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USWNT rallies to beat the Netherlands · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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the show notes of this episode. I am your host Dino de Suspitis
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and as always I'm joined by my Co host Mr. Grant Angle.
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What is up man? I'm feeling pretty good, buddy.
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That was a hell of a football match that we watched.
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Got a little dicey there for good old Stars and Stripes.
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They're able to pull through and I'm excited to talk to you about
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them. Same, ZS.
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I mean, I think I was very delighted based on the preview
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that we did a couple days ago because we had actually talked
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about the USA falling behind. What would that look?
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Like offensively, I'm kind of getting out a little bit ahead
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of myself. I want to actually start.
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Actually, let me, let me kick it back your way, Mr. Grant.
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Angle, where do you want to get started?
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Well, let's get started with a ice cold beverage.
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I mean, obviously we're talking about football.
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What the hell are we doing here, Frosty?
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So frosty celebratory beverage. Cheers.
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Cheers to you, buddy. Yeah.
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So for anybody who didn't see it, US Women's National Team 2,
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the Netherlands one at The Hague, I thought it was pretty
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interesting and I thought the lineups were pretty interesting.
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Obviously this is the international friendly tour.
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Emma Hay is still very, very much work shopping when it comes
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to personnel. So in for this match.
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Jayden Shaw, Jenna Nice longer to to Davidson, Corbin Albert,
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Yasmine Ryan out Alyssa Thompson and Messiers, Lynn Williams,
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Casey Krueger, Emily Sonnet 5 big changes still out Triple
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Espresso When I saw the lineup changes, I kind of got a little
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bit excited because I think a little bit more offensive
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minded, offensive firepower out there, you know?
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Sands Triple Espresso. I was expecting a much, much
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different first half, but not what we saw.
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I think the Netherlands took quite a bit of advantage of
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basically the US midfielders and forwards.
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Not necessarily tracking back. They had a lot of one on ones, a
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lot of three on threes, 4 on fours, like good numbers and I
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think they were pretty aggressive about it.
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Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned the midfield.
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One of the first things I put in my notes is that the midfield
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for the USA was virtually non existent.
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It looked like Lindsay Horan and Corbin Albert were pretty much
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just getting some cardio out there.
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They were not really involved for long stretches.
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And then I think the other thing that really popped out was on
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the right hand side, on Netherlands, attacking right
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hand side. It was a little bit of a mouse
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in the house situation because Rome Luchter, Rome Luchter was
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just picking on Jenna Neiswanger again and again and again.
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And it was getting ugly out there for a bit.
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Absolutely. Yeah, Luchter definitely
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mistaked Jenna Neiswanger for tasty bucket of BBQ chicken over
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and over in that first half. Nice longer, spend a lot of
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time, you know, kind of on her backside.
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Unfortunately, once Luter got her early a couple times and
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mentally you're sort of in a place where you're just trying,
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you know, to be a little stiffer and a little bit more locked in,
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like 2 locked in. Yeah, it just got worse for nice
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longer. She did settle in a little bit
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later before she gets pulled. I thought she did kind of like
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sort of get the defensive memo. And it's tough to pick on her
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because I think defensively the US has so much talent that it's
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easy to kind of say, OK, well, we got a person here,
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everybody's marked where we should be.
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OK. But I I think those one-on-one
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battles, whether it was Joe Roord, Linneth Berenstein, she,
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you know, flew past here to Davidson on one chance a little
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bit later in the match. They just were not afraid to go
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forward. And the Netherlands were like
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really happy to say, OK, if you're going to just have 4 back
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here, we'll match those numbers and we'll make you beat us the
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other way. But while we're here, we're
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going to just kind of carve you up.
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Yeah, and they have the attacking skill to do that,
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whether it's in their midfield or in their attackers.
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I I want to give a quick shout out to YouTube user dolph
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Manatee who had said back in like the October camp was
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popping in our comments and saying that he didn't think nice
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longer really fit in Emma Hayes system and that he didn't expect
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her to get a lot of playing time under Emma Hayes.
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And he also pointed out recently that nice longer kind of started
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to lose a little bit of playing time for Gotham FC as well.
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And so Dolph, I didn't see much evidence to the contrary of what
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you were saying, but I did like, I think you're right that
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Neiswanger settled in a little more as the half ended.
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It felt very intentional that they played a ball forward to
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get Neiswanger up like in the attack to almost be like, hey,
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look here, do this thing that you're comfortable doing.
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They will try to kind of right this ship.
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But your point about Jill Roord could have had a brace in the
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first half, might have had a hat trick.
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I think her best chance of the first half was the one where she
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didn't even get a shot off. Might have been Van Der Dunk or
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Luchter who played her in. She's almost standing on the
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penalty spot and the ball just gets under her feet too quickly.
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That looked like it was going to be a tapping.
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Yeah, I think that one was in my notes.
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I jotted down. I might have tweeted this one
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too, that she put herself in the spin cycle on that one.
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But she was wide, wide open. And, you know, Van and Dunk also
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had a free header where Garma kind of loses track of her.
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It's not something that you see, but it was almost a function of
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the Netherlands, like lack of, I don't know, lack of respect for
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the US defense. They were just like, we're going
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to run, we're going to fly and like, I don't know, come run
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with us. And I think pretty consistently
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it was a, it was tough sledding for the US defense.
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And I think what made it even trickier, TNT flashed a graphic
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that had the possession numbers. This was near the end of the
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first half 6040 in favor of the Netherlands.
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Kind of felt like every time the US had the ball, it was like,
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I'm not even a look up field. I'm just going to kick it to
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where I think one of my forwards might be.
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And it felt like we were just giving the ball right back again
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and again with not much, not much to show for it, really.
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The shot stats were out of this world.
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I think it ended maybe 20 to four in favor of the
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Netherlands. Yeah, first half, 14 to one in
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terms of shots. I mean, just something that
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seems unfathomable to have that big of a disparity.
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Yeah. Looking on.
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Google right now it has the shot differential is from 22 to five
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in favor of the Netherlands. Shots on target 7 to 4
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possession ending up at 5842 on the attack in the first half.
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They just looked way faster. I think we've got to the point
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where we have to talk about Verla Borman and her just skying
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above the US, everybody on the USA to score that header, her
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first goal of the evening, but we'll we'll get into her second
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goal later. She was just way higher than
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everybody. And let me just tell you, for
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anybody who's been a fan of this program for a while, the tall
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girl bias in my household was loud and in effect, let's just
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say my wife life stands 5 foot 11 and it often laments the lack
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of tall players for the USA at times.
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And I think she was right to say that's just going to get you
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sometimes when when you field Germa nice longer.
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Davidson has good size, but even I don't think I don't think
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Emily Fox is that tall either. So like, you know, you got to
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get Haran and Albert in the mix there and they just weren't
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there to stop that at her. Well, Albert was there, she
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right, she was on. She just got jumped over, yeah.
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Yeah, she got yammed on pretty much 1 nothing Netherlands, as
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you mentioned, I thought the Netherlands free kicks, the
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corners, the crosses, the accuracy on those was out of
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this world, whether it was Joe Roord, Robbie Luchter got I
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think the the grand majority of them.
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But it felt like every ball was put in a dangerous area with
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like the right amount of slope, the right amount of like dip.
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I mentioned it briefly, the free header that Van De Dong gets
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after she runs past Karma. It was so well struck that when
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you watch the replay, the ball has already cleared the the end
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line. Yeah.
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And Alyssa Nair has yet to dive. She's like started the the, the,
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like the motion of the dive. But I mean, nowhere near that
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ball. You definitely expect a player
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like Van de Donk to kind of bury that one.
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Seven out of 10/8 out of 10. I mean, just a great look.
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And she didn't miss by much. That second one before the half
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I think would have really changed the complexion of the
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game. Yeah, absolutely.
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And there was another save by Nair in that first half.
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That's just pure reaction and you could hear the thump off her
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gloves. I think it was her left glove.
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Maybe she also had a kick save early.
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I think she had multiple kick saves between the first and
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second-half. I mean, what a great way for her
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to go out. We could talk about that later,
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but she needed to stand up in those moments because they they
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could have been down 3 to one going in the halftime.
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Absolutely. They could have been down 3 nil
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going to halftime. That's true, yeah.
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The way they got on the board, you know, it's tough to recreate
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that Tuna Davidson free kick from 1,000,000 miles out, a
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bounce that you don't really get very often.
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But yeah, a listener. I mean, I'm ready to have the
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listener conversation now. I tweeted I'm going to miss the
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hell out of a listener. Yes, just because in matches
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like this where you just want somebody that's going to be, you
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know, just with electricity running through them, I thought
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she really did set the tone. That Dominique Ganson point
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blanker in the first half was just ridiculous.
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The kick save in the second-half, that was another
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Van de Dung try. And it's just like when you've
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got Nair back there, the back line is the back line, but you
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still have to be Nair and she's such a big game, big moment
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player. And this is like a friendly, but
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like I think Nair and Lynn Williams are the two players
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that stuck out to me that we're just like we're going, we're
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maxing out. This is this is a Max out day
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for us. We're not going to get out
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worked. And those two players, like
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really, you could make the case that were the difference in the
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match. 100% I think you're caught on there.
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I mean, I think that's just how pretty much Lynn Williams lives
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her entire life. It feels like that's who she is
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in the NWSL. That's how she plays for the
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national team. Her addition onto the field
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changed the complexion of the match for sure.
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And if you're a listener in that spot, you might as well Max out.
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It's your last one ever. Well, you know what?
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What else are you playing for? So, and I think Lynn Williams is
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the type of player, not that the other players weren't cognizant
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of it obviously, but yet a lot of younger players out there.
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And to bring on both Emily Sonnet and Lynn Williams to
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start the second-half and the rain starts coming down.
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It's like, OK, so now we have the confluence of events where
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the rain is going to slow down Netherlands attack naturally.
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Just say like it's not like the USA would have been helpless
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otherwise, but that certainly helped them.
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But then you bring on two crafty vets who've seen it all, like
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Emily Sonnet and Lynn Williams. Different ball game in the
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second-half. Yeah, I'm, I'm glad you brought
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up that point because I was actually thinking about this.
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You know, sometimes I kind of pretend I'm in like an NBAGM and
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I sometimes would get a little bit enamored with like all this
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young talent. You know, we need to be thinking
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10 years ahead. When in reality, you're trying
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to win tournaments, you're trying to win matches, you're
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trying to win moments, you're trying to win halves.
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And a player like Lynn Williams or a player like Roosevelt
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didn't really have it today. But, you know, a tough turn
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around to put in that many minutes against England, you
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know, after long flights and shit.
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And, you know, now she's trying to chase around those five
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superlative Netherlands attackers.
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Not not fun. But in a match like that, in a
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tournament when the stakes are high, players like Glenn
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Williams are incredibly valuable because that's a player that is
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never going to fall into the speed that everybody else is at.
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You know, like, she doesn't care if this is a more of like a like
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how the US, England like was like, we're going to be a little
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tentative and play close to the vet.
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She doesn't care. She's going to go like 1000
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miles an hour. She's going to chase everything
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down. Her work rates going to be off
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the charts and being able to trust a player like that in a
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big spot or in it like in a tight spot like this was, it's a
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tremendous luxury. Yeah, absolutely huge.
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And you know, she's, she's going to be completely unflappable in
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those moments too. She's like I tend to say about a
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lot of the vets on the USA, it's the benefit of being, you know,
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the 2015, the 2019 world champions, the Olympic gold
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medalists, is that you've seen it all.
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You know what it takes to win. You've experienced it
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personally, I, I want to say kind of glossed over it before
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in my notes when Berman scores that own goal.
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And like you pointed out, it's it's off a long Davidson free
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kick and Borman just kind of gets like locked in place and is
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like, kind of like in a weird position and then scores you.
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And I always love a looping header.
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Usually that's not the kind of looping header that we're
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talking about. It's just a, it's very bizarre.
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But the first thing I wrote in my notes is that is exactly the
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recipe of how you lose a football game when you've been
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dominating in the first half. You, you cannot.
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And I know. Oh, I'm sorry for the second
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edition of the game. Dino de Cespedes.
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Unlucky. Oh man.
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America's new favorite game? Unlucky.
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I, you know, I'm not, I'm not the biggest unlucky guy, but I,
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I will say that that one was unlucky.
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It's it has to be. That, you know, that's that's
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not missing by a little that's just a terrible bounce.
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Like, you know, like nowhere near what was intended.
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Great break for the US sent them into halftime 11 and I think
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there I think there was definitely a shift coming back
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out for the second-half. Couple personnel changes, but a
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lot more team defending. You know, you didn't see three
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US defenders on a an island or four on an island.
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There was a lot of like, right now Yasmine Ryan's back there,
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Haran, like Lavelle, like they're much more conscious of
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like, OK, we need to be part of this and we don't really totally
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have the firepower. So I think a really smart
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strategic stroke by Emma Hayes to kind of make that change and
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really start to shut off some of those channels for the Dutch.
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Yeah, and I got to wonder, too. The Dutch don't make a
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substitution until, I think after the 80th minute.
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And it started to look like maybe about like 65, where it's
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like one side clearly has more tired legs than the other side.
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And it was the team wearing orange.
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And we always joke around like, obviously.
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I'm going to take a guess that Yonker probably knows a little
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more about his squad than I do. He probably has forgotten more
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about football than I'll ever know, yadda yadda.
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But I don't know if he was concerned with the amount of
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depth he had on the bench or who he'd be bringing on.
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But I thought that match was calling out for some Subs
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because that momentum just started to kind of and it didn't
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really turn into a big snowball. So I can understand why Yonker
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was like, no, no, no, we're holding on to this.
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I like my players on the field, but it it felt like it there
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could have been a couple changes in that spot.
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Yeah, if you look at Yonkers starting lineup, 5 changes for
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him as well. Jill Ruord, Lynneth Berenstein,
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Van de Donk, Brooks, Kirsten Kasparai, all in the starting
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lineup did not start versus China a few days prior.
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So I think he kind of was like, all right, I'm going to unleash
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our big guns here and this is how we want to play.
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And they were, you know, to be to be frank, they were dominant.
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That's true. 1st 5560 minutes. I mean, they got pretty much
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whatever they wanted. US makes that defensive
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strategic shift. And I think that lined up pretty
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perfectly with the conditioning kind of starting to weigh down
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some of those Dutch players, the rain, the cold, those, those
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absolutely helped as well. And I think offensively we can
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get to the kind of like the Lynn Williams school.
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We could kind of dance around a little bit earlier.
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Yeah, but I thought they slowed down offensively to Yeah, yeah.
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Look at that sequence. I went back and counted 10
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passes before the goal. A little bit of a cheat because
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one of them was Nair kicking the kicking the ball up field that
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actually finds the head of Borman before Johannes gets her
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head on it to send it back back up field.
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So. But outside of that, we'll count
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that as a pass in the ITC personal record book. 10 passes
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on that sequence. A little bit more, a lot more
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patience, to be honest. And I think I was happy to see
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that because it's like once the turn and fire it up field, you
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know, is not working. And I don't think we even had
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the personnel to be able to justify that.
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Yep. I loved the slower approach.
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Gives you a chance to catch your breath, get in rhythm, whether
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it's a nice song or just get in touches where she's more
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comfortable or Yasmine Ryan kind of getting in more rhythm with
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the ball, kind of like where she likes it.
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And then a really kind of textbook team goal to put the US
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ahead 2 to one. Yeah, I mean, you talked about
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it last time, Yasmine Ryan's name in the squad list is
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quickly turning into a Sharpie name.
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I mean that pass. And you make a great point when
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you say like her getting the ball where she wants it.
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When Johannes heads the ball back into her path on the right
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wing, it's exactly where Ryan likes to operate and she streaks
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right down the field. And that pass she puts into
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Williams is between two defenders right on the Lynn
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Williams left boot. I mean, she is an absolute
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luxury to have on your squad. You know, when you come into a
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big tournament and you're going to have Swanson, Smith, Rodman,
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having Ryan coming in off the bench, We saw how how she turned
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into a game record coming in off the bench against England,
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especially in those first 10 minutes.
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Imagine if you say, hey, Yasmine, give us 20 at the end
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of a match. You can salt away games that
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way. Yeah, and she does have a
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different offensive profile than Triple S Espresso.
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I think probably like Swanson is maybe like the closest comp in
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terms of like what they're doing on the pitch.
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Sure. I just wanted to jot a quick
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note here. Lily Ohanis, hockey assist.
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Absolutely. Done.
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And a little bit of beef with our guy Luke Wahman, who
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proclaimed that DeMarcus Beasley was the president of the Lily
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Johannes Fan club. I would encourage our guy to go
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check the tapes. We've been out here a little bit
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a little bit earlier. I did have an interesting what
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if? What would the scoreline have
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been if Lily Johannes is wearing orange?
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On this day, yeah, I mean, that's a tricky 1.
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I got to say Vika captain, she looks fucking great out there,
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man. She's awesome.
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Like she you know, we saw the goal and assist against China.
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We saw the first Champions League goal against Celtic.
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She obviously she doesn't get on the score sheet today, but she's
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a menace out there. Young player moves great without
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the ball, but then you get her on the ball and she's
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terrifying. So I think if you if you have
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Johannes out there now we're we're getting a little crowded
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in that like midfield, because you would have captain Johannes
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Gronin, Luchter, van de Dunk roared and then Biernstein at
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the top. That's a lot, a lot of talent.
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And I feel like you probably could drop Johannes in various
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spots in that midfield and and she would she would excel.
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You know, what would the scoreline be?
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Maybe, maybe we would get that one one that you and I predicted
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before the match happened. But I don't know, man.
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I mean, it's hard to say. I do know Dutch fans appeared to
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be be pretty disappointed that Lily wears the stars and stripes
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and not the orange. The booze.
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I mean, I guess, right? They, they want to win.
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They want the best players to come to their team.
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They've probably thought they had a legitimate shot to get
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her. She's a 17 year old kid.
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Do I love that you Boo her like that?
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And in that situation, I don't think it's great.
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But I also, I try not to be completely the fan police,
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although I stand by my statement, don't throw shit on
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the field. I feel firmly about that still.
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Either way, sorry for the the bit of the the ramble here, but
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I think Netherlands would be better if they had Lilio on us,
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and thank goodness they don't. Yeah, maybe US doesn't get that
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second goal, so who knows what happens there.
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I actually thought as well a lot of talk about triple espresso
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not available for these couple matches, but I think the player
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that would have unlocked this one give me a little Cory
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Bethune of course, because I think when you think about the
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skill level, I mean they out the Netherlands outskilled us most
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of the match. You know, like it was a lot of
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just sorry, we're I better run by just kind of nick the ball
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away, tap it away, make it simple.
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A lot of the slick stuff that US tried to do, they were all over
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it. I think Corey Bethune is the
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kind of player that tilts things back our way a little bit.
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Incredibly skilled, incredibly creative.
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And I think we definitely missed a player like that in the
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midfield, especially when you think about OK, who's who's in
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that spot? It's Haran, it's Albert.
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You know, they have their limitations.
20:26
Obviously I didn't want to also recount.
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I mentioned the Yonker quote last episode.
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I'll just read it here real quick.
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Again, in the past, the American women were a lot fitter than the
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rest of the world, but I really think those days are over.
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If you look at the Champions League nowadays, you see the
20:37
same level of intensity. So the big question is now what
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is left of their superiority? Let's see about that.
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Well, I'll tell you what's left of our superiority.
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How about a little grit? How about a little
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determination? How about a little heart of a
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champion? How about a little?
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Don't care if it's rating, don't care if it's cold.
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We are going to do what it needs to get done to win.
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I thought this was a great feather in the cap of M Hayes.
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Still yet to give up two goals in a match, you fall behind the
21:04
environmental tricky. And then also I I I didn't like
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the the booing from the Dutch crowd because it only got
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ratcheted up after they went down to to 1.
21:12
So not not the best look, you know, you got to you got to kind
21:16
of like lose a little bit more grace.
21:17
But yeah, to Andreas Yonker, that's what's left of our
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superiority. How about that?
21:21
And I think what's interesting too, I think I think it was a
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little bit of irony in the quote as well, because I thought the
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Netherlands, especially early, looked fast, looked strong.
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I felt like like the US was getting a little bit bullied,
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you know, in some of those 5050 situations.
21:36
Conditioning wise. I think they ran out of gas a
21:38
little bit later in the match just because they were pushing
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so hard. But I thought physically they
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look like the better team, the better condition team,
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definitely in the first half. Yeah, And you know, we talked
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about it in the preview. We wondered because Yonker held
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out those stars until like the 70th minute and the China match
21:54
and USA kind of had to really push and labor and play a little
21:58
bit of a physical match against England.
21:59
We wondered how the first half would look.
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So proud to say your boys nailed that one, per usual.
22:05
But yeah, I think I think you're right.
22:07
I think Orange looks pretty good.
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I mean, they looked great. I don't, I don't want to
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undersell it. They looked really great in that
22:12
first half. But Hayes just pulls the right
22:16
levers, like so when they when they take off Lavelle, Albert
22:20
and Horan, I think three players who throughout this episode you
22:23
said didn't really have their best and they put in Hirschfeld,
22:27
Thompson, Johannes. That is a lot of skill to bring
22:30
on to the pitch, I thought. Hirschfeld, this is an extremely
22:33
pro Hal Hirschfeldt podcast, and I like the way she plays a lot.
22:37
I could see a future if you have those double sixes, those two
22:41
like holding midfielders. If it's Johannes and
22:43
Hirschfeldt, I think you're in a really good spot.
22:46
I think you have a lot of skill and a lot of smarts there, a lot
22:49
of physicality to boot. And yeah, I just think Hayes
22:52
pulled the levers, USA showed the grit, and they walk into The
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Hague and walk out with a victory.
22:57
Big victory, big way to close out the calendar year for sure.
23:01
Any other big takeaways from this one?
23:02
Salute to the legend, Alyssa Nair.
23:04
Cool way for her to go out with a victory, making some brilliant
23:08
saves along the way. I mean what other way for her to
23:12
end her international career? We look forward to still
23:14
watching your play in the NWSL, but salute to the legend.
23:17
Great way to go out. Another match that I'm going to
23:19
remember from the legend. So quick programming reminder,
23:22
we'll be back in a couple days with our December Fest episode
23:25
with our guy Peter Weiss talking a little German football,
23:28
talking about the German teams left in the Champions League.
23:31
We're going to look at Fran Bundesliga, the German national
23:33
team in action this week as well.
23:34
We will be back shortly thereafter.
23:36
Champions League match Day 5 preview December 11th December
23:39
12th, Key matchups, machinations, Roma versus
23:42
Wolfsburg, Group D up in the air, Barcelona at Hammer beats
23:46
fucking go, you are Manchester City, Sky Blues hosting St.
23:49
Polton. We're going to learn a little
23:50
bit more about Group D after those matches.
23:53
We'll also check in on the big clubs, Lyon, Arsenal, Chelsea,
23:56
Real Madrid. How are they doing domestically?
23:59
You won't want to miss that one. Mr. Grant, angle a lot on the
24:02
calendar. Anything else you want to hit
24:04
though before we get out of here?
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I think that's it, man. I think we did it.
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I think we did it as well. There's been another episode of
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Into the channel. Sincere thank you, thank you,
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And a big thank you to my coach as well, Mr. Grant Angle, for
24:30
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24:34
You know, there was some some visa issues, there was some
24:37
citizenship up in the air. But our guy is here with us at
24:41
the ITC representing bringing the heat week in week out,
24:45
episode in, episode out. I appreciate you bro.
24:47
Likewise, buddy, I wouldn't do it for any other squad than into
24:50
the channel. I did have plenty of options out
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there, but obviously I'm rocking.
24:54
I'm rocking with you. But for everybody who who
24:57
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