfield.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: Whereas we're we're whereas we're almost always going with three.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: You know, so Felicia Knox comes in and is partner there with Sofia Sedeño.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: Haven't seen Felicia Knox.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: I think, I I think full I can see based on that first half, I can see maybe why we haven't seen Felicia Knox, because the game was really fast.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: It was really going on around her.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: The game was frankly passing her by.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: We couldn't, we couldn't punch it and play through the lines how we wanted to do.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: Part of that was I think Felicia Knox, the player, but you know, she can only play, she can only do what she can do.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I think it might be just a little bit too much for her, this the level that DC brought.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe that has nothing to do with Felicia Knox as a player, but credit to DC, like you said, they always seem to outnumber in every situation.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: If there was two of us, it seemed like there was three of them.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: If there was one of us, it seemed like there was two.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: They were so assured and confident and committed in what they were doing in that first half that it really knocked us back.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: I think uh I heard the comment a lot of like we're passing back too much, passing back.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: The thing is, what we want to do is keep the ball.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the safe thing.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's the that feels like the no-stress thing.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: But it really can amp up if if it's going back and we can't punch through the lines, or what we end up having to do is bypass our midfield and get something to stick up front.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: And frankly, we had a lot of problems with that.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_01: Almost throughout the game, if you really think back.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: Despite the possession.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: DC was so good at disrupting our our our patterns of play through the middle.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um, a shout out to one of their players that I really wanted was Jaskinich.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: She came from Spokane.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: She was kind of alone.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: Uh she was kind of if if it's a 4-1-4-1, she would have been the one in front of the the bat their back line, and she was just everywhere and uh just sussing out all the danger.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: But, but, but for us, you know, we've got a 17-year-old in our back line.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: We're trying to play this possession game, this Muriel uh brewer, just in the team.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe she was practicing with us.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: We got Felicia Knox.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: She's in our spine, haven't hasn't started.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: And we didn't, we we were falling back on ourselves, but we didn't collapse.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: And that was so key.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: And that was what I love to see.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: So many times we might have gone down one there, and it would have been deflating, but we didn't.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: We even have a let off where we think we're in one-nil.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: And it wasn't a handball.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: It was not.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't actually.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, on the on the replay on the big screen, and then on the replay on my phone, which I often go to when I question a call or a play, because I want to see it close up and I want to see the broadcast slow it down.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: And this ball goes up, goes off the shoulder.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's clearly not a handball.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't even see the shoulder.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: I don't, I don't even see it.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: It does go off the shoulder, but it's once again like the shoulder's not a hand, it's not an arm.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: That was a really, really terrible call.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: It should have been 1-0 at that point.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: But I want to but to go back to what you were saying, a couple of points.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, almost every time one of our players got near their box, pass it to another player in the box or whatever, they would have three players surrounding that player.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like they were so defensively um disciplined and ready, and that was impressive.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: It really was impressive.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: But no, it's just the other thing was the our when we were passing over the top to try to find a player, especially in the first 25 minutes or so, we were going far beyond where our player was going to be able to get to the ball.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: There were so many times it went out for a goal kick.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: And then the last thing I want to say is that our keeper really did a great job keeping us in the game in the first half, particularly with the way balls were being passed back to her.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: There were times where all of a sudden there the DC press was really on one of our defenders and they would immediately pass it back to our keeper, and she was constantly turned on and ready, uh, even though there were a couple like surprise passes where it's like she had to scramble a little bit, she got to it.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: She also had players like running at her, and she did a great job of just like getting to the ball and getting it out in some really tight situations, and then made some some key saves when she needed to.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: I thought Purcell did a really, really nice job tonight.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Niku Purcell in her distribution tonight, she she was so active on the ball.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um she really saved us a lot because what DC would do is they'd get those numbers forward and were really good at forcing us into areas we didn't want to play.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: They'd they'd lock on to Felix Felicia Knox, they'd lock on to Sofia Sedenio, they locked on to Sophie Braun.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: Sophie Braun had a lot of trouble inside there.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um and because it was a lot of pressure, so they what they were trying to do is force us, force us to the to the rookie, force us, frankly, force us to Sierra, but Nico doesn't do well with turning on her left side.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: She's not left footed, so you kind of can understand that.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: So forcing a lot of things long, we couldn't, we couldn't, we couldn't get things to stick, but when we got the second balls, we were on them.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: And that's how the almost goal came for me.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: Where Jasmine, again, she's not through the middle again, she's out wide, she's playing out wide on the wing.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that's really good for her.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: I think she's able to, we're able to really stretch teams, we're really really able to drag teams out into ways that maybe they don't they're not comfortable being.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: And she has just so much pace, so much threat, that through the middle I think it was slightly neutralized, where on the outside we can we can punch balls into her and behind.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: And frankly, it wasn't a handball on that on that goal.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: It really wasn't.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: So we should have been up like in 30 minutes, 30, 40 minutes.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: So we should have been one up.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: But thankfully, um, we keep at it.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: Thankfully, we keep at it.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: We don't get down.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not the first time in the match we'll deal with a referee being insane.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, not at all.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: And so I I I love that.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: So we just kept at it.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um and the a few only like five minutes later we get the goal.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: And it was so such a well-taken goal.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: And it was funny, like they confused someone in the stats booth.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like they gave it the seven, and but it was it was Anyca Gamaro, uh, clearly on the goal.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um I don't know.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_01: And they were trying to talk, they were thinking like it was offside or something.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: There was a lot of people.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: Every single DC player has every single DC player has their hand in the air saying it's offside, it's not.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um the other thing that the other thing that was fascinating about that, and both of our goals came from this, where it's a shot, eventually a shot at the keeper.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: The keeper doesn't grab the ball, and our what it in both goals, our players able to get the ball and move it either into net or to someone else.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: So in this case, you know, seven does a great job of going at goal.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, a great shot goes off, keeper saves it, and then she's able to.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it ends up going um to Gomaro, and Gomero uh just puts it right in.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: Amazing goal, um, such a relief to score it.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, just fantastic.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and and it all comes from like lots of work um way before that.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I think that's the thing that I love about what we're what we've been seeing over the past few weeks, and even before like the the past two wins, like you can see the progression, you can see what we're trying to do, and the last two weeks you've seen it come off the way that the coaching staff wants it to come off.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I think the but a little bit of like the way our two goals came, they almost didn't come from the patterns of play, like with all the possession and trying to control.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: But I think that's so important because it's the idea of we can hurt you either way.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: We can make you chase the game on our terms.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: We can rack up the passes and the possession.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: And that was a that was a problem that we saw early on.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't think we were getting the reward for for it.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: Now we weren't getting we're not getting the reward for it in the sense of we're dragging teams around and penning them in, but like, hey, we can keep the ball and hey, we might strike quickly and strike and strike um uh strike with confidence, even though it's not in our comfortable patterns of play.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: But I but I also think it's that those cut those patterns of play is what ultimately set up that chance to be able to make those big pushes and those those wild strikes and turn it into something.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: And it's because you've you've you're kicking it around and controlling the ball, and that leads to something great, even though it's not like like you're saying, pinning them in and their end and just continuing to batter them.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um because that doesn't always lead to goals either.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and the the thing about DC is like they're you just if you can make uh an opposition's um greatest strength, their weakness, that's how you can beat a team.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's a way to beat a team.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: And with DC, it was hey, if you're overloading us everywhere and you're gonna be energetic and and really try to close us down, you're gonna leave space behind.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: And that's what we really exploited on those two goals.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um so yeah, like going in halftime, like get being one up what and after getting one called out with with Jasmine was was such a relief.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um the we make it two right after.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: We don't make any changes at halftime.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, what were you were you thinking anything in halftime?
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: You're we're in one-nil.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: How like what are you any thoughts?
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: I think the thing that was so exciting to me coming out of halftime is that we didn't make any player changes, but we definitely like made some really important tweaks and definitely came out with a lot of energy and the amount of pushing, the amount of like really like I mean, we spent so much time in their final third in that first 10 minutes, and and that leads to us getting another really fantastic goal.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um but it was it was the all the work, it's like like you said, like it wasn't from that normal pattern of play, but we spent a lot of time in there really pushing hard.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: And and I've seen this on multiple occasions where I don't know what the coaches are saying at halftime, but when we come out, our team seems fired up, they seem ready for the challenge, they seem to have a little bit of extra pep, and you know, the last two weeks that's led to really good things.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: And it was it was so important to make it to that sounds stupid.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: That sounds so important.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: It sounds stupid, but but for us at home recently, it never feels like enough, right?
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: It never feels like enough.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: We have all this, we carry the scars of a lot of home matches where we're late at letting in a late one and we let a win slip away or something.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: But Jasmine makes it two, we may we do the Jasmine song, and it all feels right.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um they make more changes.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um they make a lot of changes, and man, what a mess that was of changes after our so we go 2-0, Sierra gets uh picks up a knock, and it's like the changes are just like wild.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, well, the crazy the crazy part about that, so from a sequence of events standpoint, is that oh no, I mean I've I've got this switched up.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: Sierra comes later, but yeah, go ahead.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: But they but but like when we're making those changes, like we have three changes on board.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh DC made changes earlier, those changes were good changes for them.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: So we have three subs coming in.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: Play stops three different times, and the fourth ref doesn't hold up the board.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: They don't bring him in.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: Our coaches, I mean, Coach Wynn's complaining about this.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: So much so that the fourth referee gets offended, brings over the ref, she gives him a yellow card.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: So annoying.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like just the power trip of it is.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: Our bench was trying to be a little clever getting a fourth change, and they were.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: But play was stopping.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: But but our but the bench kind of accepted it.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, okay, like fine.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: There was no need to come up and card up our uh card up.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: It was literally just to say, I'm in charge.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is just so I hate that.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, listen, like the game's still in control, whatever.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: But the goal, let's go with the goal to their goal to make it 2-1.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: Go ahead.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like No, I'm gonna let you do that.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, all I'll say is we have a player that goes down.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's an obvious like it's a it's an obvious foul.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: Not called, but she's also cramping.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: Jasmine stays with her and is like stretching her out.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: We're trying to like, I mean, I think Seven tried to foul someone to stop play.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we're trying to we're trying to stop play.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because we basically have two two players that are occupied elsewhere.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: So we only have like our goalie and eight other players like hanging out.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, it's just so and then it's just sloppy from that point.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we're we're in disarray.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: We had that and that was it was the like the worst sequence of play for us the entire match.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: We it was like we took 30 seconds and we just wanted to step in every trap.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: So some might say with that referee, and I was burnt, my head was burnt out with that referee.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: My thing was we all have to do our part.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: And if the referee decides that they're not gonna do their part one day, that's no excuse for us not to do our part.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: And I think in that whole sequence, we weren't really clever enough to what was going on.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: We kind of did.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: We kind of were like, we're kind of like, no, you're gonna you're gonna blow this, right?
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like Sofia Sedeño goes down and she's uh you know, she needs help and she ends up finishing the game, but you know, she takes a knock on the leg and you know it's like an immediate cramp or something.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, I couldn't tell exactly.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: But you're right, Jasmine comes over to stretch her out, but the ball's still in play.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: And almost everyone pauses, but everyone is not everyone is not doing what their should be doing.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: So the referee had decided, and it's totally in her discretion to be like, this game is still live.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: I have no No reason to stop the game right now at this moment.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: So we're down to nine men.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: None of us are none of our players are turned up turned on to the fact that like we need to foul, we need to kick the ball out, we need to get a touch, we need to get a grab, and it's just too late.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: DC takes it right down the middle, right by seven.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: Seven, I think, was trying to foul.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: She was.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: But credit to DC, I can't remember who, but credit to DC, like they were switched on in that moment.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like, hey, we can do this.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: And it just ran right in our net.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, not surprising because I felt like they were switched on the whole game.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like I said, I I really want to give DC a lot of credit because they played a really great match.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like we did a better job of exerting ourselves and our game plan and what we're capable of on them, and we were able to dictate the game for most of the game.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: But it wasn't it wasn't because DC was rolled over in a pushover.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: They were pushing hard the entire game.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: They're like they were impressive.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: They were really impressive.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: And in that moment, they're not giving an inch, and they didn't, and they just took it right down and we scored.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: And I, at that time, I know like towards the end, I'm saying I was pretty cool, but at that moment I was like, here we go.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like, really, here we go.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but after that, after things settled, um, I think we so 2-1 happens like six uh late in the 60s, 69, 68 or 69.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: And um our subs come like three or four minutes after then.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's after that that's that's after Sierra goes down.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: And that's when the coach, that incident hole happens of like trying to sub.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: I think if there's one thing sp in particular we've really got to work out, and coaches early in what he's doing in his career, we've got to do better on the subs.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: Whether it's a timing thing or whether we need to hold he need we just need better, whether it's timing, or we have one or two better choices with the start or sub situations to help us finish some of these games out.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I I really felt like those subs, I mean, just like in general, I think overall we're subbing a little bit late.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: It was late for four.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was late for four.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because it was changing a lot.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: It was changing a lot over the first.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: This is not the first match where I've like, this should have happened a few minutes earlier.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: And and then the other thing is, and and you and I talked about this during the match.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's like a lot of the subs that came on, it just it wasn't effective.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like Shepard was a big plus.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: I felt like she did a really great job when she came on the pitch, and then when Sidney Cheesman finally came out, I felt like that was a good sub.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: I felt like the other subs really struggled to like find their footing in the match at that point.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_01: No, yeah, it was it's it can just be the subs might be fine in in in in individually, but sometimes like when you change four, that's 40% of your outfield players, and a lot of that a lot of that can can show in how you're playing, and we got knocked back and yeah, Eichenberger.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: Eichenberger, Arkenberger became like a great outball for us.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: We definitely did this thing.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: We definitely did this thing where we were like pinging long balls into her and get trying to get it to stick.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: She's so physical, and she was she helped us so much.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um so yeah, like I think we could do better with the subs.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was okay.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Eventually it settled in, I think.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: It did.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: If it eventually like things worked itself out, but and um But the first five minutes they were all on the pitch, it was really dicey.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: It was dicey.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: And again, it was credit to DC.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: They were pushing on and they saw that we were a c we were we were a little cold, you know, a couple players coming in cold and not up with the pace of things, and you know, but we came through it.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I think when it so kind of like to me, late in the game, having the outball to Eichenberger, having Sid Cheeseman, because she was winning some aerials, she was winning some duels, frankly, we were also able to get a little bit of threat as well going the other way.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um it didn't come off for us to make it three, but that helped too.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: But I think it was a lot of huffing and puffing.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: I was really calm towards the end.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was a little frustrated, but not surprised given the main character syndrome of the refereeing that we ended up with seven minutes.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't even know.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: The seven minutes were like half of it was created by this referee crew of like creating events and things and delays that didn't need to be a delays.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: And um at one point, like it was a referee sprinting off to Annika Gamaro to like help her off the field.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like she she wasn't one of doing one of those delay things.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: She was she was jogging off, she was going off to the room.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: She wasn't walking off, the referees.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: She was not going slow, and the referees like trying to like speed her along.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: And it was just like lady, she's going off, she is going off as fast as she can.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: And it was, it really was to me, it was like the the referees like because I I heard talk from the fourth official, from the linesman on our side, like they were, and then the ref in the in the middle of the pitch, like I mean, they were literally, it was like a power trip.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was like I need to assert my authority and make sure you know I'm in charge, and I'm gonna do things that are kind of ridiculous to make you to make you know I'm in charge.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like the yellow card for uh Coach Wynn, um some of the conversations that were had there, it was just it was a little bit extra.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know why, but it but it also kind of comes down to like I just feel like the refs in this league, we need like we need us we need an elevated refereeing thing going on.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: And and tonight was a great example of we don't have that.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: Back to exactly, I agree with everything.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: The th the original like a thought I that I kind of started off with is like we can only do our own part.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: And in that 25 minutes, our players didn't lose their head, and they had every reason to lose their heads.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: Our bench could have lose lost their head.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: Everything could have unraveled there.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: They had every reason to, but every single player stayed stuck with it.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: The instructions from the bench were consistent and clear.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: They weren't trying to represent this thing of like we're gonna be mad at the refs or we're gonna be mad at situations.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: The confidence flowed through the team, and you can see it, and that's what got us through that 25 minutes, and I was really proud of them.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_01: By the end of the match, we were we were trying to hold what we have, Jeff, definitely at the end of that match.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: But we were it was all at arm's length.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: There was a few little bit little moments, but there was nothing clear.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: We weren't given anything clear, and I'm just glad we were able to close it out.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like you said, like you started the podcast.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: It was so important to get this one, this one because we're going away.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: And it was so important to enjoy this one.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: And I think I'm looking at a bunch of people here that enjoyed it, and I saw a bunch of people in the stadium that enjoyed it, and we just gotta keep enjoying it, and we gotta remember that, and we gotta come back and enjoy it.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I really feel like that last seven minutes, you know, corner after corner after corner, what I loved about it is we really didn't lose our heads, like we really stuck with it.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: Our players were really engaged, no one was turned off, um, they were all ready for it, and the clearances, and I mean, just like it was just it was an impressive display of being in control of that last little bit and making sure that you get away with the three points.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: And we did that tonight.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: We did it in style, um, we did it with you know playing the way we want to play, and showing, and I from it like showing me honestly, that what the coaches want is something that can really work.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's something when it when it's done right, you can end up with a great result.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: And um, yeah, we just saw I I was lots of great performances tonight.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: So, Jesse, who is your player of the match tonight?
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: How about that?
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, player of the match.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm gonna go player of the match, Sophia Sedenyo.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: I think if we were talking about how uh DC was always out, felt like we were getting outnumbered, Sophia Sedeno was worth two tonight.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: She was always she's always worth one and a half.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_01: But tonight she was worth two.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: She had the knock that the whole incident that led to the goal, but she finished the whole 90.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: And um, no, she didn't finish the whole 90, but she got to 72.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_01: She was the reason why we had that foothold in the match, the how we had those two goals.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_01: Because so much work rate, so much quality.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_01: What we needed help to get out of, she was there.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_01: Whether she'd turn her mark, she'd she'd uh use her skill, lots of so much skill.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_01: Where it's like, that's worth beating.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's how you beat a player, that's how you beat two players, is use that skill.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: To me, um, all night tonight, Sofia Sedeny, hero of the match for me.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for me it's like it's like I would love to say Jasmine Hamid, I would love to say Cam Lancaster.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like she was an unsung hero tonight.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like the amount of work that she put in, um, really crazy.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um Seven Castain, I thought was really fantastic, but my player of the match was Sierra Henson.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: I felt like Sierra, like there were times where she moved the ball forward.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: She always was looking to do that.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: Her defensive work tonight was really great.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_01: She got the assist for the second, too.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_00: No, I mean she's I just really feel like she she played a really great match.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I just I loved it.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um so there we are.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: Two wins in a row.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: Here we are, Ritz.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: Here we are, two wins in a row.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: Two wins in a row and it's exciting to see.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um we've got a lot to look forward to.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: We do.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: I think you just it don't think we can't think about what comes next, what comes next year or the year after, or what's with the league or anything.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: We've got to enjoy now.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: We really have to do.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_01: If you worry about all those things that are later, they're always there.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: There's time to worry about that.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: But if you worry too much about that, about what comes next, or which player is next, or we have too many loans, or this or that, or the coach, or whether he's around next year, you're robbing yourself of of some enjoyment now.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: And if you think about that, you focus on that too much, you're robbing yourself of that enjoyment.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I think it's true.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: And next week we're we're we're already down some enjoyment because we don't get to see them in person.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: But we'll be back in the cotton bowl in the Skyway eventually.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the Skyway one.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: Not the Gravitron.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_01: I was glad the slingshot.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: I was glad the Gravitron didn't win.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: But no, like let's enjoy it.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: Let's just do it and worry about the rest next and do our part.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: Let's do it.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you next time.