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RECAP! Iceland v Finland 🏆 Switzerland v Norway 🏆 WOMEN'S EURO 2025 MD1 Group A 2-1 1-0 [1/12] · Into the Channel ⚽️ A Podcast Primarily About Women's Football

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Oh hey, welcome to Into the Channel podcast, primarily by
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women's football. I'm your host, Dean of the
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Suspicion. As always, I am joined by my Co
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host Mr. Grant Angle. What is up man?
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I'm feeling pretty fantastic, buddy.
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I mean, is our country still just a clown show circus House
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of horrors? Yes, but the Euros are on and
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that's pretty exciting and that was a good distraction today.
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Yes. And yes.
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Euros are way on. Yeah, Speaking of clown,
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Speaking of clown show, quick foray into the Fox preview.
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I want to just get here real quick just so we can get out of
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the way. The EUR kicks off today.
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I wake up very early in the morning ready to go at an
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ungodly hour. I wake up and I'm ready to go.
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I'm just like, OK, here we go, Here we go.
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I, I, I can't wait. So I'm like, I listened to
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Leanne's pod this morning. She did a great 50 minutes.
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You know, I, I'm just grabbing as much as I can.
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I, I flip on Fox this morning for the pregame for Finland,
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Iceland. Did you catch the pregame that
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they did? Did you happen to catch that?
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I did. I did not.
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Carlos Alcaraz was playing tennis at Wimbledon and I opted
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for that instead. You, I mean, you crushed it.
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So that's, that's first and foremost.
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But I'll just catch up real quick here.
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Here's what they covered. The women's game is exploding.
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Alexi Lawless, his World Cup experience playing in a home
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country. This isn't a World Cup.
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I don't know if they knew that. Young girls everywhere are
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inspired. They talked about Carli Lloyd's
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World Cup experience, then they talked about Julie Ertes World
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Cup experience, and then they got talked about Julie Erta's
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experience playing with Carli Lloyd in the World Cup, and then
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they did a lengthy USA versus Guatemala preview for the Gold
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Cup. An absolute joke of a pre, An
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absolute joke, absolute joke of a pregame.
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I mean, they were just kind of talking like the sport, well,
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like was just invented. Like if it was just invented a
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week ago and we're going to see how legit this thing might be or
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could be. It was, it was really pretty
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silly. I don't want to spend too much
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time talking about it, but I just thought it was funny a
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weird I don't want to say it goes so far as to call it a
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clown show way to kick off the tournament but not not the
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serious tournament kick off I think maybe some folks were
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looking for. Yeah, it doesn't sound like it.
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I mean, to cap it off with USA, Guatemala, men's, I mean, you
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could almost make an excuse for some of the other stuff if it if
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it was sprinkled in with some like Iceland, I don't know, call
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me crazy. Iceland, Finland preview and
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talking about those players and maybe their journeys to this to
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this spot. But one once you hit me with the
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men's Gold Cup stuff. No, no thanks.
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Yeah, I did. I did.
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I mean, Ari Hinks did do one bit of analysis that I think rang
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relevant. She did mention Spandis Jane's
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throw insurance, you know, as like a dangerous weapon, and
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that did kind of rear headed the match.
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So, you know, shot Atari hinks for kind of nailing one bit of
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analysis pre game. So they they did hit that and
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and I mean, to their credit, I think there's going to be an
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opportunity to warm up and like watch these games.
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And their post game was much better than the pre game was
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garbage. The post game, at least they
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kind of showed a little bit that they were at least watching the
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match. And you know, I had some stuff
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to say about it and I think it'll get I think it'll get
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better as we go. But the pregame just a really,
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really wobbly start. But enough of that.
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I want to get to the football. Well, actually, I'll kick it to
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you. Where should we get started, Mr.
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Granengel? Let's get started with a
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beverage to celebrate the kick off of this glorious tournament.
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Cheers. Cheers to you, my good man.
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I do want to point out that, you know, we've, we've talked to to
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each other about this. I think you mentioned it on one
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of the last shows. We're going to try to do a show
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every evening, especially in this like early group stage.
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So more time in the gym. Because if I'm going to have one
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beer a night for 12 nights in a row, I was like, you know what,
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man, I'm going to spend a little extra time in the gym.
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Because sometimes elite athletes have to do what they have to do.
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I mean, everything's been working its way to this point,
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you know, to these 12 nights, these 12 shows, these 12 nights.
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We're going to see if we can actually do it.
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I'm not going to make any promises with regard to our, our
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level of alertness or our level of sleepiness or our level of
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bloat. You know, with these, I'm not
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sure if I'm going to be able to get to the gym as often as you
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you'll you'll be able to, but we'll certainly try either way.
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We're going to do our best. Tons of football and it got it
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got rolling in earnest today. I cannot wait to talk about this
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first match up. Finland, Iceland, I think a lot
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of surprises. I'm not sure anybody had this
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specific result. Some big time takeaways, but
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where do you want to get started with this match?
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Goalkeeper fight. I thought it was a great
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goalkeeper match, you know? Gunner stowed here and as I'm
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just going to live to make sure I don't Koivanen who who I just
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like practice the name like 6 times before the show even
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started, before you logged on. I was like Koivanen, Koivanen,
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just say Koivanen. It's an easy name to say and
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then I've just like immediately leaking confidence.
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But Koivanen was great for Finland had like crucial saves,
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point blank saves, you know, absolutely tested and you know,
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both teams kind of lining up for a rock fight 4411 in the
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formation for like most of the match, it felt like.
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And Finland were were able to keep their shell and just hang
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tough in those in the toughest of moments.
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And you know the difference? It felt like was pretty razor
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thin. Difference was thin.
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I thought Finland was sharper. I thought they were a little
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tougher, especially in the first half.
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I thought they they really kind of controlled the midfield.
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Really, I think they they kind of made it really tough for
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Iceland to to get anything going.
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The the press that they were employing early.
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I mean, Iceland just couldn't wait to to give away to give
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away the ball. Like they were just like, all
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right, we got to go quick, got to go in.
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I think I was looking for a lot more from Iceland midfielder
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Carolina Villemsdotier. I don't think she really got a
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chance to get going. Spain Desjane versus Coyvisto,
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you know, that was a battle all day for sure.
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And Spanish Jane couldn't really get going.
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Had had a couple moments here and there, but but I did think
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that Finland well, well in control of that first half and
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ice and probably pretty, pretty lucky to be able to go into
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halftime. No, no.
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Yeah, I, I think that's fair to say.
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And, you know, I, I did see like the first like couple minutes of
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the halftime show before I like muted it, but the, you know, to
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do so to take care of some other stuff.
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But like, you know, sometimes football matches are nil, nil at
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halftime. I, I just, it felt like there
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was like a little bit of like in the studio of just like hoping
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for a goal. It's like, well, yeah, but it's
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also a football game. And so like, sometimes it's nil,
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nil at halftime. Like, I think that's totally
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fine. But Anton's daughter getting
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that that yellow card in the first half, what she got her,
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she got her first one. No, no, I think they were both
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second-half. I mean according to.
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Oh, OK. Fat mob.
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Yeah, yeah. It was Nystrom for Finland that
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got one really, really early. In like the first minute.
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Yeah, like the third minute I got confused with those two,
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Yeah. Yeah.
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OK. So I mean, you just knew like
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when these two teams line up, it's going to be physical.
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And even then, like Finland just seemed like they were able to,
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to cope with Iceland's speed better than I expected.
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And even when, and you know, you mentioned the long throws by
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John's daughter, like those were really the, IT felt like
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especially the one late that was the biggest chance where the
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ball's like, well, I don't think it was super late, but it's like
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pinging around in there and it was just causing absolute havoc
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for for Finland's defence. Yeah, absolutely.
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I think, I mean, Finland though was able to stand up and I
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thought from a physicality standpoint, I was kind of
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expecting ISON to come in and look faster and look tougher and
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more rugged. None of those things happened.
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I don't think that I thought the teams look kind of equally or
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equal from a speed standpoint. I thought Finland was a little
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tougher and, and kind of ready to play a little bit more
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physically. And then Katarina Costola, I
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think we have to mention again because you mentioned her in the
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in the preview and actually, damn, I, I said that I had a
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pretty sick card corner for Katarina and I didn't think that
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I would get a chance to share it.
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I was wrong. Monster game.
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Here's Katarina Kosola, her rookie card from tops Chrome out
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of 50 the gold refractor version.
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So there's only 49 more of these in the world.
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And look at me. I got a chance to share my
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Katarina Kosola card. She was cooking early.
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I mean, she was letting it RIP. She was calibrating to the
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highest degree. She was just like, all right,
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I'm going to, I'm going to get looks and I'm going to let it
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go. I kind of liked Finland, what
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they did early offensively, they kind of went off to the left and
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were more more playing through Sahlstrom and Francie, you know,
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I'm sorry, up the right. And I think once they kind of
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like tilted the field and kind of got Iceland just kind of
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shading a little bit over to the right.
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That's when they were all right, we're going to flip it.
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And now it's like Khosla all day up the left and she's just going
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to RIP shots. She gets off 6 on the day, 2 on
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target, gets the monster goal in the 70th and seven touches
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inside the opposition box. She was like a real problem.
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And I thought it was pretty, pretty stabby to kind of like
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flip the script there early in the match and try to catch
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Iceland a little off guard. I think they did.
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And that really set the calibration in motion, you know,
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that leads to an end up, you know, basically gets the really
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good look late in the match. And now she's she's had a couple
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cracks at it and just pinpoint just perfect placement on that
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on that final strike. She was absolutely calibrating.
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She was playing with gigantic confidence from the opening
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whistle. Yeah, I think you're totally
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right. They just, they were able to
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keep Iceland off balance with that.
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And that, you know, obviously we'd be remiss if we didn't
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mention it didn't help Iceland's 'cause that glottis Vigos Dodeir
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was obviously hurt, obviously hurt early and was like gutted
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it out and was like, you know, hung tough in that first half.
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But she was clearly Hanford what felt like 3 to 5 minutes in.
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Yeah, I mean, almost came off in the 20s, almost came off at 35,
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ends up coming off at halftime. And, you know, a player like
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that is so tough, you know, and you know that that player at
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like 35 is thinking, can I just get to halftime?
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Can I get a little treatment? Can I see if there's something
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that could be done and I can maybe come out and play another
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15/20/25? And it, it basically should just
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all that all that was left was, was enough to kind of get her
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through the half. And then you just knew it was
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going to be tricky because Finland was, you know, kind of
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like making Iceland do a lot of real work to defend.
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And then Iceland just wasn't returning the favor.
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They weren't able to kind of like keep possession.
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They weren't able to kind of string together any positive
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sequences and like really build it up or make Finland like work
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defensively. Like I thought, I thought they
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made the Finland's defense. They they kind of gave them the
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day off. And I think Iceland's going to
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be kicking themselves a little bit because once they did want
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to crank it up, you could see the last 2530 minutes of the
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match. Oh, wow.
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Like when they really get going, this is a this is a dangerous
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team. This could be a dangerous team.
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And you know, at that point they're playing with 10, you
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know, and that's probably like the most dangerous they looked.
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That's never a good sign from like a chemistry standpoint,
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from a game plan standpoint, you know, things things were just
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kind of off there. Yeah, I liked the late shot from
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Trig Vidotter. She really, she ripped it.
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You know, it's right at the keeper though.
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John's Dutter had had some chances of, you know, they were
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trying to play her over the top and you know, she she she seemed
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like it was around like the 7070 fifth minute.
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I think she had a shot that she needed to put on frame and you
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could tell she was like disappointed that she wasn't
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able to do it in that in that scenario.
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So, you know, they they got to try to regroup.
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It's a it's a weird loss for them to take in the opener and I
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think it makes this group very interesting moving forward.
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Extremely interesting. So yeah, let's shift gears and
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talk about that second match up. Switzerland won, Norway to it.
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Come from behind win. Where do I get started with this
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one? So you know, it sets up with
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Switzerland losing this match and Iceland losing their match.
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They play each other on July 6th, and that means bad news for
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Finland because now you got to play Norway, and now Norway's
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going to start playing with some confidence, Yes.
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Did that first half look a little touch and go in spots?
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Yeah, sure, that's fine. But now you let the big
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heavyweights start to get some momentum, start to get some
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confidence. Let's fucking go, Norway.
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All right, I have got I had the a complete.
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I don't know, I don't have a complete different read on than
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you on this game. But so the my main take away,
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let me let me try to distill this match to my one main take
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away. And there was a ton to cover.
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OK, maybe we'll get into some of the the micro here in a minute,
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but I feel like we've sort of lamented Norway and their
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struggles and just being like, how do they how are they so bad?
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And then like the second part of that is like how with the
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players are so good, how come the players can't just do
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amazing things in spots and have that be enough to get them a
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victory? And for me today, that's what
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this was. That was right Ada Ada Hegerberg
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playing gigantic, CGH up the left hand side playing gigantic
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and then the other 89 plus less gigantic.
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I think that was that was certainly some of it.
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There is something that's happened and I know Ingrid Egan
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has been a good player for a while, but those reps that she
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got needing to play center back when Mapi Leon had that had that
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injury for Barcelona and they needed to play England at center
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back. And you and I talked about it
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during that the not this last Champions League, but the
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Champions League before 2324. Ingen had some growing pains in
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that center back spot, but she made so many crucial
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interventions from the midfield spot tracking back on defense.
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Just not only getting those interventions, but then playing
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with a level of composure and calmness that, you know, go
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comes along with a multiple time Champions League winner like a a
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a championship level player. And so I I just thought she was
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gigantic and she needed to be and I thought she was probably
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the most consistent player on the field through Norway today.
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Yeah, I mean, I thought she was their best player.
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I mean, I think I think it's kind of Fair to say that.
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I mean, she was she was a beast in the midfield.
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And then when you think about where Switzerland was finding
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success, you know, reason on one up one side, you know, Benet up
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the other, you know, and then later in the match it's, you
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know, Pilgrim shirt live the same thing.
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So I mean, Ingram really was controlling a lot of the center
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of the park. I think they were kind of
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missing that that, you know, like, well, let me think about
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the line UPS. Like I think I think they were
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missing that that that that midfielder to connect.
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And I think Lori Lindsay was talking about it quite a bit.
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We're like, all right, these Norway players are all kind of
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making the same runs and they're all occupying the same spaces.
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They were like when you think about just the juxtapose against
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Finland, Finland did great not occupying space with like 3
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players clumped in one area or the wrong area.
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Like it just felt like the spacing was beautiful from what
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they were doing. Norway, you know, not so much
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Ingen. Ingen was definitely in need of
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one more player to be able to connect the, the ball to, to
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kind of keep things moving. But you know, credit to them,
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huge moments and they, they kind of come from behind.
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They didn't, they didn't panic. And I think that, you know,
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falling behind, you could see how that that was going to that
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was definitely on the table, especially playing in
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Switzerland. I think the great Jackie Oatley,
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Jackie Goatley, if you will, described Ada Hegenberg's goal
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is almost looking like it was out of frustration where Ada
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Hegenberg was just like here, damn.
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Like we have to score a goal. Like I'm gonna score this goal
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because we have to get back in this to do this.
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And that's just, I mean, that's who she is.
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I mean, you know, the, the Balandor is the, the Champions
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League, the all time league score in the history of the
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Champions League. That's what she does, man.
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And so you could just feel the confidence like lift in Norway.
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They just needed to just like shake off all these bad results
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from the past €2.00 and like the, you know, losing in the
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World Cup the way they did, just like, and you know, even the to
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the build up to this tournament, they just needed to shake some
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of that those bad vibes off. And it felt like Hegeberg was
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able to do that. And it, and conversely, it felt
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like Switzerland was like, oh boy, did we did we accidentally
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step in it here? And then it leads to the own
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goal because it just felt like they started to kind of feel the
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weight of what what's it going to look like if Hegeburg and CGH
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start running at us with a lot of confidence?
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No, that's totally true. And I think it was so funny
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because watching Hegeberg before the coroner gets taken, she's
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standing behind girl right? And she's got like her her hands
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on girl right and shoulders. Like, let me just use you like
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as like a like a like a practicer, like a practice code.
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I'm into a swim move and like kind of get around you here.
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But it was really incredible. And, and I encourage every
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anybody to go back and, and, and try to look at the shot of this,
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of the replay, but there's a shot taken from the opposite
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goal. So you're, you're looking up, up
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the pitch, right? And then if when you watch
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Hegeberg, you know, like when you watch the replay, you're
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just like, OK, well, she's tall, she's great in the air.
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She could jump. But when you watch the replay,
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you see the steps that she takes.
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It's like right, left, left, right, left, right.
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You know, it's like she's taking these like she's just like
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pivot, pivot, pivot, pivot, pivot to get to that one open
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area and basically keep herself, you know, basically keep
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defenders with it, you know, 3-4, you know, feet away from
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her at all times. But if you watch the footwork on
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that play, absolutely stunning, just totally world class.
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And then the goal Selly, I mean, maybe the most ice cold goal
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Selly I think I've ever seen. So she scores stone face.
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She points at the crowd. She's like points the crowd and
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she says and then she goes. It's like this is my shit right
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here. Yeah, that's why I'm here.
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This is my shit right here. It was so awesome.
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I'm like is this Norway Switzerland or is this Dexter
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season 7? Is this a preview?
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What am I watching here? This just looks like a freaking
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serial killer out there. I mean, like you said, ice cold
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and she knew it like that. I mean, that's, that's why she's
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there. Like, that's why I love the
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Celli and she, the sometimes you just have players for clubs or
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for national teams where it has to be them also in like a weird
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way where like, I, you know, to, to talk about men's football for
19:53
a moment. I, I, I've said that about Rodri
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a million times for Manchester City.
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It's just like, he will do something.
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It's like, yeah, it had to be him.
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And then like, everybody else is like, Oh, yeah.
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We have that player like like we should start playing with more
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confidence like this is we're actually in in pretty good shape
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here. And so I do think part of what
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you're saying of like, you know, for for large chunks of the
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match, Switzerland looked dangerous in some spots.
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You know, and I was telling you before the show, I have just
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because of all of our pals in Bergen, Norway, who, you know,
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when we started, for anybody who hasn't been like Rocket with us
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for a long time, recurring viewers, you know, this is the
20:33
world's foremost SK Braun podcast.
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But for anybody who's just joining us, we, we became fans
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of Braun during the 2324 Champions League and they're,
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the Braun Battalion embraced us. So now I just have like this,
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this love for Norway because everybody there has been so, so
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cool to us. I was, I was very much fanning
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during this match where there were, there's some, some parts
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of my notes. I'm not particularly proud.
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Of. Where I you know, was not
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thrilled with some of the passing and some of the link up
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play. I I thought it was less than
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good in spots. I think Merritt Brotberg, Lund,
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you know, formerly of the aforementioned S Gabe Ron did
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not have a good game was having a rough go of it out there for
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her for long stretches. But when that first goal goal
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goes in, I just all caps Ada Hegerberg header.
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We are in fucking business baby. One one to one next next Note
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again all caps own goal because the Swiss are rattled.
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The swits are cut. Yeah, and nicely done.
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And yeah. And then, you know, later on I
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tie the notes in in not in all caps.
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Oh shit. Here comes Sydney shirt line.
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Yeah, no, she came on and and looked immediately.
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Pretty dangerous, but I think at that point, so Hegelberg gets
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the goal. CGH unbelievable duel winning,
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you know, up the left hand side to be able to win that, you
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know, and then like that's one of those where it's like, OK,
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well, if she wins it, you know, she's going to be able to whip a
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ball in. It's going to be dangerous.
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And the goal almost happens when she wins that duel.
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And then like she able she's able to get on the end of that
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ball. And then there was a a moment
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not too much later where Benet on a kind of like on a back
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pass. That's that was the moment right
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before the penalty. So like that, that back pass
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leads to the corner leads to the penalty that Hegerberg puts
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wide. But yeah, Spitzer definitely
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rattled. You know, there was mentioned
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quite a bit that they were the youngest team in the field.
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I think I don't want to say that showed, but you know, there I
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think there is some correlation there.
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You've got a young team, you know, playing out of talent
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disadvantage and they they sort of like give up a lead against a
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side that, you know, probably was was the favorite.
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But I want to ask you a question here.
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You already alluded to it Norway, Finland.
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I think you could make the case that Finland look the best of
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the four teams today. Now, if I actually take off
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your, your Norway colored glasses, you know, I mean, I, I
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could, I could point you in a couple different stats.
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So shots today, 17 to 8 in favor of Switzerland, shots on target
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7 to 3 in favor of Switzerland, out possessed completed passes
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at a much less rate. So Norway gets the win.
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But I think probably more so on the heels of those two, you
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know, kind of brilliant moments and and a couple more, you know,
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sprinkled sprinkled along there. But if I were to tell you that I
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thought Finland looked the best today of the four.
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What's your take on that? It's not an outrageous opinion.
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May I just say though, Norway 4 big chances to Switzerland too.
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I think Norway could have scored more and obviously.
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Switzerland could have scored more, too.
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That's fair. I mean, they could have they,
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you know, I don't think they don't have the quality of
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Norway. I mean, Reutzler smashed the
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post, the Avalti, she hammered one in that that, you know,
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could have, could have, could have made things things
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interesting. But they they definitely had
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looks. I mean, this one could have
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gone, you know, the own goal in there.
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I would I would kind of like settle it down.
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This wasn't quite the, you know, let's let's try to temper some
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of those the Norway expertise. But I definitely appreciate your
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enthusiasm. I'm I'm into it.
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You know, that's totally fine. And you know, I mean, you know,
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1.9 XG to 1.16 XG in favorite Norway.
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I mean, let's not forget that, obviously.
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But yeah, I think, you know, yeah, penalty probably helped,
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which, yeah, obviously. But you know, Hegeberg should
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smash that in in. In most other occasions that
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would have made it 3 to one. It would have got real late in
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Basel, real early had she made that.
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I thought that was that was uncharacteristic of her.
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Obviously I never doubted for a second that she would take.
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I know her and CGH were standing up there.
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I didn't, you know, I wanted Hegeberg to take it.
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So there's no second guessing there either.
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But yeah, I guess you could make the argument that that Finland
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probably, you know, that they could have, that they maybe
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played better than Norway. I'm not.
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I'm not making that argument though.
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You can make that argument by yourself.
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That's totally fine. And I want to see these two
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teams line up on on July 6th and I want to see Norway start just
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to kind of put this put this group away.
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All right, man, I'll be there. Don't be late.
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You're not hard to find. I'm not not hard to find.
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Mentioned it twice last episode. All right man, anything else you
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want to hit before we got here? Dude, what a start.
25:43
I'm excited for it. What a great beginning to the
25:47
tournament. And you know, the crowd was
25:49
electric to us. But obviously in the
25:51
Switzerland, Norway match, which is another thing I do, there is
25:53
one thing I want to I want to get to is that Norway winning
25:56
that match when the host country has pretty much everything going
26:00
for them in those situations. I can tell you there were some,
26:03
there were some dark moments in the first half of my notes that
26:05
were like, oh, I was like thinking host nation opening
26:09
match. There's the gaps and talent, but
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Nope, they overcame and they made it happen.
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And you know, well, they got, they got all the play for for
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the rest of the tournament. Yeah, I'm just I'm I'm trying to
26:21
figure out the over under on when you start referring to
26:23
Norway as we and not they, but we'll see.
26:26
Maybe maybe it's coming soon. You alluded to the schedule
26:28
tomorrow, Belgium, it takes on Italy 9:00 AM Pacific and the
26:33
World Cup champion Spain take on Portugal 12:00 PM Pacific.
26:36
Cannot wait for that to get going.
26:38
All right, man, 12 days of UEFA Women's EUR 2025 group stage
26:41
football, 1 down, 11 to go. This is a massive, massive
26:45
tournament. I have a feeling we're in for a
26:47
Super Bowl. Super memorable, just kind of
26:50
watershed kind of tournament. Like I know it, it is a little
26:53
silly, little little cliche, but it does feel like this
26:56
tournament specifically has some surprises for us.
26:59
I think we're the field is maybe even more open I think than the
27:03
betting odds. What would kind of lead you to
27:05
believe? I think the surprises today,
27:07
probably more evidence of that. Either way, Long story short,
27:10
we're going to be right here with you to cover all of it,
27:12
definitely all of it in the group stage and all the way
27:14
through the final. But yeah, we're going to, you
27:16
know, we're getting our conditioning up for these 12
27:18
days. But I'm I'm just kind of happy
27:20
ones in the books. 11 to go. Last thing, thinking of
27:24
conditioning, how about the aforementioned Jackie Oatley and
27:28
Lori Lindsay? Jackie Goatley and Double L as
27:31
we like to refer to them both go talking about conditioning
27:34
calling both matches today. The only question I have will
27:39
they call all 48 group stage matches I?
27:43
Don't think just 48 there's gonna be 24.
27:47
There's 2A day for 12 days. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:51
Son of a bitch. OK, I thought I had.
27:52
I was like every team. Oh yeah, OK.
27:54
I was doing every team place three games.
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Yep, Yep. But they got to play another
28:00
team. So that's how that works.
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OK, glad, Glad we can sign off on that note.
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That's right, man. We're teammates.
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That's why that's what I'm here for.
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I'm here to kind of prop you up, you know?
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I'm I'm just right here by your side.
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Touch tight, Laurie Lindsay style.
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I appreciate you bro. Likewise, buddy.
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All right, man.