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UWCL Matchday 2 DELIVERS! 🏆 Barcelona Lyon Arsenal Chelsea Wolfsburg Real Madrid Manchester United OH Leuven All Grab 3 BIG Points · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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  Welcome to Into the Channel podcast premier about women's
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  football. I'm your host Dino de Suspicious
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  and as always, I'm joined by my Co host Mr. Grant Angle.
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  What is that man? I'm feeling fantastic, buddy.
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  Now we're two days into the UA for Women's Champions League.
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  Let's go. I feel better.
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  I feel even better than I did after day one.
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  I mean, some might say we're 1/3 of the way through.
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  I mean, that's, that's no joke. We're, we're making some real
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  progress here. So very excited match day 2 good
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  matchups. I feel like we learned some
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  stuff, but also some stuff got muddled a little bit.
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  I'm excited to kind of talk about these nine matchups.
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  Where do you want to get started?
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  Let's get started with PSG one, Real Madrid 2, and I'm just
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  going to move right to that because when you said we're 1/3
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  of the way through, it was very obvious on my face that I was
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  like, wait, how does that work? You confused me with math right
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  off the top. It doesn't matter.
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  Let's just easy math. Real Madrid had two.
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  That's double what PSG had one an important victory for Las
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  Blancas away. Big victory for Las Blancas.
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  I mean, I think I was pretty encouraged by this one because
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  both teams obviously come into it, you know, from different
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  angles, right? PSG, obviously the terrible
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  showing, but let me let me rephrase that.
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  The terrible result, OK, ish showing, but you never want to
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  walk away, you know, with that kind of score line.
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  I thought PSG kind of impressed early in this one.
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  I thought their press was good. I thought their intensity was
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  good. You could see their athleticism.
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  You could see the directness and kind of had, you know, Madrid on
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  their heels a little bit. I think things turned right
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  maybe like in the 20s, twenty 324, Linda Caisedo had a great
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  run that kind of depressurized the whole situation because like
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  PSG had been pressing some shots coming across and like, you
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  know, like it. It really made Madrid, I think
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  really uncomfortable. But that one run and Caisedo had
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  to do a lot of work. She went a little bit beast
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  mode, kind of go through, go through some bodies, make some
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  moves, get creative. But she's like, no, we can, we
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  can, we can move on this team. We just kind of have to do, you
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  know, like we have to play how we know how to play, you know,
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  be a little bit more, you know, kind of like not practical, but
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  a little bit more deliberate in our movement and our decisions
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  and we'll be all right. And that's kind of how how the
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  rest of it kind of, you know, like unfurled from there.
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  It's a skill that she obviously has and I feel like the the best
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  wingers, the top tier wingers in world football have that ability
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  to I'm going to get down the wing and I'm going to
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  depressurize things kind of as you put it.
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  So yeah, she's, I mean, she's amazing at that.
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  We've seen her do it in multiple different tournaments, in
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  multiple different shirts, whether it's for Columbia or
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  Real Madrid at this point. I'm with you.
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  I thought I really liked PS GS 1st 30 minutes.
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  There were some some things I put in my game notes where I was
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  like, oh, OK, I perhaps I overreacted a little bit to that
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  first match result that they had when I was asking the question,
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  are we going to find out in this match if Real Madrid is on a
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  totally different tier than PSG? And, you know, sometimes I just
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  got to be reminded every time we get back into this tournament
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  that it's like, OK, what? Get a couple results in.
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  Before I start really wondering these or asking these questions,
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  I will say, and obviously it's a little easier to say because
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  Real Madrid won the match, I think I do think Madrid is
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  better than PSG. But if I were tearing teams in
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  the tournament, they're probably roughly on the same tier.
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  Am I crazy for saying that? I would say, I would say so I
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  would, I would, I would. I would still think these teams
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  are in different tiers. I mean, when you look at you
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  look at that run, I mean, I had I put Real Madrid, I thought, I
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  think they're going to I still think they're going to walk away
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  with the top four spot and cruise into the quarterfinal.
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  So I'm going to I'm going to stick with that pick that I made
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  last week. But you just look at the talent
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  like on the first goal, you know, So I was mentioning Linda
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  Kaisedo. So she's working with Eva
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  Navarro on the right, just trying to make some stuff
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  happen. Navarro puts in a cross, gets
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  knocked back out and then check this out.
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  It goes Maria Mendez to Yasmim, Naomi Feller, Sandy Toletti,
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  Yasmim again, Toletti again, Yasmim again.
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  And then Feller has that beautiful, just kind of like
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  tiny, tiny, you know, the, the deftest of touches to kind of
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  put Real Madrid up 1. And just like you could see the
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  skill level, you know, the skill difference, I would say between
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  the two sides. And then if it wasn't apparent
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  after that one, the second goal, it's Naomi Feller again, cooks
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  Elisa Dale made a around the left hand side where it's like a
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  true 1V1 duel. It's like, right, somebody's
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  going to win this duel, Somebody's not going to win this
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  duel. And Feller won the duel.
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  And I mean that that ends up becoming the second goal.
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  It gets out to we're you know, we're, you know, Earps gets
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  their hands on it, hits the post and then ricochets out.
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  And who's there? Albert Redondo, of course she is
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  kind of look at these names. And you're just like, yeah, you
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  know, this, this team is really, really good.
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  You know, and I and I think when you look at Madrid, you don't
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  look at a lot of 1V1 matchups against a lot of teams in this,
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  in this field and be like, they have a disadvantage at that
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  spot. I think at every spot they're
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  solid. They've got professionals.
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  They don't have that that one 1617 year old that's like, let's
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  let's see if they can hold up in that one in the midfield or
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  like, you know, at at left. But you know, like they have
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  real, real pros at every spot. And this was a tough match
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  because the 1st 25 minutes, like I said, Madrid was on their
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  heels. But I mean, I walked away really
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  more impressed from this W than the last week's for sure.
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  Can we can we crack a beer? Make it?
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  Yes, let's crack a beer. First of all, thank you.
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  Live producing on the program. I appreciate that.
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  No problem. See, what are we at?
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  We're at the six minute mark, you know, Takes us 6 minutes to
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  crack a beer. Takes Sesame Bruce and Barcelona
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  94 seconds to score a goal. But talk about that one later.
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  Yes, we cheers to you, cheers to the football.
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  We certainly will talk about that as May Bruce Cole, I'd also
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  like to make a commitment. Let's do, let's do tears.
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  Let's make tears in it. We have some time between now
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  and November 11th. Let's do an an episode in
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  between match day 2 and match day three of the Champions
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  League. Let's make the tears 'cause I
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  think you. I am just I'm waffling on this
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  like I I, I remain down on Perry FC and it wasn't even really,
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  you know, obviously they were going to get blasted.
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  We knew they were going to get blasted by Chelsea.
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  That's whatever. I really I liked that first half
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  hour by PSG and I liked the the what like the last like 2025
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  minutes from PSG against against Madrid.
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  Now, obviously you got to put together a full 90 to beat the
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  elite teams. And with that said, I would
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  probably put what it whatever tier I'm talking about.
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  If I had real and PSG on the same tier, I'd probably have
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  rail like at the top of the tier and then PSG at the bottom of
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  that same tier. But we can we can figure that
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  out. I I I'm I'm totally with you.
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  I mean, the individual talent is great.
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  Fellers touch on on her goal. It was like, so so now you have
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  her and Redondo who are just absolute professional goal
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  scores of I got AI got a nose for it.
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  Like I, I know like the exact deafness that I have to use and
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  I'm going to be in the right position to score goals.
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  And when you have a combination of that with somebody like Linda
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  Kaisedo, PIPA angled all I thought played well in spots.
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  She was just a bull in a China shop at at some points.
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  I think they should be all right.
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  We should keep an eye out on that Merla Franz injury, though.
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  I'll be I'll be checking for updates on that because I
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  thought Misa Rodriguez filled in well, No offense to Misa
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  Rodriguez. She's a young keeper.
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  She's going to continue developing.
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  She's not as good as Merla Franz.
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  Yeah, and you could see it. I mean, I think we'll definitely
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  keep an eye on that injury for sure.
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  Yeah, I just like I continue to like what Real Madrid's able to
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  do. I'm not I'm not going to count
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  PSG out. So I'm with you there.
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  When you look at who they've got, they got to go at
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  Manchester United, they're going to host Bayern Munich, they're
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  going to host Levin. That's a tough one.
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  And then they got to go at Benfica.
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  So not impossible, but they they definitely have some work to do.
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  Uphill battle. There's currently sitting in
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  16th, no points -5 goal differential.
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  But let's go ahead a little bit. Let's talk about another.
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  I mean, this was one of the matchups that I was really,
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  really excited about. Got the like the full, the full
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  billing Thursday morning. Byron mention two, Juventus one,
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  yeah, the German champs versus the Italian champs.
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  Anything from this one catch your eye?
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  Well, I think you know, Bayern Munich has some professional
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  goal scorers themselves. I mean for Neil Harder's header
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  was an absolute thing of beauty. I thought Bayern probably could
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  have could have done better with some of the other chances that
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  they had. I think Clara Bull may have
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  taken a goal away from Tanakawa. I want to say it was
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  second-half. I might I might have a wrong.
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  I should have put it in my show notes here, but there was a
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  cross in that Bullheads and Tanakawa was right behind her
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  with like in a better position with momentum and it looked like
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  it was going to be a certain goal.
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  So I think you know, I think Bayern could have could have
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  added a little, could have probably had the go ahead goal
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  sooner than when what when they got it and probably a little, I
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  guess less in quotes, controversial controversially
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  than when they got it. But yeah, I think I think we saw
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  in this one, you know, Juventus is good.
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  I I just think Bayern is better and they just ran into a buzz
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  saw and then match week 1 again or match day one, pardon me
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  versus Barcelona. Yeah, no, that, that's
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  definitely for sure. And you know, I would say a good
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  bounce back win for Bayern. You know, they Oh yeah.
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  The thing that they you have to kind of keep in mind, like the
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  thing that they have to keep in mind is like this is so much
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  different than Fran Bundesliga in the in the competition there
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  and like the game, the game scripts that they need to employ
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  to kind of try to get a win. Because in this one, you know,
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  Byron was trying to do like the the very sharp, clinical Byron
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  type offense like these like crosses that were pinpoint, you
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  know, trying to like really make it happen.
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  The pretty hard to go was beautiful.
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  And then Clara Boo almost made another goal happen like minutes
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  after the pretty hard to go. So they were really getting it
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  going. And then the second-half, like
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  over time, like that style just gets a little stiffer and
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  stiffer as the defense kind of figures it out.
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  We've talked about Clara Bull being like just the creator
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  that, you know, kind of like so much runs through Julie Given, I
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  think as well. But there was a moment in the
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  second-half where Julie Given puts it across to Clara Bull
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  like a perfectly, you know, perfect angle, great placement.
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  Clara Bull is really close, gets a foot on it, but it's it's why
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  she's not able to kind of tuck it in.
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  And they, it almost felt like they're trying to like perfect
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  the goal, the ball into the goal, you know, and it's, it's
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  so funny that the, the, the way that they end up winning ends up
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  being like a somewhat of a mad scramble, you know, like, you
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  know, ball coming in again for Neil Hardy.
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  She gets the assist. Just get the ball into the, into
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  the mixer. And then you've got Leia
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  Schuler, You know, not the prettiest, not the prettiest
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  goal, but I mean, makes makes it happen.
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  And to me, kind of emblematic of what Bayern is going to need to
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  do to stick around this tournament to advance is you
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  you're going to have to win ugly.
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  And like, you know, Juventus isn't, you know, a monster club
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  that you is going to keep you up at night, but that that's a
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  professional club too, Champs of Italy.
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  And they made it tough and they were there kind of like at every
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  turn. But Bayern's going to have to
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  employ a little bit more of that.
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  Like, hey, let's get a little improvisation.
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  Let's let's let Momoko Tanakawa maybe drive us up field a little
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  bit versus all right now. Let's do all right.
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  Is it bull or is it win or, you know, like, what are we doing?
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  Like so I think, you know, Georgia Stanway, I think had a
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  really good shot from distance rocks the post.
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  They're just going to need more unpredictability than I think
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  they they they've put forward in that first match.
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  And then I think the first 2/3 of this one.
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  Yeah, and, and I mean, you hit the names.
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  I think Alara can offer some of that.
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  She has that in her game. Dahlman can give you some of
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  that as well. Yeah.
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  I mean, Alara looks like she's a superstar in the making.
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  I just quick Fact Check of myself.
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  Yeah, 18 years old Alara. I mean, come on now.
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  That's that should be. That's frightening.
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  I even think they've missed like a Jovana Damianovich too, just
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  somebody that could do some different, you know, different
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  angles, different or now like we've got to contend with this
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  player for the last 15 minutes, that's going to come in
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  different and like just, you know, give us stuff that we're
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  not used to seeing. But yeah, on the Juventus side,
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  I want to kind of hit them real quick because you know, even
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  though they were out possessed 7525 out shot, you know, they
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  did manage more shots on target. And like they they do play that
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  like very, you know, maximize, maximize the chances that we do
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  get. And and again, like I think
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  they're they're a tough team. They're you know, I was shocked
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  actually, when I kind of bring this back up.
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  It was so funny because we were talking about our top, you know,
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  1216 last week we couldn't, somehow we went through it like
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  3 times. So we couldn't figure out which
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  two we didn't have The big, the big block for me was like, you
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  didn't have Juventus in your top 12.
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  And I just think at the moment I couldn't wrap my head around it.
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  I'm like, wait, who do you have? Who do you not have?
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  Who do you have? And then when I played it back,
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  I'm like, oh, he didn't put Juventus top 12 to me.
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  I think they're, they're firmly top 12.
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  But I'm, I'm very curious to see if, if they, if they change your
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  mind at all or what, what do you think you know from for about
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  their prospects? I mean that free kick by by
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  shots are curling, you know, off the left foot away from the
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  keeper. That was that was fantastic.
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  I thought I like every time I see Bone and Saya play, you
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  know, back going even going back to the EUR, I'm like, yeah, she
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  has good size, she has good speed, she has good skill.
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  Like I like the way she plays a lot.
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  Yeah, exactly. They add Leavalti, although I
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  thought I felt like Vaulti had a little bit of like a quiet match
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  in this one. Yeah, I mean, I get, you know,
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  how reliable are Vangsgaard and and Kombiagi going to be kind of
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  as as your two tips of the spear, so to speak, like in your
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  attack, can you get enough goals from them against some of this
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  great competition? I think is going to be the
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  question. And you know, they, they have
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  Atleti next, then Leon, then they play Saint Polton and then
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  they finish with Manchester United.
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  So I mean, they're, they're going to be tested and there's
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  really no iteration of the schedule.
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  I know we've talked, we've joked about this with, with champions
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  like that. We look at everybody's schedules
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  like, oh, tough one was like, Oh yes, all of these clubs are
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  literally either champions or came very close in, in their
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  home league. So I think we're going to find
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  out with who they, I, I think you're probably right that they
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  could be top 12 I or that they should be top 12.
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  I think they might be more on the bubble than you than you
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  think, though. But we'll, we'll, you know,
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  we'll see if I'm just low on them.
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  One of the one of the announcers was talking about, you know, was
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  kind of theorizing how many points teams might need to
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  advance. And I think he was saying, you
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  know, 12 points should be enough for top four.
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  And I think he said six points maybe might be enough for top
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  12. I think 6 is couldn't could make
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  some sense. 7 probably is like super duper safe.
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  But you know, both these teams, Byron and you, they both on
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  three points. So it's true.
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  I don't, I don't want to say you're halfway home, but you're
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  kind of having, you know, if you get 7 points, you you're going
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  to make the top 12. It's going to be really hard.
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  I I think there could be some 6 point, there could be a 5 point
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  team that makes it. I think if you look at like how
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  the math breaks out. So we'll track.
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  I think you guys are on a pretty good track and I think they're a
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  good team. And I think there's some some
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  euro spillover from how well Italy played and how many
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  players are on that on that roster.
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  You know, we've seen that, you know, and and I think we're
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  seeing we've seen on the field too, like they're playing a
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  little bit more confident. Not the same Juventus from from
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  last year. And even when you watch Roma
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  play, they still feel like they're Roma from a couple years
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  ago, like where they feel like a second or third tier league
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  team, kind of like in the Champions League, where Juventus
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  feels like, hey, we can we can at least compete with some of
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  these big teams. You know, we're not going to
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  beat everybody. We're not going to drive
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  everybody, but we're not going to get played off the field.
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  And they didn't on this day either.
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  Yeah, I think, I think that's totally fair.
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  Yeah, seven. Yeah, I guess 7 makes sense like
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  it or yeah, six or seven because you, if you average like a point
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  per match, that's interesting. I want to.
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  I want to move. I want to chew on that a little.
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  I made a note to myself to go check the men's one to see,
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  yeah, how that one's stacked up. But I think there might be a
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  little bit, I'm not sure if we could totally compare, but we'll
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  track it. I think either way, if you've
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  got three points, you're probably feeling pretty good at
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  the at the moment. Yeah, I mean, you know, Twente
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  is is in 12th and they have one point.
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  And so, you know, everybody else, you know, Bayern is
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  sitting in 11th and they're on three.
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  So, you know, they, they got to feel like they're in the right
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  trajectory at this point. Let's talk a little Twente.
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  So Twente had a tough one. They had to head to Belgium into
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  the cauldron to take on the team that I try to tell everybody
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  what's going to finish top 12. OH, Luvin, what a game.
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  I mean, I I, I feel I I think I also predicted that this would
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  be one of the games of at least the Wednesday slate for sure.
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  Check that box. This one was an absolute banger.
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  Dude, you said this, said the potential to be match of the
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  day. I I think it, I think it was, I
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  mean, Vollering A Wolfsburg had an interesting ending,
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  obviously, but like pound for pound, like throughout the the
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  full 90, this was the best match of Wednesday.
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  I think you should bet yourself on the back.
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  I think that counts as a correct prediction.
• 18:37
  Yeah, I feel like I nailed it and I I just really have started
• 18:41
  to enjoy enjoy watching this team like they play tough, cool
• 18:45
  environment, you know, player, a player like Sarah Pushtai, like
• 18:50
  I mean, when she gets that winner, I mean, well, First off,
• 18:53
  like, you know, they Lubin's down and you know, Twente, you
• 18:57
  know, they've got that professional more experience
• 18:59
  kind of vibe to them. They look bigger, they look
• 19:02
  stronger and they look, you know, like more experience, you
• 19:05
  know, more more poised. I think that's a word that we've
• 19:08
  used to describe them. And they obviously take the one
• 19:11
  no lead on on a great, you know, very Naomi Feller, like another
• 19:15
  tap that took incredible touch from Jamie Ravensburg in the
• 19:19
  39th minute. The assist Alika Tween and, you
• 19:23
  know, credit to Lumen. Like they hung.
• 19:25
  They hung all the way in the match, like all the way through.
• 19:28
  Like there was no point where we're like, you know, shoulder
• 19:31
  slump. And that happens all the time.
• 19:33
  Like even with good teams, you give up something stupid and
• 19:35
  like, but this team was like flying high, didn't miss a beat
• 19:41
  and they just chipped away, chipped away.
• 19:43
  They get the plan about the 82nd and then 90 + 5.
• 19:47
  Oh my goodness. Like watching Sarah, Sarah
• 19:51
  pushed. I get it.
• 19:53
  It reminded me. So you know, for if you missed
• 19:55
  it, definitely go back and watch it.
• 19:56
  But she basically gets it and has decided when she's around
• 19:59
  the halfway line, I'm going to score a goal and we're going to
• 20:01
  win. Does the give and go and
• 20:04
  basically does the equivalent of like I used to love when LeBron
• 20:07
  would do this where he'd, you know, he'd get the ball in the
• 20:10
  break and he dished away and then immediately big.
• 20:14
  Just like let's go, let's go and then head down and just, you
• 20:18
  know, it's like a little low like a LeBron, you know, like a
• 20:20
  robotic run and then take that loop And you already knew it was
• 20:24
  going to be like Sports Center level flush.
• 20:27
  So pushed. I definitely exerted some of
• 20:30
  that energy, you know, in this moment.
• 20:33
  Dude, they're an exciting team, man.
• 20:35
  Like I've I've really enjoyed both their matches.
• 20:40
  I I gotta say, like credit to Twente, who gay, who, like, like
• 20:45
  you said, looked like the, the like professional, like, Hey, we
• 20:48
  belong in the Champions League team.
• 20:52
  And and Louvin just didn't blink.
• 20:56
  Like, like I'm, I'm having a hard like I'm struggling because
• 21:00
  like when I, I really like Twente, I came away from this
• 21:04
  match like even more bullish on Twente.
• 21:07
  And as I was kind of like thinking about how we're going
• 21:10
  to talk about this on the show. I know how much you like Louvin.
• 21:14
  I think I like Twente more because they played well against
• 21:16
  Louvin and Louvin's the damn debutantes.
• 21:19
  But that was like you pointed it out too.
• 21:21
  That was a crazy environment. Their fans seem like they are
• 21:25
  super rad. Like they were chanting like
• 21:28
  that place was rocking. I'm not a huge fan of the song
• 21:32
  Sweet Caroline, but I do find it hilarious that when they score a
• 21:36
  goal, they sing Sweet Caroline. Like, I guess Neil Diamond
• 21:40
  reaches Belgium too at this point.
• 21:43
  Like, I, you know, I don't know what's going on there.
• 21:45
  But look, man, I mean, let's just call a spade a spade.
• 21:49
  And I know Belgium has a level of diversity to it.
• 21:52
  Like any nation, white people love Neil Diamond, Sweet
• 21:55
  Caroline. I don't know why, but we like
• 21:58
  it. Yep, that's what I've heard
• 22:00
  about y'all. I think 20 they're going to be,
• 22:04
  they're going to be kicking themselves for this result.
• 22:06
  You know, 62% possession, they connect on 86% of their passes.
• 22:11
  They double up Lubin on shots, shots from inside the box, twice
• 22:15
  as many touches. But credit to Lubin, according
• 22:20
  to Fat Mob, only 29% of 20s touches were in the opposition
• 22:24
  half. So Lubin did a great job just
• 22:27
  right, you can keep the ball, you can knock it around, but
• 22:29
  we're going to keep you at Bay. They definitely did that.
• 22:32
  The Ravensburg and goal also took a lot of work like that
• 22:35
  one. You know, the the the moment I'm
• 22:38
  going to remember from that goal was the Sophie Proust when she
• 22:42
  gets the ball and does that weird stop, pivot free, you
• 22:46
  know, like pivot spin to get it to tween.
• 22:48
  I was just like, what the fuck was that?
• 22:50
  That looked like I was I always say when I love when players go
• 22:54
  like SEC wide receiver on me, I'm just like, Oh, I didn't know
• 22:58
  you could move that quickly laterally up and down, up and
• 23:00
  back and and, you know, just kind of like leave a defender in
• 23:02
  their dust. But that was a very key play
• 23:04
  from Proust. But it took a lot of work for
• 23:07
  Twente to just get that single goal.
• 23:10
  I think the announcer was pronouncing her name Prusht.
• 23:14
  I think Sophie crushed. I think I'm going to I'm going
• 23:18
  to rock with that until somebody hopefully corrects us in the
• 23:21
  comments. But so I just want to I just
• 23:24
  want to just throw this out there to general public because
• 23:27
  I think we mentioned her briefly after match day one.
• 23:30
  And now here we are talking about Sophie crushed again.
• 23:33
  Is anybody looking for Sophie crushed stock because it's too
• 23:36
  late. I've bought all of it.
• 23:38
  I am the I own, I own the rest of it That was available.
• 23:43
  She plays. She was styling on Lumen in a
• 23:47
  lot of spots. Like I love the confidence she
• 23:50
  plays, but she is 18 years old out there playing like that. the
• 23:53
  Champions League, she had 54 minutes.
• 23:56
  I I want to say somewhere right around there in last year's
• 23:59
  Champions League. So clearly, you know, wasn't
• 24:01
  quite ready. She's ready now.
• 24:03
  Like I loved a lot of parts of her game in this match.
• 24:07
  Now she did pull up with what looked like a little bit of a
• 24:10
  hammy near the end of the match. So we'll see kind of, you know,
• 24:14
  what happens there. It looked like she was moving
• 24:16
  around OK when they took her off as a sub.
• 24:18
  Hopefully it was more of a cramp than some kind of pole.
• 24:22
  But yeah, dude, she's a serious footballer.
• 24:26
  Yeah, and and a piece they didn't, I mean, you take it to
• 24:30
  your point, they did have her last year, but didn't have that
• 24:34
  attack last year. This is fun and this is exciting
• 24:38
  and we already saw it, it, it pay off here in this one.
• 24:41
  And, you know, gold differential still matters, you know, so
• 24:44
  A-Team, like Twente, you know, they're sitting on 0 points, but
• 24:48
  they're just -2 you know, so I think like, I'm sorry, no,
• 24:52
  they're on one point because they, they should be.
• 24:55
  And they're on. -1 then. Yeah, that's my bet.
• 24:58
  I always mix them up with Valerie.
• 24:59
  It's moving on to not Valeriega. We'll talk about that later.
• 25:04
  Lyon 3. Zang Bolton.
• 25:06
  Zang Bolton, Nil Lyon, maybe. I think I I went back and double
• 25:12
  checked it. I think a fully rotated starting
• 25:15
  11. I mean, obviously household
• 25:17
  names up and down the 11. But I want to say that Yona talk
• 25:21
  about, you know, styling and stunting on people was like,
• 25:24
  let's let's see what the second team's got, you know, for for
• 25:27
  Zhang Poulton and then credit to him.
• 25:30
  I thought that was pretty savvy just to be like, let's see who
• 25:33
  who steps up, who shines, you know, without the benefit of
• 25:37
  being surrounded by first team players in a Champions League
• 25:41
  environment. I thought that was pretty slick.
• 25:43
  And you know, Leon gets a big win.
• 25:45
  What are you going to take away from this one?
• 25:49
  I'm going to take away that you, you helped me out pre show as
• 25:53
  you typically do because yes, they did, I think they did
• 25:57
  rotate everybody. I think you're right about that.
• 26:01
  But I still kind of walked away with couldn't they have been a
• 26:06
  little more efficient? I mean, like the I mean, the
• 26:10
  numbers were pretty weird at one point.
• 26:13
  What, like, I mean, at the end of the match, 46 shots, but only
• 26:17
  15 of them on target. Whether that's around like 32%,
• 26:22
  which isn't like terrible, but I feel like if you're if you're
• 26:26
  Leo and you should be more ruthless with your attack when
• 26:29
  you just have a even with your second team, you have St.
• 26:32
  Bolton totally outgunned. No doubt.
• 26:35
  And I think like, I'm, I don't have her first name, but Brunold
• 26:40
  on Saint Bolton, the attacker had a couple good looks in the
• 26:43
  first half and was kind of keeping herself for not
• 26:46
  finishing one of them. That was like borderline Gimme.
• 26:48
  I mean, it's tough. You're playing Leon, you know,
• 26:50
  it's a big spot. Wouldn't make the difference
• 26:53
  anyway. I think Leon still walks away
• 26:55
  with three points. But I think, you know, 15 out of
• 26:59
  46, not terrible, but just three goals from 15 shots on target.
• 27:04
  If you're Lyon, you're probably looking at that and be like, all
• 27:06
  right, we got we got to do better than that now, Grant.
• 27:09
  I think so. Those were versus one of the
• 27:13
  Patreon Saints of the ITC, Karina Schluter, 12 big saves.
• 27:18
  You know, I mean, I think any other keeper it's a different
• 27:20
  story. But I thought Schluter was
• 27:22
  really good again in this one. Yeah, like a good keeper.
• 27:25
  I just I feel so bad for her because like she's usually Zane
• 27:30
  Poulton's best player. Most I'll say most standout
• 27:33
  player, no doubt that just like you're just like, Oh, wow, that
• 27:36
  was that was really good. And it's not because she's
• 27:38
  getting a lot of opportunity. She makes plays and she's super
• 27:42
  smart and she makes good decisions in in in AI mean in
• 27:46
  the snap of a failure, like in a blink of an eye.
• 27:48
  She's just so quick and I just really like her game.
• 27:51
  I just, you know, I mean, with that said, not the worst showing
• 27:57
  for Zane Poulton. I mean, you know, they they
• 27:58
  didn't come out and wash. I think you mentioned like a
• 28:00
  six, six nil or seven nil a couple years ago in this same
• 28:04
  fixture. Yep, yeah, they lost seven nil
• 28:08
  the second go round. They lost seven nil at home to
• 28:11
  Lyon two years ago. So, you know, to go to France in
• 28:17
  this one and lose 3 nil. I mean, you know, I mean, we're
• 28:20
  talking about this, this, these are some of the realities of
• 28:24
  this tournament where you have a giant, you know, the the record
• 28:27
  holder, record holding winners of this tournament, Leon versus
• 28:31
  Saint Paul and the team from Austria.
• 28:34
  But yeah, I I think we've talked about it too.
• 28:36
  In some of these matches, you're going to get these big numbers
• 28:40
  and you can still kind of look at the goalkeeper performance
• 28:42
  and be like, yeah, it played pretty well actually.
• 28:45
  Like that's just kind of how it goes.
• 28:46
  And there was no stopping under any circumstances.
• 28:50
  I don't give a crap who your goalkeeper us that Lily Johannes
• 28:54
  strike from damn near midfield. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
• 28:59
  Oh, what's this up? She's shooting too late.
• 29:02
  It's in the back of the net, I mean.
• 29:06
  You know, they don't call the supernova for nothing.
• 29:09
  That looked like a shooting star flying, flying, flying through
• 29:13
  the French knight before it gets, you know, nuzzled into the
• 29:16
  net. I thought she played.
• 29:18
  She also played really well, you know, very confident, you know,
• 29:23
  had good chemistry with Hegelberg.
• 29:25
  You know, obviously involved, you know, in in some of the
• 29:28
  build up early in the first half had a very cool slick back heel.
• 29:32
  I think was credited with five chances created according to
• 29:34
  foot mob seven shots, 4 on target.
• 29:37
  Love to see that. And obviously the the supernova
• 29:39
  of the goal. I it's going to be exciting to
• 29:42
  see how Lily grows into this match.
• 29:46
  I think for me, you know, if if I'm Yona and I'm looking at OK,
• 29:49
  who do I who do I remember standing out?
• 29:52
  You know, obviously Haggerberg, you know what time it is Vicki
• 29:54
  Betcho obviously involved in that first goal.
• 29:56
  Lily Harris, no doubter. I think Alice some about on
• 30:00
  defense was really good as well. And then you get you get the
• 30:03
  LeBron goal like, you know, just cracking the seal on now this is
• 30:07
  this is a Leon player and I loved that first goal just
• 30:11
  because it was like everybody filling the lane.
• 30:13
  It's like right, Vicky's out on the wing.
• 30:15
  We know this ball is getting whipped in.
• 30:16
  Let's all just run. Let's all just give her a target
• 30:21
  and the ball ends up finding Lebrons and you know, they they
• 30:25
  were off from there. So I think some some good
• 30:28
  learnings, Leon probably happy with with some of that second
• 30:31
  team production and you know, they're they're sitting pretty 6
• 30:35
  points. I, I think I'm, I feel
• 30:40
  comfortable saying this about you, LeBron.
• 30:42
  She, I thought she was the best player on the field.
• 30:44
  She was an absolute menace out there.
• 30:46
  She completed 87% of her passes. She had a goal and an assist.
• 30:50
  She won the most duels in the match with 10.
• 30:52
  Those stats are courtesy of Fat Mob, but also, I think courtesy
• 30:56
  of all of our eyeballs. I thought she, I she was jumping
• 31:00
  off the screen. I was like, hey, yo, she's like
• 31:03
  dominating this match. Yeah, no, she.
• 31:06
  Definitely she owes Lily at least a cappuccino because her
• 31:09
  assist was on that Lily goal. Yeah, didn't have to do a ton of
• 31:13
  work, but shout out to you, LeBron.
• 31:15
  Shout out to Lily Goodwin for Leon.
• 31:17
  Excited to see them come back and see, you know, kind of like
• 31:20
  what the I think if you're young and you do that because you want
• 31:24
  to shake some things up down the stretch and I think you think,
• 31:27
  all right, what I my 11 now is not going to be the 11 down the
• 31:30
  stretch. You know, so I think we're going
• 31:33
  to learn some stuff and see this team evolve.
• 31:35
  I'm super excited about that. Let's talk about the team that
• 31:38
  probably keeps Leon up at night a little bit and that's FC
• 31:45
  Barcelona. They get a BIG4 no win at Roma.
• 31:49
  What did you see in this one? The Juggernauts roll on.
• 31:53
  I mean, we talked about Esme Bruce scoring that goal within
• 31:57
  like 94 seconds or whatever it was just right down the pitch,
• 32:01
  kind of doing what they want. How about Kika of Nazareth out
• 32:06
  muscling the defender to get that header to like right on the
• 32:10
  line to just kind of knock it over and get the second goal.
• 32:13
  You know, the the Roma defender is kind of looking up like, hold
• 32:16
  on, where's the foul? It's just like, Nope, Everybody
• 32:19
  was just playing football on that play and and Kika ended up
• 32:22
  being stronger than you. And I think she does have a kind
• 32:26
  of like, I don't even know if if wire, pardon me, I don't know if
• 32:30
  wiry is the right phrase for it, but she has like a deceptive
• 32:34
  strength to her game that I really like about Kika.
• 32:38
  So I mean, we've talked to like we talked about Benfica players
• 32:41
  hitting the weight room. Obviously Kika moves from
• 32:44
  Benfigo over to Barcelona and I'm I'm going to guess they have
• 32:47
  a pretty good weight room facility over there in
• 32:51
  Catalonia. So I mean, what do you do?
• 32:55
  What do you do with Barcelona? You can you can hope.
• 32:58
  You could hope that maybe Alexia Putais will miss a penalty kick,
• 33:01
  OK. And then she'll just make the
• 33:04
  next one. And then they'll continue to
• 33:05
  just kind of hold you hostage in your own defensive end of the
• 33:09
  field. Yeah, take.
• 33:11
  A penny, leave a penny miss a pen, make a pen.
• 33:14
  That's right. I thought Kika, you made me
• 33:17
  laugh because you already talking about Kika hit the
• 33:19
  weight room because on Kika's goal, the second one, you know,
• 33:22
  she she's gets an opportunity at the edge of the box and she's so
• 33:26
  wide open that if you rewatch the replay, she takes like a
• 33:29
  step and a half back as a wind up.
• 33:32
  She's a thing. Oh, I got this.
• 33:33
  And then she's like, it's just like backing it up and it just
• 33:37
  hammers it into the net. And I'm just like, oh, let's go.
• 33:40
  You didn't have you didn't have any anywhere near that kind of
• 33:43
  time at Benficus. You got the time.
• 33:45
  You might as well take it. You talked about the Alexia
• 33:49
  penalty. And then they get for the 4th 1A
• 33:53
  Carolina, Graham, Hampton Tappan, you know, just from, you
• 33:56
  know, again, death by 1000 cuts. They work the ball all the way
• 33:59
  up field and then the play ends with Pina, you know, sliding the
• 34:03
  ball across. And CGH is imagine CGH just
• 34:06
  staying there alone because as a defense, you're just like, OK, I
• 34:09
  can't, I can't make a we can't afford one.
• 34:11
  We can't. There's not one more rotation in
• 34:13
  our bodies to get to Carolina. Graham Hansen to stop this.
• 34:17
  So well, I'm going to walk away. This Barcelona performance, they
• 34:20
  scored every kind of way you can, you know, and they they
• 34:24
  they did it without totally breaking a sweat and held held
• 34:28
  Roma totally in check. And you know, just a super
• 34:30
  professional win for, you know, for a team that's probably maybe
• 34:35
  the over the overwhelming favorites.
• 34:37
  Can we say that? I think so.
• 34:40
  I mean it, you know, what tournament are they walking into
• 34:43
  where they're not the favorites? And just real quick, let me just
• 34:47
  could do the the live correction myself.
• 34:49
  Yeah, I was conflating the first goals and the second goal.
• 34:51
  Right. So Kika went up for the header
• 34:54
  on Bruke's goal and Brukes taps it in.
• 34:56
  Yeah, yeah. No, but she.
• 34:57
  OK, She just kind of clear out. No, that first goal, it was Kika
• 35:01
  and Selma in the mixer. And then it I just laughed
• 35:04
  because I'm just like, imagine you have bodies like Kika's at
• 35:08
  their side. You're like, all right, we held
• 35:10
  them at Bay. And then Brukes is just five
• 35:12
  feet behind, ready to just uncork one, like, take
• 35:15
  somebody's head off. It's just there's no, there's no
• 35:17
  defending it, unfortunately. Yeah, for sure.
• 35:20
  And. From the Roma perspective, you
• 35:24
  know, you go into halftime and you're only down one nil.
• 35:28
  So like, they should be feeling good about themselves, right?
• 35:32
  Sort of. At that point in the first half,
• 35:34
  Barcelona had 37 touches in the opposition box.
• 35:39
  Roma had zero, a big donut. So even if you're only down one
• 35:44
  nil, you can't feel great about that.
• 35:46
  You look at the second-half numbers there, How much did it
• 35:49
  improve? Well, Barcelona only had 35
• 35:52
  touches in the opposition box, 2 fewer.
• 35:54
  And Roma had two, two more than they had in the first in the
• 35:59
  first half. So look, I mean, we, we talked
• 36:02
  about it like it's not like we're going to bag on Roma for,
• 36:06
  for losing convincingly to Barcelona.
• 36:10
  But it just, it does, it just shows there is a clear
• 36:13
  separation there. And Roma has a ton of work to
• 36:16
  do, man. And I think they are in real,
• 36:19
  real, real trouble of not making that top 12.
• 36:24
  Their zero wins, 0 draws, 2 losses, obviously -8 goal
• 36:29
  differential. There's second to last on the
• 36:31
  table. I think it's a real uphill climb
• 36:34
  here, Yeah, no. It's going to be tough.
• 36:36
  I mean, you go at Real Madrid versus bar, so those could be
• 36:39
  two top four teams. That's going to be tough.
• 36:41
  And I think Roma in a lot of ways, like PSG in a little bit
• 36:44
  of a transition year. We talked about all those
• 36:46
  players that have moved on, Elena Linari, Saki Kumagai, Moi,
• 36:50
  Kaminami Giacinti, you know, like there it's been a lot of
• 36:55
  movement. I'm forgetting a few players to
• 36:57
  you know, as well. So, and they've been replaced by
• 37:00
  some younger players. I'm thinking of Elia Pilgrim
• 37:04
  from Switzerland, who's shown, you know, in the EUR over the
• 37:07
  summer, Julia Dragoni, who I believe maybe is unknown from
• 37:10
  Barcelona or I'm not sure if that's permanent or temporary,
• 37:12
  but she's a super young player. So I think Roma's kind of in
• 37:16
  flux, a lot like PSG, a lot of movement there.
• 37:19
  You know, watching PSG, you're just like, OK, it's I, I know
• 37:23
  Karshawi, I know Olga Carmona, I know the Almeida.
• 37:26
  And then it's a lot of young, exciting players, you know,
• 37:30
  like, you know, Ajibade who scores, Romy Luter, you know, so
• 37:33
  I think there's a couple teams that are at the wrong point in
• 37:36
  the cycle. I think Roma's probably one of
• 37:38
  those teams. So I, I agree with you, man.
• 37:40
  I don't expect them to clear the top 12 bar, you know,
• 37:45
  unfortunately, as much as I'd like to see it.
• 37:47
  But let's talk about another, you know, sort of WSL league F
• 37:54
  measuring stick match, potentially a team that you
• 37:58
  really like, Athletico Madrid versus team you don't like very
• 38:03
  much at all. Manchester United.
• 38:05
  What'd you see in this? Don't say yeah.
• 38:08
  Don't care for Manchester United, I'll go on the record
• 38:10
  with that one. But man, like I've, like I've
• 38:13
  said about them before, they're kind of beating their respect
• 38:16
  out of me. I think that's kind of like how
• 38:18
  how it happens. You know that that opening goal
• 38:23
  free Lena Rolfo just say just gets her foot all the way
• 38:28
  through it. It's a laser.
• 38:29
  I know it's point blank range. I thought Ziggiote hit a great
• 38:33
  pass to get it in there. Fernandez is like fighting with
• 38:37
  Tune to try to clear it. You know Tune does exactly what
• 38:41
  she needs to. Like to your earlier point about
• 38:42
  like what Kika and Beto Uelo did on on the Bruce goal, Tune is
• 38:47
  fighting for it with Fernandez and then Rolfo just crushes it
• 38:51
  in the net. And then they just needed to
• 38:54
  like really hold on. And you know, Atletico, they're
• 38:58
  going to run. And I've talked a lot about them
• 39:01
  going up and down the wings. They have like good, creative,
• 39:05
  skillful passing in the middle of the park too.
• 39:09
  Like I, I really do just like, and I, you know, I mean, it's no
• 39:14
  secret. I I appreciate the the Spanish
• 39:17
  way of playing football, but man, like they do it better than
• 39:23
  I expected. Even in the past, like couple
• 39:26
  years of us paying attention to league F you.
• 39:28
  I can feel them getting, I mean, correct me if I'm, if I'm just
• 39:32
  like making this up, but like they are better at it this year
• 39:36
  than they have been in the past two years that we've been
• 39:38
  watching them. I think the confidence has
• 39:41
  grown. I think, you know, I think
• 39:43
  they've got, you know, they've got good players.
• 39:46
  They've they've got some connectivity and they play
• 39:48
  really hard. You know, I mean, I was really
• 39:50
  surprised in this one because the stats like they they really,
• 39:55
  you know, leaned athletes way, you know, obviously they're at
• 39:58
  home. So you kind of expect that.
• 40:01
  And this is I mean, it's unfortunate.
• 40:05
  It's a growing pain type match, you know, because you you have
• 40:08
  players. Maybe Manchester United hasn't
• 40:10
  been there before, but you look at who they've got.
• 40:13
  Ella Tune. Miyazawa Millar, like, you know,
• 40:16
  I know just Park wasn't in this one, but Leticia, yeah, Leticia.
• 40:22
  And and the one that I want is Rolfo most Frieda Rolfo because,
• 40:27
  you know, this is a player I love when like Frieda Rolfo is
• 40:31
  like A1A type player. Like this is a player that her
• 40:34
  whole life has been the biggest, baddest player on almost every
• 40:39
  pitch that she's been on, right? Yeah.
• 40:41
  Goes to Barcelona kind of nudged out a starting line up.
• 40:43
  Can she play left back or right back?
• 40:45
  You know, what can we do? You know, and it's like, OK, no,
• 40:47
  let's get Friedo Friedo ruffle back into A1A type position
• 40:51
  where she gets touches and she ripped shots.
• 40:54
  You know, she that wasn't her first shot of the game.
• 40:56
  She she let one RIP really early, I think cleared the bar
• 40:59
  by quite a bit. But that's what that's what she
• 41:02
  needs to be doing. Like she needs to be in there
• 41:05
  just smashing it and that needs to be kind of like her role.
• 41:08
  And I love seeing her in like that one, a type, you know, full
• 41:12
  green light type situation. And finally in this one in a
• 41:15
  huge spot, it paid off. And like I said, those veterans
• 41:20
  know enough to be able to kind of like hold a lead, you know,
• 41:24
  in a tricky environment like that against a team that's a
• 41:26
  little bit younger. You know, you obviously talk
• 41:28
  about, you know, like, I mean, the red card on Jansen early,
• 41:33
  that should have been a boon for Athleti and they kind of fumble
• 41:38
  the bag on that one. Alexia gets her own red card a
• 41:41
  little bit later in the match and that they give that
• 41:42
  advantage right back. And then at that point it's
• 41:45
  like, well, you didn't you didn't equalize.
• 41:48
  You had half an hour or 35 minutes or so to do it.
• 41:50
  You're not going to do it when it goes 10 V 10, you know, and
• 41:52
  you're a little bit more tired and, you know, like so I think
• 41:55
  they they kind of let an opportunity slip, but I think
• 41:57
  it's growing pains. I think I'd still be really,
• 41:59
  really encouraged if I'm in the I'm on that outlet decide.
• 42:03
  Yeah, totally agree with that. Let's talk about it because I'm
• 42:05
  sure a lot of people are already talking about it.
• 42:09
  Please, you know, let us know in the comments what you think.
• 42:13
  Should that have been a straight red for Jansen?
• 42:21
  What? What did you think?
• 42:24
  I mean we, we open. This with this segment with how,
• 42:27
  how much I do not care for Manchester United.
• 42:31
  So I wanted to tell you that I held two things at the same
• 42:34
  time. 1 Did I laugh? Oh, absolutely I did because I
• 42:37
  did think Atleti was going to be able to, to, to capitalize on
• 42:41
  that. But I'll say just in the
• 42:43
  interest of just like I, I don't know if it's fairness or just
• 42:46
  like my football eye when she, when she goes to make the
• 42:50
  tackle, she, you know, she traps Gio's left foot like, you know,
• 42:57
  she's like traps her left ankle and it looks extremely painful
• 43:00
  and it's a bad tackle. I don't know if it was like
• 43:06
  malicious or violent. I think is typically the term
• 43:09
  that referees will use when talking about that.
• 43:12
  So I thought a yellow card made sense and I was a little
• 43:18
  surprised that it was a straight red.
• 43:20
  So I don't think I would have shown straight red, but I don't
• 43:24
  have any FIFA or UEFA referee classes under my belt or any
• 43:28
  qualifications like that. I I but to just be totally
• 43:31
  honest, as much as I was hoping it would be the downfall of
• 43:33
  Manchester United, it felt harsh to me.
• 43:37
  Yeah, I think, I think. It felt a little harsh.
• 43:40
  I kind of, I used, I the, the rubric I use is like, you know,
• 43:44
  is it clear and obvious? You know, is it a clear and
• 43:47
  obvious error? Even though we're not, you know,
• 43:49
  you know, talk about instant replay in the NFL and for me, I
• 43:53
  was like, maybe that was a maybe that was an error.
• 43:56
  Maybe they they go back and review it and say it should have
• 43:58
  been. But I think it was close enough
• 44:00
  that I think just kind of keep it moving at that point.
• 44:03
  You know, we talked about the football gods, the football
• 44:06
  gods, maybe, you know, even the scales a little bit down the
• 44:09
  line or you know, maybe Alexia did that herself.
• 44:13
  But either way, I think, you know, United, you got to give
• 44:18
  them props, man. I think, you know, you, you
• 44:20
  you've put it very succinctly in the last couple weeks.
• 44:23
  They they definitely beat the respect out of you.
• 44:25
  And this is a team that if we're thinking tears, I kind of feel
• 44:31
  like they're they're in that second, you know, that 5 to 8
• 44:34
  kind of range. I think they they they're loaded
• 44:37
  enough. They they play a good brand of
• 44:39
  ball. You know, I kind of had some fun
• 44:42
  poking some fun at Mark Skinner, but I got to give him props and
• 44:45
  I I like the approach, you know, like it's true, Like, you know,
• 44:49
  like I, I think what they're doing is working.
• 44:51
  You know, like through Leticia, you kind of lock down, you don't
• 44:55
  do anything. You know, I thought another key
• 44:57
  stroke that was really cool in this one, moving Millar deeper
• 45:01
  into the midfield because she's dynamic, she's fast, she's
• 45:05
  strong, she's creative. Get her the ball early.
• 45:08
  She could pass and she could run and that really kind of open.
• 45:11
  You know, it just kind of opened up the field that, you know, we
• 45:14
  talked about the depressurization.
• 45:15
  I thought that was a great depressurization move, like
• 45:18
  getting Millar just more touches in the middle 3rd and then
• 45:22
  making athletic contend with that.
• 45:24
  So quick shout out to Skinner. I think he's he's been doing a
• 45:27
  good job here through these first couple in this tournament.
• 45:31
  I haven't done one of these. In a while, so let's let's make
• 45:34
  this the Men Play Football 2 segment of of this episode.
• 45:40
  I refer to this as the Rude Van Nisselroy example, where I loved
• 45:47
  Rude van Nisteroy for the Netherlands and I, he's a
• 45:51
  wonderful player to watch. And then when he went to
• 45:53
  Manchester United, I was like, I don't want to like this guy
• 45:57
  anymore, but I fucking love the way he played football.
• 46:00
  And Melvin Millard is of a similar vein where I, I'm
• 46:05
  totally with you moving her to the midfield with how, you know,
• 46:08
  with her style, her vision, like her shiftiness, like I really
• 46:13
  like watching her play. It's just a real problem while
• 46:16
  she's wearing that shirt. So I don't like that as much.
• 46:20
  But yeah, I'm totally with you. I thought that was a good move.
• 46:23
  2222 year old Swedish defender Anna Sandberg, I thought she
• 46:26
  held up well after the red card. Jay Riviera, Canadian played
• 46:31
  well. Leticia, you already know what
• 46:32
  time it is. They brought on Gabrielle George
• 46:34
  at halftime. Leah Galton came on around the
• 46:38
  hour mark and she made a super important tackle, a really well
• 46:42
  timed tackle near the end of the match on Gabby Garcia.
• 46:46
  So yeah, they stood tall. Those defenders stood tall.
• 46:49
  And Speaking of standing tall, how about that American, Fallon?
• 46:53
  Tell us, Joyce, who's just all, who's just all limbs, who's
• 46:57
  basically an arthropod back there just snatching up
• 47:01
  everything. I mean, she made an amazing save
• 47:03
  in the first half and then I think some of the other saves
• 47:06
  were were less like dynamic, but she just eats up the ball in
• 47:11
  situations where she is like go, go gadget arms and she'll just
• 47:14
  reach out and snatch one from you.
• 47:16
  Yeah, that I think if you're talking.
• 47:18
  About the same saves. She kind of like jumped up and
• 47:20
  back and reached up and like just that was fantastic.
• 47:23
  Whoa, that was. That was great.
• 47:25
  Yeah, she's definitely, if you've seen.
• 47:27
  The movie Arrival, like the The Visitor, Yeah.
• 47:31
  Got some? PGJ Energy she was she was
• 47:34
  unbelievable as well. You know I think a player like
• 47:37
  that is really going to be able to keep you keep you in some
• 47:40
  matches, but they're playing well shout out to them couple
• 47:44
  more matches to hit before you get out of here Benfica nil
• 47:48
  Arsenal 2 the holders. Now you said it.
• 47:52
  You said arsenal's going to have to come out and at least win by
• 47:56
  two here now. That's what happened and I still
• 48:02
  don't have that warm and fuzzy feeling that I was supposed to
• 48:04
  have even though they got it. They got done what you said they
• 48:07
  needed to come out here and get done before I, you know spin
• 48:11
  wildly into, you know the depression and anxiety over my
• 48:15
  team and then they're you know, very slim prospect of of
• 48:19
  repeating. What did you take away from this
• 48:22
  Benfica Arsenal match up? Don't worry buddy, I'm here to
• 48:25
  come. For you, I appreciate they don't
• 48:27
  look. They don't look nearly as good
• 48:29
  as they should. Yeah, I mean, like, it's so the
• 48:35
  only thing that I think, no, it's not the only thing.
• 48:39
  The first thing is that you have a a lot of great players who
• 48:43
  have literally lifted the Champions League trophy before
• 48:47
  and then met a few more who have also lifted 2 Euros trophies.
• 48:52
  That helps. But the the second thing that I
• 48:57
  think I I didn't, I don't want to swing too wildly on is I
• 49:03
  think this team is building toward something as the matches
• 49:07
  progress is that they're probably they have to be looking
• 49:11
  at this and like what we saw from Renee Slager's last
• 49:16
  tournament, like I'm not going to get in the business of
• 49:19
  betting against her plan. And I have to imagine that there
• 49:24
  is some ramp up going to happen and that as that that they will
• 49:28
  figure things out as this tournament progresses or
• 49:31
  specifically this league phase. So I will say I don't think they
• 49:35
  played nearly as well as I would have liked to see them play.
• 49:39
  And obviously you as an Arsenal supporter, I didn't think they
• 49:41
  played as well as you would like to see them play.
• 49:45
  But I'll tell you one thing, that Chloe Kelly pass off the
• 49:49
  free kick. Boy, that was executed.
• 49:51
  Well, if you get a bottle up some more of that every once in
• 49:54
  a while, I think that'll help. Yeah.
• 49:57
  It turns out she's pretty skilled.
• 50:00
  I I was listening to Leanne show on talk sport.
• 50:03
  Go subscribe if you haven't done that already.
• 50:05
  It's a great show. But Leanne was saying that she
• 50:08
  thought that Caitlin Ford and Katie McCabe.
• 50:12
  This was before the matchup were kind of like not the lifeblood,
• 50:16
  but like, I wish I had the exact quote, but like, sort of like
• 50:19
  the the DNA of Arsenal. Like when they're when Arsenal's
• 50:22
  playing like Arsenal, it's because Caitlin, you know,
• 50:26
  Caitlin Ford and Katie McCabe are dictating how, you know, how
• 50:31
  we're going to play like Arsenal today, which I thought was an
• 50:34
  unbelievable point. You know, yeah, good, really
• 50:37
  good players. You know, not like, you know,
• 50:39
  the like the, the absolute upper upper echelon, but in terms of
• 50:43
  driving, you know, the action. I I totally agree.
• 50:47
  And I think without those two players, you know, there was
• 50:50
  some, some rotation here. You know, Beth Mead is obviously
• 50:52
  in the lineup, Olivia Smith, Kyra Cooney cross, Ruben Moy,
• 50:56
  Taylor Hines at left back. So you know, there's been some
• 50:59
  flux for sure. Not quite what we saw at Lyon,
• 51:03
  but it's enough to really make you feel like it it.
• 51:07
  There's no formula here that's been figured out.
• 51:11
  And I think actually, if you think back to Champions League
• 51:15
  last year, some of these questions still kind of
• 51:17
  remained. It's like, well, Chloe Kelly,
• 51:19
  why is she not starting? She's so productive.
• 51:21
  Beth Mead, why is she, you know, what happens to her?
• 51:22
  She's so good. And like Russo, Blackstenius,
• 51:25
  has that been sorted out? Obviously Russo kind of like,
• 51:28
  you know, gained some, you know, some distance in that.
• 51:33
  But then Blackstenius obviously has a huge goal in the fight.
• 51:35
  You know, so we almost went into the season with a lot of
• 51:39
  questions, even though last year ended on such a high note.
• 51:43
  And then you sign a big ass check for Olivia Smith to bring
• 51:46
  her over. You know, more than it's cost
• 51:49
  you any other any other player on the on the roster.
• 51:51
  And you know, that's another thing to kind of contend with
• 51:54
  it. I'm going to say it's like
• 51:55
  throwing a complete monkey wrench in it, but it's made it
• 51:59
  that much tougher to kind of sort out right.
• 52:00
  Who's playing where? How are we playing?
• 52:02
  Who's dictating things? Like, you know, where is the
• 52:06
  offense running through? We want Mariona involved.
• 52:09
  Who gets it to Mariona? What's, you know, what are the,
• 52:11
  the, the, the, the adjustment to there, the adjustment to the
• 52:14
  adjustment. And, you know, thankfully
• 52:17
  there's a lot of time to figure it out.
• 52:19
  I do expect, obviously this team to, you know, clear the top 12,
• 52:21
  but you know, they do have the potential to finish top 4.
• 52:26
  You know, and I think and they, and, and based on how things are
• 52:30
  shaking out, there are a lot of scenarios where they don't
• 52:33
  finish top four. And I think that would be kind
• 52:36
  of somewhat problematic for a team, you know, from confidence
• 52:38
  standpoint, You you want to see them finish on the on the high
• 52:42
  note. And the last thing I'll mention,
• 52:43
  match day 6. There's a date at OH, Luvin
• 52:48
  looming, buddy. And I don't want to be in that
• 52:50
  position. I'm already going to have to be
• 52:52
  match day 4 versus Real Madrid. And I'm not sure what I'm going
• 52:55
  to do it. This is this is stacking up to
• 52:58
  be a very, you know, emotionally tumultuous tournament for your
• 53:02
  boy. So I appreciate you, you know,
• 53:03
  offered to support me. It means a lot.
• 53:06
  Of course, that's what. That's what I'm here to do,
• 53:09
  obviously. I mean Bayern.
• 53:13
  Madrid, Twente, Luvin again, is this going to be a running
• 53:18
  theme? You know, please feel free to
• 53:20
  make fun of us in the comments. So we're like, man, a lot.
• 53:22
  You got to play a lot of good teams in the Champions League.
• 53:25
  But like, not not much relief there.
• 53:28
  A little bit of a revenge game versus Bayern, you know, after,
• 53:32
  you know, obviously they got their revenge last year and then
• 53:34
  some by lifting the trophy. But it'll be interesting to see,
• 53:38
  you know, going back to Germany to play that match.
• 53:44
  Yeah. I mean, Olivia Smith, you talk
• 53:48
  about kind of some flux in the lineup.
• 53:50
  There can't be any. And, and I know that you're
• 53:52
  you're talking about the the additions.
• 53:54
  There's no flux there. Once you pay that fee, she's
• 53:57
  playing. So you got a player as as many
• 54:00
  times as possible and figure out how, how the fit's gonna look.
• 54:04
  And I think honestly, the fit is gonna probably be just fine.
• 54:07
  She's a, she's a good player. I like her attitude.
• 54:10
  I can't get like she has. She has some toughness out there
• 54:13
  to her game. I think she will fit well with
• 54:16
  Russo. So you know, I, I will say, as
• 54:21
  much as I would like to be a pain in your ass and be like,
• 54:25
  whoa, wasn't that convincing. Like you had to go to Lisbon and
• 54:29
  beat a feisty Benfica team and you didn't really let them up
• 54:34
  for a ton of air. Like I thought you Chevy for for
• 54:39
  for Benfica was probably maybe put in their best performance.
• 54:44
  And when the person who puts in the best performance for your
• 54:46
  side is a is a center half, that usually means you're probably
• 54:51
  having a rough go of it throughout that match.
• 54:53
  So, you know, Arsenal, they handled business and you know, I
• 54:58
  think about it, let's compare it to to your birds in the National
• 55:02
  Football League, the American football where people there's a
• 55:06
  lot of hand wringing going on about a team that has a winning
• 55:09
  record that is, you know, the the reigning champions.
• 55:13
  So let maybe let's give them some time.
• 55:17
  I'm I'm with it, but you know, I'm also on the record of like,
• 55:20
  you know, it usually, you know, let me not even say it just a
• 55:27
  long season. There's time to turn it around.
• 55:30
  But if I said that Chelsea is constant as currently
• 55:34
  constituted couldn't win, I feel like Arsenal is no further than
• 55:38
  Chelsea, let's say in in that department.
• 55:42
  So there's going to be a lot they're going to have to figure
• 55:43
  out a lot of adjustments to make.
• 55:45
  And I agree with you, Olivia Smith, big price tag.
• 55:47
  She's got to play. But there's a lot of good
• 55:50
  players and there's you know, you have to move.
• 55:52
  That's true. Unfortunately, you have to move
• 55:54
  a lot of stuff to make that work.
• 55:56
  I'm glad that's not my job. Shout out to the Champions
• 56:00
  League winning coach Renee Slagers.
• 56:01
  I'm who I'm sure will figure this out before we're out of
• 56:04
  here. But with that said, one more
• 56:08
  match to hit let's let's let's kind of Sprint through before we
• 56:11
  get here. Valeranga 1 Wolfsburg 2.
• 56:14
  This was a fun match up another one that ends well.
• 56:18
  This one it couldn't have ended any later.
• 56:20
  The last kick of the match ends up being the decider a really
• 56:24
  fun one though What what anything any big takeaways from
• 56:27
  this one? I just.
• 56:29
  I feel bad for haters though. Dear Who?
• 56:32
  Yeah, gave away that goal to to Wolfsburg.
• 56:36
  I mean, you could see like on the replay from like the the
• 56:39
  behind the goal camera when she when she makes the pass,
• 56:43
  everybody's like, Oh no, it's like, and then it's the passes.
• 56:47
  It's basically a through ball or it's a ball to play in Linneth
• 56:51
  Birnstein. And so you're pretty much
• 56:54
  finished at that point. But look, I mean, they got, they
• 56:58
  got the equalizer right back like what, like 180 seconds
• 57:02
  later it felt like. So, you know, I, I like
• 57:06
  Valarenga's spirit. Wolfsburg is another one of
• 57:10
  those teams where it's like, OK, how much are we calibrating as
• 57:13
  we go through these match days? But you know, if you're
• 57:17
  Wolfsburg, you got to be feeling pretty great sitting third on
• 57:21
  the table. Plus five goal differential, 6
• 57:23
  points to your name, you know, and, and if, if you can feel
• 57:29
  like, hey, we're still kind of ramping up and that's where we
• 57:34
  are in this league phase, I think you should be, you should
• 57:38
  be operating with quite a bit of confidence.
• 57:41
  Yeah, no. Doubt.
• 57:41
  I think a lot to be confident about.
• 57:43
  For sure I would. I had looked down.
• 57:47
  You mentioned that Heidi's daughter giveaway.
• 57:49
  I looked down for a second right before that happened and when I
• 57:53
  heard I heard the kick, like I heard the thump of the kick and
• 57:57
  then I heard the crowd like kind of audibly gasp and I
• 58:01
  immediately looked up and I thought it was Justine Keelan
• 58:04
  that had kicked it to Berenstein like perfectly.
• 58:07
  I was like, oh shit, nice one, you know, like.
• 58:09
  And then the announcer was like, oh, what a terrible gaffe or
• 58:12
  whatever. And I was like, what, what,
• 58:14
  what, what? And then I saw those haiders
• 58:16
  Zozier like put a perfect. It was a.
• 58:20
  Perfectly play ball. A perfect ball.
• 58:23
  And then a perfect finish from Berenstein.
• 58:26
  Berenstein on the day 13 for 13 passes, obviously gets the goal,
• 58:29
  28 touches, 8 in the Valarenga box, 4 shots, 2 on target,
• 58:33
  putting pressure on Valarenga all day long.
• 58:35
  I also liked Wolf for playing through Korsakai up the left
• 58:39
  hand side. 20 year old German played all 90 minutes passing
• 58:43
  super on .6 touches in the opposition box was shooting.
• 58:47
  Create some chances if they're going to play through Zakai, I
• 58:50
  think that's a really, really nice counterweight because
• 58:53
  Berenstein loves to run, you know, kind of like from that
• 58:56
  opposite end and you know, to kind of dart in and and make
• 58:59
  trouble. And then lastly, quick shout out
• 59:01
  to Michaela Kovach, 28 year old American Michigan State Spartan.
• 59:06
  Shout out to my black guys Tom and Tony.
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  You already know what time it is One chance created and obviously
• 59:10
  get to the assist on that hurt a goal.
• 59:12
  No, no relation to Kayvon Wolfsburg, 20 to 20 shots to
• 59:17
  five for Volarango. So they kind of dominated their
• 59:20
  dominated possession. I don't want to say they they
• 59:24
  deserve the win. They were certainly the better
• 59:26
  team, but that last, you know, that last call was so, so
• 59:31
  brutal. Tough to see them kind of losing
• 59:34
  that in that way. But I don't know this this
• 59:36
  tournament could kind of break your heart that way.
• 59:40
  They certainly felt like they deserve the point.
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  I just think if you're the ref and the, you know, the, the
• 59:46
  people working VAR, you just have no choice.
• 59:48
  That's a handball. Like, I mean, she, you know,
• 59:51
  they're, they're both coming for the ball.
• 59:53
  She has her hand, she has her arm up and it moves the ball in
• 59:57
  what could be considered like a strategic move or a, a, a move
• 1:00:01
  to benefit the defender. So you got to call it a
• 1:00:04
  handball. And yeah, it is an absolutely
• 1:00:06
  soul crushing. Call, but it's a call that I
• 1:00:10
  think had to be made. I do I let me also just quick
• 1:00:15
  shout out to Wolfsburg's left back Janu levels the the Dutch
• 1:00:19
  international, 24 years old. I think she's put together like
• 1:00:22
  2 pretty good performances already.
• 1:00:25
  And so just I want everybody to mentally prepare yourselves for
• 1:00:28
  if she continues to play well for Dino and I as 2 old men to
• 1:00:33
  just say at different points, there's levels to this because I
• 1:00:36
  mean, there's just no way. Like there's no way we can
• 1:00:38
  resist that. Yeah, no doubt.
• 1:00:42
  I mean, a truism is a truism, right?
• 1:00:44
  You already know what time it is the last, the last quick note.
• 1:00:48
  You know, the handball gets called right, and they're you're
• 1:00:52
  well past the allotted you're we're an extra extra time at
• 1:00:55
  that point. And then, you know, I I feel
• 1:00:57
  like Papa still in the game, Beers sign still in the game,
• 1:01:00
  and then, you know, you need to make a steps up and I know she's
• 1:01:04
  a good penalty taker and I'm and I'm still, you know, caveman.
• 1:01:07
  I'm like, I don't know if I you know, I don't know.
• 1:01:09
  I feel like I would make a switch there but Minga fucking
• 1:01:13
  blasted that. Thing that's why I I mean, it
• 1:01:18
  was there was a. Violence, you know, emanating
• 1:01:20
  from my screen after that one. And I'm just like, OK, let me
• 1:01:22
  sit down and shut the fuck up. You know, she's, she's taking
• 1:01:25
  that penalty for a reason. So shout out to you, Dean and
• 1:01:28
  Minga. I am.
• 1:01:28
  I'm sorry that I doubted you for a fraction of of a microsecond,
• 1:01:33
  but, you know, maybe there's some comfort in knowing that I
• 1:01:37
  was proven terribly, terribly wrong after you blasted into the
• 1:01:41
  net. And, you know, Gabe Wilsberg, a
• 1:01:44
  big, a big win that I think could catapult them.
• 1:01:47
  I mean, am I crazy to kind of think that like, you know, the
• 1:01:50
  same way a bad loss can kind of like really derail you, you
• 1:01:54
  know, take the air out of out of out of your balloon.
• 1:01:56
  I feel like a win like this could be like, hey, we, you
• 1:01:58
  know, we lost the Byron at home. That was a little bit of a
• 1:02:00
  deflator. But now we're back and we're on
• 1:02:02
  6 points and we're kind of in control of our destiny a little
• 1:02:06
  bit. I think you know the top 4 is
• 1:02:07
  not outside of the realm of possibility for a team like Will
• 1:02:11
  Spur with that much talent, no. Not at all.
• 1:02:14
  Now I I think the thing that's they be their must watch.
• 1:02:18
  They're absolutely must watch for the rest of the tournament.
• 1:02:21
  They take on Lyon on November 11th.
• 1:02:25
  Everybody hold your breath. For somebody to make some clumsy
• 1:02:28
  veteran's day jokes about a French team and a German team
• 1:02:34
  could be me, you never know. November 19th they're at home to
• 1:02:40
  play Manchester United. December 9th they go to Real
• 1:02:44
  Madrid and then set on the 17th of December their home for
• 1:02:48
  Chelsea. So they got Lyon, United,
• 1:02:51
  Madrid, Chelsea, all of those appointment television.
• 1:02:57
  All bangers for sure. Yep.
• 1:03:00
  And kind of like I mean. Outside of Lyon, that's going to
• 1:03:03
  be a tough game for Willisburg to win at Lyon.
• 1:03:07
  But all of these are are winnable and all of them are
• 1:03:10
  also losable, which makes no doubt like, I mean, to your
• 1:03:13
  point of appointment television, what a slate.
• 1:03:16
  I mean, but credit to Wolfsburg. You open with PSG and Malarenga
• 1:03:20
  and you walk away with six points.
• 1:03:21
  Now that the slate gets a little trickier and we'll see, you
• 1:03:25
  know, kind of like what's left in the tank for them.
• 1:03:27
  But very excited about that. I want to hit a quick episode
• 1:03:30
  calendar, a very quick episode calendar.
• 1:03:34
  All I know is we've got U.S. National team news coming up.
• 1:03:37
  We'll be talking about it. Couple friendlies coming.
• 1:03:38
  We'll talk about those. Yeah, UEFA Champions League.
• 1:03:42
  I I want to do a tear show. I think I think after after two
• 1:03:46
  match days, that seems like a lot of fun and we've already got
• 1:03:49
  the natural top 4 second four, third four last six out and you
• 1:03:54
  know, we can update those rankings.
• 1:03:56
  Quick update. My top 12 from last week is the
• 1:03:59
  actual top 12 year. What type of move on?
• 1:04:02
  We have to. We don't have to spend too much
• 1:04:03
  time lingering on that. So we'll have some Champions
• 1:04:06
  League shows coming up and the NWSL playoffs right around the
• 1:04:09
  corner. We've got one more match week
• 1:04:12
  after this weekend, and then it's three weeks of a magical
• 1:04:17
  playoff run in the NWSL. Cannot wait for that.
• 1:04:21
  The final taking place in my hometown or in the Bay Area,
• 1:04:24
  we'll say down in San Jose. So I'll be in the building for
• 1:04:28
  that hopefully, and hopefully you'll be joining us and we'll
• 1:04:31
  have some. The festivities will be
• 1:04:32
  happening, so make sure you're subscribed to be a lot of fun
• 1:04:34
  stuff for our NWSL fans out there.
• 1:04:37
  All right, man, I think we did it.
• 1:04:39
  Anything else you want to hit forget out here?
• 1:04:41
  2 questions. One is the NWSL final in Hialeah
• 1:04:45
  2. It should be.
• 1:04:51
  I mean appeal to the appeal to the NWSL parking.
• 1:04:56
  What are we talking about man? Let's go question number 2.
• 1:05:00
  Is it a bit? Are we doing a thing that?
• 1:05:05
  Is this some kind of London Derby rivalry?
• 1:05:08
  We didn't talk about Chelsea versus Perry FC.
• 1:05:11
  Did you do that on purpose? Did you do?
• 1:05:14
  That on purpose. Anything goes with it before.
• 1:05:16
  We had to get out of here. Sure.
• 1:05:17
  Chelsea 4 pre FC-0 and Chris Whittingham.
• 1:05:21
  How about how about our guy Chris cooking?
• 1:05:24
  He was. He's good on that call.
• 1:05:26
  Yeah, Yeah, he's go ahead. Yeah.
• 1:05:29
  No, Sir, Go ahead. No, no, what you got?
• 1:05:32
  No, he's a, he's a good. Announcer, man, I've heard him
• 1:05:34
  call Syria matches for CBS that he's called at some NWSL
• 1:05:39
  matches. He called the The Bay Washington
• 1:05:43
  Spirit match that was in the baseball park down there.
• 1:05:46
  Oh shit, yeah. That dude.
• 1:05:48
  He's a hell of an announcer. I think My.
• 1:05:51
  Daughter was being born on that day.
• 1:05:53
  Oh, yeah. You were preoccupied.
• 1:05:55
  Yeah, but yeah, shout out to Chris.
• 1:05:58
  We all love all the the Dan Lovatard, you know, the family,
• 1:06:01
  you know what time it is. But my main take away from
• 1:06:04
  Chelsea, you know, 26 shots, we talked about them not totally
• 1:06:07
  being able to finish. I'm not sure if four goals from
• 1:06:10
  26, considering one of them was a penalty.
• 1:06:12
  He's going to, you know, give them all the the warm and
• 1:06:15
  fuzzies. The last quick note, you know, I
• 1:06:18
  asked you, I think last week, you know, what Chelsea would be
• 1:06:22
  able to do kind of unlock that often to be able to produce
• 1:06:24
  more. Turns out Alyssa Thompson might
• 1:06:28
  might just be that piece to kind of unlock some stuff there.
• 1:06:32
  I thought I thought she was really good considering here she
• 1:06:36
  just got there. And, you know, I mean, I don't
• 1:06:39
  want to you don't want to compare players, but, you know,
• 1:06:41
  Naomi Girma, also another player with a big price tag coming up
• 1:06:44
  from NWSL, you know, has not been able to make that same
• 1:06:48
  level of impact. So you got to be for Alissa
• 1:06:51
  Thompson fans. You got to be really encouraged,
• 1:06:53
  you know, to think about what what's possible there at Chelsea
• 1:06:56
  considering the early results. Yeah.
• 1:07:00
  And I think she's. Is she still?
• 1:07:03
  I think Germa might still be dealing with the calf injury.
• 1:07:06
  I think so. But but I totally hear you and
• 1:07:12
  I'll and I'll say there was just a moment where Millie Bright
• 1:07:15
  played a through ball to Alissa Thompson.
• 1:07:18
  And I just kind of chuckled. And I know it's like it's been
• 1:07:20
  settled for weeks. Like the deal happened and she
• 1:07:23
  she moved over to Chelsea. But I just kind of started
• 1:07:26
  laughing like Millie Bright is passing the ball to Alyssa
• 1:07:29
  Thompson. That is, that is like a weird.
• 1:07:32
  That was just a weird thing for my brain to compute in that
• 1:07:35
  moment that I was like, I did not expect.
• 1:07:37
  Like if you would have told me a month ago that this would be
• 1:07:39
  happening, I'd be like, oh, damn, Millie moved to LA That's
• 1:07:42
  cool. Good for her.
• 1:07:42
  Like if she'll enjoy the sunshine.
• 1:07:45
  So yeah, I think I'm you. Know I'm obviously no.
• 1:07:50
  Chelsea supporter either, but you know that roster is what it
• 1:07:55
  is. The looping header by JRK was
• 1:07:59
  fantastic and they're just going to start doing this thing where
• 1:08:03
  they where they bring on Sam Kerr to help finish out these
• 1:08:07
  matches. And what do you know, Sam Kerr
• 1:08:10
  scores off a set piece when they when they line up and the and
• 1:08:15
  the camera goes like inside the box on this corner kick and they
• 1:08:18
  have Sam Kerr, Lucy Bronze and Millie Bright all near the
• 1:08:23
  keeper around the six yard box. That is a fucking nightmare for
• 1:08:27
  the defense in any scenario. Yeah, no, it's.
• 1:08:31
  It's impossible. I had that same moment when when
• 1:08:34
  Kyra Walsh fed it to Alyssa, I was just like, this is kind of
• 1:08:37
  weird. Yeah.
• 1:08:38
  That. I mean, we'll see.
• 1:08:41
  Chelsea, I think a lot like Arsenal, like they're nowhere
• 1:08:44
  near where they need to be, but you know, the talents there,
• 1:08:47
  they've obviously got more talented Arsenal, they're
• 1:08:49
  deeper, probably better top end talent.
• 1:08:52
  So maybe, maybe a better bet to make it happen.
• 1:08:55
  But I think both of those teams have a lot of work to do down
• 1:08:57
  the stretch to to get to that point where, you know, they're
• 1:09:01
  contending, you know, to be able to lift the trophy.
• 1:09:04
  So we'll see. We'll we'll track it.
• 1:09:05
  A lot of good football, a lot of good distribution of football.
• 1:09:09
  So we're going to have to fire up a lot of these streaming
• 1:09:12
  solutions to make sure we're catching all of it.
• 1:09:14
  And like I said, make sure you're subscribed.
• 1:09:16
  There's a lot of fun stuff happening.
• 1:09:18
  And before I get out of here, I want to quick give a quick shout
• 1:09:20
  out to some gear I picked up. Look at celebrating the 2024
• 1:09:26
  NWSL champion Orlando Pride. Pick this up from our country
• 1:09:30
  store. So was able to, you know, click
• 1:09:33
  a little linky link from our Orlando Pride gear.
• 1:09:36
  I wanted to grab something to kind of commemorate that 24
• 1:09:39
  championship season. The first year I covered, you
• 1:09:42
  know, the NW cell in person from the press box, like a real, you
• 1:09:45
  know, grown up journalist, which was very exciting.
• 1:09:48
  So yeah, was able to grab some gear and we've got some jerseys
• 1:09:51
  in there, some USW and T gear for, you know, some upcoming
• 1:09:55
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• 1:09:57
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• 1:09:58
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• 1:10:01
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• 1:10:04
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• 1:10:10
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• 1:10:13
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• 1:10:25
  All right man, anything else we want to hit for real, for real
• 1:10:27
  before we get out of here? I think that's it.
• 1:10:31
  Yeah, thank you to to everybody who had very nice things to say
• 1:10:35
  about us returning. You know, the day job's been
• 1:10:39
  busy. Dino's got a day job and a
• 1:10:42
  newborn trying to keep up with all the football.
• 1:10:45
  We appreciate all the patience from you guys and you guys, I
• 1:10:47
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• 1:10:51
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• 1:10:55
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• 1:10:59
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• 1:11:01
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• 1:11:04
  good man. I think so too.
• 1:11:05
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• 1:12:16
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• 1:12:19
  Question you might be, you know, you're working some stuff out
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• 1:12:25
  Yeah. We're we're.
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